Comments on: Editorial: Listicle! Mel’s Top Five RPG Battle Systems

By: Mel

Mel — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 19:03:28 +0000

Episode 2 has some very sappy music to go along with its really sappy and narrow plot line. It’s all about two characters out of at least a dozen or so that never get any development in that game. Then the series gets cut short and they have to wrap up all the other loose ends in one game, which was painfully obvious as characters begin to allude to whole adventures the player is just then finding out about.

By: Ferchu

Ferchu — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 18:48:05 +0000

Ugh, I listened to the soundtrack of xenosaga ep II to see how it sounded, it’s aweful, dreadful and oh so empty of any promising memorable track to keep listening too =/ . Weird that I didn’t remember the music being that way.

By: Mel

Mel — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:30:42 +0000

I’m actually playing the opening battles of Valkyria Chronicles on PC right now. And the port so far seems to be quite solidly done. Just enough options to make the port worth while on the whole, with screen, V-Sync, framerate and windowed options, but alas that’s about it. Full controller support is of course a big plus, too.

And List Articles are so successful I think because they’re everyone’s weakness. If I don’t click one, more often than not it’s out of a conscious effort not to.

At least this one wasn’t one of those “15 things a videogame should never do!” articles that puts EACH THING ON A SEPARATE PAGE! That’s just scummy.

By: Wolfe

Wolfe — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:56:16 +0000

While I’m thinking about it, list articles tend to be a big draw for a lot of sites and even I am not immune to the allure.

By: Wolfe

Wolfe — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:15:42 +0000

I rather enjoyed Xenogears’ system.

Spot on about Valkyria Chronicles. You absolutely cannot lapse in attention of you’ll be gunned down in seconds.

By: Ferchu

Ferchu — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 04:35:47 +0000

@Mel- I don’t know, I remember playing the game and enjoying it, before that I had played FF X and FFX-2 . I ‘ve got my ps2 around 2005, those were the 3 first games I played on the ps2. At that time the visuals of the game looked phenomenal to me . I don’t know if I would enjoy the game if I played it again .

By: Mel

Mel — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 15:40:39 +0000

Thanks! But I have to ask how exactly you came to “like” Episode 2. IMO, just about everything else in that game was worse than in the other two games. Visuals, battle system, plot, side quests, music.

By: Ferchu

Ferchu — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 07:54:38 +0000

@Mel: You are right again! episode 3 had great improvements of the other games in the xenosaga . Personally I find the mechas from xenosaga games quite good, EPIII was really good in the plot too. I liked ep II .

I love valkyria chronicles, the music, the gameplay, the voice acting, was truly a remarkable game, too bad the other games (VC 2, VC 3)were on the psp .

@DA: Great top 5 .Mine whould have to be:

Final fantasy tactics
Disgaea
super robot taisen
fire emblem

By: Ethos

Ethos — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:40:57 +0000

I really wish I liked TRPGs. I have tried so many times with so many good ones. I feel like just one needs to click before I can go back and replay all the classics that I couldn't get into before. Just playing Final Fantasy Tactics and Valkyria Chronicles, I can tell they are great games, but I haven't been able to find a way to dig my claws into them yet.

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 02:06:02 +0000

Also, DiceAdmiral has good taste in games.

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 03:52:40 +0000

@Mel: It’s not nice to lie.

Valkyria Chronicles is fantastic, and our playthrough of it on the site is one of my favourite things we’ve ever done.

By: Mel

Mel — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 02:15:25 +0000

lol sure they did!

Episode III took the mech battles from I and the combos from II and put them together while getting rid of or fixing other parts. It fixes the break system in II and the mechs have a real use aside from just being there (because they’re no longer purely optional).

If you didn’t like I or II, III is much better, except you couldn’t be blamed for not playing the last in a series you don’t like most of.

By: SiliconNooB

SiliconNooB — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 20:16:23 +0000

“Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra: I put this one on the list because it combines all the best elements of the systems from the previous two Episodes of the series into one product.

Uh… I wasn’t aware that the previous two installments had any ‘best elements’.

The Shadow Hearts battle system is pretty great though!

By: DiceAdmiral

DiceAdmiral — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:49:20 +0000

I’m such a sucker for tactics games that my top 5 would be something like:
Fire Emblem
Tactics Ogre
X-COM
Super Robot Wars
umm… uh… some other TRPG

By: Mel

Mel — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:20:12 +0000

There’d be some kind of little video playing in the corner when you go to select the weapon demoing how to do the timed attacks. And the secret FF-style boss would be DLC.

However, that’s not to say I’d mind another Square/Nintendo collab for Mario. Now that they’re not necessarily on shitty terms anymore, I’d be interested. I won’t lie.

Also, yes, Valkyria Chronicles is a phenomenal game. I was so hooked on it when I first played it that, in real life, I kept thinking of movement bars whenever I had to walk around.

By: Gyme

Gyme — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 03:57:09 +0000

In all seriousness though, Valkyria Chronicles, for me, takes the crown of best battle system. It was a brilliant blend of different battle systems that just worked.

On a separate note, could you imagine if SMRPG came out today? We would have to sit through a tutorial for each one of the weapons showing us how to properly time each attack.

By: Gyme

Gyme — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 03:42:53 +0000

I thought I got banned for being disruptive on the podcast.

By: Mel

Mel — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 02:42:14 +0000

Yeah, he should have said Final Fantasy 7. ….pahaha

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 22:21:37 +0000

And that’s how Gyme got banned.

By: Gyme

Gyme — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 20:22:39 +0000

Super Mario RPG is the best RPG ever. Of course, it was my first RPG as well so I may have some bias.

By: Bup

Bup — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 18:09:34 +0000

Shadow Hearts by far has the best battle system I’ve ever played. Hitting those critical sweet spots always feel awesome.

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:24:36 +0000

ALL wrong except for Valkyria Chronicles. Boobie!