I'm a gamer, sort-of.
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falxumbra's dorm room, specifically. She brought me to her roleplaying club's annual convention, where I learned how to make character sheets and roll dice and also that I... really like pen-and-paper roleplaying. (SHOCK! You're all surprised, I can tell. -_-; the real question is why I hadn't played before, I mean I have a total D&D -type personality.)
Wsssszzzzzggggggttttt <-- this is the sound of my non-geek, non-gamer socialization skills atrophying, not that I ever had too many of those in the first place ahaha.
Speaking of gaming!v_voltaire just bought a PS2, and she is asking for suggestions for games that are "rpgs that don't get boring/convoluted/overly angsty, twitch-based games that don't involve platform-jumping or precision work (I have seriously bad reflexes when it comes to that), and things that are funny. I'm the type who tends to powergame for a weekend and then not touch the thing for a few months."
Video Game Recs:
RPG:
Suikoden III! Plot is entirely geopolitical and it's basically a bunch of minigames, although you may not like it because the game's introductory stage (before you can get to the minigames) is long, and the sequence of events is complex. The set-up is that some country is invading some other country, and you must to recruit as many people as possible (ideally, 108) to stop them.
FFX: pretty, great characters, good battle/leveling system. Story is convoluted and angsty, though.
Dark Cloud II: if you like Steampunk AU, plucky mechanics, time-traveling princesses and customizing stuff. Make that, customizing a lot of stuff. Story is that said princess recruits you for a life of dungeon crawling, city-building, invention/photography, weapons-customization...no leveling. Play as two characters, great voice acting. (I kid, there is a plot, you have to stop a time-traveling Evil Overlord from conquering the past).
My favotite RPG that you can get for cheap is Brave Fencer Musashi for Playstation. You (Musashi) get sucked into an alternate world as the country's destined hero, it's very funny. The humor's largely in a Japanese mode, but unlike in, say, Threads of Time, the production team spent a lot of is time localizing this game, and it really shows in the way none of the jokes are lost in translation. This is a 3/4 view adventure RPG.
Other:
Ico: beautiful, atmospheric, architectural puzzle game with touching characterization. Can be beaten in a weekend and replayed endlessly. Story is that you are a boy with horns who must make your way through an artistically delapidated castle while helping a young girl who speaks another language.
Ape Esacape: FUNNY (monkeys are inherently funny) puzzle/collection game which sometimes involves juming, but no need to tackle the really hard ones (ie collecting every ape in the game is not required). Retarded Shonen Hero captures monkeys with wacky gadgets, HIJINX ENSUE...I haven't played the sequels, but they're more of the same.
Spyro the Dragon series: jumping platformers, but not so much in the Prince of Persia PUNISH YOU WITH DIFFICULTY vein, more along puzzle-game lines, where you have to figure out a way to navigate the level. Game relies on the player having a collection fetish, since the goal on every level is the same (100 gems, a varying number of dragon's eggs and dragons). I thought Spyro was funny -- he's a smart-ass wiseguy like Sonic the Hedgehog, who was one of the (many) characters Spyro was modeled after. (This guy has "mascot character" written all over him, which would normally annoy me but in this case, it works).
Zone of Enders: you like Transformers, right? The plot is ridiculous but takes itself seriously, which makes it funny in a retarded mecha anime kind of way (perverted human/robot sexual innuendo optional). The gameplay tricks you into to thinking you are a really awesome genius mecha pilot even though all you're doing is pressing x a lot (sometimes in combination with square!). It's also short, takes less than 13 hours to beat.
KARAOKE REVOLUTION: self-explanatory.
Taiko no Tatsuji: possibly the best music game EVER. Happy Japanese drumming game with crack rainbow-colored backgrounds XDXD. Comes bundled with the drum, I believe.
What you can mostly tell from this list is that I haven't played any new video games in like three years. XD also, selection was limited by the fact that my favorite videogame genre is jumping platformers (I also like racing games).
falxumbra's dorm room, specifically. She brought me to her roleplaying club's annual convention, where I learned how to make character sheets and roll dice and also that I... really like pen-and-paper roleplaying. (SHOCK! You're all surprised, I can tell. -_-; the real question is why I hadn't played before, I mean I have a total D&D -type personality.)Wsssszzzzzggggggttttt <-- this is the sound of my non-geek, non-gamer socialization skills atrophying, not that I ever had too many of those in the first place ahaha.
Speaking of gaming!
v_voltaire just bought a PS2, and she is asking for suggestions for games that are "rpgs that don't get boring/convoluted/overly angsty, twitch-based games that don't involve platform-jumping or precision work (I have seriously bad reflexes when it comes to that), and things that are funny. I'm the type who tends to powergame for a weekend and then not touch the thing for a few months."Video Game Recs:
RPG:
Suikoden III! Plot is entirely geopolitical and it's basically a bunch of minigames, although you may not like it because the game's introductory stage (before you can get to the minigames) is long, and the sequence of events is complex. The set-up is that some country is invading some other country, and you must to recruit as many people as possible (ideally, 108) to stop them.
FFX: pretty, great characters, good battle/leveling system. Story is convoluted and angsty, though.
Dark Cloud II: if you like Steampunk AU, plucky mechanics, time-traveling princesses and customizing stuff. Make that, customizing a lot of stuff. Story is that said princess recruits you for a life of dungeon crawling, city-building, invention/photography, weapons-customization...no leveling. Play as two characters, great voice acting. (I kid, there is a plot, you have to stop a time-traveling Evil Overlord from conquering the past).
My favotite RPG that you can get for cheap is Brave Fencer Musashi for Playstation. You (Musashi) get sucked into an alternate world as the country's destined hero, it's very funny. The humor's largely in a Japanese mode, but unlike in, say, Threads of Time, the production team spent a lot of is time localizing this game, and it really shows in the way none of the jokes are lost in translation. This is a 3/4 view adventure RPG.
Other:
Ico: beautiful, atmospheric, architectural puzzle game with touching characterization. Can be beaten in a weekend and replayed endlessly. Story is that you are a boy with horns who must make your way through an artistically delapidated castle while helping a young girl who speaks another language.
Ape Esacape: FUNNY (monkeys are inherently funny) puzzle/collection game which sometimes involves juming, but no need to tackle the really hard ones (ie collecting every ape in the game is not required). Retarded Shonen Hero captures monkeys with wacky gadgets, HIJINX ENSUE...I haven't played the sequels, but they're more of the same.
Spyro the Dragon series: jumping platformers, but not so much in the Prince of Persia PUNISH YOU WITH DIFFICULTY vein, more along puzzle-game lines, where you have to figure out a way to navigate the level. Game relies on the player having a collection fetish, since the goal on every level is the same (100 gems, a varying number of dragon's eggs and dragons). I thought Spyro was funny -- he's a smart-ass wiseguy like Sonic the Hedgehog, who was one of the (many) characters Spyro was modeled after. (This guy has "mascot character" written all over him, which would normally annoy me but in this case, it works).
Zone of Enders: you like Transformers, right? The plot is ridiculous but takes itself seriously, which makes it funny in a retarded mecha anime kind of way (perverted human/robot sexual innuendo optional). The gameplay tricks you into to thinking you are a really awesome genius mecha pilot even though all you're doing is pressing x a lot (sometimes in combination with square!). It's also short, takes less than 13 hours to beat.
KARAOKE REVOLUTION: self-explanatory.
Taiko no Tatsuji: possibly the best music game EVER. Happy Japanese drumming game with crack rainbow-colored backgrounds XDXD. Comes bundled with the drum, I believe.
What you can mostly tell from this list is that I haven't played any new video games in like three years. XD also, selection was limited by the fact that my favorite videogame genre is jumping platformers (I also like racing games).