Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Joshua Meeds Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Best console games... Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 22:15:11 -0700 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 32 Message-ID: <354D4EDF.624E6FBB@sinclair.net> References: <3549C8BA.338@saqnet.co.uk> <6idbsa$lbr6@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <354a4e7a.251227@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <1d8ecd3.1ie8sfd1x4pxwaN@a1-88-103.a1.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: dreamer.sincom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) Since it is an RPG, turn-based fights is how it works. Most RPG's work that way. If it had action, it would be an action-adventure game (like Zelda); a completely different genre altogether. And technically, it isn't truly turn based, it's kind of a mixture. If you just sit there while the enemy pounds away at you, you will die. For an RPG lover, the game is one of the best released - it has a great storyline (in an RPG, that is equal in importance to the gameplay), and great gameplay - a new, innovative combat system, many many secrets and things to keep the player coming back for more. And action mini-games to break up the tension. The graphics were just the icing on the cake - the game would have been just as good without the FMV's (though I wish they had truly finished the story - it doesn't tell you what happened to everybody!). That's why it got those reviews - its like any game, if you don't like RPG's, you won't like FFVII. I personally don't like realtime strategy wargames, but I have to admit that in that genre, Warcraft 2 and Myth were great revolutionary new games that affected how most future realtime strategy games will be. I still don't like them (most - remember that old Genesis game Herzog Zwei? I loved that game!) > I agree with you on this. Nice graphics, nice story, gameplay a draft. > And it is turnbased!!! How can a turnbased game be the best game ever > for PSX like some reviews tell? > No, I need a little more action than FF7 -- - Dreamwriter Dragon dreamer@sinclair.net -==UDIC==-