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Jan 10th, 2007 at 21:42:04 - Warcraft III: Regin of Chaos (PC) |
War3 RoC was really fun the first time through, seeing the storyline and how everything had changed from War2 which was one of my favorite games in grade school, probably becuase it was on the first ones that I played competitivly with other people. Of course I cheated to see the whole storyline as fast as possible the first time through, but like Starcraft, I went back through without cheating, and this game is difficult. Maybe it's just my inherent lack of skills in micromanaging units, or the way the computer cheats to build things faster in some occurances, I still managed to finagle my way throught to completion, just in time for The Frozen Throne to be released.
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Jan 10th, 2007 at 21:13:43 - Final Fantasy XII (PS2) |
Side quests blasted side quests!
If there's something that developers want to add that will immediately make me trapped in a time sink, it's side quests, and FFXII is full of optional material. Being a completion whore, I must have 100% completion, which includes optional sidequest materials, and there's a ton of them. A good idea on how long I've spent doing side quest material is a quick comparison, a friend of mine who focuses nearly 100% on the main storyline is about 30 hours into the game, at about 68 hours, I just passed him in the main storyline.
Thus I've spent about 40 extra hours doing side quests. Let alone the fact that like half the side quest stuff, doesn't actually result in any sort of indication that you've done extra material, which confuses me cause I'm still walking around with a bottle of alcohol from Bhejurba that I've yet to find any use for. On a side note, I opened the four random chests your not supposed to open so that you can get the Zodiac Spear, and though I was close to 50 hours in, I was sorely tempted to start over, but common sense kicked in so I managed to continue on, mainly with the thought that I don't currently have anyone using spears anyway.
But besides this ranting on side quests, so far the game is excellent. I'm enjoying the new battle system, and while I thought Gambits were a bit cheap at first, I don't think I would have the microing skills to keep my party up with the way I just run into groups of monsters. However Quickening seem to be a bit overpowered and broken, in the fact that if your luck prevails you could chain Quickening four times on a single mob, though you'd have to get lucky with the Mist Charges.
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