ALTEREGO'S PROFILE

Blasphemy!! How can you not like Chrono Trigger?? It's like, PERFECTION!, made into a videogame... Seriously, though, other than perhaps the light-hearted tone of the game, I don't see how can anyone dislike Chrono Trigger (Aside from the usual: "It's too hyped" nay-sayers).

Me? I don't know. I guess games without rpg mechanics. Games that are very straight-forward, like Beat-em ups for example: "Punch everything that shows on the screen!". If they allow you to upgrade your character and stuff, then I find them enjoyable. But if not, unless I'm playing with friends, I don't go near them. Also, I don't require like a super complex story, but some plot is always nice.

When it comes to rpgs I can be very picky as well, because of the time investment they require. But I would say, games where you have to chose to either talk/look/search/or whatever, instead of having a single Action button. Or games whit tons of in battle messages: "Hero attacks monster party" "Slime A takes X damage" "Slime B takes X damage" Slime C takes X damage" etc. make it the most difficult for me to get into them. This is the reason why I keep putting off series like Dragon Quest of Shin Megami Tensei, which I keep hearing are very good, but I just can't muster the patience to go through that anymore. And even newer games keep doing this, for some reason. Weird.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't Link and Zelda the reincarnations of the Hero of legend (or something like that), and a Goddess? I mean, it makes sense for them to be reincarnated into their same gender each time (At least as much sense as the alternative). You could say that's too conventional maybe, but "bullshit"? If that's the creative vision of the developers, it oughts to be respected, I think... People are way too vocal about this stuff nowadays. And they have every right to voice their concerns, of course. But at the same time they should understand that nobody owes them games/shows/whatever. =|

I'm thinking: How the hell do you go from "Tatsu Maki Senpuu Kyaku" to "Hapek pek duket" or whatever.... I guess we'll never know.

Well, I mean what I mean. I already gave a couple of examples, and I could give a few more. For example the difference between a soap opera, or a documentary, or a movie, or a porn flick, etc. I believe all these things have names for a reason, despite belonging to the same medium... But I don't know. I could be wrong. I'm not entirely sure if I understand the definition of "medium" to begin with. xD Sometimes I still struggle not to mistake "medium" with "genre" for example.

As for people who do act as gate-keepers. Well, those people will always exist, that can't be helped. And you shouldn't let that get in the way of anything else... I would say that they're a tiny minority of people, however. At first it may look like they're a lot more. But in my own experience, I've been able to come to an agreement with many people who at first appeared to be inflexible in their beliefs. At the end of the day it all does boil down to a different interpretation of words. *shrug*
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Not to completely derail this thread, I would like to suggest one of my games to be featured next. xD But then I remember all of my games exist only on my head. =(

I've been playing a whole lot of DBZ games lately, due to the nostalgia caused by the new movies and the announcement of the new series. And man, am I disappointed... Probably my favorite game of all is "Legend of the Super Saiyan" for the SNES. But sadly, that one goes up to the Frieza Saga only. There are some other games that were pretty similar to that one on the NES but those only go as far as the Androids or Cell sagas (I'm not sure. I haven't' actually played them).

A series of games that covers all the sagas is the "Legacy of Goku/Buu's fury" games on the GBA, but I don't know who thought it was a good idea to make a DBZ game play like a clumsy action rpg where you walk around killing forest animals. Man, what a waste of potential... "Legendary Super Warriors" for the GBC does slightly better. But I felt it skipped several key battles and plot elements. Plus I found the whole unlocking of characters/cards a bit too tedious.

Then there's the plethora of fighting games. "Super Butoden 2" for the SNES did a decent take on the Cell Saga, but the other two games on the series were straight up fighting games. "Super Sonic Warriors" on the GBA is cool game as well but it also does poorly with the story... And there's one japanese game called "DBZ Legends" that I hope someone translates one day because it looks like it's the perfect mix between an accurate take on the story and fast-paced battles.

Most recent games like the "Tenkaichi Budokai" series attempt to do just that. But the thing is that what one game does well the other drops the ball in and vice versa. I guess they know that if they make the perfect DBZ game they would have no reason to keep churning game after game after game, and have morons like me playing them all. -_-