i got blue dragon as a christmas present and just got around to playing it. i couldn't even really say that i'm really playing this game because there's no way i'm going to be spending any more time on this trash. the target demographic are 11 year olds who LOVE DBZ and that's really about it.

it's not that the game is even that terrible, because it's too innocent to be appalling. it's just the most vapid game i've played in years. the fact that it's really aimed at small children doesn't really give it a free pass, since it doesn't even do that well. you can make something FOR CHILDREN that isn't just some boring, senseless retread. you can feel how little creativity or effort went into this, and how utterly boring it must have been to work on the game.

it's just a shame. i do think sakaguchi is one of the few people in the industry who does know how to make a pretty good experience. he always prides himself on the creative side of it all being quite important. every jerkoff claims this to some degree, but he's one of the few people that i'd be inclined to believe when they say this. he would always try to do new things, and really most of the games he was credited on are pretty unique for what they are, even the ones that aren't so great. blue dragon is the complete opposite of that, with nothing at all unique, and completely and totally without any real spark of creativity involved. i don't think it's much of a coincidence that square went from a rather good game company to absolute shit when he started losing his pull in the company. that they seem content with going forward with blue dragon as some viable franchise is profoundly discouraging.

he seems to regard the next project he's working on as THE BIG ONE that will be that dynamite game he hasn't been able to make in almost fifteen years. i'm pretty skeptical this will be the case, but we'll see

this is the beginning

here's where AAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL gets started

blah blah blah blaaaaaaaaaaaaah blaah blaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

oh barkley soundtrack


it  does look like a kiddy game  but when asked about it they just say it was supposed to appeal to the biggest jrpg fans ever, to go back to what "made jrpgs so great"

i remember some guy commented the crew behind the game was like the absolute jrpg dreamteam and it ended up just giving this bad game nobody really cared about

-there are no long ranged accurate weapons to could allow me to soften an area up by sniping/headshots from afar. All weapons are close range.

How far are you? After I picked up/unlocked a couple of weapons, sniping was a very viable approach for me. Shoot enemy snipers in the head through walls, or simply eat away part of the building or the floor underneath them; it worked really well. Hell, there is one mission later on where I just set up a shooting gallery and took out a whole group from distance/inside another building before their body guards could sight me, let alone shred me with automatic fire.

I did my second playthrough on hard. All I really noticed was that it was more important to get the ammo and armor upgrades earlier rather than later.


I'm playing Mass Effect 2 and enjoying it, for the most part. I've run into a couple of areas where it felt a bit rushed. My character glitched into a wall once and onto some scenery in another place. Luckily, I've had it happen when I was near someone I could talk to, so when the game jumped into cinematic speech mode, my character cleared the obstruction.

When I first started playing, it reminded me a lot of my first impressions from Project:Snowblind: It had a lot of familiar elements around, but everything had gotten some kind of a twist. I like how things are a bit darker/more mature. At first it seemed strange to have "fuck" in a sci-fi setting, but it actually makes a lot of sense. Being out in the Terminus systems for the most part, the game has an almost frontier/old west aesthetic underneath all the shiny metal and beam weapons.

I would like it if the font was a little bigger, but the only time I really have trouble reading things are when my dialog options come up against a near white background and I kind of have to guess at it.

Also, punching the annoying reporter in the face was a nice touch. I'd expected the Renegade interrupt to be shooting the camera drone, or just walking away, but the choice they went with was much funnier, and Shepard's line "I should have done that the first time we met..." made it even better.

It seems like they are a bit looser with the whole Paragon/Renegade thing. I've noticed that, even without picking obvious red or blue colored text options, I've gotten Paragon/Renegade shifts from almost every conversation with the crew.

I also learned it is very important to check what a store offers before using the Paragon's bargaining option. I re-loaded my last save when I found out that I'd endorsed a pet store on the Citadel...

just been checking out the bad company 2 beta... it's good, providing you avoid sniper hotspots. blowing holes in shit is naturally awesome though.

i got blue dragon as a christmas present and just got around to playing it. i couldn't even really say that i'm really playing this game because there's no way i'm going to be spending any more time on this trash. the target demographic are 11 year olds who LOVE DBZ and that's really about it.

it's not that the game is even that terrible, because it's too innocent to be appalling. it's just the most vapid game i've played in years. the fact that it's really aimed at small children doesn't really give it a free pass, since it doesn't even do that well. you can make something FOR CHILDREN that isn't just some boring, senseless retread. you can feel how little creativity or effort went into this, and how utterly boring it must have been to work on the game.

it's just a shame. i do think sakaguchi is one of the few people in the industry who does know how to make a pretty good experience. he always prides himself on the creative side of it all being quite important. every jerkoff claims this to some degree, but he's one of the few people that i'd be inclined to believe when they say this. he would always try to do new things, and really most of the games he was credited on are pretty unique for what they are, even the ones that aren't so great. blue dragon is the complete opposite of that, with nothing at all unique, and completely and totally without any real spark of creativity involved. i don't think it's much of a coincidence that square went from a rather good game company to absolute shit when he started losing his pull in the company. that they seem content with going forward with blue dragon as some viable franchise is profoundly discouraging.

he seems to regard the next project he's working on as THE BIG ONE that will be that dynamite game he hasn't been able to make in almost fifteen years. i'm pretty skeptical this will be the case, but we'll see

Who would give you Blue Dragon?

Still enjoying ME2, taking my time with mining and side quests to pad the game out as long as possible. The Anti-Material Rifle makes the "Big Game Hunter" achievement a breeze.

i got blue dragon as a christmas present and just got around to playing it. i couldn't even really say that i'm really playing this game because there's no way i'm going to be spending any more time on this trash. the target demographic are 11 year olds who LOVE DBZ and that's really about it....>>>>

hey if you're not gonna play it can you mail me disc 3? I shall trade you it for something you dont own. I know its a shitty game but I hate going really far in a game and just stopping.

I er....have an 11 year old brother that loves dbz...yes 

Infiltrator with the Slam ability added (I might swap it out for Reave if I start getting a lot of close calls). That is about as close as I can get to the Infiltrator + Lift setup I used in the first one.