Charas-Project
Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: Prpl_Mage on October 17, 2010, 09:39:23 PM
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It's been a while since this game was released and no talk about it at all.
Did anyone play it beside me?
Do Kingdom hearts suck?
No one owns a Psp?
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I love Kingdom Hearts. I don't own a PSP. I have a friend here that loves it. He plays it non-stop.
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I didn't play it.
I think it's overhyped, and that ruins it for me because I'm prone to focusing on negatives instead of enjoying it.
I don't own a PSP. I own a portable system that runs Emulators of everything before the N64, and Me & My Katamari.
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Is it overhyped over there? I haven't heard, seen or read anything about it over here. Nothing.
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Let's put it this way, I've never heard anyone around here even mention the Final Fantasy series, but everyone here won't shut up about Kingdom Hearts.
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I haven't heard much really. I've heard almost no discussion on campus except for my friend who bought it.
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I have it.
And I love it :)
As a matter of fact, I love KH period.
The new title feels very "at-home" on the PSP. Graphics are nice, but the load times are god-awful.
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Nobody owns a PSP.
I'd care a lot more about Kingdom Hearts if it was more Final Fantasy and less Disney. But it seems to be taking the completely opposite route.
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Kingdom Hearts killed the Disney movies for me. Eversince then, I vowed to never play another Kingdom Hearts game again.
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I think oooog finished it a while ago.
I don't really care about KH though.
I love you Lucas.
Yeah, I conquered the game. Still haven't beaten the hidden bosses though, but I'm postponing that. I honestly don't think the game is overhyped. I think that at one point it was overhyped, and now the mere mention of it people go "Oh here we go again" regardless of the year(s) in between of almost no mention of it.
I loved the deck system, and I hope they continue with it, but what I want most is for them to stop dicking around with these filler games (See Re:Coded and 3D), and just release the goddamn console sequel. My only complaint of the game is the fact you can easily beat a storyline on hard mode in less than 6 hours, and can conquer each individual world in less than 30 minutes. This is a big issue. It took me a mere 23 hours to view the secret ending.
On a side note, the PSP has actually become worth owning. If you still have a Slim, being able to play PSX games on the go almost makes it worth it alone, but being able to host all emulators (I think they even have a N64 one out there) is magnificent. But the system itself finally has enough games to be enjoyable. I love Patapon, Dissidia had it's moments, Valkyria Chronicles II is currently absorbing all of my free time, P3P is a remake of one of my favorite RPGS, I hear Peace Walker is excellent, and of course, Kingdom Hearts.
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Peace Walker is excellent go play it now.
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Maybe I'm not the fellow Square is trying to appeal to (What with my S.T.A.L.K.E.R and my Metro 2033 and my Witcher. Might or might not be coincidence that all of those are based on books.) but I never really understood the popularity of Kingdom Hearts. Or Final Fantasy, at that. Or Disney at any point beyond 1997. Particularly how hard the game tries to be a plot-driven game while simultaneously having one of the worst, most cryptic, needlessly contrived storylines I have ever witnessed, even with all my experience playing really old PC platforming games and frankly almost any shooters. Plus the gameplay is more than a touch ridiculous. Frankly there was a reason an RPG menu used to control action game combat was more or less untread ground. It's the same reason no one has tried to make a text based first person shooter. Further, call me shallow, but I can't get over the character designs. Belts, zippers, we all know the joke, but the very worst of it is basically untouched. The main character beats the shit out of people with a key. Sort of. If you can reconcile your idea of a key with this beast.
(http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100908153321/kingdomhearts/images/0/0c/%CE%A7-blade_%28Complete%29_KHBBS.png)
Also not trolling.
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You can install the game to your card and cut down the load time A LOT. Thank god for that.
Also, I felt like this game was different from the others, not that many returning worlds, a kinda fresh cast of disney characters compared to KH2 and a more centre around the 3 main protagonists.
Also, you completed the game on hard in 9 hours with each character? I can see that happening but I doubt you completed the report.
I personally felt that completing the game on the hard difficulty and just like that get to see the secret ending is a bit ripp-off. It's like in Super Smash Brawl when all you had to do to unlock all the characters was to play through Subspace Emissary.
So I've played on the easier difficulty and beat Command Board after command board, collected Arena Medals, used every D-Link. Crafted every Command ect, ect. With all three characters. So the game time on those files now after getting the report done is like 30 hours.
Also - I dig the Command system it was nice, focused on reload time now.
It felt like how it was what I wanted FFXIII to actually be. And how I hope FFXIIIVS will be.
Same basic thought of no mana cost and speedy battles. But in this game stuff had reload times and command styles and D-links which added a lot of variety to the game.
And yes I got the psp this year and I don't think I would've used it earlier if I got it. All good games seems to bloom now.
Oh, and I doubt Mr Sock actually played the game. Doesn't sound like it atleast.
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I watched more of it than I played, back when my brother was a huge fan of the series, fair enough, but I have played both the first and second for a few hours, each.
Also, you completed the game on hard in 9 hours with each character? I can see that happening but I doubt you completed the report.
Why should I have felt the need? Most devs are content to throw some bonus content at the player if they find a few secrets. Square expect the player to see every vertex of every last polygon of every last model before they give you the whole game. I didn't feel like wasting the effort on watching a 30 second video of a forest of keyblades and a few black hooded guys trying real hard to look menacing. Luckily (sort of.) my brother wasn't so inclined.
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But did you play or see Birth by Sleep? 'Cuz I'd say it's rather different from the 2 main games.
If you got a Psp or a PSP emulator, give it a try.
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If I felt the report was worth completing, I would have done so. I completed the arena and all of the content necessary to suck all of the story possible, but playing those mini games, getting every move and ability, playing that pain in the *** board game was more hassle than fun. It was the same with the original Kingdom Hearts, wading through the 100 Acre Woods mini games. If completing the report was a necessity to unlock the ending I would have done so, but I would prefer to avoid it. I play games for the satisfaction of completing them and the sense of accomplishment, like most others. I gained more of this from viewing the secret ending than I ever would have from completing all of those monotonous minor tasks.
Not to mention I have a giant stack of games that has accumulated over the months that deserve my attention. That is my excuse.
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But how do you feel a sense of accomplishment when you didn't accomplish everything?
I personally can't feel satisfied with an RPG if there's a hard boss left alive, awesome item to be fought ect ect. Same with Metroid, it's fun to earn the secrets.
I gotta admit though, I didn't do everything in FFXII, but completing that game was effort enough.
And I really didn't get every item in FFXIII either and some other boring trophies that existed. It was nothing that did anything in-game.
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Admittedly the fact that I did not beat the hidden bosses is eating at me, but that is completely irrelevant to the topic of completing the report. The things I have left to do in the report:
Find every treasure chest / sticker
Complete the command board
Create every ability
Mini-games in Disney Town
The above will earn me minimum sense of accomplishment. Aside from said mini-bosses, I completed everything worthwhile that I felt was not just a massive waste of time. The story has been completed, apart from the fore mentioned I have beaten every foe, and I have a record of 25 wins 3 losses amongst my peers in the arena. I bypassed doing all of that uninteresting and repetitive time wasting by playing the game with a little more difficulty. Admittedly once I got to my favorite grinding spot in Enchanted Dominion the difficulty of the game posed no more threat. Why would I waste my time on repetitive tasks that will offer me nothing in the long run when there are many other games that will offer more?
I received my sense of accomplishment from viewing the secret ending without going to Youtube, and creating quite the ridiculous Ventus to annihilate the Aqua my brother is so very proud of. I needn't play anymore for the golden Mickey icon on my report. Of course though, to each their own.
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I think there's a world of difference between beating a hidden boss / finding a hidden item and completing a game 100%. I almost never level up RPG characters up to level 99 and I don't get 99 of every item, but I don't feel like I'm missing anything by not doing that.
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To complete a game 100% depends on what 100% is for you. Unless the % is actually shown in the game.
Also, I have 358/2 Days and meh... I'm not a fan of mission based games like this. I also tried Chains of Memories... and meh. Didn't like the card system thing. Could try this one, but I'm not sure I want to try a third one.
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To complete a game 100% depends on what 100% is for you. Unless the % is actually shown in the game.
Also, I have 358/2 Days and meh... I'm not a fan of mission based games like this. I also tried Chains of Memories... and meh. Didn't like the card system thing. Could try this one, but I'm not sure I want to try a third one.
This one is significantly different from it's predecessors on the handheld systems. Chain of Memories, if you can tolerate it, was okay, but I simply read the manga/synopsis to learn what I missed in between, and 358/2 granted was not the best. Mission based games are hardly ever fun. My only gripe with this one compared to the consoles is the fore mentioned spending only 30 minutes in each world actually doing things productive without excessive grinding or item hunting.
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I can't help finding all that exiting though. No, not the Disney town mini games AGAIN only a different character. but the whole Command melding. 3 characters share some skills, some are only for them. So it's fun to try out new things and get new abilities .
And with the chests, stickers (and prize pods). Kinda like Metroid, you know in what world they are and you search every inch of the place to find 'em and when you finally do you feel great. Sometimes it even gives something neat.
And well, Chain of memory kinda sucked - hard. Not my kind of battle system. 358/2 was a great game as whole but doing missions kinda throbs the feeling. There was some cutscenes here and there, some comical Demyx and Xigbar conversations but nothing special.
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I beat the game witg Aqua and Terra.
I'm not in the mood of playing Ventus anytime soon.
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I still haven't gotten through FF6... But I'd give myself a 100%
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I played the game with Terra > Ventus > Aqua. Now afterwards - I'm glad I did it in the order I did.
And it's a shame that you have to complete all the mini games but with different characters. Especially wining the Command Board. I have no problem getting the "Board exclusive" items on it, but winning it pisses me off when Captain Dark appear.
And also, the Skull Island board. I loathe that board.
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Just play Proud mode you wussies. That way you'd probably only need to complete Xehanort's Report for the final episode, which, at most, only requires you to play through Mirage Arena and open some chests with Aqua and Ventus.
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Hey look, it's Gary!
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And yeah, that's what he did. He played through the game on the harder difficulty and unlocked the secret ending.
I on the other hand prefer to finish most things that can be finished in a game. I completed the reports of the previous 3 games KH,KH2 and KH DS(Sorry Gary I'm not counting CoM here) so I'm doing the same here. It's kinda more motivating to do it when there's this thing keeping track on what you've done rather than just doing stuff.
Also, that final difficulty with Zero Exp ability is rad.
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Gary? What? Is something horrible about to happen? Or something good? Or something at all?
We're desperate for a return of old members.
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That, I so agree. I still have that list I made of people who either left Charas or post so rarely that each time they do, a wave of nostalgia floats over Charas, and there are quite a lots of names... and it hasn't been updated for some time, so I might have to add names! I won't though. Laziness, and no real point beside twisting the knife in the wound that's already deep enough, yes.
But anyway, yeah, I might try Birth by Sleep some times. If I am still disappointed, then Kingdom Heart won't exist anymore for me!
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Gary pops in every once in a while. I've never seen him as quite "gone".
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I only see him once a year or so. Seems pretty "gone" to me.