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Trickster F. wrote:

My computer always freezes whenever I try to open any DS game on my emulator. Phooey!

DS emulation is a fairly new field, so the emulators are buggy, slow, tend to crash, and are often incompatible with many ROMs. Frankly, I'd just stick to emulators for N64 and before.

Trickster F. wrote:

rileydog22 wrote:

Trickster F. wrote:

My computer always freezes whenever I try to open any DS game on my emulator. Phooey!

DS emulation is a fairly new field, so the emulators are buggy, slow, tend to crash, and are often incompatible with many ROMs. Frankly, I'd just stick to emulators for N64 and before.

That's a possible explanation. All other emulators I have (two actually, for SNES and GBA, 'cause mine no longer works) work flawlessly.

I just wanted to check out the game Aaron suggested since I happen to be one of the FF fans he mentioned.

DS emulation is in such a state currently that even if it did boot and run, it wouldn't come close to conveying the actual experience... it'd be like when I played Final Fantasy V back in 1997 on a 75 MHz PC... no sound, 25% speed, paaaain!

I work all day behind a computer. Whatever is left for me as "personal time" is used to live...

¡Beware of the Bee!

John Woo's Stranglehold. Too short, but what a cinematic game.

Oh man, BioShock was a blast. Great control, stunning graphics and what may be my favorite game storyline ever.

Man Overboard wrote:

I pose a serious question to you all:

When did it become a bad thing for RPGs to be RPGs?

My -guess- is when FFVII turned out to be more a linear story with intermittent, challengeless battles seemingly only to pad the playtime, and the public ate it up.

Now that Enix has been absorbed by Square, there are very few companies that will release RPGs that have any sort of character development that you have any say in, any sort of innovations, and most of all, any -challenge-.

Only Atlus carries the torch consistantly, and their sales/popularity are honestly comparable to RIO sales as compared to Top 40. The rest of the RPG-developing community puts out candy that doesn't make you think and doesn't make you work.

All you guys that made the later FF games so popular, thank you -so- much for taking away real RPGs for the handful of us who still like depth and challenge Cry

And if any of you felt -anything- positive from that rant, go pick up Etrian Odyssey for the Nintendo DS. Probably the best pure RPG of this generation, and surely an incredible shock to kids raised on Final Fantasy. Wink

You don't like Final Fantasy 7???

I'm still playing World of Warcraft

laplace wrote:

I like roguelikes. =) but I'm more of an angband player than a fan of anything with graphics. Diablo, Dark Cloud and various dungeon hacks seem to fizzle out quicker than the ASCII classics to me.

It's not like those at all... it's like the text ones, what with the one-for-one movement and identify scrolls and cursed goods and all sorts of little depthy things Smile

First must-have title for the DS. (Must import from Europe though... US's homophobia denied it a stateside release Cry

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Been playing Kirby 64 (easier than I remember, but still very fun and nostalgic) and The Godfather.

Both awesome.

Playing it for the second time first time was 2 years ago i think with enormus laggggg.. Now it runs very smoth great game and crepy have made me jump high a cuple of times.