My very own Zelda game

[Weltall]

No, I didn't finish it, but if the game takes 30 hours before it gets really interesting, that's sad.

Then it's a good thing it takes far less than that, I guess. :)

Well yes, there's a difference between an homage and a rip-off. An homage usually takes clichés and standards from the original material that inspired it while still keeping the story fresh and interesting, while a rip off just takes a bunch of ideas and slaps them together. Xenogears isn't really that bad, and the story is interesting for a video game, but I've seen most of it before. Another example of something that's borderline homage and rip-off is Kill Bill, which while being an entertaining movie which tributes a bunch of asian movies that Tarantino is fond of, it largely just takes a bunch of plot points and clichés and slaps them together. I've heard the second volume is better though...

Okay, what part of Star Wars can't be classified as "been there, done that"? The diabolical Emperor, a man with such deep motives as "I'm evil, muhahaha!" and "Killing people is fun!" wants to dominate the galaxy for such deep reasons as "Just because", and is stopped by his underling's son, who is a pure soul, a true-blue hero that cannot be corrupted, because he's the good guy and everyone knows good guys defeat evil empires. Said Empire is totally annihilated and defeated when one of it's bazillion ginormous deathmobiles is blown up while orbiting a backwater moon.

It's not only completely unoriginal, it's about as deep and developed as spit on a sidewalk. If that's what you call an 'homage', I'll take the 'ripoff' any day. :)

Coming from someone who considers gameplay-handicapped games like Silent Hill and Xenogears to be great games, that's not saying much. :shakeit:

I can't help it I have good taste. :kiss:

You see, the difference between ED and SH is that ED actually has a little something called fun gameplay. It's not scary, but it has an interesting story with solid gameplay. It actually has fun combat, which was a first for the genre.

It wasn't that great. Besides, gameplay is hardly the reason I love Silent Hill. Atmosphere and depth go a very long way with me. I won't bullshit and say that gameplay is always the paramount factor. It's not.

You must not have ever played Grim Fandango or a hundred other graphic adventure games if you think Xenogears has an unparalleled story.

Sure haven't, nope.