11th July 2005, 5:24 PM
Quote:The game kind of feels like they started trying to make the game something more, but gave up and went back to a standard console action/adventure... the story, setting, gameplay, etc. all could have done so much more but they just don't. It's only an above-average console action/adventure... not something deserving of the huge amounts of praise it gets.
I think you're wrong, it deserves every bit of praise it's gotten.
Quote:There hasn't been anything surprising in the plot yet, that's for sure... and I doubt that that'll change.
It's not like it's an opinion, Brian.
Quote:but sometimes I quit because I get bored, or get tired of it, or something else. BG&E falls into one of the later categories.
It took me roughly 9 hours to beat it. It's not like this is Saga Frontier or something.
Quote:Oh, something else annoying about the game... Money -- it's too hard to get it... there are so many things you need to buy and you just don't get enough at a reasonable pace to be able to buy them -- particularly if you actually expect to buy healing items in addition to the other stuff in town, which you should
At any point in the game I would have between 5000 and 10000 monies [or whatever] and at the end of the game I had about 12 K-Bups stored up for the last battle [it took all of them, by the way]. I also would regularly by pearls [3000-4000] at the two shops in the game. Were you taking pictures of rare animals and bosses? Shooting at the boxed that float in the water in numerous locations? Breaking the purple crystals? Money is EVERYWHERE and quite easy to get.
Quote:There are games that have great stories. This isn't one of them. It's a pretty standard console-game story, not told much better (or worse) than any others...
It has a great story and the ending is even better. I suppose though I might have been better if the story had been told through tons of incredibly long and lifeless scrolls and all the conversations where you static images where everyone's dialogue was just written text. :D *ahem* Anyway, moving on...
Quote:The game kind of feels like they started trying to make the game something more, but gave up and went back to a standard console action/adventure... the story, setting, gameplay, etc. all could have done so much more but they just don't.
Play the rest of it and tell me that.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.