games i'm hooked on

Do you play THUG online? Cuz i'm so special that I do. Plus, Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Tides of War has been my main squeeze game lately, its just so much fun!!!!

i want to get THUG 2 when it comes out. I played the first onje though. it was a tad bit to easy for me though.

umm...I can see it...so where your eyes at?

well fak that... my ps2 won't play some games/dvds again. this happened twice before, both times i bitched at sony and they fixed for free... if i matter so much to them why are they ignoring this 3rd break??

i'm SO in their system by now... i guess they figure i'm a game`freak and will continue to buy games even tho my system is broken

WRONG, A$$HOLES!!!

not many console games lately have made me want to get off my pute at all. even ffx-2 & bg&e are feeling it.

i'm just pissed off that virtuafighter and doa stopped working... doesn't make sense... works fine on other ps2's but not mine... MEH... i'll buy the new, sleak version one day, i guess...................

Mmmmm I play quite a few games nowadays:

StarOcean: Till The End of Time (PS2)
T.H.U.G (Xbox)
Fatal Frame (Xbox)
Half-Life 2
Flight Simulator 2004

And some pretty old games I doubt people will remember.

Star Ocean 3 is pretty nice. It's unique from other RPGs due to it's battle system. The BS isn't turn-based like other RPGs (FFX, Xenosaga,etc.) You get to control your characters in real time, it kinda feels like a fighting game in terms of the BS. This makes fighting and leveling up not seem like a real chore. You can customise which special attacks your characters can use making them pretty flexible. Also your characters not only die when their HP reaches zero they can also die when their MP reaches zero. So one character can have half HP and zero MP and they'll be dead. Better revive them...

There's also something called the "Bonus battle gauge". It allows you to get rewards by winning battles (Taking in to consideration the gauge is filled.) Some of the rewards are; Triple Exp, Double Fol (Fol is the currency in the game), Increased recovery rate after battle, Increased chance of gaining an item after battle, and one or two others. Your bonus battle gauge breaks when you sustain a critical hit or escape from battle. And also you can never your BBG; Meaning if you reload a saved game you have to refill your BBG again. So this aspect makes the game pretty addictive and you'll find yourself not wanting to stop playing because you fear losing that 3x Exp and/or 2x Fol (The rewards are cumlative, meaning you can have 3x Exp and 2x Fol at the same time.)

The pace of the game is a bit slow due to the fact you'll spend quite a bit of time leveling up to fight strong enemies and bosses. The storyline is pretty good, nothing really spectacular. Character design and voice acting is pretty good also. The dialogue is okay but at times it seems really "kiddy-like". There's more than one ending in the game, I'm not sure how many endings there are but I know it's over one. And after you finish the game there is an arena area near one of the towns you stop by. I actually haven't had a chance to go into the arena yet but from what I heard from other people it's a pretty difficult area (Fighting enemies stronger than the final boss.)

Anyways I'd recommend this game to anyone who's into RPGs and willing to lose some sleep.

P.S: The game comes with two discs so make sure you have two discs in the case if and when you buy it.

Syn. You have a network adapter? we could tiger woods it up..2k6 style?.... man this thread is old..