2013-06-14, 10:55 PM
I played all generals on the original but I don't think I ever got the secret boss to appear. I am pretty sure that's a thing, and I knew about it while I was playing it.
I purchased GE from the Japan PSN store, but I've never played it because A) the movie elements I found tedious. And B) The polygon fights were removed for no reason. Are there new units? I don't get it.
I love the huge variety of characters, and they are all well done. Unfortunately I just can't play strategy genres anymore. I've always had an aversion to RTS games (which is the main thing my brother plays) but I played just about every kind of Japanese game when I was a kid. They'd have to be really bad for me to not have played them.
My main beef with these kinds of games is they get really repetitive very fast. And by the 5th map it just seems like every level becomes a test to see if you can finish a map that is 30 minutes longer, and by the last map its just an endurance thing, can you finish a 12hr map? I don't understand the appeal.
In my adult life (edited: more than 10 years ago) I played Majin Tensei up to the last map (Pandemonium) and I decided, no more of this, this is a form of insanity. Majin Tensei II is supposed to be one of the best Megaten games, but by the third map its TKO for me. I don't play lots of genres anymore. I would play JRPGs if they were anymore good ones to play. I played Grandia not long ago. But mostly first person adventure or something like Armored Core is the only thing I can stand to play. Apparently the game industry feels the same way. I think most of the other genres you eventually grow out of. Anymore I just want something like a movie except more visceral. Because I am a huge moviemedia bufffiend. So I only want intellectually stimulating stories-and-images-and-immersion without any tedium.
I purchased GE from the Japan PSN store, but I've never played it because A) the movie elements I found tedious. And B) The polygon fights were removed for no reason. Are there new units? I don't get it.
I love the huge variety of characters, and they are all well done. Unfortunately I just can't play strategy genres anymore. I've always had an aversion to RTS games (which is the main thing my brother plays) but I played just about every kind of Japanese game when I was a kid. They'd have to be really bad for me to not have played them.
My main beef with these kinds of games is they get really repetitive very fast. And by the 5th map it just seems like every level becomes a test to see if you can finish a map that is 30 minutes longer, and by the last map its just an endurance thing, can you finish a 12hr map? I don't understand the appeal.
In my adult life (edited: more than 10 years ago) I played Majin Tensei up to the last map (Pandemonium) and I decided, no more of this, this is a form of insanity. Majin Tensei II is supposed to be one of the best Megaten games, but by the third map its TKO for me. I don't play lots of genres anymore. I would play JRPGs if they were anymore good ones to play. I played Grandia not long ago. But mostly first person adventure or something like Armored Core is the only thing I can stand to play. Apparently the game industry feels the same way. I think most of the other genres you eventually grow out of. Anymore I just want something like a movie except more visceral. Because I am a huge moviemedia bufffiend. So I only want intellectually stimulating stories-and-images-and-immersion without any tedium.