New Square-Enix Greatest hits titles
Square Enix just put out 4 more greatest hits cds. These games include : Final Fantasy Anthology, Final Fantasy Chronicles, Vagrant Story, and Xenogears.
This wouldn't be all the big news except for the fact that an orginal Xenogears was still worth 50 dollars before Square-Enix decided to rerelease it.
So now all you that missed out on Xenogears earlier have a chance to see what you've been missing. The story is probably one of the best, if not the best. I reccommend you go out and pick this title up.
This wouldn't be all the big news except for the fact that an orginal Xenogears was still worth 50 dollars before Square-Enix decided to rerelease it.
So now all you that missed out on Xenogears earlier have a chance to see what you've been missing. The story is probably one of the best, if not the best. I reccommend you go out and pick this title up.
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yeah right, like that will happen.... besides i like the gamecube and ps2 controllers a hell of a lot more than xbox. i mean it's too bulky.
There's extensive FAQ's and walkthroughs on how to set up emulators out there, I recommend you find one. Personally, I use ePSXe 1.6 with the latest Pete's graphics plugins, the eternal SPU plugin, and the PEOPS CD-ROM plugin. YMMV.
-drasnor
There's several places in Xenogears that are at least as intense as the transition from the World of Balance to the World of Ruin in FF6 (3 US) *shiver*. Yeah, thats why we're all excited about Xenosaga. Xenogears = Xenosaga epside 5.
-drasnor
Good plan. It was released at the same time as Final Fantasy 7, so analog sticks are a no-go. You can get a DualShock controller anyway, since they make great PC gamepads with the adapter.
-drasnor
The playstation controller rocks! I'm assuming it's one of the best-recieved controllers ever made, since so many PC controllers copy the design.
The ePSXe emulator works quite well on every PSX game I've ever tried. Try it for your PSX emulating needs
I'll probably play Xenogears on the PC with an emulator, although I have a PS2 and PS1 laying around as well.
-drasnor
no its not. Xenosaga has nothing to do with Xenogears besides being coded by the same team as before. Square owns the rights to anything related to Xenogears, and thus the entire storyline had to be changed for Xenosaga to be able to be release. This is why the moves aren't called deathblows, the gears aren't called gears, and the whole new future for KOS-MOS.
In my opinion Xenosaga was the worst RPG i've ever played. If any of you have played Xenosaga but not Xenogears, do not judge it by Xenosaga. Sure Xenosaga may be pretty, but it's storyline makes no sense and it wasn't even worth playing all the way through in my opinion. not to mention it was more movie than game....
sigh rpg's of today focus too much on graphics and not enough on story.
I enjoyed Xenosaga. It wasn't as good as Xenogears, but that's a pretty demanding standard to live up to. It beat the socks off FFX and FF8 imho.
-drasnor
you need to be more specific dras. The end of Xenogears says : Xenogears Episode 5, I'll give you that. Buuuuuuut all the end of the Xenosaga does is show boring crap that wasn't worthwhile. I don't feel like spoiling it....
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the story yes is similar, but it has been changed because of the break from Squaresoft.
-drasnor
Hah hah, comparing Xenogears to Max Payne? That's like comparing a diamond to a cubic zirconium (respectively).
I liked Xenosaga alot, the characters were well designed and consistent. The sheer madness and sadism of Albedo pleasantly reminded me of Kefka (still the worst video game villian ever, I think).
The "playing a movie" critics seems to forget what disc 2 of Xenogears played like.
-drasnor
Norge
Xenogears is (among other things) an adventure of discovery...and then wishing you hadn't discovered it in the first place.
The big picture has Aveh and Kislev, two nations who have warred with each other for hundreds of years. Kislev had begun to gain the upper hand thanks to its superior numbers of newly unearthed "Gears", large robotic war machines from a time long forgotten. But the forces of Aveh are suddenly reinforced by a technolgically superior "Gebler" force, which seemingly appears out of nowhere. So Kislev and Aveh/Gebler continue their neverending war.
The actual beginning of the game introduces you to Fei, a young man without a past, and his idyllic existence in a quaint little town that has experienced little of the turmoil that engulfs much of the rest of the world.
And that's really all I can tell you without incalculably ruining it for you.
It is possible to make a game with good graphics, and good story. Especialy if your name has 'square' in it somewhere.
20,000 years ago an enormous starship is transporting large numbers of civillians and a planet-destroying weapons system. Somehow, en route the weapons system becomes active and the captain self-destructs the starship in order to prevent the weapon from destroying a nearby planet.
Present day, in your home village of Lahan, your character's friend Timothy is getting married to one of your other friend Alice. Ever since you were dropped off mysteriously in the night three years ago, they have been your family. In the pre-wedding jitters, Alice wonders what her life would be like if she had chosen you. To prepare for the big event, you head off to the village doctor's house, a strange fellow that lives on a nearby mountain with his wife and daughter.
Your village sits on the border of Kislev and Aveh, two countries that have been at war for the past several years. They fight each other with Gears, large ancient Mecha uncovered from desert ruins and restored to fighting condition. No one really knows what powers Gears, only that they are the key to defeating the enemy. A mysterious military force appeared recently, calling themselves the Gebler, and upset the delicate balance. They fight with Gears far more technologically advanced than either Aveh or Kislev possess.
A prototype Gear with Gebler technology was stolen during a raid on Kislev. Damaged, on the run, persued by Gebler forces, it is forced to make an emergency landing in Lahan...
-drasnor
"20,000 years ago an enormous starship..."
It's 10,000 years, if you remember Old Man Bal from the cave, there doesn't seem to be any human remains from before 10,000 years ago.
"two countries that have been at war for the past several years..."
The past several hundred years in fact. The game's exposition relates that no one remembers what caused Kislev and Aveh to go to war in the first place.
"A mysterious military force appeared recently, calling themselves the Gebler, and upset the delicate balance"
Again, the game's exposition says that Kislev was gaining the upper hand due to its superior resources in Gears and Gebler appears fight with Aveh. And so Gebler actually restores the balance while Aveh gets its act together with gear warfare. If you remember the purpose for Aveh and Kislev that Gebler's home nation works towards, this would make sense.
-drasnor
Norge
PS1, and dude, ebgames.com is selling it for $65 used! is it rare, or is it just that good?