THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: The Fake Shemp on August 26, 2007, 03:34:15 PM

Title: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 26, 2007, 03:34:15 PM
It looks like crap!  I mean, if you're hard up for a mediocre RPG, why not wait for Eternal Sonata?  Looks leagues better and it comes with a nifty faceplate, no less.  Fuck this animu bullshit!
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: CajoleJuice on August 26, 2007, 03:35:03 PM
People aren't buying it.

Japafags are.
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: demi on August 26, 2007, 03:36:08 PM
CAN'T WAIT! :hyper

Getting it for free but I would have bought it anyway!
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: demi on August 26, 2007, 03:36:54 PM
it comes with a nifty faceplate, no less.

Wow you really are a GameStop employee.
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 26, 2007, 03:36:55 PM
wHY?!?!
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 26, 2007, 03:37:23 PM
I'm a whore for faceplates, the Eternal Sonata ones look cool.
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: demi on August 26, 2007, 03:37:44 PM
I bet if Blue Dragon had a faceplate you would be pushing that. I think I see your agenda, now.
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 26, 2007, 03:38:43 PM
Nah - I wouldn't support EVERYTHING with faceplates.  I would probably pre-order for a faceplate and then cancel my reservation if it sucked...

... like BLUE DRAGON.
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: demi on August 26, 2007, 03:49:59 PM
 :o
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on August 26, 2007, 04:17:04 PM
Sakaguchi + Toriyama. It's 2/3 of the Chrono Trigger dream team!
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: Smooth Groove on August 26, 2007, 04:18:35 PM
Sakaguchi + Toriyama. It's 2/3 of the Chrono Trigger dream team!

But it's on a Xbox, 3/3 of the JRPG nightmare team. 
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: y2kev on August 26, 2007, 04:19:05 PM
Sakaguchi + Toriyama. It's 2/3 of the Chrono Trigger dream team!
Missing the guy who does good scenario design. :(

also missing mitsuda
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on August 26, 2007, 04:24:51 PM
BD also has Uematsu so I guess like ... 3/5 of the CT dream team if you count Mitsuda, Uematsu, and Horii.

There were only 3 members of the "dream team" originally, though. Mitsuda wasn't included. :'(
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: tiesto on August 26, 2007, 04:25:43 PM
I preordered Eternal Sonata 'cuz of the faceplate, the demo of ES was cool but I'm not too enthralled by the JGAFFers impressions, they seem to rate BD much more favorably. I'm getting both, I don't care (and then never gonna play them)
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 26, 2007, 04:27:30 PM
Patel... all indications is that the game is boring and its pedigree is irrelevant!
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on August 26, 2007, 04:28:46 PM
it could hardly be more boring than ES
and look at DQ8! some RPG fans love boring!
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: Mondain on August 26, 2007, 04:30:26 PM
I'm at the last dungeon; it's actually a very good game, even if the plot and the overall gameplay are a bit too standard

and it does look better than Eternal Sonata after the novelty of that game's cel-shading wears off... some of Blue Dragon's environments and monster animations are simply out of this world

people just await Eternal Sonata because they want turn-based combat to disappear entirely
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Post by: Mr. Gundam on August 26, 2007, 04:39:01 PM
Blue Dragon is why I want a 360..
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 26, 2007, 04:42:36 PM
NO FACEPLATE SHUP!
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 26, 2007, 04:45:26 PM
IGN said the first disc was so boring that had they not been paid to play the game, they would've chucked the disc out the window and shat inside the DVD case.
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 26, 2007, 04:48:12 PM
SHOW ME THE FACEPLATE
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 26, 2007, 05:18:25 PM
For Eternal Sonata?
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: TVC15 on August 26, 2007, 05:20:20 PM
Blue Dragon sounds like my kind of traditional JRPG.  It sounds like a dungeon hack without that much focus on plot.  That's what I like.
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 26, 2007, 05:20:51 PM
Im totally getting Eternal Sonata
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: BlueTsunami on August 26, 2007, 05:22:30 PM
I'll probably get Blue Dragon, I mean, I need sometype of JRPG for my 360. It'll be my first experience with an RPG with nextgen visuals too..I NEED IT
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: The Sceneman on August 26, 2007, 07:11:35 PM
Great thread  ::). Why are people buying this game? I think it looks like crap! Maybe people like RPGs?
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on August 26, 2007, 07:46:58 PM
Blue Dragon doesn't have a Gamespot point-of-contact phone schpiel this month so Willco can no longer understand why someone might play it
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: y2kev on August 26, 2007, 08:21:48 PM
There's no question that Mitsuda is more talented than Uematsu, it's just that Mitsuda decided entirely too early into his career to hang up the boots. Now he only does shitty handheld RPGs and animu.

He game music's Tiki Barber, except even more extreme.
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: bork on August 26, 2007, 08:39:50 PM
I thought it looked nice enough to warrant a purchase, which I did when the Asian version came out a few months back.  Haven't put too much time into the game, but it looks good to me.  I like Akira Toriyama art though.
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: jiji on August 26, 2007, 08:47:57 PM
Calling BD "animu bullshit" and then pushing the animu-riffic Eternal Sonata in the same post? What's going on here, exactly?
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: Error2k4 on August 26, 2007, 08:59:58 PM
I was wondering the same thing when I read that post.
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: bork on August 26, 2007, 09:04:38 PM
Where did the term "animu" come from, anyway?  I DON' GET IT MANG
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: The Sceneman on August 26, 2007, 09:05:01 PM
FACEPLATES PEOPLE
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: demi on August 26, 2007, 09:06:42 PM
Where did the term "animu" come from, anyway?  I DON' GET IT MANG

Animu is Love Hina and Azumanga Daioh

Not the cool shit like Akira cause nobody gay watches Akira, only Love Hina and Azumanga Daioh
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on August 26, 2007, 09:15:38 PM
Blue Dragon is shonen, but not animu. Eternal Sonata is animooooo
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: bork on August 27, 2007, 02:44:13 AM
Where did the term "animu" come from, anyway?  I DON' GET IT MANG

Animu is Love Hina and Azumanga Daioh

Not the cool shit like Akira cause nobody gay watches Akira, only Love Hina and Azumanga Daioh

DO NOT EVER INSULT AZUMANGA DAIOH LIKE THAT EVER AGAIN OR I WILL GO "BIG DADDY" AND MAKE YOU MY "LITTLE SISTER" :punch :punch :punch :punch :punch
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: Bloodwake on August 27, 2007, 02:49:21 AM
I will not buy Blue Dragon.

Eternal Sonata DOES look fucking better than that game. A LOT fucking better.

If I'm going to go play an RPG, I will go play FFXII, since I haven't beaten it yet. OR, better yet, Persona 3, which should be coming through my Gameznflix.
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: TVC15 on August 27, 2007, 02:50:18 AM
But Big Daddies just protect Little Sisters.  They don't do anything bad.
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: Mana Knight on August 27, 2007, 06:48:04 PM
I'm getting Blue Dragon sometime.  I originally hated the demo, but not I like it.  Eternal Sonota is still better though.  I hear Blue Dragon gets great later on in the game, so I'm excited.
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: bluemax on August 27, 2007, 07:19:10 PM
Eternal Sonata demo was ass total. Blue Dragon at least feels like a game with some depth.
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: Mana Knight on August 27, 2007, 08:30:20 PM
Eternal Sonata demo was ass total. Blue Dragon at least feels like a game with some depth.
Someone actually hated the Eternal Sonota demo. :o  That demo was too much fun IMO.  Artwork and battle system really rocked.  Only reason I may hold out on the game is because it will probably come to PS3 (No only on 360 logo, and the esrb.org had it listed before.  Now the ESRB doesn't even list Eternal Sonota, which must mean something).
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: tiesto on August 28, 2007, 08:58:54 AM
My big problem with ES was the extremely small towns and the super linear paths in dungeons/fields... I hope that's just because it was an early area in the game, and that towns/dungeons/fields will grow in size and be a bit more open.
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: bud on August 28, 2007, 09:56:20 AM
blue dragon > lost odyssey
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: Himu on August 28, 2007, 01:13:34 PM
Blue Dragon sounds like my kind of traditional JRPG.  It sounds like a dungeon hack without that much focus on plot.  That's what I like.

This.

Plus it's got the Chrono Trigger dream team working on it (well, a portion)
Title: Re: BLUE DRAGON: WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING THIS?
Post by: bluemax on August 28, 2007, 01:17:44 PM
Eternal Sonata demo was ass total. Blue Dragon at least feels like a game with some depth.
Someone actually hated the Eternal Sonota demo. :o  That demo was too much fun IMO.  Artwork and battle system really rocked.  Only reason I may hold out on the game is because it will probably come to PS3 (No only on 360 logo, and the esrb.org had it listed before.  Now the ESRB doesn't even list Eternal Sonota, which must mean something).

I don't understand why anyone likes Eternal Sonata.

-Shit Art style (although this isn't surprise)
-Shit battle system with shoddy collision detection
-Shit dungeon design
-Shit out of dungeon camera

I guess its just all the Japafag animu fans that love it, but that demo felt like a disaster from start to finish. Nothing went right in it.