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Tactical RPGs!
Topic Started: Apr 15 2007, 02:12 AM (351 Views)
cheesedude
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Just in case.

You can dispatch up to ten units. Each unit consists of 5 characters on a 3x3 grid. You assign them destinations. You equip and raise your own army. However, you have no control over the actual battles. The battles are automated and fun to watch. You arrange your characters the right way as to get more attacks, you equip the best equipment you can. It's the decisions you make BEFORE the battle that determine the outcome (along with a bit of luck).

It's a massive game, spanning over 40 unique maps and one of the most kick-ass storylines I've ever witnessed. Music is great for an N64 game. The characters have depth and you actually start to get attached to some of them.

Overall, it's in my Top 5 Games ever list....
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"There are as many truths out there as there are people to tell them. Perhaps it's best simply to choose the truth with which you are most comfortable."
~ Knoll, Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

"Choosing not to decide is still a choice."
~ Cybil Alinda, Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis

"I'm very serious about not being serious about what I do."
~ Ric Orlando, two-time Chopped Champion

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Sounds good. I like getting attached to characters.
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The amount of items and equips is godly. Fully customizable characters.
It's addicting.

MASSIVE CLASS SYSTEM.

The choices you make in-game affect the special characters you can get.

Also, you'll love this one, CotF. There's a character named Sheen. He's a Hawkman and he's really perverted. Actually, he's like you but with wings and a kick-ass hammer!
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"There are as many truths out there as there are people to tell them. Perhaps it's best simply to choose the truth with which you are most comfortable."
~ Knoll, Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

"Choosing not to decide is still a choice."
~ Cybil Alinda, Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis

"I'm very serious about not being serious about what I do."
~ Ric Orlando, two-time Chopped Champion

"Basketball cheesesteak."
~ Eidon, Magi-Nation
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Sounds good. I will look forward to using him. Hope I can get it, sounds like a great game.
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[23:00] Byrgg: my mom said it was getting too dark for her and she's getting turned off i think v_v

CotF1692 (07:18:28 pm): you suck
ojajrrj (07:18:34 pm): Only if you're nice.
"Haha your mage can't read!" -My mom
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One thing. If you just play the game without reading up you have a 100% chance of going the chaos route and getting the bad ending.

I could tell you all about it another time. I seriously have like 8 seperate word documents with details of this game.
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"There are as many truths out there as there are people to tell them. Perhaps it's best simply to choose the truth with which you are most comfortable."
~ Knoll, Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

"Choosing not to decide is still a choice."
~ Cybil Alinda, Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis

"I'm very serious about not being serious about what I do."
~ Ric Orlando, two-time Chopped Champion

"Basketball cheesesteak."
~ Eidon, Magi-Nation
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I'd read it, if I wheren't sneaking. I will come to you when I get it.

Is Chaos ending bad?
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[23:00] Byrgg: my mom said it was getting too dark for her and she's getting turned off i think v_v

CotF1692 (07:18:28 pm): you suck
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The final mission kicks ass in that ending. But the ending itself is unsatisfying. The hero gets no recognition for saving the country and leading his forces to victory.

Law Route = Better characters, better ending, hard.
Chaos Route = Cooler characters, less characters, easier, bad ending

It's mostly based on if you liberate or capture towns. You liberate a town if you take it with a unit that has the same general alignment as it. A Chaotic unit will liberate towns that have low morale.

If you use the opposite sort of unit, you capture it, thus dropping your rating and starting you to the chaos path.
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"There are as many truths out there as there are people to tell them. Perhaps it's best simply to choose the truth with which you are most comfortable."
~ Knoll, Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

"Choosing not to decide is still a choice."
~ Cybil Alinda, Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis

"I'm very serious about not being serious about what I do."
~ Ric Orlando, two-time Chopped Champion

"Basketball cheesesteak."
~ Eidon, Magi-Nation
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It sounds good, but I like to be in charge of what my characters do. If I had to leave them to it I'd be really weird about it.
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Well, what attacks they do depend on what they have equiped.

The point is, you can't tell them "Attack that Knight!" There's four battle strategies. Attack Strongest, Attack Weakest, Attack Leader and Automonous - which just makes them attack the one that's easiest for them to target.

Attack Leader should always be your choice, though.
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"There are as many truths out there as there are people to tell them. Perhaps it's best simply to choose the truth with which you are most comfortable."
~ Knoll, Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

"Choosing not to decide is still a choice."
~ Cybil Alinda, Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis

"I'm very serious about not being serious about what I do."
~ Ric Orlando, two-time Chopped Champion

"Basketball cheesesteak."
~ Eidon, Magi-Nation
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So you give them basic orders and they fight? Kinda like non player controled characters in Tales games?
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[23:00] Byrgg: my mom said it was getting too dark for her and she's getting turned off i think v_v

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I haven't played any Tales games so I wouldn't know.
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~ Knoll, Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

"Choosing not to decide is still a choice."
~ Cybil Alinda, Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis

"I'm very serious about not being serious about what I do."
~ Ric Orlando, two-time Chopped Champion

"Basketball cheesesteak."
~ Eidon, Magi-Nation
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Okay, but I think I get what you mean.
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[23:00] Byrgg: my mom said it was getting too dark for her and she's getting turned off i think v_v

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Oh but that would annoy me so much. Even in the Tales games (where battle can be left with the computer controlled characters fighting with certain strategies) I have to control ONE character otherwise I will go nuts.
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That's understandable. That type of gameplay dosen't appeal to everyone, after all.
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~ Knoll, Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

"Choosing not to decide is still a choice."
~ Cybil Alinda, Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis

"I'm very serious about not being serious about what I do."
~ Ric Orlando, two-time Chopped Champion

"Basketball cheesesteak."
~ Eidon, Magi-Nation
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I guess I am just a control freak.

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