ENKER'S PROFILE

I'm still using RM2K (to some people's horror) but I find that I haven't exceeded 5-10 non-system variables.

I don't own a copy of SF4, but was out with friends the other night and wound up at my younger brother's place at 1am playing. I have to admit that I loved it, largely because without having touched a copy of SF2 since the arcades of my youth I was quickly able to pick up a pad and hold my own against people who'd beaten the game on their home consoles. It felt like a natural extension of the original classic and the little added extras to the system were easily approachable and felt natural after a few battles. With Soul Caliber and SF4 on the market, Tekken is going to have a hard time when it is finally released!

Over here in the UK it's a remarkably cheap purchase for an rpg defficient console, much like VIII before it I am a big fan of the translation and voice teams, who work in so many very English jokes (for example the equipment seller greets you with 'Hello my lover' which is a line of some jest over here after Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, among other things). I'm hoping that the game gets a sequel, as for a first try at a new sub-genre of rpg it shows a lot of promise. It would be cool to see multiplay and perhaps class-based skills spread across the three other controllers. Imagine working with a friend who'se using the wii-mote as a wand to cast spells by drawing runes, etc. It has a lot of potential.

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Where the hell did you come from Enker???

The UK, England, Hertford. I've been a site member for ages and am still working on the mammoth Shadow's Reach.

I've found that the most important thing any RPG can do is capture the attention of the player with a plot point within the first 10 minutes of gameplay in order to build up an interest and get the player to invest another 40+ hours in the game. In most games of the genre these moments are quite apparant, FF7's bombing mission throws you straight into the action, and Kingdom Hearts teases you with a tutorial with a surprisingly sinister theme and huge scale boss before even letting you begin. be it action or humor, something has to make a player decide to keep playing, but some games just miss the mark, bogging you down in petty conversation or dull tutorial segmets that take an age to plough through before you get even a whisp of plot or characterisation. Some games epically fail in their most basic function - to interest the player.

So which games have and haven't managed it, and when was the last time that you were so turned off by a game that you've not touched it since?

unequip all metal items (test which ones do and don't work in the entryway) and concentrate on healing powers as well as strong magical attacks/items. Once you reach a certain point Edward will come to your aid and you'll be able to re-equip your gear and pummel him!