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author=LockeZ
You might just be terrible at RPGs.

But why do I think that SaGaFrontier 1 is easy when everybody else says it's too hard then? =p

Also I've heard from multiple other independent sources already that BoF III was hard.

Might even go so far and say that every Capcom game is hard.

author=Feldschlacht IV

author=Rys
3. Breath of Fire III. Really only quit that one because I couldn't beat the next dungeon without running out of resources. The battles didn't even give enough gold to pay for the healing items you needed to win them anymore and you just got into an endless spiral of difficulty: less gold -> can't afford better equip -> even less gold -> can't even afford healing items anymore.

Are we talking about the same game? BOF III isn't insultingly easy, but it's not particularly hard, either. What dungeon is this?

The problem with the game is the resources. I remember it started to get really hard around the time I got Momo. I couldn't beat the next dungeon, some... plantation. I remember that after three battles my resources were already trained. I could have used healing items but the cost for them was higher than what gold I got from a battle. So I just started grinding like crazy, always doing 3 battles, then leaving, resting and then do it again. I grinded for like 5 hours and then I had accumulated enough gold and gained enough levels to beat the dungeon. After that I was good to go until I reached a new island that was more industrial. There you need to go to some beach cave. There I was stuck again, because the battles were so hard I could hardly win 3 of them again and my gold was almost used up again. At that point I just didn't feel like grinding another 5 hours again. That's where I quit.

Sounds to me like you're just not liking the game. Boring characters, really?

Why shouldn't it have had CT's name linked to it? Why is it a bad sequel to Chrono Trigger? What made CT great for you that wasn't copied?

Like if before this game you'd have asked around what people would like to see, there would be a conversation like this often:
Q: What would you like to see?
A: Hmm, someone should make a game like Chrono Trigger again.
Q: So what was so cool about it?
A: The battle system of course! It was cool how every single encounter was integrated into the scenery and different, all required some strategy and there were those cool combos too.

I Am Setsuna is basically Square Enix's answer to this demand.

The fact that people just don't like it all that much now or don't even buy it because "$40 is overpriced for a 2D game", just shows that people really just don't know what they want. They might say they want a game like Chrono Trigger, but in reality they want to waste all their money on modern 3D super high-res graphic games and on microtransactions in addictive mobile games. People might complain about those all the time, but that's where their money goes anyway.

Now Square Enix can just rightfully say "Well, we tried, seems such games are just not popular anymore". It's sad.

Well, there are tons of games I never beat because they are too hard, but if we focus only on games that I really liked:

1. SaGaFrontier Riki's scenario. This is my favorite game of all times and I played through each of the characters 3 times... except Riki! I just can't defeat that Ring Lord, because he's invincible and you need to impress him with cool combos but no matter what I try I just can't get any big combos going when I have a monster-type in my group.

2. I Am Setsuna. I love it almost as much as Chrono Trigger, but eventually you get to dungeons that have no save point for 2+ hours and normal monsters start to be able to easily wipe your party in just one turn. I played 2 hours... died. Quit for 2 weeks. Tried again. Played 2 hours, died again without reaching any save point. Permanent rage quit.

3. Breath of Fire III. Really only quit that one because I couldn't beat the next dungeon without running out of resources. The battles didn't even give enough gold to pay for the healing items you needed to win them anymore and you just got into an endless spiral of difficulty: less gold -> can't afford better equip -> even less gold -> can't even afford healing items anymore.

4. Star Odyssey. I kinda liked the setting of this game, but the game is ridiculously hard as the monster difficulty only scales with your level. If you level up before getting the next tier weapon or another party member, you are literary stuck in the game, not able to win any battle anymore. There was no way to lose Exp in the game, if you died, you lost half the gold, but that's ridiculous! If you have ANY gold loss from dying or from buying any item you currently don't need, the game immediately becomes impossible to win because you won't be able to afford the next weapon before your next level up. After I explained the developer my predicament, he refused to fix this obvious flaw. =/


That's all I can think of right now. Wizardry never was a problem for me. I played through the SNES version of part 1-3 using Save/Load State on an emulator, with that I managed to have quite some fun and finish the game. I remember finishing Wizardry 7 when I was young and had lots of time. I quit Wizardry 8, but only because I got bored. I finished the japanese Wizardry game for PS3 as well (and all its expansions too). And I played Elminage Gothic up to the final boss at least. After 200 hours grinding, I just didn't have enough motivation to grind for the final boss anymore.

Yeah, I Am Setsuna isn't perfect as the new stuff doesn't synergize too well with the CT stuff, so much is clear.

But that the skill names and themes are taken straight from CT is still something I'd put at the "Good points" side of I Am Setsuna, because those were exactly the things that made me happy because they gave me a nostalgic feelign

Some games are simply so good that you just want an exact copy of them with only the story being changed since you know the original one already out of your head after the 10th playthrough.