TERIN'S PROFILE

Wow, haha. Alright, we'll have to make sure you never do anything creative again, Rob! (please don't ban my heretical self... Haha)

Hahaha. A Czar and terrible, I like it! ;D

In my opinion, the only way magic is ever useful is as an enhancement. Augments and enchantments are the only use of it (aside from healing). After playing Breath of Fire 3 and Final Fantasy 12 back to back, I've lost faith in magic as anything useful.

FF12: Equip a character with a Katana. End of story. The only way magic was ever useful was to buff characters and heal each other. There were some battles where the enemy couldn't be damaged by weapons, so I'd have to throw spells -- but they hit so much weaker than they ever should have, even after getting every boost on the License Grid. Also, the summons in this game just sucked... I remember trying to call them out a few times and was just beyond disappointed.

BoF3: Just what everyone else said -- magic is weak. The only time it can be useful is about midway through the game when you have to hit things with elementals, and you have a group-spell. Other than that, it sucks. HOWEVER, I was really happy with the Ability system. Just how you could stack things (which I didn't realize). It was nice to Focus with Ryu 2-3 times and then smack someone with Aura. Also, Peco is awesome because you can control him, and also because of who he actually is.

FF6 isn't bad -- but it suffers from the same issue as FF7 -- all characters can become awesome fairly easily. In the end with relics and equipment, everyone is pretty much the same. Everyone casts Ultima. Get a relic that drops MP usage to 1 (I forget the name of it). Ultima is 1 MP. Cast it half a dozen times. Dead. Or, even better, pumping up HP with Bahamut or someone and then using Atma Weapon. Atma Weapon + Another Atma Weapon + Offering + Genji Glove == Anyone in the game dead. It was so amusing actually doing that -- I had Locke in one of the games end up just killing Kefka in one shot. No challenge.

Magic needs to be something that everyone can have, like CT. And then, it should be expensive. Everyone thinks Summons are the big thins -- but I think they ruined the formula. Summons became the new magic, where they were limited and used rarely. That's how magic should be, in my humble opinion. I remember in Chrono Trigger, Crono would get Luminaire and it would do a LOT of damage to everything. But it cost something like 20 MP I think? Which was like 1/3 or 1/4 of your MP -- so use it a few times and that's it, but it hits hard! Somewhere in the neighborhood of 3-4x what he would hit at (for one attack -- if he did 2 attacks which is common with the Rainbow Katana, it would only obviously be like 2x as strong -- but it hit EVERYONE)

Magic needs to seriously be overhauled in most games these days...

PSN: terinfire

I'm always folding though, more than likely. But if anyone's up for some CoD4 sometime, let me know.

This may deserve another topic, but it seems like the community here has an average older age. Anyone else notice this? Go to another community for RM and you'll see a lack of facial hair or anything like that. Seems like the average age around here is in the 20's... Either that or this is an exceptionally hairy community, haha.