AMERK'S PROFILE

Wild Arms and Breath of Fire would be nice as well.

author=dethmetal
My first answer is A Blurred Line, but apparently it may not be cancelled and may still be in production. Lysander86 still comes back and says he's working on it every now and then.

A Blurred Line was way overhyped for me, at least with gameplay. I loved the first half of the game, not so much the second half, and I hated that game within the game scenario.

But otherwise, story-wise it was great and I wanted to see the ending so bad. The fact that Lys continues to taunt us, though, that makes me a bit more stressed than if he had just declared it cancelled.

Necropolis was the second game. My gosh, it was probably one of the best retro-styled horror games I've played, and still one of the best demo's.

The Akara games from VX. There's 3 of them, and they all end on cliff hangers. I was hoping for one final one, but the developer said it wasn't likely to happen. I may just say to hell with it and do a sort of fan game of it myself one day.

And that leaves me to a final thought:

If we can make fan games of existing commercial rpg's, why can't we do the same for these? If a game we wanted is cancelled or left in a vague void of uncertainty, why not do a fan tribute? If the developer objects, sure, remove it, but many of them probably would be okay with the effort.

author=lonestarluigi
Final Fantasy 2 That game is just bull crap and a crap stain on one of my favorite game series ever.

Assuming you are referencing the Famicom version. Which is such a shame since it had a lot of potential:

1. A unique leveling system that could have changed the way future rpg's were handled, had it been done right.
2. A heavy story-driven game (for its time). Not a lot of NES games could hold that claim, not even with rpg's. Granted, the story is a bit too cliche by today's standards, but for its time it was probably one of the best.

Now, had the system not been so random and the player could gauge what actions to take to level up a particular stat (ie., attack 10 more times and you get a boost in attack, defend 10 more times and you get a boost in defense, etc), I think it would have been better.

But it was such a broken mess, almost to the point that I think it bombed.

As for what I dislike. I hate heavy grinding. I don't mind a bit of it here and there; it's natural for rpg's to require some, especially to try and gain a couple of levels to tackle the next cave or buy upgraded items.

But some of the early ones literally had you fighting for long periods of time in one spot just because you needed to be a certain level or have enough gold to buy the right equipment or spell to take on the first boss.

Dragon Quest games were the worst for the time, although the current ports seemed to fix this issue without requiring huge amounts of level grinding. And I remember getting to the Marsh Cave in Final Fantasy and spending way too much time there having to grind for levels, money, and antidotes. Lord forbid if you died in that cave and lost everything, so better also grind for a house as well, because saving could only be done in town otherwise (couldn't even save on the world map).

In all fairness, the act of removal seemed to have started with XP, once scripts became the norm. VX managed to do it much worse. At least with Ace, they added back in things that should have never been removed to begin with while adding in a few more features.

But two things with 2K/3 I've always missed was indicating who can use what item, and having some control over how battles started (which helped to control ways to start a pre-emptive battle). Both can be done by scripts, but it was nice having them by default.

Sadly one of the features removed from 2K/3 and never added back in. But there are scripts and other work arounds.