The Shrine

Anyone else pick this one up? I'm really liking it so far, on disc 4/4.

Nice traditional RPG with some twists on combat/skill learning. Beautiful looking game.

It's definately worthwhile, especially in the writing/dialog department (though the Lirum angle is used far too often).

Gameplay left alot to be desired in many different areas, but I'd still recommend it it...if for no other reason the pretty stellar story.

I'm only partway through disk 2 and at this point am fucking loving it....although whenever his grandkids speak I expect them to say wow..thanks green lantern..... and have booster gold pop in to respond that it's booster gold.....I hate hearing the same voices in things ad I loved that JLU episode so it keeps popping into my head....but back to the point......amazing storytelling at the point I'm at. very enjoyable...however I could easily see it coming completely off the rails.....hopefully it won't but at this point as I said....I'm fucking loving it

The game becomes so mind-blowingly retarded in disc three that I was unable to continue playing it because I VALUE my brain cells.

I sold it and got Wii games instead. Fucking storyline SUCKS ASS, and it absolutely didn't have to. The game teeters a delicate balance between being really gripping and emotional to being utterly and shamelessly shitty. Boring boss battles (cheap doesn't equate hard, and how fucking often do we have to fight that one boss battle where a party member is captured and slowly drained of hp, hm? How FUCKING OFTEN?), a bare-bones combat system that loses it's luster by disc two, utterly lifeless set pieces, environments we've all seen before, and...

and this is the kicker

The best fucking part of this VIDEO GAME is the part where I sit on my ass and READ.

If I wanted to read, though, I'd BUY A FUCKING BOOK.

that so reeks of you trying to be TOTALLY RAD PHAT TO THE EXTREME!

allow me to translate without having to use utterly nonsensical placement of cursing and hilariously forced anger.....

I thought the sotry went to shit on disk 3.

there....translated....

my opinion may differ..it may not.....is that ok with you yahtzee jr.

Manfarb wrote: my opinion may differ..it may not.....is that ok with you yahtzee jr.

Remember who you're talking to; this is the Zeus of video games.

Manfarb wrote:that so reeks of you trying to be TOTALLY RAD PHAT TO THE EXTREME!

allow me to translate without having to use utterly nonsensical placement of cursing and hilariously forced anger.....

I thought the sotry went to shit on disk 3.

there....translated....

my opinion may differ..it may not.....is that ok with you yahtzee jr.

I'm not trying to be Yahtzee, I just get very ticked off when I buy a game expecting something and end up getting something horribly horribly different. I'm not forcing anger, nor am I trying to act any differently from when I normally am pissed off about something.

Tessian wrote:

Manfarb wrote: my opinion may differ..it may not.....is that ok with you yahtzee jr.

Remember who you're talking to; this is the Zeus of video games.

His tastes are good, yes, but not THAT good :-)

Ever since the kids were introduced in the game, I thought the story just TANKED. I enjoy the battle system though, but I sort of hung up the reins when I hit disc 4. I'll pick it back up sometime in the future.

Manfarb wrote: allow me to translate without having to use utterly nonsensical placement of cursing and hilariously forced anger.....

Pot, kettle, black?

Kupek wrote:

Manfarb wrote: allow me to translate without having to use utterly nonsensical placement of cursing and hilariously forced anger.....

Pot, kettle, black?

I don't force the naughty talk.....I don't fuck randomly shit place it in a sentence. I put it where it is supposed to fucking go. if it fits. I use it. if it doesn't.....I feel no need to throw it in......unless it's about cock.....because I'm fuckin' creepy that way

Well, I read it as forced much of the time, and I didn't read Rent's use as forced. So I find your comment ironic. And, for the record, I thought he made substantive complaints, beyond just "disc three sucks."

Hmmm...there's a question to ponder: Can you find sarcasm ironic? Is it like rain on your wedding day?

So many misdefinitions of the word that I have to question it every time that it comes into use. (For example, it -IS- ironic that the Alanis song talking about irony doesn't use proper examples for irony.)