The Shrine

<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold"; text-align: left; '>Anyone else really excited about Xenosaga? I adored the first one mainly for it's story and can't wait to see what this new one is like, especially considering the important part of the team is still intact. Might make me buy a PS2, along with GT3, SH2, and MGS2</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>I find it odd the developers called the game a dud.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Kos-Mos looks kind of generic too...</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>I definetly am. Xenogears kicked all kinds of ass, and it can only get better with Xenosaga.</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>I know. It had its flaws of course, but a dud is the last thing I'd call it.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Indeed. Especially since most of the Xenogears' key team members are working on it.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Bah, you and your videogame female fetish. :P</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Appearance isn't everything, but all other things being equal, I rather having my characters look attractive.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I should be anticipating it more. I loved Xengoears - I think out of all RPGs I've played, it had the most emotional impact - but for some reason, the character shots I've seen don't do it for me. That'll probably change though.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Woah woah woah, the developers of Xenogears called Xenogears a dud?</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Bah! Admit it: you like SD characters.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Too many people bitching about the second disc.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>All with good reason.</div>

<div style='font: 14pt Plakatbau; text-align: left; '>Yes. Other than MGS2, it's the only game I give a damn about.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Ico!!! Wipeout 4!!! World Rally Championship!!! You need those more than oxygen!</div>

<div style='font: 14pt Plakatbau; text-align: left; '>Fuck those. Don't play console games unless they're already won my respect anymore.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Then how'd you get started on playing video games then? =8^)</div>

<div style='font: 14pt Plakatbau; text-align: left; '>Note the "ANYMORE".</div>

<div style='font: 14pt Plakatbau; text-align: left; '>This from the person who has a picture of Yuna in his sig...Tifa-itis (with a haircut) strikes again.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>What is ICO, btw?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>From what I've seen and read... it's pretty hard to explain. Check out the preview at GIA. It's also on the PS2 Jampack demo.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Characters look pretty retarded. But if the game's similar to Gears, I'll probably like it (and then sell it because it would have zero replay).</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Well, it's sales weren't exactly blockbuster ^^</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>It's just hard to imagine a game I, and many others, liked so much to be called a dud by its developers, of all people.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://ps2.ign.com/previews/16268.html" ... 68.html</a>

"t's been argued by many that Xenogears was a noble failure -- even producer Tetsuya Takahashi has admitted that the game wasn't quite what it could have been."</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Well, having sexy female character(s) is a selling point for you in buying a game, hehe (not the ONLY one, mind ya, but it is important).</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I'm definitely looking forward to seeing it.</div>

<div style='font: 14pt Plakatbau; text-align: left; '>Hey, if this 'Kos-Mos' uses a heavy weapons class that allows for dual tri-miniguns, I've already found my favorite character.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold"; text-align: left; '>No way. The main problem with Xeno was the gameplay, which was shallow and got irritating about 30 hours in. It's was the story that kept it all goin'. The lack of gameplay on the second disc was a godsend</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold"; text-align: left; '>I agree. Following up the best and most complex RPG story in history with less than spectacular - but still pretty good - gameplay does lead to a bit of disappointment</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold"; text-align: left; '>Thus making it one of the most sought after PSX games. It's going for like $50 or so on Ebay still</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>The characters were designed by the same person who did Xenogears. I guess they just don't translate well into 3D.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Yeah, the Tower of Babel and Solaris were especially hellish. *shudder*</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Personally, I've taken a shine to Jr. This kid is just begging for parental backlash.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Jr does look cool</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Besides, I don't buy games just because there are cute looking characters on the cover/back. Thousand Arms was pretty close, but I was curious to its dating sim aspect too.

I do that for manga, but not games. It's too expensive. I got Tenchi Muyo In Love 2 manga even though I knew it's going to suck (Sasami doing Dance Dance Revolution is... dumb...) because there's a picture of Sasami on the cover that I haven't seen before. Or how about I picked up a Fire Emblem 4 manga because Ishtar was on the back, or GTO #17 in Japanse because Miyabi Aizawa's on the cover.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>The 'mecha girl with super duper power trying to learn what it's like to be human' character just never appealed to me, and it seems like that's going to be her prototype.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I've always liked the summoner type girls in the FF series. Eiko is my favorite character from FF9, but that's not saying very much...</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>*cough* FFIX *cough*</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Heh. I was fearful of that cover.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Some of the puzzles and jumps were fucking annoying, and I didn't like the fact that the camera only shifted at four corners.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Whatever. I loved the story.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>I don't have good reason? It was boring. Not good enough?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>And I liked it. However, the second disc still bored me.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold"; text-align: left; '>That's why it isn't quite up there among the truly incredible ones like FF6 or Chrono Trigger. It's just a shade below due to some of its shortcomings, camera being one big one</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>For me anyways, the story was so incredible I was able to overlook all of that.</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Yeah, the sudden transition from being in control to watching Fei and Elly talk in their rocking chairs could've been handled better.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold"; text-align: left; '>Didn't say it wasn't good enough, just said I didn't agree and gave my reasons</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold"; text-align: left; '>The story was so damned good it made it into an awesome game instead of one of the top 3 of all time, IMO</div>

<div style='font: 14pt Plakatbau; text-align: left; '>Very possibly, but it all comes down to one thing, this - How much fucking stuff can she shoot up in 10 seconds?</div>