XENOGEARS!

[Lawr]

Unfortunately they did a terrible job of explaining the battle system in this game, but once you learn how to chain your techniques (I think it's called a Combo?) then it gets a little more fun. I really liked the story and most of the characters I but wasn't a fan of the backtracking to old villages/whatever.

Also you're going to lose your mind once you get to Disc 2 because the game goes from like, a regular RPG, to basically a slideshow with Gear battles in-between. But don't let it scare you away cause the story is still pretty good, just presented poorly!

[Fynn]

I still think they actually did a fantastic job considering their resources. Disc 2 comes across as the more artistic one as a result.

[Vyk]

Yeah, no offense to anyone or anything. But I never understood people's issues with disk 2. If you're playing an old JRPG they don't really shine in the gameplay department. They're all more about the story and characters and stuff. And that's where disk 2 shines. And it's not like we're banned from running around towns and the world map. It's just a lot less frequent. I loved it. Very full of story and character. And oddly deep philosophical thought for its time

[Ayen]

I'm starting to think I'm one of the few on here who doesn't mind the gameplay.

While we're on the subject of battles, is there a way to actually run from these things!? I ran out of healing items and the only ones I could use to restore health could only be accessed outside of battle.

[Fynn]

Just wait till you get to the Tower of Babel, kiddo, and you'll be begging for death

[Shauna]

I didn't even find the Tower of Babel that frustrating.

That all being said, I played this around the time I was playing all sorts of old clunky games (Resident Evil, Tomb Raider) so maybe that all eased the pain.

[theundeadhero]

I've never understood what was supposed to be hard about it. Is it the boss fight at the end people dread?

[Fynn]

Jumping Gears.

[Lawr]

It's the horrible platforming and camera angles.

[Vyk]

I remember I fell down like... once. I don't recall having a whole lot of trouble with it myself. But like shauna, it may have been a product of the time that I was used to. I'm not sure I made it that far when I played it last time. Though I beat the game twice in a row back in the day

[Ayen]

The camera angles are pretty trout and moving the camera makes me nauseous.

[sharkythesharkdogg]

I love this game.

[NeoCracker]

Yeah, no offense to anyone or anything. But I never understood people's issues with disk 2. If you're playing an old JRPG they don't really shine in the gameplay department. They're all more about the story and characters and stuff. And that's where disk 2 shines. And it's not like we're banned from running around towns and the world map. It's just a lot less frequent. I loved it. Very full of story and character. And oddly deep philosophical thought for its time

Because you get an entire games worth of content dumbped on you in in a long serious of text dumps. Outside of the payoff to one of the games story arcs through an awesome scene,the second disk is like reading someones synapsis of what happened.

[Bolivar]

I always say that I enjoyed Disc 2 because it just let me enjoy the damn story with a boss fight or tight dungeon sprinkled in here and there.

I'm glad people are still giving it a try and going through it because it is an important game that deserves to be played. You can tell a lot of the concepts were carried over to FVII after Saga and Takahashi originally pitched it.

[theundeadhero]

So people didn't like the tower because they fail at jumping