2 New portable Square games out now

[Prpl_Mage]

Dissidia 2
3rd birthday

So yeah. We had this thread sometime back regarding Dissdia 2. And apparently it is already out... Didn't see that one comming.
Anyway, interested in getting this game since I liked the last one but will probably stall it a bit more. Kinda busy at the moment either way. New characters, new items, new outfits, new modes and what looks like a world map. Or is it just another sequel?

And then we have The 3rd Birthday (parasite eve 3). They recently released Parasite eve 1 on the PS store and Parasite eve 2 should be up there soon.
This is another game that interests me, probably because I was so friggin hooked by Parasite eve 2. One of the scariest games I played as a child as well as challenging and great. Resident evil with fireballs and aiming.

So, anyone emptying their purses for this or having strange greed-dreams about it? I know I will soon enough.

And if you got any of them - are they worth my hype?

[zuhane]

I don't.

[coreystranick]

I def. want The 3rd Birthday, it looks great, and I loved Parasite Eve. So win win, jsut have to get money......

[Cerebus]

Oh I thought it was just a Parasite Eve game remake for PSN, but now that I think about it, there was no Parasite Eve 3 until now. I might check this out, I'd really like a new horror game for PSP, but I'm afraid the RPG part might screw it all.

[Prpl_Mage]

I think Parasite eve 1 had more RPG features than the sequel. In PE2 you had your spells and you earned your points. But it still felt like a survival horror, I know I fought for my survival at least. Those godamn dogs in the desert pushing me down the cliffs.

Also, I was terribly amazed by the FMVs in the games, scared the crap out of me as a kid and all that.
When the rat mutates in PE1 and when the woman mutates in PE2. Great moment but so creepy.

[Grandy]

Dissidia 2 is more of the same as Dissidia 1, only now it has Tifa in all her busty glory. Oh, and also some other people nobody cares about.

Haven't checked PE, but haven't heard much good stuff about it. Mostly it were people screaming "They changed it now it sucks!"

[Cerebus]

Always like this. Make a similar game, people will call it boring. Bring some changes, people will complain.

[Prpl_Mage]

Well, people always complain when a new pokémon generation is released, then they slowly accept the new pokés and attacks.
When gen3 was released people complained that you couldn't visit kanto and jotho anymore. Also that the pokés looked like crap and no team rocket.
Then came gen 4 with another continent and new pokes and people complained that they looked like crap and the new moves put old pokés to shame.
Then came gen 5 with new continent and no olde' pokes, people are still complaining.

Diablo to diablo 2 was a big leap though. And by the look of things - the leap to diablo 3 will be another great leap. But for some reason blizzard seems to know what they are doing.

Parasite eve to parasite eve 2 removed the ATB bar, and the battle boundaries. Instead you can shoot and cast spells when you need it and enemies are rather relentless. Still have the battle spoils and all that but in a much more action-y way.

But changes like Resident evil 3 and earlier to 4 and 5 kinda ruins the series. Don't get em wrong , both 4 and 5 are great games. But sometimes I wish I had Resident evil 0 with a little better graphics and controls. Great games but not really true to the series.

[Archem]

I can most understand the dislike for losing two whole regions that Pokémon brought with Gen III. Until then, it was just building (even if it was only two games). Also, Team Rocket was cool, so seeing them go is kind of lame, even if it's become the norm. I still want to see their return, and more than anything, I want to have all regions open for exploration. Can you imagine? With Gen V for the first time, I actually think some new Pokémon are stupid. Just some, not all. I love the rest of it, though.

[Archem]

I liked RE the way it was, but I don't mind the shift that 4 took. 5 kind of killed things with its linearity, though. They should drop that ****.

[Archem]

Well, the biggest change was that they took the normally open world, and made it a series of levels, similar to a traditional action game. It wasn't a good move. It became very hard to get lost or stuck when the puzzles are minimal, and the path almost never branches. In the end, the game felt a lot shorter because of how much easier it was to find where you need to go and get there. If I remember correctly, there were five "worlds" with about four areas a piece. You can't back-track, and you have more than plenty of ammo most of the time. The new inventory was almost good; you had access to what seemed like an unlimited amount of space, but you could only access it between levels or when you died. The rest of the time, you were stuck with nine inventory spaces (eighteen, if you count Sheva's inventory). I suppose that nine spaces isn't so bad, except that it's using the RE4 style of items, where ammo counts separately from guns, not counting the magazine capacity. It definitely didn't help that you couldn't drop items without them disappearing. I know that it's always been that way, but with this way of handling things, it might be worth changing.

Also, Chris punches boulders the size of a semi until they fly into lava. True story.

[Cerebus]

Diablo to diablo 2 was a big leap though. And by the look of things - the leap to diablo 3 will be another great leap. But for some reason blizzard seems to know what they are doing.

I sure hope they do better than they did with WoW. Though the good point with it is that I'm not wasting money anymore.

About Resident Evil, well, 4 was good, but 5... meh.
And camera angle and such really helped with the scariness in the firsts. But 4's control and all was a bit better. I also preferred zombie than these guys. I don't like how 5 went from long maps to separated levels. And 9 places in the inventory...

Oh and Chris, yeah. He sure trained a lot since Resident Evil 1. Went from normal size to Schwarzenegger's.

[Prpl_Mage]

Yeah, both RE5 and DMC4 fell on into the linearity pit.
I think my fastest RE5 run is 2.30 or something. Just to show that it can be done fast.

And I kinda liked Chris' new look, he kinda have to steroid them arms up if he wants to beat Wesker after all. And even then - it wasn't enough. Poor Chris out-manned by the man in glasses.

[Archem]

RE games have always been sort of short, once you've played through them once or twice. 2:30 isn't special. The difference is that all the exploring and learning and all that good stuff was stripped out, and we got through it that much faster the first time. The game definitely felt smaller, though. As for Wesker beating Chris, that's not how I remember the game ending...

[Dragonium]

Lesson to learn: putting in a QTE which allows you to instantly defeat the final boss, no matter how tricky you make it to discover, is a bit silly.