I waited nearly seven years for this game.
If you ever wanted to see a retro-inspired turn based JRPG done right in today’s age, you don’t have to look any further than Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age on the GBA. Everything about both those games; The story, how it plays, how it used the hardware and how it add onto the barebones hack-and-slash formula made them masterpieces in my eyes. At that time, there wasn’t any other game like it that you could take with you wherever you go.
Camelot and Nintendo’s Golden Sun series garnered a respectable amount of followers. (Though this is nothing compared to another certain Nintendo RPG involving monsters being carried around in balls and fight at your command.) Back in those days, it was said that the series would be made into a trilogy. However The Lost Age ended up finishing the story and hopes of a third game were dashed after a couple of years.
A year and a half ago I thought this game was dead. Then, Nintendo dropped a bomb at their E3 2009 press conference by announcing that Golden Sun DS was coming out in the Spring of 2010.
I did things that I don’t think I’d go into detail here. Let’s just reference a certain satirical song by The Lonely Island and leave it that. In a nutshell, I just ate a grape.
Today, the golden sun rises again. The newest installment of this game is in my hands. Does it stack up to what the original two were like so far?
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Posted by Moofey in Games
The massively multiplayer online RPG: Some swear by it, and some call it a detriment to society, breeding a world of hermits. When you think MMORPG nowadays, you’re likely thinking about games like World of Warcraft, Everquest, City of Heroes/Villans, and so on. All of these have one thing in common, you must pay some sort of fee, whether it be buying the game itself, paying for a subscription to continue playing it, or a lot of the times both. However, not all are like this:
There are probably as many MMOs out there that are “free to download, free to play” as there are ones that require you to pony up, if not more. Many times, this ends up making the game more accessible to all, however these games have their own set of challenges, all which contribute into how “Free-to-play” MMOs are run and the community that plays them.
That being said, I’ve been playing various MMOs for close to five years now, and I have my share of good and bad experiences. This list covers some of the more apparent bad experiences that you’re likely to come across. Hit the jump to find out what they are:
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