Dirge??
Well I picked up FFVII Dirge of Cerberus the other day and finally got a chance to pop it in the playstation and play a bit this evening.... I dont quite know what to think of it yet. I completed the first stage...harder than I thought it would be...of course I have absolutely NO skill when it comes to FPS's and for the most part this is pretty FPS intensive gameplay wise. Its got a bit of a Devil May Cry feel to it. Set up in stages with missions to accomplish within each stage...at the end of a stage you get your experience based off of how you did and can trade it in for Gil to buy rather expensive upgrades to your weapons or use it to allocate (you dont get to choose what stats) stats like strength defense and hit points. Between the gameplay difficulty for me with things like having to aim my gun with the right analog stick while running around with the left analog stick and trying to fire my gun with the R1 button, remembering to reload with the R2 button, the camera swinging around to wherever my gun is aimed so I cant see the bastard behind me shotting me let alone see if he is close enough for a quick melee atack to knock him on his ass...I dont think I really like the gameplay...however it will prove to be a good challenge. Graphically its an amazing game....just simply amazing. gets kind of hard to see exactly where some of the bad guys are since you can kind of hang back from where you are supposed to go and look through your scope to find guys to shoot before you get there...but that doesnt really take away from much as long as you aren't trying to scope out guys ahead of you while you are still being shot at, kicked, bitten and stabbed by the guys anc monsters in your current area :P Story wise so far is very promising however...Reeve plays a major catalyst role in the story which I think is pretty cool. I doubt there will be many spoilers in what I'm about to write since I'm just past the first stage but the base story is Reeve calls up Vincent to meet him in Kalm, Vincent shows up during a big festical like thing when this unknown group of soldiers shows up in crazy helicopter like things and lays waste to the place. from there insanity insues and you get shot at a bunch before finally meeting up with reeve and then helping the townspeople get away from the army guys....finally you find out who they are and where they came from (I wont go into all of that because its a nifty little plot twist) and that they want to destroy the world :P good old final fantasy villian tactics eh? So anyway...as I'm not overly impressed or pleased with the gameplay...it could very well be because I just suck ass at FPS style play...not having a nice auto aim like in DMC hurts me although many people would probably call me a pansy for saying that :P I am thouroughly impresed with the initial set up of the story line and therefore remain interested in playing the game...dunno if I could do so for an extended people of time like I can with a good old turn based RPG like the other games though :)
Well I picked up FFVII Dirge of Cerberus the other day and finally got a chance to pop it in the playstation and play a bit this evening.... I dont quite know what to think of it yet. I completed the first stage...harder than I thought it would be...of course I have absolutely NO skill when it comes to FPS's and for the most part this is pretty FPS intensive gameplay wise. Its got a bit of a Devil May Cry feel to it. Set up in stages with missions to accomplish within each stage...at the end of a stage you get your experience based off of how you did and can trade it in for Gil to buy rather expensive upgrades to your weapons or use it to allocate (you dont get to choose what stats) stats like strength defense and hit points. Between the gameplay difficulty for me with things like having to aim my gun with the right analog stick while running around with the left analog stick and trying to fire my gun with the R1 button, remembering to reload with the R2 button, the camera swinging around to wherever my gun is aimed so I cant see the bastard behind me shotting me let alone see if he is close enough for a quick melee atack to knock him on his ass...I dont think I really like the gameplay...however it will prove to be a good challenge. Graphically its an amazing game....just simply amazing. gets kind of hard to see exactly where some of the bad guys are since you can kind of hang back from where you are supposed to go and look through your scope to find guys to shoot before you get there...but that doesnt really take away from much as long as you aren't trying to scope out guys ahead of you while you are still being shot at, kicked, bitten and stabbed by the guys anc monsters in your current area :P Story wise so far is very promising however...Reeve plays a major catalyst role in the story which I think is pretty cool. I doubt there will be many spoilers in what I'm about to write since I'm just past the first stage but the base story is Reeve calls up Vincent to meet him in Kalm, Vincent shows up during a big festical like thing when this unknown group of soldiers shows up in crazy helicopter like things and lays waste to the place. from there insanity insues and you get shot at a bunch before finally meeting up with reeve and then helping the townspeople get away from the army guys....finally you find out who they are and where they came from (I wont go into all of that because its a nifty little plot twist) and that they want to destroy the world :P good old final fantasy villian tactics eh? So anyway...as I'm not overly impressed or pleased with the gameplay...it could very well be because I just suck ass at FPS style play...not having a nice auto aim like in DMC hurts me although many people would probably call me a pansy for saying that :P I am thouroughly impresed with the initial set up of the story line and therefore remain interested in playing the game...dunno if I could do so for an extended people of time like I can with a good old turn based RPG like the other games though :)