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If it's a comfort, I'm at 106 hours and some odd minutes in Pokemon Emerald, and not half through it yet.

:)

XD Thought so.

I watched much of Kingdom Hearts 2, just beware the 2-hour opening. It was all worth it to run around in the Pridelands though. And...have fun in Atlantica.

Gah that was long. And to boot I forgot that I ahve to hook things up to me lame-ass TV with RCA cables, and that there's only one audio input, so I picked Stereo when the choice came up and got most of the way through the opening before realizing that I needed to go back and put it on Mono. Aarg.

Ouch =/

Oh yes, you must let us know what you think of Atlantica....I believe threw the remote...a lot....

Butbut you can't tell me you weren't sad when the first part was over. Sora was all D':??? and *flails*

Actually I walked in to some screaming about getting on the train, and then the title screen, and watched the videogame from there.

Yes, well, I was not happy about the beginning. Not one bit. It was boring....and those ARE words to live by "Get on the damn train. Just do so I can expletive here get on with this expletive here, here and here, game."

I greatly admire you folks who play those long games, seriously. Uh, I play games too, but they're generally the sort that take...maybe 8-10 hours max. Ahaha...106 hours? *boggles*

KH1 usually takes about 40 hours, so it's not that long. I'd guess she levelled up and tried to complete everything, maxed things out, etc. :D Likewise, you can beat KH2 in 40 hours, but I've got a save at 90 where I'm trying to complete everything. Got it all done except a few gummi runs!

I fail at eye-hand coordination, so I kinda have to be highly levelled to have half a chance. :D

It's not a bad thing! And KH is a pretty hard game. They actually made KH2 easier becaues Nomura (the director/series planner) had complaints that KH1 and CoM weren't user-friendly enough. XD So I think it's totally fair! Juts wanted to mention it's not, in and of itself, a longer game than most. I think it's about average for what's on the market these days.

(as opposed to, say, Disgaea, where if you do everything it's totally possible to max out the hours at 999 HOW DO PEOPLE DO THAT.)

Hee. I'm picking the Easy choice at the beginning of KHII because if I made it harder than KH, I would give up within three hours, I think. XD

(Good God, you'd never need to buy another game, evar.)

Oh god, KH2's hard mode is still easier than Kh1. I played standard mode first time, and my replay's on proud -- and it's just. SO much easier than KH1 even then. XD

(I know, seriously. I own Disgaea and I kind of got distracted around eighty hours or so. ;; )

Woo, I oughta be able to complete this in half an hour or so, then. XD

--? [CONFUSED sry XD]

By the way, since I, i don't think I said it: Congratulations. ♥

That was me being silly.

And thanks! :D

...XD And that was me being sleep deprived.

I like having longer games - makes me feel like I got a decent return on my $49.99 investment.

Of course, a long game that is boring for most of it's duration will make me feel like I was robbed.

I had NO IDEA it was going to take that long - I was thinking like 30, and when it hit 24 and I was nowhere near the end, I got worried. :)

That's 106 hours over about five, six months, BTW.

The thing about Square Enix games like FF and KH is that they're as long as you make them. If you just want to play the plot, you can keep them fairly short. But if you want to play all the minigames you can make them longer. I have health issues so I'll play them when I don't feel up to doing anything else.

Just so you know, KH2 is actually the third game in the series -- it immediately follows on Chain of Memories (for the GBA) and so, while you can totally play it next, it's a year later, there are a bunch of new characters running around, and things are different for Sora.

If you want to catch up on CoM canon at any point to see how it got that way, let me know and I can dig up the video clips of it on youtube!

I gathered that from somewhere-or-other. And I have absolutely no plans of getting a GBA, so anything you can find would be nice. :) Tpop's releasing the CoH manga, and I may pick that up -I've got the KHI manga and was pleasantly surprised. Mind you, I was expecting absolute crap, so when I found it was readable, that was pretty nice. :)

The CoM manga is pretty awesome -- I like it a lot. (It's also only two volumes long, and the second is out in a week or so!) Its biggest point is the characterization -- all the CoM characters are really strongly personified and just such interesting people in the manga. its weakest point is matching the plot -- To fit the game into a two-volume manga they drop a lot of the scenes that set up the themes for KH2, and an entire side storyline (For a character I love very much, but who doesn't recur in KH2, so that's probably why). Of course, they're releasing it in PS2-format sometime next year but there's no guarantee it'll be brought over here. (THOUGH I REALLY HOPE SO, seeing that fully rendered would be awesome.)

This user has all the plot scenes from CoM uploaded, based on a video someone put together once. There are 21 clips in total, and the entirety of them should add up to about three hours. Enjoy!

And yeah, I like the Kh1 manga. It's very brief, but. It's fun. XD And I like some of the additional/side things they slipped in.

I own CoM, I have not played it and I have beaten KH II. I didn't find it horribly hard to follow the story without playing, but I probably missed a plot point or two. The manga is quite cute. I liked what I have read thus far as that is one of the series that my little cousin has yet to return to me.

Probably the only things you missed was the Namine backstory, how Sora ended up where he did, and the biggest thing'd have been "What was Riku up to in that year". Otherwise, yeah -- I played having gone through CoM, so I don't know from my own perspective, but everyone else I know says it's pretty easy to go from 1 to 2. XD They do good jobs!

That's good to know :).

First video game? Congradulations!

Thank you! I've owned the PS2 for ... whoa, about a year and a half now, but own like five games because I don't play all that often. I found out that I can't do button-mashers like Soul Calibur because the RSI in my wrist flares up - 20 minutes of Soul Calibur II and my wrist was painful for two days. The setup in KH is somewhat better, and it doesn't affect me as much.

I've got Katamari Damacy, but I suck at it, SSX Tricky, which I also suck at but is kinda fun anyway, and a poker game which I only sometimes suck at. And Crazy Taxi, which I suck at so badly that I can't even finish the damn tutorial, so I've never actually played it.

I have a copy of The Bard's Tale, after

ursulav talked aobut how good the writing was in it. I've only played about fifteen minutes of it, but it was laugh-out-loud funny, so I'll go back to it sometime. :)

I loved the Bard's Tale, haven't beaten it yet, but it was one of the funniest games I've ever played. I liked that you fight trow. That amused me as my grandfather always told me there was one under my bed.

Haha, don't feel bad. I bought my PS2 when it first came out and was $300.00. I use it primarily for watching DVDs, but I own:
Kingdom Hearts I: I'm in Halloweentown
Shifters: Not as cool as it sounded, and makes funny noises in my playstation
TeenTitans: I thought it would be a fighting game like mortal combat, but no.
Pryzm: The Dark Unicorn: I beat it because I looked up the "god mode" code.
DDRMAX 2: I play this when I feel exceptionally fat and like having a heart attack
Bloody Roar 3: Fighting with animal people ;)
So I have bought a little over one game a year.

You know, if it's a question of health you might try a rpg based on rounds or even better one of the strategy rpgs like Disgaea, La Pucelle, etc. Or stuff like Atelier no Iris. Depends on what visual anime style you can handle, though ^^. I tend to play for the charcters or the stories. The "Tales" rpgs by Namco always are fun (and you can fight semi-automatically) and then there's Final Fantasy and the Dragon Quests, of course.

It sounds to me like you NEED Final Fantasy X. For the hotness of Auron exceeds even that of Sephiroth (in my totally unbiased views).

In my opinion, one of - if not THE - best PS2 games out there is Guitar Hero (at least for playing with friends)... but I don't think hammering a half-sized plastic guitar would mix well with RSI. :-/

Tried Ico?

(oh, and I'm running off game reccs from

ursulav too; got Fable to play next. *grin*)

My enormous time-leeching game series is the Elder Scrolls games from Bethesda (on the PC); I am very glad they didn't have an hours-played counter in Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, because I think I spent half of my teenage years on it. Now my husband rations me to 1-hour timeslots to play Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. That series also has the honour of being the most _expensive_ games I've ever played - averaging £600 a go - because every time a new installment has come out, I've had to run off to buy a new computer to meet the hardware requirements...

At least PS2 games don't demand a new graphics card every 2-3 years!

I shall think seriously about FFX then. XD (Shallow? Moi? Hell, yes!)

Most of my friends are all into GUitar Hero right now - I can play at one of their places and see if it'll kill my wrist first. XD

Never heard of Ico.

(I am waiting for Jade Empire to come out on the PC, after her recommendation. XD)

My enormous time-sink is CivIII. To the point where I have not yet bought CivIV, because I KNOW that I will lose at least one weekend to it, even though you can set it to play faster. XD

Ico review (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=2734).

For someone interested in visual design, it's well worth a look. The character models and effects are nothing special, but the artistry of the animation puts every other computer game to shame; it's up there with Miyazaki quality for capturing tiny nuances of emotion.

The game itself is a puzzler/adventure involving finding routes through various locations; got to move blocks, work out where you can climb and what you can push, etc. I absolutely suck at spacial puzzles, so I haven't finished the game yet (and I got distracted by Oblivion), but I've found it very atmospheric and enjoyable.

It requires intermittent bouts of button-mashing, but more on the level of KH (from what I gather of the control scheme) than SoulCalibur; most of the gameplay is non-twitch based. It was originally released some years ago, to rave reviews and terrible sales figures, and for a long time was the PS2 game that regularly topped £80 bids on eBay, but it was recently re-released (at least, here in the UK) so it might be available again where you are.

I have also not bought Civ IV, for _exactly_ the same reason. How much of my life did I lose to Alpha Centauri...?

Guitar Hero is best with a large crowd of people and a selection of junk food and/or intoxicating beverages. And it is _particularly_ enjoyable when hats, leather jackets, sparkly gloves and other rock-star accoutrements are also supplied, so that band members may be suitably clothed. *grin*

(at the New Years party I went to this year, Guitar Hero was being played constantly, by one group or another, from 4pm to 3am... which was the point at which all agreed that we really couldn't take yet another playing of Sweet Child 'O Mine, no matter _how_ much fun the solo intro is)

Cool, thanks. :D

It all depends on whether you explore or just run after the story, I think. I tend to explore so I'm at around 111 hours on Final Fantasy XII. I am fairly near the end storywise but I've checked and haven't finished quite a few mini-games yet ^^. I also enjoy being overlevelled, as I'm not a good fighter and prefer to have too much power instead of too little ^^. The only Square Enix game I played, where I only had to level up once right at the end was Dragon Quest 8.

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