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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 2075682" data-attributes="member: 22882">Do you watch movies?If so, why not watch 40-hour movies with interactive combat sequences, rather than 3-hour movies without them?Note also that I reccomended the Playstation 2 precisely because it, unlike the XBox, is backwards compatible.  You can play Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 6, Lunar Eternal Blue, Wild ARMs 2, Suikoden or Xenogears, as well as Final Fantasy X, Shadow Hearts and Star Ocean 3.  The older console RPGs are, IMO, better games (and better stories, by and large) - hardly "recent."Point.  Sort of.To cite the most recent installment Wakka, Kimahri, Lulu and certainly Auron were all 20 or older, and neither Rikku nor Yuna were terribly angsty. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Nonetheless, I prefer several other series (such as Shadow Hearts, Wild ARMs and pre-4 Suikoden) to Final Fantasy; but Final Fantasy defines the type for people who've never played this kind of game.-shrug-If I want to influence a story, I'll play pen-n-paper.  People on ENWorld generally have access to some type of RPG experience.  If I want a story of novel-like depth and complexity that doesn't sacrifice interesting plot twists to player influence, I'll pop in a console RPG.But if you found Baldur's Gate and Torment's gameplay "addicting"...Sorry, man, but I'm just not into S&M <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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