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Ok, maybe I was brash in saying there was no reason to get a PS2

Oct 24, 2003
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Exhibit 1: Disgaea (Tactical/Strategy RPG for PS2)
RPGamer review

Exhibit 2: La Pucelle (Tactical/Strategy RPG for PS2)
RPGamer preview
The Magic Box preview

I have got to stop looking at these game sites when I'm broke. Maybe I should just finish Final Fantasy Tactics. Or Tactics Ogre. Or the new GBA versions of those games.

Oh well, I was going to get a PS2 when GT4 came out anyways. I will be very very very pissed when the next-gen systems come out - new hardware is just not needed. It has been proven time and again that the current breed can put out some hella-excellent graphics, even the PS2 (Check the screens for Metal Gear Solid 3, Silent Hill 3, Gran Turismo 4, among others).

Is it a Street Fighter-clone video game, a parody/critique of Western Action Cinema, ...

Oct 22, 2003
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... or just the best damn zombie-filled, gangster, martial arts movie to come out of Japan ever? Versus is by far the greatest reimagining of the Western mythology I have ever seen. Not that Christianity stuff, the real Western myth: Star Wars. Father versus Son, Dark versus Light, Good versus Evil. The problem is, the conflict itself is evil and dark.