Finished it on JP version, there are about 10hrs of real gameplay and its pretty repetative. It delivers on on looks and nostalgia, but its not all that great overall.

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If you have played Crisis Core in Hard Mode, mashing the X button definitely would not have gotten you anywhere. But you're right, mashing the X button would be annoying.

You are hardcore!!!

Anything Final Fantasy will sell well, no matter what system it's on. Dissidia won't be the top beat it up, that's going to Soul Caliber or Tekken, but it'll probably sell more than both individually. Actually, let me rephrase that, more people will get Dissidia than they will Soul Caliber or Tekken, you know why I phrased it this way.



It's the Final Fantasy name that gets people, the system isn't all the best, but it's different.

Crisis Core never had a hard mode. Unless Japanese version has it, as my north america version sure as hell doesn't offer a hard mode.

Already played it all the way through on the Japanese release, probably about 80 or so hours with friends(not 500-800 hours like I've seen some people with though.)



The gameplay is fairly unique for a fighter, sortof borrowing from Tales and Power Stone yet have FF characters. The game is the best piece of fanservice any FF fan, old or new, could ask for.



However, Dissidia isn't without its flaws. A large part of the problem is that Dissidia can turn one sided very easily. The HP attacks aren't difficult to dodge at all, so if you happen to not make any attacks and wait for a brave attack, you could block, counter, and then link an HP attack in that counter. The only thing you can do for people who won't attack until they block is to try and use alot of long range, dashing, etc, to try and fake them out, get them to block and then follow up with an attack the second it unblocks.



Even blocking is flawed though as only half a second needs to go by before you can bring your block back up, most likely screwing over any noobs in the game unless you already know how long the block lasts and you specifically time it.



Hopefully, Square increases the amount of time you can make between a block and shortens the amount of time a block is up for people who like to just block randomly in midair(I'll admit I've sometimes done this) thinking or hoping the person they're playing against might attack. That way it's more based off skill that you're going to block right when the attack hits you.



Anyways, aside from that. When it comes to other fighters? Soul Calibur 3 was downgraded from 2 and then 4 was a downgrade from SC3. That's a series that seems unplayable to me from how unbalanced they made the characters. When you see tier lists on most fighters, the characters are usually somewhere in range of one another. The creators of Soul Calibur decided they'd make their tier lists as plain as day that even a retard would know characters like Rock or Nightmare are low tier(which is bull***** because how much they downgraded Nightmare from SC2 pisses me off as he's been my favorite character on SC and SC2.)



I've never been a fan of Tekken, but also never put much time into it to get good.



However, one fighting series exclusive to the PSP that I'm waiting for, is also going to be a fanservice based game, and almost double the characters of Dissidia. Tales of VS and that game looks absolutely amazing. One thing Tales of VS has over Dissidia is that everything is going to be pulled from the source material, meaning that it all looks like from the Tales games, because pretty much everything is pulled from the Tales games, yet altered to add a bit more speed to the game. The Tales characters from playing all the games are also going to have many more moves to customize your characters with, blocking will allow you to reduce damage but it won't break the gameplay, and just like Dissidia, will have music from all the Tales games, character biographies, etc.



One bad thing about Tales of VS is the fact that it's released by Namco Bandai. Namco. The company that rarely ever releases a Tales game in the US. Every two or three games, we might get one. Radiant Mythology 2 anyone?

Totally true, LeXiO. The only other names a game needs to have in its title to sell like hotcakes is: Madden, Tom Clancy, and Halo.



Think Sonic games aren't doing so hot these days? Have Sega release one called, "Tom Clany's Sonic Madden 09: Halo Edition" and we'll see who outsells who.

But at least silver. And they tried something new. Holy crap, we call for innovation, and they give it to us. End of the world/*****ty game/suck because they changed something! Anyway, I'm done attacking you for your FFXII quip :)



I don't know how you can compare Dissidia to ANY of the games you listed. This game doesn't play like ANY of them. Hell, half of the time you aren't even on the ground, and not because of some ludicrous combo attack you can't break out of. I'm sure if you were playing the game in English it would of held your attention a bit longer. Hell, I'm still playing it, and I get annoyed often that I can't read nor understand anything.



I'll agree it's not a beat em up, but it's not a Street Fighter clone either, not by a long shot.

im sure multiplayer is fun. lol ive never played it on multiplayer because it is jappanese, but outta all of my friends only 23 might play the game, which means like any other non online game i have to go to their house to get some real competition instead of the computer. But that soon gets old and i become too lazy to go to my friends house. So instead i need the convience of online play. That goes for any multiplayer game. I would be on that for about 6 hours straight just like COD for 360. Yes im ranting, but its true. Bring on the convience of online play, get rid of ad-hoc party, its useless when the games could allready support it. lol like you have to buy an expensive ps3 for that support, thats not cool, not even worth it.

Its like they want to re-create and start over with video games. Nobody wants to move forward anymore.

Oh we called for innovation alright, it just so happens that the change was much worse than what was already there! And hey, I'm only talking about the battle systems... I haven't even begun to talk about the megaphone voice acting and the lost and confused plot that can't even decide who the main character is.



I'm comparing Dissidia to the games I listed because that's the category it fits into. Pokemon plays NOTHING like Lufia, and yet both games are RPGs. Dissidia plays NOTHING like Marvel vs Capcom, but they are both fighting games. That's all I was saying.

It's like trying to play a cassette tape in a CD player. I want it to be good, I want the innovation. But it's just not going to work out. Dissidia is going fishing with a PSP in Lake Sixteen-bit. Play that game like it's the best *****ing thing you have ever played, fanatics! It's just another metal gear ac!d scandal to get your cash. But the thing is this time it will work because of the large fan base and increasing fan base over the years as we get more 13, 14, and 15/16 year old kids (the average age where squeenix fanboyism begins to develop) in our overpopulating population. It's success for the big-wheels in square inc. So it'$ coming (your game, their money) either way.

You guys are all lame.. All this time you've been asking for good games to come out to the PSP and now that game companies are delivering you can't just stop complaining. If the game is not good enough for you then just put in the trash can and stop you're whinings. *****ing Whiners.

We should just be happy it was translated.



Its mainly nostalgia anyways.



I'm just gonna download it with megaupload like everyone else...

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oops.

Far from being a fanboy here, but I really hate all this talk about how "SC3 is a downgrade from SC2". In what sense are you saying that? I have been playing these two forever and SC3 is damn well the best SC yet. I agree that SC4 wasn't that much of an upgrade in general, but its gameplay still works pretty fine if you ask me.



Also, most of the times tier lists are bull*****. If you really master a character, no tier list will dictate who's better.

And when the hell did this become fact? Used to be that games like Street Fighter were called 'beat 'em ups' and games like Final Fight were 'scrolling beat 'em ups'. At least it was when I was a teenager.



This retroactive renaming of genres annoys me almost as the term 'shmup'.