Ægrus Somnium

so i’m like a big rpg fan right, in my spare time everyone knows i play video games, most of my free time is playing video games and the genre i like the most is rpg’s, most of my rpgs are on the ps2, why? well, because the other syste,s don’t have many rpg’s for them, and as i’ve stated to plenty of people before, the xbox 360 NEEDS rpg’s to be a completely solid system, thats the front it’s lacking in most, so this year we have some rpg’s coming out or already released for the 360, new oblivion, mass effect, blue dragon, and eternal sonata, and i’ve already run out and pre-ordered sonata, oblivion can wait a bit, but in the beginning when some of these games were announced i was waiting for mass effect (of course), and blue dragon, then the demo drops on live for blue dragon:

i rush in, download it, start playing, first thoughts are that its way to clean, shiny and childish, upon playing futher my first impressions are confirmed, the fucking dragons that you fight with look like big fucking inflatable balloons, or like genie from disneys alladin, it fucking sucks, he’s all cartoony and shiny

look at that thing, its like the fucking stay puffed marshmellow man of rpgs, ooooo scary dragon, now i know that xbox was hopeful that this would boost sales in japan since they are still sorely lacking there, the problem with this is 1. microsoft is a western company and 2. treat them with some respect assholes, you keep giving them these ugly ass games thinking that this is what the japanese people want, what does that say about your thought process microsoft? are you trying to compare the japanese to children who need bright shiny things to keep their attention? dumb move in my book, we’ve seen that developers for xbox can make gritty graphics in games, look at condemned, badass game, look at bioshock, another badass game, granted they’re fps games but they can make realistic looking graphics, why not for rpgs, eternal sonata is bright and shit but at least theres stuff all over the place, your not running through big empty fucking hallways that are all imaculately clean, the evil doers in blue dragon must have massive fucking ocd when it comes to cleaning, surprised they even have time to be evil when they are busy polishing everything to that sparkling shine, the next major problem with this game is that they got the guy who did dragon ball z to do the character design, bad baaaad move, he’s good an all when he did dbz, but everything i’ve seen in games from him, blue dragon, and dragon quest, are the same fucking thing all shiny, all the characters look like they walked out of dbz, the whole time i played dragon quest i was waiting for one of the characters in my party to start glowing, gyrating, and screaming kami hami haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, it was rather disturbing, here’s an example of the characters, as well as this green guy from dragon quest who is like identical to some guy in dbz:

seriously, wtf, everyone talks about this guy like he’s some fucking legend, but everything i’m seeing is nearly identical, why doesn’t he team up with some developers and make a fucking dbz rpg and get it out of his system, seriously, its fucking annoying, i’m done talking now, here’s some more screenshots i couldn’t find a use for in the rant: