Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: Re: Not to put too fine a point on it, but FUCK YES.

[quote name="Damocles, TXD"][quote name="FABIO"] Don't forget that character that's supremely powerful early on when you first get them for awhile then is totally average early on. Usually they're a boss you fight that ends up joining you later or they're part of your party at the begining as a sort of training wheels set to help you breeze through the first area (after which they either leave your party, get killed off by the uber villain so you can avenge them later, or become cursed and be reduced to an average character). Either way, when they join you again later in the game they'll have not leveled up at all since then and will be the same strength or weaker than the rest of your party: Magus from CT, Beatrice from FF9, Auron from FF10, Sampson from Beyond the Beyond (not quite as horrible as everyone might believe).[/quote] Never played it; was scared off by the reputation. Point taken, though you forgot that one guy from Lunar 1. (Unless you never played that either?) Anyway, It's not so bad when you've levelled up to their level, because it fires home the fact that you've improved... what's a real pisser is when you fight someone who gives you a hard time, then they join you and are magically pansified. [quote name="FABIO"] Wasn't all this on the list of great RPG cliches that the GIA wrote awhile back? That was the best thing to ever come out of that site (aside from the fascination I had with them managing to have the exact opposite opinion of mine for every game ever released, Parasite Eve 2 excluded). I think I actually have the thing printed out somewhere. Would it be feasible or appropriate to get permission and post it up here? There was some good stuff in that.[/quote] I doubt permission is an issue; the GIA is defunct, and the main guys behind it couldn't give a shit... or so was my impression the last time I talked with members of that bitter, bitter group. Mention "Gameforms" to one of the ones that didn't move to it sometime; fireworks like that you usually have to launch from a barge. Come to think of it, opinions aside, they probably wouldn't fit in too badly here.[/quote]