Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, for PS2

[Hiro]

EVERYONE. MUST. PLAY. THIS. GAME.


yes, it's THAT good... no, it's even better.

i mean, you can THROW people (and besides being hilarious, that REALLY adds to the strategy elements...)

[Nightcrawler]

Why is this in the General Forum? It should be in the gaming forum! Prepare to be Moderated!

[Jay_Dragon]

I bought this game about two weeks ago.  I like it a lot more then many of resent rpg's that have come out.  It has three things I always like in a game.  

1.  Being able to make a ton of differnt chariters to play human and monsters.

2.  A real high level cap.  I forget what it is but I read somewhere where a person was refuring to his 1600th level person.

3.  A game that is like final fantasy tatics.  I always enjoy these types of games.  You have to actualy think about your battles opose to the clicking attack for everyone in your group for every battle that isn't a boss battle.

There are many neat things about this game.  Go look up a review on it and see if its something you would like to get.

Jay Dragon

[TechMaster]

Cough, [I don't own a ps2]

For that matter of fact, [I don't own a ps1 either]

[Hiro]

the level cap is 9999. Stats literally get into the millions... none of this "255" crap from Final Fantasy X. How the hell am I dealing 99999 damage with only 255 strength? Haha.

[Nightcrawler]

It just so happens 255 is the largest number that nicely fits into one byte.  Who really cares if 255 strenght is your max.. or 1 million.  Does it really matter?  In Final Fantasy 1 strength point makes a difference with 255 being max.  1 point makes no difference anymore with 1 million as the max.

[KingMike]

Hah! I remember one person on GameFAQs complaining about Paper Mario's low-value HP/FP system ("Why should I fear a boss that has 30 HP and causes 4 HP damage with each attack?", or something similar. For those who haven't played through, and would like a comparisson, Mario has a capacity of 50 HP and 50 FP (flower points, his MP), and Bowser in his final form has 99 HP, can heal 30 HP 3 times, and his strongest attack does 12 damage (well, he has one stronger, but you'd have to be stupid/not paying attention to the text to get hit by it). Still it's a decently challenging fight that'll last you maybe 10-20 minutes (assuming you didn't bring the items to restore full HP/FP, like I did. Then it'd be easier).

[Nightcrawler]

Exactly King Mike! That's a god example of my point.  For some reason people have a fixation on seeing large numbers.  But it makes no difference.  I don't get it.