ddaryl\'s Ring of Red thread

very intresting.. thankyou ddary!

i think i will buy this game specially after your comments on it. i am a great fan of FM3... it was also adicting to me. the story of FM3 was silly at times as you say, sometimes there is too much repetition, but because the game is soo kewl overall it didn\'t matter to me and i have a lot of patiance so i listened to every word said in FM3 despite how long it was! ( well that\'s me! ).

i think i understand what you meant about FM3, there were some missing things that i wanted to see. like more real-time accpets.. in FM3 you just tell the robot what to do and he does it so you have no actuall control of the action. it\'s nice to hear that this is being improved in ring of red. but it is disapointing to hear that ring of red does not have the nice ideas in FM3 like the customization of the mechanical machines.

but if it is addictive, this means i have to give-up some weekend football games!!! grrrr..

If you liked FM3 you\'ll like RoR no doubt about it.

I\'ve said it before though, there are things in FM3 that I would like to see in RoR like the ability to construct your own Mechs with each mech  part having its own special attacks that in conjuction with top computers gave you some kick ass special moves. I also like the sci-fi theme of FM3 a little more

But RoR allows you to choose when to use a special attack and its the pilots and soldiers that have these special moves. I like choosing when to use special attacks cause that makes it more strategic, but FM3 special attacks we\'re way cooler.

So if Square makes FM4 and takes some notes from RoR it could be perfection for this style of game IMO

yeah.... i have a feeling that square might make FM4 on PS2.. i hope they do it..

Day 6


Well I\'ve covered alot of whats in the game so if anyone wants to know alot about RoR read my Day 1 thu Day 5 rants. this should give you a solid idea of what RoR is all about


Today and last night I made it past mission 7 and started mission 8.  Enemies are getting tougher, and I am now controlling 7 AFW\'s. I started with 4

It looks like I will eventually get an 8th but I believe that will be it.

I\'ll be playing RoR into APril with ZOE coming out next week

This game seems sweet.
I wish I made more money so I could get it.
Not only do I have to pay for College, but now I have a car payment every month.
Game purchases are going downHill from here.

Originally posted by Faithdies
This game seems sweet.
I wish I made more money so I could get it.
Not only do I have to pay for College, but now I have a car payment every month.
Game purchases are going downHill from here.

I hear ya, for the next few games though I\'ll be trading in some of my other PS2 games and a quite a few of the PSX games I don\'t play. Hopefully, I can get a good research job this summer or I\'m going to be selling organs on the black market (which I believe is preferable to working retail).

Fancy a kidney anyone?

Yeah.
I have a liver if anyone wants one.
I was thinking about trading in Summoner and Kessen for Ring of Red, you think they will take that deal?

Depends on how old it is, EB said they\'d actually give me more for FaceOff 2001, than for Fifa 2001.

You need your liver to live, but you can sell a part of it which can be used for transplantation.

I\'m going to try and flog my appendix to some poor unsuspecting buyer....

I\'ll give you Ring of Red for your Liver


I\'ll probably go on a drinking binge since I won\'t have to worry anymore with a spare liver in the fridge

I\'ll give you a kidney AND my appendix for RoR.

...And for a limited time only if you call now you get a FREE pancreas!

[Note: Offer only valid while supplies last]

And they say we live in a mass media-dominated culture...bah!

HAHAHA!
DEAL!
I dont drink anymore anyway.
One time I had 22 shots of vodka in an hour and I threw up for 2 hours and fell asleep with my head on the toilet, after that....I could just never bring myself to drink anymore

Any doctors in the house?

I hope to be a doctor, I have a med school interview this Sunday, and another one next Sunday. My brain is completely fried right now - been spending the past few hours just reading these bioethics essays....and contemplating the organ black market - which I hear is big in Russia.

Awesome.
Good luck with the interviews.
My goals are nowhere near as ambitous.
I just want to be a history teacher, who also teaches a Military History class.
I also want to write books.
See....No ambitions for me.
I just want to have a job I will enjoy.

Originally posted by Faithdies
Awesome.
Good luck with the interviews.
My goals are nowhere near as ambitous.
I just want to be a history teacher, who also teaches a Military History class.
I also want to write books.
See....No ambitions for me.
I just want to have a job I will enjoy.

re: Good Luck - thanks, I\'m going to need it!

Hey, writing a book is no small feat - that\'s a great ambition to have. Books are timeless, write a good book and your ideas can live forever.

ddaryl,

Arggh, I cannot believe it took me this long to find this place! I love Ring of Red, been playing it nonstop since Wednesday. As FM3 was one of my favorite PSX strategy games, I agree that a fusion of the two would be perfect. What disappoints me most about RoR is the simplicity of the overworld map, very flat to me after FM3. No map rotation either. Another bad would be the translation, AWFUL. Not that the import dialogue was Xenogears quality, but some of the lines in RoR US are just baffling. A few of the conversations end with an inappropriate use of the "Yes/No" choice box. Ryoko would ask Wei something like, "So, why did you come to Japan to fight?" and his response would pop up as "Yes/No". That was not a yes or no answer bucko.

I\'m on Mission 9 and have yet to die, but my brief time with the import release probably helped. That prison level you talked about was indeed a pain, took me forever since new enemies kept popping up. And the stage immediately after took even longer, probably 1.5 hours for me. I\'m being vague on purpose to avoid spoilers.

I like the number of available units per battle, not as limiting as FM3 where you had a large cache of mechs but could only commit a limited amount to each battle.

Have you started shifting infantry around yet or have you largely kept the default ones? I\'m beginning to value infantry more and more, taking care to eliminate "troop-killer" enemy types such as those with "rapid-fire" before they harm my squads.

One of my favorite combos right now is 1 squad with "co-op" pair with a squad with either "rapid-fire" or "focus". Co-op+RP can just about wipe out an entire vanguard in one pass. After their attack, I pull them back and launch "sharpnel". I find AFWs without troop support extremely easy to defeat. They lack special skills, load slower, and are helpless against anti-AFW infantry.

I discovered MAX pilot abilities fairly late, Mission 8. "Emergency load" certainly would have made life easier for me early on. Haha.