Ring of Red NO! Ring of Mess is more like it.

This is the first PS2 game I can truly say is a waste of time. What were they thinking??? Turn based strategy, chess with lame battlescenes where all you can do is move foward or back? Sorry but after about an hour and four missions I was done. Returned! Yea maybe I did not give it a chance, but for what....horrible. They could have put this on a 16bit machine. This game is truly a coaster and abuse of the abilities of the PS2. Using pictures for dialog! Bah...pathetic. Stay away from this one and to think I was looking forward to this game. Kessen towers over this mess.
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Volcano Vaporizer

Did you ever play any kind of strategy game before? From your post I would guess no? Please correct me if I am wrong.

RoR actually takes a step up from most strategy games.

- dm
- what\'s in the f\'cking box?

WOW!! that bad?  I was thinking of geting this game...   That\'s for that info!!  

Dude this is rediculous, I love th egame as do quite a few people

I\'ll be the first to admit the game is not for everyone but by playing this game for 1 hour your opinion is null. The game takes about 4- 5 hours to get rolling along and learning how to use the battle system and strategy

The game is 45 - 60 hours long and I\'m enjoying it a ton. I also enjoyed Front Mission 3 as well


Also the game is not big budget for one very obvious reason, the game will never be a million plus seller so voice acting get cut out. Konami is not going to pour MGS2 or ZOE budget into a game where anticipated sales are 300,000


Sorry Jiggs, you didn\'t give it a chance, but I can obviously say from reading your post the game is just not you bag. The game for what it does is pretty high quality. Graphics could be better, but are still pretty cool in lots of places

and for anyone teetering on getting this game or not I strongly suggest renting it give it the full 5 days and decide if you want to buy it and finish the game.

Originally posted by datamage
Did you ever play any kind of strategy game before? From your post I would guess no? Please correct me if I am wrong.

RoR actually takes a step up from most strategy games.

- dm
- what\'s in the f\'cking box?

               Hold on Data I am a PCer here RTS are my thing. Like Shogun total war, Ground Control ect. This game might have been good a couple of years ago but now who can bear with this boringness now. I am sure some who are still into turned based strategy games might like it but I think Dragon force on the Saturn simply kills this game.(except in the graphics department). Same plain looking battlefields vs type fighting dont need this.
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Originally posted by jiggs



               Hold on Data I am a PCer here RTS are my thing. Like Shogun total war, Ground Control ect. This game might have been good a couple of years ago but now who can bear with this boringness now. I am sure some who are still into turned based strategy games might like it but I think Dragon force on the Saturn simply kills this game.(except in the graphics department). Same plain looking battlefields vs type fighting dont need this.

Well the battlefields are relatively the same they do change aroung considerably.

but again the game isn\'t the type to appeal to everyone. I still think its great

Hold on Data I am a PCer here RTS are my thing. Like Shogun total war, Ground Control ect. This game might have been good a couple of years ago but now who can bear with this boringness now. I am sure some who are still into turned based strategy games might like it but I think Dragon force on the Saturn simply kills this game.(except in the graphics department). Same plain looking battlefields vs type fighting dont need this.

I wasn\'t being a smart-ass or anything.. I was being sincere. I myself am a PCer and love RTS games. The kind of strategy games I meant if you\'ve played are the console ones. I.E., Final Fantasy Tactics, Vandal Hearts, Kartia, etc. RoR plays along the lines of those games, completely different from the RTS genre on PC. Dragon Force, ah that was a game.

- dm
- what\'s in the f\'cking box?

Don\'t like the sound of that either.

something to add.  Anyone play Soul Calibur for dreamcast?  The graphics on that game are awesome I loved playing it.  Only a few problems though the end of arcade play had picture dialog, unlike a much older game like tekken 2 which had animation endings, these differences mean the world to me.  Another thing, tekken 2 had twice as many addon characters to mess around with as reward.  If you are going to make a game complex with nice graphics where do you get off leaving out simple things like these.

Originally posted by Zentraedi
Don\'t like the sound of that either.

what\'s a matter can\'t read

the dialog is simple and to the point. and can be skipped if choosen wothout much efect to the game.

Your not going to get top budget voice acting in a game thats anticipated to sell moderately at best, thats just common business sense

not all games have to have huge budgets to be fun

/me thinks..

/me ponders..

What 50-60hr Strategy/RPG game has complete voice-overs? Final Fantasy sucked cause the characters didn\'t talk? FFT (one of the best, if not the best strategy/rpg didn\'t have speech) ..


- dm
- what\'s in the f\'cking box?

Strategy games suck, including RoR. ddaryl, you really like it? But think its a waste of time to own all 4 consoles? Strategy games are the biggest waste of time, and only the biggest losers like them. Nigga you trippin.

I can understand the budget concerns but being spoiled on high action adventures and explosive RTS I guess this game is just not for me. Did not mean to be too hard on it but it just made me mad I had painted a whole different picture when I bought the game. But a true fan of this type of gameplay will enjoy themselves.
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mariaK

I will pay more money for a better game.  Wouldn\'t you? No sound? No Voice overs?  How about another cd in the case.
You guys really like it up the butt don\'t you?  Why did you veer from Genghis Kahn on Nintendo.  If you say that you\'d gladly play those old nintendo games and pay top dollar along side the playstation2 games, you go right ahead.  Why settle for less then for more?  Got to wonder about some of you.

Originally posted by Zentraedi
I will pay more money for a better game.  Wouldn\'t you? No sound? No Voice overs?  How about another cd in the case.
You guys really like it up the butt don\'t you?  Why did you veer from Genghis Kahn on Nintendo.  If you say that you\'d gladly play those old nintendo games and pay top dollar along side the playstation2 games, you go right ahead.  Why settle for less then for more?  Got to wonder about some of you.

I wonder about you, being so anal to write off gameplay do to having read text on the screen

The game is fun, and I wouldn\'t pay a buck more for voices, in fact Voices in this game would actually be annoying


In fact nobody would pay $10 more for RoR just to have character animations and voice overs, I find your comments to be extremly sad, gameplay is what really matters and RoR is fun just the way it is