LawGamer

You're not planning things out enough. Just because you aren't stealth killing things doesn't mean not stealthing can be done by running in with no thought behind it. You need to start by scanning enemies until you understand what individual parts of them are causing you trouble and what a robot's elemental weaknesses are.

Getting shot a lot? Well, the enemy probably has a cannon you can knock off with tear damage. Enemy breathing a bunch of fire? It's probably got some part of it you can catch on fire and blow up.

Honestly, just invest in tear arrows and a blast sling. I never used traps or the Ropecaster for like 99% of the encounters because honestly I thought they weren't worth the time.

I don't know that "depressing" is the right word, but I couldn't stomach GTA IV because I found the thing to be so mean spirited. All GTAs have a a degree of biting satire on the modern world, but you're always kind of laughing along with them. GTA IV was different in that it was far more aggressive about it than other games in the series. A couple hours in and I was pretty much done with that game's sense of "humor."

If ZP likes being able to change characters on the fly - then he can be glad FFXII (a.k.a. the Best Final Fantasy) is on the way.

All I can think about when I hear about Les Mis is the Key and Peele sketch:

Recent Civilizations. I played the hell out of Civ 4, and then 5-6 I keep trying and just falling off. I don't know what it is, I like strategy games, I loved the hell out of 4, but something just feels lacking. Like its too polished or something.

Maybe it's no Nemoy.

Plus, those two are by far the best games in the series.

I'll admit that when I saw FF3 on the list, this was my first thought too, because having the actual FF3 would be a totally Nintendo thing to do. They're probably also make about ten of the things, which would also be a totally Nintendo thing to do.

Trying to get through Persona 5 made me think I might be hitting this point with JRPGs. I'm not sure that's necessarily due to the age of the protagonists, though. It's more that the similar age of the characters makes a lot of JRPG stories tread over the same ground. Underneath all that style, Persona 5 is still fundamentally about broadly-drawn angsty teen characters learning the Power of Friendship.

It's just a little frustrating because there's no reason the Persona series couldn't do a game with adult protagonists who have adult hang-ups. There's no reason that couldn't work. They wouldn't even have to change the structure that much. You'd just have a work calendar rather than a school calendar and your hideout would be the bar rather than the school roof.

I believe I have made my disdain for FFX known in prior posts, but one of the major problems I have with it is how it tells its story. It has a ton of interesting directions it could go in, but the ones it shoves down the players' throats are the least interesting of those.

As you pointed out with the Jecht spheres, it takes the most interesting story threads, and then insists on hiding them in optional content or behind a ton of grinding. You either miss them entirely, or get so little of them that, like Jecht, they have no impact unless you go out of your way to look for it. In contrast, I always found the main path story the most boring, overwrought, horridly melodramatic, teen fan-fic level shlock ever committed to a page.

As to Seymour Flux, get anti-zombie stuff to protect yourself, and then hit him with poison. Amazingly, a ton of bosses in FFX aren't immune to a lot of status effects. If you hit him with poison, he'll kill himself after a few turns. You can just focus on healing yourself at that point.