I hope this doesn't become a console war thread too.

Every console has it's own genre-focus. Every console has it's own fanbase. The only flaw I see with the Playstation 3 is the library. They seem to be releasing games for it in every genre. Look at the variety right now - they're probably trying to get people back on their console. For instance - they release a lot of strategy / RPG games. I'd like someone to list the ones that are currently out - not coming out soon; just the ones that are out now. I think Enchanted Arms? But that's also for the 360 too I believe.

Whether it's a copy or not, it's still a base of competition.The game industry is just ideas taken from ideas and modifying them to become their own. If I were to create a Grand Theft Auto and change a few things - that'd just be an idea of inspiration. Hell I could make a Grand THeft Auto Winnipeg (where I'm from) and change the name and a few things and it'd be my own.

The game industry is just ideas from various points, put together and titled under their own thing. It's not a matter of which came out first, or which is a copy. It's only a copy if it has the exact same features and the exact same name to say. If it was a copy, Then companies would be after each other in court constantly and you'd never read articles about games. It'd onyl be about "company" suing "company" over "thing".

Obviously you don't know about it - it's coming out November 1st. Not October 1st.

Also there'd be an article on it on Gamespot.

I was checking through a few random forums and noticed this thread:

http://au.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=25830072

Of course the last post ended up making the thread closed due to obvious reasons, and I fully understand that.

Now the problem is no matter what happens really - whether it be a blog post or forum post, I also receive the HTML is not well formed message. I never use HTML in posts, and I only use BBCode. But the only way to make things work is to use the buttons provided. I'm not complaining about having to use the buttons, I would just like to know why it doesn't work when you manually type the BBCode in.

Another situation would be the "immediate locking" of issues posted by members. As soon as a moderator / whichever answers a question, the topic is closed almost immediately. I believe other members / or the original poster should be able to add more input or even "question the answer" of the person who answered part / all of the question which was asked - possibly due to a misunderstanding or any of the such.

I would also like to apologize for bringing this back up, as I had a thread up about the fact of not being able to rate some games.Some of the games I own have similar numbers in the fact of users owning the game and so on - primarily with retro games. I understand that many people do not play retro games as far back as the Atari compared to current consoles, but there are still games out there that are played quite a bit, and yes there are some that aren't played as much either. But what about games that are just purchased from a collections store that a previous person owned? A different example approach would be Colecovision games. I've purchased and have been given quite a few Coleco games, but I'm unable to rate them based on my opinion, but some other gamers have been able to. Once again I don't mean to make this sound like a complaint, but more of an "unfair concern" type of thing. An unusual thing I noticed was for the same console, the games once again had similar numbers, but some were able to be rated, and some not. To me that really doesn't make sense. Whether the game isn't played / discussed a lot, I personally believe that many gamers should be able to rate a game in their collection no matter what the circumstances are.

I also hope no one takes offense or think that I am complaining, but it's just a couple of concerns that came to me for a while, and I decided to post a couple of concerns that I had.

Thank you very much for your time.

You do make a point, but I don't 100% follow / understand what you mean.

I've played (and beaten) Metal Gear Solid for the Playstation, and as for Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (Which I unfortunately do not own anymore due to my stupidity of trading it in. Also the fact that I don't think they make the game anymore - only used copies). I plan on picking up Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Subsistance, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Metal Gear Acid 2, and the other Metal Gear Solid PSP game. If I'm able to find a Metal Gear Solid 2 game in good condition (Whether it be Sons of Liberty or Substance) I'll pick them up - maybe even both.

FFVI and Tactics blow it the f*** out of the water in terms of plot.IsNotInterestes

I'm going to agree with you on Tactics in the mature plot aspect, but not VI as much.

With Final Fantasy XII, since they have a different battle system, it'll take a while to get used to. Personally, I like it, and I hope they stick to it in future titles (For however long they keep Final Fantasy running...) XII doesn't have the "best" plot and story, but I really enjoy it.

As for the mentioned Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, there's some fun additions later on in the game, like battle trophies (I watched a friend of mine play it).

But RPG wise, I'd go with Final Fantasy XII - or even Ys: The Ark of Napishtim for the Playstation 2. (I'm a big fan of the Ys series - I skipped a day of school on what I believe to remember as February 28th to pick up my pre-order when it came out). Bugged the hell out of a store whenever I went in I'd always ask, "Is there a date set yet?" or "A bunch of sites have it reviewed already - is it in?"

I went to that store on the day it was dated for Canada and it wasn't there. Later that day I received a phone call saying there were two copies in the box that were pretty much at the bottom of their shipment - so they did have it. I was on the bus to pick it up within 15 minutes. Hella worth it. Bit of a pain in certain parts, but I really like it. :)

Played the first one for for around 10 hours and couldnt continue, just got quite boring after a while. As for hardcore I dont know about that, maybe it means those who have plenty of patience to go through mediocre games? You need to be really hardcore to play some of the crap out there.mohmaaytah

I wouldn't call it crap - it's all to the gamer's prespective really. Your favourite game could be my #1 worst game that I've played sort of thing. I really enjoy TBS games, so this is a thumbs up for me.