I've been a member here for a while because I generally like the games Aksys puts out. I even liked the original version of Jake Hunter, limited though it was in content. But that certainly doesn't mean I'm not going to rag on games I don't like. I called Atlus out on Tokyo Beat Down and several other questionable titles they've published lately, and Atlus is probably my favorite publishing company.
I mean, hell, I'm not even ragging on Aksys here. I'm ragging on Idea Factory and Compile Heart, the guys they bought the rights to this game from. Aksys will probably do a great job localizing the game, but all the icing in the world isn't going to make -your mother is a classy lady- taste like delicious cake.
Baroque and Cross Edge are completely different and you well know it. One was made by St!ng, possibly one of the finest RPG devs in Japan, but was in a niche genre that hardly anybody likes. Cross Edge was a painfully mediocre-bad RPG that nobody liked because it was a BAD GAME. You can't just say "Oh, both games got low scores in magazines, so they must both be exactly the same" when they very clearly aren't. So once again, I have to point out that scores have never meant anything because they're incredibly vague and more often then not completely irrelevant to the actual overall quality of a game(When God Hand can score a 3 and Imagine: Party Babies can score a 7 from the same "hardcore" gaming site, you -know- review scores mean nothing). The only thing that actually means anything is the words in the review, which you are clearly ignoring since they're making your argument null.
And of course I have a bias against IF games. Every game I've played from them has been absolutely terrible and filled with bugs and poor gameplay. Every game my friends have played from them has been exactly the same. Expecting a quality title from them at this point is akin to watching a man gun down 30 people in front of me on the street and not fleeing because "he's probably not going to shoot me".
And once again, we're already on-topic, you can't arbitrarily force a topic to go back to another point when we have clearly moved to this one. I dunno about you, but when I talk to my friends I don't mindlessly stay on one topic all the time, as you talk you come to other topics and you discuss them. Everything here is, in some way, tied back to the original point of Agarest War, so you can't really "steer the topic back on track" because we're already there.
