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Farthest Frontier.

I love city building games. They’re my genre of choice. This one is hyped up to 11 as this great agent based logistics chain focused city sim. It’s not. Like at all. The numbers are obfuscated to hell and back. It’s got the slowest tier one to tier 2 transition I’ve ever played in a game like this. Very little does what it’s reported to do. They added a useless tech tree to lock stuff up to get a sense of progression, when in reality it just adds a second layer of requirements and time to progress to the next stage of your city. They have a really frustrating combat system which is cool in thought, but poorly executed. The economy is fucked and barely makes any sense.

The most frustrating thing that’s the biggest deal breaker is that pops don’t move into the city upon building housing. You need extra people to fulfill basic laborer roles. I can fill up every job I’ve plopped and have 20 extra workers doing basic labor or nothing. Or I can have two extra workers and build more houses to increase the pop count. Problem is nobody moves in. One of the requirements to get to tier 3 is 200 pop. I can’t break the 64 barrier let alone 100 because for some awful reason the dev decided to use a desirability score and not move pops in upon building a house. I have a population cap of 140 people and there’s vacant houses everywhere. Yet shit don’t change. I don’t think peasants in the fucking 1400s gave a shit about market prices and luxury amenities when fucking bears and wolves attack every 5 minutes. Just move people in the houses when I build them.

The game is a looker. I’ll give it that. Everything else is frustratingly bad.

About 3.5 minutes probably.

Nice! I’ll have to check that out.

XBOX version was the best to me but I loved that game so much I owned all three copies at once.

Yes and they’re all neatly contained in their numbered entry which is why I say no mainline numbered games tie together. And all the 2s are optional IMO. Especially X-2, which always seemed like a cash grab to capitalize off of X’s success to me. As much as I love, love, love X, I’ve never touched X-2 and probably never will.

You have one of, if not the best starting points for Final Fantasy in the whole series on this system with X. Just play it. There’s no mainline numbered Final Fantasy game that ties together. They’re all separate stories. A few share a common setting with Ivalice, but that’s about it. Hop on X now. I know there’s a PC version, and that’s probably the recommended way to experience that game at this point, but I don’t really care how you start it. If you ever wanna experience Final Fantasy, FFX is the one a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot of people will say start with.

Radiata Stories - a looker even for a PS2 game.

NFL 2K5 - the greatest NFL game ever made.

Jak and Daxter - This console’s Crash Bandicoot.

Rachet and Clank - I actually have the same problem you have with Final Fantasy with this series. Just pick one.

Need For Speed Underground 2 - One of the best arcade racing games ever made.

Burnout 3 Takedown - Same as above except you crash the cars instead of pimp them out.

SSX3 - Some say Tricky is better, I like them both but usually give 3 the edge.

Soul Calibur II - Best Soul Calibur game IMO

Dragonball Z Budokai 3 - Played the shit out of both this and Budokai Tenkaichi 3

I’m not even scratching the surface.

Ok. Back to Mednafen I guess.

God’s I hope their online lobby is not some BS in this game.