RaggieRags: Always thought Xenogears was grossly overappreciated game. The pacing was horrible, the platforming parts still give me nightmares, and the pretentious plot had everything and a kitchen sink. A warning example of what happens when a team get relative freedom and there's no project management and direction.
Xenogears reminds me of a first-year college student who tries too hard to appear "mature" and "deep". Kinda like the "sequels" with names like "Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra".
Really? You know, what's funny I don't disagree with you at all but I still have warm memories of the game. I played it when I was much younger and due to looking up the game online it got me into reading stuff like philosophy and psychology. Note, if I first played the game now I would probably hate it. Actually tried to replay it kind of recently and the slow appearing text annoyed me. Tried to also play Xenosaga recently and I forgot how many darn cut-scenes are in the game. It is almost like a parody of the FMV JRPG to me.. with how much time is spent watching compared playing.
I wonder at the same time if Assasin's Creed series which I find to have a very stupid story, will perhaps make some teens interested in history or other intellectual topics when they look up the game online.
Saw some video online about a dude taking about his son became an expert on Jazz music cause of playing Fallout 3 first and then researching on youtubue about the music and then reading stuff about the that type of music.
As annoying as some of the pseudo intellectual video games maybe at times, at the same time at least a few young gamers maybe encouraged by the games to study stuff they reference in their free time.
