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There's got to be some FFT fans here, right? (http://www.f13.net/index2.php?subaction=showfull&id=1115117257&archive=&start_from=&ucat=2&)

By the way, it's for the PS2.

Too bad Guidl Wars just came out....

Oh yeah, the whole PS2 thing is a problem for me also.

Sounds good, regardless.

I personally love these types of games. I recently got a PS2 and there are a plethora of them, I wonder which you like best? I've heard of

Disgea
La Pucelle Whatever
Phantom Brave (?)
Langrisser Generations

anything else?

I'd put Stella Deus right at the top of the list.

Then Disgaea, La Pucelle, and Phantom Brave - in that order.

Then I'd probably put the Lucasarts game Gladius.

There's Front Mission 4 if you like mechs.

Front Mission Online should be out soon; it's more of an action game than strategy though. Just a shameless plug since my friend works on it.

When is it going to be released in North America?

I have no idea. I could ask but usually my friend doesn't know any more about that sort of thing than random websites.

I can tell you a bit about it though. It's basically a squad based combat game. You form a group out of different mechs with different roles like scout, long range missile shooter and front line guy and battle other people. (And NPCs?) So it's a lot closer to Counterstrike with Mechs than a strategy game. I do believe that you can take and hold key positions on a worldwide map and things like that though. (There is some sort of global meta-game) Hopefully it will be a bit more inspired than a never-ending see-saw battle.

There is also stuff you can do outside of your mech, walking around in a base and stuff, but I have no idea what that is. I would assume upgrading/configuring your mech is part of it.

The beta test has been running for a while now, I should ask how it is going.

I believe it will come out for the PC as well so I wouldn't be surprised to see them pull a FFXI and release the PC version before a US console version.

I played Front Mission, I found it to be fairly entertaining and difficult, the story was meh but still enough for me to want to see it through.  I think they needed a hot female lead for me to care about...

Too bad they ruined her by giving her such a horrible French accent.  Le sigh.

Is it me, or would Battle Royale make a fucking awesome tactical rpg? The grid's even already in place.

Nice review, schildy.