Who Says 2D Gaming is Dead?

Retro Gaming with Racketboy has up a feature looking at the best modern 2D games out there, all on the PlayStation 2. He highlights the best of every genre, from the modern classic RPG/beat-em-up Odin Sphere to the timeless beauty that is the Metal Slug series. "Disgaea: Hour of Darkness & Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories: Disgaea greatly resembles other strategy RPGs. Its isometric perspective, 3D battlefields, and nice-looking 2D characters are clearly reminiscent of most other games of this type, and on first impression, so is the game's turn-based combat system. However, you'll soon realize that this game actually plays very differently. The gameplay itself is, in a word, weird."

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Re:Disgaea

[heinousjay]

If I want to be told a story, I watch a movie. Games are for playing.

This is especially relevant when considering how poor the story telling is in games. Typically, it's about on the level of daytime soaps, with blunt emotional manipulation and the sort of twists that would get rejected in a script for being too obvious.