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Bicyclops posted:lol. i remember every early review of DQ11 was like "this is 100 hours of dragon quest. It doesn't do anything new, it's just Dragon quest, for 100 hours!!!" and half of them followed that up with "five stars." i had the giantbomb goty talks in the background. they got to dq11 and my ears perked up, one of em goes "Yeah. Uhh. Well, it's good, it's good dragonquest. I remember it being good. That's about all I have to say on it." everyone else was dead silent and they moved onto spiderman you have to have a heart made out of coal to play and beat dq11 and just be totally unphased by it
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Fungah! posted:almost to the end of chapter 2 in bravely default 2 and man...this game kicks serious rear end. every part of the mechanics is thought through and handcrafted and it all works super loving well. every time i get a new job i go into the sherlock mind palace and think about how every passive slots into every other job that i've unlocked and it seems like theres a bazillion ways to build everyone. seriously impressively well-made game. 77 on metacritic Something I love about the job design in BD2 is that, more than most other job system games I've played, a lot of jobs have abilities that are really specifically designed to work with other jobs, or that specifically take your subjob into account, things like that. It makes it feel like every job is a puzzle piece that fits with some of the other pieces you have, and then you get a new piece and get to discover which ones it also fits with, and it's extremely satisfying
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Harrow posted:Something I love about the job design in BD2 is that, more than most other job system games I've played, a lot of jobs have abilities that are really specifically designed to work with other jobs, or that specifically take your subjob into account, things like that. It makes it feel like every job is a puzzle piece that fits with some of the other pieces you have, and then you get a new piece and get to discover which ones it also fits with, and it's extremely satisfying its seriously so good, i just got ranger and seeing that tje job passive was basically the same as a passive on beastmaster that also synergizes with like two more...bellissimo
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Mar 12, 2021 17:28
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Mia Wasikowska posted:im pretty sure the screen scrolls at 30fps in dq3 on the switch, or at least something isnt right about it. the snes one is a lot better, even the game boy color one is better oh and it doesnt have the enemy animations, but battles take about as long. anyway switch one sucks
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Mar 12, 2021 17:30
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Fungah! posted:games journos are straight up retarded. Yup.
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Mar 12, 2021 17:43
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Fungah! posted:its seriously so good, i just got ranger and seeing that tje job passive was basically the same as a passive on beastmaster that also synergizes with like two more...bellissimo me when (mechanics spoiler) i first saw the passive that lets you use a subjob's starting specialty 
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Mar 12, 2021 18:01
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absolutely anything posted:me when (mechanics spoiler) i first saw the passive that lets you use a subjob's starting specialty
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Mar 12, 2021 18:02
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the best part is it's called "sub-job specialty 1" so you KNOW theres a 2 that lets you use the level 12 specialty. i havent seen it yet though
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Mar 12, 2021 18:04
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absolutely anything posted:the best part is it's called "sub-job specialty 1" so you KNOW theres a 2 that lets you use the level 12 specialty. i havent seen it yet though 
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Mar 12, 2021 18:06
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Another related mechanics spoiler: there are multiple ways to activate your sub-job's first and/or second specialties, one of them coming from a specific job's own second specialty
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Mar 12, 2021 18:17
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some tooltip i saw the other day mentioned jobs going to level 12 or beyond and the implications are staggering
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Mar 12, 2021 18:20
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is BD2 a new world from the first? should i track down adn play the first bravely default before jumping in
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Mar 12, 2021 18:51
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New setting, story's unrelated to the first Bravely Default That said the first Bravely Default is also extremely good and worth playing, though you don't have to play it first
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Mar 12, 2021 18:53
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bump_fn posted:is BD2 a new world from the first? should i track down adn play the first bravely default before jumping in You should because it rocks, but BD2 is separate from BD1 Final Fantasy style. BD1 has a direct sequel called Bravely Second tho.
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Mar 12, 2021 18:54
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Yeah Bravely Second is basically "Bravely Default I-2"
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extremebuff posted:i had the giantbomb goty talks in the background. they got to dq11 and my ears perked up, one of em goes "Yeah. Uhh. Well, it's good, it's good dragonquest. I remember it being good. That's about all I have to say on it." everyone else was dead silent and they moved onto spiderman i don't think anyone finished it because they were busy playing dota and pubg
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Mar 12, 2021 19:01
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bump_fn posted:is BD2 a new world from the first? should i track down adn play the first bravely default before jumping in ya like everyone else said its different but you should play the first 2 at some point anyway because theyre good. as someone whose favorite final fantasy is 5 i'm glad theres people out there making multiple new good final fantasy 5s just for me
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Mar 12, 2021 20:17
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lmao w/r/t the review discussion, the WaPo reviewer for Cyberpunk changed his good review to bad today to try to be on the right side of history or w/e https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/reviews/cyberpunk-three-months-later/
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Mar 12, 2021 20:32
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looking back at my comments saying that I enjoyed a video game and doing the dril "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm trying to delete it" when the company gets sued.
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Mar 12, 2021 20:34
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Bicyclops posted:lmao w/r/t the review discussion, the WaPo reviewer for Cyberpunk changed his good review to bad today to try to be on the right side of history or w/e
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Mar 12, 2021 20:35
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Bicyclops posted:lmao w/r/t the review discussion, the WaPo reviewer for Cyberpunk changed his good review to bad today to try to be on the right side of history or w/e oh christ lmao
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Mar 12, 2021 20:36
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"In my review, I called the game an “intoxicating virtual reality” after about 19 hours with it, focusing only on the main story missions. But 19 hours was not enough time. After having completed the entire game three times in a total of 150 hours,"
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Mar 12, 2021 20:39
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gene park is... not a great reviewer, huh
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Mar 12, 2021 20:40
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He's not necessarily saying anything bad or unfair there tbh, the issue is that he originally reviewed the game after playing it for 19 hours lol. He's still broadly positive
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Mar 12, 2021 20:42
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:He's not necessarily saying anything bad or unfair there tbh, the issue is that he originally reviewed the game after playing it for 19 hours lol. He's still broadly positive yeah after reading it some more it's just a more nuanced review, my eyes just glazed over when i saw that last line. he actually did seem like he still enjoyed it
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Mar 12, 2021 20:53
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I stopped reading when I saw "a patch if you will"
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Bicyclops posted:I stopped reading when I saw "a patch if you will"
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Mar 12, 2021 21:02
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Consider the Pantsless T-Pose, by David Foster Wallace
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Fungah! posted:lowest review on metacritic: lol i'm too dumb to synergize job skills beyond the most obvious pairings and so i'm assigning jobs based on who looks the cutest the outfit.
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Mar 12, 2021 22:04
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being a game journalist is proof you are stupid/a quitter. children dream of making games, not commenting on them. then these people find out math/programming/making art/being a real writer is hard, but still believe they should be involved. gently caress em
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Mar 12, 2021 22:10
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It’s also an impossible job to play 100 hour long games and write a good review just in time for the public release. All they can ever write about are first impressions. For a real review you need to do a Tim Rogers style deep dive into a game.
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That’s why all the DQ11 reviews were like: “I guess it’s a classic RPG with good graphics? I don’t like RPGs though because they take too long to finish. 8/10”
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Mar 12, 2021 23:41
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Daikatana Ritsu posted:i don't think anyone finished it because they were busy playing dota and pubg lol yeah iirc jeff mentioned he only played for a few hours and hosed off. awful
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Sex Tragedy posted:being a game journalist is proof you are stupid/a quitter. children dream of making games, not commenting on them. then these people find out math/programming/making art/being a real writer is hard, but still believe they should be involved. gently caress em Okay
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i got the lazy personality in DQ3 and i feel called out honestly
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Sex Tragedy posted:being a game journalist is proof you are stupid/a quitter. children dream of making games, not commenting on them. then these people find out math/programming/making art/being a real writer is hard, but still believe they should be involved. gently caress em yeah, good. ok
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Sex Tragedy posted:being a game journalist is proof you are read all those / as stanza breaks
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Fitter. Happier. More productive. Comfortable. Stupid. A quitter. Children dream of making games, not commenting on them.
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It’s cool how one of the best classes in BD2 has a silly costume so you get a bunch of really intense cutscenes before and after cutscenes where half your guys are in fursuits
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extremebuff posted:be warned the switch versions of 1-3 are phone versions that are insanely ugly. i played a translation romhack of 3 on snes lol i thought i had made my peace with how they look. ff6 phone version is a disaster to me, but i thought i could live with this. i just really want to play jrpgs on the switch, it's perfect for it. i don't like playing on the laptop on emulator. but after comparing it to the snes version it's just so much better. the phone text style is the biggest dealbreaker. even when you have a good visual phone port like dq4, which is just the DS version i think, it still has that hideous font. i can't stand it. anyway here's hoping i actually get some gaming done despite it being on laptop.
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