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Hit or miss Clitoris posted:I just got SoP, is this a soulslike? I've never played a souls game and this is whipping my rear end on normal. I can barely get by the second bomb in the first level. Is there any basic advice on getting good at this or should I do a run on easy to learn how to actually play the drat game. It’s a soulslike and it was really hard for me even though I’ve played almost all the From games (I do suck at them, though). I’d play on easy until you get a handle on things. The bombs are there to teach you to soul shield and can be legit tough if you don’t know how to deal with them.
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I said come in! posted:Been playing Crisis Core Reunion all day and I am so happy it fixes pretty much every single issue I had with the PSP version. About the only complaint I have is that the dialog was taken straight from the PSP version and then given voice acting, and the voice actors are 1.) not good, and 2.) the dialog was never good and it has aged terribly in 2022. This is really the only downside to the game in my opinion, in what is otherwise become one of the best modern Final Fantasy titles. Where the PSP version was a deeply flawed game. I basically agree with this, from my experience so far. I don't really agree with the psp version being deeply flawed though, but also it has been a while since I last played the psp ver.
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Gologle posted:I basically agree with this, from my experience so far. I don't really agree with the psp version being deeply flawed though, but also it has been a while since I last played the psp ver. It was a good PSP game, but I'm not sure if it's a Birth By Sleep that can survive the transition to a less portable format ok or a Final Fantasy Type-0 which... didn't. I'm thinking it's more the latter, being a very mechanically-simple game that mostly survived it's repetitive mission design by being something you can shove in your pocket and play fifteen minutes at a time, if the remake didn't add and spice anywhere.
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SOP is a Ninja Gaiden like. It's even less Souls than Nioh but I'd even call Nioh Ninja Gaiden crossed with Diablo 2 if pressed. I'm going to get on my soapbox and scream this out with pride until someone comes and collects me like "ok grandpa let's get you back to the nursing home."
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I said come in! posted:Been playing Crisis Core Reunion all day and I am so happy it fixes pretty much every single issue I had with the PSP version. About the only complaint I have is that the dialog was taken straight from the PSP version and then given voice acting, and the voice actors are 1.) not good, and 2.) the dialog was never good and it has aged terribly in 2022. This is really the only downside to the game in my opinion, in what is otherwise become one of the best modern Final Fantasy titles. Where the PSP version was a deeply flawed game. Huh. Did they do more changes besides spicing up the graphics and making normal attacks work more like Remake? Haven't seen much of it but I'd lile to know if they did something to the mission structure (which could get a bit repetitive and samey).
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BisbyWorl posted:I always found the Buster Sword backstory hilarious. It used an entire mine's worth of iron. The smiths told him it would be a bad idea. It would be heavy, blunt, ineffective, and cost a fortune. But he knew what he wanted. Orcs and Ostriches fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Dec 14, 2022 |
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:It used an entire mine's worth of iron.
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Mythril Sabers are pieces of junk, it gets flimsy before you hit the Gold Saucer and if you use it to Rocket Town the drat handle will snap off. Buster Sword never loses its edge
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Electromax posted:Mythril Sabers are pieces of junk, it gets flimsy before you hit the Gold Saucer and if you use it to Rocket Town the drat handle will snap off. A spoon never loses its edge either
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Dec 14, 2022 17:28
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Attack items definitely keep ahead of the curve for a long time and time is your only challenge. It is amusing how you can be poor when monsters drop so much money. Stores are selling explosives on the cheap.
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GiantRockFromSpace posted:Huh. Did they do more changes besides spicing up the graphics and making normal attacks work more like Remake? Haven't seen much of it but I'd lile to know if they did something to the mission structure (which could get a bit repetitive and samey). A short list of the more notable changes: Materia are now set to L1+Face Button, Kingdom Hearts style, leaving the lower right scroll menu exclusively for items and vastly freeing up the amount of mid-battle scrolling you need to do. The DMW only ever interrupts gameplay to show one of those random little mini cutscenes from Zack's memories, otherwise it doesn't automatically interrupt you no matter what. This includes Limit Breaks, which instead of being executed as soon as you get three reels, are now added to a stock for you to unleash at-will (though your stock is lost at the end of battle, so no reason to be stingy with them) Boss cutscene attacks, which were previously just "gently caress you, no warning or wind-up, hope you had enough HP when the boss randomly decides to do this," will now have a cast time, and a percentage gauge starting at 100% will appear over the boss as they start charging. You can attack to deplete the gauge, with the cutscene attack doing less damage the more you lower it, and if you get it to 0% the attack is cancelled entirely. These are just the biggest and most notable ones, there are lots of other little QoL changes there too.
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Barudak posted:FF2 is very fun in Pixel Remaster but watch the hell out for Couerls and anything else that can inflict status effects due to game changes Yeah I may have uh, done a bit much grinding. Everyone's main weapon is level 12 or 13, there's a Berserk at 8, a Blink at 10... and this was before I even got to Mysidia. Pretty cool so far though and the short bit of Leviathan blew my high as gently caress mind right out. Really didn't expect people living there.
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Did reunion change the fact that you could permanently miss some of the optional missions? I remember that being pretty annoying
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parasyte posted:Yeah I may have uh, done a bit much grinding. Everyone's main weapon is level 12 or 13, there's a Berserk at 8, a Blink at 10... and this was before I even got to Mysidia. This was my party before I even thought about heading to the dreadnought.  Not pictured: everyone's maxed evade. Coeurls could still wipe my party out before I got a chance to do anything because of partywide paralysis with 100% hit rate.
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For the FFXV DLCs, does Comrades have anything plot relevant or can I skip it?
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I'm like 99% sure it doesn't have any plot relevance
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Hm. Those would definitively help the pace of combat. I was wondering more about mission structure, since in the end it had a lot of repetitive missions where you end uo in the same zone with different areas blocked off ala Dragon Age 2, that you'd skip by hugging the wall because sometimes enemies just were massively stronger than you were. Or at least that was my exoerience in the PSP version.
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DanielCross posted:A short list of the more notable changes: Did they adjust boss attacks to compensate? I saw a streamer fight Bahamut and he would have absolutely died if he took the full hit. Even 75% is almost a game over if he took a hit.
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SoPFFO: Did FFXland, FFXIIland (Raithwall's Tomb!) FFIXland (...The Evil Forest or whatever it's called) and FFVIIIland (Ifrit's Cave place). The Fiends look so loving cool. I'm getting used to the gameplay and unlocked Breaker so I'm doing pretty good now. The story is getting wild. The Lufenians have reconstructed places from other FF games and, like... made Crystals to hold memories of... people they've summoned to.... what, harvest the dark mist and create energy and science and poo poo? This is whacky. It also seems to be explaining the FFI timeloop; Lufenian shenanigans. I'm sure this will end well. Wait, "Garland" ran off ten years ago to fight Chaos And this is a timeloop Then Jack is Garland? Jack... becomes Chaos??  This loving gameNot sure where we're going to next, it looks mechanical. FFVIIland? I'll find out tomorrow.
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Sunken Shrine is the Junon Underwater Reactor, yeah
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I think I'm on the mission before that which is ronka ruins so obviously ffv. I am dumb. So I guess 5 and 7 are next. That leaves 6, 11, and 15.
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Breaker's incredibly satisfying since you get to just Odin things. Sage is pretty cool too and waaay good.
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Honestly the thing I enjoy most about Sage is smacking things upside the head with a club God drat is that weapon that just feels RIGHT
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How could I forget, Jack interrupting Lich's monologue with "I don't give a gently caress" is just 
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Tyrant was my personal fav tier 3 job because it's Mystic Knight and Monk smashed together into one super-cool package.
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FrostyPox posted:How could I forget, Jack interrupting Lich's monologue with "I don't give a gently caress" is just
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Scalding Coffee posted:Lich no-sells it like he is a God Hand from
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zack’s VA sounds like he has a ping pong ball jammed up each nostril, I hate this
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Oxxidation posted:zack’s VA sounds like he has a ping pong ball jammed up each nostril, I hate this It's really bad but I'm loving evening else about the game. Very repetitive but not bothering me yet.
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Yeah...I do think the sheer amount of hate for the voice actor is uncalled for, but I have to say compared to the previous voice actor he isn't quite up to par.
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zacks new voice is... shockingly okay? seriously confused why I keep seeing people slam it so hard.
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FrostyPox posted:For the FFXV DLCs, does Comrades have anything plot relevant or can I skip it? It takes place when Noctis was still in the crystal doing his time skip. In the movie, a part of the king's elite guard the Kingsglaive rebelled and you are now playing as the new members of the Kingsglaive waiting for Noctis to return.
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Even if you don't actually play past the tutorial, it's worth opening Comrades at least once (Spoilers for FFXV Royal Edition content): One of the sidequests in the City ruins has you party up with a random Glaive, and if you have Comrades save data, it's your created Glaive from that game that you party up with.
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DanielCross posted:Even if you don't actually play past the tutorial, it's worth opening Comrades at least once (Spoilers for FFXV Royal Edition content): One of the sidequests in the City ruins has you party up with a random Glaive, and if you have Comrades save data, it's your created Glaive from that game that you party up with. Oh that's cool. I already finished XV's main story though so I'm just going to do the DLCs for story reasons. If I play XV's base game again I'll do it then, but for now I'll just do the Episode: Bros stuff. Especially cuz I uninstalled so I'd have to play the entire game again. After I finish SoP and Type-0 though.
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Vitamean posted:zacks new voice is... shockingly okay? seriously confused why I keep seeing people slam it so hard. When he's more subdued and serious it's fine but when he's supposed to be more animated he sounds so nasally I hate it. He is also a much worse actor than Rick Gomez. Some of his delivery is just so flat in the clips I've seen. The dialogue in the game is truly atrocious but Rick made it work much better. I don't like being a hater, I think people generally should just dip out and not engage with media they don't like, but Crisis Core makes me a hater. Them downgrading so hard on the only good part of the original game, Zack's VA, just kills me. It also fills me with dread for what they're going to do with Zack in the next parts of Remake.
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rick gomez always brings 100% to every role and that's hard to match
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I think Rick Gomez was a MAGA chud/COVID denier/anti-vaxxer so I’m ok with them replacing him tbh
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:I think Rick Gomez was a MAGA chud/COVID denier/anti-vaxxer so I’m ok with them replacing him tbh Cloud's old VA is an anti-vaxxer I think. And Cloud's Japanese voice actor was apparently cheating on his wife for like 10 years with his assistant or something. Just a fun fact.
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i’d also heard that Caleb Pierce (Zack’s new VA) was an evangelical nut, but he’s a non-entity so I’m not able to confirm either way can’t act to save his life though
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