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Dec 27, 2022 18:06
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ManSedan posted:lettuce all remember the sacred rule of the something awful final fantasy thread on the something awful forums: Every Final Fantasy is good, except for your personal favorite, which is bad and I will list the reasons why:
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Dec 27, 2022 18:17
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Every Final Fantasy game ruined the series.
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Dec 27, 2022 20:16
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Fat and Useless posted:Everything kinda unlocks at once and I don't know how possible it is to turn off expansions anymore. A lot of the big quality of life improvements come from doing the capstone to the game which you can do alongside the rest of the game in bits and pieces. They don’t even have console versions anymore. Its more that playonline is a giant boondoggle they’d have to rewrite in order to join subs or try to make it f2p.
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Dec 27, 2022 20:22
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jokes posted:FFXV’s magic system was just vancian casting. I've been replaying 15 on PC, and the magic isn't quite as bad as I remembered. You end up with quite a few slots and can absorb more magic pretty easily. You're encouraged to use the magic you have just so you can free up slots to use up the resources you've gathered naturally through camping, using the Engine Blades, etc. It's also pretty cool looking. I like how the ice magic leaves everything coated in frost. I basically use magic anytime a fight seems like it might be annoying (like against those mindflayer guys). I think my main gripe with the combat is the way you can spam potions (which are super cheap and heal 50% HP so they never become weaker). I guess they wanted it to be possible to beat while blindly attacking things.
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Dec 27, 2022 20:58
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Those octopath games feel like the story was written by an AI chat bot.
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Dec 27, 2022 21:27
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On account of this thread, I actually started replaying XV for the first time since 2016 vanilla. I never experienced any of the patches after day one. Literally only 2 hours in and I feel like there’s already tiny bits and pieces that weren’t there before, mainly incidental dialogue and some QOL improvements.
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Dec 27, 2022 21:43
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Ytlaya posted:I've been replaying 15 on PC, and the magic isn't quite as bad as I remembered. You end up with quite a few slots and can absorb more magic pretty easily. You're encouraged to use the magic you have just so you can free up slots to use up the resources you've gathered naturally through camping, using the Engine Blades, etc. Mixing in XP-modifying items into the magic is a pretty effective way to way over level yourself for some of the post game hunts.
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Dec 27, 2022 22:25
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Dawgstar posted:I hope that means the Octopath 2 characters will interact. That put me off the first game, which was fine mechanically and I liked the individual stories but you'd have things like Therion going "I work alone!" and then proceeds to mutely join a group of randos. I believe the trailer actually said they'd have interactions. So there's that. That gives hope that they're actually addressing the problems with the game, but it's impossible to tell if they also fixed the problem of 'they put all the actually interesting story into a bullshit-hard postgame that I suspect a lot of people never found, let alone beat'. Both Bravely and Octopath are in that field of 'a sequel could fix all these problems', but given Bravely's been in that spot for three games and arguably only gotten worse, I'm not the most confident. They'd still be producing solidly 'worth playing' games no matter what, but they're thoroughly mid despite clearly having all the ingredients and capacity to be better. They don't need to be more expensive or less turn-based--hell, the battle systems for both are basically perfect--they just need to be braver. And Agents Are Go is still, no matter what, going to complain that I dared have a remotely negative opinion. Cleretic fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Dec 27, 2022 |
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Dec 27, 2022 23:23
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I knew Cid Aulstyne sounded familiar, it's Steven Blum who has been in *checks notes* everything
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Dec 28, 2022 00:14
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Cleretic posted:Both Bravely and Octopath are in that field of 'a sequel could fix all these problems', but given Bravely's been in that spot for three games and arguably only gotten worse, I'm not the most confident. They'd still be producing solidly 'worth playing' games no matter what, but they're thoroughly mid despite clearly having all the ingredients and capacity to be better. They don't need to be more expensive or less turn-based--hell, the battle systems for both are basically perfect--they just need to be braver. I still maintain that the Bravely game with the best overall design was Four Heroes of Light.
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Dec 28, 2022 00:30
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Bravely Second is one of my favorite JRPGs of all time. It's a shame they gave Bravely Default II to a less experienced team rather than continuing with that design trajectory. 4 Heroes of Light had some very cool ideas, but I don't like how much of the game you spend with a split party, and I don't like the level scaling.
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Dec 28, 2022 00:45
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FrostyPox posted:I knew Cid Aulstyne sounded familiar, it's Steven Blum who has been in *checks notes* everything Wow I thought he was like 60 now
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Dec 28, 2022 02:05
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Nyaawn posted:Wow I thought he was like 60 now he is, but he still takes on the occasional role. guy loves to work
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Dec 28, 2022 02:07
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He was in Neon White this year too.
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Dec 28, 2022 02:44
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And Wolverine in Midnight Suns, but they shelled out for the vocal talent.
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Dec 28, 2022 02:53
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WoFF: This is great, they're just throwin' FF characters at me. I'm 99% sure Vivi's VA was also an actor for that old Rugrats cartoon. We're going to Big Bridge, can't wait to fight good ol' Greg EDIT: Yep, Vivi's VA was also in Rugrats, Kath Soucie FrostyPox fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Dec 28, 2022 |
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Dec 28, 2022 03:08
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My favorite FF VA detail is that Jecht shares one with Grimlock, Odie, and Cornfed.
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Dec 28, 2022 03:44
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Keromaru5 posted:My favorite FF VA detail is that Jecht shares one with Grimlock, Odie, and Cornfed. I knew him first as The Gromble!
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Dec 28, 2022 03:47
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Cleretic posted:And Agents Are Go is still, no matter what, going to complain that I dared have a remotely negative opinion. Not true. I could complain about something else.  It's not the fact that you have negative opinions, it's that you seem personally offended by the fact that Final Fantasy games aren't crafted as bespoke artifacts fitting what you think they should be. I don't even mind turn-based games, and if returning to turn-based let Square-Enix make more than two mainline entries per decade I'd be all for it. It does seem that it's harder to make a fair challenge with turn-based battles, without making the game insanely overtuned (Lunar SSSC) or just kick-me-in-the-dick hard (Legend of Legaia.)
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Dec 28, 2022 03:57
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I thought Legend of Legaia was made to give half the xp and gold per encounter when ported overseas.
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Dec 28, 2022 04:39
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Gideon Emery just popped up in Tactics Ogre and I was immediately like  it's balthier
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Dec 28, 2022 04:43
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On the topic of voice actors and Final Fantasy I laughed when I found out the guy who voices Ardyn also voices J. Jonah Jameson in the new Spider-man games.
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Dec 28, 2022 04:58
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Dec 28, 2022 05:03
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Diofield Chronicles is pretty good
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Dec 28, 2022 05:32
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Lol
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Dec 28, 2022 05:56
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Scalding Coffee posted:I thought Legend of Legaia was made to give half the xp and gold per encounter when ported overseas. Even if you doubled xp and gold, the game is brutal just on a turn-to-turn basis - random enemies take huge chunks of health out of you with every hit.
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Dec 28, 2022 06:51
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the subgenre of wizardry-descended dungeon crawlers like etrian odyssey tend to do an okay job with hard-but-fair
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Dec 28, 2022 07:48
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The Omniscient fight in Fork Tower was hilarious. He kept using Return every time I got close to beating him.
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Dec 28, 2022 19:44
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Detective No. 27 posted:The Omniscient fight in Fork Tower was hilarious. He kept using Return every time I got close to beating him. If that's from FF5 the simplest solution is to not use a non magic command, as that's what triggers Return. Absolute easiest method is wear a reflect ring or spam reflect on everyone and just let Omniscient kill himself on you while you read a book or something.
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Dec 28, 2022 20:25
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Yeah, the flaw with that was that I went up the left fork first and was unable to readjust the equipment on that duo since he was the second fight. I eventually got him after a bit.
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Dec 28, 2022 20:29
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Gaia does not count as magic.
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Dec 28, 2022 20:30
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Mustached Demon posted:Gaia does not count as magic. Evergreen: 
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Dec 28, 2022 20:45
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e: beaten
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Dec 28, 2022 20:46
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Detective No. 27 posted:Yeah, the flaw with that was that I went up the left fork first and was unable to readjust the equipment on that duo since he was the second fight. I eventually got him after a bit. That must've been rough! Honestly I don't think I've ever done that fight legitimately, it's always been reflect ring and read a book. Then again I've also only ever beaten FF5 during the Fiesta. For some reason I just can't finish it unless I'm artificially limiting my options.
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Dec 28, 2022 20:56
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I just finished Chained Echoes and it had the effect of making me want to play FF12 again. What are some of the best mods for a different experience this time around?
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Dec 28, 2022 21:02
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Lets not forget you can magically compel Omniscient to a fist fight.
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Dec 28, 2022 21:07
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I haven’t beaten FFV yet, just beat the Fork Tower so I’m close to the end. But I’m amused at the contrast between Golbez and Exdeath. Golbez is a slave to his darkness. He weaponized his own guilt against Kain to make him his own puppet. He’s very similar to Darth Vader. There’s a lot going on. Exdeath feels like a tokusatsu villain in contrast. He has a duel with a turtle and then afterward comically cackles as he unleashes his army of colorful monsters. This isn’t a complaint. A thin villain can be refreshing.
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Dec 28, 2022 21:07
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Exdeath is absolutely a saturday morning cartoon villain in the best way. Probably my favorite bad guy of any FF.
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Dec 28, 2022 21:18
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Detective No. 27 posted:I haven’t beaten FFV yet, just beat the Fork Tower so I’m close to the end. But I’m amused at the contrast between Golbez and Exdeath. He's got the Saturday morning cartoon villain origin story too: the typical ancient FF civilization took all their anger, hatred, sadness, etc and stuffed it in a tree.
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Dec 28, 2022 21:30
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