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 imagine playing a game, seeing that you get to play as this, and thinking its a downgrade
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What do these titles do in Tales of the Abyss? Like, both my characters have them, and Tear just got a 2nd, but it doesn't look like they affect stats, and changing Tear's title didn't trigger any new event scenes or anything. The game didn't offer a tutorial on them when she got the 2nd one, so I'm a bit confused.
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Apr 22, 2024 15:25
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The real downgrade is when you unlock the next form and it has better stats but no faces in cutscenes.
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Apr 22, 2024 15:26
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Annath posted:What do these titles do in Tales of the Abyss? IIRC they're just achievements from before the achievement era. It's only in later games that they start doing things?
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Apr 22, 2024 15:27
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Clarste posted:IIRC they're just achievements from before the achievement era. It's only in later games that they start doing things? That's what I thought too, but I found a list of some titles in Abyss that show bizarre bonuses, like "heal 2% of hp if you stand still for 15 seconds in battle".
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Apr 22, 2024 15:33
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titles are 90% aesthetic in games that aren't tales of graces. there's some games where they give you passive stat ups but in symphonia/abyss/vesperia you're mostly going to be thinking about them for costume titles that change appearance, the passives you get from some of them aren't particularly important. in tales of rebirth they just made all those passives apply regardless of what title is equipped which i think was the best approach to that system
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Apr 22, 2024 15:35
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Morpheus posted:the combat is kinda just picking things from a list so that they overlap without any knowledge of why I would want to pick one thing over another. It has all the normal stuff going on underneath the hood. Attacks can be blunt, slash, pierce, etc. Enemies will be weak to various types. Then you have the SaGa specific stuff with interrupts, counters, etc. A lot of this stuff is cover in the notes section in the game. Going for combos/showstoppers is going to be the main thing though. The tricky part is just how that layers with the enemies going for their own combos and showstoppers, and like all these other conditional mechanics.
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Apr 22, 2024 15:36
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I love the sad scottish can of beans
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Apr 22, 2024 15:36
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Annath posted:What do these titles do in Tales of the Abyss? Some titles have cool effects (Anise's Mini Maven is basically amazing), some will give you costumes, some are basically so minuscule it does not matter
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Apr 22, 2024 15:38
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Also spare yourself a massive headache and look up a sidequest guide because some of the opportunity windows for these are just comically short. Like a five minute visit in town where you only see one screen short
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Apr 22, 2024 15:39
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The Emerald demo did gave the impression that the game is going to be easier than Scarlet Graces which I am a bit bum by but its probably a good thing considering how many people were absolutely destroyed by boar hell in Urpina's story lol. Hopefully difficulty ramps up throughout.
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Apr 22, 2024 15:43
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Snooze Cruise posted:bad taste! I have good taste, I want to play the cool woman and not the sad can
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Apr 22, 2024 15:44
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The Chairman posted:I have good taste, I want to play the cool woman and not the sad can look at this doofus not respecting the body autonomy of diva no. 5
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Apr 22, 2024 15:45
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Snooze Cruise posted:look at this doofus not respecting the body autonomy of diva no. 5 To be fair that is the plot of her story
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Apr 22, 2024 15:47
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I kind of roll my eyes when I see a game with "Choices Matter" as one of the tags on Steam. Like what does that even mean? That the game reacts to the dialogue options you pick? I dunno, I guess that reactivity in an RPG is still a novelty to some gamers?
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Apr 22, 2024 15:50
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ImpAtom posted:To be fair that is the plot of her story oh i see... the chairman is roleplaying :O
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Apr 22, 2024 15:50
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I have until July to beat the second half of CS4 and Reverie...I don't know if I can make it...
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Apr 22, 2024 15:54
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I liked PS demo guy's interactions in the witch world. He seems like a nice doofus. Plus he's voiced by the guy who did Partitio so that's cool.
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Apr 22, 2024 15:54
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why play saga if you don't want a character who's just a strange beingVargatron posted:I kind of roll my eyes when I see a game with "Choices Matter" as one of the tags on Steam. Like what does that even mean? That the game reacts to the dialogue options you pick? I dunno, I guess that reactivity in an RPG is still a novelty to some gamers? those tags are community set so if there's anything that doesn't make sense, it's because the system is not set up for these to make sense
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Apr 22, 2024 15:55
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The Colonel posted:why play saga if you don't want a character who's just a strange being oh okay, that makes more sense.
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Apr 22, 2024 15:56
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Yeah when I see Choices Matter I have the expectation of like, this is going to resemble a CYOA in some respects. But community tags are useless so....
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Apr 22, 2024 15:57
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Yeah most Steam tags are Byzantine memes and injokes. So like, any given tag is probably sarcastic.
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Apr 22, 2024 15:57
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the bridget dlc on steam is tagged 'psychological horror'
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Apr 22, 2024 15:59
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The Colonel posted:why play saga if you don't want a character who's just a strange being see, here's the thing: I think "cool Scottish singing idol robot" is a cool strange being, and then the game is like "no you're going to get sad monotone workerbot instead" and I'm sure that's also a cool strange being but it's not the one the game was setting me up for, and it's a disappointment because I like cool singing characters in games
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Apr 22, 2024 16:20
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Endorph posted:abyss, xillia, and berseria are the good ones that are closest to symphonia. if i had to start with one, abyss would have the least new QoL features and the like bc it's older right?
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Apr 22, 2024 16:28
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umN7YOsmGl4&t=33s Singing characters you say?
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Apr 22, 2024 16:28
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94% map completion in unicorn overlord... I think I can finish before Emerald Saga, whew. This last stretch of Unicorn feels like a victory lap though, I think I've drag clicked 3 squads across the map for the last 5 fights like a late stage Starcraft zergling horde.
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Apr 22, 2024 16:30
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Ibram Gaunt posted:I have until July to beat the second half of CS4 and Reverie...I don't know if I can make it... I believe in you 
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Ibram Gaunt posted:I have until July to beat the second half of CS4 and Reverie...I don't know if I can make it... I’m just content knowing I will always be at least 3 games behind. Especially considering I had to play the Crossbell arc this year now that it exists in English officially.
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Does the next trails game end in a giant cliffhanger like the first game of an arc tends to?
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Wait, the cool Scottish singing robot lady from the Steam demo isn't who actually joins you? I admit I haven't played the demo yet beyond checking out the English VA because it was hilarious.
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GrandpaPants posted:Does the next trails game end in a giant cliffhanger like the first game of an arc tends to? Nope, both it and the game after it end with questions but without cliffhangers
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mycot posted:Yeah most Steam tags are Byzantine memes and injokes. So like, any given tag is probably sarcastic. All touhou games are tagged "faith" which is funny to me. Also like two non-touhou religious games that didn't get the memo.
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The Chairman posted:see, here's the thing: I think "cool Scottish singing idol robot" is a cool strange being, and then the game is like "no you're going to get sad monotone workerbot instead" and I'm sure that's also a cool strange being but it's not the one the game was setting me up for, and it's a disappointment because I like cool singing characters in games To be fair I think being disappointed that the cool Scottish lady robot gets rebooted, directionless and purposeless and jumps into a retro Game Boy SaGa mech suit is kinda meant to suck and motivate you to fix said situation. Or at least, I felt more motivated than with the goals of most SaGa protagonists I’ve played so far.
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Trails from Zero had cliffhanger hooks but also ended a nice self contained narrative tbh.
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Annath posted:Wait, the cool Scottish singing robot lady from the Steam demo isn't who actually joins you? She is a main character but she loses her body early in the game, replacing it with one she found in a scrap heap. Her gameplay gimmick is switching her body though, so I assume you'll get the diva one back by the end. She stays Scottish even in her new body.
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Annath posted:Wait, the cool Scottish singing robot lady from the Steam demo isn't who actually joins you? Her story is that she sings a forbidden song and gets rebooted to factory settings, only without the ability to sing, despite being a singing robot, leaving her despondent and purposeless. She then gets recognized by people from when she was still a celebrity and hops into a retro tin can robot so as not to draw attention to herself. Not really a spoiler because you don’t even get to do any gameplay before all that plays out. edit: beaten
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Radia posted:if i had to start with one, abyss would have the least new QoL features and the like bc it's older right? It has Free Run, which will feel like a godsend if your last reference point is Symphonia. I don't think it's too lacking in QoL outside the main huge one of having asinine quest triggers, but Vesperia is as bad or worse about that.
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I'll have to actually play the game to see if I like BeanBot.
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Diva 5's entire thing is that she swaps robot bodies and she is extremely Scottish in each one.
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