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Griever posted:I know I'm literally 4 years late here but Dissidia is amazing! I bought it when it came out and never touched it until now (I kinda forgot I had it). You should probably stop playing D1 now and just pick up 012, since it has all of the original content anyway, and you'd have to play through it to unlock everything. I will say that the 012 storyline is like... marginally less stupid than the OG stuff. I mean, the characters have an actual goal instead of just wandering around aimlessly talking about Why They Fight, so that's something. Griever posted:Definitely going to pick up Dissidia 012 after I finish it, assuming there's actually a decent amount of new content in there - is there? 
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TurnipFritter posted:You should probably stop playing D1 now and just pick up 012, since it has all of the original content anyway, and you'd have to play through it to unlock everything. I will say that the 012 storyline is like... marginally less stupid than the OG stuff. I mean, the characters have an actual goal instead of just wandering around aimlessly talking about Why They Fight, so that's something. To be fair, Bartz looks pretty drat good.
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Nov 7, 2012 05:23
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I don't have to redo sidequests too do I? That would stink. The only sidequests you'd have to redo are the ones with the Live Triggers you want to redo, but every sidequest with a Live Trigger that has a differing prize per attempt is easy. Also, I think the music is some of the best in the series.
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Been doing some playthroughs of FF4DS. Ran up to Lugae the first time and realized I had hosed up my augments. Restarted and I'm up to Astos. Man, I either had some serious nostalgia goggles on or this version seriously poo poo the bed. I don't mind the more hard-type feel or the encounter rate. The story still feels good and the characters are still some of the best in the series. But gently caress the battle mechanics.
I'm going to finish it out (whether I bother with the extra bosses is a maybe). But, yeah. I think most of the time I'd rather enjoy it if I could skip all the battles so I didn't have to see this annoying junk.
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Nov 7, 2012 21:32
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. Most self-buffs are worthless (Bluff/Darkness/Focus). Party based buffs (Protect/Shell) are really hit or miss. I'm starting to miss the whole buff/debuff mini-game of FFXIII.
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Azure_Horizon posted:The only sidequests you'd have to redo are the ones with the Live Triggers you want to redo, but every sidequest with a Live Trigger that has a differing prize per attempt is easy. I think the music is really bad. Oh bossfight? *some numetal rap rock song comes on* TIME TO GET PUMPED UP FOR THIS AWESOME FI- oh it's over. K. *some girl sings some indistinct song in the background that even after 20 hours you have no idea what she's saying* But you're basically saying when you redo a level, you can redo every single thing? I suppose that's nice but as long as it doesn't reset my fragments or something I don't really care. What do you get by getting 160 fragments anyways?
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Nov 8, 2012 02:44
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I think the music is really bad. Oh bossfight? *some numetal rap rock song comes on* TIME TO GET PUMPED UP FOR THIS AWESOME FI- oh it's over. K. An additional ending scene.
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Nov 8, 2012 02:56
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I think the music is really bad. Oh bossfight? *some numetal rap rock song comes on* TIME TO GET PUMPED UP FOR THIS AWESOME FI- oh it's over. K. Groups of fragments from certain timelines open up certain abilities such as improving the throwing of Mog or the fast-forward ability. It doesn't reset your fragments, just the plot, but you can skip all cutscenes from the onset anyway. So you can go back and take on Atlas, for example, mano-e-mano.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I think the music is really bad. Oh bossfight? *some numetal rap rock song comes on* TIME TO GET PUMPED UP FOR THIS AWESOME FI- oh it's over. K. It's true that that particular example was indeed pretty lovely, a few other stand-out as pretty bad, but the same can be said about any of the so called great OSTs. but poo poo like Eclipse, Missing link, Ruined Hometown, Parallel World, the list goes on are all loving awesome IMO I really feel like it was the first soundtrack since 10 that isn't completely boring, 12 probably would have been better if it didn't sound like it was recorded with my first microphone and played out of a Teddy Ruxpin, 13 was just the same rehash of the main theme over and over again which wasn't very good to begin with, although I'm certain my opinion on this is in the minority. As far as beating a boss in 5 seconds, that can happen since the game is so open ended you and definitely over level yourself without knowing, the first time I fought Caius I completely annihilated him. I guess I have bizarre taste in FF games though after all I'm a pretty big fan of both 8 and 12.
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I love Limit Break just because it's done by the guys who did Devil May Cry 3's theme song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roEyLnV8vp0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYajS9JXW-8 That being said, I agree with Azure Horizon, I love a lot of the music in FFXIII-2, especially some of the vocal stuff like Ruined Hometown, Worlds Collide, and Plains of Eternity. Also, every one of Caius' themes and Gilgamesh's theme are amazing.
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Nov 8, 2012 04:55
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I've never completed any game but ff13, I could never get into the others that much. It's really odd that I don't care about the grinding in DQ but in FF I have to trivialize the grinding out because it just distracts me from the story.
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Nov 8, 2012 07:38
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Sex_Ferguson posted:I love Limit Break just because it's done by the guys who did Devil May Cry 3's theme song. Plains of Eternity is the best guilty pleasure and my favorite dungeon BGM so far.
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Nov 8, 2012 08:42
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I finally started FFIX today properly after someone left the discs in my house over a decade ago. Is there anything I should know early on in the game? (Like how in 7 you should buy the gently caress out of grenades) From what I hear IX is a lot more laid back.
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Nov 8, 2012 19:39
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Steal once per battle, bosses,always carry good loot, play Chocobo hot & cold to get good equipment early. That's.basically it.
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Nov 8, 2012 19:47
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Teim posted:I finally started FFIX today properly after someone left the discs in my house over a decade ago. Is there anything I should know early on in the game? (Like how in 7 you should buy the gently caress out of grenades) Just enjoy the ride. It doesn't require any tricks or major grinding. Laid back is a good way to describe it.
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Nov 8, 2012 19:47
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Steal the gently caress out of everything. Repeatedly.
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Vil posted:Steal the gently caress out of everything. Repeatedly.
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Teim posted:I finally started FFIX today properly after someone left the discs in my house over a decade ago. Is there anything I should know early on in the game? (Like how in 7 you should buy the gently caress out of grenades) Okay, yeah, yeah, I know what you mean. 1) You'll outlevel enemies if you grind learning every ability as you get it if you're worried about difficulty. 2) All bosses have armor and weapons if you steal from them, and you can keep stealing from all enemies until you empty their inventories (most bosses have 2-4 items on them and you'll know they're out when Steal prompts you, "nothing to steal"). You can get some pretty great free poo poo from them, but don't go crazy over it until the third disc, where their steals start getting unique. You can buy pretty much everything you can steal on discs 1 and 2 if you're worried about not being able to get that veeeerrrrry laaaaast item. 3) There's a very early dungeon in the game that forces random encounters if you run through the mist as it blows over the walkways. This makes a lot of people perceive the rest of the game as having an obscenely high encounter rate. Don't be one of these people. 4) But seriously get some ganja or some beers. Or both
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50 hours into Final Fantasy XIII and no I don't have the slightest idea why there is suddenly a hovercar grand prix or why my guys are crashing it but drat if it isn't bloody spectacular. Think this one might genuinely be one of my favourite FF installments, all things considered.
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Nov 8, 2012 22:04
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Griever posted:Definitely going to pick up Dissidia 012 after I finish it, assuming there's actually a decent amount of new content in there - is there? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf5DTFUHPg0 What else could you possibly need?
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Dr Snofeld posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf5DTFUHPg0 More Gilgamesh. Thankfully, 012 has that covered, too.
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Not content with being the best character in his game of origin, Laguna goes on to be the best character in this game too. Laguna and Tifa being Team Dad and Team Mom respectively is fun, Vaan has more personality in the few minutes of cutscenes he has in this game than he did in the entirety of FFXII, Kain gets to do his whole brooding but misunderstood thing, and Gilgamesh owns. Duodecim impressed me.
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If only Laguna and Zack could hang out together...  Oh and thanks for the FFIX advice, it looks so much nicer on a modern screen.
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Well that video sold me on it, ordered! Lately between work and classes all I have time for is my trusty old PSP, this has saved me from having to resort to playing The 3rd Birthday on the bus  Other than the whole terrible story business I find it a little annoying that both Squall and Cloud take big unnecessary pauses in the middle of every sentence. It's like they can't get 6 words out without... having to stop for a breath like some mouth breather. Maybe it's just their way of replicating the "..." dialog that they both had in the original games. At least the gameplay is fun as hell.
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Griever posted:Well that video sold me on it, ordered! Lately between work and classes all I have time for is my trusty old PSP, this has saved me from having to resort to playing The 3rd Birthday on the bus You should never play 3rd Birthday anywhere ever.
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Griever posted:Other than the whole terrible story business I find it a little annoying that both Squall and Cloud take big unnecessary pauses in the middle of every sentence. It's like they can't get 6 words out without... having to stop for a breath like some mouth breather. Maybe it's just their way of replicating the "..." dialog that they both had in the original games. At least the gameplay is fun as hell. Cloud and Squall get much better about their mid-sentence pauses in 012, so that's one thing to look forward to I suppose. I absolutely hated that myself; Squall's I didn't notice so much but Cloud did it so often and in such utterly bizarre places, it made him sound like he forgot the back half of every sentence he spoke.
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ImpAtom posted:You should never play 3rd Birthday anywhere ever. I dunno, it's played more or less constantly in Hell.
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By the way, whoever did the voice for the guardian thing at the coliseum in FFXIII-2 is dreamy. I could listen to his voice all day long.
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Krad posted:By the way, whoever did the voice for the guardian thing at the coliseum in FFXIII-2 is dreamy. I could listen to his voice all day long. Steve Blum, aka Spike Spiegel, Vincent Valentine, and pretty much every other anime/videogame go-to voice god.
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I always thought Final Fantasy games were lacking in scenes where you run around like an idiot around town and yell like a loon, then I got to Bhujerba in XII.
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That city and that rear end in a top hat dinosaur outside the first city are the only parts of that game I actually remember
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My Lovely Horse posted:50 hours into Final Fantasy XIII and no I don't have the slightest idea why there is suddenly a hovercar grand prix or why my guys are crashing it but drat if it isn't bloody spectacular. It's pretty good.
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Sex_Ferguson posted:I love Limit Break just because it's done by the guys who did Devil May Cry 3's theme song. Ha, now that you say that there's no denying the DMCness of that track, every time I hear it now I'm gonna think of Dante wailing on an electric guitar while bats fly out. I wish I somehow had the power to edit this game, so that the "aggressive" versions of all the tracks would just keep playing while you're in a fight, then change back, would've been so much better than only getting to hear them for the 3 seconds between when enemies appear and battle begins. they're all very good, and completely wasted.
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TL posted:I always thought Final Fantasy games were lacking in scenes where you run around like an idiot around town and yell like a loon, then I got to Bhujerba in XII. Don't believe Ondore's lies! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSyfGm6wXgs
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I absolutely loathed FF13 but against all odds I'm actually enjoying FF13-2 a lot. I actually want to see how it ends.
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4000 Dollar Suit posted:I wish I somehow had the power to edit this game, so that the "aggressive" versions of all the tracks would just keep playing while you're in a fight, then change back, would've been so much better than only getting to hear them for the 3 seconds between when enemies appear and battle begins. they're all very good, and completely wasted. Man, that would be great. I love areas in RPGs where the area music keeps playing in battle without interruption, and this would be the next step from that.
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How do I get Yomi to show up? I've tried changing the weather a bunch of times but Tipur only ever says "THANKS now I can sleep soundly"
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Dalamud has landed in FF14, servers are down until the launch of 2.0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39j5v8jlndM And a brief but informative summary of the Dalamud storyline courtesy of Stu Foo: Stufoo posted:That was Louisoix. He is not considered human, as he is an archon, a benevolent incarnation of the twelve, Louisoix is specifically Thaliak, the Scholar. He was the one who knew what Dalamud was, a twelve-constructed prison for the Primal King Bahamut, when the Allagan civilization (now extinct) summoned them to help fight him in I think the 4th or 5th astral era. He was the one who got the entirety of Eorzea to pray to the twelve, summoning their power to try the second imprisonment after he broke out of the first (events in the trailer).
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zerox147o posted:Dalamud has landed in FF14, servers are down until the launch of 2.0. This looks rather neat and a great way to start over and have a goal for the players (You get sent forward in time after the end of the world/giant monster wrecking everyone to try and rebuild). Is Realm Reborn looking like it'll actually be fun to play though? I'm thinking about giving it a go.
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They were making a lot of positive changes as FF14 moved toward 2.0 that was supposed to lead into it, so maybe. At the very least it might behave like a real sequel to FF11 now rather than what it was. I'll probably end up resubbing with a friend if nothing else!
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