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Francois Kofko posted:Blitzball owns. It's also seriously boring.
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Head Hit Keyboard posted:Auron's was the only Sigil I got. All the others just seemed to be too much of a pain in the rear end at the time. Monster Arena. Yuna's was really easy, beat that summoner optional boss, and Rikkus wasn't that bad.
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Mar 22, 2013 21:37
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A lot of them weren't that bad, merely tedious. Then you had Kimahri's butterfly bullshit. Done it once, never doing it again.
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Mar 22, 2013 21:40
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Once again, my rundown on the Celestial Weapons: Tidus: Bullshit, but bearable if you go in with the mindset of "Eh, I'll get it eventually" rather than getting mad when you lose. Wakka: I enjoyed Blitzball, so this was fun for me. Rikku: I don't even remember this one, so it must not have been too terrible. Something to do with Cactaurs, I think. Kimahri: Meh. I have maps. It's not that hard. Auron: Tedious, but not bad otherwise. Yuna: They basically just hand you this one if you're diligent about getting all the summons. Lulu: 
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Mar 22, 2013 22:11
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Someone made a comparison screenshot for the FFX HD Collection versus uprendering to 720p with PCSX2. Uprendering to 720p with PCSX2  FFX HD Collection 
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Mar 22, 2013 23:32
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It looks like they're actually using higher-poly models. Nice to see they're putting more effort into it than the usual HD ports. They're doing something similar with Kingdom Hearts, using the high-poly models from KH3D.
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Mar 22, 2013 23:35
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I dig that, really, but Auron's higher-poly model looks off. It's his eyes: compare the upscaled one to the new one, you can actually see his eyes now. I dunno, I think it makes him give off another impression. I'm not complaining, mind you, these new models are really great overall.
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Mar 23, 2013 00:04
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A little off topic, but I'd like to thank whoever it was that suggested I get Tactics Ogre for the PSP. I picked it up today and I'm having a lot of fun with it, even if I don't completely understand the mechanics of classes and skills yet.
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Mar 23, 2013 00:08
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Twelve by Pies posted:A little off topic, but I'd like to thank whoever it was that suggested I get Tactics Ogre for the PSP. I picked it up today and I'm having a lot of fun with it, even if I don't completely understand the mechanics of classes and skills yet. Check in to the ongoing LP thread to find some active players (or ask here, I'm sure there's some crossover of fans). You can't mess anything up (I mean you really can't mess anything up), so just play at your own pace. On top of rewinding in combat, you can literally rewind time after you beat the game and explore any branch or path in the storyline. It's pretty awesome. There are some useful cheats to make crafting bearable, I posted them in the LP thread.
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Mar 23, 2013 00:20
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Zombies' Downfall posted:The first time I beat FF8 I ground to like 60 on Disc 1 and 100 by the end of Disc 2, and I can attest that for the most part it doesn't actually make anything difficult (and does in fact trivialize almost every boss fight) save for one super obnoxious issue: the level cap being 100 means that when your whole party hits the level cap, Level 5 Death becomes a 100% instant KO on everyone unless you've got some specific precaution against it.
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Mar 23, 2013 00:32
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So how exactly does one accumulate AP/DP/whatever for abilities in FFX-2? At first I thought it was just killing enemies but then I learned something in the middle of the giant crab boss fight and I'm just confused.
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Mar 23, 2013 00:39
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:So how exactly does one accumulate AP/DP/whatever for abilities in FFX-2? At first I thought it was just killing enemies but then I learned something in the middle of the giant crab boss fight and I'm just confused. You earn it by both defeating enemies and using abilities.
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Terper posted:I dig that, really, but Auron's higher-poly model looks off. It's his eyes: compare the upscaled one to the new one, you can actually see his eyes now. I dunno, I think it makes him give off another impression. It's not just his eyes. For one, his sleeve seems to have LESS detail in the higher-poly model (the straps are just painted on now). Also, his coat is just generally brighter, as opposed to the road-worn kinda dirty look he had going before. Everything besides Auron looks pretty good, though (not enough for me to ever play through it and deal with the loving minigames again, of course). Edit: ZenMasterBullshit posted:So how exactly does one accumulate AP/DP/whatever for abilities in FFX-2? At first I thought it was just killing enemies but then I learned something in the middle of the giant crab boss fight and I'm just confused. Using actual abilities (not "Fight" or "Item" or the like) gets points also. It's typically easier to master classes like mages that use abilities than it is to master jobs like Fighter or especially Berserker that just hit things. Hell, you could just spam "Pray" in battle forever to master a job. Schwartzcough fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Mar 23, 2013 |
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Mar 23, 2013 00:44
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Azure_Horizon posted:It's also seriously boring. Yeah, I never understood why everyone was so hype about it. It was grindy and clunky. Then again, I don't understand why people like Soccer/Fútbol either.
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ShadeofDante posted:So based on the sales of FF:D and the fact it seems generally well received, anyone else hope that team is allowed to make more spin off FF games? From the look of the FF5 remake I'd be surprised if they aren't the ones porting it to mobile. I just hope they aren't redoing the script. FFD was a fun game but the writing was unforgivably terrible and they'd butcher FF5 to the point of having people yearn for the days of Y-BURNS.
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Mar 23, 2013 05:10
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Atma Weapons will always be cooler than Ultima Weapons 
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Mar 23, 2013 07:54
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I always call it Atma Weapon in that game, it just seems wrong otherwise. But the FF5 GBA translation is miles above the other versions. There's really no argument, unless you like Time Magic being 'translated' as Jinruykuu or whatever.
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Evil Fluffy posted:From the look of the FF5 remake I'd be surprised if they aren't the ones porting it to mobile. I don't know, I'm starting to think Salsa the Pirate Impersonator wasn't all that bad. Sure, the enemy translations are horrible (Soccer) and the pirate speak gets grating as hell at times, but it's worth it for those inopportune moments when Faris speaking like an idiot makes the entire scene hilarious, like so (FF5 spoilers).
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Mar 23, 2013 11:20
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Personaly, I'd be cool with them keeping the Advance script if only because it knew drat well that FF5 didn't take itself all that seriously at the best of times.
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Elec posted:I finished 9 for the first time last night. That was incredible, and a lot of fun. I told myself I wasn't going to bother with tedious sidequests and was just going to sort of plow through, but after looking up one thing in a walkthrough early on I just decided to follow it exactly, doing every dumb side thing, and had a lot of fun doing it. (Didn't bother with Ozma though) Probably cut my total time down by a few hours too, which is good considering my dumb plan to marathon the series again starting with games I haven't played yet. The mechanics are fairly easy to understand once you're in the game. I had OCD about drawing, had to draw from every enemy and get 100 of every magic just to have 100 of every magic even if I didn't need it for junctioning.  Doing it that way makes most combat pretty easy. The things you would need a guide for are to make sure you don't miss a summon so any guide will do. effectual posted:My first playthrough I leveled a bunch and was getting murdered by random encounters. Next game I kept levels low, til I was going to fight Omega, then I used Cactuar's stat boosts and powerlevelled all 6 of my chars, especially so my 3 without GF's could make it to the Omega trigger. Jumbo Cactuar rules. I think this would only happen if you leveled a ton but didn't also draw millions of magic as you went along for junctioning.
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How if the flying gently caress am I supposed to be these High Score for the Gunner's Gauntlet. Every loving time I get to a high chain bonus the targeting system just plain forgets to mention there's two targets there so I don't use my dual ammo and then suddenly BAM lovely wolf just hits me and then there goes my score.
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:How if the flying gently caress am I supposed to be these High Score for the Gunner's Gauntlet. Every loving time I get to a high chain bonus the targeting system just plain forgets to mention there's two targets there so I don't use my dual ammo and then suddenly BAM lovely wolf just hits me and then there goes my score. There's a blind spot under the last waterfall on the long winding map, and as long as you stay next to the fence, the monsters never hit you. It's cheesing it, but gunner's gauntlet is terribly boring anyway.
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Systematic System posted:There's a blind spot under the last waterfall on the long winding map, and as long as you stay next to the fence, the monsters never hit you. It's cheesing it, but gunner's gauntlet is terribly boring anyway. Great, Fantastic. Time to cheese this. Thanks
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Mega64 posted:I don't know, I'm starting to think Salsa the Pirate Impersonator wasn't all that bad. Sure, the enemy translations are horrible (Soccer) and the pirate speak gets grating as hell at times, but it's worth it for those inopportune moments when Faris speaking like an idiot makes the entire scene hilarious I don't know, I'm really fond of the RPGe translation. Always heard it called bland and such, but I think it does a lot of things in a lot of the right ways. The GBA translation wasn't bad at all, though.
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The GBA translation features a snarky turtle that mocks the hero's intelligence at every opportunity. It could gently caress up the rest of the translation (yet it doesn't), and I'd still love it for that alone.
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Vil posted:The GBA translation features a snarky turtle that mocks the hero's intelligence at every opportunity. It could gently caress up the rest of the translation (yet it doesn't), and I'd still love it for that alone. To wit. (Alternatively, there's this one.)
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You guys are making me increasingly mad that I broke my DSi and my XL can't play my GBA copy  I'll never beat FF5 :<
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Miracon posted:Someone made a comparison screenshot for the FFX HD Collection versus uprendering to 720p with PCSX2. Good to see the tit budget (budgtit? no?) was well spent. They are actually round now! No, but seriously, drat those are some nice models there. I hope they made the animations better too.
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Whoever brought up Four Job Fiesta in here previously already has me pumped up for it. So much so that I just ordered a SFC copy of FF5. This year, gonna do it right. 
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iastudent posted:Whoever brought up Four Job Fiesta in here previously already has me pumped up for it. So much so that I just ordered a SFC copy of FF5. I still remember meeting a friends college roommate and watching him play FF5 and 6 with giant pile of dot matrix paper beside him - a translation (he also turned out to be a loving weirdo, but I don't think that's related)
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Kyrosiris posted:To wit.  Sometimes you can just tell when someone has fun doing what they do.
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Wrong.  I love this hack.
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I don't think it's possible to express in words how much I hate Alba. Jesus christ.
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Kyrosiris posted:I don't think it's possible to express in words how much I hate Alba. Jesus christ. She's a psychopath. Her reactions to things are pure snark and sarcasm no matter what is happening or how dire. It's awful. She reminds me of the "funny" Hawke responses from DA2, like they made a character just out of those.
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Levantine posted:She's a psychopath. Her reactions to things are pure snark and sarcasm no matter what is happening or how dire. It's awful. She reminds me of the "funny" Hawke responses from DA2, like they made a character just out of those. Yeah, she's had exactly one line that I thought was not awful, and it's a throwback to another game. (This one, but it has visual lategame spoilers)
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I love sarcastic characters but there needs to be some logical thread holding them together and a character underneath all the snark, not just 'bratty teenager who's really annoyed at their mom.'
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The more I play Dimensions the more I absolutely love it. It really, truly is an Old School FF game through and through. There are some dumb moments (all of Alba's) and some of the random townspeople dilaog are very meme-y (an honest to god 'arrow to the knee' NPC, christ) but the game is excellent. The story is directly from that era, the gameplay is basically V on steriods. The music is really nice and the monster sprites range from good to pretty badass. I hope we get to see more like it.
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I wish it was on other platforms - I really don't want to play an FF game on my phone, it's just not comfortable for that sort of play 
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victrix posted:I wish it was on other platforms - I really don't want to play an FF game on my phone, it's just not comfortable for that sort of play Yeah, I would have preferred it on a game console but it plays relatively well on a tablet. I prefer actual buttons and d-pads though. I hope that Squareenix devotes some resources to stuff like this and lets the teams that do it well just do it. I miss old school FF and Dimensions really fills that void. They need to do more of it.
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Here's the X/X-2 HD trailer for anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85uwJr5M2n0 Looks like we are getting a good Final Fantasy for PS3 after all.
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