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Endorph posted:You're mixing up two things. He did complete the translation, but it was never released. The PS1 translation is a new translation, not Woolsey's. We'll probably never see Woolsey's FFV translation. Ah, my bad, my bad. And more on recent-topic, I always find the most useful FF spells are the second-tier elementals, a la Fira and Thundara. They usually come around at a point in FF games where they are just super.
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Pyroxene Stigma posted:After thinking on it for a day, I agree with the poster that said it's best experienced in a Let's Play. The platforming that stops responding while the game loads a random battle is loving. infuriating. Booky posted:Oh, and to keep things on topic, what's everyone's favorite magic spells? I'm a big fan of Ultima. Paperhouse fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Apr 3, 2013 |
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Paperhouse posted:It's been a while but I only remember one annoying platforming bit (Tower of Babel) which is nothing in a 50 hour game. And it wasn't even that bad anyway, the sewers were way worse as infuriating dungeons go. Babel was my only roadblock in that entire game (well, that and getting the Trader Card from Hammer, but that's my own fault for trying) and only because the RNG ticks while you're jumping to prevent you from never getting random encounters by jumping all the time, and the only reason I cleared it in only half an hour is because I was playing it on an iMac that spun the disc up in that loud-rear end iMac drive whenever an encounter was loading so I knew when not to jump. I know the exact jump everyone's talking about, too, and I empathize even though I got through fairly unscathed thanks to my unfair advantage. That whole area's just a loving disaster in bad game design. XG's encounter rate never did it any favors. Fur20 fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Apr 3, 2013 |
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Booky posted:Oh, and to keep things on topic, what's everyone's favorite magic spells? I'm a big fan of Ultima. Paperhouse is right with spells like Haste and Berserk. What's better than spending a little MP for a massive gain? Blue Magic counts? White Wind is ridiculous, and Big Guard is almost better. For all two of you that have played FF XI, nothing is more satisfying than your first time as a Black Mage getting a massive fuckoff Ancient Magic spell, holding your breath as the casting bar takes an hour to fill (probably less than 30 seconds, but it's tense) and then you just see the enemy's HP drop to nothing.
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I have honestly never had trouble with the Tower of Babel platforming. By the time you get there, you're well used to the awful random-encounter-during-jump phenomenon, and if you're playing it on a ps1 the disc makes noises before every battle so that you can expect it. The sewer is worse to me as a dungeon because it is a boring dungeon that can really cause first-timers to get lost smack in the middle of the most long and boring segment of the entire game. The whole D-Block fiasco is something that I always dread (but has somehow become more bearable in recent playthroughs).
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Level 5 Death, combined with other tools for manipulating enemy level, makes combat charmingly abstract.
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Pyroxene Stigma posted:Blue Magic counts? I'm dumb about magic, I like anything that looks pretty. Grand Train, Meteo... oh, Aqualung and Magic Breath are also pretty great. And Virus, that one always sounded awesome and I like the color green. The Thunder family is always nice, too, and the pre-FF8 Ice family spells are also usually good stuff. No Ultima, incidentally, because that's a pretty plain and boring-looking spell. I'm not big on support magic on account of being a brute-forcing lazyass, so the fact that I'm ignoring usefulness really shouldn't come as a surprise.
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It's hard to like a spell better than Haste. Best spell, always. Even in the rare games where it sucks.
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The White Dragon posted:on account of being a brute-forcing lazyass This is *so* me. Why bother going through menus and wasting MP when there's that big ol' FIGHT command staring you down? Got a mage character with no strength? Too bad, they're using FIGHT.
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I don't like using any spells that aren't heals in any FF that isn't 13 because I might need all that mp later! FIGHT is good enough to win fights. That's what it's there for, after all. I play any game with mana like a total cheapskate. The real answer is the spire Frog/Crono dual tech from Chrono Trigger. Not the best spell, but it was cool, and that's what matters. It also had a more unique animation instead of just two spells cast at once or rotating tetrahedrons. chumbler fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Apr 3, 2013 |
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Blind the Thief posted:This is *so* me. Why bother going through menus and wasting MP when there's that big ol' FIGHT command staring you down? Got a mage character with no strength? Too bad, they're using FIGHT. I'm kinda like that too.  Even White Mages get to attack! It's like a big party!
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Booky posted:Even White Mages get to attack! It's like a big party! I'm still big on burning my MP. It's the one resource I never really cared about because when I was a kid, wizards were the best things ever and why would you waste that awesome role by not using magic at every single opportunity? now sorcerers and sages are the best, gently caress those ivory tower assholes who say not to use magic to light blunts. they only say that because they have to give up a 0-level spell slot for spark anyway Fur20 fucked around with this message at 06:36 on Apr 3, 2013 |
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Blind the Thief posted:I have honestly never had trouble with the Tower of Babel platforming. By the time you get there, you're well used to the awful random-encounter-during-jump phenomenon, and if you're playing it on a ps1 the disc makes noises before every battle so that you can expect it. The sewer is worse to me as a dungeon because it is a boring dungeon that can really cause first-timers to get lost smack in the middle of the most long and boring segment of the entire game. The whole D-Block fiasco is something that I always dread (but has somehow become more bearable in recent playthroughs). Tower of Babel is nothing but predetermined encounters from bottom to top because of all the platforming, they just made the mistake of triggering them too close to jumps and catching people off guard while they loaded. Nortune sewers get a lot more bearable once you learn how to read the map. It's actually a pretty good place to grind some levels and deathblows.
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The White Dragon posted:Magic Breath ... pretty great. Somehow every time I used this spell, I ran into an enemy that absorbed one aspect of its damage and negated the whole thing. Found Beta, Trine, and Aqualung much more useful.
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Booky posted:Oh, and to keep things on topic, what's everyone's favorite magic spells? I'm a big fan of Ultima. I do enjoy Flare and Holy in IX and X, but aside from that, I'm usually fond of upper-tier Wind spells, like Aeroga and Tornado. I also have a soft spot for Meltdown. The FFVIII incarnation was probably one of the most game-breaking spells in the franchise (along with Aura).
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Pyroxene Stigma posted:Somehow every time I used this spell, I ran into an enemy that absorbed one aspect of its damage and negated the whole thing. Found Beta, Trine, and Aqualung much more useful. Well yeah, it's not really useful, but it is giant rainbow bubbles 
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Proto Cloud posted:Still no consensus on XIII-2? Eh, whatever. Even if I don't like the trilogy, I can laugh about it later. Less linear, gameplay opens up much more quickly, but can end up being too easy, and the story is convoluted and nonsensical. That's 13-2 in a nutshell. As for best spells, ImpAtom posted:It's hard to like a spell better than Haste. Slow on one monster is like Haste on everyone! And it works surprisingly often in the series (and outright breaks a couple games like FF4). Of course, Haste is even more awesome in the early games where it increases your number of hits (and thus boosts the hell out of your damage). Also, Bahamut's always awesome.
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Mega64 posted:Also, Bahamut's always awesome. Come on, citing summons is cheating. They're always awesome. Even *Chocob 
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The White Dragon posted:Come on, citing summons is cheating. They're always awesome. Even *Chocob Seeing the mythical Fat Chocobo fall from the sky for the first time when using Choco/Mog in Final Fantasy VII was really confusing but also pretty amazing. I think I only ever saw the thing once, maybe twice.
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The White Dragon posted:Come on, citing summons is cheating. They're always awesome. Even *Chocob
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Endorph posted:Goblin.
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My Dimensions party is almost all Melee with a Seer (with Hastega) to round things out. Big spells are better in games that let you break damage limit but otherwise FIGHT is the way to go!
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Levantine posted:My Dimensions party is almost all Melee with a Seer (with Hastega) to round things out. Big spells are better in games that let you break damage limit but otherwise FIGHT is the way to go! Especially when you can hit 12 times! And there are melee weapons that let you break the damage limit with them! 
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Kyrosiris posted:Especially when you can hit 12 times! And there are melee weapons that let you break the damage limit with them! I do have a Valhalla but my Dark Warriors aren't quite strong enough to break 9999 per hit on Midareyuki or Phantom Rush. Overall they do tons of damage but each hit is still in the ~2000 range. Now Sol with Final Heaven and Aigis with Ivory Slash (or whatever, last paladin skill) cap out damage every time. Magic is very good in places but man, weapon damage is supreme!
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Thanks to encouragement in this thread I picked up a PSP. I loaded up all of the FF games plus a few miscellaneous, and got started with BoF4 since it came reccomended and I had never played it. BoF4 is fun so far, but it's hard to tear myself away from the PSP FFT remake and its hilarious ye olde english dialog.
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Boogalo posted:Thanks to encouragement in this thread I picked up a PSP. I loaded up all of the FF games plus a few miscellaneous, and got started with BoF4 since it came reccomended and I had never played it. BoF4 is fun so far, but it's hard to tear myself away from the PSP FFT remake and its hilarious ye olde english dialog. BoF IV, despite some flaws, is probably one of the darkest JRPGs around with some really despicable villains. The story pays off so it's worth sticking with it. I hear War of the Lions is dragged down by slowdown and other such issues which is a bit of a shame.
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Kanfy posted:BoF IV, despite some flaws, is probably one of the darkest JRPGs around with some really despicable villains. The story pays off so it's worth sticking with it. There are a few patches and psp plugins available that fix the slowdown. It runs very well now; but I tried it without the patch and it was pretty awful. I also went ahead and patched in a gameplay tweak that "fixes" a lot of things that were annoying and makes guest characters playable. I don't feel like it ruins anything since I played the original to death. The new cinemas are gorgeous  Here's the link: http://devilsjockstrap.wikidot.com/wotltweak
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Boogalo posted:Here's the link: http://devilsjockstrap.wikidot.com/wotltweak While you're at that site (which is run by a friend of mine) it really is worth checking out that FF5 edit of his. Most "spoofs" tend to be incohesive, filled with juvenile humor, and boring, but that one is actually fairly well done and genuinely funny. Save it for the next FJF if you want, but it's worth a playthrough.
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Yeah I was going to say that in Xenogears even a PS1 will whir a little bit when random encounters are about to happen. We need a Tales thread I wanna talk about Vesperia. So far I'm enjoying the quality of the visuals quite a bit, but that may just be from coming off of just finishing FF IX.
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pretend to care posted:We need a Tales thread We've had one for almost 5 years. ...Maybe it's time someone made a new one, actually. Huh.
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Thanks.  I couldn't find it in like the first 10 pages so I done gave up.
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pretend to care posted:Thanks. The Platinum search function is pretty handy for stuff like that, saves you a lot of trouble.
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Kanfy posted:BoF IV, despite some flaws, is probably one of the darkest JRPGs around with some really despicable villains. The story pays off so it's worth sticking with it. BoF4's darkness is really brutal at times. Like when you get Kaiser. Some people deserve to die more than once.  FFT:WotL has some pretty bad slowdown on effects. As in, you case Protect on 5 characters and it's playing the 5th effect's sound while still on the 3rd effect's visual.
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And Cannoneer makes all four.   I'm not 100% sold on it, given its similarities to Necromancer's design, but it does what I set out to do - a more muted, utilitarian look compared to the vivid colors and extravagant tricornes (especially in Krile's case), and essentially a Job-thematic reimagining of his Amano artwork.
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Shaezerus posted:And Cannoneer makes all four. That's a drat fine redesign.
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According to Siliconera, Bravely Default will be localized in the west.Siliconera posted:Square Enix still hasn’t announced Bravely Default: Flying Fairy for North America or Europe, but don’t worry—the nostalgic turn-based role-playing game will be released overseas.
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Trusted sources being guys who got the info from their uncles working at Nintendo of course.
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