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I've never played The World Ends With You, but I really want to! I have both a Nintendo DS and an iPhone 4, which version would be better to get?
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Jun 6, 2013 23:00
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Happy Happyist posted:I've never played The World Ends With You, but I really want to! I have both a Nintendo DS and an iPhone 4, which version would be better to get? If you are pretty drat good at multitasking and like a challenge, maybe go for the DS one. Otherwise the iOS version is improved in every way (better graphics, music).
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Jun 6, 2013 23:02
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Play it on the DS with headphones. It's still the best way to play TWEWY.
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Jun 6, 2013 23:03
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Jun 6, 2013 23:32
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Is it worth trying to get Black Knight on Ramza in FFT? Or is it just a thankless grind for diehards and not good for a first run? Is there a best way to do it?
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Jun 6, 2013 23:53
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Apocron posted:Is it worth trying to get Black Knight on Ramza in FFT? Or is it just a thankless grind for diehards and not good for a first run? It's powerful but redundant. There are easier ways to become godlike in FFT. Only bother if you're a completionist.
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Jun 6, 2013 23:59
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You are more likely to accidentally make Ramza a god before you even unlock that job.
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Jun 7, 2013 00:41
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Apocron posted:Is it worth trying to get Black Knight on Ramza in FFT? Or is it just a thankless grind for diehards and not good for a first run? On your first playthrough, no. Ramza will be a beast regardless. Make note of the fact that his base class gets better as the chapters go on. By chapter 4, it gets ridiculous self-buffing abilities and can equip some of the best equipment, including Knight Swords, both light and heavy armor, and hats. (Light armor and hats give worse stats than heavy armor, but usually come with great stat boosts in exchange.) Put him in his base class, give him Two Swords from the Ninja class, and no matter what else you choose, he'll be a wrecking ball. If you give him 2 rune blades, he'll even be able to sling spells as a secondary. That said, some advice on Dark Knight. Mastering Black Mage is probably the worst part of it; getting 20 dudes to decay from Ramza really isn't too bad. He'll get a lot of kills throughout the game, and if you have a chance to stall the last kill of the battle, it's worth it1. To speed up mastering Black Mage, have another character, also a black mage, come into battle with Ramza. They'll both get a little bonus JP when the other does an action2. Have that character skip most spells to concentrate on level 4 spells (-aja, I think). These (and a few other spells, most expensive but useless) can be learned "Blue Mage Style". If you're in a class that can learn the spell, and it's cast on you, you have a chance to learn it. Once your other guy learns Firaja, have him cast it on Ramza, over and over, until you get the message3 that Ramza learned it. I wouldn't do it, though. If you're training Ramza as a warrior, just give him Two Swords. It's a ridiculous enough ability on its own. Save the grinding for another playthrough or the post-game, if you want to do it. Don't grind too much and the story battles will be more fulfilling. [1] When your guys step on a crystal, it brings up a list of abilities. The cursor is only there so you can hit the "Help" button to see what an ability does. You inherit all of them on the list. It's incredibly worth stalling a battle for. If you do want one of your characters to be a Dark Knight, feed him all the Black Mage and Knight crystals you can. (None of the other classes benefit from this; you'll gain the ability, but it doesn't boost your JP. You still need the 3000 JP to master the other classes.) [2] In fact, whenever a guy earns JP, your other units in the battle gains a sliver of that class's JP for themselves. If you're like me, you'll eventually see units with like 500+ Ninja JP without ever setting foot into the class. [3] If you turned off battle messages in Settings, the camera will jump over to a highlighted Ramza for a split second if he learns the spell. If you're not paying attention, you can miss it.
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Jun 7, 2013 00:46
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Apocron posted:Is it worth trying to get Black Knight on Ramza in FFT? Or is it just a thankless grind for diehards and not good for a first run? I picked it up in Chapter 2 but I was in the high 30s by then due to all the grinding. It's not needed at all to become powerful but the class is pretty beastly. If you've invited the right type of monsters and then had them breed the correct variant you can get a Defender as soon as the fur shop becomes available but you need the rare poach from it so I'd wait until the shop's available because you'll need to save/reload a few times most likely. The Defender can last you forever really, but replacing it with something like Save the Queen or Excalibur works if you aren't using a character that would benefit those swords more (I'm running Ramza and generics because math skill is completely game breaking). e: PFlats posted:That said, some advice on Dark Knight. Mastering Black Mage is probably the worst part of it; getting 20 dudes to decay from Ramza really isn't too bad. He'll get a lot of kills throughout the game, and if you have a chance to stall the last kill of the battle, it's worth it1. To speed up mastering Black Mage, have another character, also a black mage, come into battle with Ramza. They'll both get a little bonus JP when the other does an action2. Have that character skip most spells to concentrate on level 4 spells (-aja, I think). These (and a few other spells, most expensive but useless) can be learned "Blue Mage Style". If you're in a class that can learn the spell, and it's cast on you, you have a chance to learn it. Once your other guy learns Firaja, have him cast it on Ramza, over and over, until you get the message3 that Ramza learned it. Spamming your speed buff from the Guts/Mettle skill set is pretty much the best way to level ramza in general because you'll eventually be acting 10x more than anyone else thanks to your 50+ speed. Throw in an occasional haste for extra absurdity. I've never had a character learn a spell by having it cast on them though*. *Ultima and Zodiac excluded. Evil Fluffy fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Jun 7, 2013 |
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Jun 7, 2013 00:46
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clams posted:In the same vein, it took me several games to realize that you don't have to run to the quests in your home area. You can just stay in map mode, zoom out and tap the one you're interested in. It took me several games to figure out that you COULD run around in your home area. I thought it was really weird you could only run around in the adventure areas.
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Jun 7, 2013 00:56
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Can anyone give the swords and glory people money? I can't buy any glory points ( don't need any but I'm trying to support the team). Edit: I found it. The buy glory buttons are invisible on my ipad. Press under the "when" will let you buy 800 points for $3. Shwqa fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Jun 7, 2013 |
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Jun 7, 2013 01:05
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How is the Sid Mier's Pirates port for iOS ? I had it for the PSP years ago and it was a great time waster.
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Jun 7, 2013 01:13
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Bro Nerd Alpha posted:How is the Sid Mier's Pirates port for iOS ? I had it for the PSP years ago and it was a great time waster. Just as good as it ever was, really. In sword and glory news, hunter and farmer as well as craftsman unlock building upgrades (hunter unlocks better +dom, farmer unlocks better +def, and craftsman unlocks +dam).
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Jun 7, 2013 01:19
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Oh man, Kingdom Rush: Frontiers rules. I know levels have interactive stuff but I thought it was limited to simple interactions like clicking an animal until it explodes or whatever. However, I just beat Temple of Saqra and there is a correct sequence to the three tiles on the right side of the cave where the mobs spawn. When you get it right it opens a hole for the Indiana Jones dude to jump down and when he runs away from the boulder it crushes all of the eggs, getting rid of the parasyte spawn point. I thought it was a really cool touch and I'm really hoping to find more like it throughout the game.
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Jun 7, 2013 01:19
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I must be missing something with Sword and Glory. I created my character and battled the first guy, spoke to my brother and then walked around the whole village at a painfully slow pace, hitting invisible barriers and not finding anything else to do...
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Jun 7, 2013 01:43
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psylent posted:I must be missing something with Sword and Glory. I created my character and battled the first guy, spoke to my brother and then walked around the whole village at a painfully slow pace, hitting invisible barriers and not finding anything else to do... Tap on text labels to get in fights. More open up after you win a few.
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Jun 7, 2013 01:49
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psylent posted:I must be missing something with Sword and Glory. I created my character and battled the first guy, spoke to my brother and then walked around the whole village at a painfully slow pace, hitting invisible barriers and not finding anything else to do... Keep talking to your brother, explore the conversation options. That should trigger an event that will open more quests.
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Jun 7, 2013 01:49
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Bummey posted:Play it on the DS with headphones. It's still the best way to play TWEWY. Just so you know, Bummey knows his poo poo, but this isn't a consensus or anything. I personally played it on the DS and on my iPhone 4S and I enjoyed it more on the latter -- someone else is gonna have to tell you how it runs on the 4, though.
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Jun 7, 2013 02:07
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God drat Pflats whips out the foot notes.Bro Nerd Alpha posted:How is the Sid Mier's Pirates port for iOS ? I had it for the PSP years ago and it was a great time waster. They removed the best minigame and replaced it with a really terrible cannon shooting gallery garbage awful thing. Other than that. Yeah, it's mostly the same game.
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Jun 7, 2013 02:09
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More swords and glory stuff. Fisherman, hunter, and farmer all let you make more buildings. They are more useful than the craftsmanship buildings but they give stats other than damage.
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Jun 7, 2013 02:16
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I really wanted to like it because I enjoyed the Xbox version but I found the controls to be too much trouble.
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Jun 7, 2013 02:17
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Happy Happyist posted:I've never played The World Ends With You, but I really want to! I have both a Nintendo DS and an iPhone 4, which version would be better to get? I think you might get a bit more screen space on the DS, especially if it's one of the bigger versions but I think the iOS version plays better with regards to how the partner mechanic works, I have the iPad version (iPad 2) and reckon that is better playing on the DSi XL.
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Jun 7, 2013 02:21
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drat it, you got me addicted to Sword & Glory and now I seem to have broken it. I got a Clanless farther than I ever had gotten before -- beat the Silver in the Dark mission, cleared Thickwood, wrecked poo poo in town, so I decided to try the Ruined Village and something broke. All the menus work -- I can go back to the Title screen and return, change Options, view my perks and equipment and such, view what looks like a normal minimap, but the rest is all blank white; I can't do anything.  Anyone else encountered this?
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Jun 7, 2013 02:39
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that happened to me right after i beat the end guy from Silver in the Dark and traveled too. just close the application entirely and reopen it. it will remember your progress.
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Jun 7, 2013 02:42
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Bummey posted:God drat Pflats whips out the foot notes. I had way too many parentheticals that distracted from the flow of my treatise on Dark Knights, so footnotes were the only logical option. 
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Jun 7, 2013 02:55
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psylent posted:I must be missing something with Sword and Glory. I created my character and battled the first guy, spoke to my brother and then walked around the whole village at a painfully slow pace, hitting invisible barriers and not finding anything else to do... Important tip - that lower right icon? That switches you between walking around and map view. On your homestead, you can just (from map view) click on adventures to start them. In regions - Thickwood, etc. - you're going to have to walk. Hold down your finger near the edge of the screen to walk faster.
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Jun 7, 2013 03:20
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Thanks to everyone for the advice and PFlats for the detail!
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Jun 7, 2013 04:15
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Evil Fluffy posted:I've never had a character learn a spell by having it cast on them though. I tried to learn Zodiac once, but my summoner missed the chance on his first try, and I forgot to bring a way to restore MP (I was using MP Switch to survive, naturally). Whoops. I'm going to try again this playthrough. Apocron posted:Thanks to everyone for the advice and PFlats for the detail!
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Jun 7, 2013 04:57
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sizuka2 posted:Important tip - that lower right icon? That switches you between walking around and map view. On your homestead, you can just (from map view) click on adventures to start them. In regions - Thickwood, etc. - you're going to have to walk. Hold down your finger near the edge of the screen to walk faster. 
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Jun 7, 2013 05:35
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Is the chemist supposed to be 100% reliable? I keep using potion and having nothing happen. Can you target empty squares or something? I'm pretty sure I can see the portraits though. Does there have to be direct line of sight even if they're in range in the red grid?
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Jun 7, 2013 06:39
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Apocron posted:Is the chemist supposed to be 100% reliable? I keep using potion and having nothing happen. Can you target empty squares or something? I'm pretty sure I can see the portraits though. Does there have to be direct line of sight even if they're in range in the red grid?
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Jun 7, 2013 06:51
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Apocron posted:Is the chemist supposed to be 100% reliable? I keep using potion and having nothing happen. Can you target empty squares or something? I'm pretty sure I can see the portraits though. Does there have to be direct line of sight even if they're in range in the red grid? Something like a direct line of sight, yeah. Elevation and obstacles come into play with something like this. Items are 100% reliable as long as the Chemist is able to successfully throw the item to the target. Let the % chance icon be your guide. When you target someone (either ally or opponent), before you confirm the command there will be a percentage indicator above their name. It'll say something like "-12 HP, 56%). If your Chemist has 0%, something is blocking it from successfully throwing the item.
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Jun 7, 2013 06:54
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porktree posted:Anyone tried out 9th Dawn - it looks like it could be good. But I'm so mired in Warhammer and Sword & Glory and Dead Ahead that I don't have time to play it. I'm interested in people's experience with this game as well, from gameplay videos it's hard to tell if it's good or not (besides that the graphics could use some work.)
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Jun 7, 2013 07:10
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Thanks, that was irritating!
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Jun 7, 2013 07:26
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Scurvy Scallywags is a really fun match-3. I like the multi-directional sliding of the board that happens. It's got a pretty neat style to it as well.
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Jun 7, 2013 07:33
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Voodoo posted:Scurvy Scallywags is a really fun match-3. I like the multi-directional sliding of the board that happens. It's got a pretty neat style to it as well. Agreed, the styling of it is really winning me over, especially the music. I've just hit the second set of islands (with the scorpion man enemies), and the difficulty is definitely ramping up. The special abilities are actually becoming necessary to survive the levels.
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Jun 7, 2013 14:23
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PFlats posted:Off the top of my head, you can learn the level 4 elemental spells (fire, blizzard, lightning), the level 2 protect, shell, haste, and slow, and most of the high-level summons. I've never learned anything (other than Ultima) from an enemy, though. It's rare enough for an enemy to have any of the spells you can learn, let alone have them target a unit in the right class who hasn't learned it yet and also hit the 20% or so chance to learn it. FFT is a game I had fun digging into as a teenager, but as an adult, I could never see myself spending the time it took for some of that stuff. Cloud (and levelling him up to be useful) and Zodiac stick out as two "god why did I do that"'s in particular. Calculators were also stupidly time intensive, if you wanted them as powerful as they theoretically could be. For less time-intensive fun game breaking, the monk/ninja stuff is probably a better choice, for anyone picking it up fresh.
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Jun 7, 2013 17:03
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Hey guys. I just posted a thread about my friends puzzle game for iOS/Android. It's called NonoCube and you can read about it here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3553467
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Jun 7, 2013 17:46
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I've been playing Warhammer Quest for couple of days and I'm already bored of it. Game's just way too repetitive.
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Jun 7, 2013 17:48
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Heavy Armor Monk or Ninja Monk or double fist monk are all just ways to hilarious break tje game and make ramza a god. Monk + ninja are the only two classes Ramza ever need spend time in.
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Jun 7, 2013 17:53
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