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Renoistic posted:Any tips for Type-0? Mission 3 started out easy but soon most bigger enemies could oneshot/onecombo my characters. I had turn on Academy Backup half-way through and just barely beat the boss using Ifrit with only one character left alive. Focus more on evading damage than dealing it. You can do a lot of damage with criticals when enemies are vulnerable and kill-sight, so if you aren't taking damage you can do a lot in terms of making opportunities to one shot or do very high damage.
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:7 and 8 are and that's really only because they already had PC versions. Wasn't 9 going to have a pc port that ended up canned? The shamest of shames since I think they were trying their best to make 9's not crap, too.
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Almost finished with Type-0, and I can just feel the PSP limitations really screwing with the game in story content. I'm hoping that since the game was meant to be played multiple times that the New game+ missions fill in the blanks, because there are a LOT of them. Also the grinding sucks, really wish I had started with that save file that gives the double EXP thing.
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Tae posted:Almost finished with Type-0, and I can just feel the PSP limitations really screwing with the game in story content. I'm hoping that since the game was meant to be played multiple times that the New game+ missions fill in the blanks, because there are a LOT of them. You should be able to cheat in an exp multiplier whether you're running it on an actual PSP or otherwise, look up how to use cwcheat for whatever platform you're on.
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Aurain posted:Focus more on evading damage than dealing it. You can do a lot of damage with criticals when enemies are vulnerable and kill-sight, so if you aren't taking damage you can do a lot in terms of making opportunities to one shot or do very high damage. Thanks, I guess I need too play it more lika a character action game. Suits me fine since my favorite characters are the melee ones, like the punching guy. It's pretty fun to destroy magitek armor with a single punch. Getting stuck fighting a chopper with three melee fighters suck, though.
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Volt Catfish posted:Wasn't 9 going to have a pc port that ended up canned? The shamest of shames since I think they were trying their best to make 9's not crap, too. FFIX actually has good deal of its master assets scattered through the portfolios of the artists who worked on the game.
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Tae posted:Almost finished with Type-0, and I can just feel the PSP limitations really screwing with the game in story content. I'm hoping that since the game was meant to be played multiple times that the New game+ missions fill in the blanks, because there are a LOT of them. NG+ is supposed to replace a lot of the missions, or add missions that are character building and such. Chapter 3's boss was the antithesis of enjoyable. Ugh.
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Jun 14, 2014 16:51
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Sunning posted:FFIX actually has good deal of its master assets scattered through the portfolios of the artists who worked on the game. So SE never thought to put all the assets they paid for in a single archive? What is this, 1950's television?
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Jun 14, 2014 19:15
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Isn't that Japanese game design 101? This is a pretty common problem.
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Jun 14, 2014 19:23
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It's not even just Japanese game design. A lot of pre-2000 developers just didn't store assets properly for a variety of reasons, or the assets were damaged, lost or misplaced.
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Jun 14, 2014 19:25
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Dart posted:You should be able to cheat in an exp multiplier whether you're running it on an actual PSP or otherwise, look up how to use cwcheat for whatever platform you're on. I read that running cheats trigger some bullshit anti-cheating thing and the ones I looked up require resetting the game every time or something.
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Bregor posted:Heeeey, easy dere brudder, YA? You still gets lots of AP from overdrive-AP plus slayer or victor; fleeing isn't efficient if you can OHKO the monsters even if you've already caught 10. Also killing instead of fleeing helps build up your karma bar for don tonberry levelling
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I'm finally starting to realise why the Expert Grid is so much better in FFX. Kimhari and Tidus both have Steal and Use and they're carrying on in that sort of direction. Wakka is pretty much same as usual though. Oh, and Yuna and Lulu both had -ra level Black Magic to drop on Gui's head.
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McDragon posted:I'm finally starting to realise why the Expert Grid is so much better in FFX. Kimhari and Tidus both have Steal and Use and they're carrying on in that sort of direction. Wakka is pretty much same as usual though. Oh, and Yuna and Lulu both had -ra level Black Magic to drop on Gui's head. Were you grinding a lot? I didn't get Wakka over to Steal/Use until about the same time Rikku joined. I sent Tidus down the white magic path and he didn't get to the -ra spells until Macalania.
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Beef Waifu posted:Isn't that Japanese game design 101? This is a pretty common problem. That makes me recall this one game the devs were TOTALLY DOWN to do a 3d remake for or something except...they lost all the original assets for it  I don't remember the name of the game but I think it was somewhat known
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Jun 15, 2014 00:08
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Final Fantasy 13 as a universe has a common theme: Completely making GBS threads the bed at the end. Holy poo poo, the jump from chapter 7 to 8 is like I missed like a whole disk or something. Goddamn I hope this HD version adds....anything explaining whatever the gently caress happened in the final chapter. On the other hand, I hold tiny hope it's not a colossal shitstorm because it's a loop.
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There was a rumor floating around that the reason the GBA Mega Man Anniversary Collection was cancelled was Capcom straight up lost the source code entirely for the GB games.
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ImpAtom posted:It's not even just Japanese game design. A lot of pre-2000 developers just didn't store assets properly for a variety of reasons, or the assets were damaged, lost or misplaced. Even today asset storage can still be dodgy from developer to developer. Back in the 20th century, people just didn't think about the possibility or demand of HD remakes that much.
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Tae posted:On the other hand, I hold tiny hope it's not a colossal shitstorm because it's a loop. Prepare for disappointment.
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quote:FF9 remake MonsieurChoc posted:If the original assets could be found, simply running them in their native resolution would upscale the game to HD. I really hope someone at SE can make it happen, though. The HD assets available on the Internet look completely amazing. There's a thread dedicated to it on NeoGAF: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=551612 The thread makes it clear that FF9 was ill-served by its eventual target resolution. Enormous, almost shocking amounts of scene detail was lost, particularly in the towns.
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AngryRobotsInc posted:There was a rumor floating around that the reason the GBA Mega Man Anniversary Collection was cancelled was Capcom straight up lost the source code entirely for the GB games. This is also why we'll never get a release of Panzer Dragoon Saga on a console that people actually own 
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ImpAtom posted:It's not even just Japanese game design. A lot of pre-2000 developers just didn't store assets properly for a variety of reasons, or the assets were damaged, lost or misplaced. KH HD was reprogrammed (or, reverse engineered) from scratch because they lost the source code, but still had the art assets. Killzone 1's source was being stored in a shoebox under one of the programmer's beds. Basically the only Japanese companies who ever did archiving before the last six years was Nintendo and Falcom.
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SpaceDrake posted:I really hope someone at SE can make it happen, though. The HD assets available on the Internet look completely amazing. Also, holy poo poo, I finally understand the rat chicks face in her picture on the right. I always thought her nose was her mouth and her right eye was her left eye. Turns out she's turning her head towards the camera and down, so her snout's profile isn't visible. She always looked freaky to me. ... Well, she's still a rat person, but you know what I mean.
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Beef Waifu posted:Isn't that Japanese game design 101? This is a pretty common problem. A lot of companies lose assets and game code due to poor archiving or the company undergoing restructuring. It's very rare for a game development company to proper store, such as Nintendo keeping the original design documents for the Legend of Zelda on the NES. SEGA allegedly lost the source code to the Panzer Dragoon games. That's the good thing about programmers and artists who happen to be packrats.
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I love that the houses in Black Mage Village look just like Black Mages.  maou shoujo posted:Were you grinding a lot? I didn't get Wakka over to Steal/Use until about the same time Rikku joined. I sent Tidus down the white magic path and he didn't get to the -ra spells until Macalania. A little bit I guess. Overestimated Lord Ochu a bit so did a bit in Kilika, after Luca I ran out of money playing Blitzball and had to grind to rent a chocobo. I usually like to get Lulu to the -ras before Gui anyway, it was just funny to me that Yuna got there at about the same time with the Expert Grid. For Steal/Use I'd basically sent Kimhari over in that direction as soon as he joined up. McDragon fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Jun 15, 2014 |
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Friendly reminder that the Four Job Fiesta has officially started. Here's the SA thread for it.
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Does Tidus just have selective hearing or something? There's enough exposition to make your ears bleed about what happened LONG AGO TO CHAPPU WAKKA AND LULU but then he goes on to say "Well...whatever it was..."
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ImpAtom posted:It's not even just Japanese game design. A lot of pre-2000 developers just didn't store assets properly for a variety of reasons, or the assets were damaged, lost or misplaced. This is why the Baldur's Gate Enhanced Editions aren't nice HD setups. The original files they'd need for a full blown tune up are simply gone.
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In FFX, I stumbled across a blitzball player named Linna (an Al Bhed girl on the road near Macalania Temple), and found that she makes a hilariously good midfielder. She starts off knowing Nap Shot 3. It costs 350 HP to use, but once Linna has leveled up enough to be able to use it, she becomes crazy good. She gains EXP at a ridiculous pace, causing her to be level 33 for me when almost every other player in the league is still at or below level 15. She keeps getting faster too - at first she would get 20-30 EXP per blitzball game if you combine both halves, then 50, now she gets 80 EXP per game. She's decent to great at every stat except Catching which she doesn't need anyways, and at this point she easily scores goals from halfway across the field and outscores Tidus and Brother combined. It hasn't yet stopped being hilarious.
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I've just started playing FFXII for the first time. I'm a couple of hours in, and my overriding impression is that it's trying hard to fuse an MMORPG feel with the traditional single player FF experience. It doesn't feel very Final Fantasy-y to me at all. My other impression is that nobody in this world knows how to dress themselves. Any tips for going forward with the game ("abandon the game immediately" will also be taken under advisement)?
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ozza posted:I've just started playing FFXII for the first time. I'm a couple of hours in, and my overriding impression is that it's trying hard to fuse an MMORPG feel with the traditional single player FF experience. It doesn't feel very Final Fantasy-y to me at all. My other impression is that nobody in this world knows how to dress themselves. Any tips for going forward with the game ("abandon the game immediately" will also be taken under advisement)? If you're really really not enjoying the MMO thing, it isn't really going to change as it goes further on. Also the clothes remain terrible. Basically, FFXII is what you get. If you're not enjoying it by the time you rescue Ashe, you're probably not going to change your feeling on the game. Otherwise the biggest piece of advice is that playing FFXII: Zodiac Job edition with a translation patch is a big step up, if just for the inclusion of a fast forward button.
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It's a polarizing game. If after a few hours it doesn't gel for you, it's probably not going to. Personally, I found the hunts, exploration, and voice work to be the strong points of the game. If those don't do it for you, I can't say there's much else for you. The characters are hit/miss, the story is decent but not great, and the battle system is just OK as well, though if you like the idea of building party AI, there's a decently built if-else system (the gambits) you might find interesting. But like I said, if the game isn't doing it for you a few hours in, it probably just won't.
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I just started playing Type-0 and for the most part I am enjoying Final Fantasy Dodgeball. However, there's a couple characters I don't really enjoy using. Would it behoove me to keep them leveled up with the rest of my squad, or can I let a couple slip through the cracks?
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I started to play Crisis Core, but the amount of random battles is really getting to me, and the optional missions are seriously uninspiring and repetitive. The problem is, I'd like to see the story to the end, but without fighting it's impossible. And a Boss had one-shotted me with a cutscene attack from full normal health (not boosted above the normal level), which I think meant I was not well prepared. What I'm trying to say, can someone walk me through applying cheat codes to PSP emulator, or at least direct me to an easy to use tutorial? I'll just slap some infinite HP or one shot kills code and be done with it.
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As long as you have a good 6-7 people around the level requirement, you should be fine. The very last chapter requires you to use all your characters, but you can't fail so it'll be fine.
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bloodychill posted:It's a polarizing game. If after a few hours it doesn't gel for you, it's probably not going to. On the other hand I was one of those types who hated XII when it first came out but later came to like it years later. It really depends on what you're looking out of an RPG, because after the linearity of XIII, XII felt like a breath of fresh air.
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Szurumbur posted:I started to play Crisis Core, but the amount of random battles is really getting to me, and the optional missions are seriously uninspiring and repetitive. The problem is, I'd like to see the story to the end, but without fighting it's impossible. And a Boss had one-shotted me with a cutscene attack from full normal health (not boosted above the normal level), which I think meant I was not well prepared. You can skip most encounters by just sticking to the walls. Normal mode is really easy though, and you can always do optional missions if you feel underlevelled. Unskippable cutscenes and being kicked back to the title screen when you die made Hard mode too frustrating for me, since I'd have every pre-boss cutscene burned into my memory by the time I beat it.
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Thanks for the replies about FFXII. I'm not exactly hating it at the moment, just that it's so far lacking the magic feeling I usually get from a Final Fantasy. I'll keep going for now.
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ozza posted:Thanks for the replies about FFXII. I'm not exactly hating it at the moment, just that it's so far lacking the magic feeling I usually get from a Final Fantasy. I'll keep going for now. Once you learn who the real main character it is, it gets better. And in my opinion, the best.
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It gets better because you can enter into the debate as to who that character actually is.
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