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oblomov posted:Yeah, between PCSX2 and Dolphin I don't have to fire up old consoles at all. To be fair, I don't have a Wii or Wii-U.
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Nate RFB posted:I've had worse luck with Dolphin myself, a lot of stuttering and sound issues on my end. It's still a cool as heck emulator though, the developer blog read-ups are always fascinating and I fully expect either an upcoming release or my next PC to handle it better. Dolphin is pretty amazing for what it does and how well, but I do have to put a bit more elbow grease into it to get games playing well than PCSX2. Sound is almost always my problem.
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Nate RFB posted:I've had worse luck with Dolphin myself, a lot of stuttering and sound issues on my end. It's still a cool as heck emulator though, the developer blog read-ups are always fascinating and I fully expect either an upcoming release or my next PC to handle it better. Many of the sound issues have been fixed by recent builds, and like you said the dev blog is fantastic. I haven't really had many issues with PCSX2 either barring Shadow Hearts.
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Endorph posted:It was only in Japan. I don't know if it was terrible but considering it only ran for 3 years, counting the open beta, I'd say it was at least a failure financially. Damnit Japan.... I even played that online SMT game and Wizardry online. Can I just have 1 nice thing, just 1?
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Dec 12, 2014 19:59
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oblomov posted:What is your CPU/Video Card? i7-4770k, GTX770 GPU. Before, it was a pre-Sandy Bridge i5 with a AMD 5870HD, and that was running everything poorly back in 2012-2013.
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PCSX2 is v. good but certain games just need some hacking/love to get going and stable.
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I beat Suikoden 1 last night, this was my first time playing any game in the series. I enjoyed the base building aspects and the combat was fast and snappy. I had a lot of problems with how thin the plotting and characterization were, but I could kind of tell by the end that they were kind of making a prototype for the game they wanted to make. Barely an hour into 2 and there's been more plot and intrigue than the entirety of the first game already, and the combat has been improved, the menus are better and you can run without a rune! 
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The White Dragon posted:i7-4770k, GTX770 GPU. Before, it was a pre-Sandy Bridge i5 with a AMD 5870HD, and that was running everything poorly back in 2012-2013. You may want to also check out SweetFX, which has a lot of neat options to make games look "right" in terms of color balance and anti-aliasing.
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PCSX2 is no Dolphin for sure, but I've had minimal issues getting through many games on it including FF12 IZJS, Radiata Stories, VP2, Dark Cloud 2, and a number of others I can't remember. I always stick to the latest dev builds.
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Dec 12, 2014 20:50
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VP2 runs like poo poo on every version of it. It's due to the way the game is coded. It's basically strung together with spit and twine.
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Zaggitz posted:I beat Suikoden 1 last night, this was my first time playing any game in the series. I enjoyed the base building aspects and the combat was fast and snappy. I had a lot of problems with how thin the plotting and characterization were, but I could kind of tell by the end that they were kind of making a prototype for the game they wanted to make. Did you install the patch that makes Suikoden 2 even better?
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RadicalR posted:Did you install the patch that makes Suikoden 2 even better? Please elaborate/link.
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ImpAtom posted:VP2 runs like poo poo on every version of it. It's due to the way the game is coded. It's basically strung together with spit and twine. The first time I loaded that game up, about the fifth or so fight I got in froze the game. This wasn't via emulation, either.
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Mr E posted:I haven't really had many issues with PCSX2 either barring Shadow Hearts.
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Levantine posted:Dolphin is pretty amazing for what it does and how well, but I do have to put a bit more elbow grease into it to get games playing well than PCSX2. Sound is almost always my problem. Latest dev version run Xenoblade at least very well.
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Nate RFB posted:You definitely have better hardware than me at least (i5-750 overclocked to 3.2 GHz). So yeah I'd try a newer build and see how it goes. For reference I usually go with 3x scaling with a 1280x960 window. Agree about the hardware. It shouldn't present an issue really. Some games as mentioned here are just coded very strangely and won't play well, but majority should work (like Suikoden 3). Edit: For scaling, it depends on a game. I usually do full screen and a lot of games can either support widescreen out right so scaling 4.5-5x works out pretty well or some of the games have widescreen hacks. It just depends though, sometimes I deal with frames and thats ok.
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Zaggitz posted:Please elaborate/link. Nevermind I found it and patched it. Thanks for the heads up.
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oblomov posted:Latest dev version run Xenoblade at least very well. I'll have to try it. Both it and Last Story ran pretty poorly for me but admittedly, I haven't tried in about a year.
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I'm playing Xenoblade right now and it runs perfectly smooth for an integrated card with i3 3.4.
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Is the Ni No Kuni battle system really as much of a mess as it seems or am I retarded? Why do so many of my familiars hit for 1 when they're the same level as Mitey who can hit everything for a zillion? Everything about this game is lovely besides the battle system and I'm really hoping I'm just missing something
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Dec 13, 2014 00:03
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I mean I'm a good ways into the game and I've managed up to this point even though the battle mechanics are super basic but the more difficult enemies get the more crippling the battle system seems to be
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There's a reason I only played that game on easy. I'm not bad at RPGs, it's just that the party AI is so stupid, you're gonna get wrecked if you play that game on normal. Also, replace Mitey with that cat you find near the beach city. It's faster, hits harder and one of its final forms is a black pirate cat with an eyepatch.  The snake at the Ding Dong Well is great too.
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whaley posted:Is the Ni No Kuni battle system really as much of a mess as it seems or am I retarded? Why do so many of my familiars hit for 1 when they're the same level as Mitey who can hit everything for a zillion? Everything about this game is lovely besides the battle system and I'm really hoping I'm just missing something
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ni no kuni does a few things very well but being a video game is not one of them. 
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Zaggitz posted:Nevermind I found it and patched it. Thanks for the heads up. Would you kindly provide a link anyway? Did some searching, but all I found was an expired wikia. 
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SelenicMartian posted:What kind of issues did you get in SH? Same actually. Just couldn't ever get it to run at acceptable FPS. That was a year or so ago, though.
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ni no kuni is bad list of games that legitimately are better games than ni no kuni: record of agarest war (all of them) hyperdimension neptunia (all of them) shadow madness
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I like Shadow Madness. Granted its graphics are AWFUL even by the standards of early PS1 RPGs and its battle system is boring, but it's really well written.
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Endorph posted:ni no kuni is bad 
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whaley posted:Is the Ni No Kuni battle system really as much of a mess as it seems or am I retarded? Why do so many of my familiars hit for 1 when they're the same level as Mitey who can hit everything for a zillion? Everything about this game is lovely besides the battle system and I'm really hoping I'm just missing something Some guys are straight up better than other guys. Also, Mitey is maybe at a higher tier of evolution than you other guys? No idea. I really liked Ni no Kuni, but the gameplay was not the reason. gently caress those "Catch this fucker!" sidequests. And I had a the official guide, too, which was a pretty sweet guide overall. Shame about the game.
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Kubla Khan posted:idea factory games being favorably compared to something, that's bizarro universe alright Neptunia is actually insanely cool.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:Neptunia is actually insanely cool. Never played it (I don't have a PS3) but Spectral Souls et al. were enough to make me go full
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Kubla Khan posted:idea factory games being favorably compared to something, that's bizarro universe alright Ni no Kuni's gameplay actually is that bad, yeah.
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dmboogie posted:Would you kindly provide a link anyway? Did some searching, but all I found was an expired wikia. http://suikosource.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=12441 third link.
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Thank you!
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You know, I took it as far as I could, I gave it every effort, but when a final boss has a Death spell that works 100% of the time and he uses it on your main character after you just took 6 million of its 7 million hit points down after about 20 minutes..... I guess what I'm saying is I "beat" Final Fantasy 13, and by that I mean I turned it off and went to bed after that game over because it's gently caress o clock in the morning
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Are you talking about the final boss that can be killed with poison or the one after that?
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SelenicMartian posted:Are you talking about the final boss that can be killed with poison or the one after that?
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Yeah, it took me a few tries as well. The keys to the battle are poison, turtling, and the resist death accessory that I believe is in the dungeon right before the boss.
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