Vil posted:Also buffs, debuffs, and frequent paradigm switches (for the instant ATB refills if nothing else) are all super useful. If you just sit in one offensive paradigm for the whole fight, or even just sit in one until stagger and then switch to another, you're probably missing out and making battles drag on longer than they need to. Ever since I Read a few pages back and saw someone point out the whole switching paradigms and getting free turns thing I've been doing that and getting almost constant 5* victories. It's definitely one of the most useful tips I've found.
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Curtain Call's DLC isn't complete until we get Nier music there. Still the best soundtrack that's ever been in a Square game.
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ImpAtom posted:Covenant of the Plume owns. It isn't even in the same stratosphere as 3DS. Plus the underrated VAing. Still bummed we don't know who voiced Lieselotte and Rosea.
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Jan 8, 2015 01:22
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So I'm trying FF12 Zodiac in between games and it is remarkable how similar it is to Xenoblade, mostly the face style. Is it the same character designer or something?
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Jan 8, 2015 01:24
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KamikazePotato posted:Curtain Call's DLC isn't complete until we get Nier music there. Still the best soundtrack that's ever been in a Square game. No, for the true Taro Yoko experience in Curtain Call, we need the "music" from Drakengard 1's Branch E ending. 
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W.T. Fits posted:No, for the true Taro Yoko experience in Curtain Call, we need the "music" from Drakengard 1's Branch E ending. I would buy that game in a heart beat if they had a whole Drakengard expansion so I could play as Caim and hit buttons along to that cacophony.
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Jan 8, 2015 01:41
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W.T. Fits posted:No, for the true Taro Yoko experience in Curtain Call, we need the "music" from Drakengard 1's Branch E ending. Party all fighting a giant pregnant lady spewing demon babies out of her vagina. It could work.
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Jan 8, 2015 01:44
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The best DS RPGs aren't Final Fantasy. Grab Radiant Historia and Dragon Quest IX, both great great games. DQIX can be played with a friend, the whole game.
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Jan 8, 2015 01:50
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Get the other Dragon Quests on the DS instead. 9 is basically just a Final Fantasy with DQ sprites and you can sleep walk through it. DQ4, 5 and 6 were remade for the DS and are great games!
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Jan 8, 2015 01:54
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W.T. Fits posted:No, for the true Taro Yoko experience in Curtain Call, we need the "music" from Drakengard 1's Branch E ending. You take that back.  No. What's needed is Drakengard 3's final song
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Jan 8, 2015 02:01
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Pesky Splinter posted:You take that back. It'll be a battle song and the enemies are just Mikhail over and over.
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Jan 8, 2015 02:18
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Squallege posted:It'll be a battle song and the enemies are just Mikhail over and over. You monster 
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Jan 8, 2015 02:20
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Artix posted:You monster It's not that I don't like Mikhail, it's just that it's the only way to accurately represent the whole ordeal.
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Squallege posted:It's not that I don't like Mikhail, it's just that it's the only way to accurately represent the whole ordeal. "His name was Mik-hail, his name was Mik-hail! He really LO-VED him some ZEE~RO!" 
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Jan 8, 2015 02:28
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Revenge of the facepope was super easy, guys. Does he get harder?
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Jan 8, 2015 03:53
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A lot of people have trouble with a move in his final boss mode, but you should be fine.
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Jan 8, 2015 03:54
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Do I ever get a quick travel or anything? Because I guess I'm at the point where I've got to go to the end of the game. But I want to finish the missions. Some of these missions are really far away.
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Yeah, you can bounce from crystal to crystal with a warp item that I think you can buy from the store.
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Nuebot posted:Revenge of the facepope was super easy, guys. Nah. He's honestly not a hard fight as long as you're cycling paradigms and buffing/debuffing properly.
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Jan 8, 2015 04:23
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Nuebot posted:Revenge of the facepope was super easy, guys. Did you max out your Crystals before hand so you could put in the entire 100000 into the next level of abilities?
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Nuebot posted:Do I ever get a quick travel or anything? Because I guess I'm at the point where I've got to go to the end of the game. But I want to finish the missions. Some of these missions are really far away. If you've been paying attention to the Cie'th stones, the Yellow ones on the map are warp points but you have to clear whatever hunt is attached to them to activate them.
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Jan 8, 2015 04:31
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Beef Waifu posted:A lot of people have trouble with a move in his final boss mode, but you should be fine. I think I died once to Final Spacepope in my last run through,, but I agree he's generally not hard. His gigantic dumb face was also perfect for Sazh Blitz abuse, which is oh so much fun when you encounter enemies where you can drop the full clip into him.
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Artix posted:If you've been paying attention to the Cie'th stones, the Yellow ones on the map are warp points but you have to clear whatever hunt is attached to them to activate them. I've been clearing them all but I can't figure out how to use them to warp. Please help I am dumb. The Taint Reaper posted:Did you max out your Crystals before hand so you could put in the entire 100000 into the next level of abilities? Not all of them, and I've mostly been neglecting the characters that aren't in my battle party because I hate hope. But that's mostly because just sitting there waiting for the crystal grid to move is really boring sometimes, some of the lines take forever to fill in.
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Nuebot posted:I've been clearing them all but I can't figure out how to use them to warp. Please help I am dumb. Literally just talk to them again and pick "warp". E: Also I have some bad news if you've been neglecting Vanille because you are really going to want Poison for the end of the game.  Artix fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Jan 8, 2015 |
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Doing the Bevelle Cloister of Trials four times in a row is not fun in case you guys were wondering.
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Artix posted:Literally just talk to them again and pick "warp". Vanille is one of my three, the game had her set up as my main healer and I'm too lazy to set anyone else up as a good healer. She's a good debuffer too. EDIT: gently caress poison, I just managed to beat that neochu right after facepope by abusing Death. Twelve by Pies posted:Doing the Bevelle Cloister of Trials four times in a row is not fun in case you guys were wondering. Ahaha! Why on earth would you do that to yourself. Nuebot fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Jan 8, 2015 |
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Nuebot posted:Get the other Dragon Quests on the DS instead. 9 is basically just a Final Fantasy with DQ sprites and you can sleep walk through it. DQ4, 5 and 6 were remade for the DS and are great games! ...that you can also sleepwalk through* for the most part as well. *except Mudo, unless his fight isn't utter bullshit in the DS version because it was a brick wall of  in the original.Other good DS RPGs are the Etrian Odyssey games (well, 3 and 4 anyways).
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Evil Fluffy posted:...that you can also sleepwalk through* for the most part as well. I don't remember having a lot of trouble with Murdaw/Mudo in the DS version. However the lionman boss in IV was a hot pile of "gently caress you."
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In FF13-2, I appreciate that "Scream at Hope" is not only a dialogue option, but a (the?) correct option as well.
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Evil Fluffy posted:...that you can also sleepwalk through* for the most part as well. Okay yeah you're mostly true. DQ game's aren't much harder than FF unless you're running away from every battle. But I still stand that the other three are better than nine.
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Nuebot posted:Ahaha! Why on earth would you do that to yourself. First time: "Oh I wonder what's past this HP sphere chest...hmm, poo poo, cutscene, I didn't explore to the left first." Second time: "Time to see what's on the left...oh, I needed to keep a Bevelle sphere in the pedestal so it can get me over to the chest." Third time: "Okay cool a Knight's Lance, guess I can go on...wait, wasn't I supposed to get an Al-Bhed Primer right after the wedding?" So the fourth time was the charm.
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Agreed posted:It seems like it has the best pace out of any of the FF games I've played during its battles. I don't really like the voice acting, but good voice acting from the time period is rare anyway. The story seems fine but I haven't got very far. Yeah, when FFX first came out it was one of my favorite games but with the state of FF today I expected to pick up the HD Rerelease and be disappointed. Turns out no, FF games really were good at one point. The VA for the main characters is much better than I remembered, even if it's not up to par with today's standards in some cases (Yuna). The VA for the extras is straight up embarrassing but you don't run into it much. HORNLESS HORNLESS The music is fantastic, I actually enjoyed the story and cutscenes, the battle system is fun and it was the first time I got to use the Expert grid and figuring out how to break that early on was really rewarding. The things I don't like though - the temple puzzles are terrible. The challenge is basically wasting your time and being clunky as gently caress. The postgame gets really grindy too, like there's a lot to do in there but you need to do terrible minigames and then remake the sphere grid by killing the same things over and over. I remember a lot of doom and gloom when Squaresoft became Square Enix, but there was a noticeable decline after the merger. KamikazePotato posted:Curtain Call's DLC isn't complete until we get Nier music there. Still the best soundtrack that's ever been in a Square game. Ugh you made me wish for something that would never happen. I should be happy enough we're getting this second round of DLC already.
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FFX was awesome, but locking Yuna's Celestial weapon behind 100%ing the temples with no notification to you that it would be necessary, let alone even a thing you could do/miss and not being able to go back, is total bullshit. Also gently caress chocobo racing and lightning dodging forever.
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Celestial weapon grinding was so meh once you learned how to craft. Takes a fraction of the time and no minigame bullshit, especially if you just want to beat the game.
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Tae posted:Celestial weapon grinding was so meh once you learned how to craft. Takes a fraction of the time and no minigame bullshit, especially if you just want to beat the game. Yeah that's what I eventually ended up doing. I wanted them more just to have them but realizing there was no way for me to get back into the one temple without beating a dark aeon, I just said gently caress it. It was still bullshit though. And now I'm in x-2 where garment grids and dress spheres are completely missable without notice unless you look at a guide. I hope the treasure hunter grid wasn't any good cause I can no longer get it anymore.
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Tae posted:Celestial weapon grinding was so meh once you learned how to craft. Takes a fraction of the time and no minigame bullshit, especially if you just want to beat the game. Celestial weapons can get a massive damage bonus and (partially?) penetrate enemy defense though. A normal BDL weapon will need both 255 Str and Str+30% in order to hit 99999 damage on the highest defense enemies, while celestial weapons can reach that at much less Str. Dark matters for making BDL weapons are also a pain to farm until you can grind on Dark Yojimbo. At least Rikku's and Auron's weapons are easy to get and unmissable. (The power of the God Hand!) Leper Residue posted:It was still bullshit though. And now I'm in x-2 where garment grids and dress spheres are completely missable without notice unless you look at a guide. I hope the treasure hunter grid wasn't any good cause I can no longer get it anymore. You still have the possibility of New Game +!
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The celestial weapons just straight up treat any enemy's defense as being 0 whenever you attack with them, which is a trait no other weapons in the game have. Most of the post-game optional superbosses take diddly-squat damage from any non-celestial weapon because they all have 255 defense.
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Also none of the miss-able stuff is really super needed. None of 10-2's postgame stuff is as ridiculous as the first game's outside of minigames and a few bosses.
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The GIG posted:Also none of the miss-able stuff is really super needed. None of 10-2's postgame stuff is as ridiculous as the first game's outside of minigames and a few bosses. It's not so much that the stuff is needed, but that it's very easily missed. I probably never would have even bothered with the sphere attack tournament had I not looked at a guide, which would have cost me a class. Kind of lovely in a game centered around playing around with classes.
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I've made my way all the way up to the fight with Doga in the FF III remake, and I now have a firm understanding of why the game is considered bad.
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