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al-azad posted:The hilarious thing is that Moguri is literally MOOGLE, the official 100% Square-Enix approved spelling of that character. Actually FWIW there are a fair number of Japanese games where they romanize it as "Moglie" either in-game or in accompanying materials. I remember seeing that spelling a lot during the PS1 era. But yeah Moguri is just dumb.
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Other languages also use the Japanese name for them, the German localizations use "Mogry" for example which is effectively the same pronunciation. That said, Moogle is the name that's been used in English forever, there's no good reason to change it.
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Feb 16, 2015 17:07
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So after about an hour of real game time, I finally got two dark grapes. It turns out one spanws in Villa Lake in Tephra Cave once every three or four blue item resets.
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Feb 16, 2015 17:37
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While we're on translation topics, I've always wondered if in FFXII licenses to unlock new skills was a poor translation. Anyone know?
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Feb 16, 2015 17:50
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Reason posted:While we're on translation topics, I've always wondered if in FFXII licenses to unlock new skills was a poor translation. Anyone know? Nope. It's just a weird flavor thing.
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Feb 16, 2015 17:52
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Ok so I like JRPGS as a general rule and I loved the likes of FFVII and FFVIII when they came out but I find if I try and go back play those PS1 games the way they've aged really hampers my enjoyment. The question is having never played Chrono Cross bit still loving Chrono Trigger is it worth me playing it or has it aged quite badly?
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Feb 16, 2015 18:09
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It's probably the best looking PS1 game and I don't think the the gameplay has aged much but it's still definitely an old game.
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Feb 16, 2015 18:18
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It depends on what exactly is no longer to your liking in FFVII or FFVIII. Graphics? Gameplay? Story and setting? Chrono Cross is not a game for everyone and if something about Late 90s era JRPGs is inherently unpleasant to you then you probably won't like Chrono Cross much.
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Feb 16, 2015 18:20
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The only bad thing about Cross' gameplay is how unbearably slow your characters are when they "run". It otherwise should've aged just fine.
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StoneOfShame posted:Ok so I like JRPGS as a general rule and I loved the likes of FFVII and FFVIII when they came out but I find if I try and go back play those PS1 games the way they've aged really hampers my enjoyment. The question is having never played Chrono Cross bit still loving Chrono Trigger is it worth me playing it or has it aged quite badly? However, Chrono Cross's soundtrack is amazing, and it's in the running for the most beautiful PS1 era games. I think it still holds up. If you're still on the fence, give it a try and see if the battle system grabs you. It isn't a lot like Chrono Trigger so you'll have to see for yourself.
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Feb 16, 2015 18:26
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Ok that sounds like its worth a try at least anyway. I think what it is that gets me with some older JRPGs are when there are bits with loads of encounters that are all the same and gets tedious (I'm looking at you Dreamcast version of Skies of Arcadia).
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Feb 16, 2015 18:30
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Nate RFB posted:The only bad thing about Cross' gameplay is how unbearably slow your characters are when they "run". It otherwise should've aged just fine. It's not half as bad as the running in Parasite Eve so it's fine in my book.
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Feb 16, 2015 18:50
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Genpei Turtle posted:Actually FWIW there are a fair number of Japanese games where they romanize it as "Moglie" either in-game or in accompanying materials. I remember seeing that spelling a lot during the PS1 era. So's "Aerith". I can't read that name without picturing either Sylvester the Cat or a Robert Asprin book.
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Feb 16, 2015 18:58
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NikkolasKing posted:It depends on what exactly is no longer to your liking in FFVII or FFVIII. Graphics? Gameplay? Story and setting? Chrono Cross is just a down right bad game. Nonsensical leveling system, nonsense story, obvious shoe horned into the Chrono storyline to sell units, pointless fetch quests. Absolutely fantastic music though. Oh and if you're colorblind it is completely unplayable.
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Feb 16, 2015 19:01
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DARKSEID DICK PICS posted:edit: How the gently caress is this thing almost 3GB. They probably did it like me and all their map assets are huge, singular images with transparencies instead of layered tiles. I had the excuse of literally having no idea what I was doing, but from everything I've heard about Pier Solar, that's kind of a generally persistent state of being for them.
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Feb 16, 2015 19:08
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Codiekitty posted:So's "Aerith". I can't read that name without picturing either Sylvester the Cat or a Robert Asprin book. It's pronounced like "Earth." That's the entire joke. It's literally the English word Earth turned into a Japanese name.
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StoneOfShame posted:Ok so I like JRPGS as a general rule and I loved the likes of FFVII and FFVIII when they came out but I find if I try and go back play those PS1 games the way they've aged really hampers my enjoyment. The question is having never played Chrono Cross bit still loving Chrono Trigger is it worth me playing it or has it aged quite badly? don't play chrono cross for want of chrono trigger. it won't deliver. play it for a unique battle system, amazing music, and an, uh, "avant-garde" plot. unless you're color blind. then don't play it.
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Feb 16, 2015 19:14
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HGH posted:Even the most basic writing courses teach this sorta stuff. All that stuff comes from experience. Turns out localizers are treated kind of badly and paid dirt. It is like the game industry in a lot of ways. Same with voice actors although that one is a bit trickier. Rascyc fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Feb 16, 2015 |
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Feb 16, 2015 19:15
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ImpAtom posted:It's pronounced like "Earth." That's the entire joke. It's literally the English word Earth turned into a Japanese name. It would have really capped off the whole fan translation if they changed Aerith/Aeris to Earth.
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Feb 16, 2015 20:10
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The White Dragon posted:They probably did it like me and all their map assets are huge, singular images with transparencies instead of layered tiles. I had the excuse of literally having no idea what I was doing, but from everything I've heard about Pier Solar, that's kind of a generally persistent state of being for them. I don't even know why the original game took up 64 megabits (which the game constantly brags about being), because the game world is tiny and there's like twenty common enemies in the whole game. The game world's tiny even compared to 7th Saga, and that game was only 12 megabits. There's creating a huge game, and then there's inefficiency and resource bloat.
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Feb 16, 2015 20:34
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The extra space on the cartridge is probably for music.
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Is Crusader Kings II vanilla worth 10 bucks or is it like EU4 and really starts to shine with $50 bucks of DLC added on?
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Feb 16, 2015 21:05
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Codiekitty posted:So's "Aerith". I can't read that name without picturing either Sylvester the Cat or a Robert Asprin book. What, did they change Aerith to something else for the English version? I never played that. ed: ah missed the follow-up post with "Aeris" in it. Yeah I can see how they might have messed up that romanization, but as mentioned it kind of misses the point for where the name came from. Genpei Turtle fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Feb 16, 2015 |
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Feb 16, 2015 21:08
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Genpei Turtle posted:What, did they change Aerith to something else for the English version? I never played that. The original translation is Aeris. They swapped it back to Aerith when Kingdom Hearts came out and have used that every since.
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Feb 16, 2015 21:10
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Is Jade Cocoon 2 as dull and monotone as the first one?
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Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:Is Crusader Kings II vanilla worth 10 bucks or is it like EU4 and really starts to shine with $50 bucks of DLC added on? http://www.crusaderkings.com/news/2015/2/crusader-kings-ii-turns-three-outliving-hundreds-of-inconvenient-nephews In reality, a few expansion packs would be nice. They are not required but they flesh out the game quite a bit. They regularly go 75% off on sale. You don't have to get every single one. Sword of Islam, Old Gods, Sons of Abraham and Legacy of Rome are pretty good I feel. So is Charlemagne but that one was a bit buggy. I would get at least Old Gods, you can get the rest as time goes on as the game goes on sale often. Everything else is good only if you are interested in that particular government/area. There is the latest expansion pack, Way of Life, but that one just released so will probably stay at full price for a while. It's supposed to make the game even more of an RPG, but I haven't tried it myself.
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Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:Chrono Cross is just a down right bad game. Nonsensical leveling system, nonsense story, obvious shoe horned into the Chrono storyline to sell units, pointless fetch quests. I'm colorblind and never had any problems with it. So I'm not sure what you mean. Now games with little red and green dots on the minimap? Those games can gently caress off. And Chrono Cross isn't bad. The storyline gets convoluted as gently caress at the very end, but that was almost par for the course for JRPGs from the era. And the leveling system is actually pretty clever; not sure what your issue with it was. "Leveling" is just handled by how many bosses you've killed. It's designed to keep your whole large team on the same power footing without any need to grind, prevent under- or over-leveling, and provide a carefully controlled challenge because the designers knew exactly how strong you would be.
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Schwartzcough posted:I'm colorblind and never had any problems with it. So I'm not sure what you mean. Now games with little red and green dots on the minimap? Those games can gently caress off. To beat Chrono Cross you need to use elements in the correct order to weaken/kill the final boss. Who can gently caress up the middle of your combos by playing the wrong element and force you to start over. I'm pretty sure the only indication of which element was affecting the field was the color.
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Feb 16, 2015 23:23
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SelenicMartian posted:Is Jade Cocoon 2 as dull and monotone as the first one? The gameplay is better but it is quite repetitive. I personally loved the "quiet end of the world" setting in the first one, but the second one doesn't quite deliver there. It does bookend the first game's protagonist really well though.
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Zore posted:To beat Chrono Cross you need to use elements in the correct order to weaken/kill the final boss. Who can gently caress up the middle of your combos by playing the wrong element and force you to start over. Ah, well maybe if you're massively colorblind, then. Most colorblind people can see most colors just fine, and can even tell the difference between their "problem" colors if what they're looking at is large enough and the colors distinct enough. I'm red-green colorblind, and never had a hard time telling between the red and green elements, since they were large and very distinct when shown in-game.
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Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:Is Crusader Kings II vanilla worth 10 bucks or is it like EU4 and really starts to shine with $50 bucks of DLC added on? Get the DLC for whatever civ you want to play as and ignore the rest -- the AI will still be able to use stuff you don't have expansions for, so if you don't want to ever play a pagan then you don't need the pagan expansion.
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How is the Last Story and how does it compare to Xenoblade?
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Zore posted:To beat Chrono Cross you need to use elements in the correct order to weaken/kill the final boss. Who can gently caress up the middle of your combos by playing the wrong element and force you to start over. You know, how there's noises when you cast elements during the final boss? You're playing a song that appeared in the game before.
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Finished hexyz force, it was pretty solid in gameplay and also extremely forgettable in story. Having a turbo button for both battles, cutscenes, and any non-interactive moment in the game was amazing and it is criminal that other games don't do this (other than Last Remnant). The ability to use the force "currency" of the game to level up your weapons allows for really fun cheesing if that's what you want out of a game (and I do). The game has two campaigns but one might have been enough for me, maybe a long time from now I'll come back and play the other.
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punk rebel ecks posted:How is the Last Story and how does it compare to Xenoblade? That about sums it up. Seriously you could play this game with your pinky toe (or knub if you lack one) and you will still finish the game. It's like a cover-based shooter meets RPG but nothing really matters, just push buttons. It's really strange. The gear system is fun simply because you can make the funny character designs look even funnier. It's similar to Xenoblade there. But yeah Xenoblade is better. Last Story has charm, that's about it.
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Out of the Operation Rainfall games, I think my order from least liked to most is Last Story > Pandora's Tower > Xenoblade. They're all good, but Last Story has some issues.
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Feb 17, 2015 00:55
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Were there any can't miss RPGs for 360, PS3 or Wii? (I already have Xenoblade) I'm catching up on consoles that I didn't buy until used.
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Feb 17, 2015 00:57
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Zore posted:To beat Chrono Cross you need to use elements in the correct order to weaken/kill the final boss. Who can gently caress up the middle of your combos by playing the wrong element and force you to start over. I dunno if this is true or not but I heard that the final boss actually will continue/complete the sequence for you as long as you are a decent way into it. I heard this because, when I did it, I got in everything except Black and I was afraid he was gonna gently caress it all up but then he did Black and thus the fight was over. Granted, I don't want to be any poor schlub who had to remember the right sequence without the help of friends or the Internet. I never would have remembered from just the couple hints in game.
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NikkolasKing posted:I dunno if this is true or not but I heard that the final boss actually will continue/complete the sequence for you as long as you are a decent way into it. I heard this because, when I did it, I got in everything except Black and I was afraid he was gonna gently caress it all up but then he did Black and thus the fight was over. The end boss tries to continue the pattern using the opposite colours (so it drops green where you have to use yellow, etc), except it will use White and Black in the correct place; I'm not sure whether that's intentional or accidental. It also just stops dead after you use the first six, before you cast Chrono Cross, because Chrono Cross has no opposite colour to use. You can just sit there forever.
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punk rebel ecks posted:How is the Last Story and how does it compare to Xenoblade? It's not as good as Xenoblade, but it's pretty charming and funny. The gameplay is odd, A great deal is based around having your mages create magic circles, and your main character rushes into them to disperse them to create effects. It's a pretty easy game for most of it... until the later parts, where the difficulty spikes quite a bit - and the final boss spikes even higher past that.
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