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Yeah, that's the challenge of it. I can definitely see the fun factor dropping though  Maybe I'll switch to another kind of run before we start. Or maybe I won't. We'll see.edit: Yeah, I went #regrand instead. Although all the options are good. Dammit it's hard to decide. Pollyanna fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Jun 20, 2015 |
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it's only very slightly more challenging than a normal run and a lot shittier. just go normal or chaos, you'll be kicking yourself if you don't
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Jun 20, 2015 03:31
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Trust of the words of everyone who's done a Natural/Classic run (which includes drat near everyone in this thread): NATURAL RUNS ARE NOT FUN. They're really not even challenging in a good way. A good challenge is one that makes you think outside the box and make each choice, set-up, and action as efficiently as possible. Natural is a boring-rear end grindfest where the only challenge is gaining levels until your characters are tough enough to overcome their sharply limited skillset.
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^^ Hearing more about it makes me feel better that I decided to change runs.Fungah! posted:it's only very slightly more challenging than a normal run and a lot shittier. just go normal or chaos, you'll be kicking yourself if you don't You know what, gently caress it. Might as well go all out. #RegChaos 
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Quoting myself from a few pages back for an alternative to a pure natural run:ultrafilter posted:I had an idea last year for a mode that fits somewhere between a standard and a natural run, and I thought I'd toss it out in case anyone else wants to give it a try. The basic idea is that you roll your party according to Gilgabot, and each character gets access to two jobs. The first is whatever they'd get under a natural run, and the second is your choice among what you've been assigned. This makes the game a little tougher than if each character could use all four jobs, but it's not quite as tedious as a strict natural run would be.
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A "subclass" run? (How many times can you change your mind about your run prior to the fiesta starting? I don't know if my most recent registration went through.)
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In for a "chaos run", whatever that is. It's been a while since i've done a playthrough of V.
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I hope chaos is something crazy like Freelance with randomly-assigned abilities.
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I wonder how they'd pull something like that off, though. Anything beyond telling you what jobs you can use would require some sort of patch or cheats involved. That gets really complicated.
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And also shuts out a huge chunk of the Fiestabase who does this legit on their phones/GBAs/PSOnes. Assuming that everyone is going to emulate and, in turn, have access to cheats and romhacks is a great way to kill the Fiesta dead.Bufuman posted:That's mostly a matter of opinion, too. I'm one of the few that actually likes the art style somewhat. Or maybe it's just that I like having a fresh look after having only ever played the PSX and GBA versions. Probably a bit of both. Everyone is sticking their chest out like pigeons. Forget Drakengard 3, FF5 iOS is the real Hatoful Boyfriend sequel.
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Jun 20, 2015 06:43
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In for #RegRand #BERSERKERRISK, god help me.
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D1Sergo posted:In for #RegRand #BERSERKERRISK, god help me. That's the same combination I got the first triple crown of last year with (two berserkers: knight/zerk/time/zerk). You'll be fine. 
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So ready for this. Actually no I'm not ready at all I forgot everything from last time, and even then I had Knight/Ninja/Samurai/Summoner so it's not like a broke a sweat.
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Kyrosiris posted:That's the same combination I got the first triple crown of last year with (two berserkers: knight/zerk/time/zerk). You'll be fine. So you made Omega experience what it feels to lose all its' health at once and made Shinryu really loving mad and the Knight just took hits like a champ? I dunno if recognizing how you beat them just by what you said your team was is good or bad.
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Dug all through my basket of PS1/PS2 games to try and find my copy of Anthology. It was right on loving top, hidden by the blanket that got tossed over it.  Now I need to see which memory card has my old saves on it, or failing that, which has free space.
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Jun 20, 2015 10:21
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Dareon posted:Dug all through my basket of PS1/PS2 games to try and find my copy of Anthology. It was right on loving top, hidden by the blanket that got tossed over it. Have fun killing Karl Boss and Y-Burns.
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Huzzah! posted:Have fun killing Karl Boss and Y-Burns. I wouldn't have it any other way, you whippersnappers and your "remasters" and "updated localizations" and "rap music". Also, it begins:  (I will only be taking another screenshot of NED's death, because seriously, gently caress using an entry-level digital camera I don't know how to use properly to take a picture of a PS2 running into an HDTV.) e: I should take a picture of this post with my cellphone camera, then upload that.
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Sax Solo posted:So ready for this. I had the same party during my practice run a few weeks ago. I still had trouble in a few spots. I am obviously not good enough at FF5.
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Dareon posted:e: I should take a picture of this post with my cellphone camera, then upload that. It's pretty clear that you've not gone deep enough. 
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So, the run begins in about 16 hours? Is there anyone in particular that stands out as the person to watch this year?
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Ugato posted:So, the run begins in about 16 hours? Is there anyone in particular that stands out as the person to watch this year? "I just realized I didn't put Butz in the front row..." "I'M NOT USING FOCUS, IT DOESN'T DO ENOUGH DAMAGE. I TESTED THIS EXTENSIVELY." Dragondarch. DRAGONDARCH. Always and only DRAGONDARCH http://twitch.tv/dragondarchsda
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I'm still not sure I'd stopped using a Gameshark last time I played. This might actually be my first legitimate run. Coming back to the game after around a decade of absence, I'm still impressed with the spritework on the backgrounds. In fact, I'm going to do running commentary of my impressions coming back to the game. From start of game to parked near the Wind Temple: Meteor crashes in glorious Mode7! That always struck me as a really janky way to do things, but I don't think they had any better options. I'm still impressed by having Boko run in place a little to represent kicking dirt on the campfire. Really, they do a lot with a small number of unique sprites. For Christ's sake Galuf, of all the things to have forgotten, I would not have expected your weapon to be one of them. Look, Jesus, it's taking two of you to kill a bat. As mentioned, the backgrounds are really well-done. The pirate ship in particular. I think the only time I've seen spritework with that level of care recently was Bastion/Transistor. I should probably not be buying weapons (And definitely not spells) until I know what I'll actually be able to use, but gently caress it, Galuf, you're getting a sword. Not like money's hard to come by in any case. The bit where Bartz and Galuf get smitten by the sleeping Faris I can now recognize as being fairly typical of the Japanese approach to sexuality, but it's handled much better than Persona 4 (Or at least, the anime of it) handled the subject. Also, the music during that scene (I believe the official title is "What?") still reminds me of cheesy porno music. Okay, I know I ground for levels on Bandrsntch before, but I seem to remember I can't take on three at once. *two OHKOs later* Yup, I was right.
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Has anyone here played the Ancient Cave hack? I played through it a couple weeks ago, it's pretty fun, and a great way to refamiliarizie yourself with items and abilities in a challenge similar to the fiesta. It's quite difficult and there are a few new surprises, too. A good way to hold over till the fiesta starts
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Ugato posted:So, the run begins in about 16 hours? Is there anyone in particular that stands out as the person to watch this year? * HappySquid89 is the fastest of the four in any% at 4:05:16, roughly 9 minutes behind the WR. He's also been dueling for the glitchless Lufia II WR and practicing a lot with.. * Elmagus, who's roughly six minutes slower in any%. He has held some drat impressive times in the Lufia 2 Ancient Cave as well, which has some similarity to the Fiesta in terms of the lateral thinking you'll need to adapt to what an RNG decides you get. He's also one of the chillest streamers of the lot, in my opinion, second only to.. * Puwexil, who's roughly six minutes slower than that in any%. Puwexil is a vast font of Final Fantasy (and Chrono Trigger) knowledge, and currently holds the WR in FF6 any% glitchless. He's also got experience with Fiesta rules and The Run, having decisively won last year's Run against.. * Dragondarch, who is a bit of a speedrun dilettante. He holds a bunch of SDA records for games of varying amounts of quality, including the segmented Lufia II record. He's not terribly popular around these parts after his abysmal Run last year and his behavior during it, and by all accounts his strategy for this year seems no less bizarre, so he may be the optimal schadenfreude option.
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 I'm actually going to do my fiesta run on Android this year. I already spent money on the drat game a year or so ago so why not. May record boss battles too to show them off since apparently Lollipop can do that, though the audio's pretty bad. Mega64 fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Jun 20, 2015 |
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Jun 20, 2015 15:34
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Fartz Omega: This isn't even my final fart.
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Also, in case anyone was curious as to what battles in the mobile version look like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxgpSXnolJk No Audio. Gonna have to dub in stuff if I decide to record all my boss battles.
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Jun 20, 2015 16:46
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Man, that UI really is just atrocious. RPG Maker has a better UI than that at this point.
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Square-Enix does know that they're not required to use sample menu assets for everything, right? That they can make their own?
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duckfist posted:Has anyone here played the Ancient Cave hack? I played through it a couple weeks ago, it's pretty fun, and a great way to refamiliarizie yourself with items and abilities in a challenge similar to the fiesta. It's quite difficult and there are a few new surprises, too. A good way to hold over till the fiesta starts I can confirm everything. The Ancient Cave hack is amazing, and it's a perfect application of FFV's mechanics. It forces you to think outside the box with the tools that you're given, and if there are potential synergies in your loadout, you either find them or you die. It's how I learned of the glory of the DANCE PUNCHER, when in a run I had Monk, Dancer, and a pair of Kaiser Knuckles by level 10. And if I remember right, that run STILL didn't win.
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So, anyone want to give the lowdown on how the mods/hacks work for the Fiesta runs?
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There are none, the game is played vanilla.
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StrangeAeon posted:So, anyone want to give the lowdown on how the mods/hacks work for the Fiesta runs? RK approved at least one picture of Cactuar!Neo-Exdeath last year, so Fiesta mod is okay. As for Can's balance mod, there's no way that anyone could tell if you're using, so why not.
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Mr. Bing posted:I can confirm everything. The Ancient Cave hack is amazing, and it's a perfect application of FFV's mechanics. It forces you to think outside the box with the tools that you're given, and if there are potential synergies in your loadout, you either find them or you die. It's how I learned of the glory of the DANCE PUNCHER, when in a run I had Monk, Dancer, and a pair of Kaiser Knuckles by level 10. And if I remember right, that run STILL didn't win. Except that the timer and general expectations in the endgame more or less require you to pick up really fast ways to get through random battles (like !iainuki) asap so that you can have the abilities needed for the last few boss floors.
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Chaotic Neutral posted:Watch them all, since there's going to be a multistream on RPG Limit Break, but here's a rundown: Oh, do please talk expand upon dd's strategy this year? 
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Capsaicin posted:Oh, do please talk expand upon dd's strategy this year? Apparently he level grinds on loving Black Flames in world 1 for some inane reason. 
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To a level he'd easily have if he just fought a few randoms on the way to Byblos. Then he grinds minidragons with a team that has to break 3 rods to do so.
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Kyrosiris posted:Apparently he level grinds on loving Black Flames in world 1 for some inane reason. Well, that's not unexpected.
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