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The main inventory killer right now are all the identified items. I throw away bombs and meat and other pet stuff since Lin makes them obsolete.
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If you're gonna dump bombs and meat just gently caress all of your bombs at a group before you fight and then get an extra turn and kill em for a large party xp boost. No need to drop them entirely.
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Aug 24, 2015 12:24
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Shibawanko posted:What's Dawn of Mana like? A very beautiful, incredibly slow version of Kingdom Hearts with little to no move variety and a physics engine where you throw poo poo at enemies to scare the crap out of them long enough to beat them to death. It's chapters are also split out more like levels, and your character level is reset for every chapter and the max level is 5 and what level you're at determines your combo string/what spells you can use/your health. It's very weird but I love the hell out of it.
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Aug 24, 2015 15:53
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Phantasium posted:A very beautiful, incredibly slow version of Kingdom Hearts with little to no move variety and a physics engine where you throw poo poo at enemies to scare the crap out of them long enough to beat them to death. In comparison I'll say I hated Dawn of Mana a lot and found it horrifyingly boring and an example of the worst of the worst post-HL2 "everything has to have physics fuckery' gameplay. The English version is actually improved slightly over the Japanese version in terms of how medals and stuff are handled and it still sucked.
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Aug 24, 2015 15:56
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ImpAtom posted:In comparison I'll say I hated Dawn of Mana a lot and found it horrifyingly boring and an example of the worst of the worst post-HL2 "everything has to have physics fuckery' gameplay. The English version is actually improved slightly over the Japanese version in terms of how medals and stuff are handled and it still sucked. I understand completely, it's pretty repetitive despite being incredibly short. But I think we've both mentioned this at several points now and leads me to believe that no one else played it.
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Aug 24, 2015 16:12
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I didn't get chance since they never bothered releasing it here. Apparently Ryuichi Sakamoto worked on the soundtrack???
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Aug 24, 2015 16:14
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Phantasium posted:I understand completely, it's pretty repetitive despite being incredibly short. But I think we've both mentioned this at several points now and leads me to believe that no one else played it. I wouldn't be shocked. It is like one of the most Forgotten games I can ever thing of despite being SD4. Like people mention Dragon Quarter a lot more than DoM.
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Aug 24, 2015 16:19
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ImpAtom posted:I wouldn't be shocked. It is like one of the most Forgotten games I can ever thing of despite being SD4. Like people mention Dragon Quarter a lot more than DoM.
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Aug 24, 2015 16:41
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Isn't Sword of Mana just a remake of the original Final Fantasy Adventure? It was okay but showed its age.
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Aug 24, 2015 16:42
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Quest For Glory II posted:What about Sword of Mana It's okay. It's a simple remake with some new features. I didn't particularly love it but from what I recall it was perfectly competent.
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Aug 24, 2015 16:45
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Tae posted:The main inventory killer right now are all the identified items. I throw away bombs and meat and other pet stuff since Lin makes them obsolete. Food/Bombs are absurdly good actually, because they can group enemies together and weaken them up. You get bonus XP for how many enemies you fight at once and how fast you kill them. You lose your inventory capacity upgrades if you restore too IIRC so be careful. As soon as you get access to the Ant village you should start that poo poo up ASAP because it gives you access to a ton of stuff, as well as has a huge bonus dungeon at the end of it if that's your thing. Since a couple of people were asking how the heck you deal with the bossrush bosses and such without Dragon form, the trick with Ryu is to save up a second full action bar before you start attacking, and make sure you have the power up skill equipped as well. Boss's shields regenerate every turn (or is it ever attack string?) so your goal is to focus everything into big combos. IIRC this also applies if Ryu or Lin knocks an enemy into a Trap, so you can stack 3x traps, do a big combo, end by pushing them into the traps, etc. And yeah the game is very doable without NG+ at all once you understand how to manage the D-Counter, food/bombs, and combo systems. Abusing Restore helps a lot for the boss rush area though, since there are multiple paths. D-Counter buildup from walking around or passing turns in combat is completely negligible, it's not a very long game.
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Quest For Glory II posted:What about Sword of Mana If you're at all competent with the crafting system you'll kill most of the bosses in the game in under 10 seconds.
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Aug 24, 2015 16:48
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Grandia 2 is up on Steam.
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Aug 24, 2015 17:48
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Terper posted:Grandia 2 is up on Steam. It has one private negative review for some reason as well.
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Aug 24, 2015 17:51
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Don't buy it yet, I don't think anybody can even play it right now. It's not downloading all the files or something?
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Aug 24, 2015 17:53
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I kiiiiind of want to give Grandia II a whirl again. I beat it on the PS2 of all things and seem to remember liking it, but it'd be nice to try again on a (hopefully) better release.
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Aug 24, 2015 17:54
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Was the dub for Grandia 2 good, It's been so long that I forgot. It has the JP voice option at least if it is I guess.
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Aug 24, 2015 17:55
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Ibram Gaunt posted:Was the dub for Grandia 2 good, It's been so long that I forgot. It has the JP voice option at least if it is I guess. It was cheesy as hell. Cam Clarke voices the main character if you want an idea of how cheesy.
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Aug 24, 2015 17:57
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ImpAtom posted:It was cheesy as hell. Cam Clarke voices the main character if you want an idea of how cheesy. So you're saying there's no reason to use the JP voice track then
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Aug 24, 2015 17:59
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I think it's better than most other JRPG dubs of the time but it's still really hammy, Colonel Campbell as a smartass bird is a nice touch
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Aug 24, 2015 18:00
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If you like your RPGs to sound like a mediocre Saturday morning cartoon you'll probably like the Grandia 2 dub.
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Aug 24, 2015 18:00
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Ibram Gaunt posted:Was the dub for Grandia 2 good, It's been so long that I forgot. It has the JP voice option at least if it is I guess. It's like a reunion of Metal Gear Solid characters. Cam Clarke, John Cygan to name a few.
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Aug 24, 2015 18:00
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Red Red Blue posted:Don't buy it yet, I don't think anybody can even play it right now. It's not downloading all the files or something? Ya the GoG version is currently much bigger in file size.
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Aug 24, 2015 18:01
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Gwyrgyn Blood posted:If you like your RPGs to sound like a mediocre Saturday morning cartoon you'll probably like the Grandia 2 dub.
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Aug 24, 2015 18:02
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If you're wondering how the port is, this site seems to have a hands on impression. http://www.rpgsite.net/preview/4504-hands-on-with-grandia-ii-s-anniversary-edition-pc-port
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Aug 24, 2015 18:06
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Looks like it's downloading the rest of the game now
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Aug 24, 2015 18:12
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Endorph posted:they sound like that in japanese, also If you like your RPGs to sound like a mediocre Saturday morning cartoon you'll probably like  Mr. Fortitude posted:If you're wondering how the port is, this site seems to have a hands on impression. Hard Mode: Now it takes 20% more time to kill bosses which have no chance of ever hitting you.
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Aug 24, 2015 18:13
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Well, the new version of Grandia II doesn't crash when Milenna first uses Zap. That's farther than my original PC copy back in the day. Hard Mode is only a 20% increase in enemy HP?  That's not stopping the basic boom spell from clearing random encounters for the first half of the game.
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Aug 24, 2015 20:00
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I'm like halfway into Grandia 1 (I just got the big dude into my party after crossing over the wall, forget his name) and I kind of don't have the drive to finish it. Should I? Does it get incredibly cool in the latter half or anything? I'm being really tempted to just start Grandia 2 right now.
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Aug 24, 2015 21:58
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Amppelix posted:I'm like halfway into Grandia 1 (I just got the big dude into my party after crossing over the wall, forget his name) and I kind of don't have the drive to finish it. Should I? Does it get incredibly cool in the latter half or anything? I'm being really tempted to just start Grandia 2 right now. Please stop playing Grandia 1.
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Aug 24, 2015 22:02
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in atelier rorona is there some place to get good cabbage after the festival? i need to make the cabbage pie but i wasted all my good ones, best i have left are in the 50s
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Aug 24, 2015 22:16
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Davincie posted:in atelier rorona is there some place to get good cabbage after the festival? i need to make the cabbage pie but i wasted all my good ones, best i have left are in the 50s The Nearby Forest should have a cabbage area.
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Aug 24, 2015 22:20
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Amppelix posted:I'm like halfway into Grandia 1 (I just got the big dude into my party after crossing over the wall, forget his name) and I kind of don't have the drive to finish it. Should I? Does it get incredibly cool in the latter half or anything? I'm being really tempted to just start Grandia 2 right now. If you didn't enjoy the first half I can't remember anything that would make you love the back half, so you're probably safe to just move on
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Aug 24, 2015 22:21
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Golden Goat posted:Please stop playing Grandia 1. What, is it supposed to be bad? I quite enjoyed what I've played of it, it's just a combination of slow story and easy fights that's driving me away.
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Aug 24, 2015 22:22
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Amppelix posted:What, is it supposed to be bad? I quite enjoyed what I've played of it, it's just a combination of slow story and easy fights that's driving me away. It's just super plain and never really picks up. Go ahead and try Grandia 2
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grandia 2 is great. as long as nothing terrible is said about the port, so far it seems like theres only a minor glitch about not battles occasionally not giving gold/exp, go buy it so every rpg ever comes to steam please and thank you
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Aug 24, 2015 22:25
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ImpAtom posted:The Nearby Forest should have a cabbage area. Just to add to this, I think you'll want to use a Tonic before harvesting to get one at high enough quality.
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Aug 24, 2015 23:04
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wait you can do that? i've been missing out
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Aug 24, 2015 23:08
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Baltazar Robotnik posted:grandia 2 is great. as long as nothing terrible is said about the port, so far it seems like theres only a minor glitch about not battles occasionally not giving gold/exp, go buy it so every rpg ever comes to steam please and thank you It has some really weird audio issues I hope they can patch out. Stuff like footsteps are obnoxiously loud. They've also added music to scenes where there previously was not any and that's not bad, exactly, but it doesn't always fit well.
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Levantine posted:It has some really weird audio issues I hope they can patch out. Stuff like footsteps are obnoxiously loud. They've also added music to scenes where there previously was not any and that's not bad, exactly, but it doesn't always fit well.
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