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Hey, at least this time the PC-version doesn't glitch out with every other spell and makes you think the game crashed. I always hated when that happened, it made every battle feel twice as long if you used a lot of magic. I think I buy it tomorrow after I'm back from hiking in the local woods.
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At least I wasn't the only one to notice the weirdly loud footsteps I guess.
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Aug 25, 2015 01:41
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Sakurazuka posted:At least I wasn't the only one to notice the weirdly loud footsteps I guess. I'm surprised CLOMP you CLOMP noticed CLOMP anything CLOMP else  It looks like the devs are on top of the bugs, though. Hopefully they'll patch them quickly.
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Aug 25, 2015 12:22
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So I'm playing Grandia 3 after turboing through Quarter (was...a game? Super light on everything non-combat), and this is the longest set-up to "wait, she's your MOM" age joke ever. And in a very weird, questionable way as well.
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Aug 25, 2015 20:16
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Grandia 2:quote:"Yes, there was a lot of work done for Hard Mode both for regular enemies & for bosses. It's not just the raw health & defense numbers that are different, but also the speed of the opponents attack bar (frequency) that have been adjusted. As the user starts to progress the boss battles will start to become very challenging. Some battles later on that may have took 20mins on Normal Mode before could last 45-60mins+ mins on Hard Mode. Coins were just patched. Also don't talk to the tutorial guy in the shops because apparently it's still bugged from the Dreamcast version.
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Aug 25, 2015 20:18
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That sounds pretty good actually.
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Aug 25, 2015 20:22
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Rascyc posted:Grandia 2: I hope that is an exaggeration because that doesn't sound fun at all.
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Aug 25, 2015 20:26
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I think that's kind of his point for your typical player. Don't just randomly pick Hard mode unless you want that sort of thing. I doubt they'll actually last 45-60 minutes and are probably more like 30 minutes but even that's going to be a big turn off for a lot of people. Just don't play Hard unless you are a gigantic Grandia combat nut. It's best not to find these things out when it's not too late for your average player.
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Aug 25, 2015 20:38
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Tae posted:So I'm playing Grandia 3 after turboing through Quarter (was...a game? Super light on everything non-combat), and this is the longest set-up to "wait, she's your MOM" age joke ever. And in a very weird, questionable way as well. Please don't do Grandia 3 to yourself
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Aug 25, 2015 20:41
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Rascyc posted:Grandia 2:
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Aug 25, 2015 22:21
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I missed all the B-D talk but count me amongst the people that actually enjoyed the twist and everything about it and liked the themes and beat everything except the optional super boss. Turning off encounters made the later chapters a breeze. Also, ImpAtom pointed out something I never realized with the "Default 4 times then brave" thing. That is badass.
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Aug 25, 2015 22:23
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Rascyc posted:I think that's kind of his point for your typical player. Don't just randomly pick Hard mode unless you want that sort of thing. I doubt they'll actually last 45-60 minutes and are probably more like 30 minutes but even that's going to be a big turn off for a lot of people. Just don't play Hard unless you are a gigantic Grandia combat nut. Their numbers are wildly off, there wasn't a boss in the game taking me more then ten minutes, tops. Based on that, Hard Mode will probably double that number at most. And hey, even if not, I played Star Ocean II where you got bosses with 1+ million HP, while still being chained to a damage cap of 9999. I can take it.
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Aug 25, 2015 22:50
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Libluini posted:And hey, even if not, I played Star Ocean II where you got bosses with 1+ million HP, while still being chained to a damage cap of 9999. I can take it. Hell, there's a regular encounter with 250,000 HP. Though to SO2's credit, you did damage a lot faster in that game. 50,000/sec wasn't unreasonable. v enjoy the milf thing while it lasts because iirc when she's gone the game gets horrible Fur20 fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Aug 25, 2015 |
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Aug 25, 2015 23:01
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I like Grandia 3, best RPG I've played in this marathon of late. It's campy, but not in a super obnoxious way like Fencer F, and but this Milf thing is really going on too long, and I don't think there's a payoff
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Aug 25, 2015 23:01
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Tae posted:I like Grandia 3, best RPG I've played in this marathon of late. It's campy, but not in a super obnoxious way like Fencer F, and the payoff is that she leaves the party and nobody interesting replaces her
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Aug 25, 2015 23:04
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corn in the bible posted:the payoff is that she leaves the party and nobody interesting replaces her It's about the time I stopped playing G3 and haven't even tried another playthrough since.
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Aug 26, 2015 00:25
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What the heck the first big twist of wild arms 3 is the desert world has only existed for 10 years and the party is shocked but half of the party is like over the age of 30????
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Aug 26, 2015 00:28
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Quest For Glory II posted:What the heck the first big twist of wild arms 3 is the desert world has only existed for 10 years and the party is shocked but half of the party is like over the age of 30???? That's part of the twist. Their memories are inaccurate.
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Aug 26, 2015 00:28
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ImpAtom posted:That's part of the twist. Their memories are inaccurate. JRPG plots are dumb as hell I also got the two kids in my party in Infinite Undiscovery, so I have a party consisting of a limp noodle, a know it all, and two cast-offs from a stage play of annie
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Aug 26, 2015 00:39
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Quest For Glory II posted:I also got the two kids in my party in Infinite Undiscovery, so I have a party consisting of a limp noodle, a know it all, and two cast-offs from a stage play of annie  The creepiest part is their dead doll eyes lolled back into their head while they dance off. Infinite Undiscovery: The Burning Path of the Uncanny Valley. bloodychill fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Aug 26, 2015 |
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Aug 26, 2015 00:42
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Other than that IU is a fun game so I can deal with it I guess it's just Star Ocean that I can't enjoy from Tri-Ace
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Aug 26, 2015 00:44
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Tri-Ace needs to borrow whatever they used at Sega because Resonance of Fate is still probably their best looking 3D game.
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Aug 26, 2015 00:45
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Tae posted:Tri-Ace needs to borrow whatever they used at Sega because Resonance of Fate is still probably their best looking 3D game. Nah, that wasn't Sega. Resonance of Fate was done by the same team as Valkyrie Profile 2 which is by far one of the best-looking PS2 games and RoF has a lot in common with it, just from the next-gen.
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Aug 26, 2015 00:59
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ImpAtom posted:Nah, that wasn't Sega. Resonance of Fate was done by the same team as Valkyrie Profile 2 which is by far one of the best-looking PS2 games and RoF has a lot in common with it, just from the next-gen. Then I wish that team did all their character/world designs because Star Ocean and Undiscovery are poo poo by comparison. You ever played Star Ocean 3 at 1080p? Good christ those did not age well.
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Aug 26, 2015 01:03
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Tae posted:Then I wish that team did all their character/world designs because Star Ocean and Undiscovery are poo poo by comparison. You ever played Star Ocean 3 at 1080p? Good christ those did not age well. Trust me, I wish that too. 
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Aug 26, 2015 01:05
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Quest For Glory II posted:Ahhhhh
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From what I played of Star Ocean 3 the combat and just generally everything about the game is poo poo too
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Aug 26, 2015 01:06
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I kinda hope the massive sales of Valkyria Chronicles would mean Sega would want to port their rpgs, including Resonance Of Fate. Regardless of the game itself, its dub is probably the most natural sounding during the slice-of-life scenes than even a lot of american games.
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Quest For Glory II posted:From what I played of Star Ocean 3 the combat and just generally everything about the game is poo poo too "Let's balance our EXP curve based on the assumption that players have the 3x EXP boost!"
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Aug 26, 2015 01:28
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The White Dragon posted:"Let's balance our EXP curve based on the assumption that players have the 3x EXP boost!" don't be stupid. they never talked about exp balance at all and you know it.
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Tae posted:I kinda hope the massive sales of Valkyria Chronicles would mean Sega would want to port their rpgs, including Resonance Of Fate. Regardless of the game itself, its dub is probably the most natural sounding during the slice-of-life scenes than even a lot of american games. (But as a supporting point, because even this managed to sound not completely insane.)
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Okay, (Grandia 2 spoilers) the eye of valmar boss just destroyed me. Twice. Eight targets, all attacking separately and VERY FAST, often canceling your actions and doing quite a bit of damage while they're at it. Now I know how it feels to be a Grandia boss. 
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Panic! at Nabisco posted:Okay, (Grandia 2 spoilers) the eye of valmar boss just destroyed me. Twice. Eight targets, all attacking separately and VERY FAST, often canceling your actions and doing quite a bit of damage while they're at it. Now I know how it feels to be a Grandia boss. Never trust posters who call RPGs super easy. Those bosses gave me a fair bit of trouble, at least until I got my late-level abilities. I never had to grind, though.
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Renoistic posted:Never trust posters who call RPGs super easy. Those bosses gave me a fair bit of trouble, at least until I got my late-level abilities. I never had to grind, though.
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Evoland 2 just came out and while it's more on the Action Adventure end of the spectrum I think it's worth grabbing so far. The first game had some cool ideas but ended very quickly and lacked any kind of depth. 2 has a pretty cool story with some fun characters and is a lot meatier so far. I beat 1 in about 2 and a half hours. 2 is looking like it'll land between 15 and 20. No plot connection either if that's the kind of thing that'll stop you.
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Grandia 2, outside of hard mode shenanigans, is pathetically easy if you pick up on the easy to understand mechanics of each character's first special moves can cancel enemy attacks if they're charging up something big, and realize that powering it up to max makes those instant so you can stunlock bosses easily if you want/need to. On top of that one of them is a line AoE, making it easy to cancel an entire group if things line up right. There's also the character that can shut down everything if she's in the party with one move once she learns it. The only thing in the game that should remotely kill you in a normal playthrough is the optional hard area near the end of the game where enemies can get off BA-BOOM and have a high chance of wiping your party if it goes off, and a surprise attack will probably end with game over becuase of that. The franchise as a whole is pretty easy outside of 3, which is kind of ironic since it's the one with a mechanic that practically prevents you from wiping for like a minute.
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Zaggitz posted:Evoland 2 just came out and while it's more on the Action Adventure end of the spectrum I think it's worth grabbing so far. The first game had some cool ideas but ended very quickly and lacked any kind of depth. 2 has a pretty cool story with some fun characters and is a lot meatier so far. I beat 1 in about 2 and a half hours. 2 is looking like it'll land between 15 and 20. I got burned hard on Evoland, it was loving garbage. I won't get it, but please let me know if Evoland 2 is another overlong visit to a 1997 Geocities page about lol these jap games!!!1! or if they wised up and actually made a good game by stealing Beath of Flams wholesale.
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They Chrono Triggered it up by making the look/feel of certain eras of games be tied to the actual time periods you are visiting. There's actual writing and dialogue to it now as opposed to the most boring empty drivel of all time. The only time they go down into the straight jrpg trope hole is a direct homage to CT's battle system in one dungeon and I thought it worked really well. It honestly feels like its by an almost entirely different team. I guess those two dudes learned a lot in between a suped up game jam project and this actual game. edit: for the record I didn't think 1 was garbage, but I was thoroughly unimpressed by it. Zaggitz fucked around with this message at 10:14 on Aug 26, 2015 |
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I like all the Grandia games but 2 is hard to go back to with how archaic some of the design his. It was made in 2000 (and for Dreamcast) so you don't have stuff like camera control mapped to right analog. There's also no zoom levels so dungeon crawling/town exploring feels a bit claustrophobic. That said I think it's great that Game Arts is porting stuff like it to Steam. If they fix the audio issue it'll be a solid purchase for anyone who likes the game.
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