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I had to (was paid to) play KH and CoM in preparation for translating KH2, and I still don't understand the overarching plot. I also cheated and gave up on CoM partway through because it stopped making sense in the way an assignment you're feverishly trying to finish in an all-nighter suddenly loses all meaning.
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were you the person who wrote 'that was undeniable proof that we totally owned you lamers'
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Endorph posted:were you the person who wrote 'that was undeniable proof that we totally owned you lamers'
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AlphaKretin posted:This isn't as much of praise as I intended before thinking to say it because in retrospect Reaction Commands basically just activate JRPG cutscenes, but with Reaction Commands playing KH2 is like playing a JRPG cutscene. It's the same itch that Dissidia: Final Fantasy scratches. Whoops, I meant to say Kingdom Hearts 2 but somehow I left the number out. Bad Seafood posted:The original Kingdom Hearts was good because it was just a silly crossover game with no pretensions. Run around Disney worlds, fight Disney villains, have a couple Final Fantasy characters show up for fun, and hey, here's an oddly epic final boss thing. It was like Super Smash Brothers for Disney except an action RPG instead of a fighting game. Combat was simple but decently engaging, and the game's charming personality did a lot to endear it to people. Yeah, the weirder things about the series is that it got everyone excited for Disney characters and Final Fantasy characters interacting and then you don't see any of the latter outside of Traverse Town for all of 2 and I don't really know what to say about the other games besides Chain of Memories. There's way too little actually fighting alongside those goofballs in that game for my taste. RareAcumen fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Nov 15, 2015 |
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Nov 15, 2015 16:35
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Hirayuki posted:Absolutely not, thank God. I don't know how I could have lived with myself if I were. What parts did you translate, out of interest?  Haley Joel Osment posted:"I will never forget walking in for the first session of Kingdom Hearts II and seeing that the producers had set up a bulletin board with a flow chart explaining the sequence of events in different universes and watching them almost struggle to sort it out. It wasn't that they weren't knowledgeable, they just were still unraveling the story for themselves and dealing with the huge amount of information Nomura-San puts out. That was when I personally realized how video games had reached the level of art."
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Nov 15, 2015 17:11
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Oh, quick update on that Tetra Master clone if you guys are interested: I open-sourced the project so you can look at the code yourself. I'd really be interested in playing against someone today.
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Pesky Splinter posted:What parts did you translate, out of interest? Haley Joel Osment posted:"That was when I personally realized how video games had reached the level of art." 
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Nov 15, 2015 17:20
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Hirayuki posted:The non-spoken dialogue, chiefly, and Jiminy's Journal. And the Little Mermaid lyrics. But if something is convoluted and impossible to understand and not art that would make it garbage. And he couldn't have worked on garbage, right? So it must it be art, it just makes sense.
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Nov 15, 2015 17:32
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If there a few things I can say positive about the Kingdom Hearts series, the Command Deck makes for a fun thing to use in BBS, Re:Coded, and DDD. The various magic spells are also pretty visually appealing. And while I get the dislike for how one-note a number of the characters were, I did rather like the Organization as enemies, if only because I'm a sucker for elemental bosses. Them being based on Final Fantasy job classes was pretty cool, too. But I can agree that I disliked the tonal shift that came following Chain of Memories. Things just became overly complicated for no reason. ESPECIALLY in Dream Drop Distance where one guy is thirteen other guys, with three of those guys having time traveled from the past to possess another guy while the original form of that guy who should be in another guy is somehow free again. And then the Ultimania mentions that he ended up possessing another guy during the final boss fight that was himself, even though this is never mentioned in-game. 
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Nov 15, 2015 17:39
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:Command Deck I've only played Re:Coded out of all the side games, but yeah, the customization was pretty great. The game also had a Sphere Grid-esque system of leveling, where you put passives and stat boosts into slots to improve, had tiles that could multiply their stat boosts by two or three, and I'm a sucker for that sort of thing. I don't remember anything about the plot except that it took place in a virtual world and was largely inconsequential to everything else in the series. That's probably for the best. 
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For all the bad things about KH (mostly past 1, since like I said, I like 1), it did do one thing right. It made Squall somewhat likable. I still took great pleasure in kicking his rear end every chance I got though Since we should probably keep moderately on topic to ffix, they didn't put any ffix characters in KH did they? At least I don't remember any. Hirayuki posted:And the Little Mermaid lyrics.  mauman fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Nov 15, 2015 |
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Nov 15, 2015 18:08
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mauman posted:Since we should probably keep moderately on topic to ffix, they didn't put any ffix characters in KH did they? Vivi was in KHII. That's it.
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Gamesfreak13563 posted:Vivi was in KHII. That's it. Oh yeah, forgot about Vivi.
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Nov 15, 2015 18:20
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To be fair, Kingdom Hearts II forgot about Vivi as well. He barely shows up in-game. Poor kid can't even get a happy cameo appearance.
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Nov 15, 2015 18:24
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Zidane's in Dream Drop Distance.
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Nov 15, 2015 18:42
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RareAcumen posted:Zidane's in Dream Drop Distance. You're lying.
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Gamesfreak13563 posted:Vivi was in KHII. That's it. He also got his head put on a stick for Donald Duck to swing around, morbid as that is.  yes i know that's just a generic black mage look but 
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Not sure how the people in KH could look at Vivi and not try to slay him because black mages are pretty much Heartless with a coat on.
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Nov 15, 2015 23:05
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This will become a major plot point in Kingdom Hearts III where it's revealed that Vivi is just a Wizard Heartless in a clever disguise.
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Nov 15, 2015 23:14
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this is good game
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Bad Seafood posted:The first Kingdom Hearts was good dumb fun and the GBA game was pretty alright. U.T. Raptor posted:The first KH was good, but the series went completely up its own rear end after that. that's exactly why the Kingdom Hearts series is amazing
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Sorry, Fallout 4 got the better of me. I'll try to squeeze an update out sometime this week, but probably won't be until next weekend.
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RareAcumen posted:Zidane's in Dream Drop Distance. I had the unfortunate 'pleasure' of playing KH3D and...he DOES show up...in a minigame...which we never see him...which involves those loving STUPID DREAM EATERS WHY THE gently caress DID THEY HAVE TO BE TIED TO ABILITIES ALLIWANTEDWASFUCKINGSECONDCHANCEANDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Okay...Okay, I'm calm...I'm calm...Anyways. Don't play Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance. It's an exercise in frustration, forced grinding and...virtual pets that have to be in different dispositions to unlock certain abilities because gently caress you, Second Chance is tied to a Dream Eater you won't get the recipe for until...about two thirds through the game and gently caress the final bosses...gently caress the story...lets play a GOOD game and forget Kingdom Hearts even exists. Kemix fucked around with this message at 09:14 on Nov 17, 2015 |
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Kemix posted:lets play a GOOD game and forget Kingdom Hearts even exists. Mega already is: Mega64 posted:Sorry, Fallout 4 got the better of me. 
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Earnestly posted:You're lying. Either I am or the wiki wasn't accurate. It also says that the Warrior of Light, Cecil, Bartz, Locke, Celes, Laguna, Lightning, and Balthier are in Dream Drop Distance, but I never played anything past 2 and Chain of Memories so I have no idea. 
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None of those characters are in it.
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the kingdom hearts wiki is curated by fanfic authors who pretend to know japanese
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Endorph posted:the kingdom hearts wiki is curated by fanfic authors who pretend to know japanese One of them is. But, yeah, none of those guys are in DDD as actual characters.
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Kemix posted:I had the unfortunate 'pleasure' of playing KH3D and...he DOES show up...in a minigame...which we never see him...which involves those loving STUPID DREAM EATERS WHY THE gently caress DID THEY HAVE TO BE TIED TO ABILITIES ALLIWANTEDWASFUCKINGSECONDCHANCEANDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Learn to write, goddamn.
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I played KH II, and as I recall Vivi's hat was not happy about being there. Anyone who played that game can appreciate this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZsDUSxK5Fs
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KH DDD has "gates" (probably got that name wrong and it's something dumb but ) which are basically just skirmishes for your stupid pet things against another team of stupid pet things and the gates are named after FF characters which of you were really reaching you could interpret as the dumb pet things being raised by them. That's it. Just like Bartz was in the After Years because his name was said once, right? E: VVV Heh, sorry, just the first example I could think of where a character was referenced by name and nothing else. AlphaKretin fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Nov 18, 2015 |
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AlphaKretin posted:KH DDD has "gates" (probably got that name wrong and it's something dumb but Can we not bring After Years into this otherwise rational conversation about ludicrous JRPG series?
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I guess Blank will be trapped in Evil Forest forever. Do you think he can think and/or dream? Or is it like time is frozen altogether for him?
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Final Fantasy IX: Magical Melody
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Maybe he experiences every second to the fullest, elongated by boredom of a strengh you cannot imagine as a living beeing made from flesh.
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Kemix posted:I had the unfortunate 'pleasure' of playing KH3D and...he DOES show up...in a minigame...which we never see him...which involves those loving STUPID DREAM EATERS WHY THE gently caress DID THEY HAVE TO BE TIED TO ABILITIES ALLIWANTEDWASFUCKINGSECONDCHANCEANDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! ALL CAPS WHITE NOISE
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Good timing, as I was gonna write this yesterday but eh. Yeah, I'm done. I don't have the free time anymore to do Let's Plays in general, especially of the quality I've put into my last two. And when I do, that's less time to spend doing stuff like playing Fallout 4 or playing more Fallout 4. My life's changed a lot since I started doing these things (for the better!), and I've got enough going on that it's time I moved on. So I'm pretty much retiring at this point. Sorry I had to abandon yet another Let's Play, especially sorry to Orange Fluffy Sheep who was contributing one hell of a low-level run. I hope that continues on in some capacity. I truly appreciate everyone who followed my various LP's. They've all been a blast, even the failures, and I learned a lot of useful stuff that I hope to use in whatever crazy projects I mess with next. And all that crazy effort was worth it for all the great feedback I've gotten over the years. I'm glad everyone enjoyed me talking over screenshots of Final Fantasy games and making whatever goofy-rear end GIFs I felt like. So yeah, it's been a good run. Maybe I'll do an occasional stream or megathread or something quick and easy, but for now I'm off, uh, doing whatever the hell I plan on doing, I don't know. Rest in peace, Dr. Tot.
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I am okay with 99% of your decision EXCEPT it means we never met Dr. Tot and that's just a killer.
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In the end it was Mega64 who forgot Dr. Tot.
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