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Thanks a bunch all, especially Artix and ImpAtom for their writeup / LR op. Now I can safely clear up that 40 gig on my SSD and look forward to the next installment of this crazytrain. Also, that pixel retrospective was really good.
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# ? May 25, 2024 00:57 |
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40 gigs?!
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Bust Rodd posted:So does Lightning Returns play like an Action game then? Even something like The Witcher 2 would be fun, I just don't really want a turn based game. I watched the sprite recap of FFXIII and it looks confusing and dumb as hell (but I just uniformly think time travel is a lovely writing convention) but I want some cool fantasy action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB6T0MsvAgs
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Tae posted:40 gigs?! No one cared about compressing stuff for PS3 because of bluray so probably still uses a bunch of uncompressed video and sound files.
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theres only two fmvs in the entire game though
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Sakurazuka posted:No one cared about compressing stuff for PS3 because of bluray so probably still uses a bunch of uncompressed video and sound files.
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corn in the bible posted:theres only two fmvs in the entire game though The story recaps you skip every time the game loads are pre-rendered, as are all the flashbacks to 13 and the oracle drive videos Ultros is in there as well and you know that guy likes to spread out
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ApplesandOranges posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGanWbw4rno Probably the most surprising thing in the video is that they aren't using Blinded by Light for advertised FF13 song.
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Looks like they ditched Medic and just narrowed her focus down to comboing between magic and physical with Ravager and Commando. Looks much more smooth than she was in 012. I'm liking the looks of this game more and more as these videos come out.
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Tempo 119 posted:The story recaps you skip every time the game loads are pre-rendered, as are all the flashbacks to 13 and the oracle drive videos fair enough
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I wonder when it's going to get ported to PS4. And then, when it's going to be localized.
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ApplesandOranges posted:Oh, also Alyssa turns out to be a traitor and the artifact she gives you turns out to be a trap. You can turn the tables on her in (the best) paradox ending.[/spoiler] She does this because she herself is a paradox. She's supposed to be dead but the timestream getting all hosed up made her alive. By trying to fix everything, you will "re-kill:" her. It's actually kind of sad. She was trying to help save humanity with Hope. Even sadder is the fact no one cares when she blips out of existence.. I mean, no one else would know except Serah and Noel but even they don't care. In fact, I don't think they ever mention her again after she betrays them and gets them killed. XIII-2 is a weird game. There are so many reasons I could say it's awful but I still like it. Ventana posted:Probably the most surprising thing in the video is that they aren't using Blinded by Light for advertised FF13 song. "Eden Under Siege" is a great song and it's also the song for possibly the most remembered scene in XIII ie. the racetrack scene. But that scene is garbage, Oddly, I love the rest of that chapter.
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NikkolasKing posted:
I mean, I wouldn't exactly want to bring her up in any positive light after what she did, and what happens afterwards is its own level of things screwing up royally so I could see Noel and Sarah forgetting about the whole betrayal thing for a sec when there's the Etro/Caius stuff about to happen.
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Her plotline is (very briefly) resolved in LR.
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All the great and stupid mysteries of FFXIII are resolved in LR, it seems. I really should play it someday. After Fallout 4.
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Apparently in one of the spin-off novels it turns out she's a huge psycho, she blames the former l'Cie for getting her killed in the Purge and she keeps a diary of all the ways she wants to murder Hope.
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NikkolasKing posted:Even sadder is the fact no one cares when she blips out of existence.. I mean, no one else would know except Serah and Noel but even they don't care. In fact, I don't think they ever mention her again after she betrays them and gets them killed. There's actually a guy outside of the office who has a crush on Alyssa. He remembers her even after the paradox. ![]() Alyssa would be a much better character if they actually took the time to flesh out her resolution and the cast's debate over the morality of killing someone again in XIII-2. But her moment happened way too late in the storyline. Same thing happened in Tales of Xillia 2, actually.
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The only character arc I'm interested in is Chocolina's.
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Man I do not remember anything about Alyssa besides the fact that she existed, and I spent an unreasonable number of hours in that game.
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In Training posted:The only character arc I'm interested in is Chocolina's. Chocolina also gets a resolution in LR
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In Training posted:The only character arc I'm interested in is Chocolina's. ChocobocolinaaaaaAAAAA
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Excels posted:
Man, the clothes are so baggy and fakey I almost thought this was some kind of live-action FFT ad from Japan.
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Wow it literally is Valkyrie Profile.
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corn in the bible posted:Chocolina also gets a resolution in LR Yeah I played it on PS3.
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It is so completely random they put in a brand new fighting engine for the 2nd sequel of a game just to never use it again.
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Tae posted:It is so completely random they put in a brand new fighting engine for the 2nd sequel of a game just to never use it again. You sort of see the combat and character customization system's successor in Final Fantasy Mobius. In fact, you can see FFXIII assets reappear in the game as monsters and character clothing. As for the engine, the game itself runs on Unity 5. I'd put Crystal Tools inability to become a competitive cross platform engine as the company's biggest failure, even above the failure of Square Pictures or spending half a billion dollars on Taito. At least they got Bubble Bobble with Taito.
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SE isn't known for being a well managed company. I didn't even know they owned Bubble Bobble -- I imagine they did nothing with it since Candy Crush is a thing, but nobody knows what Puzzle Bobble is anymore.
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most people only remember the puzzle bobble theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYd-PSRXo1o
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Puzzle bobble is great and could easily be spruced up for a mobile and/or handheld game. Of course it's not except in Japan and the U.K. There are of course a few popular freemium clones because of course there would be.
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Dr Pepper posted:Wow it literally is Valkyrie Profile. Yeah. It's really good.
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bloodychill posted:Puzzle bobble is great and could easily be spruced up for a mobile and/or handheld game. Of course it's not except in Japan and the U.K. There are of course a few popular freemium clones because of course there would be. Looks like I was wrong because I forgot Puzzle Bobble is Bust A Move in America for some reason. Happily wrong.
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Y'shtola's trailer for Dissidia! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqU5nS1OFn8
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i don't care how bad y'shtola might play, i''ve become mentally conditioned to experience glee whenever i get to spam ff14's obnoxious holy animation so i have to play her
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so.... noctis will be next? since Duscae is out there it should be fine right? and then Ramza last I bet
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Bust-a-Move/Puzzle Bobble 4 is an amazing game. It has super fun mechanics and one of my favorite versus modes in any puzzle game.
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I was going to be cross that they randomly gave her black magic and then I realized they gave her cross-class skills that would definitely be available to a Conjurer. Thunder is sort of a weird throwback since it was only crossable way back towards the start of 2.0 but Blizzard II and Ruin are legit.
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YoshiOfYellow posted:I was going to be cross that they randomly gave her black magic and then I realized they gave her cross-class skills that would definitely be available to a Conjurer. Thunder is sort of a weird throwback since it was only crossable way back towards the start of 2.0 but Blizzard II and Ruin are legit. And and and Ness never learned PSI Fire! This crossover fighting game is breaking my immersion ![]()
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Pyroxene Stigma posted:And and and Ness never learned PSI Fire! This crossover fighting game is breaking my immersion Excuse me you'll find that Ness' trophy explains that Paula and Poo taught him those PSI skills beforehand so it makes complete sense.
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# ? May 25, 2024 00:57 |
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I'm not even sorry, I get huge nerd boners for these kinds of attention to details. ![]() Looking forward to seeing what they do with Ramza now.
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