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Neddy Seagoon posted:Oh dear, if this is your first playthrough you have no idea how much of a disappointment you're in for. Sorry I was unclear in that post but it's not my first playthrough of the game. I was literally saying that the game would be a lot better if it sped up the pacing.
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Sir Unimaginative posted:This game wants to be the Japanese Mass Effect so bad. I think we're gonna see a lot more open world games in the future. HGH fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Feb 11, 2016 |
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Feb 11, 2016 14:20
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The best part of Star Ocean 3 was when, during what was supposed to be a dramatic boss battle, Japanese rap replaced the normally booming orchestral boss music and was horribly ridiculous. The track was used like twice in the whole game and was never appropriate.
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Feb 11, 2016 14:42
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Feb 11, 2016 14:44
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It could be worse. SO5 OST as composed by Sawano. WE'RE STUCK ON A DIFFERENT PLAAAANET
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Feb 11, 2016 14:52
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You mean better
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GulagDolls posted:well, you're fighting a black guy I was actually talking about the first time you hear it, when you're on top of some building on ye olde medieval world and your dad has just been attacked by the aliens whose names start with a v. This was pre-black 4D guy, and so wildly inappropriate I remember laughing so hard it hurt.
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Feb 11, 2016 15:08
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Golden Goat posted:Sorry I was unclear in that post but it's not my first playthrough of the game. I was literally saying that the game would be a lot better if it sped up the pacing. That's a massive understatement. I think on initial playthroughs I spent 10 hours on SO1, 20 hours on SO2, and 90 on SO3.
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Feb 11, 2016 15:18
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Sir Unimaginative posted:This game wants to be the Japanese Mass Effect so bad. To be fair, that's how the ships have looked since at least Star Ocean 3 (haven't played the first two). Now, the Calnus in SO4? That is trying to be the Normandy.
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Feb 11, 2016 15:54
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voltcatfish posted:I like the star ocean games but I also loving hate them because they all promise an intergalactic space adventure that never gets off the ground. You end up crashing on some under-developed planet and then it's a typical jrpg. I almost shudder to ask but have you played SO4? You have your spaceship all game and go to many different places.
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NikkolasKing posted:I almost shudder to ask but have you played SO4? You have your spaceship all game and go to many different places. Please don't encourage innocent people to expose themselves to SO4  .
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Verranicus posted:I was actually talking about the first time you hear it, when you're on top of some building on ye olde medieval world and your dad has just been attacked by the aliens whose names start with a v. This was pre-black 4D guy, and so wildly inappropriate I remember laughing so hard it hurt. For reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CugyaQzmx8 The weirdest thing about this song is that the rap is apparently part of some audio sample library, because it appears in at least one completely unrelated game.
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Admiral H. Curtiss posted:For reference: WAIT A SECOND https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW1rgaxsjfo (2:20) i honestly hope this really is pulling from the same pool as hideki naganuma because oh my god that would be beautiful The Colonel fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Feb 11, 2016 |
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Feb 11, 2016 19:50
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Admiral H. Curtiss posted:For reference: Also it either literally is or steals the lyrics from the Space Jam song ("work that body work that body make sure you don't hurt nobody")
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I always thought that sounded like something I heard before but never put any detective work into it.
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Golden Goat posted:I have already murdered the poo poo outta the first crystal set on chapter 5. Turns out doing 9999x9 damage murders the gently caress outta everything. But oh, my, yes, please do the sidequests in 7 and 8. That's when the game really opens a can of 
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NikkolasKing posted:I almost shudder to ask but have you played SO4? You have your spaceship all game and go to many different places. They're still mostly planets with medieval levels of technology, with one of them being a giant throwback to SO1. You also end up crash landing onto most of your destinations as well, and the ones you don't generally have some stupid plot contrivance as to why you can't actually leave. Also, because you're planet-hopping, you never get that great a feel of any of the areas you visit outside of maybe the one that exists to be fan-service. I'd rather be stuck on a single planet than do the SO4 approach.
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What the heck, that rap is the Persona 3 dorm room theme too. Yeesh, that's a lot of mileage for something old.
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mycot posted:Also it either literally is or steals the lyrics from the Space Jam song ("work that body work that body make sure you don't hurt nobody") I didn't realize that Quad City DJs vs JRPGs had such a rich history
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Here's 20 minutes of modern Chrono Trigger style game. Game's out next week in Japan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knk8HkX7Anc
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drat, an actual world map. ...It's been so long.
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Tae posted:Here's 20 minutes of modern Chrono Trigger style game. Game's out next week in Japan Looks fairly fun in an old school JRPG way. Hoping it turns out good.
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Just catching up on this thread, I actually laughed at the sequence of posts where the guy who hadn't played Xenogears had to correct everyone and say it was actually a bad game because he read an LP on a sort of related note I'm playing Xenoblade for the first time and it is extremely cool. Although what the gently caress is this skill tree? I can't make any sense of it.
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Paperhouse posted:Just catching up on this thread, I actually laughed at the sequence of posts where the guy who hadn't played Xenogears had to correct everyone and say it was actually a bad game because he read an LP Skill trees are kind of weird in Xenoblade. Each character starts with 3 trees but can unlock two more through sidequests. You pick one of the three (later five) branches and as you fight you'll unlock new skills in that tree. Those skills are permanent but other characters who befriend that character can learn their skills by spending Affinity Coins (which you get by leveling up or beating rare monsters.) The way is that every character has a 'tree' for every other character. At level 1 Affinity they can access the first tier of that tree, up to level 5 where they see the entire tree. Every level of the three has a slot with a distinctive shape. You can spend Affinity Coins to learn any skill that character knows but only if it fits the shape. (Circle, square, star, ect.) This can get really broken with certain combos of skills but takes so much grinding it's almost never worth it.
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There are too many RPGs I want to play. Even using my backloggery (a handy tool for those unaware of what it is: http://www.backloggery.com/verranicus) I can't manage my time well enough and my backlog of games just keeps getting bigger.
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Stop buying games until you beat the ones you got. That helped with my backlog ballooning.
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But if I don't get Witcher 3 at 50% off now, how will I play it when I finish Witcher 2 in a couple months and there's no sale? 
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Tae posted:Here's 20 minutes of modern Chrono Trigger style game. Game's out next week in Japan one of the characters has chakrams for a weapon i'm loving this game more and more
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The White Dragon posted:But if I don't get Witcher 3 at 50% off now, how will I play it when I finish Witcher 2 in a couple months and there's no sale? This guy gets it.
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The White Dragon posted:But if I don't get Witcher 3 at 50% off now, how will I play it when I finish Witcher 2 in a couple months and there's no sale? And so was born the 500+ steam game list.
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Sakurazuka posted:drat, an actual world map. There was one in Blue Dragon. And an airship to explore the world map, too. I was legitimately shocked by both of these things.
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NikkolasKing posted:There was one in Blue Dragon. And an airship to explore the world map, too. Blue Dragon was 10 years ago, dude Although what do you call Bravely Default's map then
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Tae posted:Although what do you call Bravely Default's map then empty and pointless, mostly
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Stelas posted:empty and pointless, mostly Perhaps the same could be said of all world maps
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Stelas posted:empty and pointless, mostly How is that different from any other SNES/PS1 world map
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World maps exist to be largely empty and mostly there as an illusion of a larger world.
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Bravely Default's map just felt incredibly lacking. Actually, the world-building in general just felt really weird in that game, I never really felt like I had any context for what was going on compared to the world at large. There were, what, four towns total? The world map was so huge in comparison it only seemed to be there to make walking to the next dungeon location even more of a chore than it was already. e: which bugged me because you had glimpses of a larger world populated with airships and armies facing off and whatever else and then nah let's go to this bumfuck cave that's a five minute walk away. I would have liked to see a lot more locations in general, especially friendly ones rather than dungeons
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Tae posted:Blue Dragon was 10 years ago, dude Well I only played it a few months ago and it was only last console generation. Still, I see your point. Blue Dragon has a great soundtrack.
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Final Fantasy Type-0 has the best world map in recent years because not only is there a world map but you actually play an RTS mini-game on it sometimes.
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