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Mass Effect 2 is a fan favorite for good reason. It ditched a lot of the crappy gameplay elements from the first game (mako exploration, low-detail side missions) and built well on the good parts (combat and writing), had some great characters (Jack and Elusive Man are great and Liara became a lot more interesting), great VA, had a decent and compelling overall story, and brought a lot of detail to the universe established in the first game. It was everything a deep-dive sequel should be. The more I think about it, the more Mass Effect and Xenosaga seem like they had weird inverse paths after similar first entries.
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I enjoyed Xenosaga episode 1 less than the original .hack series. Ridiculous crotch bulge lowercase jesus and all. Couldn't say anything about 2 and 3, after 1 I kind of didn't want to bother with the rest of the series.
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I played Xenosaga I&II DS through to completion, I am immortal.
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Mar 30, 2016 03:53
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kirbysuperstar posted:I played Xenosaga I&II DS through to completion, I am immortal. If you have, could you explain what the hell was that thing?
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bloodychill posted:Mass Effect 2 is a fan favorite for good reason. It ditched a lot of the crappy gameplay elements from the first game (mako exploration, low-detail side missions) and built well on the good parts (combat and writing), had some great characters (Jack and Elusive Man are great and Liara became a lot more interesting), great VA, had a decent and compelling overall story, and brought a lot of detail to the universe established in the first game. It was everything a deep-dive sequel should be. People tend to say that BioWare does characters better than it does plots or whatever and seeing as ME2 has a positively massive squad of characters, with the only consistent "hohum" opinion being about Jacob, I think that theory has some weight to it. I loved Jack and TIM and Miranda and Thane and Garrus and Mordin and goddam nearly everyone with the exception of Samara. Also don't forget the music! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wn3F_cmWCM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eILrZivDaVA
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Mar 30, 2016 03:57
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mycot posted:If you have, could you explain what the hell was that thing? It's just a retelling of the first two games with some minor adjustments and KOS-MOS cat jokes.
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ImpAtom posted:It's just a retelling of the first two games with some minor adjustments and KOS-MOS cat jokes. Yes. And also garbage and heavily truncated.
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kirbysuperstar posted:Yes. And also garbage and heavily truncated.
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bloodychill posted:shut up But then how will you know someone's cool and ironically detached from all topics? I mean, writing more than ten words is lame, so that's out. What, then?
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Mar 30, 2016 05:00
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i just make shitposts because they make me laugh idk why people act like it's some sort of attempt to be super cool and detached
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Endorph posted:i just make shitposts because they make me laugh idk why people act like it's some sort of attempt to be super cool and detached i didn't even know what the image was about
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Cake Attack posted:i didn't even know what the image was about
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Carpe Fulgur in the fake news https://twitter.com/GideonZhi/status/714974517475418114
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Mar 30, 2016 05:13
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Endorph posted:gently caress you for not taking the star ocean girl's panties seriously It's the issue of our times.
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Mar 30, 2016 05:13
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Look, if I can't touch girls faces and I can't look up their skirts then what exactly do you want from me? Are games developers seriously expecting me to go out and meet a woman? In 3-D space? Are they mad?
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corn in the bible posted:i think i finally understand unlimited saga Keep in mind that understanding the game doesn't make it any easier
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8-Bit Scholar posted:Look, if I can't touch girls faces and I can't look up their skirts then what exactly do you want from me? this, but unironically
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Rasamune posted:Keep in mind that understanding the game doesn't make it any easier or better. i'm on chapter 7 of tokyo ghost hunters though and that is a good game
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Mar 30, 2016 06:21
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I finallly completed Grandia Xtreme over a decade after it was released. A tremendous amount of alcohol was involved. The final scenes made it all worth it.
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Probably gonna be marathon streaming SO5 in the morning, so give me a preemptive follow at http://www.twitch.tv/fail_snail They didn't delay it or anything did they? I guess I should go buy it and start the download now.
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dude789 posted:I finallly completed Grandia Xtreme over a decade after it was released. A tremendous amount of alcohol was involved. The final scenes made it all worth it. did you neutralize the elemental disorder my dude
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HMS Boromir posted:did you neutralize the elemental disorder my dude I do not remember that plot point. It must have been dropped before this dumb Quanlee plot took over. Regardless, Carmyne is still extremely good.
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Mar 30, 2016 07:22
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HMS Boromir posted:did you neutralize the elemental disorder my dude To be honest, I wish it had won. How is this ending so dumb? How is the voice acting worse than the first Grandia.... gently caress.
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The first - I was gonna say half of the game but gently caress knows how long was left - is about going to dungeons to stop elemental hell weather. I don't blame you for not remembering it after the birth of our lord and savior Jesus Quanlee. It just stuck in my craw because the phrase "neutralize the elemental disorder" is spoken a good few dozen times by the characters to the point where it ends up having about the same gravitas as "pick up some milk at the grocery store". I gave up around the time I realized the game had granted my wish for procedurally generated dungeons by making the most boring ones imaginable.
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There is an aftergame! Something about finding fragments of Quanlee's heart. I think I will do something else and make better use of my time.
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Mar 30, 2016 07:43
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hundreds of hours of classic grandia gameplay
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Mar 30, 2016 07:50
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Is there some place I can buy Japanese PSN codes from that won't price gouge up the rear end like Play-asia or Japan-Codes?
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BabyRyoga posted:Is there some place I can buy Japanese PSN codes from that won't price gouge up the rear end like Play-asia or Japan-Codes? Amazon.jp now sells to non-Japanese accounts, I believe.
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bloodychill posted:Amazon.jp now sells to non-Japanese accounts, I believe. I'll havta browse through and see if they sell codes with digital delivery like the US Amazon does. Thanks for the heads up
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I asked in the PS store thread a while ago and the consensus was no they don't, you'd have to get the code shipped to you.
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Yeah, looks like they only sell plus memberships. They also don't offer very any digital game sales, which is strange. There are tons of Nintendo Network things up there. I think i'm just gonna order a physical copy from Play-Asia, as they actually AREN'T gouging on that. So stream in 3-8 days. BabyRyoga fucked around with this message at 09:37 on Mar 30, 2016 |
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Am I just really bad at JRPG/crafting, or is there a serious lack of water in Atelier Rorona to gather early on? Seems like it'd be easy to find and not buy, because, you know, loving water and all.
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Last Celebration posted:Am I just really bad at JRPG/crafting, or is there a serious lack of water in Atelier Rorona to gather early on? Seems like it'd be easy to find and not buy, because, you know, loving water and all.
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Last Celebration posted:Am I just really bad at JRPG/crafting, or is there a serious lack of water in Atelier Rorona to gather early on? Seems like it'd be easy to find and not buy, because, you know, loving water and all. if you go into the first area and grind on the enemies near the trees you'll get more water than you know what to do with
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Any suggestions on party setups for FFXII Zodiac? Do I need to pick an optimal setup to be able to do any of the harder hunts/sidequests? I see people recommending all sorts of optimal builds but they have characters as jobs that would bother me thematically so I wanna know if I can just choose what I like the sound of.
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Verranicus posted:Any suggestions on party setups for FFXII Zodiac? Do I need to pick an optimal setup to be able to do any of the harder hunts/sidequests? I see people recommending all sorts of optimal builds but they have characters as jobs that would bother me thematically so I wanna know if I can just choose what I like the sound of. You can pick whatever and do just fine.
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Verranicus posted:Any suggestions on party setups for FFXII Zodiac? Do I need to pick an optimal setup to be able to do any of the harder hunts/sidequests? I see people recommending all sorts of optimal builds but they have characters as jobs that would bother me thematically so I wanna know if I can just choose what I like the sound of. Unless you care about beating the super secret hidden final boss thing go with whatever. And that was only an issue because of the damage cap I'm sure the Zodiac version of it is a joke.
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Star Ocean 5 officially dated for June 28th for NA.
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drat, what's with all the games releasing in June.
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Motto posted:drat, what's with all the games releasing in June. I feel like this happens every year, tons of games slated to release in the summer months and then 90% of them get pushed way back and there's nothing to play in the summer again.
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