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MarcusSA posted:Well I thought I knew what I was getting myself into... Did you have any questions? I just beat the game with about 40 hours sunk into it. Only things I didn't complete were the obnoxiously difficult extra bosses from the original game, and the end bosses of the new Maze of Memory dungeon. A few things that can help in the early game: 1. Use magic. A lot. Grinding magic levels lets you build things like the Academy in Avalon, and also gets you better spells (and their fusion equivalents). I recommend using all forms of magic that you can, as all of them have pretty good spells and combinations. You get a choice to sink a city to use Dark Magic, but you also lose out on a potential class to use in your party, so this is up to you. One of the new classes added to the iOS version comes with Dark Magic innate, though. You also want to build the University as soon as possible, as the Tactician class comes with three magic schools to use. 2. Random encounters are supposed to be tough, but don't be afraid of full party wipes. The system is built for you to be constantly experimenting, trying out new Emperors so you can get new formations and crafting different party compilations a la Suikoden. Once you're two or three generations in, and start getting randomized Emperors, you'll also get a set of tech teachers in the castle that will let you bring over techniques learned in the previous generation. What's nice is that if you learn a bunch of techs, then get a party wipe, those techs are not lost and will be available when you start a new generation (which typically is after beating a story scenario). 3. Two links help a ton: http://saga.wikia.com/wiki/Tech_Spark_Types http://saga.wikia.com/wiki/Tech_Sparking The first will give you a rundown of all potential recruits for all types of classes you get. These are not one to one with the iOS version, as some of them have been mangled in translation. These recruits all have different spark types, meaning they are coded in the game's data to spark tech attacks from certain weapon types only. Some classes only ever spark certain weapon techs, but some of the randomized people in that class may spark other, uncommon weapon types. So it's good to match the name of your potential recruit to the list to see if that's the recruit you want to take on, because if you give a character a weapon they don't spark well with, you're going to lose out on a lot of time and get no new techniques. This has not been updated with the two new classes, so I don't know what they spark with. The second page gives you enemy recommendations for how to spark certain skills, and what skills you should use to spark their derivative, higher-level skills. That page, unfortunately, does not tell you which skills are tied to certain weapons or not, so you'll have to research in FAQs for those weapon-specific techs. Enemy level = chance of sparking skills, and if you're either well under or well over that tech's difficulty with that enemy, it won't spark. Enemy ranks go up as you battle more, so if you're not seeing the enemies on the page, you haven't battled enough yet. The game becomes much easier as you spark the better techniques. Ubiquitous_ fucked around with this message at 07:36 on Jun 4, 2016 |
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is the secret of mana android port any good?
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corn in the fridge posted:is the secret of mana android port any good?
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I hear the mobile ports have a new translation, but otherwise it's probably a pain in the rear end to control since it's an action RPG with touch screen controls. Don't know if they added anything else or fixed any bugs or whatever.
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Jun 5, 2016 11:45
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idk but i bought it anyway. it seems okay like the controls aren't too bad but we'll see
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I haven't had any real problems with the controls since SoM is pretty slow paced for an arpg because of the whole charge/stamina mechanic, but I haven't finished it yet so I don't know if there are some especially rough parts or something. Also the mobile version has new water effects so it looks slightly better than the original.
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yeah i just beat the plant thing in the dwarf cave and its not bad at all, if anything it feels pretty authentic as i remember the controls being a bit wonky in the original
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FF TCG to get UK / Euro release in September
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Man, after struggling quite a bit with the previous 3 Chocobo training challenges, I had one go at Catcher Chocobo (37 seconds), watched a youtube video of someone doing a 0.00 run...and got 0.00 on my second ever try at it. I'm still not gonna bother with Lightning Dodging or the super-grindy poo poo though.
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Is this actually any good? Not that I'm gonna bother with stuff that still gives random cards, or two-player card games in general really, but wondering if it'd be fun doing an online proxy if the actual game is good enough.
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Insurrectionist posted:Man, after struggling quite a bit with the previous 3 Chocobo training challenges, I had one go at Catcher Chocobo (37 seconds), watched a youtube video of someone doing a 0.00 run...and got 0.00 on my second ever try at it. Lightning dodging is the most egregious I've run into so far. The cactar minigame for Rikku's celestial was surprisingly fun and charming.
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If your on pc, you can find a cheat engine script for the lightning flash count.
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NikkolasKing posted:So it's been forever since I played FFVII and even when I did, I never bothered with Enemy Skill because I just didn't see the point. However in the multiple difficulty mods I've played of VII, Enemy Skill has been a lifesaver. The real win strat is to use Enemy Skill + Aeris's Planet Protector during a fight with the Midgar Zolom. Beta will carry you ridiculously far, especially in the best grinding area of the early game, the hallway leading to the Submarine in Junon. Fight overleveled enemies, use Beta, repeat, coast through the rest of the game. Honestly the E. Skill in VII is probably my favorite implementation of Blue Magic - no necessary limit breaks, no weird beserker mechanics, just use the abilities that you took the time to learn. (Also get Aqua Lung later on)
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Who has Planet Protector by then? Sadness and Elemental+Fire on your armour should do. E: Unless I'm misremembering which Limit Level it's in.
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AlphaKretin posted:Who has Planet Protector by then? Sadness and Elemental+Fire on your armour should do. This is the strategy that's always worked for me. I don't think you can get nearly that far with Aeris unless you specifically try to grind for it of course, you're hosed if you don't get the materia from the Shinra tower
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Planet Protector is level 3, so yeah, you'd need some serious grinding to have got it by then. You could grind it out in the Mythril Mines and come back, but you might as well go get Aqualung for a fraction of the effort.
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FF12 HD has been announced for PS4. No Western release confirmed, but it's a given really. http://www.famitsu.com/news/201606/06107465.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2-bWotLKqo
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Happy about that for sure. e: haaa they havent fixed his abs Josuke Higashikata fucked around with this message at 10:15 on Jun 6, 2016 |
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About drat time. Still need to finish my playthrough for 12. Maybe I should get back to that soon. Mega64 fucked around with this message at 10:19 on Jun 6, 2016 |
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based on FINAL FANTASY XII INTERNATIONAL ZODIAC JOB SYSTEM Background, character model, fonts and all 2D parts are higher resolution Movie scenes are higher resolution Uses current-gen graphics tech 7.1 surround sound higher quality audio Japanese and English voice Option between original BGM and newly recorded BGM shorter loading time auto-save feature turbo mode (specifically says they're making improvements to the turbo mode already there to make it more playable in fast forward)
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Yessss... If I didn't need more reason to get a PS4.
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Keep in mind that it'll likely get a PC release in the following year or so.
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I'm suddenly anticipating an HD remaster much more than the new Zelda or Persona 
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I guess that leak was true. Also is Legend of Mana a good game?
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Josuke Higashikata posted:based on FINAL FANTASY XII INTERNATIONAL ZODIAC JOB SYSTEM I wonder if 'higher quality audio' includes the compressed-to-hell English VA. The performances were mostly very good, so it would be nice to hear them in better quality. Turbo mode will be nice for 12 as well because some of those maps are real big. Plus finally getting the IZJS stuff in English, of course.
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Tired Moritz posted:I guess that leak was true. Also is Legend of Mana a good game? It's..uhhh..man, I dunno if I'd say good game. It's gorgeous, sounds beautiful, is interesting and all but I dunno if I'd say it was 'good', if that makes sense.
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Tired Moritz posted:I guess that leak was true. Also is Legend of Mana a good game? It's fun to play until you get stuck because you have literally no idea what to do, where the main quest is, or actually, what even is the main quest. Basically, guides required, unless you're satisfied just messing around and perhaps never even seeing the final boss/credits, and definitely not seeing a big part of the quests.
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But, who is Captain Basch?
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Grozz Nuy posted:I wonder if 'higher quality audio' includes the compressed-to-hell English VA. The performances were mostly very good, so it would be nice to hear them in better quality. I doubt they still have any of those files. But holy poo poo I'm excited, been waiting for this for years.
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Tired Moritz posted:I guess that leak was true. Also is Legend of Mana a good game? goat
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Amppelix posted:It's fun to play until you get stuck because you have literally no idea what to do, where the main quest is, or actually, what even is the main quest. Toshimo posted:But, who is Captain Basch? Fur20 fucked around with this message at 11:47 on Jun 6, 2016 |
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A. Beaverhausen posted:If your on pc, you can find a cheat engine script for the lightning flash count. Even better, I dug up an autohotkey script and got it done while I had lunch! Also grabbed butterflies yesterday which took a little while but not too much. Sadly, that still leaves Blitzball and while I don't loathe it and wouldn't mind a few games I'm pretty sure I won't have 100% winrate which means it could get tedious as poo poo. No easy scripting way out of this one.
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If you ditch the Aurochs and grab some good free agents it is reasonably simple to get a 100 percent win rate. The Al Bhed are the only ones likely to give you any trouble with their insane goalkeeper, and even he is passable with sphere shot. I just played a couple of rounds of Blitzball every now and then while watching YouTube videos. It's safe to just camp in your own goal if you're in the lead and don't care about cheesing it.
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Yeah the Al Bheds are the team I lost to so far (though the Ronsos that can just break through infinity characters are pretty bad too, thankfully they're not really any good at actually scoring) because of loving Nimrook catching everything. I'll look up some decent ballers before I continue then.
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Hire brother. You cant possibly lose with him.
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I use Ronsos on my Blitz team even though they're incredibly slow, because being able to just weather every tackle is satisfying in its own way. You really do want at least one fast swimmer/passer (like Brother) though, otherwise it's like swimming through molasses.
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Enallyniv posted:If you ditch the Aurochs and grab some good free agents it is reasonably simple to get a 100 percent win rate. The Al Bhed are the only ones likely to give you any trouble with their insane goalkeeper, and even he is passable with sphere shot. gently caress it, just get some cash, burn out his contracts on exhibition trash, and then save/load when he's up for renewal until they choose not to re-hire him 
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Grozz Nuy posted:I wonder if 'higher quality audio' includes the compressed-to-hell English VA. The performances were mostly very good, so it would be nice to hear them in better quality. In an interview with the localization staff, one of the members of RPGsite got the suggestion that the master quality VA was recorded, stored, and could be used again. I'd probably keep my expectations down.
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The White Dragon posted:gently caress it, just get some cash, burn out his contracts on exhibition trash, and then save/load when he's up for renewal until they choose not to re-hire him Unless you're trying to play as few Blitzball games as possible for the Jupiter Sigil... In which case you reset everything and have a full power Nimrook with the Psyches every time.  It's not too bad as long as you keep Sphere Shot on Tidus to sneak in at least one goal.
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