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END ME SCOOB posted:I think you have things mixed up. Dark Dawn was the worst GS game, whereas Dark Sun also contains psionics, altered stars, magic, and doesn't loving suck. Ah right, my brain misremembered and assumed they would have subtitled as Golden Sun: DS since it's on the DS.
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It's also more accurately "Dark Sun" in Japanese. Did you know the first Golden Sun is actually "Golden Sun: The Broken Seal"?
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bloodychill posted:I've heard the same about Evergrace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRsGaJ39dfs
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al-azad posted:Golden Sun is an example of the need to show, not tell. I do remember liking the puzzles and integration of your character abilities into the game world. Not enough RPGs merge their battle mechanics with gameplay mechanics and it's always cool when they do. Golden Sun 3's biggest problem was that it was way too dialog heavy. Normally this wouldn't be an issue but it was really dry, and flat. Everyone talked for ages without really saying anything at all. Every plot point was just beaten into the ground with the same information spoken over, and over and over again. I wanted to like it because I am very fond of GS1&2 (puzzle rpgs are good) but I think the series is just dead now.
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dis astranagant posted:Dark Sun: Shattered Lands and Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager. You can snag them both from GoG for Dang, you can?? I'd been waiting years for them to show up on GoG! Thank you for this news.
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Wendell posted:Dang, you can?? I'd been waiting years for them to show up on GoG! Thank you for this news. Yeah, within the last year or so a huge chunk of the SSI/TSR duets appeared.
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Endorph posted:i only played dark sun once and it was a campaign where the entire party just existed to give buffs to our thri-kreen ranger who attacked the final boss twenty times in one round and insta-gibbed him due to all the +damage mods we stacked onto him yeah
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Endorph posted:i only played dark sun once and it was a campaign where the entire party just existed to give buffs to our thri-kreen ranger who attacked the final boss twenty times in one round and insta-gibbed him due to all the +damage mods we stacked onto him oh, I missed this Yes you can. I'm not kidding when I say the opening of DS1 is a powergaming test. You're in a bloodsport arena and you just have to survive against the weakass intro enemies, but if you feel cocky or want to tweak the nose of the announcer, you can go on to do... two? three? more increasing difficulty waves with nothing but your level 0 party and whatever you find on the corpses of the last wave you killed. If you min-maxed hard enough you can crush every single one out the gate and get a drat fine bonus.
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unfortunately ds1 also starts you off with a sewer dungeon and that's not fun
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I want a modern Dark Sun game. Hell, I want a good modern D&D game but that probably won't be happening anytime soon.
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Zereth posted:DID SOMEBODY SAY EVERGRACE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o47N-aYd08
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So I'm curious, did Black Sigil ever get any sort of mods or hacks or anything? Because there was some interesting stuff there hampered by a metric fuckton of bad design decisions that I feel like somebody could hack out but I have the feeling that nobody cared enough about it to bother.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:I forget this game's name every time and have to search my youtube history for "buying goods" because that's all I can remember but it cracks me up every time I hear what sounds like three separate town themes all mashed together so it's worth it. That's my story.  I'm gonna listen to it again right now.
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Jul 26, 2016 17:27
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no, sorry, this is the best one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrpglqYeQBc
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I know Metacritic is the dumbest thing on the planet but looking at the game's scores is baffling. http://www.metacritic.com/game/ds/sonic-chronicles-the-dark-brotherhood/critic-reviews
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voltcatfish posted:no, sorry, this is the best one
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Zereth posted:Is this an accurate depiction of how the music was in-game? Basically yeah. Though that one in particular is the most soul crushing probably.
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HGH posted:I know Metacritic is the dumbest thing on the planet but looking at the game's scores is baffling. The game mostly sits around 60 with a few outliers which seems about right to me. It's not the Worst Game Ever it's just hilariously lame fanfiction bullshit with bad music.
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honestly the lame fanfiction isn't even that bad, there's some funny lines especially when eggman is involved. the bigger problems with it are the terrible puzzles and the fact that whenever the DS tries to render 3d it looks like a visage of hell. Sprite graphics would have been a way better choice. Oh, and the bioware romance involving Amy. That was pretty terrible.
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Jul 26, 2016 18:57
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oh, and rewriting omega to be literally hk-47 was bad too, especially since Omega is already one of the better sonic characters without calling everyone meatbag
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Endorph posted:honestly the lame fanfiction isn't even that bad, there's some funny lines especially when eggman is involved. the bigger problems with it are the terrible puzzles and the fact that whenever the DS tries to render 3d it looks like a visage of hell. Sprite graphics would have been a way better choice. To be fair I sort of liked the concept of "Amy gets over Sonic and by getting over Sonic and getting to be her own character instead of Designated Girlfriend she actually becomes someone he likes" but, y'know, thar requires better writing than Bioware can pull off.
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Jul 26, 2016 19:05
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That is a powerful avatar Impatom.
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Sonic Chronicle's SFX owned *gobbles*
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Phantasium posted:That is a powerful avatar Impatom. Heroes never die. (I like it v. much.)
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i almost forgot the part of wild arms 2 where lilka speaks a sad face
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Endorph posted:honestly the lame fanfiction isn't even that bad, there's some funny lines especially when eggman is involved. the bigger problems with it are the terrible puzzles and the fact that whenever the DS tries to render 3d it looks like a visage of hell. Sprite graphics would have been a way better choice. The battles are also pretty tedious too after a while, since the fastest way to finish a battle was to use special attacks which always involved QTEs. Spamming normal attacks ended up taking longer cause you'd miss half the time.
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yeah people love ripping off mario rpgs but the thing is in the mario rpgs the qtes are all very short, single input things
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Motto posted:Sonic Chronicle's SFX owned That and the canned throwing up sound whenever your characters got hit.
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plus, the timed hits in paper mario have a ton of variety, with the super special attacks usually being their own straight-up minigames they've also got the Stylish timings, where you can just work out the right moment after you've executed your attack to have a flashier finish and get a bigger audience, which helps keep the same attacks a bit more interesting to use since finding them is tricky and using the accessory that marks them removes the reward The Colonel fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Jul 26, 2016 |
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buying goods broke my brain in that i now actually like the song.
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Decided to finally buy Bravely Second. Few questions (since I think the actual Bravely Second thread is kinda buried): 1. I know a bit about how the optional asterisk quests work and how they were changed for the English version, but I just want to clarify. Is it possible to get every asterisk in one playthrough without having to cause bad/conflicted outcomes in sidequests now? 2. Is there anything truly missable this time around? I don't remember much being missable from Bravely Default--I know some of the blue magics are a pain to get after Chapter 4 if you don't get them then, but still possible--but I'm usually paranoid about that kind of thing. 3. I'm guessing I should play on Hard if I did so in Bravely Default and found that to be still pretty easy by the end? Also Wizard seems like the coolest drat job ever and I'm excited to break the game with it.
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Harrow posted:Decided to finally buy Bravely Second. Couple questions (since I think the actual Bravely Second thread is kinda buried): 1: Correct. 2: No, the game treats New Game + as a plot element and allows directly skipping to completed chapters, you can't permanently miss anything.
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Harrow posted:Decided to finally buy Bravely Second. Couple questions (since I think the actual Bravely Second thread is kinda buried): Yes, nah.
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ImpAtom posted:1: Correct. Terper posted:Yes, nah. Neat, thanks. I added another question to my other post, but: I'm guessing I should play on Hard if I did so in Bravely Default and found that to be a pretty decent balance (until the end when you can break everything in half)?
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Play random encounters on Normal and bossfights on Hard.
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I'm assuming I'll have to manually swap the difficulty before boss fights to do that and this game isn't truly so magical as to have separate random battle/boss difficulty settings?
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The game uses a system where you're rewarded with XP bonuses for killing enemy groups with less actions (so you can chain battles together), which is naturally harder to do on Hard so you end up getting less XP, which makes you underleveled for the next area, which makes it even harder to get chain battles and get XP and overall creates a chain reaction that's more annoying than challenging.
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