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I don't know how I feel about this game. I find combat really finicky and was constantly pressing the wrong buttons due to years of KH ingrained into my system. (I've since switched to Type C which is radically different and this has helped vastly.) Even with camera settings on Far it still behaves poorly and gets stuck on stuff like cliffs and bushes that totally obscure the screen. Last night I did a nighttime hunt for some level 17 goblins near the beach which I was completely underleveled for, there were so loving many of them comboing my team to death. I got by with that one Ignis skill everyone in the thread said to get, Gladio and Prompto still died but Noct and Ignis managed to scrape by even though our max HP was down to like 100 for most of the fight. We literally fought until 5 AM and then headed to a nearby trailer to sleep for an hour. It was loving rad. I hate the combat in this game and am bad at it but at the same time it is the coolest poo poo ever and I want more of it.  Thanks to whoever posted the combo videos earlier btw, I'm hoping the game will feel more fun once I start trying to learn those.
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guts and bolts posted:Yes. You can always do it at night; Ignis will actively refuse to do so and also encourages you not to drive, but you can blow him off. At the beginning of Chapter 3, he also basically hands you the keys and tells you that you can drive yourself at will now, even during daylight hours. That said, because driving the car yourself amounts to "hold R2 and occasionally tap a direction on your analog stick" and "change the radio" (and you can change the radio from the backseat anyway!), it's usually a better idea to just let Iggy handle the driving. It'd be more fun to drive if the car was louder and faster. Yeah I get that it's allegedly unbecoming of royalty to have straight pipes and 1500bhp going 200mph doing donuts through Hammerhead but guess what happened to the goddamn royalty
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Dec 1, 2016 18:42
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Y'all my car is so hosed up and this stripper still won't repair it.
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Dec 1, 2016 18:42
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black.lion posted:Y'all my car is so hosed up and this stripper still won't repair it. Oh you need to go get the gallon bucket of lube from the lube caverns first.
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Dec 1, 2016 18:44
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I just want to rant about how infuriating Chapter 11 is. the part where you have to warp to the 4 ships and blow them up. Somehow, I get stuck to the corners of the ships and cannot warp to them, thus getting stasis and failing the timed mission over and over again. What a lovely stupid quest mechanic on an otherwise fun game.
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Dec 1, 2016 18:44
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MrLonghair posted:Gonna play through it with English language voices because it's my industry. Seeya when the credits roll. Game was alright, 8/10 at best on that scale of rating where 5 is average.
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Dec 1, 2016 18:45
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guts and bolts posted:Ignis has an enchant-your-weapon-with-their-weakness Tech that is incredibly useful, but it means sacrificing his Regroup tech, which saves you gil on restorative items. You can change character's Techniques mid-battle. Just mentioning this because it's basically ended up with my using nothing but Ignis because why would I waste precious technique energy on those other lameasses
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Dec 1, 2016 18:48
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I've been playing with Japanese dubs and English subs. The English subs, of course, are based on the English dialogue. Having some basic knowledge of Japanese is funny, because the English subs don't match up completely. The English translation team clearly had some liberties when doing their translation (which is totally fine to make it their own), but seeing Noctis say "Hai" in response to a question and then see the English subs read something like "you betcha!" is funny as heck.
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Dec 1, 2016 18:52
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FAUXTON posted:It'd be more fun to drive if the car was louder and faster. Yeah I get that it's allegedly unbecoming of royalty to have straight pipes and 1500bhp going 200mph doing donuts through Hammerhead but guess what happened to the goddamn royalty Noct is hardly "becoming of royalty" anyway. My dude wears black on black with black print and textures on his short-sleeved duster (?) and his cargo capris (???????) ImpAtom posted:You can change character's Techniques mid-battle. Just mentioning this because it's basically ended up with my using nothing but Ignis because why would I waste precious technique energy on those other lameasses Oh, word. Yeah, I dunno - Ignis so far seems like he's just so much more useful than the other two that I'm starting to wonder if I'm doing something wrong. Gladio is good for Intercept and no other reason. Prompto is good for [reason to be edited into this post later] Meanwhile Ignis can heal your whole team to full and pull them out of a shitstorm, can also imbue your weapon with an element that will now make regular attacks connect for about fifty bazillion damage, and can LAHN A NYEW RECIPEY
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Dec 1, 2016 18:52
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Prompto takes sweet pictures.
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Dec 1, 2016 18:55
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how in the everliving gently caress do you activate the so I'm loving around in the tutorial and I get it to activate once but then the tutorial gives you a boost to your armiger bar to keep trying it and it won't activate no matter how many times I press or press and hold L1+R1. some things about this game are just so drat clunky and feel unpolished.
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Dec 1, 2016 18:58
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Huzanko posted:Do you ever get to drive the car yourself? I only played until the second city last night but I was driving in chapter 1. When you first get your car back Ignis asks you if you want to drive and I told him Hell Yeah so I could do some sick donuts outside the gas station.
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Dec 1, 2016 18:58
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I'll get a writeup done but I want to say I thought the game got better the deeper I got, especially with how I'm a sucker for good story.seiferguy posted:I've been playing with Japanese dubs and English subs. The English subs, of course, are based on the English dialogue. Having some basic knowledge of Japanese is funny, because the English subs don't match up completely. The English translation team clearly had some liberties when doing their translation (which is totally fine to make it their own), but seeing Noctis say "Hai" in response to a question and then see the English subs read something like "you betcha!" is funny as heck. Just a simple "mm" would suffice so many times. I played with English voices learn from their mistakes.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:02
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You have to press L1+R1 simultaneously, and the timing is pretty tight. If you hold either it'll think you're trying to open a menu/lock onto a target/open the map depending on your control scheme.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:02
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DeathSandwich posted:I only played until the second city last night but I was driving in chapter 1. When you first get your car back Ignis asks you if you want to drive and I told him Hell Yeah so I could do some sick donuts outside the gas station. i think you lose the ability after you make it to the next hub or the one after. No one ever says so, but the option will be greyed out.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:02
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DeathSandwich posted:I only played until the second city last night but I was driving in chapter 1. When you first get your car back Ignis asks you if you want to drive and I told him Hell Yeah so I could do some sick donuts outside the gas station. for the first few chapters you can only drive it at certain times (like not at night) but at some point you're allowed to drive it whenever you want.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:02
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ahah, that moment when a level 36 iron giant coming out of the ground for the first time in your game coincides with the first appearance of dropship magitek soldiers. ran like gently caress, watched the carnage from a distance. good stuff.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:05
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The first time I was able to drive the car I was coasting to the next outpost listening to One Winged Angel and a Iron Giant pops out in the middle of the road. Pretty terrifying tbh.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:13
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Think I'm pulling the trigger on this one this weekend. Is it holding everyone's interest?
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Dec 1, 2016 19:13
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seiferguy posted:I've been playing with Japanese dubs and English subs. The English subs, of course, are based on the English dialogue. Having some basic knowledge of Japanese is funny, because the English subs don't match up completely. The English translation team clearly had some liberties when doing their translation (which is totally fine to make it their own), but seeing Noctis say "Hai" in response to a question and then see the English subs read something like "you betcha!" is funny as heck. Isn't that one of the many "meanings" of hai?
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Dec 1, 2016 19:13
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seiferguy posted:I've been playing with Japanese dubs and English subs. The English subs, of course, are based on the English dialogue. Having some basic knowledge of Japanese is funny, because the English subs don't match up completely. The English translation team clearly had some liberties when doing their translation (which is totally fine to make it their own), but seeing Noctis say "Hai" in response to a question and then see the English subs read something like "you betcha!" is funny as heck. "You betcha" is a perfectly reasonable translation of that depending on context so I don't get what you mean.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:16
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Isn't that one of the many "meanings" of hai? Hai.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:17
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Deified Data posted:Think I'm pulling the trigger on this one this weekend. Is it holding everyone's interest? Buy the game and go on a trip with your new best friends.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:18
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Skeezy posted:Prompto takes sweet pictures. Seriously, when I first saw the mechanic I sort of rolled my eyes at how cheesey it sounded and now I find myself resting when I don't need to just to make sure he doesn't run out of pictures for the day (and also to see the ones he did take). My friends are probably sick of all the pictures I keep sending them though.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:18
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The fact that all the photos are in engine and not only for plot or other set moments helps the whole thing out considerably. As does the boys comments on the photos of themselves
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Dec 1, 2016 19:19
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guts and bolts posted:Meanwhile Ignis can heal your whole team to full and pull them out of a shitstorm, can also imbue your weapon with an element that will now make regular attacks connect for about fifty bazillion damage, and can LAHN A NYEW RECIPEY I saw some people quoting the RECIPEY in this chat. When he actually said it in the game I almost died laughing. Ignis is the best. I still like Prompto screw the haters. He's chronicling our whole journey with his sweet camera. Now that moment when I sat on a bench next to a big blue bird mascot will live on forever.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:20
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seiferguy posted:I've been playing with Japanese dubs and English subs. The English subs, of course, are based on the English dialogue. Having some basic knowledge of Japanese is funny, because the English subs don't match up completely. The English translation team clearly had some liberties when doing their translation (which is totally fine to make it their own), but seeing Noctis say "Hai" in response to a question and then see the English subs read something like "you betcha!" is funny as heck. Is this an option in the NA version of the game?
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Dec 1, 2016 19:21
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what drives the finesse score? I tend to get higher on it when I thought I did poorly in the fight - like that time I needed to use like ten potions on noctis cause I kept getting my face kicked inDeified Data posted:Is this an option in the NA version of the game? hai
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Dec 1, 2016 19:21
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*shot of Gladio's arse takes up 90% of the frame* 'That's a good one.'
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Dec 1, 2016 19:21
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The Walrus posted:what drives the finesse score? I tend to get higher on it when I thought I did poorly in the fight - like that time I needed to use like ten potions on noctis cause I kept getting my face kicked in Links, just evades and counters basically. The more you do the higher it is, I don't think it marks you down for using items or generally having a poor fight.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:22
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The Chairman posted:You have to press L1+R1 simultaneously, and the timing is pretty tight. If you hold either it'll think you're trying to open a menu/lock onto a target/open the map depending on your control scheme. thanks, I figured out what I had wrong. In the tutorial it doesn't tell you that your bar has to be full to activate it. So the tutorial fox guy goes "I'll give you a boost" he fills your bar 95% of the way and then you see the prompt "press L1 + R1" to activate armiger. but in reality you can't activate it until your bar is full again. just some sloppy translation work probably. It's like nobody bothered sitting a new player down with this game and watching them try to figure poo poo out. and I'm not remotely a new player to Final Fantasy, they're just terrible at communicating ideas.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:23
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Barudak posted:Buy the game and go on a trip with your new best friends. 
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Dec 1, 2016 19:25
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Sakurazuka posted:*shot of Gladio's arse takes up 90% of the frame* 'That's a good one.' he's right.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:25
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guts and bolts posted:Noct is hardly "becoming of royalty" anyway. My dude wears black on black with black print and textures on his short-sleeved duster (?) and his cargo capris (???????) Yo this is his military prince outfit provided to him, the whole culture is techno goth.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:27
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black.lion posted:Yo this is his military prince outfit provided to him, the whole culture is techno goth. Yeah, Noctis' buddies comment occasionally on how they're basically advertising their allegiance to the Crown with their solid-black getups, and Cor has a few Hunters wondering aloud at what the hell someone is doing wandering the wilds in that outfit. Weird that the most standard clothes in Final Fantasy history draw the most in-universe comments.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:31
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im gonna switch to japanese voices so i can enjoy cidney without her overdone southern drawl
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Dec 1, 2016 19:33
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I gotta say, as a southerner it is weird to hear my accent in a Final Fantasy game.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:34
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Super No Vacancy posted:im gonna switch to japanese voices so i can enjoy cidney without her overdone southern drawl not as bad as the 1920s newsie guy
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Dec 1, 2016 19:36
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pet peeve #397: when a platoon of high level magitek assholes dropships directly onto your car while you're trying to do piddly missions so you have to run away and summon your car further down the road.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:36
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The Walrus posted:not as bad as the 1920s newsie guy seriously, worst voice in an FF game.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:37
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