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Etrips posted:So what is the real world battery life between the non-XL and XL n3ds with say, playing Pokemon S/M? The XL N3DS lasts about an hour longer than the smaller N3DS on average.
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SeANMcBAY posted:The XL N3DS lasts about an hour longer than the smaller N3DS on average. Then the next question is this, is black or white the superior n3ds color?!
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Dec 1, 2016 18:47
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Etrips posted:Then the next question is this, is black or white the superior n3ds color?! Black. I have no idea why people buy white electronics with screens on them. People don't own white TVs. WHy would you want a white border around your screen. Truly do not understand it.
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Dec 1, 2016 18:51
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The plastic under the coloured layer is black with silver (glue?) so the darker your 3DS is the better it will look with some wear and tear.
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Dec 1, 2016 18:56
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Etrips posted:Then the next question is this, is black or white the superior n3ds color?! There's not an objective answer to that. Black.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:06
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LODGE NORTH posted:Black. I have no idea why people buy white electronics with screens on them. People don't own white TVs. WHy would you want a white border around your screen. Truly do not understand it. Because white is more futuristic Real answer: every piece of electronics is black and it's boring. My white N3DS and Famicom Red N3DSXL are 
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Dec 1, 2016 19:11
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So I got myself a n3ds xl over the holiday (decided to finally jump on the wagon), and have since grabbed MH Generations and FE Awakening on the e-shop sale, Mario 3D Land on a BF sale, and Zelda LInk Between Worlds. They're all pretty brilliant so far, especially Zelda. I don't have much interest in the OoT remake, I played that game plenty back in the N64 days. I did put Majora's Mask 3D on my xmas list, since I never got a chance to play the original. What I'd like to know is if there's any good JRPGs I should really be on the lookout for? Any of the SMT games? There seem to be a boatload of those, are the SMT IV games the ones to get? How about Bravely Second or the DQ7 remake? Also any other random recommendations you can think of!
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Dec 1, 2016 19:20
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Get them all. The only bad 3DS game is Sticker Star.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:21
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Both SMTIV games are great, as well as DQVII if you have the time to grind. Rune Factory 4 is solid if you like a more rpgish harvest moon.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:23
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Schpyder posted:So I got myself a n3ds xl over the holiday (decided to finally jump on the wagon), and have since grabbed MH Generations and FE Awakening on the e-shop sale, Mario 3D Land on a BF sale, and Zelda LInk Between Worlds. They're all pretty brilliant so far, especially Zelda. I don't have much interest in the OoT remake, I played that game plenty back in the N64 days. I did put Majora's Mask 3D on my xmas list, since I never got a chance to play the original. All of those you suggested are worth checking out along with Xenoblade. If you ever do want to replay OOT again, it's definitely the definitive version on 3DS. My other favorite 3DS games I'd suggest would be Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon, Animal Crossing New Leaf, Rhythm Heaven Megamix, both the Kirby games, and Kid Icarus Uprising.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:26
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Also please avoid the bravely games, save yourself the disappoint and wastes of time.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:29
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teraflame posted:Also please avoid the bravely games, save yourself the disappoint and wastes of time. Both Bravely games are really good, though.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:31
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or, instead, play both bravely games and have a fun time with good video games
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Dec 1, 2016 19:31
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teraflame posted:Also please avoid the bravely games, save yourself the disappoint and wastes of time. Yeah, it really surprised me how quickly I got tired of that game. I can understand why people like them, but they're definitely not for everyone.
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teraflame posted:Also please avoid the bravely games, save yourself the disappoint and wastes of time. Please play the second Bravely Game, which tries a lot less hard to troll you with weird metagame tricks. It's a very good take on the Final Fantasy Job System.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:32
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I don't understand how someone could recommend Dragon Quest 7 and diss Bravely Default
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SeANMcBAY posted:All of those you suggested are worth checking out along with Xenoblade. If you ever do want to replay OOT again, it's definitely the definitive version on 3DS. I've got the Wii version of XB Chronicles, no need to rebuy that. Luigi and AC are both selects now so I'll pick those up on the cheap at some point. Regarding the seemingly wide Bravely disagreement, what are people's major likes/dislikes with them? I don't know much about them at all.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:38
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Schpyder posted:I've got the Wii version of XB Chronicles, no need to rebuy that. Luigi and AC are both selects now so I'll pick those up on the cheap at some point. It's a Final Fantasy Job System, like FFV style where you can and should switch Jobs throughout the game, and pretty classic battle format in a JRPG- your dudes are lined up and the enemies are lined up, and it's turn based. They add a wrinkle, though, where you can "Brave" to take out loans against your future turns to stack actions, with the cost of becoming idle for that many turns next time they roll around. You can use this to let your party's White Mage do like massive healing volleys every several turns, and other things. There's also some quality of life stuff, like you can adjust or turn off random encounters for when you need to grind or don't want to be bothered while you look for that chest you missed. There's also an idle game in the background that gives you some small gameplay bonuses as you rebuild a town. The bad part, in the first one, is that at a certain point in the game you enter a Groundhog Day Time Loop. This is good and bad. The good is that it lets you fight all the bosses again. The bad is that you have to figure out the narrative trick they are playing on you in order to break the loop. This also means that you have to play though a good chunk of the game twice, though it's more of a boss rush the second (or more) times around. They get kind of clever and meta by subtly changing the title screen to give you a clue.
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You can just ditch the time loop and break it at the earliest opportunity, ignoring the true ending. But you really have to LOVE the FF5 job system because finding the most broken combo of skills and grinding to get enough points for them is the meat of the game. Everything else is filler.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:52
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I mean, you can also skip all the subbosses the subsequent times through, but you do miss out on some really neat character building and story development, the same as if you decide to skip the true ending. It's arguably kind of a slog, but skipping the content isn't exactly a great alternative. Bravely Default is one of the few games that got me to genuinely root for the bosses I was fighting, and not even in a "God these protagonists suck, just blow it all up" way, but rather because the culmination of little snippets before each fight, combined with the charming writing style of the biographies gives you a rare "behind-the-scenes" connection with them that few other games manage to pull off. a crisp refreshing Moxie fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Dec 1, 2016 |
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I never played enough FF5 to get the hang of its job system. I did however play the absolute poo poo out of FFT (close to 300 hours worth) to the point of a calculator with all other mage spells unlocked and duped Excaliburs on all my other characters so nuking the entire map with holy caused all my characters to be healed. So if that's the kind of abusive cheese I can expect from the Bravely games, I'm in. I probably won't have time to play both, so in that case is Second the one to get?
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Schpyder posted:I never played enough FF5 to get the hang of its job system. I did however play the absolute poo poo out of FFT (close to 300 hours worth) to the point of a calculator with all other mage spells unlocked and duped Excaliburs on all my other characters so nuking the entire map with holy caused all my characters to be healed. They're both good but I like the first game a lot better than the second. But yeah abusing hosed up job combinations is the name of the game in Bravely e: also bravely second is a direct sequel to default so if you care about that absolutely anything fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Dec 1, 2016 |
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Etrips posted:Then the next question is this, is black or white the superior n3ds color?! White, because the SNES-colored ABXY buttons stand out more and because black is boring.
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Dec 1, 2016 20:07
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FFV is the only one I've ever played all the way through, or even a significant amount. I wouldn't have even done that without the Four Job Fiesta. Is there a Bravely Default Fiesta?
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:FFV is the only one I've ever played all the way through, or even a significant amount. I wouldn't have even done that without the Four Job Fiesta. Is there a Bravely Default Fiesta?
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Schpyder posted:I never played enough FF5 to get the hang of its job system. I did however play the absolute poo poo out of FFT (close to 300 hours worth) to the point of a calculator with all other mage spells unlocked and duped Excaliburs on all my other characters so nuking the entire map with holy caused all my characters to be healed. please tell me you've played through FFTA2 f you loved FFT but somehow missed advance 2, literally get on ebay immediately and buy a DS copy and play it right the heck now I liked FFT a lot, and FFTA2 is one of my fav games ever. One of like 3 DS games I still have physical copies of
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I got tired of Bravely Default after murdering the final boss without taking a single point of damage. It is a rather good game.
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Schpyder posted:So if that's the kind of abusive cheese I can expect from the Bravely games, I'm in. I probably won't have time to play both, so in that case is Second the one to get? You make people alchemists either as the main or the side job. Find a boss to kill. The entire party waits three turns to charge up the multi-turn thing. One alchemist tosses a compound that makes an enemy weak to the dark element, regardless of the enemy's actual weaknesses. The entire party proceeds to mix and throw a volley of 15 highest-damaging items in the entire game taking off thousands of HP with each hit. The boss dies. Bonus: all components for the above become available for cash if you develop the game's village minigame, so you never need to grind for dragon's tits or anything. Just money.
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Tatsuta Age posted:please tell me you've played through FFTA2 Why did people not like the Judge system in FFTA? I kinda liked it.
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Dec 1, 2016 20:22
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There are demos of both Bravely games if you're really unsure. They're wholly contained from the full versions, but they allow you to get some extra bonus stuff for the full games.
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teraflame posted:Both SMTIV games are great, as well as DQVII if you have the time to grind. I don't really see how DQ7 is in any way a grindy game mechanically. I beat it at around 94 hours and I'd wager maybe 3 of them tops spread out over that time was grinding, and that was just me unnecessarily grinding out some Vocations so I could be even more overpowered for the final boss. It's largely all story content, and there's a ton of it but there was never a point where I was like "aw man I can't beat this boss better grind."
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Dec 1, 2016 21:11
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You should also get the demo for Etrian Odyssey 4 to see if you like it, it's easily my favorite RPG on the 3DS, and it's often on sale for $10 on the eShop.
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Zat posted:White, because the SNES-colored ABXY buttons stand out more and because black is boring. Also no visible fingerprints! I love my white New 3DS.
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Dec 1, 2016 21:27
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chinese barbecue porp posted:Also no visible fingerprints! That's not a problem on the black one either because it's also matte. It's the XL's where Nintendo hosed up.
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Dec 1, 2016 21:37
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At this rate not giving a poo poo about fingerprints is basically a biological advantage.
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Eifert Posting posted:At this rate not giving a poo poo about fingerprints is basically a biological advantage. Not if you are a burglar
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Policenaut posted:I don't really see how DQ7 is in any way a grindy game mechanically. I beat it at around 94 hours and I'd wager maybe 3 of them tops spread out over that time was grinding, and that was just me unnecessarily grinding out some Vocations so I could be even more overpowered for the final boss. It's largely all story content, and there's a ton of it but there was never a point where I was like "aw man I can't beat this boss better grind." dragon quest games tend to not have much grinding but they do have an extremely frequent encounter rate and once you "get" how to beat encounters optimally and use items its just kind of a waste of time.
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they're adorable games but i've never been able to have fun with them for longer than a few hours.
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greatn posted:Not if you are a burglar I keep a glossy 3DS in case some joker breaks into my house and erases my Pokemon save
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The original DQ7 was very grindy. The remake "solved" this by axing random encounters in favor of field enemies that spawn so frequently and move so quickly in the game's many many narrow passageways that you're forced into fights way more often than you would be with a random encounter system
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