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I've tried playing Chrono Trigger a few times now and I dislike it as much as I dislike all JRPGs. e: I like the music though.
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I liked FF12. I enjoyed setting up my gambits in such a way that I could go make a sandwich while my party did the fight for me. That's not really the spirit of the game, I know, but it was neat. Also the story was pretty interesting and it was a crazy good looking game for the PS2.
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Mar 31, 2017 20:24
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fridge corn posted:Chrono Trigger being anime or not is completely irrelevant because any fondness for it is completely nostalgic at this point My superhuman ability of "not having grown up with a game console" and then playing Chrono Trigger DS last year allows me to say that it's a great game and people are right to be fond of it.
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Mar 31, 2017 20:26
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Oh hell yeah got the Shiny Platinum Yoshi and beat the boss tent. Now just to grab one last flower I missed in Star-S and then...soon....Nier.
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Mar 31, 2017 20:27
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Chrono Trigger is good and Robo did a swell job with that forest.
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Mar 31, 2017 20:30
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Serf posted:I liked FF12. I enjoyed setting up my gambits in such a way that I could go make a sandwich while my party did the fight for me. That's not really the spirit of the game, I know, but it was neat. Also the story was pretty interesting and it was a crazy good looking game for the PS2. This reminds me of my friend who loves playing Bravely Default because it "automates combat so he can do something else." If the best feature in a game is that it removes the need to engage with the gameplay, maybe the gameplay is bad?!?!
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Mar 31, 2017 20:31
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Dr Cheeto posted:My superhuman ability of "not having grown up with a game console" and then playing Chrono Trigger DS last year allows me to say that it's a great game and people are right to be fond of it. It makes me sad that the DS version doesn't have Woolsey's translation.  Raxivace posted:Chrono Trigger is good and Robo did a swell job with that forest. 
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Mar 31, 2017 20:33
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PantsBandit posted:This reminds me of my friend who loves playing Bravely Default because it "automates combat so he can do something else." The gameplay in BD is really good and the automation is also really good (better in Bravely second though)
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Mar 31, 2017 20:35
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hey bros So I am obviously going to prioritize playing the big exclusives on my PS4, persona 5, nioh, horizon, all that stuff What are some smaller or more niche titles that are worth checking out? I have a PC so I don't care to play multiplat titles but I bet there's all sorta gems that I haven't really followed (I'm thinking must play stuff like the odin sphere remake)
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Mar 31, 2017 20:37
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:I've tried playing Chrono Trigger a few times now and I dislike it as much as I dislike all JRPGs. What didn't you like about chrono trigger if you don't mind me asking? It's okay to not like things, I'm not trying to make you rethink your opinion, I'm just curious is all. I like rpgs and chrono trigger is up there along with live-a-live, shadow hearts covenant, skies of arcadia, planescape torment, and terranigma for me (not in any particular order).
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Mar 31, 2017 20:38
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Since this is Games: Google maps has a fun new feature for the day.
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Mar 31, 2017 20:38
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KingSlime posted:hey bros It depends. What sort of games do you like? There's a fair number of niche PS4 exclusives but like it's hard to say if Disgaea 5 is your bag. (Though I guess that's not exclusive anymore.)
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Mar 31, 2017 20:39
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Lurdiak posted:It makes me sad that the DS version doesn't have Woolsey's translation. It's 99% Woolsey's script.
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PantsBandit posted:This reminds me of my friend who loves playing Bravely Default because it "automates combat so he can do something else." I've never played BD, so I can't speak to it, but the fun of FF12 was seeing where your gambits broke down and figuring out how to fix them for next time. Getting it to that point is where most of the fun comes from I think. But I enjoy that just as much as something X-COM or Pillars of Eternity where I give each person orders manually.
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a kitten posted:Since this is Games: Google maps has a fun new feature for the day. On mobile, that is.
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Sakurazuka posted:It's 99% Woolsey's script. The changes were pretty noticeable!
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ImpAtom posted:It depends. What sort of games do you like? There's a fair number of niche PS4 exclusives but like it's hard to say if Disgaea 5 is your bag. (Though I guess that's not exclusive anymore.) I like.....a lot of different stuff. RPG's and pattern-based action games with sick art are always a good time but aside from sports games, racing games, and multiplayer-centric games, I am pretty accepting of any and all games that are legit good That said, D5 has been on my radar but super lengthy SRPG's are probably low on my interests. I hardly never finish them. Overall my fave types of games tend to be well-crafted single player experiences with cool art and awesome atmosphere/music regardless of genre
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Mar 31, 2017 20:41
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Lobok posted:On mobile, that is. It's only on mobile? Well, that's kinda stupid. it's Ms Pacman on the street grid
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Mar 31, 2017 20:42
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KingSlime posted:I like.....a lot of different stuff. RPG's and pattern-based action games with sick art are always a good time but aside from sports games and multiplayer-heavy games, I am pretty accepting of any and all games that are legit good Yakuza 0 is an easy recommendation. Digimon: Cyber Sleuth is kinda like Poke-Persona and a lot of people seem to like it. Gravity Rush/Gravity Rush 2 are pretty drat fun.
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Mar 31, 2017 20:43
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Dr Cheeto posted:"Mysterious & cool transfer student" Ever since I was born with neon hair I knew my fate as an anime main character was sealed.
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Mar 31, 2017 20:44
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Saint Freak posted:Ever since I was born with neon hair I knew my fate as an anime main character was sealed. You're the best friend of the protagonist all the girls in class inexplicably hate
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Mar 31, 2017 20:47
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And having gotten that last flower, and now effectively snowed in until Sunday, I can now plan on playing a billion hours of Nier this weekend.
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Mar 31, 2017 20:49
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I watched someone stream Nier for 2 and a half hours the other day and I can say this about it: 1 - People in chat were really angry that the player wouldn't self-destruct so they could see the butt. 2 - The game is really boring if you're a dummy who takes 2 and a half hours to get out of the tutorial.
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Mar 31, 2017 20:52
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Total War: Warhammer 2 trailer dropped today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXxe897bW-A I'm really looking forward to this. I'm not much for the genre but Warhammer is a bunch of fun. I've played as every race now except for the dwarves. Currently doing a campaign with my friend as the Orcs and they're an absolute blast. Ransack towns, eat captives, recruit giants. I'm especially excited for Dark Elves. I am not super familiar with tabletop Warhammer lore but I read up on them and they're basically the standard trope of magic-wielding high elves only they don't give a poo poo about anything other than murder.
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Mar 31, 2017 20:53
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Lurdiak posted:I watched someone stream Nier for 2 and a half hours the other day and I can say this about it: The only stream to watch of Nier: Automata is KyleMcCarley's. He's the English VA for the male lead, but he reads all the text dialogue aloud and does voices for it. Sometimes the VA for 2B joins him. It's good times. It's like magically watching a fully voiced version of the game.
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Mar 31, 2017 20:55
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any tips for starting out in Slime Rancher
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Mar 31, 2017 20:56
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People always mention that someone should do something the Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis system - Well, Ken Levine got your back.
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Mar 31, 2017 20:57
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ranch dressing is a slime hth
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Mar 31, 2017 20:58
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FirstAidKite posted:What didn't you like about chrono trigger if you don't mind me asking? Like I said, it's not so much a Chrono Trigger thing as it is a JRPG thing. I don't like picking things to do out of menus and then watching my characters do them. I'd much rather have total control of the character. All the reading of the story (which I suppose is the main draw for most people who like JRPGs) feels like something I have to push through to get to the gameplay, and when I do the gameplay just isn't very fun. Seeing a character's numbers go up a little means almost nothing to me. Picking one attack that does a slightly different kind of damage, or costs some of one meter, or increases someones stat for the next three turns, it all feels the same. It's very rare that I get invested in a game's story, and that's only if I also really enjoy the gameplay. I wish you could change my opinion on it, because I know there's a lot of great games out there (including Chrono Trigger) that just bore me and I wish I could enjoy them like other people do.
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Mar 31, 2017 20:59
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Samuringa posted:People always mention that someone should do something the Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis system - Well, Ken Levine got your back. uggh
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Mar 31, 2017 21:01
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I hope Ken Levine's next game bombs hard.
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Mar 31, 2017 21:02
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I hope the guy who made bioshock games goes on to make other cool and fun games
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Mar 31, 2017 21:03
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If it helps, I think a lot of the basic systems in many JRPGs are fundamentally bad, or at least unenjoyable for me. Random encounters can go suck it, especially, and combat is often just "hold X to spam physical attacks". I think they've gotten better at this kind of stuff, but most of my JRPG experiences happened during the SNES and PS1 era.
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Mar 31, 2017 21:05
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One of the reasons Lufia 2, Earthbound and Chrono Trigger are some of my favorite RPGs is that they don't really have random encounters. I mean Lufia 2 has them on the world map, but not in dungeons. It's just a bad system, flat-out, and the games that have random encounters that I enjoy are enjoyed in spite of it. The only way to make something like random encounters interesting is if they are truly random in the sense that they can be something other than just combat, like Fallout 1 and 2's map encounters.
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Mar 31, 2017 21:07
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JRPGs are often pretty poor at communicating and requiring engagement with their mechanics, yeah. Random encounters went away a while back with the occasional exception, usually in intentional throwback games. and tbh CT's map encounters were just as bad as random ones could be or worse whenever dungeons tried to loop you around Motto fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Mar 31, 2017 |
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Mar 31, 2017 21:07
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Jay Rust posted:Random encounters can go suck it, especially Oh christ, I forgot about this specifically because it wasn't a thing in Chrono Trigger. I absolutely hate them. I can't stand when I'm just trying to walk from one place to another and I'm getting bogged down every few steps to fight some lovely enemy that gets me like 1xp and 10 gold.
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Mar 31, 2017 21:08
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KingSlime posted:I hope the guy who made bioshock games goes on to make other cool and fun games It has become increasingly clear that anything good about those games was due to other developers, and had little to do with Ken. The best Bioshock is 2.
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an actual dog posted:It has become increasingly clear that anything good about those games was due to other developers, and had little to do with Ken. The best Bioshock is 2. They both suffer from there being no real incentive to Harvest though, which kind of makes the ~moral dilemma~ fall completely flat. EDIT: Also Mark Meltzer is the best character in these games. Raxivace fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Mar 31, 2017 |
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Motto posted:and tbh CT's map encounters were just as bad as random ones could be whenever backtracking was a possibility No way. Not only were they static and thus perfectly mapped to the game and individual dungeons' intended difficulty curve, they had cool little vignettes for every one you triggered. Plus it was extremely rare that the game asked you to backtrack through encounter triggers.
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That's why I like action rpgs, where random encounters are a treat and I try to trigger more of them. I should play Tales of Eternia again.
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