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A problem I had with Demon's and DS1 is that some options are too good that I have to stave off using them to prevent each run from too samey: Adjudicator's Shield, Crescent Falchion, Sticky Composite Bow, Quelaag's Furysword, Havel's Armour, Grass Crest Shield... For all the poo poo DS2: SOTFS gets it does have the best build balance and variety in the series .
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I've never tried the Lava Bow but I've heard a whole lot of people use it even without upgrading Dex much.
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Sep 23, 2017 22:42
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Caphi posted:Oh I almost forgot - do the slime island as soon as you can. Which is not soon, but do it. Oh, should I just open every Katz chest I find? Are the new dressup items on specific ones, or just after opening X chests?
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Sep 23, 2017 22:50
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Just open them, it's based on how many you've opened, not which ones.
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Sep 23, 2017 22:51
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Roger. I haven't actually run into any problems affording to open them yet but I was assuming that'd change evnetually.
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Sep 23, 2017 22:57
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I beat Bloodborne almost entirely with Ludwig's sword in GS mode, which is weird because I never liked GS weapons in Dark Souls. Ludwig's fuckin' owned though.
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Zereth posted:Roger. I haven't actually run into any problems affording to open them yet but I was assuming that'd change evnetually. it honestly depends on how frequently you play/progress. i'd play like an hour or two a day and most of that was spent fighting poo poo and not progressing particularly much, so the spirits would respawn in full pretty frequently and i never had to deliberately grind for them, but it also took me like five months to play the whole game.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-oWi2hPz5Y General Atelier and Gust TGS presentations will be live for the next couple hours.
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Sep 24, 2017 04:32
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U-DO Burger posted:5 had you searching for Johnny Appleseed and I don't remember what it referred to but it wasn't the big bad because the big bad in 5 was a cloud of hatred or something that got killed offscreen I think it turned out the mystery girl you're traveling with is Johnny Appleseed but I don't remember what comes of it. Honestly the only memorable things about WA5 are it suddenly turning into a mecha anime near the end and MUSCLE BUTLER. Oh and the utterly ridiculous way the main character wields his weapon. (In contrast, the only memorable things about WA4 are the one early scene with the time power running and Raquel basically destroying the entire game solo)
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Sep 24, 2017 04:45
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Infinity Gaia posted:I think it turned out the mystery girl you're traveling with is Johnny Appleseed but I don't remember what comes of it. Honestly the only memorable things about WA5 are it suddenly turning into a mecha anime near the end and MUSCLE BUTLER. You don't remember the hilarous way the protagonist's mother dies in WA4?
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Just catching up on the thread and could you guys kindly not go for the big open spoilers on parts of Wild Arms 3 I haven't gotten to yet?
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Sep 24, 2017 04:54
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ImpAtom posted:You don't remember the hilarous way the protagonist's mother dies in WA4? I really don't. Like, legitimately, WA4 is like this big memory hole for me. I know I beat it (I remember being shocked at the game ending, it does so really suddenly) but I don't remember ANY plot beats from it. Oh, I also remember it having an incredibly grindy crafting system that was introduced waaaay too late and was also really unnecessary because Raquel just chumps on everything in the entire game regardless.
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Sep 24, 2017 05:02
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Infinity Gaia posted:I really don't. Like, legitimately, WA4 is like this big memory hole for me. I know I beat it (I remember being shocked at the game ending, it does so really suddenly) but I don't remember ANY plot beats from it. Oh, I also remember it having an incredibly grindy crafting system that was introduced waaaay too late and was also really unnecessary because Raquel just chumps on everything in the entire game regardless. What about the part where someone shoots down missiles using only his guns which are also keeping him airborne. Also he punches the final missile. Electric Phantasm fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Sep 24, 2017 |
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Sep 24, 2017 05:12
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it pisses me off that the crafting percentages in tactics ogre LUCT are a lie. 100% of the tine you will get the same order of successes and failures if you reload a save state over and over again to say nothing of it being moronic to have a chance to fail in the first place, especially in a single player game
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Relin posted:it pisses me off that the crafting percentages in tactics ogre LUCT are a lie. 100% of the tine you will get the same order of successes and failures if you reload a save state over and over again code:
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Infinity Gaia posted:I really don't. Like, legitimately, WA4 is like this big memory hole for me. I know I beat it (I remember being shocked at the game ending, it does so really suddenly) but I don't remember ANY plot beats from it. Oh, I also remember it having an incredibly grindy crafting system that was introduced waaaay too late and was also really unnecessary because Raquel just chumps on everything in the entire game regardless. Wild Arms 4 was really short and while I don't remember all the plot points the general message was that older people are the worst and do nothing but make things worse for the next generation, but since the older generation is so influential the young have no choice but to accept their lovely lot or else abandon society altogether and live as a ranger or something. I thought it was a pretty pessimitic message when I played it years ago but in TYOOL 2017 I'm suddenly more receptive
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Relin posted:it pisses me off that the crafting percentages in tactics ogre LUCT are a lie. 100% of the tine you will get the same order of successes and failures if you reload a save state over and over again If you get the same order of successes and failures no matter what you're actually trying to do, then, yeah, that's bullshit.
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Sep 24, 2017 09:39
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Endorph posted:its not that oscar is some pure being its that velvet's realizing that she's kind of a shithead. her entire point was refusing to accept a world built on the sacrifice of her brother and then, wait, she's been stopping that world by sacrificing other people. Velvet's position was never "no murder ever" it's "no sacrificing peaceful innocents for others and I'll kill the murderers that try it". So Oscar tripping her up rang stupidly hollow. Especially given she was responsible for killing way better people. Dehry posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-oWi2hPz5Y Man I hope the new Atelier is better. The series has been really uneven since Arland. I just had another go at Ayesha after listening to the soundtrack on loop for a while. And goddamn I forgot how rough it was. And how obnoxious Keithgriff is. At least Firis was experimental I guess.
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Sep 24, 2017 10:10
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A Sometimes Food posted:Velvet's position was never "no murder ever" it's "no sacrificing peaceful innocents for others and I'll kill the murderers that try it". So Oscar tripping her up rang stupidly hollow. Especially given she was responsible for killing way better people.
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Sep 24, 2017 10:17
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Endorph posted:Again, it wasn't that Oscar was uniquely good, or about 'no murder ever,' it was that literally 'killing someone's brother made older sister sad' tripped her up due to her specific pain, and no matter how she tried to justify it she still took someone's little brother away. It's not subtle, either, there are a bunch of explicit parallels drawn in the leadup and I think Velvet spells it out when it happens.
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Sep 24, 2017 10:31
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Infinity Gaia posted:I think it turned out the mystery girl you're traveling with is Johnny Appleseed but I don't remember what comes of it. Honestly the only memorable things about WA5 are it suddenly turning into a mecha anime near the end and MUSCLE BUTLER. I remember the mysterious girl being revealed to be stuck in a time loop being forced to live out the events of the game forever, which is a horrifying fate, but the game wants you to think it's sweet.
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Caphi posted:It's not subtle, either, there are a bunch of explicit parallels drawn in the leadup and I think Velvet spells it out when it happens. Of course it isn’t subtle, haha! Just because they intended to send a certain message doesnt mean they did it well. No one needs to hear what the intent of the scene was when the criticism is that said intent was poorly delivered.
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Wendell posted:Of course it isn’t subtle, haha! Just because they intended to send a certain message doesnt mean they did it well. No one needs to hear what the intent of the scene was when the criticism is that said intent was poorly delivered. It was not subtle in that it was extremely clearly delivered.
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Sep 24, 2017 12:44
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Good God, Caphi. Yes, it was very clear.
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Sep 24, 2017 12:50
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Sorry, I'm confused. What are we arguing about?
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Sep 24, 2017 12:52
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Found The Abyss in Wild Arms 3 and hating every moment of it. On the plus side, I gots me a sickass transforming dragon plane, so goodbye Sandcraft  . I also lucked into finding the Teleport Gem as well.
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Caphi posted:e2: I saw a white dude repeatedly fail to go into the "GO HERE TO NOT TAKE FIRE DAMAGE" zone and then die to the dragon. I think maybe he couldn't read, but the audio was in English. Gamers gave Dean Takahashi poo poo about that Cuphead mess but as it turns out, they're all terrible.
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Caphi posted:Sorry, I'm confused. What are we arguing about? I think he's saying, "It was poorly done, it doesn't matter how obvious it was" RareAcumen posted:Gamers gave Dean Takahashi poo poo about that Cuphead mess but as it turns out, they're all terrible. Yeah, while the Cuphead thing was funny, it ultimately should just show us that, in fact, gamers really ARE that bad at video games a lot of the time
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Sep 24, 2017 15:04
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There's one constant in life: "Anyone who's not me sucks unless they are better than me".
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Hot take alert: WA4 and 5 are both fun games and worth playing. They may drop the western motif, but the hex battle system is fun, the side scrolling dungeons give me Valkyrie Profile nostalgia, and story is ridiculous in an amusing way.
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A Sometimes Food posted:Man I hope the new Atelier is better. The series has been really uneven since Arland. I just had another go at Ayesha after listening to the soundtrack on loop for a while. And goddamn I forgot how rough it was. And how obnoxious Keithgriff is. what the
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Sep 24, 2017 15:55
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the cuphead reviewer is legit a terrible gamer journalist
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One other thing I want to mention about Wild Arms 3 whoever put Grab and Sprint on the same button is a sick deviant in need of a severe kicking. Nevermind the edge of the Millennium Puzzle platforms not doing the usual edge-balance warning. The ones on upper levels will, but over the abyss? gently caress you, bye!
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All this talk of Wild Arms makes me wonder what Media Vision are doing late-quote:2017 Valkyria Revolution I guess they did make Cyber Sleuth too at least.
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One day I will open my copy of Valkyria Revolution and find out if it's as bad as people say, but not today.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:One other thing I want to mention about Wild Arms 3 whoever put Grab and Sprint on the same button is a sick deviant in need of a severe kicking. Nevermind the edge of the Millennium Puzzle platforms not doing the usual edge-balance warning. The ones on upper levels will, but over the abyss? gently caress you, bye! For some reason the Millennium Puzzles are my favorite parts of those games 
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SaGa Scarlet Grace is good. It'll be even better when I actually figure out the battle system. I thought it had clicked until the first time an enemy did an interrupt attack which cancelled all my actions and spells and did as much damage as multi-turn-charge magic to my whole party. I'm also confused by the difficulty ratings on the battles. It seems to go: Easy - One or two enemies that die in one hit Normal - Nightmarish struggle against large number of tough enemies that cluster on the battle turn order so you can't pull off any combo attacks while fighting them. Also they have counters that kill you in one hit and BS interrupt skills Hard - Boss fight which is easy because you're either getting five actions to its one or killing its adds to spark off combo attacks. But anyway battle is fun when it makes sense and I love the open-ended feeling and crystal-clear upgrade system. Also the music is top notch and the character designs are unique and very nice.
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I did not like Ayesha, but loved Escha and Shallie games. The jump in quality is really big for me across the board. Mostly the combat in Ayesha is not that fun in comparison. Although I will say Ayesha has a top tier battle theme that I always slap on Escha and Shallie.
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Sep 24, 2017 16:48
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Ventana posted:I think he's saying, "It was poorly done, it doesn't matter how obvious it was" Also the devs should be careful about designing tutorials, because that tutorial was really bad.
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U-DO Burger posted:what the not liking keithgriff makes 0 sense
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