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Scoss posted:I got Etrian Odyssey 5 for christmas, anything I should know as an EO newbie? the abc's of etrian odyssey A) ariadne thread. it warps you back to town, so you should always have one, and it only costs like 100 gold. there's only one "escape spell" in this game and it's a limit break that takes like 10 turns in combat without dying to charge, so this is your only real way out if you find yourself in a bad or even unfixable position. always double-check your inventory before going into the dungeon. nine out of ten doctors recommend it to prevent ragequits, and the tenth guy is dead. B) poison kills. it's fixed damage based on the potency of the skill that inflicts it. an enemy that inflicts poison at the beginning of the game that does 48 damage per turn, will do 48 damage per turn even if you come back at lv99. likewise, your own poison spells do fixed damage. a high-level poison spell will, provided it hits, do more damage than most enemies have health for the first 15 floors. always bring curative items, even if you have a dedicated healer--you never know when they're gonna eat a hard luck crit and die, or get silenced or paralyzed or whatever. this works both ways with all status effects, of course. they can be your worst enemy if you aren't prepared for them, or your greatest asset. C) FOE. they're super powerful, but you can beat them with good strategy or good cheese builds. still, it isn't recommended that you fight them on the floor you meet them. if you're confident that you can take on the strongest monsters on the floor above them, then maybe you're statistically ready to fight an FOE. they're good EXP and good materials for preparing for real bosses, though.
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Scoss posted:I got Etrian Odyssey 5 for christmas, anything I should know as an EO newbie? the games aren't very good but also always have a thread, use items because they're very powerful, don't spread your sp too thin but don't overfocus so hard that you don't have enough tp to be efficient
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al-azad posted:My sister told me she can't play the game dubbed because the game is too chatty in combat. And listening to her play it all I heard was what sounded like a frenetic conversation drowning out JRPG battle music.
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Zereth posted:I suppose that beat's Xenoblade X's "Battle music drowning out the conversation" thing. I sure hope I wasn't missing anything important my characters were saying when they got completely drowned out by the opening bars of Uncontrollable. The early bird SMASHES the worm! 
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Romancing SaGa 2 question: I know people talk about grinding out charm immunity for some fights (like the final one) but... where/when can you actually start fighting enemies that use charm and is there anything you can do to try and increase your chances of learning an ability dodge? It's also really dumb how Leon starts with double cut for 1h swords but nobody can learn it via trainers because it wasn't 'sparked' or whatever. I'd like to have been able to use it on other characters since it apparently sparks other/better skills. But at least emperor Achilles is kicking rear end with a 2h sword. Just learned waterfowl(fall?) strike and being able to hit a vertical column of enemies with him is a godsend.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Romancing SaGa 2 question: I know people talk about grinding out charm immunity for some fights (like the final one) but... where/when can you actually start fighting enemies that use charm and is there anything you can do to try and increase your chances of learning an ability dodge? There's two crafty ways to avoid the final bosses charm poo poo. One, there's a demon bracelet equipment thing that, once equipped onto your current Emperor, boosts their stats and makes them immune to charm but makes it so they lose LP if you stay at any Inn and you can only rest in your bed in the castle. Just equip it right before the final boss and the LP loss won't matter. Or, if you're really crafty, you can bring a female-only party because the final boss can't charm females but will still try, wasting her turns Back to XB2, I also thought it was weird how Nia calling Rex a kid was played as a joke, as Rex quips back that she looks the same age as him, but they gave her the oldest-sounding voice actor in the cast so far (Gramps aside). She's also the biggest culprit of "delivers traditional line while in-game character over-exaggerates their actions like they're in a stage play" which yeah is more about direction than the acting itself but still, the dub is bad. possible spoilers about Nia's VA, total speculation on my part: I know Malos said something about "this is just like 500 years ago" so I don't know if they're gonna pull the ol Ancient Anime Girl trope on me but if that's the case it still wouldn't make sense to make her voice older than she looks because what is her vocal cords the only thing about her that age? Plus, she sounds older than Malos and Jin who both look psychically older than her so wouldn't their voices be even more significantly different? I don't even though at this point I'm just anticipating people's justification for the dub being so bad
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CharlestheHammer posted:Though I don't think it's exclusive to the Dub so I don't know why that matters. its easier to ignore chatter if it isnt words you actually understand
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Dec 26, 2017 23:45
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I will never give up rrrrrrrrrrrrrumbling smash.
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Endorph posted:its easier to ignore chatter if it isnt words you actually understand I guess? It just sticks out to me
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Dragon Quest VIII downloading on the new 2ds. I skipped VII because that has more filler than a Robert Jordan book. I got VIII because I heard it has new features like no random encounters, which should be the law for any game released now. Otherwise, what am I in for?
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exquisite tea posted:I give a pass to FFX because it was really the first time a game of that scope had full VA and the English voice cast had to match the JP dub. All the principal actors have done good work outside of that game when they've reprised their roles. Tidus and Auron definitely. Yuna still delivers her lines stilted as gently caress in Dissidia, but I can give her a pass for that because that was likely voice direction and.. well, it's loving Dissidia. Plus, she does a drat fine job in Valkyria Chronicles, so yeah, I can still give her the pass.
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Hivac posted:the games aren't very good  Now let's get back to talking about Romancing SaGa 2. Inspector Gesicht posted:Dragon Quest VIII downloading on the new 2ds. I skipped VII because that has more filler than a Robert Jordan book. I got VIII because I heard it has new features like no random encounters, which should be the law for any game released now. Otherwise, what am I in for? It's um, Dragon Quest? Oh, wait, you haven't played 7 or 9 yet. In lieu of having a class system each character has a set of five skill trees that they can invest into to get the equivalent of class abilities. The character exclusive trees are pretty good, and it's conventional wisdom that you should restrict yourself to two trees per character in order to max them out by the end of the game. It's almost as great a game as V in my opinion.
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MechaX posted:Tidus and Auron definitely. It's definitely all in the voice direction, because she's fantastic in World of Final Fantasy.
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Trying to decide if I should jump into Trails of Cold Steel. How long does it take before I get to the meat of the game? Slow starts just make me put off games forever. Looking for something moderately fast paced with charming characters that I can just pick up and drop on and off at will. I think it looks like a good fit but I'm not sure. I played the first Trails in the Sky way back when and I got through most of the game, is that a good frame of reference?
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it takes a couple of hours to start but it starts way faster than sky did, sky took like 20 hours to get going
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Artelier posted:Looking for something moderately fast paced with charming characters that I can just pick up and drop on and off at will. I think it looks like a good fit but I'm not sure. I played the first Trails in the Sky way back when and I got through most of the game, is that a good frame of reference? it's faster than sky but the characters seem to get mixed responses from people so ymmv
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personally i liked the cast a lot more than sky, but i didnt really like estelle or josh that much so
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I have no strong feelings towards the tocs crew either way besides being annoyed at machias sometimes, but I enjoyed the sky duo a lot more after their arcs were finished. I dunno if I'll feel the same about the tocs characters but I guess I'll see when 4 comes out here in 2026
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i've only played tocs1 and i like fie and laura alone more than a significant chunk of the sky cast tbh, and i liked the cast of sky. tocs isn't perfect but like the only jrpg i can think of that grabbed me as much as it did for as long as it did was tales of berseria
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Artelier posted:Trying to decide if I should jump into Trails of Cold Steel. How long does it take before I get to the meat of the game? Slow starts just make me put off games forever. The game doesn't ever really ever "pick up" imo and the whole thing is basically a game-long setup for Cold Steel 2, so if you're looking for something more tailored for casual play and don't plan to play all four (possibly more who knows) games in the series it might feel sort of pointless. While TiTS had a smaller-scale plot that worked for a single game (where is cooldad) and then introduced a larger plot at the end, CS1 doesn't really have anything outside of the larger plot resolved over the four games, so it feels very much like you're reading the first one-fourth of a book that ends just as things are getting good. That being said, the game is divided into mostly self-contained chapters, so in that sense it does have some more small-scale plot/gameplay goals to work toward. You might want to check out Tokyo Xanadu, which feels very much like Cold Steel minus politics but at the same time has an actual story to it you get to see conclude.
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Opoona is such a great game. Its a shame it sold poorly.
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RazzleDazzleHour posted:The game doesn't ever really ever "pick up" imo and the whole thing is basically a game-long setup for Cold Steel 2, so if you're looking for something more tailored for casual play and don't plan to play all four (possibly more who knows) games in the series it might feel sort of pointless. While TiTS had a smaller-scale plot that worked for a single game (where is cooldad) and then introduced a larger plot at the end, CS1 doesn't really have anything outside of the larger plot resolved over the four games, so it feels very much like you're reading the first one-fourth of a book that ends just as things are getting good. That being said, the game is divided into mostly self-contained chapters, so in that sense it does have some more small-scale plot/gameplay goals to work toward. You might want to check out Tokyo Xanadu, which feels very much like Cold Steel minus politics but at the same time has an actual story to it you get to see conclude. To be fair, Cold Steel 2 pays off in dividends on what it sets up in the first game, so its not like it's out to waste your time for 70-odd hours. CS1 is very much the prologue, but it nails down everything you need to know for what follows so CS2 can get right to the main plot from the get-go, and has a decent-enough story on its own.
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I’m wrapping up CS1 now and I don’t think it really got moving until like chapter 4 which is halfway through the game. I really like the structure though. The various ways they break up the campus days, field studies, etc make it easy to continuously make progress in short sessions. Most of your assigned tasks take a few minutes to accomplish.
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Thanks for the Cold Steel advice everyone! I think I'm going to peek into some midgame videos to see if these day-to-day things and characters are up my alley.
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https://twitter.com/SOA_SQEX/status/945978822599458816 Lezard's in the Star Ocean mobile game with art by the Valkyrie Profile artist. Truly a fate worse than death.
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Endorph posted:https://twitter.com/SOA_SQEX/status/945978822599458816 The company that bought them gave them a second chance at the console market and they blew it. Tri Ace bombed in the handheld market too so this is all they have left.
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all these years truly they've just been waiting... for their third ace in the hole.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Romancing SaGa 2 question: I know people talk about grinding out charm immunity for some fights (like the final one) but... where/when can you actually start fighting enemies that use charm and is there anything you can do to try and increase your chances of learning an ability dodge? The only place you can learn the counter to that specific ability is when you fight Rocbouqet. I got super lucky and triggered the counter ability on the first turn, then ran away and left it for the next generation to deal with. I guess otherwise it's a matter of repeatedly running/save scumming. Indescribably useful for the last boss. Essential really, given my party setup Unfortunately the options for non-male frontliners are sort of weak and I really needed an axe specialist, sword specialist and greatsword specialist
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Artelier posted:Thanks for the Cold Steel advice everyone! I think I'm going to peek into some midgame videos to see if these day-to-day things and characters are up my alley. Make sure they're for Cold Steel 1 and not 2. The sequel continues immediately from the end of CS1, and there are biiiig spoilers.
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Gameplay of Valkyria Chronicles 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS0yW0j7KKM It is the sequel to VC1 after a decade
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all the suikodens are on sale on the PSN including the bad one which I didn't even know they put on PSN but buy it anyway in hopes they put V and Tactics on it eventually, tia goons
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Gamestop and Amazon have Blue Reflection PS4 for $29.99 today it looks like. If it's got a similar print run to the Atelier games, you probably won't find a new copy at Gamestop after today. While on topic: Atelier did not chart this week. E: On switch alone https://twitter.com/japanese3ds/status/946003643135905792 Dehry fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Dec 27, 2017 |
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That sucks, but maybe they should have made good games instead of Sophie and Firis and Nights of Azure
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I think that's just sales on nintendo switches? edit: Clarification, the ps4 version ALONE sold 21k. So false alarm, Atelier is fine.
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Tae posted:I think that's just sales on nintendo switches? That might be it. The site is Nintendo focused.
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