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I think FF12's biggest mistake was calling them "Palings" instead of "Chug Times". If the game did the same thing as they currently do with Palings but instead said "You can't hurt this boss until you chug a beer" then they'd probably have been better received.
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corn in the bible posted:also the way battle speed works in ff12 is very stupid. it affects how fast you can attack and cast spells, but bosses always cast instantly and thus ignore it. so if you turn the speed up you'll effectively deal more damage. Also status effects always last the same amount of real time regardless of your battle speed. Faster battle speed makes status effects last longer relative to in-game time.
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Feb 9, 2018 22:09
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Mega64 posted:I think FF12's biggest mistake was calling them "Palings" instead of "Chug Times". If the game did the same thing as they currently do with Palings but instead said "You can't hurt this boss until you chug a beer" then they'd probably have been better received. Active Chug Events, or A.C.E. for short.
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Feb 9, 2018 22:10
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MMF Freeway posted:Palings are bad but Trickster is an example of them used right imo because while his paling is up he's also raining meteors onto your face for massive damage so it actually becomes a fight for survival rather than just a time waste. Also yeah non-elemental magic goes through the paling, so bio, drain uhh balance maybe? I'll check some meteorites at it the next time I play. I spent about 90 minutes trying to beat it the other night and it burned me out. Definitely the first mark that has given me issues in about 21 hours of gameplay. Thanks for the tips y'all And apparently I need to increase battle speed. I left it at default.
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Feb 9, 2018 22:10
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I'm gonna try and break Cerobi Steppe RNG since I got the Nihopalaoa (using PDs on enemies doesn't break RNG unless they attack you). The items to get for the bazaar for the Niho were surprisingly easy once you have the monographs.
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Feb 9, 2018 22:56
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Cleretic posted:Welp, guess I'm mostly wrong on the FF crossover tier lists then!
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Feb 9, 2018 23:41
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True power is screaming for hours in hot pants
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Feb 9, 2018 23:45
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Another issue with Palings is the lack of a way to store Gambit loadouts, so if you do want to spend the duration of one healing you need to pause, change all your gambits one by one, wait out the Paling, pause again, and change them back - if you remember them. I dunno maybe I'm just lazy but I find making regular adjustments to my gambits a pain in the rear end, which is an issue when that's your main interaction with the game.
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Feb 10, 2018 00:00
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AlphaKretin posted:Another issue with Palings is the lack of a way to store Gambit loadouts, so if you do want to spend the duration of one healing you need to pause, change all your gambits one by one, wait out the Paling, pause again, and change them back - if you remember them. I dunno maybe I'm just lazy but I find making regular adjustments to my gambits a pain in the rear end, which is an issue when that's your main interaction with the game. Yeah gambits would work better if they were sets you could actively build around and swap to as needed relatively to enemy actions. Shifting the paradigm of your strategies as it were.
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Feb 10, 2018 00:17
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Yeah gambits would work better if they were sets you could actively build around and swap to as needed relatively to enemy actions. Shifting the paradigm of your strategies as it were. For all of its flaws, final fantasty 13 actually had some good ideas.
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Feb 10, 2018 00:20
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lobster22221 posted:For all of its flaws, final fantasty 13 actually had some good ideas. It and LR are easily the most mechanically sound FF games. They are good.
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Feb 10, 2018 00:21
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:It and LR are easily the most mechanically sound FF games. Shame about absolutely everything else.
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Feb 10, 2018 00:30
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lobster22221 posted:For all of its flaws, final fantasty 13 actually had some good ideas. I especially liked the ideas concerning Snow getting punched in the face.
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Feb 10, 2018 00:41
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Why do people hate Snow again
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Feb 10, 2018 00:49
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Your Computer posted:hey follow-up to this I went digging to see what sort of dialogue changes it had and uh yeah Incidentally, I think that picture is OOOLD. Like, the first release or two of the mod had apparently more of that cringey dialog, but people complained and to his credit the creator both A) cut out most of the really bad dialog, and B) put in an option to remove almost all of it. And that was before I played it like 4 years ago. He continued to work on balance tweaks and stuff as well. So I wouldn't discount the mod because of an ancient picture that no longer reflects the mod.
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Feb 10, 2018 00:51
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Help Im Alive posted:Why do people hate Snow again Annoying, got the Tough Mom killed, impossibly oblivious. If he weren't so fuckin dumb he'd have realized who Hope was and ended that plotline before it began
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Feb 10, 2018 00:52
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Followup do people also hate Snow in XIII-2/LR
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Feb 10, 2018 00:54
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Help Im Alive posted:Why do people hate Snow again He's basically a character that got misplaced from 6 when the WoR opened up so he found himself in a world with voice acting.
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Feb 10, 2018 00:54
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Mega64 posted:I think FF12's biggest mistake was calling them "Palings" instead of "Chug Times". If the game did the same thing as they currently do with Palings but instead said "You can't hurt this boss until you chug a beer" then they'd probably have been better received. You might have the next million-dollar idea friend
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Feb 10, 2018 00:54
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Help Im Alive posted:Why do people hate Snow again He's a big reckless dumbass who continually puts other people in danger and/or killed and thinks he's awesome for it with no sense of self-awareness.
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Feb 10, 2018 00:55
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Help Im Alive posted:Followup do people also hate Snow in XIII-2/LR I thought Snow was hilarious in LR because he turns into a member of The Cure
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Feb 10, 2018 00:56
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Alternatively, you could say that he turns into a FFXV character.
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Feb 10, 2018 00:57
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Help Im Alive posted:Why do people hate Snow again I love Snow because he's a dumb oblivious moron, like a dumber Tidus or Vaan without the excuses those two had of being out of their elements. His plans are dumb, his ideas are dumb, he runs on pure unfounded optimism and it's hilarious that 2/5 the other playable characters hate his guts until 2/3 through the game because of his single-minded puppy dog focus. He's a meathead dating a woman half his size and probably four times his intellect, and the only thing that keeps him going for the first 2/3 of the game is him constantly deluding himself he's the hero of this story. He's a moron, he's lovable because his convictions are relatable and understandable, he always wants to keep trying to save everyone, and I can still relate to the two characters who want to see him dead. Thus why I love Snow and still enjoy watching him get punched in the face.
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Feb 10, 2018 01:14
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That said, I also love Sabin and would love to see him get punched in the face, but only because I feel Sabin would laugh it off and pat the punching person on the back for a well-placed punch. I think I'd also add Cait Sith to this prestigious honor since he's a robot and thus it doesn't really matter if he gets punched in the face.
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Feb 10, 2018 01:16
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Help Im Alive posted:Why do people hate Snow again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StlMdNcvCJo
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Feb 10, 2018 01:22
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Help Im Alive posted:Why do people hate Snow again Jealous of his awesome bod. Seriously, I always liked Snow from the first time I played XIII. He's introduced as the only person trying to save a bunch of people from certain death, he also refuses to give up on saving the love of his life, he channels pure goodness to the point he carries the kid who wants to kill him around on his back even as his insides are smashed to pieces. Kinda reminds me of how Zidane is pretty popular in contrast to Tidus or Vaan. All three are very cheerful, happy-go-lucky types but Zidane is cool while Tidus and Vaan are demonstrably not cool. I attribute this to Tidus and Vaan's obnoxiousness, cluelessness (about simple things, it has nothing to do with being in a "different world") and their stupid outfits. Snow could be argued to be clueless but he isn't as obnoxious as Tidus or Vaan and his outfit is certainly better. Also Snow has an awesome theme song.
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Feb 10, 2018 01:22
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exquisite tea posted:He's a big reckless dumbass who continually puts other people in danger and/or killed and thinks he's awesome for it with no sense of self-awareness.
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Feb 10, 2018 01:28
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Did hope’s mom do anything besides saying the dumbest one-liner imaginable and getting brutally owned
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Feb 10, 2018 01:34
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:It and LR are easily the most mechanically sound FF games. They are good. I loved LR's extinction mechanics, albeit in part because I think extinction mechanics are cool especially when appropriate to the setting.
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Feb 10, 2018 01:40
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ROFL Octopus posted:Did hope’s mom do anything besides saying the dumbest one-liner imaginable and getting brutally owned EDIT: I might be stretching a bit here and haven't played FF13 since it came out but its a take I've never heard before at least. Raxivace fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Feb 10, 2018 |
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Feb 10, 2018 01:42
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Cleretic posted:I loved LR's extinction mechanics, albeit in part because I think extinction mechanics are cool especially when appropriate to the setting. They're cool, though in practice it's a pain in the rear end to actually drive stuff to extinction unless you visit the bonus dungeon. I do like that one guy who asks you to kill every skeleton because he's scared of them, that's pretty funny.
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Feb 10, 2018 01:43
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NikkolasKing posted:Kinda reminds me of how Zidane is pretty popular in contrast to Tidus or Vaan. All three are very cheerful, happy-go-lucky types but Zidane is cool while Tidus and Vaan are demonstrably not cool. I attribute this to Tidus and Vaan's obnoxiousness, cluelessness (about simple things, it has nothing to do with being in a "different world") and their stupid outfits. Zidane feels like an adult, in that he's an established part of his world. He understand the world and he knows how to get along, and he's so skilled at taking care of himself that he has plenty of time to spare for other people. Tidus, even though he's theoretically older, feels like a child in that he has to tag along behind the adults asking questions and being spoon-fed. Also, he actively refuses to become part of the world he finds himself in or accept its logic. (This winds up being a good thing for him, because the world's logic is wrong and Tidus is right, but it means he doesn't get to be an adult until the world is fixed.)
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There is a dialogue prompt in 13-2 where you can ask Serah about Snow and she starts talking really fast and chipmunky and the screen fades out and it's implied that she rambled on about how cool Snow is and why she loves him so much for hours. Also Snow is a central player in the single best ending in the whole ff13 series.
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Feb 10, 2018 02:47
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I get what you mean, but "adult" is probably the wrong word here since much of Zidane's character development is his maturing and learning how not to be an rear end in a top hat to random people and a creep to women in particular, while Tidus is dumb but still relatively mature even though he acts like an idiot at times. But you're right that Zidane is an established part of his world and very knowledgeable about it compared to the rest of the party, while Tidus of course is the fish out of water who has to get exposition constantly as the viewpoint character. Both characters are definitely strengths in their respective stories since Zidane is instrumental in helping Garnet and Vivi learn the world and become self-reliant in their own ways, while Tidus forces the party and Spira and general to reconsider their way of life and see if there may be better alternatives to free them of eternal misery. It's actually quite interesting how 9 and 10 go in completely different directions, but then it feels like any two adjacent FF games are always going to be radically different from each other, and of course that's what makes this series so unique and great.
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Help Im Alive posted:Followup do people also hate Snow in XIII-2/LR I don't think most people remember what Snow even did in 13-2, but he was alright in there. He was cool in LR as well imo. Most people just don't like his optimisim shtick in 13-1, despite that being the thing they deliberately play around with him Raxivace posted:Well she abandoned her son at the first opportunity. In fact Hope's arc probably makes the most sense if he's supposed to be projecting anger at his mother onto Snow. That's not really it, Hope's cutscenes all make it abundantly clear all the time that it's specifically Snow ( and Snow's dumb actions) for specifically having responsibility for his mom's death. Hope is more pissed off at his dad than he ever is at his mom.
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Gologle posted:There is a dialogue prompt in 13-2 where you can ask Serah about Snow and she starts talking really fast and chipmunky and the screen fades out and it's implied that she rambled on about how cool Snow is and why she loves him so much for hours. Also Snow is a central player in the single best ending in the whole ff13 series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6egZo2rg84U Still my favorite XIII game.
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Feb 10, 2018 03:16
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A lot of the fun of 13-2 is playing Serah as an absolute mad woman.
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Feb 10, 2018 03:22
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So I'm playing FF XII Zodiac Age and I just got the item from the viera that removes the barriers in the forest, and now all of the enemies beyond there are suddenly kicking my rear end. I feel like I've already been doing a ton of optional grinding, so I'm not sure why the difficulty just spiked like that. Do I have no choice but to grind more? Same with the hunts, I was clearing them as they appeared no problem, but now suddenly the only available hunts are rank 3 and 4 ones that absolutely destroy me. Are hunts supposed to be saved for late game? Finally, I have one last question. At the moment I can only fast travel via gate crystals and my limited supply of teleport stones. Do I later get an airship or something that lets me hop all over the map without expending teleport stones?
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Feb 10, 2018 05:02
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I’m an idiot and went to the wrong area, nevermind
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Nope, you never get your own airship, despite you riding in one earlier and it being a major goal of the party. Instead you can buy airship tickets which exist solely to a) be a place for a hunt to happen at and b) a shop that for some unfathomable reason is where you buy all the teleport stones your heart desires and c) inefficiently teleport you to places you've been.
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