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I never looked at it since I'm not into those sorts of games, but apparently that XV mobage is just a licensed reskin of an infamously lovely timer game that SE allowed to be made because ????
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Game of War, yes. And "allowed" is a funny way to put "contracted to make".quote:Analytics by Slice Intelligence indicated that Game of War's paying players each spent an average of $550 in 2015 on its in-app purchases, compared to $87 spent by the average player of mobile free-to-play games.[15][16] As an example of a "whale," Businessweek described a 15-year-old Game of War player in Belgium who had used his mother's credit card to spend over $41,000 on in-game purchases in the free-to-play game.[17] In December 2016, a 45-year-old California man admitted in federal court to having spent $1 million of embezzled funds on online purchases in Game of War
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May 9, 2018 14:56
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The mobile game is always like top 20 in grossing charts.
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May 9, 2018 15:11
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Why are people that buy stuff in mobile games broken
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May 9, 2018 15:38
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Help Im Alive posted:Why are people that buy stuff in mobile games broken Because it's literally an addiction on par with cocaine or meth but our society is yet to evolved to recognize it as such and instead claim it must just be a lack of willpower.
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So, uh, the pacing in FFXV is kinda hosed, huh? I went from chapter 9 to 13 yesterday (closing in on the end of ch13, no spoilers pls), and after like 40 hours of chill open-world slice-of-life with my yaoi stereotype brothers, the plot suddenly happened all at once. Altissia ruled, the boss fight at the end of Altissia ruled, but everything since has been, frankly, kinda exhausting. I feel like there were supposed to be open-world segments in all these places we've visited (hell, it seems like we should've been able to go outside Altissia), but... what? They ran out of money after Titan and the big Altissia setpiece?
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May 9, 2018 15:45
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Sade posted:They ran out of money after Titan and the big Altissia setpiece? Yup.
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May 9, 2018 16:25
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Time rather than money, or at least the two are inextricably linked
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May 9, 2018 16:46
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There's a huge part of the other continent that's mostly finished and has collision, so it's pretty obvious they wanted to space things out a bit more in the seond half but ran out of time. I think the sped up tempo of the plot kind of works with everything spiraling into poo poo at that point though. Makes the pleasent memories of the first half the characters have match the players.
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Attitude Indicator posted:There's a huge part of the other continent that's mostly finished and has collision, so it's pretty obvious they wanted to space things out a bit more in the seond half but ran out of time.
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May 9, 2018 17:39
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Also FF2 is fairly bleak for an NES era game, wow. Party members are dying left and right. I went back to the starting town after the Dreadnought captured Cid's airship and the princess, and some random NPC I talked to was like "Ah you worthless fuckers hosed this up bad, you guys suck at destroying evil airships. GTFO this adventure." Its like geeze, sorry. We're just 3-4 adventurers, what the hell were you assholes doing when your sovereign got kidnapped? Raxivace fucked around with this message at 04:10 on May 10, 2018 |
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May 9, 2018 17:43
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FF2 might be the worst game in the franchise but it has so many interesting bits, like how dour it is. That world map theme sets the tone for how melancholy the game is.
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Sade posted:So, uh, the pacing in FFXV is kinda hosed, huh? I went from chapter 9 to 13 yesterday (closing in on the end of ch13, no spoilers pls), and after like 40 hours of chill open-world slice-of-life with my yaoi stereotype brothers, the plot suddenly happened all at once. "FF fans don't like hallways, eh? What if the hallway was really a train? Now you're always on the move! Brilliant!"
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May 9, 2018 17:57
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Help Im Alive posted:Why are people that buy stuff in mobile games broken The vast majority of players don't spend any money on mobile games. They're just happy to have a game to kill time with. The real money comes from whales who are willing to pay to win. Sakurazuka posted:Time rather than money, or at least the two are inextricably linked They probably realized from making one open world region that they wouldn't be able to do that for the rest of the game.
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May 9, 2018 17:58
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Raxivace posted:Yeah its not perfect but I like what they were going for with what they came up with. Symbolically, it makes the destruction of the Regalia one of the most significant parts of the game. I remember someone said that part was so stupid. "Am i gonna feel bad for a loving car?" No, dude, you're supposed to realize that this means there's no going back now. Noctis' connection to his dad, past and glory days of cruising around listening to the ff7 soundtrack are gone now. But, on the other hand, the scene is presented kind of stupid.
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Attitude Indicator posted:I remember someone said that part was so stupid. "Am i gonna feel bad for a loving car?" No, dude, you're supposed to realize that this means there's no going back now. Noctis' connection to his dad, past and glory days of cruising around listening to the ff7 soundtrack are gone now. But, on the other hand, the scene is presented kind of stupid. I used Umbra to go back to the open world area to apply the Fan Service skin to the Regalia, because even though Luna died, Noct will always have his waifus. When the Regalia broke down, I felt so bad for the car, because she was Noctis's only waifu left in the world...
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May 9, 2018 21:13
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To be fair unlike Luna, Noctis got inside the car
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May 9, 2018 21:40
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To be fair how many FF characters haven't hosed cars Besides all of them
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Mega64 posted:To be fair how many FF characters haven't hosed cars Do chocobos count?
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I'll allow it.
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Bruceski posted:Do chocobos count? bentacos posted:So you think you can ride this chocobo?!
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May 9, 2018 22:00
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Do you ride the Chocobo, or does the Chocobo ride you?
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May 9, 2018 22:08
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So I keep seeing guides mentioning Bartz/whoever utilizing rapidfire with spellblade and dual wield. How can I set him up to use all three of those abilities?
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Kingtheninja posted:So I keep seeing guides mentioning Bartz/whoever utilizing rapidfire with spellblade and dual wield. How can I set him up to use all three of those abilities? Mime job.
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May 9, 2018 22:19
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Freelancer with Rapid Fire and Spellblade, easy as that. If you have ninja mastered, freelancer will inherit dual wield. You can also make the character a mime, equip Time Magic, and use Quick to double your actions, with the downside that you can't equip swords.
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how emotionally stunted to you have to be to think that the scene where the regalia breaks is pointless
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seiferguy posted:Do you ride the Chocobo, or does the Chocobo ride you? Depends. Are you in Soviet Russia?
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Reiterpallasch posted:how emotionally stunted to you have to be to think that the scene where the regalia breaks is pointless To be fair, there's a scene in an earlier game where the protagonist's chocobo breaking is pointless. Actually I can think of two FF games where Chocobos break their legs. FF5, where Boko rests up at a pirate cave until healed, and FF Adventure, where some guy cuts off the chocobo's legs and replaces them with robot legs, making it a Chocybo.
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May 9, 2018 22:56
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Kweh kweh, waaaaark* *<warrior of light, disable my pain receptors.>
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Mega64 posted:To be fair, there's a scene in an earlier game where the protagonist's chocobo breaking is pointless. Do we count the Type 0 intro?
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Why did Strago join the fanatics? I never got that and it’s never explored is it?
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Himuro posted:Why did Strago join the fanatics? I never got that and it’s never explored is it? presumably he lost contact with relm and that drove him to depression, thats what ive always assumed since shes the key to breaking him out of it
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Barudak posted:Kweh kweh, waaaaark*  I laughed way harder at this than I should have
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mandatory lesbian posted:presumably he lost contact with relm and that drove him to depression, thats what ive always assumed since shes the key to breaking him out of it I always thought the Kefka cultists were straight up being brainwashed/mind-controlled by Magi Master or something. It's way sadder to imagine a lonely old man being seduced by cult tactics bc everyone he loves is dead and nothing matters.
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Himuro posted:Why did Strago join the fanatics? I never got that and it’s never explored is it? Strago woke up in a lovely world and thought everyone was dead so he just gave up hope.
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wizard on a water slide posted:I always thought the Kefka cultists were straight up being brainwashed/mind-controlled by Magi Master or something. First one makes sense but you still have encounters once you beat him and there’s still cultists at the bottom floor even with him dead. Second idea is tragic. Then there’s the fact the original name of Gem Box is Soul of Thamasa so maybe he was just drawn to the magical power of the locale (being that you can only use magic) and his heritage? Either way, knocked the place out today. Last floor before you get the gem box has some doozies because they come into battle with auto reflect until you remember that you can’t reflect Ultima.  Can beat the game now but still need to get Umaro, do a few quests and level up a few people and teach them spells I want on em (obvious stuff like Pearl/holy on Cyan). Gave Paladin Shield to Celes. As a former Imperial general turned Returner she has the dark knight -> Paladin story down pat. After I beat it I’ll go back and beat all the dragons and doom gaze. Jupiter Jazz fucked around with this message at 03:43 on May 10, 2018 |
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Raxivace posted:Also FF2 is fairly bleak for an NES era game, wow. Party members are dying left and right. I went back to the starting town after the Dreadnought captured Cid's airship and the princess, and some random NPC I talked to was like "Ah you worthless fuckers hosed this up bad, you guys suck at destroying evil airships. GTFO this adventure." There are other games with city destroying superweapons or high bodycounts but none are as matter-of-fact about it as FF2. Four cities are destroyed offscreen while you're in a dungeon and it's just treated as a fact of war, the village you go to for help is massacred before you get there, a poo poo ton of characters die many in unglamorous or pointless ways. It's the closest Final Fantasy has come to being a Taro Yoko game, at least until he directs FFXVI.
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Himuro posted:First one makes sense but you still have encounters once you beat him and there’s still cultists at the bottom floor even with him dead. Unlike magic curses, brainwashing doesn't automatically get cured if you kill the brainwasher. And to this day I refuse to do the Cultist's Tower without Mog and the moogle charm. gently caress that tower.
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Sweet, I've already unlocked the "No Waifu No Laifu" feat.
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