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ZiegeDame posted:
Counterpoint: like I am ever not going to bring my guy who steals things
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Not a fan of that main character requirement. Maybe they'll justify it and pay it off in the story, but I'm worried I'm going to be stuck with someone I end up not liking.
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Jul 7, 2018 04:57
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Reality Loser posted:Not a fan of that main character requirement. Maybe they'll justify it and pay it off in the story, but I'm worried I'm going to be stuck with someone I end up not liking. easy solution is to just pick Tressa 
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Jul 7, 2018 04:58
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I'm taking the OCTOPATH. Started with Ophilia, and am wrapping up Cyrus with just under 2 and a half hours of playtime. Tomorrow I'll start and see how far I can get through Tressa's story. But after that I think I'm just going to not be swayed by review discussion until release and the play and enjoy this game however the developers intended regardless of the level of party interaction.
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Jul 7, 2018 07:00
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Look, if you need Therion to open the special purple chests you come across, you all might as well just pick him as your starter. 
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Jul 7, 2018 07:40
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Maybe I want to play Pokemon and start with Haanit.
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Jul 7, 2018 08:13
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Eddain posted:Look, if you need Therion to open the special purple chests you come across, you all might as well just pick him as your starter.
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Jul 7, 2018 08:46
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https://twitter.com/authenticalyn/status/1013399593751416833?s=19
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Jul 7, 2018 10:57
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This one is much better
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Jul 7, 2018 11:15
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I have legit no idea who to pick first and its consuming me I went olberic but he sounds less cool than the merchant, thief, hunter in terms of being able to do fun stuff
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Jul 7, 2018 11:25
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Eddain posted:Look, if you need Therion to open the special purple chests you come across, you all might as well just pick him as your starter.  Plus being able to rob people blind will be handy for making money be less of an issue, probably.
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Jul 7, 2018 13:27
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I get people being a little dismayed at the possible lack of regular scenes of party, but I started with Olberic and when I picked up Tressa I was already making up dialogue between them to explain why an ex-SOLDIER would be helping a neophyte merchant. It worked for me
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Jonas Albrecht posted:Maybe I want to play Pokemon and start with Haanit. I'm only getting Octopath to fill in time until November 16.
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Seeing all the hype for this game in this thread finally convinced me to download the demo last night, and I started it before bed. Went with best girl Primrose for my main character, and now that I've made the world a better place by ridding it of Helgenish, I'm debating whether to go clockwise or counterclockwise. primroseintensifies.gif
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Jul 7, 2018 16:48
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The voice acting of That villain gurgling and dying really made me happy.
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Jul 7, 2018 17:15
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One of my favourite things about this game is how they make bosses ridiculously large compared to everything else.
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Jul 7, 2018 17:28
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Frankston posted:One of my favourite things about this game is how they make bosses ridiculously large compared to everything else. it's a great callback to the old Final Fantasy games wherein the enemies were just huge images
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Jul 7, 2018 17:44
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I just played the demo and I am stoked. My merry band is (in order) Ophelia, Tressa, Alfyn and their intros were really good! Looking forward to Friday
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Jul 7, 2018 18:49
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Decided to grab Olberic for my party next. Really digging the voice work in this one, though I noticed Patrick Seitz slipping into his Garrosh Hellscream voice a bit on the "My blade is UNBENDING!" line.  Got a little over half an hour left of the demo. Might just park it here until Friday, since I like to take my time with these kinds of games. Definitely going to be picking this up, though.
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Jul 7, 2018 19:06
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I've seen both answers but can you really never swap out your first Character? I've got a demo save with H'aanit but I'm not sure I want her as my main.
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Hey there everyone! Here are the results of the polls I put up a few days ago.  One pretty clear thing from this is that the Tressa love is strong, scoring the highest in the starting character poll and second in the character story interest poll. Funnily enough, Ophilia scored second highest for starting character but was ranked last for the interest in character story. Maybe she's being picked for more pragmatic reasons or to do the OCTOPATH path. Not a lot of love for Alfyn or Olberic who scored low on both polls, but it seems like Primrose's darker story struck a chord with the majority of people here as she scored the highest in character story interest but that interest was not enough for her to be deemed a popular starting character. Therion seems consistent scoring third in both polls too while H'aanit and Cyrus hover around the middle for both polls. Overall, it's interesting to see what others intentions are and while there is a lot of members of the cult of Tressa, there's still seems to be an interest in all the stories as no one scored 0 on either poll. I might do a poll after a month or so to see if things have changed over time and comparing the two should be really interesting.
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Jul 7, 2018 19:40
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voltcatfish posted:Do we know if it's possible to go through the game (a story?) with just one character? The video above the guy asks this question after the nintendo dude says the stories are intertwined, and he says "you'll have to wait and see" so we don't know :/
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Jul 7, 2018 20:07
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Hentai Jihadist posted:I have legit no idea who to pick first and its consuming me Reality Loser posted:Not a fan of that main character requirement. Maybe they'll justify it and pay it off in the story, but I'm worried I'm going to be stuck with someone I end up not liking. Zaphod42 posted:Character guide (If you need help picking your starting dude) There's no wrong answer. But the right answer is Primrose
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I think I'm starting with Tressa. I know everyone's starting with Tressa, but I just love her so much and I'm not even sure why. Although, Alfyn and Cyrus are major contenders to knock her out of Party Captain status. I just don't know yet! I like all these people!
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Jul 7, 2018 20:17
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Does anyone know for sure when the 3 hour limit kicks in? I head it basically let's you finish what your doing. But I literally just started Tressa's story with only 6 minutes to spare so I'm guessing I should just hold off on playing until release.
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Jul 7, 2018 20:49
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Aquasnake posted:Does anyone know for sure when the 3 hour limit kicks in? I head it basically let's you finish what your doing. But I literally just started Tressa's story with only 6 minutes to spare so I'm guessing I should just hold off on playing until release. Just about after 3 hours it will basically pause the game and ask you to save, so you can continue from exactly there when the full game is out. If you're mid-cutscene or battle I'm pretty confident it won't kick you out until you finish that, and then when you get back to walking around it'll pause and ask you to save. There's not much reason to hold off.
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Jul 7, 2018 20:54
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The timer starts after you pick your initial character, I believe. And then at 3 hours into the save you'll get the forced pause/save Zaphod described.
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This game comes out right as I start a run of six 12 hour shifts in a row, so the only reasonable thing for me to do is to not sleep for a week. Still debating whether I'm going to continue my demo "speedrun" (got all 8 characters and a bunch of other stuff) to jump right into new content, or start over to enjoy everything at a more leisurely pace. It's a tough choice. I'm also going wobbly on party selection. I like everybody.
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Aquasnake posted:Does anyone know for sure when the 3 hour limit kicks in? I head it basically let's you finish what your doing. But I literally just started Tressa's story with only 6 minutes to spare so I'm guessing I should just hold off on playing until release. I was well before the ending of Tressa's story when my limit was up in theory and the game allowed me to continue beyond 3 hours until I finished her story.
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I just had a similar experience. I saved in between, too and it kept on logging as 3:00:00. The "thanks for playing" screen only popped up when I headed east out of Rippletide after finishing her prologue.
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KonvexKonkav posted:I was well before the ending of Tressa's story when my limit was up in theory and the game allowed me to continue beyond 3 hours until I finished her story. How far before? I literally just got control of her.
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Now I'm torn. I decided to go Tressa main after the first demo playthough because I want to be Final Fantasy Kimmy Schmidt. Just did a second run with Therion and I love his thieving ways. My Tressa, Cyrus, Ophelia, Olberic (TCOO) quartet is out the window now. I guess it is good you can subclass, and I'm sure you won't have to min/max this game to enjoy it. Primrose was also pretty awesome, so she may work her way in there too. Sneaky way of Squenix to force you to juggle all the characters by making all of them interesting. Also, can you swap characters in and out in towns at any time through that one person? Example being if I want to steal that golden axe, swap in someone who can challenge people, and Therion to steal it, then swap back to whatever group I was rolling with.
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Fetko posted:Also, can you swap characters in and out in towns at any time through that one person? Example being if I want to steal that golden axe, swap in someone who can challenge people, and Therion to steal it, then swap back to whatever group I was rolling with.
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I'd figure Tressa would be a permanent addition since you get passive money just for traveling.
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someone mentioned chests that only Therion could open, I wonder if those can be opened if you subclass. what I'm saying is, make Tressa a thieving merchant and get everything on one character 
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Panic! at Nabisco posted:You can swap people in and out, but everyone's path action depends on their level, so if you don't ever use Therion for example your steal chance will be miserably low. So I can save scum if I hate myself. Tressa/Therion dream team it is. Oh, are the same items available to steal/buy? I would assume so, but there were some drat expensive things in Tressa's first story that I can't imagine would be the equivalent of the 100%s that are in Therion's. Your Computer posted:someone mentioned chests that only Therion could open, I wonder if those can be opened if you subclass. You don't get the path actions by subclassing, do you? thought it was just their weapons/abilities that came with that. Otherwise, yeah, Tressa will make Therion obsolete for me.
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I was heading south of his starting area with Cyrus when I ran into this weird creature. I could only deal 1 damage to it, but when it went down I gained about 10 levels.
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Your Computer posted:someone mentioned chests that only Therion could open, I wonder if those can be opened if you subclass.
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Fetko posted:You don't get the path actions by subclassing, do you? thought it was just their weapons/abilities that came with that. anyway all I know for certain is that I want Tressa with her quest for adventure and Alfyn with his quest to be the goodest boy on my team.   
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Panic! at Nabisco posted:Nope, that's Therion's unique ability, like H'aanit's pokemon mechanic or Alfyn's mixing. Uhhhh hold up. Therion's ability on the overworld is pickpocketing, but his ability in combat is stealing. H'aanit's pokemon is her combat; she challenges dudes like Oberic as her overworld ability. Alfyn investigates like Cyrus, but yes in combat he mixes, but it isn't like Therion's pickpocketing. But we were talking about opening chests. That's not either of the things unique to Therion. Your Computer posted:someone mentioned chests that only Therion could open, I wonder if those can be opened if you subclass. I don't think all the locked chests are Therion, I was able to open some of them when I had 2 party members in the demo even though one of them wasn't Therion. They're just items that require you to go back with someone in particular, so some of them may be Therion but either there will be chests that require all characters or multiple characters can probably learn the unlocking chests thing.
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