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Hunt11 posted:So in this threads opinion, how was FF15? It was the anti-final-fantasy. Bad story, decent gameplay. Overall a fairly okay game, nothing really great, and it really feels like it loses steam towards the end.
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Good soup! posted:Eh, I always had a soft spot for it, the boss themes are great though imo I was thinking about RPG battle music that gives me the impression of "did they not listen to this the 500 times the game expects you to?" and Final Fantasy 13 has to be the worst
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Sep 13, 2018 02:46
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Verranicus posted:So did Halo ever do anything good again after Reach (the best Halo) or was it all downhill from there? Extremely no. 343i are unbelievably incompetent and have hosed everything up possible at every turn. The story after Reach is pants-on-head stupid and awful, and they made a bunch of changes nobody asked for. Halo stopped with Reach and "halo 4" and "halo 5" are bad call of duty games with a halo skin. Just... ugh. Meanwhile Bungie keeps trying to do Destiny but can't get it right. They really should have just stuck to what was making them rich.
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Sep 13, 2018 02:48
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Like I'm not even a huge Halo fan and still thought Reach was A Very Good Game. I'm not sure you really -can- follow that up with something better.
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Sep 13, 2018 02:49
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Verranicus posted:Like I'm not even a huge Halo fan and still thought Reach was A Very Good Game. I'm not sure you really -can- follow that up with something better. Even just more of the same would have been pretty cool though. 4 is aggressively awful, as is 5. Also they're STILL patching the master chief collection which is just a mess of bugs. Reach was really great though, showed some character and let them branch away from the chief & cortana. ODST was also really good, underrated game. Something about its name and how it was marketed turned me off, it was all "HOO RAH ODST!" which sounds super militaristic, but in reality ODST was kinda Halo: Noir which is pretty rad.
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Sep 13, 2018 02:53
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Zaphod42 posted:Even just more of the same would have been pretty cool though. 4 is aggressively awful, as is 5. despite not being super into shooters, i played coop halo with one of my roommates several times and definitely enjoyed odst the most thanks to the quiet city intercutting missions The Moon Monster posted:I played all of the GBA/DS Castlevanias and Harmony was without a doubt the worst by a significant margin. It was initially exciting because it was such a graphical/movement upgrade from Circle of the Moon, but it ended up feeling really half baked imo. In retrospect Circle was probably in my top 2 or 3, especially if you were playing it on something with a back light. i really wish circle of the moon either let you start in wizard mode or just gave those dumb cards drop rates that aren't insane
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Sep 13, 2018 03:01
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Zaphod42 posted:Even just more of the same would have been pretty cool though. 4 is aggressively awful, as is 5. I think Reach's soundtrack sold it, along with the story being a downer pretty much the whole way through but still super interesting even if you knew how it was going to end.
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Sep 13, 2018 03:11
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Saint Freak posted:*record scratch* lol
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Verranicus posted:I think Reach's soundtrack sold it, along with the story being a downer pretty much the whole way through but still super interesting even if you knew how it was going to end.
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Sep 13, 2018 03:22
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Sitting in a concert hall waiting for them to start playing final fantasy music right now The program says they'll announce the songs on stage which is super unusual. The normal vocalist isn't credited though so I'm worried that there won't be any songs with non-choir vocals cheetah7071 fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Sep 13, 2018 |
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Sep 13, 2018 03:30
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Sep 13, 2018 03:31
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homeless snail posted:yeah reach is just a really well put together package, in general. ODST also. bungie got really good at storytelling, which is weird when so many of their games are completely allergic to telling stories Yeah Halo 3 is probably still one of my favorite games of all time
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Sep 13, 2018 03:32
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Ask Me About: buying a weapon in DQXI and finding a copy of it in a chest 20 seconds later. Most of those 20 seconds were saving after the purchase
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Sep 13, 2018 04:00
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i wish red faction guerrilla wasn't basically the only game offering its whole brand of building destruction afaik it's still a really fun game but it's a bummer that nothing else really picked up what it put down
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Sep 13, 2018 04:02
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Relax Or DIE posted:Ask Me about : buying a weapon in DQXI and finding a copy of it in a chest 20 seconds later. I think I've bought maybe 3 things total in the game and I'm in the post-game. I just wait for new recipes.
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Sep 13, 2018 04:03
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Relax Or DIE posted:Ask Me about : buying a weapon in DQXI and finding a copy of it in a chest 20 seconds later. Does DQXI have the alchemy pot? Because that has been my favorite stuff since 8. I feel like the running intent with Dragon Quest's design compared to other JRPGs is getting over the fact that you don't really need to buy all the equipment. It can be frustrating to get expensive treasures in chests but you just sell it and move on because everything is intentionally too expensive.
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Sep 13, 2018 04:07
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It's got a forge you can use And I'm gonna have to stop shopping because I now have to save money for gambling
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Sep 13, 2018 04:08
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cheetah7071 posted:Sitting in a concert hall waiting for them to start playing final fantasy music right now Are people dressed up or is it a casual affair?
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Sep 13, 2018 04:15
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Jay Rust posted:Are people dressed up or is it a casual affair? No cosplays that I see. It's like a real concert hall being played by a major orchestra so some people are dressed fancy but also it's final fantasy so most people aren't
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Sep 13, 2018 04:33
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played sexy brutale and man I kind of wish I had given up when it started crashing constantly right before the ending, cause it very quickly goes from a game I loved to a game I merely like. first 4 hours is a very intriguing puzzle/adventure game that never quite takes its mechanics as far as it could, but clearly building up to something, and then rather than paying off in mechanics the last hour is suddenly a cutscene exposition dump?? the story ended up being pretty okay but it really wasn't what I was there for
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Sep 13, 2018 05:47
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They indeed did not have their vocalist so no Eyes on Me or Answers which is sad. Highlight of the concert was the ff6 opera
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Sep 13, 2018 05:50
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homeless snail posted:played sexy brutale and man I kind of wish I had given up when it started crashing constantly right before the ending, cause it very quickly goes from a game I loved to a game I merely like. first 4 hours is a very intriguing puzzle/adventure game that never quite takes its mechanics as far as it could, but clearly building up to something, and then rather than paying off in mechanics the last hour is suddenly a cutscene exposition dump?? the story ended up being pretty okay but it really wasn't what I was there for I thought the ending sucked and it soured me on a game I was loving up until that point
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Sep 13, 2018 05:52
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Relax Or DIE posted:And I'm gonna have to stop shopping because I now have to save money for gambling Relax or DIE, we're all worried about you. It's ok to admit you have a problem.
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Sep 13, 2018 06:00
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Sakurazuka posted:I thought the ending sucked and it soured me on a game I was loving up until that point the most disappointing thing for me though is that the puzzles never really progress in complexity, they almost all require you to get one piece of information and then manipulate one item which comes up real short in terms of what they could have done with the premise. I solved one of the puzzles by accident even, without even knowing how the characters were supposed to have died, lmao. the very last people you save have by far the most interesting puzzle because, shockingly, it has two steps to solve instead of just the one. as I made it to the garden I thought for sure the ending was going to involve saving everyone in one go, suspicion built when immediately after you unlock fast travel and completely reveal the map. and it turns out that is in fact what's going on, except you get to watch your player character do it in a cutscene and the only use for the fast travel is to finish collecting the collectibles before the ending?? holy lmao
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Sep 13, 2018 06:21
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Looper posted:despite not being super into shooters, i played coop halo with one of my roommates several times and definitely enjoyed odst the most thanks to the quiet city intercutting missions Well there's a bug that lets you use them even if you haven't found them yet, I think I always just used that for the more annoying ones. The Colonel posted:i wish red faction guerrilla wasn't basically the only game offering its whole brand of building destruction afaik I think it's a "nemesis system" type situation where the systems are so demanding in terms of development that that has to be the entire point of the game or it's not worth doing.
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Sep 13, 2018 11:07
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The Moon Monster posted:Well there's a bug that lets you use them even if you haven't found them yet, I think I always just used that for the more annoying ones. Crackdown 3 if it ever comes out is supposed to have Red Faction level destruction but I don't know if Microsoft is still POWERED BY THE CLOUD or not.
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Sep 13, 2018 12:50
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I dunno what to play now, I'm feeling empty after finally beating every Yakuza game available in English. I guess I do have that copy of Kenzan I've tried to play on and off for years...
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Sep 13, 2018 13:07
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There's that Fist of the North Star game in a few weeks that I'll buy probably or you could Shenmue
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Sep 13, 2018 13:35
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Already platinumed both Shenmue games when the HD versions came out but yeah I'm just treading water until FotNS really
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Sep 13, 2018 13:36
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The Colonel posted:i wish red faction guerrilla wasn't basically the only game offering its whole brand of building destruction afaik It is my understanding that it was excessively difficult to design buildings in that engine because if you didn’t make them actually architecturally sound they would just collapse under their own weight. I’d bet that’s why you don’t see it more often.
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Sep 13, 2018 13:46
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al-azad posted:Crackdown 3 if it ever comes out is supposed to have Red Faction level destruction but I don't know if Microsoft is still POWERED BY THE CLOUD or not. i heard it got taken out of singleplayer
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I need help remembering a game. I’ll try here then take it to the dedicated thread. It’s a SNES game where you play a white guy infiltrating Dracula’s Castle(?) but it plays more like Prince of Persian or Flashback than Castlevania. To attack you put your fists up in a fighting stance and throw punches. Your life gauge is several tall crystals. The first boss is a werewolf(?). I thought it was just called Dracula, but that doesn’t exist and Brad Stoker’s Dracula is a different game.
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Sep 13, 2018 14:23
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nosferatu
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Sep 13, 2018 14:27
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This thread is amazing.
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Sep 13, 2018 14:29
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hey all it's me brad stoker, but you can call me stokes
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Sep 13, 2018 14:31
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New Trials game beta this weekend 
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Sep 13, 2018 14:33
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I love it when people call him "Stroker"
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Sep 13, 2018 14:34
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The Colonel posted:hey all it's me brad stoker, but you can call me stokes 
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i remember it clearly because it was one of those many, many games featured in nintendo power that was absolutely incredibly the hottest, spiciest trash available but since the magazine was basically a nintendo game advertisement catalog they hyped it to hell and back
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Relax Or DIE posted:Ask Me about : buying a weapon in DQXI and finding a copy of it in a chest 20 seconds later. That's the experience of every Dragon Quest game.
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