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NikkolasKing posted:Does she have some sort of status effect? I don't recognize the stuff floating around her head at all. slow and blind, it looks like
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That would be Blind and yeah a surprising number of bosses in IX are actually vulnerable to statuses. My favorite stupid thing is that when you use a Tent in battle there's a random chance to get "Bitten by Poison/Blind/Silence Snake" and it just so happens that Gizmaluke is vulnerable to Blind & Silence. Getting both on him completely nullifies his ability to do anything to you so using a Tent on him at the start of the fight is actually a legit strategy so you can spam Steal forever until you get the stuff.
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Feb 15, 2019 08:09
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It works on Kefkas dragon that gards the Lifa tree
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Feb 15, 2019 08:27
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the extra insomnia content in FFXV is needlessly intrusive busywork and I wish it hadn’t been added
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cock hero flux posted:you could replace zidane, kuja, and garland with solid, liquid, and solidus and the plot and dynamics would basically not change Does that make Steiner Raiden then?
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Barudak posted:It works on Kefkas dragon that gards the Lifa tree 
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I totaly forgot this is the 20th anniversary of Final Fantasy VIII, too. I was more focused on Chroo Cross and replaying it. But now I think on it.... -both released in 1999 -both from Square -both on the PS1 -both pretty iconic in spite of being fairly controversial -both follow-ups to incredibly popular games which probably made the criticisms all the more harsh -both probably tried too many things and subsequently failed a lot of them. CC is still a much better game in every area I can think of.
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Oh man, a race to the bottom!  I'd replay FF8 over CC any day of the week, I prefer batshit to weird.
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I just finished up TAY as I was torturing friends with it (and counting how many times Ceodore said "Huh", Rosa shouted someone name as her only line of dialog, and Porom said Palom). Man... that game is in that awful position where it's not bad enough to be irredeemable garbage, and just good enough to show where all the potential for a not poo poo product was.
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I'm finally playing FFXII HD with the Zodiac job stuff and this game's biggest flaw might be that each job doesn't have cute costumes
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NikkolasKing posted:I totaly forgot this is the 20th anniversary of Final Fantasy VIII, too. I was more focused on Chroo Cross and replaying it. But now I think on it.... All the bullshit associated with Razzly makes me so....CROSS.
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Wendell posted:All the bullshit associated with Razzly makes me so....CROSS. Apart from the fact everyone loves Glenn, maybe the Razzly stuff is also why everybody told me to leave Kid to die on my first run. Wanna give my little opinion on FFVIII vs. CC in terms of battle system. FFVIII has one of the worst battle systems I've ever seen while CC has my all time favorite JRPG battle system. FFVIII committed the unforgivable sin of introducing level scaling for the first time in an FF game...for the one FF game where levels don't matter at all. The game is designed around Junctioning and that's where your real stat gains come from. Leveling is actively discouraged. So why the smurf does it have level scaling? Playing the game is detrimental to your enjoyment of the game. It is of course also legendarily broken and easy. Get Siren/Life RF on your 5 free Tents/Junction Curaga to HP and never die again. All within about 3 hours or so? Chrono Cross meanwhile did so many things I loved. It had gated levels and stat gains so you couldn't just grind your way passed an obstacle. The Stamina and Field system meant you had to plan your next few moves in advance and couldn't just spam super moves like, I dunno, Limit Breaks. Speaking of which, the whole "use an Element and it's gone" feature as well as how limited your options are for reviving characters also demanded more strategy than normal. A minor thing but the three different type of melee attacks kept fights from being overly monotonous X mashing. Like others I wish there were more Double and Triple Techs and a greater diversity in party member abilities. But, well, that's not much of a factor when going up against FFVIII which has zero diversity in gameplay between characters.
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I beat Chrono Cross and got every ending and I dont remember there being any real purpose to the different attack options except to make selecting the optimal and never changing attack pattern more difficult. That said I love both games but think Id give a slight edge to CC because the art style is my loving jam.
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Oxxidation posted:the extra insomnia content in FFXV is needlessly intrusive busywork and I wish it hadn’t been added Speaking of XV, i know it's not the director's VsXIII vision, but I really really loved that game. Probably my best experience since I first rented FFII
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SaGa is better than both though
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Chrono Cross has a disgusting over saturated color palette while 8's more contemporary early 2000's vision of a magic future is fantastic
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I've got a lot of a love for Chrono Cross. The music, the small world of the El Nido archipelago, many of the characters (though there's a lot of nothing there too), it just stayed with me.
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FilthyImp posted:Speaking of XV, i know it's not the director's VsXIII vision, Don’t worry, Nomura put VsXIII in Kingdom Hearts so he can make it again.
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Ojjeorago posted:Don’t worry, Nomura put VsXIII in Kingdom Hearts so he can make it again. Eagerly waiting for Disney to just go gently caress It, Buying Squeenix now and Nomura getting kicked off of KH to deny him Vs again.
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I like the way Chrono Cross’ town NPCs speak. There’s a wistfulness to a lot of their dialogue, like the old man who speaks to his dead wife before remembering she’s gone.
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Wendell posted:I like the way Chrono Cross’ town NPCs speak. There’s a wistfulness to a lot of their dialogue, like the old man who speaks to his dead wife before remembering she’s gone. Last time I played the game I thought I was paying enough attention to all the NPCs but then towards the end of the game I looked up a list of all the Rainbow Shells in the game and discovered I had missed several people you can repeatedly chat with and watch them grow like the one girl in Arni who wants to be.. gently caress I can't even remember, a poet maybe? Anyway, stuff like that is really cool and neat. I never did figure out if you can do anything in Arni at the end of the game. I think it was Another Arni where they are all hold up and hiding and are like "only citizens of the village can come in!" And I brought Leena because, duh. But nope, nothing doing. Maybe I missed something or did something wrong, I never knew.
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I played that part a week or so ago! Yeah, she’s a poet and her alternate world version has given up the dream. You help rekindle her poem writing fire. It’s good and nice.
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I need to replay Chrono Cross myself, it's been years. I always liked the artist kid Van for some reason. It was an interesting dynamic to see him be exasperated at his dad for not selling his miracle paint when they are poor as poo poo. Then in Another World they're rich as hell and Van is miserable at having no relationship with his dad instead. Also his 3rd unique skill was just to paint the entire field a random color which was fun for shenanigans.
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FilthyImp posted:Yeah it definitely hits a giant wall before the last big area. The photo quests were dumb finnicky and I didnt really need the Bro specific items since I don't use the character switch skill. otoh the new battles against the corrupted kings were aces, The Mystic was better than the actual last boss ending is still excellent as well, i went back into this after finishing KH3 and it was like night and day
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FFVIII and Chrono Cross are alike in being trainwreck games with tedious battle systems and nonsense plots but rad soundtracks. I have to say I prefer CC's sunny, colorful artstyle to 8's "we're going to try realistically proportioned characters and the resulting blurry messes will show why no one does that on the PS1"
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Veib posted:Alexander is a Metal Gear ZIDANE: Virtual Mission?! OGLOP CID: No, the Virtuous Mission.
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Microcline posted:FFVIII and Chrono Cross are alike in being trainwreck games with tedious battle systems and nonsense plots but rad soundtracks.
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Nihilarian posted:those two and Legend of Dragoon occupy the same space in my brain You’ve gone too far this time, Nihilarian!
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Nihilarian posted:those two and Legend of Dragoon occupy the same space in my brain LoD doesn't even have a rad soundtrack to prop it up, it's just bad
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Flapjack Monty posted:LoD doesn't even have a rad soundtrack to prop it up, it's just bad
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NikkolasKing posted:I'd be down for an FFV and VI remake. I have some bad news for you about your request...
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So I guess I can be forgiven for forgetting about FFVIII's 20th anniversary since, according to many angry videos and articles, so has Square. I don't particularly like the game but it had its good parts and I don't begrudge fans for writing pieces on places like Polygon or taking to YouTube to praise it on this special occasion. I just hope that, between Mitsuda's concert tour for the game and also the 20th anniversary, Chrono Cross gets the same outpouring of affection. I don't care if the Ghost Kids Beach Scene Info Dump is literally the worst thing I've ever see in any JRPG ever, I still love the game. I've talked about this before but I grew up with the PS1 and PS2 and JRPGs and all anybody said was Chrono Cross is one of the best games ever. Then I play it a few years ago, love it, and see a ton of people vehemently hate it. It got good reviews back in the day, too so it wasn't just dumb kids being dumb.Then again, for all the weight reviews have, look at all the rave reviews, GOTY and perfect scores Final Fantasy XII got I love FFXII but even when it was released it seemed to get almost none of the attention that, say, FFX or FFXIII got and its legacy has certainly been less profound than theirs as well.
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FilthyImp posted:I heard. Oh hey, peak stupid person. Yeah, they're the gonna kick the guy who's made them as much money as he has. And especially when they kick him he'll NEVER be able to find work in the industry again. Also, acting like Disney would not supremely gently caress up Kingdom Hearts, like all the loving problems Kingdom Hearts has isn't a direct result of Disney's loving brain tumour levels of decision making. "Okay, so you're making a crossover game, but you're not allowed to have any Disney crossovers. Everything has to be consigned to its own world. Also, Every world has to be looked over and approved of, of the people who made those movies." Man, like you don't even loving remember the stupidity of Disney Infinity. A crossover Disney game that Disney owned that didn't allow Disney characters to crossover unless it was on neutral ground.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yOOF8AKQbw Ardyn continues to have done literally nothing wrong.
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Im sure someone mentioned it before but the achievements/trophies for FF9 ate goshdang ridiculous. Ardyn is great and his unhappiness that Noctis cant take it as personally as he does is good.
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Ardyn is basically what I imagine a HD Remake Kefka would be like. He's such a good goddamn villain. That voice  
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Apparently the Japanese twitter for FFXV said that the cancelled episodes will be released as a novel, like that FFX-3 novel. Just like that, I also expect it to be bad, but we'll never know, cus that poo poo ain't ever making its way to an English release!
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Cant wait for Noctis to come back from the dead and hop into a car only to get immediately side swiped and die
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