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CYBEReris posted:the slice of life moments letting you see how the characters exist in a larger context than just your party and their immediate surroundings was a huge part of the appeal for me I don't know if they really do that. "Quina sure loves to eat", "Steiner is a Dudley doright putz", "Dagger is inexperienced and unsure of herself", "Vivi wants to be a kid but scares people", and "Zidane wants to gently caress everything that moves, but has a heart of gold" is all stuff I already knew
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I think I've added 9 to my "regret buying digitally" pile. The combat is either too slow normally or too fast in speed-up mode, and doesn't really do much for me anyway. So I tossed it on 9999 mode just to see the story, but even the story sort of just lies there. I'm just past the rainy city and introducing the next-tier villains (I assume), but man. The whole thing, from the original game itself to the remake's improvements just seems so ... unambitious. Two of my favorite games of all time are 6 and 10. And 5, 7, and 12 are all in my top 20. I consider myself a true fan of the series, but this one is actually just hard for me to like very much.
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Feb 28, 2019 16:54
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Wait -- how do you pronounce Pokemon Sword?
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Huxley posted:I think I've added 9 to my "regret buying digitally" pile. The combat is either too slow normally or too fast in speed-up mode, and doesn't really do much for me anyway. So I tossed it on 9999 mode just to see the story, but even the story sort of just lies there. I'm just past the rainy city and introducing the next-tier villains (I assume), but man. Pump your breaks kid, that story is a national treasure.
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Feb 28, 2019 16:56
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man the OutRun version on the Switch might be the most definitive one, incredible work M2 did for this. I actually hope more stuff like Streets of Rage 2 get the deluxe treatment much like their 3DS versions. I don't even really want to get the Sega Collection since I've been spoiled by the 3DS work they did with all the little variables and modes you can tinker with. I'd suggest the same with Shining Force but after playing the GBA remake I can never go back to the awful translation/art of the Genesis version.
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Feb 28, 2019 17:00
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omg chael crash posted:Wait -- how do you pronounce Pokemon Sword? "sword."
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Feb 28, 2019 17:02
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Volte posted:I don't think coming through the other side of Mt Moon in Pokemon Blue would have felt as satisfying if it wasn't preceded by 20 minutes of getting pestered by Zubats. I always thought that post-annoying-area catharsis is a great feeling and any form of streamlining/QoL that gets rid of that is a mixed blessing at best IMO. Hmm I think i'd rather just avoid the annoying thing in the first place. I think I enjoy that much more than the post-annoying-thing feeling! Everyone always goes "but repels!" and I hate that because the way Let's Go handled it meant if I saw another Pokemon I was interested in, I could go after them while at the same time avoiding Zubats or whatever. In the main games, repels just keep ALL Pokemon away. Pokemon Go's way of doing it is better, and plus you actually get to see the Pokemon out in the world outside of cities and next to trainers. That was cool. It also made hunting for shinies feel better to me. I mean I'm still gonna play the game cause it's loving Pokemon but I'm not happy with them still sticking to random encounters. And I assume if they didn't carry that over from Let's Go, they probably also aren't going to carry over being able to access your PC from anywhere
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i've never used a repel, feel free to ask me anything
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Huxley posted:I think I've added 9 to my "regret buying digitally" pile. The combat is either too slow normally or too fast in speed-up mode, and doesn't really do much for me anyway. So I tossed it on 9999 mode just to see the story, but even the story sort of just lies there. I'm just past the rainy city and introducing the next-tier villains (I assume), but man. 1) Don’t just keep the combat on one speed. Speed things up during downtime and switch it back to normal speed when stuff is actually happening so you can make decisions properly 2) You’re still very very early in the game
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Your Computer posted:i've never used a repel, feel free to ask me anything Where did you hide the bodies
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Feb 28, 2019 17:06
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How do you keep the cops away
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Macaluso posted:How do you keep the cops away uh i battle them?? i'm not a coward
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Feb 28, 2019 17:07
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Your Computer posted:"sword." Well, I feel foolish
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DLC Inc posted:man the OutRun version on the Switch might be the most definitive one, incredible work M2 did for this. I actually hope more stuff like Streets of Rage 2 get the deluxe treatment much like their 3DS versions. I don't even really want to get the Sega Collection since I've been spoiled by the 3DS work they did with all the little variables and modes you can tinker with. I'd suggest the same with Shining Force but after playing the GBA remake I can never go back to the awful translation/art of the Genesis version. I assume you mean you prefer the GBA character portrait art style? I can understand that, but everything else about its visuals are much worse. Too big sprites, zoomed in camera, insanely washed out attack animations. And why do you feel the translation was bad?
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one thing you could do is have a representation of a pokemon to encounter out in the field, shuffling of the grass, silhouette in the water, etc..., and you can just avoid that while keeping the actual pokemon you encounter a surprise Thatds my two $0.02 cents
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Feb 28, 2019 17:09
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Doc M posted:The way I understand it, Konami would've been legally allowed to use the theme but Kojima chose not to after he found out it had been plagiarized. Also, I always enjoyed seeing MGS fanboys go "Actually, the melody doesn't sound similar at all!" because it's not literally a 1:1 copy. What is this stolen from? I love Wild Arms music, I use this as my alarm every morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWgPX9yTtQg
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omg chael crash posted:Wait -- how do you pronounce Pokemon Sword? Snezz
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Ragequit posted:What is this stolen from? I love Wild Arms music, I use this as my alarm every morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOr0na6mKJQ Still an awesome world map theme, though.
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Augus posted:1) Don’t just keep the combat on one speed. Speed things up during downtime and switch it back to normal speed when stuff is actually happening so you can make decisions properly Also, remember that you can turn random battles off. Helps quite a lot in some areas Desert Palace 
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Doc M posted:Parts of it are just straight-up "The Ecstasy of Gold" from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Also sounds like Gimme Gimme Gimme by ABBA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL93BV9uTAM
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Feb 28, 2019 17:16
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omg chael crash posted:Wait -- how do you pronounce Pokemon Sword? don't say s-word
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Doc M posted:Parts of it are just straight-up "The Ecstasy of Gold" from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Holy smoke, that is identical. I can forgive all if the Wild Arms series is revived.
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Video game music, like all music, is usually derivative or at least inspired by prior music. It's dumb to think someone would listen to 1000 songs and then when told to produce something that sounds like those songs, they end up producing something that doesn't sound pretty much exactly like one of those songs.
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I'd settle for a way to calibrate random encounters, like making dark type more likely or grass type less likely. What I really want is a way to do something about trainer battles. I'm walking, I trigger one ... There's an exclamation mark, a slow walk to me, lines of dialogue, a battle transition to inform me that the hiker battling me is, in fact, a hiker battling me, and then we can actually fight. This gets old when there are 10 or 15 trainers, and is annoying when I've returned to an early game area to explore and have to swat down trainers that offer neither risk nor reward but are a huge waste of time. There must be a way to speed that up.
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Speaking of games ripping off music. The dramatic moment when you fight Leviathan in FFXV had me laughing my arse off. It's the God drat Elder Scrolls. How brazen are you to rip off one of the most iconic video game themes of all time? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcp2OK2yeJk
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Think I want to pick up Mario Odyssey again I know it doesn't make sense especially in this game but my usual habit with long-abandoned titles is to start over, if only to ease back into the expected difficulty Wish more games had multiple save slots
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Feb 28, 2019 17:47
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Just make a new profile on your Switch.
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Lodin posted:Speaking of games ripping off music. The dramatic moment when you fight Leviathan in FFXV had me laughing my arse off. It's the God drat Elder Scrolls. How brazen are you to rip off one of the most iconic video game themes of all time? Oh yeah there's no way they did that by accident.
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American McGay posted:Just make a new profile on your Switch. Good idea! Turns out Odyssey has a Load Game buried in the options with multiple slots, according to the internet, so even better
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omg chael crash posted:Wait -- how do you pronounce Pokemon Sword? Pokemons, word
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the deathmatch samurai is perfect for the switch https://twitter.com/DramaticDDT/status/1101156082825732102
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Huxley posted:I think I've added 9 to my "regret buying digitally" pile. The combat is either too slow normally or too fast in speed-up mode, and doesn't really do much for me anyway. So I tossed it on 9999 mode just to see the story, but even the story sort of just lies there. I'm just past the rainy city and introducing the next-tier villains (I assume), but man. Turning on 9999 mode makes it so you don't have to interact with the systems that tie back into the main theme of the game. It actually makes the story worse. Although I do remember the story dragging in the beginning and picking up later. All of my memories of the game are the opening, black waltz fights, and things that happen much later. Need to play through it again, maybe after I polish off dragon quest builders. Also I got a capture card and played DQB on a stream for some friends. I found the perfect defense for the chapter 3 town: https://clips.twitch.tv/AltruisticFastAsparagusSuperVinlin Zero blind spots, perfect defense.
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Starlink is on sale again, along with everything ubi.
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LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:Turning on 9999 mode makes it so you don't have to interact with the systems that tie back into the main theme of the game. It actually makes the story worse. Can you or someone elaborate?
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Macaluso posted:Hmm I think i'd rather just avoid the annoying thing in the first place. I think I enjoy that much more than the post-annoying-thing feeling!
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Volte posted:So...why not just play Let's Go? It's a different series with different design goals. You should be asking for more Let's Go games, not expecting that regular Pokemon games be changed. Accessing your PC from anywhere in particular is something that I specifically do not want, and I would be disappointed if they added it. That's something that would be cool on an optional Story Mode or NG+ or something, but picking your party and sticking with it until you get to the next town - or deciding if you want to swap in a newly caught Pokemon - is a core aspect of Pokemon games. What? No they're not. These are quality of life changes that streamline the experience and make everything less annoying. Going back to the PC all the time to swap your party around doesn't annoy you? Well, bully for you. It annoys me! Saying you would be disappointed if they added that feature to the main games is dumb. If you prefer to only swap your dudes out at Pokemon Centers, then do that! There's nothing stopping you from doing that. Putting self-imposed limitations on yourself to make the game harder is a thing people have been doing in these games since forever. Just add one more to the pile. Give me on-map encounters and let me access my PC from everywhere. And while we're at it let me take a Pokemon of my choice for walkies. These are all good features that should absolutely be part of the main series.
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Over There posted:Can you or someone elaborate? The game's story is structured around each member of the party wrestling with the question of what a weapon is, what it means to be a weapon, and whether they are one. Vivi is by far the most obvious one of these, but all of them have it to an extent. The system of equipping items to learn the skill, and then discarding them afterwards feeds back into that question.
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Wendell posted:I assume you mean you prefer the GBA character portrait art style? I can understand that, but everything else about its visuals are much worse. Too big sprites, zoomed in camera, insanely washed out attack animations. yeah the portrait art is my main thing, everything else from the original was good. The new translation actually adds story beats that were not done in the original i.e. Kane's relationship to Max which for some reason had been left out of the original + adds backstories to all the characters when you talk to them in the base. Also personal preference but I liked how Hanzo/Musashi got recruited earlier in the new version, as they arrived way too late in the original.
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SelenicMartian posted:Starlink is on sale again, along with everything ubi. Nice. Deluxe is only $39 compared to $29 digital. Guess I'm buying the whole thing for only $10 difference.
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Silver Falcon posted:Give me on-map encounters and let me access my PC from everywhere. And while we're at it let me take a Pokemon of my choice for walkies. These are all good features that should absolutely be part of the main series. Walking the routes/gyms/buildings without being able to change your pokemon is absolutely a core part of the gameplay. If you could just swap through an endless supply of pokemon in your PC, then there's zero challenge. Not that pokemon is particularly challening to begin with, but the entire point of having a team of 6 is so that you have SOME sort of limitation, otherwise why have a PC at all, just make your party infinite. Managing health and status on a set number of pokemon is way more interesting than having an endless supply of fodder to throw at battles.
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