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Ciaphas posted:speaking of final fantasy, how's the WoFF port? I see it's $20 on the eshop right now instead of $40 and i'm kinda eyeing it Its not a very good game and runs fine since its a vita game originally. If 20 dollars for that sounds good buy away.
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Annath posted:I'm only in favor of a series making the jump from pixel art to 3D if the hardware can do it well. "Well" doesn't necessarily mean more polygons, low poly can look great, but the graphics should be sharp, bright, and clear, not blurred or muddy/muted.  I do agree that whenever low poly games try to go for a more "realistic" look it tends to look bad. Like, Fire Emblem Awakening even used a ton of bloom. That does not look good in that resolution.
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Anybody mess around with the Daemon x Machina demo? I heard it looked great, but the framerate got hit hard both in docked and undocked modes.
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Did Stardew ever get the update that lets you reset your talent tree?
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Yeah, you do it through a statue in the sewers.
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Ciaphas posted:speaking of final fantasy, how's the WoFF port? I see it's $20 on the eshop right now instead of $40 and i'm kinda eyeing it WoFF is not very good but some people think its a really cute game
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Mar 2, 2019 08:56
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Chocobo's Dungeon drops 2 days before Sekiro and that's bullshit because I want both
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Heath posted:Chocobo's Dungeon drops 2 days before Sekiro and that's bullshit because I want both With the power of money, you can buy both!
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Just beat Orochi, for the first time? and finally Okami is starting to grab my interest. Hopefully this holds. Something like 14 hours in.
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cliffdiver posted:Anybody mess around with the Daemon x Machina demo? I heard it looked great I did, it looks like Xenoblade X but worse
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Mar 2, 2019 11:53
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Looking to get a case/grip for handheld Switch times. Is there a must have option?
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Enjoyed my first run of ToeJam & Earl. Nice combo of the first two games, glad they didn't throw out everything about ToeJam & Earl 2 (which they easily could have) since stuff like the bush-searching and Hyperfunk Zone stop it feeling like just an updated remake. Also glad that Level 0 is still there
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Satisfye is the gold standard for a grip, and there's a combo available on their website and on Amazon that comes with a case that'll fit the grip.
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Annath posted:I'm only in favor of a series making the jump from pixel art to 3D if the hardware can do it well. "Well" doesn't necessarily mean more polygons, low poly can look great, but the graphics should be sharp, bright, and clear, not blurred or muddy/muted.
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American McGay posted:So what you're saying is Mario 64 was a mistake. If you think about it, Super Paper Mario is a superior version of Super Mario 64.
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Almost all 3D games on the og DS were ugly as sin but Square had a pretty good grasp on the system’s strengths and weaknesses and their 3D games on the system all looked and played great. Except for the FFIII Remake. We don’t talk about that one.
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Sudden Javelin posted:Enjoyed my first run of ToeJam & Earl. Nice combo of the first two games, glad they didn't throw out everything about ToeJam & Earl 2 (which they easily could have) since stuff like the bush-searching and Hyperfunk Zone stop it feeling like just an updated remake. As a huge fan of the original (and less so the sequel), this is great news. Is there still a voice over that says "HYPER FUNK ZONE" when you enter the.. uhh... hyper funk zone?
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Augus posted:Except for the FFIII Remake. We don’t talk about that one. what?
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FF3DS, which took an already poorly designed NES game and accentuated the bad parts while fixing none of its problems
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Sakurazuka posted:FF3DS, which took an already poorly designed NES game and accentuated the bad parts while fixing none of its problems sure, but the graphics were adorable 
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:As a huge fan of the original (and less so the sequel), this is great news. There is. Also the boombox jamming w/ aliens minigame from 2 is back but it's a lot easier. Instead of repeating what they do its a "press buttons as they slide down the screen" like DDR/Guitar Hero There's a difficult one on Level 0, you unlock something if you beat it
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Fitzy Fitz posted:What does this mean? You catch and breed and fight the monsters? Yeah, although looking it up it looks like they first started doing it in DQV, before the Monsters games and even before Pokemon Wikipedia posted:The game's monster-collecting concept has since become influential, appearing in many later franchises such as Pokémon, Digimon and Dokapon. In turn, the concept of collecting everything in a game, in the form of achievements or similar rewards, has since become a common trend in video games. Dragon Quest V has also been credited as the first known video game to feature a playable pregnancy, a concept that has since appeared in later games such as Story of Seasons, The Sims 2 and Fable II. Dragon quest V invented video games
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Your Computer posted:sure, but the graphics were adorable yeah I liked Final Fantasy 3. I had a team of little ninjas and earth benders wrecking poo poo
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cliffdiver posted:Anybody mess around with the Daemon x Machina demo? I heard it looked great, but the framerate got hit hard both in docked and undocked modes. I noticed slowdown during the giant mech fights, but fine otherwise. I'm getting it when it comes out, because it scratches my Armored Core itch.
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I have *always* felt like the original FFIV NDS port - which was a completely new localization and translation of the game - was really a gem of a game. I for one was a huge fan of that game and played it once 'casually' which was still an epic experience, and then a second time with a guide and getting all the super-rare and powerful equipment and weapons - really a fun and challenging game, as I recall, And I grew up watching my brother play FFIV (as FF2 on the SNES) when I like 5 or 6, so it had a special significance to me to play this new version. I felt like that remake just did a fantastic job in the character redesigns and rewritten dialogue - it felt like they made a tremendous effort to retain the essence of the original characters, and it worked. IMO it's easily in the top 3 3/DS games that were ever made and easily the best game that the same team, which I assume also did the FF3 DS port, and then World of Light and eventually the Bravely Default games (I never finished the first one i admit because good loving god). I really feel like the FFIV remake was definitely among the best RPGs that came out on the DS/3DS and still holds up. That's the only one I'd care to see go on the Switch, out of all the games from the DS/3DS that were released with the title "Final Fantasy". kaworu fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Mar 2, 2019 |
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Your Computer posted:sure, but the graphics were adorable yeah it still looked fine but the game suffered from a lot of other technical issues that dragged it down hard. I feel like the decision to reduce the amount of monsters on-screen to improve performance must've come later in development than it should've because the way the game is rebalanced to compensate is really sloppy and bad. FFIV DS came out 3 years later and it shows that they had a much better grasp of the hardware by then because that version of the game is phenomenal. Augus fucked around with this message at 15:02 on Mar 2, 2019 |
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4DS was great because they overhauled 4's simplistic gameplay with a bunch of new elements and ramped up the challenge enough to actually be challenging to old players without having too much bullshit. It's not perfect, but I definitely have a lot more respect for it than the 3 remake, which doubled down on archaic bullshit because the guy in charge of the project had some user-unfriendly and archaic views on game design (Tanaka, for the record, was also responsible for FF14 1.0 and the less-player-friendly eras of FF11, at least before he "retired" from his position after the FF14 debacle).
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On a side note, I am also very conflicted about whether I should buy WoFF on sale for ~$20, or Mario + Rabbids, which is on sale again for $20. On the one hand, I am a total Final Fantasy fanboy; the first message board I ever posted on was a Final Fantasy board back in 1999 right when FFVIII came out. That was like, my entry point into the culture of the internet. So it's rather beloved to me. If WoFF is really adorable and actually does have lots of references and stuff from FFIV-FFX (that's really my era and anything later is out of my nostalgia zone even FFX is pushing it) then I would really be psyched. On the other hand, I did just get FFIX, so I will have an FF game to play.. I have lots of Switch "must-own" games (BotW, Smash, Mario Kart) but I lack any sort of game like Mario + Rabbids, and I barely know how the game works; I never played XCOM. So out of curiosity - I really played and loved Blizzard strategy games like Warcraft 3, and Starcraft 1+2 -but I loved the campaigns, not the multiplayer. I assume Mario + Rabbids is like, turn based strategy? I have never played much of that, honestly, not out of dislike, I just never tried them much. Never played FF Tactics for instance, or disgaea or any Fire Emblem games, etc. I have no clue if they are similar. I might like it though, who knows. So I dunno - I'd like to get one or the other.
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I played WOFF a bunch on the Vita (never finished it, so I rebought it for Switch), and I've been having a lot of fun with it so far. It seems to reference pretty much every FF at least once up to Lightning in FF13. It's got a fun battle system, too. Can't speak for the plot much, but your main characters barely have names, so this feels more like "FF Fanservice: The Game." Maybe up your alley? M+R is Mario Xcom, more or less. If that sounds awesome, then definitely get it.
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Rudoku posted:I noticed slowdown during the giant mech fights, but fine otherwise. I'm getting it when it comes out, because it scratches my Armored Core itch. I didn’t have any slow downs so it might vary, looks like rear end handheld tho. Also really fun and I don’t really play mech games
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kaworu posted:On a side note, I am also very conflicted about whether I should buy WoFF on sale for ~$20, or Mario + Rabbids, which is on sale again for $20. I was also looking at these two, plus a few other cool-looking games on sale right now: -Child of Light (is this any good?) $9.99 -Rayman Legends $15.99 -Transistor (what i'm leaning toward) $13.99 -Mulaka $11.98 -Assault Android Cactus (something about this game seems appealing... it has a sort of "N64 3rd party gem" vibe) $14.99 -Kero Blaster $6.99
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Open Layer posted:Looking to get a case/grip for handheld Switch times. Is there a must have option? Mega64 posted:Satisfye is the gold standard for a grip, and there's a combo available on their website and on Amazon that comes with a case that'll fit the grip. Still needs to be added to the Op.
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Chill Penguin posted:I was also looking at these two, plus a few other cool-looking games on sale right now: Out of all of those, Rayman Legends is definitely worth its weight at $15
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Mario and rabbids is an amazing, high-quality take on xcom with great movement mechanics. Its an amazing strategy game even if you have never played xcom. You should totally pick it up. The donkey kong dlc campaign is a great addition too.
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Chill Penguin posted:I was also looking at these two, plus a few other cool-looking games on sale right now: Rayman Legends is an incredible game and you unlock the entirety of Rayman Origins in it too, so you're basically getting two great games for $15. Legends is definitely the more polished of the two, but both are good. In fact, Legends is so good that if you like platformers at all, you're only hurting yourself not playing it.
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Chill Penguin posted:-Child of Light (is this any good?) Child of Light is epic and gorgeous and a good girlfriend game (2p co-op classic-feel rpg, with a bit of crafting stat enhancements between battles) & Kero Blaster is quite fun
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Suspicious Cook posted:Rayman Legends is an incredible game and you unlock the entirety of Rayman Origins in it too, so you're basically getting two great games for $15. Legends is definitely the more polished of the two, but both are good. In fact, Legends is so good that if you like platformers at all, you're only hurting yourself not playing it. Iirc aren't a couple of Origins stages and the boss battles missing in Legends?
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Augus posted:yeah it still looked fine but the game suffered from a lot of other technical issues that dragged it down hard. I feel like the decision to reduce the amount of monsters on-screen to improve performance must've come later in development than it should've because the way the game is rebalanced to compensate is really sloppy and bad. If you look at the guy who did FF3DS body of work I think you'll find no, no he probably intended this on purpose from the beginning. Possibly even sitting down with his team to design the experience so it was as frustrating and unpleasant as possible. Pharohman777 posted:Mario and rabbids is an amazing, high-quality take on xcom with great movement mechanics. This person is correct. Mario + Rabbids is a fantastic game and is unironically my favorite game on the switch. World of Final Fantasy on the other hand just. Its just really bad and even if the literal only thing that motivates you to play a game is "cute monsters" the amount of palette swapping and gating of anything interesting is going to gnaw at you. God its terrible and a complete waste of its concept, and I don't even like the core concept!
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Iirc aren't a couple of Origins stages and the boss battles missing in Legends? Maybe? If so, the couple things you're missing don't really matter in the face of the whole of Legends.
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100YrsofAttitude posted:Just beat Orochi, for the first time? and finally Okami is starting to grab my interest. Hopefully this holds. Something like 14 hours in. Yep that's a great sequence and when the game kicks it into high gear! The area you'll be going to next is my favorite in the game (mostly because of the overworld music. God I LOVE the music from that area!) kaworu posted:I have *always* felt like the original FFIV NDS port - which was a completely new localization and translation of the game - was really a gem of a game. I for one was a huge fan of that game and played it once 'casually' which was still an epic experience, and then a second time with a guide and getting all the super-rare and powerful equipment and weapons - really a fun and challenging game, as I recall, And I grew up watching my brother play FFIV (as FF2 on the SNES) when I like 5 or 6, so it had a special significance to me to play this new version. I felt like that remake just did a fantastic job in the character redesigns and rewritten dialogue - it felt like they made a tremendous effort to retain the essence of the original characters, and it worked. FFIVDS was my first experience with FFIV at all and I also maintain that it's a really well-done remake and the definitive version of the game. I kept wishing they would give FF6 the same treatment... and they never did. 
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