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Speaking of FFXV, I got to chapter 13 and picked the Gladios and Ignis path. I seen what happens in Noctis in the past, but I forget what happened there anyway? I don't want to go pick that section since I heard it was pretty awful.
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Rirse posted:Speaking of FFXV, I got to chapter 13 and picked the Gladios and Ignis path. I seen what happens in Noctis in the past, but I forget what happened there anyway? I don't want to go pick that section since I heard it was pretty awful. If I remember right it's about an hour or so of long hallways with bad stealth and then using your one attack on the two enemy types when they inevitably catch you. I think there's also a real brief fake out where you find your buddies before you actually find your buddies?
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Mar 25, 2019 22:02
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Wait you could pick a different path? Was that in the vanilla XV version?
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Mar 25, 2019 22:28
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DevCore posted:Wait you could pick a different path? no, they added that later
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Mar 25, 2019 22:33
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Gologle posted:I looked up the ending of Episode Ardyn cus I'm going to play it anyway and I don't care about spoilers, and man, it's hosed up. Yeah, Ardyn has a legit beef and has every right to be pissed.
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Mar 25, 2019 22:53
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I personally wanna hang with Lenna, Faris and Butz. They seem like the most down to earth FF characters.
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Mar 25, 2019 22:59
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seiferguy posted:I personally wanna hang with Lenna, Faris and Butz. They seem like the most down to earth FF characters. You list "down to earth" characters and ignore the two champions of the earth crystal?
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Mar 25, 2019 23:00
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They're from outer space.
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Mar 25, 2019 23:03
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Bruceski posted:You list "down to earth" characters and ignore the two champions of the earth crystal? Galuf is dead and Krile is 14...
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Mar 25, 2019 23:05
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They’re all from half an earth.
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Mar 25, 2019 23:05
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morallyobjected posted:the objective right choice to hang out with is the crew from IX just sayin' do you think steiner has ever taken a day off
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Mar 25, 2019 23:15
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Looper posted:do you think steiner has ever taken a day off Steiner had a very extended vacation to such locales as the Desert Prison and a parallel world. he even went on a cruise
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Mar 25, 2019 23:25
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Looper posted:do you think steiner has ever taken a day off Every day is a vacation when you have the honor of serving the princess!
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Mar 26, 2019 00:01
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To summarize Episode Ardyn and Final Fantasy XV as a whole, I suppose: The moral is the exact opposite of the other Final Fantasy games.
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Mar 26, 2019 00:40
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Gologle posted:To summarize Episode Ardyn and Final Fantasy XV as a whole, I suppose: The moral is the exact opposite of the other Final Fantasy games. To be fair Episode Ardyn was intended to be the starting point for a new series of DLC that got cancelled. I'm pretty sure they intended the final DLC to be Kicking Bahamut's rear end and getting a happy ending
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Mar 26, 2019 01:11
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yeah i'm just going to pretend that entire episode never happened
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Mar 26, 2019 01:16
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ImpAtom posted:To be fair Episode Ardyn was intended to be the starting point for a new series of DLC that got cancelled. I'm pretty sure they intended the final DLC to be Kicking Bahamut's rear end and getting a happy ending Gosh, then I sure am glad that once the end was in sight they decided to make it anyway.
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Mar 26, 2019 01:32
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seiferguy posted:I personally wanna hang with Lenna, Faris and Butz. They seem like the most down to earth FF characters. Well I know I don't want to hang out with Mid, his ghost takes up residence inside a girl's butt. What an rear end.
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Mar 26, 2019 01:45
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Dr Pepper posted:Sometimes they murder a local deity. Or just get drunk and cry about their dead husband.
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Mar 26, 2019 01:49
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Takafumi Terada, who did both Episode Ignis and Episode Ardyn, is very good, and I would have loved to see the final DLC's he was probably going to direct.
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Mar 26, 2019 02:29
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This is the only time I'll lament not having more FFXV, because the DLCs we lost included Aranea and Lunafreya, which was actually appealing. I would have booted up the game again to play those. But nope, we end on the sentient thrift store, I guess.
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Mar 26, 2019 02:33
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What I saw of Episode Ardyn's ending was very hosed up and left me with an uneasy feeling in my gut, so I went ahead and watched someone's playthrough of it (it's about 2 hours long, no big deal). Something I never felt like I had to do with any of the other Episodes, even Gladio's. There's a lot of thoughts in my head right now that I'll have to order properly later in one big blah blah blah post, but suffice it to say, I think it's a bad Episode, and I don't think it is worth buying. It's a sad end to a game.
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Mar 26, 2019 03:12
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Bruceski posted:Gosh, then I sure am glad that once the end was in sight they decided to make it anyway. I think it's more "It was almost done and we can't exactly shelve a fair bit of work" But it can join FFX HD's "and then Sin came back" bonus ending as unsatisfying additions to otherwise finished games.
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Mar 26, 2019 03:17
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Translated Famitsu developer interview about FF8: http://shmuplations.com/ff8/
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Mar 26, 2019 03:31
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Gologle posted:To summarize Episode Ardyn and Final Fantasy XV as a whole, I suppose: The moral is the exact opposite of the other Final Fantasy games. how do you mean. just with reference to xv as a whole i guess
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MarsDragon posted:Translated Famitsu developer interview about FF8: http://shmuplations.com/ff8/ Yoshinori Kitase posted:There were a lot of new challenges we took on, and it wasn’t all easy, but there’s a reason for that: you see, these games take us 1.5-2 years to produce, so if we don’t set new challenges for ourselves, we can’t sustain our motivation through the development. Kazushige Nojima posted:But sometimes I’d write things that threatened to elicit these huge misunderstandings, and I’d wish I hadn’t written anything in the first place. (laughs) lordy
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Mar 26, 2019 04:11
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Nomura posted:Besides the characters, I also designed several of the Guardian Forces. Unlike the summon creatures we’ve used in previous FF games, the Guardian Forces can be raised and leveled up, so from a design perspective, my starting point was that I wanted them all to be bizarre creatures—no humanoids with clothes. That’s why Ramuh doesn’t appear in FF8, but was instead replaced by Quetzalcoatl. Plus Ito (battle designer) was saying you can’t “raise” an old man any further. (laughs) For the same reason I re-designed Siren from FF4 to not have any clothing, too. I definitely beleve you, Nomura
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Mar 26, 2019 04:25
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FFVII on Switch today.
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Mar 26, 2019 06:08
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In more positive news, Shadowbringers lookin' real cool, and I'm interested to see what being a Warrior of Darkness will mean for us and how exactly we're going to bring darkness back to a world of light.
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Mar 26, 2019 07:28
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https://www.game-debate.com/news/26819/square-enix-adds-always-online-drm-requirement-to-final-fantasy-x-and-x-2-3-years-after-launch I know they make really dumb choices as a company, but why this? Are they still misunderstanding the PC market?
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Mar 26, 2019 12:14
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Open Marriage Night posted:FFVII on Switch today. buyin' this if only to have it portable and for the 3x speed option I'm assuming it has the same mods from the steam version if you want an easy mode?
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Mar 26, 2019 12:34
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Not a Children posted:buyin' this if only to have it portable and for the 3x speed option Yeah, it has all that. Are there Switch games that aren't portable?
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Mar 26, 2019 12:40
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Ariza posted:https://www.game-debate.com/news/26819/square-enix-adds-always-online-drm-requirement-to-final-fantasy-x-and-x-2-3-years-after-launch Yikes. Glad I cheaped out and bought a used copy of X-2 for like five bucks, but that is just extremely scummy and pointless to tack that on to something people already bought.
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Mar 26, 2019 13:25
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Ariza posted:https://www.game-debate.com/news/26819/square-enix-adds-always-online-drm-requirement-to-final-fantasy-x-and-x-2-3-years-after-launch Ahahahaha what is even the point of that? Why wait three loving years to add obnoxious DRM that people will avoid anyway? Like, even for SE this makes no loving sense.
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Mar 26, 2019 13:45
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Guess they're back to the "we can do no wrong" phase of a publisher.
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Mar 26, 2019 14:11
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Think this crap is already in place for VIII on Steam? I moved at the end of January and had a period with no internet access so had a few contingency games installed including VIII. Just would not let me launch the game offline.
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Mar 26, 2019 14:17
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Episode Laundromat Thief is live on Steam for  , download is 16.6 GB.
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Mar 26, 2019 14:18
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Gologle posted:What I saw of Episode Ardyn's ending was very hosed up and left me with an uneasy feeling in my gut, so I went ahead and watched someone's playthrough of it (it's about 2 hours long, no big deal). Something I never felt like I had to do with any of the other Episodes, even Gladio's. There's a lot of thoughts in my head right now that I'll have to order properly later in one big blah blah blah post, but suffice it to say, I think it's a bad Episode, and I don't think it is worth buying. It's a sad end to a game. it's the worst attempt at story expansion i've seen since burial at sea ardyn's fate was already plenty tragic as first explained in the game and had a nice undertone of old-testament ineffability to it - his good intentions in curing the plague didn't matter, because the gods were judging events by other standards. making the whole thing a deliberate gambit by bahamut for the sake of "maintaining balance" is not only miserably cliche and leaves a huge collection of hanging threads, it also contradicts everything else revealed about the gods - even ifrit came across as righteously aggrieved in his expanded backstory, but if the chief god of the pantheon is the one pulling the strings behind all the misery then they're either collaborators or feckless chumps it turns a story about maintaining your humanity in the face of cosmic indifference (noctis and ardyn both condemned by their destiny, but noctis finding comfort in the time he has and the people he knows while ardyn is left alone and tries to tear everything down with him) into yet another boilerplate rage-against-the-heavens plot what a total, pointless mistake
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Mar 26, 2019 14:29
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This week's episode of Retronauts is their second part of their FF7 retrospective. Jeremy had this amazing revelation. Cloud and Buzz Lightyear have the same story arc.
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Detective No. 27 posted:This week's episode of Retronauts is their second part of their FF7 retrospective. Jeremy had this amazing revelation. Cloud and Buzz Lightyear have the same story arc. 
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