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Andrast posted:I'm playing Secret of mana for the first time and jank is pretty what I expected from an old SNES action RPG but whoever designed the menus needs to answer for their crimes in 1993 those menus were the cutting edge of the principles of game design
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Jun 16, 2019 11:06
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cheetah7071 posted:Fairy Fencer F has sort of dived off a cliff since the party has been expanding, Fang/Eryn/Tiara had a really great dynamic and the new losers do not Which version are you playing? Dark Advent added a bunch of new party members who don't interact with the base cast that much or well.
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Jun 16, 2019 12:39
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Mokinokaro posted:Which version are you playing? Dark Advent added a bunch of new party members who don't interact with the base cast that much or well. I'm playing ADF but I don't think I've hit the routesplit yet. The characters I'm complaining about are Harvey, Galdo, and their fairies.
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Jun 16, 2019 17:42
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About halfway through Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn and Micaiah is just awful.
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Mr E posted:Ah, I think I remember reading that. I used to like Avellone but pretty much everything he's done with modern games I haven't liked. His characters seem to be annoying and have tons of dialogue that means nothing or isn't near as deep as he thinks. Agean90 posted:best part of the reserfence in wrpgs is that it made everyone who isn't me realize that avelonne-baloney isn't actuat that great a writer Someone praised as amazing but turns out to be just ok after all but looked great due to their team, or diminishing in quality after awhile, sounds like The Molyneux Effect.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Someone praised as amazing but turns out to be just ok after all but looked great due to their team, or diminishing in quality after awhile, sounds like The Molyneux Effect. I thought the Molyneux effect was the ability to bounce back after that because people only remembered the hype surrounding the games and not the games themselves. See also: David Cage
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Jun 16, 2019 21:09
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Verranicus posted:About halfway through Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn and Micaiah is just awful. She's the best written character in Radiant Dawn but RD is not a well written game
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Jun 16, 2019 21:09
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super sweet best pal posted:I thought the Molyneux effect was the ability to bounce back after that because people only remembered the hype surrounding the games and not the games themselves. See also: David Cage Molyneux has always been a slow decline. Godus is the end of his career.
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Jun 16, 2019 21:14
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cheetah7071 posted:She's the best written character in Radiant Dawn but RD is not a well written game
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Jun 16, 2019 21:23
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Endorph posted:Micaiah would be great if she was in a game that let her be a character instead of the 'actually, this game was about Ike all along!' show Ike is an infinitely better/more likeable character and he mostly communicates with shouting and grunts.
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Jun 16, 2019 21:27
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That doesn't describe Ike in any way whatsoever lol, 90% of his dialogue is just very sincere worrying about other people and the other 10% is him putting his foot in his mouth. Throw in some deadpan humor too.
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Jun 16, 2019 22:42
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I beat Pillars 1, and overall enjoyed it. Glad PoE 2 has a turn based option now, though. I'll start on that soonish. I was going to return the souls to their bodies like the goddess I pledged to asked, but the revelation about the gods made me turn them to somewhere unknown instead. The goddess's retribution was bad, but I'm done with all the gods now.
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Jun 16, 2019 22:49
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Endorph posted:That doesn't describe Ike in any way whatsoever lol, 90% of his dialogue is just very sincere worrying about other people and the other 10% is him putting his foot in his mouth. Throw in some deadpan humor too. pFft, no way man, this is basically all of Ike's dialogue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKCIFXqhLzo And then he like, throws a carriage off a mountain and explodes
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Jun 16, 2019 22:55
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What can change the nature of a man, I say as I pretend freshman philosphy class is the peak of intellectualism
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Jun 16, 2019 23:30
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hey guys get this... What if there was faction that was called the ANARCHISTS and they were ANARCHISTS please be aware that the anarchists aren't based in any actual anarchist philosopy *millions of nerds who only read genre fiction stand and applaud* Agean90 fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Jun 16, 2019 |
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Jun 16, 2019 23:35
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I’m confused what set off this smugfest
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ulysses: you traveled through here once and now everything is really messed up. did i forget to tell you that. btw my name is ulysses. have you read ulysses. i've read ulysses. did you know that pressing that button launched a nuke. you totally just launched a nuke. launching nukes is a bad thing. i'm very mad right now
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Jun 17, 2019 00:12
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Grieving Mother, who has no interesting dialog ever and doesn't even interact with the party because Chris Avellone refused to let other people write for his characters in case they ruined them
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Jun 17, 2019 00:34
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Ah I thought this was about fire emblem and was insanely confused
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Jun 17, 2019 00:39
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Agean90 posted:hey guys get this... What if there was faction that was called the ANARCHISTS and they were ANARCHISTS please be aware that the anarchists aren't based in any actual anarchist philosopy *millions of nerds who only read genre fiction stand and applaud* To be fair Planescape as a setting is D&D's alignment system taken to an absurd and intentionally parodic extreme. Planescape is "what if everyone behaved according to their bumper sticker and a room full of evil people would literally slide into hell?"
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Jun 17, 2019 00:40
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Also Planescape's themes are tied in with a lot of facets of the game itself that still not many games manage to pull off even to this day.
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Jun 17, 2019 00:44
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Planescape Torment is overly verbose and ridiculous and I love it.
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It's really wordy but I never felt it was wasting time. I feel the same for Longest Journey, its verbose as hell like Torment but I consider that a strength for both because they help flesh out the setting and characters. As much I enjoyed Torment 2 it definitely fell into being purple prosey for the sake of it though.
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The best representation of Planescape as a setting is when you call yourself by a fake name long enough you eventually encounter that real person.
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Jun 17, 2019 01:29
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Planescape is wordy but has a sense of humor. A lot, actually. You can get a paragraph of description of the noises you make with your mouth playing action figures by yourself. V I'm one of those that snoozed through Old World Blues but stuff like Morte in Planescape is funny In My Opinion. mycot fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Jun 17, 2019 |
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Jun 17, 2019 01:31
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i'm mixed on chris avellone's humor. i haven't played planescape torment but in the stuff i have played it has just as bad a tendency to run on way longer than it needs to as his regular dialog does
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I found morte insufferable and he's there from the very beginning lol the skull man wants to gently caress the corpse *laughs at this joke which is repeated multiple times*
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Thinking of playing Wild Arms 4. Anything weird I need to know about?corn in the bible posted:I found morte insufferable and he's there from the very beginning Look if I was a floating skull I would want to bone everything too.
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Jun 17, 2019 03:17
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al-azad posted:Thinking of playing Wild Arms 4. Anything weird I need to know about? Let Raquel carry you on her incredibly strong arms.
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The game is about surviving long enough for Raquel to get a turn and kill everything. Also you can't get all the EX keys because XSEED deleted a monster that counts towards 100% completion.
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Oh no Wild Arms 4 gives me stuff for importing a save from Alter Code F? But everyone dissuaded me from playing that so I'm just going forward.
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People would probably like to dissuade you from playing WA4 as well, to be honest
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Pillars 2 is way way better than the first game. The turn based mode is also very good.
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al-azad posted:Thinking of playing Wild Arms 4. Anything weird I need to know about?
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Was WA4 the one with the downer ending or was that 5?
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Verranicus posted:Was WA4 the one with the downer ending or was that 5?
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Endorph posted:4. 5 actually has the cast from 4 make cameos and even has a sidequest to sort of 'undo' the ending of 4, but it's very lowkey and more an easter egg than any kind of canonical thing. I don't think it even explicitly 'names' the characters even - I remember Yulie's nametag being "Paladienne" or something like that. Maybe that changes for the sidequest, I dunno. There was only so much Dean I could take. e: oh actually I guess that was her title/class in 4 anyway
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Oh actually, if you're playing the PAL version it's prone to crashing a lot IIRC? I think there's supposed to be workarounds for that, but I'm a filthy american dog so I wouldn't know them, but just a heads up.
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Oh yeah 4 does crash a bit in PAL but if you pick NTSC at the boot menu it's fine (and if needs be you can save in PAL, switch to NTSC get past that bit and then go back).
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