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Thanks, Trails is in the gog sale too so I will check it out.
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I prefer the Trails in the Sky games but there's no questioning they look a lot more dated and don't have the same structure as Cold Steel.
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Sep 9, 2019 22:14
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AngryRobotsInc posted:I don't know about this game in particular, but something I've noticed with...middling quality European developers, which it sounds like Spiders is, they seem to have a bad habit of having their translations done by somebody who knows a reasonable amount of (target language), but isn't actually skilled at translation. Which can lead to some horribly dry writing. For reference, see the original, weird translation for Mars: War Logs. Also from Spiders. Hmm.
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Sep 9, 2019 22:17
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i skipped around some footage. it does look pretty janky, especially the conversation closeups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONZqMxKW2bU
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Sep 9, 2019 22:20
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I have too many good things to say about Cold Steel. It's a game that kind of blasts you with bad anime tropes up front then immediately subverts them all. There was one point in the game I was really frustrated that introduces a character who feels like she's from a completely different video game series but they use her just well enough to avoid being grating.
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Sep 9, 2019 22:22
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Mokinokaro posted:I prefer the Trails in the Sky games but there's no questioning they look a lot more dated and don't have the same structure as Cold Steel. I like the models in Sky but that’s mostly because the budget 3D models are way to rigid for my tastes
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Sep 9, 2019 22:23
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Sometimes I wish Falcom had stuck with the Sky style and just pushed it as far as they could. Imagine a Trails game that looks as pretty as Octopath Traveler.
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Sep 9, 2019 22:24
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they could barely make games that looked like ps2 launch titles for years and you want them to make something with the budget of a small square enix title
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Sep 9, 2019 22:35
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I'd also like a pony
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Sep 9, 2019 22:40
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Octopath isn't even much of a looker, imo? I don't hate it but it looks like most handheld RPGs that use sprites aside from the 3D and bloom and stuff, and that's a little divisive.
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Sep 9, 2019 22:45
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they should use any extra budget to go back to making 80's hair metal videos for game songs actually https://youtu.be/dhO37PCNAu0
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Sep 9, 2019 22:45
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I was going to say Tokyo Xanadu is essentially a Falcom Persona but Cold Steel seems to have won the popular vote and I can't speak from experience since I'm still playing Sky so
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Sep 9, 2019 22:50
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I wouldn't really call Tokyo Xanadu that. It's riffing on similar ideas but the time management aspect is basically nonexistant and it's a mediocre brawler gameplay-wise. I enjoyed it okay enough and actually liked its writing more than Persona 5's, but.
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Sep 9, 2019 22:54
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Tokyo Xanadu is modern day Cold Steel more than anything.
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Sep 9, 2019 22:58
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Motto posted:Octopath isn't even much of a looker, imo? I don't hate it but it looks like most handheld RPGs that use sprites aside from the 3D and bloom and stuff, and that's a little divisive. Octopath looks great, not sure what you're talking about.
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Sep 9, 2019 23:02
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The epic bloom lighting in octopath looks so bad and it baffles me that people think it adds to it at all. Sprites look great though.
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Sep 9, 2019 23:04
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an actual dog posted:Octopath looks great, not sure what you're talking about. I think they're probably saying from a technical standpoint. Octopath is a very pretty game due to its art design, but it's not a technical powerhouse (and doesn't need to be.)
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Sep 9, 2019 23:04
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Ibram Gaunt posted:The epic bloom lighting in octopath looks so bad and it baffles me that people think it adds to it at all. Sprites look great though. That's Unreal engine for you.
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Sep 9, 2019 23:30
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octopath's diorama look would be better if it didn't felt like you were looking at it through a vaseline lens
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Sep 9, 2019 23:31
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Just wanted to say thank you to whoever recommended Tokyo Xanadu months ago.
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Sep 9, 2019 23:40
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPGaSAkmY6o looks like it's much better than their previous games
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Sep 9, 2019 23:44
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Endorph posted:I wouldn't really call Tokyo Xanadu that. It's riffing on similar ideas but the time management aspect is basically nonexistant and it's a mediocre brawler gameplay-wise. I enjoyed it okay enough and actually liked its writing more than Persona 5's, but. I considered that a massive improvement over Persona 5 free time slog but it depends on what they're looking for.
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Sep 9, 2019 23:46
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Rinkles posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPGaSAkmY6o its getting a big boy AAA treatment from the gaming jornos too looks like
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Sep 9, 2019 23:57
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Grandia 2 has an issue where if you change the camera options, it doesnt save them so next time you load your game they revert back to default. This would be fine but the x-axis is inverted by default, who does that? Also random slowdown in encounters starting at the baked plains, hope its area specific. Otherwise Grandia 2 is just a flat improvement everyway over its predecessor and only makes Grandia 3 being a mess more confusing.
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Sep 10, 2019 01:13
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Grandia is better than Grandia 2.
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Sep 10, 2019 04:53
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Sep 10, 2019 07:28
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Im curious why Grandia 1 over 2. Normally i know Im a mechanics over everything kind of person but the story of Grandia 2 is just told a lot better and frankly more interesting to me which is odd because theyve got a lot of overlap.
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Sep 10, 2019 07:34
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grandia's characters are more fun, the story is more of a coming of age story, youthful adventure and self-discovery, it's just all out great.. it's the gameplay that fell short originally because the framerate was so horrendous grandia 2 has the better gameplay but the characters are much more boring archetypes and the story is much more generic justin, feena and sue are so much better than ryudo, elena and... the..others
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Sep 10, 2019 07:39
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i like childish adventures. grandia is a very 'warm' game. grandia 2 is cool but i just like the lighthearted stuff more.The 7th Guest posted:for the first time i agree with verrancius unfortunately any post that just says x is better than y and nothign else is automatically wrong, and that is because, i do not like to see them.
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Sep 10, 2019 07:43
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GulagDolls posted:i like childish adventures. grandia is a very 'warm' game. grandia 2 is cool but i just like the lighthearted stuff more. snooze cruise is better than GulagDrools
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Sep 10, 2019 07:45
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I think its for me structurally Grandia 1 has some issues. You dont really find out who the antagonist is until a decent way into disc 2, Justins decision to help the planet is so rushed it comes out of basically nowhere, and several characters on the villains side get allowed bizarre mood swings for no reason. It also features the absolute shittiest traveling companions Rapp and Liete whose treatment of Justin is so needlessly cruel and unprecedented I was unironically offended when they rejoined the party. Outside of that the world building is just a huge mess in 1 like the fact that they have globes which show all the continents and you can clearly just sail between them but the end of the world is played up as a huge thing. This is resolved in disc 1 then never mentioned again. Or the tower of dight which is just ???? Or the volcano or the mermaids or or or. Worldbuilding matters to me a lot in a game and cute character interaction doesnt overcome that for me, especially when your final traveling companions are absolute turds. Edit: the camera angle is miserable and their solution was laughable Barudak fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Sep 10, 2019 |
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Sep 10, 2019 09:33
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Barudak posted:You dont really find out who the antagonist is until a decent way into disc 2
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The Colonel posted:you can just tell me to grind him up a bit, you know it's not about grinding him up he needs to just be in your party iirc he can actually be pretty underleveled it's just that you specifically need him and no one else in the game will cut it
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Sep 10, 2019 14:23
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Amppelix posted:Why is this an issue when the story so far clearly hadn't asked for an antagonist (besides which the garlyle forces fill the role anyway) Because it rushes the end game pacing a lot. You go from calm journey* to "welp gotta hype the villain asap" so the entire end game which has multiple different plot threads its trying to resolve and introduce, because again it takes its sweet time getting there, get no time to breathe. It also has the added effect of making mullen and leen look like tremendous incompetents/gaslighting assholes when the game is not trying to characterize them that way. Garlyle also dissappears for a huge swathe of the game. Once you cross the wall they dont show up again until the twin towers which is like 10 hours or so later. Not knowing why theyre doing what theyre doing compounds this section not really moving the story forward when it could have been used as a development of the end game themes. *Journey not actually calm since you have the three "comedic relief" subordinates who are unambiguously awful people and inflict cruelty for its own sake who the game expects you to be ok with at the end. Barudak fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Sep 10, 2019 |
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Sep 10, 2019 14:23
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The White Dragon posted:it's not about grinding him up he needs to just be in your party okay what do i need him for. are you talking about the phantom evil king boss, that you can only hurt with magic? because, i cleared him already, without kisling, because the game gives you infinite use magic items and you can halve his hp with black cat's eyes.
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Sep 10, 2019 15:56
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if you wanna give someone advice you can just, be straightforward about it lol.
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Sep 10, 2019 16:18
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Grandia is Dragon Ball Grandia 2 is Dragon Ball Z
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Sep 10, 2019 16:25
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I'm still working my way through Crystar. Apparently there's a time loop so despite pushing through to what appeared to be the end I've got a lot of story left.
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Sep 10, 2019 19:23
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni1JwfTJBDo this is a really great song that you'll never be able to hear for more than like ten seconds in-game because it only plays when you have enough hp for the boss to kill you in one hit so you'll either heal up or die immediately
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Ah channeling how Shadow Hearts has unique versions of battle themes when you go insane, even for special battles where you're probably never going to go insane without going out of your way to, I see.
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