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lets hang out posted:Romancing Saga 3 out November 11th, Scarlet Grace out December 3rd OH HELL YEAH
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Rinkles posted:didn't know EA made an FFX sequel set in middle earth Yep. The final boss is you going and literally punching out Sauron's big flaming eye.
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Sep 12, 2019 06:07
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the old lotr video games were way more badass than the modern ones
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Sep 12, 2019 06:15
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lmfao that linda in okage has an absurdly op healing spell that you will literally only get if you farm enough bad poetry golems for her to reach the level where she gets it because bad poetry golems are, the only enemy in the entire game, that give you enough exp to farm up to there as the single enemy whose values don't decrease after hitting a number cap
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Sep 12, 2019 07:07
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Are they golems that create bad poetry themselves, or is their existence maintained by bad poetry placed in their heads?
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Sep 12, 2019 07:09
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFjnUGNHeJUNeddy Seagoon posted:Are they golems that create bad poetry themselves, or is their existence maintained by bad poetry placed in their heads? idk ask the okage loremaster
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Sep 12, 2019 07:28
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cheetah7071 posted:What does the spinning wheel of elements in mana khemia synthesis do and why did anybody at Gust think it was a good idea The wheel is incredibly easy to manipulate and land on the element you want, and you want to do that regularly to manipulate the quality of your items.
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Sep 12, 2019 07:30
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:The wheel is incredibly easy to manipulate and land on the element you want, and you want to do that regularly to manipulate the quality of your items. how do I know what element I want
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Sep 12, 2019 07:30
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Ok despite this being the third time Im playing this game I still dont really understand what the hell happens to people Millenia munches on. It feels like a weird translation issue but the rest of the translation is fine? Oh and the use of portraits to do body horror that couldnt be conveyed on primitive 3d models is extremely dope, I applaud you Grandia 2 designer who made that choice.
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Sep 12, 2019 07:32
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i will say as cool as the back half of okage has been my favorite scene was probably rosalyn's whole talk you get if your affection with her is highest, it's a really nice resolution to her motivation as a character that i was hoping to get so i'm glad the game remembered it if only as part of a weird sidequest      
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Sep 12, 2019 07:33
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cheetah7071 posted:how do I know what element I want Look at the color of the card. Red is fire, Blue water, etc. It'll give +10. The opposing element, aka the one to the direct left of it (not counting the null element spot), will give -10. The other elements do nothing, but null will either add or subtract up to five quality at random.
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Sep 12, 2019 07:33
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i think the most surprising part of okage for me has been how well fleshed-out rosalyn is, just through her whole dynamic with ari and stan. the other party members are fun and even have some equally funny dynamics with each other but it really feels like without rosalyn in particular the game would be a lot weaker, same with marlene but she's a bit more obvious for how critical she is to the plot whereas rosalyn is just kinda, a person who's trying to figure her own poo poo out and getting pushed into roles without thinking about them too much i wish this game's gameplay was as good as the writing lol
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Sep 12, 2019 07:36
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:Look at the color of the card. Red is fire, Blue water, etc. It'll give +10. The opposing element, aka the one to the direct left of it (not counting the null element spot), will give -10. The other elements do nothing, but null will either add or subtract up to five quality at random. thanks I wonder if I was blind or if the tutorial was worthless
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Sep 12, 2019 07:36
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The Colonel posted:i think the most surprising part of okage for me has been how well fleshed-out rosalyn is, just through her whole dynamic with ari and stan. the other party members are fun and even have some equally funny dynamics with each other but it really feels like without rosalyn in particular the game would be a lot weaker, same with marlene but she's a bit more obvious for how critical she is to the plot whereas rosalyn is just kinda, a person who's trying to figure her own poo poo out and getting pushed into roles without thinking about them too much
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Sep 12, 2019 07:57
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Rinkles posted:didn't know EA made an FFX sequel set in middle earth Speaking of which, the Turks have been buffed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtnfYYlvCVA
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Sep 12, 2019 08:26
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The Colonel posted:i will say as cool as the back half of okage has been my favorite scene was probably rosalyn's whole talk you get if your affection with her is highest, it's a really nice resolution to her motivation as a character that i was hoping to get so i'm glad the game remembered it if only as part of a weird sidequest and then the guy standing in the background somehow ends up convinced she was talking to him and hands her her ultimate sword, utterly confounding Rosalyn since you're still the only one capable of seeing anyone in that town. definitely agree it's the best/funniest ending to that quest (second place is probably getting your starting girlfriend by never expressing an opinion on anything, who congratulates you on complete lack of self-improvement). okage is a great game.
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Sep 12, 2019 08:49
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Nick Buntline posted:and then the guy standing in the background somehow ends up convinced she was talking to him and hands her her ultimate sword, utterly confounding Rosalyn since you're still the only one capable of seeing anyone in that town. i like that if you talk to him afterwards he's like "ahh... figures that she didn't actually see me... my life's been a whole run of failure... but you know, it might still be worth trying again" really love how okage balances all of its humor with like, genuinely sweet character writing
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Sep 12, 2019 08:54
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Amppelix posted:Did they change this at some point? I played Grandia 2 on hard mode in its entirety when it came out on Steam. It was my first playthrough, and I had absolutely no issue with the game. It wasn't a sleepwalk but I certainly didn't have to bust out esoteric item strats to survive normal encounters. I thought the difficulty level was quite satisfying actually. Just enough where you need to actually think about your strategy for most fights, but not so much that there's only one correct strategy and if you're not following it you die. normal encounters no but bosses will destroy you. i basically had to eat every single buff and debuff item against the final boss just to level the playing field. the fight against melfice almost did me in, too, which is of course a huge change from the last time i played grandia 2, where i won without receiving a single damaging action because i wanted to see if it was possible to get the "no damage taken" victory quote against one of the major bosses Good Soldier Svejk posted:Apropos of almost nothing, is Saga Frontier 2 worth playing or is it just stupid pretty in screenshots Namnesor posted:SaGa Frontier 2 is, like all SaGa games, a minefield of inscrutable mechanics with zero in-game explanation that somehow comes together to make something that's actually pretty fun and cool. counterpoint: saga frontier 2, while cool, is probably one of the cruelest and most unforgiving of saga games. it's an rng-fest from the get-go and enemies don't even bother to scale to your BR, it just throws random encounters with hundreds of thousands of hp at you in wil's second or third chapter. it also includes an absolutely massive trap for first-timers in that the game gives you elemental melee attacks that are reasonably good at the beginning of the game, and even inflict free debuffs, but they can't spark any techs so a few chapters down the line you'll be completely underspecced and it'll be way too dangerous to grind sparks at that point Fur20 fucked around with this message at 11:18 on Sep 12, 2019 |
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Sep 12, 2019 11:12
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Also there's a mandatory war battle that's super hard in ways that feel frustratingly random.
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Sep 12, 2019 11:37
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So I think I'm about halfway through Trails of Cold Steel I and I'm loving it. But after seeing the post of easy to miss stuff in the other games, anything I should know about in this one? I'm just passed the Garden Party where we finally learn the name of the terrorist group for reference. (I don't think that counts as a spoiler of any kind).
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Sep 12, 2019 11:57
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The missables are mostly just for the ranking stuff outside of sidequests. It's easiest to get them in cold steel on new game plus.
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Sep 12, 2019 12:02
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mrfreeze posted:So I think I'm about halfway through Trails of Cold Steel I and I'm loving it. But after seeing the post of easy to miss stuff in the other games, anything I should know about in this one? I'm just passed the Garden Party where we finally learn the name of the terrorist group for reference. (I don't think that counts as a spoiler of any kind). Don't worry if you're collecting book volumes and miss one, you can buy them at the Pawn Shop late in the game to complete the set. And chances are you will, because some of them have infuriatingly slim windows.
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Sep 12, 2019 12:11
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Saga Frontier 2 is one of my favorite games of all time but going in without some foreknowledge can make things really difficult later. Now when I play it, I always grind high level techs on that skeleton in Wil's first chapter. Dueling is really good if you can pull off an instant death move (works most of the time). Learn as much magic with Wil as possible in his first chapter too, that pays off later. The real frustrating part of the game is knowing who to sink time into and who is just like a one-chapter joiner. You'll have a final party towards the end of the game for a few chapters but you have so many people who come and go and they may not fit into the characters you already have well. That said I played and beat it when it came out and didn't have tons of internet resources so it's not like it's an impossible game or anything. It does have the propensity to become frustrating due to RNG like most SaGa games.
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Sep 12, 2019 12:52
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Don't worry if you're collecting book volumes and miss one, you can buy them at the Pawn Shop late in the game to complete the set. And chances are you will, because some of them have infuriatingly slim windows. Yeah I've just been buying out the pawn shop each chapter because I haven't seen any particularly good reason to bother chasing that stuff down.
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Sep 12, 2019 12:53
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lets hang out posted:Romancing Saga 3 out November 11th, Scarlet Grace out December 3rd woah its even coming out on the vita
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Sep 12, 2019 15:09
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I'm gonna link something I wrote for the following Chapter, because there's a lot of side-content where you can gently caress yourself over accidentally. You can go ahead and click the spoilers, they're just for anyone who hasn't played the game or gotten to Chapter 8 yet. gracias, although I don't really feel like doing most of it
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Sep 12, 2019 15:15
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A twitch streamer who takes songs from chat and makes loops of them with different instruments was given Time's Scar and it came out pretty awesome. https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/d37meg/chrono_cross_times_scar_epically_looped_with_many/
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Sep 12, 2019 15:17
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lol i overleveled to gently caress and made the last boss of okage super easy. cool ending though i definitely couldn't call okage, uh, one of the best ps2 jrpgs lol, but it's definitely one of the most interesting and there's enough really cool writing and visuals that i don't regret playing through it
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Sep 12, 2019 17:52
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Rinkles posted:didn't know EA made an FFX sequel set in middle earth I have a soft spot for this terrible game. The gameplay is pretty fun if you want to play FFX with worse character progression.
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Sep 12, 2019 17:52
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The Third Age also has a neat mode where after you beat a chapter of the story you could replay major fights as the bad guys and wipe the floor with the PCs with a weird octopus dude.
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Sep 12, 2019 17:57
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I seem to remember the middle part of the game being very annoying if you didn't build your characters in a specific way, but I haven't played it since it first came out and I was even dumber back then.
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Sep 12, 2019 18:15
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It annoys me that emulating Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne Maniacs Chronicle Edition (that title, man) I can't seem to get shadows and transparency working on hardware rendering. I end up with no/glitchy shadows, people and lighting appearing through walls, or Demi-Fiend's face implodes. I mean...I can deal, but meeeeh. I'm spoiled by being able to scale up texture resolution, and fancy anti aliasing, and now it's all blurry native PS2 resolution.
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Sep 12, 2019 20:10
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pcsx2's hardware rendering has always had problems with certain games klonoa 2 is my favorite example of a game that has just gotten more and more hosed with time and nobody's ever really bothered trying to fix it
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Sep 12, 2019 20:16
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Yeah, I'm used to dealing with wonkiness and having to have different set ups and hacks for different games. Nocturne is particularly weird, as the different versions seem to have different problems. I can get the basic US version working perfectly, but this one just refuses to work right at all off of software rendering. The first time this happened, I about had a heart attack. Not my screenshot, from someone else who had the same problem 
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Sep 12, 2019 20:22
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AngryRobotsInc posted:Yeah, I'm used to dealing with wonkiness and having to have different set ups and hacks for different games. Nocturne is particularly weird, as the different versions seem to have different problems. I can get the basic US version working perfectly, but this one just refuses to work right at all off of software rendering. I don't see the problem.
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Sep 12, 2019 20:25
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I do appreciate Chiaki's dedication to All Denim, All The Time. Where would one even buy denim calf high boots?
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Sep 12, 2019 20:32
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Isn't she supposed to be rich or something? She probably had them custom-made.
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Sep 12, 2019 20:53
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Full denim is the closest you can get to combat armor while still being clothes so I guess she's just going as far as she can without dipping into some Mythril.
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Sep 12, 2019 21:05
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mrfreeze posted:So I think I'm about halfway through Trails of Cold Steel I and I'm loving it. But after seeing the post of easy to miss stuff in the other games, anything I should know about in this one? I'm just passed the Garden Party where we finally learn the name of the terrorist group for reference. (I don't think that counts as a spoiler of any kind). There's one hidden sidequest on each free day--occasionally two--and one on each field study.
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The Colonel posted:the old lotr video games were way more badass than the modern ones Counterpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.R.R._Tolkien%27s_The_Lord_of_the_Rings,_Vol._I_(1994_video_game) Unless by 'awesome' you mean 'buggy-as-gently caress trainwreck' then sure. The White Dragon posted:counterpoint: saga frontier 2, while cool, is probably one of the cruelest and most unforgiving of saga games. it's an rng-fest from the get-go and enemies don't even bother to scale to your BR, it just throws random encounters with hundreds of thousands of hp at you in wil's second or third chapter. The final strategic battle is quite literally only winnable by doing a very specific set of commands while also hoping the AI doesn't start moving until a certain turn. If you don't turtle properly or they move a turn too soon you cannot win. SaGa Frontier 2 is an unquestionably bad game. I think the only neat thing in it was the duel(?) fights Gustav would have with monsters where you could enter commands and, iirc, do guaranteed skill sparks with the right combos.
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