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Inspector Gesicht posted:Every time Apollo Justice appears he seem to have an entirely new backstory. First he's connected to a troupe of magicians, then he's old friends with an astronaut, then it turns out he was adopted by a foreign revolutionary. In Ace Attorney 9 it'll turn out he's from a clan of vampire prosecutors. He just lived a Very Interesting Life
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oldpainless posted:In just cause 4 it’s hard to get anywhere quickly and the driving feels off The driving is shameful, but wingsuiting at 200 km/h gets you places pretty fast! I just bought Disgaea for the Switch and playing it from the beginning again made me realize how linear the early progression is. It takes forever to get anything good in the Item World if you go too early, everything in the Dark Assembly costs too much (money or mana) and is too difficult to fight for, so your best option is to grind story maps that are obviously made for grinding. I do remember that once you get one character through the soul-crushing grind of Cave of Ordeals 3, the grind gets fun, but I also remember it taking a while... I'm also trying really hard to like Need for Speed: Heat, and I kind of do when I'm racing, but I think the game is kind of a loner and pushes people away without realizing it. There are a LOT of little annoyances, but I think the thing dragging it down the most is that if your car's rating is even a little bit over a race's recommended level, the race is piss easy, but if it's even a tiny bit under, you can't do better than like 5th place. Doesn't matter though, because for most events, finishing 5th just means you get 85% of the prize money and the event still gets marked as cleared.
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Jan 11, 2020 17:56
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Every time Apollo Justice appears he seem to have an entirely new backstory. First he's connected to a troupe of magicians, then he's old friends with an astronaut, then it turns out he was adopted by a foreign revolutionary. In Ace Attorney 9 it'll turn out he's from a clan of vampire prosecutors. This sounds like the opposite of something that would drag a game down
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Jan 11, 2020 18:01
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Dash Rendar posted:not at all where i was going with that. sometimes people post a PYF little thing dragging down a game and i'm all like "huh, that's funny--i loved that" Nah, nah, I wasn't slagging on you, just speaking generally.
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Jan 11, 2020 18:03
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The music in Dragon Quest XI on Switch is still terrible. The tracks themselves aren't so bad, although they're not that good, either, they're just completely unmemorable and average JRPG songs. But there's only about six of them in the game. There's no musical variety at all - most towns just use the same music track (Hotto had its own music, which was surprising. I'm expecting Hotto's music will be used for all the Asia-inspired towns). For special/dramatic events, when they need exciting music, they just play the battle music. It gets tiresome less than ten hours in, which is bad because the game is supposed to be outrageously long like most JRPGs are, and it stands out really obviously because everything else in the game is really good with a very high level of attention to detail. There's a relatively minor bonus part of the game where you can enter "corrupted" 8-bit areas to fix them - the "corrupted" 8-bit music is so intolerable I have to literally mute the game until I finish the little bonus scenario. They re-recorded most of the MIDI songs and they're orchestrated by a real orchestra, so the sound quality is alright, but every now and then you will encounter a regular MIDI track, and it's pretty jarring. It's pretty funny that the game pops up a little message in the beginning saying that it's prohibited to stream DQXI with the sole purpose of listening to its music - I think most people who've played it have already had more than enough. Apparently, this is all because the game's composer is a hateful, egotistical old prick. It's a real shame.
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Jan 11, 2020 18:15
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Speaking of DQXI, isn't it the first game in the series with a unique title for your hero (the Luminary)? It was really weird when Smash used "The Hero" anyway, so I'm probably remembering something wrong
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Jan 11, 2020 18:22
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Riatsala posted:I've always wished that FFVII was just the Midgar sequence but 70 hours long. You'll probably enjoy the remake then
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Ruffian Price posted:Speaking of DQXI, isn't it the first game in the series with a unique title for your hero (the Luminary)? It was really weird when Smash used "The Hero" anyway, so I'm probably remembering something wrong They couldn't use "Luminary" for Smash with all the alternate skins, and for a series as venerated as DQ they couldn't not do alternate skins. Casey Finnigan posted:Apparently, this is all because the game's composer is a hateful, egotistical old prick. It's a real shame. Also a Nanjing Massacre Denier, and anti-LGBTQ+
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Jan 11, 2020 18:38
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Akira Toriyama has been creator the Dragonball, a consultant on Dragonball Super, and the character artist for Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger. Please don't tell me he's a shithead too.
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Jan 11, 2020 19:15
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Riatsala posted:I've always wished that FFVII was just the Midgar sequence but 70 hours long. Good news! Probably won't be 70 hours, but I image that they've padded the gently caress out of it since it seems to be just Midgar.
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Jan 11, 2020 19:18
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Akira Toriyama has been creator the Dragonball, a consultant on Dragonball Super, and the character artist for Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger. Please don't tell me he's a shithead too. Toriyama mostly seems to keep his personal life and opinions out of the media. The worst I've ever seen him dragged for is an off color joke he made that was pretty much "Being near sighted sucks. When I have to take my glasses off at the beach, I can't see all the hot ladies!" in like...the 80s. There may be other stuff out there, and people might certainly have issues with some of the sexual jokes in his stuff, but otherwise he just mostly seems to keep his head down.
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Casey Finnigan posted:The music in Dragon Quest XI on Switch is still terrible. The tracks themselves aren't so bad, although they're not that good, either, they're just completely unmemorable and average JRPG songs. But there's only about six of them in the game. There's no musical variety at all - most towns just use the same music track (Hotto had its own music, which was surprising. I'm expecting Hotto's music will be used for all the Asia-inspired towns). For special/dramatic events, when they need exciting music, they just play the battle music. It gets tiresome less than ten hours in, which is bad because the game is supposed to be outrageously long like most JRPGs are, and it stands out really obviously because everything else in the game is really good with a very high level of attention to detail. There's a relatively minor bonus part of the game where you can enter "corrupted" 8-bit areas to fix them - the "corrupted" 8-bit music is so intolerable I have to literally mute the game until I finish the little bonus scenario. I really like the Overture that plays before the title screen hits but the rest is definitely getting old
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AngryRobotsInc posted:Toriyama mostly seems to keep his personal life and opinions out of the media. The worst I've ever seen him dragged for is an off color joke he made that was pretty much "Being near sighted sucks. When I have to take my glasses off at the beach, I can't see all the hot ladies!" in like...the 80s. There may be other stuff out there, and people might certainly have issues with some of the sexual jokes in his stuff, but otherwise he just mostly seems to keep his head down. I tried watching the original dragonball but it showed way too much of goku's dragonballs
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Master Roshi is basically Toriyama’s self-insert, then?
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MiddleOne posted:Replaying through FF7 on the Switch. Something I have to say is that the main quest direction of this game is an absolute mess. At almost no point after the Midgar intro is it ever 100% clear where you're supposed to be going, or even really what you're doing, as you stumble across the continents. Sometimes you'll arrive at a location and there's just nothing there as you've broken the linear sequence the game operates on. Other times you'll leave locations wondering if you didn't really miss something since, while something plot-related happened, progression-wise you didn't get anything. Are you sure you’re not just skipping through the text a lot? I distinctly remember being told several times where to go next whenever leaving town
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Jan 11, 2020 23:44
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I’ve gotten every Steam achievement for all four Shovel Knight campaigns, and my desire for completion is dragging the experience down by forcing me to do it for the Smash Bros-esque Shovel Knight Showdown part too. It can be fun, but I’m pretty meh on doing it. Each character has an achievement and most can be done with me operating two players on my Xbox controller and the keyboard, but a few can’t.
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Jan 12, 2020 00:06
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Take a deep breath, and step back from the cheevos.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Every time Apollo Justice appears he seem to have an entirely new backstory. First he's connected to a troupe of magicians, then he's old friends with an astronaut, then it turns out he was adopted by a foreign revolutionary. In Ace Attorney 9 it'll turn out he's from a clan of vampire prosecutors. The vampire prosecutor was in the prequels. So it wouldn't be that weird.
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Kit Walker posted:Are you sure you’re not just skipping through the text a lot? I distinctly remember being told several times where to go next whenever leaving town Knowing the name of a place rarely helps very much. There's also a lot of locations that just kinda exist until they're plot relevant or that never really serve a purpose. The vaguely stated goal is "pursue Sephiroth" but a lot of actions don't really make sense within that framework either. I didn't remember it being this bad either, but it really is.
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Riatsala posted:I've always wished that FFVII was just the Midgar sequence but 70 hours long. Veotax posted:Good news! A couple people have mentioned that it'll be around 30 hours or so, more if you go sidequest heavy? They'll probably be making FFVIIREMAKE episodes for the entire next console generation.
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If you mean one more episode that takes the whole generation, yes.
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MiddleOne posted:Knowing the name of a place rarely helps very much. There's also a lot of locations that just kinda exist until they're plot relevant or that never really serve a purpose. The vaguely stated goal is "pursue Sephiroth" but a lot of actions don't really make sense within that framework either. Right now I'm playing the FF8 HD remake and I know I'm supposed to go to Estar, and I know where Estar is, but Estar is on a continent surrounded by sheer cliffs and mountain ranges and the Garden can't cross those and I don't know how I'm supposed to reach it and that's where I stopped a few months ago. It didn't help me get back to it that I bought a million games between then and now.
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You either go see Rinoa in the infirmary or go to the town on the bridge. Either bumps the plot forward. The game doesn't really tell you.
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Aphrodite posted:If you mean one more episode that takes the whole generation, yes.  Unless a gave dev company has gone completely against all established patterns of the industry in the last four decades and somehow developed so much content that they're really just waiting to drop the hammer and make a "year of FFVII Remake," this is going to be the case. Which is doubly weird, the nostalgia market for FFVII really isn't that big. I mean it's big, but they're developing it like it'll underwrite their next 20 years of projects.
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Square-Enix has had issues for years with having projects balloon out of proportion. This project was started probably long before we even heard of it and ff7 nostalgia has since waned but theyre so deep in it now they feel committed. FF14 feels like the only thing getting a reasonable release schedule.
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RagnarokAngel posted:Square-Enix has had issues for years with having projects balloon out of proportion. This project was started probably long before we even heard of it and ff7 nostalgia has since waned but theyre so deep in it now they feel committed. It still stuns me to this day how much resources they pooled into FF13 to ultimately produce so very little.
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I had completely forgotten about FFXIII. Yeah that makes sense. Wow that company really has gone way too deep into believing its own hype about Final Fantasy as a brand.
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RagnarokAngel posted:Square-Enix has had issues for years with having projects balloon out of proportion. This project was started probably long before we even heard of it and ff7 nostalgia has since waned but theyre so deep in it now they feel committed. They actually announced it before starting proper development on it. But it's taken 4 years. A large part of that is art and stuff which will not need to be redone for future episodes, but they're also hitting the less linear open world stuff full of optional events.
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MiddleOne posted:It still stuns me to this day how much resources they pooled into FF13 to ultimately produce so very little. Wasn't 15 also originally another 13 spinoff?
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Yes. It makes me wonder where these young, rich aristocrat-like game directors come from that they can hijack Square-Enix's flagship brand to such ridiculous budgets and timelines just to tell stories about their waifus and/or best bros.
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VanSandman posted:Wasn't 15 also originally another 13 spinoff? You got it backwards. 13 was a spin-off from 15
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mind the walrus posted:Yes. SE's game development is a ramshackle disaster because nearly all the directorial and project management positions are filled by senior employees immune to consequences
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oldpainless posted:You got it backwards. 13 was a spin-off from 15 Nah, 13 was always the main 13, 15 was the spinoff / side game called versus 13. There was also a third game in the same project but I don't recall it's name.
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Hel posted:Nah, 13 was always the main 13, 15 was the spinoff / side game called versus 13. There was also a third game in the same project but I don't recall it's name. type-0, can't remember what it was originally called when it was a part of the 13 saga
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They called it Fabula Nova Crystallis and yeah 15 and type-0 were supposed to be in the same world before being made into new projects. They ultimately just made -2 and -3 to reuse assets and while they were decent they didnt exactly set the world ablaze. Such a strange little anomaly.
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A Final Fantasy game today is expensive as gently caress to make so trying to make each one a whole franchise that can reuse a bunch of assets isn't a terrible plan. But when the games aren't good that's when things go into panic mode.
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RagnarokAngel posted:They called it Fabula Nova Crystallis and yeah 15 and type-0 were supposed to be in the same world before being made into new projects. They ultimately just made -2 and -3 to reuse assets and while they were decent they didnt exactly set the world ablaze. Such a strange little anomaly. 13-2 was weirdly good. Never got around to 3 though.
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Final Fantasy XII had that weird single player MMO-approach and a full expansion disk worth of content they never bothered to translate to anything else than Japanese. Its an understatement to say that Square Enix had "issues" between FFX-2 to FFXIII, and that one vanity movie project which almost capsized the studio also fits to that era.
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For 12 do you mean the zodiac edition? Because they had been doing that since 7 with the international editions. Japan was a more lucrative market to sell people the same RPG twice and figured it wouldnt work in the west (Madden/Fifa joke goes here).
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Oxxidation posted:SE's game development is a ramshackle disaster because nearly all the directorial and project management positions are filled by senior employees immune to consequences That makes sense, albeit weird when I consider how young some of them seem. Then again viewing FFXIII and FFXV through the "otaku mid-life crisis" lens explains a hell of a lot mind the walrus has a new favorite as of 19:25 on Jan 13, 2020 |
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