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personally, i feel that Square betrayed their fans' trust in them when they released a sequel to Final Fantasy. many people at the time, myself included, were under the assumption that it would be the final piece of fantasy media made, ever. by anyone. if fans of the fantasy genre had known that was false, i, along with many others, would not have rushed to purchase a copy at release.
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FF8 loving sucks vv see? vv Prokhor Zakharov fucked around with this message at 11:53 on Mar 31, 2020 |
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CarlCX posted:I've been using the lockdown to catch up on my ages-old quest to play through all the Final Fantasy games. Back in the day I had skipped VIII and had gone all this time without ever touching it, and now, twenty years later, I have finally played and completed Final Fantasy VIII. Actually, it's very good and this is a very bad opinion
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Mar 31, 2020 11:50
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Auron in Final Fantasy X is cool as gently caress and him showing up at the end of the Blitzball tournament marked the start of the game going from a fun diversion to loving awesome for me.
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Mar 31, 2020 11:56
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FFX is really loving good and I need to pickup the Remaster. Hell, all of the FFs are good in some way or another.
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Mar 31, 2020 12:10
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I'm currently playing through Final Fantasy V on the PC, which is good and fun but suffers from a severe case of "wait, what was I supposed to be doing?". If it's been more than a week between times I've played it and I'm out on the open world map, I will start the game with no idea where I'm meant to be going and not that much in the way of cues. It's still good, I just wander aimlessly a bit.
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Mar 31, 2020 12:19
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Lamuella posted:we do have an ice cream maker, but it's a cheapie (£15 on Amazon), but once you have that and a decent recipe it's really straightforward. There are non-maker recipes but they don't turn out quite as good in my opinion. Oh I haven't seen anything that cheap, you got a link? I wanna make some weird ice cream with stuff in it like Ben & Jerry's style. Brut fucked around with this message at 12:27 on Mar 31, 2020 |
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Mar 31, 2020 12:25
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Brut posted:Oh I haven't seen anything that cheap, you got a link? Ours is the VonSheff one but it looks like they're sold out. Best I could find is this one that's smaller: https://www.amazon.co.uk/NEDIS-KAIM110CWT05-Ice-Cream-Maker/dp/B07HFFXGLL/ I'd also highly recommend the Ben & Jerry's recipe book. Their sweet cream base is absolutely outstanding: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0894803123/ref=pe_3187911_185740111_TE_item
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Mar 31, 2020 12:32
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Lamuella posted:It's still good, I just wander aimlessly a bit. Which is why I never got into Skyrim.
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Mar 31, 2020 12:46
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CobiWann posted:Which is why I never got into Skyrim. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98dlue3JmRM this is why you should get into it.
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Mar 31, 2020 12:47
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I loved FF8 as a kid, more than 7 or 9, but i haven’t played it in 20 years so idk maybe it does suck
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Mar 31, 2020 12:55
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jesus WEP posted:I loved FF8 as a kid, more than 7 or 9, but i haven’t played it in 20 years so idk maybe it does suck I just finished it a week ago. I appreciated the story a lot more than I did as a kid. At least, the basic story of a relationship growing between two people romantically and a group of friends as they go through poo poo together. The sorceress stuff is still pretty much nonsense. And snapping the junction system like a twig is really fun. bradzilla fucked around with this message at 13:02 on Mar 31, 2020 |
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Mar 31, 2020 12:59
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I think most Finals Fantasy kind of suck and are overrated. Please play Mario RPG or Chrono Trigger and then embrace western rpg superiority
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Mar 31, 2020 13:40
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Western developers Nintendo and Squaresoft
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Seth Rollins posted:personally, i feel that Square betrayed their fans' trust in them when they released a sequel to Final Fantasy. many people at the time, myself included, were under the assumption that it would be the final piece of fantasy media made, ever. by anyone. if fans of the fantasy genre had known that was false, i, along with many others, would not have rushed to purchase a copy at release. IIRC, they named it that because the studio was about to go under, so it was going to be their "final" game before bankruptcy.
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Jerusalem posted:Auron in Final Fantasy X is cool as gently caress and him showing up at the end of the Blitzball tournament marked the start of the game going from a fun diversion to loving awesome for me. The only major issue I have with Final Fantasy X is that they require you to play a Blitzball match, but that's mostly because I'm terrible at it Lamuella posted:I'm currently playing through Final Fantasy V on the PC, which is good and fun but suffers from a severe case of "wait, what was I supposed to be doing?". If it's been more than a week between times I've played it and I'm out on the open world map, I will start the game with no idea where I'm meant to be going and not that much in the way of cues. That's a problem I encounter with basically any RPG Brut posted:Oh I haven't seen anything that cheap, you got a link? I still remember as a kid reading a book about Ben & Jerry and how one of their failed ice cream experiments involved a garlic flavored ice cream and how apparently it somehow ended up with a consistency that allowed it to be bounched like a super ball jesus WEP posted:I loved FF8 as a kid, more than 7 or 9, but i haven’t played it in 20 years so idk maybe it does suck The main issue is that 8 had some major development issues*, the game we got was not the original intention, just what they were able to finish^ *from my recollection Xenogears, Parasite Eve, Vagrant Story, and Chrono Cross had all gotten their starts as potential Final Fantasy 8 candidates and had all ended up being their own things for various reasons during development(kinda like how Devil May Cry originated from an earlier concept for Resident Evil 4) ^which ended up being a common issue with Square games of the period, Xenogears and Chrono Cross are probably the most notable examples of this
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bradzilla posted:Western developers Nintendo and Squaresoft I think they're saying those are the only good JRPGs, and uh...it's probably correct.
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Brut posted:I think they're saying those are the only JRPGs worth playing, and uh...it's probably correct. Glad someone understands, the truth
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Lamuella posted:Home made ice cream has ruined store bought ice cream for me. If you get it right it's so good! Yeah, I've been having a lot of fun with it lately. Recent flavours include eggnog, Ovaltine, stout, and salted caramel. Making meringues and macarons to use up all the egg whites left over from this NYT recipe. Brut posted:Can I do that without buying a bunch of specialized equipment? I also have a fairly cheap old ice cream maker which works fine, though if I keep doing this a couple times a month maybe I'm due for an upgrade. I'd also recommend using an instant read thermometer as visual inspection of custard can lead to scrambled eggs.
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We can all agree that the best RPG is Fallout 2 and the best action RPG is Fallout New Vegas
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the playstation final fantasy games were my favorite because i was 11 to 14 years old when playing them. if you don't unlock and use all the stat junctioning, ff8 doesn't feel like it has gameplay progression, because the stat increases of leveling are very small and the main bonus of being a higher level is receiving better items when you win fights, which are best used turning directly into stat junctioning spells. but if if you do all that then the game is mindlessly easy in a way that doesn't feel as satisfying as pumping iron and becoming very strong in the other games. at least to me. thanks a lot for being here, but no thanks at all for ignoring my message asking if anyone was here.
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Kvantum posted:IIRC, they named it that because the studio was about to go under, so it was going to be their "final" game before bankruptcy.
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if you want to be generous, sakaguchi probably would have quit making games and done some other job if ff1 was an embarrassment in sales, probably out of annoyance more than anything financial. you should always be generous. another generous thing would be to say that he contributed a lot to pretty much any games at that company after the super nintendo
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Play xenoblade, friends
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I didn't play much of Xenoblade but the environments were impressive to look at for the Nintendo Wii. I played the whole game called Xenoblade 2 however, and it's about large cartoon breasts and really nothing else. i wish i didn't buy it. I wonder if it's the most embarrassing rpg to be seen playing, and I'm not sure, because i know there's an rpg game called 'Conception 2' about having children for the Nintendo 3DS. But i don't know anything else about it, because there were too many good games for that system and I filled up all my storage with them
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The World Ends With You is a fantastic RPG
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another thing I know about RPGs is that if you like the ones where you don't remember what to do after not playing it for a couple days then you should play the breath of fire and breath of Fire 2 games available on Nintendo Switch Online. i forgot where to go.
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Dangerous Person posted:The World Ends With You is a fantastic RPG It's on my list for my 3DS
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Junpei Hyde posted:Play xenoblade, friends the first Xenoblade game rules. Everyone should play this. Its got that kind of positional combat that FF12 has along with deep customization and a hearty dose of exploration. X is supposed to be good but it released on the Virtual Boy of modern consoles. I want it to re-release because there are not enough giant robot games. 2 I haven't played 2 Torna I have and I'm not super impressed by because the combat system isn't as good as the first game. There doesn't seem to be any storyline relation either. If you're looking for games of the same ilk by the same guy, Tetsuya Takahashi, I really recommend Xenogears(probably have to emulate this) or the Xenosaga(re-released on the DS). Both are fantastic RPGs. I found an english translation for Super Robot Wars J, which Super Robot Wars OG: The Moon Dwellers pulls its plot from. This fan translation is way way better than Moon Dwellers. Plus since I'm emulating, I can cheat like a motherfucker. Also bagged the first 2 Persona games(psp versions) to emulate. I'm looking at the feasibility for emulating PS2 but based on the PSX emulation performance, that may be a bridge too far on my totally not spec'd for heavy computing macbook. emulating GBA and PSP seems to be ok tho.
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hows everyones isolation beards coming along also the only Robot Wars worth a drat are the ones that involve Razer
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I also really wish The Last Story would get ported to Switch. I never beat it but I don't feel like hooking my Wii or Wii U back up
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Lid posted:hows everyones isolation beards coming along I keep thinking about how it'd be cool if we took those old dirt racetracks and converted them into robot battledromes. Sir Killalot the size of a schoolbus would fuckin rule.
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coconono posted:I keep thinking about how it'd be cool if we took those old dirt racetracks and converted them into robot battledromes. Sir Killalot the size of a schoolbus would fuckin rule. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGymR2TLu_c
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I'm having trouble keeping track of time lately. I can't internally tell the difference between day to day. I've been working overtime on the weekends to handle all the SNAP apps that have been coming in for Louisiana. It's probably gonna keep getting worse for months before it gets better. Still at least I have a job - just rough on the psyche.
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I superballed off Last Story after the first boss.
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Lid posted:hows everyones isolation beards coming along I don't shave between October 1 and April 1 every year so pretty much the same as usual so far. Debating whether I should trim tomorrow as the temperature has plunged again. In other news, my idiot government is spending 8 billion to subsidize a private oil pipeline which no one else thought was a good investment while making massive cuts to public services, including health care, during a pandemic. I hate these people so much. They're announcing more cuts today and I'm concerned one of them might be my job.
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I had a haircut scheduled for over a month ago that had to be cancelled and I don't trust anyone but my barber to handle my hair so I'm looking like a male mid-late 2000s SNL cast member rn and it sucks.
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bradzilla posted:Actually, it's very good and this is a very bad opinion It pains me because I genuinely hate the way GAMING DISCOURSE does the "everything is either great or it's terrible and there's no inbetween" thing, I love playing things and finding and writing about their underappreciated features, I love games that are in some way interesting failures, but man, I really didn't like FFVIII. I don't think anyone is wrong for loving it or anything else period, Daggerfall is my favorite game and it is CLEARLY trash, but this was not my trash. They put an insanely grindy draw/junction system into the same game they instituted basic level scaling into so their anti-grinding method is self-defeating and that plus the removal of equipment means their character mechanics are so shallow that aside from limit breaks every character is functionally identical, the dungeons in the main quest are all incredibly repetitive and in like four or five cases are repeated identical screens that you often have to repeatedly backtrack through (the loving prison, dude), the plot is inconsistent bullshit even by Final Fantasy standards that hinges on what might actually be the worst plot twist in RPG history, giant main points like NORG get no explanation unless you search out sidequests and even then it's barely anything, the party members outside of said protagonists contribute almost nothing to the plot of the game and are insanely unlikable, the romance between the protagonists felt incredibly forced, aside from Liberi Fatali being one of the best FF songs ever the soundtrack is nothing, everything with Laguna is stupid, the towns are annoying to get around, Ultimecia spells things with the letter K for no reason for like 30 seconds and then forgets it entirely, the final dungeon is inexcusable Like I play a lot of games and write a lot of bullshit about games and I have never been the "let me rant about how much ____ game sucks" kind of person but FFVIII did something to me, man CarlCX fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Mar 31, 2020 |
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I think now is a good time to replay Alien: Isolation. Seems appropriate, no?
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