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sebmojo posted:Nnk2 is a vast improvement on the first one imo, just better in every way. Anonymous Robot posted:Final Fantasy 8 John Lee posted:cloud's 
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cloud and squall grew up in the same orphanage. it's like you don't even pay attention to final fantasy canon?
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May 4, 2020 19:34
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If Cloud and Squall ever meet, they both just look at each other and think "man, what a loser."
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May 4, 2020 19:40
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Why do games hate the moon so much.
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May 4, 2020 19:44
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Cardiovorax posted:If Cloud and Squall ever meet, they both just look at each other and think "man, what a loser." Pretty much! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqSwGM1qvnA&t=106s
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May 4, 2020 19:48
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Samuringa posted:Why do games hate the moon so much. Moon's haunted.
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May 4, 2020 19:57
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Cloud and Squall trying to to out-Cool Aloofness each other like that is exactly how I would have imagined it.
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May 4, 2020 20:01
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Very excited to check this out. Loved the promise of the game but the mechanics are already obscure and labyrinthine enough without a bad translation further dimming my understanding of them. Will likely start a fresh save and see what the experience plays like now.
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May 4, 2020 20:11
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Sherlock Holmes Crimes and Punishment: I solved a case and....0% of players came to the same conclusion. Feels bad, man 
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May 4, 2020 20:13
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Samuringa posted:Why do games hate the moon so much. FF8 has a love song about the moon
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May 4, 2020 20:16
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baka kaba posted:FF8 has a love song about the moon IIRC, FF8's moon entirely consists of monsters, with its own moon being an evil-future-Sorceress kontainment facility.
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May 4, 2020 20:21
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I think they reused that idea for Bravely Default, too. Then again, in Bravely Default, the moon is also where all the French people live, it's just generally weird like that.
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May 4, 2020 20:23
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Samuringa posted:Fanatical Very Positive Bundle
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May 4, 2020 20:32
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Cosmic Star Heroine is an RPG with some interesting gameplay twists. The writing isn't great but it's not terrible either. If you're jonesing for a sci-fi JRPG that isn't Star Ocean you could do a lot worse. Tesla vs. Lovecraft is another top-down arena shooter from 10tons. I enjoyed it but I still think Neon Chrome and Jydge are their best work.
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May 4, 2020 20:40
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Edmond Dantes posted:The moon, to their surprise, turned out to be a prison containing Bahamut who they were using as a battery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39j5v8jlndM Link to the cutscene showing the event for those curious. Song is by Nobuo Uematsu. I believe this actually played for everyone when they pulled the plug on 1.0, which is pretty cool. edit: I bounced off of FF14 years ago HARD. I tried it years later and I ended up liking it. I do agree with the poster that said the 'tutorial stuff' goes on way too long. Also, some jobs change drastically and become super involved later on which can be good or bad depending on whether the gameplay clicks with you or not. It starts off braindead MMO easy and introduces abilities far too slowly, but ends up with really fun and involved jobs. The endgame is just normal MMO treadmill stuff which I tire of fast, but I know I'll come back to it for more story eventually. Damn Dirty Ape fucked around with this message at 20:57 on May 4, 2020 |
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May 4, 2020 20:53
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Samuringa posted:Why do games hate the moon so much. Sun god been running a smear campaign against the moon man for a long time
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May 4, 2020 21:02
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Oh wow - Digimon Cyber Sleuth has a mission where you go fight three scammers. Brothers 1 and 2 are boring, but the third - they open by explaining that they're not a boy OR a girl, and they're mad at the internet for forcing them to pick one of the other. So they do scams against the internet's megacorp, swap accounts for different genders, etc. When you beat them they're furious, but you reassure them that they're the strongest of their siblings, they're a good sibling, and they deserve better. They promise to stop making trouble and walk away in a good mood. It's - wow. I never expected to run across nonbinary rep in a jrpg, not in a million years. It's small, but so boldly stated! And no trick with "I'm actually a digimon".
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May 4, 2020 21:10
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I just started Hacker's Memory. Digimon are still loving adorable
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May 4, 2020 21:12
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Samuringa posted:The Yakuza release schedule on PC is going to be so much weirder than the Ps4 at this point I'm starting to think 3-5 aren't happening on PC. Or at least I think I'll stop waiting for it soon and just play them on PS4.
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May 4, 2020 21:49
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Sinteres posted:I'm starting to think 3-5 aren't happening on PC. Or at least I think I'll stop waiting for it soon and just play them on PS4. When's the remastered version of those come out on PS4? I'd anticipate PC 6 months after that, give or take.
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May 4, 2020 22:02
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Memnaelar posted:When's the remastered version of those come out on PS4? I'd anticipate PC 6 months after that, give or take.
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May 4, 2020 22:06
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Cardiovorax posted:Already did summer last year, if I'm reading this right: https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0177-CUSA15325_00-YAKUZAREMASTERED Looks like 5 didn't hit til February, so I have until August to be vindicated. Heck, I give myself September because I deserve it + Covid. 
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May 4, 2020 22:10
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ymgve posted:Seems like they asked about FFVIII, not FFVII  Welp, then pay no attention to my stupid rear end.
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May 4, 2020 22:58
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Givin posted:Only thing I remember about FF8 Remaster is they put panties on Siren or something. I never got into 8 because of the draw mechanic. The Junction system was really cool though because if you knew what you were doing you could break the game faster and harder than ever before.
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Ghostlight posted:Draw was really bad because it convinced a whole bunch of people that the best way to get magic was sit in combat using the same move over and over against monsters when it was actually the worst way possible. diabolos enc none and triple triad all day erryday and then refining and juncioning the results ff8 is so good
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May 4, 2020 23:39
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drat Dirty Ape posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39j5v8jlndM That video is a pretty much 100% accurate representation of how the game is played. Bunch of rando dudes go up against a big bad. Big bad shits fire and death all over the field to where one pixel is safe to stand in and everything looks impossible and bleak and all of a sudden one all star out of the group does something amazing and drags the entire raid across the finish line. Then the poo poo tank who died and has to be ressed 5 times gets all the coms and everyone leaves. GOTY forever and despite all it's flaws, it is my favorite MMORPG. It's not for everyone and I respect that for sure. I'm running through Zodiac Age right now but I think I'll pick up 8 again and give it a fair shot. Thought about doing it with the 13 trilogy but I just can't hang with the combat for whatever reason despite loving the slow plod of 12s and how different it is from the classics. The paradigm shift stuff confused the hell out of me and I just don't like any of the characters there. Givin fucked around with this message at 23:46 on May 4, 2020 |
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May 4, 2020 23:42
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FF8 is a grade-A example of how to not do level scaling. The sheer distance people went to avoid leveling up in that game is mind-boggling, doubly so because by and large, the game rewarded doing so by making you proportionally that much more powerful.
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Ghostlight posted:Draw was really bad because it convinced a whole bunch of people that the best way to get magic was sit in combat using the same move over and over against monsters when it was actually the worst way possible. honestly if that wasn't what you were meant to do, they shouldn't have made it viable.I dunno about "best way", but if you ran into a monster with magic you needed (especially some sick new stuff) that literally boosts your stats the more you have, why wouldn't you farm it? I mean besides it being not fun, but we all know the grind
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That's his point, that there are more efficient means of getting that magic but by putting draw right on the battle menu it made everyone think that's what you're supposed to do. The actual problem is one layer deeper though, they shouldn't have made bigger stacks of spells give more stats in the first place.
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In the bigger scheme of things drawing repeatedly wasnt even a super burdensome grind. Like in under five minutes you'd be at 100 stacks of whatever most of the time. (That raises even more questions about the design ofc.)
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StrixNebulosa posted:
it did, by the way.
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baka kaba posted:honestly if that wasn't what you were meant to do, they shouldn't have made it viable.I dunno about "best way", but if you ran into a monster with magic you needed (especially some sick new stuff) that literally boosts your stats the more you have, why wouldn't you farm it? I mean besides it being not fun, but we all know the grind Why wouldn't you farm it? Exactly. The main reason is because it's really boring and grinds (lol) the game's pace to a crawl every time you find a new magic in the wild, and the reason for that is because the game actually wants the main method for magic gain to be mastering the Refine system to churn through all the items you get from other more satisfying activities like playing cards or checking on your chocobo tamagotchi.
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Samuringa posted:Why do games hate the moon so much. 
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Ghostlight posted:
The problem is the game jams farming it in your face and does a poo poo job of showing how useful the refine system is, so without a guide you’re going to mostly think you’ve just gotta farm.
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May 5, 2020 01:02
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Final Fantasy 8 rewards exploration and experimentation in a way that very few big name games do, but it does so by hiding a lot of the backstory and mechanics. It would be much better received if it were much more straightforward.
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Gomi Day posted:it did, by the way. yessss  The best things I've played this sale have to be Ace Combat 7, Digimon Cyber Sleuth, and Umineko. There are other good things (katamari!) but those three have been perfect for me in very different ways and I highly highly recommend y'all look at them. This is unfair to Unheard, Lobotomy Corporation, and a few other things but sadly I haven't broken the habit of picking up things I won't play immediately. I've gotten better, but I'm not there yet...
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Zereth posted:Having played 2 but not 1... A vast improvement to reach the lofty heights of "Okay I guess"? Wow, 1 must have been awful. It was. The art was beautiful, but the combat was ploddy and the dialogue and plot were like six year old child level.
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May 5, 2020 01:44
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Finally reached the part where Hacker's Memory reintroduces Jimiken 
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May 5, 2020 02:40
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thanks to the goons who convinced me to jump into EDF 5 last night. Just played a few missions in it and it looks so much more like a 2012 game than a 2005 game like 4.1 A UI skin and modern textures really do make a lot of difference
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Disinterested with the recent crop of MP shooters, I reinstalled Battlefield 4 the other day and it's still fun and populated, ended up playing a bunch of Hardcore and regular Rush last night and today. BC2 and BF3 were perfect and BF4 was pretty rough at first but I think ultimately it ended up being the last really stellar game in the series before it really went whole-hog on all the COD live service user exploitation and cornball "gun painted gold" poo poo in BF1 and BF5. The only real attempts to recapture that era of gameplay which I've seen pop up are WW3 (dead playerbase, game has apparently been sold to the Russian MMO company Mail.RU/My.Games which is a Korean-MMO tier company so RIP!) by Farm51, and '83 by the Rising Storm 2 devs (which admittedly will likely be more on the Red Orchestra/BF Hardcore mode side of things), so it's good to know you can at least go play the original instead. e: I wasn't totally destroyed by an army of terminators instantly headshotting everything that moves with FLIR-scoped sniper rifles so either some of my skills remain after like 3 years of not playing it or it's still got a reasonable spread of players. C.M. Kruger fucked around with this message at 03:02 on May 5, 2020 |
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