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Still sad that my favorite thors buddy, Klein, apparently shows up in neither CS3 or 4. And yeah, all the trails first games feel similar cuz that's kinda the point.
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Last Celebration posted:Is Hugo really that bad for Nightmare? I’ve only beaten it in Hard mode and I remember Hugo’s story being a cathartic curbstomp because his thing is free midrange combat in a series where that’s usually something on a cool down. his damage is loving abysmal and having to mash constantly is actively hurting my hands, he also can't actually outmaneuver some bosses which turns his combat style into more of a liability than anything else
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Started Ys VII, and drat it is a lot of fun to dart around the island at lightspeed tearing through mobs. Does anyone know how the dev of Ys v LoH works? Like are they two totally different teams working concurrently or are a lot of people working between?
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Sep 27, 2020 09:44
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I've never heard anything related to that but from a look on Wikipedia, Falcom only has about 60 employees. Even if all of those were developers I can't imagine it'd be enough to have concurrent development outside of a small, core team doing pre-production on a future game while their next game is in active development.
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Sep 27, 2020 09:57
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their release cadence seems way too fast to have only one game in full production at a time
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Sep 27, 2020 15:12
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Yeah I'm pretty sure that Tokyo Xanadu was done by a smaller team while everyone else was working on uhh..CS3 and Ys 8 I guess?
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MythosDragon posted:I liked everyone from the start and it's mostly just a question of how much cooler they got. Gaius wins that completion in every game. Going to Nord and roughing it nomad style is the peak of CS1, His stakes in the war of CS2 were highest by far since his entire way of life and homeland would have been destroyed, and now he's part of the best faction as their most interesting character. Emma's probably my least favorite since, well someone else said it, Celine is cooler at every level. In a weird way, this warms my heart, even though I disagree with basically every part of it. I really like Gaius, and would be very down for giving him more screen time, but I also think everything they have done with him is boring or frustratingly undeveloped. I would have been pretty OK if he were forced for most of CS2, though. The game could have used a consistent person Rean could interact with (and subsequently have less generic dialogue), and having level-headed Gaius around to anchor him would have been the best available choice, IMO. So if I'm not being clear: my complaint on Gaius is I wish he got more spotlight. I also figure Gaius is the PC most likely to appear in future series after Cold Steel and Hajimari, and honestly, I'm pretty OK with that, too. (Maybe some of the temps are more likely, but Gaius is pretty up there)
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Veryslightlymad posted:In a weird way, this warms my heart, even though I disagree with basically every part of it. I really like Gaius, and would be very down for giving him more screen time, but I also think everything they have done with him is boring or frustratingly undeveloped. I would have been pretty OK if he were forced for most of CS2, though. The game could have used a consistent person Rean could interact with (and subsequently have less generic dialogue), and having level-headed Gaius around to anchor him would have been the best available choice, IMO. I'm basically with you here, but I'm going to add a very slight bit of nuance to it. I wish Gaius got more spotlight, and I wish that (CS3 spoilers)they gave him something uniquely Nord to make him interesting, instead of doing the Gralsritter twist for the fourth time That's just me, and I'm interested to see what they do with the man in CS4, but there you have it.
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Veryslightlymad posted:I also figure Gaius is the PC most likely to appear in future series after Cold Steel and Hajimari, and honestly, I'm pretty OK with that, too. (Maybe some of the temps are more likely, but Gaius is pretty up there) Part of me always hoped this was the point of Elliot. Just him showing up as a traveling musician to get wrapped up in an adventure as the character who has some understanding of the mystery going on in the background.
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Ethiser posted:Part of me always hoped this was the point of Elliot. Just him showing up as a traveling musician to get wrapped up in an adventure as the character who has some understanding of the mystery going on in the background. Honestly that would also be pretty good. I was really disappointed he wasn't straight up stealing Olivier's schtick, just maybe with Elliot's personality.
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The combat in this game is kind of weird in that it has all these mechanics and systems, but in practice fights are either trivially easy or will ruin you if the enemy gets in any attacks. All the harder boss fights are sort of a gamble where I desperately try to break them before getting owned (and, at least on Hard, they can nearly kill people with single hits, plus affecting them with status ailments) and then spam S-Crafts. I think playing defensively is probably also viable (the ones that reduce damage by 50-90% make boss damage manageable), but the fights would probably last an extremely long time that way. I remember in the late game things becoming a little different, where I'd have one character devoted to healing and one spamming powerful magic. King of Solomon posted:The game actually does that for you. When characters leave the party you get everything they had that's removable. Yep, I just noticed that after finishing Chapter 1.
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CS III had a few tough early boss fights. The one where you're ambushed by three big spiders in the forest, and the Einhel Keep one when it's Rean, Millium, and Altina together. I think the main strategy on the latter fight was to use the big damage reducing brave order (I forget who's it was) and then when the boss gets staggered you pour on the damage brave order + S crafts, that fight took me quite a few tries. The rest of the bosses weren't too bad, the one at the end of chapter 4 was a tough one. What is really nice about these games is that you can retry every boss fight immediately as many times as you need to without having to load back to a save point.
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infraboy posted:CS III had a few tough early boss fights. The one where you're ambushed by three big spiders in the forest, and the Einhel Keep one when it's Rean, Millium, and Altina together. I think the main strategy on the latter fight was to use the big damage reducing brave order (I forget who's it was) and then when the boss gets staggered you pour on the damage brave order + S crafts, that fight took me quite a few tries. The rest of the bosses weren't too bad, the one at the end of chapter 4 was a tough one. Another nasty one was the little spore thing that healed itself an enormous amount like, every other turn. It didn't take me multiple tries, but the one try it did take took forever.
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"A sheep monster that strayed from the flock. Exposed to an uncaring world, it returned home cynical and disenchanted." edit: "Tio Tot" is a dumb localization of Tiosuke Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 06:28 on Oct 1, 2020 |
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Oct 1, 2020 05:22
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Tio Tot is probably the best of Randy's localised nicknames, sadly.
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apparently it was "Petiote" in the old Zero fan patch; at least Tio Tot is something a human being might feasibly come up with and say should probably just be T or something though
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All I could come up with is Platio.
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There was lil' T, but Dorothy already trademarked that one.
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Ytlaya posted:edit: "Tio Tot" is a dumb localization of Tiosuke Wait, that's what it was in the Japanese version? Huh. Would have pegged it as "Tio-chan".
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Junpei posted:Wait, that's what it was in the Japanese version? Huh. Would have pegged it as "Tio-chan". Entirely too generically cute for Randy.
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Supremezero posted:Entirely too generically cute for Randy. Randy canonically goes around adding silly things to the ends of women's names. "Sup Sonya-Thulu!"
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Randy in his Japanese VA is pretty funny his Japanese is always super slangy and he doesnt really speak formally ever i’ve noticed, I think he just calls her “Tio-Ta” Juna calls Altina “Alru” Oh and the Hajimari no Kiseki translation spreadsheet is done as of yesterday, pretty amazing work. https://zerofield.net/ The scenes with their new engine are pretty cool, super smooth animations and it maintains their art style, actually overall even the stuff using old engine seem a lot smoother and cleaner.
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Lets hope the new engine doesn't chug on current hardware despite looking like a fancy PS2 game anymore
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Still wanna know what PS2 games people were playing to think they looked that good.
MythosDragon fucked around with this message at 06:24 on Oct 2, 2020 |
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Oct 2, 2020 06:20
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usually it's a ridiculous exaggeration but i kinda get why people say that for falcom games specifically, their environment design still has that low-poly feel even if the textures and lighting are modernized.
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Falcom is really good at designing towns, though.
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So I'm halfway Origin on the switch, most of the way through Hugo's run, and have also finished 1, 2, and 8. What Ys would y'all recommend next?
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Sir Tonk posted:So I'm halfway Origin on the switch, most of the way through Hugo's run, and have also finished 1, 2, and 8. Oath in Felghana if you want another Adol-solo game or Memories of Celceta if you want another party system game.
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Only 23 days until Cold Steel 4 drops!
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Sir Tonk posted:So I'm halfway Origin on the switch, most of the way through Hugo's run, and have also finished 1, 2, and 8. If you vibed more with 8’s gameplay then 7 and Celceta, if you’re really liking Origin then Ark of Napitsm and Oath in Felghana, maybe skipping Ark since it’s a little rough.
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Last Celebration posted:If you vibed more with 8’s gameplay then 7 and Celceta, if you’re really liking Origin then Ark of Napitsm and Oath in Felghana, maybe skipping Ark since it’s a little rough. This is just me, but I'd avoid 7 and Napishtim until after doing Celceta and Oath, respectively. They're both extremely rough versions of the engine styles they're part of.
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Junpei posted:Only 23 days until Cold Steel 4 drops! Maybe this is why I feel so listless and unable to settle on a game to play
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Wrong thread
Senator Drinksalot fucked around with this message at 07:25 on Oct 5, 2020 |
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Yeah I just played the story in that and enough was enough. Still better than the second one though.
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Sakurazuka posted:Maybe this is why I feel so listless and unable to settle on a game to play I'm more or less in the same place. I want to play something, but I also don't really want to commit to anything, because the only game I actually want to play right now is CS4. I've been enjoying Hades, but I rarely play that game for more than an hour in a given day.
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I've been playing the Yakuza series which has been pretty fun and they're on sale for a few more days on PS store. Having played through the Japanese version of CSIV i'm still pretty excited to get the western release and seeing how close the fan translation was in comparison, I know some of the lines can be a little obscure and can get a little lost in translation. I'm about 2 chapters into Hajimari since the translation sheet went up, it's excellent so far and I really don't want it to end, supposedly is Hajimari is the last time we'll see most of these characters as playables afaik. Excited for whatever Falcom does next though. Typical great soundtrack, the new characters in the "C" route are really good.
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Just finished Chapter 1 of CS2 and man, it's kinda super obnoxious that Rean's big character realisation that leads him to being able to control his berserker mode is him learning a lesson that he's already learned at least 5 times by now. Once literally an hour ago. Like, i'd seen a lot of discussion about how Rean's terrible or whatever and after spending over a game with him that all seems pretty hugely exaggerated but this was still pretty bad.
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Oct 5, 2020 12:22
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otoh new super move
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Yeah, i'm glad his meandering route to realising people care about him just as much as he cares about them resulted in a powerful super move.
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Tbf someone with selfesteem issues having difficulty realizing people care about them is pretty true to life. Like having the same realization six times in a row before it sticks sure describes depression
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