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If Breath of Fire was a dating sim it would be called Dragon Courter. Well, seeya.
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Mar 19, 2021 00:05
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Dragon Quarter is a fascinating game I did not really enjoy and I never, ever want to play again. So a SaGa, basically.
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Mar 19, 2021 01:38
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Blockhouse posted:Dragon Quarter is a fascinating game I did not really enjoy and I never, ever want to play again. So a SaGa, basically. Same, except it completely hooked a roommate of mine who obssessively ground out the highest D Counter to get all the cutscenes so I got to see everything. Same way I watched Persona 3.
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Mar 19, 2021 01:41
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My only issue with Dragon Quarter was that your sprint button consumed D-meter which was just annoying.
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Mar 19, 2021 03:54
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One thing I liked about BoF as a whole is that even if the middle of each game could be tedious in various ways (except 1 which is just a real brisk game outside that one lovely time tower) the final parts of each story tended to finish fairly strongly. Also Dragon Quarter rules and I love the compact story of just loving up everyone to save one single person.
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Mar 19, 2021 03:57
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Infinity Gaia posted:My only issue with Dragon Quarter was that your sprint button consumed D-meter which was just annoying. Note that the other game to aggressively gently caress you up for daring to sprint was called Dragon Song. Coincidence? i think so!
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Mar 19, 2021 03:58
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Barudak posted:Note that the other game to aggressively gently caress you up for daring to sprint was called Dragon Song. Coincidence? i think so! I watched a speedrun of Lunar DS and it just looked absolutely dire
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Mar 19, 2021 04:03
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dragon song owns entirely for the final boss' second form being you throwing the sword of your dead party member at him, and then him pulling it out and using it to hit you with a party-wide attack there's no way they didn't know how loving funny that was
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Mar 19, 2021 04:04
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Harrow posted:Dragon Quarter's save system is something I can absolutely understand someone hating. I managed to handle it well enough but I could see someone getting frustrated with it and the whole "SOS Restart" system as well. In retrospect DQ's save systems sucked rear end, but at the time I thought they were cool because I figured out where to abuse the system for massive party XP Agreed on D-Dive though, doing potentially thousands of damage when enemies had a few dozen health tickled a lot of happy spots in my brain I still remember the game-over cutscene for blowing out the d counter, too (e) Infinity Gaia posted:My only issue with Dragon Quarter was that your sprint button consumed D-meter which was just annoying. A modern take on some of the ideas DQ had would be real interesting to see Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Mar 19, 2021 |
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Mar 19, 2021 04:27
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Barudak posted:Note that the other game to aggressively gently caress you up for daring to sprint was called Dragon Song. Coincidence? i think so! I think Lunar Dragon Song was the one of the first games I remember playing as a kid and thinking "this is horrible".
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Mar 19, 2021 05:01
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one of these days i will actually finish dragon quarter. I was really impressed by how distinct its gameplay and aesthetics were. an extremely cool vibe
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Mar 19, 2021 05:03
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the sprint wasn't so much about speed as it was a tool to skip fights. using it that way barely tickled the d gauge.
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Mar 19, 2021 05:22
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Acerbatus posted:I think Lunar Dragon Song was the one of the first games I remember playing as a kid and thinking "this is horrible". I played it because I loved Lunar 1 and 2 and boy howdy was that a mistake. I cant name a single design decision where they deviated from how other JRPGs do things that wasn't strictly worse.
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Mar 19, 2021 05:37
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running tactics ogre at 300% speed I am a god and I cannot be stopped
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Mar 19, 2021 06:54
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Cephas posted:one of these days i will actually finish dragon quarter. I was really impressed by how distinct its gameplay and aesthetics were. an extremely cool vibe I think one of the most important things to keep in mind while playing Dragon Quarter is that the game will never heal you automatically, ever, and there are no inns or tents or anything, so it's impossible to waste healing items as long as you're not overhealing. It also takes no turns to heal. So your item stockpile is literally equivalent to your HP. Heal up after every enemy action, why not?
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Mar 19, 2021 06:59
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Has anyone played the Nocturne Remaster yet? It's coming out in English on May 25th and was wondering how it was compared to the original.
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Mar 19, 2021 09:22
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i've heard that it sucks. not sure in what way but people arent very impressed.
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Mar 19, 2021 12:41
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iirc lots of slowdown during particle effects and they didnt bother touching the compressed to hell audio like the battle themes
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Mar 19, 2021 12:50
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Got that rpg itch on the switch, dragons dogma or kingdoms of amalur?
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Mar 19, 2021 13:24
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Still slowly playing my way through FFT:WotL, just got through the Orbonne Monastery gauntlet, and man, I don't know if any JRPG protagonist has hosed up this badly since maybe Tales of the Abyss? Ramza is in possession of multiple world-ending mcguffin gems, takes them with him to a place where he knows the bad guys are in force, and gets worried about what'll happen to his gems if he gets a Game Over, so he gives them to his level-4 sister whose only in-engine combat experience has been getting killed by an Inquisitor and tells her to hide, then I do three really hard fights and my only reward is that, surprise surprise, they kidnapped Alma and took the gems. Way to go, Ramza! loquacius fucked around with this message at 13:43 on Mar 19, 2021 |
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Mar 19, 2021 13:34
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Shadski posted:Got that rpg itch on the switch, dragons dogma or kingdoms of amalur? Dragon's Dogma is absolutely the better of the two there.
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Mar 19, 2021 13:39
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Kild posted:Has anyone played the Nocturne Remaster yet? It's coming out in English on May 25th and was wondering how it was compared to the original. I haven’t played the original but I have the remaster on Switch and as a straight port, it feels fine to me, but apparently it feels weird if you have strong memories of the original.
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Mar 19, 2021 13:41
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Shadski posted:Got that rpg itch on the switch, dragons dogma or kingdoms of amalur? DD, Amalur is the most boring generic game imaginable
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Mar 19, 2021 14:19
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Dragon's Dogma absolutely rocks
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Mar 19, 2021 14:25
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Sakurazuka posted:Amalur is the most boring generic game imaginable
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Mar 19, 2021 14:26
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Is Kingdom of Amalur the game that was funded by the taxpayers of Rhode Island?
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Mar 19, 2021 14:33
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Can you soil your socks in this Amalur game? Can you convince the dwarf clan into making a hair-brained financial investment?
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Mar 19, 2021 14:34
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Electric Phantasm posted:Is Kingdom of Amalur the game that was funded by the taxpayers of Rhode Island? Not really, it was a separate game that was bought and reskinned into a tie in to the Rhode island funded MMO because that was taking too long to make.
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Mar 19, 2021 14:37
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I hope Curt Schilling doesn't see one dime from the remaster
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Mar 19, 2021 14:46
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Kild posted:Has anyone played the Nocturne Remaster yet? It's coming out in English on May 25th and was wondering how it was compared to the original. I haven't personally played it, but from what I've seen/heard of it, it launched with some pretty bad performance issues, which they improved but did not entirely make better than the PS2 version. They didn't unfuck the audio compression, and as far as I know, they didn't fix an issue where the incoming encounter tracker goes to red much later. The big thing going for it over the PS2 is that it includes Raidou, who never came out outside of Japan, as well as featuringdantefromdevilmaycry, and added selectable skill inheritance.
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Mar 19, 2021 15:56
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amalur is a game a ton of talented people worked on who wanted to do weird and interesting stuff with it and then every time they came up with an interesting idea curt schilling would walk in and say "whats this. this isnt orcs. i want orcs. give me the orcs. where are the elves" dragon's dogma is an action rpg where you can make your love interest a weird short fat jester with a moustache
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Mar 19, 2021 16:05
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The Colonel posted:amalur is a game a ton of talented people worked on who wanted to do weird and interesting stuff with it and then every time they came up with an interesting idea curt schilling would walk in and say "whats this. this isnt orcs. i want orcs. give me the orcs. where are the elves" Yeah, I didn't get very far in Amalur, but what I did felt largely like a bunch of potentially neat ideas ground into bland paste.
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Mar 19, 2021 16:07
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I hope Curt Schilling doesn't see one dime from the remaster He doesn't. But the 8chan lovers at THQ Nordic do.
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Mar 19, 2021 16:11
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It was mostly the presentation for me, when every single conversation is an MMO checklist of things to say time to start mashing skip.
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Mar 19, 2021 16:12
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There's no good reason to play Amalur. It was fine but it does nothing special and nothing that hasn't been done better elsewhere. Hell at it's original release it did nothing that hadn't already been done better. Dragons Dogma is a weird insane gem of a game that I fully believe everyone should play. There's nothing else like it and if it clicks it's still kind of mindblowing.
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Mar 19, 2021 17:30
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loquacius posted:Still slowly playing my way through FFT:WotL, just got through the Orbonne Monastery gauntlet, and man, I don't know if any JRPG protagonist has hosed up this badly since maybe Tales of the Abyss? Doesn't the main character from Star Ocean 4 blow up alternate dimension earth? That seems like a pretty big fuckup to me.
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Mar 19, 2021 17:43
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Arzaac posted:Doesn't the main character from Star Ocean 4 blow up alternate dimension earth? That seems like a pretty big fuckup to me. That hinges on the chance somebody would want to play Star Ocean 4.
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Mar 19, 2021 17:46
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Arzaac posted:Doesn't the main character from Star Ocean 4 blow up alternate dimension earth? That seems like a pretty big fuckup to me. Yes and the "best" part about that is that when he's rightfully sad about it, the rest of the party treats it like no big deal and gives him crap for it.
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Mar 19, 2021 17:48
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Look, once you know that alternate universes exist you’ve got to blow them up or risk having them blow you up. That is just anime quantum mechanics.
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Mar 19, 2021 17:50
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Star Ocean 4 is the best Star Ocean. This is partly due to how incessantly stupid it is.
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