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it's a really satisfying feeling when you take a boss that's been ohkoing you for two hours, and find just the right combination of defensive stats and debuffs to survive it long enough for sanae to buff someone into a 6HKOing it before it self-buffs beyond the point of survivability
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Oct 25, 2021 03:28
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Baffled to see someone say that automatas story was bad..but the gameplay was good...Do you live in opposite land barudak.
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Oct 25, 2021 03:32
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They were both mediocre (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Oct 25, 2021 03:32
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I liked it enough to suffer through the awful gameplay.
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Oct 25, 2021 03:42
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Ibram Gaunt posted:Baffled to see someone say that automatas story was bad..but the gameplay was good...Do you live in opposite land barudak. When your starting point is Drakengard and Nier, it's a massive jump in quality. For what that's worth, anyway, there's better out there. And as is tradition I will say only that and not name any specific examples. RareAcumen fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Oct 25, 2021 |
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i think drakengard 3's combat is fine when it's not stuck at a godawful framerate and og nier's combat is, not great but comparative to some other action rpgs it's honestly ok and mostly suffers from the fact that the game makes you repeat stuff one time too many i don't dislike automata's but it does suffer a lot from a lack of enemy variety and the rpg stuff making stuff get a bit tanky
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I liked the combat in Nier 1. It's simple and button-mashy but never as tedious as Drakengard's combat
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i think people overstate dod1's combat but i can understand why because until you get pact partners and realize how absolutely broken they are it feels a lot more tedious and tanky than it actually is my hot tkae is still that i think dod1's dragon segments are leagues above 2's since in 1 you rarely encounter enemies you can't take down with a single shot, compared to every single enemy in dod2's dragon segments taking at least two full lock on volleys, and i would very willingly replay 1 over 2 any day just because the act of getting through it just on a mechanical level is less bothersome because it gives you many more tools to break it over your knee and it doesnt force you to replay it in its entirety twice with little to no unique content across playthroughs
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Electric Phantasm posted:Did the Nier phone game end up being good? No mycot posted:What nihilistic video games are there other than Drakengard 1 and, uh, LISA Lisa isn't even entirely nihilistic imo. For all the non choices and horrible things you do, you can at least try to have a positive impact on the world around you despite Brad being up there with Zero as a character that has every reason to say "gently caress everyone else". Maybe OFF or original OneShot? Acerbatus fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Oct 25, 2021 |
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Oct 25, 2021 04:23
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Ibram Gaunt posted:Baffled to see someone say that automatas story was bad..but the gameplay was good...Do you live in opposite land barudak. I dont think I called it good, merely that wasn't an impediment to finishing the game and the better of the two. The shoot em up sections were pure filth mind you.
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Electric Phantasm posted:Did the Nier phone game end up being good? I like the stories a lot, the music and the graphics are nice. The gameplay..would be better if you had any loving indication of turn order.
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Barudak posted:I recommend you play Disco Elysium if you haven't then, because you'll do exact opposite of me and get every single achievement on a single playthrough which seems like it'd be a wild and fun playthrough. i played disco a while back, i do not think we are opposites in that respect but i liked it
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Kale posted:Yes I've noticed that people tend to like to think that anytime somebody says critical things about the games writing, as if there's just no way somebody could possibly think those things about it even with the final ending and the credits shooter and the song and all that, but sorry to dispel any illusions, I did not forget and only responded in kind when asked specifically about ending D for whatever reason.
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i dont want to blast too hard on the walls of text because ive got a brain tick that makes me type many many words about jrpgs but yeah at this point i literally cant engage with this many words that arent actually responding to anything also it mightve come off a joke but like. legit man. what are the anime you were referring to that have bleak and ironic endings that are ultra popular these days. i am legitimately curious i've watched a fair amount of more popular modern anime and have no idea what they are if they aren't just notable things that aired in the last decade. i could almost understand madoka because drakengard 3 is deliberately playing off madoka in some respects but madoka was a decade ago
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Oct 25, 2021 05:45
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uhhh I would like to state, for the record just to lighten the mood that two party members in The Caligula Effect 2 have attacks titled, and I quote, "Mega Yeet" and "Get hosed!"
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Oct 25, 2021 05:47
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Also I'm looking at that Monark game that came out in Japan and the combat really reminded me of that Lost Dimension game that I liked but mostly had a lukewarm reception and it turns out that Monark was also developed by some of the same people (not the same people as the obvious Persona guys tho)
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Oct 25, 2021 05:54
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madoka's ending isn't bleak at all
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It's sad that Homura is evidently acarred for life, though not overall bleak.
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Oct 25, 2021 06:24
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Oct 25, 2021 06:25
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oh yeah i agree that madoka's end isn't bleak and is more surreal and subjective. but in this context it's like literally the only thing i can think of that meets kale's vague criteria. i can think of no other modern popular anime that fits what he's said
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I dunno how popular it is but Yuuki Yuuna is a Hero season one ends on an incredibly somber note right before the coda asspulls a happy ending that is wildly thematically inappropriate
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Oct 25, 2021 06:54
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Junpei posted:uhhh Oh cool, it's like how Tales of Graces has Asbel and Hubert using silly nonsense names for their artes before the timeskip. Like Hubert's got No! and Get Back! And Asbel's got Yah! and Tah-haah!
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Oct 25, 2021 07:47
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I really like a lot of Richard’s attacks cause half of them are insults, Unbridled Scorn in particular is a great insult attack name.
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Oct 25, 2021 08:08
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Last Celebration posted:I really like a lot of Richard’s attacks cause half of them are insults, Unbridled Scorn in particular is a great insult attack name. It's on the list to try if they ever rerelease it!
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Last Celebration posted:I really like a lot of Richard’s attacks cause half of them are insults, Unbridled Scorn in particular is a great insult attack name. Velvet in Berseria doesn't have any of the standard protagonist artes, but she does have a couple callback artes. Richard from Graces and Regal from Symphonia. A guy who was chased down and nearly killed by a family member and then got possessed by basically a demon, and a guy who was in jail for years. Just like her! Great little detail.
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Endorph posted:my favorite little detail in the whole franchise is that recurring artes are a common thing in the series, and usually its pretty obvious. protagonists usually have a lot of moves that started with the protag of the first game, there's a lot of recurring spells, etc. I made a joke about it in the Tales thread, but it’s pretty great that her last arte is Defiant Conviction because behind it sounding cool it fits really well with both the names of her earlier artes and where she’s at narratively endgame. Missed out on the Regal thing though, it’s been a while.
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Last Celebration posted:Missed out on the Regal thing though, it’s been a while.
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Oh hey, there's an English version of Monark's starting personality test on the NISA site https://nisamerica.com/monark/ego-analysis And it looks like the whole "seven deadly sins" personality thing determines your battle focus I got Envy and it said this: "Your Envious Ego and covetous ways allow you to control Daemons that can confer status ailments and strike harder against higher-level targets!" I can't seem to get anything else, so feel free to take the test and report what the other 6 got
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Anything I should know re:playing neo-TWEWY? On day four or five now and I've been not-super-going-out-of-my-way but chain stacking five battles and breezing through them whenever I get couple of new pins to level before running off to the next breadcrumb. Which has lead to me having drop rates of like x60 from sitting at level one and having more then enough money to buy out the shops so I am not sure if I am basically super grinding and trivializing the game or if this is just early game is just easy and snooze worthy
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Gamerofthegame posted:Anything I should know re:playing neo-TWEWY? On day four or five now and I've been not-super-going-out-of-my-way but chain stacking five battles and breezing through them whenever I get couple of new pins to level before running off to the next breadcrumb. Early game is pretty easy, enemies can get killed by basically spamming attacks. Things get more difficult later on, sometimes requiring you to time attacks and focus more on dodging enemies rather than getting in their faces.
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Are there any good rpgs that are similar to Riviera the Promised Land? I can think of games that do some of Riviera's mechanics but none that do all of them. Riviera was a mix of the following: - Characters got stronger through repeated use of items/weapon - Characters had their own individual uses for each item/weapon - Items/weapons had a limited number of uses unless you were doing a practice battle which is how you'd power your characters up since several items wouldn't have enough durability for every character to level up from using them - Exploration was menu based, you'd go from screen to screen and have a few places you can interact - Exploration was based on a limited number of exploration points, some spots were free to interact with but many required to spend a point from your pool of exploration points and you could only get more of the points from getting high ranks in battles - Battles were turn based and were also preset encounters - Many interactive points had quick time events to determine if you perform a task successfully or not - The items in your inventory could be affected by things happening in the environment, though I can't remember if this was a common thing in that game since the only example I can think of is if you fall into some water in one of the chapters then all of your book-related items turn into wet destroyed books - The game had 5 party members with 3 slots per battle - Game had a winged black cat who accompanied you and would sass you Obviously there isn't going to be some game that is just an exact copycat of Riviera but I'm hoping to find some Riviera-esque recommendations.
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Junpei posted:Oh hey, there's an English version of Monark's starting personality test on the NISA site quote:Your Desire for Lust surpasses all others.
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I want to play Monark
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2 days until Undernauts comes out in English. If that doesn't happen and I've botched the dates Im gonna finish astria ascending because I've played enough good games Im ready now.
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FirstAidKite posted:Are there any good rpgs that are similar to Riviera the Promised Land? I can think of games that do some of Riviera's mechanics but none that do all of them. This might be a dumb suggestion since they're not mechanically similar, but you might like the other dept heaven games. Yggdra Union is the closest I guess? It's an SRPG but frankly most of the closest things I can think of are SRPGs. The series is generally really experimental and weird which is cool but makes finding things that similar to them. Acerbatus fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Oct 26, 2021 |
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Funny you should mention that...Monark Website posted:Your Ego is governed by... PRIDE
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Monark Website posted:Your Ego is governed by... GLUTTONY well ok 
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A Website posted:Your Ego is governed by... pride Extremely fair, honestly downplays it tbh
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