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jokes posted:His name was always given as Astos but he wasn’t exactly a character. It’s not that people are surprised at the name it’s that they’re surprised they’re making a whole character out of what amounts to.. I want to say two? dialogue boxes. It's not like anyone else in FF1 had more than two dialogue boxes besides, like, Garland, and even then he has like six or so
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jokes posted:His name was always given as Astos but he wasn’t exactly a character. It’s not that people are surprised at the name it’s that they’re surprised they’re making a whole character out of what amounts to.. I want to say two? dialogue boxes. It seems like the perfect place to expand the story then I for one cant wait to have a 40 minute cutscene from the circle of wizards
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Dec 15, 2021 15:23
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I guess im more surprised other people didnt realize how many random one off characters there are to add elaborate backstories and motivations for, other then killing chaos thats what im here for from the start
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Dec 15, 2021 15:24
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I want them to faithfully recreate the Circle of Sages at Crescent Lake. Same character model for each one, just chilling in a massive circle. No one questions why they all have the same name and voice.
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Dec 15, 2021 15:28
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Circle of Sages at Crescent Lake: Sages arranged in a Circle at the Lake that look like a Crescent. I do love that they’re just fleshing out whatever in the hell, and seem to be “in” on the joke. Hopefully it’s all like, pretty expansive too. Not because I’m excited to learn more but because I want to see Jack respond to long-winded exposition by revealing he had his AirPods Pro in the whole time.
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Dec 15, 2021 15:36
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The more they tell me about Chaos Killing Simulator 2022 the more I want to play it
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I can't believe the plot-less, D&D knockoff from 1987 is the bible for this AAA game. That's like making a three-hour war movie based on a game of noughts and crosses. cept ff1 does have a plot, so
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Dec 15, 2021 16:08
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FF1’s plot was actually hilariously convoluted for a 1987 NES RPG.
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jokes posted:Circle of Sages at Crescent Lake: Sages arranged in a Circle at the Lake that look like a Crescent. Hell yeah
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HD DAD posted:FF1’s plot was actually hilariously convoluted for a 1987 NES RPG. Its contemporary with dragonquest 3, right? Isnt that one kinda wonky too?
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mandatory lesbian posted:Its contemporary with dragonquest 3, right? Isnt that one kinda wonky too? It’s probably the first RPG to have the twist that the bad guy you went on a full length adventure to kill was just a henchman, and you go to the world of the first two Dragon Quests to kill the actual bad guy.
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Dec 15, 2021 16:49
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FF1 was a pretty good first attempt at putting DND into a video game. Your characters? Pick the classes, their backstory is all yours. Choose their names too, gently caress it. Why do they have these special crystals? Shut up and go with it.
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jokes posted:FF1 was a pretty good first attempt at putting DND into a video game. Your characters? Pick the classes, their backstory is all yours. Choose their names too, gently caress it. Why do they have these special crystals? Shut up and go with it. Yea gimme another hit of that, square, you cowards
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Dec 15, 2021 19:45
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poo poo, they killed the main antagonist like, 20 minutes into the campaign. Gonna have to come up with some insane time travel plot to make this work now.
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Dec 15, 2021 19:50
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2 is the equivalent of the DM having a proper session zero to make the characters a part of the world but he picked some hosed up off-brand system that requires you to roll on five different charts in order to see if you trip over your own shoelaces whenever you walk. He keeps getting a fourth player to join but when they see what a mess the system is they quickly leave and the DM kills their characters off in increasingly brutal ways out of frustration. Also he introduces his snake girl fetish out of nowhere half way through the campaign and is disappointed when the PCs don't play along
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Dec 15, 2021 19:57
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pretty soft girl posted:poo poo, they killed the main antagonist like, 20 minutes into the campaign. Gonna have to come up with some insane time travel plot to make this work now.
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4 is a fairly competently run campaign but the party lead is a lawful stupid paladin who will still lend way too much trust to the main antagonist, a guy who's stabbed him in the back multiple times, and an annoying sex pest who watches too much anime. The two girls who decided to show up and create insanely broken multiclass builds get condescended to and flirted with endlessly. 5 is a table full of power gamers and the DM just cribs plot points from whatever Hanna Barbara cartoons he was watching while he was baked that morning. It's the best campaign anyone in the group has played in but no one will admit it
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Dec 15, 2021 20:10
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Mystic Quest is the campaign you had to run for your younger sibling, but they get bored easily so you had to keep introducing new NPCs to keep them on track.
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pretty soft girl posted:4 is a fairly competently run campaign but the party lead is a lawful stupid paladin who will still lend way too much trust to the main antagonist, a guy who's stabbed him in the back multiple times, and an annoying sex pest who watches too much anime. The two girls who decided to show up and create insanely broken multiclass builds get condescended to and flirted with endlessly. 4 is definitely the most realistic DND campaign. The lawful good paladin had an edgy backstory and never missed a session, even doing a few solo sessions. Fairly standard tragic magical girl archetype who left early on only to come back to the sessions later as an adult and way more sexualized. Paladin brought his girlfriend at one point and insisted she always come, but she wasn’t too involved in the plot and was okay just shooting arrows and healing. Edgelord who comes in and out betraying the group here and there then insisting on joining for the finale to slay the final boss and beat the final dungeon. When confronted about how he used to claim being mind controlled by the BBEG to betray the party whenever he wanted, he said “oh yeah now I got that all handled don’t worry guys”. Randos who come in and out played by a pretty cool player who knows a lot about how to play, but it didn’t help for what level they’re at— picked wizard to start because they know they’re the strongest but didn’t account for the low level when picking their class so it didn’t really help. They really commit to the characters and RP really well but ultimately gets bored of them fairly quickly and tries to kill them in exciting, heroic ways. Someone’s little brother who heard about the game really late in the game and forced his way into the group, only to be fairly cringey and die a lot. Literally named edge. Throws all the group’s valuable equipment at enemies for bonus damage, is also a prince and can wield two weapons and and and is a NINJA and and he hits on the girls and his nemesis uhhh killed everyone in his castle and and uhhhh jokes fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Dec 15, 2021 |
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Despite playing a variety of memorable and fun characters, catches poo poo for the rest of time from the other players for playing an ineffectual bard and roleplaying him as someone appropriately grieving for his lost family, lover, and kingdom instead of wanting to immediately run to the next quest Had an insanely busted late game build in mind for the bard but got fed up with having plastic spoons thrown at him and bailed on it early to bring back the wizard character pretty soft girl fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Dec 15, 2021 |
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I did finally think of a seventh job for my FF7 classes, everyone's favorite: Berserker. Gonna have to do it a weird way though. You don't get Mystify until a ways into the game and Berserk is only obtainable at level 2. War Gongs aren't available for most of the game and they would affect all party members anyway, so Berserker will just have to be "Attack command only" for most of the game, until they get a leveled Mystify, and then it can turn into "Cast Berserk on self on first available turn" since Berserk has a 100% hit rate on allies. They'll only be able to use Mystify (and only to Berserk themselves right away) but might as well let them have the standard HP Plus, and Counter Attack because why not. And Long Range too, because FFV did have a long range axe.Xad posted:iirc the game does have holy element but the only way to deal it is by summoning Alexander or attaching it to a weapon with Element. Nothing else in the entire game does holy damage, since, y'know Correct. Which is why it's funny that there's armor that halves Holy damage because the only way for a member of your party to be hit with a holy element attack is to get attacked by a confused ally with Alexander + Element on their weapon. Inspector Gesicht posted:I can't believe the plot-less, D&D knockoff from 1987 is the bible for this AAA game. That's like making a three-hour war movie based on a game of noughts and crosses. They made a two hour war movie based on the board game Battleship.
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pretty soft girl posted:2 is the equivalent of the DM having a proper session zero to make the characters a part of the world but he picked some hosed up off-brand system that requires you to roll on five different charts in order to see if you trip over your own shoelaces whenever you walk. He keeps getting a fourth player to join but when they see what a mess the system is they quickly leave and the DM kills their characters off in increasingly brutal ways out of frustration. Also he introduces his snake girl fetish out of nowhere half way through the campaign and is disappointed when the PCs don't play along One of the characters was made early on and was even tied in to the other characters backstories, but poo poo kept happening and he was not able to join up until late into the campaign. The DM had even given up on him actually playing and so had turned the abandoned character into the main villain. But then suddenly heard he was coming back and still wanted to play his character. So the DM quickly brought back the old main villain they already killed to get them on the same side.
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MonsterEnvy posted:One of the characters was made early on and was even tied in to the other characters backstories, but poo poo kept happening and he was not able to join up until late into the campaign. The DM had even given up on him actually playing and so had turned the abandoned character into the main villain. But then suddenly heard he was coming back and still wanted to play his character. So the DM quickly brought back the old main villain they already killed to get them on the same side. *45 minutes of frantic rifling through a 300 page dm guide, a 400 page phb, a 150 page splatbook, and 20 pages of printed errata later* "OK FINE I guess you guys are right, that combination of spells DOES immediately turn any enemy you want into a frog. But come on this is like when you started socking each other in the face to get your HP up for an entire session, it's not in the spirit of the game. Treat me with some respect and I'll treat your characters with respect, ok?" *sends party into the sixth monster trap room that night*
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"After Minh Wu's tragic sacrifice, you have finally acquired the power of Ultima and are prepared to face the unholy emperor for a final showdown" "Badass, where's the stat block for it?" "Page 293, right after 'dual wielding' but before 'badger speak'" *5 minutes of scribbling calculations and looking through a 13 page character sheet later* "according to this I'd do more damage hitting enemies with my staff" "Um... it's an ancient spell and just because something is old doesn't mean it's good. Moving on..."
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Barudak posted:I really want to like Jack's Back: Final Fantasy: Revengeance but the game has an atrocious amount of loot and I can't imagine playing through it I played hours of the two demos and literally ignored dealing with gear except to just hit auto-equip on everyone unless I liked the look of the item, like the fuckin fedora they give you for completing the second demo's challenge boss lol
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https://twitter.com/vgcartography/status/1471298461714763777?s=20
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Giving me strong strategy guide vibes.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I played hours of the two demos and literally ignored dealing with gear except to just hit auto-equip on everyone unless I liked the look of the item, like the fuckin fedora they give you for completing the second demo's challenge boss lol Even that just saps my will. Im not good with loot piles
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I hope they make Matoya a total babe.
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As a heads-up from the MMO side of things, all FF14 sales (physical and digital), free trials and ads are being temporarily suspended because there's just too many people playing the dang game. Two weeks of free game time to active subscriptions. Endwalker's also the highest-rated game of 2021 on opencritic by the sound of it. They finally did it, they made Final Fantasy too good, and now they must pay the price.
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Isnt FFVIIr supposed to be out on PC today
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Schwartzcough posted:I hope they make Matoya a total babe.
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:Isnt FFVIIr supposed to be out on PC today its out and I just dropped 70 bones in a store I'll never use again! hope it lives up to the hype
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MMF Freeway posted:its out and I just dropped 70 bones in a store I'll never use again! hope it lives up to the hype  But yeah I'll probably do the same, I've bought a couple of games through Epic now. Any early reactions on the quality of the port or is it too early to say?
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Apparently the settings are barebones but it runs extremely well, like 4k120 on ultra with a 2080ti with room to spare
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Cool, I only need to do 4k60 on a 3070
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Paperhouse posted:Her non-death means Holy is never successfully cast and the lifestream isn't enough to stop the destruction of the planet Whenever they finish the remakes in 2085 I fully expect that to be the ending. "You made things 'better' but everything you fought against had to happen to prevent a bigger tragedy so now you need to stop yourselves and restore the timeline." pretty soft girl posted:poo poo, they killed the main antagonist like, 20 minutes into the campaign. Gonna have to come up with some insane time travel plot to make this work now. Garland wasn't even the main antagonist in FF1, he was just a roadblock to the Light Warriors continuing on their actual quest of restoring light to the four orbs. When the four light warriors encounter him in the past their reaction is probably "oh right you're that guy we killed immediately after starting our quest. So you're actually some time-traveling super demon now? Yeah sure ok whatever we'll just kill you again."
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Garland doesn’t say poo poo in FF1 other than that he’ll knock you down, you’re impertinent, and that this is his princess. Maybe we’re the bad guys. That other poo poo is all chaos, and importantly we are here to kill chaos.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Whenever they finish the remakes in 2085 I fully expect that to be the ending. "You made things 'better' but everything you fought against had to happen to prevent a bigger tragedy so now you need to stop yourselves and restore the timeline." I feel like they're gonna have a reveal that Zack living hosed up the timeline not you killing the capital D and your gonna have to fight/kill him to fix it
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