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The only good JRPG is the Super Mario RPG series.
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Feb 19, 2022 20:59
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Mega Comrade posted:The only good JRPG is the Super Mario RPG series. Literally the only jRPG where I got softlocked due to having a too-deep save point near the final boss which I was totally underleveled for. I can't recall if I had to try to dive back out of the dungeon or if the save point provided healing and I just had to sit there grinding for a bit, but regardless I just walked away from the game. Amusing considering the topic of grinding being optional in jRPGs.
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Feb 19, 2022 22:12
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Mega Comrade posted:The only good JRPG is the Super Mario RPG series. Disgaea 
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Feb 19, 2022 23:00
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I have been playing Saints Row 2 with the Gentlemen of the Row mod. I was having an issue where the game would crash whenever it tried to play the final cutscene for the mission Burning Down the House. One of the suggestions I read said to verify the integrity of the game files. I did that, and now the game crashes whenever I try to load a save file. If I uninstall and reinstall the game, will my saves remain intact? When I reinstall GotR, can I use different settings or do I have to configure it the same way as before?
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Feb 19, 2022 23:11
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Mega Comrade posted:The only good JRPG is the Super Mario RPG series. Cthulhu Saves Christmas. 
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Feb 19, 2022 23:12
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I tried installing Saints Row 2 the other day with the Gentleman of the Row mod but couldnt get past getting Gat outside the courthouse before it crashed, repeatedly. Finally just broken down and re-bought the 360 version that runs on Xbone. Only $10.
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Feb 19, 2022 23:26
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Ariong posted:I have been playing Saints Row 2 with the Gentlemen of the Row mod. I was having an issue where the game would crash whenever it tried to play the final cutscene for the mission Burning Down the House. One of the suggestions I read said to verify the integrity of the game files. I did that, and now the game crashes whenever I try to load a save file.
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Feb 19, 2022 23:36
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Scalding Coffee posted:That game is going to keep crashing no matter what you do. Can you backup your save? Oh yeah I know it crashes frequently and I can deal with that, but in this case it was crashing every time the game tried to load that specific cutscene and I could no longer progress. I would love to backup my save, but I don't know how. Where is the data stored?
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Feb 20, 2022 00:24
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Ariong posted:Oh yeah I know it crashes frequently and I can deal with that, but in this case it was crashing every time the game tried to load that specific cutscene and I could no longer progress. %LOCALAPPDATA% \THQ\Saints Row 2\ according to : https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Saints_Row_2 Jack Trades posted:Indeed, it is a lot of work. Why do all that when you can just make numbers go big. Big number make brain chemical go brrr. i dont think i have ever seen you post a single even remotely positive opinion about any video game in this thread, have you considered looking into a new hobby
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Okay, I deleted, reinstalled the game, reinstalled GotR, and the crash on load is fixed. Turns out verifying the integrity of the game cache basically uninstalls the mod. However, I'm still stuck on Burning Down the House. Any advice on how to get past that mission without crashing would be appreciated.
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Feb 20, 2022 02:16
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Tarezax posted:Literally watched someone stream the sequel (Forbidden West) yesterday I've been really tempted to do this for the original game but I'm giving it a final chance on PC. I find the combat tedious as hell, but the story is interesting enough so I swallowed my pride and now I'm playing it on easy to make it go faster. It helps a lot that it runs like a dream at 4k with everything maxed out.
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Feb 20, 2022 02:24
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Ariong posted:Okay, I deleted, reinstalled the game, reinstalled GotR, and the crash on load is fixed. Turns out verifying the integrity of the game cache basically uninstalls the mod. However, I'm still stuck on Burning Down the House. Any advice on how to get past that mission without crashing would be appreciated. Nevermind, I just temporarily installed a mod that makes missions instantly complete after you start them and used that to bypass the bugged mission. GotR makes it really easy to install and uninstall other mods.  IdolNinja 
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Feb 20, 2022 02:39
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Wow. I could have used that for the new post-game missions that got hacked together. I don't know if they were real hard or I lost interest at that point.
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Feb 20, 2022 02:51
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In yakuza miyami, can you play pool right after getting out of prison? Where do I go? The pool game is pretty good in the two player minigame
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Feb 20, 2022 04:20
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If you mean Yakuza Kiwami, pool is at Vincent in the northeast corner of Kamurocho. I forget if/when you unlock it, though.
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Feb 20, 2022 04:25
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I replayed Far Cry: Blood Dragon and liked it a lot more than I remembered. I liked that the story was completely stupid, but on purpose. I also thought the gunplay and stealth aspects were both really fun. I haven't played FC3 but my understanding is that Blood Dragon was a super stripped down version of that game. Would I likely enjoy any of FC3, 4, 5, or 6? I'm concerned they are basically full of a bunch of dumb AAA mechanics that get in the way of fun.
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Feb 20, 2022 05:21
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I didn’t particularly like Blood Dragon, but imo the mainline FCs mostly still hold up.
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Feb 20, 2022 05:27
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You played the best Far Cry, it's mostly downhill from Blood Dragon.
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Feb 20, 2022 05:27
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Primal is good! The setting is really unique and there are many animals to pet.
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5 has good guns and gameplay, but one of the most awful stories I've ever seen in a video game and you can't even ignore it because it likes to pull you into it whenever you do too much and some of the really annoying cutscenes are unskippable. If you can deal with that, then go for it.
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Feb 20, 2022 05:34
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A Bystander posted:5 has good guns and gameplay, but one of the most awful stories I've ever seen in a video game and you can't even ignore it because it likes to pull you into it whenever you do too much and some of the really annoying cutscenes are unskippable. If you can deal with that, then go for it. They also kinda screwed up the gear progression by making (almost?) everything available from the start if you had the money. So very quickly you'll have a silenced AR and then a silenced sniper rifle that'll last you to the end of the game.
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Far Cry 5 is still the best fishing minigame out there.
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ShadowMar posted:i dont think i have ever seen you post a single even remotely positive opinion about any video game in this thread, have you considered looking into a new hobby Literally 1 page before the post you quoted. Jack Trades posted:I loved Divinity Original Sin, especially 2, mainly because they didn't do any of that. If you're only ever focus on negative things you see then maybe the problem is with you, not me.
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Speaking of which, The Void Rains Upon Her Heart is a Touhou-inspired bullet hell roguelite that's been pretty fun so far. Despite being in early access there a ton of content and all the bosses I've fought so far have very interesting patterns to go thought. Definitely recommend it to anyone with any interest in the bullet hell genre.
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OgNar posted:Far Cry 5 is still the best fishing minigame out there. Unless you use a mouse.
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pentyne posted:I'll be super furious if I missed this, but how do you level characters without swapping them into the battle? Bosses hand out a decent chunk of xp so they're good fights to swap people in if someone needs a phoenix down or a summon done, but I didn't bother for regular fights. If you get or craft an item with Overdrive->AP then you can set your overdrive to stoic or comrade and get tonberries to stab you or your mates for up to a hundred thousand damage (based on how many monsters that character has dealt a killing blow on) a pop which immediately becomes xp even if you run from the fight.
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:I replayed Far Cry: Blood Dragon and liked it a lot more than I remembered. I liked that the story was completely stupid, but on purpose. I also thought the gunplay and stealth aspects were both really fun. I haven't played FC3 but my understanding is that Blood Dragon was a super stripped down version of that game. Would I likely enjoy any of FC3, 4, 5, or 6? I'm concerned they are basically full of a bunch of dumb AAA mechanics that get in the way of fun. I liked 3 the most on first playthrough, but I've gotten a lot less tolerant of unskippable scenes and it's a real bad offender. I think Blood Dragon is better because it's quicker to get to the game and interrupts you less, but if memory serves it also has less hunting, which while being nothing special, really tickles something in my brain. Primal is also good because of the relative lack of cutscenes but I never finished it for some reason. The spirit tiger was cool, though.
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I hated Far Cry 5's story and characters, but it has the best looking, most fleshed out world. Perfect if you want to explore and get up to poo poo. I bounced super hard off Far Cry 6. Seems like a regression in every way for the series, just super boring and a lifeless world. Gunplay is terrible. Looks decent at times, but surprisingly ugly overall for a game featuring all the latest bells and whistles.
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I think Far Cry 4 is the best one. It's basically 3.5 with a bunch of good quality of life improvements. 5 has an absolutely terrible story that is difficult to ignore and the DLC is all poo poo, but you can at least team up with a sniper lady to trivialize the game. After being burned hard by 5 I stopped playing Far Cry games so I don't know how New Dawn and 6 are.
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drat God of War cards are selling for 20 whole cents 
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New Dawn's probably the best of the recent farcries because it's short, doesn't take itself particularly seriously, and you get Crysis powers with radioactive magic.
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exquisite tea posted:New Dawn's probably the best of the recent farcries because it's short, doesn't take itself particularly seriously, and you get Crysis powers with radioactive magic. I had some fun with New Dawn. I actually played through it which is more than I can say for any Far Cry since 3. I got 6 for free, played it for about an hour, and have no interest in ever starting it again.
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Hwurmp posted:If you mean Yakuza Kiwami, pool is at Vincent in the northeast corner of Kamurocho. I forget if/when you unlock it, though. Yes kiwami. Anybody else know?
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Final Fantasy X Having never played it or most PSX/PS2 jrpgs in my youth when they were released this was high on my list of games to experience as it's one of those games that absolutely permeated the culture in a way few others did. Thankfully, the remasters gave me an updated version with built in convenience cheat mode. About 32 hours to beat the game in full with judicious use of turning off encounters when searching for certain treasures and using the 4x speed to get through areas faster seems like it was probably a good 40-50 hour game without including the post-game content.  The story is decent, somewhat good, but it's a fully voice acted game and so expects you to watch an unskippable cut-scene every few minutes. I felt like it ended up not delivering on most of it's potential because so much of the emphasis was on the spectacle and not the actual writing. The whole novelty of facial expressions conveying emotions for the characters was probably a huge deal at the time but other then that it was mostly the characters standing around stiffly as they read out their dramatic lines staring at each other. Coming off of FF9, with no voice acting, I had a better sense of those characters emotions and personalities from their text lines and their somewhat exaggerated character animations. Being mostly a downer of a game with little to no levity to break it up sounds good on paper, but you need to get your audience emotionally invested into the cast for that to work well and for me I wasn't super concerned about what would happen to anything of them.  I complained about the combat already so that's nothing new. It's a nice jrpg turn based game with some new ideas for the time but I'll say that combat becomes way more of a chore in the last 1/4 of the game and some of the boss battles have 1-2 "easy" solutions to deal with them or you're stuck grinding out against them for 10-20 minutes. The late game stuff is a lot of just crafting the right equipment status protections and swapping as needed to make it much easier. There's some bullshit, like the random encounter enemy in the last dungeon who wipes your party as it dies and your only options are to kill it by counter attacking or having one character stacking defense as high as possible, but it's really not that bad. The insane stuff is optional post-game where you have to have the entire sphere grid optimized and maxed out. I didn't engage with the sphere grid, item customization, or aeon upgrades beyond a surface level which might have made for a far easier time with later combat.  Overall, given that its a 20 year old game that really set the standard for modern 3D jrpgs, it's worth playing through to experience a part of gaming history. People still talk about it and replay it for the nth time after having played it on release. It's just one of those games so hugely influential to the genre that it still deserves attention two decades on.
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Mescal posted:Yes kiwami. Anybody else know?
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I bounced super hard off Far Cry 6. Seems like a regression in every way for the series, just super boring and a lifeless world. Gunplay is terrible. Looks decent at times, but surprisingly ugly overall for a game featuring all the latest bells and whistles. I did the Ubisoft subscription thing for a month just to try Far Cry 6 and man, it's Generic Video Game through and through. The AI is stupid, it's a world littered with checkbox tasks (most of which of no import or consequence), the storytelling is even worse for some reason (hey let me decide to just singlehandedly liberate this island for... reasons). Giancarlo Esposito's performance was certainly a part of the game as well. Not one that I felt added any significant value. Hope he at least got paid a pretty penny.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:That was me, and while I may give NFS: Heat a look, I'm really into car collection and customization. Is that in there? Very much so, theres a huge amount of cars and lots of performance/visual customization.
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