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HD DAD posted:“Can we render a 3D journey on a mine cart through a winding tunnel” FF6PR's cart ride just looks so drat  They could've just copy-pasted the stuff from the SNES version and it'd be significantly better than what they created for the remaster. That part stuck out as oddly underwhelming when you consider this is the game where they finally remade the spell effects properly instead of using the same effects as prior games.
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jokes posted:Berserker Didn't start off with "Beerserker", C+ for effort
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Mar 2, 2022 22:06
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A lot of RPGs have mechanics in play to reward variety. Stagger meters for example, or combinations that boost effects, or weaker moves that build up to powerful moves, etc. It depends on the game but the Strongest is rarely the best
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Mar 2, 2022 22:09
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Evil Fluffy posted:FF6PR's cart ride just looks so drat I thought it looked fine and certainly better than a straight rip from the snes.
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Mar 2, 2022 22:29
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Off the top of my head there's the Yunalesca fight, any FF12 fight with palings, any fight with multiple targets with different element weaknesses and resists and absorbs, enemies that counter certain attacks with huge damage. There are multiple "puzzle" bosses in the series where it's not just hit hard, heal a lot, and buff/debuff.
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Mar 2, 2022 22:32
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PneumonicBook posted:I thought it looked fine and certainly better than a straight rip from the snes. It's pretty bad in the PR. If I recall, it doesn't feel like you're in a "tunnel" at all, but more like some hot wheels tracks are just laid out in a random pattern in a giant unlit warehouse. There's just the tracks and random poles set up in a black void. There's no sense of claustrophobia, and the camera is too distant from the track to feel any real sense of speed or "being in the action." The PR handles all the mode 7 stuff pretty poorly, actually. The scale all feels way off and bad. The airship can get maybe half of the elevation it could get in the SNES version, so you feel like you're too close to the ground and it's harder to get your bearings. Meanwhile, the chocobo sprite is "too fat" to navigate the terrain right. You're bumping into mountains and walls that you shouldn't be, and I found at least one place on the map that I couldn't even cross a bridge on chocobo because the geometry of the terrain wouldn't let me. I've been enjoying playing the game again, but outside of the soundtrack, between the bugs (of which there are a lot, of the noticeable variety and not the "stamina doesn't work right" variety) and poor implementation on some things, and the sprites and graphics being a questionable improvement, I'd say the GBA version is still probably the best one.
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You usually talk about decision spaces if you need to go any deeper than "I like the combat in this other game better for being complexer." This is also helpful to include character building in the party. Ex. In FF5 your in combat decision space isn't normally very big, but also your character building decision space is huge so there's arguments you already made your decisions in the build and are just following through. It's one thing to have a narrow decision space, another to have a wide one, and another to have an interesting one. FF6 has some width given all the cool character classes, cool artifacts, and cool espers. But it's not gonna come out very interesting because for a variety of reasons the game serves up some simple combos at most moments of the game. 2012 XCOM and it's sequel had some discussions that maybe it's decision space was too narrow, but they were huge hits because operating in the simple flow of those decisions was tons of fun. What makes decision spaces interesting is hard to pin down. Every decision space boils down to trying to find the action that gives you most advantage. That's kind of logically self evident. I think that the interest comes from how fun it is to realize and play with advantage. Chess is a timeless game because for all our best guesses on advantage, you are generally pleasantly or unpleasantly surprised by a mid game outcome and resolution before it collapses to boring end game decision spaces that are solved in a book. The fun is in that surprise. There's other games, maybe like the XCOM or FF5 example where the decisions are maybe narrower at certain points, you'll be surprised less, but you still have a ton of fun getting advantage and seeing that advantage play out. Games are weird spelling it out like that.
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Mar 2, 2022 23:02
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Do you say it "Nar-she" or rhyming with "marsh"
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:There's plenty. I even mentioned some.
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SuperKlaus posted:Do you say it "Nar-she" or rhyming with "marsh" "Nar-shay" like it's french
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SuperKlaus posted:Do you say it "Nar-she" or rhyming with "marsh" marsh
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Mar 2, 2022 23:08
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As someone with the moral authority of always having pronounced Tifa and Yuffie correctly, it's Nar-she.
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DrPossum posted:marsh Same Always marsh
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Ireallylikeeggs posted:XII is good just because you can intentionally never use Vaan after you have three other party members and savor how much this must sadden him. Vaan is Bartz 2.0, a good kid having the time of his life on a grand adventure. He only has a bit of emotional baggage that he moves past relatively quickly, especially compared to the rest of the cast. I get that no character's going to be everyone's cup of tea but this kinda reaction to him is so odd to me.
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derra posted:Vaan is Bartz 2.0, a good kid having the time of his life on a grand adventure. He only has a bit of emotional baggage that he moves past relatively quickly, especially compared to the rest of the cast. I get that no character's going to be everyone's cup of tea but this kinda reaction to him is so odd to me. Yeah but Vaan doesn’t have Butz’s raw sexual magnetism that attracts two separate princesses to his side, and Vaan is upstaged by a leading man constantly.
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jokes posted:Yeah but Vaan doesn’t have Butz’s raw sexual magnetism that attracts two separate princesses to his side, and Vaan is upstaged by a leading man constantly. Butz isn't very good with kids though, he ended an argument with a 14 year old by shoving her.
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I like nar-shee more but I feel like there was an official pronunciation in something at some point and they said it like marsh Or maybe I hallucinated it
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As a kid I said Nar-she, Lock key, Seelees, and Goh. I'm wrong on the last three so assume I'm wrong on the first.
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Mar 2, 2022 23:48
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Is it 'gow' or 'gaw' Or possibly 'goy'
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Mar 2, 2022 23:49
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Japanese is ナルシェ, so officially it’s “nar-shay”.
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Contrary to what is commonly thought, "Squall" is pronounced "S-quill."
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Contrary to what is commonly thought, "Squall" is pronounced "S-quill." The q is actually silent, so its Saul.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Contrary to what is commonly thought, "Squall" is pronounced "S-quill." Oh so that is why they cast Chris Pratt to play him.
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How do you pronounce "Tidus"?
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SuperKlaus posted:Do you say it "Nar-she" or rhyming with "marsh" It rhymes with Marche.
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Mar 2, 2022 23:57
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It rhymes with Marcia actually
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:How do you pronounce "Tidus"? "Him".
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Cleretic posted:"Him". "It does look like him, but...it isn't him."
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:How do you pronounce "Tidus"?
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Schwartzcough posted:It's pretty bad in the PR. If I recall, it doesn't feel like you're in a "tunnel" at all, but more like some hot wheels tracks are just laid out in a random pattern in a giant unlit warehouse. There's just the tracks and random poles set up in a black void. There's no sense of claustrophobia, and the camera is too distant from the track to feel any real sense of speed or "being in the action." So I just replayed my save and watched a video of the what looked like the GBA version to compare and I prefer the PR version still. Ill give you that it is kind of a large open space but they have tracks to the other sides of you so it seems like it's actually a useable space the Empire is using to send supplies or whatever back and forth from Vector to the Magitek Facility. The GBA version is just throwing blobs of sprites at you with the left and right part of the screen being a black void. The airship scale does seem a little off yea and at the end of the day these are nitpicky things that I can't get very worked up about. Schwartzcough posted:the sprites and graphics being a questionable improvement, I'd say the GBA version is still probably the best one. This is a personal taste kind of thing but I vastly prefer the sprite work. There are huge improvements in some of the sprites, Relm's and Gogo's are the one's that jump out immediately. PneumonicBook fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Mar 3, 2022 |
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All this time I was pronouncing it Gogo but as it turns out....
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Many contentious debates between "Kwiss-tiss" and "Kiss-tiss..." or even wilder, "Key-stiss"
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Wolfsheim posted:All this time I was pronouncing it Gogo but as it turns out.... I don't get it, why did you post a picture of Cloud of Darkness?
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Wolfsheim posted:Is it 'gow' or 'gaw' Pretty sure it's a play on the onomatopoeia of "gao" which is a beastly roar or snarl. So your first pick would be closest.
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Hogama posted:ガウ, Gau I pronounce it like tao. English is kind of dumb overall.
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:How do you pronounce "Tidus"? "The Star Player of the Zanarkand Abes"
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“Hey you”
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"New guy"
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Does Tidus, at any point, actually tell anyone his name? With the whole 'faking amnesia due to Sin's Toxin' thing, the others might assume he doesn't remember his name either.
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his name is crybaby
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