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Mr. Fortitude posted:I was under the impression Yuji Horii owned the Dragon Quest IP fully? In theory, he could go to another publisher for the next Dragon Quest game. It's just unlikely because Square-Enix is what is tradition now. Horii/Armour Project owns it but SE has the exclusive contract and you bet your rear end they'll hold onto that for dear life.
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Vikar Jerome posted:deus ex 5 is in the geforce now leak. So is Untitled TCG 3, but for some reason people aren't excited about that one.
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Cleretic posted:So is Untitled TCG 3, but for some reason people aren't excited about that one. they're more into notepad++
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Tae posted:Star ocean isnt triple a, lmao It is, in my heart
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Sakurazuka posted:It is, in my heart Tri-Ace is really just 3 As - perhaps Star Ocean was the real AAA game all along?
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Cleretic posted:So is Untitled TCG 3, but for some reason people aren't excited about that one. I'd be interested in trying that Final Fantasy TCG if they made a digital client like Arena for M:tG
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Even "we had to turn off the free trial because so many people wanted to buy our game" sounds loving amazing with the right marketing spin. If SE eats poo poo and gets bought out (lmao), it won't be because their MMO was doing badly. Tae posted:Star ocean isnt triple a, lmao  Clarste posted:A lot of CEOs are true believers in the magical money fairy of NFTs. It still boggles my mind and really does a lot to dispel any notion that this demographic of people knows any better. Of course we could end up being the idiots in 20 years time but I'd count myself fortunate to not see that world.
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Sakurazuka posted:It is, in my heart Same, but Valkyrie Profile instead of Star Ocean. And mostly just the first game.
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kirbysuperstar posted:Horii/Armour Project owns it but SE has the exclusive contract and you bet your rear end they'll hold onto that for dear life. Yeah but in the unlikely scenario Square-Enix goes bankrupt that contract would be void and Horii could negotiate a new one with someone else. Final Fantasy would die or be bought up by someone while Dragon Quest would continue under a new publisher without any major changes. Course this is all a hypothetical bizarro universe situation, none of this would ever happen.
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dracula vladdy AF posted:I've posted in this thread before about the mod I made for FF9, David Bowie Edition, which is a gameplay mod that changes a whole bunch of skills, items, monsters and so on, with a bunch of minor quality of life improvements as well (eg. only need to catch 69 frogs for Quale to show up). Previously I had said that it was for vanilla FF9 only and that it did not work with Moguri. That has changed: it can now be used with Moguri, meaning you can make use of the enhanced graphics, turn-based battles and guaranteed stealing provided by playing in the Memoria engine. thanks for posting this, I've been waiting to try DBE!
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Does every character have a prominent crotch bulge now
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mandatory lesbian posted:Does every character have a prominent crotch bulge now Careful, you might end up resurrecting some Nier Replicant discourse here.
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Was the Proud Cloud always a joke? Even in my hard mod, after the hellish fight with the Turks, I beat the thing in two tries, and the first time I just gave up prematurely because of an early KO. The Turks don't even get boss music while these two nitwits in their worthless, oversized toy robot get the awesome Shinra theme. I guess it's a fitting end - when you first hear the theme it's when the Shinra are the greatest threat in the world. Now it's reduced to Gya ha ha and Kya ha ha and dies a suitably pathetic death. The whole return to Midgar section is phenomenal. I love Cid's theme playing as we parachute in, I love hearing Bomb Mission again, I love finding other party members doing their own thing in the fight. Disk 1 and 2 both have such incredible climaxes.
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dracula vladdy AF posted:I've posted in this thread before about the mod I made for FF9, David Bowie Edition, which is a gameplay mod that changes a whole bunch of skills, items, monsters and so on, with a bunch of minor quality of life improvements as well (eg. only need to catch 69 frogs for Quale to show up). Previously I had said that it was for vanilla FF9 only and that it did not work with Moguri. That has changed: it can now be used with Moguri, meaning you can make use of the enhanced graphics, turn-based battles and guaranteed stealing provided by playing in the Memoria engine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPatnSv96FU
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CarlCX posted:As someone who fell in love with the series as a child thanks to FF4 on the SNES I just now in the year twenty twenty two played and completed The After Years for the first time. Is this where the support group meets? What you didn't like the fanfic-turned-videogame that isn't merely content with ruining the NES+SNES Final Fantasy games but also felt compelled to lazily rip off Chrono Trigger for the end boss?  Barudak posted:Gotta buy em while microsoft is busy with activision. Really thought MS would be angling for Crystal Dynamics after SE made them guns for hire MS buying them and firing the blockchain-loving CEO would be perfectly acceptable tbh. Varance posted:As far as mobile goes... NieR Reincarnation is underperforming, FFBE and WOTV revenues are running lower, FFRK and DFF:OO have one foot in the mobile grave. I wouldn't expect the Mana series gacha title to do much better than NieR. Brave Frontier ran forever so FFBE will probably go until SE just decides to pull the plug because it's not making enough profit even though they aren't directly working on it. I'm glad WOTV is struggling because that game's monetization and grind design is something that needs to be crushed mercilessly. The Mana game is interesting but I don't see it being a big hit and the slow burn grind is very noticeable prtty early on. Making action games on mobile without controller support should be banned by law as well. Though if SE goes all-in on blockchain and NFT nonsense then the company deserves to collapse and crush the pay2earn-loving CEO. Tae posted:Star ocean isnt triple a, lmao It's An Awful rear end series.  Maybe it'll get good again one day but I doubt it.
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Final Fantasy 2 Pixel Remaster and Romancing Saga 3 at the same time is like watching someone take all the opposite path from what I would have done.
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Thanks for the education on who Embracer is. I guess I don't have to worry about no more Tomb Raiders now, but I still have to be concerned about dumb NFT bullshit in SE games going forward. Ideally that idiot house of cards will crumble before they go too hard on implementation. Until I see some proof of concept from them I'm not going to worry too much, I don't really see how NFT poo poo can be integrated into story based JRPG titles unless it's just gacha but worse.
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Professor Beetus posted:Thanks for the education on who Embracer is. I guess I don't have to worry about no more Tomb Raiders now, but I still have to be concerned about dumb NFT bullshit in SE games going forward. Ideally that idiot house of cards will crumble before they go too hard on implementation. Until I see some proof of concept from them I'm not going to worry too much, I don't really see how NFT poo poo can be integrated into story based JRPG titles unless it's just gacha but worse. It'll be gacha but worse but it'll also either be wildly unsuccessful (like every other major attempt to get in on this scam in the game industry has been) or be cancelled before it actually happens because NFTs are already basically dead as a concept.
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Onmi posted:No, I just looked it up. It was Kazushige Nojima, the guy who wrote the FFX games who said that he wants to make X-3, Nomura confirmed in a 2021 interview that a document for X-3 exists but it's sleeping, not that "He wants to make X-3" no it was Nomura op
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mandatory lesbian posted:Does every character have a prominent crotch bulge now I'm not sure if model editing is at a point where we can do full Jareth support yet
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Dross posted:Kasandora’s second act never triggered for me on the Actraiser remake even though I’ve done everything that can be done, so I’m stuck with an unfinishable save and I’m salty about it I remember having a problem getting to the final act of Kasandora but that's only because the plague stops your resource generators from functioning during the tower defense segment leading to the final area, and it's practically impossible to win that battle without them. So you have to go and do the Aitos and Maranha islands almost in entirety before you can finish Kasandora. It's dumb. It doesn't sound like that's the same problem you had but it does seem like they did gently caress up Kasandora a lot in the remake. I still think it's pretty good for 20 bucks though, especially since they don't want to release the original on SNES Online. NikkolasKing posted:Apparently there is an infamous enemy in FFVII's Battle Square, the ghost boat thing. So two things. One, the ghost boat is undead, so it will be instant killed by an Elixir. Phoenix Down also works, but it has a chance to miss (I think 25%?) so Elixir is the safer method to just win the battle. Two, using a Smoke Bomb or casting Exit will allow you to leave the arena and keep the points you earned up to that fight. So you can keep the points during a failed run if you bail out in time! Of course, if you get magic materia and items blocked then you're just screwed.
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Twelve by Pies posted:So two things. One, the ghost boat is undead, so it will be instant killed by an Elixir. Phoenix Down also works, but it has a chance to miss (I think 25%?) so Elixir is the safer method to just win the battle. That's good to know but the first two times I fought him he used it instantly before I could do anything. I think my accessory Sprint Shoes were broken and yeah, Yuffie is my Blue Mage and had no Haste. "What about Big Guard" you might ask. I think the mod is a bit broken because I can't Manipulate the Beachplugs or Blue Dragon at all even with HypnoCrown so no Big Guard or Dragon Force for me. And you're definitely supposed to be able to do the latter so that's why I think it's a bug. But whatever, I eventually got 32,060 points, just barely enough to get Omnislash but that's all I wanted. Dunno if you ever saw my thanks for your suggestions on materia allotments for my class challenge. But thanks again. So I just beat Hojo in my hard mod and found both him and the Proud Cloud to be super easy. I'm overleveled to be sure but a guide tells me they were easy even in the base game. The Turks, on the other hand, are another story entirely. I freely admit a bit of luck saved my bacon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEZEIW72ecs Moving on to story considerations, I've always been torn on what to do with this decision. If you do Wutai, you can elect not to fight them, and Reno is happy to leave if you give him the opportunity. But while the party and the Turks no longer have the kind of enmity they did towards each other early in the story, just "walking away" is such an...ignoble end. Like Reno says there if you do choose to fight, "We have to end this...like Turks!" There's no hatred in this final battle, it's an honorable duel between rivals and that's how the Turks should go out of the game, in my opinion. Also find it funny Elena is actually the highest level of the three of them while Reno is the lowest. Also also this fight taught me Counter Attack doesn't work while Berserked. Unfortunate. NikkolasKing fucked around with this message at 20:57 on May 2, 2022 |
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I play Stranger of Paradise far, far too aggressively. Just because I have the means to get more offense in than your usual Soulslike doesn't mean I should. Take the Iron Giant for example. I thought I could be cute, hitting with quick attacks charged up with lightning while dodging and Soul Shielding whenever possible. That thing has ridiculous range and speed on its attacks, so that strategy turned out to be a terrible idea. Keeping my distance, getting shots in when I could while it was on cooldown, especially in the second phase and doing the occasional Soul Shield when I could to get MP back for War Cry (I went Tyrant/Warrior) and reapply element worked much better. I keep getting lulled into a false sense of security, but surprise! Still a Soulslike! (Or Nioh-like as it were). That's a habit I definitely need to rid myself of.
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I got FF9 and David Bowie Edition working on my Steam Deck. I love this gadget so much e: actually, vladdy, is there a discord or anything you use for DBE? I don't want to clog up this thread if I have questions. I'm controlling Steiner for the first time and I'm realizing I have a chicken knife and three excalipoors in my inventory that I have no idea where they came from grieving for Gandalf fucked around with this message at 04:39 on May 3, 2022 |
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Grimthwacker posted:I play Stranger of Paradise far, far too aggressively. Just because I have the means to get more offense in than your usual Soulslike doesn't mean I should. Take the Iron Giant for example. I thought I could be cute, hitting with quick attacks charged up with lightning while dodging and Soul Shielding whenever possible. That thing has ridiculous range and speed on its attacks, so that strategy turned out to be a terrible idea. Keeping my distance, getting shots in when I could while it was on cooldown, especially in the second phase and doing the occasional Soul Shield when I could to get MP back for War Cry (I went Tyrant/Warrior) and reapply element worked much better. I keep getting lulled into a false sense of security, but surprise! Still a Soulslike! (Or Nioh-like as it were). That's a habit I definitely need to rid myself of. I’m exactly the same and in Chaos 300 I’m still trying to train myself to not rush in and button mash. You might try the invisibility command ability from assassin. It makes enemies basically never target you and lets you really go to town. The difficulty curve in this game is so weird. It gets harder and harder up until you get a set of gear you can actually keep, then mastery points and gear upgrading turn you into a glass cannon and it gets much easier. Even with a very unoptimized build on a pretty weak class (paladin), I do bonkers damage against almost everything. Does anyone know how to make companions useful in chaos difficulty without huge amounts of grinding? Sophia heals me and buffs me occasionally as sage, and when she pulls out an ultima it does decent-ish damage, but she can get focused down pretty fast. Ash as a liberator is tougher (though can still get clobbered pretty quick with bad luck), but he barely scratches enemies. I haven’t customized their gear at all because they’re limited in what they can equip and I don’t think I can find good affinity combos for them.
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Heithinn Grasida posted:I’m exactly the same and in Chaos 300 I’m still trying to train myself to not rush in and button mash. You might try the invisibility command ability from assassin. It makes enemies basically never target you and lets you really go to town. Only at Chaos 205 so far, but my companions have stayed useful just with auto-optimised gear. Maybe that changes later, but they still seem to reliably clear house with Resonance.
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grieving for Gandalf posted:I got FF9 and David Bowie Edition working on my Steam Deck. I love this gadget so much Oh god, something has gone horribly wrong there. When I get home from work I will nab PMs. Evidently something has not carried over correctly from vanilla, initial equipment and item pickups should be radically different than what you have there. This is after a starting a brand new game right? 3 Excalipoors right off the bat is... really strange. Edit this is especially odd since the Excalipoor actually takes over the original broadsword weapon slot in the game, but I don't think it's possible to even have three broadswords yet. Steiner should have one and that's it until Dali dracula vladdy AF fucked around with this message at 13:58 on May 3, 2022 |
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They’re not terrible, but how useful they are really depends on luck. I’ve had multiple fights where they got knocked out within seconds of the fight starting if things go wrong. Other times they hold their own and distract enemies enough for me to kill them. Occasionally they’ll actually contribute meaningful damage, but at this point it’s pretty rare. That’s probably also because Jack kills everything incredibly quickly by himself without needing their help.
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dracula vladdy AF posted:Oh god, something has gone horribly wrong there. When I get home from work I will nab PMs. Evidently something has not carried over correctly from vanilla, initial equipment and item pickups should be radically different than what you have there. I actually think everything is fine besides the item pickups, I think I'll start a new game and try to figure out exactly when I got them. I'm not sure I started out with them Zidane and Steiner had their Mage Masher and Iron Sword, which have the abilities Speed of Life and Add Status, and then Minus Strike, respectively
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grieving for Gandalf posted:I actually think everything is fine besides the item pickups, I think I'll start a new game and try to figure out exactly when I got them. I'm not sure I started out with them I wonder if something has gone wrong with the initial items (potions, ect) the player starts with. This sucks, I have six and a half hours left of work and I am desperate to see what happened here, especially if the initial equips are normal.
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Heithinn Grasida posted:The difficulty curve in this game is so weird. It gets harder and harder up until you get a set of gear you can actually keep, then mastery points and gear upgrading turn you into a glass cannon and it gets much easier. Even with a very unoptimized build on a pretty weak class (paladin), I do bonkers damage against almost everything. Yeah, that's the Nioh difficulty curve, so that makes sense. Nioh's pretty challenging on a first playthrough because it has a fairly technical, precise combat system that punishes mistakes harshly. But once you're in NG+ and can grind out crazy gear sets, the difficulty plummets and you start being able to do so much damage that you nuke bosses down in seconds. The player's power growth dramatically outpaces enemies' power growth. It's like two entirely different games.
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No Dignity posted:I'm going to start a DBE/Moguri/Memoria run this evening so I can report on the starting items in a bit if that's any help That would be a ton of help, thank you
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dracula vladdy AF posted:I wonder if something has gone wrong with the initial items (potions, ect) the player starts with. This sucks, I have six and a half hours left of work and I am desperate to see what happened here, especially if the initial equips are normal. we get off work at similar times, I'll dig into it when I get home and we'll figure out where the heck these legendary pieces of poo poo are coming from
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grieving for Gandalf posted:legendary pieces of poo poo New thread title?
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It's pretty obvious they sold Eidos for quick liquidity for their NFT play, Square Enix isn't in trouble they just wanted some cash to burn. Edit: They might be in serious trouble when this 'play to earn' horseshit flames out spectacularly though Senator Drinksalot fucked around with this message at 16:50 on May 3, 2022 |
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