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Delsaber posted:Pretty sure Gryz's Crash is at least kinda notable for potentially working on both biological and mechanical enemies, while a lot of the other instakills only target one or the other. I don't remember if his Brose tech also works that way, but he barely has enough TP to cast it more than a few times anyway. I went through all of that by the skin of my teeth. The sandworm caused a game over twice at around level 9, and I definitely missed some exploring in Seed. Also I didn't explore the cave very thoroughly and only made it to the town outside of the castle with 2 characters alive. I think my average level was around 9 when I first got there because Hahn keeps dying. I may go back through the cave now that I'm a bit higher in level to see what gear I can still upgrade. Evil Fluffy posted:Not sure what your setup is right now, but early in the game there's an aoe combination attack that should wipe most enemies in one go. I think it needs skills from Chaz, Alys, and Hahn though. I actually discovered this by accident last night and it was pretty cool. It's also relatively cheap so it's great crowd control.
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Walla posted:I went through all of that by the skin of my teeth. The sandworm caused a game over twice at around level 9, and I definitely missed some exploring in Seed. Also I didn't explore the cave very thoroughly and only made it to the town outside of the castle with 2 characters alive. I think my average level was around 9 when I first got there because Hahn keeps dying. I may go back through the cave now that I'm a bit higher in level to see what gear I can still upgrade. If you don't mind losing a little damage output, you can put two shields on Hahn and let him defend while the others attack, then just use Hahn's techs instead of weapons when necessary. He can be hard to keep alive sometimes since I don't think he can equip most of the same armour as Chaz or Gryz, and being stuck with knives instead of swords means he doesn't even get that minor defense boost either.
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There's another SRPG coming next week: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1636660/Absolute_Tactics_Daughters_of_Mercy/ Has anyone played the demo? Class based SRPGs with dual classing is my weakness, although everything about it sounds kinda generic.
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Junpei posted:Jack Move is a good time.
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GrandpaPants posted:There's another SRPG coming next week: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1636660/Absolute_Tactics_Daughters_of_Mercy/ Oh jeez, that style is way too busy looking
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GrandpaPants posted:There's another SRPG coming next week: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1636660/Absolute_Tactics_Daughters_of_Mercy/ Does anyone else think the angle of the character art look mismatched with the angle of the map?
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FirstAidKite posted:Does anyone else think the angle of the character art look mismatched with the angle of the map? yeah the perspective is definitely off. The planes are misaligned, the characters are drawn for a slightly lower horizon line, rather than isometric grid
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I'm trying to decide whether to get Triangle Strategy now, or wait for Tactics Ogre. Might not have the stomach for both over a few months period... https://twitter.com/vgcartography/status/1567920348821159936 Virtual RPG quilt with my favorite games over the years. If you recognize them all, you can join the Royalty Club of RPG Lovers I just founded.
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Electromax posted:Virtual RPG quilt with my favorite games over the years. If you recognize them all, you can join the Royalty Club of RPG Lovers I just founded. Earthbound / Lufia 2 / FF6 / Chrono Trigger / SMRPG / Lunar? / Pokeymans Wild ARMs / FF7 / ? / Some Breath of Fire game maybe? / ? / FF8 / Xenogears ? / Vagrant Story / Chrono Cross / ? / ? / Persona 5 is the best I can do, but I never played FF 9 or 10, they're probably in there somewhere. edit: wait, I recognize the little menu icons in the one before FF8, that's Legend of Dragoon I think. Selane fucked around with this message at 00:43 on Sep 9, 2022 |
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the one before p5 is undertale, and the one before undertale is ff10
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I recognized all the ones I've actually played, and a couple of the ones I haven't. The description in the deviantart link lists them all if you want to check your answers.
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I recognized all of them except Xenogears. It and Undertale are the only games on there that I haven't played. E: Dragon Quest | Final Fantasy | Phantasy Star IV | Breath of Fire Earthbound | Lufia 2 | Final Fantasy III (VI) | Chrono Trigger | Super Mario RPG | Lunar | Pokemon Wild Arms | Final Fantasy VII | Dragon Quest VII | Breath of Fire III | Legend of Dragoon | Final Fantasy VIII | apparently Xenogears Final Fantasy IX | Vagrant Story | Chrono Cross | Final Fantasy X | Undertale | Persona 5 Commander Keene fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Sep 9, 2022 |
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Selane posted:Dragon Quest / FF1 / Phantasy Star 4 / ? Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Phantasy Star IV, Breath of Fire Earthbound, Lufia 2, FF6, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG, Lunar, Pokemon Wild Arms, FF7, DQ7, BoF3, Legend of Dragoon, FF8, Xenogears FF9, Vagrant Story, Chrono Cross, FFX, Undertale, Persona 5 I just clicked the link to the art and the games were in the text box below.
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Pretty good coverage in the answers! I actually looked through quite a bit more - and a part of it was laziness of not wanting to draw too many - but I did consider what changed significantly. All the DQs 2-6 are pretty similar, and overall the whole series is very consistent. FF kind of had a look from 2-7, but then has gone with names without boxes for the most part. I was surprised multiple games used Wild Arms' plus-shaped action selection, but only Xenogears had a circle. The PS2 era I didn't really get into but there is probably some more garish/different stuff there like Xeno and Star Ocean. Secret of Mana was the other one I considered, but it's pretty minimalist.
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I was surprised there wasn't any Suikoden in there. S2 at least seems pretty well-appreciated around these parts.
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I just remembered how good Tales of Berseria is and how the director of that game never directed anything before or since, so I'm never going to get anything similar again, and now I'm sad.
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Electromax posted:I'm trying to decide whether to get Triangle Strategy now, or wait for Tactics Ogre. Might not have the stomach for both over a few months period... go with triangle strategy imo. you may still be in the mood for tactics ogre by november, they scratch some different srpg itches
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dang chapter 6 of trails sky 3rd is long, there's so many blank spaces for checkpoint terminals!!! i finished the academy though, that wasn't that big a deal. now i am at the robot factory i think my one complaint about trails 3rd is that arts feel very useless outside of very specific circumstances. the flow of battle is too fast for arts to really be worth the charge time even with Cast 3-5 equipped, and then.. most enemies are not vulnerable to pretty much anything other than like time magic, so it's like... why are arts even in this one outside of a couple of boss strategies? i have characters that have an ATS of like 1400+ and their strongest stuff is not dealing any more damage than your average skill attack, or at least is not doing a better than equivalent damage per round. i'm mostly going with kevin, estelle, tita, and a rotating 4th character (for this chapter it's basically required). i still like schera's skills like the all-AT-advance skill which I abused the gently caress out of in 2nd. renne would be cool if arts were useful. joshua and zin are pretty strong. i haven't played around with richard or agate yet. the original writers apparently think its funny for tita to constantly be harassed/idolized by people even though she's, you know, 13. i feel bad for the xseed writers having to deal with that. there's a bit where everyone goes "hell yea agate, tita likes you! no big deal about an age gap!" and it's like, yikes yikes yikes. stop it. knock it off the game's mostly been fair difficulty wise but there was one tough fight and one very annoying fight. the tough fight was the ch4 end boss that had the two helpers, and the very annoying fight was the spider family in ch5, that one took like 40-ish minutes even when impeding the spider that tries to heal just because it took a long time just to get their HP down... then the mother appearing!!! ahhhhh!!! but it only two took tries at least. i've done some of the star/moon/sun doors but i'm finding them not super exciting, because characters will just bring up stuff that is shown in those doors, making watching them pointless. like there's a door where you see what happens with kilika, and then zin just tells you the whole deal with kilika in a random dialogue in the hermit's garden!! the turret game was uhh interesting. the door with the guardian that has like 8 pals whose attacks have 100% chance of petrify can gently caress off The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Sep 9, 2022 |
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FirstAidKite posted:Does anyone else think the angle of the character art look mismatched with the angle of the map? Yes. Though the art and animation in general just seems slightly off but I can't place my finger on why. Fell Seal had the same issue which kept me from being able to play it.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/meguroshoji/guns-undarkness Shoji Meguro's started a kickstarter for a new game of his, a Persona and MGS-inspired strategy RPG.
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oh hey, popolocrois story just got a translation patch! https://www.romhacking.net/translations/6652/ i've played an hour or so of the PSP game and it didn't really do anything for me but i kinda want to check this out.
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tragic: the chests in chapter 7 of trails in the sky 3rd have no special empty messages
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The 7th Guest posted:tragic: the chests in chapter 7 of trails in the sky 3rd have no special empty messages Given the plot revelations in that chapter it wouldn't have been appropriate.
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I just found out that Yoko Taro is the creative director of the Voice of Cards games but from little I saw of those games they seen incredibly generic. Does anyone know if there's any Yoko Taro-ness in those games?
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Mr. Fortitude posted:Given the plot revelations in that chapter it wouldn't have been appropriate. anyway i've got the 'point of no return' warning for chapter 8 so i will probably do some doors now
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I started Suikoden after having never played it and I'm looking for guides for not missing any of the guys because I understand there's a ton of them to get but I literally keep running into big spoilers trying to read any. very dumb
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Looper posted:what does yoko taro-ness mean, exactly All characters are loving freaks, everything sucks and at some point an innocent girl gets violently murdered.
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grieving for Gandalf posted:I started Suikoden after having never played it and I'm looking for guides for not missing any of the guys because I understand there's a ton of them to get but I literally keep running into big spoilers trying to read any. very dumb http://www.suikosource.com/games/sod.php?pf=S1 the suikosource guides have some spoilers but usually not terrible ones
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Endorph posted:http://www.suikosource.com/games/sod.php?pf=S1 even this one has kind of immediately in front of your eyes "available after you become leader of the resistance" which isn't exactly the most high intensity spoiler in a '90s JRPG but drat! e: I wish these were more like "okay no sweat until you get to the Lake Fortress, then make sure you talk to everyone." generalized, vague, so I remain pure during my playthrough of the hundred-year-old game
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grieving for Gandalf posted:I started Suikoden after having never played it and I'm looking for guides for not missing any of the guys because I understand there's a ton of them to get but I literally keep running into big spoilers trying to read any. very dumb Suikosource's guide (which Endorph linked) or this one go in order of when they're earliest available, so it should be fairly easy to avoid the (admittedly light) spoilers in those guides. grieving for Gandalf posted:even this one has kind of immediately in front of your eyes "available after you become leader of the resistance" which isn't exactly the most high intensity spoiler in a '90s JRPG but drat! Suikoden recruitment can get pretty esoteric in its requirements so guides can't really get more vague without it being to the point of uselessness. Namnesor fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Sep 10, 2022 |
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grieving for Gandalf posted:even this one has kind of immediately in front of your eyes "available after you become leader of the resistance" which isn't exactly the most high intensity spoiler in a '90s JRPG but drat!
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Namnesor posted:Suikosource's guide (which Endorph linked) or this one go in order of when they're earliest available, so it should be fairly easy to avoid the (admittedly light) spoilers in those guides. Endorph posted:with how recruits are setup in suikoden i dont think its really possible sadly. a lot of recruits become available due to event flags, not locations I get it, just annoying. I think I'll use that GameFAQs one, at the least it just has it in order rather than saying what plot point directly. arigatou
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Plus there are a few recruitable characters with plot significance who are still missable depending on certain very dramatic choices you can make. It's really hard/impossible to talk about without spoilers, but hopefully you'll know it when it happens (and keep a backup save.)
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grieving for Gandalf posted:I started Suikoden after having never played it and I'm looking for guides for not missing any of the guys because I understand there's a ton of them to get but I literally keep running into big spoilers trying to read any. very dumb It's a bit hard not to spoil but a lot of them are very clear. A few relatively spoiler free hints: Pahn needs to be well leveled and equipped. A fight that may seem unwinnable isn't. If someone is a gambler, beating them usually lets you recruit. Don't execute prisoners and defeated foes. When you encounter Holly Faries, fight them until you get a Nameless Urn. This is necessary to recruit a character. Toe Shoes let you dance better. DO NOT STEP ON PLANTS. If anyone implies to come back later, come back when your castle is leveled up. The Cave of the Past contains multiple items needed to recruit characters and a secret passage which contains a character. Make sure to check your prison if someone is put in there. If someone has a portrait they are most likely recruitable.
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Knowing who is recruitable or how to is also a spoiler. If you uwanna play blind just play the game
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Knowing who is recruitable or how to is also a spoiler. If you uwanna play blind just play the game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcO64eMMhkU
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Knowing who is recruitable or how to is also a spoiler. If you uwanna play blind just play the game For real. Guides are best for a second playthrough to get what you missed.
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So you want no spoilers because you want the pure experience of a first timer but you want all the knowledge of someone that's played it a dozen times. I don't think that makes much sense. Part of the fun of a blind first run is that....you're gonna miss poo poo and that's fine. It seems weird to get mad about spoilers when you're...actively looking for things that could be spoilers.
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