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Augus posted:engage owns, my army of braindead morons cannot be stopped I know that every avatar FE character comes off as stupid, but this guy comes off as exceptionally stupid. Granted, it's hard to look dignified with toothpaste hair. But the script isn't doing him any favors.
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Jan 21, 2023 06:46
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Man they tossing in nasty reinforcements and aggressive enemies as early as chapter 4 hell yes I'm not very good at these games and had to restart three times due to overexposing a weak unit to 1-2 mobs. Eventually I figured I had to trust that one unit was tanky enough to survive on its own whole the others retreated and regrouped in time for the surprise reinforcements (which are flying and can cross the map in two turns) I also had to abuse the engage mechanics on two units to help them act aggressive and limit my risk of losing them and this is barely chapter 4 Getting fire emblem 6 normal dfficulty vibes on hard which kind of owns. I'm sure it'll get easier as I get access to more tools but flying reinforcements in the first real outdoor map? Very loving neat Oh also this might be obvious but being on the losing side of the weapon triangle or weakness exploit isn't just punishing, it's downright fatal on hard. One of my magic units did an engage n still got taken out in 2 hits lol
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Jan 21, 2023 07:06
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Morpheus posted:I remember just getting this PS2 CD from Atlus with PERSONA 3 sharpied onto it Is this a joke or you got like an early review copy or something?
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Jan 21, 2023 12:00
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So, there's no weird marriage/inheritance stuff in Engage? That's a huge plus. Writing is dumb as bricks (smartest games I played where Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn), I think I'd put 6 and 7 as my average, "story is fine" grade, while feeling that Sacred Stones was mediocre, story-wise. This may not be a problem. I hated the character writing in Awakenings, feeling that every character was a walking cliché with zero depth. Take Sain in 7, awful womanizer and what not, and while it was his main feature it wasn't his only one. The womanizer character in Awakenings only had that going for him at all cylinders all the time. So yeah, just how bad is the writing? Maps seem better, which is good. Strategic combat you guys seem to be talking up, which is also good. My only last concern, how is the customization? I prefer a game with relatively static classes, at most you get a choice to make on level-up but it's not like anyone can be come anything? I find customization leads a game to being far too unbalanced in game-design. Still, considering what some of you had said, and your previous favorite FE's, this may be the game to get me back into the series at last.
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Jan 21, 2023 13:02
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I'm shallow and don't want to play Engage strictly on the absolutely middle-school main character design. They look dumb as hell and i don't want to get stuck staring at them for 40 hours.
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Jan 21, 2023 13:54
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Tall Tale Teller posted:I'm shallow and don't want to play Engage strictly on the absolutely middle-school main character design. For real though, when they went through some the cast in the previews all the female characters had literally the same face. Just the hair changed. It's kinda funny.
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Jan 21, 2023 14:16
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I hope this video game avatar knows they look the fool!
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Jan 21, 2023 14:34
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Item Getter posted:Is this a joke or you got like an early review copy or something? Burned CD, most likely. Back in the day, my mother got her hands on a used PSX for us kids, with a ton of games, and a lot of them were just copies burned on random CDs -even the legit looking games looked like someone just went through slightly more effort to make their bootlegs. The PS2 had similar problems, and the Dreamcast famously got so many bootlegs, Dreamcast bootlegs became a running joke.
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Jan 21, 2023 14:47
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Libluini posted:Burned CD, most likely. Back in the day, my mother got her hands on a used PSX for us kids, with a ton of games, and a lot of them were just copies burned on random CDs -even the legit looking games looked like someone just went through slightly more effort to make their bootlegs. that's pretty cool, actually! parents who pirate rule
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Jan 21, 2023 15:01
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Manoueverable posted:As time has gone by, I've really felt more of the opinion that P3 is largely propped up by its final act, which is probably one of the best for a JRPG if not all of gaming. Yeah, it was very emotional. Existential without being too cerebral. It was tense and rewarding seeing other characters come to terms with what was happening.
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Jan 21, 2023 15:02
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100YrsofAttitude posted:My only last concern, how is the customization? I prefer a game with relatively static classes, at most you get a choice to make on level-up but it's not like anyone can be come anything? I find customization leads a game to being far too unbalanced in game-design. It's back to the old standard, each class has one or two weapon types they can use, and promotes to one of two advanced classes. For classes which used to have a more diverse loadout, you pick which weapons they use on promotion, so you can have a mage knight who uses magic and swords or one with magic and lances but not one character with both swords and lances. The Engage system goes on top of that; whoever is wearing the Marth Ring can unleash a Marth powerup during which they can (temporarily) wield Marth's swords regardless of their class. I'm sure there are ways to break the game with certain combos, but the primary balancing factor is that you will only ever have one Marth ring to go around. My favorite of these I've seen so far is that (chapter 6) the Micaiah ring lets its wielder use staves, regardless of class. It rules.
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Jan 21, 2023 15:11
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Smirking_Serpent posted:I know that every avatar FE character comes off as stupid, but this guy comes off as exceptionally stupid. Granted, it's hard to look dignified with toothpaste hair. But the script isn't doing him any favors. I'm going to name her Aquafresh or Colgate or something. I can't take that hair seriously at all and I'm not going to try.
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Jan 21, 2023 15:13
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:It's back to the old standard, each class has one or two weapon types they can use, and promotes to one of two advanced classes. For classes which used to have a more diverse loadout, you pick which weapons they use on promotion, so you can have a mage knight who uses magic and swords or one with magic and lances but not one character with both swords and lances. This sounds so good. I will definitely be getting it. I'm so glad there seems to be a return to form with the game. I still want to do some indie and smaller release titles first before dropping 60 euro on a AAA title, but still it all sounds so good and it'll be great to play FE again after my last experiences with it.
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Jan 21, 2023 15:23
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Item Getter posted:Is this a joke or you got like an early review copy or something? I reviewed it, and back before they got really big, I guess Atlus didn't have the budget to send out fully printed PS2 discs, so what I got was a white disc in a CD envelope. Got Rule of Rose the same way.
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Jan 21, 2023 15:51
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wizard2 posted:that's pretty cool, actually! parents who pirate rule back then, nobody cared VHS-tapes had insanely long and overdramatic warnings against piracy added, which I guess imprinted on us and our parents' generation into thinking copyright was just some kind of irrelevant clownery besides, our parents didn't have enough money to actually buy us video games new, and were too German to even want to: wasting your time with games was heavily discouraged, so we either had to save up our allowance, or hope our parents found something dirt cheap while fishing around their circle of friends and neighbors We only got a SNES and a Gameboy because our aunts suddenly showed up with Christmas gifts one day.
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Jan 21, 2023 15:51
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100YrsofAttitude posted:For real though, when they went through some the cast in the previews all the female characters had literally the same face. Just the hair changed. It's kinda funny. Idk if it’s just me but every anime character has the same face with different hair
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Jan 21, 2023 16:22
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BigDumper posted:Idk if it’s just me but every anime character has the same face with different hair Sir, are you claiming that all Japanese people look the same?
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Jan 21, 2023 16:47
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Sir, are you claiming that all Japanese people look the same? he's racist as hell. get his rear end
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Jan 21, 2023 16:49
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So the sword --> axe --> lance --> sword hierarchy is back? I thought I heard they removed it from Three Houses
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Jan 21, 2023 16:50
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It existed in three houses but only in the form of equippable breaker skills that would add in triangle advantage/disadvantage. This time its back to being baked into the system
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Jan 21, 2023 16:54
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Weapon triangle is super important compared to 3H. If you attack on advantage you can stop an enemy from making counterattacks for the rest of the turn. They also gave each weapon a color (R/G/B) so you can just remember it with Pokémon rules. I love that the game basically gave everyone Fire Emblem stands. It’s a cool idea and really fun visually and in gameplay. So far, the supports are really lame compared to 3H. A lot of them are just worshipping the PC, and there’s little tension. The jokes fall flat. I hate having idiot ten year olds in my party.
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Jan 21, 2023 17:10
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Libluini posted:back then, nobody cared Hah, yeah we had a cabinet full of VHS tapes that we copied from rentals. My parents even showed me how to do it myself.
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Jan 21, 2023 17:10
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I feel like in what I've played of Fire Emblem (FE7 onward) they never quite get the balance of the weapon triangle right. Either it's far too prominent and the game has a distinct rock-paper-scissors feel which makes tactics a bit too basic, or it's completely downplayed and the game doesn't really have enough tactical depth to make up for just removing something. Can't remember what it was like in Shadows of Valentia though
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Jan 21, 2023 17:25
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the characters in Engage all looking extremely stupid is a pro, not a con imo
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Jan 21, 2023 17:58
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Smirking_Serpent posted:Weapon triangle is super important compared to 3H. If you attack on advantage you can stop an enemy from making counterattacks for the rest of the turn. They also gave each weapon a color (R/G/B) so you can just remember it with Pokémon rules. I replayed 3H this summer and I think it killed the plot/character part of FE for me. The way support ranks and skits work just feels so flat. They're contextless conversations that are usually repeating the same character beat or joke over and over, regardless of what's actually happening in the story, and then those characters never speak to each other again.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:I feel like in what I've played of Fire Emblem (FE7 onward) they never quite get the balance of the weapon triangle right. Either it's far too prominent and the game has a distinct rock-paper-scissors feel which makes tactics a bit too basic, or it's completely downplayed and the game doesn't really have enough tactical depth to make up for just removing something. Can't remember what it was like in Shadows of Valentia though Valentia didn't have weapon triangle at all, but Valentia was kind of an odd case, mechanically, anyway. Equipment worked completely differently there, since it was a remake of an old game.
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Tender Bender posted:I replayed 3H this summer and I think it killed the plot/character part of FE for me. The way support ranks and skits work just feels so flat. They're contextless conversations that are usually repeating the same character beat or joke over and over, regardless of what's actually happening in the story, and then those characters never speak to each other again. I think it’s a tough problem to solve-the game would be incredibly bloated with all of it in the main story, but they have to account for people potentially missing it so they have it hanging off to the side. I definitely felt like some of the 3H supports got super repetitive, especially if you tried to go for all of them. But I felt like they added good characterization for most of the cast, and I was attached to my army by the end-when I wouldn’t have been if Dorothea was just a random mage or whatever. I hope Engage makes me feel the same eventually. I will say that 3H did have Edelgard’s support directly influence a major part of the game-and many people complained because they were used to ignoring supports. I think a better solution would be a smaller cast, set optional conversations, and no worrying about grinding points.
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Manoueverable posted:As time has gone by, I've really felt more of the opinion that P3 is largely propped up by its final act, which is probably one of the best for a JRPG if not all of gaming. The rest of the game, while consistent in themes and presentation, just has too much that was improved by its successors imo. This is correct. The December/January months of P3 are by far the most impactful to me of any of the modern Personas. I still get chills whenever I listen to Memories of a City. That haunting track playing in the over world while watching the NPCs you’ve been talking to all game slowly descend into madness/apathy is loving soul crushing.
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Persona 3 has the best mood and mood is half the appeal of the Persona games
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Jan 21, 2023 19:16
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Doug Bowser please put the Bayo 1/2 digital bundle on sale, ever. Also Xenoblade 1/2. I’d like to play these games!
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Jan 21, 2023 19:24
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Fifteen of Many posted:Doug Bowser please put the Bayo 1/2 digital bundle on sale, ever. Also Xenoblade 1/2. I’d like to play these games! Why do you expect a former executive from EA to do things consumers like?
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Jan 21, 2023 19:32
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Looper posted:skip all of them tbh i really enjoyed the first 80 hours of persona 5 but then i was still not even close to the ending
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Jan 21, 2023 19:34
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Mister Facetious posted:Why do you expect a former executive from EA to do things consumers like? Reggie would never have done this to me, personally.
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Jan 21, 2023 19:38
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reggies too busy selling nfts to help us now
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TIL there’s a DK64 Randomizer and it comes with a bunch of QOL features including being able to switch Kongs at the press of a button. You can even set it up so you can play the vanilla game unrandomized with the just the QOL stuff. Pretty cool
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Augus posted:TIL there’s a DK64 Randomizer and it comes with a bunch of QOL features including being able to switch Kongs at the press of a button. You can even set it up so you can play the vanilla game unrandomized with the just the QOL stuff. Pretty cool playing a dk64 randomizer sounds like hell... sign me up 16-bit Butt-Head fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Jan 21, 2023 |
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Smirking_Serpent posted:I think it’s a tough problem to solve-the game would be incredibly bloated with all of it in the main story, but they have to account for people potentially missing it so they have it hanging off to the side. Yeah I liked the characters enough, but the way supports were handled was the issue for me. Maybe it was the way I played but they'd usually rank up in clusters too, so it was jarring to suddenly binge a ton of back to back cutscenes that had no connection to the surrounding events. It's also a weird effect where the top ranked supports have the characters declaring their love or becoming best friends, and then never talking to each other again (and sometimes immediately having a similar conversation with someone else). I really liked how Xenoblade Chronicles 3 handled it, which did make the conversations mandatory, but they would each happen at a specific point in the game. That paced them out, and also let them feel part of the greater story and a result of what the characters had been through.
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