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GreenBuckanneer posted:Agreed with this. How is Lightning returns? So far, it's pretty cool. The new battle system is pretty cool, but it's not as quick and snappy as the first two games. It really does feel like a Valkyrie Profile game, which is a good thing, imho.
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Amppelix posted:wow the scene with sazh and vanille in chapter 8 really didn't work with a summon fight placed in the middle lol He didn't shoot himself, it's a fake out. Not wrong about the whiplash, but "Eidolons show up during psychological breakdowns" is already established. I think they probably should've skipped the doing donuts, though.
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strange feelings re Daisy posted:I could not find them, no. The preview page for the physical CDs lets you play all discs in browser except Disc 8, the jukebox tracks. It's like they were isolating them on CD on purpose to make people buy the set. I would just buy them if they were available digitally. dang fuckin weird that they put out an 8-disc collection. all the xiv soundtracks are a single blu-ray each and include mp3s on the disc, which is pretty neat if somewhat annoying since i don't have a pc with a bdrom drive
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Lightning Returns is really good. Do as many side quests as possible. I haven't played it since my last post about it but I still intend to finish it sometime within the next couple weeks. It's probably the best FNC game (but Type-0 remains my favorite FNC game)
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If I can't play Lahee (Sokkan Live Performance), then Final Bar is a no sale. 
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I am currently replaying every game in the franchise. I made it to the end of Final Fantasy 3 and I'm really glad they kept the difficulty spike around the Cave of Shadows in the Pixel Remasters. Every previous game in the franchise (being I, II and Final Fantasy Legend (yes i'm counting those)) got piss easy halfway through and just let me autopilot through all of the combat. This difficulty spike, to me, represents people at square realising "yo hey these games we're making don't really have much in the way of gameplay, let's fix that" three years after the first game. can't wait till i get to FF4 and that realisation gets thrown the gently caress away
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FrostyPox posted:Lightning Returns is really good. Do as many side quests as possible. I haven't played it since my last post about it but I still intend to finish it sometime within the next couple weeks. The only things I can really admire about Type-0 are its whole hog commitment to hilarious Venture Bros. level sociopathy and casual disregard for human life, and the times it let me play as Eight because Eight rules and Type-0 really needed to be socked in the mouth repeatedly and Eight was a wonderful character to do that with.
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Playing FF6PR and there's something fishy about this Gerad character...his "I'm not Edgar" palette swap is raising a lot of questions already answered by his palette swap...
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armpit_enjoyer posted:I am currently replaying every game in the franchise. I made it to the end of Final Fantasy 3 and I'm really glad they kept the difficulty spike around the Cave of Shadows in the Pixel Remasters. Every previous game in the franchise (being I, II and Final Fantasy Legend (yes i'm counting those)) got piss easy halfway through and just let me autopilot through all of the combat. This difficulty spike, to me, represents people at square realising "yo hey these games we're making don't really have much in the way of gameplay, let's fix that" three years after the first game.
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I would have said the entire sealed cave but the hellhounds are also a good pick.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:4 absolutely has a difficulty spike (it's those loving hellhounds in the Tower) They were unfair bullshit in IVDS. Interesting they appear to be hard in the original game, too.
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Help Im Alive posted:I would be surprised if the full game didn't have Lyse and at least 1 more Y'shtola need a 4th 'shtola for a Light Party
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:need a 4th 'shtola for a Light Party The ultimate team 
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strange feelings re Daisy posted:I could not find them, no. The preview page for the physical CDs lets you play all discs in browser except Disc 8, the jukebox tracks. It's like they were isolating them on CD on purpose to make people buy the set. I would just buy them if they were available digitally. That last disc was originally a limited edition bonus if you preordered the OST. I was a little miffed with my partner for a bit because that was supposed to be my Christmas or birthday present but they waited too long to order it for me and missed out. I told them it was a limited item...
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I do feel that we've finally come full circle on Type-0 though, where enough of us dislike it that now the game is actually good again.
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Gologle posted:I do feel that we've finally come full circle on Type-0 though, where enough of us dislike it that now the game is actually good again. We shall singlehandedly rehabilitate every subpar Final Fantasy.
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nine-gear crow posted:The only things I can really admire about Type-0 are its whole hog commitment to hilarious Venture Bros. level sociopathy and casual disregard for human life, and the times it let me play as Eight because Eight rules and Type-0 really needed to be socked in the mouth repeatedly and Eight was a wonderful character to do that with. Also the music. The main theme and arrangements are amazing.
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strange feelings re Daisy posted:I was trying to find the jukebox music from FFVIIR digitally. There's this unofficial youtube playlist. Spotify has the VIIR soundtrack but it doesn't include the jukebox music. Some of the tracks are from an older jazz album but some of them are unique to VIIR. However, I checked Squenix’s Spotify albums just recently, and to my delight they’ve added the Intergrade soundtrack as well as the FF7R Plus soundtrack, which has 5 hours of music not included in the first OST. I’m flabbergasted that there was that much music not included on an already near 10 hour soundtrack! FF7R rules
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I will always say that Type-0's game design always makes sense as a portable stealth Monster Hunter clone, where a bunch of its design is based on drop in/drop out multiplayer and riding on trains with your psp. MH clones never quite balance well for single player is usually my assumption, though I'm sure there are outliers.
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My strongest memory of FF Type 0 was playing the ps4 port and it's default camera turning speed was faster than the speed of light.
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I check out SilvaGunner OST mixes once in awhile and wow this was a trip https://youtu.be/OG_e8ve0l_w
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Ragequit posted:I check out SilvaGunner OST mixes once in awhile and wow this was a trip I'm not gonna be able to unhear that.
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the dual input hold-and-press sections in theatrhythm are destroying me. can't get my head around them
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Agents are GO! posted:We shall singlehandedly rehabilitate every subpar Final Fantasy. FF13 is a good, misunderstood game that I honestly didn’t enjoy and would recommend nobody play it
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Allarion posted:I will always say that Type-0's game design always makes sense as a portable stealth Monster Hunter clone, where a bunch of its design is based on drop in/drop out multiplayer and riding on trains with your psp. MH clones never quite balance well for single player is usually my assumption, though I'm sure there are outliers. God Eater and Toukiden did okay because they give you relatively competent npc companions. The ones in Toukiden were probably better at the game than me lol
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Hell I played support kusari-gama in Toukiden and let the NPCs do the heavy lifting and that worked well
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I'm playing Crystal Project and it's pretty good. If FFV is one of your favs because of character building and job poo poo, you may want to give it a go. The environments are voxels which really turns me off. Story is kind of whatever. Exploration is real fun in a way that you don't get too often. The job system is neat and you can get some really good combinations going.
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Playing more of the Theatrhythm demo, I've gotten more comfortable playing with the triggers and sticks, but it makes the controller just a tad uncomfortable to hold for long period of time since my index fingers are constantly resting on the shoulder buttons while also trying to keep the thumb sticks covered. but what if you had a spare $200 dollars 
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Vitamean posted:Playing more of the Theatrhythm demo, I've gotten more comfortable playing with the triggers and sticks, but it makes the controller just a tad uncomfortable to hold for long period of time since my index fingers are constantly resting on the shoulder buttons while also trying to keep the thumb sticks covered. I extremely wish it was on PC first so I could. Well, first so I could play on Deck portably because I prefer its feel to the Switch. But also so when I play I can use my series 2 controller with the paddles and keep my thumbs on the sticks. I may yet emulate it, who cares I already gave my money to the $100 everything edition. If it's one of the Switch games that emulate well on Deck that'll be even nicer. jokes posted:FF13 is a good, misunderstood game that I honestly didn’t enjoy and would recommend nobody play it It can be pretty fun but I very didn't enjoy the back third and most of the complaints people tossed at it are actual annoying bad things about it. It's better than its reputation but that doesn't make the haters wrong
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parasyte posted:I extremely wish it was on PC first so I could. Well, first so I could play on Deck portably because I prefer its feel to the Switch. But also so when I play I can use my series 2 controller with the paddles and keep my thumbs on the sticks. I may yet emulate it, who cares I already gave my money to the $100 everything edition. If it's one of the Switch games that emulate well on Deck that'll be even nicer. I've seen some posts elsewhere of people getting the arcade game running on Deck, but I don't know a ton about the setup required.
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Vitamean posted:Playing more of the Theatrhythm demo, I've gotten more comfortable playing with the triggers and sticks, but it makes the controller just a tad uncomfortable to hold for long period of time since my index fingers are constantly resting on the shoulder buttons while also trying to keep the thumb sticks covered. lol i was thinking the same thing playing the demo
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Heran Bago posted:I'm playing Crystal Project and it's pretty good. If FFV is one of your favs because of character building and job poo poo, you may want to give it a go. The environments are voxels which really turns me off. Story is kind of whatever. Exploration is real fun in a way that you don't get too often. The job system is neat and you can get some really good combinations going.
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I tried Crystal Project but I wasn't a fan of how the game's default difficulty really wants you to run aggro and buff management for trash mobs. Conversely I think the boss fights were a highlight of the game for me but man when there's already encounters all over the place making me have to sit and ponder every little dinkus between save points really grated at me. Maybe one day I'll give it another shot but there's so much other stuff I wanna play.
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Theatrhythm demo owns so much. The full game even has tracks from the FFVII remake.
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Vitamean posted:I've seen some posts elsewhere of people getting the arcade game running on Deck, but I don't know a ton about the setup required. oh, nice. i found it, not sure if i'll bother but maybe. tide me over until release
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Holding out hope that Theatrhythm comes to the PC. Would be fun to build a controller for it and add it to my rhythm game setup!
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Agents are GO! posted:We shall singlehandedly rehabilitate every subpar Final Fantasy. go ahead, tell me revenant wings was worth the $40
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Heran Bago posted:I'm playing Crystal Project and it's pretty good. If FFV is one of your favs because of character building and job poo poo, you may want to give it a go. The environments are voxels which really turns me off. Story is kind of whatever. Exploration is real fun in a way that you don't get too often. The job system is neat and you can get some really good combinations going. I wouldn't discount the FFXI influence there. Many of the jobs have elements that come from that game too
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