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ImpAtom posted:If you miss a discussion you can look them up in the journal after Heya, I'd like some clarification. Are you saying that if you don't have the required members in your party for a skit to appear at the exact moment it gets added onto somewhere you can check it out? Cause that was geniuenely the reason I dropped the first game, I was exhausted having to check banter guides and going back to the inn to change characters so I wouldn't miss the only sources of inter-party dialog in the game. If they actually fixed that + the extra side chapters featuring multiple characters it might be enough for me to get the sequel if I like the demo (the question being getting it on Switch OLED for portability or PC for sweet 2k and unlimited time demo)
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GiantRockFromSpace posted:Heya, I'd like some clarification. Are you saying that if you don't have the required members in your party for a skit to appear at the exact moment it gets added onto somewhere you can check it out? If you go into the Journal and select a character's Main Quest you can press Start (or whatever the equivalent is on your controller) to hear any conversations you've heard or would have heard but missed due to not having the proper characters active in your party at the time.
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Feb 23, 2023 14:30
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ColdPie posted:I thought this game came out today, but it's actually tomorrow??? looks like midnight tonight on steam but yeah e: not even actually, fully tomorrow. Rip MMF Freeway fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Feb 23, 2023 |
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Feb 23, 2023 14:34
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Countblanc posted:If you go into the Journal and select a character's Main Quest you can press Start (or whatever the equivalent is on your controller) to hear any conversations you've heard or would have heard but missed due to not having the proper characters active in your party at the time. ...welp, gotta try the demo then. But as I said it's gonna be hard to choose between portability and the chance of mods/nicer graphics.
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Feb 23, 2023 14:49
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GiantRockFromSpace posted:...welp, gotta try the demo then. But as I said it's gonna be hard to choose between portability and the chance of mods/nicer graphics. The demo only has chapter 1 for every character, which doesn't have any convos because... the other characters aren't present for those events
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Feb 23, 2023 15:59
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Can you start another character’s chapter 1 in the demo? I went to Cape Cold South or whatever but didn’t see whatever character is supposed to be there.
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Feb 23, 2023 16:05
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GiantRockFromSpace posted:...welp, gotta try the demo then. But as I said it's gonna be hard to choose between portability and the chance of mods/nicer graphics. idk how much better the graphics could really be on PS4/5 versus Switch considering it's just HD sprites, game looks beautiful even on the handheld. I'm curious how uprezzed stuff gets, actually
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Feb 23, 2023 16:12
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:Can you start another character’s chapter 1 in the demo? I went to Cape Cold South or whatever but didn’t see whatever character is supposed to be there. Yes, I did Throne's and Agnea's first chapters and made it to Partitio's starting town before running out the clock.
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eta: lmao me and ^ went the exact opposite routeBlackbelt Bobman posted:Can you start another character’s chapter 1 in the demo? I went to Cape Cold South or whatever but didn’t see whatever character is supposed to be there. You absolutely can. I played the Switch demo, started with Partitio and got Agnea and Throne before hitting my time limit (though I didn't start Throne's Chapter 1). Also, either Partitio's Chapter 1 is abnormally long or Agnea's is abnormally short. It took me an hour and a half to do Partitio's Chapter 1 and knocked out Agnea's in half the time.
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Feb 23, 2023 16:20
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Feb 23, 2023 16:23
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Countblanc posted:The demo only has chapter 1 for every character, which doesn't have any convos because... the other characters aren't present for those events Well, yeah. It's just knowing I don't have to constantly change my party in the middle of a chapter is something that actually leans me towards getting it when I didn't finish 1. I gotta try it first though 
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Feb 23, 2023 16:31
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I have a steam deck now so it looks like there’s no reason not to get this for PC. That said, I’m prooooobably gonna wait for sole reviews. I did enjoy the first one, but fell off every time right around the late chapter 2s/early chapter 3s as there didn’t feel like much story to keep me there.
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GiantRockFromSpace posted:Heya, I'd like some clarification. Are you saying that if you don't have the required members in your party for a skit to appear at the exact moment it gets added onto somewhere you can check it out? Yes. You can view all unlocked convos anytime. Also in terms of optional jobs, with as few spoilers as possible. One is located near New Delia and can be gotten early but some of the items to get higher ranked skills are located in later game areas. One is located in a later game city you can run to but you need a way past a relatively strong Challenge npc. You can sleep him but it requires a rarer item. It also requires specific items to level but you can get them pretty easy. One is located in a late game city you can only access after finishing Hikari's plot One is located on an island you can only access after getting a ship and defeating an optional boss. ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Feb 23, 2023 |
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Saxophone posted:I have a steam deck now so it looks like there’s no reason not to get this for PC. Reviews have been coming in and they seem to be going pretty well. Like 8-10 or 80-100 (depending on your scale). There's only been one 70 score that I've seen so far.
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Feb 23, 2023 16:55
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Started as Osvald, picked up Throne, Temenos, Ochette and Castti so far.GiantRockFromSpace posted:...welp, gotta try the demo then. But as I said it's gonna be hard to choose between portability and the chance of mods/nicer graphics. After playing the demo on PC at 4k, 60FPS on my TV and max settings there's just no way I could ever play it again on the Switch (though I'm not a huge portable game person either). Blackbelt Bobman posted:Can you start another character’s chapter 1 in the demo? I went to Cape Cold South or whatever but didn’t see whatever character is supposed to be there. You can do everyone's chapter 1 and Osvald's chapter 2 in the demo. If you're on PC you can also edit your play time and realistically do all of it in the demo if you wanted to. The demo also has the inventor class that you can obtain and it's pretty interesting. Also really drat powerful since you can buy a 290 atk axe for 55k leaves in Ochette's village 
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Feb 23, 2023 16:58
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Okay then, where am I supposed to go to find the character in Cape Cold? I would like to spend my last hour of the demo doing at least one other chapter 1 instead of just wandering aimlessly.
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Feb 23, 2023 17:03
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ImpAtom posted:
Wait... You need items to get/level Skills in 2, instead of just earning and spending JP?
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Kheldarn posted:Wait... You need items to get/level Skills in 2, instead of just earning and spending JP? Only for those two jobs.
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lol I didn’t notice Osvald lying facedown in the snow while playing in handheld, immediately saw him while in tv mode.
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Feb 23, 2023 18:13
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:Okay then, where am I supposed to go to find the character in Cape Cold? I would like to spend my last hour of the demo doing at least one other chapter 1 instead of just wandering aimlessly. I think that’s Osvald right? He should be somewhat south from the little town lying on one of the sides of the road, face down on the ground iirc. I don’t remember the name of the snow area town but I had a bit of trouble finding him too at first. Edit: looks like you found him buy the time I posted
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SKULL.GIF posted:When exactly does the game release? According to this article on The Loudout PS4/PS5/Switch: Tonight at 9:00 PM PST PC: Unknown, but as of right now, Steam says, "This game plans to unlock in approximately 23 hours".
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Feb 23, 2023 18:26
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There's a minimap icon for each character's location in their starting town as well.
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I made it through Osvald’s chapter 1 before I ran out of time in the demo. I guess I’ll have to wait until tomorrow to continue. I need to try to open it tomorrow morning before I go into the office so I can unlock the game, otherwise I won’t be able to play on my lunch lol As I was saying before, the game feels like it flows a lot smoother than the first one did. Jumping from controlling the character to cutscene and back seems less disjointed. Although it might be bad once I have more characters in my party and do later chapters. I also felt like the characters in the first game were all kind of milquetoast and the stakes in the stories were relatively low, or at least presented in a way that made them seem blah, whereas the stakes are already way higher for Thronè and Osvald. So it seems like Square learned from the issues with the first game. I’m excited!
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So is this game set in the same world as OT1 or is it completely standalone? I bounced off the first game pretty hard but the demo for 2 felt a lot more endearing.
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Zaggitz posted:So is this game set in the same world as OT1 or is it completely standalone? I bounced off the first game pretty hard but the demo for 2 felt a lot more endearing. It's set on another continent and some indeterminate amount of time in the future. You don't need to know anything at all about the original to get into this game, it's like Final Fantasy in that regard, every game is standalone.
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…Except for FFX-2, and the XIII trilogy
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SKULL.GIF posted:It's set on another continent and some indeterminate amount of time in the future. You don't need to know anything at all about the original to get into this game, it's like Final Fantasy in that regard, every game is standalone. And yet they still insist that Champions Of The Continent takes place before OT1. They really need to just say it's a seperate timeline, especially because you know they're gonna add OT2 characters to it...
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Regalingualius posted:…Except for FFX-2, and the XIII trilogy Everyone always forgets FFXII: Revenant Wings. Also TAY.
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ApplesandOranges posted:Everyone always forgets FFXII: Revenant Wings. For good reason
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Decided to download the demo and play through Osvald's opening as my save carries over anyway later tonight when the full game unlocks. Osvald's first boss is noticeably beefier than any of the first bosses in the first game. I hope this will be a trend, I enjoy when bosses are an ordeal. 
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SKULL.GIF posted:Decided to download the demo and play through Osvald's opening as my save carries over anyway later tonight when the full game unlocks. Yeah that battle was significantly harder than Thronè’s boss even. I kept running out of SP and having to eat grapes/plums. Might be the hardest chapter 1 boss?
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I swerved at the last minute and picked Hikari for my main traveler. He's just too cool for my stupid weeb heart. Also fantastically voiced. The system of dueling people to get temporary skills is fun too.
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Kheldarn posted:And yet they still insist that Champions Of The Continent takes place before OT1. They really need to just say it's a seperate timeline, especially because you know they're gonna add OT2 characters to it... Besides any pending OT2 characters (who are likely coming in), is there anything actually contradictory? The small snippets of story I read about CotC sounded like it added stuff in new directions but nothing that outright was wrong with OT1 canon. I say this knowing very very little of the mobile game's content.
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pretty certain OT2 takes place after OT1 if only because the technology and culture in some areas is more advanced---this was part of their early interviews about the game:quote:With regards to the change in setting, the developers feared that setting OT2 in the same middle ages fantasy setting as the first game would result in the characters feeling like rehashes of the first game as well. By moving culture and technology ahead a bit, they felt the travelers would naturally find different reasons to travel compared to the first game as well.
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PC version hasn't unlocked yet? Well joke is on you! I am still waiting on my key! Couldn't play it even if I wanted to.
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Really messed up that PC players won't get it until morning. Now I'll have to irresponsibly play during work tomorrow instead of irresponsibly staying up all night playing and then being unable to function at work
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