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Kagaya Homoraisan posted:the monster breeding and poaching makes more sense in a version of the game where the endgame isnt ramza+4 unique units of your choice curbstomping because its a way to gain incremental advantage from your units. monsters in general get shafted by what fft is in practice because their niche as numerically powerful but 1-dimensional units is just unnecessary. you just dont need them lol.
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Endorph posted:they are very funny in the fft ai vs ai gambling stream tho they are, since that stream isnt built around optimizing unit builds so their numerical advantage can shine big time
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Jul 11, 2023 22:00
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How's the switch versions of Grandia 1\2? I've been craving a ps1/2 aesthetic jrpg for a while nowand I never got around to playing those outside of renting 2 for a weekend as a teenager.
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grandia 1 hd is an ugly port of an ugly port. i think grandia 2 had some issues on launch but i dunno if they're still present to be specific the grandia 1 ps1 port is a buggy version of a saturn game, its graphical errors are unfixed in hd and it has bad texture filtering applied The Colonel fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Jul 11, 2023 |
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Kagaya Homoraisan posted:the monster breeding and poaching makes more sense in a version of the game where the endgame isnt ramza+4 unique units of your choice curbstomping because its a way to gain incremental advantage from your units. monsters in general get shafted by what fft is in practice because their niche as numerically powerful but 1-dimensional units is just unnecessary. you just dont need them lol. the team limit size is also too drat small for monster taming/breeding
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Jul 11, 2023 22:41
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I'm playing Grandia 2 on the switch version now and haven't run into any issues yet.
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Endorph posted:they are very funny in the fft ai vs ai gambling stream tho hold up
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Schwarzwald posted:hold up https://twitch.tv/fftbattleground
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The Colonel posted:grandia 1 hd is an ugly port of an ugly port. i think grandia 2 had some issues on launch but i dunno if they're still present Does this apply to anything outside the starting town? I thought that was the only area with the insane texture issues
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there's also some busted skyboxes. i'd assume that there are generally minor technical issues across the game that you wouldn't notice if you only played psx but generally hd feels not worth it to me unless you really specifically want a legal portable version of grandia 1 and the switch is your only possible option
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Jul 11, 2023 23:05
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https://twitter.com/Hansuke21/status/1678878610696945664/retweets/with_comments this doesnt fix everything but reverie's getting patches pretty fast
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Endorph posted:https://twitter.com/Hansuke21/status/1678878610696945664/retweets/with_comments Any word on console?
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Sadly not. They might wait on console until they can bundle all the fixes together into one patch, given sony approval processes can take a week or two.
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Junpei posted:to be absolutely fair, your party members having a skill tree dungeon isn't a terrible idea in and of itself, there's an interesting idea in that somewhere, it's the copy-paste aesthetic that really brings it down It's an idea I love because meshing something with tangible character-specific rewards with the grinding dungeon is good. Now, the necessity and value of a grinding dungeon can itself be debated, but also I play Atlus games for that kind of poo poo. Collecting monsters and changing up my party's capabilities and adapting to that as the enemies change too. Gimme that carefully curated grinding dungeon where I go to get my fusion fodder and test out my nonsense, all in one place. But yeah SH2's was kind of visually lackluster even so. I guess it's better than SH1's being literally a hotel when it should've been online - they just criminally underused the internet in Soul Hackers 1.
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Endorph posted:Sadly not. They might wait on console until they can bundle all the fixes together into one patch, given sony approval processes can take a week or two. Curses!
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Wild. I'll definitely check this out.
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Grandia 1 HD is mostly fine but I'd say play the Saturn version if you can, I think it fairly recently got a patch that ported the PS1 translation over maybe too. Grandia 2 HD is good as far as I'm aware tho I haven't played it, I mostly replay the first game.
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Grandia 2 HD was perfectly fine but its been years since I played the dreamcast version. Over. And over. And over.
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Grandia II owns and has the best default battle music of any RPG ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb-KYgSsc_Y Seriously this poo poo owns bones and would be a boss battle theme in any other game.
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I really love the soundtracks for the 1st & 2nd Grandia games, had probably my favorite RPG music until I played Shadow Hearts 1 & 2.
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It isn't too hard to remove the ugly filter on Grandia 1 if you get it on PC, though I had some textures freak out at times due to it. A small sacrifice for getting to replay it however. Really need to get around to replaying 2, love that jackass Ryudo.
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Vandar posted:Grandia II owns and has the best default battle music of any RPG ever. Maybe I am a jaded old person but that sounds like the most generic battle music ever. Clarste fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Jul 12, 2023 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvk8g8AUxeY
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Listen, cds get scratched all the time. if we make it sound like its skipping by default, you never have to worry about it!
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Goons, I love a good dungeon. In the spirit of that, what are your favorite dungeons of all time?
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i like the youtube comments going 'it might not sound that good, but compared to the other songs, its a masterpiece. in that sense, it makes you happy to get into a battle'
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unattended spaghetti posted:Goons, I love a good dungeon. In the spirit of that, what are your favorite dungeons of all time? EO5 6th stratum.
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I like the meat factory in DDS2, not sure if I'd call it a favorite, but it's extremely memorable to me . Also Nurvus in PS4
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i think honestly agrias' poorly accounted for presence in fft like. really badly hurts a lot of its character writing in general lol. there's so many exchanges in chapter 3 that only make sense if you're assuming ramza just completely split up with the friends he's made up to that point and given agrias' entire final line of dialog the last time she says anything emphasizes how her trust in ramza will never be broken, it feels bizarre to not have her commenting on ramza's sense of unease and loneliness that they have several other characters remark on. i wish this wasn't such an issue cause it really sucks the wind out of the game's sails storywise for me, it's such a jarring thing to have suddenly be an issue. it bugs me a lot more than the scary demon rock stuff cause honestly the game's exploration of its political ideas is simplistic enough that i'm not sure they're getting in the way of anything, i just wish the basic character writing was tighter, that's a significantly bigger mark on the game i think
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The most important thing for a dungeon is a good theme song, especially if the theme continues to play during random encounters. So I'd probably go with the last dungeon of Trails in the Sky FC. The weird enemies and top-tier weapons gave it a great "ultimate dungeon" vibe, too, and it wasn't too long.
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FFT doesn’t really have a party despite feeling it should since you keep getting small arcs with mandatory recruits that join up. Everyone just kinda disappears for the most part Made the game kinda hard to get into for me.
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TBH I don't even like using the unique characters in battle (even though they are almost strictly better) because I feel even less attached to them as mute NPCs than I do to the generics I've raised since the beginning.
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nrook posted:The most important thing for a dungeon is a good theme song, especially if the theme continues to play during random encounters. So I'd probably go with the last dungeon of Trails in the Sky FC. The weird enemies and top-tier weapons gave it a great "ultimate dungeon" vibe, too, and it wasn't too long. Three seconds into that song and I'm already sick of it (possibly from flashbacks to that dungeon). I probably have weird tastes though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elMQ0GXpfmo
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unattended spaghetti posted:Goons, I love a good dungeon. In the spirit of that, what are your favorite dungeons of all time? Always liked the Final Dungeon of DDS2. There's a lot of RPG's with amorphous and ethereal corridors for final dungeons, but none go as hard in the lead up story wise as DDS2 does, nor is the outro as crazy. It's only let down by DDS's greatest weakness, terrible final bosses. It really stands out after the previous ten dungeons were all various flavors of modern looking corridors.
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Clarste posted:Three seconds into that song and I'm already sick of it (possibly from flashbacks to that dungeon). I almost posted the labyrinth V theme from eo4 instead, to be honest, but the dungeon itself while cool didn’t make a big impression on me. Hollow Light also has a good official arrangement.
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nrook posted:The most important thing for a dungeon is a good theme song, especially if the theme continues to play during random encounters. So I'd probably go with the last dungeon of Trails in the Sky FC. The weird enemies and top-tier weapons gave it a great "ultimate dungeon" vibe, too, and it wasn't too long. the last thing a bat hears before an adventurer bumps into it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AnUa6A5Brw
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nrook posted:The most important thing for a dungeon is a good theme song, especially if the theme continues to play during random encounters. So I'd probably go with the last dungeon of Trails in the Sky FC. The weird enemies and top-tier weapons gave it a great "ultimate dungeon" vibe, too, and it wasn't too long. Trails in the Sky is one of my favorite game OSTs for how well it sets tone. Falcom tends to put out bangers in general, but Sky has a lot of hard swerves in its OST to go along with its narrative going from cozy slice of life detective adventures to wandering through the ruins of an advanced civilization.
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After some consideration I have picked up Atelier Sophie. I think the knowledge of the time limit will make me tense so best to learn what the series is about without it.
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Sophie's a nice time
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HopperUK posted:After some consideration I have picked up Atelier Sophie. I think the knowledge of the time limit will make me tense so best to learn what the series is about without it. It's funny to me how the time limit just... it might be the gentlest, loosest time limit but it sits in the back of my brain going "...hey. hey." and I'm not into it, especially as I'm the type of jrpg player who wants to run around and look at all quests and dungeons and do every sidequest... I'm so happy Atelier has shifted in general away from time limits. Honestly, from the Dusk trilogy I've played Ayesha and half of Eschatology (I really like it! I... really don't like that it felt like I had to get a walkthrough or I'd be missing serious stuff all the time) and I really need to go install and play Shallie, as that's the first one without a time limit. As I understand it, from there: Sophie = no time limit, my favorite Firis = has an open world and a time limit, but it goes away halfway through the game? Lydie & Suelle = no time limit Ryza and onwards = no time limit, only Ryza's massive thighs I've personally tried Rorona (and hated it, I do not like the personality of the main character, which is a bummer! also the STD joke is godawful, like so bad I want to patch the game to fix it), Ayesha (I really do love this game, time limit stress aside), Eschatology (I want to love this game so much but its structure did not work for me), Sophie (aaa I want to replay it) and some of Ryza (like what I saw, should go back and play more)
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