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The sidequests aren't the most engaging gameplay, but a lot of the game's best worldbuilding and some fantastic side plots come out of them. The things that gave me the most genuine discomfort with the state of the world, as well as the one thing to get me misty-eyed in the game came from sidequests.
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DanielCross posted:The sidequests aren't the most engaging gameplay, but a lot of the game's best worldbuilding and some fantastic side plots come out of them. The things that gave me the most genuine discomfort with the state of the world, as well as the one thing to get me misty-eyed in the game came from sidequests. The sidequests that you get at the end of the game range from being the sweetest, most adorable, heartwarming stuff - to like "hey did you forget about the millennia of backstory you have toward this specific subject?". It's very hit or miss. The game has Gav though so it's good no matter what.
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Jul 8, 2023 03:30
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I miss Little V showing up on streams but I'm happy he gets to do this stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkvX6iy7VmA
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doos posted:The sidequests that you get at the end of the game range from being the sweetest, most adorable, heartwarming stuff - to like "hey did you forget about the millennia of backstory you have toward this specific subject?". It's very hit or miss. There's a button to remind yourself of lore at any point in the game
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Jul 8, 2023 05:39
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Yeah the gameplay in them might not be that noteworthy usually but world building and dialogue wise like 90% of them are great. Was pretty sad to see him just mashing through Quinten, Martha and even Charon dialogue.
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Jul 8, 2023 10:37
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Overlord K posted:Yeah the gameplay in them might not be that noteworthy usually but world building and dialogue wise like 90% of them are great. Was pretty sad to see him just mashing through Quinten, Martha and even Charon dialogue. This is why I always laugh when I hear Pat say "should I stream Xenooblade again?" because this is what it'd end up as.
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Jul 8, 2023 11:17
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So Woolie will go through and either spend extra time analyzing the dialogue from those side quests or he might just skip them or do them off stream. Might be the latter if Pat comes into the podcast one week saying they're all worthless cause he doesn't know poo poo. Hopefully we get some interesting discussion during the spoiler cast where it almost seems like they played different games because of their play styles.
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Brightman posted:So Woolie will go through and either spend extra time analyzing the dialogue from those side quests or he might just skip them or do them off stream. Might be the latter if Pat comes into the podcast one week saying they're all worthless cause he doesn't know poo poo. That’s what made both of their Mass Effect play throughs interesting. Pat did a perfect playthrough but Ignored all the lore stuff. Woolie and Reggie had an incredibly imperfect playthrough but when extremely in depth on all the lore stuff. After watching both of them I felt like I got a much more complete view of the game than if I had just played it myself.
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2835767&pagenumber=1&perpage=40&userid=103099#post353871719 I was bored and clicked a random page of a FYAD thread dating back to 2008. ....that's Matt right??? Lmfao.
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emptyrave posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2835767&pagenumber=1&perpage=40&userid=103099#post353871719 No Matt's SA same was something different, that guy just kinda looks like him.
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Pat referring to In From the Cold as good is perhaps his most insane take of all E: or rather, him complaining about nerfs to the temporary character switch portion, which is bad like every temporary switch in FF14 is Rody One Half fucked around with this message at 11:53 on Jul 10, 2023 |
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Jul 10, 2023 11:43
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It's legit one of the best moments in ff14 and I cleared it at launch in one attempt. It wasn't that hard and the struggle was both the narrative and thematic point. It needs that little tiny bit of edge to land.
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Jul 10, 2023 13:24
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pretty sure most people liked that quest so the take is room temperature at best
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Jul 10, 2023 13:33
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The quest at large is good, that part is awful. And most people agreed it was awful, which is why they nerfed it.
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Rody One Half posted:The quest at large is good, that part is awful. And most people agreed it was awful, which is why they nerfed it. No it was good but most ff14 players are dogshit at the game so any difficulty at all becomes a wall (See how easy MSQ dungeons are and how much of a wall certain story trials becomes)
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It was good. I failed it horribly, which unlocked the Very Easy version of it, which I completed Very Easily. They should have left the Normal version the same for the people who like that, and made the easier versions Even Very Easier for people who need that.
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DrakePegasus posted:It was good. I failed it horribly, which unlocked the Very Easy version of it, which I completed Very Easily. They should have left the Normal version the same for the people who like that, and made the easier versions Even Very Easier for people who need that. To my understanding, that's what they did, the first time they nerfed it at least. If they nerfed it again later I missed it, but the first nerf was explicitly only for the Easy/Very Easy versions, so the Normal difficulty was untouched.
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I beat it in one try but it was obnoxious as heck and I hated it
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The obnoxiousness is the point. It's a solo duty designed to have friction. You can dislike it all you want but it's pretty intentionally meant to catch in your mental gears and gently caress with you.
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yeah, In From the Cold was one of the highlights of the entire ff14 experience for me
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It definitely had the right effect for me (feeling like I barely made it through) but I 100% can see it getting really frustrating having to repeat it. Like it strikes me as either it lands and has an incredible effect, or just completely sours you on the moment. Monathin posted:The obnoxiousness is the point. It's a solo duty designed to have friction. You can dislike it all you want but it's pretty intentionally meant to catch in your mental gears and gently caress with you. Big vibes of:  (you're not really wrong, but...)
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Monathin posted:The obnoxiousness is the point. It's a solo duty designed to have friction. You can dislike it all you want but it's pretty intentionally meant to catch in your mental gears and gently caress with you. I won't get super into it but that whole expansion had an issue where I just did not buy into any of its antagonists. Crazy moments, crazy settings, but the villains left a ton to be desired and I think that probably bled into that quest for me. Was tired of their bullshit before that quest, unaware of all the bullshit that lay before me.
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In from the cold ruled, and I have no clue that people found it difficult. Just don't fight every battle foreheads.
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Shinjobi posted:I won't get super into it but that whole expansion had an issue where I just did not buy into any of its antagonists. Crazy moments, crazy settings, but the villains left a ton to be desired and I think that probably bled into that quest for me. Was tired of their bullshit before that quest, unaware of all the bullshit that lay before me. Skill issue.
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I...uh...huh. Nah the antagonists sucked
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that's a freaking mirror you're looking at and the mirror has pictures of your friends and loved ones also
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Fandaniel (Amon Version) rules but Fandaniel (Hermes Version) was fuckin lame
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Jul 11, 2023 22:10
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Woolie's hatred of everything Gundam SEED makes me feel better
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Iirc Woolie prefers subtitles so perhaps he just hasn't heard the magnificence of Dub Rau.
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Shinjobi posted:Woolie's hatred of everything Gundam SEED makes me feel better That conversation is amazing because they refer to Wing as modern and get through the whole thing without acknowledging that Witch exists
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is there a reason Woolie doesnt use drive impact at all in this SF6 world tour lp? is that like a contentious topic in the street fighter community
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mistermojo posted:is there a reason Woolie doesnt use drive impact at all in this SF6 world tour lp? is that like a contentious topic in the street fighter community i think it's because you have to unlock it in world tour mode, and he hasn't yet
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Rody One Half posted:That conversation is amazing because they refer to Wing as modern and get through the whole thing without acknowledging that Witch exists lol incredible Red Metal posted:i think it's because you have to unlock it in world tour mode, and he hasn't yet Yeah, it takes a minute before you can unlock meter in WT
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Im pretty sure I had it from the start, I remember all the characters having their own fun color and also me using it to cheese enemies.
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mistermojo posted:Im pretty sure I had it from the start, I remember all the characters having their own fun color and also me using it to cheese enemies. Your memory is wrong https://www.reddit.com/r/StreetFighter/comments/13y4565/cant_use_drive_impactparry_in_world_tour_mode/
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Tae posted:Your memory is wrong crazy. well thats memory for you
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Shinji2015 posted:lol incredible
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Rody One Half posted:I'm genuinely kind of shocked Woolie isn't actually a gunpla guy because most of his opinions directly map to them It's very easy to be a gunpla-like guy without being A gunpla guy. Gunpla is a lot of money, and maybe work if you're one of the few that actually builds your kits.
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It's not as much of a buy in as a lot of hobbies, but doing it right takes time, especially if you get one of the really detailed kits. I feel like Woolie has some Gundam but I don't know if he built them or what. They're certainly within his ability to make but yeah, it can be a lot of time and he doesn't seem to have a ton of that lying around.
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im not a "gunpla" dude but i feel like if you are buying em and dont build them yourself you are an entire-rear end clown. power to the people getting paid to put them together for clowns tho i guess
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