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Party Members Nobody Used: Jacob, Mass Effect. Cheats on a romanced Shepard between games. Painfully bland aside from memetic phrase. Not an alien or a robot. Haru, Persona 5. Introduced after most of the party bonding scenes, and gets little to no development. Vincent, Final Fantasy VII. Has only two dedicated cutscenes, as most of his story was left on the cutting room floor. Limit Break renders him useless. Necrophiliac and middle-aged goth. Robb and Egil, Chained Echoes. Robb is a deliberate copy of Argath, the snotty guy from Tactics. None of his skills can hit multiple enemies. Egil is supposed to be a tank, but he shows up at the two-thirds mark, too late to introduce any change to the player's arsenal.
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I first played FF7 as a moody preteen. I absolutely used Vincent
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Sep 6, 2023 18:44
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Yes.
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Crowetron posted:I first played FF7 as a moody preteen. I absolutely used Vincent
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Sep 6, 2023 18:48
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I used Vincent and Caith sith for basically the entire game.
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Sep 6, 2023 18:49
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YO! Sea of Stars has a 'true end' that requires you to do a bunch of sidequests! I thought it was pretty rad because I think that getting Garl back was it's own reward but I figured I should let you all know about it!
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Sep 6, 2023 19:02
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I used Egil in Chained Echoes because he was a fat bird
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Sep 6, 2023 19:04
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i used Vincent for the same reason i used Sprigg in Chrono Cross: turning into monsters is cool as hell
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Sep 6, 2023 19:07
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Party Members Nobody Used: I used Haru in my party nonstop once I got her and lol if you think every single kid in the 90s didn't slampick Gun Vampire Monster Man into their party in FF7 the moment they got him. I used Robb a fair bit too. I tried Egil but by that point I had a party I enjoyed.
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Sep 6, 2023 19:08
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my first final FF7 party was Cloud, Cid, and Vincent
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Sep 6, 2023 19:09
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Egil is just there for if for some reason you don't want to use the incredibly powerful lesbian samurai thief dodge tank, possibly because you're a bad person.
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Sep 6, 2023 19:10
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Haru was a beast with her Gun potential.
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Sep 6, 2023 19:15
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I used Haru cause she looks cool and has a cute hairstyle.
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Sep 6, 2023 19:29
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Got to the General X rematch in Temtem and I think I need to take a break lol. He is kicking my drat rear end and I gotta grind up some better terms I guess. He totally input reads with the swaps which sucks too...
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Sep 6, 2023 19:42
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WrightOfWay posted:Alpha Protocol's lockpicking minigame with a controller is the best lockpicking minigame I've played. All the access minigames on keyboard are godawful to make up for it.
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Sep 6, 2023 20:07
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The best part about Vincent is when you fight the first boss after you get him and you're like aw yea time to limit break and then it absorbs most of his damage and you can't control him anymore
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Sep 6, 2023 20:28
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Party Members Nobody Used:
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Sep 6, 2023 21:17
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Haru has a grenade launcher and an axe. She was an instant recruit in the party and never left, be it P5 or P5R.
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Sep 6, 2023 21:21
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Crowetron posted:I first played FF7 as a moody preteen. I absolutely used Vincent i first played ff7 as an adult like four years ago and i used vincent
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Sep 6, 2023 21:45
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Telingly, nobody can defend Jacob.
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Sep 6, 2023 21:46
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Okage Shadow King has the problem of recruiting your final party member before the final dungeon. Also he's the resident thief character, so he sucks in combat but can steal items from enemies. Needless to say I didn't use him very much, as it would mean dropping Rosalyn or Big Bull
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Sep 6, 2023 21:48
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Telingly, nobody can defend Jacob. Jacob was just too many strikes for me. Dude's questline being Welcome To Rape Planet, Population: My Dad was bad enough
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Sep 6, 2023 21:53
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Jacob is also really boring mechanically and because of how ME2 handles difficulty his powerset is largely useless on the higher levels. He also suffers a ton from having been a bland main character himself in the little mobile bridge game between ME1 and 2 where he got like an actual arc and has settled into stasis by the time ME2 starts.
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Sep 6, 2023 22:01
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ImpAtom posted:Jacob was just too many strikes for me. Dude's questline being Welcome To Rape Planet, Population: My Dad was bad enough Yeah... I took that Kanye-looking mother fucker to find his dad and I was not expecting what we got out of that His Dad being Rape King was awful enough, but Jacob's reaction wasn't so much horror and anger but just... oddly petulance like "you left me and my mom, I hate you dad!!!"
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Sep 6, 2023 22:02
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There should have been a volus party members called Racto St'eve who tells you, 'No, I don't have any personal baggage to sort out. I'm a hired professional. wheeze'
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Sep 6, 2023 22:02
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I tried actually using Jacob last time I played ME2 and benched him pretty quickly since I was on one of the higher difficulties and he was kind of useless. Then outside of combat he's incredibly boring and his personal quest led to a really gross reveal that he didn't actually seem to care about outside of "you left me".
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Sep 6, 2023 22:48
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Haru, Persona 5. Introduced after most of the party bonding scenes, and gets little to no development.
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Sep 6, 2023 23:06
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Endorph posted:haru gets little development, unlike the other p5 party members who get development like [SCENE MISSING] Hey Akechi and Kasumi get some okay writing. You know, in the one version that's largely as segmented off from the other writing as possible.
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Sep 6, 2023 23:14
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Haru was good in strikers
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Sep 6, 2023 23:21
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kirbysuperstar posted:Haru was good in strikers Everyone was good in Strikers, tbh
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Sep 6, 2023 23:32
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I could probably write an entire research paper on P5's shortcomings but one of them was really highlighted in Strikers too - this group of teenage criminals-who-don't-do-anything has no friction whatsoever so they're really boring as a unit. seriously, all those teenage outcasts are so well-adjusted it freaks me out. just totally unbelievable.
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Sep 6, 2023 23:47
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it's been the case since persona 4 but i feel like persona 4's atmosphere was such that people were more willing to just get lost in that and not really pay attention to little things like, nobody really being much of a person so much as the vague idea of a person the writer heard about second hand once
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Sep 6, 2023 23:51
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Rockstar Massacre posted:I could probably write an entire research paper on P5's shortcomings but one of them was really highlighted in Strikers too - this group of teenage criminals-who-don't-do-anything has no friction whatsoever so they're really boring as a unit.
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Sep 6, 2023 23:58
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ryuji and makoto have funny arguments in makoto's intro dungeon but unfortunately makoto accidentally fell into a personality eraser machine on her way out of her intro dungeon
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Sep 6, 2023 23:58
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Ryuji is cool
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The 7th Guest posted:that segment was definitely not super balanced, the sky dungeon with zale was a rough time and maybe one of the very very very few times i got a game over It's funny that all of my game overs come in normal fights. Then it moves you back to the save point in that area and you're full health and can USUALLY beat the fight. The Colonel posted:it's been the case since persona 4 but i feel like persona 4's atmosphere was such that people were more willing to just get lost in that and not really pay attention to little things like, nobody really being much of a person so much as the vague idea of a person the writer heard about second hand once Man Persona 4 is one of the few jrpgs I've played where I feel properly disgusted by what it's actively saying to me
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Sep 7, 2023 00:19
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i cant really get mad at persona 4 anymore because on a fundamental level it mostly just feels like a game that does not think
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Sep 7, 2023 00:25
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the only thing persona 4 manages to actively say is 'no fat chicks' yeah
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Sep 7, 2023 00:26
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Mystery Solving Teens deserves better
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Bongo Bill posted:Mystery Solving Teens deserves better its called riverdale
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