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The Colonel posted:ff16 was just a confluence of being too slavishly devoted to trying to recreate ideas from final fantasy tactics, feeling too uncomfortable with the idea of getting as aesthetically weird as ff14 does too often, having a writer who historically always struggles with structuring narrative and character arcs and has a tendency to just throw in characters and ideas without giving them proper development, and the combat design being way too fixated on making every fight this extended minutes long life or death brawl instead of letting you just smash through weak enemies sometimes It's funny because someone in the FFXIV thread was complaining about how little voice acting there was in this patch. It does seem lose/lose at times.
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FFXVI def be chasing Tactics's vibe and aesthetics to something of a detriment but I never really felt like it was that 'devoted' to recreating its ideas or anything.
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While I don't think it's a fair 1 to 1 comparsion I did find it funny the FF14 6.1 to 6.5 patch cycle was much better about loner in a dark place learning to trust others and believe in friends than FF16 as the Colonel said. Between that and the raid series being a simple but fun story I'm getting hyped for expansion
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SyntheticPolygon posted:FFXVI def be chasing Tactics's vibe and aesthetics to something of a detriment but I never really felt like it was that 'devoted' to recreating its ideas or anything. 16 has ideas of its own but i feel like in what it takes from tactics it largely has the same odd missteps and, the writer did literally work on tactics, if only in side content that never saw a translation
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SatoshiMiwa posted:While I don't think it's a fair 1 to 1 comparsion I did find it funny the FF14 6.1 to 6.5 patch cycle was much better about loner in a dark place learning to trust others and believe in friends than FF16 as the Colonel said. Between that and the raid series being a simple but fun story I'm getting hyped for expansion This was the part of FFXVI's writing I thought was pretty solid tbf. The Colonel posted:16 has ideas of its own but i feel like in what it takes from tactics it largely has the same odd missteps and, the writer did literally work on tactics, if only in side content that never saw a translation Yeah, that's fair. I guess from the trailers and everything I was actually expecting more from Tactics than was actually in the game so i've left it feeling mostly like it was just leaning on it for worldbuilding and setting I guess. Not as much on plot or other aspects of the writing.
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What are you talking about. *Pauses, looks downwards, adjusts hat.* I don't think it was repetitive at all. *Pauses, looks downwards, adjusts hat.* Now then if you need me I must learn how another emotion works.
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It snuck up on me but Front Mission 2 comes out tomorrow, and it is in the unique position where this is 1) the only game in the series that did not get localized or fan-translated ever (besides maybe... Front Mission Alternative on the PS1 and some of the cellphone games), and 2) from the era where Squaresoft tried to flex a bit with the animations and gameplay, rather than how Front Mission 1 felt almost like a proof-of-concept SRPG. You don't really need to play through the first one to understand what happens in 2 I think, but there are some references/characters that show up.
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Excited for Front Mission 2. Its the only game in the mainline series I havent played yet. I talked to the publisher's discord person. The gameplay is supposedly more or less identical but the visuals are completely remade. Also it's a brand new translation.
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I did not hear remotely positive things about the UI from people that got advance copies. Like basic stuff where it show your range when you're about to attack.
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Is the Front Mission 1 remake any good?
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fridge corn posted:Is the Front Mission 1 remake any good? It's the same game as Front Mission 1 for Nintendo DS but with 3D graphics. Personally I prefer the pixel art. DS version is a remaster of the original SNES game so they updated the pixel art and special effects to make it look nicer and more detailed. If you can, play the DS version or emulate it. That's my opinion.
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I guess Compile Heart restructured and got Sega to give them the licence to have Sting make Madou Monogatari 4 What the
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kirbysuperstar posted:I guess Compile Heart restructured and got Sega to give them the licence to have Sting make Madou Monogatari 4
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kirbysuperstar posted:I hope they're both the 'good' types of sting games and not hyperdevotion noire type agreed, it's not a sting game without 3 different scrolling banners on screen with giant button prompts flying around
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kirbysuperstar posted:I guess Compile Heart restructured and got Sega to give them the licence to have Sting make Madou Monogatari 4 Huh. That owns honestly.
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Localize blaze union cowards
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Meowywitch posted:Localize blaze union cowards 
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Islands of the Caliph is giving me more Might and Magic than I initially expected. The fun is beginning to wear thin 9 hours in, but I still think I got excellent value for my money. The fast travel is cool, and it has enough friction to use that ships stay relevant. I am really curious about some of the stuff getting hinted at, probably a 50/50 I end up finishing this.
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Final Islands of the Caliph update? I was always a little concerned about the fact that you couldn’t backup your saves AND the game auto saved when you entered new regions. The game just pulled an impressively cruel trick that wiped out a full inventory of lategame items… and since it involved inter island travel, the save I made won’t let me get out of this. I do have items stored in chests on varied islands, and I actually did a quest earlier that made this dungeon relatively safe, but losing an inventory full of carefully stockpiled tools, rare weapons and armor, and 6 hours of money from trading goods as I explored is legit painful.
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get good B)
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kirbysuperstar posted:I guess Compile Heart restructured and got Sega to give them the licence to have Sting make Madou Monogatari 4 They just called it "Sei Madou Monogatari" cause they had the franchise name/rights but none of the characters cause they were still attached to Puyo Puyo which Sega owned.
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curse of the curry god was really loving bad, also what if satan was way creepier! wow!
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Were there any screenshots or concept art for MM4, because the art for Sei Madou Monogatari feels really flavorless compared to both classic Madou Monogatari and modern Puyo Puyo
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The article I saw had puyos, Carby and Oshare Bones I think but it have just been Puyotet2 or Quest art they sent over
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Front Mission 2 remake is pretty nice but you definitely need to do some reading for some of the game mechanics. Gfaqs has a good beginner guide for it. One thing I immediately tripped on was the EXP system. There's no way to grind Pilot EXP. Money is infinite but EXP isn't. If you don't use units evenly in battle, some of them will get left behind and feel very underpowered. What you want to do in general is keep your units grouped together so they can gang up on enemies (everything including moving, attacking, counterattacking and dodging requires action points so you can cripple an enemy unit really fast by attacking them with multiple units on your turn). So don't try to rush enemies with a single unit. Also all pilots have specialty (Melee, guns or long range weapons) and you only gain exp based on the weapon you are using so you probably don't want to multirole unless you know what you are doing. Also Missilers feel underpowered but they are still good for attacking non-Wanzer units like choppers and other vehicles. They require a lot of AP (6 to attack) to use so you can't move around a lot.
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I'm in the mood to play a good ol' classic rpg from Japan, which one should I play...
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A classic-style JRPG, or one that's actually from the pre-ps2 era?
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An actually elder one
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star ocean 2 edit: or Lennus/Paladin's Quest if you want a very old game with a lot of interesting ideas
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Terper posted:I'm in the mood to play a good ol' classic rpg from Japan, which one should I play... Romancing SaGa 3. The official English version is on current systems, and they didn't bork the sprites at all (unlike what they were doing with FF and CT re-releases a while back).
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There's also Front Mission 2, which is in English for the first time today.
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Can't go wrong with chrono trigger
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Join me in playing Dragon Quest VII.
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Terper posted:An actually elder one Dragon Quest 3
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Terper posted:I'm in the mood to play a good ol' classic rpg from Japan, which one should I play... SMT I
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