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it also just generally fits zenos' perception of swords in a funny way. most other people in ff14 are hugely dedicated to their profession, to their tools and what those tools mean to them. a master sword fighter will have lots to wax poetic about blades, their construction and how they can be used, the many forms they might take. the swords don't mean anything to zenos. he has no feelings about them beyond how good they are at cutting. he might show a bit of respect for a finely crafted sword he's just acquired but it's just for that, how good the sword can hold up to his insane strength. zenos views most things as just tools to help him better enjoy the slaughter. the sword golf bag isn't filled with his favorite, most indispensable swords, it's just three swords he can choose between depending on how he wants to murder someone. if one of the swords breaks then that's that, he just tosses it aside to go get a new one
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They should have let Zenos keep the golf bag and the One Piece Admiral outfit.
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Since it's topical, I think we should all take a moment and say "Thank you" to Zenos. Thank you, Zenos
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The Colonel posted:it also just generally fits zenos' perception of swords in a funny way. most other people in ff14 are hugely dedicated to their profession, to their tools and what those tools mean to them. a master sword fighter will have lots to wax poetic about blades, their construction and how they can be used, the many forms they might take. the swords don't mean anything to zenos. he has no feelings about them beyond how good they are at cutting. he might show a bit of respect for a finely crafted sword he's just acquired but it's just for that, how good the sword can hold up to his insane strength. zenos views most things as just tools to help him better enjoy the slaughter. the sword golf bag isn't filled with his favorite, most indispensable swords, it's just three swords he can choose between depending on how he wants to murder someone. if one of the swords breaks then that's that, he just tosses it aside to go get a new one Yeah, there's a (somewhat funny) scene where Zenos is actually trying to find a weapon that evokes some sort of feeling or emotion in him and you get to see the weapon collection he has and it's full to the brim of incredibly powerful legendary swords (many of which are recognizable as high-end weapons the WoL would have had to fight a godlike being to get) and they're all just discarded on the floor like trash because he can't get himself to care about them. And when he eventually picks a weapon it isn't some legendary super tool. He picks a scythe not because it's the best weapon there but because it's the only weapon that genuinely made him feel something. (Because he may use the whole sword but he only needs the EDGE.)
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Looper posted:i had the same itch a while ago for game boy stuff and looked through lists of translation patches downloading anything that looked neat. i uh, haven't played most of these for more than a few minutes and i'm sure you've heard of most of them before but here's what i got Haven't heard of most of them, in fact, and didn't know there was a Survival Kids 2, awesome. Will add them to my list. Tangentially related, I just beat the first MM Battle Network. Does the series improve? I enjoyed it, though I dunno if I'd want to play another one if it's pretty much exactly the same. Thoughts on it: - Power Plant really does suck. Who thought putting a health-limiting thing, a lot of backtracking, and invisible paths all in one level was a good idea? I never did learn how the puzzles in that level worked, I just looked them up. - Some wildly swingy battles. Mostly easy ones, then you'd get three enemies that just fill the field while stealing your space and you're just hosed. - "Hey honey I'm gonna put our dead toddler's dna in this program so that it'll functionally be the same as him, that makes sense and also you don't mind right? Righto. It may also connect its lifeforce with our living son. Probably won't come up." - Still dunno what the villains' plan was beyond, uh, destroying everything with a rocket...that has a program on it? - Really likes the graphics. The design of the sprites, the sorta soft shading of them, really appealed to me for some reason.
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Oh yeah I do like how the villains were like "well you defeated my program, guess you stopped me," because this is a world in which violence doesn't exist (just violence between programs) Edit: Sorry I love how goofy this game is. Like how the government water works which is also a 'science building' and also a power plant has a lower level where, when power is cut to the building, is apparently airtight enough that it isn't long before everyone in it will simply die from asphyxiation. Morpheus fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Dec 7, 2023 |
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Dec 7, 2023 23:35
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Just wait until the sequels.
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Generally speaking the sequels are just improved across the board. The internet is less mazelike, dungeon gimmicks are less frustrating, bosses are faster pace and challenging, and the deckbuilding gets deeper. You also start getting deeper character customization where you'll unlock forms that favor certain decks and playstyles. I would wholeheartedly recommend them! (You should probably skip 4 though.)
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battle network 1 is basically a rough draft for the rest of the series, 2 is a massive improvement and aside from 4 (supposedly, haven't played it) the rest all improve on what 1 established
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Is it necessary to play the BN games in order? like if BN1 is that rough compared to the rest of the series, are you better off skipping the first one, or is it sort of necessary for context?
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Morpheus posted:- Still dunno what the villains' plan was beyond, uh, destroying everything with a rocket...that has a program on it? His motives are expanded in later games but from the outset he's nursing a grudge that his robotics program's funding was cut off in favor of Lan's grandfather's research into networks and developing the PET, and his scheme is largely predicated on getting revenge on his rival('s family).
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MockingQuantum posted:Is it necessary to play the BN games in order? like if BN1 is that rough compared to the rest of the series, are you better off skipping the first one, or is it sort of necessary for context? You can absolutely skip to any one of them, they are all designed to onboard new players. Its just mechanical advances can make it difficult to go backwards to older games once you've played the later ones. Like as a kid I started with BN2 and never had an issue.
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MockingQuantum posted:Is it necessary to play the BN games in order? like if BN1 is that rough compared to the rest of the series, are you better off skipping the first one, or is it sort of necessary for context? BN has a minor ongoing plot and returning characters. You don't strictly need to play it, it's a kids story, but you'll miss some of the callbacks. Certainly not the end of the world.
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Snooze Cruise posted:Rogue Trader out today! Pretty excited about it, not a big 40k fan or anything but the rogue trader section of the setting I always found super interesting. Oh man the character creator has so many choices for building your char. Time to make a custom char without knowing what I'm doing 
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I like BN1, it's not even particularly long to finish the story compared to later entries, and a friend who'd never played the series started with it in the Collection and had a good time with it. The thing that's particularly rough is going back to it from later games and missing all the improved QoL added to them. You don't have to play it to understand the overarching plot or anything, though.
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MockingQuantum posted:Is it necessary to play the BN games in order? like if BN1 is that rough compared to the rest of the series, are you better off skipping the first one, or is it sort of necessary for context? even for a mega man series the connecting threads of battle network's narrative are pretty weak. only 1-3 are really important to each other and even then they're definitely written to be playable each on their own, the most interesting beats of battle network 1 are just kinda treated as matter of fact in the later games battle network 4 and 5's plot is literally about wily's even eviler stepson. like so evil that even wily thinks he's going a bit too far. that's the funniest plot connection. battle network 5 and 6 are technically connected by one major character but barrel is pretty inconsistent between games which kinda shows how not planned it all was
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MockingQuantum posted:Is it necessary to play the BN games in order? like if BN1 is that rough compared to the rest of the series, are you better off skipping the first one, or is it sort of necessary for context? here's what you need to know about battle network 1: -lan is a plucky kid -mega man is one of a kind compared to other digital robot masters (net navis) -mayl, dex, yai, and a former bad guy named higsby are lan's pals -the bad guys were led by AU dr wily -lan's grandfather is AU dr light -roll is mayl's net navi, guts man is dex's net navi, proto man is the rude rival chaud's net navi -(actual plot twist) mega man is one of a kind and can't be backed up like other navis because he is actually lan's twin brother, digitized after death by their father
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if you just wanna play Battle Network id just play 3 and 6
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battle chip challenge is also kind of neat if you want a weird spinoff with some mildly fun character ideas who actually get to have a bit of focus since lan isn't expressly the main character
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A Sometimes Food posted:I feel like there's a significant chunk of the audience who just do not want that poo poo in the game but are perfectly happy buying a game if it's gone in their local version and that's not a hypocritical position? Yeah, it's like: I'm not out here trying to organize a boycott because of a part I don't care for, but I'd still rather not look at it given the choice.
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Looper posted:i had the same itch a while ago for game boy stuff and looked through lists of translation patches downloading anything that looked neat. i uh, haven't played most of these for more than a few minutes and i'm sure you've heard of most of them before but here's what i got blue sphere's tl got finished?!
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thats fine, im talking about people who literally are doing that.if you arent doing the thing i mentioned in my post, the post isnt about you
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Morpheus posted:I'm trying out some older games on SNES, gameboy/color/advance, etc, at the moment looking for recommendations of good games that were never officially translated but got translation patches later on. All those "Hidden Gems of X System!" lists never take those into account. The Cyber Knight games for SNES were pretty interesting as obscure fan-translated stuff goes; sci-fi RPGs where you explore the galaxy in a spaceship and have mecha battles. Tonally they kinda feel like Star Trek TOS, with mysterious space gods and planets where everybody is weirdly dedicated to one specific idea and all of that kind of thing.
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Leraika posted:blue sphere's tl got finished?! No I don't believe it did
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it's a broken machine translation that got leaked online
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I doubt they'll do it but I'd love Blue Sphere to be DLC for SO2 Remake
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SatoshiMiwa posted:I doubt they'll do it but I'd love Blue Sphere to be DLC for SO2 Remake That'd be real cool
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i wanna get into the original phantasy star series, but i've heard that the tl for ps2 isn't really great. are there any patches that make the tl closer to the original script?
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It's not that bad really, you could play the translated PS2 remake instead which is probably a bit more accurate and expanded
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Ytlaya posted:Since it's topical, I think we should all take a moment and say "Thank you" to Zenos.
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Ytlaya posted:Since it's topical, I think we should all take a moment and say "Thank you" to Zenos. He deserves it
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Zereth posted:you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to" zenos This person did not say "That, I cannot deny.". Shame them. Shame them for it.
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Holy poo poo a new MANA GAME
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Ok, I'm up to Kirara's chapter in Blue Reflection Tie and if I end up dropping this game halfway through it's not going to be because of the combat per se, it's going to be because of the loving sand You need it for everything and the only way to get it is endlessly grinding rare drops in worlds you've already cleared, and there's no Atelier-style autokill so it takes forever
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEe8nO6xsGw
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Meowywitch posted:Holy poo poo a new MANA GAME it's so beautiful...
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obscure SE series fans keep winning
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The Colonel posted:it also just generally fits zenos' perception of swords in a funny way. most other people in ff14 are hugely dedicated to their profession, to their tools and what those tools mean to them. a master sword fighter will have lots to wax poetic about blades, their construction and how they can be used, the many forms they might take. the swords don't mean anything to zenos. he has no feelings about them beyond how good they are at cutting. he might show a bit of respect for a finely crafted sword he's just acquired but it's just for that, how good the sword can hold up to his insane strength. zenos views most things as just tools to help him better enjoy the slaughter. the sword golf bag isn't filled with his favorite, most indispensable swords, it's just three swords he can choose between depending on how he wants to murder someone. if one of the swords breaks then that's that, he just tosses it aside to go get a new one I was gonna say, I like the sword sheath but it bothered me that he wasn't holding the holster itself instead of one of the swords. But now I know that's an enormous character flaw of his that he doesn't care about any of the swords.
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