|
I actually got vanilla Atelier Rarona in an unplayable state my first run because of the time limit. They are way more lenient now.
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2024 20:32
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 24, 2024 06:40 |
|
|
the original atelier rorona was just an infamously rough game for the series, the ones before it are more lenient too
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2024 20:35
|
|
|
Yeah, Rorona really felt like they were trying to add a bit more bite to the series at the time (or maybe just were really rough going into full 3D.) I actually disliked Rorona so much I gave up on the series until Escha & Logy.
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2024 20:37
|
|
|
The Colonel posted:finished king's field 2. insane that this was the second game from ever made It's a great game and it's also hilarious how the first three King's Field games have such a fast movement compared to King's Field IV, the game where turning 360 degrees around takes more than 10 seconds.
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2024 20:41
|
|
|
while all the original Arland trilogy are to an extent Rorona especially feels like it was designed to be failed and replayed with your increased game knowledge in the style of some otome games
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2024 20:48
|
|
|
Have you played Echo Knight yet
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2024 21:16
|
|
|
no i'm going in release order
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2024 21:41
|
|
|
the only atelier game id say has an especially stringent time limit is totori, if youre going for the true ending you have a bunch of mini-deadlines that the game only half informs you of
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2024 21:47
|
|
|
checked out monomyth in the steam next fest demos just cause of the king's field angle. i have no idea why this game is angling itself on king's field enough to use the exact same title font when it plays nothing like it. at the very least i don't think i've ever wanted a king's field game with bad stealth
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2024 22:06
|
|
|
Tequila Bob posted:Maybe they're trying to fix some of S2's English bugs, and it's taking a while? That's the optimistic view I'm gonna take. Hoo yeah, Suikoden 2 is maybe my favorite game of all time but I never realised how many bugs it has until I saw a patched iso. quote:Armor Attribute Fixes: Adjusts armor attributes and strips/restores resistances that were applied to incorrect items.
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2024 22:08
|
|
|
Xenoblade 2: Never has there been a game where I got more lost by consulting the in-game map and compass.
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2024 22:13
|
|
|
Inspector Gesicht posted:Xenoblade 2: Never has there been a game where I got more lost by consulting the in-game map and compass. The map was even worse on launch!
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2024 22:16
|
|
|
There are like 2 quests in XB 2 I refuse to complete because I spent so long trying to figure out where they start using the map and it wasted like the whole play session.
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2024 22:28
|
|
|
I'm guessing you're not thinking of the quest where you dispatch a party member to elsewhere for sixteen cumulative hours?
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2024 22:33
|
|
|
its mostly that one zone, the ingame map isnt perfect but its a lot better in other places
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2024 22:40
|
|
|
Endorph posted:its mostly that one zone, the ingame map isnt perfect but its a lot better in other places Yeah 90% of the time it’s fine. Inspector Gesicht posted:I'm guessing you're not thinking of the quest where you dispatch a party member to elsewhere for sixteen cumulative hours? That’s not what I’m talking about but I never saw that blade again after sending them off on that quest.
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2024 22:56
|
|
|
I think at some point after 2017 game designers agreed that if a quest asks you to kill giant crabs for their drops, even having a marker pointing to said crab, then the loving crab should drop its item on death 100% of the time. I never played more than thirty minutes of NieR. Inspector Gesicht fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Feb 15, 2024 |
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2024 23:02
|
|
|
grats on not playing nier because you morally reject the least important part of the game
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2024 23:20
|
|
|
I don't remember any crabs in Nier
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2024 23:22
|
|
|
Inspector Gesicht posted:I think at some point after 2017 game designers agreed that if a quest asks you to kill giant crabs for their drops, even having a marker pointing to said crab, then the loving crab should drop its item on death 100% of the time. it's a really good game
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2024 00:01
|
|
|
i just finished final fantasy 1 via pixel remaster, that is also a really good game
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2024 00:02
|
|
|
Sakurazuka posted:I don't remember any crabs in Nier 
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2024 00:02
|
|
|
The crabs were in Xeno 2. I dropped NieR very early on, so I never got to try the fishing minigame that is fondly remembered, if not played.
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2024 00:05
|
|
|
XB 2 has some issues, but it’s one of a kind. XB 3 dialed it back which it probably needs but I loved getting lost in the XB 2 systems.
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2024 00:08
|
|
|
I really liked the XB2 combat, far more than any other XB game. It wasn't explained very well and I needed to turn to YouTube to understand how the heck it was supposed to work, but once I did it worked fine and I had a lot of fun with the game.
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2024 00:28
|
|
|
I really needed to immerse myself in Xenoblade 2 to get into it, but I really started to enjoy it once I began to get a grasp on its mechanics. I think the game rewards investment if you're willing to make it.
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2024 00:31
|
|
|
XC2 also has the best challenge mode content out of 1/2/3 by a good margin imo.
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2024 00:33
|
|
|
After finishing Parasite Eve I can't help but think of how similar it is to the first Raidou game. Both battle systems are struggling so much between their action and RPG sides that the whole thing ends up feeling jank. I wish that they had found a way to refine it better instead of ditching the whole system for 2 with Parasite Eve. If you'd opened up the customization options and made the spells more diverse you could've really gone somewhere with the system. Maybe give Aya a mitochondrial enhanced partner in battle so you aren't always leaning on her for all roles in combat. I do appreciate that despite how silly the story is science wise the actors on it all treat the situation with the seriousness it deserves. It might be the single most effective you ever see a bureaucracy in an RPG with the management of evacuating all of Manhattan and actively working to take Eve out, despite being totally outmatched. Aya herself was a little bland almost totally because the plot is so wrapped up around Maya and Melissa and escalates so quickly that you don't get a lot of time to see her not in go go go mode. Daniel was good for most the game although I question why his son didn't get evacuated immediately, but the man totally won me over with the helicopter bit, that poo poo owned. Maeda sucked, dime store otacon. Eve was an interesting villain, very theatrical a trait I assume she inadvertently caught from Melissa. Klamp sucked. The atmosphere was killer for most of the non sewer sections but I wish there had been more like the start of Day 3 where you run around abandoned streets and loot shops for supplies to match the mitochondrial creatures. Nineties New York is a vibe, Christmas in New York is a vibe, and abandoned New York is a vibe. I just wish there had been more chances to experience that.
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2024 01:02
|
|
|
Inspector Gesicht posted:The crabs were in Xeno 2. I dropped NieR very early on, so I never got to try the fishing minigame that is fondly remembered, if not played. the fishing minigame is fine. the part that's remembered is someone comically failing to understand basic directions or try changing fishing spots, as a fishing minigame it's a grind but not one the game ever asks you to do for anything more than completionism. you got weirdly tied up on parts of nier the game itself barely tries to concern you with
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2024 01:08
|
|
|
the wacky science stuff in parasite eve is hard to judge for me because literally all of it is taken from the book. like all of parasite eve is them taking a really lovely book and making a sequel out of it that is 90% its own thing and, way better than the book. everything original to the game is the cast and they're far and away the good part of it
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2024 01:11
|
|
|
The goofy science stuff is honestly also just 100% in tone for the kind of story it is telling. It isn't really aiming for realism so much as just like the same sort of tone you get when something horrible happens in a film because humans use 100% of their brain or unlock a secret genome or whatever. It isn't realistic but honestly PE is basically a cheesy sci-fi/horror film turned into a game.
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2024 01:21
|
|
|
parasite eve is the only ps1 rpg with a dungeon revolving around preventing the acquisition of a sperm bank
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2024 01:26
|
|
|
Not gaming related in the slightest but related to goofy science in weird/bad books, have any of y'all read the novels the movie The Ring/Ringu are originally based on? Because they loving go places. Like, the fact that the tape kills via a mutated strain of psychic smallpox is the least weird/bizarre thing about them.
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2024 01:36
|
|
|
Loop is an insanely bad book
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2024 01:38
|
|
|
kirbysuperstar posted:Loop is an insanely bad book Yeah, but it was so completely unhinged, especially when your only point of reference is the movie, that I couldn't stop reading it. It was like watching a house burn down but then it turns out to be a meth lab and explodes.
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2024 01:41
|
|
|
Unicorn Overlord preview https://www.rpgfan.com/2024/02/15/unicorn-overlord-hands-on-preview/
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2024 02:05
|
|
|
 
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2024 02:20
|
|
|
I think that may be the first time I've seen an owl be designed with Sexy Lady aesthetic instead of Wise Old Man aesthetic.
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2024 03:32
|
|
|
ImpAtom posted:I think that may be the first time I've seen an owl be designed with Sexy Lady aesthetic instead of Wise Old Man aesthetic. Go watch under the Silver lake
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2024 03:33
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 24, 2024 06:40 |
|
|
got to the point where I can't just blind spam attack in Crisis Core, got a few gameovers when I just spammed, and got caught in an AoE and died instantly. i do hate when I try to rush the map and avoid the mob spawns, if I escape, I take one step and I get pulled back into the random encounter, so i have to just kill them to 'reset my encounter timer' anyway. Really annoying when I'm missing one chest and can't figure out where I missed it.
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2024 03:37
|
|
