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Finally made it to the saucer, in 1998 I was but a young man and I ignored my girlfriend for a few weeks when I found out ps1 existed and a game called ff7 existed, this game brings back good memories 
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It really doesn't make much sense how the black robed dudes are at some of these locations and I think I love it?
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Mar 7, 2024 02:24
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Kale posted:Was the whole Republic of Junon a thing in the original game cause I always thought it was just supposed to be the main Shinra naval base on the continent or something and a city and population had just kind of grown around it as tends to happen with those things. I definitely don't remember anything about it being a formerly independent Republic that went to war with Shinra and lost like Wutai definitely was in the OG. So this was bothering me before so I did some research. The "Republic of Junon" as in that title for it and its general size is a new thing but it's built off something from the original game where the city beneath Junon was an established fishing village and port that Shinra took over, converted into a military base, and built a Mako Reactor at. So basically it is there in the original game and the basic premise is the same, they just fleshed it out a bit to make it a bit more coherent.
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Mar 7, 2024 02:29
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Gologle posted:It really doesn't make much sense how the black robed dudes are at some of these locations and I think I love it?
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Mar 7, 2024 02:30
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ImpAtom posted:So this was bothering me before so I did some research. Was there any dialogue about this in the OG?
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Mar 7, 2024 02:36
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ImpAtom posted:Aw man. I loved that fight. Jimbot posted:Can't do the level 40 colosseum fight at 32. Can get past the first part but the second fight can't allow for errors. Cloud keeps getting bodied. If you control Aerith you can hide behind shields and laugh your way to a slow and tedious victory if you desired. Will come back to this one later on. Arist posted:I've been in Chapter 9 for over a dozen hours Kale posted:Was the whole Republic of Junon a thing in the original game cause I always thought it was just supposed to be the main Shinra naval base on the continent or something and a city and population had just kind of grown around it as tends to happen with those things. I definitely don't remember anything about it being a formerly independent Republic that went to war with Shinra and lost like Wutai definitely was in the OG.
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Mar 7, 2024 02:37
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I am having fun, almost 40 hours in, recently hit Chapter 8, but feel like I'm still terrible at combat (Normal difficulty). I get by and die pretty seldom, but I feel like I take way more damage than I should and burn through more consumables than is ideal. I guess I should spend some time experimenting with things in the simulator.
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Mar 7, 2024 02:49
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mst4k posted:Was there any dialogue about this in the OG? Yep, quite a lot of it, at least for the original game. If you talk to the NPCs in Under Junon they basically talk exclusively about how much they hate their port and fishing village has turned into a polluted hellhole. Everything I said there is from original FF7. (Hell, it's Priscillia's entire thing. She hates Shinra because her grandparents used to talk about how beautiful the city was before Shinra built Junon above it and she distrusts the party before they rescue her because she assumed they were with Shinra.) "There's nothing here now... But it used to be a busy port." "For the past few decades, the only thing I've been hearing about is the Shinra. I miss the times when we used to talk only about fish..." "Grandpa and grandma told me this beach was beautiful when they were small. But after the Shinra built that city above, the sun stopped shining here, and the water got polluted... I was raised on that story and hate Shinra so much, I could die!" So what Rebirth does is basically take the idea and expands it outwards, with Crow's Nest being effectively combining Fort Condor and Junon into one more cohesive whole ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Mar 7, 2024 |
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Mar 7, 2024 02:51
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UP AND ADAM posted:The Mangahanata or whatever book stores are stunningly pointless, except for providing more of that FF7 flavor in the one with the creepy owner employing 3 of the same type of speccy assistant girls I will say I enjoyed the ladies in the lower Junon bookstore who were looking for erotica.
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Mar 7, 2024 02:51
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Also with regards to Red XIII (minor spoiler around Cosmo Canyon) Red XIII actually has different dialogue for almost every unique line he has post-Cosmo Canyon where his dialogue is made to sound more casual in the original game. The translation absolutely butchers this since it just ends up slightly rearranging words, but "Red XIII's voice distinctly changes once you reach Cosmo Canyon" is also there in the original FF7. I genuinely had no idea Red had new dialogue for almost everything post Cosmo Canyon because I always did things as they came.
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Mar 7, 2024 02:57
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I swear I remember a piece of dialogue that said something like "Shinra discovered mako 5 years ago" and just nodded along like it was a detail from OG FF7 they were using without really interrogating.
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Mar 7, 2024 02:58
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Quinton posted:I am having fun, almost 40 hours in, recently hit Chapter 8, but feel like I'm still terrible at combat (Normal difficulty). If you're taking too much damage, you might not be switching enough, or you're probably trying to dodge everything. Block more. Enemy attacks track way better than they did in Remake, so often you'll dodge and get hit anyway. Focus on avoiding attacks that have the exclamation point in their nameplate, and otherwise, block. With folio upgrades and the right materia setups, characters like Cloud, Barret, and Red XIII can essentially block forever without any real risk of dying. If switching too often is annoying, or not your preferred playstyle, consider using the Auto Unique Ability, Auto Cast, and Auto Weapon Ability materia for companion characters you don't like to play. It isn't as sophisticated as Gambits from FF12, but your party members won't just sit there doing nothing, which they will frequently do if you don't have these materia allocated.
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I am switching between characters, though perhaps should do it more often. Probably not blocking enough, but when I do block it's not clear it's actually helping much. I expect I'm doing it wrong.
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Mar 7, 2024 03:04
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The ATB block materia is choice for two reasons. One: free ATB, wonderful. Two: if you aren't blocking attacks now, you will be with this equipped, so it's good brain training.
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Mar 7, 2024 03:04
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gently caress, I see what people were complaining about with the crunches mini game. Having to rapid tap L2 while the adaptive trigger is active is goddamn sadistic. Just clearing the basic version was rough for me.
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Mar 7, 2024 03:07
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JBP posted:The ATB block materia is choice for two reasons. One: free ATB, wonderful. Two: if you aren't blocking attacks now, you will be with this equipped, so it's good brain training.
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Mar 7, 2024 03:09
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ImpAtom posted:Awesome Hey thanks for posting this, going to send this to a good friend of mine who is a FF lore wizard. Much appreciated.
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Mar 7, 2024 03:29
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Arist posted:I've been in Chapter 9 for over a dozen hours Some of these chapters are really loving long, chapter 9 is one of them. Or at least they feel long. Chapter 11 also feels like it drags on forever.
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Mar 7, 2024 03:49
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Is Gravity useful for anything? It seems really bad
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Mar 7, 2024 03:52
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Tricking little kids who play this game for a decade+
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Mar 7, 2024 03:54
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Mostly done with the fourth region and becoming further convinced that Cait Sith might be the second strongest character in the game. ATB gain is literally his only weakness.
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Mar 7, 2024 03:59
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I can’t seem to get the hang of QB. These opponents at the Crow’s Nest destroy me easily with either pre-built available to me. I’d make my own deck but I’d just be throwing random cards together since I can’t grasp the strategy.
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Mar 7, 2024 04:06
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SettingSun posted:I can’t seem to get the hang of QB. These opponents at the Crow’s Nest destroy me easily with either pre-built available to me. I’d make my own deck but I’d just be throwing random cards together since I can’t grasp the strategy. Go fast and occupy the board. Sometimes you can skip a turn to let them play a card knowing that you will then get to block their next node and use it. Basically mode cards on board = win for a long time.
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Mar 7, 2024 04:07
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im wrapping up ch 3. should i be buying materia out of the vending machines? i still just have one of each of the main elemental ones. i did break down and buy a second heal so i could comeback in hard fights a little easier. also, how the gently caress do you see what abilities a party member has? i'm juggling materia and don't want aero on a guy that has the free wind attack, etc.
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Mar 7, 2024 04:08
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Soul Glo posted:im wrapping up ch 3. should i be buying materia out of the vending machines? i still just have one of each of the main elemental ones. i did break down and buy a second heal so i could comeback in hard fights a little easier. Just buy the cool Chadley materia and if the machine has something you have 0 of, grab it. You get plenty of money. You get enough materia without buying doubles from the machines though.
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Mar 7, 2024 04:10
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JBP posted:Just buy the cool Chadley materia and if the machine has something you have 0 of, grab it. You get plenty of money. You get enough materia without buying doubles from the machines though. ok thanks, didnt wanna get to far to where i'd have to be farming ap later on to level up base level elementals
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Mar 7, 2024 04:12
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Yikes, the final sit-up thing sucked rear end! Finally beat it, but that blows. There were a few significant problems: - Adaptive trigger pressure stuff makes it *way* harder to keep a steady quick rhythm. This was probably the biggest problem after my first 5+ tries. - The visual difference between "tap L2/R2" and "hold L2/R2 half-down" was pointlessly subtle. After a while I learned to quickly tell the difference, bit they should have made it clearer. - The trigger pressure for the tapping parts is a straight-up accessibility problem. My fingers are very tired, and it's much harder to keep rhythm after you just tired your finger out tapping a button with resistance At least it's over!
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Mar 7, 2024 04:24
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SettingSun posted:I can’t seem to get the hang of QB. These opponents at the Crow’s Nest destroy me easily with either pre-built available to me. I’d make my own deck but I’d just be throwing random cards together since I can’t grasp the strategy. Waiting for your opponent to put a pawn on a square you can claim is the core of the game because then you can play and flip control of that square. And if they can’t play anywhere that’d let them reclaim it, then that square is yours and you can leave it empty while you go contest other pawns. Contrariwise, don’t put your pawns next to squares where your opponent has pawns if you can help it, because that’s just begging them to play on their square and flip your pawn.
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Mar 7, 2024 04:26
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The person who posted earlier in this thread about just playing very aggressive and filling up the board as fast as possible, was right on the money. Works every time for winning.
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Mar 7, 2024 04:34
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Soul Glo posted:im wrapping up ch 3. should i be buying materia out of the vending machines? i still just have one of each of the main elemental ones. i did break down and buy a second heal so i could comeback in hard fights a little easier. You kinda do want Aero on a guy that has the free wind attack because having the free wind attack makes Aero into Aero ⍺. Also, you can see a list of abilities in Combat Settings when setting realtime shortcuts for someone. It's kinda worth it to keep spare materia around and have one or two being trained up passively, especially on your unused party members. This way if you ever suddenly have a need for a spell like Esuna or Faith or Slow or something you have it to hand. Also it lets you have everyone equipped all at once without having to be swapping materia around so much.
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Ytlaya posted:Yikes, the final sit-up thing sucked rear end! Finally beat it, but that blows. There were a few significant problems: this is why I disabled trigger resistance for that mini game
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RatHat posted:Is Gravity useful for anything? It seems really bad Against beefy enemies it is the best use of an ATB unless they aew immune
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Soul Glo posted:im wrapping up ch 3. should i be buying materia out of the vending machines? i still just have one of each of the main elemental ones. i did break down and buy a second heal so i could comeback in hard fights a little easier. I've grabbed one extra of all the basic spells but that's basically it.
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Fedule posted:You kinda do want Aero on a guy that has the free wind attack because having the free wind attack makes Aero into Aero ⍺. Also, you can see a list of abilities in Combat Settings when setting realtime shortcuts for someone. ahhh ok, ty
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Oxxidation posted:this is why I disabled trigger resistance for that mini game Wouldn't this make the "press half-way down" ones difficult? Or does it only fail you on those if you fully press the button?
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Oxxidation posted:this is why I disabled trigger resistance for that mini game Ooh right I was going to ask if you can just disable that.
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Ytlaya posted:Wouldn't this make the "press half-way down" ones difficult? Or does it only fail you on those if you fully press the button? just had to use a lighter touch for those prompts. it was worth it to not risk an RSI slamming those triggers for 30 minutes
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Mar 7, 2024 05:05
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Had to stop playing early for the night, Jules is just too cruel and my hands can only take so much. I got within a few seconds of beating him a couple times, only to biff it at the last second and he caught up.
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Mar 7, 2024 05:13
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Whaaaat the gently caress is going on with Alexander. drat thing is tanky as gently caress. Maybe I should try an all-lightning build? Edit: yep, that was it! Pollyanna fucked around with this message at 05:34 on Mar 7, 2024 |
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