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Sindai posted:I can't believe they gave Cloud more than one solo fight where his unique ability is almost useless. I especially love it when the enemy has attacks that look like melee attacks, don't have the unblockable exclamation point, and are still unblockable. Bafflingly bad design. I didn’t really dig any of the solo combat for any character. The game seems like it’s designed to work with the party, and the solo fights are just kinda crammed into those existing mechanics
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Sindai posted:I can't believe they gave Cloud more than one solo fight where his unique ability is almost useless. I especially love it when the enemy has attacks that look like melee attacks, don't have the unblockable exclamation point, and are still unblockable. Bafflingly bad design. Oh gently caress I just thought I was really bad at blocking because I hadn't been doing it for most of the game.
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Apr 9, 2024 10:33
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Nah Cloud’s big three solo fights are some of the best fights in the entire game.
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Apr 9, 2024 11:42
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The Rufus fight was an inconsistent turd, I know that much.
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Apr 9, 2024 11:45
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I would call (and have called) that fight a lot of things but "inconsistent" is not one of them (save for the minor detail of some players happening to get checkpointed at low health but that's not a function of how inconsistent the fight is).
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Sindai posted:I can't believe they gave Cloud more than one solo fight where his unique ability is almost useless. I especially love it when the enemy has attacks that look like melee attacks, don't have the unblockable exclamation point, and are still unblockable. Bafflingly bad design. Any attacks without the icon are blockable. They're just not blockable in Punisher Mode unless they're melee attacks. You can still Counterstance them or block them in Operator Mode.
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Veryslightlymad posted:Does Aerith have dialogue in part 1 of Remake if you wait for her to do her little jump on the rooftop without her telling you to? I dunno how the thought jumped into my head, but I gotta know If it's the bit I'm thinking of, she will wait forever for you to go first and then complain about you not waiting 
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DeathChicken posted:If it's the bit I'm thinking of, she will wait forever for you to go first and then complain about you not waiting Hah. That would have been my best guess, given how scripted that scene plays out in every place where she's ahead of you. They clearly wanted it just so. But on the other hand, poo poo has alternative dialogue even as far back as the Guard Scorpion fight, so it wouldn't surprise me if there was rare dialogue to be had. (Incidentally, the little exchange Cloud and Barret can have there is the funniest lampshading of the idea of why a character wouldn't do a thing the player didn't pay attention or didn't choose to do, ever. The delivery on "thought you were full of poo poo" just appears in my head unbidden from time to time)
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Looks like I’ve gotten to the final chapter for this, gotta say that the amount of story stuff the last few chapters (now that I’ve finished all the loving minigames) is a lot. Might have to take a break before attempting any hard mode stuff just to unpack it all. I like a lot of the changes so far, but can’t say I’m mixed on how they’ve muddied and portrayed Aerith’s feelings about Cloud, which I get is consistent with what she said in remake back in that dream sequence, but it feels like it’s not doing right by her character all the same given what they’ve been through together. I guess I can also be proven completely wrong by the ending and whatever comes next, so we’ll see. That said, if the game is going to lean into some kind of multiverse poo poo, I would hope for Aerith to he back and playable in some capacity in part 3 outside of flashbacks given how long they’ve spent working on the character and her moveset (and also that she’s a killer once you get the hang of how to use her in fights). It’s a shame the death scene was spoiled for me twice in two different places online looking at unrelated poo poo, otherwise I’d have said it was going to be real impactful once it happens. I’m sure it still will be, but without the element of surprise this time around.
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Just saw that the soundtrack is gonna be available tomorrow. It's so drat good.
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UP AND ADAM posted:Just saw that the soundtrack is gonna be available tomorrow. It's so drat good. Bow Wow Wow combat track is the best in the game
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While the new version of the Temple of the Ancient song is good, I really do miss the original.
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Arkage posted:While the new version of the Temple of the Ancient song is good, I really do miss the original. I wasn't really a fan of it. I guess they felt it needed to be changed up because they do a higher tempo version later on (which ends up sounding more like the original) but I was really looking forward to a proper remaster of the original song.
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Finally hit credits and in summary: the game owns
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Macaluso posted:I wasn't really a fan of it. I guess they felt it needed to be changed up because they do a higher tempo version later on (which ends up sounding more like the original) but I was really looking forward to a proper remaster of the original song. Yeah, the closest we got was the "escape!" version which just sticks to playing the original riff quickly, so it sounds like the old version, but they should have not been so afraid to sound like the original for the level theme.
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Macaluso posted:I wasn't really a fan of it. I guess they felt it needed to be changed up because they do a higher tempo version later on (which ends up sounding more like the original) but I was really looking forward to a proper remaster of the original song. UP AND ADAM posted:Yeah, the closest we got was the "escape!" version which just sticks to playing the original riff quickly, so it sounds like the old version, but they should have not been so afraid to sound like the original for the level theme. So I really, really love the original song. I would safely put it in my Top 5-10 FFVII songs and one of my favorite dungeon themes in the whole franchise. But it is kinda...goofy and upbeat. That's not a problem, just the vibe I get from it. This in contrast sounds a lot more ominous. I guess they wanted suh an important dungeon to have that foreboding feel? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KENLj1dsa0s
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It's a little goofy, but also fits the world of ff7 in a way that's just so perfect. Even the threatening mysteries come from a weird specific cartoonish place. The composers, uematsu and the other guy, are virtuosos so I don't want to second guess anything they did on the soundtrack, but those last two areas needed their OG themes to be more prominent.
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UP AND ADAM posted:Just saw that the soundtrack is gonna be available tomorrow. It's so drat good. Better have CHO! CO! BO!  Or this one that really reminds me of Jet Set Radio.
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NPCs call Cloud "merc." Is that a mistranslation? Or maybe a word that doesn't have a direct translation from Japanese? In English when I hear "mercenary," I think "I am a remorseless killing machine who only cares about money." But if it is something closer to "Jack-of-all-trades with a blade, Mr.-Fix-It and I'll hit poo poo," that's fits him much better.
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Apr 10, 2024 02:57
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What would you call him?
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Rufus' fight needs a bullet count for him and he shouldn't get an instant counter until he reloads. It's crazy annoying anticipating reload, but because you landed braver ⅑ of a second too soon, just lol go gently caress yourself.
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Apr 10, 2024 03:04
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His job is a mercenary. The world is also not like ours. There are literally monsters that need culling etc.
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He's a mercenary in the same way that Luffy from One Piece is a pirate. The rules for Cloud's world are just slightly different than our own.
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Rufus cheats like an rear end in a top hat and I don't remember it really being a thing in Remake. You're better off not even trying to catch him during reloads, it's easier to spam sword beams on him until he stops dodging them and then you know he's open that way
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SyntheticPolygon posted:What would you call him?  If I knew of a better English word for him I would have said "he really should be called X." When I hear "merc," I think some blackwater gently caress in a balaclava ready to mow down a bus full of kids for a nickel. Martial culture blurs across language lines. 'Ronin' is a Japanese word for samurai without a master." So like a dude who plays by a moral code, but follows his own goals. That seems way closer to Cloud than" kill people, take dollars." I hope I'm not I'm not treading to close to weeaboo territory here. Really I'd just like to know what he is called in Japanese and the nuances of the term.
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You can catch him in reloads but just use anything other than braver. Triple slash or even just a regular combo finisher (from holding square) will pressure him for a good bit of time and you start building up stagger that way. The insta-stagger is too tight a window to be worth it imo.
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deoju posted:
When I hear Merc I think of a car or Deadpool. Barret also uses it derisively, then jokingly, because cloud is a Shinra super soldier
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A soldier who does jobs for money is by definition a mercenary. They're using the right word. Any baggage associated with it isn't the game's fault.
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deoju posted:NPCs call Cloud "merc." Is that a mistranslation? Or maybe a word that doesn't have a direct translation from Japanese? In English when I hear "mercenary," I think "I am a remorseless killing machine who only cares about money." But if it is something closer to "Jack-of-all-trades with a blade, Mr.-Fix-It and I'll hit poo poo," that's fits him much better. He calls himself a mercenary. He’s literally a soldier for hire. For most of the time in Midgar, he says that he only cares about the money. Tifa convinces him to help with other random odd jobs and that ends up being most of the jobs he takes.
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Yea muscle for money sounds about right for a merc. A merc can still choose his jobs either way
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Though you are correct that the Japanese version uses a word that doesn't translate very well. "何でも屋" which means literally "do everything man".
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Blockhouse posted:Though you are correct that the Japanese version uses a word that doesn't translate very well. "何でも屋" which means literally "do everything man".
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Blockhouse posted:Though you are correct that the Japanese version uses a word that doesn't translate very well. "何でも屋" which means literally "do everything man". "do everything man" fits Cloud perfectly
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They're kinda stuck because similar phrases like "fixer" and "problem solver" in English are even more sus than merc.
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"Authentic" translation time, just have them say "do everything man". Or nandemoya with a Translator's Note about how it's impossible to convey this in another language
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Chapter 12 side quest spoilers questionis there any way to trigger the bugged G-Bike part of this UPA quest without having to reinstall the entire drat game or am I just screwed 
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:"Authentic" translation time, just have them say "do everything man". Or nandemoya with a Translator's Note about how it's impossible to convey this in another language this would be way uglier and worse than what they did though
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:this would be way uglier and worse than what they did though 
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psychoJ posted:Chapter 12 side quest spoilers questionis there any way to trigger the bugged G-Bike part of this UPA quest without having to reinstall the entire drat game or am I just screwed You're just screwed until they eventually get around to the next patch. No hurry.
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Ugggggh. Thanks anyway
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