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Hellburger99 posted:The Joker is actually really good in the new game and really the only part of the story that's worth a drat. It's really the only part of the story that makes sense, and that's even considering it feels like it was added near the end of production. I'm sure it would have been a really cool surprise if it hadn't been spoiled by a bunch of people in the thread for a platform that it isn't even available on.
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DrManiac posted:anyone try holy potatoes a weapon shop!? yet? I played Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! a bit earlier on, feels like it should be a mobile game. Not sure yet if it's worth $15. Basically you have a number of smiths who have 4 stats, Attack, Speed, Accuracy, Magic. When you go to craft a weapon, you assign each smith to a station that will imbue on 1 of those 4 stats during the process. You also get the chance to boost a stat (it says 0/1 boosts for my current shop, I guess you get more chances later?) and make it better. After the weapon's finished, you can send a smith to sell up to 3 of them to adventurers in a location. They'll all offer a price and will get XP based on how well the weapon suits them, both for their primary stat and the type of weapon they favor. As they level up, your store gets Fame which unlocks more stuff. You can also send smiths out exploring a region for items or to the market to get materials for forging new weapons. Each smith (in addition to their primary smith class) has levels for Merchant and Explorer, which get better as they continue to do those jobs. I haven't unlocked every feature yet, like researching new weapons. I think that and imbuing weapons with items/enchantments might be the only things I don't have though? In any case, the game is pleasant, just not sure whether it's $15 pleasant yet. I'll drop a verdict here once I get more playtime.
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SilverMike posted:I played Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! a bit earlier on, feels like it should be a mobile game. Not sure yet if it's worth $15. I realize this is totally unrelated, but this reminded me of an awesome PS1 game where you had a magic sword and you could take girls in your party on dates and they'd help you upgrade your sword with different bonuses depending on how much they liked you. Anyone remember this game?
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Jul 13, 2015 22:37
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Jul 13, 2015 22:39
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It's Thousand Arms by Atlus.
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Jul 13, 2015 22:41
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SilverMike posted:It's not Azure Dreams, is it? No, what I remember from the beginning is your father is a blacksmith which is really prestigious in this world and your village gets attacked and I think everyone gets wiped out. It was voice acted and the main chars voice was really whiny. (I realize this describes a lot of RPGs, haha) Edit: Saoshyant posted:It's Thousand Arms by Atlus. Yesssss, thank you.
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Jul 13, 2015 22:43
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Captain Forever remix just went down 40%. Is it good?
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Tsyni posted:No, what I remember from the beginning is your father is a blacksmith which is really prestigious in this world and your village gets attacked and I think everyone gets wiped out. It was voice acted and the main chars voice was really whiny. (I realize this describes a lot of RPGs, haha) Saoshyant posted:It's Thousand Arms by Atlus. Meis Hughes from Thousand Arms  My bro was so, so all about that game when we were 16.
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The White Dragon posted:Meis Hughes from Thousand Arms Your "bro" eh? Hey man, I want to go load up that beauty too. Take some anime babes on some dates, forge some sweet swords.
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Jul 13, 2015 23:19
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John Murdoch posted:When they say Final Fantasy 3, do they actually mean Final Fantasy 3 or are they incorrectly referring to Final Fantasy 6. That's what I want to know. Wasn't Final Fantasy 3 Final Fantasy 1?
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Jul 13, 2015 23:23
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Tsyni posted:Your "bro" eh? Hey man, I want to go load up that beauty too. Take some anime babes on some dates, forge some sweet swords. Fine, both of us But he was totally more into it than I was. I only had enough motivation to get to the ice cave, so I didn't even get far enough in the story to meet all the chicks. At least it probably only had one ending anyway 
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Jul 13, 2015 23:24
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Tsyni posted:Your "bro" eh? Hey man, I want to go load up that beauty too. Take some anime babes on some dates, forge some sweet swords. It's awful.
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Jul 13, 2015 23:29
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Wendell posted:It's awful. It's kind of awful, but I remember enjoying playing it as a teenager. The battle system is kind of interesting. Granted, I never beat the game and the voice acting is horrible. If you like jrpgs then you'll probably like it, though
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Jul 13, 2015 23:31
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Sleeveless posted:I'm sure it would have been a really cool surprise if it hadn't been spoiled by a bunch of people in the thread for a platform that it isn't even available on. What, Joker and Riddler in big Batman game? No one gives a toot about any other villain what are they gonna do.
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I am on a "Play games that will work on my busted laptop during the summer" tour, and is it just me or is Banner Saga's combat pretty lackluster? It's weird that positioning is meaningless and tying health to attack damage is... realistic I guess, but it feels awful. Also I've been fighting the same types of enemies for 90% of the game so far. I guess the Oregon Trail parts of the game help break it up a little. I also welcome any recommendations for low hardware, high entertainment games. I was enjoying Child of Light but it made my laptop automatically shut down from overheating so I don't know if I'm going to keep on with that.
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Jul 13, 2015 23:36
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sauer kraut posted:What, Joker and Riddler in big Batman game? I thought it was going to be all about SpaceKnights and now you've ruined that for me
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Jul 13, 2015 23:39
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Wendell posted:It's awful. Good job, theultimo. He said. Right as the post got edited to not look poorly formatted. Scalding Coffee fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Jul 13, 2015 |
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Jul 13, 2015 23:40
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Azhais posted:Wasn't Final Fantasy 3 Final Fantasy 1? code:
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Jul 13, 2015 23:40
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I also welcome any recommendations for low hardware, high entertainment games. I was enjoying Child of Light but it made my laptop automatically shut down from overheating so I don't know if I'm going to keep on with that. also stuff like ys, CK2/EU4, defenders quest if you want a tower defense, la mulana, cave story, terraria and its clones, lethal league, broforce...
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Jul 14, 2015 00:01
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Pastry of the Year posted:aesthetic
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Jul 14, 2015 00:36
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Maybe he just really likes lovely rpgmaker art?
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Jul 14, 2015 00:43
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I am on a "Play games that will work on my busted laptop during the summer" tour, and is it just me or is Banner Saga's combat pretty lackluster? It's weird that positioning is meaningless and tying health to attack damage is... realistic I guess, but it feels awful. Also I've been fighting the same types of enemies for 90% of the game so far. I guess the Oregon Trail parts of the game help break it up a little.
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Jul 14, 2015 00:52
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I am on a "Play games that will work on my busted laptop during the summer" tour, and is it just me or is Banner Saga's combat pretty lackluster? It's weird that positioning is meaningless and tying health to attack damage is... realistic I guess, but it feels awful. Also I've been fighting the same types of enemies for 90% of the game so far. I guess the Oregon Trail parts of the game help break it up a little. Yeah, it's a pretty terrible system that turns every battle into a prolonged slog because it's better to whittle everybody's health down without actually killing them and be left with a bunch of worthless enemies than to actually killpeople and leave their fully-powered allies to attack you on the next turn. The whole thing feels like a proof-of-concept awkwardly stretched into a full game and considering that it was a Kickstarter game that's probably exactly the case.
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Jul 14, 2015 00:59
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I played maybe 3/4 hours of Banner Saga before realising that it probably isn't going to get much better. It doesn't help that the only enemies in the game are boring in every conceivable way. They're even tedious to look at.
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Gorn Myson posted:I played maybe 3/4 hours of Banner Saga before realising that it probably isn't going to get much better. It doesn't help that the only enemies in the game are boring in every conceivable way. They're even tedious to look at. it's par for Kickstarters efforts being pretty on the outside and shallow on the inside. Once you beat it there's really no compelling reason to ever replay it again
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Jul 14, 2015 01:12
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The story's real good, though. Would advise just reading the LP instead. Is the story and music good enough to justify buying the game even though the combat is pretty crap? I dunno. But I hope those people continue to make games, and hopefully learn to make ones that are fun to play in addition to being good to read.
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Drifter posted:Maybe he just really likes lovely rpgmaker art? It's just a word for the look of something; it ain't mean it's a good or well-crafted look. loving USA TODAY has an "aesthetic". edit for foreigners and young people: USA TODAY is what you get when someone decides that the average newspaper is too hard and too time-consuming to read
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The White Dragon posted:It's a fun enough game, but anyone planning to play with their friends should be forewarned that the netcode is still pretty junk. It doesn't help that it apparently tries to sync each individual projectile... in Touhou-style bullet hell bosses They released a recent update that fixed that issue, I think. The Gundam boss battle, where it was most noticeable, doesn't seem to have any lag hits for me. Though I guess if you have a delay of like 500-1000 ping your multiplayer experience might not be so hot regardless, but that could be said for any multi game.
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Jul 14, 2015 01:48
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It's a shame Banner Saga is such a unfun slog, because I adore the art and style it has.
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Jul 14, 2015 01:52
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Interviews and previews indicate they heard loud and clear on the combat front for what they're doing with 2. Grain of salt and whether it's better or just different, who knows.
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Orv posted:Interviews and previews indicate they heard loud and clear on the combat front for what they're doing with 2. Grain of salt and whether it's better or just different, who knows. Final Fantasy Viking Tactics
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I hate that all these indie strategy rpgs have a near complete lack of terrain elevation and are fought on the same x by x square grid nearly every fight. Rime Berta isn't any good but at least it tried some stuff in its battle failings. Banner Saga's combat is so lifeless, that even with improvements, I find it hard to believe the sequel's combat could be anything better than dully average unless whoever is in charge of combat is someone not related to the first game. Someone release the Tactics Ogre remake on steam. I wouldn't even care if it was the typical poo poo-effort Square mobile port repackaging. Sivek fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Jul 14, 2015 |
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Anachronox - I have Paco in my party and want to retrieve the red crystal I spotted in OneGate when I was there on a mission, but I can't seem to get to there. People refuse to buy tickets because of the shuttle, and the shuttle can't go there. The LP thinks you can get to OneGate before going to Limbus.
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Jul 14, 2015 02:47
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Scalding Coffee posted:Is that the game where your tiny group does not even commit everyone to a fight and someone only does cheerleading? I played an hour and figured I could play a game where everyone is kicking rear end at the same time. Yeah, only one character is involved in a fight and your other two characters cheerlead. It takes pressing X to attack to a whole new level of boring!
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What's better: Banner Saga having really boring enemies or Massive Chalice having a variety of enemies, each of which is a loving pain in the rear end gimmick straight out of the dregs of the 2nd edition monster manual? Vorpal enemies, experience drainers, suicide exploders, spawners, life stealers, and hit point sponges. Those might as well be the names of the enemies in Massive Chalice. I finally stopped playing Massive Chalice after really trying hard to like it but realizing the game was reliant on about 3 too many random number generators to be a good strategy game or tactical rpg and the tone is all over the goddamn place.
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Orv posted:Interviews and previews indicate they heard loud and clear on the combat front for what they're doing with 2. Grain of salt and whether it's better or just different, who knows.
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Don't forget that Banner Saga happened before Kickstarter games were relegated to their own little ghetto so between the devs posting up a storm and people who had sunk tons of money into the project cheerleading it every step of the way you couldn't get a word in edgewise for the longest time.
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Thing is, nobody really talked about what the game played like. Even now I've barely any idea what the game plays like and believe me, I tried finding material to explain it to me. You go somewhere. Why? The world's ending shut up, you just head off in a random direction. There's people following you because, I dunno you have a fancy flag that gets real long. There's SRPG battles where the damage enemies do is based on hit points. There's big guys. People talk English with an embarrassing accent. That's the long and short of what I know about Banner Saga, and the more material I try to find about the game, the more certain I become that there isn't anything more to it. Great Joe fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Jul 14, 2015 |
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Jul 14, 2015 03:06
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There just needs to be more Fire Emblem type games on Steam but not agarest
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Great Joe posted:Thing is, nobody really talked about what the game played like. Even now I've barely any idea what the game plays like and believe me, I tried finding material to explain it to me. You go somewhere. Why? The world's ending shut up, you just head off in a random direction. There's people following you because, I dunno you have a fancy flag that gets real long. There's SRPG battles where the damage enemies do is based on hit points. There's big guys. People talk English with an embarrassing accent. It has some seriously un-intuitive combat because damage is based on how much hp units have and you alternate turns no matter how many units each side has so the optimal strategy is to leave all enemy units alive with 1 to 3 hp so they have to waste turns on their near death units that can now only deal 1 to 3 damage instead of moving their 13 hp guy around every turn after yours slaughtering your guys one by one. Having numbers on your side doesn't loving matter unlike every strategy game ever made. It's a lovely game!
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