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Is there a Trails series Megathread? If not: I'm playing them for the first time, starting with Trails in the Sky, and I'm just wondering how much doing a "blind" playthrough would affect my experience. My understanding is that the entire series is full of easily missable side quests/items/content, but at the same time, pouring over a GameFAQ the whole time sounds like a pain.
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I just picked up ASTLIBRA, and it's telling me that there's a lengthy cutscene at the beginning. How long is lengthy? Like, MGS4 long?
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Jun 18, 2023 23:13
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I'm probably a casual and a failure, but I wish the PR of FF1 had the Magic system (and bonus content) from the GBA version. Actually the bonus content from all the GBA versions would be nice.
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Jun 18, 2023 23:58
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Of the FF games I've played, my personal favorites list is: 1. FFV 2. FFVI 3. FFI 4. FFIV 5. FFIX 6. FFII 7. FFVII I attribute 7 being as low as it is to not owning a Playstation as a kid, so I never played it until years after the fact. It just doesn't hold up as well when the graphics are dated instead of revolutionary and the concepts it introduced are well trod instead of groundbreaking. I need to try the Remake though.
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Jun 19, 2023 02:56
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The Colonel posted:i only properly played ff7 with the ability to understand what it was a decade later and i liked it. the game looks cool visually and the writing is fun. even if the technical power of it isn't impressive anymore it still presents cool locations and scenes. i think it's kinda insulting to put down love of it specifically to nostalgia cause there's a lot about it that's just funny and memorable I dunno, I've tried multiple times to go play the PSX version of 7, and it just doesn't click. To me, the game looks frankly awful visually. I'm not shy about the fact that I loathe low quality 3D models compared to high quality sprite work. And unfortunately the story being such a cultural touchstone means that most of the main story beats were spoiled years ago, so there's less impact.
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Jun 19, 2023 03:03
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I recall Legend of Dragoon's... "Volcano!" "Double Slash!" "Moon Strike!"
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Jun 21, 2023 14:10
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Did they mention anything about the Suikoden remakes? 
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Jun 21, 2023 17:33
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I'm that guy that adored the GBC Dragon Warrior Monsters games, but hates the Joker games. They stripped too much out of the games, and the poo poo-tier Nintendo Handheld Polygons™ are an eyesore compared to the GBC sprites. Also, having grown up playing DWM, but not any mainline Dragon Warrior games, the mistranslated monster and attack names from the GBC games are way more charming to me.
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Jun 22, 2023 00:35
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Willo567 posted:I can get not liking the shrunk down Mario Peach and Bowser models, but like others said it just looks like the original but with updated 3d models, which the original game used anyways. idk I think it looks good, but different strokes for different folks. I honestly think that the GBA versions of FF1-6 (3 not being included notwithstanding) are the best versions of each. There's some minor audio quality reduction compared to the SNES versions, but otherwise they're the most fully featured and, IMO, best looking.
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Jun 22, 2023 15:50
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Random question - is Star Ocean 2nd R one of those JRPGs that has a billion hidden things that you can miss? I started playing Trails in the Sky and got completely overwhelmed with all the missable side quests that are only available for a random short time window lol.
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Nov 30, 2023 20:04
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ImpAtom posted:Yes, by design. Like you literally can not do everything in a single playthrough, some things (including characters) are mutually exclusive and there are two protagonists with their own unique scenes and recruitable characters even though they journey together. Good to know. I definitely don't mind the game giving incentives for NG+, what I was worried about was things like Trails in the Sky and it's "collect each volume of this book series that the game calls zero attention to, and which are permanently missable, in order to get one of the endgame weapons".
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Nov 30, 2023 20:17
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Defiance Industries posted:Anything that's limited time will also be marked with a different icon so you know you should probably prioritize it. It was really easy to miss poo poo in the original SO2 but they aren't trying to sell Prima guides anymore. Awesome. Yeah those loving books aren't mentioned anywhere. I think the first one is just in some vendor's inventory, another is found by walking up to someone's desk and pressing "A", with no visual prompt, etc 
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Nov 30, 2023 20:30
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I was scrolling through my Steam library looking at all the games I own but haven't played, and realized I have a bunch of Tales games and haven't played any of them. So, between the following, which would be a fun one to start with? Symphonia Vesperia Zestiria Berseria Arise I know basically nothing about the series other than that the assorted games aren't related to one another in terms of plot or setting, and that apparently each one has a weird subtitle/theme that doesn't make sense to me, at least when reading it.
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Feb 12, 2024 03:22
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The Colonel posted:berseria Awesome, will do! What stands out about it?
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Feb 12, 2024 03:24
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Well, I'll definitely try Berseria then. Sounds like the others I have aren't very good, which is a shame. Well, Arise has good reviews at least? Any other standout games in the series to look for? It looks like the ones I have are all that are on Steam, but I can certainly check out the others on an emulator or something.
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Feb 12, 2024 03:37
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I'll add those all to my list lol. Although it looks like Graces is only on... Wii and PS3?? Does it have WAGGLE mechanics? Because I try to avoid Wii emulation since WAGGLE is a pain to deal with.
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Feb 12, 2024 03:47
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The Colonel posted:the wii version isn't tled and is very bad so you don't wanna play that one anyway. the ps3 version is an updated rerelease with bugfixes and new content and it emulates pretty well these days TIL PS3 emulation exists. I literally never even considered looking into it because at the time the PS3 was notoriously difficult to develop for due to its weird rear end processor, so I assumed emulation would be similarly difficult.
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Feb 12, 2024 03:50
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I'm actually really, really enjoying Tales of Berseria, enough that I'm probably going to try out the rest of the games. Based on the responses here, I'll probably try either Abyss or Graces next. Thanks for the suggestions, RPG Thread!
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Feb 13, 2024 20:17
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I need silly as hell right now tbh. Not sure I'm in the right headspace these days for games (or media in general) where the general plot is "life is going to absolutely poo poo on the protagonist/their friends and they're going to grow by struggling on anyway". It's why I actually enjoyed the Hyperdimension Neptunia games despite them being kind of terrible - they're so saccharine and goofy they made me smile lmao.
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Feb 15, 2024 19:03
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ImpAtom posted:I am not sure Bersaria is the game you want then. It is silly as hell but also it is 100% about that. Oh. Huh. Welp... I guess I'll see what happens then. I mean, I guess I should have guessed based on Velvet's outfit
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Feb 15, 2024 19:10
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How are the Ryza games? I think I actually already have the 1st of those. I also have a Vita with CFW so if the Atelier games on that are cool that's doable.
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Feb 15, 2024 19:24
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ImpAtom posted:My personal favorite of the Atelier games is the Dusk trilogy (Ayesha, Escha & Logy, Shallie) which are all available in "plus" versions on the Vita. Ryza is still plenty fun too. Be warned that Ayesha and Escha&Logy (and the games prior to them) all have time limits so if that stresses you out you may want to start with Ryza. What kind of time limits? Like, Persona games have "time limits" for the number of days to complete each dungeon, but they're generally suuuuper lenient and I've never once had any issues with that. Actually I usually beat the dungeons within like 2-3 days of opening them...
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Feb 15, 2024 19:40
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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.
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Feb 16, 2024 01:36
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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.
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Feb 16, 2024 01:41
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Lamo apparently SquareEnix dropped a patch for FF7 Remake that covers up child-Tifa a bit in a flashback, and Reddit is throwing a fit about "censorship". What they *should* be throwing a fit about is that patch being over 8GB.
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Feb 27, 2024 00:18
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Mymla posted:Does she really need to be covered in 8 gb of clothes? Apparently it's the most high-res black undershirt ever rendered.
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Feb 27, 2024 00:25
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Look, Mass Effect 3 left a mark when Seth Green hooked up with an Operating System. I was mildly disappointed you couldn't romance her out from under him, like on a renegade character or something.
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Feb 28, 2024 18:38
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ImpAtom posted:I have no idea how in the world you got 'girlfriend' from 'twin sister.' Since, as a JRPG,  It's perfectly common for it to be both.
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GateOfD posted:Crisis Core done. Have you played FF7R? Because Zack may not be dead this time around.
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GateOfD posted:yea I played Remake. If you've read The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, FF7 vs FF7R is, IMO, basically doing what those books did at the very end - the story is being retold, but this time it'll be different and things will be set right
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Prowler posted:Ugh, this was an issue in both Triangle Strategy and Octopath Traveler 2. In some cases, it was patently obvious, in some cases, the thread had to point out the tooltips were wrong. Uh, did this early issues get patched eventually, or do you need a spreadsheet of "game says this, but actually means that"?
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victrix posted:it's the thought of the word meta anywhere in proximity to a FTFY Also, I assume people were talking about Star Ocean 2 Remake when discussing missable content? I'm definitely going to have to use a guide when playing that because I have A Thing™ about missable stuff in games.
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I had no idea Fire Emblem had a meta. I guess the Dark Fliers with that "double turns" move were good? I never play on the nightmare difficulties though.
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The Jeigan stuff was a bit hyperbolic, but the growth percentages are known, and there are definitely units that are just flat out worse than others of their type. And yeah the units you get at the end with great growths but no missions to use them on are a pain. Although in the games that allowed grinding I am happy to do that
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Mar 6, 2024 00:02
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I'm just irritated that I basically had to stop playing Overwatch not long after it launched because the "meta" dictated I learn "counters" and "comps", even in unranked. All I wanted to do was play Zenyatta or D.va and have fun.
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Mar 6, 2024 00:47
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Endorph posted:you can absolutely just slam pick zenyatta or dva all day in unranked Last time I played, which granted was years ago, people didn't seem to care it was unranked - picking the "wrong" character was a great way to get harassed/abused in voice/chat.
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Ornamented Death posted:Tyranitar is my favorite pokemon because he's a 7-foot tall kaiju.
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So, Unicorn Overlord is coming out on PS4/5, Xbox X/S, and Switch. Is there any particular reason not to get it on the Switch? Any reports of performance issues?
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Apparently this was ported to the NES (based on the colors I assume this screenshot was from the Amiga version?), so I'll have to check it out. Seems interesting. E: NES not SNES, drat phone autocorrect. Annath fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Mar 8, 2024 |
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Sakurazuka posted:That colour palette is almost certainly the Apple II version The wiki said the Apple version was in Black and White, and the color version didn't come til the Amiga/Atari versions.
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