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kirbysuperstar posted:I dunno, they announced a bunch of DLC already but it's all previous characters. I guess they could announce more though. And this is why I will wait for the Complete version, if I buy it at all.
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The Colonel posted:remember that period of time bandai namco tried to machine translate literally every southeast asian release they put out because they just didn't think people would care enough for it to matter and they only started employing professional staff for those translations when they actually did receive insanely heavy pushback over how unreadable it was 
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Feb 24, 2021 13:16
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cheetah7071 posted:I definitely wonder at the people who seem able to remember the stories of games they played 15 years ago well enough to have intelligent conversations about them. That's definitely not me. I could probably accurately summarize the plots of the likes of Xenogears or FFTactics despite not having done a full play through of either in many years.
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Mar 3, 2021 21:06
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Libluini posted:Soul Nomad? I have the old Soul Nomad and Phantom Brave DoubleJump guides on my shelf, but I never played them more than once.
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Mar 4, 2021 21:27
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I really need to play XC1, I have it for both Wii and 3ds, but the Switch version is probably the best. I loved XCX and would play it again with a Switch port. I want to pick up XC2 as well at some point, but my backlog just keeps growing.
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Mar 5, 2021 13:48
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RareAcumen posted:People love to constantly say how complicated the Kingdom Hearts story is. Anyone have another series they can think of that's notoriously hard to follow? Xenosaga, even though it tries to take the time to explain itself, it's still confusing as hell.
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Mar 10, 2021 14:54
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Electromax posted:Wild Arms was the other RPG on PS1 near to my heart that isn't already examined to death like the Square big hitters, haven't played it in a long time but I listen to the soundtrack a lot. Don't remember much of the story except for your main guy having one of those big sacrifice/isolation/go and rescue him sequences and that you got to pilot massive golems as world map vehicles. That and WA2 were mechanically fairly simple but high points for style and setting. Ugly font though. Wild Arms was the first PS1 RPG I owned, so it has a place in my heart for that alone.
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Morpheus posted:I recently played FFT again recently (definitely going to beat it THIS time oh yeah for sure) and, dang, I forgot how hard the game can be. Maybe I've built my team poorly or something, or not doing enough of...something, but some of these story battles really kick my rear end. Even some random battles with, like, chocobos give me a hard time. Random battles in FFT scale with your level so they can wreck you. It scales to the highest person on your roster, not whoever you deploy. But you can turn people into lovely classes like Chemist and level down to help get around that.
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Apr 22, 2021 19:00
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TurnipFritter posted:I remember getting wrecked by the rare monster fight on Barius Hill (or whatever War of the Lions calls it) That place can be a really nasty surprise, in Chapter 4 a lot of maps get a weird 'rare' battle, like the random Knight vs Minotaur battle in the first desert map.
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Apr 23, 2021 12:30
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Paperhouse posted:I don't even know how you're meant to win that fight without just running away and using Yell Equip a Chameleon Robe and Rubber Shoes, and Wiegraf won't use any swordskills because he thinks you're immune to them.
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Apr 28, 2021 18:32
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Blue Labrador posted:I haven't gotten to that part, but I'm playing the WotL translation for the first time right now as well, and I really dig it. I miss some of the dope one-liners from the original translation--and having to relearn the skill names is wild--but I greatly enjoy how flowery and fun even the most throwaway lines are. The worst part of the WotL localization is they didn't do the spell chants at all and just shut them off entirely.
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May 1, 2021 13:29
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Barudak posted:How are there filler arcs in Front Mission 3? Im slamming skip dialog so fast but the madness keeps going. Yeah, China drags on way too long for both stories.
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May 6, 2021 12:54
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:no, he just sucks and there is no reason to use him. Cloud would suck a lot less if he didn't require a single mediocre sword to use his class ability. Also, he can wear the female-only head armor (ribbon et.al.). But yeah, him coming in at level 1 really sucks.
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May 7, 2021 03:39
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Acerbatus posted:If nothing has changed since the fall, Lab Zero is still technically around but Mike Z laid off the remaining employees after a bunch quit following the accusations against him. Now I kind of regret backing Indivisible, and then when I got it, the gameplay wasn't that great. It was like...the good parts of Valkyrie Profile's combat got eaten by the bad parts of highly-technical fighting games.
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May 8, 2021 11:59
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Evil Fluffy posted:KOTOR uses the d20 system. Similar to stuff like swords and sorcery only Star Wars instead of generic fantasy. And there was a d20 Star Wars system before Saga Edition, so they may have borrowed directly from that.
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May 9, 2021 23:26
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Inspector Gesicht posted:RE Village reminds me of how rare it is to see a single-player campaign that is front and centre the main attraction, but also doesn't exceed 10 hours. The runtime is augmented by the extensive New Game+, the Challenge list, and the Mercenaries minigame. I can 100% Suikoden 1 in about 14 hours if I'm being lazy about it. But its been a while since they made games that short.
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May 11, 2021 15:07
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FFTactics had 'Oil' which didn't do anything but was supposed to make you take more fire damage. It also had Charm as a strictly better Confuse. If you dig real deep you find out that Morbols (Malboros) had a hidden skill that could make any generic unit or monster into another Morbol, which is kind of terrifying. Thankfully it would never appear in the wild.
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May 19, 2021 20:59
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Barudak posted:Indivisible. Do not play, not even if you love final bosses that don't follow the established rules of the games combat system and require you to memorize a pattern you've never seen before for a rythm game The game's combat system was bad enough with how timing-based it was, I'm glad I dropped it, upon hearing this.
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Jun 16, 2021 15:52
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Crowetron posted:Crisis Core was one of the top selling PSP games, even outpacing two Monster Hunter games. Now that I think about it, it's pretty crazy it hasn't gotten a PC or Switch port. Wasn't there something about Gackt revoking the rights to use his likeness so they can't sell the game anymore? I vaguely remember hearing something about that.
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:Xenogears, Gaius Marius posted:Front mission 3 Amppelix posted:Valkyrie Profile Zore posted:Suikoden 1+2 Orcs and Ostriches posted:Wild Arms These are all really good suggestions that I'll second, I only cot out the ones I haven't played myself. I'll also put up Final Fantasy Tactics, I know that FF was mentioned, but that one seems to fall through the cracks a lot.
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I will always suggest that people play Suikoden 1 + 2 at the very least. Shining Force 1 + 2, Phantasy Star 4, Final Fantasy Legend 1 + 2 are all solid games as well, though the FFL games can be a little brutal, being SaGa games at heart. Of all of these PS4 has a very non-fantasy setting, while FFL 2 has a very...eclectic setting. Shining Force is very stock fantasy, but in a charming way. Suikoden is also fantasy, but very differently done from say SMRPG.
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Xenogears remains one of my favorite RPGs, despite its jank, cut content and nonsensical plot beats.
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Ace Transmuter posted:It's just a peck on the cheek. Adorable, yes, but I wouldn't count it. Fei and Elly absolutely do the deed in Xenogears.
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NikkolasKing posted:Finally started my Xenogears replay. Just finished Nortune. Been a while since I replayed Xenogears, it was definitely one of those games that really shaped the kind of games I like. I wish SE would remember it exists beyond overpriced figures and cheeky references in mediocre games like World of Final Fantasy. I want to fight Grahf in the giant robot they gave me in FF14.
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aperfectcirclefan posted:Is Suikoden 2 remarkably better than Suikoden 1? I hate the forced party members of 1. Yes, they added a 'convoy' where you can put forced characters if you don't want them in your combat party, though its not applicable all of the time sadly. And most characters get 2 or 3 rune slots now, and rune combinations are easier to pull off. You also have a party inventory on top of individual ones, and managing your team's gear at your base is a lot easier.
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Vargatron posted:About to take leave of my senses and play Xenosaga... I somehow have all three games in my collection but haven't played them. I pre-emptively apologize for part 2. But I'm someone who's played part 1 multiple times.
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Jan 10, 2022 20:46
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Give me all the JRPGs where the lead isn't a dark-haired sword guy. Suikoden 1's hero uses a staff. Suikoden 2's hero uses Tonfa. Suikoden 3 has three main characters, one is sadly a dark-haired man who uses a sword. Suikoden 4's main character has awful looking light brown hair and uses two swords. Suikoden 5's hero has silver hair and uses a three-sectioned staff.
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Delsaber posted:The guy in Suikoden Tactics has darkish brown hair but his weapon is some weird thing that looks so outlandish it may as well be a Klingon bat'leth Those are chinese-style Hook Swords. They pop up in Dynasty Warriors too.
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Electric Phantasm posted:X also had a super sprint and no fall damage Port XBX to Switch, cowards. And in other news, hell yeah Front Mission! And live a Live. Now remake Xenogears.
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Feb 10, 2022 04:59
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Chaotic Flame posted:VP has my favorite spell / attack quotes of any rpg series. Everyone is just so full of themselves "Ye must desire respite from thy empty existence! Thou shalt have it!" Yeah. They're all pretty great.
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Electromax posted:https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1528774379026251777 Let me put my Wild Arms CD into my PS4 to unlock it from the store, cowards.
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May 23, 2022 18:53
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Inspector Gesicht posted:After the Zodiac Age, Deadfire, and Dragon Quest XI, I'm at a loss for the next game that let's me automate the combat. Phantasy Star 4 might be old, but it had a great macro system for combat, which is doubly useful because there are combo attacks that rely on doing attacks in a certain order.
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Jul 22, 2022 12:20
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I almost want to say you should play the Suikoden games in chronological order rather than release order, as you'd start with the absolute worst game in the series, but then you'd go from 4 to 5, then 1-2-3. THough at that point going back tot he PS1 games might be welcome after the load times in 5. The art for 1 and 2 definitely still holds up though.
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Jul 27, 2022 12:27
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Item Getter posted:There was an old Mac shareware game called Realmz which had all its mechanics directly cribbed from D&D and I think especially the Gold Box games in particular. drat, that was a blast from the past, I played an absolute ton of Realmz as a kid. I mostly remember using 'Festering Wounds' on everything. What a great name for a spell.
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Jul 29, 2022 13:26
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Commander Keene posted:I'm now picturing Persona 5 Makoto racing on her Persona/bike. New Persona spinoff, PersonaKart!
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Aug 21, 2022 13:57
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I remember an unwinnable boss fight in Xenogears where if you won, you got a rare item, but in the cutscene immediately afterwards, win or lose, the boss has reinforcements show up.
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Aug 22, 2022 21:20
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As I said in the Disgaea thread, I'm surprised at the faster turnaround. Though this already looks better than 6 did. I haven't touched 6 because of the middling reviews and it's still $70 on PC.
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Aug 23, 2022 13:19
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Quackles posted:What’s so bad about Tierkreis? I liked it when I played it… From what I know, it had absolutely nothing to do with any of the other games in terms of setting, when fans where begging for more storeis inthe world they already knew. Its like they slapped the Suikoden name on it just to sell. I'm still surprised Konami hasn't made a Suikoden Gacha game, it's practically tailor-made for it.
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Suikoden 1 is a short enough game that playing it twice to unlock everyone a second time isn't a huge chore. I think I've beaten it rather casually in about...9-10 hours. Call it between 15-20 for a first playthrough if you don't know all the systems. 2 however is a much longer game with much weirder recruitment, so absolutely use a guide if you play that.
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Cheap Trick posted:I'm just here for the Front Mission remasters Glad we finally got a date, and I'm shocked that they're adding FM3 to that list, I played the hell out of the game.
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