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Rogue Galaxy was fine, but L5's best RPG is still the original Dark Cloud, warts and all. DC2 had some really cool ideas but it also has a really boring Saturday morning cartoon story
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Nihilarian posted:I can't think of a single thing that Dark Cloud 1 does better than Dark Cloud 2. The town-building stuff is so different that I can chalk that much up to different tastes, I guess.
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Jan 11, 2015 20:17
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Finished Suikoden 2, the story is not really all that much better than the first game but it was still a fun game with good sequel amenities. I don't really get why they made it look like Jowy was taking orders from some ninja when it turned out Jowy did everything himself because he was a Dude With Ambitions, also maybe leknaat should have showed up in one of his dreams and been like "hey what the gently caress, stop that" instead of letting Jowy join up with a dude who's like, hey whatsup wanna help me massacre an entire town to feed a blood ritual, pretty cool right. But thats all water under the bridge, Jowy, lets go journey and be pals and leave this country in a hosed up mess that we created wheee I can get the third game for $20 from local nerd store but I may just wait it out to see if I can get it cheaper from eBay because the 3D suikodens don't really look anything like the 2D ones in terms of visuals or fast paced battles.
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Jan 14, 2015 10:26
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Went to local nerd store and got a few old rpgs for cheap. $21 altogether for Magical Starsign (DS), Nostalgia (DS), Legaia 2 (PS2) and Spectrobes Origins (Wii). None of these are like A-tier or anything but I'll enjoy em. Also they had rhythm heaven for 5 bucks so I grabbed that too, which is not an RPG, but maybe some day.....
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Jan 16, 2015 19:06
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Main problem with Grandia I i've noticed in the brief time I've played it is that the load times are abysmal. Even going to the menu has load times. This should not be a thing in any RPG ever
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Jan 19, 2015 17:55
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Gonna get these games in PSN sale Legend of Mana Hexyz Force Riviera the Promised Land Persona 2: EP Then probably not play them for 3 months wooya
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Jan 21, 2015 05:46
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Cake Attack posted:yeah well in my view your better off not reading your posts for forever
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if anime was a strike against JRPGs the only game we could talk about here is Kings Field which I would still be ok with
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Legend of Mana mostly feels like a side-scrolling brawler but with quests. Some of the giant bosses even kinda feel like the wrestler boss from the Simpsons Arcade Game where you can out-manuever them and juggle them because they're so slow. It is relatively non linear in that you keep getting access to more and new locations no matter which quests you take, so you can kind of just play however you feel like, unless you really want to make a beeline for the end of the game, in which case you have to one of three different quest paths. I also tried a little of Magical Starsign and the text speed is so loving slow that it is draining my will to play it. I played some Nostalgia and despite it having the thinnest and most vanilla characterization, I am playing that more, because the combat is quick, you start out with an airship, and it seems more tailored to small sessions. And the text speed is not appearing one letter every 30 seconds like Starsign. The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 10:00 on Jan 24, 2015 |
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Jan 24, 2015 09:57
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The first two Suikoden games are ridiculously easy, and the best thing is, the game levels up any underleveled character to the rest of the party within 2-3 fights, so you can mix and match however you like. Some of the Unite attacks are ridiculously overpowered and none of the bosses have a particularly large amount of HP.
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Jan 24, 2015 22:12
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Chrono Cross is cool actually.
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Jan 26, 2015 00:11
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Forest Thief Pud posted:The original Grandia is a pretty good game, it's just a 90's JRPG so it's a bit dated, and the game is a bit grindy thanks to all the weapon/magic levels.
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Jan 26, 2015 09:03
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It's also anti-grinding. Once your character is at the right level, EXP gained drops off a cliff, and any under leveled character gets a TON of EXP. it's a pretty easy game that is even more easily broken if you sharpen your party's weapons further than the game expects by going to towns before you're supposed to.
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Jan 26, 2015 20:38
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Amppelix posted:This has probably been brought up about ten times before, but I just bought Valkyria Chronicles on sale. And, whoa, is the tone all over the place. You can't simultaneously try to go for the horrors of war angle while also having lighthearted banter between the characters, it don't work! "luca just massacred an entire city as part of a ritual!! LETS POSE AS COLLEGE STUDENTS!" *flik tugs collar, hanna barbera sounds*
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Jan 26, 2015 21:59
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I'm ok with random battles but I like what older SMT games did with the battle mood ring, where once it got to red, you enter battle, so you knew when a battle was coming up if you needed to heal or w/e (also it made me feel cocky, like "i'm low on HP but i bet i can get to that save point before the next fight")
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Feb 2, 2015 01:55
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The White Dragon posted:My favorite is the battle mood ring from older Etrian Odyssey games, which would go from blue to red in one step and then you get ambushed and murdered.
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Feb 2, 2015 05:23
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Tried Star Ocean 3 and a Tales of game, but Ys Oath/Origin has ruined me. Ys combat makes all other ARPG combat feel like total poo poo. Also Arkham games make ARPG combat feel like poo poo too I guess.
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Feb 9, 2015 19:20
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Endorph posted:Which tales game? Maybe you unlock longer combos as the game goes on but I'm tired of the action-game staple of 3-hit combos then a delay then 3-hit combos then a delay, even if you have options like spells and items to use and poo poo. I had to put up with it with Devil Summoner just because the setting/atmosphere was neat and I wanted to play through it, but I just can't get into any other game from the ground floor that is that underwhelming. In Ys I think the average max combo is 9-10 hits and you can swing as fast as you can press the button so it is extremely visceral. And in the Arkham games you can pretty much chain to infinity. The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Feb 9, 2015 |
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Feb 9, 2015 21:54
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Finished hexyz force, it was pretty solid in gameplay and also extremely forgettable in story. Having a turbo button for both battles, cutscenes, and any non-interactive moment in the game was amazing and it is criminal that other games don't do this (other than Last Remnant). The ability to use the force "currency" of the game to level up your weapons allows for really fun cheesing if that's what you want out of a game (and I do). The game has two campaigns but one might have been enough for me, maybe a long time from now I'll come back and play the other.
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Feb 17, 2015 00:39
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I tried getting into Tales of Symphonia and quickly got bored of the hit-hit-hit-delay-hit-hit-hit-delay combat (I really can't stand 3 hit max combos in games after playing Arkham/Ys). Does Xillia improve on this or will I just be sour on it for the same reasons?
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Feb 18, 2015 06:19
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All I know about Shadow Hearts is that its expensive as gently caress to buy now so I will probably never play it
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Feb 21, 2015 15:13
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I didnt think we could find a even less interesting thing about pier solar to care about but I was proven wrong
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Feb 24, 2015 04:43
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I now have Suikoden III and Y's Ark for PS2... I don't have too many more PS2 games to chase down at this point.
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Feb 28, 2015 21:50
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crawling in my skin these wounds they will not heal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Apdfz4HNrY everything you say to me takes me one step closer to the edge
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Mar 12, 2015 16:51
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The demo of Bravely Default was like 6 hours long so I just beat that and considered that a good enough experience
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Mar 15, 2015 04:10
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The next generation of SMT anime babes is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKaHMqkjGS8
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xov posted:Hey look another Square Enix teaser site.
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Endorph posted:believe it or not the mobile games industry does not exist to ruin video games
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Apr 9, 2015 17:22
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Grandia 1's load times are pretty abysmal, just bear that in mind
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Apr 15, 2015 05:55
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Does the PSN version fix that at all?
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Apr 15, 2015 06:11
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Almost thought this sale had nothing for me but then I saw Resonance of Fate for 10 bucks. 
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Got Catherine and Resonance of Fate in the golden week sale, I think that just about does it for PS3 for me, with the exception of picking up ps2 games at local nerd shop Not done with RPGs on PSN though, still have PS1/PSP games to get whenever those go on sale which is maybe twice a year. One of these days Ys Seven will get a sale. Someday.
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May 4, 2015 02:16
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I beat Trails in the Sky FC. I was really disappointed when all of the heroes became available at endgame but I could still only have a party of 4. Maybe it's because the PC game's UI looked like it could fit at least one more member. I had forgotten about the 4:3->16:9 conversion  Also I dunno how I beat it in 29 hours, feels like that game took forever to clear.
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May 5, 2015 23:54
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I can't believe I've gotten a third of the way through wild arms, especially when the combat has like almost nothing to it fire gun meteor dive armor down fire gun meteor dive heal fire gun meteor dive heal exp gella run run run run slam into wall
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May 20, 2015 18:26
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At least I have some PS2 jerpigs to go to when this is done. Ys Ark and Suik 3 and Legaia 2. I'll take anything with at least one modern amenity. Wild ARMs doesn't even heal you at save points. And no one's sold MP-replenishing items in the entire first third of the game. Which means random encounters you're best off just mashing basic attack over and over or else you'll be hosed when you reach a boss.
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May 20, 2015 19:44
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TARDISman posted:Unfortunately it also introduced the bullshit mechanic that is searching for towns and dungeons on the world map. There was another dungeon in the desert too that was hidden but it didn't warp around at least Also the minimap is literally an item you have to use from the item menu, making it worthless
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May 21, 2015 00:38
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TARDISman posted:I don't remember that, which dungeons were they?
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May 21, 2015 03:28
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Again, I'm playing Wild Arms, whose combat engine dips to 7-8 FPS at times, a PS2 RPG is not gonna have anything on that e: not just framerate issue but the game speed slows down as well lol
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May 21, 2015 09:47
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Phantasium posted:Battles will go faster if you change the camera angle in the options. You can set it to have a traditional overhead view and it'll not pause for critical hits and also cycle through turns faster since it's not doing dynamic pans over the super-aged 3D models.
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Final Fantasy 12 Trails in the Sky Last Remnant Dark Cloud Bowser's Inside Story Persona 3 Suikoden II stomping on a xenosaga disc (any) uh I think thats it earthbound was okay e: oh yeah BOF Dragon Quarter The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 02:23 on May 22, 2015 |
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