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Amppelix posted:Let me complain about old games for a while. "Nothing you can do but more levels/HP" is a false reputation a lot of RPGs get from people who don't understand battle systems. The dragon counters magical attacks with Ultima sometimes. Don't cast offensive magic if you can't survive it.  Of course you don't know this the first time through but the immediate reaction should not be "welp guess I need to grind this is bullshit!" it's "why did that happen?" You can also mitigate the damage with MBarrier, Sadness or Hero Drinks or just Manipulate the dragon or something.
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Orphan's Cradle may have been uninspired but nothing will (hopefully) ever top the sheer terrible of FF3DS Crystal Tower/Dark World.
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Nov 27, 2013 11:56
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I was sold the moment I figured out you could do crazy mishmashes of jobs and customize dressup colors on top of that. There's nothing quite like having your job loadout be red mage with a huge fuckoff lance and counterblow because why not, a dedicated shinkicker, and colorblind power ranger mage. Also wearing shades on each one of them.
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Jan 23, 2014 00:26
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Creature Creation loving owns. There doesn't seem to be a good guide for it on the internet either, you get sense of discovery as a free bonus! 
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Mar 22, 2014 14:50
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As a non-native english speaker being surrounded by dubbed media in my childhood years would have sucked because you don't learn anything from it
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Aug 21, 2015 12:37
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Dissidia is cool as hell and Duodecim added more cool as hell moves and characters but the assist system is perhaps the worst addition I've seen to a direct upgrade type sequel. Anything over 20 frames becomes completely unusable when the opponent can just own you from half the battlefield away with a brave assist. If Arcade fixes that and the aerial dominance I will love it so much.
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May 10, 2016 16:42
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In Training posted:I don't remember this it's there, if you try to proceed without doing the puzzle you fight 170k HP guardians You can eject them so I just solved it with falconry
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May 10, 2016 17:13
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gigglefeimer posted:No you didn't. wrong quote:Element Resistance - Accuracy Reformed: 255. Berserk: 255. Blow Away: 200.
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May 11, 2016 06:15
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gigglefeimer posted:Nope. The move he's talking about is too weak to eject them even at level 99. wrong again but if you want to keep arguing things that actually happened aren't possible, cool What's new in the Steam versions of already released games, other than FF9 turbo speed?
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May 11, 2016 18:02
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Going against all the instincts of most RPG players, White Mage is irredeemable trash. All other jobs have their place. Edit: Just remembered White Mage is insanely good as a monster job
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May 15, 2016 22:54
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Insurrectionist posted:Alright, thanks for the tip. Yeah I kinda just didn't bother with the grid for a while and ended up slotting in the first ~10 levels for each character simultaneously, and I noticed it left me with only 3 Ability Spheres left vs a dozen or more of all the other Spheres, so it got me wondering if I was gonna run into a shortage of each eventually. I guess I'll just pick up the Extract Ability one just in case, and leave the others then. Don't use it on bosses or it'll overwrite rare sphere type drops, IIRC anyway
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May 28, 2016 16:53
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Insurrectionist posted:Okay so for FFX, the stat spheres you get to slot into empty slots in the sphere grid, should I just dump these down with abandon now for the good characters or should I hold on to them for something or other? Just do whatever. Anything worth seeing in the game doesn't need minmaxing.
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May 29, 2016 00:46
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Saying "but you can play FF12 manually!" is useless because the game was made taking the automation into account. Enemies are gigantic sacks of HP and no one would make it out of the first five hours of the game without gambits if they had to inpout every attack.NikkolasKing posted:I mainly hate Necron now because of his mechanics. "Necron" only has one or maybe two moves, everything else is some invisible, unbeatable enemy which means Necron can get three or four turns in a row?? I'll never forget getting nailed with Grand Cross and Meteor back-to-back. Necron has an amount of ATB bars corresponding to your number of living party members. In the base game they all have a certain part of his moveset they use, #1 mostly spams Blue Shockwave.
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Jun 7, 2016 10:05
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ApplesandOranges posted:I'm not sure where you're getting that from, since it's the first I've heard of it. He just seems to get multiple actions as the fight goes on and Grand Cross has RNG into it. Chaotic Flame posted:First I'm hearing of this. I thought he just got multiple turns. Happened to lose the rest of my party in a Necron fight once and then noticed he wasn't doing poo poo anymore so I investigated it for an hour out of curiosity
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Jun 8, 2016 07:28
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Norns posted:How is issuing commands a huge chore? Thanks to the automation the combat time scale of the battles is larger than in any of the games before 12. Gambits are there to mask the fact that a boss battle might take 50-100 rounds of combat and if you try to go deep manual that is a lot of effort.
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Jul 24, 2017 10:02
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The first thing anyone playing FFXV now should do is changing their Regalia to the off-road type. It was a solid half of my enjoyment of the game and I'm v.glad I didn't play at release
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Aug 18, 2017 03:06
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FF13 is tedious nonsense that constantly strives to be less than the sum of its parts but it set up two actually good games so I guess that's fine
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Nov 25, 2017 08:52
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corn in the bible posted:i'll never understand people thinking 13-2 is good either. game's so easy that you really can just auto-attack forever and you'll win It's not a battles game (with a small handful of exceptions). It has cool looking time travel with someone screaming paradox every five minutes, a fairly satisfying monster gathering/dressup system and an extradimensional casino where you play a poker game featuring a spinning 13-hour clock. Also you are constantly told that time travel has horrible consequences and while you're expecting all of that to amount to nothing like 13-1's big hyped up dilemma it turns out, in every ending, that your time travel has horrible consequences. It's not great but it does enough right to be good.
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Nov 25, 2017 09:25
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esperterra posted:Yeah, other than some added story content (barely any) and tweaking chapter 13 to be less tedious, it's the same game. I wouldn't have had half the fun with the game I did if off-roading wasn't in by the time I played it. gently caress the default car.
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Dec 4, 2017 12:17
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X-2 has a bunch of interesting split paths in how the various area scenarios can turn out depending on your actions that no one has ever seen because everyone plays with the 100% guide
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Dec 13, 2017 03:21
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Dr Pepper posted:WHat's funny is that this isn't true for any game in the series really. A lot of people just lack any drive to engage with the system. Not a whole lot you can do about that.
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Oct 4, 2018 06:43
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Phantasium posted:My younger cousin was once telling me how hard a time he was having against some boss in the middle of Kingdom Hearts 2 a few years after it came out, and asked me if I could help him get past it. Well, I pick up the controller and go in the menu to see how he's got things set up, and am immediately bombarded by every single tutorial the game can throw at me, because he not once opened up the menu to change anything and probably didn't know it existed. Somehow managing to not press the menu button in the first ten hours of a game is a whole new level of impressive
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Oct 4, 2018 23:41
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CeallaSo posted:the latter relies on you bringing someone fast enough to go first in the turn order. You can salvage this by stripping a character to make them a more attractive target. It's not 100% but you can't get stuck there.
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Oct 12, 2018 23:41
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OzFactor posted:I'm sure it's been pointed out multiple times in this very long thread, but I'll give a strong recommendation to the LFT romhack, which does have a WotL translation patch if you want to put that on too. LFT is not one of those dumb hardmode things, it's a very good balance patch that makes every class useful, including monsters (which also means monsters are much more dangerous when you're fighting them). In terms of difficulty, I'm not sure it makes the entire game any harder in the end, but it makes the initial climb a bit steeper, just because the random encounters are so much more dangerous. But they give everyone innate Gain JP Up and lowered the JP costs of just about everything. I worked on the team for this and I'm glad it's still making the rounds years later. The basic idea was to make it so there are no trap options - you can use/build what you think is cool and it'll work, including monsters (and without spending years of your life to do so). Also there's more enemy formation variety so it's not all knights all the time.
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Oct 25, 2018 21:10
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Barudak posted:Combat in FFXIII is upper tier for the franchise, and its difficulty pacing is the best in the franchise, while everything else is basically bottom tier. How this nets out for you as an overall package is going to determine how you feel about the game. As a person who skips any cutscene offered and hates playing "find the NPC you need to talk to to progress the game" 13 was basically perfection for me as far as JRPGs go, but if you're here for like "A sensible story" and "explorable towns" you're not gonna have a good time. Pretty heavy YMMV on the pacing thing too, for some insane reason you don't even get paradigms until a fair chunk into the game, during which your options are "attack" "lol you actually used grenade" and "potion". The combat is reasonably well designed when it gets going but doesn't lend itself to customization so once you've seen it that's it. Also the final boss has an instant death attack (not a "you hosed up" timer) in a game where you can't get ID immunity 
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Super No Vacancy posted:xv is a very weird game imo. 60% of the game is a driving sim where you cant drive I wish the game just blasted any new players with a giant message that says SWITCH TO OFFROAD REGALIA ASAP because that's how you actually have fun with the open world, I feel sorry for those who played at launch
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