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Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


You might wanna crank up the screenshots to 800px width at least. I doubt anyone here will mind and it would make em look a lot better.

You got Irfanview for resizing?

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Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Cake Attack posted:

i've never seen a psp lp that resized it's images

It helps a lot with still images. People blow up images for DS and GBA games so they look better. I'd definitely say do the same thing here.
Though I admit I dunno how well PSP screenshots scale.

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


ahahahaha

One of our main characters is a loving engineer. We're off to a great start :allears:

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Goon Squad
We're underachievers who will help each other out! And any time we execute a plan, you have an excuse to use the :goon: emote!

But yes this is really loving stupid. At least Zeri had the balls to stand up to the bitchy rich lady.

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:10bux: says that they added this little nugget back in for VC:D :shepface:

Seraphic Neoman fucked around with this message at 11:38 on Apr 1, 2015

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


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What do they do otherwise? Clean up mines, repair sandbags, still have long-range offense in Grenades, have a Blast suit, and also they have a giant loving shield...that deflects all interception attacks. They are the closest to having unlimited HP if you angle the shield right, though their AP isn't the greatest. If nothing else, they are great Camp capture characters by getting to a place healthy and chucking a grenade to move an enemy out of the way.

Ahahaha loving rip engineers.

BioMe posted:

People who make porn for a living usually are.

That's most artists' bread-and-butter. Especially in Japan. It's honestly really common and not that weird.

The bigger problem is that this is all what they say about the characters. Unlike in P3's artbook, which talks about things like Junpei's combat stance and each individual character's clothing preferences, this is mostly about overall design and bust sizes. So far only Zeri's art page has shown anything close to an actual theme, and that is still mostly "he's a darcsen ergo he has darcsen knickknacks"
This is the design equivalent of cheap oatmeal. Sure it might have some embellishments, but it's still the same tasteless stodge served everywhere.

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


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gently caress YOU

...I mean, here are material items you need to do multiple things like create weapons, make temporarily buffs, and change class. TOTALLY NOT A GRIND AT ALL, NOPE

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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Oh wait, grind items are specific to characters that were in the mission instead of being a universal currency??? My favorite type of distribution!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


That is stupid! Not even MMOs do this! Why would anyone think this was a good idea!?

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Internet Kraken posted:

At least none of the girls are running into battle in high heels. You take what you can get.

Oho just you wait.

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


So gently caress anything not a Shcoktrooper or an Armored Tech. Maybe Scout if you're feeling generous. Got it.

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


I guess Gallia's army was nuked by Selvaria in VC1 and they still haven't managed to...yeah I dunno.


Gotta admit though, didn't expect a CG of armored soldiers killing unarmed civilians. Sad to say that's the first thing that makes me respect the game more so far.

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Wow the Tournament Arc is upon us already? That was fast!

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Nonesense our tank is Fight!

:regd08:

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Oh come on game no need to twist the knife

"Man remember how likable, if dorky, the couple in the first game were? Aren't you glad you're hanging out with these awful new chucklefucks now?"

Like I normally like Avan's character. Jaden from GX was basically like him and he was pretty great. But this is just :geno:

Seraphic Neoman fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Apr 7, 2015

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Watch as it suddenly turns out to be some Railgun thing, where they're not the worst, they just have latent powers that are not prevalent (because the protagonist is there see)

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Ardeem posted:

When your cast makes that of Index/Railgun look competent...

Whoah, let's not say things we wanna take back later. Though I will admit I'm waiting for when Avan will have some :masterstroke: of a plan and earns everyone's respect. Index did this all the loving time, the protag was incompetent and poo poo on by the world. The suddenly come battle time and he was an extremely calculating and experienced fighter who knew how to effectively void others' powers and cripple them before punching them in the face.
I dunno how well that ended up for him, I stopped reading it about a quarter of the way in. Index isn't very good despite the face punching.

VC1 sorta did this with Welkin's knowledge of nature, but it felt way less contrived cause he was the son of a famous general and was a smart person in his own right. I'm not against the trope, but you should at least be creative with it.

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Actually 3000 years old, right? :shepface:

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Oh hey Crispin Freeman chat! That gives me an excuse to post this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0yr8WdYS8M

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Please utterly destroy everyone in the most brutal and humiliating fashion possible. If the game wants me to hate all the other classes then it's doing a good job.

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Man we are really hitting every loving cliche.

Huh the Darksen cloth tidbit is interesting. Does that ever get expanded on in-game? I'd think that's the first thing the racists would trash.

Seraphic Neoman fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Apr 11, 2015

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


paragon1 posted:

Lotte saying dude all the time makes me think of Prinnys.

I'm guessing it's their way of localizing the kansai accent.

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Oh hey my crystal ball is acting up again

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You're the final boss who will insist to burn in the flame of his own glory. Possibly after being betrayed by the federation dude in some way.

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You are the stalwart member of the villainous alliance who embraces their plans wholeheartedly, and despite sympathizing with the protagonist's causes, will proceed with scheduled ethnic cleansing. Alternatively, you will find the protagonists so charming that you respect their ideals, but you will nevertheless be forced to fall on your own sword.

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You are the dumb muscle going "yes sir no sir three bags full sir" and will be the first to die, going down as a supposed martyr for your cause. Alternatively, you do not in fact like the villain's agenda, but you follow it nevertheless because the main villain was nice to you. Plot twist is that you're adopted and/or a Darcsen

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You are going to be murdered by the alliance dude. There is no way that will not happen.

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Anisette is already far and away a better shocktrooper than her sister.


Okay that's actually a neat detail. 10 points to gryffindor.

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Deceitful Penguin posted:

Are there many Japanese games that happen in a civil war I wonder? Aside from the obvious of course.

Well there are a shitton of games about the Warring States/Sengoku period. That's a civil war, right? :v:

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Hahahahha someone decided to take inspiration from Maximillion and mass-produce his valkyria armor. That's awesome :allears:

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


I am seriously starting to dislike Zeri. He's not nearly as cool or witty as the game thinks he is and he seems to always be starting poo poo in these character skits.
I mean okay, this time it's in character. He's a Darcsen and he's obviously nursing a grudge against Imperials. But how many times has he insulted or got into verbal slap fights with other characters over petty poo poo?

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Internet Kraken posted:

If they don't exaggerate his one character trait then they might have to think of something else to write about him though.


Night10194 posted:

As many times as Avan's been hungry or sleepy. They all have one character trait.


And I get that, his thing is that he is a smartass know-it-all who is held back by his Darcsen nature, but he hasn't shown himself to be smart. The smartest thing he said is "use tank-killing lancers to kill tank"
Most of the other skits is just him poo poo-talking other characters for no reason.
He does talk about the Valkyrur and stuff this update, so I guess this will get improved upon, but so far he is just shown to be unlikably arrogant with no justification for it.

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


He's almost certainyl a darcsen. Like he might've been a girl, but since we already have a villanous chick, there's no way he's not a dude.

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Excellent. Every day a new low.

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I actually laughed irl even though I saw this coming.

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Nichol's main design feature is his Freckles, which are pretty standard for timid boy characters along with everything else in the game.

FTFY

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Cake Attack posted:

well let's not be disingenuous and pretend star ocean ever had good writing

It's still announcing a game by using a paint-by-numbers character composed of tropes reused in previous SO games.

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Oh! Oh! I got one!



This is the cast of Digimon Savers/Data Squad

There is Daimon Masaru in the middle, the hot-blooded protagonist who is dumb, gets into trouble at school and gets into fights. He...is admittedly pretty awesome actually because he solves problems by punching them in the face. Talking monster giving him lip? Punch it in the face! Annoying partner not shutting up, punch him in the face! Giant fire golem digimon is on a rampage? Punch it in the face! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrHdXHdVJ8w

Speaking of, there is also Thomas H Norstein, a stuck up rich boy. He is cold and calculating and looks down on Masaru's hot-blooded approach. He is also voiced by Crispin Freeman and has a thing for Masaru's mom.

And finally there's Yoshino Fujieda. She's the Girl. She uhhhh...chews out Masaru sometimes I guess.

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


The art book spoiled that Julianna was gonna fall for Zeri. So that means we'll have to do Julliana events. Ugh.

I feel your pain Tae.

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


paragon1 posted:

Good god, Gallia is super loving desperate if they're recruiting recent enemy combatants for officer school.

He's explicitly been enrolled as an Imperial peace offering. Oh Sigrid? Ex-rebel so that's why they shoved him into Class G.

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


paragon1 posted:

I know who he is gently caress face, I can read.

I'm wondering why they're not, you know, shooting him? Like you'd normally do? Instead of enrolling him in your "prestigious military academy"?

Easy friend, no need to get upset about anime games.

If I had to magic up an explanation, he probably got a recommended by Reiner, which seems like above and beyond the requirements needed to get into Lanseal. He shows willingess to fight for Gallia, and it's not like he has I WAS A REBEL written on his forehead. One of the problems of civil war is that enemies are not easy to identify. Why does nobody else in class G complain about an ex-Rebel joining them? Dunno, guess they don't give a poo poo.
Or maybe they think his knowledge of rebel tactics would help them, but since he was a rebel, into class G he went.

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


And I'm guessing both are inferior to Cosette, since she's one of the protagonists.

VV Holy poo poo VC2 can you do nothing right? :psyduck:
...d-does our mandatory tank pilot get some awful PP like that?

Seraphic Neoman fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Apr 20, 2015

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011



This was the weirdest one yet dude :stare:

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Is there by any chance an affection point system in place? I am 95% sure there isn't, but game devs put effort into the weirdest places.

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Would you listen?! ...That was taken near my house.

Zeri you weren't saying anything important don't be a putz.

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Glazius posted:

I am trying not to completely explode at this.

I realize it became kind of a melancholy war anthem in the after years, but...

That was Rosie's song. You were in the same goddamn squad as her and if you didn't pay attention to why she sang it in the first place YOU ARE THE WORST PERSON.

And she also bitches out at Alicia because she wants to be the star of the war. Alicia involuntarily unlocked her powers, and people suddenly started to treat her like a god. She hated her popularity because the people she knew suddenly became cold and didn't even consider her human anymore. She didn't want to have either powers or popularity, she just wanted a quiet life in a peaceful country with the person she loved.

Edy is awful person.

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


I'm also sympathetic to Pete, I'm starting to be racist against Zeri specifically too.

When does the plot extract the giant stick up his rear end?

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Well that is a hell of a way to show that Cossette's parents were murdered. How about some build-up, game?

And I like Jamil so far.

If you need a lancer you can always hit up the password system, right? Or does that require an internet connection?

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Just keep posting ones that are particularly good or particularly bad.

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Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Hmmmmm on the one hand Avan's plan is stupid, on the other hand gently caress Zeri...

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