February game chat: I bet this Valentine was Sonixpected

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The 7th Guest: Dec 17, 2003

like i said in the previous thread, the final Etrian Odyssey comes out next week

the D in DRPG will change meaning to "dire" after EO is retired as a series

e: or 'dearth'. 'deserted'. 'drought'

# ¿ Feb 1, 2019 08:56

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 00:51

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Sakurazuka posted:

Id be utterly amazed if it ended up being the last one

I know they said before it can't work on a single screen without compromising the game's primary feature of manual mapping (which would loving suck on the Switch's touchscreen anyway)

but I bet the same core team will do something very similar.. hopefully with the same musical composer

# ¿ Feb 1, 2019 09:01

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cheetah7071 posted:

I'm sure this isn't true of everyone but I definitely wouldn't have cared if the games auto-mapped, it was basically just busy work.

well they offer auto mapping tools in the more recent stuff, but still for a lot of fans the manual mapping is a core part of the gameplay loop

in persona Q i did it about half on and half off because the dungeon floor sizes got way too huge over time (and encounter frequency was really high as well :/)

# ¿ Feb 1, 2019 09:05

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Relax Or DIE posted:

all i've heard about EON is that it's apparently real loving long, which actually might keep me from picking it up

how is that different from any of the other EOs

# ¿ Feb 1, 2019 21:21

The 7th Guest: Dec 17, 2003

no one bought titanfall 2 so now the franchise is battle royaleing into the dumpster

https://comicbook.com/gaming/2019/02/01/titanfall-battle-royale-free-to-play-game-release/

quote:

According to YouTube channel TheQuartering, which has over 420,000 subscribers, EA will release a free-to-play Titanfall battle royale game this Monday. Yes, as in three days from now.

The Youtuber cites inside sources that claim the game will be announced this Saturday, tomorrow, and will be released just two days later on Monday. More specifically, word of the game will be broken by numerous content creators and streamers (who have reportedly played the game already) -- such as Shroud and Dr. Disrespect. Then, on Monday, EA will officially reveal the game, and release it into the wild all at once.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2019 04:41

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MechaSeinfeld posted:

If it's real and it tanks the chances of titanfall 3 I'm quitting video games

well, i would certainly say tanking is possibly the objective, considering they'd be releasing it THE SAME WEEK AS THEIR OTHER GAME, ANTHEM

e: ea is hot garbage

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# ¿ Feb 2, 2019 10:37

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axelblaze posted:

Holy poo poo this looks insanely awful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IpMDh23WP4

it's by the dev of Sexy Brutale and Invisible Hours so it will probably be good

# ¿ Feb 3, 2019 00:10

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al-azad posted:

Watched Babylon 5 pilot today and really liked it but holy hell that CG is dire! I mean it's impressive that it's 1993 I guess but scenes drop frames and some textures aren't even applied properly. And it's a little annoying because the set and costume design is great but instead of going for miniatures they went with a young technology that probably cost a lot of money.

it's probably for the best that the show has no HD remaster because even at its highest budget, the CG is awful and the establishing shots of cities look like pre-rendered backgrounds from a playstation JRPG

# ¿ Feb 3, 2019 06:37

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In Training posted:

It's a image of someone talking and then someone else responding to their dialogue

so it's a videogame then

# ¿ Feb 3, 2019 08:05

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In Training posted:

There's plenty of video games that don't do this, it's why everybody loved MGS1.

yeah but most JRPGs do, so it's really not going to be anything FF fans aren't already used to

# ¿ Feb 3, 2019 09:03

The 7th Guest: Dec 17, 2003

The included synths and composition tools seem crazy based on some of the tunes that GB showed in their Dream stream

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 01:20

The 7th Guest: Dec 17, 2003

this is going to be like volition's agents of mayhem, with the same outcome

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 02:41

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I said come in! posted:

Hopefully 2019 is the last year we have to worry about new Battle Royals games.

what's the next trend

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 02:51

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Relax Or DIE posted:

place your bets now!!

saltybet is years old now

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 02:53

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worst acquisition was Raven Software by Activision because they just became a COD studio instead of being able to make their own games

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 03:20

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Enkmar posted:

The game looks really loving uninspired, but this level of concern trolling is somehow even more uninspired

mutata works in gaming and has been hosed over by layoffs before

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 05:44

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i had to click to do combat in DA:O and that's where i stopped playing, so that was about 5 minutes in

its 2019, point and click should be for city builders and adventure games only

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 07:24

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that was the other thing, that it was realtime with pause and it was also slow as gently caress

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 07:40

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i feel like Dead Cells will create some chasers as well, but that's because there already are 200 roguelites that get released every week

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 08:08

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Jay Rust posted:

Is FFXII considered RTWP?

yeah, but I think that's mitigated by having active control over your character

while we're talking jrpgs, i noticed that bravely default is still close to full price but bravely second is $16 on amazon. i haven't played either but i avoided default because of what everyone said about the second half. does bravely second pull anything like that

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 09:15

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i'm basically just buying some poo poo from amazon and seeing what's on sale. i needed to get my cart to a certain amount to ship (otc medication) so I added xenoblade 2 torna, which.. i haven't played the original xeno2 but this is a prequel so i'm not worried about that

i saw yokai watch at $19.. but idk if i wanna bite. i played a demo of it a few years ago and thought the combat was just kinda weird

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 09:24

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Barudak posted:

Heads up, while Torna is a prequel its basically cut story content that would have gone in the game at around the 60% mark and as such will make playing the main game story a little weird since the story assumes you dont know these characters or their relationships.

It also is better in every single way from QoL to combat so theres no good reason to ever fire up Xenoblade 2 afterwards.

honestly that sounds like a reason to just not buy xenoblade 2 then and only play torna

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 09:31

The 7th Guest: Dec 17, 2003

sir this is a library

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 10:43

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someday EA's value will drop to the point where they'll be acquired by a larger company and then they'll be the ones having to deal with the possibility of shuttering

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 22:29

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portal knights is pretty decent

PantsBandit posted:

I for one am glad Respawn gets to try to make something new.

How about instead of crying that it's not Titanfall 3, we give the good developer the benefit of the doubt and hope for the best?

I will be trying it out soon.

that's fine, I'm just getting the same vibes as Agents of Mayhem, the game that was not Saints Row 5 and killed Volition

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 22:51

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remember when cliffyb got mad that his crew was leaving to take jobs at epic rather than work on his lovely Fortnite clone, even though he already knew the studio was going to close and everyone was going to lose their jobs

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 22:54

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I said come in! posted:

I feel bad for those who stayed behind, they were laid off and told about it over Twitter and a Kotaku article.

and then CliffyB 'retired' from games because the industry was too "toxic", which, yes it is, but you contributed to the toxicity, rear end in a top hat

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 22:58

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Help Im Alive posted:

I wonder if Nintendo will ever get in on the BR thing or if they're ok just having Fortnite and all the other ones on Switch

fyi you're asking whether Nintendo has the capability of doing an online game where a hundred people battle each other at once

the most players they've ever had in an online game is what, 4v4 with splatoon? it's not their core competency

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 23:00

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Cowcaster posted:

well i pulled the trigger on nioh, now i'm off to grab a beer while it installed as the weather graces us with temperatures above 50 degrees

11 degrees here

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 23:41

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al-azad posted:

What's the name of that hand animated Vanillaware looking game about Journey to the West that just came out and literally no one is talking about? Something Heroes of Legend or other generic title.

Unruly Heroes, and it's more like Rayman Legends than Vanillaware because it's by the same devs/artists and they basically recreated the UbiArts style in Unity

# ¿ Feb 5, 2019 00:15

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Jay Rust posted:

What game should I play on Valentine�s Day

hatoful boyfriend

# ¿ Feb 5, 2019 00:49

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reading rpgfan reviews

"If there is one point that gives the story redemption, it's the translated dialogue. You can tell that Atlus had fun translating this title, and they didn't even bother being politically correct or even tasteful. Pop culture references such as "milf" made it into the dialogue, and Arabic-looking characters were donned such names as "Sadam Insein." Not necessarily clever, but certainly bold."

# ¿ Feb 5, 2019 07:07

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njsykora posted:

What game is that so I can avoid it and everything that localisation studio does in future.

metal saga for ps2

# ¿ Feb 5, 2019 07:14

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i'm crossreferencing stuff on amazon with rpgfan reviews

they hated shining force neo which was actually a very good game, so im not actually listening to what theyre saying really

the followup (EXA) is $23 via amazon warehouse, and then i went down a rathole of reading ps2/ps3 rpg reviews

# ¿ Feb 5, 2019 07:21

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knowing Square, they'll internally call that a disappointment

# ¿ Feb 5, 2019 10:48

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Sakurazuka posted:

Do you want to play Monster Hunter but worse in every way with the animest story that ever animed?

arent you describing Monster Hunter Stories

# ¿ Feb 5, 2019 22:12

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mutata posted:

Hahaha, this tweet makes me laugh. Disney can and will say whatever they want about video games because the truth is they simply do not care. Licensing allows them to collect licensing payments and still wield all of the power of refusal and approval. Anyone who works on a Disney video game does so at their own risk.

This isn't just me throwing sour grapes either. No one at the exec level knows enough how to do games correctly nor do they care enough to hire anyone who does know. They've long seen games as an extension of their synergy-based marketing apparatus and not as a form of media or art in and of themselves.

I also highly doubt that they're happy with what EA is doing, but they're also partly to blame for cancelations and they still get paid licensing fees regardless so they probably just don't care there either.

they made a big deal about Iger being mad at the Battlefront microtransactions but the reality is he probably was only mad that they didn't do a good enough job of sneaking it in

# ¿ Feb 6, 2019 02:51

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C-Euro posted:

We live in a world where Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse exists, so I question this headline.

E: actually that's a good chat thread flash poll- what is the best video game based solely on Disney IP? They have to have owned the IP when the game came out so no old Star Wars games.

Quackshot

# ¿ Feb 6, 2019 04:09

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Taintrunner posted:

I'm thinking of teaching myself video editing by making a longform Youtube critique of precisely why EA's approach to Star Wars games have gone so poorly

make sure the thumbnail has you crossing your arms making a serious face with big outlined text saying "EA STILL $UX??"

# ¿ Feb 6, 2019 08:18

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 00:51

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# ¿ Feb 6, 2019 08:58

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