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"Ah, hello. You've applied for our front end cashier position. Mr... Shulk, is it? That short for something?"
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Aug 20, 2020 23:07
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"Uh, yeah, Reyn is short for Reynaldo."
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Aug 20, 2020 23:07
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"Dunban... did your parents not know how to spell 'Duncan'?"
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Aug 20, 2020 23:09
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I remember the last LP thread described Mysterious Face as a Warhammer 40K ork with JRPG art. Listening to him is a treat. 
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Aug 20, 2020 23:20
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NGDBSS posted:I remember the last LP thread described Mysterious Face as a Warhammer 40K ork with JRPG art. Listening to him is a treat. Basically, yes.
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Aug 20, 2020 23:21
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Sally posted:"Uh, yeah, Reyn is short for Reynaldo." My head cannon was that Reyn's real name is "Ryan" but due to speech difficulties as a young boy he was convinced that Reyn is the correct pronunciation. So his parents and the rest of the town played along.
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Aug 20, 2020 23:30
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Sally posted:"Dunban... did your parents not know how to spell 'Duncan'?" Dick....son.
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Aug 20, 2020 23:34
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Dickson is a normal name, that's the best part. The origins is that there was a guy named Richard, "Dick" was the shortened form of Richard at the time, and he had a son. So if his son was named Fred, and because surnames were descriptive, he was known as "Fred, Dick's Son" and it just kinda stuck and evolved into Dickson/Dixon.
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Aug 20, 2020 23:40
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You can do some neat things with Sharla (she secretly has rock-solid defense so if you can get heavy armour on her, since healing draws so much aggro, she can act as both support and tank simultaneously) but she's definitely the least fun party member to toy around with. I would like her a lot better if you could use her cool off during chain attacks since that would throw her into the fray AND give the talent art wildcard to the multiplier but alas. The AI doesn't help because of how Cool Off works: the hotter it gets the longer it takes to cool off, and it always waits until it's full to use it. Theoretically you can manage it (support and healing are more effective with a cooler rifle and offensive arts are more effective with a hotter one) but that involves playing as Sharla and given literally every other choice, why would you? She is pretty good for long drawn out fights: it's kind of like using an all-divide in a Tales game: the fight is longer but it's more manageable. Late game I found she was useful for bosses that were five or more levels above me. ...I have sunk a hundred hours into this game on my main file alone on the Wii version, I love talking shop about the mechanics.
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Aug 21, 2020 05:50
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ManlyGrunting posted:Theoretically you can manage it (support and healing are more effective with a cooler rifle and offensive arts are more effective with a hotter one) but that involves playing as Sharla and given literally every other choice, why would you? And this brings me to one of my biggest griefs with this game, the poor control over the AI. If I have three characters in my party, I want to be able to decide what all three of them are doing. I can see how allowing full control could be a problem, for certain bosses they could run into the problem that either they are set up so that the player is forced to micromanage every character or they become to easy if the are set up to not require micromanaging, but the player chooses to do so anyway. I do however think they could have done better than Xenoblade did. I may as well mention my second grief with the game mechanic, the level difference advantage/penalty. When you go up in level, you already get an advantage by having better stats. Checking level difference just adds problems. It's used in MMOs to gate players and to ensure leveling up does give you a tangible advantage. In a game like World of Warcraft, your stats are mostly determined by equipment, for many stats, your characters own strength contributes just a minuscule amount to your total prowess. As such, going from level 21 to 22 makes very little difference until you upgrade to level 22 equipment, or rather, that would have been the case if it wasn't so that being level 22 against level 21 enemies by itself gave you advantages. You can also at any time move on to new areas, if you get overleveled for your current area, you don't need to finish certain story sequences to progress, you can just pack up and move. In Xenoblade, you're already gated by the story. Adding a level gate causes problems. If you get overleveled because you explored everything available right now, then the game mechanic will tell you that you need to seek out higher leveled enemies for challenge while the story will sooner or later force you to fight underleveled enemies and bosses. I think this edition allows you to remove or mitigate that mechanic though.
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Crystalgate posted:I think this edition allows you to remove or mitigate that mechanic though. The DE made it so you can lower your level whenever you want.
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Aug 22, 2020 11:15
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Damage output aside, what kills Sharla as a key party member for me is her poor Chain Attack compatibility. Her Arts simply don't mesh well with Shulk and Reyn at all, and even in the later game when your party expands it's still surprisingly hard to get her into a decent Chain, which is instrumental in handling serious encounters. Boy do I love Mysterious Face though. Up to this point the game has conditioned you to think of the Mechon as an implacable, silent force, then here comes this guy who actively trash talks you for the entire battle with his slimy cockney accent, it's such a massive shift in expectations. The way he says "Muh-na-doh boi" kills me everytime. It should be hilarious except that he's like twenty feet tall and really wants to kill you, and so it becomes genuinely threatening.
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  Apologies for being late, I had an internet outage that lasted pretty much all day yesterday.
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Aug 27, 2020 17:39
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Man you weren't kidding about Otharon's outline. He looks like a character from Borderlands. Also Ether Rifles look so cool in cutscenes when they're firing big, meaty energy bolts, it's a shame that Sharla's is so anemic in actual combat. Imagine if she had something on par with Reyn's Big O-esque pile driver move he does.
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Aug 27, 2020 20:00
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A test pit is a trial mine. Dig down, see if you get something. If you do, it gets expanded into a full mine shaft. If not, we’ll you didn’t have to do too much work to strike out.
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Aug 31, 2020 18:04
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I appreciated all these early scenes that mostly counters the "character has a secret that is bothering them and would make things a hell of a lot easier on everyone involved if they just communicated instead of hiding it" trope. For me, Reyn spoke for me.
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Sep 1, 2020 04:51
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Fall Defense gems are even more extra useless than you'd think; they only reduce the damage of falls you'd survive without them.
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Sep 1, 2020 08:02
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Weeble posted:Fall Defense gems are even more extra useless than you'd think; they only reduce the damage of falls you'd survive without them. There's a lot of Gem effects in this game that really just feel completely worthless and Fall Defense is definitely pretty high on that list.
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Prowler posted:I appreciated all these early scenes that mostly counters the "character has a secret that is bothering them and would make things a hell of a lot easier on everyone involved if they just communicated instead of hiding it" trope. For me, Reyn spoke for me. Reyn is great, and actually acts like someone whose known Shulk all his life
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Polderjoch posted:There's a lot of Gem effects in this game that really just feel completely worthless and Fall Defense is definitely pretty high on that list.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:You should be able to stack them and passing 100% should let you heal by falling off things. every gem effect has an upper limit, and fall defence's is 75%, so this wouldn't work
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Polderjoch posted:every gem effect has an upper limit, and fall defence's is 75%, so this wouldn't work
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90s Cringe Rock posted:You should be able to stack them and passing 100% should let you heal by falling off things. I could just see that now, a Mechon stabs Shulk, throws his body off the side of the Bionis, then the boss music starts and shulks name appears above 5 health bars.
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I had wondered if quarantine had hosed up my brain somehow--being stuck indoors with nothing to do and no one to hang out with other than my cat. I then bought and played this game, beating all but 2 of the super bosses and finishing 99% of all the quests, unlocked all the full area maps, filled out about 99% of the affinity chart, got nearly everyone (except Sharla and Reyn) to the second highest or highest level of party affinity with each other. Nope, brain is completely normal. Don't know why I was worried. Anyways I'm off to take photographs of lucky emblems in KH3.
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Oh man, all of this is great. Too bad you didn't put Dickson in, this was the only battle he can be in the party. That song which is playing when Dunban makes his charge is called Unfinished Battle (or, apparently, Unfinished Business?). It's only used once in the main game, and it does not loop. I hope at this point you'll start mixing it up and playing with different characters in the lead. You've been playing entirely as Shulk, which seems like a little of a missed opportunity.
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Sep 4, 2020 00:12
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no "get me out of this wack rear end crystal prison" jokes? Shame on you 
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-As great as Xord is as a character, Metal Face is truly perfect. He's so spiteful and mean spirited and loves every second of making your life miserable. -That vision you get when fighting Metal Face is one of the best ones in the game because it comes so far out of left field and everything in it is brand new. Like, Shulk is super mad about what Metal Face did to Emperor, and we don't even know that there is an Emperor now, or even that there is an Empire of anything, period. And we still won't know that for, from what I recall, several hours. -Speaking of Shulk being super mad, I would have killed to be in that recording studio when Adam Howden did his lines for this game. He's so angry and the voice acting really sells it. -Dunban owns and if your part was just Shulk/Dunban/Reyn for the rest of the game you'd have the firepower to deal with pretty much everything that you come across, baring a few encounters that pretty much require Ether.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I hope at this point you'll start mixing it up and playing with different characters in the lead. You've been playing entirely as Shulk, which seems like a little of a missed opportunity. Oh don't worry, this is the point where I start messing around with different party comps to mix it up for videos. I could have played Reyn, yeah, but I wanted to make sure that Monado Enchant was in effect for the mechon in the Ether Mines. Strange Matter posted:-Dunban owns and if your part was just Shulk/Dunban/Reyn for the rest of the game you'd have the firepower to deal with pretty much everything that you come across, baring a few encounters that pretty much require Ether. I'll touch on party compositions a bit next video, but yes, pure physical is a wonderful team.
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Sep 4, 2020 16:07
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Xord owns. Shulk/Dunban/Reyn owns.
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The mines are honestly my least favorite part of the game. Even on replays that place is such a slog and the music sucks too. At least you get Dunban right after so it's all uphill from here.
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Sep 4, 2020 21:01
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I can't believe that they had a chance to fix Sharla's talent art now and decided not to. And not even that but she's still firing off like 7 rapid fire shots in cutscenes like it's no big deal.
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Sep 6, 2020 01:03
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Eventually eeeeeeeeventually There is a sharla build that lets hire fire off her only red art as fast as her animations let her.
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Sep 6, 2020 02:06
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Why even use Sharla when you can use characters that aren't Sharla?
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Sep 6, 2020 02:29
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loving love Fiona Apple posted:Why even use Sharla when you can use characters that aren't Sharla? How am I supposed to raise her affinity with everyone if I don't ever use her in battle?
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RareAcumen posted:How am I supposed to raise her affinity with everyone if I don't ever use her in battle? A lot of Fruit.
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loving love Fiona Apple posted:A lot of Fruit. loving love Dance Apples
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