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Stelas posted:'cause I was on the XBox. Yeah the rare spawns can gently caress you up early game.
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mune posted:It's pretty fun so far (just got to the part where you can recruit guild members), I just don't like it when you have to avoid doing things or you might hamstring yourself. I'm not a huge grinder but still it's worrisome. If you're on the PC version don't worry and do whatever you want. The Xbox version is the one with a wonky scaling system.
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Kild posted:The main problem with Last Remnant is that a lot of stuff is gated until the very end of the game but most of the challenge is before you reach that point such as the Fallen. You don't get Khyrina until right before the final boss, for example, so her stats and skills are all subpar but she's a good character worth using who synergizes well with Irina. You get Shards from like the 2nd to last quest in the game. There's a New Game Plus feature, which lets you carry over all the Arts for Rush, all the Items which grant you bonus drops, all the components, the bonus turns for your harvester, and some other things. You also get an amount of gold proportional to how many quests you completed. All quests gets you 8 million gold. It starts you out at BR 1 with the stats and skills of a BR 1, so the game's still a challenge, but you can now craft some pretty great things at the start of the game, have Rush start learning any arts and getting drops without having to do all those quests. Unfortunately, party members won't take items from your inventory for their weapon upgrades, you still have to hunt for those.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:Unfortunately, party members won't take items from your inventory for their weapon upgrades, you still have to hunt for those.
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Is The Witch and the Hundred Knight any good? Debating on getting that or Deception IV today...
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Seeing as how no one on this forum talked about it and the first user review on metacritic had this gem:quote:Pay no mind to the bad reviews from critics who clearly have no appreciation for great Japanese titles.
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Witch and the Hundred Knight is eh. It's kind of repetitive, has some problems, and the story scenes go on way too long. Deception IV is apparently really good and easily the best game in the series. Irons out a lot of the flaws from the past games.
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Mar 28, 2014 23:24
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That's a shame. Guess I'll grab it when it hits the bargain bin. Of course now I'm caught between either the ps3 or vita versions of deception. 
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I remember having way too much fun with Trapt, so that's good news.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:That's a shame. Guess I'll grab it when it hits the bargain bin. Of course now I'm caught between either the ps3 or vita versions of deception. Deception's split into two types of missions. The story chapters can take quite a while, but there's also a bunch of much shorter extra missions that are really well suited for picking up your vita to do a couple of them then putting it back down. If you don't mind the smaller screen and potentially having to sleep your Vita in the middle of a story chapter, it's a good way to save $20.
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Witch and the Hundred Knights is a boring and mostly ugly action-RPG with too many convoluted mechanics. It's sort of the dark sibling to Z.H.P which took weird Disgaea mechanics, combined then with Shiren the Wanderer, and made something good. WatHK tries to make Disgaea-Diablo and comes out worse for it. The biggest problem it has is that the main (nonplayable) character is terrible. She is evil and horrible but not in the wacky Disgaea "oh, they're a supervillain but mostly timidly so." At the end of the first chapter: She sends you to defeat a witch. You do so and she appears before the witch. She then begins to kick her as she vomits blood onto the ground, calling her a slut, whore and bitch. The witch reveals she is Metallia's mother and Metallia just laughs it off and kicks her more. Then she turns the witch into a mouse and summons an army of horny mice to rape her. This is explicitly her goal, she yells at her rat-mother to "go and make me a lot of little brothers and sisters" as the mother tries to escape. In the next scene you discover that a while later Metallia's butler went into the forest, caught the mouse-mother, killed her, and cooked her as a meal for Metallia. She tasted extra good because of of the pheromones that were attracting the rape-rats. Not a single bit of this is exaggeration of hyperbole. It is all directly as it is described onscreen. This is all played as a weird sort of comedy but it isn't really funny at all, not even in a dark comedy sort of way. The character never really gets better either. It's very rare that I've played a game that contains such amazingly horrifyingly unlikable characters doing terrible unsympathetic things. It isn't even dark in a sort of trainwreck-value way like Soul Nomad's evil path is. It's just unpleasant. Edit: I am aware I used rat and mouse interchangeably there. Sorry. ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Mar 29, 2014 |
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ImpAtom posted:
 And I thought that Ground Zeroes thing was a bit over the line......
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:There's a New Game Plus feature, which lets you carry over all the Arts for Rush, all the Items which grant you bonus drops, all the components, the bonus turns for your harvester, and some other things. You also get an amount of gold proportional to how many quests you completed. All quests gets you 8 million gold. Unless its harder, keeps your max party member slots and every character it's not really solving my problem. 
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ImpAtom posted:The biggest problem it has is that the main (nonplayable) character is terrible. [...] It's just unpleasant. Well, now I know what I'm never, ever playing.
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I think Soul Nomad's dark path worked because you had to play through the good path before it - IE: you were at least somewhat invested in these characters and the setting, and seeing it all go to poo poo incredibly quickly was kind of interesting. Not to mention it was neat to see Gig go from 'hahaha, let's go kill some innocents!!!' in the good path to 'Uh, woah dude, holy poo poo. Dial it back." in the evil path.
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What are some good PS3 exclusive RPGs? SO4? Tales Graces/Xilia? Disgaea 3/4/D2? Any others?
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Besides those, Valkyria Chronicles 1 is a lot of fun. E: Don't actually play Star Ocean 4. Nate RFB fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Mar 29, 2014 |
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Mar 29, 2014 04:25
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Ar Tonelico 3 is exclusive to PS3!
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Kild posted:What are some good PS3 exclusive RPGs? SO4? Tales Graces/Xilia? Disgaea 3/4/D2? Any others? Depending on what you mean by exclusives, the Atelier games are low-key but generally praised. I've only played the latest one (Escha & Logy) myself but it was a really chill, relaxing and fun RPG with a heavy emphasis on crafting. There are two trilogies (Rorona/Totori/Meruru and the new Ayesha/Escha&Logy/one more coming out later) I don't know about the others (I see Meruru has Swimsuit DLC) but Escha & Logy was fairly free of the fanservice/creepy poo poo as well which is generally a plus. ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Mar 29, 2014 |
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Kild posted:What are some good PS3 exclusive RPGs? SO4? Tales Graces/Xilia? Disgaea 3/4/D2? Any others? demon's souls!!! ImpAtom posted:Witch and the Hundred Knights is a boring and mostly ugly action-RPG with too many convoluted mechanics. It's sort of the dark sibling to Z.H.P which took weird Disgaea mechanics, combined then with Shiren the Wanderer, and made something good. WatHK tries to make Disgaea-Diablo and comes out worse for it. i thought this poster must be lying but nope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdu1NdEs15g&feature=youtu.be&t=6m25s i am really wondering what tone they were going for here, or, just, really I am wondering 10000 things.
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Kild posted:What are some good PS3 exclusive RPGs? SO4? Tales Graces/Xilia? Disgaea 3/4/D2? Any others? Ni no Kuni is worth checking out though. White Knight Chronicles is also PS3 exclusive, for what it's worth.
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BloodWulfe posted:White Knight Chronicles is also PS3 exclusive, for what it's worth. Didn't they shut down the servers and stuff for that?
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ImpAtom posted:There are two trilogies (Rorona/Totori/Meruru and the new Ayesha/Escha&Logy/one more coming out later) I don't know about the others (I see Meruru has Swimsuit DLC) but Escha & Logy was fairly free of the fanservice/creepy poo poo as well which is generally a plus. The rest are pretty much the same deal, Ayesha especially. Apparently some of the DLC is a little eh, but I never bought it so who can say. As for PS3 exclusives, you've got Valkyria Chronicles as well. Ni No Kuni was super disappointing and Star Ocean IV is both not an exclusive, but bad as well.
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ImpAtom posted:Didn't they shut down the servers and stuff for that? Tales of Zestiria/Xillia 2 are also supposed to be localized at some point, so there are a couple more to (maybe?) look forward to.
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People seem to like Rainbow Moon, a PSN game.
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GulagDolls posted:i thought this poster must be lying but nope I also don't think I've ever seen Impatom tear apart an RPG as much as this one either.
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GulagDolls posted:demon's souls!!! I made the mistake of buying this sight unseen cause I tend to have really enjoyed most NIS games and had store credit building up and nearing expiry. As someone above said I think they were trying for the Demon path from Soul Nomad without realising it worked because of the good path before it. I actually am finding the gameplay fun so far though, it does nicely scratch that ARPG itch to me anyway, the alternate weapon combo thing has been fun to play with. But yeah I'd avoid until it's in the bargain bin.
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Rascyc posted:I also don't think I've ever seen Impatom tear apart an RPG as much as this one either. Ask me about Last Rebellion sometime! Although honestly Last Rebellion was worse from a gameplay perspective but the story was just boring instead of... that.
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I'm only half offended by the story. The other half is the godawful VA.
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ImpAtom posted:Ask me about Last Rebellion sometime! What is Last Rebellion? For a second I thought you were talking about Last Remnant, which would have made me sad.
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I've actually had more fun with Last Rebellion than Cross Edge. YES I'M STILL WORKING ON THOSE.
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Space Bat posted:What is Last Rebellion? For a second I thought you were talking about Last Remnant, which would have made me sad. Last Rebellion was a game NISA put out for the PS3 a few years ago. It was a game so bad they literally apologized for releasing it and said they were sorry for the fans who bought it, and that they only put it out because their contract required it. They specifically didn't promote it because they knew how bad it was. That is how bad a game it is that the company who put it out released an unambiguously apology for the game. NISA's president Haru Akenaga posted:Once we got Last Rebellion we realized it was not the kind of title we should release in the United States because of its quality. I feel really sorry for our customers because we released that title. That’s why I told Nao (PR Manager) we have to release the announcement for Last Rebellion, but never push that title. We cannot say it’s a really great title. We felt really sorry, but we had no choice to release that. That says more about the game than I ever could ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 09:09 on Mar 29, 2014 |
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GulagDolls posted:demon's souls!!! Holy poo poo, I had to look at that to see just how bad it was and that was straight up physically disturbing to watch, even if it didn't get graphic about it. I wonder what that voice actor was thinking when going over those lines.
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nessin posted:Holy poo poo, I had to look at that to see just how bad it was and that was straight up physically disturbing to watch, even if it didn't get graphic about it. I wonder what that voice actor was thinking when going over those lines. No see, it's okay because the daughter doesn't eat her own mother, that would be wrong. Instead you have to eat her.
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ImpAtom posted:Last Rebellion was a game NISA put out for the PS3 a few years ago. It was a game so bad they literally apologized for releasing it and said they were sorry for the fans who bought it, and that they only put it out because their contract required it. They specifically didn't promote it because they knew how bad it was. That is how bad a game it is that the company who put it out released an unambiguously apology for the game. Wow, with some of the dreck they've shat out that's really saying a lot 
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Kild posted:What are some good PS3 exclusive RPGs? SO4? Tales Graces/Xilia? Disgaea 3/4/D2? Any others? I'm going to second Valkyria Chronicles and Atelier Escha & Logy. Atelier E&L in particular is probably the best first Atelier game in the series for anyone playing it the first time. The alchemy system, which is extremely central in all the games, is a bit easier to handle in this game. Not all of the games before it balance alchemy as well with the battle system, but you can generally balance any defiencies you have in one system with skill in the other. Or be good at both and steamroll everything till the super bosses. Each of the games feature a time limit, Escha and Logy splits the game up into smaller pieces which makes it easier to keep you on track, while giving you more then enough time you'll need. Atelier E&L along with Atelier Ayesha are both light on the fanservice compared to the previous games. There's one character who drfinitely falls into a fanservice category, but she talks about theses and history so shes pretty much my favourite character in the game. DLC is avaliable for all the games (included with the Vita rereleases of two of the games) , including extra music, outfits (normally fanservice), characters, or dungeons & bosses. The extra music DLC in Escha and Logy will let you pick between any of the PS3 Atelier Game songs for boss battles or to play in towns and such, which is especially nice on multiple playthroughs. Atelier Ayesha literally gave you every Gust soundtrack avaliable which was pretty cool as well. Consider chacking out Sylphid's LP of Atelier Ayesha as well to see if the game would be something you're interested in. I know Atelier games arent everyone's cup of tea between the crafting and time limit, but give it a chance if you can.
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ImpAtom posted:Last Rebellion was a game NISA put out for the PS3 a few years ago. It was a game so bad they literally apologized for releasing it and said they were sorry for the fans who bought it, and that they only put it out because their contract required it. They specifically didn't promote it because they knew how bad it was. That is how bad a game it is that the company who put it out released an unambiguously apology for the game. Haha, that's great. I decided to look up some reviews on it and it's a good sign when your JRPG has only two playable characters who are treated as one in combat and can be beaten in 7 hours.
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Space Bat posted:Haha, that's great. I decided to look up some reviews on it and it's a good sign when your JRPG has only two playable characters who are treated as one in combat and can be beaten in 7 hours. The best thing anyone has ever said about it is that it is one of the lowest-effort Platinums on the system.
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What's the word on Guided Fate Paradox? I really dug ZHP, but heard some iffy stuff about it.
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