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Going back to CS3 and it still drives me up a wall how many scenes exist where everyones voiced except for Rean. Really was spoiled by the extra effort xseed put in for 1 and 2.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Who got the worst glow-up in a sequel or remake? I got interested about this one day and looked it up. The PS1 character art was done by mangaka Minato Koto. From one of the mangas he did, IO:   It looks like he also did an art book/doujinshi for SO2: https://q-to-japan.com/products/minato-koio-star-ocean-2-designers-character-art-doujinshi-the-another-story?variant=43371715231993   Also found some illustration CDs on Suruga-Ya that look like they might have SO2 art, though based off the disc art, it looks like the illustrations might be  The Colonel posted:the statement about the psp designs being better in animation is annoying to me. the problem isn't the simplicity of detail compared to the other versions, it's that they're all stock still and near-emotionless, all the portraits have the exact same expression and frankly even in the animation they are used in they don't look... that interesting? they look like designs for a kind of cheap 2000s deen anime that gets sorta expressive sometimes but still always looks just slightly off. tales portraits are similarly low detail but they have a wide variety of poses and expressions, the star ocean psp art does not Studio Deen is listed in the credits under 'Digital Painters' for Second Evolution. Compared to the PS1 and Remake art, the PSP art is very bright. Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Dec 25, 2023 |
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Ibram Gaunt posted:Going back to CS3 and it still drives me up a wall how many scenes exist where everyones voiced except for Rean. Really was spoiled by the extra effort xseed put in for 1 and 2. cs4 fixes this a bit, theres still a couple scenes like this but they did do most of them... and i dont remember hajimari doing this in jp or eng since reans not really the main character anymroe in that. kuro doesnt do it at all with its protag (minus dialog options) so you really only have to put up with it for cs3 at least
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Do I need to care about past Xenoblade things or can I just grab 3? I actually owned the 3DS version of 1 but didn't get very far and also the sidequest structure seemed awful.
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3 benefits from having played 1 and 2 but it's not the biggest deal outside the dlc.
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There are only two returning characters who act as the queens of the world. There are a few cameos in the ending cinematic. The expansion however requires knowledge from all 3 games. XCX has no bearing on anything because it's been nine years and the story will never get a proper final act.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:There are only two returning characters who act as the queens of the world. There are a few cameos in the ending cinematic. No, surely Monolith is working on XCX2 now that the original series is done! Surely! Right after the definitely going to happen Switch port of the original! It's so sad, liking the dead end Wii U game the most...
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Infinity Gaia posted:No, surely Monolith is working on XCX2 now that the original series is done! Surely! Right after the definitely going to happen Switch port of the original! Never stop coping they're clearly waiting for Sawano to clear his schedule so he can drop us another masterpiece https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjtCxym3cE
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ImpAtom posted:The dark secret of Blitz is that Sabin's are not actually fighting game inputs either. For any diagonal input you actually just need to press either direction on the d-pad. So fireball is down-down-right instead of down-downright-right. Oh yeah, I've heard about that before. Down-down-right et al is similar to moves in Mortal Kombat. So still a fighting game!
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bewilderment posted:Do I need to care about past Xenoblade things or can I just grab 3? You'll get so much more out of the last parts of 3 and the dlc if you've played 1 and 2 You should also just play them because they're both good.
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I want to replay XCX at some point but without Miiverse it wouldn't be the same... No one telling me to press L+A
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If Splatoon can have it's own pseudo-miiverse then so can Xenoblade.
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The Colonel posted:technically a puzzle game but i'm posting it here anyway cause it's made in rpgmaker, its core gimmick is based in using srpg movement mechanics and it's on sale for very cheap, like just four bucks this does look cute, thanks for sharing
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store page for the Astlibra roguelike mode DLC went up, supposed to be out soon https://store.steampowered.com/app/2669360/ASTLIBRA_Gaiden_The_Cave_of_Phantom_Mist/
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the colonel astlibra arc will begin... next year...
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i like that even if you don't pick to play as a girl fate/extra ccc's still got explicit lesbian stuff in it cause two of the npcs have an extremely small but well written ongoing arc across the game about trying to convey their feelings to each other via their programmed-in behavioral routines and they're like two of the only generic npc characters who get actual names
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The Colonel posted:i like that even if you don't pick to play as a girl fate/extra ccc's still got explicit lesbian stuff in it cause two of the npcs have an extremely small but well written ongoing arc across the game about trying to convey their feelings to each other via their programmed-in behavioral routines and they're like two of the only generic npc characters who get actual names Like they are both self aware but limited to their programming? That sounds like some prine horror material
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one of them is programmed to be gloomy and nihilistic, and the other is programmed to cheer people on like the captain of a sports club. the opening of ccc is the whole structure of the simulation being thrown out of wack, the npcs included since they can't really carry out the roles they've been given for a normal grail war and a weird super ai girl is threatening to kill them all. so as the story goes on the sports club girl keeps cheering on the gloomy girl to not just give up and let herself get deleted, and you talk to her and she's like "haha! why am i acting like this? well, cheering people on is my routine!" but if you talk to the gloomy girl a couple times she's like "ugh... she's so annoying... but why is she holding my hand so tightly...?" the next chapter they've both been attacked by programs that tried to eat them, the club captain has gone silent and the gloomy girl is staying with her going like "please... please remember me... yumi!"
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the whole theme of ccc is stepping outside the role youve been assigned. a bunch of the very stock, kinda boring side characters from the original game turn into goofy morons because the plot got so derailed they cant act 'in character' anymore and so theyre reduced to being weirdos hanging out in a single room. so those NPCs kinda fit into that where they found meaning outside what they were 'programmed' to be
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Started the recent Touhou SMT (Artificial Dream in Arcadia) in earnest a little while ago. Fusion is so odd in that game. The recipes seem to be fairly tightly restricted such that you can't fuse anyone past the pool of your current area, thanks to needing Sleepers from the area itself as ingredients, so it's hard to chain them forward like you can demons in SMT. Basically of a kind with the Suikoden-like level curve, where the goal is keeping you at an expected level of power within any individual area. But you can switch skills freely from one Sleeper to another (at the cost of destroying the ingredient Sleeper), so that's fine. Except that the character-specific SP skills can only be inherited from fusion. So if you actually want to carry them forward, you have to do weird fusion chains so that they can break into your current area. Or you can just give up and Sacrifice to keep your Sleepers level current, which together with skill inheritance makes fusion basically unnecessary if you can do enough blood sacrifices. It feels like the system's juggling several competing needs and it can't decide on which of them matters most. It mostly works out so long as you're willing to roll with the low-hanging fruit, though.
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it's very funny that when you and your servant go to convince jinako to help and are just like, awestruck by the mere presence of karna while jinako is complaining that he's no good at cleaning or super smash bros
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jinako rules and her arc as a character is like one of the most defining parts of why ccc rules without exactly trying to make it a other rpgs vs persona 4 thing, ccc is just like an incredibly funny example of just how much nuance there really is to the subject of digging deep into someone's secrets and insecurities, in a way that simultaneously has more teeth but also is shockingly way more empathetic and not focused around like. fixing people exactly. like you don't want to make the weird people more normal. you literally just want to understand them and at most, help them understand what aspects about themselves push other people away so that they can stop feeling so lonely. jinako is awesome because she's probably the exact type of person who runs in the subcultural circles nasu and several other people who'd write a game like ccc have run in so while it makes digs at her it like, 100% understands her and doesn't actually think she's a bad person for being like that The Colonel fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Dec 27, 2023 |
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I'm picking up .hack//G.U. Last Recode again, having been playing it off and on over the last few years. I'm in the middle of Volume 3 now. I think this is my favorite actually kinda Bad video game. Like I'm into the general story and characters and atmosphere etc. I like the whole fake MMO conceit and all the supporting elements that entails like news articles and forums, especially when IRL proper internet forums have been grinded into specs of specs of dust at this point. I just wish this combat was at least as good as like, the average Tales game of the time. It's all pretty mindless and easy and boy there is A LOT of it, even if it is all a step up from IMOQ. The Colonel posted:jinako rules and her arc as a character is like one of the most defining parts of why ccc rules Raxivace fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Dec 27, 2023 |
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the combat in .hack gu gets decent in like, the last third of volume 3, lol
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I'm thinking of diving in to the Ys series. What are the best versions of the older games?
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Ornamented Death posted:I'm thinking of diving in to the Ys series. What are the best versions of the older games? Honestly just start with Ys VIII. The plots are not interconnected enough to play the older ones first and it'll give you the best idea of if you'll enjoy what the series is going for.
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Poppers posted:Is there anything else like Final Fantasy XII…? In which way? The "large open world with MMO-lite mechanics" element is covered pretty well by Xenoblade, but it doesn't have the gambit system. Dragon Age: Origins has the Gambit system but is otherwise not remotely like 12. FF12 has elements in common with FF11 in some areas but is an MMO.
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Poppers posted:Is there anything else like Final Fantasy XII…? As ImpAtom says, Xenoblade series is going to be really close, sans the gambits. Replace gambits with AI for your party and actively maintaining your cooldowns/positioning on your controlled character.
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Ornamented Death posted:I'm thinking of diving in to the Ys series. What are the best versions of the older games? Ys I&II Chronicles if you want the really old stuff, Origin is a fantastic game that's a little old at this point, otherwise as ImpAtom said you could just start with Lacrimosa of Dana. vvvv Can confirm. Origins is incredible, best in class. vvvv King of Solomon fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Dec 28, 2023 |
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Ornamented Death posted:I'm thinking of diving in to the Ys series. What are the best versions of the older games? Origins is one of the best action RPGs ever made, can't go wrong starting there.
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Hard no on recommending Ys 1 and 2 today unless you have a guide and a lot of patience. 1 has two bosses that are extremely difficult as the window to hit them is measured in miliseconds, and you'll have hit the level cap by this point. 2 is home to the tremendous headache that are the dungeons. Massive spawling places with no maps, no points of interest, and the story demanding you backtrack to a corner you've forgotten about. Origins is a must.
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ImpAtom posted:In which way? The gambits soothe me. Insane dopamine rush getting my rear end kicked by a hunt repeatedly until I tweak my gambits just right.
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Poppers posted:The gambits soothe me. Insane dopamine rush getting my rear end kicked by a hunt repeatedly until I tweak my gambits just right. Hmm. One option that might work for you is Disgaea 6, which has a whole thing where you can build and program your characters and the general focus is figuring out how to optimize grinding and such. Might be in D7 too, I kind of fell off the series.
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you can automate the combat in poe2 with what are essentially gambits. i could never get it to work very well, even after downloading other people's routines.
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Ys2 is genuinely really solid imo. Probably does need a guide though.
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Poppers posted:The gambits soothe me. Insane dopamine rush getting my rear end kicked by a hunt repeatedly until I tweak my gambits just right. Other gambit games: Dragon Age Origins Tales of Hearts R
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tales of hearts r has gambits but combat is real time with you directly controlling one character in an action game way so its pretty easy to just ignore the gambits theyre fun to mess with tho
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