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Deceitful Penguin posted:Yea, I remember seeing that goddamn clown and just being: "Right, I wonder who this ginger fucker is working for." Then it turns out that he's the loving main and almost sole villain? I also remember reading that Jansen's English VA was able to ad-lib quite a bit, and even as like a fifth-tier improv performer he was able to be way better than most traditional voice actors reading questionably translated/localized material right off the page. It always made me wonder what could happen if a good writer supervised a handful of good UCB people, not necessarily even any famous ones, and provided them a basic framework for their characters' personalities and important plot points to hit upon and just let them do their thing.
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Punch Card posted:I also remember reading that Jansen's English VA was able to ad-lib quite a bit, and even as like a fifth-tier improv performer he was able to be way better than most traditional voice actors reading questionably translated/localized material right off the page. It always made me wonder what could happen if a good writer supervised a handful of good UCB people, not necessarily even any famous ones, and provided them a basic framework for their characters' personalities and important plot points to hit upon and just let them do their thing. His voice work was definitely one of my favorite parts of the game. It's also one of the few RPGs released in the last 10 years where I actually gave two shits about learning more about the characters' lives.
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Nov 23, 2014 04:11
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The only guy I've seen more telegraphed as an enemy than the guy from Lost Odyssey was your professor from Enchanted Arms: This is what he looks like when you first see him, and the game actually tries to pretend that he isn't going to turn out to be evil in the end. I mean, holy poo poo, look at him.
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Nov 24, 2014 00:07
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He looks like Chairman Kaga with a face rash.
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Nov 24, 2014 00:10
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Did he make his coat out of the sorting hat from harry potter?
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Nov 24, 2014 00:11
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He just did a real bad job doing his highlights and turns out the hair color he was using will stain ANYTHING. Do you really think a bad guy would add cool highlights to his hair?
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Nov 24, 2014 00:14
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"Hello...students. Welcome...TO CLASS! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
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Nov 24, 2014 00:20
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We did it we found the one person who played Enchanted Arms.
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Million Ghosts posted:We did it we found the one person who played Enchanted Arms. I played Enchanted Arms.  The Four Heavenly Kings were broken as hell once you got them.
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Nov 24, 2014 00:22
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I like the part of Sword of Mana where they discuss the idea that someone called "DARK LORD" might be good or just misunderstood.Million Ghosts posted:We did it we found the one person who played Enchanted Arms. Don't you say poo poo about my pizza golem and the President of the USA's battlemech.
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Nov 24, 2014 02:19
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Million Ghosts posted:We did it we found the one person who played Enchanted Arms. There are a few of us out there. Too many years with too few JRPGs, you start to get desperate.
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Nov 24, 2014 04:05
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I was so desperate for JRPGs I bought both versions of that game. 
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kirbysuperstar posted:I like the part of Sword of Mana where they discuss the idea that someone called "DARK LORD" might be good or just misunderstood. To be fair Chrono Trigger has a plot where a guy with pointy ears, pale white skin, darkness magic and who goes by the name "Demon Lord" turns out to be a not-so-bad guy who joins your team. It can happen.
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Million Ghosts posted:We did it we found the one person who played Enchanted Arms.
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I think I stopped that game right before it ended. Figured one day I'd care enough about if the flamboyantly gay character was the masked hero or not, but nope. Also that one monster that was a pizza. He was cool.
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I just realised i have the first two Wild Arms games and Suikoden 1 on my PSN account. Are they worth playing? I know the Suikoden franchise is a relatively well known JRPG franchise but i didn't get around to ever checking it out.
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All three of those games are pretty dated IIRC but I enjoyed the hell out of WA1 and Suikoden so I'd say go for it.
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Wild Arms 1 and Suikoden are pretty cool, yeah. Totally worth it on their own. Wild Arms 2 is also totally worth it but just for how hilariously awful the translation is.
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CVagts posted:All three of those games are pretty dated IIRC but I enjoyed the hell out of WA1 and Suikoden so I'd say go for it. Can only second this, enjoyed Suikoden immensely and I still revisit Suikoden 1 and 2 regularly. WA is also pretty fun and it had (at the time) some cool new things imo
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Dackel posted:Can only second this, enjoyed Suikoden immensely and I still revisit Suikoden 1 and 2 regularly. WA is also pretty fun and it had (at the time) some cool new things imo Just to add, there is a non-zero percent chance that Suikoden II will be on PSN in the future, and it's one of the best RPGs ever IMO, and there's just enough from Suikoden 1 in it that playing through 1 first would be of benefit.
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Thanks for the feedback, i'll add them to my backlog which currently stands at about 200 or so titles I still have my eye on the Arc the Lad series and Legend of Mana, more games which i'll probably never end up playing there are way too many games
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TheIllestVillain posted:Thanks for the feedback, i'll add them to my backlog which currently stands at about 200 or so titles Arc the Lad 1 and 2 were enjoyable, 3 was a little... different? Legend of Mana was a bit of a disappointment for me, but it's not a bad game per se
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CVagts posted:Just to add, there is a non-zero percent chance that Suikoden II will be on PSN in the future, and it's one of the best RPGs ever IMO, and there's just enough from Suikoden 1 in it that playing through 1 first would be of benefit. Just in case anyone hasn't played at least Suikoden II yet, I finally got around to playing through a whole game from scratch only a couple weeks ago and it's up there with any JRPG. I mean, just about everyone who plays it considers it to be that good, but if anyone needs that extra push to actually get around to playing it, I hope this helps get someone to that point.
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Dackel posted:Arc the Lad 1 and 2 were enjoyable, 3 was a little... different? Zereth fucked around with this message at 10:34 on Nov 24, 2014 |
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Arc 2's end boss gets a lot of hype because you probably haven't been using the people that work best against him, what with the gigantic cast. A couple people with Divide and the rest with maxed weapon skills that don't all have to be right in front of the fucker and he drops pretty fast.
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Is there any benefit from importing the Arc 1 save into 2? I did that after a normal playthrough and there wasn't anything I could call a bonus.
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SelenicMartian posted:Is there any benefit from importing the Arc 1 save into 2?
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SelenicMartian posted:Is there any benefit from importing the Arc 1 save into 2? Yes, a huge benefit. If you completely complete Arc 1 you'll get a ton of stuff, mostly the complete version of Choko's plotline and an enormous collection of items. It takes a long while to actually get to them, but once you get free reign you can go to Chongara's shop and just hoover up all the treasure chests there. You'll also get the components for the Romancing Stone if you got all four in Arc 1, which completely wipes out MP costs for whoever has it.
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Stelas posted:You'll also get the components for the Romancing Stone if you got all four in Arc 1, which completely wipes out MP costs for whoever has it. And it can be cloned. 
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Baltazar Robotnik posted:I think I stopped that game right before it ended. Figured one day I'd care enough about if the flamboyantly gay character was the masked hero or not, but nope. I stopped on EA when I got near the end I think. You ended up having to fight your friend or something. I just remember "OKAY THIS IS IT YOU HAVE TO FIGHT ME NOW. NO HOLDING BACK. I'M NOT GOING EASY ON YOU. OKAY THIS IS IT LETS DO IT" <fight ensues, I kill him> GAME OVER. You weren't supposed to fight/kill him or whatever.
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I have two more questions about SaGa Frontier 2 for those who are better than me at paying attention to the plot (first is a kinda big spoiler): Is Fake Gustave supposed to be Rich Knights? Where/when did Gustave get Gustave's Sword? It's definitely between the Conquest of Wide and the military assault on the Eastern Continent, since Gustave has it during the army battle against Finney
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Heavy neutrino posted:I have two more questions about SaGa Frontier 2 for those who are better than me at paying attention to the plot (first is a kinda big spoiler): Is Fake Gustave supposed to be Rich Knights? Pretty sure he's just some random general. One of the Japanese guide books goes into further detail but I can't remember exactly. Gustave's story isn't really supposed to overlap the Knights unless explicitly stated. Gustave's sword is something he works on his entire life. He probably made the first real version of it when he's 18 or so.
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I just started the third year of Meruru and I'm at 35 for alchemy and adventure levels. When I try going into Ent forest I can kill the griffin without dying horribly, but the Ent keeps pushing my poo poo in. The only letter I've gotten for this year is about the Ent forest, and I've cleared out everything prior to this. Please tell me there's some content that I've missed that's supposed to bridge this gap.
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Erg posted:I just started the third year of Meruru and I'm at 35 for alchemy and adventure levels. When I try going into Ent forest I can kill the griffin without dying horribly, but the Ent keeps pushing my poo poo in. The Ent is a major challenge when it first appears, and you aren't supposed to be able to beat it right away. The forest will move around every once in a while until you kill the Ent, and some of its new destinations will not be accessible yet. A lot of content starts showing up around the start of year 4, but I don't remember how much shows up in year 3.
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Oblivion590 posted:The Ent is a major challenge when it first appears, and you aren't supposed to be able to beat it right away. The forest will move around every once in a while until you kill the Ent, and some of its new destinations will not be accessible yet. A lot of content starts showing up around the start of year 4, but I don't remember how much shows up in year 3. It turned out I needed to return to the upper right and lower right corners of the map to get tasks to pop up for them. I wasted about 6 months, but the fact there's 4 years instead of 3 makes me think finishing everything out is just going to be a challenge instead of impossible. Thanks!
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Erg posted:It turned out I needed to return to the upper right and lower right corners of the map to get tasks to pop up for them. I wasted about 6 months, but the fact there's 4 years instead of 3 makes me think finishing everything out is just going to be a challenge instead of impossible. Thanks! It's actually 5 game years for Meruru unless you don't reach the major goals the king/Rufus give you by the end of year 3, in which case the game ends.
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Could you guys recommend me an SRPG with more modern sensibilities like Disgaea? By that I mean options for faster movement and the option to animations and cut-scenes. Also not a necessity but it would be nice to have multiple victory conditions. I do like the genre but I also don't like how slow it can be such as FFTA2.
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I am playing 7th Dragon and I am completely stuck, not sure where else to ask this. I defeated the invisible Imperial Dragon, and apparently, I'm supposed to get to the Marlleaire Islands next, like so. The problem is that the boat doesn't seem to be able to cross dark blue water. What am I doing wrong?
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Million Ghosts posted:We did it we found the one person who played Enchanted Arms.
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Jim Barris posted:Enchanted Arms is the worst JRPG I have ever played. It's so lovely that even the people that made it realized it so they give you an option to auto-win every battle because the combat is such a boring mess. The protagonist has all the charisma of a dead dog and the supporting casts most interesting member is a gay stereotype. It's so bad. I curse the day I paid seven dollars for it. 
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