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GreenBuckanneer posted:I'm 12 hours in and I really feel at some times it fits that cliche. Elf guy is spock, girl is the nurse/com officer, and edge is...someone else. He's no kirk. He's Janeway. Edit: Got some questions on Atelier Totori and Dark Souls. On AT, what happened to Totori's mother. I know you'll find out eventually, I just like this kind of thing spoiled in games like this cause it's inevitably something dumb and I don't like getting my hopes up. On Dark Souls, I've gotten to Anor Londo and am getting my rear end handed to me more than usual. I want to get one of these elemental weapons, where should I go to get one/find a blacksmith to upgrade my halberd to one. A Sometimes Food fucked around with this message at 07:56 on Oct 17, 2011 |
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Ah, cool thanks. I don't have to worry about anything dumb like her being alive but with amnesia, her having given up on being an adventurer and gotten depressing or pathetic (I remember one game where this was the reveal and it sucked), or her becoming the flauschtraut after killing the original or otherwise being the final boss somehow then. As you said Gust's output is all over the place so I was concerned. Also Recettear and Chantelise were awesome.
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The Black Stones posted:If somebody doesn't mind spoilering it. What IS the requirements for the normal ending for Atelier Totori? I'm pretty far into the game (Year 5) now and I just want to know if I possibly already blew past it. What the above guy said, but also don't worry I didn't get the ship until year 5 month 11 and still got the normal ending. The boss you need to fight is a jump in difficulty if you hadn't been fighting much but nothing too bad. Also do you need cobalt for the boat? I could swear I got it ready at diamond rank. What ingredients need cobalt? A Sometimes Food fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Oct 25, 2011 |
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Conduit for Sale! posted:I'm the one person who actually liked FFXIII so I'll probably at least rent FFXIII-2 from Gamefly. If you want to try an Atelier game there is one for the DS if you've got one. It's nowhere near as good as the PS3 ones though. Also we're getting Ni No Kuni? gently caress yes between that and Meruru's release being confirmed this has been some good news for my JRPG cravings.
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Nah Final Fantasies have no real plot connection unless they have the same roman number with an addendum like Final Fantasy X-2 or Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core. If the roman numeral is different they have no connection. Hell X and XII are probably the most different two games in the series not counting the MMOs. Also you were about 3/4 of the way through the plot of FFX and about 2/3 way through all the content (a ton of optional stuff would have opened up a few hours down the line from where you were).
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So Pandora's Tower came out today in Australia, and probably Europe as well. I've been thinking of getting it just on being a RPG, but has anyone here got it? I kinda want to get some opinions of it before I buy it. Edit: poo poo sorry just found the topic. Still may as well leave it here in case any other Aus or Eurogoons just found out about it today like me.
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So I was thinking of trying Ys. I've got a PSP so I'm torn between 7 and Oath in Felghana. Any opinions? Both?
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Blew most of the day playing Oath in Felghana, thank you thread for constantly talking up the Ys series. On modern RPGs I agree with Ankle-biter and Bleusilences, the Yakuza and SMT series are both excellent for the most part. SMT is firmly in the JRPG category so if that's a problem you're kinda hosed. If it's not they are really excellent and I recommend SMT Nocturne(it's called Lucifer's Call if you're in the PAL regions), it's pretty hard but in a fun way, and the setting is pretty amazing. The SMT Persona games are a lot easier and they ramp up the anime like crazy and 3 and 4 incorporate dating sim mechanics (and 1 and 2 are just kinda badly aged). If anime doesn't bother you they're great though. Also if you're fine with anime The World Ends With You for the DS is extremely good once you get used to the weird as gently caress control scheme.
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If it helps you find them I'm pretty sure the original DA2 threads are all in the gaschamber. People understandably did not react well to that game. Doesn't really explain the pre-release thread though.
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Someone mentioned it another thread, and got me thinking. Is the PS2 version of Deus Ex any good as a port? It's on the PSN and I have some funbux left over and was just wondering.
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Thanks for the replies, I actually have the PC version somewhere, but do not have a PC for gaming, and won't in the foreseeable future and I got the urge to play it again, so I think I will get the PS2 version.
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http://www.square-enix.co.jp/subaseka/sp.html So I might just be getting excited, but that looks like a silhouetted cityscape and TWEWY font. Damnit Square I'm gonna be watching that like a hawk for the rest of the week.
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So has anyone else tried the NiNoKuni demo? Looks pretty fun to me, the English VA seems kinda lackluster, but then again it has a loving overworld map. I nearly went into a nostalgia fit when I saw that.Nihnoz posted:What's a good JRPG where you really have to plan for bosses, Etrian Odyssey has a lot of that, and Persona 3 & 4 do too to a lesser extent, puzzle-y boss battles are my favorite part of jrpgs and I want more pretty badly. Have you played SMT: Nocturne? Because that is the game that came to mind immediately for this.
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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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Square only really seems to have learnt it's lesson sometime after FFXIV 1.0. Square were at their absolute dumbest after FF12, it was pretty much the last thing they did before going full retard. So them having converted all the code to hieroglyphics and killed everyone capable of translating, deleted all the VA assets and replaced them with clips of Gackt songs or something would not surprise me.
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Nate RFB posted:I feel like Atelier discussion here popped up out of nowhere over the past year or so, presumably coinciding with the release of Escha and Logy. Since I know the series has been around for a while, is this because E&L is just that much better than the rest or was I just living under a rock all this time with regards to its popularity? Part of it is there used to be a Atelier specific thread that disappeared after the Arland trilogy finished, so if you didn't see that thread you missed a lot of conversation about it. Part of it is it seems to have finally gathered enough inertia to reach the general consciousness. Related topic, I saw Atelier Rorona + for PS3 on sale at EB today, it got R18+ for classification. For reference The Witcher 2 is MA15+. The gently caress did they add to the new version?
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Seriously? Wow. gently caress my country sometimes.
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Codiekitty posted:Did... did Final Fantasy 9 have a scene where Zidane and Vivi bond by pissing off a cliff together, or is there some other "male ceremony" you men have that involves a tinkling noise? Uh Mist condensing maybe? So technically he's raining I guess. Eating? gently caress if I know.
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Speaking of games trying to come off as old SNES/Megadrive era rpgs are any of those rpgmaker games on Steam worth it?
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Cool thanks for the suggestions.Endorph posted:it isn't on steam but exit fate is pretty decent if you want rpgmaker suikoden Neat. Really looking for something to scratch a Dragon Quest itch. Played the DS releases to death and DQ8 isn't playable due to a not great PC and a dead PS2. gently caress I want that 3DS rerelease. Actually might just replay Suikoden 2, just remembered I didn't play the rerelease.
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Is the IP still owned by nobody or what? Cause last I heard it was owned by some liquidation company or something. I really want some HD ports of Shadow Hearts.
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Is I am Setsuna worth being excited about? Also aside from the book I like the character designs in that Atelier Sophie video. The goon king in particular.
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Ah thanks. Well short and sweet is good. Definitely beats a long slog.
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psudonym55 posted:If I had never played an Atelier game before which one is a good one to start with? I'd say Escha and Logy as well if you're still wondering. Meruru is my favourite but part of that is it building on stuff from Rorona and Totori to cap off that trilogy. Escha and Logy has a lot of QoL improvements and a much better combat system, definitely the best entry point. If you like it enough to want more jump back to the plus versions of the Arland games though.
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I never beat Shallie. It just lost me. First Atelier to do that since Iris 2. Which wasn't actually beatable due to a glitch from memory anyway. corn in the bible posted:astrid is creepy and i am glad there is no comparable character in the dusk games Agreed. Also I think you mean Shallie. Unless you're talking about an import of Sophie? Does Sophie have time limits again? Endorph posted:the art in the dusk games is so good The reveal of the new art style in the Ayesha trailer sold me on the new setting immediately. Neddy Seagoon posted:I still have to finish Trails in the Sky AND SC first I was steadily making progress. Then Dark Souls 3 came out. 
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corn in the bible posted:the only scifi jrpg is opoona I bought that three times and had to return it three times because the disc never worked right. That is my Opoona experience.
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Tired Moritz posted:what the gently caress I kinda like stuff changing and I wonder what justification if any there will be. Did plants start telling him to exercise? We need fat Harol to balance this though.
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Sakurazuka posted:I liked it but it's probably the worst Atelier game since Totori, it was obviously rushed and there's not a lot to it. The crafting system is probably the best in the series though and it's a shame the rest wasn't up to scratch. I agree with all of this. I enjoyed it, but I enjoy all these games. Also it lacks the personality of Dusk's setting or the over the top characters of Arland and that makes it seem a bit flat. I'd get it on the cheap honestly. Crafting is amazing though. Hopefully they'll get back in stride for the next game.
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Electric Phantasm posted:Has there ever been a bad dog party member in any video game? The one in Fallout 4 seems to have a really bad habit of blocking things off. Also he seems buggier than the other companions. Cait never turned invisible or started flying out of reach so I couldn't heal her at least.
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My first impression of Setsuna is the excuse to get the main character into the party and not dead or imprisoned is some of the most tortured forced writing I can think of in an RPG. *after committing attempted murder* "Let him go he didn't commit any crime" "If he's so dangerous to me then he's obviously a powerful fighter so he's a perfect guard!". The game is pretty but that writing Jesus Christ.ImpAtom posted:My biggest problem with FC is that it spends so much time making GBS threads on Estelle for being a dumb bad bracer when she's basically absurdly good at her job, but that's kinda a flaw of story and mechanics. This was actually one of the things the latest Atelier fixed I feel. A lot of the earlier ones had the protag still treated as an incompetent when they were near the end game and making poo poo like the literal Philosopher's Stone and Panacea. Sophie had her clearly progress to respected as she starts getting to the high rank quests at the bar and especially after she makes Plachta's doll body even if she hasn't quite clued in to it herself. She only really gets ragged on for her lack of book knowledge later on.
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Last Celebration posted:Out of curiosity, what was changed in Rorona? Rorona Plus is a remake instead of just a expanded edition. Rorona+ is Rorona remade in the later games style, gameplay and engine. The other games plus versions basically just add characters and I think a new ending each?
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tenderjerk posted:whats this thread's opinion on Atelier Sophie? I just finished Trails of Cold Steel and am too burned out on it to go directly into II and need a different animu rpg I liked it, but I am a huge sucker for the series and have been since Iris 1. It's definitely weaker than Meruru and E&L though I did enjoy it more than Ayesha and Shallie. In hindsight I think I may have judged Shallie unfairly as I was used to the PS4 by that point, and, my PS3 controller was dying at the time creating a constant annoyance while I played. It really did feel like new console syndrome, it has a lot in common with Rorona in that way, which has got me interested in Firis. It's a little weird though, I figured Nights of Azure would have gotten them ready for the PS4.
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Yeah the real worry with the new FF7 writing is if they do the Advent Children thing and fit the personalities to the popular misrememberings. Original Cloud was actually pretty interesting and likeable. Dissia, KH and Advent Children Cloud is generic garbage. I mean yeah there's also all the stuff that might get tossed like crossdressing Cloud, Cloud beating Aerith and Tifa accidentally loving Cloud in view of everyone else. But those aren't really important for the game as a whole or can be replaced like changing the beating to a choking. Spending the whole game with KH Cloud would be a dealbreaker.
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Zereth posted:Didn't they confirm that'll be in? Did they? Cool. I've missed stuff I guess. I'm glad it's in, my point was more that one scene getting changed would be tolerable but Cloud having his Dissidia etc characterisation wouldn't. Also point on it being important for Aerith actually, hadn't considered that.
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Colour Splash is the funniest game I've played in years holy poo poo. I loving lost it at using "The Lost Levels" in place of hell as a swear.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:
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Getsuya posted:What's a good JRPG available on PS3 for a person who has never played a JRPG? My wife and her are trying to figure out if she likes RPGs or not. ImpAtom posted:That's tough in that the Atelier games are among the best intro JRPGs on the system. Maybe one of the Kingdom Hearts games though they're more action-RPG and obviously the plot gets loving insane. If she speaks Japanese, Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth got a PS3 version in Japan I think? That was really good, fairly simple and lacking in squeaky voiced anime girls outside of some minor side characters.
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thorsilver posted:From a page or two back but this can't be emphasized enough. The music in Atelier in general is amazing but Ayesha in particular is fuckin lush. The first thing I do in a new Atelier game is go to the music select and make sure the Ayesha tracks are all in rotation. Cause drat. Also I wish more games had a music select like the Atelier games do. It's a loving great feature. A Sometimes Food fucked around with this message at 09:44 on Aug 18, 2017 |
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