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quote:edit: Also, is there a reason SE seems to not like releasing things on PC? Like come on dudes, I didn't buy a decent PC so that I could also have to buy every drat console that comes out to play your games. Is the PC market in Japan non-existent or something? Yeah, more or less. When I went there, the only PC games I saw on sale was porn games, a few copies of Fate/Stay night (which I guess counts as porn the same way slipping a couple seconds of sex into the LotR movies would count as porn) and oddly enough a copy of Diablo. Granted I wasn't actively looking for PC games but most of the people I talked to either just played console games or said they went to arcades. EDIT: Oh goddamnit that post wasn't there when I was typing this.
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Lord of Pie posted:I think I quit FF3 DS not long after the Garuda bossfight, expecting the rest of the game to be equally as bullshit. I wish that were true, but it only got waaaaaaay worse from there, culminating in the most rage inducing final dungeon I have seen in the series.
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I liked Cyan once I figured out the psycho Cyan glitch, it's probably the only way to make him useful. Of course you couldn't do jack poo poo until everything on the screen was dead, and he was only using physical attacks so it took a bit but it was fun to watch the game play itself for a bit. Took a bit of work to set up, and really it was only good for using against poo poo you were too lazy to kill by hitting buttons.
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Oct 11, 2013 17:32
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Barudak posted:Not a spoiler; FF7 has the most daring narrative construction in video games and would give most books a run for their money. It really makes me wish it had a good translation, some of what's going on went right over my head until I saw what it was like in the original. It's like FFXIII in that way, only the story actually was interesting enough that I went through that extra effort.
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Dec 10, 2013 03:24
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Neowyrm posted:What's wrong with 2 and 3? I played a bit of the 3 remake on the DS and it seemed good. Then my DS died but that's of course unrelated. They "rebalanced" it by making it hard as poo poo, essentially. The bosses had a shitton of health and IIRC a lot of the classes were weaker than the NES version. I'm a bit of a gaming masochist so I soldiered through until I got to the last level and then said gently caress it when the final boss one shot my entire party, and I realized that the last save was outside the final dungeon. Hours ago. It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure that wasn't hyperbole there, it literally was hours of content I would have to redo. FFII was just flat out broken, with a attribute system kind of like pre-Skyrim Elder scrolls games. Increase health by being hit, increase dodge by dodging hits, increase strength by hitting poo poo etc. However, in reality it didn't work like that, since if you weren't grinding the gently caress out of it you're characters wouldn't be good at jack poo poo, and counterintuitive things like the best way to increase health was to equip 2 shields and attack yourself. Someone else who played them more recently can probably think of more unkind things to say about them, I've barely scratched the surface. Which is too bad, because FFII had a fairly interesting story at least. But the only good thing about FFIII was that it was the prototype for thread-favorite FFV, which did everything FFIII did but better.
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Dec 25, 2013 06:40
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1st AD posted:All you suckers will buy that poo poo anyways so I'm pretty sure SE is just catering to their fanbase. They've got  . Who the hell am I kidding, the only reason I didn't buy XIII was because of a lack of money, I'll keep playing this poo poo to the end of time unless it becomes so mediocre it doesn't even have a trainwreck quality to entertain me. EDIT: Two words: TIME. TRAVEL. That way Square doesn't have to explain poo poo about why Sin in back, it's time travel paradoxes all the way down. Don Gato fucked around with this message at 07:25 on Dec 27, 2013 |
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Squallege posted:Did he like, get hit in the head by a bowling ball while cleaning out his closet? What happened after FFX-2? X-2 had some of the signs of what was to come, because in hindsight it's like XIII-3 but toned down and not completely batfuck insane. Changing clothes as a gameplay mechanic, with some of the outfits being
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Dec 27, 2013 07:56
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"Kimahri problem"
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The fal'Cie, L'cie and cie'th stuff never bothered me that much because I read waaaaaaay too much lovely fantasy in high school, and compared to the apostrophe filled hell that is bad fantasy FFXIII was like a breath of fresh air. It was the of XIII's problems, though it did make me feel like I was playing a lovely fantasy novel. Pesky Splinter posted:Depends on they feel there is a viable reason to change the name. Sometimes it's to retain an edge of the "exotic", as how Tina, became Terra, for clearer pronunciation, Cefka to Kefka, or because the original name is too unusual, Mash to Sabin, say. Stuff like this is fascinating to me. I worked as a translator for a short time and I never realized the sheer amount of ways you could interpret a phrase was absolutely insane. And I didn't have to figure out how to translate idioms or try to translate a name so it keeps the same intent as it did in the original language. I would actually watch a documentary of a good localization team explaining why they made the choices they made, like for example how Nier is completely different in English and Japanese but still has the same general feel.
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Endorph posted:And then what if XII HD does well? Chrono Cross HD 
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Pesky Splinter posted:
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kirbysuperstar posted:
I honestly can't hate that translation, it's got a kind of charm like some of the other bizarre translations from the era. At least it didn't add any random ARCHE-CHAN like other fan translations I've played.
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May 5, 2014 05:32
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Zeblackcat posted:I don't know man, Square's Tom Sawyer was pretty legit. Is that last dude supposed to be a racist caricature, or just Huck Finn in blackface?
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May 15, 2014 16:03
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I feel sorry for the guy who first played VII and didn't realize that Aeris would die, and grinded her last limit break.
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May 26, 2014 07:15
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Lessail posted:who said it was difficult People who never beat the game because the hour and a half long final dungeon followed by a final boss that used particle beam twice in a row for her opening move? 'cause that's why I say it was difficult.
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May 29, 2014 16:31
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Dross posted:Dark Valefor is Zanmato-able, so you've got that going for you. I would seriously love to go back and hug whoever designed Zanmato. It's so satisfying to one shot a bonus boss.  "Alright, what if we gave this dude an insta-kill move? Only make it works on EVERYTHING."
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Jun 30, 2014 21:42
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ImpAtom posted:Well, if dungeon crawlers don't count as JRPGs than like... Phantasy Star or SMT doesn't count as a JRPG and that seems a little off to me. So the first game was basically SMT4 with added mystery then?Maybe I should find my DS and play them one of these days.
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Jul 20, 2014 04:38
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BloodWulfe posted:Prequel trilogy to Front Mission. It'll go through the formation of the OCU and USN, and conclude with the 1st Huffman Conflict. There could even be a terrible mobile social Gun Hazard tie-in game. This man knows what's up. But this means that Square digs up the franchise from the grave they unceremoniously dumped it into, and that is giving Square too much credit.
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Jul 30, 2014 19:53
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Rei_ posted:There are very few FF games I'd actually call out and out BAD, maybe bad by the childhood standards people have built up for themselves but every FF game has its positive traits and its negative ones. Except for 3 on the DS. it's the only one I've never heard anyone defend. Even Mystic Quest and 8 had their good parts or defenders.
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Aug 26, 2014 03:46
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Fister Roboto posted:Good luck legitimately obtaining a copy of Suikoden II for less than $100, though. The others won't exactly be cheap, either. Suikoden I is on PSN as a PSOne classic at least, that's how I played it. Dunno about the others.
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Sep 1, 2014 05:31
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Pesky Splinter posted:More hosed-up, horrifying, Lovecraftian end bosses would be swell. There's only so many twelve winged, one-winged angels a guy can take. Bosses based on biblical angels would be cool actually. Giant wheels of fire lined with unblinking eyes, crying out to be not afraid as it smites you with the glory of the True Final Boss's creation.
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Sep 2, 2014 04:14
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ApplesandOranges posted:I was thinking Quina, but that too. Honestly I forget Quina is in the game sometimes. The only thing I remember about him/her/it was "I no can eat until weaker!" Every. loving. Time. I wanted to eat something.
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Sep 4, 2014 07:19
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Endorph posted:Actually, the best girl is Quina. Quina isn't a girl, he/she/it doesn't count .
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Oct 22, 2014 16:47
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She can already light people on fire by waving her arms around, attacks with possibly possessed dolls and wears a dress made out of belts and fur in a tropical climate. Nothing about her actually makes sense so conversely her keeping the same model despite being pregnant actually makes sense  !I did like how it's possible for Wakka to never think of a name for the baby. Too many hits on the head while blitzballing.
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Oct 28, 2014 18:12
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Mischitary posted:FFV GBA does have a really good translation. It really did add a lot of personality into the game that wasn't there originally. I use it as an example for how a translation can be better than the original, along with MGR.
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The White Dragon posted:The healers get Reflect-Null, which has a Wild Arms 2-level description but actually means that all their healing and support spells ignore reflect. Wait, seriously  ? I've played through it so many times and never even thought of equipping that and I kind of just hoped that everyone would not die before I killed the enemies.Mischitary posted:I'm still not sold on how huge the game is gonna be...like is it really gonna be like Elder Scrolls level of huge? I mean, I just don't see how that fits with a FF game...like a huge world like that, plus a normal FF-esque story? Maybe it could work, but I'm not so sure yet. Maybe it'll be like in the pre-PS2 FF games, where there is a huge map but you only explore a chunk of it at a time and it doesn't open up until later? I have no idea since I'm phoneposting and don't want to watch videos until I get home.
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You know, now I kinda want to see a documentary about the development of either XV or XIII. The stories I'm getting from Sunning's posts are a lot more interesting than the stories for most of the games in the series.
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Nov 4, 2014 22:15
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alcharagia posted:wanna give a personal shoutout to the al bhed psyches. the shoutout is gently caress you I seriously wish I could arrange an "accident" for them when they're aboard the airship. Just so I could get Nimrook on my team and win everything.
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Nov 8, 2014 04:16
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Proposition Joe posted:I'm playing FF3 DS right now and I just got to Amur. It seems fine so far. I didn't hate it until the absolute last dungeon. I also had never played FFV so that was my intro to the job system, so I had no point of comparison.
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Did anyone else find it really weird that VII took place in our solar system? Either in the future we have tons of crazy magic poo poo or we had some really cool things in the past before the lifestream came and killed everyone to make room for current humans.
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Nov 29, 2014 07:30
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Final Fantasy XV looks... good. And I want to play it. Probably the first FF in a while that I'm actually looking forward to.
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Dec 22, 2014 02:09
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zedprime posted:The Turks are a bunch of James Bond-esque secret agents and the only thing making then any more horrible than 007 is a perspective shift. It's extremely different, because Barret can't equip a gun that fires concentrated soul at things, which obviously will be fixed by the time of the remake.
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NikkolasKing posted:What about Biggs/Wedge? You mean Vicks
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May 28, 2016 23:49
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The fabulous hat counts as a gamebreaker all on its own. In other news I'm always disappointed that the Red Mages aren't as useful as they are stylish.
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mandatory lesbian posted:maybe also make the hour long cutscene with the mc sitting in a chair anything but that The child powered mech launcher and the gun that uses a character's dad as ammo, but in full HD . Thats about all I remember about xenogears but that alone deserves an HD version.
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May 18, 2017 20:24
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I'm surprised no one mentioned Galuf shattering a crystal with sheer willpower, then surviving being on the receiving end of Exdeath's magic to beyond 0 health, and he doesn't die until after the battle because his granddaughter and friends still needed protecting. That and the destruction of Home in X are my two favorite moments in the series.
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Aug 15, 2017 07:15
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NikkolasKing posted:What is FFVIII supposed to be about? It's a cautionary tale of what happens when you lock 3 Japanese men in a room that has a slow gas leak.
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Last Celebration posted:That poo poo honestly stands out as a top tier moment in general and it's hella dumb that people rag on it because Zidane literally has his soul sucked out and goes "emo" for like five minutes before just saying nope. People rag on it? It is my favorite scene in the game, and not just for the music.
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Mega64 posted:I don't think anyone actually knows what the plot of Dissidia is. I think that gas leak document making fun of FF8's development is more appropriate for describing how Dissidia's plot was written.
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Wolfsheim posted:
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