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GulagDolls posted:the first one got about 5k and said that the game would be released in wint3er 2012... >_>;;; Look man it costs a lot of time and money to put katakana subtitles on everything like it's a Final Fantasy article on wikipedia. Realtalk tho I was pretty bummed to see Shnabubula helping them beg for scraps. He's way too good of a composer to work with a crew as disorganized as Americana Dawn. Fur20 fucked around with this message at 22:04 on May 11, 2015 |
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the katakana subtitles are the most inappropriate thing considering that the game is about colonial america
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May 11, 2015 22:02
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The White Dragon posted:Look man it costs a lot of time and money to put katakana subtitles on everything like it's a Final Fantasy article on wikipedia. how would you feel if I told you that harmony of dissonance composer Soshiro Hokkai (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQxs-WEFRJY) bothered to take a day off from drinking his sorrows away to make a song for the game
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May 11, 2015 22:11
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Grandia 2 is good, right? http://www.gamespot.com/articles/acclaimed-dreamcast-rpg-grandia-ii-coming-to-steam/1100-6427252/ quote:Grandia II for Steam is being remastered using the game's Dreamcast version, which was published in 2000. In addition to an HD visual upgrade, Grandia II on Steam will have both mouse and keyboard and gamepad support as well as Steam achievements and Trading Cards.
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May 11, 2015 23:52
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Grandia 2 is good. I'm also glad they're using the Dreamcast version instead of one of the completely hosed ports.
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May 11, 2015 23:54
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Yeah, Grandia 2 is pretty good. It's also very much a late 90s JRPG, but you're okay with that, right?
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May 11, 2015 23:55
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Surprised they even found the assets and code to do that port, that's cool.
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When are we getting a Skies PC port sega Where's Skies
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The White Dragon posted:Yeah, Grandia 2 is pretty good. It's also very much a late 90s JRPG, but you're okay with that, right? Oh yeah definitely. Hope we get more JRPGs on Steam.
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FirstAidKite posted:When are we getting a Skies PC port sega This is the question that will never be answered to our satisfaction 
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May 12, 2015 00:34
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I am literally playing through Grandia 2 for the first time right now. It's a blast to play, and the story/characters are fun enough. Stoked to see the PC JRPG trend continue.
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May 12, 2015 02:03
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Oh, sweet. I remember buying Grandia 2 for ps2 after liking Grandia 1. Needless to say I played it for all of 30 minutes; maybe I can actually finish it this time!
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Levantine posted:This is the question that will never be answered to our satisfaction If they can get Grandia 2 to port over, there's some hope at least.
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May 12, 2015 02:36
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Electric Phantasm posted:Oh yeah definitely. Hope we get more JRPGs on Steam. Falcom said some of their games have sold more on Steam than they did on Playstation. So you'd think JRPG developers have to start looking at Steam as an additional market, even if it's delayed.
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The Symphonia discussion was a couple pages ago but I'm just gonna put my two cents in and name it as one of my all time favorite RPGs. I've been a fan of JRPGs since I was about 9 years old and Symphonia was the only one I knew of on the GC so it made my day when I got it and it wasn't total garbage, and then the plot had its hooks in me from the first big twist on. Of course 90% of the acting and 70% of the writing are terrible but the plot outline was solid enough to keep me interested for over 100 hours and it's still the only game thus far that I've logged that much time in - not to mention the only JRPG wherein I have actually put the effort to beat the secret boss on the hardest difficulty Secret boss spoilers: Abyssion is a loving chump if you know how to combo, it's really just a war of attrition because he has so much loving HP and you can only carry so many healing items. ANYWAY to segue rather artlessly, I haven't played any other Tales games (and not that many other JRPGs really), can anyone recommend me one? I really liked Symphonia's combat and music, and I didn't think the story was too bad either so there's something to go on. I've also heard SMT and Persona are real good...
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Tales of the Abyss and Tales of Xillia are probably your ideal if you liked Symphonia. The main character of Abyss is a cock for the first ten hours or so, but he's meant to be, so don't let it get to you.
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Endorph posted:Tales of the Abyss and Tales of Xillia are probably your ideal if you liked Symphonia. He also gets rightfully poo poo upon by everyone else for being an rear end in a top hat too  . If you want to try a Persona game, Persona 3 FES is where you should start. P3 Portable has better gameplay, but the 3d model cutscenes are reduced to Visual Novel still portraits, and it sounds like your more in it for the story. Persona 4 is also an absolute gem and better in every regard. You can play either one first, there's no real continuity other than being in the same world.
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May 12, 2015 04:17
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The other characters in Abyss are much bigger assholes than Luke even at his worst.
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On a similar note, the "what is a JRPG" discussion a few pages back reminded me that I've never played a Tales game. If the series only had one game to impress me, which one would you recommend? I have the systems to play anything but but Vesperia, Xillia, and Zestiria.
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Shame, Vesperia is hands-down my favorite Tales game. Maybe check out Tales of Destiny 2 (Eternia in Japan or picky English-speaking circles), it had really fluid combat and was 2D rather than 3D. Being a PS1 title, it will, of course, be a little ghetto whenever it employs modeled effects.
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Erebus posted:Falcom said some of their games have sold more on Steam than they did on Playstation. So you'd think JRPG developers have to start looking at Steam as an additional market, even if it's delayed.
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It is a new market and potential profit, but it isn't like putting games on steam would turn around a company's fortunes by itself.
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I've been playing Mana Khemia and I really dig the fast paced and tag-team battle system. Any recommendations of games similar to it other than the sequel?
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Endorph posted:Grandia 2 is good. I'm also glad they're using the Dreamcast version instead of one of the completely hosed ports. I remember my PC-version having a number of infuriating bugs, but what was wrong with the PS2-port? I forgot.
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Tired Moritz posted:I've been playing Mana Khemia and I really dig the fast paced and tag-team battle system. Any recommendations of games similar to it other than the sequel?
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Microcline posted:On a similar note, the "what is a JRPG" discussion a few pages back reminded me that I've never played a Tales game. If the series only had one game to impress me, which one would you recommend? I have the systems to play anything but but Vesperia, Xillia, and Zestiria.
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May 12, 2015 09:18
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Libluini posted:I remember my PC-version having a number of infuriating bugs, but what was wrong with the PS2-port? I forgot. Some bad lag in places and sometimes battles don't load textures. There's probably other issues but that's all I remember.
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lovely early PS2 lack of any anti-aliasing made everything look jaggy as gently caress compared to the DC version too.
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Speaking of Persona 3, I'm playing it for the first time and just got Aegis. I usually level all my Persona characters equally but she seems pretty useless. Should I include her in the levelling cycle or not bother?
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il_cornuto posted:Speaking of Persona 3, I'm playing it for the first time and just got Aegis. I usually level all my Persona characters equally but she seems pretty useless. Should I include her in the levelling cycle or not bother? I'd say yes, because she has all types of Phys attacks and it frees up the Protagonist to play spellcaster more.
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Aigis also learns a bunch of useful buffs and support skills. Her lack of elemental damage and limited selection of multi-target attacks mean she can't deal with large groups of regular enemies as fast as some other characters, but she's pretty good to have around in long boss fights.
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Gust announced a new crossgen IP if anyone's interested. EDIT: And to further spite ImpAtom NIS announced yet another Witch sequel. HGH fucked around with this message at 11:13 on May 12, 2015 |
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Microcline posted:On a similar note, the "what is a JRPG" discussion a few pages back reminded me that I've never played a Tales game. If the series only had one game to impress me, which one would you recommend? I have the systems to play anything but but Vesperia, Xillia, and Zestiria. I'm very much extrapolating from your exclusion list since it doesn't include Graces but if you happen to speak Japanese check out the PS2 Destiny remake.
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HGH posted:Gust announced a new crossgen IP if anyone's interested. Hey, maybe they'll make the gameplay in this one better. And the plot. And the graphics.
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Tired Moritz posted:I've been playing Mana Khemia and I really dig the fast paced and tag-team battle system. Any recommendations of games similar to it other than the sequel? Mana Khemia and it's sequel are effectively the final form of a battle system that had been evolving from the three Atelier Iris games, also on PS2. If you don't mind the fact that you'll be essentially downgrading the battle system, go for those three games. The first one is effectively skippable, it's kinda rough around the edges and had no real idea what it wanted overall. The second one is one a lot of people like, but despite the third one being very sidequest oriented with the main plot taking a backseat, it's by far my favorite due to having a more evolved version of the battle system, getting it quite close to the level of the first Mana Khemia.
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Tired Moritz posted:I've been playing Mana Khemia and I really dig the fast paced and tag-team battle system. Any recommendations of games similar to it other than the sequel? They brought that battle system back for Atelier Shallie.
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Radiant Historia for the DS is turn-based but it has a similarity to Mana Khemia inasmuch as there's a set turn order, you can manipulate it, and you can do combos with that. It also has moving enemies around on a grid to limit what they can do or make them take more damage. It's not exactly the same thing, but I enjoyed it.wateyad posted:They brought that battle system back for Atelier Shallie. I'd kill for more executions like it. Shallie is pretty good though, and it has a selectable difficulty mode to make the inevitable breaking of the game over your knee a little longer in coming. It's just not as good as the MK games. Like man, I want a 2.5D game with a system like MK pretty bad right now.
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Nakar posted:I thought 2 and Shallie were less exciting than 1, not so much because of the system but because of how well the first Mana Khemia used the system. Nearly every character has a cool thing they do with the battle system, like the guy whose abilities manipulate the turn cards (which is also used defensively since he can delete enemy time cards) and the girl who takes dozens of turns in a row. Uh, MK2 and Shallie both also do this.
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wateyad posted:Uh, MK2 and Shallie both also do this. Arguably that makes it more balanced but MK2 had a number of broken characters anyway. Shallie's a bit better except for Jurie being ridiculously loving overpowered.
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Let's all instead talk about how atelier iris 2 is not a good game and that gray deserved to be in a better game than that drat AI2 was boring as sin and also it softlocked on me because I completed a battle too quickly lmao
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