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Happy Blue Cow posted:hi I like final fantasy, whats your favorite final fantasy? Final Fantasy X. Definitely X.
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Happy Blue Cow posted:hi I like final fantasy, whats your favorite final fantasy? V, XII, XIV. 
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Jul 7, 2015 07:22
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Happy Blue Cow posted:hi I like final fantasy, whats your favorite final fantasy? The World Ends With You.
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Jul 7, 2015 07:39
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I love IX like I love chocolate--a lot.
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Jul 7, 2015 09:14
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Crisis Core Genesis ain't so bad. He's not supposed to be cool, everyone in-game hates his poetry too.
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Jul 7, 2015 09:59
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My favorites include 3, 4, 5, 9, and 14 in no particular order. I'm a bit weird like that. e: Oh yeah, today's the 15th anniversary of the Japanese release of FF9. So yeah. Mega64 fucked around with this message at 12:34 on Jul 7, 2015 |
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Jul 7, 2015 12:29
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Tae posted:It's strange that the Xbox 360 and Nintendo both had initiatives to make RPGs from a supposed dream team of talent. Which do you will aged better, Lost Odyssey/Blue Dragon/Last Remnant or Pandora's Tower/The Last Story/Xenoblade Chronicles? On a design and performance level, the Wii games will age better. However, Blue Dragon is the game I enjoyed the most out of all them. It's probably the closest I'll ever get to a FFV sequel.
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Jul 7, 2015 12:42
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I think I like 4, 5, 6, 9, 11 and 14 the best. FF6 is the best one.
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Jul 7, 2015 13:12
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Is there a Dragon Quest Megathread in Games?
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Jul 7, 2015 13:24
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In Training posted:Is there a Dragon Quest Megathread in Games? http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3389824
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Jul 7, 2015 13:26
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Tyvm. How many people who really like FF also like DQ, I wonder. I have been a big FF fan for a long time but only got around to play DQ this past month or so and its been a real treat to play all these cool games.
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Jul 7, 2015 13:29
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Somehow the only thing I know about Dragon Quest is that it has a solid level up sound effect
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Jul 7, 2015 13:32
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In order, 10, 7, 13. Based on side content completed 13 should rank higher as the only one I've completed the optional bosses, but I get tired of having to explain its a badly designed game but a great Final Fantasy. 8 is an honorable mention because you can turn off random encounters and buff your stats by playing triple triad instead of leveling, and it has a very accurate depiction of why you don't put 17 year olds in charge of things.
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Jul 7, 2015 13:34
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In Training posted:Tyvm. How many people who really like FF also like DQ, I wonder. I have been a big FF fan for a long time but only got around to play DQ this past month or so and its been a real treat to play all these cool games. I certainly like both. As a little kid I played both the original FF and DQ and stuck with both series til today. DQ has done the best job of staying close to its roots, for better or for worse. For all it's improvements, DQ8 is still recognizable as a Dragon Quest game, just with some more bling.
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Jul 7, 2015 13:38
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Levantine posted:I certainly like both. As a little kid I played both the original FF and DQ and stuck with both series til today. DQ has done the best job of staying close to its roots, for better or for worse. For all it's improvements, DQ8 is still recognizable as a Dragon Quest game, just with some more bling. That's the big divider really. FF seems to be pushing boundaries of technical limitations in every installment and trying to make everything bigger, brighter and flashier while also reinventing the gameplay every game, whereas DQVI was basically DQI with more options. It's very cool
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Jul 7, 2015 13:41
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zedprime posted:In order, 10, 7, 13. Based on side content completed 13 should rank higher as the only one I've completed the optional bosses, but I get tired of having to explain its a badly designed game but a great Final Fantasy. Huh, this is like, the polar opposite reaction people usually have to XIII.
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Jul 7, 2015 13:42
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Dragon quest is grindy garbage and I have no idea how that series maintained any sort of popularity.
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Jul 7, 2015 13:47
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sassassin posted:Dragon quest is grindy garbage and I have no idea how that series maintained any sort of popularity. autism
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Jul 7, 2015 13:48
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I had to grind once at the end in DQVI and none in DQV. Besides, making your team powerful is what JRPGs are all about.
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Jul 7, 2015 13:49
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In Training posted:Huh, this is like, the polar opposite reaction people usually have to XIII. Meanwhile the first 2/3 of the game are hand holding to teach you the battle system that apparently didn't actually work as tutorializing because there were an awful lot of people who seemed to be quiting in that final 1/3 because of boss difficulty. Like I love the battle system but it takes getting clued in to a few key concepts that the devs hoped you got from osmosis from the encounters and early bosses instead of it being explicit anywhere.
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Jul 7, 2015 13:49
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Right, they used smart encounter design to teach you how to play, instead of endless text boxes and button prompts, like a good game.
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Jul 7, 2015 13:51
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In Training posted:Right, they used smart encounter design to teach you how to play, instead of endless text boxes and button prompts, like a good game. it has those too though and you can't skip them
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Jul 7, 2015 13:52
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corn in the bible posted:it has those too though and you can't skip them It has them at start for like, here is how you paradigm shift, and interact with the menus, and what a stagger meter is. But then it's just like 6 chapters of battles before they circle back and tell you "now you can switch party members" and then a few hours later "welcome to gran pulse, there are side missions available now".
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Jul 7, 2015 13:57
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There is a difference between offering a tutorial of a battle system and unlocking everything that a battle system has to offer by the time one reaches the end of a game. I am perfectly ok with people disliking the pace which XIII unlocked the battle system but I think it is important to recognize that distinction.
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Jul 7, 2015 14:00
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Dr Pepper posted:V, XII, XIV. Before 2.55/HW this would've been my post with a slight addendum of X/X-2. Also I'm part of the group that likes both FF games and DQ games. DQIX was entirely too much fun.
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Jul 7, 2015 14:05
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In Training posted:Right, they used smart encounter design to teach you how to play, instead of endless text boxes and button prompts, like a good game. I'm all for a game teaching you by doing, but the encounter design is still such you can get away with some super dire strategies and learn nothing in the learning chapters.
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Jul 7, 2015 14:07
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I think the rating system does a good job of indicating "hey the strategy your using technically works, but if you mix things up a bit more often you could beat this encounter in about 1/4 the time"
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Jul 7, 2015 14:10
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Do you actually get feedback as to why your rating sucks? Because if not, that's not a teaching moment, that's the game taking the piss.
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Jul 7, 2015 14:13
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MrAptronym posted:Though I think I am alone in not really liking Xenoblade much. Its good, I just wasn't blown away or anything. Eh, you're not alone. I couldn't even finish finish Xenoblade before getting bored and just putting it away forever.
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Jul 7, 2015 14:15
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In Training posted:I think the rating system does a good job of indicating "hey the strategy your using technically works, but if you mix things up a bit more often you could beat this encounter in about 1/4 the time" For what its worth I personally loved the combat tuning, which should be apparent by finishing all the hunts, and I am in the final chapter in 13-2 and kind of sad the combat tuning felt kind of washed out through most of that game compared to 13.
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Jul 7, 2015 14:19
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Kyrosiris posted:Do you actually get feedback as to why your rating sucks? Because if not, that's not a teaching moment, that's the game taking the piss. The only stat on the page is Time and then the stars. In the early fights where you can basically only attack they go quickly and you always get 5 stars. Then if you take time, they're lower. It might even be spelled out somewhere in game, idk. zedprime posted:Or does it indicate you don't understand how the weapon upgrade system works? In hindsight we know that paradigm switching execution will do everything to battle effectiveness compared to some incremental upgrades until you get to the final hunts but you don't really have any context for that in game. Well for me, I never upgraded my weapons at all and was still able to get 5 stars so I never thought about that possibility, but that whole system is probably the weakest and most undercooked part of the game so I court concede that. It's confusing enough to where someone could blame it for their shortcomings without realizing how little it really matters. And I feel exactly the same way about XIII-2, the open nature of it was neat but it mean the tightness of the encounter design had to be sacrificed for shard hunting. It was fun for different reasons to XIII but I've revisited XIII multiple times, as opposed to only barely finishing XIII-2 the once.
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Jul 7, 2015 14:25
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sassassin posted:Crisis Core Crisis Core ain't bad at all bruv. Ain't bad at all. The Sephiroth fight is the best fight in the game though, with the Genesis fight coming in second and Minerva coming in third.
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Jul 7, 2015 14:33
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Honestly all the Dragon Quest games kind of all look the same to me, except for DQ8. I liked that one. That's about it, though.
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Jul 7, 2015 14:50
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I loving love the Dragon Quest Monsters series, and I've been waiting for someone to finish translating the PS1 era DQM Collection for AGES. Also, the remake of DQM1 on DS being JPN only is such a disappointment 
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Raxivace posted:Eh, you're not alone. I couldn't even finish finish Xenoblade before getting bored and just putting it away forever. Same here. The characters just completely failed to grab me and I wasn't a huge fan of the battle system either.
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Jul 7, 2015 15:17
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Annath posted:I loving love the Dragon Quest Monsters series, and I've been waiting for someone to finish translating the PS1 era DQM Collection for AGES. You can pay dq1 on your phone and it takes literally 5 hours to beat are you really missing anything???
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Jul 7, 2015 15:21
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sassassin posted:Dragon quest is grindy garbage and I have no idea how that series maintained any sort of popularity. The truth is DQ isn't grindy at all. People come from playing Final Fantasy where you can buy every item in the shop and expect DQ to be the same way. In DQ, you have to plan ahead. If a weapon is expensive and only raises your attack power by 5 points, don't get it. Buy the expensive weapon in the next town that will raise your attack by 10. Mokinokaro posted:Same here. The characters just completely failed to grab me and I wasn't a huge fan of the battle system either. Agreed on Xenoblade. I just bought Lost Odyssey. Hope that's better.
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Jul 7, 2015 15:23
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Lost Odyssey has a pretty typical jrpg plot but fun characters and the dream bits are great writing.
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Jul 7, 2015 15:29
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corn in the fridge posted:You can pay dq1 on your phone and it takes literally 5 hours to beat are you really missing anything??? It also kinda sucks.
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corn in the fridge posted:You can pay dq1 on your phone and it takes literally 5 hours to beat are you really missing anything??? I meant Dragon Quest Monsters 1, my bad. Definitely can't beat that in 5 hours...
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