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I'm saddened Emperor Mateus has died (again). Truly an inspiration for many future androgynous Final Fantasy antagonists.
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Man there is nothing you can call that pose but mincing.
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Jan 11, 2016 22:21
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Mega64 posted:I'm saddened Emperor Mateus has died (again). Truly an inspiration for many future androgynous Final Fantasy antagonists.
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Jan 11, 2016 22:23
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FactsAreUseless posted:He and Kuja are friends, and they hang out. They go shopping for codpieces together.
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Jan 11, 2016 22:43
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zidane13 posted:Man there is nothing you can call that pose but mincing.
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Jan 11, 2016 22:49
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zedprime posted:I can't make too much fun because if someone could get a picture of me when I don't think they are looking, that is the exact pose I use to harass cats with t-rex arms. I enjoy the Emperor as a character a lot more with the idea that he's spending his time teasing cats offscreen but desperately trying to maintain an air of respectability as soon as he encounters the heroes.
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Jan 11, 2016 22:52
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I didn't even think about Amano until just now. Hope he's doing alright today.
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Jan 11, 2016 22:53
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Moldy Taxes posted:I'd love it if they did another round of DLC with songs from the last few FF11/14 expansions. While never reaching the heights of Under the Weight, Heavensward has been really good for battle music that's simultaneously confusing and amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z_3hRm7K8g
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Jan 11, 2016 22:58
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Dr Snofeld posted:While never reaching the heights of Under the Weight, Heavensward has been really good for battle music that's simultaneously confusing and amazing. Ought to mention that the second part of that track starts at 5:25. Primals always get the spotlight, but there's a lot of good non-boss music in that game and expansion as well. The Aetherochemical Research Facility theme is one of my favorite dungeon themes in a long time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lJyrLSFLDA
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Jan 11, 2016 23:04
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Mega64 posted:I'm saddened Emperor Mateus has died (again). Truly an inspiration for many future androgynous Final Fantasy antagonists.      
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Jan 11, 2016 23:14
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In regards to summoning in Final Fantasy XIV, there are lore reasons and practical reasons why you cannot summon the full strength summons, or Primals as they are called in game. Firstly in terms of the lore, summoning a Primal requires a tremendous amount of magical energy. Much more energy than a person can provide without dying, and such that it requires many crystals of condensed magical energy to summon them. Then once summoned, the Primal must continue to feed off of magical energy to sustain a physical form. The summoner could not possibly provide this much energy, and in fact in the summoner quests just attempting to create a fourth unique Egi for Ramuh nearly kills you. The other issue to this, is the tendency for most Primals to either become extremely aggressive, or to brainwash everyone possible they can. People worshipping them provides them both with more power, and also more loyal servants to gather magical energy for them. Due to the nature of Primals and how they are created, this can very largely on how they were created, but Ramuh and Shiva are fairly unique in that both are not aggressive and do not seek to gather power and servants. Summoning the Egi's summons a fragment of that Primal's pure essence, with Ifrit it being fire and so on with the others. The summoner does not summon the actual Primal and thus does not endanger themselves and the realm to them. But in more practical terms, the game has to run on a PS3 as well. There are already known issues with graphics and enemies and effects not rendering in fights with big models and lots of particle effects, and that is just in 4-8 man instanced fights. If you had several people summoning Ifrit all at the same time in the overworld, it would probably cause a lot of performance issues for PS3 players. While PS3 support may be being dropped at the end of the Heavensward patch cycle, it is still a policy for the devs to support it until then. Aside from performance issues though, many fights in FFXIV rely on dodging AoE indicators on the ground and moving around. A single large summoned entity would probably obscure a fair chunk of that to begin with and if you had two of them both summoning then it might make dodging nearly impossible. The devs made a clear choice to keep the arenas visible and uncluttered in fights to make sure it was as easy to dodge these as possible. Many people are disappointed that you can't invoke the Primals in a more visually satisfying manner and it is a big contrast from many other games, but there is a reasonable design philosophy behind why the dev team chose not to do it for better or worse.
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Jan 11, 2016 23:33
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Thanks for posting these, especially this one. Been looking for a new avatar.
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Is it okay if we talk about the Chaos Rings series in here too? It's not big enough for its own thread and it's pretty much Final Fantasy but on mobile.
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Jan 11, 2016 23:46
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Mega64 posted:I'm saddened Emperor Mateus has died (again). Truly an inspiration for many future androgynous Final Fantasy antagonists. I'd like to believe that Bowie will return to life after taking over hell.
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DrakePegasus posted:I didn't even think about Amano until just now. Hope he's doing alright today. Were they personal friends? Or was there some kind of project the two of them worked on that lead to the pictures that were posted above?
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Jan 12, 2016 00:48
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Amano probably just liked his music
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PunkBoy posted:Were they personal friends? Or was there some kind of project the two of them worked on that lead to the pictures that were posted above? They were intended for a collaborative project with Neil Gaiman, so I assume Bowie himself was involved in some capacity.
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Why the gently caress are there enemies that can attack 3 times in a row in FF3?! At that point the fight is 100% pure RNG. No character is gonna survive 3 straight stacks even at full health unless you're stupidly over-leveled. And back to the bottom of the tower I go. I think the lesson here is to just sell off all my inventory except shuriken and just spite the game.
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Jan 12, 2016 02:55
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stop playing the bad game dude
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Jan 12, 2016 02:58
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SonicRulez posted:Why the gently caress are there enemies that can attack 3 times in a row in FF3?! At that point the fight is 100% pure RNG. No character is gonna survive 3 straight stacks even at full health unless you're stupidly over-leveled. And back to the bottom of the tower I go. I think the lesson here is to just sell off all my inventory except shuriken and just spite the game. "Balance". More accurately, while the NES version could have up to eight enemies in a battle, the DS version could only support three. Thus to rebalance they make enemies take multiple turns a round because Tanaka and Matrix have no business being in game design.
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SonicRulez posted:Why the gently caress are there enemies that can attack 3 times in a row in FF3?! At that point the fight is 100% pure RNG. No character is gonna survive 3 straight stacks even at full health unless you're stupidly over-leveled. And back to the bottom of the tower I go. I think the lesson here is to just sell off all my inventory except shuriken and just spite the game. everyone loving warned you
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Jan 12, 2016 04:01
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Man, a coworker at my work today was literally on the verge of tears because she found out David Bowie was dead. I have a feeling I'm going to be close to the same way when Kojima or Miyamoto or Sakaguchi die.
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Jan 12, 2016 04:18
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Why don't they make a proper 2d port of ff3 like the psp ports of ff1 and 2 instead of the lovely ds version?
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This seems pretty interesting: https://forum.finalfantasyxv.com/discussion/961/how-will-the-difficulty-modes-compare-in-terms-of-xp-gain-enemy-stats-damage-and-a-iLead Game Designer Takizawa Masashi posted:In December I asked you guys if you had any questions for the FFXV Dev team. This question by Eraezr was one of the top voted for questions and your answer is below: HOW WILL THE DIFFICULTY MODES COMPARE IN TERMS OF XP GAIN, ENEMY STATS, DAMAGE AND A.I? So I have to wonder if that slower system will be more like atb or what? I find this really interesting, mostly because of the implications it might have for FF7 where maybe they offer a re-envisioned modern combat system but also have the traditional version for the purists. Doesn't matter much to me since I really dug the combat in the 15 demo, but it's a neat idea anyway.
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Failboattootoot posted:This seems pretty interesting: https://forum.finalfantasyxv.com/discussion/961/how-will-the-difficulty-modes-compare-in-terms-of-xp-gain-enemy-stats-damage-and-a-i Oh god this makes it sound like they going to try to do a Dark Souls mode vs. FF12 mode or something. Pretty sure this design by international fan committee thing is not the greatest idea.
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Wasn't that like the first fruit out of their design by twitter committee, even if it wasn't called different difficulties back then? I thought I remember the internet already exploding about that.
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bloodychill posted:Oh god this makes it sound like they going to try to do a Dark Souls mode vs. FF12 mode or something. Pretty sure this design by international fan committee thing is not the greatest idea. I doubt it's that dramatic, it's probably just something like a "Simple Mode".
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Jan 12, 2016 05:23
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My first thought is of the RPG mode in Dissidia.
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Motto posted:I doubt it's that dramatic, it's probably just something like a "Simple Mode". I remember them saying they were planning on making the combat more dynamic and less "hold down the button to keep attacking" so I hadn't heard about the simple mode thing before this. Balancing a game around two types of gameplay just sounds like a very tough thing to do. Making "complex mode" encounters interesting and challenging while simple mode does everything more or less automatically sounds like it would lead to tuning the encounters one way or another. If they try to stay away from that and complex mode allows extremely dynamic gameplay where you have to make snap decisions with all the abilities and movement options the game gives you in order to handle an encounter, simple mode sounds like it might have to have a decision engine built into it to allow it to make the right decisions or at least close-to-right decisions given a situation. Seems like a lot to handle considering the game is ostensibly supposed to be done some time this year or decade or something. Or they can just make "complex mode" a musou game and "simple mode" a musou-but-hold-down-the-button game and and I can just not bother to play the game, I dunno.
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mandatory lesbian posted:stop playing the bad game dude I want to, but now I feel like it's taunting me. I was on Dark Crystal #3 when I got absolutely wrecked this time. I just need to beat it once and then I'll never even turn the drat game on again.  It also helps that my TV popped its lamp so I can't play FFXIV for a week or so. My cat dude was doing cool things.
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SonicRulez posted:I want to, but now I feel like it's taunting me. I was on Dark Crystal #3 when I got absolutely wrecked this time. I just need to beat it once and then I'll never even turn the drat game on again. As someone with a physical cart still sitting outside the crystal tower. Stop. It's not worth it. It'll never be worth it, put it down, play 3 with a translation patch.
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SonicRulez posted:I want to, but now I feel like it's taunting me. I was on Dark Crystal #3 when I got absolutely wrecked this time. I just need to beat it once and then I'll never even turn the drat game on again. The problem with FF3DS is that you really want to start planning your team early to squeeze out as much out of a job as possible. Which is counterproductive for a job system that should encourage flexibility. If you didn't mind grinding I'd have suggested throwing in a couple Bards, which greatly augment your survivability. The first time I beat the game, I was rocking Bard/Bard/Geomancer/Ranger until the final dungeon, where after some trial and error I had to swap Geomancer out for a Devout. Still way easier than beating the game with a 'normal' team.
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Onmi posted:As someone with a physical cart still sitting outside the crystal tower. Stop. It's not worth it. It'll never be worth it, put it down, play 3 with a translation patch. Like I said, the best FF3 is literally the NES game. It's sad, the art in the DS remake is nice, but the game is literally broken and worse than NES-hard. Think on that.
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So since I'm planning on getting an actual decent PC soon, I was thinking of getting XII=2 off Steam. I went there to see what DLC was included but I ended up being more interested by the review and score. 6/10 according to 1,521 reviews. Naturally I had to go and see how it stacked up to the others: XIII: 7/10 according to 6,186 reviews. Lightning Returns 9/10 according to 836 reviews. I wonder if LR having the highest score is due to it having the least reviews. It;'s kind of amazing XIII has like 3 times as many reviews as the other two combined and still comes out at 7/10. Of course, I know jack all about Steam really. I have only ever gotten one game off it.
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NikkolasKing posted:So since I'm planning on getting an actual decent PC soon, I was thinking of getting XII=2 off Steam. I went there to see what DLC was included but I ended up being more interested by the review and score. 6/10 according to 1,521 reviews. Naturally I had to go and see how it stacked up to the others: LR has the highest score because it's the best one. 13 is the worst. 13-2 is good.
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I'm shocked that LR is still a 9 despite the online-always aspect.
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Tae posted:I'm shocked that LR is still a 9 despite the online-always aspect. They patched that so you can play offline. Edit YoshiOfYellow posted:XIII-2 runs like a pile of hot poo poo no matter what kind of rig you have which is probably why its PC release has the lowest reviews. I'd love to know what the hell they did to that game to make it run so awful where the other two are fine. It used to have always online because of Steam Cloud integration, but they patched it just before Christmas so you can launch the game in offline mode. Selenephos fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Jan 12, 2016 |
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XIII-2 runs like a pile of hot poo poo no matter what kind of rig you have which is probably why its PC release has the lowest reviews. I'd love to know what the hell they did to that game to make it run so awful where the other two are fine. Also, does LR really have an always online thing attached, this is the first I've ever heard of it and I've never run into it playing the game.
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