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Welcome to another Pretzel Brigade LP, this time as voted for by you. If this is your first time joining us, I'm wateyad, I'll be playing the game and I'll be joined by my much more talkative friend, forums moperator Pork Lift. This is a basically unedited blind VLP, yes of this kind of game, that's just what we do for some reason. Once upon a time there was a video game director named Hironobu Sakaguchi. After a string of flops he found himself considering leaving the game industry and going back to university. He decided to pin his fate on the success of his next project, an Ultima inspired RPG named Final Fantasy for how it could have been his final game. Final Fantasy, however, did extremely well and led Sakaguchi, along with Square, the studio where he was employed to rise to prominence in the industry. Years later, Sakaguchi was allowed to do pretty much whatever he wanted at Square and decided that the next step for the now expansive Final Fantasy series was a fully CGI Hollywood movie, made in house at a brand new, state of the art 3D animation studio Square opened in Hawaii. While a highly impressive technical achievement, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within baffled critics and audiences alike and was a massive flop at the box office, nearly bankrupting Square and jeopardising their upcoming merger with media giant Enix. Sakaguchi was of course by this point far too high up in the company and far too symbolically important of a personage to Square to be fired so he was instead "kicked upstairs," "promoted" into a mostly symbolic position where he would no longer work directly on products or have any major decision making power. Still wanting to work on games, Sakaguchi would eventually leave the merged Square-Enix to found a small studio named Mistwalker. At about this time Microsoft were looking to secure exclusives for their upcoming Xbox 360 console that would shore up what had been weaknesses in the library of the original Xbox. Spying an opportunity to do just that with some big name recognition, they hired the fledgling Mistwalker to work on three big first party JRPGs for the system. The second was Lost Odyssey and third was supposed to be a game called Cry On that got cancelled but we're not here to talk about either of those. Blue Dragon is a sort of an early HD era version of Final Fantasy V dressed in Dragon Quest clothing provided by Dragon Quest character and monster designer Akira Toriyama. It has an Uematsu soundtrack though notably the main boss theme, Eternity has lyrics written by Sakaguchi and performed by Ian Gillan, of Deep Purple fame. Oh yeah and Mistwalker are a tiny studio that can't handle AAA development on their own so the bulk of development was handled by Artoon. If you haven't heard of Artoon then there's a reason for that. Usually, I'd put something about the story here but at the time of writing this we've played the game for nearly six hours and I'm still not entirely sure that it has one? This is Fushira. He seems important. This is Shu. He won't give up. This is Kluke. Her parents are dead. She lectures Shu and Jiro for breaking the rules in an early cutscene so I guess she's the responsible one? This is Jiro, I've vaguely gotten the impression that he has a thing for Kluke but that might just be reading into things. He might be supposed to be the smart one but he's so just kind of there that I can't even be sure of that much about his character. wateyad fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Jul 18, 2017 |
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FANSTUFFSystemLogoff posted:So I made a dumb thing. McDragon posted:also here is Fushira and his persona Elkyrie posted:So I heard the plead for catbat... batcat art and I just couldn't ignore such a heartfelt request. You'll have to imagine the squeaky noise yourselves, though. Captain Fargle posted:I did a thing. Turns out I'm bad at making silly doodles imitate Ken Sugimori but there you go. SystemLogoff posted:I'm just catching up with the videos, so here's my wateyad fucked around with this message at 11:57 on Sep 20, 2017 |
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How the gently caress did you end up with a YouTube content warning on a Blue Dragon LP?
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 21:18 |
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Rangpur posted:How the gently caress did you end up with a YouTube content warning on a Blue Dragon LP? Sorry I forgot to make the video not private. Fixed now.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 21:20 |
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That first episode seemed quite fun, actually. Just make sure you don't burn yourselves out. If you don't have any fun and lose the joy of LPing we will certainly prefer it if you quit it and did something else at some point.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 21:50 |
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Me: "Is Land Shark really the best name to use for an enemy?" Game: Poo Snake Me: "No, no it wasn't."
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 21:55 |
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Poo Snake
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 21:57 |
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So pumped for this. Honestly, I'd say SO4 actually had a better story and cast than this game but this game is a lot more fun to play and is very easy to make fun of so I think things will go well. This game is certainly a bit less...serious than SO4 so that helps. Just need to be able to tolerate Peak Anime.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 22:06 |
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That was a great place to end episode 1. I really like Shu as a character because his belligerence is amazing. Also, be sure to check his commands compared to everyone elses.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 22:11 |
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I played through this entire game Admiral H. Curtiss fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Jul 17, 2017 |
# ? Jul 17, 2017 22:18 |
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Prepare for the most earworm music you will ever endure. If you wonder where the story is just keep on playing, it's not the best paced but it does deliver very well and really gets going when things go, watched a friend stream it over the last two months and I'm happy I did.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 22:20 |
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This looks...Playable.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 22:36 |
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wateyad posted:Welcome to another Pretzel Brigade LP, this time as voted for by you. He said it!
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 22:47 |
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Eternity is the only good thing about this game. Everything else is just kind of there.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 22:52 |
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Ometeotl posted:He said it! It's not real until he says it 3 times, preferably into a mirror, but we're getting there
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 22:52 |
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Admiral H. Curtiss posted:I played through this entire game Seeing this thread made me realise that I definitely remember some weird parts of it that are miles apart from each other and don't seem like they'd be super-memorable moments otherwise. They're, uh, very few and far apart though and are not at all related to the main plot for the most part. ...Some of them might not even be from this game, though. Somehow there are like 3 games in this "series" and they just sorta blur together.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 23:00 |
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I love this game and wish I'd beaten it before my 360 hard drive died. I got hung up searching for a few secrets and stopped playing shortly into what I think was the final area. I restarted with my new hard drive, but haven't made it all that far yet.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 23:19 |
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Kibayasu posted:Me: "Is Land Shark really the best name to use for an enemy?"
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 23:41 |
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I'm 99% sure I played the demo for this when it came out and like seemingly everyone else here I can't remember a single goddamn thing about it except for a single piece of music, which I'm pretty sure isn't even the same single piece of music everyone else remembers. It wasn't even very memorable or even good but for some reason it just stuck. I don't think I even finished the demo. I guess I'm here for this.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 23:43 |
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Blue Dragon is almost completely forgettable, but it does at least justify its existence by having the greatest boss theme in the history of video games.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 23:48 |
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I know nothing about this game other than the Greatest Boss Theme ever, but I am very excited for Final Fantasy with Goku in it.
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# ? Jul 18, 2017 00:04 |
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Giant land shark robot being the opening fight and unable to kill a bunch of punk kids is different. I'm not sure why the rest of the people seemed so scared of it tbh
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# ? Jul 18, 2017 00:14 |
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Ometeotl posted:He said it! You realise I put this in a video at some point?
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# ? Jul 18, 2017 00:19 |
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To be honest that was a pretty good intro, other than our main characters feeling kind of bland. They got to the point faster than like, any modern JRPG I can think of.
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# ? Jul 18, 2017 00:39 |
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This game was generic as hell, but still fun. The boss theme alone makes it worth it.
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# ? Jul 18, 2017 01:51 |
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I guess if anyone wants to play along for some reason, it's on sale? https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/887108962239225857
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# ? Jul 18, 2017 02:08 |
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Did you know that there are 2 sequel games on the Nintendo DS? Blue Dragon Plus which was released in 2008 and Blue Dragon Awakened Shadow which was released in 2009. I'm hoping to find a bit more about these games as they looked interesting at the time. I wonder why I never played them..
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# ? Jul 18, 2017 02:51 |
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of course the first real enemy in this toriyama game is a poop I don't know that this game is full lp fuel but things have a good pace so far
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# ? Jul 18, 2017 02:56 |
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"this looks like final fantasy but with goku in it" chrono trigger is the first final fantasy with a playable goku
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# ? Jul 18, 2017 03:43 |
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How long before the characters get their stands?
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# ? Jul 18, 2017 05:03 |
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goatface posted:Giant land shark robot being the opening fight and unable to kill a bunch of punk kids is different. It's more realistic if you install the difficulty mod and start a fresh game on Impossible difficulty, then Shu gets immediately obliterated for 200+ damage.
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# ? Jul 18, 2017 07:46 |
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I'm really digging this out-of-the-box RPG Maker UI.
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# ? Jul 18, 2017 08:02 |
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I think that they were trying to avoid the HDTV problem of on Standard Def TVs most HD games have unreadably tiny text, so they made their's enormous to compensate.
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# ? Jul 18, 2017 08:18 |
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Yeah, commendable on the designers part really. It's funny thinking back to the time when this game came out, before LCD TVs were any good and when a plasma display would cost AU$3-5k. Compare to another Xbox 360 near launch title, Dead Rising, where the text was tiny. Anyway I hope you end up liking the game (or doing something else you like if it isn't for you). Your best stuff comes from stuff you either love or loathe, not middle of the road mediocrity.
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# ? Jul 18, 2017 09:36 |
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Polsy posted:It's more realistic if you install the difficulty mod and start a fresh game on Impossible difficulty, then Shu gets immediately obliterated for 200+ damage. I wish I still had my old 360 and my old save For this LP, I started up a new game playing on Hard Mode instead of Impossible because you need NG+ for Impossible. Still, Hard Mode is kinda fun. Also kinda frustrating. I got frustrated after a bullshit death and quit but now this thread has been made, I need to start it up again At all the talk of Blue Dragon's quality, it is pretty generic but it's generic for the olden times. I was happy to see a JRPG on the last console generation that played like my preferred type of JRPG.
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# ? Jul 18, 2017 10:58 |
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This is exactly the type of game I would have loved when I was young and had no sense of... good.
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# ? Jul 18, 2017 11:24 |
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There is no wateyad, and Pork Lift is his prophet. I hate myself and want to anime.
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# ? Jul 18, 2017 13:06 |
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I played through this awhile ago. It was very bad, I still remember "I won't give up!" being said at least a million times all the way to the end of the game. I remember not seeing the ending coming, but I couldn't beat the last boss and gave up.
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On the other hand I enjoyed it enough to have played it through a couple of times, and am planning another one at some point soon (not playing along, just for fun at my own pace), so I guess it really is divisive. Also, @porklift and wateyad: How are you enjoying being able to tell what everything is? The chests are big, bold and beautiful, and the minimap and environments are readable! Although I will admit the world map is a little hard to read due to how "messy" it looks. BioEnchanted fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Jul 18, 2017 |
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