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I picked up an Xbox 360 to play Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon cause I missed those back in the day and it was a good call LO rules. I'm only like four hours in but pretty much everything is rad, I like how the formations work and how it lays very lightly on top of the classic turn based stuff. I like how the themes of the story are very tightly woven into how it plays. From what I've heard it eventually gets heavy but so far it's this brisk, like Keanu Reeves adventure movie with some interesting stuff just under the surface. Tho yea the Thousand Years of Dreams stuff gives off these huge gut punches on a regular basis. I'm really pumped to play more and see where it goes!
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Dec 31, 2018 23:43
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Sophie is definitely a nerd but she's like a sociable nerd with actual friends
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an actual dog posted:I picked up an Xbox 360 to play Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon cause I missed those back in the day and it was a good call LO rules. I'm only like four hours in but pretty much everything is rad, I like how the formations work and how it lays very lightly on top of the classic turn based stuff. I like how the themes of the story are very tightly woven into how it plays. The thousand years of dreams are one of my favorite jrpg things. Time to rest at this random inn oh Christ
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Uuuuuuh Meruru is consistently crashing on a cutscene now. I straight up cannot view that cutscene, which is making it impossible to progress. I dunno what to do, it's a very consistent crash. I can't even just avoid the cutscene because it happens in the castle gate area which you have to pass through to go to Rufus' study
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Jan 1, 2019 00:42
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Evil Fluffy posted:If/when it does, it'll probably be something like XCX takes place in a reality that split from the XC1/XC2 ones and the XCX branch was a Conduit-less remnant. The Conduit no longer being in that reality would also provide a nice 'real' reason for why those aliens wanted to murder the hell out of humanity too because those aliens were definitely the kind of people who'd be made that such a powerful macguffin is no longer available for them to procure and exploit. No. The Conduit going off is a wholly separate continuity, because that one was caused by Klaus just about literally playing God rather than in the midst of an alien invasion. There's also a major difference in technological levels between XCX and the other timeline, because Siren was a mere standard-model Artifice and it was far ahead of Skell technology. Evil Fluffy posted:On the other hand... XB2 is also our world, but in the future. Sure, but it's a wholly different continuity. I agree that definitely could happen if they remade/remastered XBX though. And there's probably a lot they'd retcon in general if they remade XBX, because the main plot, (what little of it there was), was pretty much a clusterfuck of barebone rewrites to begin with. Neddy Seagoon fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Jan 1, 2019 |
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I can't imagine a world where XBX wasn't meant to have a sequel, even before all the development issues. You can't just name a character Lucifer and not have that pay off somehow
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Jan 1, 2019 02:33
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Well now I finished Tales of Berseria and SPOILER HUGE SPOILER LITERALLY THE END OF THE GAME Is there any meaning to the name Maotelus in one of the earlier games? Considering how all the expeditions have you visiting environments from earlier games I was wondering if that was another one.
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Jan 1, 2019 04:47
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Nah, then it would be a cool thing. Instead it's a reference to Zestiria itself, so that makes it a lame thing.
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RareAcumen posted:Well now I finished Tales of Berseria and SPOILER HUGE SPOILER LITERALLY THE END OF THE GAME Is there any meaning to the name Maotelus in one of the earlier games? Considering how all the expeditions have you visiting environments from earlier games I was wondering if that was another one. he's the most important god in zestiria and that is it
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RareAcumen posted:Well now I finished Tales of Berseria and SPOILER HUGE SPOILER LITERALLY THE END OF THE GAME Is there any meaning to the name Maotelus in one of the earlier games? Considering how all the expeditions have you visiting environments from earlier games I was wondering if that was another one. It's the name of the super-god in Zestiria who was in charge of purifying or whatever.
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an actual dog posted:I picked up an Xbox 360 to play Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon cause I missed those back in the day and it was a good call LO rules. I'm only like four hours in but pretty much everything is rad, I like how the formations work and how it lays very lightly on top of the classic turn based stuff. I like how the themes of the story are very tightly woven into how it plays. One of the dreams will make me cry until the day I die and if the author of the dreams was the author of the games story it'd be the greatest RPG ever made. Instead its just really good with a few missing and painfully noticeable QoL features, like having a way to collect items from areas you can't return to except for some spells or how there is an achievement for finding every single item in a game where you can never, ever turn off random encounters.
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corn in the bible posted:he's the most important god in zestiria and that is it Oh okay, just Zestiria. It could've absolutely been somewhere earlier and I wouldn't know. And I know to not play the game and just watch the anime if I really really wanna know what happens.
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I thought missable items would show up later in Lost Odyssey
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Barudak posted:One of the dreams will make me cry until the day I die and if the author of the dreams was the author of the games story it'd be the greatest RPG ever made. Instead its just really good with a few missing and painfully noticeable QoL features, like having a way to collect items from areas you can't return to except for some spells or how there is an achievement for finding every single item in a game where you can never, ever turn off random encounters. Which dream?
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Skwirl posted:I thought missable items would show up later in Lost Odyssey The items do, but there are two spells that you can miss since the areas they are part of still technically exist even if the shops that sell them updated their inventory due to story progression, so you can miss them forever.
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an actual dog posted:I picked up an Xbox 360 to play Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon cause I missed those back in the day and it was a good call LO rules. I'm only like four hours in but pretty much everything is rad, I like how the formations work and how it lays very lightly on top of the classic turn based stuff. I like how the themes of the story are very tightly woven into how it plays. Lost Odyssey is extremely good, but you should keep a guide handy for finding all the Dreams. Some of them are obnoxiously obscure and missable. Clarste posted:Which dream? For me, the hardest gut-punch was the fireworks on the island beach 
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Well, I got back to where I was in Meruru by using an old branched save and the cutscene that crashed me didn't trigger. Gonna branch 100% of my saves now and if the cutscene ever happens again, and still crashes me, I know I'll have a safe save where it's un-triggered and figure out whose friendship events I need to avoid. Hopefully it'll just be fine when I retrigger it though.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Lost Odyssey is extremely good, but you should keep a guide handy for finding all the Dreams. Some of them are obnoxiously obscure and missable. I double checked and it looks like I can go back and grab the ones I missed at the end so I won't stress. I just finished disk one and there's a part of me that wishes I didn't get it digital so I could do the swap, tho I think if I bought it used there would be a good chance something was scratched and that's terrifying. Barudak posted:The items do, but there are two spells that you can miss since the areas they are part of still technically exist even if the shops that sell them updated their inventory due to story progression, so you can miss them forever. Should I worry about this for any reason other than completionism?
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an actual dog posted:Should I worry about this for any reason other than completionism? They're pretty good mid-tier spells that also are needed for combination magics. You don't technically need them for beating the game or post-game, but you probably wouldn't want to be without them. The two spells are Shieldus and Barricadus and are available in the towns of Saman and Ghotza, but only the first times through.
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Barudak posted:They're pretty good mid-tier spells that also are needed for combination magics. You don't technically need them for beating the game or post-game, but you probably wouldn't want to be without them. Thanks, I'll keep an eye out.
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I appreciate that the cauldron of knowledge is in fact an actual cauldron and not metaphorical. I assume I am nearing the end of the main story, though I am guessing I should do all the side quests I can find first.
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chumbler posted:I appreciate that the cauldron of knowledge is in fact an actual cauldron and not metaphorical. I assume I am nearing the end of the main story, though I am guessing I should do all the side quests I can find first. You're not quite as close as it sounds but you're still nearing the end. What I did around there is just sat down and cleared out as much of the recipe book as possible then advanced the plot because I like you thought I was coming right up on the end.
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an actual dog posted:Should I worry about this for any reason other than completionism? There's a pair of max-level spells you get all of TWO chances to buy. They're really good barrier spells, so you don't want to miss them. Thankfully they're sold together by the same vendors. an actual dog posted:I just finished disk one and there's a part of me that wishes I didn't get it digital so I could do the swap, tho I think if I bought it used there would be a good chance something was scratched and that's terrifying. I was lucky enough to find a complete physical copy of Lost Odyssey for all of $10AUD. I actually got it free digitally on the XBox store at some point (I think it was just plain free rather than Xbox Gold or something at one point iirc?), and bought it just for novelty of having a 4-disc fat-cased X360 game.
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For as much as I like Atelier Sophie my favorite part of the game is how you can identify the antagonist solely through process of elimination
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RazzleDazzleHour posted:For as much as I like Atelier Sophie my favorite part of the game is how you can identify the antagonist solely through process of elimination oskar, driven mad by the voices of plants, finally decides to murder everyone
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corn in the bible posted:oskar, driven mad by the voices of plants, finally decides to murder everyone Leon executes everyone not dressed in a revealing outfit
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cheetah7071 posted:Leon executes everyone not dressed in a revealing outfit Local Man Kills, Like, Two People
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RazzleDazzleHour posted:Local Man Kills, Like, Two People Leon's a woman. Dunno if that's ever been a woman's name in real life but it is in Atelier Sophie 
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corn in the bible posted:clock shop guy goes on a rampage because everyone forgot he exists same but Monika
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Oh, I thought Leon was the dollmaker for some reason. I don't remember almost anyone's name from Sophie also thought it might have been the guy with the sword who has no personality and also looks like a generic NPC
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RazzleDazzleHour posted:Oh, I thought Leon was the dollmaker for some reason. I don't remember almost anyone's name from Sophie I think there's usually a pretty clear distinction between party members and generic NPCs in terms of clothing fanciness. Also, Marguerite should have been a party member.
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Rascyc posted:The AI's focus on elemental combos kind of annoys me though, I wish you could have set at least a priority on their blade switch order but I sort of understand why they did this. I haven't formed an opinion yet on how much this impacts the rest of everything but it's enough that I find trying to do cute hybrid stuff with your healer's setup is basically asking for trouble at times if you don't stick to a very specific special chain. A lot of people make the assumption you've made probably by virtue of their party mostly consisting of Rex as player, and then Nia and Morag.
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Amppelix posted:Here's something you didn't know (because the game hates telling its players about the more technical details of the combat system): female party members focus their blade switches around first trying to complete blade combos. Male party members, on the other hand, will attempt to complete driver combos! Both genders will also switch for the other type of combo but only if their preferred one isn't going or they have no valid options for it. I mean, I have everything but Break for a Driver Combo on Rex's blades, so I'm actually fine with Nia and Morag concentrating on elemental combos, but that's still kinda weird. I think I'll keep Nia with 3 healer blades equipped, though, even with this knowledge
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It's kind of a mixed bag cause the attacks on Rex that launch are slow swinging weapons so it's really unreliable to rely on AI Rex to launch, whereas he'll topple for days with anchor shot alone. Nia fist weapons on the other hand consistently launch if you give her two fist blades though so I've gone that route.
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 reviews of atelier rorona when it first came out are extremely lol
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Amppelix posted:Here's something you didn't know (because the game hates telling its players about the more technical details of the combat system): female party members focus their blade switches around first trying to complete blade combos. Male party members, on the other hand, will attempt to complete driver combos! Both genders will also switch for the other type of combo but only if their preferred one isn't going or they have no valid options for it.
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Endorph posted:
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The White Dragon posted:for a second i thought this was gonna be about my stuff lol Once I hit 'vapid gaming protagonists' I assumed it was about Symphonia again.
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