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So I am starting the gathering/crafting grind in the FF14 and I got to ask, any of you know a good podcast about the franchise? I am seeking one that is essentially laid back nerds dropping dumb in jokes and messing around. Or one focused on trivia/culture of the games and their development.
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Oct 15, 2019 17:07
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Help Im Alive posted:I'm probably just bad at it but Trema really gave me a lot of trouble
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Oct 15, 2019 19:55
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I really liked the Esper Ultima fight in 12. It wasn't super hard I guess but it was kinda lethal.
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Oct 15, 2019 23:54
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I've been playing FFX on the Switch and I got to say what a shame SE never used it's battle system again. I find it superior to older ATB system. It's real nice to be able to switch party members in and out and use them instantly and I really like the visual display for who's turn is next.
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Oct 16, 2019 02:50
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FFT had elements of that, and I agree, I felt it gave the game the best evolution of older turn based design. It felt comfortable and chess-ish.
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Oct 16, 2019 02:52
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Black August posted:FFT had elements of that, and I agree, I felt it gave the game the best evolution of older turn based design. It felt comfortable and chess-ish. Yeah. It really makes you feel the affect of spells like Haste and Slow. I just threw those out in the older titles. Where here I can see if it moves a party member ahead of a monster's turn or not. Adds another level of strategy in a simple and easy to understand way.
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Oct 16, 2019 03:19
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OhFunny posted:I've been playing FFX on the Switch and I got to say what a shame SE never used it's battle system again. I find it superior to older ATB system. It's real nice to be able to switch party members in and out and use them instantly and I really like the visual display for who's turn is next. Invidual character turn-based is the best and luckily a ton of RPGs use it, just none of the major series except Trails and Atelier.
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Oct 16, 2019 04:04
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CTB and the Grandia-type ATB are both pretty cool
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Oct 16, 2019 04:42
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Hyper Inferno posted:Disc 1 Tantarian in FFIX. Not a superboss by any real definition, but it's my take on most challenging optional boss. Didn't think of that. I like those mid-game optional bosses, if I remember correctly FF12 had an optional Demon Wall that you could beat to get a pretty good sword? I just looked it up and apparently in Zodiac Age it gives some consumable instead boo Help Im Alive posted:I'm probably just bad at it but Trema really gave me a lot of trouble Not really a glitch. Catnip makes every attack do 9999 if you're at low health. Trigger happy lets you do like, 20 attacks that do extremely low damage. You can see how the 2 of them together could be a problem. In the remaster they just made it so that you are Berserk and can't choose attacks
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Oct 16, 2019 08:58
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:Didn't think of that. I like those mid-game optional bosses, if I remember correctly FF12 had an optional Demon Wall that you could beat to get a pretty good sword? I just looked it up and apparently in Zodiac Age it gives some consumable instead boo Berserk and slow, so you can't even get cheeky and give it to a Thief and take advantage of the two hit normal attacks. I think Auto-Haste overrides the slow, but Berserk is locked in forever.
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Oct 16, 2019 09:17
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kirbysuperstar posted:CTB and the Grandia-type ATB are both pretty cool Yeah Grandia's ATB was good because it let you interact with the turn order directly, it was bad because pumping your act speed through the roof was way too OP.
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Oct 16, 2019 09:28
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BisbyWorl posted:Berserk and slow, so you can't even get cheeky and give it to a Thief and take advantage of the two hit normal attacks. Thief is one of the best Cat Nip users because of its two-hit normal attack (Festivalist too). You can still pull off the Cat Nip Trigger Happy combo too, it just takes some timing and it's not as easy to do it every round. It's still a really good accessory despite the nerfs.
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Oct 16, 2019 13:28
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What's the best way to play FF5 these days? Advance with a rom patch?
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Oct 19, 2019 21:59
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seiferguy posted:What's the best way to play FF5 these days? Advance with a rom patch? But if you're playing it for the first time, Advance with the SNES music patch is the way to go (I don't give a poo poo about the music patch but people have very strong opinions about it so I'll recommend it.)
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Oct 20, 2019 00:29
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I’m forever the pariah for saying it, but the iOS versions aren’t as world-endingly awful as the thread would have you believe. The graphics are strange/bad, but the battle sprites are fine, and mechanically the game is identical unless you’re a sperglord. I’m a terrible awful wrong hairy person before I get called it.
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Oct 20, 2019 00:45
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Either Advance with a rom patch or SNES with translation patch + Career Day - you can turn off all the randomizer settings and just have auto-dash + autoskipped cutscenes. Honestly VI kinda objectively took a big hit but 5 wasn’t pushing the SNES as hard, so it’s arguable whether it took an actual hit on the GBA’a soundtrack
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Oct 20, 2019 00:56
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the best way to play ff5 in english is the ps ff anthology release
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Oct 20, 2019 00:59
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I started V on the GBA and man the slowdown and music are real bad, which is why I wanted to see what the alternates were.
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Oct 20, 2019 00:59
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The White Dragon posted:the best way to play ff5 in english is the ps ff anthology release KARL BOSS
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Oct 20, 2019 01:02
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seiferguy posted:I started V on the GBA and man the slowdown and music are real bad, which is why I wanted to see what the alternates were. This hack should fix both of those problems.
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Oct 20, 2019 01:15
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The White Dragon posted:the best way to play ff5 in english is the ps ff anthology release This isn't nice, someone might believe you
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Oct 20, 2019 01:41
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Arist posted:This isn't nice, someone might believe you I liked Pirate Speak Faris, though.
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Oct 20, 2019 01:49
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That's not why that version is poo poo
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Oct 20, 2019 01:56
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Arist posted:This isn't nice, someone might believe you t'arr
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Oct 20, 2019 01:56
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Tall Tale Teller posted:I’m forever the pariah for saying it, but the iOS versions aren’t as world-endingly awful as the thread would have you believe. Yeah I 100% agree with this In TYOOL 2019 the mobile and/or PC versions are absolutely the most convenient ways to play old FF games Like yeah it V and VI don't look the exactly the way they did when you were a child but who cares, if graphics were the only reason you played them they'd either be really bad games or you'd have to be some kind of a moron Veib fucked around with this message at 11:11 on Oct 20, 2019 |
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Oct 20, 2019 03:52
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Tall Tale Teller posted:KARL BOSS Y BURN
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Oct 20, 2019 08:02
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Emulators have fast forward, which is a nice feature when playing through FF5 for the twentieth time. Otherwise my main beef is you can’t cheese Omniscient in the remaster, which makes beating him with certain Fiesta parties a nightmare.
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Oct 20, 2019 09:46
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Tall Tale Teller posted:I’m forever the pariah for saying it, but the iOS versions aren’t as world-endingly awful as the thread would have you believe. I played FF5 on the original GBA cart Phone version's not that bad. I played it like 5 years ago I bet now with the nice big screens and possible controller support it's probably way more playable. Definitely one of the games most in need of a remake not from a story point of view but because that battle system and job system has so much room to grow (I know it's just called Bravely Default)
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Oct 20, 2019 12:04
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Got FF5 on my phone for the fiesta this year and yeah, it's totally fine. Auto Battle is nice, the sprites are poo poo, but you get used to it. Shamefully never completed my run though.
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Oct 21, 2019 00:43
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Mega64 posted:Emulators have fast forward, which is a nice feature when playing through FF5 for the twentieth time. Otherwise my main beef is you can’t cheese Omniscient in the remaster, which makes beating him with certain Fiesta parties a nightmare. I play emulation mostly through retropie on a Pi 3, and for whatever reason the GBA emulator's fast forward hardly does anything compared to the SNES one. I probably need to tweak the settings but it's a minor annoyance.
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Oct 21, 2019 18:52
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zenguitarman posted:Got FF5 on my phone for the fiesta this year and yeah, it's totally fine. Auto Battle is nice, the sprites are poo poo, but you get used to it. Shamefully never completed my run though.
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Oct 22, 2019 13:11
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I played the mobile version of VI and after awhile you stop noticing the awful sprites. I have a ton of money in google surveys that expire soon so I guess what the hell, may as well make the splash.
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Oct 22, 2019 17:56
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Had a  moment where I smashed two bosses easily in FFX. The undead dragon, because duh Phoenix Down, I remember this fight from FFVII. Then undead? Seymour where I just dropped a bunch of Overdrives on him back-to-back and his dumb snake thing killed him itself from pulling to much HP to heal. Shiva's Overdrive was my first 9999 hit too.
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Oct 23, 2019 13:22
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OhFunny posted:Had a One of the most memorable and satisfying fights in FFX for me was the first time you fight Seymour. I instantly figured out that Yuna's null spells would be useful so I hasted her and just spammed those. I don't think Seymour ever did any damage at all lol. gently caress him.
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Oct 23, 2019 13:28
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He's not really undead, he just resists being sent to the Farplane. So he's just hanging around being a nuisance really.Elephant Ambush posted:One of the most memorable and satisfying fights in FFX for me was the first time you fight Seymour. I instantly figured out that Yuna's null spells would be useful so I hasted her and just spammed those. I don't think Seymour ever did any damage at all lol. gently caress him. This is the expected way to do the fight actually. If you scan seymour the tooltip will tell you that he does his magic in a specific order so you can stay a step ahead of him with your null spells. I kinda wish more fights gave you little puzzles to figure out like that.
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Oct 23, 2019 13:30
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Oxygen Deficiency posted:He's not really undead, he just resists being sent to the Farplane. So he's just hanging around being a nuisance really. Yeah Sensor owns and I wish more weapons had it. I always had to swap in someone who had it first thing.
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Oct 23, 2019 13:32
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You can get some sweet buffs in both fights if you go to the Overdrive menu too. There's a talk command there where you can have a little verbal back and forth with him and get a boost.
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Oct 23, 2019 14:24
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Those always made me laugh.
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Oct 23, 2019 21:05
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What's the general level of tech like in the world of FFXIV? I don't play myself but I was just curious - a WoW guildie of mine peaced out after seeing someone in he Noctis car because it broke his immersion of the setting (lol as if WoW is perfect in this regard) but it got me curious as to what vehicles and mechanical stuff exists in FFXIVs world?
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DeadButDelicious posted:What's the general level of tech like in the world of FFXIV? I don't play myself but I was just curious - a WoW guildie of mine peaced out after seeing someone in he Noctis car because it broke his immersion of the setting (lol as if WoW is perfect in this regard) but it got me curious as to what vehicles and mechanical stuff exists in FFXIVs world? there's mechs, guns, mechanical walkers, laser cannons, airships, computers, etc. The fact that the game actually takes place in a backwater where people still ride giant chickens doesn't mean that cars don't exist, even if you wouldn't normally see something like that outside of Garlemald.
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