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Its not hard to see the similarities between CT / FFVII / XG. The very basic premise is that an alien crash lands itself onto a planet infecting it from within. You can see how this concept then evolved into each game. e: Even PE, except its not an alien, its a molecule infecting the body from within instead of a planet.
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Onmi posted:The person doing the LOTR comparison is on point. Assuming they've already nearly finished the other parts and they'll be released annually, sure.
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Mar 21, 2020 16:08
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TommyGun85 posted:Its not hard to see the similarities between CT / FFVII / XG. Let’s not forget a lot of The Spirits Within cribbed a lot from this idea pool as well. NYC, alien infection, giant canons, James Woods as Not Rufus Shinra, big craters, cast that is basically just repurposed Avalanche... (I still like the movie quite a bit.)
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Mar 21, 2020 16:49
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You mean MiToChonDRiA?
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We were this close to having a character with a gun arm named Gunner Blow.
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Mar 21, 2020 18:03
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Scalding Coffee posted:We were this close to having a character with a gun arm named Gunner Blow. That's a Tomino name if I ever heard one.
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Mar 21, 2020 18:11
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GoGoGadget posted:It's unfortunate that so many people seem to think that "episodic" means it will be released like episodes from games like The Walking Dead and Life Is Strange. They should have used a different word. Or like Half-Life!
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Mar 21, 2020 21:15
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precision posted:Yeah that's true enough. I know I got Nier for cheap too, and I just got Octopath Traveler for $30 a few days ago Is there an Octopath Traveler thread? I love that game to death and my wife is currently playing through it too. Now that it's finally on sale and a lot of people are home I feel like there should be renewed in it and I would love to post about it.
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Elephant Ambush posted:Is there an Octopath Traveler thread? I love that game to death and my wife is currently playing through it too. Now that it's finally on sale and a lot of people are home I feel like there should be renewed in it and I would love to post about it. Try the SaGa thread.
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Luxury Tent Carpet posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yN3JeFrfRQ
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Elephant Ambush posted:Is there an Octopath Traveler thread? I love that game to death and my wife is currently playing through it too. Now that it's finally on sale and a lot of people are home I feel like there should be renewed in it and I would love to post about it. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3860038&pagenumber=97&perpage=40
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Gologle posted:I was thinking about what if Shinra was a real life company, so I came up with this stupid poo poo: This is loving word-replacement for my company’s Coronavirus email.
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According to this article, the Sense Materia is now called Assess Materia.
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Mar 22, 2020 19:09
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Kheldarn posted:According to this article, the Sense Materia is now called Assess Materia. Literally unplayable
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Mar 22, 2020 19:12
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Raposa posted:Literally unplayable Let's hope it's an autocorrect thing, and an extra 's' was added to the end…
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Kheldarn posted:According to this article, the Sense Materia is now called Assess Materia. Why the gently caress not call it Scan 
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Kheldarn posted:According to this article, the Sense Materia is now called Assess Materia. loving millenials ruining everything in media nowadays.
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Mar 22, 2020 19:35
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Kheldarn posted:According to this article, the Sense Materia is now called Assess Materia. Random: Apparently the reason Sense stops working on certain bosses is that it literally can't display a number higher than...I dunno, I think it was 65,000 or something. This has always bugged me. They give you this materia that stops having any use fairly early on. Why even bother. One good thing about more recent RPGs is they tend to be better at actually giving you info on bosses, at least in my experience. You can find out what tehy resist or are immune to, what their HP is, etc.. I wonder how useful status ailments will be in FFVIIR....
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I see this being tied into the stagger mechanics and basically essential for taking down bosses quickly without it becoming a grind and blowing through your potion stock
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Luxury Tent Carpet posted:I see this being tied into the stagger mechanics and basically essential for taking down bosses quickly without it becoming a grind and blowing through your potion stock FF13 basically had it so bosses were much more vulnerable to status ailments while Staggered.
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Picked back up my FFVII save this weekend after not playing for almost a year, and just got the Highwind. It’s really amazing how everyone’s dialogue changes to be about the meteor. And avoid anyone that doesn’t like Yuffie. She is some much needed comic relief. Also, she loving flattened the Wutai Pagoda with Neo Bahamut, and a Comet2 for the last two floors.
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I watched all of Glow on Netflix and just put together that Justine's actress from the show is voicing Tifa in the remake, which is pretty perfect casting.
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Yeah, she's a great choice in this horrid future where we must go on without Rachael Leigh Cook 
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exquisite tea posted:I watched all of Glow on Netflix and just put together that Justine's actress from the show is voicing Tifa in the remake, which is pretty perfect casting. I was blanking on who that is but ohhhhh it's Jailbait (is she still called that after season 1?) That's pretty good casting.
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Will we have to shell out money for every episodic release? Take my money I guess Square Enix.
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infraboy posted:Will we have to shell out money for every episodic release? Again, every "episode" is a full-length game. Of course they're going to price them as full-price games. Do you expect to see an entire movie series in the theater from buying one ticket?
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Mar 24, 2020 18:37
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Schwartzcough posted:Again, every "episode" is a full-length game. Of course they're going to price them as full-price games. Do you expect to see an entire movie series in the theater from buying one ticket? That's what they say anyway. We won't know if charging full price for only the first part feels worth it until the game's out. I have a feeling the actual length/content of the game might divide opinions.
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WaltherFeng posted:That's what they say anyway. We won't know if charging full price for only the first part feels worth it until the game's out. From the demo there's literally no way it isn't going to be at least a 20 or 30 hour RPG with sky high production values. That's a full game no matter how you look at it.
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Anyone that still thinks each game might be light on content obviously hasn't played the demo or watched any of the official videos with dev interviews yet. But I get it, it's cool to be pessimistic about video games on the Internet these days.
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Mar 24, 2020 21:00
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Even Square don't know how many installments it's going to be but going by the original game it'll be 3 minimum, probably more than likely going to be 4 or even 5. That's a big chunk of playtime per installment, not even factoring the expanded universe stuff they're likely to include as well.
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WaltherFeng posted:That's what they say anyway. We won't know if charging full price for only the first part feels worth it until the game's out. Of course it will. There are tons of angry idiot nerds who judge a game solely on number of gameplay hours per dollar or whatever. Doesn't matter how good a game is if it's short. And of course they go out of their way to cite speedrun times on games instead of initial playthrough times where people aren't using a guide.
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Twice as much content doesn't necessarily mean twice as much good. Pacing also matters. Persona 5 had something like 70 hours of content but the pacing is terrible, at least 20 of those could have been dumped without sacrificing anything in terms of plot engagement. So many conversations that are repeated practically verbatim. The extra stuff could well be quite good in its own right but it better be something better than Poochie the Biker With Attitude
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At least part of it is spend developing other characters. Apparently you'll get to meet Jesse's parents and stuff and to be honest "actually developing Sector 7 so it feels more consequential when poo poo goes bad" seems entirely reasonable.
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infraboy posted:Will we have to shell out money for every episodic release?  yet another oneIt's a full-length mainline Final Fantasy that just happens to tell the story of the Midgar chapter of the original instead of being Final Fantasy XVI
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Elephant Ambush posted:Of course it will. There are tons of angry idiot nerds who judge a game solely on number of gameplay hours per dollar or whatever. Doesn't matter how good a game is if it's short. And of course they go out of their way to cite speedrun times on games instead of initial playthrough times where people aren't using a guide. Speed runs are a pox.
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Elephant Ambush posted:Of course it will. There are tons of angry idiot nerds who judge a game solely on number of gameplay hours per dollar or whatever. Doesn't matter how good a game is if it's short. And of course they go out of their way to cite speedrun times on games instead of initial playthrough times where people aren't using a guide. Half a speed run lol
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