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As much as I love the visuals in AC7 (it is a gorgeous game that runs immaculately on my PC and holding the B button to watch the missile fly to your target is cool every time) I ended up refunding it after a few missions because I dunno how much time I'd actually end up spending with it. I think for what it's trying to do it's a home run for sure especially for $20 but I have a mountain of backlog that is getting bigger by the day as it is so yeah, for another time perhaps.
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explosivo posted:As much as I love the visuals in AC7 (it is a gorgeous game that runs immaculately on my PC and holding the B button to watch the missile fly to your target is cool every time) I ended up refunding it after a few missions because I dunno how much time I'd actually end up spending with it. I think for what it's trying to do it's a home run for sure especially for $20 but I have a mountain of backlog that is getting bigger by the day as it is so yeah, for another time perhaps. Ace Combat is a puzzle game posing as a flight sim. This doesn't really show up in the early missions but as the campaign goes on and particularly in the DLC missions it becomes a lot about order of operations choices and doing things as efficiently as possible. That plus the score system appeals pretty strongly to some people and then it also has the ridiculous stories and cool gameplay on top of it. No harm in it not being extremely your thing though.
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explosivo posted:As much as I love the visuals in AC7 (it is a gorgeous game that runs immaculately on my PC and holding the B button to watch the missile fly to your target is cool every time) I ended up refunding it after a few missions because I dunno how much time I'd actually end up spending with it. I think for what it's trying to do it's a home run for sure especially for $20 but I have a mountain of backlog that is getting bigger by the day as it is so yeah, for another time perhaps. I was in a similar boat actually! I was 2-3 missions in, thinking about refunding because I was afraid the difficulty would get too high for me, even on easy mode, but then I decided that I wanted to see how the plot would bring together the two "main" characters and it's been unfolding into something really special for me. I'm up to mission 6 now and every mission is getting better and more interesting. And I'd hoped I'd be up to 7 or 8 today but then Umineko took its brakes off and jesus christ where did my afternoon go. I just finished the first episode and  ahem I hope you try AC7 again in the future, and if you never get to it, okay, I hope you enjoy your backlog!
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StrixNebulosa posted:I hope you try AC7 again in the future, and if you never get to it, okay, I hope you enjoy your backlog! I see the appeal so I think I will when we're not in quarantine times and I have a job again, I just have to make sure if I'm buying something I'm going to actually play it. I'm already kind of regretting Generation Zero, although that was a bit cheaper and easier to swallow.
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Not the Messiah posted:Ace Combat and Metal Gear Solid both scratch an incredibly specific itch for me of having plots & world design that's just campy enough to be enjoyably dumb but own it enough that they can pull off serious dramatic moments without being out of place Gonna be honest the best Christmases I ever had were 2001 and 2004... because of AC04/MGS2 and AC5/MGS3. 10 year old me took the first set very seriously but 13 year old me had started to learn the campiness of them. Adult me would finally appreciate all of it for what it is
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Finally giving EDF 4.1 a go and it's finally clicking as a cool-down sorta game. Is 5 a substantial improvement that I should jump right to or should I work my way through 4.1
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5 is an improvement in just about every respect. The writing is a bit worse.
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Finally giving EDF 4.1 a go and it's finally clicking as a cool-down sorta game. They are both good. I think 4.1 is funnier though.
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Finally giving EDF 4.1 a go and it's finally clicking as a cool-down sorta game.
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I have been convinced. Purchase made. Thank y'all for the quick feedback
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The first few Ace Combat 7 missions are weak and boring but it does pick up. I looked up on youtube and it was Mission 7 where I thought "this is wild" and was super hooked.
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May 4, 2020 02:52
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Got me all three kingdom rush's.
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Of all the shameful time I've spent playing those in the last weeks, I'd say Origins was a safe bet, and Frontiers has some particularly infuriating stages but still good overall, while the first one is a bit rougher. Vengeance was the most well developed by a wide margin but it seems to be mobile only for now.
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dudeness posted:dudes got a whole extra upper arm joint. Have you never worn a suit?
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Itching for some wholesome RPGs, I impulse purchased Ni No Kuni II and the latest Dragon Quest on sale... anybody played them? Where should I start?
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May as well play NNK2 first, because DQ is the better game and you don't want a dropoff i am higher on NNK2 than others though, I thought the kingdom building minigame was fun and that the game didn't suffer from some of the issues that NNK1 did, the combat being more active/action helped a lot don't feel like you have to do every single sidequest in the game but you can do a few here and there. i'd switch around between the different modes of the game (main quests, kingdom building, the pikmin-style army fights, sidequests) so that the typical Level 5 fatigue doesn't set in
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The 7th Guest posted:May as well play NNK2 first, because DQ is the better game and you don't want a dropoff Awesome, thanks for the advice! I am a huge weirdo and sunk a million hours into the first NNK game (and also DQ9). I guess I have a thing for Welsh accents in video games?
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Someone mentioned the Stay Home Play RPGs bundle, can someone tell me what games are on it? Malaysia doesn't seem to have access to it, but we might have access to the individual items on sale.
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Artelier posted:Someone mentioned the Stay Home Play RPGs bundle, can someone tell me what games are on it? Malaysia doesn't seem to have access to it, but we might have access to the individual items on sale. If it's the Square bundle on Steam then it's DQ11, FF12, Chrono Trigger, and Oninaki for $50.
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The 7th Guest posted:May as well play NNK2 first, because DQ is the better game and you don't want a dropoff I would agree with this, and also add that DQXI is 100 hours long, while NNK2 is only like 40-50, which is another reason to play the latter first.
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The 7th Guest posted:May as well play NNK2 first, because DQ is the better game and you don't want a dropoff Nnk2 is a vast improvement on the first one imo, just better in every way.
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Samuringa posted:Of all the shameful time I've spent playing those in the last weeks, I'd say Origins was a safe bet, and Frontiers has some particularly infuriating stages but still good overall, while the first one is a bit rougher. Vengeance was the most well developed by a wide margin but it seems to be mobile only for now. Pretty much got them because I'm sick of not having all the poo poo over at kongregate
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Which of the below JRPG series would you guys recommend for someone whose last played one was Final Fantasy 8 almost twenty years ago? Trails in the sky Trails of cold steel Final Fantasy 9 onwards Tales of series Nino Kuni 2 It would be a nostalgic trip but the required hours to commit in order to finish a game of this genre these days is kinda intimidating compared to my wee self where I have all the time in the world to gorge on them.
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shoc77 posted:Which of the below JRPG series would you guys recommend for someone whose last played one was Final Fantasy 8 almost twenty years ago? The answer really depends on what you're missing from your life and what you liked/disliked about FFVIII. Going by what you said, I think you might like Tales of Berseria. It's relatively high budget and fast paced for an RPG, and you're basically propelled to go forward constantly, a feeling I associate with playing FFVIII. The combat system is very different, real time where you switch between characters. And you definitely don't spend as much time tinkering or grinding items/spells like FFVIII. Relatively short experience, I think I was done about 30 hours in? Might be a bit more depending on how fast your read/mash through dialogue, sidequests, etc. After that maybe the Final Fantasy series or Nino Kuni, which are also high budget. The two Trails series are good, but they are MASSIVE and LONG.
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^ Tales of Berseria is good, but it can take longer than that. Rushing through the game means avoiding all those little character-building moments, and that's where it's at.shoc77 posted:Which of the below JRPG series would you guys recommend for someone whose last played one was Final Fantasy 8 almost twenty years ago? As much as I like Trails in the Sky and would recommend that, maybe save yourself for FFXIV. That's where it's at these days, but it'll take a bit still before they revamp the early game.
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Posting these here as well since I grabbed some schweetand questionable games from some of you posters.      Anyone know if SE has a timeline for a Final Fantasy 7 Part 1 PC release? Milo and POTUS posted:Got me all three kingdom rush's. I crushed the first one on my phone. I have no idea about the other two though.
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shoc77 posted:Which of the below JRPG series would you guys recommend for someone whose last played one was Final Fantasy 8 almost twenty years ago? tales of berseria
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shoc77 posted:Trails in the sky
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Hey!! I always get good advice from the thread about sales so i'll ask here again, are there any less obvious games in the golden week sale that i should try? I tend to prefer slowly paced stuff (turn-based and adventure games).
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Immortal Defense is addicting, and the story seems pretty cool!
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Blattdorf posted:^ Tales of Berseria is good, but it can take longer than that. Rushing through the game means avoiding all those little character-building moments, and that's where it's at.
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I tried playing the free trial of FF14 a couple weeks ago and it was without a doubt the dullest few hours of gaming I've had in a recent memory. I think I spent the first couple hours delivering packages back and forth around town. In WoW at least there's some kind of storyline to every starting area that gets you hooked into the basic gameplay loop. Supposedly FF14 is getting a huge revamp to early game leveling and I'd definitely recommend holding out until then because man is the current version super boring.
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Kefahuchi_son!!! posted:Hey!! I always get good advice from the thread about sales so i'll ask here again, are there any less obvious games in the golden week sale that i should try? OneShot
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exquisite tea posted:I tried playing the free trial of FF14 a couple weeks ago and it was without a doubt the dullest few hours of gaming I've had in a recent memory. I think I spent the first couple hours delivering packages back and forth around town. In WoW at least there's some kind of storyline to every starting area that gets you hooked into the basic gameplay loop. Supposedly FF14 is getting a huge revamp to early game leveling and I'd definitely recommend holding out until then because man is the current version super boring. As someone with an extremely low tolerance for both anime and JRPGs I bounced off XIV's opening few hours a good six or seven times before it finally clicked. Behind that (and a couple dozen more hours of bullshit once the update happens, to be honest) is three very good expansion stories, one of which even I started to care about by the end and boy did I try not to. It's the only good MMO running, to boot.
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Jamfrost posted:Anyone know if SE has a timeline for a Final Fantasy 7 Part 1 PC release? I believe it’s a year exclusive, so you are looking at early April 2021 at the earliest.
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shoc77 posted:Which of the below JRPG series would you guys recommend for someone whose last played one was Final Fantasy 8 almost twenty years ago? FFXV is basically designed as a nostalgia trip for the whole series (including being able to drive around the giant game map while listening to old FF tunes) so that might be what you're after. Plus it has a more action oriented design and there's fishing. Every game needs fishing.
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Ragequit posted:I believe it’s a year exclusive, so you are looking at early April 2021 at the earliest. Hmm. Alright. Good thing there are so many heavy hitters this year. And last year. Games as far as the eye can see. Good Soldier Svejk posted:FFXV is basically designed as a nostalgia trip for the whole series (including being able to drive around the giant game map while listening to old FF tunes) so that might be what you're after. Plus it has a more action oriented design and there's fishing. Every game needs fishing. I'm started to play the Pocket Edition on my phone. It's like a... an abridged version. Simple, clean, chibi. No open world, I think.
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Orv posted:As someone with an extremely low tolerance for both anime and JRPGs I bounced off XIV's opening few hours a good six or seven times before it finally clicked. Behind that (and a couple dozen more hours of bullshit once the update happens, to be honest) is three very good expansion stories, one of which even I started to care about by the end and boy did I try not to. It's the only good MMO running, to boot. Shadowbringers is on my very, very short list of games I wish I could erase my memory of and see fresh again Breath of the Wild is the other, and if there are any others I sure can't think of them right now (e) I can't resist the urge to stan, so a general post: if I were asked "what's your favorite Final Fantasy story", Shadowbringers was the one that finally took the throne from FF9 and the SNES games, and it took the title handily Too bad about ARR's obscene length and padding. I hope that redo coming soon helps, because it's really just sad to miss Heavensward, Shadowbringers, and (only to a slightly lesser degree) Stormblood because of exquisite tea posted:I tried playing the free trial of FF14 a couple weeks ago and it was without a doubt the dullest few hours of gaming I've had in a recent memory. Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 14:51 on May 4, 2020 |
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