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Midnight suns is buggy as poo poo (it seems like a transition has like a 30% chance to just crash the game for me) but it’s fun enough that I can’t stop playing. I have the same feeling I have with a lot of super hero games where I kinda wish the whole thing wasn’t shackled to a license. There’s no way in hell that cosmetic dlc poo poo would be in the game if the mouse wasn’t involved. I would love to see what modders could do with the combat but that’s probably not going to happen.
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My understanding is that Front Mission remake is excessively faithful to the original and just feels like a janky old game with spruced up graphics.
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it does have an easy mode and some bugfixes apparently you can expect basically the same thing as the panzer dragoon remake where it's a bit prettied up and has some extra options but isn't a radical redesign, since it's the same team. has a nicer aesthetic than the panzer dragoon remake did though
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It also has about 12 different hard modes if you're into that sort of thing
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DrManiac posted:Midnight suns is buggy as poo poo (it seems like a transition has like a 30% chance to just crash the game for me) but it’s fun enough that I can’t stop playing. Limiting the game to 60FPS in the NVidia control panel fixed the crashing for me.
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atholbrose posted:Limiting the game to 60FPS in the NVidia control panel fixed the crashing for me. I’m playing on the steam deck and cloud saves don’t work lol
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GreenBuckanneer posted:how is front mission remake? Here were my thoughts a couple of days ago MechaX posted:For better or for worse, it tries to be as 1:1 to the original release as much as possible not-withstanding the 3d graphics (still trying to resemble the original as much as possible) and remastered music. More of a remaster rather than a remake, and likely more cost-effective than hunting down the DS version and you don't have to deal with dodgy fan-translations by emulating the SNES release. The only difference between now and then is that yeah, the bullshit is kind of strong. The game does give you boss units that you couldn’t use in the 1995 release to greatly tip back the scales in your favor
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Got around to playing Caligula Effect 2 after how it was talked about in this thread. Really great game, I enjoyed it pretty much the whole way through. Not having played the first game or knowing much about it, I was impressed by how it handled a VR type setting and what people wanted out of it. Most of the cast was very good, although I never really came around on Ryuto until the very end as his character episodes were pretty bad. The songs were all great and I can't decide my favorite, although Eternal Silver from the first dungeon was certainly a strong start. Also loved Bluffman's boss theme, the final boss theme, and both versions of the bad end boss theme. The game did leave me a bit intrigued about the first game but I don't know if I'll ever get around to it considering the apparently frustrating and boring gameplay choices in it. I already had some frustration in CE2 from some odd quest choices and the way the character episodes worked, don't want to experience a worse version of that. Would greatly recommend CE2 though.
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for all its low-budget jank CE2 had some of my favorite party members of any game i played last year also the best song is clearly Swap Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZkQzXtOAdg
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Myriad Truths posted:Got around to playing Caligula Effect 2 after how it was talked about in this thread. Really great game, I enjoyed it pretty much the whole way through. Not having played the first game or knowing much about it, I was impressed by how it handled a VR type setting and what people wanted out of it. Most of the cast was very good, although I never really came around on Ryuto until the very end as his character episodes were pretty bad. The songs were all great and I can't decide my favorite, although Eternal Silver from the first dungeon was certainly a strong start. Also loved Bluffman's boss theme, the final boss theme, and both versions of the bad end boss theme. The game did leave me a bit intrigued about the first game but I don't know if I'll ever get around to it considering the apparently frustrating and boring gameplay choices in it. I already had some frustration in CE2 from some odd quest choices and the way the character episodes worked, don't want to experience a worse version of that. Would greatly recommend CE2 though. The first Caligula Effect comes off as a very janky prototype in comparison to CE2. It has a few neat ideas but doesn't flesh them out anywhere close to the extent that CE2 does, the dungeons are bland repetitive corridors, and the battle system is boring busywork. It's honestly pretty amazing that CE2 managed to be such a gigantic improvement in every possible metric.
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Clarste posted:My understanding is that Front Mission remake is excessively faithful to the original and just feels like a janky old game with spruced up graphics. This sounds hype
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For some reason the cursor in Front Mission feels really bad to me, which pushes it below RS: MS and Tactics Ogre: Reborn for now.
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Started Undernauts, I suck at these games, is there any reason not to promote people as soon as I have the items? There's usually a level gate but it appears not in this.
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Home Guldove is still one of my favorite town themes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHqkuihmVxg
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Sakurazuka posted:Started Undernauts, I suck at these games, is there any reason not to promote people as soon as I have the items? There's usually a level gate but it appears not in this. There is no downside to being promoted, but you can't apply the promotion item to someone else once you've used it on someone, and it only applies to one of their classes, so pick a character and class you want to keep. (You can change which promotion subclass they are in within that class though.) The promotion items are pretty rare early on. Pick your six classes to improve and get those first. There are technically an unlimited number available but you'll have to go into the dream stronghold and clear it for extras.
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Srice posted:The first Caligula Effect comes off as a very janky prototype in comparison to CE2. It has a few neat ideas but doesn't flesh them out anywhere close to the extent that CE2 does, the dungeons are bland repetitive corridors, and the battle system is boring busywork. It's honestly pretty amazing that CE2 managed to be such a gigantic improvement in every possible metric. That's honestly one of the biggest things that impressed me about CE2 – just how thoughtfully it improved upon the previous one's faults.
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loquacius posted:Home Guldove is still one of my favorite town themes I really like the slightly more acoustic version on one of Mitsuda's Hopeful Weeds EPs. Shame no one uploaded it to Youtube although a certain Kingdom Hearts insider might have a copy online. (Apparently that site does in fact do more than just host video game OSTs. What a surprise, right?) Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Dec 5, 2022 |
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Feels Villeneuve posted:for all its low-budget jank CE2 had some of my favorite party members of any game i played last year This is the correct opinion. I had that song playing on loop in my head for like a month after I beat the game.
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The series just has really good tracks overall, it's hard to pick favorites sometimes, especially in CE2 because there's something to like about each song. SINGI & its boss remix makes its way into my regular rotation, along with Alter Garden and its remix.
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Harvestella's gonna rank in the 30s of my top 50 this year. If it had gotten a bigger budget and a better combat engine, it could've been top 5.
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oh, so that's why i've heard the name bloody mary in regards to terranigma. never made it to the humanity party before, it feels all weird now.
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Phantasium posted:oh, so that's why i've heard the name bloody mary in regards to terranigma. Definitely give this vid a watch when you're done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXxoZqoIfQ0 That's a great watch for anyone who likes Terranigma and the other Quintet resurrection games like Actraiser 1 & 2, Soul Blazer, and Illusion of Gaia.
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Neeksy posted:The series just has really good tracks overall, it's hard to pick favorites sometimes, especially in CE2 because there's something to like about each song. It's a very tough contest, but I'll stand by Angel's Song from CE1 as my favourite song from either game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpHfaoqWRGs Some would call the first game's soundtrack "tonally inconsistent". I would say the way it wildly swerves from tinkly piano to electronic to jazz to Christian rock is part of its charm.
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the first game's songs are all pretty solid, I like Sin and Angel's Song, and Distorted Happiness is amazing, as is the Overdose OP Cradle, but I do feel that 2's songs are stronger across the board-I have a hard time feeling strong feelings about, say... Originality Incident or Sadistic Queen. With 2, the only song I'm not super into is Designated Desires, and even then it's still good. Like, seriously, I live every song-Eternal Silver is great, Alter Garden, Swap Out, Q-Ai Senorita, Just Praying, Miss Conductor, xx/xx/xxxx, SINGI, all of em are fantastic.
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This is the best dark RPG bgm track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0gOAwiLY5k
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My favorite song from CE2 is SINGI, if in part because it's mechanically the best song for Chi's boost mode for a large part of the game. By the time I could get something else as good I was used to it, and by the time I finished the game it was full-on Pavlovian conditioning. But it's a good song, so I'm not going to complain. Alter Garden is my second-favorite.
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i like originality incident. just not 2 hours straight of originality incident
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also how did saejima spend 25 years of his life in prison only to come out and realize those 25 years were wasted and made everyone he cares about miserable. and then decide the answer for securing a future for everyone is to go back to prison for two more years. i guess the conditions are not as bad but i dont think the prison time led to good things the first time man
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The prison is Saejima's Tojo Clan, he cannot be allowed to be out for more than 3 months.
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The Colonel posted:also how did saejima spend 25 years of his life in prison only to come out and realize those 25 years were wasted and made everyone he cares about miserable. and then decide the answer for securing a future for everyone is to go back to prison for two more years. i guess the conditions are not as bad but i dont think the prison time led to good things the first time man Iirc the reasoning is “supposed” to be that his new family subordinates won’t respect him if he doesn’t do his time for the crimes he (actually) did but it’s some real bad “tell, don’t show” poo poo going on. But really they somehow literally couldn’t think of anything for his story besides “better send him to prison again” and Saejima needs to want to go to jail for that to happen.
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FractalSandwich posted:It's a very tough contest, but I'll stand by Angel's Song from CE1 as my favourite song from either game. I think it makes sense both in terms of time period it takes place in as well as how the musicians were gathered together in each respective game. The musicians in CE2 were directly recruited by a leader who was acting as a 'producer' and thus his scope was far more narrow than CE1's scenario of it being a collection of happenstance popular musicians who all have extremely diverse tastes and interests. By narrowing things down to 'regret' rather than 'whatever you want', you get a more narrow scope of people and desires. In the real world, the selection of artists was just as broad for 2, but the kind of online music world has gone through lots of changes in the years between the game's first release on PSP and CE2.
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CE2's soundtrack is an embarrassment of riches. It's hard for me to pick a favorite because they are all just bangers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn4hkHgsbOE is stuck in my head today. e: the final boss remix of SING! is fantastic too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8CMmqeKtIM - I like how how desperate it sounds, thematically, with Regret nearly screaming the openings lines. She wants to be done and the fight and the music together really drive that home. Levantine fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Dec 6, 2022 |
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ImpAtom posted:I finish Astlibra Rev and if not for some nagging buts it'd be a GoTY contender for me. The core gameplay is a ton of fun and it even manages to make repeating areas fun. It's biggest problems are a wonky translation and absolutely undercutting almost everything after the earliest chapters with extreme and out of place horniness. This looks like it plays like the Actraiser platforming game. The demo seems fun. I think I'll get this after I complete the actraiser reboot.
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