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multijoe posted:Wasn't Teepo in BoF3 human? iirc he's the same dragon-with-humanoid-body race as ryu is
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Amppelix posted:...yes. we're making the same point. I thought it was silly to bring up something so easily circumvented as if it was worse than progress-blocking minigames of the invariably unfun variety. yeah of course. i mean like, the desert is a well known thing and you hear about it all the time, but it's not even the hardest part. maybe the minigames just get memory holed for a lot of players
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Oct 23, 2020 21:35
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multijoe posted:Wasn't Teepo in BoF3 human? End game spoilerTeepo is a member of the Dragon clan like Ryu and you fight him in the end game because he ended up working for the evil goddess. That said, yeah I totally forgot Karn. And most of the Dragon clan usually look human? Well the men at least, the women tend to have enormous bat wings. BoF2 also gets into some miscegenation which is a weird as gently caress thing for the series. One of the huge tragedies of the game is that the winged people can't turn into giant birds freely any more and to do so must go through a ritual where they lose their mind and turn into a giant bird permanently. This is because Nina from BoF1 ended up marrying outside the clan and diluted the bloodline.
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Oct 23, 2020 21:42
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Or that sick-rear end desert survival where all your instructions and directions are wrong. The note you could read to remind yourself later was wrong.
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Oct 23, 2020 21:47
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The White Dragon posted:yeah of course. i mean like, the desert is a well known thing and you hear about it all the time, but it's not even the hardest part. maybe the minigames just get memory holed for a lot of players I remember a lot of the mini games I just don't remember any of them being that hard.
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Oct 23, 2020 21:50
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Amppelix posted:another text-related gripe in bof 3: the game has a text speed setting but the options are "laughably slow", "still unbearably slow" and "this would be the middle setting in another game but at least it's not horrible" l i t t le m o n e y
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Oct 23, 2020 22:07
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Jazerus posted:l i t t le m o n e y I know this is the RPG thread and we probably all do, but I still resent that I get this reference
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Oct 23, 2020 22:10
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little money is ftw. nobody in here is resenting my friend, little money honestly the weirdest fft localization thing to me is how both versions of fft have full visual novels in the side content but even war of the lions leaves them untranslated. just entire chunks of the game nobody in the west seems to really know exist that have their own full soundtracks
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Oct 23, 2020 22:36
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Ah, BoF IV. A great game but I was a dumb kid when I played it and got stuck in the desert and GameFAQs or whatever existed at the time didn't have a guide coherent enough for me to understand so I just kinda stopped there. I really should revisit it someday.
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Oct 23, 2020 23:16
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Karn was a human in BoF1 wasn't he? Just had some bloodline that allowed him to transform. You could probably make a reasonable argument that Shamans (which Karn prooooobably is) are a separate human looking race, much like the Brood when they're not dragon-ing it up.
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Oct 23, 2020 23:31
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CYBEReris posted:pso episode 3 was but i don't remember whether it was any good It's very good. There's also Arcana for SNES and Culdcept.
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Oct 24, 2020 00:10
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NikkolasKing posted:So I've been trying to look for a game to sink my teeth into. I love a lot of games but just had no motivation to play any of 'em right now. whaaaaaaaaat!?? the numbers are so important!! i really dont understand how you could get trough the game without paying attention to them. they also made the combat system so much more fun! the numbers moving around is a status effect, confusion I think. Theres also one that puts them in the corners instead of the sides
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Oct 24, 2020 01:38
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kirbysuperstar posted:It's very good. E: - Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories is an ARPG, but it's still card-based. - There was an Arc The Lad game for PS2 that had cards, IIRC. I think it's End of Darkness? Commander Keene fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Oct 24, 2020 |
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Oct 24, 2020 07:41
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NikkolasKing posted:Are there any other JRPGs centered around using cards? Lost Kingdoms 1&2 on the Gamecube.
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Commander Keene posted:Culdcept is more like Monopoly/Fortune Street and Magic the Gathering/Yugioh had a kid. It's not really a JRPG. Yeah, suppose so. quote:There was an Arc The Lad game for PS2 that had cards, IIRC. I think it's End of Darkness? Ah yes, the very ill-fated online Arc game. Yeah each character had a set of cards you could equip or something.
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Oct 24, 2020 09:54
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No. There was a non online one where you collected cards to summon the characters. It was pretty bad.
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Oct 24, 2020 10:04
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Mokinokaro posted:No. There was a non online one where you collected cards to summon the characters. Honest to god don't know then, because the online one definitely had cards and ToS didn't, those were the only PS2 Arcs. Unless the fuckin' Wonderswan or phone Arcs used cards then I'm at a loss. e: and adding up to that, EoD is wretched
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I was thinking of EoD. I'd just completely forgotten it had online play. ToS was where the series should've ended. It's a decent game that shows the switching to 3d growing pains.
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Oct 24, 2020 10:30
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Yeah..ToS wasn't like..bad, but..yeah. Would have been better if it was all the deimos campaign. Kharg and his party sucked.quote:The game was also produced by certain members of Zener Works Inc, developers of Okage: Shadow King oh god kirbysuperstar fucked around with this message at 10:40 on Oct 24, 2020 |
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Oct 24, 2020 10:33
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Tatjana was cool but yeah most of his party was kinda cookie cutter and dull. Says a lot she's the only memorable one from his side. Mokinokaro fucked around with this message at 10:56 on Oct 24, 2020 |
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Oct 24, 2020 10:52
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oh my god BoF III is loving taunting me with how many side excursions there are until you can bring your first new party members to any of the masters the optimisation brainworms have definitely set in: i'm intentionally keeping nina's level as low as possibly by running away from battles and killing her off so she doesn't get EXP until i can finally get her to the sorcerer guy this is surely 200% unnecessary for this game's difficulty level but i completely can't help myself!
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Oct 24, 2020 14:35
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Baten Kaitos and it's sequel-prequel are both awesome games. I'd love a Switch version so I could play them again without excavating my Cube. Mega Nerd Alert: I still use music from them a lot for playing during D&D.
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Oct 24, 2020 15:06
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what kind of nerd admits to playing Dungeons and Dragons? In here, the Role Playing Game Thread: Attack and Dethrone God? (for me it's mostly Xenoblade, FF8/FF9, Fire Emblem, and the occasional Silent Hill track)
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Oct 24, 2020 15:11
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Maru is cool because one of his skills is shooting down an airplane to land on the enemy Honestly the game's battle system was really cool now that I think about it
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Oct 24, 2020 15:28
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i can't loving believe it, i thought i was finally getting to backtrack but no they managed to throw in ANOTHER sequence they're doing this on purpose!
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Xalidur posted:Baten Kaitos and it's sequel-prequel are both awesome games. I'd love a Switch version so I could play them again without excavating my Cube. Which is the good Baten Kaitos game of the two out of curiosity? I swear I heard one was really good and the other bad, but can't remember which is which.
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lol why are you asking that in response to a post that clearly says both are awesome
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Amppelix posted:lol why are you asking that in response to a post that clearly says both are awesome Because I somehow missed that part  .
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Amppelix posted:i can't loving believe it, i thought i was finally getting to backtrack but no they managed to throw in ANOTHER sequence BoF 3 is psychological torture
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Oct 24, 2020 15:51
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Hmmm Octopath is on sale
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Oct 24, 2020 19:08
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Because I somehow missed that part While I do like both, I think the second one (Origins) is the better of the two. First game has a better plot twist, second game has better music and story overall. Gameplay is a little different in both but I wouldn't say I prefer one markedly more than the other one that department.
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Amppelix posted:oh my god BoF III is loving taunting me with how many side excursions there are until you can bring your first new party members to any of the masters That's kind of funny, back when I was min-maxing my way through BoF III, I did the exact opposite and tried to use as many useful (as in, not with strong penalties) non-magic masters until I got her to the arguable two best masters. She ended up kind of beefy, nearly as destructive as Ryu himself.  I think I spend more time looking up master tables and calculating which master should go where and to whom then actually playing the goddamn game
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Which is the good Baten Kaitos game of the two out of curiosity? I swear I heard one was really good and the other bad, but can't remember which is which. they're both good, play both
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Libluini posted:I think I spend more time looking up master tables and calculating which master should go where and to whom then actually playing the goddamn game  sometimes i love that optimising stuff is its own reward to me and sometimes i hate it. these two moods can swing between each other by the minute in some games.
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I loved the first BK but just couldn't get into Origins. The revamped battle system just didn't click for me like the first did. Not only were there only 3 party members as opposed to the last game's 7, but they all had to share the same deck. This meant the various weapon cards were replaced with generic attack cards, and your hand would usually be filled with equipment and finisher cards that the turn character couldn't use clogging it up. Also the music wasn't as good. But on the plus side, better voice acting and you didn't have to go to a save point to level up (but only certain save points).
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ZZZorcerer posted:Hmmm Octopath is on sale How much? Cause, like, it’s not like the worst game ever but it’s gimmick suffered a lot from being halfassed and not being either SaGa as heck or more conventional JRPG where your party all interact.
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Last Celebration posted:How much? Cause, like, it’s not like the worst game ever but it’s gimmick suffered a lot from being halfassed and not being either SaGa as heck or more conventional JRPG where your party all interact. 50% off, but got Trials of Mana (also on sale) instead. Maybe next year I'll try it
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I've surprised myself by getting really into BoF III. I mean i did want to play it in the first place, but usually my goes at rpgs like this end somewhere around the 10 hour mark. Like i haven't gotten further than that in BoF IV, despite being extremely into what it's doing with its story and generally everything else too. I think the, limited as it is, character customisation has to be what's keeping the whole thing in focus for me. Sometimes it can really be a magic bullet for my continued interest in games to just dangle the carrot of seeing my character building efforts come to fruition in the lategame in front of me. Not to say that's the only part of III i like, but it certainly has its share of annoyances too. I've been keeping the speed up and savestate buttons very close at hand. Also: i know IV has the masters system too but i remember absolutely nothing about that from my playtime of it so either i just missed it entirely or it's introduced very late. I should definitely make another go at IV after this.
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bofiv has masters but i think it tones them down so much that there's basically only one actually worth using? idk i'm only like four hours in and just met the first one
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