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Admiral H. Curtiss
May 11, 2010

I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

Libluini posted:

I hate that you have to learn it like this, but I have this straight from the game's Steam-page. Apparently, the developers strongly disagree with you there. :v:

Soul Hackers isn't even on Steam!

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Evil Fluffy
Jul 13, 2009

Scholars are some of the most pompous and pedantic people I've ever had the joy of meeting.
How do you survive the precipice jump in Wandering Sword? Is it something like have over 3000 health and 50+ agility or something else?

Booky posted:

:eyepop:

every indie jrpg cites chrono trigger as an inspiration but what about persona 2 or xenogears or something........ 😔

Considering the number of unfinished indie games out there I'd say plenty are inspired by Xenogears, even if unintentionally. :v:

Snake Maze
Jul 13, 2016

3.85 Billion years ago
  • Having seen the explosion on the moon, the Devil comes to Venus

Libluini posted:

I hate that you have to learn it like this, but I have this straight from the game's Steam-page. Apparently, the developers strongly disagree with you there. :v:

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner - Soul Hackers is not availiable on steam! It's a Saturn game that got a rerelease on 3DS!!

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Looper posted:

i guess if you disqualify every game with vr then yeah there aren't any games with virtual reality

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!

Libluini posted:

Well, that's good. But that's not what the author of that Wikipedia-entry seems to believe. Look, to be honest, I don't have infinite time and when this thread projectile vomits half a dozen good game suggestions at me, I simply don't have the time to deeply research all of them. When I see a plot summary on Wikipedia and it mischaracterizes the game, that sucks, but it's also not my problem. Also I already said I will try those games out at a later date. Complaining about me loving those games I know nothing about not fast enough is ludicrous.

what

Libluini
May 18, 2012

I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...
Grimey Drawer

Feels Villeneuve posted:

Play Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth or I am going to kick your rear end.

OK, I feel like I have to take this threat seriously. I bought the game on my Switch eShop and it's downloading right now.











By the way, Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth Complete Edition is currently discounted by 84% on the European Nintendo eShop.

Libluini
May 18, 2012

I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...
Grimey Drawer

Snake Maze posted:

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner - Soul Hackers is not availiable on steam! It's a Saturn game that got a rerelease on 3DS!!

None of that poo poo was in your original post! You said "Soul Hackers" and after some googling, that turned out to be a series of games. And Soul Hackers 2 is on Steam!

Maybe if you are talking about one, specific game maybe you should drop more than two words about it?

Feels Villeneuve
Oct 7, 2007

Libluini posted:

None of that poo poo was in your original post! You said "Soul Hackers" and after some googling, that turned out to be a series of games. And Soul Hackers 2 is on Steam!

Maybe if you are talking about one, specific game maybe you should drop more than two words about it?

:sam:

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Libluini posted:

None of that poo poo was in your original post! You said "Soul Hackers" and after some googling, that turned out to be a series of games. And Soul Hackers 2 is on Steam!

Maybe if you are talking about one, specific game maybe you should drop more than two words about it?

disposablewords
Sep 12, 2021

Just finished up The Lost Child. Post-game challenge dungeon is still there but nahhh, I'm good. Overall pretty alright as a budget dungeon crawler cribbing off of SMT, with some of its own takes on things. Most of the more involved systems (like skill trading and level resets for your mons) aren't particularly necessary unless you want to optimize your team for the post-game dungeon, though of course you can do those things and a bit of grind to help out.

But hot drat the plot is a mess by the end. It's a spin-off of El Shaddai, which was itself a weird adaptation of the apocryphal Book of Enoch that is not officially included in the Bible. Where El Shaddai mostly stuck to Abrahamic stuff (except for some stuff about Ishtar on the side, which itself relates to more Biblical apocrypha via God's wife Asherah), TLC goes in on poaching from Lovecraft and ancient Egypt as well for its major players. Who the villain is swaps around a few times, God might be evil as per SMT tradition or maybe not (He gets blamed at one point for wanting a certain bad thing to happen to kickstart a new Deluge, but the people claiming that have some pretty skewed perspectives of their own), and the player character is very needlessly a silent protagonist as he is a distinct, named person in the plot. Motives change often, or at least get new "revelations" about how oh this thing was actually about that thing, etc, etc, right up through a post-credit scene where archangels Michael and Raphael reveal in discussion what you were really the Chosen One for, because you see...

Seriously this story has no coherent throughline. At least Lucifel is still an enigmatic dick who is helpful but in a way that sometimes feels questionable.

Once I get over the finished-game doldrums in a day or so, I plan on finally digging into SaGa: Scarlet Grace, though.

TurnipFritter
Apr 21, 2010
10,000 POSTS ON TALKING TIME

Gyoru posted:

It's a precursor/prototype for The Alliance Alive, which sacrifices some of the SaGa story structure for something more linear. The formation system boiled down to 1 dedicated tank/interceptor while the other 2 are attacking or supporting. AA has a similar system, but it's more palatable since you have 5 active party members. I also kind of remember liking the in-combat elemental field balancing act you had to do?

The OST and frogpog are the main takeaways


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_R7xSr2C5U

he has the happy innocence of a red-eyed tree frog....

WrightOfWay
Jul 24, 2010


Getting my opinions about if games are good from the Wikipedia plot summaries.

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post
this is one of my favorite genres of dumb person

ZenMasterBullshit
Nov 2, 2011

You're not thinking about special summoning, you are?

Libluini posted:

None of that poo poo was in your original post! You said "Soul Hackers" and after some googling, that turned out to be a series of games. And Soul Hackers 2 is on Steam!

Maybe if you are talking about one, specific game maybe you should drop more than two words about it?

Incredible gimmick. Honest chuckle out of me.

Nick Buntline
Dec 20, 2007
Doesn't know the impossible.

Evil Fluffy posted:

How do you survive the precipice jump in Wandering Sword? Is it something like have over 3000 health and 50+ agility or something else?

That should be it? The jump dealt 3000 damage at 53 agility for me, so unless there's some sliding scale where higher agility reduces the amount of damage you need to tank, 3000+ and 50+ seems as likely a criteria as any.

ChickenMedium
Sep 2, 2001
Forum Veteran And Professor Emeritus of Condiment Studies

Nick Buntline posted:

That should be it? The jump dealt 3000 damage at 53 agility for me, so unless there's some sliding scale where higher agility reduces the amount of damage you need to tank, 3000+ and 50+ seems as likely a criteria as any.

I just assumed that was a joke, didn't realize you could actually survive. Do you get anything for succeeding?

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

Endorph posted:

that was in the jp version but removed from the eng version, the pc version has it because it doesnt have the minor changes the US version got (even though the tl/dub is the exact same)

The system voice was definitely in the ps2 version I played but now I can't remember if I played ntsc-u or pal

E: maybe it was off by default or something

kirbysuperstar fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Sep 25, 2023

babypolis
Nov 4, 2009

Looper posted:

i played basically all of GrimGrimoire OnceMore in one go yesterday, the original is the only vanillaware game i missed out on (besides the ones that weren't localized in the us). the strategy rpg stuff was okay but i was way more drawn into the story. very focused time loop mystery with a surprisingly bold protagonist. and of course the art is off the hook, love how the huge dragons and chimeras are too big to fit on the battlefields so they walk "on top" of it instead


lillet is kinda based tbh

yeah lillet owns. GG was kind of an overlooked gem, glad you enjoyed it

Erg
Oct 31, 2010

Looper posted:

i guess if you disqualify every game with vr then yeah there aren't any games with virtual reality

Ibram Gaunt
Jul 22, 2009

Ceramics
May 26, 2014

I

Kagaya Homoraisan
Aug 28, 2019

You say, run away
Instead, you get scared
For the way that I feel
Drops out into all this disorder

Libluini posted:

None of that poo poo was in your original post! You said "Soul Hackers" and after some googling, that turned out to be a series of games. And Soul Hackers 2 is on Steam!

Maybe if you are talking about one, specific game maybe you should drop more than two words about it?

https://files.catbox.moe/pue6ma.mp4

NBA FAN !!!!!!!
Dec 4, 2002


I wonder if Louis Cancelmi has done anything super hosed up

Nick Buntline
Dec 20, 2007
Doesn't know the impossible.

ChickenMedium posted:

I just assumed that was a joke, didn't realize you could actually survive. Do you get anything for succeeding?

A fishing point with some random things, a cultivation manual that I think isn't available elsewhere, and a free bed to heal up the giant pile of damage you took jumping off the cliff.

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

kirbysuperstar posted:

The system voice was definitely in the ps2 version I played but now I can't remember if I played ntsc-u or pal

E: maybe it was off by default or something



yeah guess I must have turned it on all the way back when and never thought about it again lol

Mode 7
Jul 28, 2007

Libluini posted:

None of that poo poo was in your original post! You said "Soul Hackers" and after some googling, that turned out to be a series of games. And Soul Hackers 2 is on Steam!

Maybe if you are talking about one, specific game maybe you should drop more than two words about it?

You're getting weirdly heated about a misunderstanding generated by you making a bunch of assumptions off a quick glance at the Steam and wiki pages for the wrong game and then doubling down that this is somehow the fault of other posters. Please just chill out a little and enjoy playing Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth or something instead.

Zereth
Jul 9, 2003



I thought that one was a straight castlevania?

Evil Fluffy posted:

How do you survive the precipice jump in Wandering Sword? Is it something like have over 3000 health and 50+ agility or something else?
Exactly that. If it doesn't work you need more agility, I did it with 60.

Keep in mind higher-grade cultivation techniques equipped give you more HP, so if you're using a blue or green one for its traits when you have an unequipped yellow, that can help.

ChickenMedium posted:

I just assumed that was a joke, didn't realize you could actually survive. Do you get anything for succeeding?
A good cultivation technique manual.

Tired Moritz
Mar 25, 2012

wish Lowtax would get tired of YOUR POSTS

(n o i c e)

kirbysuperstar posted:



yeah guess I must have turned it on all the way back when and never thought about it again lol

idk why this is even a thing but I might actually go back to playing Soul Nomad again

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

Zereth posted:

I thought that one was a straight castlevania?

Yeah, it's a classicvania with no exploration, just linear levels.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Evil Fluffy
Jul 13, 2009

Scholars are some of the most pompous and pedantic people I've ever had the joy of meeting.

Nick Buntline posted:

That should be it? The jump dealt 3000 damage at 53 agility for me, so unless there's some sliding scale where higher agility reduces the amount of damage you need to tank, 3000+ and 50+ seems as likely a criteria as any.

Alright cool. I'm not quite there yet but I'm going to head back once I am. It's a pity you only get stats from equipped cultivations but with how many exist in game I cane see how out of control character stats would get if they all counted.

Meowywitch
Jan 14, 2010


Even if there's nothing to gain, I have to move forward.


too late lunx

The 7th Guest
Dec 17, 2003

i had an opportunity to get tales of arise for 4 cents from gamefly after using my 20 available gamefly dollars. but then i remembered i still haven't beaten berseria let alone played any other tales game except for an hour of symphonia, so i got something else

SatoshiMiwa
May 6, 2007



So Pela is the one doing the Trails doujin in that circle right?

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.
You know, as dogshit as Disgaea 3 is, the joke about Master Bigstar having the 'A' stolen from his name and he could only afford a replacement 'e' so he begrudgingly became Master Bigster is very funny

Last Celebration
Mar 30, 2010
It’s one of the funnier bits, also Tyrant Baal got a good chuckle out of me iirc.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Easy: Attack and Dethrone God
Hard: Tell a girl you like like them

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Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

Barudak posted:

Easy: Attack and Dethrone God
Hard: Tell a girl you like like them

Look; after delivering a three-stage asskicking you're guaranteed a brief moment of agreement and melancholy camaraderie where they'll probably reciprocate those feelings before dissipating into twinkly lights and leaving you on your own anyway.

If you want something to last, you gotta work much harder to tell her how you feel without fighting her with two or three of your closest and heavily-levelled allies at your side while an epic operatic piece plays in the background.

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