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I'm taking advantage of the Tyranny free weekend to trial the game. Anything I absolutely need to know before I start a character? e: my favorite Xillia "improvement" was how in the sequel they decided to try swiping Graces' extremely good sidestep mechanic, and it was really clearly a tacked-on cargo cult attempt to make it More Like Graces without context for how Graces was architected, and also they put it on an insanely clunky button combo where you had to hit like three things at once with precise timing Caphi fucked around with this message at 17:09 on May 26, 2018 |
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Caphi posted:I'm taking advantage of the Tyranny free weekend to trial the game. Anything I absolutely need to know before I start a character? Magic > everything and as a direct result of that lore is the god stat
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May 26, 2018 17:09
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Dehry posted:... Was there always a second merchant at the church in Atelier Lydie and Suelle? She appears at night and has Rainbow Corundum. there's also merchants selling awesome rare poo poo in atelier borthayre and the castle entrance hall (during the day) and at hagel's place (during the night) for those who've bought DLC apparently! i just blew 300k but for this postgame file, money's no object
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May 26, 2018 17:14
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I hope that the next Atelier is good!
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May 26, 2018 17:17
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Caphi posted:I'm taking advantage of the Tyranny free weekend to trial the game. Anything I absolutely need to know before I start a character? The game locks you on a certain route pretty early in the game based on a decision you make, and you can't really change which faction to ally with after that.
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May 26, 2018 17:18
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Caphi posted:e: my favorite Xillia "improvement" was how in the sequel they decided to try swiping Graces' extremely good sidestep mechanic, and it was really clearly a tacked-on cargo cult attempt to make it More Like Graces without context for how Graces was architected, and also they put it on an insanely clunky button combo where you had to hit like three things at once with precise timing Xillia already had side stepping but it was a skill you had to learn and was technically a kind of attack. X2's implementation would have been fine if they'd been willing to properly rework the controls rather than keeping that goofy rear end mapping (L1 + up/down + regular attack so you could easily get a jump by accident if you wanted to step into the screen if anyone's curious), I guess for consistency? Like I remember fighting that one guy with the wires and thinking I'd be having a lot of fun if sidestep was just mapped sensibly. X2's combat feels a lot better than it's predecessor imo and it's almost entirely down to tuning rather than any obvious specific changes.
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May 26, 2018 17:22
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Caphi posted:I'm taking advantage of the Tyranny free weekend to trial the game. Anything I absolutely need to know before I start a character? Make a wizard because it's the only way you can possibly succeed in fights
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May 26, 2018 17:23
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corn in the bible posted:Make a wizard because it's the only way you can possibly succeed in fights can one make a subterfuge wizard?
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May 26, 2018 17:53
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really enjoying Trails of Cold Steel so far, this feels like a straight upgrade to Trails in the Sky in every department other than the main protagonist. I think the school setting, as cliche as it is, is a much better fit for the predictability and world-building style of these games.
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May 26, 2018 18:06
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MechaX posted:But I do not know what the game's beef was with Alisha or why I should think Rose is the most awesome person in the universe upon her introduction. The treatment of the two characters got so weird that it felt like an inside joke or beef that I wasn't really privy to. tbh rose is like, 90% of why i like the zestiria anime enough to rec it as a straight upgrade because compared to how much of a non-character rose is in the game, in the x she actually, kind of has a small attempt at an arc and she buddies up with alisha for 75% of it instead of awkwardly stealing her place and the way their relationship is written is actually kind of cool. also her being an assassin is actually portrayed as being pretty hosed up and not just, a thing she casually does that isn't bad because reasons Tales of Woe posted:really enjoying Trails of Cold Steel so far, this feels like a straight upgrade to Trails in the Sky in every department other than the main protagonist. I think the school setting, as cliche as it is, is a much better fit for the predictability and world-building style of these games. cold steel did a way better job making me actually go out of my way to talk to all of the people around every town and made it feel like less of a time sink to do thanks to its setting and then doing that added an extra 10 hours of time to my playthrough
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May 26, 2018 18:51
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Tales of Woe posted:really enjoying Trails of Cold Steel so far, this feels like a straight upgrade to Trails in the Sky in every department other than the main protagonist. I think the school setting, as cliche as it is, is a much better fit for the predictability and world-building style of these games. I disagree as the sidequest feature feels tacked on while the Bracer system felt a little more natural and to a degree more complete. In Sky it felt like you were just going around naturally while it felt moire forced in CS
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May 26, 2018 19:08
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MechaX posted:Zestiria was decent at first even if the story and lore was astronomically frustrating at times (I actually appreciate that Berseria did try to address the entire malevolence concept as best as it could, because Zestiria sure as gently caress didn't handle it well). The big gimmick of Zestiria was supposed to be choices affecting the storyline. So they originally planned to have separate routes and plots for each of them and you'd get to pick which lady to be with. But the budget ran out so it's just everyone hating Alisha forever and the game is a short linear plot with bland characters. So basically Alisha leaves the party for most of the game because you were supposed to be able to follow her instead and see what she does during the game instead of Rose but making games is hard and Zestiria is literally like a third of what was actually planned In Japan people were extremely pissed because she was way more prominent in all the media there and then she's like barely in the thing. It got review bombed on amazon.jp and everything! I think in English it just kind of comes across as weird and unfinished because there was a lot less ZESTIRIA FEATURING ALISHA (and sorey or whoever) stuff in the promotion here and she's hardly the only character who disappears for no reason.
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May 26, 2018 19:17
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The funniest thing I heard of wrt that was a tales mobage implementing Alisha along with other Zesty characters, with a profile that included "the heroine of ToZ". That text was removed post-release.
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May 26, 2018 19:21
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zestiria taught everyone at the team that trying to make an open world rpg in three years on a tales game budget is a bad idea and also that their producer sucked at his job
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May 26, 2018 19:22
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Crossposting from deals:Not_Log posted:Fanatical Bento Bundle
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May 26, 2018 19:40
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Gurumin is not a lovely chinese RPG but that's a good deal for gurumin alone. Best falcom game
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Crossposting from deals: Will I be lost if I didn’t play sword and fairy 1-5?????
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Crossposting from deals: You missed it including Gate of Firmament, which is pretty good actually Sword and Fairy 6 is completely terrible though and should be avoided
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May 26, 2018 20:38
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How is Celestian?
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May 26, 2018 20:45
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corn in the bible posted:You missed it including Gate of Firmament, which is pretty good actually
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May 26, 2018 20:58
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Well I got that bundle like a chump and now I have a Gurumin key I don't need. 4WBPV-?XQXW-RZI65 Replace ? with the last letter in the game's name If you grab this you better not just let the game sit in your library, Gurumin deserves better!!
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May 26, 2018 21:09
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GrandpaPants posted:How is Celestian?
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May 26, 2018 22:23
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Tales of Woe posted:really enjoying Trails of Cold Steel so far, this feels like a straight upgrade to Trails in the Sky in every department other than the main protagonist. I think the school setting, as cliche as it is, is a much better fit for the predictability and world-building style of these games. for me it helped a lot that the gameplay went from the dead boring to kinda interesting also school framing device gives the game better pacing imo
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CS had good pacing. It was way to slow for me Story wise gameplay was a bit to fast paced. Speaking of that what was the framing device for Crossbell?
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May 26, 2018 22:48
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CharlestheHammer posted:Speaking of that what was the framing device for Crossbell? Terper fucked around with this message at 07:11 on May 27, 2018 |
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May 26, 2018 23:07
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Terper posted:Due to the corrupt government, trust in bracers are at an all-time high, and government forces are mocked and ridiculed. You play as the SSS, the newly instituted Special Support Section of the Crossbell Police, who as their name implies are meant to act in a more bracer-like style, helping civilians and the like. This makes them the target of mockery for both elitist police snobs and the citizens who just think they're bracers, but worse. That actually is pretty interesting I like that much more than the rather weirdly defined school thing
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May 26, 2018 23:36
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i'd rather be a military student than a loving cop
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May 26, 2018 23:38
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I'd rather be a cop that wields double tonfas and one-on-one a mafia boss in the first hour than get slapped for landing on a girl
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May 26, 2018 23:41
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id rather be the one with an english translations (please someone translate zero  )
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Motto posted:The funniest thing I heard of wrt that was a tales mobage implementing Alisha along with other Zesty characters, with a profile that included "the heroine of ToZ". That text was removed post-release.
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Tae posted:I'd rather be a cop that wields double tonfas and one-on-one a mafia boss in the first hour than get slapped for landing on a girl wow look at this chud who wants to be a cop
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upon reflection heres my review of tales of graces:
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May 27, 2018 01:29
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What are Katz? We may never know.
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yes shadow hearts please make me play through 2/3s of a dungeon with nothing but my basic attack edit: what the gently caress this boss just one shot my entire party Charlie Bobson fucked around with this message at 03:00 on May 27, 2018 |
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May 27, 2018 02:38
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Tales of Woe posted:i'd rather be a military student than a loving cop That seems to be a wash from a woke standpoint
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CharlestheHammer posted:That actually is pretty interesting I like that much more than the rather weirdly defined school thing It's not actually that weirdly-defined; Thors Academy is an Officer's prep school and, upon graduation, they're pretty much eligible for a commission of some kind (if not actively scouted). Especially the nobles, where this is basically their stepping stone to getting Daddy assigning them some cushy command role just for the status it brings.
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May 27, 2018 03:08
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Neddy Seagoon posted:It's not actually that weirdly-defined; Thors Academy is an Officer's prep school and, upon graduation, they're pretty much eligible for a commission of some kind (if not actively scouted). Especially the nobles, where this is basically their stepping stone to getting Daddy assigning them some cushy command role just for the status it brings. I mean within the framework of the game as all three games do the exact same thing with just different reasons for why.
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Well fundamentally it always comes down to Bracers are cool, be a bracer or function more like bracers.
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corn in the bible posted:I hope that the next Atelier is good! While there isn't any news out just yet, we're in the period of time they were teasing a new Atelier game announcement.
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