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Just a quick question from someone who doesn't have a clue: are those RPG Maker games completely free, legal to install as executables without requiring anything else to be on the system first? (ie, you don't need RPG Maker or anything else to be installed already?)
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So I've played the hell out of pretty much all the Infinity Engine games and just recently got myself a MacBook. Now, it's no PC (oooh, burn... etc) and I do like me some gaming from time to time, so I bought CrossOver and have got a couple things to work on it, but was wondering if there are any good RPGs that work natively on the Mac (finished KOTOR so no love there, and I tire of Diablo after 10 minutes), so maybe you can suggest a decent GOG game or a Mac-native RPG for someone who loved the Inifnity Engine titles, the Neverwinter Nights games, Dragon Quest IX on the DS, seriously dislikes random encounter combat, favours stories over Diablo style number games, and so on. Lately I've been playing the hell out of Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and 5. Love that series. Maybe it is time for me to try TOEE again, after all these years (last time I got stuck with some bug when you had to kill a giant frog or some-such in a swamp. Couldn't search it when it was killed, so I could not progress with the game). Also, Planescape. Hmmm... played maybe 10-12 hours of this back in 2008 and that's a lot to get through all over again, so while I know it is World Best RPG Story and I am living in sin by not having finished it, I dunno if I can go there just yet. Suggestions? BadAstronaut fucked around with this message at 23:55 on May 17, 2011 |
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May 17, 2011 23:53
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Cross-posting this with the GOG thread. I'm doing a story on the making of Planescape Torment for Retro Gamer magazine. I'm interviewing a number of the leads on the project, and given this awesome opportunity, I'm extending an offer out there to the goons to suggest some questions I should ask the crew. Anyone?
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Jun 29, 2011 03:07
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Guys, what is the best way to play Final Fantasy 7 these days? Download it on PS3 and play there? Play the original on an actual Playstation? Get the Ultimate PC edition?
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Jul 11, 2011 00:49
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Oh ja? What, if anything, makes the Ultimate Edition worth getting? Seems to me like getting an old PS original and playing in ePSXe is the way to go...
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Thanks for the FF7 info, guys. Looks like I am gonna wait for my travels to be over and just play it on ePSXe some time in the future. Now. Dragon Quest on the DS. I played the gently caress out of IX. Loved it. Wow, what a good game. Of the others, though, I'm a little worried about committing to one and finding it a shallow grind-fest later in the game. Which, of IV, V and VI, is the best overall package? Or have I ruined these for myself by playing IX first?
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Jul 11, 2011 02:57
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So saying I do, and I ends up wantsing mores, will playing V ruin IV in any way?
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Jul 11, 2011 03:10
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Kinda bummed that we may have seen the last Dragon Quest game for DS. I don't really have much intention of getting a 3DS. Tried one and was not overly impressed - I don't know if I could sit on that doing nearly as long, solid sessions as I put into DQIX on my DS. And I have no intention of buying a Wii either. Shrug. Guess I will just do the trilogy (DQ IV, V and VI) and let that be that. Also wish that they would release more solid RPG remakes on the iPhone. Come the end of the month, I'll be snatching FFT as soon as it comes out. Thus ends my somewhat vacuous post.
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Just posted this in the retro gaming thread but figured the goons in the RPG thread could also offer something: I just got a PS3 again after about a year without one and I see both Final Fantasy VI and Final Fantasy IX are available as PSOne downloads. Can anyone comment on which of these I should get into first, does it even matter, and how do these two play on the PS3 on an HDTV?
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Last Celebration posted:FF9 is pretty cool. So's 6, but it's a pretty godawful port due to noticeable loading times for every screen transition (battles, menus, ect). I'd honestly avoid the PS1 version of FF6 like the plague. Gah, in m haste i bought and d/loaded it already... sheeeit. Well, now I'll just try get value out of this as much as I can. It's not unplayably bad is it? Surely not? Loading up now... Will probably end up getting both anywat 
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Mar 17, 2012 15:13
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Admiral H. Curtiss posted:Should have waited until next week anyway, there's supposedly going to be a Final Fantasy series sale. God, really? How would/do you hear about this in advance?
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All them prices are $ - is there usually the same thing running in EU/UK? I'm very new to PSN...
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Mar 17, 2012 19:54
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Yechezkel posted:It's for US and Canada only. The North American and European Playstation Stores don't share the same sales. Bleh, my timing is right out. Oh well, I bought them both. I've played about 10 minutes of FF6 and man, those load times and blank screens between actions and combat and whatever is ridiculous. Bit of a let down. Is there any PSN refund thing if I cancel a purchase within a certain amount of time? Much more amped to just play IX now. FF nerds, will it make *any* difference if I play IX before I play 4/5/6? Will it ruin/spoil any story stuff?
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Chrono Trigger question, very simple: I've just battled Magus for the first time and I'm simply wondering how far into the game I am. Maybe as a percentage complete or something? I'm really enjoying it but that beautiful copy of Final Fantasy IV DS over there is beginning to distract me. 
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Barudak posted:You're perhaps a 1/3-1/4 of the way through. I don't know how FFIV DS is distracting you unless you have a beautiful copy of the strategy guide on hand as well because the augment system is ridiculous and the battles absurd. Awww  That... that sucks. I was really keen for this one. Oh well, at least I have a ton of awesome Chrono Triggering ahead of me. Still, hearing bad things about FFIV on the DS after looking forward to it so much is kinda  Nate RFB posted:Chrono Trigger is really short anyway so you might as well finish it. BadAstronaut fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Mar 26, 2012 |
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I just browsed through the manual and - unless I missed it - did not see a single thing about augments. Is this all fully explained in-game? Is there a good FAQ somewhere that acts as a guide (and not a list of spoilers) for the augment thing? And about the combat - is it super hard and grindy?
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I kinda like that stuff though - using status spells. Come from a D&D gaming background, so buffing and debuffing is par for the course. Thanks for the link, I will check that thing out. As for Dragon Quest, I have only completed 4 and 9, both on DS and both of which I absolutely loved. I also have 5, 6 and 8 sitting on my shelf. Not scared of a bit of DQ, and I didn't find either 4 or 9 too grindy at all.
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My experience of DQ is limited to 4 and 9, both on DS, and so I can not comment beyond those two, and I can only say that there were perhaps two times in 4 where I had to grind up a level or two to win a major fight, and even these were not huge great big slogs. As for the rest of the series, 
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Is there any real disadvantage to playing DQ5 after DQ6? I bought both, but 5 turned out to be a dodgy (pirate?) version that won't work on my DSi XL, so I have to wait until I get my hands on a DS lite...
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Levantine posted:No, in fact I think V is a bit superior to VI. You'll be fine playing it that way.
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Mar 27, 2012 22:18
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Honest Thief posted:For anyone on the fence over ff13-2, play.com is selling it for 20 european coins. I couldn't pass up on these savings... Oh, and Mass Effect 3 is also stupid cheap for today only (onhttp://www.play.com ).
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Ok how the CHRIST do you beat the skeleton monster thing in The Sunken Desert in Chrono Trigger? I know that water magic reduces his defence so I have frog casting Water II just about every round, but gently caress this now I am getting so, so over it. Can someone please tell me how to move on from this? Faaaarrrrrkkkk. /rant
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Well, another post and another Chrono Trigger help request from me. I'm on what has to be the final battle of the game against Lavos after completing Black Omen and keep getting utterly and completely owned. Any enemy that can do over 1000 damage essentially murders one or more of my guys in one shot. Which party line up do you recommend for this battle, and can you give me some tips as to how to beat this guy?
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Thuryl posted:Sounds like you just need some more levels and better equipment under your belt. Have you done all the sidequests that have opened up? If you go to the End of Time, the dude there will point you in their general direction. I have done every sidequest there is. My party at the moment is Crono, Lucca and Robo, but I think I can drop Lucca for someone else. Suggestions? Corrosion posted:Try to be around level 60 if you don't have specific Armor. Who's in your party, what's your equipment, etc? Well my characters are around level 45 but their hitpoints are approaching 999 (I don't like the cap...). You think I should backtrack and complete Black Omen in the other time zones? What armour/accessory config do you recommend? I have a 2 and a half hour train ride coming up this evening AND I WILL FINISH THIS GAME.
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Bussamove posted:All sidequests and you're level 45?
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Philip Rivers posted:Answering my own question: Phantasy Star IV. This game loving rules, don't know why I haven't played it before. Yes. It really, really is great. I'd love a hack that increases the walking speed by 50% or so, that would be awesome. I've put so many hours into this game and never finished it. I reached what I *thought* was the final battle but just couldn't win. I ground out some more levels, fought again, couldn't win. This happened enough times for me to give up on it (And this was in 1999)I then sunk quite a few more hours into it in 2008, picking it up again. Didn't finish it either... now I have it again on PS3, maybe I'll end up finishing it at last... I tried PS3, but man... it just didn't grab me.
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With Chrono Trigger now done with, I'm going to pick up my next Nintendo DS RPG. I own both Final Fantasy IV and Dragon Quest VI (and V, but that turned out to be a pirate version that doesn't work on my DSi ) so I am going to play either of those now. I absolutely loved Dragon Quest IV and IX, and I've never actually finished a Final Fantasy game. I'm sorta leaning more towards playing DQVI now - but which of these two do you guys think is the better game?
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Oldstench posted:I'm gonna buck the trend and suggest Radiant Historia. More time-travel! But that's not a game I already own - the options were DQ6 and FF4
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Heh, I'm already about 2 and a half hours in. Thank you for your sterling contribution 
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SirPhoebos posted:I recently got Arcanum from gog.com because I thought I may LP it. I have two questions. You'll get SO much more info in the old-school pc rpg thread (can't link now, on my phone). Just search for it or browse the first few pages. Loads of arcanum discussion in there already. Dragon Quest VI: should I bother with the casinos? Is it something worth putting any time in to, and is it beatable or 100% luck-based?
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Paperhouse posted:so, I just got a DS and would be much obliged if some of you kind people could recommend some of the best RPGs for it. I've already heard good things about Radiant Historia and the DQ games (though I don't know which to play first???) but after that I'm fairly in the dark. I recently finished Chrono Trigger on DS, and that is utterly epic. As everyone else says as well, get the Dragon Quests (start with 4) and play them until IX, as IX is so awesome, save it until you're done with the earlier ones...
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What's the general attitude around here to Final Fantasy XIII? I just got it on PS3 for next to nothing, fired it up for an idea of what it's about (I'm deducted to finishing Dragon Quest VI before I dive in to anything else) and I was kinda wtf at the first 5 minutes of the gameplay, thrown into some weird sci fi setting with a too cool afro sporting guy with a bird living in his hair and a powered up super hero woman fighting a massive machine. What happened to RPGs where I'm a 15 year old boy waking up in our cottage to the sound of my mother/father/guardian calling me for breakfast? Is this game all hard sci fi action stuff?
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Bah. That sounds kind of... disappointing. Is it super grindy with an annoying amount of random combat? My initial impressions were not super positive. Maybe I'll give it five or six hours and decide from there...
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Wow, for a Baldurs Gate series fan such as myself, FFXIII now sounds utterly appalling and I'm probably going to just trade it in for something else...
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Heh, wow there is a lot of nerdrage in the last few pages. As a change of pace, are you guys able to play more than one RPG at a time? I'm asking because I have Dragon Quest VI going on the DS... about 9 hours in and it has slowed down a bit after I defeated Murdaw and now have to find my stone statue or some poo poo and I have Mass Effect 3and Dragon Age both sitting unplayed on my PC, and I am kinda tempted to give those a go. But I usually only mix my gaming across genres to avoid being in two epic fantasy worlds at one time, and that these are all like 30+ hour grand adventures.
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I asked a similar question in the Android thread but thought I'd check in here too... Anyone here played Final Fantasy III on both DS and Android? Or even the DS version alone? I can probably get the DS version second hand for cheaper than the Android version, but want to know if it is worth just forking out for it on Android if there are any advantages to playing this version? I still have FF IV sitting in my DS backlog but figured I should play FFIII first - or not?
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But Rocks Hurt Head posted:Have you played the NeoFFL2 patched version of the game? Have you gone through the whole thing yet? How much better is it? I sank a lot of hours into this, but that was years ago. Still got to get through Dragon Quest V, VI and FF4, so I don't see myself picking this up for a long time. If the controls hold up on touch screen, it might be one to get through on the new Nexus 7 though.
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If you're playing the steam version then maybe ask in the Steam thread? If not, sorry man, I've not experienced that. EPIC game though, so persevere...
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Guys, is there anything I'll be missing out on by playing Final Fantasy Tactics A2 without having played the original? Is it fully accessible and an excellent game played in isolation, or am I better off buying Final Fantasy Tactics on GBA and playing that first? Any feedback on this would be appreciated, as I am keen to try this series but not certain whether I really need to play the first game or not.
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Wendell posted:Bit of a stretch to call it an excellent game, but it's entirely accessible without having played the first. OK - had no idea it's not excellent. Breezed through a review that gave it a 9/10 and called it amazing. Cake Attack posted:The original isn't FFT on the GBA, it's FFT on the PSX or PSP. It's also the best game in the series. I'm kitted out with a PS3, a Nintendo DS lite and a 3DS, which limits my gaming possibilities to GBA/DS/3DS titles (I have a 45 minute commute starting Wednesday and want to get stuck into something fun) - I'm looking to play this on mobile. Is FFT (original one) playable on PS3 in UK/PAL? BadAstronaut fucked around with this message at 15:30 on May 19, 2013 |
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