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I'm playing Trails in the Sky for the first time, is there a particularly effective way to build Estelle or am i supposed to just switch her around regularly depending on who else is in my party? Everyone else's ideal builds seem pretty telegraphed so far.
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XC2 has one of my favorite soundtracks in ages, at least for the field and town themes. the battle music is just okay.
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Mar 15, 2018 22:25
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i am setsuna is 50% off on the switch eshop right now, is it at all worth playing or no?
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Mar 22, 2018 15:42
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atelier at least has the advantage of being one of only like 5 jrpgs on switch so far
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Mar 28, 2018 14:47
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yeah Octopath is my most anticipated game right now. i would have never expected you could make something so pretty by jamming FF6-era textures into a modern 3d engine but whatever they did it looks stunning.
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Mar 28, 2018 16:57
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i liked the XC2 localization fine but the dub has some poor direction for sure, lots of awkward deliveries that really needed another take. Nia's actress kinda just steals the show by default due to having the best material to work with and the best accent.
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Mar 28, 2018 22:48
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Switch version of Atelier basically seems to be Vita quality so far, kinda rough but playable. looks fine in handheld mode but doesn't appear to have any upscaling in the dock so it's pretty crummy on the big screen.
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Mar 29, 2018 05:36
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When i hear JRPG i think party-based, fixed characters and narrative, and combat systems that are abstracted from the game world to some degree. I'd say Dark Souls fails on all 3 of those.
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Apr 2, 2018 15:40
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Endorph posted:edit: also honestly a lot of the atelier dusk games are just cute girls in professional situations having quiet conversations about their future. i guess ayesha gets into some gags in places but escha and shallie are super down to earth, tone-wise. they're honestly more grounded and contemplative than something like persona 5. cant speak for the mysterious games since idc that much about them, and the arland games are pretty broad comedy, but. imo i can totally get not jamming with neptunia but i think its a little closeminded to write off anything with a cute female protagonist by assuming it'll have that exact same kind of tone. idk about the other mysterious games but lydie&suelle is very much a silly comedy so far, albeit a good one.
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Apr 3, 2018 03:08
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Motto posted:Pretty sure this came up already, but how bad is the visual/FPS hit on Atelier L&S switch, particularly undocked since that's the main reason I'd get it there over PS4. it's definitely closer to Vita quality than PS4 quality. looks fine in handheld but gets exposed pretty badly when docked on a bigger screen, lots of aliasing and blurry textures that become way more noticeable.
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Apr 3, 2018 03:34
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I think they're a pretty bad way to add replay value to a game if that's the intent. if you can get them all in one playthrough with minor rewinding facilitated by the game, that's okay. I would never replay a 40 hour game to get a 'better' ending, I'll just take the best one I can get when i reach the endgame and look the rest up on youtube.
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Apr 9, 2018 20:33
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Atelier (again): coming back to my own idiocy I still can't figure out how to Battle Mix. Lydie's status screen says "Start a battle with swing, or use a tool to restore HP or MP." Battle Mix is a support ability, she has to be in the back row.
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Apr 15, 2018 17:37
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Berseria is one of the best written JRPGs I've played which is something I never thought I'd say about a Tales game - I hope it's indicative of the direction they're taking the series and not a fluke.
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Apr 15, 2018 18:35
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voltcatfish posted:I was hoping Octopath would have eight different stories but that's not looking like the case not sure where you're inferring this from, all the previews/descriptions they've put out so far say that it's 8 different stories.
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Apr 18, 2018 19:01
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catalysts are what make the system go from good to great so I'm surprised to hear they're new in this one.
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Apr 30, 2018 19:11
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Octopath Traveler is the same director/producer as Bravely but a different studio iirc
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May 3, 2018 16:13
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Chaotic Flame posted:Octopath has jobs? I haven't been following too closely. I thought the eight plus others(?) were set with their abilities. The eight characters are each locked into their primary job but you can spec them into a secondary one complete with outfit change.
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May 3, 2018 20:30
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Motto posted:yeah it owns I'm currently on the final chapter of the 2nd game and have enjoyed it but i don't really like how all the exploration / seeing new places is frontloaded into the first game and all the good story beats are backloaded into the 2nd game. is cold steel the same or does it mix this up better?
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May 6, 2018 16:57
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corn in the bible posted:Tales of Berseria This would also be my answer for best JRPG on steam but i assume by PC interface they mean mouse+keyboard and I would not want to play this game without a controller
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May 6, 2018 17:14
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to be honest i think good mouse&keyboard controls + modern graphics rules out pretty much the entire JRPG genre, these games do not have big graphics budgets other than like final fantasy and they are not developed with PC gamers in mind because PC gaming is very niche in Japan. if you're patient, Dragon Quest 11 might be an option later this year, that game looks good and is turn-based.
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May 6, 2018 17:35
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trails in the sky the 3rd is not what i expected so far, it's like they threw their formula in a centrifuge and separated the gameplay and story completely.
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May 9, 2018 04:01
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Is there a better version of FF4 these days than the original SNES one?
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May 14, 2018 00:58
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presumably the start of each story will be told in flashback until you get to the point where that character can free roam
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May 15, 2018 16:18
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switch will absolutely inherit the Vita's trashy anime game pipeline going forward
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May 16, 2018 19:03
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The Xenoblade games poo poo on the idea that anime RPGs can't look really pretty. Tales just has bland art direction, i don't think the size or resources of the studio are entirely to blame there.
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May 18, 2018 14:04
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babypolis posted:Considering how popular steampunk is these days I wonder why no one else has tried an rpg in a similar vein. the industrial revolution is just an unexplored setting in general Industrial revolution + magic is practically the default setting for JRPGs.
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May 24, 2018 14:59
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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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i'd rather be a military student than a loving cop
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May 26, 2018 23:38
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Evil Fluffy posted:Shining in the Darkness and the Shining Force games were all in English. Do you mean the latest game in the Shining series? I assume they mean the Shining Resonance rerelease since that's out in a month or 2. I'm curious about that one too though from the trailers it just looks like an even campier Tales game.
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May 30, 2018 14:52
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they should just give firis another game, she deserves better
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Jun 1, 2018 17:59
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I liked the Sky trilogy fine but i'm playing Cold Steel now and this is the most engaged I've ever been with a "slow-paced" JRPG I think, so yeah give it a try. Even in the wind-up chapters there's a lot of mysteries/plot-threads being established whereas Sky FC didn't really give you a good story hook until well into the game. Also every character in Cold Steel seems interesting and viable whereas I pretty much just used variations on the same party for all of the Sky games because there were always 2 forced characters and then I always had Kloe because Lichtkreis felt irreplaceable.
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Jun 3, 2018 23:55
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hostess with the Moltres posted:Thanks for the help. I wanted to get a game for Sunless Sea and while I was put off by how I would need to get 2 more games to see the complete story, I have heard tons of good things about trails so hopefully it'll be worth it. For what it's worth you technically only need to play the first two to get the 'complete story' since Sky 3 is a separate follow-up story. 3 is really good though so if you don't bounce off the series you'll want to play it anyway.
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Jun 5, 2018 04:01
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Trails games aren't really about the plot so much as they're about the world building and character drama. The plots are constructed out of a predictable gameplay loop and every character has extreme plot armor so they always feel kinda low stakes even when serious stuff is happening. It's not a negative, it's just the formula. They're cozy games, not thrillers.
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Jun 8, 2018 19:20
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yeah the egypt assassins creed rebooted it gameplay-wise as a witcher 3 wannabe, this is just the 2nd of those
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Jun 12, 2018 15:26
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Tales games are heavily discounted on steam today if anyone hasn't played Berseria yet
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Jun 13, 2018 22:23
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yeah that's probably the biggest thing that gets spoiled if you play cold steel first
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Jun 17, 2018 06:21
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TitS 1 on harder difficulty doesn't seem interesting since itd just increase the # of fights where cheesing it with earth wall is the only good strategy
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Jun 17, 2018 17:09
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Sky 3rd was the only one where it felt like physical damage didn't fall off after the early game. cold steel balances the magic better than any of the sky games which all just turned into spamming soul blur/shadow spear/whatever the full screen black spell was called.
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Jun 17, 2018 17:28
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Cold Steel makes crafts really strong which is better imo because it makes the characters much more differentiated.
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I loved cold steel 1 but yeah that final chapter is very weirdly paced and 2 feels a lot messier so far. Still enjoying it but it's not making me want to do every side quest and spend hours talking to NPCs like the school life sections of 1 did. really my main problem with 2 so far is it's feeling like a repeat of Sky SC whereas CS1 felt different from the Sky games in a good way. Tales of Woe fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Jun 18, 2018 |
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