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Lance Streetman posted:So based off of the fact that Rita referred to the Blastia as "he", I'm going to assume that Blastia are not simple tools but instead have a Consciousness and free will. Perhaps even more than just that, hmmm? What are you keeping from us, Rita? No, Rita's just kinda nuts and empathizes with machines more than people. But that's okay because she sets people on fire. Also I wonder when the game will take away Alexei's Reasonable Authority Figure status. With that hair you just know he's gonna go evil.
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Estelle can be quite the smooth operator at times. I did think that the Commandant would put up a bigger fuss, though. So Estelle can use magic without the blastia. I guess the one she wears must be a fake and Rita noticed.
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I like the fact that, whenever there's a revelation of some kind, both Yuri and Rita have already worked it out for themselves. It's just adding to the "nice difference from the usual JRPG" pile at this point, but still neat.
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So, does the player actually get to create their own guild? I'm guessing probably not, but it would be awesome if that actually happened.
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Not in the way you're probably thinking.
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wiegieman posted:Also I wonder when the game will take away Alexei's Reasonable Authority Figure status. With that hair you just know he's gonna go evil. I'd think being voiced by D.C. Douglas would be a bigger warning sign. But really, who knows at this point?
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Nondevor posted:So, does the player actually get to create their own guild? I'm guessing probably not, but it would be awesome if that actually happened. Unfortunately, no. But it's ok, you and your friends can just pretend they say your guild's name whenever they say their own. That's what me and my friends do.
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So have we seen or heard any weird glowymabob power coming from the Prince? Or is it just Estellise who's pulling this off?
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Glazius posted:So have we seen or heard any weird glowymabob power coming from the Prince? Or is it just Estellise who's pulling this off? That is, shall we say, a mystery. That will be solved.
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Again, it might have been me speeding through dialog, but the scene when the dragon rider showed up was hilarious. Karol runs into the room and stays stock still while saying his lines, scream and all.
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I'd call that an animation fuckup (or lack of readjustment for the English dialogue, maybe), but yeah that does happen.Materant posted:I'd think being voiced by D.C. Douglas would be a bigger warning sign. But really, who knows at this point? I half expect him to say something about Complete Global Saturation every time he talks.
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Materant posted:I'd think being voiced by D.C. Douglas would be a bigger warning sign. But really, who knows at this point? D.C. Douglas....uh....wait is he the voice of Albert Wesker?
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KDavisJr posted:D.C. Douglas....uh....wait is he the voice of Albert Wesker? Among others, yes. He does a lot of stuff.
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Today, something different: Group End-of-Battle Quotes, Part 1 Also, Announcement! I will be on vacation from the 10th to the 24th, so there most likely won't be any updates during that time. Just so you guys don't wonder if I've abandoned the thread or something.
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  Skit: Becoming Estelle Estelle, there's something I want to ask you. Yes, what is it? ...Wait! What's the matter? Could you repeat what you just said? I said, there's something I want to ask you. No, before that! Es...telle? Yes! You finally called me Estelle! I've got to go tell everyone! ...Oh, well...heh heh...There's a couple sidequest events we can activate in and around Heliord, now that our party's full again. But first, shopping!  Guard Impact: According to the description it stuns enemies and reflects attacks when performing a successful Critical Guard, but I've never seen that actually happen. Probably because I never use Critical Guard. Guard Plus 2: Decreases amount of damage taken when hit from the side or behind. EXP Share: Get Bonus EXP even when not in the active battle party. This is our first non-default sub-weapon, I believe. Sub-weapons are an equipment category that behaves mostly like a second set of weapons: They increase your stats, you can learn skills from them, and they are shown on your character model. Yuri has Gauntlets, Estelle has Shields as seen here, Karol's is his bag, Rita's is her book, and Repede's got collars.  Item Thrower: Allows usage of single-target items on other party members. Stun Magic: Increases chance of stunning an enemy with a spell. Auto Medicine: Occasionally casts healing spells upon receiving damage.  Mighty Charge: Allows charging of a physical attack to deal increased damage by holding the Attack button. Cross Counter: Increases power of an attack when it hits an enemy that is currently attacking. Raynard: Increases strength when a hammer is equipped. The name is a reference to Will's last name in Tales of Legendia, as he uses Hammers in battle.  Half Damage: Reduces damage dealt to enemies to half. Quarter Damage: Reduces damage dealt to enemies to a quarter. Minimum Damage: Reduces damage dealt to enemies to 1 HP per hit. You might be wondering what the point of these is. Basically, it's for Fatal Strikes. Since you get bonuses for killing enemies with Fatal Strikes, you might want to reduce your damage output to make it easier to drain the Fatal Strike bars on the enemies, since that is based on number of attacks rather than amount of damage dealt. Minimum Damage is essential to have on Rita for a lategame Grade farming technique, so try not to sell or otherwise get rid of all your Sashes, since those become unavailable after a certain point. Note that all three of those skills take 1 SP to equip, and since skills auto-equip upon learning when there's enough SP available, it's possible to get them equipped without realizing it. Also, if you run into a boss battle with everyone on Minimum Damage, you're more or less hosed. So don't do that.  Half Damage: Reduces damage dealt to enemies to half. Quarter Damage: Reduces damage dealt to enemies to a quarter. Minimum Damage: Reduces damage dealt to enemies to 1 HP per hit. Alright. First off, we can find this guy in the middle of town:     ...There's something I have to talk to Flynn about, so... I heard about you slipping out of the castle. Um, um, ummm... Who's this...? He was the previous emperor's swordmaster, and is also my teacher. Ah...the knightly patriot, Drake... The knightly patriot? Master Drake has served the empire with his sweat and tears for decades. In the Imperial Knights, Drake Dropwart is thought of as a model for all knights to follow. He's now an advisor to the Imperial Knights, you know. Wow, really? I'm really an advisor in name only. These days I'm pretty much retired. My only real duty of late is teaching the Princess swordsmanship. But didn't you come here with the Commandant as an advisor? Yes...I've heard everything that's happened so far. How was it, setting foot into the outside world for the first time? Well, we've had a lot of bad things happen to us, but all of it's been a fantastic experience. A fantastic experience, you say? I see... ...Ummm... Is something wrong...?At that moment, Leblanc comes running from the right.  What do you want, Leblanc? Sir. His Excellency the Commandant is calling for you, sir. All right. Well then, Princess, I must take my leave. Try to avoid doing anything too rash, won't you? Yes, of course. Take care of yourself, Master... I'm surprised that a princess would know how to use a sword at all, really. Estelle, what made you learn how to use a sword? That's a good question... It might take a while to tell the whole story. The next time I get a chance... Yeah, I'd like to hear about it too, once things have calmed down a little. Sure!  Skit: Rita's Change ...Honestly, that girl... Huh? Estelle. She rushes off regardless of danger... She doesn't listen when you tell her to stop... So Estellise has finally become Estelle, huh? I...I've been calling her that for a while... What's with you, anyway? Hey, you know... Your tone of voice was different, just then... Maybe it's just my imagination... You're drat right, it is! Ahh, there's the Rita we all know and love. Ha! Ow! How about you just shut up? Who cares what I say or how I sound?! Not me. Here's to you being you, Rita. Humph...! Next stop is the local knight headquarter, where Yuri finds one of his old friends.   Huh? Who're you?Hachette: You don't remember me? I sure as heck-fire remember you! It's Hachette! Not that it's easy to recognize someone when they've got a mask on. Oh, wow! You look different from how I remember. I didn't realize it was you. Haven't you gained weight?Hachette: Ouch! It's nice to see you too, Yuri...  Looks like the mask had nothing to do with it! Is this a friend of yours, Yuri? That armor color is the same as Leblanc's knights, isn't it?Hachette: Yep! I'm in the Schwann Brigade! To tell you the truth, I'm pretty glad they didn't assign me to the Flynn Brigade. You didn't want to work with Flynn?Hachette: Well, it would be tough working under him, since we started off training to be soldiers together. That doesn't seem like the sort of thing Flynn would care about. You've got that right, Rita. Flynn's all about advancing in his career, isn't he?Hachette: It's pretty crazy for a non-noble to make captain at such a young age. Me on the other hand...thanks to all the goofing off I did with you, Yuri, I'm still nothing but a lowly peon. What sort of things did you two do? Yeah, and then we'd sneak into the warehouse to switch bodhi blastia for nicer ones... Sounds like a whole lot of sneaking!Hachette: It's true. We had our fair share of youthful indiscretions. Yuri's still up to his old tricks, though.Hachette: Ha ha, I've heard as much. Go easy on Flynn, would ya?  Yeah, yeah. Don't goof off too much on the job!Hachette: Oh yeah, Yuri, you've been traveling around, right? You think you might be able to stop by Capua Nor and tell my folks that I'm doing well? They live in the inn, so you can't miss 'em. Sure, I'd be happy to. See ya later, Hachette.  Oh yeah? I mean, it seemed to me like you didn't enjoy your time as a knight very much. Joining them was a decision I made myself. It's not all bad memories. Practice wasn't so bad, and I had all sorts of fun with my fellow knights-in-training. From the way that knight was talking, it sounds like you acted like a crazy and rambunctious kid. Rita, if there's one person who doesn't need to be scolding me for a little youthful indiscretion, it's you.Another event can be found by resting at the Inn.   Yuri? I couldn't sleep. I kept hearing noise from outside... Even at this late hour, everyone's still hard at work. Well, I don't think they're doing it because they enjoy it. But if they don't keep working, they won't be able to make a living. And even with all this work, they're hardly able to get by. ...That's terrible...  Are you all right?  Oh... They've just learned to distrust nobles and the empire. It's nothing personal against you, Estelle. Try not to let it bother you too much. I wonder if it's something that can be changed... ... Let's go back and get some rest.A minor thing, we can find the Wonder Reporter to the right outside of the Inn.   Wonder Reporter: Blastia goes out of control, and more! Yes, some serious events have taken place in the world recently! I'd better write an article about it, post haste! Day and night, I run around chasing after the newest scoops... I'm the Wonder Reporter! I'm not stalking you or anything, I promise! Well then, adieu! ...Is he following me...?And for the last event, we have to leave Heliord to the east and backtrack to Caer Bocram, which isn't too far away.   During the trip, Estelle and Rita get a new spell each.   Estelle gets Nurse, a nice party-wide healing spell.   And Rita learns Stalagmite, an earth-elemental spell where spikes rise out of the floor. But anyway, we're actually here because of this:  Watch the cutscene! ...Someone's here...  But where is it flowing...? That monster sucked all of it up.  Yeah, that big, rough, spiky, huuuuge monster... So... He was here after all... He? You mean the monster? "Monster"... ...It matters not what humans call them, but...  Just what makes something a monster, anyway? We call any creature that viciously attacks humans a monster... So that would mean that thing's a monster, right? ...Huh... But the kid just gave us the human point of view. ...What do you think that guy was up to...? We met him earlier at Deidon Hold, didn't we Yuri? I can't figure him out. Well, whatever, he's got nothing to do with us, anyway. Y-yeah, I guess...And that's it in terms of sidequests. Let's get back to Heliord.  To get to Dahngrest, we have to exit to the west instead.  The walk there is fairly uneventful, I don't even run into a single enemy.     Next time, we'll enter Dahngrest. Admiral H. Curtiss fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Oct 9, 2016 |
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It's funny that I knew what those skits would be about from the first couple of lines. Good characterization.
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So when you learn Minimum Damage, it can auto-equip and stick with you regardless of what weapon you use?
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Glazius posted:So when you learn Minimum Damage, it can auto-equip and stick with you regardless of what weapon you use? Yep, unless you go into your Skill menu and manually turn it off. vvv: On the other hand, it lets you use the Skill without having to use the weapon, which can be useful.
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Something's a bit off with this update... Flynn hasn't become a captain yet. There is no Flynn Brigade. Are you meant to talk with this guy on the return trip to Heliord, or is this a writer snafu?
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You know, you're right, that is weird. I assume that is just a minor fuckup on the event programmers' or writers' part.
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There was a White Haired Guy event at Caer Bocram?! I never knew that and I played the hell out of Vesperia. Then again, I shouldn't be surprised since Namco pulls this poo poo in all the Tales games. I'm looking at you, Yuan's ring from Symphonia... That being said, I'm excited that we're at Dahngrest. The first part of the game isn't bad - it's actually pretty drat good - but IMO the second part is much, much better.
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Or could be political problems. Flynn takes after Yuri in that he won't bend over and take the political cornholing that the other nobles and knights want him to, so he gets no Brigade.
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Oh goddammit, I was just recording new footage so I'd have some stuff to edit if I find the time while I'm not at home, and it seems my 360 is crapping out. I just got two complete freezes (no RRoD or anything, just the console freezing) in the span of 15 minutes. This sucks. I mean it is a fairly old console, a refurbished one I got back from Microsoft when my first model got a RRoD, but still... ugh.
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Admiral H. Curtiss posted:Oh goddammit, I was just recording new footage so I'd have some stuff to edit if I find the time while I'm not at home, and it seems my 360 is crapping out. I just got two complete freezes (no RRoD or anything, just the console freezing) in the span of 15 minutes. This sucks. Verily, that doth blow  Mine's probably not too far away from that, it's a refurbished one I got two or three years ago. Here's hoping everything turns out okay, Admiral!Edit: WAIT A A MINUTE. Admiral, does yours have an HDMI port in the back?  If yours does and mine doens't, I think I got rolled.
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If you sent in a non-HDMI console, they tended to give you a non-HDMI console in return. Even when they did motherboard swaps there was a specific non-HDMI motherboard model, I think called Opus, for just that reason. Also I'm going to laugh if Vesperia kills your 360 since it was the game I was playing (heavily) when mine died and E74 errored out. (not that I believe Vesperia causes it, because there's no evidence to support it, but it'd be a funny coincidence)
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Now it doesn't even boot into the dashboard anymore, it's hosed. *sigh* Guess it's a good excuse to get a slim model.Malachite_Dragon posted:Edit: WAIT A A MINUTE. Admiral, does yours have an HDMI port in the back? Nope, no HDMI port.
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Admiral H. Curtiss posted:Now it doesn't even boot into the dashboard anymore, it's hosed. *sigh* Guess it's a good excuse to get a slim model. Holy mother of- I think alot of us 360 owners are being a bit concerned right about now. Even me cause starting about november i think, my 360 sometimes froze during times when the game was loading. It doesn't do it much though: I can count on my hand the number of times it happened. Actually no, i think it happened 6-8 times.
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As someone who possibly (a very slight possibility, as that poo poo costs money I just don't have) be upgrading to a slim at some point in the future as well, is it possible to swap saves between the old harddrives and the different ones that the Slims take? cause I've got a lot of good saves and drat if I'm going to play up from zero again
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Yeah, you can just copy them to an USB storage device. That's not an issue on 360s, thankfully.
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Hot drat. now I just need a USB stick worth a drat! I had a Micro-USB stick thingy wher eyou could slot in the USB card separately, but that ended up breaking, so I'm stuck with a 4-gig microSD card and no way to use it
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Malachite_Dragon posted:As someone who possibly (a very slight possibility, as that poo poo costs money I just don't have) be upgrading to a slim at some point in the future as well, is it possible to swap saves between the old harddrives and the different ones that the Slims take? cause I've got a lot of good saves and drat if I'm going to play up from zero again You can crack your old HD out of its housing and put it in the HD bay inside the slim, even. They're the same drives - 2.5" SATA - just one has an external caddy and one doesn't. Still, the USB stick is the best route. Also an 8GB USB stick is like ten bucks on Amazon, just saying this isn't a really difficult hurdle. Well, unless you live somewhere outside the US. In which case, maybe it is 
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Nah, I live in Texas, I'm just exceedingly lazy/poor Thanks for the help, though, I'll see what I can do. I relied on that piddly little 256-whatever meg size memory card for well over a year before I scraped up enough to get a proper harddrive (120 gigs!  ) just this last year, I'll be goddamned if I'm giving up my loving harddrive and what it contains.
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I went dicking around on Gamestop, and they have a device which will allow you to transfer data from one 360 to another, and it only cost about $20. http://www.gamestop.com/xbox-360/accessories/xb360-hard-drive-data-transfer-cable/78160
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KDavisJr posted:I went dicking around on Gamestop, and they have a device which will allow you to transfer data from one 360 to another, and it only cost about $20. Yeah, I have one of these, but it's been superseded by the USB stick option. $20 for a one-time use cable is ridiculous (I think I got mine for free, or like, S&H only) and half that price for a USB stick, even if it means moving save games in two batches? Worth it. You'll also need to reinstall all your games, as they won't authenticate on a new console even if you keep the same HD, and you'll need to do a license transfer on xbox.com so you can play your stuff even if you're offline.
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Psion posted:You'll also need to reinstall all your games, as they won't authenticate on a new console even if you keep the same HD, and you'll need to do a license transfer on xbox.com so you can play your stuff even if you're offline. I don't remember having to reinstall anything, though I have like 3 XBLA games and they're all pretty small so possibly I've already forgotten because it wouldn't have taken up much of my time. Almost worth it just to save me redownloading the enormous Burnout Paradise patch, anyway. I'm just sad I can't play my XBLA Worms any more because it came on an Xbox memory card and was locked to it.
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KDavisJr posted:I went dicking around on Gamestop, and they have a device which will allow you to transfer data from one 360 to another, and it only cost about $20. Don't those also come with slims or is my brain just making things up?
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Waffleman_ posted:Don't those also come with slims or is my brain just making things up? Ceratinly don't in the UK as standard, though it seems like a likely thing to put in a bundle.
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If you buy a new hard drive I think you get the transfer cable. Also, NewEgg is having a deal where you can get a Kinect Bundle with a $70 gift card. Not great if you don't want a Kinect. Best Buy and Amazon recently had $50 gift card deals on the regular XBox Slim. Don't know what your plans are, but if you keep an eye on deal sites you can probably get one for under MSRP if you don't mind waiting.
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