Welcome to the end of the world, boys [Lightning Returns]

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Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

I noticed Snow gets name dropped in the opening datalogs while Noel is considered a nameless ally at best, despite being player 1 in the prequel.

# ¿ May 14, 2016 05:54

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 10:11

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

That would ruin the Lightning trilogy. It would have been better if Lightning just admitted that she has a murderboner and got the shades from a victim.

# ¿ May 14, 2016 17:52

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

Make a manboy out of an established character with half his memories, have another be an emotionless killing machine, and forget the advances that humanity has accomplished in the prequel. Now build a game around Lightning.

# ¿ May 16, 2016 21:20

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

Maybe Lightning has two masters, if she is missing something without realizing it.

Magic Pants posted:

Props to Fedule for doing 3 lps simultaneously. It's a level of insanity we can only dream of.

Not as insane as the guy doing five or six LPs.

# ¿ May 21, 2016 06:34

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

I don't remember the rear end Creed games having its NPCs trip over each other so much as that group. If you have NPCs spinning around because they are trying to clip through each other, you should maybe spawn a smaller group or multiple groups.

# ¿ May 22, 2016 19:01

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

AnotherGamer posted:

I dunno when the option to do so initially becomes available, but you can just pick up the phone, purposefully give them the wrong code which causes them to send a semi-tough enemy after you, kill it and gain access to the area that way.

These Etro guys are loving brilliant.

# ¿ May 23, 2016 16:49

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

Benach posted:

The whole "hundreds of years have passed" becomes even more meaningless when you realize that everything was just stagnant for those hundreds of years. Basically no advancement in technology or knowledge and people still have the dumbest problems that should have been addressed ages ago. Sure, it's the apocalypse, but it's such a slow burning one people should've done things instead of doing nothing.
Of course, you can argue that that's part of the game's writing, but I doubt it.

There might have been some anti-technology movement going around where everyone just agreed that progress should stop.

# ¿ May 27, 2016 02:27

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

How did the Chaos change the rotation of the planet's orbit?

# ¿ May 29, 2016 14:11

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

You have Red XIII.
There might also have been some game with a variation of 13 in its name, and some big shot who was involved with the FF games or Square-Enix.

# ¿ May 30, 2016 04:14

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

The AI sure knows how to have a good time when you are busy dealing with people. It is not as extreme as the ten foot push in FFXII, but these NPCs have a path to break and they don't care what you are doing.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2016 06:03

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

They sure like pointing out about income inequality in a series where labor is increasingly in short supply.
Good thing the food quest didn't end up becoming like another civet coffee.

Where do you get the idea that food sells on tiny margins? I guess the raw stuff would be it, but the prepared foods at my franchise can have anywhere from 50% to 100+% margins.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2016 17:00

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

SE had the opportunity to introduce Sahagin Dajh Ice Cream.

NGDBSS posted:

If you're looking for a game that goes on about food porn, you could do worse than Muramasa: The Demon Blade. Eating food in that game is actually a central mechanic, since in addition to healing you doing so will give you more Spirit. And in turn, Spirit is one of the two currencies necessary to make better swords to keep pace in the game. Basically it's taken to a more deadly extent.

Some of the Vanillaware games like Muramasa and Odin Sphere, made food as the mechanic for growth. Plant seeds and you grow living sheep.
I sound like a broken record when I bring up Elona+, but among the many things the food in that game could fend off besides hunger, you could also recover stamina, train stats, change height/weight/age, make you anorexic, insane, grow diseased body parts, doom the world to hellfire, etc.

Scalding Coffee fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Jun 7, 2016

# ¿ Jun 7, 2016 03:58

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

AradoBalanga posted:

I don't think we have a monocle to go with it, though.

Maybe a tiny hat.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2016 06:58

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

Kaboom Dragoon posted:

I dunno, given the choice between spending eternity with my cats or the people who live in that world, I'd take the cats any day.

I wouldn't want to spend centuries staring at that terrible cat model.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2016 20:26

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

Those subtitles can use some work.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2016 06:14

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

It also has two mouths, for some stupid reason.

I figured the chocobo performed its job for the end times and dying was a suitable end.

# ¿ Jun 23, 2016 03:50

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

I always approve of a genocide option. It is not about the numbers, but the challenge. Some bosses have great music to kill to.

# ¿ Jun 26, 2016 23:34

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

I thought they have died off, but there are always a fal'cie helping humanity.

# ¿ Jun 30, 2016 16:33

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

Do all buff items heal you or is it from a different source? That is a neat concept to making people use items.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2016 06:02

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

It is hard to remember she is a normal human, when her notable emotions in the other games are punching Snow.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2016 03:19

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

Artix posted:

Well, it looks like we're going to the Wildlands. Time to nurse a big dumb bird back to health.

Is that bird eating twice its own weight each day or something?

# ¿ Jul 30, 2016 15:16

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

I bet the Chocobo will talk at some point.

# ¿ Aug 4, 2016 16:27

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

AradoBalanga posted:

That Sarala stuff was as subtle as a 2x4 to the back of the head. Repeatedly.

For about five more days. Until then, prosperity.

# ¿ Aug 7, 2016 06:53

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

I expected nothing different on how to treat Mog.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2016 18:48

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

If there is one thing to learn in life, is that you are supposed to be amazed at everything Lightning does.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2016 21:12

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

She shows more emotions when she is embarrassed and angry, than seeing her sister. She is ending up being the sort who hurts anyone without thinking about it.

# ¿ Aug 19, 2016 16:33

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

FFXIV has monthly fees, right? Why bother when you can wait for a free month or play a free MMO?

# ¿ Aug 25, 2016 01:55

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

I imagine she laid an egg containing his soul.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2016 05:24

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

Not everyone can earn the arena title of "Wandering Slacker".

# ¿ Sep 14, 2016 06:11

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

Those skeletons are just asking to be exterminated.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2016 04:04

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

corn in the bible posted:

People regularly post in the FF thread about running out of time, so it's certainly possible to do that. It's not a huge deal if you do though it's inconvenient.

Wouldn't running out of time be a good thing since you can unlock stuff that should have been open from the start?

# ¿ Sep 25, 2016 04:20

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

The Bhakti segment (F) started to sound like the situation with the Clockwork Men from Dr. Who, who kept replacing broken parts to live forever. Amusingly, Dr. Who reasoned like a Fascist, by admitting that sick or old people had no need for healthy, replacement organs/limbs and should accept death for the good of society, through a metaphor he made.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2016 21:45

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

You showed those skeletons how to have a good time and the rest of the monsters living there.

# ¿ Oct 3, 2016 14:06

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

You did get good items out of it. Not a total loss.

# ¿ Oct 6, 2016 04:15

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

I still don't understand why it had to be a dead bird as a hat instead of a hood. FF games sure love putting hoods on people.

# ¿ Oct 10, 2016 05:35

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

Is there a Japanese fireworks company who has people shout its name when fireworks explode?

# ¿ Oct 14, 2016 14:56

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

They look like lifelike bubblegum sculptures.

# ¿ Oct 22, 2016 02:53

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

So many chocobos and only one you get to ride.

# ¿ Nov 8, 2016 15:20

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

Those terrified sheep you kept penning in only escaped to warm their young and you prevented it. Their fear-induced neurological disorder also doesn't seem to affect their mating/child rearing habits.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2016 16:40

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 10:11

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

Can't you focus a flashlight on everything and shoot them when the chaos dissipates?

# ¿ Nov 27, 2016 02:42

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