Anime Trek: Enterprise - Let's Play Star Ocean 4 Willingly and On Purpose

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Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

Oh no.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2016 17:35

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 01:08

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

So, fun fact: The original 360 release of this did not have a target switch button. At all. You were at the mercy of the auto-targeting. That's why it's so weirdly mapped to Start.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2016 19:17

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

When I played this I didn't have an HDTV yet so this really didn't look so bad compared to other games, but holy poo poo look at that resolution in battle. Is that even 480p? It looks like someone put a smear filter over everything that's not the UI.

Also the amount of bloom is straight up absurd.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2016 18:35

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

I think that skill you learned is related to the BEAT system thing, so it would be under Character rather than under Skills. Despite the fact that the "Learned" prompt at the end of battle used the same icon as the Skills category in the menu.

# ¿ Jul 27, 2016 17:48

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

Excellent.

By the way, make sure you periodically check your Glossary or whatever it's called, there's a few really absurd things in there that never actually get brought up by the game proper.

# ¿ Aug 6, 2016 20:06

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

Oh, you think that one's the worst? I feel like there's at least two that are even worse.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2016 03:59

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

coleman francis posted:

So we're like halfway thru the game right?

Lemme put it this way: This game came on 3 DVDs on the Xbox 360. We're still in the middle of Disc 1.

# ¿ Sep 10, 2016 10:28

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

Vesperia does definitely have the "you can't hold this item, do you want to put it back?" prompt.

# ¿ Oct 8, 2016 17:14

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

I forgot how long this terrible dungeon was. Geez.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2016 19:50

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

Considering the sequel was made on a fraction of the budget while also featuring double the AI characters while still having a PS3 version, no, not even slightly.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2016 17:37

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

The chests were there before, it's just that Lymle has the "show chests on map" skill.

# ¿ Nov 7, 2016 21:19

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

For reference, this is the Star Ocean 1 track this is a remix of, which sounds much more like a battle theme if you ask me.

I mean, I appreciate that they actually bothered changing the battle track, but yeah, I agree that it's not a particularly good choice for a battle track.

# ¿ Nov 20, 2016 13:36

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

Am I missing something or are you guys intentionally playing dumb here? We have a party member whose last name is almost exactly 'Lemuria'.

# ¿ Nov 25, 2016 09:38

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

Oh that's definitely what they're going for but that doesn't make her any less annoying.

# ¿ Nov 28, 2016 21:42

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

You know a thing I actually appreciate? The subtitles for character names work correctly even when the character name is cut off. Wet's subtitle said "S-SamRaimi!?" instead of "R-SamRaimi!?".

# ¿ Dec 1, 2016 21:47

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

For those keeping track, if we were playing the Xbox 360 release of this game, we would have switched from Disc 1 to Disc 2 during the loading screen at 13:28. Yes, during that completely arbitrary screen transition.

This also feels like a good time to remind people that this game is three discs on the 360.

# ¿ Dec 19, 2016 20:47

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

Melomane Mallet posted:

If I'm remembering what I heard about the 360 version correctly, we would have to disc swap every single time we crossed that zone line due to how data was allocated: everything up to that point was disc 1, everything from there to final planet was disc 2, final planet is disc 3.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

Yuuuuuup.

You're only partially correct. Once you swap from Disc 1 to Disc 2, you never need Disc 1 again -- all the still accessible areas of Disc 1 (Tungus, Skyrim, and our current planet) are still on Disc 2. However, the areas on Disc 2 and the areas on Disc 3 are indeed mutually exclusive, and require swapping back and forth.

# ¿ Dec 20, 2016 09:19

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

All the boss fights in this game are such goddamn slogs. Who thought this was a good battle system?

# ¿ Jan 16, 2017 23:47

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

I don't even blame them, the UI for special skills in equipment is terrible.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2017 00:11

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

65535 is the maximum for an unsigned 16 bit integer, or two bytes.

# ¿ Feb 4, 2017 00:20

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

Like all Star Ocean games, levels mean nothing compared to the synthesis system. Not that this game in particular makes it easy to (ab)use, unlike say SO3, especially since we only just got access to it with Serah joining the party.

Also, like SO3, I think the game wants you to use the Bonus Board way more (read: farm for a full set of 14 +10% EXP and not lose it) than we're doing here.

It probably doesn't help that we've been spreading around EXP to a full party rather than sticking to a core few instead, either.

Admiral H. Curtiss fucked around with this message at 09:27 on Feb 16, 2017

# ¿ Feb 16, 2017 09:17

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

I definitely remember this revisit to Aeos and especially this cutscene being the dumbest part of the game, though none of the specifics.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2017 21:17

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

I do like the idea of playing a Tales game for contrast, something like Graces or Xillia probably works.

Though I wouldn't mind a non-JRPG game as a palette cleanser either.

# ¿ Mar 12, 2017 00:51

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

https://bd.baldurk.org/lp/167

# ¿ Mar 12, 2017 13:34

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

Yeah I dunno what happened to that one.

# ¿ Mar 12, 2017 13:38

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

corn in the bible posted:

E: he said if it's PS4 he needs a new capture device

If you're fine with recording in 720p than some HDMI -> Component converter like this should work just fine, which is much cheaper.

# ¿ Mar 13, 2017 09:28

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

In order:

Tales of Graces f
Tales of Xillia
Pandora's Tower
Grandia 1
Super Mario 3D world
Zack and Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure
Opoona

The rest I don't have any particular preference either way.

# ¿ Mar 14, 2017 21:40

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

As in the classic RTS style fog of war? You just don't draw any object (or partially draw it with 100% transparency on one side) that is far enough away from any of your units.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 09:21

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

So uh how does that work? Do we just re-vote between the two? I'm still for Graces.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 20:57

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

For reference, landing on En II switches from Disc 2 to Disc 3 (of 3) on the 360 version. If you ever want to go back to Tungus, Skyrim, or Roak, you'll have to switch back to Disc 2.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2017 21:13

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

God this game is stupid. I'm not surprised I forgot pretty much everything about this plot.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2017 17:28

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

I actually had to laugh at the comment at 11:58, you think this game has some sensible design somewhere.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2017 16:32

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

The Xbox 360 release of Star Ocean 4 had two different UI styles; one for the Japanese version of the game (the light blue with anime-style portraits in the latest video) and one for the version the rest of the world got (the dark blue with 3D renders). For the PS3 version they realized, hey, maybe people would like to be able to select instead of it being forced on them depending on where they live.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2017 13:26

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

Can't you disintegrate those force field diamonds? I seem to remember that, out of all things.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2017 18:41

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

It was the secret commentary on one of the Two Worlds videos, I think the super long one: https://bd.baldurk.org/lp/168 / https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL81s2Z1UedT5Ol9VzGF58eFmbqIc-qu37

# ¿ Apr 29, 2017 14:12

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 01:08

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

Runic Edge posted:

Postgame

You forgot an important detail, at least assuming you're playing the 360 version: The Calnus, and thus your synthesis menu, is stuck on the final dungeon planet, which is on Disc 3. The (first) bonus dungeon is on Roak, which is on Disc 2. Have fun with that one.

# ¿ May 8, 2017 23:18

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