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Rirse posted:There we go, I got the sequels section done. good luck with the spin-offs section. also holy poo poo there are so many games in this series. 
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MikeJF posted:Every time I think about playing FFXIII I look at all the ridiculous words in the basic setup and my eyes glaze over. you mean... the three of them? I sure hope you managed to get Avalanche through the Mako reactor made by the Shinra corporation, or the SeeDs in Balamb Garden Elephant Ambush posted:Is there any real point to collecting a ton of cards in FF8? I saw a guide about playing a shitload of people in Balamb Garden to get rare cards but are they actually useful in the game or is it just an OCD collector thing? you can mod them for rare items which can get you high level spells earlier than you might otherwise be able to. if you don't like the card game or don't want to grind cards forever, there's little point though because the game's not hard enough to require it.
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Elephant Ambush posted:
please don't grind in FFVIII for any reason (cards, AP, exp). there's virtually no benefit to carding enemies and as long as you're setting GF abilities yourself and not letting the game pick your abilities (because it prioritises stupid things like SumMag+10%), you're going to get all the useful GF abilities just fine. if you just play TT after getting some of the rare cards, as a diversion every now and then, it's a fun mini-game, probably one of the best in the series. especially if you have Same/Plus without all the bad rules like random/direct/etc. Rirse posted:Think it just more rewards. I forget if they join you on the airship in disc 4 if you don't do the quest. they do not (at least that's how I remember it). so if you want the ability to play them for rare cards, you need to do their quest before then.
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Elephant Ambush posted:That's the funniest line in the game so far. that has killed me in the prison more than once. Rirse posted:Still love this line that appears after the very first Laguna segment. the Laguna sections are the best just for the number of times everyone else dunks on him
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zenguitarman posted:Oh man, I don't even remember, FF8 didn't even have analog controls yet? you could use the analog sticks, but I'm pretty sure the whole problem with switching screens and directions not taking you the same way is still an issue, like it is in games like Silent Hill with tank controls
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Elephant Ambush posted:This prison is confusing trash. I went all the way downstairs with Zell checking the doors to see if any would open and none of them did. I looked up a guide and apparently there's a ton of stuff I can get but all the floors look the same and none of the doors open. WTF am I doing wrong? if you're at the point where you're just Zell and the guards are chasing you, I don't think you can get into the cells anymore. you can enter them right after you get the weapons back and you're just running up to bust Squall out. honestly the prison is about the only part of VIII I don't like that much and I always just breeze through it whenever I play.
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Scalding Coffee posted:I don't know if the strategy guide says so, but Zell makes some parts of the game harder on you by being in your party. because he's a chicken wuss
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Paperhouse posted:But her limits suck so I never used her Selphie's limit is great, but even so worrying about which limit is better leads to the kind of arguments like Zell's being the "best" because you can sit there switching between Booya and Punch Rush or whatever it was
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the objective right choice to hang out with is the crew from IX just sayin'
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DevCore posted:Wait you could pick a different path? no, they added that later
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Looper posted:do you think steiner has ever taken a day off Steiner had a very extended vacation to such locales as the Desert Prison and a parallel world. he even went on a cruise
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seiferguy posted:If you've had a friend who's never played a final fantasy game, which one would you have them play? Gut instinct for me is 9, basically something that isn't too complicated and also wouldn't make you miserable? it depends on what they like. if they've never played a turn-based RPG before, then XV might be a better option. my favourite is IX, but really it comes down to personal taste.
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zedprime posted:Yeah it'd be neat to hear the story. I've mentioned before, refine seems like a late addition that never got a balance pass. Without refine, the level and magic system has a semblance of balance with how the best magic is only available from higher level monsters so leveling actually would have had a point. it would have been fine if they had, say, not given you 20 curagas from one tent, which you can buy at any store for practically nothing, and the GF that gives you the ability you need is like the first one you're going to pick up after the tutorial.
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Help Im Alive posted:You get so many fishing mini games in games and I think the only ones I liked at all were the zelda ones XV's is awesome. the feeling I got from catching some of those large fish was better than some bosses.
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HD DAD posted:I remember one interview circa ‘09-ish where they had one designer working on a single rock for three days, without a hint of self awareness over how insane that is. wasn't that for XIV and not XIII?
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ninjewtsu posted:What are square's genre defining games? How long did that period last? FF6 and 7 were three years apart, but after that they got 8, 9, and 10 out all within like a four year period, with Kingdom Hearts coming out a year later. In between 6 and 7, they were also making Chrono Trigger and Super Mario RPG. The 90s were a busy time for them
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kirbysuperstar posted:No, the rock was XIII. yeah, sorry, Mega reminded me I was thinking of the barrel in XIV that had as many polygons as a player character
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Pureauthor posted:Why did Spirits Within bomb so hard it left a crater in Squaresoft HQ, anyway? the 90s didn't have enough mainstream anime support. even Roger Ebert liked Spirits Within
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XIII is polarising for a number of reasons, but the fact that they let you just retry a battle right away if you lost was absolutely brilliant
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ItBreathes posted:How do you propose to implement consequences to failure? (Actual question, not rhetorical). your consequence is having to do the fight again/not getting to progress. not every game has to be Dark Souls
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in Disgaea 5 you lose nothing at all for failing a fight and that game has plenty of times you're going to get your poo poo stomped on until you figure out a better strategy or build a new class or something
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DrNutt posted:Lmao I haven't seen a shroud in 20 hours because this is the stingiest loving game when it comes to consumables. Just for shits I decided to burn a summon the last time and killed the two robot buddies but did gently caress all damage to the big boy, and then when my summon went away he summoned like 5 more robot buddies who proceeded to piss in my cornflakes. Fight sucks. doesn't the game start giving you more shrouds when you start doing poorly? I do remember getting brick walled at that boss though, but I think I found out one time you can run by them if you line it up right
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DrNutt posted:I decided to go back and do some more hunts and come back to the hardest fight in the entire game later. It was a slog getting back out to the archlyte steppe, but I did a few more of the hunts and unlocked the most bizarrely limited fast travel system I have ever seen in a game. I guess the completely serviceable one from 12 where you could just teleport via certain save points was a little too user friendly so they had to take it down a notch. Another thing that is brought into focus by the giant open areas is how terrible the map system is. Rotates rather than fixed point, which isn't a big deal when running through the game's story corridors, but is problematic when trying to navigate Gran Pulse. Also, why the gently caress do you just get a small glimpse of the world in the map screen, and why are you unable to see adjacent areas? It would be really helpful since the hunts are all listed by area. What a cluster gently caress of bad game design. also I know this is like the least relevant part of your post, and I only bring it up because I spelled and pronounced it wrong for years before I noticed, but it's not Archlyte Steppe, it's Archylte Steppe. a similar thing happened with cactaur and cactuar
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I watched this earlier but my sound must have been off so I just rewatched it and lmao
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Blockhouse posted:is this some thread in-joke meme I've missed he was the director/concept person for a lot of the EU stuff
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ImpAtom posted:No he wasn't. isn't Advent Children mostly what people complain about anyway? and Wiki says he was concept on BC but I dunno. doesn't really matter to me--I just did like 30 seconds of internet research. either way, I have nothing against Nomura like some people here seem to. I hope Square pays him to do his thing forever.
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AFStealth posted:Well this is embarrassing but I used to run a huge FFX2 fansite back when it came out, but I never actually played it. I'm finally getting around to it. Any good beginner need to know things? Doing the HD remaster. just have fun. don't try to get 100%. there are few wrong ways to play
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do none of you remember the CGI cutscene of Cloud making a memorial for Cait Sith at the Temple of the Ancients, shedding a single tear as he walks away?
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NikkolasKing posted:Yeah I never realized this either for a long time. I blame the graphics and the less-than-ideal camera angle. I think it's Tifa. they wouldn't make it an optional character you never have to find. at least not by default
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DrNutt posted:Cool, and? just seems like a weird complaint in a series that has shown pretty much zero restraint for any gender in terms of clothing design, from the skimpy to the absolute stupid like Tidus' uneven shorts and whatever is going on with Nooj
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Fister Roboto posted:You get the impression that this is not the first time she's done this. another cut scene was a Zach flashback to a very similar contrived scenario to get him in a dress
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Shammypants posted:I am playing FFX on the Nintendo Switch, my first FF game since 1 or 2 came out in stores. I am enjoying it and will try FFXII next- thank you for your attention to this post. if you don't play X-2 next I don't know what you're even doing with your life
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Schwartzcough posted:Maybe if you don't enjoy jumping through the sidequest hoops and you don't enjoy being overpowered from sidequest rewards, stop doing sidequests? If you use a walkthrough to get all the sidequest rewards and hidden treasures, you'll end up overpowered in pretty much any Final Fantasy. choosing to play in the least fun ways possible and then complaining about it is a staple of FF games. like the people who follow a guide to grind e: whoops wrong card game morallyobjected fucked around with this message at 10:24 on May 1, 2019 |
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The White Dragon posted:it's a powerful combo but it's expensive af. reflect x2 is like 16AP? maybe i'm thinking of reflect-null I think they're both ridiculously expensive
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NikkolasKing posted:I guess I'll put this in spoilers. in the main game it's absolutely not a huge deal, either to the characters or to the story. it exists as a way to show that he can open the doors or whatever, but it doesn't carry a bunch of emotional weight that it probably ought to. I don't know if any of that is expounded upon in his DLC
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Rirse posted:I beat FFX today, which man Yuna ultimate weapon plus her using a lot of Lulu's grid sphere just made her so broken that the final boss didn't even get more then a single attack off. I picked up FFXII on the Switch, but wonder if I should play X-2 next since I never played it and X is fresh in my memory to remember characters. If I play X-2, what some tips? don't go for 100%. visit everywhere at least once per chapter when you can
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Zidane is the best protagonist in any FF game because he just goes around making new friends and helping them protect the things they care about--even the main antagonist
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