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Let's talk ballin' last gen JRPGS
Fandyien
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But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
So I'm not usually too big on JRPGs, but I've been rocking out the PS2 I bought last summer a whole bunch. I beat FFX when I was 11, and going back and playing it now that I'm 20 has been rad, but I know what I'm doin' and I can recall most of the story.
So today I popped in FFXII, and it's pretty dadgum cool. Only problem is, I have no idea what to do with Vaan on the license grid and the whole system is unfamiliar to me.
Next up is Kingdom Hearts, which is really hard because you run around a-la-plaformers but it seems like a regular RPG to me.
Also, more to the point:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005LOXE/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_2?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B00004TC6E&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=05B9661MBJZQP7RCHMAJ
Is that worth $30?
So today I popped in FFXII, and it's pretty dadgum cool. Only problem is, I have no idea what to do with Vaan on the license grid and the whole system is unfamiliar to me.
Next up is Kingdom Hearts, which is really hard because you run around a-la-plaformers but it seems like a regular RPG to me.
Also, more to the point:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005LOXE/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_2?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B00004TC6E&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=05B9661MBJZQP7RCHMAJ
Is that worth $30?
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PS i just found a gambit what do I do to make it possible to activate
"Oh shit this game is fucking awesome time to go level... Oh God I love the grind its so awesome, lets go kill some marks... damn couldn't kill that one time to grind more... Oh God this is so fun... maybe I should go do some story, Oh shit where am I supposed to go? Oh shit what's the plot? I don't understand what's going on, time to go level and kill more marks...."
generally I loved the gameplay and couldn't stand/had no drive to finish the plot
Give Balthier more than just guns. Make sure that dude has some magicks. The bigger the better. Guns are really underpowered and slow late in the game. I micromanage, so I often have Baltheir shooting mans, casting healing magicks on mans, or casting casting Scathe.
Nifty trick: Equip three reflect armors, caste an area magic at YOUR party, watch it get cast a bajillion times and do a fuckton of damage to your enemy. Especially useful on enemies that negate physical attacks.
Gambits are activated from the menu screen. Select a character you want to set a gambit on, find the action you want that character to do, and then selected a condition for that action. It's a condition.
If x, then y.
You can enable gambits from the battle menu by just clicking Gambits to ON.
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This guy doesn't have a clue.
Chrono Cross does have some plot issues but the gameplay is fun as hell. Plus also the music.
And yeah don't buy the Anthologies. As has been mentioned already, the Chrono Trigger port is seriously god-awful.
persona 4
Dark cloud 2
Rogue galaxy
Valkyrie profile 2
Odin sphere
Shadow hearts covenant
Steambot chronicles
That should tide you over for like a year
Though I find the GBA FF4 and the DS Chrono Trigger to be the best versions of those. And as long as you have a DS/DSLite, you can have both carts in at once! The DS FF4 is really good, but they added in a lot of BS random difficulty.
Yes, the music in Chrono Cross was pretty good. Especially that opening song. And the game play is good.
But seriously? "Some plot issues?" I don't want to get into spoiler territory but
If you're going to play it, just pretend like it's like...a "spiritual successor" to Chrono Trigger or something. Or that it's not related at all.
Cilla's right. It's definitely worth a play through for the music alone, though.
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Items, yes. Spells, no.
Weapons and armor are pretty straightforward. The higher the level, the better the weapons. Accessories don't really work the same way, so I didn't really bother with them outside the Bubble Belt.
Spells are pretty easy. Only a few spells are new/foreign. Scathe, for instance, is something I hadn't seen before. It's basically just an AoE version of Flare. If you have questions about something, definitely just look it up.
Well, it's a start anyway.
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yesss this
man now I want to play it again
I am enjoying it more than FF8 though.
If you want to play them you really need to start from the first, the mechanics are so dated that you'll hate playing it after going through 2 or 3
I posit that you smell
emerald and ruby were easy
man I loved exploiting the hell out of the materia system.
The more you read into Nocturne's plot, the more you get from it. Very little is spoon-fed to the player, and that's what I like about it. There's certainly no setting quite like the Vortex World, either.
Press Turn was a great combat system, and fusion, well, love or hate.
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I sunk a lot of time into getting every single Enemy Skill for the Enemy Skill materia. 'Bad Breath' was a complete bitch. Goddamn Marlboros.
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But of course they're pissed. The world just ended. Everyone they knew is dead.
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Yeah I was too young to really get into exploiting the system so I would just get my ass kicked. All I cared about was getting a cool chocobo.
Haha, yes. The animation was definitely subject to diminishing returns. I think by the fourth casting, I was like, 'Oh, God. I've got to sit through this again?'
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To which I replied. "Who are you!?" Why the fuck were they even fighting? I don't know. I thought those gods or some shit were going to be the final boss.
You'll have a primary antagonist for most of the game, but they're not the one that's intent on destroying the world/the final boss, and that's the person you don't meet until you show up on their doorstep
Like FFXIII, what the fuck huge boss out of nowhere that you have specifically been talking about not fighting for the whole game
my most hated thing in all JRPGs
well, no, maybe I hate the unconscious sexism more
but it's up there
That was prt of it's charm! Also the combat system was nice
If you want a truly jrpg jrpg, gotta go with steamboat chronicles. I mean, you pilot a steam-powered mech and make money busking on the street with like 5 different musical instruments! just fun all around, no angst
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