rick is basically dennis from always sunny combined with josef mengele and andy griffith
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Rick might have killed billions of people, shown a sociopathic disregard for the lives of others, violated almost every law of God and man, and ruined the lives of almost everyone he's ever met, but let's be fair here.
So it looks like we're going to be playing Spec Ops: The Line starting on Oct 2. I'll make the new thread for it tomorrow, but mark your calendars and if you need to get the game go ahead and do it. That game is cheap on the Amazon, it seems.
We will be playing the game for two weeks, and then have one week to recuperate before starting in on Final Fantasy Tactics. That topic will go up on October 16, with actual playthrough beginning October 23rd.
Now, I have not played either of these two games. Our friendly neighborhood beartato, A Steak!, laid out a timeline for Spec Ops. Would anyone with experience with FFT be willing to help me plot out how a timeline for that game should work, given that we're aiming to devote about 5 hours a week to these playthroughs, like we did with FF12?
Hmn. FFT-wise, there are four chapters, but each one has differing amounts of required fights.
Chapter 1 - 10 (9 + Prologue fight)
Chapter 2 - 11
Chapter 3 - 11
Chapter 4 - 22 (Required fights only, does not count the sidequests)
So that comes out to 54 required fights, and many people are going to want to do the Ch 4 sidequests as well. Also count the random battles that are going to pop up as well (IIRC it's 50% to trigger one when you pass over a green dot on the map).
Not really, unfortunately. I'll try to take a look through and see if there are any reasonable stopping points, but it may be better to just break it up by the chapters.
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Spec Ops: The Line
I have never played tactics before, can I get that on the PS3? Or am I out of luck if I don't have a Vita/PSP? (Also that is a really weird sentence to write out)
I have never played tactics before, can I get that on the PS3? Or am I out of luck if I don't have a Vita/PSP? (Also that is a really weird sentence to write out)
I think you can get the PS1 version on PS3.
edit: yep. The PS1 version is available off of the PSN for PS3, PSP, and PSVita.
The PSP port, War of the Lions, is available off the PSN for PSP and Vita as well.
They are both $10 dollars, which is pretty funny.
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I have never played tactics before, can I get that on the PS3? Or am I out of luck if I don't have a Vita/PSP? (Also that is a really weird sentence to write out)
I think you can get the PS1 version on PS3.
edit: yep. The PS1 version is available off of the PSN for PS3, PSP, and PSVita.
The PSP port, War of the Lions, is available off the PSN for PSP and Vita as well.
They are both $10 dollars, which is pretty funny.
I'm not losing story stuff by not being able to get the PSP port am I?
Speaking of FFT, now that I have some sleep, here's my rough stab at a timeline (in the spoiler due to me listing area names):
W1: Character Generation to Battle 5 (Dorter Trade City 1)
W2: Battle 6 (Sand Rat Cellar) to Battle 10 (Fort Zeakden)
W3: Battle 11 (Dorter Trade City 2) to Battle 14 (Zaland Fort City)
W4: Battle 15 (Barius Hill) to Battle 18 (Barius Valley)
W5: Battle 19 (Golgorand Execution Site) to Battle 21 (Inside Lionel Castle)
W6: Battle 22 (Goland Coal City) to Battle 26 (Underground Storage First Floor)
W7: Battle 27(Grog Hill) to Batle 29 (Yuguo Woods)
W8: Battle 30 (Approaching Riovannes Castle) to Battle 32 (Roof of Riovannes Castle)
W9: Battle 33 (Doguola Pass) to Battle 37 (Bed Desert)
W10: Battle 38 (North/South Wall of Bethla Garrison) to Battle 41 (Poeskas Lake)
W11: Battle 42 (Gate of Limberry Castle) to Battle 45 (Inside Igros Castle)
*Point of No Return to the World Map*
W12: Battle 46 (Murond Holy Place) to Battle 50 (Underground Book Storage Fifth Floor)
W13: Battle 51 (Murond Death City) to Battle 54 (Graveyard of Airships 2)
Not sure where to put the Chapter 4 sidequests. They'd have to be sometime after Week 10 (which is when I think they unlock) to before Week 12 (the Point of No Return). As always, feel free to modify as you see fit.
I have never played tactics before, can I get that on the PS3? Or am I out of luck if I don't have a Vita/PSP? (Also that is a really weird sentence to write out)
I think you can get the PS1 version on PS3.
edit: yep. The PS1 version is available off of the PSN for PS3, PSP, and PSVita.
The PSP port, War of the Lions, is available off the PSN for PSP and Vita as well.
They are both $10 dollars, which is pretty funny.
I'm not losing story stuff by not being able to get the PSP port am I?
No.
WotL adds at least one bonus character, Balthier from FF12, and two bonus jobs, Dark Knight and Onion Knight. It also has a new translation and some redid cutscenes, but I don't think it adds any new story.
I just want to point out that while they are very similar there are some differences between the war of the Lions and original game. The psp version has a noticeable slowdown during most moves and abilities, bad enough to desync the audio a bit. It is fixed in the Android version, no idea about the ios version. In exchange though you get access to some gorgeous animated cut scenes, Balthier from FF12, Luso from the FFT Advance series, a new and much better translation, balance changes, a multiplayer mode, and a few bug fixes. Really the War of the Lions is superior except for the slowdown which can be very annoying to anyone who played the original.
Yeah, Calculator is mega OP. I keep telling myself to not do an all female team yet again, but the Chantage is calling to me.
Yeah it kind of blew me away when I read what you could do with them. TG Cid is broken enough without even sinking much leveling into him and yet somehow calculators are still worse
Hit the whole map with Holy and one shot the board? okay, can do.
I can step up and do the FFT timeline if no one has officially taken the mantle yet. I didn't do the FF12 playthrough, so how long is the ideal session, purely story-wise for a week? Bear in mind, this is a tactics game, so while the individual battles may only take 10-15 minutes, there are mandatory maintenance duties like outfitting, and allocating job points which should probably be built into even bare-bones playtime projections
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...Rick is still completely unwatchable for me though
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Rick might have killed billions of people, shown a sociopathic disregard for the lives of others, violated almost every law of God and man, and ruined the lives of almost everyone he's ever met, but let's be fair here.
He's not Dennis.
Why I fear the ocean.
Dennis is a monster.
Well, so is Rick, but at least he sometimes realizes it.
Sort of.
Why I fear the ocean.
So it looks like we're going to be playing Spec Ops: The Line starting on Oct 2. I'll make the new thread for it tomorrow, but mark your calendars and if you need to get the game go ahead and do it. That game is cheap on the Amazon, it seems.
We will be playing the game for two weeks, and then have one week to recuperate before starting in on Final Fantasy Tactics. That topic will go up on October 16, with actual playthrough beginning October 23rd.
Now, I have not played either of these two games. Our friendly neighborhood beartato, A Steak!, laid out a timeline for Spec Ops. Would anyone with experience with FFT be willing to help me plot out how a timeline for that game should work, given that we're aiming to devote about 5 hours a week to these playthroughs, like we did with FF12?
Chapter 1 - 10 (9 + Prologue fight)
Chapter 2 - 11
Chapter 3 - 11
Chapter 4 - 22 (Required fights only, does not count the sidequests)
So that comes out to 54 required fights, and many people are going to want to do the Ch 4 sidequests as well. Also count the random battles that are going to pop up as well (IIRC it's 50% to trigger one when you pass over a green dot on the map).
Chicago Megagame group
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I think you can get the PS1 version on PS3.
edit: yep. The PS1 version is available off of the PSN for PS3, PSP, and PSVita.
The PSP port, War of the Lions, is available off the PSN for PSP and Vita as well.
They are both $10 dollars, which is pretty funny.
I'm not losing story stuff by not being able to get the PSP port am I?
Chicago Megagame group
Watch me struggle to learn streaming! Point and laugh!
Although some people said it's a bit buggy? Haven't tried it myself.
W2: Battle 6 (Sand Rat Cellar) to Battle 10 (Fort Zeakden)
W3: Battle 11 (Dorter Trade City 2) to Battle 14 (Zaland Fort City)
W4: Battle 15 (Barius Hill) to Battle 18 (Barius Valley)
W5: Battle 19 (Golgorand Execution Site) to Battle 21 (Inside Lionel Castle)
W6: Battle 22 (Goland Coal City) to Battle 26 (Underground Storage First Floor)
W7: Battle 27(Grog Hill) to Batle 29 (Yuguo Woods)
W8: Battle 30 (Approaching Riovannes Castle) to Battle 32 (Roof of Riovannes Castle)
W9: Battle 33 (Doguola Pass) to Battle 37 (Bed Desert)
W10: Battle 38 (North/South Wall of Bethla Garrison) to Battle 41 (Poeskas Lake)
W11: Battle 42 (Gate of Limberry Castle) to Battle 45 (Inside Igros Castle)
*Point of No Return to the World Map*
W12: Battle 46 (Murond Holy Place) to Battle 50 (Underground Book Storage Fifth Floor)
W13: Battle 51 (Murond Death City) to Battle 54 (Graveyard of Airships 2)
Not sure where to put the Chapter 4 sidequests. They'd have to be sometime after Week 10 (which is when I think they unlock) to before Week 12 (the Point of No Return). As always, feel free to modify as you see fit.
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Chicago Megagame group
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No.
WotL adds at least one bonus character, Balthier from FF12, and two bonus jobs, Dark Knight and Onion Knight. It also has a new translation and some redid cutscenes, but I don't think it adds any new story.
PSN:Furlion
Pretty stoked to do a weird FFT run, since I've played it many times before. Thinking maybe a single-class run? Nothing but chemists!
This was me about 7 minutes into the first episode.
I came around pretty quick.
Please, everyone knows you grind JP by standing in a circle and screaming at each other.
But if my save dies I swear to God I'm gonna be so mad.
I never got a calculator or mime going, for instance
Calculators are one of the more OP classes, if you don't mind doing a lot of math in your head
And if I can get fft on mobile maybe I'll get in on that too, wish it had made it to the 3DS or something though
There's no penalty for being slightly ahead, right? I don't get busted, or whatever?
Jobsterbating is a time honored tradition.
Yeah it kind of blew me away when I read what you could do with them. TG Cid is broken enough without even sinking much leveling into him and yet somehow calculators are still worse
Hit the whole map with Holy and one shot the board? okay, can do.
Jesus.
Real JP grinders trap a man in an endless cycle of damage and healing.
Oh so it is like Fire Emblem