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[JRPG]s Are Teambuilding Exercises
Baidol
I will hold him offEscape while you canRegistered User regular
I will hold him offEscape while you canRegistered User regular
Whether you're slaying the lowliest rat or the mightiest pantheon of gods, the power of friendship* will see you through.
*or the power of parallel hatred
Anyway, I'm playing Bravely Default 2 which is my first BD game and it is an enjoyable if fairly safe experience. I love how body language is used during cutscenes particularly when it involves characters not actively part of the conversation and the costumes for the jobs are very solid. I've got all of the non-postgame jobs and put together some classic "broken shit".
*or the power of parallel hatred
Anyway, I'm playing Bravely Default 2 which is my first BD game and it is an enjoyable if fairly safe experience. I love how body language is used during cutscenes particularly when it involves characters not actively part of the conversation and the costumes for the jobs are very solid. I've got all of the non-postgame jobs and put together some classic "broken shit".
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I do like the idea of having just the one voice actor do everything though, get SungWon Cho on that next time.
With the FF6 Pixel Remaster up next, I expect Square isn't too happy about that.
I REALLY should actually play FFXV though soni seeing I bought it at release
Oh god, Last Remnant. I know the remake and updates changed a bunch of core mechanics, but that is one that it very much behooves you to get an actual serious understanding of the way leveling/gaining stats works because it was very easy in the original game to softlock yourself because its internal formulas were AAAALLLLLL the way fucked up and the things the game itself told you to do were a fast track to completely bricking your save file.
Basically, despite it pretending to be random, every character had an internal level that went up fairly normally, but there was also a 'master level' that went up no matter what which both caused enemies to get stronger, and slowed the character level gains because you were already playing at a 'high' level. If you did things like chain battles, or even just fight lots of battles (say, because of the hojillion early side quests and needing to farm crafting materials), your master level would shoot up to the moon while the character internal levels would be like "Man, this dude's crushing it. We need to slow shit down to give him a challenge again." It basically tried to rebalance itself to making regular encounters challenging. And then you run into any of the many major difficulty spikes and you're left with the situation where grinding makes the boss stronger faster than it makes you stronger.
Again, I know remakes changed a bunch of things, but I also know not all were improvements. Like there's some weird thing about screwing major characters up completely if they're put as not-leaders in a unit, which cripples their stat and skill gains, I believe. In the original, you could only have one or two uniques per unit, so a bunch of story characters sat on the bench. Now you get to give them generic's stats.
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Also, apparently Sophie 2's big twist on the Atelier formula is replacing harvesting, you know, the simple point and grab shit activity you do a thousand times, with mobile style minigames. Oi. And it is most definitely not the Dusk style combat system. Or even Lydie/Lulua. Switching characters is just picking them during someone's turn to use one of their skills right after. Feh.
The battle level isn’t really hidden information, but, as with literally every system present, the game does a very poor job explaining what it actually does.
The system is still designed over the same bad math and assumptions, they just fixed some of the things that go totally nuts.
Also, I just learned that there was a fucked up trick to break out of that kind of softlock in the 360 version. Characters in reserve apparently slowly leveled based on the protagonist. So if the protagonist did a lot of magic shit, they gained magic related exp and skills. Also meaning that if you built him to magic, then every character you didn't use would gradually become a mage. But you could kick out literally everybody and just fight things solo as him, and it would consider that a 'difficult' fight, even against the easiest enemies in the game, and so everybody else besides him would gain at least a small bit of stats while your BR remained essentially unaffected.
Like, cut content or all fan made?
From what I understand, it's a bit of both. They restored stuff like the dialogue Sabin was supposed to have when meeting Gerad and the scene between Strago and Shadow in Thamasa, but they also added a ton of new side quests (like gathering refugees to repopulate Narshe in the WoR).
They recreated the Soul Shrine from the GBA version, but apparently not the Dragon's Den. All the GBA Espers are also in (along with a bunch more) but the methods to get them may be different (ie. Gilgamesh is a recurring character including a Battle on the Bridge before you get him).
They also did a bunch of rebalancing, some to make things smoother (Gau now learns Rages just by facing foes in battle and doesn't need to Leap and it doesn't even need to be on the Veldt, the Veldt is just for if he missed facing one personally) and others were to make things less steam-rolly (ie. Ultima is now harder to get, Fixed Dice are toned down, etc.).
Shame they didn't add in any playable characters, as I would have liked to see Strago's wife Lara get added as a Geomancer or something. She was supposedly in early drafts of the game, but got cut. There was also a whip-using woman that Cyan and Sabin were supposed to meet that supposedly got cut. I guess that'd venture into changing the story instead of adding to it, though. Also may not have been feasible for however they made it.
I'm in the back half, I'm pretty sure, and have access to most but not all of the accessory crafting, so I thought I'd make some really good stuff for my team.
1 accessory + 4 accessories for passives x 6 party members = I'm out of gold, and still want to make a few more. Anywhere good to grind?
First is putting on anything that gives you more ores (not rare ores, but specfically more ores) and then running around all the maps you've been to so far. This gives you Chunks (Iron, Sliver, Gold, and Platinum) that sell for a bunch of money.
Second is fishing. Any fishing spot will do, but it's better to pick a fishing hole with a Boss Fish as those are worth $3000.
Third is running a loop around the dungeon of whatever boss you're about to face. What you'll get from doing that are mats that you can sell and Dog Tags that work like the Chunks you get from running ores.
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I have to admit that after Nocturne, TMS, and now this, I'm just not that into SMT combat. There's too many fights for me to really get into any single one as an experience, and they're too brutal and tricky for me to mindlessly grind through. But I do want to finish out the story stuff.
Does Persona 5 have the same time limit stuff?
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I've played Persona 4/5, but this is my first foray into full-on SMT
Not sure I could tell you a single fuckin' character's name in this joint, but I CAN tell you that I got my teeth kicked in by a boss, grumbled, spent fifteen minutes in a variety of menus, went BACK to that boss, and kicked HIS teeth in. And ya know what? That felt pretty good.
That really is the core appeal of SMT as compared to Persona from a combat perspective, I think. You can have your piles of Personas, but only ever one attached to the main character at one time and the rest of the party have relatively fixed builds. In SMT, the whole party is your canvas, and faced with an enemy who can and will take advantage of any weakness you leave open, your only option is to create a finely-tuned engine to counteract it on every front.
I love how much even the regular encounters turn into puzzles of "how can I make sure the enemy doesn't even get a turn, because if I let that happen there's a real chance I might die". (At least on Hard.)
Honestly I wish there was just a hard pokemon that used doubles as the base instead of singles. But temtem is terrible.
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I found Siralim and it's sequels to be pretty good as far as monster raising battle stuff that has a lot of fiddly bits go. Though it isn't like, gorgeous to look at or anything I suppose.
To the first paragraph: that's why I prefer a more Dragon Quest style of cruelty where, sure you can get blown up instantly, but the death penalty is losing half your gold and getting thrown back to the inn. "Reset to hard save" systems are kind of hard to justify. (At least in Persona 4 (Golden), you reset to the start of the floor you were just on instead.)
It’s dumb
Survivalist/Arcanist
I swear I'm going to finish this one this time. It's the only one I haven't beaten.
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Yall know what I'm talking about right?
X-2 is a masterpiece
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Resonance of Fate?
It was okay, but the problem is that what it started out with is the whole shebang. Nothing ever changes or develops in any way at all.
It also had the same issue as Berseria where it was obnoxious as absolute shit to pull back from any kind of bad situation.
It was one of those weird incidents where I had to force myself to like the gameplay until eventually I actually did.
Well, the absurd amount of crap you end up attaching to your guns certainly does
Combat in that game gets extremely repetitive once you understand the system
And then it was crits all around and good night sweet prince. Maybe an hour of gaming time lost (yeah I like to explore). Gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling somehow
Dash running is so quick it'll be like you teleported.
It was nice but what you're doing in the first hour is pretty much what you're doing in the 40th.
The real game was seeing how many scopes, barrels and magazines you could put on one gun.
Only after you beat the first boss.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
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