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Post by Dubbie on Sept 7, 2015 19:06:07 GMT
VC was a fun game but a hard one (by late game) Have fun with it though! I was quite a fan, I cosplayed as Marina Wulfstan and also bought an offical artbook. I never got around to playing the sequels though...
I'm replaying FFVII (for the fifth time), for my bf because he never played any of the FF games.
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Post by starlightmeteor on Sept 13, 2015 2:27:19 GMT
I wish I could have continue playing VC on Steam, but I couldn't deal with all the lag. I'm still stuck at the Barious Ruins map in early game lol. Glad you were able to finish it, though. I can see why it the game can feel frutrating
Ahh, Final Fantasy. My friends are surprised that I know barely anything about that series other than the names of main characters and some of their themes. I did end up watching Advent Children and it was ...um...really pretty. XD
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Post by Dioji on Sept 14, 2015 1:28:13 GMT
Ahh, Final Fantasy. My friends are surprised that I know barely anything about that series other than the names of main characters and some of their themes. I did end up watching Advent Children and it was ...um...really pretty. XD I like Advent Children, just didn't really understand much of it until I rewatched it. The only FF game I really played was Final Fantasy 10 and people are like... really? I don't understand the hate for it. I'm also playing Assassin's Cred IV: Black Flag, the Illusion of Gaia on my computer, and Xenoblade Chronicles on the 3DS.
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Post by starlightmeteor on Sept 19, 2015 16:13:56 GMT
Dioji: I watched the extended version of Advent Children so the plot wasn't confusing to me. I tried FF10. I got to the first boss but I couldn't get past the prologue since I lost interest. I haven't played Xenoblade Chronicles but I keep on hearing about it. What's that about?
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Post by Dioji on Sept 20, 2015 1:50:33 GMT
I haven't played Xenoblade Chronicles but I keep on hearing about it. What's that about? I'm going to put everything under spoilers. I'm not that far in by the way because I still need to get used to the combat system and I die far too often. The game likes to kick my ass more than I like to admit. So far there seems to be only two colony of 'Homs' or people basically, which are under threat by the Mechons. They eat the Homs for energy. The Monado can take care of Mechons quite easily under they meet the Mechons with faces and those ones seem immune to the Monado's ability to destroy Mechons. The journey starts after Colony 9, where Shulk lives, is attacked by the Mechons and Fiora is 'killed'. I'm not sure if she actually dies. It would be a shame if she pulled an Aerith anyway.
It's ONLY for the New 3DS though. Probably due the graphics and everything else because putting on new armour actually does change the character's appearance! Sometimes I end up giving up the 'better' armour so that the clothing matches. I actually learned the 'swimsuit Shulk' in the Smash game is actually what Shulk wears when he was no armour on. I guess it's his underwear?
It has an interesting combat system but it's one that I have a hard time getting used to. As far as I know, you can't use items during battle, so reviving people after they 'die' is tricky and you can only do it if you enough of your party gauge filled. But when it is full, you just have to go up to them and press a button. You sometimes also have to encourage your teammates as well, which I think might give you relationships points or something. You can learn arts, which can do more damage, inflict ailments, defend yourself or heal, and do combinations with these arts with the other characters present if you have a full party gauge. You can level up these arts too. Some arts depend on your placement when attack the enemy, so you can actually move around behind enemies kind of like in a Tales game.
The Monado can also let Shulk see into the future, so you can prevent character death or status ailments. The Monado also has its own set of Arts that you switch between and it looks those are the arts that appear in Smash for the most part. I find the future part annoying because it interrupts the battle so damn much but it's an interesting mechanic, I'll give it that.
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Post by Dubbie on Sept 23, 2015 16:28:41 GMT
Ahh, Final Fantasy. My friends are surprised that I know barely anything about that series other than the names of main characters and some of their themes. I did end up watching Advent Children and it was ...um...really pretty. XD I like Advent Children, just didn't really understand much of it until I rewatched it. The only FF game I really played was Final Fantasy 10 and people are like... really? I don't understand the hate for it. I'm also playing Assassin's Cred IV: Black Flag, the Illusion of Gaia on my computer, and Xenoblade Chronicles on the 3DS. Really? FFX was amazing, and one of the best FF game in history. Maybe the colour was too vivid and heavily Asian influenced for their eyes...
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Post by Dioji on Sept 24, 2015 16:58:00 GMT
Really? FFX was amazing, and one of the best FF game in history. Maybe the colour was too vivid and heavily Asian influenced for their eyes... I heard that some people who are big of FFVII and FFVIII are not big fans of FFIX or FFX because you go from mecha style to more fantasy style. That I can sort of understand. I just don't understand why some people treat it like you have to scrape the bottom of the barrel to get to it. But people didn't like Mario Sunshine either and I had a blast with that game, even if it's just using turning Mario into a jet ski and doing nothing productive for a whole twenty minutes. Oh hey, that's another colourful game.
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Post by starlightmeteor on Oct 5, 2015 23:45:53 GMT
Mario Sunshine? I haven't been tried it, but it looks fun.
Speaking of FFX, I have some friends who have been encouraging me to pick it up again because of the remastered version. I'll see, since I've already not in the loop with Pokémon decided not to pick up Tales of Zestiria.
I'm still waiting on Trails in the Sky Second Chapter and should probably take a break from Trails of Cold Steel II (original version). Falcom games that aren't called Ys can eat so much of your time =p
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Post by Dioji on Oct 7, 2015 22:46:00 GMT
Mario Sunshine? I haven't been tried it, but it looks fun. Speaking of FFX, I have some friends who have been encouraging me to pick it up again because of the remastered version. I'll see, since I've already not in the loop with Pokémon decided not to pick up Tales of Zestiria. My brother has the remastered edition and I think he likes it just as much as he liked the regular FFX. He's played both. And Mario Sunshine took hours of my life and loved it dearly. I still need like... 3 more Sun Sprites to clear the entire game though and that's annoying.
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Post by nocturnal YL on Oct 10, 2015 5:31:14 GMT
I gave up on Mario Sunshine because those blus coins are so annoying to get. There's also no simple UI to keep track of those.
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Post by Dubbie on Nov 23, 2015 5:06:17 GMT
I was playing GTA San Andreas a few weeks ago and I raged so hard that I ripped off the W key clean off my keyboard. I should stop playing games.
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Post by starlightmeteor on Dec 22, 2015 5:00:08 GMT
I've experienced that second hand, lol. Some of my friends were a little too happy to play Bowser in that Mario Party 10 game for the Wii U. XD
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Post by Dubbie on Mar 4, 2016 2:28:09 GMT
Recently beaten FE12 Heroes of Light and Shadow (FE3 remake), those character endings are sad ;(
I also got my hands on Tear Ring Saga. It's painfully slow and it's really awkward having to play with ALT, CTRL keys (had to reconfig buttons in order for the PSX emu to play the game)
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Post by starlightmeteor on Mar 17, 2016 4:13:30 GMT
Recently beaten FE12 Heroes of Light and Shadow (FE3 remake), those character endings are sad ;( I also got my hands on Tear Ring Saga. It's painfully slow and it's really awkward having to play with ALT, CTRL keys (had to reconfig buttons in order for the PSX emu to play the game) Woah~ How do you rank it with the other FE games you've tried? I'm impressed you got Tear Ring Saga, too. I stumbled on Tree of Savior weirdly enough because a voice actor on a game forum mentioned it and it's similarity to Ragnarok Online. There are...80 classes so far. I'll just stay for the gorgeous artwork and the music on YouTube. I burned way too much time playing RO since high school. My goal was way, way ambitious from the start.
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Post by Dubbie on Mar 18, 2016 0:52:07 GMT
One of the worst FE stories ever. By Chapter 10, I think I had around 50 units at my disposal. Only used around 7 or 8 throughout and to the end.
Yeah, I wanted to give it a go. I haven't seen more hit misses so bad in the FE titles, it gives me so much rage.
Geez 80 classes? Can't imagine what the subs from each major classes it has...
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Post by starlightmeteor on Mar 18, 2016 2:46:13 GMT
One of the worst FE stories ever. By Chapter 10, I think I had around 50 units at my disposal. Only used around 7 or 8 throughout and to the end. Yeah, I wanted to give it a go. I haven't seen more hit misses so bad in the FE titles, it gives me so much rage. Geez 80 classes? Can't imagine what the subs from each major classes it has... XD... www.tosbase.com/game/classes/That's really nuts. From four main classes to that =p
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Post by nocturnal YL on Mar 18, 2016 13:58:25 GMT
One of the worst FE stories ever. By Chapter 10, I think I had around 50 units at my disposal. Only used around 7 or 8 throughout and to the end. Oh. I liked the story. It wasn't anything spectacular, and it's forgettable, but it's not too bad. At least it's better than FE14 in that it doesn't actually make you despise some of the characters. And Katarina's side story is rather touching (although I'll admit that it's also imperfect, particularly with Kris not getting the chance to save the other assassins). Handpicking a few elites has always been a prominent thing in FE games without grinding. While FE12 has 77 playable units, I think FE10 (72 units) is still the worse offender by letting the player pick only 10 units for the endgame (since Micaiah, Sothe, Ike, Kurthnaga, Ena, Sanaki and a heron of choice cannot be switched out). Geez 80 classes? Can't imagine what the subs from each major classes it has... XD... www.tosbase.com/game/classes/That's really nuts. From four main classes to that =p Looks great to me! Diversity is always welcome in online games. No point in meeting hundreds of players who are all standard warriors or wizards.
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Post by Dubbie on Mar 22, 2016 0:14:42 GMT
Quite, perhaps I should check it out when I have a time.
I do play to replay FE10 at some point, just for nostalgic sake.
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Post by starlightmeteor on May 26, 2016 16:26:17 GMT
Quite, perhaps I should check it out when I have a time. I do play to replay FE10 at some point, just for nostalgic sake. Hmm...I wonder how it compares to FE14 in terms of the difficulty. I played Hard mode in both FE9 and FE10 once and that...was enough for me. XD
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Post by nocturnal YL on May 27, 2016 15:41:22 GMT
FE14 without DLC took me a lot of resets, but it's manageable, unlike the Tellius games.
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Post by Dubbie on Jun 25, 2016 23:57:27 GMT
I bought Valkyria Chronicles on Steam for $9.99 USD. So, yup, its a PS3 game ported to the PC. Fanservice really doesn't need to be there, but otherwise it's kind of like a RT-Fire Emblem with guns and tanks. I could probably be oversimplying it though =p When you move your units, you only have one time to aim and fire bullets, etc. at them - and yes, I'm in the early stages of the game so things could change XD. I'm having some trouble adjusting to the gameplay - I tend to forget which button does what. XD VC got a bit tough later on. But it's a fun RT strategy game I just beaten Birthright and onto Conquest. I'm liking the music and the characters so far. Oboro is my favourite unit. My Sakura stats are very all rounded. I'll post a image of her stats later on.
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Post by starlightmeteor on Aug 5, 2016 3:30:18 GMT
How long is FFVII btw? I'm just curious, since there is that remake I've heard about XD
I'm still waiting on a friend of mines to beat Bravely Second and then Birthright. It's alright since I've been doing re-plays of some of the games I have. =p
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Post by starlightmeteor on Sept 20, 2016 3:57:22 GMT
Playing Trails of Cold Steel 2. Somebody help me xD
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Post by nocturnal YL on Oct 31, 2016 17:07:14 GMT
I just finished Paper Mario: Color Splash. It's way too short, even if you aim for 100% completion.
I don't think this is a good game to be the milestone of being final Wii U exclusive. It's not really a bad game, but it's not satisfying.
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Post by starlightmeteor on Dec 2, 2016 22:44:49 GMT
I just finished Paper Mario: Color Splash. It's way too short, even if you aim for 100% completion. I don't think this is a good game to be the milestone of being final Wii U exclusive. It's not really a bad game, but it's not satisfying. Is it worth replaying though? (Hehe, I don't have a WiiU myself~) As for me...I needed a break from Trails and so I opted for Xanadu Next (PC). It's another Falcom game, lol. It's not something I'd normally play, with an eerie soundtrack and all (and besides, blood splatters still creep me out, actually...), but being able to cut grass reminds me of my Zelda days XD It's also pretty short if you're not aiming to learn all skills and collect everything.
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Post by nocturnal YL on Dec 3, 2016 14:42:55 GMT
I'd say it's not worth replaying. The problem is that you don't get to have multiple save files, and the game instead relies on Wii U's multi-user capability. It means you can't keep your playthrough's progress if you delete the data, and you don't get to keep your collectibles (which is still a hassle to collect).
I think Xanadu Next is quite well-received. I watched a part of a playthrough of it, and the blood isn't that bad (although I'd prefer having none at all).
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Post by starlightmeteor on Mar 28, 2017 2:56:34 GMT
Something that's finally not related to Falcom. On second thought, I'm alternating between this game and Sora no Kiseki the 3rd (soon to be localized as Trails in the Sky 3rd.)
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I didn't know how bad I was at paying attention until I played this. (Detaining suspicious people was surprisingly fun, too).
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Post by nocturnal YL on Mar 29, 2017 14:09:43 GMT
I've seen a speed run of this game. It's amusing to see the game counts stamping almost entirely outside of a passport as acceptable.
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Post by starlightmeteor on Apr 6, 2017 0:19:12 GMT
I've seen a speed run of this game. It's amusing to see the game counts stamping almost entirely outside of a passport as acceptable. Nice. That might save me time from doing it neatly =p
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Post by starlightmeteor on Oct 11, 2017 16:24:14 GMT
I now own 閃の軌跡III/Trails of Cold Steel III now and I'm staring at my self-study Japanese notebook. It's empty per usual. I'm still playing the game of employment roulette too, so there's that XD
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