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The Rest / General Discussions / Re: "The New Age of Games That Got Away" - Jeremy Parish
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on: August 12, 2009, 06:01:58 AM
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What's 7th Dragon even supposed to play like? It looks rizzle generizazzle albeit pretty.
It's supposed to be to Dragon Quest what Etrian Odyssey is to Wizardy which makes this all the more depressing. Square Enix (and other RPG devs from yester-decade) should just PAY nominal fees to the dudes who did fan translations and make them legitimate, then release the games on VC, tack on an additional $1 charge for the translation (to help recover costs), and spread the love. And then MARKET THE SHIT OUT OF IT.
Ramza
They're sorta doing that for games like Cave Story and La-Mulana (though I don't know if there's any compensation going around for the translations, especially since they received fan-translations years ago). Also they're getting buffed up for release on WiiWare rather than just getting a straight port. |
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Media / Single-Player RPGs / Re: Best Upgrade systems in RPGs?
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on: August 09, 2009, 06:03:46 AM
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Well sorry I don't know what words are jesus >:(*
BTW what IS Status Attack-J for? I never did anything with it.
It does what it says on the tin there chief. Adds Status Effects to your attack. Slap Drain magic on STATK-J and every hit you make will restore your life by a percentage of the damage you deal where the percentage is determined by how many Drains you have equipped. Slap 100 Deaths on STATK and anything without an immunity to Death will always go down like a punk. Pain inflicts Defenseless, Poison, and whatever else it inflicts with each attack. In reality its not all that great until you start gaining enough spells to have stats to take advantage of this, but it might make your life a little easier until then. |
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Media / Single-Player RPGs / Re: Best Upgrade systems in RPGs?
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on: August 09, 2009, 04:56:34 AM
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Str-J is Silph I think.
Ifirt either learns it quickly or starts with it, and I think Shiva picks it up later. Str-J is the ability one needs to junction magic to their strength. Siren teaches Status Attack-J which is only useful if you have either 100 Drains or Pains lying around. Also there is no Silph or Sylph or whatever in FFVIII. |
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The Rest / General Discussions / Re: RPGFan Super Game Journal Turbo II - The New Challengers
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on: August 08, 2009, 07:59:51 AM
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Reply 2000! Whoop!
Now that I've beaten FFTA2's Monopoly game I can start cleaning house on the last of the ability conferring weapons. Also beat the last of the five kings (but it won't be the last that I'll see of them).
Classes master list thus far...
Soldier x 3
Thief x 4
Archer x 1
Paladin x 1
Fighter x 3
Illusionist x 1
Fencer x 1
Elementalist x 1
Sniper x 2
Defender x 2
Templar x 1
Juggler x 1
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Media / Miscellaneous Games / Re: Another countdown from Squeenix
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on: August 08, 2009, 02:11:34 AM
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wait. There's characters from FFIV, Romancing SaGa 2, and ... Magic the Gathering. Did I get that right?
That's kind of a cool mash-up.
That and other things like Valkyrie Profile and Kurokami apparently. |
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Media / Single-Player RPGs / Re: Best story in an RPG? (NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!)
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on: August 08, 2009, 01:41:53 AM
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Planescape: Torment. The narrative is the only reason to play the game, but it's a damn strong reason.
While I wouldn't say the overall story of Valkyrie Profile is anything great, many of the stories involving the characters you recruit are wonderfully tragic. I've always seen that game as more of a short story collection than a novel, if that makes sense. :P
If anyone comes here and recommends Xenosaga, feel free to add them to your ignore list, because they will never have anything remotely interesting to say to you.
I wouldn't bother with the ignore list. Sure it works but only in the most retarded way possible. Anyways the only ones I can think of are FFT, Illusion of Gaia, VS, the Ogre Battle series (kinda), and Super Metroid. The Megaman Legends games are pretty cool too, character wise. |
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Media / Single-Player RPGs / Re: top 5 protagonists/antagonists in rpg history!
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on: August 08, 2009, 12:40:48 AM
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The only answer to this question is Ultros. Ultroses all the way down.
But where would Ultros be without Chumpon aka Typhoon? Also Gilgamesh. That guy keeps showing up at the most unusual places. Even in FFXII he gets two boss fights and his own music whereas Ultros is remade into a flan in an offhand hunt. :( |
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Media / Anime, TV, and Movies / Re: Shadow of the Colossus to become a movie!
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on: August 07, 2009, 08:24:03 AM
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That's precisely what I'm worried will be lost: The artistic "silence" the game has. There's something anaemic about SotC's atmosphere, frail and quivering at first, then building towards titanic proportions. Similar to the works of Philip Glass, who builds and builds in tiny slivers of effect -- almost unnoticeably -- until the grand event is upon you.
There's a wealth of subtlety in SotC, and you can't merely apply an LotR or Mummy strategy to it. It's of epic scope, but the kind that you'd need Nicolas Meyer behind.
That wasn't my point at all. My comment wasn't meant to imply any misguided faith but to indicate less dread than someone like Uwe Boll would inspire had he been mentioned. That does not in anyway mean that this movie isn't anything but utterly screwed, but was merely a gesture at taking a less pessimistic stance than everyone else. That and that I could actually see SotC being made into a great movie....just not by anyone in Hollywood right now. |
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Media / Single-Player RPGs / Re: Best Upgrade systems in RPGs?
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on: August 07, 2009, 05:42:09 AM
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Draw points isn't Drawing in the sense of using Draw.
Also getting Str-J up still isn't THAT lengthy to do. And my point still stands.
Yeah but you have to do that and acquire the Ice Magic Refine ability, and something else since I don't recall Str-J being a default choice for Shiva. |
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