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Media / Single-Player RPGs / Re: Megami Tensei Topic
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on: March 21, 2013, 07:52:43 AM
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So on the topic of Naoto... I was among the people who predicted Naoto's gender before the game came out due to her three or so seconds appearance in the opening video(for the original P4....not sure if it is P4G) where a female is walking in front of a TV screen with Naoto on it. Whether that was actually supposed to be a hint to her gender or just a giant coincidence is anyone's guess. Yeah, as much as I love both P3 and 4, I'd rather P5 be darker like 3.. or even darker. But I always end preferring stuff like mainline SMTs anyway.
Am I the only person who doesn't find P3 to be dark? I mean originally I didn't want to play it originally because it looked like it was going to be so dark(which is a style that I don't care for), but then I was out of games and a freind kept recomending it so I tried it. And it turned out to not be dark. The storyline itself has a bit of a nihilistic tinge to it, but that is overcome by the power of freindship, so I can hardly say the story itself is dark and while the atmosphere has some dark trappings to it, they don't actually create a dark atmosphere but more or a....adolescent imitation of a dark atmosphere that misses the point. I think I was uneasy with the setting for like five seconds before I stopped caring about the copious amounts of blood in the midnight hour. I personally would rather have something more akin to P4 because that was at least being honest about what it was. >.> |
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Media / Single-Player RPGs / Re: Curious to see others opinions on Working Designs if it was a new company....
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on: March 19, 2013, 07:12:38 AM
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Loved Working Designs games. I think they were magnificent and had some decent translations(although I remember there is a Bill Clinton joke in one of them.....so some what dated localizations). I was quite sad when I learned that they were going under years ago. However the writing was always on the wall considering how long it took them to translate any game. I don't think the company could work in today's market without some serious revamping of whatever was causing those delays.
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The Rest / General Discussions / Re: The NEW Game Journal
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on: March 18, 2013, 07:37:30 AM
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Currently playing Diablo 3 and Atelier Totori. Game scould not be more different. >.> I wasn't really interested in either of them when I started them(and just started them because I have few choices left in my backlog), but I have been pleasently surprised that both are better than I expected.
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Media / Single-Player RPGs / Re: Atelier Ayesha
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on: March 18, 2013, 07:29:52 AM
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...I like the original Atelier formula and all, but anyone ever wish they'd try the more RPG-oriented route again like they did for Iris?? I mean that insofar of a more in-depth battle system and bigger emphasis on story/world than characters.
I frequently wish they would, but then again I absolutely love Gust's non-Atelier games and am only meh on the traditional Atelier games(although I am currently playing Totori and so far it seems at least slightly better than the others I have played). |
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Media / Single-Player RPGs / Re: Fire Emblem 3DS
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on: March 15, 2013, 07:20:32 AM
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And for the latest postgame Paralogue, you're going to want to bring a Rescue Staff or two for a chain transfarriing or somebody sturdy with 12 move to get to the new recruit before she gets horribly murdered again because she'll be hamburger by the second enemy phase. The village gives you one but getting it costs a turn and you're still going to need to bring the designated staff user in range and hopefully out of the way of the Dark Fliers (or take care of them first). So unless you have somebody with ridiculous Mag (hope to god Miriel, Maribelle, or Brady can use staves) you're going to have to rush your Rescue staff user to the front lines.
Oh that would have been a strategy. >.> I ended up using one rescue staff to pull her out and then just placed my entire army around her in a defensive formation using a healer to keep her alive from the long range attacker. Meanwhile Donnel took out the entire western forces by himself (armshift+legendary axe=awesome) as the eastern forces got shattered on the rest of my army. Took a couple of tries before I got it down. So anyone done Em's supports yet? I feel like those have to be extremely akward (especially S rank) considering she seems to have gotten some brain damage from her fall (which is honestly getting off light considering what she apparently survived). Kind of sucks that there are no supports between her and Chrom. Kind of applies to all the spotpass characters actually. |
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The Rest / General Discussions / Re: The NEW Game Journal
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on: March 12, 2013, 07:05:48 AM
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Finished Kingdom Hearts 3D over the weekend. Game was alright, still don't like Flowmotion. Best part of it was the promise of Kingdom Hearts 3.
Also finished the story mode of Persona 4 Arena.
Going to get to start Heart of the Swarm later today after I get it in the mail. Very unsure of what I expect with the story line as the trailers I have seen are not filling me with hope. >.>
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Media / Single-Player RPGs / Re: Fire Emblem 3DS
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on: March 10, 2013, 08:46:49 AM
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So I finally think I decided on my (canon) pairings for my final playthrough(which is a while away). Chrom x Olivia(Pegasus Knight + Myrmidon for Olivia and Rightful King for Inigo)
Lissa x Libra(Magic sword based Owain)
Maribelle x Gregor(Brady with Galeforce and Armshift...plus makes sense)
Sully x Vaike(One of the few pairings where Vaike gives Mercenary, and hence Armshift)
Sumia x Henry(....It was either Henry or Frederick and Cynthia seems better suited as a mage or something)
Cordellia x Lon'qu(Cordellia is my favorite female and Lon'qu is one of my favorite males....plus the stats should end up fairly nice)
Cherche x Stahl(Eh, I like Stahl and there aren't really too many other options....truthfully probably won't use Gerome too much since he will lack either Galeforce or Armshift)
Panne x Frederick(Highest str of the options that were left when deciding on her)
Miriel x Ricken(High mag?....and I really don't care about the Miriel pairing)
Tharja x Donnel(Galeforce + Armshift, enough said)
Nowi x Gaius(Galeforce and I like the C and B supports I saw for this pair) Now to just wait for nearly all the DLC to come out so I can get to work on the getting all support conversations!.....even the redudant ones! |
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Media / Single-Player RPGs / Re: Fire Emblem 3DS
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on: March 03, 2013, 08:14:50 AM
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I suppose that if you think about it Plegia never really fell in the alternate timeline due to the fact that in both timelines the Grima cult takes over and the main divergence only happens during the showdown against Validar. I suppose that with Emm dead the Plegians had their fill of bloodshed and decided to pack it in and go home. Alternatively, they probably also took the Fire Emblem which still lead Chrom to run over and kick their collective asses to get it back. There's also the possibility that crap like the Risen weren't popping up all over the place which meant that Ylisse wasn't getting its ass handed to it while duking it out with Plegia since the gate didn't open until after all hell broke loose in alternaverse. In any case though, I doubt that there's anything that'll cover it. The game's plot feels more like the Android Saga from DBZ rather than the usual fare and the overall lack of details isn't helping matters either.
And likewise, we can only assume that the whole point to Lucina jumping into the ring was to kill time before the assassination attempt while serving as an excuse to feature at least one arena in this game (unless she was trying to get Basilio to become Ferox's Khan in some halfbaked attempt at keeping him from getting killed during the Valm campaign). Yeah I suppose that all works. Incidently, I just thought of the biggest plot hole of the game though. Lucina mentions when fighting Chrom in the arena that her father taught her to fight.....but following the timeline of the game she was still an infant when Chrom died and actually her sibling hadn't been born yet. I wonder if perhaps Lucina/the risen's interference sped the events up. However Wallace's invasion should of happened at the same time since it was beginning before Lucina's invasion. I suppose Grima's rise could of been delayed since Chrom didn't gather all the gems for the Fire Emblem(which I assume were all necessary), so it took nearly two decades for Grima's followers to get all the necassary gems. *shrug*[/spoiler] |
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Media / Single-Player RPGs / Re: Fire Emblem 3DS
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on: March 02, 2013, 07:50:39 AM
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They will, with a set within the second round of DLC.
But the tl;dr on timeline changes caused by Lucina involved Validar not dying at all instead of dying (alternate Avatar unchanges this by bringing alternate Validar along to take his place), Chrom receiving a flesh wound during Emelina's assassination instead of being uninjured (which in turn lets him gain more experience to promote and/or reclass), Basilio dying instead not quite dying against Walhart (which lets him bullshit the Fire Emblem back from Validar), and Chrom doesn't get better immediately after Avatar turns on him. I know that is what the game states are the differences in the war, but I feel like there are a few more that are fairly significant. For example, Em died in a drastically different location. Part of the reason for Chrom's victory in the war against.....the evil country(cannot remember its name atm) was that Em basically completely destroyed the enemy morale with her death because it was public and "moving" to the enemy country. So the war should have had some kind of differences there in addition to the campaign to rescue Em from being captured not occuring altering the flow of the war. I mean I can probably think of other instances, but that is the one which really bugs me.
Side note, I still don't get what Lucina's plan was when she became Basilo's champion early in the dame. Seems like that would make her hom country's defeat occur that much faster. My thoughts on Morgan in picture form:  Not how time travel works in the game. :p |
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Media / Single-Player RPGs / Re: Fire Emblem 3DS
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on: March 01, 2013, 06:44:41 AM
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[color=black]I think that's the reason it is implied that Morgan doesn't come from the same timeline as the other kids. She came from a timeline brought around my the Avatar fucking children that aren't born yet.
Oh and to answer a question, since my Avatar was male and there are no gay relationships (boo). Lucina just regards you as her fathers close friend, who betrayed him. I'm curious to see how that scenario plays out now if the avatar is her mother. [/color] Yeah I know that they imply that Morgan comes from a different timeline than the rest of the kids.....I still think that her background doesn't make too much sense. I mean I guess she probably comes from a timeline where she didn't come back in time and where Grima was still defeated. But that makes it feel like her presence was completely unnecessary.
On a semi-related note, I do wish that they had gone into a little bit mroe detail about how events had played out in the original timeline. I am really wondering what events were changed by Lucina's presence etc. |
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The Rest / General Discussions / Re: The NEW Game Journal
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on: March 01, 2013, 06:37:07 AM
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I'm up to the final bosses in Kingdom Hearts 3D.....and oh wow do I hate the battle system in this game. I'm constantly finding myself dying because the game is not responding as quickly as I want it to. I really just need to grind to an obscene level so I can just obliterate these jerks. >.>
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Media / Single-Player RPGs / Re: Fire Emblem 3DS
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on: February 28, 2013, 06:41:24 AM
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So I beat this over the weekend, and I'm really impressed by the sheer number of possibilities in dialogue based on who you pair together. I paired my female avatar with Chrom, which seems like the most "canon" route to go, but I'm curious as to how several scenes would've gone if I had paired people differently, like: - What if my avatar wasn't Lucina's mother? How would she have spoken to me during the scene where she tried to kill me?
- How would Chrom have reacted to the idea that I might have to sacrifice myself to seal Grima away?
- How would the cutscene following Gangrel's defeat transpired if Chrom was paired with someone else? Or not paired with anyone at all?
- Morgan is the Avatar's child, right? It's unusual that the female avatar has two children when paired with Chrom. -Can't say.....my avatar married her. I noticed a couple of lines which specifically mentioned their relationship, but it didn't seem like too many of the lines were specific to the actual relationship.
-He considers you his best friend and doesn't want you to sacrifice yourself.
-Depends, I believe the scene plays out exactly the same if Chrom has an S rank relationship at the time already. I believe that if he less than that then there is a proposal scene to the female with the highest support(which is probably slightly different depending on the bride). If he has no support points with any female then he marries a random village girl giving Lucina worse growths. Don't know if there is a scene for this or not.
-Every female has two kids if paired with Chrom. Every 1st gen female also has two kids if paired with male avatar. Although it is much more fun to pair avatar with a second gen character so that it makes no sense where the heck Morgan comes from. |
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The Rest / General Discussions / Re: The NEW Game Journal
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on: February 25, 2013, 06:53:24 AM
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Beat Fire Emblem Awakening yesterday. It now gets put onto the to 100% later pile as I wait for the Bonds DLC to come out to speed up support grinding (in several months).
In the mean time, I am focusing on Kingdom Hearts 3D. Currently on my second visit to Traverse Town. I'm actually sort of used to the battle system now(I think, alternatively I'm overleveled enough that it doesn't matter either way), but I really can't say that it is one of my favorites of the series.
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