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Leonhart4 posted...

Bosses can have up to 3 things to steal, but Zidane's steal rate is poor, so trying to get everything can be frustrating.

oh damn, didn't realize that. do both the sorceror and the monster have 3? might have to go back......

i think i got a mage masher just out of a treasure box

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pjbasis posted...

I always liked the intro title graphics for each new location.

When I played Kingdom Hearts I thought "they're doing the FFIX thing!"

i really like these too! Steiner posted...

oh. right. I guess now is a good time to point out that in this game your main character is a thief and they definitely tried to incentivize actually thieving with him. it's pretty much always worth stealing from bosses

oh yeah, i robbed both of the bosses. don't remember the equipment i actually got from them though!

Emeraldegg posted...

They're trying to get above the mist iirc. The ice cavern was the only way out of where they happened to be. Mist is dangerous.

I imagine he probably is just trying to keep garnet from worrying, noble but misguided. Also zidane is the one in the best physical condition of the 3 (He is an active thief after all) and the BW rang his bell, so that is my explanation as to why he woke up.

thanks for the color. so the answer to my questions are "nothing particularly interesting," which is a little disappointing, but good to know that those aren't "real mysteries" i should concern myself about

SeabassDebeste posted...

the murder method was pretty awesome though.

should clarify - i meant the discovery of the body

LordoftheMorons posted...

I think you should be able to get everything in the ice cavern

urk. well i did save in the cavern after the boss...

LordoftheMorons posted...

I wanted to say something after post 160, but...!

we all had that moment :(

overall dr3-2 was pretty whatever to me. the murder method was pretty awesome though.

So that overworld sojourn was very, VERY sorry. Vivi and Garnet are both excited about the mythical Ice Cavern. Not totally clear to me why we're playing through here plot wise - everyone was talking about this Mist - but so we are.

These enemies are my fucking bane. The Blizzard does a ton of damage to Garnet. But worse, they have this garbage HP switch move which annoys the bajesus out of me and causes me to waste tons of Potions/Garnet MP to heal. Vivi's Fire is also by far the most effective countermeasure, so I also burn an Ether at some point.

Zidane has the genius idea to let Vivi burn down some ice walls which enables me to snag some equipment. However, there are 2-3 some on ledges I can't reach even if I search for melt-spots. Is that expected?

At the end of the dungeon, the crew faints, but Zidane manages to get up first. We march forward and fight a single-player boss battle, a classic "kill the master of the beast first" situation. Costs us several Potions again. The boss informs us he's just one of three Garnet hunters dispatched, and Zidane... keeps this to himself? What?? What's going on here? Why was Zidane resisitant to the sleeping spell?? And why is he lying???

Deciding Garnet needs a disguise, Zidane encourages her to taje on an alias. And more than a full dungeon after she joined our party, we get the Naming scene for Garnet. Welcome to the game, Dagger. Hope you can hang with the slang. Back to the overwhelms we go.

One parting thought - hiding Garnet's summons in plain sight behind MP restrictions is really interesting.

only 45, awful :/

WaIker posted...

I made this account because I was a huge fan of Renee Walker and Sarah Walker (Chuck), rip her

(this is jc)

that's yvonne strahovski. appears in 24 later than annie wersching

i don't remember how many episodes i got into CG before dropping it. might try it with my partner though - it's got a cool power and should move relatively fast (....right?!)

also as for tatami galaxy - i found it near-unwatchable due to how far the subtitles went (fansub i think) and how bullshit most of the plots were. they didn't feel connecting or relevant overall because of the time loop

that said, reading the light novel source material earlier this year made me more interested in giving it another shot, but without funi, i have my doubts it'll happen for a long time

he's one of the most popular players in the NBA, both among fans and among players

but yeah fuck him

i mean i know embiid is having a better season right now than giannis, but winning a ring definitely puts you in the driver's seat of popular votes in the future

i think you've watched more than enough anime to make a list interesting, but i'd follow a discussion about friends, star wars movies, FF games, TV shows, movies in general, etc.

don't necessarily need a ton of breadth to make a list completing, especially if you don't position yourself as an authority

transience posted...

Even the remake of this game doesn't do it justice.

why's that?

i got i think all the way until the stretch before the final dungeon in suikoden and just ran out of motivation for whatever reason. completely forget why; maybe i couldn't figure out what to do

only seen eeaao here. loved it, though i'd have parasite over it

sad the menu didn't make it; then at least i could day i'd seen two!

rick and morty's voices are arguably the worst part of the show anyway

as long as i keep playing in 30m bursts i will trust you guys to warm me before i miss this

i'm on the train and this thread has inspired me to play some switch

(though i agree; i like playing my switch more like in bed or at a couch where it's not hooked up, rather than as a "truly' mobile console)

Played until exiting the Evil Forest, whose name is quietly hilarious. An ATE tells us our crew is doing just fine without us (orchestra in thr forest!), and the enemies get progressively bigger as we go from puny Goblins to bigger Fang wolves to something that looks like a giant rafflesia. After a brief resting point (love these!) the actual boss battle is an even gianter rafflesia thing-y that blinds us and does a bit more damage but that doesn't have a lot of HP. Do your thing, Vivi and... Blank? Is that his name?

Blank doesn't last long. Beating the boys results in a chase sequence with battle music override, a classic FF trope I love. Blank dying immediately is a little more stale of a trope but also kind of enjoyable because of how recognizable it is, too. Does this mean all of Tantalus is dead? I hope not, and I suspect that they may be either coming back, or rescued much later in the game - after all, they have the FF staple airship.

And then we're out in the overworld?? For some inexplicable reason I didn't actually see this coming. It took longer to reach (by a lot) then FF8 but shorter (by a lot) than FFVII. I guess I was just somewhat conditioned to expect an FFVII-like (dare I say FFX-like?) amount of being in narrow spaces. But nah, here we are! And we can save at any time on the overworld, so let's just take advantage of that.

This game so far has charm. Glad to have Garnet with us now. But the battles (which admittedly have yet to really get interesting) are kinda reminding me why Pokemon is so popular. There are a million things to do in the battle menu, but due to ATB I don't really want to experiment much, and I also don't want to spend long staying at menus to customize my dudes. Some minor optimization and learning some abilities might eventually happen, though, if I get a hang of how skills work.

i'm playing on switch. the speed reminds me of pokemon diamond/pearl.

oh, right. trance. it was just... increased strength, right? nothing else? i didn't notice any cool abilities i gained during it.

it also appears that we "equip" our skills to our other equipment here?

most_games_r_ok posted...

The only knock that I have on FFIX is that the combat is a bit...slow but keep having fun playing the game man.

yeah the ATB bar does seem to take quite a while to refill and the animations feel slow

we'll see how i feel later!

i'm so confused by all the positive comments on that video

that reminds me we did get our first "... whatever" from zidanr to steiner

love steiner addressing vivi as "master vivi"

Played for just thirty minutes, saving at the same save point, but this felt fun and productive. Got to try out Steiner for a spin as a playable character - he seems more tank-ish than Zidane. The tree-cage enemies are actually pretty annoying to fight; I have to use a few potions on both Zidane and on Garnet (and later Vivi) to take these guys down, though we're immediately sent back due to their spreading spores into our friends' pores. Ick.

I'm enjoying the kind of lighthearted tone. While the shipwreck is pretty dark still, Zidane is way more fun than Cloud or Squall. I think going from age 21 -> 18 -> 16 was a pretty conscientious decision on Square's part. There are plenty of jokes about him just chasing a cute girl, and people are basically on board with it.

Another fun aspect is the Moogles as save points. They're just over-the-top cute - like who asked for this? Doesn't matter, it's pretty great regardless.

After a quick duel with our boss, we've gotten the go-ahead to rescue Garnet, and now we get to build up our party to three with both Steiner and Vivi. The adventure begins anew next time!

These ATEs are so utterly random of a mechanic, but I'm kind of liking them. What exactly inspired this?! Who can say.

oh man, first time hearing ffix's rendition of the fanfare

take that goblin

today's weird felt like bullshit too. took me all six!

Wind!

i haven't heard of any controversy other than the usual JK rowling stuff, but my partner is definitely looking forward to the game

So I'm at the 2 hour mark - just reached the next save point. Playing as Steiner was pretty unexpected - he's what, our third playable character so far? - and while I was confused at first, it appears that my mission was simply rounding up the other Knights of Pluto? They're all goofs and I quite enjoyed the comedy here; seems like Steiner has a little rivalry with Beatrix. I kind of hate this character design archetype with the small head and short legs. But he's funny, and it's even funnier when he plays along with the play, acting all horrified when Garnet "dies."

I don't understand why Queen Brahne has to look like this, but I supposed she's obviously the (a) villain if she doesn't care about Garnet's well-being other than being alive.

The two cutscenes here are excellent. I prefer the first where Zidane, Garnet, and Steiner plummet from the watchtowers; however, the second one - the airship's escape and the cannon-launched harpoons - is also magnificent.

Bizarrely, we're at two hours into the game and I'm pretty sure we have yet to have a real battle. We've had a bunch of gag/plot battles but not a single one that was just straight-up. Am I crazy? Is this game crazy? FFVI and FFVII just threw me right into it. The actual plot events and set pieces have been fun enough to carry us, and I guess I wouldn't totally object to the game just being setpieces and plot events... but yeah, feels weird!

Johnbobb posted...

In other news Missing is out today and I have very high hopes because Searching was great

what relation does missing have to searching?

UF8 posted...

did you get the perfect score in the end?

also ngl it took me forever to do super early game too since i just went around hunting for obscure npc interactions which it really has <u>a lot of</u> and may or may not have gotten addicted to tetra master in the process

i got 95 twice, but even later on i typically scored 50s to 70s

LordoftheMorons posted...

One of my favorite FFs!

And yeah lots of missables. Probably the most important are some pieces of equipment since those are how you get your abilities.

welp, RIP

Dante posted...

sword duel the best

I absolutely love how they let you just do it as many times as you want.

yeah, this was way too addictive. but i also spent like 45 minutes on it and this quit playing early lol

Steiner posted...

if you didn't say "That's when I kidnap Queen Brahne, right?" to Baku 64 times then time to start over

aww man i only said it 3 tubes

shane15 posted...

This one seems to be a love it or hate it game. I'm in the hate camp personally. Didn't really like any of the characters outside of Beatrix and the battle system was awful. Never got the love for Vivi either.

i have realized that for me the simpler the battle system the better. if it's more complex than an average snes rpg then i probably can't be bothered

The graphics in this have a ton of charm - it's a little funny seeing them go back to a more FFVII/cartoony style versus the more "adult"-looking FFVIII models.

Spent over 15-20 tries doing the sword dance. Kept getting my X/Y mixed up and hitting a face-button instead of a D-pad button.

Haven't even actually escaped the castle yet with the princess because I spent so long doing that. So far the game has been a little more like FFVIII with a slow start than FFVI or FFVII which got me going really quickly.

Vivi is super-cute.

oh also does this game not have item descriptions in the menu? thought that was weird

DRV3-1 i also thought it was shuichi dropping the ball - and you were bang-on about the hair!

today's word is utter bullshit lmao

TeamRocketElite posted...

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AoT Final Season Part 3 Part 1 airs in March.
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what the living f lol

Paratroopa1 posted...

lazyisgood

delighted that this was the first response, sad the topic continued

Leonhart4 posted...

Finished watching Episode III. Maybe I'm starting to warm up to it a bit, or maybe it's just seeing it in the wake of how mediocre I and II are. Either way, I'm almost prepared to say it's a good movie now...!

episode iii might have been the first time i was capable of recognizing bad dialogue/overacting in the theater, so it jarred me how bad it was

but yeah on rewatch (and with prequel memes under my belt) i'm delighted by the unabashed cheesiness and non stop action. i don't know that i like it more than 4 or 5, but it feels very likely my favorite other than those two

based on this thread and my taking about it to my partner, seems like the negative press is positive advertisement for the show so farl

mindy kaling has some clear issues of you've followed her work. despite her being a woman of color i find she definitely struggles with the line between comedy and perpetuating/reinforcing racism/sexism. tina fey has some of that going on but is generally somewhat less problematic. both i think have struggled as the climate and attitude toward "wokeness" have changed

SHINE_GET_64 posted...

One of my coworkers asked me if I watched the new Trigun

I said I did

Her only response was why. She and her husband dropped it after 3 minutes because they thought it was too ugly

My only response was I need to see what they did to my boy

how was it? didn't know it was already out

nah, NGE sucks ass, you're right. the OP is by a colossal margin the best part of the show

Johnbobb posted...

I think it was definitely marketed as being horror and definitely has some very strong elements of it (I mean, almost every character dies and several die in violent or disturbing ways). It's horror enough that I would specifically not recommend it to someone squeamish

this is a pretty reasonable interpretation, thanks

Sorozone posted...

Suns are gonna have quite the lineup tonight. 4 starters are out (Bridges is the only one playing), Cam Payne is out, Craig and Shamet are listed as questionable, oh and Curry is returning.

and they're annihilating the warriors, just as planned

got an answer on trivia wrong once because i answered that crash won the 2005 best picture when they wanted million dollar baby

#bitter

finished the tatami galaxy novel (only read it basically on trains and at airports) and quite enjoyed its sense of humor. definitely makes me interested in rewatching the series; will see if my partner is interested. might have to go sailing again to get it though; haven't done that in a while!

i just looked back on MAL at the anime's episode list, and they did a different club every episode? the novel only has four (film club, disciples wanted, christian softball cult, tatami galaxy) so i guess they invented double the parallel arcs for the adaptation

i don't like horror movies but i watched the menu on sunday and it was so fun. not particularly "horror-like" imo; it felt like more like get out or parasite than "classic" horror movie like poltergeist or texas chainsaw massacre

(also i saw the 2022 TCM earlier this year which was hilarious/bad)

LeonhartFour posted...

Watching Star Wars Episode II and wow, the Anakin/Padme relationship is really, really bad.

hayden christensen's acting had agreed really well

just as bad today as it was 20 years ago!

looking at a google image search, axiom verge 2 seems better-looking than castlevania 1 and metroid 1. like at the very least there's "more" going on visually. i think it's fair to argue that it's not visually distinctive, but the textures in the art can be more pleasing to the people who are able to distinguish what's going on

discussing that specific quality, and whether that's a trend in modern games, is also just way more productive than whether or not "objectively ugly/bad" exists

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