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Thought I was gonna have to use a guide to figure out where to go on the trip from Aeris' house to Sector 7. But finally I figured out the secret was to walk up that 2d pipe that was layered awkwardly and with absolutely no depth perception. So we're on to Sector 7!
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ledbowman posted...

They were like obviously way too big.

Because they had to establish that their console was for adults.
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i'm excited to meet this Sephiroth guy.

His name sounds like an excellent pizza topping.

I'm actually pretty blind as far as this game goes.

The only thing I really know is that Cloud is this cool soldier guy and that Sephiroth is some cool villain that's gonna slice Aeris up later.

That's the extent of my knowledge of this game's story.
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Yeah I'm using assist mode. Game would be unplayable almost without that.

And yeah, the 'static backgrounds that i'm walking on' effect is obviously terrible, but again, I can 'bear' that as just being a 'feature of the time'. Doesn't bug me much.

The game is pretty silly overall, so I'm not taking it super seriously or anything.

I do think it's funny that people thought this was like the pinnacle of gaming in 1997. But I'm also pretty sure that despite my nostalgia for the N64, that games like OoT and Super Mario 64 are -clearly- better quality wise than this is.
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Yeah I didn't say it was hard. Just random. The turn orders and damage numbers and such. A limit break might do like 40 damage to one target meanwhile I can just bolt for like 180 damage, then sometimes I was doing like 480 with an auto attack on one boss and 14 damage with a fire spell. Maybe I was missing something, but it felt pretty wildly random.

I did have to use a phoenix down vs the President's air buster bot. Took Tifa forever to get around to casting cure on Cloud and he got blown up by counter-attacks then bombed before he could heal.

But yeah, the dialogue....man. They couldn't find someone fluent in both languages in 1997? It's pretty obvious that a lot of words are just misused/misplaced. It's readable but it's not fluent English, that's for sure. Wonder if the Japanese version is better.
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Caution999 posted...

Are you comparing to this to games of the time or are you comparing this to modern games and somehow wondering why it looks bad?

The English language is more or less the same as it was 20 years ago >_>

Like I said, the dialogue is the hardest part to deal with. Very little effort apparent in it.

The quirky movement and exploration mechanics are bearable. You can even consider stuff like that a challenging 'feature' of an older game.

The combat seems pretty random-ish so far as the balance of it goes.
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Muffinz0rz posted...

Steve Nick posted...

Aeris just joined my party.

And uh, so...the quality of this game is quite low. No way to really say it otherwise. It's just pretty terrible. I'm gonna continue because it's not really that unfun or anything, and I'm interested to see where it goes...but damn this is a low quality game. The dialogue and menus and everything are just horrific. So is the exploration...everything is just made really badly.

I mean it's over 20 years old, a little clunkiness shouldn't be unexpected.

Yeah, I'm excusing it and gonna play it out at least a little further to see how I like it. The dialogue is the hardest thing to excuse. It's just terribly translated, I guess. Nothing about the dialogue flows well.
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Aeris just joined my party.

And uh, so...the quality of this game is quite low. No way to really say it otherwise. It's just pretty terrible. I'm gonna continue because it's not really that unfun or anything, and I'm interested to see where it goes...but damn this is a low quality game. The dialogue and menus and everything are just horrific. So is the exploration...everything is just made really badly.
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When I first played it I thought you had to attack enough times while the tail is up to make it lower it before it could hit you with the lazer.

I'm in the first town now. This game is really dorky >_>
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Also literally one of the first text boxes of the entire game had a translation error in it. Did they even play this in English before releasing it?
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Ricemills posted...

attack while it's tail is up!

Fortunately I remember that translation error from the last time. I died on it in the past and I'm just like, "Is the game trolling me or what? I AM attacking when the tail is up. DO I NEED TO ATTACK IT HARDER!?!?"

I'm playing the PC port btw and the graphics honestly aren't too bad for a port of a PS1 game.
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Never got more than an hour into it in the past. Basically have played the factory with the spider a couple times and quit.

Gonna try to give it a legit shot.
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creativeme posted...

i've never beat it. never even made it to the hands except like once. those damn airship levels suck. it has been over a decade since i played and i would like to give it a playthrough but the snes all star version always deletes my save when i go back to it.

play it on ur switch
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Thompson posted...

Huh? I had a chance to play it not too long ago and cleared the Grass Land in about thirty minutes and without dying. I had not played SMB3 for well certainly over a decade.

you are 2 out of 5, obv
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to try to play it again after not having played it since they were a kid.

Most people seem to think they're going to breeze through it. But 3 out of 5 find it to be quite a bit more struggle than they expect.
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maybe we can call them e-sex workers
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Antifar posted...

Buzz Killjoy posted...

As it stands, I have a hard time considering anybody who performs on camera to be an actual "sex worker."

Why?

prolly coz physical sex doesn't occur.

(i don't agree with him)
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Goats posted...

Steve Nick posted...

dems don't care if a rapist becomes supreme court judge. that doesn't hurt them at all. matters none to them

they care if a -republican- becomes supreme court judge

Stop projecting. We're well past the realm of "same thing both sides", the left would be up in arms about a rapist on the supreme court regardless of their political affiliation aegislash

i was seeing daily liberal-rage threads about Kavanaugh before the rape allegations even happened.
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DAE think that republicans would be a lot more willing to just pick someone else if democrats weren't pushing a hardline of "we're going to reject anyone you nominate" spiel?

That's part of why they have to feel like they need to 'drill this guy through' is because they can't 'just change to a different guy'. This is their guy.

If they pick a new guy, it's the same shit for another 2 month.

If I were Trump, I'd just come out and be like, "look, you give me 20 democrats that will vote for X guy instead, and we'll switch off Kavanaugh today? No deal? Yeah, thought so"

Call them on their partisan bullshit. This isn't just about Kavanaugh. They're gonna attack anyone the republicans put up.
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1337toothbrush posted...

teriyaki or sesame?

ya
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Unite posted...

Republicans didnt like it when bill Clinton cheated on his wife so they had him sacked. Republican nominee is accused of raping and drugging many women at his frat parties he attended. Its ok no need to look into allegations?

You can literally just replace the words and reverse the phrasing and apply that to dems, you know that, right?

Democrats were ok with Bill Clinton, but want Kavanaugh out. Republicans were ok with Kavanaugh, and wanted Bill Clinton out.

Do you not see how STUPID it is for you guys to be arguing against each other? You are the same fucking thing. You only care about what team you're on.
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Just a piece of advice if you plan to make arguing on the Internet a main hobby of yours - don't try to win indefensible arguments.
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KlownArt posted...

Sure. I can't hurt to try.

debt
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yea and I even know that the platform will disappear if you long jump over that goomba without killing it
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Doom_Art posted...

Steve Nick posted...

That's partisan politics for you. They don't actually 'mean' that, as in, they don't want to accept a rapist, but they're driven into such hysteria by the back and forth on each side that they HAVE to take their side no matter what.

They could try not confirming the guy?

I hate sentiments like this.

The GOP nominated him and in spite of everything wants to ram him through.

Blaming their shit behavior on "hysteria on both sides" is disingenuous and just passes the buck

I'm not saying this behavior is good. I thought I was pretty clearly expressing that it is bad behavior. I'm just telling you why they're acting that way. It's not 'because they're terrible people at a core level'. It's because of the reasons stated.
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That's partisan politics for you. They don't actually 'mean' that, as in, they don't want to accept a rapist, but they're driven into such hysteria by the back and forth on each side that they HAVE to take their side no matter what.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

I do have to point out the irony of the people who were furious at conservatives dismissing the claims are now the first people to loudly dismiss these claims.

So the need to investigate claims solely depends on the politics of the people making the claim I see.

Hypocrites all.

To be fair, these claims are obviously baloney. Not even fried.
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2019
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wtf?
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Veggeta X posted...

Steve Nick posted...

A few people are complaining ITT and you're railing against that........

FIFY

People always think just because they're being vocal means everyone in this fucking world agrees with their shitty opinion.

You think wanting to not have to pay for additional difficulty levels in a single player game with microtransactions is a 'shitty opinion'........
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SSJCAT posted...

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SSJCAT posted...

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SSJCAT posted...

eh i really doubt theyre going to gimp the game over this. i believe its just for casual gamers who cant get good but still want to beat the game.

and if it is totally broken and people do complain, i have every bit of faith capcom would fix it. theyve done way too much to improve their image the last couple years to just throw it all away now

Totalbiscuit once said, ""It's a tacit admission by the company that your game isn't fun enough without wanting to skip some of it.""

or its gonna be a difficult/challenging game and theyre just worried people will give up

Some developers have circumvented this problem in the past by providing different 'modes' of play that are easier or harder depending on the preference of the player. Sometimes it doesn't even cost money to unlock that mode. Aside from the $60 you paid to buy the game, at least.

yeah, yeah. look im just trying to not be a total cynic about it like you guys.
if it really is that bad, customers will complain, and they will fix it.

customers are complaining ITT and you're railing against that........
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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

It is a single player game. Someone else paying money to optimize their gameplay does not affect my gameplay at all

yes it does, see:

"It's a tacit admission by the company that your game isn't fun enough without wanting to skip some of it."

they're making their game worse ON PURPOSE so that people will pay for it
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SSJCAT posted...

Steve Nick posted...

SSJCAT posted...

eh i really doubt theyre going to gimp the game over this. i believe its just for casual gamers who cant get good but still want to beat the game.

and if it is totally broken and people do complain, i have every bit of faith capcom would fix it. theyve done way too much to improve their image the last couple years to just throw it all away now

Totalbiscuit once said, ""It's a tacit admission by the company that your game isn't fun enough without wanting to skip some of it.""

or its gonna be a difficult/challenging game and theyre just worried people will give up

Some developers have circumvented this problem in the past by providing different 'modes' of play that are easier or harder depending on the preference of the player. Sometimes it doesn't even cost money to unlock that mode. Aside from the $60 you paid to buy the game, at least.
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SSJCAT posted...

eh i really doubt theyre going to gimp the game over this. i believe its just for casual gamers who cant get good but still want to beat the game.

and if it is totally broken and people do complain, i have every bit of faith capcom would fix it. theyve done way too much to improve their image the last couple years to just throw it all away now

Totalbiscuit once said, ""It's a tacit admission by the company that your game isn't fun enough without wanting to skip some of it.""
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The Great Muta 22 posted...

Steve Nick posted...

To be fair, most of the actual elected democrats are probably much more reasonable than how the party and its advocates are displayed in the media/social media. But it's like X-Pac is kinda saying --- Even if they themself aren't insane, are they gonna stand up to the crazies when push comes to shove? Nope.

Just a casual example, but let's say we're talking about guns. Sure, this guy might not mind guns too much and might have very reasonable views on it. But the next time everyone goes up in tears over guns, is he gonna be brave enough to tell them to shut the fuck up, or is he just gonna follow along with the hysteria? That's what I worry about.

Don't base your vote on what the loudest people on social media or what the extreme fringe thinks, base it on what the actual politicians say. The extremes on the left barely have a voice in actual governance, and the loudest in power don't ever get support from the majority of the party.

Yep, what you're saying is generally true.
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they do that because when games like Witcher 3 try to make their characters control more 'realistically', people complain because they're tedious to play. If I want to go left, make me go left FFS. I do'nt want to go forward and to the left like a boat.

no..not off the cliff..no...noooooooo
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DarthWendy posted...

Steve Nick posted...

darthwendy is complaining about something worth complaining about in this thread.

This has always been true.

sorry...it hasn't....
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darthwendy is complaining about something worth complaining about in this thread.
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One thing you should about Dq11 is that even a couple levels worth of XP is a MASSIVE power difference. You go from literally grinding through and struggling with random encounters, to smashing them to pieces.
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Though honestly I'd be happy if there were just a spot on the ballot where I could vote, "Please give everyone in our country healthcare regardless of income, thanks."

And I wouldn't care much about what else happened. This is why I'm not affiliated with a party and why I hate partisan politics, because people forget about things that -matter-. Like sickness and death. And we talk about football stars and songs and flags instead.
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To be fair, most of the actual elected democrats are probably much more reasonable than how the party and its advocates are displayed in the media/social media. But it's like X-Pac is kinda saying --- Even if they themself aren't insane, are they gonna stand up to the crazies when push comes to shove? Nope.

Just a casual example, but let's say we're talking about guns. Sure, this guy might not mind guns too much and might have very reasonable views on it. But the next time everyone goes up in tears over guns, is he gonna be brave enough to tell them to shut the fuck up, or is he just gonna follow along with the hysteria? That's what I worry about.
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Balrog0 posted...

Caution999 posted...

Why do they keep giving us an easy target?

there is no group that is better at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory than the modern day democratic party

tbh I consider myself what a liberal should be, and I still hate the dems.

it'd be colossally easy for them to get me to vote for them, and they just fight against that at every turn to the point that it's agonizing to even decide who to vote for.

Every side is fucking insane and nobody is willing to compromise their radical views.
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The last part of what you said is true, yeah. But those people are probably not the primary people making the argument that you are complaining about.

A sizable number of people in the country identify as 'neither side', and those are the people who hated Hillary more than Trump. I'm in that group, and my personal decision was to vote for neither of them, but I can understand the decision to vote for Trump, since it wasn't -quite- clear how much of a circus his presidency was gonna be prior to him being elected.

You can say, "yeah, so vote for someone else", but the system isn't set up for you to do that. I did it anyways, and I fully recognize my vote was never going to affect any outcome, which is why a lot of people chose to vote into the 2-person election instead.

In an ideal world, we'd have a better system of voting, but right now we're pretty well locked into this two party system thing.
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Doom_Art posted...

Steve Nick posted...

Maybe you shouldn't have forced those people to vote for Trump

No one held a gun to anyone's head and forced them to check off Trump's name

Even worse. They held a Hillary to their country.
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Doom_Art posted...

Pepys Monster posted...

Liberals: "'But Hillary'! Why do you keep mentioning Hillary?"

Because she won't go away.

I mean this doesn't mean deflecting to Clinton every time a criticism is leveled at Trump is any less stupid/pathetic lol

Maybe you shouldn't have forced those people to vote for Trump with your blind elevation of a corrupt lizardperson if you didn't want to hear about it again in the future.
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The 2016 election was basically a referendum on "do you want hillary to go away" because people were even willing to vote for trump over her.
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Oh, and to add some actual opinion on that issue: It seems every fan of the game has acknowledged my opinion of "they're the same game", but most of them all think it's a good thing, because Valkyria 1 was good and having Valkyria 1 with a new story isn't a bad thing.
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Milkman5 posted...

Steve Nick posted...

game should be called Valkyria Chronicles 1.2

It's basically DLC.

XBC2 - Torna had more differences from the main game than 4 has from 1.

You say that like it's a bad thing. I loved the first game and wanted more missions to play.

My post actually didn't contain any words that express either positive or negative connotation ^_^
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game should be called Valkyria Chronicles 1.2

It's basically DLC.

XBC2 - Torna had more differences from the main game than 4 has from 1.
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