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Shaduln posted...

Yeah and then you end up with 6 of the same characters at the end.

Better than losing all control over what you can do.
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iiicon posted...

yeah what I hate about super long RPGs is that some of them have pliable approaches to character builds, giving each new run a different perspective. what bullshit

...Thanks for trying to be sarcastic but illustrating my point.

The problem is that the IZJS is actually just divided up the original LB. It didn't add any features, instead of allowing you to have blank slates, it cuts you off from things, permanently.

The IZJS is literally cutting back on Pliability for the characters.
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KanzarisKelshen posted...

You're not actually explaining what the layer of bullshit is. I assume it's the second job?

The Job System in its entirety.
No "second job" or "first job" for that matter.

FFXII didn't have the jobs to begin with. Including them- which is done, not by adding anything to the game, but instead being restrictive to the player [and absolutely at that] is a downgrade.
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

What don't you like better?

The International Zodiac Job System vs not having an extra layer of bullshit.

That's a fundamental change to the gameplay and it is significantly impacting in a Negative way.
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IZJS sucks. So bad.

Better graphics, whatever. Doesn't justify the loss in gameplay.
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Z sucks, Mega was better.
The new mechanic is a waste, considering it is juxtaposed against a much better mechanic that got scrapped when it was introduced.
It was bad all around.
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Anagram posted...

If you spend enough time in time dilation that your best friend's daughter is now the same age as you, enough time has probably passed that your best friend no longer really thinks of you the same way anyway, since he'll have so much more experience than you.

Let's say this: You and your Friend both have to leave Earth for purpose X. He takes his wife, because Jody is still real in the streets, but due to things going out there, has to leave his daughter with her grandparents- I.E. his parents.

Upon return to Earth, said daughter is now the same age as you.

You've basically found the FE Fates scenario. [Except instead of Babyrealms, the only thing keeping this from being real is the lack of cool starships and accessible spacetravel for plebs IRL]
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...What implications would it have if "getting with your best friend's daughter" in a fashion like Fire Emblem's shenanigans actually was a thing?

Because with spaceships moving at significant fractions the speed of light for various things, it could be a thing that the Human Race may have to one day deal with.
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Holy fuck that's a fast reply for GameFAQs.
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ExThaNemesis posted...

Neither of these games will ever be as good as FFXI

Given neither will have Pre-Nerf Absolute Virtue or Pandemonium Warden, yeah.

But those beasties were relics of a bygone era. Before the casual tide.
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KamikazePotato posted...

Also I swear at least a few people on the dev team are Skies of Arcadia fans. The Void Ark/Weeping City/Dun Scaith storyline in particular was just overflowing with SKY PIRATE stuff.

The Sky Pirate base is basically Crescent Island.
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The explosive rise of social media and instant gratification culture.

The new platforms opened a lot of vectors and it generally lead to a dumbing down of society.

The Tumblr Left is more damaging than 2007's casuals, but it's more or less the same shit, really.
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Luis_Sera89 posted...

Imagine my surprise when I discovered there were another 101 mainline quests before I reach Heavensward.

...Astral Era can go fuck itself, honestly.

While I say that for the most part XIV > WoW, that is one thing that WoW does so much better.
You don't need to dick around in the endgame of the prior expansion in WoW. You can jump right in to the next part of the game immediately.

Those 100 quests suck ass when you're just wanting to get to HW. Their original and main point was getting the endgame content of ARR unlocked-- something that in WoW you wouldn't have to touch to move on to the next Expansion.

Ditto the required part of the Post-Dragonsong War arc- [HW's main basically ends with KotR/Singularity Reactor, but you have to keep trucking well past reaching 60 and the end of the basic HW story to do FSoF before touching Stormblood]. It's not 100 more quests, but... it still is ass.

The major upside to Stormblood is you can go to Rdm and Sam just by hitting 50, and you DON'T need to do jack crap otherwise to get to them, unlike Drk, Mch, and Ast, which required doing all of Astral Era.
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Honestly the lowest point in the story is the 30s slog and then ASTRAL ERA.

Astral Era can go fuck itself- it's terribly designed. Worst 100 quests ever. [It also has like the worst Raid Fight in the game. While Castrum is slow as fuck and generally awful and unrewarding gameplay wise, it's great storywise and the fights themselves are fun, Steps of Fate is terrible and unrewarding. But you have to do it to get to Heavensward.] (What's fun is that SoF is on the Trial Roulette, and there's no "Opt Out" buttons. The best thing about SoF? Seeing all the people who hate the fuck out of it. Dropping the Roulette locks you out for a while too.)

Although, you need to experience Astral Era to really get Heavensward.
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banananor posted...

KamikazePotato posted...

You'll be fine. Internet always exaggerates how bad things actually are. You watching the story btw?

i try to pay attention. it's hard sometimes! seems impossible for an MMO story to hold a candle to a single player game

i also just hit a wall on my level 30 class quest. think i'm going to have to either level up or gear up some more

oh also i thought i had to save up 2000 seals to get a mount. picked them up while waiting for dungeon queues, went to turn them in and it's only 200 ... whoops

It was 2000 until recently.
But it's not like 2000 seals is hard to come by. FATEs hand out hundreds.
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neonreaper posted...

Just do an endgame dungeon. That's more than enough imo

Naw, you gotta kill the Final Boss.

Luckily there's Looking for Tourist Mode.
So you can do that.

You can also faceroll your way through all the previous final bosses by being above their level and getting the superbuff.

Although, I think superbuff doesn't apply to lolWarlords and MoP [but a 110 can faceroll MoP anyway]
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Vanilla: Beat Nefarian.
BC: Beat Illidan. [Kil'jaden for the postgame Bonus level]
WotLK: Beat Arthas
Cata: Beat Deathwing
MoP: Beat Garrosh
Warlords: Beat Archimonde
Legion: Beat Kil'jaden.

WoW is, by all means a series.
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Yes.
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Not_an_Owl posted...

Airship_Canon posted...

1.0 was so hilariously bad that SE bad ended the game and kicked off 2.0.

It takes a special kind of bad game for the developers to decide the only way to improve it is to literally blow the world up and start over.

Hey, WoW blew everything up for the fuck of it.
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redrocket_pub posted...

KanzarisKelshen posted...

KamikazePotato posted...

The funny thing is that 1.0 being so bad made the plot better. It forced the 1.0 ending, which set the stage for everything after and is still amazing.

I still watch the End of an Era trailer occasionally. It may the single best thing Square's ever done that wasn't a full game.

Seriously, look at that. So many chills!

So what backstory would we need to catch up on in order to fully appreciate that?

Not much. It's 1.0. Which is literally NOT part of the game anymore.

Empire Invaded.
Protags fight back, try to stop the empire from summoning Bahamut/Casting Meteor.
Empire wins, Bahamut is summoned, entire world is fucked.
Loui'Sioux seals Bahamut in the Binding Coil.
Umbral Age begins.
Cue the start of the game-- yes, START.

1.0-- and that cutscene is literally backstory for the real game, which begins with 2.0.
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KamikazePotato posted...

Your compliments please His Majesty.

That Helm...
Well you've only done everything.
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KanzarisKelshen posted...

KamikazePotato posted...

Another thing to note is that FF14 actually has a great story with lots of cutscenes. Really good music too. They infused the soul of a single-player FF game into it.

Vouch. FF14 is a better final fantasy than both 13 and 15. Its system would stand on its own completely as single player if your allies were AI controlled and functioned with a smart AI IMO.

It definitely is.
It's like the best FF released this decade.

...Except 1.0.
1.0 was so hilariously bad that SE bad ended the game and kicked off 2.0.
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bng_mmmk posted...

What endgame content is there in FFXIV outside of raiding?

PvP if that's your thing.

There's a lot of random little shit though.

...It's basically the same as any other MMO.

Also-- why I compared Alex against Uld [This is a Normal, note]:


That's like... phase 3 or 4 of that fight [and it's 3 phases anyway].
It should seem like Mimiron. They're both Voltron/Power Rangers/Combining Mecha.
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bng_mmmk posted...

More curious what the new player experience is like right now for FFXIV. How is the leveling? Is grouping up a thing that happens a lot prior to endgame? What is the average time to reach max level?

Leveling isn't terrible. Slogs at 30-50 though. There's a double EXP bonus for certain servers for 1-60. Starting now is fairly good idea.


You can approach 14 like a single player RPG. You never need to get that MMO mindset just to experience content. When time comes for other players to get involved, there's a button for that.1

There's definite dungeons to do- and all content, raids included [and note, Normals are not LFR. They're still raids- E.G. doing the Alex story right now? Creator still puts off a bunch of threat, except Lamebrix Lootbox], are on a finder.

SB content has this issue of enemies being made out of HP bars, but it's fairly good.
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Also, a huge difference between WoW and FFXIV--

There's much less time committed to XIV raids [well, comparing the 8 Player Raids [Coil, Alex, Trials] against WoW raids; the 24 Players raids (Crystal Tower, Dun Scaith, Ivalice*) not withstanding] due to the way they're laid out.

In XIV a raid instance is 1 part of a wing, or hell, just a straight single boss encounter.
Savages [At least Alex and Coil didn't] do not even have trash- like A11S, you literally start at Cruise Chaser's platform. You zone into to him coming out of the Portal and transforming.
It begins and ends with the boss kill.

But even the normals have "lollolololtrash" (like maybe 2 pulls) then bossfight.

Then the instance ends.
You're not done with the wing, but you're done with /that/ instance.

This allows way more flexibility with the raids.

Also, lockouts? What lockouts? You can always do the content. You don't always get gear or loot. But the content is always accessible.

And I'll say that XIV's raids are more technical than WoW's. In WoW a loss came down to "We don't have the gear for this" or "X player messed up simple thing".
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Echo isn't up for Alex yet, as a note.
[Just did A11n. ...It's still Ark/Cruise Chaser Blassty, aka forward and back and forward and back and forward and back and put one foot forward [it's not line dancing. It's what he does to your rectum.]. Lots of wipes on Phase 3 at Shiva Pattern Hawk Blaster. No Echo today.]

...the event with the FC deletition was related to Alex Savage, and go figure it was over A11S.

Also, while the reason he was kicked was low DPS, he was probably eating Propeller Winds. [Which is a hilarious mechanic, BTW. It catches out of position DPS and then punishes the healer with death for it.]
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Yes, and the next shift has already begun.
Basically, it set up the catastrophe that lead into to 2016's chaos.

Now Trump won, and there's gonna be massive fallback.

It was a definite negative thing, as a note.
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The important thing is the actual truth, not context of the statement.

If she'd lose to that 700th guy, well, it's fair. Period. "Sexist" is a buzzword.
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redrocket_pub posted...

banananor posted...

dps meters are against the tos and that's about it

Oh LOL is this really true?

Basically.

SE isn't going to stop you from using a parser... on yourself.

But if you say anything in game about using a parser, you can get banned. And if someone Blue Falcons your FC for using one, your FC can get disbanded and bans go out.

What it comes down to is, you can parse your own DPS. But you can't brag or call others out, because in doing so you admit to using an external program, which is against the rules.

WHICH IS GREAT.
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KanzarisKelshen posted...

Alexander? Really? And here I thought this topic was gonna be about Susano-o who has DAT HYPHY

Shh.

I compare Alex against Uld for the feel.
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tcaz2 posted...

I'm sure WoW has improved since then

You'd be wrong.
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Wedge Antilles posted...

"DOTA 2 IS BETTER THAN LOL"

Both of those suck.
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Alexander > Ulduar.
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Casual Reminder.
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Honestly, Valkyria Revolution looks bad.

Too far off the rails.
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Punnyz posted...

oh lulz I just made a Valkyria topic


I had no idea they were in World of Tanks. Are they still there?

They just got added into WoT Console.
No word on PC- although they're up in Asia.

https://console.worldoftanks.com/en/news/specials/spotlight-valkyria/
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Dumb Xbox bros mad that Welkin Gunther and Carisa Contzen brought their tanks to World of Tanks Console. Local Wehraboo complains that The Nameless is Overpowered and unrealistic because his Tiger II cannot penetrate the Gallian tank from the front, even when wasting Premium Ammo.

Other complaints about the beautiful Edelweiss having too much mobility and firepower for a medium have cropped up, and in general there's a lot of mad Xbros who just can't stand it that their "completely realistic tank sim" is sullied by fictional tanks, when roughly half the designs are just as fictional as the Gallians.
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Her blatantly fake boobs make her uglier, but if she's wanting to change herself, that's her deal.
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WazzupGenius00 posted...

technically all amiibo are compatible with Mini Mario & Friends Amiibo Challenge, though only a handful do unique things

Same with Fire Emblem Echoes.
You can use any Amiibo for Illusionary Heroes- the Smash FE ones will give you that character, Alm and Celica give you a copy of your Alm and Celica, and everything else gives you a generic Class unit scaled to certain levels based on the Act.
You can summon Peg Knights with wooly Yoshi and this is cool.
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Well, if she's being treated for Rabies, she wasn't bullshitting.
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trdl23 posted...

Please let the writing in this game not be terrible.

The supports are bland, Faye is exactly what happens when you will "Less Supports" just because you think that quantity is related to quality, main plot is... It's Gaiden, shit hasn't changed.
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trdl23 posted...

Somehow even worse than Awakening.

Let's be real: Radiant Dawn already did that. So did Blazing Sword.
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wg64Z posted...

Warcraft? Only if you believe WoW is the best Warcraft game.

Depends on if you include WoW's expansions. If you do, lolNO.
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...I mean didn't they swap to calling Aeris "Aerith"?
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Mac Arrowny posted...

I think it has just a bit less DLC than Awakening, right?

5 less maps, for 10 less dollars.
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Nanis23 posted...

The DLC is discouraging me

It's literally better than Fates, and slightly less than Awakening's.
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gearofages posted...

The site went down within minutes of a Draven topic being removed. In those few minutes, Link was destroying him, then it happened. Link would have won with another clean hour, though I'm just going from memory, not the numbers.

And then it ended stupid close, so no it wouldn't have been the same outcome.

The site came down during Link's power-hour.

Yes, it was a DDOS.
Yes, it affected the outcome.
Yes, it should've been redone the next day as per how CJayC would've handled it.
No, the fact that Draven's strength is all based in rallies has nothing to do with following correct procedure to ensure a fair outcome. If you can rally one day, you can rally again.
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Yes, Yes, and Yes.

Most notably the last one.

CjayC re-ran polls for MUCH less downtime.

The downtime should've just lead to the poll closing and a re-run the next day.
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Camden posted...

...they made another Lake Placid movie?

Was that in response to my post?
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