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While the overall product of another game managed to ussurp it shortly after, I will state for the record that from here on out Fata Morgana very EASILY steamrolled its way to my favorite game of all time up until that point.

MysteriousStan posted...

So uh. Can Sync perpetually have at least 30% ATK boost with that OL cost and a 2 turn cooldown for his other arte?

This seems to be the case..

He is ridiculous.

https://i.imgur.com/Xl8FTAV.gif

Bonus

https://i.imgur.com/bja5qE8.gif

I will not disagree with Alphinaud being a great character, it's just an issue of hom MUCH I care about his archetype. As far as his purpose as a character goes, he's one of the best in the game.

tcaz2 posted...

Nope! the Yda in 1.0 was always Lyse as well. Yda herself literally never showed up ever in the entire story.

OK yeah that's just a wierd scene then. Don't get the point. Why not just reveal she was using a fake name or something, her having a sister that used to be a scion could obviously be important later in Stormblood, but as the huge end of expansion stinger it falls completely flat.

Mac Arrowny posted...

Amy thoughts on the characters and why Estinien is way better than everyone else?

Esitinen is rad as hell. I'm hoping we haven't seen the last of him.

Alphinaud serves his purpose well, he's perfectly serviceable as the character who is around all the time and doesn't stand out to much.

Alisae I hope will grown on me, she's...fine?

Yshtola is best of the best.

Thancred...I'm sure will have tons coming up. Even as the character I have seen the most of since I started in Uldah, and with his plot relevance in ARR, I just don't feel a lot of attachment to this guy yet.

Krile is A+++. Tataru as well. And Nanamo. Lalafel girls reign Supreme.

I have no real opinion on "Yda" or Poppy.

Aymeric is my #1 dude and I was straight up going to pay the real money for his outfit if it wasn't locked to males.

Rhauban is just pure unrivaled badass and I don't care if that sounds like something a 16 year old would say.

I LIKE Cid, I don't think I love him as much as a lot of people seem to but he's certainly cool enough.

Haurchefant loves on as a tiny man who follows me around.

Hilda I feel like was supposed to be a big deal but she barely seemed to matter.

Nero is king bitch in a good way.

Minfilia I almost forgot to mention which says a lot, I know she's like a driving force in the entire game but I don't...care about her a ton. Partially because for the entire time she was actually actively around her VA sucked.

I'm sure I'm forgetting people but I don't want to cheat and look them up.

OK so thoughts so far.

ARR is def solid but its real dry looking back on it. I remember he ending of 2.0 kind of rushing up at me, and most of the patch content is whatever. Up until the very end where it goes absolutely mental and sucked me in, I hadnt even memorized some of the main characters names yet. At that point I would say it felt solid for what it was, not so much a standout. Doesnt help that the first half nothing really happens at all as it gets you grounded.

There are some good moments here and there, but MAN does that hour long cutscenes do some Work. Also, my opinion of ARR was artificially inflated a bit because the last thing I did in it was all the Hildibrand content, which is unironically the best thing in 2.x.

Heavensward, though, fucking baller. I was invested all the way though, the story was constantly evolving, and if it werent for repeating locations the patches would feel like a solid expansion in their own right. Arguably, I was invested in a lot of it more then Heavensward proper.

Somehow, even after that, the biggest difference is definitely the gameplay itself. Those 2.0 dungeons are BLEH. So many dead ends and empty hallways, every one of them is a maze in some way, with tons of samey cooridors. I could go with never playing a 2.0 dungeon again. I was tolerating it at the time, but theyre SOOOOO much better in 3.x.

I guess a good way to put it is that a lot of my drive for a chunk of ARR was to GET to Heavensward because I had heard such great things, even though there were some sections where I was just treating it like busy work. So many fetch quests.

Now, as I head into 4.0...I mean, I have Persona 5 Strikers installed, a game I have been waiting for for over a year, and I have no interest in touching it until I at least catch up on MSQ. That should say it all.

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This Yda revelation is wierd. I never even knew this other character, why is it acting like I should I care? Why is my characters default to ask why she never told me, why would THEY care? Is this something for 1.0 people?

Apocrypha? Yeah that'd a bad one. Had pretty high hopes for it.

I think I'm two MSQs from finishing, so I will let you know soon.

Just got a sick new outfit that matches perfectly to the point where I have to wonder if it's colored based on your look, or if I just lucked into it.

Need to stop dyeing all my stuff dalamund. As much as I love Red Mages as a class and concept, I dislike red gear just as much TBQH, lol.

Immediately after the dramatic death and destruction, a 7 foot tall huge samurai shows up in Vesper Bay on a tiny boat and screams at the top of his lungs about how samurai don't need to eat before collapsing in hunger.

I imagine this sudden transition to slapstick samurai worked better when there was time between these patches <_<

Me to my roomate an hour ago: there are too many Lalafells in this group shot, one of these shorties is def gonna bite it.

Power Nendoroid preordered.

My first ever real figure.

Yeah there's definitely no way the tall elf due who won't speak and just happens to have his MOUTH covered and EYES exposed is Urianger. Just no way.

Real Clark Kent energy here.

It is very odd to me that this is still just 3.3.

Man, they really want you to fly 100 miles into their air from the teleport to this Aerochemical facility for a heck of a lot of side content.

Oh everything about that was rad as fuck.

I am noticing a pattern that a lot of the cooler fights are real easy, though, not that I'm complaining.

"several cutscenes will play in sequence"

Uh oh.

"The eyes! Cast them into the Abyss!"

...Bitch that's just off the side of the bridge, someone can just go get that shit.

Higurashi

Last week: oh boy, I can't believe Ryukishi07 is finally pushing the Umineko button.

Ryukishi07, this week, less than 30 seconds into the episode: "I mean yeah, sure, but have you guys read Ciconia yet? You should!"

I've yet to use any Materia. It sound like I have to level a DoH class to slot them?

And then the next pull is Jade and Yuri.

You're killing me here.

Excuuuuuuuuuse me with that 120 OL cost for Sync?

Also BOY can I not wait until everything stops synching to 50 and 60 because there are a hell of a lot of times I wish I had this Veraise.

Extreme Garuda beaten. Once the team understood the mechanics that one really wasn't so bad.

Would spell speed not be optimal for RDM, to build up balance faster?

Chapter 3 is such a wild ride, taking a character I loathed more than any other and the just twisting everything up with shocking revelations. By the end Fata Morgana was already solidifying itself as one of my all time favs.

And the best part is that the real game starts now.

...I fear any controversy related to RPing, so do I even wanna know?