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playing this was one of my favorite gaming experiences

didn't "get it" the first time, then picked it up again a year or so later when i had nothing to do. kept my own separate notebook to track things. didn't even start the main quest until i had played a few dozen hours

for a while there i think i had the layout of vvardenfell better memorized than the town i lived in
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okay, i'm just an idiot. came back to the game a few days later and nailed the quest on my first try. healing the npc's pet worked

and i'm on cactuar
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cool, i figured as such. just better to be safe!
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as with all board projects, i'd recommend scaling back the depth or scope if it's proving overwhelming
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KamikazePotato posted...

What do you mean by 'hit a wall'? If you're only using one class then the gear you get just from main story quests should be all you need to worry about for a while.

i'm an arcanist at level 30, gear level is 21- there's a quest where i have to protect an npc from waves of adds, and i can stand in a circle for a defensive buff. the dps/hps just doesn't seem to line up, the npc is unhealable, and the quest is 30 minimum, 34 'suggested'

i could probably git gud (i did get green fire in wow back when it was tough), but it might be more efficient to trek along with the story quests (level requirement for those is 30) and get some exp and gear

looking up a guide online, there do seem to be some tricks- the npc's pet is healable. we SHALL SEE. i am looking forward to unlocking the summoner subclass and being able to do decent dps
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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
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it's been strange to see the FF series try to evolve into the modern era after some of their core team members left

starting with 12, something just hasn't been right. it's like critical organs are missing. i didn't get very far in 15. however, while it felt better than 13 it felt similarly cardboard
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wow, that cutscene is pretty fantastic

leveling up, soon to hit 30. i'm worried i picked the wrong class, as it sounds like both summoner and scholar are a bit weak right now. hopefully it's not as bad as the internet would tell me
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i research games ahead of time and buy ones that i'm convinced i will enjoy. if i'm not sure, i wait until they're ridiculously cheap

being from a developer i trust makes a huge difference

i'm generally a /patientgamer. exceptions are when friends peer pressure me into buying something multiplayer, or games that explicitly benefit from the large online playerbase upon launch (mmos and dark souls types)

i've been lucky enough to have a friend that shares his ps+ account with me, so i end up playing new games anyway
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BowserCuffs posted...

What was the sole JRPG you beat?

that is a good question. i'm guessing it was the in-engine RPG bundled with RPG maker on ps1
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my brain can't compute how the first 2 pics are of the same building

the inside looks nice enough

highlight: https://puu.sh/wzve1/a0316f2ff7.jpg
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and yeah. i absolutely love long, immersive RPGs, but i always hit that wall

it's almost like i truly feel like the character in the game. the hero doesn't love slaying enemies. they just want everything to be okay in the world. enemies are obstacles, not sources of enjoyment

well, most heroes. i'm sure kratos and some others love the carnage

i think this is the main reason i play games rather than watch playthroughs on youtube. the experience is different when you are viscerally empathizing with the trials of the hero. even witcher 3, which i loved, was tedious for long stretches, but i still felt rewarded at the end

long games are a strange hybrid of work, relief and enjoyment
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it is made in japan, so yes
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sometimes things have to be broken in order to be remade anew, better than before

i don't really think this was the case, though. i loved the tempest block, and for some reason in my brain thought tempest came afterwards. this makes me like urza's block less....

everything before mirage felt archaic, mirage felt almost there, tempest was bad ass, and urza was just broken. everything from masques onward felt pretty much acceptable. i think modern could've easily started with invasion or possibly even masques if not for the marketing aspects

i'm sure i could be proven wrong, though
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i've certainly completed more than that, but i don't think i've ever been perfectly happy about it

when the story of a game is interesting i don't particularly appreciate the hours and hours of combat getting in the way of said story

most recently i think i started hitting the wall about 40 hours into persona 5, but i chugged through and made it to the end in unhealthy fashion. i love them for the concepts and characters, but persona games can be such a slog.

i think some square games have been the exception. ff6, ff7, ff10, and chrono trigger were enjoyable from start to finish (mostly because the combat was easy and quick), although i definitely abused the 'speed up' and save state features of an emulator for 6

for others i've teamed up with a sibling or friend to complete. when one loses interest, the other picks it back up

but then again, maybe i'm weird. i distinctly remember getting tired of the combat in every game of the mass effect trilogy and just wishing i could skip combat as best i could. it's pretty decent motivation to optimize my character, at least
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red sox 777 posted...

I've been saying for years that the true guiding principle of the Republican Party is: The end justifies the means.

i'll agree with that.

it's just unfortunate that the methods that will supposedly achieve the ends sometimes (often?) aren't that well thought out, and are instead just sort of knee-jerky, short-sighted and counter productive

sometimes it feels like they're just picking whichever policy sounds toughest
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basically, it sounds like both games are good

i most recently played warcraft in i want to say march, and the raiding was better than it had ever been before. the only reason i quit was because every single one of my real life friends had moved on and i needed

the flexible normal mode allows you to use any number of players between 10 and 30, dropping in and out at any time, and it is just challenging enough to enjoy with people that aren't very good

then there's the 'raid finder' snooze mode.

i'll probably be trying to hit max in ffxiv, so i'll do my best to provide an honest comparison of the two

@azuarc, didn't relize you were being genuine, thanks for explaining
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if you have a friend, this game is a blast in co-op mode (friend had it through ps+)

don't know if i'd want to do single player, though
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thanks for clarification. these topics are really making me nostalgic for the game

am thinking about coming back for the dinosaur set or maybe dominaria. was kind of turned off by planeswalkers and mythic rares, but it sounds like they've settled into something good
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i agree

it's just a strange venn diagram of people who would know about all that stuff, be hardcore enough at the game to supposedly complete all endgame content (during a period where a handful of guilds did so), yet also not remember anything about it
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

and thanks for the answers. it sounds like ffxiv is basically easy old wow, which is pretty good. my brother was saying samurai and black mage were noticably the best dps, so it does really feel like old wow, where things aren't very balanced and stuff is just fun

i was always hesitant to raid with real life friends because i knew some of them would be bad, and it would be an awkward situation overall

if dps doesn't really matter (but i guess some people are saying it does?) this'll be a perfect casual mmo to play with friends. i'm still holding out for destiny 2 to be honest
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neonreaper posted...

azuarc posted...

(that wasn't Karazhan, which I had already done in vanilla,) gotten bored

o rly

ahaha, pretty much everything about that post was perfect

claiming karazhan was in vanilla
claiming ulduar was the top tier content for a year (it was 4 months)
soft claiming he finished ulduar and had nothing left to do

10/10
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back in the day we complained when content was locked away in dlc

now we complain when there isn't dlc
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i'll agree that i found the flavor of gruul the least interesting by far. i guess i sort of appreciated it for making everyone else feel cooler. boros even kinda beat it at its own game

i think simic disappointed me the most. coolest flavor, but nothing about it ever really gelled for me mechanically
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as a clueless player (i drifted away from the game due to life reasons right before this block), what makes reveillark terrible but demigod awesome?

one is a 5 power flyer with haste for 5 summoning 15 uncounterable damage to the face upon cast

the other is a 4 power flyer for 5 summoning 4 uncounterable power upon leaving the battlefield

is it just that reveillark is more abusable with flicker effects? they seem to bring a similar level of power and unanswerability

i guess at least demigod was self contained. by naming itself explicity in the rules text it put a cap on its own power level
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like, the UCONN women's basketball team won 110 games in a row. that is the largest winning streak for any AAA college basketball team

under some definitions, that makes them the greatest college basketball team of all time

on the other hand, a lot of men's college teams would have beaten them those years, so under some definitions that makes them definitely not the greatest of all time
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i guess it comes down to the definition of greatness

is it objective- that is, the best player is the one that wins the most often against anyone?

or is it relative- the one that is the most dominant in their own league
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but still, forgetting the dps stuff, i'm still interested in the differences between wow and ffxiv raiding
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i guess my question is... what do you do when your group isn't meeting a dps check?

are you allowed to replace the low DPSer? or is that a no-no, since you're not supposed to be able to tell who has low dps
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i think this just goes to show that trying to define an individual's political perspectives isn't as easy as a 1-dimensional stat grid

people aren't just generic leftists or generic conservatives

people have nuanced opinions on things. it's only when large globs of people have to average out to form a party that the nuance gets shaved off
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Man the mobile site is bad...
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*or we're missing some kind of dps check and can't tell why

But it's just about managing expectations
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I'll be honest, that doesn't sound completely terrible

kind of like wow's normal (formerly flex) mode, where the dps requirements are very low and the enemy hp/damage gently scales based on how many players are in the raid between 10 and 30


It did kind of suck in guild wars 2 when we needed to split dps or we'r ofe missing some kind
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I think they turn a blind eye as long as you don't tell other players their dps is low

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/5yq9gj/dps_meter/

Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/5yq9gj/dps_meter/
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Why did this random (I'm sure very nice) lady have access to your DNA?
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

But what makes ff raiding different from wow raiding?

I know switching classes is easier and dps meters are against the tos and that's about it
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How would you compare them? what makes ffxiv raiding better?
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My brother is getting into ffxiv, so I was thinking of playing as a bonding mechanism

I was a little worried about spending time in an mmo with worse raiding than I'm used to.

You really think they're comparable/ff is better?
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necromancer was the most requested class by far. witch doctor doesn't quite fit the same niche

granted, i hate diablo 3 and i love blizzard
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poll results:
https://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/6758-do-you-think-nintendo-will-be-to-satisfy-the-demand-for-the
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poll
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Yeah I'd rather sew my own mousepad out of mouse hair collected from rodents in my apartment
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damnit, this was the month i was going to shut ps+ down, might spend $10 to play through until dawn
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also, do you think mythic rares are overall good for the game
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worst ravnica guild?
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i feel like the weatherlight crew/saga would be better for a movie. wizards with huge, vaguely defined powers aren't all that interesting- to me, at least

i have mixed feelings about the urza cycle. it was super overpowered, but it brought a lot of great flavor (and frustration!) into my childhood games.

I hated it at the time, but sometimes high emotions are better than perfect, boring balance. I think it deserves to be super low. Will be interested to hear the comparison with Mirrodin, another stupidly overpowered block.
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Infernape
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this isn't news

'old person doesn't like young person's clothes' has been goin on forever
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Well, to try and work with this, I'll tell a related story. My first rpg was ff7. I don't know how old I was, maybe 9.

I found the combat super boring, so I fled all random encounters

It was all fine until I hit the wall.

The wall was after nibelhiem/Vincent's Manson. There was this big dumb guy in the mountains that cast trine and (the first time for an enemy in the game) cure 2. The monster could out heal my best damage output.

I think I only had one save file, inside the mountain in a location where I couldn't get back to a town. Basically, I was screwed

So I restarted the game and leveled properly.

Later on, I still didn't know I could hit select to make the triangle indicators hover over interactive objects such as ladders or doors. I could not for the life of me figure out how to get through the Escher painting room in the temple of the ancients

So I saved up my money for the official strategy guide, which just said "go out the other side of the room". This was the last time I bought a strategy guide.

So I convinced my parents to let me use the internet, and I searched for ff7 help. This is how I discovered gamefaqs.

This is the long way of saying in this actual situation I would either 1) restart the entire game if I thought I screwed myself or 2) discover the internet and figure out what I was doing wrong

There are games that I have simply put down because they were too difficult, grindy, or simply inscrutable. Final fantasy games are generally well designed enough not to fall into these pits
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getting nostalgic for a second, this is basically what those free demo discs that came with the ps1 were. those were awesome. i didn't buy even a fraction of the games advertised on them but it was still sweet to play them for one level or 20 minutes or whatever they'd allow.

trying to get a good spread...

non-negotiable
1. final fantasy 7
2. metal gear solid
3. spyro the dragon
4. tekken 3
5. einhander
6. tomba!

solid locks
7. medievil
8. tony hawk's pro skater
9. digimon world
10. saga frontier
11. gran turismo (2 i guess)
12. driver (godlike cops vs. robbers mode)
13. spider-man

not so sure
14. tomb raider (just for being iconic. might swap it out)
15. crash bandicoot (same for this one)
16. gta2 just for diversity, even though it didn't really get huge until 3
17. intelligent qube for the puzzles
18. a token madden game
19. some nba game with a multi-tap and togglable fouls
20. one of the gex games, either the original or enter the gecko, not sure which


honorable mentions, some junk that was probably more fun as a demo:
rayman
jersey devil
small soldiers
this weird top-down racing game with vampires and stuff
one of the snowboarding games
oh shit i forgot hot shots golf
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