Lurker > skullbone

I did everything I could and I think I was 50-52

Honestly Sephiroth is a tough one because I doubt the voice directors are giving the actor any context for the nonsense he's spouting most of the time.

Rebirth got rid of the anime grunts, by the way. I don't remember a single one.

Remake was 10/10

Then Rebirth came out and was 12/10 so Remake is 8/10 now.

I thought it was a nice touch that his dialogue changes in side quests if you wait to do them after the change.

I mean it makes sense, but they could have kept them the same either way.

It is pretty weak but it also has unlimited range and continues doing minor damage even when you're not mashing square. So it's basically just used to stagger, then you get in and spend ATB.

Yeah something I'm not sure the game tells you is that you can change the element you imbue her weapon with. So you just pick whatever element the enemy is weak to, use triangle to throw it and stick it to them, then start spamming square.

When they get staggered you get in close and use Art of war 2 times and the 2nd time it does an upgraded version.

I was thinking they might do a 4th game to fix Advent Children honestly but the sales probably aren't justifying that so far.

I don't understand how people think these games are supposed to survive without microtransactions and battlepasses.

How else do you get money to keep adding things to the game?

I mean are we still really upset about cosmetic purchases funding live service games in 2024?

That being said this looks fun but 3rd person melee combat is always kinda rough in these multiplayer games so we'll see.

Digital is trash until I'm able to resell games.

Yeah and whenever anyone tried to bring up Zack in the first game he static'd out and didn't hear what they were saying. Same thing could be happening here with Aerith

I struggled on hard mode until I looked up builds online and realized the best strategy is to basically avoid 90% of the options they give you (which is stupid).

Just use Chadley's presets for the normal mode ones. There's one that lets you spam cheap bots and it wrecked every fight on normal.

Silk variant and War Machine in 2 caches, perfect

I think Aerith has to "die" so that they can actually do the rest of FF7 without major changes. But I think that we'll definitely save her at the end of part 3 somehow.

Most of the narrative for FF7 has been the same as the original so I don't think they want to completely change the outline for part 3.

So yeah be prepared for some time travel or something.

My only thought is that they didn't want people constantly reskilling their fire ATB attacks into ice or whatever on the open world to deal with whatever enemies they're running into.

If your game doesn't have a cost to reskill then you kinda have to add a restriction.

But also who cares, just let people do that if they want.

You make me sick

People who play Magik and then play Scarlet Witch on their own limbo on turn 6 make me sick.

Rugrats
Spongebob
Fairly Oddparents
Ren and Stimpy

Yeah the strangest decision to me is the materia earrings accessory. Accessory slots seem way more valuable than a single materia slot so I don't get the design behind those unless there was something I missed.

You do get a Gil Toss materia but IDK what the max damage you're able to do with it.

I died on 9/10 of a brutal fight and wasted 15 minutes so yeah I think I'm moving on without the platinum. Great game overall but damn they need to chill on these combat sims.

Yeah Weiss was the perfect difficulty level for this kinda game. So I don't need to fight 5 Weiss level bosses back to back.

Also most of these fights are just hard because you're getting blasted and interrupted by off screen stuff which sucks.

Reading that made me lose interest in going for the platinum lol. Holy shit that sounds miserable. I like hard stuff in games but it feels like they went kinda overboard with the brutal and legendary challenges.

But maybe I just need the stat boosts from max materia and max weapons? How significant is the boost for level 9 weapons?

Yeah I finally managed to beat Clouds legendary fight and I have a feeling the others are going to be so much worse. Anyone else do these before hard mode?

Hmm I had Cull pinned but now I'm not so sure after these Thanos nerfs. Maybe I'll just keep saving

I mean yeah that's fight 2 of 5 though so IDK how brutal the last 3 fights are as well. I beat all of the protorelic fights on dynamic first try so I think I'm pretty good at the combat but the numbers in these post game fights are just rough.

Wow some of these fights you unlock after beating the game are hard AF. I'm not really sure how to keep getting stronger either since I'm already max level.

I guess I could max out my stat boosting materia but I'm not even sure it would help that much.

There's a Cloud 1 on 1 fight against a white wolf and it does 3000 damage with an AOE attack and then follow up with 4-5 fireballs each doing 1500 damage each too. It also feels like you're doing pitiful damage in these fights.

She's a vault dweller so of course she's going to sound like she's out of the 1950s. That's why the person she's trying to save says "fucking vault dwellers".

I think it looks okay but I'm a Walton Goggins stan. Will wait for reviews at least.

Emote spamming is whatever but I don't understand the people who emote spam me after a loss in infinite.

Like bro we're both in the 40,000 ranks here and cubes don't matter anymore, why are you acting like this.

You should be happy I let the game finish so you could get your cool combo instead of leaving early.

That annoys me more than anything when I have my cool combo ready on turn 7 that it's taken me 20 games to line up and then the other guy leaves for 2 cubes on turn 7. We're infinite, just let me do my thing with my bad deck!

For the worm swallowing you, you gotta dodge toward the worm.

But stuff that requires tight timing for a parry you can use ATB counters like Yuffie's Brumal Mode, or whatever Cloud's ATB counter stance is. I'm pretty sure Red has one too

I was watching someone play yesterday and they were using sleep pretty often in those combat trials where you're getting spammed by lots of enemies. Your allies won't attack sleeping enemies so it looked pretty useful.

I think you could buy heroes actually but anyone who did that should be embarrassed anyway since they're free to unlock.

Punnyz posted...

Let me know when the PVE modes are free or you can use the coins to get them

I think there's only 1 and the rest are probably cancelled at this point lol.

RikkuAlmighty posted...

I didnt realize they werent all already free to play, its stupid that they already werent, and this is not going to bring me back.

They were free on the battle pass so you had to grind them out or pay money to unlock them early. After the battle pass ended you could unlock them by playing a certain number of games.

So yeah they were already free but this is removing the grind of unlocking.

I've uninstalled and reinstalled Overwatch 2 about 5 times so I think I'm done for good now. I pretty much only play Mystery Heroes anyway but I doubt I come back unless they make some major changes like revert to 6v6.

Very cool, I'm glad to hear it sounds like he's going to try to fix the difficulty of higher stakes.

I'd love to see more wacky cards in the style of the legendary jokers that actually change how you play a run instead of "multi +5" type cards. Just need more broken stuff in the game!

The most hype and fall out of my chair moments come from fighting games (and Smash Bros specifically) but my favorite to watch is probably high level Dota. I haven't even played in 5+ years but it's still fun to watch how the game evolves.

Rocket League is absolutely the answer for watching without ever having played it. It's soccer with rocket cars, immediately easy to understand and enjoy.

An article I read today said that it takes place 100 years before Episode 1 so not nearly as far back as I thought. I mean Yoda would still be around in that time right?

Edit: I guess Yoda is 900 years old so he's still around in the High Republic era too. But I definitely thought that this would be in the 500+ years before Episode 1 range.

Forceful_Dragon posted...

yeah something like Skyrim VR or RE7 VR is not a good "first VR" experience.

Definitely start with like a "job simulator" type cartoony thing. Something that doesn't even pretend to resemble reality. Build up a tolerance for the motion of VR playing things like that before tackling more realistic games.

It's not the sort of thing you can jump right into the deep end on, but once your tolerance is built up it's a fantastic way to experience those games.

Yeah my dumb ass thought that since I was good with Vive I'd be okay with Gran Turismo, the Horizon game, and No Man's Sky.

Could not play any of them seated for more than 5-10 minutes without wanting to die.

Yeah PSVR2 has made me really sick, even with motion sickness pills. I'm used to walking around with my Vive so sitting down was a pretty bad experience.

I think VR is a waste unless you have enough room to walk around.

Yeah I think it gets stale around 25-30 hours just because the high stakes runs are too luck based. But that's still a good amount of time to spend on a game that was $15 and I had fun.

I really regret mine but at least it'll work on PC soon.

People had issues with Chocobo Gliding? Yeah it was weird you couldn't invert the controls but it wasn't particularly difficult.

Yeah I'm using an enhancement deck too and it's owned pretty much every match in 1-2 attempts. I won a game 70-0 once it was pretty silly.

My collection level is 14,000 and I'm also missing 9 cards. So you seem to have gained about 3000 worth of CL by not spending gold on variants.

I've also bought a few variants for 5000 tokens though instead of getting cards so I could be doing better with my collection.

I think whenever they suspect that people are getting close to having a full collection or even being ahead of the collection that they're going to drop 10-20 cards out of nowhere. That's just a hunch I have because they don't want people to ever be collection complete.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b5d8f3be.jpg

Infinite achieved with this deck. Elsa and Hope are lol

Daily gold pass is interesting, 1800 gold for $5.

It's sad that doesn't even buy two premium variants though.

Boo I didn't want that Ghost Spider variant but it took 4 to get Mockingbird.

Well she counts enemies so she COULD get +14 but yeah that seems pretty unlikely.

I mean yeah you can easily build a deck to counter Destroy. The issue is that when you do that you're suddenly going to stop running into destroy decks lol.

There's a reason that Destroy has consistently been one of the top decks in the game since basically day 1 despite having 1000 counters.

No, those cards are not being used much. I think it's not worth getting 1 cube out of Destroy matchups to put those cards in your deck that don't really work against the rest of the meta.

Also wow originally they said that card effects would be tied to the border but that's not the case. So they said if you wanted a custom card to be 3D it would need to have the green border, for example.

But custom cards actually have all of the effects with any border so all of my white border inked cards have full animations and 3D now, very cool.

It's a bummer you can't turn off the card effects though, it says you need to unlock "none" with an inked split but I didn't think that was a possibility.