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Black_Crusher posted...

My takeaways from that one were that the characters were less interesting but the gameplay is much improved over D1.

That is what I've heard. It's very much one I'm meaning to play, but that's how backlogs do sometimes.

Black_Crusher posted...

I think the main thing with these games is that they don't take very long to beat for the main story but all the extra stuff requires you to be leveled up to some obscene amount. Priere (sp?) from the first game was level 2000 IIRC.

Yep. Presuming the rest of the series is anything like 1 (which I understand is the case), the real meat of the game is in the postgame grinding to absurd levels. IIRC, the final boss of 1 was level 85, which was reasonable for how much you'd level just going through the story, but then there was at least one superboss that was 6000 or 8000 (and you wouldn't stand a chance without a buttload of reincarnations and some Item World-boosted gear, so it wasn't even just the levels). The fact that the announcement trailer for 6 made specific mention of the fact that damage could go into the quadrillions really kind of reflects the series focus on gratuitously large numbers.

Judgmenl posted...

Wow that is not "free".
If it were actually free I'd have gotten a month of NSO and gotten the game.
Why is NSO such a scam?

"They're not letting me buy a $45 game for $4. What a scam."

Yeah... not so much. As I said, it's basically a free rental for subscribers (or a $4 rental for people who want to just buy a single month to get in on it). Just like the game rentals of yore, you can potentially satisfy your desire to play the game if you can put in enough time during the rental period, and thereby avoid buying the game later, but it's not meant to be a giveaway.

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