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How many hours you at total with the series so far?

I felt the same way about Cold Steel 1, it's definitely slower than what you get in crossbell. The good news is that the games continue to ramp up steadily, the devs keep building up to more and more huge events. I recently finished CS3 and I was worried it would be a reset back to a CS1 pace, but it definitely doesn't do that.

I disagree with everyone saying CS3 is easy, I found it about the same. I did play on Hard though. I had a lot of trouble "sparring" with that dang woman haha. Evasion is still busted though, and the endgame is as easy as ever.

I thought the new commands would break the game but the bosses seem designed around it, maybe me not using some of the more busted commands kept things more stable.

Alles-Losen posted...

How many hours you at total with the series so far?

Some of this time was spent idle so it's not exactly accurate but Steam Times are reporting:

155 Hours for the Sky Trilogy
105 Hours for Zero to Azure

Total 260 hours for 5 games. I'd say maybe about 250 of that was actually playing.

Ya'll Kurt was great too. I got so sick of Cold Steel. But Fie did become a gal I liked.i thought. Big sword chick Laura.

And no one mentioned Yuna's rebellion outfit.

ellis123 posted...

I mean, CS3 was pretty easy but that was more because it was easy rather than because you could delay everything into oblivion, never letting any enemy (until the post-game superbosses) have a single turn, like in CS2 or removing all of the turn delay off of the Rean's spells, meaning that no enemy got to ever take a single turn, like in CS4. Like, you are strong in CS3 but CS2/4 had you playing with some of the strongest characters across all of JRPGs in terms of just how badly they utterly ruined their respective game difficulty-wise. CS3 just doesn't quite hit that level of absolute destruction as at bare minimum you have to consider the boss as an actual thing in the battle.

You described things I did in CS3 and I didn't even use everything to make it more busted. Bosses really weren't considered a thing. Can count on one hand the number of attacks the final boss got on me, it was that pathetic. Remember, this is me playing on Nightmare. The others required me to build towards something that breaks the combat in half. CS3 hands a new broken system to you on a silver platter from the word go. I'm hoping CS4 nerfs it.

As for Sky comments on Crafts/Arts, I played those on Nightmare too (didn't know at the time how badly balanced it was). Enemy DEF scales much harder than ADF so arts were most of my damage.

Sorry for the little accidental derail there.

Zero and Azure had a feature where you could review the word bubbles of the last few conversations you had. Does anything like that exist for Cold Steel? The voice record in the notebook seems to only have the Active Voice segments and not the main game dialogue. I tried every button I could think of and didn't find anything.

Nah that feature isn't in Cold Steel till 3 lol

While the new quartz system is very streamlined I feel a little bit sad at the loss of the old method where you built up levels of quartz along lines.

Cold Steel Quartz is literally just FF7 Materia but everyone gets to have one extra gimmicky quartz.

Tyranthraxus posted...

While the new quartz system is very streamlined I feel a little bit sad at the loss of the old method where you built up levels of quartz along lines.

Cold Steel Quartz is literally just FF7 Materia but everyone gets to have one extra gimmicky quartz.

I agree on some aspects because earth quartz are utterly useless now. Characters with earth slots suffer until break quartz are introduced in CS3. I do like that you don't have to aim to build elements for certain spells now though.

Ye, I felt the same as well. I preferred the old way as I like complexity in this sort of way.

Tyranthraxus posted...

While the new quartz system is very streamlined I feel a little bit sad at the loss of the old method where you built up levels of quartz along lines.

Cold Steel Quartz is literally just FF7 Materia but everyone gets to have one extra gimmicky quartz.

Ya.. Honestly i agree, I think i would have preferred something like a bit of a mix of both the old and the new

Though i am curious on what they do with it in daybreak, Being a new arc i would imagine they changed it up again

I haven't played the Calvard games but I heard the orbment system there is closer to the older games with some differences which I'm happy about

Machias and Jusis need to just fuck already.

These field study quests sound suspiciously like Trails in the Sky FC quests. Medicine for the priest? fixing the orbal lamp? That's literally the exact same shit you do as Estelle. They even kept the Bear Claw.

Tyranthraxus posted...

These field study quests sound suspiciously like Trails in the Sky FC quests. Medicine for the priest? fixing the orbal lamp? That's literally the exact same shit you do as Estelle. They even kept the Bear Claw.

It is basically the same, with the same "twist" for why it's being done as well.

Attack of the PS1 polygon count baboon!!

Aww yeah lets go.

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Aww yeah lets go.

Also normally I'm pretty good at picking that "mysterious villain" archetype out based on their voice acting. I pretty much guessed who the Flame Emperor from FE3H and Yin from Zero / Azure was immediately as soon as they first appeared but I'm at a lack of ideas on who the Masked dude is at the end of this Chapter 1.

That's because it's impossible to figure out at this point of the game, iirc.

I'll add to the voices that the pre-CS orbment/quartz system was better than what they did with it in CS.

Super_Slash posted...

That's because it's impossible to figure out at this point of the game, iirc.

Yeah, pretty sure there's no way to guess who it is at their first introduction. It does become very obvious who it is later on, though.

Ye, outside of just random guessing I don't see how you could logic into it until something like Chapter 3 (IIRC). They don't really drop anything even slightly resembling a hint until later.

Pfft you guys said Richard didn't appear in any other games. How do you explain THIS!?

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We just wanted to keep it a surprise as it makes the twist of him being there all the better.

Also I'm kind of surprised Bleublanc didn't lose his shit when the dude ate the dryad tear.

Oh shit. Anton and Ricky have portraits now.

This is the second time the Provincial army has tried to arrest my entire party on bullshit charges.

They're starting to make me think this Osborne Chancellor Billy Mitchell guy has a point.

Man what is it with this series and hot as fuck milfs

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I hate everything about Millium

Tyranthraxus posted...

I hate everything about Millium

Ugh I'm in the middle of the chapter 3 final dungeon but I'm just too tired to finish. I'll have to pick this up again later.

She will grow on you. Hated her a lot early on as well.

Machias and Jusis still need to fuck part #48214

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The entire plot of the whole series can be summed up as "Accidentally adopted a stray child who was secretly uber the whole time"

After all that shit Machias gave Jusis shit for being a nepo baby in the beginning turns out Machias' father is also on the board of directors. Guess they're both nepo babies now.

Reason #48215

Tyranthraxus posted...

After all that shit Machias gave Jusis shit for being a nepo baby in the beginning turns out Machias' father is also on the board of directors. Guess they're both nepo babies now.

Reason #48215

To be fair there is actually a pretty massive historical precedent for the noble and merchant/liberal classes to be distinct in power. It is only a modern thing where they are effectively the same.

Tyranthraxus posted...

After all that shit Machias gave Jusis shit for being a nepo baby in the beginning turns out Machias' father is also on the board of directors. Guess they're both nepo babies now.

Reason #48215

His father and his family werent born rich and had to work to get where they are now, and he assumes Jusis' family doesnt deserve their power due to them not earning it, cause face it, most nobles tend not to deserve it. Though I forget when you learn the real reason why he really freaking hates nobles or is it already explained?

LightHawKnight posted...

His father and his family werent born rich and had to work to get where they are now, and he assumes Jusis' family doesnt deserve their power due to them not earning it, cause face it, most nobles tend not to deserve it. Though I forget when you learn the real reason why he really freaking hates nobles or is it already explained?

No, it has not and will not for a while.

LightHawKnight posted...

His father and his family werent born rich and had to work to get where they are now, and he assumes Jusis' family doesnt deserve their power due to them not earning it, cause face it, most nobles tend not to deserve it. Though I forget when you learn the real reason why he really freaking hates nobles or is it already explained?

It's already been explained unless there's some super secret reason.

his reason is pretty... dark and i'll leave it at that

Reason #48216

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This girl has a nuanced opinion on the age of consent
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Step aside Rixia, there's a new huge boobs girl in town

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Also I still hate everything about Millium

Jesus, I forgot how dated CS1 and 2 look compared to the rest of the 3D games. Everyone looks like babies in comparison.

Super_Slash posted...

Jesus, I forgot how dated CS1 and 2 look compared to the rest of the 3D games. Everyone looks like babies in comparison.

It seems like they were in a weird space like with FF7 where they were in a middle ground between trying to emulate the old style 2D graphics in 3D

Tyranthraxus posted...

It seems like they were in a weird space like with FF7 where they were in a middle ground between trying to emulate the old style 2D graphics in 3D

The games were also released on Vita so that is why they look the way they do.

The ratio of dudes who need to be punched in the face repeatedly compared to those who don't is very high in this game compared to previous games.

Oh.

I'm halfway through chapter 6 and just tried using Earth for the first time.

You guys said it was bad in Cold Steel but I didn't realize it was gonna be this bad.

Yeah, it's easily the worst element in Cold Steel. Before it had some use because of Earth Wall which was really good on higher difficulties of Sky and Crossbell. The break quartz in CS3 helps it be a little more useful but not really. Wind is also not super useful outside of the evade quartz to build evade tanks in CS2 and on since there's no real wind mage. Jusis is split stats and also split between wind and space slots.

I also have been playing TITS

Just got to the final chapter, pretty fun game.

Holy_Cloud105 posted...

Yeah, it's easily the worst element in Cold Steel. Before it had some use because of Earth Wall which was really good on higher difficulties of Sky and Crossbell. The break quartz in CS3 helps it be a little more useful but not really. Wind is also pretty bad outside of the evade quartz to build evade tanks in CS2 and on.

Evade tanks are really good in this game though and there's also a wind quartz that makes counter attacks guaranteed crit.

Probably time for a new topic, ya?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80666633

Tyranthraxus posted...

Probably time for a new topic, ya?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80666633

ya