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[Cukeman]

The GBC version also has it where time stops indoors. I wouldn't mind the length of the day honestly if I could get the same amount of work done without running around in a hurry.

[Neppy]

So I've been playing Moero Chronicle on ???, and have been playing Splatoon 2, and Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star on the Switch. Been having a blast with Splatoon 2. Level 15 already, and have gotten pretty good, even without playing the first one very much. Fate/Extella is pretty great. Loving the variety of games I have to play.

[Castelia]

I've mainly been playing Super Paper Mario which I picked up recently (and am thoroughly enjoying btw), and Sonic Generations on PC (less playing and more struggling with the below average specs of the PC I use, though I've still managed to begin completing the Modern Seaside Hill missions). Aside from this, I'm playing assorted Virtual Console and 3DS titles until I get a job and earn enough money for a Switch.

[Fiyaball]

I just finished up Fire Emblem Fates, and I' thinking of starting to go through my massive RPG collection. I'll probably start with the copy of the SF3 English prototype (copy as in copied from the actual prototype), and then go onto Shining the Holy Ark, Rogue Galaxy, or something else.

Edited by Fiyaball, 26 July 2017 - 11:25 AM.

[Cukeman]

Playing through Wario Land (1) on Game Boy. I loved this back when it came out. I remember finding the hidden treasures was a great experience that added richness and depth, but then I was still a preteen. It's music sounds like nothing else I've played, so squat, pudgy and abrasive, like Wario   (though the water music is quite peaceful). I still like this game.

 

Also trying out Mario's Picross on Game Boy for the first time, decent charming little diversion, I would've like going through it back in the day, but it's also a game I can't imagine playing through twice, so I probably would have been disappointed with it ultimately.

[Dark Ice Dragon]

today i start to play to lost dimensions for ps3, is a tactic RPG  whit a sort of reality show-like elimination system.

You start whit 11 members in the party, but you may bring only a total 6 in each mission,  there are traitors hidden in the group and you must discover who are, seem that the traitors are random, so each play may be different.

At certain points of the game there the nomitations, just like a  reality shows, eveybody nominate who want eliminate from the game and the guy and who get more votes will be..I don't think that the member of my party will more the 6-7 at the end...

Talk whit the others may influence the nominations and you have ESP powers that you can use for have more clues, i think will be nice play this game !

[Titanium Justice]

Recently beat the Steam version of Final Fantasy IV. It is perhaps one of the best of the core games.

Yesterday I finally got a hold of FFXII The Zodiac Age, and it looks promising so far, even though it's quite untraditional in its approach to gameplay.

Other than XII, the only singleplayer Final Fantasy core games (excluding 11 and 14) that I have yet to beat are I, II, III, and V.

[Fiyaball]

Decided to start playing Rogue Galaxy; just got into chapter 2, and it looks like a ton of fun.

[ywkls]

Recently beat the Steam version of Final Fantasy IV. It is perhaps one of the best of the core games.

Yesterday I finally got a hold of FFXII The Zodiac Age, and it looks promising so far, even though it's quite untraditional in its approach to gameplay.

Other than XII, the only singleplayer Final Fantasy core games (excluding 11 and 14) that I have yet to beat are I, II, III, and V.

If you haven't played the PS2 version of FFXII, that's probably for the best; since it won't influence your choices in the remake as far as jobs go.

 

Of the main Final Fantasy series, I've yet to beat III, X, or XV (or the online only ones, XI and XIV).

 

I got FFXII: The Zodiac Age the day after it came out and I'm currently rather far in the game, though the list of junk I have yet to do is staggering. FYI, if you any kind of completionist, you'll probably need some sort of guide to get all of its secrets.

[peteandwally]

I've been playing songbringer. It's a nice zelda-like game, but definitely different in a lot of cool ways. Should be on steam.

[kurt91]

Let's see...

 

I'm at the final dungeon for the True Ending for Persona 4. Haven't quite finished it yet, but I'm getting there.

 

I'm at the second Labyrinth in Persona Q. (If you don't know, imagine Persona meets Etrian Odyssey) Started the game before I finished P4 only because I needed a portable game, and started playing with the P3 crew. Don't have a Vita, so when I finally finish this one, I'll move up to P5 as my next game in the series to play.

 

Also finally got Tale of Two Wastelands working, alongside a pretty decent number of mods. This game's a massive mod for Fallout: New Vegas, where it crams all of Fallout 3 into the game, so you can play through both stories and worlds using a single character in the New Vegas engine. Has some sort of anti-piracy thing in it, so you need to own both games + all of the DLC for both of them put together legally to run the program that converts Fallout 3 into the mod.

 

It's pretty fun, and it's the first time I've actually gotten Fallout 3 stable enough to work on my PC without constant crashing. The only problem is that it's a bit NV-heavy as far as modding it goes. Almost any New Vegas mod will be compatible, but Fallout 3 mods need to be converted before they'll work, and it's a bit of a process that I don't know how to do.

 

I've been playing it with my little brother. It was originally his file, until he found out the hard way that he's way too jumpy and panicky for the combat in the game, getting scared at an encounter with a lone stray dog. Instead, I'll play through the game myself, while he stands and watches over my shoulder and gives me suggestions on what I should do. The only thing that I'm dead-set on regardless of what he says is that I don't want to use the freebie DLC equipment from New Vegas until I'm able to get equivalent gear the normal way. He'd much rather I just use the best armor immediately, while I prefer to work my way up to it. If he's not with me, I'm avoiding doing any actual quests, and I'm just gathering loot and hoarding it in my house.

 

I've been having a bit of fun with him. Bought a schematic for the Shishkebab, and started looking for the parts to make it. He has no idea what it is, and I haven't told him that it's a flaming sword. He's going to absolutely freak out when we get it put together. You'd think that reading through the parts list would have given him a bit of a hint, though.

[Cukeman]

Booted up a new file in Metroid Prime 2 today, love that game, my favorite Prime. Heard a great comment today that I really appreciated. Someone called Majora's Mask "haunting" and I really agreed. Prime 2 is dark, Resident Evil Remake is dark, but not Majora's Mask, that game is much more haunting and melancholy than bleak or oppressive. There's a trace of pain and trauma, but there's always a message of hope in it, and lives lost are meaningful not hopeless and dire. Dunno if I'm explaining what I mean well, but basically "dark" is something more severe than "haunting" and Majora's Mask just doesn't have that strong feeling of dread in it that qualifies it as dark. Of course, light stories are every bit as meaningful and serious as dark, it's just a different mood and tone.

 

EDIT: Grrr, forgot about my one issue with Prime 2, I always forget how to find Torvus Bog, even though I've beaten the game like 5 times. There's a bomb puzzle in a dark world room that always appears like a dead end to me, so I wander around for an hour or two in vain. Had to look up a guide. Ugh. Apart from that it's an awesome game.

Edited by Cukeman, 04 August 2017 - 07:32 PM.

[Cukeman]

Okay another flaw in Echoes- if you're out of necessary ammo before the Grapple Guardian, it's a huge pain to refill.

[Cukeman]

Just played through Kid Icarus:OMAM on the Game Boy, it has a lot of similarities to the NES original, but with just a few tweaks- less stiff controls and really convenient saving, I found this version much more playable (once I got a couple stages in).

[Anthus]

When I was younger, I had OMAM, and thought it was the only game. I didn't know an NES version existed till years later. I've not beat either one. I remember OMAM being really, really hard. I could never get past the first boss. I should pick it up again someday, I'd probably be able to do it now.

 

I'm playing a few things. I'm about to finish up DKC2 (best SNES platformer of all time, OF ALL TIME) for the 99th time, and I've also been trying to get into Ever Oasis, but it's just not clicking for me. It's not bad, I just am not a fan of it. I have been playing a lot of Bravely Second however. I just got around to picking it up again after only getting an hour or so in. Here's my thoughts on it so far, I posted this elsewhere, but whatever, read it if you want. 

 

Spoiler

So, I bought this game over a year ago, and played it for about an hour or two, and didn't touch it again until recently. Why? I dunno, I just wasn't feeling it. I didn't like the new main character at first, and some of the early writing is downright cringible. I'm very happy to say my opinion has made a complete 180 once I got past the slow prologue, and began getting the characters and the first handful of jobs. I'm going to try to surmise my thoughts so far on this game. I just got to chapter 2.

 

The Story:

So, as a tropey JRPG, of course the story is an important focus, right? Yes, it is. Like I said, it starts out really generic, and almost bad, but the characters make it good once you get through the first three hours or so. The voice acting is actually really good, but the writing can be a bit on the corny side at times. One thing I don't like about the presentation of cutscenes is the way that characters have a few seconds pause between lines when they get cut off, interrupted, or scared. It totally breaks the flow of the conversation. This is pretty minor, but it could have been avoided if they went with fully in-game animated cutscenes, instead of just having the character models stand in front of the area's background, and talk. Given the amount of dialogue, and cutscenes, I can see why they did it this way. I never liked this approach, but again, the characters (even Yew) are quite likable. As for the actual story, it does seem a bit more involved then the first game. It's a bit too early to call it better, or worse, but it is different enough to make my time spent with the characters mostly memorable in what otherwise would be a fairly generic story (so far). I like what they did with making you choose which asterisk holder to help, but I hate missable stuff, so there's that. I'll take a thief over a red mage any day though, especially in this game, cause holy shit, are thieves OP

 

The Job System:

Which brings me to this. The job system is back, and awesome as ever. You can still have a main job, and pick skills, and a secondary set of commands form any other job you have (a la FF5) which makes for some ridiculously OP combinations, even early on. The Charioteer has an ability you get early that lets you equip a third weapon to your head slot. They also have an ability that levels any weapon rank up to S. This can be used with a thief to make a OHKO powerhouse. Thieves also have the ability to steal HP and MP, so use that as a secondary set with any magic using class, and you'll basically never run out of MP. The jobs have always been the core of this series, and they do not disappoint here. Oh, and they got wise, and added the ability to save a bunch of preset jobs, and equipment load outs, which is great if you like one team, but want to change to something else, without remembering all that.

 

The Combat:

Okay, if this game gets called out for any one thing, it's being filled with a bunch of chibi girls grindy. Really grindy. Now, this can be true, but it's all how you play. You can still control the flow of battles by turning them off altogether, or doubling the encounter rate. What I typically do, is turn off battles, and explore the entire dungeon. Then, I'll turn them up to +100% and fight stuff there until I'm at, or above the recommended level for the place. I will usually do this near a traveler. Call it cheap, but it's what I do. I'm not a fan of random encounters, at all, so this is my work around. the game is also less grindy if you know what you're doing, and build a good team. You can also save up to three pre-set attack lists, which some might argue exacerbates the grinding, but whatever. It's a JRPG. So, yeah, you'll be fighting a lot, and watching cutscenes, but you have more control over how you fight then any other turn-based RGP I've ever seen. The Brave/ Default system is a genius mechanic, that brings new light, and a faster pace into this done-to-death style.

 

Other notes:

The music isn't as catchy, as the first game. Why does Magnolia speak French? Do people speak French on the moon? If you change the subtitles to French, will she speak in English? Oh wait, you can't. Why do people always insist the annoying, high pitched Japanese voices are sooooo much better? Minett needs to die. It felt so good to kill her. That's dark, games shouldn't glorify murdering children. There can be a bit too much dialogue at times. I find myself often reading it, and skipping them actually saying it, unless it's a big cutscene, or I'm genuinely interested which happens more often than not. Oh, and can we talk about how addicting Chompcraft is? I played it for over an hour straight when I unlocked it without even realizing it. A few sessions later, I have all the tools, except the highest tier ones, and over 2 million CP. I think I have a problem. Someone should make a mobile spin off, I'd totally play it on the can or something.

 

All in all, if you're a fan of this type of game, you should check it out. It's not for everyone, but it's pretty approachable. I'll probably write more later, but maybe not, we'll see.