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fart town usa
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Raven117
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Lol. After Neir, I doubt that happens.
pleaseinsertdisctwo
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Exactly, and it’s always a red flag for someone to refer to themselves as “nice”
Guilty_AI
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Why? His last games were good and successful.
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Danjin44
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When did I ever refer to myself “nice”? mods put tag on me.
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decisions
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For me the Berserker Ring really disrupts the flow and combo potential of the combat. It's a fun novelty but not something you should really use for that long IMO, like if you are good at dodging you enter the start animation every 5 seconds.
Also loving the build potential once you get a good number of abilities Mastered -- you can place Mastered abilities on different Eikons than you have equipped. So for instance one thing I like to do is keep Lightning Rod even when not using Ramuh.
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Guilty_AI
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I've always been curious about how that came to be actually
Danjin44
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I remember one of the members called me that and mods put exact quotes as my tag. But I never considered myself “nice”.
I Love put Lightning Rod on my Bahamut and use it with Gigaflare for absurd amount of damage.
Raven117
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Sure…. But not what they expect for an ff.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love it. But that just doesn’t seem real probable.
Guilty_AI
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Danjin44
The nicest person on this forum
And that would be too restrictive for Yoko Taro, he like make the game however he wants without being restricted of “how FF should be”.
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Guilty_AI
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Quite the opposite, i think he is very good at working his stuff within the restraints of what he is given. Its what makes him such a great director.
He isn't like some Kojima that must have his vision at all costs until there is no budget left. He knows how to plan his scope properly.
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Madflavor
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Danjin44
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I’m not talking restrain, I’m talking about people getting pissy about “that’s not how FF should be” just look at how much people cry about changes in FFVIIR and FFXVI.
Yoko Taro do what he wants and his freedom what makes his game sooo good in my opinion.
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Guilty_AI
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So... why not just give him the reins if the results are inevitable then?
Danjin44
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Hey I’m more than happy to see Yoko Taro take crack at FF, I personally LOOOOVE his games and with decent budget he can make something really special.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Guilty_AI
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Danjin44
The nicest person on this forum
Holly F**ck!
consoul
Member
There is verticality. Check out Tabor, for example. The game doesn't have towers everywhere like an AC game, but its not flat at all.
There's no run button because they implemented auto-sprint, and it works well.
There are fish in the water. Have a look.
With that said, I find many of your other criticisms are valid.
pleaseinsertdisctwo
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Oh, then that’s my mistake. I thought you requested for that to be your tag or something.
Danjin44
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NOPE! I always thought it was sarcastic. I didn’t even know you can request for one, I always thought mods just put the tags themselves.
Raven117
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indeed. I like Yoko completely unchained.
Raven117
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I just want a new game from him. Been too long since neir automata
Danjin44
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Me too, I need another Yoko Taro game, either new IP or Drakengard 4….I need to see Accord again.
March Climber
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Danjin44
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fart town usa
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I don't think I've made it Tabor yet but I look forward to seeing some vistas. I really enjoyed the massive waterfall in the desert and the Isle area I'm in now. This Isle area is by far the best setpiece I've experienced so far in the game.
Dynasty8
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If for any reason you die, you get a checkpoint with max potions along with a quarter of the bosses health reduced. It's extremely forgiving, lowering the stakes which IMHO makes it less engaging.
Previous entries had some consequences to losing, this game just hands you a crutch as a consequence... It hands you the victory on a silver platter.
As I've gotten older, I'm not even that good at games...but respectfully, I disagree. It is THAT easy.
Raven117
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Man… is go for a new IP!
xellos2099alpha
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You can always do self imposed challenge. I think i was down to 0 pot when fight garuda at tower and shadow ifrit as well. I also had S rank kicked my ass as well.
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xellos2099alpha
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I am not sure the hate on the slow down msq question, it is meant to be a rollercoaster. Engagement level cannot keep going up and up without slowing down at all. It is like some people have condition where they must be fully engage at all time. The quest here is nothing, like nothing at all compare to Tidus cheese quest.
Danjin44
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I personally like the pacing, after each chapter I do my quests and hunts and move on to next chapter and they nice amount of quest without overwhelming you. I mean this basically how I play most of my JRPGs, I always do most of the quests before moving on to next story sections.
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xellos2099alpha
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Probbaly the type who skip out on Memato during story in P5 then have to force to do everything at the end.
Danjin44
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I hope people dont do same thing with Tartarus when Persona 3 Reload comes out because eventually the story requires you to reach the top of the tower.
Heaven Angel
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Heaven Angel
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I can out 30k damage at max right now, at level 28 and completed about 60%
But that is crazy, definitely need higher difficulty options to put these kind of builds at good use.
I hope he is in the making of another Nier game similar to masterpiece like Automata.
Also. platinum games should be doing something like that after Babylon's fall bombardment.
CrustyBritches
Gold Member
I've been so busy I haven't had time to play this past week. Just got through the Capital Punishment mission with Hugo, and it was fucking awesome.
Then there was this...
Then there was this...
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DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Is there any use for all these crafting materials I keep finding? Seems like I get them in every treasure chest/battle but there’s nothing to craft.
Zheph
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He has a massive role in Diablo 4 and he does a great job too, I look forward to hear his crazy voice more
Shake Your Rump
Banned
I was flabbergasted when I completed a quest yesterday and was awarded 80 steel silk or something. I haven’t spent any crafting materials since the first day in the hideout. I literally have thousands of materials and they have no purpose. It’s embarrassing. The developers forgot to program craftable items, I guess.
fart town usa
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I could see there was a more powerful +2 sword I could craft but was missing one special material. I then did a random side quest and upon completion, it allowed me to craft a different sword, Excalibur. Flash forward like 4 hours later, I kill a mini boss and got the material I was missing for the original +2 sword but the +2 sword isn't even as powerful as Excalibur.
It's just dumb. Like congrats, you got this item and it now allows you to craft a weaker weapon not worth using.
This game is dumb as shit in how it's designed. It feels like when Capcom was letting small studios develop IPs in the PS3/360 gen. Absolute AA masked under a recognizable brand.
Reaseru
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Loved the story all the way, probably the best one for me since FFXII. And the characters too, all likeable (some more than others), even with some cringe dialogue with all the "fucks", etcetera...
The English voice acting is very top notch. At first I disliked the fact the lip sync was adapted only to English and so I couldn't endure the fact the japanese voices looked a bit off during the dialogs, so I changed to English. I was the best decision I made.
The English voice acting is very top notch. At first I disliked the fact the lip sync was adapted only to English and so I couldn't endure the fact the japanese voices looked a bit off during the dialogs, so I changed to English. I was the best decision I made.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
They didn't forgot anything. Crafting, loot, weapons, gear, leveling, skills, ballance etc. was an afterthought. The more I play the game, the more obvious it gets. It's like they've developed heavy story-driven game and at the later stage of development decided to throw some people a bone to create an illusion of RPG elements and character progression, so that no one could complain that you can't upgrade something, loot is not in the game, curency is worthless etc. This game was clearly made without all this stuff in mind and there's no other explanation for this.
That's the biggest weakness of FFXVI for me so far (I haven't seen all of the story yet - at 45% mark), even the shit side quests are not that much of a problem - you can just ignore them (and everyone should - they're terrible, boring and bland). With all the abilities you get, you'll never feel powerful - at the very start of the game you fight multiple enemies (huge enemies and bosses as well) the same amount of time, and at the ~50% mark nothing changes on that front, even lowering the difficulty to Story only changes how much damage you'll receive, not the amount of damage you can inflict cuz everything tied to gear and weapons and there's no "ifs" or "buts". Even activating "rage mode" won't make you feel powerful cuz all it does is restoring a bit of health and doing the same amount of damage as with the regular attacks.
What can I say, it's a shame that they've opted for such terrible design and turned the game into a slog during fights which you can't even lose, but you're forced to spend a lot of time in them and there's literally nothing you can do to do something about it. They're deliberately disigned the game in such a way that it's always stays the same, even after you're getting new abilities. All of the gear doesn't matter, swords are worthless crap, upgrades suck, there's not even any kind of elemental damage, damage over time or something beyond just swinging the sword and use skills.
I thought that this game will be one of the best games of the year, but... it's just not going to be and will end up in my honorable mentions at best if the story won't turn into shit during the last 50%. We'll see. I doubt they can do anything about this game at this point, it'll take way too much effort and time to completely overhaul all of the gameplay systems to make the game better.
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fart town usa
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I gotta share this again.
Interactions with NPCs like this is easily roughly 80% of the game. The cinematography, the dialogue, the voice acting. It is truly awful.
XVI should should have been 15-20 hours tops. 30 w/ the addition of decent sidequests and hunts. I cannot believe I'm bordering on 50 hours and still probably have 20-30 to go.
Interactions with NPCs like this is easily roughly 80% of the game. The cinematography, the dialogue, the voice acting. It is truly awful.
XVI should should have been 15-20 hours tops. 30 w/ the addition of decent sidequests and hunts. I cannot believe I'm bordering on 50 hours and still probably have 20-30 to go.