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It's weird. I've really liked both of the Final Fantasy MMORPGs. But the last single-player game that I liked was IX.
I quite liked X, even if the voice acting hasn't aged well. Didn't play XI, but XIV was great after Realm Reborn. XII is the only mainline game in the series I haven't finished. The cast just didn't click with me and I found the auto battle rather dull. Even finished XV, which while woefully, woefully unfinished when I played it, had a really fun world, party dynamic and gameplay loop.
It's weird. I've really liked both of the Final Fantasy MMORPGs. But the last single-player game that I liked was IX.
I quite liked X, even if the voice acting hasn't aged well. Didn't play XI, but XIV was great after Realm Reborn. XII is the only mainline game in the series I haven't finished. The cast just didn't click with me and I found the auto battle rather dull. Even finished XV, which while woefully, woefully unfinished when I played it, had a really fun world, party dynamic and gameplay loop.
Everyone's got their own preferences. I despised VIII. I know a lot of people don't like IX. As mentioned, I didn't care for X. I started X-2. I played XII on the PS2, but never finished it. I've heard that the Zodiac Age release is a lot better, but haven't played it. I haven't tried XV, both because I've been so dissatisfied with the single-player games, and because I've heard only negative things about it.
Though the cross-over event in FFXIV did give me a free four-person mount.
Honestly, none of the more modern games mean as much to me as IV and VI. I don't really mind VIII, though I'm not a super fan of VII either. They kind of blur together with X for me simply because Nomura has something of a template design for his characters. They're all great games though. I just preferred Amano's character designs.
It's weird. I've really liked both of the Final Fantasy MMORPGs. But the last single-player game that I liked was IX.
I quite liked X, even if the voice acting hasn't aged well. Didn't play XI, but XIV was great after Realm Reborn. XII is the only mainline game in the series I haven't finished. The cast just didn't click with me and I found the auto battle rather dull. Even finished XV, which while woefully, woefully unfinished when I played it, had a really fun world, party dynamic and gameplay loop.
Everyone's got their own preferences. I despised VIII. I know a lot of people don't like IX. As mentioned, I didn't care for X. I started X-2. I played XII on the PS2, but never finished it. I've heard that the Zodiac Age release is a lot better, but haven't played it.
Zodiac Age is... odd. I wanted to play 12 again, but honestly it doesn't go anywhere, and the story is kind of a mess (too manysudden 'Oh, <character> has <solution> to <problem>' and neither the problem nor the solution has come up before), and the class system converges to rather samey builds (at least it did for me).
And the auto battle doesn't sit well with me. As LunarSol says, its pretty dull. Between the character cutscenes where they head off in random directions according to whatever plot element they're currently chasing and the auto-battle, the need for player participation in the game is basically nil. If there was a script to walk your characters to the next objective, you wouldn't need to play at all. That's not really why I play games.
XII as originally released was an attempt to bring the MMORPG experience to a single-player game. I could see that everywhere, right down to the wandering elementals attacking you if you used magic near them (this was something straight out of FFXI, and used to drive me nuts as a White Mage; I'd heal someone, and start getting nuked).
One of the aspects of that was the party combat system. The idea seems to have been to allow you to only focus on one character in combat, while the other party members acted (sort of) intelligently, just like in an MMORPG party.
Needless to say, FFXI was doing *really* well at the time.
Zodiac Age is... odd. I wanted to play 12 again, but honestly it doesn't go anywhere, and the story is kind of a mess (too manysudden 'Oh, <character> has <solution> to <problem>' and neither the problem nor the solution has come up before), and the class system converges to rather samey builds (at least it did for me).
And the auto battle doesn't sit well with me. As LunarSol says, its pretty dull. Between the character cutscenes where they head off in random directions according to whatever plot element they're currently chasing and the auto-battle, the need for player participation in the game is basically nil. If there was a script to walk your characters to the next objective, you wouldn't need to play at all. That's not really why I play games.
The main reason its the only game in the series I've never finished is my wife walked in on me reading a book while I moved my characters to the next battle with my toe and demanded I play a game I actually enjoy.
Just finished Judgment, the Yakuza spin-off detective game. I really enjoyed the plot and their attempt on a new take on their tried and tested formula, though I wasn't a big fan of the tailing missions I had to do, since it felt more like padding/filler in the game than a real mini-game segment. Really missed the karaoke from previous titles, though I understand why they chose not to include it this time around. Overall, definitely in the upper tiers of the Yakuza series, probably somewhere after Yakuza 0 and Kiwami 2.
Total waaaaaaghammer! Cool culinary cooking clearly comes creativily crumping crappy critters.
His pattern of returning alive after being declared dead occurred often enough during Cain's career that the Munitorum made a special ruling that Ciaphas Cain is to never be considered dead, despite evidence to the contrary.
Necros wrote: Been thinking about going back to WOW for the new expansion.. but the last one I played about a month or maybe even less before I got bored to tears and quit (again). With that game once I get my level maxed and reach the end of the new story, I'm done.. no interest in raiding or any of that, just gets real old real fast. But I hear they are trying to have a built in game controller way of playing, curious to see what that's like .. kinda hate the keyboard/mouse thing for gaming.
Both Final Fantasy MMOs support controllers. I played XI that way at times on my 360. It worked very well. I haven't tried to play XIV that way.
And speaking of Final Fantasy XIV and controllers...
Final Fantasy XIV is currently free on the PS4. Get it, and you own it forever. It doesn't include the most recent expansion, but everything else is included.
Of course, you'll need to start paying the subscription when the free time runs out. But if you want to check out an MMORPG that was designed from the ground up with controllers in mind, now would be a good time to do so.
Just completed story mode for BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger and I enjoyed it a lot! I was planning on completing all the arcade modes for the all the characters (I've done it with Noel Vermillion, Jin Kisaragi and Ragna the Bloodedge) As I want to unlock most of the art but the last boss is hard as hell so don't know if I can be bothered, might just move on to Continuum Shift which back in the day bought and played before bothering to clock Calamity Trigger which explains why I found it hard to understand what was happening, but still watched a few videos and it doe emphasise how frigging complicated the plot is lol
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"The best way to lie is to tell the truth." Attelus Kaltos.
My story! Secret War
After his organisation is hired to hunt down an influential gang leader on the Hive world, Omnartus. Attelus Kaltos is embroiled deeper into the complex world of the Assassin. This is the job which will change him, for better or for worse. Forevermore. Chapter 1.
The Angaran Chronicles: Hamar Noir. After coming back from a dangerous mission which left his friend and partner, the werewolf: Emilia in a coma. Anargrin is sent on another mission: to hunt down a rogue vampire. A rogue vampire with no consistent modus operandi and who is exceedingly good at hiding its tracks. So much so even the veteran Anargrin is forced into desperate speculation. But worst of all: drive him into desperate measures. Measures which drives Anargrin to wonder; does the ends, justify the means?
this week i have mostly been playing Ridge Racer 6 on the 360 ( my aging pc finally gave up the ghost)
given my total lack of driving skill both virtual and real i was quite enjoying it until the last third with one on one races against super-bots, beat the first few but calling it a day at 60ish % done
gave tomb raider anniversy and quick whirl, born awesome Lady Croft is way more fun than crybaby murderer reboot
"AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED."
JSF wrote:... this is really quite an audacious move by GW, throwing out any pretext that this is a game and that its customers exist to do anything other than buy their overpriced products for the sake of it. The naked arrogance, greed and contempt for their audience is shocking.
I booted up Uncharted 4 and got bored a few minutes in, might go bakc later.
But the in play Subnautica cause my nephew told me about it, and my god did i have a blast.
I'm currently playing through Last of Us in preparation for the sequel. I don't remember ammo being quite this scarce on my first playthrough, maybe the drops are less on New Game+. Still really enjoying it despite the fact seem to remember a lot of the details of the story and set pieces
creeping-deth87 wrote: I'm currently playing through Last of Us in preparation for the sequel. I don't remember ammo being quite this scarce on my first playthrough, maybe the drops are less on New Game+. Still really enjoying it despite the fact seem to remember a lot of the details of the story and set pieces
The story is great, but I really didn't care for the gameplay. The stealth was fun, but one enemy spotting you alerts the whole map so I found some of the clicker sections really tedious.
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Adrassil wrote: Just completed story mode for BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger and I enjoyed it a lot! I was planning on completing all the arcade modes for the all the characters (I've done it with Noel Vermillion, Jin Kisaragi and Ragna the Bloodedge) As I want to unlock most of the art but the last boss is hard as hell so don't know if I can be bothered, might just move on to Continuum Shift which back in the day bought and played before bothering to clock Calamity Trigger which explains why I found it hard to understand what was happening, but still watched a few videos and it doe emphasise how frigging complicated the plot is lol
I love the idea of using time nonsense to explain how dozens of characters can have their own stories in a fighting game. The first game in particular is really clever and straight forward, but the series starts falling back on anime nonsense when it runs out of theories to crib.
For the record, all you REALLY need to get to understand the first two games is:
Calamity Trigger
Spoiler:
It's a time loop, with the vampire girl essentially using it to go back in time repeatedly to try and engineer an outcome that doesn't result in the end of existence. Each characters story "happens" but results in everything being erased and starting over.
Continuum Shift
Spoiler:
This one is Schrodinger's Box. The villain needs something incredibly improbable to happen and seals the city off to make every possibility happen simultaneously so that he can choose to observe the improbable reality when he opens the box.
Pretty much everything else is anime nonsense and big important sounding words. It's definitely one of the better done versions of this kind of stuff though, particularly since most of the mystery box nonsense actually pays off pretty well. The third and fourth games just end up with a few too many characters and too many plot threads to make their nonsense feel clever. Spectacular series though.
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LunarSol wrote: For the record, all you REALLY need to get to understand the first two games is:
Calamity Trigger
Spoiler:
It's a time loop, with the vampire girl essentially using it to go back in time repeatedly to try and engineer an outcome that doesn't result in the end of existence. Each characters story "happens" but results in everything being erased and starting over.
Continuum Shift
Spoiler:
This one is Schrodinger's Box. The villain needs something incredibly improbable to happen and seals the city off to make every possibility happen simultaneously so that he can choose to observe the improbable reality when he opens the box.
Pretty much everything else is anime nonsense and big important sounding words. It's definitely one of the better done versions of this kind of stuff though, particularly since most of the mystery box nonsense actually pays off pretty well. The third and fourth games just end up with a few too many characters and too many plot threads to make their nonsense feel clever. Spectacular series though.
Thanks for the help. I did eventually understand what was happening in Continuum Shift but it took me a while after playing pretty much every character's story. That's what makes me endure convoluted story is the characters (and lesser extent the interesting world-building) I really like pretty much everyone but most especially Ragna, Noel and Jin (The latter mostly because I like his fighting style) Noel is adorable and likeable and Ragna is a nice dude, in the end. They all have quite anime backstories, but so do my characters so I can't complain and the game is Japanese lol But I even like Hazama/Terumi (Or love to hate him as it was a blast finally defeating him in Continuum Shift) As he's just so over the top and loves to chew on the scenery I can't help enjoy and feel horrified by him, so much so he inspired another villain in my story.
I'm looking forward to completing Chronophantasma and Central Fiction sooner or later!
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"The best way to lie is to tell the truth." Attelus Kaltos.
My story! Secret War
After his organisation is hired to hunt down an influential gang leader on the Hive world, Omnartus. Attelus Kaltos is embroiled deeper into the complex world of the Assassin. This is the job which will change him, for better or for worse. Forevermore. Chapter 1.
The Angaran Chronicles: Hamar Noir. After coming back from a dangerous mission which left his friend and partner, the werewolf: Emilia in a coma. Anargrin is sent on another mission: to hunt down a rogue vampire. A rogue vampire with no consistent modus operandi and who is exceedingly good at hiding its tracks. So much so even the veteran Anargrin is forced into desperate speculation. But worst of all: drive him into desperate measures. Measures which drives Anargrin to wonder; does the ends, justify the means?
American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2 are both heavily discounted on Steam right now, so I purchased both of them. Both have their attractions. But the developer has an event coming up that will simulate assisting with the rebuilding if the Genoa Bridge (a critical transportation link that collapsed a few years ago) in Italy. So Europe is going to get the bulk of my attention for the moment while I build up the associated freight company. For obvious reasons, the map packs that I bought included the one for Italy.
Been getting back into the early Elder Scrolls games. Arena is... surprisingly decent if you want a mindless dungeon crawl. Daggerfall is arguably even better, but the extra bells and whistles can sometimes make it aggravating if you're looking for a casual romp.
Arena's simplicity can be somewhat of a strength. The "open" world is not interconnected by any means, but you can find a surprisingly large number of smaller dungeons if you have the patience to look for them.
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Faithful... Enlightened... Ambitious... Brethren... WE NEED A NEW DRIVER! THIS ONE IS DEAD!
'Platinum' finished Spidey on PS4. Great game, so much fun to swing around New York.
Started another PS Hit - Horizon. Stunning game as well. Graphics are samshing.
I've been hooked again by WoW, the great devourer of time. Pushed up to 120, ended up a little away from unlocking Highmountain Taurens, so I've been working on the Allied Races. More character creation options is way better than new loot!
Klawz-Ramming is a subset of citrus fruit?
Gwar- "And everyone wants a bigger Spleen!"
Mercurial wrote:
I admire your aplomb and instate you as Baron of the Seas and Lord Marshall of Privateers.
Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
Orkeosaurus, on homophobia, the nature of homosexuality, and the greatness of George Takei.
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.
With the Steam Sale going on I finally bought Total War: Warhammer II and been trying to play that in Tyrion's campaign, man do I suck but slowly getting a handle on it managed to wipe out The Cult of Excess but now at war with half of the Asur of Ulthuan which makes me cringe a bit. Trying to get all the DLC is a pain and The Mortal Realms DLC won't work despite it saying it's 'in my library.'
"The best way to lie is to tell the truth." Attelus Kaltos.
My story! Secret War
After his organisation is hired to hunt down an influential gang leader on the Hive world, Omnartus. Attelus Kaltos is embroiled deeper into the complex world of the Assassin. This is the job which will change him, for better or for worse. Forevermore. Chapter 1.
The Angaran Chronicles: Hamar Noir. After coming back from a dangerous mission which left his friend and partner, the werewolf: Emilia in a coma. Anargrin is sent on another mission: to hunt down a rogue vampire. A rogue vampire with no consistent modus operandi and who is exceedingly good at hiding its tracks. So much so even the veteran Anargrin is forced into desperate speculation. But worst of all: drive him into desperate measures. Measures which drives Anargrin to wonder; does the ends, justify the means?
That explains it, then, thanks! Don't think I'll buy it unless it's super cheap lol
"The best way to lie is to tell the truth." Attelus Kaltos.
My story! Secret War
After his organisation is hired to hunt down an influential gang leader on the Hive world, Omnartus. Attelus Kaltos is embroiled deeper into the complex world of the Assassin. This is the job which will change him, for better or for worse. Forevermore. Chapter 1.
The Angaran Chronicles: Hamar Noir. After coming back from a dangerous mission which left his friend and partner, the werewolf: Emilia in a coma. Anargrin is sent on another mission: to hunt down a rogue vampire. A rogue vampire with no consistent modus operandi and who is exceedingly good at hiding its tracks. So much so even the veteran Anargrin is forced into desperate speculation. But worst of all: drive him into desperate measures. Measures which drives Anargrin to wonder; does the ends, justify the means?
Just started SW battlefront 2 - enjoying fightign for the Empire - but now seemed to swapped sides :(
Tried COD WWII but gave up when the button hammering started.
I AM A MARINE PLAYER
"Unimaginably ancient xenos artefact somewhere on the planet, hive fleet poised above our heads, hidden 'stealer broods making an early start....and now a bloody Chaos cult crawling out of the woodwork just in case we were bored. Welcome to my world, Ciaphas."
Inquisitor Amberley Vail, Ordo Xenos
"I will admit that some Primachs like Russ or Horus could have a chance against an unarmed 12 year old novice but, a full Battle Sister??!! One to one? In close combat? Perhaps three Primarchs fighting together... but just one Primarch?" da001
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Faithful... Enlightened... Ambitious... Brethren... WE NEED A NEW DRIVER! THIS ONE IS DEAD! 