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Re: What games are you playing 2014?
« Reply #225 on: January 29, 2014, 05:48:25 PM »
Yui was a better fighter than Citan at some point in the past, having beaten him when he was on a mission.

Their daughter is psychic because of Citan's telepathic link to the Emperor being somehow made more generalized and passed down with his genes.

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Re: What games are you playing 2014?
« Reply #226 on: January 29, 2014, 09:36:43 PM »
Did they ever say she actually read minds?  I thought she didn't talk because she was all traumatized by the village being torched at the beginning.

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Re: What games are you playing 2014?
« Reply #227 on: January 30, 2014, 01:00:21 AM »
She doesn't talk even in the scene before the village gets torched, for what it's worth.

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Re: What games are you playing 2014?
« Reply #228 on: January 30, 2014, 01:49:24 AM »
Largely, the idea that Midori is psychic comes from this scene in Shevat, while Fei is frozen in carbonite:

Dan:So this is where Fei's being held!? He deserves it! Let me pray on his
weeping face as if it were an idol! Heh heh... As if I would! Yech...! What, what is this...!?
...This is terrible... No matter what, this is going too far... He's still... alive...?
How could you possibly be!? You're human too, aren't you!? Darn...! ...Fei... Oh, Fei...!?

Midori:Crying...

Dan:Huh...!? Midori, it's you... Phew... Don't scare me like that! Crying...?
Who's crying? ...!? You mean our friend is crying?

Midori:Angry... Hurt... He'll wake up soon... It's calling him...

Which implies either a) that she knows what the Zophar is, Fei's relationship to it, and can accurately guess when the thing is active or b) she can read minds.  the second option seems a bit more likely, hence the fans assuming she's psychic.
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Re: What games are you playing 2014?
« Reply #229 on: January 30, 2014, 01:51:33 AM »
I wouldn't be surprised if she was supposed to read minds and that was another plot point that got dropped except for one oblique scene that could be an indicator. Perfect Works is like three hundred giant pages of things they dropped.

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Re: What games are you playing 2014?
« Reply #230 on: January 30, 2014, 01:55:39 AM »
I'd say it's more like 100 pages of dropped plot points, 50 pages of backstory that's not really relevant to the game but a super fan might care about (ie the stuff that got turned into Xenosaga), another 50 of clarifying plot points that were really obtuse, and 100 pages of artwork, but yeah more or less.
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Re: What games are you playing 2014?
« Reply #231 on: January 30, 2014, 04:10:16 AM »
FONV: Ranger Station Charlie's one of the last map locations I get around to visiting, and when I get there it's in the middle of the Legion raid. !!! I didn't know that could even happen. I walked inside mid-fight (I'm still liked by both sides), grabbed the Legion holotape, walked back out to see the rest of the fight. Quite in spite of what the Legion message stated, I watched one lady ranger waste three legionaires and then walk away. Considered myself fortunate that day I hadn't yet pissed off the NCR.

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Re: What games are you playing 2014?
« Reply #232 on: January 30, 2014, 04:14:23 AM »
Dan:So this is where Fei's being held!? He deserves it! Let me pray on his
weeping face as if it were an idol! Heh heh... As if I would! Yech...! What, what is this...!?
...This is terrible... No matter what, this is going too far... He's still... alive...?
How could you possibly be!? You're human too, aren't you!? Darn...! ...Fei... Oh, Fei...!?

It is likely because of the translation, but this is so bad it makes me want to strangle a puppy.

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Re: What games are you playing 2014?
« Reply #233 on: January 30, 2014, 04:46:14 AM »
Well,

(a) If I recall that scene properly, there's a reasonable amount of action/body language between the lines which makes them come off more naturally than they do in the script
(b) while Xenogears has a pretty good translation for a Playstation game, that's uh not praise
(c) it is Dan; he is a moron

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Re: What games are you playing 2014?
« Reply #234 on: January 30, 2014, 05:06:55 AM »
 A Link Between Worlds: I got Sword Beams.  NOTHING ELSE MATTERS ANYMORE! THE SWORD BEAMS ARE BACK! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
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« Reply #235 on: January 30, 2014, 05:21:42 AM »
The Guided Fate Paradox: oh my god this is the most anime.  Pretty good game so far, up to chapter 5.  Bosses are nice and creative, translation is stellar, and the plot I'll have to reserve judgment because it is tropetastic for now but could easily be pretty good or really bad depending on where they are going with it.  I am not a fan of the dull character designs, and the personalities to match, but it *may* be building toward something good.

Risk of Rain: fun little roguelike side-scroller.  throw it in the category of Diablo 2 and Ys Origin: an extremely satisfying hack & slash (& shoot) affair where enemies quite satisfyingly burst like powerup-filled pinatas.  hard game, quite unforgiving, short (successful run will take 90 minutes) filled with randomized items, passive powerups for the most part, requires quick tactical thinking.  Good times.
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Re: What games are you playing 2014?
« Reply #236 on: January 30, 2014, 06:01:25 AM »
(a) If I recall that scene properly, there's a reasonable amount of action/body language between the lines which makes them come off more naturally than they do in the script

There is literally no way for an ellipse followed by an exclamation point and a question mark to come off natural.

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Re: What games are you playing 2014?
« Reply #237 on: January 30, 2014, 07:12:27 AM »
It's trying to communicate both trailing off and surprise, or at least that's how I always read it. These things got easier once video games gained (competent) VA.

Regardless, I should probably have said "less unnatural" instead of "more natural".

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Re: What games are you playing 2014?
« Reply #238 on: January 30, 2014, 01:41:01 PM »
Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons - Played through. Short and simple (doesn't help that I missed all the optional stuff because I didn't know there was optional stuff), but really really good at what it does, as long as you can wrap your muscle memory around the controls. Which caused more than a few deaths on my part, but nothing too frustrating. The ending is just....dang. Really well done, in storytelling, gameplay, and the way the latter feeds the former. It's free on PS+, too.
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Re: What games are you playing 2014?
« Reply #239 on: January 30, 2014, 02:00:36 PM »
FONV: Ranger Station Charlie's one of the last map locations I get around to visiting, and when I get there it's in the middle of the Legion raid. !!! I didn't know that could even happen. I walked inside mid-fight (I'm still liked by both sides), grabbed the Legion holotape, walked back out to see the rest of the fight. Quite in spite of what the Legion message stated, I watched one lady ranger waste three legionaires and then walk away. Considered myself fortunate that day I hadn't yet pissed off the NCR.

Wow that's amazing.  Even if it somehow wasn't a scripted event the sheer number of coincidences that had to occur was crazy.

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« Reply #240 on: January 30, 2014, 06:15:35 PM »
SRW J - Doing a replay of this, using Calveena+Festenia in the Bellzelute(last time was Toya+MMM in the Broketeed). The Bel is actually....reasonably balanced, which is surprising. Enemies can actually hit, it doesn't OHKO everything, etc. If it had Focus I could prolly pull the old OG1 Excellen trick of sending it out alone and countering everything into one more shot kills range, but lack of that means I need to keep it back and snipe.

Since this is a carry over game, my Aesti squad is a bundle of roving death, the girls and Akito all having fully upgraded weapons. And let's not even talk about the Layzner squad who has full upgrade for mechs and weapons. So of course I'm holding these guys back and letting others get the kills as much as I can.

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Re: What games are you playing 2014?
« Reply #241 on: January 30, 2014, 06:32:45 PM »
Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons - Played through. Short and simple (doesn't help that I missed all the optional stuff because I didn't know there was optional stuff), but really really good at what it does, as long as you can wrap your muscle memory around the controls. Which caused more than a few deaths on my part, but nothing too frustrating. The ending is just....dang. Really well done, in storytelling, gameplay, and the way the latter feeds the former. It's free on PS+, too.
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Re: What games are you playing 2014?
« Reply #242 on: January 30, 2014, 07:32:42 PM »
They both do. Frequently. One time an invisible yeti picked up the older brother and used him to beat the younger one to death.
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Re: What games are you playing 2014?
« Reply #243 on: January 30, 2014, 08:09:11 PM »
If it's invisible, how do you know it was a Yeti?

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« Reply #244 on: January 30, 2014, 08:39:35 PM »
Don't try to tell me what an invisible yeti doesn't look like.

(but seriously, it left bigfoot footprints and lives in the ice world)
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Re: What games are you playing 2014?
« Reply #245 on: January 31, 2014, 02:19:44 AM »
Fallout New Vegas: Dying in one-hit to Satchel Charges is now my number 1 hatred over Dead Money Speakers.  I did thrice to one that wasn't actually visible!  Not Rawr or Courier's Mile combined have killed me as much as the Satchel Traps.

Fudo did you gimp your endurance as much as your strength or something.

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« Reply #246 on: January 31, 2014, 02:57:58 AM »
Fallout New Vegas: Dying in one-hit to Satchel Charges is now my number 1 hatred over Dead Money Speakers.  I did thrice to one that wasn't actually visible!  Not Rawr or Courier's Mile combined have killed me as much as the Satchel Traps.

Fudo did you gimp your endurance as much as your strength or something.

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« Reply #247 on: January 31, 2014, 03:37:01 AM »
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Massive Fanservice Edition: Now IN 3D!!!!: 3 of the Lorule dungeons beaten.  The 3rd one I ended up completing not realizing I was doing one of those dungeons because of how it's set up.

I'm enjoying this game a fair amount.  I could easily have already finished it, but the game has found a way to make the exploration aspect fun due to how it's structured.  Combine that with the nostalgia trip (I played a lot of ALttP when I was younger; I'm seriously considering getting the VC version on my Wii U after this), and I can see why this game got so much praise.
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« Reply #248 on: February 01, 2014, 04:01:09 PM »
The Walking Dead- Season 1, Episode three. Just got off the train after cutting Clem's hair.  I will have to second rob and say this is the first game I've ever played that had QTE's that didn't make me want to punch someone in the nose. The writing is excellent though the various splitpath options are limited due to budget and time constraints. I don't mind though, this is hands down one of the best written  and darkest games I've played. I chose Doug and sided with Kenny over Lilly.
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Re: What games are you playing 2014?
« Reply #249 on: February 02, 2014, 02:56:30 AM »
The Legend of Zelda: Now We Have a Dark Haired Zelda Named Hilda!:  Finished!

Died only once officially, got over 20k rupees throughout the course of the game.  Could not get the ultimate sword because finding the last hint was me smacking my head against the wall repeatedly and didn't want to FAQ it, at least not until I completed the game.  Also, only 2 hearts away from full gauge, though, dunno how many heart pieces.  Found 84 of the 100 Maimais, and I wasn't even looking THAT hard (oh, I did some actual searching make no mistake), so I guess that qualifies as a well done world-wide treasure hunt.  Only thing I didn't upgrade was the Hookshot.


This game is really good.  I discussed this in chat, but the thing I think what this game did exceedingly well was just managing to find the perfect balance of "Familiar" and "New."  By making it an ALttP sequel with ALttP fanservice all over the place, it hits every nostalgic chord well, and you definitely have a sense of familiarity with what you're doing as a result.  Yet, with the new gameplay ideas (rentals, wall-art, etc.), it gives a new feel to the game.  The ability to do dungeon sets in almost any order you want was nice, and the game doesn't feel like it's holding your hand either.  Simply goes "here's the dungeon, now figure it out."

While Dungeons did eventually become gimmicked around an item, a big difference is that because you have the item BEFORE going into the dungeon, the dungeon starts off with item related puzzles from the outset.  Normally, Zelda dungeons will start with a bunch of general switch hitting, key finding, etc. until you find the token treasure in the dungeon halfway in.  Then it takes a huge shift and now is focused entirely on that item to reach all the unreachable areas.  At least, the Zelda games I played were like this, and seeing what little my brother played, it didn't seem to shift from this (and Oracle Games certainly followed this route too.) This leads to dungeons being highly repetitive, and being both larger and taking way longer than they need to.  Its fine at first, but by the 4th dungeon out of like 10, it starts to feel very samey.

ALBW, however, because of it's style, it basically cuts out the entire first half of the dungeon, and it doesn't force a lot of filler.  So dungeons are just long enough to feel fulfilling, and don't overstay their welcome.  This makes the game way shorter as a result.  ALBW is a very short game by modern Zelda standards, but honestly?  It's really fun from start to finish, so I can't complain.  I'd rather a game be a brief, enjoyable experience the entire way through than a long adventure that rollercoasters between "fun" and "tedious" which many modern adventure games and other similar things (like jRPGs) stumble into.  The game has only as much as it needs, and being short, it's replay friendly, which is complimented by Hero Mode.


The other thing this game does well is it's story.  No, it's not a highly original story.  No, it's not even a particularly stand out story.  What I praise about it, however, is the game doesn't waste your time with it.  It tells the entire story in only a handful of scenes, which for a story as simple as this, gets the point across.  No needless exposition, no in-depth backstory talks, just straight and to the point.  I respect that they were able to just cut out the bullcrap, and give you only the essentials, and the game is all the more enjoyable for it.  It also deserves props for having a half-decent sympathetic villain.  From my understanding, they tried this with Ganondorf in The Wind Waker, but ultimately it was "dude, you're still trying to murder everyone because you're angry" which uh, yeah, you can't make someone be super evil then try to make them appear sympathetic.  ALBW's villain, it has an understandable motive, and while there is a "going too far", feel (they're the villain after all), you do feel bad for the character by the end and it makes the situation all the better that the game actually finds a sensible way to make Hilda and Ravio have a happy ending too, rather than simply leaving them to rot, which honestly, the game could have gotten away with.  I'm not kidding either; it's nice to see a game, in this era of over cinematic, highly dialog driven scenes, to be able to tell a full, complete and satisfying story in as few scenes and time as ALBW did.

This also has the benefit of the game taking about 5 minutes to start with actual gameplay.  You wake up, walk a bit on the overworld, get Not!Sword, walk to location, get sword, do tutorial dungeon, watch cutscene, and now the game actually begins.  This is done within a 5 minute time frame, I'm not joking.  Even ALttP didn't begin this fast, as ALttP had a considerably longer "tutorial" dungeon (Hyrule Castle), and ALttP was by no means a game slow starting game either.  It's stuff like this that really shows they really captured the charm of older games, that you can start a new, fresh game and not have to worry about all the intro stuff.


Yeah I could go on singing this game's praises, but really, it earned it's high marks from all those reviewers.  If you liked ALttP, and have a 2/3DS, I can't recommend this game enough.  I know, I don't usually hype Zelda games like...ever , but I did grow up playing a lot of ALttP on the SNES, so being able to go back to a new Zelda game that brings back that nostalgic sense and is legitimately fun is something that feels great.

I kind of want to replay ALttP now after playing this, and it was just put on the Wii U VC, so maybe I will!  Though I did just Download 4 Swords  for free on 3DS, so maybe I'll try that because...free game?
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