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Resonance of Fate |OT| John Woo RPG Action and Small Racks
- Thread starter Rpgmonkey
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Yay, got the message while at work that my pre-order(PS3)should be in Wednesday afternoon, at my Gamestop, so essentially it's Yakuza 3 all over again. I live in a pretty small town so it's very common for my city to miss out on certain things on the release date, so if we're getting it Wednesday the rest of the civilized world should also be getting it.
Since I was at work I didn't call them back and ask how many copies total they were getting or anything like that.
Since I was at work I didn't call them back and ask how many copies total they were getting or anything like that.
Crazypanda_85
Member
mAcOdIn said:
Ironically, you didn't miss the release date for this title. Sega changed the released date so the official release date was Weds, instead of the normal Tuesday release day. Why Sega, did that? The same reason why we don't know how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop. The world may never know...
mjemirzian
Banned
hmm just beat the 2nd 'major' boss.. the first one being the lava dude from the demo. it was a little rough.. my party was lv 8-9 and I think the game is unhappy with me not grinding because the boss was lv 28.
And then there are these glowing red squares that look innocent enough.. but when you enter them there's a lv 48 enemy waiting to destroy you.. and you can't escape without using an item that costs money.
Still alive! Oh wait, it's 'victory' now.
And then there are these glowing red squares that look innocent enough.. but when you enter them there's a lv 48 enemy waiting to destroy you.. and you can't escape without using an item that costs money.
Still alive! Oh wait, it's 'victory' now.
Sooooo GAF what is the consensus on this? I am not excited for FFXIII at all... and my brother is picking me up 2 games and Resonance of Fate seems to be a pretty firm "GET IT" for me from what I've seen.
But I'd like to hear what people say about it, this generation has really crushed me in terms of lovable RPGs... the only one that after finishing it and retrospecting on it that I truly enjoyed is Valkyria Chronicles...
Dragon Age was fun to play through but after finishing it I have a bitter taste in my mouth from the ridiculous amount of flaws the title has... Lost Odyssey was great but the game seems to spike "TOO EASY" "TOO HARD" "TOO EASY" far too often and could have used some balancing... and Bethesda is probably one of the most inept developers I've ever seen who has so much unused potential that they seem to throw away every time :/
But I'd like to hear what people say about it, this generation has really crushed me in terms of lovable RPGs... the only one that after finishing it and retrospecting on it that I truly enjoyed is Valkyria Chronicles...
Dragon Age was fun to play through but after finishing it I have a bitter taste in my mouth from the ridiculous amount of flaws the title has... Lost Odyssey was great but the game seems to spike "TOO EASY" "TOO HARD" "TOO EASY" far too often and could have used some balancing... and Bethesda is probably one of the most inept developers I've ever seen who has so much unused potential that they seem to throw away every time :/
chicken_ramen
Member
mjemirzian said:
They changed that? It's purely decorative, but I think still alive was a nice touch. It fits with the theme, and also the difficulty of some of the encounters. Were you able to beat the leader fat barrel thing in that early lvl48 encounter, or did you give up? Nothing I did could keep me in the game for long enough when I found it. I also think you're at the normal level for that chapter. Boss fights are all good little puzzles, and although there were a whole lot of hard ones, I never had to grind. I know you're philosophically against grinding or something so yeah I just want to confirm that the game doesn't require it. Then again, I did fill out the maps, and all the side quests but I don't think that's grinding.
Why just VC? I mean, I love that game to death but it was hardly free of standard JRPG/JSRPG flaws, exception being the kinda laid back attitude.lsslave said:
So far I've played everything you have except Lost Odyssey so I can let you know tomorrow night if I think it's similar, but looking at the intro I think it'll be a bit darker than VC, even considering some of the dark stuff that happened in VC. VC had one thing in spades, charm and while I expect RoF to be good, hence hwy I pre-ordered it I don't see it having that same atmosphere.
I just expect this from Sega these days.Crazypanda_85 said:
mAcOdIn said:
VC gave me something new while not completely abandoning what I've loved about the genre since I was a child.
FFXIII on the other hand follows FFXII in suit of destroying things for me..
VC just felt... "right" to me. I'm not into SRPGs and I loved the game, my favorite game released this entire console generation (followed closely by No More Heroes)
RoF seems to be exactly what I'm looking for in an RPG, some old school design with some new ideas. It could be terrible but my hype train is about as high for this title as it is for Alpha Protocol
mjemirzian
Banned
chicken_ramen said:
I'm still not sure how to hook up the white colored terminals. I got the one near the starting power station. I don't consider doing the side quests grinding.
I didn't try it too much but that lv 48 guy seems pretty easy to interrupt his attacks. So just attack him with whoever he is not targeting and you'll theoretically be able to wear him down, assuming you can keep his henchmen from interfering. I would probably have had better luck if I started switching gear around earlier to boost levels (pass the MG and grenades around, etc.)
I couldn't care less if people grind. I do care if they declare grinding is required when they are just bad at teh vidya.
Hmm.. just did the chapter sidequests while swapping equipment. Meaning everyone got a turn with the MG, grenades.. so everyone got a very quick level boost because previously Vash and Leannes MG were only lv 1, Zephyr's HG was only lv 1, and everyone still had lv 1 hand weaps. So now everyone is lv 18 with only a little weapon swapping.
chicken_ramen
Member
mjemirzian said:
The way leveling works is neat, encourages you to give the weapons to the people least capable to use them. Weird, but it also means that everyone does everything.
The henchmen in that fight were the least of my problems. They were very easy to get rid of before the big guy could even get close, and the splash damage they create on breaking their bomb packs was also helpful, I just had a hard time interrupting him enough to keep him from wiping someone out, and at that point you only have 3 gems, so you'd be down to one and shards, scampering around to pick up the pieces before trying to break something else to refill them. I did try keeping the henchmen around for a cheap refill, but I couldn't keep everyone positioned well enough to stop them from being too big of a hassle.
mjemirzian
Banned
chicken_ramen said:
I cleared all of these with a party level of 16-20, no grinding needed. In order to keep your levels up, swap your MG, HG, and Grenades around so everyone has a turn leveling up with them.
Dolled-up Dwellest, level 48, 1250 HP
Location: Level 6 Closed Road
Reward: Bridal Doll
Kite him with Zephyr.. his melee dive is avoidable if you keep running, so what I did was let him attack out of Zephyrs range, then quickly mash cancel back to zephyr to blast him with 4 charges of scratch damage while he gets back up from his melee dive. Standing far behind Zephyr was Vash who would quickly HG to cash in on the scratch before tubby got too close again. Once Vash fired, I would take Zephyr and kite tubby away from Vash to do it again.
Frag Dwellest, level 44, 900 hp
Location: Level 5
Reward: Bezel Fragment
Same strategy as the Dolled-up Dwellest..
Rocketfoot, level 28, 1100 HP
Location: Level 5
Reward: Bezel Fragment
Hide behind the bunker wall while taking out the henchmen, and rocketfoot will keep firing into the bunker. Eventually the bunker will blow up because its cannon does a ton of damage. Break the cannon (front armor), then finish off the last henchmen, then kite rocketfoot to death same as the Dwellers. His attack is shorter range but it has kind of a side swipe so you have to flee away from the swipe. He also has crazy scratch regen so you need to hit him with HG asap after MG. reward was another 1/4 hero fragment.
3 gangsters & some feral dogs.
Reward: Perfect Aid
Location: Level 5
Kill the dogs first, they die quickly. Then take out the 3 gangsters. Easy.
hmm maybe the game has more of those red hexes with nasty enemies in store? Still alive.. for now.
hmm some more newly learned strategies.. in the demo all I would use is HAs and grenades. Now in the real game, scratch damage is king. If you don't have something scratched up, there's no point using HGs unless the thing is 5% health. Also normal attacks are just as important as HAs.. I don't usually use a HA unless I know there's a part I can pop off to earn that bezel point back. With that in mind, I've noticed that when you are firing at an enemy that is targetting you, they will fire at you while you are trying to charge up. But if you fire at an enemy that is targeting someone else, the enemy will not actually fire at them until you've finished your characters turn. In other words, it's better to use someone who isn't under fire if you're trying to get off normal attacks.
chicken_ramen
Member
mjemirzian said:
Yeah there are, I went back to fighting them in chapter 5, and by then that first guy was still a pain but much more manageable. I probably had a much better hold on the battle system by then too. From memory I found not breaking his gun arm important, being a ranged attack it can take along time to charge up if you keep good distance and is also very easy to dodge. Once the gun is broken he will always close the gap and the physical move charges quite fast. It still took some time and good positioning but wasn't that hard of a slog. I was up to early 20s I think.
There are some even better fights later that had me tearing out hair. The battle system is just so good. It takes a very small number of simple tools and combines them in very interesting ways.
mjemirzian
Banned
chicken_ramen said:
I am looking forward to the challenge, barring things that I've already heard break the game (lv 100 MGs doing full scratch damage in one attack..)
Dead Prince
Banned
can you pick difficulty or change on the fly or is it changed enemy to enemy?
Dead Prince
Banned
Gamestop (Louisiana) has it in. Try calling in the afternoons. UPS should be dropping them off : D going to pick it up after work unless best buy magically put up a special RZ offer :lol.
YuriLowell
Member
still not shipped from amazon yet.
TheCardPlayer
Likes to have "friends" around to "play cards" with
Got mine! 360 version, so hopefully it plays well. I had no problems with FFXIII so, maybe I just can't see any flaws. :lol
TheCardPlayer
Likes to have "friends" around to "play cards" with
survivor said:
360 only but I didn't really watch out for a PS3 version.
Urban Scholar
Member
Alas....I still wait to play this at least on one of my two days off this week
Mr. Wonderful
Member
My copy just shipped from Amazon. I can't wait to play this. But first, Final Fantasy XIII and Heavy Rain!
pancakesandsex
Member
-DarKaoZ- said:I just got my copy from my local gamestop, they just got it in.
Installing it (PS3 ver)
And yes, the game does have both English and Japanese voices, its on the menus.
Is the install optional?
Also, does selecting Japanese change Leanne's name?
Just got a call from my GameCrazy, where I had it preordered, and the copy is in today. Will be picking it up in a few hours. WOO.
If/when I open it up and start playing, hopefully I can help answer some questions. Still debating whether or not to hold off on this while I finish up FFXIII.
If/when I open it up and start playing, hopefully I can help answer some questions. Still debating whether or not to hold off on this while I finish up FFXIII.
Dead Prince
Banned
if i remember it's not optional. i think 5GB?pancakesandsex said:
konstantine7
Member
Wish I could afford this.
Fuck it I'll put it on my credit card and hope my wife doesn't notice
Fuck it I'll put it on my credit card and hope my wife doesn't notice
RRRAAAGGGEEE
Just called Gamestop and the dude that answered said they already got the 360 version, but not the PS3 version. First he said it was sold out, but then I was like I have a damn pre-order. Then he just said they probably didn't even receive any PS3 copies cause it doesn't look like they sold any.
Just called Gamestop and the dude that answered said they already got the 360 version, but not the PS3 version. First he said it was sold out, but then I was like I have a damn pre-order. Then he just said they probably didn't even receive any PS3 copies cause it doesn't look like they sold any.
Schopenhauer
Member
Just got off the phone with Amazon customer service, and he said the internal ship date had always been the 17th.
I am sort of pissed that amazon charged me early Tuesday morning knowing that was the case.
I am sort of pissed that amazon charged me early Tuesday morning knowing that was the case.
mjemirzian
Banned
survivor said:
It's a conspiracy!
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
Member
That's odd. The Gamestop near me has more PS3 versions but no 360.survivor said:
survivor said:
The TRU I work at only has the 360 one too...wtf is up with that. The EB I preordered at said they won't get until tomorrow and they said people only have until closing that night to pick it up after they get called, I asked them to hold it until Friday (can't go due to classes). Next time I won't expect any non-big releases to come out on time just so I won't get mad...
radiantdreamer
Member
survivor said:
Same thing. My preorder is paid in full too! RAAAAAAAAGE!!!
Oh well, I'll go in tomorrow and see if they have it, I suppose.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Going to grab the PS3 version on Monday if my check gets in then! Pretty damn excited for the game, but meanwhile I'm going to play me some Soul Silver. Liking the RoF Touch alot, I'd actually I'd only get an iPod touch if it was that one since I wouldn't use it and just have it on display. :lol
Dead Prince
Banned
Picked up the ps3 version 3 hours ago at Gamestop