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Knurek

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Arthea said:
I don't agree with you, boss battles are hella long, calling help is rampant and don't even get me started on status effects and health regeneration.
And magic is not effective in most cases either, at least if I have some custom set of orbs that works for me in other cases, bosses tend to be immune or have extra defence against all magic I can use. Then I'm forced to start battle over, set up orbments differently what makes my party slower not to able heal so good and fast, etc.
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Are you playing on Nightmare or what? Don't do that to yourself, Nightmare + Falcom is hell on Earth.
Only orbment tweaking I had to do was upgrading to higher versions.
For the first chapters only status protection I had on my PCs was Poison and Confuse accessories. Things start to pick up later, but almost immediately after you receive Grail Locket which coupled with a single casting of La Curia takes care of things.
The fact that you get access to Mind 3 (then 4, then 5), EP Cut 2 (then 3, then 4), Action 3 (4/5) and Cast 2 (or 3 if you want to take the hit) fairly early on (I mean, 30 hours or so) makes the whole game a breeze.
I stopped caring about elemental immunity as well and just spam Shadow arts - no enemy so far has been strong against them (and I'm in the final dungeon).
Only the enforcer/mark battles so far have required any sort of strategy - mostly since you can't Haze/Yin-Yang them into giving you two free turns to spam magic.

Arthea said:
I don't know why would you even argue a point, SC is more difficult.
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I was dying all the time during my FC run. I haven't had a total party wipe ever since Chapter 1 in SC (some close calls, true, but nothing that wasn't manageable).
The amount of good stuff (tm) SC throws at you offsets any increased difficulty.
 
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The_Super_Inframan

"the journey to a thousand games ends with bad rats. ~Lao Tzu" ~Gabe Newell
Deques said:
How much money did you use to get those €600?
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I rather not know the answer to that :p

But I would probably still have bought them all even if trading cards would never have been a thing, so I tend to see the card money as a nice bonus on top...

Arthea said:
kindly don't go there, it's better not to dwell on such things, for our own sanity, I mean.
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exactly what I thought...
 
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gelf

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Baron von Loathsome said:
I hate playtimes that lie to me.

For example, my Trine 1 playtime which reset itself to zero hours for some reason.
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I'm the same, I'm still mildly irritated that my Half Life times(and maybe some others) are all wrong as they were first played before Steam even measured playtimes.
 
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Large Professor

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Baron von Loathsome said:
Here's a fun little game. Go through your Steam game playtimes and find the top five most-played games that you received from a Humble Bundle or an equivalent. I don't mean games that have been in a bundle, I mean games you first got from a bundle. Humble Weekly, Humble Monthly, Bundlestars, IndieGala, etc. are all legal, but bundles on places like Steam, Amazon, GMG, etc. aren't.

Here's mine:

1. The Binding of Isaac (16 hours)
2. The Talos Principle (14)
3. Legend of Grimrock (13)
4. Murdered: Soul Suspect (5.9)
5. The Marvellous Miss Take (5.3)

Last but not least, slap yourselves for all the great games you got in those bundles but haven't played yet.
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1. Underrail 62 hrs
2. Xenonauts 44 hrs
3. Awesomenauts 28 hrs
4. SpeedRunners 22 hrs
5. The Binding of Isaac 15.8 hrs

And most of my most played stuff has been bundled countless times (spelunky, ftl, risk of rain).
 
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The_Super_Inframan

"the journey to a thousand games ends with bad rats. ~Lao Tzu" ~Gabe Newell
Deques said:
For science. Let people know how much Gaben €600 is worth in real money :)
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hhmm, how would I even begin to calculate that...

I would have to check what I payed for every game, at least on average, with cards in my account, or is there a more sane and faster way?

Is there a fast way to check how many games I own have cards?
 
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Deques

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The_Super_Inframan said:
hhmm, how would I even begin to calculate that...

I would have to check what I payed for every game, at least on average, with cards in my account, or is there a more sane and faster way?

Is there a fast way to check how many games I own have cards?
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Enhanced Steam might help you

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313 + 765 = 1078 games that I have that have cards
 
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The_Super_Inframan

"the journey to a thousand games ends with bad rats. ~Lao Tzu" ~Gabe Newell
Large Professor said:
I don't think there is a fast way to do that. For a slow way, you can go to badges and then click on "View my booster pack eligibility".
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Deques said:
Enhanced Steam might help you

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313 + 765 = 1078 games that I have that have cards
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ah, right, forgot about the badges page... I haven't checked it in months...

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so 1705 games with cards

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I "made" 619,37€

thats an average of 0,36€ per game

but it's hard to tell what I payed for the games...

edit: I mean at least 90% have to be from bundles, then lots of cheap games bought from the russian bear (rip) and lots of Steam sale purchases... the average price for one game can't be that high, maybe around a dollar or so
 
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Teppic

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Baron von Loathsome said:
Here's a fun little game. Go through your Steam game playtimes and find the top five most-played games that you received from a Humble Bundle or an equivalent. I don't mean games that have been in a bundle, I mean games you first got from a bundle. Humble Weekly, Humble Monthly, Bundlestars, IndieGala, etc. are all legal, but bundles on places like Steam, Amazon, GMG, etc. aren't.

Here's mine:

1. The Binding of Isaac (16 hours)
2. The Talos Principle (14)
3. Legend of Grimrock (13)
4. Murdered: Soul Suspect (5.9)
5. The Marvellous Miss Take (5.3)

Last but not least, slap yourselves for all the great games you got in those bundles but haven't played yet.
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1. The Binding of Isaac (34)
2. Psychonauts (24)
3. Trine 2 (13.2)
4. Ys: Origin (12.1)
5. The Cat Lady (11.5)

Aquaria should be up there too, and La-mulana. Played the DRM free versions so no time tracking!

Edit: Just remembered that I actually bought La-mulana on GOG, so it doesn't count.
 
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Anustart

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Still plugging through xcom eu. Figure by the time I finish xcom 2 will be patched and price dropped.

While I like the game, I wouldn't pay 60$ for it or the sequel.

Also, strangest thing. My game chugs to a crawl, but only when a red mutton is moving. Prolly get 1 fps for a burst when he does his thing. Performance everywhere else is fine. Have 4gb 760, 3570k.

Perhaps his ai is just some ground breaking stuff that requires quantum mechanics.
 
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paperspace

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Madridista said:
Why wouldn't you want the $15 deal for the whole $60 game?



I'm getting impatient. It's so hard waiting for that one. I'll get it for iOS first, and then buy it on sale on Steam.
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Because I seriously doubt IO are able to deliver an experience worth $15, let alone $60.

Also a delay for a beta? Ugh, the whole game just reeks of incompetence.
 
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shortsFortallPeople

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ctw0e said:
Because I seriously doubt IO are able to deliver an experience worth $15, let alone $60.

Also a delay for a beta? Ugh, the whole game just reeks of incompetence.
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or, maybe they didn't want to deal with the possibility of having two fires on their hands if the PS4 and PC betas both ending up screwy and would rather deal with just one possible problem at a time?

Capcom just did the same with Street Fighter V's betas, for similar reasons likely.

I mean i get being cynical but perhaps we shouldn't so freely apply Occam's razor and actually extend the benefit of the doubt to them in that they just might know what they're doing

ctw0e said:
It's different. This beta is part of a marketing campaign and is probably more akin to a demo.
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oh, i see that you've enjoyed the beta in advance and are well informed as to how IO and SE are handling this game's marketing and production . can you tell me how it controls compared to Absolution?
 
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paperspace

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shortsFortallPeople said:
or, maybe they didn't want to deal with the possibility of having two fires on their hands if the PS4 and PC betas both ending up screwy and would rather deal with just one possible problem at a time?

Capcom just did the same with Street Fighter V's betas, for similar reasons likely.
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It's different. This beta is part of a marketing campaign and is probably more akin to a demo.

edit: on second thought, no it's not different. Capcom are just as incompetent, apparently
 
Jawmuncher

Jawmuncher

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Annubis said:
I don't think 60 FPS is that critical on a VN, but hey, I won't complain about it either that's for sure.
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There are those parts where you walk around but yeah, if the game for whatever reason was tied to 30FPS. It wouldn't be a big deal for the experience.
 
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Ludens

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Yeah, I think the plan for FFIX is a release on both platforms at the same time, it's not like the other times where an iOS version was already available. Maybe this time we'll get a decent version, not an iOS port but something similar to FFVII/VIII.
 
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shortsFortallPeople

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Jawmuncher said:
There are those parts where you walk around but yeah, if the game for whatever reason was tied to 30FPS. It wouldn't be a big deal for the experience.
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at 30 fps, it would still include 6 more frames of animation per second than your japanese animations.

at 60 fps, it might be too much anime per second. i hope they throw up a warning on the steam page just to prevent seizures and such
 
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The_Super_Inframan

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corrosivefrost

corrosivefrost

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Ludens said:
I found one in the Abyss's quest, my pawn's name is Ciri, any help is appreciated :D
Also I just saw there are a bunch new escort missions...oh my God, I think I'll just skip all of them, because really, they are a pain to do.
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Escort missions are easy.
If you're on NG+, there shouldn't be any issues because you'll have up to 10 portcrystals active and can just warp everywhere with the escort.
If you're on your initial playthrough, you still get 5 portcrystals to place as you see fit:
1. Take one of your "extra" if you aren't adamantly attached to where you have them, so you have at least 1 in your inventory.
2. Accept the escort mission and mark the goal on your map with a custom waypoint.
3. Interact with the notice board again to ditch the quest.
4. High tail it over to where you want to be.
5. Drop a portcrystal, then warp back to the area the noticeboard is in (most escort quests come from Gran Soren/Cassardis which have dedicated port crystals).
6. Accept quest, warp to the newly placed portcrystal, then enjoy your money/reward/xp for the easy completion.
7. Bonus - Check the board first to see if more than one escort quest to an area is available. Do all those first, then move the port crystal the another escort target location as described above.

The above method takes just about all risk out of escort missions and still lets you explore and both the experience from the journey without worry of the escort getting killed AND then gives you the quest rewards anyway once you use the portcrystal to warp them there.
 
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PranooY

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Finally beat Contradiction: Spot the Liar.
Even though I enjoyed the whole thing, the ending was kinda expected. I mean the tape at the start of the game was a dead giveaway and I expected the revenge for sleeping with husband angle(mistakenly). And they didn't do a good job of sidetracking that thought with the various tangents. I believe the writing overall (not just this twist) could be better.
Also Its really weird that he is investigating the case at like midnight.
Anyways the cliffhanger at the end. They are planning to make a sequel with the same characters, aren't they? Hmm, dunno what to think of that..
 
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