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lol I bet his handlers begged him not to do this and he did it anyway. That was hard to watch.

cognitive decline happens as people age, and it happens in different ways and speeds. It's not ageist to acknowledge this.

He starts off talking about 800ad rurik dynasty, ethnic groups of the Austro-Hungarian era, ruthenian nationalism and pan slavism, and transcarpathia among other things for like 25 minutes; so I don't expect the average american to be able to pay attention for more than 5 minutes (because they don't know what any of those things are).

1337toothbrush posted...

Not if the number is 1337.

or 420 or 69. X's are a gaming skill multiplier too.

BG3 is really easy by crpg standards so it sounds like these games just aren't for you

Irony posted... People with numbers in their username tend to be bad at gaming

wrong

Yeah, that checks out. I remember it being a bolt based weapon that I used to save spellslots. I've only played FF2 twice because...well, I really just don't like ff2 much. The PR version was definitely a more fun experience for me though.

I think overall they're really good. I loved the remixed scores, rebalancing on certain mechanics, most of the spritework and the big one is honestly QoL changes. Theres like a zillion little things that add up compared to the classic versions that just makes it a smoother run on replays, and having the whole collection standardized on stuff like cursor memory options/autobattle/settings in one place without messing with pulling out a slew of consoles is a really nice thing.

I'm one of those weird people who goes back to them every 5 or 6 years and pixel remaster is definitely my preferred way to do stuff like the four job fiesta every few years now.

Fluttershy posted...
in the nes version the trick was to level them up using the bug that let you powerlevel by canceling out of casts.

i mean, be real, you're not casting that shit eight hundred times.

I think I probably did lol. My casters were on rod duty 90% of the time when I played the FF origins version of II. I *think* that had the classic NES mechanics. I remember losing stats a lot at any rate

E: It had worse spell growth than NES after checking, but no magic penalty for gear I guess? Its been awhile.

Fluttershy posted...

i feel like every run i have in ff2 is a failed experiment.

iirc the secret to making casters not suck in magic skill was to make sure they just used rod breaks in combat every round instead of fight or def. whitemages get black magic staves super early too and I don't think using them reduced spirit

Fluttershy posted...

ff2's magic growth was a problem. like, you shouldn't have to cast something 800 times to get it to half of its potential.

yeah classic FF2 was a failed experiment. In theory you would be able to do stuff like high str/con white mages and have archetypes closer to tabletop fantasy games, but in practice it just sucked and was a chore to play, especially for characters intended to be hybrids like RDM-style.

Lairen posted...

But theres trophies now so....

So? Most of the trophies are either lame timesink grinds that require 30+ hours of walking back and forth and slamming the confirm button in the same area against the same enemies to get to the level cap, or are 100% bestiary/treasure completion where the grind absolutely does not matter. Does spending 4x longer doing that (say, for ff5 level 99 and all jobs maxed) destroy the integrity of the game?

lol @ disdain for the "casuals". A difficult final fantasy game does not exist. You walk through the game pressing confirm and maybe use an item or esuna every few fights (or every fight if it's a shitty gimmick like the ff4 sylph cave). If you're timesinking hours into grinding any FF game in existence you're already a baddie in the first place or just maxing out the jobs for fun or doing bestiary challenges like spending an hour trying to spawn warmech in FF1 so who cares.

Squares extra content for classic games ranged from "pretty bad, play an awful romhack instead" (FF content) to "This makes the game worse lol" (chrono trigger)

This is like a highlight reel of every idiot chud I've ever worked with. I envy anyone who finds this novel