octopath is mostly doomed from the start because the 8 short stories thing doesn't really work
― ciderpress, Thursday, 2 April 2020 01:31 (four years ago) link
idk it worked fine in dragon quest iv
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Saturday, 4 April 2020 04:01 (four years ago) link
i've never played any of the SaGa games w/ this gimmick or Live A Live, and i am curious now to see if they tick me off any less. the tonal inconsistency is what does it, the gross slippage from 'what if the merchant was the protagonist of the rpg?' (n.b. this is the fifth time i have seen this question answered) to the revenge thriller ft. human trafficking
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Saturday, 4 April 2020 04:05 (four years ago) link
I have 70 hours in this but I am doomed to never finish it
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 4 April 2020 04:08 (four years ago) link
dear lord, does it get slower? i'm 18 hours in with 12 quests done
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Saturday, 4 April 2020 04:20 (four years ago) link
No I just “took a break” after getting crushed in a boss fight and then our daughter took over the Switch for Minecraft and Splatoon purposes. I got another Switch for the adults and moved my game over, but have been anxious about diving in again. I feel like at this point I’ve forgotten how to win and it’s not going to be like a bicycle and the boss fight isn’t going to be any easier even this I’m intellectually 100% sure of what I got wrong. And so forth. Ugh.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 4 April 2020 04:40 (four years ago) link
live a live is cool
all the other games that do this thing have you play each story separately rather than putting all the protags in the same party (or else they do that much later in the game)
― ciderpress, Saturday, 4 April 2020 05:03 (four years ago) link
And 70 hours seems like such a sunk cost I don’t want to start over. Double ugh.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 4 April 2020 05:06 (four years ago) link
My ex played this, sunk ~100 hours into it and didn't bother for full completion because... ~boring~
Me I'm gonna finally play Secret Of Mana and then Seiken Densetsu 3
― we have no stan but to choice (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 4 April 2020 13:19 (four years ago) link
most things are boring after 100 hours!
― Nudeln und Klopapier Gore (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 4 April 2020 17:09 (four years ago) link
i hit full completion in 55 hours, and its not like you can rush in this game since its got random encounters..
― ciderpress, Saturday, 4 April 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
Yeah but you’re, like, actually good at video games I think
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 4 April 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
only the ones that don't require dodge rolling
― ciderpress, Saturday, 4 April 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link
thirty hours in, about to finish my lead character's level 4 so i can swap her out. is this about when i ought to go looking for the other job shrines or are those really just a post-game thing?
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Saturday, 11 April 2020 04:00 (four years ago) link
you can beat the bosses for those when your party is around level 40 iirc. or maybe a bit less even but they're tough
― ciderpress, Saturday, 11 April 2020 04:20 (four years ago) link
thx. i did one of them that seemed fairly straightforward and now the game seems to have some more interesting tactical decisions available. i do feel like if i focus on clearing the rest the remaining lv 3 and lv 4 quests are going to be entirely trivial, tho
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Sunday, 12 April 2020 10:28 (four years ago) link
this game is super chill. i picked it up again and have been enjoying it
also, i didn't have to fight any bosses in the job shrines?? i've only just finished chapter 2 and i've found 5 of them
― real muthaphuckkin jeez (crüt), Monday, 21 December 2020 05:05 (three years ago) link
still slowly working my way through this every few months. an enemy just used a move called "These Nuts" on me
― eisimpleir (crüt), Saturday, 19 June 2021 15:14 (two years ago) link
top 5 Switch game
― What it's like. Havana Syndrome. What it's like. Havana Syndrom (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 5 November 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
before i argue, what are your other 4
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 November 2021 05:37 (two years ago) link
and why!
― just staying (Karl Malone), Saturday, 6 November 2021 05:44 (two years ago) link
I am planning to say why. However i've been playing more, and Tressa's story has turned into Karate Kid but where the karate is replaced with "selling geodes". well, i'm not so confident anymore.
― accordion folder full of Zoobooks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 16 December 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link
hahaha
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Thursday, 16 December 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link