[Gironika]

all CAPS glory, yupp.

Once again it's time for the trashiest week of all weeks there are every year - yeah, this is all about SQEX.
You might wonder "why the third one?", since you might/might not remember to have seen those at all. Well, wonder no more, since there have been two weeks before where I and a bunch of people did the following things:

Week I:
- almost three-line reviews of SQEX-games
- talking about Kumi Tanioka
- watching Pani Poni Dash
- waited for FFCC: My Life as a King and ranted about the Wii in general
- featured a special THE BOUNCER playthrough
- waited for TWEWY alias The World Ends With You to be released

Week II:
- well, (obviously) played SQEX-games
- searched for the quickest SQEX-"Game Over"
- made a collage of an unbelieveable long (and stupid) SQEX-title in blackmail letter-fonttype
- did a SQEX-Youtube-meme-rally
- searched a four-digit number in any SQEX-game that can be found in Pi (without 9999, of course)
- and produce a cliché-laden PS2-cover covering what everyone submitted that week
- bonus-content: Sh15uya-screening in select homes plus a FF7AC-screening over the www that never happened.


So!
Since the last week was mission-based, time to do a sandbox-style week. So to speak:
Do what you want to do! If you want to revisit a SQEX-game, for whatever reason, do so now. I'm going to try something with these here,

not too sure what it'll be though. If you want to join in, feel free to do so. You can finally play all those games you were too cool for!


And since twitter isn't ZIPPERS cool enough to host the most useless stream of thoughts in regards to this week, the unofficial twitter-clone of SBers choice, soup.io will do the job for the while

[edit]
DLC Pack #1: Youtube-grinding over here.
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[CubaLibre]

maybe i will play some einhander
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

there was a second one? man.

I might replay Chain of Memories (the original), to see if I'm right in that the game system could make a pretty great game divorced from the KH stuff.
Maybe finally actually play Treasure of the Rudras, or perhaps Treasure Hunter G (although that was a Sting co-developed project).
Or finish Parasite Eve.

ah, since it's Enix too, maybe I could finish Wonder Project J. Or start Mystic Ark.

it'd be nice if we had a thread about Crystal Bearers.

[bleak]

Man, I hadn't anticipated SQUENIX week to be retroactive, what the fuck am I gonna do now

i'm of the opinion that squenix is pretty douchey though... maybe I should try actually beating vagrant story or something.
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[radish]

[Renfrew]

I just bought Dragon Warrior 7 yesterday. Maybe I'll start it and try to beat it by the end of the week, or is that even physically possible?
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[oh my god immaculate]

I'm no fan of FF but Final Fantasy XII is really, really good so go play it.

[CubaLibre]

takes too long to get rolling man
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[oh my god immaculate]

what how

[CubaLibre]

i played prolly six or eight hours of it and really wanted to like it but i still had like three gambit slots per person and like whatever gambits you start with plus a couple extra i could afford, what the hell is with locking everything behind walls of money grinding

i mean i see how it is a good game and a great leap from other final fantasies but all the crap that they pulled over matsuno's core is just too much for me to bother with
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[HarveyQ]

i could never really get into any FF game besides IV. i don't really know why. i mean i really hate the aesthetics of the most recent ones but PSX-era and back don't bother me too much, i just can't ever muster up the desire to complete them.
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

guys, fyi, the International Version of FFXII got a translation patch. You know, the one that changes the game a whole bunch?

[another coma]

My favorite part of FF XII was easily the hunts, which I opted to pursue over the storyline events almost every time. They are fiendishly difficult and push you into considering strategies that you wouldn't have been required to think of just playing through the storyline. they test your ability to structure your gambits and also they frequently change strategies when their health dives low, so you can't turn your brain off once they're near dead.

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

that's exactly what it does, yeah.

[T.]

that sounds pretty cool! someone play it and then tell us if it's as much an improvement as it sounds

http://www.snesorama.us/board/showthread.php?t=46608
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[another coma]

sounds like my dream version of the game.

actually my dream version of the game would not have had Vaan as the "main" character but I don't expect them to revise that.

Also (it doesn't bother me in the least but) mapping the game speed to a button is kind of a shocking design choice for a commercial Squeenix release.
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[v84j3gs2uc7ns4]

[another coma]

Oh man. I just looked at the OP in this thread and remembered that the sequel to Brave Fencer Musashi existed :(
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[geinou]

My favorite part of Final Fantasy XII (and XIII) was turning the game consol off (NOW). :( Sorry. :(

[Gironika]

[another god]

[Lasakon]

Might finally play past the third mission of Project Sylpheed (TOLL APPROVED).
Might finally open up FF XII.
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[CubaLibre]

[Rud31]

buy my copy of FFXII dogs.
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[Gin]

do you seriously get all the gambits available at once

because I might get that version just for that, a fun game that I can speed up while it plays itself according to my master plan

[Deets]

[Rud31]

shame about Fran's voice acting coming from inside a Coca Cola bottle.
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[Gironika]

TOLL,

Playing World Ends With You is the right thing to do.


I've started playing Dewprism and the best bit about it is the low-poly workmanship so far. Surprisingly good looking for a PS1-game, considering that flickering that could be seen in the FFs sometimes.
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

[Gironika]

Finished the first game this week!

Okay, technically speaking got the first of two possible endings (as far as I know, can't be bothered to look it up whether I have missed something), but as I did last year, I'll cut to the chase and hand out the first verdict of the week in one picture:







I could imagine what I was about to experience when deciding to play The Bouncer back in 2008 and kind of did so in 2009 with Driving Emotion Type-S. However, 2010 turns out to be the same thing all over again. I didn't expect the game to turn out the way it did, but if I'd get my hands on the guy who thought "hey, let's do a Mario64-inspired Jump'n'ActionRPG-Ripoff" and went ahead with that idea, I'd suggest that he'd be drowned, shot and quartered all at once.

Some unintentional funny moments aside, I wanted it to end from the three hour mark. Too bad it took me another seven!

More to come later on!
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[mavndrll]

if i had a chipped ps2 this would be the best time to play front mission 5. Maybe time to play theother storyline in 3!
alternatively, which are the most compact/minimalist of squares rpgs?

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

Live a Live.

(alternatively, Mystic Quest, but Live a Live is honestly amazing. Even Dracko would have a hard time complaining about it)

maybe Final Fantasy Adventure (the original, not the remake)

[Rud31]

Live A Live is too good. The random battles are arrugghhh, but everything else.

what's the proper pronunciation?

I'm going to screw with this to get my point across.

is it

life a life
life a SNL
SNL a SNL
SNL a life

I usually say it

life a life
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[CubaLibre]

[Deets]

[chevluh]

Gironika, I have a question regarding dewprism. I've tried to play it recently, on emulator, and come to the conclusion it's a buggy piece of shit (though pretty) because I've been having big collision problems, namely if I jump up on a crate or bench or whatever, I can't jump down. Did you encounter the same problems?

Also seconding playing TWEWY as a CoM successor for DAIS. Doesn't have the same field customization, it's a very different approach for the world but the systems it uses are compelling in their own right, and avoid the pitfall of repeating rooms (though it's replaced by the semi-problem that the world is pretty small). You'll definitely see the filiation of the battle system though.

I've always been pretty intrigued by Code Age. It looked weird but interesting, but was a gigantic flop, right?

[Rud31]

[Teflon]

Square-Enix games I will be playing

- Persona 4 (EU)
- Just Cause 2

[boojiboy7]

[Gironika]

[Gironika]

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