What video game are you currently playing?

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#734

3/2DS.

It plays like an old school FF game but with a lot of quality of life features like a fast forward function, an auto pilot function, adjustable difficulty settings including increasing or decreasing the enemy encounter rate from 200% to 0% of the normal rate, difficulty levels that can be adjusted at any given point, and the option to turn off gains from post battle spoils (if in case you’re getting over leveled or something). As for the game itself, it has a job/magic system reminiscent of FFV, FFs I-III’s multi hits system (instead of an ATB or ATB substitute), and a refined version of Four Heroes of Light’s AP system where instead of having to stock up action points to do anything, you start on 0 (normally) in a scale from -4 to +3 where you need to be at 0 or higher to act, you can spend up to 4 of these points to take up to four actions in one go (if in case you need to perform a multistage procedure like ‘reviving/healing a fallen ally’ combo without the crapshoot of enemies acting in between steps making you waste turns and resources) or you can opt to defend to save up an extra point on the meter.

The plot is so far very reminiscent of 4HoL except with less splitting up the gang and turning into cats and more one note personality quirks. I’ll get back to this once I get further into the game.

Music ranges from serviceable to great, and Graphics are kinda reminiscent of SaGa Frontier 2’s or Legend of Mana’s.

#735

I’m pretty sure Bravely Default is Square-Enix’s attempt to continue making new “Old-School” RPGs under a different IP than Final Fantasy. Since FF is now way deviant from how it used to be, and all the recent old-school Final Fantasy attempts have been not-too-well-received (FF4: The After Years, FF Dimensions, FF: The Four Heroes of Light). Bravely Default is all-but an old-school FF game under a different name.

#736

I am currently playing Twitch Plays Pokemon.

#737

I stopped watching this around the time they finished the ghost tower, what happened since then?

#738

They’ve sine beaten Sabrina. Sounds like first try too. Debate raging over to use the Master Ball on Zapdos or Snorlax.

#739

They managed to use it on Zapados. I was there for the tree man… it was incredible lol. But there was this rumor that the guy running it had hacked the rom so that the safari zone gave you unlimited steps for one payment. The fear was that they would never, ever get through the safari zone and be unable to proceed due to the limited funds in the game. But, a democracy/anarchy meter has been installed with employs some kind of voting system to determine at what rate the input is accepted. The democracy/anarchy system apparently was the solution, not a hack, so they managed to get Strength and Surf without bankrupting the game. Victory road is what everybody has been really afraid of because of all the pushing of rocks.

This is probably one of the coolest most interesting things I’ve ever seen on the internet.

#740

The collaboration on this is just so massive and awesome. I heard about it last week and have stopped in a few times to watch; what’s been accomplished by 10k+ people on at once all inputting commands has completely blown my expectations out of the water!

Also, I just started playing in the Rust Alpha on Steam – really interesting game that reminds me of Minecraft/Left4Dead/Fallout.

#741

I’ve been playing Super Hexagon… three minutes a time. Tried to emulate FF9 on a lark but it wouldn’t run (I think I was on ePSXe).

#742

Getting back to this. After a decent to solid first half, the second half of Bravely Default is really sucking the life out of this game. Even under a different brand, Squeenix still loves its faux science fiction and the last thing any RPG needed was to replicate Haruhi’s Endless Eight. At least one can still level jobs and stuffs, but the game would’ve best ended by Chapter 4 or with a solid concluding Chapter 5.

The one thing FFs V and Tactics had going for them was that you really couldn’t grind out all 20+ jobs in one playthrough without putting serious effort into it, leading to replaying the game just to try out the other jobs after the first sudo-optimal playthrough. But within the space of Chapter 5 alone, I’ve gone from partially raising 6+ jobs per character, to maxing 4+ jobs. At the rate I’m going, I will probably have 10+ jobs mastered by the start of Chapter 7 and 20+ (out of 24) by the endgame, all without going out of my way to grind.

#743

Finished Bravely Default a few weeks ago and I actually enjoyed all the chapters, although I will agree that chapter 6 felt weak and they could have added more stuff/different stuff on 5 and 6.

I maxed out all the jobs easily, but even then some boss fights threw me a good challenge. I must have clocked near 80 hours on it and have not regretted it.

Currently playing Etrian Odyssey Millenium Girl, probably will get New Yoshi Island after.

#744

Yeah, Chapter 7 really caught me by surprise just by how different it was from Chapters 5 & 6. They really wasted the multiverse thing they had going on with the game.

Anyways, I’ve decided to give FFX a second go around to try to complete it this time. So far I’m up to Guadosalam.

#745

Just started playing Blizzard’s Hearthstone while [STRIKE]getting frustrated with[/STRIKE] taking a break from Chaos on Deponia! xD

Have to say though, for a company that dominated the strategy genre, they’ve made a pretty good TCG! :stuck_out_tongue:

#746

Dark Souls 2… bearer of the curse…

#747

Finally ended up finishing Chaos on Deponia a few weeks ago. That game is at its toughest in the middle; then it’s smooth sailing till the end (in my opinion). None-the-less I did like some of the jokes and the overall character personalities etc… The end did kind of annoy me though. Either way; can’t wait for Good Bye Deponia to go on Steam Sale! :stuck_out_tongue:

For now I’ve started Bioshock Infinite and I have to say I’m loving it heaps! :smiley: Bioshock 1 and 2 were pretty much prefect in every aspect and this game continues their legacy. Stunning visuals, immerse atmosphere and story. I also have to mention the character physics… it’s so realistic! :smiley: (maybe it’s just me being so used to DOS games… but I am so impressed!) Anyway; I’ve been playing it for over 15 hours now and enjoying every bit of it. Plus, the fact that you can’t manually save the game forces you to play in blocks, which is a good thing.

#748

Been playing Ace Attorney 5 and loving it so far.

#749

Half-Minute Hero: The Second Coming. Eh.

#750

I’ve been widdling away at The Witcher 2 for a while now. As soon as I get through this second play through I’m gonna start up the first while I wait for the next officially translated book and Witcher 3.

#751

Alternating between Gravity Rush, Persona 4 and FTL.

#752

Still loving Ace Attorney 5 and I finished Transistor , which has a rather interesting combat system.

#753

Been playing some Pushmo recently. No idea how to share QR codes though.