/vr/ - Retro Games

>Also, Final Fantasy thread

In my current replay of FF8, I finally managed to abolish Random around the world.

Well, except the Lunar rules. Boy, will be getting Alexander and Laguna be fun.

What about CV and Zero?

I remember hating the Parsley Woods boss. And the one in that Lava Canyon world.

>>543942
The SwanCrystal still displays in color, doesn't it? Hard to make out on your image.

Had no idea that some people dislike FTTA,. My impression was a general positive reception.

FFT kinda slipped by me over all those years (never released where I live). The story seems interesting.


I do own TTA. But I could never get into it. One problem I had that I remember was that stores wouldn't show you how a piece of equipment would change a character's stat.

>>522838
Yes. I believe so.

>>522804
I have played that up to the map where you have to wait 5 minutes. I mean, maps that are not you enclosed in a room that is just double the dimensions of the player.

Do you think it's possible to make interesting maps with even smaller restrictions than those of Congestion 1024? Like 512?

>>491873
I didn't until I looked it up again. I have so much to do that, when it comes to cards and magazines, I'm not above using guides. Or rather FF wikia entries.

She is technically part of a sidequest: the artist who creates some of the rare cards sits next to her talking about how he thinks his grandson doesn't like him after said one had painted a cartoon bone into his recent painting. You have to go to the location shown in the painting, where you will find a dog. Examine him to get a little something, which will be a better one if you do this on disc 3. I don't know whether it's the same dog you can shoo away when X-ATM pursues you during the assault on Dollet.

All this talk about FF8 made me start a new game in over 9 years or so.

Holy shit, I'm having more fun than expected.

This time, I'm having the set goal to get a complete card set by disc 3.

Another goal is to not use any of the ability items on GFs. I appreciate the opportunity for customization, but I'm too anal about those things until I have all GF's or at least see what they all would learn (without guides).

>>489198
>Why for crying out loud does the bar owner in Dollet own the Siren card? That's a bit of an arbitrary decisi-
>His diary in his private room mentions how his wife drowned at see 5 years ago
>his daughter is sitting at the beach griefing over her mother

Oh dear.

And I never knew you could play without rule mixing.

>>490114
Thank you.

>>490127
>Can't play Unloved with Dynamic Light because no ATI optimization on GZDoom

>>489912
What wad is this? Makes me wish the screenshots would add that info to the filename automatically.

If it was supposed to be a dungeon, then the description of the Zeal people of it being a palace (they did describe it like that, didn't they?) makes more sense. The way it ended up in the game If found the name "Palace" misleading.

>>456485
>All the frustration he felt with it was justified. If he'd gotten a bit further though I think he would've been surprised by the changes Lester goes through.

That's why it's among my worst episodes from him. It's just really shoddy research.

And while the episodes featuring some costumed character are usually rather weak, I thought the Game Glitch one was alright. The gremlin was played by another guy, who is definitely better at acting that Matei.

>>456518
As I said, some I just think are "worst" for very singular reasons, so they might not actually belong on there.

For Dick Tracy it was this overly emotional freakout that just felt out of place.

For Milon's Secret Castle it was that he never mentioned whether some gameplay stuff like the continue code were in the manual or not.

>>456314
It should have been "no one would care about anymore", or "are not relevant anymore".

I was more referring to some of his arguments and opinions. Although, embarrassingly and bizarrely, I can't think of any right now that I was bothered with the most. But I admit that a lot of his points probably have a truth to them.

Anyway, the episodes I consider the worst (opinions obviously may vary, I admit that some are on here because of pretty singular reasons):

Wizard of OZ
Super Mario Bros. 3
Dick Tracy (was that freakout at the end a movie reference that went over my head?)
Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle
Milon's Secret Castle (are the complaints he has made somewhat addressed in the game's manual?)
Lester The Unlikely
R.O.B. The Robot

And where he was at his most finest:
SwordQuest
DoubleVision

Generally, his console reviews are a notch above the usual.

I have been more or less going through all the episodes. I noticed that I find it really hard to determine where the nerd ends and James Rolfe begins. They blend in too much, and thus I find it hard to not take some of the more ridiculous statements at face value, like he actually means what he says.

I mean, according to him the whole joke is (or was) that the nerd complains about video games no one would care about. As the Internet has shown, many people still care about them, which I don't think is only because of him.

>>450425
>when the random rule is in effect
Because you get weak cards (if your collection is of a decent size) while the CPU ends up with strong ones?

I took that as the NPC character just having a small set of cards. Which is why random is the bane of every collector.