Re: Memoirs of a PAL RPG gamer. (News/releases/etc) (2 years ago)

Unpleasable Fanbase 8D

Honestly, I don't pay much attention to that anymore. Large, popular series tend to suffer from this the most, it just seems to be a part of it. But every now and then, somewhere between the neverending complaints you'll find a good point, so it's not all bad...

Re: The Shin Megami Tensei Topic (2 years ago)

I was randomly googling for any possible new Persona 5 info and I found something, but nobody seems to be sure what this could be from (haven't seen this here yet, hope I didn't overlook it). An artbook was released late last year which contains Soejima Shigenori's artworks between 2004-2010. You can check some of it here (I don't think any spoilers are shown, but I obviously can't say for the art of the games I didn't play).

The thing is, there are two artworks that nobody seems to know about where they came from (unlike all the other art, no game is mentioned in the tags);




There are rumors going around this could be art for Persona 5, but it could just as easily be scrapped concept art or simply art for another upcoming game. Some people have pointed out the mask in these images is quite typical for a Persona game, which I agree with. Of course, this doesn't have to mean anything, but it seems interesting enough.

Does anyone here recognise this art from anywhere, by any chance?
(Say no, say no... then we can hope for it being P5 art! xD)

Re: What game are you playing? (2 years ago)

Still playing Little Big Planet 2. I'm done with the story mode now, so I figured I might as well check out some community levels. And I have to say; I really regret... not having done so sooner! Some of the stuff people do with their custom levels is just genius. And there are so many of them too! This is one of those things that I'm probably going to spend lots of time on. And whenever I've got nothing else to play, this is always something I can come back to and see what's new. :]

Re: Memoirs of a PAL RPG gamer. (News/releases/etc) (2 years ago)

I don't care all that much for his designs myself. When I saw those DQVI character designs, I immediately recognised the same style from Chrono Trigger. If there's one thing in that game I didn't like, it's how the characters were drawn. Not like it matters, you see them as SNES sprites almost the entire game anyway.
And while on the subject; I've never been a fan of Amano's Final Fantasy character illustrations either. Which again doesn't matter, because the characters' appearance in the games is nothing like that style.

Hm, I seem to be out of RPG juice lately. There's nothing on my must-buy list in the near future as far as RPGs go (unless I get a PSP soon). I should take a look at my games one of these days and see if there's one I'd like to replay. (Vagrant Story!... maybe later, lol)

Re: Memoirs of a PAL RPG gamer. (News/releases/etc) (2 years ago)

That's why I usually keep my team together in the earlier parts of the game. I never feel as confident about splitting up my team as Mitsuru does. =S

I've been watching a P3P "perfect playthrough" of FemaleMC's route on YouTube for months now (it gets infrequently updated, but I tend to check it every day). The game still looks as fun as I remember it. Once I get a PSP, I'll probably get P3P as well.

I've always liked the "homecoming" moments in P3; every time you return to the dorm someone greets you as that... erm, "comfy" dorm theme starts playing. This hasn't changed in P3P at all, it still has the same effect on me. I do think in the PS2 version the dorm looks a bit empty, especially in the hallways. P3P's visual style seems to camouflage this a bit, it's less noticeable. So that's a plus imo.

(Can't help with the Mass Effect question, haven't played those games myself)

Re: Memoirs of a PAL RPG gamer. (News/releases/etc) (2 years ago)

Heh, even after maxing out everyone's Crystarium grid, I still hit the 999,999 CP limit in my final save... with all of my characters. This can be entirely blamed on the Treasure Hunter trophy. While farming sellable items to get the needed Gil, you're sure to hit the CP limit many, many hours before unlocking this abominable trophy.

I reached a point where farming Platinum Ingots began to piss me off. After an hour of not getting the random drop, I shouted something like "Give me the DAMN item, you miserable <censored>!!!" That's one of those things that can really grate on my nerves in RPGs; rare random drops that you wanna have and never seem to pop up. You test my sanity, Rare Pickup Game. Luckily I'm already cr@zy, so it's all good.

Re: "Online Saving" on the way? (2 years ago)

I know for certain FFXIII's savedata isn't locked. I should know, because I've made backups of my FFXIII saves several times (wouldn't want to lose 100+ hours of time spent on my ĂĽbersaves). I always dread the moment when I try backing up savedata of a PS3 game for the first time; will the "locked savedata, cannot copy" message appear or not...? =|
Can you believe I went more than a year without backing up any of my PS3 gamesaves? What was I thinking.....

Re: Help with TV (2 years ago)

^ Very useful info. I'm planning to buy a new TV myself, but I'm not too sure what exactly to get either.

I've got an LCD TV right now and the whole contrast/colors thing has become a major issue for me. I've got 3 different positions from which you can watch TV in my room (of which 2 also for gaming) and the way the screen looks brighter/darker from different angles bugs the hell out of me.

So now I'm looking for a Plasma TV, but... I don't actually have much space in my room for the TV itself, so it can't be too big. A 40 inch TV would just barely fit, I can't go bigger than that. Would getting a 37 inch Plasma be a bad idea? It would be the most ideal as far as size goes, but I'm not too sure about the rest.
I don't suppose anything can be done about that anymore? With my current TV I've especially noticed that my old PS2 games look considerably muddier, some to the point where it kinda hurts my eyes. I haven't been playing my older games much anymore because of this, it gets rather hard on the eyes at times. =/

Re: Which was the last game you finished? (2 years ago)

Indigo Prophecy (aka Fahrenheit, as it's called here) starts in a great way, but if you think Heavy Rain's ending had too many unexplained events, Indigo Prophecy does this even more so. Actually, that game just seems to fall apart towards the end (imo). A bit rushed, perhaps? I was worried Heavy Rain would do the same thing, but I think it concludes everything in a much more satisfying way.

Heavy Rain doesn't have a "true" ending, btw. It does have quite a few different outcomes, though. If I'm not mistaken, there's actually a trophy for seeing all the different endings (not like I needed any motivation to get those, lol).

Re: Which was the last game you finished? (2 years ago)

I've just finished Little Big Planet 2's story mode. Given that this isn't the kind of game I normally get (it came with my new PS3) and I still had quite a bit of fun, it's a pretty good game.

The gameplay caught me by surprise, as new gameplay elements are introduced in each world (one world in particular almost felt like a different game in itself). The boss fights were kind of a hit 'n miss thing; some were just fine, while a few others were very easy.
On a sidenote, I think the first boss in the game has the best boss theme. That doesn't happen often... xD

Not sure what I'll do next in LBP2, but I do know I won't be going for the Platinum trophy this time (I've seen a few trophies that I really can't be bothered with).

Re: Having Trouble :/ (2 years ago)

From my own experience with this, the problem with not actually knowing what you're doing -and just typing what the tutorial tells you- would be that as soon as you need to do one little change that isn't word-for-word spelled out, there's a good chance you'll make a mistake. And once you make a tiny mistake and don't even know why it's a mistake, you're not gonna notice it that easily. That's when you start rereading the tutorial over and over again until you figured out what people who understand this sort of stuff would have noticed right away.

And that's how I spent several hours getting that game to work... but how happy I was when I finally got it working! :]

Re: Having Trouble :/ (2 years ago)

I think the option to change the keyboard language is in the... "control panel"? My PC is entirely in Dutch, so I don't know the English terms =/ (directly translated, it says "configuration screen" in Dutch). But I have Windows 7 and simply pressing LEFT ALT + SHIFT switches my keyboard language between Azerty and Qwerty.

DOSbox is a good way to play those older games IF you know how to use it. It's not very user-friendly to people who know nothing about DOS commands and whatnot (people like me, lol). I tried to get Chrono Master working with DOSbox and eventually succeeded, but not until I spent half a day going through all the DOSbox tutorials first and hardly knowing what I was doing. But I must say, those tutorials are well-written. I mean, I managed to do what seemed like mission impossible to me, so it's definitely worth a try.

Re: "Online Saving" on the way? (2 years ago)

I've been looking up more info about it and eventually I found this;
Luke was right, there doesn't seem to be any good reason why some savedata is locked, given that you can only use it on your own account anyway. Lame...

Re: "Online Saving" on the way? (2 years ago)

I thought Trophies were the main reason for this? If someone copies a savegame from his friend, then he might unlock some trophies which his friend already has.

From having switched to a different PS3, I have seen certain trophies will be instantly unlocked with old savedata. You see, when I reinstalled the 3 Prince of Persia games, all 3 of them glitched my trophy data resetting everything to 0%. I know this is a common problem and that by getting any trophy in the game, your trophy data will be restored. So while I did that;

PoP: Warrior Within; no trophies were unlocked when the game loaded my old savedata. I decided to quickly play through the prologue, which unlocked the first trophy in the game again (trophy data restored to 100%).

PoP: The Two Thrones; as soon as I started the game, the "get 10000 sand credits" trophy instantly unlocked, because I already had more than 10000 sand credits on my old savedata (trophy data restored to 100%).

So it seems if I were to let someone use my savedata, they'd get that 10000 sand credits trophy right away (I'm guessing such trophies as FFXIII's "max out the Crystarium grid" or Dead Nation's "collect all armor pieces" would work in the same way). And I assume that's why certain games have locked savedata. But as someone has said before, it would have been better if they locked the savedata to your PSN ID instead of locking it to your console. =|

Re: "Online Saving" on the way? (2 years ago)

It's good to see there will at least be an option to deal with the locked saves issue, though I don't have Playstation Plus either. On the other hand, if I'd have a lot of games with locked savedata in the future and this will be the only way to make backups, then I'd probably go for it anyway. Just imagine if a 100+ hours RPG comes out with locked savedata. If I have to choose between getting Playstation Plus and losing that much hours put into a game... that wouldn't be much of a choice.

Having switched to a different PS3 myself now, I've lost savedata for 3 games since the data was locked. Well, it's only 3 games and none of them are overly long, so it could have been worse (and of course the trophy data isn't affected). Even so, if this ever needs to be done again, at least "online saving" will be an option then.

But I agree it would be better if you could make backups without having to, you know, pay for something which really should be a free feature available to everyone...

Re: Memoirs of a PAL RPG gamer. (News/releases/etc) (2 years ago)

^ Looks like a Picasso painting to me now. Where was that image at the very bottom with the black background from again? I can definitely see a blurred Tal-... on the left in that image, and the blurred spiraling green line seems to match the "F" as well. In the new image I see... nothing. I can't even read a single one of those words floating around in it...

Re: FFXIII-2 (2 years ago)

^ Oh, I'd love to see that happen. They did the same thing in Xenosaga, giving a few extras in XSII and XSIII if you had clear data from the previous episode. Now that they've mentioned the possibility, I hope they'll decide to include this feature in FFXIII-2 as well. ^^

Re: Memoirs of a PAL RPG gamer. (News/releases/etc) (2 years ago)

^ I'm not too sure about the "Yen" either, there does seem to be more behind it. =S
Lol, that puzzle got me curious. And since it was apparently solved already, I couldn't resist to... google for a possible answer. xD

It seems that the puzzle actually gives the url for the site you linked to (I got that info from this site).
Looks like you already had the solution. =p

Re: What game are you playing? (2 years ago)

I've started playing Little Big Planet 2 earlier today. Never having played the first game, I have to say this game seems to be rather... weird! Very weird, lol. And the first thing that happened when I started playing was *poing* a trophy for playing this game after 9 pm... uhm, nice. Well, I think the word I'm looking for to describe this game would be something like... fascinating. 8]

Re: Memoirs of a PAL RPG gamer. (News/releases/etc) (2 years ago)

^ I definitely see "2.2.2011" and I think I also see the word Yen to the right? My browser tab for that page also reads " :[P "... looks like a smiley face sticking its tongue out. o_Ă” Lol, I can't make any sense out of it. Anyone else...?

Re: PS3 Firmware 3.56 (2 years ago)

^ Same for me; 1 minute. I was beginning to think I only got 1/10th of the download or something... but yeah, I don't see any new features either. Kinda bugs me that it almost never says what exactly the update does. Ah well.

Re: FFXIII-2 (2 years ago)

^ There's a translation of Episode i on the net (right here). Credit to donovan515 for pointing it out.
There's also an Episode Zero (click), which is a prologue to FFXIII (spoilers included).

Re: Final Fantasy versus XIII (2 years ago)

^ Yep, it's good to see all this info being given to us now. For quite a while there was very little known about the game and I had no idea what to expect. But now I can say with certainty; this game looks awesome and I want it!

And I don't mind having to wait some more; they can take as long as needed to turn this into a well-polished, fun game. :]

Re: 2011 + 2012: The "Year of Retro Gaming" Project (2 years ago)

^ Yeah, I've been checking some stuff about it to refresh my memory and I have to say; for a NES game, the dialogue in Faxanadu is very solid. At least, NPCs actually have decent things to say. Usually in those older games if you talk to an NPC, they'll say stuff like "Nice weather today", "Watch out for enemies" or even "I am Error" ( ), but in Faxanadu they have more to say than just such short little phrases. That's definitely a plus.

Re: Memoirs of a PAL RPG gamer. (News/releases/etc) (2 years ago)

I personally like open endings (but I do like clear endings better, lol). I'm fine with some things being left to players' interpretation. Shadow Hearts: Covenant's ending is a fine example;
I don't even mind if a character's true fate is left out in the open. For this, I'll take an example from FFVII;
As long as they don't do something like;

*character A points gun at character B*
*they start struggling*
*screen fades away as shot is heard*
THE END! 8D

... as long as a story doesn't end like that, then yeah, I don't mind open endings.

Re: Memoirs of a PAL RPG gamer. (News/releases/etc) (2 years ago)

Lol, I remember that minigame too. Iirc doesn't your score carry over into New Game+, making it harder to beat the score each time? At least, I seem to remember I eventually reached a point where I couldn't break the record anymore because it had gotten too high (don't ask how many times I did a New Game+, I completely lost count).

Speaking of which, I really like the New Game+ option in RPGs. Usually they'll add some new stuff so that things won't become too easy, but easier than a regular playthrough. That's also what I prefer with such an option. I was kinda hoping FFX-2 was the beginning of New Game+ for all future FF games, but apparently not. Oh well.

And darn, I wanted to watch the YouTube vid, but I get a message "This video contains content of Sony Music Entertainment, which due to copyright issues has blocked this video in your country" (roughly translated from Dutch). Guess I won't be able to watch it at all... pfft! D:

Re: Memoirs of a PAL RPG gamer. (News/releases/etc) (2 years ago)

^ I've seen more people who totally hate the game than people who actually like it. I didn't expect to see this many other people here who liked the game, I'm usually in the minority about that whenever the game is discussed.

Yuna's change didn't bother me. I actually liked how her voice actor intentionally sounded more assertive this time. "You WILL take those words back!" Lol, I love the way how she says that.

Re: Memoirs of a PAL RPG gamer. (News/releases/etc) (2 years ago)

I've gone through that place twice (different playthroughs, of course). The boss at the very end of that dungeon plays quite an important part in the story. If anything, that character felt more like a proper villain in FFX-2... despite being completely optional, lol. I do remember it being véry hard and it's been so long since I've played the game that I remember nothing of how I made it through that place (actually, I don't remember anything of in-battle gameplay at all, other than the Dressphere system).

Ditto, and the same goes for some of the harder Dark Aeons. Maybe someday I'll fight them properly... someday far away. But I didn't have to pay him all my Gil. I first worked on maxing out my Yojimbo compatibility and eventually Yuna became best friends with him; I only had to pay him half of my fortune!... hey, for Yojimbo that's quite... friendly...
(I wonder what he spends all that money on)

Re: Memoirs of a PAL RPG gamer. (News/releases/etc) (2 years ago)

In PE1...? :O For me it was the exact opposite, I thought it was fairly tedious in PE2. Lol, to each their own.

But yeah, I loved PE1, while PE2 was only an "okay" game for me personally. I liked the battle system in the first game better. And the soundtrack. And the supporting characters. Well, basically everything. Not that I dislike PE2, but it just didn't leave much of an impression on me. The first game did. I guess that's why PE1 and PE2 feel quite different to me.

Re: Your newest purchase (2 years ago)

^ Because I haven't forgotten how that awesome clock bug only affected the older PS3 models. I assume this newer model will have a few more things fixed (things that nobody even knows about... yet). Of course, that could just be naive wishful thinking and who knows, maybe this new model has some unknown issues which the older models don't have.

But yeah, "cheaper" isn't my main concern. For me, "is it better?" comes first. I'm also very thrifty, so it's not like I just wasted money that I could have used for something else. This is easily still within my budget. ^^