What games are you currently playing?

[Ketaru]

Re: What games are you currently playing?

As I'm reaching the tail end of Final Fantasy Dimensions, I just started Dust: An Elysian Tail. I LOVE this soundtrack!

[Malacite]

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Alright, I'm only 3 trophies way from my Platinum in Last of Us - just need the 2 stupid MP ones and all the Firefly pendants.

[Yellow Mage]

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As I'm reaching the tail end of Final Fantasy Dimensions, I just started Dust: An Elysian Tail.

[Ketaru]

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Unintentional actually. I kind of want to restart the game now that I know how play it better and know what to expect regarding job progression. But, in true J-RPG spirit, Final Fantasy Dimensions is a time commitment. I'm at about 45 hours on it and I believe I still have about 5 more to go, not even including post-game content like superbosses.

The game is padded with random encounters, though. I swear, in some instances, you can't take 4 steps without getting into another one.

[Malacite]

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Sounds like FF9 :/

The dungeons were AWFUL for fights in 9.

[Firewind]

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That is one thing I hated about the DS version of FFIV. You got a random encounter every two steps and so ended up so powerful you didn't even need to exploit the broken as hell augment system to breeze through the game. It just took bloody ages because the encounter rate added a massive amount of fake longevity to a game, something that I hate due to how much of a cop out it is when it comes to game design.

[cidbahamut]

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I don't think there's anything out there that can beat Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled for excessive random encounters. The encounter rate in that game was enough to make me give up on what could otherwise have been an interesting game.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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FFIX, Skies of Arcadia and I'd say the last stretch of Digital Devil Saga and all of Digital Devil Saga 2 have encounter rates that almost made me want to throw a controller

[Malacite]

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Oh lord I forgot about the encounter rate in SoA... now that you remind me of it yes, it was like every 3~4 steps WOOSH!!!

[Firewind]

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Two words: Suikoden IV.

Well the encounter rate in Suikoden V was stupidly high too but at least that game has Fast Travel.

[Nandito]

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I thought Fallout 3 on consoles was fun; I cannot believe the blast I'm having with it on PC. Got me some HD audio, texture packs, even this Fallout Wanderer's Edition mod that makes even encounters with Raiders fun.

One of the interesting things is the ability to breach locks with explosives. Having a low explosive skill and luck, opening that damned Very Hard Model House was not easy. I ended up quicksaving and resorting to using a mini-nuke. The blast shook the whole damn house, and the HD audio pack almost blew my speakers... but in the end, my reward was 3 bobby pins and some pre-war money. Ha.

[Icemage]

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Splitting time between The Last of Us (PS3), Hotline Miami (PS Vita), and just picked up Muramasa: Rebirth (PS Vita). My backlog am cry.


Icemage

[Malacite]

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I can't wait for Xillia to come out ><


One more month... wish my PS3's component wasn't faulty. Really pissing me off since I can't use my damn LGP to record off it. The stupid thing is, when I tested it, it actually recorded my PS3's dashboard video just fine - even though all I could see at the time on my TV was a black screen.

[Ketaru]

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Finished Final Fantasy Dimensions. Total time: 57 hr 15 min

[Armando]

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FFIX, Skies of Arcadia and I'd say the last stretch of Digital Devil Saga and all of Digital Devil Saga 2 have encounter rates that almost made me want to throw a controller

The worst offender for me was FFXII. In a vacuum the encounter rate wasn't terrible, but combined with the duration of fights, downtime, and the inability to flee on a whim, progress was painfully slow.

When I started a new game using a couple of exploits to get to level 20 within the first 3 hours, by the time I was 7 or 8 hours in I had already passed my original save file of 20 hours. It's amazing how short the dungeons are when you're invulnerable.