Dissidia 2 at TGS next week?

[Gobo]

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So I decided to DL this instead of getting the UMD when I realized I had more than enough space on my memory card. Yay for lower load times. Battery still gets eatin alive though.

Finished Lightning, Vaan's chapters and Kuja's report. Still hate playing as Kuja, but I do like how his VA changed his voice a bit. Sounds less fem. Kefka still takes the cake though. Man is he awesome. Need a voiced version of 6 now! Of the new characters, Vaan is my favorite to play as so far. The X-bow is so abuseable against the CPU (there is a vid of a level 30 Vaan beating the final Feral Chaos, the one with 126K HP. used mostly X-bow for damage.

I like the reports. Sure having a level 2 Kuja against a buffed up level 1, 2 and 4 characters kinda sucked, but you get really good practice at dodging and timing. Plus the story is great. You can beat it at level 1, it is just not easy XD.

I also don't mind not having assists during the story. I mean it makes sense if you are alone. Plus Fang does warn you if you read the help manual in the assist menu.

Also, Penelo's personal opinions of the playable characters are still great. Can't wait to read Prishe's and Gilgamesh's.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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I like the reports. Sure having a level 2 Kuja against a buffed up level 1, 2 and 4 characters kinda sucked, but you get really good practice at dodging and timing. Plus the story is great. You can beat it at level 1, it is just not easy XD.

It actually gets a lot worse than this in Story Mode. Its as though they want to force you to grind white portals or blow KP on breakables for a steroid boost. This is fine for endgame, but not for story mode. Too many jacked-up manikin fights in the story.

[Gobo]

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Ha Yuna can equip guns XD

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Well, I wrapped up the new main story, there's still quite a bit left to see in the via reports, some of which seem to bleed into flashbacks in the original scenario, such as a fight between Lightning and Squall.

Those that finish the story will be happy to know the first report that unlocks soon after pertains to Shantotto, Gabranth, Prishe, Bartz and Gilgamesh and, upon completion, you can unlock Prishe and Gilgamesh for play for 300 PP each.

I still loathe the games proclivity for making jacked-up manikin fights the norm and this even seems to be the case in Battle Mode. My main problem with this is the accessories needed to really even the odds in this regard are locked away in Accomplishments, meaning you have to grind away at those to avoid being constantly and unfairly pummeled by jacked-up manikins at every level of the game.

SE seemed to forget that at some point thatthis was a brawler just as much as an RPG, they went a little too heavy on the RPG this time. Gear, accessories and multipliers are too important this time.

I'm also not fond of the fact that you must replay each original story from the first game to see the new story bits. There is some incentive to do this and if you reset your levels manually here, you can pursue those incentives, but it would still be nice to jump to the new story bits since I've seen all this stuff.

They have reformatted the old parts of the game to the new overworld/dungeon style and that's good, but again the new features like Assists are, again, underutilized for the sake of story.

[Malacite]

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- _ - I went to pick up Dissidia today after a belated Birthday Celebratory Sushi Lunch, and apparently it's been delayed until Tuesday because of the shit in Japan.


Which makes no fucking sense since the game had to have been fished by last month and production is done in the fucking U.S. but whatever.

[Nandito]

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My god, I am LOVING Laguna's game play. I love endless-barrage-type characters, and Laguna with his missle, grenade, and bullet spam is incredible. Can't wait to unlock more of his moves~ After playing Lighting's story, what a relief. She was bland.


just like FFXIII~

[TheGrandMom]

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Not really on topic but its at least related to the game...

The limited edition of the Dissidia 012 soundtrack isn't worth it over the standard edition so save the extra $. The LE has a DVD with trailers from both games done to music from 012. No subs no voice, just stuff you've seen before done to just music this time. It's 23 mins long and nothing worth the extra $.

...carry on...

[Gobo]

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Also not really on topic but related to the game:

TMG, that is a very creepy MLP avatar.

On topic. Fighting a Vaan Manikin in Kain's story. Aimed Gungnir perfectly down Crossbow's stream. Blocked all the bolts and smacked the fake pretty boy in the face.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Got around to tinkering with Prishe, she's my second favorite of the new characters but I really have to wait to expand on her since she doesn't a proper story mode and I'll have to get her some Rosetta Stones through another character.

Party Battle is a good way to get some of your underleveled characters off the ground, but while non-actives get EXP for the leader's fight, they don't get AP. Labyrinth Mode is its own special beast - its based off Duel Colosseum, but you can only use gear you find inside there and you can only take out specific gear into the main game by meeting certain conditions.

The game really seems to have a hard-on for accessory usage this time and once I got around to Terra's story again, I felt I had gotten a decent spread to start exploiting multipliers with. I still feel the curve on obtaining accessories is far too steep, though.

[Gobo]

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I HATE PLAYING AS LAGUNA. God his last fight sucked in Chapter 8. He wasn't even underleveled (he was 24, it was 22), I just suck playing as him. Yuna though lol, Energy Ray spam. Boring, but painless. Story was lame, ending was pretty at least.

Playing out Shantotto vs Gabranth's fight HA!. level 87 Shantotto vs a level 10 Gabranth. Stun chaining to Tornado was an absolute riot.

Blew all my PP on unlocking Prishe, Gilgamesh, Omega stages and non story stages. Now I have none left for the 000 story. Hopefully playing through the 13th cycle will fix that.

And yes, I messed up my first ExBurst with Prishe. The input timing caught me off guard.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Yeah Prishe's EX is tricky at first but you just input the first button you see and go clockwise four more times from there, bringing you back to where you started.

Miss the first one and you're screwed.

Laguna's last fight had him up against a really boosted Cloud of Darkness, so yeah, its rather frustrating. I still like him better because he has the sort of ranged game I wished others had. I guess I should give Ultimecia a spin again to see if she got any better.

I haven't really done much with Gilgamesh, but damn he moves slow. He makes Golbez look like The Flash.

Also:

Vaan is my favorite to play as so far. The X-bow is so abuseable against the CPU (there is a vid of a level 30 Vaan beating the final Feral Chaos, the one with 126K HP. used mostly X-bow for damage.

He might have been playing with the custom rules to get away with it.

[Gobo]

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He might have been playing with the custom rules to get away with it.

He was using accessories that gave boosts depending on the level gap. I saw some in my run through 012. They were like more than a gap of 80, x8 or something absurd like that. His Vaan had like x50 or something. Which is good because that Feral Chaos gains 99.9 after 90 seconds.

[Gobo]

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I noticed an Easter Egg in the original games stories. The first gil treasure chest you can pickup for each character has an amount of gil equal to the original JP release year of the game.

[Gobo]

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More 4th costumes have been revealed.

Sephy gets his Kingdom Hearts outfit

Laguna gets his Knight Armor from his "movie"

Those will be released on the JPN PSN next week.

This week Zidane and Kuja's costumes are being released as well as a 3 song pack of XIV music for Dissidia.

[Malacite]

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Laguna gets his Knight Armor from his "movie"

Epic. Now they just need to give Shantotto the Goetia set.