I’ve been playing Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, and the Suikoden vibe is completely there. I loved that game world, its mythos, the soft connections between the games. It contributed to the inspirational vibe, too....
More terrifying than any first-time dungeon: musical performances. And I used to do these IRL, some just with a piano accompaniment - and those were terrifying too.
Apparently fictional audiences bring back that feeling.
But it's done and I hope I don't have to repeat that again. I still remember my hideous performance during the "be a conductor" Starlight event...🙈
@beanjbunny Purple hair is amazing though, with or without a cry for help. But if you do need help, I do hope you manage to reach out and receive it (preferrably to a skilled professional, best equipped to help you) ❤️
Have to say, as much as I'm looking forward to #DawnTrail (starting an Ascian-free story, huzzah), I'm not sure how I feel about a neon-lit street in a fantasy setting.
The Allagans had advanced tech but in the distant past. The Garleans tried to harness it but imploded, due to...leadership issues.
"Solution Nine" is jarringly futuristic, considering my main is into magicks and swords.
@FibroJedi It makes patently no sense, but then again, a lot of genre conventions in other genres and series make no sense either — I personally read the contrast between high and modern fantasy as being quintessential to what Final Fantasy is, but that's again just me.
@FibroJedi (Notable partial exception here being FFXVI, which Yoshi-P said was intended to explicitly buck that trend. Even then, it winds up having ancient civilizations that follow the trend, and has plot points directly calling out the contradiction. To say more would be massively spoiler-y.)
After a fast and furious few months to start the year, the release schedule is starting to slow down a bit before it picks up again later in the year. We also have the expanded Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance and Trails through Daybreak on the horizon....
Why didn't anyone tell me Variant Dungeons were so fun in #FFXIV !? I'm hooked. This is like the perfect solo content for me since I can never find a group.
@mikey
Variants are fantastic! I did all of them solo, then when people finally took an interest I got to enjoy them with whatever size group was available. I'm excited to see more of them in Dawntrail! :blobcataww:
@mikey lol when I first picked a caster I was intimidated by it and went with BLM thinking it was easier, I was way wrong lol but now I like both. I also played the whole game as SCH not realizing SMN leveled with it.
I wish more games did stuff like #FinalFantasy Tactic's "Faith" stat. It's mostly a generic force multiplier for incoming magical healing/damage
But if your faith is 0, AKA your character does not trust/believe in the divine whatsoever...magic doesn't affect them. At all. Cannot be healed, or hurt by magic. Which is otherwise, by any other measure, completely real in this universe.
The game mechanic is kind of neat (though requires serious work to tinker with IIRC) but the lore implications are super cool.
Like the 'divine' is real (and, apparently, mostly evil) but it only hurts you if you think it will. But it's also not just psychosomatic/groupthink. You ACTUALLY die.
IDK if it's ever explained in lore but I wonder if atheist characters in the game's world actually see the effects of magic or not.
It's some real Bene Gesserit shit if you see this giant fucking dragon drop from the sky, breathe fire at you and you're just thinking "Fuck off summons aren't real. Fuck you. Nerd."
@xgranade Check if your rendering resolution is set to 100. If not, it will apply FSR/DLSS scaling (the setting can't be turned off so you'll see it next to the score but at 100% it won't have an effect).
It should be a resolution setting bug and not an issue with scaling, my screenshots are properly 2560x1080
@exec To be sure, it all works fine if I open Settings and then cancel. The problem only comes in if I run the benchmark without opening Settings at all.
When I make sure to open Settings, the screenshots are all 2160p as expected.
I think most of us play JRPG’s only once, often for the story as well. But are there games for you you already have played a few times and could start that any time?...
@mikey I started playing right at the end of the last one so I’m looking forward to it. It sounds like it’s not just a couple of fetch quests like other events?
