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Post by Nick on Apr 19, 2016 7:44:08 GMT -5
We are finally going to begin the "Year of the Dragon" theme thing?
This series is actually one of my personal favorites and I must have played the first installment through at least 30 times growing up.
I haven't played it in years though and I wonder how much of it I'll remember as I go through.
I do remember grinding the second dungeon for gold to purchase the unique armor from that shop in the third town.
I don't know if I'm going to waste my time on that this time lol
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Post by kujo on Apr 19, 2016 17:49:25 GMT -5
I played this once a long time ago and I vaguely remember it. I do remember enjoying it though. I will have to watch some youtube videos to jog my old man memory.
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Post by Nick on Apr 20, 2016 8:47:22 GMT -5
It is definitely an old school RPG and they actually re-released it on GBA. I did some research and apparently the GBA version has a few differences: a brighter color palette, they fix Karn's skin tone, and they made the game significantly easier.
I will be playing the SNES version lol
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Post by Brent on Apr 21, 2016 18:51:54 GMT -5
Since I've been on vacation this week. I managed to get in quite a bit of time in already. While its the kind of game we built the premise of the show on, it feels like its been forever since we have played a "typical" rpg.
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Post by Nick on Apr 22, 2016 8:15:19 GMT -5
Since I've been on vacation this week. I managed to get in quite a bit of time in already. While its the kind of game we built the premise of the show on, it feels like its been forever since we have played a "typical" rpg. Sweet! Have you got Bo yet? |
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Post by Brent on Apr 29, 2016 8:56:06 GMT -5
I got him last night some time. I played a bunch last night. Im currently in the midst of the Robot stuff.
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Post by kujo on Apr 30, 2016 21:47:16 GMT -5
I've been watching a play on you tube since I do not have time to play it through. I am at the part where you get Karn. It seems like it is a lot of go to town you need item to get to the next town. Rinse. Repeat. I remember playing this though a long time ago and being pissed that the boomerang was the best weapon for a long time because I wanted a sword lol. And how did the Robot all of a sudden get sentient and then decide to kill himself?
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Post by Nick on May 1, 2016 13:52:33 GMT -5
I've played this so much growing up, but I don't remember if the Robot was already sentient.
IMO weapons that hit a whole group of enemies are superior to the single target weapons though.
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Post by kujo on May 2, 2016 15:31:31 GMT -5
The sword is cooler though. You have other characters to hit the whole group.
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Post by Nick on May 2, 2016 15:41:16 GMT -5
I agree, it is cooler.
But you maximize DPS when you can hit multiple enemies with one attack!
I will try to switch out the rang for the sword when I know a boss is coming though, but that can be hard to do as that requires knowledge of what's coming or following a walkthrough.
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Post by kujo on May 2, 2016 21:53:16 GMT -5
Fusions! I totally forgot about them did you guys find any of them yet?
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Post by Nick on May 3, 2016 7:53:47 GMT -5
Nah I haven't even gotten Mr. Roboto yet lol
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Post by kujo on May 6, 2016 22:59:53 GMT -5
Where are you guys at right now? I just finished watching the youtube run. It helps to be able to fast forward through all the dungeon crawling  . It seems like it got more interesting once you got more of your party. For the time it seems like it was pretty good. But I do not think I could make it through this game now. Kudos to you guys on this. It was hard for me to watch this at times lol. It is probably more interesting when you are playing it though right?...right? Way to much grinding through dungeons and fetching items without much of a reward story wise. I guess that was how things were back then though. And a boomerang for the main character was weak in my opinion  If you want to be able to attack all just give the character a move that hits them all so you can keep the bad ass sword at all times lol. Another thing that seemed annoying to me was the item menu was really unorganized and seemed to take whoever was playing a while to navigate it at times(thank god for fast forward). |
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Post by kujo on May 6, 2016 23:02:43 GMT -5
I think the game was great for its time and things are cliché now when they were original then. But man RPGs have come a long way since then.
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Post by Nick on May 9, 2016 9:29:54 GMT -5
It's one of my favorite games of all time lol
I did forgot how god awful the encounter rate was though.
The item menu has an option for you to organize your things, so it's never been a problem for me.
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Post by kujo on May 9, 2016 22:31:17 GMT -5
I'm sure it is more fun to play than it is to watch but it seemed like you had to back track way to much.
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Post by Menthion on May 10, 2016 5:18:08 GMT -5
I know I played 2 and four in the series. If you should rank them individually, how would you rank them?
If I remeber correctly, the storyline in 4 was quite special and well, unique.
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Post by Nick on May 10, 2016 10:44:37 GMT -5
I'm sure it is more fun to play than it is to watch but it seemed like you had to back track way to much. I didn't mind it, I felt like it was a good way to reuse areas and save on asset development. @ Ment: Hmmmm 4 > 3 > 2 > 1 >>>>>>>>>>> 5 lol |
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Post by Menthion on May 10, 2016 10:58:49 GMT -5
Oh, it all leads down to five as the greatest then, ok! Lol
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Post by Nick on May 10, 2016 14:38:33 GMT -5
Oh God no.
Alligator ( > ) eats the better things.
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Post by Menthion on May 10, 2016 15:14:17 GMT -5
Haha, calm down Nick, I heard you on the pod and all about your love for the fifth part that is not a BoF as far as I heard it from you.
Had to mess some with you on it only.
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Post by kujo on May 10, 2016 17:26:25 GMT -5
I think Breath of fire 3 was my favorite I loved Rei. I remember I rented it a bunch of times and wound up annoying my dad by saying "doesn't that beat all" too much after playing it for awhile.
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Post by Menthion on May 11, 2016 7:38:59 GMT -5
Was it the third BoF that you found different dragonforms in big chunks of crystal or somesuch??
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Post by Nick on May 11, 2016 9:00:32 GMT -5
I think Breath of fire 3 was my favorite I loved Rei. I remember I rented it a bunch of times and wound up annoying my dad by saying "doesn't that beat all" too much after playing it for awhile. Rei is great! My favorite character for sure. |
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Post by Nick on May 11, 2016 9:00:58 GMT -5
Was it the third BoF that you found different dragonforms in big chunks of crystal or somesuch?? Yeah, pretty sure it is. You start the game being birthed from a crystal so it sounds about right. |
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Post by Menthion on May 11, 2016 9:08:17 GMT -5
I never saw that one from the start, only bits and pieces that a friend of mine played. I am thinking maybe I should skip 1 & 5 and play the third, then I got 2,3,4 atleast done haha.
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Post by Nick on May 12, 2016 8:09:42 GMT -5
I know we need people to play 4 and 5 with us and talk about it on the show >_>
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Post by Menthion on May 12, 2016 12:41:25 GMT -5
Yeah.... From the reactions you have given there Nick, I would have to say that 5 feels very.... Hmmm... Interesting... Or not haha. Depending on the time we can fit it in, and if I can get an emulator working, I might at least be interested in 4! Would be fun to revisit that. My english aint top notch, but I can always work it out on some skirmitars! Lol (thinking of the iron armada ) |
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Post by kujo on May 16, 2016 19:55:52 GMT -5
Great episode guys! Still think the boomerang is a dumb weapon and if they wanted to give you a group attack just give you a ability that does so.
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. It seems like it got more interesting once you got more of your party. For the time it seems like it was pretty good. But I do not think I could make it through this game now. Kudos to you guys on this. It was hard for me to watch this at times lol. It is probably more interesting when you are playing it though right?...right?
If you want to be able to attack all just give the character a move that hits them all so you can keep the bad ass sword at all times lol. 