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Title: Will I like Lost Odyssey?
Post by: GilloD on February 20, 2009, 03:16:08 PM: Buy it now on Ebay for 20 bucks. Will I like it? I also just got Last remenenat for 16 bucks
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Post by: demi on February 20, 2009, 03:18:49 PM: Yes it's awsome A+
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Post by: GilloD on February 20, 2009, 03:20:28 PM: Boughted.
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Post by: siamesedreamer on February 20, 2009, 03:27:25 PM: Yeah dude its really good.
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Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 20, 2009, 03:30:15 PM: If you like FFX then yes
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Post by: Darunia on February 20, 2009, 03:50:47 PM: yes you will it is rad
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Post by: G The Resurrected on February 20, 2009, 03:53:25 PM: Still sitting in my backlog damn i gotta get to it.
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Post by: Bebpo on February 20, 2009, 04:04:53 PM: It's good and 50x better now that you can install it.
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Post by: Third on February 20, 2009, 04:15:12 PM: Yep, still the best next-gen RPG.
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Post by: tiesto on February 20, 2009, 04:19:47 PM: I had a lot of fun with it, definitely recommended.
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Post by: Human Snorenado on February 20, 2009, 05:29:06 PM: It's pretty awesome through about the middle of the 3rd disc, then it becomes kind of a chore. It's definitely worth getting at about $20, tho.
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Post by: Third on February 21, 2009, 12:08:32 PM: Quote from: a slime appears on February 21, 2009, 12:04:49 PM
I need to beat Blue Dragon first before I can play this one. :'(

Throw Blue Dragon away and begin with LO.

BD is horrible.
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Post by: siamesedreamer on February 21, 2009, 12:13:16 PM: Quote from: The Card Cheat on February 20, 2009, 05:29:06 PM
It's pretty awesome through about the middle of the 3rd disc, then it becomes kind of a chore.

Agreed. Up to that point its arguably my favorite game this gen. The pacing is awesome. I've still yet to beat it though.

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got bored having to level up to beat the boss battle with the five dragon things attacking Numara
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on February 21, 2009, 12:33:53 PM: the maudlin plot is so damn teenboy cheesy, though

LIIIIRRRAAAAAAAM made me lol so hard
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Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 21, 2009, 01:15:17 PM: Quote from: siamesedreamer on February 21, 2009, 12:13:16 PM
Quote from: The Card Cheat on February 20, 2009, 05:29:06 PM
It's pretty awesome through about the middle of the 3rd disc, then it becomes kind of a chore.

Agreed. Up to that point its arguably my favorite game this gen. The pacing is awesome. I've still yet to beat it though.

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got bored having to level up to beat the boss battle with the five dragon things attacking Numara
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wtf, those guys were pussy
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Post by: dammitmattt on February 21, 2009, 02:44:50 PM: Quote from: siamesedreamer on February 21, 2009, 12:13:16 PM
Quote from: The Card Cheat on February 20, 2009, 05:29:06 PM
It's pretty awesome through about the middle of the 3rd disc, then it becomes kind of a chore.

Agreed. Up to that point its arguably my favorite game this gen. The pacing is awesome. I've still yet to beat it though.

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got bored having to level up to beat the boss battle with the five dragon things attacking Numara
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The only leveling required was for optional stuff.
Title: Re: Will I like Lost Odyssey?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on February 21, 2009, 02:52:18 PM: I like Sakaguchi's blog
http://www.mistwalkercorp.com/en/column_eng/pg102.html (there's a cute dog!)
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Post by: Vrolokus on February 21, 2009, 03:30:38 PM: Excellent game. I hear Vesperia is a better JRPG, but it's still in my backlog.
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Post by: siamesedreamer on February 21, 2009, 03:35:20 PM: Quote from: AdmiralViscen on February 21, 2009, 01:15:17 PM
Quote from: siamesedreamer on February 21, 2009, 12:13:16 PM
Quote from: The Card Cheat on February 20, 2009, 05:29:06 PM
It's pretty awesome through about the middle of the 3rd disc, then it becomes kind of a chore.

Agreed. Up to that point its arguably my favorite game this gen. The pacing is awesome. I've still yet to beat it though.

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got bored having to level up to beat the boss battle with the five dragon things attacking Numara
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wtf, those guys were pussy

Those guys are slaughtering me. What do I need to do? The hard part has been having to immediately shuffle between the five of them without being able to fully heal. So, I kill like two or three of them and then get my ass whooped.
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Post by: demi on February 21, 2009, 03:41:12 PM: Put them to sleep and they never wake up - if they're asleep you can escape and they will stand still while you can go put the others to sleep, then you can take them one at a time at your leisure
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Post by: Third on February 21, 2009, 04:12:36 PM: The gamble spell is the best magic spell in the game imo.
I've beat those monsters on my first try. But I was overpowered anyway.
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Post by: pilonv1 on February 21, 2009, 06:18:27 PM: yeah gamble was awesome. those dinosaur things attacking numara were easy to take down if you just used the highest element spell against them (ie flarus for water).

the 4th disc is becoming a chore though.
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Post by: originalz on February 21, 2009, 08:37:13 PM: Quote from: siamesedreamer on February 21, 2009, 03:35:20 PM

Those guys are slaughtering me. What do I need to do? The hard part has been having to immediately shuffle between the five of them without being able to fully heal. So, I kill like two or three of them and then get my ass whooped.

You can heal between battles, if you go into the menu then the dragons won't move.
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Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 21, 2009, 09:33:53 PM: Quote from: siamesedreamer on February 21, 2009, 03:35:20 PM
Quote from: AdmiralViscen on February 21, 2009, 01:15:17 PM
Quote from: siamesedreamer on February 21, 2009, 12:13:16 PM
Quote from: The Card Cheat on February 20, 2009, 05:29:06 PM
It's pretty awesome through about the middle of the 3rd disc, then it becomes kind of a chore.

Agreed. Up to that point its arguably my favorite game this gen. The pacing is awesome. I've still yet to beat it though.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
got bored having to level up to beat the boss battle with the five dragon things attacking Numara
[close]

wtf, those guys were pussy

Those guys are slaughtering me. What do I need to do? The hard part has been having to immediately shuffle between the five of them without being able to fully heal. So, I kill like two or three of them and then get my ass whooped.

I was at a loss for what to tell you, but demi nailed it. I forgot about the sleep thing, that's what makes it cake. If you were trying to get all 5 killed then I'd imagine that'd be a nightmare.
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Post by: siamesedreamer on February 22, 2009, 10:24:00 AM: Thanks guys. Gonna give it another shot this afternoon.
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Post by: GilloD on February 25, 2009, 11:25:08 PM: This game RULES. So much better than The Last C-Span Broadcast.
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Post by: Human Snorenado on February 25, 2009, 11:25:48 PM: Hahahah you think that now. Just wait. And the battle system in Last Remnant >>>> LO.
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Post by: tiesto on February 26, 2009, 09:01:44 AM: Awesome game, bogged down by slow load times and I kept on getting DRE's... unfortunately that was before the install feature was made available, I hear the game is vastly improved if you install. The main plot was a bit of a disappointment compared to the "Thousand Years of Dreams" though.
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Post by: Human Snorenado on February 26, 2009, 09:25:24 AM: I've only played it installed, and it's fine as far as load times go. Midway through the third disc, tho, it just becomes a chore.
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Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 26, 2009, 10:10:08 AM: Is the third disc the one that has all the icy areas?
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Post by: tiesto on February 26, 2009, 10:40:39 AM: Quote from: AdmiralViscen on February 26, 2009, 10:10:08 AM
Is the third disc the one that has all the icy areas?

Yup... although I thought wandering on the train tracks was really slow and boring, I actually liked the multiple perspectives in disk 3, reminded me very much like an SNES FF game. The game slowed down for me in disk 4, what with all the subquests (hated that fucking temple).
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Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 26, 2009, 11:09:30 AM: I remember back when the game came out, everyone said disc 3 was amazing. I got to it and I felt that it dragged too, it really killed my momentum in the game. But I pushed through it and really enjoyed its latter parts, and disc 4. I skipped most of the sidequests though, I should really go back and do that.
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Post by: MCD on February 26, 2009, 11:11:15 AM: everything is cool in LO except for TREASURE TROVE
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Post by: GilloD on February 26, 2009, 12:46:49 PM: I just feel like for a game I'm about to spend 30+ hours in, I like the setting of LO way more than LR. But we'll see.
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Post by: GilloD on February 27, 2009, 08:09:02 AM: This game RULES. I really love these characters, especially the dude who shows up drunk. It's a perfect reaction to being sent on a mission with two people who can't die. I like the Skill system, I like the little mountain hut thing. I'm a huge fan of "journey" games (HALF LIFE 2 FOREVER), so this one is sitting nice and pretty.
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Post by: GilloD on February 28, 2009, 03:53:35 PM: End of Disc 1 is one of my favorite RPG moments. The VAs for those kids are fucking great.
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Post by: Human Snorenado on February 28, 2009, 06:14:47 PM: Quote from: GilloD on February 28, 2009, 03:53:35 PM
End of Disc 1 is one of my favorite RPG moments. The VAs for those kids are fucking great.

Ugh, kids are the worst part of the game, wtf. Should have left the kids out and put in more Jansen. Or Sed.
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Post by: siamesedreamer on February 28, 2009, 09:43:45 PM: Yeah, I too remember GAF splooging about disc 3. I hated it.

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Any time your party is forced to split up in any game it just kills the momentum for me.
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Disc 2 was by far the best.
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Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 28, 2009, 09:53:50 PM: Agreed.

Did you beat those sea monsters yet?
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Post by: demi on February 28, 2009, 10:28:50 PM: I splooged over the beginning of Disc 3. I think you guys got it all twisted, nobody else really splooged over the actual content
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Post by: siamesedreamer on February 28, 2009, 10:34:54 PM: Nope. Haven't tried yet. Been playing Burnout too much.
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Post by: GilloD on March 01, 2009, 10:22:19 PM: Is there a danger in dropping Mack from the party? He's a lousy hitter and Spirit Magic is nice, but he has low MP and I've just had Ming pick up Spirit Magic from him, so it's the same diff. I was hoping to get a 3rd bruiser in place, but whatev.

Also, do people who are outside the party continue to level with everyone else?
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Post by: AdmiralViscen on March 01, 2009, 10:31:03 PM: No they don't, but people who are underleveld gain a level in just about every battle until they catch up.

I kept as many mortals in my party as possible. I had Mack on my team almost till the end of the game, a couple of his spirit spells are awesome on the level of AIka's Lambda Burst thing
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Post by: demi on March 01, 2009, 10:31:42 PM: At the end of the game, you'll be using the immortals + Sed
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Post by: AdmiralViscen on March 01, 2009, 10:33:00 PM: Yup

When I got to the secret lab area on disc 4 I grinded out all my mortals while allowing all the immortals to leach their good shit, then shitbinned them.
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Post by: Human Snorenado on March 02, 2009, 12:51:52 AM: Yup, pretty much. Sed is like the swiss army knife of awesome wowsome skills.

And I finally beat the game tonight. Meh on the ending. Game was pretty good overall I guess, probably rates a 7.5 or maybe an 8 at best. Still, pretty good for a jrpg these days.
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Post by: GilloD on March 02, 2009, 10:33:47 AM: This is probably the only RPG I've ever played that has a passable script. It has some cringe-worthy moments (Most the Numaran ship thing lapses into a kind of stock JRPG script), but on the whole the characters are funny and reasonable and likeable. The kids get a lot of hate, but I rather enjoy them. They're well written, well voiced and at the very least useful.

The plot seems to be sort of slow in getting moving- I'm 10 hours in and I barely have any sense of the problems as a whole other than one dude is bad and everyone else forgot everything. I'm sure it won't be world changing, but it's being presented beautifully.

I am 100% totally enjoying this. I just got to the Old Sorceresse's mansion.
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Post by: GilloD on March 02, 2009, 03:51:21 PM: Hahahahahahahaa. I've been using the stock weapons until this point. I didn't know you could buy new ones until I got to the Mountain Village. I kept looking for a weapon store and never found one. Hahah. Sweet.
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Post by: pilonv1 on March 02, 2009, 05:46:01 PM: I'm using the immortals + jansen at the end of my game because im too lazy to level up tolten and sed. everyone has the +5 slot thing anyway so who cares.
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Post by: GilloD on March 05, 2009, 03:17:04 PM: Sarah rules. The +20mp when defending basically makes her an infinite heal machine. No reason to use any Mortals, though.
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Post by: MMaRsu on March 05, 2009, 03:25:21 PM: Yes you'll love it. Also it has one of the best World map music

[youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZu-QQWLAdg[/youtube]
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Post by: Human Snorenado on March 05, 2009, 03:38:39 PM: Quote from: GilloD on March 05, 2009, 03:17:04 PM
Sarah rules. The +20mp when defending basically makes her an infinite heal machine. No reason to use any Mortals, though.

Eventually you'll get a skill that will let you regenerate mp without guarding. And one that will let you double cast spells, too.
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Post by: tiesto on March 05, 2009, 04:12:57 PM: Quote from: MMaRsu on March 05, 2009, 03:25:21 PM
Yes you'll love it. Also it has one of the best World map music

[youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZu-QQWLAdg[/youtube]

Yeah, the world map music in the game is awesome. I think I overall prefer BD's soundtrack, as its catchier and more upbeat than LO's, but LO's is great, too.
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Post by: GilloD on March 05, 2009, 04:13:48 PM: Quote from: The Card Cheat on March 05, 2009, 03:38:39 PM
Quote from: GilloD on March 05, 2009, 03:17:04 PM
Sarah rules. The +20mp when defending basically makes her an infinite heal machine. No reason to use any Mortals, though.

Eventually you'll get a skill that will let you regenerate mp without guarding. And one that will let you double cast spells, too.

Fun!

My current team in kaim/Seth/Jansen/Ming/Sarah. I'm not huge on Ming, but skill slots and learning skills, blah blah. Equipment-based skills seem to do an adaquate job of keeping my team up to par, outside of Spirit Magci
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Post by: Human Snorenado on March 05, 2009, 04:15:52 PM: Note that it's worth it to level up your humans for the skills they'll give you. Cooke will give you quick casting skills, Jansen I think gives double cast, etc. Game gets remarkably easier as soon as you get Sed.
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Post by: GilloD on March 07, 2009, 01:33:07 PM: Finished Disc 2! Fun! The last dungeon kind of blew, though.
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Post by: GilloD on March 08, 2009, 07:24:25 PM: YES. Party split up. Ghost of FF6, inhabit me!
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Post by: recursivelyenumerable on March 09, 2009, 01:07:11 AM: it's not really an iphone port, it's a Japanese mobile port that happened to have been also ported to iphone.