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Title: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: magus on July 20, 2010, 12:42:47 PM

this get released next week,i've read gamesradar review and they described it as the most generic and bland rpg ever,which sounds pretty believable considering an ex tales of scenario writer was involved with this game

but ehy it's not like there is much else to pick when it comes to jrpg on the wii so i guess beggars can't be choser

i guess the only other people that are going to check this out are the one who fawn all over yasunori mitsuda :smug

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia
Post by: demi on July 20, 2010, 12:44:30 PM

or who dont have jobs and pirate videogames like MAGUS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia
Post by: magus on July 20, 2010, 12:51:47 PM

but then you guys would miss all my awesome replies :smug
EDIT: apparently it's in store already now
http://www.siliconera.com/2010/07/20/arc-rise-fantasia-is-in-some-stores-now/

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia
Post by: demi on July 28, 2010, 03:02:33 AM

I didn't know this was a Gamecube game!

:bow Gamecube

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia
Post by: naff on July 28, 2010, 04:02:23 AM

Quote from: demi on July 20, 2010, 12:44:30 PM

or who dont have jobs and pirate videogames like MAGUS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wait. What!? You have a job?

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Ichirou on July 28, 2010, 05:03:59 AM

magus is just another Himuro.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Third on July 28, 2010, 05:27:48 AM

Is this any good? Don't know if I should spend my precious time and bandwith on it.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: magus on July 28, 2010, 05:35:58 AM

join the club ichi :smug

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Ichirou on July 28, 2010, 05:59:45 AM

Quote from: magus on July 28, 2010, 05:35:58 AM

join the club ichi :smug

The piracy club?

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: magus on July 28, 2010, 06:03:56 AM

yep
we'll share booty together
arrrrrrrrrrrrrr :pirate

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Ichirou on July 28, 2010, 06:06:08 AM

Only booty I want is Himuro's black ass smothered in syrup. :drool

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: demi on July 28, 2010, 10:38:28 AM

Quote from: Third on July 28, 2010, 05:27:48 AM

Is this any good? Don't know if I should spend my precious time and bandwith on it.

I like it. Gamecube is back, baby :bow

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: demi on July 28, 2010, 10:49:18 AM

I should mention why I like it:

I have only put about 5 hours in. I'm at "Dragon Prison" which isn't that far. I've beaten one boss.

- The game is widescreen - no bars
- The game is colorful - what can I say, most Wii games are muted shit
- The game is playable with a Gamecube pad. It's a Gamecube game!
- The battle system is neat. It's if I had to describe it, a turn-based Grandia.
- You can grind weapons and unlock skills and attach them
- The characters aren't offensive.
- The story is pretty cliche, but I'm ok with that. See above, it's not offensive
- The dub, while ok it is pretty bad, is NOT as bad as we saw in the very first cutscene. That was just bad. Some characters actually put effort in. However there are moments where they just screw it up. Mostly when they have to make a sound effect.

I won't defend myself if you hate it, but I do like this game. Definitely consider checking it out, and at least playing up to the first boss. If you still hate it, dump it and don't force yourself. I don't consider this a Wii game. It is a Gamecube game.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Ichirou on July 28, 2010, 10:51:41 AM

You're making me want to try this out.  Too bad I don't have a Wii.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: demi on July 28, 2010, 11:00:21 AM

I should also mention, sorry I forgot this:

- There are no random battles, enemies are on-screen (re: DQ9)

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Ichirou on July 28, 2010, 11:00:47 AM

Always a plus.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Beezy on July 28, 2010, 11:33:25 AM

Quote from: demi on July 28, 2010, 10:49:18 AM

- The battle system is neat. It's if I had to describe it, a turn-based Grandia.

???

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: cool breeze on July 28, 2010, 11:39:13 AM

Quote

- The battle system is neat. It's if I had to describe it, a turn-based Grandia.

I'm interested now.  Watching videos, it does look slightly grandia-ish, just as you say, turn-based instead of a timer for actions.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: demi on July 28, 2010, 11:43:00 AM

It's not so much Grandia in that I haven't figured out how to cancel enemy attacks, but that's what it feels like to me. Each turn you set up your plan of attack (Have a guy attack, have a guy use magic, have a guy use a special move). Then you hit "Start" and the turn plays out. Your characters will run up and attack first, while say an enemy is charging up to use a spell. You might kill this enemy before he pinches the spell out. You might heal before the enemy attacks you.

You can also use passive abilities like "Team Attacks" where a character will get a free attack in after a character attacks. Or one of the bonuses attached to your weapon at the time.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Van Cruncheon on July 28, 2010, 12:57:31 PM

it's passable. worst story ever, though. the two big twists so far have been HUMILIATINGLY stupid.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

adele: i was your friend of 15 years, now i'm a major villain!

alf: lol me 2! sorry we annoyed you with all that chumminess and nostalgia up to this point! and the extravagant lengths we went to in order to break into our own city and prison for no good reason, and the faked up kidnapping -- well, we did it for the lulz. seriously, i myself can't fathom why adele and i went to all this trouble!

l'arc: WELL ISN'T THAT A BUMMER. AH WELL, TIME TO GET PAID.

[close]

spoiler (click to show/hide)

ryfia, rastan, cecille: man, this cave is boring. hey, l'arc!

l'arc: FUCK WHAT I AM ALWAYS ANGRY AND THIS IS NOT HELPING.

ryfia, rastan, cecille: WE'RE FROM OUTER SPACE!!!!!!! :trollface

[close]

bonus EXTRA stupid:

spoiler (click to show/hide)

dynos: remember how i was like the most annoying boss fight in the early game and was thwarting you at every turn?

l'arc: I GUESS, MY ANGER ISSUES GIVE ME SHORT-TERM MEMORY DIFFICULTIES I THINK

dynos: cecille's my OLDER sister. we're from outer space. we cool? i mean, i've only been summoning the undead to harass you and made every effort to inexplicably murder you AND your rivals, but we cool? lemme join for a bit. blah blah blah imaginal rozone eesa crystals real pollution herp derp fuck.

l'arc: BOGGLE. OKAY.

[close]

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: demi on July 28, 2010, 01:40:54 PM

How long have you been playing for? Did you get an early copy? That's like... way, way ahead of me and I've marathon'd it since last night

I also wish I didn't read those

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Trent Dole on July 28, 2010, 01:47:07 PM

Wow, those are some epically stupid revelations.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Van Cruncheon on July 28, 2010, 01:53:19 PM

i got it early.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Beezy on July 28, 2010, 01:58:40 PM

 :lol

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: magus on July 29, 2010, 04:24:22 AM

i played a little,wall of text later
is there any reason to switch weapon beside unlocking more skills?

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Ichirou on July 29, 2010, 09:03:08 AM

Quote from: Professor Prole on July 28, 2010, 01:53:19 PM

i got it early.

Pirates everywhere up in this bitch.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: demi on July 29, 2010, 11:09:43 AM

Quote from: magus on July 29, 2010, 04:24:22 AM

i played a little,wall of text later
is there any reason to switch weapon beside unlocking more skills?

No

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: magus on July 29, 2010, 11:24:21 AM

mmm i see

anyway i like what i played so far,the character are nice,the battle fast paced enough,the bosses hit hards and actualy even killed me and it basicaly has FF9 skill system meaning there are a lot of customization option

everybody says that the dub is horrible and the translation horrible but i don't find it that bad,i think the voice are well suited,arc is the smug hero,ryfia is the dumbass heroine and niko is the idiotic zell like buddy,the only voice that really bothers me is adele which sounds like mary poppins if she had potato in her mouth,i think they were trying to go for "dumb country girl" but they kinda missed the mark

one thing i don't understand is if the whole party shares their AP what reason do i have to use any other character other than the one who deals more damage for my actual attacking need?

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: demi on July 29, 2010, 01:07:06 PM

If you have the same character attack 3 times, it will be slower than having 3 separate people (or 2, and 1 healing/item) go. It is VERY noticable. And down the road you will learn about "Syncing" which is basically chaining. You can have multiple people use an Excel Art on an enemy, or all attack an enemy, or all use magic on an enemy and it will get stronger.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Van Cruncheon on July 29, 2010, 02:19:49 PM

it's a really REALLY good battle system, and it is why i am still playing despite the story's best attempts to make me stop

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Van Cruncheon on July 29, 2010, 02:21:17 PM

Quote from: Ichirou on July 29, 2010, 09:03:08 AM

Quote from: Professor Prole on July 28, 2010, 01:53:19 PM

i got it early.

Pirates everywhere up in this bitch.

wait, what? i bought it from gamestop.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: magus on July 29, 2010, 02:21:32 PM

Quote from: demi on July 29, 2010, 01:07:06 PM

If you have the same character attack 3 times, it will be slower than having 3 separate people (or 2, and 1 healing/item) go. It is VERY noticable. And down the road you will learn about "Syncing" which is basically chaining. You can have multiple people use an Excel Art on an enemy, or all attack an enemy, or all use magic on an enemy and it will get stronger.

i just chained magic with a single character by double casting the same spell so.....
what are the advantage to double casting in a party? game says i get more AP but i already regenerate 8 out of 10,doesn't seems worth the effort to distribuite my magic around

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Ichirou on July 29, 2010, 02:23:37 PM

Quote from: Professor Prole on July 29, 2010, 02:21:17 PM

Quote from: Ichirou on July 29, 2010, 09:03:08 AM

Quote from: Professor Prole on July 28, 2010, 01:53:19 PM

i got it early.

Pirates everywhere up in this bitch.

wait, what? i bought it from gamestop.

Sorry, when you said you got it early I thought it was an euphemism for downloading it.  magus put me in that frame of mind since he pirates pretty much everything he plays.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Vizzys on July 29, 2010, 02:26:06 PM

HERO OF JUSTICE

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Ichirou on July 29, 2010, 02:29:15 PM

Meh.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: demi on July 29, 2010, 02:56:41 PM

Quote from: magus on July 29, 2010, 02:21:32 PM

Quote from: demi on July 29, 2010, 01:07:06 PM

If you have the same character attack 3 times, it will be slower than having 3 separate people (or 2, and 1 healing/item) go. It is VERY noticable. And down the road you will learn about "Syncing" which is basically chaining. You can have multiple people use an Excel Art on an enemy, or all attack an enemy, or all use magic on an enemy and it will get stronger.

i just chained magic with a single character by double casting the same spell so.....
what are the advantage to double casting in a party? game says i get more AP but i already regenerate 8 out of 10,doesn't seems worth the effort to distribuite my magic around

I'm not sure what you mean.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: magus on July 29, 2010, 05:41:55 PM

i casted a fire spell twice with the same character and they linked together and got stronger

game says if i link using different character i get bonus AP

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: demi on July 29, 2010, 05:46:56 PM

Yeah, so use a different character to link. You aren't restricted to just one type of magic. You have to buy Gem Expansions, which let you attach more orbs, so others can use Fire magic for example

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: tiesto on July 29, 2010, 05:48:27 PM

Good battle system? Hmm... I'm in! Got a ton of gift certificates for my bday that I need to spend, so this'll be perfect.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: magus on July 29, 2010, 05:49:53 PM

yea but if you put more gems of the same type you get stronger kind of magic and that's what i was saying,giving up stronger magic so you can get some bonus AP seems stupid

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: demi on July 29, 2010, 05:55:35 PM

Magic is extremely strong, you will find out.

One tip I can offer buy -lots- of potions. You will be guzzling them during boss fights when Ryfia runs out of Heal. Money is extremely generous in this game so go nuts.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: magus on July 29, 2010, 06:34:39 PM

i know that magic is extremely strong,i just did like 2000 damage to the third boss by using the fire level 3 combination magic :lol

problem is,i could use this magic because i put all my 3 orbs in a single character,if i gave 2 to one and 1 to another one i wouldn't be able to do so,that's why i keep saying it seems pointless to distribuite your orb between character

have you tried stealing from bosses? i didn't think about doing it so maybe i missed something important,i hope not :-X

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: demi on July 29, 2010, 06:44:07 PM

Bosses are very difficult, I don't even bother trying to steal. However it is useful when doing those silly Guild quests. I got my first one that involved a boss fight (at least it had boss music anyway). It violated my anus so I left it alone.

I've also begun filling in my grids so I get the bonus from swords, some of them are very useful. Like the boss I'm on is an aquatic type, so I filled the water sword so he has Aquatic Bane+ on it now.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: magus on July 29, 2010, 07:12:40 PM

did you know that some orb combination unlock new kind of magic?
like if you equip 1 wind orb and 1 water orb you get thunder magic

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: demi on July 29, 2010, 07:28:49 PM

Yes they explain that, magus. lol

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: demi on July 29, 2010, 07:31:53 PM

btw, I got to the first "twist" and HOLY GOD it is so hilarious, just like Prole said. I was like - what - WHAT - WUT :lol

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: demi on July 30, 2010, 04:29:29 AM

The second spoiler wasn't as WUT, unfortunately

This game is so easy to grind in. Battles take like 5 seconds. I run into everything I see in dungeons.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: magus on July 30, 2010, 08:53:49 AM

it wasn't nice of them to not put a save spot before the third boss,i had to kill it without a mage in my party,good thing at least i had the decency to trigger aqua slayer+

spoiler (click to show/hide)

i kinda suspected that someone in my party would leave so i grinded everyone weapon to max before defeating the guy but i didn't think half of my party would leave :lol

[close]

and regarding the stupid

spoiler (click to show/hide)

someone from your party turning evil isn't anything new but that one being girlnumbertwowhohasacrushonhemaincharcter is not,so thumbs up from me!

[close]

EDIT: :omg I'M IN A CITY WITH A CASINO AND AN ARENA INSIDE
i kinda forgot the last time i played an rpg that had a world map,a casino and an arena :'(

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: naff on July 30, 2010, 11:13:40 AM

Sounds good....  :pirate

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: magus on July 30, 2010, 01:37:41 PM

so 3 hours of poker netted me

- a sword that heals me everytime i murder some monster
- a pair of gloves that let me convert HP into special attack points
- a gun that give me +10 luck
- a wand that has a small chance to increase my max HP everytime i finish a battle (i bet the small chance is really small and that the HP increase is like 1 HP otherwise it would be to easy to broke the game :lol)
- a dagger that increase money drop
- a sword which i have no idea what it does,maybe another luck+ skill

did i mention this game is quite cool?
 

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: demi on July 30, 2010, 01:44:47 PM

Where's a casino? At? Doesnt matter now, since I'm way past it at this point

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: magus on July 30, 2010, 02:01:11 PM

i don't remember the name,it's the republic capital,the all-purple city,there is also an arena tough i still haven't visited it

the HP up wand is better than i tought,it already triggered 3 times giving me a 9 hp bonus each time for a total 27 bonus HP,it's not much but ehy! free stats!
umm by the way,does anybody know's what gun mastery,combo mastery,DEF stock and RES stock do?

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: demi on July 30, 2010, 05:53:34 PM

I had to walk ALLLL the way back to the casino, but now I am playing POKER

Casinos :bow

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Damian79 on July 30, 2010, 11:04:09 PM

What is with you and casinos?

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: demi on July 30, 2010, 11:05:27 PM

What is it with you and being dumb? Food for thought

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Damian79 on July 30, 2010, 11:08:32 PM

I can tell you why im dumb but you have to tell me why you like casinos then.   :smug

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: demi on July 30, 2010, 11:12:59 PM

I'm listening

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Damian79 on July 30, 2010, 11:19:16 PM

Well my schizophrenia like illness makes me very veryy lazy.  So much so that i cant learn from the usual channels, unless i am pushed to do so.  So i cant learn from reading a newspaper without a reason for example.  So as a result i have learned very little in my 30 years of life and accomplished very little.  So when i make stupid comments etc it is just part of my learning process.  That is why i am dumb.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: EmCeeGrammar on July 31, 2010, 12:50:39 AM

Yeaaaaah, someone who doesnt risk anything, makes no mistakes, doesnt learn shit as a result, and then blames it on some vague made up condition is just Avoidant Personality disorder dude.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

I would know :(

[close]

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: demi on July 31, 2010, 12:55:20 AM

Well, I like casinos cause they are an easy time waster and they give you nice goodies

Enjoy your disorder

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Bebpo on July 31, 2010, 12:59:06 AM

I like casinos for the atmosphere, but I can't imagine playing 3 hours straight of a mini-game just to get some good items.  After about 5 mins in a casino with 1 try of each game, I'm done and never go back. 

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: demi on July 31, 2010, 01:11:17 AM

That's because you have ADHD.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: EmCeeGrammar on July 31, 2010, 01:18:02 AM

You don't work at Tim Horton's do you demi?  I'm in Ohio atm and I saw some nick frost looking motherfucker working at some coffee shop.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: magus on July 31, 2010, 04:40:58 AM

Quote from: Bebpo on July 31, 2010, 12:59:06 AM

I like casinos for the atmosphere, but I can't imagine playing 3 hours straight of a mini-game just to get some good items.  After about 5 mins in a casino with 1 try of each game, I'm done and never go back. 

if i can waste several hours punching bear to learn skill i can waste several hours playing poker

EDIT: i killed the 4th boss without much problem,he had around 12000 HP,a level 3 linked fire spell did 4000 damage to him! :lol,i think i might be overleveled,everytime i get a new set of weapon i feel the need to grind WP so i unlock every skill,so i end up fighting a ton more than i should

anyway i'm annoyed there is no way to return to previous city,i have several quest which remain unfinished because what i need to kill is in a place where i can't return >:(

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Van Cruncheon on July 31, 2010, 10:49:47 AM

i skipped the casino and arena entirely and haven't really had to grind much at all, a wii rpg isn't worth the effort

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: magus on July 31, 2010, 12:18:36 PM

fuck gula >:(
i was minding my own business when suddenly BOSS OUT OF NOWHERE,he uses a spell and petrify my whole party in a single turn of combat
INSTA GAME OVER
now i have to repeat the whole dungeon because the guy who was in charge of putting save points trough the game was asleep when doing this one and forgot to put one before the boss
did i mention there is also a lot of dialogue before the end of the dungeon?
not cool arc rise fantasia,not cool >:(

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: demi on July 31, 2010, 12:26:51 PM

Yep, that boss beat my ass too - but I didn't get a game over, ha ha ha

Should have equipped the Topaz you found in the chest.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Van Cruncheon on July 31, 2010, 01:33:57 PM

pfft, gula was easy

wait for the next boss fight on the beach, took me like 5 tries

spoiler (click to show/hide)

it's alf+adele+titties mcgee, and if you lose it, it's not game over but you don't get the ice rogress

be sure you trinity attack alf in the first round, then defend the next. you need to wipe out alf before he gets his second rogress attack off or you are fucked. after that, adele will go down in two rounds, and then you can concentrate on titties mcgee and her dumb self-healing ass

[close]

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: magus on July 31, 2010, 01:46:42 PM

yeah i just killed gula without problem spamming wind spells,i didn't say that it was hard just that it's kinda stupid how it attacks you without warning and how he can defeat your party in a single attack if you don't know what he does on your first turn

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Bebpo on July 31, 2010, 01:51:10 PM

Quote from: magus on July 31, 2010, 04:40:58 AM

Quote from: Bebpo on July 31, 2010, 12:59:06 AM

I like casinos for the atmosphere, but I can't imagine playing 3 hours straight of a mini-game just to get some good items.  After about 5 mins in a casino with 1 try of each game, I'm done and never go back. 

if i can waste several hours punching bear to learn skill i can waste several hours playing poker

Yeah I can't do that either :P
I have very little patience for grinding anymore.  Stopped being fun after I could buy more than 1 game a year.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: magus on July 31, 2010, 03:50:40 PM

holy fuck the spoilerish fight was so good :hyper
i haven't had so much fun with a rpg since forever :hyper

spoiler (click to show/hide)

turn 1 i cast above and beyond on ragnar,doubling his HP reaching the huge total of 6500,ryfia dies,turn 2 i resurrect rydia and heal her,i conserve my AP,turn 3 i waste all my AP doing all the best special attack i have,i deal a great total of 7000 damage to alf and pull off a new trinity attack which is earth elemented,adele cast ignition on ragnar dealing him 4000 damage,even in total tank mode the guy still end up in the red :lol,i pull off another trinity act on alf and he's down before being able to summon his rogress,turn 5 i spent all my AP healing since i had to skimp on healing to quickly kill alf,turn 6 i do another healing round because adelle pulled off his best attack and now my guy are debuffed :lol,afterr that i finaly chips away at adelle with other trinity attack and then she dies,then i finaly mop up titty-mcgee

[close]

i can't believe this game has the average of 6 on metacritic,it really shows why you shouldn't trust reviewer when it comes to rpg

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: demi on July 31, 2010, 04:03:10 PM

It's also gonna sell poorly because you pirated it. Enjoy being a cancer on gaming

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: magus on July 31, 2010, 04:15:54 PM

nah as a original jrpg on the wii it was already dead!
i can't think of a game that could be deader than that

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: magus on July 31, 2010, 08:32:16 PM

anyway i can finaly fly around the world,i returned to the arena city and i did all the arena challenge which netted me two new weapons,while i'm there i'm also finaly clearing my quest log,i fought one optional boss i was supposed to fight a looooooooooong time ago and he dropped a nice pair of boots,apparently i also have two other optional bosses,wonder if they drop anything cool

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Bebpo on July 31, 2010, 09:26:24 PM

Sounds like a cool game.  I liked the first few hours, will get back to it eventually.

Glad between 7th Dragon, this and Last Ranker, Image Epoch has stopped being a shitty new jrpg developer and started being an ok new jrpg developer.  Now they just need to make their breakout hit game.  Hopefully with something less generic looking.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: demi on July 31, 2010, 09:27:57 PM

If you hate Grinding you will like this more. Grinding is really non-noticable.

Run into enemy > start "All Attack" auto-fight > win

The -only- difficulty spikes are during bosses.

I got sidetracked iwth Crackdown 2 though. I can only play a Gamecube for so long...

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: magus on August 01, 2010, 08:28:28 AM

magic is really overpowered in this game,using my best attack i just did 15000 damage to a boss who had 20000!

EDIT: i perma-missed a weapon,stuff like this really piss me off >:(
it's fucking 2010 and japanese still haven't learned that this shouldn't happen
it's even worse when you think the dungeon in question doesn't even have save points and as soon as you reach the boss room you can't go back anymore,of course there is nothing that indicates which road leads to the boss and which one leads to the weapon >:(

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: magus on August 08, 2010, 05:19:15 PM

whelp this thread has fallen pretty far
anyway i'm getting near the end and this is a really good rpg,in fact it's a shame it's a wii game,it should have been a ps2 game and put together with all the other cool ps2 rpg

most review gave the game a 6 but they all consist of "VOICE ACTING SUCKS" which i personaly don't think it's that bad (makes me wonder if the best way to fix any VA in an rpg is to have the voice character voiced by john yong bosch) and "OMG THERE IS SO MUCH GRINDING" which is a false statement (i find especialy funny when one of the reviewers said that there is a lot of grinding and then proceeded to call magic useless :lol) also "OMG THE PLOT IS SO GENERIC" but it's really pretty standard RPG stuff and the plot kinda turns into the SMT neutral ending (yes! remember? the rpg with the awesome plot! apparently all it takes to make a plot worse is to take away your ability to choice)

none of the review ever make mentions of the awesome customization you can do on your character or mention the game being hard as a good point (which seems to be a good point only if saying it's bad will piss to many people off) so please if you like jrpg,the next time waste your money (or your bandwith :smug) on this one

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: demi on August 08, 2010, 05:23:36 PM

PS2? You mean Gamecube. Get real.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: magus on August 08, 2010, 06:04:11 PM

this is really reminescent of xenogear
[youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkziO2QH3BI[/youtube]

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 08, 2010, 09:41:52 PM

finished it in 32 hours. shit story and characters (even for jrpgs), great battle system and boss fights. decent pacing. gross graphics. 5/10.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Bebpo on August 08, 2010, 09:54:02 PM

sounds worth a play when times are slow.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 08, 2010, 09:54:44 PM

yeah, it's a good $20 timewaster.

Title: Re: Arc Rise Fantasia - The Long Forgotten Gamecube RPG
Post by: magus on August 09, 2010, 05:00:16 AM

plotwise this game is really close to grandia 2
heck they even share some of the plot twist :lol