cringe ass fanfic writing

[Kana]

so like cloud and zack get sucked into an alternate dimension to fight sephiroth in a super le epic fight. this ♥♥♥♥ is like some fanfic some idiot wrote in a myspace blog back in the early 2000s

[SciopticChimken]

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Romancing Saga 2 Remake is excellent, as well as Fantasian if you havent played them already. One day maybe they can stop teasing me with DQ12 breadcrumbs and give me a DQ 8 port

On a side note im thankful that Mist and Square decided to press Fantasian on disc so I can actually own a physical copy of it

I just wish they'd give us Lost Odyssey on a properly supported platform.

Yeah I wish Xbox would make decisions that include making them money, I believe they still have the publishing rights. I still have my 360 copy and it gets a 4k enhancement on One X/Series X if you use the disc through back compat. Not sure if they have already delisted it off the store yet or not. Its a shame bc it holds up extremely well, even today and a lot of people will never get to experience it as physical copies of it are relatively hard to find now

[windsea888]

I never beat Lost Odyssey. Tried twice. Story lost direction and pacing.

What we need more is a blue dragon port

[The_Box]

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I just wish they'd give us Lost Odyssey on a properly supported platform.

Yeah I wish Xbox would make decisions that include making them money, I believe they still have the publishing rights. I still have my 360 copy and it gets a 4k enhancement on One X/Series X if you use the disc through back compat. Not sure if they have already delisted it off the store yet or not. Its a shame bc it holds up extremely well, even today and a lot of people will never get to experience it as physical copies of it are relatively hard to find now

Microsoft has been making tons of boneheaded choices in recent history. The only reason I'm still on Windows at all is because I don't want to have to screw with making all my games run on Linux.

I'm IT, and at my work, when we got the CARES act funds for the pandemic, someone who really shouldn't have been making these choices decided to replace all our Dells with Surfaces. Which only have a proprietary connector on one side, and two USB-C connectors on the other, and the official dock doesn't have HDMI or DP outputs, only USB-C. Add to this locking the taskbar at the bottom of the screen, trying to center the icons, and forcing all updates for apps to go through the Microsoft Store instead of Windows Update, and it feels like they just really want to make Macs instead of windows machines, and I am so over it.

[Cypher Raige]

Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey are downloadable on Series S/X

[Eastgrove]

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What was bad about it? Does it have VA?

There's more loading screens, the resolution is much lower, the sound and music are lower quality. The OST is not orchestrated unlike the PS2 version. There's some balancing issues that favor the new characters alot more than the old ones.

[windsea888]

I remember playing FF12, Lost Odyssey, and Suikoden 4 all around the same time, not completing them due to story lacking urgency/stakes, and flat characters, and feeling like JRPGs had more or less died, at least temporarily.

So I did a second playthrough of Suikoden 3, which was better than those games I stopped combined. Suikoden 3 is the most underrated jrpg there is. People didn't like the character models? Yeah okay

[SciopticChimken]

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Yeah I wish Xbox would make decisions that include making them money, I believe they still have the publishing rights. I still have my 360 copy and it gets a 4k enhancement on One X/Series X if you use the disc through back compat. Not sure if they have already delisted it off the store yet or not. Its a shame bc it holds up extremely well, even today and a lot of people will never get to experience it as physical copies of it are relatively hard to find now

Microsoft has been making tons of boneheaded choices in recent history. The only reason I'm still on Windows at all is because I don't want to have to screw with making all my games run on Linux.

I'm IT, and at my work, when we got the CARES act funds for the pandemic, someone who really shouldn't have been making these choices decided to replace all our Dells with Surfaces. Which only have a proprietary connector on one side, and two USB-C connectors on the other, and the official dock doesn't have HDMI or DP outputs, only USB-C. Add to this locking the taskbar at the bottom of the screen, trying to center the icons, and forcing all updates for apps to go through the Microsoft Store instead of Windows Update, and it feels like they just really want to make Macs instead of windows machines, and I am so over it.

Yeah im still flying the win10 flag and unsure what I am going to do, cause its sure as hell isnt going to be win11.

[SciopticChimken]

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Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey are downloadable on Series S/X

Oh nice! At least there is still a pathway to being able to play it. Im sure it gets all the same things as using the 360 disc for DRM

[Wolfherz]

Clueless clown zoomer doesn't even know when Myspace was around.

[Cypher Raige]

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Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey are downloadable on Series S/X

Oh nice! At least there is still a pathway to being able to play it. Im sure it gets all the same things as using the 360 disc for DRM

You can use your original disc (if your console has a disc drive) or purchase it from the Xbox store

[sora's 青かった星]

I think the story jumped the shark in Chapter 8 when the writing took a serious nosedive. You went from fighting helicopters, monsters, mechas, SOLDIERs, and deities to surrendering to ordinary street thugs when the cut scene starts. All it took was one hit from a baseball bat and Cloud went out. When he wakes up his friends weren't even tied up or anything, but then the bad guys lead them meekly into a iron cage from which they apparently cannot escape.

Now that it is established that the bad guy is holding Cloud's friends hostage (and threatening to sell them into sex slavery if his demands aren't met), he is willing to cut a deal with the merc for their release. A dangerous heist? A risky attack on a rival gang or a Shinra base? No, nothing of the sort!

He just wants you to be a jockey in a chocobo race. A rancher you met earlier shows up, but he won't race the chocobo even though he has more experience than you. That's your job, except you can't even do it until you play several mini-games to get vegetables to feed the chocobo. None of the mini-games match the urgency. Dio just told you that you only have 24 hours to prove Barrett's innocence or he'll sell you to Shinra, and yet you're stuck collecting vegetables. Your friends don't emote any desperation either.

I wondered since I have 40,000 gil if I could just buy the vegetables from the vendors, since Cloud is in a desperate hurry to save his friends, but no, I have to beat the mini-games. (And after I get the greens I can still put off saving my friends and replay as many times as I want to get combat items while my cheery rancher friend keeps making small talk.) The clock keeps ticking and the music sounds dire, but I still need to do ranch hand work and approach different Ubisoft markers to gather enough vegetables to feed the chocobo.

You could have nearly the same padding and still have good writing to explain it, but this isn't it. It's just lazy writing. And it has helped me to realize just how much the game was overhyped over the years. If they were going to change the endings and have other timelines, then why couldn't they have fixed some of this writing?

[windsea888]

It was like that in "remake" where the plate is dropping and you do that stuff in the graveyard...it is like they have completely separate dev teams doing segments of the game and then put them together...it is possible for a creative team to be too large

[Eastgrove]

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It was like that in "remake" where the plate is dropping and you do that stuff in the graveyard...it is like they have completely separate dev teams doing segments of the game and then put them together...it is possible for a creative team to be too large

Heck even when Jessie and the others are giving their last words, the brevity in the OG doesn't interrupt the sense of urgency, while they get nice long thoroughly dramatic speeches in the Remake. You don't even have to talk to them in the OG, you can bypass them entirely.