Wroth

That's a little harsh. At least her voice sounds like a human and not a stone being dragged along a cheesegrater

2 hours ago, Kevvy Metal said:

After finishing the remake, I went and replayed the original (my actual OG ntsc copy, on a CRT and everything) up to the point that the remake ends.

 

The remake is superior in every single way. It’s all far more fleshed out, far more involving and far more fun. 
The Sephiroth battle - which is the only real change - gave pt. 1 of this remake series a real crescendo of an ending that was both totally epic and utterly welcome. One of the best remakes I’ve ever played up there with Resident Evil. 

It's possible for changes to an established story to be both commendably brave, and subjectively bad at the same time.

I loved the original FF7 story but you know what could've improved on it?

Oh I think you might be right! Thanks!

2 hours ago, sprite said:

I wondered this.
 

 

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Can you choose simply not to use the first one?

 

 

It would appear not.

Does anyone know what the numbers over the ability window in the equipment section represent?

Chapter 7 boss question:

Been hitting rocks all evening and got nothing but centipedes

On 12/03/2020 at 13:30, JPL said:

I wouldn’t be so sure. When Saul first makes an appearance in BB, he’s out in the desert with Walt and Jesse thinking they’re going to kill him and he says “Did Ignacio put you up to this?”

Yeah I guess it'll be similar to binary right? Each extra bit doubles the number of possible values.

Anyway that's really fascinating to know, thankyou!

Agreed. The "puzzle games" categories in mobile storefronts makes me despair.

Are there any picross games that involve massive grids? Like 50+ cells wide or perhaps more? Most of the ones I've played have rarely ever gone over 20. Perhaps they start to become impossible to solve logically beyond that size?

haha, yeah I said something similar further down that thread. However I think "puzzle games" does cover a broad array of diverse subgenres, that are wholly unlike each other yet unmistakably involve "puzzle" gameplay.

I'm absolutely loving, for example, the "information game" genre that's becoming popular. Games like Her Story, Obra Dinn, and to a degree, Outer Wilds, where the puzzle is the acquisiton and use of in-world knowledge to progress further.

Also, there's a bunch of recommendations and discussion in this thread

I've recently been enjoying Inbento. Came out recently on Switch, but has been out for a while on phones.

Thanks Chief Inspector Fun of the fun police.

1 hour ago, df0 said:

Is it? I've not played FFXV but does that not have an open world?

Sure, but that wasn't episodic.

Parvati earned a permanent spot on my party, though it was quite jarring at times how her dialogue seemed to be written for someone with a much stronger southern drawl than she actually has.

3 hours ago, Qazimod said:

Apparently the demo’s answer is to have a finite number of fixed encounters in a dungeon.  It kind of makes sense and ensures everyone has enough experience (and they could get a good estimate of party levels at the end of the episode / start of the next one), but it would make the typical RPG conversation a bit weird: “did you have to do any major levelling before that one boss?” “Uh, I couldn’t...”

Hard to get an estimate of the nature of the rpg as a whole from what amounts to a linear opening sequence. I suspect you're right for this first episode, as the majority of midgar was quite linear already, but when the world map is introduced in the next part that's going to be an interesting problem to tackle.

4 hours ago, deKay said:

I watched you playing! I think it was you anyway. Your brain worked far quicker than me in the Suffering level

Yep, that was me. Had to pause it during suffering as I got a phone call but yeah that was one of those aha moments where I was like "what if..."

"Feeling old" has to be hands down the best part though.

Agreed it's really good! The dual genre mechanic works surprisingly well, and there's some really mind blowing and hilarious meta-level solutions to certain puzzles!

No plan survives contact with the enemy.

https://imgur.com/a/h6KujfN#caVuocp

Interesting that all the dialogue choices appear to be in the past tense, like your protagonist is the narrator.