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@best3444 I've only completed the first part of Costa del Sol, but thought I'd let you know that you don't actually have to do all the mini games. On the boat ride over, you don't have to play in the tournament (you can forfeit immediately), to get to the beach you only need to play one mini game as Cloud, and for Tifa/Aerith, you can get the tickets by doing non-mini game activities once for each. I don't think you need to do the Red soccer at all. So you may have put yourself through more pain than you needed. That said, I did them all -
No, I've loved the combat since Remake but was pretty disappointed in the stale 16 combat. In Rebirth, it's much the same as 7R, but expanded a bit more. * There are many more spells/skills/abilities than 16 * The stagger system is much better implemented. (In 16, it was just a cycle of stagger before you could do damage, here there are specific abilities for pressuring and staggering that vary by enemy, but it isn't the only way to fight.) * You have a party of 3 to play with and in more challenging scenarios, the design of the combat encourages you to frequently switch between them. * The "cool down" is so much fucking better than 16. 16 has long as annoying cooldowns. 7R/Rebirth use ATB (inspired by the OG of course) where the ATB is a common resource for any ability. It fills up on its own, but fills up *much* faster when you do active damage, parry, etc. allowing your to get off moves quickly. And some builds allow you to build up at insanely fast speeds. (Tifa builds up ATB crazy fast in general). This system is part of what encourages frequent switching between party members. * Each character plays differently * It's real time with pause (well, slow way the fuck down rather than complete pause I suppose), which lends itself better to having more strategy like the OG in addition to the real-time combat * Lots of different Materia and Materia synergies to customize your build * Much more varied skill trees to customize your character * Weapons do not become instantly obsolete with the newest one, because they all keep leveling and have different trade offs * Rebirth adds "synergy" skills and abilities which are special moves you can do with different teammates. The skills can be done at will in real time. The abilities require using regular abilities of each character to build up a resource on both to use for the synergy abilities. The 7R/Rebirth combat style is what I was really hoping the indefinitely postponed KOTOR remake would use.
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JC. I didn't even know about this to give it a shot and Netflix already canceled it? They're their own worst fucking enemies I swear. Does the series end on a possible conclusion or is it obviously incomplete?
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There are synergy skills and there are synergy abilities. Synergy skills you can do whenever by pressing a button when you're guarding. Synergy abilities require each of the teammates to a number of abilities to build up those tick marks and then you can use the synergy abilities from the synergy menu which will show you how may ticks each character has. It's in the manual and I think the combat simulator. If you're not controlling your other party members a lot, they probably aren't using many abilities and won't give you opportunity to use the synergy abilities. Maybe the game is telling you to slow down and not rush it? But honestly, you're just going to be in a minority here. One of the things the OG FF7 was famous (and loved) for was having lots of different mini games, especially in the gold saucer, and this game is bringing it back!
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It's not that I didn't know how to stagger it, it's that they died in like 3 hits to me! Using the stagger abilities or the magic weakness (which gives lots of stagger) would nearly1 shot it. I finally managed it by... changing to "dynamic difficulty" so that it gave them lots more health.
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Gah! I cannot get one of the fiend objectives in grasslands because you have to stagger them, but the enemies are way too weak and die well before I can stagger them. I don't know how to nerf myself.
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Battles are probably shorter on easy which will affect your time if you’re just doing the main quest and ignoring everything else.
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I'm not very far (just got to Junon) but I feel like they upped the boss difficulty in this one and required me to get back into the groove of the frequent and well timed character switching that I got really good at in Remake. I actually *like* that the difficulty and structure of the combat does that because it makes you use all your tools. There are a couple advantages to this strategy 1. It let's you accelerate the ATB of the whole party faster -- especially if you switch when you start an ability/spell of one of the other characters so that you can fill up while they're busy. 2. It decreased the boss damage output. Regarding 2, that's because non-controlled players take less damage. The boss will also focus on them less. So if you switch characters once the boss starts targeting you, you'll soften the damage received and it will give your other character time to do some damage before the boss changes focus to your new controlled character. You end up changing characters a lot, but that's both fun and really makes it feel like a party game. Anyway, just thought I'd leave that tip for anyone struggling with it.
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Hmm. I haven't noticed frame drops in graphics mode. I mean, 30fps is shitty but it seemed like pretty consistent shitty to me?
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Yeah, but there are levels
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I want to see this soon, but 1. My wife doesn't enjoy going to theaters anymore; and 2. We got Covid this last week (first time!) and are still recovering so we probably shouldn't be in a theater now anyway.
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It's more complicated than that. OpenAI was originally a non-profit, and they continue to have a "non-profit" base on which a capped "for-profit" entity sits on top. Tesla is just for profit with none of the legal benefits of a non-profit (or at least I wasn't aware of any!) It's a fucked up world to allow the BS organizational structure that OpenAI gets away with and they ought to be taken to task for it.
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Haha yeah, I was like "oh they're going to remind us of that bit at the end.... wait it's even weirder than we thought!?" The part in particular that was weird is that they mentioned in the news cast
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Sucks It's going to make this final season of Curb weirder. Especially since he was talking about his will in it
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Also thought this was worth sharing
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They can be great, but they're especially susceptible to having their game design infected by executives who are trying to figure out how to get more money out of people instead of how to make the game more fun. So it ultimately depends on the development environment.
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I'm not terribly concerned as of yet. I'm not going to bother catching up on what happens there. As long as they give you the background in Rebirth, it can remain background for me!
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Oh I have no doubt the DLC will have connections. It would be silly not to have any references as if it didn't exist. I just deeply doubt it's critical for someone to play through it before Rebirth. I think you'll still be able to enjoy Rebirth just fine without having played it and you could even go back and play it later if you find yourself interested in expanding on what happened. Certainly I have no objections to people reading synopses of it before hand though. It won't take long to read! The bigger worry I would have is how much knowing the OG will be important. The ending of FF7R just doesn't make much sense without knowing it. Arguably, it's "just the end" whereas the rest of the game is perfectly understandable on its own. So maybe Rebirth won't be too bad, but there is a real risk of it getting weird and without the OG knowledge it might be hard for newcomers. Guess we'll find out soon!
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I think it reeks of geeks being geeks about everyone having to know all the lore perfect information to appreciate a story (which I say as a geek myself). But hey, I'll leave open the possibility that they'll out do themselves!
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If that's the worst, I still don't think it's worth telling people they need to play it before they play Rebirth and I suspect it will still be better than that
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If they can find a way to turn the background content of the DLC into required viewing I’ll be impressed Pretty sure I’ve always been argumentative on this board and life in general
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