Annie Felis

Glad I had some money left that I was willing to spend, because the Baldur's Gate remake is $5 today. Go get it, it's a classic.

Yeah, I hear "The Landing" from FF8. Except the synth in Hunter's Chance is doing that variation of A Place I'll Return To Someday that he used throughout FF9's soundtrack, and The Landing is using FF8's main theme that pops up here and there in that game's music. Mr. Uematsu is hella thematic.

I don't know what we're supposed to be listening for in that one. So uh...yes, it is Homestuck music? One of the things I had fun doing with the FFIX soundtrack was trying to figure out what the songs were remixes of. Uematsu remixed some old songs from other Final Fantasy games to the point where the source material is barely recognizable. So here's two of them. Instead of me saying outright what it seems the source material is, you guys have to guess. Hunter's Chance Eiko's Theme I know this isn't the point of the original music game, but I hear the original material for songs in FF9 when I play it.

Dug up some tracks. List is long. From Shadow Hearts: From the New World: Heat Haze in the Distance Stealthy Hearts From Final Fantasy games: Shadow Farm Boy Mining Town Sandy Badlands Fiddle de Chocobo Super Mario RPG: Let's Go Down the Wine River Docaty Mountain Railroad Wild ARMS (these also count for the remastered/remixed tracks in Alter Code F): Into the Wilderness Hope Lone Bird in the Shire (remix of Ecstasy of Gold theme) Town Courage Alone in the World Oops... (Also known as "Wh-what?!") Whistle of the Warrior Uncertain Feelings Rushed Rudy's Companions Small Village (not on the OST, good luck finding it...I can't) Not A Plain Child but a Young Lady Port Town Milama Village (not on the OST, I only have it because I have psf game rips) Lucied's Maze (another track nobody has) Boomerang Flash Malduke's Victors (another missing track) Boomerang's Grave (yet another missing track) You might be able to find the missing tracks on YouTube if you can find a LP where the player isn't gabbing over everything. Otherwise I'd say just download the psf files for Wild ARMS. Wild ARMS 2: Main Title You'll Never Be Alone Going Out Dungeon - Ruins Type 1 Scene of Reminiscence Dungeon - Type 2 A Momentary Respite First Ignition Field - Roaming Field - Distorted Sky Town Where the West Wind Blows Western Village Harbinger of the Hurricane Dungeon - Natural Type Dungeon - Ruins Type 2 Heimdal Gazzo Valeria Chateau Battle - Knight Blazer Battle vs Kanon A Tinge of Regret Agony Resistance Line Wild ARMS 3: Just..everything. This is probably the most westernly of Wild ARMS games. Here's a link to the . It is however missing the vocal version of Advanced Wind, which can be found here.I'm sure Wild ARMS 4 and 5 are pretty much similar, but I haven't played them. You'd have to go digging around for those. Zelda series: Lonlon Ranch Horse Race Kakariko Village (OoT version) Ingo's Theme Ordon Goats (unfortunately all the Twilight Princess tracks are game rips since it lacks an OST, and some are recorded poorly) Taming Epona Hidden Village I'm sure I missed some things, but there you go.

Yeah, my friend told me that I was better off owning Dark Souls on PS3 when I lamented I didn't wait to buy it on Steam. Now I'm glad I didn't.

Pick a Wild ARMs game. Half their soundtracks are country-inspired, or at least spaghetti western-inspired. Heck, the main theme of the first game is a remix of the overworld theme, which is a cover of The Ecstacy of Gold from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

I generated me a $60 card so I could only spend that much, and pretty much pay the price of a game from Gamestop. I got: Chantelise Deus Ex: Human Revolution Dust: An Elysian Tail Eufloria FLY'N The Last Remnant Magicka Recettear Rock of Ages Civ V Gold edition Thomas Was Alone I think I have around $5 left on the card, so I could get one more game. I'm waiting to see if Don't Starve gets down to that.

It's probably mine, too. I like the fact that there are seperate plot arcs, and how and when you complete them is up to you. The monsters and attributes of a place change depending how you place them too, so no playthrough is the same. It was a nice action RPG that didn't stick you on some plot railroad. It was also a game where you could miss an awful lot.

Secret of Mana (and Seiken Densetsu 3) are a lot more fun when you play with friends. You can do three players if you have a SNES multitap/emulator with netplay.

To be fair, that part sucks. That's one part where the game design failed, and you were attacked every few feet by shiitty monsters that spammed death spells. And when your Swashbuckler rating goes down when Vyse gets knocked out, you don't want to run into monsters that spam death spells. They could've changed it so those monsters were only past South Ocean, or that the encounter rate was lower there, or whatever. The worst part is there are two discoveries in the middle of South Ocean, and they're easy to miss. It's still a really good game. In about fifteen more hours of gameplay, you get yourself a giant bitchin' battleship with a huge gun on the front, and then the world opens up to you. It's worth it to stick with it through the Ixa'Taka sequence (seriously though fuck DeLoco and his trap doors and mine carts). And about Ni no Kuni: it's Studio Ghibli Pokemon. That's the best way to describe it, and yes it is really damn fun.

It's a JRPG. JRPG doesn't always mean "trope-laden railroaded plod".

So uh hey, are you still looking for recommendations or is this thread pretty much pointless now?

To make money. Sell certain games, players get cards for those games. For every $10 you spend, you get a card. It's a gimmick to get more crap sold in the sale, as if they really need a gimmick to get people to spend way too much.

That's the problem though, the game was balanced and was a challange in spots. Did you know that the Deep Dungeon fights were random battles on the map in chapter 4? I ran into the 12 monk fight at Barius Hill and was wiped out, and this was my uber half-females-wearing-chantage team. Anyway a lot of these hacks people do to increase difficulty seriously imbalance them, and force difficulty by doing something cheap like rendering healing items useless. I can understand upping the stats of all monsters, or making healing items a rarity, but some of the hacks I've seen have been "we're going to make this cruel". I mean if you think it's fun, fine. Somebody must, if people are making these hacks. It's not re-balancing the game, though. Besides, not everybody has the time to spend re-attempting the same fight over and over.

I think it hilarious and ironic that one of the current top sellers in the sale is a program called "You Need a Budget".

But that's why we have games like Bard's Tale and the Etrian Odyssey, games that are real ball-busters yet provide enough reward for people to want to play them. It's different when people hack a game that was balanced with its own tested difficulty curve, and make it into some teeth-gnashing monster. Roguelikes are hard and you expect to die in them. You don't expect Final Fantasy to be a challange, and the rewards of making a game you've played many times before challenging are meh. It turns into a pissing contest, about who could beat what game with one solo party member or whatever. I played a no-spell, no-equipment Castlevania SotN game once, and really got no enjoyment out of it (I couldn't beat Galamoth anyway). There's no reward since it's a game I'm familiar with anyway.

Okay, thank you. The visuals looked pretty cool and was willing to try the game on that basis, but if it's a good puzzle game then I'm for it. I was afraid that it was "hey we're a puzzle game and our puzzles involve stepping on three switches to open a door".

I have to wonder that too, because there's a difference between overcoming something that's difficult and just being punished by the difficulty. There's no reward in being beat up because a game is so hard, especially if you don't get better things for doing so. Although grinding and leveling up was really, really easy in FFT: just hit your own characters and heal them. All you need is one random battle to boost your guys by 3-4 levels and about 800 JP. You just need mind-numbing patience.

It costs $12 on Steam as well, so yeah...may as well buy it right from the source.

Civ V is only $8 for the next hour. I'm thinking of picking up Antichamber, too. How good is it? Has anybody tried it?

So does it seem like Steam's servers are shitting themselves? Right now it's saying that you can vote to have Mass Effect 2 cost $0. They weren't loading earlier, too.

If you pre-order the game, you get a 20-page art book and fancy packaging. The link also includes a side-by-side comparison video, which shows how much the textures were cleaned up.

It's a good game, but it suffers from "oh shit we ran out of money" a bit. Nothing that completely breaks the flow of the game like Xenogears, just less animation as the game goes on and fewer variety of sidequest things to do. A few bugs, too. I'm going to second Tales of Xillia. When I heard it was going to have an english release, I pre-ordered it. Over a year later, I only have about a month to go until I finally get my hands on it. If you like Tales games, get Tales of Graces F. Like the standard Tales game the male protagonist and his female love interest are boring and forgettable, but the supporting cast more than makes up for it. There's also this coming out sometime in 2014, which is a HD remake of Tales of Symphonia and That Other Tales Game For Wii. As far as other jrpgs for PS3 only, there's the Hyperdimention Neptunia series which is a niche game. That niche being people who find moe sexually attractive. I've been told it's fun, but the pedobear aspects of the game are creepy. Go check out screenshots and gameplay videos on this one if you're thinking about trying it.

Sure it does, you just need to live close enough to the Canadian border.

He actually sings in them all, it's just that one has lyrics. He has some original stuff too.