I absolutely agree. Watching a game being played tells you a lot more about it than a couple thousands words about it's development cycle or who the people involved in making it are, or even describing an incident involved, or what it's like compared to other games you may or may not have played.
I've had days at work like that.[DOUBLEPOST=1412295308,1412295237][/DOUBLEPOST]Yeah, it's tough to get movement to look natural in the source engine. At least they were able to avoid the trademark "G-mod flailing limbs" trope.
At first I thought that was Hideo Kojima, but then I realized he wasn't trolling his fans and being weird about women so that was impossible.Hideki Kamiya (one of the Platinum Games founders and lead designer there) is the easily the best Japanese developer on Twitter. He's fucking hilarious to people who ask him stupid questions.
I don't know about Quadra but one of the W-materia it certainly did work with.
W-Summon worked, but it still cost double.
I took out Warmech in 1, all three in the DS version of 4, Shenryu in 5, Omega in 8, Ozma in 9, Ultima and the thing from the monster arena in 10, the thing in the desert in 10-2, and Zodiark in 12. The only ones I haven't even tried are the ones in 7 because you basically have to grind in the North Crater for hours, getting AP for your materia to get the ones you need maxed. It's just not fun.
Yeah, no one but the most ardent of nutballs did Yazmait.
Apparently the fight isn't supposed to be all that *difficult*, just insanely long. The strategy I've seen is to give Ashe and Balthier the best ninja swords you have (since they deal Dark Elemental damage) and the accessory that makes you combo like crazy (genji gloves I think) and have them attack, while you have the remaining party member (Fran or Vaan) heal as necessary.
And Knights of the Round was not compatible with time limits.
You could get rid of the time limit though. You just had to morph the ship enemy in the undersea tunnel leading to the mako reactor, take that item to Kalm and give it to the same guy who gives you the rewards for beating Ruby and Emerald. He gives you the Underwater materia, which gets rid of the time limit.
Oh, I did used to do that. Totally forgot about it.
Ruby was only stupid because it was a crap-shoot if the one guy with an awesome materia combination happened to be the one guy to not get one-shot. If you could get the RNG right, then the rest of the fight was pretty easy with the right over-powered combo of materia.
Or just wait for a sale like everyone else?
A Canadian planet, apparently. They were $10-20 cheaper for me. The AAA ones, anyway.
You could be a little less of a dickhead about it.
There is no price difference based on where a developer is based, it's set by the publishers, who are based out of the US.
I didn't say ANYTHING about what you American folk pay. I was strictly speaking of ME - JUST ME - seeing the prices raised on me after several years of seeing them set at a certain price. No one likes a price increase, no matter the circumstances.
The fact remains that you were paying 10% less than I was for games based on the value of your currency. Should we all complain that people in the UK get to pay almost half as much in pounds as we do in dollars because the pound is over 150% the value of the dollar? I wouldn't think so.
Actually, Europe generally gets to complain because the Euro price is usually 1 to 1 with the dollar price, no accounting for exchange rate, even though the Euro generally has a higher value than the dollar. (So, most steam purchases in Euros are paying about 26% more for games than Americans are.) And even though the pound price in the UK is scaled some, it usually doesn't match the exchange rate, and they're sometimes paying higher prices as well. (Quick check shows that Costume Quest 2 is about 16% more expensive in pounds, while Shadow of Mordor is about 4% cheaper, and Saints Row IV: Game of the Century is 34% more expensive)
I can understand that complaint.
