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>he hasn't bought GOTY
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>>386020750
already beat it on the PS3
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>>386020750
It was my personal pick for Game of the Year, back in 2015. Being the brainless morons they are, XSeeD released the game on December 22nd. Just before the year ended.
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>>386020750
without using memes, explain to me how this PS2 looking game is GOTY
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>>386021128
You have some pretty low standards for GOTY, then.
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Maybe when I finally stop procrastinating, beat SC and then TC.
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>>386021210
>explain to me how this PS2 looking game is GOTY
Because it plays like a classic...PS2 era JRPG. Lots of hidden sidequests, and walls of text.
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>>386021238
Stop calling it TC.
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STEAM LINK WHERE?
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I bought it, 2nd time now.
>xceed jewed nip VA
>atlus will have nip VA
>but translation will be memetastic
I think I should start learning moonrunes.
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>>386021309
Now this a new triggering.
What dank meme am I missing and why shouldn't I?
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>>386021213
It was 2015, Anon. JRPGs were barely anywhere to be found. The only options were high budget games.
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What's up with Fie in the third game?
I knocked her up in the second but I don't see any promo art of her with our child.
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>>386020750
Still at the beginning but already can tell I won't give a shit for the female characters.
I always been a bro before hoes guy
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>>386020750
when does neptune join the party, everyone is so boring
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>>386021465
like chapter 3 or 4
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when choosing a girl, remember the endgame
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>$36
Hahahaha. No.
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>>386021618
This would be good
>It wasn't a 2 years old port
>had the DLCs even if they are outfits included
the only thing I bothered its because Durante obviously did a good job.
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>>386021618
It's worth it if you haven't played it before.
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>no 8k

DROPPED
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>>386020750
>no japanese audio
Lets hope someone comes up with an undunb
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>>386021952
It was ready as soon the game was released.
Have you bothered to check for 5 minutes.
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>>386021952
lel the jp dub is inferior and has less voiced lines for Rean than the english dub.
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>>386021952
Its already done.
https://mega.nz/#!WkUyhDbb!B8dXNO2aBwNHibQ7tjTCyQLrX-bbBUV2jkZVUYxJ0Q4

Then this for the extra english voices, I assume it just replaces them with blank sound files. You can choose not to add this one if you wanna hear the extra lines in english.
https://mega.nz/#!AoVmhDoL!h7fYCD14LQD14Ema9zWVvqHZegYJX2PF9EYWbn3x-DM
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Is the combat menu-driven turnbased like old FF?
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>When you finally have all the quartz required to make Fie into a 100% evasion rate dodge tank
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>love english voices in cs
>still want to play with jp voices

I am conflicted with this. What do I do?
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>>386022339
https://streamable.com/0grn0

I'd say yes but honestly your post is pretty confusing. Check for yourself.
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>>386022339
Yes. The combat has positioning involved but that matters less than ever in Cold Steel.
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Calvard when?
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>>386021426
Good choice.
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>>386023098
Gay doujins with Rean/Jusis/Crow/Machias are so nice.
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Torrent so slow. If the game is shit then fuck you, /v/ weebs.
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>>386023260
If you hated Trails in the Sky like majority of /v/ did, you will love CS.
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>>386020750
>>386020750
>GOTY

For 2015?
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is Rean supposed to be mute after prologue or does he not have many voiced lines in cutscenes? japanese audio that is
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>>386023220
robosexual doujins with valimar are even better
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Is the story on rails or are there actual choices to be made?
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>>386024558
for some reason the original game just did not have rean voicing many lines for whatever reason. ps3/vita dub had the same issue, but xseed added in 5000 new voice lines to fix that problem for this pc port.
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>>386024653
The story revolves around trains.
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>>386024763
So it should be called Rails on the Ground huehue
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>>386020750
>anime tropes the game
nah
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>>386020750
Got this on PS3 ages ago was so bored never finished it.
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So far the animu school setting is insufferable.
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>>386020750
It wasn't GOTY in 2013 and it's definitely not now.
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Going to pirate it as soon as the GOG version drops. Not going to double dip.
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>>386025245
Go on, double dip
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>>386024558
His japanese va was so expensive they couldnt do many lines.
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>>386020750
>school shit

No thanks, I get enough of that shit in anime.
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>>386021387
It literally isn't a third chapter, just the third Sora game, hence the subtitle the 3rd.
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>>386026030
It's pretty good
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>>386021747
>the only thing I bothered its because Durante obviously did a good job.
He worked at the port?
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>>386026198
Yes, he pretty much did most of the port coding.
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>>386026198
Yes, he is the only reason I bothered to get scammed.
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>>386026347
>>386026445
nice
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I don't trust you, so I will wait for a torrent and pirate it to see. It is's any good and the port isn't ass I will buy it.
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>>386022437
You can do some really silly shit in this game. I feel you could make any character over powered. Ones I remember the most was

>Fie dodging everything 100%
>Rean delaying everything
>Machias putting afflictions on enemies
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>>386023220
Rean and Crow is canon
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>>386022437
Cap is 95%.
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>>386022507
CS's in a weird position because in some cases the English dub is superior to the Japanese voices, but in some cases it's the other way around.
I hate some of the English voices but I also hate some of the Japanese voices. CS's dub is surprisingly better than the average JRPG dub.
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>>386026445
It's cool how he picked best girl for the launcher.
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>>386020750

I liked it, yeah.
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>we got Trails in the Sky the 3rd and Trails of Cold steel on PC
>In the SAME year
Miracles do happen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUFqkmB5SSA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzDG5PeXgVk
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>>386028291
KeA on PC when?
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>>386028291
And we will never ever get Ao and zero!
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Is there some mystic configuration I'm missing with my keyboard?

I swear when I press up or down in any menu I achieve warp-speed.

It's overcomable in battle, but in the camp menu it's practically impossible to hit what it is you actually want.

Is there some trickl to this?
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>>386022253
Does anyone have a gdrive link or similar? I just can't donwload shit on mega, even with megadownloader.
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>>386020750
really whats the fucking deal with this game, in comparation with any other bullshit anime rpg game . it looks exactly the same as any other of the bunch. what makes this so special?
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When it's 75% off sure. It can't be worse than neptunia shit, can it?
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>>386029315
Make an account, download from firefox.
Try jdownloader.
If nothing works rip.
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>>386029261

OH MY FUCKING GOD IT'S LOCKED TO FPS ISN'T IT

FUCK
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>>386029551
>>386029261

Yeah, can confirm, it's locked to FPS. Unlimited FPS allows you to transcend all reality in menuing speed.

A fix is on the way though.
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Cheats for bond points are out yet?
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>>386028291
wka me up when we finally got Zweii 1&2 translated.
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>>386021426
Friendly reminder that Jusis is the best boy.
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>>386021425
Miscarriage.
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>>386026030
Funny thing is, like 10% of the game actually happens in the school, they just used it for marketing purposes.
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>>386020750
>he didn't play it years ago

PC cucks lapping up console ports yet again lmao
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>>386031672
That's not funny. Her womb is strong
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I like this game. The port's working great and the new added visuals are nice.
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>>386031889
>implying she wouldn't murder Fie's unborn child in a heartbeat
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>>386032326
I'll murder her before she can blink
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Am I the demons?
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>>386032326
Damn, she grown up quite a bit.
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>>386032384
You better not job at it like Gideon
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Should I be using this on KB+M or is this another controller game?
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>>386032529
I'll murder anyone who tries to kill my son.
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>>386032545
its a fucking JRPG, as long you have one hand nothing else matters.
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>>386032545
I didn't try kb+m but controller is pretty comfy for it. You can even use xbox or dualshock promts.
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>>386032284
does look lke a great port. 5000 new recored lines of dialogue too, impressive
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>>386020750
>Dub-only
Of course I didn't.
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>literally nothing happens until the last two hours: the game
>last two hours are just bait for the sequel where you fly around collecting students for 50 hours until something happens just for more sequel bait

nah fuck CS
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>>386033720
>Literally every single first game of any given arc
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>>386033880
Shit actually happened all over the place in Zero.
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>>386033235
You can undub it already
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>>386034120
So what? I'm not buying a dub-only release.
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>>386034161
Fuck off then
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>>386020750
I only finished TitS 1 and 2. Don't want to play 3 right now, because those games are too similar, so I need a break (took me around 150 hours to finish both of them). Should I play Cold Steel instead?

How does it compare to TitS 1 and 2?
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>>386021610
>endgame
>on PS4
I don't have endgame
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>>386034383
That's pretty much what I'm doing. 3 is pretty much pure combat.
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>>386034383
Go for it, it's fun in its own right and there is a lot of good character and world building to go along with it.
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>>386020750
I tried the first one. It was just hours and hours of pointless text. Like really pointless. Talking about the newspaper and local kids playing and shit. For fucking HOURS at a time. I got just past some farm and the talking started again, realized I was like 3 hours in and had done nothing and quit.

Seeing others talk about it, it never gets better. Fuck that. I play games, not read them. I want story but goddamn the minutiae of every NPC's life.
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>>386029315
CS jap voices
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5GHe65X3AKfUlVrNUczRVJHUVU
Dummy for extra lines
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5GHe65X3AKfMEVYR0xtSzRVcE0
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>>386035156
>Americans
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>>386035487
I'm American and this doesn't apply to me.
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>>386035575

only Americans complain about ''having to read too much''.
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>>386035649
That's a sweeping generalization and has no bearing whatsoever on the topic at hand. You're just taking blows at Americans at this point.
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>>386025058
Then turn back now because this dumb ass school is all the writers and devs care about
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>>386029802
You can easily find bond points with cheat engine, it's a static address as well.
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>>386020750
>GOTY
>game released in 2013
What did personal computer cuckold mean by this
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>>386020750
>highschool waifushit
Fuck off
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>>386035156
>he reads for the plot
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>>386028291
I want to stack all of them on top of each other and impregnate them one by one
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>>386033720
>Nothing happens until the last two hours
>When you literally stop Nord from getting Hamel'd in Chapter 3
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>>386020750
>xseed
>dub only
>game mechanics tied to fps
>nu-falcom low-poly graphics
>considered by most to be the shittiest game in the series
Just wew my lad up
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>>386020750
But I have.
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>>386035952
It's not dub only.
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>>386020750
I pirated it and replaced the eng audio with jap
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>>386029326
>it looks exactly the same as any other of the bunch. what makes this so special?
Not much. Many weebs will tell you that Trails is the holy grail of jrpgs and completely different/so much better in writing.

But in the end its the same shit, the same tropes and the same execution all over again. If you like jrpgs, then this is a good entry. But if you dont like them for all the obvious reasons, then this won't change your mind
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>all dubs are bad!!!

you mustards are insufferable this is why I wish you'd stop getting handouts from us
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>>386036183
I'm pretty sure that's a problem on every platform.
How many times I saw people crying for JP.
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I would buy it to support a great port of a great game but goddamn, 36 euros?

Though maybe its worth since the game was pretty decent overall and I wouldnt mind a new playthrough since I just played the game completely ignoring spells and just spamming crafts.
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I can't get my PS4 controller to work while using DS4Windows. Works fine everywhere else. Not sure if it's something on my end or a fault with the port.
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>>386036113
I like jrpg, but i fucking hate the anime tropes, thats why i didn like god eater, valkirye chronicles after 1, and so many others. the only weeb rpg that i tolerate are the tales series, specially berseria becuase the cast interaction was something special. do you think ill like this one?
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>>386036304
>Ignoring spells
Spells are actually broken as fuck if you know what you're doing.
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>>386036319
You assign buttons to keys in DS4windows, there's no communication between the game and the program at all. You thought it would just werk or something?
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>>386020750
Waiting for non-iso torrents.
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>>386036498
wat.

DS4windows does Xinput emulation like most PC to PS4 programs.
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>>386036330
No, it's really bad and has lots of anime weeb tropes. It doesn't have anything good in it.
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>>386036330
>becuase the cast interaction was something special.
Give the sky games a try, olivier is a miracle of the universe when it comes to character interactions.
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>>386036498
I thought the programs deal was making games think I was using an xbox controller.
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>>386036183
The best part is that people are shitposting so hard on it that you can head to the steam forums and see people throwing out meme arrows.
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This game isn't even popular so how come these threads are always such a shitshow?

Other niche games like Disgaea never have to put up with this amount of shitposting and bitching in their threads so what is it about Trails that attracts this nonsense? If you don't care for the series then just fuck off already.
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>>386036416
Figures. I ignored them since they seemed pretty shit taking so many turns to cast while crafts were instantly happening. How do you make spells good in this game?
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This game looks very interesting but from what I have seen its very text heavy. Is this true?
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I really enjoyed TitS, but I'm not the audience for this series anymore. I guess I can still try Zero and Ao if they'll ever get (better) translations.
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>>386037428
Cast quartz and bells are god. With the right combination for example Aries + Water Bell, when you spells go off, your mage literally gets to act away to start charging up.

A baby build for a mage would be something like (using Emma for example)
Pandora, Luminous Ray, Cast 2, Mind 1-2, Action 1-2, Silver Bell and filler.
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>>386037450
Depends on how much you want to chat with NPCs. After each plot beat, nearly all NPC text updates, sometimes with extra lines if you talk to them twice in a row. This can be fun if you get invested in the world and residents (mainly in Cold Steel's main town, Trista), but isn't necessary if you only want to follow a select portion of NPCs on top of the main cast. I recommend talking with NPCs often since they honestly develop more than some of the lead characters, and that's not exactly new for the series.
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>>386037728
The high school in CS is just a hub like Hanging Gardens in 3rd. You spend significantly more hours in the game outside of it doing bracer tier work instead of dicking around in school.
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>>386037863
It's still a battle harem with all girls competing to suck off chuuni MC with a dark past and deamon powers. Characterization was the thing I liked the most in Sky and if there's nothing here, it won't hold my interest.
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>>386037423
The series just attracts autism, you have to play a 50hr prologue to even start the first arc.
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>>386038169
Why is every other dude in this game allowed to have a dark past except Rean?
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>>386038169
>Its still a battle harem
So its obvious that you have no idea what you're talking about then. The only girls that actively want Rean's dick in the first game are Alisa and Elise.

Also, if you think Rean is bad, then you'll hate Crossbell when its even worse with Lloyd when Elie/Tio/Randy actively give Lloyd shit for interacting with girls complete with the dense harem protagonist aura.
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>>386038169
>harem with all girls competing to suck off chuuni MC
None of the girls except for Alisa even express love for Rean unless you romance them. It's not a harem.
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>>386037450
Oh yeah definitely. Lots of unskippable scenes and one dialogue after another. And its all generic anime tier for 80% of the time.

If you're into that then the game is heaven, if not, its hell.
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>>386038449
Its okay when Sky did it. Even though you know, Kevin's stigma is literally the same shit as Rean's edge mode when it was brought up in the story.
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>>386038545
Rean doesn't even exhibit the proper chuuni traits either. Joshua was ten times more of a chuuni than Rean was.
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>>386036856
>steam forums
no thank you. I dont need to see half the threads complaining about non-issues and saying its a shit port and the other half of weebs crying over no voice over they dont understand.
Its always the same cycle of shit over there.
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>>386037776
Cheers mate, time to start a second run on harder difficulty then.
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>>386038869
There's a spd guide on gamefaqs that gives you the exact setup how to make mages even more broken if you're interested.
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>>386021465
That's not Neptune.

It's only Neptune's long lost cousin.

>>386020750
But I did buy it, and it took me a while to get to it. But I'm glad I did, though CS2 is better.
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>>386020750
I'll pass. I was interested, until I read that unless you play 3 other 60 hour games you'll ruin the story.
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>>386020750
>Cold Steel
>GOTY

Are we in 2013?
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>>386039130
You can start with CS because the references to the other games are minimal and more of an a ha i see what they did there.
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>>386038958
the villain is one of your classmates, Millium and the whore teacher dies, np
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>>386039130
CS1 was designed for series new comers. You arent ruining the story at all. CS2 has Ao/Zero spoilers, but playing CS1 might get you into series and to play other games too.
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>>386039276
I still gotta finish of TotS 1 on PSP, though I'll probably play the rest of the series on Steam when I'm done with CS2. Though right now, I'm fighting the cryptids as well as looking for any trial chest I missed (I'm on the final chapter).
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>>386039276
>>386039206
If that's so then I'll check it out.
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This game isn't even popular so how come these threads are always such a shitshow?

Other niche games like Disgaea never have to put up with this amount of shitposting and bitching in their threads so what is it about Trails that attracts this nonsense? If you don't care for the series then just fuck off already.
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>>386039826
I think it's the fact that most oldfags of the series dislike the Cold Steel games since they modernized the series by ripping some elements from the Persona series, mainly the high school setting as well as some harem shenanigans here and there.

That's just my guess and I wouldn't be surprised if it was way off.
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>>386037423
>>386039826
Are you gonna keep repeating this?
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>>386039826
why copy paste?
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>>386039826
Because CSfags ruined them.
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>>386040106
CS's biggest problem is that Falcom only wanted to make one game and had to split it up into two and fillered it up in the process. Any other complaints is nostalgiafagging or not realizing that CS is them expanding on things set into motion from previous games.
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>>386040106
Most of the self-proclaimed Trails "oldfags" I highly doubt are Falcom oldfags to begin with. Most of their complaints about newer Falcom titles are about how anime-esque or otaku pandering they are while being completely oblivious that Falcom's always been an extremely anime-esque and otaku pandering company for literal decades, and they've always modernized their games to fit with what's "in" at the time. Trails in the Sky was just as trope-filled and modern for 2004 standards as Cold Steel was for 2013 standards. Falcom's even one of the first vidya developers to incorporate quality anime cutscenes into video games, and among the first to have sexualized anime fanservice.
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>>386040487
>CS's biggest problem is that Falcom only wanted to make one game and had to split it up into two and fillered it up in the process
Falcom has a really bad habit of overestimating themselves.
Trails in the Sky FC and SC was meant to be one game. The crossbell duology was meant to be one game. Even Ys 1 and 2 as far back as the 80s were meant to be one game.
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>>386040487
I guess that is a fair point. CS1's ending was almost as presumptuous as Halo 2's ending.
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>>386040701
>Zero and Ao were supposed to be one game
I don't know how they were going to tack on an extra game onto Zero when the game needed more time to expand on the Blue Pill/Red Pill stuff at the end, especially when it came to the final boss so it wasn't so rushed.
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do you think there will ever be a time where falcom can actually make a 200 hour Trails game without having to split it up?
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Why the fuck did /v/ meme me again with generic weeb garbage.
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>>386041013
Cold Steel III.
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>>386041013
Maybe the last game with all the MCs on it.
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>>386041019
Sounds like your loss. I'll be over here enjoying things.
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>>386041270
this
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>>386037423
The difference is the format and words out the ass

People willing to read as much dialogue as there is in kiseki are the kinds of people that will also argue over it
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>>386020750
Can anyone tell me if Cold Steel has any references to the trails in the sky trilogy? Or is it entirely it;s own game?
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>>386042161
There are cameos and a few references, and it all takes place within the same timeline.
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>>386042168
They should announce CS3 western release already. Even better, they should announce that they got the script from Falcom early and are already translating the game.
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>>386020750
So many waifus in this damn game. I can't concentrate on the story/combat from all these semen demons I want to impregnate. Even the guys are fuckable.
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>>386042168
If I like it I'lll buy it*

*after it goes on sale for 50% or more
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>>386042161
>Can anyone tell me if Cold Steel has any references to the trails in the sky trilogy?
Same world, takes place only a few years later. Tons of cameos and references but the story's largely standalone with a few connections.

You can play Cold Steel without having to know anything from Sky and not be confused at all, but playing Sky gives a bunch of stuff a lot more meaning.
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>>386042356
They wont localize CSIII, Aksys or NISA will.
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>tfw still haven't beaten trails in the sky

fuck, that's getting put right at the top of my to finish list because I already got pretty far anyway.
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>>386026445
Its amazing how many fans of Trails or Durante's work don't know this. Even more so how few people actually know this shit came out on Steam.

It's a really good port, even better than Valkyria Chronicles. But XSEED is absolute ass at marketing. They should have hyped a few more preview comparison videos before launch and shilled on more boards.
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>>386020750

daily reminder that if you faggots don't buy this we probably won't get the superior sequel.
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>>386042590
At least we would get japanese audio with PS4 version then. XSEED is too autistic to do that.
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>>386043221
I'm trying to get everyone I can that likes the games to buy it, I've also bought it for a couple friends.

Sequel already confirmed, but I'm really hoping for Zero/Ao/CS3
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I've only played the TITS trilogy. Is speed still overpowered as shit? Is there a TOCS character tier chart?
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>>386042356
No localizers/licensors can bid on Sen III until it releases in Japan because Falcom's prioritizing their own East Asian releases of the game. Maybe when Falcom starts production on the next Trails arc, they'll start sharing their WIP script with whoever gets to localize.

>>386043151
Tom @ XSEED honestly doesn't think a trailer would have helped, but they could have put one of Durante's own port videos up on the storefront a week in advance to offer something other than the same video we've seen since March. And the PS3/Vita story trailer would done just fine, in addition to actual social media presence like the frequent tweets Marvelous Europe does. I don't think they understand how bad they are at marketing and chalk everything up to simply being niche.

>>386043385
Aoni Pro just opened an English Twitter, and they're the agency responsible for Sen no Kiseki III's VA. I wouldn't be surprised if XSEED can finally cut a deal to get JP VA on top of their dub.

>>386043514
Speed is still OP, but you need to slap Impede quartz on Rean (who has the best Delay craft), ATS stat boosts on Emma (like the Criminal Master Quartz), and evasion on Fie to really break this game. Honorable mention goes to Machias with Chrono Burst and Moebius MQ maxed.
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>>386020750
So what games do I need to play before this to get the full experience.
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>>386043514
Too lazy to write the explanations but I'm willing to explain my reasoning if you ask.
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>>386043648
>Speed is still OP, but you need to slap Impede quartz on Rean (who has the best Delay craft), ATS stat boosts on Emma (like the Criminal Master Quartz), and evasion on Fie to really break this game. Honorable mention goes to Machias with Chrono Burst and Moebius MQ maxed.

>not just stacking strength on Laura and Rean and oneshotting/twoshotting everything in the game
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How come the game makes me walk when I try to move diagonally? Using a DS4
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>>386043870
>but I'm willing to explain my reasoning if you ask.
Please do.
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>>386043870
Towa is not playable?
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>>386038475
The main difference being that because CS has to reserve all the girls for Rean, their interactions with the rest of the class is extremely limited. In the end, despite spouting all sorts of bullshit about bonds and friendships, it's really only their relationship with Rean and not each other.

Compared to Lloyd, who, while still being a clueless chick magnet, doesn't devour development and interactions from the rest of SSS.
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Already played on PS3 but checking out the PC version. Good port, even on my dated PC I get like 80 fps in town turning absolutely everything to max. Turbo is very welcome too.
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>>386044062
She is in CS2
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>>386043996
My main party is Rean/Laura/Emma/whoever the fuck i feel like Emma is my Arts nuke as well as Crescent Shell for some defense buffsand Rean and Laura are my physical attackers.

>>386044062
Not in this game, no. She's playable in the sequel but only temporarily and only for the next to last mission
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>Play PC version with Japanese voice files
>Fie goes from bretty gud tier to 10/10 cutie tier
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>>386044353
She's also available for the postgame dungeon though.
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>>386043870
Why do you think Jusis deserves his own top tier spot in CS1? He has one of the best crafts (noble command) but thats really his only benefit. He's a hybrid character in a series that favors pure art casters or craft users. After buffing he performs marginally worse so you want to swap him out
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>>386044052
Jusis is at the very top of the cast because Noble Command is akin to casting La Forte, Chrono Drive and half of Fortuna at once without any charge time. Just putting him in your party increases overall damage output significantly.

Rean hits hard and against bosses that can be delayed will never give them a turn. Alisa is a great support character that supplies CP and IIRC Shining on top of having like the 3rd highest ATS and above average speed. Millium is a great beatstick with the only full screen S-Craft in the game.

Emma is the best magic nuke in the game however she's extremely slow. Laura is great physical beat stick but worse than Millium in damage in exchange for more bulk. Fie is the fastest character in the game with good crafts but her damage is lacking since she's mainly used as a dodge tank against bosses.

Elliot is a worse Emma, Gaius is a worse Laura and Machias is only useful against bosses when he learn his AT Advance craft at like the ass end of the game.

Crow is incredibly average outside of having like the 3rd highest speed stat in the game (behind Fie and Rean) and his crafts are pretty meh.
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>>386043814
You'd have to get to the end of Chapter 8 in SC to not be spoiled on a character reveal midway through the first Cold Steel. Make sure to get Cheat Engine and use speedhack in FC/SC to brute-force past slow battle animations, and don't feel compelled to do all monster hunts/side-quests or talk to all NPCs after something happens in the plot.

>>386044252
>dated
Whatcha got in that thing? I'm stuck on a toaster (i7 Ivy Bridge 2.3 GHz, Intel HD 4000, 16 GB DDR3) with no hope of doing High settings, but I can reach 1080p/60 FPS somehow.
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Are the any implied background lesbos in this?
This is very important.
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>>386044834
Jusis being present gives the entire party +50% Str/Ats/Spd in two actions. His speed stat is good and his ATS is above average (4th out of 11) meaning that he can do good enough damage magically.

CS1 also has a damage cap which means that Laura/Millium/Rean don't get to completely one shot bosses with Domination + Vermillion (Tauros is dogshit here) and neither can Emma/Elliot with a good lost art either.

Jusis is a lot like Kevin in 3rd where they aren't the strongest damage dealer but their utility to the team is incredibly which makes them stand out.
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>>386045007
Psx Alisa is cute, CUTE
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>>386045007
I mean it's dated but still a gaming PC. CPU is i5-2500k from 6 years ago and GPU is GTX-960 from a few years ago which was the budget option compared to the more powerful 970 and the top performing 980.
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>>386045249
>background
I don't know what you mean, but there is a raging lesbian pervert that want to fuck every single cute girl in the game.
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>just buy the game because /v/ never seems to shut the fuck up about it
>combat is deeper than I expected
>characters are well-voiced and, so far, likable
>music is amazing (that battle theme gets my penis hard)
>port's good, runs like a dream and looks great

For once, it was not a forced meme.
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Played for like 6 hours.
Pretty comfy so far but not as comfy as TiTs. Also weird playing it in 3d.
I really hope they'll translate Zero/Ao.
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>terrible voice dub
>terrible generic japanese writing
>terrible aesthetics
>terrible gameplay
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>>386045354
Well, that's good enough I guess.
Fuck it, I'll buy it, ITZ isn't comming anyway and those 40€ are tearing my wallet.
I guess playing this before starting 3rd will help form burning out from fucking around the same places with the same people for three games in a row.
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>>386045797
3rd is actually a dungeon crawler.
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>>386045249
Fie and Laura are very close to each other, hell an entire portion of a chapter is dedicated to make them get over their differences and become best friends.
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>>386045797
3rd is self contained and is basically just one huge dungeon with an all star team of all the playable characters from FC and SC.
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>he didnt buy it two years ago on vita
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>>386046043
>having Vita
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>>386020750
Better or worse than Sky?
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>>386045876
They're impure because they can fall in love with a man.
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>>386045280
She's my favorite girl from Granstream Saga.

>>386045249
One of the major side-characters is a raging dyke seductress who can look great in a dress if she likes, but prefers to ride an orbal bike and go to Thors just so she can piss off her dad. Angelica's great.

>>386045345
I got my PC as a hand-me-down and it still plays Falcom games well despite the specs. Whatever works.

>>386045412
Get ready for even sexier battle music for some bosses later on.

>>386045434
You'll be able to play through all of Zero and Ao before we get CS III in English, at least via fan translation. There's a very rough and unedited Zero patch leaked out now, and the fan team working on Ao is nearly halfway done with raw translation after less than a year. Another fan group's editing the Zero patch into a much better script which should be ideal if and until XSEED does their release (or if they license fan translations of Zero/Ao).

>>386045856
CS won't spoil anything from 3rd other than a political rivalry and someone from the Imperial government you meet in Chapter 3 of CS. You'll learn all the juicy details in 3rd, so definitely do CS if you want a break from Liberl.

>>386045876
I wish that part of the Heimdallr trip was better written, but it's a nice dynamic later on.
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>>386046183
Agreed, Laura/Fie's rivalry thing felt so tacked on because it finishes as soon as it starts. Falcom should have brought it up from the start.
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>>386044051
bump cuz it's annoying as FUCK
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>>386043870
I partly disagree with this chart.
Alisa is the best character in both games, her AoE buff cp regen+insight is goat. And she comes with that spell that resurrects+restores the whole party. ANY team rocks as long as she's in.
Also Fie is top tier. She's the fastest character (SPD is everything in a nightmare playthrough), she crits and oneshots AoE, AoE delays with her pistols, covers all 4 damage types (which makes her a cp battery for her partner and best field character), very huge S-craft (or whole screen? Don't remember), and has 30% natural evasion. She lacks STR, but she makes up for it with all the turns she gets.
Dunno about Millium, never used her.
Laura is fine as mid. She's extremely overrated. Sure, high STR, but that's it. She's slow and her crafts aren't that great.

Jusis, Rean, Fie and Alisa is probably best CS1 team.
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>>386045876
That's nice but aren't they main characters? It's no dice for me if they turn and want to jump your dick as soon as you be a "nice guy protagonist" in vicinity.

>>386046183
>CS won't spoil anything from 3rd other than a political rivalry and someone from the Imperial government you meet in Chapter 3 of CS. You'll learn all the juicy details in 3rd, so definitely do CS if you want a break from Liberl.
Yeah, I'll do that, thanks.
Now I just need to finish last chapter of SC after months of procrastination
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>>386046091
Me owning a vita allowed me to play trails two years before you.
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>lacrosse

Can't even think worse "sport" than that to have in this military academy.
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>>386046882
>she comes with that spell that resurrects+restores the whole party.

That's on her Angel Quartz, anyone with Angel can use it once its at Rank 5. Also the reason why I put Fie in Mid is because she's great as a tanky bait character (and IIRC Fie doesn't cover Strike damage) and random clearer but I felt like the others offered more to the team.

Millum has some solid crafts and a full screen AoE S-Craft (the only one) that hits harder than Laura. I think she's fine there.
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>>386021287
The side quests in the game are pretty garbage, an amatuer's attempt at worldbuildig, even. The walls of text are just unnecessary. So many conversations are padded with every single character chiming in with their thoughts.
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When does Alisa become not shit, if ever?
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So why should I play Trails of Cold Steel?
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>>386047005
Thanks for beta testing, fag.
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>>386047856
Because you liked Trails in the Sky.
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>>386047895
I didn't even play it
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>>386047895
CS is a huge downgrade from Sky though.
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>>386048175
Then there isn't any reason to play Cold Steel.
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>>386020750
I'm waiting to buy it until I get paid tomorrow. Still have TiTS SC and the 3rd to play though.
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>>386048351
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>>386045412
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKtV3cIPp8E

This is in the second game.
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>>386048175
Sky eases you into the world, terminology and lore steadily.
CS expects you to know the basic stuff and even if they do explain it all over again in the tutorials it just isn't the same.
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>two and a half decades
>Trails still hasn't surpassed The Legend of Heroes II's soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDNUYnqNygw
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>>386020750
Torrent where?
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>>386047825
4 hours into game when she gets over it, if she is still shit to you then the problems lie within your tastes.
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>>386020750
>English dub only
>A JRPG that has not caught on
>GOTY

You know XSeed If you are going to schill a game at least put it in Japanese dub and find a game worthy of the translation.

Also Persona 5 and Nier Automata are my game of the year.
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>>386049492
I see no reason to chose her over Laura other than that's what the developers intended.
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>>386020750
So, on what order should I play the games for a better experience? Only the full translated games of course.
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>>386039826
Well because XSeed is trying to school and everyone else does not like this game.
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>>386049645
>Nier
>game of the year
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>>386049803
Release order on PC.
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>>386049803
>Translated
Trails in the Sky FC
Trails in the Sky SC
Trails in the Sky the 3rd

Trails of Cold Steel
Trails of Cold Steel II

There's also Trails to Zero and Trails to Azure, which fit between Sky and Cold Steel, but they haven't been translated yet.
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>>386049995
>>386049803

There's a translation for Zero out right now.

Azure is still an ongoing project.
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>>386049995
Zero/Ao start only a little before CS1/CS2 and play on simultaneously to them
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Who /bestgirl/ here?
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>>386049883
>Nier is selling close to 3 million*
>Has both the Japanese and English Dub plus Japanese text options
>Launched on Steam and is selling nearly 1 million copies maybe even more*


http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/05/30/nier-automata-shipments-digital-sales-surpass-15-million

http://steamspy.com/app/524220

Keep dreaming because Nier is much better than this game, the sales and the fandom prove it.
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I have though
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>>386042474
I already bought it for full price on Vita. They're lucky I don't just pirate it, like I also could have done in Vita.
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>>386050274
Zero and Ao was released before CS1 and CS2.
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>>386050301
Here is hoping that CS3 still lets you choose Rean's best friend/love interest.
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>>386050332
>Launched on Steam and is selling nearly 1 million copies maybe even more*
I see 500k only
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>>386049945
>>386049995
>>386050205
Alright, thank you lads, only the cold steel games have more voice acting right?
Just in case I gotta search for some undubs.
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>>386050529
Pretty much.
There is an undub for the TiTS games but it's only for post battle quotes for the most part.
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>>386050520
Of course but there is no doubt it will climb even further as time goes on.
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>>386050529
The English voice acting in both Cold Steel games actually isn't terrible, and I'm a stickler for not using English dubs. There are a few bad voiced lines, but for the most part, it's a super solid dub.
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>>386050301
I want to impregnate her and not take responsibility.
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>>386050301
Me.
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>>386050613
>>386050675
I see, I will think about it, in any case while we're at it, about how long is each game? And no, I dont plan on going full autismo and 100% all of them.
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>>386050301
>posts one of the worst girls
Let me show you what a real /bestgirl/ looks like
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>>386050996
Each game can range from 70-90 hours just playing through it casually not even getting 100% collectibles like books or talking to all the NPCs after main story events.

You could reach 110 hours easily on some games.
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>>386050996
40-50 hours.

>>386051189
Don't lie to the man.
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>>386051376
Okay, but it was a pretty convincing post.
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when is the second game coming out?
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>>386050996
I did pretty much all the side quests and talked to every NPC multiple times, but didn't do the autistic 100% that requires backtracking and this is how long it took me. You can definitely finish them in less.
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>>386051189
>>386051447
Almost got me, nice try scared me for a sec.
What about these events after main quest progression, They're just more plot or what?
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>>386051694
>talked to every NPC multiple times

This is autistic.
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Why is she so perfect bros?
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>>386050416
Released yes, but CS1/2 and Zero/Ao 's stories play simultaneously
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>>386050475
That goes without question for all the waifufags that CS brought in. I'd rather hope that CS3 introduces romances among side characters again, or that there exists a relevant girl that doesn't fall into Rean's dick.
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>>386051910
autism attracts autism
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>>386051910
Nice Meiya clone. Similar levels of autism. Almost zero domestic skills, normal household machines just explode when both touch them.
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>>386051965
>Relevant girl
So the ones that you don't romance except for the blonde?
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>>386038620
>Kevin's edge mode
>Literally caused him to kill his beloved older sister figure who took him in after his real mother tried to double suicide with him
>Hates both it and himself because of it

>Rean's edge mode
>Awakened to save his adopted younger sister, who ends up thirsty as fuck for some non-blood related incest
>Loved and adored by both adopted family and village
>Somehow still angsts and acts as edgy as Kevin
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>>386052351
I think it's appropriate, since he doesn't really understand it. People tend to fear what they don't understand or lack control over. It doesn't help that his first experience with it he doesn't really recall and ended up killing a bear. That's a frightening power.

His biggest issue really is aimlessness. He doesn't actually know what he wants to do, to the point where he becomes a gopher, but even that he's not really sure about. Like most of his depression and angst I think really just comes from his aimlessness and lack of any real dreams or desires.
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>>386051965
I really feel like CS cast loses a lot of personality and individuality because at some point they all have to crave MC's dick.
I mean the stuff in TiTS was perfect, Schera/Oliver, Agate/Tita, Anelace/cuteness. Imagine any of those characters just randomly wanting Joshua's dick for no reason other than self insertion.
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What difficulty would you recommend playing this game? I heard it's really easy, so Hard or Nightmare?
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>>386052351
Brutally hacking an animal to death as a young child is going to cause trauma. If you don't understand that, you might be a sociopath.
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>>386052629
Everyone doesn't crave Rean's dick though. He's their class leader and overall just a good guy to be around. You can trust him, he gives off good feelings.
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>>386052771
I bet she does.
Also why do japs love that "incredibly sexy, lazy teacher spends her free time drinking because she can't find a man" trope. I mean, who WOULDN'T want her?
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>>386053049
Because it works, it's working on you right now, you just found your moe.
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>>386053049
>I mean, who WOULDN'T want her?
Me.
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>>386052629
>>I really feel like CS cast loses a lot of personality and individuality because at some point they all have to crave MC's dick.

I don't get why people keep saying this when the player actually has to pursue the girls in order for them to fall for Rean. The only girls interested in Rean outside of their events are Alisa, Elise and maybe Alfin, but that is more to tease Elise.

I guess there is also Muse, but there is probably a deeper reason as to why she is trying to get Rean.
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>>386053165
I-I g-guess.
Fucking Japs.
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>>386053273
>the player actually has to pursue the girls in order for them to fall for Rean
Exactly, which means they cannot interact between themselves because at some point, depending on what the player may choose, they have to crave Rean's cock.
Imagine if one of the girls started hitting it off with another dude, the waifufags will go insane because that means that route is blocked for them.
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>>386053278
Admit, it, Sara is your type of girl.

I myself wouldn't mind a threesome with Maybelle and Lila.
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>>386049883
more like ASS of the year xD
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>>386052681
Rean doesn't earn pity and depth through his fears and experience as much as Kevin, but I feel his anxiety's justified well enough since he's constantly trying to be as prepared and balanced as possible. Kevin's always off-kilter in one sense or another.

Also, I guess we're casually dropping late-game spoilers in a thread for newbies.

>>386053447
Fie's somewhat playful towards other boys, as she occasionally teases Elliot and Machias in a suggestive way. But you're mostly right if only because of how bonding routes impact the main cast's development and barriers to interaction. Sen III will definitely fix this just by giving Rean his own Class VII to wrangle, while the ex-Class VII MCs interact in different, unusual pairings.
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>>386020750
>entire party is dropped into a pit
>MC catches lead female
>girl goes YOU BAKA, blushes and punches him

Bought the game ages ago, dropped it at this. Someone convince me to give this shit a fair shot.

I heard this game had mechs, when do you get those?
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>>386053837
It's not our job to convince you to play it. The whole thing with Alisa gets resolved and you don't mech battles until the second game.
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>>386053814
I don't really think we can go that route, because most of the girls never interacted that much with the other guys that much. They all had their own little groups, where outside of it they didn't really seem to mingle much sans Rean.

Like listing off the main groups from the top of my head:
Elliot, Gaius
Laura, Emma, Fie
Machias, Millium, Jusis
Alisa
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>>386053837
>month later she is still acting like a bitch
I get that she knows that she's being stupid, but a whole fucking month? And for what?
Is this really such a big deal in japan?
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>>386054080
>A month
More like a couple weeks because she gets over it in first field trip.
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>>386053982
>It's not our job to convince you to play it.
I know it isn't, anon. My apologies, I didn't mean it that way.

This game seems to be pretty loved on /v/ and I'm clearly didn't give this game a fair chance before dropping it. I guess I'm just interested in what /v/ thinks what this game's high points are.
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>>386054032
Nothing's stopping the writers from having the girls interact with boys they neglected at Thors. Laura and Gaius perhaps won't have much opportunity to get out of their comfort zone until later, but I can see Emma, Elliot, Machias, Alisa, Fie, Millium and Jusis hanging out for most of Sen III.

>>386054080
She's got an ulterior motive to act passive-aggressive towards Rean, which she apologizes for anyway because she realizes everyone's gonna learn her family identity at some point and the others are getting more comfortable regardless of background.
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>>386021610
How does choosing a girl affect the endgame?
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Sword autism is adorable
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>>386054032
It really stood out in a lot of scenes where they talk about how closer they all are, but then you wonder how often random pairings even interacted with each other.
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>>386054337
There are flaws in the writing sure, but it doesn't detract from the overall experience and enjoyment the series has to offer. I can only say so much without spoiling anything.
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>>386054401
Laura and Gaius are going to be the plot related characters this time, or so I would hope. I mean, everything is really just setup for Laura this time, everything is just stacked up for her plot wise. And Gaius has a sweet coat.
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>>386054725

Sword autism is shit.
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Post character evolution pic.
Thanks.
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>>386054865

Laura with the knights, Fie with Shirley, Gaius with Backhorn.

Those are pretty hard established setups so far.
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>>386054865
Gaius is likely going to learn he has a Stigma, as every arc has a plot-relevant Dominion or Church-related MC and we haven't had one yet who's yet to activate their latent Stigma. I bet shit's gonna go down in Nord Highlands as part of this. His connection to the traveling priest, who's suspiciously active and talented, + the Gralsritter coat he's wearing are knowing hints towards this. Fie and Sara are gonna be running around, bumping into Ouroboros (and Shirley as the shot of her dueling with Fie suggests), and Laura's got all this Victor and Sandlot/Stahlritter business going on.
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>>386054891
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>>386054865

Gaius is likely to be getting a muh wind stigma and become a dominion at some point, so he might end up being unexpectedly a very relevant plot character.
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>>386055193

We already know that the traveling priest is Backhorn, the roaring lion, 8th dominion of the Gralsritter.
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>>386055383
There's Barkhorn of course, but also a certain Thors historian and maybe, just maybe Ein Selnate herself starting to make moves against the Ironbloods and Ouroboros, and they've got Roselia. I wonder if the suspicion about Barkhorn being an Anguis, too, is true, since he'd be the most dangerous double-agent yet.
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>>386055196
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So where does Instructor Thomas fit in with all of this?
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>>386055792
He is the final bad guy.
Literally the puppet master.
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>>386055792
Rosine=Roselia
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>>386055193
Well Gaius has a happy family. A completely intact, happy family. And a Stigma requires great trauma doesn't it?
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>>386055014
Why Fie instead of Randy against Shirley?
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>>386055690
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Is TitS required to play before Cold Steel?
I finished the first one and I'm currently on the final chapter in SC.
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>>386056134
He was raped by his father during childhood
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>>386056110
>tfw Rean will steal Tio from Lloyd

I'm gonna be mad as fuck.
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>>386056134
>And a Stigma requires great trauma doesn't it?

Once when Gaius was a child there was a day with no wind.
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>>386020750
I already have Grandia 2 and Persona 3 on backlog, but I'm retarded and want to try this, sell it to me.
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>>386055792
He's in one of the Sen III screenshots next to loli Roselia, who could just be Rosine in her true form or some kind of twist. Red Moon Rose is finally about to matter, which means vampires and Mixed reveals. Roselia's one of three "Infiltrators", also, which means we've got two more odd suspects to meet.

>>386056134
...Sadly I think we're on to something, and it sounds gruesome but rich for the drama.

>>386056341
You could start CS now since you know more about Olivier's identity now, but I recommend finishing SC and then trying CS. If that doesn't grab you, wait a bit and go for 3rd since one of the Door stories in that game sets up CS.

>>386056372
That would also be nuts.

>>386056415
2spooky
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>>386056390
I'm gonna love it. Tita is going to feel those headpats too. And Estelle has hard time to explain to Renne why she doesnt love Joshua anymore.
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>>386056390
Rean will probably be locked to anyone who was an option for him before so old class VII and Towa.
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>>386022549
Seeing this in HD 60fps makes me regret buying CS2 for Vita, should've just waited out the PC port
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>>386056495
He seemed pretty badass, I want to see more of him.
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>>386024692
Wait. This PC version is improved over the Vita/ PS3 versions? Its not just a simple port?
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>>386053505
fuck off
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>>386045280

Shit-tier opinion right here.
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>>386056898
I also like how Victor still has the Courageous and Cedric apparently decides to visit him about that. We'll see what's happened to the Pantagruel eventually.

>>386056985
The port is rather thorough, with new controller prompts, massive performance gains (60 FPS and above, any resolution (can't really do 16:10 aspect) up tho 4K and beyond), a Turbo button to speed the game up more, Japanese text and unofficial undub support, and redone/additional English voices so Rean isn't the only one going unvoiced in conversations.
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>>386057514
Shit. I own the vita version, but if its really that improved I might have to buy the PC version too. Man.
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>>386057696
This port won't get another sale until winter most likely, and it might not be a deeper discount. Best thing I'd do is tell any friends/randoms interested more about the port and the game if you don't want to plunk down yet.
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Is there any fix for left stick diagonals slowing you to walking pace?
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>>386020750
>OP proving that PCuks only hate on CS because it was PS3/Vita exclusive.
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>>386020750
Is this a waifu simulator?
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>more weebshit on Steam

I don't feel welcome anymore.
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>>386058518

It has waifus. It's not the main point of the game, but it does have pretty animu girls in it.

The main focus of the game is the story, the school setting, and the surprisingly deep combat.
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>>386058506
It's the same people. Go look at the steam reviews. How the fuck could any sane person recommend this game after 2 hours played.
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>>386059523

Maybe some people have fun after 2 hours, and consider those 2 hours fun enough to recommend others make the same investment?

It's a weird concept but the time-of-fun-vs-money principle is like that sometimes.
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>>386024916
This pun is worth a reply.
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>>386043870
>CS2
>Jusis gets Platinum Shield
>Combined with Alisa your team is invincible
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>>386020750

I still need to go through Zero and Ao, which I'm saving for all the other games I'm trying to get through. So, maybe by the time Cold Steel II comes out on PC as well.
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>>386059253
You never were.
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>>386059623
Anon.... Trails games are notoriously slow paced just like Persona 3/4/5, 2 hours is nothing! I bet they haven't even began the first field mission.
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>>386060975

Stop being silly. We're all aloud to have different taste.
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>>386059523
Probably because they played it on the PS3/Vita and know its good already?
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>>386038930
>A character has base SPD 134. He gets buffed twice by Noble Command and Chrono Drive so current SPD+50% = 201. He will cast Air Strike (Base Casting Delay 400).
>His initial Casting Delay = 400 / 201 = 1.99, which is rounded down to 1.
>Having Cast 2 would make actual Casting Delay = 1 * (1 - 0.15) = 0.85, which is rounded down to 0.
>You now have a character that can cast an offensive spell at 0 Casting Delay.
Holy shit, is this it?
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>>386020750
I only play these weeaboo stuff for the waifus. How may this game satisfied my needs?
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>>386061958
Kill yourself, ironic weeb.
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>a fucking school simulator
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>>386061958

Fie exists. You will be sated. Oh and there are other less-correct girls you can pick from if you're that guy.
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>>386062043
Cry harder baby

>>386062061
Is there a Persona like dating features?
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>>386059623

You sound like a huge faggot.
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>>386062058
but not really
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>>386062268
Not quite. It doesn't have the Social Links from Persona, but it does have a combat link system which is affected by the bonds you have with your party members. You can increase these in battle, but it much quicker to do so with bonding events outside of battle. You'll get these by using bonding points on free days.
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>>386062770
Hey thanks anon. Is there conversations like in Fire Emblem, or are the dialogues very lineal?
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>>386063340
While I haven't played any of the newer FEs, but I'd say it's pretty linear. That being said, not all of the characters have view-able bonding events for every free day.

If you pull up the quick travel screen (it's square on Vita, but I'm not sure what it is on PC) on a free day, you'll see your classmates and where they are. The ones with the green arrow are the ones with viewable bonding events for that day.
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>>386063651
I mean, green exclamation point.
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Has anyone else experienced a major slowdown right after equipping a master quartz for the first time? If so, what setting fixed it?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBclT0W_2Dk

>yfw this comes on
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>>386063651
Yeah, thats what i was meaning. Thanks a bunch
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>>386064004
Nevermind, found it. It was Ambient Occlusion causing the slowdown.
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>>386020750
Can i entry to the serie with this game? or it is the first game?
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>>386064342
Actually, fuck me, tried it a second time with AO off and it slowed down.
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>>386062268
Bonding events are basically social links. Main difference is that you can only hang out in specific free days, and events are unique to those days.
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>>386064475
It's not recommended, but you can. You simply miss a lot of references and Trails in the Sky gives you the worldbuilding necessary to truly understand the relationships between nations.
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Damn. It's not even on the top sellers list one day after launch. Trails in the sky made the top sellers list. It looks like this is kinda bombing. I mean I love the series but I'm not gonna re-buy the game if it costs 45 bucks.
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>>386020750
i remember reading a falcom dev interview back when Tits came out and they said they would never sacrifice the quality of their games to pander to the waifu audience; fastforward half a decade and now this piece of shit and tokyo xanadu come out. Sign of the times
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>>386064004
>>386064578
Turning AO off seemingly made the slowdown happen one out of two times I ran that scene. Turning High Quality Depth of Field off has seemingly prevented that slowdown from ever occurring.
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>>386020750
>Those up-rezzed Vita graphics
no thanks
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>>386065580
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=245272509
>Popping in to say that thanks to this thread I solved the stuttering cutscenes issue. I set everything to max at 4K and if you uncheck the high quality depth of field the cutscenes go from stuttering mess to butter like the rest of the game already was.
http://64.91.255.7/forum/showthread.php?p=245266165
>Okay... High quality Depth of Field at 4K and 5K is a performance HOG. I can't really tell the difference between normal and high. So if you have this on and are experiencing frame rate issues at higher resolutions, just turn this off.
http://67.227.255.239/forum/showthread.php?p=244742190
>DoF is only in cutscenes in this game when specifically asked for by the cutscene script, not during normal gameplay.
The scene I was experiencing the slowdown in was, indeed, a cutscene. If you are experiencing slowdowns in cutscenes, turn off High Quality Depth of Field.
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I'm about to start CS2, is it better than 1 and how fun is it?
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>>386067085
Yes, it's fun. Find out for yourself, we aren't here to spoonfeed you opinions.
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>>386067085
The music for Valimar's fistfighting is hype as fuck.
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>>386061836
Yeah it is
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>>386020750
>this shitty generic JRPG that only dumb middle schoolers think it's cool gets a PC port
>suddenly GOTY

You've got to be kidding me.
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>>386020750
So how is the port?
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>>386069879
The definitive version of Cold Steel hands down.
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>>386065354
I'm genuinely surprised. I was sure it will outsell TiTS due to waifufaggotry pandering and animey graphics. I'd like to think that people got taste but it's more likely that they're just comparing it to compile heart stuff and choose the latter due to better price.
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>>386068924

it's not generic or shitty tho
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>>386021426

>He doesn't like cowtits bookworm, sword autist or sultry meido

Shit taste. Crow's best boy though.
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