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First game's better.

Meh, Catya Sassoon would have made a much better Lara Croft than Angelina Jolie. RIP.
>>3471124
LOL no.

>>3470860
>light effects
>real 3D everywhere
>tank controls that don't suck and take full advantage of the game world
>real sense of exploration
>those underwater levels

>>3470857
That is not MKII nor UMK3....

>>3470878
>>3470879
MK is different story. I never really took it that seriously. Yes, there were big MK championships too, but I doubt many people will tell you it has balance on par with SF/KoF/whatever.

By 1998, KoF'98 had pretty fair, challenging AI, interesting to play against. And SFA3 STILL had the 13+ hit hold bullshit.

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>>3470857

You're adorable

>>3470608
matsuno reads a lot of history books. he based LUCT on the history of the balkans.

FFT strikes me as pretty historically accurate, for a game, until the demons start appearing.

I think matsuno has said ramza is dead, and that him riding of is just a vision of sorts that olan has before he dies, because he's the narrator.

delita lived. that much is made clear from epilogue. he's the hero of the era and the unified kingdom prospers.

The unique characters technically disappear in the story at the point you officially can recruit/dismiss them as regular party members and they stop being guests. Remember the game is being told as a fable years later so using them in the final battle is not canon, only Ramza and Alma are definitely known to be present.

Not sure about Delita but I think it's implied or outright stated he reigned as king for a time and remembered as the hero so he would have survived, but with a tragic twist in that the princess rejected him and lost her own life.

Shame about Oran but Arazlam, who is telling the Zodiac Brave story throughout the game, is his descendant so Oran's work eventually allowed the truth to be known.

>>3470608

They're absent because the ending is a baseline. You don't actually have to recruit Agrias, Mustadio, TG Cid, Rafa or Malak. Which is also apparent because the second they join your party they're completely absent from any kind of speaking role again.

As for getting out despite Rofel destroying the gate, I think it's a Deus Ex Machina related to the Zodiac Stones. Just like how Malak comes back from the dead after Barinten shoots him right before getting thrown off the fucking roof of Riovances by Celia/Lede.

Olan died because he was branded a Heretic by the Glabados Church for publishing his Durai Papers which exposed the church's lies. The Church still had a lot of power and influence in Ivalice despite Delita and Ovelia taking over. It wasn't an uncommon thing in the middle ages, hell Ramza is branded a Heretic and the only reason he doesn't get killed is because he is a literal super badass. The whole "story" you're experiencing is Alazalam Durai's exposing of the "truth" which is basically clearing the name of Olan Durai who is his great grandfather or something.
>Did Delita survive the wound
I think it's implied, it's been awhile since I read the full Zodiac Brave Story stuff. I think he married Ovelia, became King, and then Ovelia was "assassinated".

>Darkest Final Fantasy game I have ever played

Once you understand that Final Fantasy Tactics, is just "Tactics Ogre 2: Electric Boogaloo" it's not nearly as out there or surprising.

TO and FFT have a shitload of similarities.
>Brother and Sister dynamic (Denam/Caitua, Ramza/Alma)
>MC is the X factor and fighting outside of the primary factions
>Princess used by people to get into position of power (Caitua vs. Ovelia)
>Power struggle between factions in a war (Goltana vs. Larg and I can't remember, but it's like Gargistan vs. the rest of Valeria)
>Ancient Evil Awakens type stuff (King Dorgulaualalla or whatever and the Zodiac Braves)

Final Fantasy Tactics is Ogre Battle by any other name.

conkers

>>3469303
BANjO-
-KAZOOiE™

>playing yurotrash
Enjoy your PAL garbage, you limey bucktooth bitches.

>>3469296
Looks interesting >>3458189

He's also got stuff from magic carpet.

GIVE IT UP MAN

>>3470174
Never give up. Never Surrender.

>>3468261
>Mega Man pronounces Bass as [BAHSS] in the Mega Man 8 FMVs

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>VRRRR VRRRR VRRRR VRRRR

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>>3468329
for your intense approval needs

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>>3467837
It always annoyed me that merchants in The Dragon's Trap are chain-smoking pirate devil pigs but they feel entitled to refuse showing you their best merchandise if your charisma points are too low

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Magical Quest is a good one. Was the 1/2 magic use permanent or only for one level/till the next continue btw?

Pic related, the orignal RPG jew. His name was translated in German into "Raffi"which can almost be translated into "Greedy", although it is more like a play on words in German.

>>3467193

lol no. not even close

>>3467193
>Is this game actually better than the TG-CD version?
Is this a troll? it's a completely different game, some people falsely call it a butchered port but it isn't, its a great classic style vania in its own right.

If you mean the PC Engine CD game, Rondo of Blood, they're different games. It isn't better but Vampire's Kiss is the best SNES Castlevania by far.

contra 3 is fun

hard corps is 2hard

ps2 shit is not retro, but I can appreciate you shooping out the "2" after playstation

super c is my waifu

>>3460808
>super c is my waifu

based. Super c is my fav contra too. Good stuff.

>>3460808
>hard corps is 2hard

Maybe my memory is fuzzy, isn't Hard Corps the easiest one?

Either way, all 3 of those are great.

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My cave is pretty comfy. Wish I got more time down there these days. Maybe this winter I'll get some better shelves and display a more reddit-impressive array of consoles.

>>3460431
>all dat aluduct
Cannabis grow detected.

>>3460423
That monitor is so fucking gay. Throw it in the dumpster where it belongs and see a professional about your autism.

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Give me one reason why I should have him in my party.

He is packing a 10 inch beast under that smock

>>3459546
Well, shit, I can't argue with that.

If link's sprite in LA was a stick figure and got changed to a normal looking link in LA DX I am sure there would be people saying the original sprite had more charm or some bs.

There is a such thing as real improvements, not the George Lucas style additions, but genuine improvements.

I feel DX is superior to LA in every way. Or.. Perhaps they should release all zelda games in black and white to add "charm" that apparently gets lost when there is color.

>>3455903
>black and white
green and green ... and green and green

>>3455903
>an additional dungeon, color, pictures
Hell of an improvement. Anyway, enjoy unskippable text for every guardian acorn and piece of power. You can b out of that shit immediately in the original cart.

that's better

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Is the C64c with the new motherboard the best one available?

>>3454832
>The Incredible Machine 3
>not the original The Incredible Machine

What the fuck man, what, the, fuck?

What are the point of playing rom hacks when none will surpass Super Metroid

>>3439016
Because they can get damn close.
Hyper Metroid is fucking fantastic.
Same with Z-Factor, and while I wouldn't say it for the original Redesign, the updated "Axiel Edition" is pretty damn good.

>>3439017
I have a hacked 3DS and even I don't want to touch Federation Force.

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I have a copy of Yoshi's Story for N64 that lately has started crashing after about 15-30 minutes of playtime. When it gets back to the "Nintendo" screen it starts rapidly resetting about once a second. What could be the possible cause of this? Could the capacitor on the cartridge have gone bad, or is there something worse wrong with it? None of my other games are having this problem so it's not the N64's fault.

>>3430262
Have you opened up the game and looked for any visible damage?

>>3430374
I gave it a visual inspection, cleaned the contacts thoroughly and also cleaned up some flux on the back of the board but it still has the problem.

My personal guess is that the capacitor is at fault. In theory, it could be taking a charge when the game boots, but can't maintain it for long and then when the charge runs out, the game resets back to the start screen and keeps restarting because there's no charge left in the capacitor.

I don't have much knowledge of how N64 carts work, but from what I understand if there were any bad traces or broken solder joints on the board it wouldn't be starting up at all. If I can figure out what kind of capacitor N64 cartridges use it would be easy to replace. If that doesn't work then one of the chips might be bad, in which case the easiest fix would be to migrate the ROM chip to a compatible donor cart. Hopefully it doesn't come down to that.