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Re: Skies of Arcadia HD news (GAF topic)
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Sun Nov 25, 2012 3:51 pmby Sonikku
Ah, Skies of Arcadia. I remember picking that up for Christmas within a month or so of it coming out when nobody on the school bus had the slightest idea of what the hell I was talking about. I hope they use the superior sound quality of the Dreamcast version and pair it up with the extra content of the gamecube. I hope they do something about the random encounters. They happened WAY too frequently. I sort of wish they didn't have randoms while in the air at all, allowing you to freely take your airship wherever you like and explore to your hearts content. It got so irritating in the Maelstrom part of the game that I almost quit playing.
Re: Skies of Arcadia HD news (GAF topic)
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Sun Nov 25, 2012 6:22 pmby Lan Di-sama
The random battles' frequency is a huge deterrent for me to play this game again. Damn Loopers. And Fina plain fucking sucks.
Re: Skies of Arcadia HD news (GAF topic)
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Mon Nov 26, 2012 1:04 pmby St. Elmo's Fire
I didn't think the random battles were THAT bad compared to FF7 or FF8 (as in, it had more of them, but not MUCH more), which were probably the RPGs I played closest to SoA, time wise...
Re: Skies of Arcadia HD news (GAF topic)
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Mon Nov 26, 2012 1:10 pmby Ziming
What was a real pet peeve was those random battles where the enemy would retreat before I could finish them.
Re: Skies of Arcadia HD news (GAF topic)
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Mon Nov 26, 2012 1:11 pmby Bluecast
They are annoying but not as bad as older RPG's. Esp 2D ones.
Re: Skies of Arcadia HD news (GAF topic)
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Mon Nov 26, 2012 1:16 pmby MiTT3NZ
What about Mt. Moon in the original Pokemon? I honestly don't know which is worse... that or Skies of Arcadia.
Re: Skies of Arcadia HD news (GAF topic)
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Mon Nov 26, 2012 1:17 pmby south carmain
the worst definitely has to be FF1 on GBA, in the mines it's 1 step one fight
Re: Skies of Arcadia HD news (GAF topic)
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Mon Nov 26, 2012 1:25 pmby St. Elmo's Fire
I played FF4 when it got re-released on the PS1 and it had a lot of randoms, but what made it worse was the sheer hardness of the fights. IIRC potions and tents were quite dear, and damn near every fight turned into a desperate and bloody battle for survival, so I used them all up in no time. Was a BIG difference to the common "hit them once..." approach of the newer RPGs...
Re: Skies of Arcadia HD news (GAF topic)
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Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:56 pmby Sonikku
I think the worst ever was final fantasy 8 when you had to trek through a long cave with a tough random encounter gradually depleting your resources and will every step of the way to Omega Weapon. (and just when you think you can be all "Lawlz No Random skillz equipped", it bullshits you by giving you randoms anyway.) Omega weapon was some seriously ridiculous bullshit. Certainly one of the toughest bosses in video games, and the entire time the randoms EVERY SINGLE STEP wears you down. Even if you do beat him, in spite of the frantic randoms, you still have to make the trek all the way back before you can save. They must have handed out a lot of pay cuts at Square that week that content was created.
Still didn't have to put up with that randoms crap when in your airship, though.
Re: Skies of Arcadia HD news (GAF topic)
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Wed Nov 28, 2012 1:03 pmby St. Elmo's Fire
^In Ultimecia's castle? IIRC it was the basement of there where Omega was. It wasn't so much the enemies or number of encounters that made that tough for me, it was the removal of all my skills apart from "Attack" (I think). Getting them back was pretty tough if done in the wrong order. Omega still got made my bitch though.
Re: Skies of Arcadia HD news (GAF topic)
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Wed Nov 28, 2012 2:16 pmby Sonikku
Maybe it was Ultimate Weapon I was thinking about, the two seem very similar.
Re: Skies of Arcadia HD news (GAF topic)
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Wed Nov 28, 2012 2:20 pmby Yukupo
Pretty sure it was Omega Weapon like you said Sonikku. In like the bottom left corner of the world map in that secret base. It's been so long since I beat that but those random encounters were burned into my skull for sure.
Re: Skies of Arcadia HD news (GAF topic)
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Wed Nov 28, 2012 2:44 pmby St. Elmo's Fire
Deep sea research lab? That was Ultima weapon, you could draw the GF Eden from him! I do know what you're talking about now though, if you did something wrong with the steam valves, you got spammed with enemies. Omega was WAY harder than Ultima though.
Re: Skies of Arcadia HD news (GAF topic)
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Wed Nov 28, 2012 2:52 pmby Yukupo
St. Elmo's Fire wrote: Deep sea research lab? That was Ultima weapon, you could draw the GF Eden from him! I do know what you're talking about now though, if you did something wrong with the steam valves, you got spammed with enemies. Omega was WAY harder than Ultima though.
You're right, after looking it up I don't remember if I even fought Omega Weapon.
(It was a very long time ago though.) Maybe that's why I forgot there were two.
Re: Skies of Arcadia HD news (GAF topic)
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Wed Nov 28, 2012 2:54 pmby Bluecast
I have yet to finish FF4 on PSP