Jasper Nikki
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non FF PS1 Square title that I would recommend is Xenogears. It\'s really good until my 12 year old mind could not comprehend what\'s going on later in the game. But it\'s definitely good.
I don\'t think FFVII is overrated, it deserves the crazy reception it got.
Yes. Christ YES!!! A bit on the ugly side apparently (I thought it looked fine).
\"Come powers of the universe! Dragon... king slice\"
Any tips on beating Chaos in Dissidia? I beat him the first time twice but then he just comes back and obliterates me... I\'m a level 47 Onion Knight, I probably have to grind don\'t I?
ChaosRandom
Member
I actually recently picked my Dissidia back up after a while of not playing. Havent fought Chaos yet. I\'m only a LVL 28 Cloud. Question: Is there a time when you do Shade Impulse as a villain? Also, I have yet to beat a spawned rare battle piece. This may be my favorite game. Dang close anyway. I need Duodecim to go to 10 bucks.
I haven\'t played the original Dissidia\'s story since I first picked it up years ago. But fighting him for sh*ts and giggles in Duodecim, he still reminds me that he can still kick my a** if I don\'t put in the effort.
My best advice is to have the best possible equipment and summons available to you. It\'s all about stamina with Chaos, if you have less than 50% health the third round, you may as well count it as a loss and hit the showers.
Each round he gets more aggressive, so round one, put the pressure on him. Even if he breaks you, keep on him, in my experience, he doesn\'t use too many HP attacks first round.
Second round is all about finding that synergy between offense and defense, cause he starts cranking out HP attacks. Keep attacking, but keep an eye out for the attack he uses that generates a wall of flame around himself and pulls you in.
Third round, he\'s trying to tear you a new one. Keep a cool head and be ready to stay on the defensive. Since it can be hard to tell if he\'s using a bravery or HP attack, you\'re going to have to learn his moves. Never attack him until you\'ve either blocked his attack, which is a bit hard to do, or the second you successfully dodge.
The best trick I can tell you is use the Magic Jar Summon. Since it\'s so easy for him to break you and build up his bravery round one, you can use that against him. Once he has a nice chunk, use a HP attack on him and use your summon once your HP attack connects. I know it\'s seems like an obvious tactic, but if you use it too early, you risk him chipping away at what you copy from him. But keep in mind, whenever you use the summon, you won\'t be able to use it for the rest of the battle, so time it\'s use wisely.
Hope that helps.
If I remember correctly Random, you don\'t get to play as the villains in the story mode. Maybe Freelance can confirm it for you.
Thanks for the advice, really sucks that you have to beat him 3 times though. The most I\'ve beaten him is once...
@Chapnis
I\'m contemplating getting VII too so I looked up a gameplay vid. Horribad graphics but I\'m still intrested after I beat Dissidia. Darn you Chaos!
chapnis
Member
Haha, a review from 1997... \"What is necessary during the game\'s normal progression is the capacity for awe. FF7\'s graphics are light years beyond anything ever seen on the PlayStation, making Wild Arms look like a Yarouze demo (we have nothing against Wild Arms, but FF7 is that good).\"
I wonder if that review might have been talking about the game\'s prerendered full motion video sequences, that seamlessly mixed in with the character models and gameplay backgrounds. Even in 1997, I think the character models (outside of battles) must have looked super-primitive.
Well I level grinded to level 95 and completely wrecked the level 48 Chaos. :-)
I bought the PC version of FFVII in 2001, and that\'s when the simplicity of the non-battle character models really struck me. However, I\'d seen the game played a fair amount in 1998, at which time I didn\'t have that reaction. Maybe it was the higher resolution of the PC version that really made the models stick out for me then.
Freelance
Member
I also have the PC version of FFVII and they actually tweaked some things for the PC release. They had the wonderful idea of added \"o\" mouths to the blocky character models which, unfortunately, made them look worse than the console versions.
All the grammar mistakes were corrected as well so we PC users never got the \"this guy are sick\" line.
We got higher resolutions too so all in all we had more good tweaks than bad.
I did play PC FFVIII first before FFVII though which was probably a bad idea after seeing the much better VIII character models.
Playing the PC version with its ability to screen capture makes for some funny moments with the character renaming feature:
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b80/freelancewolf/Untitled-18-1.jpg
Here are some random screenshots of me playing as Squall in Dissidia. I took them ages ago. I suck playing as him however, even though he\'s one of my favourite FF characters.
The pictures are from his EX Burst. The game has a screengrab feature included.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b80/freelancewolf/Snap3-2.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b80/freelancewolf/Snap2-3.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b80/freelancewolf/Snap1-2.jpg
I should take some of Laguna\'s EX Burst. It\'s the greatest attack ever, and not just because he said so.
Check this out Freelance. Me and Cloud didn\'t take too well to that picture you took of him being stuck up by Squall, so we smacked him down. Then we let Tifa finish him off to add insult to his injuries!
I would smack him around with Onion Knight just for the giggles, but I suck with the little fella.
Freelance
Member
Meh, he\\\'d just get right back up for the next battle. Meteor Strike was horrid in the first game because of the uber length of time it took to summon the damn thing. S-E must\\\'ve thought the same thing because they shortened the time considerably when they localized it. Made me kinda jealous because I had no intention of picking up the same game again after importing it. Not too fond of Squall\\\'s moveset in the game but you should\\\'ve done an Omnislash V.5 hehe.
It\\\'s awesome when the game chooses Laguna for Squall\\\'s assist for obvious spoilage reasons (and not just because they\\\'re in the same game). Laguna\\\'s awesome and is another of my favourite characters. His battle theme (The Man With the Machine Gun) is one of the best battle themes ever. He\\\'s optimistic, always get leg cramps when nervous, can\\\'t talk to women, is always getting lost, is a lovable goof, becomes a XXXXXXXX (spoiling) and messes up common phrases. All his playable scenes in FFVIII are awesome.
Now I feel like playing it again...pretty tempted to get it on PSN but it takes up 1GB ....
@Ofaliss
Watching you play is so much more interesting than watching me play. I\'m such a cheep-o with Onion Knight just using Comet over and over and over again. Would you guys recommend duodecim?
I always chuckle when the game gives my opponents assist from their respected game. I got lucky because I wanted a video of Squall saying, \"The thrown is on the line.\", and they ended up making Laguna his assist too. Two emo\'s battling it out for the King of Emo\'s Girls Go Crazy Over!
I personally like Squall\'s Bravery attacks. He can chain them together seamlessly, but his HP attacks are just bad in my opinion. I say that because you see them coming several miles away. I only got caught with that Rough Divide because I didn\'t time that dodge right, when Squall summoned Laguna.
Tifa has the same problem of being able to telegraph her moves. So I always start my assault with a Blizzaga, and try to distract them by summoning Cloud whenever I can.
I wish they had infrastructure modes so I can see how well I match up against other people. After a while, fighting the CPU becomes childs play. But I doubt I would play online much, because people would likely just use Exdeath. I freaking HATE Exdeath! He is SO cheap.
@Balrog
Hang in there bud, you\'ll get better. I wasn\'t always that good. It took alot of hours to get to where I am. Lucky for me, I love both games so much.
Duodecim is a must buy in my opinion. The assist add a new level of strategy to a game already heavy with it. They can be used to compensate for your weakness, or you can figure out some nice combos.
Believe it or not, my dumba** didn\'t think to try combo\'s with my assist at first. I would just summon them and wait for there action to finish. But then it finally hit me like a sock full of oranges, \"Hey stupid!, Coordinate your attacks!\"!
Just got done browsing the free movie section of YouTube and saw that Advent Children is available to watch for free. So if you haven\'t seen it (why the hell not?) and have an interest, check it out. I highly recommend you do.
@Ofaliss
I haven\'t because I think it would be best if I beat VII first.
Thanks for the info confultyf. I\'ll try wathing it tomorrow but I bet it won\'t be avalible in Canada or somesuch jazz.
@ Random, I got the UMD and download the day the game released, so I am all set as far as 012.
Hopefully you can watch it in Canada Balrog. Like confuletlyf said, it has nothing in it that you don\'t already know, but then again, you had no idea Zack died until I said something! It\'ll be a little confusing at first not having played VII, but Advent Children is the reason why I played VII.
I just finished watching it and it makes me want to buy VII too. But I won\'t until I can find Crisis Core somewhere and beat that first.
It would probably be major spoiler for me to watch one of my copies of Advent Children, because I don\'t even know who Zack is. Years ago, I played about an hour of Crisis Core, so I\'ve probably seen this guy, but I still don\'t know what relation he has to FFVII (my save there is at the Gold Saucer).
By the way, I meant to ask this earlier in response to chapnis but forgot: are the PSP remakes of FFI and FFII available in the EU PS Store? We don\'t have them in the NA PS Store.
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