Metaphor: ReFantazio is nominated for: >Game of the Year>Best Art Direction>Best Narrative>Best Score & Music>Best Role-Playing GamePrevious thread: >>502437173>Version 1.09 is now live!https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2679460/view/4446834797838336152?l=english>Metaphor: ReFantazio peaks at 85k concurrent players on Steam!>Metaphor: ReFantazio surpasses 1m sales on launch day>Now available EVERYWHERE (but Nintendo Switch and Xbox One)>Resources and useful linkshttps://rentry.co/MetaphorRefantaziovghttps://rentry.co/scenicvista>Metaphor Digital Artbookhttps://mega.nz/file/VisTTLhB#G4epdYn-DfoS9QnkDccPaverj_LjwY35_VpCAsj8kTc>Metaphor: ReFantazio Special Soundtrackhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kT8go1ScWljmvHOjpzywgsnV1fI036Ovg>MetaphorFix (adds proper ultrawide, things, etc.)https://github.com/Lyall/MetaphorFix/releases>A Metaphor in Fantasyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eFkMJzc6ow>How many hours have you played?>What day are you on?>What are your favorite classes?>Favorite BGM?>Are you having fun?>"How should I build my MC?"Realistically anything works, you won't brick yourself even on Hard or Regicide. Common consensus is a hybrid STR/MAG/AGI is best.>"What is the best team comp?"Just about everything works, do whatever you like the most and it'll work on any difficulty.>"How should I manage my time?"There's more than enough time in the game to 100%, do whatever you'd like.>"Which royal virtues should I focus on?"Prioritize eloquence and tolerance and avoid courage boosts.PLEASE MARK SPOILERS
REBIRTH SWEEP
confident are we
DEI cheques cleared
>>502708389...the wokest game of the year!
The schizo is crying lol
woke wins againlaughing all the way to the bank as chuds have no games
By the way the reason why Metaphor didn't get a best performance nomination is because the industry is obsessed with mocap actors and all the others did mocap.
>>502708475https://x.com/TheSunReaper0/status/1853836424715391351
>>502708708Stop posting your own twitter account, crybaby
>>502708708I saw this post earlier. This is an advanced level of /pol/ brainrot I haven't seen in a long time. It's impressive.
How do you /v/tards find these literal who?
>>502708708It's over
>>502708876lore inaccurate chibi
ffschizos btfop3schizos btfo
6 NOMINATIONS NOMINATIONS
we easily take art direction and music
Who did you pick on the island festival at 09/06? I'm thinking about Strohl for the warrior weapon
>>502709170It's the only thing really worthy of GOTY in that list but elden ring is going to take it probably
>>502709235Anything other than Gallica or Eupha is incorrect.
>>502709170What about the game's art direction was notable?
>incoming schizo meltdown
>>502709413>incoming
>>502709278The fact that a DLC is even included just showcases the state of the industry. It's "Game" of the year not "DLC" of the year.
>losing to dlcNo...
>>502709278>fucking astrobot and balatro are on this listgrim
>>502709278I don't give a shit who wins as long as a DLC doesn't win.
at least we're in the running for goty
>>502709290>mage or summoner weaponBecause you like these or just for their event? I don't care about seeing a lamer one since I will just look the other ones up on YouTube later
guys.. where's persona 3 reload..? I can't seem to find it..
Basilio cucked..
>>502709981why is gallica so flat
>>502709950I just like their event. The weapons are all identical. 320 attack with MP recovery passive.
>>502710058because flat is justice
Award ceremonies are a jokeThe critics are always wrong lol
>>502709734I win the DLC to win cuz it'll be funny
>>502709981Kinda of retarded for them to keep up the meme of him being a mystery party member when he's one of the more popular characters in jp now
>>502709981Will looks white here
>>502710370e*da aren't
>>502708708How does a guy take so many swings and manage to miss each one?
>>502710241only half of the judges are even from gaming publications
>>502710250The seething everywhere would be funny I guess. Game awards were always a joke
It's funny they try to hide Bas being a party member/Del's death when they already fucked up and put Bas on the box art.
HAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAPERSONA 3 RELOAD DIDN'T EVEN GET MENTIONED
>>502710570why is his skin super dark in this comiche's not that swarthy in the game
>>502710828brown is brown
>>502710783re-releases don't get awards
Which is the best?
>>502711156Metaphor>SMTVVall persona games are trash
>>502709981>>502710710Why did they whitewash Will
>>5027111565 is metaphor with good dungeons
>>502711156The ones that gets nominated LOL
>>502711212>Metaphor literally copied it's gameplay loop and everything good about it from Person 5 but Persona badmake it make sense.
>>502711464nta but "school life" isn't interesting to me
Metaphor 2 but it takes place at the mage academy and (You) are a student there
>>502711464Metaphor doesn't have high school drama shit like classroom, school fair, summer breakAlso you've asked this question before schizo
>>502711464it doesn't have shitty teenager drama
>metaphor is persona but for middle aged menit's not gonna win any awards is it
>>502711464japanese high school setting is boring
>>502712217*middle aged fujoshi
I didn't realize this place had become filled with Resetera-tier posters that want to get rid of the school setting. I'm surprised considering most of us were /pg/ immigrants.
>>502712217I'm 60 but I'm lit for my age
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/metaphor-refantazio-soundtrack-composer-didnt-mean-to-go-so-hard-with-the-games-ost-and-was-surprised-at-the-attention-it-received/
>>502712618Why? /pg/ is a shithole. Only unironic retards love that place
>>502712217how dare they target their audience
>>502710992Looks at silent hill 2
>>502712890>Metaphor: ReFantazio composer didn’t mean to go so hard with the game’s OSTwhat does this mean?
>>502713235Read the article
>>502713235just read the article dude it takes like 120 seconds
>>502712890>meguro knows personacucks only listen to jpop kek
>>502712618Of course the DEI game has these kind of posters
>>502713235>trying to understand the meaning behind what journalists writeit's shit they make up vaguely based on things they heard or made updont think too hard on it. as an aside, there are a lot of great songs in the ost but personally i don't think this one, which they posted, is the besthttps://www.youtube.com/embed/cww0TeaJvsU?feature=oembed
Check in on the reloaders in your life. And don't just text them, go to their wife's boyfriend's house and make sure they're still breathing.
>>502713687what
>>502713687
>>502712618people who played persona 5 to completion should not be allowed to post here
>>502713612Holy fuck just watch some persona anime fucking nigger
>>502713687"Reloaders" are generally not even old enough to drink much less get married.
>>502713235Zoomnig slang.
>>502710570
>>502713687KEK
>>502710828comic made by a westoid
>>502710710>Eupha and Will are white The Disney's Alladin of metaphor art
>>502709373Snrk
>>502712618i love cunny and everything but i like the setting of metaphor more, melodrama shit is lamer when you compare it to hesimay getting his dead sons ashes stolen.
LET'S FUCKING GOOO
>>502708148Whats wrong with will and gang admiting theres no such thing as a utopia? We cant create such a thing in storybooks without denying what it means to be human. Give atlus/the story a break jeez
>>502716375It's a gen x sentiment
>>502716375Pt.2 even the bible's providence/heaven denies us entry if we retain our humanity. Living without sin or desire sounds like being a fucking a tree.
>>502716375>Give the game that just got six nominations and daily handjobs from massive twitch streamers a break
>>502716672what a misinterpretation
Asmongold just said Metaphor will win GOTY
>>502716830Nows the part where you give a counter baka
>>502716375Who the fuck are you quoting?
>they rush to give junah a figure>is the least popular girl in jp
>>502716951Don't even need to watch it I now he hasn't. He said earlier that Black Myth Wukong is GOTY and Metaphor is best narrative. I agree though it should win it.
>>502717351Ann 2.0
asmon..asmongold
What did she mean by this?
>>502717173Play the game, gallica and will come to terms with the fact the utopia in the book is fictional. Such a thing could never exist
>>502717416He knows wukong won't win goty, is what he said on his stream today
>>502717351someone in altus has a raging hardon for dumb bimbo idols
>>502717582No one was debating this schizo
When you depart from Virga Island there are two ferries you can talk to. They talk about how you and Gallica get along well and how it reminds them of someone from a long time ago. I don't know who they are talking about but it feels like the kind of foreshadowing I absolutely love. You know, when your actions invoke the memory of old legends implying you are just as great as them. Kino trope
This flop will win nothing
>>502717568how
>>502717602Alright that's cool if true. Hopefully he uploads it later or I'll just watch the VOD.
>>502717752>ferries
>Enter Dragon Temple>Get to the bottom>Suddenly a 1 to 1 copy of EO1I swear if they copied the same fucking twist...Please don't spoil me
>>502717890he has 360 hours in the gameit's just that good
>>502717874my dick will flop on your face slut
>>502718049Hey at least you recognized what's happening. Imagine being a normalfag and having everything go over your head.
Why is it that this game can't stop winning
>>502717978Kek that was my inner ESL speaking
>>502717581
>>502717568AsmonGOD
>>502718340you can find out the answer inagme if you do all the quests and explore a certain fairy relevant location in the story
>>502718254Its about as subtle as a sledgehammer to the face.>Eht Ria >Rooster Inn>Shilleka>Abyssal Goods>FOE mechanics but casualized>1:1 copy of a stratum carried entirely by ambienceEtc
>>502717568how the fuck
>not even a single western gameGRIM
Uh oh someone's coping
>>502718936Canadia is in the west
>>502718936Concordbros....
Bas Love Bas Life
>>502719097Canada is China
>>502719314more like india lol
they're announcing Metaphor DLC at the TGA right?
>>502719495No.
>>502713687Snrk
Meguro has been keeping an eye on what players have to say about his latest soundtrack. “I didn’t think there would be much reaction to (Metaphor: ReFantazio’s) soundtrack, as it doesn’t have as many flashy songs as the Persona series,” Meguro comments. He explains that he approached composing for Metaphor: ReFantazio in a different way to the Persona games. Instead of trying to drive home the concept of the game through the sound, he originally took a more nuanced approach to Metaphor; ReFantazio’s OST- aiming to let the music do its work from behind the scenes. “However, when I looked at people’s reactions to the soundtrack, it was really surprising to me that some people kindly commented things like ‘it’s very Atlus-like’ and ‘it’s quite an aggressive soundtrack this time too,’” Meguro reveals.>Meguro didnt expect not Strange Journey to be popular with Persona fans
>>502719861i never played strange journey. Stupid nigga
>>502719495If they do an p6 gets skipped again that would be so fucking funny
For me, it's Gallica!
>>502720286BASED
>>502720286Gallica sex
>NEVER AGAIN SHALL I SLEEP IN A ROACH-INFESTED INN!
>>502720234the best fucking timeline
>>502720615You will eat ze bugs
>>502720615Asmongold never said that
Y'all gonna get dunked on by Square Enix and Sony>>502720753
>>502719097Canada is an indian/chinese colony
>>502718936>the playstation graveyard>a fucking card game no ones heard of>chinkshit>a fucking DLC>a 1/3rd of a remake>a "good" but not groundbreaking rpgWhat a terrible year.
>>502723845America is a jewish colony.
>>502710710based soejima improving will and eupha
>>502724094You have to be living under a rock to not have heard of balatro
>>502726030If I wanted to play shitty card games I'd go to a college frat partyThe fact that it's made by fucking leaves isn't helping anything, being up there for GOTY is a joke.
>>502726030I've played Balatro, it's good but not GOTY tier
>>502724094>>502726181Cope
>>502726181>>502726893So you have heard of it.
>>502726181nigga has never been to a frat party in his life lmao
>>502726181True. Card games can be fun, much fun actually. But to even think for a moment they would be worthy of even being nominees is just ridiculous.
>>502720286the canon choice
Telling Gallica she's my forever ride or die girl.
>>502729470Gallica has fairy bf
>>502729413who the fuck is this? where's Asmongold
>>502729413Ogey
>>502729413HOLY BASED
>mfw beating Devourer Of StarsHEISMAY SAVES THE DAY YET AGAIN! please tell me he was the strongest dragon.
>>502730097he is
>>502730097COOL YOU BEAT AN OPTIONAL BOSS THAT IS EASIER THAN THE FINAL BOSS
>>502731052I WELCOME THE CHALLENGE!
>>502730097Yeah, he's a cunt.
>>502730097He's even stronger than the superboss dragon
>>502730486>>502732208>>502732270filtered
>>502732408had to beat him on storyteller
Wukong has virtually no competition. It will win GOTY guaranteed. Metaphor might get some side awards though.
>>502732778they allowing the Elden Ring DLC in is a bit sus
>>502729571no she doesnt
Gallica of the Year
I'm going to wait until I cleared a bit of my Steam backlog and a sale goes out before I get the full Metaphor game, so you can stop me if my plan for building the MC is a mistake.Basically, I'm going to keep his stats evenly levelled, as I'm assuming he can't get benched and will need to flex to whatever roles are missing from any given party combination. >>502732778Not like that means anything. The Game Awards are half advertising and half the Oscars (meaning, advertising with pretension).
>>502734137do not do this. the optimal build is to choose Str OR Mag, then Luck. if you don't want to crit fish like you're playing dnd 5e (2014) paladin, go Agi for 2nd stat instead.
>>502720286They had sex right after this, right?
>>502734262I'll have a talk with the MC, to see if he agrees with your plan.
>>502734964what did he say?
>>502735474He is unavailable
I am Eupha.
>>502738785Hulk's charm voiceline makes sense now...
>>502738989I am having breeding sex with you.
>>502738989And I am Iron Strohl
Aren't fairies hypothetically the most powerful lifeforms if they're pure magla like dragons but can channel it into intended magic and intentionally evolve as an individual lifeform?
>>502740378more like the laziest lifeforms
I am Eren Jaeger
yeahh metapahor!
>>502735474He said "This is a message from Lord Nergal. I await you on the Dread Isle."
>Basilio. Protect the weak. Swear you'll do it. Not for me, but for yourself. If you can do that, I'll always be with you.Bros....... THIS IS KINOOOOOOOOO
do the archetype rings stack with fortune's grasp?
sex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PePDvFhzTMThey were very adamant about having the eldan queen standing in front of the burning village from the start
>>502744358feets
eupha NTR on r34
>>502742454cant you test this in like 30 seconds
>>502745043>they originally had mongolian throat singing instead of the monkwack
>>502745043>He has a giant flowing scarf and what looks to be gauntlets in the beta instead of the graph paper jacketseething and malding right now
>>502745689nah the old look really is not very good but it's funny how they tried giving the protagonist a trailing muffler two games in a row and cut it both times
>>502745871
>>502745689those were both bad
>>502746004cope
>reach top 25 in popularity>king's magic protects protag from Glodell>protag still gets fucked on in all other encountersI just finished the dragon god temple, but is there any particular why the main character can still be attacked despite having the king's protection? Does it not work against monsters or something?
reminder
>>502746497They're not conscious enough subjects of the kingdom like how a bacterial infection could kill a candidate
>>502746907smt fans really are cooked
>>502742321
>>502746907>even to those who find them appealing, there is no romance systemHow fucking shallow lmao, can't enjoy a character design if you don't have a bit of flavor text saying they love you and have fade to black sex with you
>>502711156P5R > Metaphor > SMTVV > P3R
>>502746497It gets explained later after virga island
>>502747323How can you excuse one more over press turn what the fuck
fairy queen
>>502747510P5R just feels the most polish and complete but gameplaywise I'd give it too Metaphor and SMT. The issue is that rates SMTVV down is that vengeance still didn't fix the shit story and the excuse that SMT doesn't need a good story is a lame excuse because SMT Nocturne, Strange journey and 4 had great stories. Metaphor is sorta the best of both worlds with really impressive story and press turn gameplay but still isn't quite as polished or feels as complete as P5R.
>>502748094you and the 3 other people that played sj are the only ones who can vouch for its story
>>502747896She was the Eldan queen in a past life
kneel
Shadow of the Euphatree will have future Gallica that went crazy and turned into a dragon a century after Will's death because the world eventually got worse again as the final boss
>>502749549OK but do we get to drink lean and die 4 times in a row to progress the story
>>502746907So is this post implying that Atlus used bots to fake sales to get the fastest selling Atlus game of all time headlines in the news media?
>>502748094Nocturne's story was mid
>>502748191As one of them I can say that the neutral route for that game is great and has one of the better reps in the series.
FFXVI's story mogs this one
>>502750662snrk
>nominated in so many categoryWOKE GAME
>>502710710Even stupider is Steam trading cards telling you who your party is
>Best Score & Musichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkGi_1ogQsQits all because of this one track huh
Eldia race is the spawn of devil.
Rella Ice Dragon Fight is bullshit. I had him down so that I only needed one more attack and swapped in Eupha so she gets more XP since my rank is not max. That bitch is weak to ice so he gets more attacks and wipes me out. Yep I'm going to do this shit on easy fuck this faggot
>>502751493Hardest boss in the game
>>502751493Bro if you block you don't get hit by weakness ;)
>>502751493/v/ is bad at games who would've known
>>502751706Yeah but she was swapped in and didn't get to do an action in that round. Didn't expect me to just get annihilated because of this>>502751609Cool I thought I just sucked
>>502751493git gud
>>502751493It's a shitty fight and where the game really starts to collapse in quality
>>502752135cry more
Kind of interested in what the old grand trad layout was like. They had way more NPCs going back and forth at first but it looks like maybe they tried to cram everything into a single map since you still have visible points of interest far outside what would be the playable area of sunmelo street in the final game
>>502752449>at first they literally just named it after the city from Utopia >incidentally also a city in FF14
>>502752449one day we will have the grand shin megami persona theft auto we deserve
The FF schizo is going crazy over this game...
>>502708148Zero chance of winning GOTY. If Persona 5, with the cultural impact it had when it came out, didn't win GOTY, then neither will Metaphor, which has made way less of a splash on 2024.Mind you, I am NOT saying Persona 5 is a better game. I'm just saying that the impact factor (whether positive or negative) has always been an important factor for Dorito Pope and his friends in charge of casting votes for GOTY.The most likely winner is going to be the Elden Ring DLC, even though it's shit. But Dorito Pope and his friends in charge of casting votes don't care about any of that. Second most likely is going to be Astro Boy.Third most likely is Balatro, since it's basically a quality indie game everyone loves and having it win would make for an underdog story.Wu Kong ain't gonna win because Dorito Pope doesn't want to appear pro-Chinese.FF7 Rebirth isn't gonna win because it's basically been forgotten and had zero impact whatsoever on gaming in 2024.That said, Metaphor has a much higher chance winning either the Art Direction or RPG awards. Or both. But GOTY? No.
>>502751493>swap in the worst party member>immediately bodiedlel
>>502753089thats Junah though?
>>502753183No, it's the MC.
Why is the true form hair baby blue in game but icy white in art this irrationally irritates me
>ice dragon fight>put up the knight synergy magic block>if it's up then use a fire attack to break the shield>then attack four timesit's not ideal but i didnt have anything to purge a shield at the time (e.g. ninja)he doesn't do that much damage so it's fine
>>502753426lick
why is he in my room
Victory is in our grasp.https://youtu.be/yZOIelz11bg
>>502754795we fucking
>become prince >suddenly nobody cares that you're an eldai basically faced no persecution anyways. the absolute worst was some banterat first i thought that i couldn't go to some shops because of my tribe but it turned out those were members only shops and once i became a member they served me like anyone else
>>502754795>>502755215 https://rule34.xxx/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=11703640
Raw breeding sex with Eupha
>>502752971>cultural impactlmao do you think the fucking game is a da vinci painting or something
>>502755451>the absolute worst was some bantermassive cope
>>502755628wow bro!
>>502756037then what else was there?
>>502756763play the game
Reload flopping aside, it was a pretty good year for Atlus.
>>502756946this
>>502756821sounds like you've got nothing, nada, not even one thingexactly as i said
Atlus Caught Using Bots to Boost *Metaphor: ReFantazio*’s Steam Player Stats By IGN Staff*In a shocking twist that rivals the plot twists in Atlus’s own games, the esteemed JRPG developer has allegedly been caught red-handed using bots to artificially inflate the player stats of its latest RPG, *Metaphor: ReFantazio*.*The ambitious new title, lauded by fans as *Persona in Fantasyland* but less charitably by others as *Etrian Odyssey’s Weird Cousin,* enjoyed an explosive debut on Steam. Player stats hit an eye-watering 1.3 million concurrent users within hours of launch, seemingly placing it alongside *Counter-Strike: Global Offensive* and *Baldur’s Gate 3* as a gaming phenomenon. However, eagle-eyed fans on Reddit noticed something unusual: *every single one* of these supposed players was named "Fanstazio_001," with minor variations like "Fantazio_002" or "Fantazio_Gamer420." Adding fuel to the fire, reviews titled “I definitely played this game” and “Best RPG I’ve 100%-ed in 30 seconds” flooded Steam, leaving suspicions high."We Were Just Optimizing Our Social Links,” Says AtlusWhen pressed for comment, an Atlus representative claimed the bots were “misunderstood promotional tools” designed to mimic an “enthusiastic, passionate player base.” “We were trying to recreate the feeling of camaraderie found in our games, where NPCs are endlessly supportive and always have something to say about your exploits,” the representative explained. “It’s a feature, not a bug.” "Too Perfect," Players Complain“I knew something was off when the Global Leaderboards were full of players with 100% completion and zero minutes played,” said one fan, @PersonaStan420. “Like, no one skips *that* many dialogue options.” Others were less forgiving. “First, they recycled the same party dynamics from *Persona,* and now they’re recycling player counts,” one critic posted. “I’m waiting for the inevitable DLC called *‘Metabot: ReScamzio.’*”
>Your King is an Elda>Your Queen is a MustariI'm surprised Sanctists didn't start committing suicide in the epilogue.
>>502757589yeahh Metaphor!
>>502757589thanks chatgpt
half-jokingly said this at the very start
You're not winning a single award. FFVII is getting 3 at a minimum.
>>502757589>prompt: write me some cope I can't go on living with metaphor getting all this clout
>>502758464Honestly I don't know how it didn't come to me this is exactly the same thing as AoT with Eldians
https://youtu.be/QfWv7ymLgJM?si=4IuXUh2QCN6RuchL&t=2447
Metaphor has no shot at any of these categories. Resetera is tuned into the gaming press more than any other website and they are trashing Metaphor hard
ff7 rebirth will never be as good as metaphor
>>502758573>everyone else takes one look at what happened after louis cast his spell and said his bit>they are all pretty much ready to kill me>only gallica is still on my side
yeahhh
>>502753183>1 turn cost Masquerade Charge>worst party memberLEL
>>502758940Galliwife is ride or die because she's the one true queen
>>502759034you mean the skill replaced by an item?
>>502758573You probably tried to repress everything about AoT since it's ending.
>>502711214Because there is a light shining on him
>>502758998I can hear the music
>>502759316I can see the berg stretch
So what was Louis's plan if Will aimed a couple inches off and hit him directly in the brain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVCObwRITBwIf you can't play this just kill yourself
>>502759472Zorby was going to bring him back anyways.
>>502759045>galliwife never even wavers>eupha counterspells the magic>hulkenberg: aRe yOu WeLL??
how strong is the average grand trad soldier
>>502759182what's AoT
>>502759995hulkenberg is pure girlfailure
>>502760065probably as strong as MC and strohl at the start of the game, so able to deal with small humans but anything big requires an army or highly skilled mages
I don't care, I'm tired.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSHelp_9M5A
>>502760130is there anything she has NOT failed at
>>502760065Complete pushovers who struggle with big crows right outside the gates
>>502761054eating fucking everything
>>502759768post a short webm of you playing it
>mc goes full schizo
That show is on the 12th, so buckle up for a few weeks of the schizo nonsense.
>>502761318>the voice in my head tells me to kmssounds about right
>>502761497>and thus, louis wins>credits rollunexpected but it makes sense.i guess i missed a quest or something earlier?
>>502761202ok
kek
>>502761726the schizo voice is gaslighting me
>>502759316https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt8tq5cSNoI
Do I have to worry about buying masks? I heard they're all farmable endgame.
I keep waiting for the point where I get punished for not investing since Grand Trad on Hard yet most bosses are generally easier than the randoms.
>you actually can find out early that Forden's aide is Zorba if you fail the Virga Island deadlinesoul>>502762390wrong song
>>502762390>>502762484https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7GpvjMXKuUoops
has anyone beaten regicide on a hacked fresh file
>>502762643no because I'm waiting for them to patch the game so it doesn't have to be hacked
>no romancehumiliation ritual of the year
>>502762816How can I adopt this view as my own?
Regicide is one of the saddest excuses of a NG+ mode in years behind Yakuza just paywalling theirs
>make subpar game>get nominated for GOTYlol
>>502762216so i'm some sort of... warp entity spawned by dreaming of blasphemy. and i've just consumed my creator (the prince)'s dead bodycool
>>502762925We are getting SMT VGodborn mode in 3 monthsTrust the plan
>>502763259Astrobot?
>>502760129Yeah just like that!
>>502762441I heard all but the Devil mask or something was farmable in the last area. I'm there and missing two chariot masks but I haven't gone out of the way for it, too busy farming A-EXP before taking on the final boss without destroying any crystals.
>>502718065Mostly idieFirst playthrough should done around 50 hours
>>502762816Should have had canon unavoidable romance instead.Having no romance and yet teasing romance is just frustrating
>no romance>instantly better than persona
>>502763543They clearly meant Wukong
>>502761928BRILEHAVENRILEHAVEN
>>502764251retard
>>502762925VV didn't get a single fucking nomination lmao you should feel embarrassed
i thought it was weird when the archetypes always mentioned anxiety. but it keeps coming up again. wtf
>>502764608>>>/pg/no nominations for deload retard faggot
>>502764289Wukong is GOTY
>>502764787FUCKING SHITTY ADULTS MAN
>>502764787well, that makes sense i suppose. i wonder if it's some artifact from the translation. getting power from anxiety in particulaar is a weird magic system.>>502765026yeah or it could be this. it's meant to appeal to terminally anxious zoomers or whatever
/meta/ is so focused on the Gayme Awards that no one will notice how desperately I yearn to ream Basilio
>>502765703
>>502766050I need him.
>>502765026The type of anxiety Metaphor describes isn't the typical tumblists' "omg I got called fat I'm LITERALLY SHAKING" but the subtle kind that has plagued humanity from the beginning: fear of the unknown, fear of failure, fear of others, fear of shit not lining up with your own expectations. If anything it's just yet another "escapism bad" story only this time it's more nuanced as "escapism ok but too much escapism still bad"
>>502760634
>>502709618astro bot was a pleasant surprise and balatro's the indie quota of the category. there's worse picks than these.
>>502767009me on the right
Hello Milord~
>>502767179Zorba please
>>502766736so if it's fear why do they call it anxiety
>>502767179Hello bro.
>unlock prince archetypemakes the other ones seem kinda shit
>>502768641you really think it has a chance at goty?we were lucky to get the nom, there's no need to get our hopes up
>>502768121The royal archetypes contradict the agency and purpose of RPG party building in a way that's grossly disrespectful desu
>>502768772Asmongold said it will win GOTY tho
>>502768772It's kind of fucked this year since they put in DLC for a game that will essentially be the Normalfags choice. If a DLC wins GOTY then it says so much about the utterly dire state of the industry.
>multiple big game releases this year from western AAA>dragon age, concord, unknown 9what went wrong
>>502769094Erdtree will probably have enough judges hesitant about voting for it that it won't be able to come out on top, but that leaves the frontrunners being two JRPGs and a 3D platformer which basically never win consensus GOTYs unless you're Mario Galaxy 1 or a PS1 FF. I think Metaphor's best shot is if the story really resonates with western critics but Rebirth will still be tough to beat and Astro Bot may just win from votes being split too much between the first two
>>502769660The West is an utter mess. It's a mix between utterly unsustainable budgets, completely bloated development teams with so much dead weight, trying to push things that gamers never wanted and people are generally starting to get tired of.It's also the fact that Western developers seem to have nothing but spite for their audience. Veilguard pretty much pisses all over DA Origins, which is the really only good entry in the entire shitshow of a franchise.
>>502769660We are long overdue for a crash that's lead to several industry record bombs (Concord is straight up the biggest media product bomb of all time)
>>502770017and yet japanese companies all chase western trends - curious!
there's two bedswho's doubling up
>>502770767me and Eupha and Gallica
LE JAPANESE ARE INCAPABLE OF MAKING A FLOP LE WESTERM DEVS ARE THE DEVIL
>>502770767Heismay perches up here obviously
>>502770767How did these quirky misadventurers end up sleeping in proximity tight pods on the runner
>>502770767Imagine snuggling into the center of a twin-sized bed with your huge warm housecat.
this seems pretty good
>>502772613you're stupid
>>502772613You have a lot to learn
>>502772737>>502772812why?
>>502772892use your brain
>>502772613>>502772892it is good
>>502772892It's suboptimal at best
is "dread" weather purely cosmetic?
>>502773162yes
>>502773162It may be cosmetic but the middle aged fat man NPCs getting murked in the streets will weigh on my conscious
>>502768905Minmaxers were always going to zero in on a "best archetype" and if you aren't a minmaxers then it shouldn't matter that there is one archetype per character that is stronger than the others, because all the Elites are strong enough anyway.
>human looking characters that transform into monsters>elda>eldiawe're an attack on titan rip off bros
>>502774445ripping off popular animes is Atlus' bread and butter so this doesn't really say anything
>>502774445and both are heavily politically themed
Finished off Metaphor today. So far this year, I've beaten:>P5R (got in 2022 and finally beat it).>SMT V Vengeance>SMT 3>Unicorn Overlord>MetaphorI also have 10 hours in Strange Journey and just bought P3 Reload. Have I become a Fatlus fanboy all of a sudden?
>>502774445too bad Will is gay lame and brown, not cool like Eren Yaeger
>>502775113Louis is more Eren-like than Will just without the cucked aspect
>>502774989You can't call yourself a true Fatlus fan until you've beaten Strange Journey and played FES instead of Deload.
Hashino has fallen off. I will not buy Metaphor 2 or whatever the next game he directs
>>502769660People can meme about wokeness all they want but it's pretty apparent big publishers have forgotten why marketing exists. They've counted on big streamers to sell the games so they can skimp on advertising budgets but someone playing your game when its out or even a week in advance does nothing to build the hype for it in the months leading up to release to actually generate those sales. All those 3 you listed I didn't even know were coming out because I saw zero ads for them anywhere aside from veilguard which I saw maybe one ad for in the month leading up to release. Veilguard also had the problem of being too seperated by time. For most people the dragon age story ended with inquisition and they stopped caring because it came out 10 years ago and it was an average game carried on the backs of a handful of characters and wrapped up all major plot lines within the larger story.
cute or cringe?
>>502776664Everything gallica does is cute
>>502776664cum
>>502776645>big publishers have forgotten why marketing existmaybe they should hire you thentry sending the execs an email. should be an easy sellyou can thank me by commissioning some art when you get rich
>>502777040That would imply they're interested in improving.I think the big publishers have long since moved into too big to fail territory but they're only now just realizing it. They can cannibalize studios, can projects, shuffle people around, and write off losses. They're zombie entities shambling around incapable of dying until the last bit of tissue finally decomposes out from beneath their frame. Their collapse is gradual then suddenly all at once.
>>502776645>I saw zero ads for them anywhereyou see ads??
>villain wants to recreate the world>he's called a piece of shit for not believing in change over timeWhat did Atlus mean by this? Isn't recreating the world the goal of every SMT game?
>>502779568>>villain wants to recreate the world>>he's called a piece of shit for not believing in change over timeEREN YAEGER!
>>502774445People were saying this since the demo had us enlist in the military and we met Strohl.I figured we'd meet more that way. Maybe be enlisted to Hulkenberg's squad.Regardless, AOT is a cool thing to ripoff, I guess
Does it matter what order trial of sragons are done in?
>>502780449Not really. I did Devourer of Stars first at level 60. Since Devourer of Flames uses a lot of fire attacks, and the other two dragons drop fire nulling equipment, I would say that fighting him last is probably best. But you can also cheese him by making him weak to fire and then reflecting the damage.
>>502780449No but two of them give you items that hard counter one so you can do them in an order that trivializes said third fight.
Dr. Thrax warned my dad that he would have three-eyed grandchildren and I guess he wasn't wromg about that
Can you really just beat the game with charge and wanton destruction?
>>502781472
>let's climb the tower and do that trial>devourer of nationswow
This game's amount of fanart isn't nearly what you would expect with its popularity. Any of the popular gachas could release one character (sometimes even an NPC) that would outpace art for this game in a week.I think they've severely underestimated how hard persona's systems carry their company.
>>502783198it's not popular thobeit
>>502783198true
>>502783198Comparing a brand new IP to a gacha is pretty unfair.Gacha is a constant dripfeed of content, where you're eternally waiting for something new, each character meant to sell. You could like an specific character and just roll for them and not care about the rest of the game thereafter or just look at the art and you won't miss out on much.Metaphor is a $70 game that is over and done, requires a bit more attentionspan than the average zoomer can give, and you either like the preexisting characters or you're done.I agree the fanart and even discussion is low, but it's not really because Persona "is better". It's just more known.
>>502783198It's not really popular the playerbase is plunging now that people are finished their playthroughs and finding it lacks any meaningful replayability
>>502783198it's gotten more art than the persona spinoffs get thoughbeit
>>502783198My Louis folder already has like over 300 pics so I'm content enough
>>502783905my penis started stroking itself!!
>>502783562nobody is forcing you to drip consume gachas. nta but you can absolutely compare them just finealso worth noting metaphor has lower attention span requirements than many gachas. not that either it or gachas have particularly high demands on attention to begin with.
Gacha is unironically a zoomercore genre. If you're not glued to your phone 24 hours a day, what's the point of even playing it?
>>502784624The first and last grindy gacha released was granblue fantasy. Everything else lets you play 30 minutes a day at most before you exhaust your stamina meter.
>>502782926i'm level 53 i thought i was pretty strongi wonder, is it worth spending a few days grinding levels in this tower? the mobs here are in the high 60s i could probably level up a ton by fighting themand i need more MAG anyway, hmm
>Batlinexplains how mass anxiety caused the Royal Capital to go to shit to group>ActuallyLouis probably manipulated them!>First final dungeon cutscene is Louis lamenting how everyone will blame him for everything like with the previous king.I'm beginning to think maybe he should get the throne after all, this job sucks.
>>502783905zesty
>>502784624its grindcoreI gave up on gacha the moment it felt like a choreunironically my job is less tiring than handling multiple gacha games
Remove level scaling it's a comically archaic function that even SMT dropped
>>502783198its doing the same as any other single player RPG, gachas solely rely on fanart/content creation to keep themselves relavent. Totally unfair comparison. I should add that the amount of fan art metaphor is receiving is pretty similar to persona 5's output during its release window.
ff7 rebith>likely costed 100 million to make>sold 2 million>critical reception: mixedmetaphor refantazio>likely costed 1-10 million to make>sold over 1 million>critical reception: generally positive#Win
>>502792128FF7 rebirth wins for not being a broken unfinished mess however
>>502793021>a game that has to be split by multiple part>talking about broken unfinished messLOL
>>502793145yea and the fact that despite that metaphor felt so much more unfinished than rebirth to me speaks volumes
You did beat full powered Louis without cheating, right?
>>502793471>royal thiefyou didnt beat the game
>>502793471I oneshotted him on storyteller
>>502793531That's cheating
>>502793471>without cheating>heismay
>>502792128Metaphor didn't cost anywhere under 20M inflation and operational costs are through the roof anon
>>502793516Ninja can do it too with the accessory.
The game seems to be really pushing towards a magic lean for MC.>Seeker is mainly magic focused>Likely to be the one who picks up stuff like mage and healer for most of the game since the others are working towards their royal classes>Outside of Wild Bore, everything else either scales off mag or uses the higher offensive stat
>>502797082those melons look so good
>>502797082lose some wait
>>502797082What was in the melons for everyone to get drunk
What's stopping players from making every party member functionally identical to each other in gameplay terms, other than the resource costs of learning and levelling archetypes and the inability to manually assign non-MC stat gains on level up?
Why does he walk like that?
i do not have anywhere near enough MAGhow do i get more?
>>502799586Yes
>Make absolutely retarded policy that nobody could possibly get behind>Showed up like once time and got absolutely railed >Couldn't even make it to the first roundIs there something in this land water that turns people retarded or something?
>>502799441Nothing really unless you meet a boss that hard counters your team. Some of the cheesiest strats is stacking 3 of the same archetype and running Dancer in 4th slot to provide support. Or lmao 4x Tycoon with Heat Up/Diligent Discipline.>>502800378A lot of the candidates haven't really thought things through because they're just using the race as a chance to spout their grievances with the current system. For example, Goddard has a point with wanting to add pensions to support the elderly, however given that tribes have uneven life spans, either he'd have to set it at a flat rate which leads to Rhoags cashing in idiotically early relative to their life span or each race has their own set bar which leaves the longer lasting ones feeling like they have to work more to get the same benefits.
4chan posters think metaphor could have cost 1 million dollars to make
Games are expensive to make bro
>you have to buy rockbeans 1 at a time
>>502708708omg it's over... TheSunReaper0 with an anime pfp didn't like the game :(
>>502801657I mean, million bucks was a lot of money back when they began development in late sixties.
>>502770767easiest answer of my life. will big-spoons bas, strohl has a bed to himself, and heismay does a little bat perch on the shelves
Metaphor Warriors with playable Louis
>>502796592Thanks to skill inheritance nobody really has to be on mage unless you want the resistances. First playthrough is using mage whenever you need magic. Second playthrough is just hopping on whatever archetype gives you the relevant resistances and inheriting spells to make press turns happen.
>>502801016This seems rather broken. There should be more incentives to specialize each party member in specific roles, like putting a hard cap on the number of Archetypes a character can study or imposing stat penalties if multiples of the same Archetype are in the active party.
Are you ready bros? Make sure to put yourself on the waitlist
my stats at level 60
>>502806304Terrible idea
>>502806076>>502806304You're heavily gated by skill slots for most of your first run due to them being gated by follower ranks. Not to mention the existence of certain inherent skills/gear progression that makes it preferable to use specific classes because they happened to be the ones with the most up to date gear.So while you can theoretically pass Bot/Blizza/Kande to whoever, Mage is the one with access to the synergies, damage boosting equipment/passives. This is the same reason why Warrior is better than the Adept class for a long time since you have Heat Up/Slash Boost inherently, allowing for more freedom with passives.Ultimately, a lot of people just settle on the royal classes since you are pushed towards spreading out due to More's quests, but its always preferrable to pick the class that already has most of the skills/passives that you want inherently.
>>502806304Nah. The game already hands you a one turn boss kill strat in the course of normal play. It respects you enough to say if you want to break it it's not going to stop you
>>502807345>not martira bug juice or dragontear rapefruit
>>502807412This strat isn't in the demo, right? I got wiped by the last boss of the demo twice before I resorted to Synthesis Skill spam on the white guy with a Pierce weakness.
>>502807681It's an endgame thing yes.
>>502807412>Mage stacking>Berserker stacking>Merchant stacking>Dancer in general even if people just turn her into charge botEtc.It really doesnt matter if you run phys/magic/hybrid, the game will fold as long as you build properly.
>>502807345Where is my Prince or Louis bathwater, wasted chance
>find enemy with rare equipment that is better than your best piece>stun>steal>restart fight if couldn't steal>escape if could steal>repeat until have enough for everyonelmao
>hashino reaction when metaphor did not win the GOTY award at TGA
OH YEAH I HECKING LOVE METAPHOR
>>502809092yeahh metaphor
>metaphor the best
>>502797852>drunkHigh. So Psilocybin
Where are my metaplushies?
>>502809579At winning no awards
>>502810154we're gonna win goty
Maybe i am so fucking dumb but i legit don't get why i should have Junah on her Masked Dancer lineage over Trickster
>>502810401>anus
>>502810406Skill inheritance and Trickster syn moves are worthless
>>502810406Her endgame synthesis skills are brokenYou want trickster just to inherit the useful debuff skills and you need it for royal dancer anyways
>>502810697Whats the mask for royal dancer?
euph
>>502810927Unimportant honestly, lategame Junah party charges and debilitates/vidyarthas and that's about it. Best to just give her a mask with fire weakness then equip one of the many fire blocking/repellant items
>>502752971>Persona 5>cultural impactBeing shilled to death isn't the same as being culturally relevant
>>502810406>Wasting Junah on a lineage that only matters for Vidarytha/Debilitate/Dekaja when she enables so much bullshit as support or hits appreciably hard as an offensive mage
>>502810895>>502811173Cope
I'm lost in Mt. volcano who thought this was a good idea??
>>502810927whatever, i like the legendary healing mask because she gets the Savior big AoE Heal and Big Ress
>>502799586He's Ryuji in a Clemar suit
Metaphor will win GOTY and here's why.>Wukong Wukong made the entire western game industry look like complete clowns. Wukong is only on the nomination spot to prevent a shitstorm so people can't call the awardshow rigged. It won't win because then it will just prove all the other gaming sites like IGN wrong.>Shadow of the ErdtreeIts fucking DLC.>BalatroIt's a fucking card game.>FF7RIt's one-third of a game.>AstrobotMight have a shot but it's a game meant to advertise other games.By default Metaphor should win. Screenshot this when all the /meta/ haters inevitable get BTFO.
>>502811251If you want her to do magic damage might aswell run her on royal summoner
>>502811916Based comfyGod
>>502810571
>>502812046the fact that erdtree is dlc doesn't change the fact that it's popular. the only reason it might not win is because some won't vote for it out of principle. for balatro and ff7 though, they both have a pretty decent shot at winning over us, and if fucking WUKONG wins we need to nuke this thread immediately, we lost
>>502812708are those dlc outfits as well?
>>502813160That one is mod
>>502812046I genuinely think you are underestimating Balatro. I haven't really seen a game like this having this kind of cultural power with normies in a long time.
>>502813160It's a mod.
>>502812708
>>502813302Disregarding fact that most normies don't even know about the Game Awards do you honestly believe normies are going to be voting on a website for a GOTY?
What was the name of file host site people always used?I remember it was .moe somehing
>>502813243>>502813342>>502813469good lord, I love moddershttps://gamebanana.com/mods/555334
>>502812046Geoff seems to have enough awareness that a DLC winning GOTY will tank his awards show even further to back when it was a complete joke on SpikeTV so he'll be smart to avoid any retardation especially for its 10th same with Wukong which just screams "this is only here due to popularity and that's it". Balaton is the token indie nom and Rebirth is a remake and another JRPG nom so all that's left are Astrobot and Metaphor as the safetest bet for legit credibility but even then they have a lot stacked against them
metabros is it ever actually said in-game that the king brought louis to the capital or did someone make this up
>>502814574>Geoff seems to have enough awareness that a DLC winning GOTY will tank his awards show even further to back when it was a complete joke on SpikeTVSo, then why did they change the rules to allow DLCs to be nominated?I only hope that kid shows up again if Erdtree wins the GOTY.
>>502813469https://files.catbox.moe/vlhgpm.webmnude mod
>>502814928There is no way Hulk doesn't have a dense, dark, bristly bush
>>502814928>modder took away all of Eupha's ass and gave it to the other girlsShe was ROBBED
>>502813805The voting part is irrelevant and basically only used as a tiebreaker for the panel if they're deadlocked.
>>502814815No, it's fanfiction
If Hulkenberg's ass was 10% BIG it would win the GOTY
So the easiest way I see to farm MP would be Revitalise 3 on your character then go into squad battle skip turns and escape before the enemy's turn. You could also do plunder life as well but I'm not sure if that would be more efficient because of the animation you have to see every time.Am I wrong somewhere?
>>502814890>So, then why did they change the rules to allow DLCs to be nominated?It was always eligible they just wanted to save face to ease the backlash but they also didn't want to exclude the most well recieved and biggest title of the year. It's very two faced but hey this was also a very mediocre year for titles and a disastrous year for the industry as a whole so they had no choice.
Holy shit bros compared to Metaphor this game is a whole different level
>>502816115Shield Blessed is better
>>502816180Is that a Persona 5 reference? Joker being a clown.
>>502814815The king literally goes THOU ART ELDA????so nope and hence Louis wouldn't be this mad either
>>502816180Yeah Geoff damn well knows if shit like this wins his award show is cooked.
>>502805989The only time I will play a Warriors game
>>502816245How exactly? It also says significant MP regen so I guess the value would be the same. But with shield blessing I need to be buffed first, so I would need to use a skill to buff or equip something that automatically buffs. So it just seems like more effort to me.Or does the shield blessing regen stack, so if I have attack + defence + evasion buff I get 3 times the MP?
>>502817486But wait, revitalize 3 + shield blessing + auto buff would be great actually. Just a lot of fruits I'd need kek
Fact: Basilio and Fidelio are cat-type paripus and only retards insist that they're dog-type.
>>502818064Fidelio is dogBasilio is cat
>>502817632Alright I now do shield blessing with guard lore and get 20 MP per engaging in a fight that takes in total 10 seconds (with fading in and out). Pretty good I don't really need revitalize 3 right now.
>>502818064From the looks I thought that Bas is cat and Del is dog
>>502814815Nope, this was why the guy that kept trying to convince everyone Louis was shit a couple weeks ago got shitposted to death because he made it obvious he got all his info from megaten wiki
>>502817348We need to get something with him, I need more of him. Anything is fine beside shit chibi games like Tactica.
Why Royal Knight so fucking useless
>>502816426very weird that the king didn't already know, considering how much time he spent at the village, where he should've seen and talked to louis multiple timesmaybe the king didn't recognize him lol
>>502819102Metaphor's press turn system with broken items like third eye makes a dodge tank far superior to an EN tank
>>502819338The king is just retarded and was only a pushover in the end, I'm surprised he could even pull off the gamble with the royal magic but never did much about Forden and cucked Louis.
>>502811749I'm still there btw, I mean I'm farming good XP but I still don't know where the fuck to go. This is the worst map in the game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6xMGWQjkuIyfw?
>>502819801And just when I complain I find the boss lol
>>502818519>>502818737Congrats, you're both retarded.
>>502819835Audio.
>>502819570Her kit is terrible look at this shit
>>502819835the superior versionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFQW8VxxFAE
>>502819801Before jumping down a hole you can check the map first to know where you going to land
>>502820610Zoom zoom
>>502819570Hulk is more of a repel fisher if anything. Just inherit Pierce Boost and some actual damage skills.
>>502811749lmao
Hulk is a slightly less useless version of Aigis in-game but blackguard's hammer saves her
finding myself a bit stuck for the first time on hard modebeen a week or so since i've played so i'll do my best to remember:so far i've been using protag's double attack buff (from the magic seeker i think) on strohl, which makes his swordmaster multi-target do a pretty good job on all the limbs, gets them down in 2-3 turnsI don't have many options for lightning or w/e his weakness is, so i've been using the magic knight's sync attack that does high lightning damage to a single target when he's weak after the limbs are downi get him very close to death and then he 1shots me with the random attack thing. or close to 1shot but the malady from the ink spray makes me basically dead.maybe I need to just default to the back row, though that does make it take a lot longer to kill the limbs. maybe there's a predictable time where i should stop focusing him down and just retreat to back row?
>>502820937My problem was that I thought I had checked every floor but I didn't go that one ladder down to reveal the boss floor.
>>502823115Make sure to take Belove Greatsword in this dungeon so you dont need to come back later
>>502823245btw the game already have 26% complete I think its pretty good stats
>>502823395Yeah this game mogged
>>502823080>2x Mage spamming Gakande(ra)>Switch over to Magic Knight Hammer/Kandera/Kandeon>Everyone else just does whatever. If you use Junah to get full exp, put her on heal bot duties
>>502823595you know i was just thinking I didn't really consider mage line enoughthey seem weak because they, at least mine so far, don't have powerful spells for any of the elements, even though I have at least one character to the second tier (wizard?)but I forgot that they can still have powerful sync attacks. Should look at those againit also sux that my mages are protag and the flat-assed knight. the knight is currently my best whole-party healer, so that sounds challenging to go without. I am using Junah for that fight just cuz nobody else had much going on, and she enabled the electric attack for the knight. But I don't think she has any heals for me.. Could use items I guess
>>502823595>Switch over to Magic Knightwait suddenly it sounds familiar that at some point I unlocked the ability to switch party members mid-fight. is that a thing? If so I forgot about it and have never used it
>>502824192You can and should inherit Medi/Mediline. Junah can heal by using the right mask.You can't charge archetypes mid battle. But there are enough options to do whatever.
Ohno Louis hitting his head!
>>502824967>You can and should inherit Medi/Mediline.i mean i'd have to rank junah up to t2 of the knight line right? I don't have that kind of axp items at all
>>502824990Is Louis taller than Basilio?
If only we could have taken his hand...On the Charadrius when we faced him the angle was just right
>>502824967>>502825139oh duh I can put flat-knight on wizard and inherit mediline on her. sorry, i'm dumb
>>502824990It would be even funnier if that knocked the horns off his head
>>502825163I'd say so
>>502825334I'm surprised his fall at the opera house didn't make that happen
>>502759097for the last fucking time one of the ingredients is LIMITED and you will want to cast masquerade charge WAY more times than you will have ingredients for
>>502823245I found it but didn't expect that I need it for the ending. Seems pretty random, I'm eager to see the reasoning for that later
I'm so hungry, bros
Disney princess
>>502826702This was me before but I ate
>>502825193we couldve fixed him
>>502825839not if you use cheat engine faggot
Progress over on Gamebanana, but it hasn't been uploaded yetGlad people are dedicated to this
There's a mod menu for the game now though it doesn't have half the shit that the p5 one did, can only be used from a save point and is loaded with discord memes will be some weeks before anything cool can happen with it probably
>>502827323It's fine, we needed to show him who is the most powerful first, now he can kneel to us in a sequel and we can slowly fix him
Was the prince's mom responsible for the book forming Will's body, or did that happen on its own and she just stuck some fake memories and his soul in it?
>>502828601Can you link P5s mod menu?
>>502799586lol
>>502829967the former
>>502827889nice argument, retard
I really can't decide who to romance, I love them all
>>502825839You only need it for like 3 fights.
>>502830784https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY29bjGo0Rsthis but with strohl next
Do you think the game should have had more weird fantasy races instead of just human except x?
>>502827323>Expect True Seeker name to be used in kino scene>It's only in the credits where More prays the game supports you in the real world like his book supported WillI guess hoping for Catherine levels of meta was too much to ask.
>>502833269>Catherine levels of metaTo be fair, this was mostly retarded
>>502833269Oops, misquote.
>>502833369>Not wanting to seduce a goddess with block-climbing.Shit taste desu.
this slop will lose every award to ff7
>>502832914Bas
>giving a shit about TGA beyond whatever shit they'll announce during itonly actually worthwhile thing that wasn't tied to it being a giant ad interrupted by "and the winner goes to..." was FUCK THE OSCARS and it'd be better if we stopped pretending otherwise
"Oh no you died... but the POWER OF FRIENDSHIP/FANTASY REVIVES YOU!" can be a powerful moment in a game like this but not when the game does it like 3/4 fucking times
>>502833013those goalposts sound fucking heavy
>>502835157It was kino the first time, but afterwards it just felt like artificial tension. Hashino still can't get over his "dude bonds" storytelling.
>no one bit Lmao
i reply to bait posts because i dont carea bout my time and who exploits me
I want to taste ze bugs unironically
>>502838278my queen consort
>>502837781Glodell, you need to take better care of yourself.
MOtHMaaAaAAaN!
What does Eupha's penis taste like?
Alonzo....
Sucking Hulks big penis
Anyone got a full list for 100% memorandum?All the ones I can find online are incomplete, don't need to know how to unlock all of them at the moment, just want a checklist so I know which ones I am missing.
>>502839472>>502839737
Unironically though, did More ever try leaving?Or he can't see the door at Akademia?I know that he most likely only started existing as soon as the King died, therefore even him thinking he's been eternally trapped isn't true but did he even *try* to do anything?
>>502839672What the hell is that
Am I locked out of skybound avatar after the last floor?Where do I go to grind?I already did trial of dragon and elegy should I just bumrush luise?
Catherina's horse penis subdued me and my entire party
>>502840787the secret of the Nidia tribe
>>502814009catbox.moe
>>502841057Just farm on the final level, it has pretty much the best grinding spots in the entire game.
>>502845489stop bumping this shitty general for a shit game
>>502845593Fuck off persona schizo
>go to insolence tower>cyclone boss>synthesis unlocked: Cyclone Slasher>alright let's try it out>hitting weakness>one shot himKino
>>502846243Game is a broken unfinished mess
>>502846928I mean the cyclone slasher actually slashes the cyclone. That's cool
It was incredibly obvious that Alonso didn't actually die, but how the fuck did he actually survive? Wasn't the man literally beheaded publicly? It's not like he had a worldclass necromancer to save him at death's door unlike Luis.
>>502848228who?
>>502848228he reverted to loli alonzo and had a fake head on top
>>502848228>how did someone from the species of people that can shrink their body and clothes selectively survive a public decapitation
>>502848228honestly they got me with "alonso being actually dead" for a hot minute because I put off doing the epilogue side quest where you hand over the cash for a while and given you actually get bond 8 beforehand it didn't even occur to me they'd reveal him being alive afterwards
>>502848946gullible
>reading Basilio's book>... The last page has only a single word, written in Basilio's handwriting: "Live."Bros...
Not gonna win a single award
>>502850379I'm sorry you're such a loser anon I already won a bunch
I don’t really get how people think this game will win art direction. The main cast have pretty nice designs, but everything else is pretty forgettable. Generic NPC’s looks like vaguely human-shaped blobs, monster design is as generic as theoretically possible. Aside from a few of the human enemies the rest could be found in any other fantasy setting. You can’t win art direction on UI art alone.
>Catherina rank 8>Oi you lot should find work. I'll help ya>Nah we demand our gibs fuck offlmao that's pretty realistic
>>502851093It's a shame that all the actual scenic environments in the game are jpegs.
what is the mage academy? where would it have taken place?
>>502851093>Idon’t really get how people think this game will win art directionit no real competion lol
>>502851475Talk to Junah on the last day
>>502849424I wish the game had depicted more of Basilio's grief.
>>502851093Do you think Unicorn Overlord would have been a better nomination for that category?
What game would Louis shill for GOTY?
The whole Rella section is so oddly paced>presented as a selfless awkward saint for the majority of the game>gets appointed as new head of church and reveals that she is evil and has mind control power>barely five minutes later she reveals that she isn’t evil and she genuinely is that selfless>but she was forced into commuting a crime as a twelve year old>now have a moral dilemma if it is right to kill her for a crime she was forced to commit as a child>actually she has been slowly dying this whole time and would die any day now anyway lol
>>502853387Obviously Shadow of the Erdtree. Might makes right and the final boss is you killing the guy advocating for an Age of Compassion.
>>502854386Yeah that was something that should have been a few arcs long and it all happened within like 5 minutes
>>502854386If the writers had any balls, they would have made Rella a Follower and foreshadowed all of this through her bond which self-terminates before Rank 8
>>502854827>a few arcs long If you need something paced that slowly you have a mental illness
>>502851093>UI art aloneWe're reaching levels of cope that shouldn't be possible
>>502854386What moral dilemma? She has to die for the prince to come back. They don't stop hulkeneberg to debate morals for a hour like in a zoomer anime
>>502855573> What moral dilemma? Assuming you subscribe to the philosophy that a kid isn’t responsible for their crimes, like in any civilized country, the dilemma is if it is right to kill an innocent person to save the prince. The whole ideal the protagonist strives for is a world where innocent and weak people won’t be casualties after all.
i just finished the opera part, how much of the game do i have left?
>>50285663720% left
>>502856637There’s a calendar in the game you know?
>>502856196>Assuming you subscribe to the philosophy that a kid isn’t responsible for their crimes, like in any civilized countryThat's retarded though. We have gypsies who send their children to steal for them in my country because of this altruistic act of cuckoldry. They know nothing's going to happen cause they are too young.
>>502856761No i diddnt know actually, Nigga.
>>502856637That's me yesterday bro. I'm just before the next big story event
>>502856872Not going to go further into that as it’s getting off-topic but obviously it’s the parents who are at fault in that case.
>>502857156It's just like with a lot of things in this game. On paper it sounds nice but in reality it's not feasible.
>>502856196The game doesn't present this though. Rella didn't keep it hidden because it was the right thing to do
>>502857718Snrk
>>502857740The game presents Rella as a victim, who was taken advantage of due to being a kid and having nobody to rely on. Precisely the kind of people the hero wants to help and Luis would say deserve to die because they could not stand for what is right on their own.
this game turns LUDO after virga island
>>502859881It's rushed garbage
>>502851093>The main cast have pretty nice designs...Do they? I don't know if I can say any really stand outMaybe Hulkenberg's, but she was like the first character created (or something) so I'd expect her to look incredible as she does.
>>502860078it honestly is, even though i really like the game a lot. i think Atlus Incorporated was pressuring them to get this shit out on shelves without taking much more dev time, cause lord knows this game took a lot of time and effort to make that could have been spent on le heckin epic high school simulator. i hope they see how well this game has been received and make more like it, and have them be as fully fleshed out as they should be
>>502857718>Game about fantasy is unreleastic
Stop talking about politics holy shit
>>502854843>missable follower kys, no Neuras doesn't count
>>502860571i do think its a level below persona 5 (quality wise), but i still prefer this game WAY more than persona 5. I like VV more though.
>>502860571>cause lord knows this game took a lot of time and effort to makeI remember an early interview where Hashino said he and the staff spent time playing Warhammer "to research fantasy themes"I can't find it right now tho
Why did they make Louis the end boss of the month 3 times? It made the final fight more boring than it should've been. It definitely didn't help making the first 2 fights the same besides his starting HP.
>>502860571>it honestly isno
>>502861414>the first 2 fights the same besides his starting HPno
>>502861129>i do think its a level below persona 5 (quality wise)yes> i still prefer this game WAY more than persona 5. I like VV morelmao
>>502861094Catherina though.
>>502861414unironically, i feel like he should have died in the opera house. it makes sense that he's just a normal person, who was fatally wounded the way he should have been with the team's preparation and whatnot, and he would have served his narrative purpose well.what they COULD have done if they desperately wanted him to show up in the very finale part of the game would be to make him the last of the human bosses you fight to weaken the final boss. the final boss this time would just be more who was living inside the royal sceptre this whole time. this would have louis be a rehash of the hulkenberg awakening fight but for all of the party members to finally steel themselves or whatever.very fanfictiony, i know, but still. what we got kinda just made louis a lot less compelling of a villain
>game is taking players everywhere from 70-100 hours to finish >it's not done tho I think there's a point where we have to consider what influence constant live service slop has on people that look at a game like this that way
I can't help but notice that literally everyone that bitches about Louis consistently gets the mechanics for his second normal form fight wrong, almost like they didn't play the game or farmed until they were levels above everything
>>502862550I mean, people with brain rot will look at a game and if it doesn't have a million active players 20 years later, its evidence its a complete flop that no one ever cared about., Dont listen to idiots.
>>502862731you're arguing with at least one person that gets their facts from megaten wiki. it's pointless
This game has the worst fishing “minigame” I have ever witnessed. Highly specific requirements for when you can fish, and you either have to save scum or just look up the proper answers unless you want to waste day activities on nothing of value.
>>502863087>he tried fishing at all instead of ignoring it forever
>>502863087>you either have to save scum or just look up the proper answersOr you could just play the fucking game
>>502862731Don’t know on hard but the second fight is a joke on Normal difficulty even without grinding. Whatever interesting shot it has going hardly matters if he dies in three rounds or so. I got the note describing his affinity changing sword but Hulk just yanked it like it was nothing.
>>502861878Yeah yeagh
>>502861414>>502861661Both of his duel fights are piss easy and lame, just because he targets weaknesses in the 2nd one (if he actually manages to hit something) doesn't excuse how overhyped the fights are. (Beat it at level 47 on hard)
>>502863418>normal
>>502863182I wanted all the recipes, and unfortunately you don’t get enough Honey without fishing, since the limited amount you can buy don’t cover it.>>502863213I did.>Set sail to Silento, or the camp closeby, since those are the only two spots you can actually sail to in the last month >check that the weather is correct, even if you change the weather with Edeni it won’t let you fish>get one of three questions, all with three replies, giving you a 33% of getting what you want until you make it out, and hopefully scribble the answers down somewhere>repeat for daysYou can’t genuinely think this is good.
>>502862737>eldagross
>>502863684lick
Personally I died more to the fire dragon with the purple flames because I didn't read the note properly, that was the hardest fight in the game for me, I went with Eupha, Hulkenberg and Junah for the last boss because Heismay and Basilio rape the game balance. Great game, great characters, not bothered about a regicide run though. I think Rebirth deserves the awards more, due to scale if nothing else.
>>502864551>due to scaleIt's a shittier version of FF7's story with even worse open world tasks than ubisoft games do on average
>>502864303>hurr why am I not just guaranteed to get the thing I want always fuck off
>>502864741>>>/ffg/
>>502864214this is the extreme minority view tbqh the second fight especially is a pretty big road block
>>502864551I did the harem team as well. Hardest fight for me was full powered Luis. Rella second, fuck that fight.
>>502865052It goes against the game design the entire rest of the game is built on. Where you designate your time, but you know what you get out of doing said activity. The only way you can’t find this inexcusable is if you have enough spare time to waste a week fishing which you likely won’t have if you play blind.
>>502864741>It's a shittier version of FF7's storyI disagree, Sephiroth alone makes the story more interesting IMO, this isn't something quantifiable though.>even worse open world tasks than ubisoft games do on averageThis is just wrong, Rebirth's open world shit leads to dialogue and unique enemies, traversing the world is really quick with chocobos and the buggy, the protorelic quests are great, the simulator stuff it unlocks is more combat to do. Like are you really saying Rebirth's open world is worse than AC Mirage, Valhalla, Odyssey etc etc?That's not the only thing I meant by scale 400+ songs, the cutscenes, the amount of minigames. Hell the fucking synergy attacks make me smile like a retard.>>502865159FFG is mostly metaphor/turn based shitposting now anyway.>>502865228Yeah, Rella comes out of nowhere. I think mage academy dlc where you can save her is coming, she's frozen for a reason.
>>502865627Or you know, you shouldn't just be able to 100% something on a single run without preexisting knowledge.
>>502866126Which would be fine if the rest of the game was also built that way. I got all follower bonds, all quests, and all masks/summons on my first blind playthrough, the only thing I didn’t get was making the final recipe. The other stuff is predicable 99% of the time, fishing is not.
>>502865627>The only wayThere's about a dozen ways m8And you aren't even right about how the other life sim mechanics work. Your choices impact the points you get for the virtues, if you get money or not for the debates or the speeches, what happens when you jump off the plank in martira at lower courage rankings, how making the bidou redgrass dish goes, really the only fucking thing where your choice doesn't technically influence what you get is the follower ranks and it still does anyway because you get extra mag from the right answers Looking forward to hearing you complain that you have two weeks left with nothing to do at the end of the game
>>502865223It's really not when they sell items that let you cover the 4 weaknesses. That + Hulkenberg alone just tanks Louis forever. He should've been able to hit Light + Dark too.
>>502865223How??? Are people this bad at a color matching video game? I feel like I'm getting baited when I hear people say his fights are hard. He should've been like 10 levels higher.
>>502866895I have no idea how you play the game is your virtues aren’t maxed out well in advance of the deadline.As for the other stuff yeah you get different outputs of mag/money/exp depending on how you perform. The major difference is that those can be grinded for if you end up short of whatever your goal is, the rare fishing ingredients can not. Not to mention that plenty of those also have clearly right answers if you pay attention to the dialogue, the fishing questions are not like that.
>>502865674>SephirothYou're joking. They already failed to stick the first part of the landing with this and it led to the ending of the game being universally panned >dialogue and unique enemies Ah yeah I really appreciated the quest I got from Tim the gay transgender, definitely a pivotal FF7 character and not a character model copy pasted from forspoken nyc and given a slightly different outfit >the gilgamesh shit is great More like the only thing even remotely worth doing. All the simulator and battle tasks that liter the maps not to mention the scores of recolors involved run out of novelty before you even get to Junon It's a remarkably shitty game for the amount of budget that was poured into it
I had more trouble with Louis than Rella desu
>>502867825I had the exact opposite but I have 2 friends that had a harder time on that fight
I didn't have trouble with any fight because I'm not a retard
>>502867757Why do I even bother?>Tim the gay transgender
>>502868115I had trouble with the first Guptauros but its because I killed it at level 9 before the cathedral so any mistake/bad rng meant I would get wiped. Still beat him on hard though with protect guard strats.
>>502868151So you've conceded the npcs are dogshit. Ok Still hilarious how out of place the actual ff7 characters look against the backdrop of the previous CEO's gay parade
>>502866962Sorry bro I played the game and he ignores taunt
>>502868669Well Fuck
wtf is this
>>502869196some cross thread shitposters pretending they played the game
There definitely was an effort to DNC-ify FF7R this year. It was shit on relentlessly from release but all it took was a couple financial reports focused on Square Enix bleeding money and suddenly the journos praising it for the lesbian side characters were on point all along. Take that and have it collide with Atlus suddenly coming back hard this year after 2 years of ports and dogshit and you get this mess.
WHY CANT I BEAT THIS BITCH? FUCK
>>502869204fuck of tendie
>>502870185no anon the game is piss easy incomplete garbage
>>502870376storyteller anon...
So Rella is the filter boss huh?
Eupha love
that helmet ant boss in the late game bandit dungeon that kept max buffing itself was the first time i felt filtered on hard difficulty bet it was piss easy on normal
>>502870901Eupha bites her hand and turns into colossal titan
AH WHAT'S HAPPENING?!!?!?
>>502871248FF7 = harrismetaphor = trump
>>502871248We love rebirth and metaphor
>>502871248>>502871550rebirth is still dogshit
>>502871248yeah this is like all the dead jrpg fanbases voting against atlus rather than for SE lmao
>>502871550no
>>502871248Mobocracy
>>502871789>>502871874bro.....it's ogre
>>502871248>strawpollkek
i can't even vpn vote for metaphor wtf?
/v/ has the biggest turd fantasy shills out there atm
>>502872494i think you wanted to post this in your /v/ thread bro
>>502872678Which is funny because there are a lot more posts and threads shitting on Rebirth than praising it. Weird that.
>>502872282why would /v/ vote for an atlus game lmao
>>502872871Almost like they are done by one or two very autistic people
Popular opinion only counts for 10% at the VGAs anyways. Gay if the Year will be decided by fucking game journalists of all people so the winner will be something lame and normiecore like the elden ring dlc
>>502873152as long as rebirth gets mogged I don't really care. Of all the games that came out this year that deserved to be astroturfed by fans of a dying company that definitely isn't one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OV1v1JBBS4
Right now I'm on 09/24 at the eldan sanctum. I am in that place underground and have merged. I have found out that there is a golden bug in the woods before you enter that place that is missable. Right now I can't go up again, so I'm wondering can I go out of the cave and get it or will do I need to load a previous save? The last previous save I have is from the fight with Louis in Grand Trad....
>>502873380this
>>502873587if the game doesn't you go back outside you can't get it you don't need any of the missable bugs for the rewards though
why there no main story dungeons after dragon temple
>>502874025Yeah that's what I'm wondering, whether I'll go back outside and be able to pick it up or I'm forced to flee or something. But I imagined there would be a cheevo for all of them. Isn't that the case?
>>502874259Budget ran out
Metaphor is winning in that straw poll BTW
>>502872282At least try and hide it.
>>502870185>Sure, let's go to the next dungeon>Suddenly it's a boss fight>Hard as fuck since I didn't optimized my party and archetypes
>>502871248Where is my polling place?
>>502874259>>502874328coping through tears
>>502874306no, you only need to trade 46 beetles for the last reward
>>502874562sorry bro you didn't win PA
>a literal who new IP is winning /v/ GOTY pollkek based atlus
>>502875090Alright whew. Even though it kinda bugs me out not having every single one of them, when it doesn't even matter I guess I can live with that...
Astro Bot and Rebirth have 7 nominations whereas Metaphor only has 6. One of the former two will win and I'm thinking it's going to be Astro Bot.
>Never played a single FF, even back on ps1>Not interested in jrpgs if not turn based>Don't even own a ps4 to play FF7RWhy exactly do you all hate FF7R? What is so offensive about it?
>>502875787Astro Bot is a tech demo and Rebirth is ubisoft shit
>>502874562>post the poll in metaphor favoring threads>surprised when it starts getting a ton of votes
>Anon says game or boss is too hard >/meta/ says git gud>Anon says game or boss is too easy/boring>/meta/ says storyteller or stop grindingkek
>>502876046The bait and switch with it actually not being a remake and instead being alternate timeline sequel bullshit put me off of it forever.
>>502876163just hop on storyteller bro
Congrats, the biggest autist on this site is a Metaphor fan.
>>502876289we're at 750 can someone make this the next OP
>>502876046I don't hate Rebirth, I just think its existence sets a bad precedent.>Part 2 remake of an already beloved game filled to the brim with filler shit and nonsensical plot additionsThat effort to make Remake and Rebirth could've gone to making original entries
>>502876417nah it'll attract ff cultists
>>502876417Playing into the gamewar /v/ shit like that is embarrassing. It's funny to shitpost about but actually making it our OP is cringe.
>>502876289you
>>502876289Nah. he just hates rebirth
>>502876289yup that's me
>>502876046I just hate the time ghosts, Sephiroth overexposure and forced walking sections and censoring Yuffie's unbuttoned shorts
>>502876046Jealousy is bred from greatness.
>>502867447did you grind
>>502876994>>502876994>>502876994LETS GO
>>502874562>about 100 votes across all choices>suddenly metaphor gets 50 more voteschecks out
>>502876289the mail in votes come in last :)
>>502871814Nah I think it’s just atlus fans that do that stuff. I’m enjoying metaphor but if I had to vote it’d go to rebirth
>>502868669No he doesn't you retard.
