Vagrant Story

[izembo]

many people would beg to differ with you on that one

[solsovly]

Chaining attacks is pretty fun in this game. The Summoner for PS2(PC) attempted this as well, but came no where close to being as polished or fun as Vagrant Story.

[Kaelan]

I didn't like legaia much, but legend of dragoon was good :x

[Rotsu]

I would love to see a sequel Legend of Dragoon, if you guys remember the ending, they kinda hinted to a sequel to the story.

[BerenTebogo]

Bumping since like 20 copies have been sold on bg in past few weeks so I assume people are playing this again. Curious what types of weapons people prefer using? Been 9 ish years since I played last and all I remember using was a giant hammer.

[Krandor]

Oh man, I totally wanna charge my PSP and dig out this game again.

[Yuri-G]

legend of dragoon seems to split people a lot - put me on the hate it side. it had so much potential with fantastic graphics for its time and a great battle system, but the script. oh god the script. the story itself might have been wonderful but I could never get past the atrocious dialogue. I still remember a scene from the very beginning where Dart begins reminiscing about something and instead of saying something like "That reminds me..." or "That takes me back..." he says "It reminds me..."

if you don't understand what's wrong with that, you may have been a LoD fan. and good for you, I wish I could have enjoyed it more. but the whole game was like that, it was as if the game was translated but not localized.

ahem. sorry. I believe we were talking about Vagrant Story... do continue. great game. I never beat it but I got pretty far a couple times. definitely some of my favorite atmosphere of all-time, and the gameplay was deep as hell. your first time running into normal enemies that you do zero damage to because you have the wrong type of weapon is a pretty good indicator of what you're up against, heh.

[BerenTebogo]

Ahh, the days of a save point every hour and a half. How I didn't miss thee.

Fucking wyvern.

[Faxanadu]

Ahh, the days of a save point every hour and a half. How I didn't miss thee.

Fucking wyvern.

The thing i remember most is having to nail the timing on the quick time button presses with ninja reflexes during the last boss fight. The button icon would flash up on the screen sometime during one of his special attacks animations, you have like .5 secs to hit X or it was game over.

I get excited when i see this thread bumped, hoping for a PSN store release someday.

[BerenTebogo]

I didn't think it was very likely due to the really small but diehard following of the game. They had to be basically persuaded to release FF9.

The defense ! icons are fucking ridiculous since the charge up time and animation for every move ranges from like .1 seconds to like 30 seconds before the ! appears. It's total bullshit, lol.

I just had to do the wyvern fight with a weapon that had a 0 for every damage possibility because I made my dragon killing weapon a spear when apparently I needed an edged weapon. Just had to do 340 dmg 1-5 HP at a time. Fuck.

[Kiarax]

I didn't think it was very likely due to the really small but diehard following of the game. They had to be basically persuaded to release FF9.

The defense ! icons are fucking ridiculous since the charge up time and animation for every move ranges from like .1 seconds to like 30 seconds before the ! appears. It's total bullshit, lol.

I just had to do the wyvern fight with a weapon that had a 0 for every damage possibility because I made my dragon killing weapon a spear when apparently I needed an edged weapon. Just had to do 340 dmg 1-5 HP at a time. Fuck.

I had to do this for like 3 bosses in a row when I tried to play this game. I eventually got bored because it was fucking ridiculous. Perhaps one day I will manage to play through the whole thing.

[BerenTebogo]

It's a great game but it really does need that "every dragon is weak to piercing, every djinn is weak to blunt" normalcy. Having every boss of the same type have different strengths and weaknesses makes it near impossible to set up your weapons properly early in the game.

[Caiyuo]

I get excited when i see this thread bumped, hoping for a PSN store release someday.

Same, I thought it was a new thread actually; something about the prospect of a decade-old game suddenly getting its own thread was exciting, considering the game lol

I didn't think it was very likely due to the really small but diehard following of the game. They had to be basically persuaded to release FF9.

The defense ! icons are fucking ridiculous since the charge up time and animation for every move ranges from like .1 seconds to like 30 seconds before the ! appears. It's total bullshit, lol.

I just had to do the wyvern fight with a weapon that had a 0 for every damage possibility because I made my dragon killing weapon a spear when apparently I needed an edged weapon. Just had to do 340 dmg 1-5 HP at a time. Fuck.

I remember during my first playthrough as a kid doing that constantly, just ignoring whatever weapons were appropriate and using whatever looked cool and pinching the bosses to death. It still sort-of carries on, if I luck-out on the Minotaur's giant mace-ball thing in the beginning, I leave it on for a long-ass time lol

I think I still have "Snowfly_Forrest.txt" somewhere on my computer. lol

[BerenTebogo]

I'm actually making an effort to do specific weapons this time, lol. I have a 1h edged sword with human and beast affinity, a piercing spear for dragons (which apparently sucks, lol), a giant fucking hammer for I don't know but it looks cool, a blunt staff with phantom affinity, and a piercing dagger with like +1,000,000 undead and phantom affinity which doesn't do any damage to phantoms.

One day I'll figure out how the battle system in this game works...one day...

[Caiyuo]

Yeah it's a bitch to do it well and I can't really recall any playthrough where I actively tried to be smart about weapons ever working out that much better than just using whatever random shit I picked up along the way.

I always wished the weaponskill-things you get for the weapon-types did more or played a bigger role, I remember obsessing about unlocking those just to see the cool animations. Especially after you fight that male/female duo that spams the fuck out of them.

Anyway, to save you fewer kicks in the ass from VS, if you weren't aware of this, I still remember one retarded thing being the practice dolls around the world only count chains as 1-hit, so trying to chain like crazy actually just makes it take fucking forever.

I always wished XI would've had those, or patched the mannequins to be re-purposed skill-up dummies, lol

[BerenTebogo]

So just get to chain 1 and stop on the dummies?

And fuck, I mean honestly, these little Goblin things (human type) I'm running around beating up with my Lionheart (1h edge human affinity sword with like +30 affinity) and I'm swinging for 80-90ish where I swing for 30-40ish with a regular weapon. It's noticeable on normal enemies, but it seems like bosses are just immune to everything logic based. Fuck it all.

[Caiyuo]

Yep! Here's the actual text if it clears it up:

*Training Dummies*

When attacking training dummies to gain class/affinity bonuses do not use
chains. The dummies give out the bonuses based on hits received and chains
only count as one hit. Chaining will only make a long hard job harder.

Might be worth hitting gamefaqs for if it's continually retarded as I think I remember there just being specific bosses that didn't adhere to the norms with retarded quirks.

[BerenTebogo]

Lol, I already started to. I missed a small hard to see room and passed it up, 10 chambers later, "lol key that I don't have"

Pissed me off so I brought up a walkthrough lol.

[Wintermute]

The thing i remember most is having to nail the timing on the quick time button presses with ninja reflexes during the last boss fight. The button icon would flash up on the screen sometime during one of his special attacks animations, you have like .5 secs to hit X or it was game over.

I get excited when i see this thread bumped, hoping for a PSN store release someday.

I thought this was on PSN? Or did the NA store never get it?

Need to dig out my copy again and actually finish it this time.

[Charismatic]

Don't think I've ever beaten this one... probably never will.
Got pretty far into it the first time I played it years ago when it came out and never got as far without getting bored since.

Don't think it is a bad game or anything but it just can't hold my interest at all anymore.