Adaurin

I never liked the Draw system or the story so it led to FF8 being the only PS1 era Final Fantasy I never finished. My favorite combat system was the Capsule system from Chrono Cross specifically because for the most part all spells and abilities could only be used once per battle, so boss battles became more intense and not the usually Final Fantasy route of casts Ultima or Knights of the Round as many times as you can.

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@MrHadouken said:

Can't forget Demon Souls is another reason I want a PS3.

Only reason I want a 3DS is because of Fire Emblem looking amazing, but I know I would get pissed off and quit mid story. I hate losing guys in Xcom so my solution to that was stop playing, stop losing guys and I love that game. I think I just sold myself a PS3... now it's just time to wait and see how much money I get back and if the big sony announcement is PS4.

Valkyria Chronicles is an excellent strategy game that you could probably get for cheap that could take the place of Fire Emblem and is exclusive to the PS3. It was one of the first games I bought when I jumped on the PS3 bandwagon when the first slims came out.

So I beat the game through on Hard the first time, and now I'm plowing through for the New Game+ on very easy, just to try to and get all the Social Links in one playthrough (did not get Ai and missed Adachi by half a rank!) as well as too see another set of lover route scenes.

What I was thinking for my third playthrough was to do something I like to call the "Black Velvet Challenge". Basically you start the game on whatever difficulty (probably do Hard again) and then you are not allowed to enter the Velvet room unless you have to for the story. That means, no Fusing, no Skill Card Database, no Accessing the Compendium. You are only allowed to use the Persona and the skill cards that you get from Shuffle Time.

Has anyone ever tried this? It seems doable to me especially with the inclusion of skill cards and some of the other nice Arcana you can get in shuffle time, but it probably leaves a lot up to chance. Wish me luck!

@Forum_User said:

- At the beginning, nobody else takes notice of that child, and the child takes off (is no longer there) when Anderson shows up. That event is accompanied by a Reaper growl, which people say is explained in one of the Mass Effect novels to be something that happens when someone rejects an indoctrination attempt.

Sorry to open an older thread, but I wanted to point out that the kid definitely existed, otherwise why would the Alliance soldiers have waited for him to get into the transport. They would have closed that door as soon as possible to try to get those people out of there.

@Gargantuan said:

If there's voice acting then I pick the one that sounds best (like male Shepard for example) otherwise I mostly pick males.

I agree with your reason, but not your example. I personally think Jennifer Hale is way better in the role of Shepard.

Yep@Cubidog1 said:

I bought a used copy at Gamestop for 45 USD last month. I'm thinking about buying some new copies to sell in a few years when this game becomes rare. The Amazon prices for used versions of the game cost more than the game does new at Gamestop, which is stupid.

Yep, I got my copy of Xenoblade and my Gamecube version of Twilight Princess that should go for a decent amount in 5-10 years.

I'm basing my play through of Golden off of the Endurance Run. For example, I joined band and the soccer team instead of drama and basketball. It's also made me use a completely different crew than the one that Jeff and Vinny favored. I replaced Chie with Kanji, then Yukiko with Teddie, and finally Yosuke with Naoto. I have to say it's working really well and I think they did a good job balance the other party members skills. Does anyone else have a particular party that they favor.

On a related note are their any other combo attacks other than Chie & Yukiko, Yosuke & Teddie, and Kanji & Naoto?

@selfconfessedcynic said:

Those exceptions are (ie: the only reason to ever grind or do previous dungeons after beating the optional boss)

• Looking for The Reaper
• Looking for Shuffle-Times for Arcana Cards
• Megatsu Inaba to train for the Final Dungeon / Margaret fight. (this area gives the most experience in the game)

I might add that if you're pre-Megatsu Inaba, the last two floors of the Secret Base tend to have large number of Gold Hands and if you have Naoto or a Persona with Almighty spells you can easily rake in 30,000 experience and 48,000 yen pre-shuffle time.

I was running some of my underleveled characters around there while trying to get yen for Margaret requests and I think Chie ended up getting 5-6 levels at once.

Charlie Kanzaki

Charlie, because well you know...

And my Persona 3 character was Alex Kanzaki so I mixed them together.