PS3 Official White Knight Chronicles Thread - WKC2 Set for July 8th. New Trailer.

I guess I'd say I can understand how someone could hate this game, but yeah, I kind of love it.

I think all those times seeking party during FFXI, I told myself I really just wish I could go out and kill shit. I always loved the game play but man oh man the downtime. This is really a great compromise.

FFXI is very uncompromising. For example the job system. Classes are specialists. You succeed by working together with a good mix of specialties. The result is you can't work alone, and you can't work with everybody. Here you can learn different skills from different areas, but everyone can learn everything. The result is that you can solo, but there's less tactical cooperation most of the time. It also means I can work with whatever 3 random people happen to want to group up instead of having to wait for the right group of people. Also because quests are set to specific times, people are constantly rolling in and out of the grouping areas.

I like the voice chat too. People seem to be actually using it, and it means you can communicate without having to stop.

As for the story, I'm not far into it but I don't think it's bad like a lot of you are saying. Maybe my opinion will change as I advance. I think it's pretty standard fare for a JRPG. Save the princess, save the world, full of cliches, yadda yadda. It's nice having that merged into good gameplay that feels both nostalgic and MODERNIZED. This is the direction I want RPGs to head, more action oriented like this and Demon Soul. I got bored playing through Eternal Sonata and Lost Odyssey.

Right now the only thing that could beat Demon Souls and WKC for me is if the next Tales game decided to break formula a bit and combine it's speed and gameplay and stuck it into an engine like WKC uses.

Like I said though, I can understand differing opinions. I've just been playing Demon Souls and Wipeout HD. Being challenged is great and WKC isn't exactly challenging, at least the single player. Me though, I have much less time to play games than I'd like. So I want to make lots of progress every time I sit down and have 3 hours to play. Osyris I suggest you play Demon Soul. It's subjectively the better game, and it's the only RPG I've ever considered challenging. This game though, is a bit more fun, because it lets me relax a little.
 
Strid said:
I agree with you on the battle music. I kind of like it but it is lame and I'm sick of hearing it. I don't like it unless it draws out though and you get to hear past a minute or so of it. The beginning of it really pisses me off. Some of the boss themese are cheap too, like the music that cues when you fight Belcitane. I was more or less talking about the music when your walking around. I especially like the music from the last dungeon, which is used earlier in the game but I forget where, Greede City, The Underbelly and Frass Chasm. I like the main theme as well, but I wish they had left the vocals in it.
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The area themes are hit and miss for me. As for boss themes, I got really pumped when the music after you got the Dragon Knight came on. Area music depends. I've found I enjoy most outdoor music, but cavern music kinda sucks.
As for Fire's voice chat comment, I've been trying to use it, but the game has trouble registering my voice. To compare, back when I played Borderlands I didn't have to speak at an elevated volume to get my voice heard. I dunno what's different.
Still, when I encounter people with voice chat a lot of them register their speakers, so there tends to be a lot of echoing. During those times I just turn on my mic and toss it aside.
 
Myrrh was half right. You won't enjoy this game unless you go into it knowing that it's a hardcore classic JRPG. On top of that, it's a game that came out closer to the release of PS3 so it's an early current gen game. Not that that's excuses or much...

My cousin went online with my copy and set up a head set and all. That's pretty awesome considering I wasn't aware we can do that at all.

My name is Cua27, I'd like to play with you guys before I return it.
 
I bought this game more as a time-killer before FFXIII comes out than as a big time RPG for my collection so I guess that despite seeing the game's flaws, I'm pretty satisfied with the overall product.
 
It's definitely worth the money, in my book. I just don't like the story and the characters. However, when it comes to multiplayer they aren't there so all is well.

Also, how can a game look better in 2006 than when it comes out in 2008, that's just sad. I was expecting more from this game in the looks and feel department, but lucky it, it has nostalgia on its side.
 
BETCHA THIS LEADS STRAIGHT DOWN TO HELL
 
Pyrodaemos in Van Haven Wastes.
Holy crap, what makes this even more awesome is that I'm fighting it with both the White Knight and the Dragon Knight.
 
Don't be to hasty to use both knights in the same fight, a little further down the road and you'll regret it ;)
 
I don't usually pop both of them in the same fight, but I just had to do it that one time to kick the first boss's ass proper.
I've already finished the game, too. I'm a little iffy about that cliffhanger ending. Not because I outright hate it, but because this game was in development hell forever, who knows how long the sequel will take, or if they even decide to bring it over here!
Working on my GR until I hit 50 to reincarnate, now. Did a couple of Red Giants with Anaeran, and got GR5 earlier this evening. Tried doing the quest in Bunker Lode, but holy fuck that takes forever with two people. Then again, I tried seeing if we could split up and lessen the time, but no dice. Ended the mission with 3 minutes remaining, no time bonus, and a god damn A rank.
But I got a few earth dragon beards, so it's all good. I'm just not looking forward to going back to that mission to get my Platinum Trophy anytime soon.
 
I hear ya. The game was made with the thought that the story would span a trilogy. After playin' the story in the first I hope they just settle for one more. I'd say bring on the trilogy for MP sake but hell, we'll all be enjoyin' FFXIV before the second game hits probably. Also, if I remember correctly they said the reason it took so long to localize is because they were headstrong about making the lips sync with the different languages and all, something they failed at miserably and got slammed by the critics for. I wouldn't doubt, and I hope, that for the next they just throw in different languages text only and call it a day. I'd imagine it also took quite a while to put it into French and Spanish at the same time. They just did too much with very little quality so I can't see them doing it again.
 
Saving Knights is almost pointless since no fight is difficult with or without a Knight. I stopped bothering to transform for anything more than the coolness of being a Knight by the time I finished the game the first time.

Mobs in new game+ don't scale up in level btw, so I'm playing the story a second time 1-shotting everything for 0 exp and collecting rare weapons that appear the second time through, Georama leveling is going to keep this game in my drive until 13 comes out though. I'm up to GR7 and saving up the gold to buy georama 6 now.

If anybody wants to quest for cash or points, add me to your geonet profile.
 
Anaeran said:
Saving Knights is almost pointless since no fight is difficult with or without a Knight. I stopped bothering to transform for anything more than the coolness of being a Knight by the time I finished the game the first time.

Mobs in new game+ don't scale up in level btw, so I'm playing the story a second time 1-shotting everything for 0 exp and collecting rare weapons that appear the second time through, Georama leveling is going to keep this game in my drive until 13 comes out though. I'm up to GR7 and saving up the gold to buy georama 6 now.

If anybody wants to quest for cash or points, add me to your geonet profile.
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I haven't started NG+ yet.
If you wait until your Avatar is Level 50, then an NPC will appear in Shinka village offering you the ability to reincarnate. You start the game over, but your character resets to 35, all your stat points are given back to you, and you get 40 more points per reincarnation up to your 4th.
I'm pretty sure this is the only way to get the gold trophy for mastering all eight pillars, too.
Firestreak said:
My PSN and Geonet name are both Firestreak

But I'm only level 13 right now.
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I'm not completely sure on this, but I don't think exp scales based on the highest member of the party. I went on The Lost Children yesterday at level 34, and was getting little to no exp, but the person I was helping still leveled up somewhere in the middle of the quest.
 
Xalioniaf said:
I haven't started NG+ yet.
If you wait until your Avatar is Level 50, then an NPC will appear in Shinka village offering you the ability to reincarnate. You start the game over, but your character resets to 35, all your stat points are given back to you, and you get 40 more points per reincarnation up to your 4th.
I'm pretty sure this is the only way to get the gold trophy for mastering all eight pillars, too.
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You probably wont be lv. 50 by the time you unlock Sinca Village again so I'd go ahead and New Game+ unless you just don't want to have to unlock all of the areas again for now. Then again, all of the "rares" obtained in New Game+ can be gotten from MP as well, it is where they pulled them from.
 
I don't want to be forced to go through most of the story again, including that fucking area before Shinka, unless I get my extra skill points.
But man, I'm not looking forward to playing through the story four more times. I'm not saying it's a particularly bad story, but I didn't even play through FFXII's story more than twice.
 
Skipping the cutscenes it isn't so bad replaying it. I'm up to the valley with the bigger monsters towards the end of the game already. I don't think I'd want to play it any more than that though.

GR7+ is where some challenge finally comes in. Mobs actually hurt you and you can't solo every quest anymore...at least at level 42 as my hybrid archer spec. It isn't hard yet, but you can't hit autorun with your map up and b-line it to objectives while you're afk wacking it in the other room once you start the rank II quests.

Catch up and run quests with me fuckers! My georama is stuck at level 6 cause I'm broke and I refuse to play with random irritating kids><
 
I
Hate
Take Your Lumps.
Three tries so far. All A rank.
 
Anaeran said:
Saving Knights is almost pointless since no fight is difficult with or without a Knight. I stopped bothering to transform for anything more than the coolness of being a Knight by the time I finished the game the first time.

Mobs in new game+ don't scale up in level btw, so I'm playing the story a second time 1-shotting everything for 0 exp and collecting rare weapons that appear the second time through, Georama leveling is going to keep this game in my drive until 13 comes out though. I'm up to GR7 and saving up the gold to buy georama 6 now.

If anybody wants to quest for cash or points, add me to your geonet profile.
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I'm only rank 6 so far, but I'll play with you :3
 
I picked up this game other night after hearing a friend rave about what potentual he feels it has, also it seems like a nice change from FFXI for now and my PS3 really needs to get some discs running through it for now lol.

I certainly was impressed with the character creation beginning, I could have spent ages tweaking my avatar to just the way I wanted it. So far I'm quite happy with the storyline and gameplay, going to get into this for while and try the online style with my friends when I can. ^^
 
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