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I have it, I can see your point now. :D At first I thought you meant to say catching shinies is what helps you on completing the dex, but you meant the other way round. Lmao

Have you captured any shinies in Friend Safari? No luck here. lool

Oh yeah, due to personal reasons I'm strictly limiting my forum activities to PoC, Trivia and main games section for a week.


While I personally prefer Dig, I often use Escape Rope. {XD} As my HM Helpers are not capable of learning the said move. :(

If you mind seeing the QoTD responses here, I'll simply multi-quote my replies next week.

I don't see the connection on completing the dex and capturing shinies… because I simply don't get it! {XD}

Tbh, I don't think the shinies and tipping are connected, they are just beautiful coincidences and GF has lowered the shiny encounter rate for Gen VI games, which explains this beautiful illusion. 8D I could be wrong though, hahaha.

Hohoho, you're into shinies as well huh?

Only rumors, nothing official. After I've tipped there were two occasions that I've found shinies with ease. Sadly, that doesn't prove it's more than just a coincidence. I mean c'mon, the shiny encounter rate in ORAS is the same, but I didn't even have to tip to find my current shinies.

Alrighty, restricting my recommendations to PS3 only, I'd suggest the following:
- Star Ocean: The Last Hope International springs to mind; it's got a real time battle system with a great deal more flexibility in movement, it's a fairly good story (although occasionally erratic, with long cutscenes that unload a lot on you at once) and, like most JRPGs, the cast is a mixed bag.
- Eternal Sonata sounds like a good midpoint for you between turn-based and real-time. The combat is turn-based, but you run around on the battlefield and attack enemies with combos, etc. It's not quite as interactive, but it requires strategy and attention, especially once the training wheels come off and it starts timing you before you take your turn. It's easily a match for Tales in visuals and audio, so it'll have a familiar feel to it which might draw you in, and the story isn't too bad despite occasional slowdown. That'd be the one I recommend you start with if you're looking to branch out a bit.
- If you like Eternal Sonata, or want something a little more light-hearted and easy, I'd say the Hyperdimension Neptunia series might be worth considering. You can pick all three up on one disc now and, whilst the first game leaves a lot to be desired, the combat gets refined as they progress, being reminiscent of Eternal Sonata from Mk.II onwards, only easier due to lack of time limits. Although they're more humour than story; it's played more for laughs than anything else.
- Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch might be your thing, but it might not. It's a very awkward game in many respects, as some find it dreadfully boring, and others love it. If you've ever seen a Studio Ghibli movie, put that into a game format. Literally. The studio wrote the story, and Hisashi composed the OST, and the visuals are designed that way. So it might be too slow for you in places, or you might be immediately captured by the charm it has. It's likened to Pokemon quite often, but I'd say it's closer to the old Digimon World games: you micro-manage your minions in real-time, but it's not quite as involved as other real-time games because of that.
- Dragon Age: Origins might be an idea. Combat for that is as slow or fast as you want it to be, and whilst the story is pretty stereotypical, you have a nice element of personal choice in who you side with, romance, etc. The second game is more action-based in combat (read: mindless button mashing) and Inquisition is a mix between the two, depending on your preference. By extension, even though they're not technically RPGs but third-person shooters, the Mass Effect games, also made by the same developer, have fantastic plots, and the futuristic setting might be more appealing to you than the classic swords n' sorcery you'll get with Dragon Age.
- Lastly, you might want to try the Atelier series. They're not so much about grand, world-shaking events as they are about the relationships between the cast members, and managing your time to get things done. The turn-based combat is very simple, but the other aspect of gameplay - synthesis - is painfully addicting. Seriously, when I was playing Meruru Plus on my Vita I was synthesising items in my sleep. I'd suggest starting off with Ayesha or perhaps Totori, as those are a little more story-focused than the others and, whilst Totori is a sequel to Rorona, you'll only not know who a couple of characters are. You can get the Arland trilogy all in one package now too, although that has the original Rorona, which is a dated, glitchy mess in places. Rorona Plus would be the better option if you wanted to start from the beginning. The Arland trilogy has more charm, but the Dusk trilogy has more beginner-friendly gameplay.

I could recommend a couple of others, but based on what I know of Kingdom Hearts and in comparison with the Tales series, I think those would probably have the best chance of appealing to you. Probably. xD

Also, if you have a Wii or Wii U and haven't played Xenoblade yet, I cannot recommend that enough: it ticks all of your boxes for story and battle system and it's easily the greatest JRPG ever created besides. xD

I...can't stand that pairing, haha. Well, I don't mind it, but I never saw even the slightest hint it was anything other than unrequited. It was amusing to watch Hubert struggle with it in-game, though.

I know. I'm making fun of bae. Elize is the best healer though.

I'm...not the person you should be asking about Persona, haha. I LOATHE the series, especially the fourth game. A lot of people will swear by it, but personally I'd say it's an inferior, simplistic, thoroughly infuriating experience with a horrific cast of characters. The anime was good, but in game format it just drags on for too long. Outside of Tales and Pokemon, what games have you enjoyed? Are you more interested in humour, or story? There are a lot of JRPGs out there you could try, but a lot might not appeal to you. If you tell me what you're looking for, I'll be able to give a better recommendation for something you might enjoy :3
Yeah, they kept some of the VA, but replaced an equal amount...Zelos isn't as charming anymore, and Regal isn't voiced by Crispin Freeman any more, and that is just criminal! The Tales characters all get capped at 50 as well, which makes them effectively useless later in the game when compared to monsters you can train. Still, maybe you'll warm up to it more than I did~

I might have been more sympathetic to him if I hadn't of seen his story hundreds of times over in different games, and done better at that, haha. Tales games often have sympathetic or misguided villains - I mean, look at Mithos - and I probably just got my hopes up. I don't think it was BAD, but it just didn't capture my interest in quite the same way, and the things that did (Emeraude) got downplayed. But it wasn't so bad really~

She is! Tales games always have one character that is hilarious in some form or another, and Pascal was just plain crazy. Considering how depressing and serious everyone else was, she brought some much-needed levity to the proceedings! <3

True. On the bright side, you'll be able to know the IV of the next baby, which could end up as a shiny. :D

So has anyone really figured out about tipping in XY?

A regular from TC called Cakesu told me about it actually. :)

I wanna RNG a shiny ha modest eevee. @_@ mm feels torturing.

i haven't, I'm too clumsy. but please lemme know your results in XY/ORAS. :)

you will love this
http://nuggetbridge.com/breeding/pseudo-rng-abuse-for-eggs-in-pokemon-xy/

Speaking of RNG abuse, no one has discovered Gen VI's yet. While there's a pseudo one, I wonder if you've heard of it before? :D

I will definitely let chu know if I have any suggestions. :D

A general topic over cheating/editing, as oppose to the PokeGen specific thread. :)

I think you can make a short topic based on it. :) Just careful not to overlap with Ken Masters' thread. {XD}

Don't tell me you're getting close to running out of topics. @_@ we can talk about legends and their roles. Values of certain Pokemon like Farfetch'd, Dunsparce and so on.

I'ma check it.

There are a lot of fantastic turn-based games that require a lot of strategy and patience - the Disgaea series springs to mind - but the pacing is much slower and yeah, as a general rule you can overcome most challenges by grinding enough. Of course, you can do that in Tales games too, but you generally have to grind a lot more to be able to leave it to the AI, haha.
Be thankful you didn't play it on the Wii then! I think it was due more to the controller than anything else, though. I'm amazed I actually platted it though, when I loathed almost every second of it. If they hadn't of changed the voice actors I think I would have been a lot more forgiving somehow. It's not a BAD story (at least it has direction, unlike Vesperia) but it's so grating!

I'm not sure if there is a huge difference between the PS4 and PS3 versions, but I would hope the PS4 version would run a lot better. But since the PS4 lacks games it might be a good idea to wait anyway; at least you'll have SOMETHING to play on it that way!

Did he, though? Honestly, I think Emeraude would have made a better villain. She was scary, and she had a far more interesting motive than Lamda, who was just another misunderstood sympathetic villain (albeit with the sexiest voice ever) who never really amounted to anything...I was reminded very strongly of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX by the end of it. Having Richard as a well-intentioned extremist would have been awesome; I love it when things are morally ambiguous, it makes for a much more exciting story! They could have combined the F arc with the main story, altered Sophie's back story a tad, made Emeraude a civilization-destroying maniac, and had Richard as a tyrant king...at least, that was the way I was hoping it'd turn out. But it could have been worse. At least Pascal was in it! She was so much fun :D
Yeah...everyone was VERY forgiving of Richard despite his attempts to commit genocide. Yes, he did try to resist, but some of it most definitely came from him.

Would like to know your insights on this topic. :)

http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=357280

ikr haha and it was i went to the movies and saw 2 with friends so overall it was a fun day :D

I don't think it's boring, for real! In fact I appreciate those questions and your efforts. :) Though I'm actually concerned if you're gonna run out of topic someday and praying not, as I really love that event.

Real-time battle systems are a lot more involving and intuitive than turn-based ones, I think...it's substantially better than the outdated ATB system FF has been using for years, anyway.
Dawn of the New World controlled far better on PS3 than Wii, I think...but that didn't stop it from being a truly awful, awful game. Zestiria isn't quite so fluid either, although that's mostly because it tries to be too fluid by having battles on the map itself =/

The first one you play is always special, right? I think that holds true for most long-running franchises, unless they really shake up the formula between titles...which not many games do anymore, haha. I really enjoyed Graces f...right up to the point that it was revealed that King Richard wasn't in full control of himself. I would have liked it far more if it had been a story about a tyrannical dictator than demonic possession. xD

Well, if I don't give them a try, I can't really criticise them!

...OK, not really. I actually love the battle systems; the only series I can think of with better real-time combat is Star Ocean, and those don't roll around very often, haha. My favourites are Symphonia and Eternia! They're the only ones with decent plots, in my opinion. If I had to pick a third it'd be Xillia/Xillia 2 for the cast.

How about you? I'm pretty sure I can guess at least one :3