I like stealth games, I think I will pick it up as soon as a Linux version comes out.

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I love DK but I am not sure about Dungeons 2. I was pretty disappointed by Dungeons 1. War for the Overworld is pretty awesome though, played it for some hours so far and it definitely brings back the DK feeling + really nice graphics.

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Quoting: coeseta@vulture
Correct. Last time I wanted to play a JRPG I bought FFXIII because I thought with FF you can do nothing wrong cause FFVII and FFVIII were great. Turned out FFXIII was total crap.

Sadly the best "JRPG" combat wise I played lately was South Park and the Stick of Truth >.>
A combat system like in Lost Odyssey would be nice too.

bit of history here, so you'll understand where your grief with FFXIII comes out

FFX was probably the first game in FF series to employ ATB. in that game that was nothing but time limiter for your choice (which you could completely disable). but, ATB was too popular since almost no one played old school. time factor put another pressure to add on already fun and hard gameplay

FFXII took completely different approach and it is not really considered turn based by many. they employed something like macro system, which was pretty awesome. problem with it was that many people complained it was too confusing.

in FFXII you could have party doing job just as you would, but at the same time you could take control of any character and play just as any FF game. you could as well ignore macros and do it old school, but game was tweaked a bit harder than usual FF games since it was based on realtime coop of well defined members. it also required making macros for certain enemies which could be tedious

so, Square got this bright (stupid) idea and dumbed down macros into Libra. execute Libra on enemy and the FFXII like macro from is auto built for each enemy (unless you execute Libra, party member just randomly execute attacks until you kill certain amount of that enemy). and that more or less dumbs fights down to just pressing auto battle and combat mode changes. well, the only thing i really liked from FFXIII was stagger where they actually succeeded in making it interesting. certain classes can knock stagger timer and certain can knock stagger gauge. still, FFXIII is terrible game

if i had to choose which gameplay i liked the most in any RPG, i would say WKC. you set up bars with commands and combos which made really good setups

the second JRPG game type you seem to not like is Star Ocean and likes. these are not something new. they were always action related, but those never were turn based

Wasn't FFX-2 the first FF that introduced the ATB? Also yes I don't like action RPG's like Star Ocean ^^

I also checked on WKC and I don't think I would like the combat that much.
My favorite JRPG is still "Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals" for SNES :)

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@Znurre
The "real-time" aspect is visible in the video and they write it on their KS page.

@vulture
Correct. Last time I wanted to play a JRPG I bought FFXIII because I thought with FF you can do nothing wrong cause FFVII and FFVIII were great. Turned out FFXIII was total crap.

Sadly the best "JRPG" combat wise I played lately was South Park and the Stick of Truth >.>
A combat system like in Lost Odyssey would be nice too.

EDIT: I just read some more about the game on the KS page and it seems to be possible to decide which combat mode (ATB or pure turn based) you want to use, which is great. This should be advertised as MAIN feature :) Seriously I spent hours to find a pure turn based JRPG for PS3 but there seems to be none.
Now I will definitely try the demo when I get home.

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At first I was pretty hyped about the game, then I saw this:

Active Time Battle combat system
Defeat your enemies in strategic fights powered by an ATB inspired by the best J-RPG, mixing real-time and turn-based gameplay.

This is breaks it for me, it is pretty much the reason why I don't play modern JRPG's anymore. I really miss the good old turn based battle system :(

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With most of the effects on low and only textures on high with a resolution of 1920x1080 I get 30fps most of the time. So my fps range goes from 25 - 45 now.

My specs:
i7 3770k
Geforce 670gtx (346.35)
32 GB ram

But the game looks overall not that good optimized:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=980126 [External Link]

I know it is still from the patch 1.2.1 but still, it didn't change much afaik.

UPDATE:

I played it for several hours yesterday. Patch 1.4 still runs okay for me but I noticed that after ~2 hours the fps break in, it is constantly at ~9fps which makes in unplayable. Restarting the game fixes the issue. I had been able to reproduce it, so I guess it is a memory leak or something?

I guess I ll prepare some logs and make a bug report.

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I think it is not necessary to install SteamOS, just setup a Big Picture session. I think that is what scaine said last time if i remember correctly. Since SteamOS uses Gnome3 as DE, it would be interesting to know if the performance is a bit better on it.

I can't test it yet, need to wait for the 27th Feb for boxed release, can't buy the digital version with a German IP (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

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Yesterday I had my first crash after ~1 hour 30 minutes. But despite the crash and the messy dialogs (switching subtitles and voice) I have to say I really enjoy the game. Upgrading the crew/ship and doing the quests is actually fun :)

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A pity, I was really looking forward to this game :(
I hope the devs will work on it to improve it.

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I am kind of happy now that i couldn't buy the game digitally and have to wait for the 27th February. I don't think I will buy this until the bugs are fixed and the performance is optimized. Thanks for the Linux gameplay video Samsai.

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