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Talbain · April 23rd, 2005

That Fin screen is so my Wallpaper now.

psicomaniaco · April 23rd, 2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by Melly

I'm a little disappointed in how short the ending was though.

Yeah, the ending could be better... Enix always did this: great RPGs with not-so-good endings...

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F-3582 · April 23rd, 2005

I beat Brahms - he is pretty easy. All you need is:

- Guts on a high level for everybody, if he manages to unleash his special attack on you
- Avoid, Reduce Damage, Defend skills on high levels
- Some nice armor (the Divine items should be enough)
- loots of Poison Crystals (others might fit, too, but Poison Crystals inflict most damage)

I don't know my level exactly, but I think that Valkyrie was at around 25 and the others about 20. When I first met him (on a lower level), his hits did 15000 damage, but the second time they only inflicted around 1000 and more often he didn't even hit me! Let everyone use the Crystals and he shouldn't last longer than two or three rounds.

But: You won't get any Exp. Pts...

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ChankastRules · April 23rd, 2005

Cool, I guess I was in between and he did a lot of damage, I tried to go face him at a later time with higher levels but he was gone.

Melly · April 24th, 2005

This is a little off-topic, but I found this art book for VP a couple weeks ago and thought I'd share some of the beautiful pictures.

I resized these to 40% of the original scans, which were over 2000x2000 each and huge files. I compressed them as JPG with only 40-60 quality, but these are still large, so may be slow loading on dialup...

Anyway, although they aren't screenshots... enjoy!

Oh and there are about 130 pages in the book, weighing in at about 230 MB. These are the best images IMO, most of the rest are of the separate characters' art and portraits in the game.

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	Untitled-6.jpg (121.2 KB, 91 views)

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ChankastRules · April 24th, 2005

how much did it cost?

Melly · April 24th, 2005

Aww, sorry... I didn't buy it. My friend in Singapore has the actual book and made the scans.

If you'd like the pictures of a specific character I can size it down and post them.

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Talbain · April 25th, 2005

It looks very similar to Tactics Ogre. Albeit, the pictures seem to be of higher quality. I'm more excited about the Oxide 2 art book (artbook for Magna Carta: Crimson Stigmata) I recently ordered. I really like Hyung Kim Tae's art style. Probably just because of the more "feminine" male characters. (Softer features)

**hushypushy** · April 25th, 2005

just a few shots from the beginning.

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**n_w95482** · April 25th, 2005

I'm really surprised how sharp the blue/white light in picture two looks, it's so sharp it looks almost out of place

. The game backgrounds and artbook pictures are quite nice as well

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F-3582 · April 25th, 2005

Hushy, switch to the PEOpS Soft plugin, immediately! The game is mainly 2D (screw teh world map!) and some of the best effects like the warp effect will only show with that plugin.

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psicomaniaco · April 25th, 2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by F-3582

Hushy, switch to the PEOpS Soft plugin, immediately! The game is mainly 2D (screw teh world map!) and some of the best effects like the warp effect will only show with that plugin.

If your card can handle OGL2, use Pete's OpenGL2 plugin. IMO it produces the best results. If you configure it well, you can even see the warp effects.

IMO its better than the soft plugin, even if you don't like bilinear filtering (like me). Look these shots: The first one is using filtering (and it doesn't scramble the 2d images), and the second one is not using filtering.

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**hushypushy** · April 25th, 2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by F-3582

Hushy, switch to the PEOpS Soft plugin, immediately! The game is mainly 2D (screw teh world map!) and some of the best effects like the warp effect will only show with that plugin.

well i was messing around with peops/OGL2 earlier and i cant decide what i like better. on one hand, with OGL2, i like the sharpness of the 3D things and the crispness of the backgrounds, but on the otherhand, i like the sexiness of Peops blurriness. honestly, i enjoy both, im just not sure what ill be playing the game with.

however, i found a bug in OGL2 already, i cant send a memory card because it's so deep into it, i had to use a save state. but there is one part, where he says "i'd kill that stinking knave"..on the 3rd line of text it freezes with OGL2. with the other plugins it didnt do that. so, knowing that OGL2 might be buggy (i remember helping pete with debugging it whilst playing through FF9 back in the day) i may just stick with Peops.

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psicomaniaco · April 25th, 2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by hushypushy

however, i found a bug in OGL2 already, i cant send a memory card because it's so deep into it, i had to use a save state. but there is one part, where he says "i'd kill that stinking knave"..on the 3rd line of text it freezes with OGL2. with the other plugins it didnt do that. so, knowing that OGL2 might be buggy (i remember helping pete with debugging it whilst playing through FF9 back in the day) i may just stick with Peops.

Well, I've beaten VP2 using OGL2 plugin, and this is the only bug I've encountered. But this thing happened to me with the normal OGL plugin and with the soft plugin too. There's a way to get past this: just disable the frame limit before this sentence. It won't freeze. Then u can enable it again.

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ChankastRules · April 25th, 2005

... Vp2?

psicomaniaco · April 26th, 2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChankastRules

... Vp2?

Uh... I mean VP of course... I just got confused with the ogl2, and put VP2!! (Well, maybe deep inside of me, I'm still hoping they make VP2, so...)

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**hushypushy** · April 26th, 2005

trust me i tried disabling frame limiting and reloadign save states etc

the only thing that worked was playing with OGL and Peops. i dunno though, we'll see. maybe ill play this game liek i did FF9, i beat that entire game using D3D, peops, OGL2, and OGL1 for random parts

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Talbain · April 26th, 2005

I find it strange that I've got this ultra low-end computer and yet I never have to switch plugins around... not even settings usually.

ChankastRules · April 26th, 2005

I wounder if mail bomning them to make VP2 will help at all?

psicomaniaco · April 26th, 2005

Them who? Square-enix???? MEH!

Anyway, I still recomend OGL2 though. I've finished this game with it, and I had no problems. I use EPSXE 1.5.2, btw.

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April 23rd, 2005	#61 (permalink)
Talbain Moo. Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: In a field, eating grass. Posts: 455	That Fin screen is so my Wallpaper now.

April 23rd, 2005	#63 (permalink)
F-3582 Back to regular business Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: in Sachsen Posts: 3,246	I beat Brahms - he is pretty easy. All you need is: - Guts on a high level for everybody, if he manages to unleash his special attack on you - Avoid, Reduce Damage, Defend skills on high levels - Some nice armor (the Divine items should be enough) - loots of Poison Crystals (others might fit, too, but Poison Crystals inflict most damage) I don't know my level exactly, but I think that Valkyrie was at around 25 and the others about 20. When I first met him (on a lower level), his hits did 15000 damage, but the second time they only inflicted around 1000 and more often he didn't even hit me! Let everyone use the Crystals and he shouldn't last longer than two or three rounds. But: You won't get any Exp. Pts... __________________ In a world without walls and fences - who needs Windows and Gates?

April 23rd, 2005	#64 (permalink)
ChankastRules NextGenerationGaymulation Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sweden ( Proud Game Developer ) Posts: 2,771	Cool, I guess I was in between and he did a lot of damage, I tried to go face him at a later time with higher levels but he was gone.

April 24th, 2005	#66 (permalink)
ChankastRules NextGenerationGaymulation Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sweden ( Proud Game Developer ) Posts: 2,771	how much did it cost?

April 24th, 2005	#67 (permalink)
Melly Oh bother! Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: USA Posts: 99	Aww, sorry... I didn't buy it. My friend in Singapore has the actual book and made the scans. If you'd like the pictures of a specific character I can size it down and post them. __________________ Opera ※ Opera Wiki ※ Optimize XP ※ Proxomitron ※ Gnome

April 25th, 2005	#68 (permalink)
Talbain Moo. Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: In a field, eating grass. Posts: 455	It looks very similar to Tactics Ogre. Albeit, the pictures seem to be of higher quality. I'm more excited about the Oxide 2 art book (artbook for Magna Carta: Crimson Stigmata) I recently ordered. I really like Hyung Kim Tae's art style. Probably just because of the more "feminine" male characters. (Softer features)

April 25th, 2005	#70 (permalink)
n_w95482 Totally crazy Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: California Posts: 4,777	I'm really surprised how sharp the blue/white light in picture two looks, it's so sharp it looks almost out of place . The game backgrounds and artbook pictures are quite nice as well . __________________ Main PC: Asus P6T Deluxe, Intel Core i7 920 C0 @ 3.7 GHz (195x19, 1.3v core, 1.84v PLL, 1.3625v uncore) w/Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme, 3x2 GB G Skill PC3-12800 @ 780 MHz, 7-7-7-21-1T, 1.66v; ATi Radeon HD 4870 1 GB @ 790/1000 w/Zalman VF-1000, 300 GB WD VelociRaptor, 4x500 GB WD RE2 (RAID 10), 3ware 9650SE-4LPML RAID controller, SB X-Fi Titanium, Seasonic M12D 750w, CM Stacker 810, Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, Dell 2007WFP XBL/PSN/WoW: Thordrune

April 25th, 2005	#71 (permalink)
F-3582 Back to regular business Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: in Sachsen Posts: 3,246	Hushy, switch to the PEOpS Soft plugin, immediately! The game is mainly 2D (screw teh world map!) and some of the best effects like the warp effect will only show with that plugin. __________________ In a world without walls and fences - who needs Windows and Gates?

April 25th, 2005	#75 (permalink)
ChankastRules NextGenerationGaymulation Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sweden ( Proud Game Developer ) Posts: 2,771	... Vp2?

April 26th, 2005	#77 (permalink)
hushypushy the only one you've ever SEEN Join Date: May 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 21,978	trust me i tried disabling frame limiting and reloadign save states etc the only thing that worked was playing with OGL and Peops. i dunno though, we'll see. maybe ill play this game liek i did FF9, i beat that entire game using D3D, peops, OGL2, and OGL1 for random parts __________________ Dedicated to mediocrity and repetition since 1994.

April 26th, 2005	#78 (permalink)
Talbain Moo. Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: In a field, eating grass. Posts: 455	I find it strange that I've got this ultra low-end computer and yet I never have to switch plugins around... not even settings usually.

April 26th, 2005	#79 (permalink)
ChankastRules NextGenerationGaymulation Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sweden ( Proud Game Developer ) Posts: 2,771	I wounder if mail bomning them to make VP2 will help at all?

April 26th, 2005	#80 (permalink)
psicomaniaco Eh?? Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: I'm ashamed to say... Posts: 1,645	Them who? Square-enix???? MEH! Anyway, I still recomend OGL2 though. I've finished this game with it, and I had no problems. I use EPSXE 1.5.2, btw. __________________ Goals: -Buy a new video Card; Buy F.E.A.R; Beat NOLF 1 and 2; Buy cat food.