Phantom Dust Impressions

So, it's been a day since the re-release, what is Sup Forums thinking about it?

I never really liked Phantom Dust. But at least it's better than the Nintendo garbage showing up in every thread.

Hows the port? I tried to look if there was any gameplay footage of it but all I could find are trailers.

played it when it came out ages ago. Great game. IIRC, there are some skill combos that are extremely OP, just like any other game.

I will let you know in a minute op. Let me downl-
>windows 10
>not on steam
Never mind.

My notebook is a toaster and it is working perfectly. I didn't had any problem with Windows 10 as well. Visuals are nice enough i guess, i don't care much about this sort of thing so i not the best person to give an opinion on graphics.

the only issues are a lot of particle effects are missing and are replaced with ones that are in the unfibished source code

I want to get it badly, but don't want Adware. Keep it alive for me my gentleman.

Spyware* Shit, sorry. But yea, Windows 10 is sketchy.

anything microsoft can spy on you, google can spy on you, everyone probably already is spying on you, stop being a faggot

This. Lord Gaben's Steam should be the ONLY way to play games on PC.

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Whats with their noses?

I'd love to try it out but it crashes on startup, oh well

Open your sound properties for your microphone and speakers (or headphones) and in Advanced set it to 24 bit, 48000 hz.

I had the same crashing issue until I did that, now it works fine.

Gave it a go.

Runs great, like the gameplay. Bit straightforward and seems prone to being utterly broken, so I probably won't get that involved in the MP.

It's the sort of game you know you're just going to get destroyed in over and over. Still, managing parabolas, cover and range is great.

I'm totally down with the plot, that mystery is driving me like nothing else. So I'm going to leave the thread before someone spoils it.

Apparently that's a mic issue. Try connecting or disconnecting yours.

Artistic choice.

Well, then I guess I gotta find ways to upgrade it, not a free update anymore. But is it worth it? I heard Windows 10 is shit. My laptop is shotty in the long run anyway but since it works on toasters...

Works fine. About as good as anything else Microsoft. I like the indexing speed.

>implying anyone wants to spy on your faggot ass
get real. Whatever worthwhile info m$ could steal from you has already been stolen and is already out there.

Okay Okay. I get it. I already 'bought' the game. All I need is the update.

Not going to update for a single game I could probably be emulating but if you already opted to update but reverted like a lot of people did, there's supposed to be a way for you to update back up again via the microsoft website. Try google.

>I could probably be emulating
I wish, OG Xbox emulation is still in the gutter.

Wasn't there a project working on that?

>back up again
You mean back down or....?

>High Speed Punches can only combo 5 times before dropping
>Fatigue exists if you grab your last orb
Hmm

Art When?
Porn When?

should have JUST made phantom dust 2

I wanna see fast combat

I'm real tempted, but I have a super western style so I'll probably just do like a zoomed-out illustration of two peeps battling in the Palace or something.

He means upgrading to Windows 10. Come on now.

>>Fatigue exists if you grab your last orb

That's milling, like a card game. You know, like Phantom Dust is emulating.

Sorry, thought he was referring to backing out of the update.
I might update tomorrow since I hear it's better than windows 8, which came with the laptop, so I might just do it to at least keep this game alive & play the story mode.
Might even try to find a physical copy for my collection.

Alpha vs Edgar would be awesome drawfriend.

>that pic
There is a point where we need to stop and we clearly passed it.

Neat.

These threads will probably be dead by the time I'm done but I'll just do it anyway, it's a fun game.

>starting with 4 aura particles, with the 3 starters being another one, a dash and a psychoblade

Sometimes the world just favours you.

good game

You will be emulating PS4 before OG Xbox

My shitty little toaster opens and runs it fine, what's your excuse.

Jesus, really?

We'll try to save it as much as we can, if not, see you next thread my good man.

I don't even know WHY this shit isn't opening, I'm pretty far from toaster tier

A lot of people are having trouble with mics, try

Why's that?

Steam Release when?

God, I hope so. But Microsoft owns the Property.

Don't die on me yet!

>get nothing but one pissy little psychoknife the enemy continually blocks while getting 18 aura drops and they're just dropping fucking benches on you

Jesus shit, I wonder how frustrating the multiplayer gets.

It gets bad in Quick mode. They changed the Arsenals there, but I hate that one.

The true skills is balancing your Arsenal with 15 skills and 15 Aura Particals. Similar to how deck building in Magic used to be. You want half your deck to be the "engine" while the other being skills.

are you supposed to lose the first fight against Edgar? didn't even let me retry.

got dealt an unbelievably shitty hand holy fuck

The fmv is garbage but they did a ok job cleaning up the rest of the game it's interesting so far I am kinda digging it

> FMV is garbage

user, they didn't have the source. They couldn't DO anything about the FMV's.

I think that's a story moment. I hit "Give Up > Retry" before the lose cutscene came in and won.

Freeze-spamming son of a bitch.

the framerate is garbage on xbox one, it's pretty amazing

Runs on a PC toaster, only framerate drops are during the FMVs.

Which is amazing in its own way.

Hope the community gets bigger with this, but people nowadays are graphic whores sadly, easily forgetting this is a 13 year old title & you can play this whole game without paying a cent unless you're lazy.

Didn't work, what does this have to do with anything, holy shit

Well if nothing else, playing Phantom Dust has keenly reminded me why I fucking hate card games.

Hey you know what would make Phantom Dust better? If they removed all the cardgame elements. Just removed them. Tossed into the garbage. Made a different game.

Even then, why does that shit only spawn in one tiny space on each map?

the fuck, I cant find any games. had the same problem with killer instinct on pc. Do I need to forward ports or something? Cant even make a lobby with my buddy, he says the session just "doesnt exist" when I invite him.

It runs well, which it should considering it's from the original Xbox. I accidentally named myself Ice and wish I had kept saying no at the start, but other than that it's been pretty good so far.

After Forza.

>Hey you know what would make Phantom Dust better? If they removed all the cardgame elements

So make a MOBA? Why not... just play an MOBA then?

Phantom Dust's card-game elements is what makes it what it is. Too bad you aren't into it, but there's a careful balance between building your deck to have skills for any situation.

That's not remotely a MOBA. Nobody likes MOBAs.

I can think of a dozen different ways to have multiplayer-focused post-apoc mage battles with skill-management that don't involved camping one tiny area until your shitty beginner's card deck spews game-winning shit at you.

I'm just frustrated. Losing card games, faux or not, is so incredibly frustrating. It's a decent game otherwise.

Is there a way to reset the campaign?

Make a new save file i guess. Why do you want to anyways?

It's free if you download the version for people that use assistive technology. There's absolutely no difference, you just have to lie and say you're handicapped in some way. I did it for Phantom Dust yesterday.

I'm thinking why the hell they decided to make the mediocre obscure title a windows 10/windows store exclusive, the devs have said they would like to do a sequel if a lot of people play the remaster, buy the in app purchases, well, excluding the entirety of steam, windows 7 and windows 8 users isn't going to help you.

That's three markets you're choosing to ignore.

Why do you ask? What happened?

probably achievements. get to chapter 2 in under 30 minutes.

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That makes the game look at least 10% gayer than it actually is.

It's sub par fan art, which makes me question why bother. Just shows that this game needs more people playing.
The one time It's relevent...
It's grat to see it still get thread by fans. No matter how small & just they are.

and then nothing happened
do I have to restart?

>resetting opponents aura from 11/13 to 0 wirh plenty of mine in the bank
this is a good feel

Best companion and why is it Cuff Button?

the card elements are literally what make this game unique. It would just be a generic third person action game if not for the strategy involved in preserving and managing aura/skills plus deck building. I agree the idea of making a third person action game a hybrid card game makes it feel like a kinda lukewarm version of both, but they did a pretty damned good job in my opinion in regards to execution of such a weird and novel concept. There's a really chunkiness that I love about the combat. The way you bounce off of everything if you get slammed into a wall and the way debris flies up into the air. They have some nice little fine detail scattered about.