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There's a lot of them too. I had never heard about the Game Gear games before. There's 3 of those, 2 on the Genesis plus SFCD, and SFIII on the Saturn has 3 scenarios. Unfortunately two of those require translation patches.
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Hatta wrote:There's a lot of them too. I had never heard about the Game Gear games before. There's 3 of those, 2 on the Genesis plus SFCD, and SFIII on the Saturn has 3 scenarios. Unfortunately two of those require translation patches.
Only 1 game gear game is in english. The sf2 prequel has a translation patch. The sega cd version has 2 of the gamegear games plus a 3rd scenario that combines the 2 story arcs and is the definitive way to play those. It is like 3 SF games in 1.
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Made it to chapter 2 finally, lot slower than you guys haha.

I just have to ask so I don't get all OCD on this game, but is there ever any items in barrels or anything like that? I keep searching tons of things, but yeah. If not that'll save me some time, lol...
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Xeogred wrote:Made it to chapter 2 finally, lot slower than you guys haha.

I just have to ask so I don't get all OCD on this game, but is there ever any items in barrels or anything like that? I keep searching tons of things, but yeah. If not that'll save me some time, lol...
I really don't remember there being any. There are a couple hidden chests in chapter 3. One near where you get Zylo and another on the bridge battle with the secret weapon.
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I'll try to remember that then and just stop searching barrels and boxes, haha.

And you guys were right, I don't know what happened (well I think giving him a Middle Sword over a Short Sword helped), but Luke was wiping the floor clean in that final battle in chapter 1. Dealing out like ~11 damage a hit, heh. Ken has absolutely insane HP right now too already, in the 20's. He's doing awesome.
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Xeogred wrote:I'll try to remember that then and just stop searching barrels and boxes, haha.

And you guys were right, I don't know what happened (well I think giving him a Middle Sword over a Short Sword helped), but Luke was wiping the floor clean in that final battle in chapter 1. Dealing out like ~11 damage a hit, heh. Ken has absolutely insane HP right now too already, in the 20's. He's doing awesome.
Yeah, Ken stays strong until maybe the early-mid game, then others start passing him in stats. My only centaur I am using now is Arthur (I believe you get him in chapter 2). He gets magic spells later on.
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I haven't really felt compelled to play since Saturday, I got a bit burned out playing it from a few marathon sittings (3 hours each).

I'll probably pick it up again this weekend.
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Breetai wrote:
Xeogred wrote:I'll try to remember that then and just stop searching barrels and boxes, haha.

And you guys were right, I don't know what happened (well I think giving him a Middle Sword over a Short Sword helped), but Luke was wiping the floor clean in that final battle in chapter 1. Dealing out like ~11 damage a hit, heh. Ken has absolutely insane HP right now too already, in the 20's. He's doing awesome.
Yeah, Ken stays strong until maybe the early-mid game, then others start passing him in stats. My only centaur I am using now is Arthur (I believe you get him in chapter 2). He gets magic spells later on.
I've had good luck with earnest often, and occasionally pelle and vankar too
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I think I may re-start my game on PS3 now... the audio is so garbled on DC, and I figure I'll get some sort of trophy for beating it on PS3. I figure it shouldn't be that arduous since I've only been playing a bit over a week and I'm already at Chapter 4. I should be able to breeze through to here again pretty quickly.
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So not to derail this any bit or anything, but what game in the series would you guys say is your favorite?
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