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you people keep playing games god damn
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Got Untold yesterday, going to try my best to balance it and Fate/Stay Night (which I'm reading for my senior thesis if you can believe it).
Also I hate direct sequels which don't recap previous entries for newcomers/link to them. >:(
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but I hate you so everything works out
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Add me to the Untold crowd. This isn't too ha- *gets caught in tripple FOE room*
Crap.
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Ehehe I'm still going through regular ol' EO4. Also SMT4.
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Should merge this thread with the EO one because I have it too :v
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what the "Ah ha ha...I have killed a lot of people." in the title mean? D:
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Also I hate direct sequels which don't recap previous entries for newcomers/link to them. >:(
"Games were played, random discussions were had, also raging at vidya"
recap done
on that note guess whose copy of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle came in? 8D
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what the "Ah ha ha...I have killed a lot of people." in the title mean? D:
It's a line from Borderlands 2. It is also very appropriate for this thread.
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It's a line from Borderlands 2. It is also very appropriate for this thread.
Errrgh I don't want to remember all the stuff that's still floating around in my backlog.
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It's a line from Borderlands 2. It is also very appropriate for this thread.
Personally I would have gone with "SHOOT ME IN THE FACE" which is also appropriate for some of the posts usually in this thread
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Okay, 1st post on the new thread.
I am playing Metal Slug 3D... Jesus Christ that game is the definition of mediocre. The missions are repetitive, guns with wrong qualifications (The MP5 is called the "Heavy Machine Gun", the "Shotgun" is an FAL variant with an Grenade launcher and stuff like that) the game doesn't know if it wants to be easy or hard so it's kinda like Ten Desires in some way, almost all of the bosses are underweling:
Stage 1 boss is just a truck that fires explosives, you know, Metal Slug 3's Stage 1 MIDBOSS?
And Stage 2's is just your regular arse helicopter?
Stage 7's boss is a walking castle, which you THINK would be cool but just 130 shots from the MG and it's gone;
And for the life of me, I just CAN'T get an S ranking on Stage 10. I always get a perfect score, but not perfect time, and I cleared the stage as quick as 6min30s once. It's almost like it's not programed into the game.
BUT WHY THE HELL DO I LIKE THIS GAME SO MUCH? IS IT JUST BECAUSE IT'S AN 3D METAL SLUG GAME?!
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anyone here played Trauma Center/Trauma Team?
for some reason after marathon the series I can't play killing game anymore. . :ohdear:
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Well, considering you're saving instead of killing in those games, I'm not surprised. Though I would think the last thing you want to do after marathoning the series is play some other games, considering how stressful the games are on your dominant hand. Aletheia Hard still makes my arm shake quite a bit.
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anyone here played Trauma Center/Trauma Team?
for some reason after marathon the series I can't play killing game anymore. . :ohdear:
I love the series oops
haven't played any of them in a while but I cleared all the bonus missions in UtK2 and holy hell that was a thing (and I did it with only one stylus too so uh)
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Just finished Persona 4 last night. I had never actually played it despite clearing Persona 3 three times, watching the anime, and playing a lot of Persona 4 Arena. I liked it, but thought it was a clear step blow Persona 3. I might have felt differently if I didn't already know how the mystery plot went or if I had been playing Golden.
Probably going to start Catherine later today. Because I guess I have an Atlus thing going right now.
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I'm playing GTAV Online. Yeah, it's pretty cool, but it's way too chaotic, everybody wants everybody else DEAD. Also, Rockstar didn't balance the Stubby Shotgun very well: It's always a 1HKO. Always. Doesn't matter at what range, how much health you have, how many pellets hit you, it doesn't matter, it always seems to 1HKO.
NO WAIT, TURNS OUT YOU CAN SURVIVE A SHOTGUN BLAST! But only if less than half of the buckshot hits you when the shooter is atleast 20+ metres away from you.
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Dishonored was great except for the characterization. I beat the game practically by accident, too.
Onto Bioshock Infinite! Wow, I get to choose between hitting the mixed race couple or the racist? Whell! The 60's are coming to Columbia 50 years early!
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Okay, does GTA online save automatically? Because I get this odd feeling that Rockstar forgot their common sense and makes it necessary for you to manually save the game. I mean, there is an option for it! I turned off without using this option that shouldn't even exist in the first place, and I'm worried that I may have lost progress.
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Dishonored was great except for the characterization. I beat the game practically by accident, too.
No Kill, No Detection playthrough?
Honestly, I find it somewhat detestable at first that the game suggests me to not resort into assassination while I'm playing as an assassin. Thankfully, the moral question struck me in the end of the game, and it somewhat made me proud for achieving what I consider impossible at first. Not to count the well-deserved happy ending.
Whose characterization you don't find appealing?
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Got a couple of hours into Catherine, liking it a lot so far except for when it occasionally stops being a puzzle and starts being a reflex game. It's certainly a change of pace, and that's worth some points.
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Picked up
Waifu Simulator Agarest on Steam because I'm a terrible person. Currently just fiddling with it to make it run better, I might end up not playing it properly until I just get a new computer.
Passed endgame in Terraria 1.2 a couple of days ago. Going on Dungeon Guardian hunting expeditions with Infinity and accidentally spawning eight of them instead of one is certainly a thing.
Just slowly grinding my way through ClaDun x2. Eventually I'll figure out how this game actually works.
I've also been playing DJMAX Trilogy again on occasion. Holy shit I'm terrible at this game now, definitely need to practice a little bit.
Still playing all those shitty online games like DotA, LoL, CounterStrike, and what have you. I have yet to figure out why I hate myself so much.
Still going through my collection of garbage VNs at a snail's pace. Again, I don't know why I hate myself so much.
Other than that, I've got a bunch of random games lying around that I still need to complete, so no worries on that front really.
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Started playing Kamidori Alchemy Meister the other day. Not bad so far besides getting my ass handed to me for making stupid mistakes. Damn harpies. :V
I also have been attempting to make progress in Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD ReMIX whenever I can actually get on my PS3. Proud mode so far isn't too bad, but I imagine it gets worse as it goes on. Maybe. It's been so long since I played the original game that I have to relearn everything I knew about it from about ten years ago.
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Started playing Kamidori Alchemy Meister the other day. Not bad so far besides getting my ass handed to me for making stupid mistakes. Damn harpies. :V
I've always found Yuera a bit weak to harpies, so I do a Wil/Serawi pair to block them off. If you can avoid getting them in critical (thus using their Undress buff), it helps a lot.
Page 191 of the Wizard's Companion says Ulk are vulnerable to poison. Guess what Ulk nullify?
Atelier Meruru: One of the few games where getting smashed by the fist of a giant 'effing tree is less damaging on the whole than the same tree raining down spiky fruits on someone.
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Just discovered that if you set your system to Japanese, Space Channel 5 Part 2 HD will be in Japanese.
I love SC5 way too much
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No Kill, No Detection playthrough?
Honestly, I find it somewhat detestable at first that the game suggests me to not resort into assassination while I'm playing as an assassin. Thankfully, the moral question struck me in the end of the game, and it somewhat made me proud for achieving what I consider impossible at first. Not to count the well-deserved happy ending.
Whose characterization you don't find appealing?
The pacifist/ghost achievements (always personal favorites) got flushed sometime during the Flooded District part and I don't have any idea how it happened. Maybe I knocked someone out and they fell? Also, I thought the characterization for the entire cast was weak in some regard. You go out into Dunwall, silence dozens of guards, jump through all sorts of hoops and tight spots to assassinate or neutralize your mark(s), then return to your comrades, only to get a brief one-sided conversation with a few of them before going back out. Sam and Emily were the only ones I took any interest in, considering what they do and go through.
The game simply featured a lot of missed opportunities to make the cast sympathetic or endearing.
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Right now, I am just trying to get to advanced extra in Super Monkey Ball DX.
To get to it, you have to beat advanced which is 70 levels without continuing.
I had a perfect run end at Arthropod. I got there with 3 lives remaining. Words cannot describe how much hatred I have for this stage right now. :flamingv:
To make matters worse, Arthropod is level 69 out of 70.
To me, it should be in the Expert difficulty.
Other then that, I have also been playing Soul Calibur V trying to level up so I can make Touhou custom characters.
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Right now, I am just trying to get to advanced extra in Super Monkey Ball DX.
To get to it, you have to beat advanced which is 70 levels without continuing.
I had a perfect run end at Arthropod. I got there with 3 lives remaining. Words cannot describe how much hatred I have for this stage right now. :flamingv:
To make matters worse, Arthropod is level 69 out of 70.
To me, it should be in the Expert difficulty.
Other then that, I have also been playing Soul Calibur V trying to level up so I can make Touhou custom characters.
Arthropod is a weird one. There is a way, if you watch the clock and know the inputs, to basically perfect the level 100% of the time. Otherwise? Good freaking luck. I have so much hate for Arthropod among other levels
Tales of Xillia goes on precisely one chapter too long for my tastes. I just completed part 3 and there's a whole nother quarter of the game to go. But I'm just kind of getting tired of it at this point, y'know? Like it was fun but by this point the six playable characters aren't exactly doing a great job holding my interest anymore.
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If you are playing GTA Online, then you MUST sign this petition (http://support.rockstargames.com/hc/communities/public/questions/200216027-Petition-to-change-medical-bills-ruins-the-game-). I already lost over half of my money thanks to griefing arseholes. Hell, if you get close to someone online, that person automatically wants you dead for GOD knows what reason, and everytime you die, if you have more than 10k$ with you, then you lose 2000$ everytime you die.
Hell, griefing in this game wouldn't even be an issue if it wasn't for this!
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I've been playing Crystal Towers 2 a whole lot recently. (Have you heard of it? I hope so. It's so good.) After clearing a whole bunch of extra worlds and challenges, buffing myself up for a while, and fighting a couple extra bosses, I finally went and beat the final boss... and finished the game with a resounding 52% completion rate. This game just doesn't end, and I love it.
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I'm planning on trying a minimal hearts run of the Zelda Oracle games, as well as a No Jet Worst Ending No Secret Exits run of Wario Land.
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I'm replaying Sonic Colours now. That is, when I have time.
Also, I recently "finished" Stellar Master Mode in Dancing Stage Supernova (the European DDR Supernova). Ugh, so many boring challenges ("Clear three songs on Beginner!") and BS missions ("Get a Full Combo"... when you can't see the arrows before you've already missed them). Now it's time to use some of the stuff I've unlocked.
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Finished Dissidia Duodecim up to the last chapter of Cycle 000 (After suffering several corrupted datas over the past years). Now currently replaying Heroes of Might and Magic IV and re-doing all the campaigns of the original. So far finished 3 of them out of 6.
Also about to get into the BF4 Beta and several other indie-games, depending on what my friends offer me to try.
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I'm replaying Sonic Colours now. That is, when I have time.
Also, I recently "finished" Stellar Master Mode in Dancing Stage Supernova (the European DDR Supernova). Ugh, so many boring challenges ("Clear three songs on Beginner!") and BS missions ("Get a Full Combo"... when you can't see the arrows before you've already missed them). Now it's time to use some of the stuff I've unlocked.
That's always been my problem with the "--- Master Mode"s. The first challenges are too simple, the late ones are absolutely ridiculous, and the progression's far too quick. If they had a set of challenges of several difficulties, and none of that jacked up mod crap they liked to pull, they'd actually be pretty cool.
Seeing the instructions for some of the VIP Card missions was sort of amusing though in the case of boss songs. "Challenge your limits!" Basically they're saying "Hahaha...Good luuuuck~!"
Having missions be stuff just like getting certain grades or combos or holding all the freezes, etc. on so many songs and such would have been a nicer way to do it. Maybe make em Achievement-style like X2 had instead of a separate mode, and unlock stuff by doing certain numbers of things...I could probably go on, but this is not the time, nor is this the topic.
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Been playing quite a lot of Diablo 3 on the PS3 in the last week with a couple of friends. It's pretty weak (but then again I've never liked or understood Diablo), but it gets a pass on all of its many shortcomings for being a co-op game we can all play on one machine. I'm the wizard, and I haven't gotten bored of shooting the same monster with an ice beam over and over yet.
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So I just learned that if you don't defeat Airshatter quickly enough after he hits his last phase, the thing nukes your party for 999 thereabouts apiece. My highest HP total in my party is 300. Do the math.
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Been playing a Moemon romhack - 鬼畜 3Rd version, which is a huge improvement (for better or for worse) over the old アカギ version, sporting reasonable level curves, absolutely diabolical gym leaders and some interesting Dex changes.
#1 Gym leader - Misty (Kasumi) - Gimmick: Rain
Lumineon / Gastrodon / Kingdra / Milotic / Starmie / Empoleon
#2 Gym leader - Lt. Surge (Matthys) - Gimmick: Rain
Ampharos / Jolteon / Luxray / Electivire / Rotom / Raichu
#3 Gym leader - Brock (Takeshi) - Gimmick: Sandstorm
Bastiodon / Rampardos / Aerodactyl / Kabutops / Armaldo / Golem
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The pacifist/ghost achievements (always personal favorites) got flushed sometime during the Flooded District part and I don't have any idea how it happened. Maybe I knocked someone out and they fell? Also, I thought the characterization for the entire cast was weak in some regard. You go out into Dunwall, silence dozens of guards, jump through all sorts of hoops and tight spots to assassinate or neutralize your mark(s), then return to your comrades, only to get a brief one-sided conversation with a few of them before going back out. Sam and Emily were the only ones I took any interest in, considering what they do and go through.
The game simply featured a lot of missed opportunities to make the cast sympathetic or endearing.
Oh, I see. Yeah, you're right for the lack of meaningful characters. Sure some of the other characters' background were referred somewhere, written or recorded, but their attitudes/actions throughout the game failed to give deep impression, save the betrayals
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Have you tried Knife of Dunwall?
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Oh, I see. Yeah, you're right for the lack of meaningful characters. Sure some of the other characters' background were referred somewhere, written or recorded, but their attitudes/actions throughout the game failed to give deep impression, save the betrayals
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Have you tried Knife of Dunwall?
The betrayal is why I liked Sam so much. One lone Nobody in a field of aristocrats, empires, and people of power, and that Nobody has the strength and will to do the one good thing that leads to the downfall of those in the highest positions of power.
That and the Heart says he's a nice guy, so there.
Knife of Dunwall will probably come after the DLC goes on sale. I've got a lot on my plate right now and I usually pick up a game for 5 minutes before putting it down again. The only reason I have so many hours logged in certain games is because I'm so stressed out that I fall asleep with the game still running. I'll get around to it some time!
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Today I started playing Etrian Odyssey 2. I'm currently on the fifth floor and I'm having a blast! My only complaint so far is that the F.O.Es don't give any exp.
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That's always been my problem with the "--- Master Mode"s. The first challenges are too simple, the late ones are absolutely ridiculous, and the progression's far too quick. If they had a set of challenges of several difficulties, and none of that jacked up mod crap they liked to pull, they'd actually be pretty cool.
I agree. If I recall correctly, at least one of the Hottest Party games (I play those games too) was decent with this. Most, if not all, of the missions relied on ordinary, raw DDR skill ("Get X points or more", "Get letter grade X or better", etc), and most of the time, the game told you to choose difficulty level X or higher, so you could play through a lot of it on Expert if you wanted to. I consider doing these modes again, but they're very similar to just playing the game normally.
Seeing the instructions for some of the VIP Card missions was sort of amusing though in the case of boss songs. "Challenge your limits!" Basically they're saying "Hahaha...Good luuuuck~!"
That's what I thought too, but these aren't the only examples of useless/silly advice. For instance, for many of the missions that rely on mods, the hint is basically "Semi-memorize the steps".
I won't lie about the fact that I used a PS2 controller for most of the harder missions, and cheated on some Trials. I played with a nasty mod, player 2 (nobody, but as long as one of the players hasn't failed, both get to continue playing) didn't, and I read player 2's chart. Anyway, now that I hopefully won't have to go through Stellar Master ever again, I'm going to play the main game, and do it properly (with a dance pad).
Because I've beaten the final boss of Sonic Colours (I found the level before the boss harder than the boss itself), I'm trying to get all of the red rings. It's going slowly. I really don't bother with S ranks.
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I played with a nasty mod, player 2 (nobody, but as long as one of the players hasn't failed, both get to continue playing) didn't, and I read player 2's chart.
This seemed to generally be the accepted strategy, great for crap like "play on 8x " and stuff.
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I just played Tennis on GTAV and I... I-I don't fucking know man, I'm speechless. It's horrible to the point that makes me wonder if Rockstar ever atleast WATCHED someone play tennis.
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Didn't Rockstar do Table Tennis? Wonder what happened.
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Got Pok?mon Y. I don't know if it's because I avoided spoilers or if it's because everything is all shiny and new, but I haven't had this much fun with a new Pok?mon game in a long time.
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Didn't Rockstar do Table Tennis? Wonder what happened.
I think I know what happened then.
Someone must've though Tennis plays exactly like Table Tennis, but on a bigger scale. And then we got Tennis on GTAV.
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After not playing Child of Eden because I lost interest (seriously, I have to unlock stages by repeating the earlier ones if I do poorly instead of just one after another like in Rez? Really?), I gave it another go. It was after I failed (again) to 100% Matrix and died to the boss of Passion that I realized Child of Eden is harder than its predecessor. :V
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Okay, after all of teh stuff I said about GTAV you guys are probably thinking that I hate it.
In some ways I actually do.
But I still think the game is fun. So I'll share some photos I took.
(http://prod.cloud.rockstargames.com/ugc/gta5photo/6563/9IoiIJ8YDUuZ5DxFoeufaQ/0_0.jpg)
My guy on GTA Online, which looks almost NOTHING like me, thanks to the very shitty character editor.
(http://prod.cloud.rockstargames.com/ugc/gta5photo/1706/IgO0TEYjD0y7-sfRdDXBkA/0_0.jpg)
And my heavily modified Dodge Viper on SP. I lost that car on a police chase, it is now at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. :V
Also, did you guys hear the news? Rockstar will give 500.000$ for free to anyone who plays this game online atleast once this month, however, to balance it, they will split in half, so they will give 250.000$ next week and andother 250.000 At teh end of the month. Time to grind 'till I get around 200.000$ so when it comes I'll have enough money to buy an Deluxe apartment and have money to spare. :3
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Bioshock Infinite may not have inherited the distinctly strong combat mechanics, highly customizable loadout, and other aspects that made the first Bioshock's gameplay so varied and unique, but it did inherit its amazing art design, truly memorable characters,
and of course, major plot twist.
Back to Xenoblade after a long hiatus.
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Playing through Oracle of Ages with a few restrictions:
No Heart Containers
Only two Heart Pieces (Maple and Gasha)
No Joy rings, Heart rings, Power/Shield/Red/Blue/Green rings, no Whimsical rings
I'm up through Nuun Highlands right now, though what's on Youtube is just through the first Dungeon.
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Playing some Malicious: Rebirth. I don't know whether it's because the game runs better on Vita, but I'm actually racking up decent rankings now; though Battlefield of Yore still kicks the crap out of me if I leave it too long. And of course, I can't realistically do Triumphal Square until I get the Shield upgrade from Battlefield, since that boss apparently easily breaks the level 1 shield.
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I am playing Pokemon Black 2. No, I don't have a 3DS, So i can't play X and Y, And to be honest, I have no interest in buying one anyway. I respect my eyes.
Well, it's just a slight reskin of Pokemon Black but with older generation Pokemon on the first few cities that starts off incredibly slowly and boring.
Well, atleast it's a decent game to play 'till GTAV's Stimulus Package comes.
EDIT:
(http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m506/itsover90001/MELDELSGTA2_zps25526e98.png)
FOR GOODNESS SAKE, GTA2, I love you, but I was playing you for over 4 hours in a row, and I was barely over 2/3 through the level?
That is what happens when you don't check how much money you need to pass the stage before you start the level.
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Skyrim--
Marching towards lvl 78 to take on a Legendary Dragon.
Will play soon:
Batman AA and Batman AC now both are SecuROM and GFWL free. (DEATH TO EVIL DRM!!!)
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Just beat the Elite 4 in Touhoumon Another World. May or may not finish the Gensyoko storyline. I'm getting the suspicious feeling that I'm being railroaded into using the Last Word mons in order to deal with all of the Z versions the computer is starting to pull out.
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Right now, my current projects are
- Trying to practice for expert in SMB Deluxe. However, I hit a wall at level 7, Exam C because of those diagonal crossings you have to do and that narrow walkway at the end :colonveeplusalpha:.
- Trying to get to the Insomniac Museum in Ratchet and Clank Going Commando.
- Trying to beat Sonic Spinball. My closest attempt ended at the Showdown table with 2 chaos emeralds left. But, I either make mistakes on Lava Powerhouse and The Machine or I get further then I did last time only to die because I didn't know what to do. :qq: :fail:
I know I need to practice. But if anyone has any tips for the first one and the last one, I would love to hear it. :)
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oh god, nullpomino.
please help, I believe I need to restart 10-layer dig race if I surpass 2 minutes while listening to mega zun
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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- Trying to beat Sonic Spinball. My closest attempt ended at the Showdown table with 2 chaos emeralds left. But, I either make mistakes on Lava Powerhouse and The Machine or I get further then I did last time only to die because I didn't know what to do. :qq: :fail:
I know I need to practice. But if anyone has any tips for the first one and the last one, I would love to hear it. :)
Depends on which two emeralds it is in Showdown. Is it the ones that require you to destroy the metal blocks? Because those (ESPECIALLY the one in the center of the table) are hell incarnate sometimes.
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Registering Pok?mon Y got me enough points on Club Nintendo to get the original Legend of Zelda, so I'm playing that now.
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Depends on which two emeralds it is in Showdown. Is it the ones that require you to destroy the metal blocks? Because those (ESPECIALLY the one in the center of the table) are hell incarnate sometimes.
Well, in my closest run, I couldn't get the ones on the right because I was usually in the middle or the left trying to bust blocks. But looking at a map for Showdown( I don't know if its right or not) I think I can do it.
However, I never got that far yet because in my latest run, I fell off the side when you go outside after you bust the blocks and I missed everything on the way down to stop you and I died in the lava. That was my last life :colonveeplusalpha:.
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Currently playing GTA V, Super Paper Mario, and trying to beat Avalanche Abaasy in Xenoblade Chronicles. I'm almost done with GTA V main story missions, so after that I will start playing MegaMan X6 and Bomberman Fantasy Race for the good ol' times.. (Oh gawd my childhood memories!)
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I just love getting juggled by constant thrown daggers while getting alternately shot at, punched, slashed at, and stabbed if I decide to activate Malice Mode against the true final boss of the Rebirth chapter. What the actual fuck, Alvion? Considering there's an achievement for the (relatively simple) task of killing it without resorting to Malice Mode, shouldn't it be easier?
Also, even though you guys are the developers, killing the Reborn Malicious in five minutes in a form that has reduced attack power compared to default is really demoralizing.
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I'm playing Beyond Two Souls. It's something I'm going into completely blind, except for the little tidbits I saw when my roommate was playing it (it's his game, he got it on release.) I never wanted to kill a group of teenagers as bad as I did. Especially the girl with the glasses. But no, I decided against it. Aiden is only for
escaping SWAT and getting cookies from off the refrigerator
. And she's a badass, taking out an entire police force, by herself, on top of a train, and it was raining.
Girl's after my own heart.
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Almost done with my "No Heart Pieces/Containers" run of the Zelda Oracle games (I'm playing Seasons as a practice run for my "real" game, but I know what I need to do where and Gleeok isn't as threatening as I thought he would be, though I will need the Quicksand Ring for Manhandla)
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Tetrobot & Co., the sequel to Blocks That Matter.
It's a little different but still absolutely brilliant. It's also unfortunately still a little buggy - they gave an undo feature which is super important but sometimes it... does things. Like accidentally break collision detection or spontaneously cause enemies to explode and you're just like "??????"
super fun though and a really, really cleverly designed puzzle game in all aspects.
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(http://i.imgur.com/C065Eqil.png) (http://i.imgur.com/C065Eqi.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/umJXyGSl.png) (http://i.imgur.com/umJXyGS.png)
Now you may call me Reimu "Kiss My Shiny Sweet Hitbox" Hakurei of Unreal.
:justasplanned:
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The Mad Queen is surprisingly tsundere (don't tell her that or I'm likely to get stabbed by Bloodfall... again) for boss 4 of 5. Takes forever to get something going against her, but when it happens, I somehow manage a very rare full-S rank. It's a damn good thing Rebirth made her shield tell more obvious.
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The Stanley Parable
One word: what
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Xenoblade is really securing itself as one of my favorite JRPGs of all time. It's a genre I've been playing since the first Final Fantasy, too. Sidequests are paying dividends, and the affinity system goes from useless to greatly beneficial behind your back. Also, Dunban has more charisma than a rotten politician who looks like Narcissus, and manages to have it while being an unrepentantly good guy.
The Stanley Parable
One word: what
I'm getting curiouser and curiouser the more I hear about this.
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The Stanley Parable
One word: what
Be sure to get all endings. Don't stop after a chapter when you have a whole novel ahead.
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I'm getting curiouser and curiouser the more I hear about this.
It's a first-person exploration game with only the simplest interaction and divergent choices that are very simple and forward, but every playthrough's a little unique and there's an absolutely hilarious and fantastic narration covering everything you do like why the hell are you still standing in the broom closet, listen, I could understand why you came in here if I'd said something like "oh, he ignored the broom closet and opened the door", because you'd be searching for secrets, but no, you just decided on your own. There isn't even anything interactable in here. Why are you here?
It's got a bit of 'underlying meaning' under all the humour but it's also a hilarious and entertaining ride even if you're not the type to dig into games for meaning and such.
You can always find a gameplay video or something and watch up to one of the endings (there's a lot) to decide if you like what you see.
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So, uh, Ace Attorney 5 is basically everything I've ever wanted.
It's so, so good to be back.
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So, uh, Ace Attorney 5 is basically everything I've ever wanted.
It's so, so good to be back.
This too.
I didn't expect to love Athena half as much as I do but she is totally welcome to stay in the series. assuming capcom doesn't crash and burn first but even if they did I bet Level-5'd pick up PW
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I am playing Pokemon Green. yes, the fabled Japanese-only Generation 1 game.
It's nothing special. it's just an uglier, glitchier, and shittier version of Pokemon Blue (J)/the western releases of the games. For instance: Tackle feels like it has 70% accuracy, Disable almost froze my game once, the textboxes for when your Pokemon learns a new move stop after "Which move shall be forgotten?" meaning that you can accidentaly delete your Pokemon's first move (I accidentaly deleted my Butterfree's Confusion this way, so it won't have any decent moves up until Level 32, yay...) and yes, there's the elephant in the room, THE SPRITES ARE TERRIBLE (http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs42/f/2009/110/e/a/Green_Pokemon_Sprites_by_ghost_crabs.png). Okay, some of them are. The majority of them, actually But some of them like Blastoise, Clefable, Meowth, Rattata, Pikachu, Magikarp, Gyarados, Hitmonlee and Porygon do look better than the American Red and Blue ones.
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Been playing the eXceed games off and on. I'm way out of practice with SHMUPs. But even still, I don't think the last two bosses of the first game are even possible to not die against. I mean hell even on easy with auto bomb I still continued twice against them. I mean for the second to last boss I came out and bombed before I could even do anything. The second game is a lot better though. More fun too and the soundtrack kicks ass. Especially Chinatsu's boss theme. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=834nYnGLPKM)
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This week's Humble Weekly Sale (https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly) features none other than Team 17's Worms series. By yourself, the games are a way to pass the time by yourself at best. With friends, it becomes far, far better.
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This week's Humble Weekly Sale (https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly) features none other than Team 17's Worms series. By yourself, the games are a way to pass the time by yourself at best. With friends, it becomes far, far better.
wait a second
is that the GOOD Worms Armageddon?
oooooooooh I think I'm going to have to get my hands on this
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I should just dump this in the sales thread, all things considered. The two coincide this time around.
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So I picked up Mana Khemia 2 again after a period of regretting selling it so long ago. I really hope they do include a PS3-make of it for Atelier Escha & Logy.
Typing of the Dead: Overkill's final boss is... underwhelming. Type whatever you want, doesn't matter if you make words, strings of two letters, or just mash the spacebar. Having a style like the original TOTD would have made it so much better.
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I finished Ace Attourney 5
Let's face it: Nobody expected that. NOBODY.
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Back to Etrian Odyssey IV after getting distracted with SMTIV and Pok?mon X and Y. Forgot how much I love the town theme and the battle theme and FOE battle theme. Also, fuck you kangaroos.
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Typing of the Dead: Overkill's final boss is... underwhelming. Type whatever you want, doesn't matter if you make words, strings of two letters, or just mash the spacebar. Having a style like the original TOTD would have made it so much better.
Wait wait wait . . . Typing of the Dead Overkill?! How the hell did I miss this? How is it compared to the original TOTD?
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Wait wait wait . . . Typing of the Dead Overkill?! How the hell did I miss this? How is it compared to the original TOTD?
I hope it still has Washington say fuck every 3 words.
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Still working on clearing Linked Oracle of Seasons with only Four Hearts. Also picked up Baldur's Gate again. Can't wait for the patch to hit steam.
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Wait wait wait . . . Typing of the Dead Overkill?! How the hell did I miss this? How is it compared to the original TOTD?
Disclaimer: I only know about the original TOTD through Awesome Games Done Quick.
Overkill feels significantly easier, at least in normal mode. Difficulty does not seem to be dynamic (which is a shame). It uses the Extended Cut version of Overkill, but does not censor the curses at all. By the way, the game also has the original HOTD:O mode available!
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Disclaimer: I only know about the original TOTD through Awesome Games Done Quick.
Overkill feels significantly easier, at least in normal mode. Difficulty does not seem to be dynamic (which is a shame). It uses the Extended Cut version of Overkill, but does not censor the curses at all. By the way, the game also has the original HOTD:O mode available!
Well, that's something fun for me to play to forget the fact that I just got friendzoned!
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I'm at the third map in Etrian Odyssey IV. And I'm wondering when I get the sub-classes, cause I would really like an Arcanist on my team, but I don't want to get rid of anyone. The person I'd replace would be my Nightseeker and that wouldn't work, cause my Nightseeker is the whole reason I want an Arcanist. That part at the end of the second map with the guest Arcanist was awesome. She and my Nightseeker just synced and that was the first time since the start of the game anyone came close to my Runemaster's damage. I mean she was still outdamaging by like 50 points, but it was the closest it's been.
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I'm at the third map in Etrian Odyssey IV. And I'm wondering when I get the sub-classes, cause I would really like an Arcanist on my team, but I don't want to get rid of anyone. The person I'd replace would be my Nightseeker and that wouldn't work, cause my Nightseeker is the whole reason I want an Arcanist. That part at the end of the second map with the guest Arcanist was awesome. She and my Nightseeker just synced and that was the first time since the start of the game anyone came close to my Runemaster's damage. I mean she was still outdamaging by like 50 points, but it was the closest it's been.
Second floor of the maze, about halfway through. Subclassing is awesome and opens up a lot of cool stuff.
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After failing to find a used copy for my new 2DS; I am currently downloading Fire Emblem: Awakening from the E-Shop.
This will be amusing; since aside from a small part of FE: Rekka no Ken; I have NEVER played Fire Emblem before.
So yeah.
I've wanted to get into FE for a while; what being a permadeath tactics thing; and me being a Nuzlocker [Which means I am highly resistant to resetting to keep things alive through bs] but NO EXPORT FOR YOU and such; and then not having a 3DS. But I've long since missed the Awakening Train that was in these forums a few years ago.
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After failing to find a used copy for my new 2DS; I am currently downloading Fire Emblem: Awakening from the E-Shop.
This will be amusing; since aside from a small part of FE: Rekka no Ken; I have NEVER played Fire Emblem before.
So yeah.
I've wanted to get into FE for a while; what being a permadeath tactics thing; and me being a Nuzlocker [Which means I am highly resistant to resetting to keep things alive through bs] but NO EXPORT FOR YOU and such; and then not having a 3DS. But I've long since missed the Awakening Train that was in these forums a few years ago.
Months. The game's only been out since February. :V
Also I will talk about this game for literal hours at a time so if you have any questions whatsoever ask ask ask ask ask
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February? I guess the 2012 date I saw was Japan :V Herpdeederp.
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"The full release of Desktop Dungeons is out on Steam"
more like
"I didn't want to get any work done anyway"
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Took a break to do Wario Land GB almost completely without jet. I say Almost because of using Jet for the Mount Teacup boss battle due to hitting a box from the wrong side and not having an easy way to die.
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OK; so I'm on mission 7; of FE: Awakening and because I've been using Team Up with Sumia/Chrome to create a really mobile unit that doubles literally everything and Sully/Stahl; crateing another really mobile unit which murders everything.
Of course; because these mobile units were used quite a fair bit; I've managed to get both married by MISSION 6. And then the following proceeded to happen:
- Stahl/Sully literally solo the right wing of Mission 6 alone.
- Sumia takes out an archer with Chrome Teaming Up. The enemy proceeds to literally ignore every other unit I have; and suicidally charge at Sumia/Chrome; who proceed to murder everything that enters the 2 spaces open around them. I think at least 3 Wyverns were killed; and a Myrmadon. And Sumia proceeded to gain 3 levels [8->11] and mow down half the enemy force in their own turn... I didn't take into account that the enemy would die so fast more could come in! [Sumia lived though so it's k] And Chrome hit Lv 12...
Damnit Sumia you're becoming a total badass...ess. Perhaps TOO much. Damn girl; leave some for the rest of the army!
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Pair Up is kinda bonkers, innit :V
For a challenge, try a run of the game without using it. Things get...interesting.
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Pair Up is kinda bonkers, innit :V
For a challenge, try a run of the game without using it. Things get...interesting.
Pair up isn't necessary. I've done FE:A on Hard Classic with a number of extra restrictions (No Pair Up, no skirmishes ever, no field merchants, shop only at the chapter you were just in, no Wireless menu access, etc) and it's actually amazingly well designed for that (if tough as hell). Pair Up sure helps, though, let me assure you of that (if not solely helping to get your units relationships maxed out in no time flat)
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Well I didn't know Pair Up would create totally insane units this quickly :V
But it was amusing to say the least seeing the enemy suicidally ram into Super-Sumia
Oh and now she heals when she retreats if she takes a beating due to Relief; and she's good at backing off.
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I have difficulties raising
Sumia any flying unit really into usefulness due to how goddamned squishy people are in the beginning.
As a result, Sumia went from a C-lister to the forefront of my army's Murder Force ?, among Morgan, Donnel, Panne, and Henry.
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Yeah that's why I started pairing her up with people. Because she would fail to get the kill; and then take massive damage/be killed next turn; while Chrome's support tipped over the KO edge.
Mainly use her for picking off isolated mages/archers with her speed; but she is quickly becoming so strong she's just murdering everything now.
Also I changed my [Male] Avatar into a Mage. I have no clue what I am doing and if this is a good idea or not; but he was something like Tactician Lv 13 and not getting as much XP anymore when I swapped. [He's getting decent xp now though]. Not to mention all he did was throw spells anyway. If someone needed smacking there's far better to do it.
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Yeah that's why I started pairing her up with people. Because she would fail to get the kill; and then take massive damage/be killed next turn; while Chrome's support tipped over the KO edge.
Mainly use her for picking off isolated mages/archers with her speed; but she is quickly becoming so strong she's just murdering everything now.
Also I changed my [Male] Avatar into a Mage. I have no clue what I am doing and if this is a good idea or not; but he was something like Tactician Lv 13 and not getting as much XP anymore when I swapped. [He's getting decent xp now though]. Not to mention all he did was throw spells anyway. If someone needed smacking there's far better to do it.
I usually wait until I ding 20 so I can collect skills. If I recall correctly, Tactician Lv. 20 skill isn't arse. Maybe it was Grandmaster Lv. 20, I don't recall.
But I did the same really because lol nobody slings around Bolganones and Thorons without dying horribly better than you! (Well maybe except for your daughter
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I usually wait until I ding 20 so I can collect skills. If I recall correctly, Tactician Lv. 20 skill isn't arse. Maybe it was Grandmaster Lv. 20, I don't recall.
Skills are picked up at level 1 and 10 for base classes and level 5 and 15 for promoted (and level 1 and 15 for special classes, such as Villager). That said, I usually like to keep my Avatar as a Grandmaster because Rally Spectrum is way too good.
Also the Avatar is the one character who should never be having problems gaining experience because of Veteran being crazy good.
I've only had one run with a good Sumia, oddly. She and Kellam became a murder duo, it was great.
Pair up isn't necessary. I've done FE:A on Hard Classic with a number of extra restrictions (No Pair Up, no skirmishes ever, no field merchants, shop only at the chapter you were just in, no Wireless menu access, etc) and it's actually amazingly well designed for that (if tough as hell). Pair Up sure helps, though, let me assure you of that (if not solely helping to get your units relationships maxed out in no time flat)
It's really interesting how remarkably well-balanced the game is if you play Hard with no grinding. Even if you still use Pair Up, the game maintains a steady, solid difficulty curve that's never impossible but is a decent challenge. Without Pair Up it gets dicier, but still in a good way.
I'm gonna have to start another run soon.
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Too much Age2 HD with the Forgotten Empires mod-turned-expansion lately.
Not many changes from the last mod version - only one I could recall easily was the missing Hunting Dogs tech (Dark Age, faster hunting) and missing -3 melee armour on rams (added in Userpatch for classic, which the mod version uses). The inconsistent changes make me feel there are now 4 commonly played versions to use (Conquerors w/ Userpatch, AoFE mod, standard HD, HD Forgotten) and play, adding to the confusion.
Also all the default hotkeys were changed after 14 years of consistency. >:(
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Skills are picked up at level 1 and 10 for base classes and level 5 and 15 for promoted (and level 1 and 15 for special classes, such as Villager). That said, I usually like to keep my Avatar as a Grandmaster because Rally Spectrum is way too good.
Also the Avatar is the one character who should never be having problems gaining experience because of Veteran being crazy good.
Durr. Can you tell that it's been months since I played this game? I kind of burnt myself out on a Hard run in about chapter 16 to 18 or so. I forget.
What promotions are there that are even remotely viable for Morgan? I had Sorceress Female Morgan hitting for the upper-60s-to-lower-70s, charging at everyone packing Defenses of over 40 or so- but at the time lol I was married to Miriel.
Now I've got Donnel's hax stat growth skill (I've probably absolutely decimated his caps in the process :ohdear: ) on Morgan and he's... having problems .-.
I would go into far more detail about how absolutely odd my pairings are but then I feel like more than one person might give me a smack (Virion x Panne or Henry x Olivia? Ehehehe)
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Oh god what have I done I've turned this into the FE thread.
Also just cleared Mission 9. I've taken a couple of deaths of low-levels characters I wasn't using much that I kinda had to use to make up numbers; and died due to being underleveled BECAUSE EVERYONE RUNS AT SUMIA/CHROME WHO THEN EAT ALL THE XP. I lost Virion and Rickten. Both to Wyverns; on that matter.
That said; Libra and Thrarja just joined. Which gives me even more options.
Still have no idea who I'm gonna pair my Avatar with; because idk who/what is coming later. In fact the only pair I'm pushing towards right now is Cordilia/Lon'Qu; so they can be Pegasus Knight Battle Couple Buddies with Chrome/Sumia; but will be a paralell. [Cordilia will promote into whatever Sumia doesn't; and I imagine Great Lord is more durable and deals less damage than Assassin/Swordmaster]
Seriously why are all my couples so far involving characters with steeds?
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I restarted playing GTAV, since the Stimulus Package was finnaly delivered. And well, it's actually fun now. I bought a big house, a lot of ammo, and now I can finnaly do some massacres, but too bad your guy is still weaker to bullet than someone is in real life, and the Team Deathmatch servers are empty now, so there is nothing I can use my gun right now, other than random people on the street.
Also, ever since this package was delivered, I'm running much more often into AK47-wielding gangbanging griefers. Yeah, sure, you don't lose 2000$ per death now, but dying 8 to 10 times thanks to some wannabe gangsters is kind of annoying.
EDIT: It took me a minute and a half to find a game, and it was laggy as hell, the enemy team was abusing the AK's power, and my partner was so bad he might as well be braindead.
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Speaking of Awakening, it may be a cheap strategy, but my favorite thing to do in general is getting 50+ luck for myself, armsthrift, vengeance, vantage, a maxed damage Aversa's Night (a better version of Nosferatu, the HP Draining Book), going Sorcerer and charging directly into everything solo :derp: On Lunatic mode though, you might wanna use the last two available slots for defensive skills, or else you're very likely to be worn down after a couple turns. It doesn't even really have to be solo either I guess, there's a decent number of characters who can get that combination of skills and also be a Sorcerer.
Well, at least that alone is not enough to kill the final boss on Lunatic mode. That would be cheap... I mean, cheaper? Than it already is, of course.
I know you technically CAN kill him on Lunatic that way, but it involves a lot of luck and generally the fight drags on into infinity instead of ending. So it doesn't really count.
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I would go into far more detail about how absolutely odd my pairings are but then I feel like more than one person might give me a smack (Virion x Panne or Henry x Olivia? Ehehehe)
Don't worry, some of us *cough*myselfincluded*cough* have done all the pairings. If anyone's gonna get smacked, it'll probably be me for being so cheap :V
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I got Skullgirls. This game is a blast. I've been running through the story modes to get a taste of the characters. So far I'm liking Ms. Fortune and Peacock the best. I was absolute balls with Peacock, but she's so much fun to play with I don't care. Parasoul so far as been my worst character. Again, Peacock is probably my second worst, but also again she's really fun and also the strongest. Seriously her (9) skin is Cirno. I was decent with Cerabella, I only lost once to the final boss. Man I hate the final boss. Yea I'd be cocky too if I had a fucking Persona I could spam. But yeah, I've still haven't played as Painwheel, Valentine, Double, or Squigly.
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Been playing Blazblue Chrono Phantasma.
Using Terumi, Hazama, Kagura, Kokonoe, so many fun characters.
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OK; so; Chrome and Sumia both hit Lv 15; so I decided to promote them into Great Lord and Falcon Knight.
Cordilia and Lon'qu are now both Lv 15; but I don't have enough Master Seals to promote both; and Sully/Stahl are not far from Lv 15 either; and I could even promote Lissa if I had spare seals. I guess there's not much harm in waiting until post 15 to promoate; but I found from Chrome that the rate of leveling makes waiting beyond that not too worthwhile.
Meanwhile the Avatar hit Lv 10 Mage; and after some thinking if I wanted to become a Dark Knight; I just decided to swap back to Tactician and become a Grandmaster later. I have a very strong magic lean on my Avatar so far. Hilariously enough without even trying I've obtained B support with Nowi; because the pair tend to be near the backlines using ranged attacks together while the mounted units smash the frontlines. If they get enough support for S I'll probobly hold off it. I don't like the idea of pairing the Avatar up with someone who'll outlive him by forever.
Annoyingly Focus clashes with Solidarity. Either I get more crit or I give allies buffs. I know which I'd rather.
Tl;dr: Too many people need promotions; not enough seals; merchants aren't selling them despite me having over 25k.
Edit: Mission 10 = The feels; especially since the final blow on the boss was Lon'qu critting him; saying 'I'll make this quick...'
On the other hand; I got enougn master seals. Long'qu is now a Swordmaster; Cordelia is now a Dark Flier [Andis now carrying a Wind Tome to blast other fliers. AERIAL DOMINANCE!]; and Lissa can now defend herself as a Sage.
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Tl;dr: Too many people need promotions; not enough seals; merchants aren't selling them despite me having over 25k.
Soon enough, you can buy as many as you'd like. Use this as you will, I dunno if you wanna consider shop contents spoilers or not so I spoiler tagged them anyways. It's not a huge list, but after checking my 3 current completed files,
Second Seals are for sale in levels including, but not limited to: Chapter 16, Paralogue 16
Master Seals are for sale in levels including, but not limited to: Chapter 12, Paralogue 12
Between these 3 files, I do not have every Paralogue level currently unlocked, so this is definitely no complete list, but I remember there were at least a few more places these things were sold.
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Been playing Blazblue Chrono Phantasma.
Using Terumi, Hazama, Kagura, Kokonoe, so many fun characters.
I hope you realise how goddamn jelly I am over here >:
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I've been playing a bit of LA Noire, and I'm really enjoying it! Nice mix between detective puzzles and poppin' heads
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Volgarr the Viking
After seeing a few people rave and rave about it, I just had to try it and it is so fucking awesome. And very, very fucking hard. Like Ghosts n Goblins hard.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown with the new Enemy Within DLC. It's a tactical squad-based strategy game with RPG elements?! See you in April. It looks so sweet, too. A little over an hour in and the core of the team seems to be shaping up nicely. I've peeked at what abilities will become available and have a good idea of what kind of team I would like.
Still technically playing Xenoblade with 70 hours pumped into it since May.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown with the new Enemy Within DLC. It's a tactical squad-based strategy game with RPG elements?! See you in April. It looks so sweet, too. A little over an hour in and the core of the team seems to be shaping up nicely. I've peeked at what abilities will become available and have a good idea of what kind of team I would like.
Still technically playing Xenoblade with 70 hours pumped into it since May.
get squad sight
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I've been playing a lot of Cave Story lately, especially the boss rush mode. My first run was 17 minutes, followed by a 15 minute run and a 12 minute run. 10 minutes is my current goal. I think I can make it if I can figure out a better strategy for the Core boss fight. That one always takes almost two minutes.
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Oh god fucking dammit KOG why do you have to release The Evolution on Brazillian Elsword so goddamn early see you guys in January.
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Started Oracle of Seasons... again... hopefully for the last time this year...
On the plus side, I finished Wario Land Jetless.
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I started playing Pinball Arcade again trying to break some of my old high scores and complete the wizard goals on some of my tables.
I am still mad about the Theatre of Magic table in which not only did I miss a Wizard goal by not getting all of the targets in Virtual Pinball and not breaking 3 billion when I was so close(I had about 23 million to go which is nothing in ToM). I missed starting Grand Finale ( The Wizard mode and another one of the Wizard goals) by two illusions. :colonveeplusalpha:
Other then that, I have been playing Brawl Minus, Dragon Ball Z BT3, and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 while I wait for Dragon Ball Z Battle of Z to come out which I am so excited about. :getdown:
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I'm currently playing Paper Mario, Majora's Mask and Tekken (Nostalgia). I'm also playing Tropico for the heck of it. :P
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My second day into XCOM and I already have a story. I received an invasion mission in which I selected to go to France because they had the highest Panic rating. Mission difficulty was listed as Very High. Up until that point, I had faced a max of 4 sectoids in a mission. This one had 5. Plus 3 floaters and 2 of the new Prometheus-esque facehugger things. Result? 2 injured,
0 casualties
. Also, Overwatch is fantastic for defence.
I have a Japanese Support soldier focusing on a medic role, an Irish Assault soldier, and a Canadian Sniper that make up the current core of my team. In my mind, they are an overbearing mother who thinks medkits are cookies, an angry drunk lass, and a deer hunter who is mad that his plaid camo hasn't come in. I'm having too much fun with this right now.
get squad sight
Yeah this sounds only slightly broken, so yes.
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Also, Overwatch is fantastic for defence.
One thing you should know about Overwatch: if you Overwatch with vision on an enemy, the enemy will not move and will attack instead. Generally they'll have pretty bad accuracy, but over time you will take an incredibly large amount of damage if you use Overwatch wrong. Use it to cover exploration or chokepoints, but don't use it if you can see an enemy unless it's worth getting hit to have them pinned down (always assume they will hit, always).
What difficulty are you playing on? The game actually cheats for you on the lower ones.
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One thing you should know about Overwatch: if you Overwatch with vision on an enemy, the enemy will not move and will attack instead. Generally they'll have pretty bad accuracy, but over time you will take an incredibly large amount of damage if you use Overwatch wrong. Use it to cover exploration or chokepoints, but don't use it if you can see an enemy unless it's worth getting hit to have them pinned down (always assume they will hit, always).
What difficulty are you playing on? The game actually cheats for you on the lower ones.
I sorta figured Overwatch abuse might be a bad idea for direct confrontation, but this particular situation benefitted from it quite well. The huge facehuggers (seekers, I think?) entered stealth mode and went straight for one of my injured squadmates. However, uncloaking next to a squadmate triggered overwatch, and three different people opened up on it simultaneously. Ditto for the next one and an unfortunate sectoid that burst into the back door. The difference was that I was bunched up and stationary while the aliens were making a push to confront and attack directly, granting the Overwatch ability to give me the first chance to fire as soon as they came into view in a closed area. Fighting head-to-head seems to merit a more traditional flank-and-flush approach.
Typically playing on middle-high difficulties are more fun for me, but I read that Classical/Impossible are like pulling teeth with pliers, so I stuck to normal. Considering that I'm still learning and the expansion stuff is new, I didn't want to dive headlong into a frustrating experience. This is the kind of game that has many different working parts which makes the early game rough going, especially for someone getting a feel for things.
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I've been playing Battlefield 3's campaingn (two years after the goddamn thing was realesed) and, well, it isn't as bad as people say it is! Yes, sure, it's no Call Of Duty, but it's kind of fun.
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I'm back to Etrian Odyssey after being distracted...again. And I got the sub-classes and then fucked up two minutes later. I accidentally gave my Medic the Arcanist sub-class when I meant to give it to my Nightseeker. I wanted my Medic to sub in Sniper cause in my head Medics and bows go together. But it turned out pretty good, I maxed out her Circle Boon and put a couple levels into Poison Circle. I was thinking making her specialize in Status effects and maybe still subbing my Nightseeker into Arcanist, but having her specialize in Binds.
I still haven't done anything with my Landsknect, Fortress, and Runemaster. Probably going to wait until I get the Sentinel, cause that sound tanky and a Fortress sub Sentinel sounds really, really tanky. And there's always that tenth class.
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I'm back to Etrian Odyssey after being distracted...again. And I got the sub-classes and then fucked up two minutes later. I accidentally gave my Medic the Arcanist sub-class when I meant to give it to my Nightseeker. I wanted my Medic to sub in Sniper cause in my head Medics and bows go together. But it turned out pretty good, I maxed out her Circle Boon and put a couple levels into Poison Circle. I was thinking making her specialize in Status effects and maybe still subbing my Nightseeker into Arcanist, but having her specialize in Binds.
I still haven't done anything with my Landsknect, Fortress, and Runemaster. Probably going to wait until I get the Sentinel, cause that sound tanky and a Fortress sub Sentinel sounds really, really tanky. And there's always that tenth class.
A few things:
- resting removes your subclass and only costs two levels, so it's not a terrible chore to grind back up
- Nightseeker/Arcanist is absolutely boss
- Sniper is a pretty bad subclass in general, particularly on Medic; the bows are nice but you're still going to do pretty poor damage and you'll have lousy success rates with the binds
- Nightseekers are the ailment specialists; better to have your Medic use the bind circles (or maybe switch to an Arcanist/Medic, it's a really powerful combination) - and if you're worried about the poison damage, at level 40 Nightseekers get Venom Throw which deals 700 damage a turn when maxed, as well as Auto-Spread which lets them hit all enemies with it around 70% of the time.
- it's worth having a subclass on your other guys if only for the five free skill points, you can always rest to switch it around if you don't like it. Some good options are Fortress or Nightseeker (or Bushi, the class you get from the Sentinels - although I should point out that it's not a tanky class at all but a brutal physical damage class) for the Landshark, Dancer for the Fortress, anything for the Runemaster (only the final class or maybe Bushi for silly blood surge runes are good subs to be honest).
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Thanks, I misread and thought the subclasses were locked and resting just reset the points. I guess I'll bench my Medic and respec Wufan or just make a new Arcanist altogether. And my Nightseeker is 38, so that Venom Throw is gonna be fun.
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Diablo III is a surprisingly fun game. I've been playing the PS3 version. So far, I've cleared Softcore Inferno with the Wizard and Hardcore Inferno(Medium) with the Monk. I wouldn't be surprised if I could handle Hard but I haven't really tried it and obviously in the Monk's case I wouldn't want to unless I knew with certainty that my stats could hold up since trying the harder difficulty settings with a permadeath character would be quite reckless. I know I'm not ready for Master 1-5 on either of them since I've tried Master 1 with the Wizard a few times and gotten destroyed due to bad gear and possibly skill setup. Paragon levels were either 7 or 8 for Softcore characters and 9(almost 10) for Hardcore.
I've gotten the platinum now, so I'll be taking a bit of a break from the game before trying the other classes out. Going to go back to Tales of Graces f and work some on finishing that up.
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Aww, for FUCKS SAKE. I just lost a one-and-a-half hour massacre on GTAV just because I got instakilled by a Shotgun on SINGLE-FUCKING-PLAYER.
Here is a hint for you, Rockstar: Making games more realistic won't necessarily make them more fun. In fact, it might do the opposite.
Hell, this was my setup: Hide inside a liquor store, kill everyone that comes across my path, and when it finally becomes boring, enter my 100% Armour with bulletproof tyres vehicle and try to escape. When the slaughter was starting to get tiring, I decided it was time to stop, so I wiped the area of policemen and made a run for my car, which was 5 STEPS AWAY FROM THE STORE. Just as I'm about to enter the car, I get shot ONCE by a shotgun and DIE, which made me lose about 27K$; and atleast HALF of that was on that godmode vehicle.
DAMMIT, What the hell am I supposed to do next time, park the car 2 steps away from the store?
BTW, before you ask, I had half my health when I got shot, and a full shotgun blast "only" takes 1/4 of your health, so I should atleast have survived with a little bit of health. I think the game was pissed off at me so it decided to make up some random excuse to kill me. I swear this game hates me.
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So I started up Eternal Sonata. Honestly, it'd been so long since I last played a Tri-Ace game that I forgot they loved to have a shitton of semi-needless exposition/infodump before you get control of the character. Also, girl named Polka? Is it really any wonder why she tossed herself off a cliff with that name? (I kid, I kid.)
Also picked up Dragon's Crown. Subverting expectations, chose Elf as initial class (really not interested in either Amazon or Sorceress). Probably not the right choice considering how I love to be up close and personal.
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also been playing Enemy Within here, having a lot of fun with the MEC Trooper enhancements. It is impossible to not enjoy being able to literally punch Chrysallids to death (Unfortunately, I lost a Captain and a Lieutenant on a mission full of them...)
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So I started up Eternal Sonata. Honestly, it'd been so long since I last played a Tri-Ace game that I forgot they loved to have a shitton of semi-needless exposition/infodump before you get control of the character. Also, girl named Polka? Is it really any wonder why she tossed herself off a cliff with that name? (I kid, I kid.)
I loved Eternal Sonata overall but I also hated it. There's some parts of that game that are REALLY bad (The battle system isn't that strong until near the end of the game/NG+ ; the 20 minute death scene in which she fucking gets up and writes a letter in the middle of it: the amount of completely unfiltered cheese to the point of having a fucking montage of 'meaningful life lessons' during the end credits
), and yet I also really love some of the overarching concepts of the plot and the battle system gets great later on so ????
Also any time someone mentions Tri-Ace I am suddenly reminded that I still have not finished Resonance of Fate and this is a crime.
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The mentioning of Tri-Ace makes me remember to ask where the fuck is my Valkyrie Profile 3: Hrist enix.
And still playing Elsword, just got level cap on my Rune Slayer and I apparently discovered that Field Bosses are a great way to make money, especially with such a broken economy. Gems, Advanced Gems, ElFragments and a slight chance of getting +7 Scrolls for free? And a small chance of getting purple seals every 30 bosses along with the game's best Stamina;Experience ratio? Yes, please.
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I just beat the final boss in Rogue Legacy for the first time. Now to buy the rest of the manor upgrades and get the rest of the achievements!
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also been playing Enemy Within here, having a lot of fun with the MEC Trooper enhancements. It is impossible to not enjoy being able to literally punch Chrysallids to death (Unfortunately, I lost a Captain and a Lieutenant on a mission full of them...)
I'm in a bit deeper and loving how utterly overwhelmed I am right now. I've been throwing up satellites as soon as they're off the production line, using them as a panic band-aid. UFOs went from microscopic to Death Star in size in under two months. I'm also dealing with a huge lack of scientists but a glut of engineers. Laser weapons are way behind and I've got a dozen research projects waiting in the wings. Half of my roster is injured at any given time and I've had a number of resets due to losing soldiers I wanted to keep. The RNG can also be a giant ass. A handful of miracles have really helped out and it's real rewarding to see that the entire team of 4 received a promotion after. I've put some cash towards the officer's training school since and it's worth it. EXALT has just shown up and I'm just as thrilled as I am nervous for how that will play out. I'm guessing the coughing civvie you rescue early on is intended to be one of them, but I'd rather find out for myself.
Haven't really used the bio-augmentation or MEC systems much yet because PANIC and NO MONEY NEED SATELLITES! Once some soldiers really start to separate themselves, I'll start using it more often. I only just got the arc thrower so I don't think I'm far in the plot yet. BV. Speaking of separating, it's not exactly the most reassuring thing to see the little graphic with the arms and legs being removed from the soldier saying "this irreversibly changes the soldier" or somesuch.
I accidentally put a council mission off for a spell and it vanished. Do they come back again, or did I just lose it forever? I also rolled a mission in Canada with zombies galore but accidentally discovered how hard they hit and didn't wind up with it when I reloaded.
Don't have many interesting randomly generated mission titles or nicknames just yet, but one of my first rookies was a Spaniard with the longest hair (for guys) and a 'stache. He wound up being a sniper. He's now named Inigo "Hello" Montoya.
I'm gushing quite a bit, but it has been a very long time since I've been so thoroughly addicted to a game.
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I made a crew on GTA Online! If anyone that plays on XBLA wants to join it, Here it is. (http://socialclub.rockstargames.com/crew/the_family_team_crew)
BTW, The street races servers are absolutely deserted now.
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Hello. My name is Alliterator, and I am an XCOM addict.
MEC troopers are love. (Getting the Site Recon mission when you have Carapace armor but only one laser rifle for the whole squad, however, is not.)
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I just finished the fourth stratum in Etrian Odyssey 2. The boss was a JOKE compared to Scylla. I didn't even use my force skills.
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Meanwhile, I'm storming Cinnabar Gym with a Butterfree, an Aerodactyl, a Charizard, and a Gyarados. Oh, and a HM Slave Pikachu.
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I just finished the fourth stratum in Etrian Odyssey 2. The boss was a JOKE compared to Scylla. I didn't even use my force skills.
What's your party?
Because if you have a Troubadour you're fucked at 23F
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I'm kind of going... wth is going on with EO2 to require that sort of specificity regarding that spoiler. Then again, never played EO, so wth do I know?
Picked up DJMAX Portable 3 from the weekly sale. I don't know why Sweet Dream and Cosmic Fantastic Lovesong is so addicting to play. Also, Sunny Side's protag looks like she could be a main character in an Atelier game (by the way, Koei, you better hurry up with localizing Ecsha & Logy!).
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I'm kind of going... wth is going on with EO2 to require that sort of specificity regarding that spoiler. Then again, never played EO, so wth do I know?
Explanatory spoiler to explain the above spoiler here: Bosses in Etrian Odyssey outside of floors numbered 5F/10F/etc are rarities; and so that there's a boss on 23F is a surprise
also I felt like being ominous
in other news The Typing Of The Dead Overkill is fantastic and everyone should play it (or at least wait until steam sales when I'm sure it'll be on sale it is almost December afterall)
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What's your party?
Because if you have a Troubadour you're fucked at 23F
My party is:
Protector/Ronin
Gunner/Alchemist/Medic
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My party is:
Protector/Ronin
Gunner/Alchemist/Medic
Okay, you shouldn't have any problems. Proceed. (Why I asked: The next boss starts using a stupidly broken powerful attack called Mad Rush if you have too many buffs on your party - it does 300-400 bash damage and triple binds everyone. The only party that has any real chance in hell of triggering this though is a party with a Troubadour, which nobody ran in EO2 so even most guides don't mention Mad Rush
)
Finished The Typing Of the Dead Overkill. The final boss is out of nowhere and amazing.
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Just got Mario & Luigi: Dream Team a day ago, and it looks good so far. One of the few things that annoy me is that Enemies don't respawn until you slowly walk to the other side of the world.
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I have been playing a lot of Pinball Arcade recently. I have some story's to share about my experiences.
First off, I have managed to beat Join the Cirqus in Cirqus Voltaire. It is tough especially in the second part where you have to hit the ringmaster and then shoot up a ramp to get him to come back up. I could swear that one of my shots clipped through the High wire ramp and into the Juggler Kickout. I also have started Grand Finale in Theatre of Magic but I didn't finish it as I drained and apparently it doesn't start at Grand Finale again if you happen to drain.
Also, I have been playing a lot of the Ripley's Believe it or Not table which is a fun but very tough table to play on. The main goal is to collect the seven letters in Ripley's to start Trip to Atlantis by completing a task in each continent but the most I managed was 3.
I encountered another clip shot as it clipped through the Believe it or not Scoop and into the Bozo hole. I have also encountered a more serious glitch in that table. During any of the multiball modes, your ball can get stuck in bottom of the bumpers area. In theory, this helps you play multiball and accomplish the task easier. This only works if you can get the ball out which I wasn't able to half of the time. You can call an attendant but it is random whether it works or not. Sometimes, it will say the ball is stuck and will reset it and sometimes it will say it is not stuck. This happened to me a lot while I was having a good run in Bigfoot Multiball.
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Here's my situation right now:
Brazillian Elsword:
OMG GOTTA PLAN EVERYTHING SECRET DUNGEONS ARE OUT WE GOTTA PLAN RUNS WE GOTTA PLAN MARKET WE GOTTA MAKE MONEY WE GOTTA DO STUFF
Korean Elsword:
OMG RAID BOSS IN ELSWORD THAT LOOKS LIKE A GUNDAM WHAT IS THIS KOG I GOTTA TEST IT I GOTTA CRITICIZE IT I GOTTA DO STUFF TO IT AND TELL EVERYBODY ABOUT IT HOLY FUCKING SHIT THIS BOSS KILLS EVERYTHING IN ONE HIT WAAAAAAAAAAAAT
LoL:
Preaseason 4 starts tomorrow, you can already guess how much I'm jumping between links to get more information on what's going to change and stuff.
Basically, I'm drunk with games and my summer break hasn't even started yet.
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I was replaying Black Ops' Multiplayer a few moments ago.
I played 9 matches, and lost 6 of them. 3 because Host Migration kicked me, 1 because of a power outage, and only two proper losses.
Man, my luck is absolutely ROTTEN today.
This also proves how much of an excellent parent my dad is: he scolded me when I got startled after the power went out, and said I should only scream when some emergency is going on. Great fucking parent.
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Got Animal Crossing New Leaf the other day after watching Chugga's Lets play of it and finally decided to give in and give the series a go, 20 years after the series first made it to western shores that is :V
My town is Gensokyo Naturally (http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/c/c8/Spy_cheers05.wav?t=20100625224833) and character is Megumi if anyone want's to visit me, even though I've really only just started and still need to design a Town Flag
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I've been playing A Link Between Worlds. I finished a dungeon in the Dark World and although I love the game it's been really easy. I've been having more fun just running around and exploring and finding the babies than the actual dungeon crawling. And getting into the dungeons is more fun than the dungeons themselves. But I do love that once I got to the dark world I could go anywhere. The world maps are great and music is awesome. And the going flat mechanic is really fun. I just wish the dungeons were a bit bigger. Also Link has awesome sideburns in the one.
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I picked up Ys: Memories of Celceta and A Link Between Worlds today, so I'll be going back and forth between those a lot. The Gamestop I went to pretty much just got the shipment of Ys in a little before I got there and they hadn't opened the box until I came to pick it up, so I got the first one out of the box!
I also installed Dark Souls a couple weeks ago for the fist time, which I bought at last years Steam Winter Sale, and have been playing that whenever I get a decent amounts of free time. I'm at the Four Kings fight right now.
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If any of you read the PokemonX/Y thread, then you know I just bought the game. It's actually is pretty fun, but the Exp. Share is way overpowered and there seems to be too much of a gap between the gyms, so with both of these combined you are pretty much guaranteed to battle the gyms with a set of overleveled Pokemon, and sometimes, even Pokemon over the Level cap, sometimes even ABOVE the level cap tolerance. (My Braixen was at LVL. 34 when i was at the SECOND GYM, and My weakest Pokemon was at LVL.24)
But I'm not turning it off. I said it was overpowered, NOT that I disliked it. Also, TamashiiHiroka said in her review of the game that there's way too much stuff to buy in this game, but the game gives you way too little money, which is odd, considering I have 245,000 Pokedollars and I only have 2 badges.
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I'm playing Breath of Fire II. I've been chasing this thief around the world and I just reached a town where some kid fell down a well so they sent people after the kid. They didn't return, so they sent more people and they also didn't return. Guess where I'm headed! But the whole thing reminded me of this scene from Futurama. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vouI55GAx8)
I picked up Ys: Memories of Celceta and A Link Between Worlds today, so I'll be going back and forth between those a lot. The Gamestop I went to pretty much just got the shipment of Ys in a little before I got there and they hadn't opened the box until I came to pick it up, so I got the first one out of the box!
Memories of Celceta is really making me want a Vita.
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I'm playing Breath of Fire II. I've been chasing this thief around the world and I just reached a town where some kid fell down a well so they sent people after the kid. They didn't return, so they sent more people and they also didn't return. Guess where I'm headed! But the whole thing reminded me of this scene from Futurama. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vouI55GAx8)
If you like BoF2 at all, 3 and 4 are definitely worth a look. They both expand and improve upon what makes BoF2 good.
Also too busy playing XCOM 1st MEC soldier almost ready same for bio-augmented captain-level sniper best for stomping EXALT cells and cyberdiscs laser to the face bye bye. This really is the first game I've enjoyed this much in a real long time.
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Memories of Celceta is really making me want a Vita.
Yeah, it's pretty much the reason I bought my Vita a couple months ago. There are other things for Vita that interest me too, but Ys was the main driving force.
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Picked up a Vita and Persona 4 Golden on a Black Friday Week sale. I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed that game. I'd also forgotten that it takes nearly 2 hours for things to start rolling...
Edit: I can't help but call the fox for the Hermit link ReimuFox now. The little jerk just wants your money.
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If you like BoF2 at all, 3 and 4 are definitely worth a look. They both expand and improve upon what makes BoF2 good.
Except for the ridiculous encounter rate, I'm enjoying it so far. I played 4 once before, but my memory card just stopped working and my data was gone and it was a rental so I was like "Fuck it." and never looked back. I don't remember how far I got. I distinctly remember a Poisoned Town and I think I got a robot or person in armor in my team.
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A friend of mine gifted me Space Hulk. :]
PURGE THE ALIEN.
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So I decided to give Mega Man 2 a damned honest try. After save-state scumming my way through Quick Man's stage (my god those lasers seriously aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa), I lost enough life to only be able to take three hits from Quick Man himself. Seeing as I was on my last life, I save-stated right there and was forced to, seeing as I stupidly used up all my Time Stopper energy earlier on accident, take him on with only the Mega Buster. I somehow beat him at the exact same time he killed me, which counted as a win for whatever reason. Well then.
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I'm playing Modern Warfare 3's multiplayer for the first time in 18 months.
And I can now see why I quit it: it is literally Black Ops except not fun to play: The weapons are dull and recoiless, the maps are TERRIBLE, the community is terrible, DEAD MAN'S HAND AND MARTYRDOM ARE FUCKING EVERYWHERE, the matchmaking is bad, often putting you in half finished matches and host-migrating often, and my KD Ratio is absolutely ruined thanks to some kid that played on my account a long time ago.
I feel MW3's sole purpose is to play Survival Mode. THAT is awesome. The Multiplayer is not.
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I'm actually now kind of rushing through Portal games. I dunno if it's just me being really smarter than 2 years ago when I played Portal 1 for the first time or I subconsciously remember all these walkthroughs and let's plays I watched... Gotta do something before I'll go to work.
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...Very slowly, match by match, my KD ratio starts to get neutral again...
It's 0.785 now. It was 0.398 when I started. Whoever that little boy was, he was TERRIBLE at this game.
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I've been playing Skyrim. I got the Legendary Edition during the Steam Autumn Sale. I've played it before on my roommates systems and between the 360 and PS3 versions, I've done most of the story stuff: the main plot, the companions, the civil war, the dark brotherhood, the daedric princes, and theives guild. I've done them in one or the other, so I was really looking forward to the three expansions.
Mostly the Hearthfire expansion. I got a funny/cute story about it too. I was doing the Clavicus Vile quest and finished the first part and had Barbas (A big friendly dog) following me, when I went back home to drop some stuff off. When I got their Lucia wanted to play tag, so we did. And then I went back and finished the quest and when I went back home after that, Lucia found herself a fox to play with. I know it's just a huge coincidence, but I still thought it was cute that I came home from "work" one day with a dog and then the very next day she had a pet.
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Picked up Spelunky on a Steam sale last Friday. Just beat Olmec earlier today. This is one of the most addictive games I've played in a really long time.
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Tales of graces f on NG+. I did a little bit of grinding to do the infinite Helmcrusher battle in chapter 2 where you can keep killing outside of the area you have to fight it in for the story it if you're powerful enough to kill it in under 10 or so seconds for a lot of SP. did the first few on Easy since I couldn't beat it quickly enough at first on Normal then slowly bumped it up to Chaos until I mastered every title I had available to me. I'm also following a guide so I don't miss any of the sidequests or titles that I missed my first time through.
Got the 60 second trophies for the chapter 2, 3, and 4 bosses today. Level 50+ in chapter 2 due to the 10x Experience as well as all those skills should carry me for a while. Just need the 60 second trophies for the chapter 5, 6, and 7 bosses and the max eleth mixer to get my platinum trophy for this.
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Got my hands on Kingdom Hearts 1.5 ReMIX, woohoo! Made it through Traverse Town so far and started Wonderland, and I have to say, I'm enjoying the experience. Though I suppose I'm not exactly looking too forward to this evidence fetchquest, but I'll probably get through it okay. As long as I get to beat things up with my key, I'm happy. :3
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End-game time for XCOM: Enemy Unknown with the Enemy Within expansion. Overall, the expansion helps flesh out the entire game and I'm glad I waited until it was out to play it. Let's review:
1. The expansion puts in new content starting atthe tutorial missions at the start of the game and the effects last throughout. The Second Wave options are all worth a look, too. You WILL wish you made a bigger push for MELD if you aren't aggressive in fetching it, though.
2. The EXALT side missions get boring and repetitive after a dozen covert ops are used to nail down their HQ, but their tactics are different and thus still make for a refreshing change even during the end of that plot thread. They're a great addition overall. These missions seem to take council mission out of focus until they're wrapped up, though.
3. Gene mods are mostly useful and priorities for each one can vary a good deal depending on class. Having a squadsight sniper scale a 3 story building instantly to get a firing position that covers half the battlefield or an assault trooper remaining invisible when a berserker walks in is priceless.
4. MEC troopers can be made broken by using a colonel-level sniper as the base since the aim stat transfers and they play like an assault/heavy soldier. From there, it's hard to go wrong with their skills unless you're min-maxing at a higher difficulty. Unfortunately, a fully upgraded one costs as much or more than a fully gene-modded soldier, so it's best to stick with 1 or 2 MECs, though multiple MEC troopers are OK to play with.
5. The new enemy types help keep things a bit fresher, but I wish there were a couple more. Those that ARE added don't disappoint, which is why a couple more would be so welcome.
6. All of these things tie in quite well with the main game to keep things balanced. I have only begun to feel overpowered now that ALL research projects are finished, weapons and armor are fully upgraded, and I have a squad full of colonel-level soldiers. Survival may be most difficult during the first month, but missions remain dangerous for your troops until the end. Well-executed tactics and base management are critical until then. It's only a shame that they peter out towards the end.
7. My Polish sniper speaks the language but still goes "hasta la vista, baby!" when plunking a mechtoid from across the map. It's FANTASTIC.
Seriously, though, this and Xenoblade have been my two favorite games in a long, long time.
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Cave Story+. Hard Mode. Not gonna get the one health-up available late-game, so 3 Life forever. Going for best ending, having never played the Sanctuary/Sacred Grounds. Currently on Monster X. I have the IDEA, just gotta get my hands to cooperate so I can actually put it into practice.
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Just updated Overgrowth to a203, and got Receiver as a bonus.
Goddamn this game is brilliant, the way the characters react to being hurt is spot on.
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I was checking my KD Ratio on MW3 and it was at .973. I was about to say that I'm on my final stretch, and once I hit Neutral again I would just forget about this game's existance...
...But then I checked my M4A1's level. It's at Weapon Level 30... one level away from the gold camouflage... I know it takes a long while to go from Weapon Level 30 to Weapon Level 31, but, since I've come this far, I might as well finish it.
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As of late, I've been playing Fire Emblem: Awakening, as well as some Space Harrier. It's like the only things I've been playing for the last few days. I'm also trying to get farther into Typing of the Dead, as well as farm souls in Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, and I'll probably also play something in a bit, maybe some Tales of Sypmhonia or something.
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Horray! My KD is neutral again! HOORRAY! It's exactly at 1.015, 699 Kills to 688 deaths. As a commemoration, here is my main class:
M4A1; Attachments Proficiency: Suppressor and Extended Mags.
MP9, Extended Mags. I would use Akimbo Desert Eagles but, uh... Unlocked at LVL. 76...
Blue Perk: Sleight Of Hand Pro: Reload Weapons twice as fast + Swap weapons twice as fast.
Red Perk: Quickdraw Pro: Aim Weapons twice as fast + Use Equipment Twice as fast.
Yellowish-Greenish Perk: Stalker Pro: Move at regular speed while aiming + Delay explosives like IMSs and Claymores.
Specialist Strike Package:
2 Kills: Scavenger Pro (By the time I get two kills, I'll probably be running out of ammo, even tough I'm using Ext. Mags.)
4 Kills: Blast Shield (So I don't die to a random explosive)
6 Kills: Hardline (YES, I know, most people think using Hardline in the Specialist Package is a waste, especially in the last slot. But think about it, instead of needing to risk getting 8 kills with 6 Perks to get the Sp. Bonus, why not just risk a lot less to get 7 kills with "5" Perks?)
7 Kills: Specialist Bonus Achieved (You get all the perks in the game minus Overkill and all the proficiencies for your gun minus Damage, Breath and Impact. And Attachments, obviously, the game wouldn't randomly spawn an attachment on your gun.)
There, because I know you guys were dying to know my class.
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I just bought Ducktales Remastered on the Xbox Live store. My friend told me to get it as he said its a fun game so I told him that I will buy it as soon as I get points. Right now, I am just waiting for it to finish downloading.
I am also starting to think about practicing for Super Monkey Ball Deluxe Expert mode and for going back to and Finishing Sonic Spinball
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Friend: "Hey dude I noticed Borderlands 2 is on your steam wishlist and it's 75% off get it now."
Me: "It's on my wishlist yeah but where's mah money."
Friend: "You don't have any?"
Me: "None whatsoever, I don't work and live with my parents, remember? And they're like LOLBUYINGTHINGSFROMTHEINTERNETNOPE"
[Hours later]
Friend: "Hey dude, check steam."
> [FRIEND] HAS GIFTED YOU BORDERLANDS 2
Me: "I fucking love you."
So Yeah, I'm gonna be playing borderlands 2 from now on along with 2~3 other friends every time we can. Couple that with BR Elsword and KR Elsword AND LoL and this is going to be one hell of a Summer Vacation :V
I've played about 2 hours and I'm loving the game, Zero is an awesome character though, I can't think of anyone that recites poetry before killing his victims.
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Wheeeeee, picked up my copy of Bravely Default yesterday. I'm really liking this game a lot so far. Here's hoping I'll not abandon it at the end. (I still haven't finished Devil Survivor:Overclocked or Etrian Odyssey IV :/ )
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Well, to continue my recent COD multiplayer craze, i decided to play Black Ops 2 for the first time since February.
And Holy Shit.
Holy Fucking Shit.
THE GAME IS MUCH BETTER THAN IT WAS THE LAST TIME I PLAYED IT. I genuenily had fun playing it, unlike how the game was at February, unplayable, laggy as hell, tryhard's galore
I might actually come back to play it!
OH, HOW COULD I FORGET! THE GAME STOPPED PUTTING YOU IN MATCHES THAT HAVE ALREADY STARTED AND ARE UNWINNABLE! I NEVER TOUGHT THEY WOULD DO IT, THEY FIXED THIS, THEY ACTUALLY FIXED THIS!
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I've been playing Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate since Thursday. It took a little bit, but I'm loving it. I have the Jaggi set now and that's an awesome hat. I also have the Rhenoplos set that makes me look like a giant pink teddy bear...of DOOM! And of the weapon types, I'm liking the Sword and Shield style the best.
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So I picked up DJMax Technika Tune recently. Holy fuck I can barely tell which notes are front and which notes are back during the harder Club sections, much less when I need to hit them correctly, since sometimes they stagger the things. Think I'll stay in Pop for a while, since beating the Popping-Like Club almost beat my ass into the ground first.
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It is time for my first impressions about Ducktales Remastered.
- First off, I was surprised at how difficult the game was. I lost 11 lives in the Amazon area and only one life lost was to the boss.
- I love how you can do a dive into your safe just like Scrooge used to do in the comics.
- The right time to jump off the mine carts is difficult to find the first few times.
- Putting invincible ghosts in the hallway before Magica De Spell made me loose a life and contributed to the loss of another life during the boss :colonveeplusalpha:
- African mines was the easiest level for me even though it was very long.
- The African Mines boss was the easiest for me.
I am still playing through the game so there may be more to come.
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Hearthstone Beta Key GET :o
aaand i already found a glitch :V
i went to the credits before grabbing my first pack and it let me into the game with 0 cards and i couldnt do anything :V
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Hearthstone Beta Key GET :o
aaand i already found a glitch :V
i went to the credits before grabbing my first pack and it let me into the game with 0 cards and i couldnt do anything :V
people look at credits...???
I'm nearing the end of Final Fantasy XIV. I need to find the time this upcoming weekend to clear the final dungeon before 2.1 comes out ahhh I'm so excited
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I started playing FF XI (as a result of the steam sale)
some interesting points:
- The market contains no low level gear
- You must solo to lvl 99 (many months of pain) unless you can find a group (can do the whole thing in 1 day)
- As a beginer you have no money as most gil sinks are early game (maps how I hate thee); end game uses other currencies
- having to get to lvl 30 and then pull out tons of "I Stealth/Invisible through this lvl 75 area" cheese to get a real class (which you then need to start at lvl 1 with) is painful
- so is the subjob quest (although that's a major power spike to you)
- levelling mages solo is a nightmare having to grind against things on the threshold of not granting me exp (mobs like 10 levels bellow me)
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I started playing FF XI (as a result of the steam sale)
some interesting points:
- The market contains no low level gear
- You must solo to lvl 99 (many months of pain) unless you can find a group (can do the whole thing in 1 day)
- As a beginer you have no money as most gil sinks are early game (maps how I hate thee); end game uses other currencies
- having to get to lvl 30 and then pull out tons of "I Stealth/Invisible through this lvl 75 area" cheese to get a real class (which you then need to start at lvl 1 with) is painful
- so is the subjob quest (although that's a major power spike to you)
- levelling mages solo is a nightmare having to grind against things on the threshold of not granting me exp (mobs like 10 levels bellow me)
A steam sale? Ugh, fair warning, SE is not trying to improve this game in the slightest anymore and they are actively making it worse with each update. I'm not trying to drive you away from the game or anything by saying that, but I think you should definitely know it. As long as you know what you're getting in to, well, good luck! I hope it's still enjoyable for you. XI had a great run, but it's going downhill fast now.
>Unfortunately the market has been this way for several years. I suppose that's probably the playerbase's fault, I can't blame SE for this one. But yeah, good luck finding equipment.
>And you still need to do the level cap quests at 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, and 95 even if you do manage to find a group who is willing to let you leech for free, which is very unlikely. I would spend most of my days helping out players with these specific quests. You'd be surprised how many people I helped out daily because nobody else at all wanted to. It's a shame.
>Actually, you do use Gil forever, the other currencies are strictly for use with specific matching NPCs to get items or key items of some sort. Between players, Gil is the only real currency. (this is actually worse because Gil is arguable harder to come by than the other currencies)
>I know your pain. At least it's good practice though. Depending on how quickly you can learn the aggro system, you may end up finding sneak/invisible worthless at some point.
>Yeah, it's ridiculous how the subjob quests take two easy items and one from a far harder type of enemy that you definitely can't kill at Lv18 with the default 6 jobs.
>Where and at what level are you having problems with this? Perhaps I could recommend a better spot(s) for you. Solo fighting and EXP gain in general has been improved greatly over the years and I thought it was pretty easy to solo as mages compared to some other jobs.
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A steam sale? Ugh, fair warning, SE is not trying to improve this game in the slightest anymore and they are actively making it worse with each update. I'm not trying to drive you away from the game or anything by saying that, but I think you should definitely know it. As long as you know what you're getting in to, well, good luck! I hope it's still enjoyable for you. XI had a great run, but it's going downhill fast now.
>Unfortunately the market has been this way for several years. I suppose that's probably the playerbase's fault, I can't blame SE for this one. But yeah, good luck finding equipment.
>And you still need to do the level cap quests at 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, and 95 even if you do manage to find a group who is willing to let you leech for free, which is very unlikely. I would spend most of my days helping out players with these specific quests. You'd be surprised how many people I helped out daily because nobody else at all wanted to. It's a shame.
>Actually, you do use Gil forever, the other currencies are strictly for use with specific matching NPCs to get items or key items of some sort. Between players, Gil is the only real currency. (this is actually worse because Gil is arguable harder to come by than the other currencies)
>I know your pain. At least it's good practice though. Depending on how quickly you can learn the aggro system, you may end up finding sneak/invisible worthless at some point.
>Yeah, it's ridiculous how the subjob quests take two easy items and one from a far harder type of enemy that you definitely can't kill at Lv18 with the default 6 jobs.
>Where and at what level are you having problems with this? Perhaps I could recommend a better spot(s) for you. Solo fighting and EXP gain in general has been improved greatly over the years and I thought it was pretty easy to solo as mages compared to some other jobs.
Today's patch weirdly had some decent quality of life improvements. More fast travel options mostly. Though I do hear a lot of abyssea hate for screwing the item market and making a lot of old content pointless due to ease of gear acquisition.
My issues with gil are with the sinks all being early, trading is fine having to buy maps/ spells is mostly a low level problem.
I was 27 or something when I finally killed enough of the rare mob (seriously I could farm 1/2 an hour max due to the spawns) with the ~20% droprate.
more issues with downtime or bad pulls i.e. sight aggro mob wanders in mid fight or spawns on me when healing.
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Wargame Airland Battle (Cold War RTS) because the new free DLC is out
Some Warthunder, really looking forward to the new update
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While I'm not personally playing it, my sister finally started Mother 3 so I've been helping her out with it and enjoying her commentary and reactions. Highlights including the shock that is Chapter 1's concern for your family members, getting to play as a monkey, all of the cute save froggies, Ultimate Chimera and the return of
Dr. Andonuts and Mr. Saturn
I can't wait to see when she gets to the literal nostalgia trip in Chapter 8 (and the ending, for that matter....)
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My copy of COD: Ghosts arrived and... I can now see why XboxAhoy said this game was the "dying embers of the Call Of Duty franchise". It's really nothing special. If you though Black Ops 2's campaing felt dull, well, Ghosts' campaingn then is BEYOND dull.
Also, you are fighting South Americans in this game. I can't help but feel uncomfortable with this, being Brazilian myself. If they manage to offend Brazilians players with this, it can be quite dangerous for the game sales, COD is really popluar here, and it got even more popular after that whole Hayashii (A well-known brazilian Youtuber) getting close to James C. Burns (Woods voice actor in Black Ops) incident around Black Ops 2's reveal.
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Making yet another half-hearted swing at Borderlands 2. The first couple didn't go so well because my friends and I seem to have unreliable schedules. Hence, I'm technically playing solo but allowing a few friends to hop in whenever they're free. I'm playing as Maya and will be trying to pimp out her phaselock skill. I really like Gaige, but the anarchy stuff seemed like a chore to juggle and I like precision shots and reloading ad nauseam. I also like how all the guns have a gimmick now, but still default to Jakobs ones because they're reliably vanilla. Who needs a pistol that has to be fired 8 times in quick succession before becoming relevant instead of a revolver that's more powerful and accurate from the first shot?
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I finished COD: Ghosts campaign...
That's the most ridiculous and implausible ending in video-gaming history, Seriously.
Here is how it goes: You are on the last car of the train that the game's antagonist, Rorke, is. Your brother says that, when he yells checkmate, the space station should bomb the train, disregarding Danger Close. You enter the train and kill three enemies, one of them was holding an RPG, which he accidentaly fires and blows up everything. Your guy begins falling down the train and falls down on Rorke. RORKE'S HEAD. He steals his 44 Magnum, shoots some bad guys, but Rorke somehows gets up and punches you so hard you instantly faint. When you wake up, you see that he is threatening to kill you, and forces your brother to surrender. Your brother doesn't comply, so he gets shot on the stomach, and yells checkmate. EVERYTHING BLOWS UP, and when you regain counciousness, you find out that you're underwater, and everyone somehow manages to surive that. You wressle over a 44 Magnum, possibly as a reference to MW2, and after the wrestling is done, your brother throws you a round to put in your gun. You shoot the gun against Rorke, exploding his chest, but unfortunately, the gun penetrated through his body and hit your bro as well. You swim with him to the surface, get him to a beach, he tells you it's over, and the credits begin rolling.
BUT PSYCHE! After the credits roll, you get an interactive cutscene with you and your brother on the same beach, watching the Army blow up the rest of the Federation. But if you press any button, RORKE APPEARS, KICKS YOU IN THE FACE, TELLS YOU YOU'RE GOOD, AND KIDNAPS YOU. HOW DID HE SURVIVE GETTING SHOT BY A .44 MAGNUM IN THE CHEST?! HELL, YOU COULD EVEN SEE BITS OF HIS HEART FLY AROUND AS YOU SHOT HIM!!!
That's litteraly the stupidest way to force a sequel possible.
For fucks sake, I wouldn't pull a more ridiculous ending out of my arse if I tried.
No seriously, this ending is so stupid and implausible that I didn't even want to put the spoiler tag in it. I doubt COD will be alive in 2 years to pull out this sequel anyway, so just pretend Rorke died anyway. It would make a fuck ton more sense, too.
In fact, READ THE BLOODY SPOILER. I'm pretty sure you'll laugh at just how stupid that ending is.
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Playing Eternal Sonata, currently at Mt. Rock. Geez the enemies here are strong, way stronger than the area before. Especially those freaking L'Opera Generals. Of course, if I get those into the shade...
Currently at about level 30 to 33, with a party of Jazz, Frederick, and Polka. I feel kinda bad for March. Haven't used her even once yet.
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Playing Eternal Sonata, currently at Mt. Rock. Geez the enemies here are strong, way stronger than the area before. Especially those freaking L'Opera Generals. Of course, if I get those into the shade...
Currently at about level 30 to 33, with a party of Jazz, Frederick, and Polka. I feel kinda bad for March. Haven't used her even once yet.
Jazz is so good, Frederick is so good, Polka... kinda gets relegated to cleric duties with Earth Heal until she manages to get Disruption Wave. March racks up echoes better than most characters, so she's useful in that regard.
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Jazz is so good, Frederick is so good, Polka... kinda gets relegated to cleric duties with Earth Heal until she manages to get Disruption Wave. March racks up echoes better than most characters, so she's useful in that regard.
I dunno, Polka isn't too terrible when she can get an Echo'd Nether Wave off. Earth Heal is still quite good though. In Chopin's case, I was SO happy when he learned Spirits Pathway. Sacred Signature was so terrible... Plus I love usong Coup de Grace to push enemies into light or darkness to weaken them. Jazz, meanwhile, is basically a murder machine woth boatloads of HP. His range is absolutely fantastic, and I love it. Heat Blade is really good for being a first skill.
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Where water meets cliff, there will inevitably be collision errors:
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And how did I manage getting the exact same percentage on three songs:
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Currently playing the HD version of Spelunky. I used to enjoy playing the original freeware version a lot until I lost my save file. Got the new version from a Steam sale a couple weeks ago. Lately, I've been trying to clear
hell
, and just recently, I made it all the way up to the boss. I can reach the city of gold
fairly often at this point, and I've gotten pretty decent at killing Olmec, even without bombs, so it's just a matter of figuring out the hell
boss' pattern, and I'll have that area cleared in no time!
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Revisiting Sonic 2 now that the remastered iOS/Android port is out. I like the overhaul the programmer in charge has given it, but on the other hand... touch controls and that game's special stages should never, ever mix.
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As an early Christmas present, I am now an official owner of Minecraft. I don't know what to start with, so I'm just building stuff for no reason.
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Been playing Starbound after lots of pressure from others. Pretty fun and trumps Terraria at its own sandbox Metroidvania approach.
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After having completed everything there is to do in a regular file, I've gone right back to FFIV Complete Collection and started a Cecil solo run. Or to put it differently, I'm doing as I do with every game and squeezing out every last hour of playtime I can manage :V
It's actually much easier than I expected... until the first fight with Scarmiglione. You cannot damage those zombie helpers of his with a Dark Sword for more than 1 per hit, so it came down to spamming Darkness for non-elemental damage at the cost of my own HP to get rid of those. It took about 4 rounds of my max HP down to ~60ish before those guys were down, so I'm glad I had the foresight to buy 99 Potions. I wasn't sure when they'd come in handy, but I had this feeling like I would need them.
The second fight immediately afterwards is laughably easy in comparison. Although Scarmiglione2 is undead, he doesn't have the same dark resistance as those zombies do. Basically set it to autobattle and won the fight. Now I'm a Paladin, and soaking up all the EXP for myself with everyone dead. I was level 23 before I got back to the base of Mount Ordeals, so things are gonna be pretty easy for a bit!
At some point, I will run into Trap Doors which lock on then use Ninth Dimension for an instant kill. This sounds troublesome, considering I keep everyone except Cecil dead (so they don't draw attacks away from me, this is solo) Not sure how I'll deal with them unless I can manage to farm Light/Lunar Curtains somewhere before then.
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I don't know which version of FFIV it is that Complete Collection adheres to statistically, but if it's like the original Hard Type, you can expect to level up to level 80+ for demon walls simply because of the amount of damage they need to be dealt to be killed.
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So I played Gone Home a few days back and got all of the journals... Well, let's just say that game made me smile :V
I seriously recommend it to anyone, though it's not worth the steam price, wait for a sale or something :derp:
Just be warned that though there's no way to die in the game, it's still really creepy.
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been playing Labyrinth Star recently, cute little dungeon crawler game. Finished it on Normal difficulty.
I would like to gauge interest in some sort of playthrough/LP thread for it for me to do it on a higher difficulty: either Hard or Extra (hardest difficulty).
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I managed to improve how far I got in Super Monkey Ball: Deluxes expert mode. I managed to beat Exam C(Stage 6), and I got to see the first Bonus stage at stage 10. Now, I am stuck at Zigzag Slopes which I think is stage 16. I know you have to keep your Momentum up but the slopes angle makes it impossible to go a certain way.
Other then that, I have been playing a lot of Project M and Brawl Minus.
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I finished Call of Duty 4 for the millionth time now. I just love that game.
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I was doing pretty well in the Rock to the Rhythm Club Set... then I saw the boss song. Oblivion (http://youtu.be/1YjacBTL2Xc) is still pretty nuts for me to try in Pop mode. To my credit, I nearly managed a pass, but ran headlong into a section that I still don't have the skills to tackle yet.
Also, FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-
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I don't know which version of FFIV it is that Complete Collection adheres to statistically, but if it's like the original Hard Type, you can expect to level up to level 80+ for demon walls simply because of the amount of damage they need to be dealt to be killed.
Yeesh, that's pretty high for that point in the game. Well, I suppose I had that one coming, what with playing the game how it isn't meant to be played and such ^^; I'll just hope it doesn't come to that. I don't know which version the Complete Collection goes by either. I just know "not DS" because it's the only other one I played and it's that way-different one.
Update since I'm already here (not gonna fill the topic with FFIV, next will prolly be after the last Archfiend then endgame in the accomplishments topic)
About to enter Magnetic Cave/Lodestone Cavern. Cagnazzo fight was incredibly slow, boring, and "not meant for solo at level 30". He couldn't kill me, but the problem was I couldn't kill him, either. He went into his shell, gained a lot of defense, and started healing himself up instead of attacking... It was very clear after a couple minutes that the fight was going nowhere, getting in two or three hits depending on the timing (mostly just two hits) for 200~250 then him healing up for 560~. I set it to autobattle and came back about an hour later, saw him fade away about 3 hits later. I guess I got a good string of critical hits or something.
Now that I think about it, I could have probably used a Spider Silk to slow down his healing. What an idiot player I am! :V And I'm still of the opinion that 95% of items are worthless trash... I'll never learn.
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Cagnazzo fight was incredibly slow, boring, and "not meant for solo at level 30". He couldn't kill me, but the problem was I couldn't kill him, either. He went into his shell, gained a lot of defense, and started healing himself up instead of attacking... It was very clear after a couple minutes that the fight was going nowhere, getting in two or three hits depending on the timing (mostly just two hits) for 200~250 then him healing up for 560~. I set it to autobattle and came back about an hour later, saw him fade away about 3 hits later. I guess I got a good string of critical hits or something.
Now that I think about it, I could have probably used a Spider Silk to slow down his healing. What an idiot player I am! :V And I'm still of the opinion that 95% of items are worthless trash... I'll never learn.
He might've also run out of MP while you were gone for that hour, too. But, yes, items can be pretty helpful - especially considering Slow works on everything, including bosses. Also, the elemental attack items - you're going to need some ice ones for Rubicant... well if you make it past the Dark Crystal cave to even fight him. ...Or does that happen after? I've forgotten.
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Now that I think about it, I could have probably used a Spider Silk to slow down his healing. What an idiot player I am! :V And I'm still of the opinion that 95% of items are worthless trash... I'll never learn.
If Spider Silk exists, that means you're playing the Hard Type version (unless it's a new set of stats etc). In which case, yeah, you'd better learn to use these items because in a lot of cases these are going to be really really important for taking on a lot of opponents solo. (Their existance isn't in the easy type IV which can actually make it harder in other ways)
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I'm going to buy Microsoft points (or whatever they're called these days) so i can get Call Of DUty Modern Warfare 3's Chaos Mode, something I always wanted to buy ever since it came out, but couldn't because of money issues and laziness.
Why do i want this gamemode, you may ask? JUST (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjbNXaupxCE) LOOK (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Ksacx5M3s) HOW CRAZY IT IS!
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If Spider Silk exists, that means you're playing the Hard Type version (unless it's a new set of stats etc). In which case, yeah, you'd better learn to use these items because in a lot of cases these are going to be really really important for taking on a lot of opponents solo. (Their existance isn't in the easy type IV which can actually make it harder in other ways)
I'm pretty sure only the original SNES release and the SFC Easytype have all of those items removed, the rest are based on the original SFC difficulty - or in the DS version's case, an almost new engine altogether.
Clarity edit: Yes, I'm fully aware Complete Collection is on the PSP. Just mentioning how different the DS version is, is all.
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I'm going back and getting all the achievables in Final Fantasy VII. That's just getting everyone else's Limit Breaks, Beating Ruby and Emerald, getting the Lv99, maxing out Gil, and Mastering Every Materia. I've started with the Limit Breaks. Funny thing about that, you get the Omnislash achievable during the Final Boss and I forgot all about that, so when I went the Battle Square and did all the stuff and taught Cloud Omnislash I didn't get anything for it. Anyway, I've got Cloud, Barret, Yuffie, Red XIII, Cid, and Aeris down. Just Tifa, Vincent, and Cait Sith left.
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No, Cloud can get Omnislash from what you win in the Battle Square but you have to get all of his other Limit Breaks first. You do get Omnislash at the end but he CAN use it earlier.
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(COD: Ghosts stuff)
I think the only thing we REALLY care about is did the dog survive?
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I think the only thing we REALLY care about is did the dog survive?
It's just WIA.
I do know it's just a joke BTW. Everybody was making fun of the dog's features when they were announced.
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No, Cloud can get Omnislash from what you win in the Battle Square but you have to get all of his other Limit Breaks first. You do get Omnislash at the end but he CAN use it earlier.
I was talking about the achievement. When you use it during the Final Boss, you get the achievement unlike everyone else, where you have to actually learn it.
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Well now I am in the Sealed Cave. Except not quite, as expected the Trap Doors block my path. You were very much right that I'd need to be a very high level to kill it before Ninth Dimension goes off. Level 40 is definitely not enough.
I recall that Lunar Curtains can in fact be farmed from Gloomwings, though quite rarely. These are the only pre-moon enemies I know of that drop them. So what I'm gonna do is, while trying to grind levels to kill those doors, I'll do it where Gloomwings can be found. If I end up with enough Lunar Curtains, I can just kill all the doors that way (reflecting Ninth Dimension onto them) and not have to get up to some insane level.
Barbariccia is the first time I ever made use of Decoys (to cast Blink and not die from physical hits after Tornado) so I'm starting to see just how useful these random items are. Also the fight was basically unbeatable until I went back and bought a Gaia Gear for immunity to Gradual Petrify. No time to hit her while dealing with a cycle of Tornado > Gradual Petrify > Physical. Unfortunately Spider Silks refuse to work on her while she's in Tornado mode, and without Kain you can't get her out of it, so there's only time for casting Cura, Esuna, Cura, Esuna, etc. At least removing Esuna from that cycle made it possible.
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I would definitely go check if reflecting their instant kill works. I don't believe it does but, again, different version, possibly different rules.
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I would definitely go check if reflecting their instant kill works. I don't believe it does but, again, different version, possibly different rules.
Nah, it's always been (http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Trap_Door_%28Final_Fantasy_IV%29) something that's worked.
Edit: Also, it should be the boss you should be more worried about.
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Well then, damn. News to me.
In other more personal news, Patch 2.1 hit Final Fantasy XIV (http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/03843d6bf7ba69adc37d7955ff7af43f3c43828a) and it is the longest set of patch notes I have ever seen for any game ever without being an expansion. and hildibrand is back oh my god I can't wait first I need to actually finish the main scenario though...
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Yeah, it works here, I've done it on my normal playthrough. But getting those curtains is gonna be all up to incredible luck. The kind of luck which only comes to me after I no longer need it :V
@XIV Whoaaaaa no kidding. That's a huge list. Wish I could be playing, but, my PC still doesn't agree with that... I have the game sitting on my shelf just waiting.
EDIT: Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the Rubicante fight at all. Well, the Blood Sword made the fight too easy, and that's basically it. Probably the same reason why I forgot to post about it. I locked him into doing nothing but counterattacking with Fira for ~200 damage, but was healing by 1000+ every turn. Another autobattle boss.
Just picked up the Defender sword on the path to Feymarch (still didn't beat Sealed Cave) now I have an actual way to cast protect on myself, which should be extremely useful in the future. In this version (actually, all but the DS version I think) Cecil does not ever learn Protect or Shell magic, so the Defender is very useful for solo.
EDIT: Made it to the moon. It took being Lv76 and the Avenger sword (less powerful than Defender, but auto-berserk beats it) to kill those Trap Doors in two hits. While going through there, I got the Lustrous Sword, which was also able to kill them (but barely, in 3 hits) so I didn't have to deal with swapping weapons so much. Demon Wall was disappointingly easy, using a Hermes Sandals for haste then berserking myself with that Avenger sword.
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I'm not quite sure why I'm torturing myself like this.
While I'm waiting for DJ Level 50 so I can unlock Renovation and the Dark Abyss set, I'm going through the earlier Club sets to unlock all of the relevant songs for Free Play. Right now, I'm about to challenge Oblivion again for the Rock to the Rhythm set initial clear.
My left hand hurts from holding the Vita in such an awkward position so I can nab the tap and hold notes on the back pad.
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Finally got myself a Timid Yveltal in Pokemon Y! Now I can actually finish this game.
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I got enough money in eShop gift cards from the gift exchange tonight to buy Super Mario 3D World
ahhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHH
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xcom
chryssalids literally ruin this game. hurr durr you spotted us and now we get 15 squares of movement so hope you wanted a dead front line
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I just started playing Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the warlords again. The first time I played it was from WildTangent which gives you two free plays before you have to buy wildcoins.
Right now, I just passed the Mechotaur battle and I am doing side quests for the Minotaur villages in the Realm of War. The only problem is that sometimes you are forced to do a move that will give your opponent a skull match which does around 9-11 damage with the enemies I am facing in the Realm of War (which is a lot for this game).
Also, some of the bosses are overpowered like the first boss, Dugog. He has a 50% chance of getting an extra turn, he gets an extra turn when he matches gold and his weapon can randomly add 12 points of damage to his attack (He normally attacks for 6 points of damage). He also blocks one point of damage from all of your attacks. You are doing 3-4 damage to a boss that has 150 Hp. Later bosses actually get easier because you know what to expect.
Other then that, I have also been playing a lot of Blazblue: Continuum Shift Extend trying to train for Unlimited Mars Mode :colonveeplusalpha:.
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I bought a TON of games on Steam today. Games like Half Life 2 and CS:GO. I'm completely broke now :V
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So I got Ys I & II Chronicles + on Steam today, so I'm completely happy, and I'd play that all of today if I didn't have to go somewhere later
stupid social life. Also, I beat Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow for the first time yesterday, might do a hard mode run later, and maybe Julius mode.
What else.... I guess that's it.
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So I got Ys I & II Chronicles + on Steam today, so I'm completely happy, and I'd play that all of today if I didn't have to go somewhere later stupid social life. Also, I beat Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow for the first time yesterday, might do a hard mode run later, and maybe Julius mode.
What else.... I guess that's it.
Ys I+II Chronicles +, eh? Play it on Nightmare! Do it! (and learn to hate yourself for doing so)
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Ys I+II Chronicles +, eh? Play it on Nightmare! Do it! (and learn to hate yourself for doing so)
But but I hate myself enough as it is. :<
But, anyway, I'm only going on a more conservative NORMAL MODE (because EASY MODO is for school children) because I've played the awesome TGFX 16 version. I'll only go on Nightmare after I beat more Touhou games, because those two are interrelated somehow.
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My mom got me Lego Lord of the Rings for Christmas, so I've started playing that. And by playing, I mean running around smacking shit with Sam's shovel. Not sure if it's a good or bad sign that I spent an hour dicking around in The Shire.
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Right now aside from playing Touhou (all the time), I am certainly enjoying the GTA San Andreas port on the iOS
(With proper control config, the game is a lot more tolerable than what people give it credits for)
Other than that... also enjoying Pokemon Y and Rune Factory 4... and a lot of other 3ds games (my life revolve around gaming)
Also a regular serious Tekken player and a veteran Monster Hunter
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So I picked up Gran Tursimo 6 after finding out there's a three-day sale where it's $20 off at Gamestop (it's valid until tomorrow); and I'm pleasantly surprised by how the game presents itself now. Though I do expect some people may be irritated after finding out that you have to play the lesser licenses instead of ramming headlong through the License exams to the S class.
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So I picked up Gran Tursimo 6 after finding out there's a three-day sale where it's $20 off at Gamestop (it's valid until tomorrow); and I'm pleasantly surprised by how the game presents itself now. Though I do expect some people may be irritated after finding out that you have to play the lesser licenses instead of ramming headlong through the License exams to the S class.
My version (well, my father's version, because I don't play the game) starts with an intro that's an Ode to Ayrton Senna, so I must ask, does every copy starts with that intro?
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Sorry for the double-post, but I have to ask this: I bought two games on Steam yesterday, Portal 2 and Poker Night at the Inventory, at precisely 14:57. It's 12:28 now, and the games STILL haven't arrived, nor did I get a confirmation that they received the payment. Where the bloody hell are they?! According to the email I got, the purchase expires within a day, so I don't have much time to find a solution! Hel me, guys, what do I do?!
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Sorry for the double-post, but I have to ask this: I bought two games on Steam yesterday, Portal 2 and Poker Night at the Inventory, at precisely 14:57. It's 12:28 now, and the games STILL haven't arrived, nor did I get a confirmation that they received the payment. Where the bloody hell are they?! According to the email I got, the purchase expires within a day, so I don't have much time to find a solution! Hel me, guys, what do I do?!
Contact steam support, not us
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Contact steam support, not us
I contacted them, I just posted this here to know if someone else was having the same issue.
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In my continued effort to not make any progress on my backlog, I'm now playing Ys SEVEN.
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Played the demo for Etrian Odyssey Untold...
Yeah, I'm hooked. Gonna pick up the full game later today. (and I even get to carry my progress into the full game!)
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CoDBlops 2 was so memorable that I am abusing the spelling of the name on purpose and posting this after I beat the campaign twice. At least it scratched an FPS itch.
Now onto Dead Rising 2 because it's the only one for the PC. Not sure what to expect, though the intro sequence is comprised of 20 toys and 500 targets, all within a small space. I've also heard the crafting system is designed around maximum zombie slaughter fun. The time limit thing is troublesome, but OK I guess? I used to consume Zelda games as if they chocolates filled with happiness, love, and rainbows until Majora's Mask turned me off from the series for some 5 years. Certainly this is vastly different but I prefer having the ability to waste as much time exploring, experimenting with stuff, and doing what I please as opposed to not.
EDIT: Yeah, this time stuff is a bit wonky. Default setup so far: Tux, ladies' hat, and broadsword.
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I'm started Memories of Celceta, even though I haven't beaten SEVEN yet. But I got paid today and I wanted that big fancy box. But the big fancy box edition plus the Vita to play it on means I probably won't be buying anything else for a bit, so I might do some catching up on my backlog xD. With Memories of Celceta and SEVEN being the first two.
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I bought last Friday a Wii U with TLoZ: WWHD and I've more the half of the game is done (to be more clear: I've beaten Forsaken Fortress) and I'm also doing the photo challenge on hero mode. I've got also some Wii games and almost twice as much GC games. I also had a GB, GBA and DS but they doesn't longer work. In my shopping list is Zelda: ALbW. Ironically I don't own a 3DS but hey, at least my brother have got a 3DS. :P
And if it someone interests: Those games I've beaten 100:
- New Super Mario Bros (Wii)
- Super Mario Galaxy 1 (both, with Mario and Luigi)
- Metroid Zero Mission
- Wario World
- Mario Strikers Charged Football
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Since I am up in New York for part of my Winter Break, I am unable to work on my other projects which are beating SMB:Deluxe Expert mode and beating Sonic Spinball. But I can tell you what games I got for Christmiss and what I have been playing up here.
I got Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 and Skate 3 for the Xbox. I also got Rayman Legends for the PSVita.
Up in New York, I have been playing DBZ: Raging Blast 2 and Call of Duty: Ghosts.
COD Ghosts is fun especially when you get a guard dog and you run around with the dog killing everyone. :V
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>Stanley Parable
"why don't we play someone else's game then"
it's minecraft isnt it
...
GODDAAAAMMMMMMNNNNNNN
"he's just standing there doing sweet FA"
FA?...
WOW RUDE
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Right now, I would be playing The Story of Maples, but for some stupid reason, I can't play. All that happens is that I get booted out of the world select screen, saying I've been disconnected to the login server.
It's not a problem with my laptop, as I played it before on it, and I always delete the setup folder once the MS shortcut appears. In fact, I think it might be a problem with my Account.
On a completely different note, I've gotten Super Mario 3D World, among other games, and have beaten it in a couple of days. It's not 100% Completion, mind you (coughworldcrownmysteryhousecough) But I beat it as Toad, so that's gotta count for something.
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>Stanley Parable
"why don't we play someone else's game then"
it's minecraft isnt it
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GODDAAAAMMMMMMNNNNNNN
"he's just standing there doing sweet FA"
FA?...
WOW RUDE
DID YOU GET THE BROOM CLOSET ENDING?! THEB BROOM CLOSET ENDING WAS MY FAVRITE XD'!
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Finished Borderlands 2 with a level 31 Zer0, alright so... That Final Boss's design? Awesome.
I was seriously thinking I was gonna fight a bigger-than-normal humanoid creature that held a sword and a shield because of the name, "warrior" and then they throw me a towering dog of absolute destruction that lives in lava, breathes fire, has wings and a massive tail that shoots lazers, holy fucking shit.
Also, I chuckled when I saw the line the thread's title was referencing to :V
Now, on to buying all relevant DLC and playing True Vault Hunter Mode, and then on to getting to level 50, grabbing a few friends and slaying Terramorphous, and once I'm done with that, mechromancer anarchy run.
(And then a Psycho melee run and a Siren elemental run, because yes.)
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I started playing Team Fortress 2 again. GodDAMN that game is fun, and it is even more fun now that I'm not F2P anymore. I don't even know how, I bought a lot of games on Steam, but I haven't invested a penny on TF2 yet. I do plan on buying a few asthetic items for Scout, tough they're EXPENSIVE.
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Bravely Default demo - man does this game get a whole lot less frustrating when you
A) do the dungeons in the correct order
B) buy upgraded weapons
brb hitting the preorder button.
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Got the Gold Wings in Memories of Celceta and can finally woosh all over the map! Naturally the first thing I did with it was get tickles. Also I got the trophy for using Karna alot and a part of me wants to switch over and use someone else, but another part doesn't want to cause Karna is really fun to use.
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Will definitely be getting Bravely Default sometime. Doubt it'll be anytime near release though. Played through the full demo on Hard mode and had a great time with it.
Got the Platinum Trophy on Kingdom Hearts Final Mix HD. Went Proud 100% run, Normal (Speedster/Undefeated), Beginner Unchanging Armor. I am pissed that I died the deaths I did on the Normal run because they were stupid and I am likely never going to get that close to a true no death run ever again. First was at the end of the final battle at Hollow Bastion(first visit) where he was almost defeated, used Dark Aura, and killed me because I figured I didn't need Aero. Then the second was on the final form of final boss when it was also a few hits away because I kept getting hit while I was trying to heal and I didn't think to land on the ground at the start to summon Tinkerbell. Did not appreciate having to play the entire final battle series again due to that.
I look forward to trying KH1.5's Level 1 challenge, but it won't be anytime soon.
Tried out a bit of Re:Chain but the gameplay currently frustrates me. I do plan to finish for the story at least and maybe my opinion will change.
Also started up Ni no Kuni, Tales of Xillia, and SMT IV, but I'm not far in any of these.
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I was playing as the heavy on TF2 for the first time since the Tomislav nerf. Ah, back in the old days were the Tomislav wasn't just a downgrade to the regular Minigun <3
It was a BIT OP, just a bit, but that doesn't justify the nerf it got. Why can't Valve get the balancing of the guns right? I actually tried to do balancing myself, and it isn't hard. At all. (Atleast for me :V)
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Been playing blazblue and touhou hopeless masquerade , hoping to finish story mode by this week XD
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But but I hate myself enough as it is. :<
But, anyway, I'm only going on a more conservative NORMAL MODE (because EASY MODO is for school children) because I've played the awesome TGFX 16 version. I'll only go on Nightmare after I beat more Touhou games, because those two are interrelated somehow.
Ys 1 Nightmare isn't all that hard. Just run at diagonal angles unless you're close to a wall.
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Ys 1 Nightmare isn't all that hard. Just run at diagonal angles unless you're close to a wall.
Vampire bat boss thing that I never remember the name of
and Dark Fact
would beg to differ, I think. (I also had trouble with the second to last boss, but that's just my having terrible timing and less it being actually hard I think.) Of course, this is just my opinion, so I dunno.
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Oh right, the Bravely Default demo is out. I'll have to look into that.
But first I just hit Stratum V in Etrian Untold. Aka hell yes legitimate spoilers: obviously not half as shocking as it was in the first game considering all the Gladsheim stuff but holy shiiiit is it beautiful in this version
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I think I'm outside the final dungeon in Memories of Celceta. Plotwise
I just put the Mask of the Moon together.
Dickaroundwise: I had made the ultimate weapons and armor for Adol and Frieda and I fully upgraded Frieda's armor and am working on her weapon now. I completed all the sidequests. I'm only missing one accessory and one material, and I need that one material to make that last accessory, also I've been running around exploring trying to get my map % done, I'm at 98.7% and I showed this giant deer who was boss. I'm missing two memories and one artifact. Also quite a few key items. I missing everyone's second to last weapon and the three armors before the ultimates. But I think I've done all I can do and now all that's left is the Temple of the Sun.
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celceta talk
Yes, you're almost done. The beastiary does mention which enemies drop which material. You got the 1M material? If so, damn you've been grinding. For the map, they count edges too, so look on it for any light areas. That's the last artifact.
There's a particular memory a lot of people miss, as it's not shown on the map. It involves the Beast Collar.
On my end, going for the Triple Perfect+ in Runner2; nabbing No Continue/No Repair/All S Rank in the PS3 Malicious (since goddamn, the Rebirth bosses are much harder to satisfy); picked up Child of Eden (personal meh-ness about the Genki Rockets aside); trying to complete Challenge Mode in Retro/Grade; and continuing to (strain to) reach MAX Combo in Technika Tune.
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i'm trying really ahrd to install skins on GMOD.
For whatever reason, nothing works. Dammit, I'm feeling like I wasted 2 dollars on that bloody game. :V
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Yes, you're almost done. The beastiary does mention which enemies drop which material. You got the 1M material? If so, damn you've been grinding. For the map, they count edges too, so look on it for any light areas. That's the last artifact.
There's a particular memory a lot of people miss, as it's not shown on the map. It involves the Beast Collar.
I didn't grab that 1M material, I did it the other long way and jammed gems and junk into it. In fact I forgot all about that shop until you said something xD. Thanks for the tips, I going to look around the map some more.
EDIT: My last .2% came from walking slightly to the right of the very first savepoint outside the city.
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I am playing Battle Fantasia right now. It is a very fun fighting game but sometimes it can get very hard. I want to know who thought that
End of Deathbringer
was a good idea.- He has 35,330 health. In a game, where the average person's health is around 3,500
- His attacks are very overpowered. If he hits you with a couple of sword slashes or one of his special moves, you are probably going to lose.
- You only do 1-8 damage to him unless...
- You are in Heatup mode which only lasts a couple of seconds, takes 1 bar to go into, and he can hit you out of it.
However, it could be worse as you gain meter very fast and when you are in Heatup mode, your attacks do a lot of damage to him.
The game makes up for it as it has some of the funniest moments while in story mode like Romance Knight and Coyori's cutsciene after defeating Dokurod in her alternate story route.
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Finally picked up a PS3 last week. Since then it's pretty much been GTA V all day err day. This game is amazing. There's tons of stuff to do, the characters are great, the technical aspects are mindblowing, and unlike GTA IV, the story missions are actually fun. Even just freestyle running around punching pedestrians and blowing up cars and stuff never gets old for me.
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Been playing a ton of Xcom over winter break. It's not bad. The system isn't as precise as I'd like (I still really have no idea how elevation and cover work if you're not adjacent to the edge of a level or adjacent to cover, if at all) and I swear it cheats, but it's fun. I'm a couple of hours from the end at most at this point. Just gotta finish promoting my psionic units and hope none of my elite soldiers die to random crits before then, and grind for a little more money to get everyone endgame equipment and I'm good to go for the last dungeon.
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Been playing a ton of Xcom over winter break. It's not bad. The system isn't as precise as I'd like (I still really have no idea how elevation and cover work if you're not adjacent to the edge of a level or adjacent to cover, if at all) and I swear it cheats, but it's fun. I'm a couple of hours from the end at most at this point. Just gotta finish promoting my psionic units and hope none of my elite soldiers die to random crits before then, and grind for a little more money to get everyone endgame equipment and I'm good to go for the last dungeon.
AUGH! A bit late on this, but maybe it'll help. If I remember right, height affects accuracy to some extent and adds buffs for snipers/gene soldiers with certain perks. Cover improves the chance that the enemy will miss and increases defense, meaning reduced damage. It also helps prevent against criticals. Units not in cover regardless of which side they're on are far more vulnerable to crits, though baddies with the Hardened perk (i.e. most of the end-game ones) are much harder to get crits on. Also, units in and out of cover can have their line of sight affected by nearby height differences, meaning they won't be able to attack units out, though the game is wonky about it which leads to some confusion.
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Finished a speedrun of Skies of Arcadia Legends. Total time came up to 16 hours and 25 minutes, which is 4 hours and 15-16 minutes short of the current record. (http://speeddemosarchive.com/SkiesOfArcadia.html) Similar to the record's, it was done over multiple sessions of gameplay... I'm hoping to beat my time on my next attempt, which shouldn't be too difficult. I can't record the footage, so I don't REALLY need to beat Zaire's record, tho. BV
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Getting into another TF2 phase.
Just got a Loose Cannon. After fumbleing with it for a few rounds I'm now actually hitting people. The fight sign that I was learning how this thing works was when I got my first kill with it.
Which actually was 3 kills at once @_@
Also since when did the Caber have it's own taunt?
Also I've played like 200 hours of TF2. No Sheilds for Demoknighting. Although I would only Demoknight for hilarity; and it wouldn't be DemoKnighting; it would be Caberknighting.
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I finally bought F-ZERO for the SNES the day before New Years Eve. I don't play racing games often, but F-ZERO has just become an exception. :D
I've also been playing Battle Kid on the NES, which has Touhou-like difficulty. Recently I spent two-hours trying to get from one save-point to another.
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I started playing Psychonauts. I've wanted to play it for a long time but could never find it, cause it never occurred to me to even look on Steam. It's fun, the dialog is awesome, and it's all around a great game. But I spend more time dicking around looking for cards or fragments then I do advancing the plot. I haven't even started the third level yet to get levitation. But I'm starting to run out of stuff I can get with out it.
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*Stomps entire enemy team for 2 rounds with Backburner Pyro on koth_Badlands*
*6 of the enemy team go Pyro*
*I swap to Heavy and continue to stomp for 3 rounds*
*The enemy team stack Heavies*
*I go back to Backburner Pyro and ambush the Heavies/circle strafe and jump around them*
*Server just empties as the enemy team ragequit one after another.*
I grinned.
Also was playing Freight at some point as well. I was Demoman; blew up a sentry nest from the water with stickies. Que 2 angry engies and a pyro barreling into the water after me. I behead all three with pro scuba demo skills with my Eyelander.
Also why is it when it comes to Sentry Nests I feel like I have to do everything? No-one else EVER destroys them; and it always seems to be up to me to find a way to do so with the Direct Hit/Demoman. It's got to the point that I now have reliable ways to destroy every single common sentry placement on 2Fort. Provided some random Pyro dosen't catch me before I Rocket-Jump.
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Also why is it when it comes to Sentry Nests I feel like I have to do everything? No-one else EVER destroys them; and it always seems to be up to me to find a way to do so with the Direct Hit/Demoman. It's got to the point that I now have reliable ways to destroy every single common sentry placement on 2Fort. Provided some random Pyro dosen't catch me before I Rocket-Jump.
Pub servers tend to crowd Spies whenever massive Engie nests occur. That typically doesn't fare too well - they'd contribute a lot more as Bonk Scouts who divert sentry fire while Sollies and Demos take out the sentries.
Not saying Spy is a bad idea, but too many of any single class more likely than not ends terribly.
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Pub servers tend to crowd Spies whenever massive Engie nests occur. That typically doesn't fare too well - they'd contribute a lot more as Bonk Scouts who divert sentry fire while Sollies and Demos take out the sentries.
Not saying Spy is a bad idea, but too many of any single class more likely than not ends terribly.
Oh yeah; Spy works by the Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu.
It's just like: Why can't anyone else seem to pick up a Demoman or a Soilder and spam the sentry down? Ever?! Why must they all keep running at it as a Pyro/Scout?
And I use 2Fort as an example in particular because 2Fort is the pinnacle of bad map design in TF2 and has so many chokepoints that sentries are completely obnoxious in. [Sewer corner; next to the spawn and courtyard; inbetween both stairs on the courtyard; the intel room; the main entryway; the rectangular room between the entryway and the courtyard...] They generally require some poor Solly/Demo to solo infitrate stupid deep; or for an Uber to somehow get that deep; or for a Spy to somehow avoid walls of fire and spanners and get there.
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AUGH! A bit late on this, but maybe it'll help. If I remember right, height affects accuracy to some extent and adds buffs for snipers/gene soldiers with certain perks. Cover improves the chance that the enemy will miss and increases defense, meaning reduced damage. It also helps prevent against criticals. Units not in cover regardless of which side they're on are far more vulnerable to crits, though baddies with the Hardened perk (i.e. most of the end-game ones) are much harder to get crits on. Also, units in and out of cover can have their line of sight affected by nearby height differences, meaning they won't be able to attack units out, though the game is wonky about it which leads to some confusion.
That seems mostly consistent what with I've gathered. Toward the end of the game I've had a couple of elevation-related situations where every one of my miniature gaming reflexes tells me that I should be able to see a target below me on a sharp elevation change but I can't, which I eventually realized probably results from the game seemingly not having animations for the soldiers firing at sharp downward angles. Since I've figured that out I know not to put my snipers on certain perches, even if by all logic they should be able to use them. Or maybe it does and I just don't know what's going on.
At any rate, I played a little bit earlier and got a request from Japan for heavy plasma weapons that payed out so much money that I was able to get everyone max-level equipment. I just want to run one more mission to test Ghost Armor, which I previously had never actually bothered to buy and I'm not sure of the merits of over the other endgame types, and I'm going to finish the game right after that.
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I decided to play COD Ghosts' Multiplayer.
What a mistake.
What a bloody miserable thing that is. Can someone tell me why all of sudden, instead of the maps being way too microscopic and claustrophobic, they are BLOODY HUGE and open? I tought this was Call Of Duty, not Battlefield! Why is is so hard to Infinity Ward and Treyarch to get the map sizes right? Black Ops 2's maps were tiny to the point that action was so frequent it was headache inducing, and now, maps are so huge and boring that they are sleep inducing. I wouldn't have that big of a problem with the maps had the weapon balance been done right, but NO, they are still balanced as if the game still catered to Close Quarter Battles, with No recoil-Low Range-Medium Damage guns. YUCK.
I'll come back to this game later to alteast fix my KD.
...And yes, I know that my overview was really biased and spoiled from previous games to some extent. But that's how I felt. People complained that Call Of Duty was always the same, but now, look at what we got.
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I started playing TF2 again. I played for a couple of hours over the past two days and it was really fun. Some stuff that happened were
- Me being the lucky person to get a gift. It was one of those items that gives a random gift to someone.
- I got a Mann Co strongbox as a drop. All it says is hold on to it as normal keys won't work.
- I managed to finish a round of Mann vs. Machine with the randomizer mod.
- My computer shut off on me during the game because my charger fell off and I didn't notice it
It was pretty fun and now I'm addicted again to TF2. I will be playing more as I neglected it. I didn't play it for 2 months.
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PSN is having a sale for a number of games to celebrate 2014.
Picked up DmC since free, why not. Picked up the PSV version of Kickbeat again, in hopes of getting around to six-starring everything. Got the max combo trophy in Technika Tune; just waiting on another 200-something plays to get 99 and the plat.
Also, I might be missing something, but is Year 2 in Meruru supposed to be pretty empty? I haven't had any real new events after the dev quest in... Month 4? It's Month 8 now.
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I tried to play Garry's Mod Multiplayer TWICE. The first time, the game froze while trying to enter a server. the Second time, MY COMPUTER froze when it tried to enter a server. great.
Also, I decided to look online how much Pokemon Red costs around here and it costs the equivalent of 120 dollars. Bugger off, I bought Pokemon Y for half that.
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I made it to the upper levels of the Asylum in Psychonauts.
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I want to go back to the happy camp now.
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Okay Okay, Now that I discovered the Customizable Weapons pack for GMOD (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=143193342), all of sudden this game became a whole lot more attractive to me.
But I still want Call Of Duty 4 Gaz's Player model :c (Like in this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=craQRa3m-lA)) I tried to find it but all the links I found are dead, so I'm afraid the only way to get it now is to contact someone who has it. Do any of you have it?
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Picked up Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance on Steam, finished it in one sitting, not that that's particularly bad.
The gameplay is a bit more clunky than Bayonetta, and the tutorial MANAGES TO BE WORSE THAN BAYONETTA'S (holy shit who the fuck was the twat who thought that not telling players there actually is a lock-on button was a good idea? I seriously had to finish the game without knowing that there's was a lock-on button and without dodging because dodging without lock-on in this game is sorta impossible) however, despite this the game was actually very fun to play, and since the steam version comes with Jetstream's and Wolf's DLC, I did that. The fact that Jetstream is brazillian brought a smile to my lips, and Wolf is the best character in this game by far, he's the perfect combination of ridiculously cute and absurdly badass with the added fact that he's a freaking robotic wolf.
Speaking of characters though, the character I disliked the most in this game has to be Raiden himself, I actually liked him quite a bit until the beginning of chapter 3, then I was like "Raiden, wat r u doin", then comes the pre-boss fight scene of chapter 3 the one were Raiden goes back to being Jack The Ripper
and then I'm like "...wat" and then he can't decide whether he's Jack or Raiden
and then I'm like "RAIDEN PLEASE".
This was the first Metal Gear game I've ever played, and seriously, despite hardcore fans saying how much this game sucks, this game actually left me with a pretty good impression of the series of as a whole, the amount of research that went into this series... Holy shit. The worst part though is that sometimes the game doesn't know if it wants to take itself seriously or not :/
But of course, there's one thing that nobody can ever argue with: This game's soundtrack is absolutely fucking awesome. Seriously, throwing a gigantic robot in the air and cutting him open while a guy screams RULES OF NATURE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTQIogLBFBs#t=1m3s) in the background has to be the most awesome thing ever, that amount of over-the-topness manages to surpass Bayonetta, and that particular scene happens not even 10 minutes into the game.
I also got myself the entire first season of The Walking Dead, just finished episode one and... Well I dunno, the graphics make the game seem a bit weird and Larry's a dick
but... meh it's not bad at all.
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Got to postgame in Ni no Kuni and am taking a break from it.
Played the maingame on Disgaea D2. Had 3 game overs during the maingame. Cleared each story map only once during the maingame. 1 game over on the chapter 4 boss because I was just outmatched , but went back after leveling a book for Sicily to 19(gencied out cause some pirates had destroyed most of my team on 19 so didn't clear floor 20). The next game over was on the stage where you have to beat it in under 5 turns. I just screwed up and didn't do things right. Then died to one of the final chapter stages. I did have some game overs on early postgame stuff screwing around. So far got Raspberyl, Emizel, and Barbara's stages done, but I'm not feeling up to a Disgaea postgame at the moment, so it's getting backlogged for now.
Now I'm attempting level 1 Proud on KH 1.5. The run went mostly well until Halloween Town/Atlantica. I chose to do Atlantica because supposedly Ursula is easier at level 1 than the Halloween Town bosses according to some players. My suggestion to anyone who would try level 1 Proud on this, do Halloween Town. I had a lot less trouble on any of the Halloween Town bosses than any of the Atlantica ones. I needed to get to 7 MP (3 base + 4 from equips) to beat Atlantica. Up to Hollow Bastion now, but I figure I should spend time farming to synth 2 Cosmic Arts before the heartless get stronger since they seem to be the best accessory for level 1.
Too bad even if I complete the level 1 run, I still won't be able to say that I'm any good at the game.
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I played WarioWare Smooth Moves for the first time in a long, LONG while.
Well two things: Back then, I considered making Penny Mai Waifu. I don't know what kind of crack I was smoking.
Also, this is one of those games where there just isn't a whole lot to do after you unlock all of the stages. All you get to do after it is to try to get all the Microgames on all the stages, and getting them is pretty monotonous and repetitive.
...FIVE years later, I still can't do that "shredding" microgame...
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I finished Psychonauts. That part where I had to cliimb the nets on fire rotating around was the hardest part of the game for me. I just could not make some of the jumps. The ending was pretty satisfying though.
Started playing Senran Kagura Burst. It's actually really fun. I started on the Hebijo side. I figured the Hanzo side would just be a rehash of the anime storyline, that and the character I want to play is Hebijo. Spoiler, it's the character who bares more than a passing resemblance to my avatar. I also wouldn't mind playing as Daidoji, but she's probably an unlockable, if she's playable at all. I like all the characters, except for Haruka.
EDIT: BEST. GAME. EVER! (http://i.imgur.com/QNdPCog.jpg)
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Man, I keep forgetting that you do need to go to Ichijo Cape to continue development at Modis. It's actually kind of interesting to see that Meruru's post-boss comments actually change depending on what your progress in the story is. If she doesn't need to have an Abyssal Soul, for example, she's cautious around it, rather than cheering and loud about getting it.
Also, just for kicks, I beat the three bosses around Modis one after the other (the behemoth, the Dear Elemental, and the Twilight Maiden) without Spirit Stones, but with my pair of awesomesauce Angelstone weapons via NG+. Holy hell that plus Potentialized Meteors kill them so damn fast. Didn't even need Healing Bells or Nectars.
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Finished Etrian Odyssey Untold's story mode. The new content was fun, but a little awkwardly balanced compared to the stuff in the main game - it almost always felt like a step backwards in difficulty compared to whatever I'd just had to complete in order to access it. I do enjoy the new plot details though, which have some ramifications for the lore of the entire series.
But since it's another two weeks and change before Bravely Default comes out, I've opted to just boot straight into Classic Mode. Dark Hunter/Landsknecht/Medic frontline, Troubadour/Hexer backline. I kinda 3-turned Fenrir because wow this team is hilarious.
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Finished Etrian Odyssey Untold's story mode. The new content was fun, but a little awkwardly balanced compared to the stuff in the main game - it almost always felt like a step backwards in difficulty compared to whatever I'd just had to complete in order to access it. I do enjoy the new plot details though, which have some ramifications for the lore of the entire series.
But since it's another two weeks and change before Bravely Default comes out, I've opted to just boot straight into Classic Mode. Dark Hunter/Landsknecht/Medic frontline, Troubadour/Hexer backline. I kinda 3-turned Fenrir because wow this team is hilarious.
I was running that group, except with a Ronin instead of the Landsknecht. :V Got up to the third stratum before I stopped. I should pick that back up and the five medic run of EO4
Of course, I just started Valkyria Chronicles 3 to tide me over until Bravely Default. There was a ton of rebalancing and while necessary I miss some of my brokenness.
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After beating VC2, I was so sadface after learning that the third game was passed over due to understandable reasons.
I don't know what the hell I'm trying to do now with my games; I'm alternating so much between each of them.
Also, I just recently learned that Monster Monpiece (a card-based strategy game by Compile Heart/IF with... suggestive overtones) is actually, somehow, coming over stateside (albeit with a few of the more explicit card art removed) this year. I don't think there's been word of Re;Birth yet, so I'm kind of going... hurry up with the Nep stuff already!
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After beating VC2, I was so sadface after learning that the third game was passed over due to understandable reasons.
Well, there's a translation patch out now.
Speaking of which I need to get the VC3 translation and play it
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Playing through Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen. The pawn's constant commentary is making it fairly tempting to get them killed on purpose.
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I admit to playing Monster Girl Quest. Finished the final part this morning before heading to sleep. this screencap explains the entire plot of the game (https://24.media.tumblr.com/6a2523500a4510cbe75e106a186cb702/tumblr_mzv85lMF591r8hguio1_500.png)
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Started playing Atelier Ayesha. I've wanted to try the Atelier series out for a while but have never actually bothered to do so till now, so I have no idea how much I'll like or dislike the gameplay. I'm obviously doing my first run without a guide, so I have no idea which ending I'll be getting whenever I finish it, but I'm only early in the first year right now. I'll likely do a second run in NG+ with a guide to view all endings.
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I'm trying to play Outrun 2006, I really am, but my Xbox just doesn't want to. It's a bloody miracle when it actually stays on time enough for me to actually start the game, let alone play it! ORIGINAL XBOX! WHY DO YOU TORTURE ME LIKE THIS?
Also thanks to this stupid malfunction, I can't finish the original Forza, despite the fact that I'm 89% through the game.
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World of Tanks. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4URvWLShxc)
Yeah this video is almost accurate.
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I'm back to playing Ys Seven. It took a couple of fights to remember Flash Step wasn't a thing until Memories of Celceta.
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What the fuck am I doing with my life? (http://steamcommunity.com/stats/263400/leaderboards/265371/?sr=1&steamid=76561198025256524)
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Tried playing Sword of the Stars: The Pit, today
In related news, I also uninstalled Sword of the Stars: The Pit, today.
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In the third chapter of Bokuten. It's not terrible, but sometimes the pacing is just downright awful. The h-scenes feel completely hamfisted (thankfully, they're short) and totally unnecessary, and added in where they really shouldn't be. I mean, we just started dating last night and yes let's screw over a desk in our classroom right after school! I'm getting in the way of your career, so I'll have sex with you before breaking up with you, but not before magically reappearing fully clothed without a single line saying so!
Man, this could have been so good if it wasn't so... bad. At least the characters are likeable?
(http://imgur.com/T4ieoXM.jpg)
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of course right after i posted that
[nsfw]http://imgur.com/LwZWevj.jpg[/nsfw]
nvm this game is great 11/10 would 11/10 again
e2- would you even need cpr if you fell off a roof '-'
e3- ok chapter 6 successfully made me completely stop giving any bit of a shit i think i'll go read a real book
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Okay so Broken Age
so since apparently it seems the mom computer is old Vella and the Dead Eye God is old Shay, and right now Vella is trapped in the Mog and Shay is trapped outside, I'm guessing in a past timeline this happened as well and Shay ends up wandering around for a while before cryogenically freezing himself and Vella explores the ship and learns of it's true purpose and regrets destroying it.
So I guess what happens next is either they end up doing the exact same thing as their past selves in act two and somewhere along the line time travel happens causing a loop, or because they exist in the same space as their past self they can do something to break the loop. yay time travel
or it all could be a red herring and the computer and dead eye are completely different people from the main characters :V
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I had an awful time against the final boss of Ys Seven. When the characters mentioned we had to fight as one, I was thinking they meant Adol, Geis, and Cruxie; go beat the shit out of everything like always. But nope, they actually meant everyone was involved in the final boss. That wouldn't have been too big a problem except that I ignored Dogi, Mishera, and Elk.
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They were the opening party for the final boss. And since I never used them, their equipment was awful so I had to go and spend some time grinding Soul Stones to make nice stuff for them to wear into the final battle. And it gets worse, not only did I have no idea what I was doing with any of those characters, but that was the most annoying part of the final battle. Cause you couldn't just attack it, no you had to smack these graboid tongue looking things around a bit before you could even damage it. At least after that part, the other two phases seemed like cakewalk. Except for that part during the second phase where I got cocky and wasn't paying attention to Aisha's health and she died, whoops.
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Singularity and The Darkness 2 were sooooo mediocre I had to think hard in order to remember which games I played over the last 2 weeks. There were some nice things in both, but their core was so firmly rooted in generic FPS standards that it didn't amount to much. They were short, too.
Went back to Xenoblade and suddenly the clouds parted to reveal the happy sun whose rays bore a beautiful rainbow. Dew glinted on the flowers that sprouted along my path and Johnny Nash music started playing. I can spend an hour just updating my inventory and customizing my skills! I'll probably invest about 120 hours in it before the game's done! And it's still fun because it's a detail freak's dream! JEEBUS!
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I'm either going to be doing BG Multiplayer sessions or else will be starting a screenshot LP of Revelations: The Demon Slayer. Depends on the time zones.
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The Bravely Default demo had me wanting to play a class based game and I ain't beat Final Fantasy III, so I've been playing that. Refia is my DPS, Ingus is my tank, Luneth is my elemental DPS, and Arc is my healer.
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There's a bunch of games coming out in February I'm excited for - Lightning Returns, Dangan Ronpa, Donkey Kong Country Returns 2, Bravely Default, Symphonia HD, and Layton 6. but first, this came out today and everyone should buy it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ol3ZxZSEhY)
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I've been playing a little bit of the House of The Dead 2 lately.
And my goodness, the voice acting. I kind of doubt it's not a joke. Back when I was a kid playing the game, I didn't mind it that much, but now, I just can't help but laugh at it. And thanks to the fact that I played this game a Billion times, I litterally memorized EVERYTHING about it, from the level layouts to all of the transcript. Seriously.
This is how bad teh voice acting is, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftc_Pbhb3IE) The only line that alteast comes close to being good is "At last, you've come... Friends... the door of fate shall open." But all of the epicness on it is lost when you realized Goldman said it with his robotic, mispronoucning voice.
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So I picked up The Guided Fate Paradox a few days ago, at the same time I bought myself a new bike. Holy hell the difficulty spike at Lesson 3. Level 10 enemies when you're probably 6 at best, ABBERATIONS OUT THE WAZOO!!!, enemies that spawn new ones (or do they just drag enemies to them? I recall one bringing a slightly weakened one), enemies that break your skill if they're anywhere in its attack range... And the boss ends up easier than floor 9. wat. It even got team-killed through a pair of enemies' AoE timed strikes; and just after I fired up God Mode for the first time. (what a waste...)
It was a damn good thing I remembered to check out the shops before sortie, otherwise I would have fallen... a lot.
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So, Etrian Odyssey 4. I've been playing a challenge run on and off - three dancers, and nothing but. Battles take quite a while, but the fun fact was that I was rarely ever in any actual danger, because the damage reduction between Guard Tango (and later Runes) + Regen Waltz left few things actually threatening. I beat every boss on my first attempt... well, except the final one. Hoo boy. I've figured out that
Regen Waltz + Steady Hands + Guard Tango + Volt Rune (because the boss' elec attack is multi-targetting and random) literally heals more damage out than he can hope to do to me in one turn, so I'm not in any danger of dying. It's just going to be a very, very, VERY long fight. Illusory Arm is the big threat, because it can debuff defenses (until I Treat it next turn), which enables him to trash my party, nevermind binds/ailments it also causes. After I get that down though, I have to trash the body until the other arm forces itself to be KO'd by intercepting damage, at which point I get to wail on him for a bit and have to start the whole process over again. ...And then again because of its whole 'temporarily burst the core' which hahahah burst damage from dancers.
EDIT: Oh, and I finished Octodad: Dadliest Catch. It was kind of awesome 8D
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Somebody kill me for I am trying to get the Stormbringer Achievement in MGR, which means finish the game on Reveangence Difficulty getting nothing but S-Ranks, which most of the time, involves either taking no damage or abusing the game's broken unlockables and DLCs.
Of course, Maxed FOX Blade + Infinite Wig B makes most of the game stupid easy since you can just attack anything once and it explodes, but god the Boss Fights.
Oh god the boss fights.
Chapter 4 (Or file R-04, whatever the hell you wanna call it) is simply making me cry internally, so many easy parts, so many ludicrously hard parts (Minibosses and Ranked Battles #2 and #4, I'm glaring straight at you three.)
Relatedly, I got the "Genius Destroyer" Achievement today, which consists of beating Monsoon without taking damage on Hard or above.
And relatedly to the aforementioned Genius Destroyer achievement, I've been playing MGR for over 12 hours straight today.
I hate Monsoon so much.
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Oh, and the MOMENT I write this I have an ABSOLUTE PERFECT RUN OF CHAPTER 4, got through ranked battle 1 no damage, ranked battle 2 with minimum resource loss (only 1 health pack used), 3 with a perfect zandatsu at the end to secure the S-Rank, my first time no-damage'ing ranked 4#, then absolute perfect runs from 5-11, including the Mistral and Monsoon body doubles
, another first time getting no-damage at that.
Then I manage to get 50 hits off on Sundowner
despite my overpowered pole-arm, manage to get him to phase two without any problems, kill 2 Hammerheads to secure the S-Rank on kills and proceed to get a full charge of the Pincer Blades on him, which puts him below 20% health and starting the end QTE. Manage to get through the Slider section with no problems...
...And get an A rank because I apparently got hit somewhere in the middle of that, despite my health being full throughout the entire process and me having no means to heal besides, you know, going into the goddamn menu and using a health pack.
Wow, this game really fucking hates me.
@Edit?:
Welp, managed to get another lucky run on chapter 4 and the game didn't screw me over on Sundowner
this time, Chapter 5 was really easy, as expected, chapter 6 was just a matter of getting a good parry off and then bumrushing him, chapter 7 was also relatively easy after I discovered the tricks to fighting armstrong
and that Ripper Mode gives you a huge damage bonus (Yeah, I went over an entire playthrough of Revengeance Difficulty without knowing that.)
Stormbringer get, now on to getting the Humanoid Gekko and then the DLC-Related.
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Started Final Fantasy IX. It's my second favorite in the series. I was contemplating getting the Excalibur II, but then I spent thirty minutes dicking around in Alexanderia as Vivi.
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I beat Etrian Odyssey IV with a team of three dancers.
I'm going to move onto playing other things before returning to fight the Dragons/Warped Savior/Fallen One (if I can even do that last one because fuck fallen one) but I will write a big ass thing about it.
EDIT: 7000 words about EO4 with three dancers (http://thispleasestormod.tumblr.com/post/75920103831/a-gigantic-nearly-7000-word-long-essay-about)
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Copying off of what I wrote similarly on another forum. :V
I randomly decided to play Touhou-A-Live once I found out it existed. I've had a combination of fun and frustration with it so far. Here is a basic summary of my feelings on the chapters I've done so far:
Mokou's (based off of Near-Future)- ...This is long and there's enemies everywhere my god why did this boss suddenly kill me why are they using the liquefied humans plot in Touhou it feels way too grimdark.
Cirno's (based off of Present Day)- COME ON USE THOSE MOVES ON ME SO I CAN KILL YOU OH GOD WHY IS THE FINAL BOSS A FREAKING DODGE TANK SOMEONE HELP ME
Shanghai's (based off of Sci-fi)- Story story story story... oh god help me this is stressful why is everyone actually dying come on this is Touhou this shouldn't be happening and oh god why did the final boss just turn into some melting skull mush that kinda looks like this (http://puu.sh/6NP56) ahahahahahahaha make it end make it end
Youmu's (based off of Ninja)- KILL 'EM ALL KILL 'EM ALL SCREW STEALTH I AM GONNA KILL 'EM ALL or at the very least 73/100. Good enough. Also hidden passages I hate you.
Ran's (based off of Wild West)- Just started, but uh... why the hell is Ran in the American Wild West barring the fact that her chapter is based off of the Sundown Kid's in the original?
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Been playing a lot of minecraft lately! ~ And nothing else :(
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I've been playing a lot of Ultimate Doom with the Brutal Doom mod. My current goal is to complete all the episodes on hardest difficulty, which is black metal (enemies are 50% faster and deal 50% more damage). I've also made a rule that I cannot save in the middle of a map just to make things more interesting. I've cleared the first three episodes and surprisingly the first episode was by far the hardest. I'll probably start Doom 2 after I finish episode 4.
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Couldn't find a hard copy of Lightning Returns >:
so I downloaded Danganronpa instead 8D Who wants to talk about murders~?
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Playing HoMMIII again. With WoG and HD mod.
This never gets old. I play some games every few months and it's always just as fresh as it was almost 15 years ago.
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so here I was super happy about Bravely Default
then I got home and for some reason the R and d-pad of my 3DS are constantly registering inputs that aren't actually being made
guess I'll have to get it repaired/replaced
sigh
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I've been re-playing Castlevania: Portait Of Ruin in between classes over the last ten days or so. It's way better than I remember. I remember liking it okay, but this time through I like it a lot. It's consistently well-balanced throughout, and the boss fights are generally good. I like the crazy number of sub-weapons, although most of them are kind of a waste given that a handful of them are going to get used 95% of the time.
The re-used levels toward the end are kind of lame, but they're quick and the bosses are good, so whatever. I have been having my game freeze every couple of hours or so though. I don't know if that's a problem with my cartridge of my old brick DS, but the frequent save points make it more annoying than game-breaking.
Probably going to re-play Dawn Of Sorrow next, which I remember being my least favorite DS Castlevania, but maybe I'll like it more the second time through as well.
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so I downloaded Danganronpa instead 8D Who wants to talk about murders~?
I just got to 2-I, and now I'm hoping really badly there's a remixed mode where the killers and killed are different. Also I almost nearly failed 1-T because I didn't realize that you actually had to fire off shots with a different button. :ohdear: Also I hope there's a NG+ so you can get the remaining skills you're pretty much guaranteed to miss because you didn't know the attached character died or will die next murder.
And after hearing Monokuma's voice I'm half-expecting a Danganronpa Abridged where he just talks solely in bear puns.
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I just got to 2-I, and now I'm hoping really badly there's a remixed mode where the killers and killed are different.
Closest thing is Dangan School (and Dangan Island for the second game), where Monokuma never attacks and it's pretty much you (as naegi or hinata) becoming everyone's friend.
I'm not sure if Dangan School/Island is in the English Release though.
Also I hope there's a NG+ so you can get the remaining skills you're pretty much guaranteed to miss because you didn't know the attached character died or will die next murder.
You can replay chapters, the game saves your Free Times so you can get all skills.
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Dangan School is in the english release, yes - and you'll be able to meet and hang out with and level up all the character links during it. Those skills can then be brought back to the trial mode if you want. However, the identities of killers/victims are entirely fixed. There's only one story branch in the game - and if you hit the 'wrong' branch there, you'll shortly be brought back to before that branch to continue with the 'correct' sequence of events.
Also: Dangan Ronpa 2 got confirmed for also going to be released later this year ("sometime around Fall").
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Which prompted Project Zetsubou to cancel their translation and may lead to the premature ending of Orenoren's LP.
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I've been playing League of Legends and Mabinogi lately although I've been playing Romancing SaGa 3, Wizardry V and Final Fantasy V on my super famicom quite a lot ever since I managed to import them.
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Me and my roommate started playing Borderlands 2. Well, more accurate to say, I started playing Borderlands 2, he just started a new character. I started with Axton, but moved on the Maya. She's way more fun. I've put everything into the Cataclysm tree so far.
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After playing GMOD for over 50 Hours, for whatever reason, 90% of the weapons I downloaded decided to become mute. That's odd. And really stupid.
Also, I FINALLY FOUND GAZ! (http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=119470) But for whatever reason it doesn't work no matter how hard I try, I can't spawn it through the "Addons" Tab, nor can I set him as my player model... DAMMIT! Maybe you need CSS for it to work...
And word on the street that this could be the last year for Team Fortress 2, huh. I think I'll have a GMOD video ready for it if that's the case.
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Now that I've beaten the main game, I'm curious as to whether Toko's and the mastermind's VAs enjoyed recording the lines for this or not, given the amount of different voices attached to those two characters.
I don't really feel like clearing School Mode, maybe I'll go back to Ys or Dragon's Crown for the time being.
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Finally got around to buying Pokemon: X. My very first Wonder Trade resulted in my getting a Beldum! My roommate's first reaction was to flip me off out of annoyance.
His second was to flip me off with both hands.
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Finally got around to buying Pokemon: X. My very first Wonder Trade resulted in my getting a Beldum! My roommate's first reaction was to flip me off out of annoyance. His second was to flip me off with both hands.
Gotta be honest here: I've stopped playing Pokemon after Gen III, and I'm tempted to mimic his reaction to that.
Anyway, I really should stop playing games that are Cross-Buy with separate trophy lists. Totally not looking forward to having to beat Runner2 again on the PS3 after Triple Perfect+ing the Vita.
Also, Ikaruga got on Steam!!!
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Gotta be honest here: I've stopped playing Pokemon after Gen III, and I'm tempted to mimic his reaction to that.
Anyway, I really should stop playing games that are Cross-Buy with separate trophy lists. Totally not looking forward to having to beat Runner2 again on the PS3 after Triple Perfect+ing the Vita.
Also, Ikaruga got on Steam!!!
You should try playing the Generations that came afterwards. They're plenty of fun!
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Currently playing:
Hearthstone, Ikaruga and testing Elite: Dangerous alpha
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Finished the Badass Crater of Badassitude in Borderlands 2 and went back to the main plot and by main plot, I mean the ten or so sidequests I got when I got back to Sanctuary. I probably should not have done that until after the main plot. Not for story reasons or anything, the Badass Crater seemed to just be a standalone with no real involvement with the main plot. I'm a few levels higher then what the game expected me to be. Whoops.
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So I just found out that GunZ has an Early Access sequel on Steam. Dear goddess it's been a long time since I've last played the original on ijji. I still remember clearing out entire rooms of players in the Berserker gametype - bitches can't use K-style when my E-style means I can cap their ankles long before they get to melee.
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BAH, Forget this post. I was pissed off at the time.
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I'm currently playing Etrian Odyssey IV and Animal Crossing: New Leaf at the moment. I'm also playing Fire Emblem: Awakening a bit, but not as much as the other two. I haven't started playing it yet, but I'm also interested in continuing to play SMT: Digital Devil Saga, which I quit when I got Shin Megami Tensei IV.
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Xenoblade complete! Total game time, 119 hours. Final party: Shulk, Dunban, Sharla (all lvl 94).
All ultimate weapons found.
All but 2 skill trees completed. I got too bored to finish the others. :V
All location affinities maxed. Party affinities... almost maxed.
Approximately half of all advanced skill manuals found. Why bother with a handful of useless skills?
Colony 6 reconstruction complete, including beating the bonus boss dragon.
History of the Giants quest (forget the actual name) complete. SPOILERS! My take on the whole thing is that not only Zanza's first form, disciple Dickson are both bodies of aforementioned giants. Zanza was originally possessing a giant's body, and Dickson had been a giant loyal Zanza from several thousand years ago. The giants' civilization was wiped out prior to Bionis v. Mechonis and Zanza's sealing via what amounted to a war against Xenoblade's version of the Zerg from lower Bionis against the giants who at one time had lived all over Bionis based on where their ruins lay. Prison Island is pretty heavily shown to be a former bastion/castle of sorts for the giants, too.
The only thing I didn't really touch upon were the 5 or so 100+ level monsters. By the end of the game, my whole setup was in such good shape that I was regularly mopping the floor with monsters 5 levels higher than mine, regardless of who was in the active party. After so many challenges, I not only feel like I 'beat the game', but defeated it, too. I have no idea what to do with myself between now and RE4 HD's release on Steam on Friday.
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I recently finished all stories on Sonic Battle (using emulator, no cheats). Combo cards and Gamma Style are totally OP and now I'm gonna try to collect more cards (especially Shadow's heavy attack and more color cards) and build my ultimate Emerl build without ultimates/combo cards.
For Sonic All-stars Racing Transformed, I wanna fully lvl up Tails and Knux and maybe play these boost challenges as them. Sadly my laptop can keep the game well for 2-3 tracks...
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I've been attempting Rosenkreuzstilette a bit recently. I got past every one of the first eight levels except for Freudia's. Fuck that stage. Just fuck it and its stupid Quick Man lasers. And fuck Freudia herself. Arrrrrgh.
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I decided last week to break into the last major Shin Megami Tensei sub-series I've yet to play and got Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha VS The Soulless Army. I was always hesitant to try this series because I'm not a big fan of action RPGs and the gameplay looked rather dull. I was half-right about that - while decent, the gameplay doesn't have a lot of variety - the rest of the game is a whole other story. I am seriously more invested in the story and setting than either Persona 3 or 4. Magical demonic Taisho Tokyo is just so charming and the story so lovably cliched I get excited every time I play it. Just finished episode 6 last night and am looking forward to more. :D
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Well tried out Banished. Come to say I think I've gotten the most out of it in the 2 days I've played it.
Once I got paste starving and freezing, not much outside of tornadoes was able to put a dent in my population.
Good but a bit shallow really end up looking to get those achievements fast. Also the constant sound of metal chinking from the blacksmiths and miners gives me a headache.
Sana made an appearance as well. (http://puu.sh/7bNOs.png)
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Trying to finish up on some of the titles in Tales of Xillia to get more grade for NG+. That 219/220 on skits count for the trophy and final skit title is >:(, that 300 extra grade could have gotten me like 2 or 3 of the lower cost options. Why do the skits involving Milla getting to certain stats have to be Milla story exclusive? I obviously missed the skit for not using gels for a while because why would I do that in a first playthrough?
At least I don't have to worry about using Unlock All Skits since Milla story exclusive skits will easily make up for that. Going to max out all the shops and possibly do Jude's 150 Restore uses assuming I can find something that can actually knock me down at level 99.
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So, how hard is it supposed to be to first-run clear School Mode? Because I just did it with at least two days to spare on each of the latter half requests. Granted, I just barely got the Mr. Know-It-All trophy on day 50, so only got the base ending, but as long as you keep tabs on who's getting low and tech up those upgrades ASAP, you don't even need consumables. By the end of it, Taka solo was cleaning faster than the meter depleted.
Otherwise, playing Stealth Inc., searching for helices. And on occasion, trying for some S ranks.
Patiently waiting for Escha and Logy and X/X-2. Just wish they released on the same day so I wouldn't have to rush my ass off on consecutive Tuesdays.
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I don't know who remembers One Way Heroics but it's on Steam now 8D
Also, patiently waiting for South Park: The Stick of Truth.
Bonus Stage Edit: Tales of Symphonia feels so weird these days. After how smooth Graces F and Xillia play, going back to Symphonia, even outside of the far more simplified battle system, feels... slow? Unresponsive? It's hard to describe.
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So I bought Ikaruga off steam. And got three words: OH GOD WHY!? I'm not good at these shmoopie things and this is like two shmoopies going at the same time. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that around half my deaths are from me being the right color and switching to the wrong color and ramming into a bullet.
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Still doing Rosenkreuzstilette, but I made it to
Iris's castle.
Zeppelin's castle is annoyingly hard but I think I've gotten better at it, since I managed to clear it rather quickly a second time after beating it the first time.
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Resident Evil 4 is just as great as I remember it. Got the HD version on the PC. It's still got some real harrowing moments like tough baddies, troublesome encounters, and can still be stingy with ammo if you're not careful. The tight gunplay didn't entirely make it over, but it's still real solid and the mouse controls for aiming work as expected.
Also TPP has reminded me that I completely destroyed Red/Blue when I was a kid, but never finished Emerald, so that's getting a fresh look, too.
IT'S LIKE IT'S REALLY 2005!
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guess who legit forgot how much of a pain in the ass Tales of Symphonia could be at early levels on Hard on a New Game file
spoilers it's me
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Finally getting around to playing Fire Emblem Awakening. I'm on chapter 13 I think, and at this point it seems like not a ton can kill me except completely unexpected reinforcements spawning right next to my support units. Second Seal seems crazy overpowered. Other than that, pretty good.
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My stupid bloody cousin scratched my Spec Ops The Line disc so hard my Xbox won't read it anymore. And SPOPS TL might be my Favourite game of all time. Excellent. Brilliant. TOP NOTCH. 10/10. And the worst part about it is that my father is trying to defend the bastard!
Dammit. I wanted to play a good new Sonic or Mario Game to pass the time, but too bad I ain't got money to get them nor any good new Sonic or Mario games exists. Sonic games tend to be really sloppy and Mario games nowadays are just rehashes of New Super Mario Bros Wii or Super Mario Galaxy.
...*sigh* Let's just say that gaming has not been very good for me lately.
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TOGETHER FEST TIME IN KOREAN ELSWORD
What does this mean?
BEST EVENTS IN THE WHOLE FUCKING YEAR FUCK YEAH
DOUBLE REWARDS FOR JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT YOU WOULD CARE ABOUT GETTING DOUBLE REWARDS ON (Besides the Raid Boss, but that's fine);
STAMINA COSTS CUT IN HALF, ULTIMATE LEVELING!
FREE BOXES EVERY DAY THAT CAN GIVE YOU A +9 SCROLL!
WEEKLY EL STONE REACTORS AND THREE DARK ALL-IN-ONE ICE BURNERS!
EVERYONE IN THE SERVER GAINS A +10% ATTACK SPEED, +10% CRITICAL CHANCE AND +10% ADDED DAMAGE MEDAL! AND EVERYONE GETS A PERMANENT +3% PHYSICAL AND MAGICAL ATTACK BUFF! AND PERMANENT +10% MAX MP! THAT STACKS WITH THE +10% FROM PETS AND GATES OF DARKNESS.
It's like KOG is going bankrupt or something holy shit.
So yeah, I'm playing Korean Elsword like never before. The "double rewards part" is especially appealing to me since it turned my daily 20 Aurora Ores into a whopping 40, so getting the 791 Ores that I need isn't nearly as daunting a task that it once was. The fact that this also doubles the Time/Space fragments is also a healthy bonus, since I can now make just under 300 a day just from dailies, where before I was making about 130~, considering I need 9300 of these babies, this is very welcome indeed.
Then double daily rewards for Secret dungeons also mean I have a -lot- of farming to do, I need to get 20 coins from each dungeon and an extra 12 for Bethma's to finish my set. The double ElReactor helps a ton since it's gonna take a whopping 140 Elstones off of my Dark III Enchantment, which means I can pop the extra stones into the rest of my equipment to help my Erda runs against other Dark III enchanters.
My -only- problem with all of this is that everything is progressing extremely fast, which is going to put a near halt to my efforts to attaining Premium LOL, which is a massive part of my late-game build, it's essentially gonna come down to luck on dropping level 60+ equipment, elite or otherwise, to either feed my pet (if elite) or dismantle and make elite equipment (if not). And after I'm done attaining the Premium LOL medal I still have to start raising my Dark Gumiho pet properly, which will require my entire stock of ElSeeds, El Fruits and QPL Jellies.
//rant
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Cleared Unknown Mode on Tales of Xillia.
Transferred
Items
Double Experience
Double Gald (also kept Gald)
Double Item Drop
Shop level
Double Link Gauge increase
Accessories
Arte Usage
Fashion Items
Special Items
Skill Books
Devils Arms(but didn't use them)
It mostly wasn't hard except for a certain 1v1 with Milla, the fight with the same enemy in the final area, and the final boss. It was more why won't anything die in a reasonable amount of time?
As for the final boss, I now really hate that fight. One of the enemies has Angel's Cry(revive once 100% chance), heal HP upon guarding anything, time stop when sidestepping an attack, spams items if you don't steal it, can revive the other and several other annoying things. Oh, the enemy only has under 500 HP left before the revive. Oh wait, the AI teammates use Negaive Gate and Fireball which all get guarded bringing that enemy back to 40k+, then guards more stuff bringing it back to over 90k HP. Then when said enemy was under 1,000 HP on the second life, it happens again. The fight took 41 minutes because of all the guard healing.
Though I don't see why Elize was constantly complaining about that she could do much better in fights during the playthrough considering she's the main reason I could even survive fights. I might try Golden Mage Knight, but I didn't really like the EX boss anyway, so I might not do it on Unknown.
Only need the food trophy and the 75 rare monsters to finish the trophies on the game, but I think I'll finish Ni No Kuni's trophies first. I've been putting that off for a while.
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Shin Sangoku Musou 7 with Moushouden, or Dynasty Warriors 8 with XL as it'll probably get released in English. :V I've been playing through the game with the Wu faction and the game was fun up until the point where I finished the 'historical' Wu campaign a little earlier and fulfilled the requirements to branch out into the What-If campaign after Hei Fei, at which point DW3 music started playing, references started showing up all over the place, and the difficulty jumped, and so it upgraded from fun to amazingly fun. I'm pretty sure I had a huge grin on my face for most of that stage, that was awesome.
On that note I'm pretty sure the True Ranbu Musous are the most fun incarnation of Musou attacks ever in the series, they're pretty ridiculous. I think my highest hit count for a single one so far was about 1900 with Zhou Yu.
Looking forward to playing as Lu Bu's daughter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsJK-U_Y7F0
Feels like I'm back in 2004. Really, I went off Warriors games a bit after the last few, but this is the most fun I've had with one in years by a pretty long Wei
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South Park: The Stick of Truth is out. It's... actually good? It's not revolutionary, but it's definitely taken a lot of lessons from what made Paper Mario successful, and is doing it well, so it's actually a fun game (nevermind the writing being pretty great; you can tell it's actually done by the series creators)
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RE4 is kickin' my butt at points. I have money out the wazoo, but little in the way of ammo. I've resorted to filling up both my rifle and my shottie by way of ammo capacity upgrades multiple times. Was this game always this stringent with ammo?
PS: Walking Dead S2 people please check your game. Ep. 2 just came out.
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South Park: The Stick of Truth is out. It's... actually good? It's not revolutionary, but it's definitely taken a lot of lessons from what made Paper Mario successful, and is doing it well, so it's actually a fun game (nevermind the writing being pretty great; you can tell it's actually done by the series creators)
Yeah, I agree. It feels like the South Park game we've been waiting for!
That being said, I kinda suck at blocking incoming attacks, there's a really small window for hitting the button and if you miss, you're gonna take a ton of damage.
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I downloaded Kid Icarus: Uprising. Palutina is awesome. I've just finished Chapter 3, but I'm pretty sure I have to watch out for her more than Medusa.
Using pheromones to attract the boss was a good idea, but a heads up woulda been nice. Get it? Heads up! Cause the boss was a dragon's head! And it feel from the sky! Man, I'm hilarious, ya'll don't know.
The controls are hard to get used to though. When TwoBestFriends said Liam hurt his wrist playing this, I was like how? But halfway through Chapter 1 I was like oh. And does giving Palutina hearts do anything? It says it doesn't, but most of the time when a game tells you to not bother, you should bother. Except for that chest in Chapter 2, that was totally a trap.
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I finished Rosenkreuzstilette a little earlier today. It's amazing how
hilariously weak Iris is to Lilli.
Ah well, that was fun. Probably am going to go for doing the sequel as well, but I am expecting the worst difficulty wise.
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I downloaded Kid Icarus: Uprising. Palutina is awesome. I've just finished Chapter 3, but I'm pretty sure I have to watch out for her more than Medusa. Using pheromones to attract the boss was a good idea, but a heads up woulda been nice. Get it? Heads up! Cause the boss was a dragon's head! And it feel from the sky! Man, I'm hilarious, ya'll don't know.
The controls are hard to get used to though. When TwoBestFriends said Liam hurt his wrist playing this, I was like how? But halfway through Chapter 1 I was like oh. And does giving Palutina hearts do anything? It says it doesn't, but most of the time when a game tells you to not bother, you should bother. Except for that chest in Chapter 2, that was totally a trap.
Uprising is easily one of the best games on 3DS (and by now that's saying something). As for Palutena? It brings the goddess closer in spirit. It brings her closer to the screen.
No really.
...Maybe.
It's one of the great mysteries of the game~
Yeah, I agree. It feels like the South Park game we've been waiting for!
That being said, I kinda suck at blocking incoming attacks, there's a really small window for hitting the button and if you miss, you're gonna take a ton of damage.
I literally couldn't block a damn thing.
Then I remembered it's right-click, not left-click, and now I have no problem.
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@Uprising: I have no solid evidence in either direction for this being an actual thing, or just pure coincidence, but it seemed that I would get discounts on weapons much more often after I started giving several hundred thousand hearts away. Can't remember how many I've given away by now, but it's a ton.
More details, but some decently large spoilers here, beware (multiple blocks used for multiple layers of spoilers):
What has made this particularly noticeable for me, is that on one file I have still given Palutena a grand total of zero hearts, and I don't get discounts from the weapon shop very often, as long as...
...as long as she is selected for my menus and such. However, at the same time, I have given...
Viridi...
<-- Important name spoiler, after reading the block above, the one below can be read while ignoring this one if you want.
a great number of hearts, and when she is set to be the one on the main menu and such, this is when I begin to notice discounts happening more often.
This is what leads me to believe that giving hearts gives a better chance of discounts. However, without further testing, this is no proof just like that.
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On the subject of "Games You're Playing Right Now", I guess I can say "Not FFXIV", unfortunately, because it's like Square-Enix completely refuses to take my money in any way shape or form. I've had tons of problems paying for FFXI in the past, and now that I've quit that game and want to move on to FFXIV, I'm having even more problems. I simply can not do it. Ugh. And I've purchased multiple copies, too... The old XIV collector's edition (useless now), the new/current XIV PC version (won't run on my PC), and finally the PS3 version in which Square-Enix doesn't take my money.
So what I am playing currently is everything Neptunia and also MH3U, and Mario&Luigi:Dream Team, as well as Pokemon Y, and (still playing) Kid Icarus Uprising and Fire Emblem Awakening. Among other things. I'm playing too many things I guess :V
Also completed Metroid Prime yet again, forcing myself to do hard mode in one sitting this time. I'm already itching for another good run.
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Battlefield Bad Company 2 is having a massive discount now. I'm going to buy it because I heard a LOT of praises towards it.
It begins.
(https://scontent-a-mia.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t31/1900592_223200117884301_563676290_o.jpg)
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And got the Xillia plat. I know I said I was going to do Ni no Kuni first, but I noticed I was at 8, so I figured I'd switch it and have Ni no Kuni's be platinum trophy #10.
Finally continued KH Re:CoM and finished Wonderland and Agrabah. I now only have Halloween Town left for the first set of worlds.
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...so i beat FEZ's normal ending and uh...
DID YOU REALLY JUST USE THAT JOKE FISH
REALLY?
i cant deal with it
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I had my dad bring our PS2 when he was visiting for a couple of days, so I'm now playing SMT: Nocturne. My first mainseries SMT game and the beginning's pretty good so far.
Edit: Just got to Matador. Screw that guy.
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Aside from the BR/KR Elsword madness, I also got myself Kingdom Hearts 1.5 ReMIX, I'm already at the end of the first game, actually.
I killed Kurt, killed Phantom, finished the Hades Cup, playing on Proud, of course, and now I'm working to finish the Synthesis to get my Ultima.
Then I'll go do the Gold and Platinum Matches in the Coliseum then... I dunno, the gummi ship stuff? Then I'll finish the game and then I'll go fight the Ultimate Boss.
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I picked up Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F on the PS Vita. It turns out that I don't have much of a sense of rhythm. :V
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Still playing Kid Icarus, but I started playing Persona 4 Golden. I was a little hesitant on getting it because I pretty much did everything the first time around. But I went to renew my Gamestop Card and there it was staring me in the face. So I figured what the hell and got it. And I realized, this plus Final Fantasy X and X-2 means that three of my four Vita games are PS2 game I've already beaten.
Edit: Just got to Matador. Screw that guy.
E'yup
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Edit: Just got to Matador. Screw that guy.
Look at what he does, pack counters. For more specific info, read spoiler.
He uses wind, but you can get demons made or recruited that null or reduce or absorb that. Also to counter that Capote thing or whatever,what I used was Fog Breath on the MC. It's good for TWO levels of hit/evade reduction, though its cost is pretty hefty.
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Look at what he does, pack counters. For more specific info, read spoiler.
He uses wind, but you can get demons made or recruited that null or reduce or absorb that. Also to counter that Capote thing or whatever,what I used was Fog Breath on the MC. It's good for TWO levels of hit/evade reduction, though its cost is pretty hefty.
Yeah. Noticed that after my first go at him. Got him on my 4th or so try. I got lucky and he didn't remove my debuffs while also refusing to use whatever the all-target physical attack is called.
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Why, oh why are there no helix walkthroughs for the Lost Clones DLC? It's such a pain trying to figure out where the damn things are. I guess I'll make my own once I find them.
I'm on the fence on whether or not to get Project Diva f. I have F, but I haven't played it in a while (because I'd rather play other things on the PS3); but I don't have very much open space on my Vita or space I'm willing to give up for it. Probably not...
I expect to get ribbed a little tomorrow when I got to Gamestop not for Titanfall, but for Escha & Logy.
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Why, oh why are there no helix walkthroughs for the Lost Clones DLC? It's such a pain trying to figure out where the damn things are. I guess I'll make my own once I find them.
I'm on the fence on whether or not to get Project Diva f. I have F, but I haven't played it in a while (because I'd rather play other things on the PS3); but I don't have very much open space on my Vita or space I'm willing to give up for it. Probably not...
I expect to get ribbed a little tomorrow when I got to Gamestop not for Titanfall, but for Escha & Logy.
Eh, speaking of Project Diva, I went to the Madden event and nobody said anything when I picked up my preorder, so you probably won't be made fun of or anything. I mean, might be different crowd, but still. Anyway, I always wonder why people think of getting two versions of a Project Diva game when thry have the same stuff in them...Is it just a desire for mobile play? (I don't have a Vita so it's a moot point for me, but I was just curious.)
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Castlevania Lords of Shadows 2. Pretty generic hack 'n slash, with some really lazy stealth sections that add nothing to the game. Although there are some cool bosses (the Toy Maker, in special), the last boss is utterly dissapointing, and the "ending"... doesn't actually exist, really. At least the game is short.
I don't really care for the franchise as a whole, but I can see why reception to the game was generally lukewarm to unfavorable.
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I've been playing Ghost Recon Future Soldier because, well, I bought this game two years ago and never played it (I was too busy playing Spec Ops The Line back then) and frankly Bad Company 2 was really disapointing, I don't know how much more disapointing it would've been had I paid full price for it.
But on to the game: It kinda suffers from the same syndrome as Call of Duty Ghosts, where the game has, ahem, GHOSTS in the title, implying stealth, yet there's not a lot of Ghosting going on. The Ghost Squad sure break stealth a lot. But not nearly as much as COD Ghosts, where the little stealth the game has can be easily ignored in favour of brute force.
And I'm currently at one of the final levels (I presume so, the difficulty and the objectives imply that) and it's odd that they sent just one guy to infiltrate a prison and rescue a very High Value Individual. Also, while the game lets you break stealth in this level, doing so results in almost instant death. And weirdly, sometimes, I'm just walking around the level, minding my own business, then all of sudden I hear the enemy soldiers scream something in russian and shoot at me, despite the fact that I never did anything to startle them. (Hell, sometimes they weren't even looking at me) This coupled with your tiny health reasults in plenty of deaths that makes me want to pull my hair out.
But I still like the game. It's a lot better than most of the testosterone filled shooters we have nowadays. Even tough sometimes it also can't hide it's adrenaline.
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Heroes of Might and Magic III, the glorious turn based strategy and one of the most important games of my (late) childhood. After three weeks of playing a few hours a day, I just finished all the Restoration and Erathia and Armageddon's Blade campaings, something I never managed to do back then. I'm definitely taking a break before Shadow of Death, though.
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Currently playing the Story Mode in Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Milennium Girl. It's a rather wonderful game, though it requires a LOT of time investment it seems.
Currently working on picking my way through the 10th floor of the labyrinth right now, though some enemies are incredibly annoying (Fanged Vines, anyone?). At least I'll never have to pay for the inn again thanks to a healing spring in the 8th floor! Just a matter of making it someplace I can Floor Jump, and keeping Ariadne Threads for when I can't make it there in time.
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Dark Souls 2 came in! Aaaand the Sorcerer doesn't even start with a shield and doesn't have enough strength to equip one. This is going to be a long road. :V
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Gunpoint is 5$ on Steam right now and that's the only reason I noticed it existed.
And that's a shame because holy crap is it good. It's fantastically written and a super creative stealth-puzzle game that, while not completely capitalizing on the 'build your own solution' promise, is still really really brilliant and lets you feel like you are.
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Lugaru. If anyone asks, it's a rabbit fighting arcade thingy. You get the point, badass bunnies if you ask me
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guess who legit forgot how much of a pain in the ass Tales of Symphonia could be at early levels on Hard on a New Game file
spoilers it's me
Got up to the prison part on Hard, so not very far into the game, then said screw it. I'm not good at this series anyway, so why bother? Then lowered it to Normal. But this is a blind playthrough for me since I never played the game. PS2/PS3 is supposed to be harder than the Gamecube one as well.
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Just completed my first playthrough of Dark Souls 2. I get the feeling that that wouldn't have gone by so fast if I wasn't on break right now.
The game hasn't even been out for a week and there have been approximately 50 million in-game deaths worldwide already. :V
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Got up to the prison part on Hard, so not very far into the game, then said screw it. I'm not good at this series anyway, so why bother? Then lowered it to Normal. But this is a blind playthrough for me since I never played the game. PS2/PS3 is supposed to be harder than the Gamecube one as well.
Yeah, due to some damage formula changes, things are harder in Chronicles than the GCN release. Either way, that's kinda the hardest stretch - around up to the first seal's completion is just really hellish.
FFX/X-2 HD comes out tomorrow morning ahhhhhhhhhhhhh 8D
Also I bought, played, and finished Weapon Shop De Omasse. I didn't actually expect a couple parts to be emotional, and it's pretty fun; but then I hit the ten hour mark, wrapped up the storylines, and was basically done.
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I'm trying out a few games to see what I'd like to tackle. First up is Sleeping Dogs. Some things feel a little bit off in terms of controls, but the game itself is more lively than a typical GTA game. The increased emphasis on being BATMAN in terms of combat helps, too.
I'm also giving Shadowrun Returns a shot. It feels real good so far, mixing a bit of indie RPG vibe and X-COM mechanics with a lot of the Shadowrun universe mixed in. Hell, even Jake Armitage, the legend himself,
shows up early on. Problem is, I'd like to form a party based on which characters I like and would build my character around whichever attributes they lack. Since it's tough to know much about a comparatively new and little-known RPG, it might be worth doing some research on.
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Picked up X/X-2 HD Remaster for my Vita this morning. Started on X-2 cause that has more extra stuff in it than X did. Still playing Persona 4 Golden, I'm on
Naoto's Arc.
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For about half a day from release, people couldn't redeem their X-2 Vita vouchers. Wonder if SE simply forgot that activating the code vouchers on their end was a thing. Anyway, probably gonna go through Last Mission first once it finishes downloading, and/or getting on the way to the new Dresspheres.
Also, Tidus' voice seems a lot more gravelly in his flashback voice, and Rikku's seems way higher than it should be. Then again, I last played X... 5 years ago? Maybe it was like that from the start.
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Ice Bomb and Omega Craft OP - between those two and a few of my bigger tricks, I've managed to take down Hopeless level enemies long before I even reach their tens digit in level. Or healing. Most of the time. The crappy part is that I've yet to pull off a Finishing Strike against them - I always end up killing them on the hit that gets someone there.
Also, one of the trophies is called Oh. Yeah, "Oh". Laziest. Name. Ever.
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Picked up X/X-2 HD Remaster for my Vita this morning. Started on X-2 cause that has more extra stuff in it than X did. Still playing Persona 4 Golden, I'm on Naoto's Arc.
I'm getting into X/X-2 HD as well. Thanks to the Expert Sphere Grid letting you do more customization, I've decided to just stick with Tidus/Kimahri/Yuna combo throughout the entire game and never levelling anyone else. (We'll see how that goes).
...I do want to get right to X-2 though ahhh
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So I just beat a Dark Demon Beast (Lv81 Land Change/Hopeless/Lab of Eternity) at level 46 (avg). Under a field effect that made pretty much everything on both sides crit. Gotta be honest though, the fact that I can guarantee someone could survive its ultimate attack (and two people if I guard with someone in the front) made it... actually pretty weak. Still, it kept taking out Escha before her Dream Book or Tank-level Slag could proc, which made me sad. But then 5pb.... er, Linca and Lucille really pulled through here. Even only needed one all-heal from her, and some Automatic 30% Ointment to pull through.
Still. Storage Expert and getting the rest of the Preserved Biscuits for the 9th Term assignment is really pushing Supply's homunculi.
Also, this has to be the sloppiest translation in an Atelier game yet. No spaces where they should be, no internal consistency in the property list, etc. They even left in the (Sting) error [it's supposed to be (String)].
Aaaannyway, I should get started on promoting Argent and its heir.
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I'm playing Half Life 2 for the first time. Yes, I'm a Slowpoke, I know.
I don't know, man. There's something special about this game's atmosphere. It's mechanically mediocre, but only for today's standards, because for it's time, it was incredible.
The story and the characters are really good, and the voice acting is weird: it feels realistic. I mean, when you're talking to someone in real life, they don't speak like they're on a movie with a narrator's voice. That's the case with Half Life.
I'm going to finish this game, but I really don't know when. I'm having too much work to deal with right now.
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Holy fuck those superbosses at the edge of the world. Not only do they take forever to whittle down normally, they have field effects that weaken me further - and to top it off, they have additional field effects that make it even worse if you take too long. I tried fighting the Lord of Terror, and I couldn't even chop off a third of its health even with me spamming Finishing Moves, Double Draws, and my old standby Tank Slag. By the time it got to the point where he was wiping my party wholesale, even my finishes didn't even breach 600 damage (when they normally do 2 to 4 times that), and he was getting about four strikes for every set of my turns due to the third field effect.
And according to some information I looked at, the bastard heals after you cut his health a bit.
Not looking forward to the other superboss.
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Been absorbed in SMT4, almost finished Neutral route. Starting to get some of the really fun skills like Victory Cry and Megidolaon.
Also doing another pacifist run of DX:HR now that I have Director's Cut installed; after this, maybe I'll try something different like "no upgrading hacking" or "pistol only"
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Finally cleaning up Touhou-A-Live. Got one ending just to see it, now working on one of the optional bosses before I go get the other ending.
Also started playing Resonance of Fate. Quite the neat little game, it is. Can't wait til I get more machineguns though.
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I bought way too many Jrpgs these past two months, just like I expected.
Playing FFXHD right now and holy crap, I never noticed how pretty everyone's eyes are, it's super weird.
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Put X/X-2 aside to focus on Persona 4 Golden. Just got to the New Year, so everything past this point is new content. I'm excited.
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Trying to find a good leveling spot for Tales of Symphonia. Forbidden Anamnesis is something I'd rather not level in because of the having to clear all 20 floors or get lucky to find an exit before that to be able to save. I might have to save that dungeon for a NG+ so I can have some experience multipliers. I do have the Devil's Arms thanks to Colette poisoning the boss with a hammer, but I haven't killed enough with anyone to make them actually worth equipping. Cleared Advanced Singles with Lloyd and Zelos, but I didn't see the scene that allows you to get the coliseum weapons, and couldn't beat the special boss there. Also beat the Team Advanced but also lost the cameo fight.
Also missed the title you can get for Colette if you pick her in the Flanoir event :(. And there's another playthrough I'll have to do if I decide I want to 100% everything. But I don't use guides on a first run unless I get stuck on a puzzle or something.
Not sure how much grade I should farm. I know you get 1,000 just for beating the game, which will cover Titles. I definitely want to transfer over item/monster collections, maybe the cooking skills, and a few other things.
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Welp, looks like I'm not getting 100% - I forgot to comfort the dumb idiot who apparently injured his junk trying to save Yuna. Oh well, I'll go with New Yevon this time around and do some of the sillier stuff.
Elsewhere, I forgot about the first Al Bhed Primer on the Salvage Ship, so I have to do the runaround and grab it in another file.
I really hope rank transfers over to the NG+ in Escha and Logy - because seriously, who the hell can get 3k Rank Points when doing requests only give 4 or so? Also, Knowledge Book OP - and with Double Draw II and Skill buffs, it has the potential to shatter a superbosses' health in half. The problem, though, is the superbosses enjoy spamming moves that reduce your Support. Since to bring out the DDII requires at least 3 gauges worth, I'll have to do some equipment forging to amp support increases.
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On Saturday night, my girlfriend and I played Deadly Premonition (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHMuwlchhmM) with no clue what we were in for. And all I have to say is, wow. By almost any conventional standard, it's one of the worst games I've ever played... and yet it's actually amazing. I was laughing so hard at some parts I thought my guts were going to explode.
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On Saturday night, my girlfriend and I played Deadly Premonition (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHMuwlchhmM) with no clue what we were in for. And all I have to say is, wow. By almost any conventional standard, it's one of the worst games I've ever played... and yet it's actually amazing. I was laughing so hard at some parts I thought my guts were going to explode.
First of all, I want you to explain me why this 2010 game for the Xbox 360 looks like a 2000 game for the Dreamcast. (Seriously, it even uses the same font Sonic Shuffle uses for the curscenes.)
Second, white swirly Coffee.
Okay, now on to the actual post: Tomorrow, I'll buy 3 months of Xbox Live and a 30$ Card for it (They still sell those around here, and they still work) because I want to play Black Ops and GTAV online again. Black ops because it's the only COD that i can truly do well, and GTA online because, frankly, even if it is a a bit iffy, (and it's probably worse now that everyone has Snipers and Semi-Automatic Grenade Launchers) I still miss it, and I want to buy the DLC that comes with the G36C and the Strayer Infinity 1911.
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It's not just the graphics. The sound design, the animation, the controls, the objectives, nearly every technical aspect of the game is incredibly dated and awkward. It's supposed to be gritty psychological horror (I think?), yet a loud, cheery whistling tune plays during serious moments. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OUP_Z3iZPs) You collect "Agent Honor" scattered around the game in the form of giant floating medals. A "first aid kit" is a box of Band-Aids. The cutscenes are absolute nonsense. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp5krDoflLI) The protagonist's facial hair grows in real time, and you have to shave it periodically (one of the tags on Steam right now is "Beard Simulator"). During driving segments, you can manually operate the turning signals and windshield wipers, and you have limited fuel that needs to be refilled at gas stations. If I had a week I couldn't list all the baffling shit in this game. It's almost genius how bad it is.
Second, white swirly Coffee.
Press A to look with interest!
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Elsewhere, I forgot about the first Al Bhed Primer on the Salvage Ship, so I have to do the runaround and grab it in another file.
The only completely, permanently missable Al Bhed primers are the ones in Home and Bevelle. Every other missable primer will actually reappear elsewhere later in the game (usually somewhere in Bikanel).
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Re;Birth1 get
(http://i.imgur.com/5gUr1Yo.jpg)
I'll just toss aside all of those other games I was "playing right now" and get back to them later, maybe.
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Press A to look with interest!
Well, I decided to watch the video again.
Holy Shite those lips. And that White Swirly Coffee scene looks pretty dramatic. IDK if it's important storywise or the whole game is like that.
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Well, I decided to watch the video again.
Holy Shite those lips. And that White Swirly Coffee scene looks pretty dramatic. IDK if it's important storywise or the whole game is like that.
The game is basically Twin Peaks: The Game if that tells you anything.
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Finished the story on ToS. Beat the Singles Coliseum optional boss with Colette somehow when I was expecting that I'd have to do it with Lloyd. Made a save so I could check the grade shop prices. Will have to go back to a prior save because Symphonia doesn't let you grade farm after beating the game. Even upped the difficulty from Normal to Hard for the final boss for the hard mode trophy, such a huge difference when Raine's casts couldn't be interrupted.
Started DotNW and am now up to chapter 2.
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Got Senran Kagura today. Its fun so far, even if it my hand hurt for playing it. Best art is when I unlocked Yagyuu's eye patch as one of accessories... and realized that it goes to the other eye, meaning that I can make her have two eye patches.
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Come on, SE, we know you had Hedy Burress in the recording studio to record lines for Last Mission. Would it have been too much to ask to set aside a recording day for lines that didn't end up as planned?
But fuck if I know how recorded lines are set up in the program - it's entirely possible the thing's set up so that all the X and X-2 lines are saved in huge chunks of sound data.
Thanks to the Demon Crucible (hooray two sets of triple turns on Escha for the low low cost of HP Consume S2) and Knowledge Book, I've managed to slaughter the two superbosses in Escha to Logy. With over 200 days left. Now to figure out how to set up properties on equipment, or otherwise find a ton of missing effects on my bombs and meds.
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Hey, purple heart, gonna ask you this: Is Hyperdimension Neptunia worth playing? I feel liek this is something good to ask to you because, well, your avatar.
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Hey, purple heart, gonna ask you this: Is Hyperdimension Neptunia worth playing? I feel liek this is something good to ask to you because, well, your avatar.
Wellll I realize this question was directed at Purple Heart, but I'll jump in with a question of my own if you don't mind. Were you asking about the original game Hyperdimension Neptunia, or the series of Neptunia games?
While I would recommend it either way, if you were asking specifically about the first game, the remake of it (Re;Birth1) is getting a western release probably this summer (http://gematsu.com/2014/03/hyperdimension-neptunia-re-birth-1-coming-west-summer) unless it gets pushed back, which would be a much better option than the very first one, if you have a Vita. It has all the improvements made up until Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory, and a few of its own, making it much superior to the original that it is based on.
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Hey, purple heart, gonna ask you this: Is Hyperdimension Neptunia worth playing? I feel liek this is something good to ask to you because, well, your avatar.
Playing the newest one (victory).
From my meagre worship of Nep, I gather that the game mechanics got improved somewhat between games.
The problem is the translation is kinda bad (at points), JP voices mandatory or you won't be able to figure out what they're actually saying.
If you aren't averse to moe and video game jokes it's fine.
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Playing the newest one (victory).
From my meagre worship of Nep, I gather that the game mechanics got improved somewhat between games.
They certainly have, each next game improves on several things from the previous one.
The problem is the translation is kinda bad (at points), JP voices mandatory or you won't be able to figure out what they're actually saying.
I'm curious, any specific points you are referring to? Honestly, I can't say I've heard anyone mention this before, and because I usually play the Japanese game anyway...
I wouldn't have seen it myself, so I really am clueless here. But I'd like to know what went wrong if you happen to remember. If not don't worry about it, I was just curious.
This is NISA though, and I wouldn't doubt them at all to screw something up, heh. Or several things. They don't exactly have a good history with that, even with their own games. I'm glad IFI is actually a thing now, so it won't be only NISA's thing anymore. And if IFI takes over the job completely, even better, but I don't know about that. As much as I like NIS/A, I'd be just fine with them not touching Neptunia.
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Lately, I am more and more tempted to give one of the grand strategy games by Paradox a serious try. I have played Europa Universalis II and Hearts of Iron II in the past a bit, but not very much, and the new games appear to be significantly more complex anyway. There are four major games in the current generation of Paradox strategies (Crusader Kings II, Europa Universalis IV, Victoria II and Hearts of Iron III). All in all, they cover the time period from
1066 867 to 1948. Although superficially similar, they vary greatly in terms of game mechanics, reflecting the state of the world during the times they attempt to simulate.
There's a lot of potential here, but unfortunately a need for decisions as well. I'd like to pick one game and stick with it for an extended period of time. The decision is going to be an extremely tough one. I've been watching some Let's Plays of EU IV, HoI III and Victoria II, and they are all very appealing. But which one to pick? And do I want a single game to take up all of my free time for gaming?
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If you aren't averse to moe and video game jokes it's fine.
Well, one of my favourite animes is K-on, soooooo.....
Also, I appreciate all of the answers, just because I directed the question at the man named after a horrifying war medal that doesn't mean I want replies only from him.
I currently do not own a Vita, but my father does, and he doesn't use it anyway, so maybe if I bought this weird Japanese game with anime ladies on the front cover with my own bloody money he would let me borrow it and not complain.
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Just know that the series is generally really grindy even in the main game. Especially in Victory, you can't just rely on killing every encounter in sight (especially with those boss-level enemies around) to make the bosses much easier. This ends up especially frustrating if you're the kind of guy who likes to complete as much as you can in the first playthrough. mk2 is generally the best at avoiding this for the main game.
Also, did you have to bring up the "horrifying war medal" thing? Maybe I should have gone with Blanc instead...
Anyway. Fiend Tales. I don't really know what to think of this. A destroyed ship being turned into its titular fiend, Drakes selling machina contracts for Rin, a 1000-year old hound...
Also it's so hard to grind L-class fiends.
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Just know that the series is generally really grindy even in the main game. Especially in Victory, you can't just rely on killing every encounter in sight (especially with those boss-level enemies around) to make the bosses much easier. This ends up especially frustrating if you're the kind of guy who likes to complete as much as you can in the first playthrough. mk2 is generally the best at avoiding this for the main game.
Also, did you have to bring up the "horrifying war medal" thing? Maybe I should have gone with Blanc instead...
Anyway. Fiend Tales. I don't really know what to think of this. A destroyed ship being turned into its titular fiend, Drakes selling machina contracts for Rin, a 1000-year old hound...
Also it's so hard to grind L-class fiends.
Well, sorry mate, I didn't know Purple heart was the name of one of the characters :V But it still is weird that she shares the name with the medal.
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Well, sorry mate, I didn't know Purple heart was the name of one of the characters :V But it still is weird that she shares the name with the medal.
Total coincidence. I haven't played the series myself, but I believe the main heroines all take on names of the form <color> Heart, such as I think there're a Green Heart and Black Heart as well.
As for my own playing, trying to get myself prepped to fight the Queen Ant in Etrian Odyssey Untold. Wonder what I should focus on...?
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Total coincidence. I haven't played the series myself, but I believe the main heroines all take on names of the form <color> Heart, such as I think there're a Green Heart and Black Heart as well.
That is correct. All of the heroines (edit: not "all of them", sorry. all of the MAIN ones, and their sisters) have a human and goddess form, that latter of which uses those sort of names. Conveniently my avatar just happens to contain the four main ones (human, at least) so I can name them for you quickly, FamilyTeam.
Purple Heart there is Neptune, over in the top left. Noire, at the top right, is Black Heart. Blanc, in the lower left corner, is White Heart. And Vert in the lower right corner is Green Heart. The other forms are all visually similar, so you should recognize them easily. But because I was bored I ended up finding pictures anyways.
Hyperdimension Neptunia/mk2 design:
Purple Heart (http://i.imgur.com/KaeLxUO.png), Black Heart (http://imgur.com/nWzUgqH.png), White Heart (http://imgur.com/dTIngjR.png), Green Heart (http://imgur.com/MsReOGN.png)
Victory design:
Purple Heart (http://imgur.com/PCIcqrI.png), Black Heart (http://imgur.com/kZyzetz.png), White Heart (http://i.imgur.com/bWfZ8Ag.png), Green Heart (http://i.imgur.com/GQNAfJC.png)
Wonder if I should make a Neptunia topic (aside from my LP topic which isn't much of a discussion topic)? Not really any place to discuss things atm, and I wouldn't want to drag this one off-topic too much.
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I finished FFX HD. Ah, it was so nice to get back to it, even if it's not terribly changed from the original release barring the Expert grid. oops and guess who still cries over the ending? >:
X-2 though. Very exciting. Just to play it again, with two new dresspheres, that's exciting; but there's the creature creator looming nearby too to screw around with and because of the system existing, it's actually possible to play X-2 with only one character. Not even any 'keeping allies at 1 HP' nonsense, no. Straight up genuinely soloing the game.
But I'll save that for a second playthrough even though I realised that the one thing I thought might be impossible can in fact be bribed/ejected.
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That is correct. All of the heroines (edit: not "all of them", sorry. all of the MAIN ones, and their sisters) have a human and goddess form, that latter of which uses those sort of names. Conveniently my avatar just happens to contain the four main ones (human, at least) so I can name them for you quickly, FamilyTeam.
Purple Heart there is Neptune, over in the top left. Noire, at the top right, is Black Heart. Blanc, in the lower left corner, is White Heart. And Vert in the lower right corner is Green Heart. The other forms are all visually similar, so you should recognize them easily. But because I was bored I ended up finding pictures anyways.
Hyperdimension Neptunia/mk2 design:
Purple Heart (http://i.imgur.com/KaeLxUO.png), Black Heart (http://imgur.com/nWzUgqH.png), White Heart (http://imgur.com/dTIngjR.png), Green Heart (http://imgur.com/MsReOGN.png)
Victory design:
Purple Heart (http://imgur.com/PCIcqrI.png), Black Heart (http://imgur.com/kZyzetz.png), White Heart (http://i.imgur.com/bWfZ8Ag.png), Green Heart (http://i.imgur.com/GQNAfJC.png)
Wonder if I should make a Neptunia topic (aside from my LP topic which isn't much of a discussion topic)? Not really any place to discuss things atm, and I wouldn't want to drag this one off-topic too much.
OHOHO... I noticed that this game has a lot of plot, hehehehe... JKJK.
I think i'll try some games from the series before I spend a fortune on a game I may or may not like. It has an interesting concept, that's for sure.
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I feel legitimately bad after my last Bloodbowl game.
I got matched up against someone with a fresh team, and mine is developed quite a lot. However he got a Star Player and some other boosts to help him.
Didn't stop his dice being awful, and me stomping him. I know the coach is good, he just got beat up. At one point he only had 4 players on the pitch.
Not only that, but only one of his players got any EXP at all. Then I killed him outright. And then the guy got given the MVP, denying 5 EXP from a random player.
It only takes 6 EXP to get your first level.
That guy would have leveled up.
I feel so guilty, even if it was dice rolls and therefor out of my control.
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Recently, I have been playing Dragon Quest 8 which I picked up at Megacon and right now I am at the part where I have to go into the Land of the Moles in order to get the Moonshadow harp back from DonMole so that Ishmahri can conjure up a sea in a canyon where there is an old abandoned ship at. Don Mole starts the fight with 4 Soul Moles and his first attack is always " DonMoles performance begins" which has a random chance of inflicting fuddle on everyone including his helpers. He also has a normal physical attack and an earthquake attack that inflicts 35-42 points of damage to the whole party. Also, his Earthquake attack sometimes comes out before I can heal my party members :colonveeplusalpha:. Compared to the last boss I faced(Trap Box), DonMole is more of a physical attacker while the Trap Box used more spells.
I have also returned to Tastunoko vs. Capcom after a long hiatus from it. Even though I don't do well online because of Lag, it still is a fun game to play.
I was also playing Mario Party with my friend and we always put Luigi on the hardest difficulty and another cpu on the easiest difficulty. So we played a couple of boards on Mario party 5 and then we switched to Mario party 8. On the first board, Luigi started getting lucky with the DK and Bowser spaces.( DK throws you to the star space and Bowser moves the star space.)
After that, we played Koopas Tycoon Town which my friend won with 14 stars with me being in second place with 6 stars. Finally we played the duel version of Tycoon Town where the goal is to get 4 stars. I lose because of what happened on the last 3 turns.
- We played Attention Grabber and I lose by 1 meter! :colonveeplusalpha: http://www.mariowiki.com/Attention_Grabber (http://www.mariowiki.com/Attention_Grabber)
- He uses a candy that for every space he goes he gets 3 coins, he rolls a 9 and lands on a happening space.
- The happening space was a Bandit who stole 27 coins from one of my hotels.I was a 2 star hotel that D.K. invested in ,so I lose a star because the total investment has to be at 20 coins for a 2 star and 50 coins for a 3 star hotel.
- Next turn he rolls a 7, gets to my other hotel and has enough to turn it into a 3 star hotel and become the new owner of the hotel. He gets 3 stars and I lose 1 making the final score 5-1.
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Luftrausers is pretty damn fun. Took interest with the minimalist visual style, but it's really the well-controlling gameplay, frantic action, and customisations that makes this title so enjoyable to play.
But geeze, those freaking battleships tend to more often than not shoot me down. V:
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Finished DotNW Hard mode with True Ending. Was kind of a fun game. Checked my grade and saw I only got a little over 1,200. Surprising since with the amount I was getting in early battles, the +10 Boss kill bonuses, and other stuff, I thought I'd be a lot higher. Well, it does give me an excuse to go grind up some and do the Twilight Palace and maybe Coliseum Single match stuff. Though just like the first Symphonia, you can't load your clear save and grade farm, so I'll need to do the final bosses again.
I'll probably be switching between the 2 Symphonia games for a while in trying to complete them fully.
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Restarted original Deus Ex, running with New Vision and a couple fan patches for improved performance. While HR had some elements I really liked such as its more involved hacking mechanic, I think the original DX does a lot better in some elements, especially melee. Pressing a button and being able to instantly KO somebody is cool-looking and certainly functional, but it lacks the depth of deciding whether you want to risk trying to bring out the baton for an encounter or try more efficient but less pleasant methods.
As for handheld stuff, not sure what to do now that SMT4's done. I still have EO4 to finish, but it's gonna be a grindfest to get my party ready for the final boss again. I also have EO:U sitting here ready to start, so it's kind of a toss-up...
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This time, I decided to replay Black ops and MW3's multiplayer.
And Holy Shit they feel abandoned.
MW3 is full of Gold Camouflage-EXTREME tryhards. Oh, and I'm now negative thanks to them, .99KD and .96WL. Even tough it's just two kills and wins off, I don't think I'll ever have the bloody idiocy of playing this ever again.
BO1 is pretty much the same, but SURPRISE SURPRISE! I encountered a hacker! Somehow, he was completely invisible, had infinite ammo, and, worst of all, his SPAS12 somehow had no firecap. Shit, I didn't even know it was possible to hack the game to THAT extent, if he got as far as changing a weapon's stats I wonder why didn't he just hack the Thundergun into his inventory altogether, for shit's-n-giggles! Goddammit, Black ops, you use to have my favourite multiplayer out of all bloody CODs! And now you do this to me?
Dammit, it just makes me want to play Hyperdimension Neptunia even more, because I'd much rather play a game I don't even know I'll like than one that'll give me a damn migraine!
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Wow, it's pretty easy to grind S and M class fiends in early chapters. Fight the Grand Cup however you like until you unlock the Black Chandelier team (one Dark Elemental), simulate it up with fiends of your choice and someone in YRP that's had decent development in Gunner. Cheap Shot/On The Level/Table-Turner it, and quick 600 xp. All three of those pierce its admittedly extreme Defense, though the former two may require two shots - good thing (usually) the first thing it does is cast Reflect, isn't it?
EDIT: So I'm fighting an Adamantortise long before I should realistically be fighting one via the Arena. With only Rikku and a Protean Gel that has no magic attacks. I ground so much Machina Maw AP from it, but it got off a lucky Adamant Breath and slayed the main body. So now I'm just waiting to see if the Gel has any magical attacks in waiting to learn before it gets itself nuked. Probably shouldn't have selected Alchemist for its job, huh? Also, I find it funny that while the game specifies you need to kill certain fiends for Trophies, you can fight a Zalamander in the Arena long before you actually get to it in the main game, and if you kill it there, you get the trophy.
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ToS: DotNW
Did Twilight Palace, Party Special Battle, Single Special Battle with both Emil and Marta. I was worried about the Twilight Palace boss considering how many times the third boss in there destroyed me, but the main boss is nowhere near as bad as that overpowered fish in the third one. Not bothering with Monster special battle yet, and when I tried Monster coliseum with my team I got destroyed in the first battle on the easiest level of it.
I think that leaves escaping battle a total of 50 times for some skits involving that and grade farming. Having my other characters characters do nothing in an early area in the game where I can one shot stuff is 5-6 grade per battle(.5 for each character not hit, finishing battle under 10 seconds, full HP/TP bonus, battle rank bonus). So maybe around 300 battles of that should be enough to buy out the grade shop since Dawn's grade shop is only under 3,000 grade. Going to save doing pacts and stuff for x10 experience Mania on my second run.
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I'm curious, any specific points you are referring to? Honestly, I can't say I've heard anyone mention this before, and because I usually play the Japanese game anyway...
I wouldn't have seen it myself, so I really am clueless here. But I'd like to know what went wrong if you happen to remember. If not don't worry about it, I was just curious.
This is NISA though, and I wouldn't doubt them at all to screw something up, heh. Or several things. They don't exactly have a good history with that, even with their own games. I'm glad IFI is actually a thing now, so it won't be only NISA's thing anymore. And if IFI takes over the job completely, even better, but I don't know about that. As much as I like NIS/A, I'd be just fine with them not touching Neptunia.
It stinks of "we tried to make it funnier for the western audience" syndrome. As usual this fails totally. Americans cannot write comedy, they can occasionally be racist,sexist, ableist or homophobic* but very rarely manage comedy or parody.
The comedy here is largely surrealist and farcical, this needs to be played largely deadpan by the characters (outside of the asides) it isn't in the English translation (or not as much as it is in the original).
There's lines totally rewritten fairly often, often bad puns added where a single word straight answer was in the Japanese.
Nep may take frequent massive jabs at her fellows, but she rarely makes puns (she just has an obnoxious personality).
There's also some really odd terminology translations. e.g. They aren't goddesses in English.
Honorifics are handled horribly inconsistently (e.g. Nep-chan isn't always translated the same way)
*seriously stop this crap.
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It stinks of "we tried to make it funnier for the western audience" syndrome. As usual this fails totally. Americans cannot write comedy, they can occasionally be racist,sexist, ableist or homophobic* but very rarely manage comedy or parody.
The comedy here is largely surrealist and farcical, this needs to be played largely deadpan by the characters (outside of the asides) it isn't in the English translation (or not as much as it is in the original).
There's lines totally rewritten fairly often, often bad puns added where a single word straight answer was in the Japanese.
Nep may take frequent massive jabs at her fellows, but she rarely makes puns (she just has an obnoxious personality).
There's also some really odd terminology translations. e.g. They aren't goddesses in English.
Honorifics are handled horribly inconsistently (e.g. Nep-chan isn't always translated the same way)
*seriously stop this crap.
Well, I was going to do a Counter-Arguement saying that Ed, Edd N Eddy was great but... It's Canadian :V
And then Ashens came to mind! ...He's British. Don't even know why I even tought of that.
Then my mind brought up Fresh Prince of Bel Air and Kenan and Kel! There, it took a while, but I did find a good american comedy show!
And then comes South Park, which is like GTA except only controversial and just for controversy's sake, to ruin everything.
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*stuff*
I see. Thank you, it really does sound like they screwed with it a bit too much. That is rather unfortunate.
I suppose why I haven't heard before is that I probably haven't spoken with many who have played/watched both versions, or those who know enough Japanese to spot the differences.
I guess I'll continue to stick with the Japanese versions, then. I'll just hope that IFI can do things a lot better than NISA did.
It stinks of "we tried to make it funnier for the western audience" syndrome. As usual this fails totally.
I know, seriously, why can't this just stop being a thing, forever? I can not possibly agree more with this being a terrible idea.
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Dark Souls: CAUTION PLAYER EMITTING HIGH DOSAGE OF NUCLEAR RADIATION edition
Tomorrow, I shall defeat the evil butterfly, and triumph over all NPCs.
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I know, seriously, why can't this just stop being a thing, forever? I can not possibly agree more with this being a terrible idea.
It's stupid and a bit patronizing actually, like the people in the Americas can't get this kind of humour.
And they can't even use the excuse that they're targeting more casual audiences. I think if Mr. Regular Joe looks at the cover of the game and sees japanese stuff he'll just pass the game off as a boring RPG and buy Call of Duty instead anyway.
But I wouldn't mind if the translation was bad if the voice acting were good. But frankly, I've seen p0rn with better acting.
Also, is anyone scared if Yahtzee will review this game and tear it a new arsehole? :V
Oh, and somewhat relevant to the Hyper. Neptunia stuff we're talking about: I'll watch the anime tonight. Hey, it looks pretty. If I like it, then i can safely say that I'll hype that remake for the Vita. I not, then I'll probably buy it anyway.
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Oh, and somewhat relevant to the Hyper. Neptunia stuff we're talking about: I'll watch the anime tonight. Hey, it looks pretty. If I like it, then i can safely say that I'll hype that remake for the Vita. I not, then I'll probably buy it anyway.
Just keep in mind they crammed bits and pieces from each of the games into a 12 episode anime, and the events shown don't necessarily match up to everything shown to happen in the games. Though I guess that's the general rule for "pretty much every anime ever"; events may not be entirely accurate to the games.
Well, I liked it even with the conflicts. But yeah I just wanted to say it wasn't tied to any particular game.
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That said, the anime does spoil a bit of Victory, mostly involving the latter half of the game/anime.
As for the whole translation thing, I can't help but feel that people blow them way out of proportion a lot of the time. The whole dual-audio debacle in Atelier Ayesha, for example. No matter the reason why they decided not to bring JP audio (apparently they'll rectify this in the Plus rerelease anyway), boycotting the game just because the developers didn't bring in an audio track most players can't even understand seems idiotically insane to me. And then the flip side in Escha & Logy, where they did release dual audio, but the textual translation was flawed in so many ways...
I figure Bang! Zoom has too much of a monopoly on providing video game VAs for niche games like those NIS releases that we aren't going to have the same level of acting seiyuu have, especially considering there's a voice acting school in Japan that many of them go to.
I was going to make a comment on culture and comedy, but in retrospect, no. I'm too disconnected from comedy to make any sort of thing with that.
Anyway, continuing on my journey through X-2, apparently you can get Fiend Tale bonuses randomly from tourneys, too. So I've been spamming them when I can, though I'm probably getting to the point where I'm way overleveled for the Chapter I'm in. It's just been so fun waltzing in to a tourney with a mage-type and using White Signet (Turbo White and Holy?!), Alchemist (Mega-Pots) and Wring (did someone say 80 Magic and Haste?) to absolutely nuke anything that isn't resistant to magic. Goddamn Zalamander/Rukh.
Also, picked up Destiny of Spirits and MGS HD. Goddamn it, this makes four games I need to play at least once a day for best effect. I really gotta stop doing this.
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Just keep in mind they crammed bits and pieces from each of the games into a 12 episode anime, and the events shown don't necessarily match up to everything shown to happen in the games. Though I guess that's the general rule for "pretty much every anime ever"; events may not be entirely accurate to the games.
Well, I liked it even with the conflicts. But yeah I just wanted to say it wasn't tied to any particular game.
Nah, I don't mind it. I'm going to watch it because I simply do not like going into a game and having no context of what's going down. For example, I started playing Xbox 360 Call of Duty's Multiplayer as prepared as anyone could get without playing the game. I wasn't spetacular when I started, but I was certainly a lot better than someone who doesn't even know the guns have ranges.
And, Mr Purple Heart, people boycotted the translators just because they didn't include the japanese voices? For god's sake, people, you're lucky the games are even released here, because apparently video game developers think it's funny to have region encoding! The dub isn't great, let's be honest here, but I atleast would be able to live with it.
NOW LET US STOP DERAILING THE THREAD AND DELAYING MY NIGHTTIME ANIME SESSION. What have I been playing lately? Nothing! Because I'm having to ration time and undersleep and overall not having time to play anything! And then my parents complain about how I have all the time in the world.
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As for the whole translation thing, I can't help but feel that people blow them way out of proportion a lot of the time. The whole dual-audio debacle in Atelier Ayesha, for example. No matter the reason why they decided not to bring JP audio (apparently they'll rectify this in the Plus rerelease anyway), boycotting the game just because the developers didn't bring in an audio track most players can't even understand seems idiotically insane to me. And then the flip side in Escha & Logy, where they did release dual audio, but the textual translation was flawed in so many ways...
As someone who HATES dubs as a rule. I like the original audio for several reasons:
- it can make up for bad text translation (not often is the translation that bad, but it happens)
- it maintains Japanese honorifics and pronouns, they clearly establish character relationships quickly even for very minor characters
- plural pronouns don't translate well: Japanese normally gives lists of names, instead of using us/them, this results in lots of bad translation errors
- Bad American acting sounds much worse than bad acting in a foreign language
- American is not English to my ears, only Disney and Nintendo seem to really get this, to me it's like listening to SE Asian Engrish would be for you
- Localised names are an abomination, and often sound just as foreign as the Japanese did
I'll boycott Ayesha because that was a massive fuck up by Gust/Tecmo Koei, still fine buying dub only games in most cases. Although most excuses for not including JP audio are now becoming bullshit, localising games is more common (so contracts can be written expecting it), space isn't a big concern on BDs.
There's always the pressing fact that it's these niche games that have the bigger focus on narrative and therefore are affected more by poor translations. It's just RPGs and adventure games that really need decent translations.
Still playing Nep V now onto Chapter 6, after a rather dark plot twist...
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Wait a second
Half-Minute Hero: The Second Coming
They put out the HMH sequel on Steam holy shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii--
(also you get a 25% discount if you own the original HMH on Steam, it seems)
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Damn, I'd forgotten how long the initial exposition was for Snake Eater. Still loads better than Xenosaga 1 (seriously, holy crap save mid-cutscene?!) and something-something Sonata (we seriously don't give a shit about like half the stuff you're yammering on about, narrator).
Also just realized I probably should have sprung for the PS3 version to get Peace Walker HD. Oh well, I think I'd rather have the portability over the extra game.
I'm also so damn bored in Escha and Logy. Since I'm on the second loop, I've ended up clearing all of the requests within a fortnight or so. After that, the only things I can really do is hunt for difficult foes (aka that Tank Slag) and make one of everything since you get only half as much experience crafting something you've already made. During Term 3, I've at the point where I've managed to get everyone but Lucille and Linca (who aren't even recruitable yet) at level 43 or so, and I still have two months to dick around before report time.
Swapped to the Prince of Persia Sands trilogy in the meanwhile, because it was on sale (though not the bundle, strangely enough). I'm at about the Library section now in PoP1.
I don't know why I'm so tempted to buy Agarest Zero on Steam. I mean, I have the damn game on the PS3 already, and I haven't touched the original game in bloody years now.
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I've been playing Black Ops 2's Multiplayer on this weekend. And you know what? I think I've alawys underestimated how fun it could be. I mean, yeah, back when the game was new it had some horrible issues, like Camera Delay, Lag Compensation excessive amount of tryhards, me going to the COD forums to say something was wrong and getting the shit bashed out of me for it, SMGs were horribly Overpowered and all of the Assault Rifles were worthless and other such exciting things. Nowadays, it seems slightly more stable. Emphasis on slightly. Sometimes I fire 10 rounds at someone, I get instakilled, and according to the killcam I wasn't even aiming my gun yet when the other guy shot me.
Oh, and the maps are still shit, but obviously that's something time cannot fix.
UNRELATED: And I've already watched two episodes of the Hyper. Neptunia anime. Goddammit, was there ever a shot that Vert appeared and there wasn't any sort of emphasis on her breasts? Not that I'm complaining. And Blanc is pretty histerical for someone that's supposed to represent Nintendo. Also, sometimes it looks like it is softcore Hentai, but you say you watched it, Iffy, so I think you know which scenes I'm talking about.
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UNRELATED: And I've already watched two episodes of the Hyper. Neptunia anime. Goddammit, was there ever a shot that Vert appeared and there wasn't any sort of emphasis on her breasts? Not that I'm complaining. And Blanc is pretty histerical for someone that's supposed to represent Nintendo. Also, sometimes it looks like it is softcore Hentai, but you say you watched it, Iffy, so I think you know which scenes I'm talking about.
A shot of Vert in the anime that doesn't do that? ...let me think about it. Oh, yeah, every now and then there's something. It'll go back and forth both ways. She often makes sure to bring special attention to it when Blanc is around, though.
I'm sure I know the scenes you are referring to, yes. I was starting to write something about it since you brought it up, but then my train of thought just ended abruptly.
Well, there's more of that in the anime than the games, anyways. Because it's animated.
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I'm pretty late to doing this, but I finally got around to playing the original Meteos for the DS, and holy shit, this game is addictive. My current goal is to unlock the last few planets I don't have yet and score 100k on all planets in deluge mode. Most of them were pretty easy, but Hevendor and Gravitas are proving to be really tough. I'm struggling to reach 80k on Hevendor, and my Gravitas score is even worse.
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I think I'm actually getting somewhere in Last Mission. Random dressphere pickups got me Defeat for HP, which means I heal a hit or so every time a fiend dies, I managed to find a Restart Guide as I was close to losing my DRK dressphere somewhere past 20, and ended up picking two more of them up on my way back to 20. A brief setback involving FUCKING CONFUSION tossing my WHT dressphere into an enemy caused me a bit of rage, until I found a Dressmaker and remade it. Found out Gunner gives Confuseproof, which helps a lot against the early foes past 20. Even found a couple of the revival folios past 25. I've yet to breach 30, but I'm feeling good about this run - and assuming a Cactuar? doesn't 1000 Needles my precious DRK into oblivion three times in a row, I should have plenty of time unless I'm Berserked to either vent a Curaga or get the hell out of there with my Restart Guide if I'm getting heavily pressed.
How the hell does Doom work in LM, anyway? Is it radius connected to the caster? Is it as long as the caster is alive?
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I just beat Kid Icarus: Uprising. That final battle was so awesome and fun, I don't want it to be over. I think I'll work on the treasure walls, I only finished with 73.6% after all.
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On my recent quest to fix my KD and WL in Black Ops 2, I decided to contact a very awesome and kind Youtuber to help me out, Drift0r (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk8cNb10L5rmV9xB13ADCWA). I told him my KD and WL and my history with it, and this is what he replied.
(http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m506/itsover90001/DriftorMOTK_zps011d56b4.png)
I decided to intentionaly misinterpret that as an insult and make it an even bigger motivation for me to fix it. I think that he forgot to put into the equasion how my KD was before in relation to what it is now (.69KD and 46.WL, to .92KD and .74WL) but he always answers all the questios on his inbox so he probably doesn't pay that much attention to details. I always appreciate his feedback anyway.
And something I find funny about the balancing in Black Ops 2: The only SMG that isn't overpowered:
(http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121213083541/callofduty/images/a/ac/Chicom_CQB_Menu_Icon_BOII.png)
...is a piece of goddamn garbage. Sorry if I offend someone by saying that, but it's true. Here's the catch: The Chicom CQB is a 3 round burst weapon, yet when you look at the damage, you'll see that it deals 33 to 18 damage, which is a 4 hit kill, meaning that at all ranges you'll require to burst at someone twice MINIMUM. And in the middle of a gunfight, with a lot of people firing at your direction with Fully automatic weapons, not having the option to trigger tap someone and having to pull the trigger twice is a fuck ton easier to say than to actually do.
It only gets worse if you look at the recoil. It's average, but strong enough for it to drift off target. Oh, and the range of that 4 shot kill is 11 metres.
In conclusion, the Chicom is a low damage, low range, low accuracy Burst fire weapon in the middle of a game where Automatic weapons dominate. I get the feeling it was put into the game just for you to thank God you are not using it. Either that, or I'm really crap with it, but honestly I believe it's the first one.
UNRELATED: I'm still watching the Hyper. Neptunia anime, I'm trying to watch one episode a day, but today I'm going to watch 3 episodes, 1 to compensate that I did not watch one yesterday, today's episode and another one for overcompensation. Anywho, the pistol IF, or Iffy, whatever her name is, looks a lot like a Desert Eagle (http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m506/itsover90001/DESERTEAGLE_zps1dcbd372.png). (Atleast it did the only shot that you can see it sideways, like in the picture.)
And here was I, thinking that Vert was going to be my favourite character from this series.
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Got Tales of Xillia recently as a gift from a friend. I really should try it out, but I've been keeping it on hold while I play Neptune Re;Birth1.
Not having played any of the recent Tales of games, it should be interesting, whenever I get around to actually playing it.
I've been keeping too many games on hold, Neptunia too fun.
UNRELATED: I'm still watching the Hyper. Neptunia anime, I'm trying to watch one episode a day, but today I'm going to watch 3 episodes, 1 to compensate that I did not watch one yesterday, today's episode and another one for overcompensation. Anywho, the pistol IF, or Iffy, whatever her name is, looks a lot like a Desert Eagle (http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m506/itsover90001/DESERTEAGLE_zps1dcbd372.png). (Atleast it did the only shot that you can see it sideways, like in the picture.)
And here was I, thinking that Vert was going to be my favourite character from this series.
Iffy is the nickname Nep gave her, because it's IF. (http://i.imgur.com/aroASpv.jpg)
aiefu > ai-chan, so this became IF > Iffy. [/randomfacts]
So, you like those Desert Eagles? Certainly a great firearm. And of course Iffy is a great character :V
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Got Tales of Xillia recently as a gift from a friend. I really should try it out, but I've been keeping it on hold while I play Neptune Re;Birth1.
Not having played any of the recent Tales of games, it should be interesting, whenever I get around to actually playing it.
I've been keeping too many games on hold, Neptunia too fun.
Iffy is the nickname Nep gave her, because it's IF. (http://i.imgur.com/aroASpv.jpg)
aiefu > ai-chan, so this became IF > Iffy. [/randomfacts]
So, you like those Desert Eagles? Certainly a great firearm. And of course Iffy is a great character :V
I always liked big, meancing pistols. don't take that the wrong way, or else I'm firing one at you
It's basically a law for me to like anyone that uses it. Since the second I was aware of it's existance (Thanks to Call of Duty, yes sue me) I was a fan of it and noticing in every place it pops up.
Here's a video another awesome Youtuber made about the Deagle in different palces in pop culture. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T_OW9NHJ84) I've been a fan of Xbox Ahoy's content for almost as long as I've been a fan of the Deagle. Hell, the first video I watched of his was his Modern Warfare 2 Desert Eagle guide.
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Got Tales of Xillia recently as a gift from a friend. I really should try it out, but I've been keeping it on hold while I play Neptune Re;Birth1.
Not having played any of the recent Tales of games, it should be interesting, whenever I get around to actually playing it.
I've been keeping too many games on hold, Neptunia too fun.
Xillia is pretty fun times. I like its cast, and its battle system, while not Graces-level fun, is pretty solid barring the nonsense where bosses can't be combo'd (they have an auto-super-armor-into-counter that starts up after they take too many hits).
Looking forward to Xillia 2 though as I've heard some good things.
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I started up a Trade Experience to Gald run on Graces, with 10x experience for more money, transfer all skills cause it should still be tough even with the skills, and a few other things. Chaos mode of course. Not very far in though. May do an Arte Usage count, and some of the not as broken stuff Chaos run sometime since if I don't transfer titles, I could try out the Zhonecage without Accel or other Future Arc stuff since my files that have access to it have those.
Started New Game + in the first Symphonia with Ex gems transfered, + HP, Tech useage counts, Titles, and some of the lower cost stuff. No Experience multiplier or Gald transfer. I'll be picking Colette again because I missed the title that requires you to pick her at Flanoir due to a very small window to get it in. I'm trying to get the Eternal Apprentice title, the Friendship First title, and the I Hate Gels title, and the one for no escapes till a point. I've been playing the NG+ on Mania, and even with the Ex gems and Titles transferred, it's giving me quite a bit of trouble, but I'm past the fire seal. Most of the stuff was just figuring out patterns so far or setting the AI to not do much so it doesn't run in and die. It's pretty tough when I can't just item spam my way through.
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I have reignited my Demon's Souls run, though this time with the intent of making a build to make the game as laughably easy as possible.
NATURALLY I SCREW UP THE BUILD ROYALLY but okay.
I've also hit a brick wall called 4-2, I literally can't deal with the third Reaper at all, anybody can deal with the first one because he's in plain sight (HELLO LAVA BOW) and the second one is also pretty doable once you realize he's like right there.
The third one is a torture because he's protected and his guardian OHKO's me with the frickin' lazer beams.
And it doesn't help that 4-2 is like creepy as shit what's with all the noises and the darkness and the fucking Female Shadowlurkers even though there's just 3 of them in the entire game and two of them are easily avoidable and the third one is just a case of RUN it's still creepy as all shit and I seriously hate 4-2 it's actually kind of amusing how the Shrine of Storms as a whole is like complete and utter bullshit and the bosses are so pathetically easy.
And all of this said, I have -not- yet started the Valley of Defilement despite having already finished Latria and the Stonefang Tunnel, maybe because that place creeps me out just as much as 4-2 and actually this entire fucking game besides the Boletaria Palace creeps me the fuck out between the goddamn tentacles and bearbugs in the Stonefang Tunnel the Mindflayers in Latria the Reapers and Shadowlurkers in the Shrine of Storms and the EVERYTHING in the Valley of Defilement (plus the sheer fact that I'm a coward) and it's a wonder how I managed to beat this game the first time at all.
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So people, this is my new emblem in Black ops 2:
(https://scontent-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t31.0-8/1911125_234628723408107_2244964690410520580_o.jpg)
The text reads "Orange Soda"
Orange Soda.
ORANGE SODA. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lTBUDBq8xw)
UNRELATED: Yes, more Hyper. neptunia anime stuff.
Goddammit, the fanservice in episode 6 was off the charts. But then again, I'm not complaining. There are some people that make a giant fuss over anime with fanservice, but really, in this one it doesn't get in the way of the story and what man does not like boobs and arse shots.
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FTL: Advanced Edition has been out for a week. It's pretty fun. it's also a lot harder (for an already hard game to begin with!).
There's hacking and mind control now. Mind Control is really fun with the teleporter since it basically makes a crew member turn on his team and make a 2-man board a 3-man one. The downside is that if the guy dies while controlled, you can't use it again for the rest of the battle.
Hacking is even better since it lets you do all sorts of fun shit, like make the enemy have no dodge, or draining their shields/weapons, or turning mind control against them. it uses drone parts though which makes it kind of hard to use if you don't have a bunch saved up.
Ironically I still haven't unlocked any of the ships that require a quest (aka not Federation Cruiser or Engi) besides the Crystal Ship, which is the hardest to unlock one in the game
(I also haven't won with any ship besides Kestrel types, but that's a different point)
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Ironically I still haven't unlocked any of the ships that require a quest (aka not Federation Cruiser or Engi) besides the Crystal Ship, which is the hardest to unlock one in the game
(I also haven't won with any ship besides Kestrel types, but that's a different point)
haaaate
I still can't get the damn Crystal Cruiser. And I haven't actually managed to beat the final boss yet on Advanced, even on Easy... :/
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I have reignited my Demon's Souls run, though this time with the intent of making a build to make the game as laughably easy as possible.
NATURALLY I SCREW UP THE BUILD ROYALLY but okay.
I've also hit a brick wall called 4-2, I literally can't deal with the third Reaper at all, anybody can deal with the first one because he's in plain sight (HELLO LAVA BOW) and the second one is also pretty doable once you realize he's like right there.
The third one is a torture because he's protected and his guardian OHKO's me with the frickin' lazer beams.
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I think that if you bait out/dodge the Shadow's attack, you can sprint past the third reaper. All else fails, you may need to just leave and come back once you have enough power to bum-rush down the reaper before the shadow gets to do anything and have enough health/armor to tank a hit or two.
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I got Chronophantasma as an early birthday present 8D
...I have to learn Carl Clover ALL OVER AGAIN this is a nightmare >:
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Isn't Carl bottom tier in CP?
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Isn't Carl bottom tier in CP?
It's quite possible. I haven't been paying attention to CP tier data at all. I never played him because he was A-tier anyway, because it's not like I play him anywhere close to full power anyway - I play him 'cause he's fun as hell.
I've been figuring out some new things, but having to unlearn a lot too.
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I got a glance at one made by some high level Japanese player when Kokonoe came out and everyone was up in arms about her, and I'm pretty sure Carl and his dad were at the bottom
I think he was near the top in the previous version though so the nerf bat came down hard on him
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I got a glance at one made by some high level Japanese player when Kokonoe came out and everyone was up in arms about her, and I'm pretty sure Carl and his dad were at the bottom
I think he was near the top in the previous version though so the nerf bat came down hard on him
Carl's been consistently A tier throughout previous versions of the game. In CT, it was because he had the game's only infinite; outside of that, he was horrendous. In CS versions, he was much better balanced out and very technical, but still very capable of holding his own as an A-tier (not S).
Kokonoe's apparently super broken. Carl seems to be levelling out around midgrade though, now that I'm looking around a few places.
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I got Chronophantasma as an early birthday present 8D
Early birthday present?
When is you birthday, mate?
Okay, on to the actual post. I decided to buy the Peacekeeper for Black Ops 2, and for GOD'S SAKE I don't get this gun. For whatever reason, equipping the Suppressor, a Laser and a RDS in the weapon makes it the most unbelievably cute firearm ever invented. And I really don't get why, thsi setup sucks for it! The RDS isn't bad, but the Suppressor hurts the only thing good about this weapon, the stupidly long range, and this weapon isn't good enough at close range to warrant the Laser.
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Early birthday present?
When is you birthday, mate?
The 21st. She's just in town now, so it was easiest to bring it with her.
And yup. All the skills I had with Carl are just gone in Chronophantasma. It took a couple months of steady play in CSEX to get to the 'fluid' point with Carl - the point at which you have such an understanding of basic combo flow and how all of his moves knock enemies around that you can start to, on the fly, combo things together. Which is hella important because 'bread and butter' simply does not work for him because of the nature of being a puppeteer. Unfortunately, almost all of his moves are changed. Cantabile no longer personally links for Carl, he has to have Nirvana doing something to chain it, which just completely destroys my instinctive play... and even outside of that, all of the properties Nirvana used to have for knocking people around are changed too.
eugh >:
(I'm not even sure Overdrive is worth it outside of specifically using it as a rapid cancel/to pull out the extra Distortion Carl gets access to during it, because I notice very little difference in Nirvana during it except for a slight enhancement in recovery time, which'd be great if Overdrive lasted longer than, like, one action from her to begin with)
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(I'm not even sure Overdrive is worth it outside of specifically using it as a rapid cancel/to pull out the extra Distortion Carl gets access to during it, because I notice very little difference in Nirvana during it except for a slight enhancement in recovery time, which'd be great if Overdrive lasted longer than, like, one action from her to begin with)
Overdrive essentially brings your character to Unlimited Mode for its duration, with all of the benefits and none of the (potential) detriments, if they haven't changed Unlimited Carl since CT (And I don't remember them making very particular changes to Unlimited Characters as a whole) then Nirvana should be noticeably faster by all intents and purposes.
Of course, I never touched any of the Continuum Shift games despite really wanting to so my information is probably outdated.
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Another Metroid 2 Remake (http://metroid2remake.blogspot.com/) released demo version 1.3 recently, and if you're a fan of the 2D Metroids, I'd highly recommend you give it a go. It's got about 2-3 hours of content, and I feel it's shaping up to be better than Zero Mission.
The other thing I'm playing is Hydorah (http://www.locomalito.com/hydorah.php) which is a horizontal sh'mup which is very polished, and reminds me a lot of Gradius. Anyway, they're both freeware.
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Wow, Iffy, Purple Heart, I just watched the tenth episode of the Hyper. Neptunia anime.
(http://i.imgur.com/ZnqQ5.gif)
Images speak a lot bloody louder than words.
Wow, if the game is as good as the anime, then it has the distinct possilbility of going into my Top 50, sharing it's place with games like Call Of Duty 4, Half Life 2, Virtua Fighter, SPEC OPS THE GODDAMN LINE, Super Mario World, and other majestic games.
Oh, I almost forgot, my progress in Black Ops 2: My KD is now .97, AKA REALLY close to neutral. I got the Gold Camo for the MSMC, so of course I bragged about it to everyone on my Facebook. It's not like getting Gold is hard or anything except 150 kills without perks, that thing is un-fucking-bearable it's just time consuming. But I'm still really happy that I got it. It's my first golden weapon after all. (Not couting my MW3 Local Multiplayer's M4A1 which levels up seperately from MP. Even then, my actual M4 on MP is really close to gold anyway)
I also can't wait to get a neutral KD just so I can brag it to Driftor, horray!
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Episode 10
The games don't get quite that level of feels, but something like this does happen in Victory, which is why I mentioned spoilers.
Anyway, it's crazy how the Grand Cup: Hard field is. Chapter 5 mobs mixed in with total trash mobs like a Flan Rojo and a Tindalos, a fucking Mega Tonberry, and Via Infinito (super)bosses. Black Elemental paired with a Mushroom Cloud? Say hello to double Ultima if you can't kill off two sets of 9999 HP quickly enough. If nothing else, though, the presence of the Tonberry the Ripper team means you can get Cry in the Night insanely easily, compared to risking game overs.
Also, if you manage to get a special team to show up in it, you're guaranteed to fight them in the finals. That means a single chocobo can beat out said Mega fucking Tonberry.
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Me and my friend played a mix of different Call Of Duty games yesterday.
Yes, I know some of you are like "OH, IMPLYING THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM!" Shut up, if you played them you'd know
We played Black Ops 2, a few Team Deathmatches on the DLC maps I just downloaded. He asked how does the Peacekeeper perform, and I said that you basically pay 15 quid to get an M27 except without what makes it good.
We moved on to Modern Warfare 2, we played a bit of Spec Ops, but we didn't play it for long and we switched to Modern Warfare 3.
In MW3, we decided to play a few of the more interesting Spec Ops missions, two of the DLCs and one of the defaults. My friend died three times on the first mission, we were about to finish the second mission but my friend blew up the objective with his Osprey, and we tried the third one twice, the first time something went horribly wrong and we broke stealth almost immediatly, and the second one we coordinated ourselves a lot better and actually finished it (even if we broke stealth AGAIN, but this time both we and the hostages survived, because I dunno, Purple Heart decided to bless me with a miracle or something) Hell, we even said stuff like "Four by the right, 3 'o clock. I'll line up the shot and get the collateral (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_collateral_kill_in_cod?#slide=), you kill the dog and the guard armed with the G36."
We proceded to play Infected on MP, and we laughed our arses off plenty of times. Shortly after, another friend decided to challenged us both to a 2v2. He got a guy from his clan to go against us. We accepted, and boy that was a Team Deathmatch I'll remember to my grave. I'm not even gonna dwell on what happened during the match or else this post is going to turn into a huge wall of text. Let's just say that, in the end, we won, and my score was 39-37, while my friends was 69-63. We went equally as good, it's just that my friend ram into them much more often, while for whatever reason I was often shot in the back. I still manage to learn their "strategy" camping and turn around, tough.
Now, on to the Hyper Neptunia anime. I finished it now, so I promise this is the last one. Overall, I'll give it a 7 out of 10. I was going to give it an 8, but frankly it could've ended a lot better than it did. Episode 11 and the beggining of 12 were actually really exciting and had succesfully built a really awesome atmosphere for the inevitable battle that was to come, even to the point of making my heart pound faster, really, that's how well it did. But if only the battle and the conclusion were as good as that. I wouldn't say I'm disapointed with the ending, but it could (and SHOULD) have been a lot better, considering how well they did episode 10 and the build up to 12.
If you guys want, I could also voice my opinion on the characters, because bloody hell they were interesting.
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Mostly playing Luftrausers (is anyone interested in a doing a monthly scoreboard versus for luftrausers? Let me know)
Also Rayman legends and Metal Slug Anthology (which makes me almost cry sometimes when the game stutters or those loading screens pop up). I am almost exclusively on vita these days (no PC) might pick up guacamullee whenever the next psn sale hits and maybe alpha mission 2.
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"Ah, Bloody Hell, Match's over. I HATE Nuketown 2025. Why the hell people like it so much?"
"Okay, lobby. I'l just go ahead and check my KD."
"Barracks, Combat Record....... 1? 1? 1?!? HOLY SHIT, TIME TO BRAG ABOUT IT TO DRIFTOR! *Runs to computer*"
Bloody fucking hell, guys, I did it! I fixed my KD! It's EXACT AND PRECISELY at 1. 3895 Kills to 3895 deaths.
Bloody hell, guys, I'll admit that I never tought I'd do it, I'd figured that I would just give up everything before I went Neutral or Positive again but I surpassed my expectations and now here we are! My WL is still negative, but I'm still working on it, I'm sure my KD is going to be at around 1.1 when it gets fixed.
Also, curiously enough, my KD with every weapon that I decided to try during this whole recovering process was above 1.6. That's crazy, back when I started playing Black Ops 2 MP, a week after it was released, I could only dream of having a KD that high, let alone a KD that high with so many weapons. I think a better way to measure my KD would be with those weapons.
But yeah, time to go and fix my WL, and that'll be extra hard because winning doesn't really depend on me but me and the rest of the team. And bloody hell, it's almost like I always get matched up with idiots on my team or tryhards on the other team! Either that, or when I'm searching for a match, the game just puts me into one that's unwinnable, like 15-68, or something like that.
Either way, let us celebrate with this music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdoy7p7sJ_s). BTW there's a Gentooer in the comments, and then there are those people that say they don't exist, eh?
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Amidst the flurry of things I tried and put down, the things I bought but only have so much interest in, and the things whose translation projects have received their third revival (LOOKIN' AT YOU, DoD!), I finally settled on Sleeping Dogs. Despite being so much like a GTA game, I like it more than GTA4. The car controls herald back to the old GTA3 era games moreso than they do GTA4, which felt slow and clunky in comparison. MC Wei's pretty likable, real, and charismatic. Gunplay is sound, kung-fu fights are worthy of a Carl Douglas tune, and there's plenty of other things to keep you busy outside of the standard story missions. It's real solid all around. The sense of humor may come up a little short and Wei seems to be the draw so far as characters go, but I've had a hard time putting it down when it comes to everything else.
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Wow. A Mega Tonberry's attack is so obscenely high it still dealt around 800 damage to a creature at level 56 with maxed out Defense AND Protect. According to the beastiary, it has 255 attack at level 90. That would explain it.
Also, Angra Mainyu? DIE IN A FIRE, YOU STALLING BITCH.
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Amidst the flurry of things I tried and put down, the things I bought but only have so much interest in, and the things whose translation projects have received their third revival (LOOKIN' AT YOU, DoD!), I finally settled on Sleeping Dogs. Despite being so much like a GTA game, I like it more than GTA4. The car controls herald back to the old GTA3 era games moreso than they do GTA4, which felt slow and clunky in comparison. MC Wei's pretty likable, real, and charismatic. Gunplay is sound, kung-fu fights are worthy of a Carl Douglas tune, and there's plenty of other things to keep you busy outside of the standard story missions. It's real solid all around. The sense of humor may come up a little short and Wei seems to be the draw so far as characters go, but I've had a hard time putting it down when it comes to everything else.
Personally, a fan of racing games and especially racing simulators, I vastly preferred GTA IV's vehicular physics to anything else in the Open-World market.
It's the only OW-game that made a point to try to actually replicate real vehicular dynamics, and while it faltered in a few points I love the shit out of it and regularly spend hours doing nothing but driving in it.
As for the topic, I've been playing Sonic Before The Sequel and Sonic After The Sequel. Despite being fangames they are amazing, really harkening back to the original Sonic games. Also, they both OST's made specifically for them and they are so godlike I can't even describe it. Seriously. Go look them up, it doesn't matter what song you pick, you'll get something amazing.
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You all play some awesome games while I just derp around with a Guitar Hero clone with option to play music from SD card. Also it's laggy for me so I can't get 100% on any track on easy mode. Yeah, I suck.
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You all play some awesome games while I just derp around with a Guitar Hero clone with option to play music from SD card. Also it's laggy for me so I can't get 100% on any track on easy mode. Yeah, I suck.
Is there a sound and/or video offset option? Try tweaking things there. I have issues playing Project Diva F if I dont make sure to calibrate it first, so I can relate.
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Is there a sound and/or video offset option? Try tweaking things there. I have issues playing Project Diva F if I dont make sure to calibrate it first, so I can relate.
I tried. Overall is good, but at the beggining few notes really love to spasm. Hard.
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'Kay, on my recent Hyperdimension Neptunia addiction I'm currently having, I found this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSO2M6EQmz4).
I'm sorry. but just look at that lip synching! No wait, you can't, because there isn't any! And bloody hell, even I could do a better Vert impression! AND I'M A MAN! THAT DOESN'T SPEAK ENGLISH AS A FIRST LANGUAGE!
Really, this is The House of The Dead 2 type of voice acting, too. Vert kind of sounds like Goldman. I was expecting her to do his iconic throat laugh. Jesus Christ on a Bicycle, someone was paid to do this.
Oh God, I don't want to double post, so i'll just edit this one, but bloody hell, suddenly out of nowhere, I randomly remembered that, almost 5 years ago, a friend of mine once used hacks on Mario Kart Wii with MY MII. (Named "Roberto") And years later, he was playing Team Fortress 2 on MY account and decided to act like a 12 year old. fair enough, he was 12 at the time
After remembering that, I daydreamed that there was a Mario Kart forum calling me a hacker and various bad names. Holy shit, can you guys remember to never let this guy use my account on anything ever again?
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I've been playing a lot of Dark Souls lately. I just arrived to Blighttown, looks like it gonna be fun...
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I'm not sure what I was expecting when I picked up Conception II. Persona 3 combined with a bit of Bliss Stage probably wasn't anywhere near that. Transformation sequences and nekkid glowy pseudo-sex sequence (called Classmating; emphasis on the mating part) definitely wasn't there.
Hm. How is that VN going, I wonder? I heard about it a long time ago, but never bothered keeping up with it.
Also playing Resonance of Fate. That Tesla bug thing in the electrical station is really annoying when you're still kind of learning the controls - since it has a crapton of shield bars, jumping with Zephyr is ideal, but since it burns right through the bezels and the bastard has a paralyzing attack, you kind of have to do a two-one formation and hope it focuses on the solo pistoleer. And that you can kill it before it breaks the barriers.
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I bought another copy of Spec Ops The line recently, because my Cousin had the courtesy to scratch my old one to the point that it is unreadable. And the 360's reader is really powerful and can read almost anything.
Yep, and my mum still wants this guy on my birthday party!
But on to the game: this is, in my opinion, the game of the bloody decade. I'm replaying it so I can try to get all of the achievements, because they're all relatively simple to get. Oh, and simple =/= easy. It's simple like "Get X amount of kills with A gun", "Kill Y amount of people with B gun in Z seconds" or "Finish the game on Suicide Mission difficulty".
I'm currently playing it on said "Suicide Mission" difficutly so I can unlock both the achievements related to it and the FUBAR dificulty. As if this game wasn't hard enough on Combat Op. On Suicide mission, you pretty much die after 3-5 hits, and your teamates die a lot faster so you'll need to revive them a lot more. I heard FUBAR is even worse, because every weapon in the game will kill in 2 hits TOPS.
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Back in Skyrim, doing the Dawnguard expansion. I like Vampire Princess Serana, she's snarky and pretty handy in a fight to boot. Also kind of funny, I'm using the Mace of Molag Mar to fight the vampires and he's the one who made vampires.
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Bloody Hell, Only 6 achievements to finish Spec Ops The Line! And out of those six, one of them just involves making a different decision on a mission and the other one is finishing the game on the difficulty I'm currently playing.
...Too bad the other four are complete hell:
- The "All You Can Be" achievement involves finishing a mission without dying AND with 60%+ accuracy, but THANK GOD you can do this one by simply starting a new save, loading the first mission on easy, fire and HIT one bullet with any one of your guns and let your teammates do the work for the rest of the mission, then pray to Purple Heart your teammates don't die or you get in a situation that requires you to fire again.
- "Sierra Hotel" is so evil it's downright demonic. It requires you to finish three missions in a row without dying, and none of the references I found were consistent if you can get this achievement on easy or not. The trick here is firing a new game on normal, then play the first three chapters with the same mentality as if you were trying to get the achievement above, i.e.: letting your teammates do all the work, except now you can actually use your gun more liberally. It sounds simple, so why is this one so evil? Is because of the game's difficulty. On Normal, you can only afford getting hit by a few bullets before you die (ALL difficulties in the game are like this, even easy) and the enemies are all really accurate (AGAIN, no exceptions, even on easy)
so if you pretty much expose yourself for a milisecond longer than you should have, you'll die and lose this achievement. I'll need some luck on this one.
- "Intel Operative" requires you to find all of the intel pieces in the game. OKAY, this one isn't that evil. And besides, every intel piece comes with a bit of dialogue explaining in detail the horrible things that happened in Dubai before the game setting took place, and ANYTHING that'll make this game storyline even better is very much welcome for me.
- And finally, "MFWIC". Dunno what's that even supposed to mean. Finish the game on the hardest difficulty, unlocked only for those who finshed the game on hard, and this achievement is yours. BECAUSE HARD WASN'T ENOUGH, WAS IT. Even tough the game's storyline is amazing, it's not something that you'd play back-to-back, and to further add to make the game feel even more droning is the fact that you now pretty much die in 3 bullets maximum, and some enemies need half of an M4 mag to die. Juggernauts pretty much require all ammo that you have on both weapons, so you'll have to go on a melee frenzy to get your ammo back (assuming you don't get sniped by an incredibly powerful 9mm pistol).
I'll dread the moment that I'll have to work to get this one. But it sure as hell will feel satisfying when I get it.
Don't blame me, I'm having to scavenge games before Hyper Neptunia Rebirth 1 gets localized, but it's not like the localizers even give you the courtesy to say when it'll be released, they only said that it'll be released "this summer". The only way to be more vague than that is to say that the game will be released in the 21st century. And I do hope that Noire gets more characterized on the games, because frankly, on the anime, she had as much personality as a piece of bread. I liked Uni a lot better, funnily enough, and somehow it feels as if she had more screentime. I'll watch the anime again with my friend to see if I missed something.
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The Last Federation is a pretty interesting game and perspective on things. You don't change the entire galaxy, you merely 'persuade' or 'nudge' events.
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So I picked back up Technika Tune in hopes of getting the grinding done to get 1k plays and level 99. So I can delete it for other games. For not having played it in ages, I'm still pretty good at it; though the fact that I play on Hard in (unfounded, probably false) hope that it increases XP gain tends to kill me or nearly kill me a lot. Seriously, Silent Clarity [Club] needs to die in a fire, Oblivion [Club] reminds me that I still can't follow multiple beat sets at a time, and holy fuck Feel Ma Beat [Club] moves fast. I'm still not sure how I can manage to clear that and Angel [Club] considering how bleedin' fast they go.
Also, I managed to find the Prince of Persia reboot for three bucks over at Gamestop. Not sure if that means crappy game, old game, or both, but got it anyway, along with the Infamous pack, Bayonetta, and the Devil May Cry HD remake.
Also also, if you haven't been following along with Neptunia stuff in JP recently, there's been an announcement for two more games in the Ultradimension universe - Victory II and Neptune U (ironically for the Vita).
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Also also, if you haven't been following along with Neptunia stuff in JP recently, there's been an announcement for two more games in the Ultradimension universe - Victory II and Neptune U (ironically for the Vita).
I've been following quite a few Neptunia pages on Facebook and Tumblr, so it is almost impossible not to know. But for now, I'm trying to focus on the next Call of Duty that'll be revealed soon, just so I can criticize it on my CoD thread.
...Okay, but as of now, I haven't been playing much of stuff that I haven't posted already in this thread. I've been playing some Black ops, and it seems that whenever I'm not being matched against tryhards and/or hackers I'm getting matched against complete idiots that play almost as incoherently as the bots on Recruit, so it's no fun at all. MW3 is almost the same case, except I seem to run into the former much more often. When I'm playing Team Deathmatch anyway, I played an Infected FMG9 vs Knife recently were the entirety of the other team were morons, and I managed to go on a 17 streak easy-peasy :V Dammit, I was only stopped because of the sheer amount of opponents, and had I killed seven more people I would've gotten a MOAB. I'm too scared to play Black ops 2, I know I still got to fix my WL, but I'm horrified to go negative on my KD again, even if it is highly unlikely since I needed to have quite a bit of skill to get it to neutral, and naturaly that means I'm not bad.
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Final Fantasy XIV
I took a break for a few months, but since coming back (and finding out the Free Company I was in has become super active), I've been having a nonstop blast and several friends have bought the game to join me. My main class though is coming up on gear-readiness to tackle the Binding Coil of Bahamut and Extreme Primals though, aka "oh god this is both exciting and terrifying levels of difficulty"
I can't wait +_+
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Been messing around with Cities in Motion 2 lately since it was in my Steam library and it seemed interesting. Game has a bit of a learning curve; trying to plan routes to turn a profit is a bit difficult, but once you manage to pull it off it's so satisfying to see transit lines that bring in twice their operating costs in revenue.
Also been picking up Civ V again due to the recent Beyond Earth hype; think I'm gonna stick with King difficulty since the AI does a lot better job of keeping pace with you than on the "normal" difficulty.
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So apparently there's a thirteenth episode of the Nep anime. Did not know this. Gonna watch as soon as I have time tomorrow. (By the way, Nep Victory is on sale on PSN for Golden Week!)
Anyway, why are colored Hexes so annoying to farm? I have craptons of reds and blues, pretty much nothing of every other color. Yellow I can understand, given I've spammed the crap out of them on Level 5 to get the item drop up stations; but I really need more greens.
Also kind of tired of labyrinths and battles that take twice as long as they should because enemy elemental types are set up so that if you're strong to one, you're weak to the other.
Also also, for you PS4 owners, the new update includes something extremely useful for video recorders aka Let's Players - the ability to disable the HDCP which prevented HDMI recording.
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So apparently there's a thirteenth episode of the Nep anime. Did not know this. Gonna watch as soon as I have time tomorrow. (By the way, Nep Victory is on sale on PSN for Golden Week!)
It's full of fanservice, let me tell ya :V I liked it, but it sort of felt like a copout in case you wanted to see everything bad that happened with the characters solved within an episode.
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I downloaded Muramasa Rebirth for my Vita. I'm playing on with Momohime on Chaos Difficulty. I love the Aerial Slash combos, it's so much fun. Hell the combo system in a whole is very fun. Unless you're fighting kappa, they don't like getting combo'd.
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So something I noticed on the Kirby Pinball Land High Score screen? They were (on this order): Zephyra(ntes), Physali(s), Dendrob(ium), Gerbera. :getdown:
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Neptunia news:
"Hyperdimension Npetunia Re;Birth 1 will be available in both physical and digital forms when it launches in North America in the late summer, Idea Factory announced. In Europe, the game will be available only in digital form.
Additionally, the company released a slew of English screenshots and launched the game?s official website." [sic] Yes, a blog that I follow on Tumblr did mispell something, and I'm proud to be a Grammar Nazi to have noticed it, and I'm even more proud to have used [sic]. :V
Well, "Late Summer" is atleast much more specific than just "this summer". But it still is pretty far away, I'll have to find something to do 'til "late summer", whenever that is.
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ye gods just make a Neptunia thread already :V
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Dark Souls! I have NO idea what I'm doing! Just jumped right in and prepared myself for wanting to start over 20 hours into the game. Also this control scheme for the PC Prepare to Die edition on a Logitech controller is both intuitive, convenient, and a giant mess to get used to.
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Okay, after my last Call Of Duty Ghosts match... I want Battlefield 4. I can't be worse than Ghosts, it just can't. I'll keep Ghosts until my birthday party then I'm throwing it straight into the bloody bin, where it belongs. I could ramble ON AND ON on how the maps alone would've already been enough to make this the worst Call Of Duty game regardless of anything, but I won't. But since it has that, and all it's other issues on top of it, I wonder how Infinity Ward even had the goddamn guts to release this! Why was I even playing Ghosts instead of any other COD, in the first place? Oh yeah, because I wanted to feel like I got my money's worth, and try to get some fun out of it.
So yeah, has anyone played BF4? Is it any good? Saying that it is better than Ghosts frankly isn't saying a whole lot, staring at a wall is frankly better than it.
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Does Mizuki Hitoshi work at Vanillaware? Cause cooking and eating food in Muramasa, reminds me so much Hang in There Kogasa.
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I do probobly the most casual form of speed run races ever, Pokemon Yellow Randomisers. I did some practice with the updated randomiser we are now using, which changes more things, and also to route practice Rock Tunnel which I suck at.
Que Brock having a Cloyster and there being nothing with the tools to take it down quickly [Well, there was a Mewtwo with Petal Dance but good luck catching *that* with normal pokeballs; not to mention he's slow curve which is really bad for speedrunning]. Worse still, it had Hyper Beam, so it obliterated pretty much anything in 2 hits. Even worse, it had Rest.
You see, each Gym Leader has an item they like to spam in R/B/Y. Most Gym Leaders have X-Items [Misty XDefend, Surge XSpeed, Koga XAttack, Sabrina XDefend]. Giovanni uses Guard Spec, I think Erika and Blaine both use healing items but have limits.
You never really see what item Brock uses in most scenario, because unless you have a severely overleveled Butterfree or Bulbasaur, [Which you usually would not have in Yellow, and you wouldn't trigger the items anyway], you'll never see it.
Brock's items are Full Heals. And he seems to have nearly unlimited amounts of them.
So every time his Cloyster was whittled down, it would just Rest and Full Heal.
This is what we like to call: A Hardwall. There goes that practice run.
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Ouch, and if I recall correctly, Gen 1 had infinite PP for enemy 'mons. Yeah, that seed's not going anywhere fast.
Anyway, picked up the Plat for Danganronpa (finally) after months of leaving it be. Having a hard cap of five possible School Mode ends meant I had to make another looparound to catch Leon and Aoi. Thankfully you don't actually have to get the bad end to get the Plat - having to make one last go around doing nothing but cleaning/resting would have pissed me off enough to just completely drop the game. Yes, I did beat School Mode first time through.
Still trying to grind the Technika Tune Plat, but it's really tiring to play the same songs over and over again because the other songs are drop dead easy, give too few XP, too difficult on Club or just stupid hard in general.
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I want to play through GTA San Andreas' storyline again, but I don't know what's worse: Trying to play it on an Xbox that doesn't want to stay on for more than 5 minutes, or trying to deal with the PC version's controls, if you can even call them that. I don't know what game I like more, San Andreas or IV, tough I'll definitely tell ya that I like these two better than V. SA's storyline was goofy and engaging, IV's was serious and dramatic, while V was just... how do I put this... dull. It wasn't bad but you can't even compare it to the other games. The only thing V is better is with the driving controls and checkpoints on the missions.
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PC controls for GTA:SA are not too hard after re-binding some of them (eg. sprint/jump controls), aside from flying and a few other things that is.
GTA4 PC still wins IMO with the absurd amount of mods and possibilities with it. :P
Anyways, back to topic...got Octodad not too long ago and enjoyed it. Bit short though to justify the US$15 price (though I got it during sale) even with Steam Workshop mods.
Also brushing up on Age of Mythology for the impending Extended Edition release.
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PC controls for GTA:SA are not too hard after re-binding some of them (eg. sprint/jump controls), aside from flying and a few other things that is.
GTA4 PC still wins IMO with the absurd amount of mods and possibilities with it. :P
Implying that SA doesn't have a shitton of Mods as well :V I think for the time being I'll try to play it on the Xbox, but I'm sure I'll have to finish a mission then run to a safehouse to save the game, and that's assuming I'm actually able to start a mission before the console drops down dead, hehe. There IS a way to fix this, but it involves messing around with soldering iron and quite a bit of nuts and bolts, and while I heard that it isn't difficult, it still is dangerous and I can end up just making things even worse. (But seriously, the console is bad to the point that the only way for it to get worse will be if it just won't turn on at all. A shame seeing that I really like my Xbox, and you can't share save files with it, I heard.)
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Gilgabot showed up on Tumblr and reminded me that hey, the FF5 Four Job Fiesta is in a month. [NATURAL JOBS INTENSIFY] I am way too excited to have an excuse to replay that game I swear to truck.
possibly because I've been playing nothing but FFXIV
help I might have a problem
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I've been replay Tales of Graces f with Trade Experience to Gald, All skills transfer, 10x experience(for more Gald), double gald, drop rate increase, books, shop stamps transfered, no damage/crit multiplier. Chaos Mode obviously.
I'm up to chapter 8. I haven't bothered to dualize yet because all the stats and skills from the titles have been decent enough to keep me alive with the best buyable shop gear. unfortunately level affects the damage formula and chances to keep an enemy staggered, so having dualized gear would be nice, but it hasn't really been necessary yet as having multiple Cherias for time stops and healing have pretty much made it not too necessary. I'm sure I'll have to dualize some gear if I want to do the optional stuff because at the moment without dualizing, I can potentially get a 100+ hit combo, and the total damage from the combo doesn't even break 10,000 which sucks. I allow myself to use the piggyback titles, so occasionally I get decent damage hits in, but I'm not allowing the instakill combo with them. Still, I may as well beat the game without dualized gear since I've gone this far.
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I bought Etrian Odyssey Untold yesterday and I'm having a blast! I started classic mode on expert difficulty and I'm loving the challenge so far. Yesterday I made it to the end of the fourth floor and I'm probably gonna challenge the stratum boss today.
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It's honestly quite strange to be playing the reboot Prince of Persia after playing through the Sands of Time trilogy. Some of the commands are mapped to different buttons, combat is a more linear, original PoP-type instead of the free-floating SoT battles. I also love how you have to end up requiring Elika's pitfall assistance to grab a few Light Seeds. I have no idea how I'm going to manage to do this with only 100 Elika rescues, given how sometimes the Prince doesn't move the way you want to and straight into a pit or something.
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Been playing FE:A to clear out my backlog (and to get hype for FExSMT if I ever get assed to pick up a Wii U). Have a good amount of my supports raised to S now, although I'm not sure if I'm ready for the kids yet. I made the mistake of picking my classes in such a way that none of them will wind up with Galeforce so uh (at least I'm on Normal so it's probably unnecessary?)
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Been playing FE:A to clear out my backlog (and to get hype for FExSMT if I ever get assed to pick up a Wii U). Have a good amount of my supports raised to S now, although I'm not sure if I'm ready for the kids yet. I made the mistake of picking my classes in such a way that none of them will wind up with Galeforce so uh (at least I'm on Normal so it's probably unnecessary?)
Galeforce isn't even necessary on Lunatic.
It just helps.
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Get to the treants in final dungeon and am thinking this is dumb, so I dropped the no instakills thing and piggybacked them to death in 1 hit. Then did the same for the next boss. Then the same for final boss part 1. Actually tried stunlocking the final bosssecond form, but the damage was so bad, and he 1 shotted once I dropped the combo, so I just instakilled it also.
Then did Enter the Dragons by instakilling them as well. Guess I should actually go boost up my stats and stuff now so that I don't have to have every fight be completely dumb.
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Doing a speedrun race. I'm in first place, after pulling a gambit and swapping my early catch for a Mt.Moon encounter.
Flareon with:
Earthquake
Low Kick
Hyper Fang
Night Shade
I get a TM for Hi Jump Kick
I learn it.
Guess what I do.
Delete Earthquake for it by accident.
I dropped da urn.
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Send help.
Goddamit, when Re;birth 1 comes I want to do an imparcial, unbiased review of it, because well, the amount of stupidity I see on reviews of the series is frankly staggering. But I'm turning into a fanboy of the series myself before even playing it!
QUICK, FIND ME SOMETHING ELSE TO PLAY!
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NO! ANYTHING BUT THIS, NO!!
(Okay, on to the actual post, and I swear I'll shut up about Neptunia for a while before the mods complain.)
But my birthday party is near! I'll have to ready up my 360 because this Saturday will be a long day for it. We will mostly just play the (GOOD) Call Of Duty titles, and by good I mean anything that doesn't involve Ghosts and then spice it up with a little bit of Touhou Hisoutensoku. After that my best friend will sleep here (the very same I'm mentioning on my sig, and yeah I helped him get a girlfriend yet I'm still forever alone) and we'll watch Pulp Fiction together! I could not have asked for a better weekend.
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Now I'm really wishing the game had a stats screen or something, because I somehow managed to get the saved <100 times achievement, despite craptons of falls trying to get certain Light Seeds or accidentally ramming headlong into one of the blobs the Hunter spawns as a traversal enemy.
Anyway, on to buying the Epilogue, I guess?
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Implying that SA doesn't have a shitton of Mods as well :V
Of course, GTA:SA is another popular mod haven. Have seen and played all sorts of lovely stuff for it.
*to fix manually or not?*
Would do it, but it definitely doesn't sound like the process is for the faint at heart.
Games of late: Stalker: Lost Alpha (free, get it now stalkers!) and AoM: Extended Edition. Latter doesn't run as well as expected on my tablet PC - odd given MSFT used the not-much-better newer model in public display booths for the game.
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Of course, GTA:SA is another popular mod haven. Have seen and played all sorts of lovely stuff for it.
GTA Rio de janeiro and GTAIV for PS2 say hello. These games tricked a lot of innocent brazilian gamers.
I think i'll have to resort for the PC, because here's how a session goes when I try to play it on my Xbox:
-The game boots.
-I skip the intro, as much as I want to watch it.
-The game loads.
-The game loads a random save file, because the Xbox version is funny like that.
-I get out of the safehouse.
-I steal a car.
-I tune in K-Dust.
-Then the console turns off. I'll be damned if I try to finish the game like that.
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Picked up Final Fantasy XIV Thursday. According to Steam, I've already clocked 17 hours. I might be slightly addicted. My main class is Gladiator, I got it to 16 and then I got distracted by fishing. Leveled my Fishing to 10. I'm on the Sargatanas Server and my name is Vermachtnis Orcbeard.
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Picked up Final Fantasy XIV Thursday. According to Steam, I've already clocked 17 hours. I might be slightly addicted. My main class is Gladiator, I got it to 16 and then I got distracted by fishing. Leveled my Fishing to 10. I'm on the Sargatanas Server and my name is Vermachtnis Orcbeard.
Welcome to the game that will eat your life. (I'm on Adamantoise though >:)
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You know how I bought the Infamous collection recently? I got it used, and it turns out whoever bought the game in the first place didn't use the voucher for whatever reason. So hey, free game. Now I'm half curious if someone who brings in the X/X-2 collection for Vita with the X-2 voucher still valid gets more for the game.
Got the Technika Tune Plat, so moving on to another game in between Conception 2. Figure a shooter will do for now, so picked up Unit 13.
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Here was I, thinking that I would just have a nice little birthday party where we would play videogames and be happy about one another, but no, it was one of the crazyiest days of my life :V
But I'm sure you don't care about what happened in my party, but I'm also sure you don't care about what I'm about to post but I'll do it anyway, dammit! Here is some of the stuff we played:
- We played Call Of Duty, OBVIOUSLY, every single one of my friends likes this game one way or the other. We did a tournament, where I came out 3rd place, because originally I had the idea that at the start of the matchup, the players would flip a coin and the winner would choose the game. However, at the time, I dropped this idea at the last minute and we had to play GHOSTS. YEAH. YOU GUYS KNOW HOW MUCH I LIKE THAT GAME. Obviously, the champion was the only guy who was crazy enough to like liked the game. No, nobody on the party understood him either, and I doubt he'll be invited next year.
- Some of my mates were playing Osu! while waiting for their turn. I always tried to like Osu!, but I suck at it :V
- After some weird Omegle and Clopping shenanigans, one of my mates started to play Sonic Generations after we unsuccessfully tried to install Sonic.exe on my mum's notebook. Hey, atleast he got a bit of Gamerscore for me.
- And finally, we played Team Fortress 2, OFFLINE Team Fortress 2, the best kind! Because we had to move the modem to the living room where my computer, the one that I'm posting this message, couldn't reach it. Hey, atleast while posting this I remembered that the same guy that was watching weird MLP shenanigans and played Sonic Generations changed some of the settings on my game, so I ought to change them back to their normal state.
But overall, yesterday was a good day.
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The two games I am playing right now are Hot Shots Golf World Invitational and Super Monkey Ball Deluxe.
Hot Shots Golf- I am trying to gather all of the crowns so that I can unlock the final battle vs. Izzak in his costume. Right now, I am on Pandora costumed with 32 crowns out of the 43 I need.
The people I use are- Izzak with the Big Magnum club/ Big Air ball
Lani with the Big Magnum club/ Pinhole ball
Pandora with the Infinity club/ infinity ball.
Kat with the Big Magnum club/ Big Air Ball.
Super Monkey Ball Deluxe- I decided to come back to the game after taking a break from it for 2-3 months. Right now, I am just training to try and beat Expert. I also have a video up about it.
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmtwQGxav4M&feature=youtu.be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmtwQGxav4M&feature=youtu.be)
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Walking Dead S2 people, please check your game. Episode 3 is available today.
Outside of that, I've been enjoying some JOLLY COOPERATION in Dark Souls. Just drop a summon sign, go mind some chores, and wait for the bat signal. Getting called up for a big boss fight and kicking some ass is great.
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Muramasa Rebirth on hard. It's fun.
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Late birthday presents, but presents nonetheless <3
Now all I need to do is install the games and hope Steam will let me install them on my new Hard Drive, UNLIKE HALF LIFE WHICH AUTOMATICALLY WAS INSTALLED WHERE TF2 WAS and I'll have plenty of games to play~
If anyone here has Skullgirls, how much do you enjoy it? That's something most people ask before they get a game, BUT I GOT IT FREE, so I'm asking it now. Also, I got Squigly, too.
Oh, and Sonic Adventure 2, finally I'll be able to finish the game for myself instead of playing it on my father's save where he managed to get A on all of the game's stages except the very last one that isn't a boss. Yup, and then he complains to me that I have no life.
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If anyone here has Skullgirls, how much do you enjoy it? That's something most people ask before they get a game, BUT I GOT IT FREE, so I'm asking it now. Also, I got Squigly, too.
Don't forget to get Big Band's DLC while it's still free! That aside, I enjoy Skullgirls. It's lacking in any significant single-player like a number of fighters still are (contrast the single-player options of Soul Calibur II, or Blazblue or modern Mortal Kombat's significant story modes - against something like... any Capcom fighter ever), but it's pretty fun. (I need to learn how to troll people with Big Band)
Dynasty Warriors 8 (with XL) showed up on Steam out of fucking nowhere and much to my surprise it runs stupid well on my laptop SO I've been playing some Mash Square Simulator 8D
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Don't forget to get Big Band's DLC while it's still free! That aside, I enjoy Skullgirls. It's lacking in any significant single-player like a number of fighters still are (contrast the single-player options of Soul Calibur II, or Blazblue or modern Mortal Kombat's significant story modes - against something like... any Capcom fighter ever), but it's pretty fun. (I need to learn how to troll people with Big Band)
Dynasty Warriors 8 (with XL) showed up on Steam out of fucking nowhere and much to my surprise it runs stupid well on my laptop SO I've been playing some Mash Square Simulator 8D
You won't see me play any fighter online anyway, and I can't play any game of the genre well unless it's called Virtua Fighter, but that doesn't mean I can't have fun with it. When I play it I'll post how much I like it.
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So I'm half-tempted to buy Soul Sacrifice Delta with that LE offer, but one of the major things holding me back is the fact that I actually haven't gotten very far in the original - I've finished the prologue, but I end up dying a lot because I keep being forced to vent my healing sacrifices too early. I know there's ways to regenerate the sacrifices mid-battle, but even those don't last long. Probably shouldn't use the two-shot sacrifice that turns you into a ball of death, huh?
Anyway, anyone looking at my Vita feed for some weird reason will see that I've picked Gravity Rush back up. I've yet to Plat it, since getting that Gold in the trash gathering mission in the fourth town requires making many, many pinpoint accurate shots at a small area from up to 150 yards away (if not longer - it's been a while, since I've decided I'm doing this from scratch). Plus that couple trapped in the inbetween; I haven't found them everywhere yet. Still believe Gravity Slide is OP, if slightly slower than a full-leveled Fast Fall.
Speaking of Skullgirls, the Encore version is free for PS Plus right now!
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I bought Spec Ops The Line on Steam now because of the 75% discount, and my computer gets O-SO close to running the game on Very high, SO CLOSE, but it staggers a bit on the cutscenes and when a gunfight is going on, it on average clocks in at 23FPS, so I have to run it on High, where it stays put at 30... #firstworldproblems
I'll finish Sonic Adventure 2 first then I'll move on to Spec Ops ont the PC, then I'll get all the achievements on the Xbox version, then I don't really know what to do next.
BTW, before I changed the resolution back to High, I took this screenshot. Dose graphiks, welcome to the future.
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I've been playing the original Etrian Odyssey on and off for the last couple weeks. It's kind of sad that Immunize and Defender together kind of really break the difficulty, but at the same time it beats getting murdered by FOEs. Of course, I'm only on B13F, so I don't know if the combo goes from "lol your 100 damage attack goes to single digits" to "oh god I need to keep this combo up or I will get utterly wrecked" later on.
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I've been playing the original Etrian Odyssey on and off for the last couple weeks. It's kind of sad that Immunize and Defender together kind of really break the difficulty, but at the same time it beats getting murdered by FOEs. Of course, I'm only on B13F, so I don't know if the combo goes from "lol your 100 damage attack goes to single digits" to "oh god I need to keep this combo up or I will get utterly wrecked" later on.
No, it keeps doing that. EO1 Immunize alone is enough to make it through almost the entire game (the only reason it's not is the postgame dragons, and even then, you just need to farm Axcela II and maintain Boost Immunize to reduce that damage to manageable levels); stacking Defender on it is overkill, but a Protector's still the easiest way to deal with dagons later.
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Fair enough, I suppose. I can't wait until after I'm done with this and I move onto EO3, where I can't exactly Defender/Immunize my problems away. :V
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I'm trying out Skullgirls. I absolutely SUCK at it, this should come as no surprise. This game absolutely reeks of 90's, I swear when I play this game, I can almost smell my Sega Saturn.
Oh, and on Squigly's story mode, there's this exact quote, sic: "Please, give me back my family, Roberto... Squigly... Save them all!"
If you ever read this and tought: "Hmm, I wonder how someone called Roberto would react upon seeing this phrase."
Here's your answer: ABSOLUTELY FREAKED OUT. Atleast the very next frame the game explains who this Roberto really is.
If you want to play with me just so you feel better by beating an inferior opponent my Steam is on my Sig.
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Fighting games always have been the bane of my existence. Those two or three people whom I've played on SWR can attest to that. Maybe I should pick Divekick back up and try to get better.
Vendecenter's Sweeper Trial is easier than I recall - somehow I managed 6500 points on my first go when I could barely breach 5000 the last time I picked the game up. On the flip end, Endestria's Energy Race feels a lot harder to me. Those rooftops. Anyway, on pace to plat the game soon.
Mugen Souls Z happened to arrive one day early for me. so I'm putting aside inFamous for now. I still half-expect Chou-Chou to burst into laughter whenever she says "peon your asses". I expect her voice actor actually did after recording those lines.
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Went back to Ms. Splosion Man after having not played the game for some years and I decided I wanted to fully complete it. Just 100%'d the multiplayer stages solo in the 2 Girls 1 Controller mode where you control 2 Splosion Girls with both sticks and bumper buttons. I also obviously didn't care too much about finding the shoes when I played through Single Player Normal and Hardcore because I have 29 Shoes I need to find in that mode. I'll try searching a few times before resorting to guide use as I found the multiplayer stage ones on my own.
Both Splosion Man games are great platformers. Though I'll be 200/200 Ms. Splosion Man once I go through those solo levels again, the first one won't happen as I no longer have Xbox Live Gold, I have 0 plan to get Xbox Live Gold back, and I don't have anyone to locally play the multiplayer with.
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You know what, I really do appreciate that Sonic Adventure 2 occasionally crashes my computer when I try and start it up, because I felt that was exactly what was lacking in my life. Okay, when it does decide to start up properly without runing anything, then I have a blast playing it.
get it, like BLAST processing? Sonic's stage are obviously the best, Tails stage are kind of fun, (MINUS ONE GLARING EXCEPTION (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrWIpWgvLC4)) And Knuckles stages are boring as hell, but are oddly rewarding.
After I finish this game on Hero, Dark and Last, then finish all the alternate mission in it then I'll move on to other games.
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And Knuckles stages are boring as hell, but are oddly rewarding.
Knuckles/Rogue's stages are a thing at first, but when you revisit them later, they can start becoming quite fun because of the high speed that those stages can actually go at. It takes a bit though as you learn the possible locations of Emeralds.
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why do i get so emotional over jubeat (http://blog-of-horribleness.tumblr.com/post/86519288314/sometimes-this-game-makes-me-so-angry-and-yet)
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Started playing Skullgirls despite absolutely despising the game due to the sheer fact a person I hate loves it!
Started playing it because two close friends played it as well, so I didn't wanna be left out. I'm playing Valentine Solo for now, trying to get the hang of one character before I do two and get assists into the mix, even if Valentine sucks Solo (if the opponent blocks low then I got no mixup for that). I've already got a decent combo going, both a midscreen and a corner variant and I got something going with the syringes as well! Though I mostly just use it when the opponent is either Cerebella or Big Band because my corner combo is impossible to do on them, Valentine's stuff is so character-specific.
I tried to do something to reset with her Dead Drop but it's bad because the only way to do anything is to cancel it on Checkmate Incision.
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Started playing Skullgirls despite absolutely despising the game due to the sheer fact a person I hate loves it!
Oh, come on! Pewdiepie likes Parappa the Rappa and I still play it!
Not only that, but I actually like SKullgirls, despite I never really liking 2D fighters before. It's just that the game is VERY charming, it looks like a 90's game trying to look like it's in the 50's. I think that must be saying something. but the moral of the story is: Don't hate a game just because someone you don't like enjoys it.
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If anyone wants to 1v1 skullgirls i'm always up :V
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If anyone wants to 1v1 skullgirls i'm always up :V
I guess I could try, just so I can measure how fast people can kick my arse :V
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Finished 100% on Ms. Splosion Man. Also got the Genis and Presea All Titles trophies in Symphonia Chronicles, so I only need Regal's title for the Platinum Trophy.
Decided to do a pretty fresh run of Mania since my second playthrough of Mania did transfer some game breaking stuff.
Took over Collector Book Monster Book, Figurine Book, Minigame data, and playtime because those don't affect battle. Transferred Recipes and Cooking skill so I don't have to grind those again, but I pretty much never bother with cooking anyway since it sucks till later in the game. I took over Ex Gems to keep my Ex Gem Maxes(but sold all my level 1-4 ones before beating the game on the previous run) and won't be using any of the Ex Gem Maxes,
And of course transfer Titles because I want to keep the 100% titles for everyone plus I do still need to pick Regal in Flanoir. Everyone was wearing costume titles at the end of the game, so everyone will be the same statwise as if I hadn't transferred them, also don't plan to use the Title Bonuses to see how much harder that makes things.
Most of the difficulty so far has been from not having the +500 HP that I had in the second playthrough as it'd have been not too bad with it. I know it'll get easier later on, then harder near the end, but I know more about how to play than I did in the first runs, so I should be fine with some leveling up since I'm not good enough to do it fighting mainly the required stuff only, so obviously I never plan to do Half Experience or Minimum HP because that doesn't sound any fun at all.
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I think after I finish Sonic Adventure 2, get all of the achievements on Spec Ops The Line on PC and Xbox and practice a little bit of Skullgirls then I'll finish the other Half Life 2 episodes and Portal 1 and 2. Thanks to the World Cup, everything here in Brazil is happening a bit sooner, so vacation starts at mid June, so it's not far away!
Too bad that doesn't justify all the problems this damn World Cup brought up around here.
After I finish all that, I think I might try make a "Road to Commander" of sorts on Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2, Black Ops and MW3. I'm already a Commander on Black Ops 2 (I don't prestige) and I'm not playing Ghosts ever again, so those two are out of the list. I'm halfway through in both Black Ops and MW3, I'm Level 38 out of 50 in Black ops and 47 out of 70 on MW3. However, I don't really "own" Modern Warfare 2, so I only played a bit of the Multiplayer, and all that really happened is that I got Quickscoped and sniped by a bunch of FAMASsholes. Also, out of all 7 COD titles released since COD4, MW2's Multiplayer is not only the longest, but by far the least balanced, Grenade Launchers and Shotguns say hello. Also, to get the Weapon Mastery challenge, you need to complete every challenge with each attachment of your gun, (as it is in every other game) which I hope this comes as no surprise, but this includes the Grenade Launcher, so I WILL have to use it at some point, then not only feel dirty for doing so, but also probably getting a lot of rude messages in the process.
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So, I'm finding Killzone Mercenary way more fun than Unit 13, so swapping them out. I'm a bit stalled out on Conception II, because (this game's) repetitive battles bore the shit out of me, and I can't rely on Auto to not vent everything on mobs that don't need crushing that way.
I'm honestly surprised the coffin scenes in Mugen Souls Z got a pass; given the first one we get a CG of is of the underage Reu and mini Chou-Chou covered in slimy purple stuff (and voiced like they're being assaulted by a tentacle monster!). Also, not allowing you to switch party members right before a battle that takes a particular one from you? Low blow, even if there is a save crystal right there.
I hear Monster Monpiece is coming out in a week or so, so expecting that too.
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Reactivated my World of Warcraft account after 4 years on a whim. This may have been a terrible idea. I can feel myself getting sucked in again. :ohdear:
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Here goes nothing....
Why do I do this to myself
*sigh* Let's do this...
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I love how the Boxed In minigame in Smart As... is hard enough with figuring out three items at a time, with the first two of five having an extra item; but making me look over two boxes with two objects to get each, picked at random? Now that's just assholish. At least that's the Genius version, meaning I don't have to give a shit about actually beating it with a decent score.
Anyway, plat get, so that's one less daily thing I need to do.
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Okay, I'm still playing Katawa Shoujo... oh boy. Wasn't I supposed to be playing Sonic Adventure 2?
I've never been so depressed by a game since the first time I played Spec Ops The Line. I mean, I feel like utter shit playing it! Not only because of well, the obvious, but because this game has kind of a hospital feel to it, so I kind of get PTSD to last year when I almost died of appendicitis, then almost had a heart attack a few days later thanks to some weird medicine those shitheads """MEDICS""" gave me. I still think they just gave me that just so I could be used as a test dummy.
No seriously, if you're an aspiring medic, don't do this please.
But anyway, I think I unnintentionaly ended up taking Emi's route. I dunno, it just happened. I'm kinda glad I ended up on this route, tough, because she lost her legs, man. Bloody hell, I wouldn't have the strenght to move on with my life if that happened, but her, she lives her life normally and is actually quite a happy person... Bloody hell, I need to stop getting too envolved into this game.
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Still playing Final Fantasy XIV. Found out I can not Tank Brayflox. At least with my computer, too laggy and the AoE only shows up for a split second and I can't move in time. So I became a Scholar, so far I'm liking it better. I've ran a few dungeons as one and I did a lot better. I'm getting at least one commendation a run now. Got one level to go before I can attempt Brayflox again.
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After not playing Lumines II in years, I've finally picked it back up. Redoing all of the skin and character collection is proving to be a bit of a hassle (yay three lap runs being literally the most time consuming thing in the world), but if I did it before, I can do it again.
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Official Dork Souls 1 stats:
Estimated Successful Instances of Jolly Co-operation: 35
Estimated Successful Instances of Jolly Co-operation with the xanthous crown or big hat equipped: 5
Awkward thank-you notes received: 3
Swear words used: 100+
Airborne controller incidents: 4
Time spend dicking about Anor Londo: ~25 hours
Hours of free time spent min-maxing equipment loadouts based on self-configured metrics: 5
Amount it's affected my current loadout: Next to diddly
Characters that have gone hollow because I was dicking about: 3
Quelaag's Furysword: OP until I can max out the uchigatana at +15.
Times ganked in pvp: 3
Percentage of ganks which were giantdads: 66%
Parry/riposte skills: Improving. Still 0 during co-op.
Point at which I figured out how my build would work: SL 55.
Anyone from the DkS thread that I don't want to revive remember if I can drop items to give to people in an invaded world? I want to show up in giantdad gear, swap my equips to naked except for a symbol of avarice and channeler's trident, and dance around like an idiot before dropping some cool stuff and leaving.
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Still playing Final Fantasy XIV. Found out I can not Tank Brayflox. At least with my computer, too laggy and the AoE only shows up for a split second and I can't move in time. So I became a Scholar, so far I'm liking it better. I've ran a few dungeons as one and I did a lot better. I'm getting at least one commendation a run now. Got one level to go before I can attempt Brayflox again.
Oh boy. Enjoy the Primal fight at 34. It's... long story short, if you can't dodge an AoE, you're probably screwed. Especially as healer.
(well, not entirely true; make sure you're right on his ass and he can't knock you far enough back to kill you, at least on Normal
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I'm still playing XIV myself. Extreme Primals and I have a friend wanting to drag me through the end of the First Coil and into the Second Coil, which would be really awesome if it works out because hell yeah I'm so excited for Second Coil of Bahamut's bullshit.
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Oh boy. Enjoy the Primal fight at 34. It's... long story short, if you can't dodge an AoE, you're probably screwed. Especially as healer.
(well, not entirely true; make sure you're right on his ass and he can't knock you far enough back to kill you, at least on Normal
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I'm still playing XIV myself. Extreme Primals and I have a friend wanting to drag me through the end of the First Coil and into the Second Coil, which would be really awesome if it works out because hell yeah I'm so excited for Second Coil of Bahamut's bullshit.
I have gotten better at dodging AoEs. I don't know why, but as a Healer watching the all fight from the back I can see the AoEs pop up on time and react. But I've heard of that boss and standing at the back of the arena is not the safest place.
Also, I kind of want to finish the main plot so I can do some of the post game stuff too. My FC is always going on about Bahamut and T5 and Atmas and I feel left out :(
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Kay, guys, I was playing Katawa Shoujo still, Emi's route, since it is the one I ended up on, and well, I stumbled upon THE SCENE.
It's a dating simulator after all. It had to happen. ANAL
How did I feel about it? I dunno! I frankly should've turned the Adult Content filter on, because I was more weirded out than aroused. But it's Emi, man, she's cute! Really cute! Bah, I don't know how I should feel.
Also, according to the wiki, I'm about to stumble upon the branching path that'll either give me a good ending or a bad ending. I can guarantee, if I get the good ending on my first try, then I'm not gonna bother with the bad one. If anything, I'm not gonna bother with dating sims ever again.
It's not like I didn't enjoy Katawa Shoujo or anything, I REALLY liked it, but most games of this genre would take away my dignity, while this one depresses the hell out of me.
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I have gotten better at dodging AoEs. I don't know why, but as a Healer watching the all fight from the back I can see the AoEs pop up on time and react. But I've heard of that boss and standing at the back of the arena is not the safest place.
Also, I kind of want to finish the main plot so I can do some of the post game stuff too. My FC is always going on about Bahamut and T5 and Atmas and I feel left out :(
Don't look forward to Atmas, it's basically an RNG Grindfest.
Binding Coil stuff is hella crazy awesome though but you have to get really really damn good if you want a shot in hell at doing most of the actually interesting stuff (Turn 5 onwards) because of how mechanically intensive it is. I've started learning Turn 5 alongside Titan Extreme (whom I should have beaten by now but I can't get a competent group :/ ) Personally I suggest looking forward to the Labyrinth of the Ancients first, because 24-man cluster****s that are hella fun.
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So, what's the best place to get lots of Mana and experience early in Disgaea D2's postgame. I don't even have access to the Ordeals bill or any decent spots to level it seems. Loaded up my file earlier and defeated Petta, but outside of that didn't try anything else as I don't have the mana to try them.
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No one seems to like Titan EX or the Atmas xD.
But the Lv35 Scholar quest might be the dumbest thing in the game. In it you have to look at things to help your faerie partner remember and help you learn a new spell. Translated into gameplay it was: "YOUR FAERIE HAS AMNESIA! JUMP OVER THIS RAVINE TO CURE IT!" A dragon that spits acid, no problem. A giant that will rip the continent a new one: a minor inconvenience. A five foot jump on a bird that should easily make it: inFUCKINGpossible!
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No one seems to like Titan EX or the Atmas xD.
Actually, I love Titan EX. It's an absolutely amazing fight. There is no point where you get to stop being on your toes and it's basically 8 minutes of pure, constant action.
The problem is that you can't really get away with having even more than a couple allies that suck at it, because you need all that healing, you really need both of your tanks, and you need enough DPS to survive because there's a 10 minute timer before he just knocks everyone off the platform with an enrage attack. So Titan EX is an adventure in patience with random parties.
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Why is it that whenever I'm after a particular element, it takes forever to get, but once I do, I get streams and streams of them? I managed to get four SR spirits pretty much all at once; two of them Metal (which I needed), and two of the exact same one (which I don't actually need either of).
Anyway, I don't get the point of some of these Covert ops. You ask me to stealth through an area, but still manage 50 kills without getting spotted, with a weapon I'm not too familiar with? Er... Kinda defeats the purpose of a covert op when you have me kill everyone in the way with bullets.
Did my first First Crush Rub; just as awkward as I was expecting. Honestly, the Snow Owls seem to get a downgrade the higher her level - one extra range for standing still and reduced power and health? I guess if you prop them up with a Buffer, they can make ersatz bombardment walls, but anything with a matching or greater range is going to one-shot her before she gets a shot off. I'd say the same for Fia, but at least her Beast typing means you could potentially get a Beast with Hyperspeed and use it for fusion fodder. Is "Fear" a misspelling, or Fia's actual species?
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Mario Kart 8. Picked it up, got to play a bit, it's actually gorgeous and about as fun as Mario Kart can be.
Also, if you were on the fence check this out (http://club2.nintendo.com/mario-kart8-promo/). Buy MK8 in the first two months and you get a free copy of NSMB U, Wii Party U, Pikmin 3, or Wind Waker HD.
Hell yeah
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Mario Kart 8. Picked it up, got to play a bit, it's actually gorgeous and about as fun as Mario Kart can be.
Also, if you were on the fence check this out (http://club2.nintendo.com/mario-kart8-promo/). Buy MK8 in the first two months and you get a free copy of NSMB U, Wii Party U, Pikmin 3, or Wind Waker HD.
Hell yeah
I dunno, I've been hearing a lot of negativity towards it, mostly that it feels incomplete.
...But then there are the reviewers saying that this is the best game ever and that everyone that isn't buying a Wii U just for it is a neonazi or something. One of these parties are wrong, I can't tell who.
But hey, Guru Larry said that the rubber banding in this game isn't as blatant as it was in previous games, which automatically makes Mario Kart 8 better than MK Wii in every feasible manner.
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New things that I have been doing in gaming.
Hot Shots Golf World Invitational- I only have 6 or 7 crowns to go before I unlock the final versus battle with Izaak. I also discovered a new character/club/ball combination.
Max/Sand Wedge/Pinhole
Rayman Legends- I started getting back into it. However, since I beat the whole game, the only things I can do is do Invasion levels to get the best time, do challenges, or get the gold trophies in the levels I missed them in. However, I think I hold the record for The Dark Creatures Rise Invaded. Other then the hacked times that show a record of 0'-1"00. My time is 0'33"56.
Battle Fantasia- I started playing this game again. Even though I still have problems with End of Deathbringer, I still enjoy the game. I main Coyori and Urs.
I also have a video up of it. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbqdsLtFiQI)
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So, why is it possible to level up Purple Heart if she just reverts back to Neptune? I mean granted, there's mana costs to be concerned about, but at 200 RP? Each?
Also, while Snow Owl does get a -1 mana cost (which means you can buff her from the start) at level 3, Dodo just loses half her health from 2->3. wtf is this shit
That gun I was talking about for the Covert missions? It's so damn bad, you need multiple headshots to kill the regular Helghast. Worse, you have to kill nearly everything in the level with it. It's especially bad in Diplomatic Incident, where you have to get to the escort mission near the end without being seen. Being seen includes being heard - shoot a flamethrower, they'll hear it, jump near them, they'll hear it, run without the Infiltration armor, they'll hear it. Luckily the escort mission is a target heavy environment with lots of ammo for the 15 Ghost Gen kills and 50 crap SMG kills.
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The new Tropico just came out in the past week and a half. Part of me thinks some of the finer management mechanics may have been simplified a bit, but the core citybuilder/economy/political gameplay is still there and as good as ever, plus the flavor text's still utterly hilarious.
Also got back into the Mental Omega mod for Red Alert 2 and its expansion; I'm impressed at the work put in to create three almost entirely new campaigns (even though the difficulty ranges from "somewhat unforgiving" to "agonizing") as well as multiple factions and tons of new maps for multiplayer. Looking forward to the next version they plan to release.
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I really don't get the Gun Level system in modern Warfare 3. To go from Level 30 to 31 and get the Gold Camouflage, you need 89000XP+-, I believe. That may sound like a lot, but to put it into perspective, that's about how much you need to go from Level 50 to 56. But that just doesn't happen, you advance Level after Level but the Gun Level grows at a slug's pace. I do realise that not every kill I get is with my M4A1, but even then, it doesn't feel like it should be this slow. Maybe challenges don't count, probably because if they did, then getting a 10000XP challenge would clear 1/8 of the way instantly. but I'm not sure.
I don't even know why I'm complaining, tough, MW3 is the easiest game on the series to get Gold, even if it does take a while. Only in Call Of Duty 4 and Black Ops Gold meant something, in COD4 you had to complete every challenge of every gun in class to unlock the Golden camouflage for one of the weapons, and in Black Ops you had to be Max Prestige AND spend 50000 COD Points IIRC to get it, so having Gold camo in BO1 meant that you were atleast decent in the game to go that far, and have that much money to spent.
In MW3, as estabilshed, you have to just play the game for half a prestige; Black Ops 2 is kinda hard, a bit grueling at parts too, 150 KILLS WITHOUT PERKS, AAAAAH! but Diamond Camouflage is where is at with that game; and Ghosts, yeah, Ghosts screwed up even with THAT, because it is similar to Black Ops 2 post headshot phase, except toned down for idiots, because they have challenges like "Get 75 Kills" "Get 150 kills without attachments" "Get 20 kills shortly after sliding" "Get 10 Point Blank kills". Go fuck yourself, I'm not 5! You didn't need to dumb down the challenges to this extent! If there was a gun like the BO1 Uzi, which was heavily reliant on attachments to kind of work, then the 150 Attachment-less kills could've been nice, but no, every single gun in the game works just fine STOCK, so this challenge means nothing. For God's sake, IW didn't even get that right.
Okay, BF3 is free right now, so i decided to make an Origin account to get it. But, supposedly, I already had an account in it. I went to my email, and on March 6, and account was registered on it. I decided to try and enter said account, but apparently, it hadn't even been registered yet, having no username and all, and not being activated. I finished all that guff and moved on to downloading BF3, but Origin just did not want to send the confirmation mail.
I said fuck it, I'll just abandon this account and make a proper one with another email and username. I'll try and contact EA later to delete the other ghost account. Did any of you ever experience this? On your first goddamn day of visiting an online store?! Yeah, that was a lovely first impression, EA!
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Kerbal Space Program, Touhou, and Minecraft.
I have some strange tastes.
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Blood Bowl update!
I got promoted up a Division for next season. Out of around 300 teams, only 8 of them are my race, including me.
Of course, 3/10 teams in my division this season are Norse.
Let's put them all together and have them kill each other!
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The Battlelog is ridiculous. It only records what it wants to record. I get a 6 killstreak with the M16A3, heal quite a bunch of teammates in the middle of an Explosion fuck-fest, and finish second place in the server and the Log doesn't give a shit, but me getting my arse handed to a bunch of spawncampers? STRAIGHT TO THE LOG!
I don't know what's causing this, I'm always playing on ranked servers so this shouldn't happen. On that matter, what's the point of non-ranked servers anyway?
Somehow I doubt those stats will ever be recovered, so I better just move on.
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I've been co-opping Ragnarok Odyssey Ace with my brother. I play as a cleric and he plays a mage. We're close to the end of the story, but there's still plenty of extra content we'll need to do.
Also, I've been playing the Attack on Titan unity fangame and YS Orign, though I really need to finish Celeceta.
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I started playing Puzzle Quest again. I had to get used to the fact that you can go from about 120 health to 75 health if the enemy keeps getting 4/5 of a kind and if the enemy gets a lot of skull matches. Also, who thought that having a sandworm with 205 Health(The highest health in the game so far) have a move that if you are unlucky it takes 35 Health from you and it can use it 2 turns in a row for 70 Health damage was a good idea. When I got to the Sandworm, I only had 145 max health. It is also part of a quest so you have to kill it.
You know what is worse then the Sandworm, worst then fighting Xaldin on hard mode in Kingdom Hearts 2, and worse then trying to 1cc Expert in Super Monkey Ball Deluxe.
Fighting End of Deathbringer with Donvalve in Battle Fantasia.
Donvalve moves too slow to dodge End of Deathbringers sword attacks ( which are unblockable) and they do a lot of damage for a basic attack so you have to backdash a lot.
Donvalve is a grappler so you have to get in close to damage EoD and build meter for Heat Up mode. But that is where EoD can do the most damage.
Donvalve's strongest attack is only accessible in Heat Up mode. It does about 6400 damage to EoD. However, you can only use it once because if you try to use it again, Heat Up mode will run out before EoD gets damage which means it will only do 6 damage :(.
Donvalve's supers are bad for doing damage during Heat Up mode. One requires you to be right next to EoD and he can pick you up and throw you for 806 to 935 damage unless you do a very fast throw escape.:colonveeplusalpha: The other super only works if EoD is in mid-air next to you. You can hit it after he does the special move where he charges at you and does an uppercut with his sword. However, if you don't heat up, then the move only does 26 damage and I don't think you have time to Heat Up and then do the super move although I could be wrong.
Alright, I'm done ranting for today :V.
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So Neptunia PP is now out in the States.
But that's not what I'm playing. Still going through Monster Monpiece, and nearly got wrecked by an enemy who used fusions with 6 Mana monsters. These girls have around 6 or 7 attack or health each. Fusions add the attack and health values of the two cards. It can only be used once per card, but you can understand my consternation when she leads with Fairies (of which enemy ones have a +3 Mana on death) and then after I plink those down, she basically sends out a 12/12 tank.
Also, Ace Combat Infinity. I want that Morgan so damn bad.
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So, regarding my lost stats, my friend on facebook that has been playing Battlefield 3 for quite a while has said that some servers have trouble synching up to the Battlelog, and that it's likely their fault and not DICE/EA's.
I don't know, I'm not giving them the benefit of a doubt. If the Battlelog says that a server is ranked, then it damn well ought to be ranked, and I won't be taking any excuses. By this point, I should already have the Red Dot Sight for the M16A3, and for God's sake that thing needs it, it's very hard to aim with those atrocities called Iron Sights it has.
(http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120402085024/battlefield/images/thumb/d/d3/BF3_M4_Sight.png/178px-BF3_M4_Sight.png)(Those are actually the M4A1's, but they're the same anyway)
It doesn't look bad, but when you're firing it, and the gun jerks and recoils all around, with the Flash blocking your view, this back sight gets annoying real fast. And you better get used to that Front sight, it's always there, even with an optic. Why. It's removable in real life, why isn't it here? All you would need to do is remove the front sight, put in a gas block, and bam, you don't have a hunk of metal unnecessarily blocking your Line of Sight.
And yeah, the RDS' dot is kind of small, and kind of hard to notice on 720p, so while it's still an upgrade over the Irons, It's not saying a lot, though the Holo is still better.
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Plague Inc. Evolved, found out about its existence a few days ago and turns out it's a really fun game, very addictive. With my lack of gaming talents, I was only able to beat all the main game scenarios on Normal, and since the cheat modes require you to do that on Brutal on higher, I'm currently stuck trying to clear the Black Death scenario to unlock all the additional ones (they all sound interesting). I must be doing something wrong though, since I keep reaching a point where everyone is dying, cure research pretty much grinds to a halt, but a single island place like Iceland, the Caribbean or (especially) Greenland remains completely uninfected and its port shut down. In theory, this should be covered by the last step of the animal transmission tree, but somehow it doesn't seem to work often enough.
I'm curious, anyone around here like this game?
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Sounds like Madagascar in Pandemic...
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And taking another break from trying to plat Tales of Symphonia for quite a while. Started playing Tales of the Abyss(3DS version) for the first time. And will be getting a few more games soon as well.
I'm not sure who I'll end up maining in this one. In Vesperia I mained Yuri, in Graces I mained Asbel, in Symphonia I main Lloyd and Colette(though do want to learn Presea and Zelos sometime). I kind of don't want to end up playing the swordsman again but if that ends up being the best way to go, then oh well. I'm pretty much dismissing Tear because I don't want to play as the healer, and I doubt I'd go with Jade since I suck at playing the mages. I've gotten Anise, and she seems like she might be fun, but that slow speed.
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And taking another break from trying to plat Tales of Symphonia for quite a while. Started playing Tales of the Abyss(3DS version) for the first time. And will be getting a few more games soon as well.
I'm not sure who I'll end up maining in this one. In Vesperia I mained Yuri, in Graces I mained Asbel, in Symphonia I main Lloyd and Colette(though do want to learn Presea and Zelos sometime). I kind of don't want to end up playing the swordsman again but if that ends up being the best way to go, then oh well. I'm pretty much dismissing Tear because I don't want to play as the healer, and I doubt I'd go with Jade since I suck at playing the mages. I've gotten Anise, and she seems like she might be fun, but that slow speed.
My favorite to play as was Natalia. She was just so much fun.
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I love how it's so easy to break certain events in Killzone Mercenary with a single item. Toss a gas grenade at a shutter a Heavy is supposed to knock down, and the Heavy will run away from the cloud... and not walk back afterwards to break the shutter. Given it breaking the shutter is required for you to proceed to the remainder of the level...
It's a bit frustrating when fighting Moby Dick in the coop mode. Like with the old Aigaion and the XB-0, the last target on the boss ships are only attackable from the side or front. On the most recent attempt, we'd run out of time with literally the single Aigaion's cockpit remaining, and three planes (including myself) getting in position to nail it or actually shooting it right then. Somehow I'd managed to net MVP as the Multirole starting plane despite (or probably because) only focusing on the actual heavy planes (and losing a crapton of time when the support heavy ships didn't move quite as fast and I end up either overshooting or smacking into the ship's side). I figure most of the others were flying CAS against the enemy air support. And getting shot down all the damn time.
I'm actually curious as to the chances of Ar Nosurge ever making it over here (it's probably 0). Just the fact that it's a prequel to Ar tonelico... I recall, though, that there was exactly 0 chance Ciel Nosurge would ever make it over here.
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Fuck hackers, I will have my spot back. (http://i.imgur.com/xU2LnMf.png)
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I have... almost every item in Risk of Rain unlocked.
ALMOST.
How do drown Whorls?
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My Stats on Battlefield 3. (http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/soldier/FamilyTeamYT/stats/1059441937/pc/)
I still find hard to believe I was actually able to kill somebody with the AK74, let alone people enough for me to rank up enough to get the HK416, which I instantly fell in love with. It should come as no surprise, really, Heckler and Koch weapons never disappoint.
But yeah. I have no idea what kind of balancing this is, the American Medics and Engineers both start with some of the best weapons in the game, the M16A3 and the M4A1, respectively, while the Russian equivalents start with some of the worse, with the AK74 and the AKS74U. Also, the Russian announcer is really weird, he often shouts stuff like "Oh, no, we are losing this, turn it around!... for Russia!" or "Yadda Yadda Yadda you are Russians for fuck's sake!".
Erm, I dunno, I think there might be a little bit of, yunno, racism here?
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Is anybody playing EBF4?
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When Half-Minute Hero: The Second Coming popped up on Steam, I admittedly didn't pay it as much attention as I might have liked. The Global Level system threw me off and realising that it affected Time Trials too was kinda "you're kidding right you just wrecked the entire game". In terms of challenging and mastering individual stages, the original is going to remain superior because of the core design of the game putting such favour on 'bringing things from later' that it completely trashes stage balance
BUT, when you're just playing through, it's way more massive than the original game was and way more creative with its stages. There's actual dungeons, a way more in-depth story, more customization (classes, skills, parties, and your personal marching mobile fortress made of several castles stacked on top of one another
), and some really cool stages including one where your objective is to get yourself killed
in 30 seconds, among others. The game shines as a far, far superior "in the process of just completing it" experience, especially since the entire experience is Hero 30 (as opposed to the sidegames of Evil Lord 30 etc) and it's bloody brilliant and loveable and I'm 13 hours in and still nowhere near done the story modes (I'm up to Revolution 30 though, which is chapter 4/5), nevermind optional challenges, Infinite Battle, and the map editor(!). The soundtrack's also, amazingly, somehow better than that of the original.
Also the DLC is like a buck and completely worth it because the Sexy Dynamite 30 stages are hilarious and the Sengoku 30 are absolutely amazing gameplay-wise.
Time Goddess is still one of the best characters in anything too.
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So uhh...my desktop decided to explode. Funnily enough, my laptop 2 year old laptop can play Final Fantasy XIV better then my 5 month old desktop. But since it is a laptop and it got hot, I decided to not risk it and am taking a small break from FFXIV.
I'm playing Rune Factory 4 in the mean time. Compared to the other dragons, Venti is pretty chill. Also I'm not sure who I like more out of the bachelorettes. If only Illuminata was an option.
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Okay, GTAIV Complete Edition is 9 quid around here.
I have to get it, it would be stupid not to. But Steam, next time, make a massive discount for a game that's actually in my wishlist, please?
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After not touching Rosenkreuzstilette in a long while, I decided to do what equates to a Buster only run of the game. After much pain and suffering, I beat all eight RKS members, so all that's left are the two castles. It'll be easy, right? Right?
EDIT: Zeppelin stages down. It's amazing how much you learn about boss patterns when you're forced to do a tankless boss fight due to there being literally no cross tanks I can get in the final Zeppelin stage without resorting to Zornebombe.
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The Dungeon Fighter Online alpha is ending tomorrow.
I couldn't play as much as I wanted so I failed to hit the level cap (70).
Oh well, now to wait for the beta release.
(http://i.imgur.com/uSINrqB.jpg)
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Okay, now I think I'm able to play it with my XBL account.
But it needs to update.
*SIGH*
I'll finish this shite tomorrow.
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And just finished my Buster only run of Rosenkreuzstilette. I had to drop the condition for the boss refights and the Iris Machine because I could not bring myself to constantly smash my face into them without using their weaknesses, but I did the final boss and everything else in the game Buster only.
That was a nightmare. I never want to attempt that again.
...But I think I can do a Cross Tankless run. Maybe. Just not Buster only, that would be insanity.
EDIT: And made it to the Iris Machine tankless before running face first into a wall. I can do this fight, I just need to be a bit better and actually dodge the second phase's attacks better.
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started playing Ace Attorney Investigations (2): Prosecutor's Path Translation, with our N-Forza being part of the translation team :3 Good work to the whole team for contributing to a great project.
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It's quite interesting to realize the translation work IFI put into Monster Monpiece - even if they did screw up a couple of important bits. Recently, I encountered an enemy who referenced the Do You Even Lift? meme.
There should really be more people playing the multiplayer aspect - every time I go on, either a certain player who's well known for summoning Nekomata (mana boosters) and Lamia (high-powered girls of the same color as the Neko) like they're going out of style is the only guy with an empty room, or the entire place is deserted. Being in Hawaii does suck sometimes. I did get someone recently who had apparently friend boosted to 100 wins, as the guy forfeited all three games I played with him - one of which he abandoned on the first turn. I can only expect he overloaded his deck with high-mana cards, and not enough 2/3/4 mana cards.
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Instead of working on the Four Job Fiesta, I woke up this morning and played about seven straight hours of Half-Minute Hero: The Second Coming and 'finished' it. As in I saw the ending. But actually I still have a shitload to go - about half-ish of the titles in the game were missed (though I got all the ones in the first two parts), and then I have the Demon Maze and the two bonus Destiny stages to go (Hero 3 requires a global level way above what I currently have, sadly). And I need to complete the Infinite Evil Lord challenge by getting >100 bosses defeated. Which is pretty nutty sounding, and even nuttier in practice; I managed 33 kills in about 9 minutes on the Hard version before I screwed up and barely missed the goddess statue for a reset >:
This game is so great.
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I got the WIIU and Mario Kart 8 Bundle! I ain't played a Mario Kart since Double Dash, but with the Death Stare Luigi Meme and free Wind Waker I couldn't pass it up. The game does look really, really fun. My WiiU is updating now and haven't had a chance to miss with it yet, though.
EDIT: Just kidding, I'm playing Wind Waker HD instead. It's so pretty.
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Someone please stop me with these Rosenkreuzstilette challenges, they're killing me I swear. Although I won't list them here because there's a thread for that kind of thing already.
EDIT: Also Recettear. This game is so cute but at the same time I rage mentally whenever someone refuses prices they would normally accept.
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Someone please stop me with these Rosenkreuzstilette challenges, they're killing me I swear. Although I won't list them here because there's a thread for that kind of thing already.
EDIT: Also Recettear. This game is so cute but at the same time I rage mentally whenever someone refuses prices they would normally accept.
A hoodlum's gonna steal my cuuuuuteneeeess!
Some people I swear are out just to break your combo, even if they're normally cooperative.
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I tried to play Black ops early this morning, to bad I ran into three different hackers, two Nocliping ones in the same game, and one with infinite ammo. I mean, this is really freaking terrible, Black ops can be so beautiful when people aren't abusing it, but, uh, eh, ugh, bbhasvduiasgglu[q?wihodu l??hkhakub iul?quwydil?, is one of the new words I'm inventing to describe the situation.
Outside of that, got a PSN account since soon enough I'll get Neptunia Producing Perfection and Rebirth;1 for the Vita, if you want you can add me, link in my Signature, but identify yourself first, please.
Well, I say I'll get it, but that wil depend on the price, sorry but 70$ for a niche game on a portable console won't do, mates. Well, I did find Neptunia Victory second hand for 35$ here, which is actually a decent price for games around here, so I may end up getting it, but that means I'll have to play it on the PS3 that can't connect to the internet. I'm working on getting one 'til Christmas.
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Finally got around to finishing Kirby Triple Deluxe. I couldn't stop laughing when I realised
I was eating the laser. the entire laser. and then the dramatic camera pans and BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH
I think I still like Return to Dream Land a bit better (less re-use of materials towards the end of the game whereas literally like half the stages in the final world are rehashes of previous boss fights kinda hurt 3D) but I'm excited for Dedede tour and the inevitable new boss in True Arena
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With Atelier Rorona Plus coming out in six days, I've picked the original back up, after I dropped it a while ago, feeling cheated that Water was 50 Cole a cup; until I found out that I completely missed the well after playing through Totori, where it's far more obvious.
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Civ V
holy shit why does the AI still suck so much.
When they war me they, one by one, embark all of their impis into the pond in front of my capital and get one-shot by my city. When I war them and take one city every single one of them go into an eternal loop of denunciations and insults. Then they declare war without sending any troops and refuse peace negotiations for thousands of years.
And on top of that I get to the atomic era before they even get to the modern one. On emperor.
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Well, I seem to have gotten stuck to VVVVVV / Terraria again.
(and Minecraft, but that's been going since Apr 2011 so meh)
Dwarf Fortress and Touhou 6 I have been meaning to play.
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So I found out that the amazing Cook, Serve, Delicious! got an update that added a semi-New Game + option which essentially resets the game and, with a couple bonus early unlocks/cash head start, proceeds to put you on a super hellish difficulty where you have the permanent +50% Buzz boost from being a platinum restaurant, six tables to start (instead of four), sets the base customer patience time to absolutely nothing (orders start immediately decaying until you get table snacks at least), and, oh, right. The buzz cap is removed. In the main game, all buzz past 100% was pointless, because it was effectively capped there (Rush Hour was always 100% Buzz). In Extreme, nope; buzz continues to grow, and I don't know how high the Super Rush Hour puts it but there's like maybe .5 seconds between orders/chores before another is ready to go if you have a slot. It's absolutely nuts and I love it.
also CSD is 4$ on Steam for those who have not experienced what is genuinely one of my favourite games of last year, if not one of my favourite 'casual' (I use that term lightly here because it gets really fucking hard) games of all time.
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Mushroom Garden, that silly mobile game with the Funghi. It's so entertaining to touch the mushrooms before they mature. Why is that sound so hilarious?
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Been playing Rayman Legends trying to get to 1,000,000 lums to unlock the last character and get an achievement. Right now, I am at 811,000 lums.
Also to further my plans for world domination getting smash 4, I have gotten a Wii U. It came with New Super Mario Bros. U and New Super Luigi U. I bought Mario Kart 8 also when I got the console.
Some thoughts on Mario Kart 8
Mario Kart 8 is amazing :*. Beautiful Graphics and music that will get stuck in your head (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EarWorm) (Donut Plains 3, N64 Rainbow Road).
Bikes are no longer OP because they can't wheelie.
You can skip straight to 150 cc and get the trophies for 100 cc and 50 cc at the same time.
It is easier to get a 3 star rating. All you have to do is get 1st in every race and you will 3 star the cup.( Good luck on 150 cc though :colonveeplusalpha:)
How did Wario get his own mountain? ???
Some bikes drift out for a second and then start drifting in. I couldn't get used to this, so I used karts for the whole game.
There were some moments where I was leader for the whole race only to be hit by an item 2 seconds from the goal and lose. Which sucked because I had to start the cup over to get the 3 star rating. :colonveeplusalpha:
Toads Turnpike on 150cc is almost impossible to get 1st in unless you ignore common sense and don't hug the corner, but instead start riding the wall to get coins to go faster.
But the final verdict is that Mario Kart 8 is the best Mario Kart game to date. BV
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Mario Kart 8 is amazing
then you realize the roster sucks, the game feels like you're racing at 30km/h, item distribution is idiotic, 90% of kart parts have the same stats, skill ceiling is extremely low, coins are an unfun mechanic and there is no records/setting menu or battle arenas.
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then you realize the roster sucks, the game feels like you're racing at 30km/h, item distribution is idiotic, 90% of kart parts have the same stats, skill ceiling is extremely low, coins are an unfun mechanic and there is no records/setting menu or battle arenas.
someone got hit with too many blue shells
(for real this isn't a thread to vent at what other people are liking, stop that)
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then you realize the roster sucks, the game feels like you're racing at 30km/h, item distribution is idiotic, 90% of kart parts have the same stats, skill ceiling is extremely low, coins are an unfun mechanic and there is no records/setting menu or battle arenas.
From the videos and reviews, not from IGN or Gamespot that basically seems like this game in a nutshell. But it can't be worse than Mario Kart Wii. You couldn't stay 20 seconds in 1st place without getting Blue Shell'd, Bikes, UGH, Automatic and Manual were options and not the same thing, the worst Rainbow Road ever, however that's implying any of the other ones were good before, and just the Rubber banding in general.
So while MK8 might not be amazing it ahs to be a step forward from Wii.
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So while MK8 might not be amazing it ahs to be a step forward from Wii.
That's right, vehicle balance is much better than in wii. Also, the retro tracks were actually improved rather than the cut and paste it's been in the previous games.
However, the much advertised anti-grav mechanic adds so little to the game that half the time you won't even know if you're driving upside down or not.
Seemed before the release that this would be the game that brings a breath of fresh air to mario kart. Unofrtunately it's just more of the same. I shouldn't be too surprised, I guess.
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Finished downloading GTA San Andreas a while ago. While playing through the first arc, I think I want to ask you guys a question: What's your favourite arc in the game: Los Santos, Red County, San Fierro, Bone County, Las Venturas or Back to Los Santos? (Don't even know if you can consider the postgame an arc)
I think I need to give the first arc more credit than I do, it does have some pacing issues and if you don't watch "The Introduction" before playing the game it feels like the story comes out of nowhere, but it does a nice job setting up the characters and the mood for the rest of the game.
When I try to find the answer to that question my mind almost instantly drifts to the San Fierro arc. I don't know why. It's always like "Oh, man, San Fierro is the most beautiful city, and it had the best story" then I fire my Xbox and play for 5 minutes before it dies and I don't remember too many bits of the storyline it had and it kinda seems like the ugliest city sometimes. But I won't judge until I finish the game again.
Oh, and I'm adapting to the controllers better than I tought I would. Driving isn't great on the keyboard, and the gunfights feel kind of odd without that aimbot-like autoaim the console versions have, but it is sufficient.
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So a friend of mine gifted me 100% Orange Juice. Seeing as it looked cute as all hell and that it was a goal-based board game not unlike Mario Party (which I honestly don't mind, I've had some good times playing that on the Wii in the past), I gave it a shot.
Three words can sum up how getting through the main scenario went: Fuck the RNG.
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I just got into the Kantai Collection lottery. Third time is the charm.
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Sometimes I really wish there was PS3/Vita bundles for more games. It seems really weird for Cross-Save games to not also be Cross-Buy. Also, I wonder how many people fell into the trap on the PSN Store, where Rorona Plus has the $39.99 Vita version say PS3, Vita on its description.
Anyway, losing what little sleep I have before tomorrow's work playing Atelier Rorona Plus. I don't think I've ever experienced the "trap Pebble" request in the original game. (aka Cory special requests a Pebble for 1000 Cole - the jealousy seethes with the other people in the area)
Also, apparently you should definitely play through the tutorial, as you gain a Supplement and three gathering items for free. Otherwise they just dump you on 1/12 (the day the tutorial ends) with none of that.
Oh yeah, Sony's (at long last) removed Gravity Rush, Wipeout 2048, and that Vita Uncharted game from PS Plus.
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I've been playing Mario Kart 8 too and I think it's really fun. The music is so awesome and the tracks are gorgeous. It's also one of the worst offenders of "just one more stage" I've played in awhile. When I get ready to leave, it's usually "Well, this might be the start of a hot streak" or "I can't leave with THAT being my last race" or "Ooh! I love this stage!" So yeah, if you guys ever run across a Phlegeth in Mario Kart 8, that's me!
Also, is it just me or is there a lot of Mom and Dads online. No lie, I was in a race with a Dad, Mom, Daddy, Mommy, and BigDaddy. Although I'm sure that last one doesn't fit in.
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Finally got around to playing Kid Icarus: Uprising.
I had HEARD about Hades but avoided any actual spoilers other than 'This guy is a glorious massive ham and breaks the fourth wall'.
He is exceeding expectations.
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Finally got around to playing Kid Icarus: Uprising.
I had HEARD about Hades but avoided any actual spoilers other than 'This guy is a glorious massive ham and breaks the fourth wall'.
He is exceeding expectations.
I legitimately knew nothing about the game's events going in and (safe spoiler for you) seriously thought Medusa would be the final boss because the game had already run me a few hours and felt pretty long
.
I should replay KIU, it's amazing.
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This past week I was going over whatever non-shmup games I have on my PC. Result: about half of them deleted for being too simple, easy or boring. Sadly, this includes all the old FPS classics. But even among games that still remain most are still there just because I want to go through them one more time before deinstalling. This isn't the first time I did a clean-up among games I play, but now I'm down to an absolute minimum. Well, it sure feels nice to have all that free space. But it's amazing how little challenge and replay value so many games of so many genres have if compared to shmups when you really get into them. Not that I'm upset - shmups are just perfect for the playing style and set of skills I enjoy using. I actually feel pretty happy now that I'm so deep in this genre. Like a match made in heaven.
Anyway, of the games that remained, few actually might be worthy to talk about around here sometime in the future. Until then, au revoir.
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I have a large list of games, most touhou, and fan games. But others such as LoL, CS, Mbaac.
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Oh jesus help
My little sister picked up Fire Emblem Awakening three weeks ago and is starting her second file
Her first file ended up logging 48 hours and she wrote over it like nothing.
This time?
I think, since (M!)Morgan is more of a physical fighter, I may capitalize on that by marrying together Panne and Gregor, or Vaike, then having Morgan with the resulting Yarne. But anti-beast weaponry is common isn't it?
What if I paired Lissa and Libra, then married Owain, and trained Morgan as a Dread Fighter?
Of course, it'll be some time before I'll be able to work on THAT pairing.
I'll be sure to pass down Galeforce this time. (There aren't really many other particularly useful female-only skills are there?)
I also need to train Morgan in Assassin for Lethality and grab Tomefaire and/or Axefaire for when he's in the class.
So, Lissa x Libra, Ruby (MC) x Owain, Dread Fighter Morgan with Galeforce, Tomefaire/Axefaire, Lethality, Aggressor, and Resistance + 10. How does that sound...?
Okay, excellent.
Perhaps now, I can pair Miriel with Henry instead of Ricken...
(...)
she is ten
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War Thunder, because of tanks ;)
And I will probably start playing Wargame: Red Dragon as soon as we have the DLC
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Played some more FFX HD Remaster. I'm at the part where it's grinding for all the optional stuff. Did a little bit of capturing but not too much.
Farmed Fenrir for a bit of agility, though i probably should be trying to get through Juggernaut for Strength. I still need to unlock One Eye and Tanket for the defensive ones. Customzied Overdrive-> AP on the weapon I got off Omega Weapon and used Dark ixion to powerlevel Wakka a bit then ran because you can actually flee that fight.
Then went to besaid because I screwed up the cloister of trials earlier and didn't reset, so I had to fight Dark valefor to get Anima. First try Energy Ray 9999 to all after mixing a Trio so I could use potions to heal for 9,999. Second try, I mix Super Mighty G(was trying for Hyper but didn't remember the combination). Oh, it still does 9999 to Wakka, but it only used the single target attack so I win.
Then I went to Dark Ifrit. Had Wakka on Comrade for overdrive but it should have been on Stoic. around 20,000 damage from the Meteor Strikes and 99,999 from his physicals(I am way understated apparantly), but he's slow so since I could keep haste on everyone(still need to get Auto-Haste armors), I managed to win after using 3 Aeon shields for the overdrive.
Also, I need to go look up where I get the Masamune and Spirit Lance because I don't remember where you get those. Not that I really need them because I'll be leveling up Tidus, Wakka, Rikku for the optional bosses, but I am going for the platinum, so I do need all of those.
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I started up Mario Galaxy. It's really fun. The swimming was a little weird at first, but then I found out you could just hold A and it became slightly less awkward. The fight with Bowser was awesome. The sight of Mario chasing Bowser around with his ass on fire was pretty funny.
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Also, I need to go look up where I get the Masamune and Spirit Lance because I don't remember where you get those. Not that I really need them because I'll be leveling up Tidus, Wakka, Rikku for the optional bosses, but I am going for the platinum, so I do need all of those.
Assuming they didn't move them around last time I played the original:
For the Masamune: Type MASAMUNE in the airship navigation menu.
For the Spirit Lance: Hit Square at three Qactuar Stones on the Thunder Plains and follow the ghost Qactuar.
Anyway, picked up Deception IV. I'm half tempted to buy Trapt after playing this.
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I'm on the last few missions on San Andreas. I already took over all the hoods, just so I would never have to read that dreaded "OUR 'HOOD IS UNDER ATTACK!" message again. I'll try to take the last mission with the Desert Eagle, the MP5 actually an HK94 but eh, the M4 actually an CM177 but who gives a shit, and a SPAS. The MP5 and the M4 will be my main weapons for the Level, the SPAS will be for
Big Smoke
, and the Desert Eagle will be for corridors/finishing off people with style.
Somewhat disapointingly, out of the 3 sections the final level has, only the second one, inside Big Smoke's crack fortress
is challenging. The area before it can be a bit troublesome, and the section after the crack fortress has to be done perfectly or else the mission fails, but they're nothing compared to the second section, with people shooting you from every angle possible and you having to get through them without dying once or the mission restarts.
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I told myself I'd finish the main Skyrim questline before getting to everything else.
Ha. Hah.
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Finished San Andreas. "End of the Line" was disappointingly easier than what I expected, it wasn't easy by any stretch of the imagination but it did feel harder on the Xbox Version. Probably because there I was using cheats and playing like an idiot almost all the time. Stil weird how it isn't even the hardest mission in the game.
Altough I'm saying all that and making it sound like it was the easiest thing ever, just look at how much health I had when I finished the level.
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Thank God you don't have to worry about your health anymore after the crack fortress.
Now, I think I'll finish Call of Duty 4 on Steam, I was going to play Vice City, but ENOUGH GTA FOR NOW. 42 hours of San Andreas in Seven days? Let me take a break from the series for a while, man, I'm burned out.
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I'm starting a replay journey of GTA III/VC/SA as well, training for IN scoring can be a bit too intense, so I need to rest once in a while. I'll be doing it in a much more relaxed way compared to how I played them before - no weapon farming, no reloading after each death or failure, no 100% completion, no side stuff unless I feel like it (besides, rewards that make game easier spoil all the fun), just a casual stroll through the game. Though it can somewhat be called "hardcore" as well, since it'll be a sort of a minimalist run. Yep, a casual hardcore playthrough, sounds about right.
Day 1 progress: won the race in a Kuruma, a non-sports car, albeit with nice speed and handling for its class. The opponents had the fastest racecars, but GTA III driving AI can't go 10 meters without crashing into something. Well, it's funny, at least. Also, in the few hours I played, I've seen at least half a dozen dump trucks. For those who don't know, those suckers are needed for a "bring here the cars from this list" garage in docks that you need to finish for that 100% completion. And you can only find them as a randomly-spawned car on the road. And they're so rare that the advice is to drop whatever you were doing, even a mission, if you spot one of those. Of course it figures that the game's RNG spams them when I couldn't care less about them.
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Hmm... Besides playing Great Fairy Wars for a month now, I've been playing this game for the PS3, which I got recently, like, last week (Yeah, I have the physical copy of the game, the limited edition one with the cool artbook, it's awesome :D). It's called Mamoru-kun wa Norowarete Shimatta! (Rough translation: Mamoru has been cursed!), it's an awesome game that was developed by G.Rev and Gulti!
This game is a ton of fun to play, particularly if you're into cute em ups (A sub-genre of the greater STG/shmup genre, and even more-so, if you've ever played the KiKi KaiKai games on either the PC Engine, the SNES, or the GBA (Which is also known as Pocky & Rocky in the NA release, and, I think, for the PAL release as well (Correct me, if I happen to be wrong on this))! Basically, the story goes (To my rudimentary understanding, and my limited knowledge of Japanese (I can read Hiragana and Katakana, and some Kanji, but not a lot)): Mamoru-kun was heading home one day, when suddenly, a truck comes, about to run him over while he crossed the street, and the next moment, he finds himself in the under world with some others, who presumably suffered something similar. They've been drawn by the priestess Fululu Jigokudani, who summons them to go fight for the under world, which is being attacked by strange malevolent forces of some sort (Based on various Japanese mythologies) and so, they go out and settle this, for the chance to get their 2nd chance at life, and that's the basic premise of the story there. It's actually better than what I'm describing, but this is what I know, based on my understanding of the Japanese language so far.
You get to pick seven Characters (If you play the PS3 version of it, or if you get the DLC for the Xbox 360 (X360 version of the game is region-locked, the PS3 version is region-free, and you can even get it on the PSN, in-fact), Mamoru, Fululu, Mayuno, Beniko, Kinya, Nowa, and Luchino, each with their different shot-types, and there's all sorts of interesting mechanics in the game, like the curse system, for instance. It's quite a lot to explain, so yeah, I can link you to the strategy guide, if you like. I'm really close to getting my 1st 1cc of this game, using Nowa, so that's going to happen soon. :)
No, in-fact, yeah, let me link you to the strategy guide for this game. (http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=44837&hilit=Mamoru+kun+wa+Norowarete+Shimatta!)
With that said, here's some pictures of the game (Well, the physical copy, at least) if you're interested in what it looks like:
The Limited Edition of the game for the PS3. (http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o798/PurpleTheGuy/TheLimitedEditionofMamoru-kunwaNorowareteShimatta_zps8d454958.jpg)
Inside of the game. (http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o798/PurpleTheGuy/df741daf-63ab-4652-af18-ad0682db159f_zpsb10bae69.jpg)
A bit of the artbook. (http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o798/PurpleTheGuy/Anotherglimpse_zpsc92f2b7e.jpg)
Another snip of the artbook. (http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o798/PurpleTheGuy/Aglimpseoftheartbook_zpsf26f8a7c.jpg)
The back of the box. (http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o798/PurpleTheGuy/Backofthebox_zps0aedc64d.jpg)
Close-up of the gameplay described in the box. (http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o798/PurpleTheGuy/Close-upofthegameplayinthebox_zpsce1a59fd.jpg)
So yeah, I've been playing that, and, well, it's quite a blast! It's the first game I've played from G.Rev, and I must say, it's quite an awesome first impression! Can't wait to play some more of their other games (Looking at Under Defeat, in-particular :))... And, well, yeah. :) Hopefully, at some point in the near future, when I have the right tools, I'll do a live stream of this game, since there's not much to be found for this game on YouTube in-general, other than here and there.
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I successfully cleared the Infinite Battle (in Hard Mode to boot!) in Half-Minute Hero 2. Oh my god. That was absolutely absurd @_@
but so much fun
and then I realised I accidentally cleared it on my not-main file and I just kinda
in other news, for ease of access, I am now on Twitch (http://www.twitch.tv/garlylewilds)
in double-news, I am officially speedrunning Half Minute Hero 2 (and came within two minutes of the current known record for Overture/Judgement completion)
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I'm starting a replay journey of GTA III/VC/SA as well, training for IN scoring can be a bit too intense, so I need to rest once in a while. I'll be doing it in a much more relaxed way compared to how I played them before - no weapon farming, no reloading after each death or failure, no 100% completion, no side stuff unless I feel like it (besides, rewards that make game easier spoil all the fun), just a casual stroll through the game. Though it can somewhat be called "hardcore" as well, since it'll be a sort of a minimalist run. Yep, a casual hardcore playthrough, sounds about right.
Day 1 progress: won the race in a Kuruma, a non-sports car, albeit with nice speed and handling for its class. The opponents had the fastest racecars, but GTA III driving AI can't go 10 meters without crashing into something. Well, it's funny, at least. Also, in the few hours I played, I've seen at least half a dozen dump trucks. For those who don't know, those suckers are needed for a "bring here the cars from this list" garage in docks that you need to finish for that 100% completion. And you can only find them as a randomly-spawned car on the road. And they're so rare that the advice is to drop whatever you were doing, even a mission, if you spot one of those. Of course it figures that the game's RNG spams them when I couldn't care less about them.
Which version are you playing? Consoles or PC? If you're on consoles, good luck hitting anything with that lock-on system. Also, on San Andreas, if you're good enough and know how to work the enemy's AI, you probably won't have to worry about dying too much. Turf Wars pretty much automatically farms guns and ammo for you, and if you keep your distance the enemies never even shoot you. If you die, Red County arc onwards the game just showers you with money you don't need, anyway, so you can atleast buy the M1911/standard pistol just to say you're not unarmed.
After I finish Modern Warfare 2 on Steam I'll finish Vice City and III, on it, too. Got burned out after straight 40+ hours of San Andreas.
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Which version are you playing? Consoles or PC? If you're on consoles, good luck hitting anything with that lock-on system. Also, on San Andreas, if you're good enough and know how to work the enemy's AI, you probably won't have to worry about dying too much. Turf Wars pretty much automatically farms guns and ammo for you, and if you keep your distance the enemies never even shoot you. If you die, Red County arc onwards the game just showers you with money you don't need, anyway, so you can atleast buy the M1911/standard pistol just to say you're not unarmed.
After I finish Modern Warfare 2 on Steam I'll finish Vice City and III, on it, too. Got burned out after straight 40+ hours of San Andreas.
PC master race. I actually completed all three a long time ago. For III and Vice City, I also got 100%. I tried the same for San Andreas, but gave up by San Fierro and just rushed through the missions. And yeah, I've noticed that you're given more than enough stuff in the missions, I'm mostly playing through to confirm that it's enough to reach the end. So far, I'm off the first island in III already, and there are barely any problems.
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PC master race. I actually completed all three a long time ago. For III and Vice City, I also got 100%. I tried the same for San Andreas, but gave up by San Fierro and just rushed through the missions. And yeah, I've noticed that you're given more than enough stuff in the missions, I'm mostly playing through to confirm that it's enough to reach the end. So far, I'm off the first island in III already, and there are barely any problems.
I had 7000+ bullets for the HK94/SMG and the CM177/M4 on San Andreas just with Storyline+Turf Wars alone by the last mission. Then the last mission overwrote my SMG with the Standard one, and with just 120 Bullets. Really fucking annoying. Outside of that, Turf Wars=More ammo than you know what to do with.
Vice City and III are much shorter, but atleast on the console versions, they feel much harder because they really haven't aged well there. Not being able to crouch and having a crap lock-on system doesn't help in GTA 3, and not being able to move while crouching at having a crap aimbot as a lock-on system doesn't help Vice City. I'll see how the PC versions play by comparison.
They aren't bad games on the console by any stretch of the imagination, they're just hard to play after the later games.
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Epic Battle Fantasy 3. Don't know why, but I have a soft spot for the final boss. Maybe it's because of the Lincoln jokes about him among me and my buddies. :)
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Epic Battle Fantasy 3. Don't know why, but I have a soft spot for the final boss. Maybe it's because of the Lincoln jokes about him among me and my buddies. :)
Truely a great flash game. I enjoyed rushing through Epic Battle Fantasy 4 a time ago. It had a lovely final boss too in my opinion, even with the somewhat silly theme to it.
Other than that, I've played Siren Fantasia on the phone (a Puzzle & Dragons clone, cause I can't play the original on my phone for some localization issue) and LoL, which I really should stop playing since I'm a nub who won't get anywhere.
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Started up Spec Ops: The Line. The game prompts are using XBox buttons and I'm using a Mouse and Keyboard, so I'm constantly having to stop and look at what the button is. I tried using my controller, but I am shit at shooting games with a controller. But I'm slightly less shit with a mouse and keyboard.
The music in this game is great...ish. I've heard a couple of songs, but for some reason it weirded me out a little bit. Maybe because it was being played in universe but I don't know. All I know it was weird and I'm going to have Hush stuck in my head.
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I know that Laegrinna isn't exactly any sort of durable, and she's facing knights in armor, but why the hell does she take so much damage from bog standard civvies, too? I need to work on my trap timings if I want any chance of fulfilling those requests.
Also, Extreme mode in Project Diva F/f turns into button mashing a lot. Why? I get some of them, like in MMORPG Addict's Anthem's rapping section, but why do you need it in Ashes to Ashes? Kaito sings fast, but I really don't think you need that long a stream of notes every five seconds. I cannot get the timings down for them, since I prefer single-handed for most segments.
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Started up Spec Ops: The Line. The game prompts are using XBox buttons and I'm using a Mouse and Keyboard, so I'm constantly having to stop and look at what the button is. I tried using my controller, but I am shit at shooting games with a controller. But I'm slightly less shit with a mouse and keyboard.
The music in this game is great...ish. I've heard a couple of songs, but for some reason it weirded me out a little bit. Maybe because it was being played in universe but I don't know. All I know it was weird and I'm going to have Hush stuck in my head.
You're in for one HELL of a ride. Just pay attention to the details.
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Finished GTA III within a day from my last post. Well, I actually died 10 feet away from ending the final mission, but I did complete it with just the weapons you get there before.
All in all, it was quite a nostalgia trip. I played it first time before San Andreas was out. It had a feel of being bigger back then. Nowadays it looks small and easy, and yet it has its charm. The feeling of looking at some part of the city from afar. Or the feeling of driving through the dense fog. And I'm glad I got to relive a feeling I really enjoyed - going through the traffic at full speed on a blue Banshee. Good times, good times. This was time well spent.
Also, it seems dump trucks aren't all that rare at all. Neither are Securicars, aka moneybags-on-wheels. Though I Scream ice-cream truck stayed true to its "super-rare" reputation, I didn't hear its jingle even once (outside of that mission where you must blow it up).
Waiting a bit with Vice City, got busy with my scoring.
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I've recently gotten back into Fire Emblem Awakening. I constantly direct one unit to attack another guy, then all the enemies surround said unit, causing them to die and me to restart the level. To make things worse, the higher-level units are starting to average out the enemy encounters so they're too high for me to level my lower-level units. DX
I'm thinking about buying the grinding DLC or just restarting. If I don't, then sooner or later, I'll miss out on some of the child characters because my low-level units are too weak to fight the enemies, meaning I have to leave them out of battle, meaning they'll get no support points.
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I've recently gotten back into Fire Emblem Awakening. I constantly direct one unit to attack another guy, then all the enemies surround said unit, causing them to die and me to restart the level. To make things worse, the higher-level units are starting to average out the enemy encounters so they're too high for me to level my lower-level units. DX
I'm thinking about buying the grinding DLC or just restarting. If I don't, then sooner or later, I'll miss out on some of the child characters because my low-level units are too weak to fight the enemies, meaning I have to leave them out of battle, meaning they'll get no support points.
just a general FE tip since I've never played awakening, but take away the strong unit's weapons and leave him somewhere where just enough enemies can attack him so he doesn't die.
that way he doesn't kill them, but takes enemy aggro away every turn, making for easy leveling for the weak units. unless they changed the AI somehow.
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just a general FE tip since I've never played awakening, but take away the strong unit's weapons and leave him somewhere where just enough enemies can attack him so he doesn't die.
that way he doesn't kill them, but takes enemy aggro away every turn, making for easy leveling for the weak units. unless they changed the AI somehow.
Wait, so if I just have Lissa heal them every turn, I can draw all the enemies to the strong unit and let the weak ones finish them off? Sounds like a good idea, but everyone except magic users and Virion still has to worry about counter attacks.
And of course the day I cobble up the money to buy DLC is the day Nintendo does server maintenance. >.<
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I'm getting close to breaking a 2.5 hour time on Half Minute Hero: The Second Coming.
And yet I keep looking at my runs and going "oh god this section was god awful" or "oh fuck I lost like four whole minutes on this section because I'm ass at it" etc
Trying somewhat seriously to speedrun a game is... actually the most fun I've had in a while~
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Wait, so if I just have Lissa heal them every turn, I can draw all the enemies to the strong unit and let the weak ones finish them off? Sounds like a good idea, but everyone except magic users and Virion still has to worry about counter attacks.
And of course the day I cobble up the money to buy DLC is the day Nintendo does server maintenance. >.<
It kinda depends on Awakening AI. In earlier FEs the AI always seems to go for people who can't counterattack first, meaning melee AI goes for your crossbowless archer, and AI always goes for a character with no weapons or a staff, which does negligible damage. Look out though, if you aren't careful about positioning, their units could go for anyone on your team who A) can't counterattack and B) has less def/res than the weaponless unit.
Especially a playthrough of Radiant Dawn on hard completely relies on this in the early game, since you get a bunch of prepromotes that are horrible in the late game, and a few really weak units who are good once they get promoted. In that game I often just sent Sothe/Tauroneo to a tile like bush, which has +defense/evasion and let them tank all the attacks while having all the weak units pick the enemies off. Healing with vulneraries every turn.
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So installed Steam on the laptop I'm currently using. I can't play my full library on it, but I should be able to play a decent amount of it.
Noticed VVVVVV now has Steam achievements. Beat it twice once with all trinkets and the other just a simple clear in Flip Mode. Did very bad cause I hadn't played in a long time.
Tried a little Ys Origin and Oath in Felghana and was getting destroyed early in the game. I'll certain play through these again soon and try to get used to them again.
Was surprised to see I still had Platinum God when I loaded Isaac. When did they add Steam Cloud? because I know I never played Isaac on this computer. Didn't get past the second area though.
I'll try some of the other stuff in my library some other time. I might go back to getting destroyed on Ys Origin Nightmare and Felghana Inferno.
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I beat Spec Ops: The Line yesterday. Wow.
So how much of that was real? You'd think at some point Lugo or Adams would have done something. Also I didn't realize I could do anything during the end and just stood there. I think I figured out what it was about the music that weirded me out so much. It was suppose to, it was suppose to disconnect me from the game. Going, "Hey this is a game. You can stop at anytime." But I didn't stop, I kept going. And the game really pounds that into you too. I didn't feel like a hero.
Anyway, I started Xenoblade. That game wasn't has hard to find as I was led to believe. It kind of reminds me of White Knight Chronicles.
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Currently my focus should be Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu 1.5 but I am constantly finding myself playing Puzzle and Dragons and Love Live instead.
Seriously somebody help me. Please.
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I'm still working on EBF3. May I please get my Akron already?
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(https://scontent-b-mia.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/t31.0-8/10494388_261874257350220_2302217057699506833_o.jpg)
Finished Vice City. Final mission is disapointingly easier than I thought.
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So, I finally found that Tera Bomb recipe I've been looking for for a while now. It was at the Highlands. Turns out the first time I was over there (in a rush to get the Star Piece I desperately needed for a Meteor before time expired on the "use a Meteor 3 times" mission), I saw that rock and couldn't break it down, since I was focusing way more on doing stuff rather than upgrading the bombs I had. I forgot about it, and since some recipe books changed between the original and Plus version, I didn't bother looking at a walkthrough.
When did I get it? Overtime, Month 2. AKA postgame. Meaning I should have had that ages ago.
Anyway, now I need to find more World Spirits so I can get those Traveler Shoes, something else I should have gotten ages ago, but since I didn't, I used the one I found on something else, and slippery slope.
EDIT: Oh, fun. Turns out World Spirits drop from two places. The DLC dungeons from the other two games. Considering the normal enemies are only slightly less tough than the Iron Giant (aka the resident superboss of the original)...
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Got the achievement for beaing VVVVVV with under 50 deaths after grinding Time Trials to try for V Ranks.
V ranked 5 of the 6 levels in VVVVVV. Only missing the laboratory, which seems doable enough outside of that final trinket.
Space Station wasn't too bad, but took a few tries to not screw it up.
Tower was the same.
Warp Zone took some time to get right, but isn't that difficult either.
Final Level also isn't that bad, but I screwed it up a lot before getting it.
Space Station 2 took a lot longer than I had hoped. Had several 1 death attempts due to Gordion Knot(and the occasionaly Veni Vidi Vici, but Gordion Knot was more of the deaths).
I just have the Steam achievements left for the final V rank, 30 and 60 seconds on Super Gravitron, and No Death Mode , but I really don't expect to do any of those last 3, though I could definitely put in some tries occasionally, not that I'd expect anything to get past gravitron or the first intermission.
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Almost to reaching the final boss in Epic Battle Fantasy 4. Hello there, Godcat, but I'd rather meet and greet your shikigami. My sincere apologies.
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Touhou 9, Crimzon Clover (New), Ikaruga (New), TF2, Mushihimesama Futari Black Label Original, Akai Katana, Animal Crossing: New Leaf.
I need a life :ohdear:
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So, someone (not naming any names here) apparently misread the recipe for the way home to include "A" dragon horn instead of an A. Dragon Horn. So now I don't have enough time before Astrid comes and picks them up to make the actual item... not that I could get the damn thing anyway because Iron Giant kills me easy.
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Have I mentioned Kantai Collection here yet? No?
Oh, how unfortunate.
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Time for Dark Souls 2! This is a whole lot harder than the first one. x_x
Approximately 30 deaths so far without encountering the first boss yet. The memorial in Majula currently reads about 147 million deaths in the game world thus far.
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♪ ♪ Mond, Mond, Ja, Ja ♪ ♪ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69z_IN64EG4)
... Ironically, the current title for this thread is rather appropriate.
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I lost my shmupping drive a bit, so time to take a small vacation. IN VICE CITY! One evening, and I've already unlocked all map. The rest of the main story should be easy. I'll see about extra stuff. Looking forward to races, actually.
EDIT: Day 3. Did all main missions I could before needing to buy additional properties. Skipped a number of side missions that are too troublesome. Time to look up what's worth investing into before rushing to the end so I can do a bit of cool stuff in peace.
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I'm back to playing Skyrim! This time with both DLCs and fully modded!
I have played Skyrim twice before, my first playthrough was as a Nord Warrior, the second, an Imperial Conjuration Mage, this one I'll be a Khajiit Thief/Assassin.
Unfortunately my rig (read: my GPU) can't really run Skyrim well (and by that I mean can't really run it at all) so I have to deal with a maximum of 30FPS at 800x600 resolution and minimum settings while constantly suffering from FPS Drops, and that's after applying literally everything that could've increased my performance that I found.
'Course, the fact that I'm running 80 mods at once doesn't really help but :derp:
My last two playthroughs of Skyrim were a blast so I hope this one will be as well, I just started it so we'll see how it goes.
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I feel both so close and so far away from the platinum on Final Fantasy X HD. The only trophy I have left is Perfect Sphere Master. But I still need to fill a lot of the grid for 4 characters, though at least I don't have to worry about spending a lot of time farming luck or even clearing luck because I went to just enough to get over 35 and use Ultra-Null All to guarantee hits on Penance and used overdrives for the high luck enemies. The Dark Aeons and Penance weren't too bad.
Also started up another playthrough of FFV. I'm done with the fiesta for this year, but I wanted to do more solos. Doing it with Freelancer this time and plan to actually upload boss vids(though the ones I tried uploading didn't work, so I might have to do them again)
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Yesterday, got done with Vice City. Didn't even bother with most remaining missions, just went over all race/checkpoint missions. Today, thought about San Andreas, and decided I DON'T want to go through all that again. So just downloaded 100% save and did whatever little I actually wanted to (mostly races again).
With this, I'm done with all games I wanted to play one last time. A few actually interesting ones still remain, but now my "Games" folder feels as light as ever. Time to whip myself back into shmups.
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It's always extremely funny when the Al Bhed Psyches fall against another team... but against the straight level 1 Kilika Beasts?
(explanation: The Psyches are the strongest team in Blitzball, who start at around level 3, despite the fact that only the Luca Goers and the Besaid Aurochs have had actual experience. The Beasts are the absolute weakest team, able to be curbstomped by the default Aurochs. None of their team can get goals past Nimrook even under ideal conditions. Even Tidus' Jecht Shot or Wedge's Wither Shot have at best a fifty-fifty shot, and they're the two best shooters the Aurochs can get early on.)
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I'll be getting a 3DS within the next few weeks and as such I'll be starting Fire Emblem: Awakening shortly, too. It's been... quite some time since Sacred Stones, so for the vets out there (and to dodge necro-posting in the old thread), I have a handful of questions before putting 100 hours into this:
1. How do supports work now? Before, you smooshed together all your dudes in a giant supportgy at the end of the map, waited 80 turns before a bunch of people say stuff at another bunch then wiped out the boss. And you only got 5 support conversations in per character before they were spent for the REST OF THE GAME. Considering that a whole major point of this one is to get people hitched, I really hope this is different now. :[
2. How does reclassing work? The characters seem to have a good spread of classes and I question how relevant it is for some of them. Are there enough chapters/sidequests/DLC to merit grinding 2 dozen characters up through 35 levels of their base and promoted class only to send them back down to a different class with a weapon they have no skill with and level them up all over again? Is there a certain time to do this for a given character?
3. Just how much should I care about the avatar's starting strength/weakness? Wanting a male avvy seems to have put enough of a dent in the shipping list that I'd at least like to have the stats go the way I'd like.
4. How are the units-per-map limitations this time around? Sure I don't mind paring thing down a bit, but I'm always a-scared of raising everyone up to be great and then finding out I can only use 8 units on a bunch of maps. :/
5. Is it worth it for a GBA-era veteran to just play on Hard/Classic? It's been awhile, but the game seems to favor anyone with half a mind for creating horrifyingly potent supersoldiers through genetics, stat manipulation, and the like.
6. Unfortunately I got bored at my cruddy job last year and got the skinny on all of the characters, including the kids. All I really need to know is that the offspring inherit SOME of Mom and Dad's growths, stats, and their last skills, right? This... probably won't make much of a dent in my OTP list. >_>
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1. Supports are obtained by having units standing next to each other or being Paired Up (an Awakening-specific system where one unit acts as 'back up' and strengthens the main unit, and they essentially become one unit). Unlike the GBA games however, support points are only gathered through taking active actions - engaging in battle, healing each other, etc.; Overall, it's actually extremely easy to build supports.
2. Reclassing is like an advanced version of Sacred Stones' reclassing. You have branching promotion options, but can also 'sideways promote' via the use of a Second Seal, resetting your level to 1 and entering into another class. There's some argument over the ideal points to reclass, but generally it's accepted that because skills are all learned by specific levels (level 1 & 10 for unpromoted classes; 5 & 15 for promoted classes), you generally don't want to hang around unnecessarily. Regardless, you can only maintain 5 skills on a character anyway (you can freely swap between skills learned), and only a handful of DLC stages are even close to tough enough to want 'optimal' characters. So you don't have to worry nearly as much about optimizing it.
3. I don't think they actually matter too much, unless you are insistent on min-maxing stuff. My personal suggestion would be to make sure that Speed is not your weakness, and HP is not your strength, but it's up to your objectives.
4. Aim for a team of 15. There are a handful of DLC stages where you can bring more, but that's the cap for the majority of the game/stages.
5. If you're familiar with the games, I suggest going straight to Hard/Classic. Especially if you're already playing eugenics. (Lunatic starts runing the fun I think)
6. The offspring inherit growth rates from their parents (Average of theirs, their mother's, and their father's), stat cap modifiers (adds together the mods of both parents and adds +1 to them all), and also will come with the last equipped skill on each parent's list automatically, based on what they have when you enter the chapter where you recruit them.
What I really want to stress is that Awakening is very relaxed in general compared to the GBA games. The characters are all very balanced and there's basically nobody who's genuinely useless (even if you try to create a bad kid you pretty much can't). For a first playthrough, just play according to your gut rather than trying to micromanage every detail.
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oh shit i finally beat Mom in binding of issac :derp:
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So right now I'm playing TESV:Skyrim, Tera Online, Assassin's Creed 2 and, occasionally, some random Touhou game.
God, I once told myself I want to actually do something productive this summer.
Most of the time I'm awake it's games.
I hate myself.
Oh, let's get back to games.
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Just been playing a demo version of a game called 100% Orange Juice; to see if it's worth getting it while it's on offer...
It's like Mario Party meets Roll to Dodge. May poke some friends to see if they'd be up for playing it too; as I won't want to get it just for the single player. (Puppy jumped the gun, though, and bought it for herself~ :V )
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WORDS! :wikipedia: WORDS!
Oh man. This is really helpful. So the FE folks seem to have really made some stuff a bit more user-friendly. Reclassing is completely different than what I thought and I have something to aim for in terms of characters and classes that I'd probably be naturally drawn to anyway.
Thanks for all of this. Clearly, the answer to the underlying question is that I've played too many games lately where planning things out through to the very bitter end of the game before I even start is a prudent move and I should just shut up and enjoy it. :V
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100% Orange Juice
I agree, this game is pretty fun if VERY RNG based. Your comparison fits pretty well. :V
Also Poppo best character.
Always.
*battens down the hatches for when the Poppo haters arrive*
...Meanwhile, X-COM Enemy Within is a thing. I made it right to building the Gollop Machine before I ran out of time and the final country left me. At least I had a save from before to give the month another go, but this time I'm getting things done WAY EARLIER than I am now so as to just barely squeak in the Temple Ship before the end of the month.
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...Meanwhile, X-COM Enemy Within is a thing. I made it right to building the Gollop Machine before I ran out of time and the final country left me. At least I had a save from before to give the month another go, but this time I'm getting things done WAY EARLIER than I am now so as to just barely squeak in the Temple Ship before the end of the month.
Yeah X-COM's greatest weakness seems to be that the early game is real tough and doesn't tell you that you need to mass-produce satellites and use them like Hello Kitty strawberry scratch-and-sniff panic-reducing Band-aids from the start or you'll be regretting it later. The early game is real rough, but if you manage to get through it, the late-game is almost too easy.
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So, after the first five rounds of play in the League, the Aurochs lead 5-0-0, with the Goers in a distant second with a 2-1-2. Keep in mind that before I started the League, I had only played four games of blitz this file, three of them with two free agents that I no longer use.
The Psyches are in dead last, with a 0-3-2 record. They lost to the Aurochs, the Beasts, and the Glories, and tied to the Goers and the Fangs. It's apparently gotten bad enough that they traded away one of their defenders for a power shooter.
Also, good job ACI for having me babysit three newbies all in the White Tiger Mirage up against a balanced vet team. I'm good, but I can't make all the kills for my team against a 2000-MR guy (I'm around 1700).
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I have been playing Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil! :)
In my opinion, Embodiment of Scarlet Devil is one of the most unique games in the series, and with good reason. The music in the game is very well done, which is comforting due to the amount of times you will hear them again as you die repeatedly. The characters are colorful and diverse, while also sprinkling themes (underlying or otherwise) such as Christianity and Shintoism, as well as the conflict between Humans and Youkai with them. The character models, sprites, and resolution aren't too high in quality, but the environments and bullets (more so the latter than the former) are colorful, though they do not completely make up for it. The gameplay is fun, and despite its apparent simplicity there is a lot that goes into it. It is also an incredibly difficult game with a simple yet unique story and tons of replay value. This game doesn't overindulge in any references that may be niche (except for some themes), the game has universal appeal, and really, that's how ZUN wanted it.
And that's my take on what I have been playing recently. (:
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Well I squeaked through by actually doing stuff like shooting down a Battleship. Next up, Classic.
May the RNG have mercy on my soul.
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Well I squeaked through by actually doing stuff like shooting down a Battleship. Next up, Classic.
May the RNG have mercy on my soul.
Kantai Collection?
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Kantai Collection?
Nah, X-COM: Enemy Within.
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Oh hey, been a while. Picked up New Super Mario Bros. 2 and Metal Gear Rising recently, beat both as of two days ago.
NSMB2 I still wanna at least get all the exits and Star/Moon coins, though it'll bug me if I don't get the one million coins thing, it'll be really tiresome TO get it...
Metal Gear Rising reminds me I'm crap at games as Armstrong punched my face in a lot,though Monsoon wrecked me way worse. Sam was a disappointing fight with too little variety given how I awaited it, especially when compared to the way other bosses went, such as Metal Gear Ray(though topping the spectacle that is that, especially since it was the PROLOGUE boss...).
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Amazingly enough, KOG managed to respark my interest in Elsword with the new job paths coming out, that plus the Jumping Event tomorrow, considering this time the jump is from 1 -> 60 (instead of 1 - > 40) and you can do it up to twice per account (instead of once) and they're giving you a free +9 weapon if you reach level 70 with a jumped character, I guess I'll stay on KR for a little bit, if nothing else I'll stay until the novelty of the new job paths is gone.
Even if the new job paths themselves can't participate in the Jumping Event, they managed to make the boring and agonizing portion of the game (The Early Game) a lot less agonizing by simply making every dungeon a lot shorter, which means the game is actually bearable now.
Now if only they fix the endgame content from being a needless grindfest to "Actually Bearable" then this game will be perfect again.
Wonder if I'll manage to get the money to buy my Sakra Devanam a B Slot though, the Ara Revamp made Sakra an absolute beast in dungeons, and she wasn't half-bad before either. When you can spam Shallow Assault with reckless abandon and STILL not have what to spend your En Orbs on, you know there's something wrong.
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Should I play Battlestations: Pacific or should I not? I'm still working on Kancolle and EBF4 but unfortunately, I find that I'm a little unmotivated for the latter...
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Because the people at the Nintendo hotline are awesome, they gave me a free code for NES Remix to make up for me wasting my free game on DKCR3D. :toot:
So far, it's a very fun game. The challenges aren't overly hard (If you aren't going for the rainbow stars, that is), There's a large assortment of different games to play, and the gimmicks they throw at you to screw you over in the Remix stages are surprisingly fun.
I'd say that if you can't decide what game to get for the Club Nintendo Elite Status promotion, you should get this one, as I really like it.
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Finally, finally got the fairy Morgan in ACI. After seeing players vent tons of MPBMs to block me from getting any sort of points traction (and sometimes it seems like just me specifically, but no, they're just far more effective against ground targets - not a good deal against an Attacker), it's nice to finally be able to use it myself... even if I can't actually mount MPBMs until level 4.
Now I'm curious if anyone will fly the Block1 Morgan against the fairy Morgan to implement a Prototype vs Upgrade scenario... even if the prototype is leagues better.
Also, apparently you need to progress in the story a bit to get Item Reels and Aurochs Reels to appear as prizes? Is that it?
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I haven't posted for a while but recently I have been playing some new games like crazy market and some old classics like Blazblue.
Crazy Market- A free game where you have to scan a certain amount of items each day. Sometimes you have to scan items twice or enter the code on a keypad. There are mystery boxes that have powerups like laser scan and slow down with some penalties also like speed up and work harder. Sometimes there will be babies, dogs and bombs on the belt also. Right now, I am at Day 30 where the boss tells you that you have to do 2 missions a day and if you fail the 2nd one. you have to start the whole day over. :colonveeplusalpha:
No Heroes Allowed: No Puzzles either- Anther free game with a fun concept. Here, you have to match 3 or more monster tiles in a row in order to make monsters to attack heroes trying to capture the guy who summoned you. You can also dig up treasure in the mine and combine different monster cards with items and heroes to level up and eventually evolve said monster. You have picks to break blocks which causes other blocks to fall and you can slide blocks into empty spaces. There are also 5 different tiers of monsters. You start out with a slime, an omnom, a lizardman, an orc, and a dragon
My only problem with the game is that if you don't pay for any pickaxe upgrades, your max number is 3 and you get one pickaxe every 7 and a half hours :colonveeplusalpha:.
Final Fantasy Duodecimu- The only thing I did here was go to the mirage tower gateway in Confessions of the creator and get all of the Lufenian gear on the third floor.
Blazblue: Continuum Shift Extend- I started playing this game again. All I did was discover new stuff for Iron Tager and play online. My goal was to get the Trophy for getting 200 Pr rating in a ranked match and I got so close too as I ended the day with 192 Pr rating for Iron Tager.
I have to talk about something else, people who use Stylish mode online. I don't mind stylish mode at all as it is another way to play the game and to help new players. But I think Stylish mode is a little too overpowered online event though it removes your ability to burst. Being able to get 1700~2100 damage in one combo by pressing one button repeatedly and being able to perform distortions and even Astrals by holding one button.
I had someone do Tagers astral on me which if you don't know, the command is a 1080 motion + D. In Stylish mode though, you can just hold one button.
Like I said before, I don't hate stylish mode it just is annoying online facing someone who uses it online especially since most of my matches in ranked were against people who used Stylish mode.
Also, I can't show you right now but I updated my MUGEN. However my laptop refused to charge on Tuesday and it died on me so it has to be repaired. With luck, it is just changing out a part in it for a new one(If anyone wants to know I think the part is called the charge jack).
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I did a booboo and started playing Final Fantasy XIV after about a month of not playing it. I'm trying out Pugilist and am having a lot of fun. Maybe one of these days I'll actually get around to beating the main plot.
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I just played Crypt of the Necrodancer for an hour and a half, and now my forearm hurts like crazy.
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Just bought a 360 just to play the 2 Dodonpachi games and Cave's other bullet hells. I'm currently playing Daifukkatsu (well, imported Resurrection) and Ikaruga. I have Touhou to thank for getting me into this genre.
I'm just practicing DFK Hibachi in training mode with Auto-Bomb Strong style, but damn is it hard, especially the last insane barrage. It's not helping that I can't focus on both the solid blue bullets and the shiny white/purple bullets at the same time. I swear I am so getting better at Touhou after I master these, haha.
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So I picked up Rogue Legacy. Holy fuck what is this I keep dying in stupid ways
Also, how the hell does a Berkut do worse than a Fencer-F in Deathmatch? The latter's an ECM craft, for god's sake!
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I just played Crypt of the Necrodancer for an hour and a half, and now my forearm hurts like crazy.
Crypt is hella fun
it's such a simple game technically but goddamn
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Well, I stopped playing NHA and Crazy Market already but that's because I got addicted to Zen Pinball 2 again. Even though I only have a couple of tables, I like all of them. However my favorites right now are Plants vs. Zombies, Epic Quest, Street Fighter 2, and Paranormal. I also have my highest score in the game on Paranormal which is 125 Million points. The other ones are around 15~26 million points.
Also, I finally got a new TV in my room which means I can start playing PlayStation 2 and Gamecube games again. I am thinking of trying to go back and beat sonic spinball or beat Expert in Super Monkey Ball Deluxe, however I am horribly out of practice for them( I can't remember the last time I played Sonic Spinball :V).
However, I tries out Melee recently and I tried out All Star on Very Hard. All-Star on Very Hard is well... Very Hard :V. The place where I gameoverd the most is when you have to battle two people at the same time. Later it becomes 3 people at the same time. It doesn't help that my main is Ganondorf who is slow in most of his attacks.
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WATch_Dogs. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYILsq_T-yA&feature=share)
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Touhoumon: Fire Red
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I successfully broke 2 hours 20 minutes speedruning Half Minute Hero 2 today on my stream
I'm getting much more confident about calling it a World Record (I mean to my knowledge I haven't found any other full game speedruns so I sort of have it by default, but I'm getting to a point where I'm starting to feel quite proud of it)
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oh my god i accidentally touched the trapdoor to the next floor in binding of isaac because it was right beside the entracne and ended up losing so many items fuck video games
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I've been playing a lot of Binding of Isaac lately, and I've accomplished a lot of stuff. So far, I've managed to beat Mom's Heart with everyone, and even killed Satan as Cain. Add to that that I managed to get a lot of items in the collection and managed to get both Basement Boy and Momma's Boy, and I can say that, not to toot my own horn, but I'm sorta a master at the game.
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So I've finally exhausted my Stocked Fuel... and I haven't managed to breach 3k in the Team Deathmatch event. I would have liked to get the MTD Stripes, but that's my fault for persisting against a crowd of PAK-FAs in a simple Zipang Tomcat. I need to level up those QAAMs. Managed to net one last sortie four minutes before the event ended and Team Deathmatch was locked up again, which made me laugh a bit.
Also, I think I've put more time into Blitzball than I have actually playing the main game on this file. I'm still going through the Thunder Plains.
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I've been playing a LOT of Megaman games recently, mostly the classic 8-bit ones. Today I did a buster only run on Megaman 2. I got a game over at Heat man's stage and in Wily stage 5 (the boss rush stage). Other than that, it was a okay run. I actually died at the exact same time as I killed the final boss:
(http://i.imgur.com/rS8kS8U.png)
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I did a booboo and started playing Final Fantasy XIV after about a month of not playing it. I'm trying out Pugilist and am having a lot of fun. Maybe one of these days I'll actually get around to beating the main plot.
You should focus on main plot, it unlocks basically everything.
Just started (notice I vanished for a month, this is why), now I know how bad PUGs are, and really need some decent statics for endgame.
PS: I HATE Twintania.
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I have hit quite the conundrum in Dark Souls 2: I have a good sword-and-board tank character, a good invinci-frame power-stancing swordsman, and the start of a good paper-thin hex mage. Now I have no idea which one to play as. Any plans will probably all be flushed down the toilet with the 3DS coming in soon. :V
Edit: It seems so ridiculously easy to overlevel in this game. I'm just passed the Shaded Woods (which was fun after getting used to the borderline invisible dudes there, btw) and I have a soul level of 100 even. Some of it has been summoning, grinding for the sunbro covenant, and grinding for a full Alonne set + Captain's armor, but that's it. I've been steamrolling the last couple areas/bosses and have bought so much in the way of smithing materials that I have way too much stuff that's upgraded to +5/+6. Maybe I should just focus on plowing through the next few areas?
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You should focus on main plot, it unlocks basically everything.[/url]Yup. It's easy to try to just ignore it, but a lot of game systems are locked behind progression (Retainers unlocked after the level 17 story quests; grand companies (and mounts) after the level 20 trial; and so on. There's a huge amount of stuff that unlocks after completing the 'final dungeon' at 50 too).
[url]Just started (notice I vanished for a month, this is why), now I know how bad PUGs are, and really need some decent statics for endgame.
PS: I HATE Twintania.
PUGs are a thing but you can get some crappy people in statics too. (And then it's usually harder to tell them they're holding the group back)
I'll say that the best groups I've ever had haven't been statics - just good players who actually know what they're doing. I got one group that we went through all three original EX Primals in one shot each, no echo; and then put Titan EX on farm for another five attempts or so (Two of us were new to Ifrit EX too when it happened and we still pulled through on a first attempt). Similarly I found a group one night for Twintania for my first run that was able to just crush it in about 3 attempts even with three new people.
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PUGs are a thing but you can get some crappy people in statics too. (And then it's usually harder to tell them they're holding the group back)
I'll say that the best groups I've ever had haven't been statics - just good players who actually know what they're doing. I got one group that we went through all three original EX Primals in one shot each, no echo; and then put Titan EX on farm for another five attempts or so (Two of us were new to Ifrit EX too when it happened and we still pulled through on a first attempt). Similarly I found a group one night for Twintania for my first run that was able to just crush it in about 3 attempts even with three new people.
My best Twinatnia run thus far had a total noob main tank. It was so great, he listened to all the advice we gave him.
Phase 2 is still a pain even if you know what to do, missing one conflagration marker can spell instant wipe if it's a short one.
Last ex fail I had just failed the DPS check (i.e it enraged), which always feels crap as it's basiacaly unfixable.
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My best Twinatnia run thus far had a total noob main tank. It was so great, he listened to all the advice we gave him.
Phase 2 is still a pain even if you know what to do, missing one conflagration marker can spell instant wipe if it's a short one.
Last ex fail I had just failed the DPS check (i.e it enraged), which always feels crap as it's basiacaly unfixable.
New people are usually the best because they listen. Like I was doing Aurum Vale and was the only one there who had done it before and we only wiped twice, once because I forgot about the second bosses 100 Ton Swing (I'm a SMN and didn't have to worry about it) and the second wipe was to the last boss because the healer went AFK (she told us) but after explained the boss fight the tank forgot or didn't read or something and charged the boss.
Now the next day, I got Stone Vigil. No message about a bonus, so I figured everyone knew the dungeon and they did. Mostly. No real problems until the final boss. The healer just would not dodge the AoEs. And in hindsight we should have noticed she wasn't the greatest healer. If a fight lasted longer then a minute she'd run out of MP. And the tank was great, he grabbed as much as he could and held onto it. But on the bright side I found out SMN can cast Resurrect in battle.
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So I was going to buy the PS3 version of X/X-2 because sale, but then I saw the size of the thing. 23GB. What the hell. Seriously, how do PS3 remakes require metric tons of space like this? I mean sure, textures, improved poly counts, HD, but come on, I don't have nearly enough space to get that thing in my system.
Blu-ray never really hit me how much you can put on a disc until I saw this.
Anyway. Dubai is the special sortie area this month, and the rare plane is an Archangel Rafale with LASMs for its initial SPW. Why did it have to be Dubai? At least the more annoying one, Tokyo, was the initial special area, so no worries about that one for a few months yet. People are calling the new Rafale "Morgan lite", given its relative stats and price tags. Honestly, I hope they eventually bring in an Attacker for the rare plane one month, so I can use my better anti-ground skills.
Akiba's Trip got delayed a week (it was supposed to come out today), so there's that.
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Note to self: Playing Ara in Elsword for a very long period of time hurts your fingers.
Note to self the second: Capping in Elsword takes a very long time.
Note to self the third: Do not wait for the last day of a capping event to cap your character.
That's what I get for playing such a mechanically-intensive character though.
And it's amusing how I started tonight in level 65 (cap is 70) and, after 5 hours straight grinding the dungeon that rewards the most experience in the game with a permanent 135% boost to experience (plus the occasional bonus from random missions) and I'm still level 69, let's not forget that KR has the lowest EXP Table in the world (19 million experience from level 69 -> 70, where, in other servers, it's 33 million).
Why do I still play this game? ):
@Edit
That was 6 hours down the drain, alas, I got the level cap. +9 weapon, last year's christmas avatar set, 5 sage gems, Uniel Pet, Item Magnet Aura and a Moby RT Mount.
I guess it's official now - I'm maining Ara. I just hope the B Slot prices are not too steep when I get around to buying it.
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Hey Sacchi, have you spent any money at all on Elsword? I stopped playing a while ago because I got sick of playing the same dungeon three times in a row over and over and over and over again, but is it always this way?
Anyway, still playing Fire Emblem Awakening. Decided to start over because I screwed Owain up way too badly and denied one of the girls a Pegasus Knight class. I think I have all my pairings decided now, though some aren't the most optimal; I just like the shipping. Now I just have to choose between Vaike!Morgan and Kellam!Morgan. I know Morgan is good no matter what, but I'm not sure if I should give him more strength (Vaike) or more defense (Kellam).
I need to get around to playing more FF14 because school starts again next month and I won't have time to play.
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Hey Sacchi, have you spent any money at all on Elsword? I stopped playing a while ago because I got sick of playing the same dungeon three times in a row over and over and over and over again, but is it always this way?
Very, very little, probably not even $15, at least when we're talking KR Server - I've spent at least $200 on BR though.
And unfortunately yeah, you have to run the same dungeon a billion times, it's one of the major problems of the game especially towards lategame when running Heart of Behemoth is the best way to get exp and you get like 3% exp per run, starting on level 66. Even when we're talking KR with their low-ass EXP Tables and pretty much unlimited duration double exp events, it still takes forever (Like I said, it took me 6 hours of pure grinding to go from 65 to 70), fortunately KR gives a BUNCH of free stuff to ease the pain, but still.
FORTUNATELY SPEAKING KR is fixing those problems little by little by shortening dungeon length, but it will take a while to be fixed outside of that server.
Protip: Don't play Elsword if you don't like PVP, the game is dumb in way too many levels, in both pvp and dungeons, just that dungeons suck a little bit more.
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Due to the situation with Twitch, I've officially moved my streaming over to Hitbox.tv (http://www.hitbox.tv/Garlyle).
Honestly I already like it way better anyway, ass backwards new Twitch policies aside it's got a bunch of little things that I just vastly prefer.
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In between Final Fantasy XIV, I've been playing Rogue Legacy. This game is really, really fun. A shinobi with dwarfism might be my favorite class. Altough a Lich with HP/MP swapped is pretty neat too. I need to focus on getting through the forest at some point though.
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Super Amazing Wagon Adventure is silly but fun. That's all I have to say.
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Though I'm more focused on finishing 4JF, I had some time with Fire Emblem: Awakening. Stahl (armed with his default bronze sword) was one-shot by a Risen chief (armed with a hand axe) with maybe a 70% chance to hit and an 8% critical chance. 20 minutes of time down the toilet.
RNG rooooooads
Take me hoooooome
To the plaaaaaaaace
I belooooooong~
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So I've been making good progress on the event in Destiny of Spirits, but for the life of me, I don't know why I keep getting Reverdandi for the raid boss. I'm fighting pretty much exclusively in the Canada region, but even when I've been in the US and Pacific regions, I just keep getting her instead of the two, you know, I'd actually like, since I want to kill enough of them to get the L20 rewards. You'd expect the EU region to have the glut of Reverdandi (since it's an evil version of their "main" spirit, Verdandi), but no, apparently.
I'd forgotten how bloody annoying the Cloister of Trials - Zanarkand Edition is. Hey, how about this puzzle you need to have pen and paper handy to get the right kind of blocks for? And god forbid you don't have Hastega for Tidus by the time you fight the Keeper, otherwise when he pulls off Glyph Mine, they'll detonate before you have a chance to move out of the way.
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Picked up a refurbished 3DSXL and Shovel Knight. Fun stuff. Brings me back to playing Mega Man II when I was little. In retrospect, how did I ever beat that game?
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So among others, I've seen a billboard proclaiming the release of the Neptunia anime on DVD, the OP to Conception II, an advert for some sort of anime-based slot machine, and some snippet of an idol concert during my time in Akiba's Trip. What amazes me more than that, though, is that they were allowed to remain in the international release.
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WARNING: :wikipedia: Long Post Ahead
I have been playing a lot of Mario Kart 8 online recently and I had the worst lag yesterday. First course was Mount Wario I got in 2nd and my friend got in 5th. We crossed the finish line but the 3rd lap music was still playing and no one was doing their victory animation. My friend showed the map to me on the gamepad and there was someone painfully lagging to the finish. Then everyone started doing their victory/lose animation and it turned out that something happened due to lag because the game said that my friend got in 6th with a Rosalina that he never saw in front of him in 5th.
The next race with lag was on 3ds Dk Jungle. At the end of the race I boosted past someone with a mushroom to take 4th while my friend got 2nd. Again the same thing happened and I ended up in 5th and my friend in 3rd :colonveeplusalpha:. After that race, we left the room because everyone else left. The rest of our online races were normal, right now I have about 3400 Points.
Now that I have played Mario Kart 8 for a while, there are things I'm noticing about it.
- It seems easier to get better items no matter where you are. I got a lightning and a bullet bill in 3rd. I also got a crazy 8 in 4th. The Super Horn is still super rare though.
- N64 Toads Turnpike is the worst course in my opinion because there is nothing much to do. Its basically driving in a large circle for 3 laps :V. They tried to make it more interesting with antigrav walls and trucks that have glider ramps on them but it didn't work. It also makes the race feel extremely slow and you just get bored.
- I think when you race online, it is automatically set to 100cc unless you make a custom rules race because when I play offline on 150cc it feels much faster then online.
- It seems like a lot of people don't know about the shortcut you can do in SNES Donut Plains 3. You skip an item box but you save a lot of time.
- The only character that I don't like is She Who Must Not be Named(Pink Gold Peach) :V. I feel as though they could have taken her out and put someone else back in like King Boo, Petey Piranha, Dry Bones, or even ROB just someone else other then her. I don't mind the rest of the characters
- It seems like whenever Electrodrome comes up, over half of the room picks it. Other tracks that are like this are Toads Harbor, Mario Kart Stadium, and Rainbow Road.
- A lot of people online like to go as their Miis but there is a lot of diversity with the characters online. People actually use the entire character roster online unlike Mario Kart Wii where it was basically Funky Kong in the Flame Runner. There are also a lot of vehicles used online as well.
Now I will finish off with my favorite tracks.
Mount Wario
SNES Donut Plains 3
Melody Motorway ( That's right I used the European name for it. I like the name much better than Music Park)
N64 Rainbow Road
3DS Piranha Plant Slide
Sweet Sweet Canyon
Thwomp Ruins
Dolphin Shoals
Bowsers Castle
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I'm recovering from a really bad sinus infection that was brewing for almost two months before turning into a full-bore status ailment, so lately I haven't been on my PS3 much, if at all. I've just been at the computer doing stuff. Playing SRW, mostly. Trying to get through Labyrinth of Touhou 2 but I suck at it. And I hit a really bad batch of luck in Genius of Sappheiros after the Rin+Utsuho fight. Paralysis+Instant Death enemy group that destroyed me in ONE TURN. Augh. Good thing you keep item drops if you lose in Weekend. lol weekend. That song ("Weekend" by X-Japan) is playing in Winamp right now. roflcopter loaded with forty keks.
I did manage to beat Mugen Souls Z a couple of times. I'm just on the postgame not doing much. I'd rather play something else. There's some busywork trophies in Neptunia V I can get, at least.
"Weekend, weekend, weekend, I'm at my wits end..."
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FE:A on Hard isn't fun and I don't care about any words to the contrary.
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Finished Nightmare Yunica again on Ys Origin. In game time was barely sub 5 hours which is a lot better than my blind playthrough. Of course, I wonder what it'd be if the game actually counted deaths against you and didn't reset the timer to whatever it was when you hit a checkpoint. Still, I'm going to consider this decent for not having any sort of route or decent strategies.
I'll probably replay it again with Hugo and Toal and see if I can improve on my times from my original runs with them. Toal will definitely be an improvement because door clips even with higher MP use on Nightmare should save a lot of time, Hugo I'm not so sure cause he doesn't really have any speedtricks that I know of, plus I don't care too much about playing him.
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It feels strange when people are doing Nightmare runs of Ys Origins that I'm still attempting to get through a Normal playthrough of Ys I. I finished up the Rastin Mine earlier and got all of the equipment I can get, so there's really nothing I can do other than really head for Darm Tower. Fun times await me it seems (especially since hurray, level is capped at 10 in the Chronicles version of the game).
One day I'll be doing Nightmare too. Just uh... after I finish I, II, Oath in Felghana, and Origins on Normal. :V
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That was the level cap in the original PC88 version of the game too. I found darm tower fun, but it's too easy on normal imo.
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Started playing War of the Lions. Confession time, I've never beaten this game. I owned it way back on the PSOne, but just never beat it. I can't even remember how far I got. But that changes today! I'm going to beat it this time and in my grand scheme of naming Mages Marisa, she's going to lead me there. I also have another Chemist that I'm going to keep for awhile. I think last time I played I ignored it and upgraded ASAP. But having him set in the back and chucking potions is really useful and I taught him Protect.
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my grand scheme of naming Mages Marisa
Ahahaha, I know that feeling. Every time I can make an Archer, I name her "Linea" (after the one from Stella Deus).
I played Disgaea D2 today. Got Laharl(-chan) up to 50 reincarnations for maximum growth adjustment on non-Rasetsu. Started work on Etna, then just got REALLY tired. Finally got Touhou SRW #2 patched. Had issues with the readme's checksum (a common issue from what I understand) and then some other crap happened but now it works although it'll be a really long while before I get to it. Man, not even being able to adjust the screen size on the first game sucks. I like fullscreen.
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So apparently I just beat up all 48 members of a certain popular idol group in Akiba's Trip. I don't know what the hell I'm going to do with all of these idol outfits, though. If only I could enhance my partner's unique equipment.
Also, when you crossdress in this game, apparently you get falsies, too. (And yes, this is a thing for a certain sidequest. Why they let you keep doing it afterward is a mystery.)
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Kantai Collection, as usual...the event has been driving me crazy.
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Appears I did well enough despite a dismal end to the season in my Blood Bowl leauge to get promoted up at least 1 tier.
And I did well enough as an admin to be 'promoted' from running the lowest division to the 3rd lowest.
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Bought The Witcher 1 and 2. This game gives out cards when you sleep with female characters! Wow! :toot:
no really does it get less gross
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Playin DKC Tropical Freeze.
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FE:A on Hard isn't fun and I don't care about any words to the contrary.
about the only reason I would agree with this is Asshole Reinforcements?
but for real I've done no grind + no pair up runs on Hard and they were pretty fun, among others, so I'd honestly say that short of certain assassins spawning in out of nowhere with no real pattern Hard is really the ideal difficulty
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but for real I've done no grind + no pair up runs on Hard and they were pretty fun, among others, so I'd honestly say that short of certain assassins spawning in out of nowhere with no real pattern Hard is really the ideal difficulty
No grind, no pair up, no second seals, shops only from the maps you just cleared, immediate paralogues. Classic FE all up in this bitch. it was hell sometimes
But yeah, about the only part I don't like about Hard is the "surprise reinforcements eating your face", which is learnable but not exactly fun on first times through stages.
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Hard really was all well and good until it hit a stage that was just naturally a touch more difficult than an average stage. I had a small handful of restarts (Stahl getting the 4% crit one-shot was the worst of them) but then got into some of the random encounters and Donnel's recruitment chapter. Now, very early random encounters were fine, but it didn't take long before I regularly hit rough encounters where there would be 2-3 wyvern knights and 5 mages plus extras on a map in which there's no choke point or good hiding spots at a point in the game where there were only so many tools to handle stuff like it. This being random encounters, it meant grinding was either really rough or next to impossible without hoping the RNG or some wonky bit of AI would go in my favor.
Donnel's stage was the real problem though. The game became formulaic. I had to use characters A-H, who had to be placed at coordinates X:Y and equipped with weapons J-M. At turn 2, characters C and D had to be moved to attack enemy N to reduce its health to <= 3 so Donny (paired with character F) could stand a fair chance to hit (reduce the chance of the enemy scoring a two hit kill resulting in a restart to 30%) get exp and be recruited. After 10-12 redos (and another low crit % 1HKO) I realized that I was using characters I didn't really want to use as a crutch, and they were only gaining support levels with a limited band of characters (melee with mages/healers/ranged units). After that, the formula became simplified: The game wasn't fun, so I didn't want to play. Knowing the game to a fault became necessary to get what I wanted out of it and I didn't want that.
In short, it's easy to see why people can enjoy the game on hard, but during rougher chapters I wasn't able to do so. Maybe on Normal the end of the game and the DLC stuff won't feel quite as rewarding as it could, but all of the other stuff will. Hence, reset, restart.
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I'm playing Dynasty Warriors 8 and using the Baidi Castle trick to get people to level 99. It doesn't work in XL. There's this infinitely-respawning pile of rubble that you can destroy and the game considers it a siege weapon, which means it's worth more exp than generals are. You just have to make sure Xu Shu doesn't get near the area or else the siege engines become player-controlled. There's a glitch in the stage where he won't follow his assigned path and instead ends up outside the castle gates, so if you've got that, you're mint. You can run back and beat up Ma Chao, Ma Dai, and some Nanman generals once your kills hit 1500 for a chance to proc Fortune (which is one of the hardest skills to level up), and then go back to blowing up siege weapons until you're level 99. Quick Learner at level 12 means you need 2200-2500 rubble kills to hit level 99. It's not a hard skill to level up, at least not until it goes double-digits. Then the chance just sort of nosedives even if you're playing on Chaos.
I have most of Wei done. It takes about 16-18 minutes to cycle from the stage selection screen into the stage and back. It's a story stage so there's a lot of dialogue.
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Labyrinth of Touhou - Currently on Floor 26, working on the Shiki bossfight
Kamidori Alchemy Meister - Finally collected all the Relic Accessories, time to grind...
Fate/stay night - Last couple days of UBW. Kinda tempted to DL Realta Nua before I start HF, b/c of that recent complete patch.
Various MMOs - LoL, Maplestory (hiatus), Elsword, TalonRO
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Donnel's recruitment chapter.
Pin the top left corner archer in and poke him to death with Donny, problem solved. I'd say that is one of the harder chapters in the game to beat with no pair up, though. :V
Nah, I get where you're coming from. I'm just a hopeless FE addict and I've done dozens of challenge runs over the series just for fun to mix things up.
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And an improvement to my Nightmare Hugo time on Ys Origin.
My Nightmare story clear times(in game timer) are for the 2 characters I recently redid are now:
Yunica: 4:59:44:466
Hugo: 4:15:54:983
I'm definitely satisfied with these at the moment because it's not like I've got decent routes or boss strategies for these 2 characters. Maybe one day I'll go for even better times.
My first run with the third character was a bit over 7 hours of in game time. I'll improve on that run eventually since I don't plan to do that run for a while.
I thought my time with Hugo would be slower because I remember him being a much slower character, but considering how great his wind skill is for survival since it allows you to easily take lots of hits, some decent area attacks, and ranged normal attacks, I was able to go through some areas without having to go warp back to checkpoints to avoid losing progress like I did with Yunica.
I'd love to get sub 4 on my next run with the secret character since he is the fastest, but I kind of doubt it because of being completely melee, so I could see lots of warping to checkpoints to avoid losing progress. But then door clips do save I'm not sure how much time exactly.
Hugo pretty much trivializes a lot of Nightmare mode, so I was able to breeze through most of the game without much trouble. While it's arguable whether Yunica or the secret character is hardest, though I kind of find Yunica harder to play myself.
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Kamidori Alchemy Meister
Oh hey, this game. One of the few games I actually had a good time playing in Japanese.
Anyway, fought off another batch of 47 idols. I tried to pull idol vs idol by bringing in Rin, but she got curbstomped pretty hardcore. Hell, I nearly got curbstomped hardcore, and that was with Zenya's lightsaber/glowstick upgraded and a snazzy business suit with over 200 defense.
Also, wish I could have replayed the S rank battle in the Arena. I kind of wanted the underwear sets from the Stripism cosplayers.
Additional: If I get SAO: Hollow Fragment, will I have no idea what the hell's going on if my only real exposure to the actual show is the premise?
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Pin the top left corner archer in and poke him to death with Donny, problem solved. I'd say that is one of the harder chapters in the game to beat with no pair up, though. :V
Nah, I get where you're coming from. I'm just a hopeless FE addict and I've done dozens of challenge runs over the series just for fun to mix things up.
A bit late, but... Yeah. even though I just got a 3DS and have a boatload of games that I want to play, this one's already on the short list of ones I would enjoy replaying. This time, I have a specific plan that I want to go through to get certain characters, supports, and classes. I'm not going bonkers with reclassing and maximizing, though I'm doing enough to make things colorful. Maybe next time will be different if I can afford to get around to a replay that focuses more on character usefulness and breaking the AI more than my current playthrough. Pinning an archer in a corner is certainly possible with team-ups and two cavaliers, and I never payed much attention to those archers in the NW corner until one dropped Lissa with two quick shots.
Speaking of which, first round of reclassing done. Lon'qu actually felt like a better thief than Gaius did, and likewise Gaius felt more like a myrmidon than Lon'qu. The've both swapped after getting both abilities from their base classes.
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So I'm attempting The World Ends With You on a recommendation from a friend. I haven't done too much so far (I've only just started Day 3 of Shiki's week), but so far my fears of the game being something I would be completely unable to handle because of the dual-screen battle system have been abated... so far. I'm probably going to get my ass handed to me in the future if I don't get a better grip on the battle system. ^^;
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So I'm attempting The World Ends With You on a recommendation from a friend. I haven't done too much so far (I've only just started Day 3 of Shiki's week), but so far my fears of the game being something I would be completely unable to handle because of the dual-screen battle system have been abated... so far. I'm probably going to get my ass handed to me in the future if I don't get a better grip on the battle system. ^^;
Depends on what difficulty you wanna play on. Normal isn't too bad, Hard's a thing though, do not be me and attempt Level 1 Hard Forever. (Also depends on how fast you try to get through it - the whole "stat growth from food capped per day" can make a major difference). What I took to doing after a while was only focusing on the top screen, and using pins with controls that I could basically "automate" myself with minimum focus on the bottom screen so I can rack up stars on the top screen, dodge properly up there, etc.
(Also if you haven't been told: Don't spend Scarletite on partner attack/defense boosting stickers. +max fusion level yes, but not the attack/defense; at the end of the game there's some major upgrades that will want Scarletite and they're a bitch to get once you run out of the free supply from events).
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Yeah, seconding the Scarletite comment. I'm pretty sure there's exactly enough freebies to give you all of the essentials - fusion boosts, pin slots,
bottomless stomach
but other than that it takes a lot of effort to get -one-.
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So I'm attempting The World Ends With You on a recommendation from a friend. I haven't done too much so far (I've only just started Day 3 of Shiki's week), but so far my fears of the game being something I would be completely unable to handle because of the dual-screen battle system have been abated... so far. I'm probably going to get my ass handed to me in the future if I don't get a better grip on the battle system. ^^;
The simplest way to make things work for a while is to just mash left or right as appropriate while focusing on Neku, occasionally looking at the top screen to make sure you're hitting enemies. Doing that will get you through most things, though a couple of the trickier bosses will require some more focus up top.
TWEWY is in my opinion unquestionably the best game on the DS. I love every single thing about it.
do not be me and attempt Level 1 Hard Forever
aka The Best Way To Play :hi5:
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I decided to do my other Ys Origin Nightmare improvement instead of waiting and being a bit out of practice.
So I was somehow doubting getting a sub 4 hours. Sub 3 final save point is a definite sub 4 hours. Ended up improving my time for the true storyline of the game on Nightmare all the way to 3 hours 22 minutes 49.066 seconds.
Maybe I should do Nightmare Boss rush with his normal version soon while I'm still somewhat in practice so I can finish that Caress of Steel achievement I should have had a long time ago.
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I am about to start up trying to clear Sonic Spinball again. It is going to be even worse now because I have not played the game for over 3 months. I will post about how it went when I am done playing Spinball for the day.
The hardest part for me is probably going to be the Machine simply because of how much precision you need and you need to time everything right.
Wish me luck. :colonveeplusalpha:
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Stonehenge is actually a nice change from Moby Dick. 4 large, spread out major targets (which are under ECM, so no guiding), with occasional minor targets forming up a circle around Stonehenge. The jammers are constantly under bombardment by the Stonehenge cannons (which are actually really dangerous). Then there's an enemy ace squadron, Stonehenge's main jammers, then the AA support around the railguns, and the railgun itself. Unlike Aigaion, it's way too easy to smack down the last cannon and end the mission early.
I might have to adjust my old Fencer-F to UGB duty, rather than my Fencer-D with LASMs. Unless I can somehow level up the other planes in the Sukhoi section of the tree....
Otaku difficulty in Akiba's Trip is actually pretty hard. Enemies will evade more often, will perform Counters and even Counter Strips, and gang the hell up on whoever they're attacking. When they hit, it's usually quad-digit damage, so my clothes are in need of constant repair. I was also surprised to learn among the advertisements ingame, there's an ad for a couple of 18+ establishments, which you probably wouldn't even recognize were one unless you looked it up.
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It is time to talk about what happened in Sonic Spinball. I might as well start from the beginning table and work my way from there.
Toxic Caves- Nothing too much to talk about although I did encounter an odd glitch. I was hitting the boss and I suddenly died for no reason. Also, the barrel on the second tier that you have to ride sometimes moves left and right at the bottom of the playfield.
Lava Powerhouse- Nothing too special happened on this board. The only thing I have to say is sometimes the game is very picky whether you get the boost for hitting the cluck in the steam arena.
The Machine- This was the second hardest level for me. The main challenge for me was to get to the elevator shafts on each side. You can either wait for the wheel to face your direction and hope you get lucky or you can hit the power chamber 3 times to stop the wheel automatically. However the power chamber takes you in a random direction when it launches you out so you have to be careful.
The Showdown- I only need to say 3 words.
Bust Blocks First! :colonveeplusalpha:
Oh and the blocks reset when you die :colonveeplusalpha:
Sounds like fun doesn't it. :V
Also if you have the rock kickback that stops you from losing a life on and you go from the left or right playfield back to the middle, it takes it away from you and you have to hit the targets again. :V
So Yeah, the showdown is a really tough level.
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I'm still amazed I was able to beat Spinball as a kid.
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I could never beat the second level of Spinball. I got the emerald to show up once. But couldn't get it.
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Gravity Rush. It's almost a crime i decided to play it after almost a year, i actually got it. It's beyond words. This game proves that games are true art.
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"Oh boy, Xillia 2 arrived in the mail!"
>You have to build up Gald via sidequests at various points in the story in order to be permitted to progress
are you fucking kidding me
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sadly, yes you do.
Finished Chapter 5 earlier. Been playing it on Hard mode the entire time so far. The weakness system is so good, even though I'm kind of sucking at it a lot of the time, but occasionally I'll get an okay weakness combo in on a boss. Need to make a payment to go on to Chapter 6. Also need to check if there's any character quests available. I haven't seen any yet. Only trophy I have for it at the moment is the one for a 200 hit combo since the story ones are a lot later in.
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Again, the thread's title is appropriate.
Plague Inc., Evolved
Game 2:
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/4yuMGx.jpg)
Game 3:
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So Neptunia Re;Birth1 is now out in the States. And they've already shifted a bit from the original storyline (which is immediately lampshaded by Neptune). Nep-Nep gets HDD after Virtua Forest (after falling in a hole with a Guard Vermin inside) instead of Evil Cave (and gets the Key Fragment out of it too!), the Remake system is so much better than Scouts, etc.
So if you've played Victory, you remember the random bull that happens whenever you send out Scouts. The Remake system swaps all of that stuff out with item crafting and data management. As long as you have the plans for the specific thing you're after, and the stuff to craft it with, you can use it pretty much any time you feel like. The only thing is that crafting items like the usual Nep Bull adds to the data cap, so if you grind too much for accessories, you might not have enough memory to slap on, say, a Risky Foe in an area, without letting go of other area-related stuff.
Also got FEZ, since free, and I'm making... some sort of progress. I'm not fond of the fact that it basically demands a smartphone with QR capability or all of the decoding you have to do with screenshots.
Picked up Ace Combat Assault Horizon again because I should really get those last few trophies. The fact that the English version sets the highest rank at A instead of S was apparently so damn annoying last time I played. Also campaign does not give points for customization. wtf
If you haven't bought Danganronpa yet, now's a good time - it's half off on PSN! You'll even be prepared for the sequel!
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I'm working on playing Touhoumon: Fire Red.
To hell with the S. S. Anne, (almost) all of my Touhoumon are named after ships. Enterprise for example.
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So A Second Mario Bros X Thing has been out for a few days, and I've been blazing through it while raocow's working on his LP of it. I feel bad somewhat for being so far ahead of the curve, but at the same time it lets me anticipate his reactions to some of the funnier or amazing things.
I've also given another Talkhaus production, Superb Demo Sisters, a try. I actually really like it and I think it does a pretty nice job of making a Super Mario Bros (as in the original game) styled game.
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Been playing a lot of Tera lately, since I said I would start playing after I quit my other job. All my roommates started playing as well, but they're idiots and joined a different server lol
Soloing BAMs is easily the most fulfilling part so far, but the whole game is pretty solid, especially as babby's first MMO
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I've been playing DKC Tropical Freeze and Touhoumon World Link lately. More so the latter.
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Viral Child Wolves are the bane of my existence. Little bastards just keep appearing, and subsequently annihilate me. And now I need to find a way to counter Tricolor Order.
Also, one-week timer clock. I've still got a while to go before I get that last Anti-Cube, huh?
Also also, I hope we eventually get an event to get the special planes again. While I'm personally not that interested in the current Ridgeback plane, the highly limited amount of players who can actually get these planes (to say nothing of people who spend $$$$ on enough Stocked Fuel to pay for the rest of the AC series new a couple of times over) makes it a little silly. And I know a few players who were close to riot when they couldn't get the fairy Morgan because lol random drop or arrived too late.
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I've been playing Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3. Like in the first one, I've been playing Haman more than anyone. And I see why the friendship rank is not that well liked. I think it's a neat idea, but Rank 1 is useless. For those who don't know, you unlock a character by doing the normal stuff like clearing missions and befriended others. And that character will send you, the player, an email. And you can start building friendships with them. But wait, they aren't really unlocked. You got to replay a mission where you're on the same side. And then you get them as a partner. You play a few more missions with them as your partner and then they're playable. Can't we just skip that first step?
Like I said, I think it's neat that they build a friendship with the player. But what is the point of Rank 1? You're unlocked, now go out there and be my assist!
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Azure Striker Gunvolt is the best 2D Mega Man game in a long time
and I'm willing to bet I'll like it more than Mighty No. 9 as it's basically a MMZ game
also if you buy it now you get a retro-styled version ("Mighty Gunvolt") for free which I still have yet to touch but
gunvolt's a hell of a lot of fun.
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So it looks like now in ACI is an upcoming ranking event with Strigon's plane on the line, Pixy's Solo Wing Eagle... and we're still waiting on this month's special point challenge. The ECM/ESM challenges are interesting, though, if a little annoying due to the Growler or L7 Fencer-F for the ESM requirement. They're expensive as fuck right now - the Growler starts at 281,600 credits, and getting the Fencer-F two more levels will cost even more.
Danganronpa 2 and Velocity 2X (free for PS+ even!) coming out tomorrow; get hype!
September is going to be awesome for me this year. Fairy Fencer F, Ar nosurge, etc.
And Ganache has a face now?!
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Azure Striker Gunvolt is the best 2D Mega Man game in a long time and I'm willing to bet I'll like it more than Mighty No. 9 as it's basically a MMZ game
also if you buy it now you get a retro-styled version ("Mighty Gunvolt") for free which I still have yet to touch but
gunvolt's a hell of a lot of fun.
Gunvolt's blown me away and back, especially since it came from seemingly nowhere amidst the waning M#9 hype.
Also decided to start another XCOM campaign (Enemy Within, Normal Ironman, randomization options enabled). Should probably get back to my retro RTS binge, that kinda dropped off at the beginning of August and I still need to finish Red Alert's campaigns (although I'm getting to the point where they become a real slog)
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Layton vs Wright is both A. out, and B. really good
It's a very very good entry in both series and also chapter 4 almost made me cry
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I've been in a Skylanders mood as of late, I blame the fact that I haven't finished Swap Force yet (I bought the Wii U special bundle). I just beat Giants again recently...Then screwed up an infinite money trick you could do after beating the game. Needless to say I was pretty :fail: at that point, so now I have to beat it again. :V
I've also been playing Brave Frontier on my phone, it's an RPG kinda like Puzzle and Dragons...But with a lot less puzzling. I love it. :D
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Played through original Max Payne. Fun story with this one. I played sequel first, the original game was crashing before any gameplay when I tried it. I heard it had problems with Windows XP, so I wrote it off to that and skipped it. For some reason, I decided to try it again after so many years, and what do you know, it worked flawlessly! Funny enough, I liked it more than the sequel, I don't remember having as much fun anywhere there as I did in all the lobby shootouts here.
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I just love how I can fly a level 2 Growler (which is an ESM support aircraft), and still get Ace (killed the most targets, period) in an eight-person room. Granted, I was the highest MR, but still, it's a low-level support craft. Also, TDM for Galm 1's craft and Cipher's emblem.
Edit: Wow, what is this, pick on Zipang day? My last three sorties in TDM led to every enemy plane in the sky firing QAAMs and missiles at me. At the same time. That second sortie had me pinned down so hard, I couldn't even get any points (which meant I didn't even deal gun damage, much less an actual missile hit/kill). Then again, I was absolutely curb-stomping in my first three sorties, so maybe it was karma.
Also, Guacamelee! SCTE. I wish they told you about the bomb fling ability (launch two bombs in the same spot, the second one will get shot upward). Also, I do not remember where the rest of the Sierra drops are, and I have absolutely no clue where the rest of the Pico drops are.
Editedit: I cannot get motivation to play through Danganronpa 2. I don't know whether it's because I'm burned out on VNs right now, the very obvious and intentional expies for the DR1 characters, or what.
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I have been playing a lot of Hot Shots Golf World Invitational single player and online multiplayer.
Single player I have 4 crowns and 1 star left to go before I unlock the second Izzac battle. However the crown condtions are pretty tough for all of them.
3-1: Sink a putt of 30 feet or longer.
3-2:Get a pin shot.
6-3: Dont land in a bunker and win. This mission is evil as it takes place in at Al Arabian golf club with the condition of +2 strokes for being in the rough. Al Arabian is home to masive sand traps so you either get +2 or you hav to restart.
6-6: Get a birdie on the last hole and win. This takes place on the Legacy of Golf Links course, the hardest course of the game. :colonveeplusalpha:
Mutiplayer
I got a Hole in one on the Maple Leaf Golf Course. It was on a par 4 course.
On the hole with the house, I shot the ball off the tee slightly late and then my caddy yelled Watch Out! which is usually a bad thing but then Izzac said "a perfect lie" which is usually good. The ball bounced off the walkway where the house was,rolled down the grass slope, and into the hole. I was like :o. It was just so surprissing that a bad shot turned ino the best shot I ever had in any HSG game.
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*insert crowd of obscenities here*
Do none of my squadmates have any concept of how to dodge enemies? I keep seeing on the killfeed, [ENEMY] >> [ALLY], ALLY RESPAWNED, and none of the other color. I at least have an excuse for why I don't get many points - I'm eating so many missiles I can barely dodge, much less, you know, attack. I once had somewhere around fifteen missiles of various types on my six at the same time. Let me tell you, it's hilarious the first time, but the twentieth time enemies throw 6AAMs, 4AAMs, QAAMs, and MSLs all at once at your plane; it gets damn old.
I have the highest survival rate in a field full of PAK-FAs, Raptors, and Eagles in my dinky little tricked out Zipang Tomcat. Note that I have the lowest general stats despite the Zipang being at level 10, due to better air superiority upgrade slots on the other planes. I usually die once every eight ally deaths. Which is sad as hell, especially in four player rooms where I only have one wingman.
EDIT: I now have a new hated pair of planes. The MiG-29 with the MGP, and the ADFX-01 with ECM. In a four-player room, anyone targeted by the MGP is guaranteed dead unless their wingman can get to them, and anyone targeting the Morgan gets the really fucking annoying head-on clash, which means all you can use is guns when it fires off ECM, and it's shooting at you at the same time.
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Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call is out in NA now and I grabbed it and holy shit it is so good. The tracklist is almost twice the size of the original game after counting the original's DLC, since it has everything the original did and then like another 100 tracks on top of that. And it also fixes a huge number of my complaints about the original game:
* You can actually use the RPG mechanics now and still get full points (the original game capped you at S because you could only get the final 200k points by playing with no skills equipped)
* Quest Medley mode fixes everything wrong with Chaos Notes. Every track in the game (including CC's DLC) can appear in it, it's much more involved and interesting to play, actually promotes the use of the RPG mechanics, consumable item drops, etc... and the rewards - including the character unlocks - are miles more stable and better designed than the original's. It's actually reasonable unlocking characters now, instead of grinding the same damn things over and over again in the hopes of crystal drops. Also your scores here are still recorded just like the original's.
* There's no more 'variant charts' based on performance - Summons, chocobos, and extended EMS happen regardless, and there's no more awkward 'actually it's better to screw up and not summon to deal damage' nonsense.
* You can play using buttons/control stick instead of just stylus, so you can play while moving a lot easier (I don't recommend it for field tracks though - held notes ending in swipes tend to respond in finicky manners to the control stick being used).
also the versus mode does have online hell fuckin' yeah
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Just picked up Dodonpachi Saidaioujou and Mushihimesama Futari. Kind of going on a Cave spree atm. I'm currently working on SDJ first and holy hell is it hard; I can't even get to the end of stage 2 without continues. In Expert mode, anyway. It is very thrilling though; the whole game just has a really nice flow to it. I ordered myself an arcade stick (Qanba q4raf) to further encourage myself. It also works on the PC, so I'm a bit excited to try out Touhou with it as well.
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Fire Emblem: Awakening is proceeding quite well. It's mid-game time and everyone is starting to get their first promotions. No one's a real star yet, but both of my offspring inherited Ignis and Galeforce, and their strength and magic makes them a force of nature. Kjelle is not the last of the kids I have yet to recruit, but will be the last one in my main party. The skill and class change system isn't as fluid as I thought it was, but then again leveling isn't as painful as I would think, Gaining support levels works just fine and this has led to many of the main teammates having about 2 support levels with just about everyone. The Nakayoshi-Dan always prevails.
I have also started to get back into Dark Souls 2. I started a hex mage (named Eddie Wizzard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Izzard) who will indeed eventually be a dude in a dress) which starts out very dull and yet has gotten progressively more intimidating as time has passed. He falls over to a stiff breeze but what's it matter if he can wipe the floor with anything that moves and do it twice with anything that doesn't move fast enough. Thanks to some prodding, I have one replay planned in which I'll powerstance the Majestic Greatsword with the Moonlight Greatsword. I hope it looks as dumb as it sounds.
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I'm playing Tales of Graces f. And Kurt was an asshole. He had to have like unlimited CC and just attacked and attacked and attacked and attacked and attacked. Then he attacked some more. Not to mention he kept calling in backup. Not to mention he has this boss ADD they all seem to have now, where he's just running all over the arena, smacking everyone. Surprisingly enough, I found out Cheria can take a hit better than Huburt.
And I've been going back and forth on who to use between Pascal and Sophie. I've mostly used Asbel, Cheria, Huburt, and Pascal and that's a very offense heavy team. Cheria is the only real healer and if all the bosses are going to be like that, I'm going to have to switch Sophie in to help heal.
And on a semi-related note, what the hell is Huburt? He's got that weird Zidane sword for melee attacks that can come apart into two pistols that shoot magic and he has some heals.
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Picked up Fairy Fencer F. It's as if Neptunia took a step back and fused with Agarest. Also, I suspect that pulling swords from the Vile God will not only be necessary to get any real traction in pulling them in general, but that the stories have gotten a very critical component wrong with who was the Vile God. Maybe I'm wrong, but it'll be interesting to see if the True End requires you pull both S-ranks out at the same time.
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I'm having a surge of interest for Super Contra on NES for some reason. I have to say that my danmaku experience helps a lot, unexpectedly. Fun stuff with weapons, though. You thought spread was the best one? I think not. It lacks power when it's needed. Point-blanking helps, but that's not always an option. I much prefer the flamethrower. Strong, unlimited reach and has an area-effect explosion. Might need some work to use effectively, but can do some really neat tricks (hello stage 3 mecha spider). Also, did you know you can CHARGE it? I didn't. Charged shot is the most powerful thing you can have in this game, it's even stronger than laser. It also flies right through the weaker enemies and has a bigger explosion. The funniest part? My favourite character in Contra Hard Corps is Fang, who has strong but tricky to use weapons. Seems like this is the style of characters that I prefer - needs skill to use, but rewards that skill handsomely if you have it.
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Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate has become the main portion of my time now.
help me I can't stop farming for armor and weapons aaaaaa
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Well, at least Neptune's aware of the infamous Conquest End, even if it was just a throwaway description of what Noire's legendary weapon could be. Trauma indeed, Noire, trauma indeed.
All of these fakers are hilarious. Blanc's talking about her (bad) fanfic stories, Vert's doing nothing but playing games and heading to a butler cafe, Nep's in the entirely wrong place...
Also holy shit there's still a ton of people playing Rayman Legends for the challenges.
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I've been playing a lot of Diablo 3 lately. As someone who got the game when it came out and almost immediately lost interest, the recent changes have made it a lot more fun.
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Huh. So the Playstation TV (http://www.playstation.com/en-us/explore/playstationtv) is actually coming out in the States on 14 Oct. $100 for the base system, $140 for that plus an 8GB Vita memory card and the Lego Movie game.
I don't know what to feel about this.
Anyway, how the hell did I absolutely crush Momus beneath IF's heel, but get completely annihilated in the first battle of the path to Celestia? I guess I'm getting those level 99 trophies earlier than I'd thought. Also I desperately need to find where God Souls drop so I can get Nepgear back.
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I've been playing a lot of Insurgency.
Of course, I made some Touhou mods for it :P
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I'm just doing what I'm always doing. SRW and JRPGs.
I'm playing Tales of Graces f. And Kurt was an asshole.
I can't blame you. That's one of the worst boss battles in the game. Normally, there's that thing there where you sidestep attacks towards you and backstep when it's a sweeping attack. I think Kurt has large hitboxes on his attacks so you can't be too close when he does his sweeping attack or else it'll hit you, stuff like that. That might be the boss where you actually need to start adding pluses to your weapons and armor via dualizing. The mook-summoning thing is pretty bad, too. Your allies will go after them instead of Kurt even if their AI is set to "attack strongest" or whatever.
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Just went through Super Contra without continues. With 10 lives code, but still, at least my lives didn't get below 5. This game DOES give quite an amount of extra lives. Just need to work on a few more places (mainly stage 7 facehugger eggs) and might be able to clear without it. Tempted to switch to spread on stage 4 elevator because lolbubbles, but I think I should just learn how to deal with them without it. (Because if I get used to having spread there, not having it would mean assured death. Repeatedly.)
...I don't even know why I'm concentrating on this game. Just feel like doing a run a day. It's fun and feels like a good adventure, even despite its small flaws (lolfinalboss).
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Lately, I have been playing Super Smash Bros. Melee just trying to accomplish new stuff and I have some interesting stuff to share.
I was playing Classic Mode on Very Hard as Roy vs. Mewtwo. There were 2 warpstars on the field and a pokeball. I throw the pokeball, it turns out to be a Charizard. Mewtwo walked into Charizard and got launched up, I took the 1st warpstar and smashed him back down into the Charizard. Mewtwo gets hit two more times and is launched up again, I take the second warpstar and smash him back down into the Charizard again :V. He then got star ko'd.
I also finally cleared 15 Minute Melee for the 1st time as Roy :getdown:
By doing this, I got N64 Kongo Jungle , 2 trophies, and Sound Test.
I actually almost died when there were 5 seconds left but I managed to get back onto the stage with a mixture of Side-B in the air and Up-B. It would have sucked if I failed 5 seconds from the end :V. Luckily, that didn't happen. :)
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I'm just doing what I'm always doing. SRW and JRPGs.
I can't blame you. That's one of the worst boss battles in the game. Normally, there's that thing there where you sidestep attacks towards you and backstep when it's a sweeping attack. I think Kurt has large hitboxes on his attacks so you can't be too close when he does his sweeping attack or else it'll hit you, stuff like that. That might be the boss where you actually need to start adding pluses to your weapons and armor via dualizing. The mook-summoning thing is pretty bad, too. Your allies will go after them instead of Kurt even if their AI is set to "attack strongest" or whatever.
Not as bad as Emeraude
, that was the hardest story boss in the game. Even harder than the actual final boss. And on the subject of Emeraude. She was kind of dumb. I mean she tortured the kid, killed his father figure, and sent an assassin after him. And somehow thought it was a good idea to fuse with him. No wonder he exploded her from the inside.
I'm getting ready for the final dungeon of the Linage and Legacies arc. I was working on getting titles for everyone and saw the birth of a turtlez. That was weird.
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Funny thing with Kurt is that everyone seemed to have trouble with him but me. Never had problems. Emeraude though holy shit.
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Funny thing with Kurt is that everyone seemed to have trouble with him but me. Never had problems. Emeraude though holy shit. She gets worse and worse as the fight goes on, and it's a struggle to tack on more damage. Really well-designed fight.
edit: mobile why
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So I was almost certain at least one of my packages would come in today, but I would be unable to actually be there to pick it up due to lol work and having to leave 2 hours early since bus.
I get back, and notice no packages at all. I'm initially depressed. Just to make sure, I look out the other door. In the corner, a small white box.
Ar nosurge LE get!
Also, I find it interesting that IF is contemplating bringing Re;Birth1 over to the PC. On the one hand, Peashy's console will bring in a lot of people that otherwise wouldn't get it (i.e. Vert's or Blanc's fans), on the other hand, they should probably focus more on Re;Birth3 and maybe localizing Moero Chronicle before going for more ports.
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I beat Lineage and Legacies and moved on to Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call.
This game is really, really hard to put down. But it's so much fun. It's got Mystic Quest and Crystal Chronicle music. Speaking of which I hope Doom Castle is in it. Also Ultros Boogie. Well Johnny C. Bad, since they probably can't put Ultros Boogie in the game. Right now my party is Faris, Lightning, Agrias, and Celes. But before that, it was Bartz, Zidane, Zack, and Benjamen.
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Speaking of which I hope Doom Castle is in it. Also Ultros Boogie. Well Johnny C. Bad, since they probably can't put Ultros Boogie in the game.
Sadly, none of these are. The initial track list you see is actually about 95% of the tracklist - the only unlockable tracks are the tracks used for EMS stages, the three songs you'll start unlocking at ~22000 Rhythmia for FF Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon
, and a couple bonus medley tracks.
That said there's still like 220 tracks in the game and another 50 total will be in DLC or something so uh yeah. I've got like 40 hours logged and still haven't played every song because I've been doing tonnes of Quest Medleys. (By the way, DLC tracks and unlocked tracks [barring EMS] will show up in quest medleys)
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So there's an interesting Shmuck Bait in Ar nosurge. There's an item made through synthesis with the effect "!?!?". Given the text as the item was described (the one who made the item got tea leaves from their version of Heaven, Ion discusses how that means he died and came back), it's obvious that taking it would be bad for you.
Turns out it wipes out all of your barriers (aka health), in exchange for an unspecified boost. If you don't end the battle with Song Magic immediately, you're dead. I'm actually not even sure that even that will help...
Also, there's this really annoying thing with people saying all their conversation lines at once, leading to contrary statements, complete wtf.
...Having Ion here really makes me wish Ciel nosurge in English was actually going to be a thing.
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Divine Divinity - Original Sin
Named my tandem Marisa and Alice.
Wondering if any Touhou mods will get made for this...
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I-I can't stop playing Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
Please SSB4, please come out so that I have a different distraction. I need to break this addiction. I love Monster Hunter but it's almost TOO fun. I don't wanna stop playing games for any purpose, I just want to feel enthused to play something else. I'd play Touhou but to be honest I'm losing my love for shmups. If I ever get into arcade-y games again, it'll be a fighting game that isn't a smash bros game; smash bros is more a party game.
Honestly, I've also been playing Kirby Super Star and Mario Kart 8. I haven't felt much reason to play Futari anymore. I don't mind doing the same thing over and over again, but so quickly just to become consistent? No. I declared "fuck it" to shmups a long time ago. If I ever go back to shmups, it's to play for nostalgia's sake.
NO SERIOUSLY OH MY GOD SMASH BROS HYPE I'VE BEEN PLAYING THE DEMO FOR LIKE TWO WEEKS MAN HNNNNGGGGG. But yeah, seriously, I think this post belongs in the SSB4 hype thread more than this thread from how much I've talked about it.
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(http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/535124949371739026/FD6A1FD253CED82B76F7055CA35C2355AF18C8F8/)
Somebody send help please.
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Legend of Heroes. Trails in the Sky First Chapter. I remember playing it on my old PSP some years ago, and recently (i think it was in august) english version of it was put on steam, which i bought. It's more or less standard JRPG with really interesting story, tho it starts quite slow, likable characters, kinda classy soundtrack and really good battle system. Also Second Chapter is likely coming out in December/January.
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I was playing some Disgaea 4 and the game decided to be mean with me.
(http://i.imgur.com/FxgIXNyl.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/FxgIXNy.jpg)
I have some weird glitches when I skip some attack animations sometimes, like Triple Strike. Instead of being pushed by one square in the direction of the attack, the enemy is pushed towards a random direction, so they sometimes fall out of bounds before dying.
It crashed this time though, maybe because it actually survived.
And wow the game can be laggy sometimes. I know it's not a PS3 but wow.
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(http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/535124949371739026/FD6A1FD253CED82B76F7055CA35C2355AF18C8F8/)
Somebody send help please.
Now there's a game I have not seen in a long time.
I started playing Dark Souls after a couple of weeks. The last time I played I beat the Gaping Dragon and had no idea where to go. So after running around for a bit I found Blighttown. I made it to a bonfire and decided to start exploring. Got attacked by some rats and a thing and died. I was going to get my body back when I fell down got attacked by some other rats, when a dropped down on me and I died. I decided that was a good stopping point.
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Now there's a game I have not seen in a long time.
I started playing Dark Souls after a couple of weeks. The last time I played I beat the Gaping Dragon and had no idea where to go. So after running around for a bit I found Blighttown. I made it to a bonfire and decided to start exploring. Got attacked by some rats and a thing and died. I was going to get my body back when I fell down got attacked by some other rats, when a dropped down on me and I died. I decided that was a good stopping point.
Dex build Baller Swag Sword plus Cleric's armor and shield for all seasons Silver Knight Shield da bes.
Seriously though, Blighttown is a bear. I think you got ratstomped in the sewers, though. It's a good area for Humanity farming at least, and the blobs drop large titanite shards, too. Hopefully the community is still hanging on, because I noticed a tenfold increase in summon sign hits when I moved on to Dark Souls 2.
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gah game stop teasing me with Ciel nosurge this is really aaagh
...Damnit.
Anyway, managed to get the other three CPU Candidates into my party, so now the big hurdle is the 100M credit trophy. And those Cliones. Seriously, screw those things.
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Finally got around to picking up Ys: Memories of Celceta. I think I'm going to get carpal-tunnel from doing a heroic tumbleweed impression to speed up moving around.
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>Having a 3DS and not playing Smash 3DS
I think I finally found something that superceded Monster Hunter as the timesucker.
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You so scary, Sadist Ion. Dat maniacal laughter...
Anyway, got to see Lady Shurelia again, so I'm happy. I kind of miss "adult" Shurelia, though.
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In addition to a buttload of Smash, I have finally obtained copies of Hyrule Warriors and Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
The former is being put aside in favour of story mode zerging the latter.
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So right now I'm playing Ys Origin because my laptop can't handle Adventures of Scarlet Curiosity. Gotta say, playing as Hugo feels surprisingly enjoyable to me. Maybe it's the novelty of playing a shmup character in a hack 'n' slash game (he's even got options for crying out loud).
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God, that final battle took around an hour and a half... or at least it felt like that long. Three different enemies, and the latter two have multiple forms. Route is determined by who you fight with first, but you do have to fight with both sets. So if you've been slacking off on one or the other, you're gonna struggle a lot. My Earthes couldn't even maintain Breaking the absolute final form, so it ended up a slugfest. Having Red Supplements made it impossible for me to die on Hard, so there's that.
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Son of a bitch Hyrule Warriors is a really, really, really damn good Musou game.
Like I expected it to be, but the combat is way more involved thanks to the weak point systems and major boss battles, and even little things like the item collection and rotating tools to deal with certain threats feels great simply because of what it does to enhance combat.
also the game looks to be trucking huge so there's that too, fewer playable characters or no. (there's apparently DLC packs coming with more stages and characters including one for Majora's Mask please give playable skull kid pleeeease)
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I'm getting places!
... Why aren't I playing any of the actually good games I have on my computer?
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Help I can't stop playing Fire Emblem Awakening!
I wish I didn't listen to my friends who told me I should put it on casual and easy(normal? whatever the lowest difficulty is) since it was my first FE game (but not my first Tactical/SRPG) and now it's just like, steamrolling though and with no penalty for dying I feel like it's just way too easy as I'm in what I'm guessing is the final arc.
Getting to play yenta for an army however will never not be wonderful :V
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Help I can't stop playing Fire Emblem Awakening!
I wish I didn't listen to my friends who told me I should put it on casual and easy(normal? whatever the lowest difficulty is) since it was my first FE game (but not my first Tactical/SRPG) and now it's just like, steamrolling though and with no penalty for dying I feel like it's just way too easy as I'm in what I'm guessing is the final arc.
Getting to play yenta for an army however will never not be wonderful :V
Lunatic Classic mode, go go go!
(Probably a bad idea. Reminds me I need to pick this game back up. Barely anywher e in it. Oh well. Right now Smash Bros. has me taken over.)
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I've been waiting for my 3DS and Smash to arrive, so beyond playing Reactivate Majestical Imperial, I've been doing a LOT a Guild Wars 2 to catch up to all my friends at level 80. Last night I... stumbled into the glitch you see in my signature. I guess that's what happens when you impact against the ground very roughly thanks to being launched via asura technology. :V
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Help I can't stop playing Fire Emblem Awakening!
I wish I didn't listen to my friends who told me I should put it on casual and easy(normal? whatever the lowest difficulty is) since it was my first FE game (but not my first Tactical/SRPG) and now it's just like, steamrolling though and with no penalty for dying I feel like it's just way too easy as I'm in what I'm guessing is the final arc.
Getting to play yenta for an army however will never not be wonderful :V
Normal is OK although I admit it took some offputting experiences in a tough chapter to make me swap down to it. Casual is just a bit too much for many. The avatar even makes a statement about not losing anyone towards the beginning of the game and I think it was deliberate because that's how many play it.
Nearing endgame/DLC time in my own game. I'm pairing up the remaining characters, which has taken a decent bit of experimentation to work out (Inigo x Noire was a disaster, but Noire x Brady is proving to be quite fruitful). The odd ones out are as follows: Frederick, primarily because of the lopsided number of males by a sizable margin if you have a male avatar and partially because I don't use the Seth/Marcus-type characters, Ricken, who I forgot I had for about 40 hours of gameplay, Viron for the irony of it all, and Severa, because no one has done anything bad enough to deserve to be paired with her.
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By having a female avatar and apparently missed recruiting a guy completely whoops my Gen 1 crew paired off pretty nicely with no leftovers - though my reasons tended to be solely based on who my sister and I thought personality-wise should match with or who The Best characters were, rather than creating super-soldiers and thus I'm only now working on getting all the fancy skills whoops.
I did manage to accidentally marry Chrom, I mean geez you'd think there'd be some sort of GET MARRIED Y/N choice but apparently S-rank stands for Spouse :ohdear: But them's the breaks when you go in totally blind, I guess I'll go back to the game eventually on not-wuss mode knowing what I do know to pair up people slightly better and wait until Henry shows up to get hitched because he's hilarious.
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By having a female avatar and apparently missed recruiting a guy completely whoops my G
OH NOOOO! Poor Kellam!
Also yeah my final party turned out to be almost completely different than my planned one. If you're OK with playing a bunch of stuff over again, it can be real rewarding to get your 16 favorites all mixed in and getting along/married. All the character classes have their own quirks and perks too so it's worth it to reclass/promote after learning a given class's skills.
I am the nakayoshi John with the nakayoshi plan for my nakayoshi-dan.
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Normal is OK although I admit it took some offputting experiences in a tough chapter to make me swap down to it. Casual is just a bit too much for many. The avatar even makes a statement about not losing anyone towards the beginning of the game and I think it was deliberate because that's how many play it.
Nearing endgame/DLC time in my own game. I'm pairing up the remaining characters, which has taken a decent bit of experimentation to work out (Inigo x Noire was a disaster, but Noire x Brady is proving to be quite fruitful). The odd ones out are as follows: Frederick, primarily because of the lopsided number of males by a sizable margin if you have a male avatar and partially because I don't use the Seth/Marcus-type characters, Ricken, who I forgot I had for about 40 hours of gameplay, Viron for the irony of it all, and Severa, because no one has done anything bad enough to deserve to be paired with her.
Noire x anyone is wonderful. :*
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I tossed Kellam and Olivia together so they could build each others' self esteem up see this is the logic I used for matching people. Stats schmats.
I haven't decided yet who any of the kids are going to pair with. Maybe put Nah with Morgan so I can have dragon grandkids :3 yes I know they don't actually make babies in the game but a girl can dream right??
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If you pair female Morgan with Yarne, the first thing she says to him is "Bunny! :3" It's so hard not to ship them after that. Nah actually wound up being a dark horse favorite because she's comparatively well adjusted but still manages to be fun. Pairing her with Inigo was great because boy does she ever scare him straight.
Noire x anyone is wonderful. :*
Happy Birthday, Noire.
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Oddly, I've actually started playing Path of Radiance again myself. Boyd sucks. I hate you, Boyd. Why are you so terrible.
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Oddly, I've actually started playing Path of Radiance again myself. Boyd sucks. I hate you, Boyd. Why are you so terrible.
Actually he's considered one of the best non-mounted units in the game and for the average player probably one of the best regardless, pretty much only matched by Ike (who has survival issues early). Available throughout almost the entire game, bulky as hell, should have little problems winning pretty much every fight he gets into, and axes are great in PoR and his only major competition early for wielding them is Titania. Unless you're getting absolutely massively RNG screwed on level up he's amazing.
(For the record I've gotten through half of PoR using only Ike and Boyd. Literally half - it was a hard mode draft tournament and the third unit I was allowed to use was Tormod and he's not around 'till halfway through)
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I'm well aware that, on average, Boyd is one of the best and most useful units.
I have never, not once, had a good Boyd.
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Ah, Fire Emblem, the series through which everyone will learn to curse the RNG with their every single drawn breath. No exceptions. :V
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Oddly, I've actually started playing Path of Radiance again myself. Roy sucks. I hate you, Roy. Why are you so terrible.
This is a normal sentiment. Regardless of which game in the series you are playing, Roy is always terrible. Whether or not he's in the game is irrelevant.
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So let's say after I finish Awakening (my guess is I'm 2-3 chapters from the end but I don't know for certain) what FE game should I try next? I do plan to go back to Awakening on a less scrub mode but not immediately.
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So let's say after I finish Awakening (my guess is I'm 2-3 chapters from the end but I don't know for certain) what FE game should I try next? I do plan to go back to Awakening on a less scrub mode but not immediately.
Path of Radiance (Gamecube) or The Sacred Stones (GBA) would be most similar to Awakening overall so as to not completely jar you; PoR's also really friendly difficulty-wise and you could probably challenge one of its harder difficulties fairly safely . It's also in general just really good.
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Path of Radiance (Gamecube) or The Sacred Stones (GBA) would be most similar to Awakening overall so as to not completely jar you; PoR's also really friendly difficulty-wise and you could probably challenge one of its harder difficulties fairly safely . It's also in general just really good.
Sacred Stones is definitely similar and probably something you'd be comfortable with. The first FE game released in NA, simply titled Fire Emblem (Blazing Sword in JP) is simpler in some aspects (no world map, just chapter to chapter) but it's a real great entry in the series and would probably be good too. You could probably get both for like $5 on ebay or something.
Don't play Binding Blade ever. It has Roy in it and the handheld squirts lemon juice in your eyes whenever you try to make Roy attack a bad guy. It also plays a cheesy 80's sitcom stock laugh track every time he levels up. It's very fitting because he probably only got a point in luck or hamster grooming.
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The plain ol' Fire Emblem GBA I did try once, but I was stuck in some sort of tutorial mode for like over an hour and I was just super bored and annoyed and gave up. I'm guessing there was some sort of DUMB NEWBIE CHOOSE THIS that I did that I probably shouldn't have, but now that I kinda know what I'd be in for I'm willing to try it again.
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The plain ol' Fire Emblem GBA I did try once, but I was stuck in some sort of tutorial mode for like over an hour and I was just super bored and annoyed and gave up. I'm guessing there was some sort of DUMB NEWBIE CHOOSE THIS that I did that I probably shouldn't have, but now that I kinda know what I'd be in for I'm willing to try it again.
That FE being the first released in the west, Lyn's Story (the first ten mini chapters) was a dedicated Tutorial. It's after that when the game 'really' begins.
On future playthroughs, you can pick the Hard Mode version (which removes the tutorial and makes it a bit more difficult) or skip it entirely.
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Yeah the start of the game is kinda condescending because it treats you like you're dumb as a brick. The game hits its stride proper with the introduction of the other lords. That being said, I still played through the 10 chapter intro each time I played it, and I think overall it's a stronger entry in the series than Sacred Stones.
I'm sloooooowly coming to terms with the fact that I've put 2+ straight months into FE:A and should probably consider moving on soon. Most Likely to Bravely Default. None of my teammates have taken any damage over the last 3-4 chapters, I've coupled everyone I can and I've gotten plenty of supports with the characters I like most. Most likely Bravely Default will be next. Dark Souls 2 has seen some playtime and I've toyed around with builds and found out some fun things: Power-stancing spears is viable and enjoyable, getting the hang of parrying is great and that I prefer having that option compared to greatshields, the ol' bow and arrows are an effective and oddly versatile tool (fire arrows on the oil pools in Black Gulch, poisoning mini-bosses from a distance, and aggro-ing specific targets come to mind), and every pvp'er will backstab fish until lag reaches a point that you're backstabbed by someone in front of you. Real glad I never bothered with pvp much in these games.
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>Backstab in front of you
Had an enemy do that to me in Dark Souls. I was annoyed.
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So Dragon Age: Inquisition is out next month and my old saves are on my old roommates 360 and I don't even own a 360 myself, so I'm replaying the first two games. A girl at work is letting me borrow her Ultimate Edition, which is nice since I didn't do Awakening or Witch Hunt last time. I'm also a City Elf Rogue. And I'm trying to be nice this time too. Last time I was a Human Mage and was an ass to everyone, except for Liliana.
Also, can I got straight for Oghren? I seem to recall heading for the mountains early on was a bad idea.
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I'm sloooooowly coming to terms with the fact that I've put 2+ straight months into FE:A and should probably consider moving on soon.
Challenge runs! No second seals! No pair up! No grinding! :getin:
For real, though, Bravely Default is a damn good time as well, so I can't really dispute your choice.
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EOU2: Electric Boogaloo isn't out yet, so I'm scratching the dungeon crawling itch with the Dungeon Travelers 2/7th Dragon 2020 combo! Whoever designed the outfits in the Dungeon Travelers series needs to be fired though. DT1 was pretty bad but DT2 is somehow just as bad, if not worse '_'
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Challenge runs! No second seals! No pair up! No grinding! :getin:
Some other time. My only regrets now are that I put it on Normal after what you said was the most painful chapter on Hard and that I planned everything perfectly with the exception of class availability and stat caps. Owain was a natural war monk but his strength capped at 37 while his luck hit 51 because Donnel was his dad. Owain was supposed to be my giant middle finger to an enemy hoard but with his best stat being the most useless it got real frustrating. Similarly Cynthia capped strength REAL early and I only found out later that putting 2 offensive skills on a character is a bad idea because Sol blotted out her Ignis skill and by that time I didn't even need to heal anyone ever. :V There were also times when I couldn't reclass a character to one that I wanted and wound up in trouble because there were voids I couldn't fill.
For real, though, Bravely Default is a damn good time as well, so I can't really dispute your choice.
Oh sweet Georgia Brown tell me the characters and soundtrack stay this strong throughout. It's almost a tragedy that such a small device can only deliver sound with a certain degree of clarity. Also oh crap friend codes are actually a thing?! Better find out what the heck to do about that.
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Oh sweet Georgia Brown tell me the characters and soundtrack stay this strong throughout. It's almost a tragedy that such a small device can only deliver sound with a certain degree of clarity. Also oh crap friend codes are actually a thing?! Better find out what the heck to do about that.
The music's pretty fantastic. The only real issue I have with Bravely Default is that at around when Chapter 4 wraps up the game starts doing a lot of material re-usage that starts kinda dragging down the game, but - and mega spoilers here - at least you can skip it all and go straight to the final boss, and admittedly fighting stronger versions of the initial bosses is pretty fun. I think I'm looking more forward to a NG+ where I just have every class from the start though.. but first I'm going through everything for the 'long end'.
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The progress continues!
... Somebody save me.
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Max Payne again. Ran through New York Minute without much trouble, though not without some use of quicksaves. Still, this showed me that there's absolutely no need to be stingy with resources if you can play it right, and that "run in and just kill everyone" is a perfectly viable and sometimes even highly preferable strategy in this game. I backed off on Dead On Arrival earlier because turtling habits were pretty much killing all my chances of success. Initiative and element of surprise can win a gunfight before it can even start. Speaking of DOA, would try doing it sometime. Even limited saves isn't that much of a problem, maybe I won't even need to plan them all out. I'll just need to be in the mood to work stuff out on the fly and die repeatedly in the process :)
In general, I much prefer the original's higher difficulty, with the danger of being killed by a few well-placed shots and much more strategic usage of bullet time. In sequel you would pretty much spend all fights with it on, what with it getting more effective with each kill and regenerating all the time. Here, for the most part, you just shoot normally. And usually in constant motion. And actually using all the different guns all the time.
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Got Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus Let's Get Physical! Edition in the mail this morning. It's really fun. So much faster than Burst. Playing through Hanzo's story first, cause the cool kids ain't available from the start. Can't wait to play as Hikage. And the game knows it too, one of the first loading screen tips I got was talking about how to play as her. Also fighting in Yin form is a lot more doable. Hope it's still same after I max it, in Burst hitting max Yin was practically a death sentence. Wet tissue paper had more defense.
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Picked up Astebreed on a whim. The game's story really feels like it was meant to be told over 20+ hours instead of the 30 minutes it was given, though I feel like applauding it anyways for at least trying to integrate more than a bare-bones story into a shmup. Maybe next time they can try telling it in a way that doesn't force me to look at a text box in the corner of the screen, away from the bullets, to figure out what's going on.
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No Steam please these offers
No please stop
My wallet is crying
(Okay, so the past few months I played State of Decay, Mark of the Ninja and Plague.Inc Evolved, I also just bought the Tomb Raider reboot as well as the game + full DLC pack for XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
I bought State of Decay on a whim back when a friend had recommended it to me, saying that "the game is not so much about zombies", I, however, did not buy any of the DLC - which was a good decision in the end because, for as good as the idea behind the game is (survival) it wasn't good enough to actually pique my interest for more than one run-through
I got Mark of the Ninja because I was told that was "the best stealth game to date", I went ahead and picked the the designer commentary DLC because that's all I really wanted from the game - an idea of how to actually make good stealth games. The game was superb though I have my problems with the ending, it's mostly a personal thing though, some people will like it, some will not.
Plague Inc. Evolved I got because frankly my tumblr was exploding about it and I was curious, the game is interesting and certainly a good way to dump a few hours on, I don't know how realistic it actually is, but frankly it helps to raise awareness about the importance of medical studies, in a... weird way.
As for XCOM and Tomb Raider? Well, I was a major Tomb Raider fan for a long while before the series died out and I was pretty hyped for the reboot. I actually wanted to buy it but never had the cash on-hand to actually get it, then Steam comes along with an 80% sale on it and I grab it immediately. The same can be said for XCOM (minus the "fan for a long time" part) which, thanks to sales, made me dump a bit more than R$30 what would otherwise be a R$200+ purchase.
I now know the pain of everyone who's a long time steam user.)
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Legend of Grimrock 2 is really really good.
Also pretty damn hard especially if you take the "no autosaving/quicksaving" option that is Iron Man.
But mostly really good. It's keeping my interest way better than the original did.
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Speaking of DOA, would try doing it sometime.
That time is now. Let "I Wanna Be Max Payne" commence! Almost done with first part in just one evening.
As a side note, the rats are unexpectedly cute.
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Legend of Grimrock 2 is really really good.
Also pretty damn hard especially if you take the "no autosaving/quicksaving" option that is Iron Man.
But mostly really good. It's keeping my interest way better than the original did.
Oh wow, I totally missed that Grimrock 2 was a thing. Might have to pick it up once I have money...
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So my copy of Senran Kagura is apparently still stuck in California... four days after it arrived, and two days after it was supposed to arrive at my house. Arrrgh. If only in-store pickup was possible for that.
Anyway. Picked Soul Sacrifice back up. It's actually kind of funny that you can Sacrifice Magusar (the guy who's imprisoned you in the present)... though not so much when you learn that any mission you took him out on needs to be replayed.
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I'm playing Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup on the online client a lot recently.
And as the name of the game implies; I am slowly CRAWLING in progress. Current character made it to the Lair. This is only the 2nd time ever I have done that.
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So there's an upcoming event for Ace Combat Infinity - a rarity, limited entry. Unfortunately, the planes available for entry are the entire F-15 line. Including the horribly broken F-15 S/MTD, one of two Multiroles of the batch, which means their LASMs will blot out the sky. (The other's the Strike Eagle, which is a mid-tier Multirole.)
I expect to see a bunch of Ciphers and Pixys, though.
Also playing through Diversity 2 in Minecraft. The Puzzle Branch was decidedly simple. Also holy fuck the amount of work that had to go into this stuff.
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Did a run-through of Day of the Tentacle last night; Puppy enjoyed watching me play a point-and-click game I grew up with~ XD
Been also working through Blast Corps on the N64. Just got Diamond Sands to deal with... f**k that level with a barbed wire bat!
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Started Hyrule Warriors. It's really, really fun. And the music is awesome. I got this game mostly to play as Midna, since she was my favorite companion. But Impa really surprised me with how fun she turned out to be. I love her victory pose.
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Civilization: Beyond Earth is out and a treasure.
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Why does this package need two fucking weeks to go across the ocean?! Seriously, it shipped on the 13th. USPS says it's arriving on the 29th. It's been stuck in California the past eight days. Seriously, what the fuck?!
Anyway, birthday, so I'm thinking of picking up a new console. Still not sure yet on whether 3DS or WiiU.
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I'm currently trying to find the Haunted Halloween Gifts in Team Fortress 2's Halloween maps. The problem is that whenever I join a server with exactly 10 people, 30 more people join the server, forcing me to find another server. I have managed to get a couple of gifts, along with the achievement for obtaining one, so I'm doing pretty good. I can't wait for Scream Fortress 2014!
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Beyond Earth does not want me to win this game.
Five turns from victory and all of a sudden two civilizations nearby declare war on me and rush me down with literally more units than I can see (I kept seeing more coming from fog of war each turn) and blow up my Exodus Gate. The jerks.
Good thing I have backup saves. I'm going to win this and you idiots can't stop me.
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I'm finding Orcs Must Die to be oddly addicting. There's something cathartic about slowly going from desperately trying to stem the orcish hordes to having a corridor of death that slaughters everything without me even needing to be there.
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Fired up my NO$GBA Nintendo DS emu recently and started delving into the Dragon Quest series. Currently playing Dragon Quest V. I love these turn-based RPGs, really, and V is both complex and challenging enough to be a lot of fun. But man, if there's one thing I don't have nostalgia for, it's the days before default fast travel (there are only so many Chimera Wings to go around, you know).
I'm curious to know what favorites, if any, some of you guys have from the DQ series, though. Would enjoy some recommendations and your reasons for said recommendation.
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Personally I like the first game's simplicity(it's easily a simple few hour adventure, but it's still fun), but my favorite is probably, if sidegames are acceptable, Dragon Quest Monsters for the original Game Boy. It's like a much more involved Pokemon game, with all the gameplay of Dragon Quest games. The amount of customization for your team is quite impressive for it being so old.
There is A LOT of game there, too.
Also recommending the sequels for the GameBoy/Color.
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As much as I am enjoying Bravely Default, I'm strongly considering switching it for Pokemon Y since I haven't actually owned one of the games since BLUE. After an hour of gameplay, I've noticed that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Playthrough 2 for Dark Souls 2 with a standard melee build has pretty much ended. I simply got bored of the pure mage build some time ago. Strongly considering finishing off my Dork Souls experience with a mundane build. I never used weapon infusion of any kind in either run and I would like to play a build in which it would be viable. Considering how lean I am with spending souls on nothing but the bare essentials and leveling up, it doesn't seem that far out of reach.
Stupid edit: Started out as a deprived character and leveled up stats in order so they would all stay equal. Soul Memory for my last character was 5.1 mil upon stopping. Required souls to reach a level with all stats at 30 (after which mundane scaling only goes up 1 for every 9 level ups) is 4.9 mil. Even though the character won't be able to wield a morning star 1-handed until level 75 or so, let's do it!
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One of the things I love about DQV is the fact that there's a larger arc comprised of smaller arcs, with characters that come and go and return, sometimes in a bittersweet way.
Take for example Whealbrook. I meet this charming tomboy who apparently hates cats being bullied. I agree to take care of whatever's going on at Uptaten Towers in order to free the cat from its tormentors. We travel together, chatting and grinding, levelling her up to an adequate magic user, dealing with this 2spooky4me castle until we defeat the problem at hand. The cat is saved, everyone's happy, and suddenly my dad's like, "Welp, turns out I had a cold. Say goodbye to your little friend, we're outta here. Later!"
;_;
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Holy shiiit I actually made it all the way to Satan in Binding of Issac and reached his final form, but I had only 1 heart left and ran into one of those stupid worm things :<
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So, apparently the Minotaur Archfield can heal. I don't know whether you have to break its axe to stop it from healing at all, but if it turns out you can't stop its healing, then I don't know how you're supposed to fight this one when you can't use Sacrifice.
Also, finally, finally, got my copy of Senran Kagura.
Also also, got a Wii U, MK8, Hyrule Warriors, and The Wonderful 101.
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I haven't been doing much recently. I have mostly been playing Blazblue , Mugen , and Smash Bros. Melee.
Classic mode on very hard is a lot tougher with certain characters like Bowser as opposed to Link or Falco.
I have 3 Very Hard Classic mode clears right now with Ganondorf , Fox, and Link.
Blazblue CSEX has become boring as I have acomplished everything that I can do. I want BBCP so bad but I have other stuff I want to get like Smash Wii U when it comes out.
Might play Mario Kart 8 tomorrow but for some reason I feel odd when I play it without having the dlc preordered.
But I still need to unlock the Golden Glider and I am close to unlocking it so I might play just so I can unlock it.
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I been playing risk of rain recently, and i think i play it /way/ too much. its not my fault its addictive :V
I fuckin hate how when u beat the first level, the difficulty spikes up a tad too much. i just need to find a way to kill the children and parents with ease, and that wont never happen~
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I bought Shin Megami Tensei IV today since it FINALLY became available for us Europeans. I've played for about five hours and so far I'm really enjoying myself even though it's my first SMT game.
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bayonetta 2 bayonetta 2 BAYONETTA 2
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Getting into Fire Emblem : Awakening again.
Oddly enough this run is shaping up very differently to my previous one. Probobly due to stat rolls.
I'm about to start Chapter 7; and this is how things are shaping up:
Avatar: Awesome like last time, and already Lv 13 because people keep running at him. It's at the point that I've stopped using him when random Risen spawn. Not really got any supports yet except a few C's and Chrom at B.
Chrom: While already Lv11; he's not being as dominant as I recall. That said, I recall him being almost always Teamed Up with Sumia; already having S support because of it and wrecking everything as if he was a god.
Lissa: It's Lissa. She's Lv9 already.
Lon'qu: Already Lv 9; this guy was one of my favorite characters before and still is.
Virion: One of the surprise packages. I never really used him before; he got awful stat rolls and I just usedf the mages instead. He's lv 10 now and really powerful.
Vaike: I only really break him out when there are armoured foes. He's Lv 6. I don't like the Vaike much.
Frederick: I always put more attention into Sully/Stahl. About all I use him for is helping Donnel to lv2.
Sully/Stahl: Playing the same role as last game, but they feel a lot weaker and are far lower level than last game. [Lv6!] Yet, despite this, they're my only support at A. Wat. I guess it's because I use them to rush down isolated foes together all the time.
Sumia: About as much of a Goddess as before, even without me making her Chrom's Waifu already.Lv 9 already, always seems to roll good stats... also a Killer Lance under her wing.
Kellam: This is another surprise. He's been very useful! He's Lv 9; and I've thought of something awesome to do with him based on an incidental support I saw.
Donnel: Lv 3 so far. He's not getting as much action as I want.
Maribelle: Lv 4; I prefer using Lissa usually since she is higher level by this point.
Gaius: I wanna use him. He's still Lv5 however because he almost killed himself attacking Chrom on the first enemy turn on his recruit mission.
Miriel: Kindsa use her when I need more range. Or to boost the MC's magic when he's one man armying. Lv 5 so far, probobly nearing B support with MC.
Ricken: I always ignore this kid because I have MC and Miriel...
Panne: Again; ignored her before because she wasn't doing much. However this time she's ripping things apart. Lv 8 already.
Anyway, Kellam. I got his C support with Sully and saw that he likes protecting people. Even if they don't notice. Panne is the last of her kind. So I'm shipping PannexKellam this game. Also Kellam's Teaming Up really boosts her defense up, while letting Kellam get places somewhat quicker [Move 6 compared to Move 4; then they can separate into a chokepoint]
Got their C support so far. Kellam convincing Panne to spar was pretty awesome.
So far I'm probobly running Sully/Stahl again simply because they are such great partners in actual gameplay. Kellam/Panne is happening. Not sure what I'm doing with Chrom yet. It did Sumia again and that's why I'm attempting to not make those two demolish everything together again. With Sully taken... I guess I should go for Maribelle. Oliva dosen't seem right and I have C Sumia already by normal progress and play so Oliva might be too late anyway, and my Avatar is male.
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My graphics card exploded, which leaves me playing this stupid game. Again.
I also started FFXIII but that's been put on hold since my graphics card exploded. Life is hard. (Hope is dumb)
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I'm on Chapter 12.
I had the bright idea of reclassing Panne to Wyvern Rider because I wanted to get some of that line's skills.
She just devoured an entire platoon of Cavelry herself; includeing a Paladin, who all struck her first.
She took 2 damage.
Admittedly I paired her up with Cherche because I needed the little extra punch to get through a Knight I wanted to fly over terrain to get to, but seriously.
And no I don't have Beastbane. I plan to go back to Taguel later.
[Meanwhile Kellam is a Theif and Panne's basically feeding him XP so he can get Move+1 and probobly he'll class into Assassin or Trickster for some skills from there too]
Also I have Swordmaster Gaius married to Dark Flier Cordelia.
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Still playing Hyrule Warriors. I'm not sure which one it is, but either the Great Fairy or the Summon Gate is the best thing in the game. I'm also taking a break from trying to get the Lv3 Ball and Chain. Fun fact, 4000 Damage is a B grade. Also, my brain is broken for that stage. There's like a hundred brajillion Icy Big Poes so the level can look like something out of a Touhou game. My brain tells me I can graze that. Link's hitbox says otherwise.
I'm also playing some Final Fantasy X-2 HD.
I also started FFXIII but that's been put on hold since my graphics card exploded. Life is hard. (Hope is dumb)
Hope is dumb, but one of the best end game mages. Key word being: end. He just sucks up to that point.
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Still playing Hyrule Warriors. I'm not sure which one it is, but either the Great Fairy or the Summon Gate is the best thing in the game. I'm also taking a break from trying to get the Lv3 Ball and Chain. Fun fact, 4000 Damage is a B grade. Also, my brain is broken for that stage. There's like a hundred brajillion Icy Big Poes so the level can look like something out of a Touhou game. My brain tells me I can graze that. Link's hitbox says otherwise.
I'm also playing some Final Fantasy X-2 HD.
Hope is dumb, but one of the best end game mages. Key word being: end. He just sucks up to that point.
He's tied with Vanille for being the best supportive unit [Vanille is a little better with healing but is a Sabatour, not a Synergist, and generally buffs>debuffs, especially since usually you want Hope/Vanille AI controlled; and AI Sabs are dumb]
And actually he's the best Ravager for about 90% of the game because he gets access to every -ga spell unlike everyone else , and he has the best magic stat. He gets beaten out in the hyperlategame by Fang, Lightning and Snow not because of stats, but because of their casting animations. [Fang Snow and Lightling have far faster animations than Hope, Vanille and Sahz. Also why Lightning is the best endgame element, it hits instantly, while Fire/Blizzard/Aero/Ruin have travel time]
But seriously that stuff matters when fighting superbosses and that's about it. Outside of that? Hope's pretty much your best Rav. [In fact when fighting said superbosses Hope is arguably the worst character in the game. Sazh has his special Blitz and can cheese down Adamantoise type enemies really fast due to it combined with Cold Blood and a summon]. Vanille has Death which works on a fair few of the superbosses and Death-scumming is generally the best way to get the Growth Egg]
Hope is awesome for about 97% of the game. Then he becomes hopeless.
In fact, fun fact; my 2nd runthrough of the game the Sahz sections were a lot easier when I knew that his Blitz is generally better than his basic commando attacks. [Eg: The robot enemies, Sab [Sab extends ATB drain time like Commando, just not quite as much since it's not it's bonus effect]/Rav -> Rav/Rav -> Rav/Com and blitz that core]. Everyone Else's Blitz is a sort of AoE. Sahz fires a cone of bullets which can deal insane damage to large targets, especially when they are staggered or at close range.
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In other news, I got my Panne/Kellam Yarne. Who has Fast Burn AND Lucky 7 passed down to him. Although Hit Rate technically =/= Accuracy, and Avoid technically =/= Evade, they basically function the same, giving Yarne +35 to both at the start of combat [Then 34, 33, and a drastic drop after Turn 7 but if the fight isn't done by then you have to ask what am I doing?]
I fully intend to reclass him into Barbarian and get Gamble to abuse this insane accuracy boost. [Basically] FREE CRITS.
I also made a Henry/Thraja pairing and their daughter has skills ready to be recruited but I can't clear the mission.
Because the game tries to basically force Sumia/Chrom on you with both of their lacks of pairings I just put Sumia with my Avatar. I plan to pass down... something from Sumia [It doesn't matter much, her kids can access her classes anyway] and probobly Lifetaker from the Avatar [He's currently a Dark Knight. Both his daughters can go Tactician anyway but Lifetaker can help them survive to get to Grandmaster for Ignis]
Gaius has Astra now, but I'm waiting for Cordelia to get Galeforce before I recruit Severa. I think Cordelia's at Dark Flier 10 atm. Astra/Galeforce Severa. Who can then go Hero and get Sol. Or I can re-class her into Theif and obtain Move+1 and then Lethality from Assassin before doing that. Yeah; Move+1/Galeforce/Sol/Astra/Lethality. Absolutely nothing imbalanced about that. [Seriously I love having high movement]
Virion/Oliva happened. I did it kinda because Oliva's son 1: I've never got and 2: Is apparently pretty similar to Virion in womanising personality.
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Is apparently pretty similar to Virion in womanising personality.
The avatar's non-parental conversation with him is amusing. "You took a break from chasing girls to talk to me...about chasing girls?"
I'm borrowing Tears to Tiara 2 from my friend. I played some of the first one. Yes, I'm well-aware it's also kind of an h-game and that the CG is ripped on *that place*. But it's a pretty solid game, and I was kind of hoping the "no porn" console version was going to get released in America but I guess it's not to be. Anyway, the SECOND one's not an h-game, but it feels like it since the MC's got all these girls after his junk and his best friend gets cockblocked at every opportunity (why can't there be a harem lead's best friend who has/gets a girlfriend or is already happily married?).
Speaking of Hyrule Warriors, I played that for a little while at my friend's place on Thursday. It's pretty good. Not that I'll ever own a WiiU, as I'm A) strictly a JRPG fan and B) don't feel like I can be/should be a part of the gaming "thing" this generation. PS3 feels like as far as I can go, and after that I'm just kind of sitting there watching the world go by while I crawl back to my little hole and continue to play my PSP.
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Continuing along in Dark Souls 2. I have found that a mundane build just isn't worth it overall. Things like bows and daggers do get a damage boost, and the availability of weapon buff spells make things better, but the equips are limited and the halved damage plus removing the default scaling means its rarely worthwhile. Time to respec to a more useful but still balanced build because weapon infusion may not prove to be totally useless. I found out the hard way that they weren't worth it in the first.
Meanwhile, the bell keeper covenant is a good bit dickish, but fun. PvP targets are spread across the entire spectrum of player skill and the constant invasions invite all sorts of interactions with other players. As opposed to invasions from other players, bell keepers seem to be free of borderline invincible players with magic backstabs from the front and attacking from a prone position. Also back-attacking someone with a ladle is fun.
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In all the hype over things coming out soon, let me say quite simply:
Bayonetta 2 is delivering.
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Jeez, you remind me that I've never gotten that far in the original.
Anyway, beat 'em ups for me this time around. Hyrule Warriors, natch, and Senran Kagura. Beat Hanzou's story, now onto Gessen. Are you supposed to play the side missions to their entirety before tacking the main mode? Probably not, but being level 22 before the first mission feels pretty nice. Also, do you guys like what XSEED did with the localization?
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Dragon Quest V continues to tease me with characters I grind up, only to wish them goodbye. Fortunately the story is compelling, and the adventuring is fun.
That said, last night I made the mistake of firing up Irisu Syndrome. I had to work today, you know. Pretty hard to sleep with the vision of those mournful eyes burned into my brain, staring into my soul...
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It must be 2007 again because I finally got around to beating Twilight Princess. Midna helper friend best friend :*
A Link Between Worlds or Wind Waker next? I only beat the first and second dungeons in them respectively.
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It must be 2007 again because I finally got around to beating Twilight Princess. Midna helper friend best friend :*
A Link Between Worlds or Wind Waker next? I only beat the first and second dungeons in them respectively.
Both. They're both amazing. (I'm personally most partial to Wind Waker though, it's probably my favourite Zelda game)
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Jeez, you remind me that I've never gotten that far in the original.
Anyway, beat 'em ups for me this time around. Hyrule Warriors, natch, and Senran Kagura. Beat Hanzou's story, now onto Gessen. Are you supposed to play the side missions to their entirety before tacking the main mode? Probably not, but being level 22 before the first mission feels pretty nice. Also, do you guys like what XSEED did with the localization?
Yea, I'm pretty sure the character arcs are suppose to be done after the story arcs. Since they're running around and playing with the other schools like they're old friends and what not. But either way, you're going to be a tad over leveled. Do the story arc first and you'll be 25ish for the character arcs and visa versa. And not knowing a lick of Japanese, I like the localization. It's readable and I like what they did with Shiki's character. I was at this other forum and some people heard I word they knew and was all like, "That's not what this directly translates too!" and every time someone had to come in and tell them localization=/=direct translation. And you know, I'd rather them take a few liberties if the message is left alone.
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The end of Yumi's character arc is too hilarious for words. I half-think there should be a spinoff where that Yumi goes off on a magical girl adventure.
The PS Plus lineup for November is very Vita-heavy, I notice. Or maybe that's just because only Frozen Synapse and Luftrausers are the only ones that aren't on Vita. On that subject, is Frozen Synapse Prime basically an extension of the original Steam game, how-to-play-wise? (that totally is a word)
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Both. They're both amazing. (I'm personally most partial to Wind Waker though, it's probably my favourite Zelda game)
I'd definitely get to both, my sister is a huge Zelda fan and has everything but the GBA/DS ones so I have the access. I think I'll do ALBW first if only so if she gets a Wii-U I can play WW HD when I'm at my parents' eventually :V
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So, uh, apparently the rhythm game Senran Kagura: Bon Appetit is coming out in a few days? And Project Diva F 2nd on the 18th. Aside from KH2.5, December looks a bit sparse on the PS front. January's got Ayesha Plus.
Anyway. Gohma needs to die in a fire. Ganon's enough of a pain to deal with, but the tight confines of the arena make it impossible to flee the area without eating major enemy attacks. And that insect bitch is fast as fuck. Also need Rupees like mad. Probably need to get the weapon drop buff and find some sort of map with a metric f-ton of captains.
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After a long time of not touching it, I've decided to revisit Devil of Decline with Yukari, using a party of characters I haven't really used too much. My party is as follows:
Yukari: Main tank using a Yukkuri shikigami with an HP up build, which works pretty well, actually
Kogasa: Main sword user and physical DPS (lots of MP = spam weapon skills all day every day)
Remilia: Main spear user and secondary warrior/occasional support (look guys, I have a spear user, it's amazing)
Eiki: Main mage, occasionally dabbles in status effects
Yuyuko: Jack of all trades character that uses blunt weapons, magic, and serves as my main healer
Altogether, I have a pretty interesting party set up, and I've made it a decent chunk into the expansion with it. I kind of want to do another run with Byakuren, Sunny Milk, Yuuka, Sanae, and Nitori (to be swapped out with Mima
in the post game), mainly because they're characters I've not used too much.
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Ib (the updated version with the new endings)
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Halp halp I've no idea what I'm doing in Pokemon Y. All of my good pokeys (Wartortle, Snorlax, and Oddish) are ones that I used in my first playthrough from Blue in like '97 and I don't want to use them again. My Braixen seems to run into everything that's resistant to fire/psychic, Pancham's defense is lacking and also runs into too many things that are resistant to fighting moves, and Floette can't tank a wet noodle and has a damage output similar to one. Oh I am in some very unfamiliar territory.
Poke-world problems.
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Tried playing some Battletoads. I'm nowhere near beating the game, but as another sign that all that Touhou playing experience is a useful thing, the last stretch of Turbo Tunnel didn't feel like anything special. No, I didn't pass it on my first try, but back in the day even the best players in my neighbourhood considered actually passing it impossible, with the warp as the only way out. Wow indeed.
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Tried playing some Battletoads. I'm nowhere near beating the game, but as another sign that all that Touhou playing experience is a useful thing, the last stretch of Turbo Tunnel didn't feel like anything special. No, I didn't pass it on my first try, but back in the day even the best players in my neighbourhood considered actually passing it impossible, with the warp as the only way out. Wow indeed.
Those players were weak. At ten I made it to the final stage of Battletoads.
Never beat it, but I'd made it there.
Battletoads is still one of my favourite NES games though even if it's by all rights largely bullshit.
On a personal note: MK8 DLC is out time to boot it back up hell yeh for like two days until Hyrule Warriors' next DLC pack comes out or it's something like that close
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I picked up Tales of Hearts R Tuesday. And I'm loving it. It's really fun and the characters are great. Beryl's my favorite so far. Although everyone who is not the toaster is in a close second. I wish Kohaku would go back to normal, that first hour was great. But then she started sucking. Why did they have to give her fear first? She was the worst the character during that point. I don't really care for Calcedony and his stupid haircut either.
I also picked up Senran Kagura Bon Appetit! The first two games, while being super heavy on the fanservice, had a decent plot and great character development. This one, not so much. The plot of this game is feed Hanzo really good food and he'll shoot lasers out of his mouth to strip your opponent. And how do you feed him? DDR of course! Seriously though, it is a fun game. And Daidouji's stage can kiss my ass.
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I also picked up Senran Kagura Bon Appetit! The first two games, while being super heavy on the fanservice, had a decent plot and great character development. This one, not so much. The plot of this game is feed Hanzo really good food and he'll shoot lasers out of his mouth to strip your opponent. And how do you feed him? DDR of course! Seriously though, it is a fun game. And Daidouji's stage can kiss my ass.
I find it very annoying she's Hikage's first opponent. In other news, holy fuck Hard mode is a major difficulty spike over Normal. And they say this is designed to be easier than IA/VT Colorful? Jeez.
Also, I love that Haruka keeps having to be censored - in SV, she says "pi" instead of the censored parts, in BA they actually bring out the censor bleeps.
Also Valkyria Chronicles.
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I wish Kohaku would go back to normal
She does. Don't worry. I played the DS version and that's the plot for the first chunk of the game. Kinda like "Act 1". I heard Hearts R isn't like the DS version at all, because you have actual equipment this time around. That's more than enough to get me playing. I got so stressed out over the weapon evolution in Hearts. The game was demanding items I'd never heard of, and there was no way for me to know that I wasn't far enough in the game to get these items. I just thought I was unlucky with item drops.
Anyway. Gohma needs to die in a fire.
Are you playing on a difficult level above the lowest? See, the thing with Warriors game is, and a lot of people don't understand this especially if they're new to the series with the later entries, is that they are NOT DESIGNED to be played on Normal and Hard with fresh characters. Normal is somewhat-doable with a mid-level character (like a third weapon at level 30+ in DW8), but Hard and above are the "getting up to max level" difficulties. Especially stages with a high listed difficulty rating (like I'd assume the Gohma level is; I haven't played HW much since my friend's the one with the WEE-OOW*).
*that was a reference to something
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See, the thing with Warriors game is, and a lot of people don't understand this especially if they're new to the series with the later entries, is that they are NOT DESIGNED to be played on Normal and Hard with fresh characters. Normal is somewhat-doable with a mid-level character (like a third weapon at level 30+ in DW8), but Hard and above are the "getting up to max level" difficulties. Especially stages with a high listed difficulty rating (like I'd assume the Gohma level is; I haven't played HW much since my friend's the one with the WEE-OOW*).
*that was a reference to something
Actually I cleared Legend Mode my first time through on Hard without ever failing or having to retry a mission. Hero difficulty expects like level 80+ characters, but Hard can still be done right off the bat (You have the entirity of Adventure Mode to fill that gap). I've also never run into a Musou game I couldn't go straight to Hard on (above that though is generally out of the question). Staring on Normal is a lot more adviseable though simply because you'll be doing chip damage a lot of the time instead of Actual Damage and that makes speed checks a lot more difficult.
Gohma's not bad in most levels. In fact it's super easy to manipulate Gohma into its weakpoint for killing which makes it better than most of the bosses... but there's certain stages in Adventure where they're a pain in the ass (notably "Kill x enemies in 10 minutes") because you don't have time to actually kill them and they're fast enough to always be right behind you, harassing you with lasers.
I need to spend more time with Hyrule Warriors. I'm up to the top two rows on the standard Adventure Map, and then it's onto Master Quest.
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Are you playing on a difficult level above the lowest? See, the thing with Warriors game is, and a lot of people don't understand this especially if they're new to the series with the later entries, is that they are NOT DESIGNED to be played on Normal and Hard with fresh characters. Normal is somewhat-doable with a mid-level character (like a third weapon at level 30+ in DW8), but Hard and above are the "getting up to max level" difficulties. Especially stages with a high listed difficulty rating (like I'd assume the Gohma level is; I haven't played HW much since my friend's the one with the WEE-OOW*).
The particular level I was talking about was an Adventure Mode map where Ganondorf had to solo against Ganon, Gohma, and King Dodongo in a very small sector of the last Legend Mode map. And yes, the difficulty was level 14. Staying to fight against Ganon was practically impossible due to Gohma and King Dodongo eventually catching wind and joining up. Attempting to break off and kill Gohma first led to Ganon eventually breaking through and me eating King Dodongo fireball. I don't think Ganondorf has any one-round killshots like Lana does, and it does take a lot of smashes to kill one of them.
I did eventually get the A rank with the L2 weapon at level 47.
Also, yes, there are those maps with "Kill X Enemies in Y minutes!" with up to three Gohma pursuing. Bitches be fast, yo, and if you want that A, you have to ignore them and go after the creeps. Eating laser along the way.
Lana absolutely owns the Giant Boss maps, Wizzro and Baton Zelda own Devastating Blows maps, and Rod Link crushes Rack up KO maps.
Is it strange that I absolutely love using Mirai? Maybe it's the fact that I can safely engage the enemy at long range, but I've gotten pretty good at the ground game with her. I still need a lot of work regarding everyone's air game, though.
Also, anyone want a free Steam copy of Frozen Synapse or a half off coupon for Frozen Synapse Prime? Let me know.
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Ib (the updated version with the new endings)
Oh, I loved Ib. If it has new endings, I should play it again.
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So Project Diva F 2nd is out, and DLC abounds. Who the fuck would pay $70 for a costume season pass? It's more than twice the price of the song season pass, for crissakes! Also, annoyed that the live songs (I wanted to listen to) are also DLC.
Also, for some reason they still haven't released the Gessen x Hebijo expansion for BA.
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Starting up playing 99 Spirits on steam and I have the DLC, Artbook, and Soundtrack for it from the steam Halloween sale. I'm enjoying it so far however... it seems I've hit a hitch so early that I have to grind, however it is a bit crash prone which causes me to save a lot because gawd knows it kinda almost screwed me over in completing a quest. Other than that I'm enjoying the storyline and characters also it's an unique RPG/Puzzle game, if you wanna learn Japanese history or words get the game on Steam.
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So Project Diva F 2nd is out, and DLC abounds. Who the fuck would pay $70 for a costume season pass? It's more than twice the price of the song season pass, for crissakes! Also, annoyed that the live songs (I wanted to listen to) are also DLC.
Also, for some reason they still haven't released the Gessen x Hebijo expansion for BA.
There's a costume season pass? The heck? Also there are DLC songs already? But the official site doesn't list any yet...
Or is it only Lives that're up for download as of now?
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There's a costume season pass? The heck? Also there are DLC songs already? But the official site doesn't list any yet...
Or is it only Lives that're up for download as of now?
Right now, it's just the non-playable Live versions of Tell Your World and... one other, but I don't remember the name. Something might have happened to them, they were on the PSN store but not right now.
Also, it appears they've buffed up the ships for the new TDM starting today. Even my buffed LASMs (the optimal missile weapon; no comment on EGPBs) barely do scratch damage now, even on a direct hit.
That said, I've only had two sorties playing Attacker, and the first one had an F-22 camping the ships. My first sortie of the TDM was in my old Zipang, and that F-22 was keeping up with every kill I made. The sad part? In that sortie, the two Fighters were the respective team MVP. This... really shouldn't happen, not with competent Attackers.
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Rank in Spark Spectra can get pretty ridiculous.
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Finished Bayonetta II. Hell yeah~
Rosa
is so much fun to use too considering she's a glass cannon (more damage, takes double damage) and gets the Umbral Armor as her climax
. Pure Platinums or bust~
For the record, I did it on 3rd Climax, and got at least Gold in every chapter - hell, I got a Pure Platinum on chapter VI somehow. I also cleared all the Muspelheim challenges and missed maybe 8 HP/Magic fragments total - I was a lot more thurough with my searching this time but in general they're a lot less stupid to find than they were in the original.
Tag Climax is horrific though. The damage is huge, and the three star battles are straight up "yeah have fun with this" territory. here fight all three forms of the final boss at once
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I picked up Dengeki Fanservice Fighting Climax, and as expected, it's basically UNIEL with other characters and a little less mechanics.
But seriously, Training Mode is a carbon copy of UNIEL's one, down to the font used for inputs and display damage, that's kinda funny to see. Same thing for the CP-based system and the unlockables.
Other than that, it's pretty fun to play. Easier to pick than UNIEL because there is no GRD to worry about. Not saying it's better, but it's a nice alternative. I feel Climax jauges are really slow to build though.
I didn't watch Oreimo so I can main Kirino without feeling guilty because she's fun to play. I would have played Shizuo but he's soooooo sloooooow.
I'm still trying to get more than 4k with her though, I'm not used enough to assists in fighting games.
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I just got done playing some Super Monkey Ball Deluxe Expert mode and I almost beat Expert mode. I wanted to beat it so I can practice the stages and figure out what stages I want to warp past when I actually try to get Expert Extra.
I noticed some levels that I will have to try and improve on or warp past.
Stage 6 - Exam C : The only problem I have with this level is that final curved path that is narrow and takes up at least 25~28 seconds to get past
Stage 46 - Twin Cross: I have to work on my diagonal crossings. My current strategy is to hold straight and hope I make it :V.
Stage 54(?) - 8 Bracelets: Have to work on my aim when I move from 1 bracelet to another bracelet.
Stage 66(?) - Warp: I have to practice on the last tilted piece as if you don't start from a high enough angle you fall before you get to the goal. I has some close calls where I almost made it but I slide down too much to get into the goal.
Even though I had to use some continues, everything went fine until I hit Stage 91 - Cross Floors. I lost about 26 lives to this stage and got a gameover. The game wants you to keep a pattern of moving from left to right between tilted platforms while keeping your speed up but I either fall off because I mess up the pattern or I hit the edge of a platform and bounce off the stage. I had a bunch of close calls and heartbreaks with this stage, the best one was when I bounced off the edge of a platform, recovered on the next platform and kept going... only to fall on the last platform. :colonveeplusalpha:
But I got 8 more lives that I can start out with so it isn't all that bad :)
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So right now, Kagerou Daze is the only song in F 2nd that doesn't yet have an English translation. Did they just run out of time to translate, or something? Because I remember the original release date was next month...
Anyway, love that Meteor and SPiCa are both in, though I do wish there were more Meiko and Kaito songs. Also, I feel as though they should have done Kokoro Kiseki as a duet instead of just having Kokoro in.
Also, dat Platinum Skin req. Clear every song on Extreme. Including -that- song. Oh boy. Probably not ever getting that.
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Back to playing Daggerfall. Thought that higher leveling difficulty is a good idea for non-spellcasters since that would mean longer time to get some generally useful stuff like enchanted items and potion recipes before things get really tough. It's not. That stuff is too random to rely on, and you can get unpleasant surprises instead. Like a dungeon full of zombies when your level is 2-3 times less than needed to deal with them. Or a lich before you have a weapon that can hurt it. It's a much better idea to rush to the point when things start being interesting instead.
Thought about doing it as a LP, but (1) there are enough of them running already, (2) I'm not sure about how good my ideas will play out (been planning to try the three pure archetypes, had to restart the warrior already) and (3) there's some mature content that would be too interesting or just plain impossible to leave out (both nudity and violence, as pixelated as they are). Wishful thinking, eh?
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Oh geez, I am playing so many games right now. World of Warcraft (just got it for a month after 7 years of NOT playing), Ar Nosurge, Fairy Fencer F, Project Diva F 2nd, Smite, Sword Art Online HF, Diablo 3 and Brave Frontier. Yeah, that's a lot! I rotate them though, 2 hours per game during my free time (whicih is usually around 6 hrs a day)! Right now I'd say Ar Nosurge is proving the most fun, but Diablo 3 I have just installed and haven't played much yet. I play PDF2nd and SF:HF at work during break/lunch. :D
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Got to the level when enemies have poisoned weapons. Got poisoned. Had my Strength and Speed reduced to nothing. Had nothing to remove the poison because I'm a pure warrior and didn't do enough quests for the temple to unlock potion seller because I leveled up so fast. Looks like I don't know how to play this game properly at all.
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Well, I guess I'm currently playing osu! :V
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Isn't Daggerfall pretty much unplayable? Or has it been modded/fanpatched enough? I don't think I'd ever try to suffer through it again, regardless. I might play Morrowind one day...if I had the f'ing disc. I have no idea where it went. I own the game, I have the two expansions, but the main game disc is GONE. That's beyond weird. I should probably get Oblivion, too, for PC. And then mod the hell out of it, especially to make the NPCs less-ugly. It's not like Bethesda is a bad company. They're S-rank when it comes to environments and world-building, but the character models look a generation out of date.
Anyway, I did...not much today. Found out that my SD Gundam G Gen World save from my legit PSP copy can in fact work on PPSSPP. Now I can play it at high speed. For some weird reason, saves with different origins were incompatible on an older version. But now it means I can actually 100% the game and not need to start over. My PSP is really really ancient and beat-up and I'm afraid it's going to crap out on me irreparably one of these days soon.
At the moment, I'm just in the mood for a cheeseburger. But it's kinda late, so maybe tomorrow.
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Isn't Daggerfall pretty much unplayable? Or has it been modded/fanpatched enough? I don't think I'd ever try to suffer through it again, regardless. I might play Morrowind one day...if I had the f'ing disc. I have no idea where it went. I own the game, I have the two expansions, but the main game disc is GONE. That's beyond weird. I should probably get Oblivion, too, for PC. And then mod the hell out of it, especially to make the NPCs less-ugly. It's not like Bethesda is a bad company. They're S-rank when it comes to environments and world-building, but the character models look a generation out of date.
Man I'd take up Daggerfall in a blink if it hadn't aged so poorly. Morrowind, on the other hand, has always been well worth the time. It has also aged, and the early game can be downright painful, but oh man the place's you'll go. It's a paradise for open-world adventurers even if things are a bit clunky.
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Isn't Daggerfall pretty much unplayable?
Well, it does have quite a number of bugs even with the latest official patch, but it's perfectly playable for the most part. Nothing that a proper and liberal usage of saves can't overcome, anyway, just keep a few points in mind and you're all set. Sadly, the starting dungeon is an especially bad bug-ridden mess that may leave a bad first taste (my game usually crashes when trying to save there outside of select few spots, for example), but once you're out it's rarely that bad anywhere else. I mean, same things can still happen in other places, but they're not anywhere as frequent and you usually know how to deal with them by then.
...I'm actually not even sure why I got the idea to dig this game out again. I guess there's something in the chance to get a slightly better piece of gear or a cool enchanted trinket, even though you're not guaranteed to have any of that and you can do just fine without them. Sounds like the same kind of appeal MMORPGs have, isn't it?
Anyway, looks like that poison problem is somewhat my fault too. The temple I chose was Akatosh Chantry, and potion seller becomes available the latest for them. You see, my first warrior build was immune to disease, poison and paralysis because I didn't want to worry about those, so it wasn't a big deal. However, those perks made leveling slower, so I got rid of them all, but forgot to decide on another temple. Oops. Well, I don't want to restart the same build AGAIN, and I remember I already did a pure warrior before to see how likely I would be to gather a full suit of Daedric gear at high levels (answer: don't really count on it). I just wanted to feel how it is to play with a slower leveling, and I felt that through good enough. I need to do a few more ideas instead - taste the life of a thief and walk the thorny path of a pure mage.
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Picked up my copies of Smash, Omega Ruby and Persona Q today. With smash and persona being the bundles, it was a over $200 day. my wallet is cry ;_;
At least there isn't really anything on Steam that I want right now with the impending sale. Unless Valkyria Chronicles or Trails in the Sky go on sale, since there's a couple people I want to gift those to. Though that can also wait till the winter sale comes.
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I'm taking a break from playing 99 Spirits from steam and started playing Persona Q well actually I'll get back to you on how Persona Q is when I'm done smiling while killing shadows.
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The Gessen x Hebijo expansion is now out for Bon Appetit. 15 bucks though.
Making Skulltulla progress in Hyrule Warriors, almost got the second illustration done - just need to remember which Impa is the real one, and recreate the defense against Ganondorf - and win.
Barely managed to get top 1000 in ACI's recent TDM, after burning fifty Stocked Fuel during Forced Sorties. It came down to the last sortie, started 3 minutes before the event ended.
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Got Persona Q and now how my time not working is gone. Also, is it just me or does it feel a lot like FES? I started with the P4 crew and I know it wouldn't make a lick of sense and won't happen, but I still half expect to see Metis with the P3 crew.
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Got Persona Q and now how my time not working is gone. Also, is it just me or does it feel a lot like FES? I started with the P4 crew and I know it wouldn't make a lick of sense and won't happen, but I still half expect to see Metis with the P3 crew.
Honestly I would've been cool with Metis, Labrys, and Sho - whether or not the game actually occurs at specific times in the P3/P4 storyline.
Still trying to decide on an actual party though help (I wanna save my preferred five for a second playthrough on P3 story for to face the bonus bosses that'll show up on that second clear so)
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I'm taking a break from playing 99 Spirits from steam and started playing Persona Q well actually I'll get back to you on how Persona Q is when I'm done smiling while killing shadows.
The only thing I can do with Steam is playing free games :(
Also right now I'm consuming my time with Warframe (Since I cant affort PS4 to play Destiny :) :( )
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Playing Disgaea 4 APR. It is criminally good.
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Playing Disgaea 4 APR. It is criminally good.
Happy sardines.
I was in the middle of a grindfest when Pok?mon released.
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Dropped $20 on 3DS eShop last night and picked up Azure Striker Gunvolt(+Mighty Gunvolt) and The Legend of Dark Witch. Gunvolt...isn't quite the Megaman clone I was expecting it to be. Thoroughly enjoying Dark Witch though, started playing it a few hours ago and currently bashing my head in over the final boss. :V Definitely well worth the $4 purchase.
Also supposed to be starting Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 at some point but I'm procrastinating soooooo heavily on that. Been in the mood for more actiony games lately, and fatigue among other unique mechanics sound annoying.
And then of course there's Smash 4 :V
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Dropped $20 on 3DS eShop last night and picked up Azure Striker Gunvolt(+Mighty Gunvolt) and The Legend of Dark Witch. Gunvolt...isn't quite the Megaman clone I was expecting it to be.
It's not quite one but personally I think I liked it more than a lot of MM games
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It's not quite one but personally I think I liked it more than a lot of MM games
It certainly has its charms, I love the writing in particular. I'm just a little disappointed by how hard it is to die, and then even if you manage to you get Anthem res'd plus buffs like triple jump. Kind of hard to enjoy the game when I feel like it'll reward me for having no idea what I'm doing.
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From what I've heard the game's really more about scoring instead of surviving. It seems that anyone can survive just fine, but scoring takes quite a bit of planning and stuff.
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Getting 800,000 for the S+ ranks is crazy hard and requires no damage/speedrunning/avoiding checkpoints/double or triple kills whenever possible/saving your skill points to kill the boss with Voltaic Chains/Luxcalibur/Astra Sphere
unless you abuse Voltaic Chains in the stage for 5+ multikills and use checkpoints to refill your SP gauge.
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It certainly has its charms, I love the writing in particular. I'm just a little disappointed by how hard it is to die, and then even if you manage to you get Anthem res'd plus buffs like triple jump. Kind of hard to enjoy the game when I feel like it'll reward me for having no idea what I'm doing.
The Prevasion does that. So long as you have an amulet equipped barring a couple specific ones, taking hits when you have volt energy just drains that. Take off your amulet if you're finding it too easy. You'll be glad you learned how to play without it now
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Grinding on Persona Q, then when I get bored I'll go for playing Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies to unlock the DLC or I can be pre-occupied with Shantae: Risky Boot's Revenge so many games to play on my steam and 3DS.
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I was thinking of finally getting around to playing Borderlands 2. I'm looking at the Steam deals and do need to play Borderlands 1 first? Would you recommend buying Borderlands 1 with 2 around? I was looking at the Steam deals and trying to figure out which to shoot for.
It'd be a nice change of pace. I've mainly been playing phone stuff like PAD and Clash, or multiplayer stuff like LoL or TF2.
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Being a pure spellcaster in Daggerfall is suffering. And dying if RNG decides so. Kinda understandable, given that my character has almost as little health as possible and doesn't wear any armor, but even usual enemies on lower levels have damage ranges from "barely a scratch" to "hey where did over half of my HP go". The only chance is to hope that said RNG will allow you to outdamage them. On low levels it's hell, I had to rest so frequently that I failed my first mission's time limit. But gaining levels helps, spells become more useful and cheaper to use.
That said, it seems that single-target long range spells don't work - they just fly right through everyone. Sadly, this makes about half of offensive spells useless. Thankfully, area-effect long range spells and point-blank range spells all work just fine, so there's still enough to work with. There's also a spell maker if usual spells aren't enough, but I didn't try that yet.
I also have some advancement in general dungeon crawling skill. I no longer do a blind "follow left-hand wall" strategy, but can recognize and systematically explore separate dungeon blocks. It needs quite some experience to recognize at least the more obvious blocks and where their borders are, but it helps with finding your way around once you're familiar with their possible layout. And suddenly all those "massive three-dimensional mazes" seem so small and simple for some reason :D
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I was thinking of finally getting around to playing Borderlands 2. I'm looking at the Steam deals and do need to play Borderlands 1 first? Would you recommend buying Borderlands 1 with 2 around? I was looking at the Steam deals and trying to figure out which to shoot for.
It'd be a nice change of pace. I've mainly been playing phone stuff like PAD and Clash, or multiplayer stuff like LoL or TF2.
2 is a better game overall, but I enjoyed 1. You definitely don't need to play 1 first, though.
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Thanks, I'll probably just go for Borderlands 2 GOTY then.
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Still playing in my Bloodbowl Leauge.
Had a far harder game than expected last night; which I scored the winning touchdown in; during the final turn; on a 50/50 dodge roll.
I'm currently 3W-0D-0L this season, and at the top of the table!
And what's better is I'm through the most dangerous teams in terms of killing my glass cannons. And my glass cannons didn't die. I still have what I consider some easy matchups left this season, so I should easily finish Top 3 and promote.
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Continued Disgaea D2 postgame yesterday.
Did Cave of Ordeals and the Axel fight yesterday. Did the the Artina, Valvatorez/Fenrich, and Darkdeath Evilman fights today. I currently have no chance against the Pringer X since I only barely cleared the previous map. Need to get more LoC stats for Flonne(highest level at a bit over 2,000 with no reincarnations) and level some items up. Flonne is definitely pretty useful at the moment as by throwing a prinny on turn 1, I can have her heal 9 targets to full and get a 90% stat boost on the first turn for her(not sure how much you can boost it past that in a fight though).
I'm surprised I even have this much progress. I'm just at around 30 hours of gameplay on this file. Of course, progress is probably about to go way down for quite a while.
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Been getting drunk on nostalgia with the Medabots GBA games. Amazing how they can fit in the opening theme, albeit shortened, without that much apparent compression.
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Heading into playthrough number FIVE for Dork Souls 2. It's stunning how addictive this game has become and just why it is roughly boils down to what you make of a playthrough. So far:
- First playthrough: Eddie Wizzard, a hex mage. Magic is useful throughout the game despite waning as things progress. The amount of tricks up your sleeve with such a build is stupendous even if you can't take physical damage. However, it was always enjoyable knowing it took 3 straight shots from the ancient dragon instead of one simply because spellcasters always have the magic and gear for such things.
- Second playthrough: Fita McWarria (damn character limits!), a mostly melee-only character with a mix of dex, light weapons, and heavier armor. Bows proved to be fantastic and it was always nice to have a couple big weapons options for heavy hitting.
- Third playthrough: Old Weird Bob, a hybrid with a lot of dicking about in pvp, especially attacking fully armored vessels of destruction with nothing but a dapper hat and a ladle. Mundane stuff turned out to make a negligible difference, and the overall damage bonus from infused weapons was a bit lacking, but they weren't bad. Having all stats boosted to mid-rage or their caps meant I could handle any situation in a variety of ways.
- Fourth playthrough: LePlanc, a tank build. A bit disappointing as even a full set of Havel's gear upgraded to near perfection doesn't seem to amount to as much as it should. It also proved that poise got nerfed twice over considering how easy it was to be stunlocked. Still great for co-op, and simply equipping a ring to draw aggro can help drastically. I'm not quite finished and will most likely futz around with the character a good bit more.
- Fifth playthrough: Bill Nye TSG, a pure damage large weapons only build. Kinda fun so far with the slow weapon swing speed mitigated somewhat by the obscene amount of damage output. One-shotting an invader with a back attack sold it in an instant, though regular pvp requires a hefty bit of trickery.
While the original was great, dex builds had a sharp advantage and deviating from it too much could prove to be a miserable mistake. There were a lot of nuances that made numerous different ways to play the game either unwelcoming or downright worthless. While some dumb stuff remains, the amount of twerks that have corrected these problems have made nearly every build as viable and as fun as the next, and each different kind poses new challenges and priorities, leading to a unique experience each time through.
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Playing Project Diva F 2ND and seem have delveoped this habit of getting a minimal of "Excellent" before I can move on to the next song... >.<
Also been playing Diablo III, as a Monk, and am level 36 now. I think I'm nearly done with Act 3. Really fun game so far. I'm glad I waited though, didn't have to deal with all the RMAH and difficulty shenanigans!
Still play Smite at least once a day on Assault. Never thought I'd like ARAM style of games. It's a nice way to escape the forced "meta" that the elitist gamers created these days. Heck, one can even be penalized for going "out of the metagame". Meh, I'll stick to Assault/ARAM! No one ever (rarely ever) rages in those. :)
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Beat Super Robot Wars UX for the ninth time today. There was a Japanese player who was on New Game+38 for K and was destroying everything in one hit. Maybe I can get that far. It's weird how I haven't gotten bored of UX after all this time. Maybe there's just something innate about that I just really, really dig. Even though it's another one of those games where you have someone who autodeploys through a fifth of the game. Including the final stage. Yeah, thanks for ruining my perfect strategy, Banpresto. Odyssea and Linebarrel are an awesome pair with damn-near pefect partner bonus synergy. Well, guess I'll just start doing Linebarrel with Lu Bu next time, after the Linebarrel finale (stage 46). UX isn't actually as bad for MC event deploys as Z3.1 was. That's at least 13, depending on routes taken, with a maximum of I think 16. And the game is 61 stages long, although 61 is an epilogue. You fight a guy who is essentially an evil Chinese Travis Touchdown in an evil monstrous crab-like mecha-organic thingy, and then when you defeat him, he's like "Hrmph", and leaves. Well, that's how it goes when the game is "Part 1 of 2".
I've got Etrian Odyssey 3 plugged into my domestic 3DS (I bought the blue FE:A bundle one), so maybe I should play that. Maybe just to see how far I can go before the weight of the whatever it is causes my spirit to make a *squish* noise and die like what happened to 1, 2, and 4. I think 4's fault was partially that I really didn't like the character design for the classes so I couldn't really get "into" my characters. I think it's better in 3.
You know what dungeon-crawler has great character design? 7th Dragon 2020.
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Playing Project Diva F 2ND and seem have delveoped this habit of getting a minimal of "Excellent" before I can move on to the next song... >.<
It's a good habit to have, really, on Normal. That said, Two Breaths Walking keeps kicking my ass on that account, and I've basically given up on doing so for Intense Voice. Dat last stream...
Probably doesn't help that my hands are frozen solid when I try to do this after work, so the scratches don't seem to function correctly.
Anyway. KH2.5 is out, and I'm pleasantly surprised by Re:coded. Very few text areas, but they're narrated by Mickey, and proceed automatically. BBS is next on the list for me, having never played it before (damn the fact that it's UMD only on the PSP).
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I don't even know why, don't bother asking me.
I'm also (very slowly) playing through FFXIII right now.
I believe that the map variety will include things that aren't corridors in the next 10 hours or so of gameplay.
Maybe.
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I don't even know why, don't bother asking me.
I'm also (very slowly) playing through FFXIII right now.
I believe that the map variety will include things that aren't corridors in the next 10 hours or so of gameplay.
Maybe.
Eventually.
I didn't HATE the game, but the first parts are in fact really railroady and there's little to nothing you can do about it. Once you get to a certain point, though, a whole slew of options open up to you. (Also the part in question has absolutely -gorgeous- scenery, IMO, though most of the game does anyway)
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Was playing Disgaea 4 APR and i discovered that by doing postgame missions that get you characters from the previous games actually increase levels of the enemies in DLC scenarios. Namely Fuka & Desco Show and Time Leap. So i made it to last chapter of Time Leap and thought that getting
Etna
would be nice and will help me, since she's level 500 when you recruit her. I come back and the map that had enemies in the range of 500 leveled up to 1000+. I thought what the hell, but since i overwritten my save file i was kinda stuck. I tried it and from the looks of it it seemed really hard, but doable. And somehow i managed to beat that level 1000 map with average party level of 500 + level 600 Valzy
you automatically get. Man was it a challenge. I kinda stacked the odds in my favor by having Plenair and her +10% to ally stats and the other character you get in the scenario that has +10% to ally stats and -10% to enemy stats when she is on the field. Plus having lots of fire users since enemies have crippling -75% fire resist, plus one of said fire users deals 20% more damage if enemy level is higher than her. But it was still closer to level 600 versus level 900 and i had really stategize with unit positions, combo attacks and all that. And when the boss of the map attacks you it's like having 75k damage in a cross shape. And highest hp i had in my party was like 50k. So i had to sacrifice someone to bait the boss into range and then gang-up on him. Plus the map has enemy reinforcements and you can't just turtle. All in all it was really satisfying to actually pull it off. And that's what i like about Disgaea games. Yes it's grindy as hell, but with proper strategy and tactics you can do anything.
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Was playing Disgaea 4 APR and i discovered that by doing postgame missions that get you characters from the previous games actually increase levels of the enemies in DLC scenarios. Namely Fuka & Desco Show and Time Leap.
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Well, back to grinding I go.
I started Fate/Hollow Ataraxia when I learned that the patch was completed a while ago. And now I'm hooked.
Heck, I play more of this than I play Pok?mon.
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I have returned to one of my favorite RPGs of all time, Fallout 3.
One of the things I love most about this game (without claiming that this is something unique to FO3) is that there are so many ways to play it. I've done the main quest. I've done Sidequest Quest. I've done Map Quest (i.e., trying to find all the locations in the Capital Wasteland). I've even considered doing what JT once talked about: making a character who tries to survive solely through Unarmed Combat, punching all the more stronger from continuous and heavy drinking. While I haven't gone that far, I have decided to try and play a kind of "stealth combat" version - relying a lot on Sneak, trying to see without being seen and, when killing, following the rule of making sure they never see it coming, and never feel a thing. Merciful, I'd say.
Also, I lost Dogmeat at the GNR building - he was caught in the blast of a Mini Nuke while I was trying to take down the Behemoth. Why didn't I tell him to stay put? WHY? This will haunt me forever...
(http://i.imgur.com/XT7td6bl.jpg)
GOODBYE OLD FRIEND I'M SO SORRY!
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A dozen or so dungeons later, I'm tired of playing again and have a good enough idea about how spellcasting is best used in Daggerfall, so time to stop. My weak mage got competent enough to handle most usual situations, and for what can't be handled easily I got the ideas how to deal with stuff. High level spellcasters remained a problem since I neglected all magic schools except Destruction (all attacking spells are there, duh) and, to a much lesser extent, Restoration (healing, duh). Little wonder, since outside of anti-magic spells they have literally only one or two unarguably useful spells each, and even those were needed only on rare occasions. Well, extensive use of trainers can help with that at least partway, but it's best done early, so whelp.
That said, I'm DEFINITELY doing a LP someday. There's quite an amount of interesting random stuff that can be shown and I have a nice idea how to present it. Almost came to regret I didn't do one in some good moments, but since I was only testing how to play properly, it's better not to rush. Of course, it's postponed until I want to play this again, so it'll be quite a long while.
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I'm having a surprisingly good time out on the streets in Need for Speed: Most Wanted. I'm less enthused on the fact that it's a Criterion game, so collectibles galore. Less so, all of the multiplayer trophies.
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Taking a break from Persona Q to chillax to some Mario & Luigi: Dream Team also I got Professor Layton VS Phoenix Wright and Rune Factory 4 so much stuff to do.
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(http://i.imgur.com/RE8VW6Z.png)
Oh, hey, a NX transfer event on Maplestory.
Now the rest of my characters don't look as ugly and my main doesn't have a million NX items lying around doing nothing.
Also, somebody stop me from playing this game.
And, since MS by itself isn't terrible enough, I also started playing Tera again.
Rolled a sorcerer this time around. The game seems to have gotten a lot easier than what I remembered.
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I've been playing (or reading, whatevs) a lot of Fate/Hollow Ataraxia recently.
I just knew Lancer vs Archer would be something to behold.
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Started up TERA Online again. Can't seem to fit in so far, the community seems very...immature thus far.
As for consoles I started up Ar Nosurge and got my tailfeathers kicked by a certain Boss. And here I thought it was going to be easy!
Got kinda bored with SAO HF and am hooked on PDF2.
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Been playing Code of Princess. The party is Rise, Yukari, Teddie, and ...Lilith. Seriously though, I wouldn't be surprised if Allegro started dropping bear puns. Zozo is probably my favorite character so far, she gets the best lines and there's just so much *enthusiasm* when she's in battle. All the characters are pretty fun to play as. My only real complaint is guard is the shoulder buttons. And to change planes you need to guard plus up or down. I can't find where to remap the buttons. I'd rather have Burst on the shoulder buttons and guard be X. Actually I'd rather guard be A and remap the controls closer to Senran Kagura, but yeah.
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Video game concerts, anyone? Maybe something Zelda related? (http://zelda-symphony.com/concert)
Anyway, collectible hunts. Ugh. Almost as bad as megagrinding.
Also, Zant bottom tier.
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Picked up Anno 2070 Complete on Uplay for 12 bucks. Not bad for such an (imo) AMAZING strategy/city builder game. It ate up my entire night!
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Blasted through Dragon Age II.
Honestly, I liked the story and setup a lot more than DAO's, even if the last part was verging on straight dumb. Also hawke (http://puu.sh/dFFtB/89f68ef258.jpg)
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After eight or nine months (I forget which, but I pretty much forgot about it over the summer ;-;) I've finally finished Bravely Default.
The endgame was pretty freaking awesome (especially that soundtrack).
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Pokemans Y keeps goin' on and I'm in a much better spot than I used to be. I'm bringing in a sliggoo and a vaporeon for chuckles and raising two newbies at the same time has given me the most trouble since the second gym. It's both so wonderfully new and nostalgic at the same time in a comfortable manner that's always a joy to play.
Also giving Valiant Hearts: The Great War a try since it was on sale and seems so different. Who knew there would ever be a game about the first world war, and that it would be closer to a puzzle game?
Dork Souls 2 is on hold after my fifth (!) playthrough, this time as HEAVY WEAPONS GUY. A content patch and major revamp is coming to owners in a couple of months.
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Playing Dragon Age: Inquisition
Really (/really/) disliked combat and the controls at first, but that got better after giving up on tactical view and trying to play it like DAO. I'm at Skyhold tight now, and so far it's p good. Also, Cassandra.
Bad Things:
-sera
-no click to move
-no autoattack
-tactical camera is a giant mistake
-no storage
-no hotbar tooltips
-inventory and equip screens are a pain
-some animations are iffy
-eyelashes and hair look horrible, also very few hairstyles
-female voice #2 isn't great
-most side quests are collection
-cutscenes stuck at 30fps
-big performance drops in populated areas
-holy shit they're actually trying to sell you game currency freemium style for multiplayer....... when you bought the thing for at least $40 at the absolute cheapest............
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A pet peeve: the first Streets of Rage game is NOT how you do character balancing. In it, you don't choose your strengths, you choose your weakness. What's the difference? The game feels like it's supposed to be played with a character that is good in all fields. Unlike later games, where all characters play differently and have strengths and weaknesses because of their styles, here they are all played in the same style, except each lacks something that style is supposed to have. Axel has almost no range on jumping attack, and that's actually the least harmful weakness - jumping attacks are never more useful that usual attacks, thankfully. Blaze does less damage, which means some enemies get an extra chance to ruin your day, never a good thing. Adam has the worst weakness - lower movement speed and attack speed. The former means it's impossible to avoid some attacks. The latter means that enemies can break out of your combos. This can't even be described as making the game harder. It's making it stupidly unfair.
Anyway, I'm done ranting about a game nobody else plays nowadays anyway. However, I'm really enjoying Streets of Rage 2 these days. Certainly my favourite one from the series.
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Video game concerts, anyone? Maybe something Zelda related? (http://zelda-symphony.com/concert)
uggggh Boston on a Friday ain't happening tooooo faaaaaar, but I've got this coming up next month (http://www.ffdistantworlds.com/tickets/newark). My sister and I couldn't decide on which performance we wanted to see more so we decided to get nosebleed seats and go to both TREAT YO SELF.
As for games TOO MANY GAMES since I decided to actually crack open that Steam account and also husband got me a Wii U so whoops. DKC Tropical Freeze is so fun but I see why they give out extra lives like candy also co-op is hard and we died literally 40 times because the stupid bridge catches fire when we're on the stupid rhino and aaaaaaa.
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uggggh Boston on a Friday ain't happening tooooo faaaaaar, but I've got this coming up next month (http://www.ffdistantworlds.com/tickets/newark). My sister and I couldn't decide on which performance we wanted to see more so we decided to get nosebleed seats and go to both TREAT YO SELF.
aw man that looks cool I wish I had moneys to go :(
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Just finished reading Fault Milestone One. I really appreciate that it developed the entire cast to be humanly flawed
outside of the utter sociopath, and even she ended up getting development
and avoided fanservice all together.
...Though I must admit that it feels pretty bad that a lack of fanservice in a VN is apparently special enough for me to bring attention to it.
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(http://i.imgur.com/aPc4W3B.png)
I think I have a problem.
Also, getting closer to 65 in Tera!
Then I can just run dungeons all day and cry about how I'm not getting any drops.
Also kind of started reading VNs on a more regular basis again.
My backlog of VNs makes me sad though, especially given how most of them are complete rubbish and I'm probably going to play those first.
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(http://i.imgur.com/aPc4W3B.png)
Also kind of started reading VNs on a more regular basis again.
My backlog of VNs makes me sad though, especially given how most of them are complete rubbish and I'm probably going to play those first.
Air, etc.
Today I found out there was a new version of goddamn CRIMSONLAND so I was all over that shit all day. It was, and still is, absolutely glorious. Highly recommended to anyone who likes top-down shooters or just arcade-style action games in general and doesn't mind, ahem, small quantities of blood on the rare occasion.
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daioujou, probably going to stop soon though, the difficulty is pretty much making it impossible for me to like this game. Mushi futari, this game is amazing.
Mushihimesama, good and finally f/ha which is pretty good
oh and dodonpachi resurrection, also dislike it's mechanics and the game feels even more difficult.
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I love how I manage to Perfect Melt on Hard and then immediately flop Glory 3usi9.
Anyway, just trying to find three more gates on NFSMW, then onto the MP trophies.
Also another limited selection event will be happening soon on ACI, in honor of Heartbreak One. I'd love to break out the old Frogfoot, but I think I'll stay with the higher leveled Phantom II. Still trying to save up for the Spirit, after all.
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(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/341/1/d/warthunder_comic__hundred_twenty_two_derp__by_jonman94-d892fmo.png)
Warthunder, More Warthunder, Destiny, some of the old COD games... Minecraft, and oh more Warthunder. HRtP is also something I've been trying to master x-x I need to get a better rom of it though, the english patch that came with the pack i downloaded seems to be corrupted.
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The PSP remake of Brandish became available on the North American PSN today. The gameplay took a moment to get used to, but I'm enjoying it so far.
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So, why is Rin using Asuka's outfit rather than her own? Also, Murasaki's stage is so laggy.
Playing The Talos Principle; almost done with the main game - just need the last couple of pieces, then the ascent through the Tower, then picking up the Stars. If only you could put your own answers down to Milton.
Ayesha Plus came out today, too; so that's next on my list. (For those of you who give a shit about it; there is dual audio. There's also a Hard Mode that ups the damage enemies do and the cost of stuff at the stores.)
Didn't get into the top 3k in the Heartbreak One tourney; I'm not surprised, since I was often in rooms where one or all of my opponents were not bothering and flying their ace craft against my puny L2 F5E Shin Kazama. Not being able to use any Stocked Fuel hurt my chances, too.
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(http://puu.sh/eznxT/583e4a6600.png)
And I'm done with Fate/Hollow Ataraxia, except for one or two things like the Hanafuda mini-game story that I have no luck with.
Amazing experience. Not of the same kind as the previous one, but I enjoyed it as much, if not more.
Off to TPDP then.
Also.
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After a long time away, tomorrow i'll finally come back to World of Warcraft..... is there anyone here who play it?
Also, i think i'll finally get around to play my first Fire Emblem game..... starting from the old ones, since i never played any of them :V
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After a long time away, tomorrow i'll finally come back to World of Warcraft..... is there anyone here who play it?
Also, i think i'll finally get around to play my first Fire Emblem game..... starting from the old ones, since i never played any of them :V
If you want to play Fire Emblem, it's usually suggested to play 7 (In NA, named solely "Fire Emblem" on GBA), 8 (The Sacred Stones on GBA), 9 (Path of Radiance on GC), or 13 (Awakening on 3DS). Most of the old ones either have largely improved remakes (11/12 are remakes of 1/3) or are absolutely merciless in difficulty (2, 4, 5, to a lesser degree 6); and the last one remaining is a direct sequel to PoR and should only be played after.
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I've been playing Xenoblade again. I'm in Sword Valley. I've been messing around with the team and I think I found my favorite combination. I have control of Melia, with Reyn and Riki being played by the A.I. As long as Reyn holds aggro, we're really hard to kill. Our damage is very DOT heavy so it's kind of funny to watch the enemies health just fall off.
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I've been playing Xenoblade again. I'm in Sword Valley. I've been messing around with the team and I think I found my favorite combination. I have control of Melia, with Reyn and Riki being played by the A.I. As long as Reyn holds aggro, we're really hard to kill. Our damage is very DOT heavy so it's kind of funny to watch the enemies health just fall off.
The main issue with Reyn holding aggro is that he's relatively easy to hit, which means that aggro goes down (which is why his aggro generating techniques are useful). Dunban is probably the best aggro character, as he not only hits hard but also has very high Agility, making him difficult to hit.
Really, though, I like all of the characters, as they have their own play styles that can be varied to a degree. One of my favorite teams is Melia, Sharla, and the final character you haven't gotten yet (but probably know who it is). I'm actually at the final dungeon right now, doing some level grinding so I can hit up higher level areas that open up late in the game.
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Hahaha I too am playing Xenoblade now, I just got said 7th party member who I'm guessing is the last one? How far along am I?
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Hahaha I too am playing Xenoblade now, I just got said 7th party member who I'm guessing is the last one? How far along am I?
Yes and quite.
Do dem side quests if you enjoy dem. Some of the best or only game lore is only available through endgame or postgame questing.
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Do dem side quests if you enjoy dem. Some of the best or only game lore is only available through endgame or postgame questing.
Would I have any such quests so far? The overwhelming majority are MMO fetch quests or bear slaughtering or whatnot, or possibly playing matchmaker/heartbreaker. I do stumble upon things since I love just wandering around and falling off the planetgod whoops so I don't mind, and it's possible that the Really Good Ones are stuff that I happened to pass over. I'm still at the zone where I got ye olde 7th party member so I can't fast travel yet anyway.
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Would I have any such quests so far? The overwhelming majority are MMO fetch quests or bear slaughtering or whatnot, or possibly playing matchmaker/heartbreaker. I do stumble upon things since I love just wandering around and falling off the planetgod whoops so I don't mind, and it's possible that the Really Good Ones are stuff that I happened to pass over. I'm still at the zone where I got ye olde 7th party member so I can't fast travel yet anyway.
oh god all of the side quests. i'm doing all of them and i'm logging 120+ hours into it though most of it was because i would dick around a lot and stuff because it's quite fun
Anyways, you're about... three quarters into the game. There's still quite a few plot twists to go through with. If you care about side quests you might want to take care of the Alcamoth ones as soon as you're able to travel back there, though: you're about to come up to the cut off point for doing those quests.
EDIT: Oh also PURVIS GO STEAL YOURSELF A WII SO YOU CAN JOIN ME WOBBLES AND PHELGETH IN BEHOLDING THE POWER OF THE MONADO, YOU BUM
EDITEDIT: Oh right. There are some quests that you should absolutely do because they unlock each character's extra skills. You can typically tell which quests these are because the person giving the quest wants to speak to a specific party member.
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I just got Seven. That scene with Dunban and Riki was the best.
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I just got Seven. That scene with Dunban and Riki was the best.
Riki, for being the cute and cuddly mascot character that seems to be in every JRPG, is an awfully fun and interesting character.
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The new Special Raid, the SOLG, is entirely underwhelming. Nostalgia aside.
Also, production line Morgan, the FALKEN, and the Wyvern?! If it weren't for the fact that it took 3m credits to buy the Spirit, I would be all over this instantly. Why is the production Morgan better than the Pixy Morgan, though? I'm likely to get very close, if not net all of them outright during the tourney after this one, though, since it's a F-14 Tomcat-only tourney. My Zipang will destroy the Round Table, though I will need to buy a lot of fuel to get the coveted Razgriz Tomcat.
It's too bad only the Album carries over when making a Hard Mode new game/ng+. Being able to swap in my heavy hitters in the field is really nice, but losing all of the swag between playthroughs hurts in ways I don't like to contemplate.
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It took me approximately 2 years after it was released for me to remember that I had pre-ordered Guild Wars 2. :V Why can't all MMOs have a questing system like this? Being able to walk into an area and be given a laundry list of things to do is so much better than having to run around and get pieces of the laundry list from random schmuks holding exclamation mark signs over their heads.
Though I'm still a little wierded out that Necromancers are apparently crap and Mesmers are gods for PvE. I'm used to Guild Wars 1 where it was the exact opposite.
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Been playing Lightning Returns as a bit of a break from Kingdom Hearts 2.5. I still have synth stuff left in 2FM which will finish getting me to level 99, the puzzles, and getting saved by Mickey for the plat. BBSFM I just need to finish Aqua's report and do Terra's entire postgame and report and get the trophy for collecting stickers to actually work since it's supposed to happen when you get them all with one character(which I obviously have since I have the Ventus complete Report trophy and have gotten them with Aqua also).
But I started Lightning Returns up as a break from it, mainly BBS, and I've done 4 of the main quests so far (1, 2, 3, and 4). Just need to finish Main Quest 5 and then it's sidequesting and extincting enemies for their drops(already have Niblets and Gremlins gone). I think I may have missed finishing one of the quests involving fireworks because I was rushed in getting back to the person to advance the story in time and now I can't find the person who gave the quest to finish it, also failed The Girl Who Cried Wolf quest because I wasn't able to finish it that day and was planning to do it next night, so that's 2 sidequests I'll have to finish in NG+. Did intentionally fail Avid Reader to get To Save the Sinless since I saw mention you get a garb for doing that, but I'm trying to avoid guide useage until NG+ where I'll use one to try to get all the sidequests barring mutually exclusive stuff.
I don't mind so much the time limit as much as there's so many events that have to be done at specific times in the days due to NPCs not being there at certain times. I wonder how much I'm missing because I'm not in the right places at the right times. Battle system seems okay so far outside of the boss scoring system which doesn't factor in stuff like Chaos variants, or Good/Great advantages, but I never really cared about battle score in any of the XIII games outside of the required 5 stars in XIII for the achievements and the 5 stars on the XIII-2 final boss for a trophy. My abilities could definitely use some more upgrading as well. At the moment, I'm leaning toward more liking XIII-2 the most out of the 3 games, but the original XIII is definitely my least favorite of the 3.
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On a whim, I've found myself returning to and replaying the Wild Arms series. Specifically Alter Code F because that has the most nostalgia attached to it, and I need to make a point to link that in the stream thread more frequently.
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I finally got my hands on Valkyria Chronicles today. I've had my eye on this game for several years now but I don't own a playstation 3 so there hasn't been a way for me to play this game until now. I'm absolutely loving the game so far!
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That exact sentiment is why VC beat out the fish: AW on the steam sales lists when it was released.
Got Punch-Out! (Wii) recently, will pick up Metroid Prime Trilogy when it comes out (again), finally at a price below highway robbery. (Note: WiiU only!)
Used the special 10% off code Sony gave everyone to buy a bunch of Stocked Fuel, and a few games that were already on sale. Resogun is interesting, but I keep forgetting to use the boost to get through and ignoring my bombs.
I'm almost done rescuing Nio in Ayesha Plus; just need to kill the Dreiteturm's keeper. With the Zweiteturm's one.
Elsewhere, why is Lectum Anima so damn far away?
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Pokemans Y finished with a half-thud as I blitzed through the endgame like it existed and little else. Probly because the exp. share boosted everyone to insane levels and once I hit my final party I was just sorta done. It wasn't bad, but I just stomped on everything and got upset that the Goomy line was a specialized tank. :(
Continuing on with Bravely Default. That guy had 3 months to finish the weapons shop upgrade so hopefully he's done now.
Also playing Skyrim and Shovel Knight. Skyrim's so wonderfully easy to get lost in and I'm the type who loves to explore. Also its real easy to work towards busting the game open and considering how things get late game I don't regret doing so. Shovel Knight is great nostalgic fun being somewhere between Duck Tales, Mega Man, and LoZ2 but with greatly refined controls. I don't regret buying it when it wasn't on sale.
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Despite the announcement that it is closing in April, if anything that makes me more willing to hop onto Grand Chase.
People have been expecting this thing to close since like; 2011. It made to 2015 and it's only closing because the Korean Devs basically say 'We don't want to support it's development anymore we want to focus on Elsword and upcoming games now instead of this 12 year old thing'.
So the BR and NA [/Global since they've taken in allthe already closed servers] servers have went 'screw it' and given everyone A MILLION CASH POINTS. To run rampart with for 3 months before it actually closes.
Now I never paid a penny. I was using free gear which is much weaker but could still solo the highest level dungeons with relative ease... if I had to be exceptionally careful or I'd get OHKO'ed by a lot of things. [I couldn't solo what's basically the bonus dungeon tho. That's a massive gearcheck because if you take too long you're basically instantly killed].
But now I'm romping around in cash gear. And unlike a lot of people I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING. My 'Total Attack' statistic has virtually tripled and I'm probobly the strongest Elesis on the server in terms of PvE at this moment [Elesis is probobly the least popular character because she's largely overshadowed by virtue of being the first melee character. And unlike the other two starters there's been a lot of other melee characters with new bells and whistles.]
Seeing people's reactions when I hit 999999 damage [The visual cap, but I know I'm hitting far harder than that since I can oneshot endgame bosses] with End of Heart [My 'Ultimate' ability] is hilarious because they've never even seen Elesis hit anywhere near that. [She has awful damage output outside of specials because she's a tank. As in; her basic combos deal less damage than the MAGES] That said I do debuff enemies with my special Taunt first, lowering their defense and then aim for a Back Attack which adds a x1.5 multiplier.
Also I get to look fashionaaabluh: [Wait this is wordfiltered now?]
(http://i.imgur.com/11KUvN5.png)]
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Also I get to look fashionaaabluh: [Wait this is wordfiltered now?]
ahahaha yesss
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"Life is strange" is a game which Shows that television is no longer needed in the world of #Hashtags.
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ahahaha yesss
We have wordfilters? For things like fashionaaabluh? What
Spoopy
What else is filtered
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We have wordfilters? For things like fashionaaabluh? What
Spoopy
What else is filtered
Pretty sure the economy is also one such phrase.
Yup, it is.
Anyway, to be on-topic as well, just started playing a copy of Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate that a friend gave me(he had somehow way back when wound up with two copies of it). I'll probably have to play it only in short bursts. Did all the 1* missions and some of the 2* ones. I am not used to a game where it takes me forever to kill something, so either I need to get good equips quick, or I need to get better or SOMETHING, but if I look for help on that I'll likely go to the more specific topic on that.
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"Life is strange" is a game which Shows that television is no longer needed in the world of #Hashtags.
Is that a recommendation for the game?
EDIT: I just tried out the demo of "Life is Strange". Kind of interesting, didn't exactly draw me in like Walking Dead did, but I think if I gave it a go it could grow on me. Some of the characters were kind of hit and miss, and I'm not sure if the creators captured how a teenager is like these days (they seem a bit dated, like from around when I was in high school), but it's still nice to see the revival of the adventure game continue.
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Is that a recommendation for the game?
EDIT: I just tried out the demo of "Life is Strange". Kind of interesting, didn't exactly draw me in like Walking Dead did, but I think if I gave it a go it could grow on me. Some of the characters were kind of hit and miss, and I'm not sure if the creators captured how a teenager is like these days (they seem a bit dated, like from around when I was in high school), but it's still nice to see the revival of the adventure game continue.
I bought the first episode, but the dialogue is almost unbearable.
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I've been playing Factorio a lot recently....
AND GLORIOUS GUARANTEED 60 FPS
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I bought the first episode, but the dialogue is almost unbearable.
Yeah, I did notice that. They really do need to have someone doctor the script. Some of the voice actors are aight: I like the teacher's VA.
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While not exactly a game, I finally, FINALLY was able to order one of those big 3DS game cases from Club Nintendo. I've always wanted one of those~
In actual gaming news, I finally finished FF1: Dawn of Souls, a game I've played in the past but never actually finished. It's a shame it was just too easy, the game throws so much EXP and money at you, it's very easy to wind up overpowered. Not to mention the new dungeons contain some pretty OP stuff as well (items that can cast spells for free, mainly).
Now I have to decide where else to spend my time...I'd like to continue my FF spiel, so I may play the PSP versions of FF3 and 4 on my Vita, or I may hope back into Persona. Oh, decisions, decisions...
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While not exactly a game, I finally, FINALLY was able to order one of those big 3DS game cases from Club Nintendo. I've always wanted one of those~
In actual gaming news, I finally finished FF1: Dawn of Souls, a game I've played in the past but never actually finished. It's a shame it was just too easy, the game throws so much EXP and money at you, it's very easy to wind up overpowered. Not to mention the new dungeons contain some pretty OP stuff as well (items that can cast spells for free, mainly).
Now I have to decide where else to spend my time...I'd like to continue my FF spiel, so I may play the PSP versions of FF3 and 4 on my Vita, or I may hope back into Persona. Oh, decisions, decisions...
Items casting spells for free was always part of FF1's design - but originally this was mitigated by the fact that you had a total of 4 handgear and 4 armors per character to carry total (including those you currently had equipped). When you can just store it in your inventory and anyone can use it any time, it starts becoming pretty ridiculous. And then there's the fact that your EXP and gold rates are multiplied so high in Dawn of Souls but none of the content is balanced to reflect that, and... yeah. DoS is Baby Mode FF1 (but it's still fun enough).
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As a big Persona fan who hasn't ever play a Shin Megami Tensei game, I started SMT: Strange Journey a few weeks ago. I'm maybe eight hours in and I'm not enjoying it very much so far.
I've had a couple of aggravating deaths where I couldn't find a save point for half an hour as the game kept herding me deeper into a dungeon with one-way doors. Eventually I got wiped out before I could move from near-full health by a surprise attack, and it never felt like I could do anything about it beyond "retroactively have spent more time grinding". I don't like grinding.
I'm not going to give up on it yet, but I'm not excited to play it at all.
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Strange Journey is certainly, certainly an endeavor
the game gets almost unbearably difficult later on, fair warning, which makes completing it a special accomplishment in and of itself.
Persona is not quite the ideal gateway to mainline SMT titles, I should add, especially not one that's by lineage one-fourth Etrian Odyssey
Sorry >_>
A better middle ground would have been Digital Devil Saga, in my opinion
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Been playing the Codename S.T.E.A.M. demo for some time, but got back into Alpha Sapphire to train up some new Pokemon I recently received.
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Strange Journey is certainly, certainly an endeavor
the game gets almost unbearably difficult later on, fair warning, which makes completing it a special accomplishment in and of itself.
Persona is not quite the ideal gateway to mainline SMT titles, I should add, especially not one that's by lineage one-fourth Etrian Odyssey
Sorry >_>
A better middle ground would have been Digital Devil Saga, in my opinion
That's odd, I've been told the opposite by a few different people. I picked up Strange Journey because a few sources called it comparatively fair and a good intro to the series.
And for the record I haven't just played Persina Q. I've beaten every revision of every game since three. Still not an ideal starting point I know, but it's closer than Q.
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I'm just thinking about how Persona is basically the whole face of SMT in the US
> "SMT4 is the Dark Souls of Persona"
There is generally a massive rift between the involvement required in Persona and that required in most SMT titles, I feel
For starters, get used to the idea of dumping your entire active team, for better or for worse, just to fight one boss :P
I ran through all of P4 with Chie/Yukiko/Naoto and there was virtually nothing gamestopping to be encountered
I beat down Shadow Teddie with a Lv. 25 Jack Frost on Expert. :I
That's not to say that Persona isn't a good place to be in its own right, it is, its just I've heard too many stories of people playing Nocturne or Strange Journey and passing judgment on not having character parties or Social Links or a calendar system.
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I don't have a problem with differences in mechanics or even philosophy as a game, but I have very little patience for games that I feel like are deliberately wasting my time. This game gives me that impression to an uncomfortable degree so far.
On top of that, fusion is my least favorite thing in Persona. I think it's tedious and counterintuitive, and it seems to be a much bigger part of Shin Megami Tensei. When my least favorite part of one franchise is the major crossover element to the other I think that's a bad sign.
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My first MegaTen game was Digital Devil Saga and so I may be little biased when I agree that it's probably the better way into the main MegaTen games. And with Strange Journey, try and stick with it to Level E. If you make it past Level E, the rest of the game isn't that tough. And I don't mean the rest of the game is easy, just that Level E is that hard.
And a good idea would be to build up a healer or two just set on your bench and heal you in between fights.
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Right, I've got two dedicated bench healers. The only deaths I've had so far were from pre-emptive attacks, one of those after I bought the upgrade that's supposed to reduce those. Healers don't help when you auto-die with no chance to take actions. Is there a way around that (aside from tons of grinding)?
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(http://i.imgur.com/HuoqAA2.png)
When am I going to quit this game?
Slowly progressing through FFXIII. Still waiting for when I'll get to see a map that isn't a corridor or other pathway of some sort.
On the plus side, at least Hope has stopped being such an annoying, whiny kid and become a regular annoying kid instead.
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Regarding SMT, I do think Devil Survivor and SMTIV did -really- useful things by letting you pick exactly which skills get passed in fusion. Of course, there's no option for this in any other SMT so I wouldn't get spoiled by it.
I just finished SMTIV on Isabeau's route without even realizing I was that close to it in alignment. That was fun, but I don't know if I'll hit up the DLC fights.
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I think I'm finally at ~the endgame~ of Xenoblade Chronicles because we done gone and
blew up the Mechonis whoops
. Hot damn has it been a ride. While some of the things that happened were pretty telegraphed from having like 17 years of JRPG experience some of it not so much. Also the Xenogears influence because I've been calling Dickson this game's Citan Uzuki
for the past ??? hours
I'M ONTO YOU BUDDY
I wasn't as far away with that as I could have been.
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Regarding SMT, I do think Devil Survivor and SMTIV did -really- useful things by letting you pick exactly which skills get passed in fusion. Of course, there's no option for this in any other SMT so I wouldn't get spoiled by it.
The Persona games are starting to shift to it, since they realized that trying for hours to get a skill combination just wasn't very fun.
I think I'm finally at ~the endgame~ of Xenoblade Chronicles because we done gone and blew up the Mechonis whoops
. Hot damn has it been a ride. While some of the things that happened were pretty telegraphed from having like 17 years of JRPG experience some of it not so much. Also the Xenogears influence because I've been calling Dickson this game's Citan Uzuki
for the past ??? hours
I'M ONTO YOU BUDDY
I wasn't as far away with that as I could have been.
It doesn't really matter if the twists are telegraphed so long as it's fun, entertaining, and makes sense considering what is going on in the game.
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I'm having way too much fun with the battle system that's for sure.
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To anyone who still may be interested in playing Dark Souls 2, Scholar of the First Sin was released yesterday. If you own it, the game has updated itself. If you haven't played through as a standard sword-and-board, heavy weapons only, redeye ring tank, pure mundane hybrid, power stance only, and pure mage build yet, go back and play it again. If you haven't played through as a dedicated sunbro, blue sentinel, rathead, or bell keeper, go back and play it again. If you haven't parried the Pursuer, risen to the top of the Company of Champions, been a clang-banger, said hello to Alsanna, beaten the ancient dragon, or cut the tail off of Sinh, go back.
The No Fun Allowed Brigade can go pound sand. Getting invaded constantly by DIE ******s in the Shrine of Amana is no way to impress.
I think I'm finally at ~the endgame~ of Xenoblade Chronicles because we done gone and blew up the Mechonis whoops
. Hot damn has it been a ride. While some of the things that happened were pretty telegraphed from having like 17 years of JRPG experience some of it not so much. Also the Xenogears influence because I've been calling Dickson this game's Citan Uzuki
for the past ??? hours
I'M ONTO YOU BUDDY
I wasn't as far away with that as I could have been.
FINAL BOSSES
IN
SPAAAAAAAAAACE
Also yeah about that second spoiler he really was.
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So the creators of Spacechem have decided to move that formula into 3D with "Infinifactory". It's simultaneously as daunting as it sounds and also far, far more reasonable than Spacechem ever was. I mean for starters I successfully beat Infinifactory after about 10 hours but I literally have a headache and I'm not sure if that's because the game hurt my head or because... well, playing a game for ten hours straight.
Also there's an in-built looping gif generator for your solutions and it's so (http://thispleasestormod.tumblr.com/post/110236926598/infinifactory-worlds-1-thorugh-4-my-solutions) satisfying (http://thispleasestormod.tumblr.com/post/110262277033/infinifactory-world-5-and-6-im-surprised-to).
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So the Majora's Mask DLC is out for Hyrule Warriors. Aside from Young Link and effin' Tingle, there's a new Adventure Mode map. Lot of competitions on this map - kills, Rupees, keeps; and under a 72-map time limit... which is 3 the first time you boot up the map just so they can drop the moon on you.
Also picked up Criminal Girls: Invite Only. I guess it's because I don't like grinding too much, but I always seem to end up constantly in peril from the stronger trash mobs, burning through precious CM (which buys you items and lets you "teach" the girls new skills), and it doesn't help that there are areas where you're forced to fight boss mobs again and again to proceed. That said, I actually like the way they set up the battle system. The four girls in play suggest moves, you pick one and the turn proceeds.
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Also picked up Criminal Girls: Invite Only.
How is that game? I'm a tad curious about it but my friends are urging me not to get it.
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How is that game? I'm a tad curious about it but my friends are urging me not to get it.
It's... alright. It's JP audio, EN text (though there's a large chunk of VA during Motivation scenes that have no corresponding translation ingame). If you get annoyed by the concept of censorship, you'll be annoyed by a few Motivation scenes which have a conspicuous chunk of unremovable fog covering questionable areas. (Which get even more obvious as they learn more skills, as they're flat-out squares of fog.)
That said, you'll be aggravated, perhaps angry if you have a feminist viewpoint or a dim view of the BDSM scene. Motivation scenes involve using various tools, such as whips, electric prods, and feather dusters, to get the girls to learn skills (it's theoretically justified by you attacking that which caused them to be in Hell in the first place, rather than the girl herself, but given that the girls flinch when you successfully perform the action...). Frankly, I personally see it as a mechanic and nothing else, but it's something to keep in mind.
Outside of that, it's a fairly basic dungeon crawler. Explore Hell, fight battles, find treasure, buy items, and learn skills. As I've mentioned before, you have an indirect hand in battles - the girls in battle each suggest a course of action (e.g. attack the enemy, use a skill), and you decide which of the four actions the girls take. The aggravation comes when the girls simply don't want to take decent action (e.g. solo attacks, attacks with the mages), and if they're heavily injured, they can simply end up not being able to act.
Graphics in the dungeon areas feel like they've been lifted straight out of an older system - lower res than they should be. Given that you'll be spending large amounts of time wandering around, this is bad.
There's more to it, but this much should be a good primer as to what you should expect if you pick it up.
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I finally started playing The Last Story over the last couple nights. It's... alright. It definitely wasn't what I was expecting and it feels a lot clunkier and less refined than I'm used to from Mistwalker. That said half my party is currently running around in their underwear and that's all I can really ask for in a JRPG.
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Space Engine (http://en.spaceengine.org/)
Not really a game, more like a space exploration sim made by one person (with help from a number of Celestia developers).
About 2 gigalightyears away from Earth, literally in a galaxy far, far away, I find this:
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/LUHKz6.png)
Two Earth-like worlds co-orbiting (and tidal-locked to) each other. The other one isn't quite as hot with an average temp of about 130 deg.F.
There might be an AAR in this...
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I picked up Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 1 while it was on its 50% off first week Steam sale. I was initially really leery about the series, but the remake at least is pretty solid JRPGs. It's gotten me to looking more into the series as a whole.
Though from what I've read, I'm glad I joined in at the remake. The original reportedly had a bunch of things that I'm certain would've made me hate it.
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I've been playing Disgaea D2. It's really fun and alot has changed since Disgaea 2. I'm really loving the cheat shop.
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Picked up quite an interest in Capcom arcade beat-em-ups (you could tell by my posts in music thread, probably). Having quite a success in learning how to play them at an advanced level. Not even close to any 1cc's yet (not that I aim for any), but getting better with each day. Funny enough, started having preferences in some games but not others. Latest, and most astounding one - Blodia in Armored Warriors. WITHOUT UPGRADES! It's that balanced and useful from the get-go.
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Finally got around to beaten Persona 4 Arena Ultimax in story mode. Somebody spoiled for me that
the boss what something other than a playable character, so I got curious about what it was.
Turns out it was pretty lame though. Hino Kagutsuchi made a lot of thematic sense, but he wasn't a pretty or especially fun boss fight. I was hoping for Persona 3 Protagonist (I know, I would've heard a thousand times if that was true, but still) or maybe Nyx or The Reaper.
Overall the story mode was fine. The story didn't have the repetition problem that the other one did, and some of the mechanics (getting to choose which character to use in fights, the way the story tree was laid out) were great and I expect to see them in the next Blazblue. Kind of getting tired of seeing the P4 cast, especially since at this point we've had more of them than the P3 cast by quite a lot and they didn't have the time to develop that their predecessors did. It's fine, bring on Dancing All Night, I'll play it...
Regarding the story itself, am I the only one who at least briefly expected Sho to turn out to be Misturu's brother? He was revealed to be the son of a man that SEES killed, which only could have been Ikutsuki (yes), or very arguably Takeharu Kirijo (they didn't kill him but he did die near them, so someone as uninformed and unstable as Sho might throw out accusations). Sho has ties to the Kirijo Group and red hair, so for a minute I thought maybe... But no, that would have been stupid. I don't mind that that wasn't actually the case.
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Finally completed Monk in Crypt of the Necrodancer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbG9kO5PTso). Every enemy in the game drops gold, and on Monk, picking up gold instant kills you. There's some other changes (The big one being that you get a free item from shops except the sacrifice shop), but yeah. Took me weeks to do this.
Not sure which achievement I want to go for next - Aria Low% (No picking up any items ever and you die in one hit or the moment you miss a beat), or Bolt (the game speed is doubled - music stays the same but actions are on eighth notes as well as the standard quarter notes). Because they're both going to be stupid.
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So I think I ended up going hard mode on the final boss by electing to use my Class Change item on my healing mage, Yuko. Her new skill, Curse, is basically useless against the final boss, and it's extremely hard to go any further due to the absolutely massive CM cost to level up to the new skills. 30k when a good battle might give 1500? Not very viable.
Not helping matters is the boss' desperation mode activating at half health. It goes from single attacks and pretty potent attacks with Paralysis; to hit-all magic, a nine-hit combo that hits random targets, the paralysis attack, a 1.5 turn attack that is instant death if you don't have Ran get a Guard going (and will wipe anyone who's Paralyzed if she can't guard), and worst of all, an attack which hits all four characters with the four status ailments - Poison, Paralysis, Confusion, and Switch Ban.
Did I mention it gets two attacks per turn?
I get all of two Group Remedies, with no chance of getting more. Yuko might be able to heal, but you have to either have her in the party and burn a Remedy first, or burn the Remedy and swap her in. Either way, you're extremely vulnerable, since you use up your one item use per turn to get heals going - and if she got swapped in Paralyzed, you have to pray for a miracle.
Did I mention it has a second attack? If it used the status ailment one in the same turn as pretty much anything else, everyone will be hurting like mad. The only way to guarantee heals is bringing in Yuko and getting an X Heal off, which has guaranteed priority over the enemy.
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I picked up Neptunia Re;Birth 2 about a week ago. While I admittedly don't find the characters as well fleshed out as Neptunia's original cast, nothing in the first game made me laugh as hard as
when I managed to lose the post-true final boss token beatdown
. Anything that makes me laugh is a plus from a game that lists humor as a selling point, even if it wasn't intentional on the developer's part.
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I find it odd that postgame allows you to class change everyone in your party (eventually), but you have to keep a save from before the initial class change because you have to beat the final boss with each character class changed, and postgame is a true postgame - you can't kill the final boss again.
Also, Valentine's Day deals on PSN. Bunch of fighting games, among other things. IFI has Re;Birth1 and Monster Monpiece both for sale, too. So if you want to be embarrassed by having to rub your PS Vita, there you go. Nine bucks.
Oh, f- all of these idiotic pilots in this TDM. How the f- do you do less points than I do when I'm trying to keep three f-ing Attackers off the fleet?! There should be no reason why you aren't kicking them when you have better planes overall! I can beat you in a f-ing Bomber and evade better! Let's put it this way - the sortie after I made this edit, I swapped to a Bomber. I was constantly focused down by an enemy ATD-0, but I scored more than twice the points of everyone else on my side.
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I've been playing Final Fantasy VIII for a while. Recently I came back to the world of the JRPGs and I restarted Persona 3 too, but it's in standby by now for the sake of Final Fantasy <-
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So I came back to Burnout Paradise after... three years? of leaving it be. God, some of those cars are annoying to drive, and I still hate Stunt Runs. Did get Millionaire's Club, though, but I'm playing on PS3 so no achievement points. I'm surprised multiplayer is still slightly active.
ACI has a Flanker tournament for Scarface One's plane. Nope, not even interested, constant fuel burning from JP players aside likely making it impossible without spending $200.
So there's an enemy or two in Criminal Girls' postgame that will obliterate you if you don't use a certain character's Knight ability at specific times. Said ability is random, but has a higher (but not 100%) chance when the attack is incoming. On the one hand, you can fire it off for free MP wise with a certain item. Problem, the item costs 70k CM, when you can only hold <100k. So you have to buy them one at a time if you don't want to roll the die.
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I am addicted to Guild Wars 2. Anyone else play?
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So I just flew a sortie in the Alps today. I was flying a L5 UGB-equipped Su-25TM Frogfoot. For description's sake, this is a low-tier Attacker aircraft with no afterburner, meaning it takes a while to get on target, but UGBs tend to equalize that with long approach distances in the right conditions, and wide-area attacks that are easy to drop on unsuspecting groupings of targets.
My allies were flying the Pixy Morgan and the FALKEN. Keep in mind these are both high-tier planes. My opponents had two Su-34 Fullbacks and a special version of the Su-35 Flanker-E.
Me getting beat soundly by the enemy was not unexpected. Me beating my allies by a large margin, however, was.
Anyway, almost got the Plat in Criminal Girls - just need to kill the final boss with a Knighted Ran. After that, I'll either head back to Re;Birth2 or to Diva F 2nd. (Also, I love how there's apparently only ~430 people who have played the game and got a trophy.)
Also, STING helped work on Hyperdevotion Noire? Oh jeez, I'm in for a ride, aren't I? (Also, Day 1 DLC: Makers Compa, IF, and Sting; plus Fairy Fencer F's Tiara.)
Also also, uggggghhhh. The newest ACI tourney has a goddamn X-02 Knight skin variant as its plane reward. B-Sha is going to sell so much fuel while this is going on. And laugh in front of the jet fuel bonfire.
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Picked up Hyperdevotion Noire. I honestly think it executes on the Neptunia gameplay mechanics better than the main Neptunia series. :V It makes so much more sense to have discs and equipment with situational strengths and weaknesses when you can survey the field before hand than when you have to figure out what enemy type the boss is through trial-and-error save scumming.
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Final Fantasy XIV's Patch 2.51 hit. Now we have Chocobo Racing. Oh, and Triple Fucking Triad.
My life is now gone.
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I picked up Vagrant Story on the recommendation of a few buddies last year but barely got anywhere, and decided to give it a second shot earlier this week. Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm just not feeling it. I feel like battles are LODS OF
EMONE menus switching weapons and trying not to fail at timed hits. I got a little past what I'm guessing is the 2nd boss (the ghost suit of armor)
Does it get better or if I don't like it by now I'm probably not going to?
EDIT: turns out I didn't know about a few critical things such as I can learn a heal spell so that will probably make this more fun will report back later
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I've been playing Dragon Ball Xenoverse. It's really, really fun. I just finished the Freiza Arc. It's kind of funny, I made a Freiza Clan character and in some of the parallel quests the NPCs are usually freaking out or just confused about. And keeping with the theme, I gave him a name inspired after the coolest character ever: Nineball.
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Guys, staph me plox...
(http://i.imgur.com/mf4i4Yn.jpg)
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Guys, staph me plox...
Well, uh, considering we have two other people here that have this game... Don't think we can help you much.
Just cleared Bayonetta; already dreading Hard and up. Grace and Glory are annoying f-tards in the first place, I cannot stand the fact that many of them will be replaced by Gracious and Glorious, which outright forbid Witch Time. I hope at least the Evil Harvest Rosary will work against them, otherwise I might be in extreme trouble by Infinite Climax.
Upcoming events in ACI - a good old regular TDM (albeit with a meh Zodiac fighter as a reward) and a huge number of Idolmaster planes, including a pink B-2B with what appears to be all the characters from the first IM@S game. Anyone who sorties with this in NTDM is just begging to be constantly shot down.
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I started Mother 3 one more time.
How wrong I was when I thought I wouldn't cry this time... :c
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god damn it blizzard stop making diablo 3 fun again
stop it
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also that's a thousand, get rekt