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The Chatterbox => Gaming => Topic started by: tommy on March 09, 2008, 08:03:27 PM
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like half of the topics here basically devolve into a discussion about another game, let's just have a general purpose "what are you playing" thread
i just finished up professor layton with around 60% completion in ~9 hours. i had to use a walkthrough for the last 2-3 puzzles though :(
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Currently playing Lost Odyssey. I love it, its such a great game. I don't know why its getting bad reviews -_-
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damn i just noticed i spilled some salsa on my keyboard it's probably been there for like 5 hours
anyways so all i know about lost odyssey is that it has large hats and the first battle is like 2 hours into the game what's so great about it
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Guitar Hero 3 and No More Heroes.
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Lots and lots of Audiosurf, also Ragnarok Online, I'm going on one of my bi-annual binges on that game.
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Audiosurf, IIDX, Lost Odyssey and Devil May Cry 1 through 4, Patapon and sometimes Beautiful Katamari
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IIDX, WoW (private servers), O2Jam (private server), Stepmania, Starcraft, Rise of Legends (occasionally), Oblivion..
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Audiosurf, IIDX, Lost Odyssey and Devil May Cry 1 through 4, Patapon and sometimes Beautiful Katamari
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SKIP 2, also I heard 4 is disappointing compared to 3, so I'd play 3 last.
Also brawl, probably going to be playing it and it's online for a while.
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Oh, and Sins of a Solar Empire.
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Kart Rider
epic shit
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Rock Band
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
Army of Two
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Metriod Prime, IIDX, Yoshi's Island, RoadRash Jailbreak (GBA)
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why am i scared to do this
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Army of Two
How is this? It looked like the splinter cell co op but with more shootan. Too bad the commercial for it made it seem like generic shootan.
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How is this? It looked like the splinter cell co op but with more shootan. Too bad the commercial for it made it seem like generic shootan.
It's more like Gears of War with more co-op elements. General consensus seems to be that the game was designed for co-op with single player play being an afterthought. :P I haven't soloed it yet, but the co-op play is fun. You really do have to be careful in some parts, though, because the enemies will overwhelm you if you don't play smart. Best of all, it's one of the few games where suppressive fire is actually effective, and where enemies will actually aim for the guy with the LMG before they shoot at the one with the pistol.
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Oh wow, nice.
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FFXI mostly. Some D&D. I need to pick Namco x Capcom back up.
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I just started playing Phantom Hourglass. It's pretty fun.
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i've been doing mostly steam multiplayer stuff, in no particular order:
sven coop
brainbread
hl2: jakin bacon source
the specialists
(those are all hl1 mods)
css
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Ah, the specialists, a great mod, that one.
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i just busted into earthbound. i last played this when i was a freshman in highschool, and i recall getting to summers. also, i remember this game being stupidly hard (like enemies killing me in 1-2 hits hard[maunly remembering moonside like this]...but bosses are easier than regular enemies...very strange)
so far, i just whipped through the start to beating the police forces...with just about no trouble at all. the bosses were easy, just use some psy rockin and they go down rather quickly.
maby i was a retarded kid, or maby i just had a bad rRRraaAWWWmm.
anyway, bustin' dudes in the face with a baseball bat, eating burgers, this is my kind of rpg.
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ohh kay, now its getting hard.
enemies everywhere who spend every fucking turn draining my mana, followed by enemies that give me a cold i can't cure due to having no mana, ohh and they evade just about every one of my attacks. i literally had a lil ufo dodge over 6 attacks IN A ROW, which i then decided i was almost dead, and ran. i eventually loaded to my last save due to the amount of bullshit in this area.
how is this possible again? ohh yea, i forgot, this is a jrpg...grind grind grindgrind grind.
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ok, yea, i made it to the second boss, somehow.
fuck this game, im going to play a nice easy game, like gradius 3.
YES THAT WAS SCARCASM BUT EARTHBOUND MAKES GRADIUS 3 LOOK EASY
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so there is a shop in the happy happy village, and i was supposed to get paula before venturing into the cave i died in....things are a bit easier now.
*edit* kay im in threed
you know, i really should consider doing a lets play, maby i would be entertaining. if i had some video/audio recording software...maby MABY i would do a lets play of contra. 8 parts, 8 levels, me being a jackass, i wonder if people would watch that.
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MF'ing Mass Effect.
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Oh man, Earthbound is AMAZING. I can get pretty far into it before I get stuck and shit, but it definitely is challenging unless you already know what you're doing. It's quite a bit longer than you'd expect though.
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shrien the wanderer is going to fucking kill me
it's a roguelike. permadeath, semi-random dungeons (there are like 6 layouts for every floor chosen randomly), and it's on the ds.
i've only made it to floor 17 of 30 after playing for ~6 hours :(
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i just busted into earthbound. i last played this when i was a freshman in highschool, and i recall getting to summers. also, i remember this game being stupidly hard (like enemies killing me in 1-2 hits hard[maunly remembering moonside like this]...but bosses are easier than regular enemies...very strange)
so far, i just whipped through the start to beating the police forces...with just about no trouble at all. the bosses were easy, just use some psy rockin and they go down rather quickly.
maby i was a retarded kid, or maby i just had a bad rRRraaAWWWmm.
anyway, bustin' dudes in the face with a baseball bat, eating burgers, this is my kind of rpg.
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ohh kay, now its getting hard.
enemies everywhere who spend every fucking turn draining my mana, followed by enemies that give me a cold i can't cure due to having no mana, ohh and they evade just about every one of my attacks. i literally had a lil ufo dodge over 6 attacks IN A ROW, which i then decided i was almost dead, and ran. i eventually loaded to my last save due to the amount of bullshit in this area.
how is this possible again? ohh yea, i forgot, this is a jrpg...grind grind grindgrind grind.
*edit*
ok, yea, i made it to the second boss, somehow.
fuck this game, im going to play a nice easy game, like gradius 3.
YES THAT WAS SCARCASM BUT EARTHBOUND MAKES GRADIUS 3 LOOK EASY
FFFFFFFRRRUUUSSSTTTRRRAAATTTIIOOONNN
*edit*
so there is a shop in the happy happy village, and i was supposed to get paula before venturing into the cave i died in....things are a bit easier now.
*edit* kay im in threed
you know, i really should consider doing a lets play, maby i would be entertaining. if i had some video/audio recording software...maby MABY i would do a lets play of contra. 8 parts, 8 levels, me being a jackass, i wonder if people would watch that.
Shigesato Itoi, the creator of Earthbound/Mother series has actually said in interviews that the reason the game has such a massive jump in that valley and then later on in the department store is that it represents the unknown and the anxiety that goes along with running headlong into it. The hero feels unsure about what he's doing and so the enemies are much harder to show that. It has nothing to do with making you grind. It's just something that 99% of all game players would never think about, which makes me sad. They just think that oh this is a video game so they just made this part harder and I should grind to beat it and not WHY that part is actually harder beyond where it is in the game.
I could go on and on on the amazing intricacies of Earthbound but I'll stop for now. The game really does change how you look at games though, as long as you don't just approach it as "I'm killin dudez, gettin to the next boss" and really think about what you're doing and saying. Even better, read the entire game out loud.
I am currently playing:
Rock Band (Boston pack just came out today and I'm also apparently great at "singing" thrash songs because I'm 14th and 17th place on two of them)
Ace Combat 6 (haven't actually started yet but it's there)
Lost Odyssey (on disc 4, unbelievably good RPG)
The Club (old school arcade scorefest. God I love this game. Shame no one understands that it isn't like every other 3rd person shooter and doesn't need a cover system because that would completely negate the point of the game...)
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It's great to see other people who appreciate the game. I didn't realize that's what was going on there, but yeah, Earthbound has to be in my top 10 greatest games of all time list. Somewhere near the top.
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The Club (old school arcade scorefest. God I love this game. Shame no one understands that it isn't like every other 3rd person shooter and doesn't need a cover system because that would completely negate the point of the game...)
I saw this on steam and it looked like a generic shooter, but it's not?
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I wouldn't even call it a shooter. I mean, yeah it's a third person shooter but it's FAR from generic...mostly because no other shooter is like it. Each stage is a bit different.
Sprint has you killing guys, shooting time targets and picking up clock icons for more time and you try to get through the stage killing as many people and shooting as many of the time targets as you can. Killing guys in various ways (depending on where you hit them, if you ricochet the bullet, head shots, distance, if you roll before killing them, killing multiple guys at once, breaking down doors and then killing them) gives you more points and gives combos. Whenever you aren't killing someone, the ticker slows ticks down until you start losing combo multipliers. Keeping your multiplier high by killing guys at a good rhythm, shooting special targets and getting to the end quickly is key. You usually run a few laps around the area.
Siege and Survivor are mostly "survive" the onslaught of guys while keeping your combo up as high as possible. Siege is more long range shooting. Survivor is more up close usually.
Run the Gauntlet is basically Sprint but without laps. It's also usually more guys to kill and you get different weapons.
Pretty sure there's another one. Every character is different. You basically participate in each event trying for the highest score. It's like Tony Hawk + shooting.
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Eggman, we should play Rock Band sometime. :3
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well im not one to care why the game gets harder, its just something to overcome.
i ended up making it to summers to get the monk guy, then stopped playing after getting the monk to level 30 or so, when my party is nearly 15 levels higher than him.
maby when my attention span for jrpg's returns, i may start polishing off these games i start and don't finish. (ff5, x2, 12, earthbound, emerald, pearl, and non jrpgs like kotor 2, oblivion...i have a HUGE list of unfinished games due to the game getting stale)
maby ill give the 5th gym leader in pearl another whack. or something easy for my attention span, like some 8 player online dm rankin on ut2k4.
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the first Quake. Went through it on normal, and am now doing it on hard before nightmare.
When I first found the nightmare thing, I thought it'd be as hard as nightmare on Doom but is basically just a "very hard" mode. :/
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well im not one to care why the game gets harder, its just something to overcome.
i ended up making it to summers to get the monk guy, then stopped playing after getting the monk to level 30 or so, when my party is nearly 15 levels higher than him.
There's an enemy called the "Criminal Caterpillar" (I think. It's one of those types anyway. Looks like a caterpillar) that will give you ridiculous experience and level Poo up to everyone else almost instantly. You don't even have to fight the battle usually. It just dies. This part actually represents the coming together of all of your friends and the overall strength that Poo shows when he appears.
I hate to pick on you like this over and over but honestly, seeing games as just "something to overcome" is a huge problem and is exactly why gamers believe they've become so "jaded." Games are no longer seen as a possiblity for artistic expression (despite the gaming public's outcry that games CAN be art) and have given way to achievement whores and those who are overly competitive. Mulitplayer is now everything so why should they care about why the creator wants them to do things or why something is the way it is. They just want to kill and chat and raise their level and say they beat whatever on such and such difficulty. Story's become secondary, even in RPGs, and I hate that.
Man I really need my own blog to just spout off everything at once just to get it out there. I soapbox too much.
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Haha, yeah. I agree that the story has become secondary. I've been waiting for a long time to get a game that really brings back the oldschool feel. Something hat puts the story before everything else. It doesn't have to be revolutionary in any way whatsoever. I just want a story with a thorough in depth storyline, instead of the crap they make today where it's "oh, we're making an RPG, let's throw together a story real quick so we can discuss how to make this game revolutionary, and amazing."
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well i am simple minded. i play games that entertain me, if said game ceases to entertain me, it is worthless.
gaming is entertainment, they are meant to entertain. some people can get into the artistic stuff, im not one of those people.
as for art, they can make a game fun, and artistic, like rez, i bought that game, i like that game.
ohh and this may rage you a tad, i could care less about story in just about every game i play. very few exceptions to this, like killer7.
i don't read books, i play games.
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Yeah, well, I do both. And I certainly hate it when I end up with multiplayer-craving people tilting the entire gaming universe towards them and then labeling anyone who wants a story as "archaic" and that JRPG's are "oldschool stale" regardless of the title. It's tiring, it's annoying and it's an unbelievably stuck up way of thinking.
I enjoy games that have no point but to get a high score (that's why I'm playing The Club and why I enjoy music games), but there's more to it than that and the vast majority of gamers these days won't accept that at all.
Just because games are artistic, doesn't mean that the majority of them aren't fun. It's not like a bad game is going to get good press just because it's artistic. Usually that ends up going against even more in pro reviews. Usually, great games that do try to do things very different get totally smashed. I've seen so many people that played Bioshock and then cried because it didn't have multiplayer. I mean what the hell why would it have multiplayer? That isn't the point of the game and that isn't what the creator was going for. But no, the average gamer won't even think of that.
It's fine to have different tastes but I've seen way too many people just label entire genres garbage without even trying it out just because they came in on Halo 3 or something or because one singular review says that a game retreads gameplay elements from older games. Aggggh going too long now.
To stay on topic, I'm also playing FF7: Crisis Core. It's like Kingdom Hearts, but not terrible and boring.
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I was going to respond to that as well ("Yeah, well, I do both." is word for what what I was going to start with). But Eggman, you've explained my thinking better than I could have.
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Yeah, well, I do both. And I certainly hate it when I end up with multiplayer-craving people tilting the entire gaming universe towards them and then labeling anyone who wants a story as "archaic" and that JRPG's are "oldschool stale" regardless of the title. It's tiring, it's annoying and it's an unbelievably stuck up way of thinking.
Some people just don't like games that aren't twitch orientated, hell, RPGs are mostly menu navigation games, and most of them require very little technique to kill enemies. Mostly why I lost interest in FF12, shit basically forced you to grind and the only fun/hard parts were boss fights. Also multiplayer will stretch out how long you will play a game, story really can't. Also story will often be raped so they can produce another sequel, like god of war. The original was in an era that hasn't been raped to death and had an interesting tragic ending, the GoW2 comes along and instead of Kratos holding the position of god of war against his will forever, he goes against all of the gods (and yet non of them really attack him on the way) and reaches the threads of fate, where instead of saving his family (his ONLY FUCKING MOTIVATION IN THE TWO GAMES, EVEN THO MY FRIEND SAID HE DIDN'T CARE ABOUT HIS FAMILY BECAUSE HE'S A DEMI GOD) he saves the titans and goes after the gods for tricking him. I guess he'd rather have revenge for something he could have easily prevented. Also a lot of people don't even pay attention to the story in games.
It's fine to have different tastes but I've seen way too many people just label entire genres garbage without even trying it out just because they came in on Halo 3 or something or because one singular review says that a game retreads gameplay elements from older games. Aggggh going too long now.
I have friends who do this, it's a fucking shame, you can look at a movie preview (super hero movie, meet the spartans) and know it's going to suck, but looking at a short clip of gameplay footage means nothing. I've had a friend see a video for CoD4 which contained NO FUCKING IN GAME FOOTAGE, and he was like "zomg best game ever". Not that I hate shootans, but christ, you know NOTHING about the game other than it's shinny and has guns. Also (I've already said this, but it's rage time) I've had a friend say God of war was better then God hand, when he's only seen me play God hand for all of 30 minuets, and I say God hand is better having beaten both, yet he still thinks he is right (he also worships halo and thinks it's the best game ever made).
To stay on topic, I'm also playing FF7: Crisis Core. It's like Kingdom Hearts, but not terrible and boring.
Then how is it like Kingdom Hearts?
Oh and instead of a complete derailment, I'm definitely going to pick up NMH, if not tomorrow then the next day.
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I think this thread needs a split.
It is possible to make a game with a good story that doesn't simply consist of "grind till level x, kill boss y". If you use unique gameplay elements, you can add a lot of strategy into a game. Of course, that takes effort, and most game developers care about "xomg, must have uber grafix!1!!@" than actually improving gameplay.
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Funny thing. Lost Odyssey, currently existing on the 360, is an RPG with a fanrastic story, no level grinding (because you can't.), a timing-based battle system, an amazing soundtrack and beautiful graphics. Guess how it got reviewed and then subsequently judged? Terribly! Reviews were mostly positive but most reviews mentioned random battles and long cutscenes and so the game gets totally destroyed in sales because that now equates to "archaic garbage" to the average gamer.
I'm still saying, it's completely retarded to pay zero attention if a game presents you with a story. I've actually talked to someone who bought Xenosaga and then sold it because he thought the game sucked because there were too many cutscenes he had to skip, too much text to read and he couldn't use squad tactics in battles.
I swear to god that attitude is WAY more prevalent and it's a sign of fucking civilization dying right here and now.
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Yep. Just like the mentality that it's ok to type like like a mentally handicapped cat walked on the keyboard just because you're on teh intarnet.
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Ah, my roommate is like that. He'll make an obvious typo, notice it, but be too lazy to backspace two letters and change it. I pointed out to him that he looks like a 12-year old when he types like that, and he got genuinely angry at me, and I was just like "lol internets".
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Ugh, stuff like that really bothers me. The way I see it, your spelling and grammar dictates how you are seen online. The more effort you put into writing in proper english and spelling things properly, the better you will be seen online.
I'm much more willing to listen to someone who has proven that they are intelligent enough to formulate a grammatically correct sentence than someone who's writing looks like the previously mentioned cat walked over their keyboard.
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Meow......?
But yeah, Lost Odyssey is an amazing game. Alot of people from what I heard, are bashing it because it reminds them of Final Fantasy, and all the gameplay is basically the same. Honestly....who gives a fuck? Hands down, another great RPG I really enjoy. And the first where i've not gotten bored with the storyline and skipped cutscenes. Even the "dreams" that he has, i've read them all, and they're awesome.
Overall, 2 newfie thumbs up. **Raises pinky fingers**
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My GF and I disagree on what newfie thumbs are. Is it a joke that newfs can't tell their thumbs from their pinkies, or that they've got a beer in each hand (either answer is acceptable to me).
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Rainbow Six Vegas 2 = win.
The only thing I've noticed is.. For online co-op, I want it to be more like the first one. Just you and whoever you bring, be it one buddy or all three. I don't need the extra baggage and responsibility of 2 operatives that are ultimately AI. Sure, the pro's are, you can more tactfully clear rooms and go through levels, and they can be a distraction when you want to enter a room through an obvious and dangerous way.
So far, I believe we're on Act 4 part 4 somewhere around there. I've played as Bishop this whole time and will finish as such, with my buddy as Knight. Then once that's done, we'll go back and beat it again this time swapping positions. To get the other achievement, and to experience commanding Bob and Steve over here.
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Age of Empires II :)
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My GF and I disagree on what newfie thumbs are. Is it a joke that newfs can't tell their thumbs from their pinkies, or that they've got a beer in each hand (either answer is acceptable to me).
You're BOTH wrong. Its actually because our thumbs and other fingers are too busy trying to figure out the alphabet............You know....people COUNT with their fingers.........Ok it was lame but OH WELL. I have an excuse. I'M A NEWFIE!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!! You will NEVER destroy me now!!! **Runs and hides in a potato sack**
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Well, on the bright side, you're not from Cape Breton...
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Rainbow Six Vegas 2 = win.
Aha, right...you're vAequitas. I totally didn't know who you were when you messaged me last night. :x Now I feel like a jerky head.
We should play sometime and stuff.
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So I got No More Heroes, and I must say it's addicting. I've played it for 4 something hours and I'm right up to the third boss. The enemies seem pretty easy, until I do some of the outside challenges (can't get over bronze in that only wrestling moves kill event, that and DON'T GET HIT event). I wish the game would throw a bigger mix of enemies at me, like more gun and light saber enemies. Other then that I really like it, bosses actually kill me, but aren't anywhere near as hard as god hand. Also holy god awesome music.
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You get a higher difficulty for beating the game once. Your stuff carries over (I think?) but enemies are at least twice as hard.
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Aha, right...you're vAequitas. I totally didn't know who you were when you messaged me last night. :x Now I feel like a jerky head.
We should play sometime and stuff.
ass :O
lol it's cool. I just finished the story mode earlier today as Bishop with my friend as knight.. pretty neat. Now we're gonna switch like I said. But I'm too wore out tonight after running this morning then going to a music festival in Tempe. D:
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I just picked up skate. It is quite BA.
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I've gotten back to playing Legend of Dragoon again. For a game with MASSIVE HOMG PIXELS EVERYWHERE, it's quite fun. :)
I say "gotten back" since I started on it when I was 11 or 12. Naturally, I've forgotten the whole plot, and I tried to pick up my old file anyway. Right now, it's stuck on disk 4 in a desert that I can't get out of. :(
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MASSIVE HOMG PIXELS EVERYWHERE
Lol, you don't notice it when you first play the game, but after a couple years, yes...
However, that is a great game.
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starting to play a little pokemon pearl, grinded my dudes up to level 34, and after several attempts, i managed to beat the ghost gym leader for my fifth badge. i guess the next thing im going to do is
A- figure out where the hell i am suppose to go now
B- get rid of this level 6 zubat i use to fly and get a water pokerman
uhh and my party is (note, i don't much remember the names of these things)
third evo of the grass starter
zubat
machamp
allakhazam
ponyta
third evo of the generic bird you find (suprisingly good pokerman)
(zomg a post that was on topic, crazy)
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Seems like a water would help you, that or get a ghost pokemon and trade it off for your psychic.
Also what should I use for "single hit kills me" missions in No Moe Heroes? I was thinking of blood berry considering how fast it hits and guards, but I still suck at these missions.
Also anyone else notice the Clover store next to Area 51? ;_;
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I've been playing Bomb Squad for Intellivision far too much for my own good...
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Holy shitfuck, I just figured out how to do dough nuts in NMH, goddamn.
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Game beaten' was pretty good. Enemies could have been tougher, and they should have axed those "single hit missions" but it was a good game. I don;t see why so many people go "lol shitsux". They must have played until the first easy gap and then quit.
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Try it on Bitter difficulty now. I can guarantee you you'll die a thousand times more. Especially on the last fight. That thing takes like 45 minutes and he still always has that instant kill attack. And Bad Girl is hot.
I've finished Ace Combat 6, The Club's Tournament Mode, and FINALLY got through the rest of Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance from the GC.
So now I'm back to playing Lost Planet and making sure I get all the target marks in each stage. It's still a really good game.
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Try it on Bitter difficulty now. I can guarantee you you'll die a thousand times more. Especially on the last fight. That thing takes like 45 minutes and he still always has that instant kill attack. And Bad Girl is hot.
I probably will, I also need to do the same with God hand.
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well, lets see.
its both
A: grindan in the pokemans to prepare myself for the elite 4
B: male dark side force user in kotor 2
now B is interesting, because in kotor, and my first file (didn't get too far) in kotor 2, i play as a female lightside melee character(hell, in mass effect, paragon female soldier). the game seems to give you more dark side choices in this game, and apparently force lightning is rape, so i made this character and its pretty good sofar. and by sofar, i mean, im not even half way through the mining astroid, but ill probably end up beating the game with this character. i spend too much time being "good" in my games as is.
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Try it on Bitter difficulty now. I can guarantee you you'll die a thousand times more. Especially on the last fight. That thing takes like 45 minutes and he still always has that instant kill attack. And Bad Girl is hot.
FUCKING HELL WHY WONT SHINOBU DIE? Tried it like 5 times today, got her to 1 quarter left, she charges her 1 shot kill move and I rill, but right into a beam to I still get hit and stabbed to death. Also Bad Girl < Shinobu = Holly Summers.
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OVER AND OVER.
HORIZONTAL RULE.
Playing sum legend of zelda: ocarina of time. thats rite, yup. and some pokemanz red with a GHAEY shark.
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but i liek the grafix in army men 3d D:
as for what im playing, little starcraft, little iidx, nothing much. beat the elite 4 on pokeymans about a week ago, haven't touched it since.
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GTA IV :D
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GTA IV :D
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I DEMAND A DECENT REVIEW.
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When I get further in the game, that shall come. :)
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BUMP
if i don't decide to put it on hold AGAIN, i will be playing final fantasy V
i got the anthology for the christmas, and didn't really touch it. i have about 2hours 30 minutes on my ffv file, and from what i played today, i think i may just get into it.
see jrpg's are weird for me, ill play one(im basically talking final fantasy games, i don't really bother with "other" jrpgs, and please, don't argue with me on this and say "ohh but so and so jrpg is JAWSOME" i am not interested, fuck off, end of story), put it down because of boredom, pick it back up some time later (months, YEARS even) and fucking go all out playing the sucker. i mean, enjoying the game from start to finish, and most likely beating the game in less than a week. this has happened for ff7, 8, 9, and 10, only exception is 10, being as i hated that game, but i beat it, so i can hate it with good reason.
anyway, the job system in this game is interesting, it was kind of a put off, but after reading a "job faq" to see what i should do i think i have a grasp of this simple (lolol yea i was put off by a simple system) system. i guess the only other weird thing is playing a 16 bit game on my 42 inch hdtv, something to get used too.
anyway anyway anyway, i am still determined to beat final fantasies 1-12 minus 11 since that game isn't beatable.
1, 7, 8, 9, 10 down, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, x-2, 12 to go...
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is it me or is this game actually challenging compared to the final fantasies i have beaten? the library boss after ifrit was kicking my ass, and i only beat him by getting a little lucky, and switching my knight to time mage for haste, and the white mage to summoner for ifrit. even then, it was a close fight, the fucker had a spell which halved the level of my main damage dealer (galuf as a sorcerer)
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I've beaten 1, 4, 6, 7, and 8. I got stuck on the third Seymour battle in X. I lost my PS1 memory card shortly after getting to the second disk in 9 (though I could continue if I could get PS1 games working on my PSP). 2 and 3 never grabbed my interest. I still need to try 5 and X-2. I need to play more of 12.
I've been playing Psychonauts recently with some KH1 on the side.
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Definitely go back through 9, the second disk is where the game actually starts to really get interesting.
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the most recent boss i fought was lame and homosexual
k like IMMEDIATELY (before you get an action) he casts comet, and does like 1000 damage. note, everybody but the samura has around 700hp, and the samurai has about 900hp. not only does he kill somebody instantly, he casts comet on the same guy again "just to make sure hes dead"
so i revive the fucker because he is my ninja, and throwing shuriken = MASSIVE DAMAGE, so whats he do? kills my frontliner and the hunter. for some reason i revived the hunter (it also had time magic so haste > guy with sword doing damage) and the corpse of the samurai was getting dragged to the left.
i tried reviving him twice, and it failed, meaning, he was dead for the remainder of the battle....so i just have 3 party members rather than 4.
now, he wasn't a "hard" boss fight, but god, he did enough to annoy me.
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double post for awesome
galuf if the maniest man in all of final fantasy (not that that's saying much from most of the current games...)
also, when he dies in his epic awesome battle, the party ACTUALLY USES cure 3, raise, pheonix down, ect to try and save him.
basically, so far, this game isn't angsty or emo, im digging this.
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Still trying to do my cave story hell run, I just got so damn close, then died on ballos, without even using my health pick up.
Wow, died on his final form. Great. At least I got that far this time.
and it's been BEATEN. Wasn't even that hard, as long as you do that little trick on his secound form.
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phoenix tower = UNCOOL
i walked into it thinking "hey, easy summon, there isn't even a boss.
walk up 30 floors of pure hell. each floor you can run into enemies you can't run away from, they cast a variety of "fun" spells which FREQUENTLY toad, stone, zombie, mini, sleep, muddle, paralyze you, not to mention TWO instant kill moves. and there is 30 floors of this stuff. i swear, if i died(there were several close calls), i would have snapped my disk in half.
now all i need to do is
-kill bahamut
-steal a protect ring from odin, AND kill him (the time limit for the odin fight is 60 seconds, when the time runs out, you die)
-grind up-to a respectable level (im thinking low 40's, im around 36-37 right now due to running away from every encounter i could in the last two-three dungeons)
-use said power from grindan to lay the smackdown on the remaining 8 or so bosses, watch credits, start final fantasy 6.
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get party properly setup, make sure the thief has the thieves glove equipped to have a higher chance of stealing
encounter odin, make sure the thief goes first and the time mage second
-steal
-if fail, have time mage use return to instantly restart the battle (and the 1 minute timer)
-20-30 tries should nab you your protect ring
-immediatley use $throw (i had my time mage with this ability)
-throw a magic shurikan
-cast flare
-do nothing with the thief, have him defend
-use $throw again
odin should be "ahh mah gah, you are awesome, ill join you" and boom, battle is over, and i had 23 seconds left to spare. who would have known that throwing money does more damage than the flare spell.
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k, looking at the battle beforehand, i was well prepared for the bahamut fight...too prepared
4x time mage
-start battle with haste 2
-cast quick
-cast meteo twice (quick lets you cast 2 spells right away)
-do this with every character
your characters should be out of mana, or almost out of mana in about two turns(quick = asston of mana), but that shouldn't be a problem because....
.....bahamut should die before he gets an action, and enjoy your shiney new awesome summon
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and another post because this thread hasn't been popular
4x level 40 mimes (make sure everybody has $toss, and have summon, time, and white, you need this shit)
x-death first form
-buff up with haste 2, golem, and carbuncle. the tricky part is getting most of these buffs on everybody, since he likes to kill you.
-holy
-cast mime till dead
neo x-death
-same buffs, make sure you have them
-$toss
-mime
-when shit hits the fan, cure status ailments, use phoenix(it does damage and does a full revive at the same time), try to get haste back on, and for the love of god do $toss whenever you have time, with a bit of luck, and some good judgement, you should beat him.
or you could level up a bit, i hear level 40 is a bit on the "low" side, but whatever, this is another ff game ive defeated. id say beating 5 is more of an accomplishment than beating 7, 8, 9, and contra combined. but i guess thats because the game has a good amount of "ANNOYING" stuff in it. but regardless, the story wasn't emo, the characters were ok (also not emo), gilgamesh and galuf are ALMOST solid snake in terms of MAN, x-death sounds funny, the x-zone spell also makes me giggle, and odin at the end of the game can be summoned all the time to get quick ap.
all and all, i beat this nigga, 6 more final fantasies left to go! 2346x212
HU RA!
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I've been playing through Pokemon Red on my PSP's GB emulator, and I've been using the save states to exploit several glitches in that game, like the Mew glitch and using it to skip Snorlax.
Also, I won't play through all of the Final Fantasies, simply because I refuse to play through 2 or 3. I mean, there's a reason those weren't originally released in the states.
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I've finished every Final Fantasy except 2 because it's an awful game that's completely broken. If you want to play 3, get 3 DS.
Also, wait until next month for the remake of 4 on DS. It looks absolutely beautiful. It's also supposed to be perhaps even harder than the original FF4J.
I still stand by 6 being the best though.
I've been playing Call of Duty 4, which is fun but is pretty much overrun by a ridiculous amount of snipers and really really stupid people. Every time I join a game, at least 3 people have clan tags like [WEED] or [W33D] or some stupid variation referencing drugs and they all complain constantly.
I've also started another run through of Final Fantasy 12, this time doing a forced class run. I've got Vaan as a thief so he can only equip daggers, ninja swords, crossbows and light armor, Basch as a knight so he can only equip heavy armor, spears, swords, 2handers, and bows, Fran as a red mage/monk type so she can use magic of all types up to level 6, light armor or magic armor, poles, bows, swords I guess and hammers/flails, Ashe as a black mage, Penelo as white mage, and Balthier as a gunner and I don't know what else because he's too badass to classify.
I'm actually playing like 6 games but I shift through stuff so quickly I won't bother listing all of them.
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well for 2, i was planning on playing the gba version, because it should be piss easy and with turbo, not take up much of my time.
for 3, ill borrow the ds version, and 4, id like to buy it when i have the money(it DOES look really good).
but yea, not too far into 6 (less than two hours) so i guess it should be normal for me not to "like" the game yet. i hear it is really REALLY good, but just how far into the game do i need to get before i start enjoying myself? (then again, i didn't much like 5 for a decent chunk of the beginning either)
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You should love 6 the moment Kefka shows up and one of greatest songs ever starts playing. And then he laughs. Then it becomes your favorite.
I loved from pretty much the first second. But then again, I played it the week it came out so my express was fresh, with no expectations or pre-conceived notions and compared to every other RPG up to that point, it was like staring into some mad reflection of the future where everything is beautiful.
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I be playing lots of D2 right now.
First time I think I might actually manage to get a character into nightmare (I was never all that into the game :/).
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I B PLAYIN SUM
OVER AND OVER
(I made it. It's a game involving moving a carat ^ around #'s in a dialog text box like a crappy keychain racing game. It's called OVER AND OVER because that's what happens when you play, you just keep going around and around. I would keep going on about it, but I don't want to sound like i have to tell you OVER AND OVER again.)
Edit:
Also, graphics don't make good games. But it sure fucking helps.
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I should really finish Lost planet
oops
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I bought Katamari Damacy for $10 from Gamestop today...er...yesterday. I can't believe I ignored this game for so long. It took a while to get used to the controls, but afterward, the game was a lot of fun.
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I never found the controls that difficult, but yes, that game is made of pure concentrated win.
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playing diablo
not diablo 2, diablo
i have a level 20 warrior up on level 13 (level 16 = diablo, and the end of the game if you beat him) and well, shits getting hard. when i got to the cave cluster of levels, i found myself using potions more and more often, and now, its getting retarded.
so i started a sorcerer, they start out hard to play, but in the end, they are the most powerful class.
ohh, and i named him "purple_stuff"
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Well, lv 20 at 13 is kinda really low, IIRC.
And yep, Sorc's are pwnage.
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well, the thing with warriors, i believe, is they start out easy. but, at higher levels, its easier playing as a rogue or sorcerer. and since the earlier levels don't much mean shit, and maby i feel like trying out the higher difficulties, im definatley going sorcerer.
level 8 so far, didn't take long when i decided to skip some of the lower levels. i can kill most anything with the spells i have, if im careful i won't get hit...because i have like 45hp XD
when i get mana shield, my choice to put no points into vitality and almost all points into magic (maby i will get some strength later on for some armor, doesn't take long to max with a sorc) will be null.
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im playin sum soul caliburz 3s
raphael is a dick ok
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I'm playing Rock Band.
Woo!
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I just got the Orange Box...I'm playing through Half Life 2 1st :)
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I'm playing Final Fantasy Tactics A2. Although it's broken in some places, it's obviously still addictive as I've put 14 hours into it already and it's only been 2 days.
Also, a friend is lending me his PS3 and MGS4 so I'll play through that soon and I'm renting Folklore to run through as well. And I'll probably play through his copy of Uncharted so I don't need to have a PS3 for another year or two.
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I just got the Orange Box...I'm playing through Half Life 2 1st :)
Look for that little half life symbol, if you see it it means supplies of some kind are near you and somewhat hidden. Also fun game, covers a LOT of different terrain for a shooter. Hell, I've probably beaten it 4 times.
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was having a few problems with the sorcerer, mainly because i skipped a few levels. so i new gamed it and went from there.
currently level 18, on level 9, and well things recently started getting easier for me.
i got fireball, and it is now level 4, and it is rape.
i got chain lightning, it is level 1 (books cost an arm and a leg) and it is A RAPE MACHINE.
ya'see there is an enemy which is basically a lava rock monster, and he is immune to my awesome rape fireball spell, so i needed a lightning spell to kill such enemies, and charged bolt is too inaccurate.
so i get chain lightning and, if i chug a few potions, i can clear a room of 40+ enemies (a lot for this game) in less than 20 seconds.
not to mention mana shield, the town portal SPELL, and the heal spell kick ass and you should never enter a dungeon without them in spell or scroll form.
anyway, im rather enjoying this over the warrior. i can rape everything, strength is maxed at 45 so i can now brainlessly put every single point i get from leveling up into magic. i got my fireball spell, so i no longer needed a staff with fireball charges, so i got a nice +13 magic staff (basically a stat stick, as i like to call it), so yea.
if anything, i would say the warrior is the harder class to play. i mean just because the sorcerer has problems on the first few floors, doesn't make him the harder class to play, because shortly after you get some of the better spells (your low level spells can kill anything on the lower floors easily) you are an unstoppable killing machine if you have the mana...run out of mana, (make sure you always have a spare mana potion for this) use your last mana potion, town portal spell out of there (no more carrying around pesky scrolls) and stock back up.
but like, say the warrior can hit for around 20-42 damage a hit with his great axe, this damage is free, but it has a 30-40 percent chance of missing, and its even harder when enemies are beating on you.
with my level 4 fireball, i can at a range, shoot a ball that explodes and does aoe damage, for around 13 mana (out of my 260 or so) and it does some 50-102ish damage, and unless you suck at aiming, this form of damage doesn't miss.
you tell me who is going to have an easier time playing the game.
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playing diablo
not diablo 2, diablo
A man who stands by his beliefs. Also DIII is going to rock my socks.
Here's a list of games I rock:
COD4 (just got rank General)
TF2 (Demoman, Heavy, Scout, Engineer)
WoW (Servers:Alliance Durotan, Horde Shattered hand)
EvE Online-- Because it's slow-paced so I can play it while laying on my bed reading a book
Counter-Strike
Starcraft (though not as much as the above listed)
So yea, I'm pretty much the most badass person I know :)
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well, generally when you are talking about diablo, you are talking about diablo 2. and ive played hundreds of hours in that game, and haven't much touched the first one, so yea.
anyway, level 21, on level 13. level 13 = not nice
steel lords = fire immune (most spells are FIRE) and lightning resistant (literally the only other damage type that isn't physical)
steel lords alone are gay, but in large numbers, i basically blow a mana pot and a fuck ton of mana spamming chain lightning to kill them all, and since it does the same damage either way, fighting them alone is a waste of mana.
the succubus monsters are rather easy on the other hand, plant a few well places fireballs and they are dead, just make sure to dodge the shit they throw at you or you are toast.
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fucking great
how the fuck am i supposed to kill the warlord of blood, if he is immune to both fire and lightning
doesn't matter how much i cast shit at him, it does NOTHING, N-O-T-H-I-N-G
am i supposed to melee him? for fuck sake this is stupid.
immunity to fire? check
immunity to lightning? check
immunity to whatever blood bolt is? check
*edit*
another vldadgd protip
how to kill warlord of blood as a sorcerer
buy one scroll of golem if you lack the spell
cast mana shield, kill all of his minions with chain lightning, when you have the warlord attacking you, cast golem. as your golem attacks, sit there doing nothing but drinking a mana potion when your mana gets low, wait about a minute, and he should die.
lame? yes. only way i know how to kill him as sorcerer? you bet.
*edit*
man my warrior would love this
(http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/7351/messerschmidtsreaverno8.png)
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Funny, once you know how to beat Ballos he is easy as hell. Also I suppose I could start playing css more. I've been trying to play some old playstation games (odd world 2 and brave fencer Musashi mainly) but I can't get them to work well.
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fallout, i guess.
umm, i made a character, not sure if im going to "keep" him, but i need something to start with to get my barrings on with the game.
uhh, the game plays quite strange, and takes a while to get used too, not to mention your first mission ever has a time limit.
so currently i am just pissing around, i made a very "smart and charismatic" character, maby i should just make a strong brute dude to smash things until i get the hang of the game, then make my charismatic, gunslinger, scientist guy.
i mean, the controls work, and its nothing that requires any "skill" per say, but playing the game does require thought and good decision making.
so yeah, i heard a lot of good about this game and with fallout 3 on the horizon, i like many people who haven't played the first two games, go out now to try em.
as of now, i can't say anything. fairly decent learning curve, nothing of dwarf fortresses level, but more along the lines of morrowind. something where it usually requires you make a few bitch characters to fuck around, get the hang of things, read a faq or two, then run in with a new character and a brain full of knowledge on the game to really start having fun. or at least it is for me anyway. i see myself enjoying it when i get used to it, since i am a fan of stuff like this.
*edit*
this game is kind of strange
it shares quite a few similarities with games like morrowind, and diablo.
im digging it so far. kind of find it interesting how most of the exp i have earned so far has been from talking to people.
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MGS3...I am a metal gear whore.
Assasian Creed.
I would play starcraft as well but wine hates me X.X.
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i had a screenshot but it didn't turn out good (black with some dots, couldn't see a thing) but i guess ill update with my fallout progress.
got rid of the first character before i did much.
second character i was fairly pleased with, got him to the hub then made a new one.
i am happy with this new character, i got ian this time, he shoots dudes, and dogmeat bites dudes, so yeah. im to the hub, got a water caravan to go to my vault, now i have some 209 days to get the water chip, when after im done getting myself "financially" good (will talk more about that soon) i believe i just go to the necropolis kill a bunch of shit, get the water chip, then return it. so really, you don't need more than about 70-80 days to get the darn thing. unless you are going out of your way to jerk off not doing the main game, the time limit isn't harsh at all.
but uhh, there are guards in green armor all around the hub. save next to one, and steal something, if i succeed in stealing, save, till i stole everything from him. this stuff you get from the guards, can be traded into the many merchants here for their caps, or other items they have for sale. so with this, i got myself some combat armor, a sniper rifle, and an assault rifle, so i basically look like one of the guards. not to mention, the sniper rifle + aim for the head = most of the time, dead target. but yeah, next time i hop on, i will steal from the rest of the guards and get ian an smg or something.
and because i like making long posts about games i am currently playing, my character.
Vlad, age 32, male
strength- 5
perception- 8
endurance- 6
charisma- 5
intelligence- 7
agility- 10
luck- 7
tagged skills
-small guns (shotguns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, pistols...all go under this skill)
-energy weapons (later in the game, these = rape from what i hear)
-speech
traits
-gifted
-bloody mess (no drawbacks to this trait like the other traits, this is why its so popular. not to mention people blowing up every time you kill something is awesome)
perk (s)
-earlier sequence
there was a perk which gave you 5% more exp every time you gain exp, but i didn't take it because even in the long run, what would that give me? a level. the perk i took gives me +2 to my sequence (higher sequence = you will most likely go first in combat)
anyway, im like level 5, so next level i get another perk, and my energy weapon proficiency will get all the skill points for that level.
blablabla, i am enjoying this game.
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Team Fortress 2. Soldier for the win 8)
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Was trying top play some brave fencer Musashi, but it still kept freezing.
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Now playing KH2..after seening some guy face Sephiroth with a level 38 Sora on Proud Mode. I thought I was the shit when I beat Sephiroth on KH with a level 67 Sora.
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well i got done with the necropolis(this took me like 4 hours, about the time it took me to get here in the first place..) and returned the water chip to the vault, and saved my vault!
so i figure i am about half way through the game. get stronger, eliminate mutant threat, watch credits, try to get fallout 2 working...play that.
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Played through Uncharted, MGS4 and then went back and finished KOTOR. MGS4 was kinda eh as you barely even play the last half and the story just seems thrown together. KOTOR and Mass Effect have the same story, except I didn't care about any of the characters and it annoyed me because it pretty much just makes stuff up for an already created part of the Star Wars universe. So yeah, pretty much lame all around there. Didn't help that its 360 compatibility is really poor. Audio skipped, frame rate drops constantly, random freezes, etc.
Uncharted was awesome though. However, it is 6 hours long and I would've felt bad if I had paid for it. Reminded of Sands of Time a bit.
Starting FF4DS tomorrow I think.
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Picked up Dead Rising yesterday. Would anyone like to fill me on on where i have to save so that the game doesn't make me start over every time i turn it on? because i saved multiple times, and even after it loads i still have to start over.
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KOTOR and Mass Effect have the same story
lol (don't bother commenting on this, we both have our opinions)
Didn't help that its 360 compatibility is really poor. Audio skipped, frame rate drops constantly, random freezes, etc.
yeah, the sound glitches irritated me so much that i got the pc version (so i own both the xbox and pc version...) and after you get used to playing the game on pc, its pretty kosher. still has glitches, but less of them.
anyway, progress on fallout
-obtained power armor, i now look like a robot, it is awesome. it weighs a metric fuckton, but you get a healthy strength boost so when you have it on, you simply carry its weight more (like i went from 150 carrying weight to 250)
-laser rifle is quite nice, though the ammo is like 5lbs a stack....so i just carry two stacks (100 shots) and i let ian carry the other 500 or so shots i have (he may suck in combat, but his storage capabilities are very nice)
-stole one of gatling laser guns from a brotherhood guard, i let ian carry it (nigga can't use it, which is good since its only shot is a burst and uses up 10 of the micro fusion cell (ammo i described above) ammo) and ill grab it from him when i feel i need it. the thing is quite heavy.
-uhh i killed a deathclaw with my laser rifle. i hear these things are nasty, and they are, but if you see them from a distance away, and hit the eyes every time with a crit or two...with a high power weapon...with high skill in that weapon, they won't be a problem.
that stuff and basically preparing for the next town. im pretty far in the game right now, should be a day or two of semi regular play before i finish it. unless i continue looking for the alien blaster (best weapon in the game, but not really needed) which may or may not happen. im just going to let fate decide (since finding it is random) and if i don't get it, i have plenty of firepower already.
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No seriously. There's no arguing or opinions. The games progress identically. The final reveal is different but that's it.
You start in a huge battle with some evil force. You learn of a rogue Jedi/Spectre. You gett off-planet, end up on a hub world where you train/investigate to become a Jedi/Spectre. You're then sent on a mission to four different planets, where the end result is that your character has a vision that eventually points you to the final planet, where the super weapon thing resides. There's even an ancient race of aliens that created everything in both games. KOTOR even has robots that look almost just like the Keepers from Mass Effect.
That's not arguable. They're the same. Wrex is Canderous, Tali is Mission + T3, and Liara is basically your Bastila, the character who shares in your visions. Garrus and Kaidan are both sort of Carth. Ashley's not really any different.
Now don't get me wrong. I actually had fun with both games (Mass Effect much moreso) but seriously, you do the same stuff in both games.
Oh yeah, FF4DS is fantastic. It's much harder than even the original JP version. I actually died on Mom Bomb because I thought I could kill it before it exploded.
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I have to agree, I did find KOTOR and Mass Effect to be similar. They're both very fun (though I definitely have more fun with Mass Effect) but it's kind of hard to deny the similarities.
Picked up Dead Rising yesterday. Would anyone like to fill me on on where i have to save so that the game doesn't make me start over every time i turn it on? because i saved multiple times, and even after it loads i still have to start over.
You can either lay down on the couch near the security station or any one of the bathrooms. If that isn't working, I don't know what to tell you.
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You can either lay down on the couch near the security station or any one of the bathrooms. If that isn't working, I don't know what to tell you.
Yeah I know. Well whenever i start the game up it's the beginning of the story, but i have all of the skills and levels i had when i saved previously. i researched a little and found out that it's supposed to be like that. I guess I haven't played far enough into the game to get a legit save point or something.
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The bathrooms and security room things are legit save points at all points in the game. You can go back to those points if you shut down the game and restart it or if you die (you get to choose between keeping your newly-acquired levels and skills or losing progress since the last bathroom break).
Are you sure you're hitting the "continue" option on the main menu? It's pretty hard to see, virtually impossible if you're using a standard definition TV.
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er. the three options i always have are start game, rankings, and options. under start game the option is "72-hour mode" no continue. I'll save here in a minute and go back to the main menu and see what happens.
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guess ive never noticed/cared. but you could have said "similar" instead of "the same"
anyway, i don't care about the alien blaster anymore, even though it is the best weapon in the game, what i have now, feels more awesome than some pistol weapon.
turbo plasma rifle
a big metal gun of death. shoot green blob from a nice distance, hit enemy, skin melts off (kind of like in that one indiana jones movie) and the skeleton falls to the ground.
a less awesome note, i got my hardened power armor, so it resists damage better. but jesus, that gun i have is awesome. i ditched my assault rifle, because if i need close ranged death (and for some reason i don't feel like doing some point blank sniping, or if i feel like hitting multiple targets) i always have the gatling laser gun.
start out game in blue jumpsuit with shitty 9mm pistol and combat knife. end of game with giant robot armor, giant robot skin melting blob shootan gun, and a gatling gun that shoots lasers (with a sound similar to that plasma gun in ut99).
i quite love this game.
*edit*
ohh, and i have 200% energy weapon skill(the max), so yeah....walking rape machine.
*edit*
so on my way to the military base...i stumble apon a crashed alien spacecraft. one had a picture of elvis, and the other an alien blaster.
LUCK IS NOT A USELESS STAT :O BLESS YOU 8 LUCK OF MINE!
*edit*
mai gah, both guns have awesome death animations. i told you about the plasma rifle. but the alien blaster disintegrates the flesh off...then the skeleton, only leaving behind some dust and whatever gun they were holding.
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LUCK IS NOT A USELESS STAT :O BLESS YOU 8 LUCK OF MINE!
Someone hasn't played digital devil saga. Also I found a copy of metroid prime for 7 bucks, probably going to pick it up and replay it. I would have boughten today if I wasn't such a jew.
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I haven't played Digital Devil Saga either...
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Well it's not that popular, so that's not a surprise. Also I picked up Metroid prime, and I've been playing megaman 2 from this
http://nintendo8.com/game/512/mega_man_2/
(just delete if you want that gone, not sure about the legality of this)
and Airmans stage makes me want to die. I always thought I just sucked at video game when I was a kid because I couldn't play this, but it's still DAMN hard to do. I'm amazed I could do a few of the bosses when I was 7 or so.
Just beat him, SUCK IT DOWN NIGGER.
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tomba 2
its as good as i remember, cheesy old voice acting, fucktons of missions, awesome gameplay, yep.
i are enjoy.
and to the 1 person here who has played the game (me) i am at the kujara ranch.
*edit*
i got to the donglin forest, and i have my flying squirrel suit. ive died like 10 times now, olol. the game as a whole isn't hard, but you can accidentally put yourself in situations where you die.
not to mention, i guess some people could call this a "hard" game. because there is A LOT OF STUFF TO DO, and no real way to keep track of it (your journal shows you the missions you have, but no details). not to mention the trolley mission, is hard, very, very, hard.
like, "this short mission took me over an hour to beat" kind of like
its like this almost
only i beat it on normal, by a fraction of a second...and it took me an hour of nonstop tries. that's basically similar to the trolley mission i am talking about.
but overall the game has a lot of missions of differing difficulty(easy, medium, hard, almost impossible, most are rather easy, but still fun), fun characters, nice cheesy voice acting on as far as i remember, everybody, tons of shit to do, overall a unique game.
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So yeah, I just realized I have to do all of Dr. Wiley's castle levels in one run. Holy fuck this is going to take a while. That fucking dragon has knocked me off the platform like 3 or 4 times, then the boss of the next area killed me 5 or 6 times, and now I can't even continue from when I beat them.
Fuck...
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After picking up Super Paper Mario again and getting past a roadblock that I was stuck at a few months ago, I realized that the game is actually a lot of fun.
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Wait, you just realized that?
After the first 10 minutes or so of it, I was already thinking "fuck, this game is fun".
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I got stuck and tried what I thought was everything, then I thought, "Fuck this game, I'm going to play Guitar Hero."
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After picking up Super Paper Mario again and getting past a roadblock that I was stuck at a few months ago, I realized that the game is actually a lot of fun.
...The Wii one, or the game cube one?
Also I'm breezing threw metroid prime, I just did the part were you get jumped by jet pack troops in one try, and that took me like 5 the first time I played it. Still an awesome game, they should have made 3 similar.
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3 was better to me in pretty much every way. They didn't shoehorn in some blatant fetch quest and it controlled so much better.
Also, Super Paper Mario is only on Wii. The N64 game is Paper Mario 1, GC is Paper Mario 2. They're all great games.
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3 was better to me in pretty much every way. They didn't shoehorn in some blatant fetch quest and it controlled so much better.
1 just seemed to have a good balance of backtracking and exploring IMO. 3 was pretty linear for a metroid game, and 2 had so much back tracking it made me want to die. I loved 3s controls tho, if they ever remake 1 and 2 with those controls I'd be so damn happy.
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Garry's Mod, now that I have a computer that can run it.
EDIT: Now I'm going through HL2. I'm enjoying it so far. I really prefer mouse control to the controllers in console FPS's
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I never played 2, but I found that 1 was kinda really retarded.
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I never played 2, but I found that 1 was kinda really retarded.
...Half life 1? WHAT THE FUCK? HL was awesome, better then 2.
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Not HL, I believe I was referring to the metroid primes (though I forget).
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Not HL, I believe I was referring to the metroid primes (though I forget).
Oh...
Metroid prime... WHAT THE FUCK? MP is awesome, really a rather unique FPS, I can't even think of a similar game.
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Imo they wrecked the Metroid games with Prime, IMO. Platformer =/= FPS. Platformer > FPS 95% of the time, IMO.
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The only complaints that I have with Metroid Prime are the controls (haven't played MP3 yet...still working on 2). Aside from that, they've created one of the best overall environments in any FPS I've seen. The GameCube/Wii are not exactly the most powerful systems, but the sheer attention to detail in those games makes up for the lack of graphical horsepower. The fact that just about all of the gameplay elements from the platformers (and then some) made it into the FPS both surprised and satisfied me. Honestly, if the controls were a bit more fluid (again, haven't played MP3 yet) those games would definitely be high up on my "bestest gaemz evar" list.
Please tell me you're not insinuating that it "wrecked" the series just because it's an FPS and not a platformer, because that's the only thing I seem to be able to pick up from your last post. I can accept when people don't like games for whatever reason (I know my exceedingly negative opinion on TF2 isn't widely-shared, after all) but I can't accept when people shun games simply because they might be different.
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Well, I've tried it before, and could never get into it. When I think Metroid, I don't think FPS. I think platformer, period. I'll admit that the level design really surprised and impressed me, but the controls being what they were, and the fact that I'm generally terrible at first person oriented games except for the general multiplayer halo type stuff means that I couldn't enjoy the Metroid Prime games.
The only reason they moved to first person is because nobody makes proper platformers any more. I'd absolutely love to see more proper 2d platformers come out. I mean, there's enough graphical power there that they can make some very nice graphics and effects. Not to mentioon since these console sare quite a bit more powerful than the SNES/Genesis they should be able to add some stuff not typically found in an oldschool platformer, due to technical limitations/size limitations and such.
With the power of today's systems, if they really wanted to, someone could come out with something that completely redefines 2D platformers.
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You realize they still make/made 2D metroid games for the GBA right? At least they're trying something new, and the prime games are rather fun despite the meh controls of the first 2.
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Yeah, do I own a GBA? no. I mean for the consoles. GBAs are only somewhat more powerful than the SNES/Genesis era consoles were.
I'm saying that with all the new capabilities of the current generation of hardware, we can make a platformer much better than the SNES era ones. Unfortunately, what everyone hung up on FPS games and everything needing to be amazing graphics and 3D and all this shit, platformers have been left behind. We need some new next-gen platformers.
Hell, look at puzzle games and such. Katamari Damacy is a great example of the next evolution in puzzle games. Simple gameplay, timed levels, all that is very traditional for puzzle games, but if you look at the original puzzle games, like Kicle Cubicle, you can see a HUGE difference. Someone needs to make a new platformer game using the new technology for them to create something completely different than the traditional style. I don't mean turn platformers into first person shooters with awkward controls. I mean take a platform game and band the rules a bit, think up new and unique ways of doing things that were impossible on a SNES/Genesis era console. We can make some awesome 2D graphics for it, too, since the net gen hardware works in much higher resolutions than the SNES/Genesis era consoles did. Why not use that, combined with the much more powerful hardware to make something revolutionary?
That Wario game is definitely a good idea, we just need more people to take the hint and develop some more good platformers. Maybe the new system capabilities combined with the unique abilities of the Wii system will make something even more unique than the new Wario game.
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Yeah, do I own a GBA? no.
That, uh, doesn't change the fact that the games were made. :/ Just because you don't have the means to play them doesn't mean that they shouldn't be included in this argument.
I'm saying that with all the new capabilities of the current generation of hardware, we can make a platformer much better than the SNES era ones. Unfortunately, what everyone hung up on FPS games and everything needing to be amazing graphics and 3D and all this shit, platformers have been left behind. We need some new next-gen platformers.
They are being made, developers are just targeting portable systems. Portable systems are ideal for that sort of thing. Or are games like New Super Mario Bros excluded because they're technically 3D?
Also: Megaman 9.
We can make some awesome 2D graphics for it, too, since the net gen hardware works in much higher resolutions than the SNES/Genesis era consoles did. Why not use that, combined with the much more powerful hardware to make something revolutionary?
You don't need a GeForce 7800GTX to produce fancy effects for a 2D platformer. Polycount is not an issue with platformers, so you could produce some stunning effects even on low-end platforms like the DS and PSP (especially the latter, given how that system can produce graphics that are nearly PS2-quality in some cases).
Long story short: get a PSP or DS emulator. That's where platformers are the most marketable and that's where commercial ones are appearing. Alternatively, check out the indie PC gaming scene. A lot of quality work gets pumped out of there and is generally all but ignored in favor of EA or Ubisoft's latest shitfest.
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Man, what the hell. Metroid Prime DOES play more like a platformer. That's why you don't do that much fighting really (aside from MP3, where fighting becomes such an easily accessible action that it's immensely fun), and why most FPS players hate the game. They expect the game to be all action action action when it's really about scouring your surroundings for hidden items and making those tricky jumps.
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That Wario game is definitely a good idea, we just need more people to take the hint and develop some more good platformers. Maybe the new system capabilities combined with the unique abilities of the Wii system will make something even more unique than the new Wario game.
Seconded, those controls look rather awesome, plus it looks like a god damned cartoon which is amazing. Also I agree with spec, most of the new technology is geared towards poly count and 3D rendering, most of it wouldn't make 2D look that awesome.
How about we settle this and say that each game series is good.
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I am currently finishing Rogue Galaxy. It is...confusing.
The premise for the game is outstanding. The plot ideas are good. The combat system is superb. The bosses are fresh and interesting. There's a neat new system where you can manufacture the next weapons you're going to get in stores.
But I hate it. The dungeons are incredibly long hallways that look EXACTLY THE SAME, the voice acting is hideous, and the way the plot is told is god-awful. Every character in the game has a monologue upon you meeting them, showing you EXACTLY what their personality will be FOR THE REST OF THE GAME. It took me two minutes of one of the characters before I pegged him as 'He's gonna betray us for some stupid-ass reason, then come crawling back when he realizes what a dumbass he's being'. Yep!
Also, the ending fight is retarded. Y'know how almost every RPG's final boss will have at least one more form?
Well, there's that. Then there's another fight. And another. And another. And ANOTHER.
In total, you are fighting TEN FIGHTS IN A ROW to finish the game. No save points, nothing. Not to mention that every single one of these past the first two requires you to use the ONE character the game has specified for you, so god forbid that you don't get good with EVERY character over the course of the game; nevermind the fact that you are only forced to use a single character for TWO fights in the ENTIRE rest of the game...which means every smart gamer will stick to using the main character, who is, of course, the best. The hardest fight is, of course, the last one, and if you fumble and fuck it up, that's it. You're back to two hours of cinema and even more of fighting all that over again. (To the game's credit, you can skip scenes at any point)
ARGH.
Aside from that, I've been playing Viewtiful Joe 2, which is short and sweet. It's not as good as the original, but it's charming and I still think that it's the only game that is corny and knows it, so it plays up the part until you can't help but smile at how silly it's being. Not the greatest of games (about a 7.5/10), but fun and inventive. I hope Capcom finishes the trilogy at some point.
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playing in small (maby 30 minutes to an hour) chunks, metroid prime.
i remember this game being bitch, but the reason i quit originally was to collect all of the chozo stuff to summon mecha riddley or whatever, and i guess i got bored doing that. but uhh, lets beat it this time.
also, unlike the first time i played (back when i really didn't play fps games) i actually had to get used to the controls. i mean, they work, but fuck, id really enjoy a traditional setup. anywho, im not very far, just got the morph ball.
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i remember this game being bitch, but the reason i quit originally was to collect all of the chozo stuff to summon mecha riddley or whatever, and i guess i got bored doing that. but uhh, lets beat it this time.
Hah, I JUST finished doing that today. Yes, that part is a bitch. I just collected the last piece and all I need to do is kick Meta Ridley in the jaw and then kill Metroid Prime (SPOILERS:and inadvertently create dark Samus.)Should be fun, I remember both of those fights being rather challenging.
Also I just beat CoD4, and I must say I rather liked the ending, I just wish they mixed the game play/environments a tiny bit more but whatever, it's still a good game. Also I recently unlocked the M14 in muiltiplayer,thinking I should use it for my new stealth set up (currently using the G3, it kills in one hit with a silencer. That's with bomb squad, UAV jammer, and dead silence equipped). Also I got the .50 cal sniper, which I love to death.
SOO, other then that I've been playin FEAR, doom 95, and Duke Nukem 3D, but I got stuck in Duke 3d...
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i just remember shit starts getting quite hard in the phazon mines. omega pirate sucked, and i hope he isn't as hard as i remember him. but aint nothing wrong with an actual challenge every once and a while, metroid games usually have hard parts to them(save this one, which has a solid challenge all the way through, save for the beginning).
anyway, beat FEAR, its fun, and short. i remember beating it in less than 24 hours from the time i started it. some of the better single player shootan ive played.
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im on a double posting spree, YEAH!
status report
game is challenging(the flying space pirates pre flame gun can lay down the pain), but not as hard as i remember. i recall thardus being a total bitch, and he took me multiple tries to beat. i try him again, and while he is a challenging fight, i came out with more than an energy tank left over on my first try, not to mention, i don't remember him being as fun as he was. gatdamn, i almost want to re fight him, good stuff.
so yeah, thardus dead, spider ball get, saved at mah ship, next time, back to the chozo ruins. not sure if im going to beat it, because im not even at the hard part of the game yet, but whatev, im enjoying it, and i don't need to beat the game to get enjoyment from it.
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Oddworld: Abes Oddysee (DID I mention this game is HARD?!...cause If I didn't...IT'S F*CKING HARD). :'(
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Oddworld: Abes Oddysee (DID I mention this game is HARD?!...cause If I didn't...IT'S F*CKING HARD). :'(
It's not that bad, you just really have to be patient. Plus, they added quick saving in the second game, which really helped with the difficulty curve.
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power bomb get
FUCK I REMEMBER WHY I CALLED THIS GAME HARD
from the moment you enter the phazon mines, you get a save point right away, cool. keep advancing from there, to the power bomb, lots of enemies, one elite pirate, and one invisible un lockonable son of a bitch robot guy who takes too many hits for his own good(stand still, aim at where you think he is...shoot, hope you have enough health to kill him before he kills you), get the power bomb...and if you are alive, you can save. its about an hour from getting from savepoint 1, to savepoint 2. i specifically remember dying after spending 45 minutes getting there...and quitting for a month because of that when i played this game many years ago.
thankfully, i haven't died yet, fairly confident that i have the skillz required to beat this game. anyway, the game is still fun, bitch part and all. and even though its an old game, i am still amazed on how they nailed the transition from a 2d metroid to a first person 3d metroid, i mean, it feels like a metroid game should feel like.
blablabla, tomorrow, hopefully a new item!
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Remember to dodge. A lot.
I found that I didn't have to dodge too much until I started getting to that area. After I started doing that the rest of the game was really easy. I got through the rest of it without coming close to dying.
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I haven't played Meteriod Prime in a while but the most annoying boss battle is not prime with the armor but Meta-Riley.
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Ridley is a problematic boss in pretty much all of the Metroid games. He's definitely a BAMF.
Meta-Ridley isn't as bad as some of the other ones, though he was a bitch. I was able to defeat him on my first try (I didn't do that well against the other ones for the most part).
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maby its the controls, or something like that. i do dodge, it just doesn't prevent me from getting hit some of the time. and you can be certain, if i have cover to pop behind, i fucking use it. though, you are the kind of person who speedruns this stuff correct? which means duh, you are going to be like 5x better than a metroid nub like me.
i still need to beat
-prime
-prime 2
-prime 3
-prime hunters
-metroid 2
-metroid fusion
ill get to em eventually
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When I was playing Prime 1 the controler I had sucked and I could not dodge at all. However I have a wave bird *angelic choir sings in back ground* which when I played Prime 2 made it so much easiser to dodge one of the bosses.
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Painkiller. It's so awesome.
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power bomb get
FUCK I REMEMBER WHY I CALLED THIS GAME HARD
Go get the ice missile, it's in a tunnel in the magmoor caverns ( http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/1534/t177037-metroid-prime-artifacts-upgrades-item-boss-faq/ ). It's rather helpful on Metroid prime.
I haven't played Meteriod Prime in a while but the most annoying boss battle is not prime with the armor but Meta-Riley.
Huh? He seemed damn easy. Well, not that easy, he took half my health, but compared to Prime he was a bitch.
Oh yeah, and I just beat the game with abut 87% complete, I was thinking of trying to get 100% and beating it again but that seems rather hard now. Also I BARELY beat metroid prime, and I breezed threw this game, other then the part Vlad was talking about, that was somewhat hard. I was about to kill his final form when I noticed I had 7 health left. So I pick up the one power up in front of me, which gave me just under 30 health, and I manage to only get hit one more time before finding the puddle of phazon and blasting his ass to death. Shit was epic.
Oh and as previously stated in other threads, Dawn of War: Dark Crusade. It's fun as hell, I definitely want to get a demo of the new game ASAP.
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the fuck, still haven't died.
killed omega pirate on my first try, and god damn, he was fun. i must have really sucked at the vidya way back when, this guy is challenging yes, frustratingly hard? fuck no. i had like 6 energy tanks left after the fight.
anyway, i guess the next step is getting the damn chozo artifacts, will do that later.
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Holy shit bioshock is fuckamazing. After walking in to ryans office.. wow. No spoilers, but if you haven't played this, the game isn't over when you think it is.
The reason I've been putting it off is because at the beginning the learning/playing curve is kind of steep compared to other games I own. Beating big daddies used all your ammo, and now I can take them out with 1 machine gun mag.
The story is so fucking amazing. awesome. super duper. I want to finish it so I can see if there are any more surprises like before.
that is all.
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BioShock is amazing...it has been a long time since I played a game with so many twist as that one does.
I love the plasmoids (my favorite being Incenerate! 3) and the other little quirks in that game.
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I started saving the little sisters rather than killing them after what happens haha
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it took me 3 tries, but i killed meta ridley.
i went into this fight expecting something hard, the fight was piss easy, till he had about one charge shot of health left...then he became impossible.
the first two attempts, he was within 1 shot of death, but he would never open his mouth, and he just chain charged me to death. the last attempt, i somehow managed to make it with 5 or so energy tanks left.
you fuckers never said the "challenge" of this fight came when he was at some 5% health.
*edit*
if i beat this game or not, remind me, never play another metroid game.
its always at the end where the game stops being fun, and starts being annoying. climbing up a huge tower with infinite spawning fission metroids...NO THANKS. i quit.
quitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquitquit
gamecube is put away in the closet, i quit. no, im not going to go through a rage like i did with the NES metroid, im done.
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They only infinitely spawn when you get to a certent point in, which is the last string of platforms from the final boss.
Also I hope you went back to get health after meta Ridley.
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why? there's a save point right when you enter the place.
doesn't matter, no more metroid.
*edit*
to note, i didn't die, i tried going up, frustration still intact from losing twice to riddley, encountered the bullshit metroids, tried to avoid them, failed, decided i like my hair and i do not want to rip it out. turn off game, unhook gamecube, throw in closet.
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Yahtzee was spot-on when he said that Painkiller was pure, genocidal fun. I'm really enjoying the game.
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Bioshock is an amazing game.
Right now I'm playing Tales of Vesperia. Really fun game, only the second RPG I've ever played.
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why? there's a save point right when you enter the place.
doesn't matter, no more metroid.
Ooh yeah, forgot about that. The last fight IS a good one, in case you ever want to go back and finish it at a later date.
Bioshock is an amazing game.
Right now I'm playing Tales of Vesperia. Really fun game, only the second RPG I've ever played.
I was debating buying bioshock, but I'll definitely wait for a price drop now.
Also I'm starting to get a hang of DoW. You really do need to be aggressive and force your enemy off of their resources. I really would love the imperial guard, but their soldiers are damn near useless that I can't get any resources during the beginning. Also on a very related note, Orkz kick much ass.
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Bioshock is an amazing game.
Right now I'm playing Tales of Vesperia. Really fun game, only the second RPG I've ever played.
Vesperia really is very very good. I'm sitting at 25 hours and there's still lots to go through. Yuri's probably the best Tales main character.
I really despise all the people dismissing it because of the anime art style though.
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I really despise all the people dismissing it because of the anime art style though.
some people don't like animu
for the topic, i guess id be bionic commando rearmed, and castle crashers.
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Yeah? Well that still doesn't mean the game is bad. People need to get over garbage like that.
I hate the whole gruff badass stereotype but you don't see me denouncing all games with them without playing them like they do over that art style.
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It is a sweet game. I'm at 15 hours now and I'm almost done act 1. I might pick up the book or something because it would be really cool to get some of those accomplishments. Some of them are probably the most time consuming/hardest to get in a game yet, I think. I haven't got the hang of fatal strikes yet, my timing for it is either terrible or I never give myself the window. Got tips?
Yuri is very intriguing, I think he's got the best personality in a game that I've played in a while. I'm kinda not likin' how Flynn seems to have a White Knights code of honor or something shoved in his butt... but it would be awesome to play as him. Also Raven = badass but i hate how hes not nice to me (yet?)
And the art IS awesome.
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Yeah? Well that still doesn't mean the game is bad. People need to get over garbage like that.
Exactly what I was gonna say.
I haven't played Vesperia, but the Tales games (minus Legendia) all kick ass.
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what's it matter? if they don't want to play a jrpg because of the animu artstyle...they don't have to play a jrpg because of the animu artstyle.
OPINIONS MANG, OPINIONS!
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Eternal sonata
I threw up so much in my mouth I couldn't play it anymore
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For most it isn't a matter of opinion at all. It's a matter of total bias, which is different. It's ingrained into the Xbox generation that those "crazy Japaneeeeze" are too weird and that "animu" (god please stop using that) is instantly stupid. It's an unbelievably unfair bias wherein none of the actual people complaining about the games have ever even tried the genre. That is completely ridiculous.
As for tips on fatal strikes, they're still kind of hard for me to always get. Definitely go into strategy and change everyone to Aim under FS though. Your teammates will end up pulling off quite a few. Also, Judith is really really good at putting people into FS for some reason. Overall though, try to time the pressing of R and the direction of it with the timing of your regular strikes or at the very end of an arte if there's time.
And man, what. Eternal Sonata is one of the best RPGs in the last...long while. Maybe if you totally overlooked the entire second story with all the symbolism and what every single character stood for within Chopin's mind, it was kind of a bland story but seriously, how could you miss that? The battle system was awesome too, especially later on when you could totally chain everyone's attacks together and get massive combos. And it was so fucking BEAUTIFUL.
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put yourself in the shoes of someone who unlike yourself, doesn't like anime, hard to fathom, i know.
anyway, level 18 red knight for single player, just beat the lava world, surprised i didn't die considering we died on that place a whole lot when playing 3 player.
LIGHTNING BBBZZZAAPPP
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I don't really like anime that much. I rarely watch anything and haven't for at least a few years. I was watching Le Chevalier D'Eon a few weeks ago but that's about as un-Japanese as anime gets. I just have the ability to actually respect a game for what it is, regardless of art style, as long as it's done well and not just pass sweeping judgments against entire genres based on preconceived notions about graphical stylings pushed on me by the press.
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I'm playing the entire friggin original Mega Man series. My signature on Another Forum breaks it down like this:
MEGA MAN GAMES IN ANTICIPATION OF MM9
MM1 ~ MM2 ~ MM3 ~ MM4 ~ MM5 ~ MM6 ~ MM7 ~ MM8
(BEATEN, IN PROGRESS, CARTRIDGE NOT IN POSSESSION)
Yes, I realize that Mega Man 8 wasn't released on a cartridge, lolz.
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I'm playing the entire friggin original Mega Man series. My signature on Another Forum breaks it down like this:
MEGA MAN GAMES IN ANTICIPATION OF MM9
MM1 ~ MM2 ~ MM3 ~ MM4 ~ MM5 ~ MM6 ~ MM7 ~ MM8
(BEATEN, IN PROGRESS, CARTRIDGE NOT IN POSSESSION)
Yes, I realize that Mega Man 8 wasn't released on a cartridge, lolz.
You could buy the anniversary collection. I was thinking of doing it, but I lack the money. Also I badly need to replay threw megaman X4, I must have done that like 10 times.
Oh, and I just downloaded Barkley shut up sand jam:gaiden, and possibly Knytt stories.
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Oh, and I just downloaded Barkley shut up sand jam:gaiden
not enough people have beaten this game
its actually good, its really funny, it's not really hard or long (took me about 4 hours), and its FREE. i beat it in a morning a few months back, good way to start the day.
also, when you beat the game, you unlock "victorian steampunk mode"
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put yourself in the shoes of someone who unlike yourself, doesn't like anime, hard to fathom, i know.
As Eggman said, just because someone doesn't like anime doesn't mean they need to unconditionally hate every game that has art based around that. I'm not a fan of Action/Adventure games (Dark Cloud, and all the rest of games like that stuff), but I'm still willing to play them in order to figure out whether I like it or not. Just because I have a personal preference doesn't mean I won't let myself discover an exception to that preference.
And personally, I HATED Dark Cloud (never played number 2). However, I love the Zelda games (more or less, I haven't really played anything past Ocarina of Time, to be honest.)
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wellp, gaming is a form of entertainment. a thing people invest time in, to receive entertainment from their own free time.
if i want to skip a jrpg because its a bit too animu for me, ill spend my time on a different game. it's no different than people skipping viva pinata because its a bit too kiddy, sure the game could be fun, but not everybody has tolerance for this kind of thing, thus lowering the enjoyment they receive. no enjoyment, no entertainment, best off getting more hours for work.
not to say i won't try genres, i tried to get into sim racers with forza 2, failed. also tried several times to get into football games with nfl blitz, and madden, failed, but i tried em.
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Trying them's a lot more than what most people do, so you're already ahead of the curve there. What I was getting annoyed by is that people not only dismiss games with art styles they dislike, but they instantly call them garbage, bad games, worthless, whatever. And game sites do a really "great" job of spreading their own biases against certain things, which the brainless masses take and then spread. So eventually, you have entire genres basically blacklisted by a massive group of people and they don't even know why.
I'm still playing Vesperia. 30 hours and not even done with part 2. I can fly around now though.
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I played 1 full hour of eternal sonata last night, and I'm barely level 2. Does this game really need the 50 minutes of videos to explain the god damn storyline?
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The game's 25 hours long total. And honestly, yeah, it really does need all that time. Try to think about how the things they say connect to what fact's about Chopin's life they give you.
There's absolutely no way you can even begin to say anything about the game in only 1 hour though. Like any RPG, that's all just introductions.
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though, you are the kind of person who speedruns this stuff correct? which means duh, you are going to be like 5x better than a metroid nub like me.
Pfft, hell naw. I wouldn't want to try to speedrun Prime or Prime 2.
The only thing that I "speed" run through are the Metroid platformers and my times are far from impressive. Under an hour on Zero Mission sounds nice until you look at some of the ridiculous times that people pull.
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The game's 25 hours long total. And honestly, yeah, it really does need all that time. Try to think about how the things they say connect to what fact's about Chopin's life they give you.
There's absolutely no way you can even begin to say anything about the game in only 1 hour though. Like any RPG, that's all just introductions.
I'll play more tonight and update. When I first played this game [1st week it came out], I also had.. well all my other games, which were also the top 10 newest awesome games to get for the 360. I had my hands full with these games that get you right into the action. Now that I'm done with mass effect and shit I can actually focus and think about whats being presented to be instead of going
UGH GAY WTF FLOWERS AND SHIT DAYM JAPS
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well ive beaten it co-op, so disregard that, this is single player biatch.
just saved super joe, got the machine gun. and for the first time, i went back and got the shotgun upgrade, GOD JESUS HAMBURGER ITS RAPE. then i got the plasma machine gun whatever upgrade, and its pretty cool. probably get all but the rocket launcher upgrade (gotten just before the final boss) before i decide to head on, maby ill nab the secrets in each level.
also
UGH GAY WTF FLOWERS AND SHIT DAYM JAPS. ching nang bong kang dang.
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Finally passed Part 1 of ToV. And got the hang of fatal strikes, I forgot that you also need to push in a direction too :p.
My leveling has slowed way down, but its to be expected. Its gonna take a long time to hit that magic 200 :o
Eggman did you reach the Colosseum(sp?) yet?
Also, I tried the Star Wars Force Unleashed demo. Its a pretty cool game so far. The force grab controls are kind of complicated, but I think once I get the hang of it, it'll be cool. And fuck yeah at bringing down an AT-ST!
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So I'm really enjoying Barkley's shut up and jam: Gaiden. It's actually pretty funny, and fun.
Also CoD4 is surprisingly balanced, probably one of the best balanced shooters I've seen.
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Besides the semi auto shotgun, mp5, juggernaut, last stand, yea it's pretty good unlike halo 3
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Finally passed Part 1 of ToV. And got the hang of fatal strikes, I forgot that you also need to push in a direction too :p.
My leveling has slowed way down, but its to be expected. Its gonna take a long time to hit that magic 200 :o
Eggman did you reach the Colosseum(sp?) yet?
Also, I tried the Star Wars Force Unleashed demo. Its a pretty cool game so far. The force grab controls are kind of complicated, but I think once I get the hang of it, it'll be cool. And fuck yeah at bringing down an AT-ST!
I just finished part 2 at 45 hours. I can do up to the 80 man melee but I'm not allowed to do the 100 man because I haven't even seen most of those enemies yet I guess.
I did manage a 101 hit combo though. I use Yuri, Raven, Rita and Judith when I can. Get the skill Chivalry on Raven and turn his AI to heal. His Love Shot is much faster than Estelle's healing and hits everyone after 100 uses or so. Chivalry ups his stats the more females you have active.
Also, it's impossible to hit 200 without XP x10 from a new game+. You could do it but it would take forever.
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Started playing Starcraft again. The game is still as excellent as it was back in the day.
Looks like the community hasn't changed at all, though. It's still 90% '$$$$Zero Clutter/Fastest Possible Map EVER$$$$' and Big Game Hunters and 10% everything else. Even so, as difficult as it is to find a good game, I still love it.
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Actually, I remember there being somewhat less zero clutter fast money shit back when I played.
Last time I saw b-net for SC recently I was appalled, since I couldn't find anything that looked half decently fun (not that I've been on THAT recently). Where are the evolution maps? The Smash TV maps? The survival maps?
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Actually, I remember there being somewhat less zero clutter fast money shit back when I played.
Last time I saw b-net for SC recently I was appalled, since I couldn't find anything that looked half decently fun (not that I've been on THAT recently). Where are the evolution maps? The Smash TV maps? The survival maps?
Point - I used to see a lot more of Big Game Hunters than money maps. (the latter wasn't as developed back then). Either way, there's entirely too much of both and it makes me laugh when they have 'BGH - PROS ONLY' names for their maps.
Also, blargh at lack of teamwork. Everything larger than a 2vs2 will result in three or four players ganging up on one, that person yelling 'help', the remainder refusing to assist (or doing so little that it didn't matter in the first place), then all two/three remaining team members of the losing team to quit because the odds are now against them.
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Yep, another reason I wouldn't play on those maps. I'd only ever play on those maps if I knew I had a decent team (or at least another person to work with). It'd kinda be cool to have some guild vs guild matches, but in general SC has rather deteriorated on the US servers. We'd need to go to the korean servers, or really try to locate another SC guild to get something like that working (and I can't play on b.net right now anyway. Fuck, I wish I hadn't thrown out my SC case years ago. I have the brood wars case around someplace, but not the original.)
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Yoot Tower, which is SimTower for all intents and purposes, except running in Vista 64. I'm having fun.
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Cool, I checked wikipedia, but didn't see anything on there. Did you see the article on SimRefinery? lol.
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Actually, I just googled and came across some site that had it for free download.
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My friend let me borrow is Xbox and I am currently playing Forza.
Such a great racing game.
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Decided to pick up Final Fantasy Tactics A2.
I'm not quite sure what it is about the Tactics games that keeps me so addicted. Admittedly, they fixed my biggest complaint about the judges (they threw out your characters before - now they give your team an advantage, which is taken away if you break the law). Though the new Bazaar thing to get every single weapon and armor in the game is frustrating and the fact that you have to do quests ON TOP OF obtaining specific, worthless skills to unlock the classes you actually want to use can be really irritating.
And yet, in the first day of playing, I've racked up eight hours anyway. Maybe it's the fact that it reminds me of Advance Wars, which is probably my favorite portable game of all time. Eh. *shrug*
I swear, I'm going to have a Gunner by the end of the day or bust!
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I'm playing TrackMania nations, but I'm using my Wiimote instead of the keyboard. I haven't figured out how to use the tilt sensor for steering, so I've just been using the D-pad. Sliding around turns is a lot easier to control, since I just tap on 1 while holding 2 at the right time to start one.
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Wolfenstein 3D and Spear Of Destiny. Playing those and nothing else like crazy.
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Wolfenstein 3D and Spear Of Destiny. Playing those and nothing else like crazy.
Thank god I am not the only one playing these right now...I'm also playing The Legend Of Dragoon, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty, Mungyodance3, OSU!, and SMW all at the same time...I have LOD on my PS1, MGS2:SOL on my PS2, MGD3 on my vista comp, OSU! on this one XP, and SMW on my SNES...I have no time right now...and I have to go to work today.
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Luigi's Mansion, Shadow The Hedgehog, and Star Fox: Assault
Luigi's Mansion is awesome.
Shadow The Hedgehog, I don't know what the fuck is going on. I've only played the classic Sonic games with Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles, so when I saw all these new characters I thought "who are these idiots".
Star Fox: Assault is pretty good, but not the best in the series. At least it's not like Adventures, where you have to run back and forth to find some item and then try to get through some impossible area. I wasn't able to get past the tug-of-war game with that guy without a turbo controller (I apparently couldn't press A fast enough, and I've never had any problem with pushing buttons rapidly to do something in any other game). Then a little ways before fighting Andros I just gave up.
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Shadow The Hedgehog, I don't know what the fuck is going on. I've only played the classic Sonic games with Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles, so when I saw all these new characters I thought "who are these idiots".
Prepare to cry, the sonic series has gone down hill. Not sure how Shadow the hedgehog game is, but SA 2 is at least a decent 3D sonic game, which is a rare thing. Also if you haven't played sonic 3 and knuckles do that ASAP.
Also I'm about to obtain a version of twisted metal 2 (massive nostalgia trip for me), does anyone know if there was a PC version of V8?
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Not sure how Shadow the hedgehog game is
It was ok...not entirely great...but ok...the story lacked whereof how he came back to life because we all know that he died of lack of air in space at the end of SA2B. (sorry for those that I ruined it for) Also the game was about some sort of dark realm creatures that came to this dimension to take over and Shadow was supposedly one of their subordinates or friends or something but in SA2B it was explained that Shadow was created by Dr. Eggmans grandfather.
On another note it brings up the question as to how Dr. Eggmans grandfather was part of the Earth dimension when Eggman and sonic and the rest of them were part of a different dimension...the chaos control theory touched on this but it was never explained about how eggman could have gotten to the sonic dimension in the first place let alone the moonbase ARK could have had a device that utilized said Chaos Emeralds that were supposed to only exist in this other dimension so technically it would be impossible for any of SA2B and Shadow the Hedgehog to make sense when there was no connection between them and the rest of the cartoon/games/stories.......just saying, you know?
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Luigi's Mansion is awesome.
I could never get into that game... Maybe because when I think of Mario games, I think of platformers and RPGs, not stuff like that.
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It was ok...not entirely great...but ok...the story lacked whereof how he came back to life because we all know that he died of lack of air in space at the end of SA2B.
According to Wikipedia:
In Sonic Heroes, Rouge discovered Shadow in a stasis tube in Eggman's secret base. Suffering from amnesia, Shadow joined forces with Rouge and Omega in order to track down Eggman; after defeating the final Eggman robot, Rouge stumbled into a room full of what appeared to be Shadow clones. Deducing that Shadow was also a clone, they then went on to fight Metal Sonic with the others.
That explains both Shadow being, uh, alive, as well as the reason why Eggman was so insistent on him being a robot in one of the Shadow the Hedgehog endings. (note: size'd 1 for spoilers).
As for Shadow the Hedgehog, the game, I think it was definitely underrated. It's certainly not an amazing game by any means but it's nowhere near as bad as everyone says that it is. It's worth $30, I'd say.
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Eggman was so insistent on him being a robot in one of the Shadow the Hedgehog endings. (note: size'd 1 for spoilers).
I loled.wouldn't that just make him metal sonic then? I mean there HAVE been a few different metal sonic models, so I suppose it's not entirely impossible.
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Thing is, the Shadow that we see in Sonic Heroes and all of the games following it really is Shadow. He survived thanks to the stasis tube.
That said, the odds of Eggman knowing that he's actually alive are pretty slim.
Speaking of Shadow the Hedgehog, am I the only one who was actually taken aback by the "E10" language in some cases? There's just something odd about hearing "SEE YOU IN HELL, EGGMAN" in a game based on the Sonic universe prior to Shadow killing Eggman, if I remember that particular ending right. (spoiler'd again)
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Heh, well, I always like seeing stuff like that, but that's just me.
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It just feels out of place, is all. That would be like if you threw Mario and Luigi into San Andreas. It just feels...weird.
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It just feels out of place, is all. That would be like if you threw Mario and Luigi into San Andreas. It just feels...weird.
Die Bowser...taste the fury of my damn mega fireball you dick!!!....yeah that would seem weird.
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No, it'd be something like:
Yo, what da hell is you doin in my hood, Bowser. Fucking koops think they own the place.
But yeah, I know what you mean about being out of place, but I still say I prefer my games to have some swearing and crap. I hate when games of out of their way to censor stuff. Same thing applies to Anime. If it was intended to have swearing, it damned well better have swearing in the English release.
I sorta understand why SNES games were censored (it WAS Nintendo's policy at the time). But anything more recent than that should not have to go out of it's way to not swear if it fits.
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But yeah, I know what you mean about being out of place, but I still say I prefer my games to have some swearing and crap.
Yeah, but there's a time and a place. Not all games need to have their characters talking like sailors.
We're talking about the Sonic series. They really didn't need to pepper the game with the likes of "damn" and "hell." If you ran around the world of GTA and heard things beeped out that'd be one thing, but taking a series that's aimed for all audiences and throwing in swear words -- regardless of how minor they are -- is just silly.
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What the developers should've done in Shadow The Hedgehog was write the dialogue so it wouldn't call for any swearing in the first place. Having a word or phrase bleeped out is annoying as is changing the word or phrase into something that would be considered less offensive (ie: "what the hell" to "what the heck"). Star Fox does this and it's annoying and cheesy as fuck. A Sonic game with swearing is showing how COOL and MATURE the characters are, to appeal to an older crowd.
At least the games are still fun...
[...], but SA 2 is at least a decent 3D sonic game, which is a rare thing. Also if you haven't played sonic 3 and knuckles do that ASAP.
I'd like to play SA and SA2, but can't because I don't have a Dreamcast. Unless it's since been ported to something else? I actually played Sonic 3 and Knuckles after I bought the basic version of Sonic Mega Collection. I'd like to get my hands on the plus version sometime soon, though. Preferably for the PC. Also Sonic Gems Collection.
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Finished FFTA2.
GOOD STUFF:
The diversity of the classes is amazing. There are now seven races with at least four classes per race, adding up to a total of over fifty classes. There are a hojillion weapons, spells, armors, and things to do. The judge system has been vastly improved, though I still would love the judges to go away forever. The clan battling system has been removed. You now win territory by auctions, and once you've got all the territory, it's yours forever. The auctions then change to sell off the best weapons and armor in the game. There's still a million quests to do, hooray.
BAD STUFF:
The plot is laughably bad, a surprise for a Final Fantasy game. I found myself doing plot-related quests solely because they opened up new quests to do. The game is UNBALANCED. Blood Price (cast spells by using HP instead of MP) allows you to loop Quicken and another unit for infinite turns, Last Breath is still broken (70% chance for instant-kill at 18 MP is still too good), Sneak Attack is broken (hitting someone in the back does 350 damage at level 50; for comparison, most units have 500 HP at this level. This would be fine except it has no MP cost and 95% hit chance). Geomancy is silly good, etc, etc. Also, game overall is too easy. I have a bad feeling that once I pick up the original FFT, it is going to rape me. HARD.
So, overall game is pretty good, but definitely the weakest in the series (I am going by reviews of FFT by friends who have played it, naturally). Maybe 50 hours of gameplay, twice to three times that if you want to finish every quest.
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Aside from WoW, I've been playing a lot of Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility for the Wii, which was finally released earlier this month after countless delays.
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How's that?
Also Megaman 9 is MUCH harder then 2. It's good and not cheap, but still hard.
Also I heard De Blob is much better then Wario shake, anyone know if this is true?
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How's that?
It's very good if you like Harvest Moon games. I can only really think of one problem that I had with the game, which I've since gotten used to - the camera control is really bad. You have almost no control of the camera. The only control you can have is if you're outside; you have to stop and hold Down on the D-pad and you can look around a little bit using the wii remote, and zoom in a bit with the joystick. You can't even look all the way around, just a little bit in each direction. It sometimes makes finding weeds between tall crops or seeing if you missed watering anything difficult. I haven't played much of the story stuff yet. I spent most of my time so far farming, upgrading my house, and building a relationship with a girl (Maya) who I married on Winter 1 of the first year!
At this time, I own two plots of land. The main plot (where I started) is where I farm crops and keep my animals (you can only have the coop and barn on your main plot). I have four chickens, four silkworms, a calf, and a foal. On the second one, I planted a few trees which drop stuff (apples, cherries, etc) in certain seasons. I still have a lot more of the game to see (including other places to unlock) and people to meet.
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How's that?
Also Megaman 9 is MUCH harder then 2. It's good and not cheap, but still hard.
Also I heard De Blob is much better then Wario shake, anyone know if this is true?
They aren't even in the same genre so calling one better than the other would be pretty dumb. They're both really good games.
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They aren't even in the same genre so calling one better than the other would be pretty dumb. They're both really good games.
Heh, true, was pretty tired posting that. I still need to rent and check both out, but now De blob slightly interests me more. Looks like my Wii just saved itself from being sold.
Also my friend let me borrow an N64 and a copy of Legend of Zelda OoT.
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I still don't understand why anyone would sell a system unless a new system plays all of the old system's games (like the GC to Wii). You're guaranteed to find something fun to play and if you say you can't, you haven't looked very hard. Unless you bought a Jaguar or something. In which case, you're mentally retarded and no one can help you anyway.
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I would sell it because I'm a huge DMC and MGS fan, and I've yet to play either of those games, and I'm not really playing anything currently.
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I've always been a fan of backward compatibility. However, it usually costs more money, both for the company developing the system, and for the people buying it, since it either requires the development of an emulation system, or actually involves including the necessary hardware.
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Pata pata pata PON <3
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I've always been a fan of backward compatibility. However, it usually costs more money, both for the company developing the system, and for the people buying it, since it either requires the development of an emulation system, or actually involves including the necessary hardware.
I'm huge into it. Hell, I wouldn't buy the PS3 that doesn't have PS2 backwards compatibility (my friend did without knowing it, I swear he has no concept of money). That's why I've been bummed about the 360. I've never owned an xbox and I can easily think of a few games I'd like to pick up, but I doubt they'd work.
Also what the fuck, Apparently I missed a bottle and a few other things in OoT (I see why this now enraged vlad), someone tell me I'll be able to go back in time at some point in the game...
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There are really only 5 Xbox games worth playing and you'd be just fine without them. Really, the system didn't have a whole lot to care about. And at least two of the games worth playing were also on other systems. And one of the others received a redone version later on (speaking about KOTOR and Psychonauts in the first case and Ninja Gaiden in the second). Other than that, I can really only think of Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, which wasn't THAT great and the Otogi games, both of which are easily surpassed by other games now.
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I've always been a fan of backward compatibility. However, it usually costs more money, both for the company developing the system, and for the people buying it, since it either requires the development of an emulation system, or actually involves including the necessary hardware.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I really wish that more people would understand that implementing backwards compatibility is NOT a simple, straightforward, or cheap solution. I love how people like to bitch about the Xbox 360's backwards compatibility. Considering how radically different the two systems are it's a pretty nice gesture for any backwards compatibility to be implemented, especially when it actually improves the presentation of the game a bit (renders it at a higher resolution and even does some texture swapping for Halo, I believe).
The thing that urks me is when backwards compatibility is thrown out the window for no reason. The DSi comes to mind. If the system were the same size as the DS Lite and included the GBA slot I might consider it. As it stands now, Nintendo can get bent. I'm not going to pay for a system that removes the ability to use DS GBA port accessories and takes poor quality pictures. Considering Nintendo has been using the same technology in all of their systems there's no reason for them to drop backwards compatibility. I can understand dropping the classic GameBoy line due to that requiring additional hardware but the DS is little more than an GBA with another processor and a touch screen. It might not be so bad if the GBA weren't still a popular system (and with games like Guitar Hero: On Tour coming out that require the GBA slot for its custom controller!).
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I read the DSi is also going to be region-locked. It has the SD slot, which potentially opens up homebrew, but you could get a Lite and a pack with an SD slot for cheaper than the DSi. Sure, it's not going to have a camera, but most people who want really portable cameras just get phones with them.
I also think it's funny that the DSi is going to be more expensive than the PSP slim currently is, which has all around better hardware.
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Also what the fuck, Apparently I missed a bottle and a few other things in OoT (I see why this now enraged vlad), someone tell me I'll be able to go back in time at some point in the game...
Never mind, I found it out. Also this game is a lot fun, definitely better then TP. I also can hardly see how Brave Fencer Musashi got weaker scores then OoT, I find each one easily on par with the other.
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I was always a huge fan of OoT :P Glad to see someone else giving it good reviews. As far as zelda games go, OoT was revolutionary, really, and shouldn't be taken as lightly as it has been.
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I also think it's funny that the DSi is going to be more expensive than the PSP slim currently is, which has all around better hardware.
That's just pathetic.
The DSi is just under the GameBoy Micro on my worthlessness scale. Seriously, Nintendo, you have enough goddamn money. Get over yourselves.
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They could just use it to develop, y'know, games.
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Thing is, they haven't been developing anything worth playing. Nintendo even said something to the effect that they were focusing on the casual market rather than the people who've been consistently giving them money for 25 years. It's foolish; after the novelty wears off Nintendo's going to start losing money because they alienated their truest fans. Introducing an update to the DS that removes key functionality while adding fairly insignificant features (essentially breaking backwards and forwards compatibility within the same product line) isn't going to win anyone back. That would be like if Sony allowed developers to use the extra memory in the PSP Slim for games; PSP Phat owners like myself would understandably be a bit peeved.
I think it's safe to say that the GameCube has more games that were worth playing than the Wii does and that system was very much an underdog. I wound up selling most of my Wii games because they all suck. The only reason I even still have a Wii is because I foolishly sold my GameCube. If I would have hung onto my cute purple cube for a while I could have probably made money on my Wii because the casual gamers are all flocking to it so that they can play Wii Sports and create Miis for hours on end.
Seriously, I never thought I'd say this given the PS3's awful launch, but Sony has been doing a much better job at building up their gaming line than Nintendo has been.
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I looked more into the DSi. What's the point of adding in two .3 megapixel cameras? I mean, if they wanted to put the cameras adjacent to each other so they could calculate the distance of a given object and make the DSi into some super-spy device like in that movie whose name I can't remember, that admittedly would be pretty cool, but they're not. They're really wasting their time and resources with this. Aside from the cameras, they're not doing anything the homebrew community hasn't.
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Not to mention that they aren't doing anything that the homebrew couldn't have, either.
Connecting cameras probably isn't impossible for a homebrew project on one of the other incarnations of the DS.
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Yeah, they could probably just use any webcam for it.
Anyways, I'm playing FF1: DoS version right now. I've always liked this version. I'm using an 8-bit-theater-based team this time through.
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I looked more into the DSi. What's the point of adding in two .3 megapixel cameras?
My phone has two cameras. One 2 megapixel camera for normal pictures and a VGA (0.3 megapixel) camera on the inside for video chat (which seems to have a more sensitive CCD given how much brighter and grainier the picture is). As for the DSi, uh...if both cameras are VGA than what the hell. Why does it need cameras in the first place? It's a bloody portable system. If any games actually use the cameras I'm going to have an aneurysm because camera games are quite possibly the worst thing to happen in the world of technology since EVER. They hardly work and they're little more than stupid gimmicks.
Speaking of stupid gimmicks:
Another new function, the DSi Sound audio player, is not meant to be an ordinary audio playback mechanism. We have designed it so that people can enjoy playing with sounds.
Some typical functions include the ability to change the pitch and the speed separately by using the Touch Screen.
Yeah, that's all well and good until kiddies get tired of it (I give it five minutes) and realize that their big brother's PSP will probably make a better portable music player in spite of its limitations.
Also, I can't help but rage at this:
On the other hand, the DSi Camera software includes 11 types of special camera lenses. This means DSi can take pictures by utilizing a variety of special effects on a real-time basis. You can change the whole picture to black and white, colour the portions you touch or exchange the existing colour with a new one on the area you touch, make a composite picture using preinstalled frames or make the frames for yourselves, draw a variety of graffiti on the pictures, use the technology to recognize human faces and put glasses and moustaches on them, combine two people
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Wow you guys really have not actually looked at the DSi very much.
The part of the DSi that is region-locked is the store. Not the actual DS games. You could still buy any DS game from Japan and play it just fine on the DSi. The DSi store, just like every game store on every system, is region-locked. And yeah, there's the SD slot for any sort of workaround you want anyway.
And honestly, no, the GBA really isn't a popular system still. The US has literally zero new GBA games now. Even Japan has next to none. And losing support for GH: On Tour really isn't a bad thing because the game's terrible. And seriously, if you really want to play GBA stuff, just keep your DS. And hey, just wait for someone to build a GBA emulator for the DSi and just load it on your SD card. Now you're enjoying your "missing capability" and totally "sticking it to the man" at the same time. Games that use the GBA slot for expansion are few and far between.
The DSi also is NOT more expensive than the PSP. The Japanese PSP Slim is, at its lowest, $209 (the new series PSP's are $250). The DSi is the equivalent of $189. This is perfectly in keeping with the DSLite's pricing as well. When it comes out here, the DSi is expected to retail for $150, which would be $30 more than our Lite.
Also, there are PSP games that DO use the extra memory of the Slim. There are also games that force overclocking the PSP to run better, which on the original PSP, affects battery life quite a bit.
I also have no response for talking about Nintendo as though they aren't making games to cover everyone. In their first YEAR, they had nearly every major franchise covered. Now, they're pushing out into older franchises that haven't seen updates in almost a decade, getting other development houses to help develop many games that originated on handheld stuff, but now as full-scale console releases and literally every single one of their games works exactly as it should. I say this a lot but if you actually sit there and tell me that nearly every game you've played on the Wii sucks, you are either really bad at picking games in general, you suck at the game, or you're lying. I own no less than 12 games for the Wii and I wouldn't trade in any of them and there are tons more still to come that I want. 2009 alone has more for the Wii than any system so far.
Nintendo did NOT ever say they were going to shift focus only onto the "casual" crowd. Ever. What was said, was that they would split their resources to develop for all forms of gamer, and they have done exactly that. Looking at their lineup, they've already provided games for literally every style of person, from babies and retards (Wii Music) to the ridiculously "hardcore" (Fire Emblem) and like I said, nearly every major franchise has been represented.
Seriously, what do people need from them? It's ridiculous. Everyone creamed themselves over the DSLite, which was nothing more than a light upgrade and a slimming. The DSi is the same thing but with even more (I have no clue as to what the cameras are actually for though...although being able to take a picture of something, quick draw all over it and then upload it onto some site through the DSi's built-in browser is really neat) and now people shit bricks in anger for....some reason? It's not like they're really charging you much more for the stuff you don't want. The JP version is the same price the DSLite debuted at and the US version's only $30 more, which is almost all represented in the bigger and nicer screen.
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Lots of good points there, though to be honest, I've always felt that Nintendo's games tended to feel more geared to casual gamers and such than many games on other platforms. But I think that's partly just my own bias. I've always felt that the majority of games that got much hype (there are exceptions, of course), were either geared towards casual gamers, or were generally less adult in nature than some of the games for other systems. Note that I'm referring to the games that receive more attention. This is why I was more of a fan of the playstation for quite some time, albeit that a number of the games for the playstation (less so in the PS2) were very cartoonish, or generally felt geared towards more casual games as well.
If I felt this way (regardless of how valid these views actually are), then I can say that there were probably quite a few people who felt this way as well, tome some degree at least.
I think that feeling is probably where the whole thing about Nintendo supposedly gearing more towards casual gamers comes from this feeling.
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There's the thing. People have created this idea of "hardcore" and "casual" all by themselves. It first started back during the Playstation era with the entire "kiddy" vs "mature" garbage and it's just turned into what it is now. Nintendo's NEVER changed who they make games for, which is everyone. That's why I've always respected them.
This whole "them" vs "us" mentality is just ridiculous. If you like games with a serious narrative, that's fine, but it doesn't make a company that doesn't focus solely on that not for you. People don't even know what "casual gaming" even means. There IS no meaning behind it. The game can't be casually-geared. The gamer is. You can be a casual gamer in "hardcore" games. You can be a "hardcore" gamer and absolutely love very simple "casual" games.
Gahhhh too much talking.
I'm playing the newly finished translation for Persona 2: Innocent Sin (which only took 10 YEARS to finish), waiting for Mother 3 to finish (this week!) and waiting for Dead Space to get here. I also keep trying to go to Toys R Us to snag some 2000 Point Wii Point Cards. They're $12 but everyone's sold out already. I really wanted Secret of Mana and the two Art Style games from WiiWare.
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It's not hat the Wii isn't getting games, it's that most of the A+++ games are on other systems (the few A+++ games that there are).
Also, according to cave story speculation, King is Arthur (Toroko's brother) who experimented on the red flowers, transformed and then somehow overcame the effects of the flowers and came back with a drastically different appearance (Along with his somewhat red-ish eyes, and scars). Which would explain how he knew Toroko ate the flowers as soon as he saw her. Also, King Arthur's sword.
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And losing support for GH: On Tour really isn't a bad thing because the game's terrible.
That's a really bad reason to defend removing functionality...
And seriously, if you really want to play GBA stuff, just keep your DS.
Screw that. I have enough Nintendo handhelps lying around because they keep limiting and restricting backwards compatibility in the most bizarre ways. Nintendo constantly adds in features that they use just enough to make them either fun or must-haves for particular games (IR port on the GameBoy Color, the link port on the GBA, use of the GBA slot for DS accessories and Pok
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Eggman, by your definition, I'm one of those guys who casually plays "hardcore" games.
The way I see it, when most people talk about casual gamers, they are referring to people who do not play "hardcore" games. They are talking about people who play stuff like Wii sports, and Nintendogs, and all those other simplistic all ages type games. Hardcore gamers are the people who actually play games beyond the current trendy popular games, and are more into games than the average "I want to kill an hour or two playing this mindless addictive game" type people.
In fact, I describe myself as at least a semi-hardcore gamer. Sure, I don't play on any of the next gen consoles. The newest consoles I own are the Gamecube and the PS2. However, I've always been fascinated with finding the rarer gems. The games that are really worth playing, rather than playing all the games that
But to be perfectly honest, I prefer my games to have a more adult presentation. Sure, the Paper Mario games are fun, and I don't have a problem with how cartoonish they are, but my personal preference goes to games that have a more adult presentation. Legend of Dragoon, most Final Fantasy games from FF7 on, Eternal Darkness, every new FPS, and the list goes on.
I will admit that I am primarily a RPG gamer, so that obviously biases my preferences. However, I simply find that too many games that I hear about for the Wii are cartoonish, and seem to be aimed at everyone (and by that, I mean kids under 12, since the "everyone" ESRB rating usually only applies to games that likely only appeal to kids in that age category.)
I will admit, I haven't had much of a chance to play a Wii, and the only game I have played is smash brother brawl (which I'm somewhat disappointed in, really. The slower pace bothers me. A lot.) However, many of the games that Nintendo seems to be releasing (and the general marketing style for the Wii in general) seems to be heavily catered to the "all ages" group, which generally ends up including young kids and families.
Bitch all you want about my personal ideas about how games are, or my personal biases. I realize a number of them are probably baseless, but except for the occasional gem (Katamari Damacy, Paper Mario, etc.) nearly all the games I actually enjoy have an adult style to them.
(Hell, I've quit playing Mabinogi, in favour of Atlantica Online because Atlantica is more adult (graphically), incorporates strategy into it's battle system, and is much less targeted at the virtual life aspect and more targeted at hardcore gamers.)
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Speaking of Mother 3, what would I need to play that?
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A GBA emulator, or anything capable of playing GBA roms, I'd guess.
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Friend let me borrow his copy of FFIV for DS.
I must say quite a fun game.
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A GBA emulator, or anything capable of playing GBA roms, I'd guess.
Really? Don't you mean snes?
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Mother 3 was on the GBA IIRC.
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I wiki'd it, lol. Yes, it was on the GBA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_3
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Mother 3 was on the GBA IIRC.
Well they also have it for the SNES but it only came out in Japan...on another forum there is a link to the translation in which you still need the GBA emulator to work it so even if you have the one for SNES it'll only come out translated on the GBA so pretty much Hal Entertainment and Lucas and the rest of the gang in Mother 3 screwed us over.
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Can you show me some proof that it was on the SNES, because wikipedia says nothing at all about that.
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There is no SNES version. Someone faked an SNES cart to look like it at one point.
I am playing Dead Space. It is fantastic. It's like a mix of Resident Evil 4 and Bioshock I guess? Except you deal damage in lines or shapes and not just dots for bullets. Like the Line Gun, which just fires a wide horizontal line of death that chops off legs. Or the Pulse Rifle, which deals damage in a sort of triangular shape in rapid-fire. Or the Ripper, which I just got, which is basically a gravitational chainsaw. You fire it and it extends a saw blade and spins it in mid-air and you basically just swing around and it cuts through things.
The audio in the game is amazing. When you're actually in vacuum, there's next to no sound. You hear sort of a dull thud of your boots and your breathing, but enemies screaming make no sound. Shots do make a boom sound because you have to have some form of feedback that you're actually hitting something but it's really muffled like you're underwater.
So yeah, it's a super cool game.
Also, I've played the PS2 version of Guitar Hero World Tour. It is TERRIBLE. Do not bother with it. The 360/PS3 versions might be okay because it's actually by the regular team but GHWT PS2 was handled by another group and it is absolutely AWFUL. Graphically, it's worse than GH1. And the load times are atrocious.
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That makes me sad, I was hoping for another PS2 GH game that was actually worth playing :(
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Alright then, I'll pick up a GBA emulator and a few games then.
Also Dead space does look awesome. Reminds me I really want to BUY it and mass effect along with Bioshock.
Ugh, being poor sucks...
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RED FACTION 8)
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Friday the 13th--NES.....jk
Zombies Ate My Neighbors--SNES...and SNES Emulator.
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I took a break from retro gaming on my PSP and bought Lumines.
ADDICTION.
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I took a break from retro gaming on my PSP and bought Lumines.
Play Brave fencer musashi. DO IT.
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Play Brave fencer musashi. DO IT.
If I could affords it I would!
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I'm playing FF8 via emulator on my PC, but I'm cheating by using a turbo script for boosting.
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Wouldn't that not totally work due to some GF's actually having points during boost where you aren't supposed to hit the button? Also, don't level. Just card all the normal battles. Gain points for GF skills to get some refine abilities and just abuse those to get spells. Life Magic Refine from Siren should allow to refine Tents into Life, giving you something like 3000 HP at level 13 or whatever. I love that game for the many possible play styles you can use.
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I mapped it to a certain key, so I just let the key go when I see the X flash. I really just use it for boss battles anyways, and use Enc-None to avoid random battles (I love how I get paid in intervals without having to battle). I also make sure to get Fish Fins at the beginning of the game (before I fight Ifrit) and Shiva's I-Magic RF, so I can get 20 Waters per fin and junction them to Squall's Atk and have him dealing 250+ damage before the first hour of gameplay. I love the game for its flexible battle system, too. This is like the 10th time I'm playing through it, and it's still fun.
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I never understood that game when I played it, and I absolutely hated the lack of a normal weapon system :/
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Define "normal weapon system."
If you're referring to the weapon refinement system, the gathering aspect really isn't too bad compared to a lot of other games. If you're referring to collecting magazines, yeah, I always thought that was a little annoying.
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The magazines kind of bothered me too, but since it's never really necessary to upgrade your weapon and you can buy all of the magazines once you get to Esthar, it kind of evens out. Still, it would've been better if they sold magazines at regular shops as the game went on instead of having us find them.
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By "normal weapon system" I meant games where you can actually buy your weapons, like pretty much every other FF made to date :/
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I like that they changed things up, though. I think people who don't like 8 have reason to, but I like a lot of the things about the game that people didn't like. It's just my flavor of RPG.
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I could never get into it, because when I played it, I never understood most of it. Maybe now that I could actually understand how the systems work, I might not mind it.
That, and I've never liked the story (I don't know the whole one, but what I have heard just doesn't jump out at me as a very good plot, really.)
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Reading about the story and actually going through it are entirely different things. It's probably the most human plot in FF history, although I know so many kids these days hate any character with any sort of flaw.
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Well, I did play through part of it, but not that much, and I'm sorry, but I hated that opening stuff. As I said, maybe I'll be able to understand it enough to actually enjoy it now, but I'm not going to go out of my way to play it just yet.
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playin' Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Heroes, and Soul Caliber II, which I bought yesterday for $22 altogether.
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Do the Chao garden, it's the best part of the game.
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Gran turismo 3. Never beat it, came close but lost the game and recently rebought it. All licenses with all B and A gold, 2 Endurance races completed (Super speedway and Seattle circuit...lack of B-Spec sucks :(), all Rally events completed, and all Beginner league completed with a whopping 100,000 credits left...luckily I have a race car (Corvette C5R from Seattle endurance) but i'm still really annoyed that I didn't win an F1 car from either endurance races in one shot.
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Gran turismo 3. Never beat it, came close but lost the game and recently rebought it. All licenses with all B and A gold, 2 Endurance races completed (Super speedway and Seattle circuit...lack of B-Spec sucks :(), all Rally events completed, and all Beginner league completed with a whopping 100,000 credits left...luckily I have a race car (Corvette C5R from Seattle endurance) but i'm still really annoyed that I didn't win an F1 car from either endurance races in one shot.
The speedway one is the easiest to win one from...I have like 8 of them from there...also the corvette car is one of the better ones but it doesn't have great turning...only great on straightaways.
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Anyone want a Call of Duty: World at War beta code for either PC or 360? I have one of each.
Also, I finished Dead Space and it is excellent. A well-written, excellently-paced 11 hour adventure. I recommend playing on Hard because it means you'll have to be better at aiming and you have to scavenge more from enemies than just straight up buying stuff because you have to buy power nodes to continue to upgrade your equipment so you actually do enough damage (and take less damage) so that you can actually get through each area.
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So I got a game over shortly after the Ragnarok segment on disk 3 of FF8 (first one actually, fucking Ruby Dragon and its Breath attack that does 9999 damage to all 3 party members). The last time I had saved was after beating all 8 of the monsters on the Ragnarok but before the scene in the cockpit. I used my turbo boost script for dialogue (since you can use square to talk) and held the fast forward key in my emulator through that entire scene.
"Eyes On Me" doesn't sound too bad at double tempo.
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That's because Faye Wong is amazing. Also, it should sound good like that. There's a Dancemania remix of it that's excellent.
I started playing Fallout 3 and I'm really realizing that western RPGs just really aren't for me. The story is boring, no one has any personality and battle consists almost entirely of "go into VATS, aim at head, fire fire fire, run away." The game just isn't very fun.
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That's because Faye Wong is amazing.
THIS X A MILLION
Seriously, even if I never end up enjoying that game, that song is amazing. There's also a version sung live at one of those concerts they like to put on by Angela Aki. That is a great rendition.
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I started playing Fallout 3 and I'm really realizing that western RPGs just really aren't for me. The story is boring, no one has any personality and battle consists almost entirely of "go into VATS, aim at head, fire fire fire, run away." The game just isn't very fun.
I haven't seen much of Fallout 3, but from all counts I've heard that the original two are far superior. Having played through a few hours of the first one, I found it to be quite good. It plays more like an RTS than a post-apocalyptic Oblivion.
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Been playing TFC this past week...really fun multi-player game.
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I've got a nice White Mage setup on Rinoa. She has the abilities Treatment, Recover, and Revive, which are like a Remedy, and X-potion, and Full-Life, just with no expense. I also have 100 Zombies on her St.Atk, so she can take down enemies by healing.
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So I've got a fairly beefy Necromancer in Diablo II. I've got 2 skeletons going along with a clay golem. Also got a sheild and a short sword, because I dislike ranged weapons (I have throwing knives, but that's as far as I've gone). Really, this game is retarded addicting for some reason.
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Still going through retro games on PSP.
Finished an old score with Streets of Rage 2, finally defeating Mr. X on Hard. (A friend had the game a very long time ago, and we never could finish the seventh stage). Unfortunately, SoR3 is proving to be considerably more difficult. I am fumbling a great deal on the second and fourth bosses and keep losing on the fifth stage.
Also, Sonic Spinball is just like I remembered, except the fourth stage is still frustratingly difficult. Regardless, excellent game.
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Just perfectly and legitimately backed up a copy of Street Fighter Alpha anthology for the ps2. yay
also did the same for burnout 3, since I traded that game in for some reason, and I was like 55% thru it and now I want to finish it :p
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Good god, why are magic casters so god damned strong? I enter a room with 5 of them and I die about instantly.
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Little Big Planet, Fallout 3 and Far Cry 2 and Tales of Vesperia.
All really fun.
Fallout took me a little while to get used to, but I'm beginning to get the hang of everything. The only Action/RPGs I've ever played were System Shock 2 and Bioshock... Fallout is cool for its moral choices and such you can make. It would have been cool to give my guy a voice. I'll talk about it more when I play more.
Tales of Vesperia is awesome. Its my first Tales game, and I love it. The battle system is fun, and the main character, Yuri, actually has a good story and personality to back him up. The leveling system isn't bad, but its hard to get everyone to level up together. I guess I'll just have to shuffle up my party every so often.
Little Big Planet is a load of fun. Its cute, and looks beautiful. Not very much of a story, the main point I believe is just to get stuff to make levels. But the amount of objects and prizes surpasses even Brawl I think. Its huge. And man, Stephen Fry is a great narrator.
Far Cry 2 is pretty neat. I've kinda dropped it since I got Fallout/LPB, but its not bad. It takes a RIDICULOUS amount of time to get anywhere though, so if you want to travel, you better have a car. And you better drive off road, because if you stay on the roads, you WILL get shot at and you WILL be followed until somebody dies. But theres tons to do, and tons of way to do it, so it has a good pull to it.
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Me playing Portal while drunk = Absolutely amazing.
Granted, I can't still do some of the advanced stuff like standing between 2 portals in a wall and moving around like that, but my aim is actually better and I'm faster at finishing levels for the most part.
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Haha, nice!
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Pokemon Diamond--At Floroma City right now and hoping I'm going to buy an Action Replay so I can cheat like shit.
Final Fantasy III--At the Sea Dragon that is a major bitch.
Final Fantasy Tactics A2--Very Beginning.
(yeah, not even Advance 2...but A2)
Spectrobes--Just past the intro mission.
Tekken 5--Kicking the crap out of everyone on Ultra Hard with perfects from: Devil Jin, Jin, Kazuya, King, Heihachi, Kuma, Asuka, Raven
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Tekken 5--Kicking the crap out of everyone on Ultra Hard with perfects from: Devil Jin, Jin, Kazuya, King, Heihachi, Kuma, Asuka, Raven
Nice. I don't think I've EVER been good at a fighting game (Other then smash, if you can even count that). I remember loving Dark Stalkers, but I never learned any actual combos, just spammed the quick jabs when I was close and spammed the longer distance/jump kicks when they got far away.
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I got OK at Tekken 3, I believe it was, playing with friends in school way back.
I got pretty good with smash bros melee.
And for some reason I got damn good at the gamecube Bloody Roar game, whichever one that was.
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Oh yeah, and I'm starting to realize how overpowered the 50.cal sniper is in cod4. I can effectively rush on sabotage maps (I had the first 2 plants) with just a huge sniper and a USP. Really, if I see someone at a slight distance I can scope them and easily drop whoever in one shot, and if someone runs in close to me I can easily no scope them. The gun acts like a really big M14/M21.
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Yeah, that's exactly how the sniper rifles are broken in CoD4 and it pisses me off. The Barrett kills in one shot in any limb. It's just stupid.
I'm currently playing Pure. It's a very very fun racing game that sadly I'll have to stop playing after I finish the World Tour mode because the people that play it online are complete morons and none of my friends play it and it doesn't have splitscreen, which is a very stupid mistake on their part.
I'm also thinking of going through Mario Galaxy again because it's still one of my favorite games and I haven't played as Luigi yet.
Next week, it'll be Mirror's Edge and then a week after that, Last Remnant is out and I'm all over that.
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Next week, it'll be Mirror's Edge
Tell me how that is, I might get it or Fallout 3. Also I'm probably picking up Left 4 dead, from what I hear you can use any map that uses the CS:S engine in it for left 4 dead games, and I know a LOT of big maps of campuses/other huge buildings that would be great for that.
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I was pretty bored by Fallout 3 in general so as of right now, I have a pretty heavy leaning toward Mirror's Edge. However, it's probably pretty short so yeah, hold off until I play through it. We'll see. I loved the demo a LOT though.
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I got Audiosurf after I saw that Steam was offering it for $2.49. It's pretty fun.
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Yeah, that's exactly how the sniper rifles are broken in CoD4 and it pisses me off. The Barrett kills in one shot in any limb. It's just stupid.
It's not that which bothers me, it's just that I can effectively move and no scope easily while sniping. Hell, at least CS had a huge loss in accuracy if you tried to move and snipe with an AWP. If I can rush with the biggest and the strongest sniper in on a sabotage map and still be in the top 3 of my team it means something is wrong.
I was pretty bored by Fallout 3 in general so as of right now, I have a pretty heavy leaning toward Mirror's Edge.
Yeah, I keep hearing VERY mixed things about VATS. I suppose I'll have to try it out myself to see if it's worth it, or just play it like a shooter. Mirrors edge looks good, but so much could go wrong with it that I hope it does well.
Also:
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l94/mortifiedocalot/cod4mp-20081110-021431-1.png)
He didn't have the explosive perk, and I didn't even see the smoke from the grenade or the indicator when I died. Really, this HAS to be a hit box error or something, this game can be AMAZINGLY off for a modern game.
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He didn't have the explosive perk, and I didn't even see the smoke from the grenade or the indicator when I died.
The grenade indicator has always been bugged in the CoD games that featured it. Whenever I play CoD 2/4 in single player I regularly find myself suddenly dying and having the game explain the function of the grenade indicator only to have me shout "THERE WAS NO FUCKING INDICATOR ARGH" into my monitor as I contemplate having to redo fifteen minutes of gameplay due to a long-standing bug. That, coupled with the enemy's uncanny grenade accuracy, makes the game quite a chore if you make the mistake of setting the difficulty above easy. :/
But enough about that, I've already whined about CoD4's single player element (http://www.spectere.net/blog/2008/09/call-of-duty-4-single-player-review/) enough.
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I got Audiosurf after I saw that Steam was offering it for $2.49. It's pretty fun.
I heard that it was an ok game but like most games that auto-generate things it is horrible and the only reason to play it is to listen to your favorite songs on a louder system.
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Audiosurf actually is a lot of fun, though. It's not "horrible" like most autogenerating games (DANCE FACTORY LOL) are simply because it doesn't try to autogenerate patterns and such. The people who run into it expecting an experience like DDR, Guitar Hero, or Beatmania will be disappointed by it, but people looking for a nice, relaxing way to kill a half hour will love it.
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The grenade indicator has always been bugged in the CoD games that featured it.
Its not that, I was completely out of its range and it STILL managed to kill me. Like how half the time I can't move any closer to someone and I still miss my knife attack, while the can turn quickly and knife the air and I die.
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Huh...I don't know about the former. As far as the latter issue, I've always had more luck with the knives if I swing as I approach someone for whatever reason. Their hit detection for it seems to be a little wonky.
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I got the mod Portal: Prelude, but I don't really like it. I like fast-paced puzzles, but not when everything in the room will kill you if you mess up slightly. I liked the Portal: TFV map pack because although the puzzles were more difficult than the official levels, they weren't as deadly. In Prelude, you get assaulted by turrets, ceilings that will crush you, and walls that will vaporize you. At the same time. By the 6th test chamber.
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I didn't like Prelude, either, for the exact same reason. :/
I'm waiting for Valve's version of Portal's prequel. First off, it'll actually be canon. Secondly, they definitely know how to make a good, balanced game.
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So, out of boredom, I downloaded probably the hardest game ever made. (http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/)
Let's see how this goes (playing on 'medium', the lowest difficulty level, because I'm a wuss. But hey, the game is unbelievably hard so who cares)
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So, out of boredom, I downloaded probably the hardest game ever made. (http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/)
Hah,as soon as you said hardest game I knew it was that. Really, I liked it, but I just couldn't progress any further.
Also played D2 untill 3 last night and got my blood golems. Shit is awesome.
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I've been trying the Left 4 Dead demo, and it's pretty fun. I hope I can get 3 friends to get it so we can play a campaign.
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So I just found a really nice piece of armor for my Necromancer and I sold my other 2 peices of armor and it maxed out my saved money. I'm only about level 20-ish and I have nothing to spend my money on, hot damn.
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I've been trying the Left 4 Dead demo, and it's pretty fun. I hope I can get 3 friends to get it so we can play a campaign.
I just can't seem to get into it. Like, even with 3 friends, I was sort of bored. There's really very little depth to the game and it's more of just a sort of scream for a few minutes and fire as fast as possible and then run on to the next scripted sequence of a mass of zombies. I really don't see how what I played in the demo could be carried out to a full game.
I'm getting pretty far along in my Final Fantasy 9 playthrough. Got my gold chocobo, found all the chocographs, got all of the items I can find. Pretty much a god at this point. Pretty sure I can just move on and be just fine for very nearly the rest of the game. Next up is Ipsen's Castle, which I think is getting towards the end of disc 3.
Mirror's Edge will show up in two days and so I'll start that then. After that, it's Last Remnant next week.
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So I found another way to do Test Chamber 09 in Portal.
I'm definitely not the first one to do it, but it was a nice find. What's funny is that even after getting past the door, GLaDOS won't stop talking about the chamber being impossible.
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Mirror's Edge.
Currently on chapter 6, IIRC. Taking a five minute break because this one section is stupidly difficult.
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How is it so far?
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Having beat it, I'd probably give it around a 7.0 or 7.5 out of 10 (assuming 5.0 is the average).
The biggest problem with the game is that DICE made some parts a lot more annoying and frustrating than they really needed to be. Their idea of raising the difficulty in later chapters is basically piling more enemies into the areas, which really doesn't work well with this kind of game.
Another problem is that the game is really bloody short. I mean, seriously, 5-6 hours? There is content in the game that'll keep you busy after you beat it, but...5-6 hours? Come on. If I weren't going for the Test of Faith achievement (not shooting enemies for the entire game), which would have made some parts near the end significantly easier, I could have probably cleared the game in 3-4 hours, first try. That is way too short for a $60 game.
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Hot damn, that's why I haven't really looked into Dead space yet.
Also is it just me, or are there a lot of easy to do but not obvious at all moments in Ocarina of time? I've already had one part in the fire temple were there was a door that looked JUST out of my reach, then when I finally jumped it Link teleported about a foot and made the jump. Then in the water temple I walked past the thing that lowers the water level about 5 times before even realizing it was there (I had to have a friend point it out, also you can jump up to the one that raises the water all the way, but it forces you down so you just glitch back and forth on the ledge). I didn't know that the well would have the lens of truth in it (I'll admit that this is my fault really, I should have checked it out earlier). and finally I hit the spirit temple, went inside, realized I had to be a kid to get anywhere, and then I teleported back and returned my sword only to be confused as to how the hell I was going to get back there as a kid. FIGURES you'd have to exit the temple just to get the song that lets you teleport back to it.
Really, it cannot be just me who is running into these massively annoying problems.
Also dodging seems to not work out like it should. Hal the time I try to jump backwards I end up jumping sideways and getting hit.
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I don't recall ever having any problems like that. Are you playing on emulator, or on real hardware?
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Real hardware. Also, it's an original copy of the game, before they took out the Muslim chanting in the fire temple.
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I'd probably give Mirror's Edge an 8.5. Aside from the last room and two other times, you never HAVE to fight, which is cool. All of the speed runs and time trials are super cool too and they strike me as being almost as addictive as Bionic Commando: Rearmed.
It'd get a high score simply because A. it's a totally new idea that B. controls near flawlessly and C. is just so damn fun. The price is annoying but eh, games have been getting shorter and shorter lately. You can definitely blame that on EA's idea of "planned trilogies" ugh. But this is why GameFly exists.
Also, Dead Space is 10-11 hours of action-packed fantastic. I'd probably have a lot of fun going for all of the achievements there.
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The price is annoying but eh, games have been getting shorter and shorter lately.
Yes, but when a game that sells for full retail price gives you about as much gameplay as Portal (which took me about 3 hours on my first run through, listening to all of the dialogue and figuring out all of the puzzles for my first time) -- a bargain bin title -- there's something wrong. Remember, the only reason it took me as long as it did to beat the game was because I went for one of the harder achievements on my first run through. My 5-6 hour estimation includes the occasional breaks that I took to either grab a drink or calm myself down after having to retry numerous times as well deaths. Had I actually used weapons against the guards I could have beaten the game much faster. I wouldn't have taken off for that harshly if the game sold for $40. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect 8-10 hours of gameplay out of a $60 game.
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Like I said, this is why we have GameFly. Also though, it really depends on the person. My friend Matt bought the game, went through the story in one sitting and is now just playing time trials over and over, going for the best times. When asked if the game was worth it, he just said "god yes" and went away from AIM and kept playing more time trials. So definitely it's a by person type of thing.
Speaking of GameFly though, they lowered the price on a TON of stuff recently and now Alone in the Dark for 360 is $5.99. I had a $5 off coupon. So now, after tax, I have the game on its way to me for $1.06. I'm pretty sure I could get enjoyment equal to that out of any game in existence.
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Painkiller. I remember trying to play it a while back, but it was running so fast it was near unplayable. I didn't think there was anything I could do aside from downgrading my hardware or Vboxing XP32, then I realized that I just needed to go into Process Explorer and set the game to only utilize one of my CPU's cores. Now it's running normally, and I'm having fun with it, but I wish it supported dual-core.
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then I realized that I just needed to go into Process Explorer and set the game to only utilize one of my CPU's cores.
If a game doesn't support multiple cores it won't use multiple cores.
The problem was most likely that the game sets up its timing based on the CPU clock. Modern processors, even ones in desktop machines, are capable of having their clock speed set dynamically, usually based on load. What winds up happening is that the game, when it starts up, might see a 2000MHz processor. When the game finishes loading, the OS detects that the CPU is being used heavily, so it'll bumps the clock rate up to, say, 2500MHz. This causes the game to run quite a bit faster. Some systems, especially laptops, can have an even greater range. My laptop can go from 800MHz all the way up to 1.73GHz, effectively doubling the speed of an affected game.
UT99 is another game that has this issue.
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Thanks for the warning, lol. I'm running a dual core laptop..
Also, is there any way to control the whole dynamic clock speed thing and force it to certain speeds or anything?
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Also, is there any way to control the whole dynamic clock speed thing and force it to certain speeds or anything?
Just set the "Always On" setting (or "High Performance" in Vista) in the Windows power management settings.
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I was hoping for more control in that, I've actually got a custom power setting as it is, and I believe my setting is 80-100% when plugged in.
Oh well, Guess it's going up to 100%-100%.
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Finally started playing Brawl online and I still enjoy it despite half the matches being lagtastic. I was playing as Sonic and a Kirby had my neutral B move (which is a homing attack) so me and this kirby keep hitting each other mid air for about 20 or so straight hits without touching the ground. Then on the last one we go off the top of the screen and hit each other and both of us die.
Also I was bored and watching some gameplay from Gears 2, and I noticed its bosses where nothing but the same attack pattern repeated 3 times over until they died. Really, does ANYONE like bosses like this? Even if you have to figure out which item will damage them where to use it it still seems like the most unimaginative way a boss fight can go down (lol Zelda). Every game known for its boss fights are basically nothing like this and it annoys me to no end how they still manage to put it into games. I swear they only do it because they can make the boss fight more cinematic and average gamer would remember that more then an actual boss fight that's challenging and fun, that and it seems overall easier to do then to actually program another AI to do several "complex" things.
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Well, I recently played Gears 2, and really enjoyed it. The bosses don't matter that much really.
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I just wish they did more bosses like General RAAM, who is basically one of the few good bosses in a shooter.
Also damn near the end on Zelda oot, which only took me several years. Really, It's been a long time since I've played a game all the way to the end.
Also, I've started playing Left 4 Dead. It's a ton of fun, but I need to find more people who like versus mode.
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I played Rock Band 2 with some friends all week. I made a character that looks and dresses pretty much exactly like me, then I made his guitar a red and black Stratocaster just like the one I keep in my room. I mostly played drums, though, unless we failed and I had to take over a hard guitar or bass part on the retry.
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Beat Oot yesterday. Overall the game was good, but it's far from the best zelda game. Now I need to devote a few hours for the end of MM9. Also Left 4 dead is amazing, can't wait to see some crazy custom maps.
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I'm replaying FF7... again. This time, I've been making use of the character namer more:
Cloud = Cloud
Barret = Mr. T
Tifa = Tits
Aeris = Aerith
Red XIII = Nanaki
Yuffie = Annoying
Cait Sith = Reeve
Cid = diC
I haven't encountered Vincent yet, so I haven't come up with his name. I probably won't do it till later because I hate the sidequest I have to go through to get him. I'm also going though the game with my party including Yuffie and Cait Sith simply because I've never really used them.
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I haven't encountered Vincent yet, so I haven't come up with his name.
Goth?
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Should name everyone Sephiroth.
Also the charm of COD4 is starting to fade for me. Really, the game is pretty damn shallow once you get to the meat of it, and the perk customization is meh with only a few perks being worth it. At least I got my mic working so I can organize my team better.
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Should name everyone Sephiroth.
I've already done that. I've also already named everyone PIE.
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PIE:
Yo, PIE you make quite an entrance.
PIE:
$%&^%~!! Why you gotta !@$# all up in here !@#!!!$$$$$$$$$
PIE:
#$%# there goes PIE's college fund. @#$@!
PIE received 6000 Gil.
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I wonder how PIE is doing...
I wonder how PIE is doing...
I wonder how PIE is doing...
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I've already done that. I've also already named everyone PIE.
Damn, how many times have you played threw the game? Also I loev coutur striek.
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Damn, how many times have you played threw the game?
I lost count around 8, though that's counting runs where I stopped at disk 3.
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Damn, I wish my disks were playable.. The joys of getting a game for way cheaper than retail at a pawnshop... (got it for $32 when it was still retailing for like, $80)
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Mine aren't playable in real-time, but I managed to rip the images and play them on an emulator perfectly.
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I bought mine about 5 years back new in florida and they are still in perfect condition...honestly I can't figure out how the hell people screw up their disks so badly.
Like, my FFVIII was bought used because there is no way in hell I can find a new one, and the disks were way too screwed up. I've gotten to the end but only after i pretty much submerged disk 3 in rubbing alcohol and water to get it to play through the cut scene with the monsters going from the moon to earth. But there were also sooooo many other parts that were skipping and freezing...this one just made me want to break it....and I've owned about 4 different copies of VIII and they all were screwed up to extremeness.
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I borrowed it from a girl 5 years ago who had obviously lent it out a lot, so the disks were already scratched pretty bad (but still playable) when I got it. She never wanted it back, though.
I have a used copy of 8 with some scratches that don't affect the game in any way I've seen, and a used copy of 9 in excellent condition. Of course, buying used PS1 games as popular as these is always a gamble, so I just got lucky twice.
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Didn't you guys play games when they were new? I didn't even have a PS1 until FF8 came out but with all of the re-re-re-releases of stuff over the PS1's life cycle, it couldn't have been that hard to find a cheap new copy.
Also, the best part of naming Red XIII "Nanaki" is that you get the line: Who's Nanaki? Nanaki is Nanaki!
Also also, I finished Last Remnant. It is one of the hardest RPGs ever made. It is basically Romancing Saga Tactics/4.
Also also also, I am currently playing Prince of Persia, which is fantastic. Like super fantastic. Probably finish it tonight and I started it last night.
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I didn't really get into video games until high school, and I was a freshman in 2004. Lots of things had happened by then.
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I didn't have a PS1 till after FF8 and by then FF8 was pretty much ruined disks for every used copy ever...I remember renting it from a blockbuster and not even being able to see the opening movie with rinoa and the fight scene where they get their scars.
I always had named my Red XIII "nanaki" because my friend told me that was the real name of it so I just figured hey what the heck...and yes that line is awesome to see.
I heard the Last Remnant was amazing!
Prince of Persia (new one) blows sands of time away...but when sands of time first came out it was the best out pretty much.
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I just love that Yuffie introduces herself by saying "I'm Annoying!"
Also, people tell me they always get Aeris for the dating scene, but I've never gotten anyone other than Tifa (except this one time when I followed a dating guide and got Barret).
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I always had named my Red XIII "nanaki" because my friend told me that was the real name of it so I just figured hey what the heck...
Heh, same here. 8)
Also, people tell me they always get Aeris for the dating scene, but I've never gotten anyone other than Tifa (except this one time when I followed a dating guide and got Barret).
I got Yuffie once without even trying. O.o
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I borrowed it from a girl 5 years ago who had obviously lent it out a lot, so the disks were already scratched pretty bad (but still playable) when I got it. She never wanted it back, though.
I have a used copy of 8 with some scratches that don't affect the game in any way I've seen, and a used copy of 9 in excellent condition. Of course, buying used PS1 games as popular as these is always a gamble, so I just got lucky twice.
My third disk was scratched so bad once you got to the crater, you were screwed. I really need to emulate this game sometime.
Didn't you guys play games when they were new?
I mentioned that I got FF7 second hand, but that was when it was still VERY new (I got really lucky, and it was only a week or 2 after it came out).
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The great thing about having an emulator is that you don't need to find something to hold the O button while fighting JENOVA.LIFE, all it takes is a GlovePIE script that says "<whatever key you have mapped to circle> = True"
EDIT: Yuffie's actually a really useful character in battle. Cait Sith isn't too great for the most part, but he has a really nice limit break.
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The great thing about having an emulator is that you don't need to find something to hold the O button while fighting JENOVA.LIFE, all it takes is a GlovePIE script that says "<whatever key you have mapped to circle> = True"
Haven't you heard? Rubber bands were invented to hold down buttons on controllers. ;)
And bah, emulation. Damn kids have it lucky nowadays. When I was your age I was using that horribly buggy Windows 95 port of FF7. And I liked it!
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You didn't own a Playstation? What was wrong with you?
Also the melee in L4D is amazing. I just punched a hunter and a smoker off of a 40 story building with them not being able to really counter it (the hunter was already stunned and the smoker didn't have his tongue charged yet).
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And bah, emulation. Damn kids have it lucky nowadays. When I was your age I was using that horribly buggy Windows 95 port of FF7. And I liked it!
I've actually played that port. I remember "This guy are sick" being changed, being able to type in players names, music that sounded like it was made in Noteworthy Composer, and random encounters not actually being random.
I'm at the part of the game where you have to climb the cliff, and I forgot about the hilariously nonsensical fights against the icicles (THEY FIGHT BACK WTF).
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I've actually played that port. I remember "This guy are sick" being changed, being able to type in players names, music that sounded like it was made in Noteworthy Composer, and random encounters not actually being random.
I'm at the part of the game where you have to climb the cliff, and I forgot about the hilariously nonsensical fights against the icicles (THEY FIGHT BACK WTF).
Haha, I think I tried pirating that port once. IIRC it was too buggy to work. Also, NWC was a good midi program in it's day, lol. I'm glad someone else actually remembers that program.
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Wow, I ran out of Phoenix Downs, but Cait Sith managed to beat the giant 2-headed fire/ice thing because he had the Aurora Armlet and a Fire Ring. Now he has to beat JENOVA.DEATH on his own, which is all fire. Lol @ the slightly broken parts of this game.
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Bah, just learn Haste and Regen. Because of the rolling damage counter on Regen and because Haste actually affects the speed of Regen, you can't die because the damage counter goes up faster than it goes down.
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It's not like their is a thread for any of this....
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We've also gone over situations like this before. Nobody but spectere has the capability of moving the posts to another thread, and nobody seems to wait to quote this thread in a new thread (or any other instance of one thread going into another's topic).
So unless you want to post a response to this and summarize all the previous posts in quotes or whatever, it'd be a good idea to either contribute to the argument, or to contribute to the original topic of this thread.
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DO YOU WANT TO TAKE THIS OUT SIDE?
Also the bots in L4D are generally dumb in versus mode. I had a Zoey run out side the safe room twice and die during a horde rush. I'm SO GLAD my team still won. (Funny, my team was doing bad near the end but we ended up having only 1 of them survive and they lost their survivor multiplier).
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Nobody but spectere has the capability of moving the posts to another thread.
Which stinks but I understand his contemplation over handing out power to people...although I'm not saying people on here can't be trusted with power to do this, I just understand why he doesn't:
1) maybe he feels there aren't enough people on here to give someone this power.
2) maybe he doesn't feel like moving this.
3) maybe he is thinking about it but hasn't come to a desicion yet
But back on topic for me...Final Fantasy IX, Tactics, III, Tactics Advance, and X....it's a lot to take in all at once but if you know where I am in each of the stories then it simplifies the complexity of playing multiple FF games at once:
IX) Just got out of the Evil Forest
T) At start up screen still...some reason the thing won't let me hit enter.
III) Beginning again training all of the available jobs to 99 then moving on
TA) Have a master Marche and 99 of everything so I'm just before the Cheeta mission.
X) Training on the Highroad and kicking the crap out of blitzball.
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Which stinks but I understand his contemplation over handing out power to people...although I'm not saying people on here can't be trusted with power to do this, I just understand why he doesn't:
1) maybe he feels there aren't enough people on here to give someone this power.
2) maybe he doesn't feel like moving this.
3) maybe he is thinking about it but hasn't come to a desicion yet
I think it's a combination of 1, and the fact that he doesn't seem to have much free time lately. I understand it too, but it can be a pain at times.
And to stay on topic, I've been playing Medieval 2: Total War and D2 a lot lately. Though admittedly I've been mostly just playing the Hell Unleashed mod for D2. I also just downloaded Worms Armageddon again :P
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Oh, and I meant to post this sooner, but the "Nanaki is Nanaki. That's his name." line is exactly that, not "<name> is Nanaki. That's his name." I discovered that when I named all the characters PIE.
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At the moment, I'm playing Sonic the Hedgehog for the NES. An unlicensed port from the Genesis to the NES.
I've played that, it sucked.
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I started playing Pok
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I started playing Pok
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awesome....how did you get the japanese version??? internet probably but anyway, yeah, katakana, hiragana, and kanji....I understand hiragana very well but I know most games use katakana more so that really stinks if I ever get a game like that....The legendary you get in there is Giratina right? It's really one of the more useful legends because its ghost/dragon.
Not so much any more. Most older games had space restrictions (SNES is a good example) and Kanji fonts take a LOT of space to store (well, you can cut it down by only including the necessary kanji in the game's font), not to mention more complex text encoding. And it's pointless to include both Hiragana and Katakana without kanji, really. I still don't know why they chose katakana more often. But since most gaming platforms don't have as much of a space restriction as they old systems, they can afford to spend the extra space by just including a default font (usually a font with all the sjis characters).
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K guys, here's a little bit of advise for the future: minor diversions that relate to the topic are fine. I'll split them if they need to be split off (in this case, sure...it can be an interesting discussion). So basically, the PSX discussion was fine until it suddenly became about the site. Where did that even come from anyway?
/me be puzz'd.
Anyhoo, now for something related to the topic: I started a new game of FF12 yesterday (I'd only gotten an hour or two into it before and it's been a while since I'd played, so I figured I'd start from scratch) and proceeded to die within the first five minutes of gameplay (after watching about two days of constant FMVs) because of a random boss that they decide to use as the second enemy without warning the player that it was out of his league. Thankfully, there is a way to skip FMVs.
I would have been completely fine with it had it been a tutorial on how to use magic (namely, cure, which I was in the middle of casting when the boss killed me with his long-range attack -- on his second hit on me, no less -- that I was apparently in range of despite being pretty far away from it). Another way that they could have used the boss without frustrating the player is to have the other fighters help you up or revive you if you were unlucky enough to get knocked down (and possibly advising you to be careful with your targets) rather than giving you a game over screen and forcing you to start over with the lame movement tutorials. Or, hell, it could be like the first boss in FF7. You know, one that's actually possible to take out without much danger. You don't throw a very powerful enemy in immediately after introducing the battle system. I can't even begin to describe how idiotic the final implementation of that is.
I guess we'll see how the rest of the game goes. :|
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You can lose the first battle in FF12?
I really wish we had gotten the International version of FF12. It had soooooo many improvements. Changed drop rates, what enemies drop what, a FAST FORWARD BUTTON for grinding, unique license boards depending on the job you pick for your characters, new enemies, new items, new everything. The whole thing was just better and rebalanced.
I started Persona 4. Super awesome game. I hope Atlus follows Square with Dragon Quest X and moves over to the Wii. They clearly don't have the money to take advantage of either the 360 or PS3 but the Wii's both cheap and still an improvement over the PS2 in every way.
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I'm playing Platinum's ROM. I decided to try it out to see if it's worth buying, and I'm still on the fence.
Although I can pronounce some of what I read (there's very little kanji, as expected of a game targeted at kids), it doesn't change that I can't understand any of it. Whenever I pick up an item, I have to sound out its name, look at where it was placed, look at the display icon, or all of the above before figuring out what it is. With moves, I have to look at the stats to see what it is based on type and attack power (I started with Chimchar and I'm going through without catching anything too unfamiliar).
I also started a game of FF4DS, but I probably won't play too much of it unless I figure out how to fix my DS's L and R buttons.
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Anyhoo, now for something related to the topic: I started a new game of FF12 yesterday
Yay, you're back...and screw yaizmat in all his fury...Hell Wyrm is actually really easy to beat.
You don't throw a very powerful enemy in immediately after introducing the battle system.
.....Final Fantasy.....Hard opening battle......FF2 (the real one).......Die!........oh well. That's pretty much how it is in most cases, take for example Star Ocean III....first battle was ok-ish but after that you're screwed for the opening battles. More examples:
Kingdom Hearts (PS2): Darkside
Silver Surfer (NES): Any Stage
Metal Gear (NES): Punch a guy with a gun...oops dead
Kingdom Hearts II (PS2): Fight at Train Station (easy, but neverending until time runs out, or health below certain point)
And many more.
Also, I would really love to have a copy of the international FFX....why do they not just put this crap in the first mix like they should?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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You can lose the first battle in FF12?
I'm sure you technically could if you walked away for a few minutes.
I'm referring to the battle immediately after that, the boss that can do ~60 damage to you per hit.
I really wish we had gotten the International version of FF12. It had soooooo many improvements. Changed drop rates, what enemies drop what, a FAST FORWARD BUTTON for grinding, unique license boards depending on the job you pick for your characters, new enemies, new items, new everything. The whole thing was just better and rebalanced.
Yeah, I heard about that. :(
I take it the Japanese version doesn't have English subtitles or anything like that?
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Has anyone played the new Prince of persia game? I haven't heard much of anything about it and it seems like a nice change from the previous games.
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I take it the Japanese version doesn't have English subtitles or anything like that?
It actually has full english voice acting. The menus are all in Japanese though so uh...yeah have fun making gambits or understanding anything at all that's written.
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I really wish we had gotten the International version of FF12. It had soooooo many improvements. Changed drop rates, what enemies drop what, a FAST FORWARD BUTTON for grinding, unique license boards depending on the job you pick for your characters, new enemies, new items, new everything. The whole thing was just better and rebalanced.
Did it have the original Japanese speech in the FMVs etc.? The burner version I have is an Undub, the way I prefer to play my JRPGs, lol.
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Oh god, punching people off of a building in No Mercy as a Tank is awesome. Makes having that smoker glitch his way to a cliff face that kills me completely worth it.
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TAIKO NO TATSUJIN DII ESSU
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I've been playing alot of Source Engine Based Games: Team Fortress 2, HL2: Ep. 2, Portal, Zombie Panic (free mod)
I'm getting Oblivion once I'm done with grad school applications to kill alot of time.
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Alright then, I'm thoroughly enjoying FO3. I didn't think I would, considering I really couldn't give a shit over GTA or any other sandbox game, but this is really REALLY enjoyable. Yeah, the story seems tacked on but the overall game is awesome. I've just done side missions for the past 3 or so hours in game without even bothering to continue the main story.
Also TF2 is fun (not sure why spec haets it, but I've never played TF or TFC, so I don't know what they changed). I only have some minor problems with it, a lot of the classes seems fairly easy to learn, with a few being hard or just very niche and only useful in specific situations. That and it can seem to be grating after a match, like either side will make no progress for a half hour. Other then that, it's really enjoyable.
Also, how do I spy without failing?
Oh yeah, and Guilty Gear, GG is awesome.
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Also, how do I spy without failing?
One of my friends knows how, but I could never do it right. I usually go with sniper or demoman, depending of the stage.
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Okay then, portal and HL episode 1 done. Portal was awesome, despite all the crap humor I hear everyone spewing about it and HL2 episode 1 was amazing. Funny how portal is literally one of the most atmospheric games I've ever played.
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Heh, yeah, I liked Portal a lot better before everyone else played it. If I hear someone say "THE CAKE IS A LIE" one more time I'm going to throttle them.
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I think it would've worked better as pie via rhymes. Either that or the cake is fake
:o
anyway. I love having IIDX at home, I'm playing through DJ Troopers now, it's pretty shveet.
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If I hear someone say "THE CAKE IS A LIE" one more time I'm going to throttle them.
Ugh. There's one kid in my club at school that still says that at least three times a week.
I've just started throwing stuff at him.
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You should, you should. Also Half life episode 2 beaten. I didn't really like all the caves, but it was fucking great, even better then episode 1 which I didn't think they could do.
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You should, you should. Also Half life episode 2 beaten. I didn't really like all the caves, but it was fucking great, even better then episode 1 which I didn't think they could do.
Ahhh, I still need to finish HL2 Ep 2 :(
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Warning, the ending is seriously one of the most tear inducing things I've seen in a game. I fucking KNEW what was going to happen and I still teared up a little in one eye when I saw it.
Also if you haven't gotten to the Stryder fight, do it. It's one of the best things I've played in an FPS.
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Yea I got stuck on the part where you defend the compound from the Stryders from all directions with the sticky bomb shit. Not so much as stuck but my PC won't run it very nicely and I had to sell my 360 for bill stuff so I can't play orange box on there either. D:
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I got Chrono Trigger DS. I never played the original, so I won't know the difference. I got it because I have another week and a half before going back to college and I need something to do while my friends are at school, so I figured getting hooked on an RPG would do some good.
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I got Chrono Trigger DS. I never played the original, so I won't know the difference. I got it because I have another week and a half before going back to college and I need something to do while my friends are at school, so I figured getting hooked on an RPG would do some good.
From what I've seen, there really aren't many differences from the original anyway.
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Some slight script changes here and there, skills renamed. I think the game's a little harder now actually? It still becomes ridiculously easy near the end but that's when you have god equipment anyway so whatever. The only really new stuff comes after you beat the game the first time.
I am playing the Skate 2 demo while I wait for something to show up from GameFly. I don't know what game it is because I'm forcing myself to not look but I at least know it's a Wii game. I decided I hadn't used the Wii enough so I just went through GameFly's entire list of Wii games and added anything that looked even close to interesting and then shuffled the ranks around. So whatever I get, hopefully it's good.
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I found Prince of Persia: Sands of Time for Gamecube yesterday. I really like the platforming, but the combat is pretty frustrating. Then again, I usually find combat where I can't use ranged weapons frustrating. Whatever the case, I played it for about 3 straight hours last night. It's a lot of fun.
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I'm playing LocoRoco right now.
I'm an amorphous blob eating rose-like objects to become a bigger amorphous blob so that I can pick up cute little parts to add to my Loco House. Also, black tentacle monsters want to eat me. My world is made of pastels and the only way I can transverse it is changing the landscape by tilting it up or down.
Is this what it's like to be high?
(the game is awesome, by the way)
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LocoRoco 1 and 2 are both in the PSP's top games easily. They're easy, but still have a lot of stuff to go back to find in each level and each of the LocoRocos plays slightly differently, gives you different music at certain points and they sing along with whatever the music is with their own voice. Break yourself up into tiny Rocos and just watch them sing along. It's mesmerizing.
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It's a lot of fun.
Yeah, my only complaint about it is it's unpolished (the combat can be iffy at times and the audio will always mess up when you go back in time) but it's still a rather awesome game. That's why I'm wondering if the new game is a better polished prince of persia game.
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Combat in the new PoP is largely very easy. Regular fights can actually be preempted entirely if you get to the place they spawn fast enough and attack it. They just instantly die. Battle controls are very simple. Each button does a different type of attack and stringing them together in ways that make sense gives you many different combos (like, two regular attacks followed by grabbing with the claw to throw them up, then press acrobatic button to jump after them and then maybe follow with either more acrobatic or use magic attack to blast them back down). If you screw up too much, Elika saves you and the boss gains some life back (eventually they will gain very nearly all of their life back).
Combat is largely a non-focus in the new PoP. The major focus is just to enjoy the overall beauty of what you're doing and the atmosphere of the whole thing.
Also, don't let people fool you by saying that Elika saving you is stupid. It's the exact same idea as a checkpoint system except it A. gives you no loading screen and B. actually explains within the game world's ideas exactly how the main character actually evades death, rather than just saying OOPS TRY AGAIN. It's a wonderful idea.
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FFVII on epsxe on my laptop connected to my CRT monitor on the right side, and running my desktop seperately on my LCD on the left. Life is good. :D
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I've always preferred pSX to epsxe.
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I've always preferred pSX to epsxe.
IIRC I've used both (I know I've used epsxe), and never really had issues with either.
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I started playing Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time yesterday, and I've already logged 9 hours. It's really fun. The controls took some getting used to, but now they feel pretty natural.
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So I just re-installed/updated TF2 on my PC here, because I've only otherwise played it on the 360 version of Orange box. Pretty fun, spent my time going between a Scout, Soldier, and mostly the demo man. I'm pretty good with the remote operated sticky bombs. At least on the map we were playing which was like a 4 stage [2 checkpoint] map in which you pushed a bomb in a mine cart to the other side of the map. I was on blue team, and we dominated every time, defense or offense. :d
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I'm about 20 hours into my Japanese Pokemon Platinum rom. I just got the 7th badge. My current party is: Sceptile, Lv. 43; Typhlosion, Lv. 48; Marowak, Lv. 38; Dragonair, Lv. 39; plus a Staravia and Bibarel I keep to harbor 6 HM moves. I got the ones I use in battle as eggs from a friend at the beginning of the game. I've had to consult a guide at GameFAQs a couple of times when I didn't know where to go (the game has been changed pretty noticably since D/P, a lot more than Yellow, Crystal, or Emerald were from their respective generations. They even reordered a few of the gyms). I think it's pretty good, but I'm not sure if I'd buy it whenever the translation finishes.
EDIT: Wow there are a lot of opportunities to fight high-level trainers. There are trainers who go around Pokemon Centers that you can fight daily who have Pokemon in progressively increasing levels up to the mid-50's, there's a cafe you get access to after doing some sidequest where the trainers (gym leaders and people you've teamed up with) all have Pokemon in the 60's, and after getting the National Dex, I read the Elite Four is between levels 65 and 78 (though I haven't gotten past the third since getting the National Dex). Right now my team, consisting of the 4 I mentioned above, are all at level 70.
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DP for Fallout 3. I just got my house in Megaton. I'm liking this game so far.
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Once you get that start storing "unnecessary" weapons in the locker, then collect all the guns you can along with any ammo. Sometimes you'll come across a good and have about 500 shots for it because of constant ammo hunting.
Also when you get to DC, get into the historical museum and look for the Lincoln repeater.
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So all this jazz about EVE makes me want to try it. The whole player owned empires and massive space fights seems awesome yet I hear it's amazingly slow, don't you play it spec?
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I recently got a PS3, and Fallout 3 with it. I haven't played it that much (fallout) because I ran into a few glitches which annoyed me. Especially the one last time I played, where I got stuck in a really small area between some shit in the subway, and couldn't get out at all. I ended up getting autosaved in it, so the only choice would be to start over again from Vault101. I haven't played since. I also got Resistance 2 which is pretty good, but I suck online lol. Waiting for Killzone 2.
Oh, has anyone played Deadly Creatures for the Wii? That game looks interesting, and got decent reviews. Unfortunately, it takes only about 10 hours or less to complete, and there isn't any multiplayer mode or anything :(.
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10 hours is pretty much standard for most action games these days I'm afraid. That's about how long Prince of Persia, Dead Space, and lots of other games have taken me.
I hopefully will get it from GameFly and I will hopefully update with what it's like. It looks cool though.
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I've had that glitch happen to me in FO3 a couple of times, you REALLY need to watch out where you jump around those railings. I'm sure their might be some way to glitch out of it or teleport, also you should save OFTEN.
Also what's the deal with the Wii, it's had nothing come out for a while and now Deadly Creatures, house of the dead and MadWorld come out.
Also how long is De Blob and Zack and Wiki, I might pick them up with a price drop.
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My Trackmania Nations Forever world rank moved up 200,000 places in 2 days. I should play less.
Also, I'm guessing you hadn't gotten to that point yet, but you could probably just use your PIP-Boy to go to a different area and then back.
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I've had that glitch happen to me in FO3 a couple of times, you REALLY need to watch out where you jump around those railings. I'm sure their might be some way to glitch out of it or teleport, also you should save OFTEN.
Also what's the deal with the Wii, it's had nothing come out for a while and now Deadly Creatures, house of the dead and MadWorld come out.
Also how long is De Blob and Zack and Wiki, I might pick them up with a price drop.
Zack & Wiki's been $20 for like 6 months now and it's worth $50 what's wrong with you.
Also, I don't know what you like but it's had plenty for me. Tales of Symphonia 2 was awesome, Wario Land was great, World of Goo is awesome, Sam & Max Season 1 is funny, and I continue to find games people have overlooked.
Do yourself a favor and get a gamefly subscription, stop looking at any form of gaming site for Wii stuff and just throw anything that looks cool in your queue. Don't even think about it. That's how I found out that One Piece Unlimited Adventure is awesome and a lengthy action-adventure game. That's how I learned how neat Endless Ocean can be. That's how I learned that Dokapon Kingdom is a very funny 4 player RPG (think Dragon Quest)/ board game (you spin a spinner to see how far you go) where you level, defeat boss monsters, take over towns and then try to outdo your friends, leading to amazing explosions of friendly anger. That's honestly how gamers should find games. Not with this preview/metacritic/hype bullshit.
Two of my most recently played 360 games are Last Remnant and Project Sylpheed. Both were reviewed poorly. Guess what? Both awesome.
And if you have gamefly, you don't have to care about game length. de Blob is of fair length though. 15 hours? Awesome game.
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Recently I've had to clean up my room so all of my games are in order and all of them are in this cd binder holder.
Because of this I've started to go back to old games that I haven't played in a long time. Among them are Warioworld--GCN, Digimon World 3--PSX (I really want world 2) Ape Escape--PSX.
First time I played MGS3's Snake vs. Monkey I was like, "OMG, it's Ape Escape!!!!!" I love ape escape....sadly I only have the first one though.
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Yeah, I haven't rented anything in a while and I'm always cautious about buying games. That and I never really buy into hype, but hell if it wasn't for any sort of hype I'd probably never look at Zack and Wiki. That and I'm always broke so unless a game really catches my attention I probably won't be buying it.
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Playing Eternal Sonata, FEAR 2, and will soon be getting Star Ocean on the 360.
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So all this jazz about EVE makes me want to try it. The whole player owned empires and massive space fights seems awesome yet I hear it's amazingly slow, don't you play it spec?
I used to play it. And yeah, the progression is amazingly slow in that game. Seriously, I spent several months in that game doing nothing but improving my mining to the point that I wasn't completely pathetic at it. You have to be dedicated as hell to become even remotely close to rich in that game.
Also, the penalty for death can prove to be extremely severe. It's bad enough to make you extremely weary about going out into the areas that are even remotely profitable.
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Yeah, despite the free time I have I doubt I'd be able to enjoy that.
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Indeed.
It's a really good, involved game despite that. There's a ton of depth and a lot of thought put into it, not to mention a financial model that is probably as intricate as it is in the real world. Also, being able to learn skills while you sleep is kind of nice (though the fact that you can only learn skills on a single character at a time is a wretched pain, and the reason that I only attempted to play using one style). There just wasn't enough of a reward for sinking time into it in my opinion.
I've been thinking of giving it a go again, though. We'll see how that goes.
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Ugh, now I'm in a dilemma. I'm thinking about either buying Dawn of War 2 or Madworld, and I don't exactly feel like busting my bank account to buy 2 games (sad, isn't it). Perhaps I should wait for a price drop, or I could just bust ass tearing these tree's out of my yard and see if I can't get any money from my old man.
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Just buy Mad World because it needs every sale it can get.
I'm playing Street Fighter 4. The GameStop I preordered it at got it in on Tuesday so I pretty much spent 7 hours on Tuesday unlocking everyone (except Seth because you have to beat the game with everyone else to get him and that's a lot of people) and got some online fighting time in. Loooots of really obviously new players. Almost everyone just picks Ryu or Ken though, which annoys the hell out of me. I'm sure Akuma will show up a lot more too. I pretty much just used Cammy the entire time because she's hot and awesome and next to none of the new people seem to understand that her spinning back knuckle can go through fireballs. And so can her super. And her ultra. And one of her EX specials. It's good to finally have a Cammy that can be on a competitive level.
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Just buy Mad World because it needs every sale it can get.
The same could be said of DoW 2, but I'm a huge sucker for beat em ups/action games.
Loooots of really obviously new players. Almost everyone just picks Ryu or Ken though, which annoys the hell out of me. I'm sure Akuma will show up a lot more too.
Hah, yeah that tends to happen with a lot of the "more complex" fighters. Hell, it's the reason I avoid Ky and Sol in GG, that and Faust is too much fun.
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Bamp, because I intend on buying Madworld, also I think I need to expand my taste game wise. I've hardly played any RPGs OR RTS games and I suppose I'm looking for recommendations. I already know to pick up Warcraft, Starcraft, Age of Empires, and Total war but I'm fairly lost when it comes to RPGs in general. I'm assuming the playstation and the SNES are good places to start then?
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I found a rom of Super Mario Land with my PSP's GB emulator, and I just played it through. It's short and really easy, even for me, but I think it was an alright game.
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Bamp, because I intend on buying Madworld, also I think I need to expand my taste game wise. I've hardly played any RPGs OR RTS games and I suppose I'm looking for recommendations. I already know to pick up Warcraft, Starcraft, Age of Empires, and Total war but I'm fairly lost when it comes to RPGs in general. I'm assuming the playstation and the SNES are good places to start then?
Start with Earthbound, Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 6 on the SNES to understand some of the major points in the genre (maybe Dragon Quest 4 DS as well to see the first story-based RPG as well as to get an understanding of how RPGs started out). Then move onto Final Fantasy 7 (more just to understand how it influenced the rest of the genre than anything), then try Final Fantasy Tactics (I would recommend the PSP version if at all possible as it's much MUCH better written), Xenogears, Star Ocean 2, Tales of Destiny, Grandia, Vagrant Story, Chrono Cross and honestly you could almost pick whatever you want from the PS1 era as long as it isn't Beyond the Beyond and you'll be all right.
When you hit PS2 stuff, if you don't somehow play Shadow Hearts: Covenant (you may want to play Shadow Hearts 1 first so as to get the full impact, though Covenant does a great job of using flashbacks), Digital Devil Saga, Xenosaga (you could just play 3 and read the encyclopedia that's in-game if you wanted but playing 1 and 2 would be better), Persona 3/4, and Final Fantasy XII (to see the evolution of the battle system), I will kill you. However, the PS2 has a TON of great RPGs as well so again, it's pretty hard to go wrong there.
You could seriously have something like a college course just on RPGs and how design changes, character ideas, usage of cliches, plots, writing, and all that have changed over the course of the genre and how certain games have impacted both the RPG genre itself and how they've impacted the rest of gaming.
Also, I played through and finished Star Ocean 4, which was great. Beat the first bonus dungeon and now I'm not really looking forward to the second one because it's ridiculous. I'm also playing MadWorld and it is unbelievably great. Motion controls work great and feel very satisfying, the story's pretty cool, the art style is fantastic, the soundtrack is amazing and it's just plain fun.
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Yeah, RPGs are a gigantic genre.
And if you want a fun, quick RPG with lots of sexual jukes, a light plot, and a slightly different battle system, try Ar Tonelico. Sure, it's not the greatest RPG ever made, but it's damn fun despite all the stuff that screams cheap production :P
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I've played DDS2 already, and I thought it was damn good. I suppose I should download Bauldors gate and finish/do something in Diablo 2.
Oh yeah, and I just watched my friend beat resident evil 5, not much of a spoiler but I laughed my ass off when Chris started punching that boulder, really now WHAT was that.
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Mirror's Edge. I like it. I'm playing on Easy because I usually don't care too much for/suck at combat. I like the platforming sections, and it was a lot of fun once I got fully used to the controls.
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http://tigsource.com/articles/2009/03/24/gdc-09-fez-trailer-ii
Such a shame it's going to take FOR EVER to be released. Then again this game looks SO HARD to navigate.
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Beat story mode in Mirror's Edge, now I'm doing the races.
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Got my FOOK mod for fallout 3 working and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. It places a lot of odd weapons in game but I'm enjoying them, already found a rifle off of a black talon scout that looks like a scar, holds 50 bullets and does decent damage. My only complaint (I don't care if half of the weapons are out of place, as long as they're fun) is that they added ammunition types and it can get confusing. I have a rifle that's semi auto that uses the same ammo from the Uzi and this other SMG, which makes no sense really.
but yeah, it's a great mod. Also I'm probably going to download this soon, for the emperor.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=4651
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http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=4651
Needs more WAUGH.
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Finished Mirrors Edge. It was alright.
Finished FEAR 2. So glad I played, lots of fun.
Finished Lost Odyssey. Didn't download the new dungeon, but the game was a lot of fun.
Almost finished Tales of Vesperia. I'm scared how bad my grade is gonna be... if its bad, I won't get any cool New Game+ extras.
Almost finished Skate 2. Kind of pointless game... really I'm just playing for a few more achievements now.
Started Little Big Planet. A long time ago. I haven't played it in ages...
Started Fallout 3. I say started because I'm only level 6, even though I've been at it for more than 15 hours.
Started GTA4. Actually its a re-start, I have it for the PS3... I don't know why I did that...
Started Star Ocean: The Last Hope. Mega fun. I haven't been this engrossed in a RPG for a long time. Gonna take my time and do my best to 100% in one go. (Like that will happen. 100% bosses requires you beat them 4 times each)
Started Street Fighter 4. Have 3 more to unlock. Gouken and Akuma are gonna suck... then its all about achievements. Maybe I'll play ya, NewF
Going to buy Metal Slug Anthology for the PS2 because our store got it in used. The shape its in... its like it was never opened. Awesome.
Going to by DJTroopers. Because I can, and I want it.
Its a good thing I get sweet discounts and can trade my games in. Otherwise I would be so poor.
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I just tried Trackmania DS. It was... bad. It's cool that you can use the DS's touch-screen for the level editor, and I like the idea of being able to play TM wherever, but there are two major problems I have with it. First, the resolution is so low that it's hard to look ahead at high speeds, which kind of make the game. Second, the DS doesn't have the hardware to handle a good 3D physics engine, so the engine used in TMDS is horribly broken. I've gone through the bottom of the level on a few occasions, and once, when landing on a platform, my rear wheels missed so my car was oriented vertically with the platform in the middle of it. Really, it's not a good game, and I'm disappointed because I really like the PC versions.
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Trackmania just doesn't seem like a game that would be too well suited for portables. Just like with the Burnout series on PSP, the action in Trackmania is too fast for such a small, low-resolution screen.
Also, not having any good analog control (and the touchscreen definitely doesn't count) would kind of hurt it, I'd imagine. I've done all of my Trackmania playing on an Xbox 360 control pad and as a result I'd probably jump off my roof if I had to switch to some sort of digital controller.
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Finished FEAR 2. So glad I played, lots of fun.
Really? I hear it was turned into a linear hallway shooter, which really turned me off to it considering how well the levels were made for the first game.
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Also, not having any good analog control (and the touchscreen definitely doesn't count) would kind of hurt it, I'd imagine. I've done all of my Trackmania playing on an Xbox 360 control pad and as a result I'd probably jump off my roof if I had to switch to some sort of digital controller.
I've never used analog control. Before I got my bluetooth dongle and started using my Wiimote (not the tilt sensors, just the buttons), I just used the keyboard. I'm so used to digital control I'd probably have trouble with B-level tracks on an analog controller.
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Finished Lost Odyssey. Didn't download the new dungeon, but the game was a lot of fun.
The extra dungeon gives you achievements just for running to the bottom of it and you can run away from every fight but the actual fights and the boss are extremely difficult and some of the enemies drop extremely nice items, like one that effectively gives you infinite MP and I believe one item that makes all spells take one turn to cast instead of like 4 for Divide, which you would need. I still haven't spent the time to beat the whole thing.
I finished Wild Arms XF the other day. Awesome game. Neat twists on SRPGs all over the place.
Decided to start up Wild Arms 3 again because I still know right where I am. The game came out in 2002. I'll finish it some day!
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Rented, played, and beat Resident Evil 5 with Armegeddon yesterday. For the most part it was a very good game. I had a few complaints about it, of course. A common gripe seems to be that you can't walk/run and shoot at the same time. I didn't really care about that so much, as it's pretty obvious that the characters take on a shooting stance when they do that. I can also see it preventing a lot of friendly fire incidents as well as keeping it from turning into Gears of Evil.
The major weapon-related gripe that I have is the knife. It's fucking useless. If anything, you should be able to run and knife people, not hope that you wind up within range. The two biggest problems with the knife are as follows:
1) Its effective range is extremely low. In every single case you are in your enemy's melee range before they are in yours.
2) It pushes enemies back slightly.
Really, after chapter 1 the only thing we used our knives for was busting open crates and urns (though after a while that became less viable thanks to some urns having snakes in them). It doesn't do enough damage to justify its staggering weaknesses. Simply allowing the player to walk and use the knife would have made it a much more useful weapon.
The real deal-breaker for both of us was the final boss. I absolutely hate being left with no clue and that boss did. We couldn't tell if we were doing damage, how much longer we had to go, what to do, nothing. We just kept dying and dying and dying (mostly because of the amount of damage, plus his ability to do combo attacks) before we finally got lucky and managed to kill him. The second final boss stage wasn't as bad, just annoying above all else. We were planning to get the game until we got to that stage, then we both came to the conclusion that neither one of us wanted to do that battle again.
The graphics are simply gorgeous. I was very impressed with the skin textures in particular, both on the enemies and the players. It's nice to see that games are starting to nail the intricate way that skin reflects light. The levels were very detailed and, for the most part, the framerate held steady. Even when it dropped it was hardly enough to have an impact on gameplay.
The controls were competent but not outstanding. Some actions proved to be finicky, but for the most part they were responsive and easy to work with.
One thing that the game is sorely lacking is some sort of dodge button. I don't even want to get into how many times I watched a projectile come toward me and was forced to just take an arrow to the face because there was no way to move aside fast enough.
I could probably say more, but I have to get some work done. Ta! :)
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1) Its effective range is extremely low. In every single case you are in your enemy's melee range before they are in yours.
2) It pushes enemies back slightly.
What? I'm fairly sure that only Chris's blade knocks people back, also they both stun any medium enemy with each slash and you can get off a good punch/kick on them or just force them against a wall and slash the hoe to death. That and it can't be more useless then the knife from the first RE game, you have to fight ONE zombie and he still could easily put you into the orange.
Also I'm LOVING Odd World: Exoddus, it basically improved on EVERYTHING the first game did and still kept what made the first game good. Not as hard as the first game, but it's still got a lot of challenge. That and it lets you posses more then just the sligs, which is the biggest improvement.
Also also, I HAVE to ask, is Madworld worth the money? I've been somewhat waiting for SC2 because I want a decently competitive RTS game, but I'd shell out the cash for this if it's worth it.
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It's short (3 hours on my first playthrough) but is very replayable due to Hard Mode being very hard (you get one life per stage), going for high scores, screwing around, and the extra challenges each stage contains. The visual style is even better in-motion, the soundtrack is amazing, the voices are strong, the plot is surprisingly good and the controls work without a hitch. It also has multiplayer but I've yet to try it.
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3 hours? Ugh, I'd rent it first but EVERY fucking rental place near me shut down, and you need to be a blockbuster member to rent there. I mean I like replaying games, but I've still yet to get past Bad Girl on hard in NMH, and that's only because I lost interest. I suppose I won't be getting Empire total war tho, because according to spoony it has a ton of bugs and he didn't even complain that much during his FO3 review.
Funny, I get 50 bucks and I already have no idea what I want.
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How is being a "member" of blockbuster hard? when I went to the newly opened blockbuster by my place for the first time, they just asked if I had a card, and because I didn't, they got some info, phone number, etc. and made it on the spot. My signature is in pink pen, lol.
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Meh, I probably should.
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What? I'm fairly sure that only Chris's blade knocks people back
Negatory. I was playing as Sheva and I constantly had to break out of combat stance.
also they both stun any medium enemy with each slash and you can get off a good punch/kick on them or just force them against a wall and slash the hoe to death.
That's useful if you're fighting a single enemy. That idea falls apart when you are surrounded.
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Playing Viking for the 360 again. Really good game for a hack and slash. Then again, it's about vikings and killing shit, how can you go wrong?
ps. they have mead (which is delicious)
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So it looks like the Source engine can't handle 1331 simultaneous explosions.
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is it me or is ninja gaiden 2 harder than ninja gaiden 1?
yeah, there's the regenerating health system, and save points which have a one time "full heal", but i see myself taking A LOT more damage than i recall in the first game. that and blue orbs don't drop nearly as often. enemies seem to be a lot more aggressive this time round.
and you figure after having two more iterations of the first game, they would have fixed the goddamn camera by now, but no. i love the first game to death, but im sitting at level 3 right now, enjoying it, but id almost rather pop in the first game. figure ill wait till i get the scythe, since from the demo, pretty fucking fun weapon to use. more of a fan of the "HUEG SLOE" weapons in ng1, like the unlabored flawlessness, shit kicked ass. also the lunar staff feels like the vigorian flails, with a little more range, kind of disappointing.
ahh well, i bought the game two months ago....figure id play it. im playing on the "acolyte" difficulty by the way. ng1 on hard was like "wait for an opening, strike....wait some more, strike again" sure it's harder, but that doesn't make it more exciting.
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NG2's annoying because every enemy can attack from any range. The second you start a combo oops you eat a shuriken. Try to block? Oops a guy grabs you and explodes. Walk up a staircase? Get ambushed at the top by enemies that are impossible to see or react to. I got to the werewolf stage before I just got fed up.
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kind of feels like what's happening.
i like spamming izuna drop (xyxxxy) and well, i find it hard to do when there's more than 3 enemies on screen, even then, i have to make sure both enemies attack combo finish roughly the time time.
still i guess double flying swallow makes up for it.
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So I've finally picked up a USB controller and decided to get around to playstation emulation and I'm literally upset I hadn't of done this sooner. So far I've snagged MMX4, MM8 (currently doing a no boss weakness run), megaman legends 2 and Castelvania SotN.
I intend to getting like 20 more games, so this should keep me occupied. Also I'd like to learn how to play SF third strike, but it seems harder to pick up than GG to me.
Edit: Okay, so far I'm liking Makoto in SF3 third strike, she seems to have decent damage and good zoning.
Then move onto Final Fantasy 7 (more just to understand how it influenced the rest of the genre than anything), then try Final Fantasy Tactics (I would recommend the PSP version if at all possible as it's much MUCH better written), Xenogears, Star Ocean 2, Tales of Destiny, Grandia, Vagrant Story, Chrono Cross and honestly you could almost pick whatever you want from the PS1 era as long as it isn't Beyond the Beyond and you'll be all right.
I'll be sure to check these out after I run through what I have and RE one or two, Silent Hill Medievil 2 and possibly more (I really have a huge list I want to download, and all of the ROMs have several links per download so it takes a whole to download each game and I have to be at my computer for it). Also how is Breath of Fire 3? My sister was rather into it and I still have a strategy guide.
Also I have a bad habit of downloading games I've already played and beaten. I still own MML2 and I've been putting most of my time into it.
D-D-D-DOUBLE EDIT: Holy shitting FUCK. WHY would they make a boss room THAT far away from a save room in a CASTLEVANIA GAME? I generally love metroidvania games, but when you put a FUCKING BOSS between 2 rooms full of hard to navigate gears, annoying flying enemies that do decent damage and TONS AND TONS OF MEDUSA HEADS it's enough to literally make me want to quit the game all together. Oh, and to even reach that area I had to figure out how to use a power I just recived and I had to do some damn near perfect jumps the first time right or else it would mess me up and I'd have to go back several rooms just to reset everything.
The only reason I beat it was because I'm using save states, and I found armor that let me gain health from walking, so I walked in a corner for several minuets until my health was full and THEN I went for the boss. OH YEAH, and when I fought the boss I could easily trap him in a corner and swipe him with my sword until he died with NO effort.
Ugh, it was just so many flaws all at once that I'm literally stunned. Oh yeah, that and the fact that they in no way tell you how to use spells.
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Get Einhander :D Oh and of course Metal Gear Solid
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I'm going to. In fact I have a huge list on PS one games to burn through.
Edit: I broke the game. I was playing Castlevania and I went to the shop to buy some shit, considering I had a decent amount of cash. I noticed I had enough to buy this armor that successfully gave me twice my current defense rating, so I dropped a considerable amount of cash for it. Now every time I get hit, even from a boss I JUST beat it does 1 damage and I have somewhere around 150ish health.
It's a DAMN good game, but it's riddled with flaws.
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I'm playing a lot of Sim City 4 lately, trying to get the technique down of making a successful city. :D
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Been playing Demigod for a few minutes every day. Haven't tried playing online yet.
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Been playing Demigod for a few minutes every day. Haven't tried playing online yet.
How is it? Also I've never played Dota so I have no clue how those comparisons work.
Also I downloaded MediEvil 2 and Klonoa. MediEvil 2 is a LOT more spastic than I ever remember it being, I basiccly run around at full speed smashing my hammer trying to kill people without getting hit.
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posting to post
STREET
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i have like 50 hours logged on so far, and i still suck. when im not raging at ken faggots im generally enjoying myself.
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It's pretty cool.
The basic idea is that you simply control your Demigod, killing the other team's minions and demigods, gaining gold and experience to upgrade your minion, buy items/equipment for them and buy upgrades for your team (stuff like giving the minions more armor, or strength, adding health/regen to your buildings, etc.)
I haven't tried going online yet, but it seems like a really fun multiplayer game. It seems to have a pretty limited singleplayer setup.
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Sounds like it would need some rather fancy micro management.
Also I'm not sure why, but the only games I seem to get angry at are realistic shooters. More so at CoD4 now a days, because odd hitboxes (if you duck under some things, you can easily hide 99% of your hitbox and player model while still being able to reliably shoot with an unblocked view) and the stupidly overpowered grenades, assault rifles and that fucking knife.
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Well, I haven't gotten online to see how other people play, but yeah, it probably does require some good micro, but you don't need to deal with some of the distracting things like managing buildings, or separate armies. You only control your demigod and occasionally summoned units (if your demigod can summon). And as for macro, you don't need to move your screen somewhere else to get a good picture of what's happening most of the time, because it has audio cues when your buildings get attacked, or a flag is taken, and the minimap gives you a good overall idea of where things are happening.
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chinatown wars should arrive on saturday, so i guess i can comment on that when it gets here. i wouldn't have gotten it (well, eventually, but the shelf life for the average ds game is LOW) till later, but after hearing how shitty it sold, i figure either get it now, or not get it later due to high cost (im fucking looking at you tetris ds.).
that, and ive heard tons of good things about it. didn't much take kindly to gta2, but from watching this game, they added enough to it to make it look accessible to a gamer such as myself.
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i guess this is more relevant.
decided instead of replaying 8, or 9....id beat one i didn't beat before.
going for final fantasy x-2. ive started this game on three seperate occasions, and couldn't seem to get past the 15-20 hour mark. i think this time is different, due to mainly quitting trying to max out jobs (yeah....it isn't needed, but im obsessive compulsive sometimes). then i discovered this.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/562386/27261
99ap per battle, and i don't have to do anything? fuck yes. i like the game, but like the ap thing put me off. now i should be able to make it through (yes, even through all of the terrible cutscenes....though i DO like the opening theme song...)
can't really be too embarrassed, because i also like this song
yeah bitches
but uhh, the last time i tried, i was burned out on final fantasy. like, i beat 7, 9, and 10 within two weeks of eachother. attempted 12 again, failed, as well as x-2. the summer following that (8 months or so later) i started and beat 5....but then i guess that burned me out on trying 6 (ff anthology).
so yeah, im going to attempt 12 if i manage to finish this one. only im not deleting my save and starting from the beginning again. ill just relearn everything from where i was, it's not like i like the story or anything in that game(same goes with x-2...), everything is super bland, but i mean it doesn't detract from the "hey levelan, hey new abilities, hey new spells and shit" which i enjoy. but uhh, started x-2 from scratch, not like it will take long to get back to where i was.
i have some kind of compulsion to beat all of the final fantasy games....im on the hook on trying 2 (i HATE the leveling system in that game) but if it's all i have left in the end, i may as well go for it.
so far im at...
1
5
7
8
9
10
tactics, though like, i don't mean spinoffs, and i don't like the gba tactics. just felt like adding it.
and one last thing, i have my controller set up around a folded up pair of jeans and some socks, to make a level base for my tv remote to rest on the x button. so like basically, with what i am doing right now. get the fight setup to have one melee attacker. i have white mage, dancer, and warrior. white mage casts prayer (no mp cost, heals everybody a small amount), dancer casts darkness dance (no mp cost, darkness on enemy), and warrior casts sentinel (too lazy to look up what it does...its a self buff i know that). then like walk away and come back when 20-30 minutes have elapsed (or when you know you are nearing 99ap gained...currently i don't have much being in chapter 1, but i figure ill get those 3 mostly done on each character before i move on)
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So I downloaded Twisted Metal 2 and Vigilante-8 2 and I must say, the difference between the two is vast. I'm also constantly getting my ass kicked in Einhander. I just can't play shoot em ups.
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bionic commando multiplayer demo is out
FUCKING GET IT ITS FUCKING AWESOME
and i got chinatown wars, it's pretty good thus far.
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yeah, coming from a guy who didn't like gta games before 3, i do enjoy chinatown wars. haven't played much (like, i got to the drug dealing "tutorial mission") but im digging what it has to offer. i mean, it's a grand theft auto game, with a top down view, yep, that's what it is, and i like it. if you don't like gta 3...vice city...san andreas...4, you won't like this game. if you did, you should enjoy it.
buy it while the price is reasonable, game didn't sell well so when the supply goes down, im going to assume the price will go up.
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Poast, but I've gotten Tomba 2 to work and I've downloaded several other games. I'm not sure how many I'll beat but so far I'm trying to get into Final Fantasy Tactics, Front Mission 3 (somewhat), Strider 2 if I can get it to work, Tomba 2, and the Misadventures of Tron Bonne.
Also someone mentioned to me that I should download Robopit and I shit a brick, I used to play the game constantly as a kid and I missed it bad. It's basically a fairly simple 3D robot fighting game but it has a TON of weapons and a ton of customization.
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Poast, but I've gotten Tomba 2 to work
PLAY IT PLAY IT PLAY IT PLAY IT PLAY IT PLAY IT PLAY IT PLAY IT PLAY IT PLAY IT
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Wait, are you playing Front Mission 3 on PSP or on PSX? Because on PSP, I believe it has a major problem where the game crashes whenever you break a wanzer's legs. It'll freeze like 80% of the time.
Which is really confusing because the Japanese have it in their PSN Store and apparently it works just fine there even though it's just played via emulator just like any other ripped eboot. Brave Fencer Musashi's the same.
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I will after I beat some of the other games I have. Also speaking of which I beat Castlevania SotN. Damn good game, but it was rather short and can be rather easy if you buy the diamond armor.
I suppose it's time to get to work on Megaman Legends 2.
I just got the Crusher, which is supposedly the strongest weapon in the game.
Wait, are you playing Front Mission 3 on PSP or on PSX?
PSX. How is the game anyways?
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Did you beat SoTN or did you finish it? I remember it took quite a while to fill out the map for both castles, get all the drops (go double Rings of Varda and Crissaegrims) and get every ending.
Front Mission 3 is an amazing game. The plot is very deep and interesting and depending on a choice early on, gives you two completely different story paths. I still have my PSX save with 140 hours on it.
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i should be working on final fantasy x-2....
but i got the fallout broken steel dlc, so basically gave me an excuse to play the game again and do missions i haven't done before. higher level cap = more incentive to keep on truckin.
then uhh, banjo-tooie. i got banjo-kazooie a while back on xbla, and well, the port is awesome, and in my opinion, better than the n64 game, kind of had to pick this one up. from what ive played thus far (100% the first level, just started the second) it's basically the same, a superb port of a fantastic n64 game. kind of weird going into tooie, since i remembered kazooie a lot more. it's almost as if im playing through the game for the first time all over again, since the last time i played this thing was back...sometime in 2001 (i recall getting it a few weeks after it came out, and i still have the cart).
i remembered a few things about the game, but jesus, i wish i forgot games more often, it's nice going at this thing almost blind. i could like...try more nuts and bolts after i beat this game, but from what ive played of it...im not a fan. i mean, if i try, i could probably get into it, but im really not a big fan of the trial and error gameplay. "enter mission, fail, figure out how to best beat the mission, use more trial and error making a machine to beat said mission...go into mission, beat it....do 100+ more times..." i only bought the thing since im a big banjo fan, and it was $25.00, new. i mean, the graphics are great, the cutscenes are surprisingly damn good, not to mention legitimately entertaining....i just wish i could say the same for the gameplay, maby a few more hours sunk into the game will change my mind. but that, that is for another day. also before i end this post, jollyjack (http://jollyjack.deviantart.com/) did the art for the title screen of klungo saves the world (an arcade game in the game that you can play) found that interesting.
anywho, both games still hold up to this day (for me anyway, been literally since i played tooie on the n64 since ive last visited the genre scratch that, i forgot about sunshine, an overlooked awesome game [friggin sm64 is a great game, but fuck, people act like it's the best of it's genre, though based on OPINION i guess my statement is void])
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I only beat SotN, I'm not much of a 100% type of guy but I'll probably go back to it.
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Super Mario Galaxy again. Love this game.
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Almost finished Twilight Princess and also beating (once-again) RE:Remake for GC.
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I suppose I'll continue FM3. As of now I've been addicted to Metal Gear Solid. I've never played the original (played Twin Snakes, but that's fairly different) and I'm liking it a lot. It's a shame I never got onto the elevator during the demo. So far the Ocelot fight was somewhat hard and the tank fight was laughably easy, and I just noticed the game has some sort of weird RPG elements in it. When I win a boss fight I get to carry more gear and I get a bit more health.
Also Vlad was right, Tomba 2 is a lot of fun when you get used to it. Not even sure what the point of AP is, but I'm still having a shit ton of fun with the game.
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I'm playin' through Cryostatsis now, I'm liking it so far. It's kind of slow and clunky, it reminds me of Penumbra in that aspect, but I like the combat (It's mostly melee, at least at this point in the game, I'm only a few hours in), using the fire axe is hideously satisfying. Plus the setting is pretty inventive.
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Also Vlad was right, Tomba 2 is a lot of fun when you get used to it. Not even sure what the point of AP is, but I'm still having a shit ton of fun with the game.
there are certain chests that require "x amount of ap" to open. iirc (yeah..fucking forgot, beat the game a second time 9ish months ago) some/all of them are items you need for the golden tower (which either use a FAQ or figure out yourself, it gives you an item that basically breaks the game).
anywho, go for the 100%, there ain't any other way to beat the game.
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I'd be playing a lot more if I had a USB gamepad of some sort :/ I really wish I could wire up my own PS2 controller to USB converter.
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street fighter 2, street fighter 2...and...i guess im attempting to learn civilization 4, also going to check out revolutions for the 360(yay demo...and later FRIEND WHO OWNS GAME). since it's only $30.00 i may get it later depending on what i think of it.
also fuck forced touch screen controls. im on a VERY (ie i haven't played much more than an hour) early mission in chinatown wars, and like, the molotov cocktail mission, retarded.
you would think throwing a molotov would be easy, but no. im left handed for pencil stuff (so the stylus is in my left hand) and like, i have to basically touch the touchscreen icon of a molotov...then flick it in the direction i want it to go. when i do this, i can't move...why? because my fucking hand is using the stylus, which until then, i have to keep in my mouth for quick access.
seriously rockstar? i don't have three hands, don't build a game that requires three hands.
ANYWHO t hawk is pretty fun to play as in that sf2, and i found the best zangief player ive ever seen save for pony (the best super turbo zangief player). when it was my turn to fight the man...(mind you, i was asking him to super in the party chat) DOUBLE SUPER (one for each round....because like, when you get supered by zangief or t hawk, YOU DIE) and bam, im out. the kid has his timings down, and that motivates me to get better, since well my main is mister gief, and i can't exactly tic spd like a pro like he can (i mean, if you take a jab...you better do a reversal right there because you going to be upside down in the air spinning in 360's if you don't). gotta keep on playing brah.
$15 on that xbla, get it, and play me.
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GIEF GIEF GIEF GIEF
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start the video at 4:42
JESUS HAWK WAY TO JUST WIN
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Honestly, that second video pretty much ruined Turbo for me. That was completely retarded. Like, jesus CHRIST you just blockstunned into a piledriver do you even understand how retarded that is. He can piledriver from literally more than an entire character distance. He can reversal out of a throw and into a piledriver! And it doesn't help that Zangief's range on some of his normals looks to be about twice the distance his foot actually goes.
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i hope you aren't implying that gief is an easy character to use. because umm, people barely pick him for a reason, he's not.
it's not like i can reversal throw whenever i want, or hell, even tic spd for the matter. though i mean, yeah, people hate good gief players. (as of which i am not)
(unless you play cammy in ST, because well...you have to be hella good to compete with her)
anywho, surprising you didn't mention hawk. since he kind of did a REVERSAL SUPER. and from the hawk v ryu in that video, he does a tic into super...and it looks like it has a bit more range than giefs super (which basically requires you to be kissing the opponent)
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fuck good dhalsim players
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fuck good dhalsim players
Good ranged fighters are basically ass holes. I can see how someone might not like a grappler, because they have to pressure instead of hitting and moving like a striker, but a good ranged character will make it so you don't even have a chance to get near them and it can be absolutely rage inducing.
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i hope you aren't implying that gief is an easy character to use. because umm, people barely pick him for a reason, he's not.
it's not like i can reversal throw whenever i want, or hell, even tic spd for the matter. though i mean, yeah, people hate good gief players. (as of which i am not)
(unless you play cammy in ST, because well...you have to be hella good to compete with her)
anywho, surprising you didn't mention hawk. since he kind of did a REVERSAL SUPER. and from the hawk v ryu in that video, he does a tic into super...and it looks like it has a bit more range than giefs super (which basically requires you to be kissing the opponent)
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fuck good dhalsim players
T. Hawk was just as retarded.
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Good ranged fighters are basically ass holes. I can see how someone might not like a grappler, because they have to pressure instead of hitting and moving like a striker, but a good ranged character will make it so you don't even have a chance to get near them and it can be absolutely rage inducing.
especially as a grappler. it's like...if dhalsim makes no mistakes, i can't win, period.
AT THE SAME TIME, if i play perfectly (like i can do that) when i get up close to him, i basically win.
but yeah, i only really play grapplers and charge characters. my worst characters are all motion characters.
and eggman, i would say something, but you play as cammy, so like every non cammy character gives her a hard time.
also what rages me more than a good dhalsim, is any shoto. LOL DRAGON PUNCH OUT OF ANYTHING
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Cammy is the lowest tier character in Turbo if I remember right so yeah, I have a tough enough time playing people just normally, without being able to be spd'd after I throw out a cannon spike.
I've begun to do better in SF4 now that there's no pressure to win. Won 10 tournaments in CMode the other day. 4 of them in a row. Got halfway to G3-A.
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still like, i got my ass handed to me today several times by cammy. it's not like the average gief (maby me, unless im subpar) can throw out the spd at the perfect time, every time, without fucking up the motion and jumping...to get punished for jumping.
but uhh, haven't played much of 4, may not play it too much till they release the thing like they have in hdremix. you know, two people are fighting, while 2-4 people are watching, loser goes to the end of the line, next up gets to fight the winner. really entertaining, especially when people have mics, even if im getting dominated, im having a good time. and really, having a good time with a few bros while playing the fightan is how i get most of my enjoyment out of the game.
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Been playing TF2 still, soo much fun :).
Also, Tomb Raider Anniversary (PC).
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Add me on steam dewd.
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civilization 4 was as addicting as i have heard. also naming cities into funny names is good. me and a friend are doing a hotseat 2v1 computer (our first game...trying to learn this complex motherfucker) and like out of fucking nowhere, like 8 hours flew by.
his capital city is called bob ross, mine is prince albert. also also because we are awesomely immature, the best town name on the map currently is DYKE FIGHT, i can't seem to stop laughing at that name. also we have towns connected to the ocean called "marco" and "polo".
anyway like, feels good to get both of our civilizations connected by roads, and me converting all of his people to confucianism (gives happieness, his capital needed some).
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Add me on steam dewd.
I tried searching for you but coudln't find you :( Link to your steam community page maybe?
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Try searching for Crunkman5000 (I'm a master of shit names).
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There's a reason I love this name so much. It's completely unique. I've never tried signing up for something and had to chose a new name.
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I'm thinking of using Mr.Doc.Alot, but I already have EVERYTHING I do under my current name.
Also I got my ePSXe to work and it looks like it will fix the glitches PSX couldn't. Hopefully Tomba 2 and Parasite Eve 2 are playable now.
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Try searching for Crunkman5000 (I'm a master of shit names).
added :)
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(http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/3833/incangenocide.png)
decided to play a single player game of civ4 rather than do co op hotspot games for once. settler difficulty, of course, as im fucking new, and this game is fucking complex.
having a good time, started out peaceful (i intend to be peaceful, for the most part, not a fan of KILL EVERYTHING OLOL, every game does that, it's boring), open boarders and whatnot, but this incan guy, i hated him. spain wanted me to cancel the open boarders thing i had with him, and since spain was out of my hair, and incans was in my hair, i did that, and one uped it by going to war as well. i got the americans to join me in the war...but they didn't as much throw one single unit at them as my macemen and musketmen went to town.
tldr, incans had land i wanted, i took it. on the minimap you see theres some teal that is seperate from the other teal, that spot was basically where the incans used to be. MWAHAHAHAHAhahaaaaaaasfasfasf well we will see where the game goes. being my first game, i may go against my original intentions and kill everybody, but with this new land, i shouldn't feel too cramped anymore. basically before i had my two main cities on the left there, with a smaller city to the south with ocean access....kind of connected by roads but not completely by culture (actually the incans blocked susa from the other two on the top right) since i was greedy and wanted both silver nodes so they couldn't get them.
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im going to war with people at 1950. reason, id rather start using some of these cool units i built (BATTLESHIPS BITCH) before the game ends (2050) so if i win by a time victory (which will happen if i don't win by other means) at least i have fucked around with some of the stuff i got. as you see, fission is up there. that allows me to research the manhatten project....meaning nukes. wonder if i can get them up and running in 150 years, if not, ohh well, i should have tanks up and running soon.
(http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/276/persiansruletheworld.png) (http://img268.imageshack.us/my.php?image=persiansruletheworld.png)
(http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/persiansruletheworld.png/1/w0.png) (http://g.imageshack.us/img268/persiansruletheworld.png/1/)
and the upper left towns used to be romes....but flipped over because my culture kicked ass and basically those towns revolted against rome and became mine. which is pretty fucking sweet, no war required to take some towns for yourself.
anywho, ill resume the game after i get home from work tomorrow.
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Anybody who wants someone to play with on XBLA should add me. I'm always looking for people to play with. My Gamertag is simply Kraezymann.
I am going to warn you now, I am horrible at pretty much everything I play. So if your looking for some easy wins, just add me ;)
As for what I'm playing, my current library is (in no particular order):
- Resident Evil 5 (I haven't actually played more than a couple minutes of it. This is my first time playing a Res. Evil game, I've just watched my girlfriend play through the others, so I hardly understand it all lol)
- Fallout 3
- Call of Duty 4 (I just got this, so I have 0 multiplayer experience)
- Street Fighter 4 (I have not played online once yet)
- Star Ocean: TLH
- Ninja Gaiden 2
- Tales of Vesperia (STILL NOT DONE YET FUCK, and when I play I get the feeling that its kind of a chore to keep going, so I haven't played it for a while... it drains me for some reason)
So, ya'll have to add me to Live. I want to get my ass beaten by someone different for a change.
PS add me
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looks like i should win some street fighter 4 matches for once
adding
tried doing war on an alt save...wasn't as satasfying on this current game, so i went back to before i started the war, and ended the game differently. hauled ass and did the space race victory. game ended at the year 1981, me creating the internet and whatnot before people are even driving tanks.
(http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/3744/vladwins.png)
the game took me 10 hours and 23 minutes to complete, and it added me to the hall of fame, which i guess shows you your victories you have had, which is a neat feature. excuse the fuck huge images, i just can't seem to like linking them, even when my resolution is probably bigger than the monitor some of you guys use (22 inch).
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yeah, your screen is definitely bigger than mine, by more than double :P my screen is only 10.1" widescreen, bloody netbooks.
also, bought UT3 and Bioshock for the 360 ($29.83 canadian each), currently alternating between the 2
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Bioshock is amazing. You will enjoy it, I'm sure. I actually just re-picked it up to play it through again to get some achievements.
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Bioshock scared the piss out of me at certain points when i first tried to play thru it, cause I didn't know what the hell the game was gonna be about. I still had no idea till this one scene, you'll understand what I mean. BRIX WILL BE SHAT.
When you see it, you'll shit brix.
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so i 100% on banjo kazooie, got the two secret eggs and key. apparently there's a thing in tooie to hatch those eggs (and the secret eggs you find in tooie...which im not that far yet), hatched one and it gave me a banjo tooie gamerpic, hatched the other and it gave me a banjo kazooie theme for my dashboard, pretty kickass. been meaning to replace my mass effect N7 gamerpic.
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I'm in some predicament. I want to play a lot of current gen games, hell games in general, but I'm flat broke and have a super slow connection and every time I have the time to play a game I seem to jump onto TF2/Street fighter/Guilty gear. I'll probably force myself to finish MGS and Mega Man Legends 2 and then hopefully I'll figure out a way to boost my connection/steal a connection.
Also yeah, MGS for the playstation was way harder then the gamecube remake. God damned Hind D fight took me like 5 tries because I wasted ALL my rations in the staircase.
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i guess WoW, and street fighter 2 hdremix.
fuckin was playing against a godly t hawk player, and well, my zangief can't compete with him, so i played dee jay. he plays a good zangief as well, and i felt awesome when i managed to beat his gief with my dj (im not so good against gief with dj). but fuck, it's embarrassing when he picks cammy and beats me 3 to 1. i mean, cammy is like the dan of sf2.
but uhh i should work on my dee jay game more, he's a damn fun character to play, and well, you never have instances where "the opponent is running away, and he's good at it, you basically can't catch him the entire round and barely as much hit him" which are part of the reason why i question having zangief as my main, i love him, but im not good enough to keep him as a main...unless i can get tic throws down...like that will happen.
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yeah dude, dee jay is my new sf2 main. he's just too damn fun to play, gief will be my alt main.
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I really wanted to play Castelvania Aria of Sorrow so I downloaded a GBA emulator and now I feel a bit overwhelmed at the games I should get. Really, I have no idea why I stopped hand held gaming, I guess I just stopped gaming in public and I never go on vacations with the folks.
Oh yeah, and I'm working on my gaming motivation. So far I'm at the final boss on Mega Man legends 2 and I'm right on the ass end of Metal gear solid. Also holy SHIT the final moss of MML2 is a lot harder then I remember it being. On it's second form it has a lazer that does something over half of my health and I have the best armor in the game. Maybe I should use a different secondary gun, because I need to be at a standstill to use the one I currently have and you get few opportunities to do so. Also playing this reminded at how much of a disappointment the final boss in Ocarina of Time was.
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Okay, beat Metal Gear Solid this morning. The game was surprisingly harder then the twin snakes at the end, mostly because the missiles REX fires are damn near impossible to dodge unless you have chaff up.
Oh, and I want some recommendable Gameboy advanced games. So far I have Castlevania Aria of sorrow and Harmony of Dissonance, Boktai 2, Mega Man and Bass, and Yoshi's Island. Also I'm at a loss as how to get solar power for Boktai 2.
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I got Infamous for PS3 the other day. Really fun game. Yesterday, I completed the story mode at Infamous karma. With my suspension from WoW, I'll have plenty of time to play through again and complete it at Heroic karma, and on hard difficulty to get that trophy too. I wonder how much differently the story will play out.
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http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-patch-dawn-of-war/51862
showing off the new patch in DoWII
i played the beta, and while it is fun, it further reminded me that i suck at rts games. still, buying the game is always on my mind every time i get to the store.
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Okay, beat Metal Gear Solid this morning. The game was surprisingly harder then the twin snakes at the end, mostly because the missiles REX fires are damn near impossible to dodge unless you have chaff up.
Oh, and I want some recommendable Gameboy advanced games. So far I have Castlevania Aria of sorrow and Harmony of Dissonance, Boktai 2, Mega Man and Bass, and Yoshi's Island. Also I'm at a loss as how to get solar power for Boktai 2.
Ninja Five-O, Racing Gears Advance, Zelda: Minish Cap, Mother 3 (get the fan translation and play this ASAP seriously one of the best games in recent years), Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Metroid Zero Mission, Drill Dozer, Golden Sun 1 and 2, Scurge: Hive (it's like Metroid with an isometric view), Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis (this might really test your patience as it's very difficult), Wario Land 4, Advance Wars, any Kirby game, lots and lots of others.
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I just got Mother 3 and I'm already stuck on this pair of rockin' ghosts as Duster. Also are the Fire Emblem games or the advanced wars games any good?
Also Jesus Christ, Mother 3's opening is amazingly depressing.
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I've been meaning to play Mother 3. Earthbound was absolutely amazing.
Also, I've played both Advance Wars and Fire Emblem games, and yes, they are quite good.
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The GBA Fire Emblems might be better than the others actually. They have more branching paths for advanced classes and the animation is amazing.
Mother 3 is something that, at its core, is very simple. It has two overall lessons (which I won't talk about for fear of spoiling things), and they're presented in such a way that it's both comical and unbelievably tragic. It's real storytelling.
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Mother 3 is REALLY starting to piss me off. I'm only at the part were you play as Duster alone in the castle, but the enemies are fucking brutal as far as the choir ghost goes. I have something like 120 health and one of his good hits does something like 50 damage, and I only have 2 pieces of beef jerky and a few weaker healing items (all under 60 HP regen). I thought Digital Devil Saga was supposed to be a hard RPG (or maybe that was just Nocturne), but this is just "LOL BETTER NOT GET HIT FAGGOT".
Also what's the deal with the health items? You use them, then die, and they don't come back.
Disregard all of that, I just realized you could stack the scary mask and tickle stick effects.
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Are you using the combo system correctly? Because if not (or if you're just playing emulator and it doesn't work correctly), you're missing out on like half of your damage.
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Are you using the combo system correctly? Because if not (or if you're just playing emulator and it doesn't work correctly), you're missing out on like half of your damage.
I can't get it working consistently no. Hell, I'm lucky if I get a 2 hit combo.
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holy shit, STHD's e honda is so fun to use.
jab headbutt through fireballs gets around that problem, and well, goddamn.
fought a zangief, and well, imo, zangief is fucked in this matchup. as a gief player, and after destroying some giefs with honda...
but uhh, headbutt -> butt stomp -> OCHIO THROW is fucking awesome if only the ochio throw was the same command as in this game, maby id use him in 4.
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Prototype = FUCKING WIN! Games amazing. 'Nuff said.
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I heard it's a bit easy and repetitive, but it looks like a step in the right direction as far as sand box games go. Plus how can you resist drop kicking a helicopter down.
Also the fight against Death in Castlevania Aria of sorrow is fucking HARD. I'm tempted to burn through all my health items, but I really don't want to. Guess it's time to GRIND.
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Prototype is only repetitive if you're really dumb and complain about having a bajillion different powers, but you only use Blade. It's all on the player. There are SO MANY ways to kill things in that game, it's ridiculous. It's also not what I'd call "a bit easy." It's pretty much right where it should be on difficulty.
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I figured something like that would come into play, but how are the combo's per weapon?
Also disregard what I said about death, I bought a few potions from the shop and used them to just plow through his final part. His soul power is amazing, it really helped me destroy the next guy (Legion).
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It's not really about combos per weapon. It's more about linking the powers together to do stuff. Say, turning on Musclemass to pick up a car and then charge throw to whip it at a charging hunter and then turning to Blade and jumping into the air to come crashing down and cut it in half. All of the powers have fairly rudimentary combos, which could be why it would get repetitive for dumb people if they just try to button mash to the win.
A good example of a cool thing you can do is pick up a truck, throw it at a military base, the base then attacks you, you absorb the nearby rocket launcher guy, gain his rocket launcher and then use it to shoot out the APC's coming at you. Then a helicopter team shows up so you run up the side of a building, switch to Whipfist and then leap off the building and use long range grab to pull yourself to the helicopter, take it over and then rain missiles down on everything in the area. If you get knocked out of the sky, you jump out, target say, the tank that shot the helicopter, switch to the Gauntlet-type ability (can't remember, you just get huge arm things) and do a goddamn ELBOW DROP from 20 stories up.
It's a lot like Assassin's Creed like that actually. People complained hurrrr it's repetitive, but it's only repetitive if you yourself CHOOSE to do everything and CHOOSE to only do counters during fights. There are plenty of options available at all times.
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the Gauntlet-type ability (can't remember, you just get huge arm things) and do a goddamn ELBOW DROP from 20 stories up.
Hammerfist. Yeah, one of my favorites, cause its powerful and its got a great aoe effect.
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Good to know, I'll definitely try to check it out.
Also I just beat Castlevania Aria of Sorrow, damn good game. The final boss was a push over, but it was still fun.
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I just got Prototype<3. AMAZING game. I've only completed like 2 missions and I'm loving it.
I finished Red Faction Guerrilla too. Also amazing. LOTS OF BLOWING SHIT UP.
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looking at blazblue, and looking at tager.
interesting, he seems to be like a mix of scorpion, and zangief. and his super move or whatever basically hurts a lot(as it fucking should, big slow dudes need DA POWA). going to have to see if the video place 'round ere has it for a rent. won't bother though till my TOURNAMENT EDITION FIGHT STICK comes in, shipped yesterday, so yeah, CANT WAIT BITCHES!
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won't bother though till my TOURNAMENT EDITION FIGHT STICK comes in, shipped yesterday, so yeah, CANT WAIT BITCHES!
Nice stuff.
Also, I played a few round of the game today, and I must say it's definitely not just a new Guilty Gear game. It feels a lot harder to move quickly, but it's definitely possible. Also that gray hair and the giant sword seems rather awesome. His special button is a counter throw type deal, so you could easily deal with anyone who got past his slow defenses. The one thing that bothers me is that there's only 3 attack buttons, but they still seem to have a lot of moves with them.
Also I was completely bummed because I thought it would take forever for me to even touch this game, and then I end up doing so on release day.
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yeah, i read about the 3 button thing, it's going to take a while to get used to that since really the only 2d fightans ive played (i say that as in like played played, like against other people, for hours and hours. i have cvs on the ps1 and well, frankly, i can't play 2d fighters without a stick) are the street fightans, 6 button games.
but uhh, this video.
it's like tager gets his ass kicked, then hes all "GET OVER HERE" and the opponent dies. i like that, a lot.
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Speaking of Tager and Hakumen. Mike Z's Tager is how everyone should learn Tager.
I use Arakune, which is crazy because I never use characters that weird. I've done fairly well though. I'm around even on win/loss
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it's like tager gets his ass kicked, then hes all "GET OVER HERE" and the opponent dies. i like that, a lot.
Yeah, he seems a bit more complicated then what I've seen. Really, when he gets stuck in a blocked combo string he seems so useless. Either way, it's going to take a while to see where he fits in on a tier list (yeah I know, tiers are for tards).
I use Arakune, which is crazy because I never use characters that weird. I've done fairly well though. I'm around even on win/loss
He seems rather awkward, so good luck with that. Definitely not a pick up and play character.
Oh yeah, and GORILLA FATE IS TURNING, REBEL ONE, ACT-CHUNG.
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arakune looks like a mashup of dhalsim and twelve
also monster hunter freedom unite is fucking awesome
playing with a friend of mine, he's heavy bowgun, i'm lance, we own low level shit up nigga!
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Arakune's...a bit different from that. He can play very defensively but cursing people sets up a TON of combos and he's extremely fast on aerial approach with a massive mixup game.
I'm 36-23 overall so far so I'm pretty happy. Rank 20. I've beaten a few level 30's but I still lose to super scrubby Jins that just do Ride the Icening and his rapid slash attack and that makes me sad. It's like those two attacks move faster than nearly everything and have Sagat-like priority.
As for tiers, Tager is currently low with Hakumen and Carl (Carl's lowest I think) but even with a super favorable matchup (Arakune vs Tager for example), one mistake can still cost you half of your life. If an Arakune gets Tager in the corner it's over though. He's too big and slow to get out of the corner trap.
I really wish there was an easy way to post replays online or something, like the game having its own youtube type thing like Skate does. I have a few really good matches I'd love to show people (one being a strong example of setting up the corner trap in an actual match, which leads to a double perfect and another with some cool air combos and defensive play).
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Arakune's...a bit different from that. He can play very defensively but cursing people sets up a TON of combos and he's extremely fast on aerial approach with a massive mixup game.
I'm 36-23 overall so far so I'm pretty happy. Rank 20. I've beaten a few level 30's but I still lose to super scrubby Jins that just do Ride the Icening and his rapid slash attack and that makes me sad. It's like those two attacks move faster than nearly everything and have Sagat-like priority.
heh, that's still impressive. Really, I hate fighting games now. I never beat a game that has a story and I never get good at fighting games, it makes me sad.
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finding people around your skill level and playing them a lot = fun
so i got my TE stick and i decided to play some championship mode because well, the only game place around here WALMART doesn't carry blazblue.
i got excited at first, but it ended up turning to the standard roster of matches.
fuerte
gen
gen
vega
im pretty pumped, fighting people i barely ever see untill
akuma
akuma
akuma
akuma
ryu
i guess ill call it a day
also, if you set down the controller, people tend to instead of kill you quick, spam taunt or do nothing until you do. so if you are in a match you do not feel like fighting (like ANOTHER FUCKING AKUMA QUIT RUNNING AWAY FAGOT GOD YOU ARE ANNOYING TO FIGHT) dash towards them, most of them will attack you just for that. some people get smart and continue to do nothing, so throwing them over and over kind of forces them to kill you.
the TE stick however, is badass, and while it's taking me some getting used to (you know, like the only other stick ive used was the fighting stick ex2) im really enjoying the feel of the buttons/stick. thing's built like a tank, and feels very well made. also it has a cord storage thing in it so if you are taking it over somewhere, you can just tuck the usb cord inside the stick itself so it isn't in the way during transport. which the door for that has a notch for the cord to go through while it's in use, small things but very nice to have.
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i got blazblue at the gamestop in the next town.
thus far.
what the fuck is going on? why are people breaking my throws? juggling can suck my ass.
this is from single player arcade, and i thought i was compitent at these games, i can't even beat v13 with tager(OOLOLOLOL AKUMA FROM SF4 BUT WITH 10x MORE CRAP TO THROW AT YOU OLOOLL). most of the time it seems shit comes out randomly, like my 360 throw, it says use A or B, but i can somehow execute it with C as well.
please explain this game, thus far it just seems like a random mishmash of crap on the screen with no coherence to what buttons i push whatsoever.
maby tager is a bad choice, it shouldn't, because i consider myself pretty competent with grapplers, but apparently not.
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ill just play him later till i have the basics of the game down, i mean, the fucker if he has full meter can literally kill anybody in two attacks. take zangief's sf2 super, only you can fucking drag people to you if they are charged. and you can do it fucking twice since it only uses half meter, the fuck mang, that's awesome.
but i guess it's just different games. this game feels faster and requires more physical skill than street fighter...but at the same time when you get the moves down i reckon it simplifies quite a bit. can't say till i get better though.
*Eddddddddddt*
i guess no character is simple to learn unfortunately. maby ill just play boobie lady till i learn how to 360 throw people into doom.
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WAIiiiiiiiirrrrrrttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
there aren't any charge characters in this game....THE FUCK MAN I AM ONLY GOOD WITH CHARGE CHARACTERSSsssssssssssssgodamanitttitittt
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Downloaded and played Neotokyo, and I must say it's a bag of fun.
You have three classes, a heavy guy with the most health, no invisibility, a heat visor, and a 50 caliber revolver as a side arm. The medium guy has a motion detecting visor, a short invisibility cloak with a painfully long charge time, can run, but uses a gauge that depletes. The lightest is the most mobile and has a rather large leap it can do while running to cover a lot of ground, but can only be used twice before you need to wait for it to recharge, he can also run without getting tried. He has the best invisibility, which can recharge rather quickly. He only has night vision, which is definitely the weakest vision in the game.
Also with the invisibility, you are VERY hard to see while standing still, but show up a bit more while running. Also you can shoot with it up, so sitting still and using a silencer when you sneak up on an enemy is grand.
Also some guns have an alternate fire, like the pump shotgun being able to load a single slug round.
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blazblue literally made my break my glasses out of pure rage
im now wearing my old perscription of several years ago
fuck this game
seriously, the amount of skill just to get the basics down is absurd. and how the fuck am i supposed to do all of this crazy air dash buisness? do i have to go eagle claw on my stick? because my thumb in no way or form can go as fast as this game requires.
how do people even recognize what is going on the screen, it's humanly impossible to react to most of the shit going on. took me long enough to get the hang of "LARIET WHEN HE USES FIREBALL" "HSEN CHO OVER THE FIREBALL" but this is like instant stuff. i can't play defense, i can't play offense, i can't play tager because he's beyond playing for a new player when most people play rachel and have enough screen filling crap on screen it's hard to keep her near you.
i REALLY do not want to spend 6 hours in training mode with one character just to get the hang of this game, most likely i will quit and go back to super turbo, a game where a normal person can see what's going on.
even when i win online it's frustrating, i can't learn from what i did, im frantically trying to defend against all of the attacks as well as mash all the buttons i can to get out of JUGGLEGELGEGLUEGULEGLEUGELUGEGLES where there isn't an indication of how to get out unless you mash buttons, that ontop of the dashing (which tager basically can't fucking do) and getting an offense in, i want to murder the person who said that a new person can get into this game, it's for vets only.
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Wat? Really, what's bothering you? I can't even play half the characters in SF4 because they have some sort of bullshit input to do for their super or ultra (doing 2 360s or that insane fucking Z input just seems impossible unless you're using a fighting stick).
You should pick it up with time, BUT it would take practice.
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i think it's the utter lack of charge characters. here are characters i really enjoy playing in street fighter, and you will mostly see a pattern in what i enjoy playing.
chun-li
honda
zangief
dee jay
guile
bison
balrog
as you can see, the only non charge character is the 360 grapler, zangief. i am in no shape way or form decent with "motion" characters. so put a game with all motion characters in a game which is highly offensive, really fast, and with a bunch of mechanics i haven't encountered (air block, air dash, EVERYBODY has airthrow, EVERYBODY can superjump, double air dash, barrier, instant block, to name a few) and you are basically kicking me off a motorcycle going 100mph on the freeway.
anywho, i am WORKING on getting learned up with litchi, since well, she's pretty fun to play, and i am a man who enjoys bounce. why else do i own doa2, 3, and 4? for now, im just fucking around with the beginner difficulty turned on so i can complete stuff (arcade/story stuff)
and i guess guiltily i am enjoying the "tips" section in story mode...so i guess ill go unlock them all.
/v/ tells me you need to go through
noel, carl, ragna/jin, tager, rachel, bang
in that order to unlock them. you need to watch the previous episode to unlock the next. example, i beat carl's story (where i bent my glasses, till i set it on easier difficulty) to unlock ep 3, which wasn't available after beating. so i watched episode 2, and 3 became available.
to end, does guilty gear have charge characters? if not, fuck that game. CHARGE > MOTION
on the flip side, i can always play super turbo to build morale. fucking pissed off a t hawk who BEAT me, then decided i was too annoying to fight a second time and he booked it. ohh the power of turtling (seriously though, who wants to be next to t hawk, he's like a native american flying zangief)
btw this was on the bonus disc, which i have (did they even sell a normal version, gamestop just handed over the limited edition for the same price) and im surprised the narrator was on there because of his blatantly fake russian accent.
tager buster with the A button
"it also has a lot of range, but does weak american damage"
tager buster with the B button
"the B button tager buster has less range but is much faster and does real soviet damage!"
and is it me or did he fucking combo jin, suck him back in for another combo, and basically kill him? fapfapfapfap
well whatever
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carl. the last fight he puts a full health bang into a combo.
bang lost 100% of his health in said combo.
to end this editfest of a post im going to state my observation
blazblue seems more of a "GET THAT FUCKER INTO A COMBO" game while street fighter is more of a strategy game which relies more on thinking and less on the muscle memorization of combos. until i pick a character and stick with it to get said muscle memorization for some bnb combos, i reckon im going to suck for a while. you have to sympathize with me though, a big combo in sf is like 7-10 hits, that's like too small to be a regular combo in blazblue.
i almost want to say sf is like counterstrike and blazblue is like quake 3.
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Axl is the only charge character in Guilty Gear. May has a few charge moves too but she has more non-charge moves. Basically, the reason there are very few charge characters is that it's opposite of the idea of using air-dashing. You can't exactly double-tap forward while tapping backwards. Most of those charge moves are only useful during combos, rather than on their own.
Just remember that almost every character has a Gatling combo of A->B->C and then usually some special. It's not all meant to be played out in combos. Try someone like Hakumen. I've seen people win with him with just 6C and air-dash 6C and his D is a counter if you can get it down.
Also, Mike Z's the best Tager player in the country and his tutorial video is a send-up of an old Street Fighter video where there's a really crappy "actor" trying to play the part of each Street Fighter character.
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carl. the last fight he puts a full health bang into a combo.
bang lost 100% of his health in said combo.
to end this editfest of a post im going to state my observation
I'm fairly sure that mid air throw into the dolls attack is part of Carl's infinite, which really worries me about BB. I mean, it seems well balanced for the first game in the series, but still any infinites (lol infinite has no plural) worry me.
That and I keep hearing it's not as good as GG.
Also I REALLY like NeoTokyo. The art style seems like it could be a BIT more original, but the game play is damn fun. It's hard to explain, but it's awesome when you have an organized team to work with. I'm probably going to buy a mic just so I don't feel useless while picking up a ghost.
Also I had an awesome moment. I was behind a teammate on a snow bank and he was shooting someone with a semi automatic rifle. I can see he's taking damage and I try to help him, but I have an SMG and I'm fairly lacking in the range department. So he goes down and I fire a few shots at the guy, he runs out of invisibility and dips back and just barely sticks his head out, during that time I cloak and do the Recon leap while running and he looses track of me. I ended up behind him while he was still scoping the snow bank I was being and end up dropping him quickly. Felt good man.
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Carl doesn't have an infinite. It's entirely possible to get out of the clap loop and it takes way too much to set it up anyway so it's really not that useful. It's like Fei-long's infinite in SF4 that only works against Abel and Seth. It's way too situational.
BB is far FAR better balanced than Guilty Gear has ever been.
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Nights in the Nightmare kicks all sorts of ass on the DS. Haven't put this much time into a game on the handheld for a long, long time.
And Prototype, again, is amazing to play. So fun.
Also I my friend is buying me a game for my birthday so what should I get?
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BB is far FAR better balanced than Guilty Gear has ever been.
I'd say it's far to early to make a claim like that.
unless you're referring to the fact that people can combo into an insta kill move...
Also I my friend is buying me a game for my birthday so what should I get?
What platforms dog? Also I'm in the same boat, Wii and PC here.
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The game's been in arcades for a while. It's not that hard to make that judgment. And besides, it's not like it's that amazing that they could figure out the balance on the first game of a new series when it still follows the style of one of their own series and they've made so many fighters.
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What platforms dog? Also I'm in the same boat, Wii and PC here.
DS and 360. PC as well, buts its generally only for L4D, stepmans and interweb
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Well, I hear Devil Survivor is good...
Also the only things that really seem to interest me are Prototype, SF4, and Punch-Out.
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Devil Survivor is definitely good.
It's a strategy RPG for movement but turns more into Digital Devil Saga for battles, with each person having up to 2 demons to form a party of 3. You then fight in a turn-based fight with "Extra Turns" and everything if you hit their weaknesses or they hit yours. You can buy demons from the demon auction and then fuse them into stronger demons (if your level is high enough to handle the new demon), and you pick a skill for each character to "crack" in battle. If the person you pick kills the demon with that skill, you can then use it for you own.
The story is much more serious than I would have thought, with you meeting up with two friends and then everything within the Yamanote Line in Tokyo shut down and blacked out and you are trying to figure out why. Mix in a cult, vampires, an odd government conspiracy, a battle for the throne of all demons, and a singer who's more than she seems and you have a great story.
Difficulty is fair for the most part, but you can always grind if you feel you need some more levels/skills. I'm actually stuck on a boss, but it's more that my skill setup is dumb and I need one level so that I can put on Null Fire.
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That sounds really fun. I'll add that to the list.
Right now I'm thinking Orange Box, Devil Survivor, Halo Wars, or putting it towards Bayonetta or Microsoft points or something.
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You don't have the orange box? Nigga wut?
I'd suggest getting the PC version, if only for the new content and custom maps.
Oh and NeoTokyo is fucking awesome. I was playing with Ulti for a couple hours and it was a ton of fun, I'm really starting to get the hang of it (map memorization plays a fairly huge roll in it). Oh and Support is complete torture for new people to the game just because they don't realize that you can see them with the thermal vision.
Oh yeah, and a manual for the game
http://files.getdropbox.com/u/892505/NTS%20Manual/Neotokyo%20Manual.pdf
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ok i played some blazblue with a friend today, and im STARTING to understand the game, since well we are both of on the same level. i can fight him and react to his shit as he reacts to mine, and because of that im starting to have fun.
i play tager and he plays jin. been fun thus far. he did his FREEZE ME THROW OVER AND OVER shinanigans, then i realized when the exclamation points come up and i execute a throw, it cancels his throw, which now i can do on reaction WHEN i know it's coming. if it's out of the blue im generally too slow to catch it, but yeah, starting to learn the game and get some VERY basic juggle stuff down. like attack, down c launcher, down d charge to magnetize as they fall, if they are already magnetized i can suck them in for an air throw, shit like that. my execution needs work, but the key thing is that im getting basics down.
i wasn't enjoying myself prior, because, well i most likely explained it in my past tldr posts, but i wasn't about to judge the game until i knew what i was doing...which if i play local people enough i should be getting it down.
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PEOPLE
LETS PLAY TF2 ON 360!
ADD ME: Kraezymann. I would like to play with you all. I'm no good rofl but I'll learn
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I would play, if I had a 360, and TF2.... However, I'm a poor starving student and my parents don't seem to want to pay so much for all the next gen consoles...
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i was going to say "vidya, 360, k, but you aren't online"
then i seen tf2
yeah...console tf2? WUT!? no.
blazblue, sf4, sf2, yes. id even go as far as soulcalibur 4, or dead or alive 4 (maby not doa...) but yeah.
i guess castle crashers as well. and bionic commando rearmed if it was online co-op, but it isn't.
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Did they ever actually fix TF2 on 360? I bought Orange Box way back when it first came out and it was completely broken with rampant cheating and tons of glitches.
I finished Devil Survivor. Holy Dance is waaaaaaay too strong at the end if you have a magic build (which you should because there are way more magic attacks and weaknesses to abuse than physical) and I had pretty much broken the game by the last battle. I mean, you fight every boss over again and I solo'd all of them AND the final boss.
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far as i know they just don't have any of the new stuff (pyroscoutheavymedicspysniper updates)
i just don't see how people could play certain classes which require mouse/keyboard to function properly. like scout, or even spy with twitch backstabs.
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HOLY SHIT
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-monster-hunter/52469
an american review site that didn't shit on monster hunter. the review seemed to pretty much nail everything.
stupidly fun when played with friends.
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Gamespot's the only review place that actually kept to its guns on Monster Hunter actually. They gave it a 6.5, which is pretty much how they've reviewed all of them. All of the other review places (most notably IGN) gave it stuff like 9.5, even though none of what they called "problems" were fixed. It's like a bunch of review places just took the fact that it sold gajillions in Japan and wrote a review based on that, even though that's not how they saw it before.
The game does deserve much better than a 6.5 but you have to admit, that's REALLY odd behavior for reviewers.
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i guess i only really look at GT and giant bomb. but i wanted to see what gamespot thought, and well, same thing.
even GT said this(but gamespot named it a con), but why the fuck would monster hunter need lock on? it would not work with this game, it's as bad as saying "this game would be playable if it had regenerating health) no man, no.
anywho a 360 throw on an arakune who is barrier broke...WOW THE DAMAGE. still, good luck getting close to the fucker as tager...ever. i got lucky on one second round when i seen him dash forward to end up behind me...so i dash backwards and he basically dashes into my throw. always fun when your opponent is predictable in aspects he isn't aware.
it's like this ken i was fighting earlier in sf2 when i was dee jay. he would go in for a jump in 4 of the 5 rounds we had and well, i would jump straight up and he would eat a js heavy punch...followed by another and then i block because that's when he decides to dragon punch....to punish him after it. fun stuff, fun stuff.
but for blazblue im still having problems with the being comboed thing, like noel. it's like "LET ME FUCKING PLAY ALREADY" and finding the proper move to go off for me is kind of hard, it's not like i can block all day either. but i guess ive been getting lucky with the "hey i can do something finally, almost dead but..., DESTROY, k i guess i won" so whatever.
i need a bit more time in the training room to get my bread and butter down, it's pretty satisfying when i can get my down c into dragon punch(think abels ground anti air throw...with suck in properties if they are magnetized.) off, which i should be able to do often, but hey, i can't.
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Playing Klonoa, Strider 2, Mother 3, Mega Man Zero 2 and Mega Man and Bass every once in a while. Kind of a pain in the ass, but I haven't been finishing games lately (been doing nothing but shooters and fighters which is basically play until you're bored in short spurts) and I really want to finish most of them.
Got to the jealous bass in Mother 3 and haven't really tried it since it first killed me. FINALLY beat a boss in MMXZ 2, which was retarded hard. Beat Strider 2 real quick and have been dicking around with the new game mode. I'm assuming I'm right up on the end of Klonoa so I'm probably going to play it the most.
For some reason Final Fantasy Tactics, Tomba 2 (fucking doing all of that stuff only to have the textures spazz out really pissed me off, might just try to play through it) and Front Mission 3 seem to just not hold my interest now. Maybe after I beat something first.
Also yeah, I'm fairly sure I'm going to pick up SF4 despite me really wanting Prototype.
Also what the hell is wrong with my emulator memory cards? It seems like they only work with some games and then wont load with others and I can't figure out how to make save states on my ePSXe.
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im convinced that an equal skilled nu player will beat an equal skilled tager player 100% of the time
playing friends, this game is ok, playing online, i want to snap my disc in half i hate it so much.
guess ill be waiting to check out mvc2 and how imba that game is (YO YO STORM CABLE SENT YO)
not sure i want to play blazblue anymore unless it's locally, back to playing sf2.
vlad's frustrated
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Started an LP of Crash Bandicoot 2:
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im convinced that an equal skilled nu player will beat an equal skilled tager player 100% of the time
playing friends, this game is ok, playing online, i want to snap my disc in half i hate it so much.
guess ill be waiting to check out mvc2 and how imba that game is (YO YO STORM CABLE SENT YO)
not sure i want to play blazblue anymore unless it's locally, back to playing sf2.
vlad's frustrated
Well, that is by far one of Tager's worst matchups so yeah, you're going to have to struggle. MvC2 is still going to be completely broken though.
As long as you don't play like darksydephil, everything will be okay.
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Ugh, I'll admit when I played CSS I bitched about hit detection and choke and what not (getting killed 5 times in a row early in the match and then getting an AK headshot on a guy only to have it not register, despite their being a large red blood stain in the middle of his face, and have him kill you is rather rage inducing) but I never did anything like this guy.
That and my bitching was justified, you can't get angry because YOU jumped into his anti air move 3 times, if anything you should be happy that the game is working the way it should. Maybe he's just compelled to make himself look like a slack jawed retard on camera.
Also I like how this guy is e-famous from this.
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the thing about dsp, he's actually good, he beat justin wong in STHD (using akuma, but still, it's friggin justin wong)
anywho i always get frustrated when im learning so i just vent on the internets, i rarely get mad when im enjoying myself, generally playing STHD, but i mean, sf4 has gotten less rage inducing for me.
i mean he does bitch about the online lag, but being actually good at the game, i can let it slide.
being as you brought the video up, i figure you will enjoy this
it's dsp complaining about the stupid range of guile's airthrow in STHD
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Nah, I can't let that slide. Especially in SF4, he's not that great. Even I have a win over him (my Cammy over his goddamn BALROG). What he does, is complain about everything but his own lack of skill. Oh, he's not being allowed to block. Oh the other person has too much lag, making him lose. Oh he totally hit the right direction and the stick that he's using sucks. No, I don't buy any of that. Lag in SF4 is not even close to bad, let alone bad enough to have him complain about it in nearly every match.
He could be really good in SFHD, I don't know. But he's not so good that he can sit there and spout off the sort of garbage that he says or laugh like he does at other people. He's a dick and someone is going to punch him in the mouth.
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whatever floats your boat mang, i always get a kick out of his bitching, and im pretty sure it's intended to be that way.
actually he beat jwong with dee jay as well
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anywho, im done with blazblue. biggest regretted game purchase since grenade of grenade 4 from that steam sale, game wasn't even worth the reduced price.
it's like me playing halo going "man i wish i was playing ut2k4 right now" and then thinking...WHY THE FUCK AM I NOT PLAYING UT2K4, so yeah. maby ill sell it to someone, or throw it away, i don't want it in my house.
but seriously, the thing to make me go "im done" was losing to like 4 people, then beating somebody. there was no gratification to beating that person, it was pretty much "well my moves happened to come out" and that was my adventure with blazblue. back to having fun with my vidya, YAEHEHE WHOO HOOo im done.
also fuck this game even more for making me worse at street fighter. i don't button mash in street fighter(save for getting dizzy...then MASH THE FUCK AWAY SIR), FDSGFRDGDRGHDhb
STATS TIME
http://www.streetfighter.com/flash/#/sfhd/gamercards/
zangief: 40 wins, 46 losses
dee jay: 33 wins, 56 losses
E FUCKING HONDA: 27 wins, 16 losses
honda is easymode, seriously.
AND AND AND i made two people ragequit, and some dude bitched me out for "turtling" as i was sitting in the corner as his ryu (against my gief) jumped into my fierce punch FIVE TIMES UNTIL HE DIED. instead of telling him to counter my shit, i told him that apparently he likes to lose because i play to win using whatever i can get away with.
i honestly think sf2 is the only fighting game i can just play, and be happy playing. OHH MAJICK VIDYA KOMPANIES, I ASK YEE TO CREaTE A FIghtAN vidAYA As GOOD AS yeE HOlY ENTITY KnOn As StttrreEET FYtr TEw1!1
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Also I doubt I'll pick up SF4, because I'm almost sure I'll just end up playing third strike more. So I guess I'll go for Prototype.
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fuck id play third strike if i could use an arcade stick(i got it on ps2 just for the hell of it...and im not buying a ps2 stick), i want to fuck up dudes with hugo and Q.
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heh yeah. Also I doubt BB is for everyone, it's FAR from a SF game.
Also I just beat Klonoa and I'd be lying if I didn't say my eyes got a bit watery during the ending. surprisingly hard game. I started the last stage with something like 10 lives (the most game I GOT in the game were 15) and ended with 2. All in all, a great fucking game.
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Just got Devil Survivor! Playing when Knights is done. Also got Beautiful Katamari for 10 bucks! New! :o
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so i won a g2 championship....with a character i do not use in sf4. E HONDA. i was playing as seth, but winning games with him is hard, you really can't play him until you have a good mastery of the game. figure honda, while not a popular character, he can win games.
zangief
zangief
dhalsim
balrog
i blame luck/watching honda videos on that there youtube
anyway it gave me just enough points to rank up to G2-D, so yay.
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To Blaz or not to Blaz, that is the question.
Whether I should buy it that I have a chance, or wait,
And wait,
Until it goes down in price.
I have a chance to get the collectors edition, with the soundtrack and everything... but I dunno if I should. I don't have Street Fighter anymore, I just wasn't playing it enough to warrant its attention, I suppose. I just don't know.
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don't do what i did.
rent first, play for like 10 hours, then decide whether it's worth buying or not.
still, if you get it, id be down for putting the game back into my 360. i mean, i hate playing random joes, but people that i know irl/internets are fine.
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ken
dhalsim
chun li
honda
what the fuck, im not good with honda, but im beating people with him for a second championship win. i think he's my secret main that i don't really think im good with but eventually he will become my best character...as has been happening with sf2. anywho, epic honda v honda battle for the win. literally he headbutts from across the screen, JUST before he hits me i ultra....basically sending him back to the opposite side of the screen. pretty silly, pretty sweet.
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Way too much Neotokyo, and I still suck. Unless I snipe, but that's a pansy-ass move. Motion vision + SRS = most retarded thing in the universe.
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Unless I snipe, but that's a pansy-ass move. Motion vision + SRS = most retarded thing in the universe.
Hey man, whatever works works.
Also are you talking about the heavy sniper? Because that thing is laughably accurate and surprisingly lethal. It's odd, I'm so used to NOT going for head shots with snipers, but in the game it almost feels natural.
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No, I meant the one the Assaults get. IIRC Recons only get the M41 Scoped (Which is still my favorite one anyways), I think, and Motion Vision helps a hell of a lot more for sniping than a little longer camo time.
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Yeah, but the point of Recon sniping is hitting them from where they're not going to suspect it. but yeah, I fucking love motion detection.
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Yeah, I like playing Recon better with a close-range weapon, the cloak is badass for running out and surprising people. :V
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I'm getting the Spanish version of FF8 to help with learning Spanish.
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Rented the godfather 2 video game, just finished the game (aside from all the "do all this" achievements, which I could probably do in another 2 hours if I really wanted). Good game especially when you are using the magnums (the level 1 is a .357, level 2 is a .44 and level 3 is a .501 which is a one shot kills most enemies). Worth playing if you like gta type games or played the first one.
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Oh, and if you play NT join "my" server here.
98.113.199.32:27015
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figure id post this just cause
he bitches because his viewers enjoy it, frankly, i get a kick out of it, but i can understand how it can piss people off. i mean, you make videos of yourself playing vidya for the internet, kind of don't want to make it boring and have a little fun with it.
as for the topic
tomba!
dwarf fortress
STHD
trying to play less street fighter...and more ANYTHING ELSE, so i played about an hour of tomba and two or so hours of dwarf fortress today. if i ever get a fort im "happy" with ill post screens in the dwarf fortress thread. still like i started picking up t-hawk in STHD and well, he's a fucking blast to play.
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I know how you feel, I've been playing nothing but shooters and fighters for a while now. So, I've been trying to get back on track and beat Megaman Zero 2, Yoshi's Island, Mother 3 and recently Parasite Eve 2. Oh yeah, and I broke down and downloaded Brave Fencer Musashi and the nostalgia rush is awesome.
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I picked up HAWX on 360 since it's part of their big $20 summer sale. I'd recommend it if you want a fun flight combat game. It's basically Ace Combat but with Call of Duty 4's ranks attached to it. You get more planes and new weapons packages for older planes based on your level and you gain experience by beating missions and completing challenges like killing a certain number of ground forces with certain weapons or for evading missiles without using flares. I haven't tried multiplayer yet but I bet team dogfighting would be fun. There's co-op too though I don't know anyone else that has the game.
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played the demo for 'splosion man.
surprised on how fun it was from the 3 levels they give you to play.
seeing as there's 50 single player levels, 50 co-op levels...and it's 800 points...
i may have to pick this up later
can't go wrong with a fun puzzle/platformer when all 4 face buttons do one thing "splode"
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So, I'm playing through Parasite eve and I get to this massive boss. I beat him after I have to run through this gauntlet of other relatively hard to kill enemies and after all of that I had to change locations, this is when the game asks me to change discs. When I try, I get an error and the game just crashes. Shit sucks.
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final fantasy 12
yeah...im going to beat this game. i don't care if there are only two cool characters(fran, balthier), IMA BEAT THIS THANG!
i just got done talking to some dreaming old guy in some temple somewhere, i really don't understand what's going on, it's like suda51 made an rpg, minus the crazy.
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I really enjoyed 12. Never did get to finish it though :/ I'd like to continue my save, wherever the hell it is. Too bad my PS2 is out of commission until I find another power cord and another RF adapter (which means I need money.)
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The whole mist (not even sure what it's called again) system was fairly meh, the game could have easily done without that, that and I always seemed so damn under leveled.
Also I can apparently get Duster back in Mother 3 before I fight that mecho gorilla.
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i feel under leveled when ive been overleveling at times.
certain bosses i can't see being possible if you haven't spend a good chunk of time grinding.
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I can do a "speed run" of the game (that is, never level outside of fighting on the way to locations) and be totally fine. I thought the game had pretty much perfect difficulty balance. I even beat the game just using weapons/armor you can buy from the shops in the last town you go to.
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my throat hurts from the yelling
so by getting mvc2 i had the points for splosion man (HURP DURP MS POINTS GUD IDEEAa) so i got it
i made it to level 2-6
THUS FAR the game has been really fun SAVE FOR TWO THREE PARTS.
the stage 1 boss (stage 1 is like 18 or so levels) which you are basically panned out really REALLY far where you are super small, and you have to fight this boss who fucks your day. first off, boss fights in platformers, NOT FUCKING FUN EVER, bosses that are hard in platformers LESS FUN THAN THAT(i guess this guy isn't bad, but you have to go through some trial and error...and waiting for him to shoot rockets at you to deflect...makes retrying over and over a bit painful).
stage 2-6, the end of it. it was RAGEEeeeeeeeee, but in all honesty i just died a bunch of times and i eventually got the hang of it.
stage 2-6 deaths, i died A LOT. so much in fact the game gave me a popup calling me a wuss and telling me that i could skip the level if i wanted too. game, sorry, i payed money for you, now you insult me? FUCK OFF! if you were a physical object, i would run you over with my minivan and give you to my dog.
that aside, next time you have a spare 800 points leftover because you needed to buy 2000 points to get that 1200 point game, splosion man give you a fun albeit sometimes frustrating platformer.
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My thumb is fucking bleeding from my gamepad, and it seems that fail at getting C.Vipers super off about 70% of the fucking time.
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vipers ultra likes to miss, it's pretty common even amongst pros like flash metroid and combofiend(pretty much the best viper that isn't japanese) from what ive seen. she's kind of a hard character to use too in my opinion, low stamina doesn't seem to help.
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A friend of mine went into the Navy recently, and gave me his Xbox 360. I picked up a set of games for it while I was vacationing up in Pennsylvania and just started playing them today.
Bioshock is...well, disturbingly realistic (All I've played before has been Wii and older systems, so this is a huge graphics jump) and beautiful. The gameplay is pretty awesome and the story seems pretty gripping thus far. Looking forward to seeing some of the stuff later on.
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i have decided i am going to work on honda as my sf4 main.
err not street fighter 4 main, i meant akuma fighter 4 main.
i looked on srk and there was this code that you could unlock a secret character (a character that isn't akuma, i know, it's crazy) and that happened to be honda.
anyway, i apparently blow ass with chun now, guile is out of the question, gief is like akuma's easiest fight so no fucking way im using him, bison = TELEPORT STEAD OF ULTRA OLOL, balrog i could try to use but i guess im not a fan of how he plays.
honda v akuma. try to trade a hit, he will probably take double what you take in the trade, then turtle. yes, turtle. that fucker likes to run away and throw fireballs, when i get even a tiny life lead, im fucking turtling, that red haired weeaboo bitch is coming to ME, not the other way around, see how you like it akumafags.
SOOOO much more satasfying now. and i apparently suck at sf2 randomly now so i won't be playing it for a while. i mean, losing to a ryu named ultimatemale420...it's literally the most humiliating thing in my life. i would say losing to an akuma named sephiroth 2304 (i can't remember the digits, only that there was 4 of them) but i just didn't fight him, i let him kill me (though i had to run at him because the fag refused to really do anything if i wouldn't do anything)
and marvel...it's odd that the game feels MORE foreign than blazblue, and yet i want to understand it more than i did blaz. online in marvel is probably more brutal than even sf2 because your party composition, knowing 3 characters, and having proper assist types all come into play. not to mention, playing high tiers is kind of mandatory for the newcomer.
still don't really know what to use, but i reckon it will be something like doom, sent, ???(maby cable, maby some low tier, i kind of like juggernaut, maby even spiral if i get used to her)
but in the 6 or so online games ive played thus far, i won one...and that game was kind of fun since we both sucked and you know, cool. the others was like MAG FUCKIN NETO BLAM BLAM BLAM, or HYPER VIPER BEAM x3 + KOMBOS = dead, or UH OHH UH SCOOPS HAGAN DASSSSSssss FUCK THE KNICKS FUCK THE KNICKS. but i mean, since i don't really know how to do combos really more than say 4 or 5...i need to get that down first. any marvel players here want to let a brotha know? i know assists are important, but when i see a magneto go combo crazy, and i try it myself, i can't really do a quarter of the hits, if that.
but i mean playing random people who suck like i do in a mindless fashion is actually pretty damn fun. NOW IF ONLY I HAD SOME FRIENDS WHO LIKED THE FIGHTAN, my blood pressure hates random voiceless internet people. mortified, get a fucking 360, zakamiro, GET ONE, spektur, get an arcade stick and some hdremix/sf4/marvel, me, go to socal and play friends with the socal srk people.
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spektur, get an arcade stick and some hdremix/sf4/marvel
But I don't like fighting games. :'(
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but i mean playing random people who suck like i do in a mindless fashion is actually pretty damn fun. NOW IF ONLY I HAD SOME FRIENDS WHO LIKED THE FIGHTAN, my blood pressure hates random voiceless internet people. mortified, get a fucking 360, zakamiro, GET ONE, spektur, get an arcade stick and some hdremix/sf4/marvel, me, go to socal and play friends with the socal srk people.
Hell, if I had a 360 all I'd play would be SF4 and I'd nut hug BB.
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But I don't like fighting games. :'(
DON'T MAKE ME CRY
Hell, if I had a 360 all I'd play would be SF4 and I'd nut hug BB.
well, sf4 isn't sf2, BUT ID PLAY IT. but not blazblue, eff that game.
anywho, i played some marvel, im like 10 wins and 12 losses. half of those wins were because of cable...then i accidentally didn't pick cable once so i guess im fairly comfortable with dr doom/juggernaut/sentinel. i don't really know dr doom, so i just fly and spam air to ground laser, as well as do his air super. juggernaut is awesome for his dash assist, and playing him is ok, his ground projectile is pretty fun. AND sentinel is like FLY, lk, hk, lp rocket punch, OVER AND OVER AND OVER (change up rocket punch depending on their location which i haven't got the hang of) which is pretty goddamn fun.
i still can't combo worth shit, but i can run away like a bitch and spam moves, works for me.
then i went in for more sf2 since im a crack addict for that game. t-hawk, 8 win 2 loss (one loss due to laggy annoying bison player i decided to let win).
one of those wins was a damn close (3-2) gief v hawk, and that gief could reversal spd like every single time. i was so impressed i had to send him a message complimenting his nice gief skills. always fun doing grappler v grappler.
ohh, and i supered his russian ass in round 2, FEELS GOOD MAN.
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I just continue to play more BlazBlue, mostly with friends on wednesdays since that's when we get together for random anime/game night. Played 100 matches online and probably 500 offline lol. None of my friends can figure out what to do against me as Arakune and I've now gotten people that actually send me thank you messages of xbl because I don't just run away like a pansy like all of the scrub Arakune players do. Although one guy got pretty mad that I very nearly got a totally perfect match off of him. And much higher level (I'm like 27 so we're talking them being like 49-52) players accuse me of cheating because I beat them because they've been beating on scrub Jins all day.
After working at Aladdin's Castle a few years back, I really just have no patience for playing MvC2 anymore I guess. I tried playing the demo but I really can't get excited for the game anymore just because I used to play it so much. I was never especially good or anything but eh. If one of my friends downloads it and wants to play me in-person I won't turn it down.
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http://www.giantbomb.com/marvel-vs-capcom-2-new-age-of-heroes/61-2612/user_reviews/?review=9983
This is like, the only accurate review of MvC2 I've seen. He adressed all the right problems and sums up what's good and new about the game in less than a page, too bad most people who look at game reviews look at JUST the rating.
Fucking hate the rating system, it's like all "gamers" are illiterate retards who will check random sources and if they see a bunch of numbers it makes them happy.
Oh yeah, and after hitting [spoilers] the new Fassad, beating him and then dying on the way back to the save and health point I have no urge to play Mother 3. It was a REAL kick to the dick. Maybe I'll try some MMZ2 until I feel like doing it again.
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http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=rxBJ4Di_YU3jpDHl69IatzQ&single=true&gid=0&output=html
BBs balance is a bit wackier then I thought.
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That's still going to change quite a bit. Tager's always going to be on the bottom though.
And I'm pretty sure that anyone playing for the next six months really doesn't need to worry about tier lists anyway.
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Is it bad to have my main as Taokaka?
I want a decent second. I like Jin because he is easy to use, but not really into his moves. Maybe Bang or Noel. Arakune is stupid hard to learn I guess, but would be fun to use.
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tager, bang,
litchi booby lady
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So, I've been playing Fallout 3 a lot recently. I know I'm a bit behind, starting it just now, but damn, this game kicks ass. Plus, they got rid of that retarded "enemies scale with your level, so if you level poorly, your fucked" crap that was in oblivion. Only problem I have is that ir tuns like shit, even with graphical settings really turned down. I'm considering turning off the Bloom effect, as I think that is causing much of the lag, but I really don't want to have to do that.
But goddamn is it fun.
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they scale, they just scale differently.
it isn't terrible like oblivion though, unlike oblivion, fallout 3 is actually good.
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Because it has GUNS?
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they scale, they just scale differently.
it isn't terrible like oblivion though, unlike oblivion, fallout 3 is actually good.
Well, isn't the scaling more like "you'll encounter these types of mobs commonly at these levels, and then you'll encounter these harder guys more often once you pass this threshold"?
Admittedly, I don't know to much about the game mechanics yet. I find it hard to find much in depth info on the actual mechanics for a lot of stuff :/
I love still being able to get those sneak headshot auto-crits. Saves a LOT of ammo, when possible. Mind you, I really need to get more ammo for some of my guns. Those automatics run through ammo like MAD.
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its more
"enter area, enemies are locked at your current level"
that's how it works. so if you enter a high level area for the first time, they will be high level. if you go back to an area you only really went to without doing much levels and levels later, they will be levels and levels behind. so really, you are rewarded for exploring early.
also, from the gameplay footage (lets plays) ive seen, nobody fucking uses sneak. im sorry, but sneak is fucking awesome, its almost brokenly awesome. hunting rifle, sneak, proper rifle perks, you will go through a super mutant compound using a hell of a lot less ammo than a rambo, and you may not even take a single hit while you are at it, saving easy to get stims, and saving you caps for repairing that armor.
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I usually try to use stealth, but thanks to the radar like senses of fucking EVERYTHING in the game it's almost impossible.
Oh yeah, and I don't think Deathclaws will even spawn unless your a specific level.
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old olney
deathclaw sanctuary
and with a per of 9 or 10, i don't have problems finding dudes. dudes have problems finding me(yes per has nothing to do with stealth, but it makes sure you don't get the jump on you if you are careful), maby you are stealthing wrong.
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old olney
deathclaw sanctuary
and with a per of 9 or 10, i don't have problems finding dudes. dudes have problems finding me(yes per has nothing to do with stealth, but it makes sure you don't get the jump on you if you are careful), maby you are stealthing wrong.
I mean with the exceptions of those two places, because I knows Deathclaws will spawn at the robot factory but only if your level is high enough (at least that's what I'm assuming, because they didn't show up until I was past halfway through the game).
Also perception helps stealth? All I usually do is crouch and try to stay out of their sight and they always seem to spot.
Also I just had the BEST SF4 match, and it was against a computer opponent. It was like, the ONLY opponent who wouldn't let ultras just hit them and would be aggressive as all hell. I felt like a champ after I rolled out of her ultra (I was Abel) and somehow baited her into my super.
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no i said it doesn't help stealth. but really, it kind of does. when you know where they are, you can better sneak around. if you have shitty per, you may end up having one of the enemies sneak up on you since it didn't show up on your radar.
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Well, my per is crappy. But I did just get the injection from the doc for helping with those ants. But yeah, sneak kicks ass. even if your sneak skill is kinda crap, you can still inflict some insane damage with the hunting rifle.
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Yeah, the hunting rifle will be your best friend.
Also I really need to acquire those expansions. I hear point lookout and broken steele are awesome with the Pitt being okay.
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I've got all the expansions on right now.. I'm so looking forward to being level 30. By then I will pretty much be a god, lol.
Also, I love how your human companions can automatically wear power armor. Once I killed the behemoth with the nuke, I grabbed the power armor off the dead guys and repaired until I got a decent DR and gave it to Jericho (I know he's pretty much the worst companion, but I didn't want to wait for someone else.)
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I don't think anyone can compare with how game braking Fawks is. He was literally tanking when I went through the deathclaw reserve.
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i fired him to play solo, companions fuck up my stealth game.
sure having a super mutant with infinite ammo on a gatling laser is awesome, but so is killing 5 super mutants in a room in one vats round each time without any of them noticing me. and if shit is tight, that's why god invented the nuka grenade/bottlecap mines. stealth makes setting up mine traps easy.
but i reckon there are a good different ways to play the game, this is how i play anyway.
stealth/small guns(easy to find ammo for, mandatory imo)/energy weapons(later on you get tons of ammo, plasma rifle = rape)/explosives(1hko anyone?)
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I started playing Gears of War 2 and eh, it's nothing special. The weapons are all pretty boring and the characters are laughable. Hopefully I'll have it finished tomorrow so I can send it back to GameFly. Multiplayer doesn't even work. I joined one match, got headshotted instantly from nowhere and then lost connection and it hasn't worked since. I don't know if that's them lagging or cheating or what (my connection's fine and dandy) but I don't think I'll be trying it out anymore.
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I thought Gears one had some fun gameplay and a rather decent final boss for a shooting game (from the bosses I saw in 2, it looked like a drop in quality) but the multiplayer SUCKED COCK. No game balance what so ever, spastic movement and glitchy jumping was what separated the good players from the bad. I remember standing up and seeing an enemy charging me from a fairly decent distance, so I pull up my lancer and start to unload into him. I land EVERY fucking shot and he just pops up next to me and fires his shotgun from the hip, which hits me in the mid section and makes me blow into 2 pieces. Not sure how much it was balanced in the second, all I know is that people survive far too long for the cover system to have any real merit.
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Also totally playing Fallout again. Downloaded Broken Steel, because AFAIK The Pitt/Anchorage don't really continue the story from the main game?
Found Oasis. Fuuuuuuucked up. Harold was pretty fuckin' awesome though. If you do the Oasis quest, at the end, DON'T kill him, you don't get as much cool stuff.
Also, why keep a gattling laser when it can be sold for hella caps? And its not very accurate unless your in VATS, right?
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IIRC Gatling Laser + Fawkes = Complete rape. Or something.
but yeah, if you aren't going to do that, and aren't a big-gun type person, selling it can make you a tidy sum of caps.
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If you're playing the PC version, just use the 999 weight limit mod mixed with bullet time and you don't even need vats. And since you can pick up literally everything you see, you'll bankrupt every seller in the wastes every time you see them.
Fallout 3 made me mad. Melee/Unarmed isn't even a viable build.
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It truly isn't. Hell, Small arms and lazars are like the only reliable things.
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DOBL POAST
Was just playing the PC version and I picked Dan against this rather good Balrog player. We were on opposite sides of the map and I hit my super taunt. At that time he uses Ultra and I instantly mash my ultra in and NAIL him as he's RIGHT in fucking front of me and he died.
I laughed so fucking hard.
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so the 360 is like DEAD dead now, now "dead, but it will turn on later maby"
kind of cuts out a lot of stuff to play, so till i blow $200 fucking dollars on a new box, ive had a hankerin for an rpg.
looking at mount and blade, but immediatley know i won't like it, because i don't like mounted combat, and that game is about mounted combat from the looks of things. i could beat oblivion, but i don't like that game, not going to lie. might do morrowind as a spellcaster, since well, morrowind is fucking awesome. but i don't want to go through the trouble of exploiting the leveling system yet again, so ill be neeidng to look for some leveling mod/s for the thing.
if anybody knows where i can get some morrowind mods(i can find them on my own...BUT WHATEVER POST LINKS ANYWAY) or an rpg to play, id be down. not looking for jrpg's, ive beaten kotor1/2, don't like fallout 2, beat fallout 1/3...BLABLABLA
maby deus ex...JUST MABY but im down for suggestions, i just need names so i can go hunting. it's been a while since ive sunken my teeth into a game i didn't want to stop playing. (single player...street fighter doesn't count)
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What are your PC specs?
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not relevant, i can run anything fine
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so the 360 is like DEAD dead now, now "dead, but it will turn on later maby"
kind of cuts out a lot of stuff to play, so till i blow $200 fucking dollars on a new box, ive had a hankerin for an rpg.
looking at mount and blade, but immediatley know i won't like it, because i don't like mounted combat, and that game is about mounted combat from the looks of things. i could beat oblivion, but i don't like that game, not going to lie. might do morrowind as a spellcaster, since well, morrowind is fucking awesome. but i don't want to go through the trouble of exploiting the leveling system yet again, so ill be neeidng to look for some leveling mod/s for the thing.
if anybody knows where i can get some morrowind mods(i can find them on my own...BUT WHATEVER POST LINKS ANYWAY) or an rpg to play, id be down. not looking for jrpg's, ive beaten kotor1/2, don't like fallout 2, beat fallout 1/3...BLABLABLA
maby deus ex...JUST MABY but im down for suggestions, i just need names so i can go hunting. it's been a while since ive sunken my teeth into a game i didn't want to stop playing. (single player...street fighter doesn't count)
Ever try The Witcher? Polish-made mostly linear RPG based on a series of Polish fantasy novels (the actual novels are actually starting to come to the US now). Timing-based combat but with multiple combat styles depending on enemies, some spells to change tactics on things and an alchemy system where you create potions/mutagens to give yourself special powers like seeing in the dark. Lots of sidequests but they don't normally involve running all around the world as it's kept pretty close overall and it has a strong story with some major choices you can make that change what path you take/ending you get. Just make sure you get the Enhanced Edition as it runs like a bajillion times better than the original release.
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Ever try The Witcher? Polish-made mostly linear RPG based on a series of Polish fantasy novels (the actual novels are actually starting to come to the US now). Timing-based combat but with multiple combat styles depending on enemies, some spells to change tactics on things and an alchemy system where you create potions/mutagens to give yourself special powers like seeing in the dark. Lots of sidequests but they don't normally involve running all around the world as it's kept pretty close overall and it has a strong story with some major choices you can make that change what path you take/ending you get. Just make sure you get the Enhanced Edition as it runs like a bajillion times better than the original release.
I'll second that, The Witcher was pretty badass. D:
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i bought it, played for an hour, then let a friend borrow it. didn't really enjoy the combat...but that doesn't mean i didn't like it, i just also bought something called CIV FUCKING FOUR and that kind of sucked me in for the time. ill give it another chance when i get it back.
but i downloaded the mount and blade demo...starting to enjoy this sonbitch.
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I actually pretty heavily dislike the combat but most PC RPG's boil down to click click click move to another guy click click click so I just concentrated on the story. I recommend reading the books too. The first one is sort of a collection of short stories told in chronological order (so it's like a regular book, only each story isn't really totally connected. Just like he's telling someone else the stories) and it covers the story behind the actual opening cutscene (him fighting the Striga and saving what looks to be a princess of some sort). It's a pretty quick read too. Moves at a real nice pace.
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well im weird. morrowind i admit has a shit combat system, and i don't care for the story...but i enjoy the game. exploring shit, doing quests, finding things, honestly, i love the game for that.
im sure the witcher has a good story, but if i can be some awesome non faggot man ganking dudes with some claymores and a little magic, sure, that's awesome. but its all about what i want when, i mean, i got civ 4, an amazing game, but i didn't really get into it for a good while after buying it.
anywho, just the demo of mount and blade, its an interesting game worth even downloading the demo and trying out. will i buy it? well ill answer that question when im done playing "quick battle" which has none of the rpg elements of the main game, and i am enjoying. so i mean...good combat + rpg stuff = hopefully a good game.
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Arg. Fallout keeps freezing now :/ This is just stupid. Until I got the quest to go to vault 112, the game ran fine, only crashing when I alt+tabbed. No big deal. Now it seems to like to randomly freeze (as in, looping a small sample of whatever music was playing, and completely freezing.)
This is getting VERY annoying.
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maby deus ex...JUST MABY
Yes, Deus Ex.
It's pretty high up on my list of "bestest fps'z evar."
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System Shock 2.
Also, is the "hear and now" perk worth it?
Also also, just made it to little lamplight. Gonna find me a Fawkes and wreck some shit. Also, do the nuka cola challenge for some big caps
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System Shock 2.
Mmm, very yes. I almost forgot about SS2.
Only problem with System Shock is getting it to run properly on newer systems. I got it running solidly under XP (haven't tried Vista yet) on two computers but it took a bit of fiddling.
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Also, is the "hear and now" perk worth it?
Also also, just made it to little lamplight. Gonna find me a Fawkes and wreck some shit. Also, do the nuka cola challenge for some big caps
The hear and now perk is only useful if you don't have the expansions and you're on your final level.
Also if you want you talk talk the other guy into paying you something like twice as many for each bottle.
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Also, is the "hear and now" perk worth it?
you spend a perk to level up. think about that for a second. you want to level up...to get perks...not get perks to level up. a complete waste imo. same with the "you get more exp" perks. when you are at the level cap, you will regret those decisions, since leveling up isn't really hard in the first place.
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So yeah, I'm really not seeing what's supposed to be so great with Gears of War 2. People kept telling me about how the single player was amazing blah blah blah, but it's totally generic and the characters are all the ugliest and dumbest characters I've seen in a long time. Like, seriously, Cole is the worst character in a shooter and they should feel bad for creating him. And dear god the driving/flying segments are SO TERRIBLE.
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you spend a perk to level up. think about that for a second. you want to level up...to get perks...not get perks to level up. a complete waste imo. same with the "you get more exp" perks. when you are at the level cap, you will regret those decisions, since leveling up isn't really hard in the first place.
Agreed. By not taking those you can spend 2 extra perks in crap that actually helps you.
Sure, "Here and Now" gives you an extra level... At the cost of a perk. Why not just go out and kill a bunch of supermutants. Just do side quests until you level up. Or maybe just take some time out to explore, find a bunch of new locations, and such. By just doing that you'll get experience, and your bound to find a side quest or 2, and the experience associated with them.
Also, Scrounger kicks ass. Ammo starts appearing in HUGE stacks in ammo boxes. I looted something like 110+ 5mm rounds (I think they were 5mm) from a single box.
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So yeah, I'm really not seeing what's supposed to be so great with Gears of War 2. People kept telling me about how the single player was amazing blah blah blah, but it's totally generic and the characters are all the ugliest and dumbest characters I've seen in a long time. Like, seriously, Cole is the worst character in a shooter and they should feel bad for creating him. And dear god the driving/flying segments are SO TERRIBLE.
It's called hype. That and it's GRIM DARK SHOOTER WITH MULTIPLAYER which means it's all the rage now a days.
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So yeah, I'm really not seeing what's supposed to be so great with Gears of War 2. People kept telling me about how the single player was amazing blah blah blah, but it's totally generic and the characters are all the ugliest and dumbest characters I've seen in a long time. Like, seriously, Cole is the worst character in a shooter and they should feel bad for creating him. And dear god the driving/flying segments are SO TERRIBLE.
The Gears of War games are fun if you have a good friend to sit down and play them with. Same with Halo. Both franchises are incredibly boring when you roll solo.
And yes, the driving segments are piss poor. On the bright side, the ones in GoW2 are much MUCH MUCH better than the one in GoW1.
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man im a fagit
I WILL ATTEMPT TO BEAT OBLIVION
i will use the +5 attribute mod to prevent spending HOURS APON HOURS MAKING SURE I LEVEL UP PROPERLY and instead of abusing this to minmax to 100 in all stats...ill just try and play the game as is, only really focusing on getting endurance up asap.
maby doing this rather than MUST MINMAXXxxxxxxxxxxx may make the game fun. i mean, i did this in morrowind, but unlike oblivion, you can easily get 21823098209 gold and spend it all on trainers to max out whatever whenever you want, easily, there's no cap to it like in oblivion.
WISH ME LUCK, ill try and post screens to show mah fuckin progress in an oblivion thread i will eventually make.
GOTTA BEAT THIS THINGGGggggggggggggggggggggg
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There ARE mods for linear leveling, like in regular RPGs, lol. My GF found one because she was sick of the ridiculous leveling system.
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Aight.
Fallout 3: Recruited Fawkes with his gattling laser (HOOOOOOO FUCK WIN) and I'm gonna be makin my trip to the purifier. I have Broken Steel, so I don't need to worry about saving to be able to wander some more, I'll just do it after the purifier madness. Broke level 20, got ma achievements for 3 quests and the "Last, Best Hope for Humanity." Too bad Broken Steel LOOKS like the only good DLC. I mean, I haven't tried, but I need to be convinced.
BlazBlue: I have my mains now, Taokaka and Noel. Played through their early stories, got the second "Teach Me Ms. Litchi." What a fantastic idea for a video. Fan service ftw. Also downloaded some peoples replays and I gotta say theres some fuckin' cool combos I have yet to discover.
Prototype: Gotta unleash the stupid gas machine in Time Square. FUCK THAT. I have tried more than a few times and I seem to get raped by the two Hydras that appear with all them god damn super hunters or whatever.
Beautiful Katamari: I play, but not as much as Alycia. Shes fuckin' addicted haha. Shes gonna get MS points specifically for the DLC. She wants the Astronomical Katamari achievement.
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I already got a message from someone saying "lolumad?" and I can't remember playing them.
Also I played this Sagat player who would constantly run and force me to jump in then kick me. So several fights later I got mad and picked Sagat and spammed Tiger shot and beat him. Then when he went for a rematch I booted him and spammed the message "TIGER SHOT" to him.
I swear, most of the time I try SF4 online I just get trolled constantly.
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Haha, nice work.
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I swear, most of the time I try SF4 online I just get trolled constantly.
I should take this back, considering I fought an awesome Ryu (yeah, I know, he uses a shoto) who could also play a mean El Fuerte.
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I finished Gears of War 2's single player and I'm not happy. I can't believe anyone in the US actually prefers characters like that over...anything. I'd take goddamn Archie and Casper over every character in Gears. The plot was dumb and the entire ending is super anti-climactic. Oh here's a super weapon. Aim and shoot three times. You win! It's as generic as any other shooter out there and there's almost nothing special about it. And multiplayer is extremely unbalanced from what others have told me. So how does become so well-reviewed and popular? I don't get it. Do people just enjoy having shitty action movie one liners come out of brick shithouse men all day long while they shoot guys with bland weapons (but one has a chainsaw!)? Ugh.
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Sometimes, I like watching brick shithouse characters fuck alien shit up. I enjoyed playing that game with my friends. Sure, it's not as great as it could be, but I still found it pretty damn enjoyable to play with a couple friends, passing controllers when someone died and shit.
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That's why I wish they'd do a good Warhammer third person shooter/action game.
Also Brave Fencer Musashi isn't as awesome as I remember, but it's still rather fuckwin.
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hl2 episode 1
so far it's what i didn't like of hl2...
seriously, half-life 2 was a good solid fps, but it got bad for me when you entered city 17 or whatever it's called. i mean, after the ant lion prison fun...game goes downhill.
and thus far, what have i been doing? fighting in fucking city 17. while the action has been pretty fucking tense. i mean, they give you like no fucking ammo...AND no fucking crowbar, sorry but my opinion is fact when i say the gravity gun is a piece of shit, i would rather a crowbar if i am conserving ammo. i really hope i get the crowbar sooner or later, but i got to the ant lion boss lady and im a little bit past that before i called it a day.
mind you, i have been "enjoying" my time, but all the "bump cars into antlion holes" that's pretty bullshit and not fun to do at all. and goddamn the part where it was pitch black with the combine zombies, fuck that, fuck that, fuck that, i was so glad when i got out. but thus far, the game is cockteasing me. "YEA YES YYES IM OUTSIDEEEEE" "yeah gordon, back in the building"
FUUUUUUUUUUUuuuu
feels a lot more tense than standard half-life 2, i mean, i never used the "run" button A SINGLE TIME IN MY THREE PLAYTHROUGHS OF THE GAME...and ive been using that like my life depends on it (which it usually does) in episode 1.
tldr- I WANT TO PLAY OUTSIDE MOMMY
(http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/1069/1199854230155.jpg)
IMAGE FUCKING RELATED
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Episode 2 is hella better but watch out for da cliffhangerz
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mind you, i have been "enjoying" my time, but all the "bump cars into antlion holes" that's pretty bullshit and not fun to do at all. and goddamn the part where it was pitch black with the combine zombies, fuck that, fuck that, fuck that, i was so glad when i got out. but thus far, the game is cockteasing me. "YEA YES YYES IM OUTSIDEEEEE" "yeah gordon, back in the building"
I like the bumping cars into combine holes later in the game, because it becomes a test in measuring which threat is more important.As for the zombies in the dark, I liked them. Not sure why, but the fact that they redesigned the flash light and the fact that Alex can't shoot unless you give her light was pretty cool.
If you don't mind driving in HL2, then you'll probably like HL2 episode 2 a lot more. Also, hunters are a MUCH needed addition to the small amount of enemies that are currently in the Half Life world.
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well i don't really care for driving, BUT, the levels in which driving is apart of, are the sole reason i have beaten half-life 2 a total of 3 times now. even the levels from which you leave your car until the part in my previous screenshot, after that part, the game goes down hill.
so i beat episode 1, i enjoyed it, but the majority of it was going from place i don't like, to place i don't like. take that in consideration when i said i ENJOYED PLAYING it, i simply swear a lot more and rage a bit more, but overall, it was good.
episode 2...you essentially start off going in a cave thing with bugs and shit. well, good stuff, i enjoyed those levels, it was fun to run around in. didn't much enjoy the level of "GO GET THE CAR FROM THIS MAZE OF BUILDINGS AND ZOMBIES, but i got through it...blablabla. car goes out of commission and you have to stop more combine from this laser zombie shooting gallery, that part was kind of really fucking annoying till the end where you have a grenade box and can spam those everywhere. what else...the hidden package things, I ENJOY THOSE. first one was pretty easy, see icon...blow up barrel...get reward.
the second one...ill tiny text for those who don't want the puzzle spoiled, as it's the best puzzle ive really seen in this game, it's predecessor, and all of the expansions.
actually fuck it. GORDON PROPELLED ROCKET, MY GOD IT WAS GLORIOUS!
third was probably the hardest, but if you have a keen eye, you can spot it and realize how easy it actually was.
fourth...not too hard, just have to be in the right spot to know where to look. and im not to the fifth.
drive in town...get trapped, go in building. SIEGE, buncha combine/hunters...i fucked those up and im at the part right after that.
FIGURE I GOTTA BE NEARING THE END...since well i have 3.7 hours played on episode 2, and i beat episode 1 with 3.6 hours played. still, enjoying it. will be going back to that 'blivion after i finish this g'darn episode up.
also, what's up with the vortagons? like in half-life, you blow those niggas up like "insert analogy here", but they are friendly in the half-life 2. why? sure they are annoying in the first game, but since gordon walks faster than a cheetah going full speed...it isn't a problem at all to get away from them.
TLDR
GORDON FUCKING PROPELLED ROCKET
im probably blowing that way out of proportion, but it was pretty cool, and i felt good when i figured it out.
i think maby it was the way i did it. drop a grenade in the pit, switch gravity gun, knock down metal thing, stand on metal thing.
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I went back to HAWX because I figured I wanted a challenge of some sort so I'd try out Elite difficulty and as it turns out, the AI isn't any different. Enemy missiles just do more damage and you get fewer special weapons. So it's still really easy. It's also even easier since I've unlocked optional weapons packages for a large amount of the planes so when they tell me I'm fighting ground guys and air guys together and they want me to fight both of them with JStrike missiles, I say screw that and pick a package with JStrikes, Free Fall Bombs and Multi Target Anti-air and blow them all to hell.
Tried a ranked multiplayer match for the first time and was sort of confused. I ended up as my team's ace somehow and had the highest survival rate, which made no sense as everyone else on my team was way higher level than I was. And we lost, but not by that much. I even got a kill on a guy using my cannon while they were jamming missiles. But it basically felt like "fly into center area. pick a guy to shoot at. try to get lock on. hope a different guy doesn't just sit back with a radar guided missile and slaughter you." And you just do that over and over again. I'll trade it in with CoD4 when I go preorder Modern Warfare 2.
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also, what's up with the vortagons? like in half-life, you blow those niggas up like "insert analogy here", but they are friendly in the half-life 2. why? sure they are annoying in the first game, but since gordon walks faster than a cheetah going full speed...it isn't a problem at all to get away from them.
When Gordon kills the guy at the end of Half Life, it frees the Vorts, or something along those lines. They need t release a comprehensive time line for the Half life series and all of it's spin offs.
I could also use one for the Legacy of Kain/Blood Omen and Killer 7 series
Also I'm now at the Barrier Trio in Mother 3 and I'm confused, but I don't want to check a guide because I feel that would kill the fun.
Oh yeah, and I played a ton of SF4 with a few friends and I decided to dick around with Sakura and I think I pissed them off because I kept winning.
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a timeline of killer7 would look like this
(http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/7073/1238688017583.jpg)
so i beat the episode 2, id rank it about as fun as the first episode.
you may be thinking "but vlad, episode 2 has way more stuff you enjoy than episode 1" this is damn true, nearly every part of episode 2, i enjoyed more than episode 1.
BUT THE END PART WAS THE WORST MOST UN FUN MISSION I HAVE DONE IN ANY OF HALF-LIFE or HALF-LIFE 2's EXPANSIONS OR GAMES PERIOD.
so because of that, alone, i rank them about the same, otherwise episode 2 was a lot more fun than episode 1.
and fuck the ending, fuck that, fuck that, i was just starting to enjoy said character as well.
for no reason other to waste time, i shall rank them in terms of good to bad
half-life > opposing force > blue shift > half-life 2 > EP 1/2
ironic since i enjoy the first one the most, and that enjoyment goes down as they make more....but really i enjoyed them all. i would replay them all (ive beaten half-life AND half-life 2 three times each) save for the episodes to be honest. do note that half-life is my favorite single player fps...and blue shift/opfor are nearly the exact same game with different levels (and different guns in opfor's case) so i guess it's pretty fuckin obvious why i like them so much.
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BUT THE END PART WAS THE WORST MOST UN FUN MISSION I HAVE DONE IN ANY OF HALF-LIFE or HALF-LIFE 2's EXPANSIONS OR GAMES PERIOD.
You must have done it wrong then, or were you trying to save every building?
Also, SF4 online just isn't fun. Like, every other match I'll fight someone genially better then me and I enjoy it, then I fight some shitty person who runs away and spams fireballs and I can't counter it effectively with a half second of lag input. It's all bringing back bad memories of Brawl online were Ike players could spasm side smash and win, but this isn't that bad.
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i lost the lumbermill, and that's it.
also, you don't mind people better than you, but you lose to people "not better than you" with simple fireball spam? the lag in the game isn't that bad most of the time.
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the lag in the game isn't that bad most of the time.
Most fights are either 2 or 1 bar of connection. That whole split second is enough to fuck up A LOT. It honestly wouldn't bother me that much, but when I'm playing as someone who has no projectile it's amazingly frustrating. It's just chase them to the corner, do some damage, have them escape and do the whole thing over again and I always get hit like 3 times during that whole chasing part.
That, and it's amazingly frustrating when you know what to do to beat them and you just can't do it. Hell, that ALL this one kid did so I fought back using the exact same tactic and I won, but it wasn't fun.
Oh yeah, and did Mother 3 really need a rape scene?
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It's only a rape scene if that's what you get out of it. Itoi never put one in the game if you ask him. But that's how people in the US see it because that's "funny" or whatever.
Also I've definitely never had really any noticeable lag in SF4. Even at 2 bars I still never get more than a quick spike here and there.
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It's only a rape scene if that's what you get out of it. Itoi never put one in the game if you ask him. But that's how people in the US see it because that's "funny" or whatever.
Also I've definitely never had really any noticeable lag in SF4. Even at 2 bars I still never get more than a quick spike here and there.
Oh please, it's painfully obvious that it's supposed to come off like that, or at least that's what the translation makes it seem like. You see a kid and a older "guy" nude in a hot spring and the older guy swims up behind him and says "endure it" and then the screen goes blank. You'd have to be dense to think otherwise.
As for the lag, I could notice my opponent also getting hit by things that would normally be block able so it's not just me.
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It's not a rape scene, no matter what you want it to be. It wasn't written that way and shouldn't be taken that way and the only reason you are taking that way is something on your part.
Lucas learning PSI was written to be like a fever that he has to endure hence the enduring. When it goes black, you're just assuming Lucas gets raped, which is ridiculous and says something about you. And the Magypsies are neither male nor female. They have no desires on humans.
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Most fights are either 2 or 1 bar of connection. That whole split second is enough to fuck up A LOT. It honestly wouldn't bother me that much, but when I'm playing as someone who has no projectile it's amazingly frustrating. It's just chase them to the corner, do some damage, have them escape and do the whole thing over again and I always get hit like 3 times during that whole chasing part.
i use honda and i generally don't have problems. it can be annoying, but it's just one of those "deal with it" things. but i could be saying that because i play sf2, and well, the fireball spam in sf4 is nothing (unless fighting AKUMA) in compairison.
That, and it's amazingly frustrating when you know what to do to beat them and you just can't do it. Hell, that ALL this one kid did so I fought back using the exact same tactic and I won, but it wasn't fun.
depends on what they are doing. punishing the dragon punch NEVER EVER gets old.
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Lucas learning PSI was written to be like a fever that he has to endure hence the enduring. When it goes black, you're just assuming Lucas gets raped, which is ridiculous and says something about you. And the Magypsies are neither male nor female. They have no desires on humans.
I suppose you could say that, but the whole hot spring and the naked "man" walking up behind him and saying endure it would come off as a rape scene in most peoples eyes. You'd have to not understand basic human reproduction to think otherwise.
That and Magypsies come off as feminine cross dressing men kind of a moral lesson there, the whole "don't judge simply because they seem odd to you" type deal as well as a horrible first impression so assuming it as a him isn't a real stretch.
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mass effect for the 11thish time...trying something kind of different
sentinel with singularity as an extra skill
using ASHLEY (i hate her...so this will be new) and garrus
otherwise my shepard looks the same, only blacker, and with white lipstick and white eye stuff, kind of GANGURO
as for the 'blivion. either A i start getting into it, B i find some more mods, C turn it into a morbrowind thread. either way, no updates for a while.
so yeah, that.
also, leveling priority in this game
keep charm maxed>armor to get shield boost > specter to get unity > weapon > everything else
that's how i roll. also for engineerey people, decription/electronics are first, so i don't miss a single item.
*edit*
ok this is weird. even with my adept and engineer playthrough for achievements, i never really used/found much use in combat for party members.
but like, sentinel has no "weapon" skills or even no "armor" skills. i mean, i guess the class skill gives some bonuses to pistols, but nothing for armor. because of that, i have an asston of different abilities at any one time. so i kind of try to chill farish away from the bad dudes. ashley kind of just shoots dudes with shotgun (or other random weapons she decides to randomly switch to without my permission....that "bug" needs to be fixed in the next game. i mean, when i want ashley to do CARNAGE and she has the fucking useless assault rifle out, I CANT FUCKING DO CARNAGE FOR AN HOUR IT TAKES HER TO SWITCH BACK WEAPONS IF SHE DOES SO IN THE FIRST PLACE AFTER I TOLD HER TO SWITCH) and nothing much more. garrus is like SNIPER RIFLE I CAN USE IT FUCKER DIE. so if i can keep him back (he ain't the most durable fucker in the kitchen, even with max electronics) he basically kills everything, my job is kind of to shoot bitches with the pistol whilst knocking people around (neural shock, throw, lift, singularity). and pistols do pretty ok damage, and marksman (oddly the sentinal class skill gives this ability) makes your pistol into an automatic weapon, so the damage is nice.
huge block of text = garrus + sniper rifle = probably the only combat useful party member in terms of killing people with guns
no joke, in my 10 playthroughs, none of them have been "hybrid" classes. and about all 10 were with soldier. (got to the end of the game but deleted said files after achievements with engineer/adept)
but if you have singularity unlocked, why would you even want an adept? i guess you could have an assault rifle or shotgun, and you have an armor skill. but really you don't want a shotty on insanity if you aren't a soldier, the AR is the ken of weapons in this game so don't use it, and the sniper is kind of difficult to use in this game all the time, so you would waste more points in a secondary closer range weapon. sentinel gets like a million abilites, ALL of them are useful, this gives you more shit to throw in combat that isn't shootan, and pistols are pretty damn good in my opinion, with hammerhead rounds, that's a lot of knockdown bullets flying around slowing enemies down whilst your party executes them.
but it's all a matter of opinion i guess. i mean, i hear some people actually ENJOY the vanguard. i mean, soldier + singularity(i don't even use this, i should have got electronics instead for more shields, odd because it's like the best biotic power in the game WHY USE MAJICK WHEN I GOT GUN) >>>>>>>>>>> vanguard
THE REAL TLDR- I REALLY LIKE THIS GAME AND I AM STILL RAMBLING ABOUT IT BECAUSE IM TIRED AND I DID STAY UP LATE PLAYING THIS VIDJA CRACK
ok so i got to novera and decided, IM GOING INSANITY DIFCULTY
so going to use this "build" (yes a build, the fuck, im not me) with the same allies...only im going to have ashley go sniper rifles as well. main reason is she can use the AR when needed (IGNORANT ME) and well, shotties on insanity actually require you to be close to dudes. and well, im not in direct control of ashley...thus she will do more damage on insanity missing with a sniper rifle, if she hits, well gal durnit she might kill something.
http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Gold_Standard_Class_Builds
sentinel build on the bottom
this will be the first playthrough i don't invest any points into charm/intimidate
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shadow complex bitches, BUY IT
it's like a metroidvania (duh) but it has it's own flavor to it. you know how metroid was distingt from castlevania, but on the grand scheme of things are quite similar, this would be on the same boat. a shadow complex is different from your castlevania or metroid, whilst still feeling familiar. but it's fun, the combat is cool for the genre, and well, more of these games need to exist.
not pulling me away from mass effect, but playing along side mass effect? sure. (note, the only thing to pull me away from mass effect is diablo 3 or mass effect 2, not a knock on shadow complex at all)
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So, my current "mains" in SF4 are Abel, Gouken, Akuma (lololololol) and I'm trying to learn Fei Long considering he seems like a good aggressive striking character. I've decided to do the trails because I figure it will get me more familiar with what's possible with the combos in this game.
Also I'm still somewhat stuck on the Barrier Trio in Mother 3 and I got to the second Steamwood incident in Brave Fencer Musashi (FUCKFUCKFUCKINGFUCK) so I put both on hold somewhat. So most of my gamen time is spent on GG and SF4, which should change once I get a decent non fighting game going.
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i officially hate you
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:3
Also someone reminded me of Duke Nukem Time to kill and Rampage, going to get both now.
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vlad you should look into Alpha Protocol. It looks like Mass Effect but with spies and stuff. I don't think you get actual party members aside from yourself but you can seduce/use various women and bribe people and stuff to help you out or just go in guns blazing. It'll be out in a month or two I think.
I want Shadow Complex but I'm playing Skate 2 right now and that needs to be installed to run smoothly and that means I have 200 megs free on my 360's hard drive and not anywhere close to the 850 needed. I liked what I played of the demo at a friend's house though. It's basically just Metroid Fusion with regular people.
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kind of looks like splinter cell with mass effect like dialog. which should interest me, but from what ive seen, it's not on my radar.
wait till it comes out to see how it turns out, i never count a game out before it's release. well..that's a lie, spore, brutal legend, bioshock, bionic commando to name a few, but i ain't saying im not going to play alpha protocol, im just saying it's not on my radar and talk about the game after release may spark my interest.
also like, biological enemies (NON ROBOTS) on insanity fucking suck.
it's like, shield regen, health regen, IMMUNITY LOL. it's a nightmare when you are my class, and your allies ai is equivalent to a human fetus(ie the people that are SUPPOSED to be the bulk of the damage, only so much i can do with a pistol and no pistol skill). IMA STILL TRUCKIN THOUGH, IM BADASS!
(http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/3033/1241852923719.jpg)
but seriously, im hella enjoying shadow complex. it's one of those no brainer game purchases, it looks good, because it IS good. got my "jet pack" double jump thing a while ago and fought some giant robot thing with laser guided missiles...pretty cool fight. he's basically invincible, and you are on a longish vertical corridor, so you shoot out pipes to flood the place with water...causing him to climb higher, and well, you can assume how it dies. pretty neat though.
AFTER WORK, sat down and played a few more hours of dat shadow complex
games like this are hard to put down because it's this same rewarding pattern over and over.
-explore small area
-get extra ammo/health/armor along the way
-find new item
-use said item to progress to next area
-get extra ammo/health/armor along the way
-find new item
-use said item to progress to next area
-get extra ammo/health/armor along the way
add bosses somewhere in there. it's like you are always getting new stuff, and upgrades it's hard to put down because it's like "ohh but the next upgrade is just around the corner".
but uhh where im at, i just got the laser machine gun thing, which is the most recent upgrade i got. and this cyber armor is fucking ballin, jump slam attack = rape.
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I ended up beating Shadow Complex in 2:58:59 with 44% of the items and I was trying to take my time. I was kind of disappointed because everyone kept saying it was "better than Super Metroid" but I know now that's complete bs and they're likely a bunch of kids that have never actually played Super Metroid. I have absolutely no clue as to what was going on with the story. It's like THE VICE PRESIDENT WAS KILLED. Why? I don't get it. Was he in the way? They say he was in the way but they don't say why he's in the way. Why not the President? The guy at the beginning has zero to do with any other part. It's like they started a game and then scrapped it and started over but forgot to take out the first part. They also didn't do even close to enough with the various abilities you got. I blame it on it being an Arcade game and not a full retail game like it should have been. The game should have been like twice as big with stuff spread out a bit more. It looks really pretty but I'm guessing having it look like that made them have to take a hit on overall game size.
It was really fun but it's not as good as the bigger games in the genre like Super Metroid, Symphony of the Night or I guess Tomba if you count it part of the genre as it sort of fits.
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i don't really believe the taking your time part. i thought i was blowing through the game and my stats are...
6:20
map- 86%
item- 68%
i just got the super grenade gun thing. unless you hate searching around for items, i guess you won't get much more game out of this. it's like the people who beat fallout 3 in 10 hours, or mass effect in 6 hours, sure you can beat them if you focus on getting to the end as fast as possible.
im assuming im really close to the end, but im enjoying fucking around getting stuff for the time being.
whether it's better than super metroid/sotn is down to preference really. i like it better than sotn, but id have to replay super metroid to judge that game. and calling someone a kid because they didn't prefer super metroid is just asking to be called a nostalgiafag. but i digress, all 3 games are a joy to play.
also, i don't know what you are talking about, but the map is fucking huge. anyway, the game seems to be damn popular at the moment so with any luck, we will get a nice juicy sequel.
as for tomba, it's a bit too different to compare to metroid/castlevania, but i can understand the similarities. BUT GOD DAMN I WISH THE COMPANY THAT MADE TOMBA DIDN'T GO UNDER BECAUSE I WANT A THIRD GAME!
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I don't even remember what I had on the map. 79% or something.
I don't see why someone liking Super Metroid more makes them a "nostalgia fag." Regardless of anything, it is still an amazing game and it's probably even better now than it was then just because of how few games of the genre act out like it does. It's completely irrefutable impossibly fantastic. It's not like I'm saying to myself, "Oh man, this game used to be so good! I'm going to ignore any problems the game has!" It doesn't have any. At all. I would call them a kid because 99% of the time they are. It's a fact. The entire internet is literally filled with people who started gaming with the Xbox and because of gaming sites throwing around the names of "legendary" games, they know the names of stuff so when something they think is awesome floats around, the new game instantly gets put out as "better than INSERT LEGENDARY GAME." In some cases it might even be true but no, it is most definitely not in this case.
I still stand by the Shadow Complex map being tiny.
And of course the game's popular, you don't have to pay for it. You can play through the whole game for free just by downloading the demo, playing up to the first spider mech, killing it and then pressing start the second it dies and selecting load game. Then it just lets you continue playing through the rest of the game just fine. Sales are going to tank because of it.
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whatever floats your boat mang, ill just sit here and keep playing this beeotch.
new status, since i can't quit playing this fucker.
bout 8 hours in
96% map
86% items
some of these items are a tad tricky to find, but it's fun hunting down question marks all over the map and turning dem bitches into dots.
think after i 100% this, ill go for the level 50 achievement.
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I've gotta agree that Super Metroid is easily worthy of it's legendary status. I'd go on about all the good things in it, but I'm lazy... So I'm just going to reiterate that I find it DAMN hard to believe that anything they make now is as good as Super Metroid, for one single reason alone: There's nothing wrong with Super Metroid. For a game to be better than SM, you'd need it to not only be more fun, and a better overall game, but also not suffer from some marring issue, be it a potentially game breaking glitch, horrible mechanics, or any of the other myriad follies that games tend to suffer from now.
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Finally started playing Mass Effect. Is it just me, or is it virtually impossible to customize your character's face without it looking like total ass? I've tried numerous times but I just can't get it looking passable. I think it's the eyes.
I don't see why someone liking Super Metroid more makes them a "nostalgia fag." Regardless of anything, it is still an amazing game and it's probably even better now than it was then just because of how few games of the genre act out like it does.
This.
I bought an SNES specifically so I could play Super Metroid on an actual console (the other awesome games for the system were a nice bonus, too).
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10:11
100% map
100% items
shadow complex KOMPLETED
nothing much else to say, i had a blast playing it.
*edit*
playing on insane difficulty. progress, just got double jump, on my way to the scuba mask. figure the fastest way to level 50 is on insane difficulty, since you get hella more exp on harder difficulty settings.
also shadow complex is better than super metroid
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Shocking you'd say that, despite me not having played either...
Also I got Lost Planet, and I must say other then being retard easy this game seems pretty fun. Also big guns are big, I've never used a shotgun that was bigger then me before.
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Shocking you'd say that, despite me not having played either...
givin with how the posts have been going, if anything it should be expected of me.
i played a little more of my dark side force user in dat kotor. it's fun, but like, im realising i keep playing games ive played before. GOTTA FIND SOMETHING NEW!
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givin with how the posts have been going, if anything it should be expected of me.
Agreed. I was practically waiting for you to say it.
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Agreed. I was practically waiting for you to say it.
at least somebody isn't living under a rock. i main /v/, it's not like i can act differently, i enjoy having fun on my vidya internet talk foramz. you could go "ohh but vlad don't do that i don't want anything to do with dramah" i frankly don't care, let me have fun for people who somehow fall for it.
and im thinking of getting call of duty 4 for the xbax....i have it for pc but NOBODY I FUCKIN KNOW PLAYS IT. this is strange because i don't really like cod4, but it's not like any of my fucking friends play sf2 online, so basically that's the only game i could play with them online, like it or not. that said, i am always down for a game of sf2 (even i guess sf4 if you don't have 2) if anybody is down for a game or 30.
also i guess i wasn't trolling when i said shadow complex was better than super metroid, that's an honest opinion. i would NEVER bother to 100% super metroid, while i had a blast 100%ing shadow complex. you don't agree with it, that's fine, both games kick ass, not everybody has the same 'pinion.
that's like equivalent to saying the 8.8 twilight princess score was a troll, it's just retarded fanboys who got mad over someone's opinion. they like it more, that's fine, but jeff didn't.
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It's just a sad thing when people think a game should get a 10 or a 9 just from title alone (and this is what happens in most cases, so I guess that's why). I bet MOST of the people crying about that score probably had never played the game. The whole state of videogame journalism is just plain sad really, but whatever. I'm not going to let it weigh in on my opinion.
Also I'm enjoying lost planet a lot, but I can see why someone wouldn't like it. The combat is pretty sluggish and usually involves huge enemies (the first humans you fight are pathetically weak, but a bit later in the game they get a lot tougher, like I stumbled in front of three of them and they killed me) but I guess that's what I like about it. You need to plan ahead a bit instead of just running and gunning. That and I need more games where I can get in and out of different mechs freely along with pulling their guns off and using them.
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i kind of got cod 4 (on 360, to play online with bros)
wetworks seems to literally go along with the "grenade of grenade 4" name, so i hate that map. and well, just sucking right now playing team death match...then i decided to try one ffa deathmatch.
instead of getting "HURP DURP 2 C4 KILLS" i must have fucking got lucky or something because i won that game with 19 kills and 4 deaths with a 16 kill streak. 4th game of online call of duty ever. im not good at console shootans, but it's a shootan game, anybody can get lucky.
the single player campaign on hard difficulty is what made me uninstall the game, CONSTANT INSTANT KILL MACHINE GUN FIRE + LITERAL STORMS OF GRENADES TO MAKE YOU RUN OUT OF COVER = DIE FROM EITHER THE 35346030987 GRENADES FROM BEHIND COVER OR DIE FROM EVERY SOLDIER ON THE PLANET SHOOTING AT YOU
not fun, not fun
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The game gets a lot more fun if you avoid the mindless run and gun that is DM and TDM and join games that have FF on so grenade spammers get punished.
I once joined a COD4 free for all hardcore server and I honestly would spawn and die within secounds, and I got most of my kills by just dumping my grenade as fast as possibly and spamming an LMG. Shit's just infuriating.
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well just playing with irl friends online is worth buying the game for. but i reckon my "class" for the time being is the following.
ak47, iron sights (i prefer them to the reflex sight)
whatever the second pistol is, silencer
-3x special grenades
-stopping power
-last stand
it's getting me going thus far, and last stand tends to throw some people off for a free double exp revenge kill. also man, im playing a console fps...for it's multiplayer. it's like, something i said id never do, and here i am, doing it.
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Got Batman.
Will commence playing tonight.
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Do tell.
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i got and completed the new mass effect dlc.
id complain, but it's 400 points, like whatever man. basically it's a small space station, and you essentially complete some "simulated missions"
4x time trial
4x hunting
4x survival
4x capture
complete (or first place, i don't know since i just first placed everything off the bat) 3 of each to unlock the 4th in each mode. first place like 9 of em or something and this smug turian guy will give you one of his weapons (not as good as the specter x weapons, so for my level 59 character, worthless), complete everything (or first place, again, i don't know since i first placed everything) and the admiral guy gives you a challenge for a new mission.
shepherd seems to be kind of really smug here because she's all "bitch, turn off the safety AND make it harder" and while im at it, she seems to smile more when talking in general. not a knack but just something i noticed.
anyway, do that "special" mission and you get the admiral's retirement home (which you don't feel bad because that badass explains when he is only going to retire when he dies) which does show up on the galaxy map. so you got a little house you can visit whenever for grenade/medigel fillups, and if you need weapons, you can pay money for a ship to come deliver shit to you(i payed for the most expencive ship and got a specter x shotgun, while, i already have one, i figure it's nice for those who are on their first playthrough, though gear is scaled with level so you obviously won't get the best weapon in the game at level 20 or whatnot). nothing amazing, but for someone like me, it's a nice touch.
but really, that's it. it will definitely take longer for those who aren't badass level 59 soldiers or whatever, but i mean, it is what it is. if that sounds good for you for 400 points you have laying around, it will entertain you for a while.
speaking of my level/awesomeness, if anybody does get said dlc and does the last survival mission without being a high level soldier...POST A VIDEO. goddamn, that is by far, the only thing in the game that made me go "i might die before the needed time..." it's like GETH EVERYWHERE ROCKETS EVERYWHERE, EVERYWHERE! i did it first try and exceeded the time i needed by an entire minute and only died because why survive longer if i already completed it.......BUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTttttttttttttttttttttt i had a few close calls i will admit.
but yeah, it's value is pretty much based on how willing you are to spend 400points/how much you like mass effect. if you are into mass effect for the one playthrough thing, don't bother, but if you enjoy the game to play through it several times, it could be up your alley.
anywho, i needed to have max achievement points for that game, which i am now 1200/1200.
*edit*
for dat CoD4, im using a stupidly underused (from what i see) weapon, RAWCKETLAWNCHAIR!!!
so im running around like a faggot with the second lmg, 2x rockets, juggernaut, martyrdom
it's a fun gay little class i have called "shootabozz"
at first, rockets seem like they suck, but if your opponent is positioned right, it's basically a free kill.
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東方妖々夢 〜 Perfect Cherry Blossom. Fun fun game. I need to check out some of the other Touhou Project games.
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Batman fucking owns.
If you love Batman, buy it. If you like Batman, buy it. If you think he'd be a pretty cool guy in real life, but its impossible for him to be, buy it. If you think Batman is a pretty boring guy but still hold some respect for him, buy it. If you hate Batman, rent it.
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Messed with my emulator so now Mother 3 sounds like hell. Not sure what I did but it wasn't smart of me.
Also yeah, I'm real close to the end of Mother 3.
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東方妖々夢 〜 Perfect Cherry Blossom. Fun fun game. I need to check out some of the other Touhou Project games.
Fuck yes, touhou rocks. And Perfect Cherry Blossom has always been my favourite. So far the best I can get is the Youmu after the 3 sisters. On Hard.
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Heh, I'm still struggling to get past stage 3 without a continue on easy. I'm slowly getting better, as I just got the game yesterday. I've been using Sakuya mostly.
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i attempted to play COUNTERSTRIKE since i complained how cod4 was like counterstrike with respawning.
no, cod4 EVEN ON CONSOLE isn't as trash as counterstrike is. i played a good 3 minutes, before i realised, i just wasted my time re downloading it. friggin only server i could find with people in it, im using sniper rifle, and i just get "FAIL FAIL OLOL FAIL VLAD YOU MISSED LOLOL" yeah...no. i deleted the game after that.
i really wish i could delete it from my steam games list. i would say i would like to un buy the game, but i didn't buy it, it came with half-llife 2 when i bought that game.
you know, maby it was good 10 years ago, but it hasn't aged well AT ALL in my opinion.
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you know, maby it was good 10 years ago, but it hasn't aged well AT ALL in my opinion.
Counter-Strike was good in beta. That's about the only time it was good.
The team started to redeem themselves with Counter-Strike: Source, but then they stopped updating it. Yay.
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I have have been playing Parasite Eve and it is a good game. I have played the sequel which is far superior to the orginal. Speaking of which it should be coming some time today ^^
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i attempted to play COUNTERSTRIKE since i complained how cod4 was like counterstrike with respawning.
...but COD4 is nothing like CS/S.
I have have been playing Parasite Eve and it is a good game. I have played the sequel which is far superior to the orginal. Speaking of which it should be coming some time today ^^
I was loving the second game until it refused to read my second disc and I didn't get to save after fighting this behemoth of a boss and running through an enemy gauntlet.
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Heh, I'm still struggling to get past stage 3 without a continue on easy. I'm slowly getting better, as I just got the game yesterday. I've been using Sakuya mostly.
I use Reimu. And I mean with 5 continues, lol. I wonder how far I can get on easy, lol.
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(http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/large/9d189d0994606e5ff9f26d4cbc2aaca4a7cd9027.jpg) (http://www.xfire.com/screenshots/mortifiedocalot/ss_file-9d189d0994606e5ff9f26d4cbc2aaca4a7cd9027.jpg)
Oh Ryu, you tease.
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So I beat Mother 3 last night, and I must say that was a surprisingly depressing ending. I wish it wasn't so obvious who the masked man was, but whatever. I would have had it spoiled for me anyways. So I really did like how it kept switching between the point of views of the different characters for the beginning half of the game, but it felt like it came at the expense of gameplay (playing as one person in an RPG is kinda meh). Also god damn that part at the end
"Lucas attacks" "Lucas closes his eyes" *attack misses* "Lucas felt like crying"
I almost lost it at that part.
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And now you get to watch the deleted boss.
&feature=related
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i can understand why fighters aren't horribly popular. if you don't keep on fucking playing, you are as good as dead online.
2 win 10 loss in my latest run of matches in sf2 as t-hawk.
doesn't fucking help i fought a total of THREE chun-li's, AND NOBODY EVER PICKS CHUN EVER
least with joe shoto it's more of a chess match, chun is like, ADD HIPPITY HOPPITY BITCH YOU CANT TOUCH ME I AM THE GINGERBREAD MAN I CAN SPAM THESE KICKS AND THERES NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
ironic how i bitch about chun, and not KEN KEN KEN RYU RYU RYU RYU KUMAK UMAKUMAKAUMASUDAKSM
it feels like something i should be able to beat, but with so little experience, how can i know how to fight her save for studying the srk forums? and don't even get me started on the huge green cock known as blanka, i could go on and on about him.
tldr- EVERYTHING MAKES VLAD RAGE (EXCEPT WHEN IM WINNING)
BAWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
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I hate Blanka. He is one of the biggest banes to my play style. The best I can do with Cammy is try to bait electricity or try to cannon spike him out of ball. And that's if he feels like actually attacking me and not just being a defensive annoyance. And that's just in SF4. I can't even imagine correctly fighting anything close to a good Blanka using SSF2 Cammy. Ugh.
I beat Prey the other day and I have to say, I'm happy I only spent $2 on that game. It was really bland.
And I'm still waiting on GameFly to send me Batman: Arkham Asylum! At this rate, they're going to end up shipping me Guitar Hero 5 instead (GH5 ships on 8/31).
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kind of enjoying dat cod4.
running around with rpd with grip, stun grenade, martyrdom, juggernaut
hey, if it gets me kills, im rolling with it.
rpd is pretty rape, though, i have yet to see the use of smg's. they are like an lmg, but with shittier range, and damage isn't too relevant since anything kills you in a millisecond.
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So, I downloaded the mother 3 translation, and started playing. I just saved Fuel.
So far I'm loving the combo system (Though I can't seem to get a second hit on Yammonsters, lol). Finally, a system that rewards you for mashing the attack button after you've selected attack. (well, as long as you time it to the music, which I have a habit of anyway.)
EDIT: Well what do you know, first thing I do after finishing that post is killing a Yammonster in 1 "hit" because I got a combo.
Edit2: I like the music when you enter the Magypsies place. It seems to be based partially around Canon, and maybe something else. But it is amazingly well written.
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rpd is pretty rape, though, i have yet to see the use of smg's. they are like an lmg, but with shittier range, and damage isn't too relevant since anything kills you in a millisecond.
SMGs aren't too useful in most maps, but you can dominate in close-quarters with them. In that, uh...one map with the tight corridors (I forgot the name of it :x), stay inside with a shotgun or SMG and you'll destroy everyone who's crazy enough to take a rifle. The nice part about SMGs is that even though they aren't too accurate, you can stabilize them faster and burst fire in a tighter grouping.
gverav I need to start playing CoD4 again.
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gverav I need to start playing CoD4 again.
Same, but I'm pretty damn sure that most of the good servers on the PC version are damn near dead. Meh, I'll check around next time I feel like it.
That and I want to check out Mirror's Edge now, game seems rather fun.
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got an 18 kill streak on bog team death match
[spoiler]using a silenced g3[/spoiler]
g3 is effing hard to use, but for some reason I KEEP ON FUCKIN USING IT
that and im starting to lose my voice from all the yelling at dat vidya ive been doing, like literally
*edit*
actually it was the ak74u, still, a weapon im not used to at all. i got two hours of sleep that day due to work and well i played like 6 hours of cod4, so memory = rusty.
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I used to use SMG's in CoD4 all the time and totally dominated. You just can't camp spots at all aside from staircases or small rooms. I actually really hope MW2 has more smaller locations that make use of a shotgun better because they're actually my favorite weapon. AA-12 fights would be awesome. Especially if you get people to chase you around a corner into C4 or something.
I started replaying FF8 and I'm not especially far because I work every day right now. I'm on my way to Timber. Zell and Squall have 3000 HP at level 15 due to Life Magic Refine and Tents to make Curaga. I'm really realizing how pointless complaining about Draw Magic is. Like, you don't even need 100 of every spell. The elemental spells suck for junctioning so you can have as much as you think you need and cast away. The spells that work best for stats are always really obvious (Haste for speed, Protect for Vitality, Shell for Spirit, highest non basic attack spell for attack, Cure/Life for HP) so you know you only need a few at max to really get the full benefit. And you can make most of those spells out of items much easier than drawing them anyway. So basically, the game urges you to not level and you don't actually even have to rely on drawing magic to get all your spells. And you can just use Diablos to turn off random battles anyway.
Also, apparently GameFly is sending me Guitar Hero 5 instead of Batman (booooo) so I guess I'll have something to report on how bad/terrible it is on wednesday/thursday.
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I can't believe I'm getting back into Starcraft.
Although, all I do is play micromaps and not take things seriously
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I used to use SMG's in CoD4 all the time and totally dominated. You just can't camp spots at all aside from staircases or small rooms. I actually really hope MW2 has more smaller locations that make use of a shotgun better because they're actually my favorite weapon. AA-12 fights would be awesome. Especially if you get people to chase you around a corner into C4 or something.
Highly doubt-able.They need to buff the close range weapons because currently the assault rifles are subtly overpowered. Hell, damn near any situation an SMG would be ideal a rifle would also be fine.
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What's doubtable? That I topped leaderboards using an SMG? Because I've done that a lot. The P90 is ridiculous.
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I mean them balancing the game more. That and the P90 is the noob weapon (I hate the term, mostly because it sounds retarded and because it can have a lot of different meanings. The one I'm going off of is that it's the easiest gun to use and to get results with). Hell I used to use it as a silenced gun because it had no recoil.
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my 18 kill streak was from a smg(read my previous post), and ive done well with them.
but if any weapon needs buffs, it's shotguns. seriously, nobody uses them for a reason. but if anything, i just want more weapon variety, other than "HEY ASSAULT RIFLE IS THE ONLY WEAPON IN THE GAME"
lmg's are fine though, probably my favorite weapon type as of current. rpd being my favorite gun of that class...making it my favorite gun out of all the guns. if anything was changed about the lmg, it would be to make more of them, i mean, only 3? give me more than that.
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Yes, the shotguns have a laughable kill range and the fact that the knife LUNGES and is a one hit kill is a real kick to the shotguns balls. I honestly don't know what they were thinking, but I agree that they need a buff.
Oh yeah, and despite LMG's having a lot of cons (heavier then rifles, less accurate) they're still rather awesome.
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Just started playing MGS4.
The controls definitely take some getting used (R2 really feels like it should be the fire button, not R1, etc) but...dang. I love the cinematic-ness of it all so far.
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I tried replaying CSS, but I've just lost my love for the game. That and I'm fairly awful. It's odd, playing the game at a mediocre level doesn't take much but being actually good is fucking hard.
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I just tried to play rRootage, Warning Forever, and The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. I don't know if the problem is my laptop's small arrow keys or just that I don't use the slowdown key enough, but DAAAAMN I've gotten bad at these. I need to find some time to practice these. Seriously, they should put mouse controls in these games.
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playing zeno clash
HOLY FUCK THE COMBAT IS ANNOYING DO NOT BUY
that is all
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k i beat it. the combat has POTENTIAL to be good, but with multiple opponents, it kind of feels like a mess and frankly gets pretty frustrating.
i mean, you lock on to an enemy, and you are going all fisticufs on him...then one of his bastard friends shoots you, or knocks you down "which in turn you have to spend 5 or so seconds getting back up". they either needed to make this pretty much a 1v1 or 1v2 game, or alter the combat to better manage multiple opponents. because sometimes you are fighting onwards of 5+ dudes at a time, and it's a bitch trying to manage everything since this is essentially a FIRST PERSON FIGHTING GAME with some shooting, but good luck reloading with a crazed whatever running you down.
i guess if i spent more time getting used to the combat, id have some fun, but it didn't help that the game defaulted to HARD. otherwise ive heard from others that the combat is good, and the 1v1 combat is fine, but when you mix it up with multiple people, it's just frustrating.
as for the stuff you DON'T but a game for (story/atmosphere), it's ok. i mean, the general tone/atmosphere to the game is pretty good, the characters are all fucked up, the environment as well. it's like suda51 and tim burton had a baby, and frankly i enjoyed it. hell, the entire game is pleasantly fucked up. i mean, the game starts off with you killing your clan's "father-mother" some freakish girl/boy bird thing with a huge long nose and a screachy voice. but it's good, i just wish the gameplay was better.
all in all, i was frustrated during a good bit of the battles, and it lasted me about 3 hours. but it was only $15, and the team who made the game was pretty small/low budget, so i can give them some leeway. they ARE making a sequel, and if they can fix some of the problems for the first game, i will buy it. as for recommending this game, try the demo(i didn't, i just impulsed bought this sonbitch), and then see how much $15 is worth to you to be honest.
i don't like number grades, they don't really convay the quality of a game, but i would give this a 6/10. if only because i didn't pick up on the combat as quick as i should have, but really that's my problem, since apparently most of what i hear about the game praises the combat. that and this is a pretty unique game, and i applaud the developer for doing something fresh and new.
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I thought the demo was pretty bad and didn't bother with it after that. Breakdown on the Xbox did first-person melee combat a lot better from what I saw of Zeno Clash.
I am now playing Metroid Prime Trilogy and I will beat all three games in order and hell yes it's so good.
And I'm still waiting on GameFly to deliver Guitar Hero 5 to me.
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played a few sf2 matches. in terms of characters im good with.
1. GIEF
2. HAWNDA
3. HAWK
4. DEE JAY
5. uhh...maby chun
6. ermm...the rest of the roster?
in terms of characters that lack much skill to use properly
1. HAWNDA
2. BLAWNKA
3. EVERYBODY ELSE AT LEAST REQUIRES SOME THOUGHT EVEN AKUMA AS OVERPOWERED AS HE IS REQUIRES A BIT MORE THOUGHT
seriously, i love using honda, but really, it's like picking the m16 with stopping power on cod4. you use him for easy kills to have some dumb fun, you don't go "I FUCKIN OWNT U IM SO MAWCH BETTUR THAN U AT DIS GAYM!11111111111" but seriously, it's hard as shit to deal with even his headbutt unless you are really good, and HHS is retarded on the chip damage, not to mention his command throw is the easiest throw to do in the game, including regular throws. i win more games with honda, but im BETTER at using zangief if that makes any sense. and blanka, well, he's blanka. this isn't sf4 so he isn't as gay, but still, he makes me put on my "this is bullshit" face.
also a good cammy is impossible for me, plain and simple, i CAN NOT beat a good cammy with my zangief or t-hawk. i think it's because they are so rare, i mean, you fight decent cammys that are ok, but GOOD cammy's beat my ass down harder than the good shotos. the only exception is a good chun, she might even be harder, but it's hard to tell because a good chun is FUCKING ANNOYING GOD DAMN.
and sagat, in sf2....NOBODY EVER PICKS HIM EVER. no kidding, i see more cammy than sagat, i even see more FEI FUCKING LONG than sagat. i think it's because in sf2 people really only picked old sagat, and now that you can't pick osagat, he's probably down to ken's level, maby even lower. he's fun to fight charge projectile characters *cough*guile*cough* with though.
anything else to add to this bloglike random sf2 post? uhh, looking for a character to work on that isn't hawk/gief/honda. probably a motion character since im ok with the charge characters. hell, maby sagat, he's kind of fun. im thinking of motion characters and crossing them out "cammy, fei, ryukenakuma" that leaves sagat...and dhalsim...i guess i may work on sagat then since you basically have to be pro to be even bad at using dhalsim. you know, i could even pick "insert shoto here" but even if i got past the playing a faggot character (ignore me picking sagat, i don't have much against him even being top tier, even in sf4, i mean, boxer is the best character in the game and i have nothing against him) i don't like the short range of their non fireball/SHORYUKEN moves. that's what i enjoy about fighting them, because you can easily out poke them if you are smart. but uhh, i don't know, never really got good at using a motion character (grapplers are different brah) so i figure it would be something fresh and new for me.
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http://www.eventhubs.com/guides/2008/oct/31/super-street-fighter-2-turbo-hd-remix-tiers-character-rankings/#comments
one of the first sf2hdr tier lists, and well, i didn't expect that at all.
zangief/hawk are easily better than fei/cammy. sagat needs to be moved down a few notches.
but what can i say, im not a pro. it's just fucked up that gief, being better in this game, is put at the bottom of this list(like THE bottom, not near the bottom, THE bottom). wellp, only time will tell. if anything, id prefer he stayed down there, makes me feel better about my wins.
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no wonder cammy/chun are hard for me. 4-6 for both of them, in their favor. the 1-9 zangief-akuma seems fucked up though. maby i just haven't been fighting THOSE akumas, which is saying alot since 6 out of every 10 players EVEN ON SF2 pick akuma. i guess it beats sf4 where 8 out of every 10 people i fight pick akuma. sure, it's fine to have a popular character, i can now tolerate ken/ryu, BUT DELETE AKUMA GOD DAMN I HATE HIM JUST REMOVE HIM FROM THE HISTORY OF STREET FIGHTER PLEASE CAPCOM JUST KILL HIM OFF AND NEVER BRING HIM BACK.
anyway, im working on sf2 dic, he's pretty fun, but for a charge character, i think he's the hardest one to use. i mean, he just flows differently than the other charge characters, you can't really just sit on a down back and be ok, you have to be up in the enemies grill poking them with standing kicks and figuring out when you can do your HIGH DIZZY combos for big damage. but i guess that's what practice is for. if you can land a dizzy, and you know what you are doing, you literally just win. unlike sf4, no teleport, no bullshit. that and psycho crusher is actually worth using sometimes.
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I think I might finish up Crysis. That or man up and beat steamwood on BFM. I hate myself for not beating my games.
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you should beat crysis, it's not exactly long.
but jesus can it get hard during the jungle part of the game, those bitches FORCED you to use your suit. which is nothing but a good thing in my opinion. always like stealth grabing a korean and hes' all "RET ME GROW" and i throw his ass and shoot him like he's skeet.
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I'm thinking of replaying it on the hardest difficulty, because it seems it makes more use of your suit powers (oh hai Rev Rant) but I should probably finish it first.
Also after leaving Brave Fencer Musashi alone for a while I have seemed to beat the second steamwood incident on my first try with 7 seconds left. I came.
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So I beat Guitar Hero 5. None of the songs are hard at all. Scatterbrain was probably the hardest but they let you use the touch strip for the non-guitar part so it becomes super easy. The last song is Spirit of the Radio (Live) and it's really easy aside from one pattern that's just annoying that happens over and over again. The rest of the song is really easy.
Yeah, it's going back to GameFly asap so I can try to get Beatles: Rock Band or Batman or Muramasa (omfg if you haven't seen this game yet wow it's so amazing) or Dirt 2 or something.
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What the fuck, the aliens in Crysis shoot me with ICE BEAMS.
Also yeah, Muramasa looks fairly awesome, sucks I look forward to only a few games and two of them come out so close to each other.
Fucking....fuck the final boss of Lost Planet, shit's just horribly designed. No seeable attack patterns, randomly flies away from you, randomly shoots missiles, randomly drops mines, randomly fires a fuck huge lazer that can drop damn near a quarter of your life and shoots in a bunch of dumb directions. Plus I can only to noteworthy damage in close range, and it takes a while to get within range.
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Tried Lunatic in PCB, and I made it past the first stage on my first try (with continues, of course). Then I decided to record it in practice.
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Ok, I'm gonna have to record myself sometime. I'll make a recording of one of the later bosses, like the sisters or something on lunatic.
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Uninstalled Lost Planet. Can't stand games that change gameplay completely on the final boss.
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Wait what was hard about the last boss? I admit that the change comes from out of nowhere and feels like a really poorly-made knock-off of Zone of the Enders but I thought the ending was pretty easy. Just fire away from distance (you did know that you had a longer distance attack right?) and you can dodge most of the attacks pretty easily.
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I don't know much, outside of the fact that my range attacks to near no damage and the melee does decent. That and I really don't care about the story, but it was a fun game while it lasted. Maybe I was a bit too hasty when I deleted it, but it's still in my recycle bin.
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so i got kotor on steam even though i have it on xbox. my standard xbox isn't working and the 360 emulation is ANNOYING with it's sound choppiness.
doing a darkside force user since the last kotor 1 playthrough was a lightside melee user.
started out as a scout for the free implant feats, got it to level 4 for the second implant feat and stopping until i become a jedi. that said, doing the arena missions as a level 4 scout...kind of difficult for the last three guys.
the melee dude i kited, didn't know you could kite people in this game, but i took care of him that way. the "champion" i basically abused energy shields and grenades. and starkiller i kind of abused the rest of my grenade stock, more energy shields, advanced medi kits, LOTS OF LUCK, and saving mid battle to reload when needed. wasn't easy but i downed him at level 4. mind you i have like 10 dex and like 8 strength, so i kind of suck at melee AND ranged combat, so im using a bowcaster since it beats going melee.
anywho, my wrist is kind of hurting at the moment else i would play some more, hopefully ill be off taris tomorrow.
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Yeah, I think I'd actually enjoy playing KOTOR again on PC instead of my Xbox copy just because of how god awful the support is for that game on 360. I want to play KOTOR 2 but I'm actually afraid of getting the Xbox version. I'll just wait until it shows up on Steam.
I'm in full swing of playing Metroid Prime Trilogy. Playing through Prime 1 and really really enjoying it a lot. Being able to lock on to one enemy and still free aim to shoot other stuff around helps a lot and being able to move around while selecting visors and weapons and scanning and all that just feels better. I've actually never finished any of the Prime games so I'm determined to finish all 3 this time around. I'm up to 48% items and 85% scans. I think I missed two boss enemies too. Namely, the thing that spawns wasps that you get missiles from and I think the war wasp hive during the fight with the flamethrower boss. Still, I'm happy with how things are going.
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kotor 2 is glitchy on BOTH platforms (seriously, i own BOTH of them), get the pc version if you planned on playing kotor 2 on the 360, the sound glitches are AWFUL. can't much say for playing it on a regular xbox, mine stopped working before i got kotor2. as for kotor 1 on the regular xbox, it's fine, you will have longer load times of course, but it's still really enjoyable.
plus like kotor is easily downloaded on steam for $10.00, GOD DAMN YOU CONVENIENCE!
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DJMAX Trilogy and Halo 3. I havent been going on my 360 much lately though cause of personal shit.
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Playing through Link's Awakening DX. In one sitting I got the red clothes (the best defense is a good offense) I went from about 4 or 5 secret seashells to 11 and I got the key to the next dungeon.
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in all honesty the game isn't hard enough to need the blue tunic, the red one is the best choice.
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you know what
street fighter 4 is a piece of trash
at least in blazblue there's ONE character i can enjoy. you know how many characters i enjoy playing in the rather good size roster of street fighter 4.
FUCKING NONE OF THEM
im done playing this pos
i could tolerate the GIGATON SWARMS of akuma players, i could even tolerate the stupidest thing ive seen in a fighting game since the doa counter system (ultra meter), but if there isn't one single character on the roster i go "hmm, i want to work with this character and main him" im not going to play anymore.
EIGHTY FIVE HOURS should be plenty of time for me to find a character i like enough to not switch off to another character every few hours, but apparently fucking not.
i guess i got my moneys worth out of the game, im just disappointed that im done with it.
i will ONLY EVER play the game again if it's to play with irl bros, or anybody here who wants to give it a go and NOT play their main so i can piss around with other characters. i mean, i can't possibly go into some random game trying to use gen, it's fucking suicide.
i mean every character i potentially want to main i just can't see doing. chun, honda, bison are those characters, and they all have flaws to them that i just can't tolerate. GEN is fun, but i really need to get a few hours under my belt to get the hang of the guy, and well, im NOT doing that against random people online, id throw a fit of rage.
so yeah, im done with that game. fucking apparently sf2 is the only fighter i like, which sucks because i enjoy some variety, and nobody 'round these parts plays sf2. i mean, blazblue is retarded, and marvel is like blazblue with more infinities and shittier ballance. not interested in kof, and well, 3d fighters suck. maby when (im saying when because it's not impossible) darkstalkers is released on xbla ill give that a shot.
or maby i won't find that game, because what i like about sf2 is it's simplicity and the high amount of damage everything does. it's simple, but there's so much to it that you keep on learning. i mean, if anybody knows of a game like this (don't fucking say smash bros, ive played it, i have my opinion about it) by all means, let me know. i should try alpha, though, it won't be what im looking for, fuck, it's new to me. maby even go old school and try out mortal kombat 2.
till then, i don't know, ill be casually playing sf2 i guess. i mean, i know i main somebody when i simply DON'T want to play anybody else, or when i do, i go back to said character because he's just too fun to use even after hundreds of hours. gief's my man, ain't no way ill main anybody else.
tldr- sf2 is the only good fighting game in existence, and it came out 18 years ago
*a look back on the previous tldr*
i think a key issue is missing. with sf2, for a while anyway, i was playing with an irl friend in person. we would go online to do some online for achievements but overall we played eachother, and i got my start learning stuff by doing this. only after that i started playing and enjoying online with my newfound skills at the game, with the head start i got from playing an irl friend, i could sort of hold my own online and thus get better from the online play.
i haven't done this with any other fighting game (maby a little blazblue, but not really the extent of sf2), and i think that's why i really only like sf2.
im still not playing random strangers in sf4, but anybody i know irl/online, im game. i would like to get the hang of sf4, in particular because EVERYBODY in the fighting game scene is playing it, and maby not everybody, but it's the most popular thing out now.
even then, it's still entertaining to watch.
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I'd agree, SF4s cast is kindah meh. Damn, first L4D and now SF4, current gen games just aren't worth the cash.
Also Sony won the console war.
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I would massively disagree and say that SF4 is by far the best. And I'd say it's definitely worth every penny. vlad's just crazy/overly picky/wants every game to be SF2 with its retarded priorities that make no sense to me and likes to cry a lot.
To say that "current gen games aren't worth the cash" is really dumb though. Games are worth whatever you put into them.
I managed to get into some weird magic voodoo thing this morning where I fought the #1 Bang player (he's level 88 with over 8000 matches), the #2 Taokaka, and the #3 Litchi. And the #7 Arakune. I actually beat the Arakune and took one round off the Taokaka but man, I was hoping for some easier fights after I had just woken up.
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eggman, die in a fire. the rant wasn't directed towards you. let me complain. i apologize for not wanting to pay $60 for bad games.
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See? You just get angry all the time. If you post a rant on an open forum, whether it's directed towards someone or not, you should be well aware that someone's probably going to say something for or against it. Besides, if I have to let you complain about some random game, then I get to complain about you or anyone else or anything I can think of and you or they can't say anything against it because hey, they have to let me complain.
And it's not a "bad" game. You're just bad at it. You've been playing for a long time, have made little overall headway in skill past a certain point and you can't cope with it so you call it a terrible game instead of just accepting it and then you get mad because you're taking it too seriously, which is why you say you have more fun against people in real life.
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it's called being mad at the vidya, you heard of it? when i am frustrated, i bitch and say things out of proportion, this makes me feel better. you are just taking what i am saying literally.
though i guess me going BLABLABLA and you going "tehehe time to blablabla back with" BLA, BLABLABLA, BLA
and im all BLABLA whatever you say sucks (i hope i at least forced him into a tldr) BLABLA, BLA!
i love the internet. i ain't fraid to talk back, gives me something to do. not like i can get banned here anyway (believe me, i tried)
anywho kotor darkside run is going good.
finished kashyyk and tattoine, moving to manaan. don't quite know, but i take this exact same order each time i play the game. but lets see, rolling with carth and jolie. carth is just good on the damage(dual pistols, rapid fire), and jolee is actually quite good at casting darkside powers, not to mention he can cast basically anything without it costing an arm and a leg force wise, being almost neutral and all. so generally ill open up on groups with insanity to fuck em all over, then spam force lightning, and have jolie spam it as well. shit dies fast. sometimes i like throwing around the spell "kill" on smaller groups since its basically like a stun that does 50% of the targets hp over time, it's pretty fucking good.
but yeah, force powers are fun to play with when you can spam them all day and night.
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friggin two levels until FORCE STOARMMMMMMMM. uhh finished manaan, and the ship you get abducted from, on korriban.
getting close to dat ending.
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Just started playing inFamous. Fun fun fun fun fun game. That alone makes me glad I bought a PS3.
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Got a rom of Pok
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I've been wasting hours on Mount and Blade. I've got vlad to thank for mentioning it with that review.
Damn fun game.
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Just started playing inFamous. Fun fun fun fun fun game. That alone makes me glad I bought a PS3.
That game looks criminally underrated, then again it is on dat triple.
I would massively disagree and say that SF4 is by far the best. And I'd say it's definitely worth every penny. vlad's just crazy/overly picky/wants every game to be SF2 with its retarded priorities that make no sense to me and likes to cry a lot.
Whoa whoa whao, I wouldn't call SF4 the best fighting game made, it still has problems of its own (the ultra system is kinda dumb, overall speed of the game is slow then the last installment) but it's still good.
Also I've got Devil May Cry 4 and Star wars battlefront (I'm hoping it's BF2, but it looks like 1) so those should keep me happy until Borderlands reaches me.
Oh yeah, and I'm still lazy with my roms.
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I've been wasting hours on Mount and Blade. I've got vlad to thank for mentioning it with that review.
Damn fun game.
if you got the knowhow to start out in that game, id appreciate some advice. i mean they kind of throw you into the game morrowind style "hey there's a ton of shit to do AND WE ARENT TELLING YOU HOW TO DO ANY OF IT", making starting out, even character creation kind of hard.
anywho, the banjo-kazooie play session thing at my bros is finished as he beat it 100%...meaning i start (ie continue) tooie.
gotta say, frustrating parts aside, im enjoying tooie. im at like 49 jiggies thus far, access to all of the levels, and im really digging the level interconectivity of the thing. example in terydactyl land, theres this dinosaur that needs water. simple...right? well that's like level "5", what you need to do to finish that is go to level "8" which is located in the clouds, and break the plug for this airborn body of water which happens to be in front of the dry pool the dinosaur is at. i don't know, i would also consider that a flaw if you keep trying to figure that quest out in the level you get it. but im using an expert gamer from like 2001 to help me out through the tough spots (you will be aimlessly running around from time to time without some guidence) so it isn't too relevant, and im having a good time. also i have like 13 hours into the game...and i beat the previous game (without a guide or any bs) with 11 hours at 100% items...if that says anything on how nonlinear/EFFING HUGE THE LEVELS ARE.
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I really need to play those, I fucking loved Spyro.
Also it's BF one, and I'm kinda hummed because I really like BF2 better but it's still a good game. The PC version seems a shit ton better to, what with snipers being useful (more then likely broken now) as compared to the absolute uselessness of the snipers in BF2. Still I want my amazingly overpowered engineers that were in BF2. They had health and ammo packs that could feed themselves, a shotgun that could drop a jedi if you were smart with it, and a blow torch that could hijack vehicles faster then you could take them out with other vehicles.
Oh my god, I just realized how amazing a Warhammer 40K game based on the style of Star Wars Battlefront with space combat would be.
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if you got the knowhow to start out in that game, id appreciate some advice. i mean they kind of throw you into the game morrowind style "hey there's a ton of shit to do AND WE ARENT TELLING YOU HOW TO DO ANY OF IT", making starting out, even character creation kind of hard.
My first suggestion: you can go through the game 2 main ways, killing everything in sight, or making money by trading and shit, and running the fuck away except when necessary (you can get EXP for helping towns out and shit).
The first way is VASTLY easier.
you need to be relatively good at fighting, because unless you select a certain thing in the character creation, you usually don't have much money to start out. And enemies rarely come in groups of less than 5 or so.
Try to never fight dismounted. your horse does damage by charging enemies, gives you a speed advantage, absorbs a lot of damage, and lets you hit the enemy before they can hit you.
Archers are your worst enemy. They can do some good damage to you, so if you see a group of archers early game and you don't have many people, you might want to try to avoid them.
The path finding skill is REALLY USEFUL. It gives a small boost in movement speed, which can sometimes mean the difference between running away from a fucking huge army (like, 150 men to your, say, 20) and getting seriously mangled in battle.
Making money is a bit hard at first. But there are certain trade routes you can figure out (it helps when you have a hero in your party who talks about their homeland when you get near it, if you pay attention you can sometimes learn about what things are usually cheap there and such.) You should take advantage of those whenever possible at the beginning, because winning battles initially doesn't make much money and most of the low level equipment sells for fuck all. That's where the loot skill comes in handy. That (as far as I can tell) increases the level of the items you loot off enemies (right now I'm looting armor that has like, 20 body def + 7 leg def, helms with like, 30+ def, and various weapons and shields and crap).
Also, if you talk to a king, you can ask them to basically give you a contract of service and join in their war efforts. When you do that, you are required to respond to any summons quickly, raise troops occasionally, and in general follow orders from the king (few and far between) and can participate in battles against whoever they are at war with. It's a lot easier to win battles when your fighting a lord with say, 50+ troops and you've only got 25 or 30, when a friendly lord with like, 50 or 70 or whatever troops joins in. And you can make some damn good cash/get some good loot that way.
My main character is level 20 now, and has like, 30+ party members, something like 10 of which are heroes (hired in taverns, sometimes for a fee ranging from 100 to like, 300 or 400 dinars).
Heroes can't be killed, but if you are captured and they don't like things, they'll leave, or you may escape without them.
Some heroes don't get along well. For example, having a bunch of warrior types in your party and recruiting the trader hero may end up with the trader leaving if you don't manage things well. Basically, every hero has their likes and dislikes.
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im still hesitant into buying the game (i mean, im going to buy this sonbitch come expansion time) now due to the expansion, and $50 for aion..., but a matter of piddling around with the demo some more may change my mind.
also come expansion, we need to get hella people from here to jump on for the multiplayer. shit looks awesome.
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banjo-tooie
canary mary, level 8
if i can't find a way to get on the thingy without using an analog stick...i may be screwed. because without the turbo function from my arcade stick, i don't believe i can complete this.
seriously, you need to hit buttons FAST, this coming from somebody who can score 121 on that "hit the 0 button on the numpad as fast as you can in 10 seconds", this shit isn't fucking around. it's one of those "be a GODLY button presser or use turbo to get this jiggy".
what im going to try later is positioning myself in such a way where if i drop a clockwork egg behind me and explode it, it propels me onto the clockwork mouse i need to ride...if i can do that i should be fine. basically position myself, switch controllers...explode egg...hopefully do this.
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well that plan basically worked, yay! my arm is saved!
seriously though, i could probably do it on the n64 buttons, but NO WAY IN HELL ON THE 360's buttons GODDDDDddddddd, those buttons are not meant to be pressed at a consistent rate of 10+ times a second for 30-40 seconds straight.
funny thing about that, i don't feel dirty about doing it.
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I swear I get a head ache every time I play SF4. I just can't love a game where my Ultra has the same exact input of a charge move, how in the hell is the game supposed to determine which input I'm even doing? Also what kind of programmer thought that would even be a remotly good idea. Not to mention the input for the game are already a bit fussy.
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I swear I get a head ache every time I play SF4. I just can't love a game where my Ultra has the same exact input of a charge move, how in the hell is the game supposed to determine which input I'm even doing? Also what kind of programmer thought that would even be a remotly good idea. Not to mention the input for the game are already a bit fussy.
It probably wasn't a programmer's idea. I'll bet whoever programmed that bitched bout it a lot, because that is really stupid.
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It's not really stupid at all and it's been that way since SSF2Turbo. In fact, using the first half of a charge super/ultra to buffer in a sonic boom or something into the super/ultra has been a tactic for a long time. Or if you're talking about it not registering all 3 punches/kicks and instead doing one, then that pretty much never happens because you just assign a button to be all 3 together. The game figures out the input just fine.
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The game figures out the input just fine.
No. Also what are you talking about? I do the two QCFs and then the button I have mapped to 3 punches and I still get a charge move off despite having full ultra. That's one of the big reasons I like Akuma, I never accidentally do a shortcut because his ultra and super inputs are different.
It's like I need to do the input slower to get an ultra, but I never have the luxury of time when trying to land one.
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what are you talking about, as far as i know, NO charge characters have a double qcf motion for ultra. also, 3 button macro? why? just hit all 3 buttons at the same time, you get used to it after a little while. my only issue with the charge ultra is bison, because for some fucking reason, charge back, forward, back, forward means an srk motion to teleport 50% of the time.
trying new characters in...anything is hard for me. i get my ass kicked, end up fighting the game guy, pick my MAIN and work his ass with him. funny, i tried bison, got dominated since i suck with sf2 bison, then i fight a bison a few matches later....FUCK A GOOD BISON IS FUCKING SCAREY, that is all.
what was my point...uhh, i need to learn to force myself to stick with characters im trying to work on. i mean, i know my gief pretty well, i don't know honda...but unless im fighting better than average people i still win anyway with him and i have a hard time learning new tricks...which i don't need against most people. my hawk needs work, but im still fairly solid with him. pretty much im working on chun, and dhalsim. maby later, some bison, but ill have to look for some bnb combos with him first.
so yeah, that. and if anybody wants to play some sf4, ill be game, im pretty much done with random online matches in that game (i haven't played since my sf4 rage post), but ill play people i know on the internets, MABY EVEN TALK ABOUT THE MATCHES AND "gasp" GET BETTER AT THE GAME! but i doubt that will happen, anyway if we do, ill most likley work on who i was best with previously, chun, with some honda. but i would like to master chun, i somewhat understand how she works...i just need to get past her flaws. i mean, i hate it, but, i want in on the scene, and i know i can like it when i can grasp a character.
i think that's about it, still, using somebody like dhalsim, getting worked, switching to gief and EFFORTLESSLY(well...maby not, but still i can hold my own pretty well) winning is kind of why i keep on with my gief. that's kind of what i want with sf4, somebody who is too fun to play to want to use anybody else.
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I'm not talking about the charge moves, I meant to say the EX moves. That and 3 punch and 3 kick come mapped to a button automatically, and trying to hit said set of buttons on a controller is awkward as all hell.
Also speaking of SF4 I have 212 fights and 28 wins, I'm so damn pro. I'm not sure why, but I just don't like SF4 anymore. When I first got into it I was having a ton of fun but half of my time online is just me getting frustrated and losing.
Maybe I should just get back to Abel, I actually did decent with him today.
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Oh lol, wrong thread.
but yeah, just beat the mine cart with ants thing in Brave Fencer Musashi after a few tries, and prior to that I beat the second steamwood incident on my first try. Kinda sad considering I died at least 10 times on each of these as a kid.
Also I got enough secret seashells to unlock the new sword, so wasn't worth it considering how much better the red tunic is and it was a LOT easier to get.
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im starting to pick up sf2 chun. frankly, she's aight, i like her. zangief is fucking amazing, but i feel when i fight a skilled player who can keep zangief out, i realize why he is low tier. when you can't get in, you can't get in. when you can't get in, you can't do damage. when you can't do damage, you lose. especially against akuma, a decent akuma will beat my gief 10 times out of 10. im still maining sf2 gief, but hey, if i can start getting good with chun, i can hopefully stand up to the skilled players who can lock down my gief.
maby...maby even pick up sf4 chun again....maby...
but sf4 gief, lolno, way too many akuma players out there to make gief worth using.
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for sf2, i can't not main gief, no matter what. times when i have the fucker in a corner and magnificently get a super after a green hand make my fucking day. sure, it's me spinning the stick around like a two year old on speed, but it's when i get the practice to not randomly do that gives me the drive to keep on playing. also empty knee(his jumping knee move, only land before them without hitting them) into spd, or hop (but not hitting them with the hop) into spd, that shit is just fun to land. the former for fireball characters, and the latter is easier on non fireball characters, but less useful overall. it can still catch people off guard.
still, im enjoying sf2 chun. and learning a character that you can kind of feel your way around and still win games with is pretty fun. though what's not fun is beating people just by the following
jumping short into hundred legs (i forgot the name) OVERANDOVERANDOVVER
seriously, yeah, play to win, i have won quite a few games by doing this. here's the thing, i want those people to counter that and force me to do something else so i can learn chun. any asshole can jump in with a short kick and do legs after that over and over, it's when they counter that which forces me to vary up my game. and yes, i would rather lose the game with a close match than win an easy one. that's why the game is fun, when you are reading your opponent and outsmarting them, it feels pretty good to win. i guess beating nubs is fine, but when you beat somebody on par with you, it's why i keep on playing.
but whatever, ive seen people throw me before i can land legs, or just fucking do any reversal, so it can't be that hard to get out of.
ive probably said all of this stuff before, but im me, and y'all know that.
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I don't know if you've seen this vlad but you'll enjoy at least the first two rounds I think.
I played through Batman: Arkham Asylum and then Wolverine. I think I'm all pow-wow'd out as far as superhero games go.
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yeah ive seen it. but it's a good one, i mean, the best t-hawk vs the best zangief. hawk was i think more dangerous up close than gief was back then due to him not having a whif animation for his 360 throw. now they added a whif animation, so he doesn't have a retardedly hard tick throw thing to get out of.
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this warrants double post
i guess my zangief irritates some people. this fellow left my game after i had won, i sent him a message reading "take it like a man" and i get this.
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/681/img1458.jpg
i put on my mic to explain how funny that message was....and oddly enough i get this
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/9757/img1459.jpg
welcome to xbox live?
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The best hate message I've ever gotten was
"i pounded u so hard ur pussy drips with defeat"
I am not kidding. That is actually the real message. And I won.
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this warrants double post
i guess my zangief irritates some people. this fellow left my game after i had won, i sent him a message reading "take it like a man" and i get this.
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/681/img1458.jpg
i put on my mic to explain how funny that message was....and oddly enough i get this
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/9757/img1459.jpg
welcome to xbox live?
lol, well, you could send both of those as evidence while reporting him.
The best hate message I've ever gotten was
"i pounded u so hard ur pussy drips with defeat"
I am not kidding. That is actually the real message. And I won.
I think that is quite possibly the best ironic insult attempt I've ever seen.
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"i pounded u so hard ur pussy drips with defeat"
That's erotic.
Also I'm starting love Gen and Rufus, plus I'm picking Abel back up. Sucks my internet is starting to shit out on me.
What the fuck, I ALWAYS lose to human players, it's like I go halfway retarded when I know it's an actual person.
Oh yeah, and I hit a Dan with an aerial fireball as Akuma, then went into raging demon, and I PUSHED him while he was stunned. Like we BOTH literally slid a few feet across the ground. What the fuck is this shit.
Fucking A I just lagged an entire round and got poked to death by a Vega. Probably going to uninstall, it just seems the online in the game is worse then 2DF and GG reloaded online (both of which are free) and a lot of the easy to do things in the game (spam projectiles and high priority attacks) are either hard to counter online or are countered by doing the same thing in return.
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OMG JESUS CHRIST
ESP Ra.De. is ridiculous guyz. I don't normally play these kinds of games, but it's addicting and difficult :( i can see the appeal completely. very interesting
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So, thanks to someone posting that SS of GGXX#RELOAD I've started playing. First time playing any of the GG games. I'm playing primarily as Eddie and as Bridget (lol). Unfortunately, playing on a computer keyboard makes it damn hard to get the timing right for most moves, and I'm kinda terrible at fighters as it is. One question: How the fuck do you survive I-no? Once she gets off that special with the warning shit in the background, I'm dead. And there's no way I can even hit her 3/4 of the time. (I've put the game to Easy for now, because that's the only way I get all the way to I-no, and the last couple fights are still hard as fuck.)
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You can't touch her or go behind her during the move or it just hits you and rapes you. As soon as she does the wave, move to where the path of the wave doesn't hit, and then follow along as the wave moves when she fires it. If she does the full forward wave that covers the screen, get very close to her and time a double jump just as she fires it and you'll go over it. If you're about to die, don't hesitate to use an Instant Kill on here.
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lol, as if I could actually manage an instant kill. I've done it once so far.... In training. I'm still more or less at the "mash buttons and manage to occasionally do something useful" stage. Using a keyboard makes it hard to properly do moves, thanks to the fact that I tend to hold 2 directions when I'm doing a rotation of any sort. Using a thumb or a joystick makes it much easier to manage those.
But yeah, this game is definitely going to take some time before I can say I'm even remotely decent :/
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I'm pretty sure you can't use an instant kill on I-No. All you can do is pull of combo stings until she decides to jump away and do her boss attack.
Also I want to get into some shumps now, but I'm horrible at them. I'm even bad at Einhander.
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Nah, I've done it a few times. Or at least you could in XX. I've never really played Reload. She just doesn't fall for it too often. But hey, if you've got nothing left to lose, you might as well do it. I remember she fell for Millia's a lot.
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Argh, even on easy she's insanely difficult for me :/ I can dodge the wave thing easy enough, but the full screen one still gets me. Maybe as eddie I could do his flying thing to stay in the air long enough, but as anyone else I can't time the jump so that I'm in the air when it happens. And then I get raped.
Also, what do they need to do to fall for it? Attack you? (yeah, I'm REALLY new to the GG games, as in this is the first time I've played any GG game, ever.)
Also, why the hell is Millia so fucking hard? It seems to me like she's faster than practically everyone, AND does more damage than she has any right to... At least, it feels like that to me when I'm fighting her.
I've managed to drastically improve, thanks to both this (http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/file/921665/25196) move list, as well as simply playing it a bunch. Of course, I'm still really sketchy on actually executing moves I want, but I guess a lot of that is simply practice anyway. I've managed a couple more instant kills though.
Also, I use also too much :/
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Yeah, you pretty much need to mash it out when she dashes in at you or air-dash into it because IK's have pretty high priority. That's for point blank ones though.
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Well, I've only ever done eddie's, lol, so I don't really know which ones are point blank and such, but I know his is (I had someone not call for it once and lost the match because I was sitting there going "what the fuck just happened?")
But yeah, my question about why millia feels overpowered still stands... What is it about her that would make her so hard for me?
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ok, i have a hankerin for a jrpg. problem, finding one i want to play. basically, i really only play the final fantasy games, with some pokemon, and the original dragon warrior monsters.
x-2- working on it, kind of lost interest but ill probably come back later
12- yeah, see above
dragon quest monsters joker- own it, got really far because a friend traded me a powerful monster. just say, without that monster i would have gotten bored before the first boss.
pokemon pearl- been there done that, not as good gen1/2
anything currently on the 360- im not interested, you may call said games awesome, i don't care, im not interested.
old ps1 games- i am interested, but, cost is a factor. i mean, i looked up vagrant story and well...im not paying that much money for a game that isn't in my top 5 list. especially one i haven't played.
this kind of leaves the ds. so i guess ill list off a few.
final fantasy 3 and 4- couldn't tell you, i reckon i could play them, how do they stack up to what ive beaten (1,5,7,8,9,10)
dragon quest 9- it's not out, and im not learning japanese to import it
yeah i guess that's all
and well i guess psp which ff1-2 remakes. if 1 is any good i may get it, but 2 is like an abomination. also, not interested in star ocean.
so yeah, it would be nice to get sucked into a jrpg for once, last one for me was ff9...and that happened a LOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnggggggggggggggggg time ago.
actually that's a lie, final fantasy 5. but it wasn't until 6 months after getting the game where i attempted and succeeded into getting into that game. and that was over a year ago.
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old ps1 games- i am interested, but, cost is a factor. i mean, i looked up vagrant story and well...im not paying that much money for a game that isn't in my top 5 list. especially one i haven't played.
Go download an emulator and get drivers for you 360 controller.
But yeah, my question about why millia feels overpowered still stands... What is it about her that would make her so hard for me?
She's the second fastest character in the game, and I think Eddie has some relatively slow attacks making him open for her.
Nah, I've done it a few times. Or at least you could in XX. I've never really played Reload. She just doesn't fall for it too often. But hey, if you've got nothing left to lose, you might as well do it. I remember she fell for Millia's a lot.
I know in AC you can't and I'm almost sure the same is true for Reloaded.
Also for I-No, if you get hit by her boss attack make sure to use the force block (two attack buttons + block, a green ring will circle you) and it will transfer the chip damage over to your tension bar. She'll do something like half damage if you just block.
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PLAY ESP RA DE
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ok, i have a hankerin for a jrpg. problem, finding one i want to play. basically, i really only play the final fantasy games, with some pokemon, and the original dragon warrior monsters.
x-2- working on it, kind of lost interest but ill probably come back later
12- yeah, see above
dragon quest monsters joker- own it, got really far because a friend traded me a powerful monster. just say, without that monster i would have gotten bored before the first boss.
pokemon pearl- been there done that, not as good gen1/2
anything currently on the 360- im not interested, you may call said games awesome, i don't care, im not interested.
old ps1 games- i am interested, but, cost is a factor. i mean, i looked up vagrant story and well...im not paying that much money for a game that isn't in my top 5 list. especially one i haven't played.
this kind of leaves the ds. so i guess ill list off a few.
final fantasy 3 and 4- couldn't tell you, i reckon i could play them, how do they stack up to what ive beaten (1,5,7,8,9,10)
dragon quest 9- it's not out, and im not learning japanese to import it
yeah i guess that's all
and well i guess psp which ff1-2 remakes. if 1 is any good i may get it, but 2 is like an abomination. also, not interested in star ocean.
so yeah, it would be nice to get sucked into a jrpg for once, last one for me was ff9...and that happened a LOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnggggggggggggggggg time ago.
actually that's a lie, final fantasy 5. but it wasn't until 6 months after getting the game where i attempted and succeeded into getting into that game. and that was over a year ago.
FF1 is really hard to play these days.
Between FF3 and FF4, FF4 by FAR. 3 really isn't all that great. 4 stacks up pretty well and looks great for a DS game.
Get an emulator and play Vagrant Story. Just don't be a bitch because that game will kick your ass.
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i believe 5 kicked my ass, and i got through it at level 40.
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Vagrant Story is a very mean game sometimes. Unless you find weapon skills that I don't remember. It's an extremely interesting game though. The story has really no good or evil side.
FF4DS is actually pretty hard too. They definitely made it at least as hard as the Japanese original version (so-called Hard Type).
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She's the second fastest character in the game, and I think Eddie has some relatively slow attacks making him open for her.
Even with Bridget she's damn hard for me. I mean, most characters have something about them that can make them annoying, but she just feels like everything is stacked against me, lol.
Also for I-No, if you get hit by her boss attack make sure to use the force block (two attack buttons + block, a green ring will circle you) and it will transfer the chip damage over to your tension bar. She'll do something like half damage if you just block.
I always forget to do that, lol.
Also, why does the screen turn red, like I'm about to do a crazy combo every time I hit someone with may's dust and jump up in the air to hit them? I'm kinda assuming that it means you have some totally badass attack ready, but other than that, I've got no idea.
EDIT: Dizzy = rape. Seriously. In training, I managed to get an 8 hit combo doing about 150 damage... I think that's quite a bit better than I am with most others. Still not amazing, but I'd say it's not bad for a beginner. Plus, aside form some of her ridiculously hard moves (Gamma Ray anyone?) she's pretty easy to use.
Edit2: Dizzy VS Dizzy.... Fucking fun. And absolute insanity.
I've gotten to the point where I can at least do some moves with each character (well, the ones I've played). Maybe not always doing what I want, or pulling something off, but I've definitely improved a bit. Unfortunately, I still really can't decide who I'd like to be my main. I know who I don't really like so much, but either way, I'm unable to pick a main or anything. Depending on who I'm up against, I might prefer a specific character, but mainly I don't have much preference :/
And yes, this is the first time I'm seriously trying to do good in a fighter. I've played SC games and such, but none of them really seriously.
Edit3: Oh god, I'm becoming vlad :/
So, I've managed to get a 12 hit combo out of dizzy, in training.... Managed to toss a qcf+S, jumped, combo'd them in air, dropped to the ground, and tossed another qcf+S. I was hoping to hit them on their way down again, but I guess there was too much recovery, and it's not RC, or FRC-able (not that I can pull that off yet anyway).
Too bad it was only a 130 dmg combo :/ Before that one I think I had a 9 hit combo that did 145.
Fake edit: just managed a 16 hit combo, lol. Too bad it was still only 138 dmg.... I should really be working on increasing the damage, not the hit counter.
Yet another edit: I've managed to do the odd RC... Too bad I haven't been able to actually combo with them.
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If you want to work on damage, I would recommend looking at dustloop.com and finding some combos. Combo damage really depends on the two types of proration (initial and I can't remember the other). Basically, if a move has initial proration of 80%, the first move will do full damage and then every move after that will do 80% of its actual. I can't remember how the other kind works.
I can't really figure out what to play. I'm playing Mario & Luigi 3 and it's awesome, but console-wise, I've got nothing. A little Mercenaries 2 here and there but it's not holding my attention super well.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP_Ra.De.
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It's kinda a dry spell for consoles right about now. Hell they only recent thing I can think of for PC is that STALKER mod.
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(sorta) necro'd:
i guess my zangief irritates some people. this fellow left my game after i had won, i sent him a message reading "take it like a man" and i get this.
Yes, welcome to Xbox Live. And welcome to the new wave of gamers.
Seriously, gamers nowadays are such fucking pussies. When I was in the age bracket that these Xbox fags are in, nobody that I knew would dream of disconnecting in mid-game regardless of how badly we're losing. Now, my friend tells me that people he plays with on XBL constantly disconnect when things don't go their way. Indeed, when I used to play R6:Vegas I ran into that as well -- get the intel too early on attack and defend and half of the defending team leaves.
Grow a goddamn spine, you fucking brats, and learn from your defeat. That's the only way to become a better player.
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Completely agreed, though honestly, I will likely leave if it's beyond 1 sided. If I'm severely outclassed to the point where playing is an exercise in futility, why continue? I'd send them a message saying something like "well, there wasn't even a remote chance of winning there" or something, when I leave. I don't usually ragequit unless someone is doing something stupid, like just abusing 1 or 2 moves over and over. In all honesty, I'd likely ragequit against vlad, seeing how his geif plays, lol.
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Agree'd. Unless I'm just plain pissed and I'm going to stop playing, I'll get off. Then again I never quit mid game in a fighting game, but I might leave a game server prior to the game ending.
Also I'm on the hunt for a new game to play. Still kinda working on getting DMC4 working, which I suppose I should do first. Oh yeah, and Link's Awakening DX is shockingly hard. Well not exactly hard but the dungeons require a bit of thought and just plain trail and error.
Also as of now I've beaten Crysis. Had the game since I built this PC, and I got pissed at the zero G part, but I finally did it. Decent enough game, the end enemies seemed like something out of Metroid Prime, but they seemed to pull it off nicely.
I just which it had more guns, and it should have introduced the gause canon earlier.
Oh yeah, and more nano suit guys to fight. Hell, get riod of the whole Zero g and squishy aliens and give me more nano suit guys and big and small guys and I would have liked it a lot more.
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I can definitely understand quitting if the game just gets stupid, but kids nowadays literally quit if the tiniest thing happens to them. They only way they stay in the game is if they dominate the other player, which is just completely and utterly stupid.
I guess it's really what separates the good players from the bad. More on this in the WoW thread... <3 anecdotes. the appropriate thread. Damn, I'm good at going off on tangents.
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In all honesty, I'd likely ragequit against vlad, seeing how his geif plays, lol.
you should see my honda...when i upload this 3-2 close match against a random guile. some days, i like honda more than gief, others, the other way around. i reckon i main both.
really i rage when i am losing to somebody using the same predictable shit over and over...and im getting hit by it over and over. it isn't their fault, it's my own for not being skilled enough to counter something so easy. like sometimes ken can spam srk all fucking day, and i can't counter throw for the life of me because the light punch version recovers so goddamn fast my timing has to be down. or bison, keeping my gief at bay with st forward/roundhouse. is it much skill for him to do that? no. does he know that i have almost nothing to get in on him when he does that? yes. it's valid, but frustrating. but i mean, i can't learn if people don't play to win. id rather get my ass kicked and learn something over beat down a generic flowchart ken...again.
guess uhh im playing street fighter. i should be working on my tick throws and throw traps and shit, but for the moment im working on getting my reversal throws down. especially with honda, because i fucking love doing reversal ochio throw. more motivation to upload that honda v guile video, ill have it by tomorrow.
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Yeah, you get a loooooot of rage quitters in BlazBlue. It's nice that the leaderboards for it actually mark their gamertags in red to show who disconnects the most. There are people who just refuse to play against Arakune and it's really sad. It shows the matchup and they just quit out. And then I've had people that get cursed by Arakune in the first attack and they just quit. Or I jump and catch them in some combo, quit. The current generation really is just a bunch of pussies.
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Man, I really want to try BlazBlue. I'm usually not one for getting too heavily into fighting games, but GG is awesome, and I've heard lots of good things about BlazBlue... Too bad I don't have a PS3 or 360 :/
Edit: Chipp is fun, too bad Ky completely owned me :/ I can tell I'm always gonna have trouble fighting Ky with Chipp.
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I started playing the new Bionic Commando game for 360. I cannot figure out why this game got such low reviews. Oh no, you can't just free-roam around wherever and if you go out of bounds, you get killed by radiation. Who cares? It's all easily marked with a purple mist starting wherever you shouldn't be and if you follow the map to your next objective, you should never be swinging into a radiation zone anyway. Unless you screw up a swing and throw yourself into a pit but that'd be the player's fault.
It's really fun to swing super fast across the city, fling yourself up and over the top of a building, land on the roof and then deck a sniper who has no idea you're there.
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Nearing the end of Link's Awakening, and I picked up Yoshi's Island again and I'll probably get around to beating Skull Monkeys despite it being dick smashingly hard.
Oh, and I came across this interesting glitch while in Crysis, and prior to seeing it a solider would scream "THIS IS FUCKED UP".
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I fucking hate baiken.
That is all.
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Dem Floor mats getting to you, huh?
Also Kirby 64 looks AMAZING. Maybe it's just my emulator, but this definitely puts most PS one games to shame.
Bah, fuck TF2. I was trying to get better at making pipe bomb body shots (killed a scout in 2 hits, I love how the first hit knocked him slightly into the air and caused my second shot to land) and I'd always end up hitting a pipe or two and then I'd just get run over. Hell, I had a Sniper running back and forth on a platform and I nailed him with a pipe and he still just headshotted me with his huntsman.
Also I feel like I'm getting worse at GG. My Slayer combos are dumb sloppy and I don't understand any of the fighter jargon that's on Dustloop forums, plus there's no real tutorial videos for anyone I'm playing.
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Dem Floor mats getting to you, huh?
Nah, those are mildly irritating at best. I'm playing as dizzie a lot now, and I can't get a fucking hit in on her. Her defensive play is amazing, considering that's what she's designed for. I never fight her as one of the easier AI opponents in arcade. Combine that with the fact that dizzie's not all that fast, and you've got a recipe for disaster for me. It just feels like baiken's faster, got more priority, and controls the level far better than me :/ It doesn't help that dizzie's overdrives are still DAMN hard for me. I could literally move the entire screen away, and repeat the instructions for Gamma Ray 10 times, and still not get it, and then get my ass kicked, once baiken gets over to my side again.
I'm not sure what I need to change in my gameplay to adjust for her, but I have a suspicion it involves controlling the stage and keeping distance... Which I'm terrible at.
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OH MY GOD why are manic shooters so damn addicting? and why has it taken this long for me to see the appeal. haha.
gonna play sum iidex now kthx
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Picked up D2 again on a private server and got to act 4 within half of a day. The game is massively hectic when you have people who play and you don't damn thing past act 2 and they're beating everything instantly.
Fucking hell, I can't get my acquired version of Dues Ex or Devil May Cry 4 to work, HALP.
Deus Ex says it cannot find "\system\OpenGlDrv.dll" and I installed DMC4 and whenever I try and run it it just gives me a black screen.
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im uhh going to give sf4 another crack.
bison all the way this time, no pussyfooting with other characters, just bison. going to put forth some effort into learning some basic combos and whatnot. also, no getting careless with ultra, im pretty sure you can only combo into ultra with his j strong command normal(two medium punches). it's funny, i used bison the most throughout the entirety of the 90 hours i put into the game.
pictures because i have a camera and i like using it
character usage
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and the reason i bitch about blanka
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also ill try using "Embed thumbnails of this image" in imageshack more often. saves me typing the html tags, and well, no HUEG IMAGES for those of you with smaller monitors/browsing mobile or whatnot. i would have used it earlier, but nobody told me about it and i was pretty content with posting huge images since nobody complained.
i have a 39% winrate by the way with around 1200 games played over 90 hours. not very impressive. but i haven't really gotten to a point to where im really comfortable playing yet, not real worried about it.
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Picked up ODST if anybody wants to chill.
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I swear, every time I play a Legend of Zelda game I over think a puzzle and it takes me forever to do it.
Either way, almost done with Link's Awakening and Megaman Zero 2 is forcing me to use save states.
Megaman Zero 2 is DONE, probably going to get the third game soon, it was damn good.
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I'm probably getting Borderlands tomorrow. I am really excited, it looks great.
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i like never work tuesdays...and i work tomorrow. kind of gay, but me getting borderlands depends on amazon shipping. so i may play it, i may have to wait a bit.
and again i guess i only work a 4 hour shift (5pm-9pm) so whatever, pretty easy.
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I finally completed getting all of the stars in Mario Galaxy. I had 10 left for the longest time. And now I can play as Luigi. So cool. The game never fails to make me smile.
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Hah, and I felt bad for not getting all of them with Luigi.
Also I'm god awful at RTS games. I was doing good in Dawn of War and controlling just over half of the map, then the enemy kept hitting me with airstrikes and their set up turrets (hate the imperial guard) and all my guys get mowed down by their massive numbers.
Ugh, I used to be decent at this game but I stopped playing for a while and now I can't ever win against a normal enemy.
Link's Awakening is now done. Damn good game, and surprisingly hard for a Zelda game.
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yeah, i kind of fucking suck at this game. i played about 30 or so games today...won MABY two. no joke, two, maby, i know i won one, the second one may not have happened.
i keep trying to do bison's links and well, LAWL MASH DRAGON PUNCH(you know, since the only character in the game is ryu) and im dead. i don't know if it's the internet lag, or my timing is off, but it's pretty frustrating. serves me right for not being into fighting games years ago else i would have the basics down by now i guess.
uhh and bison IS my main. i can't play anybody else (i don't like how turtley honda/chun are, and you know my opinion on gief) so this is my man.
but i guess i had some good games with this cammy player, id always get dped out of my shit, and i lost pretty much all but one (my only win) of the games, but they were close for the most part. im fine with close games, but when some random gosu ryu joins my game FADC ULTRA OLOLOL YOU DIE i just kick him, because i can't learn how to get better when i literally get double perfected over and over.
tldr = mortified, get a 360 and lets play. newf, quit using blanka and lets play. me, quit going back to sf2 to feel like i don't totally suck and keep on trucking at sf4.
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You now know exactly how bad I am at SF4. That and I was playing GG on the reloaded server and loving it, too bad their jackass to fun people ratio is like 2/5 (with a tiny community it makes a difference).
Still, I plan on picking up SF4 again and getting better with Abel, Akuma, Rufus and Maybe Gen.
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how is it that you have half my time played, but only 200 fights when i would have 700 fights at around your time?
though i admit i only recently started using training mode, maby i should further practice dem bison bnb combos until i get em down to 70% plus success rate.
also like gen is awesome, i may have to put in some time with him on the side.
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I don't play that much online, and I'm assuming that's only online fights data.
I also went though a phase where I wanted to try a bunch of new characters, so I played Arcade a lot.
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i guess that makes since since i really only play against random online people. would be nice to have somebody to talk to as im getting destroyed, so i typically don't play as long as i otherwise would.
also, what the fuck is happening here.
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it's like a clusterfuck, and diago misses his ultra because of it
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well it could and will still be lag, but my knee press wouldn't combo because my timing wasn't proper. fighting games need to better explain how to play their games. i mean, how is somebody supposed to know if say...
c short, c short, c short, short/forward knee press(as in either short or forward since the roundhouse doesn't seem to combo, or if it does, it's really hard to combo)
you would assume "tap, tap, tap, tap" and it won't work. you essentially tap three times normally, and double tap the last tap to get it to work. "tap, tap, taptap" but i mean, im getting that down in training mode, i can sort of do it now. still like, an involved tutorial per character would be really nice and get more players up to higher levels of play faster. i mean, unless you know people or read srk, you won't really figure this stuff out without much trial and error. i mean even the trials, that thing they said would help new players learn the game doesn't really do that. it tells you do to moves, and then you get to a part where "how the fuck do i do that, i mean, im doing the moves, but it's not going", so you have to visit youtube/srk to get the answer to that.
like bison doing knee press into super, i didn't know how the fuck to do that until i randomly hit the right motion. i mean, your knee press requires a charge, as does your super, how the fuck are you supposed to know your super uses the same charge that the knee press you just used is using? how the fuck are you supposed to know to immediately do the super motion the instant you finish the knee press motion? other than trial and error or going outside the game to the internet, you can't unless you knew from somewhere else.
im damn surprised no fighting game (that i know of anyway) teaches you this stuff. i would think basic bnb combos should be at least covered on a character per character basis. sure the trials do that to an extent, but they don't tell you HOW to do them. that and they teach you how to do moves, but no context on which situations to use them in, like bison's psycho crusher, it fucking sucks, i would like to know why i would want to use it aside from using ex psycho to escape from a corner.
a bit ranty? yeah, but i feel i make a good honest point. hell, i only feel it would help people who are even lesser than me at the fightans. im not good, but there are many many many people below me, and people that are just intimidated to even start playing the genre. if they have these learning tools, that only brings more people into the scene. so yeah, that and getting my ass kicked online, going FUCK BISON, switching a few characters, realizing i only know bison, and continue to use bison. ill get there eventually if i keep on trying and sticking to my one character.
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Virtua Fighter's had a training mode where you can try out every move in the game, as well as show you moves that are useful for pop-up and then useful follow-ups, while also allowing you to just hit a button to have the AI show you how to do it.
I have about the same matches and time as Mort there (although I've still got my 70% win ratio hooray). I've spent a lot of time finishing out the Challenges and all I have left now are just the Trials that are all pretty retarded later on. I still need to go through Arcade with everyone on Medium though. I know I'm missing at least a few.
Oh well, I won't even be able to play the game for at least another 2 weeks due to my 360 being DEAD. Aggggh.
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Okay so in non-fighting game news, I got Borderlands on Tuesday and its awesome. Love it. I really enjoy the weapons hoarding, and the graphics are great. I find a certain pleasure with the idea of a sniper rifle that lights people on fire or an SMG that electrocutes people.
I have also been playing Bad Company and ODST. Both are fun as well. And these are all co-op too, so if anyone wants to play, gimme a holla
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I've gotten back into Spore for the third time. But now I'm determined to conquer the universe. I've decided to go about my business in the spirit of the USA this time. I build my army and destroy all other living things the first chance I get. And now that I'm in space, I'm allying with a bunch of other species and secretly coordinating an effort to ultimately destroy them all.
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Fucking Parasite Eve 2 has a third branch of magic that only "unlocks" and shows up when you upgrade both of the other branches to three and my magic points are already spread around thoroughly. Looks like it's time to GRIND.
Also the game is starting to get damn hard, the GOLEM soldiers take a ton of punishment.
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since waiting for shipping to give me my damn game sucks, i borrowed borderlands for a few hours and got to level 11 with lilith and yeah.
takes a little while to get in the groove of how things work, but when you do, it's pretty good stuff. it's basically what i expected it to be, and i look forward to my game arriving in the mail.
shoot things
get items
level up
that's what you should expect out of this game, and it provides just that. haven't did much multiplayer save for the split screen for about an hour, and well...id prefer online due to the split screen being vertical rather than horizontal...yeah...hard to play to be honest.
so yeah, fun fun, just waiting for my copy to arrive in the mail. they said the 27th, and it shipped from kentucky the 19th...so ive honestly been expecting it any day now. KY isn't that far away from here, though, free shipping, i should expect it to take a little longer than normal.
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split screen being vertical rather than horizontal
Why the everloving fuck do they do that for an FPS? That shit pisses me off so much when they do it to an FPS. Seriously, who decided that giving your character tunnel vision for multiplayer was a good idea?
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pretty self explanatory if i do say so myself
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Step 2: put your junk in that box
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pretty self explanatory if i do say so myself
Pretty winning game my friend.
We'll have to play together. Its probably best if we do it at around the same level, otherwise its going to be hard for someone.
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if the same level thing isn't possible (i have two friends who are level 25 and intend on catching me up) we can always start new with different characters.
but uhh, playing some more, it's really easy to die in this game. i guess this is a good thing, i enjoy playing careful and taking my time through shit rather than going gung ho mgs3 fuck stealth i have a shotgun style (though that is fun in the case of that game). basically i snipe shit when i can, smg is good for the flying sons of bitches, and i have some blue stupidly powerful (36 damage times 12...and the second best shotties ive found was like 21x11) shotgun, which goes through badass enemies like a hot knife through butter. did i mention the thing fires pretty goddamn fast(possibly due to my SHOOT FASTER talent) and has 12 shots before a reload? yeah, the only thing that could make this fucker better is x4 of an element, but it's pretty overkill for me as is, so yeah, good shit.
sure they have to be close to me, but enemies tend to ass rush you anyway, so when they do, i got it covered.
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I got rid of that stupid TX Wave thing the second I got it. I fired one shot and knew it sucked. SMGs and Snipers for me. Plus if I can pick up a good revolver then I'm set.
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level 20 and using that same level 8 shotty. still makes things dead. also i would almost take a shitty repeater over the tk wave, weapon is horrid.
replaced my smg with a combat rifle. smg's are more close range, and i have a shotgun for that. combat rifle will cover the medium range stuff, and the sniper for the obvious.
also how are you specced with your lilith?
this is how mine looks anyway.
http://www.borderlandsthegame.com/skilltree/lilith/#21000000055000500000000
and how i intend it to be at 50.
http://www.borderlandsthegame.com/skilltree/lilith/#21505005555000555000000
i think it's a good blend of damage, and defense. i could put more stuff into the phasewalk bs, but i just see that move is a "IM FUCKED TIME TO PHASEWALK THE FUCK OUT BEFORE IM DEAD" kind of ability. rather than an offensive move. but i mean, if you end up using it and liking it, id be happy to know the results.
*edit*
more of my opinion on the game.
krazey and i played for a while, then one of my friends jumped in, and we three playered it for a few hours. then krazey left, and another of my friends jumped in, so we three playered it up for a few more hours. and before you know it, it's 5am, and it went by like a flash.
this is one of those games i would call fun, i highly recommend it.
*edit*
http://www.borderlandsthegame.com/skilltree/brick/#31000000055050005055555
posting this so i don't forget. i just want to be a big durable rocket launchering machine. i put cast iron in there because using a rocket launcher, it would be stupid to not want to point blank rocket launcher foo's, so the explosive resistance is needed.
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How do you skip to Intuition in Elemental without having to spend points on Radiance and Resilience?
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Holy fuck, Parasite Eve 2 just got unjustifiably hard. First there was this giant fetus type boss that had two attacks that are almost impossible to dodge, and one of these attacks will one hit kill me unless I use my shield magic and have full health. Then after that there's another boss. I know survival horror games are supposed to be hard, but this is nuts.
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How do you skip to Intuition in Elemental without having to spend points on Radiance and Resilience?
you don't need to put points into the next tier to advance. i just put my second set of 5 points into tier 1, and it unlocks tier 3. it doesn't matter where you put them, only how many points are spent.
to unlock tier 3 you have to spend 10 points anywhere in that tree. to unlock tier 4, you have to spend 15 points anywhere in said tree.
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Oooh I actually really like that. Nothing more annoying than skill trees forcing you to put points into skills you don't even want.
I get my 360 back tomorrow and I'm super psyched. My SF4 and BlazBlue skills have probably dropped of considerably but we'll see. I should hopefully be getting Tekken 6 from GameFly too.
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you can even test it out right now. just click one of my build links, hit reset, and see for yourself.
i'll also relink this incase anybody forgot about it/needed it.
http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Borderlands_Wiki
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I can't seem to play Diablo 2. When I play it alone it feels to damn slow, when I'm with others they flip a shit that I haven't played the game and I have no real clue what to do past act 2.
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press Q
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http://aroojiobrow.blogspot.com/
I HAVE NOT PLAYED STALKER BUT THIS INTERESTS ME
stalker gameboy demake
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Speaking of STALKER, steam is having a sale for like 5 bucks for the first game, I'm picking it up.
Also Borderlands is nuts, played the mutliplayer and we got split up on this one massive level that was like a goddamn maze (it was inside) and I got killed by the same bad ass guy like twice. Trying to take a bad ass down that's your level alone when you have three other people in the room just ain't happening. Hell, I died like 3 or 4 times trying to do a mission right on my level alone. Fucking Alpha Skags are monsters, but the fact that you can run like a madman and jump high as hell help.
So far people seem to not be loving my cauterization perk (they run away when I heal them, what the dick), BUT I'm basically burning points until I can get health for getting kills, and I can always redistribute my skills if I'm not loving the placement.
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im like level 28 and where im at is i technically killed krom.
i say technically because the brick in my group fucking went kamakazi up the whole fucking thing (dying about 10 times in the process, but second winding each time) and killed him while i was a mile away.
starting to appreciate revolvers as well. get one with a scope, and high damage, it's a nice sniper rifle option to be honest(for use in ranges not comfortable to be using a sniper rifle with). sure my revolver holds two bullets, but fuck, unless it's a brute, it's most likely dead after those two shots.
i guess i could have an assault rifle, but fuck those. i roll with sniper rifle (<) smg (^) shotgun (v) revolver (>) with the revolver interchangeable with a nice elemental rocket launcher if i find one. i see it as i need a good damage smg, i am lilith, that's just what she does (with like 48% increases on smg damage with the class mods, it's frankly retarded not to have one on you if you are the siren, it's just the best close/mid range damage you got), 12 mag shotguns i enjoy for little swarm mobs, and sniper rifles because enemies in this game will kick your freaking ass if you aren't careful and picking off enemies from a distance is always a good idea. revolver kind of fits that "random mid range" slot, even though my smg/shotty are just fine at mid range, it's harder to headshot at those ranges, and well when the revolver headshots, it basically kills.
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Yeah, I figured snipers would be useful early on, considering the advantages of hitting something from far away.
Also I bought STALKER SoC for 5 bucks on steam, they're having a massive sale on it.
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So I finally have my 360 back and I've started to play Magnacarta 2. 10 hours in and the game's awesome. Considering how awful the first one was, I am very surprised.
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To host an online game, the following ports need to be opened / pushed to the host's internal IP address:
6500 (TCP/UDP)
9989 (TCP/UDP)
7777 (TCP/UDP)
28900 (TCP)
27900 (UDP)
28910 (TCP)
Halp.
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Almost got my connection problems straightened out, but apparently it didn't work...
Maybe I need to restart my router for them to take effect?
Anyway me Ulti and another friend where playing Borderlands for like 6 hours today, we got to the next zone and the two boss fights in there were fucking insane. One was a giant Skag that had boss attacks and a ton of health, the other was this arena filled with enemies, enemy cars with rocket launchers, and one huge truck with two rocket launchers as the boss. Also the driving in this game is surprisingly fun, a little bit too floaty but still fun.
Ugh, I'm never beating PE2 or MDK 2 at this point, but at least I'm having fun.
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ok, this game. if you don't like diablo styled games, you will fucking hate this game. if you love them, you will fucking love this game. it's that simple.
three classes, melee dude, ranger girl, mage guy. you can see, i chose the ranger. figure i generally go melee in most games (exceptions are diablo 1 and 2 where i typically go sorceror/necromancer respectivley) and i don't generally pick the ranger, so i figured i would mix it up a bit. also there's guns in this game, so like you can have a rifle, pistol, pistol/shield (AWESOME COMBO THAT IVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE), dual pistols, which is cool. but i found this bow which does too much damage, so i kind of had to choose it.
also regardless which class you pick, you get a pet, which can be a cat or a dog, and you can name it. at first it sounds kind of lame, but after playing a while (im like level 11 and just got the second waypoint) the pet is rather nice. they can't die, when they lose all of their health, they kind of just run away from enemies until they naturally recover health or you drop a potion on them. they can equip items (two ring slots and a necklace slot), and have the same inventory space as you do.
they also have two spell slots which you can put spells on them (spells are found as scrolls in this game, so you find a spell, use it on yourself or a pet, and you learn it. this is a bit different than the abilities you gain from your skill trees, im assuming spells are universal) so literally, my dog throws fireballs, which is fucking badass. he doesn't spam em, but he does use them enough to where i am satasfied, though he would use em more if i had him set on aggressive rather than defensive.
the last cool thing, there's a little money button on the pet meter up in the upper right corner you see in the screenshot. basically you are in the dungeon, you have a lot of vendor trash on you, and you just want to keep on plowing through stuff rather than going back to town. load up your pet inventory with the vendor trash, and click that button. your pet will leave for an amount of time (not sure what determines the time, im just going to assume the amount of items you give him), when he comes back, you receive money since he basically went to town to sell your shit.
long story short, this game is good, and worth your money if you have a hankerin for a diablo style game. diablo III won't be coming out for a damn long time, and this is something nice to tide one over until then. if you do decide to play this game, i would say put it on hard difficulty (or very hard difficulty) since ive only heard normal is too damn easy. i stated very hard as a possibility because hard feels like what normal should feel like, you know, easy, but like you have to actually pay attention to what's going on.
to make this more of a tldr. this game has no multiplayer. i have to say that since some people would rather not play a game like this single player. obviously im fine with it, but you know, some people aren't. as for what they(runic game's the creators of this here vidya) are doing about multiplayer however...(copy/pasted from wikipedia)
Relationship to upcoming MMO
Runic plans to release an MMORPG set in the Torchlight game world 18 months to two years after the release of the single player game. Max Schaefer, Runic Games CEO and former Mythos executive producer, explained the reasoning behind releasing both a single player game and an MMO. The single player game is intended to introduce the Torchlight game world to the public ahead of the MMO. Further, it would allow the team to get a released game under their belts sooner than if they had immediately started on the MMO.[23] Also, while the Torchlight MMO will be a separate game, it will share the same action RPG gameplay and some of the art assets developed for the single player game.[14]
The MMO will feature some different game mechanics and a wider variety of environments, including a shared "over-world."[23][26] Runic has entered into a partnership with Chinese online game developer and operator Perfect World Co., Ltd. to publish the MMO worldwide.[5]
Because the MMO is planned to be free-to-play, it can be seen as a "free MMO upgrade" to the single-player Torchlight game.[27]
so that's happening anyway.
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Okay, fuck Parasite Eve 2. The final boss is enough to make me hate the game. First it's a huge enemy with a massive attack that can rape me instantly, then it's another boss with a similar attack, and after that phase she summons a clone that does nothing but chase me down and swipe at me, and when I kill it she instantly summons another. I don't even have enough time to reload and every time I get hit it either turns me blind or paralysis me.
It's not even hard, it's mostly just waiting to attack and the opportunity never comes.
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the zombies in the picture are minions of my dog. yep. that was taken some time ago, i got him a summon skeleton spell, so he generally rolls with 3 zombies and a skeleton.
my minion has minions, yep.
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Tekken 6 is an absolute tragedy.
Like, I know the game came out in arcades a while ago, but it looks like a slightly upscaled Tekken 5. Textures are awful, clipping all over the place, water is awful. The single player Scenario Mode is really really dumb. The final boss of Arcade Mode is probably the dumbest final boss ever (hey, let's make a boss that can do instant attacks that are almost all unblockable, make him stun on every hit, and make it so he has super armor unless you hit with something really strong on a counter hit! Oh, and he's half the size of the entire screen).
Now, you'd think, who cares? It's a fighting game and those are good for versus right? Well, it would be except the netcode is god awful. I fought a guy that had a 5 bar connection. I do too. It was like a half second of lag on each button press. I've won 1 match out of the 3 that I've been able to get into because the other guy is mashing punch and I'm trying to do stuff and it just gets me killed.
It's fun in local multiplayer. The actual fighting mechanics are good and I really like the new characters (aside from Zafina). But literally everything else in the game is worthless.
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alright if i post more about this game, ill make a thread about it.
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three things i wanted to say. pistol/shield is fucking awesome. im like john wilkes booth, if he was a woman, used a shield, and was a videogame character.
second, these levels look hella three dimensional, the screens don't do the game justice, seeing the environments in motion is really nice on the eyes. i mean, playing diablo for the past 10 years, this shit looks amazing.
third, my dog has two different spells now. a buff spell which enhances magic damage, and a frost spell. there are no ways to control your pet other than sending him to town to sell shit, and he fucking buffs himself and casts frost, i love it.
anywho, i have to pull myself away from the game today. i put nearly 7 hours into that character...(i rarely play vidya half this much in a day)
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I've been playing Borderlands and Forza 3 a lot. That's...pretty much it.
I started my first run through of Borderlands as Roland. I'm just getting to the "Catch a Ride" quest now. I'm pretty sure I have everything else complete up to that.
I started out with a Ford Somethingoranother in Forza 3 and bought a Saturn Ion Red Line the second I could. I'm really impressed with the graphics in the game, as well as the interior models. Having driven an regular Ion once (albeit briefly) the look and feel of the cockpit is spot on. I'm not sure how close the other cars are but I imagine they put the same care and attention to all of the other car models. The driving model is spot-on, as usual. I haven't had a vehicle roll over on me yet, but we'll see how it goes.
The AI makes its fair share of mistakes, too, perhaps a few too many. They don't seem quite as eager to trade paint as the ones in Forza 1 and 2, which is definitely nice. I haven't gotten to use the rewind feature much, but it seems like it could be useful for those instances where the AI rams you at the very end of the an endurance race (I'm not bitter...). More as I discover it. :)
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The textures in this game are completely bi-polar. Still, I love how the creatures look, shit's sexy.
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so im actually working on doing tick throws in actual games right. this kind of gave me a smile anyway.
knocked down ryu, as he stands up i do the following.
c jab, c jab, c jab. then i have to pause for a quarter of a second to wait for hitstun, he then jabs, but since i jabbed three times, i was too far away for his jab to hit me. basically he jabs the instant i spd him, winning my game.
also funny is doing the spd at the startup of some moves, like guiles upside down kick, any ground fireball, and most likely others.
but im working on more of the "advanced" stuff. basically, shit i should already have down. that and i have to look out for more opportunities to tick with st short. i could pretty much attempt super with every st short, and if i "fail" the super i still tick into spd.
this video shows what st short can do. the zangief player generally plays ken from what ive seen, but he has a pretty mean sf2 gief.
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im done with borderlands. ill beat it if anybody is around level 28, otherwise, 20 hours in the game and ive had enough. good game, just drags on a bit too long.
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I just realized I just gave up on Final Fantasy Tactics. I just can;t get into RPGs anymore.
Also I acquired a PS one copy of Jojo's Bizzare Adventure and it doesn't have a move list in the training mode. I am not pleased.
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It's funny because the instruction booklet for the game does have a movelist.
Where did you give up on FFT anyway? Almost everything in that game can be destroyed just by abusing Accumulate or whatever it is that raises power for Squires. You just kill every enemy but one and then do that forever to gain JP in whichever class you currently are. Then you get Monks and use Repeating Fist. No one's allowed to give up on that game until Velius.
I've got Dragon Age: Origins coming to me on wednesday. I don't know what to expect.
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I assumed there was a move list in the manual, I remember SF Alpha and Darkstalkers doing something similar. Also I guess I'm not huge into SRPGs. Still want to try Fire emblem but whatever. but in unrelated news I've been doing good in STALKER. Everyone has told me it's hard and the guns are crazy inaccurate when you first start, but I've been doing decently. That and the fact that this outpost glitched and made it very easy for me to kill them and take their nice guns and food was rather helpful.
Megaman X4 beaten, FINALLY beat the game as Zero despite playing the game hundreds of times.
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played about two hours of dragon age. decided apon a dwarven noble warrior. i almost went commoner, but for fluff, i decided i would enjoy noble more. after playing the beginning, i do not regret me decision. also i like how there's no "good/bad" system, just do what you want to do. thus far im playing the "polite noble who isn't afraid to kill bitches who dishonor him" and well, yeah, it's fun.
im liking it.
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Don't ever play human noble warrior. It is so far the exact same game as both KOTOR and Mass Effect. I even have Carth in my party. I am not happy with him. The 360 version is really really drab too. The PC version is clearly the better version.
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my experience with noble dwarf is good. i got myself a kickass second (i don't know, guy who works for me as my guard or whatever) voiced by steve blum. course y'know shit hits the fan, but he's still a bro through all of it.
also i noticed one of the female dwarves was voiced by that lady you do a few quests for in noveria on mass effect. strange i notice that since you really only do like three missions for her(talking mass effect, not dragon age) and she is a minor character...
also, from the news about this game, of course the pc version is the better version. hence me buying it. no drm either, just a cd key and a disc check. which is nice because i didn't want to download 20gigs of game from steam. though it's stupid they included dlc...before the game came out. i mean, you get a download code to download it, but fuck, just put it on the disc so i didn't have to wait 10 minutes after installing the game to play it. that and there's a second dlc out, c'mon bioware(more likley EA). wait until releasing your game before releasing dlc, i know y'all won't sink down to the low levels of what namco is doing, but stop it.
but uhh save for a few minor graphical glitches in a certain part in the beginning (like very minor) it runs pretty good with 1680x1050 resolution and all of the textures maxed with 2x AA (i reckon i could tilt the dial all the way up and go down to increase performance but im too damn lazy to do that and 2x is fine for me) it doesn't feel like the hackjob they did with mass effect pc which was far inferior to the 360 version.
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Well, I've got Morrigan in my party now and so I'm happy now that I have a permanent busty mage girl to go along with my own self but Alistair/Carth is pretty much worthless. He's a Warrior too, so it's just doubling on classes with me. I really want a rogue to go into my party so I can open locked things. I just like being the person up front doing the damage.
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I've watched a stream of the game and I'm still lost as to what is going on in it.
Also I've finally bothered learning how to play Jojo's, and it's a surprisingly easy to play game. Other then that, it's fucking insane. I just had a girl fire what looked like nuts and bolts out of her tits at a dog that could summon a sand monster.
Oh yeah, and ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORAAA.
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here's what i got thus far
you are a person who as fate may have it ends up as a grey warden. these people are basically supposed to be sweet at killing the bad guys (the "darkspawn"), so you go around killing them, and well you know that's the gist of it.
thus far i am really enjoying the combat.
open door
HOLY SHIT ENEMIES RUN
two melee dudes run at you, you have your melee dudes fight them
three archers back up at the doorway shooting at you
run your mage in their faces casting the area of effect fire spell
run your mage around in circles running away from them so he doesn't die until they eventually start attacking your party who by now are finished with the other melee dudes and are on their asses
8)
even like the standard fights put up a good challenge. not all of them...i mean the "origin story" part of the game is pretty easy(it's the beginning of the game, it should be), but even that has a few tough spots, it's good shit.
like i didn't have any real need for any "aggro" talents, but now that i have a mage (albiet a temp) getting some of those may be helpful 'bout now. next level fo sho. but until then, SUPER FUN TIME MAGE RUNNING MICROMANAGEMENT, YEAH! (seriously though, it's fun)
and i guess ill state the most obvious thing ever. i freaking love talking about games i am currently into. i mean i don't even care who reads it, it's just fun to type. it's like after a nice gaming session, i just gotsta spread the love.
*lol at editing posts as i post them all the time*
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my dwarf from roughly an hour ago. i got his portrait to look kind of "indubitably dear watson" as i think describes it. something i couldn't do on the 360 version apparently since it doesn't have an "emotion" slider for the portrait maker like the pc version does. friend of mine was watching his roomate play the 360 version and noticed that.
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I just got Sten in my party and things are definitely looking up. I'm learning that bows are much more powerful than I would have thought. Especially flame arrows. And having two warriors run forward to fight giant bears while I shoot them with flaming arrows and Morrigan throws ice spells at them works pretty damn well. I also have Oathbreaker, which is a pretty neat sword. Hopefully the next area I go to has a neat plotline. I think I might go to the elves first. I still need a rogue to replace Alistair.
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/facepalm
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seriously
/facepalm
if you don't want to click the image. i was given three options in that dialog. one of those options in this game which i do not have said dlc will open a window in which to buy the dlc to do that content.
i can tolerate day one dlc as bullshit as it is. but keep it the fuck out of my game if i choose not to buy it. i don't care who you are, or what your opinion on this matter is, that's just low.
*edit*
yeah, i literally have to just not talk to that npc to avoid having a quest in my quest log that i have to pay real life money to complete.
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That is a major kick to the balls.
Also Stalker is generally freaky. The whole not knowing where the enemy can come from and the whole added mutants adds some great atmosphere.
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ugh, the sounds and movements of this thing just freak me the fuck out. The fact that nights with no moon are damn near pitch black make running into this terrifying.
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i deleted my save and i am going to start over again. goodbye 12 hours of playtime.
im just going to say that this game's difficulty should not be underestimated.
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yeah fuck it. it's good i deleted my file. im not one of those people who can "wing it" in one of these games. it's emphasized in a game of such difficulty, but i really need a FAQ or something. i mean, play how you want, but i can't have fun by winging it in a game like this. i HAVE to minmax, or im simply not enjoying myself. ill pick up the game again when some optimal play information is out. until then, i guess ill be doing something else. i just hate being unsure of the actions i am making. it's like
did i fuck up leveling my character right there?
should i have gone to location x rather than location y?
should i have put that point into combat rather than opening locks?
just stuff like that, and they add up, and when they add up, im not enjoying myself the further i play. the further i go without deleting my save, the more it sucks when i inevitably do.
i really do like this game, but im not the kind of person who can play through it blind. when a game gives me options, my mind is never happy with anything less than what's optimal. it's like morrowind or oblivion, i can't just play that game normally, i have to know how to become as powerful as i can be. i hated mass effect the first 7 times i started my game, restarted because i hated my character. when i found what i enjoyed playing, i could not stop playing that game.
and you know what, i think im going to do that. back to the normandy for me.
ignore the tldr, im just typing it to make me feel better. hopefully faq's will be out by the time i finish my "final" save for mass effect. by final, i mean, DO FUCKING EVERYTHING on my second level 60 soldier to use in mass effect 2.
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I still don't know how you ended up putting as much time in the game as I did but apparently were nowhere near where I was. I had just finished the storyline with the elves and the first part of the Redcliffe story.
The plot stuff happening no matter what you do is really annoying (I missed Leliana because I didn't go into the tavern in Lothering and now the town is gone), but I just rented the game so really, I'm just passing time with it until Modern Warfare 2 and then Assassin's Creed 2 and New Super Mario Bros Wii are out.
I did find all four pieces of the Juggernaut Armor set and I basically can't be hurt. 42 strength and ridiculous defense. And with a special one-handed axe that is on fire and does a ton of extra damage to undead with a chance to slow down movement.
That dlc thing is SO STUPID though. You are totally right on that.
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either you rush through the game, or im just obsessive compulsive about not missing ANYTHING.
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I'm definitely not rushing. I was even making sure to do all of the chanter's board and mage collective quests and the stuff for the guy at the inn.
And now I have superior dragonbone plate armor, which I can't even wear because if I take off my Juggernaut set, I'm not strong enough to wear it haha. Next level. When I can wear it, I'll be immune to fire and have retarded defense. Sten and Zevran are both wearing dragonskin leathers and they're also retardedly powerful. And nothing ever gets near Morrigan because of her ridiculous staff that I bought.
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http://downloads.2kgames.com/borderlands/website/skilltree/roland/#01550000050050505505005
http://downloads.2kgames.com/borderlands/website/skilltree/mordecai/#11000000050550055005555
How do these set ups make you feel?
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(http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/704358679_ayGHY-L.jpg)
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pic = saved
good shit.
also i played a few minutes of "dragon age journeys" the free flash game, and from what little ive played, it's pretty good. it ties in with your ea/bioware account thing so you can save your game and shit. and i guess if you get all 5 achievements in the game you unlock an in game item for dragon age origins(which is possible since it ties in with the same account).
i mean, i think it's pretty neat anyway. it seems to be well made and you can unlock stuff for DA:O by playing it.
worth checking out anyway.
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The tie in with the ea account isn't what lets you save it. Flash games have their own system like cookies that let you save data on your computer.
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without logging on
(http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/190/journeys.th.jpg) (http://img198.imageshack.us/i/journeys.jpg/)
with logging on
(http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/113/journeys2.th.jpg) (http://img211.imageshack.us/i/journeys2.jpg/)
don't log on, you can play the game but you can't unlock things for DA:O and you can't save when you want and have to rely on the autosave.
reckon i could include a link to the thing
http://www.dragonagejourneys.com/
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Been playing tf2(as usual), FF7, Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, and been loving the L4D2 demo.
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and been loving the L4D2 demo.
Agreed. I can't wait till it comes out. Its gonna be fun as hell playing as a charger and jockey!
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L4D2 does look good, but I didn't play the first all that much. I'll probably pick it up eventually.
http://downloads.2kgames.com/borderlands/website/skilltree/roland/#01550050550050505500000
Okay, I think I'm going to make this my Roland skill set, and I'm going to set up my Mordecai like this at level 30
http://downloads.2kgames.com/borderlands/website/skilltree/roland/#01550050550050505500000
and hopefully move onto this.
http://downloads.2kgames.com/borderlands/website/skilltree/mordecai/#11000000050550055005555
The Bloodwing is near useless without Predator and Swift Strike, and I hear it gets damn near broken with Bird of Prey.
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Somewhat in love with STALKER now that I have a decent scoped rifle, minor night vision, and enough ammo to get me through. Oh yeah, and OL compared to vanilla is a god send.
(http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/large/b3ad35347cccbdb729a2004e9e90234f0b961fad.jpg) (http://www.xfire.com/screenshots/mortifiedocalot/ss_file-b3ad35347cccbdb729a2004e9e90234f0b961fad.jpg)
Found Gordon Freeman dead in a tunnel. Fun times.
(http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/large/ba9718f8c62837d974a07fef730d11f691b5f690.jpg) (http://www.xfire.com/screenshots/mortifiedocalot/ss_file-ba9718f8c62837d974a07fef730d11f691b5f690.jpg)
The nights in the Ukraine are so cold you must sleep onto of fires to keep yourself warm.
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im just going to say, for the record, the riot shield in modern warfare 2 is the most fun i have ever had NOT SHOOTING PEOPLE in a first person SHOOTER just about ever.
no you don't even get a pistol to use with it like in rainbow 6. you can switch away from the shield to your secondary, i mean, you won't be shielded, but you can use a secondary weapon. but with the shield out, you have a melee...which is shoving the shield at the enemy, that's it (i guess grenades as well). because of this, the perk for added melee distance is pretty handy.
basically, i don't worry about killing dudes as much as being a scarey distraction which helps my team mates get kills. you would think "ohh but you don't get exp for not getting kills". well, no. the more damage i take with that shield, i get exp for it. it just feels so fucking good to walk up crouched (so they can't hit my legs) to a dude shooting at me, only to melee his black ass, or have my allies kill his distracted ass.
it's different, it's fucking fun, try it. you unlock the riot class lickity split (play for 10-15 minutes online) and custom classes soon after.
trying out riot shield with a rocket launcher as a secondary. i mean, ill never need a gun, so i may as well have an RPG to shoot down choppers.
unfortunately i have to sleep, but this game is like junk food. if you like cod4, not buying this is literal stupidity. if you don't like cod4, don't bother, it's basically cod4 but better.
i mean i could tldr about other stuff, which i might later, but that fuckin riot shield man, ive only used it a little bit, but it's my favorite fps weapon of anything i have used in an fps from the few games ive used it in.
immagine a turret, giving people hell. i literally fucking walk up to it as it's shooting the bejesus out of me, and melee it to death. I WISH I COULD SLEEP BUT I NEED TO PLAY MORE I HATE MYSELFBYEeseeeeeeeeee
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a lot of that talk is hype from yesterday, but i am really enjoying the game. riot shield is awesome, but i mean, it's not the best thing to use in team death match. though, if you have several bros with you online, you can make things happen.
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Yeah, I got to play it at a friend's place, and I laughed my ass off when I saw the riot shield. At first I thought it would be shitty, but my friend pwned the other guy that was hanging out with us with it, and I changed my mind a bit. I can definitely see it being fun to fuck with people with.
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At first I thought it would be shitty, but my friend pwned the other guy that was hanging out with us with it, and I changed my mind a bit.
I'm fairly sure most CS servers banned the riot shield and it didn't even make the transition between CS and CS:S.
The ability to move cover in an FPS is ridiculous.
Also I'm still on the fence about the game, I played COD4 for a while but I got bored after a while and I only went through the single player one time.
Hahaha, oh wow. Do not want.
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When I saw my friend playing online, there was no problem at all.
And I dunno how the riot shield is in CS, but you CAN kill people using it in MW2. It's not like they have a gun at the same time, so they do have to get right up to you, and any decently good player should be able to find a way to get around you while you have the shield up.
As vlad mentioned, it's not exactly the most useful weapon.
The changes that my friends noticed was that health takes longer to regenerate, and fall damage really hurts.
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Yeah I just went 15-4 using a riot shield and a pistol and even got a guy to bounce a grenade off the shield and back into himself. Just make sure you're always in the middle of the action where everyone else is and keep moving forward. Most people haven't figured out how to take out the shield yet. Then you get the one guy who understands to dash to the side and just knife you.
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When I saw my friend playing online, there was no problem at all.
Well it is P2P, so it completely depends on the host. Also
http://www.gamearena.com.au/pc/games/title/modern-warfare-2/reviews.php?id=5033868
Clearly three bars on MW2 PC does NOT equal three bars on MW2 console.
The other reason consoles work better for this is numbers. As we're told all too often, there's a hell of a lot more console FPS gamers playing COD4 and Modern Warfare 2 than PC ones. Which means matchmaking obviously will have more options to choose from in throwing players together.
That plus the whole less players per match and zero custom maps seems like a massive step back from COD4.
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i had somebody just run up to me jump, and knife me from the air...so they don't even need to get to the side to knife you.
also, if whoever you are fighting has a sticky grenade, you die. they stick it to your shield, wave goodbye. kind of takes away the purpose of the riot shield in my opinion. though at the same time the predator missile kind of takes away the purpose of being ouside/being with a group outside. "ohh a predator missile, im too far away from any cover, and three of my team mates just spawned next to me, guess im fucked"
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ok i tried a non team deathmatch gametype. i think i actually prefer domination now.
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so i played a domination, coming to the end of the match, it was about 177 for us and 183 for them. we have all 3 points, so even though we are behind, we basically are going to win.
then some fucker uses the nuke. game over, they win.
trollface.jpg
and yeah, the nuke kills everybody in the game, and the game ends right then and there, whoever was winning at the time the nuke went off takes a win.
it was pretty bullshit, but, but, im going to admit that said person used it smartly, and that's fucking 25 kills without dying. my highest streak right now is 11 (i kind of fucking suck at console shooters) and 17 on the first modern warfare. so i mean, it's bullshit is put aside to it being hard to get. speaking of that, a friend of mine who plays the everliving shit out of this game got a 30 killstreak...but he never bothered to unlock/equip the nuke. figure he would have done that by now knowing he's gotten at least two streaks over 25.
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I had a 12 killstreak going with the riot shield on Karachi. It was so amazing. One guy used copycat on me and immediately came after me. I just spun around and knifed him. And then he left the game.
Ahahahaha normally I hate Wasteland but I dropped into the middle bunker, killed three guys who were all staring at the other end for some reason, turned, shot out the other three coming in from the other direction and then they finally caught me. Then I used my air drop and got a goddamn PAVE LOW. And since my teammates had since taken the bunker and were holding it, the other team had nowhere to hide and just got raped. And then one of my teammates got a Pave Low and the other team apparently didn't think to try to destroy either one because they just got wrecked. I ended the round with 24-2-2.
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pissing around with random guns. enjoying the FAL, it's like a better G3. also surprisingly i am enjoying any smg i can get my hands on.
it's like they don't suck anymore. that and i have been using a bit of the thumper for that explosives damage perk's pro version. it's like the noobtoob but uhh harder to use. an alright weapon to be honest, but i can't quite see myself needing it over the other secondary weapons. though if anybody can think of situations where it would be nice to have a thumper over something else, i would be glad to know the niche of this weapon.
and because of mw2, i play less sf2. but, my skills are pretty damn ok right now. i still have a lot of work to do on the "getting better" portion. but for the first time in a fighting game, i feel i have learned most of the tools of a single character, and i have the execution down to do whatever i want (save for the ToD, fuck that) for the most part. it's pretty nice, and now i can say you are pretty much fucked if i can close ground with you with my zangief unless you kick total ass at doing reversals(which is where not being predictible with tick throws comes in...next part of my game im working on). you know, like zangief is supposed to be. if he closes ground, he can do the big damage, so don't let him in.
it's just awesome to me to even be thinking about "you know, i have to set this guy up for the super and i could possibly win this match" and when im on the spot, yes, i can do that crossup body splash, st short into super with a high probability of success.
it's like, going from sf2, to ssf2, i have a super meter now.
tldr-
thumper- it's aight
smg's- i am pleased
the FAL- i have a smile on my face
FINAL....ATOMIC....BUSTER!!1111- priceless
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The thumper's not that useful but it's nice to have one class made with a stinger missile for secondary to quick switch to to shoot down aerial killstreak perks. You can just use bling to give yourself two attachments and have both a grenade launcher and a holographic sight. And then still have a shotgun on secondary.
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Played a bit of MW2 a little while ago, it wasn't bad. My friends would refuse to pull out their secondary when they ran out of ammo mid gun fight despite me killing like 5 people by switching to my secondary half way through. Hell, they rarely used their secondary, but my friend did take down a chopper with the revolver at one point.
As for the shield, I thought it was alright. Amazing in close quarters but outside of that is seemed kinda like a giant "PLEASE KILL ME" sign.
So far my experience from the little bit of death match I played (hate death match, it's like a god damned dice roll and none of my friends will admit it) has been alright. It does seem even more dumbed down compared to COD4 (spraying seems more effective, the amount of slowdown when you scope is fucking retarded) but it's not like COD4 was a really deep hyper competitive FPS.
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Sonic Adventure 2 battle is fun but such an annoy bitch at times ie before both sonic and shadow fight each other on ark the level before is such a pain in the ass.
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if anything, you want to be at range with the riot shield. bullets pretty much can't kill you, you are pretty resistant to grenade damage and they aren't a problem unless A the grenade is behind you, or B SEMTEX LOLSTUCKDEAD. i mean, sure you literally can't attack at range, but that's not the point of the riot shield, it's to be this big distraction that diverts fire from your allies on to you. and yeah, you want to advance forward, but ive given my friends many a kill because they shot me instead.
and im not sure about this since it was from /v/, but ive heard you can survive a predator missile if you use the blast shield and look up with the riot shield...
i say im not sure, because i did not survive a direct to the front rocket blast, and i can only assume the predator is stronger.
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Also, if you switch to your secondary, you have the shield on your back, and it does in fact still protect your back.
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The shield is amazing at close range only if you become good at circling. Everyone will try to run past and knife on hit, which is why you need commando on. Then you back and circle and then hit again. I've had 24-4 rounds multiple times with the shield. It's worthless on open stages though. Stick to it on sub base or karachi or something.
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Well, it's always going to have it's downfalls, but i would imagine that at high level gameplay, someone could figure out a couple good uses of it (maybe shielding a teammate as they cross an open area where a sniper is aiming?)
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Well, every map has choke points so it's always going to be useful there in some way, either by protecting you from ambush or letting you cover your teammates while they set up. It's also hilarious to draw semtex off of someone and then dashing it into the enemy. You actually get more points that way than for a normal kill haha. It pops up with an ASSISTED SUICIDE bonus.
I played through New Super Mario Bros Wii with two friends. It's seriously the next evolution of 2D Mario games. It's also quite hard and probably the hardest Mario game other than Lost Levels. We started at 10:30am and didn't stop until 7pm and we only got all of the coins up through world 3. Special world is omfg hard sometimes. It's just as fun by yourself too. It's never really unfair, but is plenty demanding in terms of platforming skills like triangle jumping and timing running leaps.
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Well, every map has choke points so it's always going to be useful there in some way, either by protecting you from ambush or letting you cover your teammates while they set up. It's also hilarious to draw semtex off of someone and then dashing it into the enemy. You actually get more points that way than for a normal kill haha. It pops up with an ASSISTED SUICIDE bonus.
I played through New Super Mario Bros Wii with two friends. It's seriously the next evolution of 2D Mario games. It's also quite hard and probably the hardest Mario game other than Lost Levels. We started at 10:30am and didn't stop until 7pm and we only got all of the coins up through world 3. Special world is omfg hard sometimes. It's just as fun by yourself too. It's never really unfair, but is plenty demanding in terms of platforming skills like triangle jumping and timing running leaps.
Awesome, and Awesome. I saw the video someone posted about the New Mario Brothers Wii game, and it did look pretty fun.
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Starting playing Legend of Legaia again...such a good game but not very known amongst rpg fans.
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I know it. I enjoyed it, when I played it. Never beat it, but got decently far into it, IIRC. But yeah, I've rarely heard anyone mention it.
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Yay...someone else has heard of it...my biggest gripe about the game is that it takes fucking forever to level up. Sadly you need to because in the second area (the Sebucus Islands) the first boss can dish out almost 800 damage in one round O.O;
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Me and my friends used to play it, and one of them NEVER played JRPGs and still doesn't.
Also when I get money, someone needs to remind me to pick up the new SMBWii.
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I played L4D2 with some friends the day it came out.
They added a shitload of new weapons and a few new special zombies, so zombie killing is as fun as ever. The only problem I have is that now there aren't many of those silent and tense pauses in action like in the first L4D, so L4D2 isn't as scary to me. But hey, if you want to get together with some friends and kill hoards of zombies using a guitar, L4D2 is great for that.
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Assassin's Creed 2 is really really good.
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I played L4D2 with some friends the day it came out.
They added a shitload of new weapons and a few new special zombies, so zombie killing is as fun as ever. The only problem I have is that now there aren't many of those silent and tense pauses in action like in the first L4D, so L4D2 isn't as scary to me. But hey, if you want to get together with some friends and kill hoards of zombies using a guitar, L4D2 is great for that.
Nah crowbar for be because I want to be goredon frweeemans1
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I've come to the conclusion that any game could benefit from some sort of gambling system, or an arena system (similar to the one in the second Ratchet and Clank games).
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So Assassin's Creed 2 is absolutely amazing and the plot for that series is fantastic. I can't wait for AC3...which makes me really sad because it'll be two years until we see it at least. I wouldn't be surprised to see it as a launch title for Microsoft's next system.
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Heh, my brother just got a PS3 with Assasin's Creed 1, and my friend richard (Nekros when he posts here), just rented AC2, and I've been watching both, and I love them. Such amazing games.
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i am rambling on and on and on, just a warning. im a bit uhh, sucked into this game at the time being.
i uhh started up dragon age again. same race/origin/class, this time leveled a bit differently.
also, instead of going to redcliff right away (BAD IDEA, BAD IDEA) i went to the mage tower. so, i basically spent my night completing that.
just going to say, if you only buy the game to play that section of the game, it's a better buy than a lot of what's out right now. it almost felt kind of "metroidey" in a sense with the fade exploration and whatnot. anywho, it was really good, good enough to jew me away from sleeping when i have to get up earlier than normal tomorrow today.
got rid of morrigan with wynne, and HOPEFULLY i can get access to shale when i leave camp to replace sten. if not...ohh well i guess stehn is ok. it's just like getting his approval up in camp is weird. basically knowing him, just talking to him about anything is annoying him...but if i select the proper thing to say, i STILL annoy him but he understands and his approval goes up. he's alright though, seems to be a bit more to him than you would assume when you first meet him.
the bosses are quite fun, though that damn sloth boss. kill him, he comes back in a different form, kill him again, different form, kill him again...different form, accidentally let him cast a spell, HURP DURP EVERYBODY DIES FROM ONE SPELL. made sure to save stamina to interrupt those spells the second time i killed him. i mean, it's a fun fight, but that HURP DURP ONE SPELL CAN ESSENTIALLY WIPE YOU should have a bit more warning to it. you know, instead of a cast bar, i don't know do something which makes me know it's going to fuck my day beforehand so i don't need to restart the fight. also, why do the two handed warriors get immunity from knockdown super early compared to sword and shield warriors? i fucking swear he was on stenn more than i would have liked because my player character was knocked on his ass the entire time for the first form. too damn bad i can't get knockdown immunity until like level 12. you figure the sword and board warrior, a warrior who is the TANK should have something like that a bit earlier than the damn two handed damage warrior.
tldr- MAGE TOWER ROX MY SOX PLAY IT
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reckon i won't be seeing zevran in this playthrough. faggot ambushed me with like 5 melee dudes, 6 archers, and a mage. and you know, mages in this game are fucking retarded. i mean, one fucking spell and i wipe. thank god wynne has a ranged stun, else i would probably have to suffer a few more reloads than wanted. anywho, the game gave me the option to capture him or just kill him (he's unconscious after winning the fight) and after that fuck stupid fight, he ain't waking up from that sleep. fuck him, and i hope he doesn't magically come back. anywho, yeah, fuck that puto.
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right right, that zevran bullshit has been redeemed with this sweet cocky motherfucker.
(http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/3571/shale.th.jpg) (http://img691.imageshack.us/i/shale.jpg/)
i wouldn't pay $7 for the dlc. i mean, for one character and a small dungeon...i think it's a bit much. but since i got it for free i will happily enjoy the character. unlike alistar, this "tank" starts out with a whopping 32 con, so uhh yeah...that's like 8 more than my warrior...which was like 6 more than alistar (after pumping con a level or two at that). won't have to worry about him going down like a little bitch like sten i would assume. plus talking to this guy girl is pretty fucking entertaining. though refering to me as "it" reminds me of the space jellies in mass effect, he isn't really similar....at all....like...no.
anywho, the party should be what i use for the entire game.
Mr. McSuave
Bard Girl
Old Awesome Person
Rocky Rockelton
and yeah i took off the helmet on the player character to take the screen, otherwise it's one of those templar helms which kind of look lame.
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im just going to keep editing because i need a brake from this game, and im waiting for a pizza to come out of the oven.
being a dwarf in this game kicks ass. you aren't treated like trash. i mean, if you are an elf, the humans look down on you...and because of that, if you are a human and you go to the dalish lands, well they hate you. not only that, but shale knows that the dwarves are the superior race in fereldon. that alone makes him her(i don't know yet, but y'know.../v/) the smartest "non dwarf" in the game.
though, if you could be an orc in this game (im not even sure orcs exist in the dragon age universe) i would consider myself more of an orc fan than a dwarf fan.
so yeah, mage tower beaten, got shale, now i just entered the dalish elf place with the warewolves and whatnot. shale continues to be awesome, wynne is like a fuck awesome counsoler for my player character, and bard girl shoots niggers with a crossbow which is fine by me. i mean bard girl isn't too interesting, but it beats dead assassin gay elf rogue boy. which i would have been fine with if his first interaction with me wasn't an ambush which annoyed me to the point where i wanted that character dead, and made him dead.
anything else before checking the pizza? uhh, dragon age 2, i want a desire demon in my party. it would make for interesting gameplay/plot shenanigans. i mean, imagine your player character heavily influenced by one of those things through the entirety/majority of a game, it would kick ass. though, i hate fighting em...y'know...magic, and like, it hurts...
*this post is going to get bigger if nobody makes another post in this thread*
wades emporium, denerim, the shopkeep that isn't wade. dude sounds like cloudman from killer7, i swear.
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It probably is him. It's Cam Clarke. He's at least five people in Dragon Age. He's probably the most prolific anime/gaming voice actor in US history.
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SO MUCH FUCKING L4D2
Also Borderlands, I found a level 48 Hyperion Destroyer (Dumps the whole clip when scoped), without any Ele modifiers, so it's a fucking death machine. 250 ATK doesn't sound that scary, except when you take into account level 9 Metal Storm from a Heavy Gunner Class Mod, and +39% Weapon damage, from that same mod. Why are Combat Rifles so awesome? ;_;
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cam clarke
# Dragon Age: Origins - Additional voices
# World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade - Blood Elf Male, Medivh, Nexus-Prince Shaffar
# World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - Malygos
# Metal Gear Solid - Liquid Snake, "Master" McDonnell Miller
# Killer7 - Andrei Ulmeyda
# Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem - Anthony the Paige, Custodian
# Mass Effect - Private Fredericks, Additional Voices
holy shit
also keeping me up later than i would have liked, i got the full set of juggernaut armor.
(http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/1834/juggernautarmor.th.jpg) (http://img230.imageshack.us/i/juggernautarmor.jpg/)
the sword is gorims sword, and the shield is the aducan shield. you know, stuff you literally get at the beginning of the game but then lose and get back again later. anywho, maby mages won't instagib me as much with the nice resistances on this sonbitch.
but if it hasn't been made apparent, i am like really drawn into this game right now. i mean, the game is fun to play, and everything around in the game is interesting to watch. it's weird because it IS a generic fantasy setting with a "DEMONS ARE ATTACKING US KILL THEIR LEADER TO SAVE OUR LAND" setting, but all the characters and whatnot make this stuff entertaining. it says something when me of all people is caring about the characters in a game.
also i hooked up with bard girl. tiny text is a bit spoilerey. nothing major, but it's a bit of a shock when you first hear about it. which sucks for her because alistar says i have 30 years left to live before the darkspawn blood kills me. just looking at my player character, im saying he's around 30, so i mean, who wants to live past 60 anyway. 30 years is plenty of time to save the land, have a family/kids/happy life.
why am i even thinking about this in the first place? see what i mean, this is why i can't sleep, i have to play more dragon age, bye.
figured since i was here...
it's the flemeth fight, or atleast most of it. excuse the shaky cam, i am playing the game with one hand.
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and one for the night
i killed the high dragon, then i hit the screenshot button...and accidentally hit the quickload button instead. figured i would tape the second fight, and here it is. again, excuse the camera, it's hard to really position it properly to my monitor. should be mostly self explanitory though, since well...im talking in the video, durp durp.
if you don't care to watch the nearly 8 minute long battle, click ahead to 7:50 for the badass killing blow.
*is it me or is the deep roads stuff take a long fucking time to do"
made it to the broodmother, and killed her. guess the next stop for me is the anvil. but i have to say that i enjoyed fighting the broodmother, and that weird dwarf that wouldn't shut the fuck up was kind of creeping me out. this whole deep roads thing just gives creepy vibes to it, and the people you meet there kind of enforce that. well, except for legion of the dead, they seem like a pretty nice bunch for the most part.
45 hours in, level 18.
i don't see how people call shale an overpowered tank. though, i don't use him as a tank, he has good con (like the same as my warriors) and all of the tank tallents. i just can't see why one would prefer him to a sword and shield warrior. HOWEVER, compared to alistar, i guess i can understand. alistar starts out with horrible con, but you want to pump strength fairly early to equip the big armor. i dig shale though, he can take damage, he can deal damage, and against single bosses, he provides a very nice buff aura. leliana with her final bard song is FANTASTIC against swarms of weak enemies, that and miasma from wynne = enemies who are slow, weakened, and constantly get stunned.
im not sure how much of this game i have left (and i don't care to know, im fine being surprised with how much game is left) but i am assuming i am "far" in the game. i mean isn't level 20 like the "cap" in this game thus far (before they make post game DLC)? that inconsideration, i think beating the game before friday is a safe bet.
im assuming, anvil, orzimar again, denerim, some place to fight the archdemon, and the ending credits roll. WE SHALL SEE IN DUE TIME!
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I'm tempted to get Dragon age now, but I have NO CLUE how much I'd like it, but I don't mind micro managing stats as long as everything is spelled out nicely.
Also I'm now playing MDK2 still (really don't like the pacing in this game, but it's a good game) Megaman Zero 3 and NINJA COP.
Why haven't I heard of Ninja Cop before? It's stupid fun and somewhat hard. Also I'll probably start Boktai 2 and I can't find the motivation to beat Yoshi's Island.
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Ninja Five-O is one of the best GBA games of all time. I own it.
I got pretty bored with Dragon Age by the end. I dunno. None of the numbers are especially hard to figure out or anything though.
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i basically bought a lot of games.
THQ pack, riddick, ff7, crash bandicoot.
riddick was awesome until i realized how shitty the checkpoint system in a game of that type is
tried some full spectrum warrior, looks cool, save for having to unplug my internet to play it. will get back to it when i have patients for a game like that, since it is a fair bit complex.
i wanted to play STALKER but well, IT WONT FUCKING RUN, so yeah, fuck that.
discovered psn store on psp, played some final fantasy 7 since i had a hankerin for that game. really didn't get far, only to the trainyard, but it's final fucking fantasy 7, on my psp, that's badass. but i mean, my actual physical copy of the game has a scratched disc 1 which freezes when you get the cutscene of going to gold saucer. that, plus having this game portable, plus it only being $10.00, why not.
and finally, crash bandicoot. it's still a fun game. the controls aren't as precise as i remember, but that's nothing playing for an hour or two can't fix. but uhh, i completley forgot about the FUCK HORRIBLE save system. basically the only way to save is to unlock a bonus level within a level and get to the end, that is the only way to save. ohh well, it's not "portable game" friendly, but i can't knock it since it's kind of an early ps1 game, a good one at that.
and for dragon age, it got to a point where i was "done" with the game, so i kind of got irritated trying to finish it ASAP so i could play something else. it's still a good game, but i mean, im not quite used to a single player experience lasting well over 50 hours. i mean, i beat ff7 in under 40. still, not really a knock on that game, the same thing happened for me in fallout 3 when i realized i had over 30 hours in that game.
for what i am really playing? i don't know, im just kind of pissing around with games until something pulls me in to complete. still though, dragon age held my attention for a long time with days where it was "wake up, play game, sleep" and it's nice to have games like that still coming out.
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Boktai 2 is amazing. The overall art design is great and despite being a bit easy (minus the last two bosses I fight, which made me eat ALL of my health items) it's damn fun. That, plus the fact that MOST health items spoil over time are kind of a kick to he dick.
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Fuck Chun Li's super kick in SF3S. It has amazing range, can jugle, and I was on the opposite side of it and I went to kick her and it somehow hit me. Fucking shit.
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So I got the Borderlands DLC, and am a few quests in. It's pretty funny, clearly something that doesn't really fit with the main game, but new boss fights, 50 quests, 5 maps, and GODDAMN DEDICATED JAKOBS VENDING MACHINES?! Fuck, sign me up.
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Well Boktai 2 fucked up, and now I can't beat it. Not really that upset considering how far I got, but it's a pain.
Also I can't seem to get anything I acquire to run right, like I mount the iso file and install the game via that but whenever I try and run it it asks me to insert the disc. Ugh, I feel like I'm jumping through way too many hoops for this shit.
Oh yeah, and System Shock 2 is nothing like I thought it would be. Seems like it's going to be fairly complicated.
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vidya game add continues!
never would guess i am playing this...
wind waker...yep. i played it way back when it came out, got to the metroid prime part where you are at the end of the game and you have to go around the whole fucking world collecting lots of shit to progress and i stopped. course i had access to both the earth and wind temples, i quit due to just being bored in the earth temple.
figure id give it another shot deleting that file and starting anew. hated the game at the fortress with the "stealth" bs you have to do, but i started having fun.
so i am at the forest place and we will see how long i play this sucker before the add kicks back in.
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I mount the iso file and install the game via that but whenever I try and run it it asks me to insert the disc.
That sounds like SecuRom kicking in....
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You might want to pick up a new version of Daemon tools or whatever you're mounting your .iso's with. Could be some sort of problem there, too.
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Yeah, that's true. and if your not using daemon tools, I'd suggest trying that one. It seems to work really well for me.
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I am playing Uncharted 2, which appears to be much improved over Uncharted 1. But I also really really disliked Uncharted 1 so I don't really know what that means! Enemies are still total bullet sponges and can take multiple headshots to kill and I get annoyed by all of the characters because they're all witty jackasses and the gunplay still isn't that great, but that might be because the dualshock is pretty bad for shooters. It controls smoother than Killzone 2 at least.
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Dualshock is bat for shooters? I hope your not going to say that the xbox controllers are any better...
As far as I'm concerned, the only true way to play shooters is on the computer... Mind you my computer isn't good enough to be worth playing shooters on, unless your playing something like the original halflife, or ut98.
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If they patch and reduce the price on MW2 I might look into it (apparently they already are patching it on the PS3) from what I've seen thus far the god damn thing is insane. I had a guy sit prone behind a blown up car and fire through it and killed me in one shot from a fairly long way.
Then again, the whole fast knifing with the commando perk is damn near enough to scare me off. Couldn't stand how lethal the knife was in 4 was, and now they're giving it two perks to buff it.
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lol, knifing IS pretty lethal. But the point of that is a) don't get to close, and b) watch your back. And a can be nullified by having a shotgun out.
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Dualshock is bat for shooters? I hope your not going to say that the xbox controllers are any better...
As far as I'm concerned, the only true way to play shooters is on the computer... Mind you my computer isn't good enough to be worth playing shooters on, unless your playing something like the original halflife, or ut98.
It most definitely is better. Not because the controller is actually any better but because literally every FPS game on PS3 has this retarded aiming scheme where no matter what sensitivity you have it at, the aim dot accelerates as you aim. Meaning moving starts very slow and then slides up to a higher speed. Meaning you overshoot every target you ever want to aim at ever.
Although the controller also does just generally suck for FPS games in general. And I hate keyboard/mouse because it's even more ridiculous. Yeah man every person can spin and aim and accurately hit a target from 50 yards moving at 790839048mph. No. The only actual correct aiming control in all of gaming is actually the wiimote, just because you are actually physically pointing it yourself and is actually difficult to master because you actually need steady aim.
Not to mention the keyboard is honestly the clunkiest thing to use for anything. If you aren't playing a game like an RTS (which I think honestly COULD use some streamlining in needing too many macros) or an MMO (again, same thing as far as I'm concerned with controls being too spread out over too many buttons), there's no point in needing something with as many buttons as a keyboard. Dawn of War 2 and Company of Heroes are both great examples of RTS games that have simplified the overall control scheme but not the actual gameplay so it definitely can be done.
Everyone's going to think I'm crazy or whatever but that's why most PC gaming annoys me. I will not ever be comfortable trying to play anything with a keyboard and mouse.
Also, knifing really can't be fixed by a shotgun. If they have commando the teleport for the knife moves faster than the shotgun fires. If they have tactical knife then you're just screwed.
Although akimbo 1887's is still the worst thing in the game. Instant kill from hallway distance and there's nothing you can do about it unless you just totally blindside them.
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Ahahaha yeah dual 1887's are probably one of the cheapest things I've seen in a long time. My friend just unlocked them, and I spent like an hour just watching him absolutely mop the floor with everyone in the room. Hours of entertainment, even if you're not playing!
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wall of text.
Wow, I agree with basically all of it, what a rare occasion.
I do like my PC shootans, but I'd love to see a really well implemented Wii FPS.
Also I find it borderline criminal that they'd give that many perks that help knifing.
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Well, I never noticed the aiming acceleration thing, but I haven't exactly played many PS3 games. I still say in a comparison of physical controllers, I much prefer the dual shock to the xbox controllers. The shoulder buttons are better, the L3 and R3 buttons are better, the buttons aren't domed (that pisses me off a lot) and the triggers have less travel distance.
I am inclined to agree about how keyboard are awkward, but I don't know if I can agree that the wii is the best aiming scheme. Maybe the wiimote is the best aiming scheme, but I would never say that the wii controller is the best FPS controller, simply because the whole wiimote + nunchuck thing is awkward to me. I don't like having 2 things that move around like that.
And I only said PC FPS is the only way to go because I enjoy being able to turn on a dime like that. I hate technical limitations getting in the way of things, because on a console, you either have low sensitivity, so you can aim accurately, and then have trouble moving around because the fucking turning is slow, or you set it high so you can get around, and have a hell of a time lining a shot up correctly because you try to barely move and you jump to the other side of the target.
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The Conduit did Wii FPS controls pretty much perfectly. You could customize literally every piece of the controls, from the bound box being as big or as small as you want it, reset any control to anything else, whatever. It was extremely fun to play and it even had great online multiplayer that took real skill because you knew if the guy hit you from far away, he was actually physically aiming that shot, staying steady and nailing you.
Problem was, the game itself was extremely bland, with a very lame single player. It's hard to expect an amazing game out of such a small studio but man, the controls had such promise that having the rest of it not live up to that is a real let-down.
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I was wondering how that was. The soundtrack is made by a fucking absolute musical genius, and that's how I found out about it, actually, lol.
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Killing Floor is surprisingly fun. I had a game where everyone but ONE guy died at the start of the second to last round and he soloed it. Then on the final boss, he hid in a cave and fired a rocket at a cluster of five of us, killing 3 and wounding one bad. Shit was nuts.
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Ugh, not sure if I can't stand System Shock 2 much longer. No map means I have to wander around the space ship until I find what I'm looking for, also the repair/hacking deal doesn't seem to make any sense. It's literally get three things to light up in a row and win.
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so i found a way to have more fun with less frustration in that mw2.
normally i use the FAL, which is a shitty weapon, but i like it. im just not good enough to use it properly.
when i get frustrated, i do the melee thing, which is fun, but kind of flukey.
acr + noobtoob
thumper
scavenger pro
danger close
commando (save for steady aim, you really can't go wrong with commando)
started to get used to the thumper and baby, i like it. basically i swap to thumper ASAP and use that, if i run out of ammo (scavenger), noobtoob with the acr, if i run out of nades (HIGHLY unlikley before i die) i can shoot people i guess.
it's been working ok so far, but i can't wait till RPGx2.
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I use almost the same setup but I use sleight of hand instead of scavenger and one of the LMG's instead of the ACR (hence the reason I'd use sleight of hand). Once you get good with the thumper though, man is it awesome.
The FAL is probably my favorite assault rifle though. With stopping power it takes one or two shots to kill anyone and you can tap out shots much more accurately since it has almost no recoil.
I finished Killzone 2 and it's really not that great. The final battle is one huge fight where you can totally die from all sorts of random things. The one-on-one final boss fight is hilarious though. He's supposed to teleport around and knife you and shoot at you, but I picked up a flamethrower and lit him on fire. Usually enemies put the fire out pretty quickly but he just kept teleporting around while on fire, screaming away, until he finally just died randomly.
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haha, must have been really funny.
And yeah, the FAL plus stopping power is amazing. It's an awesome mid range weapon, and fun to use.
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And yeah, the FAL plus stopping power is amazing. It's an awesome long range weapon, and fun to use.
that's more like it. it has really low recoil, so trying to snipe with it isn't such a bad idea, long as you aim for the upper body/head. it's like a low damage sniper rifle with more rounds per mag and no default scope. i mean yeah it's ok in mid range but in my opinion it really shines at long range. plus with my luck people can survive 5+ shots WITH stopping power unless i hit the head.
something i started using slightly before the thumper was the WA2000, that semi automatic sniper rifle. while unlocking the thermal, i discovered i really liked the ACOG with the thing. it makes me use it a bit more like a longer ranged assault rifle rather than a sniper rifle. i suck ass with snipers but the WA2000 with ACOG is probably the easiest sniper to get kills with for me. i don't even like the thermal scope, lol.
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If I'm going to use a long range weapon to snipe, I'll likely use an actual sniper rifle.... Just not he 50 cal :/
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why use a sniper rifle when most assault rifles are easier to snipe with in the first place?
pop thermal scope on any lmg/assault rifle and BAM you got an automatic sniper rifle.
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I really hate how they made a really good looking 3D art style for Mirror's Edge, and then they use this really shoddy looking animation for the cut scenes. Also for some fucked up reason the ambiant sound in the background is louder then anyone can speak regardless of how I tweak the sound options. Outside of that, this game is a dumb amount of fun and the combat is surprisingly fun. Not sure why this game went by with such little hype.
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I really hate how they made a really good looking 3D art style for Mirror's Edge, and then they use this really shoddy looking animation for the cut scenes.
I kinda like the look of the cut scene animations.
The biggest thing that's working against DICE, I think, is that the same graphics style was used in those damn Esurance commercials. I can't help but crack jokes when they come on.
It's a shame they didn't throw Steam achievements into the PC version at all. On the bright side, that means that I won't have to do Test of Faith again...
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Haha, I didn't even notice that before. Man, now I need to mention that to my brother, lol.
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Haha, I didn't even notice that before. Man, now I need to mention that to my brother, lol.
It was kind of the first thing that poped into my mind.
Also I just think the in game stuff looks awesome.
Oh god, I can't stop grabbing random emulators and trying games. Hell, I started Paper Mario and haven't touched it since I started it and now I'm on a Genesis emulator with Contra Hard Corps, Gunstar Heroes, and Castlevania Bloodlines.
Oh yeah, and ALTERED BEAST.
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this image made me rage, 3 deaths were in the last 20 seconds, the spawns in this game fucking suck. i mean a 19 and 1 would kick total ass for me since my k/d ratio is like 7.6. not to mention i rack up the deaths by my general careless play.
(http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/7711/img1606n.jpg)
i wanted to link the image for two reasons. one, i rarely get games that good. i was even using a new weapon for me, the l86 lsw. it's no RPD, but it's pretty alright.
two, the map. my least favorite maps when i first got this game, estate, derail. my favorite map was scrapyard.
maps i consider my favorites NOW
afghan
derail (it's all about B baby)
skid row (knife only)
estate is not a favorite, but i certainly don't mind it. never realized how decent of a knifing map it can be. if anything i hate scrapyard and quarry the most now. i fucking hate rundown as well, BUT, BUT, if you spawn by C and stay on the side of the bridge where C is, it can be tolerable.
so yeah, afghan is all around fun to play. im not even that good on afghan and there are better knifing maps, but nothing about it really pisses me off.
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I like estate. And yes, it can be a very knife friendly map, lol. It can also be total and complete rape if a team holds the house and operates like an actual team.
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Alright, Mirror's Edge is DONE. I must say, despite it being REALLY short (I beat it in like what, 3 casual sittings with one lengthy one?) it was a damn fun game. I keep hearing in reviews that it was frustrating, but unless you're borderline retarded it shouldn't be, plus finding out where to go is part of the fun but apperently people wanted LINEAR RUNNAN AND JUMPAN. Oh yeah, and the combat was surprisingly rewarding, even if it was hard to get a gun and getting a gun was basically like screaming "I WIN" and all your enemies would explode.
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this image made me rage, 3 deaths were in the last 20 seconds, the spawns in this game fucking suck.
It can't be any worse than they were in CoD4. That game had a nasty habit of spawning you in the middle of a fucking airstrike. I just love dying before my character even has a chance to draw his weapon.
Alright, Mirror's Edge is DONE. I must say, despite it being REALLY short (I beat it in like what, 3 casual sittings with one lengthy one?) it was a damn fun game.
Indeed.
One of the only things that disappoints me about that game is that it does have a very linear feel. I was under the impression that the movement would be more open-ended. It just doesn't feel like there are many alternate paths that you can take in many cases.
I enjoyed it, though, definitely looking forward to the sequel.
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Hooray I hit 70 in MW2 finally. And also completed every challenge for the M16A4. Thing is ridiculous. And I got my Akimbo FMJ 1887's for cheating.
I also went 50-12 on Terminal in Ground War Domination with a bunch of friends. Got up to Emergency Airdrop and got an AC130, two attack helicopters and two harriers out of it (and the normal care package I had). And I had a harrier set up for normal use too. The other team was too busy running away from all the aerial garbage to actually take anything for points.
I also got up to a 24 killstreak on Estate but I didn't have the nuke equipped anyway so I wouldn't have gotten it.
I am pretty much always #1 on the team for kills overall now though.
I think I'll work on getting tactical knife next so I can really cheat with marathon/lightweight/commando.
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i wouldn't call the knife build cheating, but if you surprise the enemy, they just die, simple as that.
uhh today, 30 and 3 on wasteland with my 'splosion man build.
tar 21/grenade launcher (thing pumps out the damage without stopping power so it's good when im out of 'splosives)
at4 rocket launcher (wasteland only, DAT BUNKER)
semtex (also wasteland only, i have a hard time throwing C4 in the bunker)
stun grenades
scavenger
danger close
commando (not needed, but i just like it)
uhh and i fucked up with my RPD/one man army build and switched to my knife build....ended up getting an awesome game winning kill with the throwing knife...and got the kill 5 people with the throwing knife challenge completed at the same time.
level 64, next level, RPGx2, FUCK YEAR!
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I don't know. I'd call the ability to teleport over to someone and stab them faster than bullets can hit you cheating. Especially if you're running around with a care package. You barely even need to sneak up on people. Sure it's not going to help you in big team games where people tend to travel in packs but you'd dominate something like free-for-all or normal team deathmatches like that.
The FMJ for the 1887's is definitely cheating though. It gives it back its range pre-nerfing and it has as good a range as most of the submachineguns which is just bullshit. I held point B on Scrapyard up to a 14 killstreak before I finally ran out of ammo on them and died only because I was switching guns.
I do know that I refuse to ever go through Prestige Mode. I don't want to lose all of my guns and stuff. If they gave me back all of the attachments and stuff I've already earned as soon as I unlocked the guns again, then maybe.
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My friend AJ prestiged like, 2 months ago, lol. He wasn't too happy about loosing the guns and attachments either, but leveling up is so much easier after a prestige. It basically just means you have to spend more time playing the game. Of course, the fact that his weapon of chose is unlocked right form the start definitely helped.
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ill admit the "teleport" is kind of bullshit, but ive been shot out of that many times and vice versa. still, there's a lot of bullshit in this game so it isn't much in comparison to...everything else. but im not going to defend it, you can't deny that knifing in this game is a lot more fun than it was in cod4. i mean, i run around with my knife yelling "VROOM VROOM"
but what am i to call bullshit, i just got my RPGx2. though, when i prestige the moment i hit 70 ignoring the ak47...back to the at4 which at least is more versatile(not that it matters against the big floating easy target harrier).
now if you excuse me, i got some multikills to acquire.
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This (http://ccp.vo.llnwd.net/o2/pdf/QEN_Q3-2009.pdf) is one of the many reasons why I consider EVE to be on a completely different level than most, if not all other MMOs out there... The market is absolutely insane. Of course, the fact that it's a broker market and works rather dfferently than a direct buyer to seller market probably accounts for at least some of the complexity of the market.
Also, I really need to figure out how to use the market effectively. I don't necessarily want to become a trader, but I don't want to feed people extra ISK that I could be saving.I'm not exactly rich, considering that 4.8m ISK is practically nothing compared to the billions of ISK that some high end players deal with. (Well, billions in some ways. Example: http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1228801&page=2)
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This (http://ccp.vo.llnwd.net/o2/pdf/QEN_Q3-2009.pdf) is one of the many reasons why I consider EVE to be on a completely different level than most, if not all other MMOs out there... The market is absolutely insane.
The fact that hundreds of thousands of players are hitting the same market really helps. An EVE-like economy in any other game simply would not be feasible due to the segmentation of the player base.
But yeah, that's one of the ways that EVE really stands up against the competition. Not only because the market is massive, but because it's mostly player-driven, and it has more than enough players to effectively fuel it.
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I bought a couple of Wii games today since Best Buy's gamer club website had $10 off for each of them and they were normally $15. Got Excitebots and New Play Control Pikmin.
I have yet to open Pikmin but dear god Excitebots is so much fun. It's almost like some crazy tripped out version of Beetle Adventure Racing except you can hit polls and go spinning off of them for extra boost or do tricks in midair or hit a soccer ball into a goal for some reason midrace and you don't even actually have to get 1st to win or even S any given track, you just need a certain amount of stars from doing all sorts of activities and attacking the other racers and getting huge air and stuff. So much fun.
Thursday is Bayonetta Time. It will not be interrupted.
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im going to be frank, i suck balls at terminal in the "staying alive" department.
this screenshot is my best terminal game, with a weapon i don't use (aug hbar). it's both happy and depressing. happy because, well, look at dat phat score. sad, 3 kills away from a nuke :< basically i died the moment i got done with my chopper gunner, which is better than getting shanked during the chopper gunning. though it's terminal, and there are plenty of places to hide from the gunner so i can't beat myself up about it, it was a damn nice game to end the evening on. i mean, it's not a matter of "if" i get a nuke, it's a matter of when i get the nuke 8)
(http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/8134/img1609h.jpg)
ps: akimbo 1887 = FREE KILLS (though, fun to use)
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That is a damn nice score. And that is a damn fun map, too, but I ca understand how it can be hard to stay alive. Still, 6 deaths beats the hell out of everyone else there, so I'd hardly call that sucking at staying alive.
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I just played a game of SF3S with a guy in Korea and we had hardly any lag. What the fuck.
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so I'd hardly call that sucking at staying alive.
well, it wasn't an ordinary game. normally i die a lot due to being spawn camped to hell and back at the spawn by A.
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well, it wasn't an ordinary game. normally i die a lot due to being spawn camped to hell and back at the spawn by A.
Sounds incredibly dumb.
Also I think I might delete MDK2 and System shock 2 and try and catch up on my PS, N64, and mega drive emulation. Oh yeah, and Gunstar Heroes is FUCKING AMAZING.
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Sounds incredibly dumb.
no, spawning the instant before a predator missile hits you is incredibly dumb.
and ive been running around with a marathon/stopping power/steady aim spas 12 build. it's really fun, but, WHY IS KNIFING EASIER?! THAT SHOULD NOT BE!
seriously, shotguns are actually good in this game, yet knifing is easier to get kills with.
that said, shotgunning on invasion = VERY VERY VERY FUN
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Agreed, predators on spawn suck ass.
However, I've only been killed on spawn a couple times not including the times I spawn outside and an airstrike or something hits me, and those kills were in small maps where you could not spawn away from people if you wanted to.
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Easiest way to get kills is to immediately walk towards C. From the metal detectors, just stop when you line up with the corner of the wall and aim over towards C. Guys will just walk into view and die instantly. From the escalators, guys will walk around from where you would have stopped and just get nailed. I get instant emergency air drops almost every game on Terminal because of how predictable people are. If you stand far enough back, they almost can't hit you correctly with flashbangs to disorient you and if they do hit you, just backing up to the left will pull you back behind the metal detectors again.
I also love it when people throw flashbangs at me because the second they do, I usually just drop a claymore. People are too greedy with that and go for the knife and then whoops they explode.
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that's pretty much how i got the score i got.
*edit*
forgot the default killstreaks are uav, care package, preditor missile. im fine with this, but care package sucks. well, ok, it doesn't suck, but i don't like it. well...no, i DO like it, i just don't like having it as my own killstreak. y'see, yes you can literally get a fucking chopper gunner with only 3 kills (hardline) with the thing, but...so can your enemy...from your box, and so can that asshole team mate whoring the mic annoying the piss out of you. i see the purpose of it being in there by default, to show new players who can't get high killstreaks what the higher end stuff is about. but personally, i hate having it because of people like me, I WILL STEAL YOUR CARE PACKAGE AND I DO NOT CARE WHO YOU ARE.
i guess if i feel like fucking around with a knife build i would do something like...care package, chopper gunner, nuke. i mean, i tried the care package run "glitch" and jesus, why hasn't it been patched? you run so fucking fast with that thing it's like im playing f-zero. but i guess you lose tactical knife, and you aren't using the care package for the killstreak it contains so it isn't THAT bad. you may run super-humanly fast, but you can't outrun bullets.
but i guess i will be using the scar h with stopping power and noobtoob. you know, i tried other guns, i had high killstreaks with guns i sucked with, but the scar h with scavenger is too good. it's like a sprayable m16. i guess it's not a surprise i got my 27 killstreak with the scar h and AA-12.
while i am on the topic of overpowered assault rifles, what is up with the m4 assault rifle (ie, the first assault rifle on the list)? why use it over the scar? sure it has more ammo, but what's the point if it takes more shots to kill. thing gets my vote for the worst assault rifle.
ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, unlike cod4, while ar's are still king, shotguns are damn good, and smg's are damn good. one of my favorite classes is a silenced vector(or mini uzi), spas 12 with grip, marathon, stopping power, and steady aim.
i was long overdue for a tldr and mw2 was on the brain so here you go, something to gnaw on.
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Bayonetta is the best action game ever made. No I don't care if you don't like how she looks. No I don't care if you're bad at the games. No I don't care about any possible negative ideas you can come up with. It is quite literally the perfect action game. The demo for God of War 3 is absolute shit in comparison to this and if that demo is any indication, GoW3 will follow suit and be absolute boring shit in comparison in full.
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Well it was made by ex members of Clover and some of the Devil May Cry staff right? That has amazing spelt all over it.
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say i don't like devil may cry, but i enjoy ninja gaiden.
also, bayonetta is really hot, so that can make up for some other issues i could have with the game.
would i enjoy bayonetta?
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also, bayonetta is really hot, so that can make up for some other issues i could have with the game.
If you like stick-bugs, then sure.
Also the game play looks decently smoother and faster then DMC, so I'd check it out if I were you.
Also I just noticed a huge Okami reference (watching it via stream now).
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If you like stick-bugs, then sure.
i bet if you looked at my avatar, you would get it.
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I...huh? It's the same thing it's always been for me.
Also there seems to be a ton if videogame/capcom related jokes going on in this game.
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say i don't like devil may cry, but i enjoy ninja gaiden.
also, bayonetta is really hot, so that can make up for some other issues i could have with the game.
would i enjoy bayonetta?
Ninja Gaiden is even worse than pure shit in comparison to this.
Then again I think the newer Ninja Gaiden games are godawful pieces of trash to begin with so WHO KNOWS
The mechanics are smoother and simpler than DMC (punch/kick/shoot/dodge/switch weapon sets) but combos are done more based on timing than button-mashing like a spaz and there's a lot of depth as to your options at any point in time and unique combos for just about every combination of weapons you can find. And the whole thing is just ridiculously stylish.
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the way you express your opinion radically reminds me of...me...
rather humorous
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Well that's what I was going for so awesome
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played some mw2 with friends today, wasn't very fun
rundown
afghan
rundown
estate
rundown
derail
rundown team death match
rundown domination
i wish there was a map toggler or something like warcraft 3 had, select 2 or 3 maps you don't like, and they won't show up when you search for a game. totally would get rid of afghan (i now dislike that map), rundown, and rundown again. i would pay money for dlc which limited the only maps to wasteland, highrise, skid row, and invasion.
seriously though, rundown is annoying as overgrown. PICK A BUILDING AND CAMP HURP DURP THATS FUN RITE!?
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I am also enjoying Bayonetta right now.
The game is ridiculous fun. So many combos, and I like how you can practice them in the loading screens. Witch Time is probably the greatest implement of slowing time in a while too. There's a variety of enemies, much more so than anything like DMC or NG. The game is dripping with sex and style. If the first 5 minutes of the game didn't make you scratch your head, or get the gigglies, then you may as well not get it.
Also, REFERENCES:
Resident Evil
Okami
Viewtiful Joe
Devil May Cry
Madworld
God Hand
Apocalypse Now
If you liked any of those games, you will like Bayonetta.
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Damn I want that game. Even tho I think the main character looks like a stick bug and Gun shoes and hair suits are just plain retarded.
Also the insults in STALKER Clear Sky are awesome, one of the guys screamed "NAZIII" and then unloaded on a bandit.
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Damn I want that game. Even tho I think the main character looks like a stick bug and Gun shoes and hair suits are just plain retarded.
You don't ever notice anything weird about her while playing it. If you actually have the time while playing to complain about her proportions, you're doing something really really wrong. It matches with the art style perfectly.
Also, the entire point behind the game is to be ridiculous and retarded and completely over-the-top.
And I totally just beat it on Hard Mode and I'm ranked pretty high up on the leaderboards for score.
It is worth every penny. And every one of your pennies. At the same time.
Also, I got my first nuke in Modern Warfare 2. I put on Harrier/Chopper Gunner/Nuke and it made it almost too easy. Ended up going 53-3 for the entire round of domination on Rundown. And told my friends to stop trying so that they could get ahead of us so I could nuke them while we were losing so I could get Ultimate Sacrifice completed. It was extremely funny. Half the other team quit after that round. And then I switched to Harrier/Pave Low/Chopper Gunner and continued to dominate for kills for the entire night which was amazing. Usually I run into a giant team of super pros that just wipe the floor with me.
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it's not hard to get a nuke, but rather getting lucky enough to get in a position to get said kills. then again, that could apply specifically with my reletavley poor skill at the game.
obviously i would be better at the game if i put more time into it. problem, the game just pisses me off too goddamn much to play in longer bursts.
/vlad ragequit
star trek online beta on tuesday, beta code from amazon put into STO website, hopefully all goes well. not too sure on what i will be "class" wise, or what race i will be, but i know i will be going federation. im sure over 80% of the playerbase will be going federation as well. it can't really be helped since i mean, watch the damn tv shows and see which point of view is shown most of the time.
hopefully this game will fulfill my space fetish in ways eve could not.
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Yeah, it's largely a matter of luck. The guys we were playing against weren't very good and I had gotten behind their lines and they were doing a very poor job of taking me out. And apparently none of them thought to just shoot at the harrier nor did they have any class with any form of rockets to shoot stuff down so the harrier just hung out and got me kills. And then the chopper gunner just wasted them since all of Rundown's major points are open-air and most of the sniper spots are wide enough for the gunner to shoot in. And they were too dumb to just go back and kill me. I mean I was laying right inside the little room on ground level next to C. And they controlled C.
I pretty much only play the game when I can play with my friends though. I can't do random matches anymore. I just can't cooperate with all of the glory hogs and retards that populate Xbox Live.
Also, I submitted pictures of my beating Bayonetta on Hard to Penny Arcade's contest. Hopefully I'm within the 500 so I can get the cool shirt but I sort of doubt it. I mean, the contest started on Friday.
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It matches with the art style perfectly.
Bwah? but everyone else is relatively well proportioned except for those two female characters.
Also Ulti, that image should say DON'T STAND THERE, COME IN.
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Not really. Everyone has extremely long legs. And in-game, Bayonetta's head looks completely normal compared to the other characters.
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The only characters I've really seen are that one witch, the reporter, the bar guy that wants to be a space marine (fucking love that reference) and that short fat guy. That and the only time I noticed it in game (watching someone play, not playing) was when he shot guns from his legs, and it was scary as hell.
I just HAD to use a strategy in Serious Sam that was something other than not get hit and shoot enemies. Wow.
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Double post, but why didn't anyone tell me how awesome Street Fighter Alpha is? I just downloaded it just for the sake of nostalgia and it's fucking awesome. Now I need to check out the original Darkstalkers.
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ill play alpha when there is an hdremix of the sucker so i can easily play online and use my madcatz TE stick.
anyway, torrent > direct download, got my open beta client for the star trek. id link a picture of my character, but it's really really laggy right now and the server just crapped out. it's pretty cool so far though, i don't really get how the skill system works yet, but it's pretty star trek-ey.
ensign vladgd of the starship carl
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ill play alpha when there is an hdremix of the sucker so i can easily play online and use my madcatz TE stick.
might as well just wait for SSF4. That and I'm definitely looking forward more to Guy and Adon.
More shit, but Shinobi 3 is a stupidly good game, but I doubt I'll ever beat it or Gunstar heroes at this rate.
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I've actually found that Gunstar Heroes isn't that hard if you figure out the trick. That is, the body splash and slide kick do about a billion times more damage than the guns.
I played some SFA3 with a friend to play some Cody/Adon/Guy to freshen up and man I am really looking forward to Cody and Adon. My friend uses Guy a lot more than I do though.
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I've actually found that Gunstar Heroes isn't that hard if you figure out the trick. That is, the body splash and slide kick do about a billion times more damage than the guns.
Yeah, I was playing on normal and blowing through the game up until just after you beat Black's Castle, and I just left my emu running forever until my PC restarted. Still not sure how that standing slide move tho. In all honesty Dynamite Headdy is harder.
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there's more to it than the screen shows, maby later ill take one zoomed in on the face. i think she looks pretty cool anyway.
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Finally decided to play through Metroid Prime 3 about a week and a half ago. I'm at the end of the game now, and I've gotten all of the upgrades and powerups. It's a fun game methinks.
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I thought it was fairly awesome.
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i wanted to make an alien, so i did. closer image than the previous.
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as much as i would like to enjoy this game, i impulse canceled my preorder/uninstalled the beta client.
the ship combat...it's like, BADddDDDDDDddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
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im just angry today, mass effect 2 can't come out soon enough.
seriously though, EVE has better combat and that game controls like ass.
i don't think i have the patients for an mmo now anyway.
so i decided to try some quake live
HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO ADJUST TO A GAME LIKE THIS WHEN MY MIND HAS BEEN DUMBED DOWN TO CONSOLE SHOOTERS LIKE HALO AND CALL OF DUTY
seriously, the speed of quake 3 compared to call of duty is like comparing how fast my minivan goes to the speed of light, fuck. no bullshit ways of getting kills in quake...hence why i have trouble getting as much as one single kill.
it's nice though. theres no sniping, no camping, no killstreaks, no lag. BUT the only people someone picking up this game for the first time in years and years and years, have fun getting obliterated. i may install ut2k4 tomorrow and try and brush up on that, FFA DM_RANKIN BABY!
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the gate, i have to remember that q3 map, it's good. i actually went third place in an FFA, it's pretty fun when you start killing people. i uhh still don't quite have my groove for the sensitivity yet, maby i need a bigger surface to move my mouse on otherwise i just play on higher sensitivities.
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The people that tend to play on Quake Live tend to be pretty goddamn good, at least from my experience. I'm not a bad Quake player, I'd consider myself above average, but I get my ass handed to me two out of three games on Quake Live. Also, if you install UT2k4, hit me up, and I'll play with you or something, I got that whole Unreal pack on Steam during the Holiday Sale.
Also: Killing Floor is probably the best three dollars I've ever spent, that game is way too much fun for how simple it is.
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The people that tend to play on Quake Live tend to be pretty goddamn good, at least from my experience. I'm not a bad Quake player, I'd consider myself above average, but I get my ass handed to me two out of three games on Quake Live.
Keep in mind that people have had 11 years to practice. Quake Live is basically an enhanced port of Quake III to browsers.
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HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO ADJUST TO A GAME LIKE THIS WHEN MY MIND HAS BEEN DUMBED DOWN TO CONSOLE SHOOTERS LIKE HALO AND CALL OF DUTY
Quake is an insane game, probably one of the deepest FPS games ever made (I'm a CS fanboy and I'm more then willing to admit that Quake is a harder game to play).
That being said, someone needs to message me on steam if they want to play anything online. I haven't been on TF2, NeoTokyo, CSS, or Quake live in forever. Shit, or any fighting games.
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Consistently playing Modern Warfare 2, and also working through Brutal Legend and Assassins Creed 2 at the same time. after i finish those i'll probably work on Left 4 Dead 2, and I also got Resident Evil 5 which i still need to play through. I havent had this much on myp late gaming-wise is several years.
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Consistently playing Modern Warfare 2, and also working through Brutal Legend and Assassins Creed 2 at the same time.
Sounds like all my friends. That pretty much sums up what's been happening lately with my friends. Except that one of them rented borderlands.
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I should really borrow Brutal Legend from my friend. He bought it because of the demo thinking it would be more of a hack'n'slash and he really doesn't like RTS games so he ended up just dropping the game. I like RTS games though so I'd probably get a lot more enjoyment out of it.
But no, instead I am playing Zelda: Spirit Tracks which is pretty fun and Infamous, which is also pretty fun but I still like Prototype more because it lets you feel like more of a super badass.
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Man, I thought the RTS aspect of Brutal Legend was amazing.
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Megaman 3. All the robot masters are down, I have like 9 or so E tanks and I have to beat fucking pimped out Guts man 4 times now. This game is really rage inducing, specifically Gemini Man with his stage.
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Beeen playing BioShock and Chrono Cross.
Awesome 1st person and awesome RPG
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I really didnt expect Brutal Legend to be so RTS-heavy, but i love it so much
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for some reason, i have the urge to play some big mutha truckers. i recall playing it at my cousins years ago and it was more fun than vidya reviewers gave it credit for.
though im not paying fifty dollars for it new on amazon. i wouldn't mind another trucker sim/rpg style game, it would be interesting.
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Download Big Rigs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rigs
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AVGN actually considered doing a review of Big Rigs. He apparently installed Windows on his Mac (IIRC, he said he tried using Parallels, which is probably where the problem lies) and everything, but wasn't able to get it working.
I should e-mail him and help him get Boot Camp and Fraps set up, haha.
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unlike big rigs, big mutha truckers is actually somewhat good(from what i remember anyway).
http://chipandironicus.com/video/other/mystery/mystery1.html
video totally related
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YOU'RE WINNER
I wouldn't think Big Rigs would be something that the AVGN would review. I mean, it's not even a retro game. :(
Spoony could do a review of it, though.
Also, I just got a copy of Diablo 1/2/expansion packs, so I guess I'm playing those.
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i bought bayonetta since i enjoyed the demo.
something to keep me busy until mass effect 2 comes in the mail.
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Mass Effect 2 PC has leaked. I don't have the specs to play it though so I don't even care. My character's on 360 anyway.
God I still love Bayonetta. I might just download the demo so I can play it here and there until I can buy it.
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Too many good things coming out recently. Bayonetta, ME2, TvC2, No More Heroes 2 all come to mind.
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I've been going retro lately.
In addition to my new/old Atari, I've been playing random Commodore 64 and Amiga games recently.
The Commodore 64 in particular is hilarious because its audio capabilities eclipse its graphical prowess by, well, quite a bit. I was playing Monty on the Run earlier and had a hard time connecting the amazing musical score to the limited graphics.
Speaking of Monty, it's funny how many parallels that game has to I Wanna Be The Guy. It's really, really, really merciless. Speaking of I Wanna Be The Guy, if anyone's completed it (or watched a walkthrough or Let's Play on YouTube), you've actually heard the music from Monty on the Run! It's the awesome SID tune that plays during the final level.
Music can be heard here...give it a listen, it's friggin awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfINgpYvfTY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfINgpYvfTY)
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i think bayonetta is a bit easier than ninja gaiden, but the way you are "scored" at the end, i feel like i suck total ass at the game.
silver rank
gold rank
stone stone stone
stone stone
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joe pesci
stone
joe pesci rank (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4et8Dt6rco)
that and i end up having 10% health most of the time for some reason, ohh well, im on like level 6 now.
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Normal is much easier and Hard isn't toooo hard since you always have plenty of options like invincibility lollipops and such but once you hit Infinite Climax difficulty, they take away Witch Time completely and it's just brutal.
You really need to hold combo a lot and use dodge offset with wicked weaves to really get good scores.
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i think i know why im having problems with the game, difficulty wise.
I THOUGHT YOU WERE SPOSED TO PLAY ONE HANDED :<
(http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/7365/1264167525374.jpg)
in all seriousness though, i just got the claw weapons so im all "HEY TIME TO CHECK EM OUT" so the next level i fight is one of those levels where the boss IS the level. so after i did that awesome fight i was getting my hopes up into trying the claws against normal enemy fodder to get used to how they work....
nope
MOTORCYCLE LEVEL
so that blew my fucking mind, cooled down with an episode of sanctuary and uhh i guess ill check the claws out tomorrow, it's almost 9am, night!
a fap note, the torture move against the white whip lady enemies = wooden horse device used in S&M(thanks /d/).
HOT
until they explode...that is...
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i think bayonetta is a bit easier than ninja gaiden, but the way you are "scored" at the end, i feel like i suck total ass at the game.
Isn't Ninja Gaiden like, genially harder then God Hand (which is an awkward comparison considering God Hand scaled).
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Ninja Gaiden would only be harder because it has the retarded idea of making every enemy capable of attacking you from every distance and then ambushing you from around corners and respawning enemies when you walk back through an area.
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never really thought of ninja gaiden as that bad. it's challenging, but it's never overwhelming.
the hardest part about ninja gaiden (not talking about 2, though it has the same problem) is the fucking camera.
which was at least toggled on the trigger rather than clicking the right thumbstick. please tell me there's a way to change the controls in bayonetta, i couldn't see anything in the options. i mean, i don't have two right thumbs to be attacking and simultaneously hitting the right thumb stick to correct the camera. swapping that with the weapon swap would be infinitely better since i don't see the need to change weapons mid fight, and if i did, i wouldn't be in the middle of attacking.
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chapter 15 just kicked me in the vagina
yeah it's nice and challenging, sure i use a few items, but i called it a night when i had to do that bullshit turret crap.
yeah variety is cool, but please play to your strength with the standard combat. i mean, sure the motorcycle bit was awesome, and yeah the surfing boss was neat (more fun to watch than to fight), but stationary turrets? please, don't.
reckon i will use this as an excuse to run around playing previous levels getting money and such (though i don't need it) until i feel like doing chapter fucking 15 again. i mean, i don't care as much if you give me several fuckhard bosses to fight in succession, just no stationary turrets with odd controls, please.
no kidding, fighting my way through chapter 15, good amount of work put into it. i basically insta quit when i got to the turret part. i like variety when it's good, not when it's there for the sake of being there. i mean, instead of a turret you could have had me surfing on a missile around it or something (i mean it's not like i wasn't surfing on a missile the level before).
i just hope i don't just stop playing because of this one part, with mass effect 2 coming out on tuesday, if this is the last thing of bayonetta on my mind, i won't be playing it again for a little while.
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HOWEVER the fight with that other witch lady was really damned fun.
OHH IF ONLY I DIDN'T HAVE TO DO THAT LAME MISSILE SHMUP LEVEL FIRST ELSE I WOULD FIGHT HER AGAIN FOR THE SAKE OF IT BEING FUN.
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The levels and stuff that you're calling lame are recreations of classic Sega games, hence why they are there.
And the turret thing is really easy on Normal. Just mash fire directly at his face and he'll just stay lock stunned in that flinch animation until he punches out one of the turrets and then do the same at the other one. You can even get away with never shooting a missile on Hard difficulty.
And you definitely do need to change weapons mid fight if you want better scores. There are quite a few longer combos and great chains that come out of that.
Anyway, I played through Mass Effect a bit again just to get ready for 2 and yeah, I still don't think 1 is really all that great of a game but it's fun enough. I was using my infiltrator guy that I started a year ago and got through enough of the game to get the next two ally achievements and I'll probably stop there since I'm just going to use my Vanguard for ME2.
Also, BlazBlue CS is fantastic. I'm learning Hazama and he's really really fun.
I can do most of the basic versions of the combos he's using but I need to figure out the mechanics of the combos off of hotenjin (that distortion drive kick). I really need to learn to tack on that drop to the ground into the second jumping C's though. That'd be an extra 1000 damage easy.
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this is kind of related.
i fought this ryu player online...he destroyed me. i did get one round on him, but i had a feeling that he let me take a round.
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He seemed a bit slow to me, but by the looks of his medium (medium? whatever) attack and his batman grappling hook he should be more then fine on the speed front. Personally I'm liking Noel and Tsubaki. Noel just seems all around easy to use and Tsubaki seems like an odd combination of a street fighter charecter and Holy Order Sol.
Also this game is really hardly anything like GG outside of a few game mechanics.
also vlad, HADOUKEN HADOUKEN HADOUKEN HADOUKEN HADOUKEN HADOUKEN. That guy is stupidly good but watching a good shoto player is just annoying.
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Hazama's probably going to end up in mid to upper tier. He has great defense because of all of his escape possibilities, solid HP, fairly easy and solid bnb combos and his distortions are both quite useful, although the not Hotenjin needs a backthrow to land it 100%. Hotenjin can be stuck in all sorts of combos, is great for counters (that's its main function really) and he has some fair range. His problems include being slower up close, most of his combos need a certain distance to maintain and his other specials aren't really that great aside from his one special that leads into the leaping forward kick, the backflip kick and the launcher for his combos.
I'll probably end up using Hazama and Tager. Tager's a lot faster and his normals have some good invulnerability to them now (as does atomeek COLLIDOR). Damage is a little lower and his proration's worse I think but man that extra speed boost really evens things out.
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hazama is an obvious ripoff of larcen from eternal champions.
that game needs a fucking remake or another sequel.
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Haha, man that game was so awful.
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/106/1063174p1.html
All the Mass Effect 2 DLC from the various collector's editions is up for free right now when it shouldn't be. I snagged all of it.
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i rarely play games in long bursts, period. generally i play about 2-5 hours of vidya per week.
i got mass effect round the time i took the picture in the happy thread. my file has 12.5 hours on it.
so far i am using mordin and jack with my soulja shepard.
been using EVERY weapon because of the ammo thing, mainly the heavy carnifex (MA GAH 40k) pistol. why the fuck am i using a pistol? it rapes house over my shotgun/assault rifle in mid range fo sho. ohh ohh and sniper rifles don't suck anymore, I ACTUALLY USE THEM
:o
-joker is less suck this time around
-miranda needs a paper bag
-mordin is fucking awesome
-jacob is surprisingly cool
-jack is alright
-just got grunt so i can't say much other than his face is modeled pretty damn good SHEPARD, SHEPARD, SHEPARD, SHEPARD, SHEPARD
-garrus is garrus, not a bad thing
-DR CHAKWAS IS BACK
-secretary is cool
-fish tank
-model ships
-picture of liara in my quarters
-lots of cool stuff if you imported your character
-more quarians
-male quarians
-trinity from the matrix as an asari
-the goddamn omega space station/bar/club = FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFffffffffffffffffffffgggood
probably do more pointless typing when im done playing tomorrow, because when im not playing, im thinking about it, thus...yeah, listening to a podcast talking about mass effect 2 while typing about it.
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warning: I just got a 360 again
Going to puchase Mw2 today and i'll be on tonight. also have battlefield Bad company and Rez evil 5.
gt: vAequitas
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Tager is a surprising amount of fun, and I've NEVER been the one to play one of the heavy characters in a fighting game. Outside of that, Nu seems to have a lot of cool tricks, Arakune seems to be mostly mind games and sort of goofy. Still need to play everyone, but I really doubt I'll do anything with Carl.
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30 hours, everybody but legion aquired, and all of those are loyal.
next step, doing EVERYTHING! (every n7 quest, every upgrade, deplete every planet)
wouldn't have thought it before buying the game, but i use different characters than i thought i would use.
mordin is generally always there, and thane/jacob alternate depending on what i feel i want. because there are none of the "ally" achievements in this game, im not afraid to switch some oddball in there for the sake of using him/her/it.
this game better not break my balls with liara in mass effect 3, because i passed up getting it on with garrus in hopes liara gets finished with her obsession on trying to take down the shadow broker.
well, thanks to youtube, heres what i could of had.
BOW CHICKA BOW WOW
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now that i think of it, if i don't like how something turns out in mass effect 3, i would have to replay 3 fucking games to get what i want. it isn't a problem, but for an obsessive freak like myself, i would do something like that.
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There is no way I'm going to bother getting every upgrade. Scanning is the single most tedious and retarded idea I've seen. Oh boy! 1200 Platinum! I only need 50,000 for each upgrade! And it's SO SLOW. It honestly kind of ruins the game. Well, the dumbing everything down to basically being Dark Sector with some conversation choices does it the most but the scanning hurts a lot. Shooting stuff is still fun and I've played too much to not see where the whole thing goes but still, there are a lot of things I don't like with the direction Bioware's been going with their big releases. I largely blame it on EA.
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warning: I just got a 360 again
Going to puchase Mw2 today and i'll be on tonight. also have battlefield Bad company and Rez evil 5.
gt: vAequitas
Gonna add you.
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I largely blame it on EA.
Why does this not surprise me? Oh, wait, because EA should be removed from the video gaming market...
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41 hours, i guess i didn't get every upgrade, i must have missed some random upgrades in places i can't go back to, not a big problem. i also decided to go with garrus since liara sounds more like an enemy than a friend in this game, i only wanted her for the lesbian sex anyway.
game beaten, i swear they made joker not suck this time around, he's actually kind of awesome in this game. joker, mordin, legion, garrus, probably my favorite characters in this game. but to be honest, i really didn't dislike anybody. i didn't much like miranda until i talked to her AFTER beating the game (shouldn't be a spoiler, they let you run around to complete shit you didn't complete and whatever dlc they release in the future.), earned some brownie points with me.
reckon ill talk more about it later, probably the best game im going to play until
-mass effect 3
-any fucking blizzard game
whichever comes first, probably mass effect 3 if we take inconsideration blizzard's 30 year cycle to make a game :P
a final note (lolrly with how many times i edit each post) mass effect 1 has better credits than mass effect 2, otherwise it's improved across the board.
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got to see my friend play a bunch of mass effect 2. Looks awesome, and I fucking love the script writers. Seriously, I love how they actually give your character a personality, whule still letting you make choices. Like when someone wants you to give up your weapons... The choices being no, or hell no, lol.
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goddamnit, brb, replaying entire game.
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how convienient, i have a file all ready to go from my third playthrough of the game under the name "vlad" rather than "vladgd"
man i'm a loser.
seriously though, i am so fucking OCD with these games. still, i got the me2 paramour achiecement i otherwise wouldn't have gotten, and since i am going for every achievement, no loss.
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The only achievements I'm missing after one playthrough are Insanity and Warp Specialist or whatever. And I'll do those in the next couple of days just to finish it off.
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Why does this not surprise me? Oh, wait, because EA should be removed from the video gaming market...
No way. They're one of the only companies with the money and balls to stand up to fuckwits like Tim Langdell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDGE_Games).
Also, even if their games are subpar, at least they've started to lay off the DRM unlike the morons running 2K.
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EA has done a LOT to redeem themselves. Ubisoft and Activision on the other hand...
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game re-completed. 9 hours of gameplay done in about 3, not bad i guess.
doing that let me fight more barrier enemies, so i have pretty much every achievement but the insanity difficulty achievement.
it was really bugging me because it wasn't until december of 2009 which i got a mass effect 1 file that satasfied me to transfer over to the sequel. this game is a bit more straight forward with trying to do everything, so i have said file right now. course i skipped mining resources to get some trivial upgrades, i can always do it later or when some new dlc comes out to motivate me to play the file again.
now i can pretty much just dick around with other classes, dialog choices, difficulties, try to speedrun, ect without worrying about my me3 transfer file.
and it's kind of neat with the bonuses you get from completing the game starting a new character.
200,000 credits
50,000 of each resource
25% exp bonus
you can choose a loyalty power from whomever you have gotten loyal (you can do it anyway, later in the game, but this way you can do it at the start of the game)
and these bonuses stack with the bonuses granted from importing a character.
almost forgot, i got a different conversation with mordin since i am no longer with the garrus. instead of talking about the differences in turian/human anatomy, he talked about how unpleasant it was for people of different species to hit on him, which apparently happens often. though, he did have some fondness for asari, but didn't know much why.
http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Fornax
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Yeah, I just need 5 more barrier enemies and the next place I'm going to is Horizon so there'll be plenty of Collectors with barriers there. I'm not going to bother with Insanity because JESUS CHRIST even with barrier on they take out your shields in two shots and kill you in another two. And enemies take very little damage and have full armor right from the first enemy.
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aaaaaand Megaman Zero 3 is finally done. It too me a while to get into it, but after you get the first power up, like every megaman game made, the game goes forward at a decently smooth pace. shockingly easy once you get some power ups (I used like, one savestate? and I think I only loaded from it once) and I beat the game with one minor heal and ABOUT 3 or 4 full heals left. I only saved them because I thought there was going to be another boss.
Still, I have to admit, fighting a final boss that's about your size and moves around instead of a giant fuck that doesn't move is a lot more fun.
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(http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/3370/img1621g.jpg)
beat this fucking mission by the skin of my teeth, goddamn. at least the difficulty of insanity lives up to it's name in this game.
like when i had to close the third damn door with a pyro around the corner, pop out when it stops flaming, warp, repeat until it's dead because any other course of action would kill me. ohh but one of the times i went out of cover to warp, went back into cover...character froze in place, had to reload due to the fucking thing glitching.
even with tech armor, im made of glass i tell ya. a lot of the times the 12 second cooldown isn't even worth recasting instead of a warp or overload or throw (if jacob uses pull prior). a lot of the time i use my health as a buffer to do more damage, but i blame the bloodpack enemies regenerating health faster than you can shoot at them, thank god for incinerate.
anywho, i have mordin and garrus. i plan on doing the minimum possible to complete the game, fuck the ending, i want my achievement!
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All of you motherfuckers have to acquire STALKER: Call of Pripyat, like, right now. Right now. D:
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i would if you could tell me how to get the original STALKER to work on my computer.
that and bioshock while you are at it.
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Contact steam and bitch them out?
Also this AVP demo is decently fun. Just did this in it.
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l94/mortifiedocalot/avp.jpg)
Didn't get to play as Predator, but Aliens seem to be able to mess things up nicely considering they have no ranged attacks at all. That and marines are HARD to play as online with this lag. The game is also decently scary as a marine considering how lethal and fast aliens are, plus they can climb walls and ceilings at full run speed and all. They seem to devastate anything in medium range with their primary rifle tho, and the shotgun is nuts and fairly plentiful.
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i doubt steam will do anything about it.
anywho, i got jack in dat mass effect 2 insanity. the difficulty of said "level" was a bit uneven.
first fight of random soldiers with the occasional robot dog, hardest fight in the level. you are basically cornered, and it doesn't help with the soldiers assrush you with full shields, took me several tries to get past.
second fight was more random soldiers in a more orange area, and a mech at the end. due to level layout, and the mech glitching on geometry in a place where i could spam overload/warp/incinerate and he couldn't hit me, easiest fight in the level.
third fight different area, lots and lots and lots of soldier people with a mech at the end. like the second fight but more difficult, probably took 4 times longer (maby 20 minutes of solid fighting), and the mech was a bit scarey but otherwise had a set path he wouldn't go beyond so it wasn't hard to exploit that.
boss fight with the shield generators and infinite spawning enemies. i was really worried about this one, but it wasn't really that bad at all. shoot down the two generators, work your way to the third which is closest to the boss, then bunker down spamming powers at the boss until he dies. when he dies, encounter ends, you win. no melee enemies, and the soldiers keep out of your way, surprisingly easy, but one fuckup could still kill you due to everybody doing high damage. pretty damn fun to be honest.
three characters down, more to go. sometimes the difficulty just breaks me down and pisses me off, but ive managed to get this far, i don't see how the rest of the game could be any different. only big problem i can recall right off the bat is the giant geth mech on the planet you get tali, that could be controller smashing...all the more reason to get it on video!
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im on the krogan warlord level, the boss part.
infinitley respawning krogan, boss with rocket launcher, mech, essentially no safety, killing boss does not win the encounter
how is this possible?
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lolnevermind
only 4 krogan spawn, and you can easily cheese the entire encounter. i even got the latter part of it on video, ill link it in my videowhore thread when i have it uploaded later.
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Yeah, you just walk into the doorway so it can't close on you, shoot her with something (preferably the Cain) and then just back out the door any time you're in trouble. The krogan stop respawning after you kill her.
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Yeah, the AVP demo is pretty badass, I think playing as Marines is my favorite, it definitely has a nice horror game feel to it, with the motion sensors ticking whenever anything gets close, etc. Plus, the fact that the map they included with the demo is basically the set of Alien 3, cracked me up.
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for me she only spawned 4, then they stopped, i killed the mech, then i killed her last.
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horizon, fight before you have to activate the computer at the end for the final encounter.
2 scions + lots of husks and each husk has armor
NONOnononNONONonNONon...
ok so i beat it first try, but fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. it's kind of hard dodging the attacks of 2 scions (one attack instantly nullifies your shields) while fending off a horde of husks. god damn. im just going to say i got lucky, because i wasn't aware of scion locations when i was killing off husks. i think mordin getting gibbed distracted them long enough. afterwards i was pretty much "kiting" them per say while spamming heavy warp.
the sad part is the abandoned reaper ship and the end of the collector ship is pretty much nothing but SCIONS PLUS HUSKS OOLOOLOLLOOoll
i don't look forward to that, hopefully ill have pull field on jacob by then, or using samara instead.
but uhh, sentinal me, jacob for pull and fire ammo, mordin because incinerate is probably the best fucking ability in the game. warp may be a bit more versitile but the burn damage from incinerate seems to do more damage on the health meter than warp...and i hate miranda so fuck her.
blablabla, minor progress...still not done with horizon, i just needed a break after that.
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i might just fucking quit right now. one praetorian at the end of horizon. just that fucking monster, really goddamn hard. yeah, it took about 5 tries (it's laser can kill you after about 2 or 3 seconds of sustained fire) but i did it. the problem, that's one praetorian, a wide open battlefield, and no other enemies. on the collector ship, you fight one praetorian and a literal endless swarm of husks.
if we had an emote of a smiley pointing a gun at himself, it would totally be appropriate right now.
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got samara, died once due to the gunship, learned from my mistake, bam bam, overall the easiest level thus far.
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For a second I thought you were talking about Killing Floor.
Also I just beat Serious Sam.
Fucking final boss through me off and I fought him for a good 40 minutes, but yeah, definitely an amazing game and a personal favorite.
Also something about BlazBlue just throws me off. I can't seem to find a character I'm comfortable with.
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i think im fuckin done with the insanity bullshit, uhh, i guess ill new game plus it or something because fuck this.
mirandas loyalty mission, end fight, fuck that.
the entirety of the get tali mission, fuck that, the geth are goddamn relentless.
it's not as much the difficulty (well it is) as it is me wanting to polish this fucker asap to get my achievement. BUT I GUESS I WONT BE GETTING IT NOW HURP DURP
i don't even want to immagine the praetorian collector husk fight, im just going to assume people fucking cheat to get the achievement. or just getting lucky with the ai not wanting to assrush you like they seem to do randomly to me. you know, in this game, on insanity, when the enemies run at you, there's literally no fucking way to win. you can't survive 5 seconds of fire, let alone in a situation where you can't run and hide.
like the geth. they don't use cover, they walk up to you and kill you. i guess it's smart, but i mean, im not going to beat this fucker on insanity.
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yeah, im just frustrated. ill lay off the insanity for a while. if i uhh decide to try again, ill lower it to normal for that file, beat it, and new game plus it.
for now ill play an adept imported from the mass effect 1 file i started and beat a few days ago. vetran difficulty. figure i beat it on normal, and i got what...60ish% through the game on insanity, this should be a nice change of pace.
you know, i think what i need is a break from this game. i have over 60 hours soaked into this sonbitch thus far, and banging my head against it to get one achievement is wearing me out.
ff13 doesn't come out for a month, uhh...netflix is fine and dandy but a game to play...
maby mw2, sf2hdr, IIDX to tide me over for a while.
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tali get, the battle with the collossus was...easier than it was on normal? yeah, wut? it wasn't easy, but it was fun and challenging without being a kick in the dick. i used miranda and garrus both with aoe overload, made my life easier.
missions left until i beat the game on insanity
get thane
collector ship
derelict reaper
SOOISYDE MISHON
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Jet Moto. Anyone here remember that game?
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Yeah, great game.
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double post for opinions. but what could anyone say about TvC, No More Heroes 2, AVP, Assassin's Creed 1/2, Bioshock 1/2, and Mass Effect 1/2.
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tvc, nothing
nmh2, nothing
assassins creed 1/2, nothing
bioshock, alright
bioshock 2, nothing
mass effect 1/2, read half of my total posts
anywho, i got thane and the game forces me into the collectors ship even though i was like 2k iridium away from the smg ammo upgrade...motherfucker.
went through the collectors ship, got the sniper rifle upgrade since smg's = assault rifles, and shotguns blow. plus the damage for the semi auto assault rifle for the praetorian fight is going to be needed.
after that was over, i started the first combat in the ship, died twice, and ill try it tomorrow. i guess ill bang my head against this until i get lucky, because harbinger knocking me out of cover = hey, what do you know, i am fucking dead. not very fun when you are some 7-8 minutes into a fight. that and the scions floating around aren't helping, kill one and GUESS WHAT!...another one appears.
im laughing because this hard as balls fight isn't even what i was worried about, let's hope i don't go physically harming myself/objects this time.
3 levels left....though i believe it's universally accepted that the collectors ship on insanity is the hardest level in the game. ive read people who find this difficulty easy blowing medigels on this fucker.
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maby i was fucking wrong, because this goddamn part is
when you think it's going to end, it doesn't. when a harbinger is in your face, you die, there are lots of harbingers. you don't want to run out of the starting place because the scions move from place to place, when they do that, you die.
when im doing "good" i use every medigel i have(one scion attack = no shields, if you don't have shields, you die), and then a harbinger impacts me out of cover when my powers are on cooldown and a scion one shots me.
this
is
not
fair
ohh and that enemy you almost killed....yeah full barrier and armor when harbinger takes control. ohh, and that barrier takes some working down to destroy, same with the armor.
did i mention harbinger doesn't fuck around with cover, he casually walks towards you knocking you out of cover.
can't spend too much time trying to kill grunt enemies, remember that scion you want to kill but can't because grunt enemies turn into the more dangerious harbinger? yeah, you have to kill them first.
if harbinger blasts you out of cover when a scion attacks you, bye.
no courtesy checkpoint mid battle
as a sentinel this is impossible
ninja gaiden for the nes is a fun game compared to this bullshit
i want to hang myself
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double post for opinions. but what could anyone say about TvC, No More Heroes 2, AVP, Assassin's Creed 1/2, Bioshock 1/2, and Mass Effect 1/2.
TvC - fantastic game. A lot more to it than I first thought. Lots of interesting characters.
NMH2 - improved over the first game in literally every possible way. Extremely good and now one of my favorite games
AVP - demo was awful with terrible matchmaking and broken balance. Marines just camp bright corners so nothing can approach them.
AC1/2 - I loved 1 and 2 is also improved in every way. Great games, fantastic story
Bioshock 1/2 - 1 was fantastic, 2 is pretty good so far but I'm only an hour into it so I don't know where it's going
ME1/2 - eh, they're there. pretty standard bioware games
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i uhh beat the collectors ship.
first fight is that rage inducing piece of trash. i killed the first scion somehow without harbinger raping my face, then i continually proceeded to get lucky.
second fight is some exploitable collectors, not hard
third is the praetorian fight. took three tries, but overall rather...fun? yeah, i enjoyed this fight. i mean it was kind of getting lucky with team mates killing off husks and collectors, but i mean, the praetorian itself was really not that bad. you pretty much have a multi leveled square to run around which has cover all around. run, blast off barrier with collector pulse beam when he isn't shooting laser at you, spam armor killing abilities/armor killing weapons such as sniper/carnefex heavy pistol when he isn't barriered, spam pulse beam when he is. keep a good enough distance where you can safley get to the next cover, his laser beam brings on levels of pain few people see. pretty much it really, allies keep the adds distracted, you play ring around the rosie with the praetorian, then finish off the collectors in the very back not doing anything to you, save, and yeah.
fourth is some generic collectors.
fifth is HUSK SWARM!!!1111, so fly a kite and it's not too bad.
going to do some side crap for upgrades and whatnot before going to the reaper ship.
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i beat the collectors ship with a level 15 sentinel by the way
none of this ng+ level 30 soldier "lol insanity is easy" crap
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did more than i intended today, usually when i beat a level im done for the day. did the samara loyalty quest (due to no combat and i am lazy right now) and two no/low combat sidequests. mined a bit, then jumped into the reaper.
HUSKS HUSKS HUSKS GODDAMN HUSKS HUSKS HUSKS HUSKS
pretty fun, lots of husks, then generally a scion or two in the mix later on. plenty of room to run around, heavy pistol/sniper rifle armor piercing upgrade helps down them alongside heavy warp.
so yeah, im at the "take reaper IFF" room, so...ill leave today as a good day and do that tomorrow. but thus far it's been pretty fun.
mordin incinerate blast in a group of husks to de armor them, samara throw field = 8)
playing on normal difficulty is going to feel like going back to kindergarten after im done with this playthrough.
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TvC - fantastic game. A lot more to it than I first thought. Lots of interesting characters.
NMH2 - improved over the first game in literally every possible way. Extremely good and now one of my favorite games
AVP - demo was awful with terrible matchmaking and broken balance. Marines just camp bright corners so nothing can approach them.
AC1/2 - I loved 1 and 2 is also improved in every way. Great games, fantastic story
Bioshock 1/2 - 1 was fantastic, 2 is pretty good so far but I'm only an hour into it so I don't know where it's going
ME1/2 - eh, they're there. pretty standard bioware games
Thanks, but I'm starting to realize my PC controller is going to hell fast and my hardrive is full so I'm probably spending the dosh on that.
Still, I haven't had a new Wii game in a while, let alone a multiplayer game.
Then again Stalker COP is 20 bucks on Steam. Ah steam...
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i would edit this in my post, but i brought pictures, so read the last edit, and these are related.
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im at the end of this mission, so finish this, suicide mission, achievement get.
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# Game Breaking Bugs: Enemy-thrown grenades in Clear Sky will quite literally home in on the player, actually changing direction in mid-air to ensure that they always land at the player's feet.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/STALKER
Now no one can complain about my bitching.
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Haha, I was so pissed with that too, it was one of the many reasons I didn't bother to finish CS. CoP is leaps and bounds better.
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bitch away, i seem to be the only person being super 'ragin man right now. i like company :)
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I'm more pissed at the fact that I can't find console codes so I can be invincible and just stab everyone in the dick.
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I started to get familiar with wiremod in Garry's Mod. It's crazy all the stuff you can do with it. I just used thrusters, velocimeters, and angular accelerometers to make an object able to stop itself from moving and rotating in zero-g. I also learned how to make a 7-segment digital clock. I'm going to use that clock in-game a lot.
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Wow, that is really awesome. I'm amazed they've come up with shit like that. Garrys mod really is an awesome tool for learning about crap.
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i totally popped in halo ce and played the first two levels.
halo 2 might suck, halo 3 might be just ok, but halo 1 is the shit. plus like the silent cartographer level is fucking awesome, who needs to play any other level?
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Halo games were alright. Wanted to try Halo Wars but decided to get Ass Creed 2 instead, which was an excellent solution. Finished that and moved on to Bioshock 2 which is good so far, had to restart because I was so fuckin' tired the first time, so I just got to Ryan Amusements lol. Pretty fun.
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I've heard several times before that Halo CE has an amazing solo game, I need to check it out.
Also Army of Two's cover system > Gears cover system.
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single player AND co op is pretty damn good
and i got garrus/mordin on my adept vetran file.
the fucking gunship in the garrus mission went down like popping a balloon with a grenade launcher. 5 grenades, incinerate, two warps, bam. i swear it glitched though since i only got it down to half health, maby if you do a certain amount of damage to it in a certain time it just dies, since that's what happened.
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alright, i finally got some good ole fashion cod in. starting to fall in love with a class only intended to take down air, as a class to use all the time.
tar-21 w/silencer
stinger
claymore/stun
scavenger
cold blooded
steady aim
putting the silencer on the tar makes the shit recoil it had...almost like gone. it's like less than a star with holographic. plus the damn gun does so much damage, it's one of the only guns i don't mind rolling with without stopping power, because the tar does not need it. you can use it like any of the other assault rifles, the silencer also has it's obvious benefits of not going off on radar, but i mainly have it on to reduce the recoil. one more thing, with steady aim, and the tar's natural good damage, it's pretty good when fired from the hip.
my new favorite gun/class right there. AND since it's my cold blooded stinger class, BYE BYE HARRIERS, BYE BYE AC130, PAVELOW, CHOPPER GUNNER, TURRETS.
unless the silencer thing is just a placebo effect...it does make my gun sound cool...
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Wow. STALKER CS is just such a bitch. I got past the construction site by sniping a few people, getting to a safe spot by the wall, taking out a few more guys then I ran inside the complex thing and shot anyone I could while spamming health packs. After that you have to take out this places power generator, which was easy, but then you have to go through this odd hallways that's fucking full of enemies, a machine gun placement, and a sniper. You need to sneak past the MG, kill the sniper and all his friends, and then have your guys blow up the MG guy.
So after all that jazz you get into a new hallway and was greeted with a boss fight against a helicopter that has a chain gun mounted onto it. So after a fairly lengthy fight and me trying not to get hit due to having no band-aids and not wanting to use all my med packs just to stop bleeding I finally beat him. About 5 or so guys rush in through a random door and I kill them. Then I come to ANOTHER hallway with a DIFFERENT machine gun nest and more random badguys to kill.
I've killed abut 100 mutants and almost 400 people, ugh.
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Are you on Limansk or something? That's right before the end of the game, IIRC.
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Nigga I'm at the NPP and I need to fight Strelok himself who has a goddamn aura of rape around him.
I was in that little area between Limasnk and NPP (it wasn't even mapped, it was just this hallway that was basically a decaying building with lots of rocks and dirt in it)
Also the monolith guys aren't that hard, but they stand behind these tiny pipes and can throw grenades with 100% accuracy further then the effective range of my assault rifle. Shit's so glaringly unfair that I might just uninstall.
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Don't you have the Gauss Rifle yet? That thing literally OHKO's anything you point it at, shit is bananas. I know they give it to you at some point during the plot, but I never actually got past Red Forest when I played it. And besides, you can't kill Strelok, that would create some kind of time paradox. Mercs are bitches, anyways.
Also interesting trivia note: Scar is actually mentioned in SoC, on one of the PDA's of Strelok's crew members (Ghost? I think?) it mentions that Fang was killed by a Merc with a scar on his face, and that they were going to try to track him down after they venture to the NPP. Or maybe it was one of the other guys. Something like that happens though!
I'm playing through CoP with the SMRTER .41, which is basically the CoP equivalent of Oblivion Lost. Shit's pretty awesome, there's a ton of new weapons added, and I still haven't found them all after playing through with this mod once before, but the game is going much more smoothly, I'm running through this time favoring Duty as opposed to Freedom, hopefully I can snag a Duty Exoskeleton, since that would be badass, and I'm pretty sure that's how you get one. >_>
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playing some mount and blade warband beta.
it's pretty alright. mounted combat is like insta gib, and archery is annoying.
but, you can only kill one dude at a time when lancing on a mount, and aiming with a bow takes more skill than you would think.
i did my best game with a two handed sword running in and raping whoever i could see. have a shield handy to quick switch to when you have ground to cover with archers firing at you, when you close the distance, bye bye archers.
it's nothing like a hardcore multiplayer game, but it's pretty fun. i only wish the single player was in the beta so i could see what they did to it. i mean, the new graphics aren't awesome, but they are certainly ok, especially when compared to the stand alone vanilla game.
ohh, and the gear system is pretty interesting. you have set amount of gold(1000 to start) to equip your character with whatever at the start of a game, and as you get kills you get more gold to get say that 2000gold armor, or that badass 600 gold sword with that 476 gold shield. as you are getting kills, you are getting money to get better gear throughout the game. you lose gold when you die, so i assume you want to keep spending it as you get it, since you spawn with the gear you have equipped. but it's nothing broken, just better equipment. i mean, if you take a horse charge lance without blocking with a shield, you are dead regardless of what you are wearing. it's funny seeing a fail charge into a group of allies, then see the fucker get chopped to pieces since he lost all momentum.
ive only played for an hour or so, pissing around, but i like what ive played thus far.
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Don't you have the Gauss Rifle yet? That thing literally OHKO's anything you point it at, shit is bananas.
I have one with 100 shots, and it doesn't look like the rape machine it used to be. I need to retry it.
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Yeah, give that a try. If it's anything like it is in SoC and CoP, it ought to one-hit even pseudogiants. @_@
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It's only a 1 hit kill on headshot, which is about the same as the VSS sniper. Probably going to just uninstall, it's not worth the effort considering how fast everything has gone down hill.
On a semi related note, I got a chuckle from this video.
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i wish i was "watcha playan'" the starcraft 2 beta :<
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/beta-i-starcraft-ii/62017
video relevant, short, and silly.
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I'm still afraid of SC. I've never been good at RTS games, but it definitely looks fun. Suppose I should get my hands on the original first.
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i blow ass at the original, but im hoping (even with how similar it is) i can get my feet wet with sc2 and get good enough where im decent.
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I love SC, despite the fact that I'm basically useless at it, lol.
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the zerg "narrator" sounds very similar to a female wraith from stargate atlantis.
SPAWHN MOAR OVERLOARDSSSSS
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watching a terran nuke people in a stream. fucks up his cloak so he has no energy to re cloak, nukes anyway healing the ghost from all of the drones attacking him with the medivac (think dropship medic hybrid), ends up getting the nuke off and the ghost ended up living.
loloo
but apparently he's uploading that game to youtube, so ill link it when it's up.
*Eddgtd*
this is part 1, as of this edit, part 2 isn't uploaded
&feature=sub
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Oh god I want to watch that so much, but I want to see both parts at once ;_;
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and uhh this is the stream
http://www.livestream.com/starcraftmethod?origin=embedplayer&utm_medium=EmbeddedPlayer&utm_campaign=Videos&utm_source=www.starcraftmethod.com
can't say when he does the stream, but today and yesterday he was on all in the night to later morning (he was still going when i went to bed at 8am est)
*E*ED
you want to know what it's like having over 100 banelings? ...yeah...well that video is for you.
and yes, that's the COMPUTER saying GG. i will repeat, the CPU TELLS YOU GG!
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Alright then, STALKER CoP is so far fairly confusing. I'm having a hard time telling which missions have a time limit to them, also it seems about half of my current objectives are in some crazy spot that aren't marked on my PDA. Outside of the starting confusion the game is enjoyable, that and the more clear spot where it's okay to store gear is the best thing to ever put in a stalker game.
Oh fuck, first Burer I come across and I stab the fucker to death. That was almost too easy.
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Yeah that's bizarre, those things are usually a major pain in the ass, one of the missions at Yanov has you killing two of them at once, while they're throwing massive balls of death at you. Also, for the most part, missions don't have time limits in CoP, the only one I can think of off the top of my head is the mission at the creek where you help the loners break up an arms deal between some Bandits and some Mercs at the Forest Authority place, you actually have to go and do that like right away. And a lot of the missions, especially the storyline ones that aren't marked, end up just resolving themselves or changing throughout the game. If something doesn't look doable right now, don't worry about it.
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Been playing Borderlands a lot lately, which is strange for me because I don't usually get into FPSs. The gameplay is oddly entertaining but I'm not a fan of the art style. Also the fact that there are glitches and bugs every fifteen seconds kinda sucks. Don't know if it's my friend's PS3 or his copy of the game, but it's pretty screwy.
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I've played it on my brother's PS3 and it runs flawlessly. I don't think I've run into more than 1 glitch so far... (the big fucker in the safe house somehow got into the entrance hole thing and was stock, and couldn't hit me at all, lol) Not that I've gotten too far, but I've gotten to New Haven...
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i got bored of borderlands around level 29, but i reckon that's most of the way through the game, and i got 20 hours out of it, so i didn't regret my purchase.
anyway i made this video way back when i was playing the game, so if you ever get to new haven and want easy items/money, check er out.
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That game does have something to it, but not much. Then again I myself and a friend have gotten stuck on this mostly flat surface and had to suicide to get out. Yeah, that New Haven thing is a fairly easy way to make cash.
Oh yeah, and just bought TvC. Now I need to figure out how to unlock everyone ASAP.
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Kill Yami with a Capcom character 6 times and then with a Tatsunoko character 6 times. They just have to get the last hit. It takes like 2 hours.
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Yeah, just saw that. I wish Zero was the first Capcom character unlock tho. So far I've destroyed the final boss on whatever the starting difficulty is with the mech from Lost Planet.
Oh yeah, and do you have to spend the zenny you get to actually get the character or is it a straight unlock?
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Characters just unlock, no purchase. Costumes have to be purchased.
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Thanks. Also a surprising amount of the cast seems fun to play as. Joe the Kondore is fairly awesome as is Bastu and Onimusha dude.
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Alright, double post because I need some answers. How exactly to I get the air launching attack off? I've figured out how to do a megacrush and that guarding jazz but this launch attack seems to just come off randomly. That and I can't figure out how to do the team hyper combo, like I'm not sure what input they want me to use.
Also I can't figure out how to Burst or force block in BlazBlue.
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Burst in BB is just all four buttons. You can only use it once per round and it cuts your defense by a ton though. Continuum Shift does things differently by not having a defense decrease and each person starts with 1 burst per round. Losing a round means you get an extra.
Launchers in TvC are just done usually by pressing down and hard attack. Maybe down-forward. It was the same in MvC2.
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I finished Heavy Rain in two sittings, first one at 2 hours and the second at about 6-7 hours. It's that good. Even with all of the different ways you could play through the game, I don't think I will just because I did everything as I feel I should have and so that's how the movie/game went to me. Seriously amazing though. And despite some movie-setup type things (cops not shooting when they clearly could because they can't because it would hurt the plot), it ends up being one of gaming's best stories I think.
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Okay, so I got the new Borderlands DLC, and I can say without any hesitation that this one totally blows the other two out of the water. Raised level caps, a bunch more missions and shit, new enemies/vehicles/classmods/weapons/shields, and a boss that is actually pretty difficult. Fuck.
Now I just need someone to play through it with D:
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ejay clubworld. lawl
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So I wrote some small Expression2 gates in Gmod that exert a force in the direction of the ones they're linked to that's proportional to K_1*K_2/r^2. In other words, a working n-body gravity simulator. What's amazing is that even though the programming is really, really simple, they demonstrate complex things like perfect (well, near as possible) conservation of energy and momentum. I actually got two of them to slingshot another one.
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Well, STALKER CoP is done and done. Thoroughly enjoyed it despite the ending coming so fast and there not really being a ton of side mission in Prypiat. Hell, definitely one of the better sandbox type games I've played. Funny how I never used any of the heavy weapons, considering how awesome the LMG is.
Oh god, sniping in Starwars Battlefront 2 on the PC compared to the studdering lagtastic PS2 version is crazy.
(http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/93367024-1.jpg) (http://www.xfire.com/profile/mortifiedocalot/screenshots/?view#93367024)
The funny thing about this is that one time when I got the rifle upgrade I just ran around and no scoped about 7 or so people. Also I hate how once you get a medal you need to die to get it again.
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Yeah, the LMG's in CoP are really goddamn good, but it's kind of a bummer that you don't get any of them until Pripyat, where the game kind of takes a turn for the less-awesome, since all the quests become painfully linear. Still cool though, and I recommend you try SMRTER .42, or maybe wait until the next version comes out, since it's going to include a custom (!!!) map.
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I wanted to try LURK for Shadow of Chernobyl first but I couldn't get it working.
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Isn't that just a graphics enhancement mod? I didn't think it added any substantial gameplay changes, I'm kind of more into added content than just making things look marginally prettier @_@
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http://www.moddb.com/mods/lurk
It adds a decent amount of guns, graphical enhancements, and some tweaks to the enemy AI. I think you're thinking of STALKER complete 2009.
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The first Crash Bandicoot game. It's harrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd.
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Can't figure out how to install LURK and now I'm afraid to reinstall it.
Also I was playing TvC and my friend said something like "it's all about the kicks man". It's starting to annoy me that he thinks things that happen in one game transfer over to another, more so when TvC doesn't have a kick button.
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Um.. lol? People are stupid. And they prove it over and over.
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He just tends to try and talk about things he knows nothing about, and he also makes a lot of assumptions (goddamn, nothing annoys me more then someone who assumes). Like when I was driving my car and turning with low power fluid and it was making an odd sound he said I was grinding gears.
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Yet another moment of "uh, lol?" on my part. It would be funny if it wasn't so stupid. I know very little about cars' inner workings, but I could have told him that that is out of the question.
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Yeah, it's a pretty unmistakable sound.
Also I'm regretting my Dawn of War edge. Too bad any human play would stomp me.
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Well that, and generally you don't grind gears unless either your transmission is fucked beyond belief (I've ridden in a car that was that bad), or you suck at changing gears. Or the transmission decides to be sticky, like my friend's occasionally does.
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i get home from work, eating pizza while installing ff13's 3 discs on to my HDD. trying to register on the square thing for the obligatory "spend 20 minutes registering an account for a free ingame item" thing, site is slow as piss, barely get my member account created (like this process took as long as the first disc took to install) and as im about go to into the account to register my code...
SERVER MAINTENANCE FROM NINE TO TEN
fuck you
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Well that, and generally you don't grind gears unless either your transmission is fucked beyond belief (I've ridden in a car that was that bad), or you suck at changing gears.
it was when I was learning to drive stick, so the later applies.
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Lol, well, most people take a while to get any good, if thy ever do. I've seen plenty of people who think they can drive stick, but really should never be near a standard car :/ I'm certainly no good at driving stick, lol.
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about 3 hours into ff13 so far, taking a quick internets break, and my eyes need some rest. i don't plan on spoiling anything because i don't feel like being gay, so it's kind of general stuff ill be talking about.
pretty easy to predict what people are going to do in cutscenes. if you have read anything about the game so far, the characters are pretty much that. meaning lightning is the main character who doesn't talk much and right now is kind of a bitch, snow wants to protect people, hope is the cliche faggot, vanille is the cheerful annoying lady, and sazh is actually pretty level headed and not comic relief as you would assume he would be. but really only hope bothers me and he should transfer to kingdom hearts(i hate to use an animu example, but think shinji from evangelion), the other characters are fine, so far anyway.
i don't really get the leveling system yet (you literally can't level for the first two hours of gameplay), so im just filling points into whatever. say for example, with snow, i have all 3 of his paradigm thingers all maxed out, so i guess i can't advance into level 2 for any of those right yet. i hear you kind of need to focus early on, but with the way the game is explaining combat...it would seem impossible. like, you want to switch to all combat bros to get the stagger meter up for high hp people, but you can't do that if you have say only one combat character, a defender, and a healer. though i mean im not far so it should start making sense, and it's so early i don't think it's possible to screw yourself over at the moment.
but i mean, the combat is fun, and so far, yeah the game is linear. but for videogame OCD people like me, that just enhances the game experience, since i know there's nothing i need to look around to get and just to go forward. and uhh xbox, the load times are fine, the graphics are fine, i can see the possible "lower quality" in some of the non cgi cutscenes, some of that stuff has some artifacts in it, but it's really not too bad. i mean, i would need to see the ps3 version, but this game runs and looks fine, no need to blow $300.00 on a ps3 just for a slightly prettier experience. so it's good so far, ill be sure to keep on doing these tldr's as i have the next two days off from work.
*slowpoke.jpg*
lightning and liara have the same voice actress
:o
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All of the characters change quite a bit and are really well-developed.
Also, Hope is fucking awesome. He's a kid who understands that he's a kid and that he sucks and can't do anything about it. And his reactions are actually pretty realistic. And he's pretty interesting later on.
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14 hours in, made it to disc 2 some 9ish hours in
run through narrow corridor, fight several battles along the way, get to cutscene
do that enough times to get to a boss fight
this is basically the only thing i have been doing thus far
guess ill make my next post when something new happens
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Alright then, I'll probably get into the next Megaman X game sometime soon, but for now I want to beat a little game called Super Metroid. Also I'm getting damn good at Contra Hard Corps.
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I haven't really seen too much in the way of corridors for a while. I just finished up chapter 9, which I'm guessing will be the end of disc 2 since it's a good point for it. Honestly, the whole game is paced so well and the characters are so interesting and the battle system is so fun that complaining about the fact that the game is just giving me that stuff would just be dumb.
Also, I don't know who I want to have in my party anymore because everyone seems to be super useful in at least a few situations so I guess I'll choose based on how much I like the character. I still can't use every role for every character though. Once that happens oh my god there is going to be so much stuff for my characters to learn.
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i just started chapter 9, let's hope i get it over quick so the game will open up a bit. i mean the same thing over and over is fine...but for 17 hours...uhh...change it up a bit.
i mean i don't care if areas i go to are just linear corridors, but at least let me choose where to go rather than forcing me down corridor A, with forced character B, and even though i have 4 people in my party, i still don't have the option to select who i want on my team.
getting a bit irritated. starting to skip fights just to get to the end faster, especially since some regular enemies have tens of thousands of hitpoints. i shall see if i can keep on truckin without taking a break to pop in one of the 6 ps1 games i bought last week. parasite eve is looking pretty good right now.
also funny i did the fight for sazh's summon, and well...the cutscene after...it's like nigga you serious? pretty cool cutscene though, sazh stays awesome, millie vanillie is quite a bit better now.
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yeah im at the part to where
sazh and millie vanillie escaped, did some fightan with them, and then i got control back to the main group
im still going to be awake for a few more hours, but im about done with the game today. i really do like the leveling system in this game, and i kind of just want it to get to where i can fuck around and grind for no reason other than to level up. i have a feeling though, with how the "story" and whatnot is going at where im at, that that time may be close. IE i will assume after this mission is over, i should have all 6 characters available at the same time. i could be wrong, but i hope that i am not.
ohh, and playtime is 18h43m
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You get everyone together by the end of chapter 9. Then you do chapter 10, which isn't particularly long and then you get to wander around a massive field filled with enemies that will rape you instantly. But you follow along with where the story wants you to go for a bit and you get some nice places to grind out levels, which you'll need because you also get to open up every role for everyone and the nodes all cost 4000-6000 for everything but you'll gain around 2000 per fight. There must be more above where I am though still because I've seen pictures of people with over 9999 HP and I'm pretty sure I would only have around 3000 HP if I maxed out the stuff I have access to.
And there are like 60 something optional hunt missions to do and I could only beat the first one when I got there. The second one just stomped all over me.
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So you're saying this is worth buying.
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I'm not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing considering I hated having to grind in DDS2.
Oh yeah, and I got the secrete time traveling ending in Contra Hard Corps without using a continue. So damn happy.
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This really doesn't take that long. Like, aside from some of the bosses, you could go through the story pretty easily without grinding. The optional stuff will require it though since you'll need lots of stuff to sell to use on upgrading your weapons and such.
Either way, I got a bit past where I was before and now I'm fighting fairly easy fights for 3000-5000 CP so I just walk up and down the path once and end up with 25k. And the stat ups I'm getting now are over double what I was getting before so spending a bit of time results in a pretty big change.
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so i fought the boss of chapter 9, the big mech dude.
lightning died, game over.
this wouldn't bother me, if the BOSS FIGHT DIDNT TAKE THIRTY MINUTES OF MY LIFE THAT I AM NOT GETTING BACK.
bosses have so much fucking hitpoints in this game, it's fucking stupid. it's a literal bore fest that you are forced to pay attention to because if you die, you are re doing the large amount of time it takes to get rid of 10 point five kabillion hitpoints.
im going to upgrade my weapons and try again, if i die, i quit.
attack boss, do essentially no damage to it, but attack to build up stagger meter, when staggered, ATTACK ATTACK OHH MY GOD ITS HEALTH BAR IS GOING DOWN...somewhat BUT ITS GOING DOWN AT ALL. stagger gone, fill up the bar, rinse, repeat. ohh, but don't take too much time on the boss with half an eternity of hp, because if you take too long it will spam wtfkillyou moves more often.
im sitting here posting this because i don't want to go back to the game. ohh well, i guess ill dive right back in. so goddamn mad right now.
*edit*
here's a quick video of the rage being subdued.
so yeah, that explains it. uhh, and eggman...you were right on the money when you said disc 3 should be up around after chapter 9. beat boss, watch cutscenes..."please insert disc 3" and there i am.
as of this edit, video is not fully processed. and i will reupload if there is an error as youtube likes giving me. figure i would post the link now so i don't have this "modify message" tab up in my firefox.
*edit*
ill probably upload later, or never, second error in uploading and i don't want to upload a third time.
the video basically showed me dealing the finishing blow on the boss, saying i actually upgraded my weapon on lightning, switched out hope/fang for sazh/vanille, haste rocks, GG.
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I actually didn't think he was that hard. Then again, I had maxed tier one weapons for almost everyone and Lightning had her tier 2 from the Gladius. You just destroy the armor and then have Hope/Sazh buff you until you're all full and you heal while that happens and then you go nuts on him. Hell, you interrupt his ultimate attack if you just keep attacking and sticking close to him results in almost not getting hit.
Anyway, he doesn't even have close to as much HP as some of the stuff I've seen now. The boss I just fought had 2.3 million HP and it only took me about 2 minutes to kill him. And I have 300,000 CP ready to use whenever they give me my next Crystarium upgrade. I'm really looking forward to doing the harder hunts.
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the thing is, he wasn't hard. i just got unlucky and died the first time some 20+ minutes in the fight. the second time, with my new setup, i basically destroyed him because my damage output with haste and an upgraded weapon was pretty monster.
second time i downed him in like 8.
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i uhh i uhh i uhh...
im not playing any more ff13
double post...i uhh
i need an anger management counselor
i will no longer talk about it as i did something very bad
i feel like shit, physically and mentally, i almost don't want to play videogames anymore
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Save over your game with a new game after playing for 40 hours?
Because my friend Eli totally did that with my FFX game. I sat down and played for 42 hours straight. Went over to my friend Phil's house and Eli asked if he could start a new game to see the beginning. He got to the first save point and pressed X really fast and ended up saving over my game. To this day I have not been able to get through FFX. Ever. I've tried. And then I stop.
In any case, I now have like 1400 attack and it's pretty awesome. I'm probably just going to go fight optional hunt monsters until I run into something impossible and then grind until I max out what I've got for the Crystarium. Then I'll go beat the game. Aaaaand then they open the very final level of the Crystarium where you can become a god (seriously, your HP maxes out around 20,000 in this game) and then I'll go fight everything else. I never did all of the hunts in FFXII (mostly because I don't have 9 hours to sit and fight Yiazmat dear lord) so I think I might try for this one.
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http://www.spectere.net/forums/index.php?topic=1043.msg32073#msg32073
i ripped the disc apart with my hands
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Aaaaand then they open the very final level of the Crystarium where you can become a god (seriously, your HP maxes out around 20,000 in this game)
Fuckin finally. 9999 got annoying
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Because my friend Eli totally did that with my FFX game. I sat down and played for 42 hours straight. Went over to my friend Phil's house and Eli asked if he could start a new game to see the beginning. He got to the first save point and pressed X really fast and ended up saving over my game. To this day I have not been able to get through FFX. Ever. I've tried. And then I stop.
That's me and FFIX, lol. I was in the corridor near the end with like, 4 bosses in a row, or something. Just after the "Quina thinks s/he is swimming in the ocean" room, I think. I had a save in front of it, but then as I was working on trying to beat the bosses (I'm always under-leveled in FF games) my save card got corrupted. I stopped playing it for years, and even now have never beaten the game.
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So I just got FFXIII and a strategy guide.
Enjoy your install time and oh so slightly less visual detail, 360fags.
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I laughed.
Also there's a run button in Super Metroid? I was literally stuck at this one part because I didn't know it existed. Should be useful the next time I fight a boss. Oh and I'm going to try and beat Earth Bound if I can find the time, considering I doubt I'll get into Veiwiful Joe 2 anytime soon.
Oh yeah, and does anyone here play TvC? I've only played one person so far and I want more human on human training.
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the only "major" problem i see with FFXIII on 360 is having the HDD space for it. i recently got a 60gig HDD so it's none of my concern, but people who bought 360's back when the 15gig was the only thing that came with the "pro" version, they get screwed over into paying $100.00 for some more space.
yeah you could install one disc at a time, when you hit the next disc, save, leave game, and install, but even then you couldn't really have any other downloadable items on the HDD.
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Yeah, I have a really hard time with installing games. I can't install a game and download a demo or get larger dlc aside from some Rock Band songs.
Also, I finished FF13's story. Really good. Now I have over 10,000 HP and I should probably do most of the hunts until I run into a brick wall. That can wait though.
Also, going to try out the Blur beta pretty soon.
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from what little played, and what good amount i watched my friends play, blur looks pretty damn good.
i think their goal was "need for speed + mario kart" which it basically is.
this is coming from a guy who's last three racing games are f-zero gx, diddy kong racing, and star wars episode 1 podracer.
and uhh i picked up pokemon silver, probably play that in a bit after i do my drawing for the day.
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Blur's a pretty cool game and I have to get used to the steering but yeah, it's sort of like that. There were only 447 people playing when I tried though so I ended up in a race with 2 other guys and one was already level 10 so we got wrecked. It'd be more fun with more people and some buddies.
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Whats the story with FF13 freezing? I haven't opened mine yet, but when I was looking at guides online, I saw links where apparently it has become an issue?
I have a 360, but apparently it happens to both 360 and PS3 owners alike.
Really excited to play it, but now I'm wary about it haha
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i have had no problems with my game ceasing to work other than going zangief on the thing.
also, pokeymans, i decided to try out the pokewalker thinger. threw my cyndaquil in the thing, walked my walk of 3600 or so steps according to the thing. well, i then spent some of the "watts" which for every so many steps you take, you get one watt, from my 3600 or so steps, i got about 150 watts. you can catch pokermans or get items, i really only picked the catch pokemon option, and there was doduo and pidgey, so i caught both. i would assume you get different pokemon depending on the "route" you take, since when you connect the walker with the ds, you can choose a set of places to walk in, i chose the first option, but there was only two to choose from. seems like you can unlock new routes when you get more watts, so walk more, get more paths. also there is a gift option which i did, i don't know what i got yet since i haven't gone into my game per say, just the main menu to access the pokewalker stuff. the two really cool things in my opinion, the pokemon you catch in the walker, they go to your pc box, so they are actual pokemon you can use in the game. the second, cyndaquil leveled up from said walk, yeah, he leveled up.
the short version of this
-pokewalker is kind of cool, it like earning stuff for the game as you are out and about doing whatever
-you catch pokemon in it which you can use in the game
-your pokemon can level up in the thing
-you can get items with it
i haven't tried the linking pokewalkers to eachother, but when i do (i bought my game with a friend of mine, so i have silver, he gold) i will report on it.
all in all, it's a pretty neat little device. as for battery, i don't know how long it lasts, but it goes into a "sleep" mode when not touched for 20 or so seconds, in this mode it can still sense steps you take and whatnot. but due to this, i can assume you won't need to change the batteries for a long time.
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http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pokewalker
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Wow, just dicked around for a few seconds in GG Accent Core and I found out some nice new air combos with Slayer and Robo along with a combo that leads into me being able to combo into two different slayer supers. Shit, I love this game.
Also I just realized Contra Hard Corps has additional stages beyond the secret ending. Must beat this.
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Whats the story with FF13 freezing? I haven't opened mine yet, but when I was looking at guides online, I saw links where apparently it has become an issue?
I have a 360, but apparently it happens to both 360 and PS3 owners alike.
Really excited to play it, but now I'm wary about it haha
No one I know has had it freeze and I haven't had it freeze and I've played for 70 hours (and I have friends with both 360 and PS3 versions). It doesn't have a problem with freezing. It is EXTREMELY isolated. But of course, one guy posted a little video of it happening to him (likely the lens on his PS3 is dying) and now all of the sites are screaming about how OMG FF13 HAS FREEZING ISSUES OMG PIECE OF SHIT GAME and it's just.....ugh.
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Yeah, it's one thing if the game legitimately has issues (Bethesda games.....) but it's another thing entirely if it's an isolated event and people start freaking out.
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Ah okay well then its good that I have Thursday to Sunday off :D
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i picked up perfect dark for xbla, costs 800 points. i never played it on the n64 for two reasons. no n64 expansion pack, and i did not like fps games back then(with games as hard as duke nukem can you blame me?).
did not play online yet, although it is available in multiplayer competitive and co-op flavors. just did the first two single player missions, gold stars for the guns i have avalible, and the equipment training. i am already starting to think that this game should have costed at least 1200 points, there's a lot of things to do in this package.
wellp, played for two hours, up later than i would normally be due to said game. if you like goldeneye/perfect dark on the n64, this is a no brianer. i mean, online play, better graphics, AND NO MORE SHITTY n64 ANALOG STICK!
and yeah, there is 4 player split screen, im mentioning it, but you figure it's kind of the reason most people will buy this game methinks. im definitely going to be split screening this bitch up, but for those times where you and your bros can't be at the same house, there's always online.
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Not only is it split-screen, it's split-screen local WITH online. So you could actually have your entire team over and play against other people online together.
But yeah, Perfect Dark had a TON of stuff to do. The weapons training is all pretty cool, the game itself is awesome, the challenges for single player are all fun and get really hard (Perfect Agent some stage super fast time ahhhh), and then there's multiplayer and that has its own challenges to play through, AND it has co-op stuff AND counter-op, which almost no other game has.
For $10 it's a ridiculous steal.
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Yeah, that does look amazing.
Also does anyone else know if modern Earthbound emulations have that problem where the game becomes borderline unplayability hard and near the end it deletes the game? I'm afraid of this happening to me now.
Oh yeah, and Super Metroid just got massively confusing. I've search the entire area like twice (just got ice beams, the spread shot, faster running, and power bombs) but I can't find shit.
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So FF13 is pretty frickin' awesome. Just passed 6 hours, chapter 4. I liked the idea of "winning" your summons. Kind of neat. I'm still kind of struggling to get the paradigm system down perfect, but I know it will come, I'm getting better. Vanille isn't as annoying as I thought, and Hope actually sounds like a fuckin' teenager... which is the way he should. Don't know why people are complaining. Can't wait to really power them up though. I'm concentrating on maxing out Lightning's Commando role, but I'm kind of experimenting with the others.
I hope to god that CP is unlimited in the game. I know theres a limit to the parties abilities that only come through playing the game, but after when I do the missions, I hope you can actually max out everyones roles in everything. Though that would probably take years.
I've found the game definitely worth buying.
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You can max out everyone's Crystarium for every job, although people will still have different abilities and base stats so some will be better than others at certain things.
I can now farm 13,200 CP every 30 seconds or so. It takes longer to respawn the fight than it does to win it. And it probably takes over 999,999 to max out the roles that people aren't normally good at.
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Oh awesome lol.
Game just got better
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Damn Eggman, sounds like your just bending the game to your will at this point.
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messing with the pokewalker to test what's better, having it in your pocket, or using the clip.
results from my walk, out of all 3, two pocket and one clip, all came in the 3700 range. i thought the clip would register double the movement since well, there is two bounces in each step series rather than just the one if it's in the pocket in one leg. guess i was wrong and it doesn't really matter.
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Chapter 5, disc 2. Found a good spot to farm a whole bunch of CP... maxed out Lightning and Hope. Haven't played as Sazh/Vanille since I did the grinding so they will have lots to spend too. And Snow hasn't been playable since he got his fuckin' Eidolon so he's gonna have a shitload to spend.
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i uhh essentially traded my copy of modern warfare 2 for a new copy of ffxiii. skipping cutscenes...2.5 hours, im vanille and sazh in the junkyard place, past the first set of "two groups of dudes are fightan, try to kill the harder people off first" fights. i recall it took me three hours of play just to get to the part where i first get cp, so i reckon i should be on disc 3 quite a bit faster than before.
(http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/5714/img1655.th.jpg) (http://img686.imageshack.us/i/img1655.jpg/)
pokemon cards for random nostalgia. i never "bought" any of the trainer/rocket cards, all from trading other kids in middle school during lunch time. well, save for the weezing, that was a birthday gift from a bro.
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So, Earthbound, Crono Cross, or Super Mario RPG? OR is ther another SNES RPG that I'm missing?
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You mean Chrono Trigger, right? As for SNES RPGs, I'd add Lufia, and Lufia 2 (most people say 2 is better, but I enjoyed 1 a lot, never beat 2 yet). Not to mention FF3/6. there's also Tales of Phantasia, Breath of Fire 1 and 2, Robotrek, Secret of Evermore, Star Ocean, Ys 4, and Magic Knight Rayearth. Of course, some of those are only available on emulators through fan translations....
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Oh fuck, I feel retarded after forgetting final fantasy now.
Also I just drank so much vodka in STALKER that the game crashed, awesome.
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Oh fuck, I feel retarded after forgetting final fantasy now.
Also I just drank so much vodka in STALKER that the game crashed, awesome.
Haha, that's awesome.
But yeah, My list isn't comprehensive, but it's a good overview of most of the RPGs for the SNES.
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played mw2 at a bros place.
i don't own the game anymore, im pretty glad. didn't have a good time BECAUSE of that game.
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It really is a very abusive game. The super high price on the map pack makes it a lot easier to stop playing too. Activision's just buries themselves deeper and deeper with every new action they take.
I finally have 3 ultimate weapons in FF13 so my main party will soon be really super powerful for the most part. I still need to level the weapons and the accessories I need but for the most part I'm strong enough to beat nearly every hunting mission. Lightning's Omega Weapon is based off the Lionheart for a solid mix of attack/magic and quick stagger, Fang's Kain's Lance is based off the Taming Pole for much higher attack even though it has stagger lock (just means she can't actually put the enemy into stagger) and Hope's Nue is 100% all magic and he does unbelievable amounts of damage with it. I'll get the other two Genji Gloves from the missions and then I can have a team of guys doing hundreds of thousands of damage per hit, which is good because some of these things have like 15 million HP, like the super turtle enemy guy you have to kill for a trophy.
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wat
I thought you people were all over MW2? Also Cave Story Wii is out, and I'll probably buy it at some point.
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mw2 is 100% grade A bullshit: the game. some people can tolerate it more than others, 4 days of online play is about all the mw2 i can take.
as for the ffxiii file, 4 hours, disc 2, lol.
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Sounds like you played too much death match. Not that I like MW2 or anything, but Death match in a game like that is literally a dice roll.
Also I just hopped onto SF4 for shit's and giggles and I beat Abel's trials. I think I'm just now starting to get the hang of this game, but my controller is making me rage to much to play more.
Fuck Super Metroid. It's like constantly trolling me and I can't stop playing it.
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http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2010/mar/22/gigantic-list-ssf4-changes-and-notes/
speaking of sf4, posting link to go back to later.
since ssfiv is going to be a $40.00 game, one of my bros who LITERALLY ONLY PLAYS MW2, is interested in getting it because of the last time we got together and played sfiv. like, if i can get ANY person i can meet up with irl to play some fightans, that's just good.
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Sounds like you played too much death match. Not that I like MW2 or anything, but Death match in a game like that is literally a dice roll.
I liked Team DM a LOT better.
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I know what you mean, I was so happy when I got my one friend into fighters. Face to face fights are just so much better then online.
Shame none of them really care/try them. It's all SHOOTAN BRAH with them.
Shit, I had one of them run around randomly in MW2, get sniped, and said "fuck this game". They hardly want to try games unless they have that massive hype following.
I liked Team DM a LOT better.
I hardly see how, shit is annoying. I mean yeah, it's good mindless fun once in a while and you really don't need to worry about your dipshit team, but most of the time it's just far too mindless and random.
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watching SSFIV stream on giantbomb, i kind of think i should go back to my old chun ways.
qcf x 2 + PPP ultra 2 looks pretty ballin. plus i think i quit chun due to hating online play for some reason, but if i can get local bros to play, problem eliminated.
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goddamn i am very hyped for this game to the extent of i would buy a second TE if i had bros to play with weekly. though, the bros i would be trying to get into this are drinker weed smoker SHOOTAN BRAH dudes, so...ill need a bit of luck here.
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I hardly see how, shit is annoying. I mean yeah, it's good mindless fun once in a while and you really don't need to worry about your dipshit team, but most of the time it's just far too mindless and random.
I'll admit that I haven't had a chance to play online in quite a while (don't own it, no friends in town who have it and internet), but when I played, we usually played the TDM that had randomly assigned teams (whatever it was called), and basically rolled with it. You'd hope your team was good, and played the maps to the best of your ability. If some asshat started sniping you, you stopped walking into their path, got smart, and tried not to get sniped again. If some dipshit decided to drop a predator on you right when you spawned, you looked at their tag, and fucked their shit up when you saw them. We hardly ever had a setup that didn't change between matches, unless we were trying to level something up, we adapted to whatever crap they threw at us.
I suspect a lot of the cheap bullshit that people are doing now, was barely known of when I was playing. This was right near when it came out, barely played it recently, and the times that I did, it was with friends just playing, not trying to exploit stupid crap. Though I admit my friend mike has a habit of picking rust too often, just because he knows the map so damn well (and I'm not exactly great at the distances you usually end up fighting at in that map).
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bout 7.5 hours in, half way through chapter 7.
i am catching up to ye ole file faster than i would have thought. not to mention bosses that gave me trouble the last time, no problems this time. chapter 5 boss, chapter 6 boss. i didn't die either time, but they gave me some problems, now i just steamrolled the both of em.
so, the key to going fast is playing normally whilst knowing what to do, skipping all cutscenes, and muting the tv while listening to some podcasts.
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If some asshat started sniping you, you stopped walking into their path, got smart, and tried not to get sniped again. If some dipshit decided to drop a predator on you right when you spawned, you looked at their tag, and fucked their shit up when you saw them. We hardly ever had a setup that didn't change between matches, unless we were trying to level something up, we adapted to whatever crap they threw at us.
That's basically all you can do, check the often camped spots and don't run through the spots easily covered by a sniper fire. Outside of that it's just running around and hoping you see someone before they see you. There's no real way to predict if someone will be behind you unless you camp, and if someone gets behind you you are dead. That's why I like round based game types the best, you always know which direction the enemy is coming so none of this random spawning bullshit and if they get behind you it's your own fault.
That and with game types like Domination and sabotage you can usually tell which side of the objectives the enemy team will be on.
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The dumb part is that a huge amount of people will play objective-based modes like it's deathmatch anyway. Especially on stuff like Highrise. You'll end up with snipers facing every single window you can come out of, forcing you to go down below into the waiting arms of some guy who just knifes everyone who walks out the door. It's ridiculous.
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The dumb part is that a huge amount of people will play objective-based modes like it's deathmatch anyway.
heh, now you know why I play on a team work server. If admins see you dicking around and not even trying for an objective then they'd boot you. Goddamn, I miss that server, never could stand playing on a DM server.
I know I'm late to the party, but Prototype is fairly fun.
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Prototype is super awesome. It was one of my favorite games from last year.
I beat the final mission in Final Fantasy 13. 88 hours, 30 minutes. It was not nearly as hard as I thought it would be. Good accessories, maxed out characters and maxed out weapons with the right ideas for paradigms goes a long way. Now the only things I have left to do are "get 5 star on every mission" and "have held every weapon, item and accessory" which would be super time consuming. The 5 star thing might not be so bad I guess.
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so im 14 hours into the game now, early chapter 9, max everything for my current "level", and i am working on getting each equipped weapon on each of the 6 characters to the max level of *. i just wonder how much excess cp i will have at the end of this, which is always fun because when i am done with chapter 9, i unlock the whole crystal thinger. with the LOLHIGHCPCOSTS of the stuff that is opened i doubt i will gain much, but whatever, it's still fun to be dicking around doing something other than progressing through the story.
so i need to grind? no. but man i am gellin with this when listening to podcasts, it's quite enjoyable. but i mean, i am a grind a holic. you would think with the serious optional grindan i do in games i would play those korean mmo's, but fuck man that is a different level of grind. still though, it shouldn't be too long before i hit chapter 10. problem is i fucking hate chapter 10, long narrow dungeon with annoying as fuck enemies, maby with weapons higher than level 1(which is essentially what i rolled with) they will be less annoying. as for the chapter 10 boss, i think my problem is i was too retarded to think "maby i should have a dual medic paradigm for when my other medic is stunned". would have made that fight from "easy, but at this point, he kills me" to just easy.
and uhh, the sazh brunhildir edilon fight, not hard when you know what to do before hand.
-cast haste on sazh
-cast haste on millie vanillie
-spam magic with dual rav paradigm
-when you need to heal, have a rav/med paradigm ready so you can still blast him
-encounter should end around the time the haste buff ends
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man it's kind of fun having excess cp for where i am at in the game. buttfucked the boss of chapt 9. sazh, light, millie. use haste, then mash auto-battle with your eyes closed, win battle.
JUST entered chapt 10 so no all paradigms available to myself just yet, but i re maxed my characters and i have 20k cp left over. unfortunately for me, 20k is jack shit when i get access to all paradigms. still, i want to be powerful enough to not rip my game apart again when said time approaches. i am going to laugh so hard if all i needed was a double medic paradigm to win that fight i swear.
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Prototype is super awesome. It was one of my favorite games from last year.
I'm starting to get burnt on it now, the enemies are a bit repetitive and shockingly soldiers on foot are more dangerous then choppers and tanks.
Still, the whole mobility and the range of weapons is fairly impressive, running around and just attacking things is stupidly fun.
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Still, the whole mobility and the range of weapons is fairly impressive, running around and just attacking things is stupidly fun.
Hence why that's all I'd do in the new GTA games, lol.
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So I beat the retarded vault monster in Borderlands with my Siren at level 36 and for some reason I can still play even though there's nothing left to do. I've heard you can keep going through the game with harder enemies but I don't think it's worth it.
Is there any news on if there will be a new Spore?
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Yeah, I like it more so that Prototype gives you rewards for actually just fucking things up. I just wish the strike teams were a bit more intimidating, it's usually just a couple of choppers that can be dropped with a kick or two.
Still, I can't seem to figure out which power I like the most. I'm liking whip fist because it can clear crowds quickly and it does decent damage to hunters while keeping me at a safe distance, but EVERYTHING seems to work nicely.
Also shield is a god send. I went from dying to hardly getting damaged with that thing.
Is there any news on if there will be a new Spore?
Spore heroes? There was that, but I have no clue what it is.
Also Borderlands isn't all that bad with new game plus, but it does get tiring quickly. Fairly mediocre game overall.
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borderlands would be really good if it was a 15 hour game. for what it offers, i got bored at hour 20. good game, just not interesting enough to keep me entertained through it's entirety.
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ffxiii
let's see, chapt 10 finished, and i am in chapt 11.
so the first 20 hours of this game, NARROW CORRIDOARS, then they dump me in this FUCK MASSIVE field, which would be cool, but with 360 version it runs at like 20fps. still, pretty neat, and the exp gain is quite a bit better than what i was grinding in chapt 9, so i think i will settle down and start a campfire for a while. only this time i got so much more of my crystarium to play with.
bahamut...
sen/med/med
sab/med/sab
GG this fight was easier than most random battles. considering random battles in this game put up more of a fight, this is fact.
and finally, the boss before bahamut (i could say his name and it wouldn't spoil anything because this game likes telling you nothing, but i won't just in case you read the datalog or something) which made me rage...not too bad. i think i was just tired and frustrated when i got to him and i snapped, but really when i step away from the game and come back at him with a clear head, the fight was nothing too special, just have combat medic paradigm for those times you need to heal and he isn't too bad.
SOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo i would assume i am finally at that part of the game where i can dick around and do whatever.
pic totally related
(http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/1069/1199854230155.jpg)
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Yeah, the start of the game REEEAALLY drags on and spells out every little detail of an already simple game. Then after that it's the awesome car level, then it's the small town and more tedious bullshit to lengthen the game.
Also Prototype is crazy fun. The environment is nuts, you go from average city to a fucking battlefield over the course of 10 or so missions, and it actually feels like massive chaos is going on. I just stood there and watched a couple of big military tanks and about 7 or so soldiers with LMGs unload into zombies and super zombies (the larger zombies with big arms, but not the hunters) and they were surprisingly competent for people who basically die from one hit from anything.
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getting prepped for super street fighter 4.
not going to play much online unless anybody here wants to play, which i would be happy to play (even against that blanka playing faggot newf, i still love you)
but uhh, challenge mode is actually kind of helpful, it's just not helpful to the person just starting the game. ill keep this short but i spent about 30 minutes trying to do chuns level 4 normal challenge.
jHK
hold back MK
MK
ex legs
ultra
now uhh i can do ex legs into ultra, because of that. nice. probably try to learn sagat's ultra bullshit stuff so i can learn up one of my bros who uses him. figure i would learn a few tricks for myself, and a few tricks to learn the people im playing with. ANYWHO, training mode, yeah.
it's just this game requires more initial practice to be "decent" at the game than sf2 does. though, sf2 is fucking simple and is the only fighting game i really play, so maby that has something to do with it.
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double post, ffxiii, 30 hours in.
fuck dude, this game, i have mixed feelings on it. chapters 1-10, gay, i do not recommend this game, go away.
chapter 11 is when the game turns into a different better game. it even feels like starting a new file in a way because you start out fresh out of chapter 10 as a weak pussy. you are introduced to this whole mission thing, and even just being at crystarium level 8, there's a good difference between a person just starting, and a person some 500kcp into it. like the juggernaut mech faggot in the caves, he raped me hard, some 7 hours later i bent that metal ass over and J-J-J-JAMMED it in.
seriously though, if you don't mind spending 20-25 hours to get to the "good" part of a game, don't bother. if you do, and you enjoy the final fantasy games, im fucking loving it. i don't even give a damn about the story/world/characters now, cutscenes are kind of just "hey, i am very tempted into hitting the skip button right now" because they get in the way of me doing what i want to do which is building up my dudes. just kind of like running around exploring the scenery. like this game rewards you for trying enemies you aren't sure you can fight, just because if you can't tango with whomever you went to tussle with, hit the retry button, and run away, no need to reload that save or even waste much time.
i mean, save for ff8, i haven't bothered much with the meta game in a final fantasy. this game however, im going to max out everything and kill everything, because it's just damn fun.
AND I AM USING HOPE FOR SOME REASON WHAT THE FUCK (SINCE HE HAS LOW HP HE IS THE ONLY PERSON IN MY PARTY TO KEEL OVER AND DIE FROM ENEMIES THUS I GET OFF FROM HIS DEMISE)
fang/hope/sazh
fang for commando/sab
hope for having the highest magic stat being good at med/rav (if i wasn't lazy i would upgrade one of millie's weapons and replace hope right now, but until i farm some 99 bomb cores again, hope will stay ;_;)
sazh for being almost as beefy as snow in terms of hp, only a better ravager and provider of my favorite buff, haste.
there's a tldr for you, chapter 11 and the game gets good. good not much in a final fantasy feeling kind of way, but in a diablo kind of way(though not quite with loot). being i fucking love diablo to death, this is good.
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Chapter 11 in 13 feels like playing 12. I thought it fit right in with the normal Final Fantasy stuff. You hit the end of the game and now you can do whatever.
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Just installed the SC2 Beta, and some loaders and AI to let me play single player against computers. I've been watching SC2 matches with commentary on youtube lately and really want to get better at SC2 than I was at SC.
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well if you want an easy time, play the easymode race, protoss. but if you want to be a MAN you will gravitate towards terran or zerg.
ffxiii, mission 55 can suck my dick. "hurp durp grind lots of cp to get more powerful to kill a boss which drops a double cp accessory"
well i am going to grind a bit and get some accessories to get some damn hp to live longer than a second against him, when i get that set up...
-fortisol/agisol
-encounter enemy
-cast death
if boss is dead, congratulations to me.
if boss is not dead, hit start, then hit retry.
now i can do that now, but like, im not sure if the boss dies if his bitches stay alive, because it would be a big downer if death actually worked, but one of the bitches kill my millie giving me a game over.
that and i am thinking about just going into chapter 12 to go beat the game, get my level 10 of the crystarium, then go back and finish everything up. since i am a bitch, and am a goddamn grindan machine, AND bombcast is out today....ill at least get 200k more cp before doing anything else. considering i can beat the encounter which gives me 6600cp in about 14 seconds...maby more than that.
not really looking forward to one of the final bosses having a move which has a chance to randomly kill any party member. i am sorry, but even a tiny chance of a random game over is some goddamn bullshit in my book. i mean, other ff games have instant kill moves out the ass, but you never got a game over if the main character dies.
almost wish i picked up this game late enough to barely finish it before puzzle quest 2, but i have to wait till may to play my personal runner up rpg of the year(assuming they don't fuck anything up like they did with galactrix).
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well if you want an easy time, play the easymode race, protoss. but if you want to be a MAN you will gravitate towards terran or zerg.
a) The races are balanced, which is why SC/SC2 is so popular in the first place.
b) SC2 has significantly different gameplay from SC/BW.
c) Have you seen how effective chosts are against the Toss? EMP = your fucked.
Watch this match (it's a 5 part one, and I've linked to part 1 here) to see the Toss get fucked every which way by Terrans.
Also, I could be like TheLittleOne and just play random (and somehow be one of the most creative players ever).
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I fought the last boss 5 times going for the 5 star ranking on it. His instant kill only hits if you're below a certain HP percentage and have certain debuffs on I think. If you mean Doom, bosses only do that if you suck and take too long.
And yes, the Picochus stay alive if you hit Neochu with Death. You pretty much have to have someone on medic, snow on sentinel and Vanille to cast Death and just whittle them down. Having the growth egg helps a lot because you'll likely end up with 999,999 CP just by going through the last area.
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One of my buddies is in the SC2 beta, and I've watched him play quite a bit - Proxy rushing with barracks in 1v1 matches is retardedly effective. I watched him win 12 games in a row doing it online, but if it fucks up you're pretty screwed. It was still funny though, because unless they somehow catch you before you start pumping out marines, they're totally boned.
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I really want to get into SC now, it seems like a dumb amount of fun. Is there anymore betas, or is it a hard locked thing?
Also I feel guilty for playing Ryu in TvC, but he's honestly a lot more fun to play in that game than in any other game I've played with him in it. I'm also trying to play more characters in general (digging Soki, Alex, Zero, Casshan, Karas, and a little bit of Ken the Eagle) but I'm definitely finding some characters a LOT harder to get into then others. Like, everything about Frank West confuses me.
Oh yeah, and anyone here play Monster Hunter? It seems directly up my alley but I'm not sure.
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bob, ive watched a lot of starcraft. you can pull the balance card and i may even agree, but toss will still be bullshit. remove psystorm and carriers and i may bitch less. also, ive seen a lot of toss players bitch about the zerg roach, when the immortal RAAAPAPPAPAPAPPPEPEESSSSSSSSSS them, the fuck man? basically it doesn't matter what you respond too, i hate toss. hell, they could be gimp and i would still hate them. fairly ironic that i hate the race with a "high power per unit" motief, when in just about any other game i prefer the power option(tager, shotguns, rocket launchers, zangief, t hawk, ect).
mortified, ive played some 40 hours in monster hunter freedom 2, and some 80 hours in monster hunter freedom unite. in my opinion do not play unless you have a bro to play with. this game is what you call really really goddamn hard, which can be fine with a bro, but alone, fuck no. and some of the monsters REALLY abuse the time limit you are given, so expect to be literally beating down some of these fuckers for over a half and hour, and if you die three times, you have to do all of that work all over again. it's a fun game, but it's not for everybody. if you want a challenge, by all means, give er a go.
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getting prepped for super street fighter 4.
not going to play much online unless anybody here wants to play, which i would be happy to play (even against that blanka playing faggot newf, i still love you)
Lol, you better believe it bitch. Unfortunately, I dont have a live account anymore, so it kinda sucks I cant play online for a while :(
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wellp, when you do eventually get live again, i look forward to fighting your green Brazilian ass.
ffxiii, mission 55. i switched up my "fang/millie/sazh" party for "millie/snow/hope" and i upgraded her debuff wand to a malboro wand for improved debuffing 2.
sab/sen/med with both fortisol/agisol to start
snow is a fuckin man, like, he held off attacks for me to get like 4 deaths off, then it fuckin worked.
com/sen/med
med/sen/med
rav/com/med
a mix of those depending on situation and i got myself a growth egg and some 67thousand cp.
8)
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so i beat chapter 12, and i am on 13 and i realized i hate going through this game normally. it's just not fun. but when i am out on gran pulse just dicking around powering up my dudes, i am having fun. too bad i have to beat the game to unlock stage 10 of the crystarium, hopefully i am close so i can go back to what i was enjoying.
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You...enjoy grinding?
Also am I the only person who can't seem to beat a game that you can't save in? I have save states in Shinobi, Gunstar Heroes, Sonic, and Contra Hard Corps and I can't seem to beat them. I even replay the start of the games with no intent of beating them.
but yeah, maybe I just have too much stuff on my plate.
Also why is it that I can play TF2 and suck, but like never play CSS and still do damn good in a gun game?
Also also why won't Sneaky play KF with me.
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ok eggman, explain this.
fang is my main character, she has 9000 health.
he touches her with that autokill move. guess fucking what, i want to put my fist through my tv because i fucking died, and i got a game over. her health was in the green.
this game is real fucking fair i tell you, having to get lucky just to beat the second to final boss with some 6 million hitpoints, yeah, this is fucking fun.
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yeah, i think i am done with this game. i won't destroy it again, but like, random chance for a game over on an excruciatingly long fight? come on, there is nothing skill wise i can do to avoid his touch of death other than getting lucky. they could you know make it so you don't game over when the party leader dies, but you know, that random chance for a game over, that's what gamers want, that's what we find fun. we just fucking love fighting bosses over and over not because we can't handle them, but because we like getting lucky, and when you down that son of a bitch, you know you got lady luck on your side.
i will play the game again when i feel like redoing the fight before that boss, because you know, it is already a bitch, so when you want to turn the game off for a while and come back to it, you remember there was another boss you have to fight before it...and one after it.
so i think i need 3 of the death resist accessory on my main character, which would only make me 66% immune to death, so while it reduces the chance for an instant game over, it does not eliminate it.
i know i bitch a lot about a lot of unjustified things, but this is fully fucking justified. his move he does which drains the party health in the red? lame, but ok. his phase where he casts status ailments out the ass? really annoying, but i can deal. his ten quintillion hitpoints? more hp doesn't make the boss more fun, but whatever, i can get past this. the fact that i have a decent length boss fight before which and i can't save inbetween? whatever, annoying, but nothing rageworthy. the fact that when you drain him to 60% or less health, he will regularly cast an instant death beam on your party? you know, if it hits sazh or millie, i can just revive them, whatever. if it hits fang, at green health, and kills her, giving me a game over?
no sir, not ok. not ok at all. maby i am just unlucky, but it just happened twice in a row, and i don't feel like giving this a third attempt today. because when i get angry, the game wins, and i ain't going to let it win.
so i am going to play the demo for just cause 2, hear it's pretty good.
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forgot to mention, mortified, yes, i do enjoy grinding from time to time. why else would i play an mmo? i assume you hate grinding in all sorts, so, to my last post, DO NOT PLAY MONSTER HUNTER IT IS LITERALLY 100% GRINDING MY GOD IF YOU THINK GRINDING IS HORRIBLE PLEASE DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT MABY PLAYING THAT GAME.
it's literally all grinding, killing monsters to get better gear to kill harder monsters to get better gear to kill harder monsters to get better gear...ect
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Regularly cast it? I've only seen it twice (it worked once). Then again, I had him broken so fast it didn't matter so who knows. The good news for you is that there is another form after that one...that's really easy since you just break it (you can't do damage unless it's staggered but it's really easy to cause it) and then destroy it and it just does some lame physical attacks.
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forgot to mention, mortified, yes, i do enjoy grinding from time to time. why else would i play an mmo? i assume you hate grinding in all sorts, so, to my last post, DO NOT PLAY MONSTER HUNTER IT IS LITERALLY 100% GRINDING MY GOD IF YOU THINK GRINDING IS HORRIBLE PLEASE DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT MABY PLAYING THAT GAME.
it's literally all grinding, killing monsters to get better gear to kill harder monsters to get better gear to kill harder monsters to get better gear...ect
Well, depends on what you define by grinding. WoW grinding is largely mindless and not fun, but grinding in a game like Prototype can be fun because of the mixed gameplay.
If the monsters themselves are fun to fight, then I could tolerate it. Plus isn't it largely about the big scale "boss" fights and less about "kill 10 of these small enemies"?
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I really want to get into SC now, it seems like a dumb amount of fun. Is there anymore betas, or is it a hard locked thing?
Well, there are rumors of a second round of beta keys being given away. I haven't bothered checking the status on that. But that doesn't really matter if you really want to play badly (against computers). There are loaders out there now and custom AI scripts that you can use to play VS computers. You need the loaders and AI because single play AI wasn't actually included in the Beta. It was intended to be battle.net only. But people learned how to force it to play replay files, and then learned how to start a game (albeit with randomized race, color, and start location), and just recently, people learned how to actually load a game properly, and how to provide the AI for the computer. That means you have a selection of different AIs to chose form. Some are pretty damn easy, and some (like the StarCrack AI) are fucking hard (at least for me).
I played a couple games against the generic AI that people had (no idea where it originated, it was just "Very easy, Easy, Medium, Hard, Very hard, Insane") as well as against StarCrack 7.0, and not once did I have a chance of beating the StarCrack AI. It's like the computer plays at the level of a pro (or pretty good) player, and on top of that, can see through the smokescreened areas, where you can hide units. That makes them damn hard to sneak up on, and they seem to be able to put together armies twice as fast as I can.
On the other end, the generic AIs were damn easy to kill. I tried easy and Medium, and I stomped both of them hardcore.
bob, ive watched a lot of starcraft. you can pull the balance card and i may even agree, but toss will still be bullshit. remove psystorm and carriers and i may bitch less. also, ive seen a lot of toss players bitch about the zerg roach, when the immortal RAAAPAPPAPAPAPPPEPEESSSSSSSSSS them, the fuck man? basically it doesn't matter what you respond too, i hate toss. hell, they could be gimp and i would still hate them. fairly ironic that i hate the race with a "high power per unit" motief, when in just about any other game i prefer the power option(tager, shotguns, rocket launchers, zangief, t hawk, ect).
Definitely rather ironic, all things considered. I don't get Toss players bitching about the roach, since like you said the immortal rapes the fuck out of them (there was a video of 50 immortals decimating 200 roaches and hardly losing any, both being fully upgraded). And Psystorm did get pretty gimped compared to what it was. Plus, since the Ghosts have that Snipe skill, high temps go down like butter. It 1 hit kills them. As for carriers, I haven't even seen one used in play yet. Seriously.
And as a matter of fact I've been practicing more as Terran than anything else. I just like the Toss better when it comes to then units themselves. I like how Zealots are actually worth something in smaller numbers, and love having canons, rather than bunkers I have to man with units.
Regardless of what race I play though, I need to get better.... Much better. I bet my APM is somewhere in the oh say, 20 range, lol. Plus, my timing is shit, and I don't even know the basic build orders/timing for most races yet. The only one I've reliably paid attention to is Zerg, and they are my least favourite race to play as.
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two fully upgraded cherubs crowns per character, 70% death resistance
then one hp bangle
game beaten
probably the most annoying boss i can remember fighting in a final fantasy game, but now i have crystarium 10, YEAH! though, i have to wait for these damn credits to finish, thus this post.
mortified, mostly you fight big monsters, but they run away, and the little monsters which populate each map respawn every time you leave an area, it's VERY GODDAMN ANNOYING. though, i ended up playing some 120 hours so i guess i had some fun.
*editing since credits are over and i don't have to look back at the tv every 2 seconds*
starcraft 2. i will want to play zerg, but probably get frustrated somehow and go to terran(though, maby not, last i checked terran was the weakest out of the three as of current). unless they are as baller as everybody is saying, because zerg in sc1 are not exactly an easy race to use. i guess the zerg queen larva thing helps a lot, zerg doesn't need to have one more expansion just to be EVEN with the opponent.
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done playing for the day, but goddamn this game throws hp at you like it's candy when you hit level 10 on the crystarium. fang, 12k. millie, 12k. sazh, 16k. it's funny when everything is maxed, snow gets like 30,000hp.
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Yeah, the queen thing really speeds production up. And the fact that a queen can do that to every base can REALLY spee production up if you expand quicker than your oponant.
In all honesty, I haven't seen the terran get curbstomped yet, lol. Well, not completely any way (Colossus do basically incinerate M&Ms instantly). Every match I've seen them in, they've held their own quite well.
And whoever mentioned proxie rax as instant win obviously hasn't seen how quickly a 9 pool can bring out enough lings to overrun anybody, lol.
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i think i am a bit too retarded, maby slightly underleveled to non death farm the adamantoise.
even then, with a connoisseurs catalog, he's fuckin stingey with dropping platinum ingots. getting money in this game is time consuming. yeah the 80,000 cp is nice(skills cost 60,000-120,000 cp now), but i could easily get that in a fracton of the time killing the behemoth/other guy in 8 seconds about 6 times in the many attempts it takes for death to work on an adamantoise.
you know, i probably can kill the thing but i have my priorities wrong in making this post over going to youtube. but y'all know me, i like to bitch. :)
ill probably end up getting bored before i accomplish what i originally set myself on doing, so ive been thinking on which ff game to conquer next. i have 7, which farming bp for omnislash is a pain in the ass. i already buttfucked 8 back when i played it, so i really don't want to re dominate that game. could do 9, never got the ultimate weapons and optional bosses in that game. then there's 6, which i didn't get into because i tried playing it immediately after beating 5, so y'know, could go whichever way. then there's always the possibility that by playing and completing 13, i need yet another decently long break from the genre.
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You might be able to beat them without Death but you probably can't do it without a summon. Easiest way:
Fang as lead.
1. Start fight with fortisol so you have haste on. Summon Bahamut right away. It falls down.
2. SAB it to make it weaker, let Bahamut attack it and just run out. Don't go to Gestalt Mode or it'll reset the stagger meter. Switch so Hope is SYN when he comes back in.
3. Hope should give Enfire right away. Get it on everyone, switch to whatever to break it.
4. Switch to COM/COM/RAV and rape the thing until it's dead.
Also, start mission 62 (I think? you fight an adamantoise for the mission) but don't actually finish it. For whatever reason the drop rate of other Adamantoise/Adamantortoises is higher while you're doing that mission.
It still took me something like 8-10 hours (I am guessing) of fighting those to get the 6 trapezohedrons for ultimate weapons and the money to max out 3 of them and some accessories.
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ffxiii
i need more strength before i attempt the thing again. i can get him to about 8-10% but i could probably easily kill him if i had better weapons for millie and sazh.
sf4
tried playing online, i just can't understand the game. it's like, people just holding back on the joystick destroy me, and i get random ultraed all the time. plus people keep using people i never ever see ever, fought my third rose out of like 1000 games, fought my 6th vega like ever, the fuck man? probably just not touch the game until ssfiv since sfiv is going to be obsolete, and there will be a ton more people online. i intend on using chun unless any of the changes/new characters sway me otherwise. though, if i do use chun, i will need a glove for my right hand. doing c fierce into rh legs to forward legs = HURT ASS FINGER GODDAMN. basically you slide your finger from fierce, to roundhouse, to forward, to short, to forward, to roundhouse, then hit forward 5 times quickly.
this guys videos are pretty good and informative for chun. he also stated he plans on using other characters for ssfiv, so more than just chun. still, going from training mode, to fighting random mini pros who taunt you every chance they get whilst double perfecting you, not fun. kick my ass, sure, you play the game often, you are good, just don't scare the newer players off, you will have less people to play with. but i mean, i am learning tricks, but i just don't know the fundamentals for this game. i guess i am trying to use dee jay more often, but i fucking hate zoning, so i just try to crossup all day, which gets me killed often, still at least he can be offensive unlike guile.
sf2
so i played this because sf4 was getting frustrating...yeah, if i had an arcade cab of one game, it would be super turbo. only really get angry at it when i fight laggy people who can't read ping, and good akuma players. i like getting away with walk forward 360's, makes me feel tingly inside. currently working on trying to do some painful shenanigans for zangief, mainly, hop into super, if spaced properly, pretty doable. green hand into super, WAY harder to space properly than the hop, that and doing the 720 in a quarter of a second is a bit harder after doing a fireball motion than just holding forward and hitting roundhouse for my hop.
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thinking about my sf4 play, i kind of like throwing out random pokes, but i can't really follow up with it...maby i should reconsider gen. if i can get the hit confirm mk down, free hands.
i should put a bit more time into checking gen out. yeah he has two stances, but really mantis is for mk hands bullshit, and the weird dp kick thing, and crane is to oga the fuck out of pressure.
E*Dref
tekken 6 is like damn cheap, might try it out
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Well, Prototype is DONE. Damn enjoyable game, I was a little pissed at the whole "HAY LET'S TAKE AWAY YOUR POWERS MID GAME" thing, but they did give you two new powers after the whole ordeal and you basically use them through the rest of the game. Plus the main game missions were generally varied and fun, I just there was more combat focused ones, but this game does the whole chaotic battlefield better then any other game I've played.
Outside of that, there was the fact that most powers seemed completely useless and the story felt REALLY tacked on (Spoiler: was your contact near the end of the game the same guy who turns into the ultimate hunter? How in the hell did he even contact Alex at first? That and they don't even reference his sister again once he saves her.) it just all seems horrible placed and the fact that they kept telling the player that his consciousness was merging with the people he consumed seemed like it was just talking down to me (then again, the average "gamer" is a moron...).
EDIT: Oh yeah, and chasing Tennat in that tank was crazy. Single handedly ripping through squads of tanks while screaming "NOTHING CAN SAVE YOU FROM ME, NOT MEN, NOT WEAPONS, NOT ARMOR" is definitely one of the more badass parts of the game. Also the final boss was enjoyable, even if he was a bit easy (outside of that fucking ranged attack that's basically a 1 hit kill).
DOUBLE EDIT: Actually now that I read the TV tropes page for this it seems I missed a bit of the story. Still, it seems like his sister was just a devise used to push the story forward and as soon as she was "safe" they don't ever refer back to her or the guy treating her.
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man i would totally get ggpo to play third strike and alpha 3 online...but i ain't about to risk the safety of my computer trying to hunt down the proper roms for the thing.
otherwise, i really kind of want to experience 3s/a3. ill wait till either capcom remakes em, or i make an arcade cab and then travel to a place where people would play with me.
the ggpo people should get with the companies of said games to make the roms readily available for standard downloadable game pricing (thinking anywhere from $5.00 to $15.00 depending on game). i mean, no real need to remake them, just have the rom readily available for those who want to do things nice and legal.
s.net ggpo matches, totally be down for that. i mean, everybody has a pc, not everybody has an xbox. though, playing a fightan with a keyboard, olol, i may have an unfair advantage with stick.
but like i have third strike on the ps2, but i have no ps2 stick...and there's no online play...and i know nobody interested in playing fighting games...life sucks.
typical ramble post, but seriously, c forward xx super the game does look pretty fun even if people only use like 5 characters(ken, yun, urien, akuma, motoko?).
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I'll PM you some links that I'll download and check out first. Really, it's not hard at all to find good roms.
I just need to wait until my internet picks up again...
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yeah dude, stuff works. my stick works just fine on the games even. now i can play third strike, a game i got for ps2, on my pc with my TE stick.
ballin'
my GGPO name is vladgd (duh) so...i should get a thread going or something, i really want to play shit with people. third strike...chun is supposed to be like the sagat of that game right? ill experiment, but sf4 left me enjoying chun.
'preciate the assistance sir, i am too google paranoid to get anything done. retarded enough to take some time in getting everything working. still don't know about the online stuff, but i was able to join the chat server logon thing fine with people challenging me, but at that time i didn't know what was what and the games didn't work.
now that they do, i kind of want to mess around with the AI for a bit to learn some ABC's. i mean, i don't want to jump at random people when i just find out something like chun li's fireball is now a motion move, the fuck mang.
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i think i am enjoying vampire savior 2 more than alpha 3.
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FUCK YES WE NEED TO PLAY VAMPIRE SAVIOR 2. Love that game. Darkstalkers as a whole is a wildly underrated series, definitely one of my favorites.
Also how hard is it to get GGPO working? Last time I checked it forced you to forward a port and I've had NOTHING but trouble doing that.
Also also yeah, Chun Li is the Sagat of 3S, but I haven't noticed TOO many people complaining about her. If you want I can show you the ropes to VS2 and 3S, but I also basically suck at them.
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yeah it says on the GGPO site to forward some ports, so i did that before even installing the thing. apparently i did it properly, because having seen your post, i went to check the online play of GGPO.
got challenged by some random chap for third strike, we played some 10 games. i got dominated, but he was a nice bro and helped me out a bit with my character (Q), pretty fun. we both found it funny that i can do the 720 in st 9 times out of 10 but i have problems doing a simple qcfx2 super in third strike.
i can't say anything about lag unless i play ST, because i am not used to how third strike plays, though from my ps2 experience, i don't think i encountered any lag. and if i want to play ST, ill play hdremix, since it's what i started on, and i can use my 42 inch hdtv with the xbox voice chat. kind of wish GGPO had built in voice chat (dude, it's 2010), but i reckon i could always get a vent server if i played often.
the tldr, games work, the internet play works, my madcatz te stick works with it(as does my hori fighting stick ex2 iirc), good way to play games online which didn't originally have online play. i mean, otherwise i would need to get two damn ps2 arcade sticks (or some adapter or something which means input lag) AND find local people interested in playing, just to get my third strike on.
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a3 bison is a weird motherfucker. it's almost like playing guile because he has a goddamn FIREBALL. so i am going to assume alpha bison is why mvc2 bison has a fireball.
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K, so I'm playing SoulSilver. I'm trying to catch Zapdos. Zapdos is down in the red and is paralyzed. I've been throwing Ultra Balls at it for like 15 minutes. I decide to throw a Love Ball at it just to see the opening animation when he broke out, since I don't know what the Love Ball's animation is like.
Zapdos didn't break out. I caught him.
I'm still really confused.
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Pok
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Zapdos has no gender, so the Love Ball was exactly as effective as a regular Poke Ball. Because of how catch rate works, the Poke Ball works 1/16 as often as the Ultra Ball works. I'd thrown about 60 Ultra Balls before I threw the single Love Ball, so I got really, really lucky.
As a new rule, I'm going to start doing my legendary hunts at night so I can use the Dusk Ball.
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lol, ahh., I haven't played much pokemon lately. I mostly only played back on the first generation games. I really don't like most of the new pokemon.
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mortified still having problems with the ports?
Step 3:
Open UDP ports 6000-6009 (inbound/outbound) and TCP port 7000 (outbound) in your home network. GGPO uses these ports to communicate with the matchmaking server and with other players on the internet.
i didn't really get the inbound/outbound stuff, but i forwarded the proper ports and when i tried playing online, i had no problems. didn't help that i spent 15 minutes looking for the spot to forward ports since it isn't the most obvious thing to find on my router.
and is it me or does 3s feel kind of...slow? even comparing it to sf4. it's not going to be a game i invest tons of time into, but if i can get games in with people, id be glad to play. alpha 3 too, the computer rapes my ass, and there's no training mode(ARCADE VERSION), so...another shitty player would be welcome :)
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I've yet to try yet, but the last time I tried port forwarding I couldn't get it going.
Oh yeah, and 3S is fairly slow at first, but once you get the BnB combos and what not down it's generally faster and MUCH MUCH less projectile based then 4. I've been wanting to get into A3, so we could do that.
Also my thumb hurts from playing Vampire Saviour 2, shit's nuts.
Also also Super Metroid is shockingly hard. Like, JUST finding where to go is about as hard as finding any secrets, it's really weird.
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projectiles do not bother me. i mean i play zangief in street fighter 2, a game all about fireball spam.
as for port forwarding
http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/routerindex.htm
should help somewhat. it's not really hard to do, the hardest part is navigating whatever kind of router you have.
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i will re iterate, the a3 ai FUCKING RAPES GODDAMN HOW IS A NEW PLAYER SUPPOSED TO FUNCTION IF THE FIRST FIGHT GRINDS YOUR BALLS IN?
*edittt*
the default difficulty is named "hard 3" uhh...pushed that mahfucker to normal. basically had to find the diagnostic button and get to it from there.
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out of the 3 games played (a3, 3s, vs2), i like one more than the rest because it's more similar to sf2 in terms of initial feel.
vampire savior 2. i know i mentioned it in a previous post, but i think ill work on this game a little more than the other two. ill start annoying the forum more about playing on GGPO when i find myself mains in a3 and vs2 (since Q is my 3s bitch). i mean vs2 is not sf2, but, it just has a certain feeling to it. that and the sprites are really well done.
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Welcome to arcade emulation, and one of the reasons I can't get into King of Fighters.
Not sure I know what you're saying about VS2, but I do love the game. and yeah, ALL the characters are generally well designed and well animated in game.
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basically i am saying it feels quicker. when i hit a button, the move comes out with not too much of that "animation" crap.
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Alright then, starting DMC4. Was a bit bored until I hit the castle and bought a few new moves, now I'm having a decent amount of fun with it and feeling a bit nostalgic for the first DMC game.
Also still semi stuck in Metroid and lost in Earth Bound...
Whoa, just ran around randomly in Metroid and got into two different crazy boss fights. Thought I was fucked when that one guy grabbed me randomly twice and I panicked and thought that grabbing that electric thing might make him drop me, just to have it shock him to death right before killing me. Goddamn that was nuts.
Oh yeah, and DMC4 sure is THE TIME HAS COME AND SO HAVE I.
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fang/millie/sazh
adamantoise
syn/med/syn- fully buff
sab/whatever/whatever- summon/fully debuff
com/com/syn- attack until summon goes away, wait until syn refreshes haste
com/com/com- finish off his health, win, get disappointed as he yet again drops nothing even though you have the connoisseurs catalog
i was using death on him just to get platinum ingots, getting pretty lucky with deaths, then he drops a trap. because of that, i make an ultimate weapon.
using a level 40 kain's lance (ultimate weapon) for fang, it's pretty damn retarded. i need to get the genji glove because of all the 99,999 damage i do against the staggered adamantoise. though i want more platinum ingots, those things are the single most important item i need right now. i need money, i need it to upgrade...everything. i mean, i had to use death because i didn't have the overall party strength to down the fucker in time, but that weapon single handedly gave me the power to rape him.
it's just funny in this game how the crystarium works. level 1-7 is like nothing, level 7-8, 8-9, and 9-10, huge improvements in stat gain. i mean, there's a large difference in power between a maxed out level 9 crystarium guy in a maxed out level 10 crystarium guy. (though im not maxed out yet, the difference in almost 15,000 hp is worth noting)
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playing vampior savior, think i found a go to character for the time being, fish man rikuo. wanted to be one of the "cough" popular ladies, i mean the fanart is goddamn everywhere. but i guess sexy fish man is ok, pretty fun to play anyway. like i can classify morrigan/lillith as "shotos" but even they are sort of different. rikuo is..uhh..
well, he can do normals as he dashes, he can dash under fireballs, he has dhalsims air drill attack, he has charge ranged stun moves...the man he's like rikuo from vampior savior obviously. i can't really think of anybody like him. i don't really know what i am doing so i just flail myself at the ai going at em with a little 3 hit combo then SONIC LASER BEAM STUN, then do it again...and again...and again. so if i play any of y'all, for now anyway, ill use da fish man.
http://saiyagina.deviantart.com/art/Darkstalkers-Tribute-127352352
DEM WEBBED HANDS FAP FAP FAP (totally worksafe, but felicia is also in it...so, you know)
but i was trying to use lei lei/hsen whatever, not jiving for me. then i attempted bishaman for like 20 seconds, while the ai kicks my ass with him, he...no, don't like it sir. lillith/morrigan, "i have a fireball with the range shorter than a normal poke" "i have a dragon punch", nah. q-bee, might go back to her, pretty fun. didn't really try anybody else, there was a robot but i couldn't find him on the roster...because he's on the console port of the first vs game, and i remember him from playing vs2. and anakaris was a character i enjoyed the look of...but his game is keep the fuck away, and i play that role rather poorly, not a character for me. so yeah, i can see this being fun in a multiplayer setting with people that aren't random joes.
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http://www.kongregate.com/games/IcyLime/multitask
Best score so far: 183
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I need a new controller bad, next time I get any cash I'm buying one.
Leaning towards a PS3 one, but I'm not sure if I have the right USB (I heard it has a mini USB?) input for it.
Also I'm working on getting GGPO working, so hopefully we can get sum s.net fights in.
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if by controller you mean stick...
both my hori and madcatz sticks have a normal usb to plug into stuff.
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No sticks, I ain't no homo.
Also super metroid is DONE. Damn good game, found about 77% of the items and got the ending with Samus giving me a thumbs up and then shooting me. Also the Metroid hatchling died for out sins.
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Lol, yeah, that game is absolutely fantastic. I've never enjoyed another Metroid the way I have enjoyed Super Metroid. The amount of hidden secrets, backtracking, and confusing sections really make you think. Plus, the atmosphere is amazing. I think I love the music in that game more than any other game soundtrack (though not by much).
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Yeah, the other games seem a lot more linear (I can see why people dislike them more). Also yeah, the music is amazing. Love them Prime remixes in the magmoor caverns.
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so a friend of mine came over, and i wanted to test my hori on the pc (as i remembered, works fine) so we played some fightans on the ggpo thinger.
trying it out alone, i didn't like jojo's bizarre adventure. playing with a bro, i started enjoying it, even though i didn't really know much more than the general motion moves, and ex like supers. i recalled hearing the game was good, i had bad first impressions (maby it was because i tried d'bo) but messing around with other dudes like say joseph, pretty good times. i have had bad impressions with the 4 button 2d fighters ive played (blazblue, mvc2) but i wouldn't mind playing more jojo's.
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Jojo's is fairly simple, I'm assuming it's so well liked because of the mass character diversity and the fact that it's a crazy game.
Also I'm thoroughly enjoying DMC4. I remember liking the gauntlets in DMC3 but never really using them much, but in this game I'm using them more then the sword. That and I can hardly see why people would bitch about the back tracking, what with each area having changed decently and adding new enemies.
I'm finding Dante to almost have too many moves/abilities. I use swordsman like 90% of the time then switch to trickster for stronger enemies and basically never use guards men or gunslinger ever. Guard seems useful but fucking HARD to use right.
Also Lucifer seems fucking great for getting high combo rankings.
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i have had bad impressions with the 4 button 2d fighters ive played
What seems to be the problem with them?
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to be blunt, i don't like them. im not even going to tldr.
blazblue, i mained tager, nuff said.
mvc2. dude when i watch people play that game, i don't understand it. now translate that into me playing it, yeah, no.
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i uhh...that alt costume for ken is what you call in my neck of the woods, fucking awesome. if you see me playing as ken online, slap me. if you see me playing as ken online in that alt costume, YEE HAW PARDNER!
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I've never liked mvc2 that much either. But I love the guiltygear games.The only problem I've got playing it on ps2 is that since the timing is as strict as it is for the directional movements, my thumb gets fucked, lol.
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GG is a 5 button fighter, as is BlazBlue (I think...).
i uhh...that alt costume for ken is what you call in my neck of the woods, fucking awesome. if you see me playing as ken online, slap me. if you see me playing as ken online in that alt costume, YEE HAW PARDNER!
More like mad gay.
Ken:"Hey Ryu, can I have a kiss?"
Ryu: "SHORYUKEN!".
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GG is a 5 button fighter, as is BlazBlue (I think...).
Lol, true, there is Dust. But really, it's more like a 4 button + 1
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i own the collectors edition of blazblue. it is a 4 button fighter using "a, b, c, and d" attacks.
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Ah, thanks. I couldn't be arsed into starting
Lol, true, there is Dust. But really, it's more like a 4 button + 1
Kind of, it is really hard to mix dust well into my normal game play. Tho I do use it for a Slayer combo and when I play Robo I use it fucking constantly (THROWIN DEM ELECTRICITY MATS AND DAT BIKE PROPELLER).
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I only use it when I think I can get away with it then air combo the fuck out of the opponent.
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so i was watching the giant bomb XBOXALYPSE basically playing the original xbox live as it was going down, kind of got me in the mood to play some games.
halo 3
borderlands (yeah wut)
some racing game
something online that isn't call of duty
50 cent blood on the sand
final fight double impact
blur demo
so, you know, yeah. might be posting about some game in a while. though, money spendage on game will wait since ill be spending even more money on the stick on friday. try and ween myself away from doing nothing in the internet to playing more vidya.
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I fucking hate Stantler. He gets in the way every time I'm looking for a specific Pokemon.
The first time was in the Pokewalker. I'd gotten enough steps to get a Castform or a Kecleon in the Treehouse route, so I used the Pokeradar to find one. Who do I find? Stantler. I try again. Stantler. Again. Stantler. Again. Stantler. Again. Fucking Stantler. I eventually got a Castform, then I had to retry the walk to get a Kecleon (the walker keeps the steps counted, so all I needed to do was take a Pokemon out and put it back in). So I get enough W to use the Pokeradar a few times. First time, Stantler. Second, Stantler. Third, Stantler. Fourth, Stantler. I had enough W for 12 tries. ALL OF THEM WERE STANTLER.
Then there was the Safari Zone. I had the objects there so I could find a Surskit in the plains area. Who do I run in to 13 times in a row? Stantler. Then I found a Surskit and it ran. Then I ran into 10 more Stantler. Then a Girafarig. Then 4 Stantler. Then I gave up and tried again the next day.
Now there's today. I'm trying to catch two of the legendary beasts, Raikou and Entei, who always run around the map. I got Raikou on the route I was on, so I go into the grass and GUESS WHO'S FUCKING THERE INSTEAD OF RAIKOU?
I swear, Stantler has something against me catching stuff.
EDIT: Ok, Raikou is a cheating bastard. Wobbuffet has an ability that keeps the foe from being able to escape. I ran into Raikou with someone else in the lead. I switched to Wobbuffet, and Raikou defied Wobbuffet's ability and fled. What the fuck.
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Welp, DMC4 is done. I must say, most of the bosses were fairly boring with fairly little variation in there attacks, but it was a fun game overall. The Dante fight was by far the hardest and the most fun, the Credo and bug guy fights were also good but a bit lacking and everything else was basically okay or mediocre. The final boss was just a complete let down, he probably was one of the easiest and the most boring out of everyone.
Overall a great game, not as good as 3 but still damn awesome and definitely better in the variety aspect.
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I wanted to start playing Age of Empires 2 again, but every time I start a random map, I instantly win 5 minutes later before I even do anything. I've scoured the settings and I can't figure out why. Any ideas?
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Welp, DMC4 is done. I must say, most of the bosses were fairly boring with fairly little variation in there attacks, but it was a fun game overall. The Dante fight was by far the hardest and the most fun, the Credo and bug guy fights were also good but a bit lacking and everything else was basically okay or mediocre. The final boss was just a complete let down, he probably was one of the easiest and the most boring out of everyone.
Overall a great game, not as good as 3 but still damn awesome and definitely better in the variety aspect.
What difficulty did you play it on? The bosses get more variation to what they do at higher difficulties.
Also, I have been playing Pokemon HeartGold. I've almost got my team figured out. I also have a shiny Umbreon.
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What difficulty did you play it on? The bosses get more variation to what they do at higher difficulties.
Devil Hunter (which I'm assuming is normal?). It was the highest difficulty I could play. I was sad tho, when you beat 3 on normal a message at the end pops up and says "Don't you hate being considered normal?" but when you beat 4 at the end it says "YOU'RE NO CASUAL GAMER AREN'T YOU".
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i blow at racing games that aren't diddy kong racing and star wars episode 1 racer, so this is a feat for me. first first place all night.
pretty fun game. i wouldn't get it at full price, but that isn't to knock it's quality. i mean what was the last racing game i bought? I LITERALLY DO NOT REMEMBER, so the fact that i would eventually buy this game says you need to fucking try it.
it's like mario kart meets burnout, only the powerups are really only bullshit when you get gangbanged by them. even then, you don't lose too much speed unless you total the car or something, so getting hit by a "red turtle shell" or something just slows you down a little bit, and even then you can dodge it at the last second if you are good, shoot it down as it approaches, or shockwave the motherfucker.
my quick opinion on the powerups to give me something to type.
barge (i call it shockwave) is like good to have all the time.
only nab the repair when you need it (though it doesn't hurt to be careful, having two shockwaves is nice for that fucker with two shunts)
don't fire the shunt (red turtle shell) all willy nilly, it has homing yes, but you should try to be in a good range for it to not give them much time to react
the 3 missiles (3 green turtle shells) is a bit odd. seems a bit too situational to take over a more important powerup. could be good for knocking out shunts (i think), and finishing off low health players.
shield is good. yeah you can absorb attacks with it, but i don't use it for that, shockwave takes care of the shunts, shield is good for corners. tight turn ahead? use the shield and slam into that wall without losing much speed.
mine. well it's a mine, you know how to use these, put them in tight spaces or behind powerups.
nitro...not much to say here, you go faster.
"shock" plants three lightning bolts in front of the first place player, but if he avoids it, it stays on the track for a while. it's not a bullshit move, you can dodge these pretty easily, and it doesn't slow you down too bad. when there's like...9 of them out at the same time and you have other racers around you...HAVE FUN!
though sometimes the powerups "cough" fucking up your place at the last second "cough" get a little annoying. but i can say it's done pretty well in this game. plus the whole "modern warfare leveling up applied to a racing game" is alright, im a fan of that model. say you aren't doing so good, don't compete for first, just compete for something obtainable, and if you lose, you got some fans (exp) out of the deal. that's what i do anyway, sometimes it's more fun not winning because being in the middle of the pack is where all the action is.
tldr, as a person who hasn't enjoyed mario kart since the snes game, i can say i enjoy this.
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i got another first place...on tokyo. i guess i know tokyo pretty well because every race people vote on more goddamn tokyo. though none of the tracks bother me, i would like to play something other than tokyo or barcelona. it's literally like you go to tokyo, then barcelona, then tokyo, then barcelona. there's like two other good tracks in there nobody is voting on.
and uhh i am kind of considering getting this motherfucker, the more i play the more i like.
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I just played a little bit of God of War 3, and I just realized how badly the game is retconned after the first game. In the first game the only god you actually see is Ares, and he's always a giant human with a fire beard and all that crazy stuff. Yet in GOW3 everyone looks like a human and is shockingly easy to kill considering all the shit you go through in the first game.
The consistency between the first and second game alone is pretty laughable considering at the end of the first game it says he stays the god of war for the rest of time...
Edit for RAGE.
Fucking Megaman X went from easy to "OH GOD WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING WRONG HERE". Sigma's second and third forms are insane, all he does in his second form is jump around like a faggot making it one of the harder to dodge attacks in the game.
I might HAVE to get the hadouken armor.
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Well, megaman x is done. Used hadouken armor to beat Sigma's first two forms in one hit, which was sort of cheap, but fuck it. Still had to use all of my e-tanks on his final form.
but yeah, fucking great game, wish I played it when I first had the chance too.
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I remember one year just after it came out, I wanted it for Christmas. I got it. And played the fuck out of it (though there was no way I was able to beat it back then. I still have a hell of a time now.
Still, I did actually own the original cartridge... Until I decided to hock my SNES games because my SNES was broken for years. :/ I really regret that.
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i took out ye ole sonics ultimate genesis collection and played some game on there. played the arcade version of shinobi for about an hour. i made it to level 3 in that time, game is balls hard.
but having unlimited tries makes this a game i might eventually complete. fun as hell, just damn, damn hard. it's one hit, and BACK TO THE BEGINNING OF THE LEVEL, yep. think i like it over shinobi 3, seriously.
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I used to be able to no miss (that is, never get touched) in MMX. This was back in the day when I got literally one game per year. And I didn't even get that one. My cousin got it as a birthday present and I was over there all the time so we took turns playing it. We actually found the Hadoken on our own.
I probably can't no miss any of the other games but I can definitely do a 1cc for most of the X series. X3 is a huge pain for some reason and parts of X6 are just ridiculous.
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... Until I decided to hock my SNES games because my SNES was broken for years. :/ I really regret that.
Meh, I can see why you would sell them. This just makes me really want to find a buy the megaman and megaman X collections that came out.
but having unlimited tries makes this a game i might eventually complete. fun as hell, just damn, damn hard. it's one hit, and BACK TO THE BEGINNING OF THE LEVEL, yep. think i like it over shinobi 3, seriously.
No shit? I love Revenge of Shinobi, so this sounds good.
I used to be able to no miss (that is, never get touched) in MMX. This was back in the day when I got literally one game per year. And I didn't even get that one. My cousin got it as a birthday present and I was over there all the time so we took turns playing it. We actually found the Hadoken on our own.
I figured it would be borderline impossible to find that armor without prior knowledge, which is crazy. The game is fairly easy for a megaman game, but not getting hit on the home stretch and Sigma fights would be borderline retarded hard (unless you hadoukened, but even then fuck that noise).
Also someone gifted me Deus Ex during the sale and I've started that. I'm definitely liking this more then System Shock, but the shooting still feels very clunky and the enemy AI seems goofy as all hell, that and I hear it's a damn long game. Somehow I'm still enjoying it.
Also yeah, I'm at Fourside in EarthBound, how much longer is this game?
and ONE MORE THING. Anyone here play beat hazard?
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Man you are like nowhere in Earthbound haha. Fourside, Moonside, Summers, Winters, back to Threed, that one desert town that I can't remember the name of, the Museum and Sewers, Saturn Valley in there a few times, Deep Darkness, Magicant and more still to come! Still the best game ever made, bar none. I pray that developers get smart and start using that game's idea to have enemies that actually avoid you when you get too strong for them and die instantly without a battle when you touch them. And the rolling HP bar that lets you save yourself even from mortal wounds.
You can't hit Sigma's final form with a Hadoken anyway. It just bounces off of him. His sword form is super easy.
Here's a video of someone doing it with just the X-buster and using the cheap method for his final form!
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Also yeah, I'm at Fourside in EarthBound, how much longer is this game?
Simple answer: A Lot.
Like Eggman said, you are practically nowhere, lol.
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Looks like I'm playing Earthbound and Deus Ex for a while then. I'll probably start with the next Megaman Zero game (I'd recommend it Eggman, assuming you haven't played it).
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so save for street fighter, and netflix (which i haven't really used in a month), the only thing i have turned the 360 on for was ffxiii grinding. well, i just maxed out every character, the drive to do anything else at the moment is done, i have had my fill of that game.
now time to do what i have been meaning to do, and haven't had the time and had the time but used it to do other things, the new the most recent mass effect 2 dlc. so glad i got the 60gig HDD because the firewalker/kasumi dlc is about 1 gig. 1gig was a lot of real estate on my old tiny hdd. anywho, ill talk about it when it's downloaded and i played it.
BUYING the dlc which cost 560 points was really convenient. i had 160 points laying around, the new point buying system lets me buy in smaller chunks, plop $4.99 on 400 points, bam there i am.
last point, i bought deus ex 1 and 2 for a combined total of $5.00 on steam, impulse buy, but if i want to play deus ex, i don't need to hunt down the dvd anymore.
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did the kasumi mission and 2 firewalker missions.
kasumi mission was neat. better than the zaeed mission, though you didn't pay extra for the zaeed mission. ill try and break it down. first half of the mission is a more social/explorey type thing which is done pretty well, and the second half is your typical SHOOT YOUR WAY OUT ending. you get a new smg out of the thing, your obvious kasumi loyalty, and the formal wear you had on in the first half of the mission becomes casual wear for the normandy. so i have this neat black dress thing to run around in rather than the other bland civilian clothes you can choose from.
firewalker, well you have this hovercraft thing which can jump HELLA high, and it shoots rockets. basically run around these levels finding "data" (points where you hold the y button to progress the mission). only did two of the missions, pretty sure i have three left. for what it is, free dlc, i think it's a nice addition to the game. i mean it's fun content which is different from anything else in the game, can't really complain there.
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Hey in FFXIII if someones magic power goes up, does that make the amount of HP a spell like Cura or Esuna replenishes higher?
IE: Vanilles magic is say 190 and Cure does 150. If her magic was higher, like 250, would Cure do 200 or whatever?
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I'm full of rage after playing Deus Ex. It's probably because I'm at the start of the game, but literally ALL GUNS are useless unless I can the ability to sit still and actually AIM ON THEM to get my accuracy just right to shoot. It's so goddamn dumb it's mind numbing, the only reason I've made it into the NSF base is because the AI in this game is fucking retarded.
I hardly see how people can bitch about STALKER when Deus Ex exists.
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Replaying Pokemon Sapphire. I decided to challenge myself this time around by doing some things I never do.
1) I picked Torchic as my starter. I always go with either Mudkip or Treeko, depending on whether I want type coverage or speed. I've never picked Torchic unless I immediately traded it to another game.
2) I used more than 4 battlers in the main game. Usually I have my starter, catch 2 or 3 other Pokemon to train and fight, and then the rest is occupied by HM whores. This time, I've got 5 battlers and one HM whore.
3) I specialized in a certain element. I always have a pretty good mix in my team, but this time I decided to specialize in flying types. Aside from the Torchic line and a Marill HM whore, I have Skarmory, Swellow, Tropius, and Pelipper on my team, the latter two I've never used for any sort of battling.
4) I didn't catch Kyogre when I had the chance to. In Sapphire, once you have Kyogre, you can teach it Thunder and Surf while keeping Ice Beam and Calm Mind on it and it'll take out anything from the 8th gym all the way through the Elite Four and Champion with little effort. Now I have to actually train my team.
I like this, though. The game is fun again because I'm not just going through the motions like I usually do.
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3 hours of sleep, got super street fighter 4, 9 hours played today.
haven't been playing online, just trying to learn inexperienced friends the game, but i have been hella enjoying...
gen
yeah, wut? after pissing around with him for a while, he seems a bit less intimidating. it will take me probably a rather long time to find a main (100 hours in vanilla sf4, no main) but i am open to liking more things this time around. not to mention learning the intricacies of the game engine itself rather than trying to play it like sf2, that is the reason i blow utter ass at sf4. too much time "LOL TICK SPD" in sf2, not enough time trying to learn combos and whatnot. going to put forth an effort to learning this game this time around.
also ibuki has a dictionaries worth of target combos, jesus christ. but like i am going to make an effort to learning ibuki. i need to get a "skill" character down, it would help my execution greatly.
as for gen, i need to level up a bit before i want to take using him seriously. so like ibuki will be my alt, but i need a main dude i can rely on. i like bison, but i hate doing his bnb, so...i shouldn't main him, and i need to stop using him. i generally enjoy chun, but i don't enjoy her defensivey playstyle due to her low health. i might have to go back to checking out honda. yeah he's defensive, but the man is a god damn brick house, and doing his lp xx hands is really fun, and his normals hit like a truck. im not going to say "well he's my man" because hurp durp no main in the 100 hours of sf4 i played, but honda will be a start. while investigating that, i have to put in more time with the new characters, never know who i may enjoy.
typing this shenanigans is me thinking out loud. more tldr's to come. and if any of y'all get super for the 360, hit me up, i need fightan bros.
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fuck everything i say, bison bison bison bison bison bison bison.
(http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/4976/1272275483872.jpg)
priority, bison, then anybody else afterwords.
*EDRDEF*
20 hours of ssfiv played...uhh...this game is fun? yeah, it's fun. got into some /v/ fightan irc thinger and i was playing a few people for like...7 hours or something. i have never played a fighting game for that long in one session before.
what i gained from that? i like bison again, starting to get in the groove of his c lk xx lk knee press. then i played a lot of gen. would you guess i lost a lot using gen? because i did. i don't understand how gen can be successful, but i know how to play him more today than i did yesterday.
*why twitter when i can edit!*
so i think i have a basic bison game going for me right now, which is fine, because from that i can refine what i know. my clk xx lk siscor is getting better, starting to get the hang of using different strength siscor kicks for different ranges (ie, heavy kick is unsafe on block unless far enough away to only get one hit). also dicking around in training mode, j mp to st rh is pretty decent. though im not too sure how good jmp is at an anti air...and like if i did land that jmp, i would rather ultra than st rh.
then there's ibuki and gen. still working on em, though gen more than ibuki by about 90%.
(http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/843/genqq.jpg)
gen mantis u2 blows, but crane u2 is pretty damn good. i think im going to have to play with u1 and learn how to use crane u1. y'see, for what i know thus far...mantis u1 can be comboed into with super, and does damage. mantis u2 can only be comboed into super with certain big characters (hakan, gief, hawk, maby sagat), and does 0 damage (all focus damage, ie if they run away, which they will, and i fail to land an attack, it will have done nothing). crane u1 = anti air, kind of like the crane super but better. crane u2 = fuck awesome, can be used as an anti air but can also hit ground.
yadda yadda, i think u1 might be better but crane u2 is just too fun to use and watch.
*EDIDr*
yeah fuck gen. im going to put learning him on hold until the gen community re learns how to use this guy.
next non bison character i will focus on will be ibuki.
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Can't quote on my phone, but RE: pokemans. Eggman, I'll battle you in HG/SS. Annon, you've never used Tropius for a reason, it's because his base stats are awful and his movepool is AT BEST average.
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Oh yeah, I wouldn't use him in meta, I know he doesn't measure up to pretty much any other grass type with the Chlorophyll ability. I still like him, though. Same reason I pick Gardevoir over Alakazam. Or lower tiers over higher ones, for that matter.
Also, going through Sapphire again, this time with an all-Grass team. It's possible to distribute all 8 HMs of the 3rd gen into Sapphire's Grass types and I like trying different things in this game.
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Just got super street fighter 4
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I decided that I'm going to get the platinum trophy on Final Fantasy 13. I like the game enough and it actually doesn't take THAT long to get Treasure Hunter. In fact, I got all of the accessories in the last four hours. Probably take another four hours to get the rest of the weapons and then it's just L'Cie Paragon, which should be pretty fun to get. So maybe another 6 or 7 hours total to finish up the game. It'll be my first (and probably only for a really long time) platinum trophy.
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I really want to try and finish FF13.
I just got to Grand Pulse after playing 20-some hours, but then I got GTA 4 and played that for close to 40 hours. I was going to go back to FF13, but The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony came out on PS3, which I just couldn't refuse to play. I finished The Lost and Damned (didn't really bother with side missions; hated the races) and am playing Gay Tony with around 50% completion atm. I have to convince myself to play FF13, because although I like to say I've had fun with it so far, it just seems SO BORING, looking back. Hell, I often think of saying "fuck it" and playing Atelier Rorona instead.
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I don't know why it'd be hard to get back into it. The whole game is paced unbelievably well.
I just need to finish upgrading Vanille and Fang's weapons and I'll have Treasure Hunter hooray. Exciting. Everyone has their ultimate weapons too. And then after this, I start at the hardest mission and work my way back down for getting 5 stars on them.
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Just got super street fighter 4
if you are ever on when i am on (ME = LATEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE) ima have to hit you up nig. trying to work on more of a variety of characters rather than just a set few. though, having one character being the "main" focus.
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Are the Third Strike charecters in SSF4 as awesome as they seem?
but yeah, I've been trying to install and beat a few of the games I have on my harddrive and I've so far have gotten through a decent chunck of Hitman Blood Money. I REALLY wish I stuck with this game when I saw my friend playing it on the PS2 forever ago, because I'm loving it now.
Also I've finally got hooked onto EarthBound, I'm just past Deep Darkness and I'm under stonehenge now. Those goddamn Super Starnen and those refilling robots are a bitch and a half. I've had one heal a super starman twice, killed it, only to have the super starman revive the fucking thing. Maybe it's just me, but this game seems harder then the average RPG, but there's no need and almost no way to grind levels.
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You can find Criminal Caterpillars just outside Scaraba. You don't have to fight them and they give a ton of experience. They'll look like little worms that try to run away from you. You can just walk in and out of the city until one shows up near the gate.
The game gets harder depending on the mood of the story though. When it's more lighthearted, it's easier. When you enter an unknown or oddly foreign place, it gets harder. It's all on purpose.
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Yeah, I was running into them in the desert between Threed and Fourside and I got a few.
Also I know what you mean now, but it's hard to tell what with old scary enemies now becoming weak due to leveling.
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Yeah, that game is an absolute marvel of story telling. And yes, it does get pretty damn difficult at times, lol. But they managed to make it so that despite how hard it got, it rarely ever got to the point where you want to hit something.
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Are the Third Strike charecters in SSF4 as awesome as they seem?
by what do you mean as awesome as they seem?
i think it's a matter of personal preference. i mean, i don't like dudley or makoto, but i enjoy ibuki.
but i mean if you are saying "i really enjoy x character from this previous street fighter game" you may be disappointed. i really liked dee jay and zangief in street fighter 2, im not much a fan of either of them in street fighter 4. on the flip side, i really enjoy sf4 bison, and i didn't enjoy sf2 bison. what i am saying is you may end up enjoying a character you didn't intend on enjoying.
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I always tried a variety of characters. Hate hate hate hate using blanka and El Fuerte but oh well.
Need tips for a beginner like fuck
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Makoto has a ton of damage potential but she has an extremely hard time getting in. I see characters like Bison, Akuma, Dhalsim, Sagat, and Seth just destroying her because of it. And she doesn't have the life to be able to keep up that high risk play style. Her play style sort of needed parries to be able to continuously advance to keep her in the fight.
Dudley is a bit different from 3S but he's still a beast. J. Roundhouse into whatever to EX machinegun blow to jab machinegun blow to ultra 2 is easy to do and does tons of damage. You can hit with jab jet upper into a fierce jet upper. Cross counter creates massive wakeup games. And he has very high stamina.
Ibuki has a ton of combos and some great possible keep-away tactics. Great all-around character.
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I always tried a variety of characters. Hate hate hate hate using blanka and El Fuerte but oh well.
Need tips for a beginner like fuck
if you want to get better, find a character you enjoy (may take a while) and stick with it.
hard to get better when you jump from character to character without really improving a whole lot on each character.
http://www.eventhubs.com/guides/2008/jul/08/street-fighter-4-strategy-guide-hints-and-tips/
random information available, not all of the info is up to date with ssfiv, but it's still helpful.
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if you want to get better, find a character you enjoy (may take a while) and stick with it.
hard to get better when you jump from character to character without really improving a whole lot on each character.
Quoting for truth. At least find one that you like and try and get down some combos and some of the deeper game mechanics along with getting used to the game engine. After I learned Faust and Robo well enough in GG it was fairly easy for me to pick up May.
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Finished getting the platinum trophy in Final Fantasy XIII. It's probably in my top 5 of the series. Took 105 hours total.
And for the record, my top FF games are:
1. Final Fantasy VI
2. Final Fantasy Tactics
3. Final Fantasy VIII
4. Final Fantasy IV
5. Final Fantasy XIII
6. Final Fantasy IX
7. Final Fantasy V
8. Final Fantasy XII
9. Final Fantasy VII
10. Final Fantasy X/X-2
11. Final Fantasy III
12. Final Fantasy I
13. Final Fantasy II
14. Final Fantasy XI (just because it's an MMO and I don't play them)
I'm really looking forward to FF Versus XIII, which is supposed to be more of an action game (the Kingdom Hearts team is working on it) with a very serious tone to the whole game. It retains the XIII title part because it contains some of the same overall themes, like an oppressive god-like force presiding over the world.
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Finished Ballad of Gay Tony, ~16 hours, didn't bother with half the side quests.
FFXIII, ~25 hours in, Gran Pulse
and, uhh, out of the ones I've played...
1. Final Fantasy 6
2. Final Fantasy 5
3. Final Fantasy 7
4. Final Fantasy 4
5. Final Fantasy 9
6. Final Fantasy 10
7. Final Fantasy 2
8. Final Fantasy 3
9. Final Fantasy 13 (may/may not move up when I finish)
10. Final Fantasy 8
11. Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest
12. Final Fantasy
Next On My List:
Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction, Wild Arms 3, NeoContra, and plan to get Record of Agarest War before the limited edition starts selling for over $60. Also, I'm making myself wet thinking of the U.S. release of DeathSmiles.
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Man I really need to play 6 then.
Also it takes far too long to unlock the secondary silencer in Blood money.
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want a browser based grindan game to kill time?
http://babarageo.com/flash/ginormo/
ginormo sword
mouse to move, click to sword, kill shit to get money to upgrade sword to eventually bigger than the damn screen you are on.
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So I bought the indie bundle (god I hope I have cash on my debit card) and I'm installing Penumbra and world of goo now. That furry game also looks laughably bad.
Also I WAS stuck in Earthbound for a while on the Starman DX, then I realized I had a shield move that blocked all psychic attacks and an item that destroys shields and I took him down easily(he didn't even throw out Starstorm once, which sort of pisses me off).
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tried playing san andreas for like 10 minutes.
i can't play it.
did not age well unfortunately. which sucks, because it's probably the best gta game. getting killed quickly + long load times + redoing entire damn mission...ehh...i would rather spend my time playing something else.
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Yeah, I have a feeling that would annoy me most about GTA. The whole variety of what's there and how stupidly hard some things can be just seems meh overall. That and I've never liked the shooting or driving missions all that much, I'm assuming the real reason people play GTA is because of the whole theme of the game and the "YOU CAN DO ANYTHING" aspect.
but yeah, I'm getting addicted to Killing Floor. The game on hard just hits such a nice spot between "if you're not careful you will die" and "you don't need everyone on a mic in vent to stand a chance". Plus the Patriarch fights are stupidly fun for some reason. I guess the whole hit and run thing he does with the fact that he can kill you in one to two shots or a well placed rocket makes it a ton of fun.
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want a browser based grindan game to kill time?
http://babarageo.com/flash/ginormo/
ginormo sword
mouse to move, click to sword, kill shit to get money to upgrade sword to eventually bigger than the damn screen you are on.
There went my fucking night. And probably most of the next week, too.
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Yeah, I've had that game in a browser window running since I first read his post. Some of the later bosses get damn hard.
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Fucking world of goo tower of goo level makes me want to eat my hands.
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Yeah, I'm stuck on the false god, gotta grind more. Level 1000+ sword is not enough, apparently :<!
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Jesus Christ, how long did that take you?
Also I got to play a bit of Monster Hunter Tri at a friends house and it seems fairly awesome. Lance seemed awesome (great range, awesome shield) so did the sword and shield and the switch axe. I'll probably pick up this game and get into it. I'm still somewhat unsure, a lot of the side stuff seems like filler for the boss/big monster fights.
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Yeah, I'm stuck on the false god, gotta grind more. Level 1000+ sword is not enough, apparently :<!
Damn, I'm not that far. I do have the energy sword, but I'm still grinding for stats. My strength is like, 250ish, and my sword (the katana, lol) is like, lv 300ish, maybe 350 or 400 at most.
I found a golden knight, but wasn't able to do jack for damage to it, so I couldn't kill it.
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It only took me like, 6 hours to get to the False God. I've spent like another 12 grinding to kill it and the Avatar though >:(
I made the stupid mistake of not pumping my stats much and going for all weapon levels though, so a level 1000 sword with only like 300-400 stats is kind of underwhelming. And apparently you can't really kill Golden Knights until you've got bullshit-high stats, since they have so much fucking HP. Dread Lords (The tier 3 living armor mob) still take me like 3-5 minutes, and I'm pretty sure they have like a fifth or less of the HP of the Golden Knight. :|
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Fucking Earthbound. I made a ton of progress just to lose a good chunk of it. I went from in the cave with the fire people, to being at the middle of the Jurassic area with that talking rock.
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It only took me like, 6 hours to get to the False God. I've spent like another 12 grinding to kill it and the Avatar though >:(
I made the stupid mistake of not pumping my stats much and going for all weapon levels though, so a level 1000 sword with only like 300-400 stats is kind of underwhelming. And apparently you can't really kill Golden Knights until you've got bullshit-high stats, since they have so much fucking HP. Dread Lords (The tier 3 living armor mob) still take me like 3-5 minutes, and I'm pretty sure they have like a fifth or less of the HP of the Golden Knight. :|
I've got about 1k strength, and 1k sword.... Haven't had a Golden Knight recently, but I'm still having some trouble with a couple other mobs with bullshit high health. I think I've got about 300ish int, and 150ish luck, lol. My stats are extremely strength focused.... Then again, My armor is level 9, and I've got the buckler that prevents counter damage (which, by the way, is damage you take when your attacking. If you don't have it, and get hit while attacking, you take bullshit huge damage.)
I'm grinding like mad right now.
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i made it to death and stopped, still was pretty fun while i played it.
but inbetween getting my ass kicked in ssfiv, and getting banned from /v/, ive been playing shining force 2 on my "sonics ultimate genesis collection". i am going to beat this fucker. ive made it pretty far (past where you get frayja) TWICE, but emulated on old pc's...which hdd's died and thus the save data with it. this time, that is a nonissue.
http://sf2.shiningforcecentral.com/pages/mainguide_walkthrough_part2.html
currently in battle 24, going to try and grind all of my characters to an effective level 7 (ie, the two non promoted people will be level 27). i don't need to do this, but im one of those people who enjoys having his dudes grinded up, but nothing TOO silly. when people stop giving decent xp (fairly quick in this game) i stop. basically making up for powering through the last two fights not spending time leveling properly.
surprised i am using the birdman luke as much as i am. he is a shit character, but compared to rick(could be good if i worked on him, but im not), kiwi(AWESOME AWESOME DEFENSE, but he dies if he eats anything related to magic since he has like 2 hitpoints), janet(slow, weak unless powerleveled), he's ok. plus he can fly so at least he's mobile.
main character gets the attack and hp permanent stat increase items. think i may have given him the defense items as well, but i forgot. he's the most powerful character i have BY FAR, which is fine. the thing is if he dies, you lose. if anybody else dies, you can revive them after the battle. so y'see, making him a MOTHERFUCKIN STEAM TRAIN OF RAPE is a pretty good idea in my opinion. i run him in the middle of anything and im not afraid to lose him. i actually prefer to use him against the heavy hitting "lol i kill u" enemies, since his hp, attack, and defense is just obscene.
believe it or not though, he's not the best character, actually quite a good number of characters turn into monsters of destruction later on. pretty sure it's unanimous that peter is typically the best character. highest hp, auto revives after battles (he's literally a phoenix (http://sf2.shiningforcecentral.com/pages/characters/peter.html)), he can fly, high attack, half damage from fire, ect.
but im not going to talk about everybody, just wanted to splurge on about the game a bit since i haven't heard anybody mention anything of this game. kind of fits what ive wanted to play to be honest. "old game i know is good, aged well for me, i haven't yet beaten it"
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I am FULL of rage now.
World of Goo. It was fairly addicting at the start, then you get to the "Tower of goo" level and all you do is stack goo up in a tower and pray that it doesn't fall over before you hit the suction pipe at the top. It's just fucking dumb and a huge pain in the ass.
Penumbra. I have to open this gate with a dog at the other side, and the dog is fucking invincible. I can throw things at the dog to stun (I thought wound, but no) it but it doesn't seem to do a ton of good. Hell, even half the time I throw shit at it it doesn't seem to give a fuck. I once nailed it in the face while it was running full speed at me and the propane tank just bounced off his face and rolled away. Then I figured I'd hit a tank until it exploded, I did just that and the dog was hit by it, then he was getting up and the other tank exploded and knocked him down, and that still didn't kill him. I ran to the next area and there was another (maybe the same?) dog. Shit's annoying.
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Apparently, you can kill those dogs, but it just takes an inordinate amount of time. If you have the pick-axe (I think this is the strongest melee weapon?) I think there are some boxes you can stand on, and just whack at them from safety, and eventually they'll die, although I think they respawn. You're not supposed to kill them afaik though.
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Suppose I'll just try and run away then.
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desktop dungeons
http://www.qcfdesign.com/?cat=20
fuck these good super small size (this is a download of about 2 megs, ginormo sword is like instant load) addictive little rpg things.
this little mini roguelike rpg is more fun than ive had in my attempts of playing a real roguelike. nethack confuses the piss out of me, and stone soup although a little easier to grasp, still way hard.
this game is pretty tits. it's one screen, should take about 10-20 minutes to complete/realize you fucked up and can't win. only completed it with a human fighter so far. you start out with 4 classes, you can unlock an additional 8. beat the game with the fighter, unlock the berserker, beat the game with the berserker to unlock whatever that is. same with the other classes.
*inserted edit*
ontop of those additional 8 there's 6 secret classes also to unlock. making 18 classes in the game...
so, you want another fast to obtain, free, addictive, spend as much or as little time with it as you wish time killer? give it a shot. not sure i know where i found ginormo sword, but im pretty sure i remember bookmarking desktop dungeons months ago from /tg/, didn't really check it out till around 30 minutes ago.
that and i may get red dead redemption when i wake up, if the local walmart doesn't have it, i may or may not check gamestop in the next town. depends on if i feel like it or not.
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Started playing through LURK on SoC. Very, very impressed with the visuals so far, the game looks really, really nice. The new weapons are cool too, there's a lot of them, and unlike OL, they're not unique so I don't feel like a schmuck for not using them. The 35kg weight limit is a mixed blessing though. It makes the game more survival-horroresque, which is fun, but I can only use two weapons at a time, which is a buzzkill. Oh well, it's more realistic.
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I really didn't like LURK. Shit was a pain and the shotguns were very goofy. The weight limit means you can hold like one gun and a pistol with hardly any ammo for each. There's a file that tweaks a few things, but it makes like every assault rifle very spray and pray friendly.
Also how do I get to the musical place in Fourside in earth bound? I'm missing that one and the one right after that on my sound stone...
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Got Red Dead Redemption today. Playthrough shall begin later in the evening.
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I really didn't like LURK. Shit was a pain and the shotguns were very goofy. The weight limit means you can hold like one gun and a pistol with hardly any ammo for each. There's a file that tweaks a few things, but it makes like every assault rifle very spray and pray friendly.
Also how do I get to the musical place in Fourside in earth bound? I'm missing that one and the one right after that on my sound stone...
Very likely the museum in Fourside. I believe you end up in the sewers and then you fight the Plague Rat of Doom. And then the other might be the one in Dalaam's caves. You need one of the erasers to get into there.
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Very likely the museum in Fourside. I believe you end up in the sewers and then you fight the Plague Rat of Doom. And then the other might be the one in Dalaam's caves. You need one of the erasers to get into there.
Man, it feels like you known that game way better than anyone has a right to, lol.
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Very likely the museum in Fourside. I believe you end up in the sewers and then you fight the Plague Rat of Doom. And then the other might be the one in Dalaam's caves. You need one of the erasers to get into there.
Wow that sounds exactly like what I need, thanks a ton.
Also I feel semi retarded for missing the one in happy happy village.
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so i got red dead redemption.
now while it is quite good, im not going to talk about it.
the random events in this game piss me the hell off. for some goddamn reason i accidentally "fail and commit a crime" when i try helping people.
"MY WIFE HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED"
follow guy, shoot criminals, wife dies when i am stuck behind a rock for some reason
somehow that caused me to commit a crime, it's not something i am doing in this game, so that caused me to reload my damn save.
this has happened multiple times, i now refuse to fucking help any random asshole who asks me to help them. or even like two fuckers chasing a guy while shooting. to me, that looks like a threat, and i could die from the people shooting. i kill them...OHH WAIT THEY WERE LAWMEN AND THE GUY THEY WERE CHASING WAS A CRIMINAL THANKS GAME FOR BEING SO OBVIOUS NOW EXCUSE ME WHILE I RELOAD MY SAVE
*eddruru*
that said, it's a really good game. do you like grand theft auto? you will probably like this game. do you hate grand theft auto? you will probably not like this game.
i like grand theft auto. it's kind of a unique touch to what you would be used to in a gta game. i mean, you aren't in a city, there is no cars...those two things alone make it feel pretty damn different, even though the structure is pretty similar.
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Man, it feels like you known that game way better than anyone has a right to, lol.
It's literally my favorite game of all-time. Mother 3 is also in my top 5. Oddly enough, I haven't really replayed either game as many times as some other games (like Chrono Trigger or FF6 or even Valkyrie Profile) but the games are so memorable that they really stick with me.
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Well, I don't blame you. That game was goddamned brilliant.
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So Red Dead Redemption is hella fun.
FFXII is still fun.
Re acquired Fallout 3 (GOTY THIS TIME YES) and gonna rip shit up with that.
Good stuff for now!
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ONE LAST THING EGGMAN. Where do I find the sword of kings and can I get it after I'm through with Magnificent?
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You can only get the Sword of Kings from Starman Super in the Stonehenge Base and only unless you haven't killed the boss there.
So basically yeah, Magicant is too late.
It doesn't really matter that much anyway. It's a 1/128 chance drop so it's a pain in the ass to grind for and it's not even that strong.
Jeff's ultimate weapon is made by having him repair the broken antenna, which is a 1/128 chance drop from the Uncontrollable Spheres in the Lumine Hall (the place you fought Electro Specter, the 7th Sanctuary Boss usually). Jeff needs to be around level 80 for a high enough IQ to fix it though. And you should probably just be using the Heavy Bazooka all the time anyway since it ignores defense.
Ness's ultimate weapon is the Gutsy Bat, which you can only get as a 1/128 drop from Bionic Krakens in the final area of the game.
Paula's Magic Fry Pan is a 1/128 chance drop from the Chompasaur's in Lost Underground. It's actually physically weaker than the one you can buy there, but it gives a +100 to guts (the Gutsy Bat is somewhat similar on that) so you'll survive more mortal attacks with it. And you'll get tons of criticals.
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ive been slacking ass on playing vidya recently. (work = standing up all day, then i take an hour walk, i just want to browse the internets)
did a mission for a stranger to get him flowers for his wife. i do so, albiet FUCK COUGARS, but i give him said flowers.
there's a lot of fucking wackjobs in this game and that fucker is one of em. and is it me, or does the game not go 30 seconds without shoving a random event down your throat? i try to ignore them at this point unless they directly impede my progress (ie a faggot shooting at me). the occasional random event is peachy, but not im going to go to town to sell my buck skins only to find several instances of hookers being attacked, ladies being taken away, stampedes of shooting faggots running through town, people goading me into a duel, ect. though i mean whatever, if it wasn't that i would probably nitpick about something else.
finishing that mission gave me access to the duster outfit. (think it was due to honor gained not from the mission itself) pretty snazzy looking.
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You can complete Stranger events whenever you want, hey. Its not like you have to drop everything you're doing to do the event. Like the crazy lady in Armadillo, I went and talked to her to get the Stanger mission then just left her there and went gun shopping/back to Bonnie.
Game rules though, I haven't been sucked in like this in AGES. If only I wasn't moving this weekend I would be playing the shit out of it
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Meh, fuck it then. I'd rather not grind, but I have everything else for Poo and I figured I might as well complete the set.
In other news, my friend keeps wanting me to play friendly matches of SF4, which I have been enjoying. Not that I enjoy the 360 controller, but it does make full circle inputs rather easy which makes playing Zangief rather fun. I beat him with the Geif and Able like 5 or 6 times in a row before he beat me, which is surprising considering how little I play SF4 or Geif.
Oh yeah, and what the hell am I supposed to do in the Hitman mission Heaven or Hell?
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EarthBound Stuff
Thanks to you guys I'm playing EB again. Maybe this time I'll actually play through the whole game.
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I liked this game till I got to the desert and all those underground mazes, then I just gave up cause it got annoying.
Regardless, still an awesome game.
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That part is a HUGE pain in the ass, but it is short.
I want to start playing GTA SA, but there's always something to de-motivate me. Like, it seems like a long game and a decent chunk of the missions seem like no fun at all. That's always been my big beef with GTA, everything looks time consuming and most of the missions either seem meh or controller smashingly frustrating.
Also anyone know any good HL2 mods?
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I really like Dystopia, but it's been a few years since I really played it.
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I meant more so single player wise, or something that just adds to the single player (enemies, guns).
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I want to start playing GTA SA, but there's always something to de-motivate me. Like, it seems like a long game and a decent chunk of the missions seem like no fun at all. That's always been my big beef with GTA, everything looks time consuming and most of the missions either seem meh or controller smashingly frustrating.
That's how I feel about the GTA games too. I want to get into them, but I'm terrible at the missions, and don't feel like repeating them over and over (I'll smash a controller, so I usually quit before I get that pissed).
I usually just put on a cheat or 2 and see how long I can fight the cops for.
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I meant more so single player wise, or something that just adds to the single player (enemies, guns).
Oh. I haven't really found any that I liked, but I haven't tried one for a while. All the ones I played seemed like bad singleplayer maps for HL2, and didn't really add anything new.
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>start mission
>have to follow npc who is right next to me on his carriage
>go to get on my horse no more than 6 feet away
>GET FUCKING MAULED BY A COUGAR
my face
(http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/3222/1266403601112.jpg)
i would say this game is pretty "easy" so far, but it sure does have a lot of "fuck you" moments. on the flip side, me - 5 cougars - 0. CANT TOUCH KILL THIS!
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That reminds me, I need to play Mass Effect 2.
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Caught a shiny Diglett. Aww hells yeah.
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Just got done playing Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3, and it was a surprisingly fun game. You weren't kidding Eggman. I just wish I knew more, I never have fun getting into a fighting game without dedicating some time to learn about all I can quickly.
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did i say peter was the best character in the game? i think i may be wrong. well with standard leveling, i believe so. but if you use karna, and spam her "boost" buff, you get mad exp.
http://sf2.shiningforcecentral.com/pages/characters/karna.html
at level 2 she has more attack than the main character...when i catch her up...FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
reason is i promoted her at level 40. because i did not have access to the item needed to promote her until that level. when you are promoted, you go to level 1, but your stats stay the same and you get more stats per level up. basically when she's caught up in level, she will be 10-20 levels ahead of everybody else. with boost, she will continually be many many levels above the rest of the force.
tldr- boost 2 = infinite exp = overpowered character
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first paycheck came through and I'm burning through it. I've just bought MHtri and I made myself a little brown girl.
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shining force 2. i am currently grinding at battle 36.
http://sf2.shiningforcecentral.com/pages/mainguide_walkthrough_part4.html
basically i am using the wizard tyrin, and well, promoting made him level 1 (same with karna, though she can gain good exp without the need of killing enemies), so leveling him has been a bitch. he's 14 so far, when i hit 18, im going to stop and finish the battle. been taking it slow since the grinding is damn boring (start battle, get it setup so tyrin gets the killing blow, kill two enemies, egress out of battle to do it again). not much farther now. then i have another fight, then BLACKSMITH THAT CAN CRAFT MITHRIL WEAPONS FROM ALL OF THAT MITHRIL I HAVE BEEN SPENDING THE WHOLE GAME GETTING! after that, 5/6 fights (if you include the secret fight after the credits which i will probably do), then game is done.
BECAUSE i was bored with grinding, ive been playing a little super street fighter 4. bison is the new ken, i don't like that. i will continue to main him for the time being, but i have been developing my gen game. frustrating fucker to use/learn, but at the end of the day, i like using him, and if he's fun, why not work on him. plus a shitty gen looks better than "ohh, not another bison that doesn't know how to play, jeeze" slipping up a lot with gen, but i sort of know what to work on. kind of a list of stuff to work on.
bnb combos
not fucking up on his basic stuff (crane clk into mantis c rh is a good example of something basic i fuck up on)
following up with stuff that can be followed up with (like a focus attack, or if i land oga i can do a gekiro, stuff like that)
gen is a cool character who is fun to use. only problem is he's low tier, and hard to use. (as opposed to dan who is low tier, and easy to use)
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Damnit vlad, your making me want to play the shining force games.
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Damnit vlad, your making me want to play the shining force games.
Same here, I never really knew there were popular RPGs on the Genesis. Then again, I've never been a huge RPG person.
Also two more things, Monster Hunter is nuts. There's so much shit for me to do it's confusing. The whole sending ships to different places to fish seems odd, and the whole farming of herbs, mushrooms, and bugs seems massively confusing when you combine it with the combo system. Also I'm upset I didn't get the classic controller with the game.
Also my friends dragged me into a game of Modern Warfare 2, and we had a few local 3 free for all matches. the first few were nothing noteworthy, one person would see the other and shoot them, and then another person would see it on radar and run at them. I got bitched at for screen cheating, then the same person who said that admitted to doing it himself (lol console shooters).
After that we do a game of headshots only with radar. I start out bad, but then I start to get a hang of the UMP (one of the presets, I think that's it) and I start taking them down left and right. One of them finds out you can knife and still get kills and does nothing but charge at us while my other friend uses a FAMAS. So I keep killing him a split second before he can knife me and I keep taking down my other friend fairly easily. They both throw a ton of shit at me, like grenades and trying to knife me or chasing em half way around the level with a riot shield. Eventually I win with more then double the points the second place player had, so they force me to use the smaller screen (I agreed, feeling confident then) and we start another round.
This time we had a new friend play the third slot, and he starts kicking my ass from the start. So the game continues fairly uneventful outside of the fact that we've all gotten to the point were we can head shot instantly, and me and the second place guy are tied. I see my third friend charging him and I scope up while he's running full speed in front of me and nail him twice in the head with only two shots fired. Shit was nuts. It's odd, my one friend said he was awesome at COD games, and he was doing shit, while my friend that owned the console only did mediocre. I guess passing for good at something means getting a mediocre score in most online games.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/wii/943655-monster-hunter-tri/faqs/59579
posting this so I can find it later. This game is starting to confuse me tho.
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Depends how good they actually do. I've got a friend who I've seen go stuff like 25 and 7, and shit like that, but there are people out there I've seen go 25 and 3, or 32 and 5 and shit. And then there are the guys who are basically gods.
But then again, now WM2 is shit online compared to when it came out. Everyone camps, and abuses the overpowered weapon combos.
Same here, I never really knew there were popular RPGs on the Genesis. Then again, I've never been a huge RPG person.
Well, when I decided to see what game for the genesis were good, when I started emulation, I stumbled upon them, and loved them. I've played a couple times since then, but never gotten very far.
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I usually go somewhere around 30-4 these days using just about whatever I feel like using but whatever. I have some really off days too.
The real key these days tends to be that kids think they're way better than they really are. It's sort of the whole small fish/small pond moving to big pond type of thing. You think you're real good at fighting games because you can beat your friends and then it turns out that you suck really really badly if you ever go to a tournament.
I've been playing Alpha Protocol (on the PC omg) and it is definitely better than a lot of the reviews say (especially Destructoid's retarded 2/10 review jesus christ). It's slower and a lot more methodical than a lot of people can handle I think. Like, run'n'gun will make you fail really badly. I'm playing as a straight up spy though and I take my time lining up headshots with my silenced pistol and using my sneaking abilities to move around to disable stuff. It's pretty cool. The game can just have a pretty crappy camera and framerate sometimes. The story's pretty cool though.
My only other complaint is that the only character I actually would like to romance isn't available for romance. I've so far met Scarlet, the standard strong reporter redhead out for a big scoop, Mina the somewhat ugly asian woman who's really easy to get points with, SIE the russian super mercenary woman who apparently loves sex so I can't imagine it's hard to get her and Sis (I don't know why she's named Sis when she's not a sister of anything...), the maybe 22 year old (they say she's early 20's but nothing specific) somewhat goth/punk mute assassin who wears a heavy parka and some ripped jeans. I'll probably just end up with Mina and maybe SIE since she's probably really easy. She looks like Olga from Metal Gear Solid 2 though so it's weird.
Fun game though.
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But then again, now WM2 is shit online compared to when it came out. Everyone camps, and abuses the overpowered weapon combos.
One reason I never got into MW2, you could tell by just looking at the game that they didn't care about balance and just wanted to jam as much shit as they could into the game. It's sort of sad that people will tolerate this, and even defend it (anyone who actually believed the not balanced for lean thing should commit suicide).
I usually go somewhere around 30-4 these days using just about whatever I feel like using but whatever. I have some really off days too.
The real key these days tends to be that kids think they're way better than they really are. It's sort of the whole small fish/small pond moving to big pond type of thing. You think you're real good at fighting games because you can beat your friends and then it turns out that you suck really really badly if you ever go to a tournament.
Most people are like that (I'll man up to it, I never went 6 KDR regularly in CS:S, then again it is awkward to compare kill streaks in different games that and from my experience, Modern Warfare is much easier to play). It's just people will start to get a decent positive KDR in a game, and then it all goes to their head. I have one friend who thinks he's a god at every game he touches, when he's only really mediocre at best.
but yeah, I really stopped listening to reviewers.
Holy shit I'm addicted to Monster Hunter 3. Like, I was unsure about the combat at first but I'm really liking it, and the armor and weapon making seems fairly awesome. My ONLY problem is that it's grindy, but it's a somewhat good grind. Anyone here have Tri and want to do some online play?
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http://boi.perfectworld.com/
Typical grinder, but EASY. If you're looking just to diddle around in a nice game environment, this one is pretty neato.
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shining force 2
i am getting through this game, slowly, but it's going to get done. i just beat odd eye, meaning i have...three battles left, and then the secret optional battle after the credits. it's been going, expected the odd eye fight to be hard...nope. frayja recently got the "attack" spell, and i think i have a good use for it. say the terrain has enemies that would be close for a flyer to get in, but not for ground people. basically cast that on peter, have him run up next turn and one shot one of the annoying spellcasters, then have him retreat back to the force. put it to good use assassinating an evil bishop (healer), but i was retarded and tried to let him do more. at least he's a phoenix, so when the battle is done, his dead ass is not dead anymore. only other character with that trait i believe is lemon, who can't kill himself if he tried (WHICH HE DOES).
here's the short and nostalgic version. i just beat the battle which is the first ive seen of this game being played at a friends house so long ago. the battle i am on right now and will do later is the battle ive pretty much ALWAYS seen said friend play, on multiple occasions his shining force 2 file is on that very battle...and i haven't seen past that fight. so it's pretty cool.
super street fighter 4
gen. don't remember when i made that last post about gen, but i have a pretty decent understanding of the guy now. im able to do some pretty basic stuff with him, but his stuff is fun to do. i honestly think when i am to the point where i can do all of his shit that he's a solid character. but i mean stuff like cossup crane jmk, st jab, clk, mantis super, mantis ultra, that's really fun to do and not too hard to execute. ALTHOUGH requiring full super and ultra 1. where you could land u1, if you don't have it, you can land a ton of stuff after his super. i think his basic bnb is clk, smp, hands, or in crane if you are jumping, jrh, jrh, jab, hp roll. trying to learn more, but it's fun.
23/24 of his trials cleared. last one is a bit tricky. nothing "lol1framelinks" gay, but stuff im not used to executing. as the individual stuff isn't "that" bad.
(mantis) cjab, smp, hands xx super, full hk gekiro.
cjab into smp alone isn't that bad of a link. ill mess up 50% of the time, but it's not that bad. doing that and hands afterwards is pretty damn challenging, because most of the time i link directly from cjab to hands without the smp. canceling hands into super WITHOUT TRYING TO MASH IT OUT RANDOMLY is pretty hard since it's hands hitting really fast, when do i input my super? but even if i do all of that, i still can't consistently do a full hk gekiro. the timing is weird, it's not really evident when you should hit the button, even knowing the proper rhythm i still drop it.
tap, tap tap, tap tap tap taptap
fuck up the timing at all, you drop it.
hardest special move to do in the game, and iirc a hp srk does more damage and rewards more meter. funny. but i will finish the trial if i decide to stick with gen. unlike the plethora of tldrs ive typed on ssfiv, i didn't much whore out srk/training mode like i am doing with gen right now. pretty obvious it is a bit less frustrating playing this character after putting forth a proper effort into learning him. i mean if i stick it out, ill be able to do hk gekiro every time, ill be able to cancel hands into super like nothing, and ill have my little gen flag icon.
/endpost
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http://boi.perfectworld.com/
Typical grinder, but EASY. If you're looking just to diddle around in a nice game environment, this one is pretty neato.
I played perfect world, and it's by the same people (hence ".perfectworld.com")... I was wondering if that game was worth bothering with, not that I've really got that much free time :/
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shining force 2
second to final battle. new battle music? awe yeh!
ssfiv
gen is a frustrating cunt. but i finished all of his trials. but using him, it's like i have to work twice as hard just to keep up. he probably has the hardest special moves to execute in the game, you have to manage the stance changes, he heavily relies on super which is harder to generate, ohh, and he has 900 health on top of that.
why am i using him? he is fun. but losing all the goddamn time is getting a bit old. i reckon that's apart of the game though, because i can't go back to bison (literally, i played so much gen bison is not playable to me anymore).
though if i do have super, he has easy ways to combo into it, which itself can combo into a hk gekiro, ultra, reset. like my bnb, which is generally "poke into hands", can be canceled into super. starting to get the hang of it. from my playing today, i think i took home a few things.
-FOOTSIES, CONTROL DAT SPACE
-DO HANDS A FUCKING LOT, it's safe easy meter generation (far as i know)
-DO MORE GODDAMN HANDS just like try and get those things in.
-FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DONT DO CROSSUP MK EVERY KNOCKDOWN
-STOP FUCKING USING GEKIRO TO GET OUT THEY FUCKING KNOW YOU ARE GOING TO DO IT
and i need to better learn when and where to focus. figure nearly having played the game and vanilla for a combined total of 183 hours i would know how to implement focus attack into my game? NOPE! but nobody here plays the game so none of y'all can give me advice.
*edit*
this is the heavy kick gekiro.
stupidly easy to fuck up and not get all the hits. thankfully i did that in one go for the camera.
*editt*
finally. i should have beat this game when i was first exposed to it (already late) in 2000. shining force 2 beaten. extra battle after the credits beaten.
GG
though, it took me a good long time to get through start to finish, and a good 35 hours of playtime to complete. i bought my sonics UGC back last august or so, and i didn't get too far. started back up playing a month ago, and then i beat it today.
i have plenty of superb quality games oozing with nostalgia i can pick up and play (i bought like 7 or so ps1 games out of nostalgia bloodthirst two months ago), it's possible i might pick one of those up and start playing it. or go to amazon and pick up some of the remaining ps1 games i want to own, a good condition copy of brave fencer musashi, fear effect 1-2, parasite eve 2, threads of fate, may be a few others but if i owned all of those, my ps1 collection is as good as complete for me...BUT that might be for another month, im most likely picking up blur in a few days.
*no new posts so edit to prevent double post*
streat fiter
gen is starting to get frustrating. i still like him, and i guess ill keep using him, but i think i should start using bison more. i mean when i rack up a losing streak with gen, it's nice to have a "to go" guy to get the job done. i mean i done played so much gen, playing bison is foregin to me, GOTTA GET EM BACK UP TO PAR!
red dead redemption
this game. i am not hooked, this game does not have me by the balls, i am not utterly sucked into this game.
but, it is fun, i do have a good time when i do play it. while it doesn't have me by the balls, i will probably gradually play it in chunks of 1-2 hours. just got to mexico, the mission to get to mexico brought up a glitch which killed me.
-adjusting myself for cover on the raft
-OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE I SOMEHOW JUMP TO THE TOP OF THE SKY...and i fall to my death in the water
on a later mission involving jumping onto a train, i was trying to guess the context sensitive button i needed to push to jump on the train...i accidentally dismount, but the button popped up during that animation so i hit the proper button as i am riding fast dismounting...
what happened was i was sucked into the train and the screen was glitching out where you couldn't make out what was on the tv, i was essentially stuck until i hit the "dismount" button, which i fell to my doom below the floor. the game said i fell off a "cliff", very funny.
those glitches, if they were in a previous gta game, i would be livid. but the awesomeness of mid mission checkpoints kept my blood pressure down to a level where i could laugh at those deaths and continue enjoying the game. all rockstar needs to do is impliment those awesome awesome mid mission checkpoints into their previous games so i can enjoy them now as i did when they were new.
*eeLOLljjj
you know that blur game? it's pretty good. ive been enjoying the single player and the multiplayer. unfortunately there is no time trial "hey i want to just race by myself and chill" mode. ALL CHAOS ALL THE TIME!
single player is also a good example of friends list integration adding replay value.
-i just beat that mission with a time of 2:00
-xxBONERSxx time- 1:30
-MOTHERFUCKER BONERS IM GOING TO BEAT THAT TIME
it's good shit.
*this place is as dead as a ghost town in red dead redemption*
more rdr. dicking around treasure hunting, doing story missions, and the odd stranger mission.
anyone find "you are in a stationary turret, kill 50 million dudes if you die you have to re kill that 50 million dudes all over again" missions in games fun? i fucking hate them. seems like red dead redemption is going to keep throwing em at me for "climax" missions, which is a shame because they are fucking boring. shadow complex has 3 turret sequences, that game had 3 too many turret sequences, one of the only bad things i can say about that game.
seriously though, im thinking to myself some 4 minutes into the NONSTOPSHOOTANALLTHETIME "if i die, im probably going to put this game down indefinitely, because i really don't want to re do this". i didn't die, so i reckon ill keep casually playing it.
16 hours in, some 50% complete. assuming that counts for side stuff too, i reckon im more than half way through the "story" of the game. unfortunately it's impossible to not be spoiled for a game unless you avoid the internet until you beat it (me with mass effect 2), so i kind of already know the ending. not a big problem though, while i do like the game, and the cutscenes are entertaining, im not into it enough to really care about spoilers.
*EDDRRR*
beat red dead redemption.
reckon there's a difference in knowing what's going to happen, and experiencing what is happening. the whole series of missions up to the last...
MANLY TEARS
*EDgege
plants vs zombies, i got it on pc (it's like $10.00 and 25 megs)
anybody know if they do the cloud save system thinger like on torchlight (ie, say i go to another pc to play plants vs zombies, my save will magically appear if i am on the same steam account)?
anywho, im not too far i reckon, but it's good. ive heard nothing but good things about this game. it's fun, it has a nice sense of humor, the music is nice, the artwork is nice, small download, cheap, easy to pick up and play...what more does a game need?
also, this post is fuckin huge, you niggers need to play more goddamn vidya. seriously though, ive been slacking the past half year, last 3 games i beat were rdr, shining force 2, mass effect 2. now mass effect 2 i beat 4 days after the game came out...that's like what late january/feb1? some 4 months of not beating anything at all? THAT GRINDED MY GEARS.
but ill probably play plants vs zombies casually, "hey i feel like doing something for 10-20 minutes"...or pull a red dead redemption and do that for the first third, and hardcore the next two thirds. thinking about what game i should tackle next. i have a decent amount of old ps1 games i could gnaw on, hopefully i can get into one of em without stopping out of lack of interest. i mean, the game needs to be able to pull my ass away from the internet, and that's no easy feat.
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Wow vlad, wow.
Also I'm completely stuck in Hitman and Earthbound. Hitman doesn't seem to have any clear way to get into the white house, and I'm sure the rest of the mission is just as hard and confusing as this starting part. Earthbound just keeps throwing starmen ghosts and ultimate starmen, which are just as bad but have shields, which makes killing them in one round not possible.
Also I've bought Metro 2033 (hope this rig can run it fine, I'm slightly concerned about my RAM) and I found out my friend plays MH tri and now I have an online buddy to play with.
OH YEAH, and I got some quality time on SSF4, and I definitely liked it. Dudley felt like he had WAY to many ending frames on like all of his attacks. Makoto was a down right abortion, like, not even funny how bad they made her. Guy, Cody, and Hakan seemed like a lot of fun, but Adon and Ibuki are awesome. I had like a winning streak against my friends with Adon and Ibuki.
Also my friend was having a damn decent streak with a flow chart Ken. So I stated it was time to fight flowchart with flowchart and picked Sagat and fucked him over. Always feels good to do that when he goes into flow chart mode.
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yeah nig, gotta KEEP IT REAL. when you eventually get GGPO up and running, what game should we play? id rather not dabble with multiple games since it takes me long enough to learn one of em. 3s, a2, a3, vs, vs2, jojo's, one of the kof's, whatev mang.
been playing "the legend of dragoon", old ps1 jrpg people speak highly of. 6 hours into it, just got my dragoon powers. it's a bit slow, the combat requires timing strict enough where my hdtv lag makes it unplayable(like iidx, only it has no timing adjust), and adjusting to ps1 graphics takes a little time. but, playing on the big sdtv in the basement solves the timing problem, solves the FUCK SUMMER HEAT/HUMIDITY problem, and gets my black ass away from the pc.
so far anyway, im enjoying it. whether i have the drive to complete it isn't known to me yet, but for now im liking it and im going to keep at it.
funny thing i wrote down 5 games on a piece of paper, numbered each of them, and went to random.org to select the game i would play. i landed on chrono cross, which for some reason motivated me to pick dragoon instead. the other 3 games were alundra 2, ape escape, and ff6. if i end up beating this game, there's a possibility ill need a multi month break from jrpg's. last time i had the drive to complete multiple jrpg's in a row was back when i didn't have a job. literally pollished off ff7, ff9, ff10 in a row within 2-3 weeks. funny, as much as i didn't enjoy 10, it's a better game than 13, by far.
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I'd highly recommend Ape Escape. It's definitely underrated, considering it genuinely did something different with platforming games.
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been playing "the legend of dragoon", old ps1 jrpg people speak highly of. 6 hours into it, just got my dragoon powers. it's a bit slow, the combat requires timing strict enough where my hdtv lag makes it unplayable
Why is it unplayable on the HDTV again? It's been a long time since I played that game. I've been meaning to get it and play through it some time.
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The game's battle system uses a timed combo system for attacks where you have to press square when the icon lights up when the cursor moves over it. The game already had pretty strict timing on it (oh my god Lavitz's Dance of Spring Wind or whatever it is). Any lag would make that impossible.
It's definitely a good game and I was happy playing through it at the time (the story was serious without being too melodramatic, main characters are actually in peril, the twists are all pretty cool, the music is still great and it looked really good when it came out). Its only real problems were the terrible inventory system, how hard it is to get money for certain items and how slow the game could be sometimes.
Sadly, it was blasted when it came out because it came out too close to Final Fantasy 7 (it came out between 7 and 8 I believe).
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Yeah, it never got much attention. I do remember loving it when I rented it, but I never got all that far, unfortunately.
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Fucking Qurupeco. I just figured out that Great swords can smash through defensive spots on a monster, and I was using that to smash the flint claws on Qurupeco. So I broke both of them the first time, and he ran away right after he got to a new area and I tossed the trap down. The second time I brought a pitfall trap, and he did the SAME exact thing, but when I got to the next area I couldn't even use my pitfall trap. So goddamn annoying, and I'm doing all this just to get this flintstone.
Did it, got the stone, and the hammer itself is nothing too amazing. Does less damage then my switch axe (which doesn't bother me that much, but my next point sort of kills it) and it goes dull instantly. Meh, I'll be happy if I an figure the online out and get my barroth armor with the help of some kind random folks.
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Finally got into Bioshock, bought it on Steam for $3 a year ago, and finally got around to playing it. It's goood fun. Been also playing TF2 and L4D alot.
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so, playing mvc2 against some 360 bros. i think i understand why people can jump into that game and call it fun. they don't really pay attention to the little things and just hit buttons. just kind of sorta know the moves of your characters, and hit buttons, pretty fun if you are with people "roughly" around your "skill" level.
from my play session today, i have myself a team.
dr doom (a), cyclops (a), captain commando (b)
out of those 3, capcom is my favorite.
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MvsC2 is a pile of shit compared to the first one. So unbalanced, its unreal and dumb.
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its unreal
says the guy who picks blanka in sf4.
but after seeing how fucking awesome mvc3 looks, figure i would put some actual time into a game i bought almost a year ago.
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plus ssfiv is pissing me off, random mashey broken fun is what i need. AND YES that is deadpool yelling at you, the player, at the end of that video.
*eddverv
playing peace walker. my experience with it has been positive, but there's a bit of a negative thing to it.
i guess, the good. plays fine, it's essentially portable ops but better. the capturing soldiers to add to your base is a lot easier and less tedious than portable ops. instead of plotting out a safe route to drag said soldier to your base, you can just attach the fulton to them...and off they go...even indoors. the controls aren't that bad, take some getting used to, but they get the job done.
problem though, there is no way to turn up the aiming sensitivity. when i am aiming with the face buttons, and it's fuck slow, and i am fighting a boss, there's a fucking problem. HOWEVER im pretty sure you can co-op all of the bosses. which brings up a new problem, i don't have a ps3 to do the online ad hoc. not sure if xlink kai would work for this game. AND, knowing a person who enjoys both metal gear, and owns a psp is pretty damn rare. ill have to convince one of my psp owning friends to buy it if i want to co-op any of the many co-opable missions there is in this game.
but i mean two boss fights in, if we don't count those fights, im enjoying the game. missions can be a bit trial and error, but error doesn't result in a fail (like splinter cell can, and i do mean the first splinter cell game), and there is incintive to replay missions to get items/nab certain soldiers. so when you know where everything is, missions can be breezed through, but if you have played a metal gear game before, that's just how it is.
one last thing, the base management stuff and the soldier getting stuff, that's like, really good. you have this metal gear game broken up into small missions, and this awesome base management sim along with it, with good rewards for the actual missions (basically all of your items, weapons, and whatnot come from this). it might not be for everyone, but i like it.
ill put this in tiny text for those metal gear fans who wish to find out on their own.
the offshore base you are on, it's gradually being expanded. you start out with 3 offshore pillars and then you get more and more. i just got to the point in the game where they explain they are going for a dual hexagon shell thing for the base...THE BASE YOU ARE ON AND EXPANDING IS THE BIG SHELL BEING CREATED! bro, that's fucking awesome, this game earns it's title as a prequel.
FORGOT ANOTHER FLAW
they don't explain the base stuff too well in the tutorials. because i have no life, ill roughly explain what's what. you have different groups people can be assigned to in your base.
combat- people in here gain gmp each round, as well as you can use them during missions where snake isn't mandatory. gmp = resource you need to make items/weapons as well as upgrade them.
r&d- you need these fuckers to build/upgrade everything.
mess- food, if you don't have enough, morale will drop, people will leave. you have food over 100%, morale will raise and people will preform over there normal stats.
medical- reduces the chance people will get sick, as well as helping the people in the medbay heal faster (far as i am aware)
intel- this is for like calling in supplies(FUCKING MANDATORY FOR BOSS FIGHTS), certain items need a certain intel level to make (as well as every other group), you can get more information on each mission before the mission starts, and some other stuff im not too keen on right now.
medbay- sick/injured people go here to recover. say you shoot down a guard, he doesn't die right away, you can use fulton on him and he will need to recover in the medbay before being too useful for another group.
brig- some people are unloyal, they stay here until they change their attitude.
waiting room- people who do not belong to a group are here until assigned a group.
then there's a trading wait thinger for people waiting to be traded, since you can trade soldiers to other players, which would be cool if i had somebody to play with :(
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felecia (a), cyclops (a), captain commando (b)
just started learning more ABC's of marvel, by practicing air combos. compared to sf4, doing basic combos in marvel is...fucking easy. the simple act of say felecia st jab, st strong, st fierce xx crh xx sand attack is really easy compared to something that sounds simple in sf4 like bison clk, clk, clk xx lk sk
plus going from launcher, jump follow up thing (i forgot the proper term for it) jab jab jab roundhouse requires hardly any timing at all, just a matter of doing it in quick succession. maby i overestimated how complicated marvel is on a BASIC LEVEL. i emphasize basic level because you watch the pros playing their high tier teams and shit, hard to see what's even going on. plus i don't quite understand when i should use assists so i mash them randomly, capcom's anti air assist is one of the best in the game(the character may be low tier, but the assist is high tier) so it's a pretty good button to push.
im not going serious into this, but i figure i would try and learn some shit in training mode to get mah body ready for mvc3 next spring. plus like, i want to play a fighter not ssfiv. like darkstalkers, you nigs get ggpo and hit me up for that shit.
you know, ill probably make a GGPO thread tomorrow. i really need to play some vampire savior.
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Picked up Demon's Souls, Resonance of Fate and Star Ocean 4 International the other day from Gamestop's Buy 2 Get 1 Free Used Game Sale. All of the games had zero scratches and the cases were perfect and they had mismarked RoF down to $35 too so I got all three games for $70 total after my edge card took off tax.
Then I got Blur recently, I ordered Skate 3 for $40 during amazon's deal of the day for it, Transformers is next week and I also have Mario Galaxy 2 to play (I got up to 70 stars and "beat" the game in one day it's so good).
Yeah I think I'm set for games.
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I really need to get SMG2, but Monster Hunter is keeping me tied up fairly well. Also I need to find a new CPU fan, and this time I need to somehow figure out if it's compatible with my mobo.
Oh and I just bought Metro 2033 and the first Mass Effect, and I'm REALLY tempted to buy the second one
(on sale now for like 35 bucks) but I'm not too sure.
Oh yeah, and I JUST killed a Barroth. Shit was nuts, took me almost the whole time needed to kill him, but I got ALL of the sub quests and he never knocked me out.
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You're going to have to tell me how Metro 2033 is. I have a little money to spare now, and if it's good, I'll buy it. I pirated it but it's a steam game, and I worry about pirating those :|
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So, I've decided to try to get into SC:BW. Yeah, SC2 is coming out, oh well, I've always wanted to play SC properly.
I'm playing on the ICCup server, since I can't play on regular b-net. If anyone wants to play me, let me know. If you need help figuring out how to get into ICCup, let me know.
I'm focusing on learning Toss right now, specifically, PvT, so if anyone wants to play me in that matchup, I'd really appreciate it. I'm godawful at the moment, lol.
I play in the Starcraft Training Community channel.
I did manage to whip the computer by basically massing goons with the odd reaver thrown in, but so far I've lost the couple games I've played against real people. My timing isn't great, my multitasking is downright terrible, my game sense simply doesn't exist, my macro is bad, and my micro worse, and my APM has topped out at 106, with an average of 50 :/ I need a LOT of work.
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You're going to have to tell me how Metro 2033 is. I have a little money to spare now, and if it's good, I'll buy it. I pirated it but it's a steam game, and I worry about pirating those :|
It's not a steam game, it's ON steam but it wasn't made by Valve or anything.
Also boobies, I would play if Starcraft ran at a proper resolution on my PC.
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Yeah I know, but the cracks all run through Steam, and I don't even want to dick around with the possibility of getting banned, I have too much money sunk into my Steam account. Maybe I am being overcautious, but that would suck greatly.
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Nah, I can agree, that would be TERRIBLE.
Also Earthbound is finally done. I'm still doing the walking around part at the end, but I'm not even sure where to go.
I must say, good game, I just wish it wasn't spoiled to all hell for me.
Oh and Vlad, how is ME1? I bought it recently.
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my opinion on mass effect is invalid. ive beaten the game over 10 times and i love it to death. it doesn't do that to most people, so im just going to assume "solid rpg, mediocre combat, repetitive side missions" as what the masses would probably say. if you intend on playing 2 (improved almost every fault with the first game), play and complete the first game first, and continue that save over, it just makes the experience better.
that said, if i had the choice to replay the first or second game, i have had a lot of good times with the first game, and while technically inferior, i would replay the first over the second.
to avoid a tldr, if you enjoy rpg's, you should enjoy it.
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Nah, I can agree, that would be TERRIBLE.
Also Earthbound is finally done. I'm still doing the walking around part at the end, but I'm not even sure where to go.
I must say, good game, I just wish it wasn't spoiled to all hell for me.
Oh and Vlad, how is ME1? I bought it recently.
Go home. The game's Japanese name is Mother. Go see her.
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I just did, evidently I needed to talk to my Dad again.
Also shit, ALL the sequel teasers in that game, only to have the sequel THAT many years later is INSANE.
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Bought Mass Effect on Steam for $5 this weekend, looking forward to playing it :)
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Also boobies, I would play if Starcraft ran at a proper resolution on my PC.
800x600, IIRC, is all it runs at. Period. In all honesty, it's not that bad, though I wouldn't suggest playing it windowed (which you can only do with the chaos loader, which is part of the iCCup loader.
The low resolution doesn't really make a difference except that my mouse is faster (a good thing). Chaos loader can also chance your mouse speed for ingame.
But yeah, you don't even need a valid CD key to play on the iCCup server.
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So it turns out it's possible to beat Super Mario Galaxy without getting any stars from the last 2 observatories. Cool.
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Bought Mass Effect on Steam for $5 this weekend, looking forward to playing it :)
Same. Actually, I bought that, the Witcher, Max Payne 1 and 2, Half Life, Half Life Opposing Force, and Metro 2033.
and I still need to get Sin and Punishment and UR MR GAY 2.
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I've been playing a lot of indie games lately...just because. I'll go over the ones I've played recently briefly.
I just played (and beat) The Maw tonight. Damn, was that fun. The second to last level kinda dragged a bit, but overall it was a very positive experience. It's a little on the short side, but hey, it's a cheapie.
A little bit before that I finally got around to playing (and 100%'ing) Eversion (HD, 'cause I always like supporting Indie devs :3). That game is fucking awesome (AND OH SO CUTE).
I've been playing Beat Hazard as well. It's fun except for when it decides to generate impossible fights (do NOT play Please Don't Remember by The Flashbulb...it throws a ton of bosses out during the quiet parts O.o).
The Wonderful End of the World is a blatant Katamari Damaci knock off. Kinda buggy, but the controls do feel a lot snappier.
AaaaaaAAAaaaAHHhhhHHH: A Reckless Disregard for Gravity is fun as well (it's by the same people who made The Wonderful End of the World). It's a little frustrating trying to figure out how to score decent pointage in some of the levels, but I'm sure as I unlock better items and get a bit more experience under my belt that sort of thing will get a bit easier.
I bought Bullet Candy as well. Didn't really like it...felt too plain and sterile for me. It's almost like it can't tell what kind of space shooter it wants to be. Pass.
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so i got puzzle quest 2 the moment it was avalible on xbla. started an assassin, since it's something i don't normally do in games, got to level 7, realized there was a reason i don't pick that archetype often, and then i started a templar (think paladin but with a different name).
hit level 6 with him, i think im enjoying it a bit more. less damage/HOLY SHIT FUCK YOU possibilities, but he has a cool little "BUILD UP SHIT TONS OF DEFENSE" when that is done, he has attacks which do more damage based on how much defense you have, pretty cool.
probably won't try mage, or if i do play a barb, it won't be my primary character. i mean i did beat the first puzzle quest game with the warrior/barbarian class, id rather try something a bit different this time around.
im obviously not very far, but this far, it's cool no more gold pieces on the board, no more exp pieces on the board. to replace those, there's now "purple mana" and "action tokens". purple mana is just like any other mana, and action tokens allow you to use your equipment, like your weapon or shield. seems there's a bit more to think about rather than what i did in the first game "SKULLS SKULLS ALWAYS MATCH SKULLS FUCK GIVE ME SKULLS" and later on when i got the overpowered deathbringer ability, the skill which is the reason the game has a cooldown system on it's spells now "RED MANA FUCK I WANT ALL OF THE RED MANA EVER GIBE ME RED MANA I REPORT U"
TLDR VERSION- do you like puzzle quest? if you do, buy this. don't? don't bother. haven't played puzzle quest? go try a demo on xbla/pc. for the first game anyway, after i played around 4 hours of the pc demo, i was really keen on buying the actual game. pretty much feels like a good sequel to a game should feel.
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this is what deathbringer in the first puzzle quest does, it is broken, and this guy with a beefed up character makes it even more broken, pretty much killing the final boss in one shot, and if the final boss had double hp, he would probably still be dead from that one shot.
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I've been playing Transformers: War for Cybertron a bunch. Went through the whole campaign co-op on hard with a friend. Good lord some of the bosses get ridiculous. Trypticon especially. Multiplayer's really fun though. Apparently I am really good at it or something because I went 19-3 by myself after my entire team quit and it was just me against the full other team (5 guys).
I've also been playing Dawn of War 2 campaign, which is pretty fun. I don't get into too many RTS games but I like how DoW2's more like an RPG with leveling and equipment and whatnot.
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I hear that you collect gear and whatnot in DoW 2 campaign, is it spess marins only?
Also spektur reminded me I picked up that indie pack and that I need to get back to penumbra.
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Also spektur reminded me I picked up that indie pack and that I need to get back to penumbra.
I missed out on that, unfortunately. 'twas between paychecks and I was trying to finish paying off a car that some uninsured (insert black racial epitaph of choice here) bitch decided to destroy.
Not that I'm bitter or anything.
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ssfiv makes me rage so hard. endless lobby, wait 15 or so minutes to play, do ok first round but lose, do shit second round, realize i have to wait another 15 minutes to play again. NOT FUN BROS, NOT FUN. 3 man lobby MAXIMUM is preferred for me.
so i go to hdr, win all the games i play.
go to ggpo and play ST, push buttons so fast this guy accuses me of using turbo (any idiot can mash jab with two fingers fast as turbo)
he ragequits, and i play a bison, we go about 50/50 for a while, and he leaves, but ultimately good games, nigga knew how to play st bison.
I AM GOING TO GET BLAZBLUE CS AND PUT FORTH EFFORT INTO LEARNING IT, so i look forward to that, and starcraft 2...on the same day.
so yeah, ill still play ssfiv, but not if i have to wait a long time, because i won't get better that way. ultimately though, i have a decently large list of various fightans i wouldn't mind playing. ill keep doing subtle hints until more people are interested in playing some shit. but i mean ggpo is free, so im surprised nobody has jumped on that bandwagon yet. be playing randoms/people i hunt down elsewhere(irc, 4chan, srk) in the meantime.
more text because im a whore. timing in st and hdr are different, bit annoying when i can do shit easily in hdr and have problems pulling it off in st. i can do zangief crossup bodysplash, cjab, cjab, s short, c roundhouse (or substitute roundhouse for a tick spd) decently often in hdr, but not st. that combo/tick setup is pretty nasty on the damage it does. the combo is 50%, and if you go for a tick spd it's about the same damage as his damn 720.
and ill end with this
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*EVEge
almost didn't buy anything in the recent steam sale, but i did at the last second. got trine for $4.00, been meaning to pick it up for a while now. pretty damn good game.
AEFUFUA****
got guilty gear working (offline anyway) on http://ggxx.wingdreams.net/
obviously dicking around with potemkin, with a few other characters that seem fun (i-no, faust, may, dizzy).
so i go and see this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVw2hdJS5e0), and remember that big heavy immobile dudes aren't low tier in every game. 100% combos, THIS AINT ST :o
so im casually dicking around training mode of blazblue and guilty gear. would like to advance to the level of a bad blazblue player, which is better than the blindfolded deafguy which is how i play right now. seems like unlike street fighter, you want to get your combos/bnb down BEFORE jumping into random matches against people who can do that shit on your ass all day. you can survive a street fighter match on fundamentals, unless i pick tager and 720 some fools, i ain't going to win till i get some combos down.
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Metro 2033 is grand. I feel somewhat guilty that I can only remember like 3 characters, but everyone seems to suffer from the same problem stalkers characters had. Still has great atmosphere and feeling to it, but I don't want to play it unless I can really get into it.
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i popped in bionic commando. i only payed $10.00 for the damn thing, and i would be making yet another lengthy post in the anger thread if i had spent more. but i won't.
i can see the game has some good ideas, but thus far, does not execute on those ideas that good.
something about it that doesn't feel like it's a quality game. i guess ill occasionally piss around it when im bored, but frankly i would rather browse /v/ when boredom occurs.
it's funny i spend more time reading about/buying games than i do playing them. wish i could put my kid glasses back on when getting a game was a grand experience in itself.
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Yeah, now when I buy a game I don't even play it the same day, or if I do it's not for long. Last game I did was brawl, and that didn't last.
but I just spent the entire day playing Monster Hunter tri. I beat Rathian, saw I couldn't get any new weapons, and moved on to Lagracias and made a switch axe from him. He was a real fucker too, killed me on my third fight with him and I raged hard, then I noticed I still had his tail that I cut off and I was so goddamn happy.
Still not happy with how you make weapons in this game, it definitly pigeon holes you into only making specific types of shit (at least, so far).
Alright then, Red Faction go-rilla is a fairly fun game so far. It reminds me of a Jax and Daxter/Ratchet and Clank type game more then a GTA type game.
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me and married bro have been planning on playing some donkey kong together for about...over 4 months now. finally, we have a time in which we can play.
co-op, donkey kong country 3, 51%.
i wish i owned a donkey kong game for the snes back when, because this shit is among some of the best platforming that exists, which is hard, but not too hard.
basically i had a great time and look forward to the next time we play.
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this thread is essentially "vidya general"
not vidya related
21:14 is vidya related
though it's a good watch all the way through.
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Just got done playing some SSF4, figured I didn't like Ibuki as much as I initially did, but I love Adon even more. His one kick seems like an amazing tool to close the gap between fireball users and him, as long as you aren't too predictable.
but yeah, me and my friend had some amazing matches, and I seemed to do decently against him, which makes me like this new pad even more.
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had access to a tripple today, played demons souls.
fun
hard
sums it up pretty well i think.
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I dunno. I've played it for a while and it starts feeling like serious work. It's also really dumb that the hit detection can oftentimes be really bad so you'll get stuck on some wall and an enemy will swing and it looks like it shouldn't hit you but oops you're dead anyway. Bosses just take forever too, and you pretty much just find the one way to exploit their stupid AI to beat them. Maybe if it had an actual story to it or something I might care about playing it more.
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Maybe if it had an actual story to it or something I might care about playing it more.
you never cease to make me laugh, never change bro.
i got starcraft 2, it's installing as i type this. later today the ups guy should arrive with blazblue cs, and i have the day off. pretty bitchin.
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amazon trolled me, blazblue won't be here for a few days. pretty much wasted my money on release day shipping, though, while still spending less than buying it retail.
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Tell me how it is, with as little as possible references to SC1.
Also I'm getting to the parts in Half life that I forgot existed, which is exciting, and opposing force is brutal as always (I really hope HL doesn't get this hard on hard) and I'm sort of lost. I just deactivated this nuke warhead like bomb, and I'm running through this basement area full of boxes, and I'm now on top of a box and there are a lot of hard alien enemies under me. What do?
Also Rare is trolling hard
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That's the second-to-last level. Just keep going through that crate maze and you have a pretty cool boss fight. To be honest, I liked Opposing Force more than HL1 vanilla, all the new guns and stuff were neato.
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Oh, thanks, I'll get around to beating it then. Also my friend holds the same opinion, and I do to, despite me hating the last few times I've played.
Also I'm loving SF3S now that I have a decent pad.
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half-life, opfor, blue shift. can't go wrong with any of them. some people knock blue shift because it's a bit short, but that doesn't mean it's bad.
playing the starcraft 2 campaign so i can start getting used to the way the game controls/plays before eventually jumping into 1v1's online. i did not like the campaign in starcraft 1, but i did really enjoy the campaign of warcraft 3. basically, from what ive played thus far (about 6ish missions in) it's pretty good. there's a good chunk of stuff you simply can't do in a standard multiplayer game. ill try and break it down.
-mission objectives other than destroying the enemy. this is expected, it's campaign.
-units unavailable in multiplayer. when i say multiplayer, i don't mean custom maps where you have access to anything. few examples, terrans do not get medics or firebats in a standard game, they are quickly available in the campaign, as well as a bunch of other stuff.
-completing side objectives can (depending on the objective) grant you zerg or protoss research points (possibility of the dominion terran research later down the road). these are essentially used in talent trees. a screenshot will easily explain this, so let me go take that...
(http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/9940/techtrees.jpg)
as you see, they come in bunches of two, and give you a bonus of some sort. so far in the game i have the first zerg one. when you pick one, the other is greyed out as you can only pick one per tier. probably going to do a mission (you somewhat get to pick the order in which you do things) which gives toss research points so i can get that first upgrade. i have the screen at automated refinery because i thought it was pretty neat.
-you gain money from missions used to upgrade units/buildings as well as hire mercs. mercs are essentially "elite" versions of normal units in varrying numbers that you can buy a certain time into the game. first one is 4 elite marines for 225 minerals, they are pretty goddamn beefy, but you can't hire them until 5 minutes of the game have elapsed, they are "built" out of a building specific for mercs.
-there's the typical story/character interaction stuff, feels a bit adventure gamey, without really being that in any way at all. if you watched the campaign demonstration a few blizzcons back, it's like they showed.
-the lost viking (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dRNjn-jK00). it's an arcade machine in the cantina which you can play, pretty tongue and cheek, and surprisingly fun. i got to TERA TRON(think giant robot made out of terran buildings) before i fucked up and died.
anything else? well i really enjoyed the last mission i played. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYgE18p8cxY) pretty neat going from place to place hitting up all of the minerals, avoiding lava death, and keeping the zerg at bay while trying not to spend the money needed to beat the mission all on units. after completing it, i said i hoped there would be more like it, and the next mission that dude gave me was a gas mining mission with a different twist to it, looking forward to that.
and that's just the few hours ive played of the campaign. there's the obvious ladder multiplayer, custom maps, there's challenge missions, a stupid amount of achievements, pictures/decals to unlock. feeling like a complete package, save for the "this is the first game of 3" thing...which i will give you my opinion of that after i get through more of the campaign, because so far, it feels like they put some serious time into developing it.
*edit*
instead of reading my post, here's a quicker summary of the campaign.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/campaign-overview-starcraft-ii/702131
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Saw my friends playing it yesterday, and it looks fantastic. The cutscenes are fucking amazing looking too (which they ought to be, considering how much work they put into the teaser trailer, lol. I mean, 5 MILLION polygons per frame? Needing Pixar's rendering system because your broke your in house one?). And those tech upgrades are badass.
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Yeah, that HAD to be one of the best trailers made for a game ever.
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5:03 for mission 5
30 seconds of VICTORY
that second combo in mission 5 took me goddamn forever though. first it took forever to get the reletavely tight timing between 2c and 2b. after that was problems figuring out the timing of the 2d following 6c, and the normal jump cancel after. the biggest problem was landing the jump b after 2d, shit has bad range and it was only till i realized i could buffer 2d and the jump really REALLY early during the 6c when i could get it down. but uhh that's probably the hardest thing about combos isn't as much knowing what to do, but when to push the buttons to have it come out. there's even a button you can hit to show a demonstration of what the combo should look like, but that even doesn't tell you the time you should hit the buttons.
liking mu-12 so far. main? possible, litchi's combos are really long, and my memory is bad. i like the general look of nu (now lambda) but im not big on characters completely reliant on zoning. mu seems to be a bit more up close with tools to be annoying with keep away, but not exactly the focus, while retaining the robot "i move like those things in zone of the enders" look. so, for now, my blazblue playtime will be using her. well, her and litchi, i mean, she has a lot of fun stuff with her "rekka" and staff shenanigans.
ill end the post with mu sprites.
(http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/5039/1278553822410.png)
i be rolling around with my green armored core getup. just needs a camo pattern, and a rocket launcher, and im good to go.
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Actually, you wouldn't do that well only zoning with Lambda like you could get away with on Nu. Lambda just doesn't do as much damage and her up-close normals are actually where her damage is at.
I just got the game yesterday so I'm working my way through story mode. I can already tell that the vast majority of what's in challenge mode is useless and aside from probably the second challenge for each character, you'll probably never use any of it.
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Is she DLC, or is she console specific?
Also, is her gold form like the GG gold forms (altered to be broken and have full tension).
Also I REALLY wish I didn't listen to the people who bitched about DMC4, it's a damn fun game, and I'd say it's up to par with 3. I'm replaying on Legendary Dark Knight mode now, at least until I can't keep playing.
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lambda = nu replacement
hazama, tsubaki = new characters from the get go
mu-12 = unlock via story mode (or for those like me who loathe the blazblue story mode, 160ms points.)
makoto, platinum, valk = future dlc
and i believe the latter half of those colors i posted are "dlc colors"
(http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/3219/1277971466139.jpg)
final random note, seems they changed tagers astral from whatever it was involving mashing d, to a 1060.
a goddamn 1060, little bit tricky to pull off, although jump buffers just fine.
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They changed nearly all of the astrals to be easier. They also let you do them in the first round now.
Original Nu is also a dlc character.
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mu challenge mode mission 5, done by me!
hazama challenge mission 3. failed by me!
getting all 5 hits before hitting the ground, jump before hitting the ground and do them again without hitting the ground....and getting the hcf b at the end, i just can't do it. im just in a feelin like uploading videos to youtube mood today.
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Well, LDK mode in DMC4 is already raping me. The tons of frosts, which can shoot an incredibly strong projectile and heal themselves are hard as hell. I've never fought so many before, and I'm unsure what to do.
Also I'm going to try and raise my hunter rank in Tri so I can do the fun fights, shouldn't take long with my current gear.
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mu-12 challenge mode mission 6
after that, 7 looked too spacing dependent, so i worked for 40 minutes on mission 8, finally got it.
3c, 2b, 5c, 2c, jump, jc, j2c, 2b, 5c, 2c, jump, jc, j2c, 2b xx hcb f c.
it got to the point where i pretty much had the combo down, and i could do the super cancel at the end, but couldn't land it in the combo itself, but rather only separately. going from down, to forward, half circle back forward in a split second is a bit tricky. i think after i completed that i have a better method. down, then kind of a mini 360 from neutral forward and complete the half circle back motion.
ill probably video that later, but i stayed up way to late doing mission 8 (10:30am as i post this), time for some sleep.
(http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/8071/c20100622bbcs08541x.jpg)
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Just picked up Miles Edgeworth: Ace Attorney Investigations today. I played through the first mission and while it certainly has the same charm as the other four games, I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about the new gameplay. I guess I'll see how I like it when the cases start getting more intricate and complex.
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you'll probably never use any of it.
i modified mu-12's mission 8 into something i personally find easier which is an easy 5k damage in a corner.
3c, 2b, 5c, 2c, jc, j2c, 2b, 5c, 2c, jc, j2c, 2b, 5b, whateverthefuckherhalfcircleback c super is
basically instead of going from 2b to super, which i personally find stupidly hard, i am able to chain 2b into 5b making the cancel into super a lot easier. even without meter it's a good combo. though after that last 2b, you can't go back into 5c else it's teachable, else i could do that combo infinitely.
plus doing challenge mode really helps with execution.
VIDEO OF HOW ITS SO EASY EVEN I CAN DO IT (27 seconds long, click it niggers)
(http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/2978/1279362571782.jpg)
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Yeah, that's actually a pretty easy combo and pretty much taken from one of Nu's old combos (although it had like 20 more hits to it since each part in the air was multi-hit).
Doing stuff like that doesn't help with my execution at all though. If I sit and concentrate too much on "okay, get him in a corner or try to push him there to do that big combo I know I can do" then I lose sight of all the stuff I can do outside of that. It has more to do with me using Arakune than anything else. You have to pretty much pay attention to every bit of space around you and pokes until you land enough to hit curse, at which point it becomes all about blockstun and cross-ups. The bugs do most of the comboing for you though.
I really want the dlc characters to start showing up soon. Makoto's supposed to be next week I think. As of right now I've been playing Arakune and Tager (and some Hazama) but none of them really fits my usual style of heavy rushdown very well (Arakune used to...). Makoto seems like she'd do pretty well at it. Tsubaki too but I don't like her drive very much.
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Currently playing:
Alan Wake
Left 4 Dead 2
Final Fantasy XIII
Bayonetta
This sucks, because I never know what I want to finish:
I'm on Chapter 11 of FFXIII
Chapter 12 of Bayonetta
Just started Alan Wake so I really may as well wait until I finish one of the others, then restart Alan Wake
I also just completed Fallout 3 to the point where I'm too lazy to go for anything else. I have just a couple more accomplishments to get, but I don't want to get them.
Not gonna get Starcraft until they bundle all 3 lmao. I don't want to keep buying expansions :(
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Currently playing:
Alan Wake
Left 4 Dead 2
Final Fantasy XIII
Bayonetta
This sucks, because I never know what I want to finish:
I know exactly how you feel, but it has keeped me from constantly spending money on games.
Also so far I'm digging Mass Effect, in fact I'm fairly addicted to it. Still have some sound issues, but it's better. I must say, the Mako parts are rather boring.
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i picked up makoto, did up to mission 6, but not much else at the moment. pretty fun thus far. but playing blazblue is hard when i got starcraft 2...
...but i only played a single 1v1 game.
(http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1422/100ratio.jpg)
after that game i haven't played. not because it will ruin my PERFECT 100% WIN/LOSS RATIO. but this game is damn stressful. now, the game i played, i did win because i wasn't fighting a terran or protoss, but i was playing the best starcraft i have played yet. i wasn't "good" but i kept on truckin, occasionally doing something kind of sweet.
that game WAS really fun, but jesus it stressed me out enough to where i don't want to do another one for a few days. i feel there's a bit more to losing an rts game than a fighting game just because of time spent per match. you lose in sf2, you wasted maby 30 seconds of your time. you lose in an rts? 10, 20, 30 minutes, gone, a lot of the time at the super low levels, you didn't even stand a chance. people arrive at your base with shit when you got none? gg, but not really, you wasted your time, and lost by default. i know theres scouting and stuff, but this ain't an easy game to get the hang of and those losses happen to me frequently. even with that, when you are pressured, you have a million different things to do at the same time, and it's really hard trying to manage everything all the time. (macro, building drones, making sure to spread creep tumors, overlord scouting, queen spawn larva on every hatchery every time)
BUT i just need to grow a pair and play play play, because ill only get better by playing. even losing, even dick losses (hey you have air, i have no anti air for a while, i lose!) net you even basic experience playing the game and getting you quicker and more used to controlling everything. plus, attrition, i have none, but i won that game because i did not quit. the fucker had mutas when i had only two queens for anti air, and no lair to get hydras. i ended up winning because my early pressure made him afraid to start putting the pressure on me.
tldr for this post.
-makoto is delicious
-to get better at starcraft, don't be a pussy, play a lot, have fun, don't worry about losing, don't worry about stats (losing = low rank = FIGHT PEOPLE AT YOUR LOW RANK LEVEL IE MORE FUN)
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I'ma buy me some SC2 when I get the money... Not gonna be for a while yet though. I really need to play a lot as well, because I'm goddamned awful. I guess I should maybe be playing some original SC, but I don't have a real CD key, and ICCup is full of players a million times better than me, even at D level :/
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i can not play blazblue
hit any button? COUNTER, recieve long combo
don't hit any buttin, try to block? they get through recieve long combo.
i land a hit, don't have all my combos on muscle memory, they recover, i eat long combo.
do i have to play for 100 hours in training mode just to beat regular people or what? because unless i pick tager and cheese 720's, i am going to lose, not only lose, but they will have 90% health, every time.
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to get better at blazblue, don't be a pussy, play a lot, have fun, don't worry about losing, don't worry about stats
also work on your yomi
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trying to learn two games at the same time is a bit of a timesink, going to have to pick one.
the one i pick is a game which doesn't punish me for hitting buttons without being a psychic.
(http://starcraft.incgamers.com/gallery/data/504/medium/Hydralisk.jpg)
ill casually work on litchi combos in the meantime, because mu-12 is no character for a beginner.
*edit*
and eggman, about that quoting me, i play at least 90 minutes of blazblue a day. i must just be slow at this. doing combos is fun, so that's my focus right now, going into actual games is frustrating because i can't process the fundamentals of this game yet. i would compare my skill against other players in blazblue as i would any 3d fighter, i will do more damage closing my eyes and mashing buttons than i will actually trying. you know, that applies to marvel too, but i played against others not much better than me the last time i played that so we all ended up having fun, not being training dummies.
anywho, a few days ago this shit took me forever to do, now i can do it with a small amount of attempts.
working on litchi mission 5, but i can't quite do the second combo yet.
...and you know what, ill add to this post.
chugging along the campaign in sc2 and ive been working on some interesting missions. read tiny text if you don't really care about spoilers 4.5/10ths through the game.
MAI GUH PROTOSS MISSIONS. in terms of the missions themselves, i don't like playing as protoss, and im angry at missing a mission objective on a mission which took me a long time(the first one). but, still enjoyable as it's different than the terran stuff. LORE wise it's really interesting in how it deals with the zerg, and how the overmind isn't/wasn't a bad guy and how some entity forced him into doing bad things and whatnot, and how the overmind created kerrigan to save everybody from this impending doom them protoss have some prophecy about. i still have another mission or two to go with that stuff i assume, but it's pretty cool stuff. plus really neat CG videos with kerrigan and zeratul.
i don't normally say this, but im honestly looking forward to seeing what's going to happen next.
*ERRDR
so i did the tiny text up there for some more tiny text down here
protoss "campaign" finished. pretty neat, though the last mission took nearly 50 minutes, and i didn't even get the final achievement. was off by 300 kills or some shit, pretty lame considering in order to finish you have to FAIL. it's a survive till you kill x number of dudes mission, and keep on surviving until you die. pretty interesting, you get tons of money and high tier protoss units to fuck with...so i guess it's cool.
after that i did the next tosh mission, requiring me to pick from tosh or nova, picked tosh due to his brodom, and the nova cameo didn't phase out the fact that she's a bitch.
tosh = specter. specter = ghost but better(aoe stun/almost death for small units > high damage shot to one unit. imo). plus he has perma cloak like a dark templar (regular specter units don't have this until you buy an upgrade, ill assume the same is with ghosts if you picked nova). that mission was pretty cool and unique. one of those "you have one unit go through the level" missions with a bit of a twist, mr raynor has his base building dudes that you don't control to give you backup. thus far, my favorite mission. tosh is just an awesome dude, it's a fun mission, and it's something really unique. plus you get 5 nukes at the end, so let loose.
more than half way through the campaign right now. save for my video card nearly turning into molten lava when the cutscenes play (game runs fine, but you can hear my video card is sweating it's ass off), it's still good stuff mang.
more, always more to add to posts.
http://www.livestream.com/sporcharliemurphy?utm_source=lsplayer&utm_medium=ui-chat&utm_campaign=sporcharliemurphy&utm_content=sporcharliemurphy
when he's streaming live, he's a really good zerg player, and the stream i watched he had some really nice rap music playing in the background.
good rap music, good zerg play, pretty entertaining.
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Spoilers.
I don't think I can save Wrex in Mass effect. There's two options at the end of or argument, and both of them are blanked out.
Also the Mako sections are just plain unfun.
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Also the Mako sections are just plain unfun.
which is why they removed them in the second game.
there's dlc with vehicle segments with some hover vehicle for the second game, but those are actually kind of fun.
*EEWG
don't know why i keep practicing mu combos. i love her in the context of training mode, but i couldn't use her drive in a match if my life depended on it. anywho, i can do challenge 5 pretty frequently now (moreso than that video i posted). still don't have a manage on challenge 7. 2c, jump, dash, jc, j2c, dash, 2b, c, 6c, 2d, jb, jc, jump, jc, j2c.
i CAN NOT land that dash 2b. do it too early, doesn't come out, do it exactly on time, too late. must be super strict timing, or super strict spacing, because i can't land that, otherwise the combo would be easy and i would be working on challenge 9 by now.
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Is that avatar from Starcraft 2?
Also more spoilers:
I chose to save Kaiden over Ashley, felt fairly bad. More so when Shepard says he's sorry, and she replies with something along the lines of "It's okay, I have no regrets".
but yeah, really enjoying the game. One of the few games were I feel like characters are actually fleshed out.
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If by fleshed out you mean "talk about one exact point in their life repeatedly but only when you ask them about it specifically" then yeah, they're fleshed out. Bioware's games have always felt completely wooden to me in terms of characters. Not nearly enough actual talk between the characters without your input and when they do, it's all just generic witty banter garbage.
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Is that avatar from Starcraft 2?
hydralisk from starcraft
uno, not dos
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If by fleshed out you mean "talk about one exact point in their life repeatedly but only when you ask them about it specifically"
I...what? I'm not even sure what you mean, I've only played ME since Dragon Age seemed fairly boring.
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That's all they do. You walk up to Ashley and you get the option to either talk about the one specific thing in her life (her religion and racism) or nothing. You talk about the Flotilla/Quarians with Tali, or nothing. You talk about the genophage with Wrex, or nothing. They have absolutely zero depth to them. They just throw on witty banter during non-cutscenes to try to give them some life but they're all just cardboard cutouts. Dragon Age is even worse overall because it's really really obvious that they're just over-abusing the same characters. Again. Seriously, they've had the exact same cast in every game since KOTOR.
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hot doctor lady, or (hot?) protoss lady(?).
(http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/1033/1281248300648.jpg)
my decision is final.
i have a few missions left, but i play this game at a snails pace (one, maby two missions a day), but 21/25 missions. there's 29 missions, but i believe one of those is a secret after the game or something mission, and the others are parts of the "pick this guy or that guy" when each choice has it's own mission.
most recent mission got me battlecruisers, and that was a fun one...except for the fact the enemy mothership of the level can take my whole fleet offline for 20 second periods, fucker can't stand up against a barrage of yamoto fire.
next mission involves thors, and after that im going to assume everything is done save for the "final" mission line which deals with spoilerey things.
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I've yet to play KOTOR or DA, so I really don't see how it's relevant. I have heard that before, oddly enough. Also you completely skipped Kaiden, Garrus, and Liara.
That and Ashley and Wrex both blab on about their families.
Also I'm getting addicted to 3S with my new pad. I can actually play competently now, and now I have no way of play online because GGPO is a terrible and broken program.
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That would be because Kaiden's a douchebag who's really boring (I was tested on for biotics blah blah blah military blah blah I want on you if you're female), Garrus is also boring (I talk about justice a lot and also this one guy that I didn't get to kill let's go kill him) and Liara's just bland (she doesn't really talk about much of anything that I even remember).
Ashley and Wrex's families are almost non-existent as actual talking points. Brought up once for Wrex just so you can have a quest that goes nowhere and once for Ashley to prove that she's a bitch and no one likes her or her racism.
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Well I can agree (outside of the Garrus, he seemed interesting, just fairly reserved) and it did bother me that the dialog options were limited fairly harshly.
Also Gill is my bitch now. I just beat him with Alex twice with just over a quarter of my health during each match, and he used ressurection during the initial round. All you really need to do is find a move he will hardly counter and play it safe with that. I did a ton of slashes and Alex's jumping middle kick a lot and he hardly felt the need to block or counter them.
Also for some reason, half the time you fight Akuma he goes insane and fights 10 times harder then Gill.
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"in the belly of the beast"
best mission ive played in an rts.
near the end of the game, you have to pick between essentially weakening the ground troops or the air stuff. pick the ground, and you will be awarded with this mission.
it's one of those no base missions where you run through with limited dudes, and it's great. each of the 4 starting characters (figure ill not spoil it) has their own unique ability, there's three "levels" to it (one mission, but 3 parts per say), and even a boss at the end with a nice timed escape segment.
it's great.
24/26 missions complete.
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I'm at that part too. I haven't played that yet though. I was thinking of taking the air guys.
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beat the campaign
the level i thought was second to last ended up being the last, the other level was a hidden level i haven't unlocked.
it was a neat mission though, ending didn't cliffhanger that bad, and i look forward to the zerg campaign coming next.
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I bought the Doom pack, and I cannot seem to get ultimate doom running on my PC. Any way to get pass this? Several windows seem to pop up, and then the screen goes black, and then it all closes.
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Use this (http://'http://grafzahl.drdteam.org/'), you shouldn't be trying to play Doom without a decent source port anyways, unless you're a glutton for punishment or want to play at 320x200 for some horrible reason. Find the DOOM.wad/DOOM2.wad file from your steam directory, and copy/paste it to the GZDoom directory, and you should be good to go.
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First link doesn't work.
Also I finally got around to beating Red Faction Go-rilla. Game was fairly fun, but definitely gets repetitive near the end. It really had awkward weapon pacing (the rail gun basically replaces the sniper, and you get both at about the same time, some of the weapons you come across near/middle are useless) but it was still fairly awesome. Working on the DLC now, already having fun with it.
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grafzahl.drdteam.org/
Just use that. GZDoom really does work better by a mile. And it works with Hexen, which is really nice.
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First link doesn't work.
Try reading the link info when you mouse over it.. The link was: %27http//grafzahl.drdteam.org/'
Ulti, you don't need quote marks around the url in a [url] tag. Just type url=whateverurl.com
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Oh, I got that all working. Also this game is a dumb amount of nostalgia for me. Maybe after this I might get motivated to beat Douk Noukem 3D.
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If you really want a nostalgia trip, give Chocolate Doom (http://www.chocolate-doom.org/) a go. It attempt to replicate the Doom experience, bug for bug, while providing a few options for convenience (i.e. higher screen resolutions, quadrupled heap sizes to allow for larger maps, etc). That said, GZDoom and ZDoom are the best picks for regular play and for playing newer custom maps.
Speaking of custom maps, you should download Doom Builder (http://www.doombuilder.com/) while you're at it. :)
Also, when it comes to Duke Nukem 3D, make sure you're using something like EDuke32 (http://www.eduke32.com/) for peak awesomeness.
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Yeah, I have eduke 32 installed, it's just that it gave me slightly goofy controls for some reason.
Also I feel as if I've lost my urge to play MH tri. I haven't played in a while, but after my last Rathian capture rage quit I'm not sure what to do. I don't feel like grinding HR just to play online (they really need to incorporate the online and offline better, because shit is dumb as is) and I don't see anything worth working towards offline. I'll probably beat it offline, but currently the classic controller is taking some getting used to.
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The controls shouldn't be any different in EDuke32 than they are in regular Duke3D. The controls probably feel odd because WASD and similar modern control schemes didn't exist in 1996.
You should be able to configure them to feel more normal. I was able to configure DOS Duke3D and, to a lesser extent, Doom, operate somewhat close to a modern game.
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Yeah, it's just for some odd reason I can use my mouse, but looking makes me strafe right instead of actually looking (I haven't played in a long time, but that's what I remember) Also I got massively stuck on that one UFO stage, I spent a half hour searching every inch of where I had been and found nothing.
Also Mass Effect is done, shit was rather awesome. spoilers I thought Saren was a horrible final boss, then he went all "FINAL FORM" on me and he was actually pretty hard and fun.
Suppose I can look into Megaman Z4/Fire Emblem/Advance wars now.
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In DOS Duke 3D you can select what the X axis for the mouse does. I'm sure it's the same way in EDuke. I distinctly remember DOS Duke defaulting to looking left/right, but EDuke might have different defaults.
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I'll get back to it then, at least once I beat Doom. I'm in love with this game, I spent a whole stage punching enemies to death due to the fact that I ran out of ammo and luckily found a berserker thing.
I'm onto inferno now, from what I hear the game goes into fuck you mode.
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I'm onto inferno now, from what I hear the game goes into fuck you mode.
Nah, Inferno's relatively tame. Thy Flesh Consumed is where it goes into a mild "screw you" mode.
Final Doom is when it pulls out all the stops and tells you to go fuck yourself.
Hell Revealed is where it's really at. It pretty much rips out your rectum, shoves it down your throat, and removes your scrotum with a rusty blade while forcing you to watch Soulja Boy music videos on repeat until you bleed out. Then it resurrects you and does it again.
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Hahahah oh god HR. Yeah that mapset is pretty damn difficult. Alien Vendetta's later maps get retarded as well (Map26[?] has some literally insane monstercount, something like 2500), and Deus Vult is beyond bullshit on UV, unless you just run through everything (which I assume you're supposed to do).
Also: Used to using IPB >_>
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Ah yeah, MAP26 is...an experience. To make matters, uh, better, most of the later HR levels made saving with the classic Doom engine impossible due to the sheer thing count in some of them. Must suck for speedrunners when they want to try out different things, considering everything but the official DOS Doom executables are banned on sites like COMPET-N.
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I got my Modern Warfare 2 mod for Doom 2 working for a bit, shit's surprisingly fun.
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Ah yeah, MAP26 is...an experience. To make matters, uh, better, most of the later HR levels made saving with the classic Doom engine impossible due to the sheer thing count in some of them. Must suck for speedrunners when they want to try out different things, considering everything but the official DOS Doom executables are banned on sites like COMPET-N.
Yeah I stopped trying with speedruns a few years back, I prefer just going for 100/100/100 now, unless the level is specifically designed not to let you do so. Although I have tied the world record for TAS speedruns on map01... rofl
Also: gonna go into Arena.net's offices tonight and test out GW2, I'll report back.
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popped in dynasty warriors 4, damn i miss this game, and im glad even though i lost my previous copy that i kept my save.
unlocked every character and beat every mission, all co-op. im pretty sure if you've played one dynasty warriors/dynasty warriors styled game, you've played em all, but this is a good ass game.
repetitive? uhh yeah, but it's a guilty pleasure of mine, and even in the two missions i played to see if my save file was up, i can see myself playing this shit again.
seriously though, i don't have level 10 weapons for every character(sun jian is the only one iirc), and im missing some items, THERES STILL MORE I CAN GET OUT OF THIS GAME!
if you can find this game cheap (i got mine at gamestop for $6), and you have a bro to play with, it's a nice time killer.
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Spektur/Ulti, inferno is retarded hard. Beat the first stage no problemo, then I got to the second stage and there is NOT enough ammo to kill at least half these cock suckers.
Oh yeah, and I finally beat Penumbra overture. Good game, just one massive cliff hanger of an ending. Only TWO THINGS bothered me, the hallways filled with dogs being at least 70% of the game was meh, and that one part where you have to find a blank note, take it too a room with an IR light, and look at it THEN was a bit hard to figure out (even with the helpful note).
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Huh. I've never had any issues with Inferno, even on UV.
E3M2 is a bit of a jump in difficulty from E3M1, but as long as you're careful about where you go and how many rounds you put into everyone you should have more than enough ammo to finish it up. You definitely have to conserve at the beginning, though.
Also, if you don't have the plasma gun from E3M1, make sure you get that (i.e. at the end of the level, go back to the room where you grabbed the, IIRC, red key, and there will be a teleporter. There is a cacodemon in that room, but make sure to either skip him or kill him with a shotgun in order to save your cells).
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I must say, I'm not a big fan of Thief deadly shadows. The maps are basically unreadable, and it's just sort of boring to play really.
Welp, doom beaten, outside of thy flesh consumed. Pretty goddamn good game, the final boss was no were near as awesome as the cyber demon fight (the BFG makes things real simple).
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not really what im playing, but why im not playing.
http://www.bitmob.com/articles/the-greatest-reward
this article is fact.
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So, uh, how do I kill the final boss of HL? His head won't open for me to kill him.
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Shoot those crystals on the walls. It took me like 300 years to figure out what the fuck to do on that level as a kid. :|
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Yeah you gotta bust the orange crystals around there. Use the bounce pads to get a good shot with a rocket launcher or something. Or you can hide and snipe with the crossbow.
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oooh, thanks.
and with that, Half Life is DONE.
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CONGRATS BRO. I remember the first time I played that game. I played it when I was young, so the ending with G-Man confused me and I went out the wrong door. "NO REGRETS, MR. FREEMAN"
Finishing ODST soon because I'm gonna sell out and get Halo: Reach. Mostly because my lady friend wants to play through it with me.
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Yeah, took me years (played the game to death with a friend but never beat it).
I must say, after my last time spent with MW2, I can safely say that it's a shit game. I played a game of death match on estate, and it was terrible. I spawned behind at least 5 people who had just respawned themselves and shot them. I spawned in the house and shot at least 5 different people who were just blindly rushing the house. Then one time I spawned in front of a shed, and someone was hiding in it waiting for people to spawn.
Then later on a 3 point capture map (forgot the name of it) my entire team was pushed into a corner with basically no way to counter it. The game directly after that was an HQ map, someone got a gun ship and spent a good 10 minutes bombing the shit, then once someone FINALLY stopped him he called in his tactical nuke and ended the game.
So yeah, in sort it's really unbalanced, kill streaks basically ruin objective based games, and the spawn system is beyond shitty. Glad I didn't buy it.
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I must say, after my last time spent with MW2, I can safely say that it's a shit game.
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So yeah, in sort it's really unbalanced, kill streaks basically ruin objective based games, and the spawn system is beyond shitty. Glad I didn't buy it.
So, just like CoD4? Yeah, not too surprising. I always loved how the game would let you spawn on an airstrike. There's nothing quite like a game that essentially hands people who score well an I WIN button and ensuring that there's absolutely nothing that the other team can do to break that lead.
Don't even get me started on the "story" of MW2 (I've only really played it in single player). I can suspend my disbelief when it comes to CoD4 because it was fairly well-written, but MW2 is just absurd; probably one of the worst video game stories I've come across in the last decade. I think the single player experience would have been better if it was just you shooting random people instead of them trying desperately (and failing miserably) to try to make any of that drivel the least bit believable.
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So, just like CoD4? Yeah, not too surprising. I always loved how the game would let you spawn on an airstrike. There's nothing quite like a game that essentially hands people who score well an I WIN button and ensuring that there's absolutely nothing that the other team can do to break that lead.
I'd say COD4 was definitely not as bad, but it did have it's problems. I remember someone was mocking the balance and then named my primary weapon load out, which made me laugh.
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The games definitely have their issues, but I can safely say I've enjoyed about 98% of the time I've spent playing them. The only time I wasn't necessarily enjoying things was when my friend decided that we needed to play rust like, 5, 6 times in a row. I just got tired of the map.
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Damn, I just don't see it as possible. I mean, I've had fun with it before, but it just seems like I've recently noticed a lot of its glaring flaws.
Oh yeah, and Doom 3 is done. Pretty fun game despite being nothing like doom or doom 2. I wish they hadn't relied SO much on jump scares, shit gets old instantly. I also wish the bosses weren't so boring, outside of the soul cube keeper boss they sucked.
Oh yeah, and I bought Other M today. I thought it had been out for a week at least, but it's coming out tomorrow.
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I haven't really had an enjoyable time playing either of the MW's online, although it may because I'm not a very good FPS player (although I <3 FPS games)
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I'd say COD4 was definitely not as bad, but it did have it's problems.
My main issues with COD4 are that I only enjoyed one or two of the maps, the fact that the game merrily spawned you on top of an airstrike (how that was seemingly missed by all of the game testers is beyond me), and the fact that the game rewarded players with kill streaks by ensuring that they wouldn't lose their lead just annoys the piss out of me.
So yeah, that game pretty much got three huge strikes right off the bat for me.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is my favorite online FPS right now. Every time I play that game I have an absolute blast. They pretty much took the numerous things that were horribly wrong with Battlefield 2 and totally fixed them. Now I just need to play it more...
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I haven't really had an enjoyable time playing either of the MW's online, although it may because I'm not a very good FPS player (although I <3 FPS games)
It's not that hard to play, assuming you own the game. Shit, shooters in general are really simple, and MW2 is a simple shooter. All you need to do is memorize the maps and weapons general spray pattern and you have the game down (considering how accurate the guns in newer COD games are, that's easy).
My main issues with COD4 are that I only enjoyed one or two of the maps, the fact that the game merrily spawned you on top of an airstrike (how that was seemingly missed by all of the game testers is beyond me), and the fact that the game rewarded players with kill streaks by ensuring that they wouldn't lose their lead just annoys the piss out of me.
So yeah, that game pretty much got three huge strikes right off the bat for me.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is my favorite online FPS right now. Every time I play that game I have an absolute blast. They pretty much took the numerous things that were horribly wrong with Battlefield 2 and totally fixed them. Now I just need to play it more...
wat and really? I heard from several people that BC2 has some severe balance issues (Carl Gustav, M60 and something else being 90% of what's being used). Also by the sounds of it, you played too much Deathmatch and Team DM in COD4. Deathmatch/TDM in a shooter were the first person that sees you kills you is a horrible idea to begin with, I've never seen the appeal outside of "OH BOY INSTANT ACTION AND NO THOUGHT REQUIRED". The thing about MW2 is that the more rewarding kill streaks and the infinitely worse respawn system (I've never seen someone camp a spawn point in MW) make objective based games horrible.
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wat and really? I heard from several people that BC2 has some severe balance issues (Carl Gustav, M60 and something else being 90% of what's being used).
Pfft, one of my greatest joys is sneaking around capping people who take Carl Gustavs. I don't think I've seen a game where foliage and forest cover worked so well (a few levels in COD4 used foliage very effectively, but I find that IW's biggest mapping strength is in urban areas). There's nothing more rewarding than sneaking up about fifty feet away from a rocket spammer and blowing their head off, then having your team rush the objective.
Even when I play assault I don't have much of a problem with rocket spammers. As long as you move intelligently, staying behind cover and being wary of enemies, you can usually maneuver yourself to their front line and raise some hell without getting spotted.
Also by the sounds of it, you played too much Deathmatch and Team DM in COD4. Deathmatch/TDM in a shooter were the first person that sees you kills you is a horrible idea to begin with, I've never seen the appeal outside of "OH BOY INSTANT ACTION AND NO THOUGHT REQUIRED".
See, the thing is, I find TDM to be very fun, even in COD4. In the urban maps I don't think I'd have it any other way, honestly.
I understand that a few of the maps might be better played with point capture or other game modes, but about half of the maps in that game simply don't appeal to me at all. Saying that I only like one or two is a gross exaggeration, but I can pretty safely and honestly say that I simply don't like half of the maps.
The thing about MW2 is that the more rewarding kill streaks and the infinitely worse respawn system (I've never seen someone camp a spawn point in MW) make objective based games horrible.
Yeah, the only spawn issues I've had in COD4 is the airstrike problem. Nothing makes me rage quite as much as dying, waiting 20 seconds to spawn, spawning, then immediately dying to an airstrike and having to wait another 20 seconds to come back in.
Helicopters are just fine. I almost think that the rewards should have been reversed. The only time I've ever seen masses of people die to a helicopter is when I run into a team that thinks the RPG is strictly designed to be an anti-personnel weapon.
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Interesting, I might buy it when it goes on sale then (BC2, that is).
Also, I'm more then likely going to buy Muramasa on Amazon. It's only like 20 bucks.
and now that you mention it, having the majority of your team wiped out in sabotage (well, the round based game mode) is so goddamn irritating. Still, I giggle like a little girl when I do it, and most smart teams realize it's coming and get the fuck out of the way.
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Interesting, I might buy it when it goes on sale then (BC2, that is).
Cool. Let me know if you start playing. I think my in-game name is Spectere84.
I probably wouldn't advise playing the single-player campaign, by the way. It's a good way to lose brain cells.
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See, the thing is, I find TDM to be very fun, even in COD4.
I miss the Team Deathmatch that was Team Fortress 1.5 (or Classic if you played before the big June 2000 update). Fantastic game, so ungoldy good. I have no idea how many hours I put into that thing before High School took over my life. It was one of VERY FEW class based games that I actually to to actively be ALL of the classes.
I probably wouldn't advise playing the single-player campaign, by the way. It's a good way to lose brain cells.
Really? Damn, I so badly wanted Bad Company 2 to have a good campaign. I thought the original Bad Company was alright. Nothing fantastic, but not bad either. I hoped #2 would make up for it. Ah well, I'll have Halo:Reach soon (getting it mostly for the co-op with the gf)
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I miss the Team Deathmatch that was Team Fortress 1.5 (or Classic if you played before the big June 2000 update). Fantastic game, so ungoldy good. I have no idea how many hours I put into that thing before High School took over my life. It was one of VERY FEW class based games that I actually to to actively be ALL of the classes.
Oh gawd, you mean the original Quake mod? If so, can I hug you?
I thought that Quake TF was even better than TFC. I don't know what it was, but TFC just didn't feel right to me.
Man, I don't even want to guess how many hours I spent playing that damn game (with Rocket Arena matches scattered between every few matches, of course). Ah, 1997...
Really? Damn, I so badly wanted Bad Company 2 to have a good campaign. I thought the original Bad Company was alright. Nothing fantastic, but not bad either. I hoped #2 would make up for it. Ah well, I'll have Halo:Reach soon (getting it mostly for the co-op with the gf)
I got about three levels in before I felt like putting my head through my monitor. Maybe I'll give it another shot one of these days...could have just be in a negative mood last time I played it or something.
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Nah, for some reason I never got into the Quake stuff. It was all from the Half Life releases...
... can I still have a hug?
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Oh. Well then.
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Eh, what the hey.
/hug
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Funny how many Quake mods become games of their own. Then again, doesn't a fucking ton of games run on some sort of Quake engine (I know unreal is popular, but isn't Quake right behind it?).
Also so far I'm enjoying Metroid Other M. Seems fairly linear, but it looks like I'll have a LOT of backtracking to do (it shows items on the map, which is retarded IMO, but it's still fairly unclear how to reach most of them). The last boss I fought (This giant bee hive) was fairly goddamn hectic.
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Funny how many Quake mods become games of their own. Then again, doesn't a fucking ton of games run on some sort of Quake engine (I know unreal is popular, but isn't Quake right behind it?).
Not for newer games. Unreal is definitely on top, the Source engine is undoubtedly in second, with id Tech being behind it. I don't believe Source shares much, if anything, with the Quake-derived GoldSrc engine. Even if it did, the current id Tech engines are a radical departure from the previous ones.
If you're including older games, the id Tech engines definitely beat Source. Technically, everything from Doom to Rage are consider id Tech engines (Doom being 1, Quake/Quake2 being 2, Q3A being 3, Doom 3 being 4, and Rage being 5), so that's quite a bit of market share over a good stretch of time.
Also so far I'm enjoying Metroid Other M. Seems fairly linear, but it looks like I'll have a LOT of backtracking to do (it shows items on the map, which is retarded IMO, but it's still fairly unclear how to reach most of them). The last boss I fought (This giant bee hive) was fairly goddamn hectic.
Most of the Metroid games that have in-game maps tell you whether there is an item in the room, actually. As you've surmised, the trick is actually finding how to get to them.
One perfect example is in Zero Mission. Near the end of the game there is a hidden item that is only accessible if you use a complex series of speed boosts and shinesparks (Samus's dash and mid-air charge moves, respectively) spanning about four or five screens to reach it.
Zero Mission also has a decently well-hidden secret in Brinstar. After you defeat Mother Brain, you can go down to see her lair in ruins. In the screen past her lair, there is a wall that must be dashed through (or rubble, I don't remember which). The only problem is that there is no room to do so. What you have to do is go a few rooms to the right, speed boost, then screw attack all the way through Mother Brain's chambers -- being careful not to hit the ceiling or land -- and blow through the wall and into the escape tunnel, then through the left wall and into a secret chamber. Basically, you have to put all of the pieces together and do a speed boosted screw attack.
So, yeah, finding the items has never been a problem. Getting them is the real puzzle. It's kind of a nifty take on the carrot-and-the-stick approach, and I think it suits the game well.
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It's generally much simpler then in the other games, what with a lot about a third or so of them basically being tossed into your face. I'm sort of on the fence, the game goes from fun to boring, at least so far the enemy variety seems good. Also the controls are fine, I really don't see how people have a problem with them.
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HOME ALONE 2
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Holy fuck, you reminded me of this game. God damn, this traumatized my childhood. I thought all I had to do was hide when suddenly A GODDAMN PEDOPHILE BUSTS INTO THE BASEMENT AND OH NO.
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HOME ALONE 2
I see your Home Alone 2 for the SNES and raise you Home Alone 2 for DOS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4ncuHnzdX0).
Yeah.
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I see your Home Alone 2 for the SNES and raise you Home Alone 2 for DOS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4ncuHnzdX0).
Yeah.
Wow. Wow, I. Wow.
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Wow. Wow, I. Wow.
Yeah, I played that game when I was a kid. It's easy as hell (unless you don't realize that there's a jump button, like the guy in the video).
Oh well, at least the graphics look really nice compared to the console releases. VGA FTW.
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played some vidya...beat one? aye aye captain!
im not a big "survival horror" guy, and this game is slightly different than the typical games in the genre, but i still played it, beat it, and enjoyed it.
fear effect. pretty damn good game, now im playing fear effect 2. currently on disc 1. by disc 1, i mean i completed enough of the game to switch to disc 2, i completed enough to switch from disc 2 to...disc 1 again...yeah.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Fear_effect_2.jpg)
now that im in the fear effect groove, it's pretty shitty the third game got canceled. though, there is a slim possibility of another fear effect game eventually surfacing.
Eidos still owns the name and all related rights to the Fear Effect franchise, and has said on occasion that it hasn't ruled out the possibility of ever revisiting the series, but as it currently stands there is nothing officially planned or in the works.
and from the footage ive seen of the third fear effect game, im curious to know if it was another prequel, or a sequel of the first game using the ending granted from beating the game on hard.
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Playing through STALKER:SoC with Complete 2009, and it's turning my 8800GTS into jelly >:(
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Really? Damn, I heard it was really demanding but that's insane.
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Well, it's also probably my lack of RAM, but running it maxed out really rapes my framerate, particularly in big maps like the Military Warehouses and Red Forest. I think it's mostly the new shaders and lighting effects, the Argoprom underground took my FPS to like 3 from all the flashing lights and stuff when I had my lighting/shadows quality turned up, but turning it down to medium made it run just fine. All the new textures and stuff are really nice though, and there's very few actual gameplay tweak, I'm so used to running Oblivion Lost where you get all the crazy artifacts that basically make you invincible towards the end of the game that I forgot how much of a difficulty spike there is at Red Forest/Pripyat.
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Well, it's also probably my lack of RAM, but running it maxed out really rapes my framerate, particularly in big maps like the Military Warehouses and Red Forest. I think it's mostly the new shaders and lighting effects, the Argoprom underground took my FPS to like 3 from all the flashing lights and stuff when I had my lighting/shadows quality turned up, but turning it down to medium made it run just fine.
The STALKER engine is awful. You could upgrade to a 6-core Core i7 with quad GTX 480s and it'll still find a way to lag. STALKER:SoC lagged occasionally on my C2Q and 9800GTX when I had it without installing any fancy mods. I don't even want to imagine what it would have been like with any mods installed.
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Oh, yeah, I know, I played through Vanilla the first time. The X-Ray engine is optimized so poorly it's funny, but at least the version they used in CoP isn't nearly as buggy. Oh well, I still enjoy shootin' me some russians, despite any framerate issues.
Also: Kritzkrieg + Soldier pretty much equates to the entire enemy team wiped, multiple times. 8)
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the lesbian content in this game reminds me of fear effect 2
(http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/5864/ffxivadultcontent.jpg)
I WONT COMPLAIN
but i will complain about not knowing what the fuck im doing. it's 2010, not 2000. i shouldn't be struggling to figure out basic things, like how i move my map, or WHAT THE FUCK DO I DO WHEN I DIE IM JUST LAYING THERE DEAD AND THEN...FUCKING NOTHING! (you have to go into your menu, and hit a new command blended in the options called "return")
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Also: Kritzkrieg + Soldier pretty much equates to the entire enemy team wiped, multiple times. 8)
Yeah, if you have a semi compitent solider it wrecks. Same with Demo men.
and the x-ray engine is shit, stalkers modding community is sort of built around that and the fact that the game was rushed.
oh and Vlad, dat fan service.
Also I'm pleasantly surprised with how hard some bosses in Muramasa are. I switched to playing the female charecter and got to the giant wheel boss, and he's killed me like 5 different times.
Also also also how about dat Amnesia? Anyone plan on getting it? Penumbra didn't really scare me so I hope this will be scarier.
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played and completed the shadow broker dlc
FUCKING AWESOME
talking about pretty much any of it is big goddamn spoilers. tiny text time.
-asari spectere boss fight, FUCKING GOOD SHES CRAZY AND TELEPORTS EVERYWHERE
-the shadow broker himself, MOTHERFUCKER WILL EAT YOU
-the epic shadow broker boss fight, boss fights in this game aren't really "good", but cinematically , it was a very entertaining fight
-the liara stuff, they pretty much do the good stuff, and the romance talk is carried out good...and the fact that liara stops being a cunt, they made up for it with this dlc
-i warned you bro, i warned you about reading tiny text LIARA IS THE NEW SHADOWBROKER bro
but it keeps happening
I TOLD YOU DOG, I TOLD YOU ABOUT THAT TINY TEXT
obviously i liked it. they didn't do anything to blatantly piss me off, sure it's not exactly original in what they did in certain parts, but i don't really care, i liked it. only kick in the balls is the beat the dlc on hardcore or insanity achievement. i really don't want to do some of that content on a harder difficulty, even having completed the normal game on insanity, something tells me the dlc will be harder than the hardest part in the non dlc game on hardcore or insanity. but story wise, it's great. want closure with liara that the normal game didn't give you? great. want some cool goodies after completing the dlc (party member respecs for one, anything else would probably be spoiler territory). great.
took me roughly two hours to complete, and costs 800 mspoints equaling $10.00 usd. now i have to do the dlc that came out before this one, kind of missed it. might get to it later.
one more thing one more thing
mass effect 1 asari consort. doing the mission with her and doing the xeltan stuff, she gives you an item. this item is needed on some random planet in the middle of nowhere not related to anything to find a prothean artifact. it's some kind of silver orb which knocks you out and there's a lot of text to read.
it might not be much, but i think it's really cool when YOU GET THAT ARTIFACT as a little trophy in your quarters. it's pretty neat.
pretty damn sure nobody who visits this site knows what the fuck i just said, but that's ok.
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Glad to hear it, I should be getting mass effect 2 soon. Also I really don't have much interest in the Witcher, I'll probably continue playing it but it's far from a high priority.
Also I'm starting to get back into SF4. Getting a new controller REALLY helped with this game. I can now play Bison and actually get off head stomps, I'm actually enjoy Able now and I don't feel as gimped.
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i ain't really good at sf4, but bison is my best character.
if you want to succeed with bison, you need to get his clk, clk, clk, clk, lk siscor kicks down. i really don't have the timing down anymore, but that is a very important skill to have when using bison.
another thing about said dlc in previous post. they made liara cooler, and at the same time changed her physical appearance. i personally think it looks better. she looks more...organic? well, more real than the previous model.
(http://img814.imageshack.us/img814/361/800pxlairoftheshadowbro.png)
also, speculation, but ill tiny text it anyway since i spoil some stuff.
the asari bartender on illium is probably liara's dad. liara is a pureblood asari, matriarch aethyta had a pureblood daughter. beating the shadow broker dlc unlocks a video archive, one of the videos is matriarch aethyta staring at a picture of liara. plus stuff with being distant with the mother or something, i think it adds up. im going to take it as a hint we will see more in future dlc/mass effect 3
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i ain't really good at sf4, but bison is my best character.
if you want to succeed with bison, you need to get his clk, clk, clk, clk, lk siscor kicks down. i really don't have the timing down anymore, but that is a very important skill to have when using bison.
You mean his crouching MK into scissors? Couching MK basically combos psyco crusher and that. The only thing I have trouble with is doing jump in middle kick, crouching middle kick, and the his scissors.
Also yeah, she looks a lot less DERP then she did in the first game.
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no, i don't mean cmk. the lk links into siscor kicks is good pressure and chip damage.
i can't really talk because i don't know my stuff in sf4, but if you watch a good bison play, you will see plenty of clk links to sk.
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bought and beat the overlord dlc. pretty good, nice mix of hammerhead stuff and on foot stuff, with a pretty damn trippy/neat boss at the end.
i have all of the dlc that isn't payed weapon/costume packs. now i just need to beat the shadowbroker dlc on hardcore or insanity and ill have all the achievements again. i hope i can just turn the difficulty slider on insanity or hardcore before i do the mission, and not "you have to have the slider on the difficulty at the game start" bullshit. because i deleted the insanity playthrough file was deleted immediately after the achievement popped.
as for when ill get to it, i have a maleshep file i want to complete, but he's an adept, not sure if ill tackle the mission with him.
then there's a femshep sentinel i want to start, starting with mass effect 1.
so i have two options, and ill get to both of them eventually.
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http://shoryuken.com/content/chun-li-s-new-super-street-fighter-4-outfit-throwback-1718/
fucking link, now im playing ssfiv again.
was dicking around. i don't like most the entire roster. gen is not mainable. bison i don't want to main. honda is a little over my head. chun was my OLD sf4 main, i think ill try coming back to her. the bro i play against uses makoto, so if i fuck up with zoning, BAM BYE BYE GG TIME FOR THE NEXT ROUND. probably do with chun like i have been doing with mu the past few weeks. everytime i have nothing better to be doing, pop in "fighting game" and do that training mode.
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People actually play Makoto? I spent all of one match with her and decided that she was dead to me. Also I'm really slipping in SF4. I hate how lose the inputs are in that game (went for ultra, got Abel's borderline useless anti air grab) and I can't play an aggressive Bison for the life of me.
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if i ignore what "people" are saying about makoto, and base my experience from just playing my "sparring partner"'s makoto. i would flat out tell you that makoto is a solid character.
but i can't zone worth shit with chun right now, so when i get that down, maby ill call makoto a piece of trash only better than hakan. until then, she's solid, and kicks my ass more often than not.
and mortified, i hope you don't have the "i can't find a main syndrome" i have in this specific game. i can find mains in other games easy enough, even blazblue i ended up liking mu-12. but i have over 200 hours of super and vanilla played and i can not find a main. for now im sticking with chun, but as the past has shown, i can't stick with a single character in this game. though, there's always hope ill figure chun out and stick with her.
(http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/5931/1272190607130.jpg)
advice for capcom regarding chun in street fighter 5. chun is a cop, GIVE ME MY CHUN POLICE OFFICER OUTFIT PLEASE, IT WOULD BE AWESOME! however, if not possible, you have been forgiven for her a2 being her alpha outfit...but i guess you aren't forgiven because bison's only good outfit is his default, GIVE ME A GOOD BISON COSTUME PLEASE!
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and mortified, i hope you don't have the "i can't find a main syndrome" i have in this specific game. i can find mains in other games easy enough, even blazblue i ended up liking mu-12. but i have over 200 hours of super and vanilla played and i can not find a main. for now im sticking with chun, but as the past has shown, i can't stick with a single character in this game. though, there's always hope ill figure chun out and stick with her.
I sort of do, but I've taken a liking to Abel and Sagat (haters gonna hate) and Bison works well against my friends spammy shotos (head stompin' and blocking that shit all day). Also From my personal experience, I couldn't stand Makoto. She feels like an all around gimped version of her third strike one.
Oh yeah, and the AI in SF4 is shit. It cheats hard and then whiffs ultras left and right.
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y'know, i am still playing fear effect 2. the game isn't scarey or anything, but im not playing it alone because of this shit.
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though, i guess fallout 1 had creepier music, and honestly diablo 1 had some damn creepy jams. but this track is creepy, and i don't know why. maby it's the synth. maby it is a little creepy of a game, that music, zombies that literally fall out of the sky, and rooms full of unkillable enemies, game's theme has just drastically changed.
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I started playing Mass Effect the other day. For as long as I've owned it, first on 360 (used copy), then on PC, it took it this long to hook its fangs into me. Man, that's a good game.
Honestly, I have about a million little criticisms of it, but they aren't huge enough to get in the way of it being an insanely fun and interesting game. The action feels pretty nice, though the cover system is a little bit broken on PC (automatic cover with keyboard and mouse controls just doesn't feel right -- I often get stuck when I try to move through gaps in mid-fight). The way the story progresses and you (and your character) learn and grow as time goes on is very rewarding. The Mass Effect universe and its history feel very alive and real, and the way that the various species interact with one another feels genuine.
I haven't done many of the infamous MAKO parts yet, though I feel like I've done enough. That's the weakest point of the game by far. The vehicle physics are hilariously broken that it's not hard to laugh when this big military vehicle fails to remain stable and starts spinning around wildly while going up a smooth hill on a planet with Earth-like gravity. It's kind of a shame, since the planet surface segments could have been done far better. Luckily, it doesn't seem like you have to do that to finish up the plot missions, so I suppose I could live with it.
So yeah...I like it.
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Honestly, I have about a million little criticisms of it, but they aren't huge enough to get in the way of it being an insanely fun and interesting game.
this is fact, game has a ton of minor flaws, and even more bugs.
Luckily, it doesn't seem like you have to do that to finish up the plot missions, so I suppose I could live with it.
if you don't care about exp, even on insanity difficulty, you can just avoid combat in the mako sections of the plot missions. just drive forward, be smart about jumping and avoiding fire, and it's easy to get to where you need to go. i beat the game on hardcore difficulty in 4 hours, did not spend much time in the mako. if you want to do side missions, expect a lot of mako driving, even if you intend on avoiding all of the optional extra stuff on each planet.
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My Insanity run was a speed run that took 3 and a half hours I think?
I absolutely loathe how Bioware does character development though. It's completely unnatural. You get "witty" quips every now and then during a mission or in an elevator but then on the ship none of the characters ever references any of the others, no one cares about anyone else and no one moves from their one singular spot or says anything unless you specifically walk up to them at which point they start talking about one specific thing in their entire lives and you just ask questions about it until they start repeating themselves.
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this is fact, game has a ton of minor flaws, and even more bugs.
I haven't run into any real bugs yet. I know the PC version was riddled with them at one point in time, but it seems like they were patched away.
Speaking of the PC version, I really like how they decided to add the tactical HUD back into it. Really helps for moving the borderline-suicidal characters (I'm looking at you, Kaiden and Garrus) out of harm's way.
if you don't care about exp, even on insanity difficulty, you can just avoid combat in the mako sections of the plot missions. just drive forward, be smart about jumping and avoiding fire, and it's easy to get to where you need to go. i beat the game on hardcore difficulty in 4 hours, did not spend much time in the mako. if you want to do side missions, expect a lot of mako driving, even if you intend on avoiding all of the optional extra stuff on each planet.
Yeah, I already ran into the one where you have to destroy the four geth outposts. That one was kind of disappointing. I was hoping for some sort of epic finisher but it wound up just being another easy run-and-gun.
I absolutely loathe how Bioware does character development though. It's completely unnatural. You get "witty" quips every now and then during a mission or in an elevator but then on the ship none of the characters ever references any of the others, no one cares about anyone else and no one moves from their one singular spot or says anything unless you specifically walk up to them at which point they start talking about one specific thing in their entire lives and you just ask questions about it until they start repeating themselves.
The problem, as I see it, is that doing the work to have every character specifically reference every other character would be both a scripting and voice-over nightmare. There are far worse ways that they could have done it, really. While the method for extracting the character's backstory is borderline sketchy (though it is sort of explained through Shepard wanting to get to know his/her crew better), I do like how much information is available on each of the characters (at least at the beginning of the game; not sure if it dries up just yet).
The repeated questions and dialogue should have definitely been dealt with, though. If they wanted to make that sort of information readily available, the factoid in question should have been summarized in a sort of dossier system.
What I find to be truly loathsome is the way that Bethesda tries to force its "plots" on us. In Oblivion you wind up with a character that's a complete half-wit and is totally impervious to any worldly knowledge and in Fallout 3 you get a character who is borderline psychic (he can ask questions about things that he doesn't even know exists). I don't even think that they know what character development is, actually, so you probably can't even count any of their games as a comparison to stuff like Mass Effect.
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Dragon Warrior VII.
I'm about 50 hours in and am past the half-way point of the game. I'm going to do some of the side-quests, mainly reviving God, the bonus dungeon, Zion Cave, and MAYBE monster park. I still haven't gotten Aira yet, but that's coming up pretty soon. I've been grinding a lot, trying to master as many classes as I can, but it's just too much. If I tried mastering all the classes the game has to offer, I'd lose my mind. Hell, making it to level 99 isn't even that hard once you start encountering metal slimes-types.
It's the greatest game I've played in a long while, though. Final Fantasy sucks.
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FUCK MASS EFFECT. Good god, I bought myself a month of time on EVE and started downloading the client. 2.6GB. Hmm, figured I might as well amuse myself while it downloaded, so I figured I'd start up Mass Effect and knock a few quests off of my ever-growing list. That was about 7:00PM.
It's 4:30AM now. FUCK.
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your face
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WHAT HAVE I BEEN PLAYING
THANKS FOR ASKING I PLAYED ABOUT 3 HOURS OF SUPER STREET FIGHTER 4 TODAY AGAINST A GUY I MET ON A /V/ IRC WHO IS FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA. HE PLAYED RYU, MAKOTO, DUDLEY, AND DAN, AND I PLAYED CHUN, GEN, TONY MOTHERFUCKING HAWK, AND M BISON.
WE KICKED EACHOTHERS ASSES AND LIKED IT!
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your face
Oh hey, I saved her blue ass before I finally found the willpower to exit the game.
Still debating on whether to make her or Ashley my virtual girlfriend. Ashley always pisses me off with her post-mission comments, but she makes up for it in her off-the-record chat charm. I don't "know" Liara well enough to make any judgments.
Of course, if I could, I'd probably go for Wrex just because I think that would be absolutely hilarious. I can see it kind of being like spending the night with Barrett at the Golden Saucer in Final Fantasy VII.
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ME PLAYING CHUN AGAINST MAKOTO
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NOVICE MATCHEESSeses
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speaking of chun, how bout chun in a game i don't chun?
ive fought this chun before, he's pretty rape. but his opponent thelo is one of the best hdr hondas.
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I beat Mass Effect...
...then I went ahead and did a New Game+. Ugh.
I would have bought Mass Effect 2, but I've already spent my entertainment budget for this pay period of an iPod Touch, so it'll just have to wait. Besides, I still need to get a straight 10 on both charm and intimidate so that I can make a bipolar Shepard.
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You could have just abused the paragon/renegade glitch on Noveria (the snow place? yeah) where you tell that one guy to testify in court (or not for renegade points) and then when he asks if there's anything else, you can just tell him to do it again and again and again and again.
I ended up ordering Halo: Reach. I didn't like Halo 3 but I'm assured by many pirates that the game is nowhere near the clunkiness of 3. And I honestly did enjoy the Halo: Reach beta. Especially Juggernaut. So much fun.
And I think I'll be doing some system link parties seeing as how I have a 42" TV and two couches upstairs and a 50" TV and a couch and two chairs down in the basement. It'll work out perfectly as long as I can get one of my friends to bring with his 360, get a nice long crossover cable to connect them and get a couple of usb hubs so everyone can use their gamertags and gain points/customization stuff.
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Yeah, I read about that after the fact, but I read (http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Morality) that if you do that trick it'll cause problems if you import the save into Mass Effect 2. I'd rather not risk it.
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I ended up ordering Halo: Reach. I didn't like Halo 3 but I'm assured by many pirates that the game is nowhere near the clunkiness of 3. And I honestly did enjoy the Halo: Reach beta. Especially Juggernaut. So much fun.
Please tell me so once you get it, I'm hoping it's good considering ALL my friends are hitting that bandwagon hard and fast.
Also I've re-fallen for Other M. The, assuming first, Ridley fight was actually surprisingly difficult and fun, and cutscenes that followed were actually enjoyable (more so the one were Samus activates space jump and says "any objections, Adam?").
Also spectere, that was fast.
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Also spectere, that was fast.
I put in about 26 hours in three days. :x
I didn't complete all of the side missions, so that shaved quite a bit off of my play time. I finished the game at...level 44, I think.
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I was the same level, but I took forever . I don't think playing several games at a time is helpful to beating one fast.
Okay, fuck SF4, at least online. Nothing I do offline seems to work online, and shotos can do whatever the fuck they want with little to no risk. The only thing that seems punishable is a heavy SRK, and even then you can to be fucking on top of them when they land and most people aren't dumb enough to through that out all over the place. I just lost to an Akuma that ran and spammed fire balls at a distance (I chased down and beat my friends Akuma who did a better job of running with Zangief, couldn't do it online as Sagat). I lost to a Sagat player who jumped and spammed kick because Able has no anti-air shit.
The thing that topped it off was fucking Ryu doing a hurricane kick, me jabbing like a mad man waiting for my block stun to stop, and his grab going off directly afterwords beat out my fucking jab. That's just downright horrible game design.
I KNOW I'm better then these played, I've beaten my friends who play much smarter, but online I just can't get shit off, and EVERYTHING shoto does is easy to do.
OH BOY, SURE DO LOVE HAVING MY SWEEPS PUNISHED BY AN ANTI AIR ATTACK. Goddamn this game is shit. Like, a total step backwards for the fighting game genre. They shouldn't dumb down fighting games just to get a broader audience, that's what the shooter genre is for.
Oh, and Doom 2 started cycling me through levels I had already beaten, what the fuck is going on with that?
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I was the same level, but I took forever . I don't think playing several games at a time is helpful to beating one fast.
Yeah, I just played it obsessively for a few days. It was kind of scary because I very rarely do that with games.
Oh, and Doom 2 started cycling me through levels I had already beaten, what the fuck is going on with that?
Eh? How's that happening?
Did you BREAK it? ;<
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man i love hdr. unless something inevitable is happening (example, low health, they throw a fireball to hit me as i get up doing enough chip damage to kill), i rarely doubt my ability to come back in a round.
i just learned a "psudo" touch of death. so if i have meter, and i land a crossup, guaranteed win for me. i don't have any non meter touch of deaths down, im not sure if it's ST specific in what im trying, or just really hard links. but what i do have is pretty neat.
zangief obviously.
crossup down fierce, c jab, s strong, c roundhouse. that will do around 60% damage, and dizzy. i could do it again, but due to health counting as more the lower you get, it leaves them with about 5% health left. but if i have super, i can just do an easy jump buffer 720 and kill after the dizzy.
still, it's a pretty cool trick. it sounds broken, but every character has bullshit like this, and i have a hard enough time landing a crossup in a normal game as is. in the many games ive played thus far, ive never been hit by a touch of death combo.
so ive been playing that. against randoms, im zangief only, rarely pick other characters. but if i get some bros to play (a few irl friends of mine will EVENTUALLY get the game), im thinking about picking up vega, or going more in depth with dee jay.
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ohh, and i finally got the execution for 360 k down. it's a bit more finicky than the 360 p for some reason.
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it sounds broken, but every character has bullshit like this
Just because everyone is broken, doesn't mean it's not broken. I think that's the biggest thing I have against SF: People can do shit like that and basically just win, and you can't do jack about it. I mean, aside from having flawless defense and never letting you land a crossup when you have meter, there's no way to actually prevent that. At least in GG and BB, you've got brusts, and a lot of different things preventing someone from comboing you to death, and such. And the instant kill moves are damn near impossible to pull off, to the point that in competitive play, they are useless.
And if you say that GG is unbalanced, please refer to This article (http://www.sirlin.net/articles/fail-safes-in-competitive-game-design-a-detailed-example.html) by David Sirlin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirlin).
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i did not call it broken. i just said it "sounds" broken, implied to people like you who don't play st/hdr.
ill tell you a secret only us super turbo pros know, a secret tip with the special strategy to not let a 100% crossup ToD happen.
BLOCK
And the instant kill moves are damn near impossible to pull off, to the point that in competitive play, they are useless.
you could say the same thing applies to ST, dun dun dunnnnnn
also, why compare st to gg? i guess i can compare the first quake game to unreal tournament 2004, same principle.
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And the instant kill moves are damn near impossible to pull off, to the point that in competitive play, they are useless.
Mike Z lol
That's Mike Z though so ridiculousness is to be expected.
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That's one damn good use of tager. One of the best Tager matches I've seen so far. And Xie isn't exactly a weak opponent, either.
Also, astrals have a lot of restrictions, compared to GG's instant kills, which could be activated any time you have tension. (Of course, since tension goes down after entering the right mode to do the instant kill, the less tension you have, the less time you have to get the move off.)
And why compare street fighter and guilty gear? They are both fighting games, and the mechanics of street fighter seem ridiculous to me.
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I think it's pretty much impossible to block a move every single time someone tries it. Hence why I think that stuff like that is overpowered. IMO SF punishes you way too much for making one small mistake. Kinda makes sense that half the people online play like a bunch of asshats, spam bullshitshit that's hard to deal with, or turtle hardcore.
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I've also seen someone do it with Jam in GGAC (they comboed into it, which is worse).
BUT, I want to know which Quake game has the best single player? I hear good things about Q2.
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I think it's pretty much impossible to block a move every single time someone tries it. Hence why I think that stuff like that is overpowered. IMO SF punishes you way too much for making one small mistake. Kinda makes sense that half the people online play like a bunch of asshats, spam bullshitshit that's hard to deal with, or turtle hardcore.
you should really play the game before criticizing it.
if you can't block a damn crossup, you deserve to lose the round.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/9152819
hour and 10 minutes in is where the hdr starts. watch the game. EVERYTHING DOES A TON OF DAMAGE, there is no damage scaling, that is how st is. st is not guilty gear. yes, they are both fighting games, but no, you can not compare them.
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I think it's pretty much impossible to block a move every single time someone tries it. Hence why I think that stuff like that is overpowered. IMO SF punishes you way too much for making one small mistake. Kinda makes sense that half the people online play like a bunch of asshats, spam bullshitshit that's hard to deal with, or turtle hardcore.
That's why things like zoning are much more important in SF, and people play like that online because A.) they are bad at the game and B.) they are trying to compensate/exploit the lag.
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Ok, I'm not trying to be an asshole, and sorry if I come off as one. I've seen SF gameplay. I've always cringed at how much damage stuff does. Again and again, I've said that this is my opinion. I just personally think that making everything do a ton of damage is stupid.
I guess since SF has fewer options for things to do, blocking a crossup is easier, but I still think it's kinda ridiculous to have a ToD that you can initiate off of a crossup.
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i spend a lot of money
i played reach yesterday. friend brought it over, did SPLIT SCREEN ONLINE MULTIPLAYER with some bros. i yelled a lot, but it was alright. figure i pick it up to get some games in with my brethren. but i mean, the bullshit in halo is a lot less than call of duty, but at the same time because of that, harder to get kills.
the best part, two of em are getting sf2hdr hopefully around next paycheck. hopefully alternate in-between games.
pic related to vidya
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and civ v next week...
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Ok, I'm not trying to be an asshole, and sorry if I come off as one. I've seen SF gameplay. I've always cringed at how much damage stuff does. Again and again, I've said that this is my opinion. I just personally think that making everything do a ton of damage is stupid.
I guess since SF has fewer options for things to do, blocking a crossup is easier, but I still think it's kinda ridiculous to have a ToD that you can initiate off of a crossup.
I'd agree, but ST is an OLD game. It's just how the game is played, like how getting dust looped in guilty gear basically fucks you over majorly (fuck, getting trapped in a corner can get you fucked over by someone who is good with Eddie).
Also I'm finally in love with 3S. I'm getting a hold of Makoto, I've got a good handle of Dudley, and I can already use Ibuki and Alex decently enough (really have a plan of attack involving Ibuki's or Alex's supers, but I'm working on it).
Goddamn GGPO needs to unfuck their program.
Holy fuck, I just stomped Gill's skull in. I was using Makoto, and in the second round I trapped him in a corner, grabbed him several times, stunned him and KOed him. After that he resurrects and has almost full health, I then attack and end up killing him without losing half of my health. Felt amazing.
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that 3s online needs to come out already. im fine with ggpo when it works, but it's the arcade version. no training mode. so ill use hugo until i have access to training mode, then ill switch to urien. i mean, learning how to use aegis reflector, and his charge partitioning stuff, i would really prefer training mode to learn that stuff.
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Halo Reach is really fun online unless you get Team Slayer DMRs or SWAT, at which point the game becomes terrible. Most boring fights ever and you just die from instant headshots every 10 seconds.
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that 3s online needs to come out already. im fine with ggpo when it works, but it's the arcade version. no training mode. so ill use hugo until i have access to training mode, then ill switch to urien. i mean, learning how to use aegis reflector, and his charge partitioning stuff, i would really prefer training mode to learn that stuff.
Yeah, the only way I learned Makoto is because someone on 2DF showed me a few tips.
Also Eggman, really? How similar/different is it to Halo 3? Also I used to love swat in Halo 2/3. Me and a friend wrecked ass in a 2 on 5 round of swat once, was amazing.
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Just got Reach myself, its pretty nifty so far. I like it a lot.
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Wow, I actually won a round of Elite Slayer. Pretty handily too. The hologram is really really awesome and gets you many cheap kills. Especially when you grab the sword. And then you sit in a small room and sit in one corner. And then send the hologram to run to the other side of the room so anyone walking by can see it go running. And then you just walk up behind them and stab them.
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im really REALLY bad at this game. but i would say if i am allowed to hang around close quarters areas, im ok. think the best game i played was on boneyard, camping in the multi story building. pistol/needle rifle, jetpack. harass with needle rifle from the distance, shift around and let them come to me, then drop their shields with a melee/pistol, and finish em off with whatever is situationally better to use. since my aim is bad, i prefer using the pistol at a closer range than dicking around with the rifle at longer range. play to your strengths right?
also, having ghost riding faggots running you over gets old so damn fast. BUT THATS WHY GOD INVENTED THE ARMOR LOCK, FAGGOT GHOST RIDER WANTING TO MAKE YOU ROAD KILL, PUNCH THAT ARMOR LOCK AND LIVE, OR EVEN HAVE THEM CRASH INTO YOU BLOWING THEMSELVES UP, ITS BEYOND FUCKING AWESOME AND CAPS LOCK IS RELEVANT. seriously though, if there's ghosts on the map, im using armor lock or jetpack.
so far, my favorite multiplayer is big team slayer on spire. friend of mine camps the helicoptor, i jump in one of the turrets, camp the top of the spire, free kills for me, free wheelman streaks for just driving for him, lots of fun.
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so i was playing with bros for hours, and this was our last game. team slayer on the blood gulch style map. i spawn, go for the sniper, and some faggot takes it. i start shooting him goading him to attack me. some random enemy sniper kills me, and he teabags my body.
i spawn, find him, unload my pistol on him...another sniper hits me to drain my shields as he punches me, killing me. for those unaware, if you are the victom of a "betrayal" or a team mate killing you, you can boot their ass from the game, which i did.
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got a nice whiny message out of it, and lots of laughs. im going to request anybody who has nothing better to do to tell this sniper rifle stealing faggot not to steal vladgd's sniper rifle, because it's mine.
you got to love abusing an anti griefing mechanic to grief others.
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That's always fun. Also speaking of rage, I tried some Battlefront 2 online today. Never played online before, but I'm guessing there's an explosion of new players on because most people seem terrible. I took out a decent amount of space ships online and I JUST found out you can repair your main ships shields. Then after that I realized that no one online seems to know that you can block force pushes and pulls. So I ran around in a heroes game blocking and countering everyone. I had two people at the end of a match cry that I was lagging because I blocked and punished them. Shit was awesome.
If anyone wants to coop, let me know.
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ssfiv
playing cammy
the search for a main continues
i really, really should stop playing this game. but, the people i play with, they don't have hdremix. THEY SHOULD FUCKING BUY HDREMIX SO I CAN PLAY A FIGHTAN I WONT BITCH AT ALL THE TIME!
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play ST on ggpo. talk to opponent about hdr. "don't even mention that game"
MY FACE
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as he beats my ass like 7 to 3 with his dee jay. though, him winning wasn't the rage, they were actually good games and it's nice fighting people better than i am to get better, but ignorant people about hdr. i mean, how can you hate a game that is ESSENTIALLY THE SAME FUCKING GAME? there's minor balance stuff (gief is actually quite a bit worse in ST), timing for stuff is different (i never miss tick throws in hdr, i never land them in ST), but for the most part, it's the same thing.
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add juri and cody to characters ill try.
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People are really hard headed when it comes to fightan. Any small changes which might make them not as good = they hate it.
Oh and questions. Without too many spoilers, do I want to upgrade the ship in ME2? and can I after that mission were you play as Joker?
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uhh, yeah you can upgrade your ship. you should if you don't want anything "bad" to happen. also, i hope you did all the missions you wanted to do, because iirc you are allowed one mission (should be legions loyalty mission), and after that, if you don't go on your suicide mission, more "bad" things will happen.
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Juri is definitely my favourite, other than maybe Fei Long. I gotta hop on there again. I'm still ultra terrible.
Currently playing Halo: Reach. Lots of fun. Going to maybe go online with it today, see how that plays out. Haven't played Halo online since #3 and even then it was only a match or two. DEFINITELY gonna be a little rusty.
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Have fun getting hit by only headshots the entire day.
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Bought BC2 once I realized it was 30 bucks, downloading as I type. Also I've been playing CSS again lately and I feel like I'm getting my grove back. I just won a gun game after starting well behind everyone else (granted, most people seemed not to try and seemed to teamkill a lot).
Oh, and is Cave Story on the Wii worth it? I've had some points from buying monster hunter and it about covers half the cost of it.
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playing more reach. maby i don't suck as much as i thought. big team battle is kind of bullshit. playing 4v4 team slayer, rumble pit, and even firefight i do pretty alright.
i was getting streaks of having most of my games being top 3, which for me is really weird since im ass. pretty fun when you get going though. also, play with 3 friends, somewhat work together and it works wonders. also, why do people run through doorways when a red dot is right by the door? ive killed many people via melee attack because they don't pay attention. use grenades bro, because if i get that first melee hit, im getting the second hit every time.
saved a few games from the night, might record and upload a few.
THAT AND I UHH...minecraft. you can't buy the game right now because of site problems, but because of that you can play it for free till that gets fixed. so i played some of that, and it's surprisingly good. i play super paranoid of the kamakazi creeper fuckers, so ive been working on building a network of caves and whatnot. so far i pretty much never go outside where it's dangerous.
i have a cave going from my spawn down to the mountain base where i first found coal. from there i colonized the top of the mountain which is safe from enemies and i am able to safely cut and plant trees up there. it's nothing impressive compared to what other people do, but just having several bases fairly far apart all connected is a pretty nice feeling.
though, now that i have my spawn cave completed, i can die...with easy access to my network of safety. i mean it beats getting killed at night, then having to find your way back to your home in the dark, with everything trying to kill you. instead it's three steps away, dig through a dirt, put the dirt back, BAM, safety. ill probably end up buying this game. maby not right away, obviously due to the fact that you can't currently buy it because of website problems, but civ 5 is TOMORROW!
IM NOT EVEN AUTISTIC! (unless exposure to the game has made me autistic...)
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You should enjoy this then. Also I'm sort of interested in that game, but I'm far too impatient.
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Been playing minecraft too. Damn fun game, considering it's still in alpha... I'm gonne be damn depressed when the free weekend ends, because after playing alpha, the free versions are gonna be crap. And I'm poor, with prospects for a co-op position looking pretty shitty right now, so god knows when I'll have money to buy it.
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Finished the Halo: Reach campaign, didn't really feel anything for it. It's pretty much just a way of making you familiar with what the multiplayer maps are, which would work if literally everyone who played Halo didn't play multiplayer before even trying the campaign. It was pretty bland overall though. Hunters are annoying.
Also finished Yakuza 3, which was absolutely fantastic. It also has a retarded amount of stuff to it. I beat the story in 17 hours, 17 minutes. And the completion percentage shows 12.85%. 12.85%. Good lord. Really good story.
Now I'm trying to figure out what to play next while I wait around for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and I guess the third Professor Layton game works pretty well but when I've got a 50" TV available I kind of want to use it yeah? Trying to figure out if I want to buy Wipeout HD Fury or just play Nier.
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Fucking Minecraft. God damnit. There went my whole fucking night.
Totally worth it, though. I think I might throw up a s.net server when Alpha comes back up if enough people are interested.
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Also finished Yakuza 3, which was absolutely fantastic. It also has a retarded amount of stuff to it. I beat the story in 17 hours, 17 minutes. And the completion percentage shows 12.85%. 12.85%. Good lord. Really good story.
Now I'm trying to figure out what to play next while I wait around for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and I guess the third Professor Layton game works pretty well but when I've got a 50" TV available I kind of want to use it yeah? Trying to figure out if I want to buy Wipeout HD Fury or just play Nier.
Yakuza 3 is PS3 only right? I still want a PS3 and will probably pick up a used one once I get a new job (fucking hopefully soon). Also is Castelvania lords of shadow multiplat? From what I've heard it's really shaping up to be a great 3D castelvania game.
Also Mass Effect 2 is done.
Thought it was fun, only beef I had with the combat was the way cool downs were changed from the first game to the second. Also didn't like how guns were just straight upgrades and how there was a very small amount of different armor parts to change in and out. The ending was dumb (why make a human reaper? What's the point?) but the story overall wasn't bad. All of the characters seemed a bit over the top (outside of Miranda, Jacob, and Legion), but most of them were interesting anyways. Had Jack and Grunt die at the end, which basically takes out all my close ranged fighters. Still, as far as story characters they were some of the few who didn't seem like they would mind dying. I about flipped a shit when Garrus almost died near the end. Also I probably fucked myself over by giving the collector ship to the illusive man, considering he has this generic evil smile once he has it.
but yeah, good game. Ending was sort of a let down, but not bad.
Oh and I'm still loving Muramasa, moreso then other m and ME2.
Also this guy is fairly smart
http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2010/09/17/mafia-2-producer-thinks-the-industry-has-an-obsession-with-gay-space-marines-developer-pop-quiz-5/
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Yeah, the Yakuza series has always been only for Sony stuff (PS2/PS3/PSP). The games all have really nice recaps of the last games in the series too so you can catch up on things really easily.
And yeah Castlevania's multiplatform. I had heard that the 360 version was 2 discs while the PS3 version was 1 disc but I don't know if that's true or what. I'm told there's no real difference between the two versions though.
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played hella civ v
i would tell you how my single game went, but we didn't finish it. yeah, game isn't done, and we played hella civ v. it's getting there though. there's persia, who's pretty much on borrowed time. then we got the iriquois who have a lot of stuff, but not enough. everyone else is either dead, or a city state, or a city state who will be dead soon.
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Fucking Minecraft. God damnit. There went my whole fucking night.
Totally worth it, though. I think I might throw up a s.net server when Alpha comes back up if enough people are interested.
I SO want to play multiplayer with you guys. But since Alpha's back online, and I don't have money to pay for it (or I sure as hell would have bought it the moment the site came back), I'm kinda SOL for now :/
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Speaking of minecraft
http://texyt.com/minecraft+persson+notch+indie+game+success+00127
I goddamn envy this guy, this game has gotten stupidly popular.
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My god. That is an indie game developer's dream.At least we know he can afford to upgrade the servers whenever they reach capacity :P
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According to http://minecraft.net/stats.jsp (http://minecraft.net/stats.jsp):
783581 registered users, of which 214515 (27.37%) have bought the game.
214,515 *
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Goddamn, almost makes me think that he doesn't really need my money, lol. I'd still pay, but man, how the hell do you get that successful while releasing a game in it's ALPHA stage? Really? (how many people even think something in an alpha state should be released publicly, for that matter...)
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Welp, I'm really enjoying BC2.
Had a round were I ramped over an MCOM station, killed the two guys camping it, and then disarmed the bomb. Then on my last round I ran up some stairs to an MCOM, had my teammate die in front of me, somehow managed to kill the guy that killed him (my vision was horribly blurred) and then killed a guy charging the MCOM right prior to it exploding and winning us the round.
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Welp, I'm really enjoying BC2.
Told ya it was good. :p
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i finally did hazama challenge 3
here's a previous example of my fail on said challenge
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http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2010/sep/26/ssf4-character-usage-numbers-over-4000-matches/
this is quite silly
ryu- 16%
ken- 8%
dictator, akuma, guile- 4%
boxer, chun, blanka, cammy- 3%
the 26 other characters on the roster- 2% and under
least played characters... gen, c viper, and rufus, with rufus being the least played. (all three characters, yes, even rufus, HARD TO USE PROPERLY unless you are a high level player)
ERRYBODY LOVES THAT GENERIC KARATE MAN WITH LESS PERSONALITY THAN MY WALL. even ken is rather redeemable as a character, i can't complain about ken at all. but im sure you can't even put up an argument that ryu is an interesting character. hell, even my least favorite street fighter, akuma, is more interesting than ryu.
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Not even a slight shock, shotos take minimal effort for maximum results. Basically everyone I know plays shotos about as well as their mains, it's sad.
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I played through Metro 2033, it was pretty neat. I got a key at PAX and it actually ran surprisingly well on my computer (???), and it enjoyed it for the most part. The ending was really abrupt though, I felt like there ought to have been way more of the game, but oh well. Ranger Mode was damn fun too, I played through the entire game on that, except the stupid amoeba section towards the end, where you're escorting Miller. That part was bullshit on Ranger, you died instantly to anything. :<
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Yeah, that was the WORST part of the game. Also I'm really digging Bad Company 2, but the community seems fairly meh, but a good game of Rush is amazingly fun.
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anyone up for the best fighting game ever?
street fighter 2 rainbow edition
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starting to enjoy chun more. instead of losing and thinking "i should think of a new character" im more thinking "how can chun tackle that situation". i like the character, she's fun to play, even though she's defensive, i still enjoy using her. i mean I GUESS depending on who im fighting in hdr using gief, ill be a defensive son of a bitch as well.
so i need to work on them combos.
chun main, cammy/gen/adon on the side. this will be more solidified as i play more. never know, main could change again if i like cammy or adon when i get their basics down. gen is not mainable in the current state of the game. unless someone figures something out with him, or the upcoming patch fixes some gen stuff for the better, he's just an alt i play because the character's fun, not a guy i pick to win games.
I WAS PLAYING SOME HDR EARLIER THOUGH. kept running into the same chun player over and over again. he was giving me the beat down, not allowing me to really touch him, but he was jumping at me A LOT. my lariat, jumping normals, standing normals did not work to get him out of the air, so i was losing the first few games we played. then i discovered something.
i can't beat him in the air with my normals, and he jumps at angles i can't beat with standing normals. BUT, if i jump in with a medium punch and meet him in the air as he is jumping at me (im sure a better chun would not jump at a jumping gief, but this guy didn't get it), i pretty much beat anything he has and ground him. when he's grounded, and im next to him, he is dead. really, if im next to you, and you don't reversal me, you lose the round.
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that was actually one of the things which made zangief a bit harder to learn. people who are good at zoning pretty much eliminate your ability to do damage. when you get up close, you had better be bringing on the pain before they get away again. when i was a newer player, i really couldn't do much. i didn't know how to tick throw, fucked up spd's a lot, and i didn't know shit for combos. now, i don't miss tick throws(ok i do miss them sometimes, im not perfect), i can super, i can mix things up with combos so you don't know when to throw out that reversal, and i can do some damage when i close that distance gap. it's fun. ALTHOUGH, if i do fight one of you, protip. if im jumping at you from the front, ill hit you with "insert air normal here" then ill jab, since im retarded and jumped at you from whatever distance, another jab will whiff, so i just spd. that first jab is the time to reversal me and get my ass off of ye. predictability is one of those things i need work on. im not great, but im pretty confident in my sf2hdr game to being somewhat solid.
so i proceeded to win back the number of games i lost before feeling good and stopping to play some sf4. he was pretty solid though, and those games were more or less even. plus, i landed not one, but TWO crossup bodysplash, s lk tick 720's. feelsgoodman, and good games. always nice to fight people who aren't too good where i can't win, and aren't too bad to where i always win.
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Shit's awesome, reminds me of a much crazier brawl minus.
I so want this, I love the fact that they added his catchphrases in like every other move.
Started playing Hitman Contracts. So far I'm liking it, not as much as Bloodmoney, but it's still good. The whole reward for getting silent assassin and having a massive room full of guns you can get from missions just seems to egg me on to grab as much shit as possible.
Oh god, sniping in bad company 2 is awesome. There was a few snipers camping a ridge, and I was far as all hell away from them. I see one looking at me and he fires a shot off that glances the rock right next to me. I stand completely out of cover and aim fairly far over his head and fire a shot off, and it connects right smack dab on his face. RIGHT when that happens a bullet from him nails me in the head. Shit was nuts.
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Hahah okay so, the new scout pistol is like the best shit ever. 8)
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So I tried playing TF2, and it ran at a horrible framerate. Anyone else having this problem?
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No, but I did see a thread about it on the Steam forums, apparently it's got something to do with antivirus software?
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Oh, thanks.
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http://cutstuff.net/blog/
We need to get an s.net game of this going, and considering it's a doom 2 mod and the game is literally download and click to play we should be able to do this.
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Skulltag mod? By Cutmanmike? Sounds good to me. I've played a lot of his previous work, it's all pretty cool.
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Alright, I'm overlooking eggmans recommendations, and I'm going to go with Breath of Fire and more then likely look into Crono Trigger. Oh, and I'm getting advanced wars 2.
Christ Breath of Fire 3 is addicting, and I'm not even sure why. I've just gotten Momo and I can turn into a dragon, shit's ballin.
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Got Oblivion, Halo Wars, and Soul Calibur for my 360 lately. Almost done Reach.
Man I love games...
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Breath of fire 3 is killing me with the Master system. Basically you chose a master and you either excel or decelerate at specific talents (usually they split between physical or magic) and I basically need both magic and physical for the main character.
but I think I have everything set up nicely now.
Modified for updates.
Still yet to beat anything, but I'm really enjoying BC2. Well, enjoying less than I was. I've got my hands on a few decent shotguns (the spas and the N2000) and I've now realized that I love the slug shots with a pump gun. It's a one shot kill from a shockingly far distance to the upper chest/head region. Outside of that I really lost interest in the automatics. I've just seen to forgot how to kill people with them. Oh yeah, and I've gotten used to the sniping in game and I found it fairly easy, a chest shot at no scope range does basically lethal damage. Also the community is terrible.
and Hitman Contracts is DONE. Outside of some goofy AI and the fact that you can't change your loadout prior to beating the game, it was really enjoyable. Also you have to love the fact that they have an M60 and a Gatling gun in a stealth game.
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Here's a Firefly-class ship landed on Ganymede, Jupiter's third moon. Io is visible over Jupiter. This is Orbiter, by the way.
(http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/full/180396212.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0ZRYP5X5F6FSMBCCSE82&Expires=1287901891&Signature=xAYcSBG60lbTvwIWnD61H3oxq08%3D)
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huh?
Also after playing some reach, I really like the game. It's a hell of a lot better then Halo 3, and the range weapon balance seems a bit better. Not as awesome as timesplitters, but definitely a damn fine console shooter.
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Yes, I definitely like what they did with reach. I haven't played that much, but what I have played, I really enjoyed. Haven't played any multiplayer though, so I dunno how it fares in that respect, but the co-op gameplay is really awesome.
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I haven't played ANY coop/single player, but the multiplayer is fairly fun. My friend seemed to be enjoying the coop, and he said himself he wasn't the biggest fan of Halo 3. I didn't get to use all the guns, and evidently none of the objective based maps have vehicles, but I was liking what I saw.
Also plasma pistol is top tier. I would just fire a charged round into the general area of an enemy and the shit would track them, it feels much better then any of the other beams. Do people still cry about people using it?
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Noob combo was really only a powerhouse in ODST. I think they lowered the power down a titch for Reach, as its taken me one or two charged shots to really break any shields.
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Nah, it's definitely a 1 hit shield dropper, and a it seems to hone in on enemies shockingly well. It's only downfall is it drains ammo when you constantly charge it.
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So I started playing Oblivion the other day. It actually managed to draw me in this time.
I'll bet it's because (1) after four years computers can finally handle running it (this computer can max out the graphical settings...my last computer, despite being a damn good rig two years ago and having been built two years after Oblivion came out, occasionally stuttered) and (2) I'm taking the game at face value and am not making any attempt to be clever. Sandbox games tend to fall apart at the seems right when you hit a wall, so I've been focusing on doing quests without trying to undermine the system.
It's been working well so far (though I have yet to do a single quest in the main storyline!). I've been really enjoying myself with it.
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Aw shit http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/battlefield_bad_company/archive/2010/10/28/patch.aspx##
Also TF2 still runs like shit. I thought I was fine (my connection is inconsistent right now) but then I started an offline game and my FPS still dipped down to 30 or so FPS during the more action oriented section of the game.
I also can't seem to exit out of Avast, but I can shut down all of its web shields and the problem still persists. What do?
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- Reduced the splash damage of the Carl Gustav to bring it in line with other explosive weapons.
Gwahahahahaha!
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Yes, I was plenty pleased with that considering I started using RPS (it doesn't say anywhere in the game that they do more damage when they do, goddamn).
Also TF2 is still goofy, but it works on servers with a low player count. Still unsure what's going on, but someone else on my friendlist is having the same problem.
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So I started playing Oblivion the other day. It actually managed to draw me in this time.
I'll bet it's because (1) after four years computers can finally handle running it (this computer can max out the graphical settings...my last computer, despite being a damn good rig two years ago and having been built two years after Oblivion came out, occasionally stuttered) and (2) I'm taking the game at face value and am not making any attempt to be clever. Sandbox games tend to fall apart at the seems right when you hit a wall, so I've been focusing on doing quests without trying to undermine the system.
It's been working well so far (though I have yet to do a single quest in the main storyline!). I've been really enjoying myself with it.
Yeah, I bought Oblivion again too earlier this week... only to have my graphics card fry before I could get it set up. Do you have any experience installing FMOD: Convergence? I tried it for like 6 fucking hours and reinstalled 3 times, shit is impossible :|
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Nah, I never installed it. I generally only use mods that fix the game (i.e. Unofficial Oblivion Patch to fix the billions of quest bugs and BTMod to fix the broken interface on the PC version) and ones that add helpful visual effects (like Harvest [Flora]). I love its huge install guide, though. :x
I did find one major WTF with Oblivion. If you have a joystick plugged in (such as the 360 controller that I literally only use for its headset port) and the stick moves at all, you're suddenly rendered almost completely unable to move with the keyboard. The worst part is that I literally have to disconnect the controller in order to fix this, since there is no way to simply disable the joystick. Sure, Oblivion is far from the only game that doesn't allow you to ignore game controller input, but that doesn't make it any less ridiculous.
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It doesn't even allow you to adjust the dead zone?
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Nope. All it lets you do it set which action you want each thumbstick to perform (be it looking or moving). I don't think they even considered that not all game controllers are Xbox/DualShock-style, nor did they consider that not all dual-stick gamepads use the same mappings for their analog sticks (I don't believe Oblivion works with the Xbox 360 controller out of the box, actually -- I don't think my right stick functions at all since it doesn't return what Oblivion expects it to*).
All in all, it's probably about the worst joystick "support" I've ever seen in a game. They would have been better off not including it.
*Edit: To clarify, Oblivion expects the left stick to return X/Y analog values and the right stick to return Z and Z rotation. The Xbox 360 controller, which the game was technically designed for, returns the expected X/Y axis for the left stick, but returns XRot/YRot for the right. This can be changed by editing Oblivion.ini, but why in the holy mother of fuck should anyone have to do that?
Oh, there's also a nice little "bUse Joystick" variable in the file. I'm glad they couldn't just make that a little checkbox in the options menu.
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Okay then, finally got around to beating Other M, and the ending was actually pretty good (outside of needing to use a chargebomb when you don't even know you have one) and now I want to get that secret boss fight in, because the boss fights in this game are awesome.
Also Splinter Cell is driving me crazy. I'm enjoying it despite it being painfully linear at times, but these tanks in the Korean mission are retarded. I'll be too quite to hear, and in complete blackness with no enemies alerted and this fucking tank will still machine gun me down. It's almost random, I'll be in same-ish situations and it will fire on me half the time, and I need to walk past it several times to rescue these downed pilots for a side mission I want so badly.
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and done with Breath of Fire 3. Pretty cool game, I liked how the story progressed what with the whole humble beginnings that lead to "WE MUST FIGHT GOD". The only thing that bothered me was that the game sort of dragged on, and the in game character models looked fairly different from their portraits/their much bigger sprites at the end.
The final boss was also fucking hard, I kept having to switch my main healer to his dragon form and back, and I think I had every party member die at least once and then survive with 1 health because of guts.
Now I'm looking for something else to emulate, unsure where to start. I got DKC and Castelvania Dracula X, but I doubt I'll beat them considering what I did with Shinobi.
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I just had a blast in bad company after someone reminded me I owned smoke grenades. So we started on the map were the first MCOMs are on an island, so as soon as that happened I knew we would have useless snipers all over. I started the match just hovering over the enemy base in a blackhawk, and my teammates couldn't hit a single enemy. So after that I decided to just chase down my friendly snipers favorite camping spots and smoke them out. I was able to keep smoke on 3 to 4 different snipers about half the time, and one moron who was trying to snipe with a gustav. We ended up losing and we go on defense, and we still have 5 or so snipers doing basically nothing. So I continued, and I ended up getting a complaint from a kid that was last on our team from my efforts.
At one point there was a sniper on a small island near the MCOMs, and he had a very small spot used for cover. So I smoked him and he tried his hardest to see through it while maintaining cover. It was so goddamn funny.
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I can't do 360s reliably in street fighter alpha. It's crazy how easy 360s are in SF4 compared to alpha. I think I found out a way to get them down, but I lack a training mode and I can't really practice it.
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Been playing some SC2. Loving it, now that I'm finished losing 5 games in a row for my placement :/
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Welp, I'm really glad I gave Deus Ex a second try, I'm goddamn loving the game now. I really didn't see any attraction to it the first time I played it, but now I'm addicted. Also I'm sort of looking for Max Payne 2 mods, because that game deserves another play through.
http://www.moddb.com/mods/vampire-slayer-20/downloads/vampire-slayer-20-third-trailer-h264-720p
Thinking of giving this a go, considering the original mod was for the specialists and it looked pretty cool.
Alright, fuck SF4. I JUST NOW realized why I keep fucking up my ultra inputs and I keep getting SRKs. If you hit 33 (using numberpad notation) you get an shoryuken input, which is the worst short cut. I do quick QCFs and if I mess up slightly it will register as an SRK.
RAGE EDIT.
Just got a super attack by hitting 2 QCF PPP. Ugh, this is starting to get to me. Al of Abel's inputs feel goofy to me.
MORE EDITS:
Still cannot get GGPO working, I know my ports are forwarded properly (I've done it twice now, and I followed their directions exactly) and it still doesn't work right. I'm doing it via my wireless router, which I'm assuming is right, and I can spectate fights fine but whenever I try to connect it just does not work. Why did 2DF have to go away...
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New post, because it's unrelated to all that jazz. The new Bad Company 2 maps are up, and most of them are pretty good (haven't played cold war, but I hear it's goddamn terrible). The only problem with one of them is that it's so massive that if you don't have a team working somewhat together (snipers taking 4 person jeeps up to the mountains just so they can camp) it can be a real pain, considering it takes about 2 minutes to run from the first cap to the middle cap. Oh, and this is handy.
http://denkirson.xanga.com/722757523/bad-company-2/
Oh, and I FINALLY beat Donkey Kong Country, loads of fun and just the right difficulty. The only thing that bothered me was that on the snow levels I was basically forced to do blind jumps because of how large the goddamn sprites are in this game.
EDIT:FUCKING FUCK YES FINALLY GOT PAST THE RETARDED TANK AI IN CHAOS THEORY AND I CAN NOW ENJOY MY GAME.
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Triple post, because I finally beat Chaos Theory. Overall a DAMN good game, but I didn't really get a hand of it until the last level or so. So overall a great game, shame that they won't be making any more Splinter Cell games like CT. Is Double Agent any good?
Holy fuck, the KF update is nuts. The new map is real hard, and they adjucted something on hardmode because it's much, MUCH harder then it was before. Scrakes spawn constantly and there just seems to be more of every enemy type.
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4 HIT COMBO BECAUSE NO ONE HERE PLAYS VIDEOGAMES AND I MUST TALK ABOUT THEM.
Alright then, I have been playing a plethora of them, and I shall speak of them.
Overlord: Never played this series before, and I'm really loving it. The controls could be a bit better, but overall it's a fairly awesome game.
Amnesia: really digging it, but I've been waiting until late night to play it. One of the few games to get me really nervous, despite some parts being a bit slow.
Left 4 Dead 2: damn glad I bought it, I'm really enjoying it so far. Seems like a decent upgrade from the first game, and the new guns add a decent amount of variety to it.
Super mario galaxy 2: really loving it, seems to have just the right difficulty and the level variety is grand. Oh yeah, and Yoshi is baller.
Sin and Punishment 2: a fuckton of fun, but I haven't played it all that much. Will probably keep at it and try to get some decent high scores up. Which reminds me, how the hell do I get a Wii online on a secure connection.
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I've been playing SC2 a lot lately...
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4 HIT COMBO BECAUSE NO ONE HERE PLAYS VIDEOGAMES AND I MUST TALK ABOUT THEM.
D:
Most of my posts about video games go in the RAEGING ANGER thread...that's probably not a good thing.
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That's sort of a bummer.
Also my god, Amnesia is terrifying. I just got to the part where I must sneak through narrow hallways and prison cells and there are enemies walking around, which has NOT happened yet in the game (well, with these enemies). Basically I MUST use stealth, and these niggers are spooky.
bit of a bump (if anyone will notice this) but has anyone here played Dead Rising 2 or Just Cause 2? I have my eye on both, but I need to update my OS to play Just Cause 2. Oh yeah, anyone mind explaining that to me as well :3c
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bumping to hope someone reads this. I updated my Wii and finally got it online, what wiiware games are worth the money? I'm interested in a plethora of them (Contra, Castelvania, cave story, the bit trip games, that LostWinds game, Orbient) but I know fairly little about them. It's just that I've really overlooked downloadable console games for a while, and there's got to be something really good there by now.
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Alright then, I've cut into my large chunk of games nicely.
Beat Pandora Tomorrow, surprisingly good game considering it was a linear stealth game. No where near as amazing as Chaos Theory, but still worth a play.
Beat Overlord, really enjoyed the game, but the puzzles were a bit too simple and most of the bosses were boring. Trying out the expansion and will probably play the sequel fairly soon.
Beat Amnesia, and it was AMAZING. One of the scariest horror games I've ever played, and the story to it was actually really interesting. Will buy and play Penumbra Black Plague probably soon.
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Playing Fallout New Vegas, CoD BO, Oblivion and Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.
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I started playing WoW.
Big mistake.
Granted, I didn't have anything at all to do the last week and a half, but that's hardly justification for already getting my character to level 50.
I don't feel like I'll prioritize WoW over school or anything, so I'm not too worried, but still...
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I started playing WoW.
Muahahaha! WoW claims another victim.
If you feel like joining me, I have my Horde toons on Turalyon and my Alliance toons on Misha.
I have a tiny leveling guild on Turalyon (originally an bank guild, but I decided to do more with it) and my friends and I are trying to build up an endgame raiding guild. Give me a shout if you roll a character there. The characters that I play most on Turalyon are Shanoe, Tralok, and Shilaro, so if I'm online it's very likely to be on one of them.
You can also add me on b.net: spectere@gmail.com.
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I've been playing Recettear, its terribly addictive, you can get it on steam.
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Muahahaha! WoW claims another victim.
If you feel like joining me, I have my Horde toons on Turalyon and my Alliance toons on Misha.
All of my characters are on Thorium Brotherhood, which is where my friends play. I've mostly been soloing, though, since a couple of my friends got New Vegas and haven't been on WoW too much. I'm rolling Alliance on my main.
Also choosing mining as a profession has made me way more money than I expected.
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Also choosing mining as a profession has made me way more money than I expected.
Oh yeah, gathering professions are nice. My strategy for getting gold on a new realm is to pick up two gathering professions (usually mining and skinning). You can make tons of money from rich people who want to save time leveling professions.
Edit: You also get some reasonable buffs from them. Mining gives you stamina, skinning increases your crit chance, and herbalism gives you a heal over time effect and a haste buff.
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Edit: You also get some reasonable buffs from them. Mining gives you stamina, skinning increases your crit chance, and herbalism gives you a heal over time effect and a haste buff.
Woah, when did that happen?
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Woah, when did that happen?
I think those were introduced in 3.0.8.
Mining and herb gathering also grant experience, as of 4.0.1.
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Started Dark Messiah. Never played a first person RPG before, and I was told this one had a fairly good combat system.
Also the hard difficulty is actually hard, which I like.
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http://www.havenandhearth.com
This.
Kinda like minecraft int he fact that you start with nothing, in a hostile world in the middle of nowhere, but a LOT harder to survive. You CANNOT punch an animal to death when you start. You need to earn enough LP to learn the skill to fight something.... But of course you could instead spend that LP in learning how to cut down trees, and build stuff for yourself. Eventually you can build a village and mine metal, and wage war, or work in politics towards unifying various towns, and so-on. The Goons have had a large presence in theis game earlier, though I think they've mostly stopped playing now. World 4 Just started recently, so most towns aren't massively advanced. It's very difficult to solo the game, but certainly not impossible, but most of the game revolves around working with people. Of course, there is still PvP so it's not all about building and stuff, there are criminals who raid and such as well.
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Found my old install disk for Rollercoaster Tycoon 2. I probably last played it 5 years ago, and goddamn I forgot how much I loved this game.
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I always played Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 like the sims, as in create park and figure out fun ways to kill people.
but yeah really, REALLY getting into the Witcher recently. Makes me feel guilty for having hardly touched WRPGs, but I'm loving it. Oh, and I just bought Monday Night Combat off of steam, so add me if you have it as well.
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Killing people got old pretty fast, IMO. Best way I found to kill them was putting a ride exit over water with no path, so that whenever anyone leaves the ride they drown.
Really, I could build rollercoasters in this game forever. Even after 5 years, it really is like riding a bicycle. I even learned a new trick with block sections today, where you can time different trains on the same rollercoaster to go through certain sections at the same time. So if you build a loop in a track, then later in that track build another loop in that loop, you can use block sections to make two trains go through the loops simultaneously. It looks like this:
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Wow, that alone makes me want to retry and get back into the game. I seem to be that way with a lot of games (the Witcher and Deus Ex recently. Took me several hours to eventually get into them).
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Two things that bother me about this game, it can be a bit buggy/crashy, and I'm already running into hackers. Not that I like to cry hacker, but every single kill he got on me was an instant headshot. Then next round I was on this guys team next game and I was standing right in front of him watching his head jerk left and right and instantly fire while getting nothing but headshots. Still, I bothered him a lot and got him killed while he was on my team, so I'm happy.
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Replaying HL2. My god is this game soo good. Ties for the best game ever with LoZ:OoT in my book. Which I'll definitely get around to replaying too.
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I'd honestly say that HL2 is better then HL, even if it was a bit lacking in enemies and weapons. Shit, HL2 catches a LOT of hate for the vehicle segments, and I actually liked those (the buggy part lasted too long, but the hover craft part was fairly fun).
Also I'm fairly shocked at how fucked Crysis 2 on the PC is. It seems piracy on EVERYTHING has been rampant as all hell, and I'm worried about the measures they'll take.
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Well so far I don't think anyone has come out with an anti-piracy measure that is actually worse than SecuROM (feel free to correct me if someone has...)
But yes, we are definitely in a time where the online and gaming world is defined by heavy piracy... However, that doesn't seem to be stopping console games from selling retardedly well.
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Remember Ubisofts DRM? The whole need to be online at all times and limited installs? That shit could become the norm.
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At least it doesn't install a rootkit, or broken drivers....
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At least it doesn't install a rootkit, or broken drivers....
Yeah, it just kicked you out of your game without saving if your Internet connection had a hiccup.
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I may be a bit late but damn Blur is fun.
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I couldn't really get into Blur. Or ModNation.
I think I've become a bit too old and crusty for arcade racers, sadly. I think I just got blue shell'd around the last bend of the race too many times.
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Dead Space 2, for the third time. :B
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Downloading Earth 2150: The Moon Project (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_2150:_The_Moon_Project) (See also: Official Site (http://www.moon-project.com/english/index.html))
It sounded pretty fun by the description given on teamliquid, so I thought I'd check it out. Too bad I haven't had much free time lately, and the free time I have had has generally been taken up by anime.
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Marvel vs Capcom 3
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I'm really conflicted about that game. I enjoyed TvC, but it got boring fast for me. I'm hoping MvC3 doesn't do the same (I intended to buy it when I got a PS3) and I hear it's a lot more like TvC now. Still looks really fun tho, and Dante looks goddamn awesome.
Beat the Witcher, cannot wait for Witcher 2. It was definitely one of my favorite RPGs, despite being buggy, and 2 looks like an all around improvement.
Also CS:S is all fucked up for me. When I open a server browser it shows me a list of full servers, then when I click one it connects me to said server, but it is empty and it asks me to hit F3 to reconnect to a different server. Then I do so and I switch to another empty server under a different title.
Oh, and a quick question, would anyone recommend Diablo 2 if they could only play offline.
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I've played far more D2 offline than online, to be totally honest. Though to be fair I prefer plying Hell Unleashed for offline, simply because it's a challenge just to get past andariel, where D2 is not much of a challenge till hell.
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I played D2 with you once, lawl.
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Haha, yeah, that was pretty cool. We should do that again sometime. Maybe we could get a game of Hell Unleashed going... That game basically REQUIRES you to have a good team going. And the game is so fucking hard that you don't need to play a bunch before you get to the "good parts", lol. Even fighting blood raven is kinda hard to solo... (unless you are a barbarian with bash... then you just keep her cornered, bash the hell out of her, and keep your life up.
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Also CS:S is all fucked up for me. When I open a server browser it shows me a list of full servers, then when I click one it connects me to said server, but it is empty and it asks me to hit F3 to reconnect to a different server. Then I do so and I switch to another empty server under a different title.
I've run into this in TF2 also - I believe it's a server plugin that redirects players joining one server to another one, in order to keep more servers on x or y gaming network alive and active, I remember the Lotusclan servers on TF2 doing this constantly, so I just ended up blacklisting them all.
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Yeah, it stopped, and I'm pretty sure that was what was going on. Rather dickish trick.
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Just bought Mass Effect 2. So far, it's SO GOOD. It's beautiful, the controls are pretty good, and the storyline is making me want more. I love how much flexibility there is in this game too. It's like a pretty Deus Ex on a spaceship.
Speaking of which, Deus Ex is a game I will be getting around to pretty soon again. Probably my 5th time playing through that good ol' classic.
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Deus Ex
Goddammit.
BRB, playing Deus Ex.
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PC, I'm guessing?
I only have the original L4D, not the second. If enough people here have it and want to play, I'll spring for it. I'd love to do some 4-player zombie hunting. The AI is so braindead that playing single-player is practically infeasible and even 2-players can be a chore.
I sometimes play with Christian and Ulti, but I largely play with people from a steam group I'm with (I never fully play with randoms).
I also just got my BF2 online working, and I can see why fans would be pissed about BC2. It's basically a dumbed down version of BF2.
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Just downloaded America's Army 3. Wish I still had my AA1 account info (or that they didn't erase it), people that have AA2 accounts get like veterans awards or bonuses D: Either way, I'll still check this installment out. I haven't really gotten into an online PC shooter in a while, most of that time has been taken up by Black ops.
I STILL need to get bioshock 2 and Mass effect 2 :(
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I hear Bioshock 2 was sort of a disappointment, but I really shouldn't talk considering I've yet to even touch the series. As for Mass Effect 2, if you go in expecting a shooter you're going to love it. Really, the RPG elements in ME2 are almost non existent.
Also I guess this belong here, but I'm in love with my G500 already. It's rather comfortable, and I can already notice an improvement while playing BC2 (might just be that I was using a terrible mouse last time, but this is just awesome).
Oh yeah, and buy Monday Night Combat. Shit is great.
More edits bitch, but I bought DoW2 Retribution and I'm enjoying it so far. I was only 30 bucks new and it comes with 5 armies, so I figured why the hell not. I'm genuinely enjoying the campaign so far, the RPG elements compliment it well. I wish I would have more units at a time, but I'm not that far into the mission.
Well, I can't seem to make any progress in DoW2 online. Micro isn't the problem, as this game requires no real micro managing skills, but I can't seem to take control of a field or get to tier 3 fast enough. Maybe it's just 3v3 that's throwing me off for now.
Oh, and I've been able to properly use the AT4 to take down choppers in BC2. I'm not that good, but I've got a grip of it and it's stupidly rewarding.
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HAHAHA I'M THE BIGGEST FUCKING NERD HERE.
So the Specialists is crazy good. It bothers me how much I like it after an initial play. There's a ton of guns and a decent amount of customization (scopes, lazer sights, flash lights, silencers) and they all seem to do some fairly different things (guns with stocks can hit with the butt of their rifle, some guns can look down the sights [as best as you can in the HL engine]) and almost all of them can alternate firing modes (with akimbo weapons alternating between firing independently or together). Also all the guns seem fairly viable. Hopefully I can get into an online match.
Oh, and I've run into trouble with MNC. I think the average player is become a lot less shit since the community is shrinking and the game has been out for a while. I don't play that often and I can already notice a decent improvement in the general population. I also noticed how fucking annoying juicing was. If someone juices in front of you and wants you dead, you are. If someone wants to take out your turrets, they will. I had this one support buy juice like 5 times in a row, run into our base, kill a few of us and take down turrets before running and he was literally impossible to stop (he was using the hurt heal gun, so if you ran or fought you would die). I've only been able to stop this with ring outs, as sticking someone who runs twice as fast as they used to is really hard with assault. Game developers need to realize that because you need to do well/get kills to get something doesn't mean it's balanced at all.
and I finally beat the ork campaign in DoW2 Retribution. Really like how the single player is handled, only wish multi didn't take so long to set up.
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Man I used to be into The Specialists super fucking hard a few years back, but I'm so out of practice now every time I play it I get my ass handed to me. It's definitely one of the best HL1 mods, and does stuff with the goldsrc engine that I didn't think you could pull off. I really wish I was good at Kung Fu in that game, people who are good at it rape so much face it isn't even funny :(
Been playing Stalker:CoP with PRIPYATAN:ARMS, after giving it a try and shelving it because of the stupid difficulty curve, but now that I've gotten past the impossible early-game stage of having no decent suit and no effective weaponry, it's a hell of a lot of fun. It adds probably the largest array of weaponry in any mod I've seen outside of ARSENAL+OL for SoC, and one-ups most CoP mods (IE SMRTER) by providing unique stats and separate upgrade trees for each gun, which I really like. I'd recommend giving it a shot, if you need an excuse to play Call of Pripyat again and didn't like SMRTER (which I still think is the superior mod, in terms of balance), there's so many damn weapons, hahaha....
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I'll need to look into that and Dead Space 2.
Also yeah, a guy went 88 and 20 using mostly kung fu in the specalists. He was a goddamn monster.
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dbl pst, but I'm getting Batman Arkham Asylum and Assassins Creed 2, because I feel like I haven't played enough good games from this gen. Suppose I should also look into Bioshock.
Also on a semi related note, anyone here play the Summoner, Magikca, or Bauldors Gate? I finally got into Knights of the old republic and I want some more good old WRPGs. WHICH REMINDS ME, the Witcher 2 looks SOOO GOOOD.
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I've played Magicka for a short period, and I've seen a few videos of people playing. It's damned fun if you can get a couple people together, and it's not half bad single player, but it really shines as multiplayer, since you can accidentally kill your own team mates and such. The game is rather unforgiving when you accidentally target a teammate with an attack.
The downside of the game (well, the one that affected me anyway) is that it is not very optimised because it was programmed by so few people, so it runs rather poorly (to say the least) on laptops or computers with weak graphics cards (though it's much less of an issue on desktops, since even a cheap desktop card is usually better than a laptop chip).
Haven't played the other 2.
Lately I've been trying to get back into playing SC2 more often, and I've also been playing Osu! (http://http//osu.ppy.sh), a fun music game based on Elite Beat Agents, etc. I've installed Lineage2 in anticipation of the private server that is gonna be coming online April 2nd, which is supposed to be running the official server, and is supposed to be one of the best actual servers out there.
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and I've also been playing Osu! (http://http//osu.ppy.sh), a fun music game based on Elite Beat Agents, etc.
After playing Osu! on iOS I literally couldn't go back to playing it with a mouse. :x Touch = win.
Even so, it's a great simulator; very true to the original.
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You should let me know about that Lineage server, I've been thinking about picking up a new MMO, and if there's a good L2 server that'd be fun, since I used to play the fuck out of that game, hahah.
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http://www.l2-renewal.net/index.php
I'm planning on being part of the TeamLiquid guild on there when the server goes live. I dunno if I could get you in, but I could try.
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So is the stealth class in KotoR supposed to be useless? Every time I see enemies they surpriese me and I end up just having to stab them to death while Carth shoots them.
Oh, and I forgot to mention, I bought Arkham Asylum and Lead and Gold. Lead and Gold is having a free weekend on steam, and honestly it's a fairly impressive little game. A bit shallow, but the game is still damn fun. It's basically a class based shooter, and each class has an "aura" that will buff your teammates if you stick together (stuff like better armor, stronger shots, healing, all in that vein). The guns also feel fairly western, and will have a fairly big cone of fire if you try to spam them. My biggest complaint is that the game keeps minimizing to desktop, or I will right or left click and the game will show a still screen until I let go of the click.
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I picked up Batman: Arkham Asylum, and despite all of the rave reviews about it, I still am just not interested enough to stop playing Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Seriously, this is the most entertaining, frantic fighting game I have ever played, and I don't think I'll ever be able to play anything slower ever again. The new Mortal Kombat just looks clunky and dull compared to this game. Obviously, actual fighting game fanatics will be able to point out intricacies that I'm missing, but this game is just so hyperactive that I'm willing to overlook numerous other glaring flaws (complete lack of story mode, almost everything one-player being padding, online matches have frustrating amounts of lag, ragequitter hell not kicking in nearly fast enough, etc, etc)
Also, I love the character balance so far. Sentinel was the only obviously broken character, and he just had a massive health nerf, meaning all kinds of characters are viable right now! Tournaments have had such wild choices as She-Hulk, Spencer, and Haggar, characters that everyone scoffed at when they were announced. Awesome!
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Man, I thought MvC2 was ass, and that TvC was boring, but that game sounds awesome. I really hope they balance it out decently, I haven't been following the tourney scene all that well.
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Also really diggin' the MvC3. Too bad I am so terrible at the game, especially online; I continually get my ass kicked.
Going to have to practice and practice and practice if I want to be able to do anything. But thats part of the fun, learning all the combos and assists and stuff.
Sentinel was the only obviously broken character, and he just had a massive health nerf, meaning all kinds of characters are viable right now!
What do you think of Dante? I hear he has a somewhat broken offence? I'm not good enough to make any sort of judgment about him, but from what I've seen, he looks nigh unstoppable in the hands of an experienced player
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Started playing Freelancer.
Goodbye, next 3 weeks.
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The only real complaining I've heard is Sentinel and Phoenix (Phoenix on fire and on anchor Xfactor can down people instantly with basically button mashing from what I've seen).
Also Lead and Gold has some balance issues. Shotguns seem to decimate in close to medium range. It's only a double barreled shotgun, but you can reload it so goddamn fast that missing both shots in a close/medium range fight is rarely an issue. The only thing that could even possibly counter it in that situation is a good gun slinger fanning his had gun, or another shotgun.
This wouldn't be an issue if it wasn't for the amount of health they can cut through or the fact that a LOT of the maps are close to medium range fighting with endless running.
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What do you think of Dante? I hear he has a somewhat broken offence? I'm not good enough to make any sort of judgment about him, but from what I've seen, he looks nigh unstoppable in the hands of an experienced player
Dante has very, very long, flashy combos, but they honestly don't do that much damage. His main power is exploiting people who don't react very quickly - his teleport into jumping S will frequently catch people off guard and can lead into a huge combo for roughly 400-500k damage (unless he X-Factors or tacks on a level 3 hyper combo at the end to kill the player) This can be incredibly obnoxious to play against, certainly, but once you figure out his tricks, he's somewhat predictable. He's still very, very dangerous, certainly, but other characters (Wesker, Amaterasu, Dark Phoenix) are generally considered more so.
Sentinel was broken because of hyper armor (cancels/overrides numerous other moves during his own attacks, meaning someone can rush him and he can just hit a button to start a combo and kill them anyway), having some of the best zoning in the game, the best assist in the game, the highest HP in the game, the highest raw power (outside of Dark Phoenix) in the game, normals did damage even when the opponent was blocking, and incredibly simple combos that killed off every character in two combos (or several in one!) Also, his level 3 X-Factor added 230% to his damage, allowing unskilled players to simply save him for last, then decimating the entire enemy team in one go. He showed up in almost every team because there was almost zero reason not to play him - either you were good enough to play one of his counters (almost all very low-HP characters that died if you made a single mistake) or out of sheer stubbornness. I wish the nerf had significantly lowered his damage instead of his HP because scrubs can still abuse him and kill your entire team if you're not incredibly careful, but oh well, some progress is better than no progress.
Phoenix is, admittedly, cheese. I'm grateful that most of the people that gravitate towards her for the same reason they went to Sentinel - the moment Dark Phoenix comes out, they throw on X-Factor and start spamming madly, and, well, usually, that's enough to kill any opponent. However, she's made of paper. Best tactic is to snap her in the moment you see she's on a team, then all it takes is one combo. Use ANYTHING to get rid of her - if your combo falls short, use up your own X-Factor, then finish her off that way. Use hyper combos, delayed hyper combos...chip her to death if need be, it's more than a little feasible.
If all else fails, kill the rest of her team, poke Phoenix until she has almost no health, then run out the clock. :3
If Phoenix does turn into Dark Phoenix, remember these:
- You almost certainly cannot run away, because her teleport is the best in the game.
- Blocking won't do you much because she's so insanely fast that, more than likely a scrub using her will inadvertently hit low when you're blocking high or vice versa.
- You do not have priority. You can use any super and she can respond with Phoenix Rage which will (unless you're at full health on a high-health character) override your super and kill you.
- The best way to snag her is any time she is spamming projectiles. Pushblock/Advancing Guard during one of her up-close encounters or wait until she's using her dual-TK shot to use a beam or full-screen super, then X-Factor and do it again. If you don't have X-Factor, try to land anything that has invincibility (Viewtiful Joe's Mach Speed, Captain America's Hyper Charging Star, X-23's Weapon X Prime...check out Shoryuken's Hyper Guide (http://wiki.shoryuken.com/Marvel_vs_Capcom_3#Characters) for other information on that front) and lets you continue the combo onwards. If you can't kill her in one combo...well, you're gonna need to wait until she makes a mistake. Most likely, you won't be playing against anyone who really knows how to use Phoenix, so you'll be fine waiting her out. Many new players (justifiably!) freak out when they see Dark Phoenix and make mistakes that let her kill you off before you can blink. You have to stay calm.
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That Pheonix stuff makes an eerie sort of sense. I fought a Pheonix user a couple times last night and he always kept her at the back of the pack until I hurt him enough for him to max out his hyper. Then he raped me. I'm a real scrub at the game though, so I'm not expecting to win anything right now (not to be confused with not trying, because I AM trying).
I know Ammy is a sick fighter to have but I don't think I'll keep her on the team until I get used to switching her weapons. I would like to see a replay mode to watch other people use their Ammy's; it would be a great way to learn.
LK, do you feel like teaching a noob? I'm on the 360, just incase
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I don't know how to use Ammy's Glaive right now, and I'm still really scary with her. Her Reflector combo (L->M->H five times-> launch->Mx2->Hx3) hits for insanely good damage just by itself, and she can zone very well with the beads and Power Slash. But yeah, the problem is that she's not very strong stuff, so it only takes a combo or two to down her.
Phoenix is really hard to deal with, don't get me wrong. That's why newbies use her - all you need to do is stall with your first two characters, then just...demolish the opponent's team with Phoenix. One of the things I've noticed as I'm ranking up is that I generally clobber people that abuse Sentinel or Phoenix, because if you snap them in and kill them, then the rest of their team immediately falls apart. I'm a lot more scared of people who abuse other characters that are crazy good with level 3 X-Factor (Dormammu, Akuma, Ryu, etc.)
Anyway! I'm on 360 right now. My Live gamertag is LunarKeys. Feel free to add me, and I can help you out!
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Okay okay okay so I got into the Black Prophecy closed beta, holy shit. This game is like Freelancer: the MMO. The only thing stopping me from quitting sleep entirely is the fact that I stop getting as much exp for quests if I play too much ;o;
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Haha, an MMO that punishes you for getting addicted. About time someone made one of those.
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I know wow has an incentive for stopping (the whole well rested thing) and I belive the new FF online stops giving you EXP after a while.
Also I really want to start playing GTA3 now. I was never that into the games, but looking up the stuff for GTA3 gives me a lot of nostalgia somehow.
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I wouldn't call the well rested exp increase system an incentive. It takes quite a long time to build it up and, especially early on, it goes very, very quickly.
There was actually a multiple-stage rested XP system in the WoW beta, but it was axed and replaced with the current system due to people despising it. The system exists in the Chinese version of WoW and kicks in after so many hours of play. The first step cuts your experience gained in half and the second step cuts it completely and I believe also prevents you from turning in quests.
Edit: FERGOT SOMETHIN'
Also I really want to start playing GTA3 now. I was never that into the games, but looking up the stuff for GTA3 gives me a lot of nostalgia somehow.
I actually played GTA3 about six months-ish ago for a quick nostalgia trip. I love the format of the game, but the cars definitely feel a lot worse than any of the later games. The way they handle feels kind of slippery.
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Someone on my steam list bought me Dino D-day, and I must say it's rather fun and has a decent amount of depth (I'm still figuring some stuff out, but I'm slightly drunk).
Also I cannot figure out why my server browser is broken.
Anyone here Play Company of Heroes, Men of War, or Rainbow 6 3? I'm really tempted to get into them, but I'll probably wait due to all the shit I already have on my plate.
Shit, I already spent some money.
Bought the indie bundle pack (http://www.humblebundle.com/) and I bought Magicka with Vietnam for 8 bucks. Goddamn deals man.
I cannot map any buttons to zoom in on GTA3, and I can't figure out why.
Also I'm really tempted to skip ahead to one of the newer GTAs, because GTA3 feels really dated and basic at this point. I'm still enjoying it and I'm not sure which game I should play next, so I'll stick with it for now.
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I played CoD: Black Ops online for the first time today. I'm kind of impressed that it actually allows you to play split-screen games on Live.
I still think that perks are kind of a dumb idea (LET'S REWARD THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T NEED HELP LOLOL), but they feel strangely more balanced than any of the Infinity Ward games. I appreciate how Treyarch made an attempt to make the series evolve and transcend the older titles instead of doing what IW does best -- rehash their games every two years.
I can't tolerate about a quarter of the maps in the game. That's still far better than my hated map count for CoD4, though.
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...really? I can agree that most of Black Ops maps are rather lack luster (the fact that Nuketown is popular is sad). I honestly liked a lot of the CoD4 maps, despite being small and not well balanced (Backlot was fairly shit for that bomb running map. One side had a huge open bomb site and the others was a straight run that was hard as hell to get through). Wet work, Shipment, Showdown, Bog and Killhouse (fucking terrible map, all cover is easily shot through, map is tiny, no real need to move) are rather bad maps, but everything else is either passing or fun (I can't remember map names either, so http://www.cod4central.com/cod4-maps-menu.php).
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The main problem that I had with CoD4's maps is that some of them catered to snipers to the extent that any other class that you picked would automatically be at a royal disadvantage. I remember Pipeline being a notable offender of this. If you didn't pick a recon class, you'd be hard-pressed to go into any outside areas without getting picked off. There was plenty of foliage on a tall ledge for snipers to lie prone in, and unless you ran into a really bad sniper or went crazy with the grenade launcher, odds are you were going to die if you tried going from building to building without using the underground passages. When you have an amazing sniper spot with only one viable path to it (the other way is right up the fucking middle, which doesn't work), your mapping teams need slapped with a rolled up newspaper.
That kind of map design works extremely well for games like Battlefield, where maps are large, sprawling battlefields with an infinite number of ways to run behind the aforementioned sniper and slice his/her throat. In a tight, fast-paced game like CoD, on the other hand, that design doesn't work well.
That being said, the urban-style maps were all absolutely top-notch. I have no complaints about any of them. Every single loadout is equally usable, there is plenty of cover, and the game doesn't lose its fast pace.
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That's odd, I never ran across that problem. I mean there was a few snipers on that map, but it rarely got that bad.
Creek, and to a lesser extent Chinatown and Broadcast were pretty bad for snipers.
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It wasn't really the number of snipers, it was the difficulty of stopping them without specific loadouts. You were stuck either counter-sniping them, going around the map and wasting precious time by going for the side ramp (assuming that nobody with a shotty was camping there in defense of the sniper, which I've seen happen a couple of times), or lobbing grenades and hoping for the best.
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I'm not really sure what gametypes you did (I stuck to HQ, Domination, that neutral bomb carrying one and sabotage) but I never really ran into that problem. I also played on a "teamwork server" so people would use smoke grenades to cover open areas. Bloc was really bad with snipers too.
Also I'm bummed that the online community for Lead and Gold (played it right now, might be a bad time), Monday Night Combat, Dino-D Day and the Specialists are all dying or dead. MNC has seem to shrunk a lot, and the rest have practically no one online. At least the Specialists has bots.
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It's probably because I mainly played TDM. It seems like people usually resort to camping like that when there's nothing to defend.
I probably should have given the other game modes a shot, but after having my stats reset for the fourth goddamn time (the first time was because my level 34 character was on a computer with a different CD key, and the multiplayer character file is locked to your CD key, the second was because I forgot to move my character file over, and the other times were because the game bugged out and just reset my rank) I just set the game aside.
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Portal 2 = Fun!
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Portal 2 = Fun!
This.
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New Mortal Kombat = Wow. Totally worth the money. Amazing game.
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Downloaded Arma 2, but I can't really get it running (did some training mission then it froze afterwards). I've also been trying to get into King of Fighters 2002. It's a stupidly fun game but trying to find 3 fights that I like and can learn their moves is proving to be a pain when the cast consists of 50+ people and I have a 20 second timer.
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Arma 2 is a total bitch to get running on (AFAIK) anything newer than XP. I don't remember what I did to get my copy to play, but I still run into glitches and crashes every once in a while.
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I'm some years behind, but thanks to LunarKeys, I'm oh-so-very into GTA IV.
Big American Titties!
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"Why don't you show me around the city, cousin?"
"FUCKING TERRORISTS!"
"YOU EVER HAVE TWO WOMEN AT ONCE? FOUR BIG TITTIES TO BE PLAYING WITH?!"
Gotta love Roman. :)
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Shit son, I'm not even done with GTA3. I hear Vice City is good so I'm going to play that prior to jumping to YOU A BUSTA CJ. Also I thought everyone hated Roman after a while.
Arma 2 is a total bitch to get running on (AFAIK) anything newer than XP. I don't remember what I did to get my copy to play, but I still run into glitches and crashes every once in a while.
I'll mess with it when I unfuck my GPU. It looks pretty awesome, but I've never played a military sim before and I don't have a mic. I hope it's more then "scout around for a half an hour, call in an enemy position, get shot and die".
I realized there's a whole new set of missions once I beat a few more minor (and really fucking annoying. Need to move BURNING ROCKS that hurt me all the way across a map, and I'll move real slow and I cannot heal or be hit while doing this).
So yeah, I'm addicted to Monster Hunter Tri again. Something about it, the challenge and the amount of skill used during each fight just make it so fun.
Installed Vice City for the hell of it, and since I'm so close to beating GTA3. Holy SHIT this game is good. Tons of guns that are actually fun to use, the chainsaw is stupidly rewarding, the sword can cut peoples heads off, the shotguns actually feel viable (they still have the retarded spread, but it's used wisely in this game as it indicates how wide and far the bullets go) the snipers can shoot down helicopters if it hits the prop/cockpit. Everything just seems awesome.
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Speaking of Monster Hunter Tri, I just started playing it tonight. I started at about 10:00 with the intent of just getting through the tutorials and just ended up shutting off my Wii about 15 minutes ago. Very fun.
It took some time to get used to the controls. Not because they were extra complex, but because of the amount of precision needed. Luckily, the analog stick on the nunchuk is quite good, so that was hardly an issue.
Now, time for some early complaints (woohoo!).
First of all, I have a feeling that the limitations of the Wii are hampering what the game could be. There might be a lot to see, but you wind up jumping from tiny stage to the next tiny stage, separated by loading screens. I'm glad the first thing I did was rip the disc, because I'd hate to see what the loading times would be like without me having done that (honestly, anything longer than hard drive loading times would have probably started to bug me after a couple of hours). The graphics being Wii-esque doesn't bother me so much, but the game being separated into levels is unfortunate. I was hoping that it would be a bit more of an open world.
The worst sin that I've seen so far is that corpses disappear way too fast. When I'm in area 6 hunting those small carnivores, I generally wind up taking three or four of them on at a time. However, since I'm still using noob weapons, by the time I manage to kill the third one, the first two corpses are already gone. I don't know if you lose the loot from them or if it appears back at the village (the game doesn't tell you either way, and I'm generally out of the village long enough that I can't really tell), but the very idea that I could be missing out on loot because of that annoys me. If I find out otherwise it won't be as big of an issue.
Outside of that, it made me want to turn my Wii on (nmiaow), so a major victory goes to Capcom right there. I still can't help but imagine what the game would be like if it had a large, sprawling world rendered in glorious 720p, though.
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The load times are almost not noticeable. The initial load time for a map is around 30 seconds to a minute with different areas loading within 10 seconds.
I'm assuming the maps are set up that way because it's supposed to resemble the PSP maps. That, and trying to chase a flying monster through 8+ areas that are huge would be a HUGE pain. There's supposedly an MMO, not sure how maps work in that.
Outside of that, it made me want to turn my Wii on (nmiaow), so a major victory goes to Capcom right there. I still can't help but imagine what the game would be like if it had a large, sprawling world rendered in glorious 720p, though.
Same, I sort of hope they make a PS3/next gen console release. The scale and size of these battles in HD would look fan damn tastic.
Also, assuming this is your first monster hunter, get good at dodging and blocking. The game basically revolves around you dodging the vast majorities of the shit thrown at you, and you need to memorize the different moves and states of monsters (rage, stamina depleted, wounded).
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I suppose it would be annoying chasing a monster a great distance (remember, I'm still in the early stages of the game where that's not much of an issue), but it just makes the game feel kind of cramped to me. I'm starting to see areas that are a bit larger (like the underwater area near the beginning) but the frequency of load screens really breaks immersion.
Another issue that I have with them is when monsters run close to the map change triggers. I went to carve one monster that was a bit too close and wound up warping to the next screen. Ugh. Tiny levels are so N64.
Also, assuming this is your first monster hunter, get good at dodging and blocking. The game basically revolves around you dodging the vast majorities of the shit thrown at you, and you need to memorize the different moves and states of monsters (rage, stamina depleted, wounded).
Yep, this is my first Monster Hunter. And yep, I've heard things. :) Considering the amount of handholding I've gotten thus far -- on a Capcom game, no less -- I have a good feeling that things are going to get much, much harder.
As for the monster states, I have been paying close attention to the subtle behavior changes on the earlier monsters. I'm actually very impressed both by how expressive the monsters are and how each monster type has a distinct behavior.
All in all, I think I'm going to like it.
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It's not that bad, as long as you play smart and are always prepared (going into fights with 10 potions, 10 mega potions, and 10 honey is recommended. I usually do that + 10 blue mushrooms and herbs).
Also this is endlessly helpful.
http://monsterhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Monster_Hunter_Wiki
I'd take some special notice to the weapon trees.
Oh, and watch out for Gigginox, he's the most annoying monster in the game.
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Ah, gotcha. I've been taking care to look at the monster in question and look over its defenses (large, heavy bone on tail, long neck, large...probably want to stay by their flank), which seems to be helpful. The little creatures are pretty annoying, but I have a feeling that's not going to be a problem.
Thanks for the wiki link. I've been particularly curious about the weapons. I'll probably only look at that if I'm really lost and desperate, though. I like trying to figure things out on my own, for better or for worse.
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A lot to talk about.
So far I'm at the start of chapter 2 in the Witcher 2, and the game seems to have really opened up. I struggled playing the game on hard, but I'm really loving it. The combat is just loads of fun so far, I can sort of see it being comparable to Arkham Asylum (really need to finish that game, was afraid of frying my card playing it but that's clearly not going to be a problem now), but there's just so much more to it then just that. Planning, prepping, laying traps, tossing bombs, picking off the weaker enemies, knowing when to strike hard.
So yeah, I'm rather impressed with it. The opening was surprisingly epic (in a literal sense, you storm a castle and run from a dragon. Plus the kings speech of "What do you fucking want?" to have the knights reply "victory!" made me happy) and Chapter 2 felt rather good despite being a bit small. The ending was really goddamn depressing, and came out of nowhere, but I really enjoyed it. I also like how everyone seems to have a good and a bad side (most humans hate dwarves and elves, and the elves fighting for freedom are all basically terrorists who kill civilians left and right). The amount of side missions so far seems awesome, when in a new area I'm able to just explore and find shit to do, which most games can't seem to pull off.
Oh, and I played some of the DLC missions in L.A. Noir. The game seems to be a load of fun and nothing like GTA. The characters all seem fairly well fleshed out, and the whole "reading a suspect" really requires you to pay attention to what you're doing (a suspect claimed she didn't know a guy and referred to him by his full name when I only gave her his first). Also trying to kill people makes the game laughably fun. I ran over my partner 3 times and had him roll under my giant truck, then my friend pinned him next to a car and he died instantly. We both broke out laughing hard.
Welp, beat GTA3, was really underwhelmed but it was an okay game.
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Duke Nukem Forever.
It's fun.
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What do you actually think of it? One of my friends owns it, and another rented it, and they both think the game is terrible, which seems to be the prevailing sentiment in general...
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The game certainly isn't terrible. I think most people are overreacting just because the game has had a long and troubled development period and they were simply expecting more.
That being said, it's certainly not great. There were some parts that I enjoyed and some parts that make me want to scream. It sort of seems like half of the game was designed with regenerating health in mind while the other half of the game was developed around an old school medikit system. There's many parts that you can tell were ripped straight out of 2001 and other parts that are decisively more modern.
The middle segment of the game is probably the best and most solid segment and feels like the most modern. The rest of it is hard to place. Also, it has physics puzzles. That's the last thing I'd picture a Duke game having.
The weapons are, by and large, underwhelming. It has many of the Duke Nukem 3D staples -- such as the Devastator, Ripper, Freeze Ray, and Shrink Gun -- but thanks to the harsh ammo restrictions and the ability to only hold two weapons, I find myself switching between the pistol, shotgun, and ripper throughout most of the game, since they hold the most ammo and generally do the most damage.
Boss fights are hit and miss. Some of the bosses -- such as the Battlelord -- were clearly designed around the player having a personal arsenal. You see, bosses in DNF require you to hit them with either turrets or explosives. Turrets are fine, since the worst thing that can happen is that they'll overheat. That being said, you typically have to dispatch bosses with an RPG. An RPG that holds five rounds, that you have to repeatedly refill in the middle of a boss fight. It works fine in the levels during that golden middle segment, but outside of that? Well, imagine facing a Cyberdemon in Doom. Picture that your rocket launcher only holds five rounds. Now imagine getting off five shots, then having to run to one or two points to restock on ammo. Now envision the Cyberdemon busting out a hitscan weapon that does a fuckload of damage if you stay out of cover for too long ("too long" being mere seconds). If it doesn't sound pleasant, that's because it isn't.
Duke also doesn't talk enough. For a character that's so beloved and developed, he stays silent a lot. He pretty much gets bitched at by the president for his antics in DN3D for the entire game and doesn't respond once. He doesn't interact with the other NPCs too much at all, only with the player. It just makes him seem strangely detached from the world. With the gameplay style that 3D Realms and Triptych decided upon, it's almost like playing a Halo knockoff with a Duke Nukem voiceover.
There are some parts that really bring you into the Duke Nukem 3D mindset. The intro and beginning level are very Duke. The strip club is another section that just screams that this is a Duke Nukem game. High levels of interactivity, plenty of one-liners, and chock full of ego. It's a shame that they stuffed everything that is Duke into a few levels and didn't spread it out over the course of the game. Throughout the majority of the game, the only thing that really reminds you that you're playing a Duke Nukem game is the occasional one-liner.
Overall, I thought it was average. Some people are really, really overreacting (some people actually think that DNF is worse than Daikatana. I mean...what?!) and a smaller group are really underreacting (PC Gamer US's overwhelmingly positive review certainly is not deserved). It's a Halo clone starring Duke Nukem.
That being said, the released product is still 3D Realm's game. Now that Gearbox owns Duke, I'm curious to see what, if any, future titles are in the pipeline.
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Nice, I was hoping to hear that sort of a response, lol. I was not expecting the game to be fantastic by any means, but I was also not expecting it to be the trash that a lot of people are making it out to be, so this is roughly what I was expecting, and hoping, for.
I'd definitely love to see gearbox get together and make another DN game. I have a feeling that if they were to start working on another it'd probably end up being a lot better than Forever, because of all the development issues and such. I mean, when your picking up a half-finished project that's had so much work by so many different people at different times, it just becomes a complete mess, but starting a completely new project would give them a chance to really revitalize the franchise... And I honestly think that Duke would definitely fit in with all the people who are too young to have played the older games, as long as he's presented in a game that doesn't end up only appealing to old Duke fans like us... As far as the actual character is designed, he was kinda ahead of his time.
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That...sounds like the best review I've heard of Douk yet. Not a bad game, but not up to snuff with stuff like DN3D.
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I'd definitely love to see gearbox get together and make another DN game. I have a feeling that if they were to start working on another it'd probably end up being a lot better than Forever, because of all the development issues and such.
I'm sure it's going to happen. I don't think Randy Pitchford is done with Duke just yet.
And yeah, if the followup is actually designed (not grown, like DNF was under Broussard's leadership), it should still prove to be a good game. Gearbox has quite a few talented developers under its belt.
That...sounds like the best review I've heard of Douk yet.
Ego stroke!
Not a bad game, but not up to snuff with stuff like DN3D.
Yep. I enjoyed DNF for the most part, but I didn't expect anything more out of it than I would have expected out of any other game.
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Got Street Fighter AE from a friend and I've been loving it. I've been sticking with Adon, Makoto, and Abel (doing really good with Abel, anyone throwing too much plasma gets tossed by me).
I actually feel a little bad for buying a Capcom game, considering how they sort of fucked up AE and are all around just fucking everything they own up.
http://kaonazhie.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/why-street-fighter-sucks/
never mind I'm done.
Also this
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fun/gaming/3681414/Games-for-gratis.html
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That guy has no concept of how pro playing really works... Or why people continue to play fighting games with hard-as-balls controls and only 2 dimensions of movement... Or the fact that nobody gives a shit that "fighting" games are a weak-as-fuck simulation of real world fighting....
I call bullshit on somemost of what he says there... But he gets one point dead on (the point about balance... SF is NOT fucking balanced, period. When one character is expected to win 70% or whatever of their matches against an opponent of equal skill based on matchup, there's a relatively large problem. SF fanboys are just too blind to see it.)
The whole 3D is always better angle is just dumb. Adding the third dimension does give you more options, it doesn't automatically make the game better. I've played plenty of fighting games I really wished had been kept to 2D instead. The Guilty Gear games, as well as BlazBlue add other dimensions of gameplay (roman cancel, bursts, etc. etc. etc.) without having 3 dimensions of movement (because that's really all the third dimension is, it doesn't usually play into your attacks anyway)... Also, having meters/special attacks adds another dimension of gameplay that he seems to gloss over as unimportant...
His point about strategies may be somewhat right as far as SF goes... I don't know THAT much about the SF pro scene, or high level pla to really comment there, but I know in many other 2D fighters, there isn't just some set in scene strategy to auto-win (probably because characters are generally more balanced in other games.....)
All in all, I think that guy doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about, but still manages to stumble on a good point about balance in SF in the process of making himself look like a complete dumbass.
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The guy has no remote clue what he's talking about, he's just as bad as the people who assume fighting games are button mashers. The strategies part is dead wrong, you cannot use the same strategy against Dahlsim as you can Zangeif. Hell, even after a few rounds you'll see and be able to exploit holes in peoples strategies , it's part of what makes it fun.
Also just beat the Witcher 2, my god that was amazing. Probably will replay just to see what else I can do differently, I'm assuming a new game will be released so I need to find a way of keeping my final save safe.
but yeah, some of the best writing I've ever seen in a game, shit was amazing. Had a few issues, but nothing close enough for me to not love it. Probably my Goty honestly.
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The only point I think he hit on was the balance issue... The tiers in SF are kinda ridiculous.
Downloading The Witcher Enhanced right now... No idea if 2 will run on this laptop, but if I somehow finish the original, I'll move on to 2.
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SF4 is okay in terms of balance, but yeah, Capcom has always been meh at balancing their games. At least it's not as bad as MvC3/MvC2.
Also the Witcher is a fun game, but I hated it when I first tried it. As soon as you get to chapter 2 make sure you get comfortable with the map and the quest log (MOST quests allow you to follow them on the map given the option).
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Definitely been using the map already, and I'm still in chapter 1.
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Bought and beat Zeno Clash, game was surprisingly enjoyable and well worth the sale price.
Also I saw that Breath of Death and Cthulu saves the world were on sale as a pack, so I bought them. Seems odd to be playing a game that's a homage to old school RPGs when I have a limtied history with RPGs (will get Chrono Trigger, probably pretty soon considering I'm not really playing much). Oh god, Cthulu Saves the World is a lot of fun, already went through the first two dungeons and did a minor side mission, shit was fun.
also two more thins, anyone know of any good SA mods? and Space Marine multiplayer looks like fun
http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/07/20/space-marine-multiplayer-video-preview?objectid=14352257
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bought the humble indie bundle and Machinirum won't run right. I can hear it running from the sounds, but it's frame-rate goes from normal to nothing quickly.
Also yeah, buy the bundle. For 5+ bucks you get at least 6 or 7 rather awesome games.
I also picked up New Vegas, got addicted to the game quickly. Really enjoying it despite all its blatant flaws, feels like they tried to improve over all the problems FO3 had (well, SOME of them, enemies and humans seem more diverse, and there seems to be a pretty awesome amount of weapons added).
Can't stop playing Revenge of the Titans. It's a fairly simple tower defense game at the start, but it gets increasingly harder and the tech tree for it is massive. I've never been huge into tower defense games, but this one feels more like an RTS with strictly base defense systems then an actual tower defense game.
Okay, Arkham Asylum is making me rage. I really like the game, but I keep getting into these dumb fights that are nothing but me getting circled and being unable to dodge or hit them most of the time. That and they DON'T STAY DOWN.
Fuckin BAM, got Deus Ex for 30-ish bucks. Really digging it so far, some things feel a bit odd (glad that take downs use energy) and considering how quickly you die in dues ex mode I really don't mind the health regen.
My only complaint so far is some slightly wonky AI.
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Minecraft. I got it in May, didn't really start playing it until about June, didn't start messing with Redstone until about a month ago, and didn't start getting into more complicated Redstone until about 2 weeks ago. Now I'm working on a digital clock.
I've built the display, the decoders, and the hours counter, so all that's left is the minutes counter and the clock generator.
The display. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/2011-08-28_023023.png) I decided I wanted to make a clock entirely out of wood in the middle of a forest. The display uses pine and oak logs, and all other structures are built using wood planks.
Behind the display. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/2011-08-28_023047.png) For the minutes, each digit has its own 7-segment decoder and each will have its own counter. For the hours, there's only one 9-segment decoder hooked up to one counter. I decided this would be easier than making two decoders, since the tens digit in the hours only ever makes a 1, and it's only used for 3 hours. The other segments in the tens place are always inactive.
The hours counter underneath the hours decoder. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/2011-08-28_024239.png) Originally I used a relatively simple counter which used a minecart track, but I soon got really frustrated because animals kept jumping on the track and in the cart, which would fuck up the count and it would take forever to fix it. It took a while to figure out, but I came up with this counter which uses pistons. Each time it receives a pulse, either one piston turns on, or if all of the pistons are on, all of them turn off. By receiving a pulse every hour, the counter cycles through 12 states every 12 hours, with each state corresponding to which number is displayed. It's much more reliable and much easier to reset if it does somehow screw up.
This has been a really fun project, and it makes me wish I'd gotten into digital circuitry sooner.
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
Wow. I'm really impressed so far. :o
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Saw that on facebook, I'm impressed you can do that much in the actual game.
Also Spectere, same here. I'm really loving the game and the characters in it are genuinely interesting.
Plus, this game has the best "morality" system ever. There is no gauge for it, but other characters will interact with you different depending on what you do. Also doing the "right" thing is usually pretty hard and will usually end up costing you (there was this large criminal who offered to pay me big to let him go, also this other crime syndicate had me either shake down a lady for the money she "owed" them or pay them out of my pocket).
So yeah, if you mess up the game makes you feel like a massive asshole, and being the softie that I am I'm trying my hardest to be the good guy.
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So yeah, if you mess up the game makes you feel like a massive asshole, and being the softie that I am I'm trying my hardest to be the good guy.
Oh yes. I have a feeling I'm going to be able to effectively play through the game multiple times.
Also, I'm not sure if you noticed this, but in many cases the dialog trees are not static. If you save before one of those interrogation-like sequences, and go through it multiple times, the outcome will be different. The character won't necessarily say the same things or even behave the same way. It's pretty awesome.
I also love how using some of your augs to solve problems -- particularly the pheromones -- can actually make the situation worse. Very nice touch.
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Hah, yeah, as soon as I got it I used it on Malik and she got pissed.
I'm honestly really enjoying the conversation system, it's definitely a step up over ME/2s. ALMOST as good as the Witcher 2s, but honestly that game made me make some drastic decisions.
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Indeedy. I like how you can actually see what Adam is going to say when you highlight a conversation option. It's really a pain in ME1/2 when you select an option that appears to be what you want, then Shepard says something mindnumbingly stupid instead that completely undermines what you planned to do. Not to mention the black and white morality system that ME1/2 had.
I do have to disagree with the inclusion of the "silver tongue" experience bonus in DX:HR, though. Getting that signifies that you made the most ideal set of choices, which I feel undermines the entire system.
Edit: Pretty sure I found a reproducible crash to desktop bug in DX:HR. If you jump on a particular car just outside of an alley near the Derelict Row Ballers turf, the game crashes. I'll have to play around with that and report it (if nobody else did) if I narrow it down to that.
Edit 2: Is it just me, or does Beat Hazard Ultra kind of suck? It tacks on a ton of annoying enemies without addressing some of the numerous problems that the original game had.
It still has a nasty tendency of generating tons of enemies on some quiet songs, giving you a swarm of enemies with absolutely no way of dealing with them. It gimps the weapon power way too much during quiet sections. And it tends to clusterfuck the screen during boss fights.
The last point wasn't bad at all in the first one, but considering some of the bosses in Ultra take up most of the screen, it quickly becomes a huge issue and can make some situations literally impossible to get out of.
Also, I'm pretty sure they nerfed the super bomb...
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Playing Diablo 2 some more...I some how got my room mate hooked on it xD
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Have you tried Torchlight? If you love Diablo 2, you're sure to love Torchlight (and it's cheap, too!).
Torchlight is more of a solo experience, but the sequel is going to have multiplayer support.
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Hey, quick question, anyone here play Advent Rising? I'm interested in it since I realized how mediocre Psi-ops is.
Also anyone here play League of Legends? I started up but I evidently need to study in order to play.
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Well, I made a digital clock in Minecraft 3 weeks ago, and since then I've learned a thing or two about computer architecture. This is my latest project:
(http://i.imgur.com/fEICC.png) (http://i.imgur.com/rlKAe.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/jhgb5.png) (http://i.imgur.com/AfTtA.jpg)
It's a 16-bit CPU. It doesn't have a clock, but I'm guessing without any memory instructions it could probably make a clock cycle every 4 seconds. It's got 2 registers, a program counter with conditional jumps implemented, it adds, subtracts, increments, does bitwise logical operations, and is designed to use the same memory for instructions and data. The blue thing in the top right of the first image is a 32-byte block of RAM.
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Ooh, very nice job! How fast is it? :p
Did you use any tools to help you lay everything out, or just graph paper, creative mode, and a lot of patience?
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Actually, because of how it's layered, graph paper wouldn't be a huge help. Since I was in creative, there wasn't much of a distinction between designing and building. Essentially I'd work out the design for a component, build it 1 to 3 bits wide by hand with an expandable design, go into MCEdit, extend it to 16 bits, and go back to creative to test it until it worked. Once I had all the components, I went into MCEdit and put them near each other, then connected them by hand in creative.
I'm not entirely sure how fast it is, since I'm holding off designing the clock until the memory is implemented, but I'm guessing somewhere around 200-250 mHz as is.
And if you're curious, I built it using the specifications in this book: http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-Building-Principles/dp/0262640686/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1316354352&sr=8-1
It's great, building a complex machine like this taught me how computer hardware translates binary code into actions, and I have to say this has been more fun and satisfying than every programming project I've ever done. Makes me wonder why I waited until now to check out computer engineering.
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You really need to make a video of that in action, or have a few pictures showing the finer points, unsure if anything of this scale has been done in Minecraft.
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I occasionally see these pop up on r/Minecraft. Not many people make them, of course, but there have been a few, like these:
A lot of the stuff I used I got from the third guy's world save. It has some of his components lying around disconnected, and I managed to reverse-engineer a lot of them.
There's still some testing I need to do, and I'm working on connecting it to memory right now, but once I get it to a programmable state I'll post a video of it.
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Jesus christ, that is impressive. I've made a few full adders, but nothing more than that in MC.
Oh, and have you been using updated designs, which use the actual repeater block, or still using the oldschool repeaters?
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I've been using new repeaters. It's so, so much easier to make compact circuits with the new repeaters.
Also yesterday I hooked the CPU up to the RAM block in the picture, but for some reason the last row of registers were completely inaccessible, and there wasn't a quick fix for it. I was looking for an excuse to redesign my RAM anyways after finding a more efficient way to store bits, so now I'm working on that.
Here's 32 bytes per the new design. It has 16 addressable 16-bit registers. I'm going to stack 8 of these on top of each other and wire them together to make 128 addressable 16-bit registers, or 256 bytes of RAM.
(http://i.imgur.com/L2Aaml.png) (http://i.imgur.com/L2Aam.png)
Black on top is the data input. The data output is underneath. Green represents the register selector, and when Pink is unpowered it writes the data input to the selected register.
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I have no fucking clue how that works, but damn is it impressive.
Also beat Deus Ex HR a while ago, figured I might as well mention it. When you get near the end you can sort of tell that the game was rushed, and the ending basically boils down to selecting 4 different buttons which then play a video for you explaining the extent of your "actions". Still, it was a really well made game. Could of used better balancing and more weapons, but still the game was really good and definitely a worthy squeal DE.
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Annon, i just saw this on the minecraft foorums: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/651094-the-mctp-router-internet-in-minecraft/
The internet... In Minecraft.
What. The. Fuck.
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Also beat Deus Ex HR a while ago, figured I might as well mention it. When you get near the end you can sort of tell that the game was rushed, and the ending basically boils down to selecting 4 different buttons which then play a video for you explaining the extent of your "actions".
I don't think it's so much because it's rushed. DX and DX:IW were both exactly the same.
Still, pretty lame.
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What, no comment on the CRAZY minecraft creation I linked?
Also, to satisfy the question of this thread, I'm currently playing Osu!, Minecraft, and an MMO called Rusty Hearts.... I should be playing SC2 D:
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I downloaded Rusty Hearts despite hearing it's pretty mediocre. Haven't tried it yet tho, so I have no name set up. I'm assuming you're not playing via steam?
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Annon, i just saw this on the minecraft foorums: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/651094-the-mctp-router-internet-in-minecraft/
The internet... In Minecraft.
What. The. Fuck.
Ooh, that's pretty sweet. I don't really know anything about the hardware side of networking, but I've been learning more and more about computer hardware, so it'll probably come up. Plus, I might eventually build a more capable second computer, so I'll probably end up making my own router anyways.
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What, no comment on the CRAZY minecraft creation I linked?
Honestly, I popped it open in another tab and didn't get to it for another hour or two, so I forgot where I got the link from. Very impressive piece of work.
Ooh, that's pretty sweet. I don't really know anything about the hardware side of networking, but I've been learning more and more about computer hardware, so it'll probably come up. Plus, I might eventually build a more capable second computer, so I'll probably end up making my own router anyways.
I'm more familiar with the software side of networking. If you ever need to know how a packet gets from one place to another, feel free to ask. :p
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Speaking of computers, mine's done!
Front:
(http://i.imgur.com/FfPH3l.png) (http://imgur.com/FfPH3)
Side:
(http://i.imgur.com/p4zmvl.png) (http://imgur.com/p4zmv)
Top:
(http://i.imgur.com/pkRxzl.png) (http://imgur.com/pkRxz)
Underside:
(http://i.imgur.com/cctPVl.jpg) (http://imgur.com/cctPV)
RAM tower:
(http://i.imgur.com/gYmYol.png) (http://imgur.com/gYmYo)
I've been working on this for the last 5 hours, so I'll post more about it tomorrow. The RAM's empty right now, but I have a program written that I can load in manually. I'll post a more in-depth thread in Computing when I've made a video.
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Jeebus. Very nice!
I'll be looking forward to the video and Computing post.
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Post that shit on the miecraft forums, man.
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Also, definitely try to get on the RDF server (http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/289808-redstone-development-foundation-rdf/). That way you can work with like-minded people and maybe get some help on your redstone projects.
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Annon, you need to overhaul that computer! lol. People have discovered that you can abuse pistons to create instant operating gates, meaning computers in minecraft just got a whole lot faster.
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Oh yeah, I've heard about instant wire. I haven't been using it much because I prefer to keep things compact and instantwire rigs don't tend to be. Also that many updates happening all at once would probably end up lagging and glitching, and to be honest if I'm going to put that much effort into making a computer with less than reliable components, I may as well make it in real life. Which I might end up doing.
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Oh yeah, I've heard about instant wire. I haven't been using it much because I prefer to keep things compact and instantwire rigs don't tend to be. Also that many updates happening all at once would probably end up lagging and glitching, and to be honest if I'm going to put that much effort into making a computer with less than reliable components, I may as well make it in real life. Which I might end up doing.
Ahh. How would you go about making it IRL? Personally I'd try getting an FPGA and some stuff and design my processor as a soft core.
Also, I've been playing me some Baldurs Gate 2. Jesus fuck that game is unforgiving, lol.
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I'm probably going to get that in the near future. I've beaten most of the games I still care about and I've been wanting to get back into some older RPGs. I have Fallout already, I just need to figure out how to fix this odd graphical glitch I got last time.
Also I'm starting to get into LoL, I finally had a "good" match with a character I enjoyed and I could see myself playing this for a short while.
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Ahh. How would you go about making it IRL? Personally I'd try getting an FPGA and some stuff and design my processor as a soft core.
I'm not sure yet, but I know it's possible. Really I just like the idea of having a homemade computer. Also I'm starting to really get into computer hardware and I figure I'll eventually get to making a simple computer from essentially scratch.
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Ahh. How would you go about making it IRL?
Transistors. Lots. ;)
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Ugh, I'd rather make a relay logic computer than a transistor computer, lol. Mostly because transistors are such fussy things to work with (gotta get the bias right, and some logic gates look fucking weird when you see how their actual circuit is laid out). That, and the clacking of thousands of relays switching states sounds awesome.
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FFFFFFFFFFUCK SSF4 AE. The inputs are too fucking ambiguous (down forward twice will give you a DP, as just an example) and it causes me and other people to get the wrong fucking move multiple times. I just lost 5 or so matches I SHOULD have won due to this. and fuck Eggman for saying the inputs where fine, I knew something was wrong from the start and a while later I found out how stupidly sloppy they made them.
I've honestly been enjoying SSF4 AE but goddamn the inputs are honestly the worst part of the game. Played tons of other fighters and I've never had this problem. Maybe I should just get a goddamn stick.
The TF2 community has gone down the shitter. Pony fags everywhere and tons of people that will camp spawn as a medic combo and then shit talk afterwards. It's just sad, I had a game where this guy came over to our team and trash talked saying that even him playing with us couldn't make us unshitty (teams were pretty badly stacked, they had about twice as many points as us) and when the round ended he went back to his team. Good thing was we won the final round after I did some minor gloating (had this happen a while back with a heavy/medic team, which was also spawn camping and shit talking).
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Really hope CS:GO is a good game, it looks like it's taking all the right paths to be one (re-balancing old maps, re balancing the guns, getting pro players from 1.6 and source to help make the game more balanced) and I'll probably get it considering it won't even be full priced.
It's gotten me back into CS:S, and I found an awesome server where people will actually make plans and work together (plus the normal cash flow means you need to use weapons outside of assault rifles) and it's nuts. I rarely see players of this skill level, and actually getting a 2 KDR feels like an accomplishment on there.
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(plus the normal cash flow means you need to use weapons outside of assault rifles)
^ THIS.
Seriously, that's the thing that I miss most about beta CS. People didn't change server settings as much, so you actually had to work for your weapons. You couldn't start with a deagle and get a bullpup by the next round like you can in CS:S half of the time.
But anyhoo, I'm kind of out of the loop here. Is CS:GO a mod or is it going to be the next iteration of CS? If it's the latter, hopefully it doesn't take as long for it to become a solid game as CS:S did.
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No, CS:GO is a new game being released by Valve, but they're only charging 20 or so dollars.
Also I agree with the cash flow thing, gets even worse on servers that allow AWP. Half the people there will use the damn thing.
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For as popular and timeless as CS is, $20 is definitely reasonable. SOME PEOPLE (not, like, me, or anything <_<) people pay close to that monthly for online games.
And yeah, the cash flow and balance issues are two of the main reasons that I don't care to play CS anymore. When there are only a few weapons that are worth picking and you can pick all of them in a round or two, most of the content that the game provides becomes meaningless.
One of the reasons that I played Action Quake 2 for so long is that each weapon had its own distinct set of disadvantages. I fucking loved that shit. I wish more people (i.e. not ones equipped with aimbots) still played it.
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Yeah, they wouldn't outright charge full price for a new CS game, I don't think they've ever done that.
Also recently reinstalled stalker CoP modded with SMRTER (since ulti recommended it) and it's enjoyable. Something about stalker is always fun for me.
I also started playing Chrono Trigger and I'm enjoying it a LOT. Game is wildly impressive graphically (for an SNES game and all).
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Chrono Trigger uses an absolutely massive ROM -- 32 megabits, or 4 megabytes. Even with that in mind, it still had to compress everything down to make it all work. Even after all of that, some features had to be cut because they wouldn't fit in the given space.
It was, and still is in a lot of ways, an absolutely massive game.
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It could be worse. I believe that ToP (correct me if I'm wrong) used a separate chip in the cartridge to decompress graphics on the fly, just to fit into a 32mbit rom...
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Yeah, Tales of Phantasia went even more crazy with the custom chips and compression. Then again, IIRC, that's also the one that had a stunning musical intro, complete with vocals.
ToP was also the first 48 megabit SNES game. 6 megabytes for a 16-bit game. Not too shabby.
The funniest part is that computers were far more powerful than consoles at the time. Even VGA offered a higher resolution and more simultaneous colors (and, for that matter, a larger palette to choose from) but the storage media is what really held it back. We had hard drives, but to get the game onto the hard drive you'd need to load it sloooooooowly from floppies. It's easy to forget that CD-ROM drives were a luxury item in the early 90s.
But, that's okay. We got, by far, the best version of Doom. :p
Edit: Oh god, I should go through some of my shareware CDs some day! :o
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Right, it was a 48mbit cart, not 32. Yeah, that game was retarded, and was also one of the last games made playable in emulation, thanks t having to completely reverse engineer the decompression chip.
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So I'm worried about running BF3 well considering someone said they couldn't get a smooth frame rate on low with their 5750
and I only have a HD 5830, but the system requirements website says my card passes minimum specs (my only shortcoming being my OS).
So any advice?
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So I'm worried about running BF3 well considering someone said they couldn't get a smooth frame rate on low with their 5750
and I only have a HD 5830, but the system requirements website says my card passes minimum specs (my only shortcoming being my OS).
So any advice?
Don't listen to people on the Internet when it comes to advice on how video games perform. I've found all too often that they try to push an old card too hard, wind up with major slowdowns, and then wonder why.
My advice would be to upgrade to the latest drivers and set the quality to a sane, but appealing, level. The HD 5830 is still a high-end card, even if it from the last generation. DICE would not neglect testing the game on a commonly used card like that, especially a competitive shooter.
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I usually don't (I was playing CS:S with some guys and they said something about needing at least 8 gigs of ram and 1000 FPS to play a game properly, I wasn't sure if they were trolling or dumb honestly) but I figured I'd run this by you anyways. At least the Witcher 2 runs well on this card on medium, so I have some faith in it.
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Not sure if I'd go with trolling as much as exaggerating. Considering BF3 is designed for consoles with 512MB of RAM shared between the GPU and system, I can't see them drastically increasing the detail on the PC version.
I think you'll do just fine on medium or even high, depending on what resolution you want to use. I have the same card and am still hard pressed to find any game that doesn't run decently and still look great (DX:HR puts a bit of stress on it, but I run it at 1680x1050 with the settings a few steps down from maxed; the card slaughters everything else I've thrown at it.
And, again, it's only one generation behind. Hardware obsoletes fairly quickly in the PC gaming world, but not that quickly.
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Welp, finally decided to beat Megaman X2, god that final fight was disappointing. Now when I beat X3 I will have beaten X thorough X6, which makes me happy.
It's odd, but I'm happy when I have like 5 or 6 games to play through, but I really would like to finish most of them.
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So I tried playing Stepmania today for the first time in like a year. I forgot how much of a bitch DTM's Fury of the Storm is.
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Yeah, jackhammers are pretty lousy when you haven't played for a while.
I find it hilarious how low my scores are now. I played Eggman's One More Lovely standard chart. I managed to full combo it, but with something like 100 perfects and 20 greats. I used to get ~16 perfects on it. xD My timing is still reasonable, but my, um, wrist stamina sucks.
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My stamina is absolutely GARBAGE, but somehow my accuracy is actually pretty good. Maybe not as good as it should be on some of th harder stuff, but on the more reasonable stuff I can actually get better scores than I used to be able to (when my wrist doesn't fail me and die in the middle of the song).
Also, if you guys want a different music game to try, sometime you should check out http://Osu.ppy.sh
I have no idea how the site hasn't been shut down for illegally hosting craptons of music, but either way, the game's pretty fun. It's an Elite Beat Agents/Ouendan clone for the computer.
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I've played plenty of osu!. Maybe it's because I'm a snob, but I can't stand playing it with the mouse. I've played it on my iPod touch when it was jailbroken (the only reason I un-jailbroke it was because I realized that osu! was the only jailbroken app that I actually used) and had a blast with it. If I were to get a tablet PC I would definitely play it more, but until then I'm just going to stick with EBA.
I have been getting into ReRave (http://www.rerave.com/). It's a pretty solid EBA clone for iOS (and eventually Android, and the arcade). LunarKeys showed it to me last time I saw him and I've been hooked ever since. <_< That and Jukebeat are seriously making me want an iPad again. Dammit...
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Ahh, I've been playing a lot lately, but all Z/X and Mouse. I'm ranked about 10,200 or so right now, and slowly getting better.
I never actually played EBA/Ouendan, but I stumbled upon Osu and loved it.
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Aright, beat the Witcher 2 again (took the Iorveth path, as well as some other different decisions) and I'm pretty unsure on what final save I should keep. Major spoilers.
With Iorveth you end up having the Pontar Valley free, and now Saskia is alive and able to rule over it, as well as the south having one less dead king (Henselt). With Vernon, Henselt dies, Letho dies, Saskia dies (pretty much the best of a worst situation there) I also fucked up some other options, but basically the south becomes more unstable and the pontar valley no longer has a ruler.
So yeah, I'm completely unsure what save to take. I like Vernon more but Iorveth's side seems to have a better ending for the south considering it has two more rulers and a better chance against the north, but then you end up betraying your kingdom, Vernon (who probably dies), and you're still an outlaw. So yeah, no easy answers and each side has its positives and negatives.
So yeah, great game, amazing story, one of the few games were choices made in game felt important and everyone had a well fleshed out motivation and it all tied in really well to this multilayered story. The only things that bother me are the fact that everything can be very hard to follow on a single play through, and the fact that Triss is always trying to get with you despite being good friends with the girl whom Geralt is supposed to love and be chasing the entire series. Also magic, traps, and bombs could be better balanced, needing to meditate to drink potions sucks, and the potions themselves are pretty mediocre.
Oh, and I'm about done with Chrono Trigger. Amazing game, getting my ultimate weapons as of now and wrapping up the side quests. Really blown away by the game, wish I played it when younger, would have been SO into RPGs then.
also ONE more minor knit pick, my friend says he's play a "good guy" first in Skyrim and he keeps following all these arbitrary rules, and I'm 90% sure Skyrim has no morality system. So do people actually enjoy a black and white morality system? I really hope they die out, they're basically embarrassing.
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I cannot stand losing to someone worse than me in SFAE. I have no real problem in any other game, fighting or otherwise, but when I lose to a Blanka spamming electricity or a Ryu spamming shoryuken I get so mad that my heart races. I'm not even good at SF4 but I take it too goddamn seriously. Not to mention how many trolls or generally bad players that get away with murder due to online play (not to sound like DSP, but there are things that work only online). Still, if I can figure out how to keep my head clear I play so much better, and I'm also getting a lot better at blocking (I can better judge when cross ups are coming, and I feel like I'm getting a lot better at spacing).
Welp, bought and beat Dead Space 2. Enjoyed the hell out of it, but it was short.
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Welp, steam sales are raping me financially and I bought Bastion and Orcs Must Die. Orcs Must Die is surprisingly fun, I guess I'm a big fan of tower defense games, but I rarely see any that allow you to move in the field and allow you to attack while building defenses. So yeah, the game is a good challenge on most maps, the traps feel good if a little weak, there's a wide variety of traps that are generally unique. Also you get a decent amount of magic and "talent trees" that you can use to beef up yourself, your minions, or traps per map. So yeah, my only complaints are it's only single player and it's rather short.
Also really digging Bastion. The combat is a lot more fun then I thought it would be, the story is interesting and the way it's told is rather awesome, and the art style makes me want to cum buckets. I also find it kind of funny that the game is generally kid friend, and even looks that way, but you use alcohol for passive effects and you smoke from a pipe until you black out and fight your inner demons.
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Haha, nice. I saw some preview stuff before it came out and it looked like a good game, glad to hear it's living up to that.
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Oh yeah, forgot to mention how good the soundtrack was.
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(personal favorite)
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Really, the whole soundtrack is amazing and fits each level really well.
Forgot this one, also stupidly catchy.
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Cannot stress enough how good the music is.
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Diablo III. Bow to me.
But anyway, it's fucking awesome, as expected. That being said, I seriously can't shake how much it reminds me of Torchlight. I suppose that's no surprise.
I'm glad to say that Blizzard dropped things that were largely unnecessary and inconvenient from Diablo II (i.e. the stats system) and streamlined the hell out of it. The only thing that I worry about, as I worried about with Cataclysm, is that it may push characters into being too samey. I have a feeling that the CAAASSUUALLLSSSS are going to be very satisfied while the hardcore players are going to be peeved that they can't build an insane hybrid spec like they used to be able to.
So far I've beaten the beta (it doesn't really last very long -- an hour or two, maybe) with the barbarian and am about half way there with the demon hunter. The combat and skills system (thanks to the use of a Torchlight-like hotbar rather than the lame Diablo II belt) are a breeze. You don't feel like you're fighting against the UI -- you feel like you're actually in control of your character.
Yeah, I think it's going to be good. :)
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Well from what I can tell the competitive scene on Teamliquid seems to think the game should be alright. There's been a lot of discussion about how they've streamlined it and whether that's a good thing for the competitive people or not and the consensus seems to be that it should be fine.
Builds are now going to be based on items even more than in D2 (lol) but it should still allow for a pretty large level of customization in how you play your character.
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Wait...are you talking about competitive D2?
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I'm talking about the community reactions to D3 on Teamliquid....
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I thought teamliquid was a starcraft team, and that they had a diablo division for some reason. Alright, glad to hear. Honestly, it seems hard to fuck up Diablo. The only thing I wasn't in love with in D2 was how you select skils, and how some builds would just completely overshadow other ones.
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Teamliquid is a starcraft team, but they have such a huge community they have quite a few dedicated subforums. They've got one for League of Legends, one for D3, and a general Games and Sports section with threads for quite a few games. They have their own Eve alliance (2 corps as far as I know, one dedicated PvP and the other more of an introductory place for newcomers and such), etc. It's a massive community. They recently outvoted what they believe to be a voting bot (with some help from Reddit's starcraft section and HuskyStarcraft's followers) in a youtube poll to get a community member (rt) featured on the front page. (they collected data about how the votes were coming in for the other candidate and it seemed to mirror their votes far closer than it should have been, and people kept saying that when they'd refresh the page, their votes would be coming in by a few at a time, and the suspected bot seemed to be voting in batches of 50 or so)
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The only thing I wasn't in love with in D2 was how you select skils, and how some builds would just completely overshadow other ones.
Right now, instead of having a tree, you just select the skills that you want. If you're referring to using the skills (which was a royal PITA), that's improved drastically. It's just like Torchlight now, where you drag the skill onto a bar and press a button. I've been playing through D2 at the same time and it's stunning how much of an improvement D3 brings to the table in that regard.
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Right now, instead of having a tree, you just select the skills that you want. If you're referring to using the skills (which was a royal PITA), that's improved drastically.
Unsure if I like the removal of trees, but the new skill system sounds so good. Hated how D2 handled skills, felt really awkward.
Also new indie bundle up, and it's probably the best one they've had yet. http://www.humblebundle.com/
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Been playing a space 4x game called Distant Worlds. Pretty fun stuff. You get to customize all the designs for you ships, bases, etc. the game can automate stuff for you if you can't handle manual control over everything (which is hard as fuck to do). It's got 2 expansions out right now, and seems like it has a lot of vendor support too.
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Also new indie bundle up, and it's probably the best one they've had yet. http://www.humblebundle.com/
@#$%.
As usual, I have 75% of the games in there already. :x
Been playing a space 4x game called Distant Worlds. Pretty fun stuff. You get to customize all the designs for you ships, bases, etc. the game can automate stuff for you if you can't handle manual control over everything (which is hard as fuck to do). It's got 2 expansions out right now, and seems like it has a lot of vendor support too.
I've heard good things about that game. I may have to look into it.
Ever play an old Windows 3.1 4x game called Stars? Sounds like Distant Worlds may be similar-ish to that.
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Heard of it, never played it (I think...)
If you get it, you should get the definitely get the expansions, they really make the game better.
It's pretty standard fare for how a 4x works, nothing too innovative, but there's quite a few options to customize your world and starting setup, there' some nice automation, and the ability to take control then automate again, etc. And ship designing is pretty badass. Your ships are made of modular pieces which have stats, the base one which is Size. Ship size is the limiting factor on what you can build, and the cost of building is based on the price of the required materials to build the modules that the ship is made of. That lets you build ships to suit how you want to play... Slow and tough, or able to outmaneuver your opponent and hit from a distance, etc.
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I got into the Tribes Ascend beta, and the game is pretty fun so far. It does feel stripped down compared to older Tribes games, but it's definitely still fun and challenging. Starting out you're really limited in what you can use, but they still give you good equipment. Also I'm unsure how to get invites, but if anyone wants one I'll look into it (unsure how frequently sneaky browses here now, and I know he was big into Tribes).
Just unlocked a juggernaut class too, since I usually end up playing defense.
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I've never played any of the tribes games, but I have seen a few videos, and it looks like it could be damned fun. I'd love to try the beta, but I have a feeling I'd drop the game quickly... You really need to invest a lot of time to get good at that game.
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if you're good at predicting shots and keeping your momentum going you'll do fine. I basically just jumped into a few deathmatch games, then went to capture the flag and I feel like I know have a pretty firm grip on the game. Can't get a ton of kills, but I'm almost always on the top half of my team point wise and I've figured out where I need to be and when.
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I have this really bad habit of being a chink and not paying for games at its usual $60 pricetag when it comes out. This time I decided to do that with Portal 2. (got it on sale at steam for 7 bucks FUCK YEA)
Just finished the game. Let me tell you something though. Entire game: 10/10. Last 4 minutes of the game (post boss battle): -1/10
SPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERS
Why was that ending so god damn shitty? Really? THE MOON???
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Super Castlevania IV.
Awesome stuff, that.
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Super Castlevania IV.
Awesome stuff, that.
After Dawn/Aria of Sorrow that's easily my favorite Castlevania. (plus the only other one i own)
Recently I've dove back into some classic SNES titles, namely Seiken Densetsu 3, Tales of Phantasia and now Ogre Battle (which is brutally hard)
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Picked up Spess Marin for like 17 bucks off of steam, and I feel very guilty now realizing that Thief 1 and 2 are on GOG for 10 bucks each. I've been meaning to play those two for a while.
Also yeah, Aria of Sorrow is probably one of the best Metroidvania games in the series.
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I have this really bad habit of being a chink and not paying for games at its usual $60 pricetag when it comes out. This time I decided to do that with Portal 2. (got it on sale at steam for 7 bucks FUCK YEA)
Just finished the game. Let me tell you something though. Entire game: 10/10. Last 4 minutes of the game (post boss battle): -1/10
SPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERS
Why was that ending so god damn shitty? Really? THE MOON???
I thought it was pretty cool.
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I thought it was pretty cool.
Basically this.
OH SHIT NIG YOU GOIN TO THE MOON HAHAHAHAHA F*****T.
Felt good man
Modified: I am playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Skyrim and Bastion. And in two weeks it will be SSX. And a week after that Mass Effect 3
My poor xbox...
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Modified: I am playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Skyrim and Bastion. And in two weeks it will be SSX. And a week after that Mass Effect 3
Oh god, some damn good games.
spoiler for Deus Ex though, but I'm sort of glad I knew this prior to coming to this part.
It's possible to save Malik
also another one.
Don't update your software, it makes the next boss fight a pain
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Playing Kingdoms of Amaulr, fucking awesome with an xbox controller, not as awesome on keyboard.
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I tried out Borderlands a couple of weeks ago just to remind myself why I dislike that game. I do have two friends who are interested in playing, so maybe playing the game "as it's meant to be played" will make me sorta like it.
Since then I've been simultaneously playing Skyrim, FF7, and WoW (and I've been thinking about installing FF8:PC and going through that as well). If I had a life it would have been over as of the second I decided to do something that monumentally stupid.
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Haha, borderlands is FAR better with friends.
I've mostly been playing Kingdoms of Amalur. I should play the Tribes: Ascend beta sometime, but I keep forgetting to. Not playing my Xbox because there's no point on the shit tv I'd have to play it on. Waiting till I get a better TV, whenever the hell I can afford that.
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Going to be completing Final Fantasy XIII by the end of the week. I guess I must have been one of the few who really enjoyed this one. Also pre-ordered SSX, so next Tuesday I'ma be waiting outside the store at 9AM to buy the game. Going to play the SHIT out of it until ME3.
Then I will have ME3, FFXIII-2, and SSX on the go at once.
My poor 360...
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Haha, borderlands is FAR better with friends.
See, I'm not even sure that having friends is going to help. I find pretty much the randomized weapon game mechanic to be way, way overhyped and honestly sort of lame. Half of the time the system generates either something broken or something useless, so picking one or the other is a no brainer.
About the only thing that I think would be interesting with friends is the combat, but that doesn't change the fact that, by and large, the badasses and bosses are basically bullet sponges that don't require any real strategy. From what I've played of it with two player co-op, it seems like the whole game is basically filled with tank and spank combat.
Speaking of boring things, am I the only person that things that Half-Life 2 is probably the most overrated, overly-simplified, and insanely fucking BORING first-person shooter on the market? Seriously, I tried playing it and it just about put me to sleep. I'll happily admit that it's very well-polished and the environments are pretty, especially considering when it came out, but the entire game is dull and incredibly easy. Seriously, every time there's a part that actually causes a bit of strain on the player's health they wind up giving you a mountain of health and HEV powerups. I mean, really?
It's one of the few games that I hardly remember at ALL. I can distinctly remember many scenes from FEAR 2. I can practically recall every single area that you travel to in Deus Ex. I have most of Doom and Doom 2 memorized. The only thing that I distinctly remember about Half-Life 2 is Ravenholm and a parts of the climax.
At least the Episodes are pretty engaging and fun. I think it's mainly because they don't consist of 8 hours of overly drawn out vehicle segments, 3 hours of moving objects from point A to point B, and 1 hour of holding the fire button.
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Borderlands was alright, nothing amazing but a fun little romp. I do hate bullet sponge enemies, like, why do games even fucking have them? fuck. Also I really enjoyed half life, but it is easy and lacks a lot of the weapons and enemy types that the first game had. The episodes seemed to improve the game a decent amount. Is FEAR 2 good? I was talking about it with ulti and he said it was heavily consolized.
Also I'm trying to get back on track with player older RPGs, started Final Fantasy 6 and will probably play through 7 after I beat it. Playing the GBA version because I'm told it has dialog and bug fixes. Finally got my PS2 controller working and I've been using it to play controller based games. I'm also patching Fallout, but I can't get this annoying mouse bug to stop. Every time I move my mouse slowly I get this annoying stutter that makes clicking on anything a minor headache. I'll probably just endure it at this point.
Also gog.com is having a sale on a bunch of good games, I just bought Planescape Tourment and Baldour's Gate 2 for 10 bucks and just got a free game with them.
http://www.gog.com/page/promo_buy1_get1
So yeah, Need to finish Space Marine (honestly a mediocre game), Skyrim and Skyward Sword. Skyrim is just so boring when you get far enough into it, I'm going to just rush through to the ending and then replay as a stealth character after I heavily mod the game. It's just crazy how easy it is to break skyrim, I just used smithing and two handed and nothings been a challenge for 10 levels. Also Skyward sword gets a little tiring, it has like 0 exploration but the dungeons are good and the combat is at least interesting. I feel like I'm only content if I have like 10 games I can play at a time, just so I can hop around from game to game.
OH and Boobies, you need to add me on tribes (LordMortimi). I goddamn love that game, just startted getting decent at capping and it felt great getting the GOTTA GO FAST accolade. Now I just want to get the slayer one and I can die happy.
Just beat skyrim, on to the next game.
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OH and Boobies, you need to add me on tribes (LordMortimi). I goddamn love that game, just startted getting decent at capping and it felt great getting the GOTTA GO FAST accolade. Now I just want to get the slayer one and I can die happy.
I haven't even played a single game yet :/ Being that it's tribes I actually feel a bit intimidated, since I've never played another tribes game before, and I feel like I'll be horrible, since I haven't played a twitch shooter in forever. I want to play, but I never actually feel like just busting it out and playing some matches. Same goes with LoL :/ (And SC2 now T.T)
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One of my friends gave me his old PS2, so now I'm going through all of the PS1 games I still have. Right now I'm working on a 105% completion of Crash Bandicoot: Warped. Good game.
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I haven't even played a single game yet :/ Being that it's tribes I actually feel a bit intimidated, since I've never played another tribes game before, and I feel like I'll be horrible, since I haven't played a twitch shooter in forever. I want to play, but I never actually feel like just busting it out and playing some matches. Same goes with LoL :/ (And SC2 now T.T)
They have skiing tutorials in game, and at the start they pair you off with low level people. I'd recommend playing a few deathmatch rounds, then going to capture the flag and figuring out how things work there once you got down the basics for combat. Also you can free roam on any map in game, so checking out a capture the flag map and seeing where the generators are, where the sentries are, and where the general best flag approaches are would also be a good idea.
Also don't go for slow flag caps, flag capping is something you just need to figure out per map, and taking the flag while going slow will inconvenience someone who has some speed for it.
I've also restarted and modded skyrim pretty hard, trying to do a stealth build and I'm enjoying it.
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They have skiing tutorials in game, and at the start they pair you off with low level people. I'd recommend playing a few deathmatch rounds, then going to capture the flag and figuring out how things work there once you got down the basics for combat. Also you can free roam on any map in game, so checking out a capture the flag map and seeing where the generators are, where the sentries are, and where the general best flag approaches are would also be a good idea.
Also don't go for slow flag caps, flag capping is something you just need to figure out per map, and taking the flag while going slow will inconvenience someone who has some speed for it.
I've also restarted and modded skyrim pretty hard, trying to do a stealth build and I'm enjoying it.
Yeah, I'd never play a capper until I had skiing down pretty well.
I feel like my mouse being set to 3500 CPI is probably not the best for this game lol. I might actually have a use for profiles on it :O
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Borderlands was alright, nothing amazing but a fun little romp. I do hate bullet sponge enemies, like, why do games even fucking have them? fuck.
Lack of creativity, I think. The saddest part is that you can generally make tough enemies without making them dumb.
I think the best fairly recent example is Mass Effect. The bosses there are definitely bullet sponges (as in, they take far more bullets than anyone else in the game could possibly take), but there is always some sort of power to mix things up and make things more challenging. Nothing extraordinary, it just forces the players to have to react to something instead of just mindlessly shooting.
In Borderlands, every fight I've seen with a badass mob has always been boring and, frankly, stupid. The only way that the battle is "harder" is that you have to hold down the left mouse button longer and do some more self-heals (since most of the enemies, even the charging ones, can turn on a dime and hit you, making battle strategy pointless and making movement almost useless...might as well just stand there, eat the damage, and heal up when you can, or if you're too low just run straight backwards and hope that you don't get stuck on the terrain, which happens WAY too much). Another way that they add challenge to boss fights is by putting shit in your way. Seriously, turn the clock back a decade. Why were games like Quake III and Unreal Tournament (or, for that matter, Doom) so much goddamn fun to play? Because it took a hell of a lot of effort to trip over the environment. Movement in non-tactical shooters should be fast, fluid, and smooth. You shouldn't have to mash the fucking strafe buttons to dodge a pencil-thin branch!
Also I really enjoyed half life, but it is easy and lacks a lot of the weapons and enemy types that the first game had. The episodes seemed to improve the game a decent amount.
I seem to remember enjoying it, but like I said, I seriously can't remember shit about the game. And every time I've tried to play through it since then bored me out of my skull.
Valve does much better with 4-5 hour experiences. Half-Life 2's biggest problem was that it was artificially long. I can't believe how long you have to sit behind the wheels of the most boring, lame vehicles ever conceived. Having to spend 45-60 minutes basically getting shot at the beginning of the game while suffering through an awful vehicle segment with a very, very "meh" vehicle engine is the biggest demotivator ever.
Maybe if the vehicle segments were fast-paced and thrilling it would have been different, but they're seriously not.
Is FEAR 2 good? I was talking about it with ulti and he said it was heavily consolized.
I really don't see how it was "consolized." I think PC gamers throw that term out a bit too much. If the developer does something monumentally stupid with the controls (like, once again, fucking Borderlands) I could see it, but there are a lot of conventions that newer FPS's follow regardless of platform. It's not that many of them are "consolized," it's that the genre is evolving, for better or for worse.
Anyway, I thought it was a lot of fun. Very WTF-y at the end, of course, but it was an enjoyable experience. Some of the segments were genuinely tense, and I thought FEAR 2 transitioned between the shit-your-pants parts and the pull-the-trigger parts better than the first game did.
I've also restarted and modded skyrim pretty hard, trying to do a stealth build and I'm enjoying it.
I modded Skyrim before I even got through my first play-through, haha. To be fair, many of my mods are cosmetic.
Right now I'm rocking SkyUI, Realistic Smoke and Embers, Realistic Water Textures and Terrain, HD Ore and Ingots, and the Shrouded Cowl Beast Race Fix (which corrects a bug in the game...my, that didn't take long) in the cosmetic department. I highly, HIGHLY recommend SkyUI (basically replaces the UI with something a bit more usable on PC) and the realistic water mod (which makes water in general, and especially waterfalls, look fantastic).
I use mods to make the alchemy ingredients and ore lighter as well, because I'm a cheating bastard. I also installed the SM Essential Kills mod, because when I want to go crazy and murder villagers I want to be able to actually kill everyone.
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Alright, a couple things. Does Fear 2 have the same melee system as fear 1? I think I heard it had health regen, but I could live with that (despite the old health system being really awesome). As long as that sweet melee system is intact I'd be fine. I loved playing fear online going full melee and hauling ass and kicking people to death, it was like the specialists but not as awesome.
As for that realistic water mod, could I get a link? I have SkyUI and Titanis installed, and I honestly wish Titanis changed a bit more. It did add a ton of weapons (some common, some named. Just found a sword that rockets fire constantly called dragon breath that's evidently part of another weapon I can smith) and lot of new armors, but since I'm going light armor this time it feels less important to whore armor.
Also got pretty far into Fallout, finally figured the game out and I'm really enjoying it. One thing I noticed is that trying to do the right thing in this game is HARD. It's not like a simple option, you'll generally have to fight a lot of harder enemies to continue and do any good. Right now I'm stuck between taking down super mutants that can pretty much 1 shot me and deathclaws. I bought Planescape Torment and Baldour's Gate 2, and after I finish FF6 I'll move onto 7. Should be a good time for RPGs.
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I'm trying to remember FEAR 2's melee system, to be honest. I'm pretty sure it was Halo-style, with a quick-melee button, but I'm not sure. I found the weapons to be very satisfying to use, so those are what I remember the most. I'm normally a pistol whore in shooters, and I seem to remember FEAR 2 delivering the goods with regards to those.
And YES, here is the link to the realistic water mod: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=711 (http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=711). The screenshots look great, but the effect itself is awesome when you see it in-game. Aside from making the water appear as though it's flowing realistically instead of being a sheet, it makes streams look more fluid and less plastic-y. The droplet effects in caves and such are rendered at a higher resolution and actually appear to form ripples, and it gives you the foamy look that flowing water takes on. Bethesda seriously needs to hire the dude who made that NOW, because wow.
Tytanis looks neat. Maybe I'll check it out after I beat the game normally (if that ever happens). Crafting in vanilla Skyrim is very ho-hum, so that might at least spice it up a bit even if it doesn't bring much else to the table right now.
The original Fallout is a fantastic game, and you're absolutely right about it taking time to really get going in it. I understand that some games need to evolve, but I find Fallout 3 to be a mass of wasted potential and a lame disappointment. It wasn't the idea of a Fallout 3 FPS-RPG that bothered me, it's the way that Bethesda did it that pisses me off. I was hoping for something styled a bit more like STALKER rather than a futuristic reskin of Oblivion with a green tint (uh, why did you did that again, Bethesda?) with some of Fallout's iconic 50's inspired graphics thrown in haphazardly.
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http://i.imgur.com/Fcjk3.png
A moment of silence for Dogmeat. He fought a long and hard battle, but he didn't live to see the end of it.
Also about to end Fallout, really love the game. My teammates are pretty useless at this point, but I'm surprised I'm able to survive most of the stuff I'm fighting through.
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sort of off topic, but yeah I hope this gets made.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2
The video for it really just depressed me about the current state of video games.
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I can't say that I'm depressed about the current state of games. If anything, it's better now then it has been in the last decade, mostly thanks to sites like Kickstarter. Not only does it allow indies to take away the absolute control that publishers tend to have, but it's giving them the funding to focus full-time on their work and the resources to give it that AAA polish.
I'm glad that, between modern smartphones and PC/Mac digital distribution networks (most notably Steam, even if its Mac release makes the PC version look lightning fast), indie games are thriving. If you're upset over the state of video games, look no further than the indie store in Steam. You'll find more variety, innovation, and replayability on a single page of titles than you would on an entire store shelf at Best Buy.
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Still, most big name games will bend over backward in order to pull in the "COD audience". Things have gotten bad and good though, a lot of publishers aren't getting in the way so badly and we're starting to see a lot of cool new games come out. Yet still, you would never see a game like Odd World taking the spot light in gaming now a days, straying from "the formula" is dangerous.
Also I nutted up and beat Space Marine and Fallout. Fallout was awesome but confusing, space marine was mediocre and had a lot of random really hard parts. The final segment of Fallout was pretty awesome, and the final boss was fun minus the fact that he could endlessly summon guards to attack you. I tried cutting them down, then I realized it was pretty impossible. The game hit a pretty perfect difficulty honestly, felt hard but not luck based and not really bullshit. Despite me doing a TON of extra stuff in order to get a good ending I still had 3 cities get completely destroyed by super mutants, which pisses me off. Space Marine's end was just pretty stupid. I got stuck on it and died like 10 times in one night, then I took a major rest and I beat it in my first try with barely any effort. The final boss was also basically a giant QTE, which was boring. They sort of set up an ending, and I do like how they finally show humanity in a dickish way near the end of the game.
Man, after seeing all the stuff in the new Hitman game I'm convinced that stealth is dead. If there's ever an indie dev that wants to make a new stealth game I will support him hard.
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Baldour's Gate 2 starts in a dungeon/prison right? Also finally installed Assassins Creed 2, the running is pretty fun.
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The nice part is that you still see the Odd Worlds of gaming popping up on Kickstarter. It's amazing what kind of budgets indie games can pull in now.
I really need to plow through the first Fallout game. When I was in Florida for training two jobs ago I got about six hours into it, then abruptly stopped.
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It is really. Also I'd definitely recommend Fallout. I first sort of hated it, then I learned how to play it (having to select items, then scrolling through your list of abilities was weird. Like using science on computers and what not) and I really liked it.
Just got Fallout 2 and am starting it in a hurry. still working on FF6 and recently bought Hitman 1 and 2 off of steam.
They weren't lying when they said Hitman 2 was annoying due to slow crawl you do for stealth. In Blood Money your stealth walk is about as fast as your normal walk, but if anyone sees you doing it they get suspicious.
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Not progressing much in FF6, FO2 is just really addicting. I'm pretty sure I'm near the end, I got power armor and a named super sniper rifle and I'm basically a walking one man army. I just took out about 15-20 raiders without using a stimpack, it was dandy. I can't figure out what vault city's computer wants from me though.
Also downloaded Brutal Doom and started playing it, and it's actually a lot of fun. Doesn't change much, but what it adds feels good. All the weapons feel different and all around better, but not OP. The chaingun is wildly inaccurate but can destroy things up close, the pistol is replaced with a rifle that can be iron sighted, the double barreled can fire 1 barrel at a time and reload that one barrel, the plasma gun can now fire off a shotgun burst. Oh, and it added a ton of new gore effects and finishing moves. You can also kick free marines and have them as allies, which is sort of useful.
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mass effect 3 multiplayer, skullgirls
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may as well put this in here
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found a mass effect 3 terrain glitch a few hours after starting my first file, pretty entertaining.
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Oh god the fucking horror.
alright, NOW I beat doom 2. Shit was a lot longer then what I expected, and I missed the secrete level this time. Also beat Fallout 2, very enjoyable game. I've heard fallout aged better then most older WRPGs, but I hope that's not the case as the game was amazing. I'll either move on to Planescape Torment or Baldour's Gate, or I'll work on getting through Super Mario RPG or FF6. Still working through Skyward Sword and Serious Sam 3 along with some multiplayer games (mostly Tribes and SMNC). Also I should of listened to how rage inducing Hitman 2 can be, these snow levels don't even feel like they belong in a Hitman game, and they're killing me.
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/595843756336233100/C8BAC485AEE6059C544ABFF262343DE9D696F58C/
This guard supposedly saw me from so far out of his actual view that he couldn't even turn far enough to actually aim at me. I had to rage quit at this point.
MOTHAFUCKIN MO EDITS.
Bought 2 pros in MNC for about 5 bucks. I've yet to spend money on a free game, but I'm really enjoying SMNC and I hope it can build a small community for a while. It's a really niche game at this point.
http://i.imgur.com/JwGIl.png
Get on my level.
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Alright, I'm in need of some assistance. I've tried getting Thief Gold to run without crashing without any luck. I've installed this patch http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/mod_spotlight_thief_gold_and_thief_ii_the_metal_age/page3 and I've screwed around with the radeonhd+XP options but I still get sporadic crashes.
I am using the steam version, if that makes a difference.
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Started getting back into TF2, got pissed at a spy that had the ice dagger and the dead ringer. He could negate so much damage, and with my spastic connection it was impossible for me to counter him. Really, the dead ringer really makes spy a simple class and allows him to negate SO MUCH damage and avoid being seen. It's just dumb.
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beat ffxiii-2, its a way better game than xiii. what else...beat fez, beat witcher 2, both awesome games...and started up an insanity playthrough in mass effect 3 finally.
mass effect 1 insanity = pretty hard (assuming you dont import a high leveled character)
mass effect 2 insanity = really hard, totally doable, but really challenging with some real bitch parts.
mass effect 3 insanity = so far....its like...not even joking...normal difficulty. i literally had to check the difficulty setting a few times because this is so easy. im about 2/3 through the game too, maby it will pick up later...but it should have done that already. adept shep + javik biotics + any character that can down shields (i like EDI) = i cant lose.
ohh and i found a way to consistently get to the underbelly of the club.
can i get some QA tester points now?
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over a month is ok to double post methinks
beat mass effect 3 on insanity, easy easy easy easy(adept + javik + liara make insanity difficulty into normal difficulty). beat darkstar one (xbox 360 port of a space sim from 2006 on pc), not a great game, but not a bad game if you are looking for a space game on console.
put another 70 hours into skyrim...gonna wait till the second dlc comes out then get both dlcs and put another 70 hours into the game...
without causing a shitstorm or circlejerking...i got persona 4 (p4a reminded me it existed and the price dropped on amazon)...so...
i like the game, surprise surprise. you think it wouldnt be for me, story focused game with a bunch of anime shit in it (turn of + turn off), yet i like it. characters and anime bullshit arent really too offensive in this one, and the game flows nicely. as of this post i am at the end of the third dungeon.
anything else? i also got umvc3 and was playing that for a bit, this second time around i think its pretty alright. i sure as hell aint good at it, but i can see it isnt as awful as i thought it was when i played vanilla. using felicia/doom/taskmaster this time around.
AND FINALLY waiting for tekken tag tournament 2 to come out in september. which i will use a team of bruce + one of half a dozen characters.
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I've been meaning to get back into SF4 AE, but I haven't felt like playing any fighting games recently. So yeah, bought and beat Binary Domain, surprisingly good considering how generic it is. Got CS:GO, loving it so far, but yeah I'm a CS fanboy. They seem to have actually done a good job at balancing it, my only major gripe is awping is still too goddamn easy. Got a fuckton of games during the steam sale and getting back into emulation, so word.
Oh yeah, really getting into Majora's Mask. Skyward Sword is boring me, unsure if I'll even beat it at this point, it's just so linear and easy. Ordered Metroid Prime 2, so yeah. Also cooping Orcs must die 2, which is fun.
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I have a love/hate relationship with LOL. I love the game and love playing it but I hate some of the people I am usually teamed with. A LOT of them are fucking retarded and don't know what to do in the game. They act like its a normal game but its fucking ranked. God damn I wish they would grow a fucking brain.
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Anyway, I've been paying a bit of Path of Exile lately. I like what they've done. The skill system is pretty interesting. Instead of each class getting certain skills in a progression, allocating points to the skills as you level, they've completely redesigned the skill system. Now you have gems which contain either skills, or support modifiers which can modify your skills. There are no class restrictions on items or skills, but the requirements of the skills are based on which kind of skill they are. Skills are either Strength, Dexterity, or Intelligence based. For level progression, every character gains a few stat points a bit of health and some mana, but you also get passive skill points. There is a massive grid of passive skills, and each class starts in a different portion of the passive grid. There are also "keystone" passives which give you some interesting effects, such as reducing your life to 1 but making you immune to Chaos damage, which is non-elemental and does direct life damage. This works because there's something called Energy Shield which acts like shields in most modern games... Extra life, recovers quickly after a certain amount of time not taking damage.
They also completely did away with currency. Instead, they created a bunch of items which have the ability to "craft" your items. You can make non-magic items magic, rare, or even (if you're really lucky) unique, you can re-roll affixes, re-roll the gem slots, and re-roll the links between the gem slots. These all these different items are used as currency.
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many games right now, but just finished the final mass effect 3 single player dlc, citidel.
its the best piece of content they made for the series, and long too, took me some 8 hours to get through it...roughly a quarter of the length of the entire game.
i could splurge all day, but they put everything including the kitchen sink into this thing. where the ending failed at a satisfying end, this dlc succeeds.
looking forward to the next mass effect game more than anything now.
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How bout I fucking double post!
I obtained two games recently that I am kind of hyped for.
One being IIDX 20...and I haven't taken IIDX seriously since 2007, so it feels good to play the game again, only now with the fucking huge songlist of the arcade version. Too bad I am kind of trash at the game now, my skill went down from beating 10's like nothing and some 11's to struggling with 9's and beating some 10's.
The other is that I got invited to the hearthstone beta...and its still in closed beta, so a LEGIT invite. AWESOME! I don't card game so I am quite awful, but it's pretty fun from what ive played.
A quiet third is ive contemplated going back to beat the elite 4 on all pokemon games I haven't done it on, so im attempting to play through emereld as the first game in that trek. The game needed a new battery so I tore open the cart and brute forced a larger battery in that sonbitch. The cart bulges a bit, but the battery works, and the game works, so I think the game will live.
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good work, vlad.
I've been stuck on League of Legends. I'm on NA as zkmr. "free" game, they said...
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I play that. Add me. My ID is Newf7
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every time i think someone is dead, they come back from the abyss.
im too goddamn ADD to play pokemon anymore i think, i probably played 30 minutes since i made that post and havent put much time into it since.
ive been back on that super street fighter 2 turbo train, lots of people in my chat (http://fightanvidya.com/stream.php) have been playing it recently, so many many opponents for me.
lastly, due to black friday and the sales over the weekend....i got a lot of games....backlog increases...
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Been playing quite a bit of FF14, LoL, and Smite. I missed out on almost 4 months of gaming. Why you ask? Deployment.
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Been playing quite a bit of FF14, LoL, and Smite. I missed out on almost 4 months of gaming. Why you ask? Deployment.
I also enjoy the FFXIV... Server is Balmung legacy, even tho i'm not legacy :( it's just where all my irl peeps play at. Currently lv. 42 Bard
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So for Xmas my GF bought me a GTX 770 Windforce 4GB. :o
I'm pretty sure I freaked out more opening that than any gift ever as a child.
I have officially turned from Console to PC gamer now. I've been working on my rig for a couple years now and I do believe it is finally complete, as I don't care much for flashy LED's and Cathodes. Specs to date:
In-Win BUC Full Tower
W7 Pro 64-Bit
3.4GHz Intel Core i7-2600
GeForce GTX 770 Windforce 4GB
16GB DDR3
Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 850 Watt
128GB Samsung 840 Pro Series Solid State Drive (For my OS and graphics programs)
2TB Seagate SATA II HD
3TB Seagate Barracuda SATA 6 HD
Intel RTS2011LC Liquid-Cooling Kit
Vantec SP-FC70-BL Spectrum System Fan Card
I've been playing the crap out of Far Cry 3 which probably has one of the most awesome Story Modes ever. It's like a mix of Skyrim, GTA, and Call of Duty combined. The online play is pretty sweet too. As you level up you have lots of unlockables and even a Mini Game for your Iphone or Android that helps build your online character with new weapon mods, XP and other goodies.
Anyone else take advantage of all those Steam Sales around thanksgiving? Fallout New Vegas was only 10 bucks with all the DLC. I got Far Cry 3 for 7.50. Every Tomb Raider ever for like 14 bucks. Steam has officially destroyed my desire to purchase from the Xbox live marketplace ever again I think.
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So for Xmas my GF bought me a GTX 770 Windforce 4GB. :o
I'm pretty sure I freaked out more opening that than any gift ever as a child.
I have officially turned from Console to PC gamer now. I've been working on my rig for a couple years now and I do believe it is finally complete, as I don't care much for flashy LED's and Cathodes. Specs to date:
In-Win BUC Full Tower
W7 Pro 64-Bit
3.4GHz Intel Core i7-2600
GeForce GTX 770 Windforce 4GB
16GB DDR3
Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 850 Watt
128GB Samsung 840 Pro Series Solid State Drive (For my OS and graphics programs)
2TB Seagate SATA II HD
3TB Seagate Barracuda SATA 6 HD
Intel RTS2011LC Liquid-Cooling Kit
Vantec SP-FC70-BL Spectrum System Fan Card
I've been playing the crap out of Far Cry 3 which probably has one of the most awesome Story Modes ever. It's like a mix of Skyrim, GTA, and Call of Duty combined. The online play is pretty sweet too. As you level up you have lots of unlockables and even a Mini Game for your Iphone or Android that helps build your online character with new weapon mods, XP and other goodies.
Anyone else take advantage of all those Steam Sales around thanksgiving? Fallout New Vegas was only 10 bucks with all the DLC. I got Far Cry 3 for 7.50. Every Tomb Raider ever for like 14 bucks. Steam has officially destroyed my desire to purchase from the Xbox live marketplace ever again I think.
Welcome to the glorious pc master race of gaming. Big congrats on that amazing vidya card - that's my next upgrade for sure. Followed by a water cooled 8 core AMD (currently on 4.2 GHz FX-4170)
Far Cry 3 is one of the best single player experiences I've ever had in gaming, period. You make me want to replay it. If you like that, make sure to check out these other fine titles:
Far Cry 3: Blood dragon (everything you love about FC3, but CHEESY EIGHTIES ACTION MOVIE STYLE)
Dishonored (another one of my faves)
Metro: 2033
Bioshock: infinite (if you haven't already)
Fallout 3/New Vegas
Skyrim (PC Mods make the experience SO much better)
The Stanley Parable
Planetside 2 (F2P MMOFPS)
Path of Exile (F2P MMO diablo 2 inspired dungeon crawler, great if you had high hopes for D3 and were disappointed. Just make sure to disable/exit trade chat when you join)
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Welcome to the glorious pc master race of gaming. Big congrats on that amazing vidya card - that's my next upgrade for sure. Followed by a water cooled 8 core AMD (currently on 4.2 GHz FX-4170)
Far Cry 3 is one of the best single player experiences I've ever had in gaming, period. You make me want to replay it. If you like that, make sure to check out these other fine titles:
Far Cry 3: Blood dragon (everything you love about FC3, but CHEESY EIGHTIES ACTION MOVIE STYLE)
Dishonored (another one of my faves)
Metro: 2033
Bioshock: infinite (if you haven't already)
Fallout 3/New Vegas
Skyrim (PC Mods make the experience SO much better)
The Stanley Parable
Planetside 2 (F2P MMOFPS)
Path of Exile (F2P MMO diablo 2 inspired dungeon crawler, great if you had high hopes for D3 and were disappointed. Just make sure to disable/exit trade chat when you join)
How have I not seen Blood Dragon!? Dude I almost shit my pants just now watching the Steam trailer, lol! That's a perfect classic 80's action trailer. I must have it.
Do you still play at all? I play Multiplayer like a motherfucker dude. The App they have for smartphones is the SHIT for multiplayer. You can customize your class to take into battle right from your phone. There is also a puzzle mini game that gives you up to 5 Decoders per day.
Dishonored is easily one of my favorite steam purchases. Probably only a third of the way through (25 hours) but I really dig it.
I've got over 100 mods on Skyrim currently. I definitely feel ya on that. I requested PTO at work for release of Skyrim on PC actually. After all the Youtube mods for Oblivion, I realized I HAD to get Skyrim for PC this time because I was missing out so much. I even did a Frostfall Survival mod review here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKvCZjkVN0c). I had a Radeon 6770 that surprisingly got me 25fps on Ultra. Though the some areas got pretty laggy (Lucky's Woodland Home area)
Metro I'll have to check out. I'm still working on getting to the Bioshock series. I do own them just keep getting preoccupied with other interests. I have a buddy who played through them all though and he loved it all.
Ok I see the Stanley Parable pop up like once a month for $14.99 and I don't have a clue if I should buy it. Something about it appeals to me but also makes me question it being worth the purchase. Your opinion?
Planetside 2 currently just finished downloading today actually lol. I have a buddy IRL that insisted I play it with him so I guess I'm about to find out what it's all about.
Path of Exile I'll take a look at. Haven't heard of that one.
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I would acquire Stanley Parable via PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE MEANS, it is not worth 15. maybe I could see 10. Just a psychological/funny/creepy unique game using the source engine. It's narrated by a funny british guy while you walk around an empty office building that changes it's layout and story depending on the choices you make. Multiple endings; just a fun experience.
I was not aware blood dragon had multi! maybe i should purchase that :)
PS2 is a fun huge MMOFPS, makes all the difference in the world if you use a headset and join a squadron. They have some really intelligent people (sometimes) leading huge platoons spanning over like 48-64 people some times. Largest battle i have been in so far was at least 200 people. Ridiculous.
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What's your steam name? Mine is z3phlar.
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I see myself playing a ton of Diablo III in the near future (v2.0 patch? Epic).
I still play WoW from time to time (realm: US-Turalyon). I hope to get back into raiding when Siege of Orgrimmar drops. IM A DK TNAK.
I play Payday 2 once a week with a group of friends. Mort actually joined us one week when we were first starting out and before we had a reliable fourth person. Good times were had. :) I really wish Overkill would take a month and fix all of the numerous bugs, though. It seems like they're so desperate to roll out new content that they are just letting their otherwise awesome game get buggier and buggier. :\
I'm glad Minecraft isn't on Steam, because if it were on Steam I'd know exactly how many hours I spent playing it. I much prefer to be ignorant of things like that. I'm currently working through Inferno Mines (a complete the monument map in the Super Hostile (http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/191908-ctmcollection-vechs-super-hostile-series/) series) with a friend of mine, and I'm playing through Sea of Flame, in that same series, on my own.
I play Battlefield 4 occasionally with Armegeddon. Decent game, but incredibly buggy. I've never played a game where network latency impacted your aim. I mean, seriously? :|
I also 100%'d McPixel (http://mcpixel.net/) recently. If you guys haven't played that game, you need to. It's hilarious.
Edit: My friends and I uninstalled Payday 2 after the horrible Death Wish patch dropped. It effectively made my mastermind/ghost spec useless. Even after respeccing to mastermind/enforcer, the atrocious netcode that is still present in this game makes cloakers, a new enemy with a One-Hit Kill (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OneHitKill) Liu Kang style flying kick (not to mention a ludicrous COD/Battlefield-style stabby animation), completely broken, with the ability to one hit KO you through walls, and down your entire team in 5 seconds since he has no cooldown to speak of. The Death Wish patch completely breaks the stealth mechanic, making it completely RNG rather than requiring actual skill, and nerfs numerous ghost/mastermind skills to the point of absurdity. The lead developer explained that one of the changes was made because his team couldn't resolve the bugs associated with it. Furthermore, the "improved AI" that they've been hyping up merely amounts to giving the cops a better aim and more damaging bullets. Here (http://steamcommunity.com/app/218620/discussions/0/558749190722093327/) is an epic post describing, in detail, what the fuck is wrong with the patch (and the usual Payday 2 white knights are curiously absent from that thread for the most part, which is shocking in and of itself).
Oh, I should probably also add that there are numerous bugs that still have yet to be fixed, including a particularly nasty long-standing bug on a long, stealth-focused heist, where a pathfinding error causes a guard to walk through and break a pane of glass. He then turns around, spots the broken glass, and calls in an alert. I should probably add that this bug occurs on the final phase of the heist. There is also a "pro" version of the job available, which causes you to fail the entire heist if your team gets downed at any point during the heist. So, yeah, if you're playing the pro version of that mission (Framing Frame), you're in light armor in order to stealth it, and that bug gets triggered (which is very likely since there are more guards -- THAT FUCKING RESPAWN IF YOU STEALTH KILL THEM, MIGHT I ADD -- since the latest patch), you've basically just thrown away at least 30-45 minutes of your life, all because Overkill refuses to fix their fucking game or even acknowledge the issue. As far as I'm aware, this bug is a launch day issue. The game came out about 7 months ago. WTF, Overkill?
That's not even including many of the other bugs that my friends and I have been running into, such as the escape vans simply not letting us escape, forcing us to fight to the death, snipers shooting us through roofs, enemies paralyzing/downing us through cover, cameras spotting us through walls, and more. It's just flat-out inexcusible at this point. Shoehorning us into a single playstyle (GO LOUD!!!!!1) and making successful stealth improbable without a ton of help from the RNG was the straw that broke the camels back.
Needless to say, it's going to take a ton of convincing for me to pick up any other games by Overkill Software after this debacle. If you haven't picked up Payday 2, I highly recommend against it. The developers are far too willing to completely revamp core game mechanics at a whim without regard to balance. Even if they fix the clear and obvious balance issues that the game has now, the fact that they shat out a poorly conceived patch that a majority of the community despises in the first place is extremely concerning.
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Nigga I am just going to say that I will be on that Diablo III train come expansion time on the 25th.
Otherwise im not playing anything besides street fighter 4.
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*brofist*
Yeah, I played D3 a lot even before the Loot 2.0 patch. Now? Sheeeeeeiiiit.
Also, here's my Diablo profile thing and such: us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Spectere-1344/ (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Spectere-1344/). Direct all friend requests at Spectere#1344.
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http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/vladgd-1696/hero/3024684
vladgd#1696
Though I doubt I will play much until the expansion releases. Also I play witchdoctor, and I really think the zombie dogs are LAME AS HELL. Thankfully you don't need them at all to do well.
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I used Circle of Life on my witch doctor so that I didn't need to waste a skill slot on it. I also have a piece of gear that limits you to one zombie dog, but makes him big and powerful and rawr, so basically he's like a mini-gargantuan. If I ever replace that item I'll probably swap out the CoL passive, since they're just too squishy without that being there, and unless you waste a slot on the summon ability and glyph them they just don't hit hard at all.
I suppose you could combine CoL with the "ExplodeyDawg" ability, but...yeah, no. I'd rather have my two damaging slows so that I could easily kite baddies.
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The other day I played a random pub game, and it was all witchdoctors...
...I put about 200 hours into this game, and never have I, and I really mean NEVER have I ran into a game of all witchdoctors. Even pre patch when the demon hunter was the only bad class in the game, people still flocked to that class like crazy, seen em more than barbs. I swear the witchdoctor could be the best class in the game, and nobody would use him because of aesthetics.
Anyway we all ran different builds and it was a cool experience. It's going to be hard to ween myself off grave injustice when I start getting item upgrades, my thing of the deep gives me freakin 20 yards of pickup radius, which would mean like 40 yards for that perk. I can fuckin spam my one minute CD abilities, and pop my two minute CD abilities for champ packs.
Going to attempt to play this expansion come midnight, but with my lag problems (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/12031443081), and the obligatory server issues from trying to play the second the game is released, I may not get far. I want to hit 70 before I sleep.
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The other day I played a random pub game, and it was all witchdoctors...
...I put about 200 hours into this game, and never have I, and I really mean NEVER have I ran into a game of all witchdoctors. Even pre patch when the demon hunter was the only bad class in the game, people still flocked to that class like crazy, seen em more than barbs. I swear the witchdoctor could be the best class in the game, and nobody would use him because of aesthetics.
That's good. I always liked the witch doctors because of how incredibly chillaxed they are with all of the in-game dialogue. Glad to see that people are starting to overlook the whole "jangly old man" thing, because they are pretty badass.
I'll probably be taking my barb up to 70 first. After that, well, we'll see.
As for the lag, I've definitely been getting a bit more rubberbanding than usual, but I'm thinking that's mostly due to the experience boosts. It's probably not going to get much better (might even get worse) in the coming weeks. Still nowhere near as bad as Diablo II on b.net is.
Most of my issues stem from the horrendously buggy Mac release that Blizzard put out. Very disappointing, since they generally put out very high quality cross-platform releases. When I got the game to actually create a game without crashing, I ran into a bunch of other crap. Take a look at this: http://files.spectere.net/d3mac/ (http://files.spectere.net/d3mac/). I wish I would have gotten a video. what.jpg (http://files.spectere.net/d3mac/what.jpg) is only a small glimpse of what I saw when I went into the Caverns of Araneae (or the Averns of Araneae, in this case).
Fortunately, that isn't my only option. I've been playing on my Windows rig in the meantime. I just like playing on my Mac because that's the computer that my good sound system is connected to. :( I feel really bad for people who don't have a choice there.
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Witchdoctor is probably the most "normal person" out of all of the classes in the game, maby the barb comes in second place, otherwise the rest are a bit kooky.
Either way, day 1 rundown.
-Rush through act 5 skipping story I don't care about to beat act 5 asap and unlock adventure mode.
-Grind adventure mode a little bit to hit 70, when items start to matter.
-Pick the highest difficulty I could do while maintaining some killing speed in a 4 player game (only expert right now sadly)
-Finally, enjoy the endgame. Do bounties, these get you money, exp, blood shards, rift shards. Spend blood shards to gamble (which can net legendaries), finish all bounties in an act to get a horadric cache (which has scored me as much as two legendaries in one cache), spend rift shards to open rifts. Rifts are random dungeons with tons of shit to kill, they end in a boss which tends to drop a ton of crap. Rifts are also awesome because they have special rift shrines, which I mean, they literally make you overpowered for a short period of time. They have bullshit like you emit lightning that kills everything around you, 400% fucking damage increase, Double movement speed, Severely reduced cooldowns AND FREE SKILLS, Shield that makes you invincible, its nuts. It's really fun to have a group that ends a game full of bounty runs with everybody popping all of their rift shards to play like 10 rifts, its great.
Day one, It's good. I see no point in leveling a new character when the endgame is as poppin as it is right now. Although with adventure mode opened, I can just level my crusader in that, while getting shards and rift thingys for my level 70 characters. I mean, I killed the boss of act 5, at level 5....adventure mode is where its at, story mode is playing the game wrong.
And I still get some lag, but its not the killer unplayable lag I used to have, for now anyway. (maby flushing my DNS or whatever the fuck they told me to do worked)
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Yeah, the lag seemed a bit better tonight. Not bad at all for the first day, especially for an expansion that's so well received. Even the Blizzard forums are buzzing with how goddamn good RoS is. And, you know what? I said all along that D3 would be just like D2: it wouldn't really shine (and in fact wouldn't really be particularly good for most players) until the expansion pack came out. Granted, I'm sure much of that had to do with the terrible community response to some features, but the point still stands. Diablo III v2.0 is how it should have launched, just like how D2:LoD made Diablo II far better than how it launched.
Adventure mode sounds fun. I like playing through the story once or twice, but after that I just wind up skipping everything anyway. Rifts sound incredibly fun based on how you're describing them, vlad. It definitely sounds like it'll make grinding a lot less tedious. I think it's safe to say that it definitely wouldn't have been possible with the old difficulty system.
I didn't get to play too much. Just did some co-op with my cousin on my barb. We started it off on master (after Newf warned me about the difficulty of Act V -- thanks again, by the way!), went up to the place leading up to the second boss, then dropped it to expert because the enemies were just taking too long to kill and we were starting to get tired (my barb did about 100k damage, while his wizard did around 70k by that point...it just didn't add up enough).
All in all, I got a few damage upgrades and a massive toughness upgrade. I managed to replace my well-rolled Loot 1.0 Skorn with a pair of one-handers without losing too much damage (and gaining a ton of health in the process!) so I was pretty pleased overall. So far I'm rocking zero deaths in Act V. Woot.
I'm loving transmog. It works exactly how it should have worked in WoW. Get an item, it gets thrown on a list, and you can select it. Done. Dye it up. You don't have to keep fifty bazillion pieces of gear in RoS. The reforging system is pretty nice for getting rid of useless crap (+1% gold find? G'bye!) on otherwise good rares and legendaries. It seems a little pricey to me right now, but I don't have a trillion RoS crafting mats banked like I do with the vanilla ones.
So yeah, definitely fun. I highly approve.
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Well it's over a month later, I guess I will share my opinion on the game. As of right now the game really needs more to do, which they have confirmed for a future patch. But doing the same rifts over and over and over and getting the same crap drops over and over and over gets pretty old fast.
I pretty much only play the game in small ~1 hour bursts now, do a few rifts, don't get anything, and stop for the day.
Ohh, and I got Mario Golf World Tour, I love me some fuckin Mario Golf! Even got the season pass, I don't see this game leaving my 2DS anytime soon. Having not played much of the gamecube game, but knowing a little about it, the 3ds game looks like an evolution of that game.
People complaining about cut content and DLC really need a reality check. From what I see, the gamecube game had the most courses, with like 7-8ish courses. The 3ds game has fucking 10, the most courses out of any mario golf game, without dlc. DLC adds all 6 courses from the n64 game, putting the full course list to 16. There is a lot of content in this game, and with online, it feels pretty fully featured.
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Heh, I play kind of sporadically, and I have (as of right now) six hungry 70s to feed, so I think I'm set for a while. It seems like most of the people on my b.net friends list basically stick with one or two toons and just go crazy with them, so it kind of looks like I'm the odd one out. I can honestly say that I enjoy playing all of the classes, though I do have a particular soft spot for my short-range wizard.
In non-ARPG related news, my friends and I moved on to the first Payday after I discovered that I had apparently bought a 4-pack way back when. It's so much better...I'm not even sure why we wasted our time with the second one for so long.
Speaking of *DS games, I need to take a weekend and just plow through 999. Hnnnnnggg, it's so good. I really wish I would have played it before Virtue's Last Reward, but oh well.
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I highly recommend sticking it with one character, because properly gearing a character takes an INCREDIBLE amount of time, money, and mats. Like I needed over 400 marquis topaz just to fully gem my pants and chest, and if I want to deck out my wizard...im going to need another 400.
This double loot week is destroying my wrist, I can't stop playing and I am getting upgrades for once. I went from doing mediocre/poor damage on torment 1, to making torment 3 my bitch with the ability to even slowly do torment 5/6. If I get my tasker and theo gloves, I should be farming torment 5 at minimum.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/vladgd-1696/hero/3024684
The damage stat does not matter anymore, my damage looks low, and yet I shred torment 3. Theres a lot of hidden damage in my gear that does not show up, pet damage increase, physical damage increase, bonus damage to elites, my plague of toads double explosion/homing spawning fetishes like crazy. This game got a lot more fun when I got the items that allowed me to change my build for the first time in over a year, pet doctor is mad fun.
Quite the change of attitude on the game from my last post. Plus I finally got my Royal Ring of Grandeur(found ONLY in act 1 or act 4 caches), I probably upgraded more than half of my gear these past few days.
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Yeah, one of my big reasons for getting everyone to 70 is to figure out which of the classes that I want to gear up. I'm most likely going to stick with my wizard, because she's ultra fun.
I do love how the damage stat does get downplayed as you get more legendaries. I particularly love how they give you the ability to effectively double-glyph in some cases, not to mention some attributes buffing the damage on particular class-specific skills. Whew...upgrading gear is so much deeper than it used to be.
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Watch_Dogs is pretty fun! Awful PC port, but still fun.
To elaborate, periodic framerate hitches, even on a decent system (i7-3770/GF680), very insensitive mouse controls (had to crank the sensitivity to make it feel right to me, and I know that some people would still find that to be too slow), touchy car controls (tap W and Aiden freaking floors it, so I just adapted by driving like a maniac everywhere I go). That said, it seems to be pretty stable, and it's still a way, WAY better port than GTA4.
I also beat Saints Row 4. Fun game, and tons of stuff to do! 97% completion after 16 hours...I need to get that last 3%.
And Steam's in-home streaming is pretty neat. About half of my play time on Saints Row was done on my iMac, in OS X. The only downsides are: 1) you can see very subtle compression artifacts, making it look like a high-quality Twitch stream; 2) since it plays the game in the foreground of the host computer, nobody else can use that computer; and 3) due to the method that it streams the gameplay, you can't render at a higher resolution than the display that's connected to the host (example: my gaming rig is hooked up to a 1080p TV, so I can't use a higher resolution display even though my Mac's display can do 2560x1440). No real biggie, and it's definitely nothing that I can see being fixed for obvious reasons.
I had one minor hiccup where Saints Row 4 minimized, revealing my Windows desktop, but I think that was because the Java auto-updater stole focus (because that's something that an application should do!).
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(http://i.imgur.com/9auxeqb.png)
Look what blizzard decided to give me, a heroes alpha invite. I expected one actually, since I signed up for alpha/beta invites within the very MINUTE they announced on stream that you can opt in to the beta.
I don't like mobas, but it's a pretty cool game.
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I like MOBAs, but their biggest problem to me is that they have some of the worst communities that I've ever seen. I try not to put myself in any situations where I have to deal with toxic people. If I wanted to do that, I'd work in customer service again.
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Look at it this way. Hots matches are ~20 minutes long, even if you are losing, the game won't last an eternity to finish. But I mean I agree, I never wish to interact with that crowd, outside of hots. Let's just say, if blizzard didn't make this game, it wouldn't be on my radar at all. I am mostly on board for the blizzard fanservice, however the game seems to be quite a lot different than the standard "moba".
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Sounds like the games are faster, then, so that's kind of nice. There's nothing worse than playing for 10 minutes and losing for 40 minutes. The "vote to surrender" system that games like LoL have feel more like a bandaid fix than anything else.
I do agree, the Blizzard fanservice does make me really want to take it for a spin...especially Brightwing (http://www.heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/heroes/brightwing). I love the faerie dragons in WoW, and the giant twist that they put on him in particular makes me giggle.
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I actually hate that hero because I think it is lazy on Blizzards part. I couldn't figure out why they would take a normal fuckin warcraft enemy and make it a hero over say...I don't know one of the MANY OTHER COOL CHARACTERS BLIZZARD HAS, Deckard Cain, or Alexei Stukov, or Duriel, or SOMETHING.
But I talked to a friend of mine who plays moba games and apparently that character is an analogue to a character called puck? or something like that, so color me unsurprised they would try and rip off some popular characters from dota.
I just think Blizzard has too many awesome characters to waste a hero slot on a random enemy.
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I don't really see it as a waste. Like any other MOBA, HotS is likely going to have about fifteen bajillion playable heroes anyway. I think what they were going for with the initial batch of heroes was creating a fairly wide variety of skills, abilities, and play styles. I can't speak too much for the Starcraft characters since I haven't gotten too far in that yet, but judging from their picks from Diablo and Warcraft, that seems to be exactly what they're aiming for. They're not really at the position where they can have a number of samey characters just yet, and in general many of their heroes do overlap in many ways (putting, say, Uther Lightbringer beside Muradin in the alpha roster would be foolish, even though they're both pivotal characters in the Warcraft lore and games).
Brightwing, based on his abilities, looks like he would play as a druid-mage hybrid. Considering that's something that you're unlikely to see from any Warcraft hero, I think that makes him worthy of inclusion from a gameplay perspective. Brightwing is a very unique character, and unless things change pretty drastically in Warlords of Draenor, he's going to remain that way for a while. I think that matters a lot more in a MOBA than adding a bunch of paladins right off the bat. They can always figure out how they're going to differentiate a handful of differently named paladins down the road.
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So, I'm alive and I have D3. Just got gifted it by a friend, so I've only got one lowbie char right now (in early act 2). Playing a Monk because holding a huge weapon but opting to punch and kick everything to death instead is pretty badass.
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Speaking of Diablo 3...that game got a new patch, and got me to play again.
RNG GODS HAVE SMILED APON ME. I obliterate t6 now, and I almost have all the pieces I need to run jade set which will take me even higher. My profile is in a prior post, but it demonstrates how much sheet dps means ABSOLUTLEY NOTHING anymore.
The hardest difficulty in the game is torment 6. With the new greater rift system, there is 100 levels of the greater rift where greater rift 25 is ~torment 6. I just completed level 27, and the bottom of the top 1000 witchdoctors made it to 31. My character is doing quite well right now. If I get my jade set all together (just missing an elite damage weapon), it is possible I could somehow sneak into the top 1000 witchdoctors on the solo witchdoctor leaderboard. Although jade set is actually hard to play and not braindead like pet build which I currently run, still I would have the equipment anyway.
Ohh and I have a 70, paragon 5 crusader on season 1, took ~7 hours to hit 70.
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http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Bobbias-1554/hero/52140865
I have no idea what I'm doing lol.
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I have been playing monk the past week myself...
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/vladgd-1696/hero/33447838
I didn't understand how a monk could do damage in t6...then I got my 4 piece sunwuko, and understood how the holy build works. GOD DAMN, it's fantastic. Breath of heaven for insane spirit regen, then just constantly spam matras to empty that spirit ball. With the sunwuko im doing stupid aoe holy damage all the time, i have near unlimited spirit regeneration, and i get a ton of life from spirit spent.
Two characters enter torment 6, next step crusader or demon hunter. I don't like demon hunter, but I got a god damned cindercoat on my monk doing greater rift level ONE(equivilant to normal difficulty...), useless on the monk, apparently an extremely desirable item for demon hunter. May as well give the item a home and get my only non 70 to 70.
This game is so good now, I am playing a lot longer than I originally expected.
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I am enjoying D3 more recently as well, especially after the 2.1 update and ironing out all the crap. I don't have too high a toon yet, but I play a 70 wizard (something like 16-20 paragon) and have a couple other 60+ barb/monk alts. Just finished the newest act that came with the expansion and am now exploring in adventure mode doing bounties, gaining xp and trying to build out my wizard to get geared for higher difficulties.
I am also enjoying Gauntlet that was released this week. Can't wait to get down on some with my buddies.
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I've been playing some NeonXSZ (http://www.neonxsz.com) lately. It's pretty fun! It's sort of a 6DOF shooter with some RPG elements (sort of like if Descent and Diablo had a love child, then dressed it up to fit in to the Tron universe).
I am also enjoying Gauntlet that was released this week. Can't wait to get down on some with my buddies.
I was eyeing that up, actually... :p
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I kinda ignored pandas, played cata but not even to the level cap, so it's been a while.
(http://i.imgur.com/35gV6cn.png)
I guess i'll give it another go, currently level 96 on the prot warrior, enjoying my time. I will hit 100. Funny, getting through pandas having ignored it prior, only took like 5-6 hours through 2 zones to get from 85-90.
I am glad that prot warrior soloing is still good, and oddly I think prot is the best pvp spec for warrior...weird expansion. Don't need arms, don't want fury, SWORD AND BOARD FOR SOLOING, DUNGEONS, PVP!
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Funny, getting through pandas having ignored it prior, only took like 5-6 hours through 2 zones to get from 85-90.
Sounds like they nerfed the experience requirements quite a bit, then. I'd heard they were scaling the raw numbers back but it sounds like they just outright cut a lot of the grind out. This is a good thing. I loved the MoP story the first time through. I liked it significantly less when I was trying to go through it on toons that weren't heroic DS geared blood DKs. Even my half-heroic DS geared priest got trucked by pretty much everybody, which I thought was a little dumb. Getting through the later zones on my quest-geared shaman was just aggravating. I haven't bothered to fully level another character through those areas, but I might do so now to get to the good stuff.
As for WoD, I loved every minute of the questing. My blood DK is 100 now and I still intend to go through and finish the Nagrand quest line because it's so damn good. I love the way they implemented garrisons (now that they actually work, that is), though I can't help but wonder what's going to happen when them when the next expansion comes out.
More than anything else, I like how our characters are finally getting the recognition they deserve after all of their heroics over the years. Definitely a nice touch. :)
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I managed to hit 100, dabbled in fury for like a day...and fuck that, prot is the only warrior spec. Not even gladiator prot, but defensive stance prot. However, I have only tanked with warrior, and afiak, paladins have it easier with the aoe tanking...and I have a fairly high level paladin (87)...so...I may see about leveling that paladin to 100 and seeing what class I prefer tanking with.
It's a pretty nice expansion, I didn't even expect to hit the level cap, let alone do instances. I mean, the last instance I did before draenor was in...litch king...
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Yeah, pallies do generally have an easier time holding AoE threat. It definitely feels like druids passed them up when it comes to snap AoE threat thanks to the mangle buffs in MoP and WoD, but in my experience as a healer (as well as tanking with bears on my blood DK) pallies have a much easier higher chance of actually surviving the experience.
Now if you weren't a filthy Alliance dog I'd love to run some dungeons with you. :p I think my highest Alliance toon is around 75 and I generally focus on my Horde characters first, so...yeah.
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remember bro, I AM OG HORDE
(http://i.imgur.com/1py5Uk2.jpg)
I cancelled my account anyway. I like the game, and I may resub, but life stuff is eating at my drive to play.
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Noice. :) I'm glad you rolled troll, too; they just don't get the respect they deserve, mon (though they did seem to get a bit of a popularity spike because TECHNICOLOR BEARS).
Let me know if you resub after everything simmers down a bit. Maybe by then I'll have an Alliance 100 (I do want to level a warlock, so maybe I'll just roll one on my Alliance server and use my 90 boost on him/her).
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FAR
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get it. The graphics are tits tastic. Can't wait to get into it, I've played about 3 hours, completed Act I. GREAT game. If you liked 3, you'll love this.
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I'm a bit more ambivalent about FC4 honestly. It just sort of feels like a reskin to me and most of the issues from FC3 are still present in FC4, not to mention a number of technical issues.
The stuttering on the PC port is just inexcusable. I'm running it on an i7-3770 with a GeForce GTX 680 and an SSD (Samsung 840 EVO on 6Gb/s SATA) and when I'm moving I get noticeable stuttering. It's not just me, either. People have run it on systems that make mine look like garbage and ran into the same issue. It feels minor at first, but it really started to get annoying after a while, and when it starts happening in the middle of firefights it gets seriously irritating. That didn't happen nearly as much on FC3. The graphics engine itself seems to be well-optimized. I average 60fps with occasional dips down to 50fps on my 680 with it set to Very High, but it feels like there's something wrong with how it loads content.
Beyond that, the key issues are still there. I cannot understand for the life of me why the E key is used to do just about everything, not to mention why you have to hold everything for a second for any actions to happen. Trying to loot or skin corpses near a vehicle (which happens quite often) is as annoying as it was in FC3. Deus Ex: Human Revolution had the same problem and people complained about it then, too.
The heal system is really awful and has gotten me killed. If you end up catching on fire (which only requires you to be kinda sorta close to flames, not even touching them) it will cause you to burn until you put out the flames and will do serious damage, obviously. Here's the problem. When you start taking ticking fire damage, the game prompts you to press the heal key to heal. So you hit it (sorry, you have to bloody HOLD it, because the game needs to make sure you're serious about not dying) and it uses a syringe. Your health shoots up, then proceeds to tick down again because YOU'RE STILL ON FIRE. The game expects you to wait an addition second and wait for the "press heal to put out fire" prompt to come up, after which you have to hold down the button to pat yourself out, THEN you have to hold the button to heal yourself back up. That might not be so bad by itself, but odds are you're on fire because someone tossed a Molotov cocktail in your general direction, so you also have to contend with bullets flying in your general direction while this is happening. This is such an egregious design flaw that I really don't understand how it even made it through the design phase, let alone making it all the way through development and into the actual game.
Also, when you start capturing outposts after Act 1 I've had two occasions within an hour where the outpost that I just left would immediately come under attack the second I drove past the border of it (we're talking within 200 feet of the gates here). It's really irritating. The best part is that it causes the game to bug out so hard due to the player's proximity that I can actually see enemies spawning in thin air outside of the outpost. While it does make the world feel a bit "dynamic" (I guess) it is equal parts annoying. I want to get out there and explore, I don't want to fucking babysit the outposts. It makes me wonder how the Golden Path managed to make it without me all of that time if I have to keep defending them from mean old Pagan Min and his group of hooligans. I see it as little more than a way of artificially extending gameplay. If it didn't happen as often it wouldn't be so bad, but twice in an hour? Come on.
That said, the gunplay feels good, like you'd expect from a Far Cry game. The AI's relative dumbness makes stealth both viable and amusing (i.e. "how many times is this guy going to chase this rock?"). I'm not too crazy about the lack of attachments for most weapons, though. That part feels like it was cut back way too much from Far Cry 3. It seems like they're trying to railroad you into picking people off with bows, but I'd rather use a sniper rifle with a suppressor (which you can get as a "signature" weapon unlock, so at least I can eventually go down that route). The double skin bonus for clean animal kills is excellent, and actually does give you a reason to use a bow.
Also, elephants. Motherfucking elephants. Nature's badasses. I can't see many people not taking the riding perk.
Pagan Min is awesome. I'm not really sure whether who I like better, him or Vaas. The other characters are either a bit more stock or inconsistent. The protagonist, for one, can't seem to decide what he wants to do. "I want to help." "I'm just here to spread my mother's ashes." Which is it, Ajay? Jason from FC3 became a battle-hardened warrior fast enough for me to get plot whiplash, but at least I don't recall him ever screaming "HOLY SHIT A CROCODILE" after I viciously murdered a few dozen of them.
The graphics are quite good. Even at Very High (which is the highest that my card can handle and maintain 60fps 95% of the time) it's a treat and it only gets better when you push it to Ultra and NVIDIA (the highest setting, which uses NVIDIA-specific features). The fur and hair rendering in particular is very impressive, and dem mountains. I'm planning to upgrade to a GTX 980 within the next month or two and when I do I look forward to cranking up the settings.
Oh yeah, the game also has honey badgers. Mean little fuckers. Damn nature, you scary.
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I am interested in some farcry 4, but it wasn't that long ago that i played through farcry 3...then even more recent is blood dragon. I think i'll give it some time before i dive in.
I don't even think I want to play any videogames because there is only ONE VIDEOGAME I GIVE A DAMN ABOUT! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mDGQt18iuk)
(https://33.media.tumblr.com/49625dd1057035a8b16d4183546c5ac0/tumblr_ng4pydJV461qdqlkxo1_1280.jpg)
I honestly expected another alpha game, or a darkstalkers game before seeing a direct sequel, but it looks impressive. I just pray to fighting game jesus that it isn't a flop like street fighter x tekken. Funny how much stuff I can gather from that gameplay that joe schmo doesn't even see, like the guard crush system being brought back.
3 characters I want to see return. E Honda, Gen, Urien. I know for sure gen isn't going to make it back because he's not popular enough, but Honda or Urien might make the cut.
Anyway, im going to take a cryo sleep till this bad boy comes out.
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The more I play Far Cry 4 the less I like it. It just feels so damn grindy. :\ The crafting was a bit nonsensical in Far Cry 3, but it's nonsensical, boring, and tedious in FC4.
Every time I've quit playing I've never felt satisfied with my play session. I generally quit because I just can't stand playing it anymore. As outwardly cynical as I tend to be, it's still very rare that I have that much of an aversion towards something. It's very unfortunate, because I went in wanting to really like that game. The opening was so strong, but it just seemed to fall flat on its face for me after act 1.
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I experienced what you mentioned earlier about the outpost bitching about being attacked literally 100 yards from it, that was a little ridiculous. The crafting I enjoy more because it seems easier to kill the correct animals to get what you need rather than needing the same skin for different items and having to choose. The syringe crafting was definitely dumbed down, and I'm not sure I like how the skill trees branch out, some of the progressions don't make sense to me and I feel like I need to spend points on skills I won't use in order to get the one I want.
I don't really experience the graphical stuttering, and run it on High all around except for shadows and some other things i turned to medium that don't affect the overall look of the game. I do overclock my 550ti though, but it runs fine.
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Yeah, I'm not a fan of how they increased the level of consolization that they did. There's way too much reliance on wheels in that game. Trying to configure which weapon corresponds to which numerical slot is a nightmare, and the fact that the sidearm is bound to 2 consistently fucks me up. I also hate how I wind up consistently wasting syringes when I just try to craft them to save a bit of bag space. Definite downgrade from FC3, IMO.
Also, please note that I don't mean "consolization" to be completely negative. That's pretty much mandatory when it comes to porting a game to a console or allowing gamers to use a controller on a PC game. I don't dislike it in principal. What I do dislike is when game developers try to adapt the same principals to fit a keyboard and mouse setup. It's like those twits at Microsoft that figured people would love navigating a touch screen interface with a keyboard and mouse.
The stuttering was reduced drastically with Monday's patch, I noticed. It's still noticeable to me, but it's not nearly as bad as it was. It's definitely not an issue with graphics, it seems to be an issue with the game loading content. None of the components of my system are under any stress when it happens (CPU use stays constant, GPU is maintaining a solid 60+ fps, SSD activity isn't spiking), it just sorta happened periodically as I moved around.
Last time I played I did end up slamming fur up to "simulate" just to check out the NVIDIA GameWorks fur simulation. Good freaking lord, it's amazing how far we've come. My card handled it fairly well, but I noticed some fairly odd behavior. For some reason looking straight at an animal with simulated fur wouldn't tank my framerate at all, but the second I looked away my framerate would drop to 30fps. It was kind of a random thing. Not sure if I was looking in the direction of some distant critters or what, but it happened consistently enough that I had to drop it to just "on." The god rays implementation was also very nice, but my card had a really hard time even holding 60 with it on, unfortunately, even at the lowest setting.
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With the end of the year, people are talking about the games they played, and it reminded me of something. Obviously I've been playing games this year, but in terms of games that came out in 2014, feels like I didn't play a lot. I couldn't make a top 10 because I haven't played 10 new games, unless you count expansions/addons/dlc...even then I don't think I hit 10 games. What 2014 games did I play, and what did I enjoy the most this year?
-mario golf world tour
-diablo 3 reaper of souls
-warlords of draenor
-ultra street fighter 4
-civilization beyond earth
-legend of grimrock 2
I kind of enjoyed all of them to be honest. Favorite out of that list is easily diablo 3 reaper of souls, I put the most time into it, and it turned an awful game into a fantastic game that I still look forward to seeing new content for. Blizzard did a fantastic job of analyzing the problems with the original game, and implementing features to make the item hunt great.
Warlords of draenor was enjoyable, first time I got a wow character to level cap since...lich king. I got what I wanted out of the game and have since stopped playing, but I had a great time with it.
Mario golf was pretty fun, I just haven't been in the mood to get some multiplayer going on with an irl friend who also has it. Still, feels like an improved version of the gamecube game on the go, with online play and dlc courses from the n64 game.
Civ beyond earth seems to be a bit disappointing right now, but I did enjoy what I have played of it. Currently waiting for firaxis to do what they do, release an expansion and make everything better. Don't get me wrong, the current game is good, it just has some issues.
Ultra street fighter 4...is what it is, another balance update, few new characters, some new features. I could probably write a huge essay of the things I like and dislike about it, but i'll keep it short since this is a small place and nobody here cares about the genre. My characters, gen, bison, e honda, chun. My main out of the 4 is e honda, and he's like a bottom 3 character now, and that sucks. Chun, and bison are great now, and some of the stupid nerfs gen got during ultra...got reverted a few weeks ago, so gen while still good after nerfs, is a bit better now. I don't really think I could not like usf4 even if all my characters got nerfed into the ground, id find another one, or do what i do and still play e honda regardless.
Figure I would leave what I am currently playing for last, and that's grimrock 2. I beat the first grimrock this october, and I was motivated to play that game by grimrock 2's release. I recently started playing grimrock 2 about a week ago, and it's like grimrock 1...but...better...and it's really REALLY friggin good. Go buy it and play it right now, or look up videos on what it's about, basically a grid based first person rpg dungeon crawler along the lines of old pc games like dungeon master. Plus like it's a fantasy setting, but you don't have super generic fantasy races or even ways to mix class and race. You have human, minotaur, lizardman, insectoid, and ratling. No stupid elves in this game, or no played out dwarves either. My current party is a FRONTLINE mage insectoid named JUDGE MATHIS. A frontline lizardman barbarian named KEITH DAVID. The back row is an insectoid melee fighter...BACK ROW, MELEE FIGHTER. Final character is an insectoid alchemist that also acts as another mage. So like im running 3 bugs and a lizard, the bugs are mages at that, I have a frontline spellcaster(rocks heavy armor, and a shield, but no melee attacks beacuse MAGIC CASTIN), and a backline melee fighter(skill to melee attack from back row, lower health for more energy to do melee special attacks)...and it's viable and I am playing through the game fine. I just don't see that happening in many games. I think it's really cool that my stupid unorthodox party can be totally viable, and not even just "viable" but totally pretty good. If we want to judge progress as getting the 4 orb things to get to the final boss, I got 3 so far, so I feel im a decent way through the game now. It's a good ride so far!
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So I opened up my WoW account.......again.. pretty sure you're all familiar with the addiction/back and forth relationship with the game at this point. Haven't upgraded yet, won't until i bring my new main up to cap. Started a Worgen Hunter. Most of my mid/end game experience has been with rogues, wanted to try a different class for once. Really enjoying it so far, easy to level by myself with the help of a friendly animal.
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Really depends on the nature of the word addiction. Do I keep coming back to it? Yes. Am I addicted to it? No.
I bought the expansion, had my fill, then left. I enjoyed it, played it to the level cap, diddled around for a bit after that, and I had no more desire to play.
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Yeah, I'd classify "addiction" as being incapable of getting through the day without playing. It sounds like you have the same relationship with WoW as I do with EVE Online. :x
As far as le thread goes, I've been playing through the Mass Effect series, starting with the first one. I started going through ME2 a while back, but since I didn't have my completed ME save file I wasn't able to pull any of my stuff over (which was a surprisingly big detriment to my experience). I ended up picking up ME3 for $5 during Origin's Christmas sale, so I figured now was as good of a time as any. I'm at the point now where I just saved Liara, though I've dumped a significant amount of time into side quests. Also, is it just me, or is the quest to retrieve Wrex's family armor disproportionately difficult?
Aside from that, I've been playing Elite: Dangerous. It's pretty awesome.
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Just started my first ever WoW account yesterday. Always avoided it like the plague because I knew myself too well. Couldn't risk that kind of addiction.
So far pretty good. Playing an Undead Mage with my GF who's playing an Undead Rogue.
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It's nice to have someone to play with - I rolled a Worgen Hunter and am having a fine time solo leveling, around lvl 27 or something just starting in stranglethorn. Hunters are easy to level solo due to the pet taking aggro all the time.
Definitely not seriously invested this time around, I like to use WoW as a end of day de-stresser tool etc rather than being tied to the schedule of a guild.
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It is good I've been pretty pleasantly surprised. The only other MMO I played really was ESO the first two months, which god damn I wish I could have my $100 back from those first two months and the imperial edition bullshit. That and Guild Wars back in 2004. MMO's have never really been my thing too much but WoW seems to be very well crafted. Of course it's been out forever so I'm sure they've had plenty of time to perfect it.
What server are you on?
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I have toons on multiple servers but I only play on Vashj now, alliance this time.
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Up to 32 now, finally getting out of major horde gank-zone STV.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/vashj/Anustarticus/simple
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I don't know how you tolerate the ganking. I had my fill, and I don't know how I put up with it for so long.
And Ive been playing diablo 3 again...they had a new patch which sparked some interest. Witchdoctor didn't get much change, but monk got major changes with their set so I've been trying to re gear since the gear required is pretty different now. Been doing t6 rifts and gambling all blood shards on alts, was able to get my crusader to t6 off blood shards alone...which means I have wizard, and barbarian to gear next. BARB, I HOPE YOU LIKE BLOOD SHARDS!
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/vladgd-1696/hero/33447838
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I get really high before I play and listen to good music.. I've accepted it as a part of being on a PVP server. Luckily, we have nice level 80+ that either travel through or hang around to mitigate the gankers. I just call out my coordinates and other info in the Defense channel and they will come hunt them or handle it.
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Oh lawd, Zephlar's playing WoW now. ;D
I haven't been doing much current stuff with my DK aside from occasionally tanking 5-man heroics (which are FUN AS HELL now) here and there and doing garrison work. What I have been working on is getting a warlock (http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/turalyon/Garchok/simple) leveled up and running a bunch of old crap with friends for transmog gear.
As far as realms go, my Horde toons are all on Turalyon and my Alliance toons are all on Azjol-Nerub. Need a guild? I has guilds. :p
Aside from that, I've been playing pretty much the same crap I've been playing last time I posted in this thread. I took a break from gaming last week for the most part because LOL FLU, but Shepard is back, rampaging through the galaxy. It's amazing how long it actually takes you to get to Virmire if you do all of the side missions before moving back to the main storyline.
Edit: Oh right, speaking of WoW, Deathwing is soloable (with minor headaches) now:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6i9sOUCQAAOdGe.png)
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FYI most of what you guys are saying about WoW is like a foreign language lol!
Spectere that game is just incredible 3's ending aside, best trilogy in gaming ever. I bought the N7 Digitial Deluxe Edition for ME3 on Origin and have been leveling back up on Multiplayer. I unlocked almost everything on Xbox LIVE so it's kind of fun going through and getting all the characters/weapons again.
Also.....GTA V is almost here!!!!!!
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Oh, you'll get it eventually. Everyone succumbs to WoW nerdism, at least a little bit. :p
Yeah, I absolutely love the story in Mass Effect. I admit I'm not looking forward to beating ME3 because of the divisive ending, but the journey matters more than the destination for the most part.
I'm probably going to wait for TotalBiscuit's port report of GTA V for PC before I pull the trigger on it. If they did as terrible of a job on it as they did on GTA4 (we'll put it this way: the GTA4 port was so bad that upgrading my video card destroyed my framerate...it makes Dark Souls for PC look spectacular) I'll just start over on the 360 version and deal with not having a first-person mode. It was one of those deals where I got about half way through the game and had to stop for a while, then I just couldn't get back into it. Had a ton of fun with it, though!
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Oh, you'll get it eventually. Everyone succumbs to WoW nerdism, at least a little bit. :p
I'm sure I will. My girlfriend is pretty well versed so she's been kind of showing me the ropes. Have a level 22 Undead Mage and a level 5 Night Elf Druid. Must say I'm getting pretty addicted and this almost saddens me. I promised myself I would never but here we are 10 years later. WoW you tricky mistress you...
Yeah, I absolutely love the story in Mass Effect. I admit I'm not looking forward to beating ME3 because of the divisive ending, but the journey matters more than the destination for the most part.
It's the best. No story has ever captivated me like ME. I have shed more tears in that series more than any other video game ever. It's really an emotional attachment I have with it. The Multiplayer in 3 was just a WELL added bonus (if you've never played it you are truly missing out). The ending just leaves a lot of questions and it's a bit frustrating yes. It could have been worse but it felt poorly thought out and possibly rushed. The whole game though in ME3 was truly Epic.
I'm probably going to wait for TotalBiscuit's port report of GTA V for PC before I pull the trigger on it. If they did as terrible of a job on it as they did on GTA4 (we'll put it this way: the GTA4 port was so bad that upgrading my video card destroyed my framerate...it makes Dark Souls for PC look spectacular) I'll just start over on the 360 version and deal with not having a first-person mode. It was one of those deals where I got about half way through the game and had to stop for a while, then I just couldn't get back into it. Had a ton of fun with it, though!
That's not a bad idea but I have a good feeling it will be a proper port this time around. Fortunately with Dark Souls we have guys like Dante to fix their horrendous shortcomings (like FFXIII's pathetic excuse for an options menu graphically). GTA IV always crashes if I have my monitor extended too. It was pretty bad.
Do you play Dark Souls II?
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I think I got over the 'being addicted' portion of the WoW playing because personally, I pay 15 a month to have a place that is consistent, beautiful, fun, and entertaining - a place to relax after a long day at work where I can just run around and smash shit and look cool doing it. I also pay for netflix so I think it belongs in the same category. There aren't many P2P games out there with as much content or people playing it, that has been around for as long, it's in a class of it's own.
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I'm sure I will. My girlfriend is pretty well versed so she's been kind of showing me the ropes. Have a level 22 Undead Mage and a level 5 Night Elf Druid. Must say I'm getting pretty addicted and this almost saddens me. I promised myself I would never but here we are 10 years later. WoW you tricky mistress you...
Oh don't worry, after you've been around Azeroth (and pre- and post-kaboom Draenor) a few times that feeling of addiction should pass. ;)
One of the things that I find utterly captivating about WoW is its incredible world design and great aesthetic. After you've played for a while you can just tell when you see a WoW screenshot because it has such a unique and distinct look to it. When you go between areas it feels like you're somewhere completely new, unlike several other games (*cough* Gears of War *cough*) where you couldn't tell one area from another. Guild Wars 2 is another game that got that right, albeit 8 years after WoW came out.
It's the best. No story has ever captivated me like ME. I have shed more tears in that series more than any other video game ever. It's really an emotional attachment I have with it. The Multiplayer in 3 was just a WELL added bonus (if you've never played it you are truly missing out). The ending just leaves a lot of questions and it's a bit frustrating yes. It could have been worse but it felt poorly thought out and possibly rushed. The whole game though in ME3 was truly Epic.
At least they tried to slap a few bandaids on the original ending. I dunno, I'm still pushing slowly through the first game, so we'll see. :p
I also ended up sharing the love and buying my dad Mass Effect 1 and 2 for his birthday yesterday. He seems to like ME1 so far, so we'll see how that goes.
That's not a bad idea but I have a good feeling it will be a proper port this time around.
I've become so cynical when it comes to PC ports that I generally refuse to buy things at launch unless they're specifically designed for PC, especially after I witnessed Watch Dogs stuttering on my rig (which is so far above the recommended hardware that it's kind of silly). I think the only game that I bought on launch day recently was Alien: Isolation, but that game had a great PC version so kind of lucked out.
Considering Rockstar gleefully kept putting out expansions and patches for the PC version of GTA4 without fixing a damn thing and totally bungled a semi-recent GTA:SA update (the updated release broke things like 1080p support, which the original PC release--released in 2005, no less--had!), I'm not giving them my money until I know for sure that they aren't going to be a bunch of shitheads again. It's a fantastic game, but if they fuck up the PC version I'll be more than happy just switching on the ol' 360 and playing it there. Hell, the 360 gets a better framerate in GTA4 than my gaming PC does for some stupid fucking reason.
Fortunately with Dark Souls we have guys like Dante to fix their horrendous shortcomings (like FFXIII's pathetic excuse for an options menu graphically).
It seems to me like Dark Souls had a solid foundation that was hampered by inexperience and budget constraints (after all, the PC port was very much an afterthought, as a response to a fan petition). I think a large part of the PC port's problems stem from the fact that it's more or less a straight port of the Xbox 360 version of the game. All of the signs are there: it only really supports 360 controllers, it's locked to 720p at 30hz, and the real kicker: GFWL. However, the fact that DSfix is able to defeat all of those limitations so easily leads me to believe that the devs knew what they were doing, they just didn't have the resources or experience to use their engine to its fullest.
The framerate uncapping alone is evidence of that. There are a lot of games that run at a fixed 30hz on PC because they will break hard if you unlock the framerate. NFS:Rivals is a very good example of that, as TotalBiscuit proved (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDA37BmvNwM).
I'm just glad that From Software really buckled down and made a solid port for DS2.
Do you play Dark Souls II?
I have it but I haven't really gotten around to playing it. That's on my list of possible games to play after I finish up the Mass Effect trilogy.
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Us sending a postcard to our horde characters. Lol
(http://i1014.photobucket.com/albums/af266/Zephlar/small.jpg) (http://s1014.photobucket.com/user/Zephlar/media/small.jpg.html)
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Aw shit!! (http://www.christiantoday.com/article/gta.v.for.pc.to.support.nvidias.txaa.anti.aliasing.feature/47762.htm)
Looks like they are really going for it this time around. I think I prefer MSAA though. Seems to be a bit crisper, yeah?
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I dunno if I'd go that far. NVIDIA is pimping the crap out of GameWorks. It's getting hard to find AAA games that don't use it in some way (yes, I'm holding onto my cynicism...GTA4:PC really was that bad of an experience for me).
And yeah, high levels of MSAA is going to be sharper. MSAA essentially samples multiple locations within each pixel. Very high quality but it causes a pretty gnarly performance hit. Based on my understanding of TXAA (which is limited; it's a proprietary technology) it combines MSAA with temporal anti-aliasing. Generally speaking it looks better than low levels of MSAA (we're talking MSAA x2 vs TXAA x2), but MSAA x8 is going to kill it in terms of quality (and turn your GPU into a space heater on heavier games). I look at TXAA being a happy medium between MSAA x2 and x4. TXAA x4 seems pointless to me--too blurry for my tastes.
I generally try to run DSR with no AA or light MSAA where possible. The only problem with DSR is that it makes the Steam overlay virtually unusable since Valve apparently doesn't understand the meaning of "high DPI."
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I...still...play....diablo...
It's a very on and off game. New patch, get hype, play for 1-2 weeks, drop off. Another new patch, new interest, cycle begins again.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/vladgd-1696/hero/3024684
They changed a lot of things, and initially my witchdoctor was weaker due to said changes, but after spending a day to gear properly, i went from greater rift 33, to greater rift 40. This picture shows how significant that is. Torment 6 feels as easy as normal difficulty at my current state. I blanket the screen in darts, and I turned the game into a bullet hell shooter. "every time i shoot a poison dart, all my fetishes do, and i have 23"
(http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/grift-diff-table.png)
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I still play D3 as well. Add me up, lets play.
Curnewzack@gmail.com
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Sadly I pretty much only play solo. It's a good play anytime "turn my mind off" type of game. I hit 70 on the season 3 then kinda dropped off, I don't think wizard is for me, even though they are very strong this season.
Either way season 3 would be a bit short lived, mortal kombat x came out, and after a few days, it works on pc. No real strong opinion on it yet, it's a bit too soon to tell, but the overall vibes are positive on it. I have a few nitpicks, like I hate how the mortal kombat games show button inputs. It's a 5 button game, front/back punch, front/back kick, block. What do they say that front punch is? On xbox controllers (im using xbox stick) they don't call it front punch, they call it, X, the default button it's mapped too. Since I use a stick, I had to remap it to work on said stick, so my front punch is on the Y button, but they don't change the icons and shit to compensate for this. So when they tell me to do a move that uses front punch, they tell me to press the X button, when it's mapped on the Y button for me. WHY THEY DONT JUST SAY FRONT PUNCH, OR EVEN A SIMPLE FP, OR HOW THE COMMUNITY JUST SAYS, 1, I DON'T KNOW. I know it's a small issue, and really, it's not a deal breaker, it's just annoying. I know netherrealm listens to the community, so I don't know why they havent picked up the slang for the game. People use tekken terminology when talking about mortal kombat. It's pretty much the same in tekken as mortal kombat, one number for each limb. 1, 2, 3, 4, EASY. So say Jax ground pound, down down B in xbox, down down circle on playstation, or just fuckin down down 4 universally using the tekken terminology. Then you have the playstation version, so what does X even mean when someone is talking about the game to someone else? X is front punch on the xbox version, but X is front kick on the playstation version, it's not universal, and it's dumb.
That aside, it's a damn good looking game, and it looks like netherrealm put a lot of work into it. No idea if I will stick with it, but it's been fun so far. No clue what character I want to stick with, right now im looking at Jax, but Quan Chi is a strong contender.
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Wow, I haven't posted an update on this thread in a while, have I? No, I have not.
Well, for starters, I'm happy to say that the PC port of GTA 5 for PC is perfectly fine. There were some phenomenally stupid bugs in the launch build (like not being able to play if your Windows username had a character that wasn't a Roman glyph or number...I'm sure the people in regions that use Cyrillic or accented characters were pleased), but now that those are a non-issue I ended up taking the plunge and making a purchase. Yes, I am sincerely glad that my cynicism was misplaced. :)
The first-person mode is surprisingly awesome. I'm honestly amazed at how far they went with it. They could have just tacked it on real quick-like, but instead Rockstar took the time to ensure that you literally see everything. If you do a dodge roll you will literally see your character tumbling in first-person. It certainly makes you feel much more empathy toward your character if you take a nasty spill off of a bike. Woooo boy.
Another thing that impressed me is how well it handles controllers. I prefer to use the keyboard and mouse when running around and shooting (PC master race, yadda yadda) and the controller for driving. It's absolutely seamless in this game. Use the controller, the button prompts change over to Xbox prompts. Use a keyboard, it changes back to keyboard/mouse prompts. I'm not sure if it supports non-XInput controllers, though, so bear that in mind if you want to use a racing wheel or something like that.
It's kind of hard for me to really judge how the port performs, but everything seems pretty smooth. I have noticed an increase in framerate drops ever since I upgraded to NVIDIA's GTA-ready driver, oddly enough, so I'm probably going to roll back before I play next time. Before I upgraded to that version the framerate never dropped below 60 with everything except for the additional options maxed out.
Still playing through the Mass Effect trilogy. Currently on the second game, just sort of slowly making my way through it.
My friends and I have been playing Dying Light. Holy shit does the story get stupid. I could have settled for merely cliche, but it's actually kind of painful. Not to mention some of the awful design elements that become more and more glaring as you continue to play through. We're basically killing time until Killing Floor 2 hits early access at this point.
I ended up finally picking up a PS4. Gorgeous console! I've primarily been playing Bloodborne, which I've been having a blast at. I'm surprisingly less bad at it than I thought I'd be. I used the cane when I started my original run, but that really doesn't seem like a very newbie-friendly starting weapon to me (or, at least, it didn't match my play style particularly well). I ended up quickly starting a second game with the axe and I've found that I'm having a much better time with it now. In general I haven't been seeing "YOU DIED" all that often lately. Then again, I've been verging on paranoia whenever I move around, so that probably helps.
I'm still playing Elite: Dangerous off-and-on between all of that. It's pretty much my podcast game at this point. I've primarily been focusing on exploration in order to save up for a combat ship. Just to give you an idea of how ginormous that game is, I'm a filthy casual and was the first person to sell data about certain systems. Yeah.
Also, the Talos Principle. It's sublime. Play it! :D
Now I just need to stop taking on so much work so that I actually have a hope of finishing one of those games. :s
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still playin wow.. up to 49 on my worgen hunter.. neat class so far, I like it.
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Now I'm level 60 :D
FLYING
This is the highest I've ever leveled an Alliance toon.. funny that this game can still bring brand new experiences for me after so long. I'm glad I never got super duper involved in it, because it allows me to continue playing over time without getting that burnt out from it
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"Back in my day ye had to be level 40 just ta get yer first ground mount, laddy. Ye could only fly when ya hit the ol' 7-0, and even then ya couldn't spread yer wings on Azeroth. Damn kids and their silly little 'flyin' permits.' Learn ta walk, boy!"
*cough*
Yeah, even for as long as I've been playing (six years...damn) I still run into new things every now and again. It definitely does peter off, but I haven't really gotten to a point where there was simply nothing to do.
Also, I'm going to have to re-add you on b.net. I kind of did a frenzied purge of my friends list (i.e. disabled and reenabled RealID) on one day because I was tired of getting hassled by people that I used to be in a guild with whom I didn't particularly like in the first place. :| I think Newf is another unfortunate victim.
If you send me a friend request I'll accept it next time I'm on: spectere at gmail dot com
AS FOR THE ACTUAL TOPIC.
I've been playing Destiny (PS4; add me on PSN if you like: Spectere1984). It definitely feels underrated to me at this point. Maybe it's because I got into it after a number of patches or because I haven't beaten the game yet, but it definitely seems like the overwhelming hype was most likely its biggest enemy. It also seems to be in a really awkward position where it doesn't quite please MMO fans or FPS fans (too grindy for an FPS player, loot isn't predictable enough for an MMO), so maybe my time in WoW, EVE, GW2, etc gives me a different perspective than most traditional Bungie fans.
Regardless, the combat feels absolutely incredible, the skill progression is pretty solid. I'm having more fun playing it than I did Halo 3, and that was my favorite game of that particular franchise. Even if the endgame turns out to be meh, I'm probably going to get at least a few dozen hours of gameplay just leveling up my characters and playing co-op. I particularly like that you can get a lot of out just 15-30 minutes of play if your free time happens to be limited. It's pretty rare for story-focused FPS to be structured like that, and that works out great if I have a busy month.
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All I hear about destiny is that it lacks content, but my boss seems to really enjoy it despite that. I have no opinion due to no current gen consoles.
Got my season 3 wizard to paragon 222, and consensus is, I don't like wizard. I think I'll avoid the game until season 4. I guess next week on the 26th the ladder reset for diablo 2 is happening, so it may be an excuse for me to play that again.
Recently got pokemon omega ruby (the only pokemon game i got the "first" version of, prior was like blue, silver, sapphire, pearl, white, ect), it's pretty neat since the last game I invested real time into was pearl. Not sure how long i'll play before I lose interest (im really only 40 minutes in) but if I want to beat the elite 4 on gen 3 (something I haven't done) this is the place to do it I suppose.
Besides that, just been playing more super street fighter 2 turbo recently. Been mucking about with my Zangief, and trying to improve my Dictator (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf9u1r8AzQY) play. Every time I land a touch of death combo with Dictator, I just want to practice more and more so it becomes a common thing. I really don't think the game will ever get old or boring to me, i've been playing it since 2009 and I'm still learning new things. Definitely my favorite game of all time at this point. I wish more people were into fightans so I would have a bigger pool of people to play with.
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My GF has been playing ORAS over the last few months. Those are really great Pokemon games it seems. Is Smash Bros good for DS? I imagine it's just as it is on consoles yeah?
I dunno why but I've been hoooked on Virtua Tennis 4 (no longer available on Steam, but I have two extra copies for trade) for a while now. It's how I get my quick competitive fix I guess because the online community is fairly large and quite active.
I'm waiting for GTA V to drop in price before I buy it I decided.
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I beat Metroid: Other M the other day because I've made it my life's mission to play all of the Metroid games and, preferably, beat them. Holy fuck, that game is beyond awful. Even if you look past the awful voice "acting," horrendous dialogue, and the fact that they managed to make Samus a bloody wimp, what's left is still garbage. I can't even begin to fathom the amount of pole polishing it took for that game to get the relatively high marks that it did.
Aside from that, I just completed Mass Effect 2 and am moving on to ME3 after the long delay caused by that Sony-made distraction that I ended up getting. I really like ME3 so far! It undoes some of the dummying down that BioWare did in ME2 yet keeps a lot of the quality of life additions.
I also started playing StepMania a bit more recently. I can't quite do Salieri Strikes Back again, but it turns out I can still do quite a few keyboard charts. I think I need to start playing windowed or using smaller arrows/receptors. I have my gaming rig hooked up to a TV now, so keeping SM in fullscreen is a bit overwhelming and makes things surprisingly hard to read. Aside from that, playing on my current keyboard (Logitech G710+) is absolutely wonderful. Mechanical keyboards are incredible.
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I don't know if I would call what bioware did to mass effect 2, as "dumbing down", do you mean the stat/skill system?
In mass effect 1, you can put a point into shotguns, THIS ONE POINT ADDS LIKE 1% DAMAGE TO SHOTGUNS...yay? More like fucking boring, at least in 2, each point feels more significant with the final point being even more important. Plus all different versions of a weapon type are the exact same, in 2, and 3, there are different shotguns that FEEL DIFFERENT, in 1, they just have different damage values. If anything they made acquiring new weapons and leveling up more exciting in 2 and 3. Before you say I am biased against 1, 1 is my favorite game in the trilolgy, and one of my favorite games of all time, but it is a flawed game and I can't deny that. Excuse me if I implied what you said incorrectly though, but that's typically what people mean when they say bioware dumbed down the later games...
...as for mass effect 3, if you want to ignore some of the stupid things they did to the story, it has BY FAR the best most enjoyable combat in the trilogy. I probably put over 240 hours into the online multiplayer alone. It's a lot more active of a game, where me2 you were a lot more rooted to cover. I look forward to what they do to the multiplayer in the next mass effect game, because, it was enough of a success to where it will be in the next mass effect game.
For my pokeymans action, im closing in on the 4th gym. The last time I enjoyed a pokemon game as I am now was like...pokemon silver on the gbc...long time ago.
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No, I'm mostly fine with the skill system in ME2. The main two things that I'm referring to are the removal of weapon mods in ME2, as well as the ability to completely regenerate your health bar. The way that ME3 handles weapon mods is about as good as you can get with the removal of the inventory system (which I kind of miss...I feel that it should have been better organized, not more or less axed outright) and I find tiered health regeneration systems (i.e. health regenerates in 20% increments) to be far more fair than non-regenerating health and less silly than full regenerating health. The skill/stat system in ME3 blows both games away. I do feel that they scaled back ME2's skill system a bit too much (though at least it's more focused than ME1's) and had some really silly design decisions (like having to pick up incendiary ammo before you could get disruptor ammo...I mean, what?), but ME3's skill system just feels perfect to me.
I don't know about late game ME3, but the early game story is pretty phenomenal so far. The dread and foreboding is really kind of stifling in a way, though I doubt that'll last. Jennifer Hale's performance is certainly helping, too. I don't know about DudebroShep, but I like how she manages to sound both weary and optimistic if you take the paragon dialogue choices. Just awesome.
That being said, I did make the mistake of playing through the Omega DLC. Ugh. Fuck that shit. Never again.
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Just started playing thru bioshock 1 again (PC this time). Will go thru the whole series. love love love love this game. Also made me aware and fall in love with Art Deco styling.
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There's a lot of issues with the story in mass effect 3, but the thing that annoys me the most is that damn kid. You play as commander Shepard, you have murdered thousands of people, and watched thousands more die, how is the death of one random kid mean any more than the other 10,000? It's just kind of pointless and shouldn't be in there.
Plus like yknow...the ending...maybe you don't know, but you will...it's just...yeah...
Multiplayer was great though, im going to defend that bitch forever. It's just a silly mode that doesn't need to adhere to story, since you can play as pretty much most of the races in the mass effect universe.
Want to be a collector? GO AHEAD! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SedP8jVcJjs) I would totally play more if I didn't need to put down more money for xbox live gold, I have it on pc, but frankly I hate the controls on pc and all of my unlocks are on 360 anyway.
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There's a lot of issues with the story in mass effect 3, but the thing that annoys me the most is that damn kid. You play as commander Shepard, you have murdered thousands of people, and watched thousands more die, how is the death of one random kid mean any more than the other 10,000? It's just kind of pointless and shouldn't be in there.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Narm
I'm re-playing through the series for my fiance, incidentally. It's actually really neat coming back to Mass Effect 1 knowing what happens in 2 and 3; there's actually a lot more in the way of foreshadowing than I had remembered. Coming back to ME1's inventory management is horrifically painful though :|
(edit: I had the e accented properly, but SMF actually truncated that symbol onward when I tried to include it. Weeeeird.)
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...as for mass effect 3, if you want to ignore some of the stupid things they did to the story, it has BY FAR the best most enjoyable combat in the trilogy. I probably put over 240 hours into the online multiplayer alone.
Yeeeeeep. Right there with ya man. I have actually restarted playing it on Origin. For some reason the Multiplayer just never gets old to me in ME3.
(http://www.ranallistudios.com/img/s7/v160/p1208025529.jpg)
Also I agree with you Spectere about the weapon mod removal. I didn't like that either. I really enjoyed that kind of customization on ALL my gear. It's like they stripped some of the RPG elements away in ME2. I will say however that ME2 has the absolute best story out of all 3 games. Not to take away from the other two THAT much but when I compare the story arch I have to give it to ME2. Lots more characters than any other ME (unless you count Multiplayer on ME3) with nice story archs.
Honestly ME3 is truly epic and I loved EVERY FUCKING SECOND of it......until the end. I'm sure you've heard plenty at this point though. I don't let that take away from the entirety of the trilogy though because it was probably the most engrossing series of games I've ever played. I'd be lying if I said I didn't shed a couple tears in ME1 and again in ME3.
I'm sure you already have the "From Ashes" DLC but if not I made a video (https://youtu.be/hZ6QN207MQ8) from that DLC that reveals the entire Prothean history.
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Recently got pokemon omega ruby (the only pokemon game i got the "first" version of, prior was like blue, silver, sapphire, pearl, white, ect), it's pretty neat since the last game I invested real time into was pearl. Not sure how long i'll play before I lose interest (im really only 40 minutes in) but if I want to beat the elite 4 on gen 3 (something I haven't done) this is the place to do it I suppose.
Well apparently the answer to the underline, about 8 days later, is 25 hours. Elite 4 beat, I am the champion of all the pokeymans! I really didn't expect to play more than like 2-3 hours when I made that post.
As for the delta episode post game stuff...ehh, maybe another time. Not sure if I'll open up my still shrinkwrapped copy of pokemon Y, or play something else for the time being. It was a pretty good time though, been a long goddamn time since ive sat down and ENJOYED a pokemon game. I mean I got through gen 4, but I really had to force it, I didn't enjoy it at all. Like literally I think it was gen 2, because even gen 3 at the time wasn't really doing it for me. I guess pokemon isn't dead for me afterall, I just needed a FIFTEEN YEAR BREAK!
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Are you guys on Origin? If so add me "Z3PHLAR". Would be cool to play Multi with you guys.
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I have it on pc, but frankly I hate the controls on pc and all of my unlocks are on 360 anyway.
My biggest problem is that they put every action on a single key for controllers and didn't bother to make proper use of the keyboard. I can't tell you how many times I've died because I hit space to run and Shep saw fit to slide over to a wall 5 meters away and crouch down, apparently oblivious to the numerous vorcha that were still shooting her. Grr.
It also irks the hell out of me that they don't have dedicated weapon selection keys in ME2/ME3. The mouse wheel is basically useless because you have to sit there while she cycles through her weapons, and using the command menu (or whatever they call it) is just tedious. The direct weapon selection in ME1 wasn't great because lol function keys, but it was a hell of a lot better than the alternative.
(edit: I had the e accented properly, but SMF actually truncated that symbol onward when I tried to include it. Weeeeird.)
I think I goofed up the MySQL collation settings when I moved the database over to my Linode instance in the first place. I ran into that as well recently. :\
Your name doesn't seem to be mucking anything up, oddly enough, so Unicode isn't completely b0rked. I almost want to say that it's only happening with new posts and such.
Also I agree with you Spectere about the weapon mod removal. I didn't like that either. I really enjoyed that kind of customization on ALL my gear. It's like they stripped some of the RPG elements away in ME2.
Yeppers. I'm glad they reversed some of their decisions in ME3.
Honestly ME3 is truly epic and I loved EVERY FUCKING SECOND of it......until the end. I'm sure you've heard plenty at this point though.
I've heard a lot of conflicting reports as to why the ending was bad, but (without having seen it myself, mind you...so ixnay on the spoilers-ay ;)) a lot of the hate seems to revolve around none of the decisions that Shepard made having any difference in the ending. I'm sure there were plenty of other reasons, but I can certainly defend the game against that one.
But hey, I'm sure I'll find out for myself whenever I finally beat it!
I'm sure you already have the "From Ashes" DLC but if not I made a video (https://youtu.be/hZ6QN207MQ8) from that DLC that reveals the entire Prothean history.
Yep, I have the Digital Deluxe edition because I'm a whore.
After I get through it I'll try to remember to watch your video and bash you relentlessly in the comments for no good reason (because YouTube). ;D
Edit: Okay, From Ashes is pretty fucking amazing.
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Got around to uploading a tutorial on the Volus "Field Medic" class (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31m74IxSCzQ), as I call it. Really the only way a Volus SHOULD be played on Multiplayer. Brought to you in a buttery 60fps :)
There are lots of tutorials on pretty much every other class that are good, but this was the only one I felt needed breaking down because I almost never see anyone playing a Volus properly and didn't see any good videos on it.
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I started playing Skyrim again.
SIGH.
I'M NEVER GOING TO FINISH ANYTHING AT THIS RATE.
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I started playing Skyrim again.
SIGH.
I'M NEVER GOING TO FINISH ANYTHING AT THIS RATE.
Don't feel bad. There is no end to Skyrim when you mod. You should not feel ashamed of being attracted to such greatness. It really never gets old.
Skyrim is still my number 1 of all time. <3
(http://www.ranallistudios.com/img/s3/v44/p1256287171-4.jpg)
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I wouldn't go so far as to call it my number 1, but it's definitely up there. It's one of my most played games on Steam, for sure. And it's not that I feel bad about playing it, it's more than I feel bad about neglecting Bloodborne and Mass Effect 3 because LOL SKYRIM. :P
It does seem like every time I play through it my mod list grows and grows. This time around I've been working on installing about a bazillion graphical enhancements. I ended up getting something a bit wrong, though, since not all of the textures load (oops!). Still a work in progress. After I get that locked down I'll probably make a copy of my data directory (so that I never have to go through that insanity again) and then cram a bunch of gameplay mods on top of that.
I just wish that Bethesda spent more time on the Khajiit and Argonians. They always seem to have armor and weapon clipping issues until the fans fix them up. It's never a huge enough issue that I ever consider dropping them, of course (I've stuck with my kitties and lizards since Morrowind, dammit).
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I wouldn't go so far as to call it my number 1, but it's definitely up there. It's one of my most played games on Steam, for sure. And it's not that I feel bad about playing it, it's more than I feel bad about neglecting Bloodborne and Mass Effect 3 because LOL SKYRIM. :P
It does seem like every time I play through it my mod list grows and grows. This time around I've been working on installing about a bazillion graphical enhancements. I ended up getting something a bit wrong, though, since not all of the textures load (oops!). Still a work in progress. After I get that locked down I'll probably make a copy of my data directory (so that I never have to go through that insanity again) and then cram a bunch of gameplay mods on top of that.
I just wish that Bethesda spent more time on the Khajiit and Argonians. They always seem to have armor and weapon clipping issues until the fans fix them up. It's never a huge enough issue that I ever consider dropping them, of course (I've stuck with my kitties and lizards since Morrowind, dammit).
I HIGHLY recommend Realvision ENB (http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/30936/?) if you like realistic ENB graphic mods. It's GORGEOUS but definitely a performance hit. My GTX 770 4GB gets 45fps average, which is actually quite good for an ENB mod active.
I've broken my Skyrim I don't know how many times, so I may be able to help if you ever run into a problem. ENB required some tweaking outside of the data folder. Gopher on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2DS-0ebnwE) is excellent at explaining installation. I believe Realvision can be installed through the NMM these days though and only minor tweaking is required.
The Realvision page has great instructions also and he give you all the recommended mods for maximum graphical improvement. I presume you have the SKSE launching your Skyrim?
A great tool for checking on errors in your load order is LOOT (https://loot.github.io/). Sometimes crashing is just as simple as things not loading in the right sequence. You can use the up and down arrows in NMM to move the load order.
Yeah thank the gods for awesome nerds. They have fixed anything and everything you could need fixed. I at least give them credit for giving users the tools to make that happen.
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I just said screw it and started from scratch. I've run into that issue before, and it's almost always because of mismatched textures and models. Since most of the model/texture replacers that I used involved a ton of loose files, I figured it would make more sense to just install one mod at a time and test, painful as that may be. I didn't exactly relish the idea of popping everything open in NifSkope, trying to figure out exactly which mod pack it came from, and trying to figure out which files it actually needed. :P
I fooled around with Project ENB a little bit. I looked at Realvision, but it looked a bit too surreal for my liking in the screenshots (if you want to turn me off from a graphics mod, liberally include lens flare in your screenshots...I had enough of that in the late 90s, thank you very much). I'm going to give Vividian a shot...the weather effects in it look gorgeous, and it seems like it's a bit more comprehensive than other ENBs, as it includes a mod as well.
I've gotten pretty good at repairing Skyrim when I went through it during my last playthrough, not to mention tweaking some Papyrus scripts to my liking. I was doing so much picking and choosing that I just got fed up and extracted some BSAs and started mixing and matching models. :P This time around I'm using Mod Organizer (more straightforward than Wrye Bash, more powerful than Nexus Mod Manager) and the experience has been much more positive. The way that it installs mods is bloody brilliant, to the point that I wondered why in the hell they seemed to be the first to implement it. I was actually considering writing a quick and dirty mod manager that used their approach* until I ended up finding it since I tend to deal with loose files in a lot of cases (especially texture replacers, since loose files are more efficient than BSAs).
And yeah, I use SKSE. It's pretty much mandatory if you want to have any fun (even with vanilla! I can't imagine playing without SkyUI).
*Basically, it installs the mod into a directory in its own directory tree. When it comes time to install the mod to your Skyrim/Oblivion/Fallout/whatever directory, copies the files over there. When it needs to uninstall or check to see if another mod is trying to trample on another mod's files, it uses the directory tree that it created to know which files each mod uses. Simple, effective, and it eliminates the biggest issue that NMM has when you need to uninstall and reinstall mods: namely having to wait ages for it to unpack 7-Zip files and doing the install progress all over again. The fact that it's compatible with both FOMOD and BAIN installers (unlike NMM and Wrye Bash, which don't really support each other at all) in addition to simple archives is a huge plus as well.
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I just said screw it and started from scratch. I've run into that issue before, and it's almost always because of mismatched textures and models. Since most of the model/texture replacers that I used involved a ton of loose files, I figured it would make more sense to just install one mod at a time and test, painful as that may be. I didn't exactly relish the idea of popping everything open in NifSkope, trying to figure out exactly which mod pack it came from, and trying to figure out which files it actually needed. :P
Not familiar with NifSkope. I use LOOT, BOSS, & TES5EDIT to keep my stuff loading proper. The newest LOOT is incredible IMO. It tells you in good detail exactly which mods are causing which issues and even recommends other mods depending on the issue.
I fooled around with Project ENB a little bit. I looked at Realvision, but it looked a bit too surreal for my liking in the screenshots (if you want to turn me off from a graphics mod, liberally include lens flare in your screenshots...I had enough of that in the late 90s, thank you very much). I'm going to give Vividian a shot...the weather effects in it look gorgeous, and it seems like it's a bit more comprehensive than other ENBs, as it includes a mod as well.
Lol! I <3 lens flare! I wasn't a PC gamer until the last few years so, it's all sexy to me ;)
There is a really good in game menu to adjust the settings however you like (including flare) so it kind of gives me the option to make it like other ENB's by tweaking the built in settings.
I've gotten pretty good at repairing Skyrim when I went through it during my last playthrough, not to mention tweaking some Papyrus scripts to my liking. I was doing so much picking and choosing that I just got fed up and extracted some BSAs and started mixing and matching models. :P This time around I'm using Mod Organizer (more straightforward than Wrye Bash, more powerful than Nexus Mod Manager) and the experience has been much more positive. The way that it installs mods is bloody brilliant, to the point that I wondered why in the hell they seemed to be the first to implement it. I was actually considering writing a quick and dirty mod manager that used their approach* until I ended up finding it since I tend to deal with loose files in a lot of cases (especially texture replacers, since loose files are more efficient than BSAs).
And yeah, I use SKSE. It's pretty much mandatory if you want to have any fun (even with vanilla! I can't imagine playing without SkyUI).
*Basically, it installs the mod into a directory in its own directory tree. When it comes time to install the mod to your Skyrim/Oblivion/Fallout/whatever directory, copies the files over there. When it needs to uninstall or check to see if another mod is trying to trample on another mod's files, it uses the directory tree that it created to know which files each mod uses. Simple, effective, and it eliminates the biggest issue that NMM has when you need to uninstall and reinstall mods: namely having to wait ages for it to unpack 7-Zip files and doing the install progress all over again. The fact that it's compatible with both FOMOD and BAIN installers (unlike NMM and Wrye Bash, which don't really support each other at all) in addition to simple archives is a huge plus as well.
Seems like you have a much deeper understanding of the process with scripting than I do. I'm inclined to trust your opinion on it. Let me know how that works out.
So I made a GIF of the mod I installed this weekend. It's more immersive and fun than you would think. Seems like they put a lot of work into it.
(http://i.imgur.com/a47wX2A.gif)
Azura's Kush ftw :)
Also, been having way too much fun with chickens....
(http://i.imgur.com/SZb3io2.gif) (http://imgur.com/SZb3io2)
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Not familiar with NifSkope. I use LOOT, BOSS, & TES5EDIT to keep my stuff loading proper. The newest LOOT is incredible IMO. It tells you in good detail exactly which mods are causing which issues and even recommends other mods depending on the issue.
NifSkope is a model viewer. It's pretty handy for working out texture issues on static meshes.
My latest love is Mod Organizer (http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/1334/?). It's better than I could have ever hoped. Instead of polluting your Data directory it links Skyrim to a virtual directory via either injection (ala ENB) or an SKSE plugin. Basically I have all of my mods in, say, D:\SkyrimMods and Skyrim installed in my Steam folder. When Skyrim loads, MO forces Skyrim to load data (BSAs, ESPs, ESMs, SKSE plugins, loose files, pretty much anything) from the various mod directories in D:\SkyrimMods in the order that I dictate. Furthermore, it supports FOMOD and BAIN installers as well as Nexus link integration, so there's no real reason for me to use NMM at this point.
I also use Wrye Bash to create bashed patches (combining multiple ESPs into one to improve performance and reduce the number of concurrent modules) and apply some tweaks. Pretty handy, that.
Lol! I <3 lens flare! I wasn't a PC gamer until the last few years so, it's all sexy to me ;)
Fair enough. :P
There is a really good in game menu to adjust the settings however you like (including flare) so it kind of gives me the option to make it like other ENB's by tweaking the built in settings.
Yep, I've seen that.
I ended up redoing all of my mods (currently running a STEP:Extended install with a bunch of survival mods thrown in), so I haven't gotten around to installing an ENB yet (I have ENBseries installed specifically for ENBoost; haven't enabled the graphics stuffs and installed an effects set yet). Figured I'd make sure things remained stable first.
Seems like you have a much deeper understanding of the process with scripting than I do. I'm inclined to trust your opinion on it. Let me know how that works out.
I had to tweak a bunch of Papyrus scripts with my last mod set. Forgot exactly what I had to do to make everything work, but it did give me a pretty good understanding of some of the stuff that goes on under the hood.
So I made a GIF of the mod I installed this weekend. It's more immersive and fun than you would think. Seems like they put a lot of work into it.
SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY
Also, been having way too much fun with chickens....
XD
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DIABLO 3
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Radunas-1485/hero/41074544
Just got back into it again, definitely enjoying the updates - pushing my progress in the Torment levels and testing my limits in nephalim rifts. I can solo T1 neph rifts, and qualified for a level 12 greater rift after the trial solo as well. With the lvl 12 greater rift, I beat the guardian literally 3 fucking seconds after the 15 minutes hit so I didn't get to advance, but I did get to learn about upgrading my epic gems. Which is awesome.
Also dabbling in enchantment/transmog, making this game a whole lot more fun.
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It's truly amazing how much Blizzard turned Diablo 3 around since RoS dropped. I generally enjoyed my time in 1.0, but 2.0 has just been absolutely incredible so far.
I also played and beat The Magic Circle (http://store.steampowered.com/app/323380/) last night (and got most of the collectibles). I freaking loved it.
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I'm waiting till the next season/patch before I dive into the diablos again.
In the meantime, XCOM 2 got me hyped...so I decided to play the pc version of enemy within (beat enemy unknown/within on 360) since the XCOM 2 is pc only. A week later I beat it...for the third time, it's just a damn hard game to put down.
Now I want something else to play, I may have to select 10 random games I have and random.org to see what I should play.
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Splatoon! It is so goddamn good -- simple premise, expertly crafted, lots of play styles, a fairly complex metagame, and all the upsides of online multiplayer with nearly none of the downsides -- and I have dumped so much time into it the past couple weeks.
Most people probably don't have Wii Us, but if you do, you need to check it out ASAP. The main complaint I have about it is a relative lack of stages, but the sheer variety of weapons and strategies keeps it from being boring.
Sample interface/gameplay video:
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The past few days I've been playing Ridiculous Fishing on my phone along with my partner who has been playing it on my tablet. That game is fucking good, like, I have NEVER put so much time into a mobile game until that game. NEVER, when I need to kill time on my phone, I just use my internet browser or youtube or something, I really don't play mobile games at all. So with a flat $3.00 price and no bullshit free to play in app purchases model that makes most mobile games not appealing at all for me to play...it's just a good game, only it's on my phone.So basically I "beat" the game, every upgrade, every fish, and I just kinda play for the sake of playing right now. It's just a well crafted game, good gameplay, good artstyle, good music, addicting and rewarding gameplay loop. The only "flaw" I would even give this game is that a few of the fish you need to jump through a few hoops to catch (aka look on the internet for how to catch them since there's no way you'd just figure it out on your own), but besides that, it's something I'd recommend anybody to check out.
I'm open for recommendations for mobile games. I use a relatively low powered android phone (motorola moto g) and my tablet isn't much better, I don't really use mobile devices for gaming purposes, but I'm down to play if it's not f2p bullshit(or if f2p, nothing shoving paying money down my throat like crossey road, or those stupid games that have energy that you have to pay money to play more of the game faster shit, I don't want to feel obligated to pay tens to hundreds of dollars on a friggin phone game, I'd rather pay a flat fee and be done with it). I've been looking for anything turn based or roguelikes and whatnot, because touch controls are kinda shit to begin with, so anything turn based and easy to play in short bursts/turn off at a whim would be agreeable.
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Ridiculous Fishing is ridiculously good. I played the shit out of that a couple of years ago (it came out right around when I switched from Windows Phone to iPhone, so that was one of the first apps I had on my old iPhone 4). Your complaints pretty much mirror mine, honestly. I found the Guide Dang It aspects of it to be a bit annoying, but it wasn't too big of a deal for the most part.
I was occasionally posting reviews of mobile games. I'll have to start doing that again, methinks, because I always like to have a couple that I can swap between at any given time. I am generally iOS-focused (the only Android device that I have at the moment is a G1 running 2.3 that I'm using as an alarm clock), but most games are multiplatform nowadays anyway.
While we're on the topic, though, I would like to recommend Knights of Pen & Paper. It's a humorous, light RPG for iOS and Android available for about $5. It does offer in-app purchases, but you really, really don't need them to beat it. It's not particularly difficult, but I found it to be pretty damn fun.
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I actually bought that game years ago, played it a little bit, then dropped off fairly early after I couldn't find any minmaxing guides at the time. I swear I have to minmax most games I play, it's a curse. I aught to give it another go, and there's a sequel, so, that's more to look at if I finish the first one.
But in-between repairing my joystick and having sweet juicy super turbo, a few friends of mine have been on the heroes of the storm so I have a reason to play that game now. It's fun to dick around with fighting against the AI, but I really have no interest in taking it seriously or getting competitive. Though, for what it is, it's a good time. I already own like 10 heroes or something because I have no willpower and I fall for the "50% off salezzzzzz" shit they do every week, but with them giving away shit for free randomly, I am more hesitant on doing that. Like I got diablo a few months back, now they're giving him away for free next week if you own diablo 3. COME THE FUCK ON, DIABLO FAN HERE, COURSE ID GET HIM FIRST, FAAAAAAAAAAAA. It's only 5 bucks, but still, coulda bought a pizza or ~2 gallons of gas with that money.
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double postan because...because...
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/vladgd-1696/hero/65548919
Season 4 started late Friday, I hit 70 within like 8 hours.
Not even a week later and im like over paragon 160, can do torment 6, even 7, and I have a lot of amazing items.
There's virtual crack in the code for that game I swear, can't stop won't stop.
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rofl vlad, I know that feeling. Not currently playing d3, but that game is pure fucking crack when I do play it. New patch looks great too.
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Just bought D3 for Xbox 360 for $20 so my girl and I could play. Been waiting to buy it for a long time. I will get it on PC at some point I imagine.
We've been loving it so far.
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Metal Gear Solid V.
It's gorgeous. And fun. I like it.
Edit: 4K screenshot, because why not: http://files.spectere.net/pictures/screenshots/mgs5/4k-001.jpg (http://files.spectere.net/pictures/screenshots/mgs5/4k-001.jpg) (forgot to turn off the Afterburner/RivaTuner overlay...sorry 'bout that)
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Edit: 4K screenshot, because why not: http://files.spectere.net/pictures/screenshots/mgs5/4k-001.jpg (http://files.spectere.net/pictures/screenshots/mgs5/4k-001.jpg) (forgot to turn off the Afterburner/RivaTuner overlay...sorry 'bout that)
(https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.carthrottle.com/workspace/uploads/comments/9857e821466e8396338032c026785c-5485d0c522990.jpg)
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My PC has that effect on people. ;)
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still puttin around on WoW after work most days.. got my current toon up to 71-72.. switching back and forth between dungeon runs and main questing.. This is the highest I've had an alliance character too so It's fun to see different parts of azeroth for once. I will probably only buy the most recent expansions when i hit level cap. I currently am up to mists of pandaria.
I'm in a guild but i don't really interact that often as the casual level of my playing does not really match a high action guild, plus I don't feel like I would be of any help in their larger events due to not having a level 100.
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My partner asked me if I had wario ware the other day, and I do have the first game for the gba. This caused me to get my bag of gba games, and I decided to pop in advance wars. Around 2005 or so I recall picking the game back up and getting into it, and QUITTING on the final mission. That shit is just so unfair and bullshit. I mean sure, it's a 3v1, with you being the 3, but goddamn you are overwhelmed up fist deep in tanks and bullshit by turn 2, and the fucker throws a meteor every 3 or so turns that does 8 damage (units in advance wars have 10 health) to a large area, so yeah, I got frustrated and quit about 10 years ago.
I don't know what the fuck, but after about 3 or so attempts, and like 2 or so hours, I managed to beat that level, and it happened to be the final level (unsurprising since the name for the level is like "the last battle" or something similar), and it made me remember how goddamn good advance wars is. They should quit making fire emblem games to make room for another advance wars game. Say it with me people, turn, based, strategy!
My 3 for that level (since you have different characters based on things you did in earlier missions) was grit, andy, sami. grit helped a lot, his position is pretty good for his long range capabilities, missiles, artillery, rockets. Andy is the bitch in the middle so he gets all the fire, most of the mission i just spammed mech infantry just to get bodies out there since the opponent is in your base asap and pretty much wiping out all you have every turn. Sami was also a bit similar, only she specializes in infantry, i spammed a lot of mechs with her to get bodies on the map. Soon as we got some kind of foothold in the middle of the map to stop enemy units from crossing over, I let up on mech production for like 1-2 fighters, and some bombers, with a few anti air tanks sprinkled in depending on the situation. Ended up working in my favor, andy soaked up the fire with mech spam, grit would take meteors, and when I recovered, his co power is just fantastic for blowing up 5 or so units in one turn, and sami mainly added bodies to andy while grit sniped everything. Near the end though when we could finally push, the game was over, it just took another...15-20 turns to actually win. I think the biggest help was producing air at one point, it caused sturm to blow his cash load on missiles (long range anti air) and I didn't even bother striking with my bombers to get them killed, so he wasted money, and i could push.
But damn, I forgot how good advance wars is. Im just sad they ended the series (as of now) on that stupid grimdark game. But i've only played the first one, so maybe i'll hunt down the second one for gba and give er a go.
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Undertale.
It's so good. Soooo fucking good.
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With legacy of the void coming up soon, figured with starcraft 2 story about to end, I aught to play the first one to completion. I'd already beaten starcraft, but not broodwar, so i'm going to try to knock that out before November 10.
Currently on protoss mission 8.
Secretly what gets me the most hype about the final expansion to starcraft 2, they have no other "rts" game project in the works, so...warcraft 4 is now possible. While I enjoy me some starcraft quite a bit, Warcraft 3 is the best damn rts out there, and I'd love a Warcraft 4, as unlikely as that is with WoW killing warcraft.
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Now on zerg mission 3. Should easily be doable before...november 10th, this edit being on october 16. Some of those terran missions were pretty rough, and I had heard the later zerg missions are amongst the hardest in the series. Should be able to manage it though.
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broodwar has been completed! I did pretty much everything, even the secret mission. And may I say, no real spoilers on a game that came out in 1998, but that secret mission had duran splitting off and fucking with the protoss/zerg hybrids, and you don't see anything else on that until late in the wings of liberty campaign that came out...12 years later. Not to mention in the legacy of the void prologue, zeratul mentions needing to see duran...and literally that little thing is the reason i went back to beat broodwar, to fill in the blanks...and that it did.
great fucking game, if warcraft 3 didn't exist, i'd call starcraft the best rts game out there. even then, i haven't put much time into competitive starcraft play, so maybe my opinion will change if i decide to hit up one of the private ladders the game has to offer. I like it over the current state of starcraft 2 for sure, HUR DUR DEATHBALL VS DEATHBALL doesn't sound too interesting.
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Suppose I'll double post since...It's been almost 2 months.
Last post was omg starcraft, beat broodwar. Which, great game, glad I went back to it.
Since then...
Starcraft 2 LotV! Fucking great, pretty much what you'd expect from a starcraft 2 campaign, Q plays an asshole protoss character and he's great. Then after the protoss campaign, there's a 3 mission epilogue to wrap starcraft up...and they leave it a bit vague while giving a satisfying ending. I liked it.
Fallout 4, the fallout thread kinda expresses my opinion. It's a good game, just not a great game. I am interested in future dlc if not only because I don't have anything to do in my current save, the main quest is kinda most of the meat in this game, unlike other bethesda open world games. Still had a good time with it, but it aint no elder scrolls game.
Witcher 3. I have not beat this game. I am level 16, and I have put EIGHTY EIGHT FUCKING HOURS INTO THIS MONSTER. This thing is mammoth like skyrim mammoth, literally. Like 88 hours and im probably half way? 2/3? I don't know, but fucking hell this game is a monster. ITS HUGE, im afraid to leave it, or to stop playing it for a while because going back to it would be really hard. I don't want to speak too soon on how good the game is until I complete it, but It's gotta be one of the most finely crafted rpgs ever made or something, like, it's a damn fine game. It's really really really good and rpg fans need to play it, that's my take on it.
In conclusion, I got a ps4, and instead of it collecting dust like when I got an xbox 360 back in 2006, I have put over 120 hours into this fucker. BEEN GETTING SOME USE!
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Just finished up the main story line for GTA V on the PC - game was even more amazing the 2nd time around.. first playthru was on my ps3. Now that I've upgraded my CPU and vidya card, GTA runs flawlessly on my tower.
This time I am doing the assassination missions correctly though - saved all of them for after the big heist so I have a decent amount of money to throw at it.
Never spent any time on GTA online due to the ps3's inability to stay connected for any respectable amount of time, so I will be exploring more of this side of GTA now that I've wrapped up the story again.
Excited as FUCK for the FF7 remake and will be one of the reasons for my ps4 purchase next year.
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oh fucks
got my first mechanical keyboard for christmas - the logitech G710+ alone with the G502 mouse. Amazing. Amazing. Amazing
can't believe I didn't get this for myself sooner.
merry christmas
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Hey, you have my keyboard!
I'm impressed at how good this keyboard is. The mere fact that Logitech put rubber o-rings on the key caps is both unusual (the only other mechanical keyboard vendor I've seen that will do that is WASD, and it's an optional part with them) and very welcome (they both reduce noise and the amount of typing fatigue you get if you bottom out the keys a lot).
Please let me know how the G502 is after you've use it for a while. I'm currently using a SteelSeries Sensei, but after experiencing a number of issues with both SteelSeries' reliability as well as their shitty product support and unstable software I plan to jump ship after this mouse inevitably dies.
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I'm definitely not used to so many options! There are tons of features like DPI profile switching and tuning with dedicated buttons, more customizable buttons, free/clicking middle wheel selector.. To me it is an insane improvement over my basic wireless optical 2000 MS mouse that has been performing faithfully for almost a decade. Can't believe I never considered a mouse/keyboard to be part of my upgrade path. Such a pleasure to use; the mouse is smooth as silk, and I use it on a steelseries black gaming surface
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Oh yeah, the mouse can make quite a difference, even when you're not gaming. That's yet another reason why gaming can be an expensive hobby. :)
The laser/optical engine makes a pretty phenomenal difference in and of itself. Even if all your mouse offers is increased DPI (like the classic Logitech MX510/518) it can be a godsend. Fire up an FPS, crank up the DPI on the mouse, drop the sensitivity in-game, and be amazed at the extra precision you end up getting. ;D
I would definitely recommend sticking with Logitech over most other brands since they seem to actually care about making products that will last. Be very careful of the big two. I've personally owned three SteelSeries devices that have had issues (two WoW Cataclysm mice with bad microswitches after a suspiciously low number of clicks and a 6GV2 keyboard that flat-out died a few days after the warranty expired) and have witnessed several Razer keyboards and mice either die outright or develop switch issues in surprisingly short periods of time. Meanwhile, my old Logitech MX518--which is probably 8 years old!--is still being used as a daily driver, and my old old old Logitech Elite keyboard (remember those old StepMania videos I did with that black keyboard? Yep, that's the one!) STILL FUCKING WORKS despite being going through several moves, being dropped a few times, and getting StepMania'd all to hell.
That said, I'm also looking into a few other brands, like Roccat and Mad Catz (they make an interesting looking mouse (http://madcatz.com/products/mouse/)) to see if they're up to snuff. I would like to keep two decent mice around--one for my Mac and one for my gaming rig to reduce the amount of swapping I have to do--so I may end up ordering something new soon. I could definitely use a new MMO mouse, too, especially since I started getting back into SW:TOR recently. Hmm...
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Yeah those Mad Catz mice look weird as shit.
And yeah, going from cheap stuff to the more expensive keyboards and mice is a world of difference.
As for games, I've been checking out various rhythm games on my phone. Deemo is fun, but I can't seem to get the offset right. O2Jam U is fun, but god do I suck at it. DJ Max Technica Q is pretty fun, but they seem to want to get every last cent out of you. Can't buy Q points with ingame currency (that I know of), and it costs $2 per song or $6 for a song pack of 4 songs :/
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Fuckin steam winter sale....
picked up cheap Bioshock 2 and Infinite since I only ever pirated those and love those games. Can't wait to experience them again with better hardware
Also, picked up ESO for 60% off! Got the imperial edition. Been wanting to try this game, even more so after the Tamriel unlimited update.
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I'd been holding back on the steam sales, but that's probably a facet of the past 200 steam sales and my game list being quite large right now.
However I did pick up cities: skylines, which I'll probably dabble in later.
Ohh, I beat witcher 3, took 148 hours...good game, just...very...long...
mmmm and this arrived, so, im kinda sitting around waiting for the release of street fighter 5...it can come out any day now...i got the ps4, the ps4 stick, the game, the ps+, going to get the season pass sometime in january...seriously capcom if you wanna release it early...y'know...you can, i'll allow it...
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81evJr%2B7beL._SL1500_.jpg)
In the meantime, looking at playing something in my hugeeeee hundreds of games big backlog now that im free from the grasp of witcher, but I haven't decided what to tackle just yet.
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I finally beat ("beat" meaning collected all sigils and stars) both the Talos Principle and the Road to Gehenna DLC. Still blown away by how good that game is.
I didn't care for the DLC quite as much. Some of the puzzles went a bit too far with the arcane solutions and I got annoyed by the jumping puzzles (first-person platforming is bad enough as it is, but the Serious Engine really really really doesn't handle it well).
It still makes me smile how a company that makes some of the dumbest first-person shooters* managed to build one of the most thoughtful puzzlers that I can think of.
*I've heard some people argue that Serious Sam isn't dumb because it's well-designed, but I'm of the opinion that it isn't particularly well-designed. I revisited it recently and I was bored out of my skull. Wacky weapons like the cannon aside, the arena-style shooty elements were honestly pretty uninspired compared to the tightly designed experiences that its competition (Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, Wolfenstein: The New Order, etc) provides.
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dobble roast
I started playing Read Only Memories this evening. Two hours went by before I knew it. I really like it so far (as if that needed stated, given my previous sentence). I kind of disagree with it being positioned as an adventure game. It feels more like an exploratory visual novel in the same vein as Phoenix Wright and its contemporaries.
Regardless, it's a fine game so far.
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Diablo 3, patch 2.4. Durring season 4, my crusader managed to be my most successful character (as all season characters SHOULD due to power creep) at beating greater rift 48. After season 4 ended, ramping up to season 5, they made the thorns set viable. I spent about ~5 hours farming for gear, and in that time, I got...every...single...item...for every single slot...that I needed for it.
Now this fucker is on greater rift 60, and I know I can go at least one or two levels higher.
I farmed for 5 hours to get this.
(http://i.imgur.com/tcmcZXM.jpg)
Thorns crusader is a goddamn motherfucking MOUNTAIN. Basically have like 95% block chance and over 200 MILLION toughness. Shit that was one shotting my hammerdin on grift 48 doesn't even lightly tickle me on grift 55. And all you're doing is running around stabbing everything with a shitty dagger. It's silly, but I like it. This is the ultimate proof that sheet damage doesn't mean a damn thing at all when it comes to killing power.
So lets math a second because im bored. Using this (http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/grift-diff-table.png) reference to see how much health is boosted per grift level. My witchdoctor has completed grift 45, his max at that gear. His sheet damage is 1.1 million. The health multiplier in greater rift 45 is 2000. My crusader has completed grift 60, and I know I can go higher, at under 250k damage. The health multiplier in grift 60 is 21,000, over 10 times more health. So on paper, I have about a quarter the damage of my witchdoctor, in practice, I have 10 times the damage of my witchdoctor. So my puny 250k sheet damage may as well be 10 million actual damage.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/vladgd-1696/hero/65548919
Not bad for a day of play. Season 5 starts on Friday, Hopefully I can at least do grift 50. I don't want to put a ton of time into the season this time around, just looking to get my free stash tab and play something else.
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Very nice! I'm glad thorns is finally good for something. That always felt like such a wasted stat before.
And yeah, I almost wish that they'd just drop the damage stat from the UI entirely when you hit the level cap, just to make it less of a distraction. It's fine when you're leveling because you generally don't care too much about what gear you get, since it makes it easy to pick out reasonable upgrades for blues/yellows while you're leveling, but when you hit 70, paying attention to it is harmful and is good for little more than dickwagging (and even then, that kind of dickwagging only works on people who don't have much experience with ARPGs).
Speaking of ARPGs, have you checked out Grim Dawn (http://store.steampowered.com/app/219990/), vlad? I think the best way I can describe it is as a Diablo II clone with some D3-esque quality of life improvements. I think you might like it. It's still technically in early access on Steam, but as of last month it's content complete, so I think it'll be losing that tag pretty soon.
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While I do love diablo, it's weird, but I don't think I like the genre...I just only like diablo, if that makes sense.
I played torchlight and path of exile, and those are fine games, but, goddamn they bore me to sleep. I don't know what blizzard is doing, but I just cant into other arpg's. I love all 3 diablo games, and outside that, I haven't found an arpg to make me care about it's particular kind of loot hunting. I don't even think torchlight and path of exile are bad games, just, not for me. Though I could just be biased since diablo 2 is one of my favorite games, and diablo 1 is fantastic (might be the most fun diablo game for a single playthrough), and they've turned diablo 3 from fucking garbage into pretty good.
Still, if I hear positive buzz, may be worth investigating. Will be hard though, this year has a few games that I need to play, sf5, xcom 2, overwatch, possibly wow legion.
Ohh, and I hit 63...might try for 64, but it's getting pretty rough, 63 might be my limit.
(http://i.imgur.com/39lAjgw.png)
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Fair enough, and perfectly understandable. :)
I think the main bit of magic that Diablo has that most of its competitors lack is excellent pacing. Both of the games that you mentioned (as well as Grim Dawn, to be honest) drag along for a few hours until they flood you with new abilities. The Diablo series is a gift that keeps on giving in terms of skill and gear progression.
Even with how rocky Diablo 3 was at launch, it still managed to capture some of that. It's biggest failing was always that your get stuck half-way through Nightmare and/or Hell until you grinded for gear. Thank goodness the fucking RMAH is deader than dead.
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Well umm, I uhh...
I got the stash tab for season 5....already...yknow...
H-How do you get this? Uhh...well...
Conqueror: (finishing this gives Stash Tab)***
1.Show me what you got: Kill Diablo on TX within 1 minute 30 seconds
2.Money Ain't a Thang: Kill Greed on TX
3.A little more: Reach GR60 solo
4.4 minutes to save the World: Finish a TX Nephalem rift within 4 minutes
5.Gem of my Life: Level 3 legendary gems to lvl 55
6.All I do is win: Finish 2 Conquests this season
Well..what are the easiest conquests to do? Well..they aren't easy...but the easiest...
CONQUESTS:
Avarice: Complete a 50M gold streak while out of the Vault and Inner Sanctum
The Thrill: Reach GR45 without any set item equipped
GREATER RIFT FOURTY FIVE WITH ZERO SET ITEMS EQUIPPED...
yep
I did it.
8)
I can sleep now.
http://imgur.com/Kno30so
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Ohh and in like 5 hours I took a demon hunter from level 0 to greater rift 50 55. This game is crazy fast to level/gear I swear.
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nigga...
(http://i.imgur.com/ho7Q9gr.jpg)
The hardest of the Core: Reach lvl 70 in hardcore mode
Get Schwifty: Kill Malthael at TX within 45 seconds
Guardian of Sanctuary: Finish a TX Nephalem rift within 3 minutes
We don't Stop: Reach GR70 solo
Gem Fatale: Level 3 legendary gems to lvl 65
Flawless Victory: Complete 3 Conquests this season
Conquests completed. 50 million gold streak, complete gr45 with NO set items equipped, complete gr55 with SIX different class sets. I did rolands, invoker, marauders, whatever the multishot set is called, jade, and helltooth.
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Well uhh since it's been a few months...
Got rebel galaxy and got the best ship/upgrades, still haven't beaten it, but it's a pretty fun/simple space game.
Been playing through pokemon Y since my partner has been playing through pokemon white, after we both finish em we're diving into the VC releases of red/blue. Being as im the one behind, she's got through white already and im only 7 badges in Y, gotta step my shit up so we can get on the original games train!
Ohh and street fighter 5 came out, you probably know how I feel about it, so...It's a good game, would recommend it for people interested in playing a fighting game as it's meant to be played, AGAINST OTHER HUMAN PLAYERS. If you want content that doesn't involve other human players...play something else, that's not really what fighting games are about anyway.
Originally took a liking to birdie and bison...now not enjoying bison as much, so been putting my focus on ken with birdie as my backup man...
...until...
(http://media.eventhubs.com/images/2016/04/18_sf5guile03.jpg)
Coming "late" this month, meaning, probably a day or less from May.
OHH, and I beat deus ex...again...73 hours on steam...
andandand I played the weekend beta for overwatch, then preordered after seeing my aging pc can run it just fine. It's just team fortress 3, but it's been a while since ive played a game like that, and im a dirty blizzard fan.
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I guess i'll edit again since dead thread.
Beat pokemon Y, beat pokemon red, REALLY enjoyed playing red, aged well.
Played some guile, I like him, but I can't fireball. Playing alex and enjoying it a lot.
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Ratchet and Clank, SM (still), 100%ing (again) FFXIII-2 and I'm going to learn how to speedrun SUPERHOT
Now that I've upgraded my PC I'm gonna move the office downstairs and hook it all up to the main entertainment system. Couch play for all the things
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AHH, SUPERHOT. I forgot to gush about that on here. :P I still love to fire that up every once in a while to see how long I can survive. I haven't tried doing any of the speedrun challenges yet. Maybe one of these days.
Also, I haven't updated this thread in a while, so what the hey.
I've been playing a ton of IIDX lately. I think I'm going to post some stuff to the rhythm gaming accomplishments thread. And...done. I have to say, it's nice having a real machine in Ohio. ;D
I ended up buying an Xbox One recently, so I've been playing some Forza 6 and have been playing through Halo: Master Chief Collection in co-op every week or so with one of my friends.
On the PC side of things, I've been being a filthy casual in Dark Souls 3 and have been getting back into Space Engineers.
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I'm probably going to pick up a TV sometime and start playing iidx again. Was too fun to just give up completely. Also now that I've put a bit more money into my computer I'll probably start using that to play games more often too
Also I enjoy the streaming of the video games and would love for you guys to join me! Twitch.tv/Kraezymann. Usually it's evenings and weekends and the occasional late morning/early afternoon
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Be sure to get your hands on a decent CRT. I hooked my PS2 up to my HDTV for laughs and it's actually kind of hilarious how laggy it was (like, to the point where JGs turned into Goods). I think Empress has lag compensation, but I didn't bother trying that.
If you have to deal with an HDTV, don't run the audio through the TV. You'll still get a ton of video/scalar lag but at least the audio/input will still be on-sync.
I'll have to check out your Twitch channel sometime! I've been meaning to get into streaming (both watching streams and doing streaming of my own), so that'll give me a good reason to dust off my account. ;) Are you playing anything in particular, or just whatever you're in the mood for at the time?
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I'm actually going to go check out some stores for an old CRT. I saw some on sale BRAND NEW last year so maybe there are still some around. I'm gonna cram my office downstairs so that I can turn my little entertainment area into a full on gaming area so having everything around and easily available will be awesome. I'll be sure to take some pictures.
As for Twitch, I usually play whatever I feel like playing haha, it's just a matter of keeping it worth watching when I do. I should find myself a gimmick...
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That's the one nice thing about CRTs--they're cheap as hell nowadays. I ended up grabbing mine (a lightly used 25" Daewoo) for $50 from a friend of mine. I have that in my office, and that's also where all of my non-HD consoles are hooked up (mostly so that I can run the video through a capture device and pull it onto my iMac for further tomfoolery (I captured three IIDX videos--two with a proper controller (1) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFC5UZvJe4g) (2) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqigER-Gm9U), and one with a Pop'n controller (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZLPPFzYKOE) with that setup). I also have a pretty decent audio setup hooked up to that system, so if I ever felt inclined I could stream from there.
I have my gaming PC and HD consoles hooked up to an HDTV. I'm strongly considering setting up my PC in my office at some point and getting a nice 144hz monitor for it, since my mic setup is basically non-portable and I'd love to be able to use that for PC gaming stuff.
Tough to say on what kind of gimmick would work nowadays, as it seems like all of them have been fairly well worn by this point. That being said, there's a good reason I'm not a professional entertainer, so take that with a grain of salt. ;p
Oh, obligatory plug: I did a Minecraft LP series with a friend at one point (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3QwVTF4WvJTNpet4l0giC78ZMwCS4ImT).
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Doom is awesome!
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It is! I was pleasantly surprised.
Rip and tear, my friend.
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I feel like I'm so behind on the rhythm game front. My skill at stepmania and IIDX is only a fraction of what it used to be. Stuff that I used to AA, I literally can't even pass anymore.
If only IIDX games were released on modern consoles, with the age of easy access to foreign digital storefronts.
Anyway, fightans have pretty much completely replaced rhythm games for me now a days.
(ohh and with the announcement of civ vi, ive been playing a random assortment of civ v, revolution, and beyond earth)
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Still mostly playing osu!mania and VERY occasionally booting up SM.
Been playing a bit of Rabi-Ribi recently too, that's surprisingly fun.
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Just got Shadowrun: Hong Kong from the Steam sale.
Anyone want to watch me fail hard at an RPG for a while?
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Playing XCOM 2, on ps4.
Don't waste your money on this game, or at least the console versions of this game.
The load times are amongst the longest I have ever seen. Expect around 2 minutes of downtime inbetween EVERY LOAD. Apparently these have recently been patched, and so 2 minute load times are a lot faster than the 10-15 MINUTES I have repeatedly seen reported.
So, I am bad at xcom, so I save a lot, and end up loading...a lot. I literally probably have over 2-3 hours of my time just in load times. Ohh, and sometimes theres a bug in which the alien turn never ends, so you have to reload and try a way around it, or fail the mission or something because you have nothing in your power to get past the bug.
FIRAXIS, you're better than this, its 20 fucking sixteen, release games in a working goddamn state. You could call me out for early adopting, but the pc game came out in february, and the console in september, it's december, they had their goddamn time to fix this hot mess.
I WILL beat this stupid game, but I will tell everybody I know that may be interested to stay the fuck away and just play enemy within, or the original ufo defense another time.
*editing to complain during a load screen*
There is an ability called phantom, the squad member remains concealed when the rest of the party is revealed. It is a ranger ability, but my sharpshooter randomly got it (building that lets classes randomly obtain other class skills), the sharpshooter has an ability called kill zone, basically a cone that he shoots everything that takes an action within. PROBLEM, during concealment, since he stays concealed...he doesnt shoot, and my squad dies.
THANKS GAME!
*placeholder, beat the game, final opinions at a later date*
Let's see. GREAT GAME...in a shitty package?
Game breaking bugs + no joke the longest loading times ive ever seen in my life + a horrible port severely tarnish the excellent gameplay underneath.
I can only recommend this game if you are going to play it on pc, maybe 2-3 years in the future when either official patches clean it up, or unofficial patches clean it up.
But I beat it on ps4, im done, my experience with this version was negative enough where I have no desire to play xcom 2 again.
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XCOM2 is still somehow $80 on Steam... I took it off my wishlist. Plenty more games have come out since then that I would much rather play.
I had no idea that I did this but apparently I bought the Special Edition of Skyrim at some point. Having never played the original Skyrim I guess I must have figured this was a good chance to get into it.
Glad I did though, because its quite fun. I've downloaded some graphic overhaul mods and it looks so shiny and new. It's great
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If you own the original Skyrim with all of the DLC (or the Legendary Edition) on Steam, you automatically get Special Edition for free.
I haven't actually tried Skyrim:SE yet. I'm still playing the classic edition. :x
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If you own the original Skyrim with all of the DLC (or the Legendary Edition) on Steam, you automatically get Special Edition for free.
I haven't actually tried Skyrim:SE yet. I'm still playing the classic edition. :x
Yeah I decided to wait for SKSE before I run SSE again. Since 1.2 my SSE has been crashing constantly and I can not get to the bottom of it. It's really frustrating.
On a side note, Christmas came early for me this year. The fiance bought me a Strix 970 4GB! She got a really good bargain from a friend. Pretty nice upgrade from the 770 I had.
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Nice upgrade! The 970 is a really solid card for the money. It also scales well, so if you pick up another one and bridge them you should get a nice speed bump with SLI.
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Street Fighter 5 Season 2 is now available.
I'll be honest, this past year I put less than 20 hours into sf5...really not a fan...but season 2 (capcoms way of doing a once per year balance patch update) has changes to get me to try er again. I didn't like street fighter 4 vanilla, but as they refined it, it became an extremely well tuned game.
No goddamn idea what character I want to play, but Balrog is catching my eye for the time being so he's my first venture into the new season.
Anyone else in or am I the only fightan fan on this side of the internet?
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I don't play fighting games too often, so I'm definitely one of them filthy casuals. And even then I generally only play games that I have on hand, so...Smash 4 (can't find my copy of Melee, grrr).
I probably could get pretty decent at them if I worked at it, but I'd rather get good at IIDX, to be honest. :P
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I worked at it, and I think I am still bad.
However, I am good enough to have fun, so I suppose that's all that matters.
I'm still not used to the flow of street fighter 5, very "turn based" game. Easier execution, so you'd think, BEGINNER FRIENDLY, but I think you need to know framedata way more in sf5 than in 4 just so you know when you're allowed to press a button.
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I started getting back into Factorio recently.
Help.
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I started getting back into Factorio recently.
Help.
Not familiar with that one. Looks like a Sim City type game?
So my cheap ass finally bought GTA V for PC (I've been waiting forever for sale to go below 50% but I finally caved during tail end of the winter sale). I knew it was a big game but I got more than I bargained for. Worth every penny. Already have over 60 hours since January 3rd. I ended up restarting my game when I learned about the Stock Market money to be made after assassination missions.
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Not really like simcity, it's more of a game recommended for people who look at an assembly line and get a hard on.
It's like a sandbox resource gathering game in which you can eventually fully automate most everything.
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it's more of a game recommended for people who look at an assembly line and get a hard on.
I think I'm going to describe it like that from now on. Thanks! ;)
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Playing through the Mass Effect trilogy again to get hyped for Andromeda, ~70% done with the third game.
It's making me remember how awesome this series was, knowing Andromeda is a stand alone game and NOT a trilogy, I hope it can at least be the start of a new series in a new galaxy.
And if y'all have to pick one DLC to play, Citidel. It is the single best piece of content in the entire damn series. The fanservice is delicious, and the inside humor is immense. They even reference THIS (http://i.imgur.com/CA488fh.jpg) post from some creeper on the bioware forums, they dig deep.
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I'm tempted to play through the Mass Effect series and just stop playing before the ending of 3. Even with the Extended Cut I still felt that it was one of the worst video game endings I've ever experienced. I honestly can't think of a worse one off the top of my head.
I wasn't expecting a happy ending, given the story, but what we got felt more like the results of a bad trip than anything that would have made sense in-universe.
+1 for the Citadel DLC. That was phenomenal.
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Best series in gaming history without a doubt.
I firmly stand by the indoctrination theory. It's the only thing that helps me sleep at night.
If anyone wants to play ME3 multiplayer let me know I still play it online to this day. Z3PHLAR on both Origin and Xbox. Here's my profiles for both.
(http://i.imgur.com/h8mlZcM.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/PCre6i0.png)
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Just finished me3 yesterday, and I can agree on the ending being horrible. It's like you're collecting war assets throughout the entire game for............nothing...........
Either way, as bad as it is, I'm super intrigued by the synthesis "ending". It's poorly executed in game, but the idea behind it has loads of cool factor.
(http://i.imgur.com/tnvQaS1.png)
(still no cerberus harrier, RNG WHYYYYYYYYYYYY)'
I'm just casually doing multiplayer for a week or so before I cancel my xbox gold again. If I want to play more after that, I "cough" did things I wasn't supposed to do to get over 150 million credits "cough" on the pc version, just to know what the harrier feels like before I play Andromeda.
I'd totes be down for some multiplayer action when Andromeda hits, after I finish the single player stuff. Preordered for ps4.
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You too!?!?! On Xbox I still don't have the harrier either, whereas on PC I have like IV Harrier. That's SOOOOO frustrating. It's definitely the best weapon in the game.
As big a fan as I am, I'm going to wait for Angry Joe to review it before I buy it. I'm still a bit salty about the ending.
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He does tend to make things really simple when it comes to bad, overhyped AAA titles.
Me: *turns on the review*
AJ: "YOU FUCKED IT UP."
Me: "Whelp."
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I mean as shitty as the ending was, the game before that was really good. Albiet, IT HAD QUITE A BIT OF FLAWS THE OTHER TWO GAMES DIDN'T HAVE, I won't let my fanboyism blind me of that.
I wouldn't not buy a good game because of a poor ending though. Not to mention Andromeda isn't a trilogy, so it's not going to have the burdon of 5 years and two other games ontop of it, should be a fresh start.
LESS THAN TWO MONTHS AWAY
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Definitely not arguing that is was a good game. It's (I'm going to Chris Traeger here) LITERALLY the best game I've ever played (I mean the trilogy basically). My emotions have never been so involved in a game in my life.
I also have come to feel like EA is making progress becoming more consumer friendly. I've had a couple service requests through Origin that would NEVER have gotten solved in the efficient and timely manner it was through Steam.
I just....can't pre-order anymore. Maybe I just have trust issues after the last couple years.
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Yeah, I'm in the same boat regarding the pre-order thing, especially considering I lean more towards PC (which is why I pay so much attention to TotalBiscuit). Plus, I feel like encouraging the blatantly anti-consumer measures that companies have been pushing would be doing everyone a disservice. Every dissenting voice counts to some degree.
I mean, the fact that some companies need to make a freaking feature matrix so that people can understand the various tiers of bonuses associated with a dozen separate pre-order SKUs is just insane.
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I can respect being against pre ordering, I do see where y'all are coming from. In my case, if it's a game I know for 100% certain I want to play at launch, I am going to pre order. If it's a game I want to play, but I don't need to play release day (civ 6, and ff15 come to mind) I'll just wait for a price drop.
Basically what I am saying is blame Amazon for giving me 20% off from preordering.
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If it is a game that I know I'm going to get, by a developer that I trust, I will occasionally preorder. This is mostly due to Steam's new refund policy more than anything else. Origin apparently has a decent refund system as well, so...eh. I dunno. Maybe.
The problem that I see with most preorders is that you're taking a lot of risk with relatively few benefits. That being said, 20% is a damn fine incentive.
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Speaking of 20% off...Civilization VI is doing that right now, and I couldn't resist.
I'm one of those people who like the civ games while at the same time being horrible at them.
How doth I prince difficulty or higher? Going to spend my first few games on chieftain.
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Breath of the Wild, Wii U. It's good. It's definitely not 10/10 good for me. Maybe close to an 8. There are a lot of annoying bits and things that just aren't done very well.
Yep, you guessed it. I don't care for the weapon durability system as it's implemented. Playing weapon roulette isn't fun, and I'm tired of people making the "BUT THERE'S WEAPONS EVERYWHERE!!!" excuse. If I fight more than two enemies at once it's inevitable that I spend a decent chunk of time staring at the weapon selection mini-menu. The limited inventory space doesn't help, either. Durability being what it is, I don't want to waste a good weapon on a bokoblin, so I keep at least one basic club in my inventory. The fact that items that have a more utilitarian lean (i.e. torches, axes, etc) also take up valuable weapon slots doesn't help in the slightest.
Aside from that niggle (and it's a pretty big one, seeing as it effects almost every combat encounter in the game), I love the way exploration works. The fact that you can climb just about anything, given enough stamina, is awesome as well. Speaking of the stamina system, it feels a bit...off. I have a hard time believing that the Hero of Hyrule would have a tough time racing my fat ass but can climb literal mountains. I understand it from a gameplay perspective, but that doesn't make it feel any less weird.
Oh, and the framerate issues. BotW drops to 30fps quite a lot. Fortunately, for the most part, it hasn't dropped down below that too often. Kakariko Village was definitely sitting at 20-ish, but there isn't any combat there, so I was able to tolerate it.
So yeah, I dunno. It's good, but it's definitely not the second coming. I wouldn't even call it my favorite Zelda game (that dubious honor goes to either Link's Awakening or A Link to the Past, depending on what kind of mood I'm in).
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I'd have to say links awakening is mine.
New Zelda looks great, but I can't justify getting a console for that one single game. Definitely going to try it when I end up with a switch in the future though. Like you seriously expect me to not get it when it's going to have ultra street fighter 2? Yall knows how much of a street fighter 2 fanboy I am 'round these parts.
Pretty much going to do what I did with the ps4. Want it, but can't justify it due to tiny library, wait a year or so for a decent library of games then snag one.
Kinda wanted to split it with my girlfriend, but part of me worries that the next nintendo handheld...is just going to be the switch, and if that ends up the case, we'd both want to have one.
(and expect some long tldr paragraph book novel post in a week or more after andromeda hits)
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Link's Awakening is a damn fine game. I'm going to have to replay that one soon. It's been a while. I think I might even know where the cartridge is (and, if not...emulators).
And yeah, if I didn't already have a Wii U I would have waited for the Switch to build up a more impressive library (coupled with a price reduction and/or bundle deals). I also want to wait a while for the Switch because I'm very concerned about some of the design/hardware issues that it's had. Not so much things that are relatively rare (like the screen cutting out, etc) but more the stupid omissions, like a decent screen cover (cheap plastic is awful for a portable system), a reasonable amount of internal storage, and controllers that use piss-poor antennas and randomly disconnect if a speck of dust gets between you and the system.
Speaking of removable storage, I watch Ben Heck's teardown of the Switch and the eMMC (flash storage) module is removable, so you can definitely expect to see consoles with more storage. As for why you would want to wait for that when it has a MicroSD card slot, eMMC offers a much higher transfer rate.
And fuck...yeah, Andromeda is dropping soon, isn't it? And NieR: Automata hit Steam recently as well. And I still need to get through Night in the Woods (I adore that game so far). TOO MANY GAMES.
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On Zelda, Links Awakening is amazing, I lost my original copy but I got it on 3ds because I wanted to buy a rom on the worst possible device to buy a rom on. Never played the capcom gbc zelda games though, considering how much I enjoy links awakening, I don't know why I've never tried em. I do intend to play them some time.
On the switch, Yeah a friend of mine is making the same point of waiting until they release an updated version of the thing, and if I want to follow some common sense, I'll probably wait until that.
And on Andromeda...
(http://i.imgur.com/VHXNJsQ.png)
(and I payed 5 bucks for ea access to play some multiplayer on pc even though my videocard is ancient and plays the thing on lowest settings)
But.......then I got distracted by trying Killer Instinct on pc, and it actually runs pretty good. Definitely going to buy the full game in my post Andromeda pre Tekken 7 window. Then there's yooka laylee and persona 5 in like two weeks, videogame companies releasing all the videogames I want in the entire year at the same time.
https://www.twitch.tv/vladgd Should be playing Andromeda on that sonbitch starting LATE tuesday, most likely all day Wed/Thu before I go back to work on Friday. Assuming ps4 doesn't choose to block all content"cough " the entire ending of ff7 "cough", I intend on streaming my entire playthrough.
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I might be doing the same thing, honestly. My copy isn't where I thought it was (though I did find all of my Pokémon games, Tetris DX, Metroid 2, my GameShark, and a bunch of other odds and ends). I wonder how many of my cartridges actually have a working battery. Some of those are twenty years old. :s
I think Link's Awakening is the only portable Zelda game I've played. I've heard good things about the Capcom ones, as well as Four Swords Adventure. One of these days, maybe.
I played a little bit of Killer Instinct on PC at a friend's house and...ugh, I really think I might get it. I'm not huge into fighters, but playing that felt really good. I'd probably want to get a fightstick first, but at least one of those would work well for other games that I play (aforementioned friend uses his for StepMania).
Oh god, I forgot about Yooka Laylee. Fuuuuuuuuu-! There another one for the backlog.
Really? They blocked the FF7 ending? Who hasn't seen that by this point? The damn game is 20 years old. That'd be like if they blocked the ending to the original Super Mario Bros.
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"Whatcha playin'" isn't entirely accurate for this one, but I played through the Steam version of OneShot this past weekend and achieved the true ending.
Holy fuck, it's so goddamn good. Very well-written! Downright creepy in some sections, touching in others, and with just the right amount of humor thrown in.
10/10 would have my computer invaded by a video game again
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I'd be playing yooka laylee today, but yknow I got access to this thing...
(http://i.imgur.com/T9BbeSZ.jpg)
Doesn't the necromancer come out like in fall or winter? OHH YEAH THIS BETA INVITE. I feel like im in the cool kids club for once.
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I hate you. <3
So, how is it?
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-old skills retooled to be more fun, like revive and corpse explosion have a wide radius that explode all corpses or revive all corpses in said raidius, also they have no cooldown and cost no resources, only corpses
-its a bit better than d2 since there are skills and runes that can generate corpses
-no bullshit "frozen enemies dont generate corpses" in this game
-regular skeletons dont cost corpses, and its almost like an..aura? you get 7, they are around you at all times, they respawn fast when they die(one skeleton every 1-2 seconds if that), active part of the skill has them attack anything you target for a resource cost.
- golem can generate corpses(or do other things like provide a potion like heal) with a long cooldown,
-skeleton mages are temp summons that die after like 6 seconds but do an insane crazy amount of damage and cost no corpses and can generate corpses with a rune when they die
-resource works like monk except you get more resource, use primaries to generate, you get 200, and doesnt regen naturally, but you do get a skill called devour which gives you resource for each corpse...so...even early on you can have semi unlimited resource
-only 3 curses instead of what? 12 or so in d2, but you really only gave a shit about decrepify and that's one of the 3 so we all good in the hood. I think one of the other curses has a rune that sorta works like amp damage.
-don't like the mobility skill they got, its literally wizard teleport (which i don't like at all) but with a shorter cooldown i think, but instead of resource it natively costs 5% life. you can rune out of the life cost, or double down on the life cost for more charges (quadruple down if you count using both 10% life teleports). Looks cool though.
-super early on (duh) but single target damage doesn't seem good at all, so rift bosses may be an issue. future items and skill tweaks will most likely fix this.
No necro specific items in the game yet. They get phylacteries as their specific offhand but they aren't in the drop table yet and only gambled, also no uniques yet. But the class is definitely NOT the witchdoctor, they worked to make their minion stuff function fundamentally differently than the witchdoctor, and corpses and skills feel different. Plus, witchdoctor is a ranged class, they have plenty of builds that put them in melee range sure, but they dont have any melee attacks or any of that jazz (unless you count cloud of bats rune, but thats reaching). Necromancer is kind of like crusader in a sense that it has both ranged and melee and you can use both or either. They literally have a scythe melee attack that is a resource generator, and bone armor which works like a defensive armor version of the docs soul harvest.
In summery, the d2 necromancer was more of a commander who sat back debuffing while the army kills everything. d3 necromancer is more of the star of the show using his minions(or not, one passive gives you 100% armor if you have no minions, decreasing 10% for every minion you have) but also getting into the thick of things and blowing everything up. I mean the way I played mine so far has felt more like a d2 nova sorc than a necromancer.
Totes getting the class day one before playing it, and after...fuckin duh blizzard take my money.
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rank 69, i have accomplished the highest task in diablo 3.
(http://i.imgur.com/TPFPwG0.jpg)
This character has 2 hours in total played from level 1 new character to twinked out of her mind rank sixty nine, thanks gem of ease and my witchdoctor full ancient LoN set.
(http://i.imgur.com/FhxX980.png)
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I really like the sound of that. It's kind of cool how they made it so that objects in the world are effectively currency (sort of like how monks can "utilize" random urns and decorations to get some spirit back). From the sound of it, necros aren't going to be nearly as resource-starved as monks can occasionally be.
I'm a bit more positive regarding the mobility skill, as I'm generally fine with the wizard teleport. I think the hardest part that I'm going to have is whether to rune away the life cost to make it a good emergency move or to double the life cost for increased mobility. Tough call.
The single target damage should skyrocket when they start getting their own sets, methinks.
Thanks for confirming that they're pretty far removed from witch doctors. I always saw witch doctors as being the spiritual replacement for the necro in the first place, so that was a real concern of mine,
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Persona 5 came out, and I beat Andromeda so....
I played 20 minutes before remembering I never beat Persona 4...
I am playing Persona 4, lol. Currently in the "void quest" dungeon, grinding because I am underleveled and even low level random encounters can wipe my party! For an "easy" entry in the smt series, it's probably the hardest jrpg ive ever played (not saying too much since my pool of jrpgs is limited). But still, the game is not giving me an easy time. Since resources and time are limited in this game, so is grinding, so yeah, even harder.
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I'm in the necromancer beta now.
Aw yis.
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Enjoying that son'b so far?
I farmed up a few of the sets (bless you dank meem the vendor) but haven't bothered to try them yet since LoN is broke powerful.
That and uhh persona has me by the balls, can't stop won't stop till I beats it, getting close...! Went from a jrpg I started 5 years ago and got kind of bored of to one I super enjoy and have over 75 hours logged thus far. Final fantasy wut? (no shh, i still love you ff9)
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Yeah, I'm having a ton of fun with it so far! I haven't been able to play as much as I'd really like to (I'm around level 45 now) but I'm really liking how it plays. Like you said, despite appearing similar on the surface, the necro really plays nothing like the witch doctor.
There are definitely some balance issues at lower levels, as far as damage output goes. Up until I got the skeletons it was a bit surprising how little damage it felt like I was doing compared to a similarly leveled and geared toon of any other class. The second I got skeletons it definitely swung pretty wildly in the opposite direction, though. Now, I absolutely melt face. I'm thinking things will probably settle down when I hit 70, though. That's when the game really begins, after all.
One other low level issue is that the first two passives modify the consume ability, but you don't end up getting that for a while after. Seems like Blizzard changed talent levels around without modifying the passive list. I've no doubt that'll be fixed in short order.
Speaking of RPGs, I have actually been playing the best Final Fantasy (FF9) a bit lately, under the guise of testing systems that I've brought back to life (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-8lxtpXgAA6NTW.jpg:orig). Talk about a game that just oozes charm! I just wish it weren't so underappreciated.
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You should import your stuff and gem of ease into level 70 within a few minutes. Unless you're seeing how the leveling process feels.
On jrpgs, its a genre very off or on for me. Either I get sucked in and dont want to stop...or im not feeling it and quit after some time played. Not to mention most of said games in the genre are final fantasy games, I don't delve much into the other stuff. However with how much im enjoying persona 4, the game structure is so different from most (all?) other jrpgs, it feels fresh and makes me want to explore the other persona games and even the other stuff in the smt franchise. People swear by nocturne, so I may pick that up later on. But i'm thinking after i finish persona 4, I need to get back on my eternal quest...
...to finish all numbered (minus the mmo games) final fantasy games.
2, 3, 4, 6, x-2, im counting lightning returns as xiii-3, and 15.
x-2 has been a game that I havent been able to keep myself interested since I got the damn game in like 2003, and i have the x/x-2 remaster, so X-2 will fall off that list this year! even if i have to play small chunks a day to get er done. I want to at least knock one game off the list every 6 months, sounds relatively doable.
AND IF YOURE PLAYING FF9 AND WANT SOME CHEESE I MADE A VIDEO FOREVER AGO
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Yeah, I wanted to check out how the actual leveling curve feels. I did import my stuff (I want to give challenge rifts a shot, and my wizard should be geared well enough for them), but since I started my necro as a seasonal toon so it wouldn't have mattered anyway. It shouldn't take me too long to get him up to 70. In seasons I can usually get toons to 70 in 2-3 nights, playing fairly casually. I've just been working on a ton of Secret Projects(TM) lately. :P
I've heard so many good things about the Persona series that I'm kinda thinking of trying it out P5 when I just feel like vegging out for a while (which is sort of how I managed to keep my focus throughout the original Mass Effect trilogy). It definitely looks like an interesting take on the genre.
Good luck with your quest! I find it hard to keep my focus on JRPGs for long enough to actually finish them nowadays. I managed to get through FF7 and FF8 really easily when I was in high school, but calling more recent attempts abortive would be an understatement.
And holy crap, that's some epic cheese. Miiiight have to try that. XD
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I think im more or less done with the necro beta. Leveled it up, played around with some skills, overall happy with it. Id rather not waste too much time farming gear for a character that will get canned. Still, they got my money when release comes.
Finally beat persona 4. 100 hours 13 minutes....
Getting one shot in a game where main character death = game over, is kind of lame. However to the games defense, there's a damn guard feature, use it at the right time to prevent that game over screen. Still, kinda lame when you make a single mistake and it costs you 30 minutes of time. You finish the final dungeon, go through the end stuff...then what you do is get an FAQ and see what to do because...there's another dungeon and 4 more bosses for the TRUE TRUE ending, without the FAQ you'd just see the credits and think you've done everything. At that point I'm just an OP powerhouse so it was more of a victory lap than anything.
I could suck the games dick all day, but it has one of the better stories in any rpg ive played(includes wrpgs), and characters that should make square rethink some of their ideas on characters. It has its problems, but really only things i could count on one hand, it's a great game and runs for under $20.00 new on amazon. Defs a thumbs up from me. Though like recently Ive lowered my barrier from anime somewhat, so things cringey to me in the past years "OHH SEMPAI!" type stuff, didn't seem to phase me so much this time. But there's a lot of stuff like that, so maybe steer clear if you can't handle that sort of thing, I know I couldn't for the past 8 or so years.
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I usually splurge after finishing a game, but now back to my post game completion limbo in what the hell to play next. Where it takes me, we'll never know.
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I severely doubt anyone here is playing this game or will ever play this game, but whatever.
Them Tekken 7 treasure battle pro strats, great way to get those custom doo dads and whatnot.
Enjoying the game so far from what limited time I have recently had to play. Replace street fighter 5? Not exactly hard since I played roughly 20 hours of that game in total since launch feb 2016 including the time I played the betas. Who knows though, community seems positive about the game, and I'm enjoying it right now. Now if only I could get local people to play...that'll never happen.
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must...get...to...35 dan...for no...reason....
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Just started playing Asura. Pretty cool indie ARPG/roguelite hybrid thing. Kinda like diablo meets binding of isaac with indian mythology for the setting.
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Just started playing PSO2. I haven't really been into anime or JRPG's in a long time, but this game is really bringing out my teenage Japanese obsession. I had no idea it was even an MMO until I started playing. It is an amazing game I just wish the whole thing was in English.
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I'm considering whether or not I want to throw some money at grinding gear games for early access to the Path of Exile 3.0 beta or not. I could wait and play it for free, or I could throw them $30 and get 25 bucks worth of ingame currency (for extra stash tabs or something) and a bunch of little bonuses. Only problem is I don't think I have the free time to make use of access to the closed beta :/
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Right now PREY but it's so darn hard!
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I picked up the witcher 3 dlc's, so went back to my game completion 148 hour file...
hour 178 currently, beat hearts of stone, diddling with blood and wine sidequests before I polish off that mammer jammer.
I don't want to say the witcher 3 is objectively probably the best rpg in history, but it probably is.
I'm actually not going to tldr this time. Recent years I've been a bit less enthusiastic about vidya, but damn if I am enjoying some great games this year. The youth is coming back to me.
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I picked up the witcher 3 dlc's, so went back to my game completion 148 hour file...
hour 178 currently, beat hearts of stone, diddling with blood and wine sidequests before I polish off that mammer jammer.
I don't want to say the witcher 3 is objectively probably the best rpg in history, but it probably is.
I'm actually not going to tldr this time. Recent years I've been a bit less enthusiastic about vidya, but damn if I am enjoying some great games this year. The youth is coming back to me.
Just got 1 & 2 on Steam. I'm tired of hearing how amazing it is so I'm finally going to find out for myself. I am determined to play through the first 2 before I touch 3.
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1 is ehhhh
2 is great with some rough edges
3 is rpg of the year all years.
Just don't set yourself for 2-3 with how kinda janky and bad 1 is. AND you dont really need 1 or 2 in order to enjoy 3. While they do continue into eachother, sorta, they kind of dont require those games knowledge for the most part. Game 1, AMNESIA, game 2, AMNESIA AGAIN!, game 3...ok ok ok real talk not gonna use the amnesia card again
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1 is ehhhh
2 is great with some rough edges
3 is rpg of the year all years.
Just don't set yourself for 2-3 with how kinda janky and bad 1 is. AND you dont really need 1 or 2 in order to enjoy 3. While they do continue into eachother, sorta, they kind of dont require those games knowledge for the most part. Game 1, AMNESIA, game 2, AMNESIA AGAIN!, game 3...ok ok ok real talk not gonna use the amnesia card again
Duly noted lol. I had a feeling after the first cutscene in the first game I was in for a ride. I was laughing at some of the bits but I'm totally setting aside any gaming prejudice or bias I have. I'm expecting a lot of cliche bits and bad voice acting.
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Well it gets a LOT better in the following games. I just finished Blood and Wine (second dlc for w3) and it was delicious.
Not sure right now if the choices I made lead to the scenes that transpired, but at least the illusion made me think that different events could have happened. Normal game, you get to the bad guy, have 0 choice but to kill him, see a cutscene after and watch the credits.
Witcher 3 not so much, things keep on going after you''d be sure they have ended. Ended the dlc (which in the timeline happens after the main campaign) on a high note, very pleased with the ending state of the character and company.
Now I guess I'm to play Tekken 7 until something else has my fancy. I also bought witcher 1 on steam (BECAUSE IM TOO LAZY TO INSTALL THE PHYSICAL COPY I HAVE), so maybe that, but I doubt it, lol.
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182 hours played, considering how many sidequests I have left, I believe this game is bigger than skyrim.
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I actually enjoyed Witcher 1. It definitely doesn't play as well as 2 (and especially 3) but the story and such are still enjoyable. I need to get back to playing Witcher 3 at some point.
Also, as I mentioned in the HAPPY thread, I've been playing Super Metroid. Unfortunately, I lost my save, so I need to start from scratch! AGH. I really need to put CR2032 sockets in my carts so that doesn't happen again (and thoroughly clean and possibly repad my controllers--the buttons on my SNES controller are a tad unresponsive).
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Forgot to post this here! I got a Switch:
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I've been playing a little bit of ARMS (pretty fun, but I can't see myself ever really taking it seriously), some Binding of Isaac, and a bunch of Disgaea 5. Anxiously awaiting Metroid Prime 4, Mario Plays In Traffic, and Fire Emblem Warriors, and I'm very curious to check out Mario + Rabbids when that's out.
I may also get Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. I'm not generally too crazy about kart racers (and it's not for lack of trying, believe me), but I did enjoy that one.
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I totes want a switch, but I'm really going to try and hold off until nintendo releases their next iteration of the thing. Bastards always release a new iteration like 1-2 months after I end up making the purchase.
Playing vidya tho? Been still Tekken flavored vidya, and I am horrible. Fighting games are a learning process madeup of forgetting what winning is as a concept and only knowing defeat. The transition from 2d to 3d has not treated me well, however on the bright side, I am enjoying my losses and having a good time learning. Winning aint everything and I'm taking small victories when I can, IE successfully setting up a counterhit launcher, or...not dropping a combo online. It's the little victories that count and eventually lead up into more real wins.
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Locked, per this news post (https://spectere.net/forums/index.php/topic,1913.0.html). Please create topics for each game instead. This will better facilitate the flow of conversation.
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