Video Games

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 7:10 am

ugh. It's going to be a close call for me being able to get Genesect. My next unemployment check comes the last week it's available, and part of that should go to a cell phone bill...

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 12:30 pm

If I miss the Genesect event for B2/W2, then I'm just gonna say, "fuck it", and give up on Pokemon.

But fortunately, we all have till November 12th. So, don't tally! Get it soon!

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 2:31 pm

If I miss it, I'm just going to say fuck it and AR myself a Genesect.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 12:31 am

That's the spirit!

Also, it was awesome how the NPCs seriously said "Oh, this gym is a Poison one, so go down to that area and catch a Magnemite."

Roxxie was easy. Not easy like your mum, this isn't that sort of Japanese game, but defeating her was like defeating a Tibetan monk in a pie-eating contest.

And now I get to star in movies :D

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 1:54 am

If it were that kind of a game, Nintendo would pretty much have a license to print money.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 2:48 am

To adults. And while the game has sort of grown up with us (which is why there are adults who played RGBY as teenagers and watched the anime, who still play the newer games rather than growing out of it), the main audience is still children.

The real cash licence would be for them to do their own MMO, rather than the 4 or so fan-made ones out there. But that would involve releasing a game for PC, and Nintendo is actually the Japanese word for Nazi. You do it their way, and sign your soul over to be theirs exclusively, or you fuck right off.

(That's actually how Sony won the 32/64-bit console war. Sega and Nintendo had their heads so far up their own arses and were such Nazis over it that developers actually hated working with them. Then Sony came along (with better hardware to boot, and the whole "listen to music on ours" as an add-on... and releasing the Playstation before the Saturn, and cheaper) and said "Hey, you can work with us and anyone else, we just want games". A million titles later, as companies decide they like Sony, and then they're so successful that by the time the PS3 comes along they're so rich they don't need a successful console with games any more.)

Bonus points if such an MMO let you join Team Rocket or become a Gym Leader or such things.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 2:53 am

I missed the previous distribution Pokemon (Keldio IIRC, it looked like a My Little Pony character) out of nothing but sheer incompetence on my part (kept on blowing off going to Gamestop.)

Wasn't there another Gym Leader named Roxie back in Gen III?

Just beat the 7th Gym in Black 2, and could post more crap about it if desirable, but I think anyone interested is already sold on getting it, or has it, by now, and thus my rambling is not of much use.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:24 am

Yeah, Roxie was in Gen 3 as the Rock leader. In BW2, Roxxie is the Poison leader, in a rock band.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:31 am

I've gotten back into ME3's multiplayer.

A lot has changed. I play a Krogan Sentinel, specced for melee and grenade damage, as one of my main characters. I named him Urdnot Wraje, because there's Krogan named Wrex and Wreav, so why not?

It seems the game balance has swung to be totally in Wraje's favor. The lift grenades have gone from 1200 damage under my favorite spec, to 1800. His melee damage has gone up and the shotgun I use seems to have been boosted, too. It used to take two non-headshots to kill a basic infantry unit. Now I can hit one of the mook units in the arm and he'll die. And spin four times on his vertical axis on the way down.

There's a lot of other changes. They added the Collectors as a multiplayer enemy, I presume in preparation for some singleplayer DLC. They've also added a couple more enemy types.

It's reminding me why I like the multiplayer, though.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:33 am

I've actually been thinking about a Mon-catching Augmented Reality app, and have a programmer friend who's interested in making apps, and I was thinking about letting players become "gym leaders" and such.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 4:52 pm

I'm replaying ruby and I'm not really in the mood to go around hunting for pokemon.

I've been trying to find reliable codes to just have a start up team of beldum, larvitar, beldum, bagon, starter, and some random pokemon I'll find around the way.

Anyone know of any good codes that I can use on my vba. I've lost my action replay and I don't even know if my gba works anymore.

Leress · Post by **Leress** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 5:21 pm

Cynic wrote:
Anyone know of any good codes that I can use on my vba. I've lost my action replay and I don't even know if my gba works anymore.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/gba/471243-poke ... faqs/22318

These might work.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:11 pm

Try this, the program they're talking about allows you to make a code for a custom Pokemon. http://m.gamefaqs.com/boards/960099-/54778868

Mask_De_H · Post by **Mask_De_H** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:16 pm

Koumei wrote:Yeah, Roxie was in Gen 3 as the Rock leader. In BW2, Roxxie is the Poison leader, in a rock band.

Does she do cocaine?

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:54 pm

Well, she is the poison leader...

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 2:18 pm

According to DarthRabbitt, the music her band plays is shit...

On another note...

I've been playing a crap-ton of Bayonetta lately, and I've been trying to earn 1 million halos so as to unlock Jeanne (the titular character's rival, and a secret playable character). There's various codes you can input in at a certain spot in the second level that allow you to get various unlockables. All the codes require millions of Halos (which are the currency of the game) but it's really worth it, because all of unlockables are really hard to get through normal means. In the case of Jeanne, you need to get a Platnium trophy as your overall score for beating the game on Normal difficulty or higher: Each level you beat is graded, and you're awarded trophies depending on how you did (the grades being Stone, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platnium, and Pure Platnium). Once you beat the game, you're given a trophy grade based of your overall score. In order to get Platnium or higher overall score, you need to get a Gold trophy or higher in each level. That's really, really hard to do normally. So, using the codes is far easier.

I'm currently at something like over 730,000 halos, so I'm pretty close. Go me!

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:41 pm

There's a way to grind 'em. Do the whirlwind boss, while using the lightning claws and magic items to let you stay in witch time the whole time. You nail it right, you can get a six digits of halos at once.

Hell, google if it you want to. I got it off a guide when I took a stab at it.

It's also worth grinding the halos for Pillow Talk. The lightsaber used by Waka from Okami.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:15 pm

Ok, so, for the people into Pokemon. I mentioned that I was toying with the idea of an Mon-battling app. It would use GPS to distribute the monsters, and you can turn on the app, set it to "Hunting Mode" or the like, and would occasionally run into creatures based on your physical location. What features would you want to see in such a game?

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:06 pm

Per Maxus: I'll definitely hafta try that trick out. Anything to get Jeanne and her pearly white ass sooner. And yeah, pretty much the only human way of getting Pillow Talk is by shelling out the halos, as normally you have to "simply" beat the game on Non-Stop Climax mode...

Per Prak: I would LOVE to be able to get hard-to-find pokemon (ie ones that are event-only, and will never appear again). Also, a way to get shiny pokemon easier would be pretty boss. Or a way to get PkRs, or Bad Eggs, which do some weird shit, I can't really remember off the top of my head. If this app could do any of those things, I would pledge my immortal allegiance to you and your ability to tell the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth, especially concerning frogs.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:17 pm

That's pretty doable. One thing I would do is have the app notify you when an event is going on, so you're less likely to miss it. Another thing I'm looking at is flavouring the creatures as spirit realm entitie. Conceivably they could be summoned with an appropriate invocation (code phrase). The bigger worry will be landmark exclusives, like Theobear at MT Rushmore. I'm thinking about an in-game item which changes what the game reads as your location for a period of day, like an in-game plane ticket you can buy with game currency.

Ted the Flayer · Post by **Ted the Flayer** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 12:40 am

I got Final Fantasy 3. There's a lot of stuff that requires you to have an internet connection that from my observations doesn't actually exist in reality because Nintendo can't put a decent wireless card in their system.

Also, there are AR codes that let you bypass that. Fie on DS games and their forced interaction!

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 12:43 am

Fortunately, I'd be doing this for Android, and other lesser oses, so Nintendo's shit wireless capabilities isn't really an issue. It'd probably tie in with a program on your computer that acted like the Pokemon PC for storage of anything not in your party, with some side stuff like an array of minigames and so on.

Ted the Flayer · Post by **Ted the Flayer** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 12:50 am

I've been a bit slow in the whole android thing. I'm thinking of upgrading to a cheap android in a year when my contract is due.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 1:03 am

Check out ting. I'm looking at switching to them from T Mobile, since my contract is almost up, and I can save more than $20/mo with their more customizable plans. I hardly ever call, mostly I text, and use my phone for data, so I can pay $3 for 100 minutes, $11 for a 4000 texts, and $42 for 2 gigs per month, plus $6/mo for having one device. If I use no minutes in a month (not necessarily impossible, it just means I get selective about checking my messages, or find a way to do so from the house phone), I don't pay that $3. If I use more than 4000 messages, I just pay another $3 that month. If I use no more than $2000, I pay $3 less. It's actually pretty awesome, and they piggy back off a larger company's network, so coverage is pretty good.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 2:45 am

Could the app be downloadable for the iPad as well?