I'm back!
The internet was out for a week because a combination of inclement weather and a drunk driver (or two) took out the phone lines.
I spent a lot of time playing Overlord.
It's a fun game. I like how it's giving the shaft to the usual fantasy cliches. The halflings are all gluttons, the dwarves are alcoholic and the worst blow you strike against them is stealing their brewing equipment, and the elves really are dying out and leaving the world. You even get a choice whether to save the last of the elf females (four of them) or go grab a big bag of gold.
Unfortunately, I'm playing as Overlord Jesus this round. Missed a few corruption events and you get an achievement for 0%corruption, so...
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
In Dwarf Fortress, I just ran into a zinc quadreped that breathed out bleeding gas. It was impressively hard to defeat, and now I need to make new gear for my next wave of recruits, because all the stuff is now covered in death.
At least, I think it's still deadly. Testing it now. If it is I'm going to have something of a ghost problem.
EDIT: good, it isn't.
At least, I think it's still deadly. Testing it now. If it is I'm going to have something of a ghost problem.
EDIT: good, it isn't.
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I had to grin at this video.
Might get the game for my 14-year-old sister. Nevermind the 19-year-old was going "EEEE! SHO KYOOT!" in here 'talking-to-puppies' voice.
Nevermind that I want to play it, too
http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-kir ... n/17-3374/
Might get the game for my 14-year-old sister. Nevermind the 19-year-old was going "EEEE! SHO KYOOT!" in here 'talking-to-puppies' voice.
Nevermind that I want to play it, too
http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-kir ... n/17-3374/
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Kaelik->
I said Fallout's levelling system was "okay", not "good" or "groundbreaking", precisely because it's so orthodox.
Also, not everyone has played the games and is aware of the level scaling. Besides, I wanted to plug OOO and Wanderer's Edition.
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I'm playing King's Bounty: Crossworlds right now, and it is shockingly good for an expansion with purportedly little new content.
I said Fallout's levelling system was "okay", not "good" or "groundbreaking", precisely because it's so orthodox.
Also, not everyone has played the games and is aware of the level scaling. Besides, I wanted to plug OOO and Wanderer's Edition.
There are some improvements, but there's still oddities like being able to complete the Fallout 3 main quest with almost no level ups.cthulhu wrote:The level scaling in Fallout 3 is not nearly so bad as the oblivion games.
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I'm playing King's Bounty: Crossworlds right now, and it is shockingly good for an expansion with purportedly little new content.
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My sister wanted FF13 for her birthday.
It was 20 dollars at Gamestop.
But both of 'em are having a blast with Kirby's Epic Yarn.
I will say watching them do 2-player reminds me of, say, Sonic 3. When having someone on the second controller really made a difference.
It was 20 dollars at Gamestop.
But both of 'em are having a blast with Kirby's Epic Yarn.
I will say watching them do 2-player reminds me of, say, Sonic 3. When having someone on the second controller really made a difference.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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PoliteNewb
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Got PuzzleQuest 2 for Christmas...much like the first, it's cracktastic. I've been playing it pretty heavily; I'm around lvl 12 or so. Thoughts:
1.) documentation SUCKS BALLS. The manual is seriously 2 pages long and explains next to nothing. I'm digging around the internet, but most players seem as befuddled as me. I did find a 107pg walkthrough, but it still didn't explain the parts I wanted (the weapon system, particularly).
2.) Some things are better. You no longer lose your turn if you hit the wrong thing with your stylus, big plus. In general, I like the action point system for weapons, although I feel it kind of renders skull matching a bit moot (seriously, skulls in 1 were the top priority...in this, I will not even bother with a 3 skull match if I can use a weapon or spell). A lot of the spells are neat, and I've already got a pretty sweet combo. I do like the new minigames, like looting and lockpicking and such.
3.) Some things are worse. MANY of the RPG elements are completely gone, such as mount training, conquering cities, and my personal fave, CRAFTING. I can't believe I can't forge shit anymore. And no, the upgrade system is not as good...it's a lot like the system for Baldur's Gate II for Xbox. There seems to be at least as many piddly bullshit fights. You can't grind encounters as easily (no gold or XP gems to match). And while it may seem like a minor thing, there are only 2 pictures for each class (1 male, 1 female), instead of 8 for each. Also, only the assassin class seems really new (the others seem like rewrites of the original puzzlequest classes, minus the druid).
Another thing...they gave each class a " special" thing. Barbarians can wield the best weapons, Templars the best armor; Sorcerers are the only ones who can use mana potions, and assassins are the only ones who can use the best poisons (frankly, I'm underwhelmed with poisons so far). I don't know whether this is good or bad, really...just thought I'd mention it. It was a bit annoying to see an awesome weapon for sale and have it say "assassin's can't use this weapon".
1.) documentation SUCKS BALLS. The manual is seriously 2 pages long and explains next to nothing. I'm digging around the internet, but most players seem as befuddled as me. I did find a 107pg walkthrough, but it still didn't explain the parts I wanted (the weapon system, particularly).
2.) Some things are better. You no longer lose your turn if you hit the wrong thing with your stylus, big plus. In general, I like the action point system for weapons, although I feel it kind of renders skull matching a bit moot (seriously, skulls in 1 were the top priority...in this, I will not even bother with a 3 skull match if I can use a weapon or spell). A lot of the spells are neat, and I've already got a pretty sweet combo. I do like the new minigames, like looting and lockpicking and such.
3.) Some things are worse. MANY of the RPG elements are completely gone, such as mount training, conquering cities, and my personal fave, CRAFTING. I can't believe I can't forge shit anymore. And no, the upgrade system is not as good...it's a lot like the system for Baldur's Gate II for Xbox. There seems to be at least as many piddly bullshit fights. You can't grind encounters as easily (no gold or XP gems to match). And while it may seem like a minor thing, there are only 2 pictures for each class (1 male, 1 female), instead of 8 for each. Also, only the assassin class seems really new (the others seem like rewrites of the original puzzlequest classes, minus the druid).
Another thing...they gave each class a " special" thing. Barbarians can wield the best weapons, Templars the best armor; Sorcerers are the only ones who can use mana potions, and assassins are the only ones who can use the best poisons (frankly, I'm underwhelmed with poisons so far). I don't know whether this is good or bad, really...just thought I'd mention it. It was a bit annoying to see an awesome weapon for sale and have it say "assassin's can't use this weapon".
I am judging the philosophies and decisions you have presented in this thread. The ones I have seen look bad, and also appear to be the fruit of a poisonous tree that has produced only madness and will continue to produce only madness.
--AngelFromAnotherPin
believe in one hand and shit in the other and see which ones fills up quicker. it will be the one you are full of, shit.
--Shadzar
--AngelFromAnotherPin
believe in one hand and shit in the other and see which ones fills up quicker. it will be the one you are full of, shit.
--Shadzar
My attempts at Crusader Kings keep falling apart in massive civil wars and crippling bankruptcy, except for the ones that end due to not having properly explained the concept of boning to the third generation.
DSMatticus wrote:It's not just that everything you say is stupid, but that they are Gordian knots of stupid that leave me completely bewildered as to where to even begin. After hearing you speak Alexander the Great would stab you and triumphantly declare the puzzle solved.
So, new news from our friends at N1.
Clearly, they want some more sex appeal to not go bankrupt. I was supporting them anyway, but I won't complain. Pity there's so much DFC as I am a fan of boobs, but w/e.
No, this isn't about Criminal Girls. We know I <3 that one.
Disgaea 4 looks beautiful so far, but of note, they seem to have revived a mechanic from La Pucelle Tactics. Or maybe Criminal Girls. Punishing people out of battle.
Like LPT, you get big lists of random crap. Unlike it, there's less "Give a piledriver" or "Lecture from the Bible" (note: causes more bad feelings than the piledriver) and more "Spank" and "Put on that weird triangular vaulting horse thing that digs into the groin". Also unlike LPT thee is graphical representation.
Anyway, that's not the most noteworthy thing. No. There's a sequel to Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero, Dood?
[utl=http://nisamerica.com/games/prinny2/]Prinny 2: Dawn of Operation Panties, Dood[/url]. Yeah, someone stole Etna's underwear and you have to get it back (as well as stabbing the thief in the face).
BUT WAIT! THERE'S STILL MORE! They added a contest!
So clearly I'm trying to come up with an awesome design (never mind the undies, which I could legitimately wear without people thinkingknowing I'm weird, a free copy of the game dood. Oh and trying to get my art skills more recognition).
I figure it can't be of Etna, because Etna probably wouldn't wear merch *of* herself. It still needs to have some kind of "Get fans to buy it" thing going though, so probably should feature something to the effect of the Sexy Beam grid pattern (in little hearts) or a maimed prinny or something. Ideas? Never mind, I didn't notice the bit saying the contest is over. Damnation.
Also, one post-game boss to go: Tyrant Eryngi Baal. This may take some power-levelling in HoO4.
Clearly, they want some more sex appeal to not go bankrupt. I was supporting them anyway, but I won't complain. Pity there's so much DFC as I am a fan of boobs, but w/e.
No, this isn't about Criminal Girls. We know I <3 that one.
Disgaea 4 looks beautiful so far, but of note, they seem to have revived a mechanic from La Pucelle Tactics. Or maybe Criminal Girls. Punishing people out of battle.
Like LPT, you get big lists of random crap. Unlike it, there's less "Give a piledriver" or "Lecture from the Bible" (note: causes more bad feelings than the piledriver) and more "Spank" and "Put on that weird triangular vaulting horse thing that digs into the groin". Also unlike LPT thee is graphical representation.
Anyway, that's not the most noteworthy thing. No. There's a sequel to Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero, Dood?
[utl=http://nisamerica.com/games/prinny2/]Prinny 2: Dawn of Operation Panties, Dood[/url]. Yeah, someone stole Etna's underwear and you have to get it back (as well as stabbing the thief in the face).
BUT WAIT! THERE'S STILL MORE! They added a contest!
So clearly I'm trying to come up with an awesome design (never mind the undies, which I could legitimately wear without people thinkingknowing I'm weird, a free copy of the game dood. Oh and trying to get my art skills more recognition).
I figure it can't be of Etna, because Etna probably wouldn't wear merch *of* herself. It still needs to have some kind of "Get fans to buy it" thing going though, so probably should feature something to the effect of the Sexy Beam grid pattern (in little hearts) or a maimed prinny or something. Ideas? Never mind, I didn't notice the bit saying the contest is over. Damnation.
Also, one post-game boss to go: Tyrant Eryngi Baal. This may take some power-levelling in HoO4.
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Count Arioch the 28th wrote:There is NOTHING better than lesbians. Lesbians make everything better.
So, I bummed Ninja Gaiden 2 from my cousin (he brought his XBox over the other day to do some downloading so he kinda owed me a run through his games)
My summary is this:
I'm on chapter 3 and I'm playing on Easy and god this game is hard.
And not, like, the kind of hard where I can develop my skills at the game and get better.
Most of the difficulty comes from shit I can't control.
The camera is foremost. This is a really cool-looking game. I have to say, I like the character design.
I know this, because the game wants to show it off. The camera stays very close to Ryu's patent-leather-clad ass and gives me time to appreciate the muscle on his arms
(total sidenote: I do genuinely like how he doesn't have the huge knots of body-building muscle. His arms are heavily muscled, yes, but it's all that flat, hard athlete stuff. I'd actually expect a ninja warrior to have muscle like that.)
However, I'd appreciate a wider camera view so I can see the swarms of enemies around me.
Second, blocking/dodging is really fiddly. Especially since most enemies have attacks that break your block, anyway. And blocking is directional (okay, fair enough there) but enemies aren't shy about surrounding you.
I didn't actually die until the chapter 2 boss. This was actually cool to me--I felt like I'd done something when I barely won out over a huge group of enemies. However, the I started the second bossfight.
Which again, gave me much chance to admire the play of light off Ryu's tight ninja ass and I realized I couldn't see the boss.
Then he bum-rushed me.
See, the second boss looks like he's eight feet tall. His shoulders look like the front end of a car.
And the camera angle starts off with Ryu eclipsing him.
http://matteomazzali.files.wordpress.co ... enshin.jpg
There's hard, and then there's "Screw you lol" bullshit which gets in the way of actually playing the game.
My summary is this:
I'm on chapter 3 and I'm playing on Easy and god this game is hard.
And not, like, the kind of hard where I can develop my skills at the game and get better.
Most of the difficulty comes from shit I can't control.
The camera is foremost. This is a really cool-looking game. I have to say, I like the character design.
I know this, because the game wants to show it off. The camera stays very close to Ryu's patent-leather-clad ass and gives me time to appreciate the muscle on his arms
(total sidenote: I do genuinely like how he doesn't have the huge knots of body-building muscle. His arms are heavily muscled, yes, but it's all that flat, hard athlete stuff. I'd actually expect a ninja warrior to have muscle like that.)
However, I'd appreciate a wider camera view so I can see the swarms of enemies around me.
Second, blocking/dodging is really fiddly. Especially since most enemies have attacks that break your block, anyway. And blocking is directional (okay, fair enough there) but enemies aren't shy about surrounding you.
I didn't actually die until the chapter 2 boss. This was actually cool to me--I felt like I'd done something when I barely won out over a huge group of enemies. However, the I started the second bossfight.
Which again, gave me much chance to admire the play of light off Ryu's tight ninja ass and I realized I couldn't see the boss.
Then he bum-rushed me.
See, the second boss looks like he's eight feet tall. His shoulders look like the front end of a car.
And the camera angle starts off with Ryu eclipsing him.
http://matteomazzali.files.wordpress.co ... enshin.jpg
There's hard, and then there's "Screw you lol" bullshit which gets in the way of actually playing the game.
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Avoraciopoctules
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Mere hours after finishing today's round of Merry Gear Solid 2 ( http://www.superfundungeonrun.com/?page_id=256 ), I discovered the SA thread for an ongoing LP I am very satisfied with so far.
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showth ... id=3346783
http://chipandironicus.com/games/mgs4/index.html
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showth ... id=3346783
http://chipandironicus.com/games/mgs4/index.html
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Finished Mass Effect 2. Is it just me, or does the Quarian-Geth situation resemble the Israel-Palestine situation?
Count Arioch wrote:I'm not sure how discussions on whether PR is a terrible person or not is on-topic.
Ant wrote:You do not seem to do anything.Chamomile wrote:Ant, what do we do about Psychic Robot?
Playing Atelier Rorona at the moment, and I'm into the third year. Playing through once is pretty quick, it seems. So luckily, it has a lot of replay value.
On the one hand, I like how combat takes a back seat and the characters are just wonderful. On the other hand, I really need to mulligan this first playthrough, as I have terrible trust/friendship levels with nearly everyone.
On the one hand, I like how combat takes a back seat and the characters are just wonderful. On the other hand, I really need to mulligan this first playthrough, as I have terrible trust/friendship levels with nearly everyone.
Count Arioch the 28th wrote:There is NOTHING better than lesbians. Lesbians make everything better.
FF13 is the worst FF I think I've played (Didn't play 11 and won't play 14). I wanted to quit on the first disk because very literally nothing happened for 3 solid hours. It was me walking forward and tapping A. But i got through it because 2 friends assured me "it gets better". It picked up a bit in the second disk. (I like Sazh's story) But seriously, not just the dungeons, but the cut scenes, have NOTHING I care about happening most of the time. I quit the game, 2 hours from completing it because of a cut scene that was so stupid I couldn't stand playing the game anymore. I watched the ending on youtube and was so disappointed I went on hour long rants to anyone who even mentioned the game.
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So I was at virgil's house for the last couple of weeks. A mutual friend of ours had left his ps3 around with the game "Just cause 2." It was everything that zero punctuation's review put it down as.
A while in, I started doubting the ethics of tying a random civilian to my helicopter and then dragging him across half the city. Then I decided that my morals could take a back seat as the man had just lost his head to a low-hanging tree. He probably deserved it to!
A while in, I started doubting the ethics of tying a random civilian to my helicopter and then dragging him across half the city. Then I decided that my morals could take a back seat as the man had just lost his head to a low-hanging tree. He probably deserved it to!
Ancient History wrote:We were working on Street Magic, and Frank asked me if a houngan had run over my dog.
The first 3-4 hours are terrible (I have a save file right after that so I never have to play them again), but after that the fights are interesting and reasonably challenging. There are meaningful tactical differences between characters and roles, you continue to gain useful new abilities for the entire length of the game, and the AI is surprisingly good (some things it did that I thought were poor choices even turned out to exploit mechanics I didn't know about at the time).MGuy wrote:FF13 is the worst FF I think I've played
I don't play console RPGs for the story, but FF13 had a unique and rather detailed world and some interesting themes. The ending involved pulling some world-threatening big bad out of their asses, but that's not exactly a first for the series. I abandoned FFX-2 fairly quickly because I couldn't stand the characters, but I belive that's the only RPG I've quit for that reason.
The gameplay is somewhat different from other FF games, so I can understand if some series fans don't like it as much, but that doesn't make it bad. I actually like it more than most of the others.
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I'm at 99.5% on Red Dead Redemption.
Apparently, I have a couple of bounties and a few areas to get. Except my counter is screwed up so it's not showing them correctly. It says I have six areas in Mexico and one in West Elizabeth to get.
Also, I hate bears. And retrieving stolen wagons, because a bear is sure to show up before I can get on the damn wagon.
I'm at 99.5% on Red Dead Redemption.
Apparently, I have a couple of bounties and a few areas to get. Except my counter is screwed up so it's not showing them correctly. It says I have six areas in Mexico and one in West Elizabeth to get.
Also, I hate bears. And retrieving stolen wagons, because a bear is sure to show up before I can get on the damn wagon.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!