Games you're playing: The 2009 edition.

[Pyro]

Back to Blue Dragon today, thinking of complimenting Jiro's White Magic with the Support Class?

Support is better for Black mages as it eventually nabs you Dual-Cast.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

1st-run Ethereal Queen is pretty reliant on Astral Maze nonsense to get anything done.

BUTBUTBUT SHE HAS A MIGHTY PHYSICAL THAT 4HKOS 20K HP FREYA. And she never cast Astral Maze on me to boot. That was really pathetic, since I was even splitting my party in two in order to avoid full group hax. Oh well, I guess it's time to face frue Dirna. Should farm a few Stun Checks first, though.

[OblivionKnight]

I'd suggest using mages.  They have better RES, so can take her Meteor Storm better than anyone else!!!!!

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

* Jo'ou Ranbu merrily punts OK. ^_^

[Anthony Edward Stark]

1st-run Ethereal Queen is pretty reliant on Astral Maze nonsense to get anything done.

BUTBUTBUT SHE HAS A MIGHTY PHYSICAL THAT 4HKOS 20K HP FREYA. And she never cast Astral Maze on me to boot. That was really pathetic, since I was even splitting my party in two in order to avoid full group hax. Oh well, I guess it's time to face frue Dirna. Should farm a few Stun Checks first, though.

I seem to recall soloing her with Brahms the first time.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Considering he gets an armor with 80% transfer resistance, that sounds reasonable.

[Dark Holy Elf]

I once had my entire party transferred by Astral Maze despite two people wearing Conquerer's Armour.

That sucked.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

>_<

VP2 - First run of the Seraphic Gate: complete! Only ten more to go! Godlike Dirna was pretty cool: got four-rounded and had actual offense, not to mention the support is actually decent. Without a Fireproof Trinket, Meteor Swarm would've blown my party up, since it MT 2HKOed. OF COURSE, they realized I used the goddamned item, since they decided to spam Glacial Blizzard instead. Still easier on my HP than Explosion, though.

[Hunter Sopko]

S5- In Yashuna, right before the Ceras Lake dungeon. Switched out Lelei for Shigure since he had two open rune slots. Boost + Power is HAHAHAHA GAME. Plus he starts at level 35. Overflowing with cash and skill points. The latter is kind of annoying, actually.

[Strago]

Well at least you can put it into Party SP and don't have to just sit on it like in S3.

[mia~]

VP - Covenant of the Plume: I decided that I must get 200% sin on every battle on my first playthrough. Going to go insane here shortly.

[Sierra]

*Looks at his endgame S3 file where Chris has thousands upon thousands of SP sitting around. Yeaaaaah.*

[Niu]

VP2 - Ethereal Queen:

Please learn to not suck. That damage was absolutely awful. Thanks for the 99 Sorcerer's Savvies, though!

Love, Snow.

P.S.: While you're at it, work on that durability thing. You could stand to take hits better.

This hurts me, consider what I am doing.

[hinode]

SRWK: Kotetsushin Jeeg is the best combination attack ever.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

VP2 - Ethereal Queen:

Please learn to not suck. That damage was absolutely awful. Thanks for the 99 Sorcerer's Savvies, though!

Love, Snow.

P.S.: While you're at it, work on that durability thing. You could stand to take hits better.

This hurts me, consider what I am doing.

She has ten more SG runs to learn competence. I'm sure you'll live.

[Niu]

VP2 - Ethereal Queen:

Please learn to not suck. That damage was absolutely awful. Thanks for the 99 Sorcerer's Savvies, though!

Love, Snow.

P.S.: While you're at it, work on that durability thing. You could stand to take hits better.

This hurts me, consider what I am doing.

She has ten more SG runs to learn competence. I'm sure you'll live.

You miss understand.
SO4 I.Queen is getting hard to cheese by Chaos mode, despite not unbeatable, it is not guaranteed victory either like in Galaxy mode. Now, with the fact that it takes a 5 hours trip to reach her every time... and she has stll has 2 more power up left at this point... so any comments about I.Queen needs to be stronger is UGH PAIN right now.

[Meeplelard]

MK: Almost done with Chap 7, MWAHAHAHAHAHAHH!

...yeah, there's still too much of this game left, I'm regretting choosing the PSP version more and more.

[TranceHime]

Game Center CX: Arino no Chousenjou 2 (Retro Game Challenge 2)

Doing the challenges for Kachou no Meitantei Pt 1, the first detective game thingy. 2/4.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

VP2 - Ethereal Queen:

Please learn to not suck. That damage was absolutely awful. Thanks for the 99 Sorcerer's Savvies, though!

Love, Snow.

P.S.: While you're at it, work on that durability thing. You could stand to take hits better.

This hurts me, consider what I am doing.

She has ten more SG runs to learn competence. I'm sure you'll live.

You miss understand.
SO4 I.Queen is getting hard to cheese by Chaos mode, despite not unbeatable, it is not guaranteed victory either like in Galaxy mode. Now, with the fact that it takes a 5 hours trip to reach her every time... and she has stll has 2 more power up left at this point... so any comments about I.Queen needs to be stronger is UGH PAIN right now.

It's not guaranteed win when you walk in to a room totally unprepared because it's a totally non-descript room and then you get drilled, fucker.

[Grefter]

So they did the Radiata Story bonus dungeon thing again?  Cool.  (Though I don't think that was I.Queen....).

That said, Niu, just stop, don't play it, there is nothing extra it gives you.  Go play Torment.

[NotMiki]

That said, Niu, just stop, don't play it, there is nothing extra it gives you.  Go play Torment.

Oh come now, games never give you anything but the enjoyment (hopefully) of having played them.  The player, not the game, should define whether playing more is a worthwhile experience.

[Hunter Sopko]

It's more that I have tons of SP and can't raise anyone's level beyond C yet.

S5- The Ceres Lake ruins were... alright. Bosses were easier to handle than the randoms. The HATRED Fortress strat battle was neat. Otherwise, stopped when I got the totallynottheS1 fortress. I also like how it's taller than the lip of the lake used to be. Kyle decided to wander off and take my Flowing Rune. Asshole.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

VP2 - Gabriel Celeste down - with a Direct Assault, to boot. Two Apocalypses, two sorcerers to release for tons of Sorcerer's Savvies. Yum, overkill offense. Hrist now sports a meager 5000 Int score~. Woden also down, but nobody cares about him.

[Niu]

VP2 - Ethereal Queen:

Please learn to not suck. That damage was absolutely awful. Thanks for the 99 Sorcerer's Savvies, though!

Love, Snow.

P.S.: While you're at it, work on that durability thing. You could stand to take hits better.

This hurts me, consider what I am doing.

She has ten more SG runs to learn competence. I'm sure you'll live.

You miss understand.
SO4 I.Queen is getting hard to cheese by Chaos mode, despite not unbeatable, it is not guaranteed victory either like in Galaxy mode. Now, with the fact that it takes a 5 hours trip to reach her every time... and she has stll has 2 more power up left at this point... so any comments about I.Queen needs to be stronger is UGH PAIN right now.

It's not guaranteed win when you walk in to a room totally unprepared because it's a totally non-descript room and then you get drilled, fucker.

It is pretty easy to tell which room the boss in the WD. They are only inside rooms with one exist and only one even number floor. And I.Queen only apart after 20th floor. So no, I didn't lose because she caught me in surprise. I loose because the "use Bacchus as a bait and spam Rush Combo" cheese aren't working as well as it should now.

So they did the Radiata Story bonus dungeon thing again?  Cool.  (Though I don't think that was I.Queen....).

That said, Niu, just stop, don't play it, there is nothing extra it gives you.  Go play Torment.

No. WD is a randomly generated dungeon that gives you stupid task to complete each floor.
Easy one involve just beating a chain of battles. Annoy ones makes you break elemental crystals with Vanish Ring, which can run you out of gas if too many white crystal appears. And the worst would be collecting Geo Stones, because they fully reset when you use them and are uncommon drops from the monster. Sometime gathering enough Geo Stone to pass one floor can take a hour and a half in itself.

Basically, that dungeon is total bull shit.

[Sierra]

Half-Life 3 Episodes 1&2Half-Life 2 Episodes 1&2: Finally got around to playing these. Ep. 1 had some argh-inducing sequences (elevator sequence--both of them, now that I think of it--and the parking garage antlion swarm). Ep. 2 was much better; big set-piece battles (antlion guardian+queen, hunter swarm, the finale) were still hard, but much more fun. Probably helps that I seem to prefer the outdoor areas in these games (Highway 17/Sandtraps = most fun part of HL2). I actually ran out of weapons that could efficiently kill the hunters during the big strider battle and just started ramming them with the car. It worked fairly well, actually. Also, I got to kill something with a garden gnome. Not enough games let you do this.

Much hate for the Combine zombies.