Author Topic: Games you're playing: The 2009 edition. (Read 691833 times)

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #800 on:** February 19, 2009, 11:49:40 PM »

In WA4. Crimson Nobles have crazy Dracula powers. I accepted it and moved on.

Rozalia · « **Reply #801 on:** February 20, 2009, 12:29:49 AM »

Quote from: DjinnAndTonic on February 19, 2009, 09:47:19 PM

Quote from: Talaysen on February 19, 2009, 07:32:05 PM
Quote from: DjinnAndTonic on February 19, 2009, 01:42:43 AM
But the Berial from WAo is a Golem whereas the WA4 character is a... what the hell is she anyway?

A Crimson Noble. Didn't you pay attention to WILD ARMS 4 PLOT?

Megaman X Command Mission - Chapter 7. Screw desert dungeons. Cinnamon rules face. That is all.

Really? Is that clearly stated somewhere? I was under the impression that Scythe just thought he was a Crimson Noble from the power he gained. He doesn't really exhibit any clear Crimson Noble abilities... And Belial herself seems to have more power than a Crimson Noble. I was kind of operating under the assumption that Belial was a leftover Metal Demon.

-Djinn

No she is a Crimson noble. Arnaud, Lambda and Augst all state it, so I'm inclined to believe them.

074 · « **Reply #802 on:** February 20, 2009, 01:37:51 AM »

I don't remember them saying anything about her being a Crimson Noble. Just that she's the reason that Scythe has his time-space manipulation powers to begin with.

Shale · « **Reply #803 on:** February 20, 2009, 01:55:15 AM »

I don't recall her saying "Crimson Noble" specifically, but she is supposed to be a vampire of some sort.

Dark Holy Elf · « **Reply #804 on:** February 20, 2009, 02:36:41 AM »

Wild Arms redefines what all of those terms mean from game to game so it's rather moot.

I agree that Belial exhibits traits I'd more tend to associate with an (unusually powerful) metal demon, though. Her eyes and the markings on her skin give her a bit of a "half metallic, half biological" feel that WA usually tries to capture with them.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #805 on:** February 20, 2009, 02:40:02 AM »

I recall asking Niu once if Belial was one of the Mother-type demons capable of spawning their own brood. He answered in the negative and, if I'm not too far off, just said she was a random demon.
Marivel didn't seem to have any crazy "mastery over spacial phenomena" powers, and I wouldn't expect Wild ARMs to randomly redefine what a Crimson Nobel is that way, so that seems unlikely to me.

Shale · « **Reply #806 on:** February 20, 2009, 03:23:10 AM »

SRW@G: ...and beaten. They probably should have set Shu's last spirit trigger at 40% HP instead of 30%. Since that way I couldn't have used a Fire Blaster/Stoner Sunshine combo to kill him through it. Judging from the walkthrough, it looks nasty.

Scar · « **Reply #807 on:** February 20, 2009, 03:53:32 AM »

AG: Argh, not beaten yet. Dealing with Sanger and a million of those other mechs at the moment.

FE:DS

I am a tad disappointed with this game. No support conversations, almost no story. Why did this remake take so long to come out again? They dump off three times the amount of units you would normally get in a FE game. (least the ones I have played.) Most of those said units have horrible stats.

I am playing on normal right now, because there was more story options! Only one map has given me trouble. Otherwise I am blowing through this game with ease.

Just got my first master seal...wonder who I will promote first....

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #808 on:** February 20, 2009, 04:07:27 AM »

Quote from: Shale on February 20, 2009, 01:55:15 AM

I don't recall her saying "Crimson Noble" specifically, but she is supposed to be a vampire of some sort.

I'm certain that there were no references to Belial doing any blood-drinking... it was Scythe that was drinking from her. They probably made some sort of reference to her having an unnaturally long lifespan (immortal?), but I don't think they used a term like 'undead' or anything.

I'm not sure how she's supposed to be a vampire of any sort?

But if even Niu doesn't know what she is, then I would guess it's something that'll remain unanswered, though I'm still partial to the 'random Metal Demon' theory.

-Djinn

BaconForTheSoul · « **Reply #809 on:** February 20, 2009, 04:15:52 AM »

Yay I managed to slap Vista into working! However, my hero is now the mage Shazara. She's kinda of a bitch.

Anywho, onto the story. Due to the length I'm going to be using mainly bullet type sentences about minor points in the game, with actual sentences for major fights, etc.

CHAPTER 1: SARADUSH

Shazara and her companions defeated the first test in the pocket plane with relative ease and then headed to Saradush.

Fighting broke out in Saradush and an innocent bystander happened to get in the way of Shazara's Sunfire spell. The villagers were annoyed by this, but a quick trip to the town Cleric and 10,000 gold later, and everybody was happy again!

Scouting of the town revealed that
A. Some of the nobles were fightings amongst one another
B. The town mage had lost his spell book
C. Gromnir is an asshole.

Solutions to these problems.
A. Talk to one of the nobles, tell him you will help him, and then slaughter him before he can summon guards. Tell the Countess about her sons freedom and get 2000 gold as a reward. When you realized this is a cheap ass reward, kill her. Once again, the towns people didn't like this. Another trip to the Cleric and 10,000 gold later, everyone was happy.

B. Kill the bastard who took the book, give it back to the mage, buy a master thieving potion from the mage, and steal every last spell he has. Laugh your ass off that he doesn't notice someone in his own shop learning all of the spells that he used to have for sale.

C. After some thought, I Shazara decided that the best course of action would be to ask Gromnir's men for help. They refused to help me, so I killed them all and took a key to a sewer. Now, logic would say that a sewer key is useless, but Shazara knew that in this world any key found in a random chest is a great treasure. Eventually, Shazara and company headed into the sewers, eventually working their way into Gromnir's fortress where the true battle would begin.

GROMNIR:
Shazara and her companions marched straight into Gromnir's throne room and challenged him to a fight. At each side Gromnir had high level mages, and some excellent thieves and fighters were just a few stair steps away from joining the fray. It would be an epic battle that Bards would... wait what? A spell sequenced triple chain lightning killed his mages instantly and he died shortly thereafter? Damn, what a let down. Turns out Gromnir was a wimp.

After looting Gromnir and the Bhaalspawn that were with him, Shazara and her companions headed off in search of a way to beat the invincible Yaga Shura. (Spoiler, at least 1 person dies in the next Chapter.)

Next: Chapter 2: Yaga-Shura the invincible.

Captain K. · « **Reply #810 on:** February 20, 2009, 04:49:19 AM »

DQV: Pankraz for Bluelike. OH NOES, PLOT TWIST!

Also, I was kind of enjoying not having to drag coffins around when someone died. Ah well, it was too good to last.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #811 on:** February 20, 2009, 05:02:17 AM »

Quote from: DjinnAndTonic on February 20, 2009, 04:07:27 AM

Quote from: Shale on February 20, 2009, 01:55:15 AM
I don't recall her saying "Crimson Noble" specifically, but she is supposed to be a vampire of some sort.

I'm certain that there were no references to Belial doing any blood-drinking... it was Scythe that was drinking from her. They probably made some sort of reference to her having an unnaturally long lifespan (immortal?), but I don't think they used a term like 'undead' or anything.

I'm not sure how she's supposed to be a vampire of any sort?

But if even Niu doesn't know what she is, then I would guess it's something that'll remain unanswered, though I'm still partial to the 'random Metal Demon' theory.

-Djinn

In a lot of Vampire stuff, drinking vampire blood imparts special attributes as well, as we all learned from VtM: Bloodlines. Hers just has extra kick to it. She's supposed to be some kind of vampire for sure, one with all kinds of crazy over the top powers.

Taishyr · « **Reply #812 on:** February 20, 2009, 02:00:42 PM »

H3: One way teleporters can bite me.

WA:XF - Picked this up! ...FF5 may have competition for favorite non-FFT job based game. Also Labyrinthia's awesome. Tony has... one awesome scene thus far. Clarissa and Felius feel like Blond Virginia and Non-Emo Hauser/Gawn hybrid. I'm not sure what this says.

MHX: Also picked this up! ...damn I suck at dash-jumps/wall-dash-jumps on the PSP. ;_; THEY MADE FLAME MAMMOTH IRONICALLY HARDER YES. Still easyish if you're paying attention. (I wasn't.)

hinode · « **Reply #813 on:** February 20, 2009, 03:12:36 PM »

SRWW: Just finished the Paris side of the latest pathsplit.

The two ZA POWAA maps were great, 250 will + infinite HP/EN regen on the entire Gaogaigar cast for the win. Second one had infinite boss regeneration, which I abused the hell out of to pay for a ton of upgrades. Got FUB and 15 weapon bars on the Vals, Gaogaigar, and the male Ryubots, the latter just in time for the females to inherit them. The fight with Ankoku Daishogun was fun with all the new attacks for the Mazingers and Getter, even if I haven't been using them this run. The Zonuda fight was definately my favorite map, though. It's pretty much a plot fight, but a plot fight version of the Gaogaigar TV finale, with 5 subpilots for Star Gaogaigar is just badass.

The sidebar for casting spirits like Bless and Cheer on your current PC is really great, makes using the support stuff much easier. I can just use all my excess deployment slots on support PCs, drop them in the battleship, and forget about them until it's time for healing or boss killing. The increased cost on a bunch of spirits is a bit of a bummer though. I guess 20 SP Invincible (raised from 15) is to compensate for the many, many dodgy pilots who can potentially abuse it, but it makes it less useful for Super pilots looking to just help take a hit from a boss. 30 SP Strike (raised from 20) and 60 SP Bless (raised from 45) are just painful though. Strike now costs the same as Attune for reasons I can't understand.

On the unit front, decombine abuse with the Ryus got a whole lot more abusive when they all picked up Valor. Now instead of just spreading status around, they can throw out 4 Valor'd combo attacks per round off 6 SP pools and shared upgraded, which is just downright abusive. Didn't get a good look at the cross symmetral docking forms, since they were only came with ZA POWAA in the first half. Star Gaogaigar adds Gatling Driver for a bit more range on GGG, which is welcome. Presumably also some stat boosts but uh I didn't notice. <_< Mic Sounders also finally managed to pick up Disc X, plus some MAP stuff that looks interesting on paper, but which he has trouble using in practice due to the will reqs. At least the armor -30% status is welcome on bosses.

King J-Der is completely rediculous with 11K HP base, backed by heavy armor *and* a barrier *and* a DoubleImage clone. Throw in 3 pilots (+ 1 more later) and some good weapons and it's Gaogaigar-class broken. Valguard may well be worse though, with a whopping 6 pilots to start off with and battleship level HP.

Astray Red Frame starts off pretty meh... or rather it would if I didn't have enough cash left over from ZA POWAA abuse to give it 10 mobility upgrades and 13 weapon upgrades right off the bat. That inflated its performance a bit. <_< Lowe getting a subpilot is hax, though; it gives him Accel and Strike off a second SP pool.

The female Ryubots get repair/resupply and support-related spirits like Bless, which is kinda funny as IIRC they're supposed to be most offensive out of the bunch canonically. It's recompense for not having the Choryujin/Gekiryujin or Gouryujin/Genryujin combo attacks, I guess.

Idun · « **Reply #814 on:** February 20, 2009, 03:44:34 PM »

I'm doing a sidequest in FFXII that involves turning off and on water fountains. I'm annoyed. But I can do it.

Niu · « **Reply #815 on:** February 20, 2009, 04:52:06 PM »

Belial is justa random demon, the end.
There is nothing deep about her or anythig.

Shale · « **Reply #816 on:** February 20, 2009, 07:15:27 PM »

Kingdom Hearts: Started (finally! Meeple can put down the blowtorch.), in Wonderland. Fun game, with a very good sense of style - the Disney elements are really spot on. Combat's serviceable, and I expect it'll get better now that I've got a dodge roll. Would've been nice to have that during the living armor fight. Camera's as much of an issue as I heard, even with lock-on, but it's not a game-killer.

Grefter · « **Reply #817 on:** February 20, 2009, 10:29:57 PM »

The camera gets even better (ie worse) when you have to do more platforming Shale, Agrabah gooooooooooo and then anywhere you have to Glide as well! Much fun!

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #818 on:** February 21, 2009, 12:25:52 AM »

I have learned one thing in particular about SF4 so far-

Seth is an SNK boss. I know it says Capcom on the box but that fucker belongs in a Fatal Fury or something.

Xeroma · « **Reply #819 on:** February 21, 2009, 01:08:49 AM »

Seth falls for air attacks and focus attacks. He is kind of a whore though. Playable version is looking to be my main despite being a lot less powerful, oddly enough.

Grefter · « **Reply #820 on:** February 21, 2009, 01:25:34 AM »

Seth looked stupid, but yeah probably not quite SNK boss level from what I saw (Not that there isn't leeway for a large amount of bullshit between SNK boss and reasonable).

Captain K. · « **Reply #821 on:** February 21, 2009, 03:56:07 AM »

Oh please. Capcom was doing bullshit bosses long before SNK (points to avatar).

Pokemon Quest V: Note to Ciato: never play this game. Far too many puns for your health. I mean, really, Eyepods?

The fight against your old friend was terribly obscure, but I r smrt so I figured it out. Hint: You have to use a certain item in that fight.

Xeroma · « **Reply #822 on:** February 21, 2009, 05:30:28 AM »

SF1 Sagat is way worse than boss Seth, yeah.

hinode · « **Reply #823 on:** February 21, 2009, 05:56:49 AM »

Quote from: Captain K. on February 21, 2009, 03:56:07 AM

Oh please. Capcom was doing bullshit bosses long before SNK (points to avatar).

Pokemon Quest V: Note to Ciato: never play this game. Far too many puns for your health. I mean, really, Eyepods?

The fight against your old friend was terribly obscure, but I r smrt so I figured it out. Hint: You have to use a certain item in that fight.

When he learns the War Cry skill, or whatever it's renamed to now, try spamming it. Unless they nerfed it a lot from the original version it works on the vast majority of randoms, is fully MT, and has a 2/3 success rate or so, which really kept randoms in control.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #824 on:** February 21, 2009, 08:02:57 AM »

Quote from: Grefter on February 21, 2009, 01:25:34 AM

Seth looked stupid, but yeah probably not quite SNK boss level from what I saw (Not that there isn't leeway for a large amount of bullshit between SNK boss and reasonable).

He's not as quite as broken as an SNK boss, but he follows the mold: he took everyone's best moves and uses them better than any person can be expected to reasonably do. Still, I think he's less whorish than Shin Akuma from CvS2. I practiced for MONTHS to beat that fuck.

It turned out the solution? Use the Super-Rugal, because he's the only character that OP.

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Author Topic: Games you're playing: The 2009 edition. (Read 691833 times)

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