Let's Play Some Motherf*$&ing Games: 2010!!!!!!

[Cmdr_King]

Oh, yeah, it does fit.  I'm just surprised that they spent the time to code specific AI for it.

Edit- I'd recommend checking out the endings on Youtube.  As a rule, Female Revya has better variations.  Gig and Danette are a must.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Female Revya/ Levin ending is my personal favorite.

Also, GAME IS NOT DONE UNTIL YOU'VE BEATEN DEMON PATH.

You are only 70% complete. You really shouldn't even think of it as having 'beaten the game' until you've done Demon Path. That's like calling VP1's B ending a real ending.

[Excal]

You mean the path that's labeled with the Bad End marker?  Suikoden 5 has some awesome Bad Ends too.  Doesn't mean that you haven't beaten the game just because you haven't gotten them.  As for the endings, I totally intend to youtube them after I beat Demon Path, for all that I don't expect there to be more than one there.

[Cmdr_King]

Demon Path does have two endings, based on whether you win or lose the last battle (so, you can easily get both of those yourself.)

[Shale]

DQ4 - Got the twins and Taloon now.

... seriously? They basically made Taloon like one of the temp characters. He pretty much does his own thing in fights. Can't wait to get Ryan or Alena.

Yeah, Taloon's kind of not good in combat. Out of combat he's got Padfoot and Whistle, though, and those are nice to have.

[DjinnAndTonic]

You mean the path that's labeled with the Bad End marker?  Suikoden 5 has some awesome Bad Ends too.  Doesn't mean that you haven't beaten the game just because you haven't gotten them.  As for the endings, I totally intend to youtube them after I beat Demon Path, for all that I don't expect there to be more than one there.

Suikoden 5's Bad Ends are not nearly as lengthy as Soul Nomad's. Also, Demon Path has a lot of the better stuff in it IMO.

[Excal]

Staying in the castle is a fairly long bad end, man.  And both it and joining Barrows have some decent stuff.

[Fudozukushi]

You mean the path that's labeled with the Bad End marker?  Suikoden 5 has some awesome Bad Ends too.  Doesn't mean that you haven't beaten the game just because you haven't gotten them.  As for the endings, I totally intend to youtube them after I beat Demon Path, for all that I don't expect there to be more than one there.

Suikoden 5's Bad Ends are not nearly as lengthy as Soul Nomad's. Also, Demon Path has a lot of the better stuff in it IMO.

Bad End 1 is.  Sorta.



WoW: So, I was clearing trash in ICC 10 the other day.  Deathsworn Ward pops up and the ally NPCs jump in.  Including Darion's horse.  I have no idea.  Also the DK T10 Helm is the most absurd thing.  I want it.

[Grefter]

The NPCs on the way to Marrowgar will do that, if you dodge all the wards in the first room it is pretty easy to get ambushed up the arse by a Deathsworn Ward or 2 because the NCPs charge in through the cleared room and set off the alarms.  Many good times had there.  Fury will tend to only charge at stuff in that first doorway though.

[superaielman]

... seriously? They basically made Taloon like one of the temp characters. He pretty much does his own thing in fights. Can't wait to get Ryan or Alena.

He needs that to compete with the other PC's.  His stats are miserable next to the other PC's, which makes sense. He's a merchant, not a trained soldier.

[Clear Tranquil]

He also makes us rich yesss~

[Scar]

DQ4

Lv 23ish, just got the Z shield from those amazons.

My title is now Frosty Foe and I have collected 15 mini medals!

Huzzah~

[Pyro]

Dragon Age Origins:

Game continues to be fun. My main has mastered Arcane Warrior and the basic invulnerability that comes with that class. Throw in the fact that I have enough equips to more than offset the Mana drain of the mode abilities and I can even throw a spell or two around while pretending to be a tank warrior (and kicking the actual tank warrior's ASS at that job). The main solo'd a plot-fight that is supposed to be too hard to win. Tank is understatement. Other than that, Cone of Cold is hax, Force Field removes a threat from play while you kill other stuff, and fighters just do their jobs to kill things. Leliana's GT stun+damage move is very nice though. Melee folks dish out good damage but it tends to be of the ST variety. Mages are your god.

Plot is of course dark and cynical as to be expected. No surprise there. Interesting that the game actively rewards you for making pragmatic decisions that are still kind of the act of an asshole. I suppose that fits with the "gray" theme. For example freeing an Earl who is a known rapist gets you support for a decide-who-gets-to-be-king sidequest, while leaving him in prison gets you nothing but fuzzy feelings. At least in KoTOR they gave you light side points. None of that nonsense here. And it seems that even some courses of action that seem blatantly 'wrong' end up having superior consequences to the goodie-goodie alternative. Notably letting the clearly power-hungry Bhelen ascend to the throne. After all, who cares if you are a dick to your pampered enemies when you want to end the system that has basically enslaved/criminalized a good portion of your population for hundreds of years?

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Honestly, the Dwarves are screwed either way. They can either exist in a stifling caste-based system or they can probably get overrun by Darkspawn (since that's what the Caste system was created to fight).

[Grefter]

They need to get out from underground to survive, simple as that.  The dwarves in the best situation are the surface dwarves.

Edit - Of course then they are probably just jumping into the same situation as Elves, but it is generally better than the Orzamar slums and caste system.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

SRWK - The Levlius is still terrible. Also, seriously, Godannar, tit tommy guns?

[Sierra]

TO: Completed inventory of maingame items. The game initially refused to acknowledge this and I had to stomp the final boss again before it took notice. Weird. Anyway, I was clearly overlevelled for the boss thus unlocked, but you know what? That's a nice change of pace by this point. The two recruits I got from that...well, the actual boss looks decent enough. Her friend is uh. Well, the offense is unsalvageable. She makes Reisen look like a champion slugger. Support skills might be nice, will have to try them out and see how much the buffs/debuffs are for.

Still walled by any boss I can access right now. Since one of them's blocking progress on floor 26 I guess I don't have any choice but to grind past them. 100k damage limits are not even remotely survivable, though. I mean, that's with most everyone already halving the element. Komachi only has ~85k HP! Tenshi managed to cut the 26F boss's limit to 50k or so by virtue of having State of Enlightenment up, so I guess my only hope is to twink her out to resist the appropriate element and hope the horrible overkill attacks are OPB.

[DomaDragoon]

Wild ARMs XF: Yes, I'm the latest to start playing this. Just cleared 1-3. A few thoughts:

-Please, please tell me that Clarissa isn't the one she looks like. They can't be serious with that cliche, right? RIGHT?

-Are there random encounters or repeatable battles? I want to level up everyone and give them everything.

-1.1: In Which Clarissa Gets "assaulted" By A Dog. (Come on, it can't be just me who was a little disturbed by the post-game scene, even though I know full well that's not what they were going for.)

-1.2: In Which Even The Girls Want Clarissa.

-1.3: In Which We Learn That Class Changes Are Not Optional, And When They Want You To Change Class, They Don't Mean Just One Character Unless You Want To Spend Fifteen Minutes On Just One Level As Your Slowest Person Is The Only One Who Can Break Barrels (But I'm Not Bitter).

[Sierra]

There are repeatable battles, but not actual randoms. You fight them when you want to but you never have to. I don't know how early this becomes an option, though.

[Shale]

SRWK - The Levlius is still terrible. Also, seriously, Godannar, tit tommy guns?

They exercised incredible restraint compared to the anime. Remember Stripperlion?

Also, which one's Levlius again? If it's the main mech, trust me, it gets better.

[Meeplelard]

-Please, please tell me that Clarissa isn't the one she looks like. They can't be serious with that cliche, right? RIGHT?

To answer this...well...its a spoiler, but probably not in the way you're thinking.  If you don't mind being spoiled then, well...

SPOILERS
Clarissa is and she isn't Alexia.  By which I mean she is Alexia BIOLOGICALLY, but she's not the same Alexia that people like Labyrinthia are acquainted with.  That Alexia is actually is Clarissa's mother's ACTUAL daughter, while Clarissa is the ACTUAL Princess Alexia, however, due to an incident and their striking similarity in appearances (which apparently is purely coincidental; such things ARE possible in real life, for 2 totally unrelated people to have striking similarities to one another),  they got swapped at a young age, and this factor was never discovered.  The scenario is actually well illustrated in game, cause it gets around such questions like "wait, wouldn't the mother recognize her own daughter's outfit?" or "Why would those two HAPPEN to be in the same place?"
END SPOILERS

The game never outright states this, but all the evidence is there, to the point where if its NOT true, then that's a shit load of red herrings they tossed out there...and hell, it not being true only contradicts the plot points and setting they built up related to a few things, so it'd be especially stupid to deny it.

Sort of like how Claude and Syliva if FE4 are strongly suggested to be long lost siblings, but then Nintendo said "No, they're not; Sylvia's similarities are all coincidental, and her shared Holy Blood is from some other distant relative of Claude's!"  Difference is, Claude/Sylvia being siblings is vaguely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, so its more a "Ok, you wasted all that time implying she was, only to say she's not?" Granted, $5 says they INTENDED Them to be long lost siblings, but then they recognized "wait, we're strongly promoting incest cause those two CAN mate..." and decided to go against it later <_<

[Dark Holy Elf]

You get access to "randoms" after 1-4, IIRC. Might be 1-5.

Be warned that high-end skills come very slowly except against one particular opponent (basically the game's grind spot) who becomes available in early Part 2. It's fine to fight a few randoms to pick up a few lower-level skills, but I don't suggest grinding for ATK+25% yet.

(Of course, I don't really suggest grinding in general, but if you're going to do it, do it right!)

[Shale]

-1.3: In Which We Learn That Class Changes Are Not Optional, And When They Want You To Change Class, They Don't Mean Just One Character Unless You Want To Spend Fifteen Minutes On Just One Level As Your Slowest Person Is The Only One Who Can Break Barrels (But I'm Not Bitter).

Yeah, get used to that. It's what XF uses in place of things like level design, challenge and fun.

[Luther Lansfeld]

*is almost done with XF ^_^*

[Pyro]

Yeah, get used to that. It's what XF uses in place of things like level design, challenge and fun.

Chapter 1 spams these at you a few times. Chapter 2 has one fight where you must use at least 2 Sentinels, and then there is a puzzle level or two later on. The vast majority of fights are straight up "Kill shit"