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

[Anthony Edward Stark]

So....this is the end of the series?

Given how much money it made? This is Capcom we're talking about here.

[Meeplelard]

Don't they have *2* RE Spin offs planned for the 3DS?

And I think they did state that RE6 is a confirmed title, just that they haven't done any real work on it, and that's why there's literally no info about it.  Could be wrong, but...

Well, considering that RE is apparently their best selling Franchise of all time, to think RE5 is going to be the end is silly.  MAYBE it'll be the end of the main storyline (I haven't played the game, I just know Wesker gets a volcanic lava bath), and they'll take an RE4-style route for plot in the next game, but who knows.  I'm sure there will be another Main-stream title down the line, or at least a Code Veronica type game (ie "This could have been in the main stream based on plot, game play, and characters used, but we're pretending its a spin off cause its on a different console!")

But yeah, its naive to think this would be the end of RE, much as the plot may imply it.  I'm personally waiting for a "Resident Evil Outlaw" with Clemens Redfield gunning down zombies on a horse in 1873 US.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Betting 10 bucks that Wild West RE will have Wesker.

EDIT: By that, I don't mean a predecessor. I mean "complete global... PENETRATION MASTURBATION CASTRATION saturation" Wesker.

[Xeroma]

One of the REs on 3DS is just a mishmash of RE4 and RE5 Mercenaries mode. Which is pretty cool for handheld, but.

[Meeplelard]

Betting 10 bucks that Wild West RE will have Wesker.

EDIT: By that, I don't mean a predecessor. I mean "complete global... PENETRATION MASTURBATION CASTRATION saturation" Wesker.

I figured that went without saying.  I also figured that "Being hurled into a volcano and blown up after turning into a monstrosity caused him to FULLY HEAL and travel back over 100 years in time!" would be a given as a plot point too.

[Magic Fanatic]

Mesarthim - Only had for one dungeon, but I have to point out that Life Rain is awesome.

You can go back and get her permanently if you want to, at least in Asellus's quest. I do this in pretty much every quest that lets me because yay Life Rain.

If I don't miss my guess, you can permanently recruit Mesarthim in any quest where you can get a non-Silence Mystic to join you.

...Right?

[Just Another Day]

PokeWhite, some thoughts.

Got this a few days ago, just beat the third gym. It's the first pokemon game I've played in Japanese, so that's a bit of adjustment (cross-language puns are weird). But I like it so far, a number of the gameplay/interface advances are welcome (way more in-battle information). Lack of an autorun function is aargh, though.

Smug snake has probably the worst first form of any starter. Particularly with Tackle beefed. Vine Whip is barely batter even with STAB, and there's very little that Grass is effective against for the first couple of towns.

Not that I regret choosing him. Smug snake is clearly superior to constipated otter or pork roast.

I like the innovation of the first gym always playing against your weaknesses (it changes depending on which starter you choose).

The lack of pokemon from older generations in the main game feels like a good choice. Makes it less unwieldy. As always, I kinda wonder if we needed another Pidgey clone, Rattata clone etc., but this generation is no worse than previous ones, and not having the older editions around at least hides the similarities somewhat. And pokemon inventory feels like it diverges pretty quickly. Plenty of type combination innovation and whatnot.

Haven't really warmed up to many of the new pokes aesthetically, though I think I might decide to like the grumpy centipede.

Still deciding how I feel about the unlimited TM use. I think it's probably a good choice, I'm far more likely to make use of kinda marginal moves that I get TMs for, rather than hoarding them for some highly unlikely future in which they'll be actually useful. And it makes finding them a bigger deal. Obviously I have no idea how it'll affect after- and end-game yet, I could see that getting a bit weird, but it will presumably remove the reason to waste hours and hours on casino bullshit and/or cheat to land the e.g. 3 Earthquake tms you need to round out your final team.

Yeah, so far so good. Wish I'd gotten that Jirachi a few months back. I like foxes. (or does Canada even get the wi-fi event stuff? I've never tried)

[Sierra]

Mesarthim - Only had for one dungeon, but I have to point out that Life Rain is awesome.

You can go back and get her permanently if you want to, at least in Asellus's quest. I do this in pretty much every quest that lets me because yay Life Rain.

If I don't miss my guess, you can permanently recruit Mesarthim in any quest where you can get a non-Silence Mystic to join you.

...Right?

Believe so. Which is...I want to say most of them. I'm pretty sure Riki's quest is excluded because Riki's quest is ass. Can't remember about T260G/Blue (I think not in Blue's case since he can't recruit Timelord and there aren't many other widely-available mystics?), she's definitely permanent in the others.

[Luther Lansfeld]

I think you can get Dr. Nusakan in Blue's?

[Dark Holy Elf]

Everyone except T260G can get Mesarthim, via one of Nusakan or Timelord at worst.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

I think if I ever made a game, the leads would rail the fuck out of each other like a third of the way through the game just to get it out of their systems.

In other news, a group of Bros and I got together and played Left 4 Dead 2, or as I like to call it... Left 5 Dead. As it turns out they are all much better than me, as my goal is mostly to re-enact scenes from Machete.

[AndrewRogue]

World of Warcraft: Patch 4.0.1. I dunno shit anymore.

[Grefter]

As above, I am weak.  Only paying for a month just to see things and then the plan is to be out again.

Frost DK priority list feels completely alien and everything feels slow as fuck (part of this is bad play) and I like have nothing to do during AoE.  The most versatile DK AoE spec has one thing to do during AoE now.  It is weird.  Might swap to unholy and give it a play.  Blood tree now as the tanking one, I specced blood for the first time.  Fiddled with that a bit.  Not at all happy with it.  Blood rotation was boring which was the reason I haven't played.  It feels slow as well.  I found DK tanking already slow and incredibly reliant on amazing timing with RP and runes to come up.  With everything being slower this just exacerbates the case.  Especially since you can't reach the reduced DnD CD talent at 80...  Edit - Talent doesn't exist anymore, will have to investigate DK changes more.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Well, paladin tanks are still pretty good except for the lack of a shield wall, which I will get at 85. And since that is the only spec I care about, I'm happy.

[Shale]

Sonic 4: You can really tell they used Sonic 2 as their bible - to the point where I couldn't tell you what the casino zone's music sounds like because all I could hear was the Casino Night Zone theme. It works more often than not. Timing the homing attack can be finicky, and it's waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too easy to get extra lives (I'm in zone 2, act 2, and have 18), but it's very much got the spirit of the Genesis games. Woo!

One Chaos Emerald so far. Stupid Sonic 1-style special stages.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Everyone except T260G can get Mesarthim, via one of Nusakan or Timelord at worst.

Yeah, but if you can beat TimeLord, you really don't need Mesarthim... >.>;;

[Luther Lansfeld]

You don't have to beat Timelord to get him... in fact the only quest you fight him in you can't get him!

[Magic Fanatic]

WA:ACF - Alright, I...  Put this game on hold for a good long while, but after realizing that a friend of mine had almost caught up to me in plot, I decided to go kind of turbo in how far I got.

Point of start: Town of Milama just before going through the Sand Canal.

Remembered that I was originally grinding Trolls for Fast Draw XP.  Eventually got bored of that and went through the Sand Canal proper.

Sand Canal:  Eh...  Not an enjoyable place.  Did not enjoy the fact that I had to find that damn monkey every time I wanted to progress.  Tile path puzzles were a pain for a while - oddly, the first was the hardest one of all.  Was glad to be out of there, and went back in to get the bonus items.  Yay.

Ship Graveyard:  Blah.

Gento Soen:  I like the design of this place.  Boss was annoying, what with an HP -> 1 attack, but I never really felt threatened.  Yay, Light-elemental summon.  Other than that...  Oh god, I have to go back for a secret boss.

Ship Graveyard:  Got Acute Angle.  It doesn't see a lot of use due to being too expensive when I first get it - getting it trained up with Trolls takes a while later in plot.  Bart plot again.

Ghost Ship:  This...  Has got to be the first real bit of plot change in ACF that I really liked - it was actually made relevant to Filgaia's history.  The computers onboard really give it the feeling of a warship used long ago, but it also makes the game feel a lot shorter, due to Rudy getting his third tool in here.  Boss was a pain in the ass, but I liked that - the game finds different ways to remain challenging.  It was also the first real time I had to use items.  Game gave me a 15-minute timer to escape, but I didn't need more than 5.  Free healing inside the ship was also cool - I really wish I could have taken that First Aid Kit with me.

Filgaia:  And SO MUCH opens up to me now.  Sword Swipe get.  Too bad it's useless - it can't even kill Rat Monkeys.  Still have yet to use Holy Man Sorrow.  However, not ready to stop here.

Rosetta Town:  I hate the townspeople here so damn much.  Not quite as much as the people in Surf Village, but it's still close.

Secret Garden:  Yay I love this place~.  Plot out of the way at the grove to the south and more Rosetta Town blah, and I can grow stuff~.  I take this moment to unload a whole lot of Heal Berries, and work on a few other plants.

Rosetta Town 2: Jane and McDullen get.  Now I'm stopping plot for a while, so I may farm MP Repairs.  I also ground up Jack's Fast Draws, so now Burst Breaker and Acute Angle only cost 3 MP.  I really hate how this game hamstrings MP regeneration so hard, so I'm kind of looking forward to when I can get Mariel as a Temp.

Overall?  I like Jane because I like stealing stuff.  Cecilia sees a lot of use, mostly due to Analyze hype.  Third slot rotates as I see fit.

[AndrewRogue]

WoW: After screwing around with it some, I really have to say, some of the changes are really weird. Most notable to me is Ret Pally (since I'm in the middle of levelling one. I'll be switching to Prot and Holy once I hit the cap, but until then...). My rotation has some really long moments of downtime, interspersed with sudden "OH SHI- HIT EXORCISM AND THIRD HOLY POWER POPPED!" The Crusader Strike cooldown just feels so looooooong now.

Also have no idea how to AoE grind anymore. Divine Storm feels like shit now. Maybe I need to just focus on using Holy Power for Word of Glory?

On a positive note though, my mana is even more limitless then it used to be. And thanks to Word of Glory, so is my health.. Whee.

[Twilkitri]

My GBA Breath Of Fire 1 decided to delete my saves. Eternal sadness.
Unsure whether the problem is with the cart or with my DS (which is somewhat hostile to GBA games for some reason, but never to this point) or if it is just a generic copy despite not matching any of the common tells. Won't be starting again on this particular cart - have no desire to reenact my previous experience with a generic MMBN2.

[Grefter]

Poor Ret pallies, they will just have to get by on unlimited resources, tons of damage and free/cheap healing instead of AoEing shit down

Played the Warlock a bit, I have no idea how to Demo properly when I setup keys on the run to a boss.  Spell textures not showing up on the ground is bad for a game that is all about zoning LOL YOU DIDN'T GET OUT FO THE INVISIABLE AOE.

Changes are interesting, but the game is still the same.  Probably will stop.  Not going to even log into the rogue so I don't fall into that trap.

[Scar]

Ugh. My friend wants me to hop back into WoW for this new expansion, but I have lost the MMO fever and I fear if I try for even a little bit...I may be lost forever. (Not true, but still.)

Red Dead Redemption - it's fun. It's GTA. That should keep me busy for a long time. I wonder if any of these expansions are worth the purchase....

I'm currently in Thives town cheating my way through poker games. Not that I need to, but it's fun all the same.

[Tide]

Arc Rise Fantasia - Oh my god. We're finally done. DONE. If you've been in chat, you know vaguely just the amount of rage I had to go through while playing this game. Objectively, the game's probably around 4, but I'll probably end up docking it to a 3. There's some moments in the game and the core battle system isn't trashy. That alone should be better than XS3, which is at 2. Still, this was an extremely disappointing game all around. Full rant to come by later. If you've watched the stream, you probably know what my biggest complaint about the battle system is (battles just take way too long), but I'll get into that for the full rant. Hell yes, we're finally done.

[DomaDragoon]

Scar: For the RDR add-ons, the only one that is primarily single-player is the upcoming zombie one (where you get to dress like Ash, apparently). All the others are for the free-roam/multiplayer stuff. If you like free-roam, feel free to check them out.

As for what I'm playing, I started up Pokemon: Colosseum and have gotten to Mt. Battle. The game is decent so far, though I can't help but get the feeling that in the end I'll wind up disappointed. I want a real console Pokemon RPG

[Taishyr]

I want Pokemon Snap 2.