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

[Shale]

I saw it as both. His reputation is a joke, but his vendetta against Phoenix (based in stupidity though it is) is still real, and dangerous because of the power of his position.

[Dark Holy Elf]

Hmm. That's probably the best way to look at it.

[Dhyerwolf]

ToV- Believe I'm up to the hated healerless part of the game! Finally glad that the plot stopped using bad stalling tactics and actually started moving. Also found the 2 Hunting Blades fight to be surprisingly decent (Well...I should revise that. The Hunting Blade that wasn't Nan was decent. Nan was there), but I am incredibly disappointed that Yuri didn't off them. He had just said that he learned that he had to be harder (Which made no sense at all), but...he should at least cut off one of their hands and neutralized them. As he even says in the fight, they are fairly brainless but incredibly destructive.

Oh right, obviously seen Gale Dog too by this point. Kind of played around with it. Not sure quite what to make it of DLwise. Gut reaction is that...at some point in long boss fights, the timing will fuck up a little and people will get in attacks. Still...not at all sure how I quantify this. Hmm, I suppose using it immediately and this trying to immediately attack will result in Repede running a lot, which meant that intelligent AI could run away a little, force him to keep following until it wore off and then smack? Hmmmmmm.

[Niu]

Dhyer, Gale Dog can be refreshed. So there is no timing problem, just recast it before it wears off.

[Dhyerwolf]

Right, I'm aware of that. But there's no graphical indication for when it wears off, and given the extremely large number of turns he'll need to polish off some enemies, it doesn't seem unreasonable that every now and again the timing might slip a little. I really should use the next boss fight and see how well it holds up there.

[Dhyerwolf]

Of course, an hour or two after I write that I discover Repede's skill Free Running which now pending testing could take me back to a theoretical square 1 on him. Seems between that and giving him two extra ways to regen TP, he likes doing that!

Also, beat the Ruins Spoiler boss. Thank god about the spoiler because knowing that every time Raven was saying things about his ancient age of 30ish was incredibly grating. Sucked as a boss though despite the pure evil of activating overlimit knocking several characters down->using a high powered fairly widespread MA. At the least, caught me by surprise the first time. Despite that, fairly wimpy otherwise.

[NotMiki]

fairly wimpy otherwise.

But the secret mission!

[Pyro]

Is one of the easiest in the game? You just recover and whack him immediately after the MA.

Magna Carta 2: Very generic, yep. At least it is getting harder now.

[Crystalgate]

Fire Emblem Sacred Stones: Started it and played it to the point where I recruited Neimi and Colm.

I been killfeeding Eirika a lot, I think I overdid it actually. Doesn't matter though, I can always just stop. She was a bit unlucky with her strength growth, but has gotten more speed and defense than expected.

As for other characters, I think I use the strategy of "bring whoever I feel like" mostly. I think this Fire Emblem gives you plenty of side-quests, so I won't be too concerned with character optimization. Not that I think the game will be very difficult on Normal anyway.

I don't expect the story to be particular good, but so far it has done a good job of keeping a lot of interesting things going on simultaneously.

[jsh357]

Phoenix Wright T&T - Up to 3-2 now. Hmm. One thing I really need to do this playthrough is sort out my opinion of Godot. I'm still unsure how to take him. I just saw the scene where he gets hyped as this new super-dangerous prosecutor... but of course he's never prosecuted a case in his life. So surely this hype is tongue-in-cheek, mocking the hype previous prosecutors got. But it seems shockingly played straight otherwise. Kinda the story of Godot here, the game can't seem to decide if he's an incompetent joke or this scary nemesis for Phoenix. Maybe I'm just missing something.

Well, part of it is probably satire too.
Read this article for more info: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_253/7530-Phoenix-Wrights-Objection

Personally, I love Godot.  He's my favorite villain in the series.

[Dark Holy Elf]

On the other hand, having just finished 3-2, I can safely say he ranks fairly near the bottom of the list of "major" PW characters for me. I just don't find his ramblings to be particularly funny (I get what they're satirising, it doesn't work for me), and there's no satisfaction in beating him (despite the fact that there should be since he's so rude to Phoenix) because he's such a bad prosecutor. In 3-2, the defendant does more to damage your case than he does, I'm pretty sure. <_<

I've read that article, and yeah, it's good stuff.

[superaielman]

FE8- Fail less, Moulder. Getting OHKOed by an enemy knight is just mind bogglingly bad. That was on map 8, I think? Whichever one is right before the pathsplit.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

XF - Act 2 begins!

* Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee is now known as Hello-shutupragnarthedralWaddleDee

[Yoshiken]

Final Fantasy Summer Challenge (Beat FFs I-X/X-2/XII within 2 months) is go. Barely played FFI, outside Elfland. FF3, just cleared the Tower of Owen. I forgot how annoyingly grindy FF3 (DS) earlygame is.

[Meeplelard]

Annoyingly Grindy?  Funny, I never grinded once in FF3DS (barring one instance where it was to get Thief to JL71 for Gungnir, but that was against pathetic FC enemies mid game) >_>

[Yoshiken]

Mostly just wandering between towns a little, but I had to do some extra training before Djinn's Cave, Wyvern's Nest and the Tower of Owen.
But, y'know, Nepto's Palace was fine!

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I never stopped to grind at any moment in FF3DS either. Those places you mentioned aren't even particularly difficult.

EDIT:

WAXF - 2-2. Okay then, two Sentinels ain't enough and I need classes with better move than Elementalists to get up to the first ledge. At least everybody was doing essentially dualclassing before, but I'll need to check Gadgeteer's MAG in order to find out whether Gadgy Clarissa is a proper carrier for Elementalist skillset or not. Alternatively, I could just grab another level in a random fight, since most of my party is near L20. Of course, if I didn't have a stray Drifter hanging out in Sentinel, this would be more annoying. -ON THE OTHER HAND-, this probably explains the Sentinel +1 armor pieces I got just beforehand. Go figure.

[Shale]

Congratulations, you've now reached the point where I told WAXF to fuck off in favor of something with actual game design.

[Pyro]

You've also reached the point where it stops pulling that kind of thing.

Ironic.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

To Shale: the weird part is that is the first time WAXF ever actually -annoyed- me with its design. All the other maps besides the prison mission I found very fun and rather flexible even with the class railing. -This- mission ended up poorly designed due to something that should be independent of classes, which is where it actually gets to me. Whatever, I'll just pick different classes and mangle it all the same once it goes.

[Shale]

Maybe (I still refuse to believe that anything approaching proper stage design came out of the XF braintrust), but I ended up playing Crisis Core that much sooner as a result, so I regret nothing.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Warning: Super-long and full of SPOILERS, if you care.

So I finally finished Xenosaga 3.

http://www.rpgdl.com/forums/index.php/topic,5135.0.html

I promised chat a rant. It ended up far longer than I expected.

[superaielman]

Not enough Shion hate.

[Cmdr_King]

Oh.  If you want to suffer more, beating the game unlocks new Database entries.  Check some of that shit out.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Not enough Shion hate.

Well, I had to save some for Kevin, Mary, and chaos!