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

[Pyro]

Cid: It's a But Thou Must moment.

[Shale]

Odin Sphere: At the midpoint of Cornelius' chapter, which means I can start eating out at the Pooka village. Hello, triple-digit HP increases.

[Luther Lansfeld]

Suikoden 3- Decided to try another replay of this. It's pretty fun so far, the different perspectives offered in Chapter 1 is pretty awesome. I just love how villainous all the Zexen Knights (except Chris and Salome at least) come off in the Geddoe and Hugo chapters. Playing the chapters in different order makes things fun. Right now I just saved a kiddo with Thomas.

So far I am enjoying the replay more than I did in previous attempts. I think some of the dialogue is really stiff and awkward, but Geddoe's chapter in particular has pretty awesome dialogue. Chris's chapters have some good stuff too. Not a huge fan of Hugo as always but he's better than I remembered.

Boss random in area = harder than almost all Suikoden 5 bosses. For realz.

[Monkeyfinger]

Freedom Force- Just started this. It's an RPG with comic book characters, what's not to love? The interface is as clunky as you'd expect from a PC RPG from the early 00's, but it still has sharp writing and the game is pretty.  First mission's done, starting on the second. I need to be careful about bugginess, as the game has issues with windows 7.

My favorite character? Mentor. That voice... FUCK.

NU-CLE-AR WINTER.... NU-CLE-AR WINTER....

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

XF - Beat! Holy hell, I shudder to think what would have happened to me if I didn't have two PCs with Attack +25% spamming Invoke'd Six Shooters against the final. That was probably my premier offense tool against bosses and made their HP less scary, because sheesh 6000 XF HP running off XF boss stats is pretty frightening even with the level of twinking available (I was nearing 1k with Invoke+Six Shooter+Command Critical on Alexia after Fragile+Debilitator, and Hyper would likely bring that figure up, but fuck Ragnar), and that fight could've easily gone out of control. I probably lucked out with Katrina -massively-, but yeah.

Anyhow, will gather my thoughts on a later day about the game - there's a lot to cover and I need to sleep. But the rating I gave it probably says it all. I think only LFT is a cooler SRPG than XF from all the ones I played, and LFT is special.

[OblivionKnight]

hyping a lolpatch as the best SRPG you played?  try playing a real patch like 1.3, then compare this XF (which sounds like it has all the problems of LFT!  wow, 1000 damage attacks!  that's...stupid!  use strategy in your battles, noob) to that

Trolling for humour, please don't hurt me!

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

* Jo'ou Ranbu mails OK to Shion on Ice: When The Pantyshots Flash~

[Dhyerwolf]

Wizard of Oz- So....there's a way to go to a default non-insane control scheme, right?!

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Super Street Fighter 4. A friend of mine is really in to it, so I decided to brush up (was, at one point, a fair hand at normal SF4). I play Abel primarily at the moment, but played as Cody for a while because shit, it's Final Fight, and kind of liked him. Not sure he's particularly practical, but I like having the option to pick up a knife and start cutting a bitch.

Also, Abel's new ultra combo? I don't like it as much. Yes, objectively it is a better move. But he doesn't do that thing where he looks at his hand and his eyes go all crazy and he starts screaming at the top of his lungs.

[Pyro]

You get used to the track-ball, Dhyer. And given the style of dungeons it's at least more interesting than just holding a direction button!

[Dark Holy Elf]

Suikoden 5 - Just saved Lordlake, woohoo. Shigure is pretty badass at first, Lyon smashes things but that goes without saying, and I just got Zerase so the broken is only going to cascade from here. Writing and the general plot construction remains top-notch on a replay. The major characters feel much more human than in most RPGs. Well, besides Lucretia anyway. And the silent main.

[Niu]

Last Ranker- Hmmm?? Does the rankers gets weaker as story progress? Some of them does half the damage for no reason just because an event has passed. Though level indeed > all. The optional bosses kinda fall apart as long as Zig's level is over 40.

[Rozalia]

WKC - I must have spent 10 hours doing nothing but beating Big reds ass on monday but I don't mind because I am finally GR10! YEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!

My reward? MOAR GRINDING! However it is of the material kind so I don't have to look at big reds fugly face for a while now.

Also, Abel's new ultra combo? I don't like it as much. Yes, objectively it is a better move. But he doesn't do that thing where he looks at his hand and his eyes go all crazy and he starts screaming at the top of his lungs.

I'd go as far to say his ultra 2 is the best in the game. He could do it full screen out of the blue and its still 50-50 if you're going to get hit or not because it becomes a guessing game. Do you wait to see if he holds it? If you do and he comes stright away you're getting hit. Do you use your ultra/or jump in the hopes he'll come stright away? Oh wait he held it so you've just fluffed your ultra/or not and are going to getting an ultra to the face.

[dude789]

Pokemon Platinum Wally playthrough: I just beat Volkner and am about to head up to Victory Road. Levels are 46 all around so I'll probably have to grind a little because I would like Gallade to have Close Combat for the E4 and 53 seems like a good solid level to challenge the E4. The last few battles haven't been very challenging. Cyrus 2 was much easier now that I have Magnezone because Murkrow can't really do much to it and Magnezone OHKOs it back.

I got very lucky on the final Cyrus battle. I started with Gardevoir because I couldn't remember what his starting pokemon was. It was Houndoom but I decided to stick it out and hope Gardevoir could land a Thunderbolt before it was beaten. He uses Dark Pulse and Gardevoir flinches. I send in Altaria to EQ it and from there on I just get a ton of critical hits and other lucky breaks. He sends in Weavile next so I send in Gallade to OHKO it with a fighting move. It decides to use Fake Out which activates Steadfast which allows Gallade to go first the next turn and OHKO it back with Drain Punch healing all the damage from Fake Out in the process. Honchkrow is next so I send out Magnezone. It Heatwaves which 2HKOs and I use Discharge thinking it will also 2HKO but it gets a critical hit and Honchkrow is down. I sacrifice Magnezone against his Gyarados to revive Gardevoir and send it in to Thunderbolt it. Once again I get a critical hit and OHKO it although this one probably wasn't necessary because after Tracing Intimidate the Gyarados's damage wasn't very threatening. His final pokemon is Crobat so I send in Gallade against it. He Confuse Ray's Gallade but Gallade is able to use Psycho Cut which puts Crobat in red. The next turn Cyrus uses a full restore, Gallade snaps out of confusion, and gets a critical hit to finish Crobat off.

I also got somewhat lucky against Volkner. Gardevoir did most of the heavy lifting in this battle. He started out with Jolteon so I sent in Gardevoir to trace Volt Absorb. He uses Iron Tail twice and misses with it once and Gardevoir 2HKOs it with Psychic. He sends in Raichu next so I swap out to Magnezone. Apparently his Raichu knows Focus Blast, but it misses and I paralyze him with Discharge. The next turn I get a critical hit with Discharge and Raichu is paralyzed. Magnezone finishes it off with Hyper Beam. At this point he only has Electvire and Luxray left. Luxray is taken out by Gallade and Altaria, and I sent in Delcatty to bait the Electivire into using Thunderpunch and then swap to Gardevoir to get the Motor Drive boost and outslug it with Psychic.       

[Idun]

So far I am enjoying the replay more than I did in previous attempts. I think some of the dialogue is really stiff and awkward, but Geddoe's chapter in particular has pretty awesome dialogue. Chris's chapters have some good stuff too. Not a huge fan of Hugo as always but he's better than I remembered.

I believe I played through S3's storyline like Hugo - Geddo - Chris and then repeat. And to be honest, it makes the ending on Chris's storyline a bit too awkward. Glad you're liking it though, because I love S3 and people seem to collectively bash it.

[Meeplelard]

The DL in general is collectively Pro-Suikoden 3, actually.  Those who bash it, from my experience, are those who were obsessed with Suikoden 2 and were expecting ANOTHER SUIKO 2 but instead got a different game entirely...cause god forbid a sequel should something different and original compared to its predecessor, let alone a VERY LOOSE sequel.

The funniest part is?  These same people of course bash S4, with the reasons being that it...basically went back to being more like Suikoden 2.

So really, its just a clear case of unpleasable fanbase. 

(S4 has other problems of course that deserve bashing, but I'm referring to a specific kind of fan here, not so much the general view.)

[Dark Holy Elf]

S3 seems pretty widely-liked in most circles now, though it was certainly bashed a lot back when it came out.

Most everyone agrees that S4 is one of the series' weak links, regardless of their relative opinions on the other games. S4's flaws are just too obvious, and strung across multiple facets of the game, to not attract this.

[Bardiche]

I liked S4 too, but yeah, definitely weakest. S3 is probably one of the strongest? S2->S3->S1/5->S4->Tierkreis, I think...

[Shale]

I'm an unpleasable hate-base! I'm different, at least.

[Idun]

Meeple,

Game bashing is just getting old to me. For clarification though, my statement was directed passed the DL community.

[DomaDragoon]

Penny Arcade Episode 1: Cleared it. Game was a relatively short average-fest, but at least it wasn't outright bad.

[Cotigo]

The only bad part of S3 is the game's gameplay.  I'm all for experimenting away from standard turn based systems (ala S1/2/4/5) but when the implementation ends up being worse than those systems I'm not giving you credit for it (Your unit didn't attack because its pathfinding screwed up during the turn, even though the game said you could attack that round?  HAHAHA.  Fuck off game).  It also has the problem of forcing you to trek across its uninteresting dungeons until lategame when you get the Vikis.  Granted, in light of S4 this is a much smaller complaint nowadays.

Plotwise it's the best of the Suikodens (haven't played S5, probably won't); worse ideas and characters at its core than S2, but much better polish and execution.  Considering none of the games really shine gameplay wise, this is what ends up mattering.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

SO1r - TRI-ACE PROGRAMMING

[Luther Lansfeld]

So far I am enjoying the replay more than I did in previous attempts. I think some of the dialogue is really stiff and awkward, but Geddoe's chapter in particular has pretty awesome dialogue. Chris's chapters have some good stuff too. Not a huge fan of Hugo as always but he's better than I remembered.

I believe I played through S3's storyline like Hugo - Geddo - Chris and then repeat. And to be honest, it makes the ending on Chris's storyline a bit too awkward. Glad you're liking it though, because I love S3 and people seem to collectively bash it.

Just to clarify, I have played the game before and love it. Thus the replay!

[Idun]

I know, and I'm glad you're liking it! I must aggrandize it.