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

[Niu]

...wait
Meep still hasn't start U.SaGa yet?

[DjinnAndTonic]

Tales of Symphonia - Beaten.  Thoughts... hmmm... might as well rant.
Zelos: Oh hey let's make the other Chosen a horrible human being!  Seriously, Tales writers.  Middle ground.  Have you heard of it?  Pretty much does nothing except flirt.  Then he goes oh hey Imma gonna backstab you okay except I apparently blundered into picking him in some scene so he then went Lloyd trusts be so it's a fake backstab okay.  I might be a bit fuzzy on the details but by then I pretty much tuned Zelos out so.  Pretty much identical to Kratos gameplaywise.

Really don't have much to say about the rest of your rant, apart from feeling that even though the characters were overall crappy, they had an amusing chemistry.

But on Zelos... I'm guessing you didn't save him from the way you're talking about him.

Regardless, I always felt that Zelos was the most salvageable ToS character. He's Jesus, and enjoying himself! Unlike most christ-characters, who are all-too-willing to give it all up to be 'normal' but they feel they MUST sacrifice themselves for the good of the world (how realistic!), Zelos actually acts like someone who was raised being told 'You're special and everyone loves you.' It's just really nice to see the trope inverted and played with like this. Zelos isn't a terrible human being, he just -is- a human being. He grew up in a palace, but with all the freedom in the world to do anything he wanted, and everyone loved him. The only thing hanging over his head was that whole 'you're supposed to die for the world' thing, which he didn't even take lying down, trying to figure a way out of that. Contrast this to say... Yuna from FFX.

Zelos was selfish, yeah. But that's part of what made him better than the cardboard cast.

[Dark Holy Elf]

Yay, new topic!

FE10 - Replaying this, up to 2-Endgame. Hard Mode. More difficulty is cool, the weapon triangle removal is a headscratcher, the enemy range indicator removal is psyduck. I'm focussing on dudes who are Wind, Heaven, or Light affinity this playthrough. Ilyana really sucks in Part 1. Stop making Edward and Meg look good with your ability to get one-rounded by anything fast, 2HKOed by everything else, failure at tanking mages, and inability to reliably hit anything. Hate thunder magic. Astrid also sucks but at least she can hit.

Super Luigi Galaxy - Is fun, but FE10 has taken over recently.

[DomaDragoon]

What's that, Meeple wants everyone to have Yiazmat as their avatar? Make it so.

The Maw: Beaten. The game was very short, and I would have felt robbed to have paid full price for it. I still have a few levels to get 100% eaten in, but that shouldn't take much longer.

[Sierra]

Touhou Odyssey: Beaten after waaaay too much leveling. I probably went overboard, but damn the final's scary during that limit phase and I wasn't going to fuck around and get crushed at the last second again. Breezed through the opening phase and slugged through the rest with minimal casualties (two deaths, both to ID). Final party was Yuugi/Ran/Nitori/Aya/Komachi/Meiling/Tenshi/Suwako/Suika/Reimu/Sanae/Patchy. Pretty much my standard boss-fighting team, really. Levels ranged from 143 to 165 (Patchy and Reimu being the outliers).

Anyway, final boss done with, I ascend to floor 21 and immediately get hit with a speech about Karnov. This makes it all worthwhile. Also, wow, optional boss swarm on the lower floors.

Rambling about PCs to happen later, I guess, have to head out for now.

[Shale]

Arkham Asylum: Beaten. Great, great game. The presentation is jaw-dropping, the gameplay is smooth and well-constructed, and everything feels like a full-fledged Batman game ought to feel. I wish they'd done more with boss fights - there's so many ways to use the environment, and they didn't do anything with it for the big fights (plus the way you actually beat Joker is all kinds of unintuitive), but that's a minor niggle. Best moment of the game for me was probably pulling the floor right out from under a couple of mooks during a predator sequence, then booby-trapping the floor where they landed so when their buddies came to investigate they would explode. So much awesome.

[Taishyr]

See, all I really need to see to cement my opinion of TO as a game is the fact that Chen's nowhere on that boss killing list.

While I am of course VERY DISAPPOINTED IN YOU, it says a fair bit to me that my best character for my playthrough is not on your list for you - mainly, this just speaks to not only the options you have available, but the generally good balance that the entire cast has. There's only a few people that genuinely do feel obsoleted by newer characters (Cirno, Minoriko, Wriggle) - everyone else brings -something- to the table.

[Smashy v2]

Speaking of TO...

Touhou Oddessy - Second pair of Flansocks obtained (The first was gotten from EoSD Extra).  Party consisted of something like Tenshi/Meiling/Reimu/Ran/Sakuya/Youmu/Yuugi/Suika/Chen/Sanae/Cirno/Patch, with a massive blitz happening after a ton of buffing and getting to the Forbidden Fruit phase where everyone not named Tenshi, Meiling, or Reimu just kinda melted to the stupid-powerful composite MT flying around. Going to actually grind a whole bunch now, since I literally won on my last attack (0 SP Chen, 2k HP Meiling, Suika finished with dunk which has massive delay, and Sak with her non-existant damage was on the bench).  Will probably go for the high 70s/low 80s before attempting 16F boss, which should let me get the BP to get Kaguya as well so two birds etc.

[Talaysen]

There's only a few people that genuinely do feel obsoleted by newer characters (Cirno, Minoriko, Wriggle) - everyone else brings -something- to the table.

I'd argue that Wriggle isn't even technically obsolete, since her poison is generally three times as strong as anyone else's (MT is less efficient but still notably better).  Sure, arguably not a great character (the stats and mults suck), but not really "obsolete".  Minoriko and Cirno have cheaper spells for what they do, but it ends up not being that big a deal so I can kinda see it there.

Cross Edge - More postgame stuff.  Finished up all the titles I could (like 2, but did parts of all the others) and am now upgrading my gear to take on the bosses.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

No More Heroes - Beaten just in time for the new years, and for the sequal. Game hops between being really fun[the actual gameplay] and kinda tedious[cash grinding that serves little purpose other than to prolong the game]. 7/10 overall? The sequal sounds like it'll kick ass, on that note.

The sequel's minigames look quite awesome.

[superaielman]

Osmos- Simple puzzle game. Not too bad for a couple of bucks. I've cleared the first four~ levels or so, no idea how far I will get otherwise.

[Hunter Sopko]

Played dozens upon dozens of songs on Audiosurf so far, still nothing gets my adrenaline going like Shut Up and Explode! by the Boom Boom Satellites (Also known as the OP to Xam'd). Even after trying a bunch of Dragonforce and Rhapsody songs. There's a part in the middle where it's just INSANE.

Tiger Track from the Eureka 7 OST is good times, probably my #2. #3... probably the ED to Bakemonogatari, amusingly. 

[Fudozukushi]

rack from the Eureka 7 OST is good times, probably my #2. #3... probably the ED to Bakemonogatari, amusingly. 

Altair! :fistshake:


WoW: So, felt like satisfying some masochism.  New LFG is a godsend.  Now I don't have to worry about getting kicked outta a group for being undergeared because everyone has worse gear than me.  I've only been chart topped once and the guys killed everything so fast none of my DoTs could even tick.

[Dhyerwolf]

Tales of Symphonia - Beaten.  Thoughts... hmmm... might as well rant.
Zelos: Oh hey let's make the other Chosen a horrible human being!  Seriously, Tales writers.  Middle ground.  Have you heard of it?  Pretty much does nothing except flirt.  Then he goes oh hey Imma gonna backstab you okay except I apparently blundered into picking him in some scene so he then went Lloyd trusts be so it's a fake backstab okay.  I might be a bit fuzzy on the details but by then I pretty much tuned Zelos out so.  Pretty much identical to Kratos gameplaywise.

Really don't have much to say about the rest of your rant, apart from feeling that even though the characters were overall crappy, they had an amusing chemistry.

But on Zelos... I'm guessing you didn't save him from the way you're talking about him.

Regardless, I always felt that Zelos was the most salvageable ToS character.

Most? More like the only one really. In a cast full of blands/morons, he's the sole one who stands out for good things.

[Meeplelard]

FF7: Disc 1 beat!  Finally got off my ass and did it, Fort Condor can die for its obscure triggers ESPECIALLY since the last 3 give you nothing and are mistranslated -_-

Onimusha 3 Abridged:

Episode 3: By the Power of Ako!!!!

Narrator: When we last left our Hero...that is to say the Samurai who...
Samanosuke: Just say my name and what era I'm in so we can get to the actual story.
Narrator: FINE! When we last left SAMANOSUKE who was in FRANCE searching NOTRE DAME...
Samanosuke: Thank you.
Narrator: ...he had just gotten a new awesome sword.
Samanosuke: Man, this sword is awesome and big and...wait, why is it Wind Elemental, while my two light weight swords are Light elemental?
*Zombie Skeleton Demons attack out of nowhere, Samanosuke butchers them effortlessly*
Samanosuke: Oh look, a Golden Skull...embedded in an odd spot...guarded by Dark Aura...which I can absorb with my gauntlet...I smell more Crest puzzles...
*7 Resident Evil style puzzles later*
Samanosuke: Ok, if this room doesn't have actual plot development, I QUIT!
Skeletor: Ah, Samanosuke, you made it at last!
Samanosuke: (...you know, maybe I should just quit ANYWAY.)
Skeletor: But you are too late!
Samanosuke: (Yeah, I'm just not digging the hero gig right now...)
Skeletor: I have already found the TIME FOLD!
Samanosuke: (Also, I really should have picked a better outfit than this.  I mean, my past self gets this cool red armor, but I get a bad hair cut and this weird looking generic samurai suit...)
Skeletor: With it, Nobunaga shall CONQUOR THE WORLD!
Samanosuke: (Maybe I should have stopped at one of these French Shops along the way, and got new future clothes...)
Skeletor: NOT JUST THIS ERA! BUT THE FUTURE AND PAST TOO! WITH GENMA YOU SEE!
Samanosuke: (...wait, how did I know this was France? No one told me and I thought it was China about 2 hours ago...)
Skeletor: So, Samanosuke, what are you going to do about it? You cannot fight what's in the past!
Samanosuke: (and then-...wait, he asked me a question, damn it, that means I have to respond)...well, I could just...kick your ass, I guess.
Skeletor: You'll have to catch me first! *Jumps into a portal*
Samanosuke: GET BACK HERE EVIL ONE!
*Follows suit, ends up in a weird docking area*  
Samanosuke: What manner of sorcery is this?
Ako: Oh! That's the boat Jacques was on!  This must be where he lands!
Samanosuke: I see...say, why not check up on him, he should probably get a heads up as to what out skull faced freak is up too.
Ako: Ok! *teleports...but fails* ...huh? I can't leave! THis is weird...
Samanosuke: Or just a stupid attempt to integrate plot and gameplay to force a new aspect that requires actually swapping between me and the French Guy at the players will instead of the plot's!
Ako: Oh, right, that's the real reason, isn't it?  Well, lets get to one of those purple points!

*one gameplay device later, now back in the feudal era*
Ako: JACQUES!!!!!!!!
Jacques: Oh, its you...
Ako: Jacques, I've learned of the villains plot, for you see...
*one boring explanation later*
Jacques: ...so Samanosuke is in this is exact spot 500 years in the future...by which we really mean 420 cause SOME CAPCOM PRODUCER CAN'T FUCKING SUBTRACT.
Ako: Yep!
Jacques: Well, that means the PAST AND FUTURE ARE LINKING UP! This is really bad!
Ako: Yep!
Jacques: Well, no use standing around here, lets get to work, and finally actually work together with Samanosuke to solve this riddle!
*the two, with AKo's help, start swapping emblems back and forth at will to continue nonsense and what not, eventually Jacques enters a room with...lots of random junk*
Jacques: Man, there's a lot of random junk in this room...I bet its all the GENMA's fault!
Ranmaru: Aha! Its you!  You'd make quite the good detective!
Jacques: ...aren't you one of the bad guys?  You realize you could have just stabbed me in the back and just won here and now, right?
Ranmaru: Oh, I'm not being paid to do that right now.  See, this is one of those "Henchman appears just to mock the hero" sequences.
Jacques: But you're not really mocking me, you just complimented me in fact!
Ranmaru: Yeah, well, you...uhh...and....damn it! I'm leaving! May my honorable walk out be a symbol of my anger and protest to your ability to verbally defeat me! *he does exactly that*
Jacques: ...I wonder if he remembers he's only 14 years old and speaking to some guy whose a seasoned cop from the future...oh well, I can't do anything here, maybe this BARRIER will be gone 420 years in the future coincidentally...
Ako: Yeah, maybe it will!
Jacques: So Samanosuke can get the object then!
Ako: Yeah!
Jacques: ...and you know, sort of send it back to me to make use of it...
Ako: Yeah!
Jacques: ...which requires your help.
Ako: It does!
Jacques: ...you realize you need to go to the future to pull this off, right?
Ako: YEp!
Jacques: So...
Ako: ^_^
Jacques: (...are crow demon fairies really all this dense?) Ok, look, I need Samanosuke to get this item, and then send it back to me.
Ako: Oh! Oh! I know I know! I'll go to the future, tell Samanosuke to get the item, bring it back here, you use it, then you both benefit cause you're in the past!
Jacques: Yeah, that's what I was getting at...
Ako: Yay! And I thought of that all by myself! Glad it was all my idea! WHere would you be without my intelligence!
Jacques: ...just go to the future already.
AKo: OK!

*Ako goes to the future*
Samanosuke: Ah, so its my turn is it.
Ako: Yeah!
Samanosuke: So what happened in the past that needs my help here?
Ako: Well...I don't remember...
Samanosuke: ...wonderful...
Ako: But we'll be ok, I promise! IN fact, I'll go back and ask Jacques what he wnated right now!
Samanosuke: No, how about we just explore the place and see if anything new openned up thanks to his actions.
Ako: OK!
*Samanosuke reaches the same room, now 420 years older*
Samanosuke: Hmm...interesting object, its almost like there was a barrier here some hundreds of years ago!
Ako: Of course there wasn't one! If there was, it'd still be here!
Samanosuke: Uh, yeah, right.  Anyway, about this object...
Skeletor: AH! Samanosuke! You found me at last!
Samanosuke: Yeah I...wait, you snuck up on ME and you're giving ME credit for finding YOU?
Skeletor: Indeed!
Samanosuke: ...maybe I should be happy that I got stuck with the MORON villain.
Skeletor: Oh yeah, I brought a friend here for you to play with!
Samanosuke: Do I really want to know?
Random Zombie: SAMANOSUKE!!!!!!!!!
Samanosuke: Oh, Ranmaru...you look awful </actual line of dialog>
Zombie Ranmaru: I WILL DEVOUR YOUR FLESH AND EAT YOUR SPINE AND KILL YOU!
Skeletor: I have brought him back from the dead, now far more powerful than he was before.
Zombie Ranmaru: AND THEN I WILL SLICE YOU INTO TINY BITS AND FEED YOU TO DUCKS AND KICK YOU IN THE BALLS AND HELP OLD LADIES CROSS THE STREET AND...
Samanosuke: ...you know, when I killed you, I was moderately pleased (partially cause it meant Nobunaga was screwed), but now I'm starting to regret this action...
Zombie Ranmaru: NOW LET US FIGHT!
Samanosuke: ok, FINALLY something I can agree with you on!
*The two fight, the fight consists of Ranmaru jumping around like a maniac and making cheesey villainous henchmen one liners that are completely forgettable*
Zombie Ranmaru: DAMN YOU SAMANOSUKE!
Samanosuke: What, cause even as a Zombie, you can't beat me?
Zombie Ranmaru: I'll be back, just you wait! I let you win this time cause...uh...yeah, I just did! *he runs*
Samanosuke: ...seriously, why am I stuck with all the freaking MORONS for villains?
Ako: Oh, its ok! Jacques has to deal with him too, only he's still alive there!
Samanosuke: Oh and...wait, you can remember that, but you can't remember why you're here specifically?
Ako: Nope! Oh, I'll be taking that object to Jacques now! He said he needed it!
Samanosuke: This is not my average ordinary magical samurai mission...

*420 years earlier*
Ako: Jacques! I'm BACK!!!
Jacques: You know, I don't get it; if you can travel through time at a whim, why do I always have wait exactly as much time as it takes for you in the future to bring stuff back in the past?  Couldn't you just teleport back here like 2 seconds after you left?
Ako: But then it wouldn't be as fun!
Jacques: ...anyway, this object I have...lets go make use of it I guess.
*Jacques does exactly that, beating up LIVING ARMORS, Trolls, more ZOMBIE SKELETON DEMONS until finally*
Jacques: mm...a dead end...
Hanging Man: GREETINGS! WE MEET AGAIN!
Jacques: Ok, no, I definitely NEVER saw you before.
Hang Man: Do you want what's down below? Its quite rewarding!
Jacques: ...this is totally optional and has nothing to do with the plot, right?
Hang Man: That is correct!
Jacques: Yeah, sure, why not.
*Jacques gets a Thunder Stone from this*
Jacques: Man, that's weak.  But what's this strange purple glowing...
*Jacques' weapon turns into a HUGE ROPE MACE.  No, not a Chain Flail, a Rope Mace.  THAT SHOOTS ICE*
Jacques: Man, my weapons just keep getting more awesome as they come, don't they?  And somehow, my Pistol has unlimited ammo to make for some stylish holds!
Samanosuke: *From the Future* God damn it! Why do you get all the cool weapons?  All I got are these twin swords and a big cleaver.  Meanwhile, you got a Flaming Whip Sword, Lightning Sword Chucks and now an Ice Sword Flail.
Jacques: The advantages of being french!
*Jacques continues onward, enters a room, lots of demons being beaten up by a half naked fat man with a large glowing pointed stick*
Honda: AHA! You cannot beat the almighty Haichiro Honda! I AM INVINCIBLE! NO ONE CAN STOP ME!
Jacques: Hi there!
Honda: NO ONE CAN STOP ME! *He leaves*
Jacques: ...I guess he didn't see me.  Weird, I thought he was a  bad guy, but here he's fighting Genma...
Ako: Yeah, its really weird!
Jacques: ...I'm guessing he doesn't even know his own role, and...CRAP! Another dead end!  You know what this means, right?
Ako: Nope!
Jacques: ...just go to the future and tell Samanosuke to look for more stuff that I might be able to make use of!
Ako: Ok!!!

*420 years later*
Samanosuke: 6703 blood stains, 6704 blood stains...
Ako: Samanosuke!!!!
Samanosuke: Ah, you're back, so how did it go.
Ako: How did what go?
Samanosuke: ...lets just move on.
*Samanosuke deals with a bunch of booby traps*
Samanosuke: Ok, no, why the hell do I get all the Booby Traps like spinning blades and BARREL CRUSHERS while he gets the cool awesome weapons? Seriously, this game is suppose to be about Samurais, NOT FRENCH MEN KICKING ASS!
Capcom: Fine, if you're gonna whine, just take this new weapon then!
*Samanosuke gets a BIG FUCKING AXE*
Samanosuke: ...I...guess I should be...thankful?  I mean...I mostly use swords...
Giant Troll: ROAR BLARG SMASH BAM!!!!
Samanosuke: Eh, lets see how this *he cleaves the Troll effortlessly in half on one hit with a critical* ...um, ok, this might work.  I wonder what kind of magic it uses-*creates big walls of Lava that kill things dead* ...yeah, that'll do.
Hang Dude: Ah, we have a new guest it seems.
Samanosuke: Oh, hi there.  What's your name?
Hang Dude: Would you like to take my challenge?
Samanosuke: Yeah I...wait, weren't you back 420 years ago with Jacques?
Hang Dude: Oh no! That was my Great Great Great Great Great *ad nauseum* Great Great Grandfather Hang Man! I'm Hang Dude!  We're totally different!
Samanosuke: Right...ok, I accept your challenge! HAVE THEE VILE DEMONS!
*Samanosuke gets a Wind Soul*
Samanosuke: So I guess when I turn into Sephiroth, I get NEW POWERS now, huh?  Eh screw it, I'm taking a nap.
Jacques: *From the past* Hey, that sounds like a good idea! I think I'll do the same!
Ako: Wait! What should I do? Both of you can't take a nap! What about saving the world!
Ranmaru: I'll do it!
Ako: really?
Zombie Ranmaru: No, I'll do it!
Ako: AH! THere's two of you!!!!

Narrator: ...ok, no, I'm just ending this episode right here and now, cause god knows we're allowed to let Ranmaru do ANYTHING remotely worth noting.
Zombie Ranmaru and Ranmaru: ...awww...

[Anthony Edward Stark]

So, I beat FF4: TAY. Gameplay wise, not much surprise and plot was a little shoehorned, but it was decently cheap and affection for the game carried me through it.

Anyway, ranking wise? Complicated. There are no equipment shops for the last third of the game, so you have to find everything. Since almost nobody has unique equips (whips, katanas and harps are about it) that makes it tough. If you strike the optional characters, it gets a bit easier, particularly since most of them are shitty versions of characters you already have. At that point there is, at least, enough weapons to go around. But since I think there's maybe one piece of armor that someone has a plot claim on (Edge's cape from solo fighting Rubicant), most people would be wearing the storebought Mithril stuff anyway.

So yeah, past that, some gameplay feelings.

Cecil is pretty much the same as he was, so comparatively he is not as good since Kain, Edge and Yang all got fairly significant buffs. On the upside, he at least has Ceodore to make him look good. I don't know how Ceodore has the parents he does, but he is bad at healing AND bad at fighting at the same time. Additionally, he has less health than Rydia, which is bad.

Kain got a big buff in the form of being able to cast haste, esuna and some low-level cure spells. This is nice because Jump does not keep him in the air very long. He's still kinda sluggish, so haste is very important, but he's not worthless anymore.

Rydia and Rosa are exactly the same. Moving right along.

Edge also got a big buff, more or less the same one Kain got. His healing is a bit better, and more importantly his haste is cast with his Masamune. So it's free, instant cast, and unlimited use. He can also cast protect on himself with one of his weapons, but that's kind of moot because he can just use Mirage for 100% evade for the next three hits. So yeah. Also a little more health than before, which is good for him. Got a lot better for sure.

Yang is pretty much the same, but he got a new command: cover counter. Exactly like cover, but you counter attack. Yang is a goddamn beast.

Either Palom or Porom get Doublecast, but not both. Whichever one you picked will probably take Rosa/Rydia's spot. I used Porom because she has more MP than Rosa, and Palom doesn't get summons. So yeah.

Ursula, Yang's daughter, is low health, but dodgy. She can self-heal and cure status for free with chakra, too. Still, she takes hits very poorly which lead me to put her in the back and use her as a healer in Yang's tale. Ultimately she's pretty solid, but her lack of durability means I'd take Yang over her.

Golbez is like... Marcus. He's amazingly good when he first joins Edge, Rydia and Luca. He has almost 3000 health to start out, and solid gear from being on the Moon. But he never gains health. When I benched him he was level 49 and still had 2,971 health after almost twenty levels gained. Wasn't sure what to make of that, but I gave Cecil Golbez's slot since Rydia had finally learned the 3rd-level elemental spells Golbez starts with.

[Niu]

Golbez's hp is another word game. Which is why it stay the same all the time. Pretty stupid, though.

[Excal]

Soul Nomad - Been generally enjoying this.  The ways the various classes interact is definately noticeable, in that it feels like it influences the key stat directly instead of mucking with the damage value.  Also, proper usage of classes has been made very obvious in a recent battle where I was struggling and likely to loose in my first try, but a squad rebuilding later, I demolished the battle after shuffling things around to make my units more specialised.  Well, that, and picking up one of those water monsters.  They're kinda awesome.  Game also just tossed some nicely leveled Nereids at me, though not an extra room, so I'm feeling a little gyped, but honestly, I suspect I have more rooms than I need right now anyways.

That said, there is one aspect of the game I'm learning to hate.  The freaking Change command.  It wasn't so bad when the formula for locks was Rooms - 1.  When I wanted to rearrange stuff, then I'd just unlock everything, and then slap locks in place when I got something good, and when the last one was good, I'd move on.  Took too bloody long, but nothing got wasted at least.  But now?  Now it's getting harder and harder to avoid having some scrubby, worthless 4 man room.  And that's just assuming that any 6 man room you get is even in a formation you can get any use out of (I'd mention five, but I honestly don't see a 5-4 split as worth considering).  All of which means that my crap to good stuff ration is shooting out of whack, and I can only see it getting worse.  Which is a shame, since it is possible to get seven man rooms.  Just...  almost never show up...

Honestly, I'm just glad they have the homeroom system so you can at least pick what room type you want, which keeps the system from being completely aggrivating.

[Sierra]

You can get more locks, but yeah, the number will always be a bit short of the number of rooms you have. I think the most you can have is seven out of nine rooms locked (and that's counting homeroom into the total).

The plot nereids are pretty badass; Juno always wound up being a killstealer who held an easy lead in levels, on my file.

[Cotigo]

KotOR - Been playing this the past few days.

Up to Tatooine, after finishing Manaan.  Went Darkside Jedi Consular, and have spent basically the entire game Plaguing people and then murdering them with Force Lightning.  It is fun.

Using the 2 Jedi PCs for now, until I get HK-47. 

I don't think I like the game's moral system?  I guess I mean I want to play the game like PS:T and talk my way out of everything but you can't do that frequently and still get Dark points.  Also, going dark path closes off so many quests sometimes, too, though I suppose often there's a way to do the quest and still get dark side points.  And not like it matters: I'm already evil enough to be able to cast 3 Plagues and 3 force lightnings (enough to kill almost every group of mobs I've come across) without needing to recharge.

Also, ha-ha.  Suck it, giant fish-god.

[SageAcrin]

KotOR - Been playing this the past few days.

Up to Tatooine, after finishing Manaan.  Went Darkside Jedi Consular, and have spent basically the entire game Plaguing people and then murdering them with Force Lightning.  It is fun.

Using the 2 Jedi PCs for now, until I get HK-47. 

I don't think I like the game's moral system?  I guess I mean I want to play the game like PS:T and talk my way out of everything but you can't do that frequently and still get Dark points.  Also, going dark path closes off so many quests sometimes, too, though I suppose often there's a way to do the quest and still get dark side points.  And not like it matters: I'm already evil enough to be able to cast 3 Plagues and 3 force lightnings (enough to kill almost every group of mobs I've come across) without needing to recharge.

Also, ha-ha.  Suck it, giant fish-god.

Get Insanity. GET IT. GEEEEEEEEET IT. Stun for Dark Siders oh wait Stun was Universal so the Dark Side version eats the up-to-50% cost reduction for being Dark. Yay.

(Also don't rule out Light Side abilities for your main. Heal for instance.)

As to the morality...as I've rambled at points, the games follow movie logic very strictly. KotOR2 is somewhat better about it, but mostly makes you follow the movie logic and then sorta questions the movie logic.

(Though, for your specific case, there's a lot more "Give me money/let me betray people/etc." options that are less about combat and more about making people do the same things with added harm-threat cashflow, and less quests closed off...IIRC the FAQ mentioned one quest on Nar Shaddaa as notable just because it was one of the very few you couldn't avoid a LSP on.

KotOR2 is better. <_<)

[Grefter]

KotOR morality ultimately follows Star Wars Morality which is stupidly black and white.  This is fine, KotOR1 follows very classic Star Wars stuff all through it (especially Episodes 3,4 and 6), KotOR 2 is a love letter to Empire Strikes Back and it shows there as well.

[Scar]

League of Legends

So I mentioned I was playing this, does anyone else have it? It's free and it's a team oriented 5v5 game of pure madness. Never played Warcraft 3, but that's what my friends say it reminds them of.

Anyways, it's a good game to play with friends and you can think up several ways to plan yer attacks/defense methods.

My characters name is Juan Dinero, so send me a friend invite if you play!

[hinode]

Diablo II: Random grinding in Act 5 Nightmare has turned up a steady stream of set/unique items, despite the fact that I have like 40% magic find. M'avina's Gloves, Tooththrow, Crow Caw, eh. Laying of Hands, pretty nice. Bul Katho's Wedding Ring...

Wait wait, Bul Katho's Wedding Ring? Isn't that like 2% chance even if a unique ring is generated? It's like the game is daring me to go through Hell.

I'm game for this, even if I have to mod down some of the BS to make things bearable (screw you, Hell Ancients). Luckily Blizzard at least made it easy(-ish) to mod D2 ever since 1.10 patch.

[Yoshiken]

Majora's Mask - Decided to do a... pseudo-speed run? Running through the game as quickly as I can, although not bothering with things like "reset if it goes wrong to save 5 seconds!" Beaten Woodfall Temple, unlocked the Owl Statues around there and Milk Road/Clock Town. Currently on 2h 10m.