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

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

SRWK - Yay, first A Combo chip!

* Jo'ou Ranbu gives it to Gou.

Eeeeeeeeeeexcellent.

[Niu]

Sands of Destruction.

Just saved Agan. Current team is pretty whoah.

Morte's got a bunch of MT attack spells, Fire, Wind and Ice elementals I think. I don't think it's wrong to say she's a sort of mage: her attack strings aren't particularly good due to the low amount of hits, and her battle strength tapers off now. Awesome durability, though. Quips aren't that stellar, although THERE'S ENOUGH ANNIHILATION is clearly broken.

Kyrie's pretty good for regular attacking. Has three curative spells (one heals Burn, one heals Poison, one for Regen) that are all MT, but his shine is in combo attacks. 2->4->6 string, usually has a crit in them and his morale is, overall, pretty good that you get to triple-act. Pretty good defenses post-IT'S PROBABLY, but otherwise just decent defense that usually gets broken by enemy attacks.

Taupy: wtf is this guy on. Awful morale in that he usually only gets to act once, but when he attacks twice in one round, he easily outpowers Morte/Kyrie regardless of their attack strings. Insane evasion and accuracy (53 Agi whereas the rest has 22/23...) so that most bosses just waste their attacks on him, and he even has MT healing that doubles as revival. The only thing keeping NINJA PIRATE TEDDY BEAR in check is that low morale.

Haven't used Agan so can't say much of him. Pretty funny game. Not stellar, nor thrilling, but it's pretty nice.

Huh? I think you got the completly wrong idea, the gam is.....

Sands of Destruction just took a turn for the worst. Kyrie's my highest damage dealer. OHKOs everything. What the hell game, why are you so easy to break.

Oh, so you find it out yourself.


KH BbS- Holy is so useful that I am a bit at shock. Sonic Rave is so useless that I am at shock too. And they really should give the bosses mroe hp, multi locks kill them waaayyyyy too fast.
And when is Sora's brain going to implode on itself? After fidning out how much crap got stuffed into his brain.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Yeah, they really like fucking with Sora's brain... I'm hoping it eventually leads to a meltdown and he becomes the villain of any future games in the series. Man, it would be so satisfying to beat up Sora.

[Shale]

Burnout Paradise: This is basically Burnout meets Crazy Taxi, and that's a pretty good combination.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

FF9. Picked up Amarant, named him "Lips" so that he would introduce himself to people as "the Flaming Lips." Also Dagger is named Dag because it still makes the scene make sense, but it's a fun joke about prison rape.

[Yoshiken]

FINALLY beat Chrono Trigger earlier today. Liked Lavos1, with the little early-game boss rush, and Lavos 2 was... gurk. Annoying. Spammed his damn status immunity removal move, but thankfully never hit Marle with it, so she just stood healing until Crono/Frog were hit out of confusion. Used up the stock of items I'd procured over the game, using about 6 Megalixirs over both forms. Lavos3 was interesting, since it was me and a friend who was watching, and we assumed the middle one was the main form. I was a little taken back when it suddenly died, and the pod on the right proceeded to revive it. Eventually killed all three in one hit with FROG SQUASH. <3
All in all, damn good game. Hampered by a few slow moments, but generally speaking, it's a fun rush through, with a good gameplay system and some interesting characters.
Next up, finish FF3.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

SRWK - Things Nova likes doing: OHKOing Mist. You better marry the goddamn loser soon, Sheldia.

[Clear Tranquil]

Dissidia- I has a L48 Shantotto and a L65 Terra. My CT bait quota is happy~

WA:XF-Started. Last thing I did was fight a free battle in the Bandit's Forest. Game's fun so far despite losing the gate fight through hitting one of my own characters with another's attack >.> I like Wild Arms so yeah. Doggie!

[Rozalia]

SMT2 - Just saved all the gods of Japan. I have to say the Church guys are the most elite fodder I've ever seen in a game. I have a lv 68 Metatron and 72 Shiva already all the while at lv 39 thanks to them.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

SRWK - *Old Jeeg does the combo with Big Shooter.*

*OLD JEEG OHKOS SAILOR GUNDAM STARGAZER HIGURASHI LESBOMANFACE WITHOUT VALOR.*

...

<3<3<3

[Glen Veil]

Playing Persona 3, got probably around halfway through the game I want to guess?  Got to sleeping table, got ass kicked several times, finally beat him with a little too much luck and magic mirror abuse, afterwords got this nagging feeling that my S.link's and daytime stats weren't even close to were they should be, so decided to start a new game, now with 100% faq baiting for social links.

So far I like the game fairly decently, tartarus exploration gets a tad old, but muting the tv and listening to a separate play list makes it more tolerable.  Stupei and to a lesser extent his interactions with Chidori are about as obnoxious as his nickname suggest, don't really have a problem with any of the other characters up to this point at least, but we'll see.

[Niu]

KH BbS- It has been very hard to not look at Ventus and Vanitas' final battle out of context. It is evoking yaoi thoughts for the sake of doing it. Vanitas' face just makes it more so. And yeah, I need the OST, and I need the cable to connect PSP to the TV, the PSP stereo simply does no justice.
Though bah, Xigbar and Ven didn't really turn out the way I thought, why is Xigbar holding such a grudge against Ven when they only met so briefly? Oh well, guess I have to scratch that pairing.

Oh, and Aqua is delviering firely death with Mega Flare and Triple Firega, she certainyl is the most broken among the three, how ironic consider her name.

[Shale]

Burnout: Class B License get. If they hadn't replaced Crash with Stunt Run, and it wasn't so easy to wreck, this would basically be the perfect Burnout. The open-world setup really works.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

KH BbS- It has been very hard to not look at Ventus and Vanitas' final battle out of context. It is evoking yaoi thoughts for the sake of doing it. Vanitas' face just makes it more so. And yeah, I need the OST, and I need the cable to connect PSP to the TV, the PSP stereo simply does no justice.
Though bah, Xigbar and Ven didn't really turn out the way I thought, why is Xigbar holding such a grudge against Ven when they only met so briefly? Oh well, guess I have to scratch that pairing.

Oh, and Aqua is delviering firely death with Mega Flare and Triple Firega, she certainyl is the most broken among the three, how ironic consider her name.

I don't understand how the idea came about that KH needed to be taken seriously.

[Smashy v2]

Labyrinth of Touhou - 18F boss beaten, Chenlevel 100.  Just needed to survive the early Demises and then made sure none of the really nasty status stuff happened.  Think it was about 4 or 5 resets once I went at it for real.

Those are some shiny stats.

19F: Exploration Chen'd.  Pern Sigil was some kind of What, giving nearly as many resets at 18F boss.  Having him have that much damage with a partial ITD move that he can then use with doubled offense is argh.  Only other reset on the Sigils was one to the uberKnowledge.

20F: Puts not-Pern sigils to shame.  There's at least two things each monster here abuses.  Hoping to see a lot of drops, since evidently they're all fairly epic.

[Meeplelard]

I don't understand how the idea came about that KH needed to be taken seriously.

358/2 Days is actually pretty serious overall.  Its got some light-hearted moments, and its fair share of comic relief (Demyx), but its actually good at avoiding Nomura's standard crack and...yeah.  Basically, 358/2 days is a game I can totally understand taking seriously, even if the others you cannot.

(doesn't hurt that the game downplays the Disney somewhat. Not trying to bash the Disney aspect of KH, just that its easier tot ake something seriously when we don't have Donald and Goofy as consistent allies.  Oh, sure, Mickey appears late in 358/2 Days, but after KH2, its actually very easy to take Mickey seriously, odd as this sounds...)

[Anthony Edward Stark]

I don't understand how the idea came about that KH needed to be taken seriously.

358/2 Days is actually pretty serious overall.  Its got some light-hearted moments, and its fair share of comic relief (Demyx), but its actually good at avoiding Nomura's standard crack and...yeah.  Basically, 358/2 days is a game I can totally understand taking seriously, even if the others you cannot.

(doesn't hurt that the game downplays the Disney somewhat. Not trying to bash the Disney aspect of KH, just that its easier tot ake something seriously when we don't have Donald and Goofy as consistent allies.  Oh, sure, Mickey appears late in 358/2 Days, but after KH2, its actually very easy to take Mickey seriously, odd as this sounds...)

I didn't give a shit about the rest of the cast, but I enjoyed exploring what were more or less faithfully-recreated versions of films from my childhood. Since the serious aspects of the game are focused on original characters that I don't give a shit about and terrible Nomura dialogue, rather than the one part of the game I find enjoyable, I don't understand caring about them. It's not like the game has great characters or anything.

[Shale]

The gospel truth

Even in its best moments, there is nothing in Kingdom Hearts' original story that is remotely as good a reason to play the game as "dude, it's TRON and Aladdin in the same game!"

[hinode]

The gospel truth

Even in its best moments, there is nothing in Kingdom Hearts' original story that is remotely as good a reason to play the game as "dude, it's TRON and Aladdin in the same game!"

While this would certainbly be my reason to ever play a KH game, I must admit that I'm not a rabid yaoi fanboy/girl, and neither of you are either.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Also, Meeple was making the point that by 358/2, they actually start writing a story that doesn't suck.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Also, Meeple was making the point that by 358/2, they actually start writing a story that doesn't suck.

If it takes you two main games and two spinoffs to start writing a story that doesn't suck, why should I be in any way invested in the main characters? You don't even get ONE whole game to convince me I should like your characters. You have like, three or four hours after the character is introduced to hook me in some way. By this point they've thoroughly disabused me of the notion of caring about their original characters in any way and reacting in any way to them but mild irritation that they're taking up screen time and disk space that could have been spent on a GODDAMN JUNGLE BOOK LEVEL GOD DAMN IT.

[Meeplelard]

Oh, KH1 and KH2 both kind of don't do the writing thing very well.  Like Slayers (Next), the filler (that being the Disney worlds) is where the games grab their strength from, and in KH2, we add in "DMC-level ridiculous style antics" into the mix.

Well, that and they've also got competent gameplay <_< >_>

358/2 Days is...different.  Like I said, it downplays the Disney a lot, so while in KH1 and KH2, you have Goofy and Donald following you every, 358/2 Days, you have allies who look like something you can ALMOST take seriously (...almost...)...and its writing and plot is shockingly competent too, despite being a KH Spin off.

THAT SAID...

FF7: Cloud just became sane again...relatively...
Did the PSX version have the music play through the entirety of the sequence from when Cloud stabs Sephy until the flashback ends?  Cause the PC version stopped playing it around the time Sephiroth walked out of the room, and the music that played when Cloud confronted Sephiroth in the reactor was the reactor theme, which...just worked a lot better for atmosphere.  Just wondering...

Dissidia: I have all level 50 Exclusives at least!  Also most characters are at least level 30.  Yeah, I don't play this THAT often beyond "one fight a day" to keep Mognet going.

FFTA2: Haven't gone far in plot, been doing a bunch of side missions.  Battle system is...slow, but otherwise, game fixes a lot of FFTA's shit.  I also have like 6 bows when I have 3 of any other weapon class at most; kind of irksome from a psychological standpoint of "ARGH! BACKLOGGED ON SKILLS ;_;"

Okami: Just beat Orochi!  Stylish Fight and such.

[Niu]

The gospel truth

Even in its best moments, there is nothing in Kingdom Hearts' original story that is remotely as good a reason to play the game as "dude, it's TRON and Aladdin in the same game!"

While this would certainbly be my reason to ever play a KH game, I must admit that I'm not a rabid yaoi fanboy/girl, and neither of you are either.

Well, at least one person noticed that fact that the gospel truth of KH is about selling yaoi.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

The gospel truth

Even in its best moments, there is nothing in Kingdom Hearts' original story that is remotely as good a reason to play the game as "dude, it's TRON and Aladdin in the same game!"

While this would certainbly be my reason to ever play a KH game, I must admit that I'm not a rabid yaoi fanboy/girl, and neither of you are either.

Well, at least one person noticed that fact that the gospel truth of KH is about selling yaoi.

I'm not sure what you grew up watching, but I suspect it's not the same thing as most of us.

[Shale]

By this point they've thoroughly disabused me of the notion of caring about their original characters in any way and reacting in any way to them but mild irritation that they're taking up screen time and disk space that could have been spent on a GODDAMN JUNGLE BOOK LEVEL GOD DAMN IT.

Seriously, Tarzan instead? What the fuck, Nomura.

Also, yeah. a this point I doubt I'm capable of taking any story set in the KH multiverse seriously. Just give me my Disney worlds and leave it at that.