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

[Meeplelard]

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.

We totally needed a King Louie PC.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

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.

We totally needed a King Louie PC.

Balloo. You know you want a godless killing machine on your side who also loves jazz-derived dance music and spends most of his time tripping balls.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Holy shit dude, I think Starscream has a bit part in Mass Effect 2.

[Grefter]

Fuck it is a week away and I still have to do a new run through after upgrading computers.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

I'm serious, he's got a bit part as a second-string mook who, in true Starscream fashion, shrieks like a bat for a while and gets punked the hell out.

[Scar]

DQ4: Beaten?

I got what's his face to join me, and we beat down on theses two chicken and egg lovers until I had said person fully equipped with some nice gear, but now I have nowhere to go. Is this the end of the game? I know I read something in the story about killing someone else, but...

I currently have 41 mini medals, 22 monsters left unfound, and my title is now Warrior Philanthropist....weeeeeeee

[Grefter]

I'm serious, he's got a bit part as a second-string mook who, in true Starscream fashion, shrieks like a bat for a while and gets punked the hell out.

Glorious.

[Twilkitri]

SDGGGW -

Wow, Extra Generation enemies are built like tanks. It's a nice change from my army smiting all that stands before it, but some of the named enemies here were able to one-hit some of my team.

The AI is still nothing to write home about however.

[Shale]

DQ4: Beaten?

I got what's his face to join me, and we beat down on theses two chicken and egg lovers until I had said person fully equipped with some nice gear, but now I have nowhere to go. Is this the end of the game? I know I read something in the story about killing someone else, but...

I currently have 41 mini medals, 22 monsters left unfound, and my title is now Warrior Philanthropist....weeeeeeee

Go back to the monsters' castle where you had to disguise yourself as one of them - you should be able to Zoom there. Just make sure to bring your optimal party, because you can't switch out mid-fight in this one.

[Bardiche]

Wow, Sands of Destruction has one of the tankiest bosses I've ever fought. (it is a slow arse though)

Lots of HP (didn't keep track, heh), but uh. After its defense+regen buff, which it used after 50% HP for me...

Taupy does 0 damage per hit, so his entire string is 0 damage. Overdrive did 79.

Morte does 0 damage per hit, so her entire string is 0 damage. Special did 54.

Gunner did 32 per hit, 17 hits, so her entire string was around ~520 damage, plus a Special worth 180 and s/he can pull off three to four strings per turn.

The problem is that this tanky jerk healed 450 per round. Including Taupy and Morte's rounds.

That took quite a while to finish!

Game's still pretty easy though. Too many healing items are thrown at you, and healing spells are still very, very potent even at 1 MP.

Gunner is easily my favourite character. Strongest heal I've seen, it's MT, clears all status and debuffs, has a song to grant status/debuff immunity and Regen. Sadly, SoD enemies fail at debuff/status. Only bosses ever bother with it.

Bosses with Defiance are a bitch though, since I rely on combo strings a lot. Defiance increases Morale on being hit, and the higher your Morale the FASTER YOU TAKE YOUR TURN and the MORE ACTIONS YOU TAKE. So I once got quad-turned by a boss who immediately reduced my party from "full health Kyrie-Morte-Taupy" to "almost dead Taupy" and the boss went from "Ouch I almost ded" to "I am half-healed and owning you".

[Yoshiken]

FF3 Crystal Tower: Reminding me why games NEED MORE FUCKING SAVE POINTS.

Seriously. Fuck Yellow Dragons. My Ninja/Ninja/Knight/Sage team is owning everything, with Refia Sage healing constantly. Suddenly, FUCK Yellow Dragon just OHKO twice in one turn and you're dead. And back outside the fucking tower.
I might have beaten this dungeon by the end of the week. Or thrown my DS out of a moving bus. Whichever comes first.

[Shale]

Bahahahahahahaha like that's the worst Crystal Tower has to throw at you.

Fun fact: Starting outside of Crystal Tower, there are NO MORE SAVE POINTS IN THE GAME EVER. And this is why I am never going to finish FF3.

[Yoshiken]

fuck ff3 I am going to finish that game if it kills me, but fuck. If there is worse to come, I can definitely conjure up the image of my DS hitting the road outside the bus window right now.

[Shale]

I got as far as Cerberus, the fifth boss. It's kind of like a Yellow Dragon, except it hits three times per turn.

Fuck FF3.

[Dark Holy Elf]

Use the back row more in boss fights. Also make a second healer for the final boss at the very least (and make sure you have a second set of White Magic for him, Arise/Curaga are the big ones). And feel free to run from dragons.

Not disputing that the final dungeon is bitchy and cruel with the save point nonsense, mind.

[Yoshiken]

I've been using the back row for my Sage(s) if nothing else, and did have 2 Sage, 2 Ninja up until I got Excalibur/Ragnarok and wanted to use them. Still, another Arise means another run through Eureka - at least I can grab that Moonring Blade that I ignored last time? >.>

[AAA]

Man i do not know how people got through the last part of FF3 without savestates. I mean I like the game and all but goddamn.

[Meeplelard]

In fairness, FF3o was a lot faster than FF3DS.  Simpler animations, simpler, faster scrolling plot scenes, and less durable bosses...yeah, redoing Syrcus + Dark World in the original was nowhere near as bad as redoing it in the Remake.

The remake does fully heal you between each boss fight though!  That kind of ruined the Gauntlet Effect the original had admittedly, for all that you probably have enough Elixirs to support your Sages that late.

...not to mention a Sage in FF3o equated to "Full Screen Clearing" cause unlike the remake, Syrcus/Dark World were more generic randoms rather than the "Durable, fake-boss randoms that you fight one at a time."  Things like Jormungands and Doga-clones you'd actually face multiple of at a time, instead of just one, who functioned like a boss, so a Sage's summon would wipe them all out. 

...that also brings up the point of "Sage and Ninja were totally hax in FF3o", granted, Cloud of Darkness and 3 of the 4 Dark Guardians were still able to put up competent fights despite that.  *Punts Cerberus in the original*

[hinode]

Somehow I managed to run through the Crystal Tower+World of Darkness on the first try, and only at level ~52 after beating CoD. No$GBA's save states don't work properly for DS games, so that wasn't even an option.

I don't remember anything in Crystal Tower giving my any major trouble, though maybe I got lucky. In any case, be sure to go to Forbidden Land Eureka and get all the items, then leave and save before tackling Crystal Tower proper - assuming you haven't done so already.

[Meeplelard]

Most of the randoms in both dungeons suck, that's why you don't remember them.  They do take a while to kill, mind, but they aren't very threatening.

Yellow Dragon is a Rare Encounter, alongside Green Dragon and REd Dragon.  They hit hard, double act, etc.  They're also the enemies that drop Onion Gear in both versions.  They were vaguely hard in the original, but nothing TOO bad.  In the DS version, they got suped up dramatically and now out-perform most bosses :/

[Random Consonant]

Sands of Destruction - Whelp, Kyrie just took his proverbial level in badass, game is broken more than it was before.

[Scar]

That fucking tower in FF3 is the reason I stopped playing that gawd forsaken game!

[hinode]

Diablo 2 is still the most hilariously imbalanced game in the history of anything - if anything, it's only gotten worse since 1.10. My only death through Acts 1-4 of Hell difficulty has been from the death explosion of a Fire Enchanted Raptor Nest, who was otherwise the most pathetic unique I have ever seen - it couldn't even attack me! I had no idea they could even spawn as uniques before that, as I'd never seen one.

Meanwhile, the Act Bosses all have inflated HP but can't do anything meaningful otherwise as Static Field + Crushing Blow kill them eventually. Diablo did manage to kill off my merc real fast, but only got three hits in on me that did non-pathetic damage.

Maybe Act 5 will be different - my first attempted excursion ended in an ugly manner as a bunch of fire-immune slinger cats blocklocked me to hell with their companions, the quill rats, and I opted to reroll for a easier enemy draw. The Ancients are pretty obscene on paper for a single player character - I'll probably just mod the game to nerf them, as I really don't look forward to the tedium of that fight without the ability to TP back for healing, plus three chances to draw killer boss mods.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Tuesday is going to be possibly the greatest day in gaming since October of 1998. I just realized Mass Effect 2 and No More Heroes 2 come out on the same fucking DAY.

[AAA]

Are you getting Mass Effect 2 right away? If so please post your first impressions asap, I'm wanna know if it owns as much as it looks like it's going to.