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

[Rozalia]

Well it turns out my policy of syncing whenever I get a trophy paid off as I got them all back but for the people who don't have online.... My heart goes out to them but I myself came out quite well due to the way SO4 saves.

SO4 - Cameos were handled really well surprisingly as they weren't all "HI GUYZ ITS A ME" about it. Surprised that a minor character you don't even learn the name of in SO1 is the one with the most screentime.
Also Crowe talks a really good game, I mean a damn a good game. "What there is thousands of near unbeatable enemy units surrounding us and our allies? No fear my ship will shield you all, even if the enemy is attacking from all sides and at incredible speed. What the enemy is ignoring us? But why would they attack massive transport ships instead of my tiny fighter?

Now if his ship was the Aquaelie....

[superaielman]

ToV- Just Found out the spoilars about Estelle. She's the princess? Shock, awe. I just beat the teleporter dungeon. Team levels are around L22. I'm using everyone but Karol right now.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

SO4 - Cameos were handled really well surprisingly as they weren't all "HI GUYZ ITS A ME" about it. Surprised that a minor character you don't even learn the name of in SO1 is the one with the most screentime.

Stephen Kenni finally explains how Ronixis and Claude got away with so much shit. "Meddle with the nature of reality and steal your ship? PROMOTION!" and "You are the only survivor of your crew because your deserted your ship? PROMOTIONS FROM ENSIGN TO CAPTAIN!" is finally explained. I mean, Captain Kirk stole a ship to travel back in time, and he got a commendation and a one-rank demotion for saving the Earth.

ToV- Just Found out the spoilars about Estelle. She's the princess? Shock, awe. I just beat the teleporter dungeon. Team levels are around L22. I'm using everyone but Karol right now.

I don't think that's supposed to be much of a spoiler, since everyone but Karol says "That's the big reveal?"

[NotMiki]

She's the princess

Wait, what?

[Meeplelard]

Wizard of Oz: Beat it.

Don't have much to say about the game, cause there's not much to say.  Like I said before, the game doesn't really do anything noteworthily wrong beyond some minor pet peeve and questionable decisions, but at the same time...I can't say they really did anything noteworthy that was right either.  The game ultimately just wasn't very fun, but more in that boring sense than that frustrating kind of way where you want to throw the controller out the window.  I was more often getting into this "Are we there yet?" mind set than anything else.  Gameplay had potential but ultimately the game was a little too easy (beyond some early game resource issues) and too repetitive to really make use of it, and the Lion not really having much use for 90% of the game sure didn't help.  I know that the game being Wizard of Oz means they didn't need to write a genuine story cause everyone knows the loose story, but that's no excuse for 0 character interaction.  At a little bit of talking among Dorothy and the trio would have been nice, if only to spice things up a little.

Probably a 4/10 game or some such.  Like I said, it didn't really do anything WRONG, but...didn't really do anything right either, and in the end, it was an overall boring experience.

[Shale]

Endless Frontier EXCEED: Got the full set of robots. I'm thinking I'll do some backtracking to clear some wanted monsters out, now that there's a full list of which one is where.

[DomaDragoon]

Bioshock 2: Game keeps crashing on me in multiplayer. Despite that, I am now Rank 25.

WA:XF - 2.2, In Which I Hate My Inability To Jump High. Beat it first time, but I nearly lost out because they still had one Sacred Slayer and everyone who could get up that high had died, but my magic users had just enough range to beat it.

Interlude, In Which CSP Farming Is Done, And Will Be Done For The Foreseeable Future.

[Cmdr_King]

Actually, you'll want to hold off on that.  In two maps, you'll be able to access the Woods.  THere, the rare encounter is the Creeping Chaos (Crawling CHaos?  Whatever).  They drop CSP equal to [Damage of Killing Blow- cHP]/2, if I'm not mistaken.  In other words, they are the CSP farms.

[Meeplelard]

Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn: Replaying this! Reason? Its awesome and been a while since I played something totally awesome!

Just beat Chap 3, had a few resets already based on futz ups on my end and one case of Aran getting nailed by a 1% Crit ._.  On the plus side, Micaiah has 11 Speed at level 8!  Edward also seems to like gaining defense.

Also, its nice to play an FE game that's completely polished and not fear that some bullshit will come out of the corner and make me die any turn from now *eyes FE4*

[Niu]

Estpolis:

<Gades> lolololololmeteorspam
<Maxim> GRAH GET DOWN HERE SO I CAN STICK THIS SWORD INTO YOU DAMMIT

Also hurray for dodgerolling.

Kill him fast and get Gades Blade.

Is this a reasonable accomplishment or does it rely on the AI roulette not wanting to spam meteors every six to ten seconds?

It is more about saving it for second cycle unless you desire to permanently lower the threshold of your patience.

[Random Consonant]

Estpolis:

<Gades> lolololololmeteorspam
<Maxim> GRAH GET DOWN HERE SO I CAN STICK THIS SWORD INTO YOU DAMMIT

Also hurray for dodgerolling.

Kill him fast and get Gades Blade.

Is this a reasonable accomplishment or does it rely on the AI roulette not wanting to spam meteors every six to ten seconds?

It is more about saving it for second cycle unless you desire to permanently lower the threshold of your patience.

So the same as usual, then.

Anyways:

Estpolis - Beat up a couple of thieves who decided to jack a tank.  Also, lol Idura.

Endless Trainwreck 2 - Still playing this.  Just got to Triedel (sp?) Stadt.

[Rozalia]

Stephen Kenni finally explains how Ronixis and Claude got away with so much shit. "Meddle with the nature of reality and steal your ship? PROMOTION!" and "You are the only survivor of your crew because your deserted your ship? PROMOTIONS FROM ENSIGN TO CAPTAIN!" is finally explained. I mean, Captain Kirk stole a ship to travel back in time, and he got a commendation and a one-rank demotion for saving the Earth.

I thought that as well. Having a famous grandaddy with an awesome title does wonders for your career indeed.

SO4 - Arumat is a beast pure and simple. Crowe made a badmove trading his badass Elf Friend for Edge's Pansey one. The bosses have become massive failures for some reason also, one got klled after only two Comet Strikes and the other got curb stombed by Arumat.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

If you just got him? You have no idea. Wait till you get dragon roar. You just hit nether strike, and then chain it three times.

[Random Consonant]

Estpolis - Way to be a letdown, Amon.

[DomaDragoon]

Cmdr: Actually, it's right after 2-2. Hence the long interlude. I've got most jobs mastered now from my PCs and first-run generics, but not all.

Bioshock 2: Beat singleplayer, got the good end (but I did it on easy, so it doesn't count). As far as overall thoughts... the first half was very Bioshock1-esque, and it really wasn't until Persephone that it was brought into its own. But Persephone made it all worthwhile. For weapons, the drill of course stood above all the others easily, but the level layout (especially in Siren Alley) made projectiles more important. In that respect: Speargun > Shotgun > Machine Gun > Everything Else. Multiplayer L28.

[Clear Tranquil]

SO4 - Arumat is a beast pure and simple. Crowe made a badmove trading his badass Elf Friend for Edge's Pansey one. The bosses have become massive failures for some reason also, one got klled after only two Comet Strikes and the other got curb stombed by Arumat.

Did you find Meracle's Hurricane Claws? =-) The boss Manifest is weak to wind. I got her 30'000, 50'000, 70'000 and 99'999 trophies off those with Comet PAUNCH =D

What Rob said about Arumat though they moved Dragon Roar to the end of the first post game dungeon for the PS3 version =/

You should be able to have Focus for both Meracle and Reimi (if you're using her) now and there's a Berserk manual in the arena if you haven't picked it up yet =-) You're using Arumat, Meracle ... Lymle?

Speaking of SO4, did another run through of the second post through dungeon. Around seven hours >.>

Levelled Myuria up a lot but she was still kind of lacking, even her spell from Santa, a bit disappointing really =/

[hinode]

Since Nintendo didn't bother to mention it on the official Pokemon website anywhere, you can download a shiny event Pichu from wifi mystery gift right now. It's pretty much identical to the one that was given away at Gamestop a few weeks back aside from the OT name/number.

Hopefully this means we'll be getting Jirachi as well over wifi in a few weeks, since that's actually useful.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Levelled Myuria up a lot but she was still kind of lacking, even her spell from Santa, a bit disappointing really =/

I ended up using her as my healer because she fills me with less hate than the other options.

[DjinnAndTonic]

CT... did you get a DL-legal playthrough of SO4 done yet so we can stat topic stuff?

[Clear Tranquil]

Djinn - I'll be working on the stat topic after I get Lymle's Iseria Queen trophy yeah. Played most of the interesting games peeps gave me at the mini meet so why not~

I already gave Lymle Faerie Star so Myuria's SOL in that department too >.> In hindsight maybe I should have given it to her just so she'd have at least only godly thing (since I mainly use Lymle for the badass Trinity Blaze yaay fire doggy) but I dunno. Sarah and Lym at least seem to understand what "Stay out of trouble" means =/ Myuria's probably the best healer if you control her though~

[Rozalia]

Did you find Meracle's Hurricane Claws? =-) The boss Manifest is weak to wind. I got her 30'000, 50'000, 70'000 and 99'999 trophies off those with Comet PAUNCH =D

But of course, theres nothing like killing a boss in two hits.

You're using Arumat, Meracle ... Lymle?

I was leveling everyone equally until the final area where I kind of said sod it so it'd be easier. My main team is Arumat, Lymle, Bacchus and Reimi all in their mid 70s, the rest are at mid 60s. Currently hunting down light chests and wondering if I should give Faerie star to Lymle.

SO4 - Finished it but still quite a few things I don't understand. Why is Spoiler the final boss? From what I gathered it all went down like this.

Lame Evil force - Sup Man, you want ultimate power?
Spoiler - Of course, those bastard Grigori killed my beloved!
Lame Evil Force - Grigori? You mean me and my frie..... Yeah those bastards. What was her name anyway.
Spoiler -
Lame Evil Force - You don't know?
Lame Evil Force - So you'll wipe Life out for that? I think you and me are very much alike young one. I mean even I have no idea why I want to destroy everything.
Spoiler - YES!
Lame Evil Force - Why'd your voice go deep all of a sudden?
Spoiler - BECAUSE I AM NOW EVIL!
Lame Evil Force - Okay, but the red eyes?
Spoiler - BECAUSE I AM NOW EVIL!
Lame Evil Force - You had those before.
Spoiler - HAVEN'T YOU READ THE FILE ON ME! MY EYES GO RED WHEN I'M ANGRY!
Lame Evil Force - That is the second most retarded thing I've heard. The first being your reason for evil.

I'm guessing they tried avoiding having Zeromus as the final boss but hell, at least Zeromus doesn't bullshit you around or get owned by a little girl in a conversation. Also the Eldarins, those idiot Eldarins. "We can't disturb people's evolution so lets discard all our tech" is what got me, it was a complete moment for me. Why they do that when they could just settle down on Aeos? The writers have to keep the plot line intact sure but that was the best they could do?

In conclusion the game is fine besides the plot. A lot of people tell me "At least its better then SO3" but I disagree. SO3 is fine up to the twist and from what I gathered the MMO is upgraded to an actual world at the end due to the bugs in the system anyway, you know the whole reason Luther wanted to destroy them in the first place.
Also I want a Luther Cameo dammit.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Also I want a Luther Cameo dammit.

Star Ocean 4 takes place in a different continuity where 4D space does not exist and the world is real. So sayeth the director.

[Rozalia]

That is one of the most spineless things I've read.

[Cmdr_King]

Considering that Welch is in the game, either the writers and director aren't on the same page or there's some blatant lies going on.
(Well, or something really insane.  Mind, I haven't actually played SO4 yet but.)

[Shale]

I'm going with "blatant lies."