Playin' any games today, Flying Nun? (WGAYP - 2011 Edition)

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Desktop Dungeons

Beat all of the dual-boss dungeons with all classes.  Dragon in the Factory and Gorgon in the Crypt were some of the nastier challenge

I didn't find Dragon in the Factory too bad, namely because Animated Armors lose a level of death protection whether they're on the primary or secondary side of a knockback.

Hm, I know about that effect, but I suppose I didn't abuse that as much as I could have.  (In retrospect, I should have done more "hit low level enemy into high level AA, let the low-level enemy regen, and repeat"). Mostly, in general the factory is a place where you run out of resources (even if you're level 9, you probably need some regeneration tiles to kill a level 5 animated armor).  And Dragon takes a lot of resources (to regen to full).  It's a map with lots of magic resist (and Dragon's main damage will always be magic; no adapting; yeah, knockback into wall isn't magic, but I didn't realize that on my first couple attempts).  And...the Factory has the single greatest use for fireballs...which dragons can't use.

Anyway: Gauntlet, up to 31 or so.  I have switched race, but switched to Dwarf, not Human.  If the boss is dealing less than 135 damage to me, I'm probably winning anyway, but I got frustrated with a couple situations where I just couldn't take a hit from the boss.  Definitely lost at least one fight I could have won as Elf (against Tormented One) but Dwarf feels generally better at these levels.

Probably my most amusing win, though, was Dwarf Transmuter vs Gharbad The -Whoa.  My class/race is obviously terrible here, but the map happened to have Crystal Ball, BLUDTOPOWA, and CYDSTEPP.  2x2 is 3, according to DD (thats how it stacks two instances of"double mana regen"), but a reraise every three tiles outdamages the boss regen just fine.

[Tide]

TOPSP: Done. The last battle was somewhat challenging. At least the first part. Until I saw those Shiny level 4 Field Alchemy Orbs. The second fight was a much bigger downer. That dungeon in general needs fire.

Not sure if I want to do the after game. It looks like the enemy units keep getting stronger but your equipment is stuck at a certain level unless you like to wait for drops. And fuck.dat.

Anyway, fun enough game, but time to move onto something else I suppose.

[Dhyerwolf]

Wizard of Oz- Picked this back up for at least another 5 seconds. Got the L7 skills and went back and fought Holly. Wouldn't have won without them, and it was still close. At one point, everyone but Lion was dead, but then she used two missed DreamLands in a row.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Welcome to Holly. She's a total bitch and Elfboy is insane(ly badass) for beating her without L7s.

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Desktop Dungeons

The following amusing situation happened:

I was a level 10 Dwarf (10 is max level, Dwarves specialize in HP.  To put things into perspective, there's actually a boss with less HP than I had).  I was at full health.  I went to attack a level 3 enemy, only to see the word "DEATH" which is a caution warning the player that the enemy is going to kill you on their counterattack.

I scratched my head and wondered how this was possible.  Turns out I had angered Binlor a lot with spellcasting.  Each time you anger him he subtracts 10% from your defences.  My defences were about -250% by that point.  Wheeeeee!

(Totally won that one too, even though the boss was a Wraith).

[Glen Veil]

Picked up VP2, somewhere in chapter 3 so far.  I fail forever and ever at combos and targeting specific parts. I dread the day the game decides to stop letting me kill randoms by mashing every attack at once or hiding in bosses blind spots because I will probably start dieing horribly once that happens.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Picked up VP2, somewhere in chapter 3 so far.  I fail forever and ever at combos and targeting specific parts. I dread the day the game decides to stop letting me kill randoms by mashing every attack at once or hiding in bosses blind spots because I will probably start dieing horribly once that happens.

That never happens. VP2 looks far more sophisticated than it really is.

[Random Consonant]

Shining Force 3 Part 1 - Started this yesterday, am now on a train.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Are you Selphie.

[Random Consonant]

No but you are some random guy who tagged along for shits and giggles and surely won't leave five battles hence.

And you're probably gnawing on Yakumo.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I'm not random!

[Random Consonant]

But we're not in Part 3 yet!  Spoilers mang, we don't want to give the game's surely incredible plot away.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Not like anyone will ever play it in non-moonrune language in the next five years or so.

[Niu]

Well, SF3's story is amazing..... until part3. It taught us the lesson on how easily a game's plot can be destroyed.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Don't we learn that from at least one game a year anyway?

[Grefter]

GTA4 - Finally finished this playing it on and off probably for nearly a year now.  So that last mission can go get fucked.  Drive somewhere zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Shoot some dudes zzzzzzzzz chase a thing on a bike zzzzzzzzz jump the bike onto a chopper lol controls fuck up and camera spazzes the fuck out.  Try three times, give up and look up stuff.  Some dude on Gamefaqs mentions something about it being a frame limit issue, with settings turned down so the game runs decently on a modern decent PC the frame rate goes up and the the game actually responds to your clicks worse during timed events, it wants to be running around 30 FPS to work.  Not sure if it is true or not, but I turned on shadows and added Space as an extra jump button instead of just using the Mouse.  That worked.  Then oh god chopper control bit I haven't flown a chopper for like 6 months, I have no idea what to do anymore.  Fudge my way through it at least.  Get up to the last boss dude and there is guys that shoot at you I wasn't expecting (HOW DID HE KNOW HE WOULD CRASH LAND A CHOPPER ON THE ISLAND?!???), so uh killed them with shotgun because I was cycling through weapons, then suddenly police!  Errr okay what the fuck ever.  I shoot the boss with the last 5 shells I had loaded in the shotgun and then panic scrolled to something not shitty.  Shot him with an RPG to win.

Game is no where near as fun or good as San Andreas.  If they stop making GTA games like this and go back to that I will be much happier.  The controls are worse than San Andreas (HOW IN THE HELL) and there is numerous graphical, optimisation and all round performance issues with this port.  It is really pretty much terrible on the PC.

Edit - Oh yeah while I hate on mass marketed games

POKEMANS - Something else to bitch and complain about!  I am leveling Munna a little so it will live decently long while I use it to catch Victini  (just a few levels to make it a bit bulkier).  This is when I realised it would cover my more pained offensive typed gaps, I might still pick up Sigilyph to have a Flyer anyway, just have to get a Magic Guard one.  ANYWAY, Munna and things to bitch about.  I just got to the level it learns Imprison.  Here is what Imprison does.  It prevents the enemy pokemon from using any skill that the user of Imprison has.

Wow.  That is an awesome move guys.  Other than shutting out Imprison itself it can shut out up to three other moves at a time.  From the entire move pool of Pokemon.  That is awesome.  Ignoring all the obvious things like how low the odds of the opponent having the same skills as you do on Munna and whatnot, it straight up has half the PP of Disable, which is not a great move but is at least guaranteed to have any damned use at all. 

Here is the really huge thing though! Is when looking it up to bitch about I realise that this isn't even the first gen to have the move.  What in the -fuck- Gamefreak?

[hinode]

Imprison is a strictly doubles(/triples) move, and not an in-game one at all. You can use it to do stuff like get rid of Protect (one of the best and most widely used moves in doubles) or protect your Rayquaza from enemy Ice Beams.

[Shale]

Not like anyone will ever play it in non-moonrune language in the next five years or so.

Nah, translation's almost completely done. I think they've got one area in the final chapter of the last game left to insert.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I suspect that's what it'll take them five years to close up.

[Random Consonant]

Shining Force 3 Part 1 - Snow ingloriously countergnawed a boss to death.  I'm not sure how I feel about that.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Should I feel proud?

[Random Consonant]

Yes.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

* Jo'ou Ranbu does so, I guess.

[Dark Holy Elf]

Tactics Ogre - After only two resets the entire game leading up to this (not to say the game was easy by any means, there were certainly a few really good fights that I won first try + the game generally maintained a pretty consistent level of challenge), I have run into major trouble against the boss fight in Heim Castle.

Valkyrie Profile - Replaying this, sorta rushing. I'm recruiting everyone and doing all the dungeons ('cept Caves of Oblivion, because screw them). Banning myself from using the major defensive cheese and will do the same with the Creation Jewel to give the game a fighting chance but overall I am still crushing it. Arngrim/Lawfer/Jelanda party. Hel Servants nearly killed me though, not enough Union Plumes and I forgot how much waaay better they were than any previous boss. Although, the fight lasted something like 9 rounds and I never saw them use magic? It was very weird, huge fluke if that's just luck.

Anyone (Captain?) know if there's some trigger to them using magic? Not that it really matters much since it's all a flavour of high 2HKO (well, I think Poison Blow is OHKO) regardless.

[SageAcrin]

overall I am still crushing it. Arngrim/Lawfer/Jelanda party.

See that's the problem, you need a worse team. *Nods.*