Author Topic: Playin' any games today, Flying Nun? (WGAYP - 2011 Edition) (Read 280467 times)

metroid composite · « **Reply #1275 on:** May 04, 2011, 12:15:59 PM »

Desktop Dungeons: so...there's a bunch of very rare, expensive items that give big bonuses but significant penalties. Wicked Guitar, Berserker's Blade, Magician's Moonstrike, Terror Slice. I came close to using Magician's Moonstrike today (which gives +15 MP but drops attack to 1)...but still didn't. The boss was Tormented One, which made physicals a really bad plan, so at first glance it seemed like a no-brainer. But...I had Blue Bead, and unexplored areas that might contain more low-level enemies to trigger Blue Bead (whee, +1 mana on kill) and by the time I was done exploring, the Tormented One was dead from the fireballs I'd fired while wandering around. (And with that: there goes Gauntlet level 41).

Annoying night for Gauntlet, though: Binlor just wouldn't spawn (50% chance). Both times he did I won, but....

On the other whacky items...tested out Wicked Guitar. It can kill you (so you see "safe" and then die from guitar feedback). At high levels it's unimpressive: increases damage by 20% but you take 20% of what you deal, which ends up pretty even. Probably good at low levels except that surviving counterattacks from higher level enemies was often the hard part at low levels. Terror Slice might be the best of the lot, but you do need cydstepp or it's worthless. Berserker Blade just seems bad (set max mana to 1, attack+50%). Fine if you're worshiping Taurog, but I'm not convinced worshiping Taurog is...worth-it, most of the time. Taurog can enhance your physicals, but so can magic (often better than Taurog). Magician's Moonstrike is...fine, occasionally; probably would have used it if the fight had gone on longer in my specific situation...but it didn't.

Magic Fanatic · « **Reply #1276 on:** May 04, 2011, 03:02:03 PM »

It's been a good day for me.

WoW - Managed to get the PvP achievement for the current holiday. I have an Arcane Mage with no PvP gear. This is a huge success for me.

BvS - First, I obsess over Hanafuda. There is a trophy you can obtain by getting all 5 Brights in a single round. Summertime SUCCESS!

Candyween. A BvS "holiday" that is very expensive to run if it's not the last day of the month. My main finally got the Smile For The Camera achievement. SUCCESS!

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #1277 on:** May 05, 2011, 03:21:18 AM »

Replaying Fallout: New Vegas. This probably would be GotY if ME2 had come out a month earlier. Or at least have to scrap it out with Civ 5.

Instead of guns, this time I am using explosives as my main combat skill, because the Grenade Machine Gun is hard as fuck and the Grenade Rifle makes me feel like the Terminator. I have made it to Freeside so far, with only moderate difficulty.

I think this time I want to use my favor to become a member of the Kings. And also be a cannibal.

metroid composite · « **Reply #1278 on:** May 05, 2011, 04:20:25 AM »

Desktop Dungeons

So...I just realized I'm right on the borderline of Dwarf becoming bad in Gauntlet again. I just got to level 45, which means most bosses deal 243 damage. After the defence bonus from Hardiness, that gets reduced to 182. Without items, Binlor Dwarf caps out at 185 HP.

Now, the "without items" line is important: a bunch of items buff durability. And depending which (if any) of those spawn they could help a little or a lot. Which makes the Dwarf ceiling pretty fuzzy.

Interestingly, I'm simultaneously not far off from another big border: if I need to spend 10 mana on healing between boss hits, then it's less mana efficient than fire magic. (243 attack bosses push me into 9-and-sometimes-10 mana range just to heal one boss hit with Transmuter).

Meeplelard · « **Reply #1279 on:** May 05, 2011, 04:24:15 AM »

Parasite Eve 3rd Birthday: Started this up, beat the tutorial mission!

...and the game is getting shelved for about another week! No, its not really the game's fault so much as its finals and I'd rather not get too involved in something new; mostly starting it up to make sure the game was fine and I didn't get a defective copy or something.

Namco x Capcom: So I just got the guy from Dig Dug to join me...and Drak apparently was allowed to be killed like 4 times because the game doesn't' let a boss die if he's got any sort of role in the following plot scene. I have to question why they didn't just do a "If Boss is dead, advance plot in fight" scenario, rather than making it a pure turn related thing. This resulted in me on 2 separate occasions going "Wait, I DIDn'T kill the guy? Is my attention to detail really that bad?" and then MAKING SURE he died on hte 3rd attempt and going "Oh...he's still alive..."

To the game's credit, for all its brokeness...they at least restricted bosses from giving out EXP multiple times from this LITERAL PLOT ARMOR of being able to kill them multiple times, so uh, go them?

Glen Veil · « **Reply #1280 on:** May 05, 2011, 06:10:07 AM »

VP2: As if the swamp dungeon wasn't whorish enough, the developers decided to have the palace of venerated dragons or whatever be even worse. POIZN trap room and enemies that revive with wide attack ranges in narrow fields, finally started to feel like I was getting the hang of the place when right after placing a stone on the first dias I get into an encounter only to have an enemy that barely survives a combo ohko my entire party. Great. currently muttering curses at the developers for their sadism while contemplating when I'll feel like booting up my last save from 2 hours earlier before that happened only to subject myself to this stupid dungeon again.

Dhyerwolf · « **Reply #1281 on:** May 05, 2011, 09:44:25 AM »

Phantom Brave- Got to lower my average RPG score clearly, so I'm playing this. 30 Minutes so far, clunky as shit.

Fenrir · « **Reply #1282 on:** May 05, 2011, 10:01:26 AM »

Quote from: Captain K. on April 27, 2011, 01:36:49 AM

Those particular enemies do ridiculous damage that is not in scale with the rest of the game. They have mods specifically for them. Also watch out for the last boss, he's fairly difficult compared with the previous bosses as well.

Torchlight: Yeah, I guess I got killed by a lightning attack critical or something. Stupid.
I just replayed as a destroyer, still on VHHC, currently in the fire prison. My plan is to keep all the teleportation scrolls + teleportation quest for right before the final dungeon, get a ton of levels and stomp on the final boss and dark zealots. We'll then see how I'll then survive the aftergame (Hint: I won't)
Great class. Entropic Aura, Stampede and Titan Stomp are fun. I'd use Shadow armor more, but it turns the screen into an even bigger clusterfuck.

'Splosion Man: Finished. Loved it, just the right amount of difficulty. (I never could finish N or Super Meat Boy...)

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Instead of guns, this time I am using explosives as my main combat skill, because the Grenade Machine Gun is hard as fuck and the Grenade Rifle makes me feel like the Terminator. I have made it to Freeside so far, with only moderate difficulty.

I never could find enough explosives in that game to main them. I was serious about it too, my character was pretty much only focused on Barter and Explosives. I had never relied on melee weapons and small guns as much as here, which is stupid.
(Explosives are still great for disabling melee enemies)

Grefter · « **Reply #1283 on:** May 05, 2011, 02:24:56 PM »

Not even when you get a flamer/Incinerator going? I thought there was a decent supply of ammo for those.

POKEMANS - I haven't played this for days. I should go do the Electric gym I guess.

Sierra · « **Reply #1284 on:** May 05, 2011, 08:48:32 PM »

I know I wound up with thousands of units of spare flamer ammo by the end of the game, and I even used the incinerator a fair bit early on before I got a good stock of energy weapons.

Lord Ephraim · « **Reply #1285 on:** May 05, 2011, 09:12:21 PM »

The new patch made direct hits from explosives much stronger and typically better for crippling limbs, important for the only 2 noteworthy enemies (cazadors and deathclaws). It was disappointing that a direct hit from 100 explosive skill Fat Man did 35% damage to Deathclaw Alpha Male. I never had a problem finding missiles or frag grenades but 40mm grenades are harder to find for the low-mid game. Melee is a good supplement to explosives, you don't need high INT, PER, or LUK so you're free to boost STR, AGI, and END to max, even boost some CHA so I can make Boone already solo harder than he needs too.

Random Consonant · « **Reply #1286 on:** May 05, 2011, 11:22:59 PM »

Shining Force 3 Part 1 - I now have a penguin. That is all.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1287 on:** May 05, 2011, 11:49:52 PM »

Pippen~?

Shale · « **Reply #1288 on:** May 06, 2011, 12:18:06 AM »

Collect them all!

Nitori · « **Reply #1289 on:** May 06, 2011, 01:05:05 AM »

Dead Space: Shooting limbs off simulator, feels pretty average since the controls feel a little sluggish. Gotta go poison something huge

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1290 on:** May 06, 2011, 01:06:59 AM »

Nitori are you an Ewok X-Wing pilot

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #1291 on:** May 06, 2011, 03:20:06 AM »

Bleed and die yub yub?

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #1292 on:** May 06, 2011, 04:29:32 AM »

Yub, yub, Snow. Yub yub

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #1293 on:** May 06, 2011, 11:43:28 PM »

Yub Yub, ~~Commander~~ ~~General~~ Supreme Commander.

DomaDragoon · « **Reply #1294 on:** May 07, 2011, 01:11:54 AM »

Yub yub this.

Anyway, just got the Xbox back so I'll be back to DW:Gundam 2 fun.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1295 on:** May 07, 2011, 01:30:21 AM »

This thing had a SECOND SEASON?

Tide · « **Reply #1296 on:** May 07, 2011, 07:21:11 AM »

Resonance of Fate: Hard mode - completed.

General thoughts? Hard mode changes quite a few things with just a few minor tweaks. Adding 1.2x more damage and durability goes a long way into making basic enemies obviously better, although there's still some bits and pieces of AI holes to take advantage of. For all that it's called "hard mode", it might as well be Hard for only the first two chapters, Chapter 4 and the last few chapters of the game from Chapter 14-16. All other chapters not included on this list are relatively unchanged for the most part. The biggest changes:

- Chapter 1 enemies are very tough. Without any customization, your base guns barely have enough firepower to take on even lowly thugs.
- Chapter 1 Tar Man is a nasty nuisance with his healing. I actually used the arena to level up a bit so I could get up to charge level 4-5 to deal decent damage at once.
- There's a room in Chapter 2's dungeon that's extremely annoying. Luckily under Hard, this is simply annoying and not "extremely fucking painful"
- Chapter 4, statue is almost guaranteed to be destroyed unless you use up some AP ammo in that second to final room
- Chapter 14 enemies have pretty good KOing power (4HKO after 28% resist or so). They also have enough durability now that 47 charges on a M.Gun is not enough to full scratch. You either need Hollow Point++ or dual wield to do it
- Chapter 16, final boss has a 2HKO and is fast. Several other enemies rooms are extremely nasty (particularly, there's one with a tank and a Goliath that is extremely nasty).

The best status condition I imagine as the difficulty goes up is immolation. It actually *powers* up if you link Fire boost terminals. As an example Final boss takes roughly 6k damage a sec when immolated. Under the hardest difficulty, he takes 44k. It's possible to 2HKO him back as a result.

Probably not touching the game for a while now. Sunk 180+ hours into it, but it's been good fun. The one thing I am sad to say is that I did not know you can cancel and rotate the shooting order a triangle attack until after watching a video

Fenrir · « **Reply #1297 on:** May 07, 2011, 12:32:31 PM »

How are you supposed to protect the statue in uber hard NG+10 mode?
Edit: Good lord, anything is possible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy3f7_-3Qes

Torchlight: Your pet is fleeing. Your pet is fleeing. Your pet is fleeing. Your pet is fleeing. Your pet is fleeing.
I'm in the final dungeon, owning dark zealots with Seismic Burst. Now that the destroyer has an awesome cheap long range skill, I think I can safely say the other two classes are obsolete in hard modes.
By the way, boss versions of dark zealots are terrifying.

Skills are now:
Frost shield 9
Seismic Burst 1
Entropic Aura 1
Adventurer 10
Armor expertise 10
Martial weapons expertise 8
Treasure hunter ...4?

Twilkitri · « **Reply #1298 on:** May 07, 2011, 02:01:53 PM »

Pokémon Black - After The End, meandered over to Black City

Team when starting the E4 was Mienfoo (temp), Klang, Vanilluxe, Krookodile, Jellicent, Emboar. All level 48.

Currently at 145/118 in the only dex that matters.

The majority of the 3D effects in the game were reminiscent of the incidental 3D effects they used sometimes in Grandia, just showing off mediocre 3D for the heck of it. We are truly living in the future.

So I've arrived at Black City and found it to be deserted. Another notch to the Belt Of Bad Ideas for Nintendo, assuming that people starting new games and finishing them ludicrously quickly is in fact the only way to reverse global resident entropy as I currently understand to be the case.

Game was generally enjoyable.

BttFtG Episode 4 - Finished

Still more railroading than I would have preferred. The model citizen requirement also had a particularly annoying 'puzzle' to beat that took three times longer than necessary.

The story is going places I approve of at least. Hopefully the final episode won't let me down.

Game was generally enjoyable.

Hector: Badge of Carnage Episode 1 - Finished

Going to say that the promotional materials I saw for the game did not exactly give me an accurate impression of the game. But I didn't see too many. So my misexpectations are really my own fault. Seems strange that Telltale are backing the PC version though.

Gameplay is mediocre. Overarching storyline is reasonable, but in general the local storylines are also mediocre. I'm not sure whether I will bother getting the subsequent episodes.

Also the animation doesn't seem to even attempt to lipsync with dialogue which I found quite distracting.

Game was generally mediocre.

metroid composite · « **Reply #1299 on:** May 08, 2011, 05:15:40 AM »

Desktop Dungeons: ok yeah, definitely time to jettison Dwarf from Gauntlet play.

In order to survive at this point I need a durability buff above and beyond Dwarf Binlor; just a small one, like +10 HP. Earthmother doesn't really help; 50% of the time she'll spawn a glyph that can be converted for 10HP, but the other 50% she won't and this loses Binlor's on-worship +5 HP. Items usually do help: there will usually be one of Troll Heart or Pendant of Health, since both are extremely common.

But there's an extra catch: this assumes converting all glyphs except ENDISWALL. The problem being that boss durability is so high that regen games are critical, and these often lean on APHEELSIK or BLUDTOPOWA. The one exception being uber items like Crystal Ball and (for Transmuter) Stone Heart, but these are rare, and certainly Crystal Ball supports all strategies.

I hit a situation today where I had the option to go physical (Crystal Ball and Fine Sword...but I'd have to convert BLUDTOPOWA). I took the physical option thinking "I may as well make my potions worthwhile". So...I maybe got 200 extra physical damage from that. But...when I went back and did the math, Crystal Ball BLUDTOPOWA fireballing combines for 20 damage every two tiles, and the physical setup was doing 21 every five tiles. On the bonus 200, Elf would give extra mana: 4 more per mana potion, and some more from the higher max; so...three or four extra fireballs there (120-160 damage from that) and in this case I also had blue bead, so I could convert some of my health into mana by killing low level monsters with first strike, which I was reluctant to hit this time because the damage I'd take wasn't worth the 1 mana. So the argument "I should use my HP and Health potions as that's 200 damage right there" can be almost entirely countered by "go Elf; get almost 200 bonus damage in fireballs; who needs potions?" (Not so much with my mid-match decision when it was too late to go elf, even though going physical mid-match was still the wrong choice, but next time...).

Granted I did win this last run despite making the wrong choice to use my physical resources, but it was epically close, ending in me buing Dancing Sword for first strike and even then only barely killing. (I'm pretty sure I've never bought Dancing Sword before on a Gauntlet run).

We'll see, though. I might find that as soon as I roll Elf, I'll be littered with maps with platemail and stoneheart and I'll be shaking my fist.

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Author Topic: Playin' any games today, Flying Nun? (WGAYP - 2011 Edition) (Read 280467 times)