Author Topic: Playin' any games today, Flying Nun? (WGAYP - 2011 Edition) (Read 280440 times)

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #1925 on:** August 03, 2011, 01:41:51 AM »

LA Noire- Finished this last night. Pretty good, but it's glaringly obvious that huge amounts of content were cut. The transition in the Arson cases wasn't too bad, although I have to say it was so silly in the third case talking about being an investigator for an insurance company. Put another way, I think they should have had something SLIGHTLY less silly as a profession in that first case.

superaielman · « **Reply #1926 on:** August 03, 2011, 03:10:08 AM »

FF13: Start of chapter 5.

It's a mixed bag. The game has a very good core system and the storytelling does try to be ambitious. It's stunningly pretty. The gameplay is also extremely neat! I just am really enjoying the hell out of combat with a full team. I don't mind that it's very linear either. It even sold me on the lack of control. It's like OB, you don't micromanage every single action, more direct the flow of traffic. This works brilliantly and is probably what FF12 wanted to be.

I am going to rant more about the cast here (Even though I am enjoying the game) because man they deserve ranting.

Oh my god. The cast. No. Hope, okay. He's supposed to be an insufferable, unlikable twat. It's not a character type I like (or even tolerate) in the slightest, but I can see putting him in. He's a kid and has growing up to do and gives someone for Lightning to bounce off of. He just is so goddamn obnoxious that I want to strangle him every time he speaks, then watch his ghost mom bitchslap him so hard that he returns to the living so I can strangle him again.

Vanille is pretty eh. It's pretty clear something is up with her and she knows far more about the Le cel stuff or whatever (or big ones running the world), but other than that she's mostly been the token cheerful girl. She's not terrible and I reserve judgment there, we'll see. Frocobo's okay. Snow... Snow is dumb. There's no other way to put it. Tonfa called him Seifer, which strikes me as a little unfair. He's dumb as a sack of bricks, but he's definitely a parody of the good hearted but moron main character (JUSTIN) that is common in older RPG's. Most of the anger at him is pretty misdirected, just my god. He is *dumb*. Lightning, I'm not sure what to make of. She strikes more of a chord with me than most of the cast does, and she's got some development. She is just such a raging bitch. Like oceans of raging. It's impressive.

I see the direction and what they want to do with the cast, but it doesn't do any good if the PC's are so unlikable that it interfers with the story. Elfboy made the point about them clashing and not working together like a typical RPG party, and that's true. I just am already ready to slap half the cast silly whenever they speak.

Story's a garbled mess so far, though I should probably sit down and reread all the bios and synaposes. That would help some.

Also, the amount of time you go with having just two PC's is inexusable. The reasons for splitting you up into two groups of two in C4 rivals Lufia 2's 'I kicked the door to this shrine and it's jammed' for general what the fuckery. Give me a full party and let me really tinker with the gameplay, damn it!

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #1927 on:** August 03, 2011, 03:19:13 AM »

The game does not respect you enough to let you do that.

Meeplelard · « **Reply #1928 on:** August 03, 2011, 07:43:39 AM »

Lost Odyssey: You know what this game needs? A boss fight against a huge train with a large cannon on it while your characters are standing on ANOTHER Train, trying to outrun that train, while trying to catch ANOTHER train...

But its not like THAT will ever happen. Nope! Not at all!

Grefter · « **Reply #1929 on:** August 03, 2011, 11:27:41 AM »

Fuck fuck fuck FUCK. Why do you people have to be so fucking POSITIVE all the time?

Phantom Trick - Holy shit guys. Like Candian guys, not everyone else who has played this and told them to play it. You guys need to play this. Why didn't I play this as soon as I picked it up? This is great.

Glen Veil · « **Reply #1930 on:** August 03, 2011, 01:02:28 PM »

TotA: So after I spent so much time in that one sidequest to play matchmaker for Cecile, game does that, the writers in this game seem to have some sort of extreme npc hate >.>.

jsh357 · « **Reply #1931 on:** August 03, 2011, 01:34:55 PM »

Quote from: Grefter on August 03, 2011, 11:27:41 AM

Fuck fuck fuck FUCK. Why do you people have to be so fucking POSITIVE all the time?

Phantom Trick - Holy shit guys. Like Candian guys, not everyone else who has played this and told them to play it. You guys need to play this. Why didn't I play this as soon as I picked it up? This is great.

(Assuming this is "Ghost Trick.") Game owns. It's a little hard to hype up since it's an adventure game and there are moments that are way too easy to spoil that are major sellers. I wish Capcom would make more games like it.

Missile is the greatest video game character of all time.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1932 on:** August 03, 2011, 01:36:16 PM »

Quote from: Grefter on August 03, 2011, 11:27:41 AM

Fuck fuck fuck FUCK. Why do you people have to be so fucking POSITIVE all the time?

Game sucks shit, bro. EZ.

There. Better?

AndrewRogue · « **Reply #1933 on:** August 03, 2011, 02:58:33 PM »

I do my best to be a force of negativity anymore!

Speaking of, though. With Catherine done, I'll hold off a bit on a second playthrough which means I need a game to play. Since I've been on a mood to snark on jRPGs, I figure I should play one again. Just not sure which one to actually play. Don't really want to do a replay of anything right now, but I only think I have unfinished PSX era RPGs. I needs a suggestion.

I could always just finish DA2 and snark on elements of wRPGs for a bit, I suppose.

LoL: Don't like any of the champions this week.

OblivionKnight · « **Reply #1934 on:** August 03, 2011, 03:24:02 PM »

Hey, I post in this topic too! Sometimes...

Anyway, started the FF5 FJF. Got White Mage for the first crystal, and stopped right after getting the water crystal and my second job, Time Mage.

Been fun. Didn't need to resort to the crazy madness of USING A FREELANCER. I am true man, damnit. Currently level 11.

Hardest fight was...honestly, probably either Galura or MAGISSA. Magissa just...spammed Drain, which hit every time, and killed in one hit. Forza also hit around 50% of my life, depending on random variance, so Protect+Healing was the name of the game. Also didn't help that I kept missing with my FLAIL character. And my other characters. I think I seriously missed about 20 times in a row. Took forever, but I won. No resets! Yay!

Galura I didn't break the Frost Rod on, or it would have been easy. His multi-acting became a problem, as he liked to focus characters, which made his HP-leak kind of scary. Thankfully, backrow Heal Staff Lenna for the win.

I'm still going to be a completionist and get everything in the game I legally can (so I'll miss half the Genji equipment), including all the summons.

Now to grab loads of rods and commence the rod breaking fun. Prepare to die, Liquid Flame. Don't think there's that much important to grab in the flaming castle, IIRC, except the one dagger and an early Esuna.

Kind of sad I didn't get BERSERKER. I think I'm heading towards a bunch of frail magey-classes, so far.

Really surprised by how much I just remember from the game without refreshing my memory, and only having played it last...god, when FF5a came out, so 3 years ago? If I actually updated the rankings stuff, I'd have to up it's rank!

Niu · « **Reply #1935 on:** August 03, 2011, 09:31:05 PM »

Devil Survivor 2- Good game. The characterization is much in this game, even if the character design is a bit less appealing.
And having a Hitler vs. Stalin like route split is also pretty refreshign compare to the traditional L vs. C

The battle, now, I can see they arte trying to balance the diffculty against the tweaks we the players have access too, but doing so by giving enemies broken tweaks isn't really the right way. It usually dwells down into who can attack first to get the kill in.
But then, I'll overlook that since the Septentrion fights are actually interesting.

Grefter · « **Reply #1936 on:** August 03, 2011, 10:36:16 PM »

Yeah I meant Ghost Trick, goddamn I need to not post just before I pass out for the night.

Also of course you shouldn't take my post seriously (I would hope neither of the people actually playing FF13 were because I just spent a portion of time with them both enough to remember that nothing is ever serious). If you are enjoying something then more power to you. Play things that you like. Just remember that it means you have horrible taste.

Meeplelard · « **Reply #1937 on:** August 04, 2011, 01:59:15 AM »

Lost Odyssey: So the game has suddenly decided to shift from being "Main Character IS EVERYWHERE THE PLAYER IS!", and instead decided to focus on...multiple characters at a time. Wow, didn't think the game would pull that, though I can hardly complain, as its nice when a game actually, you know, acknowledges that the Main DOES NOT HAVE TO BE EVERYWHERE for the story to progress.

Captain K. · « **Reply #1938 on:** August 04, 2011, 06:09:42 AM »

Bastion: 100% vigils completed. It's weird how some of the proving grounds are ridiculously easy while some require very specific setups. Dual pistols seems to be impossible without Dreadrum activated. Maybe tomorrow I will stop fooling around with the game and actually finish the story.

Oh, and I also have homing rockets. Boomshakalaka.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #1939 on:** August 04, 2011, 06:41:38 AM »

And FFT for iPhone just popped. Time to not accomplish anything with my free time for the next few weeks.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #1940 on:** August 04, 2011, 03:59:00 PM »

FFT - I Hatbotted two sets of classes for each character, they can only use abilities from those two classes. Lord Hatbot was pretty nice to me. Got Knight/Mediator, Time Mage/Priest, Geomancer/Squire (so, a Geomancer with Move +1), Geomancer/Samurai, and a Lancer/Chemist. I decided for the sake of giggles that Ramza would not be the Geomancer/Squire. I'm at the end of Chapter 1 right now and about to bash in the face of a sister-murderer. Dude pisses me off.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1941 on:** August 04, 2011, 04:03:34 PM »

Quote from: jsh357 on August 03, 2011, 01:34:55 PM

Quote from: Grefter on August 03, 2011, 11:27:41 AM
Fuck fuck fuck FUCK. Why do you people have to be so fucking POSITIVE all the time?

Phantom Trick - Holy shit guys. Like Candian guys, not everyone else who has played this and told them to play it. You guys need to play this. Why didn't I play this as soon as I picked it up? This is great.

(Assuming this is "Ghost Trick.") Game owns. It's a little hard to hype up since it's an adventure game and there are moments that are way too easy to spoil that are major sellers. I wish Capcom would make more games like it.

Missile is the greatest video game character of all time.

So I just read that the director of Ghost Trick is tje sake dude that directed the Ace Attourney games. I'm sold.

Incidentally, I discocered this while reading the PW wiki entry on Missile. Coincidence.

Shale · « **Reply #1942 on:** August 04, 2011, 05:39:45 PM »

Ghost Trick is totally awesome. I'm still stuck at the lights-out sequence in the prison, but once I get my DS back, those Ghost Recon jackasses are going down.

Clear Tranquil · « **Reply #1943 on:** August 04, 2011, 09:42:55 PM »

FF5a- Just received control of the submarine. Two interesting fights while in the Barrier tower. One while fighting the Monster! in a box for the Gold Hair Pin. Three of my characters wiped leaving Lenna to spam Titan like no tomorrow in an attempt to overpower the fight with a sheer bumrush. I didn't want to risk losing Lenna too in the process of trying to revive/heal up other characters so I just went gung ho with Titan spam and hoped for the best. Amazingly all incoming physical attacks from the enemies for the rest of the battle whiffed so Lenna was able to hang around long enough to get in enough Titans to finish the fight off. Yaay evasion. I was so glad because I hadn't found the save circle at the top of the tower yet >_> The second fun fight was vs the boss at the top of the tower. Straight away it used Comet spam and managed to off Faris before the battle had even started! Unfortunately I was out of Phoenix Downs after using them all the rest I had in stock after that last fight so again I just had to hold tight and hope for the best. Lenna got down to business with the Titan/Bio spam while Ranger used Attack/Aim/Animals and Galuf healed with the rare Hi Potions I had left, then twiddled his thumbs for while. This lasted until the boss sucked Faris in and used Comet spam again. Lenna went down this time leaving only Bartz and Galuf to try and finish the fight off themselves. It was looking bad and soon after managing to get in a few more Attack/Aims my Bartz was both slowed and down to his last digits of HP. Galuf was slowed too. This was looking very bad ... then I suddenly remembered the Drink! command existed so I had my Galuf toss back a Speed Drink, Goliath Tonic (doubling his HP to 1800~ yaay!) and Power Drink. It was up to Dancing! Chemist to save the day. A Sword Dance, a few more attacks and another Sword Dance later it was all over. Gogo Dancing Chemist~

Grefter · « **Reply #1944 on:** August 04, 2011, 11:16:53 PM »

FFT - Okay so it lags on the iPhone 3GS for anyone looking at picking it up. I can deal with it, but whatevers, thought it wouldn't hurt to mention.

OblivionKnight · « **Reply #1945 on:** August 04, 2011, 11:37:39 PM »

FF5 FJF:

Just got the Earth crystal.

Since last time, I went to Karnak, where I believe I have now hunted the Wild Nakk into extinction. Dungeon was fairly easy - Rod-breaking = win. It's been the best part of Time Mages so far. Liquid Flame was...easy. Ice Rods = death. Got NINJA from the Fire Crystal.

Man, Ninja is MVP. Seriously. I never noticed it in other games, but...Ninja is badass. Scrolls are awesome - you don't use them normally (boosted summons or black magic work wonders), but the damage output is insane. Randoms went from taking forever to being done in a single action. Insane. The speed and long-range weapons are excellent overall, and I have been getting so many drops that I now have plenty of random stuff to throw.

Also went and slaughtered Shiva and Ramuh, for no other reason than I want ABP.

Library was easy. Rod-break = dead bosses.

Scrolls + Rods = dead Ronka Ruins bosses.

Ninjas and the advent of rods have made this a breeze.

Got DANCER from the Earth Crystal. My mighty ream is White Mage/Time Mage/Ninja/Dancer. It is epically awesome.

NotMiki · « **Reply #1946 on:** August 05, 2011, 08:56:27 PM »

1CCd Subterranean Animism on Normal, about 2 weeks after finally 1CCing Mountain of Faith Normal. I may try UFO next since I'm on a roll, but...eek.

Niu · « **Reply #1947 on:** August 05, 2011, 10:02:31 PM »

Digital Survivor 2- Yamato is a really poor Hitler. Before being extremist, he felt liked a short sighted dumb ass. The Stalin equivalent despite being shallow, is actually somewhat likable with his resonable hotbloodness.
But then, the Kaworu eqivalent beats them both.

The Alice with the loli cons fight isn't as impressive as I thought. It felt liek the Lucifer fight in the first game, just easier.

Meeplelard · « **Reply #1948 on:** August 05, 2011, 10:03:24 PM »

Lost Odyssey: Disc 3 is totally finished.

I'm kind of at awe of this cause it doesn't FEEL like I've played 3 discs...but then my play time is 30 hours, which seems reasonable for a Disc 3 of 4, so uh...I guess the game is paced well, and moves fast, and thus doesn't feel as long as it is?

Captain K. · « **Reply #1949 on:** August 06, 2011, 12:02:59 AM »

Bastion: I was going to write a super-negative review to appease Grefter, but I can't really do it because this is the game of the year so far. Great gameplay, great story (and told in an offbeat manner), and great music (very Firefly-esque).

This is one of those games where you totally lose track of time while playing. I'd say to myself, "I'll go to bed after I do just one more Proving Ground" and then you look at your watch and it's two hours later.

The only real complaint I have is that there's only one savefile.

If you have an Xbox, there's no reason not to scrounge up $15 for this game. Also coming to Steam August 16th. LOL if you bought a PS3.

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Author Topic: Playin' any games today, Flying Nun? (WGAYP - 2011 Edition) (Read 280440 times)