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Re: Playin' any games today, Flying Nun? (WGAYP - 2011 Edition)
« Reply #2600 on: November 03, 2011, 04:14:10 PM »
Persona 3: FES: The Answer. Got through the Heartful Cry Colosseum battles, finally. Had to grind a little and specifically fuse a Siegfried with Repel Elec for the first, specifically fused Thanatos for the second, and just did some grinding for the last, which is remarkably easy when you fully heal every time you leave a dungeon. (Did fuse Horus for the third fight, although it wasn't amazingly relevant past having Resist Slash, when Thanatos had Null Slash.)
Now on the final fight for the first time, totally expecting it to be easier than the multitude of fights I just went through, so.. prepared to be horribly surprised, I guess?

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Re: Playin' any games today, Flying Nun? (WGAYP - 2011 Edition)
« Reply #2601 on: November 03, 2011, 07:34:34 PM »
FF13 - In Chapter 4 currently. I just kicked the shit* out of Odin.

*died like three times and barely won
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Re: Playin' any games today, Flying Nun? (WGAYP - 2011 Edition)
« Reply #2602 on: November 04, 2011, 04:54:56 AM »
*Soon, FM5!*

Dark Souls: Farm for eye of deaths finished.
I've gotten a lightning club and it's so much better than a Divine Axe in every way, even with 45 faith. Wow.
I don't know whether I should farm souvenirs of reprisal from harpies or get them from fellow players. I've really gotten my ass kicked in PVP before, and this build has no vitality, and the guilty are probably all powerful. Hum.


FM3 solo: Wow, why did I do this?
You get almost nothing from pilot levels. In fact, I've already reached the max level before getting access to the first shop.
Weapon levels get you very slightly more damage, and I don't think it does give anything else.
Skills? So far they almost never activate, and I have only 4 slots.
In short, I'm playing with one character instead of four with nearly no advantages. (I can pretty much forget about platinum medal rewards, too) Hope I'll get far but I'm not holdinf my breath.

So I had done a few other battles using the others as meatshields, nothing too bad, maybe two or three resets per battle.
Then the cute police officer joined -> I had 5 people in my team -> I got to choose which ones I get take to battle -> I was forced to only choose Jean Louis.
The real challenge began here, but I still didn't have access to a non-item shop, and this battle was against 4 opponents with missiles, + 2 with machineguns), including three freaking helicopters!!

This felt hopeless but I still tried. Slapped a missile on Jean Louis' mech (their accuracy laughs at helicopters) and went to Fukushima (um...) to rank missiles up to D*.
Gave Jean Louis one missile reoading item, two repair kits. His skills were 2 Zoom 1 + 2 Skill Up 1.


I get to one border of the screen and 2HKO the 2 helicopters with missiles. At this point I've already used both repairs and think I'm as good as dead.
But the tank comes slowly and gets enough missiles to the face before being able to act. One mech comes nearby, one missile hits his body then a shotgun blast finishes him off. There's only one last mech, a missile hits his only useful arm right away. For some reason the last helicopter just sat there and watched me wreck his friends. I guess Irvine was in that helicopter. Great FM/FF crossover there guys.
I have so much luck.
« Last Edit: November 04, 2011, 05:04:56 AM by Fenrir »

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Re: Playin' any games today, Flying Nun? (WGAYP - 2011 Edition)
« Reply #2603 on: November 04, 2011, 06:54:14 AM »
Dark Souls: Farm for eye of deaths finished.
I've gotten a lightning club and it's so much better than a Divine Axe in every way, even with 45 faith. Wow.
I don't know whether I should farm souvenirs of reprisal from harpies or get them from fellow players. I've really gotten my ass kicked in PVP before, and this build has no vitality, and the guilty are probably all powerful. Hum.

Weapons that scale with stats don't scale properly.  Supposedly that's being fixed in the next patch.  So yeah, lightning weapons are going to be much stronger in the meantime.

I'd farm from the harpies.

I just hit 100 hours in this game and not even close to beating it lol.

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« Reply #2604 on: November 04, 2011, 01:46:03 PM »
They need to make the fix a rather drastic change then. I wonder how far they'll go

"I'd farm from the harpies."

You do see fun people in PvP though:
http://www.youtube.com/user/sansviedotcom#p/u/28/qHO0dNC8HAQ

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Re: Playin' any games today, Flying Nun? (WGAYP - 2011 Edition)
« Reply #2605 on: November 04, 2011, 02:50:29 PM »
Incidentally, "Try holding with both hands" has been the highest rated message I've encountered so far.  :)

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Re: Playin' any games today, Flying Nun? (WGAYP - 2011 Edition)
« Reply #2606 on: November 04, 2011, 03:11:27 PM »
Dark Souls: Haven't had much time for gaming lately, but I'm actually kind of stuck.

I have defeated the following: Taurus Demon, Capra Demon, Gaping Dragon, Moonlight Butterfly, Chaos Witch, Bell Gargoyle and Pinwheel.

I have found access to the following: New Londo, Tomb of the Giants, Valley of the Drakes, Darkroot Garden (behind the sealed door), Darkroot Basin, Sen's Fortress and Demon's Ruins.

The main problem seems to be that, as I am now, I just really can't handle any of these areas. I made reasonable progress in Sen's Fortress (but have brickwalled with the Titanite Demons in the lower areas) and I made it to Sif (who my currently mediocre weapon is not going to be enough against). I explored a little bit of New Londo but gave up because of annoyance, but it looks like that's my best bet for any sense of forward progress at this point.

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Re: Playin' any games today, Flying Nun? (WGAYP - 2011 Edition)
« Reply #2607 on: November 04, 2011, 04:45:02 PM »
Subtle.

Andrew, you should definitely go to Sen's Fortress.
The lower area is entirely optional, I always leave the titanite jerks for later in the game.
You might have missed one door somewhere else.

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Re: Playin' any games today, Flying Nun? (WGAYP - 2011 Edition)
« Reply #2608 on: November 04, 2011, 04:57:21 PM »
Man. I totally, clearly, obviously did not need help.

(Thank you!)

I think my split Str/Faith (with some wasted stats elsewhere earlier) is starting to negatively impact me. I'll go back to scouring Sen's Fortress though.

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Re: Playin' any games today, Flying Nun? (WGAYP - 2011 Edition)
« Reply #2609 on: November 05, 2011, 01:05:47 AM »
Devil May Cry 3- Man Vergil just trolled me by totally owning the Mission 11 boss effortlessly -__- That was an awesme cut scene though. As Mission 12 was in general really, very awesme. Getting to be in Demon Form the whole time racing through the areas to the goal while owning the crap out of randoms with the sheer power of it all was really fun. I had a blast. Made up for and was sort of a reward for clearing Mission 11. I'm still not entirely sure how I finally managed to defeat the boss there. After many continues there came a fight where he just sort of stopped doing much/going into his crouching form and I somehow managed to avoid the stuff he did do and land in enough hits between times to eventually end the fight. Whew.

Being too stubborn to use Vital Stars probably contributed a lot to the number of losses/continues I had there though >_>

Mission 12's boss was wow. Just. Wow. Totally unexpected but still great and yet not so much at the same time (my heart wasn't really in it for beating this creature - which is partly why I lost a few times probably, first time I lost because of I was taken a back by the sheer randomness of it showing up the way it did) Some finale though especially with the Vergil stuff after. Wow ^_^~
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Re: Playin' any games today, Flying Nun? (WGAYP - 2011 Edition)
« Reply #2610 on: November 05, 2011, 02:31:35 PM »
Heh... I could give you more tips, but I'm not sure you want to hear them!

Str/Faith is not necesserily bad at all as long as you put some points into vitality, you get good miracles later and can use a shield with high pose. This should work really well with, for example, the lightning spear gotten from the mimic in Sen's Fortress and the gold trimmed equipment behind Ceaseless Discharge in the demon ruins.

Worse spoiler (written in an even smaller font): Try looking for the bird's nest in Firelink Shrine. You need to use the elevator and make a leap of faith.


Anyway,
Dark Souls:
I've gotten the 10 souvenir of repraisals, I tried farming harpies while invading guilty players whenever I could.
Turns out that you can pretty much forget about killing people with Gwyndolin's ring, but using the blue eye stone doesn't always put you against strong players. So I've invaded people in the Painted World over and over, and have gotten 8 souvenirs from other people and 2 from harpies in the end. My success rate was about 7/10, and I even tried not to be too cheap against solo players who didn't use the invisible ring (being cheap involves Tranquill Walk of Peace + Wraith of God spam). So yeah, pretty good.

So now I've become a sunbro, I only need two other sunlight medals to become Super sunbro, but I haven't had much luck. I've had two boss fights in one hour of waiting, against Ornstein / Smough, and both times my host died against giant Ornstein.
I've also gotten the Wood Grain Ring. So obscure, and so good.
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Re: Playin' any games today, Flying Nun? (WGAYP - 2011 Edition)
« Reply #2611 on: November 06, 2011, 04:46:12 PM »
SRWZ - Yay dead overpiggy.  That stage was pretty silly overall.

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« Reply #2612 on: November 06, 2011, 06:36:55 PM »
10D Extra: beat.  Now if I could only somehow manage to get through PCB Normal...
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« Reply #2613 on: November 07, 2011, 05:23:11 AM »
Deus Ex: Finally got around to finishing this.  Great game overall, although it's not the genre of game I typically play.  I really liked how all the augments were useful.  You can play a variety of ways and still get through the game.  I beat the game with no hacking or armor upgrades, and got the Pacifist achievement.  In fact, I even beat the bosses non-violently (stun gun versus bosses 1 and 2, takedown versus 3, emp grenade versus 4).  On the minus side, enemies were dumb as fuck and only one energy bar recharging was annoying.

Dark Souls:  Got to Gravelord rank 1, then killed the Gravelord.  It's like poetic or something.

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Re: Playin' any games today, Flying Nun? (WGAYP - 2011 Edition)
« Reply #2614 on: November 07, 2011, 12:09:25 PM »
LA Noire: Picked this up at the minimeet game store run, loving it. Just finished "A Marriage Made in Heaven." The style is just amazing and I've never played GTA so the open-world gameplay is pretty fresh to me. Not a huge fan of how FAQbait the interrogations are; every time a witness says something, you have to pick between trusting it, disproving it with evidence and "doubting" it without actual contradictory evidence (basically a HOLD IT! from Phoenix Wright), but sometimes it seems like you have evidence and then the dialogue after you make the "lying" choice changes things up a bit so what you thought you had doesn't fit anymore, or makes it so you do have something that fits when it looked before like you should just lean on them with "doubt". Luckily it takes more than missing a few interrogation points to botch a case completely, so the whole thing is just annoying.
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Re: Playin' any games today, Flying Nun? (WGAYP - 2011 Edition)
« Reply #2615 on: November 07, 2011, 04:03:59 PM »
Funny enough, you can back out of a Lie accusation if you just cancel from the evidence screen, meaning you can see what Cole says (he has a few stock "this is bullshit" phrases) and then decide if you should go back to Doubt.  If Doubt is selected and wrong though, well, you just fucked it up.
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Re: Playin' any games today, Flying Nun? (WGAYP - 2011 Edition)
« Reply #2616 on: November 07, 2011, 04:35:41 PM »
FF13 - Chapter 7. Playing as Fang/Lightning/Hope currently.
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« Reply #2617 on: November 07, 2011, 04:37:28 PM »
That is damned helpful, really. Most times the tough choice has been between doubt and lie, not truth and doubt/lie, so just pick "lie" first if the statement smells like BS and see what the lead-in looks like. Nifty!
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« Reply #2618 on: November 08, 2011, 03:35:27 AM »
Dark Souls: Iron Golem beaten. Sif beaten.

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« Reply #2619 on: November 08, 2011, 04:59:22 AM »
Also a useful tip is to look at the stats Rockstar has available if you have access to online stuff. If the "chose correct answer after using points" percentage is in the 90s then it's probably either Truth or Doubt, if it's low it's a Lie with tricky Evidence.
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Re: Playin' any games today, Flying Nun? (WGAYP - 2011 Edition)
« Reply #2620 on: November 08, 2011, 07:20:40 PM »
Uncharted 3

Got this as an unexpected loaner because my father picked up it, Arkham City and the new Madden on sale. He went for Batman first, so I had a crack at this one.

And already finished.

This feels like the shortest of the Uncharted games, or maybe I've just gotten better at them? In any case, not a long game, but certainly a very fun one while it lasted. I think it's the weakest entry in the series. The character beats are still strong and after three games, I certainly care about Drake, Sully and Elena, and the villains are actually the best so far by a fair margin. The plot, however, feels like a retread (even reusing some sequences) and it doesn't have the pitch-perfect pacing Uncharted 2 boasted.

Gameplay-wise, it's Uncharted. Tight gunplay and platforming, linear path. Melee combat has been improved. 8 or 8.5 game compared to Uncharted 2's 9.5 and Uncharted's 8.5 or 9.

The expanded co-op options look interesting (including splitscreen ^_^) so I'm hoping those pull it back up into the 9s.

Would consider multiplayer if others have it.
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« Reply #2621 on: November 08, 2011, 09:06:09 PM »
Devil May Cry 3- Mission 15. Only five or six more story missions left to go I think :( Thanks to Meeple for the tips on Mission's 13's boss. Worked a treat 8-) Such a difference compared to the resets/continues I racked up there before >_> I has a new shiny now (the fifth melee weapon) Is it worth using? Well I've been using it a bit already. Seems ok!

Think I'm going to experiment some more with weapons, finish off the secret missions (well at least as many as I can until either they are done or I'm tired of them/want to continue the plots <_<), look for any blue orb fragments/break any statues I might have missed, etc soon. Haven't really decided whether to do this before or after the next boss though~
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« Reply #2622 on: November 08, 2011, 11:15:19 PM »
Dark Souls: Finished the game as a priest, restarted for one hour to see the last two miracles and get the "every miracle" trophy. (Can't say I'm impressed by those particular miracles, after seeing sorcery)
This was the hardest playthrough so far, but PVP was a lot easier. Granted, I haven't tried many weapons with my melee fighter.
I've played this game for 120 hours so far... Can't believe I've played Dragon Quest 7 for that long...

Pyromancer is next, he will NG++++ into oblivion and get the last three trophies. Then, hopefully, I'll try a starting equipment Depraved playthrough!



FM3 Solo: Still struggling.
Usually enemies are dumb as bricks so they never chase and I can just missile spam from afar. Missile ammo is not infinite though so I have to choose which enemies I need to kill first and which I can handle at a closer range with a shotgun.
I have four item slots, 50% repair costs 1 and a missile recharge costs 2, I usually go with a combination of both. (Missile x1 + Repair x2, or repair x4)

Just about every victory is close so both of those choices matter a lot.

My default wanzer has one accurate arm with both weapons tacked on him, and one crappy but durable arm with a shield to protect the rest of the body. This is all very heavy though, so the body takes a massive hit in HP. But it doesn't matter -too- much, as if the much less durable weapon arm dies it's gameover anyway.

Sometimes I just forget about missiles alltogether to get more HP/movement and handle everything with the shotgun. This mostly happens when I have to fight a bunch of lesser enemies.


Yes! Strategy in FM3!!
Man, I keep thinking this game must be SO EASY with 2 characters, and you're given 4 of them!


Right now I've just gotten to the first shop that sells grenade launchers.
And I've decided that I can't take it anymore. NO MORE KAZUKI. I'm just going to solo with Miho from now on. I believe this changes nothing about the game (every character is the same right?), but I'll have to grind a bit to get her to Kazuki's level first.



There was one fun and particularly hard battles against 6 foot soldiers (who tried to enter 6 inactive mechs with machineguns, which was very easy for 4 of them) in a very narrow place. Fortunately all these enemies REALLY liked getting to close range before attacking because hey, it's easier to aim or something. So I could just equip a giant axe.
After much experimentation I just whichever parts had the highest HP, a melee weapon, a shield, and 2 Max Repairs. MC had Stun Fist x4 equipped.

I was attacked by four mechs at the same time, while two foot soldiers tried to enter the last unused two ones. (But all those mechs fighting got in the way)
Stunning enemy mechs bought me enough time to use those repair items and last for a while. Once my mech was about dead I just ran away and jumped into another one. Muhuhahah, so cheap.

Outside of insane luck I doubt there's any other way I could have beaten that battle.

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« Reply #2623 on: November 09, 2011, 12:11:51 AM »
Dark Souls:

Started with about no knowledge of game or Demon's Souls except balls hard.  Extremely disappointed you cannot invade people on your friends' list.  No trolling Tallychu is an automatic minus 2 points from the score.  I picked Bandit because it was the only class that starts with an axe, cause hell yes.  Unfortunately, the game is unplayable with random input lag.  It's one thing to have input lag, but to have inconsistent input lag.  Literally about 11 deaths were because I hit the attack button to attack only to stand like a dunce, and THEN attack right after the enemy slashes my guts out.  Fighting with controls, it's like I'm back to the NES.

I only got invaded three times.  The first invader used some poison spell and lagged all over the place.  Nitori you can't play this game!  The second invader was pretty bad and killed him in three hits.  The final guy pushed me off a cliff because I couldn't fucking see.  I have the brightness on the max setting, contrast on my TV up and the Depths continue to be not visible.

Oh and the biggest fuck you was this item called fire keeper soul. IN THE FUCKING MENU it says using it increases the effectiveness of Estus Flasks.  So I use it? Nothing fucking happens; you lose your item. Turns out you need to turn them in to this obscure-to-find character in firelink shrine but you get no goddamn notice of them being there.   Sonic 2k6 makes more sense than this game.
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« Reply #2624 on: November 09, 2011, 03:10:58 AM »
Out of curiosity, are you on PS3 version?  I have not experienced that input lag myself, although it is supposedly getting fixed in the upcoming patch.  Then again, I also have considerably less trouble in Blighttown than other people report.  So obviously I am just more awesome than the game.