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

[Lord Ephraim]

You owe it to yourself to play AT2 because Lyner is not in the game.  I couldn't finish it because of the game breaking bugs but I think it's enjoyable enough.

Though Niu's assessment of AT3 as "masochistic flat chested loli porn" is correct, just add more trannies. (as if Grefter needs more reasons to play AT)  Though I'm curious about the whole planet is a tsundere thing.

What's the deal with this personality DLC pack for Harvestasha?  I downloaded the masochistic persona for her so Aoto can have more lolis to whip but it doesn't say how it really affects the game.

[Rozalia]

Yakuza 4: Took me a while to find his subquests but his part is all done now. He isn't as special as Akiyama but he has his good points. His attacks have such force they very easily ground/wall bounce enemies leading into his devastating heat moves that do HUUUUGGGGE amounts of damage (Some are like twice Akiyama's), being able to grab those fat dudes as well means they're reduced to just a big target. Weaknesses are of course the short rush combos, snail like attack speed and bad recovery on virtually all his moves which doesn't help as he has the worst dodging in the game.
In regards to his part of the game I have to say I prefer Akiyama but Saejima isn't too bad a character and his main substory really shows what kind of man he is. Oh yeah I also did the fighter maker sidequest and got Hideo Kojima to win the fighting tornament.

Bosses:

Saito: Look at me I'm a boss dude with an infinite loop that I may or may not decide to use. Of course the AI will never chain it enough to kill you but its frustrating when he does it twice or so and takes a nice amount of health with it. You also face this guy three times and pretty much every time he has loads of dudes who's job seems to be grabing you so Saito can beat the crap out of you. Why they gave a sadistic prison guard unique attacks I have no idea.

Kazuma: Yes Kazuma now sports a nice boss form in Y4. Oddly though his plot power is little Akiyama would rape Kazuma completely but Saejima who is a legendary fighter struggles massively as virtually all his atttacks can be tiger droped by Kazuma. Quite fitting I'd say as Saejima's first name is Taiga, his tattoo being of a tiger and Kazuma's counter move being Tiger drop. Took me a few trys to beat old Kazy as Saejima's lol attack speed really held me back.

Daisuku 2.00: Same deal except instead of spewing Sake he now spews FIRE! Still easy but holds up better against Saejima then he did against Akiyama.

The one eyed Wizard of the arena, Mad dog Majima: First boss that could be considered on the level of the Y3 ones which is good as its Majima we're talking about. Has overall less health but in return gained a new move in Knife hurricane which doesn't help much as its pretty naff unless for some reason you don't have the skill that allows you to block blade attacks which then it'll rape you. When in heat mode he becomes unhitable as Saejima is simply too slow and his recovery is so bad Majima is pretty much certain to hit his counter attack.

Pretty sad it takes this long to reach a boss that can put up a semblance of a fight. Y3 hit you with Tamoshiro (The third boss in chapter  3) who due to low level skills and the player no doubt still not fully familer with everything absolutly raped you till you got everything about his heat mode form down. In this game you just curb everything with ease which is disapointing.

[Niu]

What's the deal with this personality DLC pack for Harvestasha?  I downloaded the masochistic persona for her so Aoto can have more lolis to whip but it doesn't say how it really affects the game.

The DLC pack just alter some scene with that Kuso-Frame.
The DLC was produce due to a mysterious cult following of her, which involves a bunch of mashocists believeing getting abused by her and only her would be there greatest joy.

Really, what is with AT3 and the masochists?

[Grefter]

The first game in the series has people being raped as key plot points.  I don't know why you are even remotely shocked that it got the S&M crowd interested.

Radiant Historia - I am still a bit confused.  Time Travel doesn't work that way.  It is okay, I don't mind, but could you have at least used some bullshit words like Synchronicity to explain it?

Game is good anyway.  Just dimension hopping to effect the individual dimensions confuses me.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Grefter: I'm pretty certain that they throw some bullshit explanation in for why the alternate realities effect eachother. Though I recall that even during that explanation, the two kids were like "...don't think about it too hard, it's just how time travel works, trust us, we know. It's not like -you- know anything about the arcane secrets of time travel so don't contradict us!"

[Grefter]

Yeah it is kind of



It isn't a bad thing, that is really how to handle it.  Just no hand wave at all here, just pure here is how it works, deal with it.

[NotMiki]

judging by his hand motion, I'd be more inclined to believe he's a shocktor.

[Grefter]

He is the best kind of doctor, yes.

Edit - Ass Creed Bro - PC version came out.  Playing it.  Seems like they took notes from Prototype with some of the side quest stuff.  This is not good.  Prototype sidequesty stuff was way to grindy.  It is hearkening back more to AC1 than AC2 with that kind of stuff.  A shame.  Oh well, will still do stuff.

Having missions to beat and then a special requirement to get full synchronisation and the ability to replay missions is nice though.  Depends on how they do the missions though really.

[Fenrir]

Jade Empire plays pretty much like you would expect honestly.  It isn't as good as some of their other works, it is completely ridiculous as a martial arts movie as a game should be. 

I would pick it up on Steam over the console version honestly.  PC version came out a good while after the X-Box version (needed exclusivity contract to end) and it is well polished for it.  Plays really quite well and will look much better.  Might be cheaper?  Dunno how much it is on X-Box live, but is $15 on steam for me.

Worth a look if you have time to spend on it.  If you want an action styled wester RPG though you have plenty of European offerings that are good.  Witcher should be better.  If you want some Bioware styles though it fits pretty well.

I would, but... After buying two games on PC I couldn't run without severe lag, I'm not using the PC as a gaming plateform anymore. It is all my fault. But I just don't want to spend time/money learning how PCs work and what I should get and upgrade when I could just play some (technically inferior but still adequate) game.
(Vampire Bloodlines was still worth the pain)

I'm starting to like those European RPGs yeah, I think I'm going to play a few more before looking at Jade Empire. (Two worlds II?) They feel pretty different, somehow. They're like Fable but less user friendly / less dumbed down, and they reward exploration / attention to detail more than american/japanese RPGs.


Of the 300 something RPGs I've played, Black Sigil has the single worst encounter rate I've seen. True story.

[AAA]

He is the best kind of doctor, yes.

Edit - Ass Creed Bro - PC version came out.  Playing it.  Seems like they took notes from Prototype with some of the side quest stuff.  This is not good.  Prototype sidequesty stuff was way to grindy.  It is hearkening back more to AC1 than AC2 with that kind of stuff.  A shame.  Oh well, will still do stuff.

Having missions to beat and then a special requirement to get full synchronisation and the ability to replay missions is nice though.  Depends on how they do the missions though really.

just fyi you need 75% synch to fully complete an optional plotline, anything after that is just OCD or for achievements

[superaielman]

L4D2- That was not an impressive beta, for all that the forest is a throwback to L4D1.

HoI2- Been playing as Nat China of late. I They're probably one of the strongest countries if they can survive the Japanese assault. Giant ass if there though, China has a horrendous tech disadvantage and starts with a massive amount of dissent. If you can trigger the fading sun event though... man. 3+ MP a day, a ton of resources, and the ability to join with the allies or axis for blueprints (which they need). You just have to build up your infrastructure and navy, and steamroll the world.  I usually prefer the Axis, since A: you get a ton of cores on Siberia and want to fight the soviets and B: Nat china's got good ministers for paternal autocrat.



FF4- Stopped after getting Rosa back.

[Hunter Sopko]

Pokemon Black-

Scornake (L44 Serperior) Tackle (for chipping), Giga Drain, Leaf Blade, Coil.
L45 Seismatoad (Bulldoze, Drain Punch, Return, Surf)
L45 Krookodile (Scary Face, Torment, Dig, Foul Play)
L43 Conkeldurr (Retaliate, Chip Away, Rock Slide, Rock Smash)
L43 Vanillish (Mirror Shot, Acid Armor, Blizzard, Ice Beam)
L44 Victini (Confusion, Fire Blast, Quick Attack, Endure)

Definitely my E4 team. Finished Victory Road. Damn Durants are a pain in the ass. Will be leveling a bit, at least to 47 so Vanillish evolves. Yay Lucky Eggs.

[Dark Holy Elf]

Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Beat this, and got 120 stars. Solid experience overall. It feels a bit too like its predecessor, but that's not really a bad thing, as I've mentioned. Still, the second of two similar things is never as magical, and I do think the second game makes a few mistakes the first didn't.

Improvements:
-Level timers. Doubt I'll ever care enough to speedrun this game, but I appreciate them anyway. Certainly a far better perfectionist thing to aim for than coin collection!
-A couple new powerups are pretty cool. Cloud Mario is the best, platform creation is just too much fun (although I dread the day in 2028 when hacks for this game appear and people make utterly stupid things that require it). Boulder Mario is also pretty neat, though a bit chaotic... it reminds me of the NSMB turtle suit.
-Challenge does feel up in general, at least for standard stages? Probably not bosses, or prankster comets, but just plain stages. There's a couple really nasty comet levels though, mostly in Special (Luigi's Purple coins AGAIN, the rolling ball purple coins).
-GIANT FIRE HIPPOS

Not-so-improvements:
-What the hell did they do to Bowser in this game? While the game has a few decent boss fights (Megahammer is probably the best), Bowser 1 is the biggest joke ever and 2/3 aren't much better. Never came close to dying against any of them. Let's not even talk about the final Evil Gaia-style battle of the game. I was pretty psyched when that one began because I figured maybe the designers realised Bowser had sucked and were about to give him a real final boss fight but argh.
-Also on the Bowser note... the last level. The last level of SMG1 was so perfect. Last level of SMG2 feels like it could have been any Bowser level just as easily. And that floaty flower just feels out of place. Probably the least memorable final level in a Mario game otherwise.
-I liked Galaxy's (and I guess SM64's?) thing where you collected ~6 stars from each major galaxy. SMG2 keeps you moving from galaxy to galaxy and I don't find myself nearly as attached to many of them as a result. I guess it's more like what the 2D games do but eh.
-Man 120 green-star collectathon? Screw that. Optional of course, I'm mostly annoyed because it sounds like there's one more decently challenging level but making you get 120 green stars to unlock it is just inane. Comet Medals was enough collecta-thoning for me, thanks.
-Lubba is kinda creepy.

Oh yeah, that token SM64 galaxy really shows how very far stage design has come since that last game. It feels so open, empty, and generally designed in an amateurish way... to say nothing of the fact that gravity that is always in one direction, all the time, seems so boring in a 3D platformer now. <_<

[Tide]

Tactics Ogre PSP - Hatbot decided one day I should be playing this. So I did. Just made the first major decision and on the lawful path apparently. Game seems pretty big, so I bought a FAQ to avoid missing recruitment and secrets mostly. A little into Chapter 2 but not too far.

Resonance of Fate - Hard mode. I forgot how your early stuff is kinda bad. Also, they weren't kidding when they slapped Hard into the mode. It's amazing how much different that extra damage enemies deal end up making. I almost lost to gremlins in the first battle because you can't upgrade your guns and you have shit for charge time. My first official reset was against the Telsa Tortoise. Stupid thing as just too damn tanky that when it went after the wrong guy, everything kinda fell apart. Second time went fine. Now on Chapter 4 and escorting the damn statue. The enemies have increased damage. The statue does not have increased HP. This will be disastrous.

[MC50]

Pokemon Black - Completed, along with post game. Team was

Conkeldurr Lv. 71 (Hammer Arm, Strength, Bulk Up, Stone Edge)
Seismitoad Lv. 70 (Surf, Earthquake, Supersonic, ...Forget the last move.)
Sigilyph Lv. 70      (Psychic, Air Slash, Thunder Wave, Fly)
Cryogonal Lv. 71  (Ice Beam, Reflect, Confuse Ray, Recover)
Eelektross Lv. 70 (Thunderbolt, Flamethrower, Acid Spray, Thunder Wave)
Durant Lv. 73      (X-Scissor, Aerial Ace, Iron Head, Crunch)


Conkeldurr was solid throughout the game, though never amazing. Wishes he learned Drain Punch or even Close Combat naturally.
Seismitoad was decent. Nothing spectacular (no Swampert, that's for sure) but he was servicable.
Sigilyph was very strong early on, but got worse as the game went on. Still pretty fast and with a decent movepool.
Cryogonal is the oddest thing. It's fast! It's strong! It takes special hits well! It has no movepool! It's physical defense may as well be nonexistant! Fun to use, though.
Eelektross was a pain to level, and the payoff wasn't that great. Still cool looking though.
Durant was amazing after he caught up, turning into a superfast OHKO machine with Hustle. Aerial Ace TM also made it drawback free!

Elite Four rematch, the toughest was Shauntal, but my team matches up poorly against ghosts anyway. The champion was kind of tough, too, though I can see easily setting up on his first pokemon and sweeping him.

[Yoshiken]

Pokemon Black: Currently trying to catch Victini with 6 Ultra Balls. Random Challenge means I have no sleep, although False Swipe TM helps. Must've tried fighting it at least 5-6 times by now.
In other news, I have no Waterfall HM and this is annoying me, since I've found every Plasma sage but one and ended up looking up the last - yeah, fucking knew it. Stupid waterfalls.
Still need to catch Volcarona, Kyurem, Tornadus and Landorus, then beat new!E4, Morimoto, Cheren and Cynthia before I consider the game done. No idea how Cheren compares to the rest, other than being easier, but I'll probably try catching Kyurem first so that I have some chance of actually beating some high-level opponents (since that's gonna be what I'm Master Ball-ing)
Current team is Tangrowth/Weavile/Absol/Boldore/Pelipper/Heatmor. Only the first three are at usable levels, and Victini probably won't help me here. Whoops.

[AndrewRogue]

Dragon Age 2: Made it to Act 2 last weekend. Why you make me sad and have a notable bug, Bioware? Otherwise, dicking around doing sidequests before I rock out with the Arishok.

[Clear Tranquil]

DD 012 Prologus- Completed the very brief Story Mode and cleared Arcade Mode on Normal with all available starting characters.

Mostly agree with Meeple for character assessments. Personally I had the most fun with Kefka followed by Garland w/th Emperor assist which is what I was having the most fun with until I tried Kefka~ Probably did the best in terms of performance with Sephiroth though but that's because sometimes I had just had fun spinning Kefka round and round on the spot instead of paying attention to the fighting >_>

Breath of Fire III- Received this for my birthday =-) Currently preparing to enter the mayor dude's manor. Everyone is still at L1 because I wasn't sure what to do with them <_< Going to apprentice Teepo to the first Master now though and use him as a float until a better Master comes along for Ryu~

[Meeplelard]

Breath of Fire III- Received this for my birthday =-) Currently preparing to enter the mayor dude's manor. Everyone is still at L1 because I wasn't sure what to do with them <_< Going to apprentice Teepo to the first Master now though and use him as a float until a better Master comes along for Ryu~

I thought Playthrough 1 = Casual play, Playthrough 2 =  DESTROY! DESTROY! NEUTRALIZE! ROCKET PUNCH! HYPER SENTINEL FORCE!!! TEN. MORE. YEARS!!! for you, so why are you worried about twink-ability or something <_<?

[Nitori]

SMTN: Hi Dante, you don't do anything when I stat buff or stat down you kthxbye
Hi Specters, you just kinda suck
Hi Pale Rider, I can drain all your MP and then you get stat downed, rely less on stupid Debilitate skulls kthxbye

[MC50]

Dissidia Duodecim 012

Finished the 012 story mode. Brief character thoughts!

Lightning - Ravager has some good BRV attacks (The Water Ball, Thunder), as did Commando. I can see the use of Medic (Mostly baiting people to come towards you?) but I didn't use it often. Had trouble with her HP attacks.

Vaan - Solid. Has a lot of moves, and all of them are Ground/Air. I only got three of his HP moves, but they were all pretty decent.

Yuna - My favorite of the new characters. Shiva BRV in the air is lightning fast, seems as fast as Firion's Swordslash, and she has good range on a lot of other attacks.

Laguna - I can see him being good when you igure him out. It took me until the end of his chapter to even figure out how to use his Shotgun right, but he has a lot of cool moves like the Shield Grenade. Has some trouble with HP attacks.

Kain - Strong. Jump is really good. Attacks are a little slow. EX mode doesn't seem that great - all you get is Lancet, which isn't easy to hit with.

Tifa - Feints are obviously useless against the AI, but probably good elsewhere. Her basic Air HP is pretty good, and she does good damage as well.

How I would order the characters off of my (brief, story mode only) impressions.
 - Yuna
 - Laguna
 - Vaan
 - Kain
 - Tifa
 - Lightning

It was fun, though! I'll go on to do 013 later, probably.

[Clear Tranquil]

I thought Playthrough 1 = Casual play, Playthrough 2 =  DESTROY! DESTROY! NEUTRALIZE! ROCKET PUNCH! HYPER SENTINEL FORCE!!! TEN. MORE. YEARS!!! for you, so why are you worried about twink-ability or something <_<?

I blame the strange talking creatures in the woods! >_>

I figure it will be nice for Ryu to have a little head start on stats though. Going to try not to worry too much about fine tuning characters otherwise <_<
Apart from possibly Momo >_> I would be worrying about Rei but apparently he leaves and the Teepo thing is obvious so yeah.

The full game of DD012 still hasn't come yet so it looks like I'll have the time to make the most of Prologus and play more BoFIII after all. I was still kind of hoping the game would somehow still arrive for the weekend but it was going to be a win/win situation either way so I'm not too disappointed =) Aerith is safe on my memory card *^_^*~

[Grefter]

If you want to twink a little bit then yeah don't worry about Rei, he will sort himself later, Level 1 Ryu through to Bunyan will get you a good stat start with Ryu to a fairly optimal build.  If you want to power game then remember you can not use Peco to squat a low level character for skills from masters (I use him for Meryleep mostly personally.  I let Deis ones come fairly naturally and he is useful if you want to learn everything from Ladon, but he doesn't have a ton of useful skills).

Radiant Historia - So I thought I was doing pretty good with talking to everyone and getting all the side quests.  Turned out that the two I had got were like two of about 8 I could have had.  Soooo yeah time to hit up Gamefaqs a bit to see how much there is.  I don't want to have to talk to the same people over and over again at each plot point just to see if they have new quests.  Game is still good, but yeah a bit more FAQbait than I thought it was.

How to make friends and influence people: Get the power to time travel, trick dudes into hitting on women.

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood - Ubisoft doesn't know the Bro Code.  Hoes were chosen before Bros.  Since that is the way it is being played here I am choosing to fill Rome with whores and make a super team of Assassin chicks.  Also that is totally how Ezio rolls anyway.

Why in the fuck is Ezio's mother talking all of a sudden?  In AC2 she goes into shock when her youngest son and husband are killed and never speaks again for the rest of the game.  AC2 takes place over a span of 10 years or more.   No talking at all.  Now all of a sudden she is talking and helping Claudia (the surviving daughter) run a brothel.

I know this is taking place mostly in the renaissance so like this isn't super special amazing or anything, but man Ezio has a really fucked up relationship with women.  He will sleep with anything that moves, but pines for his lost teenage romance in repressed memories.  He has no problem with prostitutes or women with a reputation for getting around, but as soon as his sister who has been running the financial side of the Monterigioni estate for the last 10 years offers to run a brothel?  FUCK YOU GIRL DISOWNED ON YOUR OWN.  Even when the mother follows.  Nope, you are just another asset now bitches.  Spy on dudes for me, you and all your whores.

[AAA]

Why in the fuck is Ezio's mother talking all of a sudden?  In AC2 she goes into shock when her youngest son and husband are killed and never speaks again for the rest of the game.  AC2 takes place over a span of 10 years or more.   No talking at all.  Now all of a sudden she is talking and helping Claudia (the surviving daughter) run a brothel.

The game goes off the idea that Ezio did everything in AC2, including feather collection, which apparently was enough to snap Ezio's mother out of her PTSD. Yeah I think they just decided having her still basically catatonic after...what, 30 years or more? Would be silly.

[Grefter]

I did the painful feather collecting, didn't remember her even talking, oh well whatevers!  Still fails at bro code.  Also dude her still being alive after 30 years is scary enough, she is like late 60s at youngest there.  Also Claudia looks absolutely amazing for her age as well. High fives for not changing the skin from a teenager when it has been a long arse time.

Radiant Historia - Okay so I spoilared myself on this game a bit so mystery man causing mystery plague isn't a spoiler to me So Heiss threatens you.  Then destroys his messenger.  HUEG SPOILARS THAT HE IS VILLAIN GUYS.  How to Make Friends and Influence People: Give dude secret for how to time travel.  Threaten his life later!.

I am still in Chapter 1 so don't know why I feel compelled to post so much about it, it isn't like I have a decisive opinion on the game or anything, but whatevers.  I really hope the Make Friends and Influence People jokes continue to be applicable.

EDIT - DISCLAIMER, GREFTER IS LIKING THIS GAME. GREFTER IS LIKING THIS GAME DO NOT WANT TO ARGUE GOOD OR BAD.  ENJOYING ENJOY ENJOY GOOD GOOD GOOD.
Also this game probably has the worst see enemies on the field, hit them with a sword to get an ambush system.  The timing on getting your swings to connect is pretty tight and has a delay in the swing, enemies move pretty fast and you can't see very far ahead.  This is all topped off on you knock the enemies back and then RNG decides if you put them to sleep then you can get the ambush.  That is a little nuts.  If it like scaled with your level so it was easier to ambush (or just ignore) lower level encounters it could be kind of alright, but as is I can deal with it, but it is a little crazy.

Edit - Oh yeah other thing I wanted to say, I am kind of digging the starting party.  Hope Stocke, Raynie and Marco party have all points covered I need.  2 characters with a lot of field manipulation is great.  Only down side looks like it will be Raynie's MP.