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

[Bobbin Cranbud]

Are there multiple instances of the same class in Fate/Extra? You're talking about playing as Caster - I assume having Caster as your Servant? - but also fighting Caster. I thought Archer EMIYA was in Fate/Extra as well, but you're saying Robin is the Archer.

From the sounds of it, it would have better better as a pure VN. Of course, then it would never have been officially translated, like the original.

[Cmdr_King]

Given the basic format (single elimination tournament with something like 6 rounds) and their only being 7 standard classes, some doubling up is inevitable.  The PC has a Saber, Archer, and Caster to choose from but even discounting that I believe there's two other casters, two lancers and two berserkers or the like.

[Xeroma]

F/E isn't FSN, there's multiple servants of the same class present.

[DjinnAndTonic]

So F/E takes place -after- the Holy Grail 'tournaments'?

Also, wait... two -Lancers-? There's another Lancer famous enough to make it into this series?

[Cmdr_King]

*research*  Okay, we have.

2 Sabers PC Empress Nero, Sir Gawain
2 Archers PC Presumably-Emiya,  Robin Hood
2 Casters PC Tamamo no Mae, Nursery Rhyme Incarnate
2 Lancers Cu Chulainn, Vlad Tepes III who is not a vampire in Nasuverse
2 Berskers Lu Bu, Arcueid Brunestud
1 Rider Dame Francis Drake subtly implied to ACTUALLY be Elizabeth I
1 Assassin Li Shu Wen in his younger years

So I was off.  There wasn't a third Caster!

[Pyro]

What is it with the FSN universe and genderbending?

- Atelier Totori: Year 4. Fun times. This game is generally superior to Rorona in all respects, and I liked Atelier Rorona to start with. I miss the workshop slowly being populated with the items you create, but the constant plot scenes make up for it. The combat is actually fun and feels more natural than 1's clunky excuse for a battle system, although the Alchemy Items are still super-awesome, they don't break the game like they used to because you REALLY need them to pull out wins against the many tough boss-level fights in the game.

[Bobbin Cranbud]

What is it with the FSN universe and genderbending?

My understanding is that when Nasu wrote F/SN, he wanted King Arthur as the main character's Servant. The character designer wanted to draw a girl.

Everything since has flowed from there.

[Niu]

What is it with the FSN universe and genderbending?

My understanding is that when Nasu wrote F/SN, he wanted King Arthur as the main character's Servant. The character designer wanted to draw a girl.

I should add, after they change Arthur to a girl, the original designed got applied to Gilgy.
In other words, how Gilgy looks right now is how Arthur suppose to look like befoer getting gender bent.

So F/E takes place -after- the Holy Grail 'tournaments'?

No, F/E is a totally different parallel universe and does not connect to general nasu verse in anyway.

[hinode]

The original plan was to have a female main character named Ayaka Sajyou, with a male King Arthur in the "Saver" class as her servant. At some point in the development process they decided to flip the genders of the two leads to make it more like a conventional dating sim/VN.

[Excal]

Playing Chrono Trigger again. Reminding myself just how ruddy fun the whole thing is. Just reached Mount Woe.

Ultimate Marvel v Capcom 3. Decided to pick this up. Helps that a) I'm currently enjoying the Avenger setup movies, and it has Phoenix Wright. Right now I'm finding Phoenix to be a real trick to learn how to use, since he's so very odd. But the fact that he has his "Going to win the trial" music override the background whenever he manages to get into Turnaround Mode, and his hyper moves are all awesome is making him satisfying to use even if it does require a lot of learning.

[Meeplelard]

Ultimate Marvel v Capcom 3. Decided to pick this up. Helps that a) I'm currently enjoying the Avenger setup movies, and it has Phoenix Wright. Right now I'm finding Phoenix to be a real trick to learn how to use, since he's so very odd. But the fact that he has his "Going to win the trial" music override the background whenever he manages to get into Turnaround Mode, and his hyper moves are all awesome is making him satisfying to use even if it does require a lot of learning.

I notice an "a" but no "b" follow up.  I call shenanigans on this entire post as a result!!!


...seriously though, Phoenix Wright is the single most unique, gimmicky character in the game by far.  His basic idea is get 3 pieces of good evidence ASAP, using Maya, assists, advancing guards, etc. to keep the enemy off him (don't be afraid to use Maya's Steel Samurai Hyper in Investigation mode; its easily blocked, but it keeps the guy tied up quite a while, which is the main reason to use it.), and get to Trial Mode ASAP.  From there, use Trial Mode as a zoning character (its actually a pretty good one), until you get that opening for Turnabout Mode, then kick ass.
(ALTERNATIVELY, go Turnabout mode, then swap him out.  Turnabout Mode, like all other buffs, has its time stop when used as an Assist, and it gives a RIDICULOUS boost to his "press the witness' assist)

[Fenrir]

I average about two "Go see the priest -> Don't save the game -> Choose to stop playing" horror stories per Dragon Quest game I play.

FM3 solo: Somehow there was an even more difficult battle waiting for me right after the Jose one.
I'm against one crazy guy in a super uber mech and 5 of his pals. Fortunately after a while I realized that if you get lucky when you hit him he goes even more lucky and start attacking at random. So I just missile spammed his face (god that took a long time) while he slapped his best friend.
After a few easier battles, I met... The third shop in the game. Joy. I love shops so much. I need money, so I need a bit of grinding. I've already reached the max weapon level in the game (It goes A->B->C->D->E->F->S) I doubt you can even get beyond D or E playing the game normally.

Dark Souls: In Anor Londo.
I've started paying more attention to the music, I like it. The entire soundtrack is made of one prologue theme, one ending theme, four "hub" themes and seventeen boss tracks. Just about every boss has an unique track, and there's about every kind of boss track (except a rap one), but most are of the "OMG RUN" variety. And the bosses I panicked against my first time through are indeed the ones with the craziest boss theme (Bell Gargoyle, Four Kings, Iron Golem..)
I like the final boss theme more than before, but this really would have fit a slower boss like Bed of Chaos more.

[Talaysen]

- Atelier Totori: Year 4. Fun times. This game is generally superior to Rorona in all respects, and I liked Atelier Rorona to start with. I miss the workshop slowly being populated with the items you create, but the constant plot scenes make up for it. The combat is actually fun and feels more natural than 1's clunky excuse for a battle system, although the Alchemy Items are still super-awesome, they don't break the game like they used to because you REALLY need them to pull out wins against the many tough boss-level fights in the game.

Instead the workshop gets slowly populated by Chims ^.^ .

And items do break the game.  It's just more backended and obscure.  Of course, if you don't break the game with them the superboss will break YOU.

[Captain K.]

Skyrim: level 25.  I have four Daedric artifacts.  I am a bad person.  >_> <_<

[Anthony Edward Stark]

I've seen a lot of actors do voicework in games, and I think Saints Row 3 just beat everyone.  Holy shit, awesome.

Burt Reynolds as Mayor Burt Reynolds.  "I will never, EVER disappoint Burt Reynolds.  NEVER."  Says the PC.

[Sierra]

Played Sonic 4, which was decidedly meh. Bosses became more an exercise in tedium as the game progressed. Why did someone think anything about the Labyrinth Zone needed to come back?

Then played Limbo, which was decidedly less meh. It's basically a set of atmospheric physics puzzles, but it's very good at being quietly unnerving. Worth picking up from PSN/Steam/X-box Live/whathaveyou.

[Cmdr_King]

Obligatory pimp for Sonic Generations if you don't have that yet.

[MC50]

Wild ARMs 5
 - Playing this for the first time.

Currently up to Mt. Chug Chug. Won the first Nightburn fight, but failed at the duel miserably with Mountain Dean, and I wasted all my Hi-Fire's on the first boss fight.

Team (Lv. 32-33)
 - Chuck (Moon)
 - Avril (Sky)
 - Carol (Sea)
 - Greg (Sword)
 - Dean (Mountain)
 - Rebecca (Luck)

I swap in when necessary.

I'm at least enjoying the battles. The world map is now actually tolerable with the wheel. The story is, well, OK. But the game is enjoyable enough.

Guess I'll switch Dean to Sword or something and try the fight again >_>

In the mean time, I've beaten Xenosaga 2, 3, and the .Hack GU series. I'll post some thoughts sometime later on.

[Hunter Sopko]

the .Hack GU series. I'll post some thoughts sometime later on.

I trust the terms Sakaki and Fail will be connected somewhere in there.

[Captain K.]

I've seen a lot of actors do voicework in games, and I think Saints Row 3 just beat everyone.  Holy shit, awesome.

Burt Reynolds as Mayor Burt Reynolds.  "I will never, EVER disappoint Burt Reynolds.  NEVER."  Says the PC.

That is cool, but in Skyrim I just beat Optimus Prime in a fistfight.

In other news, the College of Winterhold was so impressed by my ability to throw Hadoukens that they promoted me to Archmage.  I am also wearing Dr. Doom's mask to cover my hideous scar.

[NotMiki]

I am also wearing Dr. Doom's mask to cover my hideous scar.

Must make a funny codpiece.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

I've seen a lot of actors do voicework in games, and I think Saints Row 3 just beat everyone.  Holy shit, awesome.

Burt Reynolds as Mayor Burt Reynolds.  "I will never, EVER disappoint Burt Reynolds.  NEVER."  Says the PC.

That is cool, but in Skyrim I just beat Optimus Prime in a fistfight.

In other news, the College of Winterhold was so impressed by my ability to throw Hadoukens that they promoted me to Archmage.  I am also wearing Dr. Doom's mask to cover my hideous scar.

Burt Reynolds and Hulk Hogan rode hoverbikes with machine guns with me.

[Sierra]

LA Noire: Took 'em a while, but Rockstar finally made a game I can give a damn about. Apparently all they needed to do was make a period piece where the protagonist isn't a criminal for once. Had a big dumb smile plastered on my face all through the intro. Of course, given I am wholly incompetent at reading people, I expect to see CASE FAILED a lot in interrogations, but hey, it's still cool.

[Clear Tranquil]

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2- Just recruited Adelle. I'll probably be using her. So far I think I'll be keeping/building up Luso/Adelle/Walu/Zac and possibly the moogle~

I want to recruit more Viera, Nu Mou and other cute stuffs ^_^

[Shale]

LA Noire: Took 'em a while, but Rockstar finally made a game I can give a damn about. Apparently all they needed to do was make a period piece where the protagonist isn't a criminal for once. Had a big dumb smile plastered on my face all through the intro. Of course, given I am wholly incompetent at reading people, I expect to see CASE FAILED a lot in interrogations, but hey, it's still cool.

Yaaaaaaaaaay more Noire hype.

I repeat Cmdr's advice to me: If you think somebody is lying, choose the full-on "lie" option and listen to what Cole says. He has some stock "bad choice" lines that get reused throughout the game, and if you hear one of those, you can use B to back out of the evidence menu and then pick Doubt instead.