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Re: What Games ya Playin' 2012 - Suplex a Train Edition
« Reply #625 on: March 13, 2012, 10:44:10 PM »
Mass Effect 3: Met with the Quarians, grabbed Tali. Now, while their liveships burn, I shall do a few sidequests.

Oh god, the Legion scene...

Not that far along yet, sadly. Just met with them so I could use Tali while I did sidequests.

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Re: What Games ya Playin' 2012 - Suplex a Train Edition
« Reply #626 on: March 14, 2012, 12:10:18 AM »
Everybody hating about the ME3 ending makes me want to play the game.

Tales of Innocence: Interest waning. Damn.

God Hand: Finished. 98 continues were used. Not bad for not checking a faq ever (apparently the Yes Man Kablaam move is OP!?) I loved how the game just kept throwing random bosses after random bosses, past one point.
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Re: What Games ya Playin' 2012 - Suplex a Train Edition
« Reply #627 on: March 14, 2012, 12:17:42 AM »
You want to play it. Part of the reason the ending angers me so much is that it's a complete tonal shift in the last five minutes of what I was about to say was one of the best games I've played in this generation of consoles (up with FONV, AP, Nier, NSMBW and The Witcher 2).

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Re: What Games ya Playin' 2012 - Suplex a Train Edition
« Reply #628 on: March 14, 2012, 12:26:15 AM »
You really said NSMBW instead of, say, Deus Ex Human Revolution here, Rob?

To be fair, I think I agree. Traitor co-op is definitely the best form of multiplayer there is.

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Re: What Games ya Playin' 2012 - Suplex a Train Edition
« Reply #629 on: March 14, 2012, 12:31:23 AM »
DXHR is held back by the exact thing that holds back ME3: the goddamn ending. It's actually funny how similar the last five minutes of each game is.

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« Reply #630 on: March 14, 2012, 12:36:59 AM »
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Re: What Games ya Playin' 2012 - Suplex a Train Edition
« Reply #631 on: March 14, 2012, 12:49:17 AM »
DXHR is held back by the exact thing that holds back ME3: the goddamn ending. It's actually funny how similar the last five minutes of each game is.

So exactly the same as Deus ex then?
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Re: What Games ya Playin' 2012 - Suplex a Train Edition
« Reply #632 on: March 14, 2012, 01:11:15 AM »
Khalisah al-Jilani: "Press the button in front of you and you'll have sex with Garrus. Press the one on the right and you'll have sex with Liara. Press the one on the left and you'll have sex with Wrex. Press that last one way back and you'll destroy everything"

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« Reply #633 on: March 14, 2012, 02:12:07 AM »
DXHR is held back by the exact thing that holds back ME3: the goddamn ending. It's actually funny how similar the last five minutes of each game is.

So exactly the same as Deus ex then?

No.  Deus Ex gave you three distinct gameplay targets to pick your ending.  HR is literally picking from 4 buttons.
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Re: What Games ya Playin' 2012 - Suplex a Train Edition
« Reply #634 on: March 14, 2012, 02:19:48 AM »
God Hand: Finished. 98 continues were used. Not bad for not checking a faq ever (apparently the Yes Man Kablaam move is OP!?) I loved how the game just kept throwing random bosses after random bosses, past one point.
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Re: What Games ya Playin' 2012 - Suplex a Train Edition
« Reply #635 on: March 14, 2012, 02:40:18 AM »
DXHR is held back by the exact thing that holds back ME3: the goddamn ending. It's actually funny how similar the last five minutes of each game is.

So exactly the same as Deus ex then?

No.  Deus Ex gave you three distinct gameplay targets to pick your ending.  HR is literally picking from 4 buttons.

So ME3 is the worst of both: only THREE choices and all of them are pressing a button.

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Re: What Games ya Playin' 2012 - Suplex a Train Edition
« Reply #636 on: March 14, 2012, 03:45:41 AM »
Given that basically the only thing I've read about the ME games is how your choices define, if not the overarching story, then at least the personality of Shepard and what happens to your party, it's kind of stunning that anybody thought it would be a good idea to make the only choice that matters in the ending the one you make in the final five minutes. Gooooooooo BioWare.
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Re: What Games ya Playin' 2012 - Suplex a Train Edition
« Reply #637 on: March 14, 2012, 04:12:57 AM »
The part that's really baffling is when you contrast it to the rest of the same game, where decisions large and small from all over are reflected as you play through the game. For example, when you need to climb through a vent and Tali is with you, if she was the one you had climb through the vents at the end of ME2 she will have one line, and if you sent someone else it'll be another. Like I said: complete tonal shift.

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« Reply #638 on: March 14, 2012, 04:21:23 AM »
Tales of Graces f: Years of praying and sacrificing things to the dark gods has finally paid off and I have this ablessed game in my hand!  I've been listening to White Wishes every day since March started in drooling anticipation.  I was worried I wasn't gonna be able to set a pre-order and get my pointless costumes but fortune smiled upon me for once!  And then finally, I actually played it yeay!

The opening animation is nine sorts of hilariously disconnected from the lyrics of White Wishes.  I mean, it's not like Vesperia was king-champ of related either, but it seemed to fit at least.  And Abyss' lyrics were entirely about Luke/Asch's petty struggle.  White Wishes is a love song so it just comes across as weird to open with that.

So, actually getting to the game!  We start off in glorious kid-time!  Also vague spoilers!  With 11-year-old Asbel and... wimpy-year-old Hubert.  Defying their jackass father's wishes they go up to some hill to look at flowers.  Because that's what real men do.  Look at flowers over teetering cliffs.  There they find Unknown Girl(Sophie) and Asbel totally falls in love with her after she nearly walks off a cliff.  They pick flowers and everything is a gravy boat.  Mmmmmmm, gravy.  So, we've actually been able to combat in kiddo-time but Sophie brings the party up to three and she's already a lot tougher then either boya.  Combat is unlike the other western Tales releases because of delicious CC system.  There is no basic attack, everything is an arte that uses the CC gauge which restores itself after a few seconds of not attacking.  Attacking a lot increases the maximum amount of CC you can use.  It's spiffy eventually.

Anyway, with Sophie in tow we return to town!  Where we meet Cheria who quickly asserts herself as being sick and clearly won't make it to the future despite having a full teenage sprite and everything.  It's just a trick.  Like a fake murder trial.  So after failing to run ten feet, we learn that Sophie takes commands extremely literally.  Oh yeah, when she was introduced she supposedly has amnesia.  Anyway, Asbel weasels out of paying the price for leaving Cheria behind on the manly flower viewing tour by giving her a flower.  Then we go meet Cheria's grandpa the butler of Asbel's family who rule ...Lhant?  That sounds like the name.  Then we go look for clues for Sophie's identity at a cottage to the west, where Sophie literally responds to Asbel's commands to flip and twirl.  It's funny.

Speaking of flipping, when kiddo Asbel reaches the top of a ladder he feels the need to front-flip off it.

With no clues to Sophie's identity again, we return home where we meet Asbel's mother(voiced by the same woman who does Arshtat I think?) who forbids Asbel from seeing Cheria.  Sure, that'll last beyond the next cutscene.  Inside we meet Asbel's jackass father, who then has to run off because a very important person from THE CAPITAL is late so Asbel follows and helps out in defeating the monsters that waylaid the Turtle.

No, they use giant Turles as a transport.  This game's weird "guys-dressing-up-as-animalz" thing are Turtlez.  It's like this game wants me to love it or something.

Once we clear out the... boss?  I dunno.  Father-Aston chews Asbel out some more before very-deep-voiced generic guard lets his actions slide.  Also Cheria was with us but eh.

Asbel, pride of non-teenage rebellion he is, wants to see the very important person and so breaks into his own house.  There he meets RICHARD! who is obnoxious and Bryce who is Richard's sword teacher.  Who Asbel decides to fight because Richard isn't feeling well.  It's not an actual combat fight, just cutscenes, but clearly he won't be a boss fight in the far future.  Clearly.

So, there ends my first session of the day.  Also now we're taking Richard to see the flowers.  Also we named Sophie at one point.  Also I'm using we again.  Also I'm using also too much again.

Some closing notes.  Titles are now how you learn new ARTES and get status boosts, just think of it kinda akin to Vesperia's Skill system.  Costumes are now changed at will in a different menu.  Collector book and monster book are easy to get.  Byt that I mean automatic.  And the Manual control Manual is in the first item shop.  Dualize is the game's crafting system.  It looks really, really bad.  Especially after Vesperia's fairly decent one.(barring the karolian hammer nonsense)
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Re: What Games ya Playin' 2012 - Suplex a Train Edition
« Reply #639 on: March 14, 2012, 04:33:35 AM »
Speaking of complete tonal shifts, and of me reading about things everybody else on the Internet already knew, apparently Ninja Gaiden 3 has decided the series didn't really need multiple weapons, and what the fans really wanted was online multiplayer. So... Uh, there's sixty bucks I get to spend on something else, I guess.
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Re: What Games ya Playin' 2012 - Suplex a Train Edition
« Reply #640 on: March 14, 2012, 04:41:18 AM »
Speaking of complete tonal shifts, and of me reading about things everybody else on the Internet already knew, apparently Ninja Gaiden 3 has decided the series didn't really need multiple weapons, and what the fans really wanted was online multiplayer. So... Uh, there's sixty bucks I get to spend on something else, I guess.

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Re: What Games ya Playin' 2012 - Suplex a Train Edition
« Reply #641 on: March 14, 2012, 04:56:05 AM »
Fenrir, may I ask which version of ToI you are playing?

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Re: What Games ya Playin' 2012 - Suplex a Train Edition
« Reply #642 on: March 14, 2012, 08:53:09 AM »
Tales of Graces f- Started, got through to the end of the childhood arc.  Asbel's dad is the biggest idiot.
Okay.  I get his basic reasoning.  the idea of sending second sons away to other lords to prevent feuds over land and title is not terrible unto itself, and I'm certain has plenty of precedent in earth history.  But birthright or not, you're telling me this guy looked at his rebellious, hot-headed son saying "I'm gonna join the knights" at every opportunity, and the reserved, bookish kid who spent all his free time studying and learning whatever he could, and decided the eldest was going to be your heir?  Never thought for a second the kid was serious and was in no way planning to inherit the title?  That even if he changed his mind, it'd be an incredibly bad idea?  c'mon now.

Not that this impacts the game negatively.  Then again, he's probably secretly party to the plot anyway.
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Re: What Games ya Playin' 2012 - Suplex a Train Edition
« Reply #643 on: March 14, 2012, 10:20:06 AM »
"It has all the usual tropes of JRPGs I like, but isn't nearly as embarrassing about it!"
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Re: What Games ya Playin' 2012 - Suplex a Train Edition
« Reply #644 on: March 14, 2012, 10:58:45 AM »
Ming is a Queen, she can dress like a slut if she wants. Opulence is a luxury for royalty. Also, that kind of standard anime cheesecake outfit doesn't phase me anymore (apart from reminding me how degrading games can be to women).

Cooke/Mack/Seth just have -stupid- written all over their outfits. And make what little fashion sense I have cringe in fear.

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« Reply #645 on: March 14, 2012, 02:44:49 PM »
Double thong is just normal clothes to Djinn.

ME3 - So yeah the ending is kind of stupid as advertised.  Whatever.  It is the tone being fucked up to me.  With the one I picked (Red lazors) it pulls a fucking FF7 on you.  You wanted closure and shit? lol fuck that.  I picked that ending because Renegade story is honestly at the end of it just shit this time.  It is making bad decisions and watching terrible shit happen because of it. 

Two spoiler things, one to say why I liked picking Red Lazors for this ending of my play through and one question for Rob I guess or Laggy if he reads these forums.  Anyone else if they finished the game/when they finish the game.

So I picked Red Lazors because the only resolution I had picked with Renengade options that didn't lead to completely fucking everything up for at least one race was the Quarian/Geth.  You can reunite them by yelling at them enough all angry face.  So of course I had to fix that by destroying all Synthetic life in the galaxy

Also in the final sequence, even though I can only think of one or two points I picked Paragon dialogue choices.  I always took renegade actions.  I did all the side quests.  I was unable to pick what I assume was the final Renegade dialogue choice when TIM is mind controlling you and made you shoot Anderson and you try to convince TIM that he is indoctrinated so I guess it needs maxed out Renegade or Paragon to get that choice which kind of shits me since they were never that restrictive in previous games.  You needed to be close to max, but not 100% and I was pretty fucking close to 100%.  I am kind of not seeing how you get that dialogue. 

Not that I necessarilly want to get the outcome I expect from that dialogue because fuck that guy and there is FF7 ending anyways.

The thing that lets me down the most isn't the end of the plot or the pick from three buttons path choice.  It is the thing that counts as a final boss is fucking shit.  It isn't fun.  It is hard I suppose and has me deciding that I am never playing on Insanity, but it isn't fun.

Waves and waves of guys.  Yay!  Oh hope you wanted to fight 3 banshees at once.  what do you mean fighting multiple banshees at once isn't fun when your guns are probably empty.  Just run to a place with ammo.  You know.  Those places that can be blocked off by bullshit teleporting 2HKOing Banshees.  Oh and dodge those instakill lasers as well.  The ones that shake the screen and ruin your aim.  There is more than one wave of Banshees as well btw.  hope that is cool with you.

Compared to the final boss of ME2?  This is terrible.  We went from a Contra boss in a shooter to this?  lllaaaaaaame.  Even compared to the Saren fight in ME1 it leaves a great deal to be desired and the Saren fight isn't a particularly compelling boss fight (One that honestly didn't need to be there and I would have been happy with ending with dialogue if you were skilled enough).

So you know what?  Other than random Atlas battles and a couple of points where the game where you have to fight multiple Banshees, the only thing that constitutes as a boss fight is the two Kai-Leng fights.  The Kai-Leng fights are horrible.  As unfulfilling as the ending is I consider the first Kai-Leng fight the low point of the game.  What the game didn't need when it was losing steam was to throw in a boss fight with a Ninja guy doing flips and shit and generally animu godmoding up in shit.  Except the boss fight is pathetically easy and absolutely laughable.  The only threatening thing is the first time he runs off to recharge his shields and you don't know his gunboat is coming and it will rape the shit out of you on the way to cover.  Otherwise it is just shooting a chump in the head for a few minutes while he talks smack about how awesome he is and how you are shit.  Especially as a Soldier where you have your generic Bullet Time skill.  As I unload 80 rounds of Assault Rifle clip into his head while he spins around allegedley dodging "You are slower than I was expecting Shephard".  Yeah buddy and you are truely amazing.

Then after the fight that HE WINS BECAUSE HE HAS AIR SUPPORT THAT SHOOTS ROCKETS AT YOU, he sends you an email saying "oh wow you lived you are better than I gave you credit for" talking more smack about how he is totally awesome and owned your arse.

Good job mang, you had a gunboat with rockets setup in an ambush to back up the knife you brought to a gun fight.

Just a fucking terrible scene with a terrible character.  I am incredibly disappointed becaues I know Bioware can do better Wuxia influenced stuff than this.
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Re: What Games ya Playin' 2012 - Suplex a Train Edition
« Reply #646 on: March 14, 2012, 03:08:32 PM »
WA3 - So I start this and get introduced to a rash and impulsive teenage girl who does rash and impulsive things, a guy who despite being a treasure hunter is somehow surprised at the existance of traps in an ancient ruin, a guy who aspires to be a lazy bum no I haven't played WA2 I totally can't tell what's in store for him thanks, and an older guy who is clearly the babysitter for this soon-to-be formed band of chucklefucks.  Then a train gets robbed time to have a firefight on top of a train wait why is there a ninja also what is this thing called physics can you eat it.  Then we get off the train and go to visit the lazy bum's village and get informed of DIRE PERIL that is threatening the world wait DIRE PERIL that is threatening the world in a WA game I am shocked.  Then we go to another town to go and do something unrelated and rash and impulsive girl decides we should be a team, everyone is happy except for the incompetent treasure hunter who is clearly a scrub with a perpetual case of sand bleeding out of his ass and gets told to shut up pussy.  Then we meet the train robber and his two flunkies again, they are not at all suspicious but are told to fuck off.  Then five minutes later rash and impulsive girl decides to trust them despite saying that she couldn't trust them five minutes ago and when rightly called out on this bizarre change of heart she says she has to trust them otherwise she can't trust them.  Oooookay girl whatever floats your boat.  I would just go on happy not trusting them but I am mean and petty.

Naturally the train robber betrays the party OH NO THE TRAIN ROBBER WAS UNTRUSTWORTHY WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING and the treasure the party led him to is apparently part of the seal to an evil weapon.  Good fucking job there rash and impulsive girl.  So we can't let him have it so clearly we need to get the other stuff, okay, cue next dungeon where the party runs into a band of misfits led by a raging bitch who, as she has opinions and wishes to express them, is mad at the obviously inexperienced rash and impulsive girl for being obviously inexperienced, okay so this isn't the most newbie friendly job but you are basically hating water for being wet.  Also raging bitch hides a chaingun roughly the size of her up her skirt that is certainly a thing, what they do with portable holes these days.  So raging bitch gets beat and presumeably intends to write us into her revenge diary what the hell I thought I wasn't playing TotA but then she runs off, okay.  Then we run into the train robber and his flunkies and raging bitch comes in and train robber proceeds to add chauvanism to his growing list of venal sins and we reaffirm that yes, rash and impulsive girl, he is indeed a very bad man, so naturally we must fight the train robber again, who now has the power of TEAMWORK on his side, oh no we are doomed.

Except not, so train robber runs off and tries to blow up the ruin.  RIG (because I am tired of typing that out and am refusing to use actual names here) is rash and impulsive and runs after him being oblivious to the fallen masonry and has to get saved by the incompetent treasure hunter.  Then she deservedly gets smacked in the face by raging bitch for being a fucking dumbass.  Raging bitch proceeds to prove herself to be confused on the subject of morality by insisting on the abscence of good and evil despite the fact that a very bad man walked out of the ruins not five minutes ago, and then proceeds to announce to the party that she is walking into an obvious trap laid by the train robber and insists that the party follow her.  Which they do, because apparently no one is allowed to have at least two braincells to rub together at this point.

So we walk into the obvious trap where SHOCK AND HORROR raging bitch gets defeated by the train robbing trio's mad cutscene powers.  The train robber proceeds to reveal to the team that his penis is, in fact, very small and that he needs a larger phallus to be satisfied.  No one is shocked as his large bayonet indicates that he is clearly overcompensating already.  At this point said larger phallus descends upon the earth and is reveled to be the aforementioned evil weapon, which... gets shot away by RIG's dinky revolvers.  Okay, game whatever works for you.  Train robber continues to one-up himself in his eternal quest for tastelessness with rape metaphor.  Cue round 4, cue floor falling from below train robber's feet, he's dead yay except not and gets approached by dudes who invoke tired white after labor day jokes and gets asked if he DESIRES THE POWER then gets stabbed in the crotch with the evil large phallus weapon and is satisfied and becomes a freaky fishy guy, I'm sure he'll never be back.

So clearly we need to defeat the evil penis.  With guns.

This is sure a thing that is happening.

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« Reply #647 on: March 14, 2012, 05:12:48 PM »
Tales of Graces f- Started, got through to the end of the childhood arc.  Asbel's dad is the biggest idiot.
Okay.  I get his basic reasoning.  the idea of sending second sons away to other lords to prevent feuds over land and title is not terrible unto itself, and I'm certain has plenty of precedent in earth history.  But birthright or not, you're telling me this guy looked at his rebellious, hot-headed son saying "I'm gonna join the knights" at every opportunity, and the reserved, bookish kid who spent all his free time studying and learning whatever he could, and decided the eldest was going to be your heir?  Never thought for a second the kid was serious and was in no way planning to inherit the title?  That even if he changed his mind, it'd be an incredibly bad idea?  c'mon now.

Not that this impacts the game negatively.  Then again, he's probably secretly party to the plot anyway.

Totally.

Tales of Graces f: Also up to the adult time!  After some finicking I also managed to get Asbel into his sexy sexy belly-shirt.  Now I just need to find a green wig for maximum Sothe.  Combat's become some sort of dream now.  Artes have divided into A-Artes and B-Artes that require (or require Asbel at least) to switch stances to do things.  Which is as simple as pushing the other button!  Because both sides link into each other whenever you want, combat is about managing yourself extremely well.  I'm already fully capable of pulling out no-hitters because of the excellent dodging mechanics.

Anyway, adult time is also when things really start boosting up.  You get a "Mixer" which is... well there's nothing really similar to it?  It's a menu command where you can set Food Items to be used in battle when someone falls below a certain HP threshold.  And if you put normal items in it, then they have a chance of spawning new ones.  You can even spawn new ones out of items you no longer have as long as you got at least one at one point.  It's a spiffy idea.

Anyway, start of adult has Malik showing off why he's such a badass.  Also he's voiced by Jamieson Price so Asbel using Iaido is hilarious.  Anyway, Malik is a figher-caster hybrid who currently just does tons of damage.  And then we get Cheria again!  Where I learn its really just magic that does a ton of damage holy wippa.

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Re: What Games ya Playin' 2012 - Suplex a Train Edition
« Reply #648 on: March 14, 2012, 07:43:38 PM »
Gref, if you want to use those options on TIM, you need to have used a charm/intimidate on him every time, which means running out the dialogue tree any time you talk to him. Usually people miss the one on Mars.

And yes, Kai Leng is awful. The lead writer wrote the first Earth part, Kai Leng and the final scenes, so he should probably never be allowed to write unsupervised unless he starts writing anime bullshit. Though, while he's stupid bullshit he at least doesnt completely ignore and downplay what you spent the rest of the game doing, so he's less offensive than some of his other creations.
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Re: What Games ya Playin' 2012 - Suplex a Train Edition
« Reply #649 on: March 14, 2012, 08:06:33 PM »
Dawn of Souls- Just finished up the Ice Cave. I'm trying a four white mage, no itemcast team. It's weird. I have had a few resets, but mostly from being reckless and not healing/buffing enough. Lich and Kary were jokes (Owned by Diara and Blink/Silence respectively), but some of the randoms are tough. I am running from any headache formations, which means I'm a tad underleveled. It's still pretty easy, since white mages are durable. My offense is absolutely wretched right now- 'wretched' in dawn of souls being that my WMs have two hits. High defense enemies do wall me cold, but they just get ran from.

I did manage to lose to the fucking pirates, though. *Facedesk*
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