What Games ya Playin' 2012 - Suplex a Train Edition

[superaielman]

I don't hate WA3! I'm just not a fan.

Fuck SH3. And fuck G3 because it exists.

[Dark Holy Elf]

Super hates good games, nothing new to see here.

I used to be pretty firmly in the WA3>SH3 camp but the latter has aged better to me, as more gameplay-focused games tend to. Both are worth checking out, regardless.

[AAA]

I don't hate WA3! I'm just not a fan.

Fuck SH3. And fuck G3 because it exists.

Well, 1 out of 3 isn't bad.

[Pyro]

I hate G3 less now that I've played both it and GX close to each other.

Now THAT, my friends, is a Really Fucking Bad Game.
Highest offense: Lack of save points. This is a major nuisance. Also sic'ing the final boss (who is a huge step up from the rest of the puny game) on you after grinding through 10 mind-numbingly boring randomly generated dungeon floors without a chance to restore MP/save/shop beforehand.

Brothers, there are more things that unite us than divide us. Let's all just agree that GX sucks and move on to better things. Like sticking needles in our eyes.

[Dark Holy Elf]

If I can hate on G1 instead of GX I will get on this train.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

G1 hate train? I'm the driver, girls.

[Yoshiken]

See, my only experience with Grandia is the PS2 version of Grandia II.
I don't think I need to say anything else.

[Grefter]

Brothers, there are more things that unite us than divide us. Let's all just agree that GX sucks and move on to better things. Like sticking needles in our eyes.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

The Hulkster has a sex tape out there, brother. And let me tell you this, man, I have two words to describe it to all those Hulkamaniacs out there, dude:

Multiple.

Hogasms.

[Fenrir]

Tokyo Jungle:


I've managed to survive 50 years already as a beagle, but I don't know how small carnivores animals can survive that much longer without using them a few times and getting crazy high stats? It's all lions and cheetas and elephants after a point. How am I supposed to kill them all with a beagle?
I think I'm going to stick with herbivores for high scores. Fruits don't fight back.

It's basically an arcade game (Survive as much as you can, then try again from the start) with a ton of permanent stat bonuses and unlockable stuff to get. Including a little schoolgirl outfit for your pig.


Demon's Souls (Thief, Luck only, Get Everything):
Finished the game and got all those trophies. They're easy to get, except for the terrible pure bladestone which took me like 4 hours of farming. I usually don't do that, but come on, I had done -everything else- at this point!

Bosses:
- Penetrator: Freeing Biorr makes this battle a joke.
- Dirty Colossus: Strafe right and win.
- Astrea: She's even more bitter than usual if you don't talk to her!
- (BP) Garl Vinland: Get up to him to provoke him, rolling backwards, striking twice and running away, several times. Boring
- Red Dragon: A zillion arrows to the face
- Blue Dragon: A gazillion arrows to the face
- Maneater: Did you know that Maneaters do terrible damage? Like 150 max. Of course you're too busy being pushed off the ledge to notice.
- BP Scirvir: His short range fire blast is super fast and super deadly. The solution is to run him out of MPs by strafing. What a joke.
- BP Selen: She has terrible damage (3HKO), but she also has healing, and you have to deal with the swamp. Fortunately she gets super dumb below half HPs (literally walking away to heal), I could just backstab her a few more times.
- Old King Allant: I nearly won that fight the first time, so I just used a stone of ephemeral eyes to easily finish him the second time! Expect I died and made the game harder as a result. Nooo! So: I used another stone of ephemeral eyes? I make bad decisions. At one point near pure black tendency, I finally beat him. He's fairly manageable by staying at mid range and only attacking to counter a few specific moves ("Ultima" has a really long charge time and can be cancelled, "Sonic speed" always finishes right next to the player and has a long recovery time)
- Old King Doran: Fighting a superboss with starting stats goes about as well as you'd expect... Fortunately he's an idiot. Get him far enough from his comfort zone, and he'll slowly walk away. Keep him on the bad path by slashing his face a few thousand times.
- Dragon God: For all the hate Bed of Chaos gets, this fight is a hell of a lot worse. Granted, I guess you're not supposed to be OHKOed here.
Miralda+Mephistopheles quest: Unremarkable.

I only had Northern Regalia left to get 100% trophies. Unfortunately this involves beating NG+ Flamelurker with a starting character? Freaking Phalanx was hard enough. I just snapped and duplicated 396 Maiden in Black Souls, ate them all, got all my stats to 99999999 and stomped everything.

[Nitori]

Deus Ex: laputan machine

[Anthony Edward Stark]

GREF ARE YOU PLAYING XCOM CUZ IM TOTALLY PLAYING XCOM BRO!!!!!!

To repeat: XCOM.

[Meeplelard]

Pokemon Black: So with Black 2 coming out, decided to finish off the aftergame finally.

Cynthia I had to fight over and over again until I finally got a plan down to take out each one systematically...and it still required some luck.  Evil fight.

Super E4...well, when I approached them first by accident I got curb stomped by the first!  When I actually tried them seriously?  Not too bad; just being intelligent about typing wins most of those fights.

Alder I won based on a few luck things, though in fairness, luck factors were all over the fight.  For example, Volcarronon could OHKO Starmie wtih Bug Buzz post Overheat if random variance went his way.  If didn't, Starmine nearly OHKOs in return, likely dies next turn and Reshiram (who can't be one shotted) finishes him off.  The "Starmie gets OHKO'd" thing kicked in on the winning run, but Reshiram got a Critical Hit Fusion Flare to blast through his Quiver Dances anyway, so all is good.  I of course say to myself "that would be so much easier if I had something with Rock damage!"


Final Team was Victini, Starmie, Crobat, Metagross, Darkrai, Reshiram.  Darkrai was my MVP, not too shockingly.

[Grefter]

Nope, not out here yet.  2 more days.  Dishonored comes out sooner, so I will spend a night playing that it seems.  Then my older brother gets home after a couple of months away and we will probably be playing Borderlands 2 finally.

[Shale]

Finished Darksiders. Game is what it is: cheesy 90s comics/heavy metal cover art pasted onto a DMC/Zelda/Portal hybrid. Somehow this works. Ending is pretty fun too.

Started the sequel. This one I have mixed feelings on. The combat? Worlds better. Death can move, which makes him play more like Dante or Ryu Hayabusa, and combos flow a lot better. The addition of random loot, Diablo-style, is odd but on the whole a positive - except for what it does to the exploration element. Because every chest now has some random assortment of gear, potions and cash, there's no tier of well-hidden treasure with guaranteed awesome rewards, like the epic weapon mods, abyssal armor,  and health/wrath ups from the first game. Your reward for exploration is just another roll of the dice on the gear table. Also the first act is basically WOW, with every NPC a generic quest-giver. There isn't even an antagonist yet, which is a big drop from having Mark Hamill harassing War on command.

[Captain K.]

Conclave:  Soloed all quests with a Mezoar Runecaster.  Which was largely easier than the True Bow.  The True Bow survives by kiting constantly.  The Runecaster is a fixed artillery unit - just stand there and blow stuff up.  Having an ability (Stonesheath) that lets you tank better than the game's tank class is a little psyduck.

[Grefter]

FM3 - I haven't been playing this as much as I should.  Macho Man Randy Savage gets all pissy at army recruits for guarding a military base during an emergency while stealing expensive military equipment.  The. Proceeds to check his email and then destroys millions of dollars of military equipment and get interrogated.  Then he checks his email and makes entirely unreasonable demands about finding his sister after refusing to tell them who he is.  Then he checks his email and shouts at his dad who tells him to fuck off and gets him off stealing and destroying millions of dollars of military hardware Scott free.  The. He checks his email and nepotism!  Then he checks his email and observes military secrets and hijacks a Humvee to go follow the military secrets truck further into a secure email.  Last I saw he was then checking his email.

My favourite part where he spent 45 minutes browsing the entire Internet and then bitches out his friend for not working hard enough.

Not sure if playing villain or not.

[Fenrir]

Don't worry Gref. CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT will save this brave hero. Maybe?


I wanted some obscure Snes RPG action yet I got bored with all of them (Silva Saga 2, Magna Braban, Burning Heroes, Dark Law. You don't know any of them)
I thought I was pretty much done with the Snes. Goodbye, slow pace, terrible humour, great sprites, and brain dead difficulty.

But then I checked Brandish 2: The Planet Buster. I think I'm 1/3 of the way through it?
For some reason i've become that guy who's come to like Brandish 2. What's happening? It's just like Brandish 1 (1/10 game, last time I checked) with a lot more polish but the same terrible concept.
There are two undoubtly great things about it:
- The planet buster. It is a sword... That busts planets.
- I am dual wielding shields and punching people with them. It is extremely effective.

[Grefter]

But Brandish isn't obscure enough.  I have heard of it.

[Fenrir]

Only because we ranted about it years ago. Like Drakkhen.

[hinode]

Nintendo Power actually had an article about Brandish back in the 90s. I always remembered it as the weird-ass game that thought it was a good idea to rotate the screen instead of the PC for some reason.

[Idun]

Boat finished, island entered, stats/weapons/armour upgraded. Still manualing Zael, currently not enjoying the amount of team members on the screen (boat primarily, very tight and had to jump over teammates). Not enjoying the saccharine scene music tracks. - The Last Story

No progress made on anything else. To be expected.

[SnowFire]

Personally, I'd say the reverse.  Lay the saccharine music on harder; too many areas have some kind of Xenosaga I-esque "enjoy the ambient sounds of nothingness" which is boring.  I'll take actual music over that, thanks.

[Luther Lansfeld]

FF10: Just finished up the Kilika Forest, going to do puzzles in the temple now~

[Idun]

Personally, I'd say the reverse.  Lay the saccharine music on harder; too many areas have some kind of Xenosaga I-esque "enjoy the ambient sounds of nothingness" which is boring.  I'll take actual music over that, thanks.

Regarding The Last Story? The saccharine tracks don't qualify as 'actual music' at all. Inundate the game with more bad music? Bad.

I don't see the comparison to XS1, but both games venture into the sci-fi realm, TLS obviously tending more towards the medieval.