What Games Are You Playing 2013?

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

MA is a good bet for her because her learning type specializes in it (also happening to get a gamut of good axe techs) and she has a +3 growth on martial arts as well. Also, her speed and strength combo lends well to it, since the formula for MA runs off both stats and some of the lategame MA techs are utterly -nuts- (Tiger Break, I'm looking at YOU. Pity it's a bitch to learn, but maaaaaaaaaaaaan. ITD damage running off the MA formula that boosts strength with each casting? That's in the running for best attack in the game -period-. In order to learn it: first, learn Instant Power. Earlyish game tech, can be learned from a basic punch, 4 WP. Then, spam Instant Power to learn Evil Breaker. THEN you spam Evil Breaker until you spark Tiger Break. Good luck).

[Grefter]

<Snow> Breaking the game in half with my dick is my second favourite feeling.  You will never guess the first you guys.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

It also involves dicks. :thejoke:

[superaielman]

ToM: Just beat the boss on tempest peak. Talk about a bitch of a fight- he had crazy offense and durability.

[AndrewRogue]

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

Swashbuckler main. Neera. Branwen. Rest of the party is kind of ambiguous, but trying to vary from my common PCs. Currently hanging out with Xan and Kagain. Still angling for Good/Neutral. Considering adding Viconia/Kivan/Yeslick? Might just shuffle PCs a bunch.

Cleared Nashkal Mines. Forgot how goddamn fragile earlygame PCs are. Holy hell have I reset way too many times.

[Cotigo]

In order to learn it: first, learn Instant Power. Earlyish game tech, can be learned from a basic punch, 4 WP. Then, spam Instant Power to learn Evil Breaker. THEN you spam Evil Breaker until you spark Tiger Break. Good luck).

Saga games: Still sound like complete and total awful ass.

[Fenrir]

Nearly no net right now, but:

- Damn I didn't even get Tiger Break. It's better than Dragon Power? I'll try learning it on an Asura.
- Cid: Awesome. Also, don't forget that weapon power matters less and less as you get levels. Yattaf doing Golden Dragon with the starting sword = 2600 damage. Yattaf doing Golden Dragon with the best smithing sword: 3000 damage
- Zenny: Did you know that the FF12 Zodiac Spear guy is the SaGa guy?
(I really like the guy)

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Tiger Break deals roughly equal damage to Dragon Inferno first cast, but ignores defense, buffs Strength when you cast it and it's cheaper.

[Fenrir]

Sounds awesome, and maybe enough to beat Forneus.
But I can't learn it. I am frameskipping the hell out of Asura and can't learn it. Are you sure Evil Breaker is the tech i need to use?

There's also a special anti Forneus martial arts tech too, but I don't know how to learn it either.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Niagara Buster? That thing has accuracy issues. You can learn it from Giant Swing or Air Throw, if I'm not off. Also, keep in mind Tiger Break has one of the highest difficulty spark levels in the GAME, and Spears aren't a type that gets a lot of MA techs either. You're gonna need a lot of patience, I only got it once myself.

[Fenrir]

And "fish slaying" apparently means "300 more damage"

Tiger Break just looks impossible to learn right now. The amout of frameskipping against Asuras I've just done now amounts to what, 10 real life hours of grinding just to learn Tiger Break?
I'm almost more tempted to restart, picking martial arts as my main weapon or something.

(I ask because some guy said you need to use Powerup Fist instead of Evil Breaker)

[Sierra]

RS3: Cool BGM remix in the lower levels of the Devil Palace. Boss was a wuss, but I guess it's kind of inevitable I'd be overpowered for the last one I fought. So that's all the four fiends abyss lords down, I guess now I just have to track down the local Temple of Fiends analogue and--

--wait, game, did you just take away my main healer? And replace her with some random kid who has ass for weapon levels? Get out of my party, kid! No, I don't care where you're gonna go! Goddammit.

(Does it pick someone random for that, or what?)

[Fenrir]

I don't remember the details, but I suggest only having the 5 main people in the party for the endgame just because of that prick. (And I suggest reseting and doing the last China arc all over again unless someone in the team has Reviver + lots of MP, since you're not getting that healer back)

So it turns out Tiger Break can only be learnt with Powerup fist.
List of techniques Yattaf needs from now on:
- Tiger Break

It actually does deal a good 300 or so more damage than Dragon Inferno right now, for a smaller cost. And the damage boost is noticeable too.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

EDIT: OH WAIT yes the reason why the game hates you if you play Commander Mode. I don't remember the specifics myself.

EDIT2: Were you using Sara?

[Sierra]

Yeeeeeeep. I mean, I still have Undine, but this game frequently makes me feel two healers are necessary just because MT healing does not exist (and anyway I'd rather have Undine chucking lightning bolts at people given opportunity).

And no one has Reviver because I have never even used fire magic.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Man, my condolences. Sara gets taken from you forever after the abyss lords are dead if she's not a main, which is a kick in the balls. Your backup bet is pretty much handing Sun/Moon/Earth/Water to someone else or just recruit a PC who starts with one of those spell schools. Or have someone with high Mace levels with a Life Cane handy if you're desperate. If you need a Fire user, Sharl is probably where you want to go if you wanna use Reviver (protip: you probably do). The last recruitable PC, Yan Fan, also starts with Moon Magic and may be less painful to raise if you just want a healer. I'd probably grab him and hand Ellen a Life Cane for dire emergencies, since revival is the biggest deal about RS3 healing.

[Cotigo]

- Zenny: Did you know that moregamesthatareawfulandbad

[Twilkitri]

A.R.E.S. - played through

Fine but short. Also turns out that I'm still no good at mouseaiming in platformers.

I replayed the first half of the game to pick up 'cubes that I'd missed the first time around, but there didn't seem to be any point in playing any further once I'd gotten the last one. So I didn't. Not planning on playing hard mode either.



Stealth Bastard Deluxe - played through the first world

Seems fairly good so far outside of some technical issues.

The equipment system seems a little off given that you need to beat each level multiple times to unlock use of it on the same level, and as far as I'm aware times you get while using any don't count for S-ranking, so... what's the point of it?

Unsure if I'm going to try to S-rank every level or not. Already pretty sure I'm not going to try for the helix in every level, seeing as I played a couple first world levels multiple times without getting any ideas to where it was in any of them.

[VySaika]

Romancing SaGa 3 - Just started, picked Thomas as my main via Hatbot. So far he and Ellen are p.good and the other three are kinda bad.

Thomas using Spears because I like spears. Ellen punching things because I noticed she has more punching things skill then axe skill. And also because I like punching.

Supposed to escort the princess to some vampire lord dude, but not let him turn her into a vampire. I can already see how this is going to go badly.

ALso, quick question for folks more familiar with the game. When do I become able to get magic, and what kind of magic is there to get?

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

You can get magic just by talking to the robed guys inside any city and buying spells. At Podolui, city of the vampire guy,there's a guy selling Moon Magic at the bar. You can give any given character one of Fire/Water/Earth/Wind and one of Sun/Moon.

[Shale]

Vampire guy is basically the worst vampire ever, incidentally.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

He's a pretty good PC, though!

[Shale]

I still cracked up when his response to an innocent princess staying a night in his haunted castle with some low-level, ineffectual bodyguards was "Sure, whatever. Just clear out in the morning."

EDIT: SRW OGs2. Holy god this is amazing.

There's a weapon called the Free Electron Cannon that shows up in Special Mode as one of the free items. Since the game came out it's been generally assumed that you can't get it normally - maxing out kill counts, killing bosses with their rivals, all produced nothing. Well, now we know differently. It is...drumroll please...A RUSSEL SECRET.

Free Electron Canon
- By the end of Stage 47, Russel's kill count must be 50 or higher
- On stage 48, have Russel shoot down at least 15 enemies
- On the same stage by the end of turn 4, have Russel shoot down Umbra as the main pilot of a twin.

Umbra retreats at 18,000 HP. Russel does not learn Valor. He also does not learn Accel, which is all but necessary to get close enough to Umbra to even be in attacking range of him/her (it's not entirely clear what Umbra is) in four turns.

This has (supposedly) been tested. Screenshots have been posted.
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[MC50]

Super Robot Wars OGs 2: Played through. A lot of fun! Played on EX Hard, as my roommate beat the game before me. Got about 52 skill points. Wasn't trying for them all, just enough to get the final level.

Granzon was my top ace, with nearly 200 kills. He's clearly the strongest unit in the game - even on EX hard with no upgrades he's practically invincible.
Second top ace was... Ryoto, in the Armorlion, with 180 kills. He was also one of my best units, and he joins very early. The strongest twin I had for the whole game was Yuuki (Main) (Rathgrith Raven) and Ryoto (Sub) (Armorlion)

I think the Rathgrith Raven is the single most useful mech in the game. It got me basically every skill point in the EX portion of the game with Yuuki's twin spirit, it's as durable as a Grungust, but very dodgy. It's got a lot of power against everything but bosses... But that's why you have your other 30 units. And he joins incredibly early. Sure, mechs like Exexbein or Geant Chevalier (probably the #2 and #3 strongest mechs that I found) are better, but him and Ryoto were useful the whole game - I had them cover the entire left side in the final level! And I wouldn't dare send mechs like Aussenseiter, Vysaga, or Compatible Kaiser anywhere near those guys, or they'd get torn apart.

Anyway, the game was fun. Honestly, with a few exceptions (Guests, lategame plane enemies) the grunts were actually pretty tame. And your guys get way more accurate as you go on, which kind of surprised me considering earlygame hit rates. SP was also never a concern outside of a couple of lategame levels (The last Earth Route split level was tough, as I wasn't expecting the Air Christmas to show up, and I had blown all my SP earlier.)

Still, it was a lot of fun. And the last boss was tough, hitting half my guys with his spirit lock, including both people that have the cure status spirit, leaving half my guys unable to attack for the first turn.

[Random Consonant]

A RUSSEL SECRET.

...YESZ