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Re: What Games are you playing 2016?
« Reply #575 on: March 12, 2016, 08:17:48 PM »
On Casual I might agree with your first comment. On Classic, a few enemies showing up can kill you and force a reset.

You can adjust the difficulty to Normal whenever you want (though you can't adjust it back up), so no need to restart.

It's fine to be overwhelmed by the skills, but random it isn't; the skills enemies have are fixed, as are their effects (you'll never see bullshit proc skills like Luna/Vengeance on enemies, except bosses). Normal is lighter on the skills, though, so yeah that'd probably be more your speed. Hard Conquest is... really only something I'd recommend to srs bsns FE players, at least for a first playthrough. It's substantially more challenging than the equivalently named difficulty of Awakening (and New Mystery, for the two people who played that).


Fire Emblem Fates - Birthright C13. Alternately, Captain, you could always just play this, there are like... no enemy skills at all. Map design so far is much less interesting, and the cast is more boring, though meeting up with the Norhian siblings again is improving things on that front.

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Re: What Games are you playing 2016?
« Reply #576 on: March 12, 2016, 08:30:26 PM »
Awakening vs. Fates music: I dunno, I really, really liked Awakening's soundtrack.  Almost all of its map battle themes were fantastic and better than all the battle themes in Fates, and considering this is the music that by far plays the most often, that's pretty important!  Fates' soundtrack is fine of course, it's not BAD, but Awakenings was great I thought.

The Daleks: If you're on Casual, then you have battle saves.  It's amazing how much more "fair" random crap happening is if you can reload to the turn before knowing "oh yeah that guy has Lunge".

Fenrir: I thought Nozomi's plot was p. dumb myself.  oh no the celtic faeries are BEING OPPRESSED by the cruel Judeo-Christian world which doesn't believe in them and magic or something.  Except...   we are in some kind of pan-religious throwdown where every obscure bit of magic works just fine, and if there's oppression going on, it's the other demons coming through the gate.

I'm not sure how much you care about SMT PLOT and/or intentionally want to see trainwrecks, but Niu / other hardcore SMT types apparently really hate the Chaos path in SMT4.  Neutral path pretty clearly seems canon-ish and has more gameplay, so you might want to angle a bit more Jonathan-friendly.

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Re: What Games are you playing 2016?
« Reply #577 on: March 12, 2016, 09:54:44 PM »
Dunno what you are talking about Elfman, Kaze is kinda rad and Izana was neato, though you are already ahead of me because you aren't playing the real fun part of the game.

FE City Build It - this is a pretty fun Fire Emblem spin on the building mobile game style that Sim City does.  I like visiting other people's castles and then doing a mad dash to their Throne  with flying units to Seize and win.  I wish progress want locked to main story plot.
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Re: What Games are you playing 2016?
« Reply #578 on: March 12, 2016, 10:01:40 PM »
Kaze and Izana are in both routes, actually! But yeah, Izana is good fun and Kaze's pretty likable/smexy (also much cooler than his brother).

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Re: What Games are you playing 2016?
« Reply #579 on: March 13, 2016, 12:31:59 AM »
FE Fates Conquest - Hard/Casual beaten.  Good game is good, bad plot is bad, I don't really have much to say about it that Elfboy hasn't so far so I'll just add that I certainly enjoyed it more than I had expected to (may actually beat out Radiant Dawn to me, though not exactly cleanly...) but I'm not really in a hurry to grab the other routes all the same.

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Re: What Games are you playing 2016?
« Reply #580 on: March 13, 2016, 03:57:30 AM »
Flamebreak: Nifty little game.  Plays kind of like a combination of FTL and Rogue Legacy.  You get a roll of three dudes to make your playthrough of selected from a number of attributes you've unlocked over the course of your playing.  Races, weapons and abilities.  You move through a map like FTL, hitting nodes to fight battles for gold or towns and vendors to grab powerups.  Battlefields vary themselves a lot, and more dangerous ones offer better rewards.  The Pantheon of the game gives rewards if you suck up to a specific god.  Bosses are at the end of each area and pull from a set of super-strong normal enemies.  I've had two successful wins so far and two more that reached the final boss.  First win was with a Crossbow Faire with Meteor Strike and Telekenisis.  I grabbed an additional skill that gave me a root giving me lots of battle control.  Even bosses aren't immune to status effects here.  Second win was with a Crossbow Dwarf with Shockwave and Venom Strike.  I upped my attack speed to hit as many stacking poison hits as I can and did crazy damage, like 7,000 when even Metor Strike was doing like 1,700. 

It's a really fun and quick game.

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Re: What Games are you playing 2016?
« Reply #581 on: March 13, 2016, 04:35:30 PM »
Awakening vs. Fates music: I dunno, I really, really liked Awakening's soundtrack.  Almost all of its map battle themes were fantastic and better than all the battle themes in Fates, and considering this is the music that by far plays the most often, that's pretty important!  Fates' soundtrack is fine of course, it's not BAD, but Awakenings was great I thought.

The Daleks: If you're on Casual, then you have battle saves.  It's amazing how much more "fair" random crap happening is if you can reload to the turn before knowing "oh yeah that guy has Lunge".

Fenrir: I thought Nozomi's plot was p. dumb myself.  oh no the celtic faeries are BEING OPPRESSED by the cruel Judeo-Christian world which doesn't believe in them and magic or something.  Except...   we are in some kind of pan-religious throwdown where every obscure bit of magic works just fine, and if there's oppression going on, it's the other demons coming through the gate.

I'm not sure how much you care about SMT PLOT and/or intentionally want to see trainwrecks, but Niu / other hardcore SMT types apparently really hate the Chaos path in SMT4.  Neutral path pretty clearly seems canon-ish and has more gameplay, so you might want to angle a bit more Jonathan-friendly.

I may have missed that fairy sidequest. So far Nozomi has been just helpless wish fullfilment.
I like SMT plot! Do note that I am not skipping cutscenes, which is big for me. There are way too many MUAHAHA bosses though.
I think I'm set for Normal alignment so I won't get to see that chaos ending. I do not think I'd necessarily agree with hardcore SMT types on plot though.

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Re: What Games are you playing 2016?
« Reply #582 on: March 13, 2016, 06:36:43 PM »
Fire Emblem Fates Conquest Hard Classic Remastered HD: Up to Chapter 13.  I almost Beat Chapter 12 but apparently was ONE TURN OFF and lost as a result, had to redo it.

I have to say, the game really does encourage you looking at maps from different angles and figuring out efficient routes.  Bee-ling into the fray on the difficulty level tends to get you killed.
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Re: What Games are you playing 2016?
« Reply #583 on: March 13, 2016, 09:44:30 PM »
So, I picked up FF13 again. I never beat it, but I have save files: C11 and then the final stages. I did this because I knew my life would end until I completed my qualifying examinations.

So, I'm back to grinding. I'm going to Mahabara, because I wondered why I had no Missions from 29 to like, 52. So, this should help keep a little bit of the excitement. I'm tempted to look at a FAQ for weapon and accessory upgrading, just because. I mean, I have other games to beat and I'm already at 83 hours, which itself probably contains a lot of bloat and idling. I've kept my team all female, but I may just figure out what I want to do with the other characters. The only person I swap in is Hope, but I may make some alterations depending on HP as a serious downside in some mission battles.

I'm back to Masashi Hamauzu's music. Why is March of the Dreadnoughts so early in the game but… never to reappear?

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Re: What Games are you playing 2016?
« Reply #584 on: March 13, 2016, 11:34:47 PM »
I'm back to Masashi Hamauzu's music. Why is March of the Dreadnoughts so early in the game but… never to reappear?

The answer to "Why does X appear at one point in the game and never again?" is always "FF13's development was a disaster."

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Re: What Games are you playing 2016?
« Reply #585 on: March 13, 2016, 11:48:58 PM »
Unless I'm going crazy there's a section of Pulse it plays on, too. Might be an optional area.

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Re: What Games are you playing 2016?
« Reply #586 on: March 14, 2016, 12:41:00 AM »
Would just FAQ weapon and Accessory upgrading, it is a fairly opaque system with very little pay off mechanically.

FE - Corrin and Jackob banged.  Both kids are competing with Jackob to make cups of coffee for Corrin. 

The paralogues would have been intense without my tactical genius of misunderstanding that Phoenix was You Are Good at Games mode.  So I suffer some losses but just move on with life like Elves taught me to play FE games.

I really really appreciate no weapon durability.  I was a little disappointed when some of trash staves still had limited uses.  Like Sakura's staff is all named after her, is like E ranked and heals 7-10 for 2 range.  It is worse than Blooming Vestal in all but the edgest of cases.  It didn't need 10 Charges.
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Re: What Games are you playing 2016?
« Reply #587 on: March 14, 2016, 12:51:26 AM »
Some of the staves are pretty much such that there is no reasonable way to balance them aside limited shots. Wouldn't have minded if Heal / Bloom Festal were unlimited, though I guess it does put a cap on certain types of grinding, and there is something to be said for mechanical consistency across a weapon type. Eh whatevs.

Something you should know about Birthright if you are using Kaze and don't care about gameplay spoilers:
Kaze will die during Chapter 15 if he doesn't yet have an A support with the main character. I would assume this is true on Phoenix Mode though have not confirmed.

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Re: What Games are you playing 2016?
« Reply #588 on: March 14, 2016, 01:29:46 AM »
Kirby Triple Deluxe: Took me until 3-1 to miss a collectable. They've gone to the deep end for power ideas, CIRCUS Kirby
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Re: What Games are you playing 2016?
« Reply #589 on: March 14, 2016, 02:44:09 AM »
Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest

Finished. Hard/Classic.

Toughest chapters were still 10 and 13. The later ones were certainly longer and more stressful, but didn't require as much trial and error. Some maps thoughts below.

Ch. 22 (Sakura)
A fun map. Hana is ridiculous on this map, being able to double anyone and Rend Heaven activating cost me a reset. Also, sending everyone up the left side and trying to sneak in that way triggered every reinforcement at once - and also cost me a reset. Doing it the slow way worked, and was good for experience.

Ch. 23 (Takumi chapter)

Ignored Hinata's death wall. I am not messing with that. Paired Xander and Leo up to take on as many units as they could on the top floor - hid in the top right corner so they could only be attacked by a few guys at once. When they got low on health, rescued them back down, but they had thinned out the enemies enough that I could trigger them to move forward, hit them with a counter, and hide back down the stairs. Slow going, but it worked.

Ch. 24 (Hinoka)

A good chapter. Actually finished on the first try, but could have easily gone wrong. Used the Dragon Vein once to slow the fliers down.

Ch. 25 (Ryoma)

Terrible. Took me about 50 turns, with main character constantly pulling potions out from the convoy. 25 of which were spent on the right side deathtrap hallway - which I eventually solved with - Xander attacks Weaponmaster guy at range 2, gets danced by Azura, runs away, Peri rescues Azura. Then do the same thing after the two weapon guys charge you and kill them to break down the right wall. Otherwise it was pretty much impossible, as the ninjas would debuff anyone to 1 health, unless I was missing something obvious. Almost screwed myself by activating the Dragon's Vein not realizing it was reducing damage, as Ryoma could not obliterate the main character. Luckily managed to get others there in time, as that would have been the worst reset imaginable.

Ch. 26

A tough level. Just ignored the stave spam, really... Niles paired with Nina took on all the mages on the right, equipped with Dual Yumi. Res archer is useful! Who knew! Entrap'd the Berserker boss so that I didn't have to mess with him with the rest of the group. Percy and Benny paired took on most of the bottom group, though some broke free to face the rest of the team, and I did need to physic him a few times. It was starting at htis level that I bought 50 of every tonic and used them on every character i deployed before each fight.

Ch. 27

A fun level. Paired everyone uip in preparations, and put two guys in the top rooms after some finangling. Then the four pairs on the bottom got sucked into the rooms and managed to win their way out. Percy lured the middle army down, then ran away from them while everyone else took the stairs and bumrushed the boss.

Ch. Final

Intimidating. Two deaths, though I managed to revive Peri with the Bifrost. Izana also died, who was a filler character anyway. Boss himself, once you gotto him, was not THAT bad, though he did survive one turn with 1 HP left.

On Units Used (Of course, personal experience here means a lot of things will be different), in order of kills. Everyone in default classes.

Leo (160 Kills)

Extremely good. He didn't seem it at first, but he turned out fantastic, with 25 speed, and high 20s in both defenses. When equipped with Horse Spirit, was one of my most reliable units for facing the mixed squads that the endgame levels like to throw at you.

Avatar (+Mag, -Skl) (157 Kills)

Used Dragonstones 99% of the game. Swords were worthless, 45 damage dragon breaths and 40 defense was not. Occasionally shot magic at range 2. Good, not great. Skl was a bad weakness, for the dragonstone build, I think, because I had accuray problams until I attached Gunter to her.

Niles (126 Kills) - Adventurer

When he was good, he was really good (Vs. Fliers, Mages) other times he did mehish chip damage. Was a bit fragile. Still, turned out alright.

Selena (123 Kills) - Hero

Kind of a filler, "Decent at everything" unit. Sometimes had trouble doing damage to anything with lots of DEF, and had no 2 range which occasionally was annoying. Was at her strongest early-midgame, I think.

Xander (121 Kills)

Obviously great, with his sword and high defense. That being said, his RES is bad, so he is no omni unit. Fed him two speedwings, as well.

Keaton (116 Kills)

Absurdly strong for some reason with near 40 Str and Def and almost 60 Health. Not much else, but he didn't need much else. Destroyed most bosses.

Camilla (113 Kills)

Really, really strong, until the last 3-4 levels, where she was still a usable unit but not unbeatable. Still, was incredibly helpful for most of the game and still useful at endgame.

Peri (112 Kills) - Great Knight

Similar to Xander, with more Res and Spd, less Def and Str, but very comparable statwise. However, the lack of Siegfried held her back compared to him. Still strong.

Benny (99 Kills) - General

He tanked so many things with his, like, 44 defense and inability to be doubled skill. Found a randomly strong lance to give him once that made it easier to be doubled - which didn't matter. His res isn't even bad, though it's not absurd. Having that much defense did make enemies like to ignore him, though.

Nina (82 Kills) - Bow Knight

The first of the kid units I slotted in. Better statwise than Niles, so she was more helpful in general situations - but worse in the specialized anti-mage uses. Both were good.

Percy (72 Kills) - Wyvern Lord

Absolutely absurd stats in everything... Except RES, which was, like, 8. But still! He was so good at everything else! And I needed another axe user. I wanted to try Charlotte, but I didn't think I could catch her up in time. So I used him, and he did not dissapoint.

Elise (12 Kills) - Strategist

Elise did. She healed things, and got one shot by everything. Oh, she had 34 Mag, but it didn't matter if any enemy with a javelin could cause me to reset. Which happened a couple times. Still, staves are useufl, and she could move far, and she did kill a few enemies. So she was useful. Just frustrating.

Forrest (10 Kills) - Butler

Well, my Jakob was turning out poor, and I wanted to use a butler. So I tried this guy out. The pros - he did not die in one hit. He actually had some resilience. Generally it took THREE hits. His mag was way less, though, which was annoying at times. Still, I think he was better than Elise for not immediately dying to every enemy when someone else needed a heal.

Azura

...I dance Grinded her like, 20 levels, in hopes she would not die in one hit to all enemies. She still died in one hit to all enemies. However, dancing is invaluable for gimmicks like my favorite - attack a range 2 boss who doesn't move then dance them and run away - strategy. So she was "good".

That's everyone except some filler characters. Effie was dropped, though she was good, because I wanted to use Benny. Arthur was dropped because he wasn't turning out well. Odin for similar reasons. Most other characters I didn't try. I did support grind for the kid chapters right after Xander joined, which helped a bit for EXP (Got everyone around 4-5 levels) though once you outlevel enemies by too much the EXP they give you becomes laughable, so it didn't matter that much.

Might go over story stuff at anothe time, but it was... OK. Not great. Gameplay was fantastic, though, and a lot of fun.

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Re: What Games are you playing 2016?
« Reply #590 on: March 14, 2016, 03:19:57 AM »
Gameplay spoiler warning for those who care.


Re Chapter 25: The death trap on the right can be dealt with by entrapping or freezing one of the spy shuriken HP-40% ninjas. I had Trample/Axefaire Camilla who could one-shot Master Ninjas with a Hand Axe, so nothing else was really a threat (OHKOed enemies can't activate Poison/Grisly Wound), but those spy shuriken guys... yeesh.

Re Endgame: Interestingly the final boss is in many ways less impressive than some of the previous, in particular he is actually worse offensively than his previous form, and the lack of throne is huge for reliably blitzing him.

Azura has HP/Def growths of 25/15 which are amazing, as you discovered grinding isn't really saving that. I gave her a couple defensive stat boosters but not sure if this is worth the time. You could use shenanigans to get her HP+5 (e.g. marry her to Arthur and use a couple seals), but again, probably not worth it.

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Re: What Games are you playing 2016?
« Reply #591 on: March 15, 2016, 01:20:13 AM »
SMT4:

Blasted/Infernal Tokyos were cool, as were the fights against the White, then Neutral endgame has been the absolute nadir of the game.
You're thrown back to the world map with no idea where to go. And you're supposed to go back to Shinzuku meet these people you've met once and who are now apparently your chums?
Then, FINISH ALL THE SIDEQUESTS? Jesus. And there are some terrible ones, like the Search 4 Divas on the world map one.
I did this long Isis sidequest that ends with Osiris joining you, which is the first and last time in the game when a demon joins you for free. Except he immensely sucks. He was my lowest leveled demon when he joined and had like... Mudoon? And something terrible like Pulinpa?
Plot justification for finishing all sidequests: You need to fill a chalice with PEOPLE'S HOPE. What is this Tales bullshit

Right now though I'm back to cool land, fighting good old Beelzebub. He is very fun but impossible.
He is the first boss with both Debilitate and Luster Candy, and I am way not ready. I will come back later.
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Re: What Games are you playing 2016?
« Reply #592 on: March 15, 2016, 01:25:34 AM »
Flamebreak: Completed three more runs, thus beating all the Gods and unlocking Hard Mode.  Hilariously, the God of Fury was super-chill about being defeating.  God of Health, which had claimed a run before, was taken out by another Poison Crossbow.  God of Undead was defeated by a Musket Fairy with Fireball and a lot of maneuverability.

Spear Human with a AoE Energy Burst and a Cyclone that stuns and drags in enemies in front of you.  I wanted to combo these, but Cyclone's range was way shorter than I expected so I changed my tract.  The human racial ability is a summon minion thing.  Spawn one of these on an enemy range unit and they'll retreat for a while buying time.  The damage the squire summon does is low, and they can only take a single hit, but that's one bullet not flying on the field.  I lucked out and got the Undead God's favor too, which started spawning skeletons for me, plus some upgrades to my squire.   Started out every battle with 4 additional bodies that soaked up hits for me.  I got the cooldown to like 3 seconds by the end of it, combined with an armor set that gave a 50% damage echo on every hit I landed, and summons counted.  This ended up being the perfect counter to the God of Protection, who otherwise had a rather interesting set up.  He himself starts off intangible with three little clones that have to die before he becomes vulnerable.  He respawns them periodically and goes back to being invulnerable.  For other characters this would have been a nightmare, only getting out a few attacks between vulnerability times and then weathering a brutal new assault.  But I had such a sheer amount of bodies on the field it didn't matter.  I had 11 dudes doing 500 damage a second by the end of it.  The boss was nearly entirely surrounded.

Hard Mode boosts enemy damage and just gives me a random set of whatever instead of a preemptive choice between three like normal.  Should be interesting.

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Re: What Games are you playing 2016?
« Reply #593 on: March 15, 2016, 01:32:22 AM »
Fenrir: Beelzebub is legit stronger than the actual final bosses.  Not sure what was up with the balance there, maybe he was intended more for aftergame?  I dunno.

Screw the 4 Divas sidequest, hard.  Worst one in the game to figure out if you don't FAQ it.  I love how they won't even appear if you don't take the sidequest, and you can only have 1 sidequest active at once, and the only clue to where they might be is really, really vague.  Definitely a "just FAQ it" moment.

MC50: Wait, you think the story to Omega Quintent is "not that bad?"  I refuse to believe this.

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Re: What Games are you playing 2016?
« Reply #594 on: March 15, 2016, 01:35:31 AM »
Omega what

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Re: What Games are you playing 2016?
« Reply #595 on: March 15, 2016, 01:45:00 AM »
You are better off not knowing.

And... That's straight up SMT plot too Fenrir.  P3 is all about that.

FE - slow progress but my castle is slowly getting bigger.
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Re: What Games are you playing 2016?
« Reply #596 on: March 15, 2016, 01:53:17 AM »
Oh it's Quintet, I see.

Sorry, for a moment there I thought I had just seen the most Engrish video game title of all time.

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Re: What Games are you playing 2016?
« Reply #597 on: March 15, 2016, 03:15:11 AM »
FE - slow progress but my castle is slowly getting bigger.

That's what she said.

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Re: What Games are you playing 2016?
« Reply #598 on: March 15, 2016, 03:18:34 AM »
Well, I was expecting Omega Quintet's story to be worse than it was. It wasn't *good* by any means. It impressed my as my expectations were 0, and it ended up being... 2? I'm not trying to hype it up as anything great, but it is, for example, far better a story than absolute trash like Agarest War.

Yes, I've played some bad games. I keep hoping for good, or at least kind of fun but easy, gameplay, and I'm usually dissapointed, as they are always unbalanced messes that seem like they have potential but squander all of it. I just want more Mana Khemia for my fun anime RPG with a good combat system...

In desperation, I played Ar No Surge a while back. And THAT games combat annoyed me. Because it seems cool and flashy at the start, and interactive. But every fight is exactly the same, with different numbers.

Anyway, I started Fire Emblem Birthright. I laughed when I realized the enemies pulled like old GBA Fire Emblem enemies - one at a time, instead of a big group. That's probably not every level.


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« Reply #599 on: March 15, 2016, 06:57:11 AM »
Flamebreak: Did my first Daily challenge and won it!  Number 1, 100th Percentile for the day that's two hours long!  Seed was Spear Dwarf with Summon Turret and a swap place with enemy ability.  Summon spam got me through another fight with the God of Defense, Proctus.  I'll probably be knocked off the top ten later, but for now I'm King of the World.