What Games Are You Playing: 2008

[Cotigo]

EB Replay:  Done.  Fun game, as always.  This playthrough renewed my respect for Paula, since even though she sucks in the DL she's easily your best damage dealer until Deep Darkness, and then your best consistent damage dealer until Magicant.    Surrealistic humor gets better with every playthrough.

TF2:  So damn close to getting all the medic achievements, but the ones I have left to get basically have to be planned (Except for uber 2 guys at once, which happens all the time but never gives me the fucking achievement...), and just by jumping into some of the achievement servers I clearly have no patience for actually talking to the kind of retards who spend all day in there.  But I want that damn Ubersaw.  Eh, roommate's addicted to the game, should be able to force him to do it easily enough.  >_>

Speaking of which, MC, if you read this, do you know if you can still get the uber achievements with the Kritzkreig?  I swear I should have gotten "You might feel a little prick" on Mario Kart the other day and was wondering if I didn't because I was using the Kritzkreig instead of the regular medigun?

[Grefter]

TF2 - Actually started on medic acheivements today with some friends, 4 more to go until I get Kritzkreig.  I clearly need to play a lot more since I am not even close to the healing ones even...

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

SRW@3 - The. Alegrias. Is. Stupid.

[Cotigo]

TF2 - Actually started on medic acheivements today with some friends, 4 more to go until I get Kritzkreig.  I clearly need to play a lot more since I am not even close to the healing ones even...

What's your Steam ID?  Also, if you go to a server playing MARIO_KART_CP or something to that effect, usually the ones playing them have crazy game settings and you can easily get 100,000 healing points a minute.  However, those also have wonky point settings so afterwards the most points you have on Medic will probably be something in the 900s. 

[Grefter]

rarrieatbabies is my steam account.  Most of the places I have played at with friends haven't played custom maps though.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

SRW@3 - So, my third pathsplit, the second in less than ten stages. I got GUNBUSTAAAAAAAAAAH and the Sound Force for good. Things will die. Oh yes they will. ^_^

(Granted, not like they weren't to begin with. Dear god, I underrated the Alegrias MAP. That+cheap Soul = watch an average of seven squads die in obscurity at once. And it's not like it isn't insane at -damn near everything else-.)

[Twilkitri]

No, selling would work well if you could access it from the shop, where it would actually be useful.  Instead, you have to leave the shop, open up a menu, click on the Mastered tab, scroll down to where your money pins are (assuming you're sorting by number, since hand-sorting=fail), drag them to the trash, get out of the menu, go back in the shop, and then try to remember what the hell you wanted to buy in the first place.

Give me a good reason why sorting by number is better than sorting by psych, which puts money pins first, and I might not shake my head sadly.


Furthermore, shops don't sell anywhere near enough things to make you 'try to remember what you wanted to buy in the first place' and they also TELL you how much you have of everything so even if you did somehow 'forget' you could just look for things you don't have -_- Unless you wanted to buy something in specific for some reason which doesn't make much sense since you need to buy everything anyway and very rarely are you going to actually USE what you're buying, but if you wanted to buy something in specific you're damned weird if you forgot what it was you explicitly went there to buy.

Also waiting until you NEED money to dump it seems weird, but that at least is a valid playstyle difference.


Up to 470/99.5% items, so I have either two or three to go. Since I know two that I'm missing I'm hoping it's the former >_> Been doing a fair amount of mingling... For what it's worth, it seems like you get aliens quicker if you haven't gotten any yet that mingle. One enemy to go which I'm assuming is the rare frog people've been talking about since it's in the frog section and such.


Started up Anachronox while I was mingling. Fun fun. Haven't gotten much of anywhere yet, up to after the boat ride in the tunnels. They seriously need to note all the sidequests you get down somewhere instead of just the main ones. The battle interface is a tad annoying because I keep thinking I can click on the relevant things onscreen instead of on the buttons ._.

[Niu]

Luminous Arc 2- Wow, almost no improvements from the first one. The graphic is still bad, music is still bleh, the gameplay is still slow. Guess I'll just hack it and rush it through.

[Captain K.]

Give me a good reason why sorting by number is better than sorting by psych, which puts money pins first, and I might not shake my head sadly.

Sorting by number keeps each brand's pins together, so they are quickly accessible when you run into a reaper wall that requires making X brand the hottest in the area.  Or Pork City.  I guess you could use psych-sorting as default and switch to number-sorting as needed, but six of one/half-dozen of the other.

But that wasn't my point anyway, my point was that hand-sorting is massive fail.  No, TWEWY, I do not want that pin I dragged to go to the first open slot at the top of the screen.  I want it to go where I fucking dragged it to.

[TranceHime]

Luminous Arc 2- Wow, almost no improvements from the first one. The graphic is still bad, music is still bleh, the gameplay is still slow. Guess I'll just hack it and rush it through.

Yeah so judging by this info, I should not get Luminous Arc 2?

[Meeplelard]

FE10: Got back to this replay! Just beat Volcano Chapter of Far Less Nuisance Than It Could Have Been.  Game is still awesome and such, though I just want to get to the point where new stuff appears in plot <_<

Pokemon Coliseum: I CAN PURIFY POKEMON NOW SWEET!!

...still, game pretty much requires you to carry around at least one Shadow Pokemon at all times if you ever wish to purify them.  Its like HM Slaves, except less versatile and they can't level ;_;.

In any event, Espeon and Umbreon are probably locks for now.  Probably using Quilava cause the whole "Decent Fire Type can be tough to come by!" thing (and my other option is Slugma...yeah...), another slot for a Shadow Pokemon, another slot for...probably some Water type, though can't say I have any remotely decent ones, so for now, thinking Makuhita since he can at least beat up Rock types. 

I have one more slot, though this was pretty much decided based on this!
"Flaafy has been Purified! Thunderbolt has been unlocked!"
Me: It starts with Thunderbolt? Sweet! Definitely going to consider using it...
"Gained *insert EXP amount here! Flaafy reached level 31!"
Me: Oh, cool! Didn't realize he had that much EXP stored from actually fighting.
"What's this? Flaafy is evolving!"

...so basically, now I have an Ampharos with Thunder Bolt ready and rearing to go.  Or from another perspective, an obvious 6th choice <_<

[Nitori]

Odin Sphere - Just reached chapter of Cornelius~

The gameplay is nothing mind-blowingly awesome, but it's alright. It definitely requires skill, although you can just cheese things out with items + psyphers and grinding through things (Painkiller + Overload = bye Odette). Unfortunately, this leads to the stupid space restrictions that you start with, since there's way more stuff than you can carry. Fortunately bags are buyable and most of the dropped items are pointless, but it was mildly irritating at the start.

Gwen's plot was kinda...well, it's not a horrible story for what it is, although all the spell and love stuff was a little silly. Pretty typical thing. I can't say a thing on Cornelius so far.

The main problems I have come from the sometimes overbearing lag in battles, and the stupid coin system since it is pointless and basically makes you waste time hunting down Ariel Coins since the kitchen and cafe only take those specific coins. It really doesn't help the setting that much and is irritating~

[Niu]

Luminous Arc 2- Wow, almost no improvements from the first one. The graphic is still bad, music is still bleh, the gameplay is still slow. Guess I'll just hack it and rush it through.

Yeah so judging by this info, I should not get Luminous Arc 2?

Yeah, save your time for something else.

[Pyro]

Nitori: Plot reasons for why the cafe and kitchen only take those coins.


P3: Table bosses are whores.

[NotMiki]

Odin Sphere's plot, especially where Gwen and Oswald are concerned, feels like they were going for a mythological kind of feel, so I'm willing to excuse some extreme character stupidity here and there.  Not like the Norse gods of mythology acted in keeping with today's standards of love or justice, anyway.

Velvet can still jump in a hole and die, though.

[DomaDragoon]

Odin Sphere = Opera: The Game.

Final Fantasy III DS: Got Mini. Party's L11, and people are just starting the job level slowdown. Fighter/WM/RM/Thief.

[Crystalgate]

DDS 2: Started a new game on hard mode and made it to the internment facility.

The stat bonus I have made the early parts even easier than normally. I think it's a good thing though, early in the game there aren't many tricks available and I'm glad the game remained easy until I mastered some mantras. The stat bonus is rapidly becoming less significant though. I've had two Agilaos kill Serph.

[Excal]

WA:XF - You can tell it's near the end of the game as I've started getting "Ultimate" weapons.  That said, when it is allowed, Switch is horrifically broken on bosses, as MP busting is always a valid form of attack, and boss MP pools are never that large.  Ah well.  Iskender Bey is...  oddly underwhealming, especially since it's equal in power to a +3 broadsword.  Let's ignore the fact that I've just unlocked the +7 weapons and am one step away from the Ultimates, shall we.

Ah well, just starting 4-6, and facing more Zortroa filler.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

SRW@3 - Stage 42 in a nutshell: yelling and galaxy-sized energy hammers are the solutions to -every single problem in the world-.

[Dhyerwolf]

Suikoden Tactics- Beaten. I had randomly guessed the plot twist, but then had discarded it due to furry sex reasons. It's kind of funny that I beat this right after beating D2, because they basically have the same plot twist. A blandly playable game with not really anything in particular going for it.

[Shale]

SRW@3 - Stage 42 in a nutshell: yelling and galaxy-sized energy hammers are the solutions to -every single problem in the world-.

Welcome to GaoGaiGar, please enjoy your stay.

[Sierra]

AI2: Kinda slow going, since I'm burnt out after tearing through FM4/AT/DQ8. Anyway, got Gray ("Even if you are crazy, at least I'll be entertained." Hah, I like this guy's attitude) and Fee, who has pretty groovy design despite being Tallychu-bait.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

SRW@3 - Stage 42 in a nutshell: yelling and galaxy-sized energy hammers are the solutions to -every single problem in the world-.

Welcome to GaoGaiGar, please enjoy your stay.

I'm not complaining. Yum, Genesic GaoGaiGar+475,000 credits to blow on shinies.

[Grefter]

AI1 - Got the sphere I need for Guruguguu's Cane or whatever.

[Shale]

I'm not complaining. Yum, Genesic GaoGaiGar+475,000 credits to blow on shinies.

Only 475,000?