Playin' any games today, Flying Nun? (WGAYP - 2011 Edition)

[DomaDragoon]

Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions: Started this up, cleared Act 1 for three of the four. Only missing Noir.

[Grefter]

FUNERAL. MINIGAME. WHAT. THE. HELL.

There was clowns.  I don't know why you weren't expecting games.

[Scar]

Tactics Ogre PSP

So...I'm in chapter four and now all these extra maps are starting to get tricky. Also, how to I get Diego to show up? I read the report, and I have seen him once, but he died real quick so I reset and I messed around abit...and now his scene won't trigger in that town...

What give?

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Mass Effect: Time to pick who dies. I can never proceed with such decisions so I've been sitting on the game and not advancing to ME2 like I should be.

Kill Kaidan. You can choose to either reassert or change Ashley's mindset but Kaidan is always the same no matter what. He's like a character that you recruit after their entire character arc has been resolved, but you didn't see any of it.

[Xeroma]

GGs to Captain K and Shale this morning in MvC3. Keep practicing!

[Shale]

I went from getting my ass handed to me by Xer to actually doing kinda okay in ranked matches - 3-1 against newbies, with my loss coming against some hardcore grenade spam from Chris. Now if only I could play more than four ranked matches in 90 minutes...

[VySaika]

MvC3 - Gotten the hang of Galactus now, slowly but surely working my way towards beating him with all characters. Akuma/She Hulk/Haggar is prolly my go-to team as a rule, though I'm passably good with Hulk/Sentinal/Hsien-Ko/Arthur/Zero as well.

TO PSP - In Ch3 Chaos. So far the single most dangerous enemy I have encountered was a male priest inside Coritanae Castle. Who had a lobber. And Field Alchemy 2. And just chunked BOMBS at me whenever he wasn't tossing 75hp healing items at his buddies. Decided to pick one of those up for myself, handing it to my Rogue. Her usefulness went up dramatically. Lobbers are awesome.

Overall MVP is still Canopus, who I've swapped to crossbows. The Finishing Move on those things is brutal. Cross shaped AoE, damage goes up with more TP. As Snow might say, yesiu.jpg. Turned Denim into a Dragoon, don't regret it one bit. Beasts and Dragons are nasty and need to die quickly, having someone who already hits like a truck be able to hand them thier ass is nice.

[Niu]

Tactics Ogre PSP

So...I'm in chapter four and now all these extra maps are starting to get tricky. Also, how to I get Diego to show up? I read the report, and I have seen him once, but he died real quick so I reset and I messed around abit...and now his scene won't trigger in that town...

What give?

First part of the event must be done before Hedon Mountain. Read the report and go meet Diego.

When Vanisia Castle appear on the map, read the report again and go see Diego for the second time.
Then head to Quatriga for another event. Complete these two steps before actually enter the Vanisia Castle.

After clearing Vanisia Castle but before Hyme Castle, go meet Diego again.
Then head to Graveyard of Pirates and he'll join after the Crystal Corridor.

[Pyro]

Dragon Quest 6: Beat Murdraw. That second fight was a real doozie what with occasional MT 2HKO when there was no MT healing or full ST healing. I was lucky Zing went 2/2 for me. Carver is a TOTAL BEAST. The speed woes are offset by the initiative-ST damage move of O_o. Granted, it lowers his durability if he spams it, but it OHKOd even the nastier randoms and you can use it/not use it as needed for bosses. Dude was like 80%+ of my offense. Insane.

Other than Mr. SMASH it is a very generic dragon quest game. The two-world's thing is kinda neat but like every Dragon Quest interesting plot point ever it isn't really utilized effectively. Go go silent mains sucking. Always. At least the team as a whole has personality in this one, unlike DQ9.

[Captain K.]

Halo 3(original):  Beat Legendary Campaign co-op with my kid.

MvC3:  160 missions complete.  Fuck Viewtiful Joe's missions.

Last Remnant:  Playing this to cool down at nights after MvC.  Neat gameplay, but this was apparently programmed by high-school kids in Comp Sci class.  Load times are ridiculous, and random.  Why does it take 2 seconds to save your game and 20 to load it?  Why can't I run more than 3 steps before hitting slowdown while the game loads some more?

Critical Trigger timing is retarded, and also random.  You can do the same timing on two crits and get too slow on one and too fast on the other.

[Scar]

Tactics Ogre: PSP

I'm missing shit left and right. But it's okay! Because I can go back and fix all the crap I missed and messed up on!

Oh and I just want to say that Trajectory is the greatest thing they added to this game.

 

[Niu]

Last Remnant:  Playing this to cool down at nights after MvC.  Neat gameplay, but this was apparently programmed by high-school kids in Comp Sci class.  Load times are ridiculous, and random.  Why does it take 2 seconds to save your game and 20 to load it?  Why can't I run more than 3 steps before hitting slowdown while the game loads some more?

Critical Trigger timing is retarded, and also random.  You can do the same timing on two crits and get too slow on one and too fast on the other.

If your PC has good spec, sold your 360 copy right away and get the PC one.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Waiting for Fallout: Dead Money to download so I can play that. 60% done!

[Grefter]

Thank you for bringing that to my attention.  I did not know it was out on PC.

POKEMANS - Got seventh badge.  Beat up Giovanni clone from team Galactic.  Stuff.  Rock Climb shits me to tears.  So many HMs to drag around.  I shouldn't have taught my Empoleon Strength, I should have given it to my transferred fire monkey starter so it can be an HM slave.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Yeah, came out about eight hours ago. Fun so far, and decently tough.

[Rozalia]

MvC3:  160 missions complete.  Fuck Viewtiful Joe's missions.

This oh so very much.

MVC3- Currently at 94% trophy-wise only missing 320 missions and rank 1 trophy.

Currently team is X-23, Zero and Dormammu. Dormammu is there to add some hp to the team and Chaotic flame is just           a pure badass move that punishs so well. Dark hole into Chaotic flame is also quite nice and currently as I suck my main source of damage.

I'm getting better with the stick but in a real fight I just lose my focus and my fingers wig out to the extent I can't even do those L, M low, H, S, air combos 100%. Hell I sometimes mess up dark hole somehow which is just lol worthy for whoever I'm facing. I'm also useless as Zero currently due to my panicky performance.

My stick layout is:

L_M_H
S_P1_P2

I'm still wondering how to to keep my fingers on them. I could either use 3 fingers and switch them to the bottom when I need to launch or I could keep my fingers on the top three and my thump on the launcher. Not sure which is best as I mess up on both currently anyway.

As for gameplay I don't really know any effective combos and I've no idea how to handle that troublesome Dante that 99% of people use. His attacks go aross half the screen so I've no idea how to get in on him currently. Dark Hole and Weapon X prime are like the only ways I can currently.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Dante you want to play keep away with. Dorm or Arthur will destroy him.

Anyway speaking of things that came out today, anyone played Dragon Age 2's demo?

[Yoshiken]

Heh, played some MvC3 over the weekend. Settled on a team of Zero/Akuma/Amaterasu, mostly for the Crossover Super. Zero's fun to string together combos with, and I'm familiar with the old Akuma moveset - Ryu just seems a little too slow for me in this. Ammy is really fun to play with because her size makes her hilariously easy to dodge with, and she's fast enough to string together some nice comboes. That said, I was trying to learn Hsien-Ko 'cause she seemed pretty fun - seems like she's not a great character in the average match, but she's an amazing Galactus killer. ;p

[Bardiche]

Still playing Yu Gi Oh, haha. It's quite fun actually. I tried to build a deck around the Charmers, but failed miserably. As a last ditch effort, now running an Exodia Deck, which wins me pretty often but is utterly shut down by anti-spell or deck cleaning decks. Card Destruction is still salvageable as I can return cards from graveyard to deck or hand, but out of play is no victory, unless I get three Defenders on the field and the opponent runs out of cards first.

Took a peek at the anime. Episode 93. The preview goes, "the card her parents were killed for"... oh god, YuGiOh, did you become more of a trainwreck since I was a kid?

[superaielman]

LFT- Chapter 3. Running an all specials team (Orlandu, Malak, Beo, Olan). Orlandu is going to be the MVP, his offense takes a turn for the stupid with a Defender in C3. Malak is extremely useful for Frog Bombing and not much else (Untruth still requires some setup), Olan is very durable and Galaxy Stop is solid. Beo is the same as FFT, though LFT tends to reward his skills much more.

I'm having way more resets than I did in my no direct damage file, which is all from being a slacker and not putting much effort into setups.

[Rozalia]

MVC3 - Figured I was doing something wrong with flamy head and now I know. I wasn't using flame carpet one of his best moves which has improved my game massively.

"the card her parents were killed for"

Didn't you know that cards are serious business? As said in GX, card games have replaced Religion and is now as important as Business and Politics. In fact the police force is now equipped with fun police themed decks that they use to arrest you with.

In short in Yugioh cards are like influence as people obey you if you can beat them in children's card game, like guns and other weapons in if you defeat someone you can actually kill them if the card used is strong enough and finally they represent your being itself and what type of person you are as the cards match your personality and tastes.

Now that you know (and thats half the battle) you can buy yugioh packs at your nearest retail store for the low low price of $3.72.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Ryu just seems a little too slow for me in this.

I strongly suspect that Ryu will come out to be one of the worst characters in this game. Just a feeling.

[Excal]

Fallout: New Vegas.

Decided to start this up instead of a second playthrough of Mass Effect.  Doing my usual diplomatic sharpshooter build, this time specialising in energy weapons from the start.  I've since become a master of science in addition to sass talk, and seem to be decidedly pro-NCR, wandering the wastes with, alternately, a drunken caravaner who makes public drunkeness awesome, a First Recon NCR Sniper, and a robo-dog with a sixth sense for when kids fall down wells on the other side of the world map, and an extreme hatred of rats and all things that rhyme with them.  Oh, and in which I put a junkie dog's brain.  As a final touch, I belatedly realized that with a First Recon beret and the right jacket, my character looks an awful lot like Jamie Hydeman from Mythbusters.  So, I've been going around the wilderness busting stuff up with a Plasma Rifle, a flamethrower, and an obscene amount of explosives in honour of that.

Major achievements of note, have managed to liberate Nelson almost by accident (was just trying to help out when I saw a few guys leave the nearby NCR base and I followed them.  Shortly after this, shooting starts, and my sniper buddy whispers "Kill Them All", so I do.  Also said hi to Marcus.  Glad to see he's doing well for himself.

Managed to reach the Strip, where I have convinced one of the local mob bosses I am immortal, and have him running in fear of me as I continue with my plans to become God-Emperor of New Vegas.

[Luther Lansfeld]

TOPSP - Chugging through this, just got to Chapter 4.

The good:
-Way better art. I really am enjoying the character design in the Warren Report. Status screen stuff is decent too.
-The music is very good!
-The retranslation has overall done the game favors, although it is a little too flowery at times like WotL.
-The battle system has been revamped to not emphasize levels as much (although they are still important) and has make random encounters actually fun.
-The classes feel more different from each other than they used to.
-Melee classes aren't completely boned in usefulness.
-The levelling system is way better (can't get much worse than original TO's levelling system) and everyone who participates in battles gets levels.
-The skill system is quite fun, although sometimes I feel like a few abilities are just dead obvious for everyone.

The bad:
-Renaming everyone. It is hard for me to remember new names for people who haven't played the original~
-The battle system is, by and large, is too easy, although the game has gotten steadily harder after the low point of C2.
-The biggest problem is new characters/new classes. Since each class has a level, when you get a new character of a different class, they start at Level 1, which means you have to drag them into several encounters where they can't do anything or rig randoms specifically for them. It is very frustrating and the one thing that confuses me design-wise.
-Not that this is specifically the remake's fault, but the story merge still bugs me. Wonder if it has been changed a little more at least to compensate for path?

[Dhyerwolf]

WoZ- Holy crap Holly. Thought I'd get a healing point before her, but no dice. Definitely going to get the L7 skills first it looks like. Probably would help if I'm just missing where it says buffs have worn off, since I just didn't realize it when the Magic Evade was gone and this is the first time it's really mattered.

Radiant Historia- Thanks to graphics straight from 1995, your best friend is a giant lobster. Translation could be worrisome (Really, "freaking?"), but only a few mintues in, so we will see.