GasBandit
Staff member
Last night the little woman and I got to wave 82 on endless mode in Orcs Must Die 2. It took FOUR HOURS. There was still no indication that our rift was in real danger, but by that time our machines where straining and stuttering to hold all the cloudy bloody smoky spinning death at once and I was worried the game would crash before we could record our score... so we cut it short by suicide and checked the rankings/stats. Amazingly enough it was only good enough to reach number 41 on the rankings, though I'm pretty sure every single person above rank 20 on that list was cheating.
God I wish I had some games I wanted to trade in, I need to play this.
Doesn't matter, he's one of those PC elitists. No fun allowed, etc.
Flakey bitch needs to continue Borderlands 2 coop game
You should make a separate thread and continuously update with the results of your Castlevania quest.
I am considering it. Currently getting my ass handed to my by the FRANKENSTEIN stage (no pun intended). Those fuckin fleas man.
Also, taking screenshots of my progress/completions is easy on the early gen games on emulators, but I'm debating how to screencap my PS2/PSP/PS3 games. Camera?
Completely hooked on Tera right now. Combat's a lot of fun once you get used to playing with a controller and it's not a typical Korean grindfest (there's plenty of quests so far). The classes feel different and fun enough that I'm having trouble deciding which to take past the newbie zones.
Just started playing World of Tanks. It's nothing amazingly special, but it's free and super-fun because it's takes the Ritalin-bait twitch-type shooting out of the arena shooter and replaces it with motherfucking tanks.
Will play Planetside 2 at some point as well, but WoT is very fun (as long as I don't feel like I'm slamming into the paywall).
Will play Planetside 2 at some point as well, but WoT is very fun (as long as I don't feel like I'm slamming into the paywall).
Planetside 2 is awesome.
Terran Republic rules!
Terran Republic rules!
GasBandit
Staff member
The New Conglomerate is best for me. For you. For humanity.
I knew you'd be an NC. That's okay... they're my kind of scum. At least you're not one of those Vanu zealots
Don't listen to this fascist. NC are all the rage.
Tried some demos:
Fire Emblem: Awakening: I love tactical RPGs, but I just don't think this series is for me. I played all but the final battle of Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and by the time I gave up on it, I just stopped caring. There isn't enough diversity in character stuff and while I appreciate that it's more of a complex game of chess, I'm not having fun. I tried the demo on someone saying it was so great, but it seems like the same thing as the other game I played, albeit more fantastical in setting (I don't recall any portal demon zombies in Shadow Dragon).
The Cave: Dammit ... I may have to get this. Neat side-scrolling puzzle game with a sense of humor coming from some strange mixture of Monkey Island guy meets Psychonauts guy.
Fire Emblem: Awakening: I love tactical RPGs, but I just don't think this series is for me. I played all but the final battle of Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and by the time I gave up on it, I just stopped caring. There isn't enough diversity in character stuff and while I appreciate that it's more of a complex game of chess, I'm not having fun. I tried the demo on someone saying it was so great, but it seems like the same thing as the other game I played, albeit more fantastical in setting (I don't recall any portal demon zombies in Shadow Dragon).
The Cave: Dammit ... I may have to get this. Neat side-scrolling puzzle game with a sense of humor coming from some strange mixture of Monkey Island guy meets Psychonauts guy.
Finished Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords using the TSL Restored Content Mod to add in most of the cut content. Still an amazing story trapped in mediocre game design, but also still one of my favorites. Kreia is also still the best character in any game, period.
I've played KOTR 1 and TOR. Never played KOTR 2... should add that to my list....
KOTOR2 was the much better story, imo. Kotor 1 was fun, and aside from the 'twist' was a basic star wars story. Obsidian really digs into what the force could be though, and creates a wonderful, dark, morally ambiguous adventure.
It was added to Steam right around the time the TSL Content Mod was finished, which probably isn't a coincidence. It's usually super cheap. Just be sure to turn off the auto updater for the game before you add the mod if your playing it off of Steam.
If your playing the "canon" paths, the choices that TOR follows are that both Revan and the Exile were lightside, with Revan as a male and the Exile (Meetra Surik) as a woman. However, it's also canon that the Handmaiden was there and not the Disciple so your going to need a mod to add her as an option for a female Exile.
KOTOR 1 created the perfect Star Wars hero.
KOTOR 2 created the perfect Star Wars villain.
Both are for the same reasons.
KotOR 2 has a great companion pool, too. Some of my favorites of the BioWare games.
It's not a Bioware game.
Yeah, it's by Obsidian, which is why the story is so much better. It was penned by Chris Avellone who wrote...
- Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (1997)
- Fallout 2 (1998)
- Descent to Undermountain (1998)
- Planescape: Torment (1999)
- Icewind Dale (2000)
- Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter (2001)
- Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (2001)
- Icewind Dale II (2002)
- Van Buren (Fallout 3) (2003 - canceled)
- Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader (2003)
- Champions of Norrath (2004)
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (2004/2005)[5]
- Neverwinter Nights 2 (2006)
- Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer (2007)
- Alpha Protocol (2010)
- Fallout: New Vegas (2010)
- Wasteland 2 (2013)[6]
- Project Eternity (2014)[7]
Well that explains why the characters are better.
Ah man, Dark Alliance and Champions of Norrath. I loved those, too. The sequels weren't bad, but the originals were a ton of fun. D&D Heroes was pretty okay, too.
It's janky as hell, but there's so much to love.
Wish you could play it on pc,but the cam is so jerky and frustrating.
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Jay, I respect you, but I don't care how many disagrees you give me. Ni No Kuni is fucking brilliant.
[user]CynicismKills[/user] ...get on this shit. now.
Jay, I respect you, but I don't care how many disagrees you give me. Ni No Kuni is fucking brilliant.
[user]CynicismKills[/user] ...get on this shit. now.
Ni No Kuni is an average JRPG wrapped in a candy coated Miyazaki shell. Artistically it's phenomenal, with the art and music of the game making up for a lot. Gameplay wise, it's a bog standard JRPG with nothing original in it's design. Everything it does has been done better by other games (Pokemon, Dragon Quest, Star Ocean, etc.) and it's only unique in how all of these elements are clumped together.
It basically a Miyazaki movie, if it was a game. If you like Miyazaki movies (like I do), then you already know your going to love this game. But if your not an anime fan, a fan of Miyazaki in general, or a JRPG fan, I really can't think of any reason why I'd suggest this game over something else.
I honestly think the game wouldn't be getting the reviews it's getting if we hadn't gotten jack shit for JRPGs this generation or if it didn't have the hype from the association with Miyazaki. It's pretty good, but it's not the console defining game that some are making it out to be.
It basically a Miyazaki movie, if it was a game. If you like Miyazaki movies (like I do), then you already know your going to love this game. But if your not an anime fan, a fan of Miyazaki in general, or a JRPG fan, I really can't think of any reason why I'd suggest this game over something else.
I honestly think the game wouldn't be getting the reviews it's getting if we hadn't gotten jack shit for JRPGs this generation or if it didn't have the hype from the association with Miyazaki. It's pretty good, but it's not the console defining game that some are making it out to be.
Unfortunately the lack of good JRPGs is true, 360's proven it's the wrong console for it, even though it had some of the best of this gen (Lost Odyssey, Tales of Vesperia), and PS3 has gotten some decent (and good!) ones, but just not enough. Tales of Graces F is good, but not the best of the series save for combat. Eternal Sonata's revised PS3 edition is better than the one on 360, but it's still mediocre at best.
I hope we get some better ones this year. I've heard Tales of Xillia is alright, maybe if it does okay we'll get what is supposedly an amazing sequel localized not long after.
I hope we get some better ones this year. I've heard Tales of Xillia is alright, maybe if it does okay we'll get what is supposedly an amazing sequel localized not long after.
Necronic
Staff member
Since when did we start expecting JRPGs to have original design? I can't think of a genre that innovates less than JRPG's.