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Felonious Monk
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| Went back to finally finish Divinity: Original Sin and i'm still chipping away at the Phantom Forest. This part is feeling a lot more slog-y than other areas in the game but maybe it's just me. |
you're not playing an unpatched version are you? they rebalanced it earlier this year to raise attack and lower defense on most of the enemies, that helped, but before that I'd have agreed. the phantom forest is decently fun if you beeline over to jahan's quest way at the eastern end but I feel like the game design does not really encourage you to sneak one of your party members past all of the death knights to the eastern waypoint (but do this). |
Hmm, possibly. It's been quite a while since i've applied any patches. I've already finished Jahan's quest (kept dying to those death knights so i figured what the hell, i'll sneak past them and see what else is around). I've also taken out that death lord but haven't found a way into the temple(?) just yet. I'll probably see about going back to dispatch the rest of the death knights or maybe try finishing up Wolgraff's quest (that wizard is a son of a bitch though). |
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Guillotine
Joined: 05 May 2008
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| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2015 8:58 pm |
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| I'm surprised by RE Revelations 2, having a good time. They do a few interesting things with the fake coop system, there's a non-contextual evade that I kinda wanted for a while... and I really appreciate the writing having a lighthearted, campy-ish tone after a long time of stonefaced trash. Of course it's still bad but, let's just say I don't skip cutscenes real fast in this one. No idea whatsoever about what happened in Revelations. |
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Felix
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Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Location: vancouver
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| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2015 9:33 pm |
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| Felonious Monk wrote: |
| Felix wrote: |
| Felonious Monk wrote: |
| Went back to finally finish Divinity: Original Sin and i'm still chipping away at the Phantom Forest. This part is feeling a lot more slog-y than other areas in the game but maybe it's just me. |
you're not playing an unpatched version are you? they rebalanced it earlier this year to raise attack and lower defense on most of the enemies, that helped, but before that I'd have agreed. the phantom forest is decently fun if you beeline over to jahan's quest way at the eastern end but I feel like the game design does not really encourage you to sneak one of your party members past all of the death knights to the eastern waypoint (but do this). |
Hmm, possibly. It's been quite a while since i've applied any patches. I've already finished Jahan's quest (kept dying to those death knights so i figured what the hell, i'll sneak past them and see what else is around). I've also taken out that death lord but haven't found a way into the temple(?) just yet. I'll probably see about going back to dispatch the rest of the death knights or maybe try finishing up Wolgraff's quest (that wizard is a son of a bitch though). |
hmmmm, you might've done something out of order (quite likely and entirely commendable that the game lets you do that, mind you), as I recall the temple automatically opening when I defeated the death knight lord. you're really close to the end though! |
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Raziel
Joined: 21 Jun 2013
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| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2015 9:57 pm |
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| Guillotine wrote: |
| I'm surprised by RE Revelations 2, having a good time. They do a few interesting things with the fake coop system, there's a non-contextual evade that I kinda wanted for a while... and I really appreciate the writing having a lighthearted, campy-ish tone after a long time of stonefaced trash. Of course it's still bad but, let's just say I don't skip cutscenes real fast in this one. No idea whatsoever about what happened in Revelations. |
The campy style, especially Moira's over the top swearing is all due to the localization, pretty much. Played the game with the Japanese voice track and it's much more serious in tone. |
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GrimmSweeper
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 12:07 am |
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| I will almost certainly never have the patience to play BS Infinite from start to finish but what I gather about its ending based on The Internet is that it throws both narrative coherence and the game's pseudo-political themes way out the window in favor of a Christopher Nolan-esque bombardment of "WHOA" and "DEEP" |
the really depressing part is that this totally worked on many people i would otherwise consider intelligent
it's not even Nolan-level, more like M. Night Shyamalan |
The more I wrestle with it, the more I feel like they built the temporal physics of the game around this twist so that it could work. And in a convoluted way it does so long as you don't ask too many questions. The point of infinity is to be the set of all sets and BS:I puts it into a tiny sandbox and says "there, be amazed." |
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The King
Joined: 14 Dec 2010
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 2:37 am |
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Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius
I like it a lot. The first stage is Osaka's Dotonbori, complete with running man, fugu and giant crabs.
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Wall of Beef
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Location: Fart Beach
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 4:00 am |
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Playing through Earthbound for the first time and really really enjoying it. I am taking it very easy on myself because I am an extremely novice JRPG player so I am save-stating often enough to avoid lengthy trips to the hospital and what not. But I am giving myself enough experience to learn how to play better because I am considering this a gateway to some other RPGs i've always wanted to try, or to just become more competent at so I can progress fruther than 1 dungeon (a dragon quest game, a SaGa game).
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Victor
Joined: 07 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 4:08 am |
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Yo man peep that Saga Frontier 2 if you wanna wild out.
Also the iOS port of FF7 has a default menu option to max all characters LVLs and STATs permanently. I feel like this is something.
Also don't play any of these things life is short. |
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Wall of Beef
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 4:24 am |
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Yo man peep that Saga Frontier 2 if you wanna wild out.
Also the iOS port of FF7 has a default menu option to max all characters LVLs and STATs permanently. I feel like this is something.
Also don't play any of these things life is short. |
-SaGa Frontier 2 is one i'd be interested in, yeah. I had started Romancing Saga for PS2 a few years back and felt over my head but it was cool and wanted to continue on with it.
-I have zero interest in FF7. I watched a friend play through that in Jr. High and I don't care to have a refresher.
-Theres like 4-6 RPGs I have interest in and I think my disdain for most Fantasy writing and a lot of artwork associated with RPGs will prevent me from getting too deep.
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Mr. Mechanical
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 5:31 am |
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The Last of Us on Survivor difficulty is really holding my attention way more than I thought it would. Having already completed the game back in February helps, I think, since I know what all is coming up in the next section and such.
But dang it really is a very good sneak-shoot, with lots more emphasis on the sneaking.
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RadRad
Joined: 31 Jul 2013
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 3:06 pm |
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| Wall of Beef wrote: |
| Playing through Earthbound for the first time and really really enjoying it. I am taking it very easy on myself because I am an extremely novice JRPG player so I am save-stating often enough to avoid lengthy trips to the hospital and what not. But I am giving myself enough experience to learn how to play better because I am considering this a gateway to some other RPGs i've always wanted to try, or to just become more competent at so I can progress fruther than 1 dungeon (a dragon quest game, a SaGa game). |
I recommend taking your absolute slowest time with this game!
As someone mention earlier about playing Dragon Quest games in short burst, I think that totally is a great method playing these games.
No need to rush. I took a year to complete Earthbound. Off and on, some times go a month or so without playing it, but it always felt inviting to jump back in. There was no real urgency. Just as your mom cooks you up your favorite food and you take a rest, its a great comfort RPG to lay back and take in at your pace.
Don't work too hard, and don't give up either. Stick with it, no matter how long it takes.
Its like a book. Read a couple of pages, and sometimes chapters if you get real into it, but take it as a break.
A really good coffee break. ;)
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Wall of Beef
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 3:19 pm |
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Yeah that's been my method, smallish 45 min to 90 minute chunks a day or every other day. I'm fighting 5 moles in a desert cave at the moment; theses moles are liars!
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CubaLibre
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Joined: 02 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 3:41 pm |
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| HL1 and 2 have their merits but anyone who claims the gunfeel is one of them is out of their damn mind |
Nah the gunfeel of HL1 (and Opposing Force) is pretty damn good. And I don't mean damn good for its time either.
HL2 was a substantial step down, and actually a major reason why I couldn't get into that game until like a year and a half after it came out. |
I think HL2 is only a mild step down, but that gunfeel in both games is great. The only gun that consistently sucks way worse than all the others is the SMG, which in retrospect is hilarious because COD4, the most HL2-inspired game that took over the FPS world, made every gun into a verson of the HL SMG.
When you're actually playing HL1/2, the solution is to just not use the SMG until you run out of ammo for everything else. If you commit yourself to doing this you'll realize how often you get more ammo and how little you'll actually have to use it. And you'll see the tactical depth of the weapons when you don't have the "kinda works against everything, but sort of lamely" SMG option. Ultimately this is a criticism of the game (just make the SMG better or take it out, jeez) but I promise it will be way more fun this way.
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CubaLibre
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 3:44 pm |
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| SS2 is just a badly designed game, period. I can see why some people like it, because it does some things REALLY well (namely atmosphere), but it's just terrible to play unless you're a masochist. |
Lucky for me atmosphere and mystery can sustain literally an entire game for me so SS2 rules.
And, actually, it's really not that difficult if you play the game as terrified of everything as the game wants you to. I suppose you'd label that tedium. But it reinforces the atmosphere!
Anyway if you scrimp and save by about halfway through the game you're a walking death machine and it doesn't matter much any more.
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CubaLibre
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 3:44 pm |
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| HL2 and anything else Source that's not Dark Messiah, ehhhhh |
Hell yes Dark Messiah.
OK new sb sacred cows that all the rest of the internet doesn't care about: Alpha Protocol, Dark Messiah, ???
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GrimmSweeper
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 3:53 pm |
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| God Hand, obviously. Can't forget the classic. |
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notbov
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 4:44 pm |
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God Hand has plenty of internet cred, dunno what you guys are on about
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Ni Go Zero Ichi
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Rud31
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Ronnoc
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 7:42 pm |
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Toll likes Bullet Witch.
I do not. |
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ArOne
Joined: 16 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 7:57 pm |
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I like the idea of Bullet Witch. Afraid I didn't find it that enjoyable to play.
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CubaLibre
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 9:08 pm |
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The idea that everyone on sb has to like a game to be an sb sacred cow clearly misapprehends the nature of sb sacred cows.
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CubaLibre
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 9:08 pm |
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The only real sb sacred cow is shitting on sb's sacred cows
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notbov
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 9:23 pm |
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I thought we only liked talking about games
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Joined: 09 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 10:03 pm |
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| Also how has no one said Dog Days |
SB hit its head again at the end of the episode and went back to normal
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 10:05 pm |
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been playing dragon quest 5, finally. ds version. i've made a few attempts at starting this game in the past and barely made it any further than the opening boat scene, but for whatever reason this time i've stuck with it. maybe because it's easy to futz around and grind while i'm on the phone at work. i keep playing while i'm at home, though, and it's great in every way! i mean, from the ground up it's clever even with tropey jrpg stuff like compulsively checking bookshelves and giving you a message about how your young hero can't read yet, hinting at the scale of the journey ahead, down to little details like that. i also hadn't foreseen the childhood excursion into a fairy world via stairs of light found in a small town basement — kind of a narnia thing, with cute/smart writing that reminds me of chrono trigger and earthbound a lot more than i would've expected. it feels like a video game thing that is about as profound as video games can be, in some ways. using the jrpg format to show the story of a hero's entire life seems like the sort of thing that renders a lot of other jrpg stories moot and superfluous. even compared to the only other dragon quest i've played to the end, dq8, this one's much more character-driven. but yeah, depending on how long this one is i might be playing it over the course of the following year.
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Vikram Ray
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 10:17 pm |
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| I really need to get back to that one. I played about 10 hours of the DS version and it was one of the most satisfying JRPG experiences I've ever had. the graphics are wonderful, spinning the camera around works perfectly, so much charm and personality. snappy gameplay too, not a lot of waiting around as I recall. |
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Wall of Beef
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| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 1:41 am |
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Yeah thats probably the DQ I should try.
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notbov
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| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 5:28 am |
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Killing Floor 2 got it's first major update after being in Early Access for 4 months with two returning perks, demolitionist and firebug. the firebug has a microwave gun, which literally cooks enemies and has a hilarious puff effect on them, which they do until the explode. speaking of which, they added some fancy PhysX nonsense for the people running Nvidia cards (this is roughly 85-90% of the PC dedicated GPU space) that makes gibs and fluids do physics things and it's some of the silliest, funniest shit I've seen in the name of over the top megaviolence. the game remains the best running-in-circles simulator on the market.
my curiosity got the best of me and I went to Hotlogs to scope out my HotS matchmaker rating and I'm now more than ever convinced that whatever fancy algorithms Blizzard is using to generate this number to describe skill is wrong. my number is either too high or the skill cap of the game is too low.
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Ronnoc
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| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 6:10 am |
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| notbov wrote: |
my curiosity got the best of me and I went to Hotlogs to scope out my HotS matchmaker rating and I'm now more than ever convinced that whatever fancy algorithms Blizzard is using to generate this number to describe skill is wrong. my number is either too high or the skill cap of the game is too low. |
Me and a buddy were playing earlier today, and after losing 5 straight I misclicked and invited a person from the match to play with us. Turns out we were being matched with people 20 levels higher than us! Yay!
Also, you should play with me :( |
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notbov
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| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 2:49 pm |
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are you doing quick match or HL? I will hold onto my HL rank 8 (so far) with my life, but don't give no fucks about some QM
hitting a good Mosh Pit with ETC is like, the greatest feeling ever
edit: my Bnet tag is on the wiki and also the Punishers on the new map are the funniest goddamn thing; after hundreds of games watching mercs lazily hit minions and buildings, it's hilarious watching a Punisher jump over a wall and start getting in everyone's shit
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GodamnMilkman
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| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2015 4:48 am |
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Has anyone looked back at Hearthstone?
50 dollars to run through the 'game'? I don't think this counts as a free to play anymore. Jeebus how hard is it to set up some cards to play against.
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kiken
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| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2015 5:52 am |
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| GrimmSweeper wrote: |
Finished Bioshock Infinite. Fuck the PROTECT THE FOO thing late in the game.
I felt really pissed off at the ending, it didn't feel like they earned the right to twist it upon itself because I never felt any sort of connection to the big bad. As in, what motivated Booker did not coincide with Comstock's motivations. I guess it comes down to whether I believe the sort of philosophy they were driving at and I definitely do not. |
I'm currently playing through this mess (although, I had already watched an LP of it, so I knew the story ahead of time). And I definitely agree about the ending. It always irked me.
Before playing BS Infinite, I played through Alan Wake (actually rather enjoyed this one), Gear of War 3 (it was free to XBL Gold members in July) and got about half-way through Prince of Persia (the pretty cell-shaded one that hands out cheevos like candy).
I will say this, while playing BS Infinite I keep thinking to myself: "..man, I could be playing Vanquish... right now!"
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Ronnoc
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| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2015 6:27 am |
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| I've bought all of the single-player content for Hearthstone because I'm much more interested in CCGs as single player puzzles than grinding out them multiplayers. |
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remote
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| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2015 12:36 pm |
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finally played mario kart 7 and it's pretty fun but it sure ain't sonic kart 2
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Mr. Mechanical
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| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2015 1:37 pm |
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Broke down and used the internet to help me along in Dragon Quest 2. Finally made it to the icy land of Rhone a couple hours ago. Probably going to grind all my characters up to max level before moving on since they're getting close enough. Also buy some mink coats.
Then I'll go after Hargon and save the world once again.
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GrimmSweeper
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| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2015 4:34 pm |
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| kiken wrote: |
| I will say this, while playing BS Infinite I keep thinking to myself: "..man, I could be playing Vanquish... right now!" |
Man, I need to play Vanquish at some point. Got the disc, just not the motivation to fire up the console and stick it in. |
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Ni Go Zero Ichi
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| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2015 5:29 pm |
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You can jet-ski across robot battlefieds. Your meathead AI companions make Starship Troopers references. There's a designated "smoke a cigarette" button.
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Ni Go Zero Ichi
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| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2015 5:30 pm |
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Also it's the only FPS/TPS I know of that seems to accurately capture the feel and design philosophy of a 2D shmup
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