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Posts: 4905 (03/30/08 3:15 AM) Phantom King |
"I flew into the wild and fire. I danced and died a thousand times."
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Posts: 1769 (03/30/08 5:15 AM) and my bird can sing too! |
still can't beat the destroyer after disabling(sp?) the 4 true devil lords. the fire devil was the toughest to beat. my flame shields didn't block his
fire attacks at all. and even when i didn't use direct physical attacks on him, his firewall still breaks off after every round and burns everyone.
the destroyer in its eclipse(sp?) mode was impossible to hurt as he keeps casting that attack/spell reflecting thing, and giving my whole party various status problems. i'm forced to continuously(sp?) defend and heal while it's in that mode. too bad i only have 1 good healer, thomas. the other members's intel is too low for their healing and lifedrain spells to heal more than 200+ HP. should have stocked up on more salve3 potions. |
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Posts: 10297 (03/30/08 10:13 PM) Lunitari Mage |
These are the games I got from the kid at work I bought the old PSP from. He was a race fan apparently. I've got Burnout 3: Revenge, Need for Speed Most
Wanted 5-1-0, some ATV game, and Daxter obviously.
I already sold the Family Guy UMD that came with the system, the Black Hawk Down movie, and some extremely bad game I forget the name of. |
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Posts: 2257 (03/30/08 11:43 PM) I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost |
I started Equinox, or maybe I should say restarted because some years ago I cleared the first dungeon and put it away. I'm to Deeso and had to consult
FO's walkthrough in Tori because there were two rooms where I tried pushing on all the blocks trying to accomplish something and in one one of the blocks
moved but it didn't do much, but the problem was I wasn't pushing on the blocks for long enough.
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Posts: 818 (03/31/08 12:41 PM) Lord of Women's Lingerie |
I remember getting up to the dungeon with the water waves in front of the screen and it took me like 30 tries to leap to this one key. So I exit that room and
go to another and there's another key that requires the same type of jump and I said screw it and gave up. The water made it difficult to see in there,
too.
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Posts: 1769 (04/01/08 6:44 AM) and my bird can sing too! |
fooled by randomness: the hidden role of chance in life and the markets
by nassim nicolas taleb for a man who keeps claiming that he's very rational, his prose is anything but dry and de-personalised.smooth, brilliant, and impressively convincing, with a hint of charming stoicism. i wonder if he ever read stanislaw lem. especially "chain of chance".
"How can we jump over our shadows when we no longer have one?How can we
pass out of the century (not to
speak of the millennium)if we do not make up our minds to put an end to it, engaged as we are in an indefinite work of mourning for all the incidents, ideologies and violence which have marked it?" - THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM OR THE COUNTDOWN , Jean Baudrillard. |
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Posts: 818 (04/01/08 12:54 PM) Lord of Women's Lingerie |
Shit, I was trying to find my Equinox cartridge last night and realized I had a bunch of SNES carts that I didn't even remember owning. What the hell is
Brain Lord? Don't think I've ever played that.
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Posts: 2257 (04/01/08 1:49 PM) I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost |
What I played of it, it seemed like Soul Blazer.
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Posts: 10297 (04/02/08 2:53 AM) Lunitari Mage |
Crisis Core is interesting enough.. I like the story, voice acting, and music. The songs are mostly original but there are occasional nostalgia inducing
remixes of FF7 songs. Combat isn't too complicated so far (I heard it gets more strategic as the game progresses) but I did get a Game Over because I
didn't realize how low my HP had dropped. It's all in real time. You switch between attacking, items, or using spells with the left and right triggers
and press the action button to use whatever is highlighted. At the same time, you'll want to keep moving around the combat area, dodging or blocking if
needed.
There's this stupid slot machine gimmick that's totally random and noninteractive. It pops up sometimes and interrupts the action to level you up or give you a temporary boost or whatever. I could do without this. It seems that aside from the main story, you can take on mini-missions to earn items and stuff. For those who aren't familiar with the game, it's a FF7 prequel where you play as Zack. |
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Posts: 10297 (04/02/08 5:38 PM) Lunitari Mage |
Finished the first main mission that takes place in Wutai. You fight through a fort and it's emphasized that the SOLDIER director is watching and the more
enemies you kill the higher he'll rate you. So I got them all. I then fought what seemed to be an optional battle with some elite troops in front of a
shrine to Leviathan. Then there was a boss battle with these giant axe wielding creatures. Nothing too difficult if you actually pay attention.
There's a brief Yuffie cameo. And then another boss battle with an Ifrit that somebody summoned. I spammed Blizzard on it and doged. Then a Sephiroth scene. He's one of the main characters in the prequel from what I've read (though Zack is always the only playable one). Now I'm back at Shinra and I can go on a main mission and I have something optional available, too. This seems like it'll be one of the better games I've played this year. |
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Posts: 2257 (04/02/08 5:54 PM) I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost |
I got 2.8 million on the Metal Slug X machine and finally net #1 on the high score list. Again, probably would have made 3 million, but I died against the
level 3 midboss.
I've made it to the inside of the base in mission 6 on a dollar. |
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Posts: 2257 (04/02/08 9:19 PM) I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost |
I read the Prime: Gross and Disgusting, which actually wasn't that gross or disgusting and in fact was the issue where Prime went from Rogue to Final as he
witnessed Hardcase getting the crap beaten out of him by Dr. Gross and his toadie Duey and realized what a fuck he was being.
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Posts: 2257 (04/02/08 11:17 PM) I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost |
My Xbox came yesterday, and today I finally got around to testing it with Stranger's Wrath.
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Posts: 10297 (04/02/08 11:33 PM) Lunitari Mage |
Watched My Neighbor Totoro. I liked it but I don't feel too strongly about it. I got more out of Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle. I'll check
out Kiki's Delivery Service next.
Finished a bunch of the side missions in Crisis Core. Whenever you're at a save point, you just open the main menu and select missions. It has everything available sorted by type and difficulty. Some are based around getting new materia, some are just random missions from Shinra. You always get some reward at the end. Sometimes when you finish one mission you'll unlock new ones. So far, they mostly consist of extremely small areas with a few battles or a single boss battle. |
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Posts: 10297 (04/03/08 4:16 AM) Lunitari Mage |
Progressed the main storyline of Crisis Core and did more optional missions. The story is actually very interesting at this point and a lot more coherent than
FF7 itself was. You get to see what it's like to be working for Shinra and see how SOLDIER operates. There's whispers about a group called AVALANCHE
but it's not really a big deal at that point in time. I think the quality of the writing (not to mention the visuals) would make it a little jarring to
play Crisis Core and then FF7 proper without a break. I think someone would get a lot more out of the FF7 experience by playing the games in the order they
were released.
I'm really pleased with the battle system. It's super fast and still easy to follow what's going on. The slot machine is really one of the only annoyances. Even that isn't too bad because when it appears, something good happens more often than not. That or nothing. It's never a bad result. Sometimes when it lands on certain things, Zack will have a flashback to a particular conversation or part of a conversation that the player didn't get to see at the time. The side mission implementation is really good, too. I think of this as what taking a break to level up is for a normal RPG, only not as tedious. They're also good for those crazy people rumored to exist.. the ones that take their PlayStation Portable with them and play their games portably. Poor fools. |
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Posts: 224 (04/03/08 3:36 PM) |
I have Crisis Core, but I haven't started it yet. Instead, I started FFCC: Rings of Fate for the DS today instead and played for a good 2 1/2 hours or so,
clearing out the first three dungeons. I even went back to them a second time to get the rare enemy kills. This game is a lot of fun, with a good storyline and
excellent dungeon-crawler like gameplay system. It has its annoying parts, like constantly needing to switch between characters to solve lame ass puzzles, but
otherwise it's pretty addictive to go around collecting stuff, as always.
I still have FF5 Advance to go through, and I started Harmony of Dissonance for like the 4th time now. I already made it to the 2nd castle, which is when I tend to get lost and give up. We'll see if I hang on this time. 21 stages left in 1942! Finally, I finished Batista's book and am almost done Chris Jericho's now. Incredible stuff.
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Posts: 10297 (04/03/08 11:01 PM) Lunitari Mage |
I've gained the ability to fuse different types of materia to create stronger versions or new kinds entirely. I'll supposedly be able to fuse materia
with special items later, too.
The difficulty has been on the low side but combat and storyline continue to be entertaining. It's interesting to see familiar areas (Midgar, a mako reactor, the Shinra building, Wutai, etc.) rendered in real 3D. The effect isn't always as impressive as when they were prerendered but it's neat because it's familiar and nostalgic but doesn't feel like a total retread of the original game. The story has an overall sense of sadness about it because anyone who's played FF7 knows how Zack's story ends. It also makes Sephiroth's fate seem sadder because you see him as a much more human person here. Talking about this game makes me feel like a total FF7 fanboy. It's also making me wish the FF4 3D remake could be on the PSP because Crisis Core looks absolutely stellar for a portable game. |
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Posts: 10297 (04/04/08 2:42 AM) Lunitari Mage |
In this game, Aeris seems kind of ditzy and... a little bonkers from living in the slums. She's afraid of the sky for one thing. If only she had a greater
fear of more realistic dangers, like being stabbed through the back by effeminate men. Then tragedy may have been avoided.
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Posts: 4905 (04/04/08 5:31 AM) Phantom King |
CLOUDBOND007 wrote: Ffff...hahahahaha, seriously? Hahahahaaa. Aeris sucks even more now. YAAAAAAAAY. : D "I flew into the wild and fire. I danced and died a thousand times."
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Posts: 2257 (04/04/08 11:12 PM) I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost |
Testing out the DVD player on the Xbox, I watched a couple more episodes of the 2002 He-Man series. Those two episodes gave me some insight as to why I've
become so enamored with Prime.
I like He-Man, but there are some things I find so pants-on-head retarded about it. Namely, why can't Adam tell his family and friends he's He-Man? You might think it's because Skeletor's always spying on Eternia, but how come he never happen to be spying when Adam and Man-At-Arms are talking about it privately? In one of those episodes I watched tonight, Teela temporarily gains psychic powers thanks to a blood transfusion from the Sorceress, and Man-At-Arms tells Adam not to go near her or else she'll read his mind and find out he's He-Man. And? Now, mosey on over to Prime. It too is about a kid who can turn into a man with near limitless strength (and can also fly). When he does this, he does not become Mr. Perfect Know Everything About Eternia Including Things the Audience Has Never Heard of Before, Like Super Foods That Only Last Five Minutes, and in fact has screwed up like when he slipped to Turbocharge (a sixteen-year-old with superspeed who Prime takes on as his sidekick/partner) about his mother. Kevin doesn't have as many "friends" as Adam does. Really only his mother, his father who already knew about Prime, and Kelly who eventually figured out Kevin and Prime were the same person. Turbocharge doesn't count because he doesn't even know about Kevin Green. Prime also has more interesting conflict. It just occured to me Prime does not have any arch nemesis. First he had Dr. Gross his creator calling him his Frankenstein monster and trying to retake him, then he had General Samuels trying to control him with deceit and putting an electrified dog collar on him, then there was more business with Dr. Gross, then his mother takes him to New York and both their lives are turned upside down and Kevin is having to balance Prime time and being with his mother, and then there's his father's conflicts. The conflicts in He-Man amount to Skeletor devises a plan to attack Grayskull, often in the form of finding some magical relic, Adam turns into He-Man and lays him out. So, while Prime has its stupid moments (Maxi-Man, that Rogue Prime malarky), it's mostly a more realistic and intelligent He-Man.
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Posts: 10297 (04/04/08 11:50 PM) Lunitari Mage |
Ffff...hahahahaha, seriously? Hahahahaaa. Aeris sucks even more now. YAAAAAAAAY.Yeah. She says it's scary. It feels like the sky is "sucking her in" when she looks at it. Zack says someday he'll show her the real sky. "It's not scary at all!". The way Zack says it makes it sound like she's afraid of looking up and seeing the Midgar plates but I think she's afraid of the "real sky". It's funny now for me to imagine Aeris spending all of FF7 looking down at the ground. They changed her name to Aerith. Makes me think of Sylvester the cat when I pronounce it that way. BTW, I think it's the voice acting that makes her seem extra stupid in this game. She meets Zack pretty much the same way she first meets Cloud. I think it's stretching things a little too much to believe they both could have fallen into her church and ended up talking about going on a date. Got to see some more classic areas rendered in 3D. Obviously, the church. The little town in the slums where "this guy are sick", and the park outside Sector 7 where Aeris and Cloud talk. Also the chocobo farm past Kalm. Unlike recent RPG's that can render impressive scenes with the game engine, Crisis Core goes back to using a fair amount of FMV. It looks REALLY good. There was a nice battle between Sephiroth and this other asshole 1st Class with One Winged Angel playing. They have the excuse of fighting in a simulator, but it started to get comical when they both started flying around and shooting fireballs and crap DBZ style. And seriously, everybody starts sprouting wings in this game, one or otherwise. Edit: After an eternity, I finally got to see a new Battlestar Galactica tonight. It was as good as always. The show rarely ever disappoints me. I'm not used to have to wait a week between episodes, though. When I first started, it was on DVD already.
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Posts: 1769 (04/05/08 8:33 AM) and my bird can sing too! |
read the psp slim cost like 700+ local currency. that's about as much as a ps3. nutz.
"How can we jump over our shadows when we no longer have one?How can we
pass out of the century (not to
speak of the millennium)if we do not make up our minds to put an end to it, engaged as we are in an indefinite work of mourning for all the incidents, ideologies and violence which have marked it?" - THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM OR THE COUNTDOWN , Jean Baudrillard. |
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Posts: 1532 (04/05/08 10:26 AM) Behold the many |
I fought the second boss in Stranger's Wrath. I got two Game Overs against him, the first when I miscalculated a jump and got diced in a fan on the
ground, the second when I slipped off a platform and got diced in a different fan on the ground. There's supposed to be some way to capture bosses alive
and get more money for them, but I'm not sure how to do it. The first boss got mauled to death by my fuzzles. I don't know if I was supposed to
headbutt him when he got low on health or something to knock him out and the fuzzles off, then vacuum him up. The second boss was a major pain in the ass,
especially given how ammo works in this game (you can only hold about ten of each animal,and if you run out you have to go find more, electrocute them, then
gather them). His arena has this platform on one side with a switch you can fire the electric animal at to cause it to drop for a few seconds, then come back
into position. So, I led the boss up the left side (if you're looking at the building), used a wall for cover, then when he was on that platform I dropped
him into the fans below.
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Posts: 2257 (04/05/08 7:35 PM) I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost |
Third boss in Stranger's Wrath kicked my butt!
I beat him by finding a safe spot where I was hidden by some fences, then using the Chippunks and spiders (forget the specific name) to take out most of his men (I think there were still two after I took him out) then blasted him with alternating Fuzzles and Zappflies, then when I ran out of Fuzzles switched to those beetles that do good damage. Yeah, I killed him. Then I found a farm. I'm probably going to have to fight a boss here later, because there's this machine that you can activate to cause a giant piston to slam into a plate, which I can imagine being used to kill a boss like those fans. It's actually a decent looking game. It uses bloom through the windows when you're indoors, but when you're outside there's none. There's is a lot of brown though. But there's also reds, realistic looking rocks, blue or purple skies, and lots of plants. And the browns aren't dog shit browns.
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Posts: 2257 (04/05/08 10:41 PM) I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost |
I did a rescue mission in Stranger's Wrath. There was no boss, just a bunch of normal baddies I had to take out. After I rescued him I found these frog-like people screaming and whining that I was going to find their idol, and I did. Going back to the censorship of the Great Mighty Poo song on the Xbox, Stranger's Wrath is rated T and people are cursing every sentence. Mostly it's "bastard" and "ass" and all, but the guy I rescued was going on about some statue everyone thought was cursed, then called those people a "bunch of superstitious little shits." Plot's got me a little intrigued. The Stranger is bounty hunting to get money for some kind of operation he needs to save his life, and after you save that guy and he talks about the cursed statue we pan up it and see it has the Stranger's face. |
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Posts: 17536 (04/05/08 10:56 PM) Frickin' Fred Durst on Stilts |
It was the same way with Ogre Battle 64's dialogue and I think that game was rated T, also.
It's also still amazing that Albert Odyssey got a K-A rating instead of a T considering all the swearing, innuendos, and alcohol references. And whoever rated R-Type Delta an E didn't see the stage with all the blood-spurting enemies, and whoever rated R-Type Final an E didn't see half the game.
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Posts: 2257 (04/06/08 12:37 AM) I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost |
Bagged my first live criminal, an old woman named Jo'Mamma. You have to deplete their stamina gague instead of their life gague, and that knocks them out
for a few seconds and you vacuum them up then. However, they recover shortly and get their entire meter back, and their stamina gague steadily recovers while
you're fighting them. With Jo'Mamma we were standing on opposite towers with an electrified cable between them. There's a switch to turn off the
electricity, but then she'd run over and reactivate it. I blasted the crap out of her with the Zappflies and Stunkz (gas bombs), but then she'd hide
behind a wall to recover. I'd hit that switch to make her come back out, then continue blasting her, then when she got knocked out I had to get across the
chasm before she woke up and turned the power back on. When I finally got to her side I actually knock her out again. This took a few tries, as the first few
times I either had to waste time turning off the power, or I took too long jumping onto the cable and she recovered before I got across the chasm. A couple
times I had to go get more Stunkz before knocking her out.
The area leading to her was a trip through a sewer that was actually quite pretty. It was colored with blues and purples and oranges instead of the usual greens and browns. I forget, did Seabu rent this game before? I remember him commenting on how the ammo insults you, but then again, I swore he rented X-Men Legends but he said he hadn't. |
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Posts: 10297 (04/06/08 12:41 AM) Lunitari Mage |
No, I don't think I ever played that one. I could've seen a video and commented on that but I have no memory of it if that's the case.
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Posts: 4905 (04/06/08 12:49 AM) Phantom King |
Huh. You drink?
"I flew into the wild and fire. I danced and died a thousand times."
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