Game Progress Topic: We did it because we're us!

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Captain Ladd Spencer		#101	[-]
Posts: 2216 (10/24/09 6:50 PM) Behold the many uses of my amazing BIONIC ARM! More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I beat Order of Ecclesia, and the final boss sucked. Dracula didn't even have his usual giant-demon form, he just changes his pattern after you whack off half his health. What is this, Castlevania 4? This was the worst Castlevania I've played since Harmony of Dissonance. While Aria/Dawn of Sorrow and Portrait of Ruin had nothing on Symphony of the Night or Circle of the Moon, they had their moments, but there is nothing I liked about Order of Ecclesia. The level design is even more repetetive than PoR, I don't remember a single piece of music, the plot twist was insulting, and while the bosses were far more inspired than anything else about this game they leaned slightly more toward "irritating" than "challenging" and most of their welcome comes from my just wanting something to break up the tedium of castle exploration. Does Galvatron know what those cats you can pick up throughout the game are for? I know you have to take one back to the little girl, but what about the other four? Last Edited By: Captain Ladd Spencer 10/24/09 6:53 PM. Edited 1 times.
Crawl and 1OOO		#102	[-]
Posts: 15578 (10/24/09 9:02 PM) Administrator More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	My brother and I played through Metal Slug 4 and 5. They have unlimited continues, so it was really just a matter of putting in the 45 minutes. I think Metal Slug 4 is stigmatized as being made by amateurs: It was really made by Playmore as opposed to SNK, I guess? But really, it's not that different from any other Metal Slug. Metal Slug 5 had quite a bit better background graphics, and it might have had more "Slug" vehicles. I kind of think that Metal Slug 2/X has the biggest problem, that it has too many parts where the screen locks, which saps the momentum.
greybob		#103	[-]
Posts: 1241 (10/24/09 9:43 PM) More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	So I finally got around to playing something, and I decided on Mega Man 2. Yeah, it's far from the greatest game ever, but it's still very good, and it's WAY better than everything else I've been playing recently. "People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that is blown into their heads by mistake. " -Winnie the Pooh
CLOUDBOND007		#104	[-]
Posts: 12333 (10/24/09 9:46 PM) Lunitari Mage Moderator More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	It seems weird to me that Mega Man 2 almost always places somewhere around the top 5 best NES games, but whatever. CB007's GPT & Game Review Archive Delicious Low Calorie Blog
greybob		#105	[-]
Posts: 1241 (10/25/09 12:34 AM) More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I've also been trying to get back into Pokemon Yellow, but it's deteriorated into a bunch of wandering around identical buildings and caves, fighting the same kinds of Pokemon. Also, trying to keep a balanced party is time-consuming and taxing. "People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that is blown into their heads by mistake. " -Winnie the Pooh
Bomberguy221		#106	[-]
Posts: 2212 (10/25/09 3:44 AM) Hit and away is my style! More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Castlevania 3 - I was referring to the concept of the halt of life, that is, death, not Death as in the guy with the scythe whom I have yet to meet. I'm too busy fighting goat heads with long necks to get there. If ever there were a video game stage to simulate my personal hell, I think this is it. The heads are incredibly difficult to defeat, my restart locations when I die are not as advanced as I would like (the first one of these things I fight sends me back to the start of the whole stage), and the boss turns out to be a MOBILE one in an area where it is criminally easy to fall off. Speaking of which, there are a LOT of difficult jumps and dangerously-perched staircases in the stage. Throw in enemies that like to camp near the ledges and you've got a really nasty recipe for a stage. This is annoying.
btizubayer		#107	[-]
Posts: 320 (10/25/09 5:16 AM) More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Finally obtained the move thrown at me by Ichiun Kasukabe. turned out to be callled shadow thrust....and now my tally is as high as ever. day 766 moves at 94% last move obtained is called floating boat - an attack second in stance that has a large backstep then a forward lunge with the sword drawn from the left to the front during its short duration. I am using this move in my R2 form....because of the way the attack centers the distance between my character and the (computer) opponent. The added plus to this attack is the optional attack forms following it. If it wasn't for armor pierce connected to the third link in the chain, the floating boat would lose most of its value. Whenever I can find the tools needed, I plan on making some killer shorts for this game.
James FP		#108	[-]
Posts: 3164 (10/25/09 6:41 AM) Schmendrick's Nose Moderator More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I played through Breath of Fire 2 again recently. I used to always say this was my favorite SNES RPG, but I found I'm not as fond of it as I used to be. The encounter rate is far too high, the poor translation is distracting, and while I used to think the battles were pretty tough and needed a lot of strategy to win, I ended up stuck in a party rut at about the 3/4 mark where I'd mostly use the same party and tactics for every fight. I should replay the first one since I know some people liked that one more. Wonder what I'd think of it now... Get out of my cheese, get into my corn!
Ragey0		#109	[-]
Posts: 212 (10/25/09 8:30 AM) More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Turns out I hadn't gotten most of the artifacts in Metroid Prime but merely scanned their hint totems. I was under the impression If I had the name of it in the log books, I had it and thus went only after the ones that showed up as question marks, but whoops, I was missing about half of them! I've got them all now, so I can hopefully move on with the game.
Flying Omelette		#110	[-]
Posts: 20851 (10/25/09 10:41 AM) But you had to have the BIIIIIG salad! More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Crawl and 1OOO wrote: I think Metal Slug 4 is stigmatized as being made by amateurs: It was really made by Playmore as opposed to SNK, I guess? Well, I got that wrong. I guess SNK and Playmore and considered to be the same thing. According to Wikipedia, it was Mega Enterprises, a company that got the rights to some SNK properties when they were briefly out of business, that headed up development of MS4. However, I don't think they were credited (which is why I guessed Playmore). Even as home editions, MS4 seemed a little more spartan than MS5. There's not a huge difference, but at least MS5 keeps track of stuff like what bonuses you got or what POWs you've rescued. www.flyingomelette.com
Crawl and 1OOO		#111	[-]
Posts: 15578 (10/25/09 10:42 AM) Administrator More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	And that was me.
Gray leader rules		#112	[-]
Posts: 155 (10/25/09 11:17 AM) More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Captain Ladd Spencer wrote: Does Galvatron know what those cats you can pick up throughout the game are for? I know you have to take one back to the little girl, but what about the other four? I think they are just for show, they belong to some of the villagers. There is one for the shopkeeper, one for the crazy old lady and the other one belongs to that woman in red. You can get the cats to jump up if you hover the stylus near them. Also there is a glyph that lets you talk to the cats, apparently, but I never found that.
CLOUDBOND007		#113	[-]
Posts: 12333 (10/25/09 3:43 PM) Lunitari Mage Moderator More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Well, it seems that the last dungeon in Bowser's Inside Story is pretty huge. I've defeated one boss so far, but it wasn't anything important, just a robot made of trash. CB007's GPT & Game Review Archive Delicious Low Calorie Blog
CLOUDBOND007		#114	[-]
Posts: 12333 (10/25/09 9:40 PM) Lunitari Mage Moderator More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	There was one of those annoying parts in the game that seemed to have no purpose other than to waste my time. It's like a Mario RPG tradition. You had to put the DS down while nothing happened... literally nothing... for about a solid minute. And listen for an alarm tone to sound, then push a button. Anyway, I was able to take control of Bowser inside the final dungeon... previous parts of it had been with Mario & Luigi. Because Bowser can walk out the front door, he can do whatever he wants. Mario & Luigi are inside him again, and there are convenient magic pipes inside of Bowser that teleport you around the game world. So I now have easy access for all three characters to anywhere I want to go. For this reason, and because I don't want to get owned by an uncharacteristically difficult final boss or bosses (you never know), I'm now reconsidering going after some sidequests. There are some cool challenges available, like fighting harder versions of previous bosses for prizes and money. You can also do stuff like use special attacks like 200 times in a row without missing for prizes. For example, Mario & Luigi kicking a shell back and forth faster and faster and faster. There are also some hidden things I can find and more stat boosting beans and other misc. crap. I kind of feel like I should probably kill some more time considering I spent more than 30 bucks on this.. CB007's GPT & Game Review Archive Delicious Low Calorie Blog
greybob		#115	[-]
Posts: 1241 (10/25/09 10:04 PM) More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I just have Heat Man left out of the Robot Master stages. Yeah, I'm taking my sweet time. "People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that is blown into their heads by mistake. " -Winnie the Pooh
TaroSH		#116	[-]
Posts: 2952 (10/25/09 11:36 PM) I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I read No One Noticed the Cat and when I was done I was half tempted to throw the damn thing across the room. That was the stupidest thing I've read since Legend of Heroes' big reveal. It's by the same author as the Dragonriders of Pern series, and you can tell. The language is flowerly. She tells instead of shows. The names aren't as bad as Dragonflights's F'lar, F'nor, and Flax or whatever the hell their names were but they're still stupid (what the hell kind of name is "Arfo"?) and unnecessarily confusing. Why couldn't she have just named Jamas "James" or Geroge "George" and eased up on my dyslexia? The characters are all either all good (Jamas), all evil (Queen Yasmin), or all personalityless (King Edjick or whatever his name was). The whole ordeal was contrived and the heroes all get everything handed to them on a silver plate, whether it's that Prince Jamas didn't have to figure out Queen Yasmin wanted to kill him and instead some girl tells him everything, then later he's given this maaaaagic ring that detects poison, then another girl who happened to overhear some of the queen's toadies talking about poisoning the prince's clothing, or everyone escaping a room through a trap door in the fireplace that happens to connect to the Queen's chamber, or escaping prison by getting from a bunch of other people who are also sick of the queen, but didn't feel like doing anything until that point. Halfway through the book I was fighting to figure out what the hell was even going on. And the ending was the stupidest thing ever. So, the cat goes into the Evil Queen Yasmin's chamber, scratches her face, she starts sneezing uncontrollably, then keels over dead. Wut.
Flying Omelette		#117	[-]
Posts: 20851 (10/25/09 11:39 PM) But you had to have the BIIIIIG salad! More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	About halfway through the walkthrough for Afralona. Just like with the previous two dungeons, I started with a path that loads you up on keys so (hopefully) I'll never run into a locked door I can't open with this method...It also gets you the Save Spell as early as possible. www.flyingomelette.com
TWEETER911		#118	[-]
Posts: 5121 (10/26/09 6:18 AM) Phantom King More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I started work on my time travel plan. I plan to create massive time paradoxes and destroy you all. Muawhahaha.
CLOUDBOND007		#119	[-]
Posts: 12333 (10/26/09 1:32 PM) Lunitari Mage Moderator More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Getting rich is probably a more fun way to abuse time travel. I mean, collapsing the universe onto yourself and absorbing the energy to become the all powerful ruler of infinite nothingness is fine, too. CB007's GPT & Game Review Archive Delicious Low Calorie Blog
Ragey0		#120	[-]
Posts: 212 (10/26/09 5:19 PM) More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Finished Metroid Prime. Getting all the artifacts just to endure two lacklustre boss fights is not very fun, and I would've preferred the game just saying "there's nothing cool from this point on. Go home," rather than dragging it out for another two hours. C'est la vie. Started Tomba! and got about an hour's worth of gameplay, and about ten thousand deaths. Rescued the six dwarves but I'll still got a dwarf child to retrieve, and I assume to do that I've also got to find a puppy. The game almost rivals Metal Slug Advance in how enemies respawn without any warning, except this time there's collision damage. I'd probably be a bit more upbeat about the game if I wasn't totally clobbered unnecessarily on any screen with extensive vertical scrolling, because otherwise it looks promising. Also started Jurassic Park part 2: The Chaos Continues, and actually finished three missions! Did the first, second and sixth missions (wipe out a raptor infestation, run away from a t-rex and protect the gallimimus respectively); I tried the other missions, but one of them is an awful maze where your only guide is totally unhelpful beeping noise (I can only imagine how much fun a deaf gamer would have on that stage) and another has an invisible timer that boots you back to the beginning of the level after enough time has been spent with no warning at all. The game's not that bad and my complaints are probably just me not being hardcore enough for it, but it'd definitely be appreciated to have a longer range of vision - why dedicate 1/3 of the screen to behind the character if only one stage has enemies approaching from behind?

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