Topic: Babble about a video game you are playing (Read 236721 times)

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #1400 on:** January 11, 2009, 05:12:33 PM »

Started playing Iji. Very nicely done. Not sure what else I can say about it.

Misha · « **Reply #1401 on:** January 11, 2009, 05:18:45 PM »

I think the only thing I disliked about that game is in the one section where if [spoiler]you try to keep a truce it gets broken if you so much as brush up against an enemy[/spoiler].

Detonator · « **Reply #1402 on:** January 11, 2009, 05:36:49 PM »

Quote from: MadMAxJr on January 11, 2009, 05:12:33 PM

Started playing Iji. Very nicely done. Not sure what else I can say about it.

It's polite to provide a link when referring to free downloadable games.

I played through it once in Killbot mode and liked it. Maybe I'll finish my playthrough in Nice mode later.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #1403 on:** January 11, 2009, 06:39:31 PM »

I've been hankering for a jRPG with a rapid, frantic battle system lately. So I started up Shadow Hearts: Covenant.

And promptly abandoned it before the first battle even begun. I had forgotten how dumb a lot of it is, especially in the first ten minutes.

Then I hooked my Gamecube back up to my TV and started playing Baten Kaitos Origins instead. BKO, by the way: really pretty awesome. Two-Thirds of your party are great, fun characters, the battle system is deliciously fast-paced, and it still has some of BK1's beautiful pre-rendered backgrounds.

Also, Guillo, one-half of the two-third awesome characters? He/She looks like Peace from Wizards. I think that's pretty awesome.

Norondor · « **Reply #1404 on:** January 12, 2009, 01:57:26 AM »

Quote from: Disposable Ninja on January 11, 2009, 06:39:31 PM

I've been hankering for a jRPG with a rapid, frantic battle system lately. So I started up Shadow Hearts: Covenant.

And promptly abandoned it before the first battle even begun. I had forgotten how dumb a lot of it is, especially in the first ten minutes.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #1405 on:** January 12, 2009, 09:37:54 AM »

Haha I'm precocious!

But seriously, the game opens up with a female German army captain (in 1915) feeling bad for the giant monster that slaughtered most of her subordinates while she just stood there, slack-jawed and doe-eyed.

[spoiler]So, naturally, she turns out to be that monster's mother.[/spoiler]

Norondor · « **Reply #1406 on:** January 12, 2009, 10:20:29 AM »

Clearly you are too dumb to get the Shadow Hearts series.

... which takes some doing.

Koah · « **Reply #1407 on:** January 12, 2009, 10:24:46 AM »

DN demands realism from his JRPGs with floating continents, winged humans, magic cyborgs, invincible bosses and combat that's dependent on a deck of cards.

...

Yeah, I'm no good at this. Maybe I need to take lessons from Doom.

Brentai · « **Reply #1408 on:** January 12, 2009, 11:24:54 AM »

HOW TO BE SARCASTIC

STEP ONE: Have confidence in your ability to be sarcastic. If you are reading this then clearly you have no trouble with this step.
STEP TWO: Turn the target's statement or assumption into a wild strawman. Once you realize that sarcasm is exactly the same as committing a logical fallacy, you'll want to use it in every argument you have.
STEP THREE: Make sure the speaker is aware that you are being sarcastic, either by employing a snide tone, or adding a cutesy emoticon like ;) or nyo~ron. This will ensure that the target of your sarcasm knows that you're actually a gigantic asshole and not a well-meaning idiot.
STEP FOUR: Now that you've finished successfully asking for it, relax and receive your well-earned punch in the face.

Follow these four easy steps repeatedly in every conversation, and you too can alienate friends, coworkers, customers and family members!

Koah · « **Reply #1409 on:** January 12, 2009, 11:31:10 AM »

Where's the step that lets me do it and not feel bad for being a jerk to someone?

Brentai · « **Reply #1410 on:** January 12, 2009, 11:31:49 AM »

STEP FIVE: Be drunk.

Koah · « **Reply #1411 on:** January 12, 2009, 11:33:17 AM »

Oh, that's your solution to everything.

Doom · « **Reply #1412 on:** January 12, 2009, 01:38:41 PM »

Stop giving away my trade secrets you drunken bastard.

Metal Slime · « **Reply #1413 on:** January 12, 2009, 02:15:28 PM »

Quote from: Disposable Ninja on January 11, 2009, 06:39:31 PM

I've been hankering for a jRPG with a rapid, frantic battle system lately. So I started up Shadow Hearts: Covenant.

And promptly abandoned it before the first battle even begun. I had forgotten how dumb a lot of it is, especially in the first ten minutes.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #1414 on:** January 12, 2009, 05:22:23 PM »

Dudes: I own all four games in the series. Covenant itself? I have (almost) soundly beaten that mother fucker into the ground (except for the Pit Fights. I never have the energy for the Pit Fights). I have climbed the Man Tower and was in turn made a Man myself. The Wolf Bout? Red Comet, motherfuckers.

Nevertheless, I will never ever consider [spoiler]that big-chinned fairy, Kato, to be a proper villain, much less THE villain.[/spoiler]

And I wasn't in the mood to deal with his stupid chin.

Brentai · « **Reply #1415 on:** January 12, 2009, 05:28:06 PM »

And I'm not in the mood to deal with your stupid.

...chin.

Brentai · « **Reply #1416 on:** January 12, 2009, 08:25:26 PM »

Flash Doom.

This is not a command to show a board member your tits.

Burrito Al Pastor · « **Reply #1417 on:** January 12, 2009, 08:34:34 PM »

I have a Crazy Internet Friend who's trying to get me to play Everquest 2 via an absurd trial (full access to all current low-level content, and you don't buy the game afterward?), so I was wondering if anybody here has any current (post-Kunark) experience with it.

If you played it at launch or whatever, yes, I know, it was shit. I strongly believe in the importance of reconsidering games after they've been hardcore patched, which is why I still mourn Hellgate.

Brentai · « **Reply #1418 on:** January 12, 2009, 08:38:22 PM »

MMORPGs are unique in their ability to become substantially worse after being overhauled.

Yes I am still bitter about Star Wars Galaxies fuck.

JDigital · « **Reply #1419 on:** January 13, 2009, 12:24:04 AM »

My brother plays EQ2, and says it got much better after launch. It seems they rushed it out to beat World of Warcraft to release, which was a horrible mistake. Everquest 1 players moved in huge numbers to EQ2 and were quickly disappointed, but had been sufficiently dislodged that when World of Warcraft followed they moved there instead.

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