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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #180 on: April 24, 2008, 08:27:00 AM »

I beat Professor Layton.

Best ending ever.

Ah, this Best ending ever reminds me of a puzzle I once heard.

The highlight was when it dawned on me that they gave Layton's car an unusually large roof so that he may wear his tophat inside.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #181 on: April 24, 2008, 02:29:00 PM »

MORE YENS

MORE BLING

MMOOOOORRE
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #182 on: April 24, 2008, 08:33:04 PM »

Rondo of Swords is proving to be a fun time-sink.  I have a few complaints.

The lack of a skill table and stuff is really irksome.  It's hard to know which skills are worth investing them without burning a point on trying them out, and even then, it's hard to know how much a skill will be impacted by subsequent points.  On that same note, it's hard to know which characters will wind up getting worthwhile skills, in the absence of some kind of guide.

They did a fair job diversifying the casters, though in the process (as with many other games) they didn't wind up that balanced.  Ingraine wound up a good sniper with high upkeep, Cotton wound up self-sufficient, with generally poor range and enormous power (and eventually nice PBAoE).  Marie was set apart from other healers by natural MP regen that none of the other casters (that I've tried) had, etc.  Late-game skills may change this.  Not sure yet.

The game might have been balanced around getting a very powerful archer early on, and I kind of missed him.  This put me at a pretty significant disadvantage for much of the early game.

The AI seems pretty inconsistent, possibly related to an inherent "visibility" stat hinted at by some accessories.  I can park a weak archer (Shino) just outside of the movement range of a large group of enemies and they won't advance, so as to force her to retreat.  (This was most noticeably abuseable in the battle in which the objective is to kill a "mounted guard," on some map with a river.  Not sure which mission it was.)

Optimizing use of the smith and card quests seems like a possible source of annoyance, too.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #183 on: April 24, 2008, 09:59:49 PM »




...Too much







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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #184 on: April 25, 2008, 10:59:42 AM »

Lately I've been playing a lot of Rome: Total War. I recommend this game if you're looking for something that will take more than a weekend to complete. There's something inherently great about ordering around rows of stabby legionaries.

You start out with a few units of men. Hastati are the famous stabby legionaries, velites are lightly-armoured spear-throwing troops, triarii are heavy spearmen holding up the rear, and a few archers. Your general is Julius Caesar, whose purpose is to ride around on horseback conquering as much as possible racking up command points before he gets assassinated or pops his clogs of old age. You can't actually train new cavalry, triarii or archers until later on, so try not to actually use any of these in battle.

I'm assuming of course that you're playing as the Romans, which needn't be the case. The greeks get phalanx spearmen, including Spartan hoplites who only seem to beat everything whenever I'm playing against them. Carthage gets elephants. The Egyptians (unlike the Romans) actually get good archers, made doubly good because they can run away real fast - a real advantage when you can shoot from two hundred feet.

There's a reasonable degree of historical accuracy in this game, although I'm not entirely certain the Romans had ninjas or the Gauls (outside of Asterix comics) had magical buff druids. The game is reasonably lengthy if you intend on playing it to completion, although there's a short campaign mode in which you only need to conquer half of Europe. However, the game usually ends before you develop new units like "slightly better cavalry" and "hastati except better".

Summary: It's like Command & Conquer, but more spears and marching.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #185 on: April 25, 2008, 12:43:21 PM »

Summary: It's like Command & Conquer, but more catamites.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #186 on: April 29, 2008, 08:38:10 PM »

Goldrush is FUCKING AWESOME.

:wuv: :8D: :smile: :perfect: :victory: :wheeeee: :attn:

EDIT: Of course there's the downside of every single team being made up of at least 60% medics, but that'll fix itself in a few weeks I guess. On the upside I like how people fall over themselves to heal you now. I'm fully expecting to shatter all my longest life records.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #187 on: April 29, 2008, 09:00:27 PM »

I played Medic before it was cool.

Meanwhile, I'm positive I'm unable to get any of the unlockables. Kinda hard to fill achievements when you're waiting to respawn all the time.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #188 on: May 01, 2008, 03:47:14 AM »

There's nothing like charging the cart while it's a few feet away from the pit, breaking right to incinerate the soldier and demoman to the right to clear that side, crouching on the right side of the cart and torching not one but two spies that attempt to sneak up on you while you're going for the win, and then as the heavy weapons guy opens up on you winning the map by DRAGGING THE CART INTO THE HOLE AFTER YOU.

Unless it's having Mr. Saturn in the server watching you do it. Epic Dogstar Pyro is epic.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #189 on: May 01, 2008, 04:49:53 AM »

The team you were playing against were, without question, absolutely terrible.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #190 on: May 01, 2008, 02:32:08 PM »

Terrible teams can be fun for a sense of absolute domination and invincibility, but it only tends to last a few minutes before you start getting dissatisfied, in my experience. Ran into that all the time when i was playing Pandora Tomorrow, where Hraedon and i would run into about one competent team every week: the rest of the time i would have the Harlem Globetrotters theme on while we lured mercs into eachother's necksnaps.

I'm pretty sure that they ended up patching the game a couple times specifically because of us.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #191 on: May 01, 2008, 04:41:13 PM »

Yeah, I get sick of just shitstomping people all the time too. I do want the balance of the teams to be in my favor, and people who cry about balancing the teams perfectly are idiotic, but just rolling over people is not that great. It's actually worse on defense when you know you're going to shut them out, and it's just going to be a five minute wait until you get to roll over them again in all of ninety seconds.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #192 on: May 01, 2008, 06:18:45 PM »

it is worse when you are the only competent player on a team of retards

not that i would actually know
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #193 on: May 01, 2008, 07:13:03 PM »

A million times worse. It does no good at all to suicidally wipe out the whole defense of a team if you're teammates are incapable of capitalizing on it at all. The team play is the best/worst feature.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #194 on: May 01, 2008, 09:48:13 PM »

Depends on which team game you happen to be playing.  There is a certain thrill to soloing a round of Counter-Strike.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #195 on: May 01, 2008, 09:59:57 PM »

I ordered the Bioshock off of the internets. I should be playing it not too long from now.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #196 on: May 02, 2008, 03:54:07 AM »

Depends on which team game you happen to be playing.  There is a certain thrill to soloing a round of Counter-Strike.
Yes, which is why I was specifically talking abotu Team Fortress 2. You can't solo anything in TF2. I mean, sure, you can kill a bunch of guys, but unless you manage to get by the whole team on a scout and manage to ninja all the CPs on Well or Granary, there's no soloing objectives in any kind of real sense. It's not that the skill ceiling isn't there, it's just that team tactics are, by design, massively more powerful than anything you can do alone.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #197 on: May 02, 2008, 04:02:34 PM »

I'm playing Simon on the 360!

Red!  Red!  .. R ..... ed.

.......

:MENDOZAAAAA:
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #198 on: May 02, 2008, 06:27:28 PM »

MAYOTA'S SPELL?

MATOYA'S SPELL??
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #199 on: May 03, 2008, 06:34:14 PM »

THE ONLY THING BETTER THAN KOOPA TROOPA IS DRY BONES, SON  ::D:
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