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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #900 on: September 22, 2008, 06:18:07 AM »

Multiwinia
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #901 on: September 22, 2008, 06:57:02 AM »

Oh great, now Oblivion is being installed somehow on my computer.  Thanks a lot, douchefags.

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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #902 on: September 22, 2008, 09:13:22 AM »

Dear Pax Economica Dumbheads,

I would advise you to invest in more effective anti-Armored Core defenses. Despite the high cost of installation and training, I believe the long-term costs would be far lower than the current trend of repairing and replacing guns that are literally destroyed in twenty seconds.

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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #903 on: September 22, 2008, 08:10:55 PM »

This isn't any post-apocalyptic Chernobyl I've ever been to.


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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #904 on: September 23, 2008, 04:40:32 PM »

Stubbs the Zombie is a great little game, as long as you have an Nvidia card.

Apparently the Halo engine ages pretty well on newer hardware.  Or the game had insane specs when it first came out.

Zombie dance off against the police?  More minigames like this please!
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #905 on: September 23, 2008, 06:09:49 PM »

Or the game had insane specs when it first came out.

I impulse-bought it off of Steam, haven't gotten around to playing it.  Can't really go wrong for $5.44.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #906 on: September 23, 2008, 06:32:54 PM »

Kirby Super Star Ultra has one little issue that's going to be bugging me the entire time I play, and that is: they fucked with the controls and there doesn't seem to be any way to fuck them back. In the original, B was jump and Y was attack. In Ultra, B is attack, and A and Y are jump. So all my instincts are going to be either sideways or upside-down.

Then again, I imagine most people playing this don't have SNES standard control schemes burned into their thumbs, so this is really only going to be an issue for me.

Sweet, they made a sequel to Superstar? That's the best Kirby game ever. It's actually my favourite snes platform game too.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #907 on: September 23, 2008, 07:29:36 PM »

Stupid wizard. Every time I get into a good area in Nightmare (level 28 woohoo) I get hopelessly trapped by swarming melee buttholes and lose all my damn armor/accessories.

I finally broke down and did the item dupe trick to buy a bunch of elixers of Magic/Vitality/Dexterity/Strength, but it's not going to bring my Plentiful staff of Guardian back.

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Diablo II, I am eyeing you with growing affection.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #908 on: September 23, 2008, 08:16:34 PM »

More Stubbs the Zombie:
Past the farms, now entering the zombie epidemic part of the game.

Dear god, the enemies have some of the BEST lines when you rip off arms.
"I've been disarmed!"
"My favorite arm!"
"My other favorite arm!"
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #909 on: September 23, 2008, 09:45:25 PM »



Decided to pickup Drift City again (after nearly a year of not resuming play), during the week of downtime that S4 League is undergoing. As timing would have it, Drift City: Stage 2 was just released over the weekend, ushering in a host of fuckups, screwups, and muckups.

There are now more unbalanced, unfair items only available by paying cold, hard cash. Auto parts can now break, requiring costly repairs. Other parts have been dropped entirely. That said, more parts (and now, sub-parts) are available now more than ever. Fair racing without enhancement gates is available. A host of new automobiles have been unlocked (including a mmmmmonster truck). The update, as a whole, is positive.

A glitch that momentarily removes the road texture helps pass the time:





And bless the NPCs. Those daffy, laughy NPCs. Those soulful, and doleful, clueless by the bowlful NPCs.








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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #910 on: September 23, 2008, 09:53:12 PM »

I just played Rock Band 2 for 4 hours with 3 friends.  Fuckin' awesome.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #911 on: September 24, 2008, 01:37:03 PM »

Multiwinia

::D:

I like the changes they've made. You can actually control groups of Multiwinians directly, and now they have pathfinding. Multiwinians are your primary combat force now, rather than slaves bred to run the generators while your squads call in airstrikes on everything.

I think I approve of this game.

What's the benefit to formation mode? All I see is that it moves slower and won't dodge grenades.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #912 on: September 24, 2008, 03:29:51 PM »

Formations are traditionally used in RTS games to keep your massive glob of troops from turning into a big line.  More will arrive all at once.  Or it's used to keep units with different speeds from out-pacing eachother.

I don't know if this is the case here, as I haven't played Multiwinia.

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Stupid wizard. Every time I get into a good area in Nightmare (level 28 woohoo) I get hopelessly trapped by swarming melee buttholes and lose all my damn armor/accessories.

I finally broke down and did the item dupe trick to buy a bunch of elixers of Magic/Vitality/Dexterity/Strength, but it's not going to bring my Plentiful staff of Guardian back.

 :sadpanda:

Diablo II, I am eyeing you with growing affection.

First, playing as a Sorc is FUCKING EASY in the late-game if you know what you're doing.  Keep an escape route, pump up your Magic, and read lots of books.  Raising your Strength is a good idea if you don't have Teleport and just can't keep out of melee range, so you can wear armor.  +strength rings or something are necessary for wearing the heavy stuff.  Get Mana Shield and Stone Curse.  Use Fireball a lot- the damage listed in your spellbook is about half what it actually does.

Sorcs are so easy in Diablo I that it spawned the "Rule-Variants" scene when someone thinking up the idea of playing one naked, which wasn't really difficult.  Then, someone else (namely Woody) went a step further and thought up the Beyond Naked Mage.  Cursed items only.  A BNM isn't really difficult either, to be honest, compared to some other Variants.

Second, Guardian is really not that great, even on a staff so it's free.  Its damage is actually determined by the level of your Fire Bolt spell, so the spellbook is usually wrong.  The three big damage spells you want are Fireball, Chain Lightning, and Flash.  The spellbook's damage readout for Flash is also wrong; it does far more, but only use it on monsters below your character on the screen.  Monsters above your character take about a tenth as much.  I should note that in order to use Flash safely against Fire/Lightning immunes, you will need either Stone Curse or a whole lot of AC.

Useless spells are Flame Wave- which does much less damage than the spellbook says, vertical/horizontal Firewalls- they have gaps, and Inferno- again, does less damage.  Blood Star, Bone Spirit and Elemental have accurate damage readouts in your spellbook.  The BS spells are pretty crappy, but Elemental does have one interesting property.  If you target something at the back of a pack of monsters, the Elemental will damage things as it runs through them.  Kindof like Lightning.

Charged Bolt is surprisingly effective at high levels but unreliable against anything but a large group of mobs, which you should just use Chain Lightning against.  Golems are immune to Archmage monsters, and can kill them easily.  However, succubi will see them from all the way across the map and pop them pretty quick.  Make sure your Mana Shield is level 1- it gets a 33% damage reduction at that level, but it goes down quickly if you read more books.

So anyway, a Sorcerer with low AC will need to teleport away from stuff a lot, and use mana shield to soak up damage if he does get hit, and hope not to get stunlocked.  One with high AC will still use mana shield, but will not need to worry *quite* as much about melee.  Especially with a Fast Block shield or Fastest hit recovery.  Also, why are you losing stuff?  In Single Player, you have to load your old game.  In Multiplayer, you can just res in town then go back and get your stuff.  This is actually easiest as a Sorcerer, since they rely the least on equipment.

Finally, you are a giant wuss for duping elixirs.  Giant.  Wuss.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #913 on: September 24, 2008, 10:25:08 PM »

Today's For Answer session:

9:58 - Damn, this White Glint character is pretty zippy.
10:00 - Huh, that was easy. Even the mighty must bow before gattling fire.
10:05 - Oh, so those giant sword forts are only vulnerable on top. The doctor prescribes dual bazookas >:3
10:11 - Another pair of chumps trying to fly circles around me. Not hard to do since I'm running out of energy all the time...
10:12 - Alright! Dual gattling cannons get!
10:18 - Wow, another pilot is requesting my help? Nice, she's top-class. These guys are just future scorch marks.
10:20 - WHAT THE FUCK. This guy literally killed me in TWO HITS. I didn't even see it happen.
10:23 - Okay okay, enough of this Zone of the Enders bullshit. Nobody is that fast in an AC game unless they're cheating.
10:35 - Wow GameFAQs, thanks for nothing. I think that's enough self-hatred for now.

Doesn't help that my housemate went on about how we could partner up and take on the world, but has yet to even look at the game in action. :humpf:
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #914 on: September 24, 2008, 11:57:05 PM »

So my roommate picked up The Force Unleashed for the 360.  It's a lot more enjoyable than the demo if only because the Force Grip mechanics are more refined and I'm not suddenly throwing stormtroopers into the air when I was holding the right analog stick down.

And force lightning-ing rancors into submission is always great.  If only I could do the same to wampas after all the childhood fear they caused me whenever I watched Empire Strikes Back or played Shadows of the Empire.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #915 on: September 25, 2008, 12:00:00 AM »

My sister was bitten by a Wampa once.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #916 on: September 25, 2008, 12:34:45 AM »

Mind you, Wampa bites can be pretty nasty.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #917 on: September 25, 2008, 02:23:34 AM »

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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #918 on: September 25, 2008, 03:45:35 AM »

What's the benefit to formation mode? All I see is that it moves slower and won't dodge grenades.

The game itself is vague about it, but I am pretty sure that formation mode increases the range of their lasers.  Therefore, you should use it defensively, on high ground, and be formed up well before the enemy arrives.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #919 on: September 25, 2008, 06:28:26 PM »

In Castle Crashers, I now have the King's Scepter and the Alien Ray Gun!

It does not shoot. It's just a thwackin stick.
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