The "Currently Playing" Game Thread-Discuss Your Games, Vent, Give Props, etc.

[ReggieHadoken]

Quick KH: Chain of Memories update. I'm t level 61. 545 HP and 925 CP. I found a 9 card Mega Elixir on Destiny Islands. I thought Vexen would be a good card but that only restores only about a half a bar of HP and for 60 CP, I don't think that's worth it. I'm not quite sure if I'm ready to take on the 4th version of Riku, Axle and the rest of the bosses but I'm gonna give it a try.

Played more than an hour's worth of Super Turbo vs. mode in Capcom Classics Vol. 2. My friend is going to the Ohio fighting game tourney in Columbus on Saturday so I helped him get some time in on the game Thursday night. I'm no king of fighting games but I do really enjoy them. He owned me hard but I did beat him in a few matches, incuded one against Vega, quite possibly his best character. I think I finally understand why ST is praised so highly. A few years ago, I wsn't really found of the game but now I really like it. Not quite sure if It'll replace Hyper Fighting as my fav SFII game but it really is an amazing game.

[Calcal]

Played my friends KH2 data and made my own Gummi ship. Equipped with 3 turrets that shoot 4 lasers each and a slash piece. Mini gummi ships are just a cannon, forgot the name but the description is fires a round and explodes on impact or something close to that. Next time I play it ill see if I can make something better.

Also by accident I didnt know Reflega works for physical attacks. Since it does a strong attack that surrounds you. Dont know if reflect does the same thing but if it does let me know.

[X-Death]

Beat Castlevania: PoR, almost completed the bestiary.

Million: Discovered a new Saint's Row glitch.
Get it here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SX2SUMC2

[Ephidel]

Update DQ8:

I found yet another mini coin I missed - taking my total to 109/110. One more to go...@_@

[ReggieHadoken]

Finally beat Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. The bosses on the 13th floor were annoying. My thumb was kinda aching after I fought Axel. The last boss was just freaking gay. Not really hard but annoyingly gay. I mean, I'm getting shot at by some blasted flower petals. FLOWER PETALS. And some of those attacks, if you don't dodge one in time, you're gonna take hits from the rest of them. The ending was nice. When I found outabout Namine, I was surprised. Gay final boss aside, KH: CoM is one of the best RPGs on the GBA. As for Riku's Rebirth quest... screw it. I have a long date with Wild Arms 2. Plus I need to hop on FFII and FFV sometime.

[SpizyN00dles]

How is Samurai Warriors 2? I love all the Dynasty Warriors games, and have been interested in checking this out but I never thought anyone had played it.

It's better then the first one and I find it pretty fun. If you like DW then this should be good for you :smile:

[Remy Saotome]

Not much lately. The WoW addiction has been getting stronger, leaving less and less time for other games.

I have made some progress on PoR though. Beat the Egyptian chick inside the Sandy Grave painting (Alathea or something like that). 20% done, and preparing to enter that other painting in the upper portion of Great Stairway.

[Shibuya]

Yo im back with a new DEAD OR ALIVE EXTREME 2..
When i first bought the game and watched the intro CG i was like thinking should i grab the lotion or the controller? Anyways turns out it is a pretty decent game....the boob bouncing is retarded....didnt know women can do the tit bouncing men can do!!!! the side quest are fun and the actual volleyball is fun too...its not nothing you play on a daily basis but something you play when you just wanna kick back and enjoy the reggae soundtrack and pretend you at the beach

[P. Gorath]

im in the last dungeon in Devil Summoner. Not too many options as far as demons in the later stages.

[celcius]

Bought Knights of the Night today and lovin it so far

[akumatrunigga]

How is Samurai Warriors 2? I love all the Dynasty Warriors games, and have been interested in checking this out but I never thought anyone had played it.

Actually it is not too bad. It may be worth the 50 bux but it can be tediuos playing as the chicks and doing the shitty save the peasant village missions :lol:. There are way more characters to unlock now and it can really takes a long time to get them all. I played about 50+ hours of unlocking and playing it in chaos mode. It is on xbox live on 360 but i dont know the details about the 360 verision. I did enjoying playing ass Kotaro Fuma and Mushashi Miyamoto.

[Ephidel]

Update DQ 8:

I finally found all 110 mini coins! Alright!

I completed the monster arena already...doesn't appear to be anything left to do in this game.

I'll move and work on Dark Cloud 2 I guess.

[Remy Saotome]

About half done with PoR. Played a lot today.

And I was actually stupid enough to use Sanctuary to collect Red Axe Armor's drop. I wanted that log book as full as possible now, didn't want to wait for the Undead Killer Whip... whenever you do finally get that.

[Sdouble]

Okami is the shit...that is all.

[L.one H.iryu S.aga]

Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Spirit Summoner & Phoenix Wright.

Spirit Summoner has got me on lock now that I've finally got decent cards and the story woke up.

[Lantis]

Finally beat Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. The bosses on the 13th floor were annoying. My thumb was kinda aching after I fought Axel. The last boss was just freaking gay. Not really hard but annoyingly gay. I mean, I'm getting shot at by some blasted flower petals. FLOWER PETALS. And some of those attacks, if you don't dodge one in time, you're gonna take hits from the rest of them. The ending was nice. When I found outabout Namine, I was surprised. Gay final boss aside, KH: CoM is one of the best RPGs on the GBA. As for Riku's Rebirth quest... screw it. I have a long date with Wild Arms 2. Plus I need to hop on FFII and FFV sometime.

In all fair honesty, Riku's Rebirth quest is kinda like playing like Richter in Castlevania: SOTN. It's a lot more straightforward, you basically fight the same bosses, and Riku has some overpowered crap (like the Dark Aura). It almost feels like playing with a SNK boss in a fighting game. The bad thing about Riku is that you pretty much can't do crap with his deck because the game pretty much shuffles it at the beginning of each world and you can't create alternate decks. His last boss encounter is a LOT more annoying than fighting against Marluxia, though.

Still playing through KH 2...wow, I can't believe that at one point they even hinted about Goofy's death. That shit NEVER happens in the average Disney cartoon. KH 2 definetly feels a lot more darker than what it appears to be.

[ReggieHadoken]

Well, Lantis, outside of not being able to create alternate decks, Riku's Rebirth doesn't sound bad. I just may play through it sometime.

Started Final Fantasy V Advance last night. Last time I really played this game was 1999 via FF Anthology. It's great to be able to play this game again with higher quality emulation. I just got my first 6 Jobs. Right now I'm leveling up a Knight, White Mage, Black Mage, and a Monk. I'm gonna work on a Theif next. Gonna be some good stuff to steal from Gilgamesh later on.

Got in some Tekken 5 last night with some buddies. Man, that game is freaking ill. Visually, it looks even better than Tekken 4 and that game was gorgeous. Gameplay wise, this Tekken IMO is the best one. The fighting seems so much more refined. Fang is a broken mofo, though. Dude has so much priority its sick. It didn't feel right when I won using him. I can still rock it with my boy Law, though.

[Ephidel]

I figured out how dark cloud 2 works earlier in this thread - rebuilding is great. I manage to get past the rainbow butterfly already and returned Jurak back to it's normal state in the future. I'm headed to some valley now - but first I need to add a couple more people in my train by completing mandatory side quest.

82% support talk FE8 completion update.

[Dem-Dem]

I have to start okami over because I beat the wind village without getting the other brush strokes I new I should have gone to the capitol or completed the side quest while getting the sacred warriors. Fuck this game bruse strokes don't register at certian angles, the boss fights are simple and I only died once by drowning in 14hrs.


second thought i'll just go fuck around some more I probally just haven't done every thing I could have.

[roninwarrior24]

Still on a FF craze. Still playing 12 ("hammering" everything in my sight. Seriously) and starting Tactics for the umpteenth time. This time, however, I plan not to use any of the special characters not named Ramza (Orlandu, Mustadio, Agrias, etc.). I will, however, steal their equipment before dumping them (I need those knightswords). This is so I see how the game is without Orlandu/Agrias/Beowulf ownage, and I'll be able to finally experience how the job system truly is (hopefully I'll get a Calculator and a Dancer this time). After all these years, this game is still ownage (despite the horrible translation; hopefully, the PSP remake will fix this).

[chaoscntrl77]

Just yesterday I started a new Metroid Prime file on hard mode since I'm getting bored. This makes me anxious for MP3.

[Gasaraki]

Played the demo of Rogue Galaxy, that game is going to be fucking AWESOME. It's by the makers of DQ8, but it has a realtime battle system. Main weapon, sub weapon(can be lots of things, a gun, a kick attack, etc.), jump, various magics, charge attacks, and yes attacks can be dodged by you simply not being in range, none of that bullshit where it hits your from a full screen away.

[Ephidel]

Played the demo of Rogue Galaxy, that game is going to be fucking AWESOME. It's by the makers of DQ8, but it has a realtime battle system. Main weapon, sub weapon(can be lots of things, a gun, a kick attack, etc.), jump, various magics, charge attacks, and yes attacks can be dodged by you simply not being in range, none of that bullshit where it hits your from a full screen away.

my demo came today also...going to try it out when i get off work=:)

[Biggzy]

Rogue Galaxy looks really good. Travis let us know what you think of the demo as well.

AkumaTruNigga: I started playing SW2 today. Its not bad but I think I like DW5 better. The view is really close on your character making it difficult to see everything. But I do like the leveling up of skills, abilities, mounts, etc.

Has anyone played Thrillville? Is it any good/worth getting? Is it similar to Theme Park Rollercoaster?

[Mango91]

How long do you guys think it takes for a game to get from Canada to Arizona?

I won and payed for powerstone 2 a week ago and the guy just shipped it now. I was a little dissapointed, but I'm glad it's on its way.

[Ephidel]

finished the rogue galaxy demo...yeah its just like gasaraki said about the battle system in all. took me no time to learn its features like real-time sequences, main/sub weapons, etc.

looking foward to the game release.

[Lantis]

While I saw my brother playing "Okami", I saw Mrs. Orange perform a Shun Goku Satsu on her kitchen pot. I was like :wtf: :rofl:

[lseelba]

I'm resubscribing to this thread because SRK keeps deleting ALL my subscriptions. I'm playing Wild Arms Alter Code F right now. It is some fun old school RPG shit.

[ManChild]

Metal Gear Solid 3 Subsistence Online......... :wink:

Can't believe I'm just now getting into it. Naturally I'm extremely late, which would definitely explain why I can't figure out how and where the hell some of the online players get their hacks ( invisiblity/ additional characters.. etc ) :confused:

[ReggieHadoken]

Ah, I still need to get Wild Arms ACF. It should have dropped in price by now and it'd be great to play an updated version of the original WA again.

FFV Advance update. Went through the Ship Graveyard last night. Man, that area was annoying. I think having one of my party memebers as a Theif protected me from back attacks and that was one place I did not one get ambushed in. Too many freaking undead fools strutting around the place. I totally forgot about FFV's insanely high random encounter rate. Anyone that thought the original FF had a high encounter rate will change their mind after playing some FFV.

Since I'm a bit a perfectionist, I like to try to have nearly all of my party members learn the abilities of many of the Jobs in the game. Right now, Faris has already learned 6 abilities. Everyone else has either 4 or 5 learned. Renna is the main White Mage because you NEED someone to heal. Bartz is sticking with the Knight Class for a while, Galuf is my Black Mage, and Faris is my Monk.

Gonna get in some Capcom Classics Collectionv vol. 2 after work tonight.

[lseelba]

Ah, I still need to get Wild Arms ACF. It should have dropped in price by now and it'd be great to play an updated version of the original WA again.
(snip)

Yeah I got it at Gamecrazy new for $16. If you have a local Gamecrazy (usually attached to a Hollywood Video), call them up.

Also, if anyone wants a new and sealed Final Fantasy XII, I'm selling for $35 shipped. PM me...I have tons of references on this site, and ebay.

[Mango91]

Yeah I got it at Gamecrazy new for $16. If you have a local Gamecrazy (usually attached to a Hollywood Video), call them up.

Also, if anyone wants a new and sealed Final Fantasy XII, I'm selling for $35 shipped. PM me...I have tons of references on this site, and ebay.

OMG I would be all over that except I only have 100 and I'm gonna be using it for gifts. Fast shipping too lol. I'll see if I have leftovers later.

[RowJoe]

Million - What secondary weapon do you prefer in UC2? I can't seem to decide between the sniper and shock rifles.

[Million]

Energy weapon, I guess you mean? It was all about the Biorifle for me during the end of my time playing that. The cloud can't be rejected so it was guaranteed damage unless you're a juggy with "Unstoppable" activated, and of course there is the 1-shot kill opportunity with the fully charged blob. Then there's the option to control areas with several small blobs, or placing a cloud in a crucial position... It's one of those great weapons in gaming history, where if you continually use it...people begin to call you "cheap". In terms of Explosive, it was always Rockets or Ripjack for me towards the end...occasionally Flak. No Grenade Launcher ever....that weapon was just sorry, imo. Rockets were really the more effective weapon of the explosive set, and Ripjack had headshot opportunity along with the strategic genius potential of proximity mines for an alternate mode.

...such memories...I have to get a new Xbox immediately. I can't stand being away from my baby this long. Unreal franchise....it had me at hello.

--In other gaming news/updates...I checked out Novastorm or Novaracer, whatever it is on Live Arcade. Not good at all. I deleted it already. Also, they should've released the NES version of Contra, rather than the arcade game. NES version has superior control, which of course is probably the most important aspect of a game. You can't really trust the top scores as well there, as with many of those old sidescrolling games...especially shootemup action...you can just stand there and shoot the low-level foot soldier types all day, as they will spawn infinitely.

With all the overtime money, and money I'll most likely get from relatives as my present this year....it's going to be a nice Christmas indeed.

[HeaT]

hey million, there was one xbox game that you were raving about constantly a while ago, you made it to sound like a classic...something about sci fi stuff??? do you know what game i am talking about???

im outi

Roberth

[lseelba]

hey million, there was one xbox game that you were raving about constantly a while ago, you made it to sound like a classic...something about sci fi stuff??? do you know what game i am talking about???

im outi

Roberth

It's Unreal Championship 2. It's only $8 on Amazon. I bought it but I haven't got around to playing it yet.

[Darkstalker]

Playing Company of Heroes due to PS2 being on the fritz.

Not that I'm complaining. CoH is a great game. :)

[#reload]

Played the demo of Rogue Galaxy, that game is going to be fucking AWESOME. It's by the makers of DQ8, but it has a realtime battle system. Main weapon, sub weapon(can be lots of things, a gun, a kick attack, etc.), jump, various magics, charge attacks, and yes attacks can be dodged by you simply not being in range, none of that bullshit where it hits your from a full screen away.

ive been waiting for this game to come out for over a year now...

[ReggieHadoken]

Played Some Midnight Wanderers and Charriot last night on Capcom Classics Collection vol. 2. Man, I love those freaking games. Made the high score lists again but didn't beat my top scores.

FFV Advance. Just beasted on Shiva and now that thing is working for me. I'm so loving this game. It's even better than when I played it in 1999. Well this version is emulated far better so I guess that has something to do with it. Music sounds much clearer, though I can't really hear the drums in "Danger."

[HeaT]

It's Unreal Championship 2. It's only $8 on Amazon. I bought it but I haven't got around to playing it yet.

HAHA i know wtf UC2 is, i just asked him a question about it a couple of posts back...

no this was something that sounded like an adventure game...

im outi

Roberth

[Ephidel]

84% support talk fire emblem 8 update.

Almost there!

[X-Death]

HAHA i know wtf UC2 is, i just asked him a question about it a couple of posts back...

no this was something that sounded like an adventure game...

im outi

Roberth

Phantom Dust?

[lseelba]

It could be Phantom Dust but that is far from being an adventure game. But yeah I did pick up Phantom Dust after Million raved about it.

[HeaT]

Phantom Dust?


that might be it actually, what type of game is Phantom Dust if it is not adventure?

im outi

Roberth

[Superking]

ive been waiting for this game to come out for over a year now...

They're upgrading the US version a lot over the JP one.

[lseelba]

that might be it actually, what type of game is Phantom Dust if it is not adventure?

im outi

Roberth

It is in it's own strange genre. It's like a mashup of a strategy card game (ala Magic) and a third person shooter. It also has kick ass remixes of classical music as its soundtrack.

[Mango91]

I got so confused when my friend told me it was like a card game.

Oh yeah, I think I heard Vivaldi's Spring or something in the light palace.

[FallingEdge]

I saw some gameplay vids for Rogue Galaxy and the game looks sick.

Definately plan to get it now.

[Million]

...I never got to finish Phantom Dust since the Xbox died. But yeah, there was that, and Destroy All Humans. DAH! sounds more like what you may have been asking about. It is a free-roam(GTA-ish, basically) thing with you as an alien wreaking havoc on earth. Part 2 of this just came out recently.

...also, DAH was apparently on the recent backward-compatible list update. Anyway, this, Phantom, and UC2 were the games I've been going on and on...and on about in the past year or 2.

[Mango91]

I hate those who whore out ricochet lasers in that small office place. And what's worse is that they'll be doing it from the other side of the wall -_-

[Korigama]

Beat God of War on Saturday...can't say I liked it anywhere near as much as everyone else seems to (it was okay, but otherwise, meh). Started Devil Summoner and Okami on Christmas.

[WasFemto]

Played the Lost Planet demo at GameCrazy yesterday. My friend was telling me I should by a 360 after seeing me play it.

Now I see VF5 is coming to the 360.


A 360 purchase coming soon.


A sequel to Phantom Dust better be on the 360 dammit.


Can't wait for Blue Dragon as well!

[UnholyKnight]

Final Fantasy III DS

[MrQuotes]

gears of war
castlevania portrait of ruin
guitar hero 2

[Kuprin]

Going to be plaing some Diablo 2, Starcraft, UT2004, maybe CS...oldschool LAN party day! :D

[X-Death]

Bought some games today:

Flipnic (PS2) - Haven't played it yet, but looks sick.
Ultimate Spiderman (PS2) - Seems good, but Peter Parker sounds like a whiny little bitch.
Shadow of the Colossus (PS2) - Overrated, and has major problems. But decent for the price.
Yoshi's Island DS - Better than the first one from what I've seen.

Was going to get FF3 as well but it was sold out everywhere. Luckily amazon.ca had that and the FF12 guide with $15 in savings.

[HeaT]

i got a DS lite like a week ago and been playing meteos and castlevania: dawn of sorrow (im at the last boss)...probably gonna start portrait of run after i beat the dawn of sorrow...

im outi

Roberth

[ReggieHadoken]

FFV Advance. I'm 20+ hours in. Faris just got the HP+ 10% skill from the Monk Job class. I forgot all about that awesome skill. Was one of the reasons I had everyone be a monk at one point or another. I've been keeping Bartz with the Knight class for a while now. He only has one more level up on it before it's mastered. The only classes I'm not really looking forward to taking on is the Bard and the Ranger. Any class that reminds me of Edward from FFIV can't be a good thing.

Anyway, everyone is at level 26 and I found a spot where I can get 1125 EXP whenever I ecounter 5 Mini Dragons. I have Lenna as a Ninja throw a Water Scroll and then Galuf as a Summoner summon Shiva and the fights over. Easy EXP and 3 ABP.

Because of my friend's constant hounding, I've decided to play Castlevania: SOTN again. I haven't played it since 2001 and I never freed Richter to get the real ending. Way I see it, if he was weak enough to be controlled, then he shouldn't have been fighting vampires to begin with. Just send Simon, Trever, Moris or someone else that can do the job right. Probably gonna have to hit up GameFaqs to find what I need to free Richter and play the inverted castle.

[Remy Saotome]

i got a DS lite like a week ago and been playing meteos and castlevania: dawn of sorrow (im at the last boss)...probably gonna start portrait of run after i beat the dawn of sorrow...Which final boss would that be? Dario or Menace? I hope you already got the "bad" ending if you are at Menace, because that's how you unlock Julius Mode. And Julius Mode is tight! Not only is Julius himself cool, but you get to use Yoko and Alucard (yep, that's right!) in it as well.

Hey Reggie... if you already think that poorly of Richter, have you played Portrait of Ruin yet? Because you can fight him in that one (well... sorta), and he is easiest to beat by throwing Cream Pies at him.:rofl: Personally though, I like Richter. Rondo of Blood, his first appearance, was quite good, and he is also playable in PoR with Maria as his tag partner, and that is quite fun as well. And he's playable in SotN, too, which is also a very good CV game.

[HeartNana]

Right now i'm playing some Shikigami no Shiro 2, or Castle Shikigami as its known in the states. Such an awesome game.

Trying to beat it on one continue with both Sayo and Niigi. Its REALLY hard with Sayo. A bit easier with Niigi cause she can absorb sooo much and shut down the later bosses in the game real easily cept for Yukari, but thats what bombs are for. I just get hit by too much random stuff still. ^_^;

[Lantis]

Because of my friend's constant hounding, I've decided to play Castlevania: SOTN again. I haven't played it since 2001 and I never freed Richter to get the real ending. Way I see it, if he was weak enough to be controlled, then he shouldn't have been fighting vampires to begin with. Just send Simon, Trever, Moris or someone else that can do the job right. Probably gonna have to hit up GameFaqs to find what I need to free Richter and play the inverted castle.

:wtf: Huh? You never exorcised Richter? You probably missed out on half the fun of SOTN....

Actually, what you need to "free Richter" is to have the Gold and Silver Ring (one of those rings you can obtain after meeting Maria at the end of the spiked hallway in the Royal Chapel, I think the other ring you can obtain after defeating the Succubus). If you see the description of both items, one of them says "Wear...Clock" and the other says "in...Tower" which combined should say "Wear in Clock Tower". Of course, that doesn't mean you should go to the ACTUAL Clock Tower scene, you have to go to the big clock that's in the middle of Marble Gallery while wearing both rings.

When you do, the clock will automatically mark 6 o'clock and the floor will open up. Drop down and you will find a elevator. This will take you to a hidden chamber where Maria will give you the Holy Glasses. Wear these while fighting Richter and you will see a floating green orb above his head. Attack that orb to break it and free Richter.

I'm a walking FAQ machine. :wgrin:

[HeaT]

Which final boss would that be? Dario or Menace? I hope you already got the "bad" ending if you are at Menace, because that's how you unlock Julius Mode. And Julius Mode is tight! Not only is Julius himself cool, but you get to use Yoko and Alucard (yep, that's right!) in it as well.


im not sure what his name is, i just beat him yesterday, but he was like 2-3 times the screen size and he had 3 parts to him, stomach when he is bent over, face, and knee...

ya i got julius mode, that shit is tight i did get Yoko, but how do you get alucard?

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Roberth

[Geese Pants]

im not sure what his name is, i just beat him yesterday, but he was like 2-3 times the screen size and he had 3 parts to him, stomach when he is bent over, face, and knee...

ya i got julius mode, that shit is tight i did get Yoko, but how do you get alucard?

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Roberth

You have to find Alucard........it's the same place where Soma runs into Alucard.
Just can't think of the name of the place ATM.

Edit: You have to find him in the Demon Guest House. He'll be in the same room where Soma received Mina's Talisman from.

[Ephidel]

mgs portable ops all day

[#reload]

i just got cooking mama... omg this has got to be the worst piece of shit i've ever played =(

[Biggzy]

Just played through 30 minutes of Thrillville. What a piece of shit that game is. It looks like it should be for PS1, the game is so damn blurry I had to stop playing. Definitely re-shrinking and returning.

[lseelba]

mgs portable ops all day

What does the crown by your name mean?

[Geese Pants]

What does the crown by your name mean?

That looks like a trophy next to his name............which means he's the champ of a game on SRK Arcade. The link is in the same bar as the User CP, Rules, Members list, etc......



I like Shaolin Monks. I want to unlcock SubZero and Scorpion ASAP.

However.........I hate the character change of this game from the MK series. I don't recall Kung Lao being jealous of Liu Kang, or that Liu Kang is that much of a moron. It's like Midway decided to take a huge shit all over Tobias....

[#reload]

well since i'm nearing the end of Valkyrie Profile Lenneth (just got to Chapter 7 and I probably will just skip chapter 8 and go straight to the A ending), I started a new game in Valkyrie Profile Silmeria... first expressions? one of the best games i have ever played...

[lseelba]

That looks like a trophy next to his name............which means he's the champ of a game on SRK Arcade. The link is in the same bar as the User CP, Rules, Members list, etc......





Thanks. I didn't realize SRK even had an arcade anymore.

[KidZero]

Just picked up MGS: Portable Ops. Awesome game... :tup:

[Ephidel]

Just picked up MGS: Portable Ops. Awesome game... :tup:

see you online lol!

anyway, i'm on the claymore hospital mission in this game - my tech unit made me a mine detector so thank god...!

[The Damned]

Hmm...I haven't posted in this thread in quite a while.

Let's see.

Even though school has temporarily ended for me, due to needing to badly clean my room and my part-time job, I still haven't much time for games.

However, the FFTA sequel and FFT re-release thread sparked an interest in FFTA again, and, after finally realizing that my Gamecube was in the closet, I've been playing that since I don't feel like wasting the batteries of my rarely played Game Boy Advance. I must admit that the game's story is deeper than I thought though I must also admit that the game is easier than FFT (eventual PCs like Orlandu aside), if only because of idiotically playable Assassins, and that I feel still at least somewhat bitter over the deception of a direct FFT sequel (at least in name).

Anyway, since my Gamecube is up, I've decided that I'm at least going to try to unlock something in the Sonic Mega Collection or finally play a substantial part of Metroid Prime.

Due to the Metroid franchise still creeping me out, which is made infinitely worse through the first-person perspective, I've been trying my hand at the Sonic Mega Collection again, and, damn, Sonic 3 has been sodomizing me in wholly improper ways and without lube.

(Before I go completely that, I have to ask the following question: Is John Woo still going to supposedly direct that Metroid movie? I've heard nothing about it.)

I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate the fucking Marble Garden Zone.[/Kefka] (And that's saying something considering that I hate underwater stages and Hydrocity was right before this one.)

And I've pretty much been getting owned in every zone, all three of them, in this game compared to the others, though I can tell that the difficulty in this one is, overall, more reasonable than the very first Sonic the Hedgehog game.

But, and I fucking swear this, if I get more 100 rings knocked out of me by fake spikes with cannons one more damned time.... (It took me forever to "remember", if I ever knew, that you could jump on the damned things.)

P.S. Knuckles is an asshole.

P.P.S. Ice Cap, Sandpolis (in S&K), and whatever the last zone in this game is are probably going to own the living bejeebus out of me too, especially since you don't keep all your extra lives from your continues.

[Calcal]

see you online lol!

anyway, i'm on the claymore hospital mission in this game - my tech unit made me a mine detector so thank god...!


In that area are the doctors inside the hosptial immune to tranquilizer darts? I shot one and they started screaming.

Also Im up for any matches except I havent played any online yet. And is it possible to trade online or just fight? Cause I have too many soldiers someone else could probably use.

[Super Warrior]

Right now on PS2: I'm playing Marvel Ultimate Alliance.

And SF: Alpha Anthology with my custom arcade stick. Today i played through SFAlpha1, but most of the time its Alpha 3 Upper.

[HeartNana]

I managed to find Shikigami no Shiro 3 for the PC at a used store. I've been playing that. Its a lot harder than SnoS2 because they realized how good Niigi was against a lot of the bosses and in the stage, what with the cat shield, so they made Nagino NOT ultra-powerful by making more stuff that she cant absorb with bosses and more sideways/backwards bullets and whatnot. Still awesome and it just takes that much MORE skill, but it doesnt make my life any easier, haha. At least im not popping money into the machine for each credit, haha.

[Ephidel]

In that area are the doctors inside the hosptial immune to tranquilizer darts? I shot one and they started screaming.

Also Im up for any matches except I havent played any online yet. And is it possible to trade online or just fight? Cause I have too many soldiers someone else could probably use.

sorry i wouldn't know because i got all the mines before i even saw one

you can fight online and win soldiers from other people.

i think you can trade online also.

[The Damned]

So I beat Sonic 3 with the default Sonic and Tales option, and, as I thought, I didn't get all of the Emeralds; I only obtained the first three emeralds, and those were all in the first zone. I also was correct in realizing that Launch Base Zone would kick my ass, though it was still easier than I thought, especially the "last boss" fight and its kickass music; Ice Cap was also a lot easier than I remember, despite not remembering those stupid crushing hazards.

Carnival Night was a lot of fun, especially compared to Marble Garden, where I almost ran out of time in both Acts--the only other instance was in Carnival Night Act 2 because it's so freaking long and has those stupid yet annoying bumpers.

Anyway, I don't think I'm unlocked anything, so I'm going to try with solo Tails so that I can see if I can get more Emeralds. Also, I'm interested in solo Tails because it supposedly next to impossible to beat Marble Garden Robotnik along, though I vaguely remember doing so before.

[Ephidel]

^sho 2: I remember that bumper trap in Carnival Night Zone 2. It got so annoying to the point where it drove me into insanity. I remember trying everything ie. water shield, tails, spin dashing, EVERYTHING! I can't bear to even think how many times I tried only to have the timer kill me...

The last boss on Sonic 3 can actually "hurt" Super Sonic, was that "intended"? lol

Good luck with Tails solo...Marble Garden Robotnik with Tails equal a lot of lost lives.

[Remy Saotome]

Pfft.... You guys must be high. I can beat that boss with Tails no problem. Then again, it may help that I've beaten that game as all 3 characters about 20 times or so. Goddamn OG Sonic ruled...

ninja edit: Yes, I'm pretty sure that those missiles are supposed to cause Super Sonic to recoil, since the entire "difficulty" of that fight is running out of rings, and that is an added delay tactic.

[Akutabi Gamma]

Disc 4 of Final Fantasy 9; gonna finish the sidequests before leveling up at Memoria.

[Million]

What ever happened to Philosoma? A great video of this was on the demo disc when I got playstation back then(fall/late summer95), but I never saw the game anywhere for sale....not even for rent.

I found a vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5i-2zOm-r8 Of course that was all pre-rendered, but damn that looked AMAZING back then. I really wanted to play that.

[celcius]

72 hrs on Oblivion now...finished the mages guild sidequest last night and I'm running out of things to do. I've got nearly 100k gold, so I guess I'll buy a house today.

[ReggieHadoken]

Philosoma? Oh that game was ill! One of the best early titles on the PSone and one of the best SHMUPs on the system.

Sonic 3. Carnival Night Zone was fun but Act 2 was especially annoying because of how long it was. I met my death in that act because of time more than anything else. Anyone else find it funny that Super Tails is more broken than Super Sonic & Hyper Knuckles? I haven't actually played as Super Tails but I'd heard of how broken he was in this very thread. I'm still trying to get all 14 Emeralds in Sonic 3 and Knuckles.

Final Fantasy V Advance. Exdeath has appeared! Man, I love his theme. IMO he's got one of the best themes of any FF boss, Golbez includeded. I finally got the Samurai, Dragoon, and the Chemist Jobs. Don't know much about the Chemist but I am gonna be all over the Samurai and Dragoon Jobs.

Lantis, thanks for the info on Castlevania: SOTN.

Remy, what you said about Richter in PoR only makes me believe that he is one Belmont that shouldn't have been born.

[Ephidel]

^Remy: nah not doomsday zone - that thing with the hands at the end of Sonic 3 by itself. It picks you up high in the air and slams you to the ground hard. I was Super Sonic and I lost all my rings - I'm like "huh" lol...

They should of stuck with the old Sonic 2 special stages...that 3D stuff is intense.

[Gasaraki]

Sonic 3. Carnival Night Zone was fun but Act 2 was especially annoying because of how long it was. I met my death in that act because of time more than anything else. Anyone else find it funny that Super Tails is more broken than Super Sonic & Hyper Knuckles? I haven't actually played as Super Tails but I'd heard of how broken he was in this very thread. I'm still trying to get all 14 Emeralds in Sonic 3 and Knuckles.

Not just Super Sonic, but even more broken than Hyper Sonic.

Which btw, in case you don't know, for Knux and Sonic, Super=7 Chaos emeralds, Hyper=7 chaos and 7 super emeralds.

[Ephidel]

Not just Super Sonic, but even more broken than Hyper Sonic.

Which btw, in case you don't know, for Knux and Sonic, Super=7 Chaos emeralds, Hyper=7 chaos and 7 super emeralds.

too bad they made hyper knuckles low tier...he had the best paths in the game.

[The Damned]

Good luck with Tails solo...Marble Garden Robotnik with Tails equal a lot of lost lives.

Actually, I only died thrice or so and that only because I forgot that you needed to use the A button to keeping flying. Otherwise, you get "tired" and just fall, meaning that you reset in the middle of the screen and pretty much get raped no matter what direction you come from.

Other than that, it was only matter of finding out how not to hit the flame and then a waiting came until he came horizontal enough.

Solo Tails has been absurdly easy stage-wise, but all the Robotniks outside of the first--Flame Shield rapes him regardless--have been at least slightly tougher than with Sonic; the Carnival Night boss is particularly annoying because you can't make the "jump shield" like Sonic and otherwise can't take advantage of a shield. I died to time out, and then still had to take three minutes trying to jump the damn thing to death; it should be noted that this took longer than Marble Garden Robotnik.

That said, getting the Emeralds have been easy too...for some reason; I got four in the first zone alone. I have six and have currently saved at the Launch Base since I tired of playing last night and didn't want to play straight through.

(I think I need to replay my Sonic and Tails game since I didn't save in the Launch Base zone, unfortunately. It's troublesome.)

[Ephidel]

^sho 2: I didn't have to much trouble with Carnival Night Robotnik, but I struggled against act 1 mini boss.

I went back to my Sonic Mega Collection and played Launch Base over...I forgot about the music on this stage - it sounds tight. I hate every enemy here though seriously...Knuckles act 2 is INSANE! Hell, Knuckles act 1 mini boss(es) are INSANE!

Anyway, I'm going to play Hydrocity Zone right now...I love Zone 2 even more.

[Million]

I finally watched the Saint's Row Buggy musical vid( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l_YN-yRCVY&mode=related&search= )...great stuff. I think this game has some of the most hilarious glitches of all time...like what the hell is this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RhjxjoOWjc&mode=related&search= I have to get into playing that again...

Small Arms--I'd go out on a limb here and say that brown robot that looks kinda like a chicken...it's gotta be the top tier or at least part of it. Secondary mode of fire on his weapon is a homing missile with hellified power. "Zoe" is another good one...her gun can fire seemingly faster than anything else in the game, and the secondary mode is a beam.

Assault Heroes is next up for me...

oh man... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B139z7oiMuY&mode=related&search= :rofl: Priceless. "da Row" strikes again. I'd thank the devs personally for making such a buggy game...the weird occurences actually add to the game's appeal. Sure it's unintentional comedy, but it's still quite entertaining to me.

[Kuenai]

MGS: portable ops is awesome, but I'm finding more fun in Gitaroo Man Lives! I loved it for the PS2, now I'm liking it even more with the nub on the PSP. GTA: Vice City Stories is getting over 30 hours from me now, too.

[chaoscntrl77]

Currently playing Zelda: Twilight Princess. I still feel ambivalent towards the zora armor; In a way it looks cool on link, but in another way it looks pretty goofy.

[Ephidel]

I did Hydrocity Zone last night - man what fun that was...I miss playing these old Sonic zones. I played Sonic 2 vs. battle with my sister too...I still can't be defeated in this lol.

I think I'm going to do the Flying Battery zone next. :)

[The Damned]

I went back to my Sonic Mega Collection and played Launch Base over...I forgot about the music on this stage - it sounds tight. I hate every enemy here though seriously...

Actually, the only hard part about the Carnival Night mini-boss after I remembered how to fight it was that I also remembered, through recent empirical data, that you can be instantly killed if you get caught between the top and the floor that its destroying; I also learned through in empirical evidence yesterday that you can be instantly crushed if you somehow manage to get caught between a falling item box and floor with Tails.

Speaking of the stupid Launch Base zone, dear death, Act 2 of that zone was such bullshit last night for me with solo Tails. I actually died since the damned game doesn't apparently save extra lives (like it's supposed to?), so all 25 of my lives became just 3 when I started over and got the seventh and last emerald (not that it does shit for Tails in Sonic 3). (I find it odd that the seventh emerald was easier than the fourth given that I finally, and I don't think I'd ever realized this before, realized that you could pretty much turn all but the straight line balls and the four set of balls into coins in the seventh and final stage.)

Gah. I got so pissed off last night even though I finished the game again.

I'm probably going to finish my Sonic and Tails game again since its only saved at Ice Cap, which means that I have 4 more opportunities to find Special Stages; due to the fact that I fucked up the seventh stage five times before beating its ass, I remembered the two special stages in the Launch Base zone Act 1 that are relatively early on, so I just need to find two in the Ice Cap zone and not fuck up.

I might try starting Metriod Prime again (and actually saving this time) as well as trying Sonic and Knuckles alone--I'm pretty sure that you have unlock Sonic 3 and Knuckles.

However, I really have to clean my damned room. :sweat:

P.S. Hydrocity Act 2's beginning is still a pain in the ass for me because for some reason it's easy for me to "roll stall" if I just try to press down so that I can charge up a ramp. Oh, and I similarly realized that Hydrocity is the only stage where you can instantly die if you fall wrong (due to the blowfish and the spikes on the left hand side of the beginning); that's kind of fucked up, but whatever--I hate underwater stages.

Icy EDIT: Also, speaking of Ice Cap, for some reason, it has the only mini-boss which Tails has a slightly easier time against than Sonic because it's only mini-boss where your Tails (pun not intended) are actually useful.

[Sdouble]

Dig Dug on xbox live arcade...god damn how am i ever going to get the achievement for clearing a whole board of dirt?? shit is mad hard.
Oblivion owns me...God it is so beastly. UMK3 is fun on live too.

Suprisingly i'm not as hooked on Gears of War as I thought I would be...i think it's because i'm a oblivion head...i mean i played morrowind for about 500 hours...seriously.

[Mizuki]

Tsukihime man...

[Ephidel]

^sho 2: For some reason I remembered how to do all the 3D special stages from earlier on so by the time I finished Hydrocity City zone 2 I was already super sonic. I played Tails solo in Ice Cap zone one and noticed a lot of hidden walls with Giant Rings (3D special stages). One of them appears extremely difficult to reach for Sonic by himself.

[Million]

Dig Dug's "clear the whole board" acheivement is bullshit. I eventually gave up on that. Actually, I haven't played the game since then....I overestimated how strong the nostalgia factor would be there. At least I got some acheivements and a Pooka gamerpic out of it.

I'd love to see beatemup style games make a comeback...but no one in the industry seems to care about that genre anymore. There was Viewtiful Joe, but the future of that franchise is pretty much dead at this point....and there was Godhand recently, which looks great(but happens to be on the system I've boycotted all this time)...but that's about it. Everything else is FPS, sports, or *yawn*rpg.

[Gasaraki]

I think I'm going to do the Flying Battery zone next. :)

That stage has some great music.

[Ephidel]

That stage has some great music.

yeah I Iove the music on that stage...especially act 2.

[Remy Saotome]

That stage has some great music.Most of Sonic 2 and Sonic 3&K does. Seriously, I can only think of about 4 tracks between the two games that I don't like.

Dammit you guys just may keep me off of WoW for a few days while I play some OG Sonic.

[The Damned]

^sho 2: For some reason I remembered how to do all the 3D special stages from earlier on so by the time I finished Hydrocity City zone 2 I was already super sonic. I played Tails solo in Ice Cap zone one and noticed a lot of hidden walls with Giant Rings (3D special stages). One of them appears extremely difficult to reach for Sonic by himself.

Ice Cap Zone One? I only found one, which I vaguely remembered knowing about when I used Gamefaqs to find the three I found in the zone; I never knew about the underwater one in Act 2, but that's because I never took the lower ground.

I don't remember where most of the Hydrocity ones are, though. I think I only ever knew where one was to begin with, and that I already forgot about despite finding it again on Saturday.

I tried Sonic and Knuckles again, and, as expected, I am entirely rusty. All I remember is vaguely how to kill all the enemies in Mushroom hill and getting out of the vine trap. Other than that, I know nothing. Nothing!


...Did you change name again? I could have sworn that you had changed it from TRAVIS a few weeks or so before, but that may have just been a hallucination.

[Ephidel]

^sho 2: yeah in Ice Cap zone 1 there's 2 3D special stages early on. One near the first enemy you see and the other on this slide that requires a perfect jump to the right. Hydrocity has a lot too, most towards the end of act 1 and 2.

What is it about Mushroom Hill you don't understand? I thought it was easy...

Yeah I'm "that" travis. I just got it change today = :)

[ReggieHadoken]

Ah, all this talk about OG Sonic brings a nostalgic smile to my face. Sounds like some of you have OG Sonic fever. And yes, Flying Battery Zone music is just too dope for words. The Damned you playing Sonic Mega Collection on GameCube? If you want to keep all your lives, I recommend Sonic Mega Collection Plus on PS2 or Xbox you can save in all of the games on there and at any point in a stage you want. :wgrin: Although I'm sure some purists will cry foul at this, as someone who played the OG Sonics when they came out, you won't hear me knocking the easy save feature in SMC+:rofl:

Started Castlevania: SOTN from scratch after having not played it since 2001. Gotta say that it is nice to experience it again. The music, the graphics, the gameplay, everything about this game was still tight. I just now found out you can do spells in this game, via SF motions. I found this out when I accidentally did the Hellfire spell, killing an enemy that was twice the size of Alucard. Wish I'd known that years ago. I'm at level 9. Haven't faught the Doppleganger yet but it shouldn't be too difficult, especially with the Clock assist.

Final Fantasy V Advance. I'm in Galuf's home world. Faught Gilgamesh, which lead to one of my fav video game songs "Clash on The Big Bridge." Even better, I can listen to the track whenever I want when I select him in the Bestiary. I'm getting tired of fighting groups of enemies and only getting 1 APB after battles. That crap is annoying. I wanted to catch some monsters with the Beastmaster but enemies have to be very close to death in order for you to catch them. Ugh. I wonder if its even worth the trouble.

[The Damned]

^sho 2: yeah in Ice Cap zone 1 there's 2 3D special stages early on. One near the first enemy you see and the other on this slide that requires a perfect jump to the right. Hydrocity has a lot too, most towards the end of act 1 and 2.

What is it about Mushroom Hill you don't understand? I thought it was easy...

Yeah I'm "that" travis. I just got it change today = :)

Oh, then there really is another one at beginning? I thought I liked glitched out or something, especially since I did manage to somehow auto-kill myself in that same area by going off-screen. :bluu:

As for Hydrocity, I hate underwater stages since I usually have to focus on not drowning. :bluu:

As for Mushroom Hill, it's not that I don't really understand it, it's that I've forgotten about everything and acting like the clumsy dumbass I am. :bluu:

Also, about the name change, I realized it was you because of the avatar; I meant to ask if you had changed your name before a few weeks ago and then went back to TRAVIS before going to this name. Nothing really important:


ReggieHadoken: Yay. It's the Gamecube version, hence the constant nagging myself about Metroid Prime.

Speaking of Gamecube, I still been playing Smash Bros.: Melee, and have been cycling between manual Handicapped versus matches and Adventure on Hard or Very Hard. Nothing very important happened, except that Luigi KO'ed out someone with his taunt for what may have been the first time ever. I swear, CPU Luigi is so ridiculous.

Oh, and since you're speaking about it, I have to say that I never finished Castlevania: SOTN either. Maybe when I first up my Playstation 2 again, I'll do that after I finally get around to playing Kingdom Hearts 2.

[Ephidel]

^sho 2: yeah there's two but you shouldn't concern yourself with the perfect leap one - it's that HARD to reach without going down the icy slide not to mention you only get one crack at it.

I usually succeed in water levels EXCEPT in Sonic 1 - Sandopolis Act 2 is a nightmare and never should of been thought of.

The only thing I hate about MH are those dragonfly things.

And I've always been travis til' this day ^_^

[The Damned]

*snip*

And I've always been travis til' this day ^_^

Ah. Okay. Hallucination it was then. Much better.

Anyway, yeah, I'm completely dreading Sandpolis, which is perhaps why I didn't even attempt to play through S&K yet. Well, that and you can't save...and I haven't decided if I'm going to go with Sonic or Knuckles yet.

(And, yeah, the Labrinyth Zone was a total bitch. The difficulty after the first zone in Sonic 1 went up almost as quickly as the slow-down. I still have "nightmares" about the Scrap Brain zone.)

[Ephidel]

^sho 2: I just have problems with every enemy in SandopoIis ( like Launch Base ) - the ghost on act 2 are fucking absurd. I lose several lives there not to mention Robotnik is OMFG! I hate that place...

l remember how time use to kill me on the "Labrinyth Slide" in act 3 because I didn't know what to do!

Scrap Brain act 3 is INSANE! The difficulty is mad high and I think you drown faster too!

[H-F Blade]

Akumajo Dracula X: Chi no Rondo (aka Castlevania Dracula X: Rondo of Blood). I finally got the chance to play the original and the SNES port does it no justice whatsoever.

[ShinAkumax]

Akumajo Dracula X: Chi no Rondo (aka Castlevania Dracula X: Rondo of Blood). I finally got the chance to play the original and the SNES port does it no justice whatsoever.

You lucky bastard.

[Shade]

Shit, I've been playing Rondo (PC Engine version) for months now. Power to Emulation I say.

[H-F Blade]

You lucky bastard.
lol It took me FOREVER to find the emulator and get the .iso to work because I have the worst of luck. But yeah, it's superb to the "port" in every single way. The original game is very rare and I think it's selling for like several hundred bucks, or maybe more.

[The Damned]

^sho 2: I just have problems with every enemy in SandopoIis ( like Launch Base ) - the ghost on act 2 are fucking absurd. I lose several lives there not to mention Robotnik is OMFG! I hate that place...

l remember how time use to kill me on the "Labrinyth Slide" in act 3 because I didn't know what to do!

Scrap Brain act 3 is INSANE! The difficulty is mad high and I think you drown faster too!

Ugh. The ghosts. I completely forgot about them. I kept focusing on my vague memories of drowning in sand. Damn. The Ghosts can only be killed by Hyper Tails, can't they.... That is going to even less fun than I thought it would be.

For some reason, the Labrinyth Slides in the zone were easy for me...after the first couple of times. I usually drowned the times that I didn't get instantly crushed a few times.

As for the Scrap Brain zone...Act 1 there raped me because I never remembered getting to the end of Sonic 1 before the Sonic Mega Collection, though, oddly, I remembered the final boss of the game (vaguely yet assuredly), so I must have. Anyway, I dropped to my death so many times it wasn't funny, especially since it affected the amount of lives I had when I finally got to Scrap Brain Act 3 the second time around--I'm pretty sure I got Game Over'd faster than Sonic runs the first time I got to Scrap Brain.

By time I got to Scrap Brain Act 3, I pretty much spazzed when I hit the water at the end:

Damned's Fragile Mind: "Damn. This place is long. The hell? Can't I just beat Robotnik's fat ass already? This is ridicul...."
Damned's Hands: *keeps Sonic going until he, unknowingly, jumps in the water*
DFM: "What the fuck?! They added water in this place?! Those sons of bitches! Motherfucker! Motherfucker! Motherfucker! Ugh. I just want to bite some in the face!"
DH: *spazzing the fuck out*
Damned's Eyes: *spazzing out in an attempt to stay alert and thinking "I wish I had Byakuugan"*
DFM: "What's with everyone's fascination with water? Geez. It's like there all fascinated like it's fucking wet. No shit! And I have to worry about the damned gigantic ass sea monsters in an area where my manuverability is even worse...though I can actually blame it on the environment this time. But, still, what the fuck? It can't be all that fascinating, especially since it's so easy to fall for things down here, thinking ahead. It's not like I want to face King Kalamari from Super Mario RPG or anything, but falling for that damned "there's a giant squid-like Robotnik beneath Oil Ocean that you have to fight" when I was a stupid kid isn't helping. Note to self: If I see Vincent from grade school again, kick him in the crotch for passing on his damned naivete...."
DH: *spazzing barely avoids an enemy and some spears*
DFM: "Oh geez! Focus!"

*half a minute or so of spazzing passes*

DFM: "Oh, come on. I've probably come close to drowning once already! Can't we just...."
DH: *spazzes onto the Spring of Freedom!*
DFM: "Ugh. Finally. There's there son of a bitch Robotnik. I've got you now...why the hell can that fat bastard still run faster than me? Why the hell is he still so fat if he runs like he's fucking Quicksilver? Shouldn't his cankles have snapped under the weight by now? ...Where did all my rings go? And why is the ceiling coming towards me...?"
Screen: *Game Over*
Damned's Mouth: "FFFFFfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff-"
Damned's Room: *explodes due to do significant f-bomb*


Yeah. I'm an insane spaz. You can see why I'm clumsy. I have the ficitional disease of ADD or something.

[Ephidel]

^sho 2: LOL, speaking of the sand in Sandopolis, I had no idea it was the key to defeating the first boss in Act 1. I'm like "OMG how do I beat this damn thing!?" The sand traps in Act 2 are #$¢! I try to avoid them at all cost (of course if I'm Sonic I'm screwed either way)

The spikes did me in the Labrinyth - I'm usually good at not drowning but this stage has more traps than any Sonic game I've come across.

Game Gear had an easier version of Scrap Brain...too bad the Sky Base comes after it. ×_×

[X-Death]

I'm getting tired of fighting groups of enemies and only getting 1 APB after battles. That crap is annoying.
Once you get to Galuf's Castle, buy a bunch of softs and go to the basement. You can use the softs on the enemies there to kill them instantly, they show up in packs of 5 and give 2 abp each iirc. I recommend mastering Hunter/Archer for your fighters there because the last skill lets you attack 4 times. Takes a little while, but its the best place to level skills outside of the last area in the game.

Although I don't know if they removed that in the gba version...

[The Damned]

Gah. I'm getting my ass kicked in Lava Reef Zone right now. I died three times in the first act alone, and the fact that everything seems harder to see in the second act hasn't helped anything.

Other than that, Sonic & Knuckles has been rather easy for the most part. The emeralds are annoying as hell, worse than the ones in Sonic 3, but I managed to get the third and the fifth ones in one go; I kept fucking up the second in Mushroom Hill, so I just decided to not care about the Perfect.

What's surprising is me how long these stages are. I nearly died by time out in the first act of Sandpolis, and it took me about eight minutes to get through the second act of Flying Battery. It's just odd that I don't remember these things.

It's also completely odd that I don't remember anything about Robotnik's position. Thus far, I have been hit by the Flying Battery version of Robotnik, the Sandpolis version of Robotnik, and the Lava Reef Act 1 end mid-boss because I didn't know where the hell to stand. I stood in the middle like a dumbass for Flying Battery. I ran smack into Sandpolis Robotnik's armor before it even activated. And then, like a genius, I decided to wait on the side of Lava Reef so that I won't get hit by something coming down from the middle, not that I took into account something coming up from the sides.

Way to go me.

Sonic EDIT: Oh, right. And I decided to play through as Sonic.

Explosive EDIT: I just found my first ring in Act 2 of Lava Reef just to get out on the sixth emerald with only two spheres to go. [Expletive deleted!]

Fiery EDIT: Okay, so I died thrice before Act 2 was over. I still have 17 lives, but damn, that was annoying.

WTF EDIT: I managed to die to Knuckles once in the Hidden Palace Zone? Okay....

[Ephidel]

^sho 2: Somehow I found Sonic 3's 3D special stages a lot harder than Sonic and Knuckles - since I don't mind high difficulty I tried Knuckles in S&K.

I lost a life at Mushroom Hill Metal Robotnik...and Sandopolis Metal Robotnik boss moves twice as fast!! So does Flying Battery Metal Robotnik! Try Lava Reef act 2 with Knuckles...it's wayyyy different than Sonic's path. I beat the game with only six emeralds though...I gotta go back and play lol (I'm lazy)

[The Damned]

I am beginning to wonder how difficult the Sonic games would be if you couldn't recover the coins you lost due to the fact that the Death Egg Act 1 mini-boss raped me twice.

Hmm....

P.S. I fucking hate the enemies with 4-directional spikes. They can just die.

[Ephidel]

^sho 2: haha the death egg act 1 boss is a major pain. When it goes into it's second form it goes all crazy! The first form sucks with those spike bombs and I totally understand how you feel about 4 spike enemies - horrible.

I can't beat lava reef act 2 boss without the fire shield - I love it how the "screen" kills me lol

[The Damned]

I can't beat lava reef act 2 boss without the fire shield - I love it how the "screen" kills me lol

I fucked up even with the fire shield. When I beat Lava Reef Robotnik, I had zero coins as well because it's next to impossible to any of them back since you're at the bottom of the "hill" if you get hit by something. I swear.

Anyway, I beat the game after losing once to that stupid thing with the shield and then about ten times to the end Robotnik because I forgot how to dodge the laser. Gah. I can't believe I had go through that stupid opening animation ten times....

Oh well. I beat the game as normal Sonic. I wonder what I have to do to unlock something....

[Ephidel]

sho 2: I've unlocked many things like Sonic 3 and Knuckles or Knuckles in Sonic 2 already. To unlock games and stuff you have play each game a certain number of times for example:

Sonic 3 and Knuckles is unlocked by playing Sonic 3 20 times and Sonic and Knuckles 20 times.

You died in hidden palace zone? Against Knuckles? I died against Metal Sonic so I can't laugh...

[The Damned]

sho 2: I've unlocked many things like Sonic 3 and Knuckles or Knuckles in Sonic 2 already. To unlock games and stuff you have play each game a certain number of times for example:

Sonic 3 and Knuckles is unlocked by playing Sonic 3 20 times and Sonic and Knuckles 20 times.

Groan.

I didn't want it "spoiled" before, but, dear dead god.

Wait. I noticed you said "playing". Is this different from or the same thing as "finishing" the game?

You died in hidden palace zone? Against Knuckles? I died against Metal Sonic so I can't laugh...

I got antsy after Lava Reef raped my face. I wouldn't laugh about Metal Sonic, almost died there myself.

Sandpolis Act 1 boss, however....

[Ephidel]

^sho 2: My fault on the spoilers but anyway you don't actually have to play the game for it to count - load the game, then exit, then load it again, then exit, etc.

Actually people laugh at me when I tell them I have trouble with Spring Yard Robotnik in Sonic 1.

It's something I'm not proud of.

[Shade]

lol It took me FOREVER to find the emulator and get the .iso to work because I have the worst of luck. But yeah, it's superb to the "port" in every single way. The original game is very rare and I think it's selling for like several hundred bucks, or maybe more.

Haha. To be fair, the SNES game simply bares a simular same name. Its nowhere near a "port". It was intended to be, but obviously somewhere someone decided to make an almost entirely new game.

[Mizuki]

Damnit you guys, made me find my Gen and find my old game carts. I can't believe I actually completed Sonic, Tails, And Knuckles in the S&K w/ StH3.

[Lucretz]

Sandopolis is my most hated zone ever. EVER. Even more than the underwater zones were you could die by running out of air, and I absolutely loathe underwater levels. I died on the sandslides so many times. ;__; Sonic & Knuckles is still my favorite Sonic game though.

So I was playing Bully for a while, and I finally finished that. Pretty good game overall. It kept me very entertained, though it seemed a bit short. Fun stuff even though I didn't really like the GTA games that much and it's basically the same formula in a different setting.

I was going to get back into Culdcept, but then I remembered I hate that game so I've been downloading some abandonware PC games now, and I'm gonna try out some old school style RPGs like Darklands and Ravencroft. Problem is, I have no idea how to install these old ass games. :sweat: I run the install program and it always wants to install from a boot disk? Or from a floppy, for which I don't even have a drive. I need to figure this shit out.

[Ephidel]

Damnit you guys, made me find my Gen and find my old game carts. I can't believe I actually completed Sonic, Tails, And Knuckles in the S&K w/ StH3.

Did you get all 14 emeralds with everyone?

I did lol .

[The Damned]

^sho 2: My fault on the spoilers but anyway you don't actually have to play the game for it to count - load the game, then exit, then load it again, then exit, etc.

I found that out on GameFAQs right after I asked you; it was still boring as all hell to do that for at least an hour and half and still have one game to go--I'm glad that it's Ristar, though, because I don't have that game for my Genesis, which is the only system of mine that I still haven't found.

Note to self: Find Genesis and finish Dynamite Headdy and Vectorman...and whatever else I have finished.

Actually people laugh at me when I tell them I have trouble with Spring Yard Robotnik in Sonic 1.

It's something I'm not proud of.

What's so troublesome about the Spring Yard Zone? It was like the second easiest zone in the game for me after the first zone and its way easier than the final two that come after it.

Damnit you guys, made me find my Gen and find my old game carts. I can't believe I actually completed Sonic, Tails, And Knuckles in the S&K w/ StH3.

Haha. Yes. Give into nostalgia.

Play Streets of Rage. We command you to do so.

(For some reason, I think vaguely remember Knuckles in Sonic 2 existing and yet I'm unsure whether I ever beat it or even played it.)

Psychic Pre-emptive Post (since I type so damned slowly): I got 14 Emeralds with everyone as well on the Genesis.

[Ephidel]

^sho 2: Well for one I get crushed by blocks a lot and two the "bumpers" annoy the hell out of me. I'm not to fond of the enemies there also...

Act 3 has a huge gap where you can fall to your death. Ugh...

I don't know why Robotnik owns me here also - I usually try to go for more hits but get greedy and hit his spike or fall to death.

[ReggieHadoken]

*In Professor Fonsworth Voice* Good news, everyone. *End Professor Fonsworth impersenation* Because my friend already had a copy of Tekken 5 when I got the Tekken 5 arcade stick, he gave me the copy he got with the stick for FREE!! :lovin: We'd been beasting on some Tekken 5 lately and now I can improve even further with the game.

FFV Advance. Made it to the town of Regole. Good frickin' grief are the spells there costly. Everything is $3000. Since I used up a good chunk of change fighting Purobolos last night with the Zeninage skill before going into Galuf's world, I cash flow dropped into the 5 digits. So I had to wonder in the woods next to Regole to encounter some monsters that give me $1200 after each fight.

[Remy Saotome]

The Death Egg Act 1 boss' second form isn't really that hard guys. You can just duck for cover in a corner and the circling platform things and laser won't hit you. Wait until it sorta hops upward and resets, jump up and hit it once, then haul ass for the opposite corner and repeat. Time-consuming, but simple.

[Darkstalker]

(For some reason, I think vaguely remember Knuckles in Sonic 2 existing and yet I'm unsure whether I ever beat it or even played it.)


Knuckles in Sonic 2 I believe is what you got if you combined the Sonic and Knuckles cart with the Sonic 2 cart.

Not that I've played it, so I wouldn't know how good it is.

[versus addict]

Killer 7

Metroid Prime Hunters

New Super Mario

...so good

[Biolink]

i'm playing .Hack G.U. Vol 1. right now,and it's an awesome game despite the mediocre reviews.Switching to real-time gameplay was the best thing they could have done for the series.

[Lantis]

Today, I decided to play "The Legend Of The Mystical Ninja" (aka Ganbare Goemon for you otaku fucks), and well...it's kinda cool...but hella easy. Enemies that die with one hit = no fun. I swear, the game is more loaded with minigames than actual action. I love the fact that you can assault random pedestrians and sack them for their money, though. :rofl:

Sorta makes me wonder the reason why they never released the sequels over here in America....

[Ki Shima]

Today, I decided to play "The Legend Of The Mystical Ninja" (aka Ganbare Goemon for you otaku fucks), and well...it's kinda cool...but hella easy. Enemies that die with one hit = no fun. I swear, the game is more loaded with minigames than actual action. I love the fact that you can assault random pedestrians and sack them for their money, though. :rofl:

Sorta makes me wonder the reason why they never released the sequels over here in America....

the sequels arent as good as mystical ninja, goemon 2 was done in a mario bro's 3 style stage select, goemon 3 was in a one player rpg format to choose stages (actually it might of been two, it was weird anyway and unplayable for me cos of the japan heavy text :sweat: )

mystical ninja was a great game thats best described as a two player 2d shenmue.

have you completed it? i used to play this game when i was 9 or 10 the platform stages get tougher, and the tunes are traditional japanese and memorable, very high grade quality too beating most rpg's, the comedy is on form too, i remember going in a house and talking to a guy that says...


Villiager: i know an incredibly amazing secret.........


...........would you like to know?................




[choose yes]




ok......................

...if you press: UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT...............








L, R, B, A, SELECT........................



















..............NOTHING WILL HAPPEN...............







i remember trying that cheat at diffrent speeds for like half an hour :rofl:

[The Damned]

The Death Egg Act 1 boss' second form isn't really that hard guys. You can just duck for cover in a corner and the circling platform things and laser won't hit you. Wait until it sorta hops upward and resets, jump up and hit it once, then haul ass for the opposite corner and repeat. Time-consuming, but simple.

Actually, that's exactly what I did the third time around when I beat it.

...Except that it managed hit me in the corner, even when I was crouching down.

I went like WTF and scrambled for my last ring (again) and just decided to kamikaze myself since the corner strategy didn't work. Fucking machine spazs out worse than I do.

Other than that, I unlocked Ristar in the extremely boring process of exiting and entering and played some Blue Sphere, which is actually kind of addictive when you don't have the find the damned giant rings, four stages up to Level 31. The fucking last two blue spheres are murder; it's the yellow spheres that make me hate the S&K blue sphere stages, TRAVIS/Ephidel. I wondering if I should do them after I hop the center into rings. Hmmm....

Anyway, I'll probably get started on Metroid Prime next, especially since I'll have even less free time if I get another job on Friday.

Darkstalker: I know what it is and how you get since I unlocked the game. It's just that it seems both vaguely familiar and vaguely suspect. You know how memories are....

[Rokusho]

Metroid Prime Hunters

I just finished playing Metroid Prime Hunters this week and I must say that it's better than I had previously given it credit for. I first bought it back in April but quit playing it after a week only to come back to it recently and finish it (the single player part of the game).

Still, I'd like to give multiplayer over Wi-fi a good chance but I can never get a full match. Usually, it'll look like I'll get 3 opponents to fight against only to have 2 of them drop at the last moment. And even the last guy I have to fight plays terribly so I just punish him and lose interest soon after.

So far I've only played as Samus so there's still the 6 hunters and their alt-forms to try out.

[Ephidel]

^sho 2: Usually when I get to death egg I have all the emeralds so the boss isn't an extreme problem, but if I skip emerald hunting I sure as hell try to hold on to that last ring lol.

I suck at Blue Sphere, I remember advancing a couple of stages and that's it. The yellow sphere is the "spring" sphere that leaps you over 5 spheres. Often times I struggle to find the last blue sphere or hit the wrong yellow sphere that leads to the red ones.

[Remy Saotome]

Actually, that's exactly what I did the third time around when I beat it.

...Except that it managed hit me in the corner, even when I was crouching down.

I went like WTF and scrambled for my last ring (again) and just decided to kamikaze myself since the corner strategy didn't work. Fucking machine spazs out worse than I do.Yeah. Maybe once every fifth time I play the game it'll hit me when I use that strategy. But it nearly always works, certainly well enough to get me through the game.

And earlier you guys said something about the ghosts being invulnerable? I don't believe that is true because whenever I mess up and the lights go out, I always enter spinball rev and let the ghosts run into me, they dissipate and then I let go and run like hell for the nearest switch before they respawn.

[Rokusho]

Anybody here played through Star Ocean 3?

I just got back into the game and the battles seem a lot harder than they were a while ago. Right now I just got back from the 4D Realm and got the Sacred Orb so that I'll be able to go to The Owner (Creator). My team's level is around 46 and I'm using Fayt, Cliff, and Sophia. All of the regular monsters now seem like boss battles.

Lately Sophia hasn't been healing as much as she should so I'm thinking of getting rid of her for someone else. My choices for replacements are Pepita, Adray, Maria, and Mirage. I won't use Nel since I played with her for a while already and never really liked her too much. Any tips you could give me to help me out on this one?

[ReggieHadoken]

FFV Advance. X-Death, thanks for the info about that spot to get ABP in Galuf's castle. I use Golden Needles on these enemies and they instantly die and Iget 4-8 ABP depending on how many of them I encounter.
:rofl:

Tekken 5. OK, I've long had my fill of super cheap bosses in fighting games. Jinpaichi just oozes will sorts of gayness. Took me like 10 tires to beat the fool with Marduck. To blow of some steam, I played some old-school Tekken in Tekken and Tekken 2. Ah, nostalgia.
:lovin:

[Onslaught2000]

Heh, have'nt really played any adventure games in quite a long time. So I decided to go back and re-play Mega Man Legends. Already finished it so playing part 2 now.

And I don't ever think I played both of the games back to back, but doing so this time has let me realize that Legends 1 feels just like a 40 dollar demo disc, while Legends 2 is just a little more.........complete. But they are both fun, so it's all good!

[woof]

hahahaha, i know what you mean onslaught2000.

the transition from 1 to 2 is extremely refreshing!

[Sdouble]

Vampire Savior(jap) on my sega saturn...Godly...more people need to play this game.

[Biolink]

I decided to start playing Seiken Densetsu 3.Kevin is my main,and I also have Duran,and Hawkeye.It's a pretty basic and boring team,but they mow through thing's easily,and it's a great beginner team.

[Capn Spanky]

Guitar Hero 2 is one of the greatest games of all time...

Zelda the Twilight Princess is amazing...

Been playing BF2 alot lately, picked up the two boosters and the expansion. EA sucks... BF2 is good. The European army in BF2 is stacked and top tier. The new vehicles in BF2 armored fury are more broken than O. Sagat. Enough said.

Chrono Trigger: On of the most amazing games of all time. If you havent played it yet... then you prolly buy games called "Barbie's Pony Adventure" or somethuing awesome like that.

and Alas, Megaman X Collection- Megaman X-X6 all in one place? Yay! X-X5 are truly a blast. (at the beginning of this thread they talk about having trouble with X4. Well, I beat the final boss on X4 without using any sub tanks, let alone dying.) Good stuff. X6 is broken and kinda lacking. Zero is nerfed so bad in X6 and he's basically 3s's sean in robot form. Also, the unlockables in X collection are alot of fun to see/ play.

[Angry Black]

Anybody here played through Star Ocean 3?

I just got back into the game and the battles seem a lot harder than they were a while ago. Right now I just got back from the 4D Realm and got the Sacred Orb so that I'll be able to go to The Owner (Creator). My team's level is around 46 and I'm using Fayt, Cliff, and Sophia. All of the regular monsters now seem like boss battles.

Lately Sophia hasn't been healing as much as she should so I'm thinking of getting rid of her for someone else. My choices for replacements are Pepita, Adray, Maria, and Mirage. I won't use Nel since I played with her for a while already and never really liked her too much. Any tips you could give me to help me out on this one?

i beat that game not too long ago. the best way to get around these monsters without leveling up is to start customizing weapons and item creation. just use alchemy and the people wit the highest alchemy level and create an orihculum (i think the price for that iis around 5000-7000) and then fuse that to your weapon wich gives you automatically 500 atk points. you can fuse it to a weapon about 5 or 6 times so you can get up to about 3000 atk points and take out tough enemies with like two hits

it makes leveling up and the game itself real easy and depending on the person not much challenging.

[ShinAkumax]

FFV Advance. X-Death, thanks for the info about that spot to get ABP in Galuf's castle. I use Golden Needles on these enemies and they instantly die and Iget 4-8 ABP depending on how many of them I encounter.
:rofl:

Tekken 5. OK, I've long had my fill of super cheap bosses in fighting games. Jinpaichi just oozes will sorts of gayness. Took me like 10 tires to beat the fool with Marduck. To blow of some steam, I played some old-school Tekken in Tekken and Tekken 2. Ah, nostalgia.
:lovin:



Level 5 death works better.

http://www.ffvspirit.com/

Go fight the Gil turtle. It's fun.

[ChairHome]

Finally finished Twilight Princess and Final Fantasy III DS. Going to start FF V Advance and finish up Rocket Slime DS. Also going to finish up Final Fantasy XII. Sigh....

[GRITZ]

Finally finished Twilight Princess and Final Fantasy III DS. Going to start FF V Advance and finish up Rocket Slime DS. Also going to finish up Final Fantasy XII. Sigh....

Your thoughts on Zelda: TP?

[ChairHome]

Your thoughts on Zelda: TP?

I was playing the Wii version, and the controls were nice. Can't compare to the GC version, but I was using component cables and the game looked great.

Well, after the first one or two dungeons, it was a bit slow. I was hating the idea of going through however many more dungeons. It picks up shortly after that though, and gets really good once you get to the third or fourth dungeon. The game has a bunch of nods to past Zelda games, with references to items, places and characters that you'd probably forgotten about. For instance:The game references Impa, who hasn't been heard about since the original Zelda

The main story is pretty coherent, with some surprises here and there. There's a lot of sidequest stuff that I probably won't get around to coming back to just yet. I clocked in at about 40 hours to beat the game.

Overall, I'd say its a great game. Even greater if you're a Zelda fan. Its a lot of stuff you've seen in the N64 games, just expanded upon and better. It adds some new elements to it, too. Probably one of the best, if not the best Zelda game so far.

[Onslaught2000]

hahahaha, i know what you mean onslaught2000.

the transition from 1 to 2 is extremely refreshing!

Indeed.

Running while locked-on is nice. Although it's still annoying to lose your best target and lock-on to another reverbot if you're hit while locked-on.

And one thing that I managed to do in both games so far is get the Hoverboots later than usual. For some reason or another I would completly miss a part of a dig that had the old board needed for the boots.

[Lantis]

Well, after the first one or two dungeons, it was a bit slow. I was hating the idea of going through however many more dungeons. It picks up shortly after that though, and gets really good once you get to the third or fourth dungeon. The game has a bunch of nods to past Zelda games, with references to items, places and characters that you'd probably forgotten about. For instance:The game references Impa, who hasn't been heard about since the original Zelda


Well, Impa was in Ocarina of Time (she was Zelda's full-fledged bodyguard and not some raggedy old hag). :confused:

[ReggieHadoken]

Gah. Unlocking fighters in Tekken 5 is going to be a huge pain because of that gay cheap boss, Jinpaichi. I fared better with Law, taking far less loses than I did with Marduk, but I still HATE Jinpaichi with a firey passion. On a different note, Tekken 5 was the first time I was able to play the arcade version of Tekken 3. I only played that game on the PSone whenever I played it. Very nice stuff.

FFV Advance. Well, I got the Wind Drake some Dragon Grass so now I'm heading for Surgate Castle. Lenna has master the White Mage and Geomancer classes. Bartz has mastered the Ranger job and the Rapid Fire skill isn't too shappy when used with a Knight. ShinAkumax, nice link.

Castlevania: SOTN. I think I played this game for more than 2 hours last night. Beat a few bosses and have already come across Richter and some of his minions but I didn't keep fighting them because they were too powerful. Think I need to level up some more and find some superior weaponry. Also, I gotta get the blasted items needed to free Richter's useless hide.

[woof]

Zero is nerfed so bad in X6
i dunno dude, he can still beast pretty easy with the energy shield+dash canceling happy burger party time (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKtcLj4b2ks)

[Korigama]

Finished Tales of the Abyss a few days ago. Plan on doing a second run later, but want to finish up Digital Devil Saga 1 first.

[mylthazz]

i just played captain commando on ccc2 for the first time, never knew how much of a rip off it was of final fight

[lseelba]

I'm playing Unreal Championship 2 on Xbox (obviously). I can't believe how hard the difficulty is. I'm trying to fight my way through Championship mode on only the second difficultly level and it is taking forever.

The only two weapons that I seem to be any good with are Flak Cannon and Sniper Rifle. The game called me a Flak Monkey yesterday. I can get kills with the minigun but they are slow compared to the Sniper Rifle.

[Remy Saotome]

I'm playing Unreal Championship 2 on Xbox (obviously). I can't believe how hard the difficulty is. I'm trying to fight my way through Championship mode on only the second difficultly level and it is taking forever.

The only two weapons that I seem to be any good with are Flak Cannon and Sniper Rifle. The game called me a Flak Monkey yesterday. I can get kills with the minigun but they are slow compared to the Sniper Rifle.No! Bad Iseelba! The Stinger (minigun) is just begging for them to reflect the shots back in your face and kill you. Easiest weapon to Reject. The only really good guns are the Rocket Launcher, Sniper Rifle, and Shock Rifle. The Biorifle, Flak Cannon, and Ripjack are decent. Stinger will get you killed right quick and in a hurry, and Grenade Launcher just plain sucks. The various pistols and melee weapons are all just passable, but not preferred, unless you're a reflect God, then you can just walk around in melee all the time.

And don't use the robots. They have the worst racial abilities possible. Skaarj aren't very good either, unless you're really big on the melee weapons, since they have a racial that enhances their damage. The various Necris and Nahkti characters seem to have the biggest advantages, although Malcolm and Gorge have pretty good unique abilities too.

[Million]

I'd add Biorifle to that "best guns" category for sure. It has a 1 hit kill, and creates hazardous areas with the cloud...which causes guaranteed damage(unless your enemy is a juggy using Unstoppable)..and that cloud cannot be rejected. In fact, I'd say top 3 are Bio, RL, and Shock....with Shock Rifle being the #1, borderline "omgsobrokencheapshit" gun.

Live Arcade: Assault Heroes is next up for me...I may get it next week. One thing that disappointed me with Small Arms is that there's really no defensive tactics, like simple shields or a block feature. It's really a matter of "whoever gets shot the hell up faster is the loser". Some defense would've helped the game have a more prolonged appeal in terms of gameplay. Basically, you just try to run away...and if you start taking damage, that's it, you've already lost. I would've put in a shield just like Smash Bros....one that eventually runs out, but naturally recharges itself.

One character has a flaming bag of shit as his head. Immediate cool points for that. The name? Dr. Von Brown.

[Rokusho]

i beat that game not too long ago. the best way to get around these monsters without leveling up is to start customizing weapons and item creation. just use alchemy and the people wit the highest alchemy level and create an orihculum (i think the price for that iis around 5000-7000) and then fuse that to your weapon wich gives you automatically 500 atk points. you can fuse it to a weapon about 5 or 6 times so you can get up to about 3000 atk points and take out tough enemies with like two hits

it makes leveling up and the game itself real easy and depending on the person not much challenging.

Thanks for the info.

In the past few days I've dropped Sophia and started using Maria instead. Also, I now control Maria while leaving Fayt and Cliff to do most of the heavy fighting while I shoot from long range. Turns out that this works pretty well. Battles aren't too hard and the hardest thing for me is to look out for the HP of my team.

About the item creation and weapon customization. I've already made about 5 orichalcums and I'm thinking that I'll just duplicate the +500 attack on each of those. But also I've started making Boots of Prowess that can give me +30%Atk/+30%Def. So that leaves me wondering just how to balance the effects I'll be putting onto my weapons. I'll just decide how many of each to make later but something else I thought about has me wondering. Some items I've made have effects that say "Shoot out balls of (insert element) when attacking". Do you know if these things are worthwhile in pursuing?

[lseelba]

I'd add Biorifle to that "best guns" category for sure. It has a 1 hit kill, and creates hazardous areas with the cloud...which causes guaranteed damage(unless your enemy is a juggy using Unstoppable)..and that cloud cannot be rejected. In fact, I'd say top 3 are Bio, RL, and Shock....with Shock Rifle being the #1, borderline "omgsobrokencheapshit" gun.

Live Arcade: Assault Heroes is next up for me...I may get it next week. One thing that disappointed me with Small Arms is that there's really no defensive tactics, like simple shields or a block feature. It's really a matter of "whoever gets shot the hell up faster is the loser". Some defense would've helped the game have a more prolonged appeal in terms of gameplay. Basically, you just try to run away...and if you start taking damage, that's it, you've already lost. I would've put in a shield just like Smash Bros....one that eventually runs out, but naturally recharges itself.

One character has a flaming bag of shit as his head. Immediate cool points for that. The name? Dr. Von Brown.

Clearly I need to learn how to use those weapons, because I'm not effective with any of them. Biorifle seems goofy, RL and Shock Rifle I understand how they should be used but I can't seem to get them to work right. RL I always try to use the charged shot and seem to miss, and Shock Rifle doesn't seem to have the explosive range that it did in Unreal Tournament :(

[Angry Black]

Thanks for the info.

In the past few days I've dropped Sophia and started using Maria instead. Also, I now control Maria while leaving Fayt and Cliff to do most of the heavy fighting while I shoot from long range. Turns out that this works pretty well. Battles aren't too hard and the hardest thing for me is to look out for the HP of my team.

About the item creation and weapon customization. I've already made about 5 orichalcums and I'm thinking that I'll just duplicate the +500 attack on each of those. But also I've started making Boots of Prowess that can give me +30%Atk/+30%Def. So that leaves me wondering just how to balance the effects I'll be putting onto my weapons. I'll just decide how many of each to make later but something else I thought about has me wondering. Some items I've made have effects that say "Shoot out balls of (insert element) when attacking". Do you know if these things are worthwhile in pursuing?

dont waste your time on those ball element shooting things its nothing big. and anyways its better to create a powerful weapon thats not element based so you dont have to worry about accidently healing an enemy especially when you can get attacks up to 14000. by the way the best weapon/easiest to get for upgrading is probably laser weapon since it already starts out wit 500atk points

[RoyBisel]

Fable for the PC was an excellent game. Not long enough though and limited magic options, but outstanding graphics and controls were easy to learn, a deifinite recommendation.

[Mixah]

......... Soul Caliber 2... and I don't know why...

[RoninChaos]

I can't finish games. 30 hours into FFXII. like 20 hours into the last Fire Emblem on the gameboy advance. 10 hours into FF Tactics. 20 into Suikoden II. 2 hours in gears of war. 9 into Oblivion. 10 into Jade Empire, 40 into Knights of the old Republic. 30 into Fable. 8 into Dragon Quest VIII. Star Ocean 2 and 3 are sitting on my shelf. Shadow of the Colussus I haven't beaten and I'm at the 3rd boss. Resident Evil 4 I believe I'm 9 hours into.

I hate this shit sometimes. What ends up happening is that I get absorbed into work or other social activities and then I try to come back to those games and can't remember SHIT about what I was doing. More and more the only thing I care about are pick up and play games cause they're the only thing I can actually play with any frequency. The worst part is, I have no issue finishing something like a GTA game. Maybe it's ADD. I dunno. But I can only really binge game cause of how my life is currently.

I think a lot of it has to do with narrative. Some games keep me interested and some don't. Repetition is a huge problem for me I guess because I can't stay focused. I had no issue finishing Final Fantasy X, the Chrono games, and various other RPGs because something kept me engaged. I lose interest quickly if something doesn't latch onto me or more "revelations" about the plot aren't thrown at me quick enough to want to keep following. Hell, I can sit thru long ass game as long as the story doesn't have pacing issues. I hit a lull in FFXII, which is prolly why I stopped. Game is fun as fuck, but my god, the plot hasn't gone that far. Same with Fire Emblem. Same with Tactics. Shit, I stopped playing Xenogears at 30 hours cause the plot literally went NO where. I stopped playing Knights of the old Republic cause I knew who my character really was. Fable I lost interest in because there wasn't enough direction. Dragon Quest VIII is such a slow burn that I never got interested in the first place. Oblivion is almost overwhelming large but I find it interesting in a fleeting sort of way.

I still really enjoy gaming but I just don't do it enough. Seems like I'd rather boot up a 16 bit title than a title on the 360.

[Rickstah]

I can't finish games. 30 hours into FFXII. like 20 hours into the last Fire Emblem on the gameboy advance. 10 hours into FF Tactics. 20 into Suikoden II. 2 hours in gears of war. 9 into Oblivion. 10 into Jade Empire, 40 into Knights of the old Republic. 30 into Fable. 8 into Dragon Quest VIII. Star Ocean 2 and 3 are sitting on my shelf. Shadow of the Colussus I haven't beaten and I'm at the 3rd boss. Resident Evil 4 I believe I'm 9 hours into.

I hate this shit sometimes. What ends up happening is that I get absorbed into work or other social activities and then I try to come back to those games and can't remember SHIT about what I was doing. More and more the only thing I care about are pick up and play games cause they're the only thing I can actually play with any frequency. The worst part is, I have no issue finishing something like a GTA game. Maybe it's ADD. I dunno. But I can only really binge game cause of how my life is currently.

I think a lot of it has to do with narrative. Some games keep me interested and some don't. Repetition is a huge problem for me I guess because I can't stay focused. I had no issue finishing Final Fantasy X, the Chrono games, and various other RPGs because something kept me engaged. I lose interest quickly if something doesn't latch onto me or more "revelations" about the plot aren't thrown at me quick enough to want to keep following. Hell, I can sit thru long ass game as long as the story doesn't have pacing issues. I hit a lull in FFXII, which is prolly why I stopped. Game is fun as fuck, but my god, the plot hasn't gone that far. Same with Fire Emblem. Same with Tactics. Shit, I stopped playing Xenogears at 30 hours cause the plot literally went NO where. I stopped playing Knights of the old Republic cause I knew who my character really was. Fable I lost interest in because there wasn't enough direction. Dragon Quest VIII is such a slow burn that I never got interested in the first place. Oblivion is almost overwhelming large but I find it interesting in a fleeting sort of way.

I still really enjoy gaming but I just don't do it enough. Seems like I'd rather boot up a 16 bit title than a title on the 360.

I feel the same exact way. I sit down with FFXII for about 5 hours and think I'll see it through, next time I play I just don't feel like playing it. Gears of War I know is a good game, but I just haven't told myself to sit down and play it. In fact, the only games I play for the hell of it are Phoenix Wright games, DOTA, and fighting games.

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I hear you ronin, i have a easier time playing dead Rising, Kingdom Hearts 2, Marvel , Burnout Revenge , SF2 HF , And Zelda : TP cuz they keep me entertained, and are quick pick me up and play games. I stopped playing Oblivion, Tales of symphonia, Shadow of the colossus, Kameo , and FF8 cuz the game and story just, isnt keeping me in there ya know, like its not trying or something, i just cant get sucked in and have a reason to keep on going like those other games i just listed.

god if war is a excellent example of what goes right, keep wanting more, more action, sick story with cinemas at the right