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[DashSim]

i've been playing fire emblem awakening for five hundred years

[kurt91]

I'm alternating between two games. One is "Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth Vol 1", having just gotten back to it after taking a bit of a break when I hit what's supposedly the only poorly balanced fight in the game. Up until that point, the game is very easy and straightforward, with bosses being generally more like normal enemies with a lot more health. Once you hit this particular boss, the game transitions to each boss being a huge ordeal with a lot of preparation work beforehand so you don't get destroyed, and even then, needing a healer every single turn to hopefully undo the boss dealing a third of your health in a single hit. (Note that "third of your health" is including having Life Rings equipped that give you an additional 2500 HP, and all healing spells are percentage-based, so not having the extra HP lowers your healing power)

 

I don't mind games like this, and if you decide to level-grind, the game is unbelievably nice in that regard. Enemies drop your typical junk items, but you use these to unlock options from new shop inventory, new optional levels to explore, making enemies stronger/weaker, etc. You have an encyclopedia of sorts that you can use to find which enemies spawn in which levels, and what items drop from each enemy, so you can go in with near surgical precision to get the items you want. You don't so much level-grind as decide to activate a handful of upgrades/boosts and the extra handful of levels and money happen to be a very happy coincidence.

 

Anyways, other than that, I'm playing "Fallout 3". I've never played it before, and have JUST finished "Skyrim". It's been sitting in my library for a while, and I had wanted to wait until I beat "Skyrim" first before starting a similar game. I don't have any DLC for it, but when it goes on sale I'll probably buy the lot and start a second playthrough, same plan I have for Skyrim. My first playthrough only has interface and graphical mods installed, so I'm pretty much playing a prettier version of the vanilla game. Same as Skyrim, my second playthrough is going to be one of those heavily-modded setups. The game's a bit unstable, but it auto-saves frequently enough, I still have my save-scumming before anything possibly risky mentality from Skyrim, and I can get a couple hours in between crashes, so it's not too bad playablility-wise.

[Fiyaball]

I recently got Shin Megami Tensei 4 for $20 (better than the $50 my friend payed for it ), it's been pretty fun so far.

[Jared]

Quick question about StarFox Zero. Are there traditional controls in the game or are you forced to use the motion controls?

 

You have to use the motion controls. They're built into the game.

 

However, they work amazingly. Don't listen to what you're hearing from critics and stuff. They work awesomely. Just take a little time to get used to.

 

The times I died? It didn't have to do with the controls. It was the game being hard!  It's an amazing game.

[Sheik]

Been playing Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition and BG EE 2 on and off. Mostly off. Finished the first game (+Durlag's Tower and everything) with a Blackguard PC just to realize that the evil party in BG2 is severely lacking Mages. So at first I had the plan to reroll as a Sorcerer and then ended up playing a Paladin all the way up to the Flaming Fist quests and quit again.

Meh.

[Rambly]

i've been playing spyro the dragon 2. it really reminds me of the first game, spyro the dragon 1

 

 

 

 

 

it's fun.  i think that it has some things it definitely does better than the first game.  the level design is more solid, some of the new minigames are fun, the new moves are all cool and it controls a bit better, the addition of fluttering is really useful.  oh i love all the flight/skyway levels in spyro 2, whereas i hated maybe half of them in spyro 1.  but then 2 has its fair share of problems.  it has annoying SHIIIIIITe like some of the minigames are just total garbage, like the rematch one with hunter in magma cone where you have to get the gems.  the first game was more beautiful (or maybe i'm just jaded to spyro 2's prettiness by the first game, lol.  spyro 2's still a good-looking game for its age).  and the entire structure of the game is really kinda bad and anticlimactic.  maybe like half to two thirds of the levels are in the second world and all the worlds are obviously meant to be the four seasons... except there's just three seasons, they skipped spring!!  idk, it definitely feels more unfinished and more haphazard than the first game.  like they didn't have time to finish the last world and they just shoved everything into world 2 for some reason.

 

soon i want to play star fox zero. i still need to play okami.  the zero escape games... monster hunter... pokemon... more splatoon.  the retro studios dkc games.  yoshi's wooly world.

[Dawnlight]

You have to use the motion controls. They're built into the game.

 

However, they work amazingly. Don't listen to what you're hearing from critics and stuff. They work awesomely. Just take a little time to get used to.

 

The times I died? It didn't have to do with the controls. It was the game being hard!  It's an amazing game.

I'll give it a shot. So far, I've been unimpressed with the Wii U gamepad. Perhaps this game will make good use of it.

[Norzan]

Just finished Chrono Cross. Overall i think it's a very solid game but i have two main issues with this game.

 

First, only three party slots for 45 characters. You have a cast of 45 characters but only three slots in your party? Why? It feels so restrictive. Granted you can't have all 45 characters available since some become missable if you pick others, but still, three slots is way too little. Four slots or ever better, five slots would have been ideal.

 

The second one is how convoluted the story is. The story itself is good, but it's a little too convoluted. Way too much exposition is dumped on you near the end of the game that is a little too much to process. I know it's the near the end when all the answers are given, but they could have easily spread out some of the exposition instead of just trying to cram so much of it near the end.

 

Again, it's a very good game and i'm already considering a second playthrough (to get characters i missed and process the exposition better), but that's the two issues i have with the game.

Edited by Norzan, 01 May 2016 - 09:15 PM.

[kurt91]

I've been considering that game. Do you get to keep the characters you got in one playthrough for the next? Also, do characters not in your party level up as well?

[Norzan]

You can have an item that lets you transfer every character you got in your previous playthrough to your current playthrough, but that's only halfway through the game. If you mean having all the characters you got in the previous playthrough right at the start of New Game Plus, then no.

 

Yes, characters not in your party also level up.

[Dawnlight]

My first impressions on Star Fox Zero - I actually like the motion controls. Compared to Star Fox 64 3D the motion controls really add a lot of precision to the shots I fire. Switching views from the TV to the gamepad was not an issue for me so far, but when I get to the more chaotic levels, it may be a challenge. I'm liking what I'm seeing so far. The production value is excellent. I had no idea Platinum games also pitched in with this game.

[The Satellite]

For a while, my SNES was hooked up to a TV on the second floor so my nieces and nephew could play it. However, no one's been playing it in ages, so I reclaimed it because I've been feeling a need for some classic 16-bit gaming. I spent much of the day beating Super Mario World, and it's still one of the greatest platformers of all time. I'm probably gonna dedicate some time to my entire SNES library minus two games, so I'll be having a run at Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2, the Super Star Wars trilogy, Aladdin, Street Fighter II, Super Mario RPG, F-Zero, NBA Jam, and of course, the crown jewel, A Link to the Past. Admittedly small library, but what's there is gold.

 

Except for Pagemaster and Batman Forever, Pagemaster's an okay game, Batman Forever is not good.

[Russ]

With the release of Xenoblade on the Wii U virtual console in North America (took them long enough, it's been out in Europe for ages), I've finally started playing it. And... I have to say to a certain extent I'm disappointed. I knew not to go in expecting it to be like X (which I love to death), but even so, there's quite a lot of missteps I find hard to overlook. The complete inability to fight anything higher leveled than you, not because you can't take it, but because the game will make the majority of your attacks miss, is perhaps the worst offender. But that aside, the game feels stiffling linear, with a giant world that still works out to be mostly a straight line from start to end. The lack of a proper jump option adds insult to injury by forcing you on paths, blocked off by waste-high walls at times. Add to that some boring sidequests a computer could generate and some flat-out poorly designed bosses, and you get... well I certainly can't call it a bad game. Or even mediocre, really. The story's good, and the scenery is fantastic (even if the world makes no damn sense). But I feel like I'm slogging through a lot of stuff that I'd have quit playing the game for in normal circumstances just for the plot and world.

[Nicholas Steel]

My only big issue with Xenoblade is the inability to properly compare item stats when shopping.

[RocketGrunt]

I am playing FIRE EMBLEM FATES BIRTHRIGHT right now.