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[Ventus]

Uh oh, did you do that prerequisite before you set foot on Zaude? If you didn't you can't get the bonus dungeon.

I'm not really sure... What is the prerequisite? I'm not really sure about what it is. The walk though I'm using didn't say anything about it.

[Dawnlight]

You have to go to the nest of that phoenix spirit in the desert first otherwise, you'll miss getting the bonus dungeon. I think you can still get it as long as you don't clear the Zaude dungeon.

Edited by Dawnlight, 20 July 2012 - 10:49 PM.

[kurt91]

I finally got around to trying out Minecraft. I've seen videos of the game, so I have the general idea of what to do. Unfortunately, I've been having horrible luck so far...

First, I took too long building my first shelter. The first night saw me hiding in a man-sized wooden box with a peephole, white-knuckling an axe and hoping to God that nothing would come after me.

I finally got my cabin built on the second day, and started digging a mine to look for coal to make torches. I dug down as deep as I could while still being able to see, and the only thing I've been able to find is dirt and stone. I swear, I've gone through a half-dozen wooden pickaxes, and still found nothing. At least I've gotten all my tools upgraded to stone, at any rate.

Still, it's kind of sad how I'm about 4 or 5 nights in, and still having to hide in the corner of my cabin in case a monster decides to spawn inside in the darkness. I've been having to dispose of the cobblestone by building a paved road with raised edges and pillars on the staircases leading up the hill to my house. It looks nice, but it's absolutely useless.

I'd leave and look for resources somewhere else, but the place I'm stuck at has no real landmarks I can use to find my way back. I'm starting to think that I might want to build a lookout tower next to my cabin, and use it to mark directions by.

(Note: I know there's a way to make maps and stuff. I'd rather figure things out for myself instead of having everybody tell me what to use to make one.)

The saddest thing about all this, is that I have all the settings as low as they can go, and my computer still ends up shutting itself down from overheating. I've got a cooling pad underneath it, and I still had to call it a day because the computer was getting dangerously hot again. I lost one really neat world where I started in the middle of this massive jungle. (I wanted to gather supplies, then build a treehouse on top of this humongous tree that towered over everything else, and that everything else was pretty massive to begin with.) I think the jungle world was generated using "First World", without the quotes, if anybody wants to explore it a bit.

[Ventus]

You have to go to the nest of that phoenix spirit in the desert first otherwise, you'll miss getting the bonus dungeon. I think you can still get it as long as you don't clear the Zaude dungeon.

I haven't cleared Zaude yet. All I've done is go in and Kill Yeager. Which I couldn't get the secret mission for him...
Pretty much after that I left to do other things like grind. and I've visted that place where pharaoh was. All I found was the Town from 1000 years ago (Don't remember the name <_<)

Was there anything important I needed to do in that area? Because all I did there was talk to the sage, and he told some stories... that's about it.

[Dawnlight]

I haven't cleared Zaude yet. All I've done is go in and Kill Yeager. Which I couldn't get the secret mission for him...
Pretty much after that I left to do other things like grind. and I've visted that place where pharaoh was. All I found was the Town from 1000 years ago (Don't remember the name <_<)

Was there anything important I needed to do in that area? Because all I did there was talk to the sage, and he told some stories... that's about it.

Spend the night there. Once you do, you're all set for the bonus dungeon. And out of all the Secret Missions, Yeager's was the hardest to get. Primarily because you have to get him to flinch exposing his chest before you can use Rain on him and he's only in that stance for about half a second. The only thing you're really getting by getting ALL of the Secret Missions in ONE play-through is a new costume for Yuri.

[Ventus]

Spend the night there. Once you do, you're all set for the bonus dungeon. And out of all the Secret Missions, Yeager's was the hardest to get. Primarily because you have to get him to flinch exposing his chest before you can use Rain on him and he's only in that stance for about half a second. The only thing you're really getting by getting ALL of the Secret Missions in ONE play-through is a new costume for Yuri.

Alright, That's good to hear. I spent the night there.

And I almost had Yeager's Mission complete multiple times, I kept hitting small problems. Like one time. I Got him exposed his chest, But When I was going to use "Rain" Raven was completely out of TP. And I was screwed.
Another Time, When he exposed his chest again. Raven was dead at the moment...
Man they really made his secret mission hard. >_<.

[Dawnlight]

Finished Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception...Uncharted 2 was better in my opinion. They should just rename this game as Uncharted 3: Drake goes psycho because that is what pretty much Drake was in this game.

I just started Shadow of the Colossus from the Ico and Shadow of the Colossus HD Collection on PS3. Man, I can see why this was the best game on the PS2.

Edited by Dawnlight, 21 July 2012 - 10:54 PM.

[kurt91]

Wait a second, Shadow of the Colossus was originally a PS2 game? I thought it started out as a PS3 one. That's the only reason I didn't bother to go looking for a copy, I don't own a PS3. Well, I know what game I want to get next.

[Orithan]

I brought Yoshi's Universal Gravitation (aka. Yoshi's Topsy-Turvy, GBA) from a game shop that stocks on older games (starting from the NES era) that I went to today. Having begun playing it, I managed to get up to Chapter 3 today.

I have also been playing Metroid II on the 3DS Virtual Console, having decided to replay it and see how it stacks up with the rest of the series. So far, it is my least favourite game in the series, being marginally worse than MoM. There is plenty of (maybe a bit too much?) exploring and there was a good concept going behind it but it was all lost by the sheer repetition of the main parts of the game: Get out of ship -> Kill Metroid -> Scripted event allows you to progress -> Kill Metroids while collecting necessary powerups and Missile Tanks -> Another scripted event allows you to progress -> Repeat previous two steps four or five... You get the drift. Then we have the Metroids themselves which usually fought in dead-end rooms, are always only vulnerable to Missiles and there is almost always only one at a time.

[Nicholas Steel]

I have also been playing Metroid II on the 3DS Virtual Console, having decided to replay it and see how it stacks up with the rest of the series. So far, it is my least favourite game in the series, being marginally worse than MoM. There is plenty of (maybe a bit too much?) exploring and there was a good concept going behind it but it was all lost by the sheer repetition of the main parts of the game: Get out of ship -> Kill Metroid -> Scripted event allows you to progress -> Kill Metroids while collecting necessary powerups and Missile Tanks -> Another scripted event allows you to progress -> Repeat previous two steps four or five... You get the drift. Then we have the Metroids themselves which usually fought in dead-end rooms, are always only vulnerable to Missiles and there is almost always only one at a time.

So basically Metroid Fusion?

[kurt91]

I feel really stupid. Last night, I started up Minecraft again. I built several furnaces before it sunk in that without any fuel, they were essentially worthless. I finally came upon the realization that I could simply burn the wood growing around for miles to fuel the furnaces. After loading them all up with fuel, I started throwing random things in to see what would get me new stuff. In the process, I threw in a stack of wood, and the furnace activated, giving me the charcoal I had been searching for hours to get.

Real-life logic in a video game. Who would have expected that?

[Orithan]

So basically Metroid Fusion?

No. Fusion had more sense of reward than Metroid II. What you are fighting are actual Metroids, just a more advanced. They are always only vulnerable to Missiles (unlike the Fusion bosses, which has only the last part only vulnerable to missiles) and you don't get any direct reward for beating them aside from the scripted event that occurs after killing a set number of them.
In Fusion; you had to actually work to beat the bosses to get their powerups, giving a sense of accomplishent to the player as they played through. Metroid II has all of these stuffed onto various Chozo statues around the planet, almost always in ruin-like areas that each section has.

Edit: @Kurt91: Look up Awkward Zombie. It is a series of webcomics that points out inconsistencies with game logic with real-life logic.

Edited by Orin XD, 22 July 2012 - 03:56 PM.

[Ventus]

Well Just got the 100 hit combo achievement on Tales of Vesperia.
Rita helped me with that a lot XD, Get her in OverLimit and then make her spam Violent Pain over and over. Ah man I can't believe I've never tried her overlimit <_< (Best thing EVER!)

This is best thing ever as well
*Rita says* BLAH BLAH BLAH, VIOLENT PAIN!

[Dawnlight]

Well Just got the 100 hit combo achievement on Tales of Vesperia.
Rita helped me with that a lot XD, Get her in OverLimit and then make her spam Violent Pain over and over. Ah man I can't believe I've never tried her overlimit <_< (Best thing EVER!)

This is best thing ever as well
*Rita says* BLAH BLAH BLAH, VIOLENT PAIN!

No no no no no no no... it's all BLAH BLAH BLAH! TIDAL WAVE!!! The most broken combo ever.

Anyway, I just got into playing Infamous. Looks pretty sweet. I also got Infamous 2 standing by. I got it today for only $10.

[Ventus]

Finished the game Tales of Vesperia. I'm kinda sad that it ended. Well at least it has a bonus dungeon and save game+
I'm most likely going to grind for some grade and use it to get the 10x Exp, for my next play-though! This should be fun XD