What are you playing?

[Himu]

Eh? I haven't prepared for the Dark Aeons yet. I'm just sick of the grinding. FFX has always had the worst end game grinding in the series even pre-International. International version does a lot to fix that, though. But it's still tortuous, especially when you run out of Power Spheres, and it takes forever to kill the enemy that drops 40 of any sphere. Just grind, grind, grind.

[Yulwei]

If you set up an entire arrangement of gambits and then complain that the game plays itself you're a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow.

Also, XII has a lot of fights that require a lot of planning and effort. Much more than VII.

gambits don't change the fact that the best course of action throughout the entirety of that garbage game is buffing your party and then auto attacking for 5 minutes

i can't think of a single encounter in the entire game that required anything more than that

[Positive Touch]

well there were opportunities to go after very hard levels and bosses right from the start of the game all the way up til after the final boss, so if you didnt push yourself and instead stayed in safe areas that you party could auto-win at then thats on you :shrug

[Himu]

If you set up an entire arrangement of gambits and then complain that the game plays itself you're a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow.

Also, XII has a lot of fights that require a lot of planning and effort. Much more than VII.

gambits don't change the fact that the best course of action throughout the entirety of that garbage game is buffing your party and then auto attacking for 5 minutes

i can't think of a single encounter in the entire game that required anything more than that

Someone tell me how this is possible against the mid and high end marks or the areas where you can accidentally fight enemies 30 levels above you, or in cases like the rains version of Giza Plains where you fight elementals that are level 30-40 at a very, very low level and go aggro on sight, or  in the case of certain weapons where you have to sneak into dungeons where enemies are double your level? Not to mention that about every dungeon has an extended part of the dungeon with high level monsters that will wreck your shit. It's totally different from my experience with FF12 in all the times I've played it. You may not like FF12, but it's not mindless.

Are they just doing the story and not exploring or what?

[magus]

reverse make you invincible by turning damage into heals and heals into damage and lure force every mob attack on your reversed character... and as long as your party is under haste effect, the window of time where you aren't under reverse effect become incredibly small... even if you don't abuse reverse bubble + protect/shell usualy bring someone to almost invincible level

http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/4605/t775389-reverse-spell-taking-piss/

[Himu]

I've never used nor bought Reverse and this is my first time ever hearing of it.

Apparently you can only get it after completing the Pharos. Which is the real final dungeon.

[Positive Touch]

I've never used nor bought Reverse and this is my first time ever hearing of it.

same

and again, it is completely optional whether or not you want to use it and break the game, unlike say ff7 where the game is piss-easy no matter what you do.

but i guess an rpg can seem boring if you look up game-breaking strategies on the internet instead of figuring out shit for yourself

[Rahxephon91]

Playing Memories of Celceta now... loving it so far but I'm not crazy about all the loot-y aspects of it. Part of why I love the Ys games so much is because they keep it simple; no extraneous subsystems like alchemy in it, but this game has a few things like that (trade in gold bars for gold ingots which you can use to make your Short Sword a Short Sword +1 with enhanced poison resistance). Thankfully it seems like it can be easily ignored for now. The world map seems rather large too, in a nice contrast from the super-small world of the last Ys game I played, #5. I just beat the river town quest so I'm not too far in, but overall I really like it.

Yeah I also picked this one up with my Vita. Hopefully it's as good as 7.

[magus]

well as i said even without reverse, you still have bubble which double your character hp (and i think also let you break the 9999) and lure which can force all of the boss attack on that single character, at which point it only become a matter of casting curaga a lot

[Himu]

I've never used nor bought Reverse and this is my first time ever hearing of it.

same

and again, it is completely optional whether or not you want to use it and break the game, unlike say ff7 where the game is piss-easy no matter what you do.

but i guess an rpg can seem boring if you look up game-breaking strategies on the internet instead of figuring out shit for yourself

Look up game breaking strategies on internet and complain about the games difficulty, brehs.

Complain about a games difficulty, when you use rare game breaking no one has heard of, brehettes.

Then again, Magus has always complained about stuff like this. He complains FFV is a broken game for using completely broken strategies.

DON'T USE THEM.

[magus]

I've never used nor bought Reverse and this is my first time ever hearing of it.

same

and again, it is completely optional whether or not you want to use it and break the game, unlike say ff7 where the game is piss-easy no matter what you do.

but i guess an rpg can seem boring if you look up game-breaking strategies on the internet instead of figuring out shit for yourself

Look up game breaking strategies on internet and complain about the games difficulty, brehs.

Complain about a games difficulty, when you use rare game breaking no one has heard of, brehettes.

Then again, Magus has always complained about stuff like this. He complains FFV is a broken game for using completely broken strategies.

DON'T USE THEM.

lure + bubble is hardly the super secret strategy that only internet people could think about and it is how i did most of the game and if something as simple as "one guy tank and the other heal him" is good enough for most of the game then it means your battle system isn't great to begin with (something from which xenoblade also suffers BADLY)

but keep hating on FF7 bro's

[Himu]

If you set up an entire arrangement of gambits and then complain that the game plays itself you're a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow.

Also, XII has a lot of fights that require a lot of planning and effort. Much more than VII.

gambits don't change the fact that the best course of action throughout the entirety of that garbage game is buffing your party and then auto attacking for 5 minutes

i can't think of a single encounter in the entire game that required anything more than that

Someone tell me how this is possible against the mid and high end marks or the areas where you can accidentally fight enemies 30 levels above you, or in cases like the rains version of Giza Plains where you fight elementals that are level 30-40 at a very, very low level and go aggro on sight, or  in the case of certain weapons where you have to sneak into dungeons where enemies are double your level? Not to mention that about every dungeon has an extended part of the dungeon with high level monsters that will wreck your shit. It's totally different from my experience with FF12 in all the times I've played it. You may not like FF12, but it's not mindless.

Are they just doing the story and not exploring or what?

Probably.  That's how most people play FF games.  Unless they have OCD, people tend to only chase down bonus content if they enjoyed the main game.  A lot of people didn't enjoy FF12's main game, so of course they wouldn't look into bonus stuff.

Well, even just doing the story is enough for someone to accidentally go into some random cave and there be a mass of  poisonous frogs that are 20 levels above you, and you have to run your ass out of the dungeon by the skin of your teeth, because you're being chased by very, very bad dudes. Or in some story dungeons, such as I think, Henne Mines, where you're ambushed by 12 or so flans. Items such as Ethers are rare and sometimes expensive in FFXII so you can wear yourself out with ease. Then there's things like the mines where the ghosts come out if you don't kill the mimics quick enough, and you can be easily overwhelmed by the ghosts if you aren't strong enough. I'm hardly bad at rpgs - I pride myself in that I'm pretty good with them, and I'm a very, very experienced player, and found some areas of FF12 - even story areas - to be extremely well balanced for a 3d Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy, period.

[Himu]

I've never used nor bought Reverse and this is my first time ever hearing of it.

same

and again, it is completely optional whether or not you want to use it and break the game, unlike say ff7 where the game is piss-easy no matter what you do.

but i guess an rpg can seem boring if you look up game-breaking strategies on the internet instead of figuring out shit for yourself

Look up game breaking strategies on internet and complain about the games difficulty, brehs.

Complain about a games difficulty, when you use rare game breaking no one has heard of, brehettes.

Then again, Magus has always complained about stuff like this. He complains FFV is a broken game for using completely broken strategies.

DON'T USE THEM.

lure + bubble is hardly the super secret strategy that only internet people could think about and it is how i did most of the game and if something as simple as "one guy tank and the other heal him" is good enough for most of the game then it means your battle system isn't great to begin with (something from which xenoblade also suffers BADLY)

but keep hating on FF7 bro's

I'm not hating on FF7. I love 7. I just find it funny how someone whose favorite game of all time is FF7, has issues with FF12 being "broken" or "too easy". It's comedy to me.

[Himu]

I just patched FFVI Advance and HOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY SHIT.

[Rufus]

Why was the original sound quality so low? "Optimized" for the crappy built-in speakers?

[Himu]

GBA cannot handle FFIV-VI sound quality.

I decided to play snes version. Haven't played Woosely one in over ten years and I prefer the darks in the colors in she's version.

[StealthFan]

I don't care for Zack in Crisis Core. Playable character should've been Sephiroth (who I never cared for) or Angeal. I get that Zack is the opposite of Cloud, but his happy go lucky attitude can be silly at times and rob scenes of drama.

[Himu]

If you don't play as Zack there's no point to Crisis Core existing.

[StealthFan]

I've been playing Def Jam: Fight For NY Takedown instead today I'll get back to Crisis Core soon.

[Yulwei]

I've been playing Def Jam: Fight For NY Takedown instead today I'll get back to Crisis Core soon.

You keep playing these awesome games from gen 6  makes me want to go back and play them too.

building your character and gradually creating your own style of martial arts felt so fucking rewarding in that game.

[Beezy]

AKI games were the only wrestling games I ever truly loved. :'(

[StealthFan]

man I haven't been able to put this shit down. So piff. Goddamn. I just finished the first tournament and got recruited by D-Mob. Some of these fights get my pulse racing. I barely won against that bitch Warren G.

[SantaC]

And all of VII's fights boil down to hitting attack. What's your point?

that resetting the game several times for the golden chocobo required at least more effort than programming a macro to let the game play itself

all of the FF12 fight boils down to casting, bubble,lure,hastega,curaga,bravery and occasionaly reverse so i'm not sure why you guys are getting your panties in a twist

in FF12 int - only the white mage class has access to hastega and curaja.

ah... that i'm curios, did they modify bubble in any way? what class would be able to cast it? if i remember right there is an accessory that auto-cast bubble on you so i guess that setup would still be doable

my mistake. Only Time mage class has access to hastega and only white mage class has access to curaja.

[SantaC]

I've never used nor bought Reverse and this is my first time ever hearing of it.

same

and again, it is completely optional whether or not you want to use it and break the game, unlike say ff7 where the game is piss-easy no matter what you do.

but i guess an rpg can seem boring if you look up game-breaking strategies on the internet instead of figuring out shit for yourself

Look up game breaking strategies on internet and complain about the games difficulty, brehs.

Complain about a games difficulty, when you use rare game breaking no one has heard of, brehettes.

Then again, Magus has always complained about stuff like this. He complains FFV is a broken game for using completely broken strategies.

DON'T USE THEM.

lure + bubble is hardly the super secret strategy that only internet people could think about and it is how i did most of the game and if something as simple as "one guy tank and the other heal him" is good enough for most of the game then it means your battle system isn't great to begin with (something from which xenoblade also suffers BADLY)

but keep hating on FF7 bro's

I'm not hating on FF7. I love 7. I just find it funny how someone whose favorite game of all time is FF7, has issues with FF12 being "broken" or "too easy". It's comedy to me.

seriously. FF7 is the easiest FF game ever and Sepiroth as the last boss was a big joke.

and if anyone is complaining at FF12's battle system, it still has more depth then any FF13 game.

[magus]

I've never used nor bought Reverse and this is my first time ever hearing of it.

same

and again, it is completely optional whether or not you want to use it and break the game, unlike say ff7 where the game is piss-easy no matter what you do.

but i guess an rpg can seem boring if you look up game-breaking strategies on the internet instead of figuring out shit for yourself

Look up game breaking strategies on internet and complain about the games difficulty, brehs.

Complain about a games difficulty, when you use rare game breaking no one has heard of, brehettes.

Then again, Magus has always complained about stuff like this. He complains FFV is a broken game for using completely broken strategies.

DON'T USE THEM.

lure + bubble is hardly the super secret strategy that only internet people could think about and it is how i did most of the game and if something as simple as "one guy tank and the other heal him" is good enough for most of the game then it means your battle system isn't great to begin with (something from which xenoblade also suffers BADLY)

but keep hating on FF7 bro's

I'm not hating on FF7. I love 7. I just find it funny how someone whose favorite game of all time is FF7, has issues with FF12 being "broken" or "too easy". It's comedy to me.

Why? I never said battle are one of the reason i like FF7 but i do find it funny that you guys are going "bububu FF7 is soooooooo easy" because

1) FF7 is not easier or harder than so many other classic including your dear suikoden
2) it's some extreme jumping to conclusion and "my FF is better than your FF" that only himu-chan could pull off, like the videogame equivalent of "well then i guess you think Hitler did nothing wrong" FF12 is still boring,gambit remove control from the player, treasure chest more often than not contain complete junk, a good chunk of the game is spent with your character traversing empty big deserts to the point they feel like the game needed a speed up button to "skip the boring part" and for all the talk about it's combat depth several encounter can be cheesed by just having one guy tanking all the hit, a strategy that has been a thing since modern MMO existed... that's what we were talking about and i'm not sure about how FF7 being easy influence this...

[a slime appears]

I'm playing all the games I bought from that flash 99˘ PSN sale.

Going through OG Spyro right now. It still holds up as a great kid's game.

[Himu]

I don't care if you don't play FF for combat. The fact you have such odd complaints towards XII's combat, which is deep, feature rich, and for the most part, well balanced while your favorite FF is VII, the game with 4x Cut, Quatra Magic, and Mime is hilarious.

[magus]

I don't care if you don't play FF for combat. The fact you have such odd complaints towards XII's combat, which is deep, feature rich, and for the most part, well balanced while your favorite FF is VII, the game with 4x Cut, Quatra Magic, and Mime is hilarious.

oh when it comes to reverse he's all like "well then don't use it,you can get it only on the last stretch of the game" but when it comes to FF7 endgame it's hilarious

 

i don't know why i bother everytime

[Himu]

FFVII has far more ways to break the doors down. Get real. I didn't even mention KOTR.

I've played FFXII three times and never even heard of or seen Reverse. But you get 2x Cut without searching. In XII, you have to EARN bubble by killing marks for points. You don't automatically get it, and it is easily avoidable.

You get mime and 2x cut just doing the story.

[magus]

were the story is catching a chocobo,mating it with another particular chocobo to get a blue chocobo then getting a green chocobo and going on a cave that you have no idea knowing to exist... it takes more effort to get KOTR than what it takes to defeat the final boss without KOTR



meanwhile reverse is sold in a shop, you go there and you buy it but you never heard of this mystical magical spell until today

[Positive Touch]

shut up dammit

[Himu]

Every time you complain about how broken a game is. I'm going to bring up how your favorite game is FFVII.

[magus]

Every time you complain about how broken a game is. I'm going to bring up how your favorite game is FFVII.

that is so childish and petty i have no answer that is mocking enough and that it doesn't make me sound like a twat (well a bigger twat than usual i guess )

[SantaC]

were the story is catching a chocobo,mating it with another particular chocobo to get a blue chocobo then getting a green chocobo and going on a cave that you have no idea knowing to exist... it takes more effort to get KOTR than what it takes to defeat the final boss without KOTR



meanwhile reverse is sold in a shop, you go there and you buy it but you never heard of this mystical magical spell until today

jesus man, here I am talking about FF12int and you bring up FF12 vanilla I guess? Reserve is harder to obtain in the improved version.

[a slime appears]

OG spyro looks like pixel triangle vomit

It's got DAT NASTEE POLY WIGGLE, son!

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lol fixed point math

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[Rahxephon91]

Gravity Rush is growing on me. What an awesome game. The ost! The art! The charm! The gameplay!

JAPANESE GAMING!

[demi]

Its kinda boring.

[cool breeze]

Gravity Rush is growing on me. What an awesome game. The ost! The art! The charm! The gameplay!

JAPANESE GAMING!

The presentation and mechanics of Gravity Daze are so much fun that I can ignore that it's a fairly shallow game with uninteresting mission designs.  But yeah, I had more fun simply flying (falling) around the world and collecting orbs than I did playing most games.  Very happy it's getting a sequel, and I'm hoping that sequel is on another platform.

[Rahxephon91]

I also just like flying around, because honestly the combat is kind of meh. But yeah, it's really the whole package that makes the game pretty enjoyable.

[chronovore]

AKI games were the only wrestling games I ever truly loved. :'(

You should try gamecube's WrestleMania X8, X9, and the Day of Reckoning games. They had AKI game design staff working on them.

[StealthFan]

My God I steamrolled through Def Jam. I'll try the other modes tomorrow

[Bebpo]

I just tried playing Broken Sword 5 part 2 and I have no idea who any of the characters are and what the story is about and now I kind of feel like replaying the first part.


I'm so glad I'm waiting to play Broken Age part 1 until part 2 is out

Episodic gaming does not gel with my short-term memory.

[chronovore]

AKI games were the only wrestling games I ever truly loved. :'(

You should try gamecube's WrestleMania X8, X9, and the Day of Reckoning games. They had AKI game design staff working on them.

X8 and X9 are probably not really decent anymore but I enjoyed them at the time, X9 has a weird ass Road To Wrestlemania where you beat the shit out of security guards in a mall. I've never tried the Day Of Reckoning games but I always heard great things.

Is it me, or is the last time wrestling games mattered was the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox era? Even the Dreamcast had it's ow dedicated WWE game in Royal Rumble, which was a fun arcade game.

Yeah, I dunno. I haven't kept up with this current generation's offerings. I was strictly last-gen, though I have been tempted to get XBLA Fire Pro Wrestling on several occasions.

The problem is the same thing which WWE faces in its programming: no competition.

Yuke's has two studios: Yokohama and Sakai. The former does Smackdown, and the latter did all the Gamecube titles, and later the UFC games. So X8, X9, DOR, and DOR2 were all Sakai. Wrestlemania became DOR, which were extensions of WM's modes and abilities, but the same fundamental, built-by-former-AKI-staff fighting system.

[magus]

binding of isaac

well after i think a dozen of tries i've finaly reached mom at least, the funny thing is i had the lamest setup ever, no quad shot, no explosive shot, no nothing... i just got lucky and didn't meet many enemies on the depths/necropolis

that said, is it me or a lot of powerup in this game are traps? charge weapon sucks a lot in this game, in one run i got an item that let me shot charged bubble and it was awfull, in another i got the IPEMAC and i tought having explosive shot would be the most amazing thing ever but your shot become so slow it become useless against normal fast enemies, i had a game where i couldn't proceed because there was no way to hit whatever i needed to kill

 

[fistfulofmetal]

yeah, that's kind of the point. some powerups work great in certain scenarios and suck in others. some powerups are straight up shitty.

[Yulwei]

They can also serve as good ways to challenge yourself once you're tired of playing around with the good power ups.

[tiesto]

My Project Diva F2 copy from playasia has finally arrived! And fuck, this game is a LOT harder than the first. Maybe my rhythm game skills are rusty, but I was failing a lot of the stuff on normal... gf was over so I can just say I was a bit distracted trying to show off my skills to her... So far this is my favorite track:

[chronovore]

PvZ: Garden Warfare -- continues to be awesome. My son's getting much better at it as well, so we'll trade turns, passing the controller back and forth. He is becoming better than I am at it! Garlic Drone multi-kills are his specialty.

Deadlight -- continues to be mediocre. I'm in the Rat Man's maze at this point, where the game gives you insta-kill deaths for moves you've never had to pull off before. I can think about so many ways to improve the learning curve. It's sad.

GTA Online -- Only remaining 'cheevo: Level 100; I'm 81 now. Still enjoying this, but really want more stuff available. I can never tell how and why Armored Cars or Crates spawn in Free Mode. It seems like they only happen during Rockstar-promoted events, like double-RP weekends? It's difficult to drop into this type of deathmatch after PVZ is SO GOOD.

Hearthstone -- installing this was a bad idea. I was done with CCGs, as they tickle all the right spots. I'm not very good at it, but I have fun playing. I only dislike it when the other opponent tries to bore me into a win during their turn.

edit: Tower of Guns -- FPS rogue like done by one dude. It was a deal-of-the-day a bit ago, and finally dropped on Steam, so I got a retroactive steam code for it. It's pretty sweet for a one dude game!

[Purple Filth]

yeah, that's kind of the point. some powerups work great in certain scenarios and suck in others. some powerups are straight up shitty.

yea its funny when you realize that brimstone can be a shitty one after more time with the game

[hampster]

I bought the Secrets of Grindea pre-order/beta. The interface could use some work but it seems very polished for something so early. I think its going to be a big success for the devs once finished or hits steam early access. I love attention to minor details like how barrels break in an amusing way

I haven't started the story mode yet. I've just given arcade mode a few runs

[magus]

i've played this really dumb freeware game that only last around a hour at top called mimicry man

basicaly you are a mimick (one of those monster that pretend to be a treasure chest) and your job is to slay the hero but the only way for you to get to the hero is to attract him with a legendary weapon, but the thing is that you obviously don't have any legendary weapon on you, so to do so you need to attract and kill other smaller NPC for their item and work your way up to the point where you finaly get the blade

so for example the first monster you attract is a slime which give you an herb, you then use the herb to attract a zebra which drop meat, the meat is then used to attract a thief which drop bread, with the bread (and another meat) from the zebra you can create an hamburger, you then use the hamburger to get another item and so on and on... it's really dumb but i found it enjoyable



if you want to give it a try

http://vgperson.com/games/mimicryman.htm

[a slime appears]

Octodad is pretty fun!

[Rufus]

Finally played Vanquish. Pretty short, but then again I only content-toured my way through it, so whatever. Plays great, but I missed a quick turn of some kind. Unless I've actually missed something that was there... I didn't really touch the alternate weapons much, but the assoult riflle, LMG and shotgun felt pretty great. Not so hot on the upgrade system though. Seemed pointless. Boss fights kind of sucked, too. Way too many repeats.
Gonna watch some videos of people who know this in and out.

[magus]

Binding of Isaac

finaly defeated mom... i seems to understand i need to beat the game again and then beat the game again several times to truly consider the game cleared? i'm not sure i want to bother
 

[Raban]

Yeah if you're tired of it feel free to quit, beating Mom is really only half-way to the real ending of the game.

[Joe Molotov]

Binding of Isaac

finaly defeated mom... i seems to understand i need to beat the game again and then beat the game again several times to truly consider the game cleared? i'm not sure i want to bother
 

Congrats on beating the prologue. 

[chronovore]

Binding of Isaac

finaly defeated mom... i seems to understand i need to beat the game again and then beat the game again several times to truly consider the game cleared? i'm not sure i want to bother

Is that considered the Evilore ending?

[CajoleJuice]

Binding of Isaac

finaly defeated mom... i seems to understand i need to beat the game again and then beat the game again several times to truly consider the game cleared? i'm not sure i want to bother

Is that considered the Evilore ending?

you mean amir0x?

edit: oops, read that as beat mom

[chronovore]

Oh, right. Yeah. I knew you guys talked about one of those dudes having a screaming match with his mother, but can never remember who it was.

I'm not actually aware of NeoGAF except peripherally. I have an account there, used it to subscribe to and monitor threads related to games I was on.

[chronovore]

Holy shitcakes. I'm of the "never hit a girl" mindset; I can't even imagine what it would take to get me to attack my own mother. Christ, pretty sure I caused her enough pain on the day we met.