What are you playing?

[Joe Molotov]

how awesome is last remnant pc? so awesome.

how awful is heavy rain? so awful.

Real Talk up in here.

[demi]

If you guys were afraid of Final Fantasy 13's "all items" achievement - IU shoves its bare cock in its butt and makes it lick its poop.

[Rman]

Is there a similar achievement in IU?

[demi]

Yea... obtain 1 of every item in the game.

Except there are missable items, items that disappear after so long into the story (which are required to craft more items, making those items missable), items in shops that disappear after so long which would make crafting quicker but since they're gone you have to sit down and craft those items to craft more items... and one item for defeating the final boss in the optional dungeon.

So anyone complaining about FF13 needs to eat a peepee, that shit is child's play... lmao

[naff]

Lost Odyssey ups the ante on both those cheevs, requiring you collect EVERY item in the game you can find. This includes shit in environmental objects like pots, paintings on walls, cupboards and other random environment specific objects. Yes you have to find every random piece of shit in the whole game, I don't really care bout cheevs so I didn't care but Scenester got pretty pissed about it. Most ridiculous achievement ever.

[demi]

Lost Odyssey is the easiest game for that achievement, zero grind involved. Scenester is just lazy.

I would rank them as

1. Blue Dragon (missable items for the easiest things, required grinding to Level 99 - unrelated to treasures but in general)
2. IU (missable items, crafting, grind involved to defeat final optional boss for 1 item)
3. FF13 (not much grind involved to reach max, just lots of unnecessary farming for Ingots and Traps, nothing missable unless you really tried)
4. LO (zero grind, nothing missable)

Vesperia had one too but I dont think it was that bad, least I can remember. If I had to place it, it would go between IU and FF13

[Beezy]

Lost Odyssey ups the ante on both those cheevs, requiring you collect EVERY item in the game you can find. This includes shit in environmental objects like pots, paintings on walls, cupboards and other random environment specific objects. Yes you have to find every random piece of shit in the whole game, I don't really care bout cheevs so I didn't care but Scenester got pretty pissed about it. Most ridiculous achievement ever.

Didn't know this. I probably could've got this achievement if I did. Doubt that I'll ever go back to it.

[Ichirou]

I don't think Atelier games are embarrassing to play.  I just don't think they have much appeal to men.  They seem very much aimed at women.  It's like reading shoujo manga; nothing wrong with it if you find something you enjoy.

Thanks... I didnt know how to put it in words

Tales games are also aimed at women, btw.

[demi]

Majority of RPGs are aimed at girls. But Altelier games take it to a whole new level that arent meant for normal people

[Ichirou]

Well, as a guy, I agree it would be pretty embarrassing to get caught playing an Atelier game.  You are not the target audience.  It's like a middle-aged man watching Sailor Moon.

[chronovore]

Beyond Good and Evil. Awesome game so far, just really easy. Not a huge fan of the archetype used for Pey'j but I can deal. Really hope to see a next-gen follow-up to this.

BG&E was one of my favorite games from last gen. Lots of places to go, people to see, the camera mechanic is a lot of fun. Jade's a fun heroine who is easy to root for. I may have 100% in it, I can't recall. I got everything for the ship, finished all the side stuff, and filled up the naturalist's book. I was not fond of the final boss; I think I passed it on the first try, but I thought the mechanic was cheap. You'll see.

So, yeah. Red Dead Redemption finally arrived last night. Just riding around is so pretty. The skies! And there are little things going on all around. I saw a deer; it spooked immediately, and was heading into a valley -- so I dropped off the horse, went in to dead-eye mode, everything went silent and calm, and I pulled a long, long shot as only its head was visible. Wasn't even sure if I'd made the shot until I rode up and saw the carcass. Draggin' that deer meat and hide into town for a trade. Some old jackass in longjohns comes running out from an alley, chasing down a painted lady with his carving knife. Dropped him with a shot to the leg, and the lady said some nice things to me.

Pretty sure I am going to say goodbye to all other games for a bit.

[Cormacaroni]

I played RDR for about 6hrs before finding out about dead-eye mode btw. #fail

[chronovore]

I either did it by accident, or muscle memory from Red Dead Revolver. #spaz

[magus]

Majority of RPGs are aimed at girls. But Altelier games take it to a whole new level that arent meant for normal people

mmm... am i missing something or are we talking about those games that stays only in japan and of which only one was released here? did demi suddenly turn japanese

[tiesto]

magus, there were 3 Atelier Iris games released in the US on PS2... they're more traditional/orthodox RPGs than the rest of the Atelier series though.

I am still playing RoF. Game is getting a good deal harder, it really wants me to make the most out of my items and special ammo... About to start chapter 13. Thinking of doing the bonus dungeon in it too, as well as all the Arena battles.

[magus]

magus, there were 3 Atelier Iris games released in the US on PS2... they're more traditional/orthodox RPGs than the rest of the Atelier series though.

I am still playing RoF. Game is getting a good deal harder, it really wants me to make the most out of my items and special ammo... About to start chapter 13. Thinking of doing the bonus dungeon in it too, as well as all the Arena battles.

i know i know! i love gust game and played every single gust game released in the us... i was just accusing demi of being a closet weeaboo since he seems to know more about atelier than me

anyway i beated that boss on blue dragon,buffing did wonders altough i can't help but wonder WHY THE HECK IS THE DEFENSIVE BUFF NOT ON THE SHADOW WITH DEFENSIVE SKILL!
jesus this game is distinguished mentally-challenged

uh anyway... i had a question,when you select party member under their portrait there is a shadow below them,for example shu has the dragon shadow,while the robo has the robot shadow... is this just a suggestion as to what shadow pair with them or does something happen if you give the dragon shadow to shu and so on?

[bork]

Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines - On several occasions I've made a valiant attempt to complete what I consider to be one of the best Western RPGs of the past ten years, but the greatness of the first two-thirds fades quickly in the final stretch and I'm left with little desire to continue. As with Arcanum, there are numerous problems here, many of which are fixed by the fans but far from all, that are thankfully overshadowed by greatness elsewhere. It's also probably one of the best pieces of vampire fiction this side of Bram Stoker.

I've had this game since it came out.  It has never ran well enough on any of the PCs I have owned since 2004.    

[Don Flamenco]

It's pretty unoptimized, but it runs fine with some lower settings on my 2008 macbook unibody (2.2 ghz c2D, nvidia 9400m, 2gb ddr3)

[Bebpo]

magus, there were 3 Atelier Iris games released in the US on PS2... they're more traditional/orthodox RPGs than the rest of the Atelier series though.

I am still playing RoF. Game is getting a good deal harder, it really wants me to make the most out of my items and special ammo... About to start chapter 13. Thinking of doing the bonus dungeon in it too, as well as all the Arena battles.

i know i know! i love gust game and played every single gust game released in the us... i was just accusing demi of being a closet weeaboo since he seems to know more about atelier than me

anyway i beated that boss on blue dragon,buffing did wonders altough i can't help but wonder WHY THE HECK IS THE DEFENSIVE BUFF NOT ON THE SHADOW WITH DEFENSIVE SKILL!
jesus this game is distinguished mentally-challenged

uh anyway... i had a question,when you select party member under their portrait there is a shadow below them,for example shu has the dragon shadow,while the robo has the robot shadow... is this just a suggestion as to what shadow pair with them or does something happen if you give the dragon shadow to shu and so on?

Yeah, everyone has a recommended shadow and they get better stats and maybe other advantages like faster xp growth when using them. 

I think I  stuck with shu (dragon), shiro (whatever he uses in the first game), and the robot dude using the beetle.  Shu had attacking and attack buffs I think, shiro had healing and some buffs, and robot had def buffs.  Later on though I switched out robot/beetle for one of the attack buff ones.

[Barry Egan]

I just lost my save file for chrono trigger 

[Cindi Mayweather]

omg where were you

[Barry Egan]

I was just about to get the red stone from 65,000,000 BC 

[OptimoPeach]

Time to download someone else's save and fire up the save state editor

http://www.fantasyanime.com/squaresoft/ctsaves-enhasa.htm
http://www.zophar.net/utilities/snescheat/chrono-trigger-savestate-editor.html

[Cindi Mayweather]

Were you going to resurrect Crono? I haven't played snes version in a long time and saves and batteries are partly why. Every time I load up my LttP cart, my saves are gone.

[Barry Egan]

There hasn't even been reference to Chrono yet.

Thanks Optimo but I'm running on a

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[OptimoPeach]

[Cindi Mayweather]

Wait, is this your first time playing CT?

[Barry Egan]

yep

[Cindi Mayweather]

Oh fuck

[magus]

Oh fuck

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he dies for like less than 30 minutes anyway

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[Cindi Mayweather]

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that's only if you choose to resurrect

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[Trent Dole]

At the end of FFXIII in need of some grinding to defeat the last round of bosses and have been ignoring said tedium in favor of Smackdown vs. Raw 2010.

[OptimoPeach]

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that's only if you choose to resurrect

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Is there even any reason not to aside from one of the bazillion endings? I can't remember, and when I tried to Google it all I could find was some ugly 3D port of the game titled Chrono Trigger: Resurrection

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[Cindi Mayweather]

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that's only if you choose to resurrect

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Is there even any reason not to aside from one of the bazillion endings? I can't remember, and when I tried to Google it all I could find was some ugly 3D port of the game titled Chrono Trigger: Resurrection

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Well it certainly makes the make more challenging, I think

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[magus]

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that's only if you choose to resurrect

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Is there even any reason not to aside from one of the bazillion endings? I can't remember, and when I tried to Google it all I could find was some ugly 3D port of the game titled Chrono Trigger: Resurrection

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nope! you know i really hate when they kill a character for such a short amount of time,it feels like "dude we have to add drama to this story! what can we do?" "let's kill a character for 5 minutes!" "yay!"

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[Cindi Mayweather]

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How is the Crono's death only five minutes long? You have to get the Epoch and then do sidequests to resurrect Crono. It's hardly five minutes.

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[magus]

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How is the Crono's death only five minutes long? You have to get the Epoch and then do sidequests to resurrect Crono. It's hardly five minutes.

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i wasn't speaking specificaly about chrono trigger,i was talking in general

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[Great Rumbler]

Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines - On several occasions I've made a valiant attempt to complete what I consider to be one of the best Western RPGs of the past ten years, but the greatness of the first two-thirds fades quickly in the final stretch and I'm left with little desire to continue. As with Arcanum, there are numerous problems here, many of which are fixed by the fans but far from all, that are thankfully overshadowed by greatness elsewhere. It's also probably one of the best pieces of vampire fiction this side of Bram Stoker.

I've had this game since it came out.  It has never ran well enough on any of the PCs I have owned since 2004.    

Have you downloaded the latest fan patch? I don't know if that would do much for performance, but it certainly wouldn't make it any worse.

[ManaByte]

About 30% of the way through Batman GOTY. Probably going to try to 1000 it.

[Cindi Mayweather]

rumbler, go into the console and get yourself max stats like me. Makes playing through Bloodlines 999 x more fun.

[Great Rumbler]

rumbler, go into the console and get yourself max stats like me. Makes playing through Bloodlines 999 x more fun.

I really like building up my stats though. I will, however, switch God Mode on to get through the final few hours.

[cool breeze]

Green Day Rock Band (demo) sucks

[demi]

Rock Band sucks

co-sign

[archie4208]

Rock Band sucks

co-sign

Rock Band 3 is going to have keyboards.  HMX

[pilonv1]

Rock Band 3 can finally support the awesomeness of They Might Be Giants

[Joe Molotov]

But first, they're going to hold RB3 hostage while they release the regrettable Green Day Rock Band.

[bork]

Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines - On several occasions I've made a valiant attempt to complete what I consider to be one of the best Western RPGs of the past ten years, but the greatness of the first two-thirds fades quickly in the final stretch and I'm left with little desire to continue. As with Arcanum, there are numerous problems here, many of which are fixed by the fans but far from all, that are thankfully overshadowed by greatness elsewhere. It's also probably one of the best pieces of vampire fiction this side of Bram Stoker.

I've had this game since it came out.  It has never ran well enough on any of the PCs I have owned since 2004.    

Have you downloaded the latest fan patch? I don't know if that would do much for performance, but it certainly wouldn't make it any worse.

Yeah, nothing helped.  Now I *am* trying to play it on an HP Mini 311 netbook, but I don't see why it wouldn't be able to handle a game that old.  I can run other similar games just fine.  It was just as choppy and unplayable on my older top-of-the-line Alienware laptop back in 2004.  I figure when I finally get a nice powerful desktop I'll finally be able to play it.  Maybe. 

[Great Rumbler]

It works just fine on my 8800 GT, never had any performance problems at all.

[chronovore]

Rock Band 3 can finally support the awesomeness of They Might Be Giants

I knew there was a reason I liked you.

The Two Johns

I was just looking for any TMBG on Rock Band Network last night. None as of yet. Probably never?

[Barry Egan]

LOL I just remembered who "Chronos" is.  smh Himu.

[Cindi Mayweather]

[Raban]

Gonna go back to Perfect Dark XBLA and try to finish it. This game is so good. Like wow. Best console shooter of all time.

[Eric P]

i was kind of bored with playing nothing but open world action games, so i loaded up Arcanum again and am playing a racist sword fighting elf.

[Brehvolution]

I let a friend borrow Madden so I wouldn't be distracted from finishing RDR.

[iconoclast]

I've been playing a decent amount of Mushihime Futari 1.5 lately. I think I'll finally dedicate the time and practice it takes to clear this game. I just made it up to the final boss (Larsa) with 3 lives left but I still died because I was using fucking Reco. She kills bosses so slowly and Larsa has some really hard patterns that get tougher the longer they last. I at least managed a new highscore (201m) and the achievement associated with it, so I'm satisfied for now. Guess it's time to hit training mode.

I just wish Reco's laser was a little stronger. Obviously her advantage over Palm is her spread-shot, so a weaker laser is to be expected. But she probably takes twice as long to kill bosses, and that can cause some problems. In Black Label, they basically gave her the boss-killing power of Palm, which explains why I cleared that game in just a few tries. overpowered characters

[Smooth Groove]

ME2. Insanity

Just spam fireballs like Ryu.


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[demi]

lol BUT GUYS ITS SO HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bebpo]

I hope I'll be able to enjoy ME2 after Alpha Protocol.  I really think it'll be hard to play Bioware/Bethesda stuff after this where your dialogue choices are like GOOD/NEUTRAL/EVIL 
I was trying to replay ME1 last week so I can bring the save into ME2 and ME1 is ughhhh these days.

[Beezy]

I hope I'll be able to enjoy ME2 after Alpha Protocol.  I really think it'll be hard to play Bioware/Bethesda stuff after this where your dialogue choices are like GOOD/NEUTRAL/EVIL 
I was trying to replay ME1 last week so I can bring the save into ME2 and ME1 is ughhhh these days.

[Smooth Groove]

I hope I'll be able to enjoy ME2 after Alpha Protocol.  I really think it'll be hard to play Bioware/Bethesda stuff after this where your dialogue choices are like GOOD/NEUTRAL/EVIL 
I was trying to replay ME1 last week so I can bring the save into ME2 and ME1 is ughhhh these days.

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Sorry, Bebpo, but you're totally off the mark here!