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Blasted · Post by **Blasted** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 4:20 am

I think you mean kkrieger

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 12:23 pm

Yeah, I've heard of that.

The underlying operating principle of these things is apparently having a complex creation routine with a unique result for each seed, presumably using "random" generation.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:42 pm

Blasted wrote:I think you mean kkrieger

Yes, I believe you're correct. The name and website look familiar. When I finish my library shift, maybe I'll try downloading the game again.

Also:
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/sk ... fieds2.php

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 4:07 am

Okay, FUCK the skyrim mage's guild quest tree.

So, there's this artifact called the Eye of Magus. The people in the college itself don't know what to make of it but all agree it is quite shiny. This mysterious guy from a mysterious order of mages shows up and tells you, specifically, that bad shit will go down in relation to it and you need to talk to this magical construct thing who says more or less the same thing and you need to get a staff.

What neither of them tell you, and you can't ask, is anything detailed about said bad shit. So, currently I'm off to claim a magical artifact of powers I'm unaware of to mitigate a disaster of unknown type on the order of an all-knowing asshole who refuses to tell me anything.

Meanwhile, I'm on a quest tree that terminates with killing the emperor for the DB. That is awesome.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:35 pm

Not actually owning the game, i'd guess that the mysterious guy from the mysterious order of mages and the magical construct want you to get the thingamabob so they can start bad shit that will go down in relation to it.

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 3:20 am

I found the mage guild quest line to be pretty good, although I do wish those dwarven dungeons were just a bit smaller. That line, and the main story line, are the only major quest lines I've completed, all the others bored me or were bugged too badly to finish.

Zinegata · Post by **Zinegata** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 3:51 am

name_here wrote:Okay, FUCK the skyrim mage's guild quest tree.

So, there's this artifact called the Eye of Magus. The people in the college itself don't know what to make of it but all agree it is quite shiny. This mysterious guy from a mysterious order of mages shows up and tells you, specifically, that bad shit will go down in relation to it and you need to talk to this magical construct thing who says more or less the same thing and you need to get a staff.

What neither of them tell you, and you can't ask, is anything detailed about said bad shit. So, currently I'm off to claim a magical artifact of powers I'm unaware of to mitigate a disaster of unknown type on the order of an all-knowing asshole who refuses to tell me anything.

Meanwhile, I'm on a quest tree that terminates with killing the emperor for the DB. That is awesome.

Make sure to cast soultrap on him before you assassinate him, then turn him into some item for extra evil points.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:57 pm

For those interested:
OK Folks, look here:
http://www.mechlivinglegends.net/2011-1 ... open-beta/

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 7:09 am

So, I got Pokemon White for my cousin for Christmas, and want to set him up with a mewtwo and arceus in it, preferably putting them into the game before giving it to him.

I have:
Pokesav (lets me create AR codes and save files)
An Action Replay DSi
none of the usual flash cartridges or the like.

Anyone know of a way that I can do this without having to go over with my DS and Action Replay, tell him to open the present and start up a game, make the relevant choices, and then take over and save the game with the code activated? (B/W gives you your pokemon right as soon as the game starts, rather than you having to go find the professor)

Libertad · Post by **Libertad** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 7:15 am

Looks like Game Freak took an alternative formula to the Pokemon series...

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u34bzH5Eo04[/url]

POKEMON WARGAMING!!!

Feudal Japanese warlords using Pokemon in mass combat? This has potential...

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 11:00 pm

I got Dark Souls.

And I can take a hit from Havel!

...And for some reason, I got a Black Knight Sword or some such. When I was happy with my battle axe (power of 95), this thing had a power of 220.

Trying to get to where I can beat Havel, mind you.

Juton · Post by **Juton** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 12:21 am

Maxus wrote:Trying to get to where I can beat Havel, mind you.

Firebombs. Some people like to go in for the backstab but srsly firebombs.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 12:41 am

Juton wrote:
Maxus wrote:Trying to get to where I can beat Havel, mind you.
Firebombs. Some people like to go in for the backstab but srsly firebombs.

I've tried those. Maybe if I stripped off my armor to be able to run faster than he does and kept moving...

Juton · Post by **Juton** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 2:28 am

Maxus wrote:I've tried those. Maybe if I stripped off my armor to be able to run faster than he does and kept moving...

He won't step more than 10-20' out of the tower, so you can kite him from one of the entrances if you lead him up the tower.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 6:45 am

Juton wrote:
Maxus wrote:I've tried those. Maybe if I stripped off my armor to be able to run faster than he does and kept moving...
He won't step more than 10-20' out of the tower, so you can kite him from one of the entrances if you lead him up the tower.

I had one firebomb left when I was done, but it worked.

Thanks!

I'm also going to give a surprise to -someone- sooner or later. This Black Knight Sword is...eesh. The battle axe does ~70-90 to the ghoulies in Undead Burg a hit. This does 200+ a hit. The Taurus demon withstood about four hits before he died. Of course, I could take maybe three if it wasn't for healing, so it was a good round of rocket launcher tag...

Blicero · Post by **Blicero** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 10:38 am

The best way to kill the taurus demon is seriously just to keep luring it over to the tower and then downwardleapstabbing it until it dies. It took like four hits with an unenchanted scimitar, and I didn't get hit a single time.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 5:37 pm

Blicero wrote:The best way to kill the taurus demon is seriously just to keep luring it over to the tower and then downwardleapstabbing it until it dies. It took like four hits with an unenchanted scimitar, and I didn't get hit a single time.

I tried that and missed the stab and had to improvise because I was tired of the area.

TarkisFlux · Post by **TarkisFlux** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 7:18 pm

Also acquired the game, and it's refreshingly brutal. I'm enjoying just walking around exploring, even if I get randomly murdered from time to time.

As for the taurus demon...

I wound up letting him start his wind up animations, backing off, spell spamming it while it was in the middle of it's wind up animations, repeating that until I was backed into a corner, then rolling around it and starting over. I figure that's how I'm going to kill most things as a sorcerer, might as well start getting used to it.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 7:59 pm

Tip: Once you have the shortcut from the bonfire to the bridge drake, you can go upstairs, step out on the bridge and turn around and go down the stairs as he burns the whole surface clean--giving me 555 souls a pop. Run down, heal at the bonfire to let them recover, go back up to repeat.

I inadvertantly found this when I was experimenting to see if I could kill him some kind of way. So I'd die, go back up, grab my remains from the last time and noticed just how quickly it was going up for not much effort.

So, yeah, if anyone wants to be cheap, there's your free grinding session.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 7:19 pm

Well, I'm now one of the Jolly Co-operators on Dark Souls.

Lightning spear is fun to use.

Count Arioch the 28th · Wed Dec 28, 2011 1:21 am

I've been fighting a Skyrim addiction lately. Have three characters I alternate to get a feel for everything. Let me sum up on of the last legs of the Thieves' Guild quests:

"Hi, we're Brynjolf and Kariah. We are portrayed as epic thieves, but yet we break stealth and run into battle screaming like idiots if a Falmer so much as sneezes. Also, we like to run into the next room, gather every Falmer in the place, then run into the previous room where the Dragonborn is hiding so when we die they'll swarm her"

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 6:55 pm

Welp, I got a sack in Dark Souls. And I got to trade it for a Demon Great Hammer. It's a shame the fucker takes 46 strength to use one-handed. I'd have to go 21 levels with nothing but Strength increases...

I realized why I get such rockin' item drops. What with one thing and another, I'm generally walking around with humanity points, which increase the chances of drops.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Sun Jan 01, 2012 7:59 am

Cave Story Plus has some interesting holiday content.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sun Jan 01, 2012 9:02 pm

Now that I've had a day to cool off and analyze it rationally, I can come to a very level-headed and objective conclusion on one area of Dark Souls.

FUCK BLIGHTTOWN FUCK IT FUCK IT FUCK IT DKJHBDSJUHVJDGSVHGVDYUTGWVFYIENLOKINMO

It is at one of the best-designed areas I've ever seen in a game. It does what it was meant to do. Which is kill your soul. You're an outsider, alone in an utterly hostile environment you do not belong in. Everything in here is out to kill you. You are an interloper. I never felt so in tune with a character in one of these free-roam games than when I was in Blight Town.

I found the mid-way point bonfire. I kept dying past that, but got a little further each time. Eventually, I just wanted to turn around and find another way to the boss at the bottom, but I realized: I'd have to go back through all that mess!

Now, I have to admire the atmosphere of the place. If you've never played Dark Souls... shanty-town built on the sheer wall of a chasm, held together with string and habit. You see torches in the distance, here and there. You can see -maybe- 30 feet around you. Some things stand up against backgrounds, of course. If you plan to play Dark Souls, or you have it and have not yet reached Blight Town...

...You poor, poor bastard.

Now, you have ghouls who have a grapple attack which you can't shield-block and some of them use eviscerated corpses as clubs, ogres whose clubs are seeped in poison so getting hit twice together poisons you, and blowgun-using snipers who wear dark brown, stand on dark brown wooden platforms and shacks, in the black distance, and their blowdarts don't make much sound, so you often only know they're there when you've been hit with toxin (poison's big brother, just like Pokemon. Will kill you within 20 seconds), fire-breathing dogs who are small enough to go under some of your attacks, fire-breathing insects, giant poison-inflicting mosquitos, poisonous swamp water that you'll have to run across SOMETIME, even bigger ogres who can bowl or throw boulders, and all the geographical fun and joy you can expect from a shanty town made by unskilled laborers who have gone insane one way or another.

And at the bottom, you have the honor of fighting a lovely witch who got corrupted into something...

...bad.

Juton · Post by **Juton** » Sun Jan 01, 2012 10:53 pm

What I really like is that Blighttown is something you do only once. By that I mean is that after that you get the master key, then you can get to Quelaag without going through Blighttown. It has some nice loot though.