Video Games

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 3:23 am

Don't play me like that, Koumei.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 6:57 am

WoW would be better if they didn't focus on letting people getting endlesly better gear than you to kill your quest givers and challenges where you have to run through a gauntlet of players you can't (not won't or aren't able to) kill to finish a quest objective that you then have to share with them.

The raids are fine - if they weren't the one and only way to play past a certain point.

-Crissa

shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:05 am

Spent a few "fun" hours today playing an old favorite on a 25Mhz machine.

>Q
>"What do you want to quaff?"

Ah, fighting those letter Z's were always the death of me in Rogue.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:30 am

I play that on my Mac. Of course, any system with enough disk space can play it.

-Crissa

Manxome · Post by **Manxome** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:47 am

Crissa wrote:WoW would be better if they didn't focus on letting people getting endlesly better gear than you to kill your quest givers and challenges where you have to run through a gauntlet of players you can't (not won't or aren't able to) kill to finish a quest objective that you then have to share with them.

Now there's a sentence that could make a badly-written sentence feel better about itself.

Draco_Argentum · Post by **Draco_Argentum** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:31 am

rapa-nui wrote:Dragon Age Origins is ace. I'm playing it on hard and it doesn't disappoint. It's not perfect, but then what is?

My biggest gripe is the facial animations look wrong in an uncanny valley way. They're not quite human and its distracting. The glow effects are overdone too but I'm going to try tweaking the settings to fix that.

erik · Post by **erik** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 12:07 pm

Lago PARANOIA wrote:Sadly, the best handling of any time-travelling story I've ever seen was Chrono Trigger

Wat? No Eternal Darkness?

If my Hollow Earth Expedition campaign goes long enough, I may wind up trying some sort of multiple time-line campaign for the players to thwart the awakening of some elder evil, largely inspired by that video game.

Manxome · Post by **Manxome** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 6:23 pm

Eternal Darkness has a lot of weird stuff, but I don't actually recall any time travel, other than the Kayak variety.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 6:27 pm

Manxome wrote:Eternal Darkness has a lot of weird stuff, but I don't actually recall any time travel, other than the Kayak variety.

Eternal Darkness did skip around history a lot. The Tome itself would have to time-travel, seeing as how it goes to points in the past containing knowledge put into it from the future.

The rest of the people? Not so much.

erik · Post by **erik** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:57 pm

The player is time traveling I imagine, not the characters. In some timelines as Maxus noted, some of the characters (thanks to the Tome) obtain knowledge of the future.

I like the shifting scenes to different times with a different cast, but all working together.

Guyr Adamantine · Post by **Guyr Adamantine** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:30 pm

I just finished Silent Hill 2. Depressing.

I got the "Leave" ending, for the curious.

RandomCasualty2 · Post by **RandomCasualty2** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 11:17 pm

Guyr Adamantine wrote:I just finished Silent Hill 2. Depressing.

I got the "Leave" ending, for the curious.

If you thought that was depressing, you should see the "In Water" ending.

The "Leave" ending is generally considered the happiest one.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:53 am

Manxome wrote:
Crissa wrote:WoW would be better if they didn't focus on letting people getting endlesly better gear than you to kill your quest givers and challenges where you have to run through a gauntlet of players you can't (not won't or aren't able to) kill to finish a quest objective that you then have to share with them.
Now there's a sentence that could make a badly-written sentence feel better about itself.

Yes, except that sentence is at least grammatically correct, if clumsy.

-Crissa

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 3:26 am

clikml wrote:The player is time traveling I imagine, not the characters. In some timelines as Maxus noted, some of the characters (thanks to the Tome) obtain knowledge of the future.

I like the shifting scenes to different times with a different cast, but all working together.

I really liked the Roivas mansion. Were I to get rich enough to build a dream house, the architect and decorators would stand a good chance of being shown the Roivas library as a reference.

Edit: Hit 'send' too soon.

I also liked the evolution of the locales, especially the Cathedral and the mansion.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 4:11 am

ED is an awesome game. I played it without a memory card, once, and got as far as the useless photographer before the face-fuckers killed me. I decided I didn't feel like starting again from the very beginning.

I did, however, see it played through to the end. And you can't talk about the game without mentioning the bathtub scene. So now I have mentioned it.

Lago: I seriously have no clue what game you're talking about.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 4:22 am

Koumei wrote:ED is an awesome game. I played it without a memory card, once, and got as far as the useless photographer before the face-fuckers killed me. I decided I didn't feel like starting again from the very beginning.

The photographer wasn't bad. The guns packed a wallop, and getting the broadsword also helps.

Manxome · Post by **Manxome** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 6:33 pm

Crissa wrote:
Manxome wrote:
Crissa wrote:WoW would be better if they didn't focus on letting people getting endlesly better gear than you to kill your quest givers and challenges where you have to run through a gauntlet of players you can't (not won't or aren't able to) kill to finish a quest objective that you then have to share with them.
Now there's a sentence that could make a badly-written sentence feel better about itself.
Yes, except that sentence is at least grammatically correct, if clumsy.

I am highly confident that it is not (grammatically correct). The phrase beginning with "letting people" is left dangling.

It could be made syntactically valid if you changed "getting" to "get" or removed the "to" from "to kill your quest givers" or made any of several other minor changes, but I can't find any valid way to parse it as written (and believe me, I've tried). And regardless of the grammar, I have very little clue what it might have been intended to mean.

Sir Neil · Post by **Sir Neil** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:03 pm

Koumei, I'm pretty confident that Lago's most hated game is

Chrono Cross

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:30 am

Today is my birthday, and I have been given a copy of Persona 4. I'm hoping the dungeon grind will be less tedious than in the previous game.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 12:41 am

Okay, a longshot, but does anyone here play Aion?

My girlfriend is expressing interest, but wants to know what the most OP classes are, and what will allow her to kill stuff the fastest.

Given it's a MMORPG, there's no easy "rule set" to look at, as that can all be hidden away so only the computer has to interact with them. Given it's Korean, chances are most discussion about it is in Korean. She speaks many languages, Korean is not one of them.

So I'm not asking people to go decompile the code and find answers. Just "if anyone here plays it and knows the answers".

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 12:44 am

Nope. Now, if you wanted to know what's hot in CoX I could tell you the conventional wisdom and my own play experience. That's the game my girlfriend likes.

Manxome · Post by **Manxome** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 12:53 am

A friend who played Aion tells me that Sorcerer and maybe Ranger are generically the most effective, especially if you kite, but that melee classes supposedly become very powerful in the endgame.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 2:05 am

The ranged-damage classes may have lots of damage, but fair poorly in finding groups (they're not needed) and PvP (they're glass).

-Crissa

Manxome · Post by **Manxome** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:12 am

Crissa wrote:The ranged-damage classes may have lots of damage, but fair poorly in finding groups (they're not needed) and PvP (they're glass).

My friend claimed that Sorcerers and Rangers were both effective at "ganking" other players, and that Sorcerers were useful to groups. I have no basis by which to judge the accuracy of any of his claims.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:48 am

Yeah, I'm just arm-charing it here, mostly because I hear my friends who play whine about how the tank class takes forever to actually kill anything and can't pull and the ranger class cant get groups because the groups are full before anyone thinks to bring one.

Possibly useful to gank. I dunno, their PvP doesn't make any sense to me.

-Crissa