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planescape: torment, i started to play before and didn't like it. i have no idea why because it's really really good now that i'm playing it again
howd you get it to work it never worked for me
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Started up Digital Devil Saga the other day.  Got it for christmas, and I've got a big backlog of SMT games to finish...

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howd you get it to work it never worked for me

um i dunno it just did.
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planescape sucks douche in the gooch, but yeah it works on my computer very well
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planescape sucks douche in the gooch, but yeah it works on my computer very well

the gameplay is boring and it's hard to tell what's going on graphically but the dialogue is fuckin great and i love that you have to mentally gauge people's personality for the best response rather than just ASK EVERY QUESTION RPG TIME
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i keep looking at your avatar for extended periods of time and im not sure how i feel about that
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the gameplay is boring and it's hard to tell what's going on graphically but the dialogue is fuckin great and i love that you have to mentally gauge people's personality for the best response rather than just ASK EVERY QUESTION RPG TIME
I played Planescape again a couple weeks ago and I'm sort of amazed at how I was able to sit through it when I was 12. I mean, this is Words: The Game. It actually sort of amazes me even more that I liked it so much back then, because I thought it was pretty fucking awful replaying it recently. The setting was cool, or I guess the idea of it,  the story (until the very end when you find out that your mortality is actually a living thing, which is dumb) is interesting, and it's neat how they actively avoided the most obvious fantasy tropes like dwarfs and elves or whatever, but they really fucked up with everything else.

The game's main problem is that it repeats everything to you 100 times. If you want to Play The Game Right, you have to talk to every single person in the game and ask them every single thing you can possibly ask them. I was literally told the specific way that the Lady of Pain imprisons people by 50 different people and it was worded only slightly differently each time. This applies to everything in the game. You have to talk to everyone, but very few of the people you talk to have anything unique to say. It's sort of like if instead of having one article for one subject on Wikipedia, there were 50 articles for each subject that all said roughly the same thing. The other problem is that most of the shit people tell you is lore, which is complete garbage. Lore is any information about the game world that doesn't actually relate to the game and there is a ridiculous amount of it. It's terrible man. Even items have pages of lore on them. A lot of it is information that could have potentially led to something interesting in the game, like the conflict between the githyanki and githzerai. You read probably 10 straight pages worth of text about it and it ultimately amounts to a brief confrontation with a githyanki calling Dak'kon a dog or something. Even the information that is relevant doesn't really mean anything. You can learn about the Godmen and what they are trying to do and what they stand for and their ideals, but you never find out what it means to be a Godman, even after you become one. In fact, nothing even changes when you become one. This is what all of the information in the game is like; you can read about it but you can never learn what it means or how it relates to anything.

So I guess when a game's positives are that it's not about dwarfs and elves, it's not such a good game. If you want to make a game that is literally an encyclopedia, you have to make the shit you're reading actually meaningful to what is occurring in front of you. To me, Planescape: Torment is a primer on how not to make a game.
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i have been playing bayonetta like mad since i bought it and it is v. good.  the story/cutscenes are laughably bad but they were meant to be like that, so i don't really see this as a negative thing.  my only complaint so far is that temperantia was REALLY HARD for me to beat.  like, everything before his head was pretty easy, but when it got to his head i could not do it!  i had to switch it from normal to easy in order to manage (which made it TOO easy, i am glad i have not been playing this game on easy because it is not very interesting at all).  can someone tell me what i needed to do here because i tried dodging and only attacking between his attacks and there just didn't seem to be enough time and i always got killed
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Are you enjoying the partial nudity etc? I honestly thought that's all that game had going for it when I saw the trailer. Also the PS3 version is supposed to be plagued with bad graphics and FPS issues.

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as far as i could tell the ps3 graphics were no different than the 360 ones, and i've not noticed fps issues either but maybe some NERD might?

the 360 version is better because of loading times and things like that (iirc it was developed for 360 then ported to ps3 hence the difference) but frankly idk why everyone is complaining so much about the ps3 version.  i like to think of it as the difference between an older movie on dvd and on blu-ray.  sure, the blu-ray one is better, but there's not so much of a difference between it and the dvd that you would BE ANGRY at the dvd and think it's awful.  they're both the same good movie, just get the best version you have access to.

btw i do own a 360 but i got the ps3 one because i like the controller better.  i've not had any sort of technical issue that has made me frown at the game whatsoever, i mean i guess loading is a little slow but fuck if you can't handle that you have NO patience whatsoever.  KIDS THESE DAYS
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the gameplay is boring and it's hard to tell what's going on graphically but the dialogue is fuckin great and i love that you have to mentally gauge people's personality for the best response rather than just ASK EVERY QUESTION RPG TIME
do you have a no cd crack I can have? did you dl it from somewhere?
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do you have a no cd crack I can have? did you dl it from somewhere?

http://www.torrentz.com/7efb05a2f83b29f41c628c7d9e56c93969063022
it was that (the pirate bay is down for some reason) i'm not using a no cd crack just daemon tools. and i'm on 64 bit windows 7 which is like the worst system for any old game to run on
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Started up Digital Devil Saga the other day.  Got it for christmas, and I've got a big backlog of SMT games to finish...

Never before have I had to sit and tax my brain to figure out how to build a party.  :(

In Digital Devil Saga your party just builds itself. The only thing you have control over when leveling up is allocating Serph's stats which I just pumped into Strength, Vitality and magic while almost completely ignoring luck and agility. You should avoid using Cielo because all his stat-ups are usually pumped into agility and he's also weak to status ailments.

I've been playing a lot of DS games lately and have finished the first Megaman Star Force game. The megaman Starforce games are similar to the battle network ones, except this one contains a whole new cast of characters and is set 100 years after battle network, I think. Instead of porting into computers to get to the net, you just put on some nerdy-looking glasses and some new paths become visible. I started up Megaman ZX recently and I've already beat the first boss on Easy-mode because I'm an expert.     
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Baten Kaitos Eternal Wings And The Lost ocean....where to start definitely one of the best games ive ever played if you have a gamecube or a wii this is a definite buy this one of those few games i actually stayed up until 5 a.m in the morning just playing, the battles never seem to get repetitive due to the random card order the music is beautiful the graphics are beautiful voice acting isnt that good but hey if you really find them bad just turn them off-I'm 20 hours into the game and have never been bored once, this game is so very good.

Also if your getting this be sure to get the prequel origins its upto you what order you play them but i prefer the order they were made the prequel (baten kaitos origins) improved everything eternal wings had wrong but eternal wings from what i hear has a better story and battle system.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNtWj4bStOY&feature=related -Some of the great music this game has to offer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B64f48ewdo&feature=related -A weird track but in no means bad.

I'm a big fan of both games, though I personally prefer Baten Kaitos Origins though they streamline the battle system compared to Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean it still maintains a lot that was great about it.

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I played Planescape again a couple weeks ago and I'm sort of amazed at how I was able to sit through it when I was 12. I mean, this is Words: The Game. It actually sort of amazes me even more that I liked it so much back then, because I thought it was pretty fucking awful replaying it recently. The setting was cool, or I guess the idea of it,  the story (until the very end when you find out that your mortality is actually a living thing, which is dumb) is interesting, and it's neat how they actively avoided the most obvious fantasy tropes like dwarfs and elves or whatever, but they really fucked up with everything else.

The game's main problem is that it repeats everything to you 100 times. If you want to Play The Game Right, you have to talk to every single person in the game and ask them every single thing you can possibly ask them. I was literally told the specific way that the Lady of Pain imprisons people by 50 different people and it was worded only slightly differently each time. This applies to everything in the game. You have to talk to everyone, but very few of the people you talk to have anything unique to say. It's sort of like if instead of having one article for one subject on Wikipedia, there were 50 articles for each subject that all said roughly the same thing. The other problem is that most of the shit people tell you is lore, which is complete garbage. Lore is any information about the game world that doesn't actually relate to the game and there is a ridiculous amount of it. It's terrible man. Even items have pages of lore on them. A lot of it is information that could have potentially led to something interesting in the game, like the conflict between the githyanki and githzerai. You read probably 10 straight pages worth of text about it and it ultimately amounts to a brief confrontation with a githyanki calling Dak'kon a dog or something. Even the information that is relevant doesn't really mean anything. You can learn about the Godmen and what they are trying to do and what they stand for and their ideals, but you never find out what it means to be a Godman, even after you become one. In fact, nothing even changes when you become one. This is what all of the information in the game is like; you can read about it but you can never learn what it means or how it relates to anything.

So I guess when a game's positives are that it's not about dwarfs and elves, it's not such a good game. If you want to make a game that is literally an encyclopedia, you have to make the shit you're reading actually meaningful to what is occurring in front of you. To me, Planescape: Torment is a primer on how not to make a game.

I guess you didn't find all the lore interesting on its own which I think was the point of there being so much of it, I thought it was pretty good precisely because it wasn't there to try and plug ridiculous plot holes or to explain game mechanics that don't make sense like it often is, it was actually just being lore, sometimes it gets 'confirmed' by what goes on in the game but not always and i can't think why everything should.
I always thought it was a bit clever how they used the text resources as well as they could to add an ominous spin or whatever to the items you could use even if nothing actually happens in the game, like the last paragraph in this description -- http://www.gamebanshee.com/planescapetorment/equipment/images/boltsofkessekthedevourer.jpg
Is it really necessary that something bad happens if you use the bolts? The implication already provides most of the impact for minimal effort and that's hella artful, and there's better examples i think but i'm retarded.
Also there's a items that are important in puzzles and their description helps a lot, like the ice shard and a few more items from that same spot in the game.

Oh yeah and being a godsman lets you use 'godsmen only' weapons that have stat boosts for charisma and shit, which isn't mindblowing but this is still mostly a rpg where you make your stats go up and  equip items so-
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Once I acquire some money, I will get Bayonetta and Darksiders.