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Warped655

#5321 January 16, 2013, 06:32:48 am

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I'm the type that likes to explore so I feel like I need hacking skills. but hacking skills seem to be one of the more overall expensive skill sets. Kind of irritating. Concerned I'm going to get my ass kicked in a boss fight if I don't level some combat augs.

Last Edit: January 22, 2013, 05:02:47 pm by Warped655

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Massy2k6

#5322 January 17, 2013, 12:10:13 pm

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Been trying out Battle for Graxia on Steam, the lol clone. Plays well although the queing times are 10+mins per game, which is slowly driving me away. Was thinking about Dota2 but still on the hunt for a key.

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Dead Phoenix

#5323 January 18, 2013, 12:32:50 am

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I, and probably a million other people, have like 5 DOTA 2 keys if you want one.

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Massy2k6

#5324 January 18, 2013, 09:53:28 pm

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After making that last post I recieved an invitation from steam after the dota 2 questionnaire I completed like 2 weeks previous. Tried the game but with no tutorial available I got destroyed in my first match and like everything else in my life, I quit it.

Might try it again later though.

also thx for offering.

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ATARI

#5325 January 18, 2013, 10:22:40 pm

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has any one tried signing up for the sim city beta yet?

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Vellfire

#5326 January 19, 2013, 02:05:50 pm

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Quote from: ATARI on January 18, 2013, 10:22:40 pm

has any one tried signing up for the sim city beta yet?

someone on my twitter tried and gave up due to origin giving them way too much hassle

last time i tried to do anything with origin i had the same problems so i didn't bother

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ATARI

#5327 January 19, 2013, 03:38:44 pm

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yeah i see what you mean. I tried to last night but they wanted me to fill out some survey and for whatever reason the link didn't work on chrome.

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Biggles

#5328 January 20, 2013, 09:30:54 am

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Playing Dark Chronicle. Got an item called "Carrot" with the description "when given as food, it will change the gender". Was disappointed to discover that it only works on fish.

edit: also you close time rifts by playing golf

Last Edit: January 20, 2013, 09:31:36 am by Biggles

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DoctorEars

#5329 January 20, 2013, 04:27:18 pm

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Fuckin' Dark Chronicles is so good. Those fucking games.

You played Dark Cloud? You played Rogue Galaxy? Level-5 make the fucking sweetest games. So good!

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DDay

#5330 January 20, 2013, 05:33:20 pm

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Quote from: Biggles on January 20, 2013, 09:30:54 am

Playing Dark Chronicle. Got an item called "Carrot" with the description "when given as food, it will change the gender". Was disappointed to discover that it only works on fish.

edit: also you close time rifts by playing golf

Dark Cloud 2 (Dark Chronicle) story but the game play is so good also no reason to play DC 1 if you played 2 also Rogue Galaxy is something to check out.

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catouak

#5331 January 20, 2013, 09:29:05 pm

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animal jam

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Biggles

#5332 January 21, 2013, 11:31:02 pm

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I couldn't find Rogue Galaxy. I got Dragon Quest VIII coming in the mail at some point though. Dark Chronicle is definitely one of the most bizarre games I have played. I think it's a bit too time consuming for the good moments, but I enjoy the fact that the plot makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Fifteen year old super rich urban planners with a monopoly on time travel reconfiguring the entire human population of the world in their builder-helicopter with a face run by grape-juice loving gnomes by the guidance of magic glowing magma eggs to change the future using resources they farmed from the dungeon. It's not something I could make up. From doing backflips to kill clowns with a wrench to your dad telling you that it's time you learned about mining and then giving you a gun that's also a trumpet and asking you to level grind it into gun that's also a bell. Doing trivial favours for people convinces them to move into your train permanently and live wherever you tell them to in your grand world plan. The world's greatest medical expert (also a duck) abandons the largest urban centre to treat one person. Dark chronicle easily has the most preposterous storyline of any game I have played.

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DDay

#5333 January 22, 2013, 12:21:27 am

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Quote from: Biggles on January 21, 2013, 11:31:02 pm

I couldn't find Rogue Galaxy. I got Dragon Quest VIII coming in the mail at some point though. Dark Chronicle is definitely one of the most bizarre games I have played. I think it's a bit too time consuming for the good moments, but I enjoy the fact that the plot makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Fifteen year old super rich urban planners with a monopoly on time travel reconfiguring the entire human population of the world in their builder-helicopter with a face run by grape-juice loving gnomes by the guidance of magic glowing magma eggs to change the future using resources they farmed from the dungeon. It's not something I could make up. From doing backflips to kill clowns with a wrench to your dad telling you that it's time you learned about mining and then giving you a gun that's also a trumpet and asking you to level grind it into gun that's also a bell. Doing trivial favours for people convinces them to move into your train permanently and live wherever you tell them to in your grand world plan. The world's greatest medical expert (also a duck) abandons the largest urban centre to treat one person. Dark chronicle easily has the most preposterous storyline of any game I have played.

Agreed but I'm sure there is worse story telling in some other game most that never make it out side of japan.

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tuxedo marx

#5334 January 22, 2013, 02:27:28 pm

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competent emulation

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DDay

#5335 January 24, 2013, 01:11:47 am

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I'm playing Ni no Kuni

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB4cDvu0bOg

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DoctorEars

#5336 January 24, 2013, 02:00:00 am

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Quote from: DDay on January 24, 2013, 01:11:47 am

I'm playing Ni no Kuni

Is it awesome? I really want it when it comes out here in NZ but I gotta pick and choose my games carefully since I'm short on money.

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DDay

#5337 January 24, 2013, 02:04:22 am

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Quote from: Dr. Ears on January 24, 2013, 02:00:00 am

Quote from: DDay on January 24, 2013, 01:11:47 am
I'm playing Ni no Kuni

Is it awesome? I really want it when it comes out here in NZ but I gotta pick and choose my games carefully since I'm short on money.

So far all signs point to yes.

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goldenratio

#5338 January 24, 2013, 02:31:34 am

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I saw like 2 minutes of gameplay, and the graphics/animation looks super nice. I don't know if I could really play an old-school JRPG like that, even though I definitely support the idea. It's probably a game that I'll pick up in a couple years, when it's cheap.

Also I have FF8 on my PS3 right now, and I really want to play FF9... I'm thinking of maybe just emulating that one though... I started a playthrough like a year ago, and I was grinding a ton and collecting everything and doing all the side stuff, and it froze right on the third disc or something. So I was like "man I'm not gonna play this shit for a long time". But now I want to.

Also I still play dark souls. I play it off and on, but I like picking totally different armor/weapon sets and stuff, just making totally different characters. It's fun. Can't wait for Dark Souls 2. But I hope they change the name.

yes coulombs are "germaine", did you learn that word at talk like a dick school?

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pig style

#5339 January 24, 2013, 04:25:00 am

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I'm only 5-6 hours into Ni No Kuni so I'm sure I'll post more about it in the future but my thoughts so far:

Soundtrack was done by Tokyo philharmonic orchestra and it is fucking amazing. Your fairy sidekick Drippy has a welsh accent and it's awesome, so far all the english voice acting has been really good and this is one of the few games where I haven't found myself mashing x though all the dialogue because of terrible voice work.

Combat has been fun but it takes awhile to take off, a review or two have compared it to the 20 hour tutorial march that plagued FF13 but it isn't that slow at all. Everyone will say it's a mix between pokemon and ff12 which pretty much right on the money but I haven't gotten to the point where you start collecting the monsters (familiars). Level 5 JRPG so it is going to be grindy as fuck so we will see how I feel about this as the game progresses. So far I've done a lot of exploring so I've been a decent level for encounters.

The graphics are very pretty and there has been a few points where I've sat in awe looking around and taking in the beauty of it all. Probably one of the best looking overworlds in a game ever. If you've seen a Ghibli film I won't need to tell you that the animated cut scenes are really good too.

And the story is there, and it's nothing you haven't seen before. It's going to take lot of charm from the characters to keep me interested but so far it's looking good. Overall.... I like it so far! I've been waiting for this game forever and while I'm not going into it thinking it's going to be the messiah of video games I do have high expectations and I'm hoping it lives up to them.

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Quote from: goldenratio on January 24, 2013, 02:31:34 am
Also I have FF8 on my PS3 right now, and I really want to play FF9... I'm thinking of maybe just emulating that one though... I started a playthrough like a year ago, and I was grinding a ton and collecting everything and doing all the side stuff, and it froze right on the third disc or something. So I was like "man I'm not gonna play this shit for a long time". But now I want to.

Quote from: goldenratio on January 24, 2013, 02:31:34 am

I played through ff9 like last year I think? You are going to want a fast forward button the random encounters get very very bad. It's been awhile since I played any final fantasy besides that one but I think ff9 has to have the worst (highest) random encounter rate.

Last Edit: January 24, 2013, 04:30:28 am by pig style

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crone_lover720

#5340 January 24, 2013, 05:09:03 am

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Quote from: DDay on January 24, 2013, 01:11:47 am

I'm playing Ni no Kuni

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ganbatte dday. glad you make these btw.

Last Edit: January 24, 2013, 05:09:25 am by earlchip

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