Blarargh!
Hail once again to the spambots! It's been a productive day in Final Fantasy XII. I was foolish and forgot about the importance of preparation and paying attention to gear, and boy did I pay for it. Got my ass slowly munched by a giant mutant turtle of doom; then I realized that I had gear on almost everybody that rendered them against the ice spells it was flinging. I finally had to give up and reset. Sure enough, once I actually fiddled with the equipment like a proper nerd, the boss got pwned pretty good. The Harvest not be denied.
I've found myself a bit irritated that elemental weaponry has a tendency to be crap in this game, but things are compensated by having new variants of tradition FF goodies. The Blood Sword was a surprise, going from a crappy Drain spell on a stick to being a +10 Sword of Nasty DoT Ailments. Another surprise is that undead in this game are vulnerable to Poison and Sap (!) which can lead to some hilarity.
I've finally gotten to where the good soundtracks are playing, and now things are ever better. Few things can be compared to tearing about the countryside and wrecking freaks to a kickass tune, especially with all the enhanced loot drops and purloined goodies that my party is now enjoying. Bring me your shinies!
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Sunday, December 11, 2016
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Shifting Priorities, Much Like A Goldfish
Well, I was going to go ahead and get some Fleabay auctions done. Then I was compelled to stare at BattleTech stuff for five hours.
Dammit Joe!
Stuff is pretty badass, I freely admit; I like tanks and stuff more, though.
Once you go down the path of the Dork Side, forever will it dominate your destiny.
Dammit Joe!
Stuff is pretty badass, I freely admit; I like tanks and stuff more, though.
Once you go down the path of the Dork Side, forever will it dominate your destiny.
Monday, January 4, 2016
Fate Is For The Weak!
Well, despite the spambots efforts and my own apathy, I'm inflicting another assault upon the oh-so-innocent blogosphere.
Still tearing about and terrorizing the forces of evil in Kingdoms of Amalur. I've found that its actually one of those rare RPGs that rewards being taken in fairly small bursts. That said, you can still binge like a madman if you feel like.
I've managed to use and unleash the harvest with most of the weapon types offered thus far. The swords and daggers, and other 'standard' weapons do pretty much what you expect. But then I found the 'flavor' weapons of the game: chakrams and faeblades. So, did you want to play an RPG with a Soul Calibur character? Holy crap is this game for you then! It's a bit difficult to explain the faeblade's moveset without visual references, but suffice to say that you get to tear around with these miniature double-bladed scimitars of doom (and you dual wield the things), and you come awfully close to becoming a cross between Taz and a giant salad shooter. Behold the Death Blender!
Chakrams are also quite awesome, this version being magically controlled ring-shaped boomerangs of slicer-y. For whatever reason, these are considered 'mage' weapons, so they come standard with all sorts of elemental powers. They're no quite the insanity of some of the other 'crazy' weapons I've seen, but they make up for it with serious defensive crowd control.
The mooks encountered thus far are fairly diverse. You've got your usual bandits and wolves and bears (none of which are nearly as scary as their Skyrim counterparts), then you get some fairly off-the-wall things like boggarts (angry little tree-spirits that spread plague) and sprites (pretty much what you get when you cross cherub-babies with Gremlins); all in all, a nice group of baddies thus far.
Oh, have I mentioned the eponymous Reckoning yet? Reckoning is this games super-mode, where you control the threads of fate(!) and wreck faces in an extra flashy fashion. If you kill something in Reckoning mode, you can do a little QTE finisher for extra experience. The cool part? You're ripping their fate out and killing them with it! Evil is even more trouble than usual now, since you can beat minions to death and then be all "I'LL BREAK YOU DEAD" and rip then up with their own doom! No Doctor Who bullshit to come back and haunt you either. Fate is now your bitch, which is extra sweet if you've ever played Chrono Cross.
Ugh, I'm such a nerd.
Still tearing about and terrorizing the forces of evil in Kingdoms of Amalur. I've found that its actually one of those rare RPGs that rewards being taken in fairly small bursts. That said, you can still binge like a madman if you feel like.
I've managed to use and unleash the harvest with most of the weapon types offered thus far. The swords and daggers, and other 'standard' weapons do pretty much what you expect. But then I found the 'flavor' weapons of the game: chakrams and faeblades. So, did you want to play an RPG with a Soul Calibur character? Holy crap is this game for you then! It's a bit difficult to explain the faeblade's moveset without visual references, but suffice to say that you get to tear around with these miniature double-bladed scimitars of doom (and you dual wield the things), and you come awfully close to becoming a cross between Taz and a giant salad shooter. Behold the Death Blender!
Chakrams are also quite awesome, this version being magically controlled ring-shaped boomerangs of slicer-y. For whatever reason, these are considered 'mage' weapons, so they come standard with all sorts of elemental powers. They're no quite the insanity of some of the other 'crazy' weapons I've seen, but they make up for it with serious defensive crowd control.
The mooks encountered thus far are fairly diverse. You've got your usual bandits and wolves and bears (none of which are nearly as scary as their Skyrim counterparts), then you get some fairly off-the-wall things like boggarts (angry little tree-spirits that spread plague) and sprites (pretty much what you get when you cross cherub-babies with Gremlins); all in all, a nice group of baddies thus far.
Oh, have I mentioned the eponymous Reckoning yet? Reckoning is this games super-mode, where you control the threads of fate(!) and wreck faces in an extra flashy fashion. If you kill something in Reckoning mode, you can do a little QTE finisher for extra experience. The cool part? You're ripping their fate out and killing them with it! Evil is even more trouble than usual now, since you can beat minions to death and then be all "I'LL BREAK YOU DEAD" and rip then up with their own doom! No Doctor Who bullshit to come back and haunt you either. Fate is now your bitch, which is extra sweet if you've ever played Chrono Cross.
Ugh, I'm such a nerd.
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