HaHA! You still have not been rid of me!
I've been busily unleashing the harvest in Tales of Legendia. It's given me the chance to scratch that JRPG itch I've had going since I wound up with a HaloBox (of course, for me its more of a BorderlandsBox). The ride thus far has been pretty fun, though admittedly I can't seem to binge on it like I used to. Maybe I'm growing up.
Nah. It's probably just too much caffeine. Which is crap, since coffee for me is like dakka for orks. NEVAH ENUFF!!!
This game has brought out my bad habit of screaming advice at the screen, however. Then somebody gets dope slapped, and I am appeased. "Grow a synapse, dammit!!" *bonk* "Thank you, Will!" If that has actually happened in Star Ocean 4, preferably to that blasted fluffbrain Sarah, I would have loved that game a lot more. It took Space Elf Robocop to redeem that character line-up, I can tell you.
Anyway, what is with Japanese games and angst? I know life isn't all sunshine and rainbows and ponies. Well, maybe it is if you're a pony. But they seem to just love piling on the emo, I swear. At least I know that everybody will be mostly well-adjusted or dead by the time the game is over. Unless your name is Cloud. Damn Advent Children taking a perfectly good badass away from character growth and keeping him an emotional cripple in perpetuity. What we need for that is authentic Bulgarian Miak. Great for trolls.
Well it's time to go back to wrecking monster faces! The harvest begins anew!
Monday, July 20, 2015
Friday, July 10, 2015
Stabbin' Dragons
Been busy at the job business. I'm surrounded by the biggest collection of complexes this side of the internet, I swear.
I've taken advantage of losing my Xbox Live Gold (or rather, they lost my money because it didn't taste right or something) and wailing on the bonus boss in Dragon's Dogma. The critter in question is known as the Ur-Dragon, so named because most players go "UUUURRR," and then "splat!" the first time they come across it. The online version is technically harder, but the only real difference is that it has a ridiculous hit-point pool, and multiple players are wailing on it at any given time. Unfortunately, being the guy who makes the kill is pretty much a crapshoot. You can literally pick and play any strategy game by NIS long enough to beat their bonus bosses, and still have not gotten a kill on this beast in an equivalent amount of time. Play the offline version of the boss to get the achievement, okay?
In any case this game is still very much one of my favorites, and I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to pick up and play again. Definitely a point in its favor, and I hope we see a true sequel, not some bizarro MMO like the interwebs claim.
I've also heard some news that is already ancient now: They're finally going to remake Final Fantasy VII. I'm cautiously excited. FFVII holds a special nerdy place in my nerdy heart (I actually owned the game before I bought a PS1, which is saying a lot) and I hope things actually go well. Unfortunately, my auto-snark button got pushed when I head the words "gritty reboot." Lolwut?
I thought up some ways to make this more "gritty." Here's a random collection, in no particular order:
1) Cait Sith is shanked and replaced by Belkar Bitterleaf.
2) Cloud is voiced by Hugo Weaving.
3) An option for a Mortal Kombat-like blood effect. Imagine Omnislash now with patent pending 3-D Gore-O-Rama!
4) Barret stops talking like Mr. T and acts like (dammit I forgot his name) that black guy from Expendables.
5) Trenchcoats. Public flashing optional.
6) New Game+ option to have Sephiroth shank other characters including, but not limited to: Cloud, Tifa, Yuffie, Sora, Squall, Face McShooty, Wesley Crusher, Chris Pine!Kirk, and Jar Jar Binks. Also the cast of FFXIII.
7) Fuck it, give everybody guns!
That's about it, really. I also really hope they fix the damn Chocobo racing, though. Preferably with the old shoulder-button cheat still intact.
I've taken advantage of losing my Xbox Live Gold (or rather, they lost my money because it didn't taste right or something) and wailing on the bonus boss in Dragon's Dogma. The critter in question is known as the Ur-Dragon, so named because most players go "UUUURRR," and then "splat!" the first time they come across it. The online version is technically harder, but the only real difference is that it has a ridiculous hit-point pool, and multiple players are wailing on it at any given time. Unfortunately, being the guy who makes the kill is pretty much a crapshoot. You can literally pick and play any strategy game by NIS long enough to beat their bonus bosses, and still have not gotten a kill on this beast in an equivalent amount of time. Play the offline version of the boss to get the achievement, okay?
In any case this game is still very much one of my favorites, and I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to pick up and play again. Definitely a point in its favor, and I hope we see a true sequel, not some bizarro MMO like the interwebs claim.
I've also heard some news that is already ancient now: They're finally going to remake Final Fantasy VII. I'm cautiously excited. FFVII holds a special nerdy place in my nerdy heart (I actually owned the game before I bought a PS1, which is saying a lot) and I hope things actually go well. Unfortunately, my auto-snark button got pushed when I head the words "gritty reboot." Lolwut?
I thought up some ways to make this more "gritty." Here's a random collection, in no particular order:
1) Cait Sith is shanked and replaced by Belkar Bitterleaf.
2) Cloud is voiced by Hugo Weaving.
3) An option for a Mortal Kombat-like blood effect. Imagine Omnislash now with patent pending 3-D Gore-O-Rama!
4) Barret stops talking like Mr. T and acts like (dammit I forgot his name) that black guy from Expendables.
5) Trenchcoats. Public flashing optional.
6) New Game+ option to have Sephiroth shank other characters including, but not limited to: Cloud, Tifa, Yuffie, Sora, Squall, Face McShooty, Wesley Crusher, Chris Pine!Kirk, and Jar Jar Binks. Also the cast of FFXIII.
7) Fuck it, give everybody guns!
That's about it, really. I also really hope they fix the damn Chocobo racing, though. Preferably with the old shoulder-button cheat still intact.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Early FAQ = WTF
Yikes, GameFAQs can be such a mess.
I've decided to throttle down on Dragon Age Inquisition for a while. I'm at the point where I'm pretty much steamrolling the main questline, and and (spoilers) I lose a party member after the final boss, and I want to do some DLC with them around, and even becoming the Lord of The Harvest has lost it's charm for a while. Don't get me wrong, the game is still very good, but I've done too many binge sessions for the moment.
To get a break, I broke out Seiken Densetsu 3 AKA the missing World of Mana game. It is definitely a jewel in the Square RPG lineup, and (as the internet has stated ad naseum) its a damn shame that the game didn't get a proper localization.
Anyway, it's actually a very challenging game, and has some old-school obtuse elements on top. So I looked through GameFAQs stuff, and I stumbled on what really felt like a TXT rip of a forum topic disguised as an FAQ. The damn thing really just lost track right before the meat of the whole thing got started.
Is it just me, or does it seem like the older, nerdier games get crappier FAQs and/or general discussions? Just because a game is obscure doesn't mean the info you're collecting, collating, and publishing needs to be covered in ASCII art and interspersed with (albeit pretty well-behaved) arguments and random comments from fan fora and emails. You wind up with people getting fed and up and not reading your FAQ, and you do want this thing to be read, right? You went to all this trouble to help people play and enjoy a game you like, right? You want people to think that you care enough about the subject to keep things organized, right? If you're gonna go for nerdier than thou, do it right damn it!
Have a dedicated section for things like "WebDude24601 sent me this" and "RPGeekLEEThaxxors and I had a discussion about when not to unleash the magics of doom." Preferably near the end, especially if you couldn't be arsed to set up tags and codes for a browser's Find function. Make sure that you properly attribute stuff, but dumping in a whole paragraph because SephirothxApplejackOTP emailed you about how his party "rocks" before you actually start the walkthrough is frickin' tacky, OK?
Going away, now, getting a little too far on my nerd rage-o-meter.
Seriously, it irks me that I can find intelligent, organized, well-written FAQs for Call Of Duty, but heaven forbid I can find the two facts I need for a piece of old-school Square craftsmanship.
Saturday, May 30, 2015
The Inquisition, What A Show
Ha HA, the interwebs are not rid of me yet!
Been tearing about and wrecking evil in Dragon Age: Inquisition. Somebody at Bioware likes Mortal Kombat a lot, since they made a wonderful little combo of Scorpion's Get Over Here with a Sub-Zero's Freeze of Death (my terms) that makes the mooks go squish.
The characters are pretty inspired too. I love Varric AKA Snarky the Eighth Dwarf and his Bianca AKA the +10 Crossbow of Killing Stuff. Iron Bull is also very much the shit, especially with that pack of loonies he leads. Sera is...well when she's not being funny I want to scream at her to go back to her tree and make some damn cookies, to be honest. Like hot sauce, Sera is best in small doses before burnout sets in.
The loot is also pretty awesome, too, and is accompanied by the return of Badass Dress-up. The armor sets aren't quite as extensive as, say, Dragon's Dogma, but it's balanced by having a nice crafting system, plus lot's of customizing for you death-dealing pleasure. You can even tint your swag, so my dudes are tearing about in Luer's Raiders colors for damn once.
Psst, Bioware! Work out a deal and give Butt Stallion a cameo as a DLC mount!
Been tearing about and wrecking evil in Dragon Age: Inquisition. Somebody at Bioware likes Mortal Kombat a lot, since they made a wonderful little combo of Scorpion's Get Over Here with a Sub-Zero's Freeze of Death (my terms) that makes the mooks go squish.
The characters are pretty inspired too. I love Varric AKA Snarky the Eighth Dwarf and his Bianca AKA the +10 Crossbow of Killing Stuff. Iron Bull is also very much the shit, especially with that pack of loonies he leads. Sera is...well when she's not being funny I want to scream at her to go back to her tree and make some damn cookies, to be honest. Like hot sauce, Sera is best in small doses before burnout sets in.
The loot is also pretty awesome, too, and is accompanied by the return of Badass Dress-up. The armor sets aren't quite as extensive as, say, Dragon's Dogma, but it's balanced by having a nice crafting system, plus lot's of customizing for you death-dealing pleasure. You can even tint your swag, so my dudes are tearing about in Luer's Raiders colors for damn once.
Psst, Bioware! Work out a deal and give Butt Stallion a cameo as a DLC mount!
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Congratulations, EA
You have achieved a new status today, "The Shin-Ra of Gaming." Forcing me to sit there and do nothing but wait for and installs and updates on a fucking console game (from the damn disc) for two hours is a new one. I avoid PC games because of crap like that, thanks very much. May white-haired bishies with Oedipal Complexes figure BIG in your future.
Still better than Disney, AKA "The Hyperion of Entertainment." I keep waiting for them to buy the moon and go full crazy tyrant on us.
By the way, a Shin-Ra/Hyperion merger would be terrifying and crazy damn awesome.
Still better than Disney, AKA "The Hyperion of Entertainment." I keep waiting for them to buy the moon and go full crazy tyrant on us.
By the way, a Shin-Ra/Hyperion merger would be terrifying and crazy damn awesome.
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Space Scurvy
Blarg-a-rant to the spambots that "read" this stuff.
Been tearing about in Borderlands The Pre-Sequel some more. According to their website, legendary drops have been tweaked for this game and for B2, but I'm not seen any real increase in the orange glow. That said, I've only done 1 1/2 playthoughs, and all of it normal difficulty thus far, so I can't expect too much.
That said, the rate I've seen them in vending machines is absolutely epic so far. I've managed to find two Moonlight Sagas, an Oxidizer, a Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, a Nasty Surprise, an Avalanche, and a Logan's Gun (I tragically couldn't afford that last one, *sob*), making for a whopping seven legendaries on Normal (and five of those solo). That's a ridiculous amount compared to my long B2 run with at least six playthroughs, including True and Ultimate VH difficulties. All together, two Bitches, a Quasar (!!!), a Sledge's Shotgun, a Fastball, and...I think that's it actually. Five legendary pieces in regular vending machines. (NOTE, this doesn't include the Torgue machines, which have a guaranteed legendary Torgue item)
While the actual drop rate is still somewhat ambiguous right now, the vendors in PS seem to have been tweaked for the better thus far. I really hope it stays that way.
Tell you what, the vehicles in PS are crap, though. I want my damn Truck-a-pult back!
Been tearing about in Borderlands The Pre-Sequel some more. According to their website, legendary drops have been tweaked for this game and for B2, but I'm not seen any real increase in the orange glow. That said, I've only done 1 1/2 playthoughs, and all of it normal difficulty thus far, so I can't expect too much.
That said, the rate I've seen them in vending machines is absolutely epic so far. I've managed to find two Moonlight Sagas, an Oxidizer, a Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, a Nasty Surprise, an Avalanche, and a Logan's Gun (I tragically couldn't afford that last one, *sob*), making for a whopping seven legendaries on Normal (and five of those solo). That's a ridiculous amount compared to my long B2 run with at least six playthroughs, including True and Ultimate VH difficulties. All together, two Bitches, a Quasar (!!!), a Sledge's Shotgun, a Fastball, and...I think that's it actually. Five legendary pieces in regular vending machines. (NOTE, this doesn't include the Torgue machines, which have a guaranteed legendary Torgue item)
While the actual drop rate is still somewhat ambiguous right now, the vendors in PS seem to have been tweaked for the better thus far. I really hope it stays that way.
Tell you what, the vehicles in PS are crap, though. I want my damn Truck-a-pult back!
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Why Torgue Should Love Lasers
It's actually very simple. A weaponized laser actually delivers thermal energy to the target, and happens so fast that things explode. While Borderlands PS laser weapons don't do that, so what? They're also used in, y'know, rock concerts.
Fun fact: did you know that the "sandwich" coins (in the US these would be dimes, quarters, and half-dollars) are actually exploded during the initial process. The copper and nickel parts are rolled into sheets, explosive gel applied to each side, and BOOM! This forces the layers together. Then the sheets are cut into round blanks, and minted into coins.
See, even making money can be badass!
Fun fact: did you know that the "sandwich" coins (in the US these would be dimes, quarters, and half-dollars) are actually exploded during the initial process. The copper and nickel parts are rolled into sheets, explosive gel applied to each side, and BOOM! This forces the layers together. Then the sheets are cut into round blanks, and minted into coins.
See, even making money can be badass!
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