Jade Empire

[HaemishM]

but generally I just straight-up beat their asses.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

[Yegolev]

Not bad, just duller than I had hoped.

[Strazos]

Cheesing the final boss was funny. Flawless Victory ftw...or lose, possibly. A bit too easy.

That makes at least 2 BioWare games where they leave the bosses with glaring vulnerabilities;

I should not be able to stunlock the final guy in JE. I should not be able to smack the final boss in Throne of Bhaal with Harm and reduce her to 1 HP. 

EDIT: Should Not, not Should.

[rk47]

eh yeah, it was underwhelming. and the dialog just seemed flat...adding the weird ' old language' dialog seemed utterly pointless ( do they even mean anything?!)
I dislike the combat. it felts like fable except slightly more challenging, the invisible barrier didn't help either. Probably not gonna play it much nor even finish it.

[Alkiera]

Cheesing the final boss was funny. Flawless Victory ftw...or lose, possibly. A bit too easy.

That makes at least 2 BioWare games where they leave the bosses with glaring vulnerabilities;

I should not be able to stunlock the final guy in JE. I should not be able to smack the final boss in Throne of Bhaal with Harm and reduce her to 1 HP. 

EDIT: Should Not, not Should.

Reminded me of reading about a guy playing a wizard in NWN, trying to nuke down the big red dragon without using the Plot Device... he tried dozens of times, was getting frustrated at how close he got, then one time he won very quickly!  He looked back through the logs to find his cleric pet had managed to stick Harm on the dragon, bringing him to like 3 hp, and his next spell killed him.  Was somewhat surprising.

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Alkiera

[Strazos]

Heh, nice.

What happened is that in the end of ToB, you go through a long sequence of fights, which are all too close to eachother to allow for saves.

So I was slogging through it when I get to the Real Final Fight. I was getting low on HP. I was practically out of healing spells. Same with healing potions. Between my Paladin, (dual classed) Thief/Mage x 2, Fighter/Druid, Ranger, and Mage/Cleric, I was very low on spells and abilities, but noticed one of the spells I had left was Harm.

"Oh what the hell, there's no way it will work though..."

*POW*

[rk47]

fuck, now i starting to crave for Max Payne kungfu mod. JE is just piss poor >_< At least there was some enviromental dmg done from knocking gun wielding thugs with drunken fist against the wall and the cool slow mo that has tactical use in Max Payne. If all else fails, Gun-Fu can save the day too.

[Yegolev]

I actually don't like it when bosses are immune to things just to up the difficulty, although there are plenty of exceptions.  Yeah, you don't really want insta-death to make it too easy, but a lot of the time it just comes off as laziness to me.  If it's part of the puzzle, that's cool, but just a blanket immunity to all things except raw damage is lazy.

[Strazos]

See, now I'm tempted to go back through the game and try using Harm on all sorts of shit, like fucking Fierkrag. That bastard was a tougher fight than either "final boss."

It just seems wrong to me that a boss could have 999,999 HP or something, but if I land a single Harm - BOOM, 1HP lolz gg. But I suppose that's what happens when I'm a min/maxing bitch in these games and try to fill every gap in my party that I possibly can. I mean, seriously, who would normally have 2 cleric-types (plus 2 more with minor access) and 3 mage-types?

The number of Magic Missiles I could toss at people was laughable. Almost as funny as whomping "hardcore badass" Drow with a pimped-out Carsomyr. 

(I need more fucking time in the day to go through that game again.)

[caladein]

Not bad, just duller than I had hoped.

Near the end I was just Chi Mode + Focus Mode + maxed Dual Sabers/1k Cuts and just muscled things down. It wasn't terribly exciting, but still fun in an odd way. I didn't find the other styles all that interesting though, but 1k Cuts was fast enough to make the beatings seem painful enough. Honestly, I probably wouldn't have even made it through the first time had I gone with another Martial style at the beginning.

Started off with the goody-two-shoes lesbian route... which, after typing that out, every game needs. I'll be letting it sit a week before I try a Closed Fist play-through, but I guess I enjoyed it enough to warrant that. The only thing I'm actually disappointed about is that I won't be able to mod it to hell and back :(.

[Murgos]

See, now I'm tempted to go back through the game and try using Harm on all sorts of shit, like fucking Fierkrag. That bastard was a tougher fight than either "final boss."

I usually work my way through those games using mostly just a cleric with a few levels of fighter.  Normally by the mid game you can have enough self buffs to become a very good fighter (every stat can eventually be buffed up to 6 points via spells) with all the armor you want and the best weapons and spells like Cause Severe Wounds and Harm and Self-Healing and the summon spells and turn undead and all the other utility stuff just makes the game a breeze.

The new rule set Clerics are just ridiculously powerful.

[Strazos]

You go through with a solo build? Hmm

For some reason, trying to go through these games with less than a max-sie party has always seemed wrong to me. I mean, good on you for doing it, but having less toys to play with just isn't as fun for me. Lets not even go into how much you'd have to abuse the autosave/quickload functions.

EDIT: On Jade, I went through with 1k Cuts and Longsword, heavy on Focus and moderate amounts of HP and Chi. I abused the hell out of Spirit Thief (chi-drain), and eventually swapped to dual-sabres. I messed around with the other support powers, but only for the Harmonic Combos. Oh, and the shock/paralysis powers are Easily abusable, even without investing points into them.

[UnSub]

I'll be letting it sit a week before I try a Closed Fist play-through, but I guess I enjoyed it enough to warrant that. The only thing I'm actually disappointed about is that I won't be able to mod it to hell and back :(.

If you've got a save game before you  then just reload that and choose the option to . That'll give you enough closed fist points to see the "evil" ending.

For 90% of the game, the Closed Fist part of the game is the same as the Open Palm, except that you can be a bit mean to other people.

Actually, now that I think about it, if you have a save point before Death's Hand at the monestary, .