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I kind of lost all interest when I It was just an easy fight. I can't remember the last hard end boss I've dealt with.
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waffel
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I'm also sad that I burned through all the content the game has to offer in a few days, most of it spent treading over the same territory over and over to get to/turn in quests. Does the game become more enjoyable on a second playthrough? Are the baddies harder and loot grander?
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Nightblade
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I'm also sad that I burned through all the content the game has to offer in a few days, most of it spent treading over the same territory over and over to get to/turn in quests. Does the game become more enjoyable on a second playthrough? Are the baddies harder and loot grander?
The enemies are tougher but it doesn't really get better the second time through. A new tier of enemy is introduced but he is just a trivial as the "Badass" tier... Though the name of said tier is equally as stupid. (Badmutha Going into this, I had some concerns about the re playability, but this is far worse than I expected.
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Partway through my second playthrough, and at lv. 45. Don't see this game holding my interest much longer, although I feel I got my money's worth out of it. I did all the sidequests the first time around, and given how much the game relies on its charm to get by rather than gameplay or polish, once you've seen everything there is to see in the game once, there isn't much incentive to go through again. Mostly just killing time until my copy of Dragon Age arrives.
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Falconeer
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I really want this game, but I am dwindlign for the lack of time so I'll get it in a few weeks, with better patches (hopefully) and less issues. That said, I loved Hellgate London to death until I completed the first cycle. At that point, I lost interest all of a sudden. Is it pretty much the same thing here?
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Draegan
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I hit level 27 or so and heading to old haven now. Been rather slow since I started doing all the quests and now I'm skipping most of them.
I really wish this had a better multiplayer platform. I just want to finish the game and move on to Torchlight/DA.
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Yegolev
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I'm guessing Vault is DLC. Hoping.  I can't remember the last hard end boss I've dealt with.
This makes me want to rant about something Not Borderlands. I agree completely, unless you count cheese-bosses that have godawful HP and the fight becomes one of endurance, or the ones that break established game rules in order to make things harder. I don't count those since that is lazy. I find initial bosses to be the tough AND interesting ones. By the end of a game, I've learned all the tricks and the designers have run out. At the moment in Last Remnant, I'm pretty sure I've seen every trick and have a strategy to compensate since the last dragon fight was basically a slugfest while I waited for Torgal to offer up a Hawkarang (100k average damage) or three just so I could cut down on the TIME required to kill it. Dead dragon walking; why do I have to spend fifteen minutes on it?
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Rasix
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The worst boss fight I've come across in years was the end boss for this one jRPG I bought for the PSP. I think it was Legend of Heroes.
Basically the end boss, could at any time decide to double AE you (he had 2 attacks) for far more than your party HP. And this was an endurance fight where he had a ton of HP and your attacks did relatively small amounts of damage and most of the time one character was doing nothing but casting a group heal. Absolute worst kind of jRPG boss fight imagineable. 30 minutes into it I got wiped out by a double AE and figured I'd need another 5-10 levels to survive that possible scenario. It was back at Gamestop the next day.
That was the game that swore me off buying anymore generic crappy PSP JRPGs. Pity I didn't carry that lesson over toward to the 360.
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Draegan
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I remember some Zelda bosses being tough on N64.
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murdoc
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The final boss in Army of Two was a cutscene.
Yes, I played it to the end. Shut up.
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Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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Yegolev
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That was the game that swore me off buying anymore generic crappy PSP JRPGs.
Protip: don't play Dragon Quest VIII. 
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Rasix
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That was the game that swore me off buying anymore generic crappy PSP JRPGs.
Protip: don't play Dragon Quest VIII.  At the risk of summoning Neckbeard the Basement King, I only got about an hour or two into DQ8 before realizing it was just going to be a giant pile of bullshit grinding. Grinding can be fun in some games, but not where you know all you're going to get is x gold, y experience, so you can have enough HP to not get insta-gibbed. For all of the hate towards Oblivion's auto-leveling wildlife, I do wish certain games employed some form of it. I'd like there to be a baseline difficultly of the main quest line, while allowing a person to explore all of the available sidequests.
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Yegolev
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Good call, my crew in DQVIII was able to easily beat anything in the game but the final boss tore them about eleven new assholes each. I quickly realized that the fastest path to the end was to spend hours fighting metal slimes in one location until I gained ten or twenty levels. DQ is for retards; if you want to fight lots of shit and have tough bosses, man up and play one of the SMT games. You will have to think instead of just outlevel things. I particularly like Digital Devil Saga.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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ffc
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I was playing multiplayer Borderlands on Xbox and found a good purple gun. Amazing I grabbed it since I was playing with speedy ninja looters. A few minutes after I got the gun the game got a little laggy and ultimately I disconnected from the host.
When I started my own game I noticed the gun was no longer there, and some other stuff I got was missing as well. This can't be normal, right?
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Samwise
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You have to go to an outpost to save your game before you quit. Otherwise, poof.
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ffc
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Sky
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I tried the whole 'make a mule character using a second instance of the game and start a LAN game with both' thing. Duped a stack of guns and mods.  Mule has them and when I closed everything out and started my single player game back up, I still had all of them, too.
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Goreschach
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You have to go to an outpost to save your game before you quit. Otherwise, poof.
Consoles can't just save your game anywhere, even though for the past decade consoles could just save your game anywhere.
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Playing on 360, I've been just saving my game anywhere when I quit out.
The outpost things are like autosave triggers/bind points.
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To clarify, in singleplayer it'll save automatically when you exit; multiplayer only saves at beacons.
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Lantyssa
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I've had it save not at beacons IF I'm the one who exits. If the server drops first, then I'm just booted. I always make sure we hit a beacon beforehand though, just to be sure.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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To clarify, in singleplayer it'll save automatically when you exit; multiplayer only saves at beacons.
To clarify, on 360 in co-op mode multiplayer (2 boxes, not splitscreen): Playing on 360, I've been just saving my game anywhere when I quit out. The outpost things are like autosave triggers/bind points.
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Elerion
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It definitely saves when you quit out through the menu, even in multiplayer. It does NOT save if the host quits and drops you.
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apocrypha
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Started playing with a Siren a couple of days ago and I have to say that making enemies die screaming horribly while they dissolve/burn/electrocute is gonna take a looooong time to get old  I showed my GF the electricity-triggered exploding head, bursting eyeballs and popping brain and she was mortified. I think it's the best death animation in any game I've ever played.
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Mrbloodworth
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So, what platform is everyone playing on? Thinking about picking this up off steam.
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Segoris
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I believe the majority went with PC with the whole 4-pack deal.
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Lantyssa
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PC. Though only played single-player and LAN so far.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Yegolev
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I have it on Steam but so far have not resigned myself to signing up for Gamespy.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Morfiend
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I have it on Steam also. 4 player coop is fun.
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Plays great on a PS3, just needs more EU f13ers there too 
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Samwise
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It's really not worth trying the multiplayer on this thing unless you can arrange a game with friends who are all at your level. Games with strangers pretty much suck, as do games with people not of your level, as does finding games in the first place. At this point I'm just grinding through the single player so as to feel like I've got my money's worth before I uninstall it.
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Sky
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I've been meaning to log into GS when I play, but I've just been enjoying the single player.
Forgot which thread we were talking about Roland's turret mods. Turns out I do have the corrosive lvl 2 mod on it. With that plus full rocket skill on it, plus my rain grenades, weewee's regenerating shield and my upgraded machine gun skills and regenerating ammo...yeah, it's fun to tear through stuff, but there are still some challenging encounters where I have to go for the second wind (mostly due to weewee's thin shield and my propensity to storm the castle).
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Murgos
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Getting into the higher 20's now and the shield pretty much ends up depleted once or twice a fight. It's not a huge deal yet because the regen is so fast but it is probably time I started keeping an eye out for a good shield drop.
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Musashi
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For those who are either boycotting Gamespy, or those for whom it doesn't work (me), I can confirm that Game Ranger works for your multi-player needs. I don't really know anything about it, though. I don't know if I'm breaking any rules by using it. Also, I don't care.
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Infinitecorn
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I have gotten the PC version of this on the disk, pretty amazing. I enjoy the art style but it seems to wear on my retinas after a time. Damn new modem is messing up anything that requires file transfer with a proxy server, so I cant use steam :(.
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I am perpetually stuck in the 90's
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