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Reply #910 on: March 24, 2009, 06:46:37 AM

GTA4 and EQ2. Somehow I'm already 20% done with GTA4. Wicked game, loving it. Using that for the action fix and taking some time to do some crafting (aka critical listening on the ipod time) in EQ2. Easy harvesting for t7 materials, so I'll push my crafters to level 70 while GTA4 provides the action fix adventuring normally fills.
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Reply #911 on: March 24, 2009, 09:40:27 AM

The knight is going 2 handed swords as soon as I find one.

But will you be able to resist the cheese that are the dragonlances?


5: Krynn series has MORE STUFF in the trilogy of games as far as fixes and tweaks to the GB engine.  (The Turbografx Gold Box game is the most evolved overall though.)
I dunno, I thought the first savage frontier game, Gateway to the Savage Frontier, was much more evolved than any of the others that came before it.  Fairly non-linear, harder than the krynn games, but not as soul crushingly hard as some of the FR games.  I also found the first Buck Rogers game to be more enjoyable than most of the FR games, probably just because it was a completely different setting.

6: I can try to complete the whole trilogy easier than the Pools quartet.  Especially since Silver Blades is just a giant repetitive dungeon crawl among a series that's mostly repetitive dungeon crawls with long combats.

And speaking of soul crushingly hard... this is the first one I ever tried, and god, I was never able to get into it to get very far.  I must have restarted this game a dozen times as a teenager trying to get past the beginning.  I'm surprised it didn't put me completely off the series.
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Reply #912 on: March 24, 2009, 02:41:51 PM

The knight is going 2 handed swords as soon as I find one.

But will you be able to resist the cheese that are the dragonlances?
Itll be awesome and let me hurty stab dragons.  Rufus will use it.  Its a 2 handed weapon that's sort of swordy!


5: Krynn series has MORE STUFF in the trilogy of games as far as fixes and tweaks to the GB engine.  (The Turbografx Gold Box game is the most evolved overall though.)
I dunno, I thought the first savage frontier game, Gateway to the Savage Frontier, was much more evolved than any of the others that came before it.  Fairly non-linear, harder than the krynn games, but not as soul crushingly hard as some of the FR games.  I also found the first Buck Rogers game to be more enjoyable than most of the FR games, probably just because it was a completely different setting.

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Never played or cared about Buck Rogers.  It doesn't have Twiggy in it.  Or the lady from Silver Spoons.
Buck Rogers can also be partially to blame for killing TSR.  Since the Williams family owned the IP, and the owner of TSR demanded they license the IP from her.
Yeah, that's a brilliant fucking idea.  Fuck you Lorraine Williams you cunt.

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And speaking of soul crushingly hard... this is the first one I ever tried, and god, I was never able to get into it to get very far.  I must have restarted this game a dozen times as a teenager trying to get past the beginning.  I'm surprised it didn't put me completely off the series.


What little I played of Pools of Darkness was way harder back in the day.
I've been having some rough spots in Champions last night.  Fucking Clerics and Mages just ruin my shit.  Hold Person Charm Person fuck you player DIE.  And they are even in random combats.  I'd like to play it closer to a proper D&D adventure where you just don't camp after every fight because you had to blow your spell list to fight them.

My poor Ranger (Alyssa Redstone) has been knocked out multiple times because of fucking Hold spells.  Even worse is getting Charmed.  Then I either have to counter Charm and my PCs are out of my control for the combat, or in a fight where I had a friendly NPC, I held my charmed character.  Then the NPC hit her. 

The party is level 4-5 now though.  And we just swiped some banded mail so armor is getting better.  Team Rufus will save Ansalon from the nasty plot to make more Draconians.
Sadly, they will not save Ansalon from angry RPG fans who now insist they always hated Dragonlance, that the books suck and the game setting was the end of Dungeons & Dragons.  :(
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Reply #913 on: March 24, 2009, 03:48:10 PM

Sadly, they will not save Ansalon from angry RPG fans who now insist they always hated Dragonlance, that the books suck and the game setting was the end of Dungeons & Dragons.  :(

See, I still don't understand that view.  If anything, Dragonlance was one of the worst supported of any of the worlds they wrote supplements for.  Even Ravenloft saw better suppport.  Every few years, they'd release a new main book or boxed set for the setting, redefine everything from scratch, and then fail to support it beyond that again outside a few modules no one ever bothered to play.  The sad part is that the last boxed set before 2nd edition and TSR crashed and burned was the one to finally come close to doing it any justice, and even that one was half assed. 

If anything Dark Sun broke the camel's back there (and I really liked Dark Sun, but that's neither here nor there).  Talk about backing a product no one wanted.  I swear they pushed out supplements for that setting monthly.


Anyhow, to get back on topic, I'm mucking around with Suikoden Tierkreis for the DS.  I'd recommend it to anyone that likes the rest of the series.  It plays somewhat differently than the rest, and the main character starts out annoying, but the game starts fleshing out after a few hours and becomes fairly solid.  It feels more like a bastard child of Suikoden 3 than 1,2, or 5, if that colors anyone's opinion any.
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Reply #914 on: March 24, 2009, 04:03:47 PM

Dragonlance was the only tolerable setting for books though. So it all evens out.
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Reply #915 on: March 24, 2009, 04:59:30 PM

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Reply #916 on: March 27, 2009, 06:56:08 PM

Slogging through the final stretch in Lego Star Wars. 4 Super stories and the two dodgy lego towns left, then I should have 100%.

Sporadically playing Rock Band 2, now and then grinding a few levels worth of health out of Earth Defence Force 2019.

Should get back to Saints Row 2 and finish it, then play through it in co-op.

Still on pause but I should finish them sometime: Far Cry 2, Just Cause. And about 35 others, but those are the top two ti try and finish at some point, for now.

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Reply #917 on: April 08, 2009, 07:55:08 AM

With all the final fantasy hype lately I picked up ffxii.  I was looking for ffx but found xii instead.

I'm to the Raithwall.  After getting schooled by Garuda a couple of times I'm pharming gil and xp in the sandsea and doing some hunts.

Very close to finishing Aquanauts Holiday, just a couple of more side quests and fish to find.  Then there's the simon says mini-game with the singer fish, not sure I'll ever complete that. 

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Reply #918 on: April 08, 2009, 08:06:34 AM

I've been trying to play Empire: TW, but it's just too frustrating right now to really get far into it. They have to make a lot of stability and AI fixes before it would be at all interesting, which I hope they do in a patch in the next 3 months.

I've stopped playing WoW totally until 3.1 comes out. There is just literally nothing that grabs me at all about the game right now. Instead I'm really pouring hour after hour into Mount and Blade Native Expansion, and I love the sandboxy hand-to-hand siege combat the most out of anything.

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Reply #919 on: April 08, 2009, 09:22:55 AM

I have also stopped playing WoW. I am so sick of Naxx. I am also very likely going to cancel WoW again after I burn through uludar; their content is simply way too slow to keep me consistently entertained. I am also a bit frustrated with my raiding guild; we split off and brought 15 good players, thinking we could recruit up and run 25s. We were so wrong. There is no talent out there. I guess it was to be expected.

Instead, I'm going through random old games. I beat Startopia, and am in the middle of Majesty. Also, half way through Prince of Persia. After that? Not sure. I'll probably play a game called children of the nile(?) I found a "What are some city building games" thread and have been playing the games within.
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Reply #920 on: April 08, 2009, 10:17:09 AM

I have also stopped playing WoW. I am so sick of Naxx. I am also very likely going to cancel WoW again after I burn through uludar; their content is simply way too slow to keep me consistently entertained. I am also a bit frustrated with my raiding guild; we split off and brought 15 good players, thinking we could recruit up and run 25s. We were so wrong. There is no talent out there. I guess it was to be expected.

Sounds very familiar!

Instead, I'm going through random old games. I beat Startopia, and am in the middle of Majesty.

I'm playing Majesty again right now myself.

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Reply #921 on: April 08, 2009, 10:19:29 AM

Always content to buck the trend I've started playing WoW again  awesome, for real  Still only playing for 40 mins at a time though so the 70-80 journey is going to be a long one for me. Enjoying it a lot so far. Plus, occasionally levelling an alt with my brother and RaF which is hilarious fun.

Other than that... Demon's Souls, Demon's Souls and, er, more Demon's Souls  why so serious?

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Reply #922 on: April 08, 2009, 11:04:36 AM

I recently dusted off an old pc to try dual-boxing EQ2!  awesome, for real

Actually it was just to transfer some stuff to a second account I opened so I could cancel the $30/mo Station Access because I don't play SWG or PS anymore and it's not worth the money when I can have two accounts, two extra characters, and the option to split the cost in half whenever I want (by shutting down account 2). But yeah, I've got to give it a shot while I've got it hooked up right now. I'm so 1337.
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Reply #923 on: April 08, 2009, 11:59:44 AM

I said it in BIIF, but Rune Factory Frontier has me indoors on a sunny Saturday and tempted to call in sick on workdays.

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Reply #924 on: April 08, 2009, 12:10:36 PM

Just finished Saints Row 2 in coop last night.

I am currently playing Demon's Souls when I can get the TV away from the GF, and Warhammer Online with a friend on my PC. Although I think I might cancel WAR and move over to AoC for a month soon.
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Reply #925 on: April 08, 2009, 01:12:10 PM

Also cancelled WoW. 4 years is enough time on the treadmill.

Right now finishing up all the games that I missed out on because Wow sucked up all my time. Finishing my first run-through of Mass Effect and will pick back up on Fable II after that. I may get around to finishing Fallout III if another shiny doesn't catch my attention first. 

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Reply #926 on: April 08, 2009, 01:14:03 PM

Nothing really, I'm in between games. Sad Panda

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Reply #927 on: April 08, 2009, 01:41:59 PM

Playing DoW2, though I did enjoy the single player campaign, has sent me right back to the well to play a bunch more of the *first* DoW. Finishing the Soulstorm campaign finally now. I think that expansion got a bad rap, honestly.

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Reply #928 on: April 08, 2009, 01:45:18 PM

Ingmar, I love your David Attenborough avatar.  awesome, for real

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Reply #929 on: April 08, 2009, 01:47:52 PM

He is one of my few mancrushes.  Heart

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Reply #930 on: April 08, 2009, 06:39:06 PM

I've moved on to Death Knights of Krynn now.  The EGA graphics and interface are slightly better than Champions, but it still likes to throw lots of high powered DO OR DIE fights at you.
3 70 HP Blue Dragons with a level 7-9 party imported from Champions?
It's just not fair!

And from Gamesuck's Game Days thing with an extra 10% off coupon I got the PSP FFT for 9, DS Metal Slug 7 for 9, and Persona 3 FES for 18.  That's a good deal.  Maybe sometime before my 40th birthday I will get to play all the damned games I own.  And I mostly buy em all BUDGET!


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Reply #931 on: April 09, 2009, 08:14:06 AM

Lent Demon's Souls to a friend since I wasn't playing it.

DotA when I need a game fix.

Might pick up Persona 4 again this weekend since I only got about 2hours into it before something shiny came along and distracted me.
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Reply #932 on: April 09, 2009, 09:23:16 AM

I think I need a gaming intervention. All I've been playing is CoD4 for the last 2 months. I've purchased any number of games lately, from Assasin's Creed, Empire Total War and a few others. I can't be bothered with them. I am just stuck in frag land. I'm not even very good at it, but its so easy, and so instantly gratifying. Any help out there?

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Reply #933 on: April 09, 2009, 11:11:56 AM

Yes.

You should play Ninja Blade.

Failing that, Conan's getting it's second wind right now.

Failing that, I hear Demon's Souls is pretty crazy.

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Reply #934 on: April 09, 2009, 11:55:58 AM

Completely random stuff for very short periods of time since I have become ADHD on gaming. TF2 on my favorite servers, little PSO on a private server, some WoW, little Killzone 2 when I can tolerate the shitty maps, and the odd 1-2 hour sessions with random PC games I own.

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Reply #935 on: April 09, 2009, 12:34:26 PM

Yes.

You should play Ninja Blade.

Failing that, Conan's getting it's second wind right now.

Failing that, I hear Demon's Souls is pretty crazy.

Ya, don't have consoles, don't really go for JRPGs and I burned out on Conan about, what, 9 months ago. Maybe I should go back, if they have put in decent story lines (not just randomly assorted quests, no matter how good they are).

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Reply #936 on: April 09, 2009, 04:22:17 PM

Only play Ninja Blade if you loved (and I mean LOVED) Dragon's Lair/Space Ace back in the day. Or if you have a special love for QTEs.

Started Bioshock, Force Unleashed and Gears of War in the past few days, after completing Lego SW to 100% and finishing storymode in Saints Row 2. Can't be arsed with Far Cry 2 anymore.


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Reply #937 on: April 09, 2009, 09:58:43 PM

I've been going through and finally finishing a bunch of RPGs over the last month or two.  Finished The Witcher, Vampire: The Masquerade, and Mass Effect.  I intended to finish Fallout 3, but got bored after I hit max level.

Tired of RPGs, I picked up Disciples 2 from GOG.com.  It's a fun little game, definitely worth the 10 bucks I paid for it.  I'm probably going to pick up Sacrifice from GOG in the near future, as I fondly recall summoning volcanos beneath my enemies back in the day, and my original discs are long gone.
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Reply #938 on: April 09, 2009, 11:15:40 PM

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Echoes of Time.

I don't much about the Rings of Fate, but I am enjoying this.
It is an unexpectedly solid title and very reminiscent of Secret of Mana series.
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Reply #939 on: April 10, 2009, 08:49:36 AM

Tired of RPGs, I picked up Disciples 2 from GOG.com.  It's a fun little game, definitely worth the 10 bucks I paid for it.  I'm probably going to pick up Sacrifice from GOG in the near future, as I fondly recall summoning volcanos beneath my enemies back in the day, and my original discs are long gone.
I really enjoyed both those games. I've been itching (for a tussle!) to get back to FFH2, but I want to finish GTA4 first and damned EQ2 is sucking away my time.
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Reply #940 on: April 10, 2009, 11:52:13 AM

Current games being played:

1.  LOTRO
2.  EVE (sometimes, although it seems all I do is train skills)
3.  Fallout 3
4.  Deus Ex
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Reply #941 on: April 10, 2009, 12:03:14 PM

Currently catching up on some old MUDs I use to play and some AoC/DotA on the side.

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Reply #942 on: April 10, 2009, 01:17:57 PM

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EVE (shoot blues every day)

Mount & Blade (just tried out my very first mod yesterday...so far it is fun)

Sporadic ME:TW II sessions

Poker (trying to run my account up high enough so I can withdraw enough to cover a new PC- when Windows 7 gets released  Ohhhhh, I see. )

360
FIFA 09 (which I fucking suck at, but still love)

NHL 09 (fun, but wow EA needs to unfuck multiplayer next year...SO much potential going to waste)


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Reply #943 on: April 10, 2009, 01:56:05 PM

Still playing LotRO. I tried to do the Library of Steel solo instance for the first, second, third, and fourth times. It appears to have been designed to mock Lore-Masters, even those traited for DPS and armor/health. When I first did the spider solo instance, I felt I was learning a little with each failure, and getting closer to beating it. I don't seem to do any better in LoS no matter what approach I take -- down the center, to one side, escorts first, or summoners first.

After banging my head against that wall for an hour or so I wanted to see shit blow up. I was going to hit Company of Heroes, but Steam started downloading an update that appeared to be, oh, the whole damn game. So instead I went to DoW: Dark Crusade.

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Reply #944 on: April 10, 2009, 02:52:38 PM

I finally fucking finished Castlevania Order of Ecclesia.  That game has seriously old school boss fights, except with varying patterns so you can't always know what's coming up next.

Now its on to Dragon Quest 5.  Maybe by July-August I will be on to a new portable game for worktime.

Oh and seriously FUCK Blue Dragons in Death Knights of Krynn.  Even on slightly lower difficulty they kill PCs.  Had a fight where I had to fight a big battle against clerics, mages, and fighters, then the dragons right after with no save.
Now my Cleric is -1 CON and he only had a 15 to start with.  Now he has gone from HP in the 70s to HP in the 60s. :(
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