What games are you currently playing?

[Firewind]

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Like I said I love SMT IV and accept that there has to be some simplification for a handheld game. You need to be able to jump in and out at any time. I think I was a mostly bothered because I was expecting the combat to feel more slow and tactical like the older SMT games. I did get the feeling that most bosses in SMT had two stages: the first stage were you wipe trying to discover what you can hit it with, and the second attempt where you abuse the hell out of it.

SJ and IV do make me miss the 3D animated battles of Nocturne, but the sprites are all incredibly well done, and some of the demon designs I do like. I especially like he new Archangel designs.

And honestly I think I prefer being able to select what gets passed on via fusion that they did in P4G and SMTIV. It cut out a lot of frustration and is kind of necessary in a handheld game. No train driver will stay at my stop for a few minutes while I keep resetting to try and get the perfect Luficer fusion to go and fight Margeret with.

[Melody]

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So I went and I picked up Batman Origins. :/ Rather...unsatisfied with my purchase. The reason being...

Story Twist

I thought for sure Joker wouldn't appear in this game and he did anyway, I was having fun dealing with just Black Mask. I had my entire hope up of bringing in just Black Mask. It was then when I found out that Black Mask I believe was already dead and Joker just took his place. When in fact I believe they got the whole character botched. Since Joker REMOVED his mask and put it on himself. Last time I checked, Black Mask...well mask, was made something close to adamantium and it was pretty much fused into his face. Which was also bullet proof, I was also disappointed with the fight with Deathstroke, I thought he would've put up more of a fight than that and wouldn't just be QTE's which is what most of his fight was, either that or repetitive button/comboing until you got to that scene.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Like I said I love SMT IV and accept that there has to be some simplification for a handheld game. You need to be able to jump in and out at any time. I think I was a mostly bothered because I was expecting the combat to feel more slow and tactical like the older SMT games. I did get the feeling that most bosses in SMT had two stages: the first stage were you wipe trying to discover what you can hit it with, and the second attempt where you abuse the hell out of it.

SJ and IV do make me miss the 3D animated battles of Nocturne, but the sprites are all incredibly well done, and some of the demon designs I do like. I especially like he new Archangel designs.

And honestly I think I prefer being able to select what gets passed on via fusion that they did in P4G and SMTIV. It cut out a lot of frustration and is kind of necessary in a handheld game. No train driver will stay at my stop for a few minutes while I keep resetting to try and get the perfect Luficer fusion to go and fight Margeret with.

Well, you'll get no argument with me there on that. Its just SMT IV kinda made Victory Cry too easy to pass around yet still decided passing around Desparate Hit to anyone but Demonee-ho or Flynn was too much (and it would be, since its the Frikugel of SMT SJ and IV). Yet on the Archangel DLC they made passing on their traits a royal pain the ass that goes back to the days of Persona 3 FES and Nocturne.

You can only pass on their magic piercing skills via battle fusion so you're still going into the "For the Past, For the Future" DLC with some disadvantages. Well, except the boss there would pull some Margaret insta-kill tactics on you if you can just null everything. And it has a turn limit like she does, too.

I wasn't too wild about the Archangel designs, but that's just nostalgia for Kaneko's art talking, really. There is very much a biblical basis for how the archangels are redrawn in SMT IV. In that way I think the artists actually showed a ton of respect for Kaneko that they went against his original archangels to bring them more in line with his other art. They're still a little too Kamen Rider for me, but I like where they were coming from. God and his angels are supposed to be unknowable and incomprehensible to the mortal eye, so its fun that they just pushed them far away from looking human

[Yellow Mage]

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Presently juggling Double Dealing Character, Transistor, and NEStalgia.

[Melody]

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Presently juggling Double Dealing Character, Transistor, and NEStalgia.

I play NEStalgia. Working on getting ninja to 30. I'm guessing you're not on Algol.

[Yellow Mage]

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You've played for long enough to be on Algol?

I have a Ninja 32 on Ennar. Really fun class to play around with. Working on a Ranger too, currently at 25. Yay Healwave.

[Melody]

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You've played for long enough to be on Algol?

I have a Ninja 32 on Ennar. Really fun class to play around with. Working on a Ranger too, currently at 25. Yay Healwave.

I'll have to check the server I was on. It's been awhile. Any announcement on Silk putting in new classes?

[Yellow Mage]

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I'll have to check the server I was on. It's been awhile. Any announcement on Silk putting in new classes?

There are two coming in the upcoming expansion. One is going to be called Bard. The other there is no information on at all.

Said expansion is slated for "Summer" but who knows when it's ever going to come out.

Anyway, if it's "been a while" it was probably Algol. There were only two servers to start out with--Algol for PvE, and Zenithia for PvP. A third server, Greenlight (PvE), was added when the game was added to Steam's Greenlight selection.

When the game made it to Steam proper, a whole smattering of new servers were made. The two big ones right now are Ennar and Midgard, both PvE. One new PvP server was added, Colosseum, to give new players the option to play on a PvP server without making them to go through the grizzled veterans upon Zenithia.

[Melody]

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There are two coming in the upcoming expansion. One is going to be called Bard. The other there is no information on at all.

Said expansion is slated for "Summer" but who knows when it's ever going to come out.

Anyway, if it's "been a while" it was probably Algol. There were only two servers to start out with--Algol for PvE, and Zenithia for PvP. A third server, Greenlight (PvE), was added when the game was added to Steam's Greenlight selection.

When the game made it to Steam proper, a whole smattering of new servers were made. The two big ones right now are Ennar and Midgard, both PvE. One new PvP server was added, Colosseum, to give new players the option to play on a PvP server without making them to go through the grizzled veterans upon Zenithia.

Ah I didn't know any of this. I was in TSF (The Shining Force) so we kept amongst ourselves a lot. But I'll take a peek.

[Carter]

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Currently playing:

FFXIV - occasionally. My FC seems to be disintegrating

Conkers Bad Fur Day (N64)- Gone a bit retro lately and I just love this old platformer.

Borderlands 2 on PSVita - recently patched

Nothing on 3DS I did have Tomodachi Life but I really didn't like it so I traded it in. Not entirely sure who that game is aimed at tbh!

[Ketaru]

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Replaying Ni no Kuni. After playing Dragon Age: Origins for so long, it's frustrating not being able to set conditions for the AI to perform specific actions.

[Feba]

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Blizzard finally announced pricing details for Naxxramas, the first 'adventure' addon for Hearthstone.

For those of you who don't play Hearthstone, but think you might want to someday, you should definitely make an account -- the first wing of the expansion will be free to unlock for the first month, and if you unlock it during the free period, it will remain free forever. There are five wings, $7 individually, $25 for a whole, but simply by logging in during the first month Naxxramas is open you can use the $20 four-wing bundle.

Those of you who are committed to free to play, it's only 700G per wing.

[Aksannyi]

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Crap, I need to get back into Hearthstone then.

[Malacite]

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FINALLY Nax is available!

And it's only 700 gold per wing too, that's pretty spiffy :D (and there's bundles!)


Good thing I finished Lightning Returns last night. Still gotta get a few pesky trophies but I finished the story and I have to say, it was a pretty decent ending tbh - a lot better than some other games I've finished in the last year or so. For all the shit the 13 series got, at least it ended well (and wow, Lightning is actually really pretty when she's smiling for a change).

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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I was not expecting Robin to get added. Lucina, yes, and maybe Chrom, but Robin looks like an interesting addition.

Some are saying Chrom is a Final Smash for Robin, but I'm not buying that.