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MMAgCh posted:This definitely was not the case for me – having completed the game (with all pieces collected), the armour wasn't available when I unlocked Open Air Parking, though I did have to destroy the helicopter three times before it finally took. Yeah, that could be the case, for some reason it decided to not notice I collected the Tremor Gauntlet...I mean, you need that to get the drat game finished, and I don't have the achievement.
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It's probably a long shot but does anyone have tips on how to handle Drankensang: The river of time ? I never played this series of game and so I created a warrior. I gained a level but I have no idea where to put my levelling points.
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CaptainPsyko posted:Anything for Jade Empire? Your enjoyment of the combat will go up immensely if you don't think of it as an action-RPG but instead think of it as traditional RPG gameplay in real-time. If you're expecting a brawler you'll hate it, if you expect a Bioware RPG with real-time combat you'll probably like it more.
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CaptainPsyko posted:Anything for Jade Empire? Gamebreaker styles: Jade Golem, Mirabelle, sperging by alternating the paralysis style with a damage dealing style, pausing and switching every few seconds. Check the cemetery in the capital very carefully - there's a sword or staff upgrade hidden in an inconspicuous spot, and those are quite rare. If you're a dude and you want to bang another dude, avoid expressing interest in any girls. Like in 90% of the quests where the option is available, if you can avoid a resolution or delay it (like if you're asked to give someone flowers and have to choose between giving them cheap flowers right now or going to look for more expensive ones) you should do so, because the reward will be better.
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I asked in the Steam thread, but just in case anyone here knows: How am I meant to avoid the souls that this guy fires at you when you kill enemies near him? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEQMjmXf_a8&feature=player_detailpage#t=60s They home in on you, and I'm not sure what the best way to avoid them hitting you is.
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CaptainPsyko posted:Anything for Jade Empire? It's a Bioware RPG. From this, we can extrapolate...
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Coulis posted:It's probably a long shot but does anyone have tips on how to handle Drankensang: The river of time ? I guess this means the game finally came out in English, unless you are some sort of Ger-Man. As someone who has never played this game but loved the first one in the series and bought the table-top books out of obsessive fanhood, I think you should focus on raising whatever combat skills seem most useful if you are going to play a warrior. As in, if the game is throwing one-handed swords at you, just keep raising your one-handed swords skill. There is no harm in keeping the points around, either; the more you have, the easier it is to drastically fix a shortcoming once you notice it (like if you keep getting tripped in combat, you can suddenly raise your sturdiness or whatever the trait was that helps resist that; willpower?). In the first game, most people agreed you could not get by without magic, so try to recruit a useful magician wherever you can find one (assuming the game still has party dynamics). Still, I personally, said "I hate you, conventional wisdom" and stuck to my character-personality-favoring party of three fighters and a rogue, and still made it through with only a few big problems, so your mileage may vary. Also please tell me if the game is awesome. Not that you have played the first one to compare.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Your enjoyment of the combat will go up immensely if you don't think of it as an action-RPG but instead think of it as traditional RPG gameplay in real-time. If you're expecting a brawler you'll hate it, if you expect a Bioware RPG with real-time combat you'll probably like it more. The Towers of Hanoi are in there somewhere, but not till the endgame.
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Quarex posted:I guess this means the game finally came out in English, unless you are some sort of Ger-Man. I don't know if it came out in England, but it sure did in France.  Ok, then I'm going to follow your advices. I was going to put points in 2H Swords because I started with one but now it seems that most merchants & quest rewards give you a 1H Sword and Shields. So... Graphics are nice, the story seems enjoyable and Das Schwarze Auge appears too be a nice heroic fantasy setting. I'm sold on this one.
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Any tips for the first Assassins Creed? Thanks!
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AuntJemima posted:Any tips for the first Assassins Creed? Thanks! Do the bare minimum amount of side missions needed or you'll go crazy.
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Volitaire posted:About to start Dragon Quest 8 and its the first DQ game I've played. Any advice? The hero's Courage skill eventually gives you an ability to avoid enemy encounters for a while, it's very useful when exploring since you don't see enemies on the map. Before a boss, have some of your non-casters carry some healing items instead of dumping them all in the bag. Also put all your money in the bank since you lose half of it when you die. Psyche Up is powerful if doing a multi-hit attack, but not too great if your just gonna single target attack twice. More advice here: http://anthonyhobday.com/misc/wsik/index.php/Site/DragonQuest8 lactomangulation fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Feb 4, 2011 |
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AuntJemima posted:Any tips for the first Assassins Creed? Thanks! Collecting flags gives you nothing (well ok, achievement if you're on a console).
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ad homonym posted:More advice here: http://anthonyhobday.com/misc/wsik/index.php/Site/DragonQuest8 I've changed the address in this quote, but could you edit the address in your post? That hosting is actually my old hosting, so something could happen to it at any point that would render the address useless. I changed it a while ago to: http://anthonyhobday.com/misc/wsik or http://ahobday.com/misc/wsik
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You don't need to do all the investigations. Try them for the heck of it, but there's literally no reward for doing them all. Not even an achievement. Chances are the extra info it gives you about your target will be useless anyway. As for collections, there is a website with a full map and checklist for everything, but like the other poster said, it's really not worth it. Get through it. AC2 and Brotherhood are awesome and worth your time.
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OilSlick posted:Get through it. AC2 and Brotherhood are awesome and worth your time. I should also point out that AC2 is a HUGE improvement over AC1. This comes from someone who hated AC1 and found AC2 to fix all the right things. I haven't played Brotherhood yet but the series found the right track. Echoing that one should just ignore the side mission stuff in AC1. Just play the storyline so you're up to speed for AC2.
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Dr. Video Games 0055 posted:I should also point out that AC2 is a HUGE improvement over AC1. This comes from someone who hated AC1 and found AC2 to fix all the right things. I haven't played Brotherhood yet but the series found the right track. It really is astounding how much better AC2 is over the first game. Brotherhood is great too (I really love how they improved the combat system) though I think some of the missions are a step backwards from 2. They seemed to have a lot more missions where you have to either tail someone (who's walking very slowly) or remain undetected, where getting seen fails the mission. Those were the absolute worst types of missions in AC2, but they used them sparingly. I found that there were noticeably more of them in Brotherhood, which was annoying, but overall it's still an excellent game. Definitely worth buying if you liked 2. So yeah, if you find AC1 boring, wishing it were better, just put it down and play 2.
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I'd just like to pound in the fact that you really should skip the side poo poo in Assassin's Creed 1. I did all the Eagle vision sights (I forget what they're called) and all the townspeople missions and it was such a slog. I have no idea why I bothered.
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Gynovore posted:Don't hoard cash, there's nothing big to buy. You are also rolling in money, all of the time, to the point where you're constantly turning down cash because your wallet is maxed out at $500. Unless your aim is terrible and you keep wasting ammo, I guess. Then you may spend a lot on buying it back. But generally, in Bioshock, the wrench is the best weapon if you use all the tonics for it. The guns are kind of situationally helpful.
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Speaking of DQ games, I'm about to start Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation I've played all the other DQ games (even 7), is this one any different? I had heard that it was made by a different developer but also that it's pretty much Dragon Quest III:2 in terms of gameplay/mechanics.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Speaking of DQ games, I'm about to start Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation I've played all the other DQ games (even 7), is this one any different? I had heard that it was made by a different developer but also that it's pretty much Dragon Quest III:2 in terms of gameplay/mechanics. The gameplay isn't too much different than VII, except it's not super long. You don't register your party like in III or IX, but you can have anyone become any class. You can recruit monsters though- I never bothered with them and some of the good ones are rare.
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Just grabbed King Arthur - The Role-Playing Wargame for cheap on steam, any tips? Heard it's possible to gently caress you up badly if you make some wrong moves.
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A specific question about Final Fantasy IX, just wondering who the ideal characters are to have in my party. I'm not too used to each character having a defined role and am not too sure on which party can be handy in most situations, i'm thinking Amarant, Steiner, Vivi and Zidane but that leaves me without a healer...
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Kid Moe posted:A specific question about Final Fantasy IX, just wondering who the ideal characters are to have in my party. I'm not too used to each character having a defined role and am not too sure on which party can be handy in most situations, i'm thinking Amarant, Steiner, Vivi and Zidane but that leaves me without a healer... Zidane, Steiner, Vivi, Dagger covers all your bases.
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Kid Moe posted:A specific question about Final Fantasy IX, just wondering who the ideal characters are to have in my party. I'm not too used to each character having a defined role and am not too sure on which party can be handy in most situations, i'm thinking Amarant, Steiner, Vivi and Zidane but that leaves me without a healer... The game gives you plenty of items so you can survive without a healer, and I am pretty sure Amarant has a healing ability anyway. If it matters that much though switching out amarant for dagger (if you like summons) or eiko (who gets holy, which has a blissfully shorter animation then summons) is as balanced of a party as you can get. (also freya is interchangeable with stiener since late game magic sword loses its punch compared to other abilities, and jump is always useful). Quina is very good if you bother to put in the effort to get him/her the right abilities but i never bothered.
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Coulis posted:It's probably a long shot but does anyone have tips on how to handle Drankensang: The river of time ? If it's like the original Drakensang, magic blows. Just load up on fighters with a healer in the back row. Also, prepare to be really bored.
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Foxhound posted:Just grabbed King Arthur - The Role-Playing Wargame for cheap on steam, any tips? Heard it's possible to gently caress you up badly if you make some wrong moves. I don't know if this is the right way or the wrong way, but this is the situation that I've found myself in. I focused heavily on Archery, and auras for my heroes. Then I'd hide archers in nearby forests and devastate everything. Now enemies are casting magic that wipe out my units in less then a minute. Oops.
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SpazmasterX posted:Zidane, Steiner, Vivi, Dagger covers all your bases.
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Clever Spambot posted:Quina is very good if you bother to put in the effort to get him/her the right abilities but i never bothered. If you're giving Quina a try, immediately open up a blue magic guide for him/her and start on it, do not try and grind it out later. There's actually some very powerful abilities like Lvl-5 Death and Mighty Guard that you can pick up very close to the Marsh Quina appears at.
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Groselgar posted:If you're giving Quina a try, immediately open up a blue magic guide for him/her and start on it, do not try and grind it out later. There's actually some very powerful abilities like Lvl-5 Death and Mighty Guard that you can pick up very close to the Marsh Quina appears at. I hate to tell people to go to guides but seriously, I don't know how they expect you to find some of the blue magic spells. Same for Enemy Skills in FF7. One in FF7 involved you having to get a monster to cast a healing spell on you, there's no way I would have ever figured that out.
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Not only that, but the "good old" days of beatng an enemy down, eating it, and seeing "Taste Bad!" pop up and turning my PSX off right that second.  Blue Magic is fun and useful, but gently caress the hoops you have to jump through for it.Anyway, I'm starting to play Breath of Fire IV for the first time, any general tips?
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Picked up Tales of the Abyss after getting all excited for Graces F. I was always told Abyss is the better of the two PS2 Tales games. So, any tips or things I should definitely know about while I play through this?
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:I hate to tell people to go to guides but seriously, I don't know how they expect you to find some of the blue magic spells. Same for Enemy Skills in FF7. One in FF7 involved you having to get a monster to cast a healing spell on you, there's no way I would have ever figured that out.
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