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Blast Fantasto posted:I just found a sealed copy of Splinter Cell: Convictionfor $6 at a Goodwill. Yeah! My only advice is to play on the hardest difficulty. The game was fairly easy on that difficulty, so I can only imagine the lower ones are just cakewalks. Even a friend of mine that only plays games occasionally thought so.
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Polite Tim posted:thanks, I figured i was pushing my luck with just me and my housecarl rocking it, especially when getting my head kicked in by the automatons in that dwemer ruins. I do have conjure familiar so i'll let him do my dirty work Another thing to know is that your companions can die, but only if you strike the killing blow. If they're beaten by an enemy, they'll crouch/catch their breath and enemies will ignore them, but if you accidentally hit them while they're like that you can finish them off. Also if you plan on using Sneak ever, don't take companions because they are retarded and will pull enemies towards you.
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Gonna start Dragon Quest VIII for the first time since i played it on release, i didnt get very far, and remember almost nothing. Anything worth knowing?
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A shrubbery! posted:Another thing to know is that your companions can die, but only if you strike the killing blow. If they're beaten by an enemy, they'll crouch/catch their breath and enemies will ignore them, but if you accidentally hit them while they're like that you can finish them off. In fairness, this is half right; enemies will leave your buddies alone if they catch their breath, but if they've been poisoned or are being hit by an area attack or something like that, they'll still take damage and eventually die.
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Hit or miss Clitoris posted:Gonna start Dragon Quest VIII for the first time since i played it on release, i didnt get very far, and remember almost nothing. Anything worth knowing? There are theme teams for the arena. Try pairing up three similar creatures, even if one of them is really weak. You will have to grind, especially for the fight with Dhoulmagus. Jessica's best weapon is purchasable only from the casino.
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Keep your starting weapons, they're unique and can be used to craft more powerful weapons.
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Hit or miss Clitoris posted:Gonna start Dragon Quest VIII for the first time since i played it on release, i didnt get very far, and remember almost nothing. Anything worth knowing? Besides what's already been said... I'm sure the game warns you but tougher enemies show up at night. I also believe the regular ones become more aggressive. Just don't stray too far from town when grinding early on. You'll eventually learn how long you can last with your current supplies and still make it safely back to town. Not such a big problem once you can fast travel though. Enemies that appear in the world are collectable "monsters" but be careful about getting too close as they'll charge in to fight you. Treat them like you would a boss fight. Best example is Hackzilla (aka Axoraptor) who's visible as soon as you leave the first town. You may want to come back later when you have more party members. Once you have your first monster however, you can start to pit them against others.
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Back to Orcs Must Die. I've beat the core game, and was booted back to the first level, with all my upgrades. I was hoping that I could play through again, gaining a bunch of skulls for updates that I could then import into the Lost Adventures. Sadly, I appear to have stopped gaining skulls. Do I have no resort besides starting a brand new profile and get 5 skulls every time, or is there something else I can do?
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I'll be playing Metro 2033 within the coming weeks, and I remember hearing that if you play with subtitles, you'll miss out on some unsubbed dialog. Is any of that dialog worthwhile or interesting? I'd much prefer to play it in Russian, but if the dialog/dubbing is good, I might reconsider it.
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Got the last shrink-wrapped copy of Star Wars: KOTOR2. Already installed the restored content mod and Jedi Temple. Probably going to be a while before I commit to playing it. What should I know?
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redmercer posted:Got the last shrink-wrapped copy of Star Wars: KOTOR2. Already installed the restored content mod and Jedi Temple. Probably going to be a while before I commit to playing it. What should I know? Otherwise? Your PC needs high persuasion and high repair skills to access certain interesting sidequests. There's one unique party NPC for each gender. The female only NPC is generic, bland, and irrelevant. The male only NPC is more interesting and has quite a bit of interesting info about the games backgstory. Guns have improved vastly since the first game, and are now a worthwhile investment (particularly double blasters). The ability to have one character go off on his own to stealthily scout ahead isn't particularly useful when you have a full party, but there are several sections that force you to solo/stealth, so consider a bit of "training" with the party to back you up if you screw up.
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pseudorandom name posted:Keep your starting weapons, they're unique and can be used to craft more powerful weapons. In fact, don't sell anything unless you're sure you can get another copy from a shop if you need it. As far as skill distribution goes, changing weapons is a free action, so it's fine to put points in, say, both Swords and Boomerangs for Hero, since you can change them as needed. You should probably look up a skill distribution FAQ, since the game doesn't tell you what skills you unlock and when until you get them, and some are more useful than others. You occasionally find Seeds of Skill which give a few free skill points to a character. Angelo has a lower rate of skill point acquisitions until late levels so you may want to give them to him. On the other hand, he doesn't have as many useful skills as Hero does.
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redmercer posted:Got the last shrink-wrapped copy of Star Wars: KOTOR2. Already installed the restored content mod and Jedi Temple. Probably going to be a while before I commit to playing it. What should I know? It's a pretty easy game combat-wise, but yeah, play as a dude for better NPC. Listen to what Kreia says very carefully. I haven't used the restored content mods so I don't know what's with those. Read Scorchy's LP once you're done and learn about the very subtle details everyone misses their first time through.
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If I buy Persona 4 and play it for awhile will some of the terms and stuff in the section on the website become clear and then I'll be able to understand it better or is it stuff I should be keeping in mind from the off?
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thebardyspoon posted:If I buy Persona 4 and play it for awhile will some of the terms and stuff in the section on the website become clear and then I'll be able to understand it better or is it stuff I should be keeping in mind from the off? Everything there will soon become clear when you start playing the game so you shouldn't worry. The only reason you'd be best knowing everything from the start is if you're going for a "100%" run which you'd be better off using a guide for anyway. But yeah, don't worry if there's something you don't understand yet, you'll know what it all means when you need it.
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thebardyspoon posted:If I buy Persona 4 and play it for awhile will some of the terms and stuff in the section on the website become clear and then I'll be able to understand it better or is it stuff I should be keeping in mind from the off? Read the instruction manual too, but Persona 4 is a pretty easy game to pick up and play. Most of that advice isn't too necessary, just have fun and experiment with the battle system. The only thing you should know in advance is that you should finish the final dungeon by December 22nd, even though you have a couple of days after that before receiving a game over, otherwise you'll miss out on a couple of events.
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Xander77 posted:Back to Orcs Must Die. I've beat the core game, and was booted back to the first level, with all my upgrades. I was hoping that I could play through again, gaining a bunch of skulls for updates that I could then import into the Lost Adventures. Sadly, I appear to have stopped gaining skulls. Do I have no resort besides starting a brand new profile and get 5 skulls every time, or is there something else I can do? You can play again! On the level select screen, there are three modes at the top. Play again in Nightmare difficulty, which repeats all the levels but with only 3 seconds between rounds, no breaks, and much tougher waves. You'll get up to another 5 skulls per nightmare level, separate from the 5 you can get on normal mode. You don't have to "import" anything into Lost Adventures. LA is just some extra maps. Your upgrades are totally independent of the maps. Just load an LA level and your upgrades will appear as normal. Skulls earned beating LA levels just add to your "pool" of skulls, and ultimately you can upgrade every trap once you 5-skull everything on normal and nightmare.
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RentACop posted:If you tap E twice when you exit a car, the radio will keep playing. You're welcome. Ohhhh, you are my savior. That was seriously bugging me.
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I'm about to start Risen for the xbox360 and was looking for some tips. Big one I'm looking for is which of the three classes to choose. Thanks.
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TheHawk posted:I'm about to start Risen for the xbox360 and was looking for some tips. Big one I'm looking for is which of the three classes to choose. Thanks. Empty posting so I can click the ? on my name and re-edit this post with stuff I posted earlier in the thread a couple times. EDIT: have some tips for Risen. It's a decent game however it does a very bad job of explaining some things. -The game has three main starting paths. Bandit camp, monastery and harbour city. These shape your character class however the game retardedly does not tell you this. If you go the bandit camp path you can choose a melee or ranged type of character. If you get into the monastery path, you become a mage type character. If you go to the city path you become a monk type character. -A couple of crucial game mechanics for some loving stupid reason are not ever explained. For example, you can dig for treasure in small areas of cleared ground (need a shovel). You can uncover doors by clicking on some rings in dungeons or clicking on some rock walls with a pickaxe in your inventory (usually look like doorways). -Get good at dodging and blocking. -Keep all the stat boosting herbs. These can be made into potions which make them more effective. -Alchemy is a must. -Smithing only lets you make jewellery and swords. Still useful however. -If you get high enough into the axe or sword mastery tree, you can wield 2H axes/swords in one hand. -The highest that trainers can train your STR & DEX is 100. You can get above 100 through stat boosting equipment and potions. The cap is 200. Any stat boosting equipment counts towards both these caps. Eg you have 95 strength and wear a +5 ring for 100 total. A strength trainer will not let you add +5 strength until you take the ring off. You can only raise wisdom through reading bookstands and stone tablets. As a corollary, keep all your stat boosting potions until you have trained up to 100 STR/DEX without any +stat items on. -Only certain weapon trainers can get you to the maximum mastery. -STR & DEX add directly to your weapon damage. STR for melee, DEX for ranged. Crossbows require STR to equip however get a damage bonus from DEX. Not sure how WIS works. -Sneak is pretty much only good for stealing things in people's houses, skip it as you can get a ring that gives it to you. On PC, enable sneak with the LCTRL key (not sure what it is on console). Again, for some stupid loving reason the game doesn't tell you how to do this nor does it list this button in the key config in options. -Acrobatics is useful for jumping off cliffs to reduce travel time. Again, you can find a ring that gives it to you. -Jumping while you travel generally allows you to move faster than running. Exceptions are travelling up or down sleep slopes. -When you are lockpicking chests/doors, the number of left/right actions for each lock is always equal. Eg. an easy lock has 4 actions (2L, 2R), medium has 6 (3L, 3R), hard has 8 (4L, 4R). So if you have a hard lock where the first four actions are LLLL, you know that the last four are RRRR.
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Vidaeus posted:Empty posting so I can click the ? on my name and re-edit this post with stuff I posted earlier in the thread a couple times. I went to add these to the wiki, but they were already there: http://beforeiplay.com/index.php?title=Risen
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Can I get some tips on the Monster Rancher series? (I've been told MR Advance 2 is a good place to start, but if anyone has another game they think is better...)
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Anyone got any good starting tips for Dark Souls? There's a few already on the wiki, but I'm missing some basic elements. How do I heal myself? What does humanity do/being harrowed do? Why do I want humanity? What is does kindle mean? Do ceramic vases ever have any items in them?
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Gaggins posted:Anyone got any good starting tips for Dark Souls? There's a few already on the wiki, but I'm missing some basic elements. How do I heal myself? What does humanity do/being harrowed do? Why do I want humanity? What is does kindle mean? Do ceramic vases ever have any items in them? You heal yourself with estus flasks, which are an item you can assign to your item button (down on the d-pad cycles through them, square uses the item). You should have picked them up from a knight guy in the asylum (tutorial). In Demon Souls, you used herbs, in Dark Souls you use flasks, and you get another set of 5 (or 10+ if kindled) each time you rest at a bonfire. "Humanity" usually refers to "liquid" humanity, which is represented in the number in the upper-left, left of your health and stamina, which should say "00" or maybe "01." You use liquid humanity to un-hollow or turn human, and once you're human you can use liquid humanity to kindle a bonfire, which makes it give you 10 estus flasks instead of 5 (later on you can kindle bonfires further to give 15 or 20). Being human also allows you to summon players who've set down their summon sign (you don't need to be human to set down your own), and opens you up to being invaded. Finally, liquid humanity gives a bonus to item find, and being human provides a bonus to curse resistance (and maybe other resistances?). To be honest, I'd stay hollowed most of the time, being invaded is a pain. When you find a new bonfire, save up until you get 2, and then spend one to de-hollow and one more to kindle. Accumulating liquid humanity is nice because it gives increased item find chance, but the jump from 1 to 2 isn't as big as from 0 to 1, so don't grind for it. You also gain items called "humanity" or "double humanity," which can be used to grant you liquid humanity. Only do this if you really need to kindle a fire or summon a player and don't want to farm liquid humanity from enemies (or if you absolutely need a heal right now and are out of estus and have time to go into your menu and use one). You can also allow yourself to be summoned, and if you beat the boss you'll gain souls and 1 liquid humanity (this is a good way to practice against bosses and learn their patterns, since being killed while summoned as a phantom doesn't penalize you). Ceramic vases, boxes, etc. don't have items in them, but they occasionally hide a corpse with an item, or hide a hole to drop down or a ladder or something like that. Nothing drops from vases/boxes, so you don't need to repeatedly break them. Also, after you get out of the tutorial and deposited at "Firelink Shrine," you want to go up, along the cliff to the right, into "Undead Burg." At some point a dozen or so enemies in, after a spot where there's an enemy with a crossbow, to the left in a tower there's another bonfire. If you backtrack a little and go to the left (to your right as you were approaching the area) there's a spot with two enemies with spears. At that spot, after killing the spear guys, break the boxes and go down the stairs, and out the door to find a merchant. Purchase a "repair box" from this merchant so you can repair your equipment at a bonfire, and repair everything that needs repair every time you rest (the cost of repairing goes up a lot faster if you neglect to repair things). To continue, you need to get past that bridge where the assholes throw firebombs at you. Have fun!
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Does anyone have anything not mentioned in the wiki I should know before delving deeper into Odin Sphere? Mainly game breaking things that might screw me over. The reason I ask is because I had to reset the drat game during the alchemy tutorial because my inventory was full, and couldn't pick up the second ingredient, but since it was a tutorial, I couldn't use or drop items. Goddammit game.
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Can't get the wiki to load, looks like the site is down. For Odin Sphere i'd really just recommend keeping a few damage potions/items on hand for character with Blue gemmed weapons. Characters with Red gemmed weapons can hurt slimes with special attacks, otherwise it takes forever to get through certain levels
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Gaggins posted:Anyone got any good starting tips for Dark Souls? There's a few already on the wiki, but I'm missing some basic elements. How do I heal myself? What does humanity do/being harrowed do? Why do I want humanity? What is does kindle mean? Do ceramic vases ever have any items in them? This might already be in the wiki but it aint loading at the moment so just in case: At some point in the game you will come across an item called a Fire Keeper Soul. The item description says that if you use it it will improve your estus flasks. This is a filthy lie, whatever you do do not use it. Actually using it on the spot just gives you five humanity and totally wastes the item, instead hang on to it. There are several npcs in the game you can give it to to actually boost your estus flasks.
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Vadun posted:Can't get the wiki to load, looks like the site is down. I assume you're not in America, or you're up particularly late? My host is American, even though I'm in the UK. They do maintenance on my server every day at around 10:30am UK time, and sometimes you can't access the site. I guess to the American host, 10:30am is very early in the morning, so that's a good time to do whatever it is they do.
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S-Alpha posted:Does anyone have anything not mentioned in the wiki I should know before delving deeper into Odin Sphere? Mainly game breaking things that might screw me over. The reason I ask is because I had to reset the drat game during the alchemy tutorial because my inventory was full, and couldn't pick up the second ingredient, but since it was a tutorial, I couldn't use or drop items. Goddammit game. Nothing game breaking as far as I know. The only things you really need to know about Odin Sphere are: - Only play the European version. - Only play on Hard. - It's a slow, deliberate beat-em-up, don't try to play it like a hyperactive MetroidVania game or you will find yourself having a lot of trouble. - If you are having trouble playing as Mercedes, you aren't using enough Unlimited POW potions.
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I need help with Insurance Fraud in Saint's Row 2.
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Scalding Coffee posted:I need help with Insurance Fraud in Saint's Row 2. If you can try to go up onto the highways, cars go way faster, you'll get more air from good hits and be able to get better combos.
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Scalding Coffee posted:I need help with Insurance Fraud in Saint's Row 2. - Although you have to go to a certain hood to start each level, you don't have to stay there during the activity - Don't ever not be on the freeway - Always restart when you are told to go to the suburbs, as cars tend to hardly spawn at all and also cruise around at 12 mph there.
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Scalding Coffee posted:I need help with Insurance Fraud in Saint's Row 2. Yeah the game will send you to zones that are especially "good" in the general area for insurance fraud. You don't necessarily want to go to the "good" areas you want to go to busy traffic areas where you will get hit a lot. Also when you do get hit by a fast car it will send you skyborn and you want to hit another car before you hit the ground and then repeat that after you go up again. I'm not sure if the game tells you but you do have some control of your movements when airborn. Edit beaten badly
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Cars despawning by turning the camera around is what hurts as much as the suburbs. Is there a way to get more cars to spawn or is it the fault of the port?
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Scalding Coffee posted:I need help with Insurance Fraud in Saint's Row 2. Ignore the GPS waypoint; go to the airport. Get in a Snipes or other aircraft. Skydive into the fraud zone without opening your chute. You'll enter adrenaline mode instantly when you hit the ground. Use the momentum you built up while falling to bounce off any cars in the area. You should be pretty close to winning (if you haven't already won) the activity by the time you're done with your first flop.
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Colon V posted:Can I get some tips on the Monster Rancher series? (I've been told MR Advance 2 is a good place to start, but if anyone has another game they think is better...) -Keeping tabs on stress is vital since the game will only warn you about it once damage has already been done. -A Monsters ability to train depends partially on their age meaning you shouldn’t get discouraged if it seems like your monsters stats aren’t getting anywhere at first. -Its a good idea to devote your first monster to making money via tournaments since battling lowers lifespan and you can use the money to buy things for your future monsters. -Keep in mind what attributes your monster's breed and sub breed have such as lifespan and demeanor. Monk E fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Dec 6, 2011 |
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Colon V posted:Can I get some tips on the Monster Rancher series? (I've been told MR Advance 2 is a good place to start, but if anyone has another game they think is better...) If you have access to an actual Playstation (doesn't work on PS2 or PS3 I believe) then MR2 is great (Just called Monster Rancher in europe). Being able to use CDs to summon monsters and not having a clue what you're getting is always fun. Although I guess now the chance of you having a bunch of CDs laying around is lower than it was when the game came out. Haven't played MR Advance 2 myself so can't give you specific tips for that game. But from what I remember from playing the original Advance there's really not a whole lot you'd need to know. http://www.monster-rancher.com is a great site for information across all games.
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Scalding Coffee posted:Cars despawning by turning the camera around is what hurts as much as the suburbs. I think it's the fault of the game's engine, because it happens on the Xbox 360 version too.
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Scalding Coffee posted:I need help with Insurance Fraud in Saint's Row 2. It is possible to bounce off a single semi indefinitely.
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Scalding Coffee posted:I need help with Insurance Fraud in Saint's Row 2. More cars = easier results. My old video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ItsyxHzAY0
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