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marshmallow creep
Dec 10, 2008

I've been sitting here for 5 mins trying to think of a joke to make but I just realised the animators of Mass Effect already did it for me


What cloak is that? That looks like a brown version of the Farewell Cape.

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Sankis
Mar 8, 2004

But I remember the fella who told me. Big lad. Arms as thick as oak trees, a stunning collection of scars, nice eye patch. A REAL therapist he was. Er wait. Maybe it was rapist?


FirstPersonShitter posted:

I just got this game today and I've already played a few hours of it. It's pretty drat confusing at first but it's also awesome. I like how most fights with big monsters start off with you scared shitless of them, then eventually end in you feeling like a huge bastard as you ram your flaming greatsword into a blinded cyclops's gooch. Or when one of your pawns is holding up a squirming goblin and you run him through.

Most people's pawns do seem like creepy pedo-bait. My pawn is an old, tiny mage called Morlon who follows my giant conan style warrior dude around casting spells (generally the wrong ones) and getting batted off ramparts by charging cyclopses.

I wish the screenshot facility let you take higher res shots, mine looked great on the PS3 but when I copied them over to my memory stick they look muddy and hideous on the PC.



Here's my dude and Morlon in the background, and that's the picture after I did some work on it in GIMP to make them at all visible. It was a daylight shot too.

It's too bad it's not a metal wolf helmet. You could have made The Hound.

Apso
May 30, 2008

likecnsnnts posted:

What's your gamertag? I'll rent your pawn! I don't have any cool items to offer; I've just been giving any goon pawns alcohol to take back to their masters.


edit for anyone: What's the max number of friends for an xbox friendlist? I've been adding tons of peeps from the spreadsheet.

Tag's goatsmith, and booze works fine for me. A quick google search suggests XBL caps at 100 friends.

juggalo baby coffin
Dec 2, 2007

How would the dog wear goggles and even more than that, who makes the goggles?


Lotish posted:

What cloak is that? That looks like a brown version of the Farewell Cape.

It's called leather cape or something and I got it out of a chest on the beach just outside the starting village. It's got terrible stats but it looks super cool compared to any of the capes at the shop.

Incidentally does the shop ever get new stuff and is there more than one city?

RME
Feb 20, 2012

I just did the quest to reclaim shadow fort
As the Goblin Chief ran away, I tried following after him and jumped out the window, but I was a little slow in doing it, does anyone know if it's possible to kill him if you act quick enough?

Funkmaster General
Sep 13, 2008

Hey, man, I distinctly remember this being an episode of Spongebob. :colbert:

FirstPersonShitter posted:

It's called leather cape or something and I got it out of a chest on the beach just outside the starting village. It's got terrible stats but it looks super cool compared to any of the capes at the shop.

Incidentally does the shop ever get new stuff and is there more than one city?

Yes; no.

marshmallow creep
Dec 10, 2008

I've been sitting here for 5 mins trying to think of a joke to make but I just realised the animators of Mass Effect already did it for me

Does Reynard ever come back? Getting along in his quest unlocked several of the hydra scale armor pieces, but as soon as it was over he left town.

ButtWolf
Dec 30, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Can i just send items to ppl? Or do i have to gift it when i release the pawn?

Thievery
Jul 15, 2008

What happens in 3rd Street stays in 3rd Street.

RME posted:

I just did the quest to reclaim shadow fort
As the Goblin Chief ran away, I tried following after him and jumped out the window, but I was a little slow in doing it, does anyone know if it's possible to kill him if you act quick enough?

It is, I was playing and just leapt out the window after him, mainly cause I thought it would be hilarious if you could follow him out. Sure enough it was, as was the splat of hitting the ground, but yeah I blink strike'd him to death.

It's also possible to kill The Dragon when you first start the fight in the large room, skipping the running/flying/crater bit

Jimbot
Jul 22, 2008

Thievery posted:

It is, I was playing and just leapt out the window after him, mainly cause I thought it would be hilarious if you could follow him out. Sure enough it was, as was the splat of hitting the ground, but yeah I blink strike'd him to death.

It's also possible to kill The Dragon when you first start the fight in the large room, skipping the running/flying/crater bit

How does the game handle that anyway? Do you still warp to the crater when you kill him?

Thievery
Jul 15, 2008

What happens in 3rd Street stays in 3rd Street.

Jimbot posted:

How does the game handle that anyway? Do you still warp to the crater when you kill him?

No, I don't remember how it ends when you win the fight in the crater but when you do it the way I did, your character just walks back into the room you/Savan fights the Gorechimaera/Chimaera in and meets your loved one, then it's just the same as before

I was skipping cutscenes though since it was my second time through.

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

Since I just found out about it, I added my pawn to the document. Chuft is a roughly level 25 warrior, who likes horned helmets, blue capes and tonics, spiked and fur greaves, and claymores. His favorite activity is stabbing bad dudes thrown his way.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

RME posted:

I just did the quest to reclaim shadow fort
As the Goblin Chief ran away, I tried following after him and jumped out the window, but I was a little slow in doing it, does anyone know if it's possible to kill him if you act quick enough?

The fall killed him for me. Got a little cutscene-thing of him dying.

Hostage Pokemon
Dec 29, 2011

Wise as a wizard
Quick as a viper
I just discovered that if you accidentally accept an escort quest you don't want you can go back to the notice board and abandon the quest. The quest will still be available if you want to do it later. Maybe common knowledge but I didn't know until just now.

Samuel L. Chan
May 13, 2007

Smoking marijuana, eating Cheese Doodles, and masturbating do not constitute 'plans' in my book!

whale hunter posted:

I just discovered that if you accidentally accept an escort quest you don't want you can go back to the notice board and abandon the quest. The quest will still be available if you want to do it later. Maybe common knowledge but I didn't know until just now.

Oh thank god this one fucker kept getting killed by a conveniently placed helm'd Cyclops and I thought I couldn't do poo poo about it but make him tag along till I could down the Cyclops. Thanks for this.

Millions
Sep 13, 2007

Do you believe in heroes?
Oh my god I just used Salomet's Grimoire in Gran Soren.

I'm posting this from the dungeon.

RatHat
Dec 31, 2007

A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!
Can you make a forgery of that so you can keep it?

Sankis
Mar 8, 2004

But I remember the fella who told me. Big lad. Arms as thick as oak trees, a stunning collection of scars, nice eye patch. A REAL therapist he was. Er wait. Maybe it was rapist?


Lotish posted:

Does Reynard ever come back? Getting along in his quest unlocked several of the hydra scale armor pieces, but as soon as it was over he left town.

How do you start his quests, anyway?

Owl Inspector
Sep 14, 2011

Cbouncerrun posted:

Can you make a forgery of that so you can keep it?

You can, but if you keep it for yourself it won't function and there's a definite advantage to turning in the real version for the quest.

Millions
Sep 13, 2007

Do you believe in heroes?

Cbouncerrun posted:

Can you make a forgery of that so you can keep it?

Yeah, I turned in a forgery to the questgiver then decided to see what super sweet magic the real grimoire contained. The city guards were not impressed.

ThisIsACoolGuy
Nov 2, 2010

Shaped like a friend

Millions posted:

Oh my god I just used Salomet's Grimoire in Gran Soren.

I'm posting this from the dungeon.

What does it do? I didn't even think to try it out and now I'm regretting it.

Manxome Foe
Apr 6, 2005

Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

Apso posted:

What level and class is your pawn? Mines around 60 and still nets gently caress all in terms of rift crystals, like 300 when returning from another player.

He's in the 70's and he's a dedicated healer. I got so much RC because he was used so much when the game released that at peak he was the top 30th pawn on the list. He gets used so much thy I makes RC hand over fist.

Clocks
Oct 2, 2007



ThisIsACoolGuy posted:

What does it do? I didn't even think to try it out and now I'm regretting it.

You'll see later on. ;)

DrakePegasus
Jan 30, 2009

It was Plundersaurus Rex's dream to be the greatest pirate dragon ever.

Just slayed The Dragon for the first time. Holy poo poo.

Most badass final boss music ever? Check.

90% of the fight spent running away in sheer panic? Check.

Opponent so eloquent that you stop and listen to what he says, even at risk of dying horribly? Check.

Now I want to speed through the postgame just to try soloing it.

neetz
Mar 28, 2010

Apso posted:

Tag's goatsmith, and booze works fine for me. A quick google search suggests XBL caps at 100 friends.

I got my fastest time on the offline Ur Dragon with your pawn, so it seems pretty excellent to me. Sadly, and inexplicably, as I was dealing the last few blows both she and my main pawn disappeared completely, which I think means a three star in each category rating. I rehired her and am still using her now, though.

I have the rest of the Grisly armor going spare if you'd like to complete the set.

ThisIsACoolGuy
Nov 2, 2010

Shaped like a friend

Clocks posted:

You'll see later on. ;)

Great!

Also man I'm retarded as all hell, I keep hitting triangle thinking it's the menu option, and go figure it's always in front of a NPC so I end up giving them the boot and going to jail. What a bad habit :shobon:

Edit: As soon as I hit submit and resumed playing I did it again, goddammit.

Clocks
Oct 2, 2007



ThisIsACoolGuy posted:

Also man I'm retarded as all hell, I keep hitting triangle thinking it's the menu option, and go figure it's always in front of a NPC so I end up giving them the boot and going to jail. What a bad habit :shobon:

Edit: As soon as I hit submit and resumed playing I did it again, goddammit.
The first thing I did upon reaching gran soren was try speaking to a citizen. By punching them in the face. No, I have no idea why, possibly because I was so used to hitting those buttons in order to kill monsters.

Owl Inspector
Sep 14, 2011

At one point I was repeatedly giving gifts to Reynard because I heard merchants have more to sell when their affinity is higher. Unfortunately the gift button is the same as light attack, which I then pressed outside of dialogue. I just wanted to be his friend. :saddowns:

ThisIsACoolGuy
Nov 2, 2010

Shaped like a friend

So question regarding Salvation
Balsac was a joke boss right, he gave off his "I'm a boss" speech then proceeded to eat dirt for the entire fight, he was laying on the ground the entire time, on fire, and I felt kind of like a schoolyard bully really

The Cheshire Cat
Jun 10, 2008

Fun Shoe

ThisIsACoolGuy posted:

What does it do? I didn't even think to try it out and now I'm regretting it.

It's actually a bit disappointing when you use it yourself.

It just casts Bolide and disappears, like every other magick item. I mean Bolide is an awesome spell but considering it's an item you can only get once per game it's a bit underwhelming.

Count Uvula
Dec 20, 2011

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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:

So question regarding Salvation
Balsac was a joke boss right, he gave off his "I'm a boss" speech then proceeded to eat dirt for the entire fight, he was laying on the ground the entire time, on fire, and I felt kind of like a schoolyard bully really

Balsac doesn't have the will to live like the arisen or motherfucking sword and board bandits. THEMATIC :engleft:

Really though, the challenging part of the fight is if your pawns don't draw aggro on the minions and you have 3 skeleton fighters blink-striking you in the rear end constantly. Still a pretty easy fight even then, but maybe he'll go down as the nightmare of solo runs.

FedEx Mercury
Jan 7, 2004

Me bad posting? That's unpossible!
Lipstick Apathy
Okay, I think this game is finally clicking for me. I managed to clear out the waterfall dungeon. Those saurians are not as tough as they look at first, I'm glad one of the pawns I hired knew how to fight them. I am starting to hate that pass through the mountains to the capital though, I wish there were more inns throughout the world.

Coal
Jan 15, 2008
I overcompensate for my tiny penis by stealing games worth less than a cheeseburger on a phone worth 400 cheeseburgers.
What level was everyone when they beat the final boss? And is it just me, or does the whole thing just seem like a bunch of scripted bullshit? Nothing like the rest of the game at all... Real disappointing

Sylphosaurus
Sep 6, 2007
I just tried the "Easy Kill" Dagger skill as an Assassin :stare:

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
I kind of wish I'd found the chamber of remorse earlier in the post game rather than when I only need 3 more wakestones

ZeusCannon
Nov 5, 2009

BLAAAAAARGH PLEASE KILL ME BLAAAAAAAARGH
Grimey Drawer
So you can just press start to dump an entire categories worth of items into storage. I'm an idiot for not noticing this.

Robo Reagan
Feb 12, 2012

by Fluffdaddy
How's Mystic Knight in terms of cool poo poo they get to do? I tried warrior, but it didn't really hold a candle to all the run, double jump on to monster's back, stab it in the face that Striders can pull off. I'm thinking of making one for my NG+ though.

Honest Thief
Jan 11, 2009
How do you drop an npc's affection rate? I don't want to get the duchess again on ng+, plus reynard is blushing at me an poo poo

limaCAT
Dec 22, 2007

il pistone e male
Slippery Tilde
So I was in the Catacombs doing that "Infiltrate Salvation" and Manson handed me one of the leaders of the Salvation cultists to handle:

cultist: "Please spare me! I want to hear the Gift of Fire once more"
me: Fireball


Even as a mage, this game stil has its :black101: moments.

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AzMiLion
Dec 29, 2010

Truck you say?

Honest Thief posted:

How do you drop an npc's affection rate? I don't want to get the duchess again on ng+, plus reynard is blushing at me an poo poo

Punching them seems to work.

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