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The Dark Id posted:Any additional bits about Salt & Sanctuary? Bit late, but: -Guide Totems activate fast travel at any sanctuary. It's a good idea to try to put one at each sanctuary so you can quickly move about the world with ease. -Magic is OP as hell but it takes some time before it gets there. -The transmutations are your biggest opportunities to increase damage in one shot, especially if you go mage.
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I usually try to avoid tips like these but I've heard that Valkyrie Profile has some obtuse stuff you need to do to get a better ending and even if I end up liking it I don't know if I have multiple playthroughs of a JRPG in me anymore. Is it worth looking up what to do or should I just ignore that stuff?
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Aug 15, 2016 07:56
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It's worth it. Valkyrie profile's good ending is a lot more super good content, and you will not figure out how to get it on your first playthrough blind. The game is shorter than a lot of PS1 jrpgs though.
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Aug 15, 2016 07:59
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Alright, thanks. Am I missing out on anything if I don't do the normal ending first?
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Aug 15, 2016 08:09
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Neddy Seagoon posted:
Also please note: normal mode is pretty easy, but hard mode will chew you up and spit you out. It's legitimately harder than the High Tier of hard JRPGs like SMT Nocturne etc. Don't do it unless you're pretty confident and like to grind.
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Aug 15, 2016 10:11
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Panic! at Nabisco posted:Are these listed? I got Cyber Sleuth a bit ago and haven't seen any, and now I'm worried I'll have to look them up. They're regular digivolving options, you'll just see an extra criteria like "Stingmon at 100% CAM".
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Aug 15, 2016 10:31
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HMS Boromir posted:Alright, thanks. Am I missing out on anything if I don't do the normal ending first? Not a thing. The normal ending is just a short unsatisfying anticlimax with a brief scene where some characters hint that maybe this isn't all there is to the story.
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Righto, thanks again. I'm really liking the game so far! I was already familiar with the basic gameplay from having played the prototype for Indivisible (which takes heavy inspiration from VP) but I'm really taking to the baffling-but-presumably-deep crafting and skill mechanics. The visual presentation is fantastic as well.
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Aug 15, 2016 16:13
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Major Ryan posted:I've managed to never actually play Zelda: Ocarina of Time, so I picked up the 3DS version. I've played through the first dungeon and been let out into the big wide world. Should I just go with the flow or is there anything in particular I need to know? I'm more than happy to put up with it being an old game with old design/controls etc. I'd like to add that I find that using gyroscope aiming for when you shoot things in 1st person is much easier than analog.
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HMS Boromir posted:Righto, thanks again. I'm really liking the game so far! I was already familiar with the basic gameplay from having played the prototype for Indivisible (which takes heavy inspiration from VP) but I'm really taking to the baffling-but-presumably-deep crafting and skill mechanics. The visual presentation is fantastic as well. It's a good game but gently caress me the hoops you have to jump through in order to get the best ending for sure require you to have a guide. I played it when it was released and I still recall it more for its weird ending requirements than anything else. I do enjoy that on "hard" mode the game itself ends up being easier. The other modes lock you out of content (I think whole dungeons?) which screws you out of gear/characters/levels.
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Aug 15, 2016 20:24
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Mayor McCheese posted:It's a good game but gently caress me the hoops you have to jump through in order to get the best ending for sure require you to have a guide. I played it when it was released and I still recall it more for its weird ending requirements than anything else. There are quite a few hard-only dungeons, which have the flame jewels you need to find everything in the seraphic gate.
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Aug 15, 2016 21:16
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There's also the fact that new recruits join at level 1 on Hard, which just means you can get them souped up levels that end up much more useful.
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Aug 15, 2016 21:28
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I know somebody has been asking about it here, so just for the record; in Ori And The Blind Forest: -In the Definitive Edition (the only one you can get now, actually), you can revisit the areas that were closed off after playing them in the original. This is extremely helpful for the chase segments since a)the collectibles there are no longer permanently missable, b)whatever was chasing you in the first place is no longer there so there's no time limit and you can save in the middle of the thing. So that's one less headache.
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Ori Definitive is pretty drat great, yeah. It solves every issue with missables that original Ori had. Some of the achievements are still missable by their very nature (like beat the game without dying or within a certain time limit), but all the in-game collecting and exploring is completely open.
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Aug 17, 2016 17:57
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Metro: Last Light tips I feel are missing from the wiki: - You get "morality points" towards the good ending by exploring (and looting) out of the way spots, listening to incidental conversations all the way through (civilians and enemies both), doing good deeds and avoiding enemy casualties. If you explore well enough, you can skip the pacifist angle and still get the good ending though. - Don't worry about getting separated from your allies. They will always wait for you to finish exploring, safe and sound. - Many stealth sections are based around advancing as far as you can without being detected to trigger a conversation that will make the enemies move on to more convenient spots. - With the exception of "Nightfall", none of the boss fights are about pointing a gun at the bad guy and pulling the trigger for a while. There's always a environment / vulnerable spot to target.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:edit: Seeing as there's nothing in the wiki already, here's some stuff for Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth Some more stuff for Cyber Sleuth; The first thing you should do at the start of a new Chapter is go hunting through every location in Tokyo for a guy with a pair of big yellow spikes for hair called Victory Uchida. Every time you find this victorious fellow, he'll give you a rare item. As a freebie for a tricky on;, when you have to go to Tokyo Underground for the second time, immediately turn around and go back the other way (south). The sneaky bugger's hiding against the wall and you'll never find him otherwise if you don't think to look. When you create a new Digimon from Scans higher than Rookie, the first thing you should do is devolve it a stage or two. Newly-created Champions and higher have an awful ABI stat and Level limit (A max level of 25 for Champions, for example), which generally means they can't actually Digivolve to Ultimate at all. There are only two ways to raise ABI: Digivolution and Miracle Meat. Miracle Meat's rare and expensive, so the best way to get a Digimon's ABI up is to de-and-re-Digivolve it a bunch of times. By mid/late game, that's not so bad when you can burn up into the Level 20-30+ bracket off just a few fights. If you want Stingmon for DNA-Digivolving into Paildramon, don't do it through Wormmon because his stats take some serious work to meet the requirements. Falcomon or Tentomon are much easier Rookies to get to him through. DNA Digivolving requirements only need to be met by one of the two Digimon, except for the 100% CAM requirements which both need to fulfill. The other is consumed in the process, so you can burn a crappy Digimon force-fed Digimeat for CAM requirements to supplement the other well-leveled one.
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I'm starting the witcher 3 and I heard you can't master all the skills. Anything exceptionally good/bad stuff I should look out for?
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If you're not running a "general perks always active" mod, you should stay away from general perks. Possible exceptions - Gourmet, which turns food into a long-lasting healing potion, and Cat / Griffin / Bear school techniques, which give you neat bonuses for wearing light / medium / heavy armor. Stay away from crossbow skills (the crossbow is strictly a utility weapon) and Crippling Blows, which is a genuinely terrible high level skill. If you want to know more, I wrote up a whole "what should I know before I play" guide for TW3.
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Anything for Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut? The page on the wiki is mostly for the base game so some stuff might not apply anymore.
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RatHat posted:Anything for Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut? The page on the wiki is mostly for the base game so some stuff might not apply anymore. For a second, I thought you were asking about Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and I was about to flip out.
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RatHat posted:Anything for Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut? The page on the wiki is mostly for the base game so some stuff might not apply anymore.
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Xander77 posted:The only thing Director's Cut changed was the boss fights, integrated DLC and developer commentary (which you should watch on youtube instead). The bossfights now have other ways to win besides direct violence. You still have to kill them even on an otherwise-pacifistic run, but look around the arena a bit if your direct combat skills aren't superb.
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I have some other stuff for Cyber Sleuth: - Unless you feed them the meat mentioned earlier, you'll have to de-digivolve your guys at least once before they'll have 20 Abi, the minimum for I believe all Mega evolutions. So don't expect to get a full team of them too early. - A few Megas have as a pre-requisite to beat 'Great Challenge [Number]'. Those come extremely late in the game, so don't worry about them too hard. - A lot of the poop digimon have pretty useful abilities, so they do have some use if you can put up with having one on your team.
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RatHat posted:Anything for Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut? The page on the wiki is mostly for the base game so some stuff might not apply anymore. Whatever way you spec Jensen in the main game, for the DLC the cloaking system is very useful. Hacking skills less so because codes can be found easily. At least that's what I thought back when I played it based on some old posts.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Whatever way you spec Jensen in the main game, for the DLC the cloaking system is very useful. Hacking skills less so because codes can be found easily. At least that's what I thought back when I played it based on some old posts. You keep your DLC spec when it rejoins the main game though, so if you want hacking for the final stretch (not mandatory but I like to hack the planet even if I have codes) keep that in mind. It's mainly a respec opportunity.
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My Lovely Horse posted:The DLC kicks in near the end of the game and there's no way to skip it. It takes away all your upgrades, but you earn some praxis points playing it and you get a hefty amount back at the end so you can redo upgrades. I came out with more points total than when I went in, but I've heard people say they came out with less. Does the game warn you before it starts the DLC and you lose your upgrades?
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RatHat posted:Does the game warn you before it starts the DLC and you lose your upgrades? If memory serves, it's the same "this is the point of no return, do everything you want to do first" message that appears in various parts. I'm pretty sure it doesn't tell you they've taken everything until you learn about it during the first cutscene of the DLC. Also, I've no idea how you could come out w/ less praxis points going in because you get gifted back all your poo poo at the very end of the DLC and those points are part of it.
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Xander77 posted:The only thing Director's Cut changed was the boss fights, integrated DLC and developer commentary (which you should watch on youtube instead).
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Xander77 posted:The only thing Director's Cut changed was the boss fights, integrated DLC and developer commentary (which you should watch on youtube instead). There's a few itty-bitty changes and balances here and there. For example, if you take the sneaky way into the factory on the first level, you find a much-needed sniper rifle.
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I'm considering playing Etrian Odyssey IV but am not looking forward to the Atlus grinding. What are some bullshit cheese strats I can use to breeze through the game? I'm also thinking of jumping right in with a challenge hack of Pokemon X, but I haven't played any games in the series for a long time. What would an offense-focused competitive Gen 6 team look like? I know that speed is very important in 4 and that weather is king in 5, but I know nothing about 6.
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Mick Swagger posted:I'm considering playing Etrian Odyssey IV but am not looking forward to the Atlus grinding. What are some bullshit cheese strats I can use to breeze through the game? Just make a good party comp on your first try  I can't remember EO4's classes and how they work, but if you're not going for the post game content it should be possible to get through with almost no grinding (unless you count almost dying and returning to town while you explore a lot as grinding)It's also got an easy mode, if you'd enjoy that more.
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Mick Swagger posted:I'm considering playing Etrian Odyssey IV but am not looking forward to the Atlus grinding. What are some bullshit cheese strats I can use to breeze through the game? Check out the Etrian Odyssey Megathread and feel free to ask in there. It's fairly active at the moment with EO5 out in Japan, and people there are more than happy to give advice and strategy. In general though, EO4 is fairly decent when it comes to needing grinding. If you've got a decent team you're pretty much good to go, unless you want to do the post-game stuff.
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Mick Swagger posted:I'm also thinking of jumping right in with a challenge hack of Pokemon X, but I haven't played any games in the series for a long time. What would an offense-focused competitive Gen 6 team look like? I know that speed is very important in 4 and that weather is king in 5, but I know nothing about 6. Greninja, Gengar, Sylveon, Blaziken/Infernape, Aegislash, Excadrill, and Talonflame are a good smattering of high-powered mons in gen 6. Speed is still super important; a lot of the best picks are priority attackers and sweepers. Mega evolution changes a lot of things as well. Mega-Kangashkan and Mega-Mawile are both available in X and are very good picks that drop a tier or two in their regular form.
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Mick Swagger posted:I'm also thinking of jumping right in with a challenge hack of Pokemon X, but I haven't played any games in the series for a long time. What would an offense-focused competitive Gen 6 team look like? I know that speed is very important in 4 and that weather is king in 5, but I know nothing about 6. Gen 6 very much continues the tradition of singles becoming more and more rocket tag. Build your team around your Mega, either directly, or using it as a lynchpin in another strategy. But also remember that your opponent will be gunning for your mega, so don't overcommit. Most of the Megas are at least passable, but the best three available in X are M-Kangaskhan, M-Gengar, and M-Blaziken. (Unfortunately, M-Blaziken was a wifi exclusive for X, so unless you hack it in...) More specific advice: A fast Mega that gets off a Nasty Plot or Swords Dance (Or a powerful one that gets off an Agility/Rock Polish) can utterly annihilate a lot of teams. You'll want your mega, a couple mons whose main job is to cover the mega's weaknesses and prepare an opportunity for the mega to set up, and at least one defensive pivot. (I like using Overcoat Mandibuzz, but you do you.) The auto-weathers got limited to 5 turns each, but Sunny still gets some play because of M-Charizard Y, and Sandstorm is eternal. Some of the best defensive megas are OR/AS exclusive, unfortunately, so X/Y, you're very much playing rocket tag. Dragons aren't nearly as dominating as they used to be because Fairies are a thing, but they're still very good. girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Aug 22, 2016 |
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Mick Swagger posted:I'm considering playing Etrian Odyssey IV but am not looking forward to the Atlus grinding. What are some bullshit cheese strats I can use to breeze through the game?
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Anything for Mercenary Kings? Does it ever get easier to find mission objectives?
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Count Chocula posted:Anything for Mercenary Kings? Does it ever get easier to find mission objectives? 1) Bring a friend. It'll get boring fast if you don't because it recycles maps, but not in creative ways like Monster Hunter does. 2) Yes, later on you can build a Computer accessory (it's super heavy, though) that'll mark objectives and boss enemies on the map. ... 3) you do know there's a map right 
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Also many of the missions are on the same maps, so you'll start to memorize good routes that take you through a lot of the level quickly where likely hiding places will be. But definitely bring a friend.
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Anything for Disgaea 5 that isn't on the wiki?
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Panic! at Nabisco posted:Anything for Disgaea 5 that isn't on the wiki? I think "play the game in a way that is fun for you" is something you need to keep in mind while playing all Disgaea games, especially Disgaea 5. If you are a completionist about it or obsessed about playing efficiently the game will turn into a chore. You don't need to grind all your stats into the multiple millions for the postgame content, and if you find that to be tiresome don't do make yourself do it because it is there. If you like the item world have fun in the item world, even though the gear you're leveling up will be outclassed soon enough. Don't even look at reincarnation if starting your units over from level 1 sounds like a pain in the rear end.
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