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Getsuya posted:I feel like the massive amount of armor dudes in Dark Souls 2 is pushing me into a Strength build to focus on Hammer type stuff. Though I’ve also heard scaling is crap until much later in the game and early levels should go into HP/Stamina/Weight? Adaptability looks like a trap stat but it's actually the most important stat in the game. It increases your Agility derived stat, which gives you extra invincibility on your rolls at certain breakpoints. I usually aim to have 100 agility on most characters. http://darksouls2.wikidot.com/agility
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Adaptability is so obscure that people that literally wrote the strategy guide didn't upgrade it because they didn't know
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Oct 5, 2017 20:27
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adaptibility is the stupidest thing in all of dark souls 2
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Oct 5, 2017 20:28
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The Colonel posted:adaptibility is the stupidest thing in all of dark souls 2 Definitely.
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Oct 5, 2017 20:30
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Actually the stupidest thing in Dark Souls 2 is how ugly you look when hollow The adaptability thing is weird but once you know it you know it, you have to look at your gross-rear end rotting skin forever
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Oct 5, 2017 20:34
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cheetah7071 posted:Actually the stupidest thing in Dark Souls 2 is how ugly you look when hollow You should almost never have to look at your gross-rear end skin since all souls games are about fashion first
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Oct 5, 2017 20:36
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my fashion souls is alluringly naked
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Oct 5, 2017 20:37
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Nate RFB posted:In some ways 5 might be my favorite game in the series, at least in that I had what I felt was the optimal experience. Someone here had posted a guide that was simply, "at this point in the story, this is who you can recruit and where/how", and nothing else. So I could play the game more or less at my leisure, and just check at each major checkpoint to pick these fellows up. As much as I love 2 I've had to replay it something like 3 times over the years because each time I would progress in such a way that felt ultimately unsatisfying and necessitated going back to "do it right". Perhaps if I had had such a guide for my first run of 2 that I had for 5 this would've been different, but alas. To be fair, the time limit with Clive is fairly generous since S2 isn't really that long of a game. It's only if you want to farm for some of the runes that break the game that makes the time limit super tight. One thing I like about that quest is that it's thematically appropriate with the themes of the game. Also, I found out you can do the money glitch with any piece of armor in the armorer. So you can get the armorer early, run back to your castle and don't have to worry about money anymore. The Rare Finds mechanic and the War battles are still pretty bad though. 5 was pretty excellent, and they really polished a lot of mechanics there. The best thing is how they try to include all the characters in the plot and don't just forget about them. It does have a few problems though. The political intrigue and backstabbing at the start was pretty good, but it's disappointing it got dropped soon after. I also felt like the antagonists were the weakest part. The Barrows were a complete joke, and the Godwins and their faction are laughably one-note. Sialeeds' heel turn didn't made sense, and Gizel was too cyptic and smug to be interesting. It also felt like it referenced the previous games way too much in some areas. Like seeing the people who knew your cook in S2 was cute and it was cool seeing Georg's backstory get expanded on, but the conflict between the people from three towns was lifted wholesale from S2. And Childerich was Luca Blight Lite, without any of the interesting backstory and motivation.
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Oct 5, 2017 20:38
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suikoden 3 is the best
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Oct 5, 2017 20:39
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Sialeed "betrayed" you because it's the only way to kill everyone from the inside without ruining the prince's reputation.
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Oct 5, 2017 20:40
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cheetah7071 posted:Adaptability looks like a trap stat but it's actually the most important stat in the game. It increases your Agility derived stat, which gives you extra invincibility on your rolls at certain breakpoints. I usually aim to have 100 agility on most characters. So all those times I thought I had clearly rolled through an enemy attack only to get clipped by it were due to lack of Agility. Good to know.
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Oct 5, 2017 20:41
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I liked Suikoden 2 the most, but 5 was probably my second favourite. Luca Blight is still the best villain of the series, in large part because of his incredible boss fight sequence.
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Oct 5, 2017 20:56
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Adaptability is the second stupidest thing about Dark Souls 2 The stupidest is the soul memory system
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Oct 5, 2017 20:59
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Actually the stupidest thing about Dark Souls 2 is Gavlan.
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Panic! at Nabisco posted:Adaptability is the second stupidest thing about Dark Souls 2
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The White Dragon posted:you are, but for clive's quest, you want to blow through all the areas as quickly as possible with as little trouble as you can manage. nothing says speed like one-shotting bosses with fourth-level spells that you shouldn't have until nearly the end of the game. I've used the matilda trick (and recruited Humphrey+Fitch since it doesn't break your game as long as you finish their quest) on runs before and know how useful it is. You can still do Clive's quest without matilda grind or regular grind though. And his quest is far, far less bullshit than the squirrels, since the first one is a star (IIRC) and I believe they become permanently missable after a certain point. Both ways to recruit them is utter bullshit too and I can't recall either method being hinted at in game.
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Tae posted:Sialeed "betrayed" you because it's the only way to kill everyone from the inside without ruining the prince's reputation. Ohhh, I forgot about that part. That makes a lot more sense. The bit I remembered was her wanting to get killed by the prince so that she can't be used as a political tool against Lym. I thought it didn't make sense since one of Sialeeds' sibling/cousin became a spiritual leader and no one was using her. Heartcatch posted:I liked Suikoden 2 the most, but 5 was probably my second favourite. Luca Blight is still the best villain of the series, in large part because of his incredible boss fight sequence. I loved that sequence since it really sold you the fact that Luca is a monster in battle. Evil Fluffy posted:I've used the matilda trick (and recruited Humphrey+Fitch since it doesn't break your game as long as you finish their quest) on runs before and know how useful it is. You can still do Clive's quest without matilda grind or regular grind though. And his quest is far, far less bullshit than the squirrels, since the first one is a star (IIRC) and I believe they become permanently missable after a certain point. Both ways to recruit them is utter bullshit too and I can't recall either method being hinted at in game. There's an NPC in Greenhill that tells you how to get the Squirrels, and even Richmond tells you how to get them. They're not permanently missable, and I got the other 4 when I got to the final dungeon. The bullshit part is that I'm pretty sure you can't get them to spawn if you're in the middle of a plot, so you could be wasting time trying to get them. And I think if you just got one of the squirrels you need to save/reload the game to get the next one to spawn.
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Oct 5, 2017 22:48
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suikoden 3 is pretty good imo. the worst thing about it is that you get the fast travel option in the literal last act of the game, which wouldn't have been a problem if it had a world map like the other games, instead of zones.
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Roobanguy posted:suikoden 3 is pretty good imo. the worst thing about it is that you get the fast travel option in the literal last act of the game, which wouldn't have been a problem if it had a world map like the other games, instead of zones. The pairing system it used for combat was kinda dumb. The mirror being so late in the game, coupled with how awful travel is without it, is definitely the worst part of the game though.
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Oct 5, 2017 23:02
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Adaptability was dumb but if it's the price you pay for no mid roll I'll take it. Of course DS3 and Bloodborne have neither so. BB did have a weird encumbrance system that got patched out after five minutes though.
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Oct 5, 2017 23:49
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cheetah7071 posted:Actually the stupidest thing in Dark Souls 2 is how ugly you look when hollow Don't die? also the DLC makes you not hollow so??
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Getsuya posted:So all those times I thought I had clearly rolled through an enemy attack only to get clipped by it were due to lack of Agility. Good to know. Theoretically, with good enough timing, you don't need any adaptability
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Evil Fluffy posted:Both ways to recruit them is utter bullshit too and I can't recall either method being hinted at in game. 100% recruit rate on the red squirrel is hinted at during the intro, not that the player really gets any indication investigating the tree once will work
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I decided to stop playing Blue Reflection in the interest of my sanity. There are TWELVE different girls that have their own introduction chapter (called intermissions) and then each individual one has their own side events. That doesn't even count the optional missions (which provide skill points.) They wanted each Reflector(magical girl) to have 4 support characters in the final battle but the story just drags on. The game is made for someone who likes side events and playing a NG+++++ of Persona with a LV99 character.
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Oct 6, 2017 04:25
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Endorph posted:hell yeah
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Dehry posted:The game is made for someone who likes side events and playing a NG+++++ of Persona with a LV99 character. And for those who like to spend 80 bucks on a season pass consisting of nothing but outfits.
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Renoistic posted:And for those who like to spend 80 bucks on a season pass consisting of nothing but outfits. Hi. Though I'll pass on Blue Reflection.
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Endorph posted:hell yeah
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Renoistic posted:And for those who like to spend 80 bucks on a season pass consisting of nothing but outfits. Fortunately they don't force you at gun point to do this
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Evil Fluffy posted:Suikoden's leveling system/grinding I loved that your lower level characters would catch up in levels after 5 fights or so and then after a few more you could just choose "let go" and not have to fight the enemies. Plus battles themselves were pretty fast. Suikoden 3 never came out in the UK so I've still never managed to play it.
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Oct 6, 2017 07:23
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If you have a PS3 you can but Suikoden 3 on the UK PSN store right now.
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Sakurazuka posted:If you have a PS3 you can but Suikoden 3 on the UK PSN store right now. If only they'd put it on Steam. Or the switch I guess. That's all I have.
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Endorph posted:hell yeah
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Oct 6, 2017 14:42
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Suikoden 5 becomes about 10 times more enjoyable once you get a champion rune because yeah the encounter rate and loading times are atrocious. I wonder if theres a way to cheat it in
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Oct 6, 2017 14:58
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I wonder if the loadtimes were better on PCSX2 (where I played it), because I don't really remember it being much of an issue.
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suikoden 4 was actually fun adn had cool characters and i beat it and new game+'d it like 3 times, this post is not a joke
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Dehry posted:I decided to stop playing Blue Reflection in the interest of my sanity. There are TWELVE different girls that have their own introduction chapter (called intermissions) and then each individual one has their own side events. That doesn't even count the optional missions (which provide skill points.) They wanted each Reflector(magical girl) to have 4 support characters in the final battle but the story just drags on. The game is made for someone who likes side events and playing a NG+++++ of Persona with a LV99 character. now extremely interested in blue reflection
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Oct 6, 2017 15:55
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Nate RFB posted:I wonder if the loadtimes were better on PCSX2 (where I played it), because I don't really remember it being much of an issue. pcsx2 does improve load times a lot in games, people talk a lot about how bad they are in like harvest moon: a wonderful life se and tales of the abyss and i don't remember them being longer than a few seconds in pcsx2
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Best load time reduction was Crisis Core on a PSP emulator. Instant battle loading made that game 100x better.
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