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scarycave posted:I finished a game called Disgaea 5 last night - I think it was a pretty fun game, aside from some really gross poo poo and characters that look like they escaped from Shante, the game had a lot of optional stuff that never really felt like a waste of time or were really required to beat the game. The story was super cheesy and campy, but I was okay with it - though somethings were definitely way too quirky for me at times - sometimes it'd get a laugh, and sometimes I just be worried that someone would be watching me play this. This is true, up until you get to the postgame of Disgaea which is all grinding all the time. But hey, that's why it's in the postgame.
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Glagha posted:This is true, up until you get to the postgame of Disgaea which is all grinding all the time. But hey, that's why it's in the postgame. I can't see any reason to use the ability to- I guess- start the game over but keep your levels and items, since there's a setting in the Cheat Shop that lets you put things back to their original set up every level.
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Feb 27, 2018 19:28
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RareAcumen posted:I can't see any reason to use the ability to- I guess- start the game over but keep your levels and items, since there's a setting in the Cheat Shop that lets you put things back to their original set up every level. Is that Reincarnation or the New Game + thing? Because the only reason for the later is if you messed up the good ending - or want to see the alternate bad endings since they depend on your ally kills at the time. And reincarnation, I think, builds up a characters base stats - so as they level back up from 1, their stats get a lot higher than before due to the base stats increasing depending on the stats of the guy you reset.
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Feb 27, 2018 19:44
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scarycave posted:Is that Reincarnation or the New Game + thing? Because the only reason for the later is if you messed up the good ending - or want to see the alternate bad endings since they depend on your ally kills at the time. It's the pirate in the corner asking if you want to go backwards in time. And I don't know how in depth that gets. Do I have to get to chapter 6 to get the squads unlocked or is everything still going to stick around?
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RareAcumen posted:It's the pirate in the corner asking if you want to go backwards in time. And I don't know how in depth that gets. Do I have to get to chapter 6 to get the squads unlocked or is everything still going to stick around? I haven't touched it - but I think everything stays the same aside from the story progression from what I looked up, assembly,squads,etc. are untouched - though quests are reset. But the Pirate is the New Game + guy. And the only reason I know why'd you want to do a new game + is to unlock the bad endings for 100% completion - which I'm not touching.
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Yeah when I mean New Game + I'm talking about bonus bosses, Carnage Dimension, and Baal and stuff. The content that requires you to master every single class on a character to get them 300% bonus stats, then leveling them to 9999 multiple times, reincarnating back to 1, and then back to 9999 multiple times until they have stats in the billions. And also get them all the best equipment in the game and maxing their levels out, complete with specialists in all their items to crank them out to absurd levels.
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Feb 27, 2018 20:40
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Glagha posted:Yeah when I mean New Game + I'm talking about bonus bosses, Carnage Dimension, and Baal and stuff. The content that requires you to master every single class on a character to get them 300% bonus stats, then leveling them to 9999 multiple times, reincarnating back to 1, and then back to 9999 multiple times until they have stats in the billions. And also get them all the best equipment in the game and maxing their levels out, complete with specialists in all their items to crank them out to absurd levels. Yeah, the absurd heights to which the leveling/grind can extend is what the series is known for, though I think D5 stepped back on this a little and focused more on marketing the story and gameplay instead of just "You can level forever, deal a trillion damage!". At the same time, I've played every single Disgaea game and never once actually completed that stuff. Once I get to post game I usually play around in item world for a bit, get the characters I like pretty powerful, do a couple reincarnations and by then I've moved on to something else. Disgaea games kind of grow to fill your time/attention. They function perfectly well whether you're just interested in playing through a story, or if you want a monstrous time-sink of a game and anything in between. I feel like I should hate how Disgaea approaches peak anime, but for whatever reason, I find it charming. I guess it is so unabashed and upfront with it that it triggers some nostalgia or something. Not that it doesn't get gross or cringe-y, but I overall find the characters and predictable plots endearing. The voice actors always ham it up too.
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Feb 27, 2018 20:50
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Leavemywife posted:Until you gained a level, then his healing factor amped the gently caress up to restore his tank top. I never knew any of this. Because I was too busy running around in the classic blue and yellow. It was so out of place and stupid I couldn't help but use it.
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Feb 27, 2018 20:56
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MrJacobs posted:I never knew any of this. On that classic blue and yellow costume, originally in the comics, his claws came out from on top of his hand, and the gloves had little slots for them to emerge from, instead of between his knuckles. If I remember right, they come out from those little slots on that costume, too, instead of between the knuckles.
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Feb 27, 2018 21:52
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Disgaea 5 made the ultra grinding easier than ever before, I wanna say it's the only one where I ever bothered getting a character to 9999.
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RagnarokAngel posted:I actually do understand where you're coming from in that thread though I think TF2's success is a combination of not expecting a single player campaign at all, and excellent timing. There's been a resurgence of single player focused FPS again (Doom 2016, despite the publisher's attempts, and Wolfenstein) and while TF2 may not push the envelope in terms of story it really hits that power fantasy that FPS campaigns used to hit and really have been lacking in the past few years. It just synced with me. Some of it might also be because right before I played it I ran through Syndicate, and the gap between the two is much smaller than you would expect. Though in fairness, that speaks to how ahead of the curve Starbreeze was than strictly being a slight against TF2.
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Feb 27, 2018 23:36
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That Wolverine game had a great Danger Room mode where you were constantly pitted against enemies. A total rush if you beat it.
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Feb 27, 2018 23:43
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Inzombiac posted:That Wolverine game had a great Danger Room mode where you were constantly pitted against enemies. How could you lose? Never played it but people talking in this thread make it sound like you're basically unstoppable if you can be reduced to a skeleton by an explosion and still come back.
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Feb 28, 2018 00:28
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marshmallow creep posted:How could you lose? Never played it but people talking in this thread make it sound like you're basically unstoppable if you can be reduced to a skeleton by an explosion and still come back. Well I mean it is Marvel, the Hulk did the same thing. Honestly I don't get the appeal of these comic superheroes, after a guy comes back from being a skeleton where is the threat of him ever actually dying? Leal has a new favorite as of 01:17 on Feb 28, 2018 |
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marshmallow creep posted:How could you lose? Never played it but people talking in this thread make it sound like you're basically unstoppable if you can be reduced to a skeleton by an explosion and still come back. The health system worked like a shallow pool that was constantly refilling. Normal thugs were just gonna piss you off but 6 of the giant golems simultaneously smashing you is gonna be trouble. Plus it took a couple of seconds of taking no damage for the healing to kick in.
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Yeah, it was a standard regenerating health mechanic, except it fit perfectly within the character's concept and they went the extra mile with the visual effects. You could easily take enough damage to die, it would just rip off large chunks of your flesh first.
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Feb 28, 2018 01:42
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IIRC you didn't lose health from losing chunks of flesh from your body. Instead, you lost health from your now-exposed heart taking damage until it went kaputt.
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Petit Gregory posted:IIRC you didn't lose health from losing chunks of flesh from your body. Instead, you lost health from your now-exposed heart taking damage until it went kaputt. I don't recall that specific detail but that's a cool idea anyway.
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For reference, here is Wolverine at low health:
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Mr. Flunchy posted:For reference, here is Wolverine at low health: This is why you should never skip skin day.
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Feb 28, 2018 11:53
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I didn’t know that prisoners could build tunnels in Prison Architect so it was really cool to learn that. This game is also super awesome for OCD people cause you have to organize things physically. Example:
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Mr. Flunchy posted:For reference, here is Wolverine at low health: Beach 2018 is going to be a mess
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Good to see his thighs are indestructible as always.
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Wolverine would do far more good in the world if he stopped x-manning and became a perpetual kidney donor. Guy could easily squirt out a hundred a day if he set his mind to it.
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My friend, do I have a web comic for you
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Mr. Flunchy posted:Wolverine would do far more good in the world if he stopped x-manning and became a perpetual kidney donor. Guy could easily squirt out a hundred a day if he set his mind to it. They’ve done that. It is horrifying. Plus his healing means anesthetic doesn’t work that well so he’d be getting carved up 24/7 with no pain killer. Just no.
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The Missing Link posted:They’ve done that. It is horrifying. Plus his healing means anesthetic doesn’t work that well so he’d be getting carved up 24/7 with no pain killer. Well he doesn't seem to mind when I make him run into a load of exploding barrels and emerge as a hideous bloody skeleton 
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Wolverine's a tough dude. He can do it. The question is, does the donated kidney consume the patient's body and become another Wolverine?
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Something I like with Yooka Laylee now that I have almost all of the powers and am clearing out the pagies in the worlds is that the worlds all expand differently so far. The Aztec level gets more vertical spires and things but the ice level just unlocks the doors to a level that's a large isometric maze with many pagies to find and puzzles to solve. It gives each level a very unique feel and that's cool despite the game's many flaws.
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Slime posted:Wolverine's a tough dude. He can do it. Depends on who is the author!  Sometimes you can come back from a fatal heart stabbing by injecting some Wolverine blood, sometimes it gives you cancer, sometimes it gives you limited powers for as long as the plot needs, etc.
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Inzombiac posted:Depends on who is the author! They should write a story where it works like the mops in Fantasia. The more you chop, the more smaller copies you get.
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The problem with that master plan is what if Wolverine has a rare blood type? Won't do much good for humanity if 90% of the transplants are rejected by the host bodies.
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BioEnchanted posted:The problem with that master plan is what if Wolverine has a rare blood type? Won't do much good for humanity if 90% of the transplants are rejected by the host bodies. He could give plasma, which is much less likely to be rejected and can make blood donations go much further.
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Mr. Flunchy posted:Wolverine would do far more good in the world if he stopped x-manning and became a perpetual kidney donor. Guy could easily squirt out a hundred a day if he set his mind to it. This kinda happened in the more recent Deadpool comics. He was getting his organs stolen repeatedly.
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Re: Superheroes doing the most good
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I just played Stories Untold. I like it. The atmosphere was somewhat spoiled by my need to occasionally alt-tab out and look up a walkthrough, but I think it's really good. But I'm torn - I can't decide if the 4th episode is the best or worst part of the game. Super duper spoiler ahead: On the one hand, I feel a bit cheated by the idea that everything I had played up to that point was just the addled thoughts of a man recovering from a coma. The third episode in particular, I feel had an amazing mystery going on, and I wish I could have lingered in that world for just a little while longer, to find out what the hell was going on. But on the other hand, I realise in hindsight just how craftily the devs seeded the reveal throughout the narrative. The whole context of The House Abandon, the glimpses of the crash in the alien's memories, the statement: "some day Mr. Aition, your actions will haunt you", the crashed cars in the snow, all the code words in the microfilm, even the name of the game itself... God, I'm going to have to replay this at some point, just to pick up all the little things I missed. It's the best mystery I've experienced in a game for a long time. Boron_the_Moron has a new favorite as of 11:13 on Mar 1, 2018 |
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Evilreaver posted:Re: Superheroes doing the most good       
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Chard posted:*ignores thousands of innocent people killed and maimed whenever supers fight* The Hulk has a secret super power that makes him magically able to destroy things without any collateral damage. This is actually Marvel canon.
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I wonder if whoever read that, ever actually read the arc that dealt with Bruce Banner's abusive lovely dad. Anyway, my favorite little thing in games right now is R-Type Final's story. For a game with like, maybe 30 lines of text? It has a surprisingly engaging story, I think so at least. I absolutely love one of the endings; After killing a source of the living-metal life forms you've been fighting the whole game your ship gets converted into a horrible bio-mechanical thing and warped back in time to the first stage of the game. Except this time you're fighting the fleet of human ships because they think you're an enemy. The last boss being the iconic ship of the R-Type series. When you win the fight you're given one final text transmission from your pilot's log lamenting that the sea birds are the only one who seem to recognize them anymore. If you actually play through the first stage of the game, you can see the infected ship fly past you for a split second before the first wave of enemies show up. I guess it's not really a "little thing". But I had a lot of fun with it. There's even a throw back in a single stage of the game that references the ending of R-Type Delta.
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