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I had a sort of related GTA question. Is the PS2 Trilogy box set hosed up? All three of the games stutter and freeze up a shitload, especially when I'm driving. All my other PS2 games run flawlessly. The discs are basically scratchless as well.
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MMAgCh posted:Just Cause 2 Fantastic, thanks.
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May 2, 2010 01:29
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A quick question about Just Cause 2: I've found some pickups outside of towns, and when I pick it up, no percentage is incremented up. Are these counted towards anything, or are they just bonuses or something?
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May 2, 2010 01:58
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They count towards your total completion percentage, that's it.
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What should I know about League of Legends? Assume that I'm not going to spend a single penny on riot points.
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May 2, 2010 21:54
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Just about to play the original Deus Ex. Any advice? I know absolutely nothing about this game.
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May 3, 2010 00:26
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I was thinking of trading in some old games to pick up a used copy of The Saboteur. Any tips for making the play through as fun as possible?
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Astfgl posted:Just about to play the original Deus Ex. Any advice? I know absolutely nothing about this game. When you begin, your character doesn't really have to skills to play the game as a shooter, so you have to sneak. Remember that guards have a 120% field of vision in front of them and pause for a moment before they go into alert mode. Get the GEP gun from Paul. You can find the other two guns he offers on liberty island, and the GEP is invaluable as a lockpick/bot disposer / people gibber. When choosing which augmentation to get, go with Speed and Not!Aqualung rather than Run Silent and Aqualung. Crouching as you run with Speed activated has the same effect as Run Silent + you get to jump to a lot of interesting places. You don't really need to swim that much, and if you ever do, you can usually find a rebreather around. Deus Ex rewards exploration, so climb, dive, squeeze and jump your way to weird places whenever possible.
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May 3, 2010 01:04
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Centipeed posted:It's still all operational and ready to go, as it were, but it sort of relies on contributions by helpful people with little else to do, and those tend to be few and far between. What the gently caress, I don't have anything go on this week, I'll help. Email is my username @ gmail.
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May 3, 2010 01:28
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Astfgl posted:Just about to play the original Deus Ex. Any advice? I know absolutely nothing about this game. Take all the skill points out of Pistols before you start the game. It will always be set to Trained after you start, so you can use those points elsewhere (or save them to get more into pistols) Swimming is useless, don't put anything in it. Laser sights are horribly broken and with one on all of your shots will be 100% accurate. If you have a scope and a laser sight, however, this does not work. And seconding exploration, and remember that you WILL miss things. I thought I was being fairly complete in my first run, but even in the first part of the game I've found tons of stuff I would have otherwise missed.
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May 3, 2010 01:53
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the Bunt posted:I had a sort of related GTA question. Is the PS2 Trilogy box set hosed up? All three of the games stutter and freeze up a shitload, especially when I'm driving. All my other PS2 games run flawlessly. The discs are basically scratchless as well. Depends if you're playing them on a PS2 or a PS3. Lag is inevitable either way. The solution depends on the following. If you're using a PS2, it sounds like it's dying. If you're using a PS3, it's probably an emulator issue. Use this to find out: http://us.playstation.com/support/compatiblestatus/
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May 3, 2010 02:01
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Astfgl posted:Just about to play the original Deus Ex. Any advice? I know absolutely nothing about this game.
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May 3, 2010 02:26
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GoodShipNostalgia posted:Most people hate the first level because it's slow, you're weak, you can't hit the broad side of the barn, and have no special powers. Don't worry, it gets much better. I always find that weird, since I found the first level to be one of my favourites. It's not as unfocused as other levels feel, but it has its nooks and crannies to find, a number of choices to make in how to approach a situation, and stuff like that.
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Yeah, I think I'm one of 10 people who enjoyed the first area because you were weak. The game dumps you out of this long tutorial into a giant sandbox and the feeling was fantastic. I must have replayed it about 4 times trying to find new things before I actually moved on.
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May 3, 2010 03:56
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Astfgl posted:Just about to play the original Deus Ex. Any advice? I know absolutely nothing about this game. Megathread here. (contains spoilers). Of all the advice I could give, I think the most important is... As you are playing Deus Ex, remember that it came out a year BEFORE 9/11..
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May 3, 2010 05:38
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Another question about La Mulana. Are there any instances of "ha ha you hosed up now you can't get this item/progress anymore!"? Especially the kind where you don't KNOW you hosed up until much much later (Quest for Glory-isms, I guess)? Because those are completely loving lame and I want to have a list of those handy if I'm gonna play through this for meself, exploration game be damned.
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May 3, 2010 05:48
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Morpheus posted:I always find that weird, since I found the first level to be one of my favourites. It's not as unfocused as other levels feel, but it has its nooks and crannies to find, a number of choices to make in how to approach a situation, and stuff like that. On your first playthrough it's bullshit because you don't know how the game works, you don't know to explore every pixel and you're not sure what to do. On your second or third run you start to realize how good it is, since it's basically the essence of Deus Ex, with a ton of different ways to get in and all kinds of hidden things, which are still blowing minds 10 years later.
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May 3, 2010 05:56
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Ledneh posted:Another question about La Mulana. Are there any instances of "ha ha you hosed up now you can't get this item/progress anymore!"? Especially the kind where you don't KNOW you hosed up until much much later (Quest for Glory-isms, I guess)? It's been a while since I played it but IIRC it is possible to screw yourself out of both of the whip upgrades if you gently caress up the puzzle involved in their rooms. Also I think there's some way to mess up the poo poo with the medicine of life and the faries near the end of the game.
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May 3, 2010 06:06
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Viash posted:It's been a while since I played it but IIRC it is possible to screw yourself out of both of the whip upgrades if you gently caress up the puzzle involved in their rooms. Also I think there's some way to mess up the poo poo with the medicine of life and the faries near the end of the game. Grumble mutter grargh, I hate this kind of crap. Oh well. Last question before I stop bugging the thread (hopefully): controller or keyboard?
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May 3, 2010 08:01
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Ledneh posted:Grumble mutter grargh, I hate this kind of crap. Never played it with a controller, but it does pretty well with a keyboard. The physics of your jump take a bit of getting used to though. On the lost forever stuff, it is only those whip upgrades that you can lock yourself out of getting I believe. However, both are pretty obvious when you gently caress up, and you can reload a save. For reference, the first whip upgrade is rising a incorrect pillar out of 2 pillars, which makes it impossible to retrieve it (there are at least 2 warnings not a room or 2 before this), and the second whip upgrade is a scale puzzle which locks the room once you climb up the ladder, so there is time to back down and go save. Hope it helps. Slio fucked around with this message at 08:31 on May 3, 2010 |
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May 3, 2010 08:20
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Ledneh posted:Another question about La Mulana. Are there any instances of "ha ha you hosed up now you can't get this item/progress anymore!"? Especially the kind where you don't KNOW you hosed up until much much later (Quest for Glory-isms, I guess)? The only items that can be permanently missed are upgrades and not required items. As far as I know, it's impossible to make it unwinnable. The whip upgrades mentioned above are true, but the Medicine of Life is not since you need it to beat the game. The whip upgrades you should know, because the rooms don't reset. For other missable items: Chain Whip: In the Inferno Cavern. It's a matter of quick reaction; it's in a dead-end room where putting a weight on the pedestal causes a pillar to rise. Once the pillars go up, they don't come back down. Mace: In the Tower of the Goddess. It requires you to solve a weight puzzle where you balance out gems. Note that to properly balance it, you'll have to add your own character's weight. (it's simpler than it looks at first) Angel Shield: Requires you to kill one of the mini-bosses in the Dimensional Corridor three times. If you kill Tiamat without getting this, you can't open the seal that has it as the miniboss will stop respawning. Life Jewels: Both the ones in the Dimensional Corridor and Shrine of the Mother are missable. The Dimensional Corridor's requires you to leap off the head of a different miniboss; if you kill it it never respawns. The Shrine of the Mother's requires you to get all four Seals before killing all eight bosses. After they're dead, the Shrine transforms into a new area. You can also miss some ROMS in the Shrine this way.
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May 3, 2010 08:34
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Ledneh posted:Grumble mutter grargh, I hate this kind of crap. Definitely keyboard, you need too many keys for a controller to work. Edit: Also if you try to play this blind you are insane. Even having beaten the game multiple times, there are parts I have no loving clue how anyone could figure out without a walkthrough.
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Freedom Force - Use Microwave often, he's vital for the last half of the game as his genetic displacement skill is crucial for the final fights. You want him properly leveled up. - You should be saving the game all the time especially after tough fights. If a fight doesn't end well and you find your party suffering heavy damage, then it's probably wise to reload. - Fliers are awesome. Period. They are completely immune to most physical attacks, make excellent scouts and can get to most places in half the time when compared to non-fliers. - El Diablo is the best character in the game. His inferno and flaming fist skills are amazing. Use them often. - Mentor's internal dominance is game breaking in the early stages of the game. Use it often. - Eve's arrow attack is really overpowered and is easily the most accurate ranged attack in the game. This is especially useful during the final few boss fights. - Don't forget defensive buffs. Minuteman's and El Diablo's shields will make tough fights much, much easier. - Characters won't always listen to your commands in battle, try issuing the commands several times if a certain character isn't responding properly. - Overpowering attacks is very, very useful but under-powering attacks is almost equally useful. Don't be afraid to launch a weak attack to finish off an enemy, it's better than being stunned thanks to energy penalties.
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Thanks folks, you've been real helpful. I'll keep the knowledge of the missables in hand as I go 
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May 3, 2010 08:46
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Viash posted:Definitely keyboard, you need too many keys for a controller to work. I did it with a PS2 controller and it worked fine. The game doesn't need that many buttons, and you can always resort to the keyboard for the odd spell or whatever.
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SPop6 posted:Freedom Force Wow, was just thinking about finally starting this up so thanks!
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The Machine posted:Wow, was just thinking about finally starting this up so thanks! It's a fantastic game. Just getting off a huge Freedom Force kick myself. I wouldn't recommend using the character creator until you've played through the campaign at least once though, it can be a little overwhelming for people who aren't familiar with the game mechanics.
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May 3, 2010 09:24
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Freedom Force: I'd be careful using Microwave. I think the Genetic Damage ability was originally supposed to re-arrange an NPC's weaknesses, absorptions and defenses, but it instead makes whoever is targeted WEAK TO EVERYTHING. Whatever is hit by genetic damage, dies. Remember: Over-powering your attacks can make them more effective, but if you can't pay the increased EP cost, your character is automatically stunned. Any flying characters who are stunned fall to the ground, taking damage. El Diablo randomly overpowers his attacks, which may stun him.
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Samurai Goat posted:Freedom Force: I'd be careful using Microwave. I think the Genetic Damage ability was originally supposed to re-arrange an NPC's weaknesses, absorptions and defenses, but it instead makes whoever is targeted WEAK TO EVERYTHING. Whatever is hit by genetic damage, dies. Overpowering an attack when you're running low on EP doesn't constitute an automatic stun, but it does GREATLY increase the odds. Also, I don't understand the point you're trying to make with Microwave, how could that ever be used against you? It's a direct target ability, just don't target your own party members? 
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SPop6 posted:Overpowering an attack when you're running low on EP doesn't constitute an automatic stun, but it does GREATLY increase the odds. Also, I don't understand the point you're trying to make with Microwave, how could that ever be used against you? It's a direct target ability, just don't target your own party members? I think he means it's a bug and that being too reliant on it cheapens the game.
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So I just picked up a cheap DS today with The World Ends With You and Chrono Trigger. Any advice about these two?
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Werner-Boogle posted:So I just picked up a cheap DS today with The World Ends With You and Chrono Trigger. Any advice about these two? Use good headphones, not the crappy DS speakers. Prepare to look like a massive tool as you scratch, tap, and blow your way to victory.
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Werner-Boogle posted:So I just picked up a cheap DS today with The World Ends With You and Chrono Trigger. Any advice about these two? What you put into TWEWY is what you get out of it. By that I mean you can cruise through the entire game on easy. There's absolutely no reward for playing on hard and purposefully lowering your level except for better drops so if you get tired of leveling up pins and grinding for rare items just know you can blaze through the game and see the story rather quickly. I'd recommend doing it that way at first because when you beat the game you'll unlock a side story and you have to play through all the levels again to activate specific secrets in order to unlock the true ending. At that point I decided to actually experiment with the combat and stuff.
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Werner-Boogle posted:So I just picked up a cheap DS today with The World Ends With You and Chrono Trigger. Any advice about these two? 1). No sidequest is missable except for one. There will be a NPC girl at one point who will ask you whether she should burn a plant under royal orders or secretly plant it. Tell her to plant it. This NPC is always available (she will change locations because of story reasons), but as long as you don't tell her to burn it you will not lock yourself out of the sidequest. 2). There are some chests that you can open once you power up your pendant. Try to open them first in 600 AD; if they give you a dialogue Yes/No option to open it, pick "No" and then go to 1000 AD. Open the same chest, and the item will be upgraded. Now hop on back to 600 AD and pick up the original item. 3). Your first time through, you probably want Ayla on your team as often as possible. Use Charm on everything, especially bosses. You get some really great equipment this way. Also the fact that she doesn't need to equip weapons comes in handy at one point. I literally just finished The World Ends With You and I'm having trouble to think of things I would have liked to know beforehand. It's a hectic game that takes some getting used to (you basically control the bottom screen character with your stylus and the top screen character at the same time with the digital pad), but you should get used to it after a while. It's surprisingly fluid and fun. Just know that 100%ing the game is a futile effort I guess. Also you should probably check in with the game every 24 hours to maximize the Shutdown PP you get (you'll see what I mean when it happens the first time). After 24 hours in real time, you start to get diminishing returns. Everything al-azad said is true as well, though I don't think there's anything wrong with playing through on Normal first. E: Strange Matter posted:-Save your Scarletite for opening new Pin slots first. Nate RFB fucked around with this message at 14:07 on May 3, 2010 |
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Werner-Boogle posted:So I just picked up a cheap DS today with The World Ends With You and Chrono Trigger. Any advice about these two? -Buy a screen protector. The only game that ruined my screen worse than TWEWY was Elite Beat Agents. -Eat every chance you get, especially food that increases your stats, and especially anything that increases your Bravery. Bravery determines what kind of clothes you wear, and yours starts off piss poor so work on raising it as soon as you can. You can safely ignore food that affects your sync rate. -Keep your level as low as you can manage it without dying constantly, and increase your difficulty whenever the opportunity presents itself. This is the best way to build cash and get rare pins -Don't worry about matching your brands to the district you're in. The game makes it seem like a huge deal, but the bonus you get from it only applies to your attack power, and it's so fickle that it's scarcely worth messing with. At the very worst, some fights will go on slightly longer. -Pin evolution is a pain in the neck. Some pins evolve from battle, other pins evolve from mingle PP, and still others evolve from shutdown PP. There's no way to tell which one you need when you get a pin. For this reason it's impossible to do a 100% run on your first playthrough without a guide, which I'd strongly advise against since the story is pretty great by JRPG standards. It's better to just play through the game blind and work on completing your Pin collection in the New Game+ mode, which the game seriously rewards you for tackling -Extra Pin slots are extremely important. You get most of them through story progression, but 2 of them you have to buy with Scarletite, which you only get through plot progression. They require 2 scarletites each, and the second one will be available 2 days after the first one. Strange Matter fucked around with this message at 14:15 on May 3, 2010 |
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Ledneh posted:(Quest for Glory-isms, I guess)? ... Back to Deus Ex, I'd have to say that ONE level in Swimming is cheap and worthwhile. (but then, the sound of JC choking on water terrifies me, so I try to minimize it)
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Xander77 posted:Back to Deus Ex, I'd have to say that ONE level in Swimming is cheap and worthwhile. (but then, the sound of JC choking on water terrifies me, so I try to minimize it)
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Xander77 posted:Quest for Glory was probably the LEAST prone to that sort of poo poo out of the Sierra Quest series. gently caress, what series was I thinking of then. King's something? I don't remember. Anyway, yeah, agreeing with the Deus Ex folks: get your points OUT of Pistols at creation if you don't intend to use them, and do one level--and ONLY one--in Swimming.
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Also, Rifles and Computers pretty much break the game. The Regeneration augment pretty much turns every fight into The Matrix.
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Oh yeah that's another thing, raise Computers to at least Trained early on. You can do without it for a few levels as you find passwords fairly easily, but later on being able to hack is invaluable.
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