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Blaze Dragon
Aug 28, 2013
LOWTAX'S SPINE FUND

mateo360 posted:

Rumble Arena is entertaining for a couple of battles but gets boring and repetitive very quickly. Card battle is great right up till the end when the final boss straight up cheats by opening a command window and rearranging your deck so at minimum your partner cards are on the very bottom. I not sure if it also messes with how the rest of your cards show up but I have never finished the game because of it.

That's the middle point of the game, so if you left there, you haven't played half of Digital Card Battle. In which case, man, you'll want to fix that, DCB is good. And A is easy to beat, just use Hacking, counter-O cards and don't rely that much on your Partners, you have a deck for a reason!

It isn't like this game where you're going to just increase numbers through hours and hours of tedious grinding!

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Nuebot
Feb 18, 2013

The developer of Brigador is a secret chud, don't give him money

Waterfall of Salt posted:

As much as I have nostalgia for this game, I would actually have to agree with this statement.

Cyber Sleuth's real good, you guys

I'm more partial to dusk and dawn, really. They were games that let you grind at your own pace and the grid system of the battle field was fun, it's just a shame they didn't make the most out of it. The Japanese only sequel Lost Evolution was pretty great. I've already detailed my grievances with Cyber Sleuth but I just can not let this go :negative: the game has more jacking in and out of the internet than a battle network game, and at least every time you had to run to some random vending machine or whatever in those games you didn't also have to fly through a tube of random encounters to get into the internet proper. I also found the difficulty curve way too stop and go because until you got some platinum numemon there weren't many good places to grind doubly so since you couldn't revisit dungeons until so much later than the exp there was worthless. Also it's hosed up that wargreymon is legit better than omnimon in that game, the defences and weaknesses/strengths scale ridiculously. I really wanted to like Cyber Sleuth too.

giver336 posted:

I demand a recount.

I agree with giver :colbert: what kind of fool didn't vote for agumon?

Arcade Rabbit
Nov 11, 2013

I'd argue that Digimon World 1 is good. It has a very clear idea of what it wants to be, and hits the nail on the head in that regard. The only problem is most people aren't going to want a PSX Tamagotchi game, or find it very fun. Its a good game, its just very niche. The fighting game for the Gamecube was pretty fun too, in addition to Rumble Arena. Cyber Sleuth is good though, you should get that if you haven't. Not without problems, but still really good.

Digimon World 3, much as I love it, is resoundingly meh. Its basically your standard JRPG with a coat of digimon paint. Which isn't strictly bad considering what Worlds 1 and 2 were, but still not really stellar.

mateo360
Mar 20, 2012

TOO MANY PEOPLE MERLOCK!
ONLY ONE DIJON!

Blaze Dragon posted:

That's the middle point of the game, so if you left there, you haven't played half of Digital Card Battle. In which case, man, you'll want to fix that, DCB is good. And A is easy to beat, just use Hacking, counter-O cards and don't rely that much on your Partners, you have a deck for a reason!

It isn't like this game where you're going to just increase numbers through hours and hours of tedious grinding!

I just looked at a couple of guides. Why is there a whole second half to this game after that fight? :psyduck:

Blaze Dragon
Aug 28, 2013
LOWTAX'S SPINE FUND

mateo360 posted:

I just looked at a couple of guides. Why is there a whole second half to this game after that fight? :psyduck:

Because it's a good game with a good amount of content.

GeneralYeti
Jul 22, 2012

Look at this smug broken asshole.
I vaguely remember playing Digimon Rumble Arena 2 as a wee little LieutenantYeti. It was a pretty fun game, from what little I understood of it.

giver336 posted:

Formal protest.

Informal 'gently caress you'.

dis astranagant
Dec 14, 2006

Oh boy, another one of these threads. Maybe we'll even get past the second sector this time.

Waterfall of Salt
May 14, 2013

Ow, my eye

Nuebot posted:

I'm more partial to dusk and dawn, really. They were games that let you grind at your own pace and the grid system of the battle field was fun, it's just a shame they didn't make the most out of it. The Japanese only sequel Lost Evolution was pretty great. I've already detailed my grievances with Cyber Sleuth but I just can not let this go :negative: the game has more jacking in and out of the internet than a battle network game, and at least every time you had to run to some random vending machine or whatever in those games you didn't also have to fly through a tube of random encounters to get into the internet proper. I also found the difficulty curve way too stop and go because until you got some platinum numemon there weren't many good places to grind doubly so since you couldn't revisit dungeons until so much later than the exp there was worthless. Also it's hosed up that wargreymon is legit better than omnimon in that game, the defences and weaknesses/strengths scale ridiculously. I really wanted to like Cyber Sleuth too.

I have the opposite reaction. I really wanted to like dusk/dawn but I couldn't. The labyrinthine and samey areas, the stupidly high encounter rate and uninteresting plot kept me from liking it. Cyber Sleuth has the advantage of having a colorful cast, a good sense of humor and good music. I'd agree that the battle system in dawn/dusk was better, but it's pretty much it's only saving grace and it's kind of hard to enjoy when the rest of it is so... eh.

mateo360
Mar 20, 2012

TOO MANY PEOPLE MERLOCK!
ONLY ONE DIJON!
I liked DS but couldn't get into Duck/Dawn since they took away the ability to perform an attack without using MP. With how long those Dungeons could get it just bugged the hell out of me.

Cyber Sleuth I played all the way through and had a lot of fun with. The one annoying thing about the digivolutions in it though is the stupid CAM score witch takes a lot of time and/or money to raise by ether using them a lot in battle or by using ether the free meat to raise it one or two points or buying very expensive meat to get bigger numbers and the meat could be rejected and doesn't return to you inventory if they decide they didn't want to eat it.

AmewTheFox
Oct 7, 2015

I AM THE STRENGTH

GeneralYeti posted:

I vaguely remember playing Digimon Rumble Arena 2 as a wee little LieutenantYeti. It was a pretty fun game, from what little I understood of it.


I remember renting it when the rental store in town existed. I played it with my friend, and another friend of his. Shame we didn't have a working multitap.

My favorite strategy was to pick Veemon and the final boss stage, and pretend I was playing Smash Bros.Needless to say, I was barred from picking Veemon.

Oddly enough, he had DW3, and I remember liking the game, but I don't think he even got past the third "Gym Leader". I remember the two of us working hard to see what Blast Digivolution actually did. (A mechanic that hasn't been explained yet) I don't think we ever got a result.

dis astranagant
Dec 14, 2006

AmewTheFox posted:

Oddly enough, he had DW3, and I remember liking the game, but I don't think he even got past the third "Gym Leader". I remember the two of us working hard to see what Blast Digivolution actually did. (A mechanic that hasn't been explained yet) I don't think we ever got a result.

For the most part your spoiler just digivolves you to your next natural form instantly for a few turns and also lets you use that form's finisher for free. it's also a full hp/mp heal. poo poo gets weird past level 40 It's really strong sometimes but annoying to set up.

Kemix
Dec 1, 2013

Because change

dis astranagant posted:

For the most part your spoiler just digivolves you to your next natural form instantly for a few turns and also lets you use that form's finisher for free. it's also a full hp/mp heal. poo poo gets weird past level 40 It's really strong sometimes but annoying to set up.

The spoilered mechanic is nice when it activates, but it's really hard to actually use effectively. It's like FF9's Trance Mechanic. Where once it's full, gently caress you if you're against a trash mob, it goes off IMMEDIATELY, you don't get the choice to fill it out and them launch it against a boss, you gotta meticulously fill it up ALMOST to full, THEN fight the boss and hope it's enough if you're completely underleveled. I remember my Patamon going into Magna Angemon and completely ripped a boss to shreds for the time it lasted. Felt good man.

dis astranagant
Dec 14, 2006

Bonus points for it not saving, so it's basically non existent on actual hardware unless you're fond of 6 hour sessions.

GeneralYeti
Jul 22, 2012

Look at this smug broken asshole.
Well, the goon hivemind has spoken and we shall henceforth be playing as Kite, starting off with the Balanced Pack. Just hang on a bit while I go through the prologue for the fifth time...

This is horseshit. I demand a recount. I never even got a say.



See? SEE? I gave your votes 0.6 of a vote, just like I said. So there.

:siren: Formal protest.

Denied.

Informal protest.

Informal 'gently caress you'.

Update 2: Grind - Random Battle! - ing

So, folks, now that we're all caught up to where we were, let's make some actual progress towards beating the game, shall we?



Click for music!

Conga, conga, conga.

Well, loving finally! We can start exploring the world without having to pause every five seconds to talk to nerds.



This thing is bizarre. Just noting that. Anyway, we're gonna start out at northwest.



This guy is Leomon, and he runs the gym where we can train to raise our stats. More on that later when I can finally get swole.

(Please note that Leomon will not die and we can, in fact, train no matter what.)

...Is that the Jesus allegory lion from the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?

No, it's just a running joke that Leomon always dies in the show.



Conga, conga, conga.



Straight down from the gym, there's this weird antenna thing? It looks like it has eyes.

Satelite TV is a thing in this world, huh.



Okay, cool. There's actually exits on all four sides, but as I'm trying to be thorough we're gonna finish exploring Central Park before going anywhere. The fact that I can continue listening to its music this way didn't factor into my decision in the slightest.



And who's this?

Tamer Natsumi: I'm Natsumi, a happy high school student! Sorry. I'm not interested in younger boys.

Bitch. Just because we're not cool enough yet...

Eh, just show her your pokermanz. She'll swoon immediately.



Continuing on down towards the southeast, there is a hole. I'm, uh... not sure why. I am, however, certain that this is my hole.

Auntie Teresa: ...oh? What is this hole? It seems too big for a mole...

This game is so droll, making these rhymes not-gold.



There's a neat little pier here.



That's it towards the eastern half of the park (there's a screen exit to the east, like the sign said, but we don't want to go that way just yet.) Instead, if we follow the south path, we can -



Gerk!


Click for music!

No, click this for music.

So! Random battles are a thing. They are plentiful and quite jarring when they show up - but only when you're trying to go somewhere or explore. If you're actually trying to grind? hosed if the little bastards show up. Anyway, I guess I should talk about who we're fighting, huh?


Name: Kunemon
Level: Rookie
Location: Asuka Central - Central Park, Wire Forest Entrance
Asuka East - Wire Forest West, Wire Forest East

Drops: None

3 STR, 2 DEF, 3 SPR, 3 WIS, 3 SPD,
2 FIRE, 2 WATER, 2 ICE, 1 WIND, 3 THUNDER, 2 MACHINE, 3 DARK

EXP: 6, BIT: 10

Regular Attack: No Element
Technique: None



That's a lot of data. So let's break it down, shall we?

Name and Location should be pretty self-explanatory (what the Digimon is called, as well as where you'll encounter them), as should be drops. That being said, let's talk stats.
The stats you see there - STR, DEF, SPR, WIS, SPD, and the elementals - are analogous to our own stats. That is:
code:
STR - Deal more physical damage
DEF - Take less physical damage
SPR - Deal more magical damage (and affects hit % of magic attacks)
WIS - Take less magical damage
SPD - Affects hit % of physical attacks
FIRE/WATER/ICE/WIND/THUNDER/MACHINE/DARK - Take less damage from attacks of those elements.
While 3s in everything except defense might seem high, it's on a scale. 3 is basically middle-of-the-pack. 1 is the worst, 5 is the best; these are still relative, though, so encounter area will count. The split between physical and magical attacks is nebulous, but general rule of thumb is that if the Digimon actually goes over to the target and strikes it's a physical attack, if they just shoot a projectile it's magical.
EXP is how much EXP we get for beating the enemy, and BITs is our reward money.
Finally, all enemies have a regular attack - if the attack has an element attached, it will be noted. Some, but not all, enemies will also have a technique, a special attack similar to ours. Kunemon doesn't have one, but if he did it'd be in the Technique slot.

Relative? loving really?

That being said, this is still the first enemy in the first area, so we beat Kunemon's face in :fuckoff:



Kotemon even leveled up from the fight. Neato.



Team huddle! You there, Pikachu! GET OVER HERE.



Looping around and skipping the exit like always, there's some weird poo poo that shouldn't be here. This is thing for Digimon, I guess. I'm still not sure what was up with that desert of telephone poles or Forest of Irrelevent Road Signs in the first anime.



A new hole to pay the toll. Should I take a poll for these holes?

I loathe you with every fiber of my being.




Conga, conga, conga.

If we follow the western path, it leads us to the final screen exit.



But more importantly it lets us down to this treasure chest so we can be filthy looters. It wasn't anything special, just a Power Charge, but beggars can't be choosers, and I have all of 20 BITs to my name.

Anyway: now that we've finished exploring Central Park, it is time to do our rightful duty as a player of an MMORPG and systematically eliminate all foreign life until WE ARE THE ONLY ONES REMAINING. In other words, it's time to grind. A lot.

Though, I don't really find it difficult to grind. I just imagine that every enemy is actually Giver, and you know what they say about loving what you do.

I don't swing that way, Yeti.

Oh, and before I forget:


Name: Tapirmon
Level: Rookie
Location: Asuka Central - Central Park, Wire Forest Entrance

Drops: None

2 STR, 3 DEF, 3 SPR, 3 WIS, 3 SPD,
1 FIRE, 2 WATER, 2 ICE, 2 WIND, 2 THUNDER, 2 MACHINE, 3 DARK

EXP: 5, BIT: 20

Regular Attack: No Element
Technique: None

Note: Can Run Away (but doesn't, because I murder them too quickly)

Grind session 1 highlights:



Evasion! This happens when the dice are rolled and you come up snake eyes. If this happens, that's because your speed isn't high enough; the enemy takes no damage and you basically wasted your turn. Sucks to be you.

What we have here is Yeti trying to emulate Giver. He hates me, yet he emulates me. I command respect, you see.



Oh, hey, here we go. This is an ambush: when that happens, the enemy gets a free attack and -



OH loving poo poo this is not good that was one hit and Renamon got loving owned

Jesus Christ, Yeti. This is only the starter area. BOO! THE LPER SUCKS.



Right, let's just switch to Patamon, tank the hit, then kill that Kune-



Okay wait wait what the gently caress.

Okay, so here's the deal: Speed does more than just affect your hit chance. If your speed is high enough (or low enough, compared to an enemies) it's possible to get two turns in a row before the enemy can get one. Yeah. Speed is magnitudes more important than every other stat in the game, and so Patamon - being the slow-rear end piece of poo poo that he is - is pretty much the worst 'mon I could have switched to. Naturally, I didn't remember this, and so proceeded to get my rear end handed to me.

>Didn't remember this
>wrecked by starter enemies
Yeti, have you played this game before. Hell, ANY RPG? Speed is always important!


Bite me. It's been years since I played the game.



I mean, I still beat it. (By the way, this is what Patamon's Boom Bubble looks like. Like the flying rat, it's not very impressive.)

Alrighty, folks, we see here that Pikachu is getting ready to use Thundershock! Pikachu isn't very strong at this stage of the game, so this might take a bit!




And here's Renamon's Diamond Dust (or Diamond Storm, whatever.) Tech. The thing about Renamon is that she can't take a hit, but her magic attack is through the roof at this point in the game.

And the audience is in COMPLETE SHOCK. Pikachu somehow learned Blizzard! Apparently it's trainer knows the secret to teaching Pokemon hidden moves.

The secret move of 'Use a different PokeDigimon', apparently.

Grinding session #1 has ended



After all of my 'mons are level 3, I stop by here.

Leomon: This is the training gym. Do you want to work out?


Click for music!

Alright, so explanation number two time: training. See that number down at the bottom left, the one marked TP? That's Training Points, and you get five Training Points per level up to a max of 99. Any TP gained after that is lost, so don't forget to hit the gym every now and then.



There are five different options to train (corresponding to each of the main stats) and there are three different amounts of TP to spend, 1, 5, and 10. The amount spent is more or less immaterial; they tend to come out approximately equal.



Every time you succeed, you raise that stat by however much TP you put in: 1 TP usually nets +1 or +2, 5 TP is +7 or +8, and 10 TP is a whopping +15/+16. That is, of course, if you succeed. And if you succeed three times in a row, you get a bonus fourth chance to train that's worth extra stats, doubling your total boost if you succeed at all four compared to just three successes.



That being said, there's a chance of failure. The first three exercises have a success rate of 75%, while the last only has a success rate of 50%. In other words, you'll get the full four boost approximately 27/128 of the time, or about 20%. And the thing is, you burn the TP at the start - so if your Digimon fails the first exercise, you're hosed, no getting the full amount.

In other words, it's totally loving random how your training is going to go. I've had runs where Patamon (that loving useless sack of poo poo) failed to solve 10 - 2 three times in a goddamn row. I mean, really? loving REALLY?

Pikachu is useless?

However, I have save states and thus can afford to save scum faster than the average player - who has to save at Gatomon's Inn and reset every time they fail - and so I'm gonna get the boost from all four chances because this game can and will kick you in the balls if you give it the chance. See Ambush -> two attacks in a row for an example.

At least there are neat little animations for everything.




Yes, the defense training is them getting pelted by balls. When Kotemon is doing the training, his failure is dropping his bokken.



Pikachu!



Abra!

Apparently, meditation should lead to being able to hover in place.




PATAMON :argh:

loving retard.




Training Session #1 results:
Renamon: Power +33, Defense +32 (Yes, I know, not the usual stats for a Renamon. I know what I'm doing.)
Patamon: Wisdom +66
Kotemon: Speed +65



Conga, conga, conga.

Now that everyone is level 3 (and I went and purchased some armor for Renamon, to make her marginally less squishy) let's make a little bit of progress.



This is the Wire Forest Entrance! It's got exactly jack and poo poo to do here.



I mean, there's this guy, Mitch, but he's got nothing of interest for us.

Tamer Mitch: I am just so hyped up!

I don't care, Mitch.

And people say I'm mean.



And there's a watermelon submarine, for some reason.

Gotta eat healthy



Well, that's enough of that. On to the next screen! (No new Digimon in this area. Still just Kunemon and Tapirmon.)


Click for ambience!

Welcome to the first screen in the East Sector, West Wire Forest.




I SAID GROUP HUDDLE. Pikachu! Pay attention goddammit!

There's A/V cables lying around, for some reason.

Right, new encounters on this route screen:


Name: Kuwagamon
Level: Champion
Location: Asuka Central - Wire Forest East, Wire Forest West

Drops: None

4 STR, 3 DEF, 2 SPR, 3 WIS, 3 SPD,
2 FIRE, 2 WATER, 2 ICE, 1 WIND, 3 THUNDER, 2 MACHINE, 3 DARK

EXP: 11, BIT: 20

Regular Attack: No Element
Technique: None


Name: Betamon
Level: Rookie
Location: Asuka Central - Shell Beach, Plug Cape
Asuka East - Wire Forest West, Wire Forest East, Divermon's Lake

Drops: Power Charge

3 STR, 3 DEF, 3 SPR, 3 WIS, 3 SPD,
1 FIRE, 3 WATER, 2 ICE, 3 WIND, 2 THUNDER, 2 MACHINE, 1 DARK

EXP: 10, BIT: 25

Regular Attack: Thunder Elemental
Technique: None

The main reason I got to level 3 first is because of Kuwagamon and Betamon. They're giving me double the experience and about double the BITs, but they're correspondingly more difficult if you rush here as soon as you can. Nothing too special now, though, so just keep wailing on them. Patamon finally makes itself marginally useful - Boom Bubble is Wind-elemental, so it kinda wrecks any Kuwagamon that show up.

And you didn't catch that Bulbasaur because?



Inside this chest (Go north at the Red cable) is a Buckler - which is a shield and therefore vendor trash. It sells for 20 BITs.



Oh by the way I hope you like random battles. Because this game's encounter rate is ridiculous.

Oh, the pain.



Get the gently caress out of my way.



There, now we can



ONE loving STEP.

:wtf:



We could talk to her right now, but that's a bad idea because she'll fight us and probably kick my poo poo in. I'm going to avoid that for now...

loving noob.



Conga, conga, conga.



Back on the main path, it's a straight shot to the next screen.

SO LET'S GRIND SOME MORE.

Grind #2 highlights:



I'm not entirely sure how I managed to get myself stuck behind this tree, since I was watching TV at the time. I managed to get out, fortunately, but it was kinda iffy for a second.

If left alone, Yeti will almost softlock the game. Monkeys could probably do better.

Grind session #2 ended



I grinded until all my Digimon were level 5 - because that's when they learn their first Champion Digivolutions. Also note that it took 170 EXP to get Kotemon to level 5; remember back when it took 10 to get to level 2? Good times. The EXP curve in this game is less a curve and more a straight line up.

But before I do anything else, we have 10 TP to burn.

Training #2 results

Renamon: Spirit +33, Speed +32
Patamon: Wisdom +33, Spirit +31
Kotemon: Defense +32, Wisdom +33

I still hadn't realized just how SLOW Patamon was, so I didn't up Speed yet. Instead, I focused on magic since physical damage was right out. There's a bit of a clash in job roles: Renamon is just straight up better at what Patamon can do. Kotemon is a powerhouse, though, so I just filled in some low spots in his defenses.

Pikachus aren't all that fast, but their Sp. Atk is fairly decent.

GeneralYeti fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Jun 25, 2017

dis astranagant
Dec 14, 2006

Are you playing the PAL version? There's some extra content there that might matter sometime around update 1000.

giver336
Dec 28, 2013

It's time to d-d-d-d-
get murdered
Yeti plans to show off the PAL version once our run of the NTSC version is concluded.

Waterfall of Salt
May 14, 2013

Ow, my eye

GeneralYeti posted:

Okay, so here's the deal: Speed does more than just affect your hit chance. If your speed is high enough (or low enough, compared to an enemies) it's possible to get two turns in a row before the enemy can get one. Yeah. Speed is magnitudes more important than every other stat in the game, and so Patamon - being the slow-rear end piece of poo poo that he is - is pretty much the worst 'mon I could have switched to. Naturally, I didn't remember this, and so proceeded to get my rear end handed to me.

Oh, it's not just possible to get two, you can go even further beyond that. During endgame on my first save (read: before I learned that speed is important), it wasn't uncommon to see the encounters getting triple-turn advantage against my poor team.

Blaze Dragon
Aug 28, 2013
LOWTAX'S SPINE FUND

If I ever want a song that both brings nice and awful memories to myself, I listen to the first song linked here. It reminds me of all of this game, which is both nice childhood nostalgia and awful memories of getting my poo poo kicked in constantly and grinding for hours and hours.

Getting Adult evolutions this early is pretty much a must, and the game literally just began. It's not getting any better.

Also I feel it deserves pointing out, while most of the enemy stats are invisible to the player (and you can't ever get any of them to check yourself, the player and enemy Digimon pool are completely separate) any element in their attacks is visible, such as Betamon's attack bringing lightning on the screen. It's one of the very, very few mercies the game has on the player.

Also also I beat this with Maniac so I have no idea what you're doing with Renamon and I'm very curious. The only out of place training I've done in my runs is training Agumon on Dark Resistance because, as the tutorials thankfully stated (for once)...

quote:

Agumon: If you increase dark tolerance, it will learn dark type digivolution.

...and this effectively means you can get a Perfect evolution for Agumon before the level he'd get his true one...although every time I've tried, I got it like, one or two levels before so it didn't make any difference.

dis astranagant
Dec 14, 2006

Blaze Dragon posted:

If I ever want a song that both brings nice and awful memories to myself, I listen to the first song linked here. It reminds me of all of this game, which is both nice childhood nostalgia and awful memories of getting my poo poo kicked in constantly and grinding for hours and hours.

Getting Adult evolutions this early is pretty much a must, and the game literally just began. It's not getting any better.

Also I feel it deserves pointing out, while most of the enemy stats are invisible to the player (and you can't ever get any of them to check yourself, the player and enemy Digimon pool are completely separate) any element in their attacks is visible, such as Betamon's attack bringing lightning on the screen. It's one of the very, very few mercies the game has on the player.

Also also I beat this with Maniac so I have no idea what you're doing with Renamon and I'm very curious. The only out of place training I've done in my runs is training Agumon on Dark Resistance because, as the tutorials thankfully stated (for once)...


...and this effectively means you can get a Perfect evolution for Agumon before the level he'd get his true one...although every time I've tried, I got it like, one or two levels before so it didn't make any difference.

Basically everyone can get early perfects and early ultimates are a given due to the ridiculous level for the natural ones. If you rush SkullGreymon by leveling Greymon instead of other dumb crap at the start you can hit BlackWarGreymon right around the time you hit MetalGreymon. His other option before getting MetalGreymon leveled is the Guilmon line and that's more than a little pointless. Simply being in a decent Ultimate at that level makes him a decent physical attacker when combined with his stat gains and weapon availability.

Kemix
Dec 1, 2013

Because change
Hey, Yeti! You forgot to get a couple key items which let you do poo poo! Unless you intend to show them off later. They were towards the beach behind the Gym and down...East? West?...Weast? Whatever that direction is! Even if the mons down there would be able to kick your rear end.

GeneralYeti
Jul 22, 2012

Look at this smug broken asshole.

Kemix posted:

Hey, Yeti! You forgot to get a couple key items which let you do poo poo! Unless you intend to show them off later. They were towards the beach behind the Gym and down...East? West?...Weast? Whatever that direction is! Even if the mons down there would be able to kick your rear end.

If you're talking about the Kick Boots and the Fishing Rod sidequests, don't worry, I've got that covered.

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

SICK LOOT!
WHOA OH THE WALL OF PURE FICTION

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Well, training animations are suitably adorable, anyhow.

ApplesandOranges
Jun 22, 2012

Thankee kindly.
I can type up a post describing the various starters in more detail if people wanted (I did that for the last thread before it went under).

But yeah, Digimon's great. It's a shame every Digimon World game bar Cyber Sleuth is so much grinding. 3's probably the worst in that regard (all the walking), but hey, cute animations I guess.

Ephraim225
Oct 28, 2010

dis astranagant posted:

Are you playing the PAL version? There's some extra content there that might matter sometime around update 1000.

Are you crazy? You can't abuse the Counter Crest in the PAL version!

Even worse than that, he might have to actually bother with the card game in the PAL version.

Kemix
Dec 1, 2013

Because change

Ephraim225 posted:

Even worse than that, he might have to actually bother with the card game in the PAL version.

Eh. The card game isn't THAT bad in DW3. Just VERY, very VEEEERY tedious.

Eeepies
May 29, 2013

Bocchi-chan's... dead.
We'll have to find a new guitarist.
The card game in DW3 isn't as bad as the one Giver is playing now.

GeneralYeti
Jul 22, 2012

Look at this smug broken asshole.


gently caress

Kemix
Dec 1, 2013

Because change
Things are going smoothly in Yeti town it seems :v:

MarquiseMindfang
Jan 6, 2013

vriska (vriska)

GeneralYeti posted:

gently caress

Those are the worst, and also the best, for grinding.

Chimera-gui
Mar 20, 2014
Yeah, don't take on an Ultimate/Perfect Level Digimon with just a Champion/Adult.

GeneralYeti
Jul 22, 2012

Look at this smug broken asshole.

Kemix posted:

Things are going smoothly in Yeti town it seems :v:

Mistakes might have been made in the... three events leading up to that situation.

Nuebot
Feb 18, 2013

The developer of Brigador is a secret chud, don't give him money

GeneralYeti posted:

Mistakes might have been made in the... three events leading up to that situation.

Was mistake number one p laying Digimon World 3?

giver336
Dec 28, 2013

It's time to d-d-d-d-
get murdered
Mistake 1: Starting this LP
Mistake 2: Asking Giver to co-commentate
Mistake 3: Being a scrub

Kemix
Dec 1, 2013

Because change

Nuebot posted:

Was mistake number one p laying Digimon World 3?

No, that's mistake 0. Mistake 1 was letting the goons vote on the digimon pack to use. Mistake number 4 is him not using a cheat code to increase XP gains.

Kemix fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Jul 23, 2016

Blaze Dragon
Aug 28, 2013
LOWTAX'S SPINE FUND

The pack is fine, you just have to ignore Patamon entirely because he's useless for anything except healing the rest, so you should only train him until he gets heal moves and then stop using him forever, levelling him only when more MP or better healing moves are needed.

That said mistake 0 was absolutely playing DW3, yes.

GeneralYeti
Jul 22, 2012

Look at this smug broken asshole.

Kemix posted:

No, that's mistake 0. Mistake 1 was letting the goons vote on the digimon pack to use. Mistake number 4 is him not using a cheat code to increase XP gains.

Nah, the grinding is part of the 'fun'. Gotta make sure I'm getting the full experience so I can bitch about it appropriately - the savestates for training is enough for me.

giver336 posted:

Mistake 1: Starting this LP
Mistake 2: Asking Giver to co-commentate
Mistake 3: Being a total badass

fixed it for you, emphasis mine

giver336
Dec 28, 2013

It's time to d-d-d-d-
get murdered
Up to you if you think being a badass is a mistake. Sounds like scrub talk, to me.

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

SICK LOOT!
Don't worry, Yeti. I think you're cool even if Giver doesn't.

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Blueberry Pancakes
Aug 18, 2012

Jack in!! MegaMan, Execute!
As a note, Kumamon's Mr. Fuzzums' actual name is Bearmon. Kumamon is a Digimon from Frontier.



mateo360 posted:

So Yu-Gi-Oh and digimon world 3. You know what you both need to do after those then right :unsmigghh:



Never before have I played a game that I both equally enjoyed and hated.

gently caress Garurumon. :argh:

Blueberry Pancakes fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Jul 23, 2016

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