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kirbysuperstar posted:Muh'fuggin Freesia York was my best unit. Probably followed by Marina and Largo. VEGGIES. Ahem, I think you mean "VEG-TA-BULLZ!"
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Samurai Sanders posted:This should probably go on every single thread in this forum but I'll just put it here: gameplay footage and interviews and stuff about Dark Souls 2. I think I'm ok with Dark Souls, but more. I'm sure there will be mechanics changes that are boring to go over in a video unless you're super into them, and they did a really good job of keeping up with balance patches and such for DS1 so it seems like they know what they're doing.
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Shalinor posted:Did you play Okami yet? If not, snag Okami HD. It may or may not scratch that itch. I'm not actually sure where the line is, between Zelda and Metroidvania, but Okami out-Zelda'ed Zelda at the very least. If you mean the traditional type, the last good one is still Order of Ecclesia, I think. And drat that was good. I hope those are ported to a big console someday.
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SamBishop posted:Ahem, I think you mean "VEG-TA-BULLZ!" gently caress. Yes. I do. I am not worthy 
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kirbysuperstar posted:gently caress. Yes. I do. I am not worthy All who know the glory of Valkyria Chronicles are worthy. Also horribly, horribly depressed that we only got one HD release. In a way, being able to play Sakura Wars V -- and that was apparently the shittiest of the games in the series -- in English and see the germination of the stuff that would eventually become VC sort of helped fill the void for a while. I don't think I've played a game since VC that built up basic gameplay ideas and then went completely outside those constructs without necessarily breaking the basic rules. Sure, the Orders system could totally break the game, but they really managed to break up the stuff you did on a regular basis all the way up to the end. I guess what I'm saying is Valkyria Chronicles is still one of the best games of this generation. Any of you reading this that haven't yet played the game need to. Just find a copy and get to playing.
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Apr 11, 2013 08:07
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SamBishop posted:I guess what I'm saying is Valkyria Chronicles is still one of the best games of this generation. Any of you reading this that haven't yet played the game need to. Just find a copy and get to playing. Are either of the DLC campaigns worth getting? Also if you take Vyse or Aika out of your squad, or allow them to die, you are officially a Bad Person  .
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I've just done like five skirmishes- still trying to get used to the battle system before I continue the story and retake the bridge in Chapter 3. My only issue is that I wish enemies wouldn't shoot at me mid-battle unless I am moving- otherwise I would really appreciate having that time to actually plan what my next move would be, rather than be forced to crouch and simply end my turn as fast as possible, hoping that no random shots will hit whichever character I just used. I really appreciate how all of the different soldiers available on the team have their own names, looks, and personalities. Overall, the game is giving me tons of nostalgia for Fire Emblem. The art and music are very reminiscent of Final Fantasy Tactics, especially the movies in the War of the Lions version. I enjoy the voice acting so far. Some of the story elements are quite... ridiculous, but it's nothing I wouldn't really expect from a JRPG. I guess I'd just like to say that right now I'm having a blast, and that I really wish I could have gotten the game when it was originally released. I didn't have a PS3 back then, and by the time I did get one, the game already couldn't be bought new.
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SamBishop posted:In a way, being able to play Sakura Wars V -- and that was apparently the shittiest of the games in the series -- in English and see the germination of the stuff that would eventually become VC sort of helped fill the void for a while. Man, if So Long My Love was the shittiest one I have a super amazing fun time in store twenty years from now when someone fan-translates SW3/4/In Hot Blood. I really really loved SW5.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Are either of the DLC campaigns worth getting? Behind Her Blue Flame and Challenges of the Edy Detachment are, but Enter the Edy Detachment is terrible and dumb and bad.
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Valkyria Chronicles was the first PS3 game I had in my possession, but I bought MGS4 first, so technically MGS4 was my first PS3 game and I will always consider it as such. Such a fun game. It's one of the few games where a New Game+ is actually fun and (not entirely) just bowling over every encounter with your super troops. And Marina, Dallas, Jann, among others were my mainstay soldiers. Vyse was pretty cool, too. Snipers and Scouts were the two classes I relied most upon, mainly because the Snipers can pick off troublesome enemy scouts and the Scouts are incredibly versatile units. I was also very serious about no man being left behind. If someone went down, first priority is to get to the wounded and get them out of there. No one's leaving the battlefield in a body bag, that's for sure. Just wait until you get to the Hard Skirmish maps. Even with the best Edelweiss and the best soldiers in each class, it'll still test your wits. And then there was that one time I beat a Hard Skirmish map basically with Alicia only. Good memories. Haven't played it in so long, though.
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I just beat Binary Domain as I am going through my backlog since completing BioShock Infinite. Binary Domain is stupid fun. The part when the dude was taking a poo poo had me putting down the controller and clapping. I highly recommend it if you can find it for $15 or less. Next up is House of the Dead Overkill so I get some use out of this move controller.
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I think we can all understand that it was a bad video (the best part is seeing the footage of the game, but we all know they want to keep some serious new stuff a surprise for a while) and they can't really do a better job of marketing the game to new people. And we appreciate that it's still Dark Souls. Though, I'm already ready to say, I'd like to see them approach a new formula for the Souls series after they finish DS2. Maybe even make one for the Vita (Wandering Souls), and if I can dream, HD King's Field 4/Shadow Tower Abyss for PS3/Vita. With a Souls HD collection for the PS4. That would be perfect.
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Shalinor posted:Did you play Okami yet? If not, snag Okami HD. It may or may not scratch that itch. I'm not actually sure where the line is, between Zelda and Metroidvania, but Okami out-Zelda'ed Zelda at the very least. I feel like PSN and XBLA have made it much easier to put out a metroidvania, since you only need to get five or six hours out of a game, and can do simpler graphics. I can't imagine trying to do a full release game like this, that would be expected to last 10 or 15 hours, with all the graphical quality and features that are expected of a $60 game.
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Housh posted:I just beat Binary Domain as I am going through my backlog since completing BioShock Infinite. Binary Domain is stupid fun. The part when the dude was taking a poo poo had me putting down the controller and clapping. I highly recommend it if you can find it for $15 or less. Next up is House of the Dead Overkill so I get some use out of this move controller.  Yeah, I was laughing when that part came up in Binary Domain. I had to screenshot it. I will champion Binary Domain to anyone that listens. The plot isn't abhorrent, the combat feels fun and never really gets dull despite being a third person shooter, and there's multiple endings (which I didn't know until after I finished it). They're all more or less the same, just variations on a theme. It would've been neat to actually have more branching paths. I only played with the same 2 people in my party the entire time, so I wonder how the cutscenes would've been different.
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Have you rad dudes scoped this grody vid?? http://m.pcgamer.com/2013/04/11/far-cry-3-blood-dragon-reveal-trailer-is-the-most-80s-thing-you-will-see-today
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Feenix posted:Have you rad dudes scoped this grody vid?? This trailer cured my cancer and gave me a stroke at the same time. Net gain.
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Another of my favorite games from my childhood, Mickey's Castle of Illusion, is being remade, and now we have our first trailer: http://www.destructoid.com/tease-me-please-me-oh-castle-of-illusion-teaser--251337.phtml
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Feenix posted:Blood Dragons better have goddamn Cyber Sharks... am I right??
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Feenix posted:Blood Dragons better have goddamn Cyber Sharks... am I right?? Blood Dragons are literally 15 foot tall neon dinosaurs that shoot exploding lasers out of their mouths. And there are also mutant cassowaries, and chrome plated tigers. I would honestly be shocked if there were not Cyber Sharks.
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Crappy Jack posted:Blood Dragons are literally 15 foot tall neon dinosaurs that shoot exploding lasers out of their mouths. And there are also mutant cassowaries, and chrome plated tigers. I would honestly be shocked if there were not Cyber Sharks. ... which would actually make water more interesting. Animals with ranged attacks that could potentially take out boats, hmmm.
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Is it weird that I already want DLC Expansions to a DLC Expansion?
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Shalinor posted:What's weird about Metroidvanias is that they're not dead. It seems like every other indie game is a Metroidvania. The thing is, 90% of them are incomplete messes, and over half the remainder are meandering poo poo. So everyone's making them, yet there's still almost no new ones worth mentioning coming out. Then there's the recent movement to procedural content, which turns potentially good Metroidvanias into meandering piles of unexplorable crap. Alas. This is what makes me saddest about the newest crop of Castlevania games-- I don't hate the Lords of Shadow games, but I wish both types could coexist. I doubt we'll ever see another IGA Metroidvania game, but think how cool a 1080p Symphony of the Night-style game could be.
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Shalinor posted:... which would actually make water more interesting. Animals with ranged attacks that could potentially take out boats, hmmm. "I think we're gonna need a bigger boat!"
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Shalinor posted:While that's true... While I found Hulk: Ultimate Destruction to be enjoyable, Prototype and Prototype 2 both show that the development studio is completely willing to take the obviously aged H:UD engine slap a modern shader onto and push it out the door as a completely garbage new 60 dollar title.
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Do you guys remember Warrior's Lair (Ruin)? It was announced at E3 a couple years ago now and then it dropped off the face of the world. It says it's getting a 2013 release but I can't find squat else on the game. Did it get cancelled or put on the backburner somewhere? It always looked kind of neat to me and it's an ARPG like Dark Alliance so that got me pumped for it.
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Just started up Demon's Souls. Combat's really tight and it looks nice. Not sure if its my type of game, but I did spend a long time trying to make John McClane in the character created so it's a pretty good game.
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Jimbot posted:Do you guys remember Warrior's Lair (Ruin)? It was announced at E3 a couple years ago now and then it dropped off the face of the world. It says it's getting a 2013 release but I can't find squat else on the game. Did it get cancelled or put on the backburner somewhere? It always looked kind of neat to me and it's an ARPG like Dark Alliance so that got me pumped for it. I posted this in the Vita thread a couple of days ago. They released a gameplay video about it at the end of last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeP4bJV1KcU I havent heard anything since that video.
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Liar Lyre posted:Just started up Demon's Souls. Combat's really tight and it looks nice. Not sure if its my type of game, but I did spend a long time trying to make John McClane in the character created so it's a pretty good game.
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Samurai Sanders posted:You'll probably never see your character's face again unless you are deliberately not using a full helmet. At what point should my man in Demon's Souls put on some clothes? I started as a barbarian, beat the Phalanx with a flaming bastard sword, and now I'm running around the tower killing these weird tentacle guys. I still haven't put on any clothes or used a shield yet, are they worth it? I'm wearing the thief's ring and just sneaking up on stuff, or bashing a guy over and over if I get caught.
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Weinertron posted:At what point should my man in Demon's Souls put on some clothes? I started as a barbarian, beat the Phalanx with a flaming bastard sword, and now I'm running around the tower killing these weird tentacle guys. I still haven't put on any clothes or used a shield yet, are they worth it? I'm wearing the thief's ring and just sneaking up on stuff, or bashing a guy over and over if I get caught.
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Rad Valtar posted:I posted this in the Vita thread a couple of days ago. Weird, I wonder if their focus or mechanics have changed or something... because all I see there is a competent-looking Diablo Clone.
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Samurai Sanders posted:That works okay in the first stage of the Tower or Latria, but not some other stages. You're right that armor is not so important as long as you have an ongoing plan to not be hit, but shields are pretty key. Time to start pumping strength then, I really want to use big swords and it takes both hands right now.
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Feenix posted:Weird, I wonder if their focus or mechanics have changed or something... because all I see there is a competent-looking Diablo Clone. Not real sure but the thing that I think they are hoping would set it apart is the fact that you can customize your own dungeon or lair and have other people run it for loot. I haven't heard much aside from the basic idea but if fleshed out correctly it could add interesting gameplay.
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Weinertron posted:Time to start pumping strength then, I really want to use big swords and it takes both hands right now. You have inadvertently discovered MAN MODE, the most powerful tool in the Souls games. Ride that lightning all the way to the Big Bad.
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Guys I think Dark Souls 2 might be pretty good. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=538500 Although now that they've confirmed that PC is their lead platform for the game I'm definitely getting that version for the sweet, sweet 60fps.
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Crowbear posted:Guys I think Dark Souls 2 might be pretty good.  Game is gonna own
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So I've finally gotten around to trying out Demon's Souls, and I have to ask. Is there any point at all in destroying the destructible barrels and stuff like that? Does it lower your weapon durability?
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rabidsquid posted:So I've finally gotten around to trying out Demon's Souls, and I have to ask. Is there any point at all in destroying the destructible barrels and stuff like that? Does it lower your weapon durability? I don't know if it lowers weapon durability but most barrels/crates don't have anything behind them. Occasionally you'll find something(not in the barrels, just obscured by them) but I can't think of anything really valuable off the top of my head, just random consumables.
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Fergus Mac Roich posted:I don't know if it lowers weapon durability but most barrels/crates don't have anything behind them. Occasionally you'll find something(not in the barrels, just obscured by them) but I can't think of anything really valuable off the top of my head, just random consumables. Can't you just roll into them to break them? It's been a while since I've played Demon's Souls, but I did that all the time in Dark Souls just to see the broken pieces fly everywhere.
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