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Sire Oblivion posted:Tri had some bosses that were Online only, no clue if this still applies here. Does anyone know if you can fight Jhen offline and vice versa for Ceadeus? You can fight Jhen in village quests, or online solo, and you can fight Goldbeard Ceadeus online. I think regular Ceadeus is still village-only. Sire Oblivion posted:Please-ee-oth, because I'm assuming it's based off Plesiosaur. The real question, how do you pronounce Ceadeus? Say-dee-us here. The Moon Monster posted:I say wrath-uh-los and wraith-ee-en because I think they sound best that way. I assume they were named as a pair, given what we know about them, so I'd apply the wrath or wraith suffix to both instead of mixing and matching, myself. edit: er, prefix. Not suffix. I'm a dolt. Funkmaster General fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Mar 19, 2013 |
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Funkmaster General posted:I assume they were named as a pair, given what we know about them, so I'd apply the wrath or wraith suffix to both instead of mixing and matching, myself. I know, that's probably the "correct" way, but like I said I pronounce them that way because I think it's the best sounding of the options. Wraith-a-los and Wrath-ee-an sound kinda dumb to my ear.
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Funkmaster General posted:You can fight Jhen in village quests, or online solo, and you can fight Goldbeard Ceadeus online. I think regular Ceadeus is still village-only. Can you access both Jhen's offline too?
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Mar 19, 2013 01:15
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Sire Oblivion posted:Can you access both Jhen's offline too? Every quest is playble offline - this game is literally the Freedom Unite of 3rd gen
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Mar 19, 2013 01:17
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Sire Oblivion posted:Can you access both Jhen's offline too? Well you can access anything offline, but if you mean as a village quest, I'm pretty sure only regular Jhen is available that way.
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Mar 19, 2013 01:18
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Sire Oblivion posted:Please-ee-oth, because I'm assuming it's based off Plesiosaur. The real question, how do you pronounce Ceadeus? I've always pronounced it Say-uh-de-oos. Makes it sound more like the mystical, magical whale god that it is. Also prounce Rathalos and Rathian as Wrath-uh-los and Wrath-ee-en. fivegears4reverse posted:I honestly don't know why people insist on spelling Fish rear end in a top hat as "Plesioth". I forgot how much people hate Plesioth. I can't wait to hear the cries of pain as he hip-checks my whole team into oblivion. 
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I've been watching MH:Frontier videos the last few hours to kill time and it seems like a large number of people are using the lance or bowgun, and I'm pretty sure every single group I've watched has had a hunting horn. Are those weapons just exceptionally broken in Frontier or something?
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Mar 19, 2013 01:41
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The frontier metagame involves not letting the monster move at all while maximising dps until it falls over.
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Local Meijer's broke the street date so badly they sold out already... yesterday. Apparently it had been on shelves since early last week. Welp.
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I guess I was the only person to get it early from Amazon or something. I'm way out in the middle of nowhere, too.
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So what is the drive to keep playing? Does new gear open up new abilities or new movesets, or is the sole thing driving you onward cosmetic/passive abilities and the excitement of new monsters?
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What drives you to play Punch-Out?
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Helion posted:So what is the drive to keep playing? Does new gear open up new abilities or new movesets, or is the sole thing driving you onward cosmetic/passive abilities and the excitement of new monsters? As you go through monsters and their armour and weapons, you work your way through a tiered list of quests, increasing in difficulty. Once you reach a certain point you can advance into the next rank (the three ranks are low rank, high rank and G rank) and get access to better weapons and armour. Higher ranked armour has better skills and the G rank armours look different to the lower ranked ones. There are also monsters only available at higher ranks. But there's no story line or anything. It's just your desire to kill giant monsters and wear their heads as helmets. 
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Helion posted:So what is the drive to keep playing? Does new gear open up new abilities or new movesets, or is the sole thing driving you onward cosmetic/passive abilities and the excitement of new monsters? The fun of fighting new monsters, the fun of dressing up my virtual action figure in ridiculous armors, the fun of becoming more and more skilled at the game and destroying monsters that once destroyed me.
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I don't know why people always say Monster Hunter doesn't have a story. It doesn't have a GOOD or DEEP story, but there is one. In this case, the offline portion entails you saving the village from the monsters causing earthquakes. Once you're done with that, you head off to the city to reach new heights as a Monster Hunter, a career you've become invested in due to the happenings in the village.
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Sire Oblivion posted:Tri had some bosses that were Online only, no clue if this still applies here. Does anyone know if you can fight Jhen offline and vice versa for Ceadeus? Beard-Whale God drat I am excited for some new Monster Hunter
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See-dee-us Wrath-ian Wrath-a-low-ss Pless-e-oth dee-ab-low-ss mon-a-blow-ss
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Funkmaster General posted:I don't know why people always say Monster Hunter doesn't have a story. It doesn't have a GOOD or DEEP story, but there is one. In this case, the offline portion entails you saving the village from the monsters causing earthquakes. Once you're done with that, you head off to the city to reach new heights as a Monster Hunter, a career you've become invested in due to the happenings in the village. The story isn't much, but it does have some very charming NPCs. The Guild Representative in Moga Village comes to mind. I think 8-4 did the localization? Whoever it was, they did a great job.
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Sire Oblivion posted:It seems like she pronounced it "Rothalos" but Rathian sounded right. How were you pronouncing it? Wrath-Al-OS
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I'm going to my first midnight preorder opening. Christ what have I gotten my self into? Do I need to bring some sanitary wipes? Monster Hunter one hell of a drug
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Those big plastic wraps people bring to Gallagher shows are usually a good idea.
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darkhand posted:I'm going to my first midnight preorder opening. Christ what have I gotten my self into? Do I need to bring some sanitary wipes? No, they're not nearly as 'spergy as you think. Just a bunch of bros that are mad hype for Gears of War. There might be one or two odd ones, but don't be judgmental.
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darkhand posted:I'm going to my first midnight preorder opening. Christ what have I gotten my self into? Do I need to bring some sanitary wipes? Depends on where you are there is a small gamestop that only does midnight openings because all gamestops do. The largest one I went to was the first WoW expansion and that was only about 18 people. SC2 had only 6 people and for the WoW expansion cataclysm I just bought it online but my friends ordered it at gamestop and it was 3 hours until the server opened so I tagged along, we were the only 3 people there so we won the "best costume" posters. Maybe Blizzard just isn't popular where I am it was when I was in highschool. We even has a broodwar club where we all stayed after and played SC:BW on in the computer lab. I have seen some massive pre-order crowds though in cities. edit: In the Burning Crusade line there was a guy dressed up like Thrall he was kinda weird and out of place since everyone else was freezing in nerdy T-shirts since they were running a promotion that you got a poster if you wore WoW related shirt (the rear end in a top hat behind the counter wouldn't count my More DoTs shirt as WoW related).
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Given logical etymology, Ceadeus is pronounced "say uh day us", but then again, the NA translations sometimes are... questionable.(Volganos/Lavasioth?) And I'm voting to start a new pronunciation, "Ra Talos" for Rathalos. It'll be great just to hear people of both camps agree that someone is loving it up, then turn them on each other. I'm stoked about this, but somewhat upset that I'd have to get a wiiU to play this on the internet. Not that I'm without others who are down for co-op, but I got a friend or two that are going to be real lonely playing off in a corner by themselves, or worse: they get online and I'm out the circle. Man, I know everyone I talked to had a gleam in their eye when I told them about Tri-G, and their rage at Plesioth: "You ever fished that bastard out, he did a hip check, then dived back in and ran to the next area? Well now you can be all I'M COMIN' IN AFTER YOU, CHUM SUCKER! and beat on him until he jumps OUT the water." Tears of joy at even the idea of sweet, sweet revenge. Last--and this is my official tip for all the GS newbies--kick into the sword slap, it's lots faster than doing the standard first swing, and it is a fast stun strike if the opening presents itself. NON-EDIT: "Plesioth is pronounced 'CHUM SUCKA' " 
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darkhand posted:I'm going to my first midnight preorder opening. Christ what have I gotten my self into? Do I need to bring some sanitary wipes? No, they're fine. Usually a bunch of dudes just in a line talking to their friends. There's a couple little kids, neckbeards and some one that's obviously way too loud and is trying to show off by talking about some game no one cares about. It'll also go by really quick if you're just talking with your friends and 100+ people can shuffle through quickly. You're in and out before you know it.
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Does Plesioth still have a bullshit hitbox (loving hip check), or did they make it physically make sense?
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Monster hitboxes have made sense since Tri. If you get hit with Plesioth's hip check now you deserve to get hit.
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Machai posted:Does Plesioth still have a bullshit hitbox (loving hip check), or did they make it physically make sense? His hip check is not the entirety of his everything now! It's been fixed! Also, to those of you who don't have to wait until 11AM tomorrow for your game shop of choice to open before you get to play: 
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ChibiSoma posted:Also, to those of you who don't have to wait until 11AM tomorrow for your game shop of choice to open before you get to play: I was going to swing by my Gamestop at midnight at grab my copy but they told me they won't even be getting them until tomorrow. 
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Sorry, is the eshop release 9am EST or PST?
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gobbledygoat posted:Sorry, is the eshop release 9am EST or PST? PST so noon if you are east coast.
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I got the amazon preorder deal, but I wish I had taken the day off.  Or at least Wednesday.
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Colbear posted:I reserved a copy of the 3ds version at Gamestop and the guy who rang me up said I should show around 10pm to "finalize the transaction" and get my game right at midnight instead of waiting in line at midnight or whatever. He was fairly insistent about it. I called my gamestop and the guy said they had more people waiting for MH3U than GoW.
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pixaal posted:PST so noon if you are east coast. Nah I'm west I was just hoping I could get up at six and it'd be done by the time I'd had breakfast
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I reserved a copy but didn't go for the midnight release because I have raid in RIFT tonight. I think it would have been fun to go and "confuse" Gears with God of War (Hey! Kratos has some futuristic armor and a gun now? Man, God of War has really gone down hill).
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woohoo just picked up my copy, time to go for table #10, I'll let you guys know if it's annoying whatsoever.
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Two hours to go and I'm still debating whether to buy this digitally or not. Does anyone know if load times will be faster? Logic says yes, but the programmer in me says 'who fuckin knows, code is weird'
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Ciaphas posted:Two hours to go and I'm still debating whether to buy this digitally or not. Does anyone know if load times will be faster? Logic says yes, but the programmer in me says 'who fuckin knows, code is weird' Given how horribly slow everything on the Wii U is I doubt it matters one way or the other.
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It was mentioned in the last thread, but the differences are mostly minimal in load times. Some number crunchers said it was around 1 second less loading over an entire mission, and slightly noticiable more loading for armor previews. Eitherway, though, both versions supposedly load incredibly fast. Edit: Went and dug up the quote Social Dissonance posted:So somebody from Japan did a loading time comparison of all the different ways you can load MH3U: Dawnfire fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Mar 19, 2013 |
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Ciaphas posted:Two hours to go and I'm still debating whether to buy this digitally or not. Does anyone know if load times will be faster? Logic says yes, but the programmer in me says 'who fuckin knows, code is weird' Depends on if they make use of the wiiU's extra RAM to load areas ahead of time instead of just use the same RAM size assumptions as the 3DS and load 1 zone at a time making the load time equal. This is capcom so they didn't change anything with how loading into RAM works so the digital will be faster. Digital isn't out for another 11 hours 10 minutes though, and then you have to download it. Its up to you what you are doing. You'll probably save time in the long run waiting for the download and everything but hey whatever works best for you! (Do you know how long the loading screens are in Super Metroid when added up? They take up a pretty good chunk of a speed run of the game and we are talking about a cartridge based game).
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