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Samurai Sanders posted:I've been working on an escort quest for the last FOUR HOURS and I'm still enjoying it. Escort quest. Four Hours. Still enjoying it. I just finished that escort quest with Mercedes a while ago and quite agree. Getting to the rest camp felt amazing. Also your David Bowie pawn has helped me out a couple times. Unrelated to that, but the Strider move Ensnare and its evolution are incredible. You get a free knockdown on a non-huge enemy, and with its evolution it basically works on up to three. It has a crazy low stamina cost, too.
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I've never seen a game where paths and roads are more important to your survival, other than maybe some parts of Zelda 2.
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Troffen posted:
Oh hey, I guess the pawns do update when you go to the Inn. I just put those red things on her like an hour or two ago. I hope she's helping out a lot! This pawn system can be kinda weird sometimes. A ton of the mages I'm finding are like little girls and all the pawn messages I'm getting after my pawn finishes an adventure are the really strange, creepy ones like "is cute" and the like. I've somehow made over 10,000 RC in the short time I've played with her.
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May 23, 2012 05:41
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90% of the pawns I've met have been female. Almost all of them have fetish-y gear on, regardless of how lovely it makes them in combat. But there's this dwarf named Barnaby who's wrecking poo poo and a someone made a decent sorcerer named Sand and now everything's so much better.
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May 23, 2012 05:48
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Oh good, there are shortcuts through the world, like in Dark Souls. They're full of monsters though... Finally back in Gran Soren. That escort quest felt like more of an adventure than all of the Kingdoms of Amalur I played combined.
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May 23, 2012 05:49
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My Mike Haggar pawn only got summoned three times and they gave me rocks each time. Come on, I think he looks cool 
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Man, I really hate how weak I feel as a magick archer at times, but they sure do decimate lizards like nobody's business. Threefold/Sixfold Bolt oneshots them if all hits connect and freeze procs early enough. It's weird that I can get 450ish exp from killing a lizard effortlessly while I only get like 60-150 from things that take a lot more effort to kill. I guess the freeze debuff is just sickeningly effective, even more so with threefold/sixfold being a multi-hit attack. Explosive bolts are kind of cool too, since they're like delayed bombs. It sucks that you have to hit them with something other than a bow shot to set them off, but it's super cool that if a cyclops tries to do its ground foot stomp with an explosive bolt or six in his leg, they all automatically explode when he hits the ground. Honestly, aside from Threefold/Sixfold bolt, it feels like magick archer just has a bunch of cool trick shots and flashy moves that don't really amount to much. Or maybe my gear just sucks, or maybe I just need some better augments. I just unlocked the whole "set myself on fire" skill but I don't know if I can deal with the health loss yet.
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For those that are somewhat ahead: When do the stores in Gran Soren update? More specifically, when can I buy an archistaff for a sorcerer? I'm getting pretty close to switching my pawn from a mage, but I've got no weapon to give him.
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May 23, 2012 05:56
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Anyone know if there's a hide helmet option? My hair looks sooo much better.
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May 23, 2012 06:03
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VDay posted:For those that are somewhat ahead: When do the stores in Gran Soren update? More specifically, when can I buy an archistaff for a sorcerer? I'm getting pretty close to switching my pawn from a mage, but I've got no weapon to give him. I think they just show up when you switch someone out of the starting jobs for the first time. Not positive but I'm around level 20 and picked up some stuff for my ranger.
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VDay posted:For those that are somewhat ahead: When do the stores in Gran Soren update? More specifically, when can I buy an archistaff for a sorcerer? I'm getting pretty close to switching my pawn from a mage, but I've got no weapon to give him. There was one in the Gran Soren armory the first time I went there.
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May 23, 2012 06:09
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I think I've heard the word "aught" more times in the last few hours than I have in my entire life.
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I'm starting to get a little annoyed with how this game is handling some of its quests. I'm in Gran Soren right now doing the Fontaine quest and the markers and people I need to talk to are just bugging out on me. I'm at the very end of the quest, but the dude I need to talk to last isn't where he was previously. My pawn just tells me "yeah he should be yelling on the streets" but he's not, I searched every street in the city. It's really frustrating because my only other option is to pay a ridiculous sum of money to complete the quest, but this guy has apparently vanished into thin air. I have the quest set to priority and the other people I needed to talk to all have the red icons over their heads, but I can no longer find the last guy! What the hell?
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May 23, 2012 06:17
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Man, I think I might have to go Assassin instead of Warrior, because I am enjoying these string tricks and uppercut-to-grenade moves way too much
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Had an error during the initial run of the 360 version. It got stuck saying that it was searching for the demo save files. To solve it, I had to actually delete the demo save file (not just the demo, but the actual save file itself) from the system menu. After that it booted up like a charm. I did lose my custom main and pawn from the demo though, but at least the game loaded up. As of now, screen tearing is occasionally noticeable, but it's not too bad. I also want to say that for some reason the text descriptions just seem a tad blurrier than they were on the PS3 demo. It's probably my imagination, but reading the text seems to give me eye strain pretty quickly. As for the frame rate, it looks to be pretty identical to the demo in that regard. I do have the game installed, as well. I occasionally notice pop in on close objects if I turn pretty quickly. Something that was there sometimes unloads when you turn away from it, and looking back to it might give it a half second of fade-in of the object reloading.
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May 23, 2012 06:29
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Went Warrior and sad I didn't go Strider. Thankfully, I can change at basically no cost. Did anybody else spend about 5 minutes just laughing at the title screen when the music started?
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That music is RAD AS gently caress and more fantasy games should have rock. When you go back to the title screen, it's doubly inappropriate because the visuals are slow pans over scenic vistas.Veyrall posted:90% of the pawns I've met have been female. Almost all of them have fetish-y gear on, regardless of how lovely it makes them in combat. In defense of my fetish garbed mage pawn, all the other armor options open to her thus far are tunics that look like they've been dipped in mud. Eventually I just bought her the fancy dress from Black Cat--now she doesn't look like a sex worker OR a refugee. A pity the stats are so bad, but I don't have to wince when I look over at a woman wearing a half-open dressing gown over leather undies. Mystic Mongol fucked around with this message at 06:49 on May 23, 2012 |
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This game is weird and awesome. I have never played anything like it. There are just so many weird design choices and everything is just so organic and interactive. I love it. The best thing about it me though, is that it a totally open world but it doesn't feel like it. Most open world games sacrifice the action in favor of choice but DD feels so much like an action game that I keep having to remind myself that I can indeed fall off that cliff, go in that little corner, or climb on top of a castle for no reason. It takes something special to make me forget Diablo 3 exists for a whole day.
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May 23, 2012 07:10
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No lie, my wife started badgering me to get this game because of that menu theme (she is a very big fan of B'z and loves basically everything they do). I let her talk me into it because the gameplay actually did look pretty cool. I'm having a good time with the game, though I'm given to understand I'm not up to the :ds:-esque difficulty spike yet and I'm already struggling. That tentacle beast at the bottom of the spiral staircase, coming right after the nigh-invulnerable ogre, can get hosed. Is that really supposed to be a quest for a level 14 party? I was intending to make my pawn a healbot, but after a couple hours with the combat system I'm convinced standing in one place to get healed is a really bad idea that is going to get me killed. He's going to be a Sorcerer now. I was also intending to make my main a Warrior, but being limited to 3 skills total is a dealbreaker. What class is the best for wading into combat and smashing in faces? I'm leaning towards Assassin because I prefer dodging to blocking, but I'm open to suggestions.
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TheArchimage posted:I'm having a good time with the game, though I'm given to understand I'm not up to the :ds:-esque difficulty spike yet and I'm already struggling. That tentacle beast at the bottom of the spiral staircase, coming right after the nigh-invulnerable ogre, can get hosed. Is that really supposed to be a quest for a level 14 party? There's a reason your pawns keep yelling at you to just run away. Hint: listen to them. Anybody started messing around with item combining yet? Any good/easy recipes to make healing potions/herbs?
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Policenaut posted:I'm starting to get a little annoyed with how this game is handling some of its quests. I'm in Gran Soren right now doing the Fontaine quest and the markers and people I need to talk to are just bugging out on me.
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Do Ogres have any particular weakness? They seem to be the strongest enemy I keep encountering. Tons of HP and they poo poo out damage. Also they can drop kick you!
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TheArchimage posted:That tentacle beast at the bottom of the spiral staircase, coming right after the nigh-invulnerable ogre, can get hosed. Is that really supposed to be a quest for a level 14 party? I went down there at 10th. That ogre was all sorts of nasty. I had it down by a 3rd of it's life when it decided to run off the side of the stairs and killed itself. To bad by the time I got down there the loot was gone. And then the tentacles showed up!
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Evil Canadian posted:Do Ogres have any particular weakness? They seem to be the strongest enemy I keep encountering. Tons of HP and they poo poo out damage. The best part is that if you climb on their back they just fall backwards and crush you.
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So now that people are playing what is everyone's thoughts on their class? For example any positives or negatives of your class and it's play style that you've encountered, and any anecdotes.
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I'm still trying to figure out how to unlock double jump for my assassin. Anybody know how yet? So far I've been raking in the rift dubloons with my rad mage pawn, but I'm not sure if there is anything I can spend those on aside from hiring super-pawns. Assassin is pretty rad, I like the flexibility to pick and choose gear. Having a mage primary and a couple goon warrior pawns is working out rather well.
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Zombie Defiler posted:So far I've been raking in the rift dubloons with my rad mage pawn, but I'm not sure if there is anything I can spend those on aside from hiring super-pawns. Johnathan at the camp where you fought the hydra is a rift crystal vendor. His poo poo is really expensive though. You can buy crazy alteration potions to change a pawn's personality or you and your pawn's appearances and the like.
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Ensnare, the Strider power to tie up your enemies like chumps, is borderline essential. The Strider in general has trouble dealing with human opponents--relatively low damage, combined with no stagger, and you struggle to damage bandits in heavy armor with giant hammers. Still, it's not all bad. If you pound the button for the Scarlet Kisses attack (the one you start with) instead of holding it down, your character just enters into an infinite combo that doesn't knock your opponent prone at any point. It also doesn't cost stamina. Against a single humanoid opponent, this is a death sentence--the only way your target will ever escape is if one of their allies hits you prone, or one of your allies hits the victim prone. But it's slow damage, and sometimes heavy armor types will ignore it and punch you. Still, the Strider is absolutely an anti-monster class. Some monsters are just chumps--I ran into a Chimera in the wild, and my endurance bar lasted long enough for me to cling onto the tail and cut if off in one go, and then straight to the goat head and kill THAT without letting go ever. The Hydra encounter ended when I shimmied up the neck like a ladder and sliced the head clean off, again in one go. Results were less successful against that Ogre on the stairs... I was climbing up his back when he lept into the air and did a backwards body splash, which did about six hundred damage. Ow. Closing thoughts: The fireworks stun grenade is garbage.
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Mystic Mongol posted:Closing thoughts: The fireworks stun grenade is garbage. Is this Dazzle Hold? I was actually looking for a video of that and Toss & Trigger. The explosive abilities seem like the coolest/flashiest the assassin has but I could only find one for powder charge.
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Dragon's Dogma: The night is dark and full of terror Seriously gently caress getting stuck in the forest at night time! Also the game is completely awesome.
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Maybe? You throw a grenade, there's a very unimpressive red sparkle effect, and the enemies go about their business of stabbing you in the face. It knocked the invisibility off of some monsters once, though, so there may be more to it than I know.
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I was looking through the DLC as I was installing this earlier and was a bit put off when one of the descriptions mentioned the DLC being "Mercedes approved". I'm glad it just turned out to be an NPC instead of a car company. I was pretty confused for awhile there.Veyrall posted:90% of the pawns I've met have been female. Almost all of them have fetish-y gear on, regardless of how lovely it makes them in combat. A sorceror named Sand? Is he an elf by chance? That might be a Neverwinter Nights 2 reference of all things. Congratulations, you found the person who liked the campaign for NWN2.
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What about you guys playing mages? How are you liking it? I have to say the spell effects in this game look like probably the best spell effects I've ever seen in a game. On the downside I'm reading some complaints about cast times.
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Mystic Mongol posted:Ensnare, the Strider power to tie up your enemies like chumps, is borderline essential. The Strider in general has trouble dealing with human opponents--relatively low damage, combined with no stagger, and you struggle to damage bandits in heavy armor with giant hammers. The time I finally beat that ogre I jumped on his back and the bastard jumped straight over the edge. I jumped off in a panic hoping to grab on to something and caught the edge about 2 floors down. Awesomest thing that's happened yet.
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Oh, god drat it game. The least you could do is tell me when you're going to give me quests that expire.
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Manatee Cannon posted:Oh, god drat it game. The least you could do is tell me when you're going to give me quests that expire.
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Instant death is def a thing in this game. I am on the take back the fort quest, and the Cyclops on the roof has batted me off to my death 3 times in a row now. I will get you fucker 
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So I made my pawn a hulking mohawked female warrior with the skull facepaint. Curious to see what kind of comments I get about her, considering I haven't seen a single other tall/muscular female pawn.-Blackadder- posted:What about you guys playing mages? How are you liking it? So far it's working out surprisingly well because virtually everything in the early game is vulnerable to fire so just spamming the basic fireball spell with a good, upgraded staff massacres everything. Sindai fucked around with this message at 08:43 on May 23, 2012 |
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