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Policenaut posted:Oh yeah. You just stealth like the drat Predator and grab yourself a chicken from a coop, run right up to some unsuspecting North Korean soldier in the jungle and when he ain't lookin' you just WHAM PUNCH THAT BIRD INTO HIS FACE This is the greatest gameplay mechanic I have ever heard of  I need this game, like, right now. I've never had a PC capable of playing it but for $20 on my ps3? Hell yes. Speaking of hilarious death, I'm FINALLY playing New Vegas, and it is awesome. I played Fallout 3 on my laptop which was way underpowered for it, leading to me playing through the whole thing at like 15 fps with crappy graphics. NV on the PS3 is very nice. [yeah yeah I need to go buy a new PC and see it even prettier, but this works for me for now] I will never get tired of headshotting people, and watching their head, complete with big grinning face, just kind of slide off their body and roll around. Also it's pretty freaking hard, but I think that's because I'm being massively dumb about just rushing into situations guns blazing, running out of AP, and getting chewed up. I've been too dulled by modern FPS gameplay; I forgot how Fallout works.
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Jamesman posted:OK, I think I'm giving up on Saboteur. It was fun for a while, but now it's turned into some serious bullshit combined with some serious bugs. I nearly gave up at this too. It's really loving hard, and requires a lot of luck. Just memorize the positions of things and pray for good luck. :/ The rest of the game is totally worth that bullshit though, I promise. Also, that loving NPC.  He got me a few times.e. Also, if I recall, it's a good idea to fire in short bursts and aim at the drivers of the cars to disable them. Also later on, I want to say some cars have machine gunners hanging out the sides, take them down too obviously. I think killing drivers disables those bastard Gestapo machine gunner cars, which were my biggest problem by far.
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New Vegas's randomness is awesome. I had that quest "Booted" where you have to go free the captured Powder Gangers from the Legion. I went to do it, untied them both and as we were walking out, right after I got the XP reward for saving them... both of them plus one of the Legion guards got mauled to death by a pack of Nightstalkers.  Following roaming NCR troops around is fun too, then scavenging anything they manage to kill. Thanks guys!
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^^ Yeah, speaking of moneys worth, I know I'd play a WHOLE lot more GT5 if I had a wheel [and yeah I might look into PC sims too]. I really do love GT5, but controlling it with a DS3 just doesn't feel right to me. I was holding out from buying a DFGT just because my purist friends kept yelling at me to just save up for a G27, and besides that I REEEEEALLLLLLYYY want that clutch/shifter... but that's probably never going to happen, and I am sick of playing GT5 with a DS3. Drifting is hard as gently caress for me [or I should say, controlling a drift is], and just in general I know I'd be a lot better with some of the more challenging cars [like my roided-up Ferrari, can't remember which model, which likes to spin out if I look at it funny] if I had an actual wheel.
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I said come in! posted:Ugh, I was afraid of this happening. :/ I'm pretty sure Eidos assured us too that we wouldn't be getting ads like this. Does it pull them live from the internet? I might try dicking with the filtering stuff on my firewall to see if I can just block the ad server IPs.
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Sep 16, 2011 17:41
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Rinkles posted:Why not just sign out of PSN/pull out the Ethernet cable? Well that makes sense. 
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Sep 17, 2011 02:12
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That reminds me I need to get around to playing the demo for Bloodrayne I got, I keep hearing good things. I've been glued to Fallout: New Vegas the last week or so. It's... it's so... good. It's also loving hard but probably because I'm doing stuff wrong. I'm escorting Rex the Robodog to Jamestown or wherever for The King, and every loving PATH I TAKE is covered in those Cazadore assholes. I can't kill them fast enough, they sting him to death.  Is there any way I can get like some kind of fast-travel escort to places? Or like the car in Fallout 2? Can you resurrect dead ["unconscious"] companions?Aside from this, it's a fantastic game. I like it way, way more than Fallout 3, though I admit that's probably 75% due to the fact that I'm playing this at full frame rate [drat you laptop]. I was initially one of "those" guys who was nervous about Fallout making the jump to FPS-RPG, but this is just a really good game and a good Fallout game. There's just so much to do. e. nevermind just saw that companions "wake up" after a little while Code Jockey fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Sep 18, 2011 |
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Sep 18, 2011 20:31
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Speaking of being stealthy, I had to crack up at New Vegas. I just wrapped up the quest where you have to find the evidence linking the Crimson Caravan and VanGraff families to the destruction of various caravans, Cass's quest. Part of that involved stealing documents from the VanGraff safe. In front of that safe is a door. In front of the door were two heavily armed guards. One of them had the door in his field of vision. I strapped on my StealthBoy, crouched and moved quietly up to the door, and picked it. The door opened, I slipped inside, and did my thing. Now I don't know about you, but if I was standing there minding my business and a door just randomly popped open, especially one that's supposed to be highly secured, I think I'd start, you know, investigating. Plus, people in the Fallout universe are familiar with the idea of StealthBoys, the first thing I'd think of as that guard would be "Oh gently caress someone with a StealthBoy is trying to break in SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT" [for those who haven't played, a StealthBoy makes you almost totally invisible, you just kind of look like "shimmering air" or something, like Predator-style] Video games. 
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If you want Anime: The SRPG then get Record of Agarest War. ... good lord. I actually like anime and this poo poo's just too much for me. Handsome young hero rebels against his own army to protect underage elf girl within like the first 10 minutes, and soon after comes the parade of scantily clad anime babes and dramatic ellipses, ie "Leonhardt...". It's a collection of pure distilled terrible anime tropes compiled into a PS3 game. It's reeeeeally cringe-worthy. Plus I've been spoiled with Disgaea's combat system, so I'm having a hard time putting time into Agarest.
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Sep 19, 2011 20:19
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Dominic White posted:He's the full-time music guy at Wayforward now. That's awesome. The Bloodrayne demo was better than I expected! Great soundtrack and pretty fun combat. Gonna buy it. Is Saints Row 2 a good buy at $20 [it's $20 on PSN right? or $30? Can't recall]? Always been really curious about it, and before anyone recommends it, I don't have a PC that can run it so I can't buy it on PC instead.
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Sep 22, 2011 18:39
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Armor-Piercing posted:This has more to do with me not liking Trigger than liking Cross though. I'm curious, and I don't mean this like a WTF WHATS WRONG WITH YOU spergy rant, just as making conversation - what don't you like about it? For me, it's one of the absolute best JRPGs I've ever played, but I'm curious what you didn't like about it.
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Sep 23, 2011 17:21
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I said come in! posted:The only part of Chrono Trigger I didn't like, was the post-apocalypse future. A few of the sections in that, were terrible. Wow, really? That had to have been one of my favorite parts, because of how dark it got at points, and I just kind of liked the environment. Was it plot or gameplay elements you didn't like? e. I'm curious because for all I know there was some really lovely part of it, but it's been years since I played through CT and I can't really remember it all
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Sep 23, 2011 17:27
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I said come in! posted:Gameplay, the factory parts were really annoying, and the junkyard with the ghosts. Plus that stupid rat you had to chase. The racing part was really cool though. Ohhhh, right. Yeah, the rat was annoying for sure, and I forgot about the ghosts. quote:I agree with you on the storyline parts. Some of the best storyline segments were done in the post-apoc section. The revelation the characters come to when they realize what happened, was really well done, plus the introduction of Robo was awesome. Yeah, I'm still kind of surprised that an SNES-era RPG got that dark. Pretty sure young me was pretty floored by those revelations when I first played it. quote:My favorite sections were the Stone Age, the age with the huge floating islands, and the one where Frog and Magus come from. Yeah, good stuff. The floating islands had some of my favorite music for sure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJtwEpQe6w0
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Sep 23, 2011 17:43
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Which iteration of Final Fantasy XIII will be the cover shooter
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Sep 24, 2011 00:57
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Why on earth are there ever unskippable cutscenes, who thought this was a good design choice
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Sep 26, 2011 22:14
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I said come in! posted:It was just confirmed today that Gran Turismo 5 is getting a massive update in the 3rd week of October, and DLC the week after that. Oh neato. Maybe I'll have my DFGT by then. I'm almost to the end of New Vegas and holy gently caress is this a good game. Some of the missions the cannibalism thing in the Ultra Luxe with the White Glove Society really, really feel like oldschool Fallout / Fallout 2 missions. This is such a good game. If I didn't have a sealed up copy of Deus Ex waiting for me plus Dark Souls right around the corner I'd jump on my next playthrough. Which I still need to do for Catherine, still. loving PS3, stop having so much good stuff.
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Sep 28, 2011 19:08
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...! posted:SEGA just applied for a trademark for "Yakuza: Dead Souls." I guess we know now what the western version of Of The End will be called... YYYYEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS Tamagod Sushi posted:Dark Souls x Yakuza spin off. Prepare to HEAT This concept... makes me happy.
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Sep 30, 2011 02:50
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Policenaut posted:The demo was pretty mediocre. Unless the game itself ends up being broken buggy garbage then I'm still going to buy it on launch and marathon the hell out of it and probably like it, I imagine, because I love the characters and environment so much. And then sacrifice yet another goat to the deity responsible for localization, hoping he'll grant my request for Kenzan. 
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Tamagod Sushi posted:
YESSS YESSSSSSS Good news on the G27. Glad I didn't get mine yet; I thought they were already supported. vvvvv HELL YES vvvvvv
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Oct 5, 2011 19:41
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a shameful boehner posted:God damnit. I want to buy Dark Souls and Uncharted 3 but also Battlefield 3. I still haven't finished New Vegas, so I can't play Deus Ex. Me and my new policy of don't play new poo poo until I beat what I'm currently on.[I could probably finish New Vegas right now if I wanted, but I'm trying to do something... different to end it]
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Oct 5, 2011 20:51
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SpacePig posted:I should probably adopt a policy like this. I have a few unfinished RPGs, an unifnished Evil-side Infamous 2 playthrough, and a barely started GTA: The Lost and the Damned. Let's see, of the top of my head I need to finish: [not in any particular order] - New Vegas - Vanquish - Disgaea 3 - GT 5 [well, the A and B spec stuff anyway] - Agarest - FF8 - Valkyria Chronicles - Resistance 1 [was co-oping it with my nephew, we need to finish it someday] - Demon's Souls - Borderlands ... ugh. e. Oh crap yeah my evil side Infamous 1 playthrough too, gently caress
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Oct 5, 2011 21:55
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You can level after you beat the first level. Ninja: Jamesman got it, and also, if you're just starting out, don't worry too much about staying alive. There's benefits to being alive, but really once you find the ring that gives you more life in soul form, there's little reason to worry too much about staying alive [ah, ah, ah, ah] and yeah don't be dumb like me and horde items to sell them because you can't
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Beat New Vegas finally, ~70 hours later. I decided at the very end to abandon my "character" and go with Mr. House. I think I did it primarily because I figured it'd extend the game out a bit, I dunno. God drat do I feel like a dick. NCR villified, blew up the Brotherhood... I'm a bad, bad man. Oh well, at least I got to watch Caesar's camp burn, that was nice. Now to reload my save game before deciding to help Mr. House, so I can kill his rear end instead and explore my options a little. And then, Deus Ex. Finally.  e. What's nice too is that 70 hours in and I still haven't discovered nearly everything. There's... just so much content.  and I don't even have the DLC stuff yet!
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Oct 12, 2011 17:17
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...! posted:That's nice and all but you have to actually plat the game before you can play Deus Ex. Nnnnnoooooooo  Don't tempt me. I'm in love with New Vegas and poo poo someday I would like to plat it, but... I just... I want to play Deus Ex. Morpheus posted:Armored Core: For Answer has an achievement where you must win 10 000 online matches. 10k. Not just play, but win. Hooooly poo poo.  I can't... I can't even imagine how much time this would take. Even just grinding it with someone willing to join 10k matches with you and sit there while you beat them. Holy gently caress.
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Oct 14, 2011 00:49
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Policenaut posted:That's fine for Sam and Max because 100% in all 5 episodes is actually worth more experience than what you would get if they were all in a single 50-someodd Trophy list. Y'know, I know there's rules, policies etc which govern what games can get what trophies, but I've always felt that every game "deserves" a plat. If you 100% the game, obviously you put a lot of effort in, why not give that extra trophy to really signify to the world that you totally dominated another game? I guess people would say WELL THAT MAKES THE PLATINUM IN XXXXX EQUAL TO THE PLATINUM IN YYYYY AND YYYYY IS A DUMB SIMPLE GAME AND MY TROPHIES!! ... which I kind of get, in a way. Also yeah MP trophies are lame unless they're really simple like "play one game from every game type" or "win a match" or something easy, not like that monstrous Armored Core 10k victory thing.
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So Deus Ex is amazing so far. Definitely feels like a proper sequel to DX1. Only just now recovered Typhoon, so super early in the game Also, my god it's gorgeous.
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I said come in! posted:DX:HR is better than DX1 even, which I thought would be impossible. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's not say things we can't take back. DX1 is tied with Fallout 1 and 2 as one of my favorite PC games ever. If what you're saying is true, I might have to expand that to four titles. It's really that good? I mean I've heard nothing but glowing reviews, but... wow.
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...! posted:You now have to plat this game as well. Unless there's some pain in the rear end aspect to it, I really don't think I'll mind doing this. I've been racking up trophies just helpin' people out right now.I blew the chance at my non-lethal playthrough at the VERY beginning gunned down the guys in the prologue portion but still going for the knock 50 guys out trophy. Next play through I'll do the whole game on hardest difficulty, non lethal. If only there was a  where he was holding a stun baton. Also Detroit is awesome. Holy cow. It's kind of edging out DX1 Hong Kong as my favorite FPS environment ever.
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...! posted:The real pain in the rear end is the "no alarms" trophy because often you'll trip one without realizing it and kill your chances at the trophy. I didn't get that trophy until my third playthrough. No alarms sounds like a nightmare. Does that mean no "suspicious", etc or just no red "oh gently caress oh gently caress" level alarms? Speaking of bosses, I just got to the first one, and all I want to know - nothing specific - is this: if I kill him, like shoot him to death with bullets, does that disqualify me for the no-death trophy? Or do I need to find a sneaky way to deal with him? I was curious if bosses were exempt. Also holy poo poo DopeFish! and all the references to Manderley are interesting, for sure... I can't wait to see where this is going. You weren't kidding. By god, you weren't kidding. DX:HR is... it's... it's really starting to be better than DX1. I never thought I'd say that, but here we are. It's that rare case when a sequel, far after the original, does alright!
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Crappy Jack posted:Suspicious is okay for no alarms, you just can't let an alarm go off, ever. If you're spotted, it's okay so long as the alarm doesn't go off. If you're spotted by robots, cameras, or turrets, the alarm goes off. If you fail a hack ever, the alarm goes off (Unless you're in a place with no hostiles, like Sarif HQ or city streets). If a guard spots you, I think you're okay, but he'll yell really loud and somebody will immediately run and set off an alarm, so it's best to just avoid ever being seen altogether and not having to worry about it. Oh, cool then. I've been spotted, but the guards, for whatever reason, decided to take a nap immediately after spotting me and never did get the chance to ring the alarm. Strangest thing. 
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Stelas posted:Bear in mind you can hack alarm panels to permanently prevent them from being used to help mitigate this slightly. I only found this out about halfway through the game - since you couldn't hack the ones in the original Deus Ex, I thought that would still apply. Oh interesting, I'll have to keep that in mind. I really like the hacking minigame, so I've been hacking everything in sight, but generally skipping alarm panels. Also uhhh someone give me some strategy about the first boss. Motherfucker's turning me into swiss cheese in seconds. I've tried hiding behind pillars but whenever he gets close and I run out to try to run down the room away from him, he hits me pretty hard. I've got an upgraded combat rifle I've been opening up on him when I can, but I can usually only get in like 4-5 shots before HE opens up on me, doing massive damage. drat it, I'm a hacker, not a fighter! It occurs to me that this being Deus Ex, there's got to be an easier way. The only reason I ask is that I'm kind of tired of having to reload, open the door, skip cutscene, die, repeat. One thing I like about this as opposed to other modern shooters is Adam isn't a bullet sponge. Yeah he heals himself eventually [which makes sense in this game, normally I hate that] but boy he can't take much damage in a firefight. I also really like the way his HUD freaks out when you die. That's a nice touch.  e. On the subject of other games, finally started Castlevania: Harmony of Despair. It's funny how you don't realize how much you want a game until you play it, then realize "Holy poo poo, I really wanted this game to exist" gently caress the puppetmaster in chapter 2 though. The fact he can float away and do his bullshit special move from a distance is lame.
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Crappy Jack posted:Hide behind the pillar to your right when the fight starts. Turn around and you'll see some gas/explosive barrels. Start throwing those at him. They'll do damage and stun him. When those are out, run around and look for more. If you keep up the barrel assault, he'll die without being able to fight back. I have the tranq gun, since I opted for long distance in the beginning, but okay, I'm going with the barrels. Gonna go Donkey Kong on his rear end tonight. Thanks!
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Hey Talkc, go get Yakuza 3 and 4! Those are good games and definitely on my "must play, justifies owning a PS3" list. For those who say "Skip 3 go straight to 4" I say 3 provides a good amount of background for 4, is fun as hell, and saying that is roughly the same as saying to skip Uncharted 1 to play 2. Yakuza 3 is a great game; Yakuza 4 is a stellar one.
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Oct 17, 2011 19:09
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SpacePig posted:Yakuza 3 starts off with alot of boring stuff with the orphanage, though, and people that don't know about the core gameplay will be turned off by it. Tough it out! It's alot of fun! Yeah, this. I was okay with it but I can see how some people are turned off by it. Such a good game though!
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Oct 17, 2011 19:20
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More like quit when you hit 5-2 like I did, pick the game back up 8 months later, finally unlock the shortcut in 5-2 then put it down again because it's better to relish that little victory than let that sonofabitch game crush my soul again drat it
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Oct 17, 2011 19:26
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Samurai Sanders posted:Ugly looking guys in bad suits will attack you. Punch them. Punch everyone. Leave no face in Kamurocho unpunched. Also, there is no such thing as "a quick trip to the mahjong parlor" or "a quick game of pachinko". Jesus, so much time I sank into that. It's fitting of Akiyama's character, though. I was merely roleplaying.  But yeah be ready for one hell of a game e. Also, ugly guys in amazing suits. Also you're going to beat up Japanese George Washington at some point.
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Policenaut posted:Pachinko in Yakuza is devised by Satan. I've played actual pachinko that's more fun and fair than that Virtua Fighter machine. And yet I couldn't stop playing it
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I'm really bad at mahjong, still learning all of the different combinations and strategies, but still had fun getting my rear end beat. I spent a ridiculous amount of time in the gambling halls too.
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the truth posted:Flame lurker made me grind like poo poo, but 5-2 was what made me quit for a few months. Yeeeeep, this exactly. Flamelurker made me grind for a magic damage based spear, then I managed to take him out with relative ease [still incredibly tense fight though] Also I feel pretty bad not recommending The Saboteur. Still my only plat. Very very fun game, and if you really get into it, there's a lot to do. Hope you like exploding Nazis! [which you should, of course] Take Policenaut's advice though. The game isn't the buggiest I've ever played [god drat it New Vegas] but it did lock up on me a few times, and a few of those were during my run at the platinum, meaning I lost an assload of progress each time. Save save save! And yeah Valkyria is a very very good game but requires animu tolerance, which not everyone has. It makes it easier if you just learn to mentally block out Alicia's voice.
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The best value for DLC I have ever experienced was Undead Nightmare. That was a lot of stuff to do for $15 [I think I paid $15, maybe $10?] Roughly how long is DX:HR itself? If I do a little exploring and a lot of sidequests.
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