giver336 posted:

In fairness, Super Armoris fairly strong as an ability for S-ranks. Not sure if I'd like that early on, as that wouldn't incentivize me to learn how to dodge and counter properly.

Supremezero posted:

Oh, Starforce carried over one of the exactly 2 good ideas of MMBN4, having you actually fight generic navi's rather than just having them chuck viruses at you all the time. Neat.

nb4 this is the only time

Hobgoblin2099 posted:

Yeah, that was a surprise to me, too.

Blueberry Pancakes posted:

Does the ACDC kidnapping in Battle Network 6 count? It's not active, but it's the closest I can think of.

Tunicate posted:

treating Mr. Hertz well? That doesn't have a GHOST of a chance

Quackles posted:

Oh man, a MMSF LP! This'll be fun.

Fun fact: When I played MMSF, I named Geo "Lan Hikari" and was disappointed when MMSF2 and 3 don't give you the naming option.

GeneralYeti posted:

Thank you for the compliments, first of all. Giver probably appreciates them too, the little gremlin.

In regards to the description/line of text: My personal opinion is that the dialogue is more important in general compared to Battle Network. There's more nuance in how the characters interact with each other, and I want to try to capture that in this LP. Is every single line of dialogue necessary? Not strictly speaking, no. But, honestly? Each scenario only takes 3-4 updates, 5 at worst. I could probably compress that to maaaaybe 3 updates - one to start, one for FM-ian loving poo poo up, and one for the resolution. I wouldn't be cutting much, in the end. Libra Scales is just bad about that because of the whole Star Trials thing.

(Also checking out the environment happens only on new areas and so is only one per scenario at best; and, I only include talking to new NPCs at this point. There was none of it at all in the Harp Note scenario.)

Blueberry Pancakes posted:

Luna is obnoxious, sure, but she occasionally gets some good moments that show she's not a complete jerk. Like early on when she helps Bud fix all of the things he broke as Taurus Fire.

While later games do kinda have Luna be a bit over the top with her overbearing mannerisms, she's never really bad enough to the point where she's on, say, Chisao's level.

BisbyWorl posted:

Plus the fact that Chisao pretty much only shows up for those few scenarios.

Luna may not be as bad as BN4 Chisao, but she's also part of the core friend group so she'll be around pretty much constantly.

GeneralYeti posted:

Why.

Why are you doing this. How dare you do this, how dare you jettison our gift?!

Polderjoch posted:

BN5 was honestly still suffering from a lot of the poo poo BN4 did to the series, chip availability and lobotomization of the plot in favour of total swaps between versions mainly, but yeah honestly the main quartet of Dex/Yai/Mayl/Chaud taking a massive backseat, which didn't even recover in BN6 either considering Chaud in that game also isn't present until the second to last area anyway is still incredibly weird. We did get Colonel who's fantastic but still, he's honestly still hurt by BN5 being marred by BN4's version exclusive bullshit.

I played BN4 to 100% completion a year or two ago after always getting burned out around Eagle/Hawk/whatever because of loving park area, and yeah, I don't ever want to touch that game again. Shame because I'll admit the transformations in Red Sun are overall probably among the coolest BN4-6 transformations but the rest of the game is just actively painful to go through.

Liberation Missions are great though and make up for literally everything else in BN5, even for the rest of BN5's areas being garbage.
Thinking about it, I'm pretty surprised BN6 and SF1's areas actually have been holding up as well as they did after how badly designed BN4 and 5's were in general.

Faillen Angel posted:

duo's fight takes place outside, so gun del sol chips are powered up; don't use them for PileDriver, as the power is cut in half

most chips that require ground are useless; this includes airhockey, circlegun, breaths, mokorush, etc. However, bighammer chips may be useful, as it's possible to kite duo into it.

colorpoint/doublepoint alongside supervulcan are high-risk choices; catching duo with SV can leave him seriously injured, and it's fairly easy to get a counter hit and stun him with it if you start a little early, but it makes it impossible to dodge bighook unless you can areagrab the row back.

basically every soul you could have except windsoul offers something, though which ones you have are randomized so i can't give specific tips aside from gutssoul being wonderful for supervulcan.

videomansp is the best chip in the game if you have access to it.

Blueberry Pancakes posted:

Battle Network 6 made an attempt to give its villains some level of depth (aside from Blackbeard and Yuika, who notably just become Team Rocket in the anime). And I guess Capcom saw how well that worked out and decided to keep that going for the next game.

GeneralYeti posted:

I'm in the minority here but I honestly prefer SF1's text boxes, despite how awkward some of them can be. The mod does look like it's going to provide a lot of interesting stuff, and depending on how things work out Giver and I might try to show off some of the changes.

GeneralYeti posted:

Sorry for it being a bit between updates. Giver's got some other things going on so he can't get the co-comm done for a bit.

If you're paying attention to, basically anything going on with the forums these days, don't worry - I'll finish up this LP. I'm not putting it anywhere else at the moment but I do have a saved copy of each update so if anything bad does happen I can switch over pretty easily.

BisbyWorl posted:

The tl'dr is that Lowtax got outed as a serial spouse abuser, so people started fleeing from SA due to a mix of not wanting to be on a site run by a serial spouse abuser and the fear that he'll just outright nuke the forums out of spite.

There's a global sticky up that says Lowtax has agreed to give over the assets to Jeffrey, but who knows how that will play out in the long run.

Blaziken386 posted:

The LP Archive is backed by the Internet Archive, it's pretty damned stable. Even if the SAwful servers were literally set on fire, it'd stay up.

Funky Valentine posted:

Blueberry Pancakes posted:

I don't have a lot of experience with DID, so I don't know if the alternate personality is generally treated as their own person; I would assume so, all things considered. But it's kind of scary to think that Gemini can take an alternate personality and turn it into an actual physical entity!


I like Gemini as a boss more in Star Force 2, where you can defeat them both at the same time or defeat one before the other and cause the latter to get a power-up to one of their attacks.

Discendo Vox posted:

DID's use as stock plot device in japanese media is almost always really uncomfortable; it stinks that it's such a common trope. "My childhood trauma was so horrific that my personality fractured and I experience periods where I go into a fugue and some other part of "me" that I don't recognize or remember engages in self-harm" does not translate well into "my parents didn't love me, so I've got two personalities that you can recognize because my eyes light up different colors! They talk to each other and have themed names, and one has fire theming and the other has ice!" or worse, the alters have powers making them a superior fantastic escapist form, like a superhero persona. Ick. It shows up in US media but it's way less common.

Blaziken386 posted:

Japan is also, IIRC, astonishingly bad when it comes to dealing with mental health, so,

Discendo Vox posted:

I’m not really demanding realism so much as saying that this is part of a pattern of really bad treatment of an adult topic and that it’d be infinitely better to not use it in their kids sentai game.

Junpei posted:

The thing is, from a pure, writing and story-only perspective, I can see why the fictional version of DID is so appealing. It allows for some interesting twists and ideas, like a character who 'betrays' a group or person but feels guilty about it, any number of self-doubt and guilt-based tropes, and appealing drama with regards to 'the monster inside', a lot like werewolf characters.

But you can do those without demonizing a real-life mental illness, I'll admit. You can do a lot of those with stuff like a 'two souls stuck in one body' situation, or demonic possession, or werewolves, like I mentioned.

Blueberry Pancakes posted:

That would give an interesting additional layer to Rey being the only one with HP.

Starforce4 posted:

Reading this playthrough and watching your battles has been eye opening for me in terms of how good some of these cards I never gave a second look are. I just stuffed my deck full of the elemental swords and called it a day.

Polderjoch posted:

I've heard about the SF3 LP but I've never had problems getting the Omega Navis to appear, if anything when I played they showed up so often in some areas at early points in the game I just had to deal with getting put at 1 HP randomly every once in a while.
The version probably changes the most in SF3 out of the Star Force games but ultimately it doesn't matter much.

Blaziken386 posted:

I took a moment to play Starforce 3 the other day, and my main issues re: the battle system is that I am simply bad at it. Lock-on Feature is good, making you focus more on countering is a nice idea, etc. I just have terrible depth perception and can't aim for poo poo when I'm not looking at the field from a top-down perspective. That, and the lack of chip codes means there's quite literally zero reason to not fill your folder with ridiculously OP chips. IE: Using Magnum in BN3 had the tradeoff of either tailoring your folder to use the same code, or having a turn where you could only use one or two chips. In Starforce...

Starforce4 posted:

I think one of the best parts of SF3 is that it encourages you to break it over your knee. Balanced? No. Fun? Oh yeah.

Blueberry Pancakes posted:

Battle Network 4 at least has Buster Pack, one of the best NCPs in the series. At least before it got oversized to be nearly unusable in later games.