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[Razel]

started Dragon quest IX yesterday, so far I find it very promising.

Its such a fun game, I'm nearing the end of the main story

[Septerra]

i need to talk more to every person i see in the game.

just yesterday i found out that i can add party members in the inn.

all this time i thought the game was just very hard with all the battles.

so I have been power training like hell, all the while i should have been training my entire party.

outcome: im lvl 15, the rest lvl 6

*sight*

[kspr]

beat Birth By Sleep for all 3 characters as well as the final episode. Then watched Blank Points, the 'secret' movie for beating it. And then found and collected all the stickers on Terra's file. and got up to lvl 19/20 in the arena.
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do people in the army make fun of you for playing fruity weeaboo games like kingdom hearts?

playing GTA4. hoping to actually finish it this time instead of getting bored, crashing helicopters for three hours, and not playing again for three months.

[Donkeymog]

I've been playing through Liberal Crime Squad. It's kind of like the game GTA should be but with an interface from hell.

edit: And Minecraft of course.

[kspr]

i played worms for 4 hours yesterday. the worm voices get really annoying after awhile

[Stars]

I liked the voices in Worms Armageddon because there were so many to choose from, and most of them were hilarious.

That aside, I restarted The Conduit a few days ago and have been playing 1-2 levels per day. It's actually not as bad as I remembered. It's still not that great, but it's decent.

I also tried getting back into Spirit Tracks this afternoon, and I have no idea who the passenger on my train was because the game certainly wasn't going to remind me. <_<
Made it to what I presume is the last dungeon before the final level after making a series of bothersome deliveries. As I said when the game was still new, I like the aesthetic of the whole train thing, but it's worse than the boat in practice.

[Vicious Parker]

I just got Dragon Age, so I think I'ma have a bit of fun with that.

[BottomGuy]

Zelda: A Link to the Past

Which I have NEVER beaten! GAH! And I refuse to use a walkthrough, which is part of the problem.

[Hyperlisk]

Yu-Gi-Oh!~

[Stars]

I just got Dragon Age, so I think I'ma have a bit of fun with that.

Cools. I've been wanting to try that out, but I can't bring myself to buy it with so many unfinished games on my list. =/

Zelda: A Link to the Past

Which I have NEVER beaten! GAH! And I refuse to use a walkthrough, which is part of the problem.

SNES or GBA version? Because the Ice Palace, at least, is much easier in the remake. (I used to have to skip to the next dungeon and use the item from there to solve some of the puzzles. >_< )
How far have you gotten?

[Vicious Parker]

They eas-ified the ice palace? For serious...? It's not that hard... (Having recently re-played through it, I didn't have any trouble.)

[Stars]

Well, I can't say for certain that they changed it. I might have just seemed easier because I've improved my puzzle-solving compared to 18 years ago. =p
It's just that I always had trouble with the block puzzles near the end of the dungeon, and when I played it a year or so ago on the GBA, I was at the end of the level before I'd even realized that I had passed that part.
That's really the only change I noticed.

[kspr]

I just got Dragon Age, so I think I'ma have a bit of fun with that.

Cools. I've been wanting to try that out, but I can't bring myself to buy it with so many unfinished games on my list. =/

as someone who's played through it a few times, i can honestly say that it was one of the driest, by-the-book rpg's i have ever played. it is sooooo incredibly standard "ancient evil returns and only you can stop it" in plain english, it was painful to play. absolutely nothing surprised me about the story, or any of the characters for that matter. they're all so incredibly archtypical, and of course your protagonist is silent. when i got it, i thought it would be a cool, NEW experience, but it was anything but. you can't re-fight enemies, so if your characters die during battles, your're up shit creek. if you pick useless skills like the ability to make/disarm traps, over any of the others, then you're up shit creek. if you raise your character as an archer and you get to the last battle and are all like "what do?" it's fun trying to figure out what gifts to give what characters, but that's ALL the depth they have, and the ONLY thing making you care about them. if this game had couch co-op, then i think it would have been worth it, but it doesn't. if i had known it would have been so lackluster, and that bioware would have milked the "fake" dlc, then i would have just gotten demon's souls instead. the whole time i was playing it, i was wishing it was Oblivion.

[Vicious Parker]

You're referring to DA as dry and by the books, while wishing it was Oblivion...? Wha...?

Also, to fix those skill problems, some lovely person created a character respec mod, which I have already used, and I'm not even that far in to the game. (All games should have this option, frankly. But oh well).

I also like that you seem to have disliked it so much, yet you started out by saying, "someone who's played through it a few times." You must have liked something about it. I feel the same way about Oblivion, frankly. I rather hate that game these days, yet I've still invested hundreds of hours in to it, and occasionally want to play it some more. It's like crack.

I am enjoying DA well enough. No, it's not particularly original. However, my experience with the average fantasy setting doesn't extend far beyond the Lord of the Rings books, so I don't feel worn out about it. As Yahtzee so brilliantly put it, "We're a civilization so steeped in escapism that we find mundanity in something that doesn't exist, and never will."

The trick is to stop playing video games and expecting a good or original story. It just doesn't happen.

[Stars]

and of course your protagonist is silent.

You sure about this part? The game isn't loaded with BioWare dialogue trees?

[Vicious Parker]

in DA the protagonist is silent. So far as I know, Mass Effect is the first bioware game where the player character actually speaks.

in DA 2, the protagonist will have a voice, though

[Stars]

Weird, I could have sworn I saw a video of the protagonist speaking, showing the different choices of what you could say to a local barmaid after saving her town from a Darkspawn attack or something. =/

EDIT: Pretty sure it was IGN's video review.

[Vicious Parker]

Just watched it and didn't catch that. It may have simply been a party member reacting to what you choose. If you've ever played Kotor or Jade Empire it's... well, pretty much that for dialogue, though with a few more options.

[Stars]

Huh, maybe it was a preview video for DA2 or something.

[kspr]

i was wishing it was more open, like oblivion, where you weren't trapped in towns and other locations. i hated that you could only fast travel, and see nothing in between. the only reason i even played it through more than once was that i was trying to get all the trophies for it, but one kept glitching on me and i couldn't get it. i also wanted, in the back of my mind, to see all the endings hoping one would surprise me...

your character can't "talk" per se, but you can choose dialogue to advance the conversation.

also, i think we might get good, original stories, but people would have stop buying Madden every year...