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CLOUDBOND007 Elite Beat Agents... I'm up to the hardest song on the hardest difficulty. If you would have asked me when I first started playing this game if I'd ever reach this point, I'd say there was no way. It's been a blast overcoming challenge after challenge to reach this point and it'll be one of my best gaming moments when I succeed. Out of context, it may not make sense, but here's a Youtube video of a master getting a perfect score on Jumpin' Jack Flash, the "final boss" song. http://youtube.com/watch?v=FQfe2_6wnEE It's hard to appreciate without actually playing it how tough the timing is to get those "300" scores, which you need to get a majority of to survive.
Bomberguy221 FFCC: My Life as a King - Day 130. I've maxed out funding on almost everything except for those things that require materials. I still need to improve my shields. I'm also starting to get closer to the final boss. Final Fantasy 4 - Picked up a game from a while ago and got through the awful magnetic cave. EDIT: I just wanted to mention that I almost thought there was a yuku error since the names of the GPT topics are very similar.
Crawl and 1OOO Yeah, I couldn't really understand the Elite Beat Agents video. Do you tap those circles with the stylus? Although I didn't see a stylus being filmed, so..
Crawl and 1OOO Okay, I'm done with the game for the night. I went back to dungeon 1 and got the step ladder and a bomb bag increase, and went back to dungeon 2 and got another heart container (6 total now) and a bomb bag increase (so I can carry 16 now, double the original limit). I believe that completely clears out the first two dungeons. I think with everything I got since the last time I attempted it (stronger sword, arrows, health refills, etc.), I should be ready for dungeon 3 the next time I play. I did go back to dungeon 3, and indeed I had all I needed to clear it out. Dungeon 4, too! There were a couple of surprises, a few of which I might not be able to remember... I think in dungeon 3, beating the boss gives you the compass. But that's useful, since the fairy in that dungeon is hidden fairly well otherwise. In dungeon 4, I think you have to beat an extra boss after beating the other one. I now have the first tunic upgrade, and also the handy glove. It acts like the ring in the original -- you can't just pick up every rock in the game, like you could in A Link to the Past. I found dungeon 5, though I kind of "misplaced" it. I already got the fairy in that dungeon. But I didn't have enough gold to purchase the bomb bag increase when I was there, and I have a lot more to do there. The ocarina in this game works differently than the flute did in the original. In the original, the flute would just take you to the various dungeon entrances where you found the triforce pieces. In this game, each time you find a fairy, the ocarina takes you someplace new, but those locations aren't necessarily dungeons. So far, I can go to
I found this game's manual online. The story takes place after Zelda 2; the Thunderbird is somehow still alive, and stole the triforce of Courage and took it to the outlands. Zelda went after it, and you're catching up. FO laughed hysterically at the picture explaining why Link doesn't have all of his items from the previous games... http://www.flyingomelette.com/ezboard/pap5/downhole.gif
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Crawl and 1OOO I got the heart in dungeon 5. One thing was a little weird. I couldn't find a key in that dungeon, so I earned enough money to buy one. Then, when I got to the dungeon ... I had two keys? Oh, well. I don't remember if I got anything else from that dungeon. I really don't remember getting a particular treasure there. Maybe I missed one. I haven't found dungeon 6 (or 7, 8, or 9...) One feature that's new to this game is one way paths on the overworld. I found one repeating-room-maze on the overworld that incorporates one-ways into it. I got past it (without a clue -- that other clue might refer to another one I've missed so far?) but didn't get much out of it. I just got a clue: "Four bombs for the four rightmost mountains" It seems like I explored quite a bit of this world without finding anything useful. I also explored some snowy mountains to the northwest, but there wasn't anything useful there, either. I also can't yet get the master sword or the staff of byrna (would have been the wand in the earlier game), even though I have a full row of hearts, and one on the second row.
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CLOUDBOND007 Due to my sudden lack of employment, I'll probably move forward with the plan to get rid of most of my game systems. I'm thinking that Wii and DS seem like a good enough combo to hang on to. I had planned to mostly play retro games from this point on, anyway.
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CLOUDBOND007 Man, analysts are saying that there needs to be another set of consoles out by 2011 for the industry to keep growing or some crap. Things can't keep going on this way unless they invent some more dimensions or something. I think people are going to be over shelling out $600.00 for crisper textures and more lifelike skin.
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Bomberguy221 I just beat Crocomire and got the Grappling Beam. FFCC: My Life as a King - Day 140. Built two sacred shrines, unlocking new magic for my mages (thunder series for black mages and status-altering for white mages) and allowing me to assist my players in the field. One thing that's bothered me about the party system is that if the party needs a break, the only way I can see to make that happen is to have a holiday, something that's a little expensive and costs me a day of exploration. The money's become less and less of a problem - I'm drowning in elementite, and I can comfortably fund any research - but when I'm closing in on the ending, I kinda want to reach that final battle and get it over with. That or get another bakery in this town so I can upgrade the kingdom, but there's no dungeon to accomplish that.
Crawl and 1OOO I got both heart containers on the overworld. One I got in the south west corner of the world. I found the other repeating room maze. As well as the repeating pattern, that too had a one-way passage as a part of the puzzle. The other repeating room maze, on the west side of the world, had another twist, of having several exits to the north and south, and even if you got through the repeating, you might end up in a dead end if you took the wrong exit on that particular side.
TaroSH Not sure if it was the RAM addition, video card upgrade, or increment of the virtual memory, but Sam and Max is running a lot better than when I first tried to play right after I bought it. The mouse lagged and at one time the voices got all screwed up and I got an error message about the shortage of virtual memory.
Magical Yard Gnome CLOUDBOND007 wrote: Man, analysts are saying that there needs to be another set of consoles out by 2011 for the industry to keep growing or some crap. http://sweet-bee.com/eymario.gif
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ErniePants Just finished Silent Hill 2 on the PS2. The first one had more of an effect on me when that type of horror atmosphere was something I hadn't seen in a game before, but 2 was pretty good, too.
Crawl and 1OOO Anyway, I accidentally reset my game of Zelda: Outlands. I didn't lose everything, but I was back to 1 heart container on the second row. I re-earned one, found another gerudo who gives unlimited bombs ... and found dungeon 8! So, I guess this game can be nonlinear (so far, I beat dungeons 1-5 in order). However, while exploring dungeon 8, the game glitched up on me. So, I'm back to where I started tonight. But at least I have more knowledge.
CLOUDBOND007 Final Fantasy 4 - Picked up a game from a while ago and got through the awful magnetic cave. Just noticed this earlier post. What I always do is just leave all the best metallic equipment as it is and simply run from every random encounter I can, and I don't think there's any time you aren't able to escape. I know the townspeople encourage you to buy non-metal items and there may be some fun to be had trying to play it the "right" way but I doubt I've ever tried it.
Captain Ladd Spencer I got to the Temple, found a door-changing section probably more tedious than the one in D, got slapped around by some gorgons for a while, placed the shields, and left off after getting the crank to the Atlas room.
Crawl and 1OOO It really makes you wonder what the hell they were thinking. I only mentioned it once myself in my original posts Not only that, but the game is serving up more irritating, unentertaining things, so much so that it's starting to become systemic, rather than a couple of isolated annoyances. Another one was in Pandora's Rings, where you're privileged to pull a handle and slowly rotate the room around to reach the next passage. The sad thing about God of War is that it really might be the modern version of a good game. It might have a few things that are good (the Hydra), but it's made by people who really don't know how to make games and it has a lot of things that just aren't thought out very well. And it's perfectly content to follow modern game conventions, often illogically. Like, modern games use a lot of brown, so part of God of War takes place in a desert, which is not exactly what Greece is known for. Games like that are one reason I'm not interested in modern games. If that's as good as they're gonna get, forget it.
Captain Ladd Spencer I wouldn't mind deserts in video game so much if the people designing them would actually look at some images of deserts. I actually live in a desert, so I probably take a personal offense to video games always portraying deserts as lifeless, dog-shit brown dust storms. http://www.lendricklodge.com/courses/images/pink-desert-new-mexico.jpg http://www.ourfamilyadventure.com/road_trip/painted_desert_1-thumb.jpg http://www.democracyfornewmexico.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/13/sandias.gif And rocks aren't always jagged blocks laying in the ground. Sometimes they look like donuts, and camels. http://www.mdpub.com/newphotos/Oct2005/camelrock.JPG And hey, sand isn't always brown! I realize if white sand is worthy of protection and a state park it must be pretty rare, but it still exists. http://www.beautiful-landscape.com/New%20Site.data/2006%20Images/Moonrise-at-White-Sands.jpg Same with petrified wood (although I'm cheating here, it's Arizona that has the petrified wood, though New Mexico might have some) http://www.legendsofamerica.com/photos-arizona/PetrifiedWood.jpg And I don't know about every desert, but we get the most awesome sunsets here. http://newark1.com/hello/1766634/1024/P1010853_filtered-large-2005.09.23-19.40.08.jpg http://westernviews.us/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/sunsetrock.jpg Instead, what does nigh every video game desert look like? http://www.codiekitty.com/Pictures/Colossus/bestestgraphicsever.jpg http://www.wdfnews.com/UserFiles/Image/StarFox64titania.jpg Probably the best looking desert I've seen in a video game was Adventures of Lomax.
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Captain Ladd Spencer Well on that subject, last night I went into a bored daze because I was fighting some enemies I could beat just by holding block until they all attacked, then throw them into the air and use that somersault attack, rinse and repeat. This went on for maybe five minutes until they finally stopped coming. By the way, we always hear about Grand Theft Auto in the new for the Hot Coffee thing and killing cops, and Bully for... some reason, and even Mass Effect got the attention of the media over the part where you get another character horizontal. But has there ever been anything about God of War, which not only has blood by the barrel, but completely barebreasted women?
Captain Ladd Spencer I'm starting to really dislike Bosco and Sybil...
Crawl and 1OOO Captain Ladd Spencer wrote: By the way, we always hear about Grand Theft Auto in the new for the Hot Coffee thing and killing cops, and Bully for... some reason, and even Mass Effect got the attention of the media over the part where you get another character horizontal. But has there ever been anything about God of War, which not only has blood by the barrel, but completely barebreasted women? If you watch a movie about killing cops, you are not yourself killing cops. In GTA, you sort of are killing cops yourself. That's one thing that has people worked up. There is no difference between seeing barebreasted women in movies and videogames. (Well, in a movie, they're probably really women) Movies are already socially acceptable. And, yeah, GTA is just a convenient media bogeyman. It's not like objection to it is necessarily rational.
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CLOUDBOND007 Oh baby, Welcome, welcome, generous friends, days and weeks and tokens to spend; we're just regular business men, just you and me an' Ted E. Bear. Ted E. Bear's is oodles of fun, slots and sandwiches and poker and guns; And look: no mobsters--nary a one, with you and me an' Ted E. Bear. Not mafia, no! (( No mafia, mugs. )) We're mafia-free! (( No mafia here. )) (( What mafia, please! )) No shady leaves on the family tree. J. Edgar Hoover always insists, organized crime just *doesn't* exist; Q.E.D. they're not in our midst, Say Edgar, me, an' Ted E. Bear. No goons, no droppers, no grifters, no thugs, no gyps, no clippers, no chippies, no lugs; no button-men packing gats loaded with slugs, it's you and me an' Ted E. Bear! No mafia here. (( What mafia, please! )) We're mafia-free! (( No mafia here. )) (( No mafia, mugs. )) ... just doin' business legitimately!
Additionally, while I haven't been as much in the mood for games, I've been working on Jumpin' Jack Flash since I last posted about it. I've made dozens, if not hundreds of attempts. I feel like I've made something of a breakthrough tonight and may be able to complete it soon.
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Bomberguy221 Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations - Just got to the final chapter and started the investigation. Excuse me while I hide my writing for a bit so as not to spoil. SO AWESOME! I was happy to see Edgeworth back in the last episode, but to have Edgeworth as my character and Gumshoe play the "partner" role Maya usually covers is so unbelievably cool. I've cracked up at a lot of the dialog already. If these characters don't come back in Apollo Justice, I'm glad this is the way I can send them off. FFCC: My Life as a King - Funded everything to the max. I'll start accumulating gold until I can beat a boss that will allow me to unlock the higher-up equipment (or something new is made available to the adventurers). Oh, and as far as the "run away" argument I've heard for the magnetic cave in FF4 - when I try that, it always works out the characters who aren't "magnetized" end up dying. I need Tellah (Sarda in this game) and Cecil. In fact, the last time I tried playing with magnetic stuff still equipped, all four characters were wearing magnetic gear and I auto-lost. It was almost comical to see all four of them hitting the floor simultaneously, but the humor was lost on me for obvious reasons.
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CLOUDBOND007 I just started Legend of Mana. I don't know how it'll be, but it has the best opening of any game I've ever played. "NINE CENTURIES AGO, THE MANA TREE BURNED TO ASHES" I don't know why you'd even want to play after that, though. What else is there to be accomplished? That's like FF4 opening with: ZEROMUS HAS JUST BEEN UTTERLY DESTROYED In all seriousness though, the game looks very nice. Playing on PC, it won't look exactly the same at all times as it would on a TV, but I'm impressed based on a couple of minutes. I was surprised that there was no opening FMV. Until I placed the mailbox.
Captain Ladd Spencer I don't know why you'd even want to play after that, though. What else is there to be accomplished? Kind of like how I felt no need to continue with Dawn of Mana after the "Mana IS EVIL!" bit. Well, that, and the game was crap.
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TWEETER911 Max Von Sydow would have been perfect for Dark Lord if Sword of Mana was a movie 20 years ago.
CLOUDBOND007 I'm really not sure what to work on. I suddenly felt like catching them all (well, a few), so I picked up Pokemon Crystal again and I've got four Pokemon now. The first one, the fire type, is at level 11. He's pretty awesome now compared to the random encounters. The ones I just caught are at level 3. There's a Pidgey in the mix. That's the only one of the four who's name I can remember. I still can't quite get Jumpin' Jack Flash. I was moments from the end of the song on one of my dozens of attempts today. Losing at that point was terribly painful. Also, I'm not being a bum, I've applied for many jobs, but haven't heard anything, and there's a lot of hours in the day.
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CRAWLand1000 The Last Crusade is the only one of those movies I've seen in theaters (well, except the most recent one). FO was asking me why I didn't play Zelda: Outlands last night, but sheesh! First, I had the problem with the game resetting, so I'll have to deal with that. I might switch to my NES, with the new connector, after I get my "corner" reinstated upstairs. (We're getting a new bed, and decided to put it downstairs, where my little corner of the house had been, with my poof chair, TV, and game consoles. I'll be moving my stuff to an upstairs bedroom) The other thing is that I was working last night on drawing out the template for the acoustic chambers for the guitar project, when FO told me she wanted to color in a drawing of Nucleo and Cory, so I spent the rest of the night working on that.
Gengarian Junus ErniePants wrote: I restarted Ogre Battle 64 and I'm attempting to get the "evil ending" that lets you fight the secret bosses. Last time I played through it I just got the middle of the road ending and I'm not interested in the best ending. It's not that hard to do in that game. There are a million ways to lower your alignment and corrupt yourself. It's actually easier to get that ending than the best one. I finished Last Crusade. I think I liked it the best of the first three and it's the only one I actually saw in one sitting. I'll think about checking out Crystal Skull tomorrow depending on my mood. I've been sitting around the house too much though, that's for sure. The Last Crusade is my favorite in the Indy series, too. Crystal Skull was okay, but feels a little "by the numbers". From what I remember of Legend of Mana it's basically another SaGa Frontier game. Because it's nonlinear, I found the final area and boss rather quickly. I think it was around 10-12 hours, possibly. I beat it and now can't remember scantly a thing about it.
Flying Omelette CRAWLand1000 wrote: The Last Crusade is the only one of those movies I've seen in theaters (well, except the most recent one). FO was asking me why I didn't play Zelda: Outlands last night, but sheesh! First, I had the problem with the game resetting, so I'll have to deal with that. I might switch to my NES, with the new connector, after I get my "corner" reinstated upstairs. (We're getting a new bed, and decided to put it downstairs, where my little corner of the house had been, with my poof chair, TV, and game consoles. I'll be moving my stuff to an upstairs bedroom) The other thing is that I was working last night on drawing out the template for the acoustic chambers for the guitar project, when FO told me she wanted to color in a drawing of Nucleo and Cory, so I spent the rest of the night working on that. What the hell is it with you? Why is it that you constantly complain about other people's inability to comprehend things, then you turn around and do the exact same thing to me? Where to even start. #2. All I wanted you to do was show me HOW to paint pictures with Inkscape or Gimp, but you insisted on just doing it yourself. I, in fact, was even willing to find the original drawing and copy over it by hand and then hand-color it, but YOU are the one who insisted I should do it with the computer.
Captain Ladd Spencer The Ubiquitous Theme - When at least half a game's soundtrack is different ways of playing the same song. Examples: Yoshi's Story, Panzer Dragoon Saga, God of War, Wario Land 3 As for my own God of War progress, I fought the Cerberus which I beat by activating Warth of the Gods as soon as the fight started and button mashing, burned a guy, raped a couple sea-nymph things, and beat an onslaught of zombie soldiers and harpies by spamming Poseidon's rage and button mashing. It's all a big blur.
CLOUDBOND007 In Legend of Mana, I've finished the following missions: Nic's Business, Tiny Sorcerers, and Hunting Du'Cate. That last one took a very long time, as I didn't realize that you had to get help finding the creature. I gained levels there, though. The game kind of throws you in without much in the way of a tutorial, but I think I'm getting the hang of it. I'm not sure what the hell I'm supposed to be doing with all the crap I get after battles, and I haven't even checked to see what most of it does. I'm also under the impression that you can't use an item to heal during battle, but maybe I just haven't figured out how. I do have a move that lets me hold a button and gradually recover HP and you also recover it by just not moving. Regardless of any confusion, I'm having a good time so far and I think the visuals are just amazing. Some of the music is surprisingly good, too. FYI, Du'Cate is not Dukat. Unfortunately. http://www.geocities.com/denis_conruyt/startrek/img/dukat.jpg
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CLOUDBOND007 There was one thing that taught me some stuff about battles during the first mission but since I hadn't even fought one battle yet or looked at the menus, it was hard to retain everything. I'll have to look for the other stuff next time I play.
Flying Omelette CLOUDBOND007 wrote: Some of the music is surprisingly good, too. Shouldn't be TOO surprising, considering I've been saying for years that it has an excellent soundtrack. =)
CLOUDBOND007 For some reason, I thought you liked some tracks a lot but not the soundtrack as a whole. I must have been thinking of a different game, though. I may need to browse your music downloads for this one now. And clearly, I was wrong about there not being an FMV at the very beginning. I was just hitting Start too fast and skipping it, I guess.
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CLOUDBOND007 I finished Elite Beat Agents on hard. I'm Four Star Commander rank now. I think it may unlock an extra mode where the difficulty is the same but the beats are in different positions. Or maybe I have to do something else to unlock that. I'll find out when the credits have rolled. But I'm feeling pretty proud about this.
CLOUDBOND007 This is what I have to look forward to when I get to Jumpin' Jack Flash again. http://youtube.com/watch?v=8GRL3PQ1VRA You'll notice that the Agents have been replaced with the Elite Beat Divas. Still, finding out that it gets harder still makes me feel like my soul has shattered. Oh well, here we go.
Captain Ladd Spencer Example: In the Poseidon level, there's this underwater tunnel where these walls are being pulled in the direction you need to go, and if you get caught in one you get smashed against the end of the tunnel. To avoid these walls you have to dive into some holes in the ceiling. But unless I was on the very bottom of the pit, I would get smacked by the bottom of the walls even though there was clearly some distance between me and the wall (and I wasn't getting hit by the wheel, which is only in the middle). But if you tried make the third pit from the second one's bottom, there was no way you could make it (it doesn't help that "getting hit by the wall" is "there's five video game feet between you and the wall"). I eventually leveled Kratos with the top of the second pit, took the hit, used the charge move and finally made it after about twenty tries.
CLOUDBOND007 I'm a little annoyed that I didn't tell the little cactus guy about some of the missions I did, so I don't have those entries. I didn't realize what he was for until just recently. Oh well, I'm sure I'm not going to be getting 100% completion, anyway.
TWEETER911 CLOUDBOND007 wrote: DAMN IT ALL!!! My game progress today: READ A BUNCH OF MGS4 SPOILERS... Ocelot drops the F-Bomb.
Bomberguy221 FFCC: My Life as a King - I'm working on beating the last Sacred Shrine dungeon to fill in a blank spot near the east part of town. Other than that, I'm trying to defeat the freakin' last dungeon that resets exploration to zero because the layout changes daily. How precisely am I supposed to do this? Oh, and since I have nothing I can build/fund, it turns out I'm stuck rolling around on my riches while the adventurers are doing the hard work. In addition to the striped apple pie people keep talking about, I am currently eating crow for dinner.
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CLOUDBOND007 I also rented the SMB3 cartoon which I haven't seen since it was originally airing. I won't pretend it's a great show, but it's bringing back memories. Update time: In Legend of Mana, I finished "Reach for the Stars", "Summer Lovin'", and "The Looking-glass Tower". That last one was quite a project, and had two bosses.
Captain Ladd Spencer Sam and Max: I started Episode 4 and... um... am pretty much stuck. I stole Hugh Bliss's "Free Home Delivery" sign, and that's about all I accomplished. It might help if I had some idea of what I was even supposed to do. Painkiller: Fought this giant boss that could have been cool, but was let down by a couple things that made him extremely irritating. Namely, you fight him in a very cluttered graveyard, and when I was going in any direction other than forward to get away from his attacks or grunts I'd constantly get stuck on tombstones and other crap. Also, he'd summon skeleton grunts and since you have to be fairly close to him and practically shoot straight up to hit the guy I never saw these guys until they were already hacking into me (this is also another reason I constantly got stuck on the tombstones).
CLOUDBOND007 The doll/junkyard one was really odd. I just followed the directions and it was over in a couple minutes. I had to fight a bunch of toys... why? It seems like this is setting up a future quest, but who knows. Drowned Dreams is one of several I've done involving the jewels, so I assume that's one of the more important quest lines. Anyway, I've put 5 hours into this so far.
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CLOUDBOND007 Completed (and should have probably done so right at the start of the game) "Monster Corral", "The Path of the Blacksmith", "Enchanted Instruments 101", and "Diddle's Letter".
Captain Ladd Spencer The level (a bridge in some snowy mountains) had some neat set pieces, like when you have to run down some suspension cables to reach the next area, riding a fast-moving trolly through barrels, and most unnerving of all you have to ride on top of a very shaky tramway cart over a mountain-deep drop. I also got a kick out of blowing up a bunch of zombie ninjas with some oil barrels. I also got stuck in a wall and had to reload a previous checkpoint : (
CLOUDBOND007 Update: "Two Torches", "The Mana Orchards", "The Gorgon Eye". The Gorgon Eye was the first one in a while that followed the pattern from the beginning of the game. Where you get an item, place it, solve a quest, and get an item to start another quest. So many quests involve going to some random part of some random town and talking to some random person to get them started. The lake area in the Gorgon quest had beautiful background visuals. I'm starting to understand what FO meant about how the soundtrack was implemented.
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Crawl and 1OOO I once again got the heart container in the south west corner of the world, after the repeating screen maze there. I completely forgot where the other one I found was, though. Well, I THOUGHT it might have been in the northwest area, where it's icy, but I explored there and didn't find anything. Too bad, because when I explored dungeon 8 again, I got the red tunic, and a heart container. I wonder if 4 on the top row (12 altogether) would finally let me get some stuff. I was exploring some other areas whose purposes I couldn't figure out. One was on the east side of the world. One particular screen had an isolated tree that was very suspicious. Well... I found level 9! But still not levels 6 or 7. You're able to explore 5 or so rooms in level 9 off the bat, even without the tetrarch fairies.
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CLOUDBOND007 Did you fight the smiling flowers to Pain of the Universe yet? Not yet, but I do feel like I'm hearing a lot of the same tracks again and again and again, and that they can seem kind of randomly selected. I would play some more right now, but I'm hiding where there's an air conditioner. We were over 95 degrees today.
Crawl and 1OOO I also got the other heart container again. I think I know why I was confused as to whether it was related to the icy area in the northwest, or the second repeating room screen. You start after the repeating screen, but then have to adventure a ways past it, until you're on the other side of where level 8 is in the icy mountains. Having that many hearts did get me the Master Sword and the Staff of Byrna. I have no idea where dungeons 6 and 7 could be. But I believe that so far, I have not found one single tree that could be burned with the candle. With 6 fairies, the ocarina takes you past the 2nd repeating screen maze, so you don't even need to know how to pass it. Posts: 10245
Crawl and 1OOO The scrolling glitching is constant. I think it's just the way the game is. I don't know how many other people have played the game on a real NES. That could be the issue, that the game was never tested on a real one, only for emulators, and there are some differences.
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Captain Ladd Spencer Edit: And using Poseidon's Rage when things get messy.
CLOUDBOND007 A lot of the info about the game I've seen online is incorrect. Incorrect requirements for quests and such. According to most sources, I shouldn't have had access to that quest because I didn't finish "The Lost Princess" at the beginning of the game.
Sweetbee CLOUDBOND007 wrote: Any clue what's causing those glitches yet? I don't know a lot of people who have played that game, but you would think Hobbes would have mentioned it if he had experienced as many as you have. Cloudbond, you over estimate me. The only reason I didn't trash that review in the first place is because I thought the page design was too good to waste.
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CLOUDBOND007 Update: "Star-crossed Lovers", "Professor Bomb's Lab", and "Golem Go Make 'Em".
Bomberguy221 I'm going to wait for a bit before I start playing Apollo Justice. Final Fantasy IV Advance - Went to the Tower of Babel. Opened the chests on the first floor. ...Well, I was kinda busy finishing the other game.
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Psycho Penguin Anyways, I've recently gone through Final Fantasy V Advance, and now I am playing Metal Saga and Koudelka mainly. I also beat TMNT for GBA last night. Short game. :/ Only seven acts, and they seem to get smaller as the game goes on. At least there's bonus stuff to do, like trying to get all 36 trophies (you get trophies for crap like beating an act without dying. Acts 1-3: Bronze, 4-6: Silver, 7: Gold)
Captain Ladd Spencer Sweetbee wrote: Doesn't someone else here have a reproduction of Outlands? I wonder if they had any problems as well. I did. I didn't play it for long, having gotten completely stuck on the first temple.
Flying Omelette CLOUDBOND007 wrote: Finished "In Search of Faeries", and "Pokiehl- Dream Teller". I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that I'll have to use a guide to be able to find many of the quests in this game. The novelty in general has worn off and I'm playing for the sake of making progress more than for my own entertainment. Strangely, before I got to the endgame, I never really reached a point where I couldn't find any new quests and had to look up a guide for them, but then again, I may have backtracked through and revisted areas a lot more (which I can understand is tedious and not something you'd necessarily be willing to keep doing). However, once I had the endgame scenario open to me, I decided to keep doing as many other quests as possible before finishing it. At some point, I couldn't find anything else and I did look at a guide. I had a feeling that you could probably find something if you gave the Penguin navigator on the pirate ship very specific directions to go and it turns out I was right. But there's no way I would've had the patience to keep trying various combinations until I happened on something. And without a guide, you have no way of knowing exactly how many things you can find that way, so you'd have to keep trying forever, basically. There were a few things I missed because I placed the overworld objects in such a way that some areas didn't reach the required mana levels to activate certain quests.
ACC KAIN I was a little surprised at how long it took to get to the first dungeon. The graphics are really good for such an old Game Boy game.
CLOUDBOND007 You also get quests sometimes that ask you to find someone or do something without giving you the first clue about where to start. And when you have over a dozen possible locations, you start to question whether it's worth all the effort. And those quests about the fairy world and the stolen elemental powers are just not interesting to me, and the dialogue often borders on the unintelligible. I haven't even really talked about combat lately. It's so ridiculous. Team mates are useful occasionally as decoys but other than that, don't really matter one way or the other. I have a Chobin Hood I met at like level 5, and I take one of the magician kids from the house when I start a quest. Then I just make sure the main character (I just went with Loki for the name) gets all of the gems. I hit X, use the special moves only because they speed up combat a little bit, and cast a fire spell when I have enemies that are way below my level so I can kill them all at once. For the bosses, I just attack with no strategy. There hasn't been one that has posed a threat since my first day or two of playing. I mostly just buy new weapons if I see them. I don't concern myself with anything other than the 1 handed sword. I forged one new set of armor and one new sword a while back. I haven't done any other customization or crafting because it's not needed.
CLOUDBOND007 Edit: Also "Niccolo's Business Unusual Part 3" and "The Cage of Dreams". Since I got the Sword of Mana to place, I guess that means I have access to the endgame, but I'll hold off on that for a while.
The Great Dark Lord CLOUDBOND007 wrote: Why prolong the torture?
DOVEBLOB
Captain Ladd Spencer
ACC KAIN I headed over to the swamp area and talked to Richard about the 5 golden leaves, but couldn't figure out how to get into the castle, but then I remembered hearing about having to do the trading game and I had enough rupees by now to win the Yoshi Doll. Traded that with the Quadruplet's mother for a ribbon, traded the ribbon with the smaller dog for the dog food, the dog food Sale the alligator for the bananas, and the bananas to the monkey to build a bridge to the Castle and I got a stick afterwards. I went to the castle and beat some enemies, but I'm still missing 2 leaves.
Captain Ladd Spencer
Crawl and 1OOO I didn't play at all tonight. We went to a park and saw all kinds of animals! Deer, rabbits, birds... But most notable of all was a raccoon we saw on the way back to our car after our walk. It looked like it was heading to the trash for our left over chicken bones from our cookout. It climbed a tree to hide from us when we went by. That's the only time I've seen a raccoon live in the wild at a park. I still wonder where they hide during the day (this was around 9:30 PM). I have seen raccoons live in a dumpster at our old apartment, when they got stuck there. I even saw one leaving my old car one night: I left the door open when I dropped something off inside, and I had a fast-food wrapper that must have attracted it, and saw it when I went back to close the door.
Captain Ladd Spencer I say "beat" because after banging my head against that shit-goggling defend-your-family thing for an hour, I finally said "Fuck this," quit, let Ares kill me a few times in the first round, switched to Easy, and beat all three modes on my next try. I regret nothing.
CLOUDBOND007 I also watched Flight of the Phoenix. The original that is, as I have no interest in the remake. It was really good.
Bomberguy221
DOVEBLOB Man, what an unintentionally (?) homoerotic game...
Psycho Penguin Therefore, I started a new file in Legend of the Ghost Lion for NES. I got pretty far in it before, before my old computer died, but I am playing on DS this time. Hopefully, I'll be able to complete it this time. I really like it despite the fact random battles don't give experience points.
ACC KAIN
CLOUDBOND007 I saw Crystal Skull today. I was kind of enjoying it in the beginning and at the end, but I spent most of the film wondering how much longer it was going to be until I could go home.
da dick Front Mission pissed me off with the cheapest game over I've ever gotten in a video game (45 minute battle, killed every enemy except two who had low HP, no one on my side died. The bastard enemy gets off 3 missiles that critically hit my main character's body every time. He dies. Game over when he dies. Fuck that noise.) hey, that sounds harder than the cho anikis! I MUST PROVE MY MANLINESS!! UUUGGGGHHHH(eventually)!!!
CLOUDBOND007 Edit: And "The Dragon Princess". As expected, I'm going to be forced to do the right thing.
TaroSH http://www.codiekitty.com/Pictures/sammaxsotn.jpg ... I think I found a Symphony of the Night reference (and yes, it spins)
CLOUDBOND007
ACC KAIN Link's Awakening - Ah, I figured out I needed to go back to that Dream Shrine in Mabe Village to get the Ocarina and I learned the Ballad of the Wind Fish from Marin. I went to the Animal Village and they said I needed to bring Marin there to move the Walrus from the Desert Entrance (argh! I was just talking to her, NOW they tell me!) So I trudged all the way back and got her from the beach. That cutscene was pretty cool. Don't see too many of those in older Zelda games. Marin got the stupid walrus out of the way and I made it to the end of the Yarna Desert and beat the Lanmolas for the Angler Key. But I still don't know where the actual dungeon is. >=( I also traded up my items so I gave the stick to Tarin and got a Honeycomb, gave the honeycomb to the bear and got a pineapple.
CLOUDBOND007
Cesium CLOUDBOND007 wrote: I was thinking about playing Banjo Kazooie after Legend of Mana, but whenever Banjo, Kazooie, or an NPC makes any kind of sound, I want to kill myself. What about Banjo-Tooie? I spent a long time playing that, and it has aged much better than the first. You won't be missing out on much even if you didn't already play through B-K I just got Locke back and defeated Master Tonberry in Final Fantasy VI Advance.
CLOUDBOND007 http://youtube.com/watch?v=mWwmUvUPCv0 I can't even get through 10 seconds of that.
TaroSH
Nixxy Blayde Link's Awakening looked great on the Game Boy. It's just too bad it was too easy and not quite as good as A Link to the Past. Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie I'd like a lot more if I could stand the characters. Rare can make some decent graphics but the cartoony crap is nauseating. Is the fourth boss of Super C the skull ship that flies around and tries to land on you? That's the only hard boss in the game.
ACC KAIN What's a Bucket Mouse?
TaroSH Is the fourth boss of Super C the skull ship that flies around and tries to land on you? That's the only hard boss in the game. This was some laser chandelier thing on the ceiling, unless it was a actually a miniboss...
Crawl and 1OOO Yeah, that's the stage 4 boss.
The stage 5 boss is the best one in the game.
CLOUDBOND007
TaroSH And I don't feel like making a seperate post in Buy Something: I got an email back from Amazon regarding the Orange Box, and apparently it was lost in shipping and they're sending me a new one.
TaroSH If the level 5 boss was the hardest one in the game, I fear for the next three.
CLOUDBOND007 It was a completely unremarkable tree themed area with a handful of easy enemies. I fought and destroyed the Mana Goddess, and the tree was dead for all time, praise be to Dark Lord, amen. Actually, I just fought the dark side of the Goddess and the tree is fine. Average difficulty. I would have hoped that the Mana Goddess might make a more interesting opponent than freaking Tropicallo, but whatever. The ending sucked.
Flying Omelette
CLOUDBOND007 I was going to mention that it was blurry, but I assumed it was some issue related to the fact that I was playing on a PC monitor.
ACC KAIN Link's Awakening - I went to the Southern Face Shrine and beat the Giant Armos, got the Face Key. I also read the plaque that tells the truth about the island although I already had that secret spoiled long ago. I'm now about halfway through the main Face Shrine.
TaroSH I finished Sam and Max 5. Roy G. Biv is either Hugh Bliss or his evil twin.
ACC KAIN And the Face Shrine is complete!! I made it to the Eagle's Tower but I'm a little stuck on the part where you have to throw the iron ball around to knock down the pillars. I remember someone saying that if you know exactly how to do it you can knock down all four, one right after the other, but I must not be doing it right...
Magical Yard Gnome I found my copy of Etrian Odyssey, which I was afraid I'd lost. It would have been nice to beat this before getting the sequel, but it comes out in just a few days and I'm only on the 7th floor (out of 30).
CLOUDBOND007 What does FO think of the track "Diddle's Organ"? It's used pretty sparingly and I kind of like it. I'm fond of Hometown Domina (I don't think I spent as much time in town as FO did so I wasn't sick of it) and The Wind Sings of a Journey is good no matter how much I hear it. I used to like Earth Painting but I got really tired of it at some point. I kind of associate the Gato music with the annoying series of quests you take there, so that takes some of the fun out of it. Without FO's site, I never would have realized about the Mario RPG tie-in to a couple songs. One thing about the game is that it followed the rule of the graphics seeming beautiful when I first started but by the time I was halfway through, I was barely even noticing them. One thing that was good is that a lot of areas had a number of unique enemies. Even if everything was super easy to kill, at least it looked interesting. And even when I wasn't paying the graphics much mind, they were still very preferable to most of what I've seen on more modern consoles. I plowed through this game without ever really learning any abilities. I had three sword techniques and I think I learned a total of three or four moves or whatever they're called (stuff like high jump). You just have so much ability to customize and power up but you never need any of it. If you replay on a higher difficulty maybe, but I don't think it's a game I'd want to replay very often.
TWEETER911 Magical Yard Gnome wrote: but it comes out in just a few days and I'm only on the 7th floor (out of 30). Huh, funny. I know 2 other people who could only make it to 7. >_> Did stuff in MGS4. Saw Incredible Hulk. It shits all over Ang Lee's movie. In other words, this movie did not suck.
CLOUDBOND007 I was thinking I might try Granstream Saga for my next game. I can see that it didn't receive great reviews, but I'm kind of curious about it. It's supposed to be fairly short, which is a plus.
TaroSH I was a bad girl, and instead of playing a 360 game, I started Sam and Max 6. I got the talismans that let you make people throw up and see through lead, and the spoon bending one is still stuck in glass. I also made it to the final boss of Super C and died on my last life on my last continue because I was waiting for him to charge me. I may or may not have said this before, but I'd pay money to see the face of somebody who thinks Contra and Super C are unbeatable without the 30 lives code playing Hard Corps.
Bomberguy221
ACC KAIN Eagle's Tower is down for the count. That dungeon took me a LONG time to figure out. And, LOL, the flying rooster is now in the Hen House! I also got a better sword from the Seashell Palace. Since I now have the Mirror Shield, I suppose I can now get past that flameshooting sentry gun in Tal Tal Heights.
TaroSH I beat Sam and Max 6 and this Episode One. Honestly, that was not one of my favorite episodes. Part of the problem may be I was feeling burnout from playing all the episodes back-to-back, but mostly I found the story elements irritating. Hugh Bliss is annoying, "gutted" Max and his dopplegangers were annoying, Sybil was annoying but she'd been getting on my nerves since episode 3. Lincoln and Superball were still decent, though. Had the Soda Poppers been in this I probably would have gone insane. I also didn't find it nearly as funny as Episodes 4 or 5 - the funniest moment in the game was probably at the beginning when you first walk in on Bosco.
CLOUDBOND007 and this Episode One. By that, do you mean you finished Season One, or that you played the first episode of the second Season? In Granstream Saga, I'm up to stowing away on the flying ship.
TaroSH Gee, and I was worked up over "this" instead of "thus", but for some reason the forums weren't working right for me so I couldn't edit it. EDIT: I'm on a roll!
TaroSH Honestly, I thought that was easier than Contra. The hardest part of the game (and I'd go as far as to say the only hard part at all) is that area of level 6 where the mouths form in the ground. Everything else I beat on my second try, if not my first. It's more colorful than I remember Contra being. I suppose I could try games of Contra and Super C without using the Spread Shot. That may be interesting.
TWEETER911
Bomberguy221 ACC KAIN wrote: Why? I'm always beating games that came out years ago but I don't feel sorry for not beating them sooner. Unless maybe you got a plot or gameplay spoiler you would've rather been surprised by. I bought it for the first time on Wii. I regretted not getting it on SNES because it would've been an enjoyable game to rent (probably would have taken me as long as Soul Blazer). I saw it referenced in Robotrek and thought, "I could try and hunt that game down, but it's probably nowhere near as good as Illusion of Gaia or Soul Blazer." Soul Calibur Legends: Just got Mitsurugi, Ivy, and Astaroth their "starter" weapons for Soul Calibur II. I have to beat the bosses again, and they're throwing multiple Berserkers at me. I just barely beat Pyrenees Trail, mainly because there was a room with cannons pelting me while three Berserkers wailed away. I beat the stage with the last sliver of health intact, just like with my Actraiser win. This game is very average. Voice acting and script, aside from sounding like the characters, is atrocious. I do admit, though, that when I can do it right, fighting baddies is somewhat appealing. The Wiimote is fun to use this way, but it sometimes receives my commands wrong, which causes its own set of problems. Not the worst game out there.
Oh Sassparilla Oh, my progress you ask? I've been playing...not much. Tis why I've not been around lately.
da dick mechwarrior 4: mercs : civ4: diablo 2: lord of destruction: well i've already deleted my level 40+ amazon(along with patch 1.10... and a cheat editor i could use to speed thru this), so i can't use that to defeat baal really fast just to see the endgame movie. my cousin already has a savegame which can defeat baal, but the damn game doesn't allow you to view previous movies once you defeated the final boss(act 4 diablo, or baal if with expansion) for the 1st time. very annoying. i'm messing around with a druid , focusing on werewolf skills. not gonna follow the build explained in various FAQs, since they're made for beating hell mode ASAP, not normal ASAP. that and i'm playing version 1.07 not the latest one which has synergies incorporated. i think the latest patch should be like over 12MBs large... druids not the best character for speed runs, but my cousin's already messed around with the goth assassin(sp?) chick, the barbarian is easy to use but dull, and i think i really should try completing the game while roleplaying my own sex. i'm guessing i'll be wasting more time with diablo 2 grinding, if i don't get sick of mechwarrior4 and deus ex hanging on me too often. the other stuff will have to wait until i beat baal into daemonic pulp.
TaroSH
CLOUDBOND007 I'm trying to view the game through the eyes of someone playing it back in 1997 when some aspects might have seemed very impressive compared to traditional 2D games. The visuals have aged very, very badly, though. One major issue being that none of the polygonal characters actually have faces. The anime scenes and anime-style portraits are pleasant enough, though. The voice acting is very, very unremarkable but it hasn't been cringe-worthy so far. The writing is also pretty mediocre. There are no glaringly obvious grammar or spelling problems, but the story and characters are about as generic as it gets. Combat is interesting in that it's live action, and you basically have to pick between a slow, normal, or fast weapon, balancing speed and strength. You have a fair number of things you can do, dashing, blocking, spells, etc. It feels a little clunky in practice, though. I could have sworn there was a post here where someone was commenting or making fun of the fact that they're called "Desbat Pirates", but I can't find it. I thought I read that parts of the Soul Blazer trilogy team worked on this game, but it's hard to find much of a resemblance. |
