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General Chat / Re: What Are You Listening To?

« on: January 08, 2008, 09:27:24 AM »

It's called "Warp to World 6-9" and it begins with the phrase "It's 1986, and I'm in the first grade / workin' really hard to get Mario laid." Benefit is funny.

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General Chat / Re: What Games Are You Playing: 2008

« on: January 07, 2008, 06:02:07 AM »

I am an awesome Pally tank. Generally regarded as one of the best on my server. Of course, I can't raid because nobody on my server starts after 9 PM and I work evenings. So I don't have tanking experience besides KZ (which I have tanked before the only late-night raid guild on the server broke up). I have finally gotten to the point where I can take anything that anyone throws at me and stay standing. It's awesome as hell.

I am content to get enough group invites every day that I can pick and choose where I want to go and then roll in my delicious Badges, though.

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General Chat / Re: What Games Are You Playing: 2008

« on: January 07, 2008, 04:40:14 AM »

Swords are Press 1, repeat until target is dead.

The strategy you're thinking of is 111112 (repeat). Combat sword spec is so lame.

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Discussion / Re: RPG Ratings

« on: January 07, 2008, 04:23:11 AM »

Annnnnd repost.

10/10: The ten best RPGs ever made, IN ORDER.
Final Fantasy VI
Fallout
Fallout 2
EarthBound
Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden: Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa
Shadow Hearts: Covenant
Wild Arms 4
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
Front Mission
Tales of Symphonia

9/10: Great, but I could fix one thing about it.
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
Mass Effect 2
Tales of Phantasia
Final Fantasy IV
Suikoden III
Vampire- the Masquerade: Bloodlines
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Tales of Vesperia
Suikoden V
Star Ocean: The Second Story (Now if this game had an Ashton mode instead of a Rena mode, I'd have given it a ten. Rena mode's no fun. You never have any clue whatsoever what's going on.)
Xenosaga: Jenseits von Gut und Bose
Skies of Arcadia (and SoA Legends)
Wild Arms (and Alter Code: F)
Fallout 3

8/10: Quality games with one significant shortcoming
Front Mission 4
Final Fantasy Tactics
Mass Effect
Xenogears
Xenosaga: Dur Wille Zur Macht
Seiken Densetsu 3
Planescape: Torment
Shadow Hearts
Shadow Hearts: From the New World
Breath of Fire V
Knights of the Old Republic
Knights of the Old Republic II
X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse
Marvel Ultimate Alliance (a better game than XML2 with less GAMBIT!!! in it gets the same rating.)
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
Wild Arms 3
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind
Mother 3

7/10: I like these games. They are quite fun. That's as far as I can go. They may have a major issue, or simply a lack of depth. Or they're just really, really short (I'm looking at YOU, Star Ocean).
Final Fantasy IX
Suikoden
Front Mission 3
Radiata Stories
Star Ocean
Final Fantasy
Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga
Super Mario RPG
Chrono Trigger (I loved this game for a while and thought it was SO great, but then I loaned it to my now-ex-girlfriend and she said, upon giving it back "why don't any of the characters change?" And then I realized, nobody does.)
X-Men Legends
Xenosaga: Also Sprach Zarathustra

6/10: Kind of a mixed bag, but I don't find playing them to be a waste of time.
EarthBound 0
On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness
Illusion of Gaia
Secret of Mana
Phantasy Star IV
Harvest Moon
Fire Emblem
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
Wild Arms 5
Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion
Breath of Fire IV

5/10: Average, uninspired, or hamstrung with some hideously bad issues.
Robotrek
Sword of Mana
Suikoden II
Tales of Legendia
Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
Wild Arms 2
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
Final Fantasy XII

4/10: Primarily games that crap all over their predecessors.
Final Fantasy V
Fallout: Tactics (If FFT counts, so does this. And it's bad. Unfortunately, still not the worst thing associated with Fallout. Sigh.)
Suikoden IV
La Pucelle Tactics
Persona 3

3/10: I finished these when I was younger and had more time and less money, but now that the inverse is true, I don't touch them.
Final Fantasy X
Chrono Cross
Breath of Fire
Breath of Fire II
Breath of Fire III

2/10: These games can suck it. I have not finished most of them (except SoE).
Final Fantasy XI
Final Fantasy II
Secret of Evermore (Alchemy system was an interesting idea, which gives it one point. Inclusion of a bazooka? +1 point. No points for anything else.)
Arc the Lad: End of Darkness
Dragon Quest VIII

1/10: Failure not just on an execution level, but there is something CONCEPTUALLY wrong with the game's design.
Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles
Final Fantasy X-2
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
Kingdom Hearts
Valkyrie Profile
Koudelka
Dragon Ball Z: Legend of the Super Saiya-Jin
All those other DBZ RPGs, for good measure (there's like four on the NES and three on the GBA?)
Unlimited SaGa
Quest 64
Diablo
Diablo II
Final Fantasy XIII


Some number that's so low you need a counting expert to count it/10:
Diablo II as played on Battle.net

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General Chat / Re: Miscellaneous Links 2 - The Vengeance

« on: January 05, 2008, 08:22:00 AM »

http://www.howmanyfiveyearoldscouldyoutakeinafight.com/

A valid question for our modern times.

I could take 27 kids, myself.

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General Chat / Re: What Games Are You Playing: 2008

« on: January 05, 2008, 08:09:16 AM »

More Supreme Commander for me. I am playing through the third UEF campaign mission and god damn, campaign missions are epic in this game. Objectives change on the fly, your OA expands, the front line's location moves around... fucking awesome. This mission is an island map, so I have to put together a huge armada of ships to sail out and level the enemy base. Fortunately, boats have a crapton of life and so I ended up just massing a bunch of the ones with deck-mounted artillery and shelling the hell out of the enemy until the ACU lit up their whole base.

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General Chat / Re: 2007 NFL Topic: In Honor of Sean "Pro Bowl" Taylor

« on: January 05, 2008, 08:05:56 AM »

Brett Favre would win a ring by ALMOST being taken out of the game by injury, then jumping to his feet and playing with the strength of a thousand men.

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General Chat / Re: Sigs, Factions and Avatars: The Revolution

« on: January 03, 2008, 09:32:03 PM »

Hey, I got back from vacation and it wasn't Christmas anymore.

CAN YOU SEE THAT I AM SERIOUS?

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General Chat / Re: 2007 NFL Topic: In Honor of Sean "Pro Bowl" Taylor

« on: January 03, 2008, 09:29:48 PM »

I'd very much like if somehow the Packers played the Giants in the Playoffs. It will, for one, be an easy win for the Pack, and second, I have a $50 bet on them winning that I made after they won the first time (and I made $20).

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General Chat / Re: What Games Are You Playing: 2008

« on: December 22, 2007, 06:28:53 AM »

Richard, Lorelai, and Zerase are all excellent. Killey's solid in spite of his defense. Kyle gets a fair bit of hype but I didn't use him.

Stat-wise, Kyle is Flik, except that he uses the Water rune instead of Lightning. You use him the same way.

Bernadette is really awesome, being mail-wearing, long-range mage.

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General Chat / Re: 2007 NFL Topic: In Honor of Sean "Pro Bowl" Taylor

« on: December 21, 2007, 09:34:05 PM »

I'd put them in the top three, easy. If they go 1-15, they've lost more games than the 0-14 Bucs, so worse than them. They're up there with the Oilers, on account of the coaching.

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General Chat / Re: What Games Are You Playing: 2008

« on: December 21, 2007, 09:26:37 PM »

Well, later on the good characters are effectively using a full set of S3 skills... I think Richard and Georg can get, with their two slots, all the fighter skills. I know Belcoot can get all the defense skills. Kyle's got a good number of options with his combinations. And of course, the Prince and Roy can get Royal whatever it's called, which is every skill there is.

It really just hurts the shitty characters more, and makes the characters not as good early on. In the late-game, you can actually get a full set of skills if you use characters who are actually good.

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General Chat / Re: 2007 NFL Topic: In Honor of Sean "Pro Bowl" Taylor

« on: December 20, 2007, 12:13:14 PM »

Of course, he turned around teams like Dallas, who went 5-13, not what is possibly the worst team the NFL has ever seen...

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General Chat / Re: What Games Are You Playing: 2008

« on: December 20, 2007, 12:10:11 PM »

I played Mass Effect for about six hours. Looks to be a great game. I went Soldier for my class because the following things kick ass:

-Guns

And the following things are not guns:
-Biotics
-Tech skills

Pretty partial to the assault rifle, but I found myself surprisingly proficient with the sniper rifle as well. Shotguns, of course, are hard NOT to be good with. In so far, it's a BioWare game. I have little complaint about that, though I haven't seen as much of the interaction between my group members as I did in, say, KotOR2.

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General Chat / Re: Sigs, Factions and Avatars: The Revolution

« on: December 20, 2007, 12:06:36 PM »

Sticking with this until I come back from vacation.