What Games are you playing 2015?

[Excal]

Looks like pretty standard, if light, archer armour.  Which fits with his archer glove.

[Fenrir]

Abyss Odyssey: Well this is a weird one.

This is sort of a roguelike but you get to keep your level between runs? I got to the final boss on the first run, but died. Then died again on a second run, but way sooner.

Art direction is: Oh my god best of any game ever. Art deco aesthetic with curves and flowers everywhere (http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2014/10/1394065021-demon-violinist-katrien-soldier.png), lovely 2.5D graphics, very imaginative enemy design. 

Gameplay is : Roguelike with Smash Brothers Style fighting game mechanics. I happen to not like those very much and find the game super messy as a result. Characters aren't very responsive and you never quite feel totally in control. Would have rather liked they'd stick to Castlevania fighting.
You can make enemies join you, it's a pretty complicated process and you end up with a moveset you know nothing about and die super fast.

I don't quite get a roguelike in which I feel I'm doing poorly and still almost reach the end of my first playthrough, then get several rewards for the next playthrough upon dying.
It's, uh, at least going to be an interesting 4-5 hours to finish the game.

You made it sound awesome and then terrible.

I don't regret the purchase at least because you don't ever see design as classy as this in games. I love the devil playing the violin.
The only ther art deco games I can think is Unlimited SaGa.
Romancing SaGa 1-3's art is art deco but this doesn't translate to in-game.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Final Fantasy Why Can't I Autobattle You - Finished the main course on Rinoa's reissue, answering the timeless question of whether can Seifer punish a L33 Irvine with a synergy 5* gun for his insolence. Answer: not really. Finished it just in time for black power farming to boot, which is nice - I have -ra Strikes to R5, after all. Rinoa's event was also kind enough to hand me a bunch of Black Orbs as well, so I've been rocking both R5 Comet and Biora since yesterday. Maybe Golbez event won't be so bad.

[Cotigo]

motherfucker fine if this thing is gonna prey on my obsessive compulsion i am gonna make this work for me

immediately before exercising farm events (JP currently has a somewhat neat Secret of Mana event where you can get a bunch of orbs and a few accessories), on free time maximize timebux regen and mithril acquisition, run errands during downtime. farm orb day before making dinner. more playing during dinner.

maybe i'll even wake up to exercise before work because I'll probably wake up at 5:30 anyway to not waste timebux

oh i guess i did some stuff in game too. who cares the early game isn't really that interesting, will open up when I get people hitting the level cap and record materia it sounds like

edit: does global have Quests yet? I unlocked a bunch of characters through that even though their events aren't running. Kinda not useful where you guys are at since it looks like you can't unlock level crystals that way. Also it looks like the level cap isn't 65 anymore? I've seen a lot of level 70+ randos running around.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Quests have been a thing on Global for a while now. 2nd Memory Crystals will be a thing on Global once the Cloud/Barret event lands, which should be about a month from now on Global. Obviously, it's been a thing for a while in JP.

[DjinnAndTonic]

@Zenny: EXP day is indeed Sunday. Global has Quests, though obviously not all of the ones available in JPN yet. It has Tidus, Lenna, Cecil, and... someone else I forget who. More on the way presumably. From what I know of the JPN version, the level cap can be broken twice, once at 50, then again at 65, maxing out at 80. Only a handful or two of PCs can reach level 80 at the moment. The associated Record Materias for the level 80s are badass.

Good to know you're using the game to your advantage. Any excuse to work out more is a good one, even if timebux is evil.

Speaking of evil,

FF1: God, even with the updates to the mobile version, this game is just clunky as hell. I like older games, but I think my patience for NES-era bullshit is just -gone-. Nice nostalgia trip, and I'm catching lots of callbacks that other FF games made to this one that I never caught before. (The Lukahn prophecy gets brought up a lot in other games it seems, for example.)

FFRK: Plinking away at Rinoa event to avoid wasting stamina. Now that I'm on the train though, the time has come to take on that Beatrix fight. *rolls up sleeves*

[Fenrir]

I'll probably wake up at 5:30 anyway to not waste timebux

Zenny if you're atually serious do not do this

[Cotigo]

I will not know how serious I am until tomorrow morning.

Edit: Though for real I've been trying to get up with enough time to work out and meditate prior to work for a while now, and failing. I have to wonder if I can't use this to get that going (of course going to bed earlier to compensate).

If I'm going to be playing this abberation anyway I should at least get something out of it.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Fenrir changed his FFRK Roaming Warrior to Irvine. An entire age has come to its end.

[Fenrir]

I might put Lenna back in later after the event
Because while nobody cares about Lenna, even less people care about Irvine
And she's still useful on like sunday,s when you don't want to S/L like mad just because your underleveled core got hit by Sap

Today is tuesday, which means black orb day FF4 materia day. I'm only missing Rydia's.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Speaking of black power, I've been getting a disproportional amount of Power Orbs today. Not that it terribly -matters-, since I have no real intention of honing anything else until I've replenished my gil after honing Biora, Comet and Waterja. Then, we're also getting the Soul Break Celebration event late in the week. This feels like a busy time in the game.

[Scar]

Got waterja to r3. This will help a lot.

also...


I HAVE THE BLACK POWAAAAAAAAAH

[Veryslightlymad]

Does anyone have Odin? I need to know if Seifer no-sells it like he does in FF8

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Almost nobody has Odin, crafting 5*s is a pain in the ass.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Can farm Major NE orbs from Beatrix. It is awesome but I jumped on this train way too late.

[hinode]

Also this is disc 1 Seifer, disc 3 is where he gets the Zantetsuken counter.

[Cotigo]

Did a 50 mythril pull. Buncha 3* armors, two 5* rods and Mog's Holy Lance, bringing my 5* weapon count up to 4. I don't have Mog, and he's locked behind a 60 stamina dungeon, but I'll probably get him sometime tonight. If I pump him and Kefka full of eggs that should get me Terra and Kefka's crystals, and I can stop caring about the FF6 event and focus on farming the Secret of Mana event for its store.

Unless I get a character specific weapon again before the event ends, it looks like my party will be Mog/Terra/Kefka/Cloud/Rydia just due to what 5* weapons I have. I may switch Rydia out for Quistis since they'll both be level capped at 50 for the time being, and where I'm at in the game there's no appreciable difference between Mag5 and Mag4... but I don't really want to have to blow XP eggs on her when I'm gonna need to beef up Mog and Kefka. Will have to get a real healer at some point but Terra will suffice for now.

Still can't get Mastery on the middle-tier farming zones so that's useless to me for now. Too bad, a few more Mid-tier thunder orbs today would get me Thundaga. Oh well.

[Grefter]

If I pump [Mog] and Kefka full of eggs...

it begins

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Final Fantasy Autobattling For Pearls - Today is 100% gil farming day. Oh well. Rinoa boss rush should also be due tonight, which is likely to bring some tears and raging.

[Cotigo]

If I pump [Mog] and Kefka full of eggs...

look at me i know too much please infect me with ur seed zenny

[Grefter]

If I pump [Mog] and Kefka full of eggs...

look at me i know too much please infect me with ur seed zenny

on a scale of 1-10 i don't know how many grefter dicks i would need to suck if he was a mutant with enough dicks to satisfy me

[Cotigo]

If I pump [Mog] and Kefka full of eggs...

look at me i know too much please infect me with ur seed zenny

on a scale of 1-10 i don't know how many grefter dicks i would need to suck if he was a mutant with enough dicks to satisfy me

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EDIT: just one more autobattle you know im good for it:This doesn't deserve a new post but there is something endlessly entertaining to me about Terra transforming into Kefka just so she can disco breakdance

i want kefka's sb weapon dammit

[Grefter]

FFTypo - Deuce got Accelerate between now and when I last used her.  That is the move that lets you just move around faster.  I think she might be the most broken character now.  She can chip pretty much anything to death and keep just out of range by walking backwards in a big arcing circle.  The number of enemies she easily gets Killsights on enemies when no longer having to stop playing/attacking to dodge is kind of crazy.  Before her slow homing things were pretty much a crap shoot if you would have been playing 10 seconds earlier needed to hit a thing.  Now you just have a constant stream that will eventually get there and do the job.  Kind of nuts.

Edit - She is the kind of character that would be great fun to play even earlier when she was slow in a proper multiplayer game like this instead of one where Player character?  I think you mean Target For All Enemies.

[Captain K]

FFRK:  Mastered Eiko boss rush.  Had to spend a mythril on Zorn and Thorn cause I had no resources left.

Beatrix 1:  Mastered, no Red 13
Beatrix 2: Mastered, with Red 13
Beatrix 3:  Had no Red 13, she killed Steiner with her very last hit before she died, costing me 7 stars.  Second try with Red 13 I got mastery.

She's basically a luck-based fight.  If she Counter Shocks too many times at the beginning of the battle before damage mitigation is up you're screwed.  With damage mitigation she's easy enough.  Of course Retaliate makes Counter Shock less of a problem but I don't use it.  Draw Fire on Steiner helps a bit, but it only catches her normal attacks and Thunder Strike.  Shock and Counter Shock ignore it.

Gonna fight her a couple more times today to see if I can get a GNEO off of her.  Plus she drops mad gil.

[Scar]

Seifer beat.

Seemed like a pretty easy event.

I guess boss rush will be harder?