What Games Are You Playing 2013?

[Grefter]

It will probably go away because the import process should force a proper refresh of the character effects.

Actually worth trying Exporting your character now, copying your save to Multiplayer and reimporting the character.  That shouldn't impact your progress at all and try to fix the issue the same way.

[Fenrir]

Man that almost worked. You know weird BG related stuff too well.
The only problem is that exporting and importing reverts Yattaf's exp to the cap.

[Grefter]

http://www.mud-master.com/shadowkeeper/

Just edit back up to relevant level.  I am kind of stunned that there is a check on level cap there.

[AndrewRogue]

Rayman Legends: Wonderful. Simply wonderful. One stage you're running through a jungle, the next you are being chased by dragons, the next you are platforming in place as a ship sinks into the desert around you, and the next you are running across wooden snakes to a mariachi rendition of Eye of the Tiger.

Murfy is kinda eh. Would be curious how it played out on the Wii U, but I honestly dislike the idea of the game stripping me of platforming, so it'd probably be annoying in everything but two player. On the PS3 it at least mostly avoids getting in the way.

Game is stuffed full of content. Bunch of levels. Bunch of remastered levels from Origin. Bunch of costumes to unlock. Daily and weekly challenges if you want to compare your platforming to other people.

In all seriousness, if you like platformers at all, you should get this. Game is just straight up fucking fun.

Planescape: Torment: I've finally gotten around to playing this. Started a while back.

Made it to the Lower Wards/Clerk Ward. Still a Fighter, because the Mage trainer is too busy being a wannabe sensate.

Annah and Morte are hanging out with me, which is good. Because Morte is bloody OP.

Had an issue with magic crashing the game, but fixed that, thankfully.

[Sierra]

SR4: Streets of Rage mission is really a thing. This was great.

Done all open world stuff/ally missions except for unsurprising spoiler homey's. I can now freeze people and shatter them so that they explode and freeze other people. I might have mentioned this before. Probably when I was playing ME3 because it was awesome there too. But it bears repeating.

[SnowFire]

Time for me to spit at the translation.
The hp drain spell is always called Resire, it was light magic in FE4-FE5/FE9-FE10. The magic classification was different before FE3.
It got switched to dark magic from FE6.
Nosferatu is a level A damage dark spell that appeared since FE6. But for some reason, some translated game slap that name onto Resire.

"That reason" being that vampires are associated with draining life, so when FE7 was translated, translating the dark-themed life draining spell as "Nosferatu" makes 100% sense, while "Resire" is not actually a word and to the extent it is one is actively nonsensical (sire someone again, what?).  Even if it was hypothetically a bad translation it was a fine localization, because spells should make sense and be evocative.

[Grefter]

You might "sire" someone again as you raise them into unlife.  Legit translation IMO.

[DjinnAndTonic]

If "Resire" makes sense as a vampire-themed tome... then how does it make sense as a Light Tome?

Mana Khemia 2: Hey, I had a day off, so I played more of this. Raze path, Lily's unbalance is amazing as always. Though the Battle for the School Festival makes a whole lot less sense now. I kind of assumed that Lily had been tricked into helping the Chairman (or pressured/convinced into it by her father?) stop the school festival when I saw the event from Ulrika's path. It just made sense that conservative Lily might have some reason for not wanting a school festival. Instead, it seems like Lily actively -wants- a School Festival and then Marta says "you can beat up Ulrika" and Lily's like "sweet, I'm in." I guess it's funny, but it just comes off as really inconsistent writing, since I don't recall Ulrika ever really doing much of anything to piss Lily off. They sniped at eachother a bit in the first chapter, but damn, Whim and Et are far more antagonistic to Lily than Ulrika is. It just doesn't sit well with me.
/arguingaboutcharactermotivations

Playing on Hard Mode and skipping as many randoms as possible to keep the boss fights challenging. And how rewarding it was! I got to the end of the dungeon and the battle against Ulrika's team was amazing! Actually had to bust out a few items. The game has a great battle system, especially when you're up against an actual challenge! Since I'm on the second playthrough, these are few and far between, but when it happens, it's gold. Looking forward to it getting harder again. I wish it was easier to speed through it.

[Grefter]

Because its totes the cool lingo dude.  You know like the Riserection of Christ.  It will make you cry out "Oh Jesus!"

[Meeplelard]

Time for me to spit at the translation.
The hp drain spell is always called Resire, it was light magic in FE4-FE5/FE9-FE10. The magic classification was different before FE3.
It got switched to dark magic from FE6.
Nosferatu is a level A damage dark spell that appeared since FE6. But for some reason, some translated game slap that name onto Resire.

"That reason" being that vampires are associated with draining life, so when FE7 was translated, translating the dark-themed life draining spell as "Nosferatu" makes 100% sense, while "Resire" is not actually a word and to the extent it is one is actively nonsensical (sire someone again, what?).  Even if it was hypothetically a bad translation it was a fine localization, because spells should make sense and be evocative.

This, pretty much.  I don't mind a name change if it is for purposes of making a more straight forward description of what the spell does.  As Snowfire says, "Resire" tells us...uhh...what?  Just a fancy name for a spell.  Most, if not all, spells are either straight forward names (Shine, Thunder, etc.), or in the case of most legendaries, based on some legend or myth, be it a real myth like Balmung or Durandal have, or an In-Game mythos like Naga.

Resire tells us nothing; Nosferatu, thanks to a famous old silent movie, I think many are capable of at least recognizing the Vampire Association, and Vampire Name for a Drain spell doesn't really need any explanation.

[Dark Holy Elf]

Time for me to spit at the translation.
The hp drain spell is always called Resire, it was light magic in FE4-FE5/FE9-FE10. The magic classification was different before FE3.
It got switched to dark magic from FE6.
Nosferatu is a level A damage dark spell that appeared since FE6. But for some reason, some translated game slap that name onto Resire.

"That reason" being that vampires are associated with draining life, so when FE7 was translated, translating the dark-themed life draining spell as "Nosferatu" makes 100% sense, while "Resire" is not actually a word and to the extent it is one is actively nonsensical (sire someone again, what?).  Even if it was hypothetically a bad translation it was a fine localization, because spells should make sense and be evocative.

Can not QFT hard enough.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Leave it to Niu to get mad they didn't leave in nonsense Engrish.

[Fenrir]

http://www.mud-master.com/shadowkeeper/

Just edit back up to relevant level.  I am kind of stunned that there is a check on level cap there.

Hm could have worked. But I'm too close to the end now. I've done everything outside Baldur's Gate + Most of Baldur's Gate proper.
Hell of a lot of really powerful stuff for my character starting from the Cloakwood. There's the Spider Bane right away, plus the boots of speed, robe of evil mage, and Haste.
Then Baldur's Gate right away has arrows of dispelling + OHKOing Ogre Mages + tons of damage, plus a ton of really overpowered spells. Monster Summoning I&II, Minor Globe of Invulnerability, and a few others.
Yattaf can now open any lock for free with a spell, making the Thief part of Fighter/Thief/Mage even more useless. (Have I mentioned how awful Find Trap is?)

Really really powerful fighters can still be a treat against Yattaf, but mages are a non factor now. Minor Globe of Invulnerability completely shuts them down, as does Haste + Arrow Rain. Monster Summoning is also much appreciated in a solo game.

Not much has happened storywise, Yattaf did quests for people because while it's funny to give one liners to quest givers, they actually become far less inclined to actually offer quests.
Yattaf flooded the Cloakwood Mines with all miners trapped inside because gotta go fast. She really didn't want to go down there a second time warning everybody, understand that.
In Baldur's Gate she got poisoned (and not regular poison, PLOT poison), and had to give away a stat-up book for a part of the antidote. The irony was lost on her when she murdered the person she was trading with for a book of wisdom.

[Fenrir]

TL;DR: YATTAF = INVINCIBLE

* looks up Sarevok's stats*
... I will never beat him

[Grefter]

You only need to get through half the HP pool on Sarevok.  The biggest threat in there with haste boots isn't even him.  It is the fact that the floor is littered with traps that are pretty lethal and that he has a competent party for support.

Wand of Summon Monsters cheese is honestly my default strat these days (I like to play with summon cap removed since that is legit authentic BG1).

[Fenrir]

I thought his friends could be easily picked apart one by one. (I'm not above that) I think I abused all those Wands of Summoning last time and would like to win with a different strategy, I'll try a few others.
Can his Haste be dispelled by the way


The game's really on a slippery slope when you get low-ish reputation. 2 dudes tried to kill me in Baldur's Gate, and since they're supposed to be good, killing them = -2 reputation hit for each one. At that point random Flaming Fist members could attack me for an even bigger reputation loss. I had to give like 2000 gold out of my 70 000 to a lame cult.

[Sierra]

SR4: PUT ON THE DAMN SUNGLASSES.

[superaielman]

Lufia 3- Just took down Amon. The battle system remains a ton of fun. Bosses have gotten easier of late just due to the sheer amount of offense you get ,though Amon was a marked improvement. He had brutal OHKO damage off magic and Galactic Lancer, which wasn't a big deal. The MT 100% confusion? *That* sucked.  Aima remains my MVP, Randolph the LVP.

[Meeplelard]

Randolph the LVP.

Do you honestly expect that to ever change? 

[Crystalgate]

Rogue Legacy: Beaten it for the first time. It toke me 65 generations.

The game was rather fun, but the new game+ hasn't been so far. I think I just start over and avoid unlocking the Lich and the Dragon. They kind of clutter the gene pool. Skipping the Spelunker would be good too, but I want the gold upgrade, so I have to think about it. In any case, the new game+ should be more fun with less crappy draw.

I found one aspect of the story funny. We have this family where at an age of approximately 30, a member enters the castle and then never returns. Then one member of the next generation does the same thing. This repeats for what in my playtrough was 65 generation and never did they consider that, hey, maybe they can just use the money to buy a load of farms or something and ditch the meat-grinder of a castle. Then you reach the last boss and it turns out that, yes, they are nuts. They don't really have a good reason to enter.

[Nitori]

Tales of Graces f: Friendship isn't friendship unless you've been to the moon and crashlanded in Richard's vice presidental office

[Shale]

Well that's just common sense.

FE9: Beat the boat stage. Had quite a few false starts involving crows stealing the Occult scroll or Gatrie dying to bullshit Thunder criticals, but once I realized the second wave of crows would only go for treasure and doesn't actually attack anyone, that phase of the fight went a lot smoother. On to a....fog of war map. Woohoo!

[Meeplelard]

FoW doesn't exist in Normal Mode!  Granted, that doesn't help you at all, and thus was a completely pointless statement...

FE10: Brom beats Yeardley with AXE TO THE FACE.

[Luther Lansfeld]

I think there are only two in the game even on Hard. Series definitely started to move away from them -- there aren't any in 11/12/13. And 10's feature usually some twist like torches to mitigate the effects somewhat.

[Meeplelard]

It is a pretty dumb mechanic to be honest, mostly because of just how the AI has such abuse over it while you are at the complete mercy of it.

...thinking on it, I think the mechanic started in FE5.  Of all of the ideas to carry over from FE5 when "Streamlining" FE in FE6, why did they decided Fog of War had to be one of them?