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[Benice]

1 minute ago, Shrimperor said:

Do you have Gatrie and Shinon? They are hella tanky.

Presently my team is:

Ike, Lv. 9 Vanguard, godlike stats other than in res, so the sleep staff sleeps him.

Mr, Haar, lv. 9 Dragonlord, godlike stats in everyhing except for speed and luck.

Rolf, lv. 5 Marksman; might get doubled by swordmasters, but can survive with about 15 hp, barring any crits.

Boyd, lv. 5 Reaver-Ike with aaxes and a buit slower.

Rafiel because I want another Nosferatu tome

Nailah because it's Nailah.

Mist, Lv.5 Valyrie, good stats in everything.

And then Vka, Tormod and Muarim. Because they're here already.

I chose not to deploy Soren since 

3 minutes ago, Falcom Knight said:

I am not gonna lie, for a casual run it's easier not to bring anyone.

Ike and Nailah can solo (though restore staff user is recommended).

The paladins and valkyrie Mist are total waste.

Recommend to use Mist's promotion item not before this chapter.

My other staffbot is Rhys, who dies on combat, Whereas Mist, (Who I accidentally promoted) can tank a LOT of hits before dying. My other mounted unit in this army is Titania, and she gets doubled by everything and dies in two its from everything.

And Ike always gets sleep staffed. Thanks for your advice, everyone!

[DragonFlames]

5 hours ago, lightcosmo said:

I'm playing VII not VII-R.

Oops! My mistake! Somehow I thought you were playing the remake.
I played the original VII, as well.

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Also, congrats on getting that far in Xenoblade 2! I like your prediction on the story, too! I mean, I like reading what people think is going to happen and such.

Thank you! The story is getting really interesting at this point and I have tons and tons of theories about several plot points that are still open.
Let's see how many things come true and how many are just pure conjecture!

3 hours ago, Armagon said:

Yeah but at hey least it looks pretty and the theme is nice.

Tell me about it! The buildings and the theme are absolutely gorgeous!
Probably the most "holy" a religion's headquarter in a JRPG has ever been, if that makes sense.

3 hours ago, Armagon said:

Also no actual spoilers in this but

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There's still quite a few more surprises, so i wouldn't worry on that front.

 

 

I was more referring to the game not being able to surprise me with its villain than the story as a whole. I'm sure there are plenty of surprises still waiting for me and I'm looking forward to all of them.

2 hours ago, Shrimperor said:

Zero no Kiseki is taking over my life

20 Hours in 2 days lol. Finished prologue and chapter 1.

Games you love tend to do that to you.

7 minutes ago, Shadow Mir said:

She's adorable. Though I must admit, she seems out of place in a game with demons galore...

That is true, though I think the contrast works well for what it's worth. If Eleanor wasn't there, the entire game would be depressing, and I think the positivity and light-heartedness of her character is a welcome break from all the sad stuff. In fact, those small heartwarming moments she brings along make the depressing ones hit all the harder.
Like the villain's backstory. God damn...

Edited March 17, 2020 by DragonFlames

[MisterIceTeaPeach]

25 minutes ago, Benice said:

Presently my team is:

Ike, Lv. 9 Vanguard, godlike stats other than in res, so the sleep staff sleeps him.

Mr, Haar, lv. 9 Dragonlord, godlike stats in everyhing except for speed and luck.

Rolf, lv. 5 Marksman; might get doubled by swordmasters, but can survive with about 15 hp, barring any crits.

Boyd, lv. 5 Reaver-Ike with aaxes and a buit slower.

Rafiel because I want another Nosferatu tome

Nailah because it's Nailah.

Mist, Lv.5 Valyrie, good stats in everything.

And then Vka, Tormod and Muarim. Because they're here already.

I chose not to deploy Soren since 

My other staffbot is Rhys, who dies on combat, Whereas Mist, (Who I accidentally promoted) can tank a LOT of hits before dying. My other mounted unit in this army is Titania, and she gets doubled by everything and dies in two its from everything.

And Ike always gets sleep staffed. Thanks for your advice, everyone!

About which swordmasters are you exactly worried about?

For the ones at bottom - as I said - block the ledge with one - and send Ike or Nailah the spot in front of the ledge to tank them.

 

BTW I think I never ever used nosferatu in this game.

In general I steal Oliver's silence staff - despite it's useless in this game - and kill him after that for the boss experience.

Oliver is absolutely pointless.

[Benice]

3 minutes ago, Falcom Knight said:

About which swordmasters are you exactly worried about?

All of them? They can ORKO Tormod and Co. - Muarim. They're just annoying in general. I just kinda generally  suck at FE.

Usually my runs end up likke this:

1. Send Ike, Rolf, Mist, Haar and Nailah forwards, refresh with Rafiel, send Ike up to help with Tormod. Boyd goes around the back to take out the archer. Muarim tanks hits for everyone like a champ.
2. Ike and Haar move forwards, Rolf starts cleaning up after them. Haar and Mist stay on the bottom floor and start to work their way up the stairs.
3. I move towards the stairs, Ike gets slept, etc.
4. Eventually reinforcements show up, so I have to use Rolf to tank hits for  Vika and Tormod, who for some reason gets critted literally every time.
5. Boyd has to hold choke points by himself, but there are too many spaces that he can't cover so everyone runs past him and yeet my units.

I'll give it another shot tomorrow.

[Lightcosmo]

1 hour ago, DragonFlames said:

Oops! My mistake! Somehow I thought you were playing the remake.
I played the original VII, as well.

Thank you! The story is getting really interesting at this point and I have tons and tons of theories about several plot points that are still open.
Let's see how many things come true and how many are just pure conjecture!

 

I bought both but I played VII. 

Yeah, the story is for sure one of the games strong points! 

[Benice]

WELL THEN! School's been cancelled for the rest of the (school) year due to Micaiah! I guess I'm on summer vacation then. I don't even know what to do for all of these months since I have to socially isolate.

Dang, the Atelier games and SRPG studio better go on sale soon...

Edited March 17, 2020 by Benice

[DragonFlames]

Zeke-- excuse me; the ZekeNATOR (!!!) finally joined the party! And he's OP as f***, as (almost) expected. Now he just needs some Rare/Unique Blades of his own that match his type.

Also, I reached Temperantia (as you can see on the screenshot there) and now I'm the one who's overlevelled, because as it turns out, the Bonus EXP system in this game is even more busted than it was in FE9 and FE10. If you ask whether or not I feel sorry for the enemies I now trample all over, I laugh and say "Sweet, sweet catharsis!"

5 hours ago, lightcosmo said:

Yeah, the story is for sure one of the games strong points! 

Indeed it is!

Edited March 18, 2020 by DragonFlames

[Interdimensional Observer]

St. Patrick's Day Sonic gets 5 points for being consistent with his modern (Sonic Adventure and beyond) artwork. But, it gets -31720 for looking worse overall than a Shamrock Shake someone vomited. 

 

 

7 hours ago, Falcom Knight said:

I will go to Ghana, but I think Corona should be settled at the end of the year, so it should work out.

Unusual, a small West African country isn't what first comes to mind a destination, but at this time, it's a reasonable choice I guess. Africa remains open to travel, probably due to a lack of Coronavirus currently but knowing Africa is postcolonial poverty and chaos, it'll explode there before long, while the rest of the world is shutting its doors. 

I don't know your reasons for going there, nor too much about the country, but have fun if you do!

I did take some courses in African history, and Ghana was the first Sub-Saharan African country to gain independence following World War II in the early 1960s. Under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana attempted to modernize in an African socialist style and to support African independence and unity efforts across the continent. Of course, it didn't exactly work out.

 

24 minutes ago, DragonFlames said:

Also, I reached Temperantia (as you can see on the screenshot there) and now I'm the one who's overlevelled, because as it turns out, the Bonus EXP system in this game is even more busted than it was in FE9 and FE10. If you ask whether or not I feel sorry for the enemies I now trample all over, I laugh and say "Sweet, sweet catharsis!"

A walk around Temperantia might change that overleveled perspective! Fortunately, this titan is very open and very limited in how much is mandatory to see.

If you had the Expansion Pass, you could bring the difficulty back up if you wanted to. It adds Bringer of Chaos (Hard) difficulty, which you can turn on or off at any time. And if Bringer of Chaos is too easy, you could use Custom difficulty. Custom lets you adjust a whole bunch of specific parameters to tweak the game's difficulty, you can make it easier than Easy, or more brutal than Bringer of Chaos, or anywhere in-between.

[Acacia Sgt]

Welp, cases confirmed in my town today. Was bound to happen sooner or later.

[Lightcosmo]

Holy cow, this coliseum battle is hard. Being 120 levels below the recommended will do that. But, I'm not giving up... yet!

[Benice]

1 hour ago, Acacia Sgt said:

Welp, cases confirmed in my town today. Was bound to happen sooner or later.

Hope you stay safe and people don't panic too much. My city wasn't totally insane, but my dad's coworkers stole all of our hand sanitizer and some of our toilet paper.

[Armagon]

So earlier today, i watched Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla. And while the list is still very small, i'd say that this one is, so far, my favorite Godzilla movie. We have a human-Kaiju story that is actually well balanced, more balanced than it was in Kong: Skull island (which i feel did get close enough). I think what helped was that the human cast wasn't as big. There's really only one character you really needed to pay attetion to and that was Akane.

This isn't the first Japanese Godzilla i've seen but it is the first where most of the effects were practical. Shin Godzilla used a lot of CG but in GAM (let's use that for short), you can tell when the sets were miniaturized and of course, Godzilla and MechaGodzilla were costumes. It just has that really unique feel and made the effects seem more impressive. Although you do get some goofiness out of it, i suppose.

I do have some mild problems with the plot but the movie itself is pretty short and there is a sequel, Tokyo S.O.S, which i plan to watch tomorow. Overall, great movie.

 

Like i said before, the list is very short right not but here's what it's looking like

I've made it my mission that by the year's end, i'll have seen every Godzilla and King Kong film. That's like what, 40 films total. And not all of them are good (the Godzilla anime trilogy is gonna be a pain to sit through thanks to it's awful CGI).

2 hours ago, DragonFlames said:

Zeke-- excuse me; the ZekeNATOR (!!!) finally joined the party! And he's OP as f***, as (almost) expected. Now he just needs some Rare/Unique Blades of his own that match his type.

And with that, you have all five party members.

Zeke himself is powerful but he's also kind of a glass cannon. Probably because his attacks generally do come out slower, especially if using Megalance Blades, so keep that in mind.

2 hours ago, Interdimensional Observer said:

St. Patrick's Day Sonic gets 5 points for being consistent with his modern (Sonic Adventure and beyond) artwork. But, it gets -31720 for looking worse overall than a Shamrock Shake someone vomited. 

 

I know this one's official but God, i just hate looking at it. This feels like a Sonic OC, which i guess it is one, just official.

[MisterIceTeaPeach]

3 hours ago, Interdimensional Observer said:

Unusual, a small West African country isn't what first comes to mind a destination, but at this time, it's a reasonable choice I guess. Africa remains open to travel, probably due to a lack of Coronavirus currently but knowing Africa is postcolonial poverty and chaos, it'll explode there before long, while the rest of the world is shutting its doors. 

I don't know your reasons for going there, nor too much about the country, but have fun if you do!

I did take some courses in African history, and Ghana was the first Sub-Saharan African country to gain independence following World War II in the early 1960s. Under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana attempted to modernize in an African socialist style and to support African independence and unity efforts across the continent. Of course, it didn't exactly work out.

It will be a business trip by my employee.

It's an exchange of people by a partner university there.

I'll explain the structure of the university I'm working for and describe my work.

In return they'll do the same us to take notes for improvement.

 

It will be the first time I'm entering the African mainland and also my longest journey after more than 20 years (New York).

The goal is to learn the culture and mainly the nature.

I'm a bit scared about the climate conditions, but it's the one time chance to see animals wild I could only in zoos.

Ghana is very well developed country in Africa in terms of economic and education overall.

 

10 hours ago, Benice said:

All of them? They can ORKO Tormod and Co. - Muarim. They're just annoying in general. I just kinda generally  suck at FE.

Usually my runs end up likke this:

1. Send Ike, Rolf, Mist, Haar and Nailah forwards, refresh with Rafiel, send Ike up to help with Tormod. Boyd goes around the back to take out the archer. Muarim tanks hits for everyone like a champ.
2. Ike and Haar move forwards, Rolf starts cleaning up after them. Haar and Mist stay on the bottom floor and start to work their way up the stairs.
3. I move towards the stairs, Ike gets slept, etc.
4. Eventually reinforcements show up, so I have to use Rolf to tank hits for  Vika and Tormod, who for some reason gets critted literally every time.
5. Boyd has to hold choke points by himself, but there are too many spaces that he can't cover so everyone runs past him and yeet my units.

I'll give it another shot tomorrow.

If you're talking about the first turn, the rout everyone!

Kill the two swordmasters on the ground, the sniper on the upper platform and Muarim finishes off the weaken spear halberdier.

It will give Tormod the air to survive.

[Lightcosmo]

12 hours ago, Interdimensional Observer said:

A walk around Temperantia might change that overleveled perspective! Fortunately, this titan is very open and very limited in how much is mandatory to see.

If you had the Expansion Pass, you could bring the difficulty back up if you wanted to. It adds Bringer of Chaos (Hard) difficulty, which you can turn on or off at any time. And if Bringer of Chaos is too easy, you could use Custom difficulty. Custom lets you adjust a whole bunch of specific parameters to tweak the game's difficulty, you can make it easier than Easy, or more brutal than Bringer of Chaos, or anywhere in-between.

The mode adjustment wasn't a free update? Wow, I can't believe I forgot that, then again, it's been a while now. Another thing, I actually don't like the idea of having to "create" my own difficulty, it just kinda feels a bit lazy on the devs side. Like they didn't want to have to create an actually well tested mode, so they force you to do it instead. I understand what they were after, I just don't think that it was well implemented. Don't get me wrong, i'm glad they added a "hard" mode. Maybe it's just a lack of creativity on the way they went about it.

Edited March 18, 2020 by lightcosmo

[Armagon]

1 hour ago, lightcosmo said:

Another thing, I actually don't like the idea of having to "create" my own difficulty, it just kinda feels a bit lazy on the devs side. Like they didn't want to have to create an actually well tested mode, so they force you to do it instead.

This is like saying that Mario Maker is lazy.

I think having the ability to customize the difficulty is a great thing as it allows for unique playthroughs and challenges that you wouldn't get from the presets. Every game should have this feature.

[Lightchao42]

12 hours ago, Armagon said:

Like i said before, the list is very short right not but here's what it's looking like

I've made it my mission that by the year's end, i'll have seen every Godzilla and King Kong film. That's like what, 40 films total. And not all of them are good (the Godzilla anime trilogy is gonna be a pain to sit through thanks to it's awful CGI).

I've realized recently that despite considering myself a Godzilla fan, I've only seen around half the movies and most of them I haven't seen in years. Maybe I should try to watch all of them too, though if I did I would probably watch them in release order.

Though if you want to watch every Godzilla movie, you might want to know that there are several kaiju movies without Godzilla that are nevertheless associated with the Godzilla franchise. Many of the kaiju introduced in these movies appeared in later Godzilla movies, so basically Godzilla had one of the first cinematic universes. I wouldn't say you need to watch any of them, but you could look into them if you're interested.

(I also remembered that Godzilla vs. Kong was originally scheduled to release last week, so now you have more time to watch every Godzilla and Kong movie before it releases.)

[Armagon]

37 minutes ago, Lightchao42 said:

Though if you want to watch every Godzilla movie, you might want to know that there are several kaiju movies without Godzilla that are nevertheless associated with the Godzilla franchise. Many of the kaiju introduced in these movies appeared in later Godzilla movies, so basically Godzilla had one of the first cinematic universes. I wouldn't say you need to watch any of them, but you could look into them if you're interested.

Yeah, I plan on seeing those as well. I know some of the Mothra films are solo and I believe the original Rodan also didn't have Godzilla though I might be wrong on that.

Basically, on this marathon, the movies don't need to have Godzilla in them but they have to be part of the "GodzillaVerse". King Kong technically isn't part of the "GodzillaVerse" outside of crossovers but I'll still be counting King Kong movies as part of this marathon. After all, King Kong walked so that Godzilla could run (King Kong predates Godzilla by 21 years).

46 minutes ago, Lightchao42 said:

(I also remembered that Godzilla vs. Kong was originally scheduled to release last week, so now you have more time to watch every Godzilla and Kong movie before it releases.)

Yeah, it got pushed back a few months ago to November and in hindsight, that was a good thing, as releasing right during a time when society has basically paused due to the coronavirus wouldn't have been good. To compare, i hear Onward's box office sales are being hit by this.

Speaking of Godzilla vs Kong, yesterday I found out that the director of that movie is the same one who directed the Netflix Death Note movie and because of that, I am concerned.

[Benice]

For chapter 4-4 I've changed my mind: I'm just gonna turtle it.

[Lightcosmo]

3 hours ago, Armagon said:

This is like saying that Mario Maker is lazy.

I think having the ability to customize the difficulty is a great thing as it allows for unique playthroughs and challenges that you wouldn't get from the presets. Every game should have this feature.

But it's not custom since you can only change minor things. And giving every enemy in the game the ability to drain party gauge isnt fun, it's annoying. A well done mode should be able to sell itself, in my opinion. Through the story, they say excessive use of a blade tires them out, so add a function that weakens them if you overuse them in battle for a hard mode gimmick.

Edited March 18, 2020 by lightcosmo

[MisterIceTeaPeach]

I don't know exactly how...

... but I DID IT!!!

[Shadow Mir]

On 3/17/2020 at 12:12 PM, DragonFlames said:

That is true, though I think the contrast works well for what it's worth. If Eleanor wasn't there, the entire game would be depressing, and I think the positivity and light-heartedness of her character is a welcome break from all the sad stuff. In fact, those small heartwarming moments she brings along make the depressing ones hit all the harder.
Like the villain's backstory. God damn...

Fair enough.

[Benice]

1 hour ago, Falcom Knight said:

I don't know exactly how...

... but I DID IT!!!

Congrats!

I think?

[Armagon]

2 hours ago, lightcosmo said:

But it's not custom since you can only change minor things.

Even if that were so, the little things add up. And it's not just the enemy parameters you can change. You can change your parameters as well.

Sure it's not perfect but just like Atelier's Change BGM feature, Custom Difficulty should be a thing in every game.

[Benice]

ARE YOU ACTUALLY KIDDING RIGHT NOW RD? WHY THE HECK WOULD YOU RANDOMLY SPAWN A SIEGE TOME USER IN A PLACE WHERE NOBODY CAN FEASIBLY ATTACK HIM?!

 

Things were going well in RD until... A meteor tome user showed up and doubled Rafiel. So much for having Nailah. I'm not gonna restart though, I wanna finish this chapter ASAP.

[Acacia Sgt]

So everything fine until the Fire Nation Sage attacked?