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PhoneLobster wrote:Was something awful the one that did that awesome lets play of Princess Maker 2? That has to be the best lets play ever.
Probably. They do a huge proportion of the actually good lets plays. I lurk their LP forums constantly.
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PhoneLobster wrote:Was something awful the one that did that awesome lets play of Princess Maker 2? That has to be the best lets play ever.
If you mean this one, it is from Something Awful and I agree that it is the best lets play ever.
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I've been play a lot of Cave Noire for the gameboy. It is like nethack but it was divided into four main quest and each level of the quest is made into small chunks. It has been translated since it didn't come to the US

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I'm going on a big Mass Effect replay.

Rather, I wish I was. Mass Effect 1 is loaned out, dammit.

So I finished up an Engineer playthrough in 2, about to carry it over.

Boy, let me tell you. Getting Dominate in Mass Effect 2 is worth it. Hell, I cheated it. I saved during that mission, chose Morinth, got Dominate unlocked, and then restarted and went with Samara.

Being able to go, "Hey, try being a good guy! We get a good health plan!" to any enemy I saw was entirely too much fun.

Between Dominate and AI Hacking and Combat Drone, I spent a lot of time trolling enemies. This reached new heights on the Legion loyalty mission, when I brought Tali along so we had multiple hacked Geth and three combat drones out at any given moment.

I will give the series credit for this: Each class is worth playing. I mean, a lot of people choose Soldiers and Vanguards and Infiltrators and that's cool, but the Engineers and Sentinels and Adepts have their fun toys, too.
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Yes, I've always been fond of Adepts and Sentinels myself. The big thing stopping me from having yet another trilogy playthrough is just that my feelings on several parts of Mass Effect 3 make it hard for me to motivate myself to play them.
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I haven't ever seen the Extended Cut endings, I understand they make it clear you don't RUIN GALACTIC CIVILIZATION 4 EVAR now. My philosophical objections to the ending have been softened by this.

I'm still grousing that there's no option to go, "Hey, I made peace between quarian and the geth, I think we can fix this organic vs. synthetic action. Check in every hundred years to see how we're doing."
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.

--The horror of Mario

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Do I want to play this game again?

That's what I consider to be the defining characteristic of a good RPG game.

I played through Mass Effect 1 and 2 multiple times.

I played through Dragon Age: Origins multiple times.

Mass Effect 3 is gathering dust on my shelf after I played through it once (I did load a save game near the end, to watch the green and blue lightshows though).

Dragon Age 2...is a steaming pile of shit compared to it's predecessor. I never even bothered to finish the game. I simply did not care enough about the characters or the story to force myself to sit through the rest of the game.
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I've been replying 2 and 3 a lot this week. I can't be bothered to play the first one any more, it's too boring.
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I beat ME3 inside of 2 weeks after it came out. Then went to playing the multiplayer off-and-on until, oh, today, when I finished up 2 and started replaying 3.

The war assets from this are considerable. However many it takes for you to have a multiplayer score of more than 1100.

I'm also attacking singleplayer with a fresh mindset. I keep thinking "Fuck, I've beaten worse than this, with less resources!"

I mean, you only get three powers in multiplayer. In singleplayer, I can hack enemies, shock them, freeze them, set them on fire, and deploy drones and turrets. I feel spoiled.

Edit: War assets from multiplayer are 2625.

Dayum.
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.

--The horror of Mario

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I feel a bit justified that after reading the let's play of DA2 that someone else has similar opinions. My former roommate told me that I didn't like Isabella because I had a problem with women with open sexuality. I'm pretty sure I don't like her because her entire personality is based around fuckliking (love that word). Because she likes to fuck, you see. And Merrill is obnoxious and stupid (and I get a perverse joy out of telling her so on my second playthrough where I'm an asshole to everyone. I went out of my way to please them first time, I'm telling them to fuck right off this time. Oddly enough, Fenris jumped right into bed with me at about 90% rivalry. And I'm a mage).

I have been thinking about getting Dragon Age due to everyone saying the story and characterization was superior in every way. I didn't like it the first time I tried it (combat felt slow and sluggish to me, while combat in DA2 feels snappy and there's a feeling of impact on big hits that I find satisfying), but considering I can get Origins and Awakening in a two-pack for cheap I might pick it up.
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These days, you can get the whole damn Game of the Year edition for, like, 20 bucks.
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--The horror of Mario

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My ultimate video game related dream is to play every Mega Man game ever made, discounting spin-offs like Battle Network and Legends.

This means I would take a week off from my life, sit down, and then play Mega Man all the way up to Mega Man ZX Advent.

And then, I would sit down, and think about it; about how it made my life better and more fulfilling. Then I'd go up into my room and have a seizure from playing so many games.
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Play Legends. Do it. They're fucking good.
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The N64 one, at least, was awful.

Don't know about any others in the Legends series but that one was so bad that it made me want to avoid the entire series.
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DA:O combat runs pretty quickly if you max out a couple of spell paths early. It can be a grind for the first few hours until you unlock them.

Mana Clash + Blood Mage is all you need to get through the game on nightmare difficulty. My usual line-up was 3 mages + a rogue. By the time you start facing off against foes immune to Blood or Mana Clash damage, you should have other spells available. When in doubt, you should buff, lockdown and set your rogue to backstab.

Even if playing another class, you'll want Mana Clash and a blood mage in your party. DA 2's blood magic was nerfed to uselessness because of how good it was in Origins.

Playing with a rogue was challenging, simply because the opportunity costs of taking non-combat abilities significantly impede your combat ability at early levels.

If you go Warrior, it is worth unlocking the Reaver path. Templar sucks, bar one passive ability and their last path ability.

Your Dog has limited utility. Great at early levels, but lack of gear makes it a poor choice late game. Morrigans shapeshifting is borked, so unless you plan of exploiting swarm, avoid it and have her focus on other spells. Sten only has one speciality, which may be an issue, but you can always focus on 2 handed weapon talents instead. I avoided the Ranger speciality, simply because it clashes with Animate Dead (only one special summon at a time, unfortunately).

The only slow combats I ended up having were with Golems, Revenants and certain bosses. Trash mobs were swept aside in a second or two. I seriously spent more time looking for mage corpses to animate than I did fighting.
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I rather enjoyed it.

The upgrades/treasure hunting hit my buttons in all the right ways.
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--The horror of Mario

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I did the Omega DLC for Mass Effect 3.

It had quite a lot for a expansion. I mean, took me about three hours to get through it.

And it gives Flare and Lash, two powers used by Aria (Lash is from multiplayer, too).

Flare is just about gamebreaking. It has a huge radius, and does grenade-like damage, and the recharge can be brought down to three or four seconds, if not lower.

It is entirely too much fun to use, too.
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.

--The horror of Mario

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lol, from my roommates description and her appearance I had assumed that Morrigan was all about fuckliking. Turns out she's a sperglord.
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Are we talking about Morrigan from Darkstalkers, or Morrigan from Dragon Age?

Because Morrigan from Darkstalkers is so totally a fucklicker. She also has an absolutely hilarious ending in Marvel Vs. Capcom.

But Morrigan from Dragon Age I'd agree with. Damn bitch.
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I hate Morrigan from Dragon Age a lot. What really made me lose my patience with her was when I called her out for being a bitch and suffered the largest approval drop from conversation I'd ever seen. The likable characters in her character archetype would be happy to be called on it and just laugh in response.

Also, she can shut the hell up about how the Circle mages deserve to die for not fighting the Chantry that they've lived with most of their lives and which has demonstrated its capacity to kill literally every mage in a Circle on many occasions and which also teaches them about how to not get their souls eaten by demons.
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that first part reads as hilariously naive
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Whipstitch wrote:that first part reads as hilariously naive
I didn't say realistic, I said likable.
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I was really underwhelmed by Omega, actually. It did take me a while to plow through, but it felt pretty tedious. I don't see the point in going back to Omega if we're going to spend the whole time fighting through generic crawlspaces shooting up Cerberus troopers. I was really hoping to shoot up some Vorcha or Batarians or anything other than more damn Cerberus troopers. And I was shocked when we didn't get to talk to any reapers, find out what Cerberus was doing in the old Collector base, or really do anything at all with Adjutants other than have them show up like they were fucking wolves or something. I haven't tried Flare on Shepherd yet. It looked like its big selling point was that it was a biotic power that breaks shields, but I was rocking a Sentinel so I already had Overload. I was completely unimpressed with it on Aria. It didn't seem *that* big and it didn't kill things by itself, so it was basically just a crappy long-cooldown Overload. I *was* really impressed with Lash, so I tried putting that on Shepherd, but I found that the projectile version is stupidly difficult to land.

On a positive note, the set-up conversations, space battles, and Aria's speeches were pretty cool. I appreciated the added weapon mods. And, while there was nothing conceptually interesting about the Rampart mechs, I did appreciate that fighting them called on a different set of tricks and powers than the rest of the ME3 lineup.
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Oh, on the thing with Morrigan: What really ticked me off was how she took a goddamn -20 opinion hit from that. The only ways to piss off anyone else in the game to the tune of more than -7 opinion from a single option are:
1. Wynne will try to kill you if Morrigan spouts her bullshit about how all Circle mages deserve to die and you don't tell her to shut the hell up. It should be noted that Wynne is basically the tower's kindly grandmother figure and has spent hours protecting mage kids from demons released by rogue mages at this point.
2. Sten will try to beat the hell out of you and take command of this Blight-stopping operation when you go to a random village way the hell away from the Blight because allegedly the ashes of a messianic figure he doesn't believe in have magical healing powers that a good many of her worshippers don't believe in are located in this bullshit village in the middle of nowhere. And you need to have failed to convince him you have any clue what you're doing prior to this point. And if you beat him he will admit that you appear to have your shit together when it comes to fighting.
3. Lelianna and maybe some other characters will try to kill you if you desecrate said messianic ashes. Lelianna is a priestess who thinks she's on a mission from god.
4. Alister will tell you to fuck yourself and leaves if you opt to recruit Logahin
I consider all of those far more legitimate reasons to be severely pissed off. Even the things which give you -7 hits tend to be pretty "what the hell?"
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In case you had not realised it, all the DA:O characters are contemptable in some fashion.
Alister is a whiny bitch. "Woe is me! I'm the rightful heir to the throne."

Morrigan is a sociopath raised by a dragon.

Wynne is a demon possed abomination that lectures other on the risks of demonic possession. Fucking hypocrite.

Your dog pisses everywhere and is only good at digging up cakes for Sten to eat.

Zevran is a boot-licking whore. Seriously, he tries to kill you and thinks letting you rawdog him is enough to get him on team Blood Mage.

Leliana will not shut the fuck up about the maker, even when you do her special quest and tell her to shut the fuck up about her stupid religion.

Sten's cage is his stupid, hipster Qunari philosophy, not the literal cage you pulled him out of. "You would not understand..." is just hipster code for "I don't understand, I incapable of discussing it it, but I want to sound mysterious and edgy anyway." Shut the fuck up Sten.

Oghren is drinking himself to death because he was too stupid to realise his wife was a lesbian and just using their marraige to further her personal agenda.

Shale is a self-absorbed bird shit magnet.

Loghaine is a treacherous scumbag, but once you get past that and put him on a leash, he's a decent, short-term team player.
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