Get this: I’ve started playing Pokemon Platinum from the start… AGAIN!
No virus problems or anything this time. I just discovered a program called Pokesav made specially for hacking Pokemon Roms. This is something I’d never done before; I’ve used cheat codes but never hacked a game myself. But this thing is really easy to use. I’m not even using any big cheats anyway- just using Master Balls to make sure I don’t waste any time catching rare pokemon and such, my obsession with that keeps me from advancing beyond the first third of the game! >_< But I WILL complete it on this run, word.
Right now I’m about to enter Floaroma town (clever name BTW.) My current team: Golbat, Abra, Machop, Ponyta, Onyx, Psyduck.
I’ve gotten to the fourth generation in Record of Agarest War. I actaully had to backtrack a little because I missed a cutscene that maxes out the love rating for the girl I haven’t married yet for a trophy. It was a blessing in diguise because one of the books I was missing was a part of that cutscene.
OK, just completed the Old Chateau. However I didn’t see any ghosts there (No I don’t mean Ghost Pokemon, I mean actual human ghosts). I read somewhere that there’s two ghosts that show up at night there, is this true or just an Internet rumor? Anyway caught a Gastly and even better, the Rotom there, I really like this Pokemon, it’s such a neat idea (an electric ghost pokemon that haunts household objects ) Will add it to my party ASAP.
Another question: I used Pokesav to make a Beautifly (I was in no mood to find a Pokemon that has like 1% chance of appearance) It works but it disobeys me like it was traded even though I have two badges (it’s level 20.) Why? Anybody know? Maybe its Happiness value is too low?
Been playing Xenoblade Chronicles and I’m about 47 hours in. SO GOOD.
I highly recommend anybody get this game and play it.
I could spend all day talking about it…but I won’t.
Other than that, hadn’t had a lot of time for playing much else. New job’s keeping me busy.
Here’s what jobs I used to get through most of the game:
-Hero (Good damage dealer; decent support)
-Black Mage (Exploiting elemental weakness; uber damage dealer)
-Elementalist (Useless for most random fights, but God-Tier for boss fights since most bosses use Elemental attacks. Get it to level 3 for Mysterio and make boss fights a ton easier.)
-Salve-Maker (Used one as a healer and never looked back. Get it to level 2 and you’re gold. Infinite recovery items FTW. God-Tier once you manage to find an Elixir.)
I finally got the last of books I needed in Record of Agarest War to complete my items list so now I just have go throught the rest of the game and do the basic Boundary Plane…there’s the light at the end of the tunnel.
My Beautifly finally started obeying me, after I gave it a soothe bell. Must have been a low happiness level problem after all. Must remember that the next time I make up a Pokemon with Pokesav.
Speaking of which, I’m at the part where you can get a Spiritomb, but since I’m playing a ROM I cannot fulfill the requirements (talking to 32 or so people ‘underground’ eg. thru WiFi) so I guess I’ll use Pokesav for that one too (but I’m going to see if I can set it up as a random encounter instead.)
I recently remembered that I had to finish Bastion, and that ending was one of the best ones I’ve seen in… I don’t know how long. I don’t think a game ending has made me care that much since Vagrant Story.
Won’t be out till tomorrow in the US disregarding street date breakers.
Yeah, I noticed the brokenness of Elementalist and Salve-Maker crowns, one of which I used to grind an assload of Diamonds off of one fight in particular (did a week’s worth of homework in the meanwhile to rub it in). I’m more simply proceeding through the game with whatever is the most recently acquired crown I have equipped despite the uselessness of such a strategy (Scholar is pretty bad as it suffers from the classic symptoms of debuffs and Party Host is completely useless right now). What really doesn’t help is the lack of lower level gems.
Been pretty busy lately. FE:RD has been advanced to chapter 3-11; I have a bunch of Greil Mercs ready to promote to final tier so that’s pretty awesome (aside from Haar who has already promoted). Didn’t get the convo from Ike and the Burger King in 3-7 (which is useless for me anyway given that this is still my first time through), but I did recruit Jill (and this can, in no way, bite me in the ass later). Missed the Spirit Dust in 3-9 due to a bad guide (you said it was under the boss; UNDER THE BOSS) otherwise a near perfect run (only two houses even tasted flame). One dofus in 3-10 ended up getting killed due to an astoundingly unlucky crit from a Steel Bow of all things and cost me some precious BEXP.
No progress with FE VII at all due to HHM hating me and everything I stand for. Last attempt was the worst since Wallace by some miracle managed to last an entire four rounds before getting swarmed by overpowered jackasses. He magically dodged every siege tome shot aimed at him while burning through his Elixir; one more turn and Sain and Prissy would’ve been in position to take the heat off of him. Of course, since he got rushed to death by footies the siege spells immediately turned to rain hot death upon my Heath. Fuck.
Suikoden continues to remind me as to the reason why I still have a PSX backlog. I can’t seem to weasel my way out of that fort at the start of the Neclord arc. Every time I try to leave and the damn thing locks up on me without fail regardless as to which PSX I use. Beat Teo with Pahn so that nasty surprise is taken care of. Also beat Teo with Teo but that was a gimme fight anyway.
I’m about half way though the fifth generation now in Record of Agarest War. I won’t be getting much play time in this week with Thanksgiving and its madatory torture with relatives…shivers
The tutorial segment in this game isn’t as bad as in other games in the series. Not as brief as OoT’s but a vast improvement over TP, and I’d say it’s even better than WW’s opening since I haven’t even touched the first dungeon but I’m right now exploring the skyworld (though the payout isn’t all that great given the locked chests I still can’t open). The school business was kinda weak and the brief hands on with the flight tutorial didn’t help as much and required a trip to the help function to figure out, but it’s all good (except that I had to sit through the same cutscene over four times just because I kept assuming that something was wrong with my Wiimote when my bird kept sinking like a stone; turned out I needed to flap more and that once I figured that out the air sailing was smooth sailing). The other tutorials have been mostly contained within side trips and side quests so it’s not all that bad. The controls are actually pretty good thus far, but it takes a bit to get the hang of things since the controls are so different and there’s quite a few options available.
Additionally the series has finally implemented its first usable restroom. Also you can sit on chairs. Also also the game just wont let you exercise your inner rampant kleptomaniac since the only dresser I’ve been successfully able to raid thus far was my own; you can still exercise your inner vandal by rolling into things and knocking kibble off of shelves.
That said, I’ve just wrapped up the second dungeon and so far the developers are a bunch of dirty liars. They said that the dungeons blend into the overworld but so far it’s been skyworld, forest, forest temple, volcano, volcano temple. Of course I’m still on the whole first half/still in the light world segment of the game, but right now I’m not seeing the melding of the areas in a Metroidvania way yet.
Bitching that won’t hold water five hours from now aside; the combat is pretty damn good in this game. Most encounters are challenging enough that I can’t just steamroll them right now and are by and large puzzle fights, but Link is so fucking fast with his attacks that you can easily wreck something once you get past its defenses. Of course even if you’re simply waggling away you still need to at least try to be mindful as to how you attack since you first need to get past those defenses or to strike weakpoints.
Basically the fights in this game are actually challenging but fair and the exploration isn’t too bad thus far; you don’t feel like you’re on some invisible track even though you are.
Playing, not talking. I think Skyrim dungeons will start getting too repetitive for their own good soon and someone has to mod the interface for the pc as changing equipped spells can be a chore. Otoh the environments are great and it’s fun putzing around. Apparently bears>dragons. And you can be all Emperor Palpatine which is a bonus. I swear though if I had plenty of time I’d set out to mod the thing with some better quest storylines. Better than Oblivion and less ambitious than Morrowind so far.
Thanks Killmore, can’t wait until Christmas. Might play some LA instead for now.
Roughly half way through Skyward Sword now. Fucking rhythm minigames. How do they work? More specifically, that harp playing bar performance minigame is giving me serious PTST (post traumatic Spirit Tracks) flashbacks to those pan flute playing segments; at least I was able to do a mediocre performance for a piece of heart. Aside from that, this game has been fucking gravy thus far. I’ve just gotten the Flippers equivalent (though it’s much more like the Zora Mask equivalent) and I’m now backtracking through the first dungeon again. To address what is probably the most important concern people have about the game, I’m finding that Fi is at both better and worse than every other Zelda helper thus far (save for Ezlo who is just plain worse). Most of the times she crops up to point out what you need to do next she doesn’t just reiterates everything that just happened or been blatantly stated by the game, and better still she has a tendency to showboat while covering the bigger plot markers by figure skating around while speeling the beans. However, she also has this incredibly annoying tendency to alert you every time your health falls into critical, your batteries are low, or you just got a new dowsing target at every fucking opportunity. It goes away if you take care of the problem but that usually means taking apart your Wiimote to ditch only mostly spent batteries or that you’re now only one hit away from getting alerted again. She also has a tendency to talk slowly and during intros to new areas you can’t skip ahead or speed up the text. And speaking of things that should be skipable only a few cutscenes are skipable but they’re not common compared to the non-skipable ones. It’s also annoying how every time you turn on the game every pickup has to have its description blurb describe what it does all over again (but this is a Zelda series problem in general and not exclusive to this game).
Also I have three people left to recruit in Suikoden. Apparently if you don’t have all the possible recruits by the time you finish Neclord’s Castle you’re going to have to wait until the whole Dragon’s Den segment wraps up to get your final castle expansion. Now getting ready to storm the Shasarazade.
) Will add it to my party ASAP.