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Funky question.
Has there been any thoughts about counter attacks ?
If natural (constantly passive via some formula) or requires a tactic to be cast, or whatever ?
ZyloWolfBane (euh, forgot his name here on the forum) and i discussed it shortly. very shortly heh. so very shortly.
Quote:PoC is mediocre offensively despite being able to equip some decent thingsIn the GBC version he can equip the lightsword, otherwise it's the iron spear or falcon sword. Offensively useful he is not… at least not up until the last 10 levels or so. Defeat has some use, granted.
I've not gotten myself up to the point of running through cave to rhone. The last 5% of dw2 is sssssuuuuucccccchhhhhh a bitch :finger:
Went ahead and prodded the Sea Shrine. I forgot how much that place just outright hates the player.
Early shrine: sweet breath & strange jig (bai bai mp), late shrine: pink panthers (ow) and strange jig (no more mp for sure!).
I can't imagine going through that area as a kid without 3 SoS's for the free healing…
Also poked the Cave to Rhone a bit… got the thunder sword, armor, life crest (and charm of rubis as a result)…. now just need to go through the cave and make it into Rhone.
Levels… aren't much more than previous mention. I've gained a level or so…. PoC has Defeat, and PsM has Explodet (both are new since last post).
As far as DW2 … there's a post on the gamefaq's forum for dw2 that is appropriate…
Quote:One of the things that I most like about this game is that its characters aren't superheroes. The prince of Cannock doesn't join because he's a good character-he joins because his country will be next if Hargon survives. That's the game. I'm sure that somewhere in the world of Dw2, there is a magic-wielding uberknight who (somehow) has a natural immunity to random defeat spells. He didn't opt to go along with you. A man in an iron kettle who can't comprehend magic, a snotty-nosed prince who is absolute lord and master over *2* other weapons, and a girl who's spent the last few weeks sniffing other dog's cornholes in happy greeting…that's who's going to save the world. Good luck.….
Let's not forget, these monsters are trying to *kill you.* Death is never game over when a power button is involved. If the bad guys never succeed in winning then, they weren't doing their jobs and neither were the programmers.
As far as the SoT trick – the key to doing it is that ya gotta realize that it helps a bit, but isn't a god-tier trick. You do it, you can afford some things, but your stats don't get a huge boost from the new items really. It just makes the up and coming grinding a little easier. Which… if you think about it… I can't really recall any DW games that dangled god-like weaponry in your face "before you can normally get them" … which is a good thing IMHO.
DW3 is…. about right for difficulty I think. Possibly. It's easy enough to get into and enjoy, but hard enough to not be a *complete* cakewalk. I wish it would be harder at times, but it really does seem about right. From there, the series generally seems to be getting easier and easier. I've not played 7 or 9 yet though.
Re: FF1.
FF1/NES is actually my prefered format for FF1 :). I hate the remakes. MP ? Ethers ? free money/xp ? blah… the suckage. And I like "ineffective" personally. You basically beat the shit out of a dead body. If a 'round' is only a few seconds, this would be to be expected.
Fave NES games is a bit hard to do. Too many genres and such.
Blaster Master, Bionic Commando, FF1, DW3, RoTK1/2, Metroid, DoaE, Zelda2, the list can get quite large pretty quick :). Hell, maybe even the original Uncharted Waters.
Annnndddd for what it's worth, when playing on emulators, I don't ever use fast forward features. Personal preference I suppose heh.
Was never a fan of the super sampling stuff for upscalers and what not. I prefer nice square hard edges myself. Dunno why, heh.
New font and colors stuff might be cool.
Sun Shang / xbows – i think i might have used her for that express purpose for a short while ? don't recall…
Mr Happy / behead – hmmm I didn't get to use him for very long before the game locked up, but behead didn't seem to be an earth shattering game changer or anything. Possibly handy, yes… but not ZOMG. Although — being on the receiving end of the behead was not cool.
Dude in a house with a chick: bwahahaha. Glad I was able to throw a curve ball and beat it early ;). I don't recall getting anything interesting of a reward… but still, heh.
The spoilers of upcoming 3 enemies with Raise and no 'thwart': are you just trying to piss off the player ? I'll have to hold judgement until I get to that point myself. If they got 'negate', then it might be rage worthy heh.
re: taxes
Heh, nope. Just many months of thinking it was being paid when it wasn't. Then winter coming to a close and the shut off… while I was spending money on some science'ing supplies…. *cough*. Still a bit flat footed and will be a few weeks before internet at home.
re: Sun Shang was one of my most used officers
Hm, I don't think I used Sun Shang at all ? Or very little ? Was middling stats and just didn't seem to fit in at all IIRC ? Been a while :/.
I'm still a bit upset about the thought of having to lose Hungry Nephew (er, Gan Ning) towards late game. I'll prolly insist on keeping him in the first 5 no matter what out of sheer loyalty though ;).
Mr Happy at 210 Int does need to be in the party for sure, I think. The spell he grants you isn't necessarily game destroying … which is nice in how it was balanced. Kudos. Granted, that spell used against you tends to wreck your team heh.
re: 100tp cost spells
I think those were done fairly well. But I did have complaints about a few tactics that seemed to cost too much compared to damage output. Given that these new tactic things are all experimental stages and finding balances is rough it's understandable.
re: repetitious battles
Most turn based RPG's will boil down to something like that.
The original: zeal's, then power pills. Or thwart + zeal + power pill. Or An Sha attempts with resets.
Focus and the balancing Sonic's done in FoW has done well for providing a few different ways to handle fights… and if something goes awry you *can* still recover from it. With focus, you can also have longer fights while you attempt to balance damage output vs tp regen and stuff.
In RoI, what would have been the Jing Zhou area, I basically just stampeded through with War Edge. That was definitely broken :).
My fight with the guy in the house with a girl was probably the most 'unorthodox' style fight I've had to do in any doae. Some of the ROLB had similar fights towards the end with the servant girls or whatever they were called… but yeah.
Which, I hope Sonic did at least watch that house fight in the twitch recordings ;) … it was a bit back and forth-ish, and was a fine demonstration of focus in heavy use heh.
i'll be holding off on continuing my play through (or restarting it since it's been so long) until after get net turned back on. since it's been so long, i won't remember much about early game (other than getting raped by tigers and starving) … so… should be fun :)
and no – i thought i had bill on auto pay, it wasn't … so ignored bills thinking they were being paid… this state has humane laws where ya can't kill such things in the middle of winter, so bill grew to point they wanted a testicle heh…. and was caught flat footed when it happened :P.
as far as folks having problems …. i didn't really have earth shattering impossibilities. granted, i was only just starting to enter the jin territory stuff.
maybe folks were silly and booted Gan Ning out of their party. They shouldn't do that. Gan Ning HUNGERS!^O)(@!#U$)(*@#
Power restored. Need to re-sign up for 'net access.
In the mean time ….
Is the twitch game play preferred or would you prefer fceu fm2 movies or whatever ? Dunno if i can do a network chat commentary without net play enabled (if it supports it), and dunno if net chat stuff is recorded in the fm2's…
annnnndddd…
amused at 'mr happy' sticking lol
Still without power at home (over 4 weeks now ? heh) … soooo… still haven't gotten to get around to it.
Another week to go or so.
Quote:As much as sonic as used our work, I would hope he would share his work. His portraits are too good not to share.If we all share our work, overall DoaE mods will keep getting better and better (although this mod has set the bar *really* high).
Are you kidding, every year it's as if the bar height doubles. Y'all are doing absolutely unbelievable work here in the DoaE community.
Tell me any of the mods from the last 3 years wouldn't have been astounding sequels / spin-offs to the original game at the time.
Granted, a 1MB rom would have been a tad expensive ;)
Quote:Ergh… here's hoping things become nonbumpy soon!Not for another 10-11 days. Sigh.
Quote:nevermind, stupid me looked everywhere except where i was suppsoed to, i figured it out for nowThere was I think only one spot where I wasn't quite sure where to go next. It might have been around the time of the hua xiong fight area in the original (ie: couldn't figure out how to get past that gate, there was some place i needed to go but couldn't figure it out). I did get it eventually figured out though… and honestly, it's not as bad as some of the running around in Ieyasu :P.
I'll have to start the game / rom over from the start to do my play through. At least this time I won't say 'no' to cao pi for hiring heh.
Due to personal issues I won't be able to continue with play through for a few weeks. At least, I won't be able to stream it.
I can possibly start a second play through and give things another go, though.
Sorry bout that, but things are bumpy at home right now… no choice.
