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Re: Videogame Discussion II: Snake's Revenge
« Reply #20 on: February 14, 2014, 08:40:59 AM »

Lack of danmaku.

You are such a killjoy  :pout

Like, it's Civ, not some 3D aerial fighter :p

If I'm going to turn something into Gensokyo, simple civ bonuses won't cut it. :p

Also having Eirin as leader of Eientei is horribly wrong (ditto for Utsuho as a leader), even if she is stronger. :<

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Re: Videogame Discussion II: Snake's Revenge
« Reply #21 on: February 14, 2014, 09:15:17 AM »
Eiren just comes off as more proactive and memorable than Kaguya I guess *shrugs* :p

And Utsuho got the lead because she was the one who came up from hell to 'take over the world' and burn it to ashes. Nonetheless, her dialogue in Civ does have her mentioning how she's conquering the world to make it a better place for Satori. *andanothershrug*

If I'm going to turn something into Gensokyo, simple civ bonuses won't cut it. :p
Like, I understand that, but you can't get much more out of Civ than that. That'd need to be a whole 'nother game entirely :p

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Re: Videogame Discussion II: Snake's Revenge
« Reply #22 on: February 14, 2014, 12:07:00 PM »
Yes, that means I have not played PvZ 2 or SWTOR.
Honestly, you're not missing a thing on PvZ 2, it's a terrible game.

Most of the new plants are dumb gimmicks, boomerang, punching, spring, etc. that are less useful than the original plants. Some are even counter productive (firebreathers). However there is ten times the amount of zombies with makes things vary between fucking hard to goddamnit this is retarded. The reason? Two fold actually. You can kill a green glowing zombie for "plant food" which kicks a plant into super mode for a few seconds and there are three new touch screen powers can eliminate hordes of zombies in seconds.

With *such* powerful options at your disposal they ramped up the zombie count to insane levels to compensate for it. You've also got mobs that auto kill plants in one hit, including Wall-Nuts, that show up early on as well. Torchbearers in the first map, barrel rollers in the second, and dear god why are there 4 gargantuans coming at me as "wave 2 of 4" on map 3 before the 10th stage?

The catch? The cheapest power costs 800 coins per use, you'd be lucky to bank 125 per stage repetition. Plant food is also pretty damn rare unless you spend coins on it. And if stock piling all those coins only to blow them all on an unsuccessful run pisses you off, it'll send you a a nice little reminder that you can purchase more in game coins with real money.

Yeah, the whole game is pretty fucking unplayable without using touchscreen powers, which means you are ever sinking money into EA to be able to play it. I'm waiting for a decent hack.

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Re: Videogame Discussion II: Snake's Revenge
« Reply #23 on: February 14, 2014, 01:35:32 PM »
Well, glad to hear I'm only missing content that's akin to highway robbery instead of a game!

Anyone play La Mulana?  Because there's a kickstarter for the sequel right now!

Another kickstarter, for fans of Final Fantasy Tactics!

The "Japanese Beethoven" deaf composer who wrote Resident Evil and Onimusha music is neither deaf, nor a composer.
What do I win?
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Re: Videogame Discussion II: Snake's Revenge
« Reply #24 on: February 14, 2014, 01:59:16 PM »
Whoa... I'd heard the Samuragochi story before but that bit about him not even being deaf is news to me.
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Re: Videogame Discussion II: Snake's Revenge
« Reply #25 on: February 14, 2014, 05:38:37 PM »
Civ V: why do I always go for 'marathon' settings? :p

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Re: Videogame Discussion II: Snake's Revenge
« Reply #26 on: February 14, 2014, 05:52:29 PM »
Civ V: why do I always go for 'marathon' settings? :p

Because you want to spend all day going through a single era? :P

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Re: Videogame Discussion II: Snake's Revenge
« Reply #27 on: February 14, 2014, 05:55:00 PM »
Civ V: why do I always go for 'marathon' settings? :p

I know, right?  :lmao
I also turn off culture and science victories because the bots win those by default at higher difficulties with awesomely unbalanced cheats and bonuses.
I play to set the world on fire. Every world. All worlds. And then I don't clean up the fallout because I need something to replace my Great Wall when it becomes useless :D

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Re: Videogame Discussion II: Snake's Revenge
« Reply #28 on: February 14, 2014, 05:55:51 PM »
Another kickstarter, for fans of Final Fantasy Tactics!

That looks interesting but I don't know how I feel about the "control different groups of characters in different battles" concept.

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Re: Videogame Discussion II: Snake's Revenge
« Reply #29 on: February 14, 2014, 06:18:00 PM »
I refuse to turn the difficulty up on Civ games because that's... boring. :/

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Re: Videogame Discussion II: Snake's Revenge
« Reply #30 on: February 14, 2014, 06:24:17 PM »
I refuse to turn the difficulty up on Civ games because that's... boring. :/
Same here, the difficulty generally doesn't result in AI changes beyond the changes in AI actions made due to not having as much science/money/culture/army/whatever.  I just set it to the fair setting and be done with it.

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Re: Videogame Discussion II: Snake's Revenge
« Reply #31 on: February 14, 2014, 06:37:49 PM »
I refuse to turn the difficulty up on Civ games because that's... boring. :/
Same here, the difficulty generally doesn't result in AI changes beyond the changes in AI actions made due to not having as much science/money/culture/army/whatever.  I just set it to the fair setting and be done with it.

Which one is that, again? XD

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Re: Videogame Discussion II: Snake's Revenge
« Reply #32 on: February 14, 2014, 07:29:30 PM »
I usually leave the game at Chieftain difficulty.  Lately I've been playing the Civ IV mod Fall From Heaven 2 and dang it's fun, although still somewhat confusing to me.

But at the moment I'm playing Terraria.  It got an update yesterday and it's awesome.  <3  And I'm the equivalent of high right now I think, though I expect that'll change once my body realizes I ate too much today...

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Re: Videogame Discussion II: Snake's Revenge
« Reply #33 on: February 14, 2014, 07:34:41 PM »
Oh goddammit, now I'm going to have to play Terraria again.

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Re: Videogame Discussion II: Snake's Revenge
« Reply #34 on: February 14, 2014, 08:52:34 PM »
So I just pre-ordered my copy of ESO: Imperial Edition today.  Anyone esle picked it up yet?

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Re: Videogame Discussion II: Snake's Revenge
« Reply #35 on: February 15, 2014, 12:04:53 AM »
So I just pre-ordered my copy of ESO: Imperial Edition today.  Anyone esle picked it up yet?
Dear god why?

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Re: Videogame Discussion II: Snake's Revenge
« Reply #36 on: February 15, 2014, 12:09:24 AM »
8 hours on one game in one sleep/wake cycle... ;-;

At least I stopped right before wandering into the Renaissance (I'm beginning to wonder if I'll hit a Cultural Victory before the Modern Age).

Also the Byzantines' extra belief for religions is so very unfair if you start aggressively spreading it (since it lets you have two founder beliefs... like two of money/culture/happiness/faith based on the CPU-controlled cities). XD
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Re: Videogame Discussion II: Snake's Revenge
« Reply #37 on: February 15, 2014, 01:08:06 AM »
So I just pre-ordered my copy of ESO: Imperial Edition today.  Anyone esle picked it up yet?
Dear god why?

I have been waiting for an Elder Scrolls MMO since Morrowind.  And most of the gameplay I have seen looks pretty good to me.  And I haven't been into anything heavy for a while.

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Re: Videogame Discussion II: Snake's Revenge
« Reply #38 on: February 15, 2014, 01:32:39 AM »
I played the last beta and ESO is certainly an mmo I'd play if I had the money for it. It's kinda up there with FF realm reborn on my list. :P

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Re: Videogame Discussion II: Snake's Revenge
« Reply #39 on: February 15, 2014, 02:29:34 AM »
Replaying Curse of Monkey Island.

I wish people would do more 2D-animated point-and-clicks.
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