Greetings from Dipolartech

[dipolartech]

Hi Everybody!

I'm new, i've joined the boards because I want to know about how to play and to break d&d 3.5e. Hoping to get some of my friends involved/re-involved and play.

As for my name well its so old i don't even remember why I made it in the first place.

I'm interested in playing bards, swiftblades, (in combo of course!)

And I'm looking for leadership tricks!

[SneeR]

Welcome!
You'll find just what you're looking for here! What hobbies do you have besides D&D?

[dipolartech]

I'm a 1st Dan in the korean martial art Hapkido.

I've played Dance Dance Revolution till my feet fell off.


Since I bought a house I've into a lot of DIY furtniture and decorating. When I get it all up online, I'll link to the Super Mario nursery my wife and I made for our kid.  Our next project is a Zelda Kokiri Hidden Elf Village bedroom.

[SneeR]

I'm a 1st Dan in the korean martial art Hapkido.

I've played Dance Dance Revolution till my feet fell off.


Since I bought a house I've into a lot of DIY furtniture and decorating. When I get it all up online, I'll link to the Super Mario nursery my wife and I made for our kid.  Our next project is a Zelda Kokiri Hidden Elf Village bedroom.

I am in awe of you, sir. My children will live in video-gamey excellence just as yours will one day. I salute you!
So, which DDR do you play? What do you think of the most recent one?
What kind of video games do you like?
What sort of style is hapkido? I've dabbled in mixed martial arts, so I'm interested.
Where are you located IRL? Maybe you can find some gamers here to meet up with!

Hope you don't mind these questions; you just seem like an awesome person! One doesn't get to encounter sheer cool incarnate everyday you know!

[dipolartech]

 

I'm really not that cool, its just the sheer concentration of geek that makes such things possible.

As for DDR I have not had the opportunity to play the most recent arcade release in any form, I've heard that it has added some of the In The Groove mods like mines but we'll see.

As for general video games I'ved played JRPGS (FF, Chrono Trigger, Star Ocean, EarthBound), Western RPGS (Fallout, Oblivion), FPSs ( started with CS 6.5 beta,  Quake 4, Battlefield of various years, Halo, Medal of Honor etc), Final Fantasy Tactics....


Ooops carpool ride is here i'll finish at work i guess.


Edit: Back!

So in summary of video games theres JRPGs, WRPGS, Tactics, FPSs (oh and MechWarrior!), and Fighters( MvC2, Guilty Gear, BlazBlue, KoF, SSBM). I don't play many pure puzzle games and I absolutely positively suck at Angry Birds.

Hapkido a soft martial art. It is descendant of Aiki-juijustu along side of Aikido and juijitsu. According to what I've read at approximately the same time that the founder of Aikido was studying Aiki-juijutsu, the founder of Hapkido was visiting Japan and studying it as well. I don't know the timeline exactly but the founder Choi Yung-Sool then returned home to Korea and eventually Hapkido solidified from his and his students teachings. 

There's plenty of variation among Hapkido practitioners but most curriculums include joint locks, strikes, kicks, throws/rolls/falls, and weapons (though thats often restricted to 1st Dan and above, but not in my school!  ).

As for game/meetup purposes I'm in the Atlanta, Ga area on the west side.

[SneeR]

I might need to fly out to Georgia and shake your hand...

Have you ever played Xenosaga? That's the only JRPG I could ever really get behind (because they all take scores of hours to beat, obviously). I've heard Star Ocean is pretty good; would you suggest I seek it out?

Ever played Demon's Souls or Dark Souls? Those are action RPGs. I absolutely love them, though they are hard as no tomorrow.

How old is your kid? Have they played the Mario they are surrounded by yet? Is your wife a gamer?

[Soundwave]

SSBM for life!  You ever pay attention to the competitive scene or the smashworld forums before MLG bought em out?

[dipolartech]

To Sneer: I haven't really played Xenosaga, I did play a dozen hours or so of Xenogears though. I just had to stop though after I spent 10 minutes hitting the x button to scroll through a conversation. Not reading the conversation, just scrolling it as fast as possible. I like stories and reading in my rpgs but not that much.

I haven't played Demon's Souls or Darks Souls. I can't even say that I've played a game in that niche for more than a few minutes ( played like 30 minutes of Infamous). I did play Devil May Cry 4 which is a tad different. As for how hard that genre gets, well, I had the honor of watching someone play DMC 4 on the difficulty where bosses had full health and Dante was a 1-hit pony and he bloody well beat the whole damn game. I enjoyed watching him and I knew I never had chance of being anywhere near that ridiculous in that genre. And remember the http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/08? Yeah watched this guy play Ninja Gaiden Black just yeah....
Ok enough digressing.

My kid isn't old enough for video games yet, but we'll get there no worries. As for my wife, well she played Oblivion to death and informed me that she is never allowed to play an MMORPG because they don't end. She's also the person in the household who has 3-starred all of Angry Birds....


To Soundwave: Only a bit, only a bit, I wasn't bad at SSBM, but since I never dedicated myself to the tournament scene i never learned to compete on that level. But being naturally inclined to optimize (strategy and tactics) I was too good for the average pool that was my college and so I stuck playing Pichu (who's limited mechanical prowess negated my inclination to optimize) to give other people a more enjoyable experience.

 I was (and really still am) more naturally fitted to FPSs than to fighters. It just clicks naturally in that game type. I was lucky enough to slot into a 4 man team in college and get General (level 50) on the first Halo 3 ranking system in both 4 and 2 man teams. Funny enough if I matched our various styles to D&D i was the double charging in your face  fighter with high Ride skill ( I could out drive my entire team with every vehicle in the game). But it fit well and fun times were had by all even I rarely play rpgs such as Oblivion like that.

Who is your favorite to play as Soundwave in SSBM? And might as well mention your preferred style in D&D while we're at it.

[Soundwave]

For SSBM? I main Ganondorf with fox alt for serious matches. My pity character is mewtwo.

For D&D I tend to play stealth based characters or the party face, i prefer illusions misdirection and a good bluff check to a club to the face

Id rather corrupt then conquer.

[dipolartech]

Sounds like you picked your screen name pretty well.

As for Mewtwo being a pity character, well my argument would be that he is too floaty (big jump) but still heavy and his shadow ball and throws are high powered. As long as you remember that smacking people with other attacks resets the distance an ability can launch he's too hard hitting for a pity character.

I never got the hang of competitive fox/falco play per se other than the fact they are lightning bruisers and people optimize their play to combo the other "top tier" characters with them. For instance, i was playing somebody (quite a bit more into tourneys than I) who used falco who combo'd the ever-living crap out my shiek. Well, I had gone with shiek on the first life out of a misplaced idea of fighting speed to speed, having forgotten that a) shiek's physics let fox/falco sweet spot her and b) he's probably faced hundreds of shiek matches minimum. So second life and on I played Zelda at this point the match turned around completely. Either he stopped "taking me seriously" cause I "had given up and was making it a joke" or he had so optimized his personal gameplay to fighting like 4 characters that he could handle fighting Zelda. Anywho I won, he lost, and I never played him again. I hope he didn't do it out of any misplaced pity, I'd been completely curbstomped by people in most competitive games i've played over the years and don't really mind.

[Soundwave]

His recovery distance is alright but being floaty is a definite disadvantage as it makes you more prone to juggling combos. The rest of his problem lies in speed, mewtwo is simply too slow both in recovery time for the moves themselves as well as the time it takes to perform them. A good fox/falco can shine on inside the character and beat the crap out of him before the move animation even finished. Its why marth ended up so high in the tier listings, that and his incredibly abusable chain throw spike ledgeguard combos.

Mewtwos throws arent bad on a single use basis but they throw the opponent to far away to use with most reliable combos and anyone who can tech decently will be back and beating the poor pokemon into the ground before the animation frame for his throw finishes.

[dipolartech]

Oh I agree he doesn't hold a candle to tournament tiers, though I contend that he actually is harder to combo than fox/falco/shiek because he is floaty but not light, you can't just spam the inputs as fast as humanly possible to combo him. Or they become one or two hit combos because he's too far away to hit him again before he gets control back. Again I don't think he's tourney good just a much stronger character than pichu.

[Soundwave]

No argument their, if memory serves pichu was the lowest ranked character in the ssbm final tiers list.

Damaging yourself with 80% of your attacks just isnt a good mechanic heh.

If you ever end up in the Montana area send me a PM, be fun to play some matches

[dipolartech]

Ack, I'd have to remember what the A button does, oh right pichu's best move (jump neutral A) and tilt attacks. I always felt that people totally devalued tilt attacks in their tactics.


Montana eh? I hear there's some bison up there, I could bring some trees and we could have wood grilled bison steaks....

[Soundwave]

Home raised beef, charlo/angus mix.

Best steak you will ever have.

[dipolartech]

Hehe, maybe maybe, I grew up on a farm, we had some santagertrudis and later angus bred into our little herd of walking steaks. Not much better than a steak bigger than the frying pan for lunch.

[Soundwave]

Amen.