Lurker > MadDewg

Yall wanna' see something funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFzH_9Fnjd8

Gotta' love when you farm a armor set for like a hour and the game decides to screw with you by giving you the same piece over and over:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/1/7/AARkkPAADClZ.jpg

Ratchetrockon posted...

nice dude. there is a pretty difficult boss in that area the further you go in.

Was it the twin gargoyle fight? Because that one almost went south mad fast after the second one joined the party, lol. Luckily the mimic tear and D lasted just long enough for the first gargoyle to go down.

I last left off at what I am assuming is a boss door at deeproot depths so I'm gonna' see whats all going on with this.

Finally finished with the general nokron city area. Ancestrial spirit moose or whatever the hell dead, mimic tear gotten and apparently still a really damn good tank, and onwards to the siofra aquaducts and deeproot depths.

MJOLNRVII posted...

I love both of the Eternal Cities in Elden Ring. They look nice, some of the bosses are neat, and they're big.

The area is definitely gorgeousthats for sure. My favorite environments in video games tend to be the starry night snow level looking type areas (although in this game its underground in a cave but man it still looks cool), and I had the dark link battle theme from ocarina of time in my head the entire time during the mimic tear boss battle. (My clone beat me the first time since I went into it with a supped up nakiraba and moonveil and it obviously put better use to that stuff than I did, lol).

Currently trying to find the last torch or whatever to fight this spirit deer.

Man that nokron eternal city area's size is kinda' overwhelming. I started it last night, played for I want to say like 5 hours and I still think I probably skipped a ton of items there.

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Yep, killed gostoc myself for his bell since I completely missed out on the items he sells during his extremely short stint as a merchant, lol. =/

I also like how the mimic tear got nerfed when I was at least 10 minutes away from obtaining it. (The last thing I did before the game booted me off for the update was beat the mimic tear boss fight).

Ah well, I beat this and get that plat I am off the stranger of paradise anyway so I'm not even that mad........well, I'm slightly mad that I did not get to experience uber strong mimic tear like everyone else, lol.

g0ldie posted...

^ I came across the one in the windmill village, and it totally rocked me.

I was about level 45-47 (pure strength build), I think.

Hell I was level 128 like three hours ago or so when I fought that one in the windmill village and he was doing high damage on me, lol. At least with him I was able to fight him as usual but that one right there? Man I wasn't trying to mess with him in close combat.

As cool as those additions was the game just does not feel right without the analog input. Games needs a re-release

Not even ashamed:
https://youtu.be/F5kfo5Fco9E?t=18

Just was glad to get that one done, lol

Dying light 2. Bought it digital (big mistake on my part. At least if it was the disc version I could have either took it back in that first week for a full refund or simply sold it later on) only to find out that after a hour or so its the "same ol same ol" from when I played dying light 1 years ago.

That 60 dollars could have went towards king of fighters or horizon (both of which I ended up skipping for now since I was getting elden ring).

The only thing I am upset about from last of us 2 is that there was no factions multiplayer succesor. I genuinely liked the factions MP from last of us 1 and wanted another one, =(

(I am a huge, well was, a huge gears of war MP fan, and last of us factions felt like the closest that is available to that kind of multiplayer on the playstation side).

Did dudes find out how exact the co-op summon level range works in this game yet? I'm level 128 rocking a +17 nagakiba and a +6 moonveil and I am being summoned to fight queen rennala. Of course with my weapons+bloody slash the poor lady is getting utterly demolished, lol.

a-c-a-b posted...

Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World

Loved the first game but the sequel was a pretty big disappointment.

Damn I completely forgot about this. Yeah, I loved the hell out of tales of symphonia so I definitely pre-ordered dawn of the new world to get it day 1. Holy shit was the game so bad. Never actually finished it to this day.

Nah, lifelong disability here. I've always wanted to though since I grew up around both my dad and older brother constantly playing basketball, alongside every single one of my cousins. There was times when they would all go to the gym and play some games and I would just be off to the side playing air hockey or something. Felt bad, lol.

Chrono cross. Friggin' hated that game compared to chrono trigger. My brother pre-ordered chrono cross and he still talks about how pissed he was about it to this day, lol. None of my close friends liked it either. The battle system, the pointlessly huge amount of optional party members with barely any personality to them, and the plot all was just mediocre. I will give cross this though....it has some nice tracks in the ost. Not the regular battle theme though screw that crap, but I like a lot of the emotional osts it has, the opening, ending, and that one emotional track that plays from time to time. (The one that carries over into the battle with that miguel dude).

As much as I did not liked the game I did beat it anyway though because I felt sort of bad for my brother and did not want to waste his purchase like that, lol.

The star ocean series in general is a interesting case for me in that while I do not mind the actual gameplay/battle system chances from game to game the actual stories is getting worse and worse. Star ocean 1's plot was fairly interesting for it's time, star ocean 2 was by far the peak of the series especially with the mid-game twist of the planet you are on freaking exploding, star ocean 3 took the plot off a god-damn cliff and the series never recovered from it. Star ocean 4's was eh, and star ocean 5's was so mediocre that a lot of people actually forgot this game exists.

I have a slight hope that star ocean 6 can bring back that so2 magic since its hinting at bringing back the two selectable protagonists thing, but I don't know, lol.

Not only did a see a couple going to middle school and highschool in south carolina circa 1996-2001 but one of the girls was one that used to attend the church I went to growing up. She was pregnant in 8th grade if I remember right. Never saw her in highschool so I'm assuming she dropped out. (Despite seeing her every now and then at church I didn't really talk to her or her family like that. Actually after she became pregnant I never saw that family at the church ever again).

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Yep. Uchigatana is strong as hell. I dual wielded two of them up until I got the moonveil, and then finally replaced the remaining one once I got the nagakiba.

OudeGeuze posted...

the capital

TY

Just double checking to make sure, but whats that one region/dungeon/whatever that will become unaccesible after a story event? I want to keep that one region in mind so I'll try to get every single thing in it before its gone.

Seems like decisions can this can burn some bridges with friends if the minecraft dude/markus persson is anything to go by. One one hand, you are most definitely filthy rich now, is completely set for life and get to get into shenanigans like outbidding a celebrity power couple on a mansion or something. On the other hand, you can be completely isolated from the friend group that you created your small indie company with (maybe they either got screwed on the sell out or maybe they are just passionate about being a smaller team that for them selling is completely out of the question) and to get companionship you know host random influencer/celeb parties to "hang out" but everything is all like...shallow now since its obvious all these people don't give a shit about you as a person but is just hanging out because of your money.

Again with the minecraft dude, even with all that money he gives off that kind of impression of being depressed if his twitter is anything to go by. (Also, as a creative, you can become completely unmotivated after you sell your passion project IP and can come up with nothing else all after the fact).

That is a tough one....if you are a family man/woman then you have your family's future secured for sure. I would probably sell if I had a family, but no deal as a single person lol.

I watched a lot of that good attitude era WWE myself, and you are garuanteed to see every single squaresoft game's commercial. Final fantasies 7, 8, 9, parasite eve, and kingdom hearts all played constantly during raw is war time.

All these years and the spaghetti guy from yoshi's island commercial still sticks out, lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rih1-_JhvAE

My guy jinbe. He is like arlong, but not a bitch:
https://i.imgur.com/p5Dj2ks.png

Look at that reaction when it comes to showing up and finally joining the crew proper. Everyone loves him, pretty sure kid and law is mad jealous because of the one manga panel that basically had them be all like "omg holy shit a former warlord of the sea is joining the strawhats?! Pshh they lucky", and he makes fishman karate look like the baddest shit ever. You know he is going to get a massive welcoming party when they get done with the whole wano business.

I was going to say devil may cry 2 easily (I can still remember my brother's disappointment to this day since he pre-ordered that shit, lol), but those that brought up alundra 2 and yoshi's story reminded me of how crap those games were compared to their predecessors.

To be fair when it comes to alundra, alundra 2 was meant to be some other shitty game but had the name alundra slapped onto it in an attempt to boost sales probably. It backfired badly.

Had the actual final fantasy 2 been localized back in the day I probably would have said that also. I tried to play actual FF2 and just could not get into it.

That post is definitely a (hilarious) copypasta, lol. My first time seeing that one and it totally sounds like something the souls community would put out.

Antifar posted...

Tl;dr: the graphics and story are laughable, the combat is fun, there might be too much loot to handle.

Definitely final fantasy nioh for sure. I'll be there on the 18th since I loved me some nioh/actually enjoyed the trial for stranger of paradise but man do I agree with the too much loot criticism, lol.

I would get that early release but I'm going to need these 4 days to finish up elden ring.

Irony posted...

You should definitely not be on horseback until he engages the summons.

Ah....maybe it was fate that led me to just yolo charge him on foot. Seriously though that fight's atmosphere was awesome. I'm looking forward to the major boss fights I have left.

Man I derped.....I'm over here watching a few other player's radahn battle on youtube and it just dawned on me that I also could have used the horse instead of eating all those lance throws at the start, lol.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/0/0/AARkkPAADBwA.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/0/1/AARkkPAADBwB.jpg

Got that nice confidence boost since I somehow managed to beat radahn at my first go at him. I was crazy confused on what was going on at the start of the fight and kind of stood around eating mad ranged hits, but somehow I managed to barely win.
https://youtu.be/rwNtjKMXBvo?t=511

Not too much longer to go I think. At this point I might just go straight to the story dungeons/complete the sidequests left for all the endings and finish up.

I was making the journey to the sealed tunnel so I can get the smithing bell to give to the twin maiden husks to buy smithing stones 3 and 4, and naturally made the journey across that huge bridge only to be surprised by two tree sentinels.

The very first thing I noticed is that there is a tiny nook to the right where you can fit over there yet the tree sentinels can't do jack to you, so I just sat there and arrow'd+rotted them to death.

I don't feel bad about it one bit, lol.

Seaman_Prime posted...

Has anyone been invaded by an NPC called Festering Fingerprint Vyke, he's suppose to be near the Frenzy Flame village, but he won't spawn for me. Maybe its cause I joined the Volcano Manor too early?

Yeah, I fought him at some point or another because I remember getting that spear. I don't think I joined in on the volcano manor quests at that point though.

ZannoL posted...

Love me some takeout. I have it every now and then.

Problem with relying on it, though, is that you get tons of sodium, tons of sugar, and more. When you cook your own food, you get to control everything you put in it.

Let us know how the ramen takeout is like.

The place I am thinking about going to is really damn good...its owned by some young gamer dudes since its also a local gathering spot for tabletop gamers, card games like magic the gathering and even got a few video game related things up on the wall there. This is how it looks:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/1/7/AARkkPAADBod.jpg
Not bad at all for middle of nowhere south carolina, lol.

Lol, I've been on board the stranger of paradise train since day 1 from playing the very first trial....the dialogue is so cheesy that it crosses over into being entertaining, and its practically final fantasy nioh.

The main thing I hope they improved is the framerate being stable (I haven't played this newest demo. The game is so close to release that I figure I could hold off while I finish up elden ring).

As much as I love elden ring, I admit I kind of had enough of the framerate kind of being all over the place playing the native PS5 version.

I can cook, but I will say that on average I tend to get take out from various places more. (Gotta' go pick it up myself though. Those delivery prices is pretty nutty nowadays).

Thinking about getting some ramen take out later on today actually.

lilORANG posted...

What does being "good" at Mario Kart even mean? Accelerate and drive forward. You win.

Item control, having better racing lines than everyone else, and if on 200cc knowing when to break is gettin' gud at mario kart.

I desperately need smithing stone 3s, lol. At this point I should just rush more through the main areas until I can get the next smithing bell so I could at least buy these things.

spanky1 posted...

Man I dunno how people beat it so fast. I'm like at 75 hours and I haven't stepped foot in the capital yet.

Tell me about it. I got like 120 hours clocked on my character (to be fair, there is some slight idle hours in there) and I am just now getting around to the caelan (sp?) region with only two of those lords down. Then again I am going in every other mini dungeon I see so that is probably taking up a lot of time.

I have a quick question about that dude yura's questline.

I was doing the part where you have to go to the church to find him hurt and fight that one npc invader. While yura was saying his last words or whatever the hell, a random ass dog came out of nowhere and completely 1 shotted me via bloodlost, lmao. Anyway, can I still get yura's armor set later in the game when you find the one guy going around looking like him or am I screwed on that?
https://youtu.be/kkPOOKJdpCM?t=27

The original xbox for it's time had some amazing online console gaming. Sony was still messing around with having a network adapter add-on for the original PS2 model with 56K users being able to play alongside broadband users (which of course was laggy as hell) and the cube had a whopping all of like what, 3 games or so that actually used that network adapter. (PSO episode 1 and 2 which was amazing, but then its like phantasy star online episode 3 card battle and......that was kind of it).

Here comes the xbox with it's mandatory broadband requirement and unreal championship 1 n' 2, dead or alive ultimate, it's own version of phantasy star online episode 1 and 2, return to castle wolfenstein (which was leagues better than the PS2 counterpart. The PS2 could only muster just a single player campaign whereas the xbox version had two players co-op for the campaign and a 16 player online mode....which was fun as hell. Seriously I played return to castle wolfenstein for like, 8 months straight), rainbow six, splinter cell, halo 2, hell it even had a version of guilty gear x2 reload that was online capable....the input delay sucked all kinds of ass but dammit I was beating ass with anji online back in 2004/2005). Other online games I played on it was stuff like sega's spikeout and conker live and reloaded. (which was surprisingly fun for what it was. Assassins was a little too strong though).

The og xbox admittedly did not work too well as a "main console" since you would miss way too many of those good 1st/2nd/3rd party games that was on the PS2, but goddamn it was an amazing companion console, even more so because some of those western-made 3rd party games like psy-ops was so much better on the xbox compared to the ps2.

The xbox 360 was awesome back when xbox live arcade was all new and devs was figuring out that making cheaper digital releases like bionic commando-rearmed or porting old classics like doom n' castlevania symphony of the night = easy money. Indie dudes was also getting their start on there with stuff like dishwasher, shank, charlie murder and all that.

I do agree the xbox one was kind of a dud though. I bought one just to play gears of war 4 and that game was kind of a let down for me, =/

Spidey5 posted...

So it's gotten to the point of being excited by necks, huh?

My weeb self has read enough manga/seen enough anime and played that occasional jrpg to know that yeah, a lot of japanese get turned on by necks, lol.

There was even a neck fan-service scene in persona 5:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/3/3/AARkkPAADBPt.jpg

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Yeah I got that all after the fact, but when I first went in there I was in derp mode.

We all have those bosses where we completely squash it in the first attempt compared to someone else. This just happened to be the one that didn't click for a bit for me anyway, lol.

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I think its one of those build dependent things since I wouldn't say it was a walk in the park as a samurai/typical dex stuff. From what I remember reading sorceries melts him pretty easily, but I had to put in a bit of effort since I was using a uchigatana. Its also the fight that got me to finally try out bloody slash (which worked really damn well).

I think all I had for summons at that point was the wolves, the jellyfish, and a few of the other earlier ones, so yeah that one took me like 30 something minutes to finally kill it

ThePrinceFish posted...

*walk in to church to see my best friend; the turtle pope*
*he's gone*
*scary music starts playing*
*i get my ass kicked*

lmao, this happened to me when I went to go see that one knight dude in limgrave to buy some of the ash of war moves he was selling. Happened to go there at night and did not see him there, next thing you know I'm dead.

Totally radical.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/7/9/AARkkPAADBIn.jpg

Finished up the a academy last night. The boss fight was pretty cool.

*re-downloads my ps5 cloud save after it gets deleted. (with auto-sync disabled of course).*

It feels bad when you try to make a helpful message but for some reason gets rated poor. (I guess people sometimes think its a troll message despite you intending for it to help someone, lol):
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/0/5/AARkkPAADA8h.jpg
(That is the wheel in the academy dungeon where if you actually run and jump on it, you can reach the other side and go down a path that leads to a talisman that negates non-fatal fall damage and a iron maiden enemy that transports you to volcano manor if it kills you......thanks patches, real helpful that area, lol)

My goofy taking on all at once looking at like 5 racks of spears with a crouching emote message gets nothing but appraise though.