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| Topic | Best Game taking place in the state of Michigan |
| azuarc 02/12/21 11:40:44 AM #4 | Portal takes place in Michigan? --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Genshin Impact Topic 5: CocoGOAT |
| azuarc 02/12/21 11:38:55 AM #402 | Uhh...how many difficulty levels are there? Because the answer is that many. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Hearthstone Topic:Madness at the Darkmoon Faire |
| azuarc 02/12/21 11:37:50 AM #341 | ESY16 posted... Just played my first game as Lord Barov in BGs and got 1st after getting every single bet correct. Getting a net of 2 free gold every turn is OP. I tend to get every bet incorrect when I play him. Especially in the early game when ties are prevalent. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Haste2 ranks the VGMC retirees - Finale! |
| azuarc 02/12/21 12:53:05 AM #113 | HasteThree posted... Remember when Hope won and this lost in BOST? ARGH. Wait, Hope won a BOST match? Must have been in 5. In the four contests I ran, Hope was the boat anchor for the Umineko noms. (Literally Umineko got eliminated one year after Hope lost twice.) --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Genshin Impact Topic 5: CocoGOAT |
| azuarc 02/11/21 10:02:51 PM #393 | NioraptH posted... I hate TDF so much... I still have PTSD from the FF7 one... This is nothing like the FF7 game. It's much closer to a traditional TDS game. Basically it's Sanctum without the ability to wall off and make mazes. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Hearthstone Topic:Madness at the Darkmoon Faire |
| azuarc 02/11/21 10:00:04 PM #336 | I liked all the ones on the first sheet, but ultimately went with hunter because I used to have the giantstalker gear. (And because I'll sometimes play hunter.) --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | I started playing Danganronpa. (Spoilers) |
| azuarc 02/11/21 9:59:14 PM #2 | Another DR topic, huh. Tag. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | I rank non-VGM songs [nominations] |
| azuarc 02/11/21 9:58:44 PM #117 | You just keep stringing us along... --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Favorite song about: Being rich/wealthy |
| azuarc 02/11/21 9:58:01 PM #13 | Calloway - I Wanna Be Rich --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Outrage after Lena Dunham Show uses REAL DEAD CATS in HS BIOLOGY Scene!!!! |
| azuarc 02/11/21 12:38:50 PM #4 | How did the cats die? If they weren't killed to film the scene, then no. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Genshin Impact Topic 5: CocoGOAT |
| azuarc 02/11/21 2:18:23 AM #386 | SovietOmega posted... My biggest complaint with it is the amount of time between waves to select which special perk/challenge you want is a bit short, My biggest complaint is the amount of time in every other part of the game is way too freaking long. I'm used to my TDS games having some means of hustling the game along if I so choose. That said, if anyone wants to pair up for this -- not because I need to, but just for the hell of it -- I'll be around most of tomorrow. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Hearthstone Topic:Madness at the Darkmoon Faire |
| azuarc 02/11/21 1:26:14 AM #329 | What about the two "win duels games" quests that I literally can't reroll? --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Hearthstone Topic:Madness at the Darkmoon Faire |
| azuarc 02/10/21 11:56:33 PM #327 | Dear Blizzard,  Can I have these quest slots back, please? --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Best Game of 2020 Championship! **FF7 Remake vs Hades** |
| azuarc 02/10/21 8:58:49 PM #29 | Hades --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | BABE BRAWL: Julia Adamenko (c) vs. Elena Zakharova |
| azuarc 02/10/21 7:16:02 PM #3 | Uglyface2 posted... They're pretty similar. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Genshin Impact Topic 5: CocoGOAT |
| azuarc 02/10/21 4:45:14 PM #380 | I don't have Jean, but I assume you can hold enemies in place and then launch them backward so they have more chances to be hit by the towers. Didn't know about the geo traveler thing, but I did see a video before bed that said you could cheese the stages. That was probably what that was about. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Genshin Impact Topic 5: CocoGOAT |
| azuarc 02/10/21 4:05:54 PM #377 | Okay, so rundown on the tower defense. I'm going to pretend like you don't know anything about TDS. There's an entry portal where enemies appear. They have to walk through the stage, and then reach an exit portal. Your job is to cut them down along that path. To do that, you erect towers that autoattack the enemies as they pass. In Theater Mechanicus, you can only construct towers at select nodes and you cannot directly impede the progress of the enemies with, say, a wall. Generally in TDS, you want to create a "kill zone" where you funnel the enemies through and then focus all your efforts on ensuring they die in that one specific spot. Since we don't level up towers within a stage here like in other games, this is really just a matter of finding choke points and putting towers down. Very simple and direct. The enemies in this do not do damage or deviate from their path. Not for the towers. Not for you. Not for taunts. You have access to four towers, corresponding to the four elements on "the wheel." Hydro is a short-range AE that should be placed at the lead edge of the kill zone. Pyro is a long-distance bombard that easily does the most damage, but has slow-traveling projectiles that can miss quicker opponents. Electro and Cryo are direct, single target attacking, with electro being much better than cryo. However, you can also trigger elemental reactions. Hence why cryo isn't worthless. Freezing enemies is fantastic. Damage-dealing reactions are pretty good, too. There will be other towers later -- anemo, physical, and bombs -- but for today that's what we have to work with. The other wrinkle is that your character is there and can interact with the world...except you're kind of a ghost, because your attacks don't deal damage. They DO however knock back or apply elements. I'd recommend bringing a sword user and standing in the enemy's path, spamming charge attacks to keep them from progressing. Or just, y'know, Jean. Alternatively, bring a cryo user to support your hydro towers, but keep in mind you won't gain energy and therefore have no access to your burst. In that regard, archers are possibly the best elemental appliers. Each stage consists of four waves. The enemies very slowly pour out of the entrance portal. Once a wave is done, you have a chance to pick a bonus. Bonuses cost the same resources you use to build the towers with. You'll gain more by killing enemies, but if you have none at the end of a stage, you might be limited in selection. There are two special types here, fickle and fearless. Fickle comes with a drawback. Fearless costs nothing, but is strictly a downside. Both have additional score rewards at the end. Speaking of score, the scoring table seems very elaborate at first, but it's actually quite simple. You get points for surviving. You get points for not letting enemies through. (You can miss up to 20, but it's almost trivial to stop most or all.) You get points for selecting bonuses. The most I've gotten on a run so far was around 450. It's probably possible to do a little better. We only have access to two maps right now. The first is two entrance points that merge and then separate around opposite sides of a square. Just attack them before or after the square. The second features a bridge and two entrance points. Set up by the bridge or behind it. You can turn off the bridge if there are particularly troublesome foes coming. It costs 1 Xiao Lantern to do a run. There are no other limits on how many points you can earn or how many times you can try, so you can just keep accruing points to spend on tower upgrades. I improved the four towers to level 4, as well as a fifth tower type I didn't discuss that isn't super important yet. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Favorite song about: Being broke |
| azuarc 02/10/21 3:49:14 PM #34 | George Thorogood - House Rent Boogie That's the "beginning part" of One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | The Legend of Beavis |
| azuarc 02/10/21 3:47:05 PM #15 | KommunistKoala posted... damn people on here that dont know sealab 2021 what a shame banananor posted... I'm aware of sealab but it distracts from the main joke in this video --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | What kind of mouse do you use? Mine is dying, it's time for an upgrade. |
| azuarc 02/10/21 3:46:21 PM #20 | I use a trackball. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Genshin Impact Topic 5: CocoGOAT |
| azuarc 02/10/21 2:02:15 PM #375 | You get a quest. Do the quest. Then they tell you to go to Liyue Harbor. Go to Liyue Harbor. Then stuff becomes available in the event menu. Also, some new resources show up in the world from drops and harvesting resources. You'll need those. As for the tower defense, about to try it, but I've been looking forward to this for a bit. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | The Legend of Beavis |
| azuarc 02/10/21 2:00:26 PM #6 | Not sure what the last bit was, but the rest of that was amazing. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Genshin Impact Topic 5: CocoGOAT |
| azuarc 02/10/21 2:00:20 AM #372 | oh. huh. Welp. I was just about to consider spending one on Diona, let alone what I've put into Childe. Sidenote: Heading into the last day of camera thing. Is anyone not done and needs pics? --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Danganronpa Spoiler Topic II: Everybody Loves Despair (Spoilers for Games/Anime) |
| azuarc 02/09/21 7:06:43 PM #100 | bwburke94 posted... I'm not sure whether I should go for a canon cast or an outright Fanganronpa for my fic. You're writing a fic, burke? (Sorry, haven't been tracking this thread, obv, but went looking for it just now.) --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Hearthstone Topic:Madness at the Darkmoon Faire |
| azuarc 02/09/21 3:08:27 PM #323 | I wonder if Kibler will be happy. This isn't precisely what he's been calling for, but it's *a* core set. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Genshin Impact Topic 5: CocoGOAT |
| azuarc 02/08/21 11:05:54 PM #368 | Nah, right now you should just focus on learning what resin is and looking for ways to spend it. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | What was the biggest thing in kids' media after TMNT but before Power Rangers? |
| azuarc 02/08/21 11:05:17 PM #19 | Nothing was big like Turtles was. And maybe it's an indication of my age, but I didn't feel like Power Rangers really came close, either. More like a fad...that somehow now has a bunch of spin-off franchises and is still going strong 25 years later... --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Genshin Impact Topic 5: CocoGOAT |
| azuarc 02/08/21 12:12:40 PM #365 | Oh, I have Diona for when freezing is likely to be a concern. That's mostly only against the wolf and in specific domains, though. OTOH, being limited to healing by bursts that may or may not be up when you need them is far more frustrating. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Favorite song about: Being young |
| azuarc 02/08/21 11:57:18 AM #28 | GenesisSaga posted... P.O.D The Youth of the Nation Okay, sure. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Genshin Impact Topic 5: CocoGOAT |
| azuarc 02/08/21 11:56:37 AM #363 | Sceptilesolar posted... First off, once you get AR20 you get Barbara for free, and she's a healer. A poor one, but she functions. I still use Barbara, more often than not. The fact that she heals on demand, rather than based on a burst skill, is a big difference maker. I'll loosely echo what Sceptile said about the teams. Use characters you're happy with and focus on potential synergies and elemental coverage. You don't need a wide bench until much, much later, and only for specific tasks. Usually a team will consist of the following four characters: 1) Main DPS. This is the person who is out when nobody else is. You'll legit use their auto-attack rather than just swapping in for a skill and back out. Razor, Ningguang, and sometimes Xiangling are good 4-star options here. (Technically anyone is, so use who you want. I used MC until AR35.) 2) Support DPS. Someone who has an element that will help create reactions with your main, and ideally contributes additional damage when off the field. Fischl is usually the typical answer here. She summons a bird that shoots at things like a turret, and doesn't have to remain on the field. Lisa and Kaeya can do this with their burst. 3) Healer. If not a literal healer, someone who provides protection or utility that minimizes damage. Options include Barbara, Bennett, Diona, arguably Noelle or Xinyan. 4) Basically anyone. Late game, this is often someone who doubles your main DPS's element for the resonance bonus, or an anemo character with a particular artifact set. Right now, better just to focus on elemental coverage. Until you get to AR30, I'd focus on learning the game mechanics themselves, rather than throwing resources at everyone. Pick four people you like, get them to level 40 (after your first world level increase) and decide what you feel you're missing from there. For me, personally, I really wanted a pyro character that wasn't Amber. Fortunately Xiangling is free for finishing three floors of the Spiral Abyss, so I busted my butt to clear that. As for elements, you can't go too far wrong if you have a pyro, a hydro, and a cryo, or substitute one of them with electro. And that's essentially what they give you with the default team. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Genshin Impact Topic 5: CocoGOAT |
| azuarc 02/08/21 2:45:34 AM #356 | Okay. Let me rephrase that. You will want 4-star weapons eventually, which you very rarely get on the character banner. I was pulling almost exclusively on the character banner for a while and I had to stop because I had very few weapons above 3-stars. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Anagram Ranks 145 Waifus |
| azuarc 02/08/21 12:08:21 AM #386 | I didn't even know you could romance Tali until after the game was over. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Genshin Impact Topic 5: CocoGOAT |
| azuarc 02/08/21 12:07:14 AM #354 | Also, sceptile, I owe you a photo. I mistook who sent that to me. Unfortunately, I'm all out of purple and brown right now, too. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Genshin Impact Topic 5: CocoGOAT |
| azuarc 02/08/21 12:06:06 AM #353 | Okay, so wishes...there are three banners: The "character" banner, the weapon banner, and the standard banner. The first two change what they offer periodically. The standard stays constant. In all of them, each wish that does not earn you a 5-star brings you closer to pity. Soft pity is at 74 when percentages start to spike upward from the 0.6% they state. At 90, it becomes automatic. Meanwhile, you will get a 4-star (character or weapon) at most every 10 pulls. Pulling x10 simply represents doing a single pull 10 times, in rapid fashion. So it's really just a matter of what you like. However, assuming you don't get lucky, it will take you a while to receive a pity 5-star. You earn 60 gems a day from doing daily commissions once those unlock. Besides that, it's basically just limited time events and what you pay for, HOWEVER, chests do frequently give you a few and achievements are worth 5 or 10. By the time you finish exploring the world, you'll have a modest amount. As for which you should pull on, don't pull on the weapon. You will want 4-star weapons eventually, which you can't get on the character banner -- the one currently featuring Xiao -- so I would argue for the standard banner. But I know others here will probably say to focus on the character banner instead. Really, it should be answered thusly: Is there a four-star on Xiao's banner that you like and specifically want a better chance at? If yes, pull there. If not, go standard. Diona is a mediocre healer with a shield skill. Xinyan also produces a shield with her burst, but she's a pyro damage dealer. Beidou is the most unique since her whole playstyle is built around countering attacks, but it can be clunky...you either really love Beidou or really don't. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Favorite song about: Being young |
| azuarc 02/07/21 7:06:37 PM #11 | Rod Stewart - Forever Young --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | NFUN Ranks 1000 VGM: 300 VGM Edition |
| azuarc 02/07/21 7:03:44 PM #50 | Other songs from Hive Jump I like better. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Favorite song about: Wanting |
| azuarc 02/07/21 3:26:24 AM #34 | half_silver28 posted... Queen - I Want It All Journey - Any Way You Want It HM: Hootie and the Blowfish - I Only Want To Be With You --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Haste2 ranks the VGMC retirees - Finale! |
| azuarc 02/06/21 1:46:32 PM #94 | I played Chrono Trigger, and yet it never ceases to amaze me how there are more bits of the game I never saw because I went straight to Lavos at the first opportunity and called it a day. I also remember extremely little of the future segments other than enduring Dalton in like 18 fights clobbering me with cannonballs that took away half my health every single time I attacked, which was a complete and utter PITA because I was determined to play the game in turn-based. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Genshin Impact Topic 5: CocoGOAT |
| azuarc 02/06/21 1:44:15 PM #336 | I'm not on PSN and Karo couldn't send one to me. Incidentally, I added two people who sent an invite to me this morning. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | What STUFFED ANIMAL did you have as a KID???? |
| azuarc 02/06/21 1:35:33 PM #9 | Snake5555555555 posted... Favorites were (was) a white tiger --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Miranda Lawson's "Butt Focus" will be censored in ME Legendary Edition |
| azuarc 02/06/21 12:03:55 PM #63 | andylt posted... A week ago various animators and writers at Bioware revealed that they had planned to include multiple same-sex romance options in ME2, but these were cut because executives thought America wasn't 'ready for it' and they feared blowback from Fox News. That is actual harmful censorship, not this unimportant nonsense about tweaking a butt shot, yet nobody up in arms here was complaining about that. Just saw an article about this and was going to bring it up. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Haste2 ranks the VGMC retirees - Finale! |
| azuarc 02/06/21 12:30:54 AM #91 | Haste_2 posted... Does the 5k part of the username imply the original Janus? Otherwise I'm not sure why you would ask that(?) Now you've got me confused. Is there some Chrono Trigger reference here that I'm not getting? --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Favorite song about: Truth/Honesty |
| azuarc 02/05/21 11:05:20 PM #19 | Janus5k posted... Lacuna Coil - Our Truth --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Genshin Impact Topic 5: CocoGOAT |
| azuarc 02/05/21 9:19:56 PM #326 | azuarc posted... Need the UID. Going from memory, 603994117? Something like that.  --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Genshin Impact Topic 5: CocoGOAT |
| azuarc 02/05/21 3:31:09 PM #318 | Need the UID. Going from memory, 603994117? Something like that. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Christopher Plummer Has Passed Away |
| azuarc 02/05/21 3:27:42 PM #7 | I knew his name, couldn't have told you a thing about him. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Haste2 ranks the VGMC retirees - Finale! |
| azuarc 02/05/21 8:15:10 AM #85 | Haste_2 posted... That makes sense because Janus (Magus) uses sShadow ("dark") magic! You know Janus is a member of the Roman pantheon, right? Haste_2 posted... Wait, and isn't this the only time Secret of Mana has won a match? Fear of the Heavens won a match eons ago. It marked the high point in one of the biggest streaks in futility in VGMC history. I'm surprised I wasn't on the support list just because Secret of Mana, but I also have been rather reticent about SoM subs over the last 8 years. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Do you like this character? Day 1280: Big Bird (Sesame Street) |
| azuarc 02/05/21 8:09:00 AM #25 | some real monsters in this thread, and not of the cookie variety Yes --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Anagram Ranks 145 Waifus |
| azuarc 02/04/21 8:28:23 PM #315 | Anagaram posted... Also, apparently her specialty dish is Satisfying Salad? Sorry, I dont need my crit rate increased by 9% for 300 seconds very often. lmao. But apparently it does come up? --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
| Topic | Genshin Impact Topic 5: CocoGOAT |
| azuarc 02/04/21 6:18:26 PM #310 | Same, except my surplus is red. --- Video Game Music Contest 14 champion: Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour |
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