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Soon home again

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

I've had less progress because of vacation and finally getting a PS5, but here's what I've done since last time.

I finished exploring Darkroot Gardens, which involved taking down Sif, a boss I knew existed beforehand because of Pokemon Sword. Optional, but fun boss. It was pretty difficult, I felt like I was here a little early, because it had a very common spin attack that used up all my endurance and then damanged me some, but I amanged to beat it.

Sen's Fortress is up next. I didn't have much trouble with it, expected much worse. I died twice only. The first was from running into a boulder (yes, it had just hit me and damaged me very little, so I thought trying to run past it was possible, but that damaged me way more for some reason). The other time was from the resulting fire in a boulder thrown by some giant that looked a billion times more intimidating than he was. I think I've explored everything here, but it's a bit hard to be sure. I'm really enjoying using the lightning spear I found here, you can block while attacking and the lightning damage seems quite effective. Iron Giant was quite easy, validating my idea that I took on Sif too early.

Suddenly, I've arrived in Anor Londo. I don't know if this was some milestone in the game, but it popped a trophy. Place is huge. You need to not have the whole city in the background or the game starts lacking. Nothing like Blighttown, but still a minor issue. I had fun with the area for a while, but this area also had the single worst part of the game so far, which was running on thin platforms while some knights were shooting spear sized arrows at you. I feel down I don't know how many times, miraculously managed to recover each time though, and often enough it was because the physics straight up didn't make sense. The current camera angle seems to influence the way you're falling, I was often hit by a spear and then forward towards where it hit me from which meant down and to my death. This game should stop trying to have platformning sections. As soon as I got inside, it was fun enough though. Found a blacksmith here and got myself a weapon with fire damage. Also found armor and a huge bow that I'm not strong enough to use. Finally, I invaded Lautrec, confirming my idea that he murdered the person under the bonfire in the hub area, but got my ass kicked be him and his men twice. It's not very risky though, you don't lose anything, you just get kicked out.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

I tried exploring the Demon Ruins a bit more and I don't think you're meant to go here anytime soon. Previous bosses are just wandering around like common enemies. I made my way through 6 or 7 Tauros demons because they didn't respawn, but then the boss from lower Undead Burg did respawn and that's the dealbreaker here.

Got a couple new pyromancies in Brighttown before leaving the place for good. The bonfire in Firelink stopped working because the girl below it died. How is it all the others are working then? In any case, I suspect the guy that sat across because he was always kind of creepy and he's gone so. I suppose I should not have helped him but he did award me something for it.

As I approach Sen's Fortress, I make a decision to fully explore Darkroot Gardens first.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

I did pick the Master Key!

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

My playtime took a solid hit when the blueray reader of my PS3 stopped working properly. I have borrowed a friend's PS3 while I look to fix the issue. Apparently, you can not download save files when your online storage before 24 hours have passed since you uploaded them. At least this is true for my Dark Souls file. I suppose this would prevent me from escaping eventual punishment by just downloading a file again if I died without recovering, but it's annoying in this particular case.

What I have achieved is more or less finishing Brighttown, which sucked to say the least. I managed to recover every time I died thankfully, but I also died a lot and a good portion of those deaths were because of how terribly the game runs the place. I mean, I would have died anyway probably. Getting past all the guys shooting toxic at me basically cost a death and then being thankful they don't respawn and that they're incredibly easy to kill. No place so far has been harder to cross in itself, regardless of whether you come from the Depths or Valley of Drakes. I've explored both routes to find everything, though skipping the long route probably wouldn't have been a big loss. The moving bridges and the wheels and basically everything that is pseudo platforming is already intended to screw you over, in particular when enemies are present, but the framerate screwed me over so badly in these parts that I basically had to adjust the camera in the best way possible so that I would not have to adjust it it all before standing on a larger platform again. This is a glaring flaw and I really hope the remastered version runs it as intended.

Brighttown doesn't really have many very cool parts to begin with. It was kinda cool to be invaded by an NPC (that I could then summon later), though she was easy to deal with. I don't care to turn human very often, but I really wanted to kindle the bonfire here and the message that I was being invaded came basically right after that. Realizing that a poisonous swamp counts as a place with bad footing was a bless since it allowed me to equip a ring so I could run through it properly.

I made my way to Quelaag's Domain, which was basically a one way route to a boss. I summoned Mildred to help me, which is cool and then the boss destroyed me in seconds. So much for that. This was one of the tougher ones imo, if not the toughest. The one in Undead Asylum was perhaps harder, but it was also just bad and I went there early, I also never got to kill the dragon on the bridge early on so maybe that. This one was fun, just took a while to learn its patterns. I didn't care to become human so I could summon help just to be killed before I learned to deal with it so I didn't before I just managed to win. This allowed me to progress and finally ring the second bell.

I joined a new covenant here, I'm not sure why, it just pops a trophy every time. Then I went down the Demon Ruins, which seems dangerous, but I managed to cheese a boss by accident. It didn't really seem to care I was there, I figured that was because I was so much stronger than it. Then I picked something up, turned out to be a cool set of armor, but this pissed the big thing off a lot. I just tried to run away from it until the white light before realizing I couldn't escape. Then the boss killed by falling to its own death.

This was the last thing I did before the PS3 incident.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Blighttown is easily my least favorite place of the game so far, but it's honestly mostly because for some reason it runs at less FPS than any other place, which adds an unintended level of difficulty that is not really offset by anything.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Evillordexdeath posted...

Yeah, I'd say you went there a little early - the item you get for taking down that boss doesn't come in handy until almost the end of the game - but either way I agree it's a poorly-designed boss anyway, and it doesn't really help that it reuses the model of an earlier boss.

Yeah, I figured, it was an obscure way to get there too that I clutched to find, but regardless, it's probably the only boss so far that I've found straight up bad, the rest have been enjoyable to some extend, naturally some better than others. I think the difference it would have made was that I could kill it faster and probably survive the fall and hit if it used the attack you can't dodge after falling, but again, that just makes it less of a nuisance. Not a better boss.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

I moved further down into the Undead Burg. Its a bit of a scary place because you get ambushed a ton. Freed another guy here. Im sure one of the times it will be a mistake to free them, but Ill learn that the hard way. The boss fight here was tough, not because of the actual boss as much as because it had a couple of dogs to fight with it.

Now Im in the Depths. I suppose Im gonna ring another bell down here as the first one was very high up. I thought there was a shop but then the presumed shopkeeper started running towards me. Behind him I walked down to a point where I could safely kill a giant rat. Wonder how tough that wouldve been to fight against on floor. I go back and continue down the more obvious way, free yet another NPC. The rats appear to be a good place for farming humanities, thats useful to know. Theres a huge boss down here and cutting his tail off yielded me yet another weapon. I wonder how often you can do that, mightve missed some. I didnt die to this one, actually, found it surprisingly easy. Then I get the key to Blighttown but decide to return to the hub.

I decide to farm a good bit here because theres a lot of things to buy. One of the guys I freed allows me to upgrade my Pyromancy Flame. I spend a good amount of time grinding to upgrade that all the way because so far I havent found spells very useful, but I want them to be.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

This Hydra boss took a couple of tries, but I did manage to beat it as it does not use its best attack when youre close to it. Theres a way back to the Undead Burg from here past the knight I skipped earlier. Running past him, I realized he does not seem to leave the tower and this was easy to take advantage of so I could beat him.

Going around and back into the Darkroot Garden, I found a pretty good grinding spot until I joined their covenant. Also found and beat the Moonlight Butterfly. I had trouble dodging some of its attacks, but it put itself up for getting slashed at before it could use up my etlus flasks. I realize theres more to explore in the Darkroot Garden, but I decide to take on the church as the next thing. On the way back I give the blacksmith the ember I found and upgrade my longbow a good bit. I free some dude and get to the top where another boss appears. My initial strategy cut off its tail. Its a good bit tougher once the second one comes, but I felt like I had it under control just running a lot trying to take out one of them first, then I rang the bell here, which so far doesnt make much of a difference.

The guy I freed seems to hang out in the hub, hes pretty creepy. Thinking about how the hub is a weird area I wander around a bit exploring. This ends up getting me back to the tutorial area. Theres a new boss here and its without a doubt the least fun boss in the game so far. It just seems cheap. I mightve gone here early, but due to the stun and damage from the fall it seems like theres a small chance that I just dont get to try for real depending on what attack it chooses to use first, which just sucks. This definitely took the most tries so far and even coming here later, I doubt Id have any fun with it, it would just be less of a nuisance. In any case, it was a good soul horde and I believe Im finished with this place now, but I need a break.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Evillordexdeath posted...

Well, for what it's worth, it would make me very happy if my doing this project inspired other people to try more games. Bloodborne gives you a decent idea of what to expect from Dark Souls, because although there are some mechanical changes they have a lot in common gameplay-wise. I think you're definitely right that the game's difficulty gets overstated because it came out at a time when most AAA games were super easy - I definitely think it would be an exaggeration to call it one of the hardest games ever. I'd say it's not that it's super hard so much as that it doesn't f*** around - that's to say, none of the enemy attack patterns are exceptionally hard to figure out, but you can never really just tank your way through enemies and letting your guard down tends to lead to a quick death.

I tend to enjoy playing games when someone else is playing them too. This project is obviously good for this as it covers 129 games.

Yeah, a good many hours into this, I don't think I'll remember it as hard, but as trial and error as I mentioned. Hard is the reputation it has though, which probably helped making it an even bigger name that it would already be.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

I played a good bit last night

I chose Pyromancer as my class, semi-randomly, because it felt more unique. So its these bonfires thatll be my save points and etlus flasks the source of healing but perhaps they can be upgraded at some point. My first death comes almost right away to the first boss, the Asylum Demon, because I did not realize I was supposed to run past it initially, but its also pretty clear that the game wanted to teach you that its sometimes better to come back for something later as well as how dying works, as the bonfire is right before this guy. He was not particularly difficult coming back, though I did die once more. I have to get used to the controls, perhaps theyre outdated. The decision to make circle the running and dodging button is very annoying it makes my right-hand grip awkward when wanting to use the camera at the same time. That aside, good tutorial, did what it needed while also not forcing you to spend a lot of time.

So this next place would be the hub area. I joined a covenant without really knowing why other than to be able buy items from him. As I travel through Undead Burg, I realize theres no way to look at a map of the game, which I enjoy the choice of. Seems some bonfires only give you up to 5 etlus flasks if youre below initially. I find myself rarely ever using my fireball spell because its somewhat hard to hit and youre vulnerable for a while doing it. Blocking and slashing has been the way to go. I found someone that could sell me a bow and arrows and god those controls are bad. For some reason, when youre aiming, youre not allowed to aim at as sharp angles from your position. Another QoL improvement Id like would be to be able to move just a little bit while drinking from an etlus flask. After being destroyed twice, I cheesed a strong knight by shooting a billion arrows at him as hes apparently unable to climb a ladder. My idea was initially to plunge attack him. For some reason, he just not respawn after resting at a bonfire. Theres another strong knight at the bottom of some stairs that I think Ill ignore for now.

Next boss fight is the Tauros Demon, which gave me surprisingly little trouble because it pretty obvious you could use plunge attacks as I had climbed the tower before it arrived. I finally met Solaire and joined his cult. The dragon on the bridge seems quite dangerous but since it keeps its distance, Im guessing it just guards a later area and Im supposed to move forward without it. After upgrading my endurance some Im finding myself enjoying the game A LOT more. The starting amount way too little, even if the point was just making the early enemies dangerous. When slashing, blocking and rolling all uses it, it just wasnt as fun before leveling up some.

First thing in Undead Parish I did was dying to a similar knight that I cheesed in Undead Burg. Next thing was a seemingly intimidating boar that was very easy to dodge. There a knights here that look similar to the tough ones that dont respawn, but die a lot easier. Church had lots of them, one of which seemed stronger but was way easier due to being slow. I believe I fought the first magic user here, I just shot him down from below before finding a shortcut back to the hub, cool.

Im not really getting the line for when something is enough of a boss to not respawn again. The easiest knight in the church didnt respawn, so I suppose he was indeed stronger. Turned out there was a bonfire right next to the church. Below is a blacksmith and the first thing I did was buying things from him so that I dont need him lol. In the next him was a boss fight but not enough of a boss to have a name revealed. Once again the strategy of just running around it and slashing from behind worked for me as I just now finally realize you deal more damage using your sword with two hands.

Moving down into the Darkroot Garden where I initially beat another one of those knights that dont respawn and find the Darkroot Basin where Im shot to death by something in the background I didnt even see, nice. Theres a bonfire right here, so well try to deal with that next time.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

This will be the first of hopefully a fine number of games that Ill finally play after owning it for quite some time now because this project reached that point. I have never played Dark Souls before to my own shame. Its definitely one of the biggest games I have not played, as I usually want to try to beat all the biggest games released in almost all genres with the only exception probably being online multiplayer games. As such Im excited to finally try it out, even if Im quite late to the party. Ill be playing on Playstation 3.

My knowledge of Dark Souls is not too great either. I have played a bit of Bloodborne, which I know differs to be its own thing, but also has a lot of similarities, but I dont remember it too well, since I dont own the game and only tried the first few hours at a friends place. I know Dark Souls has reputation for being among the hardest games ever game, but Im also expecting that to be mostly because it provided challenge in a time where video games in general were being criticized for being too easy. As far as I know, its more trial and error. I expect to die lots of times, but once you figure out how to deal with something, its not that hard and so I dont expect to ever really be stuck. Not that theres anything wrong with that! I know the game is fairly open, often without the best path being very clear as theres not much story and I tend to love seemingly very tough challenges where the difficulty lies in figuring out how to approach something easily. I also know that the games can never be paused except at the save spots, partially because you can join each others world. Since Im just planning to play by myself and game isnt the hottest thing anymore, thisll probably be a nuisance mostly as I like to play games if I have an hour or so and then pause them for hours until I get back if necessary. Here it seems Ill have to hope Ill reach a new save spot in time, but I understand why its like that. For a few useless pieces of information, I know that theres a wolf boss in the game which Zacian from Pokemon Sword resembles and I know Solaire exists, I own an amiibo of him. Perhaps, Ill recall knowing more things as I play, well see.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Well, time to finally do this.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Well

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Platinum GET

Rocket League

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

It's a bit hillarious that it will not be a problem in regards to completing this project that you don't have a Wii U.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Update, I will join in on the Dark Souls playthrough, being mostly able to use my thumb again now.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Evillordexdeath posted...

Ah, I see. Get well soon. It's hard to say how long Human Rev will take me, but if you want I can do something to arrange things so that I don't start Dark Souls until a little later, like playing another game early or something.

That's very nice of you, but just continue on to it and I'll make it if I make it. It's not my impression Human Revolution is that short, Dark Souls isn't either, so it'll probably be fine and otherwise I'll try to catch up.

Btw, depending on what platform you'd rather play on and what you already own, some of the games you'll eventually play are free on Playstation in the near future as part of their stay home program.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

I love both movies, but I can see them being dull to some.

I intend to join in on Dark Souls and Arkham City, but I sprained my thumb less than a week ago and currently can't use it, which is a big deal breaker for most games, so it depends on how fast you are going through Deux Ex.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Final Fantasy VIII Remastered - 12/35 Trophies Obtained!
Unlock Guardian Force Brothers

Final Fantasy VIII Remastered - 13/35 Trophies Obtained!
Upgrade your weapon


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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Yeah, I've since went on to play every single one of them. I don't where the franchise is now nearly as much as I did a decade ago, but I still like them.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Lightning Strikes posted...

The Aphrodite scene was originally supposed to end with her pulling a knife and trying to kill you. Im kind of glad we didnt get that, but whats left is still embarrassing.

Glad this topic is back!

I never knew this. Explains why she's randomly the sole survivor.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

As an European, SMRPG was nowhere near my first RPG. That honor belongs to Pokmon Blue.

I did enjoy it when I finally played it though. It's good. I wish I had played it before the Paper Marios.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Evillordexdeath posted...

Oh, haha, were they in the first two games too? I remember that part near the start of the first one where two girls are asking Kratos to come back to bed, but I didn't get any QTEs with them. I must have missed it altogether in 2.

Ha, yeah, you could have. I can't remember when it's possible in the second game, but it's in there somewhere.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Evillordexdeath posted...

Then you had God of War III with that scene where you do QTEs to make Kratos have sex with Aphrodite while two other girls watch and talk about how good he is at it, which I feel set the medium back by several years on its own.

Perhaps it was, but those sex scenes had been somewhat iconic enough that they could not really have done without it in the third one.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

The cutscenes never really made much of an impact on me. Don't think much of them other than noting that they tried voice acting.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Up

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

I mean, Sunshine could have placed more stars in its levels for you yo just come across like 64 had. Blue Coins by large was there instead of these.

I'm assuming all five missing stars were blue coins?

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Yeah, I just wish there was a better tracker for them. You might figure out each level has 30 at some point, but if it just said x/30 from the start, that'd be nice. I also agree about the exclusive levels, makes it hard to search them out.

Other than that I do like the concept.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Final opinion, Peace Walker had potential and has its moments, but is bad and you should feel bad for enjoying it. Never playing again.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

pjbasis posted...

Oh yeah I forgot that happened in Paper Mario. I need to play that game again! I wanna beat Bonetail this time.

Yes please. It's so good.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Yeah, it is.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Waluigi1 posted...

But he's still literally dlc you have to pay for...

You could get him for free in the first two months of the game's release though.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

The generic Piranha Plant would never be one of these Fighters Pass DLC characters though. That was clearly Sakurai wanting to make a character he thought was funny, and he was probably intended to be in the main game, but came a month later instead.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Leonhart4 posted...

I don't know if most people really felt L-Block could actually win until the semifinal match because that was the first time it was really dominant. I don't remember what the consensus was at that point.

Yeah, but that result was what it went into the finals with!

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Eh, L-Block was the favorite overall I think, board 8 might have been misleading, making it seem closer than it was because we tried to use stats to argue for Link.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Can't be upgraded to PS5 though.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

I'll come back to bash Peace Walker once more.

The boss fights are lame and are essentially all the same thing.

Otherwise, I'm enjoying the core gameplay, it's a shame it gets interrupted so much. A lot of missions end on the same cutscene that another one begins because the game expects you to do all extras and develop and such. The story telling has taken so many hits.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Final Fantasy VIII Remastered - 8/35 Trophies Obtained!
Unlock Guardian Force Diablos

Final Fantasy VIII Remastered - 9/35 Trophies Obtained!
Play Triple Triad

Final Fantasy VIII Remastered - 10/35 Trophies Obtained!
Lose a rare card in a Triple Triad game

Final Fantasy VIII Remastered - 11/35 Trophies Obtained!
Kill 1000 enemies

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

I've caught myself playing Triple Triad for some hours. Might be the best FF mini-game (competition isn't exactly the best). Simple but nice.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

I don't think any anime ever got to Danish TV without looping. Not that we got a lot.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Final Fantasy VIII Remastered - 7/35 Trophies Obtained!
Get your first salary from SeeD

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Moving on in FFVIII Remastered

I think the only thing you might wanna consider getting of the Seifer grind is get Quezacotl to learn Card Mod, which is nice. Grinding to get Curaga etc and +40 stat boosts is a waste, though it makes it easier to grind AP on the way back, which is much less of a waste in itself.

Played up until I'm about to go to the training center with Quistis. My favorite thing about this so far is seeing the cutscenes remastered. I don't know if it's because I know them already, but the beautiful remastered.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Moving on

Final Fantasy VIII Remastered - 6/35 Trophies Obtained!
Unlock Guardian Force Siren


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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Also, an issue in Peace Walker that I don't understand at all is that they removed the ability to crawl. Like... why. I've found myself often want to crawl under a truck and this isn't possible.


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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Xenoblade 2 fans seem pretty happy about this to me.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

I have never played the spin offs. Would like to, they're just not high priority. It didn't bother me in this game because I was never in it for the story anyway.

Well until the 2018 game.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Definitely not in MGS3!

I've been progressing slowly in Peace Walker, finding a pace that suits me. I can appreciate the system in many ways or at least what it tries to do. Having a Mother Base and assigning your like this is cool enough.

It has its glaring flaws however as if heavily damages the story telling of the game. Now, this might not be the main draw this time but it's still a problem. The side missions are called extra ops but you basically have to do them to level up your unit properly or you'll have serious trouble with the main ops. I played through the main ops until I was told I needed C4. I needed to recruit more men to start developmemt on that from extra ops and then I had to replay a mission to have it developed. Forcing you to replay missions is a huge problem. I might have been able to come around it had I known, but I believe there's a pretty good chance one did not have the C4 when they were needed and thus it's a serious halt in the story.

It worries me MGSV uses this format, but of course, it can be improved upon.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

I... don't think I have actually.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.

Lol I hated Hermes in that game.

Evillordexdeath posted...

I'll be curious too see how I like Kratos in the new version too. From what little I do know about it I think I'll like him better as a character. I've seen a couple of clips from that game where he acts more like an actual person.

Yeah, he's much better, and it's a much better game in every aspect, hard to compare to this trilogy.

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