Poll of the Day > QQ to anyone who has played Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings Lost Ocean on Gamecube

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The magnus you get from taking pictures of enemies with a camera, do they have a use other than selling for really good money? I've been keeping one of each just in case. So if I acquire 2 cards of the same enemy I'll only sell one of them.
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You need them to complete the magnus collection but you dont need to keep them. They are your only real source of income
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Greenfox111 posted...

You need them to complete the magnus collection but you dont need to keep them. They are your only real source of income

Ahh okay thanks. I guess I can sell all of em afterall.
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I thought your telling us to cry

That game made me instant-rage, I'm something of a completionist and that game... THAT GAME

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No, just no. I'm not spending a week waiting for potatoes to rot or whatever
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dioxxys posted...

I thought you were telling us to cry

I meant it as "quick question" so I actually had to Google because you're post here made me confused lol, and came across this on Urbandictionary:
Contrary to popular belief, QQ is not a set of crying eyes. It actually originated with the advent of Warcraft II. On battlenet, you could press ALT+Q+Q to immediately exit the match and program. Thus the term "QQ" was to tell people to just quit because they are unskilled. The term later developed and lost it's origin and is usually mistaken as crying eyes.

In contemporary gamer culture, QQ has become the mainstream emoticon for crying eyes, though it is still often used in it's traditional sense."

Weird I didn't know that O_o

Lokarin posted...

That game made me instant-rage, I'm something of a completionist and that game... THAT GAME

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No, just no. I'm not spending a week waiting for potatoes to rot or whatever

I'm still quite early in the game, but I think I see what you mean. There are sooo many sidequests it's kinda ridiculous. I dunno if I wanna do the whole quest with the old dude and his family tree.
I just read now that you can get cheese and yogurt from letting the pow milk age.
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Oh man, I love that game. I can't say the same about the sequel though, couldn't even get myself to finish it.
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lihlih posted...

Oh man, I love that game. I can't say the same about the sequel though, couldn't even get myself to finish it.

What's wrong with it? I've thought about hunting it down eventually.
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Ferarri619 posted...

I meant it as "quick question" so I actually had to Google because you're post here made me confused lol, and came across this on Urbandictionary:
Contrary to popular belief, QQ is not a set of crying eyes. It actually originated with the advent of Warcraft II. On battlenet, you could press ALT+Q+Q to immediately exit the match and program. Thus the term "QQ" was to tell people to just quit because they are unskilled. The term later developed and lost it's origin and is usually mistaken as crying eyes.

In contemporary gamer culture, QQ has become the mainstream emoticon for crying eyes, though it is still often used in it's traditional sense."

Weird I didn't know that O_o

It also sounds like BS as it's also used in MUDs, qq being how to quit the game without a confirmation, colloquially being quick quit.
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There's a guy who speedruns baiten kaitos for 100%, and it takes 341 hours (2 weeks). It's pretty interesting conceptually. There's an aquirable item that requires a fuck ton of time to pass to obtain, and the game time doesn't advance in menus, so you have to menu as quick as possible. Also, there's actually like 80 hours of actual speedrun gameplay, so it's not just all leaving the game on.

https://pastebin.com/BRvPJ430
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eating4fun posted...

There's a guy who speedruns baiten kaitos for 100%, and it takes 341 hours (2 weeks). It's pretty interesting conceptually. There's an aquirable item that requires a fuck ton of time to pass to obtain, and the game time doesn't advance in menus, so you have to menu as quick as possible. Also, there's actually like 80 hours of actual speedrun gameplay, so it's not just all leaving the game on.

https://pastebin.com/BRvPJ430

Yeah, it's like shampoo I think and after hundreds of hours it becomes conditioner, iirc

I realized 3/4 through the game that I hadn't gotten it. It was almost a relief. i may have actually done the "leave the GC on overnight for a week" thing if there was a chance. Realizing it was hopeless, it was...freeing...no longer caring about the 100%

Its funny, ive been playing through it myself recently. Ive beaten it a couple times in the past but never bothered with most of the damn sidequests.

I actually love origins too, maybe more than eternal wings. It really makes the battles more quick and fluid
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I will always love the first BK for that epic plot twist which to this day I still consider the greatest of any media I've ever seen.

But outside of that, BK Origins just does all of the gameplay so much better. It'd be really tough to go back to BK: EW & LO for me, the system is just so archaic and you end up having over 50 cards to manage for each of the 7 characters, in a system where using opposing elements literally negates the damage each do so you're constantly switching around decks as you go to areas w/ foes w/ different elemental strengths and weaknesses and you have to make sure the card numbers allow for combos and...ugh.
No thank you, never again... It was a fun experience once, but I outright dread the idea of replaying it.
And how about that randomness? Go into boss battle; never get the type of cards you want when you need them (ie, attack when attacking, defense when defending, and healing when someone's hurt bad) and just die. Restart, go into the same boss battle with nothing changed, and due to sheer random luck not being as cruel this time, mop the floor w/ the boss.

Ferarri619 posted...

lihlih posted...

Oh man, I love that game. I can't say the same about the sequel though, couldn't even get myself to finish it.

What's wrong with it? I've thought about hunting it down eventually.

They changed the battle system to be faster and stuff, but I felt that they took out a lot of what made the first one great. I know that I'm in the minority when it comes to that though, so maybe give it a try.
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