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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 2, 2010 10:15:29 GMT -5
It's funny how Suikoden has 108 characters per game, and like ZERO romance. You'd think out of any game, that'd be the one that'd let you take on a fling. It focuses more on stuff like friendship and betrayal. I'd take stuff like that, which I know Konami can do well, over a love story that in too many games goes over like a lead balloon. I think it does a good job with friendships, it's just the lack of much romantic intrigue is kind of jarring for someone like me who is so used to RPGs having them, since I play a lot of RPGs. Though, there are the occasional things, outside of married couples you can recruit, like the implied attraction between Akaghi and Mizuki in Suikoden 4 if you take Mizuki and her sister to the bath on your ship. Mizuki of course plays dumb about it. It's funny how Suikoden has 108 characters per game, and like ZERO romance. You'd think out of any game, that'd be the one that'd let you take on a fling. Suikoden is filled with a lot of romantic relationships, its just that the main character is never involved in any of them. Except for in 5 with Lyon Yeah, and in Suikoden 4, some of the characters have obvious crushes on the main character, like the mercenary women who hang out in front of your room to protect you.
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Post by Grendel on Jan 2, 2010 10:53:42 GMT -5
Most of my moments like this come from playing WoW. I am by no means a gear snob or a "numbers dork", I just play to have fun. However, why is it for the last two weeks, every time I run an instance it seems, the damn healer keeps complaining that "this is hard, you guys keep taking damage". Several times they have then asked me directly if I will help and "off heal". My general response, though often with extra words thrown in is, "I'm a hunter", to which one genius actually responded, "I know, so can you off heal". I managed to frighten my neice who was two stories below me with the rant that ensued. You know what is starting to grind my gears with WoW? When you're in an area and someone comes up and rips on you for your gear or for being in the area. I've gotten whispers in an area and them asking me what I'm doing there, I should be somewhere else leveling. Or I get whispers asking me why I have the weapons I do. "They have the wrong stats for you." Hey asshole, maybe they're quest rewards and they dealt more damage than the weapons I had? Or maybe, just maybe, I play for fun and don't care about the gear until I get closer to the end game stuff where it really matters? Or maybe I'm in a lower level area because I'm finishing up some quest chains or finding mats that are abundant in that area? But as for things that make me go ugh in the game, there are certain zones that I avoid as much as possible. Desolace, Silithus, The Plaguelands, there are a bunch of zones that I don't go into unless I need something that is in that zone, or I just go in there to get the flight points or some damn item that is only sold there, unless you want to pay through the nose for it at the ah.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 2, 2010 10:57:54 GMT -5
Most of my moments like this come from playing WoW. I am by no means a gear snob or a "numbers dork", I just play to have fun. However, why is it for the last two weeks, every time I run an instance it seems, the damn healer keeps complaining that "this is hard, you guys keep taking damage". Several times they have then asked me directly if I will help and "off heal". My general response, though often with extra words thrown in is, "I'm a hunter", to which one genius actually responded, "I know, so can you off heal". I managed to frighten my neice who was two stories below me with the rant that ensued. You know what is starting to grind my gears with WoW? When you're in an area and someone comes up and rips on you for your gear or for being in the area. I've gotten whispers in an area and them asking me what I'm doing there, I should be somewhere else leveling. Or I get whispers asking me why I have the weapons I do. "They have the wrong stats for you." Hey asshole, maybe they're quest rewards and they dealt more damage than the weapons I had? Or maybe, just maybe, I play for fun and don't care about the gear until I get closer to the end game stuff where it really matters? Or maybe I'm in a lower level area because I'm finishing up some quest chains or finding mats that are abundant in that area? But as for things that make me go ugh in the game, there are certain zones that I avoid as much as possible. Desolace, Silithus, The Plaguelands, there are a bunch of zones that I don't go into unless I need something that is in that zone, or I just go in there to get the flight points or some damn item that is only sold there, unless you want to pay through the nose for it at the ah. That's why I like Grand Fantasia. It's like a free WoW with less arrogant people.
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Post by W?Y on Jan 2, 2010 11:16:49 GMT -5
Trying to defeat the Brothers of Destruction with the Mexicools in '08. YEAHNO.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2010 13:17:42 GMT -5
Trying to defeat the Brothers of Destruction with the Mexicools in '08. YEAHNO. Holy crap your post brought back terrible memories. I sat in front of my PS2 for a whole hour trying to do that crap. The "Can You Spell Girl?" challenge in Skate 2 was ridiculously hard. So hard in fact, that the only way most people can beat it is with a glitch. It's just a game of SKATE with Eric Koston and Mike Carrol, but man they are pretty much land every single trick you throw at the. Another one I have is the entire Stuntman game. Yeah. If you've played the first one, you know that it's a great idea for a game but with terrible control and a steep learning curve. After the first set of stunts, the game gets a lot more difficult. I threw my controller at the couch at least 20 times. The sequel was a big improvement though and I recommend it to everyone.
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Post by Matt Rogers on Jan 2, 2010 14:13:43 GMT -5
I think KOTORII did the morality system pretty well, where the choices were still pretty black and white most of the time but making the light side choice could lead to just as much misery for people as the dark side choice... all while Kreia's lecturing you for it.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 2, 2010 18:22:43 GMT -5
-I really hate, really really hate, bad cameras. It's 2009, get the memo. There are precedents, what is the excuse?
-Choices, but not really a choice. For example, Fable. Swords are the best, the end. I hope you didn't actually want to use a pick, an axe, or a mace. Those are joke answers.
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Post by Thrillho on Jan 2, 2010 19:38:08 GMT -5
-I really hate, really really hate, bad cameras. It's 2009, get the memo. There are precedents, what is the excuse? Whatever happened to just having the camera at a decent height/distance so you can see ahead of you, and just using L1/R1 to have the camera orbit you? That worked perfectly.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2010 20:00:43 GMT -5
I decided to play good the first time, and it pretty much mocked me mercilessly. Seriously, everything goes to hell, everyone treats you like crap, and your character pretty much evelops clinical depresion. I dunno what your definition of good was but when I played it as good, the population loved & helped me when attacked, patched things up with my estranged girlfriend and ended the game vowing to protect the city Did you kill some kittens in the game or summit lol
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Post by Cela on Jan 2, 2010 21:23:38 GMT -5
I decided to play good the first time, and it pretty much mocked me mercilessly. Seriously, everything goes to hell, everyone treats you like crap, and your character pretty much evelops clinical depresion. I dunno what your definition of good was but when I played it as good, the population loved & helped me when attacked, patched things up with my estranged girlfriend and ended the game vowing to protect the city Did you kill some kittens in the game or summit lol {Spoiler}You reconcile with your gf after she s*** talks you the entire game. Then you have to choose between her and doctors, Dark Knight style. Sure she is the love of your life and a main force of the recovery movement. And you have spent the entire game trying to win her back. Yet picking her is the bad choice, and if you pick her, she still curses you for being so selfish and hurting people with powers, and still dies.
Meanwhile your best friend betrays you. Your only friend left gets sucked into a sphere. People get angry if you don't stop to give them life shock. The main news guy of the city calls you out every mission for being a fraud. And more than once at you are running through, people curse you for delivering the package in the first place. The people of the city may help ou, but its by throwing rocks against people with rocket launchers. And overall, playing good gets you fewer blast shards and less interesting powers.
Play evil (so far), and you get force lightning, cluster grenades, and an army.
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Post by Gummydavidson on Jan 7, 2010 11:10:40 GMT -5
Having to beat every wrestler on legends of wrestlemania in one sitting to get the platnum trophy
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Jan 7, 2010 16:26:21 GMT -5
THis Starts and ends with MGS 2, you can kill vampire very quick and Otacons sister still dies AFTER ALL THAT EFFORT YOU GO THROUGH RESCUING HER!!!!!! And Snake, who actually has a better shot, sits there and does f*** all! Sheva's AI in Resident Evil 5. I will curse her ineptitude under computer control until I die.
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Post by Alexander The So-so on Jan 7, 2010 16:36:22 GMT -5
-Having to win the carnival games in Assassin's Creed 2 in order to earn the golden mask that'll get you close to your target. Especially that EFFIN' FOOT RACE!!!!! With AC2's sensitive controls that send you off course with the slightest imperfection in how you handle the controller, the foot race was a nightmare to accomplish for me.
-Just about any swimming/water level in any game, anytime. I'm aquaphobic with a lot of video games for some reason. Especially if you end up having to face a huge, freaky sea monster boss (i.e. the Angler Fish in Link's Awakening; the giant dianoga in the sewer level in Shadows of the Empire)
-Any time in a game where I have to level up or earn more money before I can pass to the next part. I like games to run at a smooth pace, and being stalled like that grates on my nerves.
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Jan 7, 2010 16:38:35 GMT -5
-Having to win the carnival games in Assassin's Creed 2 in order to earn the golden mask that'll get you close to your target. Especially that EFFIN' FOOT RACE!!!!! With AC2's sensitive controls that send you off course with the slightest imperfection in how you handle the controller, the foot race was a nightmare to accomplish for me. Yeah. And the punchline to that joke? {Spoiler}You don't even get the mask! You have to steal it! You couldn't do that in the first place?!
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Post by Alexander The So-so on Jan 7, 2010 16:43:33 GMT -5
-Having to win the carnival games in Assassin's Creed 2 in order to earn the golden mask that'll get you close to your target. Especially that EFFIN' FOOT RACE!!!!! With AC2's sensitive controls that send you off course with the slightest imperfection in how you handle the controller, the foot race was a nightmare to accomplish for me. Yeah. And the punchline to that joke? {Spoiler}You don't even get the mask! You have to steal it! You couldn't do that in the first place?! Exactly! That's just totally being a douche to your game's players.
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Post by Kroot bringing Justice on Jan 7, 2010 16:56:20 GMT -5
Another DW2 one, having to play as Char to unlock some stuff. I mean it's bad enough I have to play as Char *I f***ing hate Char, wanna go back to playing as Puru/Puru 2, Haman, Loran, or Shinn* and it doesn't help every 15 seconds he says "CHAR AZNABLE SAYS, LET THE PURGE BEGIN!", SHUT UP!
All so any mission where I'm forced to fly most of the Mass Production suits. Instead of gimping the suits by Stats they gimp them moveset wise so your combos are very limited and you only have one SP attack. Goddamn Dom missions.
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Post by Pervy Stone Cold on Jan 7, 2010 17:25:58 GMT -5
-Just about any swimming/water level in any game, anytime. I'm aquaphobic with a lot of video games for some reason. Especially if you end up having to face a huge, freaky sea monster boss (i.e. the Angler Fish in Link's Awakening; the giant dianoga in the sewer level in Shadows of the Empire) I hear you. It bothered me a lot when I first played Hexen II and encountered the squid thing in the water. Again in the future I got startled to the point of quitting with that huge Dianoga in the third level in Dark Forces.
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Post by W?Y on Jan 7, 2010 21:26:18 GMT -5
-Just about any swimming/water level in any game, anytime. I'm aquaphobic with a lot of video games for some reason. Especially if you end up having to face a huge, freaky sea monster boss (i.e. the Angler Fish in Link's Awakening; the giant dianoga in the sewer level in Shadows of the Empire) I myself am not aquaphobic, but I sympathize with you completely because I am afraid of giant monsters, especially undersea ones. I will almost never play Kingdom Hearts 1 again because of the shark in the Little Mermaid level.
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Post by Mr T L Wolf on Jan 7, 2010 21:58:33 GMT -5
-I really hate, really really hate, bad cameras. It's 2009, get the memo. There are precedents, what is the excuse? -Choices, but not really a choice. For example, Fable. Swords are the best, the end. I hope you didn't actually want to use a pick, an axe, or a mace. Those are joke answers. F*** that noise, I used a giant hammer. Most of the time, I just stuck with that legendary blunderbuss whose name escapes me.
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Jan 7, 2010 22:09:55 GMT -5
The Catalina missions in GTA San Andreas. Seriously, I hate them with all my heart. At least the Zero missions are mostly optional, but these Catalina missions are frikin' horrible. Oh man, I'm with you on this. The Badlands, in general, were crap.
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