[Medisinn]

...What cards do you have? If there's anything cool I might be interested in buying some. I just spent 40 bucks on cards...ugh. But I have two new decks coming, plus cards to supplement my six existing decks, and the OME tournament is next week. Bwahaha.

Finished Apollo Justice. Need to write a review of it. Not as good as the others, but still quite good.

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner is pretty cool so far. I really like the music and the modern theme that seems to be in SMT games, definitely unique compared to everything else in the RPG world.

[Animus]

You should find Devil Survivor too. Tactics game that's much more fun than the FFT:Advance games. Or Revenant Wings. It seems to act a bit like a Survival Horror game too, with the Death Count. Though, I'm not sure if you can actually get game over because of it. Haven't played enough yet.

On a side note, Dissidia is out now. I honestly wish I had the cash to get a PSP. It looks amazing. And the characters I want to play are, strangely, not terrible, like in every other fighting game in existence. The lack on online play unless you're nearby, or have a PS3, though, is somewhat bothering. But it seems like SE is open to fixing this at a later date. Or perhaps in Dissidia 2.


On the note of Magic, I still have my deck laying around as well. Haven't played in the longest time though. I'm sure there's stupid new things I could do with it, rather than eating people with Nightmares.

[Medisinn]

There's a rather broken deck one of my friends found online. I don't know if you're familiar with Suspend...basically, you put a card to the side for however many turns, after paying a small mana cost, and then each turn remove a counter until it comes into play. There's a newer effect called Cascade with some cards where you search for a card that costs less than the spell with Cascade and play it for free. For some stupid reason, this includes Suspend cards, which have no "real" mana cost, so you can play their assraping effects for free. Such as using Restore balance to reduce the amount of creatures and lands each player controls to the amount the player with the least controls. Which is zero, because he has nothing but artifacts, and keeps pulling back lands to put in mana-producing artifacts for 1...and then plays March of the Machines, which makes all his artifacts 3/3. And then you get faceraped. The only way to stop it is counterspell. It's aggravating.

Devil Survivor? Also for DS? I'll have to check it out. Getting more and more into Devil Summoner, damn it's good.

Dissidia...I wonder if there's any cool side stuff. The best part about Ehrgeiz was the mini-dungeon crawler mode, although it was often frustrating with the Shutter Traps.

[Xero]

Batman: Arkham Asylum.
Controls? Awesome. Graphics? Awesome. Gadgets? Awesome. Upgrades? Awesome. Fighting? Awesome. Story? Awesome. Puzzles? Awesome. Bosses? Awesome. Enemies? Occasionally Annoying. Bonus Material? Awesome.

Its the goddamn batman, and its goddamn awesome. They FINALLY did batman justice and pulled it off RIGHT. Batman has his slow intimidation walk of awesome, but if you need to you can run around and FLYING LEAP KICK ENEMIES IN THE FACE. You can also climb, jump, dive out of the way, flip over people, grapple hook on things EASILY, be stealthy, glide long distances, and much more.

The entire fighting system is epic, as the more enemies there are and the more skilled you are at using it, the more epic the fight looks. Theres the basic attacks, and counter attacks. Basics are stuff like punching/kicking, but there is a WIDE variety of attacks batman will pull off - you don't really control which he does, just when he does it - so it doesn't get dull from watching batman do the same punch fifteen times.

Counter attacks, which is where you basically just hit the button at the right timing to interrupt an enemy attack and proceed to lay a beatdown, are essential to not getting gangbanged. Basics and Counters can be chained together, so you can get a huge ass combo going that just makes it look all the more epic. Did I mention that the last blow on the last enemy is in epic slow motion zoom? Because it is. And its awesome.

Stealth. Goddamn do I love stealth. You can do silent takedowns on enemies you sneak up behind, which avoid attracting attention, or fly off of an above area and land on an unsuspecting enemy's face, and then grapple back to safety while his buddies check on the commotion, and promptly start shitting themselves in fear as you slowly dwindle their numbers down.

Theres a ton more, but that'd take forever to list and just be giving away everything awesome about it.

[Animus]

I'm pretty sure Dissidia has a fuckton of unlockables. From the villains, to extra music for stages, to alternate costumes, and equipment for characters.

It's too bad that the fight game 'gurus' are already turning it into Melee though. I've seen a couple instances where there's a 'No Weapons No Equipment No Accessories, Level 100, Chaos' Throne!' as the only settings where the game is 'fair'. Took them all of 3 days.

EDIT: I'm wrong, it's No Equipment, no Summons, no accessories. So... half of the work you put into the game. If you can't win without that, you're not skilled enough. GO PLAY A REAL CHARACTER! Like ExDeath. Fuck Cloud. N00B!

/sigh.

[Medisinn]

I played a little bit of Batman. It was kind of cool, but nothing I hadn't seen before. Heard it gets better. There's tons of hype about it, as indicated by Xero's post.

Well, those are hardcore people. I've tried playing Smash with no items, and it isn't horrible...but if you want a game that's purely skill-based, that's what Street Fighter is for. If Dissidia is anything like Smash, it's about finding the best characters, and having lots of random, funny stuff happen.

[Xero]

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It was kind of cool, but nothing I hadn't seen before.

What games have you been playing and why the fuck have I never heard of them? As far as I know, Arkham Asylum is pretty unique...

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It's too bad that the fight game 'gurus' are already turning it into Melee though. I've seen a couple instances where there's a 'No Weapons No Equipment No Accessories, Level 100, Chaos' Throne!' as the only settings where the game is 'fair'. Took them all of 3 days.

EDIT: I'm wrong, it's No Equipment, no Summons, no accessories. So... half of the work you put into the game. If you can't win without that, you're not skilled enough. GO PLAY A REAL CHARACTER! Like ExDeath. Fuck Cloud. N00B!

/sigh.

Fuck those people, honestly. They bitch, moan, and generally make things less fun by being an asshole ESPECIALLY if they win.

This post has been edited by Xero: 29 August 2009 - 06:46 PM

[Medisinn]

As I said, I've played a little bit. So I apparently haven't seen the cool stuff. The combat, at the time, was incredibly simple, I've played dozens of games like that. Only one attack button? Harkens back to the days of SNES brawlers.

The stealth elements, obviously come from Metal Gear Solid, and the climbing/grappling hotspots remind me of Tomb Raider.

I'm just saying the beginning was boring. Which doesn't mean anything for the rest of the game, hell Star Ocean 2 starts out as a snoozefest, but after the first hour gets damned good.

[Ertwin]

I just started playing Taikodom, it's a space game, sort of like freelancer apparently.

[Exit]

Hey I probably don't have anything you dont have or cant get that easily. not sure exactly what off the top of my head, but i have a shit ton of Masques and before that. I know I have stuff going back to Ice age and all the way back to 3rd ed. Nothing new though, maybe some nemesis and ummm yea. like 1600 cards total i think. not really sure to be honest.

[Medisinn]

Damn, that's a lot. Most older cards are kind of crappy or have been made obsolete by newer, more powerful cards, but I'm sure you have some random good ones. Some of the best effects are from old-ass cards.

I've been playing Dynasty Warriors Empires 6...It's shitty, but still kind of fun. There's at least a little depth to the Empire stuff, even if the actual combat is just about pressing XXXXXXXXXXXXX endlessly since you don't have to do little combos anymore.