WoW 8.2 is almost complete crap. The raid and new dungeon are okay and I stuck around for AOTC (Azshara is ridiculously complicated), but literally nothing else in the patch feels good and I'm not sticking around for Mythic. New zones are a tediou…
And Trails 3rd Nightmare Arena down. Most of the fights are simple enough. Philip/Morgan/Dunan is hilarious because not only can they all be debuffed but Philip is vulnerable to confuse, lol. Orgueille is trivial because you can just outspeed it …
6/9 Mythic Dazar. King Rastakhan is simultaneously an incredibly frustrating and incredibly fun fight that pushes every aspect of healing. I even managed to hit a solid middle-of-the-pack healing parse instead of the usual green/gray, lol.
I doubt…
Yeah, obviously a game specifically like Setsuna would need to find another way -- melancholy is the whole point. I was just making the observation that by mocking it with a fount of edgy humor (which would honestly be right at home in a game like …
I finished I Am Setsuna, and...don't get me wrong, I enjoyed this game enough, but there's not a lot to it beyond the plot of FFX and the guts of Chrono Trigger. I'm reading Dark Id's LP of it now, and I can't help but wish he'd do dialogue consult…
5/9 Mythic Dazar. Conclave of the Chosen is a nightmare to heal on Mythic.
Also we cleared Heroic Crucible the night it came out, something like 220th world. Which feels pretty good, seeing how we're a semi-casual guild, on a dead server, AND play…
It's 4 different theories about the ending to the mindfuck conclusion of a trilogy spanning some 120 hours of story, not counting the game in between. God knows what I'm going to do when I get to Cold Steel.
I guess paste it into Notepad. I tried to make the built-in spoiler tag work but it just made a blue box and didn't actually hide anything. Trying to highlight and black-box the text itself exploded the character count far beyond allowed limits be…
I'm pretty much past all the hard parts by now, so run is basically complete.
I saw a theory about the ending a while back and it seems more legit the more I consider it. Spoilers for the entirety of Trails 3rd.
"And this makes me think that Anima …
Cassius down. Wound up being one of the easier ones just because I'd been planning the strategy since before the run.
Everyone should be running Earth Guard, two with Gaia Shield, and at least two with Thelas. Two casting offense with Dark Matter …
The rest are mostly much more serious. Awakening is the only one I can think of that seems to enjoy getting wacky with the dialogue.
Fates is probably better for combat. The abilities get much more interesting, and they change the pair-up to be le…
So one of the Star Doors puts you up against like 8 guys that spam petrify, and their resists and HP are too high to nuke them down like on Normal. But there's a fantastically silly way to cheese packs that large. Put the Super Gladiator Headband …
The one where she's stuck in the building to the NE, right? Think I paired up Chrom with a Great Knight or something to bait the first wave and rush up there fast enough. Unless you've kicked up the difficulty pretty high Noire can pretty much tak…
So I think I'm done with the side stories in Trails 3rd Nightmare that had me most terrified.
Tita's balloon thingy trial is easy enough with Smoke Cannon, though on Nightmare you have to sit on an S-break to finish them off once they start spamming…
4/9 Mythic Dazar. Opulence is a fun fight with a relatively low gear gate, but there's a lot of mechanics to trip over and you really need a lot of warm bodies alive at the end, so it took us a solid 2 weeks to learn the opening part cleanly enough…
Dragon Quest 8 is probably the best of the series. I really like how the storytelling in DQ games is so much less pretentious than the likes of Final Fantasy, but in gameplay they tend to favor grind over depth and 8 is probably the least bad about…
This was the first kill last week, and given we're a semi-casual guild raiding the hardest difficulty it felt damn nice. We took him down again last night, but it ended up hitting the berserk timer -- thankfully this time we were prepared and didn…
Presumably a statement that the White House is being run by a sociopathic narcissist who regularly cheats, himself a direct product and catalyst of a surrounding society that rewards greed and cruelty.
That, or Odra is just bored and Google Image Se…
The main gimmick in the fight is that you kill additional enemies throughout that drop energy balls, which you throw at the boss to cause him to a) interrupt some of his more powerful abilities, b) waste his most powerful move early before it's full…
Okay guys seriously, I don't even watch baseball and I know what these are :P
First picture is players congratulating each other as they leisurely run in the points from a home run. Second one is a guy stealing home plate, which is always extremely…
What it feels like when you bring down the gear check boss and the kill was almost flawless:
What it feels like when you review the logs and realize you beat the berserk timer by 9 seconds, and the guy holding the kill ball was second on threat a…
My guild cleared Battle of Dazar'alor on Heroic tonight for that sweet Ahead of the Curve cheevo.
I have very mixed feelings on this raid. The encounters are fun as encounters, and if I were a DPS or tank I'd love it. But as a healer, it feels ver…
Also, read through an LP of Second Chapter. There's a point where you use Kloe to cheese a biometric scan and commit a bit of identity fraud on behalf of her distant ancestor.
VERY distant, apparently. For reference, humans all have a 99.9% DNA …
Just started 3rd Nightmare. It's...exactly what I expected so far. The very first fight can and will kill you, and the pre-prologue jaeger gauntlet gives you JUST enough resources to manage if you execute it perfectly and have a teeny bit of luck.…
That's incredibly hilarious after season 8, much less all the international friendship-errantry that led up to it. Douchebag probably had an aneurysm at the Young Six.
Oh God. I'm taking a refresher run through Trails in the Sky 3rd before I attempt it on Nightmare. I forgot how many of the star doors involved long mini-campaigns or duels using underleveled characters who have terrible and/or zero goddamn arts. …
So Trails of Cold Steel 3 is being given to NISA for localization. Apparently either the Ys 8 shitshow wasn't QUITE bad enough to scare off Falcom, and/or they're not happy with how XSeed takes forever to put out a fantastic translation.
IIII was the original, then people realised "Hey, this is way too easy to mix up with III". IX used to be VIIII too.
Yep, it was just adopted to cut down on visual clutter because most people's eyes start to glaze over after three small, identical …
Trails SC Nightmare done. Sweet God that ending is still amazing. I seriously don't think I've ever played another game that earns its conclusion THAT well.
At the end of Trails in the Sky SC on Nightmare. Loewe is appropriately ridiculous (as in, autoattacks people for 10k when most non-Agate characters have 9.5 at most) but kind of fun since just to get here you're presumably used to juggling shields…
Honestly after seeing the kind of people I did when I still used FB, I prefer the ads and recycled memes. It's a lot less disturbing than watching old friends turn into irrational ideologues.
Closing out Uldir season in WoW. My guild ended up 5/8 Mythic, and #1 Alliance on our server.
The first two bosses are fairly trivial (first one is an outright loot pinata), but the next three are all ballbusters for completely different reasons an…