Posts by kilovh

I play when I'm on my laptop. LAPTOPCEPTION.

Um, yeah. I play a lot of games. Especially DOTA. DOTA.......

So...if I've never played this shovel knight thing, I guess that means I...should?

@Sardonic Pickle Blood Money is by a zillion miles the best hitman game. So good. All anyone ever wanted was more of that, jsut expanded. Then we got hitman absolution, which is the best argument for squeenix to never get involved in an action title again (although they did make sleeping dogs which I am currently enjoying)

I'll definitely agree with @LinkSkywalker that FFX had the best mechanics of any FF game. I think my favorite of the playstation era was probably IX, which was the only one I finished sort of in one chunk without breaking for other games and the like. I think the best story of an FF game in the playstation generation is probably XIII. FF6/3 is probably the greatest final fanasy of all time though and I think it may be the one I've spent the most time playing. Speaking of Square Enix, Chrono Cross for playstation was actually really really good, though I think there were only like 12 people in the universe who played it. Doesn't seem as common a purchase.

I'm not sure what games I'd be most upset to have missed. It actually might be a zelda game or two; it might be super mario 64 which revolutionized the whole world, it might be something else. I'm a bit spoiled in that the PC (plus emulators) has always been my most-used system, so this non-backward-compatability losing games thing hasn't been as much of an issue (except for the awesome DOS games its hard to make work on modern PCs)

I love emulatorrs! Especially considering that I never owned an SNES but have played a whole bunch of SNES games (INCLUDING CHRONO TRIGGER OMG PROBABLY THE BEST GAME OF ALL TIME NO TAKEBACKS) and have played GBA games waaaaay after my GBA broke (so much good stuff - golden sun, advance wars....GBA emulator is still my go-to console if I ever wanna play a round of sonic the hedgehog. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance...so much good stuff). Playstation and PS2 emulators are essential for me as well since I odn't have those systems either anymore though I do have quite a few game disks for them. I have tried wii/gc emulation but the usb controller i have is a ps2 layout and it is indeed weird to use with those systems. But for playstation it's great; I really can't complain. My least favorite things about more modern emulation is the way games made for TVs ten years ago look like absolute garbage on a 1920x1080 screen...

So you think X/Y is the best entrance to modern pokemon right now?

Zeus, but only because that's what he's called in DotA. (I'll just show myself out)

Q: What is the most useful piece of software you use on a daily basis? (not operating systems; individual apps)

I never played these games. Here's my question - if I were to play one of these pokemon games having never played pokemon since basically red, blue, and yellow, would I have any idea what's going on or how to play? Should I pick it up? Sorry for the topic hijack. Answer if you want, don't if you don't want...

Side-topic: Is borderlands an RPG? It has strong RPG elements but it's, like, kind of its own new thing. I mean, everything nowadays has SOME rpg elements. Very few games seem to have zero character progression. So what makes it an RPG? Does adventure need to be involved? How much story is necessary? One thing Borderlands certainly ain't is turn-based.

Fascinating. Stop apologizing this is interesting stuff worth reading.

So you didn't like any of the mass effects, or kotor, or freakin' Jade Empire for that matter which wasn't bad? I mean, this is a diversion about bioware and has nothing ot do with turn-based battle seeing as except for mass effect all these games are turn-based. I'm just surprised. Aside from Jedi outcast and Jedi Academy which are more cult hilts and have the advantage of only well-implemented lightsaber battles in the history of star wars games, KotoR is generally regarded as the best SW game of all time, and I think that reputation is well-deserved. The story is compelling, the character progression seems solid. In fact the only downside to the game might be the problem you're describing here -- there are certain force moves that make even the final boss way too easy and you just end up spamming the same move from halfway through the game until the end. (I actually felt, btw, that KotoR 2 suffered from the bethesda-itis I ultimately dislike, which is why I felt the first one was better.)

But Mass Effect? Great story, great progression, a skill-based combat system (since it's a shooter), compelling characters especially in mass effect 2, extremely high production values, great voice acting, some open-world aspects, somewhat varied sidequests, persistent characters from game to game (a great feature I'm surprised isn't used more often...)...I thought they were ace. Probably my favorite game series in recent history. No other series imo is consistently as good. I know I'm in a minority about fallout but I guess I just never "got" it.

But I just thought -- there is a great modern game with turn-based combat, and its name is Transistor. That turn-based system never got old. In fact, just remembering it now makes me want to try more stuff. What a great game. And despite (or maybe because of) it being turnbased I enjoyed it more than Bastion. It's actually a great example of how an action engine was granted much more depth through strategy and turn-based elements.

Of course, you can't compare the turn-based system of transistor to final fantasy, which is why it didn't even occur to me until now that transistor is turn-based. You move around with limited motion, using moves that you crafted yourself (from tons of different options) to take out enemies who all have their own unique strengths and weaknesses -- watching the character actually perform the move is not the boring part between your choices but on the contrary an extremely satisfying execution of your choices...

RPGs have come a long way since then though. Playing FFXII makes me wonder if the turn-based rpg is dead. I suppose the question is - was the turn-based system just a limit of the technology of the time, or does it have its own merit? Because Mass Effect for example is to my mind perhaps the most immersive RPG experience I have ever had and they're third-person shooters. (I suppose the modern competitor against Mass Effect would be the Elder Scrolls games which despite many hours of Skyrim I never felt as attached to. I really don't jive well with Bethesda games, despite the many things they do well. Only game of theirs I've played recently that feels polished is Dishonored. No, I'm not a big fallout fan; fallout seems to suffer from the same insane "We can build an entire detailed universe but we can't make a decent HUD or interface" problems as TES. I always feel like they need more designers on their team. Not imaginative worldbuilders. More nuts-and-bolts type people. Because BioWare games just work and look absolutely gorgeous for their time, whenever they come out. They're smooth as butter. Whereas with Bethesda there's always these flaws that need overlooking, imo.)

I miss reading people pwn other people on forums like you just did right there. Man. Brutal.

Q: If you could travel 2000 years into the past and be a king or queen, or travel 2000 years into the future and be poor, which would you choose and why?

How are ya

Oh...my...

That's....

Wow.

Tell me that's a sack you're holding open.

Oh, and I'm really looking forward to No Man's Sky, despite no real gameplay REALLY being released yet. But come on. It looks like it's gonna be the biggest thing ever. My only concern is whether they're going to be able to fill their huge universe with enough things to do. But either way...if it were in alpha right now, I'd be on that like a fat kid on cake. Chocolate cake. With chocolate icing.

Not much. What...what is the thing...on your...thing...>.>

Anyone here have any really great games they like to play on their Android phone/tablet?

My username is the ancient navajo word for "consumer of baked goods at rates considered in excess of ordinary"

Hello there!

My soul, eh? I've been wondering where I misplaced that