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Post by Emily on Feb 28, 2010 22:17:26 GMT
strategy schmategy...
but then that might be why I'm not very good at civ games.
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Post by Ally on Feb 28, 2010 22:23:48 GMT
All the hexagons remind me of a honeycomb. A world built by bees! ;D
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Post by stokerino on Feb 28, 2010 22:28:28 GMT
To be honest I'm not great either. I can win on Warlord difficulty fine, but on Noble (the next one up) something always crops up to smash me.
I've read strategies and tips and such. They just never seem to work unless everything's perfect, which it never is. >_>
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Post by stokerino on Mar 8, 2010 14:34:46 GMT
FFXIII out tomorrow. Still not buying it (I have other games I'm playing at the moment anyway).
Yasha is apparently going to buy it for me at some point. She would have ordered it already if I hadn't persuaded her that she had enough expenses at the moment, what with the deposits on her dress and the venue, and having to buy a new suit for work, and so on.
But yes, when I said I probably wasn't going to get it, she insisted that she would buy it and make me play it. Why? So that she can watch the prettiness of it.
Honestly. You'd think she'd just play some of these games herself, but no. Certainly all of the Metal Gear Solid ganes and Final Fantasy X at least have fallen under the banner of Yasha Wants To See But Not To Play. Le sigh.
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Yasha
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'I would not mind you in my head, if you were not so clearly mad.'
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Post by Yasha on Mar 8, 2010 17:46:19 GMT
Too late. Just ordered it anyway ^_^ I wanna watch you play (and you WILL play it) And hell it's so pretty I might even play it myself. For about 10 minutes until I get frustrated with the game play. I'll wait and get a new suit after I've got my bonus and know how close it is to my estimate and I see how much to portion out for dress/venue along with the grand I already have.
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Post by stokerino on Mar 8, 2010 18:28:31 GMT
So to summarise: your plan is to watch me play the fun bits, then walk away and do something else inbetween, while I have to stay at the computer and do the tedious bits such as the bajillion little enemy battles, levelling up etc.
There's a metaphor for marriage in there somewhere. ¬_¬
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Post by Emily on Mar 8, 2010 20:25:39 GMT
I understand Yash. Bioshock 2 is too scary for me to play... but I am quite happy to watch tom and pete play it, the scary mutants are okay so long as it's not me fighting them, and the game is very good.
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Post by stuart alman on Mar 8, 2010 21:33:12 GMT
Too late. Just ordered it anyway ^_^ I wanna watch you play (and you WILL play it) And hell it's so pretty I might even play it myself. For about 10 minutes until I get frustrated with the game play. I'll wait and get a new suit after I've got my bonus and know how close it is to my estimate and I see how much to portion out for dress/venue along with the grand I already have. rather disturbingly i believe i was having this exact same conversation with yash on the phone while she was typing this.
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Post by stokerino on Mar 8, 2010 21:38:16 GMT
Not surprising. She does talk a lot. :-p
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Post by stokerino on Mar 10, 2010 11:23:27 GMT
FF13 is on my desk. I guess I'll be playing it tonight, then.
Annoyingly, I'm right in the middle of the final chapter of the second Phoenix Wright game ('Justice For All'). Not as good as the first game, which was frankly brilliant, but still very good nonetheless.
I recommend the first game to anyone. If you don't have a DS (like me), it's available from WiiWare downloads for 1000 Wii points (£7). If you don't have a Wii either...or if you're just really cheap...then I guess roms are always available. ¬_¬
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Post by jonathan on Mar 10, 2010 14:15:44 GMT
JFA suffers from the worst third case of any of the games. However, the fourth makes up for it. The third game is excellent. The fourth (Apollo Justice) doesn't have such great standout cases as the others, and you may hate it for what it does to the status-quo, but it also doesn't have any really weak cases, and I personally enjoyed it.
I need to pick up Ace Attorney Investigations.
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Post by stokerino on Mar 10, 2010 14:44:51 GMT
If we take the cases from the first game - which I'll call PWAA - and JFA in parallel (since they clearly follow the same pattern - I don't know if the subsequent games do as well), then the only one that I think is better in JFA is the second one (Kurein Village). Although really, the PWAA one (Mia Fey) may just suffer because it's a lot shorter. The Tutorial case in JFA might be better too, but it's a frikkin' tutorial, so hardly counts.
The third case of PWAA (Global Studios) has been one of my favourites, just because of the way it kept twisting and turning (only the final case from PWAA has been better). JFA's version (Big Berry Circus) had no such twisting and turning, instead relying on a matter of extended guesswork in the final trial. Not great.
I have to say I haven't loved JFA's fourth case thus far (the first day of trial having just ended...), but it's been alright. I'm going to try not to compare it with PWAA's fourth case, which was absolutely superb in pulling together the DL-6 subplot, Edgeworth, von Karma and everything else.
I look forward to playing the rest of them... >_>
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Post by stokerino on Mar 10, 2010 22:47:03 GMT
BOW DOWN TO THE CHOCOBO
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Post by Emily on Mar 11, 2010 9:00:43 GMT
I am imagining the chocobo as some kind of neo-nazi speechgiver now...
is that in game footage or a cut scene? because wow...
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Post by stuart alman on Mar 11, 2010 10:41:02 GMT
erm i think he's dead and the chocobo killed him
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Post by stokerino on Mar 11, 2010 12:11:37 GMT
Cut scene. I know, it's getting ridiculous at this stage. I'd link a trailer to show off the prettiness, but I can't access youtube at work. Not that the game footage is at all shabby either: I forget the name of this greeny-black area that you start off in, so I'm just going to call it Unimatrix Zero One. Since that's seriously what it looks like and all.
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Post by Emily on Mar 11, 2010 13:05:09 GMT
it's super shiny... is it any good? and can I play it on pc?
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Post by stokerino on Mar 11, 2010 13:15:07 GMT
My experience is limited thus far but they've changed the battle system from the chaotic slug-fest they had in FF12 to something of a real-time/turn-based hybrid. Bit odd, but a vast improvement.
But alas, it's not available on the PC. I think the only Final Fantasys that ever have been are FF7 and FF11 (but then 11 is a Mumorpuger, so it's kind of obligatory), so chances of it ever happening are virtually nil.
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Post by Emily on Mar 11, 2010 15:41:54 GMT
I had one once... it was old maybe 6 0r five? for the pc, didn't work well... gave up v. fast.
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Post by stokerino on Mar 11, 2010 15:52:49 GMT
You can get the older NES/SNES-based ones as roms very easily (though I suppose they could have had proper ports made as well). It was an old 2D one, yes?
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