... around this forum to bash other companies and their games. I'm not saying the comments are wrong, per se, and I have, myself, taken part, but the change in tone is a little distressing. We here in the PC Gaming forum seem to have adopted an attitude of cynicism and denigration. Worse, some of us are trading discussion and discourse for closed-minded fanboyism. It tends to have a polarizing effect on communities and, if we're being honest, it also gets really boring to read.
So instead, how about a little more on what we like about PC Gaming? What are your simple pleasures--or guilty pleasures--in gaming?
Because we don't want this to end up as another 4chan or EVE-O.
You should really finish Persona 3 and Persona 4. Just keep an early save before you think its "starting to get hard/inescapable" and then blaze through the rest of the way with only quicksaves every day or so. (in same slot). Cheating at the Tests isn't so bad, but Cheating at the storyline/monster weaknesses is UNACCEPTABRE!!
Its the one RPG where your don't really need to grind (unless u want all the monsters for some reason), and you can get any monster if you know how to recombine the rest of your monsters. (some monsters just need rly high levels, like lv 90 )
My favorites for Persona 3 were Michael, Beelzebub, Samael, and Thanatos
My favorites for Persona 4 were ... anything with Invigorate
the only time where a lot of saves are handy is when you are trying to create "the best" of something and are not sure what the best combination is/ or your patience wanes.
Persona 4 is a lot harder so I would recommend Easy, while Persona 3 I would recommend Normal on first play-through and Hard on the second (FES).
... I think I beat Persona 3 at level 67ish? It was right after I reached the level to fuse Satan iirc
Powergaming. Being a min-maxer. (I believe that min-maxing means to play optimally.)
In PuzzleQuest, I want to get a good combo going. The feeling of glee when you first use Haste, then Web h(makes enemy lose 3+ turns), then Burn to turn Green gems to Red gems, then Wake the Dead to turn Skulls to +5 Skulls and finally Flaming Skulls to turn Red gems to Skulls.
The resulting damage is 27 with a 50% for an extra turn. I KNOW that there are much more powerful combos but this one is SOOO satisfying
Equipment:
Helm of the Ram
Great Axe
The below requires something like this board:
! = Skull
r = red gem
g = green gem
y = yellow gem
b = blue gem
x = whatever
xx!g!g!x
AD&D (Actually, now that I think of it, RIFTS) thought me to min-max. I've been moving away from the strategy in games lately, though, and will tend to go for either for balanced or concept strategies. I think I've lost some of the joy in winning all the time
Guilty Pleasure, why I really play. I like to play with games rather than play games per se. Oh, sure I may finish a campaign, but the main reason to play is just to have fun.
Now about the bashing ... I have put up a couple posts that were factual. There is some nasty stuff going on out there. People ought to know about it.
But I think I know what you are talking about. The classic case was Hellgate London. I was on the test server from very early on, shortly after release and the game was a lot of fun for me because I could respec whenever I wanted and so forth. And I was friendly with one of the devs, actually a consultant I think who ... er ... expedited things for me would be the polite way to put it.
So I was a Fanboi, and I contributed huge amounts of positive information to the official forum under the name DarwinJames. I helped players with builds, provided info on quests, and acted always in defense of the developers and their decisions. Yet it came to pass that this game inspired more player hatred than any other game I can think of. A special web site was formed called www.flagshipped.com that simply threw everything but the kitchen sink at Flagship and everyone associated with the game. The primary contributors were former super fans and fanboys like myself who had turned on them after being treated shabbily, kicked in the teeth once too often, and ripped off many of them. Some of them had paid $150 pre release for a lifetime membership that meant nothing. I stayed loyal.
Then my friend, himself on the way out the door, told me what was really going on. The test server shut down shortly after that. I lost all my work. I began to pay attention to flagshipped.com and realized I had been played for a fool. And you know the rest of the story. Sudden death for Flagship. End of the online game in the US probably forever.
Point is, being a fanboy accomplished nothing. Bashing accomplished nothing.
Maybe posting at all is a waste of time. But when I do, in the future, I will try to simply state facts without injecting my own venom.
My guilty pleasure- griefing people in fighting games who use overpowered or very easy characters.
I like games for the story. Starflight, Planescape Torment, Monkey Island, Civilization (the story of progress), Alpha Centauri, Baldurs Gate II, Mass Effect 2. Put a good story with some fun gameplay in front of me and I'm hooked.
Except for Dragon's Age oddly, which I felt really bored and can't explain. Pretty though, did I mention I also play games to appreciate the artwork? World of Warcraft was awful for me, I kept touristing and getting eaten by crocodiles.
Being good at games is a matter of practice, and I can get very good at games, but with so many great books, magazines, parties, friends, it takes a really great story to get a long-time gamer like me to keep playing. So nowadays I mostly power through games to get the story and appreciate the art work.
Except for Dragon's Age oddly, which I felt really bored and can't explain.
My partner and were wondering about this last night...we both enjoyed it, but both felt there was zero freedom to explore and that held it back from us really loving it. Particularly the bandit cutscenes that prevented you from just travelling peacefully between towns.
My guilty pleasure in gaming...exploring towns in rpg's with a pack full of loot to sell, trading said loot and taking that hard earned breather before heading off into the wilderness again with a vague goal in mind. No one's done that better than BG2 yet.
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