1) It was a delightful ceremony, though admittedly I was a little preoccupied. Had some things to think about.
2) Lyra: Oh, you got me. All these years I’ve just been joshing you folks. I’m actually more than a little gay.
Bon-Bon: Lyra.
Lyra: I’m actually Super Gay! And that’s not just a status, but my superhero secret identity!
Bon-Bon: Lyra.
Lyra: No no. This is what they want. I am so~ gay, that if I walked into a room being monitored by a gay-ometer, the display would cycle thrice and then read TILT.
Bon-Bon: … Got it out of your system?
Lyra: For the moment.
3) I think the thing that upsets me the most about that game is that any other company could have made the exact same game. And I mean the exact. Same. Game. And nopony would have cared. But because Neightendo made it, everypony ignores that a full priced game launched with as much, if not less content than a free-to-play title still in beta. And isn’t that just a little sad.
4) I’d be surprised if this Killer Queen didn’t also have a laser beam of some kind.
How about… a wendigo… with the power to… possess objects and… reveal identities. I dunno. I’m just tossing stuff together here.
1) Is this something from Portal 2, or something? Because I’m not following…
… Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3? Huh. I only played Red Alert 1 and 2, though. That series is pretty dang hard.
2) Lyra: You want to field this one, Bon-Bon?
Bon-Bon: To be honest, even I find that one insulting. I am gay, but I would never go beyond a hug and a hoofshake without dating somepony.
3) I wouldn’t necessarily consider their motivations to be dumb, just the execution. You can’t leave societies to their own devices and only come around every so often expecting to gain full control of the situation. You need representation to regulate. That’s, like, the most basic requirement for control.
1) It’s fine. If it really bothered me I would have just ignored it.
2) Could you cast the spell on the spell? Identify the identification spell.
3) And Knuckles! It’s a good joke, yeah. But I genuinely thought having Dante in Nocturne was pretty cool. I mean, in the end he amounted to nothing as far as the title is concerned. But it was a solid attention grabber.
4) I don’t know. That sounds kinda dumb. And a lot of wasted effort. Why not just leave a few Reapers behind in each solar system to ensure space travel never happens? I’m not saying being dumb means it’s impossible, or that it couldn’t still happen. But it would be dumb.
1) You wouldn’t expect it from the name, or at least I wouldn’t, but Taste of Seaddle. That is, unless you want to spend a bunch of bits somewhere fancy.
2) Yes… I mean, every other Lyra’s last name is Heartstrings, so… But I have no evidence proving it’s mine…
3) Only Substance. I’ve watched a lot of the first and second, and some of the third and Revengeance (if that counts), but I’m not a huge Metal Gear fan. Not really a huge stealth fan, to be honest. Let’s just say the novelty of sneaking around wore off quite some time ago for me.
4) A spell that’s used to study spells. That does seem fitting for you. I guess the next step would be learning how to cast it?
The Secret World is… something. It’s an MMO that falls on the Guild Wars side of the mechanical spectrum. That is, a crucial, limited number of abilities you can access at any given time (but can switch) vs. the WoW-style of an abundance of abilities, but most of them range between situational to useless unless you spec into them. The GW-style tends to make combat much harder than WoW-clones, but also more interesting and engaging to play.
Much like Star Wars: The Old Republic, a major focus of the game is in storytelling. Where Secret World has a leg up is in atmosphere and the characters. I’ve yet to finish the first area (I’m in the third map for it), but I can tell you definitively that the characters you meet, what they’re doing, and how they interact with one another is so much more interesting than anything I witnessed in SWTOR.
However, and this is my largest issue with the game. It’s unoptimized as all get-out. Even after playing Archeage, I’ve never seen an MMO this bad. Just logging into the game takes 1.2 million kilobytes (on DX9 with the sliders on 0). And I’ve witnessed memory leaks drag that as high as 1.6 million. I say witnessed, because I know it can get worse, but I never got the chance to see how bad it can get before it crashed my entire computer. I now periodically monitor the game in my Task Manager and reboot if memory usage gets too high.
You’ll also have to frequently tab out or use the game’s built-in web browser to look up what you’re supposed to do, because a lot of the game’s puzzles are ridiculously convoluted. And can bug. I’ve yet to encounter a bug that halted progression entirely. But I’ve had to wait, or repeat steps, or in one instance even log out of my character and back in to get the mission to advance.
I got the game on sale, and it has certainly been worth the price in story and character interaction alone. And as I understand it the game used to be a lot harder than it is now. But it’s still pretty hard.
Edit: I’m looking forward to Bladestorm: Nightmare releasing on Steam!
1) Would you believe there are ponies who have memorized that bit of sentence vomit?
Incidentally
I own Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance, but I only ever did the section on
the ship and the VR missions. I already knew how most of the story went
and I really didn’t care.
2) Tootsie: What’s a flask?
Lyra: It’s… uhm… One of those little glass science-things, right?
Bon-Bon: It’s just a container for holding liquid.
3) Well, I guess I celebrated by starting to play The Secret World. More of a coincidence than celebration, though.
4) Okay. That would have deflated by now, right?
5) Well, I don’t really like Silver. At all.
What about ShadowxEspio?
Steven Universe: Attack the Light
Okay, so good game. Definitely worth the price. There were some issues, though. I’ll talk about it after the break.
1) I worked a relief shift today. It’s where I only work a booth while somepony else takes a break, and then I ride a train to the next station and do it again. We probably missed each other.
3) I have! And the only thing that was a little weird was the TwiPie (as I’ve said in the past, we all know better than to ship TwiPie). As a story, it was fantastic and filled with neat little jokes on item/enemy descriptions that you wouldn’t get in any other form of media. Artistically it did the retro-style right, using the limitation on visuals as a tool instead of an excuse. But mechanically it was a poorly balanced slog. Characters, their abilities, enemies, bosses, items, equipment, money; it was all over the place in terms of difficulty/accessibility. It needed much better balancing/progression than what it had.
4) I think I’ve played the game long enough at this point. I like it! It continues to be fun and when the online mode isn’t going into slow-motion because someone’s latency is too high, it’s a constant source of entertainment! The balancing seems to be a lot better than the previous games, too. I always seem to find myself at home with Pikachu in this series, but for some reason this time around I’m doing some serious damage with Charizard of all fighters.
Holy crap my back hurts again out of nowhere.
1) I have! The Mii fighters are one of my favorite parts of the game! It’s such a shame you can’t use them online.
Edit: Also, who are you to complain about the buttons being too small? My hoof covers all the buttons! How do?
2) From my Dynasty Warrior experience, that level/character/weapon combo doesn’t last very long without some kind of substance. That’s what made DW3’s free mode so great, and why DW8’s is such trash.
1) Liza goes home on the weekends. She’s not going to be able to go if it’s that late or on a weekend.
Also, “It’ll be fun!” brings us back to the amusement park argument.
2) I did not. Though to be honest, I actually can’t remember what I used for most of the game. I know I wore heavy armor and used a shield, and I know I switched weapons a lot on my second run.
Edit: Oh! I remember now! It was Estoc from the New Londo Ruins!
I wish I had a Wii U… Not that I’ve ever cared so much about the Zelda franchise, but I want to play as Ruto and Midna!
4) Those dragons are a joke. All you have to do is get in their face and walk around their aimless stomping. But yeah, when I first ran into them they burned me up too. Literally.
I think Demon of Song was my favorite.
5) Shaq is banned from tournaments.
6) In truth, it was awful. Worst shift I’ve ever done. But that’s past Lyra’s problem now.
7) Well, I need the money. And I don’t hate the job.
8) Uh huh. Not sure I’m following your current train-of-thought, but okay.
1) Near as I can tell, in a regular run, you tend to get them all in close succession, with either Duke’s Dear Freja or The Rotten being the longest stretch between any two. So far, Old Iron King was my first on NG and NG+, and Duke’s Dear Freja was my last.
Since you’re strictly offline, make sure you’re using soul boosting equipment when clearing enemies. That’ll help loads.
2) In here? Here like where? Oh well. That doesn’t sound at all foreboding. I wouldn’t worry.
3) No. Noooooowah. No. I have no intention of fighting that thing ever again. At least not without fire defense of around 900 or so.
1) Yeah. I read that you can raise your fire defense so high that you’re immune to his breath attacks, but he’ll still kill you if he lands on you. I only won because somepony else knew the fight and locked him into the pattern while I just fired lightning arrows from a bow at a distance/stayed out of the way.
First run through I was a 40/40 dual Caestus build with enough intelligence to cast Soul Arrow as a ranged attack. I had heavy armor, a bunch of health, and just dodged everything I could.
NG+ I’m in the process of switching to some slightly lighter armor in order to have a wider range of weapons at the ready. Also I boosted my intelligence up and now use Soul Spears, which I can easily cast with my dual Blue Flames. But I only just got the four great souls so I still have a ways.
2) Maybe?
3) B: Yes, bottled liquids. That was obviously the only issue.
4) Well, we don’t want her to go. But at the same rate, something’s got to give.
5) I’m not nearly that creative. I’ve just been working on the same old same old. Don’t have anything posted about it yet, but I’m working on how the different weapons behave differently without there being a strict progression of one type being better than another.
1) Hmm… You could try pyromancy to supplement without putting any points into intelligence. If you haven’t yet, you’d just need to clear No-Man’s Wharf to gain access to the catalyst for the spells. Not that the boss there is a pushover, but you can have Lucatiel help you.
2) Well, because the game has cooperative elements, it was affecting other players. Several times I’d summon some back up for a boss fight only for them to both be faith builds and they’d drop the boss in seconds; little to no contribution from me. Compare that to no faith builds and it becomes a regular fight that lasts two to three times longer.
I understand your position, and for you playing offline it’s unfortunate that it was one way and then it changed mid game, breaking your build. But as this is meant to be an online game, global balancing is important to maintain the validity of other play-styles, both in PvP and PvE.
3) Well, I’ve only just started. But it’s going great so far! Thanks for asking! Great to hear from you, Star!
4) Yes? You’re clearly wanting me to say yes.
If I was a colt it wouldn’t matter if she was straight or not. We’d have never been roommates.
