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Video game discussion! Here! Now!
I finally started playing Odin Sphere again, after a lengthy hiatus.
I still have several other games I haven't finished, but I've decided to tackle Odin Sphere first because it's the most recent (and likely the shortest) game in my queue. I have BioShock coming up next week. Then there's Blue Dragon, Eternal Sonata, Halo 3, Mass Effect, and probably Ace Combat 6 and Call of Duty 4 to follow up on that.
So, it's time to start hacking away seriously at my queue!
I made it to the epilogue of Gwendolyn's chapter. So far, the story in Odin Sphere is nothing spectacular, but it absolutely feels like a sort of fairytale. In that regard, I guess it's perfect.
The visuals, however, are undeniably amazing. As someone who likes to dabble in sprite art, it completely floors me when I see what can be done with real talent, experience, and time. It'd be nice if I was even a fourth as good...
Maybe it's just me, but Odin Sphere is hard. Damn hard, at times. You can't just wail away at enemies and expect to win. You definitely have to dodge attacks as well, especially in boss fights. I suppose I didn't have the right mindset when I started playing this game, because I expected to be able to mostly just keep mashing the attack button. After jumping in this time, though, I'm doing a little bit better, I guess.
My biggest problem with Odin Sphere, though, is that I feel like I'm doing too much balancing. You can only hold so many items, so you constantly have to deal with the inventory limit. Should you drop these seeds, because they require a relatively large amount of Phozons, or those ones because their fruit doesn't recover nearly enough HP?
Then there's the question of when you should plant seeds and let the Phozons go to those, or when you should just absorb them yourself. Recovering HP feels like a hassle too, because you can choose between the healing potions you make through alchemy, which recover a fairly large amount but don't give you any experience for your HP, or you can choose one of many different healing items that DO give you experience for your HP, but may not heal you by very much.
There are several other items that must be balanced as well, but I don't currently have the time to go into them.
I like Odin Sphere, but damn do I dislike having to weigh every single decision that involves my inventory.
I still have several other games I haven't finished, but I've decided to tackle Odin Sphere first because it's the most recent (and likely the shortest) game in my queue. I have BioShock coming up next week. Then there's Blue Dragon, Eternal Sonata, Halo 3, Mass Effect, and probably Ace Combat 6 and Call of Duty 4 to follow up on that.
So, it's time to start hacking away seriously at my queue!
I made it to the epilogue of Gwendolyn's chapter. So far, the story in Odin Sphere is nothing spectacular, but it absolutely feels like a sort of fairytale. In that regard, I guess it's perfect.
The visuals, however, are undeniably amazing. As someone who likes to dabble in sprite art, it completely floors me when I see what can be done with real talent, experience, and time. It'd be nice if I was even a fourth as good...
Maybe it's just me, but Odin Sphere is hard. Damn hard, at times. You can't just wail away at enemies and expect to win. You definitely have to dodge attacks as well, especially in boss fights. I suppose I didn't have the right mindset when I started playing this game, because I expected to be able to mostly just keep mashing the attack button. After jumping in this time, though, I'm doing a little bit better, I guess.
My biggest problem with Odin Sphere, though, is that I feel like I'm doing too much balancing. You can only hold so many items, so you constantly have to deal with the inventory limit. Should you drop these seeds, because they require a relatively large amount of Phozons, or those ones because their fruit doesn't recover nearly enough HP?
Then there's the question of when you should plant seeds and let the Phozons go to those, or when you should just absorb them yourself. Recovering HP feels like a hassle too, because you can choose between the healing potions you make through alchemy, which recover a fairly large amount but don't give you any experience for your HP, or you can choose one of many different healing items that DO give you experience for your HP, but may not heal you by very much.
There are several other items that must be balanced as well, but I don't currently have the time to go into them.
I like Odin Sphere, but damn do I dislike having to weigh every single decision that involves my inventory.
What have you done recently?
I mentioned it before, but I'm a bagger at a commissary on a military base.
To get on base, you have to go through a gate. Nowadays, they check everyones ID that comes through. It used to be military police that checked the IDs, then it was regular old police officers, but recently it's been what you might call rent-a-cops. These people are eager to exercise any semblance of authority they have, and they have a tendency to be overzealous. I've heard other baggers having problems with these new people and my dad has mentioned that even some of the soldiers he knows have had problems. Here's a fun story I have.
So, I'm going to work as usual today. I pull up to the gate, hand my ID over to one of the people checking IDs, and she asks me to pull over because she has to confiscate my ID.
Wait, what?
The lamination on my ID has been coming off for quite a few months (if not a year) now. Not one person has ever mentioned it to me and I figured it wasn't a big deal. However, this lady decided to confiscate my ID because of it. I pulled over to the side and had to wait for her to fill in some stuff on a paper that explained why my ID was taken and what I had to do to get a new one.
I proceeded to the parking lot of the commissary and called my dad to tell him.
He was pissed. When I got home, he told me he went to that gate after work and got angry at that lady. He tried to get my ID back, but it seems they got rid of it already. He thought it was highly unreasonable that they would take my ID without even a warning or anything. Fortunately, I can still get on base with my business permit that identifies me as working at the commissary.
My dad knows the colonel in charge of those people. We're going to get a new ID on Friday, but my dad said he's going to bring up the issue with the colonel.
To get on base, you have to go through a gate. Nowadays, they check everyones ID that comes through. It used to be military police that checked the IDs, then it was regular old police officers, but recently it's been what you might call rent-a-cops. These people are eager to exercise any semblance of authority they have, and they have a tendency to be overzealous. I've heard other baggers having problems with these new people and my dad has mentioned that even some of the soldiers he knows have had problems. Here's a fun story I have.
So, I'm going to work as usual today. I pull up to the gate, hand my ID over to one of the people checking IDs, and she asks me to pull over because she has to confiscate my ID.
Wait, what?
The lamination on my ID has been coming off for quite a few months (if not a year) now. Not one person has ever mentioned it to me and I figured it wasn't a big deal. However, this lady decided to confiscate my ID because of it. I pulled over to the side and had to wait for her to fill in some stuff on a paper that explained why my ID was taken and what I had to do to get a new one.
I proceeded to the parking lot of the commissary and called my dad to tell him.
He was pissed. When I got home, he told me he went to that gate after work and got angry at that lady. He tried to get my ID back, but it seems they got rid of it already. He thought it was highly unreasonable that they would take my ID without even a warning or anything. Fortunately, I can still get on base with my business permit that identifies me as working at the commissary.
My dad knows the colonel in charge of those people. We're going to get a new ID on Friday, but my dad said he's going to bring up the issue with the colonel.
What have you done recently?
Man. Sundays are always a sleepy day for me. Ideally, I should get the most done on Sundays because they are the only day in which I never work.
Instead, I wake up around 7-8am feeling extremely tired, eat breakfast, lay back down in bed, turn on the TV, yawn a whole bunch, and fail to go to sleep until nearly noon. Then I wake up around 2-3pm, feeling like I totally wasted my day. It always happens, every week! I'm tired, but I can't go to sleep.
So after (and during) that routine, I was playing Picross DS here and there, and browsing the internets. Replayed the Stranglehold demo (good stuff). Then, shortly after dinner, I read that the BioShock demo was on the Xbox Marketplace, so I downloaded it and played it! Completely and utterly amazing. I was going to get the game anyway, but the demo made me even more hyped.
My thoughts on Picross DS and BioShock can be found in my brand new video game topic (http://www.rpgmaker.net/forums/index.php?topic=184.0)
Instead, I wake up around 7-8am feeling extremely tired, eat breakfast, lay back down in bed, turn on the TV, yawn a whole bunch, and fail to go to sleep until nearly noon. Then I wake up around 2-3pm, feeling like I totally wasted my day. It always happens, every week! I'm tired, but I can't go to sleep.
So after (and during) that routine, I was playing Picross DS here and there, and browsing the internets. Replayed the Stranglehold demo (good stuff). Then, shortly after dinner, I read that the BioShock demo was on the Xbox Marketplace, so I downloaded it and played it! Completely and utterly amazing. I was going to get the game anyway, but the demo made me even more hyped.
My thoughts on Picross DS and BioShock can be found in my brand new video game topic (http://www.rpgmaker.net/forums/index.php?topic=184.0)
Video game discussion! Here! Now!
Let us speak of the many games of the video nature that we are playing (or even look forward to playing).
I recently picked up Picross DS, which is totally great. School starts next week for me, and Picross will be an excellent way to kill time during the one hour(ish) breaks that I have Tuesdays and Thursdays.
If you don't know, it's sort of like sudoku mixed with crossword puzzles (the name itself comes from picture crossword, I've been told). You have to reveal a picture by chipping away blocks on a grid. There are numbers for each vertical and horizontal line that show how many blocks must be hit; so a 2 and a 1 mean that there is a group of two consecutive blocks followed by a single block that is separated by at least one space.
Anyone who likes solving puzzles and owns a DS should absolutely pick it up, especially since it's only $20!
And I think I should mention now that Sei's Push! (http://www.rpgmaker.net/games/11/) is also a great, but less portable and stylus-free, version of picross.
As 360 owners may or may not know, the BioShock demo came out today. Having just finished playing through for the first time, here are my thoughts:
The graphics are goddamn spectacular, especially in the beginning, when you have time to admire them and aren't constantly paranoid about enemies being around the next corner.
The game definitely succeeds in establishing atmosphere. It's dark without being Doom 3, the music is creepy (in two different ways), and hearing the enemy splicers talking to themselves before they spot you can be slightly disturbing.
Even though it was just a demo, it did a good job of displaying the various possibilities that exist. There was a particularly intense moment towards the end of the demo where I set off an alarm (which I could have avoided by electrocuting the security camera beforehand). While the alarm was blaring, I had to switch between blasting electricity at a puddle full of splicers, staying out of view of the camera (so the alarm didn't reset), and shooting down security droids with my revolver.
If you own a 360 and don't mind playing first person shooters, you seriously need to try out this game.
I recently picked up Picross DS, which is totally great. School starts next week for me, and Picross will be an excellent way to kill time during the one hour(ish) breaks that I have Tuesdays and Thursdays.
If you don't know, it's sort of like sudoku mixed with crossword puzzles (the name itself comes from picture crossword, I've been told). You have to reveal a picture by chipping away blocks on a grid. There are numbers for each vertical and horizontal line that show how many blocks must be hit; so a 2 and a 1 mean that there is a group of two consecutive blocks followed by a single block that is separated by at least one space.
Anyone who likes solving puzzles and owns a DS should absolutely pick it up, especially since it's only $20!
And I think I should mention now that Sei's Push! (http://www.rpgmaker.net/games/11/) is also a great, but less portable and stylus-free, version of picross.
As 360 owners may or may not know, the BioShock demo came out today. Having just finished playing through for the first time, here are my thoughts:
The graphics are goddamn spectacular, especially in the beginning, when you have time to admire them and aren't constantly paranoid about enemies being around the next corner.
The game definitely succeeds in establishing atmosphere. It's dark without being Doom 3, the music is creepy (in two different ways), and hearing the enemy splicers talking to themselves before they spot you can be slightly disturbing.
Even though it was just a demo, it did a good job of displaying the various possibilities that exist. There was a particularly intense moment towards the end of the demo where I set off an alarm (which I could have avoided by electrocuting the security camera beforehand). While the alarm was blaring, I had to switch between blasting electricity at a puddle full of splicers, staying out of view of the camera (so the alarm didn't reset), and shooting down security droids with my revolver.
If you own a 360 and don't mind playing first person shooters, you seriously need to try out this game.
Gredlen's Official Anime and Manga Topic of Fun and General Merriment!
Deader than usual?
I think for now, rather than wish for a board to discuss certain topics (like movies or whatever), you should just make topics for them instead on General Discussion.
That's my current topic-creating philosophy for this site!
That's my current topic-creating philosophy for this site!
Where to download?
To clarify things, RPG Maker XP is available for purchase in English, while the previous ASCII (company) RPG Makers, like 2000 (aka 2k) or 2003 (2k3) aren't. Most of the users on this site probably have illegal copies of 2k or 2k3 because before XP came out, we didn't really have much choice. They have both been translated into English unofficially, but since ASCII never released them here, most people were ok with pirating copies.
Since XP is now legally available in English, it's not as easy to justify illegally obtaining copies of RPG Maker 2k, so most sites don't have downloads for them anymore.
There are many other programs that can be used to make RPGs that are available for free (legally) that this site supports, but I'm not familiar with anything other than the ASCII RPG Makers.
Since XP is now legally available in English, it's not as easy to justify illegally obtaining copies of RPG Maker 2k, so most sites don't have downloads for them anymore.
There are many other programs that can be used to make RPGs that are available for free (legally) that this site supports, but I'm not familiar with anything other than the ASCII RPG Makers.
Gredlen's Official Anime and Manga Topic of Fun and General Merriment!
I just finished watching Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai 6 and all I have to say is...
I want to take Hanyuu home with me.
Au au au~
I want to take Hanyuu home with me.
Au au au~
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