That’s why I said ‘part 2 of 3’ I’ve run it once, but I keep flubbing dungeons and wiping while trying to level people to do part 2 lol
Terra Battle is actually pretty good! I think that’s all they’re up to right now though.
i haven’t played invisible inc before but i picked that up.
i sunk a good 60 hours into necrodancer before falling off it. i still pick it up once in awhile!
you know what’s joy? buying a bunch of indie games you’ve wanted and all of them run on linux natively.
proud linux user right now
edit: except for the fact that it’s 2016 and pulseaudio is still hot garbage and i have to shove PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60 into the startup script to get non-garbled audio sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (i only know this is the fix because i had to do the same thing for FTL)
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Just started playing Dragon Quest VII on 3DS. The movement when you walk against a wall is so weird, where you pretty much start going sideways. What kind of madness is this
I am about 70 hours into this game. It’s pretty great, but at a couple points in the game a party member leaves and it can be a bummer if you relied on them for heals, so watch out for that. I want to try to beat the story by Friday, before I pick up Dragon Quest Builders.
dq7 is the most soul crushing rpg i have ever played
would recommend for personal character building
I was about to pick up DQ5 DS the other day, then felt the sprawling allure of 7 something fierce (never played either).
Of the series I have major love for 3/8. Probably going with 5 once I finish a few more titles, fans are just so fond of it.
5 has a purple cape
the choice is clear
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Play 5 STAT it is remarkable
The newest Pokemon just came out so naturally i’m playing the previous game for the first time
the pacing is really fuckin weird. I haven’t even hit the second gym yet and this little goofus is 8 levels away from her FINAL FORM. i’m just roleplaying it like my trainer PC doesn’t care about gyms or being the very best (like no one ever was) or w/e she just wants to rollerblade around rural Pokefrance and buy all the slickest fashions
current squad:
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Bless you for naming your Pokemon. I think anyone who doesn’t name their Pokes is garbage. They are living things and should be treated with respect. They should be loved, even the ugly ones.
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No joke i have been the odd person out among my friends for naming my 'mons precious children, since middle school, and i always thought that was super weird. Like, the whole point of the games is to catch your favorite monsters and build your team the way you want and put your personal stamp on your experience.
though i guess for some people their stamp is “this is my Bulbasaur, BULBASAUR” maybe i shouldnt judge
clearly you declined billy joel’s first two offers of adult beverage
Sorry meauxdal my Joel power is too limited to know what you’re referencing
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tbh if anyone had gotten that joke i’d have been more disappointed than relieved
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Is Dragon Quest 5 the one with multiple generations? I am interested in playing that one at some point, but the random encounters kind of put me off. Does the DS version change much from the original to make it more palatable for someone like myself who can’t really stand 100 hours of constant grinding and random battles every few steps?
it’s by far the easiest one
It will take you about 22-24 hours to beat Dragon Quest 5 going in completely blind. It is not a 100+ hour game
Yes, 5 is the one with multiple generations. The game is also one of the shortest in the series, like 20-30 hrs so I wouldn’t be worried about too much grinding. Random battles kinda suck, but you gain the ability to recruit monsters you defeat later in the game, so there are payoffs.
I beat Dragon Quest VII tonight. The most expansive DQ game I’ve played so far. I loved discovering and exploring the new islands as they appear on the map. The last boss had 4 different forms at the end in true Toriyama fashion.. DQIX was definitely more difficult for me.
i played darkest dungeon today and last night. linux port works perfectly! absolutely no complaints.
progress level: have a bunch of lv4 characters, beat up a bunch of bosses, nobody’s died yet despite the game telling me over and over that death is inevitable and common
i like a lot of what this game does! being stuck with what characters you get with their individual quirks is fun, figuring out what teams are best suited to what areas is pretty enjoyable too. there’s a lot of hard choices to make about money and town upgrades still.
but tying so much of progression to continued grind is kind of frustrating to me, and i’m pretty sure that if i want to see ‘all the content’ as far as bosses and narration goes then i need to continuously bring up new teams to take them down, because you’re locked out of low level content if your characters level past it.
having to deal with constantly benching characters to ‘fix’ them up between excursions is kind of frustrating busywork, too. main team does something, get some bad stuff applied, have to spend a few weeks getting pumped full of whatever they pump them full of at the sanitarium and lowering stress. meanwhile, the B- and C-teams grind for money and loot so you can actually afford to fix them and upgrade the town while you’re at it.
there’s a pretty obvious set of synergies between mechanics so you can pretty much make anything work if you try i feel. healers are not strictly essential but good camp skills help a lot; medium-sized dungeons are actually easier than small sized ones i feel, because the camp bonuses are that huge.
also i had this problem recently where suddenly everyone gets the munchies and asks for food every five minutes in dungeons and i run out. what’s up with that
anyway that’s like day two so we’ll see how long until someone dies