I was just talking about this in the Played Today thread. I haven’t made it past the first ten chapters yet but normal mode is fairly “Stronger guy to weaker guy” while hard mode feels a bit more in tune needing you to follow good tactics but the numbers felt just slightly above what I would feel comfortable with. By the sixth map or so it was already feeling one of those bloated end game map slogs from the earlier games.
Also, myrmidons are monsters early game and will eat almost anything not well armored with critical up weapons.
+15% crit is nice, especially when stacked with crit swords, but otherwise yeah they’re kinda needlessly squishy later on.(even moreso than archers, somehow) mercenaries/heroes are better in pretty much all of the gba games.
lyndis the swordmaster lord is actually ridiculously good for the entire game as long as she has a str support hanging around (usually eliwood. iirc the other two lords at max support gives her +5 str which is both ridiculous and available super early if you’re willing to pass turns forever)
Well you have very easy access to enemy movement and range, and mechanics are very transparent : damage done is attack-defense, characters get a doubleturn if they have 4 more speed. Since numbers stay super low it’s easy to do the math. Once you get used to it (and if you’re careful enough) it’s nearly impossible to be surprised like that
The other problems with myrmidons is that they only have the most common and least useful weapon type, have low mobility, and have low strength (both base and growth)
If the rng isn’t with you it’s very easy to end up with a completely useless swordmaster, while it’s harder to screw up other classes
Just finished up Mass Effect 2, got a pair of questions:
Is any of the ME3 DLC particularly worthwhile? I recall a big write-up on the previous board by someone who loved the series (DJ? Maybe rudie?) who went over all of them in depth, but I think it got axed.
Ignoring the fact that changing the ending because fans were bitching is weak as hell, which one is actually better? I’m tempted to just not download the “improved” one on principle alone but if the original is that bad and it is actually improved upon… I don’t care about the principle that much.
the changes in 3 are mostly minor if you never played the original version, they are boneheaded and dumb though. little overly explanatory summaries of the endings that were entirely unnecessary and an idiotic scene in the middle of a dramatic moment at the end. which ever dlc is the shore leave one is good but it doesn’t really fit with the tone of the game at all and is better being played afterwards. one of the dlcs is a character they cut out just to have him as a dlc. I don’t think anything else is that important but can you even download the original anymore? I would think even torrenting it’s going to be difficult finding the original.
sometimes I think about trying to find an original max payne 3 torrent before they patched it to say SKIP on every cutscene, but you’d be surprised how much seemingly obvious stuff is impossible to find nowadays, or everyone is seeding some inferior version. torrent sites take a lot of stuff down now if companies send requests. like on kat.cr if you search for phantom pain you’ll get 3 results under games, one of them the game. since there’s a new hitman game coming out if you search for the last one you’ll get like 4 results.
It is that bad, it wasn’t improved upon. They didn’t fix any of the vastly stupid things about the ending when they patched it, they just appeased manchildren.
Oh then definitely skip it. I wasn’t sure if it was considered dlc or part of some patch that whatever service thing you get these games at legitimately would automatically apply
The Deck of Many Things are a joke item anyway, putting them into a campaign is basically a good way to end it (unless you know many players who are into their characters being imprisoned and frozen in time 50 miles below the surface of the earth)
Binary Domain and Terminator Salvation would both fall into the category of “mediocre curiosities” but are functional enough for a good time provided you’re on their wavelength.