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Games and Stuff; Gaming talk, and so forth...
Topic Started: Oct 18 2004, 05:49 AM (230,866 Views)
Vortex
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Yup. What'cha wanna know?
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I played up through that underground area with the goblin engineer whatevers (miniguns!), but not much beyond that. I was just curious about opinions on its strengths and weaknesses and whether DS2 is likely to improve upon those.
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Errr..... well, if you got that far you should have a pretty good idea already.

My take on it is that its a pretty good game, but gets very repetative..... but that might be my patience deficiency acting up.

DS2.... Have you played the demo? Its pretty good. From what I've played it improves immensely, what with adding a little more user interaction with regard to skill, but I suspect in the long run it will probably suffer from the same faults as the original....

Basically, its a case of more of the same, with a twist.
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I've played a bit of the demo. I've burned three of the four towers, anyway. One of my major pet peeves in the first was that if you didn't take melee and had more than three characters, you became horribly underpowered later on, whereas a melee character solo or with one support character could storm practically the entire game without breaking stride. I like my range and magic, damnit!
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..... I took combat magic and handled myself pretty well....
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Much of the problem was with party size, although that seems to have been controlled a bit in DS2 by limiting how many people can join. I picked up a small army and there wasn't enough in the way of enemies to level them all up decently, thus they all got their asses handed to them later on.
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Well, that was daft. I thought you were limited to 6....
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And picking up a full party (sound strategy in any other game) completely cripples you later.
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*Was pretty sure he had a party of 6 and was doing pretty well....*

Maybe it was just bad luck or something....
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Beween always being borderline too weak and constantly getting lost (the swamp... *shudder*)... the game just annoyed the heck out of me. Judging from the demo so far, DS2 seems to have fixed some of that, along with shoring up another weak point, the story.
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Heh. Still, it seems like enough people played the original to warrant a sequel. I thought it vanished only slightly slower then Enclave did... (and I thought Enclave was the better game...)
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Um to everyone with a GBA... Is advance wars simimilar to Zone of Enders Advance?
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... Zone of Enders for the PS2 were super-fast robot fighting games... What's Zone of Enders Advance?
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(It's kind of like Zone of the Enders Advance only better. Basically, it's a turned-based strategy game where you get to build tanks, bombers, copters, subs, battleships, etc and blow up the others guy's army. It's however VERY well done. Good balance with a pseudo rock-paper-scissors thing going on with things like bombers beat tanks but anti-airs beat bombers but tanks beat antiairs.

To anyone with a DS, the games I completely reccomend are:
Nintendogs (If you like dogs/pet sims)
Advance Wars DS (For strategy war game fans)
Kirby: Canvas Curse (Excellent 2D platformer)
Meteos (Great Tetris-type puzzle game)
Super Mario 64 DS (Great 3D platformer, not as good if you've played the old version before)

There's other good ones, those are just the best in my opinion.

To FZ: Zone of the Enders for GBA is a turn-based strategy game like Advance Wars, only not as good.)
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They explain the advanced technology in a Baka hammer with a cutscene.... I mean HOW CAN YOU BEAT THAT?
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There's technology behind it?
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Meteos isn't a tetris-like game!

It's a puzzle game, yeah, but it's nothing like tetris! They're two completely different games! It's as much like tetris as tetris is like... I don't know... super puzzle fighter 2 turbo!

Gah.

Sorry, it just annoys me when people say that any puzzle game that involves stuff dropping down is like tetris.
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http://www.gamespot.com/gamecube/action/th...les2/index.html

This better be made into a film is all i can say.
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I almost snapped my stylus in frustration earlier today because some of the bosses are TOUGH. I'd swear they benefit from Perfect First Hand syndrome cause they always seem to pull out a combo no matter what. GRR.
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