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Gaming Discussion / Re: Gaming Progress Thread
« on: March 15, 2010, 06:02:46 PM »
Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (Wii)

It's been a few years since I last played this and... I'm not very good at it anymore. I still managed to get up to Stage 4 playing as Richter, then I went back and got Maria (missed her the first time), and played up to Stage 4' with her. I keep thinking Richter can hit stuff behind him because of playing The Adventure ReBirth (where it's possible), which is getting me killed a lot. I'm sure I'll get used to it again soon, though, I used to be really good at this one.

This has been a great month for the Wii: Mega Man 10, Final Fantasy II, this, Cave Story next week. I wonder if we'll get anything good on the 29th?

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General Discussion / Re: The official "Happy Birthday" thread!
« on: March 12, 2010, 05:10:24 PM »
I didn't forget the date, but didn't realize we were that far into the month already. I was thinking it was sometime next week.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Gaming Progress Thread
« on: March 12, 2010, 08:33:43 AM »
I need to get back to MM10 one of these days, haven't touched it since I got my new hardware. Anyway, I just played through all of Half-Life 2 and its episodes again, plus the full version of Portal for the first time. Every time I play HL2 I appreciate it a bit more, always finding some interesting things I missed the first time. (Still disappointing compared to HL1, though) Episode 2's final strider battle was a lot more manageable without slowdown, but I can't say it was that much more fun. I plan on playing through Ep1 and 2 again with the commentary on, which was my original plan, but I never backed up my saves. Portal... well, it's nice gameplay mechanic, but I just didn't really like it as a game. I'm debating whether I want to play the more advanced stuff, I suppose it might be better.

Finally played GoldenEye: Source and confirmed my suspicions. The only maps I like are the classics, which recreate the originals more closely than the non-classics, and I don't even like some of them. Facility Classic leaves too many props from the solo mission intact. The original game isn't as limited as some people think, those things could've easily been left in place, but they were pulled out for a reason: you get stuck on them too much when running backwards. Basement Classic has horrible lighting, GE could do any color and brightness of lighting, so if you're recreating the original you probably want to leave the lighting alone. The non-classic maps are even worse, I thought Doom mappers went overboard with detail, but this is far worse. There's...stuff everywhere. Non-interactive stuff, which the original game avoided as much as possible. They added new areas, but you never know where they are, since for every one new real door there are two fake ones that look identical. I don't think I'll even get started on how poorly the weapons are implemented...

I also tried out Doom 3 again, but ended up falling back on the Classic Doom 3 mod. A steady 60 FPS on ultra quality does nothing for how boring that game is... I don't even like Classic Doom 3 that much, they didn't rebalance the monsters for the quantities they appear in so the later maps, even on HMP, are just a chore to play through. Some of the maps (E1M7 in particular) are completely unrecognizable at times. I guess the engine is even worse than the original for handling large, open spaces, which is just amusing to me. It's still a lot more fun than the actual Doom 3, somehow...

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General Discussion / Re: The official "Happy Birthday" thread!
« on: March 12, 2010, 08:01:36 AM »
Two facts you may find interesting:

1. I completely forgot it was my birthday.

2. I'm a year older than I thought.

Now to track down that missing year... :laugh:

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Virtual Console Final Fantasy II
« on: March 09, 2010, 02:39:21 PM »
Final Fantasy II was released on the Wii's Virtual Console yesterday (3/8). It's likely just version 1.1, but I'll see about confirming it for sure so that it can be mentioned in the guides.

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Final Fantasy V Research & Development / Re: Final Fantasy V Editor (version 1.2.1)
« on: March 09, 2010, 10:09:25 AM »
I meant to comment on that before. I think a field with just what appears in the tooltip next to each check box would be a lot more useful than the icons, especially since those are completely unofficial. RPGe added some extra icons for their translation, but didn't bother adding them to the routine that prints what equipment each job can use, which always bugged me a bit. FF5 Advance added a few weapon icons, but didn't bother with the light/medium/special armors.

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General Discussion / Re: Upgrade time
« on: March 08, 2010, 03:14:57 PM »
Quote from: Deathlike2 on March 07, 2010, 05:38:00 PM
How's the system going now?

Hopefully you're not using the 196.75 drivers... ;) (196.21 is the latest stable set).
Great. Actually, I was running those drivers for the first day. I must've gotten them right before they got pulled down. I didn't have any problems with them, but downgraded anyway to be on the safe side.

Quote from: Leviathan Mist on March 08, 2010, 07:55:56 AM
What happened to the arcade? Too lazy to reinstate it since I was the only one who ever played anything on it?  :tongue:
I fail to see how this is relevant, but see here. I'll look into getting it back at some point.

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General Discussion / Re: Upgrade time
« on: March 04, 2010, 07:06:02 PM »
Upgrade complete. :childish:

I haven't really had a chance to put it to the test yet, but everything is installed and working.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Gaming Progress Thread
« on: March 01, 2010, 03:46:12 PM »
Mega Man 10 (Wii)

Got up to the first fortress stage with Mega Man. The bosses there are pretty brutal if you don't know the weaknesses, and I've only managed to figure out about half of them so far, so I haven't managed to get past there yet. I also played through a few of the challenge 1 challenges (which are like minigames, I guess), but got bored with those pretty quickly. Maybe it'll grow on me after a bit, but I have to say so far I don't think this is anywhere near as good as MM9.

 :edit:

Okay, I still couldn't work out a few weaknesses, so I just used energy tanks to get past the first fortress stage. The other stages weren't too bad, I had to use another tank to beat the new devil boss in the third stage. The final Wily fight was a bit disappointing, only because it had a huge leadup, but ended up being pretty easy. I unlocked hard mode, but want to play through normal as Proto Man first. He plays the same as he did in MM9, except his shield is bigger (easier to block projectiles with now) and he has access to the shop.

 :edit:

Got up to the fortress with Proto Man. Amusingly, he gets a smaller selection in the shop and has to pay more for everything. :laugh:

Just watched some Bass mode footage from Vixy's live stream over at RPM. Hacked in, it won't be out officially until next month. It actually looks pretty fun, I was never huge fan of his gameplay in MM&B, but it transitioned over fairly well. Even gets the Treble Boost instead of the coil and jet. Takes normal damage, too.

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General Discussion / Re: Upgrade time
« on: February 26, 2010, 05:09:45 AM »
Yep, and it's all shipped. I'm hoping at least my Newegg order is here by Monday so I don't need to worry about this trial running out. Wish I had gotten the check sooner.

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General Discussion / Re: Upgrade time
« on: February 25, 2010, 09:11:51 AM »
The GT240 rebate says that as long as I have proof I ordered it before the 28th I can still get the deal, so I went ahead and ordered it.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: I bring to you those who love Mega Man something awsome
« on: February 21, 2010, 11:44:45 AM »
Quote from: Odbarc on February 21, 2010, 08:40:07 AM
I saw something like this (that mod) a while ago. It's a Quake mod or something, right?

Skulltag (Doom), actually. The funny thing is, I had considered doing something similar. I played this, and honestly, didn't really care for it.

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General Discussion / Re: Upgrade time
« on: February 20, 2010, 12:52:15 PM »
Hmm, seems like it'll be okay then, but I'm not expert. The CPU is 65W and it looks like the card will draw about 200W, I'm not sure about the rest of my hardware though. I've got an HDD, DVD-RW drive, card reader, plus a USB mouse, speakers, and controller adapter, and I'm not sure how much any of those uses. The USB stuff I'm not too concerned with, since I know it's almost nothing, but at the same time I don't want to be right up at the limit of what I can have connected.

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General Discussion / Re: Upgrade time
« on: February 19, 2010, 07:17:57 PM »
Yeah, and the CPU has gone up. :sad:

That GT240, how much power does it draw? I'm just wondering if the PSU I.S.T. linked (this one) will be good enough to power that? I'd rather order everything from one place, but that deal is pretty tempting.

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General Discussion / Re: Upgrade time
« on: February 18, 2010, 10:58:41 AM »
Something went wrong, and rather than being deposited into the bank account I've got to wait for the check to actually get here by mail. It's supposed to be here by tomorrow. I'm really cutting it close, though, the first is getting here fast.

I can't get that combo you linked, with the OS, CPU, and RAM it comes out to close to $400. I'm still leaning towards the Sapphire Radeon 4650 I linked earlier. I read some reviews elsewhere, and it'll play everything I'm interested in picking up (and better than I expected, too). With that, plus the PSU I.S.T. linked earlier, I'm right at $300.

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