I would not be shocked at all if they made her a Superboss in new FF games or new ports. They love her so damn much and they'll put her in more things to make you love her as much as Toriyama loves her, dammit. ;____;P.S. Is Square Enix trying to canonically make Lightning the strongest character ever in teh Final Fantasies?
Yeah, the Mage paradigm seems unneeded. Don't know why they split a level up from Rav into different paradigms at all. Does Caius seem to have a pattern for when he switches up to Healer Stance? Because that way, the fight might be a little more formulaic.Like I said, I personally think the Mage paradigm is completely useless (for the initial Caius fight). Yeah you can ATB cancel between them, but the time and effort spent doing so is left the same as just re-filling Shaman normally, and it's actually handy to have the refresh ready in case you need to switch to Knight.
Legion of One (V.Lightning's Feral Link) actually does quite a bit of damage because she's built as a COM and not a RAV, so I don't use it to build up the stagger. Instead, I normally raise it up to ~500% and then swap to Knight. It's possible to raise him much higher at higher levels, but I'm mostly talking low level strategies. And like I said, I try to time to stagger for when he hits Medic stance, so he never heals or buffs himself, and actually use Legion of One when the Stagger is about to run out to take out a nice chunk of his health.
Knight only has one ability which is Immortality. The stance is pretty much just like Steelguard, only Lightning has to stop and re-start it in between castings. She reduces damage like normal in it, but she only fully blocks damage when she's in the actual block stance. The only way to actually heal is via Legion of One and Items.
I think that's kpop...what is this
They better do an LP of Crystal Chronicles too while they have their Frankenstein system set up.they've assembled the gigaquad
I thought this was kpop...I think that's kpop...
It's... beautiful.they've assembled the gigaquad
Meltdown =/= Aura, guys. -_-
Meltdown makes enemies' VIT = 0. If you junction it, it gives a +0.8 boost per spell to Vitality. Also, when you use it, it won't affect GF compatibility, so that's cool.
Aura is completely broken and allows you to use your Limit Breaks at will. It lasts for about 6-7 seconds. If you junction it, it'll best increase luck. I think it's strong against some status effect. I forgot. Probably Curse because it cures it. Oh, and you can cast it on some enemies to make them use certain attacks (ex: Raijin will cast Raijin Special if you cast it on him). If used, you'll raise compatibility with Carbuncle and Cerberus. I forgot which GF it'll lower compatibility with.
They totally thought it was identical to something in FF8.Noi said:Edit: One minute in, "Aura is gonna be used for when he gets staggered" YUP, no clue at all.
Thank you. Appropriate time to end it.
I enjoyed the bickering, but the problem is the content. It's just not a fun game to watch.Edit: Final Question: How does this LP match up to the other LPs that any of these guys have done?
I enjoyed the bickering, but the problem is the content. It's just not a fun game to watch.
Skip everything about Act 2 - Powerhard and I imagine that things would be okay... That's the kind of stuff I don't like about RPG LPs in general.I checked out a little of this series though, it was fun.
Well, the thing about the game in terms of providing entertainment via an LP is that the majority of it is battles and trekking through stuff. For a genre that emphasizes story, there's a lot to riff on, but there such a space between things to riff on in this game. The battle system might look shiny and pretty and the animations look cool, but compare that to stuff like this (shamelessly stealing from the FF anniversary thread):
I enjoyed the bickering, but the problem is the content. It's just not a fun game to watch.
If you're going to get a new PS3 soon and can afford it and are going to play other games on it besides FFXIII-2, I'd probably wait because the region-free thing might save you from a bunch of headaches.
I dunno... doing everything in the game is pretty much doing all of the fragments/platinuming to me. :lol Would you have wanted to watch them sit on Chocobo-back for an hour or so considering they barely rode one?It didn't help that they chose to 100% the game either. There'd be less fluff in between had they actually just settled on beating the game instead of doing everything, which involves quite a lot of boring distractions.
And yes, the Casino does suck.
Kung Fu Jesus said:Any future games which may be awful will at least be fun, or funny, in some way. Much of this game was vacuous nonsense which led to the behavior described by a few, so far, where the videos are entertaining merely for their audio track. Even if a game is terrible, I want either interesting action or solid advancement at any given time. Whether or not you like this game, you have to admit that, as an LP, it is garbage because it cannot provide either of those qualities quite a lot of the time.
That having been said, we, the gang, have a few possibilities, some probabilities, and one or two certainties lined up. No schedule, of course.
I dunno... doing everything in the game is pretty much doing all of the fragments/platinuming to me. :lol Would you have wanted to watch them sit on Chocobo-back for an hour or so considering they barely rode one?
It looked like at the end they just didn't want to play it anymore out of disinterest. Compare to their Sonic Generations LP or their Sonic Unleashed LP where they had videos at the end featuring the extra content like Acts that weren't part of the main game, and the DLC for Unleashed. Them doing the extras for Unleashed was interesting to me because I wasn't sure if they liked the game.
Considering KFJ did a God Hand LP which was reasonably good, I'd like to see a Lightning Returns LP by him. Plus he promised this:
Using their Sonic 2006 LP as an example, their pain is what made that LP great and very fun to watch... even if it was a very very very bad game.
A very very very bad game.
Yeah, going back I totally read that wrong, lol.I think you misunderstood, I actually agree with you! I'm saying that the LP could have been better if they just tried to beat the game instead of getting all the fragments or hell, getting all the monsters, since it would just let them riff on the plot consistently rather than having entire hour long episodes where nothing happens, more so when they weren't really having fun with the game.
Yeah, going back I totally read that wrong, lol.
But if they'd just tried to beat the game, they wouldn't have gotten the final paradox ending. >.>
Could you do the Lightning DLC without beating the game, or do you have to beat it?
Sounds terribly expensive.pokecapn said:4 GameCubes, 4 GBA Players, 4 GCN-GBA cables, a Wii to plug them all into, 4 SD capture cards, 1 HD-PVR, and 2 computers. For some reason, it's named after my first USB flash drive, but that doesn't really matter.
Thanks for that. Didn't know if they were going to start posting videos so soon. I wonder if I should make a nondescript/general thread for pokecapn/KFJ/medibot/kaz/etc's LPs? Ehhhhhhhh, doesn't matter right now. Depends on what you guys want.
What I could do is that I could reorganize the OP to make it not specific to FFXIII-2 and request a thread title change. But again, depends on what everyone would like!
Gonna watch FSA and be in awe that holy crap there's a lot to keep up with. It's beautiful. <3
Sounds terribly expensive.
My Name Is Kaz said:Behold! :eng101:
We're using one computer to capture the sound through the mic using Soundbooth, the wii through the HDPVR using Arcsoft capture, and one of the gamecubes through a kworld using Xsplit.
This computer is also outputting to a monitor that medibot uses to see his screen.
The other computer captures the remaining three gamecubes through three kworlds using Xsplit. One instance of Xsplit on this computer captures all three as different cameras, and creates one file that is all three screens together. This computer outputs to a monitor that pokecapn, Kung Fu Jesus and myself use to see our GBA screens.
Why not just use one Xsplit and have all four there?
For one, it would require we all sit uncomfortably close together to all see. For another, more real reason, we all bought our kworlds at different times, and it is a shitty chinese DVD piracy device. So the customer support doesn't exist and the manuals are in engrish or simplified Chinese. This gets in the way of our troubleshooting, the trouble being that no computer can see all four of these devices together. We can make any computer see any combination of the newer three, and any computer can see the older one, but as soon as one new and one old are connected, each stops displaying. It's weird and what we have is a work-around.
[sub]Link to kworld site (warning, sketchy). Safer link.[/sub]
Now it is time to reveal some of the dirty secrets of modern consoles. Let's compare this effort to the one we just finished, that used the 360.
We're still running one of the same computers, the same hdpvr, the same television, and the same mic with amp.
With the gigaquad, we are less one 360, plus one wii, plus four gamecubes with gameboy player attachments, and plus one computer and monitor, and plus four kworld sd capture devices.
I'm not going to count the computer and monitor because I think those were on in another room of the house during the last let's play anyway. So those are both neutral to this question.
And with the kworlds, I couldn't find anything about power consumption and they draw from usb. It is a missing figure, sure, but a small one.
So really the comparison is between five nintendo consoles and one xbox, which shakes out like so:
Code:xbox: 118.8 gigaquad total: 111.6 ===================== wii: 16.4 gamecube: 23*4 = 92 GB player: 0.8*4 = 3.2
[sub]All numbers in W. Sources 1, 2[/sub]
So actually we're at a net savings thanks to Nintendo hardware being really energy efficient.
I do often invite the neighborhood skunk in to chew on the wires and spray or pee on them, but the sparks from the various wires have yet to reach more than a few millimeters in diameter, so I'm not worried.
At any rate I'm not publishing my power bill, not even as a raw number.
:science:
Oh jeez...Kaz said:So actually we're at a net savings thanks to Nintendo hardware being really energy efficient.
At any rate I'm not publishing my power bill, not even as a raw number.
:science:
Maybe just make this thread a "general interesting LPs to watch" thread?Thanks for that. Didn't know if they were going to start posting videos so soon. I wonder if I should make a nondescript/general thread for pokecapn/KFJ/medibot/kaz/etc's LPs? Ehhhhhhhh, doesn't matter right now. Depends on what you guys want.
What I could do is that I could reorganize the OP to make it not specific to FFXIII-2 and request a thread title change. But again, depends on what everyone would like!
Gonna watch FSA and be in awe that holy crap there's a lot to keep up with. It's beautiful. <3
It's like looking into the untold horrors of R'lyeh.
God, it truly is like they're playing Mario Party again. :lol
New Zelda Four Swords video
1-2 ~ Cave of No Return
I was thinking of some of the Freelance Astronauts ones last night when I was working on the text, but I wasn't sure if I should link a few LPs like the Mass Effect one, the NSMBWii one, etc., or if I should just link to their site for an entire catalogue of their stuff.Medibot's even the purple, evil character.
Maybe his and My Name Is Kaz Kirby's LPs?
The Freelance Astronauts could be also be an option, being members of SA too, but they haven't made a LP since... last year?
Oh great, the title changed pretty quick. Like clockwork around here.
I was thinking of some of the Freelance Astronauts ones last night when I was working on the text, but I wasn't sure if I should link a few LPs like the Mass Effect one, the NSMBWii one, etc., or if I should just link to their site for an entire catalogue of their stuff.
Most of the Kirby LPs are in the OP because I... was looking at them because the Kirby Collection's gonna be released this week. >.>
They ended up uploading some of their stuff to YouTube but stopped after a few months. It's such a shame that some of the stuff isn't archived or anything because, like you said, the NSMB Wii stuff is amazing and it's difficult to see it now.Looking at their site, most of the videos don't work anymore, because Viddler has a "premium" system right now, and if they don't update, you can't see their videos.
That's sad, because their NSMBWii is one of my favorites LPs.
They ended up uploading some of their stuff to YouTube but stopped after a few months. It's such a shame that some of the stuff isn't archived or anything because, like you said, the NSMB Wii stuff is amazing and it's difficult to see it now.
They ended up uploading some of their stuff to YouTube but stopped after a few months. It's such a shame that some of the stuff isn't archived or anything because, like you said, the NSMB Wii stuff is amazing and it's difficult to see it now.
Holy crap, I'm crying. "TO HELL!"
I'm having a serious itch to go play that game again.They ended up uploading some of their stuff to YouTube but stopped after a few months. It's such a shame that some of the stuff isn't archived or anything because, like you said, the NSMB Wii stuff is amazing and it's difficult to see it now.
I'd like to cast a vote for the LP group formerly known as Tipping Forties. They were mainly known for drinking heavily while playing through games and this came to a head during their Goldeneye LP (where they take turns playing while following conditions set by viewers such as always walk backwards, say an appropriate one liner after every kill etc and the player has to drink every time they can't or don't follow a condition) and Tales of Symphonia (where viewers would suggest words that everyone would have to take a drink when the characters say, this resulted in some guy in the thread playing the game ahead of them to pick the words that would come up most in order to destroy them). But they aren't just about drinking, they just generally have fun playing through games unless it is Final Fantasy or Fable in which case they start off okay then slowly hate the game and it's funny to see them suffer.Also, like I said in the OP, if you find some other good video LPs by other people, post them in here and if people seem to like them or if I look at them and they seem cool, I'll add them to the bottom of the OP.