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Posted: **Fri Dec 11, 2015 2:48 pm**

Well the current pause is probably the last one. After that we are gonna have the Act 6 equivalent of Cascade and then... it's over.

WHEN the current pause ends is a mystery though, but Hussie recently wrote a newspost saying he wants to reveal the date before the year is over.

So if you are looking for a good time to catch up and not have to endure pauses again, the end of this pause might be a good time.

Posted: **Fri Dec 11, 2015 3:09 pm**

It may require me to re-read (or, y'kno, just browse the pics) all of Act 6, but sure... one day...

Posted: **Sat Dec 12, 2015 12:13 pm**

Bought Fallout 4 on Steam last week...already logged 45 hours LOL. It's an amazing game, and it definitely lives up to the massive standard that Fallout 3 set. Great, great game.

Posted: **Sun Dec 13, 2015 1:39 am**

reywaS wrote:Bought Fallout 4 on Steam last week...already logged 45 hours LOL. It's an amazing game, and it definitely lives up to the massive standard that Fallout 3 set. Great, great game.

Posted: **Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:22 am**

Seeing as thought vacation is nearby, whilst my LOBE (level of bore) and Exp (experience in wasting my life) are infinite, I'm going to start running a few Neutrals with various outcomes.

Spoiler: show

Posted: **Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:50 am**

Just started playing Earthbound for the first time, at my brother's insistence.

Posted: **Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:51 am**

MovingPictures07 wrote:Just started playing Earthbound for the first time, at my brother's insistence.

I started that game a few months ago and couldn't get over how nonsensical it was.

Posted: **Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:52 am**

Epignosis wrote:
MovingPictures07 wrote:Just started playing Earthbound for the first time, at my brother's insistence.
I started that game a few months ago and couldn't get over how nonsensical it was.

It is pretty crazy so far and I've only played for 10 minutes. Lol.

Posted: **Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:53 am**

I get sucked pretty easily into RPGs though; I find them inherently addicting. Just never have the time to devote to them anymore. But back in the day, it would have to be a crappy game for me to put down an RPG.

Posted: **Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:54 am**

Best SNES RPG ever: Chrono Trigger. Easily.

Posted: **Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:55 am**

Epignosis wrote:Best SNES RPG ever: Chrono Trigger. Easily.

Won't disagree with that.

Posted: **Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:57 am**

It'd be nice if Chrono Trigger got a Wii U virtual console re-release.

Posted: **Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:57 am**

MovingPictures07 wrote:
Epignosis wrote:Best SNES RPG ever: Chrono Trigger. Easily.
Won't disagree with that.

That reminds me- I need to finish my Chrono Trigger Mafia.

Posted: **Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:58 am**

Epignosis wrote:
MovingPictures07 wrote:
Epignosis wrote:Best SNES RPG ever: Chrono Trigger. Easily.
Won't disagree with that.
That reminds me- I need to finish my Chrono Trigger Mafia.

I'd definitely play that.

Posted: **Mon Dec 14, 2015 3:40 pm**

I used to be more of a NES than a SNES guy. Not sure if I mentioned this before, but I'm surprised how many shit NES games I've played and actually loved, given what critics today think of them. I still don't care.

I'll probably give into playing Earthbound as well.

Posted: **Mon Dec 14, 2015 7:00 pm**

I'll go ahead and call CT the Best RPG Ever already.

Posted: **Tue Dec 15, 2015 1:12 am**

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:I'll go ahead and call CT the Best RPG Ever already.

Ah but have you played Chrono Cross?

Posted: **Tue Dec 15, 2015 10:00 am**

No, but the many negative reviews and the fact it shits on the story of the previous game don't make me want to play it.

Posted: **Tue Dec 15, 2015 2:15 pm**

So I'm taking a break from Earthbound to replay something I haven't played in over a decade on the Gameboy Advance... Wario Land 4. I remember loving it when I was younger, saw it on Wii U Virtual Console, bought it this morning.

Posted: **Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:50 pm**

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:No, but the many negative reviews and the fact it shits on the story of the previous game don't make me want to play it.

It's one of the best games of all-time and it's better than Trigger.

Posted: **Tue Dec 15, 2015 4:29 pm**

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:I'll go ahead and call CT the Best RPG Ever already.

I agree 100%.

Posted: **Thu Dec 17, 2015 3:20 pm**

I'm now addicted to Earthbound.

Posted: **Sun Dec 20, 2015 5:33 am**

MovingPictures07 wrote:I'm now addicted to Earthbound.

+1

Posted: **Sun Dec 20, 2015 7:09 pm**

Pretty good game, though the second half gets too easy for my tastes.

Then again, the second half has some pretty awesome stuff.

For example, after you get all the 8 stone things,

Spoiler: show

Fourside is my favorite part, through. SO HARD.

Posted: **Sun Dec 20, 2015 7:18 pm**

I'm almost at Fourside now, actually! I was hoping to finish this game before the semester starts... might not happen with Christmas, Smashfest, and my parents visiting, but I'm really glad I stuck with it this time.

Posted: **Sun Dec 20, 2015 7:18 pm**

I definitely will be making an Earthbound mafia game, that's for sure.

Posted: **Tue Dec 22, 2015 6:12 pm**

Ricochet wrote:Seeing as thought vacation is nearby, whilst my LOBE (level of bore) and Exp (experience in wasting my life) are infinite, I'm going to start running a few Neutrals with various outcomes.

Spoiler: show
For instance, I'm not such a fan of going through the fight motions with Metatton Ex or some of the mini-bosses, so... The only characters towards which I genuinely have any particular feeling of not wanting to off them are Toriel and Papyrus.

Welp, I did about three resets, to the point of finishing each one in roughly two hours (intense X pressing woo) and reaching slight boredom. I'm now pondering if I should go full heartless bastard or re-do a pacifist for good ol' times' sake.

Posted: **Wed Dec 23, 2015 10:58 am**

You should at least watch the genocide one, even if you don't play it

Posted: **Wed Dec 23, 2015 12:27 pm**

But I'm planning to, that was my point.

Posted: **Wed Dec 23, 2015 3:19 pm**

Well your previous post implied you weren't sure of it.

I didn't play it. Didn't have the balls to do anything bad to Papyrus. I love that skeleton.

I watched it on Youtube instead.

But seeing the plot of the genocide run is 100% worth it, at least.

Posted: **Wed Dec 23, 2015 3:22 pm**

Btw, if you don't intend to play the neutral run anymore, you might want to see this:

http://rawr.ws/undertale/endings.pdf

(contains spoilers about neutral endings)

Posted: **Wed Dec 23, 2015 10:03 pm**

I've been playing a lot of Smash Wii U lately.

Well, not playing per se...

Posted: **Sat Dec 26, 2015 6:24 pm**

So I guess you already went through the revelation that "Ness doesn't actually have PK Fire and PK Thunder despite having them on Smash".

Posted: **Sat Dec 26, 2015 6:44 pm**

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:So I guess you already went through the revelation that "Ness doesn't actually have PK Fire and PK Thunder despite having them on Smash".

Yeah, I was like wtf? Lol. Smash Ness is more Paula than Ness, but I won't complain, though I kept wondering when I would learn them in Earthbound for a while there!

Posted: **Sat Dec 26, 2015 7:53 pm**

Ricochet wrote:
Ricochet wrote:Seeing as thought vacation is nearby, whilst my LOBE (level of bore) and Exp (experience in wasting my life) are infinite, I'm going to start running a few Neutrals with various outcomes.

Spoiler: show
For instance, I'm not such a fan of going through the fight motions with Metatton Ex or some of the mini-bosses, so... The only characters towards which I genuinely have any particular feeling of not wanting to off them are Toriel and Papyrus.
Welp, I did about three resets, to the point of finishing each one in roughly two hours (intense X pressing woo) and reaching slight boredom. I'm now pondering if I should go full heartless bastard or re-do a pacifist for good ol' times' sake.

One update too many, already, I realize, but I did another pacifist full and I'm now ready to sell my soul. Please don't unfriend me for going down this path.

Posted: **Sat Dec 26, 2015 7:58 pm**

I got my brother Splatoon for Christmas, so I've been playing that again recently. Awesome game.

Posted: **Sun Dec 27, 2015 2:18 am**

I started playing Transistor today (got it on sale for myself last night along with a couple other games I've been intending to check out). It's really fucking cool.

Posted: **Sun Dec 27, 2015 8:39 am**

- Checks Transistor on Steam.

- Not even sure if I wanna play it but it's so incredibly cheap.

- Realizes everything is incredibly cheap there.

- Realizes my credit card is soon going to be under attack.

Posted: **Sun Dec 27, 2015 3:04 pm**

Everything I read about the recent steam problems suggested that it's pretty safe/not much to worry about.

In any case, Transistor is a really great game and I do recommend it -- cool mechanics, great art/music/setting etc. It's on sale (along with everything else

) til the 4th

Posted: **Sun Dec 27, 2015 8:34 pm**

I'm not talking about security, I'm talking about the fact my money is soon going to be replaced by a bunch of impossibly cheap games I'm not even sure when I'll be able to play.

Posted: **Sun Dec 27, 2015 10:04 pm**

Purchased Transistor. Playing tonight.

Also got Skyrim and all the DLC for like $10. Fine by me since I never finished Oblivion.

Or Morrowind.

Posted: **Mon Dec 28, 2015 12:02 am**

Transitor is, so far, repetitive as shit.

Fun, but repetitive.

Posted: **Mon Dec 28, 2015 11:59 am**

I found Transistor (like Bastion, from the same developer) quite repetitive and more reliant on art style, music and narrative than gameplay. It does those first 3 very well, but I just get bored playing it and never finished it. Just like Bastion.

Posted: **Mon Dec 28, 2015 12:14 pm**

Typhoony wrote:I found Transistor (like Bastion, from the same developer) quite repetitive and more reliant on art style, music and narrative than gameplay. It does those first 3 very well, but I just get bored playing it and never finished it. Just like Bastion.

I read that it's a relatively short play, so I intend to finish it (unlike all the other video games I start and never finish).

Posted: **Mon Dec 28, 2015 12:23 pm**

As for last page discussion, I bought Undertale in the Steam Sale. I really enjoyed the "battle" system and the music and some of the writing, but every time I was walking around or solving the "puzzles" I was generally bored. Thinking of going for Pacifist since it's a short game.

Posted: **Mon Dec 28, 2015 12:38 pm**

Yeah the puzzles are only good for what they can contribute to the plot. But mechanically, they suck.

Posted: **Mon Dec 28, 2015 1:34 pm**

True dat. A little more fantasy and variability, for re-run value, really wouldn't have hurt. The puzzles are almost tongue-in-cheek for focusing on the characters instead and bonding with them (or at least the sense of that).

Spoiler: show

I dunno about Pacifist being shorter than a regular run, lotsa extra stuff you have to accomplish.

Posted: **Mon Dec 28, 2015 7:26 pm**

Christmas shopping: Transistor + Valkyria Chronicles + Brutal Legend + Bioshock.

Thanks Steam.

Posted: **Mon Dec 28, 2015 7:27 pm**

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:Christmas shopping: Transistor + Valkyria Chronicles + Brutal Legend + Bioshock.

Thanks Steam.

Have you never played Bioshock?

Posted: **Mon Dec 28, 2015 7:28 pm**

Nope.

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