I would never be caught dead in MVC3 related apparel >_>

You can do something similar with Hsien-Ko’s bombs and her Gong to bounce it over to the opponent, but that’s not nearly, nearly as stylish as this.

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You are my new best friend…and Rachel Alucard is mine!

I just remembered that there are some TWEWY characters in the game, but I don’t have a 3DS, so whatever.

But I still play TWEWY on my DS every once in a while. Love that game so much.

There’s plenty of Rachel to go around my man. :sunglasses:

I will say though, that before I quit CS2 I found Platinum to be really fun despite her slightly sluggish speed. I hope she’s good in EX.

Somebody give me a game I can emulate (PS2, PS1, Gamecube or N64)
i’m mad bored atm, I just got done playing Skyrim and the modding community hasn’t got anything crazy yet.

to make this post marvel related
Strider needs a damage buff. His resets aren’t even that good, his mixups may be great but 550k at max solo for a meter? nah brah…nah.

Anyone know if Rachel’s still bottom tier in EX?

Put Frank West with Shopping Cart assist watch the resets get better. God damn o.o

Nah, Strider’s my anchor, i’m talking about my main team, Nem/Hawk/Strider.

Besides, my Frank team goes Firebrand/Frank/Arthur

If you’re using him as anchor you should be killing everyone in 1 combo with x-factor. Check out the Strider threads. His resets are good, but you shouldn’t need them if you’re just using him for the lvl 3 x-factor.

I pretty much do, problem is there are times when Strider’s XF finishes and the opponent still lives. I’m still looking for ways to do even more damage.

I’m late to this, but fuck it. You guys know they like they just released a brand new gameplay trailer for FFv13 less than a month ago right?

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Also KH lost me at 2 when it became braindead button mashing to victory. That’s not to say the first one was some ridiculously deep combat engine either, but it had its’ charm. Then there’s the shoe horning of the tired and overrated ass ā€œrivalryā€ of Sephiroth/Cloud AGAIN, in the first one Sephiroth showing up was cool and unexpected in 2 it’s like sigh really? I’m not going to (seriously) get into how much of a mess the story became, but I’d maybe still play 3 since 1 is still a really awesome game.

That says 2011 :expressionless:

You should check this thread out then.

FFXIII was dumbed to be more mainstream for a Western audience

checks calendar

Oh I better flip this thing over already :eek:

Can someone give me a (as much as you would like, anyway) detailed explanation for why players generally don’t like XIII? I’ve watched my friend play it and it didn’t seem so bad to where I’d call it ā€œscrubbed,ā€ though I don’t know the mechanics too well. Definitely didn’t like some of the characters (Hope, Vanille and her weird ā€œcan’t decide if I’m Australian or South Africanā€ voice) as much as those in other FF’s. Though Saszh is cool.

I just get this feeling that I’m missing something when my friends explode over XIII. Then again, one of them really like X-2, sooooo…

Let me give you the run down of character personalities in XIII

Lightning - I’m a cold bitch until I warm up half way through the story (Cloud?!)
Snow - I’m a typical hero personality till I realize I can’t do shit
Hope - I’m sad, I hate Snow, I’m sad, I hate snow, I’m sad, I hate Snow
Vanille - I’m cute, innocent and oblivious for no reason also am I an Aussie?
Fang - I’m a badass…at least I think I am
Sazh - Look man, all I wanted was to take care of my son kay?

Sazh is the only character I like in that story he seems the most ā€œrealā€ and relate-able. Even if his story is basically Michael from LOST. Granted FF13 had an ā€œokā€ story.

But the main reason people thought it was ā€œokā€ is because the battle system was so dumbed down and generalized. Now it’s not even about being a Nostalgia Whore. It’s the fact that there is basically no strategy involved for 95% of the fights. The paradigm system takes getting used to even so, it’s all about ā€œrelyingā€ on the AI to do certain moves for you. When I first started up 13, I was like ā€œok I just get to control Lightning for now, but when do I get to use Sazh too at the same time?ā€ That day never came. I liked it where I could control all my party members instead of just one. Now i’ll never play Sazh because Fang is obviously the person with the best damage. ā€œAuto-Battleā€ removed the gameplay aspect for the majority of the game. All you do until you get to a boss for real, is just run and mash X. because Auto-battle already selects the optimal move for the battle unless it’s a complex strategy like a boss. And since Auto-Battle is the first option in a battle, you literally just mash X you don’t even have to move the D-Pad down to select another move.

More so there wasn’t a feeling for the cast. I genuinely did not really care for Vanille, Fang and Hope. I didn’t understand why Lightning was so cold and dismissive. The group seemed like a bunch of people who while interconnected through plotlines don’t synergize well as a group. Sure you have your party member relationships with each other like how Hope hates Snow and Lightning also sorta hates Snow, Vanille and Fang being related…sorta, Sazh just being Sazh. But it’s not a group that I see ā€œtogetherā€ as a whole well.

There weren’t any towns you could visit there wasn’t people you could talk to, there were BARELY any side quests and a HUGE lack of optional bosses. (Once I beat a Long Gui, the ā€œmost powerful enemy in the gameā€ there wasn’t any point in getting the Ultimate Weapons) Money is only accessed through selling. It’s allot of minor stuff that doesn’t go into the core gameplay, but it’s true the Little things DO count.

It was also so freaking long and boring I played it for hours only to still be on the first disc.

i like x-2 and xiii but i know why they hate it

because its not FF (insert favorite here), I’ve read essays worth of reasons why, and it leads to that, and thats about all sadly.