thebigJ_A

@mosespippy said:

@thebigJ_A: I just found out about this a couple days ago myself. It turns out that an ascended flame does more damage to yourself when using power within without increasing the damage dealing power. People keep at +15 for power within. Apparently the PC version fixed this.

Not exactly. What people usually did, if they wanted to use Power Within, was keep their second flame completely un-upgraded (the one egg-butt gives you for having egg-head). It's not that an ascended did more damage to you, it's that a flame did more the more you upgraded, from +1 on through Ascended +5. That's not an issue anymore. So, there was never much of a reason to stop at +15, now there's none.

@AhmadMetallic said:

@Akeldama: I simply don't enjoy a game that is built on the concept of "always be dying." Trial and error is fine by me, but in a sidescroller, or a third person shooter, not an RPG. I don't see myself enjoying this worrisome game.

Upgrade your gear. Talk to everyone, multiple times. Always read the item descriptions for everything you pick up (especially keys). And upgrade your gear.

It takes some time to click, but once it does, it's not anything like a game about "always be dying". Oh, and trial and error is the wrong way to play. It's not that sort of game.

If it's not for you, fair enough, but the reasons you listed suggest you just aren't quite getting it yet, as they bear little relation to how the game really is. Took me a while, too.

@Hef said:

Right now I'm rocking a +15 uchigatana that I was using by the end of the game.

I already rung the first bell again and am currently in the depths. But I started thinking about PVP builds and whatnot.

So here's my stats:

• SL:99
• Vit: 35
• att: 16
• end: 30
• str: 25
• dex: 40
• res: 12
• int: 12
• fai: 12

I have a level 15 pyromancy and use it frequently. So i'm wondering if I should focus on getting a different weapon or maybe just get a whole bunch of spells i didn't even look at in my first playthrough.

Also I remember from when I played it on PS3 that you shouldn't level your stats about 40 or 50 or something. Diminishing returns or something? Any ideas would be awesome!

You're only 2 Str points from a Quality Build. (That is, for those who don't know, a build that gets full scaling from a weapon held in both hands that scales with both Dex and Strength, like sunlight straight sword or gargoyle halberd). And ascend that flame already, why are you gimping yourself?? You should have had a +5 Ascended halfway through your 1st play-through!

The link to the game is broken. Where will I get my scare today? :'(

No problem, Patrick. You're one of us, now! :)

Amnesia isn't "mostly scripted". Play through it twice, you'll see. Oh, sure, the story is the same, but the things, they aren't where they were before, or (perhaps worse) they are where they weren't.

I spent an hour carefully creeping and sneaking through a series of rooms I'd been killed in multiple times my first play through, trying to avoid "them", only to realize there wasn't anything there at all. I could have strolled through whistling with my lantern out.

Suffice to say, my second play through was, from then on, even scarier than my first.

That map.... so good. It's even got (from what I can see) a proper projection!

Cannot wait. EUIII, with expansions, is my favorite grand strategy game. I played a bit today, and it is getting long in the tooth. Now we just have to wait a year or so. Aw poo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONWTGEZKzn8

Fuck yeah!

@Trilogy said:

@thebigJ_A said:

@Trilogy said:

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@Trilogy said:

@LegendaryChopChop said:

Cool, now let's end all MMOs too while we're at it.

Yea because that's not completely irrelevant or unnecessary...

You mean like MMOs?

No, I mean like you're uninformed opinion of them. It's sort of like all the people that hate Call of Duty just for existing. So silly.

Yes, because any opinion that disagrees with yours is automatically uninformed. Sure thing, chief.

No, your opinion isn't poor because it's not in agreement with me, it's poor because you made some wild, half assed, blanket statement that's not even related to MMO's going free to play. There's a difference between having an opinion and being completely unreasonable for no reason.

Oh, it's 'poor', now? A moment ago it was 'uninformed'. Those two words aren't synonymous. Regardless, you've made a lot of assumptions based on some statement I never made. How's the weather in the world you've made up in your head?

@Trilogy said:

@thebigJ_A said:

@Trilogy said:

@LegendaryChopChop said:

Cool, now let's end all MMOs too while we're at it.

Yea because that's not completely irrelevant or unnecessary...

You mean like MMOs?

No, I mean like you're uninformed opinion of them. It's sort of like all the people that hate Call of Duty just for existing. So silly.

Yes, because any opinion that disagrees with yours is automatically uninformed. Sure thing, chief.