xMrSunshine

After watching Jeff and Vinny play P4 for 200 something hours (I've watched the ER at least twice) and playing P3 for just under 100 hours I'm pretty sure that the best way to play these games is to play them based on what you want. At least when you're going through the game for the first time. No FAQs or anything except maybe for the school questions and the dialog options you need to choose to get the true ending for P4 when that time comes after 80 hours. So don't worry about remembering days for the clubs and shit, there's almost always something to do and you should do the S. Links that you feel are interesting. I do advice that you get at least a couple of ranks into every S. Link at some point because some of them open up other S. Links.

P4 will remind you after every school day that you need to prepare or that the rain will come shortly and since at the end of each day when it goes to the calender view to change to the next day you see the weather that's coming up you shouldn't miss that part of it unless you can't remember stuff that happened 2 minutes ago. Just don't leave it to the final day and try to get through the dungeons without wasting time. It won't remind you what clubs and activities that are only available on some days of the week are coming up but you can pretty easily check them from your S. Link menu and at some point you'll just have gut feeling for what's available during the week.

This is how I've played P3 and it's worked out great. If Jeff and Vinny got through P4 without that much trouble with some guidance from the comments (and a lot of the pieces of advice they chose to follow aren't all that great) you shouldn't really have any trouble. Just make sure you don't ruin the game for yourself by looking up too much stuff and worrying about perfecting it.

@jesterroyal said:

You posted this right at the start of winters day. If new holiday content almost every day can't get you excited about an MMO then nothing can. But that's totally fine. The nice thing is you are free to leave and come back whenever for no cost whatsoever.

And this is exactly why GW2 is the first MMO I've played in years. I paid 40 something euros for it, played it for a good chunk of time and then stopped. I came back for both the Halloween and The Lost Shores events and will probably check it out at some point during the winter events. I don't feel bad or somehow robbed about that since I can just go back to it whenever I want for whatever length of time I feel like playing unlike some game that has a monthly fee where I would feel like I need to play as much as possible in the time I've already paid for just to feel like I'm not wasting money.

Now that they seem to have finally addressed some of the Ranger problems I might be more interested to stick around.

BD and Spec Ops would probably be the wild cards in that group. Spec Ops more than BD. They're both pretty short as well, I beat Spec Ops in 4h and BD in 9h according to Steam, so you can squeeze them out fairly fast.

I can still buy boxed retail copies of games for about 15-20€ cheaper from stores on release day than anywhere online no matter what pre-purchase sales etc. there are on Steam or other digital stores.

It's fucking nuts.

There's a Steam trading thread on this board as a sticky: http://www.giantbomb.com/steam/92-718/official-steam-gift-trading-thread/35-509936/?page=last#reply_form

Pre-orders are the devil.

NG+ is definitely something I wanted as well by the end or rather an option to restart the outposts because the actual story content is worthless and the real fun of the game in NG+ would be to clear outposts with your fully upgraded dude.

@WilltheMagicAsian said:

Preferably you'd want to play with at least one, if not multiple friends. Just to mitigate most of the negative comments you'd probably receive. Especially with DotA 2, a community that's probably one of the hardest on new players.

Whenever I played with friends I got yelled at just as much. "YOUR NOT WARDING PROPERLY WHY ARE YOU NOT PULLING RIGHT NOW ARGH WHY ARE YOU THERE AND NOT HERE". Maybe I just have bad friends.

I think I'd really like MOBAs but I just despise the communities. Even Counter Strike seems to have a better community than any MOBA game.

If someone needs a Dota 2 key throw me a PM with your email or steam username in it and I'll give you one. If you own Dota 2 and still want the key for a reason or another then I'm going to need your email because I can't gift it through Steam friends to someone who already owns it.