I bolded and italics some words to make it easier to understand/read. Sorry for grammar or rambling too much haha. It was just so awesome! I had to share it somehow.
Background info: Battle square is a place at Gold Saucer where you can choose 1 of your characters to go into a series of 8 increasingly difficult enemy or enemies. After defeating a spawn of enemies you are told to roll a handicap (works like a slot machine). The handicaps you can get range from Weapon/accessory/armor break, materia break, poison, minimum, slow, total HP/MP is halved etc. And the harsher the handicap the more Battlepoints you get which you can trade in for prizes (the most notable is the item used to learn Cloud's ultimate limit break, Omnislash).
I use Cloud since he's the strongest. Weapon: Ultima Weapon, Armour: Escourt Guard (nullifies cold, poison etc...erm thats all i remember), Accessory: Ribbon (protects against ALL status effects) This isn't a guide so i won't list my materia, but you can except the usual.
So the battles began, I casted Haste since I usually hold off regen and wall for later. The first roll, my accessory broke so I was susceptible to status effects. The next round I was beserked, so i lost control of Cloud, but he was disposing of everything with great ease (haste and counterattack helps alot), even after he was turned into a Toad (atk is halved, i think). Then i think after round 7 I was so unlucky and got Minimized (your character becomes small and all you attacks deal 1 damage). So to sum up everything. I was hasted, poisoned, minimized, a toad and berserked. My escourt guard nullified all the poison damage that it would have been causeing (a taunting "0" kept popping up to remind me of that. But the last monster that had spawned, all of his attacks were Cold! So, you see where this is going xD His attacks did 0 dmg to me! While mine did 1!
NOTICE: Everything after this point is commentary and the aftermath which some may find unnecessary and boring to read.
Yeah, i was like "Whhhaaat?! xD omg woahh dude wtf? lol omg." So i thought to myself, damn i wonder how long it will take to kill this guy doing 1 dmg each time. Remember I was berserked so Cloud was auto-attacking each turn. Eventually the monster ran out of energy and each time it tried to attack it would say "Serpent is out of energy". I quickly checked the back off my guidebook for the Serpent's HP...and yep it had 14000. Then I thought... wait a sec these status effects have to wear off eventually...right? Well I thought.. this guy can't kill me, maybe I should wait a bit. When these stat effects wear off I can use a Remedy and whoop this guys ass in two hits! So I waited a bit. I went to the washroom. Cooked something to eat for snack then came back. And... Toad Cloud was still at it. Slapping away with the feeble 1. I sighed, then i thought damn this is a waste of time, I could probably get more Battle points by restarting, but i didn't want to load up my last save. Maybe the stat effects are permanent in battle square because they except either the player to remove the effects or die from them... Then i though...maybe.. i can run away? So i tried it and yes i ran away, but got no battlepoints for that round. haha.
Well eventually after a few more rounds that went alot more smoothly. I had enough points to get Omnislash. I saved game and called it day =D.
P.S. Cloud, the invincible, relentless toad? Who'd have thought...
Well today I was about ready to revisit some of my other PS2 games. So I popped in my old copy of Dark Cloud 2. But then an error pooped on the screen and said "This model does not support Playstation2 disc format". ='( Well i did some research online to see what's the dill. Since i thought both 60gb and 80gb versions of the ps3 were fully backwards compatible. And I have been useing the PS3 to play through some of my PS1 games. So I learned that an easy way to figure out if it was backwards compatible or not was to check how many USB ports the PS3 had. 2 Ports and it is not, 4 ports and it is. I rushed upstairs and glanced at knelt down to inspect the bottom half my PS3. and lo and behold only 2 USB ports. ARGG I was furious! I rushed downstairs, mumbling a few expletives along the way. Eventually I found out the different models and model numbers and how they differ. (Â http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playstation_3Â Â Â ) GAH I'm so mad. I started thinking back to the old days when I bought my PS2. Everything seemed so simple. No different models to worry about like today's PS3 or 360. At one point I thought bitterly to myself, "grr should've just gotten a damn Wii..." arrrhh.....
I remember the good old days when I would just buy a console becuase I wanted it. I would go up to my parents and say, "Dad... Can I get a Gameboy Colour?" I knew I needed it to play the latest Pokemon games, and that was enough to sell the console to me. But these days there seems to be so many more considerations. Example: which has better graphics, the games that i like, what about the battery life? What format of music can it handle? I've done lots of background research on just these topics and I have to say, none of it really matters in the end >.> The same applies to buying games. I remember buying every Final Fantasy game that came out since FF7. I didn't care to look at game reviews, how expensive it was, the "new" features or systems implemented in the game. I just knew it was a game and I would definitely have fun playing it.
I read an article in PC Gamer a while ago. With the internet, it makes it harder and harder to make those 'impulse purchases'. The travel to the local game store is being reduced to a few clicks and filling of forms over programs like Steam. Although it seems people are being more cautious with their money (because of the recession), I read an article somewhere saying that Video Games are one of the 10 things we still spend money on (the rest being things like Food, Entertainment, Toiletries etc.).
*No trolling or flaming please. I'm just expressing my ideas.* *I realize that Valve is trying to appeal to the casual audience by inciting humor and enabling the less-FPS-oriented to enjoy their game.* **
Just disgusting... They plan on replacing the sniper rifle with a quickfire, arching, bow and arrow combo. I guess the idea to pin the guy to the wall was an after thought from the Scout's Sandman. Ugh. From the sounds of it, it'll be just as powerful as a regular bullet, with a faster charge up. "One headshot can mean an instant crit." Uhhh... that's the same for regular bullets.... Snipers already have enough problems as is. TF2 is one of the few games where a rifle shot to the head does not instantly kill someone, but somehow a stab in the back IS. I've lost count how many times I've walked around the corner to find an enemy, quick scoped, headshot, and he's still alive! Also the pee jar idea... are they trying to make snipers look like a joke?
Check it here for yourself: http://www.teamfortress.com/sniperupdate/
Well a few days ago I started playing through my first ever RPG, Final Fantasy 7!!! The first time i played through the game I was around 6-7 years, so all I did was do what the guide book told me to. Well, that hasn't really changed xD. Still fun!
First off I just want to say how glad I am that Giant Bomb is finally up! I can finally say goodbye to Gamespot. It just isn't the same after everyone left. The people that are left (Ryan Macdonald, Chris Watters and Brian Eckberg) just don't seem to have the same sort of enthusiasm that Jeff, Ryan Davis, Rich Gallup and Alex Navarro, seem to bring. A new beginning eh?
So, what's there to say in a first post? I'm a PC gamer mostly. I have a PS2 and plan to get a PS3 in the future. Right now, I don't have the money to buy an HDTV or a new console.
Gaming on the PC has it's extremes. I can do lots of stuff on the computer. Browse the internet, listen to music, talk to friends, play games, watches movies and I can use it for school. On the other hand, especially when gaming, there can be problems. Lag, updates, outdated hardware/software, crash to desktop etc. I love my PC, but sometimes... it's frustrating. Just work damnit! Some people say to get a mac -.-" I think I might in the future to see what it's like, but I've been raised in a PC family xD. (My father is a computer engineer).
Games, and entertainment in general, are a distraction. They can be loads of fun, as we all know time passes quicker when you have fun, but they should never get in the way of real life. Family, friends, work, school and health (includes sleeping and eating, my favourite :D) should come first.
Thanks for reading!
AURON570
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