Strangestories

Zelda games. Liked Windwaker but really disliked every other I've played.

Yeah this is really a really strange topic the way people are responding. Many, many, MANY people on other forums love and cherish Borderlands 2. Not necessarily for the story (which I agree is not good) but for bringing people together to do fun things. I couldn't guess how many hours we have in the game across our PS3 and PS4 saves. There's so much fun stuff to do like weird ways to build your characters around certain weapons, class mods, and shields. If you hit 72 as Maya with the right gear you can use your ability every ~10 seconds to provide your team massive healing, pull everything nearby to the thing you phaselocked, then watch them explode with all the elements while everyone shoots everything you have at the area, decimating a bunch of enemies.

Knew there was something special about it from what I played of the two betas. Glad to see people are liking it.

Who's the manufacturer of the laptop? Just curious.

I think like most people said, the current political climate means a lot of us are coming here to get away from it now.

I know as someone deep in the history program at a university, I hear about/debate politics and discuss the similarities to past events constantly so when I'm home I just want to focus on other stuff. History is scary when you can see too many similarities between the World Wars/Cold War eras and today.

Ironically I'm playing Fallout 4 again to relax. Weird how that works.

@humanity: Not sure if you were actually looking for an answer for your question, but stance changing on a ki pulse doesn't necessarily keep a combo going in the traditional sense. From what I've tested, it allows to to keep your stamina up and allows you to go into a new series of attacks faster than if you just stuck to one stance. High stance for instance has considerable downtime between combos, but if you change stances after you do a combo you can lead into another string of attacks in mid or low very quickly. So basically you're just stringing different stance combos together quickly, not really extending a big combo.

Played up until the game kicked me out once time was up. Some thoughts.

The base mission seemed easier than the beta ones but that could be already knowing how the game works. The Twilight mission, however, I thought was the hardest mission I've done.

They seem to have nerfed ninjutsu quite a bit. Setting enemies on fire or poisoning them just seems tougher. The boss especially seemed impossible to put a status effect on. Smoke bombs, as far as I could tell, are much less overpowered. Enemies didn't walk right into the smoke for me to smack around, instead just leasing back to their starting point.

The samurai boss fight was quite a bit tougher, ramping up in difficulty as his health went down. His armor is still really cool, though.

Aside from attacks missing when you're on a different level from your enemy, the controls feel fine. I'm trying to get used to stance swapping to keep combos going but it feels a little too awkward to me. It feels great when I can pull off a stance swap combo and take down a big yokai before it can attack.

If I think of more, I'll edit in later.

For the Ogress, did anyone else notice that if you press your character into the frontside of the boss all her attacks seemed to straight up miss? Killed her on my first try by doing that and safely attacking then dodging her jumping attack.

Being in a university setting means I have to keep up to date with my email regularly. I check it probably 4-5 times per day. Luckily IT or whatever makes it so I only really get emails from my department which makes it easy to keep track of.

I have a personal email I use mostly for game accounts like battle.net and emailing parents about visiting for holidays and stuff.

Basically, if I didn't have to deal with a university I would probably only check emails once per week.