Posts Tagged “Video Games”

Since July 28th, a new server has opened on kRO. It then filtered from the mentioned server that they are actually testing new effects of the stats on various parameters of the game.

With the third classes that will be coming later, people knew that the 99 level cap would be removed, moreover, this also applies to stats. I know that 120 were going to be the new level cap, but I forgot what would be the new stat cap. 120? 130? 150? Ok, likely 120.

With such new limits, rebalance were in demand, the removal of the cap would mean to open new paths for non-mainstream builds.

This also mean that veterans will have to throw away their knowledge of the game and adapt to whatever change will come to them.

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Since you have announced the patch 1.03, I would like you to:

#1. Give your players the option to turn off the weather.

#3. Fix the motherfucking pushback on wrong block. Make instead the wrong blocking punishing and not rewarding.

#4. At least put China, so Reisen wont feel alone in the bottom tier.

To be honest, I am not expecting that much. I mean, how many patches Eternal Fighter Zero and Melty Blood needed to get where they are now? A lot. But unlike Big Bang Beat, Eternal Fighter Zero adressed most of the issues. Melty Blood may be solid in some regards, the poke > confirmed hit > B&B combo > air throw > repeat is not appealing to me anymore.

On an unrelated subject, I was playing Akatsuki Blitzkamp aka the nazi doujin game. It is one of the more refreshing offers of the doujin market, if you count Immaterial and Missing Power as one of those too. It has a nice old school feel thanks to the absence of air combos or Guilty Gear-like gimmicks, and the unlockable extras. And I kinda like Nazi Pikachu and Kanae, yeah, chargie and grappler.

I do want to see how they gonna do on the console release since it gonna have…

NAZI NANOHA!

Yaranaika: the herald of doom. For your virginity and heterosexuality.

Basically, Tomoyo Fighter Perfect is a Final Fight clone, with a 2D vs Figthing Game-sized roster that keep extending as you complete the game (that’s what a friend told me, he completed it, I was still testing it). Unlike what its title implies, it’s far from perfect. There seems to have some problems with the collisions boxes or the controls. It can be sometimes annoying especially in the bikers stage.

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I love this genre and much to my pleasure, it never died. Even in its darkest hours, it has not gone extinct, thanks to the offers from the doujin scene.

While it may not enjoy the popularity of the early 1990s, or when Soul Calibur, Virtua Fighter and Tekken has overshadowed them, there were still people picking one up for some games with their friends. Why? Why does it refuse to die when 3DEE is the rage, when nerds can just pick SC4 to play Yoda and Darth Vader?

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It look like it is.

This is not the definitive version yet. And god thanks it is not.
If you ask me, I has not liked the look of the rune knights. Too much neon, and too much spikes. The knight class never struck me as the “dark and edgy” class, I prefer to leave it to emossins. And they nerfed the zettai ryouikki of the female knights, it was their trump against slutty dancers and not-so-quite-innocent priestesses.

The main selling point of female lord knights, zettai ryouikki

Actually, female arc bishops has not gotten it better. Fishnet stockings give them a look comparable to a 1980s hungarian 3rd rate hooker.

Let’s not talk about the mechanics who has lost their sexy hick girls appeal.

I am rather disappointed by the look of the third class. I am just hoping that their skills, especially those of the Rune Knights, are not as disappointing.

Biggest bitchslap on whatever creativity was left in that company.

Oh yes, I so long for more remakes of remakes of remakes of Final Fantasy and more milking of FF7 for the two decades to come!

d(>_<)b

The will to talk about the cutscenes and the place it should take in the video has sparked from the post of a Metal Gear Solid fanboy on a french forum that has gone like this: “Kojima pushes shows the world what direction the video game media should take.”

It did rub me the wrong way.

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Late 2000s is a very good period for 2D fighting game lovers. SNK is finally getting his ass on working on making something new for King of Fighters XII, Sammy/Arc systems Works is still working on this game that is not guilty Gear but look like it after having released Fist of the North Star two years ago and Sengoku Basara X, Yuki Enterprise/Examu inc. is taking firm roots with Arcana Heart series. Then there are Capcom, the Capcom that people assumed to have quit the fighter business after the CFAS and Capcom Fighting Jam fiascos to focus on franchises like Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Sengoku Basara and the funky Phoenix Wright.

It was a semi-surprise when Capcom announced a fourth Street Fighter. What was a little more surprising was the announcement of a Versus game. Tatsunoko vs Capcom.

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Red Eyes of the Lunacy: Not as Planned!

For the uneducated ones, Reisen Udongein Inaba is the adorable moon rabbit living in gensokyo, the imaginary land featured in the Touhou game franchise. In the same fashion as the legendary Basilisk, her eyes can cause lunacy. You can say that her cunning plan has not gone thru.

To my dear readers, you can mail me strange, funny, “not as planned” stories, be it in real life, manga/anime, or in history. Just make sure you explain how it went “Not as Planned”.

By Crom! He is back!

As I write now, in direct live on Game One from the WWI in Paris, Diablo 3 has been announced!!!

Right now the Blizzard guys are showing a demo, featuring the barbarian. In term of graphic feeling, it is close to Guild War, but more gorgeous!

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ABOUT FUCKING TIME!!!

Edit:

Some fluffs:

* It seems that some mobs will be tougher, skeletons can shield themselves and characters will have to find a way to get through it. i.e: The barbarian can use a stunning stomp that force the skeletons to lower their shields, and are therefore open to retaliation.

* Necromancer has a zombie wall. Don’t laugh, it’s like ice walls, firewalls, but with zombie.

* One of the bosses or mini-bosses looks like a Lictor for the Kult RPG, or the Baron Harkonnen. Only bigger and swinging two maces.

EDIT 2:

Before you ask. No, I has no means to capture Diablo 3 footage as I was watching TV, unprepared. Wait for the videos online to pop up.