The Gaming Diary: Chapter 3

[Wempster]

Still plugging away at Miracle Warriors.  Not a bad 8-bit game.  The map is almost a must!

I passed on picking that up at the flea market this past weekend.  How is it? 

[JSoup]

Been plodding along with lots and lots of free games on Steam for achievement hording reasons. All these visual novels are going to be the end of me.

On a different note, TellTales improved system looks and plays great in the Michonne games. If this is a sign of things to come, then Season 3 and the Batman game are going to be amazing.

[MaterialHandlerMike]

Must...finish...Ys II..

[Link41]

Star Wars: Battlefront II (PSP) - Back to grinding through Galactic Conquest on Elite difficulty.

[Izret101]

1 win shy of level 91 in Gems of War. Need to hit level 100 to be finished with leveling. Still need to upgrade a troop to mythic rarity. It is looking like that will take much longer than i had hoped.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Must...finish...EVERYTHING.
Working on Blobster (WP) right now, and have a bunch of stuff I have in progress, such as Parking Mania. I did start playing Sunset Overdrive (XB1), which was fun, but I keep getting interrupted to do things.

[Boshamp]

SoulCalibur V (X360) - Finally leveled up to D1 in ranked and got my 50th win online...now I just have to figure out how I am going to beat some of the most difficult quick battle opponents. Instead of working from easiest to hardest, I have been keeping a good mix, but I cannot manage to beat anyone ranked A3 or higher. I have a couple of them beat, but it is taking a TON of retries. Only 20,000 steps into the 87,600 step achievement, so at least it is ok if it takes me a while to beat them all.

[Izret101]

I'm pretty sure you can use one characters move over and over to beat everyone. I just don't remember who.... You might have actually needed to use 2 characters as one spammer might work better against certain people.

All those fighters blur together....



Halfway thru 91 in Gems of War.

841/1000 Hypercubes in Bejeweled2


I'm not sure if i am capable of real gaming anymore... Been doing so much gems of war and grinding out Chivalry an hour at a time here and there when me and the boosting buddy happen to be on at the same time.

[Boshamp]

If the movesets were left alone from previous titles in the series, I would be unstoppable after all of the hundreds of hours I spent with Kilik, Taki, and Talim in SCII...but Noooo!...they just had to throw a huge wrench in after SCIV for whatever reason. Ha ha That being said, I had great luck online with Elysium, using her mimicry of Taki, Hilde, and Xianghua very well since they resemble their moves from the older titles, but I am garbage with Tira, Viola, and Ivy, so it was luck of the draw. (I would love to learn how to use Viola well, though...the stuff I have seen used against me with that crystal ball is amazing)

Offline, I have been having luck with Astaroth's range and RB grab attack, but some of the characters just aren't fooled. I wish I had old-school Raphael for a "Y" mashing fest, or Kilik's old moveset. Being able to easily hit High, Middle, and Low with 3 different 3-5 hit combos would have definitely been enough to keep the AI guessing.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

They destroyed Talim's moveset after SCII.
"Wind, guide me!"

...for the record, I was 2000+ Wins, ~50 losses in the arcade with Talim. Good times.

[techwizard]

played about 30 minutes of my first Dynasty Warriors game, #5 in the series. really really liked it a lot, i don't know where the series has been all my life. excited to try more and others  in the series.

played some of Onimusha 3 Demon Siege and got the same impression as with DW5. It looks story heavy and i was worried about potential spoilers as i haven't played the first 2 games, so i didn't get far. what i did see looked really awesome though!

[Shadow Kisuragi]

As a warning tech, Dynasty Warriors 7 was a major change in the series, so DW6 would be the last one that would feel "similar". My favorites were 3, 4, and 5.

[Link41]

Shark Dash (Win 10) - Starting this today.
EDIT: Apparently this game is quite broken on Windows 10 and given that Gameloft don't support titles older then a year, I don't see a patch happening.

[Boshamp]

They destroyed Talim's moveset after SCII.
"Wind, guide me!"

I definitely used Link a lot more than I care to admit as well, he was too cheap not to use. Ha ha I really did love Talim even though I never really got too good with her complete moveset. I pretty much mastered Kilik though, and started learning how to take Taki to the air during the start of some combos as well.

As a warning tech, Dynasty Warriors 7 was a major change in the series, so DW6 would be the last one that would feel "similar". My favorites were 3, 4, and 5.

I have never actually played a DW game myself, but I have played Ninety Nine Nights and Hyrule Warriors and I have no complaints about them. I usually harp on titles when focus is taken away from the story in favor of the action, but unlike most FPS titles that I hate for that...the couple games I have played from this genre were definitely more personalized and tasteful with the balance.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

N3 is more fantasy based. DW is actually based off a historical fiction novel (Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which has its own game series that is strategy-based...which also ties in with Nobunaga's Ambition and Kessen...and others...), so they HAVE to be centered around the story in some aspect.

OKAY, SO I HAVE THE TRANSLATED NOVELS, AND MOST OF THE GAMES... They're still fun.   DW7 and DW8 felt more labored than the previous iterations, and I wasn't a fan of how they changed up some of the characters. I dipped my toes into Three Kingdoms with Nobunaga's Ambition on SNES, and later fell in love with DW2 and 3. My neighbor and I spent 300 hours maxing out every character in DW4.