Modern Pokemon games are incredibly easy.

Considering they gave us shared EXP... I would say so.

They are far too generous with the EXP Share in X/Y....

That and you get EXP even when you just capture a Pokemon. :lol

Mega Man X5

So I completed all of the stages but I haven't gotten to the last stages yet. I got the colony to not hit the Earth!

I beat Iceman's stage in Megaman Battle Network.
A bit annoying when your trying to solve the puzzles with constant hordes of enemies showing up but other than that nothing too bad.
I maxed out Megaman attack power so the boss fight was incredibly easy because i was mashing the B button.
Well time to move on to Wackoman's scenario.

Battle Network games do not get the attention that they deserve, especially the 2nd one which improves over the first drastically really like that they made the battles WAY faster from 2 onward.

Though if it's one thing I hate, it's being forced to do the goddamned tutorial every single time you start a new game....

better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

Beat Wackoman's scenario after ragequitting because he killed me and i forgot to save so i went to take my frustration out in Smash WiiU. I then proceeded to go on the net and grind for money to buy powerups to make Hub a god among navi's.
I bumped into Wackoman twice after that on the net, managed to get hi's chip. Then spent an hour trying to beat the optional Sharkman because jesus christ he's hard!

Well anyway i'm at the part i fear the most out of hi's game so let's see if i can conquer my childhood demons, bring it on Elecman!

They should at least have it be skipable, can't believe it took them till like 2008 or so to realize that's a good idea.

It's just a pain in the ass to deal with for someone like me whom played them as they came out, or someone whom wants t o start a new game.

Mega Man X5

These lasers. THESE FUCKING LASERS.

Nearing the end of Megaman Battle network. This final stage music... So boring.

Pokemon Fire Red:

Arrived in Lavender Town and not doing too badlym y team so far consists of GLoom, Pikachum Nidorino, Kadabra, Gyrados, and Charmelon...I Need a flying type.

Also, was it nessicary to have both running shoes and a bike? Half the time I forget I even have the bike and I find myself running just out of habit.

Army Men RTS

Wow it's been a really long time since I've played this game. I dug up my old PS2 and got that game going and man I suck at RTS games. I beat the 14th mission barely and now I think I'm on the final mission.

I've been playing diablo 3 with a friend recently with him as a witch doctor and my self as a crusader. I really like the gAmerican so far. Just finished Act 1 tonight and I look forward to more.

Anyone else play diablo 3 here?

Over the past few days i was trying to get the last achievements in Smash 3DS, only have one more to go, which is gets all custom moves, this shouldn't take too long but it's gonna be annoying to do.

Finally got Kirby Squeak Squad beaten! I now have 120 treasures and the tower that holds all of the Copy Powers has been unlocked as well.

@Phantom: Yeah; it does suck that Konami's being a royal asshat lately. I'd love to play some other classic Castlevanias since I have no desire to play this "Sexyvania" they seem so fond of.

I've been replaying Miles Edgeworth Ace Attorney investigations.
Just beat the second case, tomorrow i start the third one!

I just completed the first game in the Ace Attorney Trilogy. So now I'm off to play Justice for All.

The first game was pretty interesting for the most part. I, of course, learned new things that I never knew before. Like how Phoenix Wright met Maya (even though it was through unfortunate circumstances: "Mia. :cry") and that Edgeworth and Phoenix used to attend school with each other before the DL-6 Incident. Sure, the game wasn't my favorite, but it did hold my attention (especially the fourth case).

Can't wait to start Justice for All.

Good luck, the second half of Justice for all is kind of boring, at least in my eyes anyway, the first case is okay and the second is really interesting as it sets up the events of the third game, which i won't spoil for you because the third game gets pretty intense.

Shovel Knight.

My brother got the game and it's pretty fun. Bosses are a bit easy but eh. For a game that tries to replicate the * bit style, it sure does feel better then an NES game. Not stiff as fuck. I beat Specter and King Knight so far and the stages are all right. Wish Shovel Knight could run.

Yeah hehe... The bosses are totally easy, i totally didn't die to the first one several time...

Gundam Breaker

in my newly christened GM Rouge.

Downloaded Strider for PS4 and so far it's been a fun ride.

I am struck on the part where you have to take down all 3 generators in the water treatment plant. Any ideas on how to get past this part?

gonna be playing more Guilty Gear now that they've confirmed JAM!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEuB02p3a5c

I own the first Xrd so I can get Jam DLC, yes?

That would be cool but I'm thinking I'm gonna have to hunt down a new disc......and it took trips to TWO Gamestops in order to get my copy of Xrd. I'm really hoping this isn't a repeat of SS4/SSS4-AE/USSF4.

Unfortunately it is going to be a new disc version for this one, thankfully the guilty gear games aren't as egregious in their "new" versions as street fighter.

Oh yeah, I never really mentioned that a month ago, I bought Binding of Issac: Rebirth. :lol

So I far I've beaten Mom's Heart four times and I've unlocked mostly everyone (recently Azazel).

Last of Us Remastered.

Since I got a PS4 today, naturally I had to play the one game the system came bundled with.

This shit looks like a PS3 game in 1080p. Remastered my ass. Listen, I'm not expecting Uncharted 4 levels of graphics from an already made game, but there's still some blurry textures.

Game's great. But remastered is getting overused as a hype term.

Fate/Grand Order:

Fate is a weird franchise to tackle, born as a an 18+ Visual Novel, the brand quickly gained popularity and continued to spread across a variety of mediums, the main element connecting them all being the "Holy Grail War" a skirmish between mages where heroes of myth and history are summoned into the present day all to botain the fabled grail.

To say it was succesful would be an understatement, the absurd amount of spin-offs, adaptations and merchandising (which is sorely lacking on Lancer goodies) has made it Type-Moon's most important product and a huge cash cow franchise, the latest installment and the one that brings us together today is Fate/Grand Order a mobile game available for Android and iOS, and the newest source of income for Type-Moon.

Story

http://i.imgur.com/jrWFmIr.png?1

Yeah, that's as far as my knowledge of japanese (zero) will get us.

Grand Order is set in yet another AU, this time focusing on the Chaldea organization, which employs both magic and science in it's attempts to ensure the future of humanity, things go awry as they have to for the plot to move, things explode, time goes bonkers and your co-worker Mashu ends up fused with an Heroic Spirit becoming the pseudo-Servant known as Shielder (she is your first unit, hope you like her).

From there on your protagonist, Mashu and the supporting cast of Chaldea hop around from era to era, getting involved in various Grail conflicts while trying to rectify the problems in the timeline, currently available are the Fuyuki, France and Rome chapters.

I can't really judge the story, but there are some pretty fun moments so far like an evil version of Jeanne d'Arce burning alive the people who killed her and there are tons, and I mean tons of (purely cosmetic) choices.

Gameplay

Mobile games have their own set of quirks, at first glance Grand Order saves itself from most of it's issues, while there are multiple types of currencies, all are obtainable in-game with no money involved, while there is a cooldown period to prevent you from playing all the time, the amount of Action Points you get is more than enouuh to give you a few matches, and all of your AP gets refilled with each level up, you won't feel much of a gap between free and paid accounts, at least at first.

http://i.imgur.com/sBx5116.png?1

As a mobile RPG the core mechanics of Grand Order are suprisingly fun, you control a party of up to 6 Servants (3 active and 3 as backup), 5 of which are chosen from your own pool of units, while the Support Unit is chosen from either your friend list, the in-story allies or random players, the feature allows you to test units you don't own and stronger Servants might help you as crutch characters during your journey.

Each unit has a set of 5 cards, the cards of your 3 Servants form a 15 card pool out of which 5 random ones are chosen each turn, the cards are split into Buster (highest damage output), Arts (fills your NP gauge) and Quick (They obtain critical stars).
Once you press the battle button you get to choose 3 cards, choosing 3 cards of the same color gives you a bonus, Buster Chain increases damage, Arts Chain adds 20% to the NP bar of all the involved units and Quick Chain gives you 10 stars, which raise the odds of landing critical hits.
Aditionally if you choose 3 cards belonging to a single unit it forms a Brave Chain which gives the character and adittional attack, Brave Chains can even be stacked with the color based one, landing you for example a Brave Buster Chain.

The aforementioned NP gauge is your special bar, once it reaches 100% it allows you to unleash the unit's Noble Phantasm (the weapon/item most closely associated with the character), NPs come in all variety of flavors, from buffs, to debuffs to offensive moves, and they also fall into one of 3 colors, meaning you can add them to your chains for extra pain.
All of this makes for a rather engaging battle system, thinking of how your different servants add or detract to your deck is pretty entertaining and pulling devastating chains is always fun.

Outside of the card system units have various skills that affect the flow of battle, you can use them any time, but all fo them have a cooldown period.

The Challenge

http://i.imgur.com/ExCvv3K.png?1
(If you get this guy, keep him, you'll end up loving him.)

Aka, the part where everything falls apart.
This game has serious balancing issues, and I mean SERIOUS, basically, it's really broken.

The 7 Servant classes are awkwardly stuck in a rock-paper-scissors format, which does not sound terrible on paper, but quickly becomes more trouble than it's worth.

As 7 is not an easy number to work with for this format there are two independent RPS triangles [Saber->Lancer->Archer->Saber] and [Assassin->Rider->Caster->Asassin], if you know your math you'll realize that only amounts to 6 classes, the last one Berserker is stuck in a ridiculous state of being simultaneously strong (deals extra dmaage to) and weak (receives extra damage from) to all the other 6 Classes, turining them in the most hilariously broken glass cannons you'll ever meet.
Shielder is thankfully free from any of those woes, as she's average against everybody, but Ruler adds a resistance to all classes but Berserker, and some story enemies have their own set of unexplainable weaknesses (Flauros is strong against the entiret of the first triangle, but weak to the second).

If you think the broken wheel is still manageable, don't worry we are just starting, because Servant distribution plays a huge role in it, do you need to take down a powerful Saber? Time to worry, as there are only 3 Archers in the whole game, one of which is a 4 star, and as such is incredibly hard to get. Pretty much all the Sabers are 4 stars or higher meaning they are a pain to get, so don't expect to have a lot of them to choose from.
I've talked stars, and they play huge role, all Servants have a 1 to 5 rank, this rank never changes, and is fixed for each unit (All of the Jeanne d'Arc out there are 5 stars), higher rank means a higer level cap, and stronger stats as a whole, but also a higher rarity.
You won't get any free Servants except for Shielder and one Servant per area, after you finish the tutorial missions you'll get an extra Servant, which is random, and will be your only ally for a long, loooong, looooooooooooong time.

You obtain extra units by rolling, good old gashapon style, Servants being random is not a surprise, you need to find a way to keep the fans hooked, papa needs his waifus, it's not something I will hold against the game.
Okay, I lied, I hold it against the game because it's poorly handled, there are two types of rolls, Friend Point rolls, the cheapest and simplest one, given that Friend Points are a renewable source, and Quartz Rolls, which use a currency known as Saint Quartz, which is limited in nature. Buying in bulk does not result in any sort of discount.
The first problem with either method is that the gashapon is not restricted to just servants, you can do a 10 roll and get only EXP or equippable items.
The second issue is once again related to distribution (that's the drinking game), Friend Point rolls only allow you to get Servants ranke 1-3 and Quartz will net you 3-5, what sounds simple in theory results in you wasting absurd amounts of either currency and quite possibly landing nothing useful.

Basically, outside of the broken wheel you will be stuck with very little selection, and if you still think that's salvageable (you innocent soul, so full of hope) let me introduce you to strike 3, the enemy distribution.

Grand Order is exclusively PvE, your party fights various waves of enemies in each area, and all of them also fall into the Servant categories, so they can be super ffective against you and viceversa, but the problem falls in the way each area handles it's enemies, they all favor one given class over the others, Fuyuki is crowded with Assassins, making Casters invaluable and Riders useless, Rome mostly uses units belonging to the first triangle, but at least that's one full set, making it manageable, the area where everything goes to hell is France, which feaures hordes of Wyverns with absurd amounts of health that are only vulnerable to Assassins, that guy up there? He's your best bet.

For the icing on the cake, while enemie seem to use the Buster/Quick/Arts configuration too, their NP is not dependant on a gauge, but rather turns, that means that the only way to avoid them is through speed, making Buster Chains the ideal method and taking away from the deck building aspect.

The Result

Man, this thing is broken, it's fun on it's good days (basically whenever you aren't on France) but it suffers from awful balancing, idiotic enemy distribution and an impossibly hard gashapon system than will keep you from getting anything good.

When it was announced I was expecting a really cheap game with no redeeming feature but the Fate IP, ironically enough, we got a well thought out game with clever mechanics that is completely ruined fot trying to fit the Fate rules in it.

One way or another it doesn't change the conclusion, in it's current status this is just a game for Fate fanboys (hi guys), getting new Servants and raising your waifu/husbando will play the biggest role in your enjoyment of the game.

That said, if they ever find a way to balance the game or release it in English and you are mildly interested, it might be a fun time waster, the core mechanics are okay, and it is free after all, there's just no real reason to be an early adopter.


TL;DR

THIS THING IS BROKEN.
But the fanboy in me keeps me glued.

Plus it has a young Iskandar teaming up with adult Waver, you know that's awesome.

http://i.imgur.com/9AlSFBD.png?1

Strider for PS4 is going good. I'm now at the point where I can go and fight Meio but I'm looking for more upgrades.

I'm in Research and there's an upgrade behind a locked door. Am I screwed or is there another way to get it this late in game?

Grand Theft Auto IV and Final Fantasy XIII

I want to finish IV before starting GTA V and I am trying to give 13 another chance before giving up on it again. It is the only game in the FF series I haven't finished.

Kingdom Hearts 1.5, just beat Jafar.

Does that include the other final fantasy 13 games as well because if you gave up previously on final fantasy 13 then 13 -2 and 13-3 are probably going to be less favourable.

I think we are coming to a point where instead of releasing games every year, like CoD and Assassins Creed are doing, to companies releasing a single game and updating it forever through DLC. So you'd buy a game, and once every nine months or so they'd releasing a 20 or 30 dollar story dlc for it.

Mega Man X5

Finally beat Sigma. I like his first form a bit since it's a nice tribute to X1 but also puts its own spin on it. It's a good fun fight.

That final Sigma form was annoying though. With the hands that could raise up and crush you and you can't escape at all. Yeah.

I sort of teared up a little bit at that last cut scene with Zero dying with a hole in his chest. Damn, what a way to go out. And X6 had to make his death stupid.

X5 is a good game, but it's not great. A lot of the bosses and stages are kinda forgettable, along with their respective music. There's some cheap kills in some of the stages that I don't like. But overall, I think it's good. Dynamo being one of the highlights, along with the various potential endings.

Did you really need to mark that on a spoiler tag?

Well... the fate of said character might be a sort of running gag by now, but it's still vital to the plot of X5.
Better to be safe than sorry.