In This Thread Krylo Talks About Games He's Currently Playing

[PhoenixFlame]

Originally Posted by Krylo

All in all it ends up playing a lot like Tera but shittier. As far as gameplay goes, Tera's a much better game, with more dodges, the ability to avoid attacks by walking out of them without completely forgoing the ability to do damage at all, and more spaces for ability hotkeys allowing for more varied combat. Really just, all in all, better constructed from a gameplay standpoint.

Speaking of walking while doing damage, advanced warrior is really hilarious in TERA.



So many of your abilities move you around, that if you use Rising Fury and your basic attack properly, large BAMs need to enrage, or you need to be surrounded by basic mobs or outnumbered before you actually need to use your real dodge skills to evade attacks. If you're really good you can tank in A-stance without even needing to use cross parry, it's kind of dangerous though because you'll get rekt if anything does hit you due to the endurance debuff.

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by PhoenixFlame

Speaking of walking while doing damage, advanced warrior is really hilarious in TERA.



So many of your abilities move you around, that if you use Rising Fury and your basic attack properly, large BAMs need to enrage, or you need to be surrounded by basic mobs or outnumbered before you actually need to use your real dodge skills to evade attacks. If you're really good you can tank in A-stance without even needing to use cross parry, it's kind of dangerous though because you'll get rekt if anything does hit you due to the endurance debuff.

That's why you didn't need to heal much when I was tanking our little group with mine.

[Ryong]

Ah, Tera.

I swear I tried liking it, but given that I was playing Lancer ( a tank ) my game was based around on skill rotations and the grind was ridiculous.

GW2 has fucked me up in that I now expect every MMO to at least do all the right things GW2 does.

Or maybe I'm just jaded about grinding from getting two characters to 65 on Flyff and getting a character to 130 on Maplestory.

[Kim]

Hey, Kry, I started playing Vindictus and I'm at level 11 or something and enjoying it BUT it made me wanna throw a game recommendation at ya?

Phantasy Star Online 2 is INCREDIBLY similar in how it handles quests/missions. The hub. The way it involves repeatedly going back to areas for different stuff mission objectives.

There are also Emergency Quests that show up at various times in the day.

Story is progressed by filling out nodes on a thing called the Matter Board. Triggering cutscenes with NPCs, killing certain enemy types till they drop an item the Matter Board requires, etc. (The item drop thing can be tedious but there's some degree of freedom in terms of which nodes you do. Plus it isn't randomized at what point they'll drop, at least not completely. Either they drop after a certain number have been killed or the chance they'll drop increases the more you kill of that enemy type. Not sure which.)

It's definitely really grindy but it's got a more action game feel to the combat than most MMOs in a similar way to Vindictus and there's lots of dodging and stuff, too. Plus there's class changing between missions if you wanna, and two of the classes are just straight-up Over The Shoulder Third Person Shooter if you wanna play them with that camera angle, which I love.

It's also got some cool races, like just being a straight-up robot and there's lots of costumey stuff you can get without HAVING to buy it with cash money, which is nice.

I dunno, maybe look into it if it sounds like your cup of tea? It's really grindy but I have fun with the grinding cuz I'm weird.

[Krylo]

I went to the website to check it out and I can not find any register or download links.

Typing 'how the fuck do I download PSO2' into google didn't really help either.

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I can find directions to download the japanese version and then translate it to english, but I also found references to it supposedly being released for NA officially at some point? I DON'T KNOW

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Alright, hunted down enough information to know the NA release never happened. I'll see if I wanna deal with the hassle of installing and modding english onto it later.

[Ryong]

Yeah I went check and apparently Asia is getting a English version that may allow anyone to play it regardless of region?

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

So speaking of games I have a copy of Tropico 4 Steam Special edition that I got for purchasing Tropico 5. Anyone interested?

Also, just to stay a biiit more on topic I'll say this:
Tropico 5 is A ton, a metric ton like 3 and 4. But it's also better in almost every conceivable way. The only reduction in quality is for the customization of an individual El Presidente, but that's such a minor thing I didn't really even notice as I went to start.

They've revamped the game to create several eras of play, from colonial times to the near future. There's a nice feeling of progression in terms of technology and the social changes of your nation. Resources that were plentiful in the initial stages might start to run out a few periods later, and that forces you to constantly be on the lookout for new ways to keep your island in good shape. At the same time, once you begin to produce real goods instead of just shipping out raw materials, the import system allows you to keep making stuff much more effectively than in 4 and 3, since you can control the influx of goods much better.

I haven't really gotten into tourism yet, but from what I've heard there are even new layers of complexity for that. Stuff like balancing the efficiency of your new/old buildings versus their value as tourist attractions.

[Kim]

i'll take tropico 4 if you're okay with giving it to me

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

Sure thing, just lemme know how to send it over to you. (I already sent a PM about this but then I got worried it might get missed because I've missed messages for weeks before.)

[Kim]

Yup yup answered and all that jazz