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I shit the bed against Risen Kushala. Barely ever got an opportunity to get an attack in.

Unsuprised_Pika posted...

Huh that seems earlier then intended by a smidge

We did turn our clocks back just a few weeks ago, so that would probably be why.

Anyway, Chaotic Gore is awesome. Started off not very impressive, but I was struggling a lot later in the fight. Probably gave me the toughest fight of any of the TU monsters so far, though I did avoid carting at least.

New melding tier lets you choose skills again. Good ones too. So that's nice.

Update is out now.

I think with the new title update I'll finally return to using Dual Blades and Lance. Since Title Update 1 dropped I've been exclusively using Switchaxe. I've got some pretty solid Switchaxe sets thanks to Flaming Espinas armor and I think I've gotten as good at the weapon as I can possibly get. I was just too lazy to update sets for the other weapons.

I still don't even have any Investigations at level 100 or above. I certainly haven't played everyday since TU2, but I've played a decent amount. It might just be because I haven't devoted my time solely to Investigations though. Mainly I've just been clearing my wishlist.

Maybe because it's on a Wednesday they'll just drop it later that night. Would be nice.

I got a nice picture of Pyre-Kadaki in front of the moon in that quest, but I was too slow to get one for Lunagaron. Good quest to get a thematic picture. Forlorn Arena at night is great.

When do afflicted materials even show up in the shop? I have not seen them at all yet. So I assume it's at an Anomaly level somewhere past 100.

I've stopped using multiple weapons at this point and have just been dedicating my time solely to Switchaxe. It's a bit too much of a hassle at this point to really keep up with making sets for other weapons. There's too much stuff to grind for. And now with Qurio Crafting you potentially even need to make multiple pieces of the same armor.

Halo 4 was primarily criticized on the multiplayer side. The campaign was mostly well-received. I was disappointed by the campaign, but I've come to like it a little bit more on subsequent playthroughs.

Halo 4 also has the Spartan Ops mode if you're ever interested. It's mostly a set of generic missions set after Halo 4, but it does have a story. It was supposed to bridge the gap between Halo 4 and 5. It was also probably intended more as a co-op mode than anything, but you can play solo. I personally enjoyed it more than Halo 4's main campaign. But like I said, the missions are mostly rather generic in terms of gameplay and objectives. So may not be the best choice if you want a break from the Halo gameplay.

Par scores are usually much easier to get in vehicle heavy missions. Especially with the Halo 4 Mantis.

Halo 4 is the easiest game in the series I'd say. But fighting the Prometheans is a definite slog. Crawlers and Watchers are both extremely annoying. Knights are just a brick wall. Halo 5 made the Knights drastically more fun to fight, but they also completely neutered both the Crawlers and Watchers. It was nice that they made them less annoying to deal with but they also kind of lost their identities. Overall though, Prometheans definitely improved in Halo 5.

Imit8m3 posted...

There's no salary cap in baseball and the Yankees have the most money. So ofc he stays.

No salary cap, but there is a luxury tax threshold that nobody wants to go over. I think he stays because the fan reaction would be extremely negative if they don't sign him.

Cortez
Tom Servo

Ah

They were trying to destroy a Covenant supercarrier with the bomb and the corvette (the ship you board) was their means of ferrying the bomb over to the carrier. But it was botched so that Jorge had to manually detonate it.

The supercarrier is destroyed but obviously right after a massive Covenant fleet arrives. It almost makes it feel like Jorge's sacrifice was futile. They destroy a single ship that's a massive threat only for it to be replaced by the largest Covenant fleet they'd ever seen.

What do you mean?

The next two missions are probably the best in the game. I always thought Jorge's death was well-done because it's where the story starts to shift in tone. It's when you truly start to know that Reach is doomed.

Yeah I also thought that was really cool.

MJOLNRVII posted...

You getting that from datamined info or the hunter's journal? The latter is horribly incomplete and never includes different states of Monsters, like Valstrax becoming immune to elements or Teostra's Ice/Water hitzones switching when he's in blast state. Regular Mizutsune's head for example goes from 10 to 20 as a Thunder hitzone.

Violet Mizutsune's pretty fun, but he went down faster than Flaming Espinas and Risen Chameleos for me. Although for Risen Chameleos I didn't go in with a fire weapon because I was assuming the elemental hzv might have changed for it.

Yeah the Hunter's Notes, but that's a good point.

Bishop_Hastur posted...

As an O's fan if we can stay out of last place I'll be happy.

Orioles have a bright future ahead of them. I think they'll fall short, but they've gotten very close to nabbing a playoff spot this year.

I think Violet Mizu has overtaken Magnamalo and Scorned as the most cracked out monster in this game. Dude is insane. However, also not as difficult as the Magna family in my opinion.

Went in with a Water SA and it turns out Water is mediocre against it. Thunder and Ice are the way to go, but only on the claws and legs for some reason. Head, Neck, and Torso are all pretty bad elemental hitzones. Very weird.

I still haven't fought Seething Bazel since the urgent quest you get for him. They really made the Raths and Lucent Narga worth farming. Not so much poor Bazel.

Jeff_AKA_Snoopy posted...

Each walk Judge had 2 strikes on him. Jaya are trying to win the Wild Card, they aren't gonna toss him a meatball.

I know I don't expect them to. Especially after intentionally walking him in the first game of the series worked out so well.

As long as my dog can still paralyze a monster 3-5 times per hunt, I'll gladly take a damage reduction.

MaxEffingBemis posted...

I dont really see the significance of this. Its the Yankees record right? I just dont care. Call me when he breaks the all-time record

It's the American League record as well. And it's the one many consider to be the legitimate MLB record because the guys ahead of Maris were all cheaters. It being the American League and Yankees records is still impressive enough in my opinion.

I gotta say it would be really disappointing if he didn't get it. Even if he ends up winning the Triple Crown and MVP, not getting 62 would make it feel like a hollow victory.

Naysaspace posted...

Jays are in. Dont care who we play. Cleveland is clearly the weaker team, but we went something like 2-7 vs them this year.

Cleveland is hot right now, I wouldn't want any piece of them. Rays are a good match-up for the Jays I think.

But speaking of the Blue Jays can they please stop walking Judge? Give me 61 already.

pegusus123456 posted...

T2 is a better movie, but it's kind of a bad sequel by destroying the story of the first one.

How does it do that exactly?

Despised posted...

I hope yall stay buttmad forever as we continue to be one of the strongest teams in baseball, also the Houstonians here never say anything about anyone elses team

good games today

I mean the organization has forever tarnished itself because of the cheating. People have all the right in the world to shit all over them for as long as they want to. Even when the few remaining players who were on that team are gone, there's no turning back from that as an organization.

The only reason I'd be okay with them winning is because I think Dusty Baker deserves a World Series win.

It's not CE only, every popular thing is going to have very vocal detractors. BOTW isn't for everyone. Open world especially is going to be a very mixed bag for people.

I think it's one of the best games I've ever played. The Zelda series as a whole can do no wrong in my opinion. Every title I've played has been very good, if not great.

Crow T. Robot
Hugh Neutron
Tom Servo

I just want to see Judge's homers. Playoffs are gonna be fun but hopefully someone can knock off the Astros for the Yankees because I have very little confidence in them against Houston.

Crow T. Robot
Cthulhu
Tom Servo

Have you driven the almighty Forklift yet?

masterpug53 posted...

There was a time when LoZ was my number-one franchise, and unlike Final Fantasy, it's never really fallen very far from that height. But I just barely muddled through a 2nd playthrough of Twilight Princess, and even though I bought Skyward Sword, I've still never bothered to play it. To say that I was burnt out on the (massive air quotes) "traditional" Zelda formula would be an understatement.

You should give one of the randomizers a try. I've found that for Ocarina of Time in particular it significantly enhances the game. I don't think I could ever play it normally again. The freedom it provides makes it so much easier to appreciate the world of OoT and thus the game overall. You don't even have to randomize anything. A lot of the QoL changes they provide are worth it on their own.

Metroid really captures the feeling of isolation really well I think. Samus has only a few allies throughout the series and they usually have unfortunate fates.

Damn_Underscore posted...

The Baseball HoF is kind of a joke now that they rejected Bonds and others. Not really relevant anymore until they overhaul their voting system.

That's kind of a moot point in this case though since Pujols is undoubtedly one of the greatest players of all time and a surefire Hall of Famer regardless of your opinion on the Hall of Fame as it is right now.

This year was a great finish to his career.

Srk700 posted...

Yes.

Early on it can be a bit tough since you don't have much health and can get 1 shot pretty easily (IIRC), but as mentioned that goes away pretty quickly once you start getting better equipment, armor upgrades, health/stamina upgrades, and figure out the cooking system. And once you get the dodge + parry timings down (which isn't hard to do), even stuff like Lynels become easy to take down.

Maybe the hard mode makes it challenging (I've only done 1 playthrough when it 1st came out and never went back), but even then I'd imagine it wouldn't be that challenging due to how busted food + flurry rush is.

Master Mode doesn't add much challenge but you do have to learn how to work around enemy healing. If you stop dealing damage for just a few seconds they start healing pretty rapidly, so you need to be constantly damaging enemies to beat them optimally. There is one encounter in particular where the healing turns a battle that is very easy in Normal mode into a nightmarish slog of a fight. That was the only major increase in difficulty in the jump to Master Mode in my opinion.

It's the toughest 3D Zelda, but overall not too difficult. I mean it definitely is a lot easier to die compared to other 3D Zeldas simply because enemies deal significantly more damage. I don't think frequency of deaths always translates to higher difficulty though. You can die easily just by trying to do something stupid.

Sir_Will posted...

I try to leave it so those that actually care about the characters can decide but to each their own. I'm glad it worked in my favor this time.

This is Bortus:
https://orville.fandom.com/wiki/Bortus

Yeah that was what I was thinking of doing at first. But I changed my mind at the last second.

I thought of just voting Frank and leaving the other two for someone else but figured I'd go with the guy (or girl) with the funnier name.

Frank Horrigan
Bortus

Only reason I haven't watched it is because I'm determined to read the book first. It's just taking me a long time to get around to that.

Dusk

The actual product is pretty normal, but why is it called Saucy Sauce?

DarthAragorn posted...

I always thought it was more along the lines of hobbits being content to sit around the Shire, drink beer and smoke weed, so the ring just had less to work with.

Makes sense. It did try to tempt Sam with the idea of a massive garden that was all for him, but obviously Sam didn't fall for it.

Kim_Seong-a posted...

All I want are dungeons dungeons dungeons

I wanna be balls deep in some ancient fucking ruins with esoteric puzzles and ghosts/lizards/whatever kicking my ass and shooting fireballs and shit. That feeling when you enter a room and the door closes behind you, then the sliding bars pop up and it's like "oh shit something's going to happen in here"

BotW hit a lot of good notes but very few times did I ever feel like I was really in the thick of it.

All the pieces for a really great dungeon were already in the game. The Divine Beasts and Shrines all had the puzzle aspect nailed down pretty well, but they were lacking in the other areas that make up a typical Zelda dungeon. Hyrule Castle had a lot of enemies to fight and allowed total freedom. It perfectly represented what BOTW was trying to be in my opinion. But it also isn't a traditional dungeon.

Ideally there's a mixture of everything. Keep shrines but maybe reduce the number of them. Make a couple dungeons that have the openness of Hyrule Castle. And then throw in some more focused, linear dungeons that you'd expect of a typical Zelda game. Everyone wins.

Man didn't even get a chance to save the characters I nominated. At least RoboCop made it, but he was my most boring pick.

Gojira
Shin Godzilla
Godzilla vs. Destroyah

Top 3 for me. The original and Shin are far above everything else. And vs. Destroyah is the best one featuring another monster.

Best monster is Godzilla obviously. But for a more unique answer, I'll go with Gorosaurus. I mean just look at this guy.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/6/9/AAMmthAADsvF.jpg

Considering you can go anywhere at any time, I don't really agree. Yes the Plateau is always going to be the first thing you do. But after that, you can basically do anything in any order. I know for me the mid to late game was spent in the Gerudo and Zora part of the story. Those sections completely blew away most of the stuff I had done prior.