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Oh geeze, yeah, DQIX has some of the best multiplayer I've ever played, especially for an RPG. Basically you can all run around and do whatever you like, until there's some major event like a cutscene that has to be watched, or a boss that has to be fought. Otherwise, if you get into a battle, you can call your friends to come help, but if they don't want to they can ignore you. One player invites everyone else into their game, so only they get the progress, and vice versa if you decide to play in someone else's game. Red chests can only be opened by the main character, and blue chests (which get refilled every play) can be opened by anyone, and each player can open it once (I think the DS Phantasy Star was like that too). We also have a lot of fun goofing off with the B button actions, like whistling or clapping hands.

Favorite bosses or story, well it's been so long (and I'm not sure I even saw the entire game) so I'm not sure...but I know I always really liked the background story, how you're a Celestrial who fell, and nobody on whatever-the-planet-is-called knows who you are, even though they have statues of you and worship you.

I need more friends, it seems [or someone who likes DQIX].

I like the Swinedimples boss, simply because it's so much fun for all 4 party members to use Magic Mirror so he just ends up hitting himself with his spells.

Shouldn't be too hard to find someone who liked DQIX, just force them to play it and they'll quickly fall in love with it =)

I have a group of friends with whom I used to play videogames on a regular basis, but for the past few years we've been preoccupied with tabletop RPGs. As much as I love tabletops, sometimes I kind of miss just sitting around the TV, blowing things up.

I honestly don't remember a lot of the bosses...I've been doing a little bit of "zoom"-ing around, trying to remember where the good grinding spots and item spawns are, and I'll wind up in some town thinking "okay, some of this seems a little familiar..."

I always have that problem when I try getting back into a large game that I haven't played in a while. I'm almost afraid to jump on my ship and sail around, I'm sure it'll just be a huge waste of time.

Or, you know, I could just listen to that fairy and take some Fyggies back to the Observatory =)

If only that would actually work...

I have the guidebook [nearly as big as a phone book and a half!], and I never play DQIX without it. It's very useful.

Finally on the fourth disc of Final Fantasy IX. My vow is almost complete.

Geeze @_@

I was like that back when EarthBound came out, I wouldn't go anywhere without checking the strategy guide first...and I always felt like it really spoiled the game for me =( Nowadays, I'll just check GameFAQs, but only if I'm really, really stuck, or if the game is annoying me and I just want to hurry up and finish it (like Metroid Prime 2).

Or maybe sometimes if I've beaten the game, and I want to go back and complete some of the 100% stuff I missed...but it's pretty rare that I will care that much.

Morrowind. Also it looks like I've managed to lose my GTA 4 save file, so I'll be starting that again.

I really wish I could play Super Metroid and Earthbound, but I don't have one of those new 3DSes.

No Wii either?

I'm actually not sure if EarthBound is on the Wii, I know it's on the WiiU.

You could play EarthBound Beginnings on the old 3DS =) It's a little more grindy than the second game, but it's still pretty good, and has a lot of the same great music (which is one of my favorite parts of the first two games).

I do have a Wii, but not a Wii U. I almost want to trade in my Wii for a Wii U just to play them [and get SSB4].

You inspired me to play more of DQIX, so today after I'm done working, that's what I'm going to do. I can't remember where I left off at.
Also, fun fact: all of the puns in the game are only in the English localization.

Earthbound Zero/Begginings. For an NES game, it's been pretty solid so far.

Also playing Cuphead, though not as much, since I'm planning to beat it with a friend of mine.

Can't remember when I last posted, but I swapped my 1050 Ti for a 1060 and decided to play Wolfenstein 2 again on the Wyatt timeline (first was Fergus)

MachineGames are pretty much the experts at creating solid but ultimately forgettable FPSes with writing that is 'good for a video game'. That said it's good to play a game that is both targeting 60 frames, and looks good in the process; I'm outputting to a 72Hz monitor (overclocked Dell U2414H) and only two or three times have I seen the adaptive v-sync give way to screen tearing. Aiming feels great! It's just a shame that the actual shooting doesn't feel as satisfying as the first game.

edit: TOTALLY forgot about the other game I've played lately, Sonic Forces. It's a huge step back from Generations and Colours and a game that I couldn't really recommend to anybody except the people who would buy it anyway. The level design varies from being okay to being incredibly poor, the levels don't have the sheer density that Generations levels had, instead tending towards boost-to-win and awful cutscene and QTE sections.

If you do, you'll have to make sure you can do a system transfer first.
[also you could get Breath of the Wild]


See! It's not just me!


I'm not a big fan of all the puns >_< I'm very grateful that the games come out in English at all, but I could do without so many puns, and I could certainly read the story a heck of a lot faster if they didn't phonetically spell out all of the thick accents >_<



(not the best example, but the first one I found)

I played DQIX last night. Apparently my party consisted of a Martial Artist, Gladiator, Paladin, and a Priest. I promptly changed the first and third to Gladiators, and now even though they're only in the mid-twenties in levels, they're still giving out absurd amounts of damage. I went grotto hunting, and completed two Lv. 34 gottos!

I picked Parasite Eve II back up over the weekend. I haven't played it since the summer of '16 and I forgot how disturbing it is.

More DQIX, and more Grotto exploring.