Buckled down and finally subbed for FFXIV a few weeks ago. I'm an adorable lizard girl who's finally achieved her dream of becoming a Dragoon, so she could jump really high in the sky and plummet back to the ground with her lance ready to poke things. I've managed to find catharsis amidst the grinding and doing the monotonous quests that come with MMOs.

I checked out the free trial a while ago, and while it seemed interesting, the unresizable NPC text box put a damper on things. That, and I'm still confused by the payment options. The official website says the base game is $60, Steam says the base game is $20, I'm clearly missing something obvious here.

$60 on Steam will get you the Base game + Heavensward (expansion) whereas $20 is just the base game, so I'm assuming the official store is the same offering. Sub is like $10 a month for one character which is really all you need since you can easily change classes on the fly.

Right now I am playing Xenoblade Chronicles on my Wii U. I saw it at $20 on the eShop and decided to give one of the most clamored JRPGs in history a go. And I must say, I am liking it's Action RPG combat system, and the Adventure aspect that has an exploration reward system.

Fire Emblem Conquest

Doing chapter 17 for the 8th or so time. God damn I hate ninja.

I don't hate ninja so much as I hate being on the business end of their Poison Strike skill. The target loses 20% of their maximum HP even if the attack misses? Yeah, that's not broken or anything, especially not on a map teeming with enemy units that are likely to have that skill... If it only triggered in the case of an attack that hit, I'd be less averse to it, but the developers apparently didn't like that idea.

What difficulty are you playing at Pierre?

As for the whole Ninja ability thing, to me it makes sense considering that Hoshido is going to have the overall better weapons and abilities whereas Nohr not so much. Other obvious things aside, it was another reason why I assumed and felt that Birthright was a million times easier than Conquest. Personally, I liked the challenge in Conquest, but then again, that's probably because I was so bored with Birthright. I also felt that Conquest's overall challenge was way more fair than Birthright's as well, whereas in Conquest I could strategize my placements and such. Whereas in Birthright, their idea of challenge was to just throw a whole buttload of enemies at you at once so the only thing you could do was just throw your tanks out front.

As for getting walled in Conquest, Chapter 20 did it for me. I spent I want to say 9 hours or so on that map alone, whereas most of the other ones took me only 2-3 tries. For some reason, I just had trouble with the wind mechanics or I'd have a slip in judgment guessing where the wind was going to carry and end up having a weaker unit end up getting mobbed. Honestly, it was an interesting map, but I hated that mechanic so much. So much that I had a little bit of PTSD when I saw the same map in Revelations, albeit, toned down in difficulty.

That said, ninjas with poison strike are still pretty booty.

i understand restarting it if you lose your favorite character or if the cause was really BS or you're having a bad day but why play on permadeath if you are just going to restart until you don't lose anyone

Urgh I wait and wait for the grinding DLC to come out and when Boo Camp inevitably does come out the enemies are actually challenging and can kill me. What's more Mozu still does no damage to them! I'll just never be able to use her

Unfortunately enemies in side quests and DLC maps scale in relation to how far in the game you are so if you haven't used Mozu much by now you're probably SOL as far as she goes

You also want to Heart Seal her into an archer pretty much immediately upon recruiting her since villager is the worst class in the game and she already starts with the one good thing it provides (Aptitude)

Urgh but I wanted to grind because I found the point I was at in the game quite hard already...

Does Villager learn nothing else of interest?

Samurai or Dread Fighter Odin is absolutely the way to go, he sucks as a Dark Mage.

Went ahead and got FFXIV, at least for the next month. Couldn't think of a proper name for my retainer that wasn't already taken so now poor Wubbalubbadubsnub has to manage my item storage. Other than that, it's going fine.

I'm playing Ocarina of Time 3D. My opinion on it this time:

- I like the idea of having to jump between future and past to influence events (such as Epona) but it takes too long to get to the game's best feature, and it's tedious to change times.
- It suffers from camera issues like most games in the early 3D era. It's much worse in the 3DS version because the button to target and the button to control the camera are the same button.
- I love theme of music, and I think it was done a lot better than Wind Waker. However, I think Wind Waker's Link is the best Link, because he's so expressive.

Oh, and Malon is super cute.

Went ahead and got FFXIV, at least for the next month. Couldn't think of a proper name for my retainer that wasn't already taken so now poor Wubbalubbadubsnub has to manage my item storage. Other than that, it's going fine.

What's your dude like and what class did you try?

What server are you on? If you're on leviathan i'd be happy to provide you with free equipment while you level, or if you're on balmung I got an alt i'm currently leveling that I can still be of assistance with. Other than that, I'd be more than happy to answer questions you have.

I've played ffxiv so much that I get much of my entertainment nowadays assisting newer players. :p

Personally, I find the fact that you can travel back to be the main weak point in the plot. If I can just go back to the present time, why bother going back forward? Link sees that it leads to Ganondorf taking over Hyrule, lots of other shit going down and it was mostly because he touched the sword too soon and pulled it out. Why not just go back to present time and not touch the sword?

Sure, the king has probably been killed and Zelda had to flee. But Ganondorf is a known criminal. And Link knows that Ganondorf cannot touch the sword, so he cannot open the Sacred Realm or get to the Triforce. Certainly, Zelda's plan was incredibly dumb to begin with, but this way, they'd be at a stalemate. Link won't grab the sword, Ganondorf can't do anything. Bad Future averted.

C-A

This is a problem if you add time travel as a (main) aspect of gameplay. And, maybe it's me, but I cannot remember anything groundbreaking being influenced if you do or do not do something in either time period. (Except the windmill and Song of Storms, which is such a conundrum, that thing should be swallowed in a black hole of a paradox)

C-A

I made him look like me (or at least tried to) except he's a Miqo'te, has no facial hair and carries a lance that constantly clips though his tail.

I'm on Lamia, but I think I can manage on my own for now. Right now, I'm working towards the Grand Company supply quests because dammit, I want my own Chocobo.

I've been playing Overwatch for a week now, and I'm trying to like it. I love shooters with an emphasis on teamwork, like Rainbow Six Siege and Team Fortress 2. I can't. It's a clusterfuck of colours, and there's so much bloom, it's like I haven't been out of my house in weeks.