What game are you playing/looking towards?

Hornofdesolation wrote:Capcom's Tokyo Game Show lineup has been announced and 4 out of the 6 games are all Monster Hunter ones.

Capcom announces TGS 2015 lineup

Well, that is there prize fish, and they're still on the road to recovering.  Plus we are finally getting a RE2 remake out of them(but I doubt they have anything to show for that).  Also, I Capcom tweeted that Ingrid might make in in SFV, which delights me in a number of way.

Also, beat Hebijo's side in Senran Kagura Burst, which means I HAVE BEATEN SENRAN KAGURA BURST.  I still have a few side things to do and will be playing it for a while longer(beating all the missions with super sexy Rin and super Badass Daidoji).  As for the ending for Hebijo it was beautiful and heartfelt.

Spoiler:

But yeah, the stories for the school are kinda like a arcade story... AKA they don't mesh with each other, each school has their own plot that makes the other school's plot impossible to take place.  That being said both are really great, though Hebijo(or should I say Team Crimson) is better, even with the huge contradiction near the end(mentioned above).

I'm sure you'd like the story of Shinovi Versus, Rainday. As far as I can really say myself, there's not really situations where characters are suddenly not-so-much in character (Well... maybe Girl's Heart missions, but those are side stories, and completely ignore the main plot's atmosphere) without appropriate cause; though like you said about Burst, the school stories don't mesh together well.

Shinovi Versus:

The biggest thing I'm hearing about Deep Crimson lately is the DLC bust sizes.

DoubleEdged wrote:I'm sure you'd like the story of Shinovi Versus, Rainday. As far as I can really say myself, there's not really situations where characters are suddenly not-so-much in character (Well... maybe Girl's Heart missions, but those are side stories, and completely ignore the main plot's atmosphere) without appropriate cause; though like you said about Burst, the school stories don't mesh together well.

Shinovi Versus:

The biggest thing I'm hearing about Deep Crimson lately is the DLC bust sizes.

It's a pity Shinovi Versus is probably the only one I won't get to play ;-;

BUT YAY RELEASE DATE http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/19/senran-kagura-2-deep-crimson-set-for-september/

Also
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/18/watch-ayane-from-dead-or-alive-go-wild-in-senran-kagura-estival-versus/

http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/20/metal-gear-solid-v-gets-25-discount-this-week-in-deals/

http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/16/land-of-no-night-shows-off-arnaths-wicked-nightmare-form/
Demonic form~(well another one)

http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/15/jam-kuradoberi-announced-for-guilty-gear-xrd-revelator/

http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/19/even-project-x-zone-2s-shopkeepers-are-crossover-characters/
The english update focuses on the merchants, BUT sexy Saya is coming back as the enemy with what looks like another type of clone of herself, maybe... Her name is Sheath(AH HA HA, wordplay with Saya), and she's a sexy bunny girl with vacant eyes(which they gave a full body pic but they don't need to draw the feet for portraits... )



There's this... for whatever shit it's worth... http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/20/konami-is-asking-fans-which-series-to-revive-suikoden-is-on-the-list/ Part of me just says "to make a pachislot game out of"... and another part of me wants to go "Well they shat on CV, I'm getting Bloodstained... So let's see how far I can take this EROTIC part in a 2D CV..." But that is a very bad bad part...

http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/19/a-first-look-at-some-screenshots-of-omega-forces-attack-on-titan-game/

http://www.siliconera.com/postgallery/?p_gal=502353|2

Okay, looks like I have a week and a half to grab some people-

http://www.ign.com/wikis/metal-gear-solid-5-the-phantom-pain/Ground_Zeroes_Save_Transfers

Because supposedly this will be your initial Mother Base crew. And you know you want THAT Intel Operative working Intel. And then I guess there's also the part about S-ranking everything and all of those XOF patches...

DoubleEdged wrote:Okay, looks like I have a week and a half to grab some people-

http://www.ign.com/wikis/metal-gear-solid-5-the-phantom-pain/Ground_Zeroes_Save_Transfers

Because supposedly this will be your initial Mother Base crew. And you know you want THAT Intel Operative working Intel. And then I guess there's also the part about S-ranking everything and all of those XOF patches...

Luckily for me I have most of that done, except some of the later S-rankings for stages and capturing those important soldiers. I'll need to see about focusing on that tonight. Also, I recommend you look up the XOF badges, as one of them is pretty tricky.

Well in the meantime, I really suck. Still only at 27%. Enemies just seem way too perceptive in GZ, and the Wu Pistol really sucks when it comes to aim, something that I would expect could at least be upgradeable in Phantom Pain. And I'm only 3/9 on those XOF patches. All of the main missions have been cleared on Normal, one of them on Hard. Still only 27%. I complete a mission for the first time, the counter only went up 1%. I honestly can't believe I suck this much.

DoubleEdged wrote:Well in the meantime, I really suck. Still only at 27%. Enemies just seem way too perceptive in GZ, and the Wu Pistol really sucks when it comes to aim, something that I would expect could at least be upgradeable in Phantom Pain. And I'm only 3/9 on those XOF patches. All of the main missions have been cleared on Normal, one of them on Hard. Still only 27%. I complete a mission for the first time, the counter only went up 1%. I honestly can't believe I suck this much.

It's not that you suck, it's that Ground Zeroes is deceptively big. Most of the reviewers for it didn't really mention that because they can't afford the time. It's a very playthrough heavy game with lots of secrets to be missed. As for the Wu, it's useless in a firefight, but once you are able to adjust for it's drop rate you can tag people pretty effectively from a good distance.

But yeah, things I would recommend.
Turn off reflex mode to increase your score bonus
Never be in a rush
In the event of firefight, aim to wound the leg as it won't count as a kill and thus deduct from your score.
And lastly, consult guides and vid, seriously, I had to do that several times. Like the first badge you need to get, you need to roll on the ground a lot, cause it got stuck there after the opening cinematics.


It's a very tricky game.

Bandai Namco announced their lineup for TGS 2015 recently. Project X Zone 2 & the new Digimon game are included in it. Nintendo also announced their's in the last couple of days. They're both in news articles on Gematsu.

Hornofdesolation wrote:Bandai Namco announced their lineup for TGS 2015 recently. Project X Zone 2 & the new Digimon game are included in it. Nintendo also announced their's in the last couple of days. They're both in news articles on Gematsu.

Hopefully they'll finally announce Kos-Mos and T-elos.

As for me, stepped back into Ground Zeroes, THE RUST IS REAL. However, I got my aiming skills back at least(scoring my farthest headshot yet with the tranq pistol). But it's hard remember what I've done and haven't done as far as talking Important Persons, it took me a few hours to get that sniper team, only for the end audio to refresh my memory that I already did it. However, I did finally get a S rank on rescue the intel operative, which was "FUN"(5 round rubber bullet gun shooting from a moving helicopter). I still have all the mission on hard to S rank if I want that ZOE tape.

Relese dates for Star Fox Zero and Fatal Frame 5 http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/24/xenoblade-chronicles-x-fatal-frame-and-star-fox-zero-get-release-dates-for-the-west/

That's not... That's not Naoto!
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/24/naoto-breaks-out-of-her-shell-in-persona-4-dancing-all-night/

Yeah, I'm definitely wanting Beyond the Bounds unlocked before Phantom Pain gets here myself.

Currently at around 43%. I'm thinking I should just aim for the trophies, rather than 100%, since trophies cover most of the major pickups and cassettes anyways. Or is it not even possible to get all the trophies without 100%?
Ground Zeroes S-ranked on Hard (still missing XOF patches and execution-prisoner)
Intel Operative S-ranked on Hard (Still need to get Pacifist trophy)
Air Defenses S-ranked on Normal, cleared on Hard. Got the MSF agent out.
Neutralize the Threat- cleared on Hard. Easy to get Palitz, but OH MY GOD, is it impossible to get to Glaz without being detected; STILL haven't finished it with extracting Glaz, only killing him.
Classified Intel- Cleared on Hard, with second tape. I think I found a good pattern with which to get second tape, though detection on Hard will make that... Harder. Got out via truck (trophy)

Still haven't unlocked Extra Ops. Is that done by getting the XOF patches?

DoubleEdged wrote:Yeah, I'm definitely wanting Beyond the Bounds unlocked before Phantom Pain gets here myself.

Currently at around 43%. I'm thinking I should just aim for the trophies, rather than 100%, since trophies cover most of the major pickups and cassettes anyways. Or is it not even possible to get all the trophies without 100%?
Ground Zeroes S-ranked on Hard (still missing XOF patches and execution-prisoner)
Intel Operative S-ranked on Hard (Still need to get Pacifist trophy)
Air Defenses S-ranked on Normal, cleared on Hard. Got the MSF agent out.
Neutralize the Threat- cleared on Hard. Easy to get Palitz, but OH MY GOD, is it impossible to get to Glaz without being detected; STILL haven't finished it with extracting Glaz, only killing him.
Classified Intel- Cleared on Hard, with second tape. I think I found a good pattern with which to get second tape, though detection on Hard will make that... Harder. Got out via truck (trophy)

Still haven't unlocked Extra Ops. Is that done by getting the XOF patches?

Most likely.

Okay, used a guide for the GZ mission collectibles/secrets. XOF patches got me the Extra Ops.

And boy were those two missions kinda fun.

Currently standing at 55% completion. Still have one Chico Tape to find somewhere, pretty sure that's the only story-tape I don't have yet, not sure how many other music tapes are out there besides Beyond the Bounds (did get two songs from Deja Vu).

DoubleEdged wrote:Okay, used a guide for the GZ mission collectibles/secrets. XOF patches got me the Extra Ops.

And boy were those two missions kinda fun.

Currently standing at 55% completion. Still have one Chico Tape to find somewhere, pretty sure that's the only story-tape I don't have yet, not sure how many other music tapes are out there besides Beyond the Bounds (did get two songs from Deja Vu).

Well god damn if you didn't catch up to the progress I made when I was really playing that game for days in weeks.  I feel kinda pathetic now by comparison, hahaha.

But yeah, both Jamie Vu and Deja Vu are both excellent in their own way, and quite telling, showing that Kojima saw the writing on the wall.

As for Audio tapes... let's see... I think there's 5 or 6 in all. I'd have to check, but I need to sleep.

You don't have to S-rank everything for Beyond the Bounds, only clear them on Hard, except for maybe Jamais Vu (why? I don't know, but I haven't actually tried that mission on Hard yet). I just cleared Deja Vu on Hard (easy to S-rank, by the way; I only cleared Normal once with a horrible score, but learned where all the primary stuff is; Hard run was a cinch), and got the tape, but I still haven't S-ranked half of the others.

EDIT: Aaaand it's a remix. So, is there a tape of the original that you have to S-rank all of them for then?

Ah, nope, I misread, yeah, you just need to complete the missions on hard, makes things a lot easier on my end, but there should be two songs for Jamie Vu and Deja Vu each, followed by "Here's to you",  4 for mother base, and the final being Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner - Beyond the Bounds.

And a picture of Saya for this page.

Also, yeah, been playing MGS GZ hardcore tonight. Just trying to complete all the missions on hard to get that last song.

Got what I needed from Ground Zeroes last night, VIPs and THE LAST TAPE(Beyond the Bounds).  I listened to it for a hour straight, and I got to say I really like it.  I guess it focuses more on the vocal parts, and while I did love the original there was some dead space(usually filled by intense action during the intro sequence) that I didn't mind the removal of.  I also did the quiz on Deja Vu on hard, but failed early on, I want to give it a few more shots though.

Oh, and this

http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3358541/castlevania-iii-receive-super-violent-animated-series/

*latches onto it like a facehugger*
MOOORE, INFOOO!
THIS SOUNDS GOOD, BUT I AM AFRAID!

Also while I was at Best Buy pre ordering MGSV, I saw 4 copies of special edition Onechanbara ZII Chaos for $39.99 each.  I bought one.  I will report about it sometime in the future, but I believe that is comes with a artbook~
(Also signed up with their rewards program since they dropped the price down to $30, and already paid off $10 of it with the purchase of those two game... so possible profit in the near future and it last for two years...  It will do a lot better than my Gamestop membership which continues to dick me over).


Also,
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/26/kick-shinji-and-evangelions-into-angels/

http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/25/yakuza-5-comes-with-all-of-the-japanese-dlc/

http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/25/hyperdimension-great-war-neptune-vs-sega-hardware-girls-releases-this-november-in-japan/

http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/25/blanc-neptune-vs-the-zombie-army-will-have-various-costumes-and-customizations/

http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/25/square-enix-working-through-trial-and-errors-for-final-fantasy-vii-remakes-battle-system/ Hmm...  Uneasy... I should be fine as long as they don't make it like anything past X-2(I WANT TOTAL CONTROL OVER MY PARTY THANK YOU).


And the launch trailer for Phantom Pain...  I'll check to see if it spoils anything...
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/25/metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain-presents-its-launch-trailer/
...
...
...  Well...  remember that Metal Gear it showed in the last trailer...

Spoiler:

It provides a very tasteful retrospective of all the games prior.

Rainday wrote:And the launch trailer for Phantom Pain...  I'll check to see if it spoils anything...
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/25/metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain-presents-its-launch-trailer/
...
...
...  Well...  remember that Metal Gear it showed in the last trailer...

Spoiler:

It provides a very tasteful retrospective of all the games prior.

Holy shit...

Spoiler:

Anyways, Castlevania animation? I really don't like how they're using the word "series" for this, this sounds like a film/OVA adaptation thing if you ask me. I would certainly hope they use character designs at the very least inspired by the Ayami Kojima designs from the later games. Also, WOULD LOVE TO SEE CARMILLA IN IT TOO! ... But she wasn't even in Castlevania 3...

And Oneechanbara Z Chaos special for $40? Just letting you know, that's not a sale, the base game is being sold for $20, so I hope you're getting some good extras out of it.

Oh I know, it's pretty much the game with artbook, CD, and dlc for the "fruit outfit", it the price it came out as retail, I just saw it and went "yoink", cause I really do like the character designs and it's character action.

As for Castlevania "anime", it's got a good director attached to it, though I am curious as to how it will be designed. I love Frederator studios to death, though I'm unsure if they can give the series the necessary art quality...


Also, it's really hitting me how close we are to Phantom Pain... and how I'm likely to be at work on that day...

Yay

http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/26/first-look-at-hyperdimension-great-war-neptune-vs-sega-hardware-girls-battle-system/

http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/27/dragon-quest-heroes-trailer-stars-familiar-faces/  Yay, I hope they throw in some charm/heart attacks from the levely ladies.  

Also, apparently Fatal Frame 5 is getting a DIGITAL ONLY RELEASE here...  FUCKING HELL.  The reason this is bad is because the Wii U doesn't really have a lot of storage, it can barely fit a game on it, and if you have dlc, well chances are you won't have enough room for this game...  It will be demoable though
http://operationrainfall.com/2015/08/24/fatal-frame-5-will-be-eshop-exclusive-for-wii-u-in-na/

Land of Lesbians(/No Night) form gameplay
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/27/land-of-no-night-rocks-out-a-trailer-showcasing-arnaths-many-forms/

English character trailer for Margaret in P4: DAN is released. She looks good as always.

Persona 4: Dancing All Night Nanako and Margaret English character trailers, screenshots Read more at http://gematsu.com/2015/08/persona-4-dancing-all-night-nanako-margaret-english-character-trailers-screenshots

Acquired the Jamais Vu cassette (not sure if impressed with any of the song selections in MGSV:GZ) and the Deja Vu skins (who knows, maybe there'll be a side mission where they can be used). I think this will actually be the point in which I stop and wait for Phantom Pain.

Digital Extremes recently got Warframe Update 17 into the certification process for consoles. U17: Echoes of the Sentient will likely be introduced on Tuesday. That's the update with the Equinox Frame and Parkour 2.0. All of the wall actions I've seen of Parkour 2.0, I just have to say- it's pretty much Megaman X in 3d. And it'll likely have a lot less glitching/inconsistency that I've been encountering with various wall movements right now. And remember guys, this shit is free, and better than Destiny.

Yeah, it's not a great selection, I mean, the song themselves are nice, but some don't fit the mood while sneaking around, except for Here's to You which I can listen to forever. Flight of the Valkyrie is a great chopper song and the remix to ZOE's song is another great one. Of course I'm a sucker for Heaven's Divide(Peace Walker). I can't wait to see how big the song selection is for PP, I just hope it has more of the trailer songs which are great
Here's to You
https://youtu.be/I0xUl_VRCmM
Nuclear
https://youtu.be/RrkzIN2eP0U
Sin's of the Father
https://youtu.be/ESBXOOMi7SE
Not your kind of people
https://youtu.be/2k4os5vzyag

I've been listening to these constantly, and I hope they fit in more music from the other games too(LIKE SNAKE EATER & SING(a song))

Meanwhile I've been playing Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm. In Hearthstone I keep running into this really nasty warlock deck that focuses on imps and pulling out Mal'Ganis or other high cost demons with Voidcaller... Needless to say I've been in a little bit of a losing rut, though I do have an idea... I need to revive my SILENCE! deck.

As for Heroes of the Storm, fun times in that, though it's hard because I'm trying to master Abathur, one of the more complex Heroes, but I love him so much from Heart of the Swarm. Also been taking Leoric out for a swing, that cheating death passive of his is just amazing. But yeah, trying to get that Goblin killing portrait before I fall into Phantom Pain.

MGSV Progress, total non spoiler version.

I just got my first FOB, that being said, I don't have PS+ so I can't defend it, or invade others for that matter.  As a result I was thrown against my own FOB for training purposes, AND THAT WAS FUCKED!  All my doods had bomb disposal body armor(but no helmets) and after 20 minutes I found out that you need to sneak up to the top floor and go through those closed off doors at your own mother base.  But yeah, I still have a bunch of questions, like is the GMP cost for security a constant fee?  Can I select who's stationed on FOBs? How do I get important people on contract so I don't have to worry about them being jacked?  Do the weapons I procure go to FOBs, or are they just things I can sell for profit?

So yeah, the struggle is real.

Also, really, really, really enjoying the game...

I finally got my hands on the Phantom Pain, if I didn't know better I would have thought that this was a survival horror, the escape from the hospital in the prologue would not be out of place in a Silent hill game then there is the first encounter with the Skulls...