Topic: Episode 239: The Black Wind Howls

[Crimm]

Malapropism

[gtownclown]

Ok I'm also going to finish chrono trigger. I can't let captain never finishes a game beat me.

[motang]

Just ordered Radiant Historia from Amazon. It was on sale (just for today) and I don't want miss out on not getting that game! 

Oh if anyone is interested here is link: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/B004CVWETI?tag=betteraddons-20

[Ceric]

Ok I'm also going to finish chrono trigger. I can't let captain never finishes a game beat me.

Oh Captian My Captian.

[gojira]

I've been playing Okamiden for quite a while now and the lag to bring up the celestial brush is there, but it's not really noticeable unless you're doing a lot of drawing in a row.  Most of the time you'll do a slash or a bloom here and there.  And the time it takes to bring your hand from holding the DS to readying the stylus on the touch screen is about the same time it takes for the top screen to drop to the bottom.  However there parts like in the demo where a lot of drawing is required, like when you're directing a character while keeping enemies away, but I wouldn't say you do it enough to be bothered by the lag.

And I'll admit that I'm even worse off than Lindy when it comes to Chrono Trigger.  I own two copies of the game.  The PSone version of which I got frustrated with the loading times and never got to far.  And a SNES copy I inherited from my little brother (yes my younger brother) after he grew out of his SNES.   But I've never made it more than a few hours into either version. 

[Sundoulos]

After James praised Radiant Historia a few weeks ago, by some stroke of luck I was able to snag it for $20 in an Amazon Warehouse deal.  I was grateful for that because it was shortly after the first printing sold out there, and the price was already starting to get jacked up.  I still have yet to see it at any of the brick and mortar stores around here.

James, out of curiosity, have you ever played La Pucelle?  I rather liked it, though I think it was a little more basic of a tactical RPG than Disgaea and Phantom Brave.   

[Crimm]

I have not, although I'm aware of its place in the Nippon Ichi's history. From what I can deduce their games have become increasingly befuddling. I'm going to speak about this a bit when we record tomorrow, but Phantom Brave is can be a very sadistic game.

[Ceric]

I have not, although I'm aware of its place in the Nippon Ichi's history. From what I can deduce their games have become increasingly befuddling. I'm going to speak about this a bit when we record tomorrow, but Phantom Brave is can be a very sadistic game.

I've always thought anything Nippon Ichi has produced has the potential to transcend to very Sadistic.
For that matter about anything Atlus publishes as well.  Doesn't mean I don't enjoy a lot of it.  Still need to finish Odin Sphere...

[NWR_Lindy]

Captain?  Only a captain?  I've earned better stripes than that man!

[NWR_insanolord]

Admiral is a higher rank and a funnier word. Plus, it makes me think of Battlestar Galactica, where they called Admiral Adama "the old man," which also works great in this situation.

[Ceric]

Captain?  Only a captain?  I've earned better stripes than that man!

Fine then.

When you know

... I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical; I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news, With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. I'm very good at integral and differential calculus; I know the scientific names of beings animalculous: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral ... I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's; I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox, I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus, In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous; I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies, I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes! Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore, And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore. Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform, And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin", When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a Javelin, When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at, And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat", When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery, When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery— In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy— ... For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury, Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century; But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral...[/qoute]

Then you can match that level of knowledge you can be a Modern Major General
http://youtu.be/SoiQw7kPqf8

[pookyrune]

Well on a totally unrelated subject has anyone here seen Haloid on Youtube?!?!?!?! Craziest fan-film I have seen!!!

[Chocobo_Rider]

Hi guys!

Sorry I'm sooooo late with this post.  I've been in New Jersey all week visiting in-laws.  Though, my wife and I did manage to sneak in a trip to NYC and had a grand ol' time at the Nintendo World Store.

Not a ton for me to respond to this week, but here we gooooo ...

0.  Greg is a Bills fan?? Cool.  I'm a Giants fan but I live in Buffalo so I have to be a Bills fan by association.  I'd love to know how Greg became a fan of such a heart-wrenching team from all the way in the UK.  .... Greg??

1. I never had a SNES back in the day (I was a Genesis kid in that era), but my wife's SNES is sitting on our gaming shelf and definitely has gained a strange/weird/lame coloration.

2. I admit it, I've never played through Chrono Trigger.  I should do that sometime.  I downloaded it on emulator when I was in college.  I started the game at least 3 or 4 times but it just never grabbed me enough to keep playing.  Which is really odd because:
A) I almost ALWAYS finish a game I start, even if I'm not crazy about it.  I like to see what's good and bad about it and get a whole feel for it.
B) I love Akira Toriyama's work!
C) RPGs used to be my favorite genre.  The only thing that changed that is that I have less lengthy swathes of free time these days.

Chrono Trigger is one of my good friend's favorite game of all time.  He lent me his DS copy of the game and said not to give it back to him until I've beaten it.  So, someday I'll do that =)

3. The Wii 2 hype is ridiculous right now.  I'm going to wait until Nintendo makes some announcements before I start emotionally attached to rumors.  This comic sums up a lot of my feelings on how a lot of gaming media is treating this story:
http://www.nintemple.com/images/comics/HighDem-005.png

PS - am I correct in assuming the title of this week's podcast is a reference to the Bob Dylan tune?

[gojira]

I also own Disgaea, Phantom Brave and La Pucelle Tactics and haven't played any of them. 

[Crimm]

I also own Disgaea, Phantom Brave and La Pucelle Tactics and haven't played any of them.

Oh, so enjoy the next 2000 hours of gameplay.

[Ceric]

I also own Disgaea, Phantom Brave and La Pucelle Tactics and haven't played any of them.

Oh, so enjoy the next 2000 hours of gameplay.

If your good.

[gojira]

I also own Disgaea, Phantom Brave and La Pucelle Tactics and haven't played any of them.

Oh, so enjoy the next 2000 hours of gameplay.

Yeah, and I still gotta get through Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn.  I was making progress in that game until the Ogre Battle 64 RetroActive.  That kinda took the desire out of me to play such long games.  But if they were on my DS I'd probably have gone through all of them by now.  I mean I have played through Pokemon Platinum and Pokemon Silver in the last few months.

[Crimm]

That's about what happened with Phantom Brave to date.


Hit barrier
Grind in the dungeon generator for an hour
Push through barrier
Clear 1 or 2 more missions
Hit barrier
...
...
...


Recently the dungeon generator has become a bit evil, implementing rules like 'no equipped items' leading to characters entering a 6 floor dungeon with no weapons.