Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Raoabolic]

I played for the first few months; stopped the season after Swordsoul became a thing because I built that to claw my way up to Diamond and wasn't having fun with it. I liked playing Rokket / Borreload and Red Dragon Archfiend, but those become unviable at higher levels.

I mean, the metagaming is just egregious. Synchro event? Better play True Dracos!

... I never did play competitively, and only really kept up with it until the end of the first season of GX. But I saw the Borreload designs and was like "Those are awesome!" and fell in love with their gameplay, same as RDA.

I ended up tooling around Master Duel and then quickly realized that after I spend all of my new player gems/easy gems on making a meta deck I don't care to play I will fall behind once they introduce a new set that will introduce a new tier one/zero deck I will fall behind quickly unless I spend some money for gems for pulls/desynths. Sorry Konami, SE already has number, I don't need another company jingling their keys in my face hoping I dig out my debit card, lol.
That said, I am enjoying Legacy of the Duelist: LE. Deskbots are a pretty fun deck to play with and it releases those sweet endorphins when I get a 4, 3, and 9 out. Wipe their board with Deskbot Jet and power up 9 to a stupid attack level, and go full unga bunga I got bigger stick mode by swinging with a 125000 monster, lol.

[Vyrerus]

It's pretty easy to get max ranking, just get 90+ off the Portrait Ghosts' meter in one go for their Big Pearl, look around for treasure ghosts (Blue Ghosts / Gold Mice), water plants, etc. Really just takes a few runs and taking the time to explore, and a smidge of practice catching the ghosts.



I generally enjoy Fire Emblem but I'm not very good at it, and being a perfectionist who doesn't want his units to die end up resetting a lot. So runs of those take too long for me to bother replaying them.

90 in one go on the portrait ghosts huh? That sounds like it could be rough for a few of them. That one in the ice room, the weight training, and the ballroom dancers come to mind. I can't remember names.

And yeah, that describes me playing Fire Emblem. Well, it used to. I've been playing them so much that I am good at them. I still reset occasionally, but nowadays if it's a unit that I don't really actually intend to use or care about... I pretty much don't reset. Unless they're needed for someone else's recruitment or a good item. Getting into the Youtube community surrounding them helped. The uhh, Ironman runs they call them. You forcibly do not reset no matter who dies, and see if you can complete the game. If your Lord dies, then you start over from the very beginning.

I've never done a true one, because there are some units I just like to much, but my last playthrough of Path of Radiance didn't actually have anyone major die ever, so it kind of counts even though I wasn't really sticking to the self-imposed rules.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I played Awakening and Fates on Casual mode because I knew I'd just reset if anyone died anyway, so it was just time-saving. Hey, at least I didn't resort to Phoenix Mode....

[DiaDeem]

[Raoabolic]

These HD remixes are getting sillier and sillier each passing game.

[Vyrerus]

I played Awakening and Fates on Casual mode because I knew I'd just reset if anyone died anyway, so it was just time-saving. Hey, at least I didn't resort to Phoenix Mode....

I did a Lunatic Classic playthrough of Awakening, but the temptation to grind in all that DLC was too strong, so I only finished it once. Not too keen on modern FE, though 3H was alright a few times through. I got the piss, err, golden title screen and all that jazz.

What's a phoenix mode?

[TheMightyMollusk]

I did a Lunatic Classic playthrough of Awakening, but the temptation to grind in all that DLC was too strong, so I only finished it once. Not too keen on modern FE, though 3H was alright a few times through. I got the piss, err, golden title screen and all that jazz.

What's a phoenix mode?

It was added in Fates (not sure offhand if Three Houses kept it or not). KO'd units auto-revive a round or two later to rejoin the fight. So unless you get completely wiped out in one turn (or meet another failure condition on some maps), it's nearly impossible to lose.

I tried Lunatic on Awakening, but I just don't have the patience for it. And I hear Lunatic+ is basically a luck-based mission with the skills that enemy units can randomly use.

[Cilia]

I ended up tooling around Master Duel and then quickly realized that after I spend all of my new player gems/easy gems on making a meta deck I don't care to play I will fall behind once they introduce a new set that will introduce a new tier one/zero deck I will fall behind quickly unless I spend some money for gems for pulls/desynths. Sorry Konami, SE already has number, I don't need another company jingling their keys in my face hoping I dig out my debit card, lol.
That said, I am enjoying Legacy of the Duelist: LE. Deskbots are a pretty fun deck to play with and it releases those sweet endorphins when I get a 4, 3, and 9 out. Wipe their board with Deskbot Jet and power up 9 to a stupid attack level, and go full unga bunga I got bigger stick mode by swinging with a 125000 monster, lol.

I took a shine to Borreload because of how it's able to precisely and systematically dismantle the opponent's field, and Red Dragon Archfiend (Red Supernova Dragon) for being a giant nigh-unkillable nightmare.

... but yeah, it's not fun at high levels of play and building a new top tier deck every time new cards are released is too expensive, and meta stuff isn't as fun to me. Lol.

90 in one go on the portrait ghosts huh? That sounds like it could be rough for a few of them. That one in the ice room, the weight training, and the ballroom dancers come to mind. I can't remember names.

Some of them are. The ghosts all have low, medium, or high pull strength; the only ones with high strength I know of are Mr. Luggs (Dining Room), Biff Atlas (Exercise Room), and [Mister] Sir Weston [M*****f*****] (Cold Storage). Those take a few tries, but the only one I give up on is Sir Weston (taking too long to get to, a high pull rate, slippery floor, and obstacles serve to make him an exercise in frustration). The Floating Whirlindas (Ballroom) aren't too hard, just try and pull them off the rotating dance floors so you don't have to keep reorienting your direction.

Other than that check around and try stuff out. A number of Blue Ghosts are around; hit furniture before you turn the lights back on to try and find them, keeping your flashlight on so if one shows up you're ready to stun and grab it since they don't respawn. They drop loads of treasure and usually a gem or two. Use the Game Boy Horror to look around for cheese; if you scan it a Golden Mouse will show up, grab it for a load of treasure like with the Blue Ghosts (one's under the chair in the Fortuneteller's Room). Catch all the Boos; the 50th one drops an immensely valuable Golden Diamond (you have to get 40 anyway). And mess around with the elemental abilities, like watering the plants and throwing flames into the oven. If you water the seed in the Boneyard during each chapter it's available, it'll bloom into a giant flower that produces another Golden Diamond (and a load more treasure besides).

[RyuDragnier]

I played Awakening and Fates on Casual mode because I knew I'd just reset if anyone died anyway, so it was just time-saving. Hey, at least I didn't resort to Phoenix Mode....

I'm so sorry that you too had to suffer Fates horrible story and characters...but man was Conquest's level design some of the best in the franchise. Also, I do wish they'd have used the class promotion system in 3H that they used in Fates. Locked down one branching line, unless you use a specific seal to change their class based on their personality, giving them a completely separate class line. Was a really good setup that allowed some seriously good mixup instead of people being useless depending on their starter class. Like Mozu, if you use the seal on her, she went from a bleh Villager to one of the best Archers in the game (if not THE best). Too bad 3H went for the "anything goes" approach, which got boring fast since you could turn any character into any class.

[TheMightyMollusk]

The worst part was that I sprung for the special edition of Fates with all three routes on one card. On the other hand, when the 3DS online shop goes down next year, that'll be the only way to play the Revelation route for anyone who hadn't already downloaded it, so at least it might be worth a bit then.