scaryice | 587 Posted February 9, 2020 Author Share Posted February 9, 2020 Check this out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaia Gensouki | 1,073 Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 I've started my playthrough of Dragon Quest III yesterday and continued today. In the third game you can have a party of up to 4 heroes and basically recruit characters of a certain class and mix them up to your liking. Usually the game has a balanced preset party consisting of your hero, a warrior, priest and magician. But what I did was to recruit 3 martial artists, which means that I will have hardly any magic at all or rather only the few spells that the main characters has. This is probably going to be really tough, but on the flipside I have a really fast and offensive party. What's even better is that their extremely high speed stat adds additional points to defense. This combined with their high hit points makes them aktually pretty decent tanks who hardly require any armor or weapon upgrades at all. And so far the challenge has been very manageable. Certain dungeons have actually been really easy since all the enemies were dead before they could damage me. I'm not sure if I will keep this combo, but later on I can still do a class change and maybe get a priest and/or sage that inherit part of the martial artists' strength. Anyway, it's been a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to how the journey of Cecil (the hero), Rinoa, Rikku and Kimahri will go on (btw. Rinoa is the undisputed MVP right now). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdynebraskan | 356 Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 RoboWarrior is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryice | 587 Posted February 10, 2020 Author Share Posted February 10, 2020 8 hours ago, Gaia Gensouki said: I've started my playthrough of Dragon Quest III yesterday and continued today. In the third game you can have a party of up to 4 heroes and basically recruit characters of a certain class and mix them up to your liking. Usually the game has a balanced preset party consisting of your hero, a warrior, priest and magician. But what I did was to recruit 3 martial artists, which means that I will have hardly any magic at all or rather only the few spells that the main characters has. This is probably going to be really tough, but on the flipside I have a really fast and offensive party. What's even better is that their extremely high speed stat adds additional points to defense. This combined with their high hit points makes them aktually pretty decent tanks who hardly require any armor or weapon upgrades at all. And so far the challenge has been very manageable. Certain dungeons have actually been really easy since all the enemies were dead before they could damage me. I'm not sure if I will keep this combo, but later on I can still do a class change and maybe get a priest and/or sage that inherit part of the martial artists' strength. Anyway, it's been a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to how the journey of Cecil (the hero), Rinoa, Rikku and Kimahri will go on (btw. Rinoa is the undisputed MVP right now). What I've done for the last couple of Etrian Odyssey games is just use a random number generator to select my party. It makes it fun because you never know what you're going to get (ended up with 3 mages in EO5). If you know what you're doing it's not difficult to win with any party, since you can always just grind a bit. I always name my party after other rpg characters or anime characters, too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 Beat Ironsword today. That was one I loved as a kid but could never quite beat those crazy elemental bosses at the very end. Extremely happy to finally have finished it off after all these years. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dracula | 126 Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 Silkworm completed. 1 credit clear, died 3 times. Ended up using the Jeep which makes the final level and final boss easier. I’ll probably play it a bit more to beat it with the Heli. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryice | 587 Posted February 11, 2020 Author Share Posted February 11, 2020 (edited) Nintendo World Cup soccer beaten again this year, most of the time was spent not moving waiting for the clock to run down. We're now over the 50% mark for points as of Silkworm! Edited February 11, 2020 by scaryice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dracula | 126 Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 First time playing through Thunderbirds and it’s not bad! Must be the least talked about licensed game. I didn’t realize it was a straight up plane shooter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdynebraskan | 356 Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 Silent Service is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 Beat Wizards and Warriors III tonight. Really enjoyed all three of these games. Each brings it's own flavor. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guillavoie | 1,210 Events Team · Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 17 minutes ago, Crabmaster2000 said: Beat Wizards and Warriors III tonight. Really enjoyed all three of these games. Each brings it's own flavor. Indeed, it is a very under appreciated series on the NES. I love how all three games are different in many aspects, and yet truly create a kind of unity. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryice | 587 Posted February 12, 2020 Author Share Posted February 12, 2020 The game boy one, though... that one sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dracula | 126 Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 Played through Alpha Mission. This one was a bit rough but will give it a pass for an early nes effort. I prefer the Japanese title Armoured Scrum Object. No ending screen just loops after 12 areas. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdynebraskan | 356 Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 Magician is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdynebraskan | 356 Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 Paperboy 2 is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NESfiend | 1,515 Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 1 hour ago, nerdynebraskan said: Paperboy 2 is done. Impressive. I made efforts and that game is long and unforgiving. Great game, but it never seems to end. Nicely done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryice | 587 Posted February 14, 2020 Author Share Posted February 14, 2020 Goal defeated. I've beaten Goal Two several times before, but this is the first time I've beaten the original. It's a lot more annoying to beat since you can't change the timer to have quick matches. I ended up beating Japan & USA in the semis and final, very realistic. Final was actually a great game, I was winning 2-0 with two minutes left, and it ended 3-3 and went to penalties. Luckily I won the shootout 5-4, mostly because the one time I messed up and shot straight down the middle, the cpu dove the right way and would've saved it. Also, there's a nice typo in the shootouts: "keyper" instead of keeper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tablew/chairs | 242 Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Finished Evert and Lendl Top players Tennis. It's as good as any of the other tennis games on the system but basically just a boring grind to beat, I played as lendl so that might have made things easier the only tough matches seemed to be when I played evert. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdynebraskan | 356 Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 The Mafat Conspiracy is done. @NESfiend Thanks for the kind words regarding my near-annual clear of Paperboy 2. It is probably the hardest shooter that I am capable of beating. It's probably up to Kid Dracula to beat most of the remaining ones, since he seems to be a shooting ace. (I'm sure as Hell not...) I've always been a fan of the Paperboy series, having grown up with the NES port of the first game and the Genesis port of the second. For anyone wondering, the Genesis port of Paperboy 2 is awesome; it's VASTLY superior to the NES and SNES versions. I first noticed this challenge thread in the fall of 2012 when there were only a few games left. Of that list, Paperboy 2 was the only one remaining that interested me. I practiced for probably a couple of weeks before I got demoralized and forgot about it. I didn't actually debut in this competition until the late spring or summer of the 2013 edition. I think all of the games I beat in 2013 for the NES challenge were first-time clears for me, and with the momentum of seeing the end screens of so many childhood favorites for the first time, I picked up Paperboy 2 again and finally got to the oh-so-mediocre single-screen "Paperboy wins big!" final newspaper headline. It was definitely a game that I had to memorize specific strategies for every medium to high threat trap. It seems like a much more methodical game than the first NES Paperboy; the original really spams you with hazards on the later days of the week. But Paperboy 2 still seems more difficult just because certain traps, like the crows that roost on the gravestones and castles, will home in and kill you unless you neutralize them with a paper before they're triggered. The firing angles of your papers are also far less predictable in Paperboy 2, and some shots at those damned crows will take unnatural angles to break windows instead. It was a situation where I had to train myself to throw 2-3 papers at every crow in the later days to have every possible chance of neutralizing it before it costs me a life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdynebraskan | 356 Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 Adventures of Gilligan's Island is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryice | 587 Posted February 15, 2020 Author Share Posted February 15, 2020 6 hours ago, Tablew/chairs said: Finished Evert and Lendl Top players Tennis. Greart job! I know how boring that one can be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tablew/chairs | 242 Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 dance aerobics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NESfiend | 1,515 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 (edited) Eliminator boat duel is done. Holy crap that took a lot of tries. The last 3 races are ridiculously hard. But the game was so much fun up to that point, I didn't mind the 5 million tries. Great game. Edited February 16, 2020 by NESfiend Spell check 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel_Doyce | 475 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 Romance of the Three Kingdoms is done. I think this gets me the Koei crown again this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel_Doyce | 475 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 Forgot to mention I'll do Nobunaga's Ambition 2 next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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