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Jose Arcadio Bakendia wrote:also, no, not really, but i finally got my hands on a copy of nocturne

I've finished that game 3 times and would love to get the other 4 endings.

I will, however, not play it on Hardcore. Normal's hard enough, even with the bullshit "cheat" I've found (it involves Daisojou and using a combination of "meditation" and "prayer" to keep everyone alive, along with Shiva having victory cry).

Daisoujou is easily the most unbalanced demon in the game. Stacking pretty much the best healing, expel, death and drain abilities in the game on a level 30 demon? Then have it immune to all ailments and insta-death abilities?

I tried playing the game through on hardcore. It's rather scary, especially when the high-end almighty skills start doing full damage to your party. Even with pretty much a full party of Fiends, the Beelzebub and Metatron battles were more or less a coin-toss of not getting one-shotted by a chain of their unique attacks. I gave up after getting pasted by Baal Avatar, I didn't feel like going back and trying to grind another five levels to stand a chance once she summons her little helpers.

I shudder to think of what Strange Journey's Hard Mode would be like. Asura Roga and Disaster Cycle are brutal enough as-is, and I don't see how they could make Mem Aleph and MA any rougher, apart from rigging the DS to electrocute you.

EDIT: Final boss's attack list:

Fire, Ice, Lightning, Wind: elemental spells at about the same power as Megidolaon

Light, Dark: 100% effective expel and curse

Mother's Kiss: 4-8 hit massively powerful physical

Reason's Start: slightly heals boss and nullifies all buffs/debuffs

Great Flood: almighty damage to all and debuffs agility

Disaster Cycle: hits entire party with range of status effects

Asura Roga: rages entire party

Mem Aleph: instantly returns all demons of one alignment to storage

Her second form gets shifting resistances and

MA: instantly kills without recourse to expel or curse and heals boss for HP of target. Hope it fails.

Some day, when I've accomplished every other goal in my life, I'm going to go back and actually try and beat both the Demifiend fight from Digital Devil Saga and the Satan fight from Digital Devil Saga 2.

"Alright... things aren't going too badly, I'm still alive despite..."
*Pixie casts Recarmdra*
*Pixie sacrifices herself, Demifiend regains full health and mana*
*Demifiend casts Gaia Rage*
*Your party has died*
*Controllerthrow*

ummm...did Adam just troll his own board? I have the sneaking suspicion he's been Shroomicized to the quadruplespeak debate strategery.

Count Chocula wrote:ummm...did Adam just troll his own board?

Nope.

Djinnkitty83 wrote:Some day, when I've accomplished every other goal in my life, I'm going to go back and actually try and beat both the Demifiend fight from Digital Devil Saga and the Satan fight from Digital Devil Saga 2.

"Alright... things aren't going too badly, I'm still alive despite..."
*Pixie casts Recarmdra*
*Pixie sacrifices herself, Demifiend regains full health and mana*
*Demifiend casts Gaia Rage*
*Your party has died*
*Controllerthrow*

Well, you are, according to Nocturne's mythos, fighting the one guy who can kill God.

It's more like you're just a random encounter

boatman

"Acting against interests of == stealing property on a massive scale. And while I don't support propping up useful-idiot coupists as a response, the only reason that's done is because gunboating thieving governments is no longer acceptable.

The sad fact is there are a lot of honest authoritarians in the world and in most of it they run things."

lol

Yeah, I honestly don't know how to respond to that. SHould I make the socialist argument that governments should act in the interests of their people and keeping people fed and off the streets >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the profits of United Fruits?

Or maybe I could approach with the example of Vietnam, invading a country because you don't like an election because the guys might not ally with you (I wonder why)?

Or maybe I should ask if he thinks we should have actually invaded Egypt over Suez?

Which country was it that the CIA coup'd a little while ago because they were going to raise the minimum wage?

Haiti?

Don't know if that was the one I was thinking of, but it'll do perfectly, cheers you're a diamond geezer.

Happy to help.

He called you a geezer, Aaron.

You should demand honorable combat.

I don't feel like cleaning the guns again.

yeah that's the tiring thing about going shooting

its great and all that

but cleaning the guns mang

especially if you're trying to be awsum and shooting a whole bunch of them

its a real pain in the ass

that could be a reason i never really got into guns

takes too much fucking work to keep em serviceable

also couldn't aim for shit

As long as you don't use corrosive ammo (soviet surplus) I find it not to bad but if I do, the SKS piston has rusted to the gas tube by the time I get home.

jesus

Yeah, Have to pop it out with a hammer and a punch.

Then scrub the rust out with a brush.

gonna go do some archery tomorrow

less parts to clean i think

I remember archery being pretty fun, but it's a lot more tiring

(couldn't aim for shit with a bow either )

Three words: Black powder musket.

Cleaning that shit is one thing I don't miss about reenacting.

when you were shooting guns did you get actual instruction or was it like "hey here's a rifle there's a target go nuts"

i took marksmanship as a class in high school for 2.5 years so i'm curious

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