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[Iduno]

Yep. That's the way to do it when you're outnumbered by melee characters (who get a bonus against ranged) every fight.

[itisnotlogical]

DAAUUUUGH I MADE THE SAME MISTAKE AGAIN.

There is exactly one magically locked door in all of Champions of Krynn. It can only be opened by the "Knock" spell, which can only be cast by red mages, which can only be certain races and alignments. This door is near the very, VERY end of the game, in the second-to-last dungeon. It has the Dragonlance, aka the thing the setting is named after, aka you're not beating the game without this stupid thing.

In my first play-through I had a red mage, but they didn't know Knock and I didn't have any scrolls with Knock. This time, I don't even have a red mage.

I really didn't want to use Gold Box Companion to cheat again, but it looks inevitable. When I start Death Knights for the second time, I'll dump somebody and make a red mage. Pinky promise to myself. _{I'll probably forget again}

Champions of Krynn, aka "screw you for making your own party"

[Iduno]

DAAUUUUGH I MADE THE SAME MISTAKE AGAIN.

There is exactly one magically locked door in all of Champions of Krynn. It can only be opened by the "Knock" spell, which can only be cast by red mages, which can only be certain races and alignments. This door is near the very, VERY end of the game, in the second-to-last dungeon. It has the Dragonlance, aka the thing the setting is named after, aka you're not beating the game without this stupid thing.

In my first play-through I had a red mage, but they didn't know Knock and I didn't have any scrolls with Knock. This time, I don't even have a red mage.

I really didn't want to use Gold Box Companion to cheat again, but it looks inevitable. When I start Death Knights for the second time, I'll dump somebody and make a red mage. Pinky promise to myself. _{I'll probably forget again}

Champions of Krynn, aka "screw you for making your own party"

Dragonlance is somehow even more on rails than the rest of D&D. There's a reason they made their money just writing novels so the players couldn't make decisions.

[itisnotlogical]

I like the Dragonlance setting though, and for the most part I like the games. It's just that when they decide to be annoying, they are extremely annoying.

[Iduno]

I like the Dragonlance setting though, and for the most part I like the games. It's just that when they decide to be annoying, they are extremely annoying.

It has a lot of interesting ideas (unless you look too close to the weird Mormon ideals in parts of the setting), but it is very on-rails.


Trying the no item run of Slay the Spire. Attempt 600: "you're doing a great job of dodging all of those elite monsters that would give you items for winning. How's about a free tungsten rod as a reward." Me: Thanks...Fuck. Attempt 601: ...

Edit: I almost made it to the 3rd boss, and then the stupid 999 hp enemy who hits for 70 damage in their final round found me. As the silent, who has 70 hp.

[Eschar]

I became low on health during the 2nd level, starting level 3 with 13% health. I walked around the first corner and a Nazi one-shotted me.

The strategy of "walk quickly forward and then back out of sight so you can tell from enemy exclamations how many are there and you can pick them off as they come around the corner" works much better in Doom II (and also needs a shorter name.)

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 Wolfenstein 3D.

[pisskop]

like most fps games back before passive regen, i regularly played on hard and regularly went from checkpoint to checkpoint.  Remember, the only health point to count is the last!

[Akura]

Was informed one of the neighborhoods right near home was under attack by the Ballas. I race there, but my car catches fire. I try to ram it right at the group of Ballas trying to kill them in the explosion, but for some reason I can't bail, resulting me being killed instead. Since I had just done a fairly irritating mission, I didn't simply reload the save.

After that: the mission was going well, three of the Vagos were down and Smoke was getting hits on the fourth. Then I got clipped between the train I was chasing and one coming the other way. Lost half my health and the bike was dragged by the Vagos' train a good distance. Right as I recovered the bike, it happened.

"All you had to do was follow the train, CJ!"

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GTA: San Andreas. The second attempt was successful, the last Vagos being killed off the train just after entering the tunnel where the failure happened. Actually the easiest time I've ever had on that mission. Then after that, Denise called and yelled at me for ignoring her, and on the way to pick her up I capped a drug dealer for about $1200 which I really needed.

[itisnotlogical]

I walked into a cave. A few steps in, we triggered a trap that created a wall of flames. A gremlin walked by on the other side of the flames. All of my party members rushed into the fire and promptly collapsed into a pile of their own spilled guts.

I have a feeling this is going to be my new least favorite RPG combat system.

Ultima VII Part 1.

[Iduno]

I became low on health during the 2nd level, starting level 3 with 13% health. I walked around the first corner and a Nazi one-shotted me.

The strategy of "walk quickly forward and then back out of sight so you can tell from enemy exclamations how many are there and you can pick them off as they come around the corner" works much better in Doom II (and also needs a shorter name.)

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 Wolfenstein 3D.

Oh man, I'm starting to think about DoomRL again.

[Rince Wind]

I didn't play Multiplayer and I didn't do out of game stuff (which wasn't advertised ingame anyway), so my overall war readiness stayed at 50%. I thought it might have something to do with the difficulty, and it wasn't explained ingame, so I ignored it.
I died in the ending cutscene.
Who thought this was a good idea?

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Mass Effect 3

[hector13]

EA, obviously.

[Persus13]

I didn't play Multiplayer and I didn't do out of game stuff (which wasn't advertised ingame anyway), so my overall war readiness stayed at 50%. I thought it might have something to do with the difficulty, and it wasn't explained ingame, so I ignored it.
I died in the ending cutscene.
Who thought this was a good idea?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mass Effect 3

You can not die in the ending cutscene without doing either of those things though?

[Iduno]

Hitman (and Hitman 2) is a game of careful planning and timing. And I'm having a great time just dipshitting my way around. So far this last run, I screwed up trying to get a chef into a room so I could steal his clothes 3 times, then got seen and had to kill everyone in the kitchen, nearly getting caught, forgot to put on a disguise for a bit and got chased, carefully hid a body, but put the gun in someone's path (which I could have just carried, or paid attention), completed the last mission story for the level without getting caught (got caught the first time, because I didn't know what all of the steps were, or that I was drawing the target in) but only barely because the target's guards know what the other guards look like. Then I successfully lured and killed the other target, which apparently involved her guards standing outside, then entering the room as I was dragging the body towards the door (I could see people standing there, but didn't think about why that might be).

There were also like 3 other times I almost got caught, because I can't/don't ignore the temptation to push people off stuff or shoot every camera. Or ring the dinner bell while I'm sneaking around.

Even if I could figure out how to video my playthroughs, it would probably cause my PC to start on fire; it's not exactly a lightweight program.

[itisnotlogical]

I didn't play Multiplayer and I didn't do out of game stuff (which wasn't advertised ingame anyway), so my overall war readiness stayed at 50%. I thought it might have something to do with the difficulty, and it wasn't explained ingame, so I ignored it.
I died in the ending cutscene.
Who thought this was a good idea?

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Mass Effect 3

Mass Effect 3 is all about pyrrhic victories and a growing understanding that your fight is probably hopeless. It took everything you had to stop one Reaper in the first game, and the galaxy still hasn't fully recovered. Taking on the Collectors--not even a Reaper, just their flunky invasion force and a half-built prototype--was considered a suicide mission at the end of ME2. You're preparing for extinction as much as for the final battle. Shepard suffers frequent nightmares throughout ME3, possibly an attempt at portraying PTSD in an action game. The costs of victory, either potential or unavoidable, grow higher and higher as the game goes on until you're nearly burnt to a crisp and practically dragging yourself across the battlefield--potentially after watching two more party members die, on top of everybody else. It's not the game's fault that you expected an unambiguous, totally happy ending.

But IIRC you just need to get 100% single-player completion, or very close to it, and it's revealed you survived in a post-credits stinger. I tried once but it's a bastard with all the scanning sidequests.