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[Akura]

Shot down a massive flying carrier, declared my own city-state.

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Saint's Row the Third. Already played through the "good" ending. This one's the bad.

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I know that this is the non-canon ending, but at the same time, it looks like a good sequel hook... but not to Saint's Row IV. SR2 already confirms that the series takes place in the same universe as Red Faction, and in fact takes place within half a year of the miners' rebellion - evidence being that during one mission inside the Ultor facility, you hear them calling for Parker over the PA to "report to the mining division". I figure that the bad ending and Red Faction 2 are in an alternate continuity, and that Steelport eventually becomes the capital of the Republic of the Commonwealth, meaning that the player character is in fact Victor Sopot. A Steelport under 10-20 years of despotic rule actually would look like the city where RF2 takes place, and Magarac Island(which gets bombed in this ending) looks like a good place for Sopot to build that giant statue of himself.

[KingofstarrySkies]

...holy shit

[Arx]

>Mindgames
>Nef
>Turn 4
>Face, face, mind blast, mind blast, holy smite

Praise RNG.

Hearthstone.

[Itnetlolor]

I never thought a shrimpy little human being like me can terrify a creature so freaking large. I felt like one of the spiders in my house when they surprise anyone; though in this case, I was actually a lethal threat. I was actually chasing a colossus, which was also running away from me at full speed, around a level for much of the arena's area. With persistence finally paying off, I managed to ride it again, and pilot it back to a fighting area, and continue/finish the fight proper. It was fun/ny to watch.

Shadow of the Colossus

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(Colossus 12, I think)

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Of course, this was happening after it did some scaring of it's own towards me, and outsmarting me a few times, and landing a few lucky shots. But then I had my revenge with a good jump knocking out half of it's life. After it dropped me into the water and realized what I was up to, it turned tail and ran. In that process, I think it was also actively going to the other platforms and demolishing them with gusto too. It freaking knew what I was up to to the point of actively running like hell and limiting my options. I didn't think such a huge beast could run so damn fast in water.

[miauw62]

Was producing more faith than any of the American civs, AND more gold than the Europeans. I won pretty easily.

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Civ V, the New World Deluxe scenario.

Warlord is really easy, but the time I tried Prince I lost in such an unsatisfying way that im sort of scared of trying it again.

[Greiger]

Probably more stupidity on my opponent's part, but I was losing some pokemon triples.  My opponent had a darkrai, and while I usually can shut darkrai down faster than you can say 'Dark void', my opponent had brought the darkrai out later than I expected and in one of the off center slots, so my darkrai counters were either K.O'd or not in a position to taunt.

I was down to my rhyperior, Asleep and with low hp to be finished off the next turn, and my Zoroark disguised as a sceptile.  He had a Mega mewtwo Y, Darkrai, and Deoxys. 

He had already K.O.d my real sceptile, so it should have been really obvious that it was my zoroark.  Yet he kept attacking it with moves like psychic and psyshock.  Which zoroark is immune to thanks to it's dark type.   Allowing Zoroark to wipe the floor with all three.  Focus blasting and one shotting Darkrai, then night dazeing  Mewtwo and Deoxys into oblivion.

Pokemon AS, triple battle randoms

[EnigmaticHat]

I mean I've played a lot of Pokemon games and I've never heard of that ability, so... your opponent probably didn't know that was possible.

[Akura]

I mean I've played a lot of Pokemon games and I've never heard of that ability, so... your opponent probably didn't know that was possible.

Illusion is the signature ability of Zorua and Zoroark. It causes it to enter battle looking like the Pokemon at the bottom of your team list. Unlike Ditto's Transform or Impostor, moves and type are unchanged, taking a single hit breaks the effect revealing them for what they are - though immune effects don't break it(that should alert you anyway obviously). I'm not 100% sure, but I think the cry is also unchanged and that you can notice Zoroark for its cry.

[miauw62]

I won my first game on Prince as France. Culture victory, obviously. Started off Paris in a place with a huge amount of food (flood plains) and some gold, but little production aside from the gold. I managed to nab the pantheon that gives you culture and faith from gold, and settled a new city on the coast to secure some more gold deposits. My neighbors were the Netherlands and Venice, which I was in good standing with the entire game. A bit further to the north were the Indonesians, who I also got along with perfectly well. So I just developed a huge amount of culture, waiting before researching some early techs so I could rush ahead and nab wonders. My workers quickly improved all the area around my cities, so I sent them off to build roads in other civs for shits and giggles.

Some other civ founded the World Congress, revealing the civs I didn't bother to go looking for to be Sweden, China, Portugal, Spain, Zulu and India. Despite putting in basically no effort towards the World Congress, I could make a proposal, so I suggested and managed to pass Arts Funding. I traded my gold with all of the other civs for money while continuing to be friendly to everybody. Didn't fight a single war the entire game. I just kept doing what I was doing, more or less constantly building wonders in Paris while my second city gave me some support and storage slots for great works.

Going into Freedom, I was outculturing everybody and somehow also outteching everybody. The only civ which I wasn't quickly gaining influence over was India, who appeared to also be going for a culture victory based on his culture bombs against me. Sadly, he was obnoxiously far away so culture bombs took about twenty turns. So I focused on increasing my cultural output in any way I could instead (theming bonuses, nabbing artifacts from areas which weren't *quite* in other nations' borders, more wonders). This eventually worked! First win on Prince!

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Civilization V

E:
Also, Paris had 44 population at the end of the game, which seems slightly ridiculous.

[hector13]

Is Prince the "normal" difficulty? No bonuses for the player or AI?

[miauw62]

Yup. Was sort of scared to play it since the last time I did I lost in an incredibly frustrating way (just suddenly realising I was behind in everything and had essentially no chance). But things went well this time!

[hector13]

I do alright at that, I s'pose. I think you need a plan for what you want to do from the start, and need to know how to make some cashola while defending yourself. Don't think I've had a military victory yet, though I did have a fun time getting a diplomatic victory, and the one time I had a scientific victory I was racing against someone else trying to get a diplomatic victory. I beat them a few turns before the Congress met for the last time.

I tried King once. Only once...

[miauw62]

Yeah, the game where I lost I really had no idea what I was going to be doing. I guess I should try another victory on Prince next time...

I also got a really lame Pangaea continent. In my previous game (on Warlord) I got an awesome continent with a big inner sea and lots of segmentation, but this was just a huge blob with some islands to the side.

[Greiger]

I mean I've played a lot of Pokemon games and I've never heard of that ability, so... your opponent probably didn't know that was possible.

Illusion is the signature ability of Zorua and Zoroark. It causes it to enter battle looking like the Pokemon at the bottom of your team list. Unlike Ditto's Transform or Impostor, moves and type are unchanged, taking a single hit breaks the effect revealing them for what they are - though immune effects don't break it(that should alert you anyway obviously). I'm not 100% sure, but I think the cry is also unchanged and that you can notice Zoroark for its cry.

Everything you said is true, except the not 100% sure part.  I can tell you from experience that the cry matches that of the pokemon it's disguised as. 

Another neat thing visual gender will also match the poke yer disguised as, though gender specific moves like that one that charms a poke of the opposite sex use the zoroark's actual gender instead of the disguise.   I would troll people with a "male Talonflame" using attract on other male pokemon.  Was funny.

[Akura]

I mean I've played a lot of Pokemon games and I've never heard of that ability, so... your opponent probably didn't know that was possible.

Illusion is the signature ability of Zorua and Zoroark. It causes it to enter battle looking like the Pokemon at the bottom of your team list. Unlike Ditto's Transform or Impostor, moves and type are unchanged, taking a single hit breaks the effect revealing them for what they are - though immune effects don't break it(that should alert you anyway obviously). I'm not 100% sure, but I think the cry is also unchanged and that you can notice Zoroark for its cry.

Everything you said is true, except the not 100% sure part.  I can tell you from experience that the cry matches that of the pokemon it's disguised as. 

Another neat thing visual gender will also match the poke yer disguised as, though gender specific moves like that one that charms a poke of the opposite sex use the zoroark's actual gender instead of the disguise.   I would troll people with a "male Talonflame" using attract on other male pokemon.  Was funny.

What, not a flaming Moltres?