Israel vs. Gaza round 99

[arus2001]

I remember playing NA PC beta, hating the game, and just overlooking it a bit until some folks convinced me to play on their server since I'd been doing beta blind solo. Ultimately, I never felt the game was perfect and definitely full of flaws, to which I believe Abyssea finally started addressing in earnest as a game you could more actively play as opposed to waiting to play. However, we also know SE intended to sunset the game at the time for XIV, which went on to bomb in its 1.0 iteration. With that genie out of the battle, the bit of backtracking they did with Adoulin and things like Voidwatch was rough and ultimately led to me peacing out because I just could not go back to HNMLS dynamics and all the cliques. Not to say XIV really won me over, either. I did like 3 months of 2.0 launch and quit shortly after they introduced tome gear because it operated completely in contrast to the idea of leveling all jobs on a character with time gating. Even then, I only looked back come Shadowbringers since people were praising the plot and I basically became one of those expansion launch hoppers since. I hated buff rotations in XI. That being XIV's combat as a whole just forever remained a big sigh since conditional play no longer really existed with hard things just being a dance.

Given experience with XI, XIV, and mobile games over time, I feel like I could make a bitchin' MMO that wasn't a predatory PoS if I had the means, but the best I can do is trawl the few XI 99 cap private servers that exist and hope they're more about custom content than replicating retail. Which is unfortunately a tall order since nostalgia has, imo, done way too much damage to the PS scene with 75 cap puritanism and the latent lack of content development that fostered.

[Ayn]

XI worked for that period of my life; grad school and a new state to live in, but I also felt like I could balance it better than the average person. Still had friends I went out with. Ironically the long HNM camps gave me time to do research and complete projects between windows, so hey. Got caught up in some of the nonsense, but on the flip side, made friends I still talk to this day and have met up with a few times (not as much in recent years as I'd like). I'd only played Everquest (briefly) prior and one or two others.

Perfect game? No. I would've been curious to see what a more refined vanilla XIV would've looked like. I want to like XIV, but not a fan of global cooldowns, and while the world is gorgeous, not too much incentive to explore it. I appreciate being able to solo more, but at some point I'd rather play an offline RPG. My biggest qualm (and one more personal to me) is that funnily, the only jobs whose rotations 'clicked' with me are tanks and one of the healers. . but I started feeling like I couldn't go into dungeons blind and would have to know them beforehand. Sort of killed the 'oh cool can experience this for the first time' during roulette finder. I am happy for the people that derive fun from it, and get it's targeting a different demographic.

I appreciate both games for different reasons, but I really would've liked to see what the rest of the XI storyline would've had.

Hm, guess I should boot up FFXI Braver again.

[arus2001]

I guess in XIV's defense they're actually looking to address some long-time issues like my tome gripe or the overworld being a nothingburger, but saying and doing are two different things so we'll see what they cook up. I don't think it'll change my overall approach to the game since I've yet to enjoy the types of endgame they produce, but a month is still usually enough to consume the story.

[Zealot]

I really gotta get around to finishing the story. Only thing left for me is Voracious Resurgence.

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[kuronosan]

Soloing goblin familiars with BLU was the best thing ever

[Mrbeansman]

My biggest gripe with XIV is how endgame is just whatever raid tier is out at the moment. I just want end game content that isnt just a series of boss fights like salvage.

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[Cail]

Dynamis was my favorite event

[Tymon]

Limbus for me. I enjoyed how bizarre it was.

[kisada]

i can't believe i actually fucking ran two dynamis runs a week for several years, looking back on it

[Roranora]

i can't believe i actually fucking ran two dynamis runs a week for several years, looking back on it

i'm tellin' ya, it's resume/CV-worthy. but the world doesn't know it is

[Drai]

how many relics/mythics are required to land a VP position I wonder?

[Melena]

Always and forever bitter about the ranger nerfs cause a party of all rangers and one bard could absolutely destroy

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[kisada]

i'm tellin' ya, it's resume/CV-worthy. but the world doesn't know it is

omg tell me how i do this

[Cail]

Always and forever bitter about the ranger nerfs cause a party of all rangers and one bard could absolutely destroy

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my relic bow weeps

[Dimmauk]

i'm tellin' ya, it's resume/CV-worthy. but the world doesn't know it is

If anyone ever had this on a resume or mentioned it, I would hire on the spot.

[Ayn]

Personally, I'd hire the one who had "Finished Battletoad on NES" on their resume.

[Melena]

Personally, I'd hire the one who had "Finished Battletoad on NES" on their resume.

What's the mount Rushmore of because fuck you, that's why difficulty on the NES

Ghosts and Goblins
Battletoads
Ninja Gaiden
Lion King?

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[Krandor]

The super hard level 2 in Lion King was SNES/Genesis.

Ghost N Goblins, Silver Surfer, Ninja Gaiden 2 and 3, Double Dragon 3 are all insanely hard.

Hardest game ever is arguably DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou, it legitimately took people 12 years to beat the game without using any continues.

[arus2001]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the NES was pretty notorious, especially the water level.

[Zealot]

My solution for the water level was always to sacrifice a turtle and then rescue them in the next level.

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