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To add to the Rakuten deal, it can be used with any one item that is $50 or more. So you can grab $50 PSN for $40 (since they charge $54.99 for it, which is dumb), etc.

 
mitch079 said:
I wonder if crunchewy is going to miss the $35 PS+ subscription on Rakuten this time. https://www.cheapassgamer.com/topic/338515-rakuten-after-visacheckout15-code-1-year-gaming-cards-ps4xbox-one-controllers-at-35-each/

Use paypal.
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No I did not. :) I used visacheckout, so you don't have to use paypal. I also got the "super points" via that other code.

EDIT: according to how the code is described, you have to use visa checkout. But if it works with paypal than that is bullshit, so I don't know….

 
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uglypete said:
I like how people get annoyed with the Destiny talk but certain people in here write essays about games only they're playing.
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you're right, it does look like the trophy list for tales of hearts r will be quite a grind - usually there's at least one knucklehead that races to the plat but I haven't seen anyone pick it up yet! the story is still pretty good if you're in to that sort of thing, but I feel like it's about to start dragging pretty hard. I think I'm at about level 30 out of a max of 200? gross.

also, ac:unity update: I'm about to totally jinx myself but somehow I have managed to not glitch out on any of the glitched trophies. I'm also up to 4 or 5 sync kills in coop (which still sucks). there's purportedly a big quality of life patch incoming soon so we'll see if things get better. I'm going to bum around and do all the side stuff in the meantime because I find it mysteriously relaxing.
 
MildObstruction said:
you're right, it does look like the trophy list for tales of hearts r will be quite a grind - usually there's at least one knucklehead that races to the plat but I haven't seen anyone pick it up yet! the story is still pretty good if you're in to that sort of thing, but I feel like it's about to start dragging pretty hard. I think I'm at about level 30 out of a max of 200? gross.

also, ac:unity update: I'm about to totally jinx myself but somehow I have managed to not glitch out on any of the glitched trophies. I'm also up to 4 or 5 sync kills in coop (which still sucks). there's purportedly a big quality of life patch incoming soon so we'll see if things get better. I'm going to bum around and do all the side stuff in the meantime because I find it mysteriously relaxing.
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Nice post, but it needs more The Evil Within.

 
People can talk about whatever the hell they want, but we should also fight over what should be talked about, because that is what we were meant to do.

 
MildObstruction said:
you're right, it does look like the trophy list for tales of hearts r will be quite a grind - usually there's at least one knucklehead that races to the plat but I haven't seen anyone pick it up yet! the story is still pretty good if you're in to that sort of thing, but I feel like it's about to start dragging pretty hard. I think I'm at about level 30 out of a max of 200? gross.

also, ac:unity update: I'm about to totally jinx myself but somehow I have managed to not glitch out on any of the glitched trophies. I'm also up to 4 or 5 sync kills in coop (which still sucks). there's purportedly a big quality of life patch incoming soon so we'll see if things get better. I'm going to bum around and do all the side stuff in the meantime because I find it mysteriously relaxing.
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How far are you story wise in ToH? I finished up the tower race segment last night and it seems like they're finally starting to get into the actual conflict of the story. Kind of interested in seeing where it goes. But yeah, the trophies for this are really grindy. Just kind of happy they didn't go the Vesperia route and make it so you have to magic lens every single enemy/boss in order to 100%.

 
At this point I don't even pay attention to the trophies in jrpgs. Most of them are ridiculous grindfests, so I just enjoy the game and move on.

 
Sagemoon said:
How far are you story wise in ToH? I finished up the tower race segment last night and it seems like they're finally starting to get into the actual conflict of the story. Kind of interested in seeing where it goes. But yeah, the trophies for this are really grindy. Just kind of happy they didn't go the Vesperia route and make it so you have to magic lens every single enemy/boss in order to 100%.
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Tales games tend to have grindy achievements/trophies. Vesperia, Graces f, Xillia, Xillia 2, Symphonia, Dawn of the New World... :joystick:

 
I THINK I just finished off the gigantic offspring of a human and an Angel with the Holy Laser of God, but I can't say for sure....

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That $15 off of $50 coupon should work on other stuff like PSN cards. It's $15 off $50. So $50 PSN money for $35. I imagine you can only use it once, but I didn't try again.

 
I stayed up way too late finding the remaining play set challenges I needed, but finally came away with that Disney Infinity plat. Pretty enjoyable getting a lot of those trophies with my son. Though the Pirates play set definitely could have benefited with a map. fucking hell.
 
Zimm108 said:
I stayed up way too late finding the remaining play set challenges I needed, but finally came away with that Disney Infinity plat. Pretty enjoyable getting a lot of those trophies with my son. Though the Pirates play set definitely could have benefited with a map. fucking hell.
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Is that the one you did the challenge trophies in? Guide said it's the easiest and has the fewest amount of challenges.

 
Crunchewy said:
What the hell is that game?
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El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron. Seven Angels said "screw heaven" and built a giant tower on Earth for them and their human followers (who they fornicated with to produce Nephilim, the bulbous offspring of a human and an Angel). Now God has sent his holy scribe to defeat the Seven Angels, their followers and capture them. It's basically Devil May Cry, except with Heaven instead of Hell, but even more surreal.

 
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Also, I had something weird happen while I was playing Disney Infinity last night. I was put back into the Toy Box after finishing up a mastery adventure, and was put into the default blank toy box. Saved over my autosave as well. Save shows 2 minutes playtime, so it just started me over for some reason. Still have my manual save though, so no harm done.

 
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Seven Angels said "screw heaven" and built a giant tower on Earth for them and their human followers (who they fornicated with to produce Nephilim, the bulbous offspring of a human and an Angel). Now God has sent his holy scribe to defeat the Seven Angel's followers and capture them. It's basically Devil May Cry, except with Heaven instead of Hell, but even more surreal.
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I was on the fence with this game for awhile before eventually just deciding to skip it. Do you like it?

 
Backlog_Overload said:
Is that the one you did the challenge trophies in? Guide said it's the easiest and has the fewest amount of challenges.
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Yeah I got the challenge trophies by doing all the Pirates ones. They're aren't that bad and there's not many of them like the guide says. The hardest part is finding the damn things on all the various islands and ports without a world map. Thankfully I found one, but much later then I should have.

Also just realized that Infinity is my new rarest plat.
 
Zimm108 said:
Yeah I got the challenge trophies by doing all the Pirates ones. They're aren't that bad and there's not many of them like the guide says. The hardest part is finding the damn things on all the various islands and ports without a world map. Thankfully I found one, but much later then I should have.

Also just realized that Infinity is my new rarest plat.
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It's a very simple game with nothing special about the gameplay, but I forgot how fun it can be at times until I started it back up last night. Gotta get my kid back into it once LEGO Batman 2 is done. Then we have to start LEGO Marvel and Skylanders Swap Force when Christmas rolls around. We'll probably plat LEGO Marvel, not sure on Skylanders yet. Haven't looked at the trophies very much.

 
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Tyler also responded to a PM yesterday. Once. He's supposed to be changing the thread title to note that the Spelunky tourney is back on starting tonight. Hopefully people have gotten the word via the thread.

 
All this Infinity talk.  Where is the best place to buy it now?  My daughter wants it this year.  Should I get 1.0 or 2.0?  I really dont feel like going through the main deal page thread. 

 
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Sagemoon said:
How far are you story wise in ToH? I finished up the tower race segment last night and it seems like they're finally starting to get into the actual conflict of the story. Kind of interested in seeing where it goes. But yeah, the trophies for this are really grindy. Just kind of happy they didn't go the Vesperia route and make it so you have to magic lens every single enemy/boss in order to 100%.
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I just got the [customspoiler="spoiler"]robot dude[/customspoiler] in my party. story is definitely on the better side of jrpg I've played and I liked the battle system in Vesperia so I assumed I'd like this (and was right!). I've been trying to cook after every fight and get as many chase links/parrys in as possible but I can't imagine I'll hit the cooking lvl99 / 200 parry / etc trophies but having those extra little tweaks to the battle system really make it work so it's fun to try for them regardless.

my biggest complaint remains that it looks like they used seven colors in the making of this game and they're all really bland.

edit - goddamn spoiler tags can eat one. destiny sounds like a lot of fun.
 
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pharmacrest said:
All this Infinity talk. Where is the best place to buy it now? My daughter wants it this year. Should I get 1.0 or 2.0? I really dont feel like going through the main deal page thread.
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Black Friday:

Disney INFINITY: Marvel Super Heroes (2.0 Edition) Starter Pack

:360: $37 [Walmart]

:xb1: :ps4: :360: :ps3: :wiiu: $39.99 [Best Buy, Target]

At least Best Buy also has the same price for the "Disney Infinity: Toy Box Starter Pack 2.0"

 
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pharmacrest said:
All this Infinity talk. Where is the best place to buy it now? My daughter wants it this year. Should I get 1.0 or 2.0? I really dont feel like going through the main deal page thread.
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I'd ask Topside about which version you should buy since I think he's the only one that has played both. It really all depends on what characters your daughter likes though.

Also, keep in mind that 1.0 comes with 3 play sets, where 2.0 only comes with one that Topside said can be beaten in 4-5 hours. More content out of the box with 1.0, and of course it's cheaper.

All 2.0 characters can be used in Toy Box mode in 1.0 as well, if I understand correctly.

 
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Backlog_Overload said:
I'd ask Topside about which version you should buy since I think he's the only one that has played both. It really all depends on what characters your daughter likes though.

Also, keep in mind that 1.0 comes with 3 play sets, where 2.0 only comes with one that Topside said can be beaten in 4-5 hours. More content out of the box with 1.0, and of course it's cheaper.

All 2.0 characters can be used in Toy Box mode in 1.0 as well, if I understand correctly.
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But 2.0 > 1.0! That's a fact!

 
Backlog_Overload said:
I'd ask Topside about which version you should buy since I think he's the only one that has played both. It really all depends on what characters your daughter likes though.

Also, keep in mind that 1.0 comes with 3 play sets, where 2.0 only comes with one that Topside said can be beaten in 4-5 hours. More content out of the box with 1.0, and of course it's cheaper.

All 2.0 characters can be used in Toy Box mode in 1.0 as well, if I understand correctly.
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I would have thought 1.0 was cheap somewhere. But I cant seem to find it cheap anywhere. Have you seen it?

I would rather get 1.0 if it helps me stay away from Black Friday madness. People disgust me more than usual that time of year.

 
MildObstruction said:
you're right, it does look like the trophy list for tales of hearts r will be quite a grind - usually there's at least one knucklehead that races to the plat but I haven't seen anyone pick it up yet! the story is still pretty good if you're in to that sort of thing, but I feel like it's about to start dragging pretty hard. I think I'm at about level 30 out of a max of 200? gross.
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There's already a trophy guide from the Japanese version. Looks like you can do it on one run, but the best way to approach it is to beat the game, then use something that gives you 5x experience on a 2nd playthrough to make the post-game stuff a lot faster (like getting to 200.)

 
pharmacrest said:
I would have thought 1.0 was cheap somewhere. But I cant seem to find it cheap anywhere. Have you seen it?

I would rather get 1.0 if it helps me stay away from Black Friday madness. People disgust me more than usual that time of year.
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I'm actually not sure, as I got it not long after release for $13 during the Walmart.com price mistake extravaganza.

 
pharmacrest said:
All this Infinity talk. Where is the best place to buy it now? My daughter wants it this year. Should I get 1.0 or 2.0? I really dont feel like going through the main deal page thread.
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Chewy covered the where part, as far as which one, it really depends. The new one is apparently more focused on the Toy Box mode instead of playsets like the original one.

The first one had playsets in the starter pack for Monsters Inc, Pirates, and Incredibles. However, if you want to play it with her co-op your only option would be to buy one more character for each of those playsets (since the characters of a given world are the only ones allowed to play in a playset) or play Toy Box mode all the time. There is a box set of villains and another with side kicks so it is easy to get a second character of each but it will cost you more money of course. Since you have a girl, I will mention that there is no Frozen playset. So if she is all into Frozen your only option even on 1.0 is to get the characters and use them in the toy box mode.

The second one has 2 starter pack options: Lilo and Stitch or Avengers. The Lilo one only comes with Stitch so once again it would require extra purchases to play co-op on that playset I assume (unless it allows the Brave character who it also comes with to play in that world since it seems that requirement was relaxed some in 2.0).

Confused yet?

 
Backlog_Overload said:
I was on the fence with this game for awhile before eventually just deciding to skip it. Do you like it?
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It is growing on me, I know the combo system but I don't always know the combo system, I get the mechanics but sometimes I seem to be able to string together longer combos. There are 3 weapons, arch, which is staff type weapon of medium damage, gale which is a long range attack which gives you control over about 8 drones which you fling with your mind for weak damage, and veil which is your bruiser heavy weapon which is half a shield on each hand that is slow and high damaging. Each weapon is weak to another weapon, but you can only have one equipped at a time so if you are at a disadvantage you can stun the enemy and then steal their weapon in order to turn the battle in your favor.

Combat is controlled by how you press the attack button, you can rapid fire the attack button to do a simple combo, if you delay a 1/2 a second and then press the attack button mid-combo it will do a different attack (usually an attack from above) which breaks the enemy's guard, or you can hold down the attack button and release (this can also be done mid-combo) to do a charged attack. Once you do a charged attack if you continue to rapidly press attack, the follow up attacks will be different and more powerful than if you just strung together normal attacks.

Then each weapon has its own special attack which you can do by pressing R1 and attack. Arch is an uppercut which lets you do an air combo. Gale fires you and all your drones straight up in the air which knocks back all enemies in a radius around you. Veil has you charge forward with the shield together in front of you to bash them. Each weapon also has other special abilities such as a unique dodge move, the ability to glide after a double jump, block more damaging attacks, etc.

Traversing is basically a mixture of 3D arenas where you fight up to 3 enemies at a time (so far), 3d platforming, and 2D platforming segments. The art style is just beautiful and the framerate is rapid, 60 FPS or higher.

 
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GatorBeerGeek said:
Chewy covered the where part, as far as which one, it really depends. The new one is apparently more focused on the Toy Box mode instead of playsets like the original one.

The first one had playsets in the starter pack for Monsters Inc, Pirates, and Incredibles. However, if you want to play it with her co-op your only option would be to buy one more character for each of those playsets (since the characters of a given world are the only ones allowed to play in a playset) or play Toy Box mode all the time. There is a box set of villains and another with side kicks so it is easy to get a second character of each but it will cost you more money of course. Since you have a girl, I will mention that there is no Frozen playset. So if she is all into Frozen your only option even on 1.0 is to get the characters and use them in the toy box mode.

The second one has 2 starter pack options: Lilo and Stitch or Avengers. The Lilo one only comes with Stitch so once again it would require extra purchases to play co-op on that playset I assume (unless it allows the Brave character who it also comes with to play in that world since it seems that requirement was relaxed some in 2.0).

Confused yet?
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The Lilo and Stitch one you mention is just a toy box starter pack, no playset. Comes with Stitch and the girl from Brave.

 
MildObstruction said:
I just got the [customspoiler="spoiler"]robot dude[/customspoiler] in my party. story is definitely on the better side of jrpg I've played and I liked the battle system in Vesperia so I assumed I'd like this (and was right!). I've been trying to cook after every fight and get as many chase links/parrys in as possible but I can't imagine I'll hit the cooking lvl99 / 200 parry / etc trophies but having those extra little tweaks to the battle system really make it work so it's fun to try for them regardless.

my biggest complaint remains that it looks like they used seven colors in the making of this game and they're all really bland.

edit - goddamn spoiler tags can eat one. destiny sounds like a lot of fun.
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Ah okay. Haven't quite gotten that far yet. Met that guy, but had to stop playing right after. So far I'm enjoying this one more than Xillia, but I'm hoping after I knock this one out I'll be able to get back into Xillia.

 
Backlog_Overload said:
The Lilo and Stitch one you mention is just a toy box starter pack, no playset. Comes with Stitch and the girl from Brave.
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I thought I had read it comes with a Lilo and Stitch playset even though it is marketed as Toy Box Starter.

EDIT: The trophy list also makes me believe that since there is one trophy that seems playset dependent. You can get it either in a Thor world or Lilo and Stitch world. I assume they did that so you could get it with either starter pack.

 
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