phantom_leo said:

HOLY CRAP!

Monster Hunter Tri becomes ALL SORTS OF AWESOME when you go online!

It's AMAZING to begin with in the single player...

...but when you quest with other people...

W-O-W ! ! !

The impossible becomes possible... (I finally got to kill a Royal Ludroth. TWICE!)

...you get all sorts of drops online... (I got the materials for the R. Ludroth armor, save one piece!)

...and now I'm hoping to be able to take him on OFFLINE!

Not only was the online ABSOLUTELY LAG-FREE and FLAWLESS,

but it makes the single player experience better TOO!

This is one of the best online experiences I have E-V-E-R had with a game...

...and I say the following in ALL SERIOUSNESS:

If you like (online/quest/mmorpg) games and you DO NOT play MHTri,

you are missing out on one of the best games OF THIS GENERATION ! ! !

Just as a follow up. Yes, after going online and getting enough drops to forge the armor depicted above, I WAS able to go back to the single-player and beat the Royal Ludroth by myself!

I'm wondering if it would benefit me to eventually forge ALL the monster specific armors...? The Rhino guy has a diver (big daddy-like) helmet that gives you great water protection amongst other things. The Big Bird armor is strong against Fire, Ludroth is good for water...

I could NOT beat Ludroth 'til I got this specific armor! Specific elemental resistance is probably MORE IMPORTANT in this game than your Defense stat...

The biggest fact I love about this game is: You can go alone and you CAN succeed, with enough persistence. Going online IS NOT mandatory --BUT-- doing so makes the game itself that much more exciting --PLUS-- it makes single-player more enjoyable too. It's not FORCED on you... I'm typically NOT an online gamer... but Monster Hunter Tri successfully MAKES you want to go online --AND-- as for Nintendo's typical non-existent online presence, THIS game does a complete 180 in its face and trumps almost EVERYTHING ELSE out there on a CONSOLE currently!

AWESOME!

phantom_leo said:

HOLY CRAP!

Monster Hunter Tri becomes ALL SORTS OF AWESOME when you go online!

It's AMAZING to begin with in the single player...

...but when you quest with other people...

W-O-W ! ! !

The impossible becomes possible... (I finally got to kill a Royal Ludroth. TWICE!)

...you get all sorts of drops online... (I got the materials for the R. Ludroth armor, save one piece!)

...and now I'm hoping to be able to take him on OFFLINE!

Not only was the online ABSOLUTELY LAG-FREE and FLAWLESS,

but it makes the single player experience better TOO!

This is one of the best online experiences I have E-V-E-R had with a game...

...and I say the following in ALL SERIOUSNESS:

If you like (online/quest/mmorpg) games and you DO NOT play MHTri,

you are missing out on one of the best games OF THIS GENERATION ! ! !

So... it's like PSO.

(In terms of how awesome it is)

Dvader said:

So... it's like PSO.

(In terms of how awesome it is)

NOT. LIKE. PSO. AT. ALL!

By the way, here is a screen-shot of me in my latest armor fighting a herd of Qurupecos!

Dvader said:

So I am allowed to buy something and rent it out or do as I please with the product.

Actually that's not true at all. If you buy a dvd or movie and start renting it out to people for cash you could get in real trouble. Even schools break some laws when they air a dvd for a class without permission as it's classed as a public performance. You essentially have a licence to use a product in a certain way.

phantom_leo said:

...my own personal "Holy Grail" for the last month is now in my possession.

I now own a Black Nintendo Wii.

I have a very specific plan for this one, though.

At the twilight of the Wii's lifespan, I plan on going ab-so-lute-ly nuts, downloading everything/anything from the VC I can fit on a Mem Card and in the system's memory and making this particular Wii a complete history of the 8 and 16-bit games I loved when I was a kid.

Since the VC involves no moving parts and I don't plan on playing any disc-based games on this Wii... this library will be a solid-state, gaming museum for me for as long as the hardware lasts!

"The Saga of Leo and the U.S. Black Wii"

--Fin.

I salute you man.  That is a great idea.  It's so funny how uninformed the general public is.  Reasonable, but still funny.  This tweet just in:

princessa1987‎: I'm so upset!! The new wii came out today...its sleek black and comes with more stuff and its only $200!! I shouldve waited

robio said:

I'm curious to hear what you think about FFV.  That game was a major obsession for me. So much so, that after learning about it I paid $90 for a Japanese Super Famicom cart back in 1997 for it and downloaded the script for the game.  And when it finally got a quality release in the US with FFV Advance I was all over it once again. It's probably my favorite FF game of all time.  

Well, I think it is a magical game.  I particularly like the presentation on the GBA, just as I did the other GBA adaptions.  I particularly like the touches like Bestiary and equipment optimization.  The script is pretty infantile, but the structure of the story itself it very good.  I was listening to the trigames.net podcast and on there they had a suggestion from a listener that FF4 should be converted into a full-on current day game, and the hosts argued (rightfully in my view) that the story would not hold up as there are a couple of places that are just straight out dumb.  However, FF5 would be able to hold it's own as an action sci-fi film IMO.

The gameplay is challenging, that is for sure. You have to pay attention to the individual bosses and the random enemies are interesting enough and spaced out enough that it is not a battle every two steps.  The internal level designs are good as well with minimal backtracking and common sense mazes and switches.

So I love it.  The only pain it brings me is that 3 and 4 were not brought back in this fashion (instead they are in their bobble-headed, slow-paced formats).

Dvader said:

So last night I was cruising around Miami and the radio so happened to be playing a bunch of songs from the Vice City soundtrack. Then I saw some cops fly past me, sirens on to who knows where to stop who knows what. That moment felt like GTA Vice City... well I wasn't a drug dealing criminal who stole a random car and was packing a bunch of guns, but still close enough. I live in Vice City, that's pretty cool. Except for the 90 degree weather in SPRING, wtf, damn its hot.

Were you wearing a pastel jacket with the sleeves pushed up to your elbows?

From what I've seen of it through video games it seems like a nice place.  But I bet it's over run with tourists etc... no?  Is traffic bad?

aspro said:

This tweet just in:

princessa1987‎: I'm so upset!! The new wii came out today...its sleek black and comes with more stuff and its only $200!! I shouldve waited

I too feel I should have waited the 4 extra years! DAMN YOU NINTENDO!