Megu pets can apparently "starve" or die or something now, they have a Health Meter which slowly falls and only refills when you feed them. When it runs out, they're supposed to die.
What's the longest period of time my Megu pet will survive without food, assuming he starts with a full Health ba...
@LessPopMoreFizz Hmm... I guess that at least maintains the special exception. If I had may way, they'd all be tagged iOS, even when a game tag existed.
@EBongo Also, people haven't bothered to propose an alternative, but I'm not 100% committed to the policy I'm proposing - I'm fairly adamant about the problems with the status quo, but I'm perfectly open to alternative tagging schema
@Brant Both of those latter two are actually synonomized to ios.
Yes, well I wanted to discuss. I don't really want to propose a full alternative, I agree with most of what you have. It's the iOS special case that I'd like to see partially changed.
I had a separate thought too though. If questions are not platform specific, then who get's the check? Up to the OP of course, but in cases where the answer varies by platform? I suppose you intend to cover that with split game tags though.
@EBongo Check means it helped the asker, not that it is the 'best' per se.
@EBongo split game tags should only be needed for cases where versions of a game are dramatically different.
Like, FF4->FF4 Advance-> FF4 DS are all very different games in a number of important ways and should have distinct tags for questions that are in some way not relevant across the various releases.
@EBongo 2) you are definitely over thinking it. I mean, what sort of console specific questions are we talking about here? I'd advise you to take a look at the existing uses of the platform tags. The vast majority of even 'appropriate' uses fall in to one of three categories:
After running all around the level, it is annoying to have to have each player run all the way back to the crystal. Is there any quick "ready up" button?
I'm looking for a solution specific to the Xbox 360 version of the game - not using an Xbox 360 controller on the PC.
When I'm setting defenses at the other side of the map, is there a way to activate the crystal from far away, letting me kill enemies at the gate without running back-and-forth?
a) questions about the games interaction with the platform itself. Examples include questions about save game migration, or installation, or interaction with specific hardware features, like Kinect. These questions should still receive the platform tag. nothing changes for them.
b) Questions that are basically normal questions, but the asker is attempting to narrow the range of available answers by ruling out answers that are specific to a particular platform, such as using the ps3 tag as shorthand for "I DON'T WANT A MOD".
@EBongo Arguable. However, platform tags are inappropriate, since a 360 controller can be used on the PC.
Unless the latter question were rephrased to add "when controlling the game with keyboard and mouse" and a new question were asked "with a 360 controller" for example.
But it could also be duped and phrased in such a way as to invite both answers.
In Oblivion, you could grab objects with the Z-key, or the Telekinesis spell.
I've tried the Z key in Skyrim, but couldn't seem to grab anything.
And then I see this:
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@LessPop_MoreFizz I think the addition of timeframe and geographic area is what trips people up. Like people closing questions because they ask about Montreal or a game that just launched
Then again, I don't like Too Localized for all kinds of reasons. There are very few questions that are legitimately closable as too localized that can't be closed for some other reason.
@EBongo You are competing against a terrible typist being smokscreened by autocorrect.
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@LessPop_MoreFizz Yeah. We were talking about it earlier, and @OrigamiRobot mentioned the close reason as worded right now is bad. Posted an MSO question about it where I was asked to come up with a better one
everybody needs to play breath of fire 5 it breaks all the rules and is awesome and totally not like any other breath of fire game and really very remarkable and awesome and short and great and cool.
@Fluttershy I hadn't even gotten to listing the Long-standing series' such as SMT, Persona, Suikoden, Kingdom Hearts, Ratchet & Clank, Jack & DAxter, MGS, Disgaea, etc
@skovacs1 Can't play Kingdom hearts, as my copy is loaned out to a close friend. Don't own Persona, Ratchet, or Jak... Do still need to beat Disgaea though.
Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter, known in Japan as , is a PlayStation 2 (PS2) game originally released on November 14, 2002. It is the fifth role-playing game (RPG) in the Breath of Fire series.
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Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter is a role-playing video game that takes drastic deviations from previous games in the series, and is the first to be presented using fully three-dimensional graphics for both characters and environments. As players progress through the game, they must travel upward through a network of tunnels while battling enemies and collecting keys in order to advance. T...
@Wipqozn I already found the answer how to install it and launch it on youtube, but I figured it was worth putting here for handy SEO. Plus, I hate having to watch videos to get an answer. If you've already installed the mod and want to answer, here's the question for it
@LessPop_MoreFizz I agree with this statement. And you can get it really cheap. I think I picked mine out of a bargain sale for like $10-$20. If you want to order it, you can try estarland, I've had nothing but happy times ordering from them.
The use of scarcity in the game, the fact that every step you take counts... it's like a survival horror rpg in some ways
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@LessPop_MoreFizz It's on the list of things to get around to before the Eschaton. I have far too many unfinished and barely started console games on my shelf
if I remember correctly, that's the one where you find out that one of your companions is actually basically the second coming of god in the form of a giant talking onion.
In other words, like the other first 4 BoF games, it makes the J in JRPG bolder and more pronounced and obvious and total than any other JRPG ever.
@skovacs1 I didn't even know it ever got a PSP release.
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Really? I vaguely recall someone or something saying it was a PS classic. I picked it up on launch and never got around to even opening the shrink-wrap
@MarkTrapp a lot of people love the first 4 BoF games, but they are basically the most cliche'd jrpgs ever, and thats before you factor in that the series has a huge pile of it's own cliches and tropes that make even Final Fantasy's cliches look reasonable.
They can be fun, if you're into that sort of thing, as I was some 15 years ago, but it's definitely something very much for fans of the genre.
And the plots are, for the most part, enormously silly.
@AshleyNunn Breath of fire plots are dumb
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@LessPop_MoreFizz Don't they generally revolve around the main character becoming a dragon?
@MarkTrapp BoF 5 is cool because that ability is basically a tightly controlled resource.
You can use it any time as an instant I Win button, but the longer you stay in that form or the more often you use it, the closer you come to a game over.
So you have to ration it over the course of the game.
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Huh. When you mentioned scarcity, I thought you were talking about FF8's "abilities are essentially limited-use items" which sucked. But that sounds intriguing
I'd like to install and play the Day Z mod for Arma 2, but the web page for the mod doesn't give very specific instructions. Simply dropping the .rar files into the specified directories seems to be insufficient.
I'd like a step by step process for installing and launching this mod. I purchased ...
@MarkTrapp That said, the game also has a really clever 'new game plus' system of sorts, wherein a game over basically sends you back to the start with all of your levels gained and several other advantages - certain areas are only accessible by retraversing.
The save system is similarly scarce.
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@LessPop_MoreFizz That's pretty cool. I like games that do that, but you only really see that in arcade-y games
You get a limited number of 'actual' save games. You can suspend at any time, but you can only save in specific locations, and it costs a scarce token to do so.
@Fluttershy Actually that kind of surprise can be quite nice. I really liked the curry-flavoured ice cream, meat-flavoured juicy-fruit-style candy, and beer flavoured hard candy that I had in Japan.
@AshleyNunn I also had some violet-flavoured ice-cream too if curry's not your thing. I am personally not terribly fond of any curry except the Japanese curry, which is sweet and rich and delicious.
@AshleyNunn Yes. Not bad. I had something similar at some special 300+ ice cream place in Vancouver (the garlic ice cream was interesting there, but their curry ice cream is the indian variety so I wasn't really wowed by it).
Despite my best attempts, my hireling died. Alas poor meatshield, I knew her well. It does not seem that her equipment dropped when she died. Is it lost forever? If I hire a new hireling will the inherit her equipment?
@IanPugsley I joined a server that was 4/5 on players. Loaded up, had to select my starting class 5 times before it finally selected something other than what I was clicking on. And, somehow, I was the only person on the server...
The Witch Doctor's corpse spiders were awesome but attacking enemies directly with them was silly. Placing them between you and the enemies was much more effective, but if you just clicked normally you'd wind up running into the middle like an idiot.
Apparently, the project the fans originally funded was a team deathmatch shooter using the source engine. Somewhere in development, the team decided "screw that. we're doing this instead."