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[SeverIan]

I played the first 2. The only good part of that entire shitslog was the final battle in Infection. I kind of thought the second game would be better after that, but it wasn't. The rest was incredibly boring. Thankfully I was borrowing them from a friend so I didn't pay for them.

//Sign has amazing music though. Possibly the games do too, but I don't remember.

[Shinori]

I can get a list of all the characters here later tomorrow and sorted by which game they are acquired in. Not only extra characters, there are multiple missions that require you take X player or X and y players.

[DualSilverGunner]

I started playing the originals after I played G.U., so it was kind of hard for me to get into it really. I beat Infection, but kind of lost interest at the Cubia fight in Mutation. Fuck Cubia. The game felt pretty clunky to me, coming from G.U.'s combos to the original's single hitting outside of skills; it just felt clunky to me.

However, I did love G.U. If anyone played it as religiously as I did, they would recognize my name-sake

Edited by DualSilverGunner, 09 August 2012 - 02:11 PM.

[Shinori]

xD I'll be playing the G.U. trilogy after I beat the first 4 once again. I'm playing through all of them and watching the anime to prepare to make a mafia and see if there is any possibility of making a draft for either of the game series. A GU draft might be interesting as well.

Side note I just beat cubia on my playthrough yesterday. One shot ;P Bring one melee and one caster and just tell them to either use melee or spells only. It's just obnoxious, not all that hard, especially if you use the buffs you can buy from shops, those REALLY help.

[nflchamp]

I like G.U. up to the point in the third where I have to spend, like, an hour just to get through an overall pointless dungeon to advance the plot to the point where I need to go through another overall pointless dungeon. It's like, "Why do I have to go to the end of a dungeon to talk to someone? Can't I just meet them at the beginning?" They could have least have something worthwhile to say after it, but no.

AKA, got bored.

[Shinori]

I like G.U. up to the point in the third where I have to spend, like, an hour just to get through an overall pointless dungeon to advance the plot to the point where I need to go through another overall pointless dungeon. It's like, "Why do I have to go to the end of a dungeon to talk to someone? Can't I just meet them at the beginning?" They could have least have something worthwhile to say after it, but no.

AKA, got bored.

Because this didn't happen whatsoever in the first 4 games either.

>.>"

>Show up at dungeon.
>See person you need to meet.
>Person runs off to the bottom floor even though they just needed to talk to you.
>You have to grind through all of the floors to find person.

[DualSilverGunner]

The Forest of Pain was even worse in that regard, considering you had to go through a 100 floor dungeon just to talk and recruit a new character. That being said, the Forest of Pain, although completely optional, did close out the G.U. story, that is until The Returner OVA aired, and .hack//G.U. Trilogy took it's own spin on the canon.

As for the draft, I don't think I'd be able to participate. I have the 3 G.U. games in disk form, but my PS2 doesn't read wired controllers, and my wireless one broke. Even if it did work though, I'll be shipping my PS2 off to my girlfriend in a few days, so... yeah :/ I also think that balancing a G.U draft would be hard, because for the most part, there's only 1 healer throughout the 3 games, and she isn't always available either. Some quests you have to go with specific characters, which I guess you could work around. But some characters become unavailable mid game too, so you'd have to have to draft more than enough to compensate for absences.

[nflchamp]

Because this didn't happen whatsoever in the first 4 games either.

>.>"

>Show up at dungeon.
>See person you need to meet.
>Person runs off to the bottom floor even though they just needed to talk to you.
>You have to grind through all of the floors to find person.

Well yeah, but I don't remember it happening as often. I usually grinded looking for virus cores to unlock areas. Which I find a far better reason to go grinding than "Go talk to a person I don't really care about."


I also don't remember dungeons taking so long in the first set of games.

[HF Makalov Fanboy Kai]

Well yeah, but I don't remember it happening as often. I usually grinded looking for virus cores to unlock areas. Which I find a far better reason to go grinding than "Go talk to a person I don't really care about."


I also don't remember dungeons taking so long in the first set of games.

i remember in the first 4 games you could abuse speed scrolls and fairy orbs to quickly get done dungeons.

also i saw sure add in the extra characters, it'll surely bring more varity.

[SeverIan]

I'm surprised people are complaining about Cubia because I thought Skeith was much tougher. I think I had to revive characters from death during that fight.

[Shinori]

Skeith was tougher for me. Cubia wasn't a problem for me at all.

Fuck skeith. The first phase of morgana was harder than the second phase and what not cause that was silly. First phase gives you a run for your money, spams abilities, high damage. Yeah. Second phase. Just kinda....sits there. Low damage and doesn't spam abilities as much.

[HF Makalov Fanboy Kai]

Cubia's just a puzzle boss who requires you to bring an melee user along side mistral. sure he takes longer then skeith but he's not harder by any means.

[DualSilverGunner]

I think the reason why Cubia is deemed a much more annoying boss is due to the fact that it switches its resistances. Sometimes it resists melee, other times it resists magic.