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  1. Phazael

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    Was thinking of DS2 for a moment. Derp on my part.
  2. Phazael

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    Once you have cleared Two Princes (or gotten the backdoor elevator to them) farming that long stair run in reverse is really easy and great XP. I generally always farm it to extinction on plays of DS3. The DLC with the giant underground tomb also has an area with big black chompy guys who are...
  3. Phazael

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    Most one trick builds (read PVE) can beat the game fairly easily at around 120-130. Its mainly double dip builds that need a little more if you are just casually beating the game, mostly combo casters that want two really high stats. There are a fair number of weapon centric builds where just...
  4. Phazael

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    Once you have beaten the game a couple times, don't bother with "conventional means". Its just grinding time. And if you sploit the Caelid dragon early on, thats enough of an initial buff to make you not even desire hitting the Birdfarm for a long ass time. But if you are like me and on your...
  5. Phazael

    Favorite albums of all time?

    As an old fart, most of my top ten list is going to be dominated by classic rock (I will leave classical out of this since the thread is about albums) but I do have something from most decades in here and a lot of styles. For something to be a top ten for me, it has to be something I will play...
  6. Phazael

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    I am a console peasant, but the Demons Souls remaster for PS5 was amazing. I would love to see the other three games done to that standard.
  7. Phazael

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    The Nameless King fight is the pinnacle of Souls games, in terms of the music, boss design, and look. The actual fight mechanics are pretty difficult too, but not in a frustrating way. The DLC fight with the scythe swinging wench and grandpa with his big flaming pot might be the only better...
  8. Phazael

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    Edge lords say shit like that mostly, but there is a subset of masochists who hate the QoL and open world of ER for whatever reason. I personally found the level design the worst of the games, except the DLC. It also had a lot of balance issues between builds and weapons (at least in PvE...
  9. Phazael

    Fallout

    If there is one person who can offer an expert opinion on if a woman actually wants to fuck a real dog, its gonna be Ossoi on this board. He has done the research. Also, women idolizing fictional characters in place or real relationships probably should be in the Incel thread.
  10. Phazael

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    That fight is actually really easy if you learn the reads on it. The AOE has a big obvious wind up and you can just run away from it. Its a fun fight once you understand it and bring the unga bunga to quickly crush the bracelets. If I remember right, the two hander you get from that fight is...
  11. Phazael

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    Its really down to personal preference for everyone. DS2 gets dunked on because the B Team did it and it had a wonkier world layout than DS1, but I personally like it second best behind ER (caveat is that this is with the DLCs in all games). The ones I like the least are Siekaro and BB, but...
  12. Phazael

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    DS1 had two main issues that persist (well, also Bed of Chaos boss fight was the stupidest encounter in souls history) to the present. First, once you have bonfire travelled in the other games, the long as fuck walkbacks before you get the Lord Vessel are fucking cancerous. The descent down...
  13. Phazael

    So My Wife Died...

    Jesus has it really been nine years? We are all getting old around here....
  14. Phazael

    Star Wars general purpose movie stuff

    Prequels are good only if you see them as a forward thinking Palpatine wanting to purge a bunch of religious kooks out of control of the galaxy and establish actual law and order. He is the hero and finally manages to break the hold of the child kidnapping religious secret society that were...
  15. Phazael

    What happened to..........(FoH Poster)?

    Mainly Lithose, but I actually found Hodge entertaining even though he went full lefty batshit near the end. Shout out also to the late great Gravy.
  16. Phazael

    The Fall Guy (2024)

    Derp you are correct. Well now we are down to one financially successful hit. Point, Majors. Minus DKP for me.
  17. Phazael

    The Fall Guy (2024)

    The Last Race is probably Lee Major's best film, but it was not his biggest commercial success. Similarly, Gossling's best films are The Nice Guys and probably BR2049. Both were not financially successful, but I bet more people will be watching those movies again down the road than shit like...
  18. Phazael

    Helldivers II

    This. If the videos that are out are all cut scenes and the only actual game play parts are menu screens or center piece boss fights, thats a red flag for me. Show me the main gameplay loop. Show me the mundane shit that I will end up doing for most of my time with the game. Don't show me...
  19. Phazael

    Helldivers II

    Nope. Google Sonyfornia. Right around the point in time where Drukman started letting Sarkesian peg him, a whole division got spawned off in the Bay area Blackrock and other financers who push woke shit started cutting loans to Sony and magically the power shifted to the gaggle of Bay area...
  20. Phazael

    Helldivers II

    People who are NPCs and/or otherwise incapable of independent thought do. I mean I have a couple critics I tend to trust, but even those I aggregate with this board and by looking for actual specifics on their rationale for their opinions. Basically, I mostly take what Critical Drinker and...
  21. Phazael

    Helldivers II

    And the timing could not be worse for them, so close on the heels of the Stellar Blade censorship drama. Amazing what Sony has become in such a short time.
  22. Phazael

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Not sure if this works on above tactician, but Raphael can be completely turbofucked by Hold Monster. If you diligently go around and grab all the +DC save gear and max all of the related stats and options, you can have a very high chance of landing that spell as well. When you know that...
  23. Phazael

    Dead Boy Detectives

    Its likely that this will set this up since Netflix is running the Sandman in his own show and next season of that is supposed to be Season of the Mists. Of course since its Netflix and not the Doom Patrol continuity, we got a pallet swap on the girl and the two boys are all but certain to be...
  24. Phazael

    Stellar Blade (April 26th, PS5)

    Its also only ever happening to Asian made games. Baldurs Gate 3 Eifel Tower with literal bear in the mix and TloU2 Quick Time cornhole the tranny event? Not even a peep. Make a female protagonist look attractive (and arguably more conservatively dressed than parts of those two games) and the...
  25. Phazael

    Fallout

    Sorry on that front, but too much fake and gay especially with Microsoft in the room now with this shit. Their hatred of Obsidian for making the best entry in the post FPS franchise is irrational and costing them fans, but they are intent on destroying their own IP rather than admitting they...
  26. Phazael

    Fallout

    The "they changed the lore" edge lords are all retarded. I am a bonofied expert on the fallout lore (and was even friends with one of the leads on FNV) so believe me when I say I was scrutinizing shit for them changing the core lore. Everything they did in the show does not conflict with the...
  27. Phazael

    Fallout

    Everyone seems to forget that if this takes place shortly after FNV (seems very likely) and they are going with the fall of NCR ending from FNV, the NCR had a restored working power grid in the area around Shady Sands (shown in the end credits of FO2 and mentioned in FNV). So the more likely...
  28. Phazael

    Fallout

    Given the reactor tech the have, its pretty clear they would have the technical capability, especially if Robco, Poseidon Energy, ect were in cahoots with them.
  29. Phazael

    Fallout

    @Caliane The Muldover stuff is where the bulk of the flaws of the show and plot holes are concentrated. I hope they explain some of it in S2, but with the character being dead it seems unlikely. The biggest issue for me is her surviving as a non ghoul to the present time was never talked...
  30. Phazael

    Fallout

    Well if you look at the games and show, there are three possible starts to WW3. All of them revolve around the vaults to some degree. In the OG games and cannon, they talk about how the threat of WW3 lingered for so long that people became numbed and complacent to it. A lot of people who...
  31. Phazael

    Fallout

    This is accurate. The super mutants were basically sterile, like everything else made with the FEV.
  32. Phazael

    Fallout

    I honestly thing @GuardianX might not have played the games. The whole core idea of the setting of the games was a fucked up alternate time line where the world in general (and USSA in particular) never advanced culturally out of the 1950s. Thats fundamental to the tone and setting of the...
  33. Phazael

    Fallout

    What about the season finale is pissing people off exactly? I mean it felt a bit rushed and they did not really explain anything with the female antagonist and how she ended up in her present situation, but aside from that I thought it was pretty decent. Very on pitch for the actual setting...
  34. Phazael

    Fallout - New Vegas

    What Gav said. I replay the base New Vegas and DLC every couple years on my PS3, even though I need to restart it periodically because it still has a memory leak issue. Actual in game not bug related criticisms for it would be the overland areas could be a little more filled in with things and...
  35. Phazael

    Fallout

    ITs a dyke, a skinny butch one at that. No amount of made up bullshit woke words will change reality on that, Mr Orwell.
  36. Phazael

    Fallout

    I honestly am starting to think he did not play the games much and may not have watched much of the show. Aside from the butch alphabet squire lesbian, the woke shit was actually really minimal and things you would come across in the actual games. They elements of the world were very faithful...
  37. Phazael

    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    Wife and I actually rewatched Repo Man as well this weekend. All time classic movie. Then she wanted to watch Damsel, which while not complete shit was aggressively mediocre with what is normally top tier casting choices. I felt like I was watching a Uwe Boll tax write-off movie. Saw the new...
  38. Phazael

    Civil War (2024)

    You obviously have not been to Austin.....
  39. Phazael

    Goodbye Earth

    Searching for a Friend for the End of the World is probably the best movie or show on this topic. But basically, if the world knew it would be complete chaos before Giant Meteor came down to take the oath of office, at least in the cities. Just take a look at how Katrina played out for a good...