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Dungeon Siege 1 was quite cool. You had the freedom to do whatever you wanted, and IIRC you had the freedom to have your party do whatever you wanted. There were no classes, just melee, ranged, combat magic or natural magic. It had a somewhat interesting world, but the big thing was the freedom and no loading screens.

Dungeon Siege 2, IMO, just didn't really... work. It felt much less intimate and much more arcade-y. The camera was zoomed out more, the graphics were arguably worse (seriously, I wasn't sure I was actually playing a sequel), but the gameplay was probably a bit more refined.

Dungeon Siege 3's issue is that it's a Dungeon Siege game. They traded class freedom for a more personal story. There's pretty darn good graphics, decent voice editors, your actions have repercussions (though perhaps not that much) and its just neat in general. It's just not Dungeon Siege, which was all about class freedom.

I don't remember there being any other DRM than Impulse/Steam for DS3.

Nah, it's fine. I was still talking about Negima concerning

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The whole point of Negima was that it was a shonen adventure/fighting series disguised as a harem comedy.

Really? I thought it was Eichi disguised as a harem. Hence all the implies sex and making out.

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Quote from: Furtuka on August 27, 2013, 04:06:42 pm

What implied sex? That was like the one thing he didn't put in.

Sort of.

Lets just say it sort of enters the same arena as the Dorothy battle in Marchen Awakens romance. It isn't Tentacle rape, but you are meant to treat it like such.

Thought the "tentacle rape" comment was from one of the Negima OVAs, in which a clothes-eating tentacle monster attacks the cosplayer and humiliates and tickles her until she is saved.

okay new question from anime noob what about an anime about terroist and the heroes who try to stop them. {dear god i hope the NSA dosen't go after me for asking that}.

Yeah, you're pretty much looking for GitS right there. Spiral (or Uzumaki) may work as well. Actually, ACTUALLY WAIT. GUNSLINGER GIRL. You want Gunslinger Girl. Terrorism, Western politics, nitty-gritty, the whole shebang. Not sure about anime vs. manga, though. I know the manga version is great.

You may also be interested in Black Lagoon. It doesn't really deal with terrorism at all, but it deals with a lot of other topics you might be interested in that deal with a similar thing.

I will say he failed though. Mind you Marchen Awakens Romance went from "creative and possible going somewhere" to "Derivative and a slog" less then halfway through the series.

I can even say the EXACT moment this happened. It would be immediately after the Snow battle in the tournament. That was when the anime became irredeemable because it had no self-awareness.

I... I don't know what to say to that because I wasn't talking about Marchen Awakens Romance, and I'm not sure I know about a "Snow battle in the tournament" in Negima. The only time I recall snow is during one of Eva's training sessions for Asuna.

Quote from: Furtuka on August 27, 2013, 04:06:42 pm

What implied sex? That was like the one thing he didn't put in.

Sort of.

Lets just say it sort of enters the same arena as the Dorothy battle in Marchen Awakens romance. It isn't Tentacle rape, but you are meant to treat it like such.

He speaks of one of the OVAs, which is just more "lololololol look how many different ways I can screw with this universe I made and people will still enjoy it" by Akamatsu. Also, wasn't implied. I saw that OVA scene, and even though it was outrageous, it was also no rape. Obviously it was meant to make the audience think of it like tentacle rape, but there was no rape in actuality or ever implied by the scene. That scene was "Hey, here's a shoutout to all you perverts into this thing, and I can get away with it because I can."

Shounen's not dead. There's the Big Three with the Little Fourth (Naruto, Bleach, One Piece and Fairy Tail). Then there's the shounens that aren't nearly as widespread in popularity but are still considered great, like FMA.

Then there's the one that none of you are forgetting, one that clearly ushers forth a new glory age for shounen! It stands a top the mountain of pitiful corpses, and the mangaka sits on his throne, cackling with glee, whipping fans and editors alike, for all the power is his! That manga is Mahou Sensei Negima! That mangaka is Ken Akamatsu!

Because we all know the thing shounens have been missing the whole time were harem romance subplots involving 50+ girls! LONG LIVE TROLLMATSU!

But for-realziez, I feel like there's plenty of shounens that are doing just fine and so the genre is doing just fine. It's just about what they are doing with themselves being the issue (See: Naruto has so much backwards, nonsensical, ridiculous character development and anti-development, and lawlerskates!Bleach should have ended in its infancy).

I do want to check out Bakuman now, though. I'm concerned for the state of the art, and after reading through Hideaki Anno's stuff I'd like to see something (or someone) try to take a step in a positive (for the industry) step again.

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I notice only the support characters are taking wards. Is that still relevant or is what I've heard about everyone taking sight wards all the time forever true?

It's generally agreed upon that "Vision wins games." If you have the map revealed, you can see the enemy's movements, and if they don't place wards or if you remove their wards, they can't see what you do. That's free ganks, free escapes, free buff steals or free towers. The issue is that wards can be costly and take up an important inventory space. Supports are balanced such that they don't need as many items to be effective, and most of the items they buy are auras or other support-esque items. They also build gold-per-ten items and usually take the gold-per-ten runes to compensate for not getting much cs. That's why supports are mainly responsible for warding for their team. However, top lane and the jungler should also be buying wards, as the jungler can use it to help protect a lane or give better vision for an opportune gank or for counter jungling, and top lane needs that top brush at the river constantly warded as it can be very easy to get pounced on. Mid lane will also sometimes buy wards if they are getting harassed by the jungler or if they are winning the lane and fear a jungle gank that might even the odds.

And something I've basically been wondering, compared to what I heard from earlier which is "kill jungle mobs if you happen to be nearby them in the jungle". Is this void if there are junglers? From what I understand they hit pretty much all the jungle mobs possible pretty hard so I'd imagine taking potential gold/exp away from them is a bad idea, yeah? Just a random thought I wanted confirmation on.

The thing to take into consideration is that jungle camps have a respawn timer and your jungler isn't always going to be in the jungle. If you can kill the jungle mobs and have them respawn before your jungler would get there to kill them, then you're just maximizing the potential of the jungle. You'll sometime see blue's bot lane kill bottom golems while their top and mid help the jungler out at blue buff.

Still, the only person on your team that can really say when the jungler will get to those camps is the jungler, so you should always ask if it's okay to take one of the camps and not be upset if they say no.