Final Fantasy Hacktics

Haunted Castle...

Playing Fire Emblem over again after making Leila a playable Assassin lol and turning Priscilla into A better copy of Sonia and also making the enemie bosses have more equip so you can fight them for longer

I like Jaffar, but I don't like his stat gains because he is an "already promoted" unit. Is it possible to fix that up a bit? It would be so awesome to somehow change the "Tactician" into a (possibly faceless or used portriat) unit, like a level 1 Mercenary or something. I mean for real, in real life I would never, ever hide behind Lyn who is a girl, I would feel more like c'mon lets kick ass together. Zozma, are you hacking or game sharking? Is it possible to make the Tactician (you the player) a unit? This would make me play the entire game again

QuoteI will from now on go as a Dragoon with Volcaneous Spear (once I get it) and a bunch of curing herbs.

Hah, well, the biggest reason to use Knight instead of Dragoon is that their growths are almost identical but Knight's is slightly superior (in HP, if I remember correctly).  Maybe use a Dragoon for the last fights in the game so you can use the special spear to its fullest potential, but you'll need the best growths you can get to come out on top with only Alphonse.
Knight is the best for Strength growths, Ninja is the best for Agility, Cleric for Intelligence, and Valkyrie/Warlock for balanced growths.
Special characters with unique classes tend to have unparalleled growths, so changing them is stupid.  Special characters without tend to have a good headstart on generics due to never leveling as Soldiers, Ivanna in particular, so you can either have absurd Strength (for Ivanna) or absurd Agility (for Shiven) or you can swap them to Ninja or Knight respectively at some point for more balanced physical stats.  Orson is the exception as he has bad luck on the day you recruit him, and Archers have really bad growths.  So... he sucks.

I forget how to answer to get the "S Start" in stats, but 10 HP, 10 Str, and 4 Agi is really good compared to the others due to not wasting any points in MP, but since there are no Int boosting emblems at all, "I Start" answers are the best for spell casters with 10 MP, 10 Int, and 4 Agi.

I would personally go with the 23 Warlock, 20 Cleric, and 6 Ninja, though I have no idea how you answered the questions.  That build, when using Warlock, would provide you an MP costly power attack so you aren't constantly using up your HP to bring the hurt, and you could also take a couple support spells with you to try and incapacitate some of the enemies with Paralysis or Sleep so you wouldn't have to deal with them all at once, or Teleport for a quick getaway, etc.  The weakness is that it would NOT provide you with a ranged attack and it is incapable of using the heal spell.  Knight is definitely superior in that regard, though only so versatile in preparation, not in actual combat.  Of course, it can use a bow just as well as a Knight can.  And really, once you reach level 50, growths no longer matter for what class you currently use, so you can use those stats with any of them.

For the undead levels, all I can think of is turning him Cleric, giving him Banish, then running like hell and chomping down on MP healing items until he can start banishing them one by one.  I usually just make Eleanor a Cleric so she learns her special ability ASAP and then use THAT on the undead, but... you can't do that.

Sorry for not keeping up to date, I am fighting Naris(?), I totally forgot his name, Naris or something. I have Atropos, Alphonse is a Knight (this is ridiculous, but Alphonse practically MUST be a Knight, otherwise you will eventually run outta cash, and need to do book quests, trust me) and I have been fighting since available from Osteria with Farfanir the dragon killer sword and Atropos, I got the Ogre Helmet, Pheonix Armor and Warp Shoes. I made a discovery: Alphonse is immune to all status effects, including Petrify. You don't need any protection. Either that or I have been extremely lucky, which I doubt by now. Once I kill the General Naris(?), I will continue as is until its time for Shaher and then staying as a Knight equip the Longicolnis, because at level 50, it doesn't matter either way. I will try to get Clotho from the side quests before heading up the Angel Headstone. I don't have any characters in my army, I don't recruit either. With any money I get, I like to try to buy the best HP healing items, since Heal is under 10 MP anyways. All training is done hard core random battle style. I decided that early on. Thank you very much for the growth charts SilvasRuin!

Final Fantasy: Four Warriors of Light
Loving the oldschool-ness. ^_^

I would get that, Vanya, but I'm currently a little broke.  :/

Jon, I forgot to mention, those numbers are averages.  They can and will vary based on how good the character's luck is when leveling up.  Which is why recruiting soldiers on the last day with the best luck they can get is awesome.
I think you're right about Alphonse being immune to statuses.  Now that you've mentioned it, I'm wanting to recall that I read that was indeed true at some point.
Why is Knight better for finances?  Equipment availability?
I STILL want to know how you got past the undead.
Isn't the name "Fafnir", not "Farfanir"?

You're making me want to play the game again, only this time I think it might be fun to do an undead playthrough.  Hrm...  The game is most of the way over before you can get the necromancy spell, and I have no idea where my old Action Replay is.  I suppose procuring a digital copy and using VBA's gameshark utility could work.  But then, the undead are best made AFTER the character has lived a full "life" up to level fifty and THEN made undead as their growths suck oh so horrifically.  What do you think, play through normally until I can make an undead army, or use a cheat device to get the necromancy spell early on and then grind through training to get the entire party to level 50 and start making them undead?
I figure it shouldn't skew the difficulty much since I'd level Alphonse too and that doesn't do a thing to net me good equipment.  I COULD just not grind them to 50, but then they'd suck throughout the game and only serve to infuriate me.
Oh, and I will not include Liches in such a playthrough as they're just cheap, don't mechanically count as undead, and would defeat the purpose of using unconventional troops.  I might use Angel Knights as support units though...
It amuses me that Warlock would likely be best for such a playthrough.  Or Wizard for a long range spell as well rather than only a couple undead supports...

Play it again You'll see quickly why Knight is the best on the battle field if you do a SCC. Remember, for a few turns you might be able to run away from the enemies, but eventually they will surround you and pound you into the ground, which for one thing a Wizard can't handle. I have no idea how the name of Farfinir or whatever its called is spelled, I write from bad memory haha. To get to 50 the quickest is to do a SCC, takes about 10-12 game hours to get Alphonse up that high, well at least for me, I was 45 before Osteria Castle. Also, if you want undead, you pretty much are limited for humans to Ghosts (with no special weapon), Angel Knights (which aren't undead but they ARE! lol), or Liches which I agree can be cheap, but the most you can have are 3. Also Summoners are cheaper. I believe Alphonse cannot become undead, correct, unless you game shark him, which would be sorta cool...Another thing: you get 3 Rings of the Dead, meaning 3 possible Liches or Dragon Zombies, but as we know you can get 2 level 30ish DZs from the battle with the monster guy that cursed God because his sister died. Also also, try this: SCC with Alphonse to level 50, save your money by being a Knight the entire time, and maybe recruit then at 50 a few level 1 Soldiers and then train them? This will make critical hits impossible though...good luck!

I'm playing FFT wotl psp.

Sharking Alphonse into a ghost would break the game, I'm pretty sure.  As in crash at the first cutscene I come across after doing so.

I'm well aware of all the secrests in the game.  I'm mainly just trying to decide if I want to go through so much trouble to use Ghosts and Dragon Zombies all the way through the game, or if I should just make due until I can do the Quest that gets me the spell to make them.

But that doesn't matter anyways, for now.  Someone's finally talked me into trying Minecraft and I'm pretty sure it's going to wind up eating my soul or something.

Just to say one last thing on the topic of Tactics Ogre Knight of Lodis, if you had a whole bunch of undead units, it will be very difficult I realized to actually finish the game because of all the Angel Knights with Banish, the 1 hit kill forever for undeads. The last 3 battles are loaded with Angel Knights, and after 3 turns if they all aren't dead, you will start seeing permanent unit loss.

Bait their Banishes with Ramza.  Get them to kill his MP instead while they hang back.  It would risk getting a gameover with his defeat though...

Ha, with Alphonse you mean >_>

That is an extremely interesting typo.  I know I made it when really tired, but I'm not quite sure why.

Star War: The Force Unleashed II (Wii)
I like how they made the combat simpler to give the story more emphisis.
The endings practically beg for a third game.

Just finished Halo: Reach on legendary and have no interest in playing it again, not even on XBL. Gameplay is way too similar to the others, zzz ive played this before

Quote from: "Voldemort"Just finished Halo: Reach on legendary and have no interest in playing it again, not even on XBL. Gameplay is way too similar to the others, zzz ive played this before

you didn't notice that after the first one?

Quote from: "Samuraiblackbelt"you didn't notice that after the first one?

Halo 2 is worth playing just for the dialogue.

Minecraft.
18 buckets of lava, 1 bucket of water, I lost track of how many coal I had a long time ago, 20-something steel, 4 Steel picks, lots of redstone, but I've still not even seen a speck of diamond yet.  Sucks because I've found plenty of natural obsidian.

Spawn point in a snowy biome, kind of near a beach.  I built a glass walkway around the spawn point and up a nearby cliff to my home behind a natural waterfall.  I would be hollowing out the entire mountain and expanding my base, but I'm too busy exploring a massively deep natural cave I broke into.

Quote from: "Samuraiblackbelt"

Quote from: "Voldemort"Just finished Halo: Reach on legendary and have no interest in playing it again, not even on XBL. Gameplay is way too similar to the others, zzz ive played this before

you didn't notice that after the first one?

nope

Halo 2 plays VERY differently from Halo 1

Halo 3 was a nice throwback to Halo 1, and then so was ODST and Reach