I was curious who people like pairing OX with to synergize his base power.
So far unity is my hands down favorite since you can trigger golems out of her play turn, but I was curious if there is any other combo that would be a better choice than her
He works well just after the adept uses vernal sonata, or if he's after dark visionary too after she uses turmoil, you could stop something incredibly painful from happening with the villain deck.
I'm disappointed. I thought this would be a post proposing a new sitcom starting Omnitron-X and friends. :(
I was thinking a show with OX, Firestar and Iceman.
I tend to use is power mostly on himself no matter what allies are present. At least up until he has a plating out and a few components, typically by that point I will be using one of his other powers though, like Rocket Punch or Bio-Engineering Beam.
Though if I am up against Miss Information I would use it on her every round until she flips! And depending on how well we are controlling the Dreamer I mar use it on her after she slips to get a few more Projections in play.
Argent Adept, like Unity, is another character who just wants to get out a bunch of stuff, not really caring precisely what. I like using it on him to reap the benefits of increased support efficiency.
I pretty much do this. I did however get rid of a Devastating Aurora when infared eye piece showed us the worst possible top two cards; Two of them.
It defaults to Omni, since he basically wants to play all of his cards except for platings. But if there's a Unity or Wraith or Miss Information or Kismet around he often has better targets.
That sounds awesome! You should face Ambuscade also, and have Tempest Into the Stratosphere the Cloaking Device and Omni-X play it so that way it flips Ambuscade again and can now be damage even though he is cloaked. Plus if Fanatic is joining them she could Chastise it so AoE could be used and not have to worry about destroying it!
I dropped the ball. Big time. Episode synopsis is incoming
We need to have O-X and Golem Unity be roomies.
Can't quite be them since this show is just about his friends, and as spider-man has taught us, firestar and iceman are "amazing" friends. Maybe cyclops and jubilee?
For me it depends on the phase of the game we're in. The first couple turns I like to give the support or high-setup heroes (Legacy/AA/Fixer/Wraith) the extra play, because usually getting the support going sooner helps the whole team. If we're not needing to project force, I'll try to set up my own board, like Ronway said, but later game I try to get the nukers playing as many cards as possible to maximize their output ("Why yes, I would like to play another Chain Lightning, thanks for asking!").
Also: I think "OX and Friends" would be a GREAT Scooby Doo-style show. Argent Adept would totally be Shaggy... you know the guy has to be stoned out of his gourd the whole time, right? "Oh hey, this super villain might kill us all... who's up for some smooth jazz, man?"
That's the Scholar, surely - the Adept never comes across to me as a kind of "chilled-out dude" kind of guy. He seems a bit more "with it" than that.
That's fair. Too obvious of an oversight to me. Though still, who busts out the lyre in the face of impending doom?
D&D bards. Every damn time.
Yeah - I see the Adept as a Bard, basically. More specifically, an EQ Bard (whose mechanics I'm pretty familiar with). He uses music to support the team and has a lot of variety, therefore is useful in pretty much any situation and always welcome in a group :D.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Yeah, and I always RP'd my D&D bards like they were on drugs for the exact same reason :-p
AA always seemed to me like a kind of intense dude and not the relaxed stoner type.
I have often thought of Argent Adept as a "super bard" after all, regular bards can't usually cut space ships in half with a bell 
As for his attitude, I look at scherzo of Frost and Flame, and whatever one has the horrid arachnid on it and say this dude is simply unimpressed, perhaps with a slight air of superiortity
Yeah, AA always strikes me as a little uptight/melodramatic rather than stoner to me, "To me, heroes! We shall win this day!" while standing in a power stance with one arm raised doesn't seem too chill to me. And on Vernal Sonata Tempest is taking a little time out to pet the doggy (favourite.art.ever, close second is him talking to the fish) while Argent looks all solemn in the bg.
Fixer, on the other hand perhaps shouldn't be above suspicion, after all he's smoking on basically all of his cards. He told you punched a dragon in the face with a tiger claw of pure lightning? He's been coming out with these stories ever since that guy from downtown Rook City sold him some medicinal herbs to help with his arthritis.
I'd thought about Fixer as a stoner, but he strikes me as more of a Miagi type. Yeah, he probably uses it to relax and meditate, but not in the same way Scholar wakes up, gets baked, decides his old robe is the best outfit for battle, and departs.
See, I don't think the Scholar is actually stoned. I think he's just reached a higher plane of understanding and exists in copacetic union with the universe.
AKA he's probably on LSD
I also imagine The Scholar gets annoyed by his superhero name. I always picture him cringing every time someone uses the name and muttering to himself "I'm not 'The' Scholar... I never said I was 'The' Scholar, man... I just said 'I'm no hero, man... I'm just 'A' Scholar"
I dunno... that bath robe says "stoner" way more than it says "higher plane of understanding" to me ;)
....Have you ever worn a bathrobe? All. Day. Long?
I'm just saying, I think he's reached a level of wisdom that we can only aspire to.
spoony bard!
Best video game ever
Almost… You're two games early. ;p
I just thought he was a hoopy frood.
Cult of the New
4 and 6 are so fucking sublime. I think which ever one you play first is the one you hang your hat on. That being said:
Lynkfox is right. It's the best game ever made. And who wants to argue with the fine person that gave us Sentinels Stat Tracking
In fairness, 4 is the SECOND best video game ever. For the record I played them each when they were released, so technically by that heuristic FF1 should be my fave (it's not).
4 bests out 7. by a small margin, but it’s mostly for her useless materia that 4 wins.
I was talking 6. Thanks Japan for thinking that America is dumb and making the numbering system for your awesome games all confusing. 7 for me is a bit lower, but a lot of that is I got a Playstation pretty late and it was already fairly dated by the time I had a chance to play it so I'm probably biased.
The opera scene still really impresses me (have you heard the Black Mages orchestral version of it OMG) and the overall bold structure of the game are what cements 6 into its top position, IMO. The villain wins halfway through the game, you're stuck on an island fishing to save an old man, and then you get to go around and freely visit all the places you saw before to see the full impact of what happened and follow up on a bunch of subplots? How flippin cool is that!
I have...absolutely no idea what you guys are talking about ;). Well, I gather it's some kind of game series but it's clearly one I haven't played...
Melonball hit it on the head for me. I played 4 before 6 (2 &3 here in 'Merika) and fell in love. 6 is probably the better game mechanically, but I'll always love 4 more.
I'm not firing up my Wii virtual console right now or anything...
Final Fantasy, specifically 4 and 6, which were released as 2 and 3 on the Super Nintendo in USA
....I just had a friend send me an email complaining about how Cloud could hold such a big sword. He said "yeah, I'm playing it for the first time" and I was like... "WHAT"
I'm anxiously awaiting for him to reach the mid-point.
That being said, I loved 4 even though i hated that spoony bard and never wanted him in my party.
I'm a part of the camp that likes 6 the best. Sure, it's still the same old "save the world" thing, but honestly, how many games have characters that you actually care for, and each of them are so well fleshed out?
... Much like the characters in this card game what we all play! Especially that Omnitron X! Am I right! I like to use him with the Scholar, not just because of the healing that the Scholar digs, man, but also helps him set up. It's always a gamble of couse, and the first few times of playing Omni X I became too addicted to the draw of his power... Don't let a compulsive gambler play OmniX, that's for sure.
Nice try, but this thread isn't getting back on track. :)
I would think the compulsive gambler would be drawn to Nightmist or Fanatic.
Sadly, I never played through the FF games. I gave FF1 a vague, passing try, but I should try to find one of the marquee ones to go through.
The best JRPG IS Persona 4. Square ain't got nothing on Atlus…
(Let it be said that I tried…)
Best JRPG is Dragon (Quest) Warrior VII
But if Earthbound counts, then it wins
Great epitath.
Earthbound counts, but Mother 3 I feel is better… but I've not fully played either, so I my opinion's invalid…
*Disbelieve* You all have it wrong. Chrono. Trigger. That is all.
PlatinumWarlock is correct.
*smoke bombs*
With that official ruling, we now return you to our regularly scheduled thread.
So Omnitron-X and friends....
And now the timeline is correct.
What about Omnitron and Omnitron-X as roommates? One wants to save the world, one wants to end it. Hilarity ensues.
I thought Omnitron was the apartment building?
he’ll yes chrono trigger. heeeel yes.
I’ll give 6 its props. There isn’t a single character in any game that I love more than kefka
FF6 and Chrono Trigger are my two favs. I like them both better than FF4 though I'm a fan of that as well. I really like FF Legend on gameboy too! That was great as well as FF Adventure thought to be fair that is more of a Legend of Mana game with much different game play. I was not a fan at all of any FF game after FF6.
Dragon Warriors 1-3 were my first JRPGs. I liked them all a lot and they got much better with each one. I've nver played 7 so I can't comment on that.
I also really enjoyed Breath of Fire 2 and the super nintendo Shadowrun game.
I'm still chapioning Persona 4 as the Best RPG. I notice that all of the games mentioned are all SNES era (except DQVIII), and if you feel JRPGs have devolved into belts and overlong cutscenes people don't care about, check Persona 4 out. It has real life drama in it, and it's about people overcome thier flaws to become self-actualized. If you don't want to play through it yourself, Giant Bomb has an extensive playthrough on it's website (and youtube) which is perhaps the best Let's Play ever.
Also, would it be wierd if Omnitron actually had a female voice? We don't know yet... Just sayin'
For sure the voice of 2001.
Is "Daisy, Daisy" Omnitron's favorite song?
Oh it would be so amazingly cool if (s)he had the voice of GLaDOS. That would be epic. And meanwhile Omni-10 is a turret or something. Or omg Wheatley, rofl!
My buddy loves Kefka so much, he made Kefka's midi theme his ringer on my phone.
Came here looking for someone to mention the Breath of Fire games. I am not disapointed.
For you Chrono Trigger/Rap fans out there...
http://2mellomakes.bandcamp.com/album/chrono-jigga
(There are bad words and such. This isn't Will Smith.)
O-X and Mr. Chomps ala John and Garfield. Discuss.
I think I've technically missed the video game discussion, but I don't care. I never get to talk about video games anymore.
On the Final Fantasy debate, it is safe to say that 6 and 4 are the best the series has to offer (in that order) and the third place game is 9. All three had a certain charm to their characters that kept the player intrested enough to continue playing, just to see what would happen to them. Now, it should be noted that I began playing video games as a way to experience more interactive books, which is why I generally play RPGs and didn't enter the world of other genres (except fighting) for years and years after I started. Anywho, I put characters above pretty much everything else when it comes to my gaming.
And, because of that, I shall now plug my favourite game series: Tales of... This is a series that rarely has a fantastic story, is always fun to play, and usually gives their cast several shining moments, thanks in no small part to the skits that litter the later games. You see the characters as heroes, but also as individual people, dealing with standard things. Legendia is (and with how RPGs are heading straight to the crapper of late, probably always will be) my favourite in the series, and possibly off all the games I've played. Tales of Legendia is the only game I've played where the credits roll and I don't harbor any ill will toward any main cast member. It's great that the cast had reason for their behaviour.
This is coming from the guy that writes character analyses for fun.
But, yeah. OmniX is a cool cat, too.
Really I feel this way about most media. If you look at Firefly, yeah they had a cool world, but some of the missions/episodes were not that amazing. What was amazing was the characters, their reactions and their interactions. That made even mundane events seem awesome. You can get away with a lot of mediocrity in certain aspects if the characters are loved (or even hated sometimes).