I got Nerfed

...not my character or my guns or anything, they seem fine. But I can't play video games anymore. The last few days I've logged into Defiance, gotten killed constantly for about half an hour, and then quit. I'm honestly accomplishing nothing but running to an area that I want to play in, dying, and then doing it over. Usually I don't get all the way to the area, to be honest.

I don't know what's wrong with me. I was doing really well with this game for a while, and I haven't changed my loadout or anything.

I'm having trouble with FC3: Blood Dragon, too. I basically can't play it because I'm saved in a spot that I fail at within a few seconds, and then check pointed back to repeat the cycle.

I'm getting The Last of Us on Friday, but the way things are going I'm not going to survive the tutorial.

Sounds like you need to pray to the gaming God and get back into the groove. Buy some energy drinks, don't over do it though you gotta know your limit, and pull an all nighter. Fight through the onslaught of failure until you succeed. Once you do, go outside naked and do a happy dancing in the neighbors lawn.

It's kind of a ritual I do whenever I start losing my game.

Don't buy Dead Souls then.

It happens to everyone a few days, or weeks we all get nerfed because life can't handle how awesome we off-topicers are.

I did this yesterday as well I got took out by two shots of a raider riot dude. Then it went downhill from there.

This frustration is a rite of passage all gamers go through. Turn everything off, go outside, ride a bike, swim, jog, whatever. Just spend a few days eating fresh fruit and breathing non-recycled air. Then come back and roflstomp everything in sight.

Sacrifice a goat. You'll be golden after that.

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Originally Posted by cypheon

This frustration is a rite of passage all gamers go through. Turn everything off, go outside, ride a bike, swim, jog, whatever. Just spend a few days eating fresh fruit and breathing non-recycled air. Then come back and roflstomp everything in sight.

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Last time I did that I got dogs and huey in black ops... do you understand what this did to me? It turned me into a terrible CoD Elitist. Luckily I had friends and family to show me the way to freedom.

I heard Sacrificing people is a great way to improve gaming skills.

When I read this it made me think of this

Just go rambo style you will win eventually run and gun

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Originally Posted by Lethaltyrant

Just go rambo style you will win eventually run and gun

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I think there's the problem, I'm guessing you're going too gung ho and its just not working out. Try picking your fights, only start shooting if you have cover near by. If the bullets start raining down then take 1 or 2 enemies out and get the hell out, then come back rinse and repeat.

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Originally Posted by Ebonmark

I think there's the problem, I'm guessing you're going too gung ho and its just not working out. Try picking your fights, only start shooting if you have cover near by. If the bullets start raining down then take 1 or 2 enemies out and get the hell out, then come back rinse and repeat.

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Me personally i dont have a problem with this approach i dont get down to much by minor enemies anyway i use a lightmachine gun most of the time i will use my entire clip which is right around 100 bullets then once im about to reload hit overcharge and get instant reload plus more power and faster reload. Its all in the perks and lightmachine gun for me. But everyone plays different.

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Originally Posted by Lethaltyrant

Me personally i dont have a problem with this approach i dont get down to much by minor enemies anyway i use a lightmachine gun most of the time i will use my entire clip which is right around 100 bullets then once im about to reload hit overcharge and get instant reload plus more power and faster reload. Its all in the perks and lightmachine gun for me. But everyone plays different.

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I like your style! BTW what's ya LMG of choice?

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Originally Posted by Ebonmark

I like your style! BTW what's ya LMG of choice?

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I do not use burst LMG at all i hate them they are pointless and should not be considered LMG no offense if u use one lol. I def prefer any SAWs i can get my hands on i manage to max my LMG skill out to 20 currently i have two purple LMGs i use mainly stick to my FRC SAW it has some nice perks on it decent xp bonus cant think of wat it is right now sorry at work lol but yea really choice is any SAW really hopefully ill find a legendary one someday. I can only dream tho lol

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Originally Posted by bix

...not my character or my guns or anything, they seem fine. But I can't play video games anymore. The last few days I've logged into Defiance, gotten killed constantly for about half an hour, and then quit. I'm honestly accomplishing nothing but running to an area that I want to play in, dying, and then doing it over. Usually I don't get all the way to the area, to be honest.

I don't know what's wrong with me. I was doing really well with this game for a while, and I haven't changed my loadout or anything.

I'm having trouble with FC3: Blood Dragon, too. I basically can't play it because I'm saved in a spot that I fail at within a few seconds, and then check pointed back to repeat the cycle.

I'm getting The Last of Us on Friday, but the way things are going I'm not going to survive the tutorial.

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We will be by your side to help assure all of our success.

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Originally Posted by Obderiath

We will be by your side to help assure all of our success.

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Heh, lets get like 5 guys to form a perimeter around her with a sniper rifles, sniping down anything that shoots at her.

My love will unnerf you.

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Originally Posted by Ryme

Heh, lets get like 5 guys to form a perimeter around her with a sniper rifles, sniping down anything that shoots at her.

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I'm a piss-poor sniper. I better stick to mid-range!

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Originally Posted by bix

...not my character or my guns or anything, they seem fine. But I can't play video games anymore. The last few days I've logged into Defiance, gotten killed constantly for about half an hour, and then quit. I'm honestly accomplishing nothing but running to an area that I want to play in, dying, and then doing it over. Usually I don't get all the way to the area, to be honest.

I don't know what's wrong with me. I was doing really well with this game for a while, and I haven't changed my loadout or anything.

I'm having trouble with FC3: Blood Dragon, too. I basically can't play it because I'm saved in a spot that I fail at within a few seconds, and then check pointed back to repeat the cycle.

I'm getting The Last of Us on Friday, but the way things are going I'm not going to survive the tutorial.

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ROH NOES! What is your situation as best you can describe in FC3:BD? have you got to a T-Rex (Blood Dragon) yet? I know you said you weren't very far. I can probably help you get to another checkpoint, I just have to know where you are.

If you add me on PSN I will help you stay alive (When I am on... seems to be 3-4 nights a week), Acid already drops once a minute (Lulz, not really that much, but it sure seems like it.)
It could also be the guns your using. When I was XP-ing an Oj Rocker it was horrible. I have never used a worse gun and died so much.

Learning Far Cry is like learning to fly the jet on San Andreas. It's all wonky at first and it doesn't move fast. But once you learn how change the thruster position and take off it is so fun.
Still one of my favorite games that I go back and play just to fly the jet for about 15 minutes listening to K DST and killing other jets and helicopters.

I was so angry when GTA 4 didn't have a jet, I immediately returned it.
Anyway back to topic at hand....

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Originally Posted by Zabuza

ROH NOES! What is your situation as best you can describe in FC3:BD? have you got to a T-Rex (Blood Dragon) yet? I know you said you weren't very far. I can probably help you get to another checkpoint, I just have to know where you are.

If you add me on PSN I will help you stay alive (When I am on... seems to be 3-4 nights a week), Acid already drops once a minute (Lulz, not really that much, but it sure seems like it.)
It could also be the guns your using. When I was XP-ing an Oj Rocker it was horrible. I have never used a worse gun and died so much.

Learning Far Cry is like learning to fly the jet on San Andreas. It's all wonky at first and it doesn't move fast. But once you learn how change the thruster position and take off it is so fun.
Still one of my favorite games that I go back and play just to fly the jet for about 15 minutes listening to K DST and killing other jets and helicopters.

I was so angry when GTA 4 didn't have a jet, I immediately returned it.
Anyway back to topic at hand....

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I played GTA 4 until I realized that you kind of have to be a bad guy. The first guy I accidentally killed made me feel bad.

I want to thank everyone who offered some advice.

I have done the voodoo.

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Originally Posted by hey u

no.

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No more.

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When that happens to me I plug in my nes and play some guardian legend WITHOUT a game genie. when I make it past the prologue level im usually back on track for anything this generation of gaming can throw at me. That 8-bit nightmare makes any of todays games look easier than my ex on a bar crawl once she runs out of cash

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Originally Posted by Cyripax NeoPrime

When that happens to me I plug in my nes and play some guardian legend WITHOUT a game genie. when I make it past the prologue level im usually back on track for anything this generation of gaming can throw at me. That 8-bit nightmare makes any of todays games look easier than my ex on a bar crawl once she runs out of cash

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Oh, man, don't even mention those old games. I never beat a single one of them. I like to think I'm pretty old school, but I'm kind of a fraud if you consider that I never beat any of the games I owned.

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Originally Posted by bix

I played GTA 4 until I realized that you kind of have to be a bad guy. The first guy I accidentally killed made me feel bad.

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Hahaha, maybe it's too altruistic and cheesy, but that's why the GTA games have never interested me. GTA 5 might inspire a little foray into it though.

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Originally Posted by bix

I want to thank everyone who offered some advice.

I have done the voodoo.

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speaking of voodoo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-qUMAtQaQQ

(video linking wasn't working o.O )

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Originally Posted by bix

Oh, man, don't even mention those old games. I never beat a single one of them. I like to think I'm pretty old school, but I'm kind of a fraud if you consider that I never beat any of the games I owned.

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Theres quite a few ive yet to see the end of,lol.....it took me years to get the good ending in bubble bobble

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Originally Posted by hey u

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awesome movie and about the only 1 besides tomb raider that angelina jolie actually looks hot and not like a skeleton lol

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Originally Posted by Cyripax NeoPrime

When that happens to me I plug in my nes and play some guardian legend WITHOUT a game genie. when I make it past the prologue level im usually back on track for anything this generation of gaming can throw at me. That 8-bit nightmare makes any of todays games look easier than my ex on a bar crawl once she runs out of cash

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i do the same thing when i get a point in a game i just cant seem to get passed ( which is rare cuz im a fan of the myst games, and im good at figuring stuff out ), i just open up my files on my laptop and play some old school final fantasies, or even more frustrating, some old mega man stuff lol...
once i have had my fill of conquering those things then i just get back on whatever i was playing...sometimes its a really good thing to take a step back and take a breather from whatever is nerfing ya i guess

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Originally Posted by chrismeyer34

...old school final fantasies...

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I know this may be hard to believe, but I used to be mostly illiterate till Final Fantasy 3 (6 Japan). The first FF (and RPG for that matter) I ever played, my bloodbro got me to play it one summer. The next year I was reading and comprehending at a level much greater than my peers (well, most of them).

I owe so much to that game...

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Originally Posted by bix

I have done the voodoo.

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Does that mean you got past the Blood Dragon checkpoint?

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Originally Posted by Zabuza

I know this may be hard to believe, but I used to be mostly illiterate till Final Fantasy 3 (6 Japan). The first FF (and RPG for that matter) I ever played, my bloodbro got me to play it one summer. The next year I was reading and comprehending at a level much greater than my peers (well, most of them).

I owe so much to that game...



Does that mean you got past the Blood Dragon checkpoint?

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lol, very true same here, the 1st i played was on the original nes, since then ive been hooked on that series now there is a few that i think really sucked, crystal chronicles comes to mind, it came out on the gamecube i believe...the 1 i played on the pc was ff11 and fell in love with it ( i had an elf from sandori and he used the monk skill ), just loved the mog house where you ca store your stuff and plus the holiday gifts the devs give ya when you log in on that particular day ie crystal easter eggs, a christmas tree etc etc, im wondering how theyre gonna do the next final fantasy online game cuz ive seen some vids on it and all.

final fantasy is a series that taught me a looooot about patience lmao, especially the 1s on the original ps 1, those darn bosses were infuriatingly tough, you had to make sure your spells were maxed, then when they came out with materia in 7, then you had to make sure you had the right 1s equipped, especially when you fought the emerald and ruby weapons lol

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Originally Posted by chrismeyer34

lol, very true same here, the 1st i played was on the original nes, since then ive been hooked on that series now there is a few that i think really sucked, crystal chronicles comes to mind, it came out on the gamecube i believe...the 1 i played on the pc was ff11 and fell in love with it ( i had an elf from sandori and he used the monk skill ), just loved the mog house where you ca store your stuff and plus the holiday gifts the devs give ya when you log in on that particular day ie crystal easter eggs, a christmas tree etc etc, im wondering how theyre gonna do the next final fantasy online game cuz ive seen some vids on it and all.

final fantasy is a series that taught me a looooot about patience lmao, especially the 1s on the original ps 1, those darn bosses were infuriatingly tough, you had to make sure your spells were maxed, then when they came out with materia in 7, then you had to make sure you had the right 1s equipped, especially when you fought the emerald and ruby weapons lol

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I never have had any problem with any FF, I play on 'Active' mode as well. I haven't played any since 9, The story just bored or lost me somewhere and I just quit.

The hardest boss in any FF I faced was the storm dragon in FF3 in the New World. He beat me once with that dumb pearl sideways tornado move. The whole rest of that run I was fighting off my back trying to keep my people alive till he wiped me. I forgot what I did the next run and beat him, I might have used Wall rings or something, then cast wall on the dragon and heal myself through him.
I don't know for sure it was many years ago, and when I beat him I didn't look back.

I think what happened is I played Xenogears and it spoiled FF for me. IMO No FF will live up to Xenogears, both story and combat system were fantastic. One of the fews games I did not mind all the many random encounters.
What was up with Xenosaga and does anyone know how it even connected to Xenogears besides the universe they existed in?

I got super sad when I beat Xenogears because I didn't want it to end... it felt like someone died. I still don't know who the red hair "Id" guy is who was one-shotting gears in human mode in the cut scene. Is it supposed to be Fei's id? That game could have gone longer :(

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Originally Posted by Zabuza

I never have had any problem with any FF, I play on 'Active' mode as well. I haven't played any since 9, The story just bored or lost me somewhere and I just quit.

The hardest boss in any FF I faced was the storm dragon in FF3 in the New World. He beat me once with that dumb pearl sideways tornado move. The whole rest of that run I was fighting off my back trying to keep my people alive till he wiped me. I forgot what I did the next run and beat him, I might have used Wall rings or something, then cast wall on the dragon and heal myself through him.
I don't know for sure it was many years ago, and when I beat him I didn't look back.

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yeah i used wall rings a lot against bosses, cuz they cast reflect on ya unless its an elemental boss ill use them, come to think of it i might play it some tonight lol

12 was alright on the ps2...loved the hunt quests cuz there's tons of monsters to find, and they only come out at certain times or if certain criteria were met, hell i still havetn completed the monsters log and i have over 244 hrs on that darn thing, plus i beat the game, now final fantasy x will test your mettle with those unique monsters that that monster rancher guy creates, cuz even if your char are maxed and all, those darn things can still kill you in about 1-2 hits if you dont have all the skills set just right lol, like bix, i get nerfed so bad on that game when i fight those monsters, i think i went through about 2 controllers when i 1st tried them lmfao..the cool things is you can pick which unique monster you can fight 1st, so you can set your skills accordingly and hope to god you can last more than a few seconds in the round lol...getting nerfed when you have all your stuff maxed out, have all teh legendary weapons, can be a really frustrating and final fantasy games can bring that out really quick lol