DaivRules

Hardcore Gamer! Platinum #21 So I finally got around to finishing Disgaea 4: A Promise Revisited (the Vita version of D4). Mental math and loose tracking puts my journey somewhere around 800 hours. In preparation for D4, I grabbed my OG PSP and played through the story of Disgaea 1 and 2, then replayed the story of Disgaea 3 on my Vita (already earned the plat) before starting 4. Clearly I'm a fan of the series and I already have Disgaea 5, bummed it's not on a portable Sony console. I have the season pass and I'll eventually Remote Play it on my Vita. It's the first PS4 title I purchased and it's nearly convinced me to get a Switch because Disgaea 5 Complete is available for it. I haven't ruled out the Switch purchase, but I'll be delaying my decision for a while. Back to the game, Disagea stories are only loosely related and no previous knowledge of Disgaea is needed to jump into any of the titles. I recommend playing them in order only because the play style dynamics build off previous games and if you try to go from a newer title to a previous title, it can feel a bit restricting. If turn based RPGs are interesting to you, this is that on steroids. Final Fantasy Tactics is childs play compared to Disgaea. Jeanne D'Arc on PSP, amazing, but so simplistic compared to what's possible in the Disgaea universe. Not only can you level up your characters based on specific classes, you reincarnate and keep previously gained skills and get a stat boost for each reincarnation. There is a Character world where you go into the characters themselves and can gain more stat boosts as well as passive (Evilities) and active abilities (Skills). THEN you can also go into Item World were you gain levels and stats on all the ITEMS you use and equip to your characters. It's a video game grinders dream, hence all the hours I spent finishing this one. Finishing the story is not a challenge as it doesn't require much more than grinding a few extra levels. The money and items gained in battle is generous and makes the gameplay fluid. The extras and especially the trophy chasing become good challenges that force the player to really strategize and use all the available aspects of the game to earn them. There are some shortcuts available in most Disgaea games like item duplication and this game in particular has some character sharing that can help players obtain skills and items more quickly, but they don't make everything super easy. There is a reason that doing 10 Billion damage (in one attack) is the last trophy most people get. Since people are so obsessed with Difficulty ratings, I decided to try to quantify all those things that contribute to Difficulty. DDS v 1.0 (April 2019) Time limited (+1) Modifiers Near perfect/Perfect Run required (+1) Glitches/exploits for Time Limited requirement (-1) Fast Reflexes Required (+1) Modifiers 3 Simultaneous buttons required (+1) 4 Simultaneous buttons required (+1) Sustained reflexes required for 7+ seconds (+1) Instant Death/No Healthbar (+1) Modifier Level/Progress Reset when killed (+1) Multiplayer Coordination Required (+1) Things that are not considered Difficult. Spending time is not a challenge so these do not contribute to the Difficulty rating. Grinding (XP, Etc) Collectibles (No matter the quantity) Puzzles that have solutions available online Random/Luck-based *anything* Multiple Playthroughs Based on the DaivRules Difficulty Scale® or DDS®, I give Disgaea 4: A Promise Revisited a DDS of 1. I don't recommend it for everybody, but if turn based RPGs are what you're into, then give one of them a spin. I recommend starting with 1, but you can't go wrong with any of them.

Oh, people are still putting a number on things that are completely subjective and arbitrary... How quaint.

Nah, that’s an argumentum ad ignorantiam. PS5 will definitely support trophies, but it wasn’t covered in this first introduction because the people attending, media/reporters, don’t care about them, so they didn’t ask. If they had asked, it would have been mentioned that trophies will still be a thing for the Next Gen System. Writing about ray tracing and the massive reductions in loading times are evolutionary changes that are going to get the clicks to get advertising revenue. Unless your whole post was sarcasm, in which case you should have used the sarcasm font.

I disagree that “we” have too much. *You* have too much. Perhaps you’re underestimating the video gaming demographic for 2018. It’s never been bigger, which means it can support more options than it ever has. Especially all the things you choose not to support. And because it’s so big, you reap the benefits of being able to choose to do what you do. Everyone else makes what you want to do possible. If too many people were like you, games would never make it to Complete or Game of the Year Editions. DLC is a thing because the market supports it. That same market that makes price drops possible because the distributor knows there still a segment to tap after all its pre-orders and launch sales come in. The same market that pulls new people in by offering new and different stuff that possibly never appealed before but now exists. In a way, you’re thanking people for not being like you.

Do you think, current day, people only look to be good video game players because guides are accessible and free, but gamers from the 80’s and 90’s had to be better because guides were costly and hard to come by, so they had to use their own brains to figure things out? You can limit your answer to 400 words so that you’ll have time for the other questions. Thank you.

That's brutal. Why the name change?

Clearly the poll indicates that no other PS4 is owned so there is no possibility of buying the same product twice. So in this instance the extras for buying the pro are definitely worth the extra money to prolong the life of the console. Plus, as others have indicated, the Pro is often seen as part of promotions so the price may already be less than the poll.

As long as this has a big, bright construction cone orange H so people people can be judged for having on their profile. /s Really, I wouldn't even worry about the cheaters floating in and out. Leaderboards are watched tighter than Wikipedia article owners and they'll get flagged quickly enough.