Bastion

The machete was my ranged weapon until I got the mortar.

I liked the machete for melee for a while for how quick it was. Never did throw it though. Pike is my main weapon now, I do use it as range occasionally.

I especially like the special skill with the machete that shoots off a ghost of you slashing at everything in the direction you point it. More powerful than the Calamity Cannon.

Oh, that's what that does? I've still probably tried less than half of the Secret Skills...

I just use the portal turrets.

arent the turrets supposed to be gamebreaking?

yep

throw em down and you summon one turret with a relatively narrow field of vision, but it stays around until killed. So basically you just point it at a good chokepoint and you're golden.

The mission with the barge was ludicrously easy after popping down three turrets looking over the sides.

Update released.

And now it keeps freezing on me.

My copy's still fine. In fact, I just finished today!

And immediately began a New Game Plus.

I am now proud to announce, after many tries, I have beaten the Kid's Dream with all ten idols invoked, using the pike, mortar, and portal turrets.

Oh, also, although I unfortunately read the spoilers in this thread and thus knew about the end choices, I was still shocked when Zia spoke at the end.

edited 2nd Sep '11 7:06:07 PM by montagohalcyon

Yeah, shocked me for a second too. But it makes sense - technically it's the first time she herself speaks (in a non-literal sense) - before then it was Rucks telling us (well, telling her) what her lines were long after she said them.

That's actually an interesting point in general - technically, everything that you do in the game actually happens before the game actually starts, and everything you see is the visual of Ruck's story to Zia about what already happened - the whole game is one big How We Got Here bit, and you're a reenactment that's creating what it reenacts even as it reenacts it.

The "present" kicks in sometime during the last level.

edited 3rd Sep '11 1:18:47 AM by KnownUnknown

technically her first lines were in her song.

"technically" is a silly ambiguous word if you think about it.

No technically about it - those are the actress' first lines, even if the specifics of whether she's singing it now or she only sang it then and Rucks is throwing it in as setting are a bit muddy.

I keep forgetting about that song.

edited 3rd Sep '11 1:20:41 AM by KnownUnknown

so how does Who Knows Where 2 fit into all that?

rucks is telling zia about her own past? what?

I think Rucks actually starts off the sequence with "So let me get this straight..."

Yeah, as I understand it, she's told Rucks about her past before then and he's seeing if he understands.

Just finished my New Game +; it goes significantly faster when you already have most of the weapon upgrades and lots of drink slots. 18/20 achievements!

This time, saved Zulf and chose the Evacuate option.

I wish I'd done this earlier today, because it was not a good one and that ending cheered me up a lot for some reason.

I can see how that ending cheers people up. It's all about accepting the past and focusing on improving the future.

Aaaaand now I completed the Singer's Dream with all ten idols invoked, after realizing "hey, there's no longer any disadvantage to that one drink that gives you health upon striking enemies!" since you can't replenish health vials. Man, I wish I'd figured that out ages ago...

Took the pike and mortar again, and the snare, the only place in the game I've found it useful, for trapping those annoying peckers away from me.

Not sure if I want to try for the final achievement though...I had enough trouble doing the third Who Knows Where with only five idols...

EDIT: Never mind, got that one too

edited 5th Sep '11 5:02:12 PM by montagohalcyon

oh Logan Cunningham

huh, so they changed their mind about the no DLC thing

It's about Rucks, so this DLC is perfectly justified and nothing you can say will change my mind. Then again, I'm just a sucker for Rucks, so I'm a little biased. A little.

Its free on the PC and only a dollar on the PSN. Not exactly something I would complain about.

I am not complaining and I intend to play it as soon as it comes out.

Finally got around to replaying this. I know I've gotten the update, but I haven't figured out how to enter Rucks's dream. That said, I'm having a lot of fun picking up all the achievements. (I beat the game once, and I've gotten all the vigils, so all I have left is Zulf's dream with all idols, then beating the new game plus.)

(I'm wondering, was I the only one who mained the carbine? It's the most powerful projectile that can still be shot from the hip at point-blank range—pair it with the musket for crowd control, and your only real problem will be pecker swarms.)

Edit: Looking back in the thread, Tarsen tried that combo as well, although it sounds like he favored the musket over the carbine. (I have the feeling a lot of people never realized just how obscene the carbine's DPS is if you can reliably shoot it from the hip.)

edited 18th Dec '11 5:03:03 AM by feotakahari

The Carbine is absolutely amazing once you upgrade it fully, as I learned in my most recent playthroughs. Combine it with the Hammer or Bellows and you've got both excellent sniping and good crowd control without the drawbacks of too much time spent reloading your weapons.