In one of today's Cracked articles, Absolute Virtue took a top place as one of the biggest *** in online gaming. I'm sure many people remember the articles/news coverage the LS that attempted the 30h unsuccessful battle against AV got. Interestingly, most of the other *** were player-on-player or player-on-alliance moves, not developer-on-player.
Enjoy the read!
Absolute Virtue, #4 Dick Of Online Gaming
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Absolute Virtue, #4 Dick of Online Gaming
haha i was just about to post that link. Just found it as well. ah, memories...
Bahamut.Longsnake said: » I'm sure many people remember the articles/news coverage the LS that attempted the 30h unsuccessful battle against AV got. I sure do! Well enough to remember that they were fighting Pandemonium Warden anyway.
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Lakshmi.Byrth said: » Bahamut.Longsnake said: » I'm sure many people remember the articles/news coverage the LS that attempted the 30h unsuccessful battle against AV got. I sure do! Well enough to remember that they were fighting Pandemonium Warden anyway. agreed, lol that was the funniest IGN news I ever saw and I remember back then when it was truely an impossible fight, PW was worse than AV back then, simply because you had to deal with all the ***it went through then once you were almost done, on the LAST BOSS... spam astral flow with every single avatar that made you're whole linkshell OMG IT CAN"T DO THAT THAT"S CHEATING. Lakshmi.Byrth said: » Bahamut.Longsnake said: » I'm sure many people remember the articles/news coverage the LS that attempted the 30h unsuccessful battle against AV got. I sure do! Well enough to remember that they were fighting Pandemonium Warden anyway. Lol, yeah.. "I never heard of that happening to AV, I thought that only happened to PW?" Was what I thought while reading that article :P http://www.ign.com/blogs/raynarxl/2008/08/14/final-fantasy-xi-18-hour-boss-fight-how-long-is-too-long
for memories sakes... but they did say in there "Right now the members of Beyond the Limitation just wish Square-Enix to carefully consider their own warning that shows up before a user is able to log into the game. Hopefully enough people will voice their opinions about these long battles that will make Square-Enix rethink their endgame monster design to include a battle that is still very challenging, but doesn't require you to spend almost an entire day to defeat." reading that especially now makes me realise IGN DOES NOT know SE >.> Wasn't only the belt AV can drop any good as well? I think that was the part that topped it all off perfectly.
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Yeah, generally AV defeats were so demoralizing that LSs rarely wasted more than a normal event night on him (~4 hours). The fact that it was possible to slowly grind through PW's huge number of forms was really almost cruel.
AV's GKT, Belt, Chakram, and Mars's Ring were all very highly valued. Yeah I was thinking with AV at least it's compleatly open about being a douch bag... PW would string players along like "Almost there, almost there, you can do it! LOLNO!"
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Futsuno mitama was on par with or superior to Hagun/Amanomurakumo as far as I remember, Chakram was not displaced as a mage ranged until Abyssea, and Mars's Ring was the best in slot second melee ring until Abyssea too. Bellona and Minerva were both useful as well.
edit: beaten The saddest part of the Pandemonium Warden story is how much effort they put into it. He used to have 21 forms with unique UI. That's a huge amount of time and effort put into a single monster. Now he has 11 forms and 10 of them are <1 minute blitzes if you do it right.
Similar story with AV. Not only were all the mechanisms they added for him both unique at the time and very complicated, but they went almost entirely unused because they were implemented on a nigh-unbeatable monster. What a waste of effort.
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The bad press and ineptitude of their implementation has sort of scared SE out of making more interesting fights like those, too, which is also a shame.
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Lakshmi.Byrth said: » The saddest part of the Pandemonium Warden story is how much effort they put into it. He used to have 21 forms with unique UI. That's a huge amount of time and effort put into a single monster. Now he has 11 forms and 10 of them are <1 minute blitzes if you do it right. Similar story with AV. Not only were all the mechanisms they added for him both unique at the time and very complicated, but they went almost entirely unused because they were implemented on a nigh-unbeatable monster. What a waste of effort. What were PW's original list of forms? /cry I wish they implemented it somehow as inteded to have the serpent generals and a vampyr :P
Quiznor said: » Lakshmi.Byrth said: » The saddest part of the Pandemonium Warden story is how much effort they put into it. He used to have 21 forms with unique UI. That's a huge amount of time and effort put into a single monster. Now he has 11 forms and 10 of them are <1 minute blitzes if you do it right. Similar story with AV. Not only were all the mechanisms they added for him both unique at the time and very complicated, but they went almost entirely unused because they were implemented on a nigh-unbeatable monster. What a waste of effort. What were PW's original list of forms? The Serpent generals TOAU beastman kings Cerberus/Hydra/Khimera Himself... I'm forgetting something but not sure what. Asura.Ina said: » Quiznor said: » Lakshmi.Byrth said: » The saddest part of the Pandemonium Warden story is how much effort they put into it. He used to have 21 forms with unique UI. That's a huge amount of time and effort put into a single monster. Now he has 11 forms and 10 of them are <1 minute blitzes if you do it right. Similar story with AV. Not only were all the mechanisms they added for him both unique at the time and very complicated, but they went almost entirely unused because they were implemented on a nigh-unbeatable monster. What a waste of effort. What were PW's original list of forms? The Serpent generals TOAU beastman kings Cerberus/Hydra/Khimera Himself... I'm forgetting something but not sure what. Yeah thats only 16 i think vampyr, and other ZNMs but I don't remember ; ;
- Dverger + Skulls (repops in between every single form)
- Armored Chariot + 8x Archaic Gears - Long-Bowed Chariot + 8x Archaic Gears - Battleclad Chariot + 8x Archaic Gears - Long-Armed Chariot + 8x Archaic Gears - Besieged hammer-wielding Trolls (lamps and PW were the same mob type) x9 - Besieged Mamools mounted on Wivres (lamps and PW were the same mob type) x9 - Besieged Acrolyths (lamps and PW were same mob type) x9 - Besieged Galka General + 8x MNK NPCs - Besieged Elvaan General + 8x DRK NPCs - Besieged Mithra General + 8x WHM NPCs - Besieged Hume General + 8x BLM NPCs - Besieged Hume General + 8x RNG NPCs - Troll Beastmen King + 8x Trolls (DRKs, RNGs, MNKs, PLDs, WARs) - Lamia Beastmen King (Medusa) + 8x Lamia (RNGs, BLMs, ???, ???, ???) - Mamool Beastmen King + 8x Mamool (NINs, THFs, RDMs, WHMs, BLMs) - Vampyr HNM + 8x Imps - Hydra HNM + 8x Red Dragons - Khimera HNM + 8x Puks - Cerberus HNM + 8x Growing Bombs, non-casting - Dverger HNM + 8x Dverger Taken from here
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Battleclad Chariot
Long-armed Chariot Long-Bowed Chariot Armored Chariot Acrolith Vampyr Mamool Ja Troll Lamia Zazarg Mihli Najelith Rughadjeen Gadalar Hydra Cerberus Khimaira Gurlurfur the Menacing Medusa Gulool Ja Ja Dvergr 21 Asura.Ina said: » - Dverger + Skulls (repops in between every single form) - Armored Chariot + 8x Archaic Gears - Long-Bowed Chariot + 8x Archaic Gears - Battleclad Chariot + 8x Archaic Gears - Long-Armed Chariot + 8x Archaic Gears - Besieged hammer-wielding Trolls (lamps and PW were the same mob type) x9 - Besieged Mamools mounted on Wivres (lamps and PW were the same mob type) x9 - Besieged Acrolyths (lamps and PW were same mob type) x9 - Besieged Galka General + 8x MNK NPCs - Besieged Elvaan General + 8x DRK NPCs - Besieged Mithra General + 8x WHM NPCs - Besieged Hume General + 8x BLM NPCs - Besieged Hume General + 8x RNG NPCs - Troll Beastmen King + 8x Trolls (DRKs, RNGs, MNKs, PLDs, WARs) - Lamia Beastmen King (Medusa) + 8x Lamia (RNGs, BLMs, ???, ???, ???) - Mamool Beastmen King + 8x Mamool (NINs, THFs, RDMs, WHMs, BLMs) - Vampyr HNM + 8x Imps - Hydra HNM + 8x Red Dragons - Khimera HNM + 8x Puks - Cerberus HNM + 8x Growing Bombs, non-casting - Dverger HNM + 8x Dverger Taken from here Ah,I've killed him a bunch of times but never knew about the old extra forms Quiznor said: » Lakshmi.Byrth said: » The saddest part of the Pandemonium Warden story is how much effort they put into it. He used to have 21 forms with unique UI. That's a huge amount of time and effort put into a single monster. Now he has 11 forms and 10 of them are <1 minute blitzes if you do it right. Similar story with AV. Not only were all the mechanisms they added for him both unique at the time and very complicated, but they went almost entirely unused because they were implemented on a nigh-unbeatable monster. What a waste of effort. What were PW's original list of forms? All 4 salvage bosses All 3 HNMs All 3 Beastman leaders I think all 5 AU Generals PW Form Can't remember the rest IMO they shoulda kept the vampyr in it :P
Really surprised he didn't rank higher honestly.
The runescape entry made me laugh. Pink party hats being *** that destroyed a game economy
hahahah that article was hilarious. EvE being #1, yuuppp. Glad I stopped playing
#7 is hilarious!
ok going back to read the rest of the list. Ohh god damn that OP is a moron, mixing up AV and PW. I'm more surprised that PW wasn't mentioned but AV was... I think they may have mentioned him in a different article that I'll look for.
It's nice to know it's not other people screwing us over. SE is the best XI troll. seems to me that long before PW was around there had to have been an attempt or even 2 like that
Just read the other *** move articles they had, frickening hilarious. Carpet bombing a funeral and bomb pets. Great read
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