Marcello

Everyone joking about how they're not altruistic or a benefactor or so on, and I'm just laughing at how apt mine being developing is.

Week 10 Emerald & Sapphire Mumpelfink/Marcello Vs. Author Reborn http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/reborn-ou-31350 gg!

Diancie & Glalie are tied for looks, because I think Diancie is one of the megas that best captures what I think Megas should be designed as (The same mon, just grander), and I laugh every time I look at Mega Glalie because it's that brilliant. Overall though, hands down gotta be Mega Beedrill. I love that thing so much it bumped poison up to being one of my favourite types. Don't use it as much since the Baton Pass bans in OU, but still love the thing. Only pokemon I've ever bothered to breed for IVs was a Weedle.

Woop woop top 25. ;_;

RIP Hal. But hey, look at the brightside: I've never seen that ending to that plot segment before, so you can rest easy knowing you helped a guy out!

Even with Skyrim, I go back and play Oblivion every so often, because it's where I started too! Anyway though, now that I've come back from holiday and settled back in at home, it's time for a long overdue update! This time, we decide that some problems need to be dealt with asap, and we have to go big or go home. Also lions. Part 7 below, and as always, will be added to the OP! : http://imgur.com/a/vuys1

Yeah, I always find completionist runs for the sake of completionist runs to just not make sense for me. Although I have been known to do so if I just love the game enough (Nearing the end of Playthrough 5 of Meruru and I still wanna go again. Haven't even beaten the first boss in the postgame dungeon yet ) I get you with KH. I suck a bit too much to do the critical/proud/etc runs, but I'm still playing the 2.5 games often enough because I really wanna beat the superbosses at least. I burnt out really quickly on the Arkham games to be honest. It's been ages since I've played and I still doubt I'd be ready to go back yet. Yeeah, despite how much there is to do differently from playthrough to playthrough, I still find Pokemon sorta easy to burn out on sometimes. Although I can play some gens a lot more than I can others. I never got FES, but I've been meaning to fight the bonus boss in portable, and in P4 Golden. The Grinding wasn't the turn off for me, it was more the second playthrough to get there. Monad grinding is easy enough. It's nice when you find those games you just never wanna stop playing. Can't say I've ever played Either of those though. Yeah... The weird part I find with my liking Atelier Meruru particularly is that... it's theoretically very repetitive. I love the crafting system, but I've more or less mastered it now. You can switch out to a few different party members but I basically always use the same 2... I guess each playthrough I'm making a little more progress, because I'm not quite good enough to make huge amounts of progress. But... it's just so damn fun, I don't even think about repetitiveness. I feel you there. Negl, Shelly's gym has put me off many a planned Reborn run. I definitely have a couple of games where I have that mentality. Yeah, FE:A I've played a bunch of times, but usually quite the gap between each playthrough. Never really played FPS games myself much.

If we're gonna be SUPER nitpicky, he doesn't actually say El is in the Elite Four. Cain specifically calls him one of "The Elite" afaik. Strictly speaking, that doesn't rule out El being the champ.

Alright, let's see how fast I can type this so as not to use up all my internet because crappy holiday connection. So,​ I've always been the sort of guy that appreciates replayability in games. Games where you can playthrough multiple times, perhaps via a New Game + (New Game + is a feature I love.) But after thinking about it more, despite how much I value replayability, I also burn out after one or two playthroughs of a game. Told myself I'd get every ending of Shin Megami Tensei IV. I love that game, but I managed Chaos and the early bad ending and now my save file is just lingering at the beginning of a run where I intend to go Law. Said I'd actually beat Margaret in Persona 4, but my file is just lingering midway through playthrough 2. Hell, I only played pokemon Platinum recently, because I got Diamond and Pearl late, so it was too soon after when I got platinum and I just made no progress with it. I mean, we're talking about consecutive playthroughs, immediately after eachother, so I'm sure I'll get back to the games eventually. But after you've already burnt out once, it's hard to convince yourself to play again, despite knowing I'll get back into the games for at least another run if I do. When I got a Vita, I got Ateliers Rorona, Totori, Meruru & Ayesha (all the plus versions), because I was a vague fan of the series at the time. The games are multiple playthrough oriented so I figured "Alright, two playthroughs of each, then I'll move onto the next." I finished Rorona alright the first time, managed none of the new postgame stuff (just spent it building up equipment for playthrough 2). Playthrough 2 went great, did the postgame plot but not any of the bonus dungeons or stuff. All went well. I felt 2 playhroughs was perfect. I knew I wouldn't be able to make it through a third, but I felt content with 2, no sense of burning out, but no huge sense of 'I have to play this again!' because I knew I WOULD burn out. Totori was a little different. It's the oldest of all the update rereleases because lol release order ​and it sort of felt like it. Playthrough 1 was fine, although I was starting to get the feeling of burning out as I finished playthrough 2. 2 still seems the ideal amount though, because it was only at the tail end of the playthrough it started to feel a bit of a chore. Then I played Meruru. While Totori is probably the hardest combat wise, this seemed the strictest with deadlines. First playthrough didn't manage to beat the first big deadline, so I didn't get the full time the game gives you, which is a shame. Second time I managed it way easier, even managed to beat the final boss! Annoyingly though, because time limits, I STILL got the bad ending (You have to return to town to tell everyone and THEN you unlock the ending for beating the final boss. I beat it with one day to spare and he's located like 2 weeks away from town. ;_ . I figured I couldn't possibly go two runs with the bad ending, so I just slipped into playthrough 3. Beat the final boss with like a year to spare, did a buncha other stuff... It was awesome. I had finally found a game that I just don't burn out on. I would've jumped into playthrough number 4 if I didn't have another game to play. Atelier Ayesha was... VERY different to the other games. Took a while to get used to but... I loved it. For different reasons to why I loved Meruru, but I loved it. Three playthroughs later, no signs of burning out here, either. I had discovered two very different games which I had no signs of burning out on at all. Decided to do one more of each. Rorona, as before, was perfect. One more play was just enough to feel satisfied, just on the edge of burning out. Plus I beat all the superbosses. Totori, as before, became a bit of a slog near the end. Definitely a great game, but my least favourite in the series. Got the True Ending though \o/ And I JUST finished playthrough 4 of Meruru. And... I'm sorta in two minds about whether I should jump into number 5, because I love this game, or if I should play Ayesha, because I love that game too. Anyway, my rambling aside, the point of this topic is twofold. One, to share my love of the Atelier games, particularly Ayesha and Meruru, and two, to ask you guys. Do you burn out on multiple playthroughs of the same game? Do you have certain games that you could just never burn out on? Do you force yourself to finishing or even 100%ing a game even if you feel burnt out? I'm interested to see what everyone else is like in this regard.