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Re: I can't stop playing Disgaea. by FABIO 07/21/2004, 3:12am PDT
Zseni on Windows XP :( wrote:

But I'm starting to really hate playing it. I had the same problem with Morrowind. I hated playing Morrowind but I loved the idea of playing Morrowind; I hate playing Disgaea, there's only one thing to fucking do and I've done a fuckton of it, but I love the idea of levelling. Levelling, yeah! I haven't even played that much. My Laharl is level 198 and I've never transmigrated him, either. I don't have soldiers or angels or majin either/


I take it you've beaten the main plot (my Laharl was somewhere in the 70's when that happened). If so, stop playing. Immediately. It's all a complete waste after that.

I really had fun with the main game, but after that it's all pain. It's what pisses me off most about disgaea, they make it look like there are all these endless ways to beef up your party: transmigration strategies, learning pupil spells from different classes, levelling up your items, using some sneaky and l337 way to conquer enemies, etc.


Lies, all lies.


None of that stuff is the slightest bit necessary to beat the main game. Then once you beat the main game, all the traditional rules go flying out the window and your best bet lies with cheesy, boring tactics.


Levelling up your party means jack shit. As you hit the secret areas, all you need is to concentrate on beefing up your single most powerful member then have mages constantly cast braveheart/magic boost on him while sacrificing one of them as a decoy (since the A.I. always goes for the unit with the least hitpoints) every turn to make sure your lone champion survives longer against the uber boss you're fighting. But even that becomes worthless when the game hands you characters 2-3 times more powerful than your champion and you watch him just become another damage sponge.

Levelling up any item but the 4-8 most powerful in the game (which you won't get until almost the very end of all the secret shit) is a complete waste of time. Just wait until a better item comes along. The best items in the game also come with the 2 uber characters the game gives you. These items will go to your champion.

Even levelling up your two uber characters (they come at about levels 2000 & 2500) will be meaningless because the best strategy in the game for the last secret uber boss of bosses is to just combine enemies into a level 9999 monsters and capture them.


It's really not at all worth it. Stop now and save yourself 20 hours of staring at Cave of Ordeal 3, then another 30 in item world. Take it from every Disgaea veteran on this board.


If you want a game that will cure your need to play Disgaea, why not try La Pussy Tactics, the predecessor to Disgaea? Sure it got the Penney Arcade seal of approval/kiss of death, but it might just do the trick.
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I can't stop playing Disgaea. by Zseni on Windows XP :( 07/20/2004, 1:06am PDT NEW
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