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Epic High Five posted:I hope people enjoyed my 95% blind Hollow Knight playthrough as I was recapping it in realtime, I picked about the worst time for it in terms of what the thread is talking about lol gj guy it's a fun game
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Aug 16, 2023 01:13
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Epic High Five posted:I hope people enjoyed my 95% blind Hollow Knight playthrough as I was recapping it in realtime, I picked about the worst time for it in terms of what the thread is talking about lol as someone who's played hollow knight and had a very enjoyable time with it, i did, but i sometimes did double takes and had to remember what game you were actually talking about lol e: in gta 5 today i blew up a bunch of american soldiers for insulting my canadian accent. gently caress you, imperialism.
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Aug 16, 2023 01:13
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Lostconfused posted:Level 5 is a huge power jump for melee classes with an extra attack. if I get the drop on someone I can get off four attacks now before they can even do anything
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Aug 16, 2023 01:14
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Epic High Five posted:I hope people enjoyed my 95% blind Hollow Knight playthrough as I was recapping it in realtime, I picked about the worst time for it in terms of what the thread is talking about lol tbh i thought you were just way ahead of me in elden ring or bg3 or something but i appreciate it bc "it's harder than dark souls" will keep me from wasting my time with hoolow knight
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Aug 16, 2023 01:14
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Arivia posted:as someone who's played hollow knight and had a very enjoyable time with it, i did, but i sometimes did double takes and had to remember what game you were actually talking about lol Yeah there were a few times I thought I should be more specific, but I'm a very lazy phone typer and more importantly, I thought the moment of confusion where readers are trying to overlay BG3 onto Hollow Knight would be very funny
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Aug 16, 2023 01:14
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the milk machine posted:tbh i thought you were just way ahead of me in elden ring or bg3 or something but i appreciate it bc "it's harder than dark souls" will keep me from wasting my time with hoolow knight honestly as someone who's finished dark souls after hollow knight i found dark souls much more difficult. i think it's a ymmv thing, because i was loving the combat and platforming in hollow knight and i've met some people who've seen the pogo move you do all the time and instantly swore off the game.
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Aug 16, 2023 01:15
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the milk machine posted:tbh i thought you were just way ahead of me in elden ring or bg3 or something but i appreciate it bc "it's harder than dark souls" will keep me from wasting my time with hoolow knight I'd say it's about as hard as dark souls, maybe less so because the nature of the format means bosses just can't do as much mean stuff without becoming literally impossible. It was harder by far for me because 1) I'm extremely familiar with the Souls style of combat and 2) I'm extremely bad at 2D combat Arivia posted:honestly as someone who's finished dark souls after hollow knight i found dark souls much more difficult. i think it's a ymmv thing, because i was loving the combat and platforming in hollow knight and i've met some people who've seen the pogo move you do all the time and instantly swore off the game. Like this, I could never pogo for more than 3 times in a row before I'd gently caress up and eat poo poo. Luckily by refusing to do it the most you lose is the earliest chance at this or that bauble or upgrade fragment.
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Aug 16, 2023 01:16
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Epic High Five posted:I'd say it's about as hard as dark souls, maybe less so because the nature of the format means bosses just can't do as much mean stuff without becoming literally impossible. It was harder by far for me because 1) I'm extremely familiar with the Souls style of combat and 2) I'm extremely bad at 2D combat yeah conversely i fuckin hated kalameet because i have literally no depth perception and kept loving up where his moves were going and poo poo. got him down but it was drat frustrating.
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Aug 16, 2023 01:18
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Another thing is that it feels like character stories are tied to specific zones, and they have like no meaningful lines or interactions outside of them.
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Aug 16, 2023 01:24
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Epic High Five posted:I'd say it's about as hard as dark souls, maybe less so because the nature of the format means bosses just can't do as much mean stuff without becoming literally impossible. It was harder by far for me because 1) I'm extremely familiar with the Souls style of combat and 2) I'm extremely bad at 2D combat you're better than me because I could not beat the radiance to save my fuckin life. gave up eventually. it's a good game but melee combat where merely touching enemies hurts you makes me grumpy
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Aug 16, 2023 01:33
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what's the most op class in bg3? monk is too boring
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Aug 16, 2023 01:34
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the milk machine posted:what's the most op class in bg3? monk is too boring wizard if you know what you're doing
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Aug 16, 2023 01:37
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The gently caress is this Lich getting all judgey about you not getting laid. loving skeletor over here with a love life deader than a rotting fish.
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Aug 16, 2023 01:37
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Lostconfused posted:The gently caress is this Lich getting all judgey about you not getting laid. loving skeletor over here with a love life deader than a rotting fish. it's the forgotten realms. liches get laid so often there's a 3e feat about it
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Aug 16, 2023 01:38
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Buck Wildman posted:wizard if you know what you're doing hmmm what if i only half know what i'm doing
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Aug 16, 2023 01:38
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i had a pretty good time being a vengeance paladin never did any stupid multi-class nonsense, you get haste, misty step and vow of enmity plus divine smites to just blast dudes into nothingness. The guy who shows up towards the start of act 2 to kidnap someone ate a divine smite crit to the face and died in the first round of combat before he could do poo poo.
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Aug 16, 2023 01:38
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World War Mammories posted:you're better than me because I could not beat the radiance to save my fuckin life. gave up eventually. it's a good game but melee combat where merely touching enemies hurts you makes me grumpy I just maxed out my hearts, maxed out spell and nail damage (at the expense of reach and speed to make room for the health, I figured if I can hit it will only be once and right up close), and operated on a Dodge > Nuke > Nail program. I'm not a finesse gamer so once the game opened up enough that I could just start brute forcing through stubborn repetition things eased up edit - to this end, I cannot recommend the Grubsong highly enough. A one notch charm firmly in the S-tier. It, Spore Shroom, and Quick Focus carried me in some fights super early on Epic High Five has issued a correction as of 01:43 on Aug 16, 2023 |
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Aug 16, 2023 01:38
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the milk machine posted:hmmm what if i only half know what i'm doing bard
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Aug 16, 2023 01:38
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Buck Wildman posted:bard he'll yeah
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Aug 16, 2023 01:39
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i chose to be gale cause i like his purple clothes what are the op cheesy spells to get?
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Aug 16, 2023 01:41
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Can you make a character exactly like the first NPC you meet, kill them, and tell people you're a mimic. Or don't I guess but that's just a normal evil playthrough oh man I think that's gonna be my next pitch to the poor DM who has to deal with my characters
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Aug 16, 2023 01:44
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the milk machine posted:tbh i thought you were just way ahead of me in elden ring or bg3 or something but i appreciate it bc "it's harder than dark souls" will keep me from wasting my time with hoolow knight Imho dark souls is much harder than hollow knight. Hollow knight is a 9/10 game that's worth playing even if it is a bit obtuse in the beginning. Definitely fewer instances of trying to outsmart/trick the player. If there's a bunch of free dlc for it I'm gonna go check that out actually
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Aug 16, 2023 01:44
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Hatebag posted:Imho dark souls is much harder than hollow knight. Hollow knight is a 9/10 game that's worth playing even if it is a bit obtuse in the beginning. Definitely fewer instances of trying to outsmart/trick the player. If there's a bunch of free dlc for it I'm gonna go check that out actually but yes overall I'd say dark souls is harder. HK is not exactly a "hard" game per se.
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Aug 16, 2023 01:48
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Yeah it's 10/10 for me, I've got some issues with it but every single one is so minor as to be irrelevant. I have never played a game in this genre before in my life where I felt like it really understood what could be possible within the constraints and had as much trust in its players as is a hallmark of the Souls genre for me
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Aug 16, 2023 01:52
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My suspicion is that most people will find it much easier than I did, and especially will not find the same bosses that stonewalled me to be so difficult. That's normal for any game tho, I always find some weirdly hard bosses to be a breeze and struggle on super simple ones. I don't think I've been hit by a Draconic Tree Sentinel in 3 playthroughs, and found Soul Master/Tyrant to be a little easy if a ton of fun. Sewer Mohg and Caelid tower Godskin, however...
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Aug 16, 2023 01:56
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If you liked it, i'd also suggest checkin' out Super Metroid (i think its on the Switch VC library) and also Castlevania Symphony of the Night those 2, along with HK, are 10/10s and form the holy trifecta of the genre. there's plenty of other good ones but nothing compares to the holy trinity.
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Aug 16, 2023 01:57
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Unfortunately this means I've moved from the sidelines of the Silksong pining and onto the playing field
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Aug 16, 2023 01:57
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also blasphemous 2 comes out later this month and the first one is like $7 on steam rn
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Aug 16, 2023 01:59
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Buck Wildman posted:also blasphemous 2 comes out later this month and the first one is like $7 on steam rn Got that and put some time into it, but it felt like I was way more interested in the concept than the actual gameplay. I plan on revisiting it tho now that I've got a lot more time with the game style under my belt, if the combat becomes even just a bit more entertaining I'd love to just explore every nook and cranny of that world
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Aug 16, 2023 02:00
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yeah it oozes aesthetic but the gameplay is not bad but not remarkable either
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Aug 16, 2023 02:01
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i have never played an armored core but this new one intrigues me
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Aug 16, 2023 02:02
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the big question with hollow knight is where the hell is the Silksong sequel did it get canned?
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Aug 16, 2023 02:04
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Maybe my playing the original unbound the seal that prevented the game from coming out and it'll drop tomorrow by surprise
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Aug 16, 2023 02:07
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Epic High Five posted:Got that and put some time into it, but it felt like I was way more interested in the concept than the actual gameplay. I plan on revisiting it tho now that I've got a lot more time with the game style under my belt, if the combat becomes even just a bit more entertaining I'd love to just explore every nook and cranny of that world nah your first assessment is absolutely correct. the concept/art is cool (extremely cool), but the actual gameplay is very middling and mediocre. that's not to say it was bad, but combat isn't that fluid and is more like an older castlevania game in terms of stiffness. it lacked the piz-zaz and flow of newer games. there isn't nearly as much neatr poo poo to explore and nooks like HK. infact, pretty little iirc. being a weird trad cath hosed up poo poo was about the only thing that carried it. that said, I'll probably still buy and play Blasph' 2 as long as I hear it doesn't suck. now that you've lost your virginity, i still say checkout Super Metroid and Castlevania SoTN (and then if you like SoTN, check out the DS games like Portrait of Ruin n stuff). also if you like castlevania, checkout Bloodstained Xaris has issued a correction as of 02:17 on Aug 16, 2023 |
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Aug 16, 2023 02:11
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Koirhor posted:the big question with hollow knight is where the hell is the Silksong sequel did it get canned? it's coming out after Barkley 2
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Aug 16, 2023 02:12
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A Buttery Pastry posted:i think it's just that people are like "wow, i didn't know people could make good games" and some developers being hurt by the implication that theirs are poo poo caliisto protocol PR guys: peeps not paying a $2000 GPU and another $60+ on terribly written, made and optimized rendered movies is actually gaming genocide
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Aug 16, 2023 02:17
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Palladium posted:caliisto protocol PR guys: peeps not paying a $2000 GPU and another $60+ on terribly written, made and optimized rendered movies is actually gaming genocide lol that had to be one of my biggest gaming disappointments of recent history. Also Scorn. and also stray man there's been a huge torrential downpour of just dissapointing western AA/AAA games the past couple of years. ppl should make good games instead of mediocre and bad games Xaris has issued a correction as of 02:21 on Aug 16, 2023 |
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Aug 16, 2023 02:19
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Xaris posted:lol that had to be one of my biggest gaming disappointments of recent history. Also Scorn. and also stray a bunch of devs responded to the positive reviews of bg3 by going "hey c'mon don't get your hopes up and expect good games" on twitter. we're all loving doomed.
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Aug 16, 2023 02:25
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we are oppressed by the Big Indie Monopoly
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Aug 16, 2023 02:30
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ER came out and nothing changed dont worry big devs will be fine also alot of money was thrown at BG3 idk if indie means anything anymore
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Aug 16, 2023 02:34
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