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Sep 1, 2014 00:40
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OneDeadman posted:His guard sense was tingling. Is...is that a spiderman anime?
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Sep 1, 2014 00:54
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Avengers anime called Disk Wars, because Loki trapped all the heroes in Disks and the kids have to collect them all to rescue them. Except Spider-man, he's like the guide.
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Sep 1, 2014 00:55
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Tae posted:Avengers anime called Disk Wars, because Loki trapped all the heroes in Disks and the kids have to collect them all to rescue them. Also, the Avengers get rendered useless in the like first three episodes by the Loki dangling civilians by a rope.
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Sep 1, 2014 01:02
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Silentman0 posted:I've never seen the show, and from what I can tell it's about a guy trying to break out of prison by doing a lot of lovely stealth sequences. I don't know why I didn't think of reading the plot/synopsis on Wikipedia, but after reading about what happens in each season (especially season one), this show sounds super stupid. Basically one brother is framed for murder by a shadowy organization called The Company and is facing the death penalty in prison while the other brother just so happens to be a "brilliant structural engineer" and makes an escape plan. The game follows a Company employee that is in the prison the framed brother is in to watch his every move. I think I'll watch the LP. The only outcome I can see is hilarity and lots of it.
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Sep 1, 2014 01:04
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Maybe Pat should play Dark Souls again, because I think there's a super heavy nostalgia surrounding his bias and him completely making stuff up at this point. Basically I can't wait until Pat sees Woolie wade through tedious bullshit like consuming souls one by one.
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Sep 1, 2014 02:24
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Tae posted:Maybe Pat should play Dark Souls again, because I think there's a super heavy nostalgia surrounding his bias and him completely making stuff up at this point. I don't know if it's just the fact that it was my first Souls game, but I definitely feel like Dark Souls had more coherent an atmosphere than Dark Souls 2. Like when I think of Dark Souls 1, a very specific atmosphere, sound design and color palette come to mind. When I think of Dark Souls 2, it's just a mishmash of all kinds of stuff and everything feels very disconnected. I do think Dark Souls 2 did most of the gameplay things better than Dark Souls 1, but I still think Dark Souls 1 is better. At the time Dark Souls 1 came out, I thought I was done with singleplayer games completely. Then I realized a singleplayer game just has to be really drat good and difficult to be interesting to me. That's reason alone for me to forever worship Dark Souls 1.
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I never watched Prison Break, I just remember that my mom inadvertently stayed up watching several episodes in succession on Netflix because she thought it was a very long movie and didn't know how Netflix worked yet. So I guess it may be stupid, but it had to be interesting to last a few seasons at the very least.
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Sep 1, 2014 18:46
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Tae posted:Maybe Pat should play Dark Souls again, because I think there's a super heavy nostalgia surrounding his bias and him completely making stuff up at this point. Dark Souls is a more flawed game than DS2, but also a better game. These aren't mutually exclusive.
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Sep 1, 2014 19:50
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Prison Break was interesting for two seasons because it had awesome supporting cast in William Fichtner and the dudes who played Belick and T-Bag. Then they got into ANOTHER prison in Mexico, the "we love 24" subplot got overbearing and then the guys became some sort of A-team trying to break into something.
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Sep 1, 2014 21:04
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hoobajoo posted:Dark Souls is a more flawed game than DS2, but also a better game. These aren't mutually exclusive. Eh, I think DS is better at lore and NPC's but the 2nd half of DS is really bad and boring (they talk about bad boss fights in DS2, DS1 post warp powers are poo poo). DS1 has higher highs, but also way lower lows while DS2 is pretty consistent with arguably as high highs after all the DLC is released.
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Sep 1, 2014 23:38
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I hope there's a podcast tomorrow *cough* Matt *cough*
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Sep 2, 2014 00:14
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Boy, that 2nd DS2 DLC is a super fun level and then I finally get to the first boss and find that he may actually by the hardest fight I've had in a Souls game. Like, beating Snorlax and Pikachu solo was easier.
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Rodyle posted:Boy, that 2nd DS2 DLC is a super fun level and then I finally get to the first boss and find that he may actually by the hardest fight I've had in a Souls game. Like, beating Snorlax and Pikachu solo was easier. He's kind of cheap though. His moveset is pretty easy to play around, but he's got a billion HP and he does that Dark Souls 2 thing where he sometimes has no recovery time after an attack so he splits you in half as you try to counterattack or as you heal, even though it would've been safe 9 times out of 10. So you basically you have to be really careful as you try to whittle down his enormous health bar unless you want to risk randomly dying while healing or attacking. The other new boss is awesome though.
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Sep 2, 2014 01:20
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Minorkos posted:He's kind of cheap though. His moveset is pretty easy to play around, but he's got a billion HP and he does that Dark Souls 2 thing where he sometimes has no recovery time after an attack so he splits you in half as you try to counterattack or as you heal, even though it would've been safe 9 times out of 10. So you basically you have to be really careful as you try to whittle down his enormous health bar unless you want to risk randomly dying while healing or attacking. I thought there were three new bosses? But yeah no Fume Knight's not fun, I'm annoyed because the Tower's such a fun stage and he's just brutal. The one upside is that my Greatsword does obscene damage... just not as much as his.
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Sep 2, 2014 01:38
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Rodyle posted:I thought there were three new bosses? But yeah no Fume Knight's not fun, I'm annoyed because the Tower's such a fun stage and he's just brutal. The one upside is that my Greatsword does obscene damage... just not as much as his. One of the bosses is just an old boss (smelter demon) with a new color palette so I'm hesitant to call him "new" I haven't fought him though. apparently he does have some new moves so there's that
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Sep 2, 2014 01:48
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Tae posted:Eh, I think DS is better at lore and NPC's but the 2nd half of DS is really bad and boring (they talk about bad boss fights in DS2, DS1 post warp powers are poo poo). DS1 has higher highs, but also way lower lows while DS2 is pretty consistent with arguably as high highs after all the DLC is released. This is a nonsense argument and it's constantly brought up but that doesn't make it true. Tomb, Archives, and New Londo are all great areas and I'll take a Lost Izalith any day over crap like the Gutter/Gulch, Mansion-Shrine, and those loving memories.
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Sep 2, 2014 02:41
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Tomb of Giants was bad and Nito (along with all the 3 other Great Soul bosses) were all basically "Have enough HP, swing back" or the worst garbage like Bed of Chaos. I hate the 2nd of half DS1, but like I said I'm a minority voice because I played DS2 over 1 first and was disappointed the 2nd half was basically stand still and swing because the bosses were poo poo.
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Sep 2, 2014 02:54
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Perfect Potato posted:This is a nonsense argument and it's constantly brought up but that doesn't make it true. Tomb, Archives, and New Londo are all great areas and I'll take a Lost Izalith any day over crap like the Gutter/Gulch, Mansion-Shrine, and those loving memories. I thought the Demon Ruins and Lost Izalith were okay, myself. The Catacombs were a really neat area, but gently caress Tomb of the Giants. I can see what they were going for, but having to fight in the dark with just a little bit of light is not my idea of a good time.
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Sep 2, 2014 03:43
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Woolie really needs to start trusting his own instincts more and ignoring some of Pat's advice. He was right in not wanting to use lock on when fighting Old Iron King, but of course Pat talks him out of that.
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Sep 2, 2014 03:45
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Woolie's instincts seem to, in large part, involve standing still and getting pancaked by the slowest moves in the game though.
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Dexie posted:The Catacombs were a really neat area, but gently caress Tomb of the Giants. I can see what they were going for, but having to fight in the dark with just a little bit of light is not my idea of a good time. The entire idea of the area is for you to not have a good time
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Tae posted:Eh, I think DS is better at lore and NPC's but the 2nd half of DS is really bad and boring (they talk about bad boss fights in DS2, DS1 post warp powers are poo poo). DS1 has higher highs, but also way lower lows while DS2 is pretty consistent with arguably as high highs after all the DLC is released. DS2 has better combat and gameplay in my opinion, but Lordan is a way better world to explore and fight in than Drangleic.
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Sep 2, 2014 03:59
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Pat bitched like hell whenever he talks about 30 fps and especially when The Last of Us had that option, so him going back to DS1 where it's maximum 30 and to a point 15 FPS even might kill him.
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Sep 2, 2014 04:04
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Nalesh posted:Didn't that mod thing fix that though? Yeah but it also can break the physics. Sometimes you'll fall through the world when sliding down a ladder, can't make jumps because you fall quicker, etc.
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The game wasn't designed for 30 FPS, and the game in general wasn't designed optimally because of how it uses light particles and probably some of the ragdoll/enemy placements.
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The reason the framerate on vanilla Dark Souls is so poo poo is because it uses a special (lovely) framerate buffering thing that tries to compensate whenever you get fps drops. Basically, vanilla Dark Souls tries to maintain a constant 30 fps. When it dips below some abysmal number, which it does pretty often because of all the particle effects, it'll lock the framerate to I think the mid-20s for half a minute so that it can stop swiveling all over the place like a car with three popped tires hydroplaning at 50 mph down a highway. Also if you drop below 15 fps for any substantial amount of time the game boots you out to the main menu and sets you to offline mode because it thinks you're trying to cheat. edit: DSFix on PC disables this functionality (the former, anyway) thankfully and there is 1 ladder in the game that drops you through the world only if you slide down it and it's directly next to a bonfire, so even if it did happen it'd be funny and not frustrating because your bloodstain spawns at the top of the ladder when you come back.
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Early PAXcast! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKr7UXTChsM
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CJacobs posted:Also if you drop below 15 fps for any substantial amount of time the game boots you out to the main menu and sets you to offline mode because it thinks you're trying to cheat. I would have this problem if I tried to plug my gamepad in at anything other than the main menu, because doing so would cause the game to hitch for a few seconds, naturally dropping the framerate below 15. 
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The flame breath from the gargoyles is also likely to do it (it's one of the first areas where it'll just happen to any ol first-time player) if one of the two has just done a stomp/swipe as the combination of dust and fire particles causes the game to grind straight to a halt. Dark Souls 2 is unbelievably well optimized considering how awful Dark Souls 1's port was, I'm glad From came through on their promise that it would be better.
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I feel like Adaptability is a purely negative addition to the gameplay. Slowing down healing all around is fine (In DS1 you can survive attacks by just poisetanking and drinking) but gutting rolls was a fuckup. E: Giant Bomb panel spoilers on the Friendcast. Rody One Half fucked around with this message at 11:51 on Sep 2, 2014 |
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Sep 2, 2014 11:40
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The discussion on cheese cake factory is the most quaint thing ever.
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Rodyle posted:I feel like Adaptability is a purely negative addition to the gameplay. Slowing down healing all around is fine (In DS1 you can survive attacks by just poisetanking and drinking) but gutting rolls was a fuckup. I think the biggest problem with it is that it's hard to actually see what it's doing for you because there's no like, indicator of how many iframes you have during rolling. It ends up being this weird inexact science where the most you can say is "having higher agility is probably better for me" but it's never really clear until you actually try playing with fewer points in it and discover that, holy poo poo, it really makes a huge loving difference. Like if Woolie had pumped adaptability like crazy at the beginning of the game he probably would have had a much easier time with Pursuer and some of the other early game bosses. It just doesn't make any sense for a game where they were supposedly trying to make things easier for new players to introduce this weird fuzzy stat that can very subtly have a huge impact on people's experiences.
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Is anyone else having trouble downloading the latest podcast on their main page? If so, there a mirror I can download the podcast from? EDIT: oh it got fixed. Nice work Zaibatsu Thwack! fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Sep 2, 2014 |
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Sep 2, 2014 15:15
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I wonder how fast Woolie died playing Bloodbourne after Pat came over and was in his ear.
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Sep 2, 2014 15:21
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Wow, the world in the Prison Break game is weirdly well thought out for such a poo poo game. In part 3, Pat loses because he's trying to climb over a big pile of boxes to get to a fence he saw, when they actually needed to go the other way. In part 4 they go back through that area from the opposite direction, and the boxes are being loaded onto forklifts and moved and stuff because time has passed, and now Pat can get to the fence. Neither of them noticed this, I don't think!
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I never laughed out loud as much as I did when they had the Waifu discussion. Pat's first waifu is apparently a girl from...Tekken? Or was is virtual fighter. edit: That loving flip into the necksnap is nonsense, where did that come from Tae fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Sep 2, 2014 |
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Rodyle posted:E: Giant Bomb panel spoilers on the Friendcast. On one hand I'm pissed at this, but on the other hand I'm psyched to see Dave Lang in a gorilla costume and Alex getting backstaged by someone (Dan? Dr. Tracksuit? JEFF GREEN?!)
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