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Walton Simons posted:Sunless Sea doesn't vary close to enough early on between games for me to consider having another crack at it after dying 5 hours into a campaign for one mistake. This is a huge problem with those kinds of roguelike-esque games in general. The early game is terribly samey once you've played a few times, and your character/ship/whatever isn't actually very interesting to play until later on. But every time you die you start over again at the boring bit.
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FTL got around it very well by having a pretty tough level of difficulty all the way through, along with starting ships requiring very different strategies. What you found in shops or as random drops could switch your strategy totally, keeping it interesting. Sunless Sea falls into the trap of gun > bigger gun > biggerer gun and poo poo engine > ok engine > good engine being the progression every time.
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FF14 added chocobo racing which people say its like mario kart. Except in mario kart I could knock over someone who was intentionally placing their car in front of me so I could pass them, or it didn't take a few second for me to turn my wheel with an obvious tell to try and get around him that the guy in front of me will notice and will also turn to block me off. EDIT: Oh and its unbelievable how good endurance and stamina is. Really, why bother with any other skills then these 2. I enjoy racing against players with high endurance/high stamina birds that can spend the majority of the race sprinting and have zero ability to catch up with him. It also makes briars the worst thing to be used against you cause it saps up your stamina and once thats zero may as well just alt tab out cause you aren't doing poo poo the rest of the race. Leal has a new favorite as of 04:43 on Feb 26, 2015 |
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Feb 26, 2015 04:01
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Nuebot posted:So since I actually have cause to play my 3DS again, there's something dragging down all my games. It's funny, in ye olde days with my Game Boy Color I had to seek out the sunlight because that made the screen clearest, yet for every subsequent handheld I've had to find good enough shade to keep the screen from washing out.
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Feb 26, 2015 04:07
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Febreeze posted:It might be, but they are hard to hit with the Super Missiles because they are so fast. Just wait for them to do their two-handed charge-up and blast them then.
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Feb 26, 2015 06:05
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Accordion Man posted:The original rear end Creed actually had that. If you did enough brutal kills, usually with hidden blade counters, the guards would panic and run away. There was a nice scene in the original Mass Effect game where you could threaten two guys after shooting through a room of guards and they'd go "yeah, gently caress this" and walk away.
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Feb 26, 2015 08:45
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Okami HD crashed on me yesterday after like an hour of doing sidequest stuff. I don't know how hard it would have been to give it autosave, but I sure would have appreciated it.
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Feb 26, 2015 09:15
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My Lovely Horse posted:Okami HD crashed on me yesterday after like an hour of doing sidequest stuff. I don't know how hard it would have been to give it autosave, but I sure would have appreciated it.
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Feb 26, 2015 12:42
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Gestalt Intellect posted:In metal gear solid 4 you can sneak up behind someone who hasn't spotted you and point a gun at them, tell them to stick 'em up and they'll actually surrender, letting you safely knock them out.
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Feb 26, 2015 16:11
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Mount & Blade: with Fire & Sword (and to a lesser extent, Warband): After starting a siege by blowing up a fortress wall, the first thing most of my idiot soldiers do is climb up the drat castle walls from the inside, in pursuit of the 3 or so weak-rear end marksmen always stationed up there. All the while the remaining ~10% of my men remain on ground level getting gangbanged by loving veteran Winged Hussars. Argh.
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Feb 26, 2015 19:03
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Catpain Slack posted:Mount & Blade: with Fire & Sword (and to a lesser extent, Warband): After starting a siege by blowing up a fortress wall, the first thing most of my idiot soldiers do is climb up the drat castle walls from the inside, in pursuit of the 3 or so weak-rear end marksmen always stationed up there. You know you can control your troops right? Just command them to follow you and charge through that breach 
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Away all Goats posted:You know you can control your troops right? Just command them to follow you and charge through that breach Yes but i'm here to slaughter and not loving micromanage Also I tend to sneak around back and shoot those enemy pigdogs in the back of the head.
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Feb 27, 2015 11:15
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Act III of MGS4 is atrocious
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There are event bosses in Guild Wars 2 I've fought several times that I've never seen because the screen is too clogged with usernames. I have to like, hit TAB to target it. It's actually more funny than anything, but seems kind of silly.
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Feb 28, 2015 00:51
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EmmyOk posted:Act III of MGS4 is atrocious You mean you don't like walking forward, cutscene, motorcycle chase, boss fight? I haven't played that game in years but it felt like the chapter install time was longer than the chapter if you skin the cutscenes.
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Feb 28, 2015 00:53
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Len posted:You mean you don't like walking forward, cutscene, motorcycle chase, boss fight? I haven't played that game in years but it felt like the chapter install time was longer than the chapter if you skin the cutscenes. The PSN version doesn't have those which is nice. Nah I mean tailing the guy, it's obnoxious on Big Boss mode.
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Feb 28, 2015 00:57
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Is it as bad with one of the beauty masks on?
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EmmyOk posted:The PSN version doesn't have those which is nice. Nah I mean tailing the guy, it's obnoxious on Big Boss mode. They actually eventuall patched the game so you could install everything at once instead of piecemeal.
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Feb 28, 2015 02:36
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ChaosArgate posted:Is it as bad with one of the beauty masks on? Yeah they all spotted me, I eventually got the hang of it but it's still pretty bad.
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Feb 28, 2015 02:38
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Stop playing MGS4
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Austrian Mook is my favorite thing dragging down the game of life.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Austrian Mook is my favorite thing dragging down the game of life. I'm sorry to tell you this, but MGS4 is a complete piece of poo poo. Hopefully Kojima pulls his head out of his rear end for the next one.
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Feb 28, 2015 03:56
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EmmyOk posted:Act III of MGS4 is atrocious It's really a shame, cause I absolutely loved the first two acts. I felt as though I could play them like an actual stealth game instead of me being lead around on a rope for 45 minutes.
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Austrian mook posted:I'm sorry to tell you this, but MGS4 is a complete piece of poo poo. Hopefully Kojima pulls his head out of his rear end for the next one. Have a little goddamn sympathy rear end in a top hat.
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Kojima: "Here, I've finished the design document for MGS4." Konami Executive: "This is 'please stop making me make these' written four hundred times in your blood." Kojima: "There's also a part with robots!"
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Feb 28, 2015 07:17
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Skyrim: NPCs always love to drag you into their business. Last time I played I would actually actively run from NPCs whenever I went into a new town cause they were going to throw poo poo in my quest log and I have 15 other quests cause fuuuuck I just want to sell off these 50 iron swords I found. But today I've noticed something new: In the very beginning when you go to Whiterun there is a few NPCs fighting a troll outside of Whiterun. I never saw this before and in fact I wouldn't of noticed it in this run, I was just picking plants nearby. Apparently when the NPCs finish off the troll regardless if you join the fight or not one of them will loving run up to you and berate you for not joining the fight! God dammit Bethesda its ok for players to explore and talk to NPCs themselves you don't have to make events happen in every settlement to force the player to talk to some NPCs! The worst of it is that I have to download a mod to ensure I can walk into a certain town and NOT be forced into joining the thieves guild cause when you walk in you're immediately approached by the recruiter!
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Skyrim is pretty annoying in that way. Usually with open world games, when an NPC asks you to do something for them that triggers the start of a quest, you have the option of saying "No, gently caress you, I don't want to do that". Skyrim offers you no such option in many cases, short of quite literally walking away from the conversation to end it before you say "yes". Which is dumb.
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Leal posted:The worst of it is that I have to download a mod to ensure I can walk into a certain town and NOT be forced into joining the thieves guild cause when you walk in you're immediately approached by the recruiter! But nothing happens if you don't do that quest though, does it? If you don't want to, just don't. 
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Tiggum posted:But nothing happens if you don't do that quest though, does it? If you don't want to, just don't. If you play with this mentality you'll have 20 quests making GBS threads up your quest log that you have to sift through to read about the quests you actually want to do. Sure, there is no consequence for not doing it other than the NPCs involved in the quest hanging in stasis forever just waiting for you to walk up and talk to them, but the simple option to say "No, I don't want to help you with that, leave me alone" would take like ten extra minutes at most to fully implement. Since there's no way to abandon quests, that ten minutes they didn't spend equates to you playing the rest of the game being annoyed by it if you're that kind of person.
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it's called "hit the escape key and end the conversation you loving nerd"
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CJacobs posted:If you play with this mentality you'll have 20 quests making GBS threads up your quest log that you have to sift through to read about the quests you actually want to do. I remember there being a gem/precious stone quest that you get for grabbing one of the 24(?) in the game. Since the objective is to find them all, and they are distributed all over the game's world I can understand why it wouldn't show me where they may be located, but is it too much to ask to place a red X or something on my map where I have found them? I never completed that quest because I figured I'd just find the gems as I played and by the time I beat the game I still only had about 3 of the things and the only way I was going to complete that quest was with a guide, map and checklist.
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Alouicious posted:it's called "hit the escape key and end the conversation you loving nerd" But that's laaaameee
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Jobbo_Fett posted:I remember there being a gem/precious stone quest that you get for grabbing one of the 24(?) in the game. Since the objective is to find them all, and they are distributed all over the game's world I can understand why it wouldn't show me where they may be located, but is it too much to ask to place a red X or something on my map where I have found them? I never completed that quest because I figured I'd just find the gems as I played and by the time I beat the game I still only had about 3 of the things and the only way I was going to complete that quest was with a guide, map and checklist. As much as I love Skyrim, that quest aggravates the poo poo out of me. Some of the gems are hidden in faction areas, such as the Mage College, Assassin's Guild, etc. I shouldn't have to join evert drat group to complete the quest. I understand how that could happen in real life, but dammit, my 2 handed warrior doesn't wanna join the Mage College!
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10 Beers posted:As much as I love Skyrim, that quest aggravates the poo poo out of me. Some of the gems are hidden in faction areas, such as the Mage College, Assassin's Guild, etc. I shouldn't have to join evert drat group to complete the quest. I understand how that could happen in real life, but dammit, my 2 handed warrior doesn't wanna join the Mage College! Skyrim wants really hard for you to do everything on the same character. In the progress of the main quest alone, you're outright forced to associate with the Thieves' Guild no matter what, and can only avoid becoming a student of the College of Winterhold by passing the highest Speech check in the game.
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EmmyOk posted:Yeah they all spotted me, I eventually got the hang of it but it's still pretty bad. Wait that counts as an alert? I could've sworn that if you're wearing one of the masks of the beauties, they'll turn a blind eye to you unless you're super obvious?
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ChaosArgate posted:Wait that counts as an alert? I could've sworn that if you're wearing one of the masks of the beauties, they'll turn a blind eye to you unless you're super obvious? Well it wasn't so much the guards seeing me as it was for the guy I was tailing. Once I got the hang of things it wasn't nearly so bad, but it was still quite unfun compared to the rest of the game. Another thing that threw me off but on reflection is really cool was the man in the hat and overcoat who is made up of all the little robots. I didn't realise the resistance member always went back to the start. So I would occasionally see the robot peeking around corners and assume that was a member I was supposed to be following. P cool that you see him around before the cutscene though
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Cleretic posted:Skyrim wants really hard for you to do everything on the same character. I cannot understand how anyone could have a problem with this. You're playing a game and enjoying it, but you want to skip bits? Why? If it's a case of "this is a tedious minigame, I don't want to have to do it" fine, but you want to skip whole sidequests? Why? 
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Tiggum posted:I cannot understand how anyone could have a problem with this. You're playing a game and enjoying it, but you want to skip bits? Why? If it's a case of "this is a tedious minigame, I don't want to have to do it" fine, but you want to skip whole sidequests? Why? How could anyone want to roleplay a specific character? Why?
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Some people don't have 300+ hours to burn on a game, you nerd
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DStecks posted:How could anyone want to roleplay a specific character? Why? With other people? Sure. Alone with your computer though? Your idea of role-playing is Skyrim? Do you not have friends? ElGroucho posted:Some people don't have 300+ hours to burn on a game, you nerd If that's directed at me, that's the exact reason I want to do everything the first time. I don't have the time (or inclination) to play through every game multiple times to see all the different stuff. The more of it I can see in a single go, the better.
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