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Phlegmish posted:Wait you didn't keep rerolling until you had godlike stats in almost everything? bitchmade
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Cleretic posted:gently caress if I know how you'd stat that sort of thing, though.
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Feb 17, 2016 19:10
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My Lovely Horse posted:It's become fairly common to say "just stat it however you need for the mechanics to work, and how you describe it in the end is up to you." Yeah in my long running game my cleric wears medium armor (5e so that's the best they get) but she's more of a shrine maiden type cleric so the wearing metal armor doesn't really work. So with the DM I justified it as she's wearing robes in-game but gets the benefits and penalties of the armor. I justify the penalties of medium armor (Not being able to swim or sneak as well) as just being very poor athletically, and the benefits of increased AC as just dumb luck or divine intervention keeping her from getting hit. Ideally more RPGs would take a pillars of eternity approach where everyone can wear everything, just accept different bonuses and trade-offs but until then, you just kinda optimize it and then bullshit an explanation.
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Feb 17, 2016 20:02
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Morglon posted:Lots of console games do that. That's my big complaint with ports, you're on PC now, map a few more buttons, there's plenty. In Mass Effect they at least made you double tap that button which was still annoying when you were trying to get anywhere else fast but better than the alternative. Oh my god this poo poo in mass effect 3 multiplayer. Sprint and take cover are the same button on the PC. Let me just sprint away from this thing that's trying to murder me and then- NOPE, instead I'm gonna hide right in front of this goddamn barrel with my rear end waving in these dudes' faces, aaaaaaand I'm dead. 
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I wish it was only sprint and take cover on the same button. No, instead they decided to use a single button for sprinting, taking cover, vaulting cover, shifting between or around cover, reviving players, and interacting with objects. Nothing like seeing your teammate run over to try to help you just to repeatedly shove their butt into a nearby wall because putting 4 context sensitive actions that frequently overlap on the same button seemed like a good idea. Super fun multiplayer, awful controls.
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Feb 17, 2016 20:34
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Advance dialogue in Mass Effect: Spacebar/A Button Choose dialogue in Mass Effect: Spacebar/ A Button
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Feb 17, 2016 22:27
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Multiple verbs sharing a single button always sucks.
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Feb 17, 2016 22:36
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I'm playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution right now and it's super clever that different actions are decided by if you hold the button or just tap it. It has also never misfired for me (or taken to long to do), so the length is incredibly well designed.
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Feb 17, 2016 22:44
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Advance dialogue in Mass Effect: Spacebar/A Button ZeldaTutorialRepeat.jpg
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Feb 17, 2016 22:52
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Arrath posted:ZeldaTutorialRepeat.jpg That was also the only time in the entire game the "yes, please repeat everything" choice was the default one. So you'd pick it by mistake, hammer through the dialogue again, only to hammer "yes, please repeat everything". I really want to know the logic behind that.
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Feb 17, 2016 23:44
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Borderlands 2: Having big maps is good, having only one spawn point in those maps when you restart the game is not so good.
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Feb 17, 2016 23:56
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Arrath posted:ZeldaTutorialRepeat.jpg  Ugly In The Morning posted:That was also the only time in the entire game the "yes, please repeat everything" choice was the default one. So you'd pick it by mistake, hammer through the dialogue again, only to hammer "yes, please repeat everything". I really want to know the logic behind that. Don't forget that B is the same as A in dialogue, so trying to mash B and hope B would default to "No" or at least not be a valid input didn't work!
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Feb 18, 2016 00:09
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Simply Simon posted:I'm playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution right now and it's super clever that different actions are decided by if you hold the button or just tap it. It has also never misfired for me (or taken to long to do), so the length is incredibly well designed. On a tangential note, more games should really take after HR's dialogue system: Simple summaries on the radial to keep everything tidy, but hovering over them reveals exactly what I'm about to say.
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Feb 18, 2016 03:06
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John Murdoch posted:On a tangential note, more games should really take after HR's dialogue system: Simple summaries on the radial to keep everything tidy, but hovering over them reveals exactly what I'm about to say. I've been playing Binary Domain (which rules, and is going to be free on Steam in a few days so keep your eyes peeled) but the tacked-on voice recognition system is even worse because of this. One of the game's gimmicks is that you're part of a squad and how well members perform is based on how much they like you. Aside from obvious things like hurting them with friendly fire, the big factor is how you respond to them based on scripted conversations with 2 or 3 single-word answers that do a piss-poor job at explaining what the actual response is. Also if you don't stand still and let the whole conversation play out then you're at risk for getting penalized for "walking away".
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Feb 18, 2016 03:10
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Sleeveless posted:I've been playing Binary Domain (which rules, and is going to be free on Steam in a few days so keep your eyes peeled) but the tacked-on voice recognition system is even worse because of this. do you need a mic to play the game or can you just use menu controls if there's no mic detected?
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Feb 18, 2016 03:44
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Action Tortoise posted:do you need a mic to play the game or can you just use menu controls if there's no mic detected? You can disable the mic controls, in which case you just hold the Tab key and choose your dialogue option from a list. It is a really fun game, having robots as the enemies means what could be a generic 3rd-person cover shooter is a lot more fun than it has any right being because enemies can be dismembered and decapitated and keep on trucking and bosses are huge robots/vehicles you have to methodically dismantle.
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Feb 18, 2016 03:46
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I like that basketball game that gives you a technical foul if you swear in realistic mode.
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Feb 18, 2016 03:48
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Perestroika posted:So I'm replaying Splinter Cell: Blacklist right now, and there's only one question in my mind: Who thought it would be a good idea to have "take cover" and "jump over cover" mapped to the same drat button? So many times now I've been disovered because instead of taking cover behind some wall with an enemy on the other side, the game decided I'd much rather slide right in their face. In Conviction dropping down was left trigger, which would screw me over a few times when I was trying to aim at an enemy while hanging from a pipe and use item was X so instead of reloading my gun I'd trigger an emp and alert the guards around me. I miss the drop down menus early Splinter Cell games had that let you perform multiple functions. Sleeveless posted:You can disable the mic controls, in which case you just hold the Tab key and choose your dialogue option from a list. I saw some of slowbeef's playthrough and it's funny watching him stumbling through voice commands but it didn't look too fleshed out to work as a replacement for aiming at a general area/target and selecting commands.
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Feb 18, 2016 03:51
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Action Tortoise posted:do you need a mic to play the game or can you just use menu controls if there's no mic detected? You have to dig into a menu to turn them off. Please turn them off because otherwise the game is great.
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The voice recognition is poo poo. You WANT to turn them off. Also play with a controller. Otherwise the couple QTE bits are REALLY hard.
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Feb 18, 2016 03:58
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John Murdoch posted:On a tangential note, more games should really take after HR's dialogue system: Simple summaries on the radial to keep everything tidy, but hovering over them reveals exactly what I'm about to say. Dreamfall Chapters has a nice feature where if you hover over a dialogue option it shows a characters internal monolouge as for why they might say that. It helps avoid you saying something the author intended differently than you read it.
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Sleeveless posted:You can disable the mic controls, in which case you just hold the Tab key and choose your dialogue option from a list. Yeah it's a fantastic game but the "dialogue" system is really half-baked. Luckily it's incredibly obvious what to pick as every set of options consists of one that's nice and three that are insults!
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Feb 18, 2016 04:13
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I just started playing Splinter Cell: Conviction and it's disappointing. I'll admit, it's been a long time since I played the original Splinter Cell games, and I never played Double Agent, but Conviction is a standard cover shooter with some measly stealth mechanics attached. I know the original games weren't huge and didn't have things like multiple ways to complete objectives, but there's not much here that's very interesting, even for a cover shooter. The most interesting level so far was the first one, and it's just gotten worse from there. Stealth doesn't seem to have much of a purpose, since a lot of the enemies die rather quickly, and objectives are often laid out in ways that require the room to be cleared of enemies before they can be completed. Hell, stealth seems to be somewhat discouraged since the level design makes alerting everyone in an area and having them walk into the crosshairs the most effective strategy. Getting caught while sneaking through the level puts you at a much worse disadvantage than just blasting your way through. Right now, I'm on the fourth level, and the first one is the only one that felt really interesting. The Iraq flashback level was the loving worst.
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Inco posted:I just started playing Splinter Cell: Conviction and it's disappointing. I'll admit, it's been a long time since I played the original Splinter Cell games, and I never played Double Agent, but Conviction is a standard cover shooter with some measly stealth mechanics attached. I know the original games weren't huge and didn't have things like multiple ways to complete objectives, but there's not much here that's very interesting, even for a cover shooter. The most interesting level so far was the first one, and it's just gotten worse from there. Blacklist was good about giving you a lot of ways to do missions, but it's either hard as balls or I got Sudden Onset Sucking At Splinter Cell disease so I got two or three hours in, had to repeat the same level a million times, and gave up.
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Feb 18, 2016 06:14
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There's an annoying glitch (at least for me) with the mobile version of Adventure Capitalist that annoys the poo poo out of me. The game has a watch-ad-get-money-boost mechanic. The problem is that I keep running into one (or more) issues:
The third one is the worst. It'll sit there with a 0 timer countdown. Closing and reloading the app won't bring the game back to the you-watched-an-ad scene, you have to go into your app settings and force close the app, load the app, and try and watch the video. I've had this happen multiple times in a row. The only saving grace is that the app realizes I didn't finish the ad, so I'm not wasting one of the five watch-ad-get-money boosts of the day.
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Inco posted:I just started playing Splinter Cell: Conviction and it's disappointing. I'll admit, it's been a long time since I played the original Splinter Cell games, and I never played Double Agent, but Conviction is a standard cover shooter with some measly stealth mechanics attached. I know the original games weren't huge and didn't have things like multiple ways to complete objectives, but there's not much here that's very interesting, even for a cover shooter. The most interesting level so far was the first one, and it's just gotten worse from there. do the coop blind with a random person online. it's pretty fun, especially at the end. chaos theory was linear, but the level design was open enough to give you multiple entries and exits in most areas. older splinter cells are more like the original thief games where you had to pay attention to your environment since your knowledge of the level and enemy placements were limited and most of your gadgets and actions in the game were designed around being stealthy. conviction treats stealth as a means to an end. the iraq portion feels like a tech demo to show off that this new control scheme could totally work in ghost recon. in fact i saw a friend playing that f2p ghost recon and it has a very similar style as conviction.
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MisterBibs posted:There's an annoying glitch (at least for me) with the mobile version of Adventure Capitalist that annoys the poo poo out of me. I think it might be appropriate to reconsider your entertainment choices when you're posting on a forum about how your time-waisting game is waisting your time.
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Xoidanor posted:I think it might be appropriate to reconsider your entertainment choices when you're posting on a forum about how your time-waisting game is waisting your time. Wow, you just completely owned the Thing Dragging This Game Down thread!!
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Mokinokaro posted:The voice recognition is poo poo. You WANT to turn them off. 
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Croccers posted:Hell, even the title screen doesn't know what keyboard key it wants you to press: Or the Riddler is back to his old ways again.
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RyokoTK posted:Wow, you just completely owned the Thing Dragging This Game Down thread!! I feel like click-athons are worth being singled out.
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"Something is getting in the way of my voluntarily watching ads to get bonus dollars in an idle game" is pretty egregious, yeah.
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Binary Domain is currently free as part of Sega's Make War Not Love promo along with some other games, just fyi. http://www.makewarnotlove.com/results.php
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Xoidanor posted:I think it might be appropriate to reconsider your entertainment choices when you're posting on a forum about how your time-wasting game is wasting your time. It only wastes my time when a bug prevents the game I spend 30minutes a week on from working. Me, I'm going to take a bold stance that games should, you know, work.
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MisterBibs posted:It only wastes my time when a bug prevents the game I spend 30minutes a week on from working. Me, I'm going to take a bold stance that games should, you know, work. no dont you see ive got a hot take for u video games are a waste of time 
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Maybe I just didn't play enough Sim City as a kid but Cities Skylines needs a better tutorial. 
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Feb 19, 2016 07:18
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AlphaKretin posted:Maybe I just didn't play enough Sim City a a kid but Cities Skylines needs a better tutorial. I played sim city and sim city 2000 religiously as a kid and knew every inch of that game. Cities Skylines needs a better tutorial.
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AlphaKretin posted:Maybe I just didn't play enough Sim City as a kid but Cities Skylines needs a better tutorial. I got mad and gave up after the game adamantly refused to tell me how to do anything that didn't just drain my funds and leave me in negative money and population instantly. I tried asking online for help and just got called a retard for not intuitively knowing how to play the game. I probably shouldn't hold the online community against it or something, but god drat if you're not going to tell people how to play then that's the only option isn't it?
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You can swear at the characters in Binary Domain and they get cross, it's awesome.
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Just play cities skylines with the infinite money cheat. Those types of games are always more bonsai gardens than real games anyway why let your creativity be constrained?
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