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LawfulWaffle posted:I'm excited for the Ni-Oh demo that releases tomorrow. Thanks for telling me this, that game looks super rad.
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Motto posted:the whole SFZero thing is weird since reviewers nigh-universally hate the controls while most players I've seen have little or no problems adjusting to them. I played it a bit (and by that I mean I finished it) at a friend's place. I didn't really like the controls either. Sure, they work fine but I didn't like having to use two screens and it really didn't bring anything interesting to the game either. The whole experience was thoroughly middling.
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Motto posted:the whole SFZero thing is weird since reviewers nigh-universally hate the controls while most players I've seen have little or no problems adjusting to them. It's really weird considering Ryckert over at Giant Bomb was a big proponent of the gyro controls in Splatoon but seemed to hate the Star Fox controls.
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Golden Goat posted:Also the rapier/estoc is silly effective against NPCs. Most human players too, apparently!
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Sakurazuka posted:The swamp is fairly easy to navigate once you realise it's just a large circle that eventually loops back on its self and there are a decent amount of landmarks. Forbidden Woods in BB is worse, I get turned around and confused the second I hit trees. The trick to the Forbidden Woods is to realize that there is only one lit path and it slopes continuously down. Once you realize this, you can orient yourself pretty well any time you have line of sight with he main path. Also if you don't care about getting any items, you can just run right down the path from the beginning straight to the end of the zone.
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Motto posted:the whole SFZero thing is weird since reviewers nigh-universally hate the controls while most players I've seen have little or no problems adjusting to them. I'm glad to hear this because all the reviews, particularly the Giant Bomb one, seem hung up on the controls; the Wonderful 101 got criticized in much the same way, which is another situation where a complex control scheme is one of the best parts of the game and once you learn how to play it properly, the game is splendid.
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Jay Rust posted:I like the Dark Souls III swamp but I do wish there weren't those super-deep sections where you can't sprint at all. The fastest mode of travel then becomes rolling, and what kind of idiot would repeatedly roll through stinky, murky, poisonous swamp water in real life LawfulWaffle posted:If you equip a dagger you can use the skill to quickstep through at top speed, even at 0 FP. I can understand being upset that there's a trick in the game the requires a player to use a weapon they aren't good with or don't have on hand, but a dagger is even better than the Rusted Ring from DS1. You can scoot through the whole swampy area with lightning speed and probably grab everything before the poison does enough damage to kill you. It might be faster to scoot through the swamp than run the other way, since the swamp mainly has cockatrices who are mostly harmless and the big guys are too slow to catch you. You can get to both bonfires in the area without much difficulty with a dagger. The swamp is a dagger tax.
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Sakurazuka posted:Games journalists are bad at games and shouldn't be trusted. 
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Sakurazuka posted:Games journalists are bad at games and shouldn't be trusted. which makes the high marks for dark souls games even more baffling but maybe it's just because the controls are fine.
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8-Bit Scholar posted:I'm glad to hear this because all the reviews, particularly the Giant Bomb one, seem hung up on the controls; the Wonderful 101 got criticized in much the same way, which is another situation where a complex control scheme is one of the best parts of the game and once you learn how to play it properly, the game is splendid. Same thing kind of happened with Godhand, where the over the shoulder tank controls were too different for a lot of reviewers.
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MinibarMatchman posted:which makes the high marks for dark souls games even more baffling but maybe it's just because the controls are fine. Saying a dark souls game is bad is like asking for a "9.5 for Zelda" shitstorm.
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FactsAreUseless posted:This owns. I had no idea about this. I hate to break it to you, but they just seem to share a name. 
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LawfulWaffle posted:I can understand being upset that there's a trick in the game the requires a player to use a weapon they aren't good with or don't have on hand, but a dagger is even better than the Rusted Ring from DS1. You can scoot through the whole swampy area with lightning speed and probably grab everything before the poison does enough damage to kill you. It might be faster to scoot through the swamp than run the other way, since the swamp mainly has cockatrices who are mostly harmless and the big guys are too slow to catch you. You can get to both bonfires in the area without much difficulty with a dagger. Poison is super weak in this one though. There is a Toxic swamp but it's so small and large in the game that it's never really a threat.
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8-Bit Scholar posted:I'm glad to hear this because all the reviews, particularly the Giant Bomb one, seem hung up on the controls; the Wonderful 101 got criticized in much the same way, which is another situation where a complex control scheme is one of the best parts of the game and once you learn how to play it properly, the game is splendid. TBF in the quick look, Dan said that it's highly likely people will come out later saying it's the only way to play, just that it never clicked for him and didn't ever seem necessary.
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Lurdiak posted:Saying a dark souls game is bad is like asking for a "9.5 for Zelda" shitstorm. yeah, not to sound conspiratorial, but I think reviews are influenced by a franchise's rep and how hyped people were going in. FF13 got pretty glowing reviews back on 360/PS3.
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Lurdiak posted:Saying a dark souls game is bad is like asking for a "9.5 for Zelda" shitstorm. 8.8 but yeah basically
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Broseph Brostar posted:Poison is super weak in this one though. There is a Toxic swamp but it's so small and large in the game that it's never really a threat. I used arrows and the quickstep for the toxic swamp too. Shout out to toxic swamp for also being close to my favorite enemy in DS3: The Hand Man.
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Quest For Glory II posted:mirrors edge catalyst Oh snap, that's coming out in May?  Warning to Bravely Second owners: the game hardlocks. Many people are reporting this so it's not happening because our Nu3DS is busted. The game autosaves constantly though so it's not a huge deal Speaking of the Nu3DS, it may have a disturbing lack of any games at all that require it to be played (other than Xenoblade, which honestly is a good argument for getting the system all by itself) but the additional nub that picks up on the Circle Pad Pro config is a goddamn lifesaver for Final Fantasy Explorers (which is a rad game that is kinda like Monster Hunter but imo a lot more fun)
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PantsBandit posted:Those giant crabs can suck my dick. Talk about hitting a weak spot for massive damage
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Motto posted:yeah, not to sound conspiratorial, but I think reviews are influenced by a franchise's rep and how hyped people were going in. FF13 got pretty glowing reviews back on 360/PS3. That's because FF13 is a sick game
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In Training posted:That's because FF13 is a sick game Sick, yes, terminally so. Should be euthanized. Mercifully.
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8-Bit Scholar posted:Sick, yes, terminally so. Should be euthanized. Mercifully.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Don't sign your posts. That Dragon, 8-Bit Scholar
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So we're nearing the end of the month, friends What was the GotM? Besides Dark Souls
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:it's really bizarre to me that people are surprised by FROM games having callbacks, elements and characters from other FROM games. That's basically the entire company's Thing I wish they would make Metal Wolf Chaos sequels their Thing Sakurazuka posted:Pretty sure we played Quake 1 totally on the keyboard because that's how we played Doom and Duke Nukem, wtf is this mouse look poo poo, ugh. Maybe you did. I quit using keyboard the day I went on DWANGO thinking I was hot poo poo at deathmatching after destroying my friends via 2 player modem play, and the first match I had with someone I got destroyed like 96-2. raditts fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Apr 25, 2016 |
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Sakurazuka posted:8.8 but yeah basically I still think that score is too high for Twilight Princess.
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Jay Rust posted:So we're nearing the end of the month, friends
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Quest For Glory II posted:i never buy new games so the game i played this month that i liked the most was Ori & the Blind Forest I had a great time with Miles Edgeworth Investigations, personally.
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In Training posted:I haven't played DSIII in a week and I don't know when I'm going to go back and finish it. I kinda petered off at the halfway ish point I think. I've been playing Castlevania and Europa Universalis IV how dare you.
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