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On the other hand kickstarter means there are more sad stories you can watch unfold. Like the latest Arcen project: AI War II, which isn't going to get funded because they picked a bad time for it, AI War doesn't have that many fans, and they bled off goodwill for their studio by releasing a steady chain of games that not very many people liked. Which is unfortunate because it looks like a cool game.
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Bicyclops posted:I want to know what people think of it because I loved the Myst games but Myst 5 was really bad, and while the base game of Uru is pretty good, they were clearly way off the mark for what they were going for. I'm hoping they found there way again in the long break. Normal reviews are hard to read because there's all this "Do we really need soemthing else in this genre?" poo poo. Yeah, 5 lost what Myst was and tried too many different things (free FPS, writing on tablets, etc.), same with Uru (should have been single player) Myst just needs to be Myst. Don't fix what ain't broke. I think the reviewers really are to blame. Its the same with Musou games, every time they put out a Dynasty Warriors you've got IGN and crew making GBS threads on it going "this, again? Everything is the same" and yet for fans of Musou, that's what we want! That's fine! Shut up! Just give me more characters, better graphics, and new levels. And the hypocrisy is its not like CoD isn't the same exact game every year, but they somehow tolerate it for FPS more? Even though games like Myst / Musou are more original and effectively their own genre by comparison? But Obduction really seems like they're going back to the Myst roots, so yeah.
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 17:48 |
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That Which Sleeps lol
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 17:49 |
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 17:51 |
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Kickstarter can be stupid and sometimes things don't end up well but if you think Kickstarter has not produced some cool games that wouldn't have been made otherwise, you're just as stupid as those that think every Kickstarter will be great.
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 17:52 |
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Bury me with my (Kickstarter) money
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 17:53 |
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Zaphod42 posted:Yeah, 5 lost what Myst was and tried too many different things (free FPS, writing on tablets, etc.), same with Uru (should have been single player) The Uru single player is actually really good if you can get past the horrible clunky controls and the really ancient graphics. It doesn't really have an ending, obviously, but that's kind of okay. I want Musou games to be easier! I played a ton of the Zelda one until it got too frustrating. I just want to mash buttons and earn some fuckin' points. If the difficulty were a little lower, I'd buy the expansions for it until the end of time.
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 17:54 |
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COD has been getting poo poo on by reviewers for like half a decade at this point though.
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 17:57 |
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Hyrule Warriors is surprisingly one of the tougher recent Warriors games, just beating the stages isn't too bad, though you do have to do a lot of plate juggling, but getting A ranks to unlock everything in Adventure maps becomes insane after a while. Either of the last mainline Dynasty or Samurai games is easier.
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 17:58 |
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Sakurazuka posted:Hyrule Warriors is surprisingly one of the tougher recent Warriors games, just beating the stages isn't too bad, though you do have to do a lot of plate juggling, but getting A ranks to unlock everything in Adventure maps becomes insane after a while. Either of the last mainline Dynasty or Samurai games is easier. The addition in Pirate Warriors 3 of just putting your current rank in the corner was a god send HW really could have used (it helps that PW3 also got rid of taking damage effecting your rank).
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 18:01 |
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Is DQ Heroes hard? It's always on sale these days and with DQ7 and DQBuilders both going on right now I might as well achieve Peak Toriyama.
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 18:09 |
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precision posted:Is DQ Heroes hard? It's always on sale these days and with DQ7 and DQBuilders both going on right now I might as well achieve Peak Toriyama. Also interested in this question, because I will mash the buttons on my keyboard to slaughter slimes until I equipped with the best Zenithian Armor
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 18:13 |
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The post game stuff is but the main campaign wasn't too difficult
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 18:17 |
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eh, the post-game stuff is most of the game, though. I think I spent like a couple of hours on it in Zelda and thenlike 60- hours on Adventure mode
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 18:19 |
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I hate games that show your completion rate on the menu. Rise of the 2mb Raider says I'm already at 10% and I literally just got to the first real area.
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 19:06 |
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Bicyclops posted:eh, the post-game stuff is most of the game, though. I think I spent like a couple of hours on it in Zelda and thenlike 60- hours on Adventure mode DQH is more substantial in that regards. I think my playtime was around 30 or so hours and I didn't do any post game stuff.
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 19:08 |
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precision posted:I hate games that show your completion rate on the menu. Rise of the 2mb Raider says I'm already at 10% and I literally just got to the first real area. If it's makes you feel better those percentage are usually just tied to Really-Not-Representative-At-All metrics like "completed achievements/total achievements". So when you get that slew of "babby's first" achievements after 10 minutes of gameplay it's just a big jump that will quickly slow down (and culminate in you finishing the game while showing 60%).
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 19:13 |
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precision posted:I hate games that show your completion rate on the menu. Rise of the 2mb Raider says I'm already at 10% and I literally just got to the first real area. I live to watch those numbers go slowly towards 100% 70 onward is always a good time.
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 19:20 |
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Chomp8645 posted:If it's makes you feel better those percentage are usually just tied to Really-Not-Representative-At-All metrics like "completed achievements/total achievements". So when you get that slew of "babby's first" achievements after 10 minutes of gameplay it's just a big jump that will quickly slow down (and culminate in you finishing the game while showing 60%). Otherwise known as "the Yakuza effect". Either yakuza 4 or 5 I finished with something hilarious like 100 hours played and 30% completion
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 19:22 |
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codenameFANGIO posted:I live to watch those numbers go slowly towards 100% MGSV was a good one for this, the last 10% took like 30 hours of playing or something. Well the last 1% was me letting the game idle for 24 hours while it built a nuke
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 19:26 |
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You know it occurs to me I would love a game that's basically DQ Builders but with Tomb Raider's combat and resource gathering. But also Builders should have a "turn based mode" option
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 19:45 |
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Lara Croft: Tomb
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 19:45 |
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precision posted:I hate games that show your completion rate on the menu. Rise of the 2mb Raider says I'm already at 10% and I literally just got to the first real area. The percentage never seems to make sense to me so I just ignore it. I never know which games measure progress of just the main storyline or progress towards completing every last little thing so what's the point.
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 19:58 |
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glam rock hamhock posted:Kickstarter can be stupid and sometimes things don't end up well but if you think Kickstarter has not produced some cool games that wouldn't have been made otherwise, you're just as stupid as those that think every Kickstarter will be great. https://www.kickstarter.com/play
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 20:43 |
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Hello everyone, I had to call in sick today at work and I'm going to play Digimon Story for the first time. Anything I should know?
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 21:52 |
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codenameFANGIO posted:I live to watch those numbers go slowly towards 100% I use my phone calculator to give me a percent on games that don't have it, so I know exactly what percent I have when I've got, say, 89 out of 120 stars.
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 21:54 |
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My brain feels real good when when I adjust my Google Drive spreadsheet to add an additional quest completed in a Bethesda game.
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 21:55 |
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Bicyclops posted:I use my phone calculator to give me a percent on games that don't have it, so I know exactly what percent I have when I've got, say, 89 out of 120 stars. i don't want to be rude here but PM's aren't working... can you really not do 89/120 in your head ...........
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 21:58 |
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oddium posted:i don't want to be rude here but PM's aren't working... can you really not do 89/120 in your head ........... I'm spoiled by spreadsheets doing things for me, so unless it's something like 90 or 100 that doesn't involve decimal points, I don't want to take a break from my gaming to do math.
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 22:02 |
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ah yeah i'm just yanking the old chain. jerking the leg as it were. joshing
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 22:03 |
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they kept telling me "oh you'll need this in real life trust me look at all these practical applications of math" but i haven't done an integral since high school
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 22:10 |
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oddium posted:i don't want to be rude here but PM's aren't working... can you really not do 89/120 in your head ........... A calculator can do it much faster, as with all math.
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 22:13 |
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Math problems are just another form of puzzle game!,
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 22:16 |
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Lizard Wizard posted:Hello everyone, I had to call in sick today at work and I'm going to play Digimon Story for the first time. Anything I should know? When your dudes plateau in levels for where you are in the story you should devolve them and chuck em in the farm to get more stats. They have an Ability score which only goes up when you evolve them, and it sets maximum stats/levels plus is needed for the final evolved forms, so tediously grinding your dudes early on will just mean doing more tedious grinding later. So basically try to have two parties you rotate between for best results. Oh yeah and you can get all the starters later so just pick the one you like.
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 22:17 |
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A calculator can't tell you that the DS version of Mario 64 has 150 stars so you made the right choice posting here
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 22:17 |
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if you try to have a calculator calculate donkey kong country completions it'll melt down (calculators don't have the artistic liberty of expressing 101/102/103%)
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 22:18 |
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Looper posted:they kept telling me "oh you'll need this in real life trust me look at all these practical applications of math" but i haven't done an integral since high school all the math I do for work and my own budget is pretty basic, and the more complicated math all involves keeping track of hidden numbers in video games lol. like doing quarterly accruals or even converting credit hours is elementary school stuff but some video games make me reach into my high school days
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 22:20 |
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Looper posted:they kept telling me "oh you'll need this in real life trust me look at all these practical applications of math" but i haven't done an integral since high school They're useful later in life if you want a great paycheck oddium posted:if you try to have a calculator calculate donkey kong country completions it'll melt down (calculators don't have the artistic liberty of expressing 101/102/103%) Sure they do, if you do the math right. 101/100 = 1.01 Expressed as a percentage 1.01 x 100 = 101%
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 22:20 |
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When I started learning how to program/code video games as a side hobby I figured "oh no, I'm going to h ave to do all that math stuff I hated in high school". But then I realized that I am sitting at a computer and I can just make the computer do the math for me. vv edit: "You're not going to always have a scientific calculator in your pocket", said my high school teacher before the invention of smartphones
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I wish I didn't have to do integrals anymore. gently caress thermodynamics.
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