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Even with the extra tenseness of the wii u controller missing, I felt like Zombi did the atmosphere really well. I'm actually pretty fond of it.
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Is Zombiu still a good experience on the PC? I remember it looked pretty good on the WiiU.
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Carebearz posted:ZombiU was a great launch game that perfectly used everything the Wii U could do. I might hook my WiiU back up and play it again, I never really got very far, once my badass british guard dude got killed and I lost my shotgun I was pretty mad. Do note that if you do this, the online still might be completely screwed. I bought a copy for WiiU in autumn last year when it was very cheap ($10CAD) and the game simply didn't work. It would freeze on the main menu without fail. Turns out after much trial and error, it was because it was trying to contact the servers and was failing, so it soft locked. Finally got to play the game when I disabled my network settings. I don't know if they ever bothered to correct the WiiU servers. I had an alright time with the game, but got frustrated when they started introducing special zombies without explaining how they fit into gameplay at all. I managed to keep my very first survivor alive for the entire game up until the first exploder zombie, and then surprise! Instant game over because you didn't know not to hit it with your cricket bat. Why would that even cause an explosion?! Definitely soured the experience for me some.
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Poulpe posted:Definitely soured the experience for me some. loving a and then some. Exploding zombies are the dumbest dang thing and so overdone it's laughable. I lost like, two survivors in a row when playing ZombiU because up until that point it was kinda grounded and then suddenly zombies with rockets on their backs show up...
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Poulpe posted:Do note that if you do this, the online still might be completely screwed. I just played it on my WiiU a couple months ago so that's probably fixed.
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Skyscraper posted:Is Zombiu still a good experience on the PC? I remember it looked pretty good on the WiiU. It's basically the same, but it's a mediocre game and it's death mechanic is truly loving awful.
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Lasher posted:I jumped when it revealed Grandfather in the bath. Finally, a true horror auteur
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s.i.r.e. posted:It's basically the same, but it's a mediocre game and it's death mechanic is truly loving awful. I like the death mechanic. Seemed novel for a FPS or a survival horror game. Care to elaborate?
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s.i.r.e. posted:It's basically the same, but it's a mediocre game and it's death mechanic is truly loving awful. Ah, thanks. I don't play MMOs so I haven't yet had an assful of corpse runs.
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Captain Yossarian posted:I like the death mechanic. Seemed novel for a FPS or a survival horror game. Care to elaborate? It's the reason I gave up on the game twice, once on the WiiU and the second time on the PC release: Basically what happens is that when your character dies you wake up as a new survivor in the safe house, but everything your old survivor had is dropped wherever they died and you have the chance to retrieve it. Sounds good, but if you second survivor dies all of that first survivor's stuff is lost, permanently. On the Wii U I lost everything towards the beginning of the game (2 hours in) because you have to hold out against a lot of zombies that you could easily not be prepaired to deal with. Also, at that point you don't have the syringe to stab the zombies in the face with so if they grab you that's a one-hit kill. So I died and I went back (because that's where I needed to be to progress through the game) and low and behold, there's around 15 zombie or so waiting for my new survivor who only has a cricket bat without gently caress-all else to defend himself with and I again just get grabbed and OHKO. All of that beginning stuff is lost and I quit. With the PC release I make It all the way to the end because the game's a lot easier on a keyboard and mouse but towards the end I'm running low on ammo and have to resort to melee attacks to make it through a clusterfuck of an escape sequence with alarms and whatnot going on. I'm pretty sure I was 20 minutes max away from the end of the game. As I'm making my way through all of the non-sense I accidently hit an "explosive" zombie with my melee weapon and it explodes in my face killing me. My new survivor has literally nothing and I can't even make it back to my old corpse because at this point the game world is a maze (it's not open world, think more Resident Evil with linear sections) and the fast travel system is in accessible for some reason. Oh and zombies became horribly abundant. I literally couldn't beat the game. It's an interesting concept but once it happens to you it's frustrating.
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Len posted:It also handles bag searching in a neat way. If I'm remembering right the camera points directly towards whatever you're searching and then you have to look away to the tablet to actually see what's in the thing you're searching. Yep, so you're constantly checking the TV screen as you fiddle with your inventory. Another thing I didn't mention is the game handles sound really well. Your ears can help keep you alive, and of course if you hear something before seeing it, the tension goes up. As for the exploding zombies, the first one you see is at the dock area (forget the map's name), when you are given the sniper rifle. The first exploding zombie is off in the distance and easily visible, so you are obviously meant to snipe him, see him blow up, and learn he's dangerous. It's not communicated well though, I know when I did that and blew the guy up I didn't know wtf happened, then met the next one in the underground section and got blown up. Yeah I was pissed off...but now that I know how they work, I appreciate the OH poo poo feeling you get when one rounds a corner right in your face. BTW I think they're wearing some kind of oxygen tank, not a rocket lol. Anyway you can still shove them away to make enough distance to shoot them safely. s.i.r.e. posted:It's the reason I gave up on the game twice, once on the WiiU and the second time on the PC release: So I can't really speak to this part since I haven't gotten there yet, but don't you have a storage bin at the safe house full of stuff? Can't you just grab like 4 or 5 flares and some weapons you weren't using and make do? My bin is overflowing with molotovs, flares, first aids, guns I don't use, etc.
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I don't recall it being full of useful things for me, and at that point the game didn't allow me to use the fast-travel tunnels so the trek back to my previous corpse was way too hazardous to get through, and my second survivor died anyway so I lost all of my primaries. I quickly uninstalled the game. It has some nice atmosphere but the gameplay itself isn't that great.
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Lasher posted:I jumped when it revealed Grandfather in the bath. I'm pretty sure they own that dilapidated house, it shows up in a couple of her other videos.
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There's a new horror game (free) out done by a Malaysian team of developers and I feel obligated to plug it. Sara is Missing https://monsoonlab.itch.io/sim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahli0Cnk3bI It's available on Windows, OS X and Android. The last is probably the best experience. Basically like the Mr Robot game, you pick up a lost phone and then make a bunch of choices while doing voyeuristic stuff reading the original owners messages, photos and email. Personally I thought it was well done but maybe could be more original and not really use creepy pasta and marble hornets images, really now... . It's not bad for a free one hour thing though so it's worth the download The Saddest Rhino fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Nov 16, 2016 |
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s.i.r.e. posted:It's the reason I gave up on the game twice, once on the WiiU and the second time on the PC release: So, I also take it you don't like Dark Souls because that the same thing they do with your souls when you die. The death mechanic in ZombiU was amazing and the only people who disliked it are crybabies.
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I mean not really, it'd be more like if in Souls all your equipment vanished if you died before getting back to it. So more like Diablo 2.
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Sakurazuka posted:I mean not really, it'd be more like if in Souls all your equipment vanished if you died before getting back to it. not so much, because you still get your gear back in D2 if you log off and log back in, you just don't get your xp back if I remember correctly.
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Honestly it's been that long I couldn't really remember what happened if you died during a corpse run in D2
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Sakurazuka posted:Honestly it's been that long I couldn't really remember what happened if you died during a corpse run in D2 your gear stays on your body, and you lose a chunk of XP, when you get back to your body, you get all your gear back and get the xp back. if you log off then log back in, when you spawn in the camp area, your body is at your feet, but you lose the lost xp for good
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Carebearz posted:So, I also take it you don't like Dark Souls because that the same thing they do with your souls when you die. The death mechanic in ZombiU was amazing and the only people who disliked it are crybabies. If Dark Souls made you lose all your gear, close up any shortcuts you found to the last boss and force you to slog through the whole game rear end naked while the world is filled with even more enemies than before, then yeah. Dark Souls is a game with great mechanics that controls well and rewards the player for mastering said controls and learning the enemies. Zombi isn't, it's basic shooter with survival elements tacked on and a death mechanic that turns the game into a tedious slog. Zombi isn't Dark Souls and you'd be an idiot for thinking it's even in the same class. Zombi is a war of attrition where you survive by having enough ammo to deal with the situations you're put in, where quick thinking and learning your enemy's movements isn't a thing. This game isn't about finesse. This is coming from someone who doesn't play Dark Souls because he's terrible at them.
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Some people like thing...that I don't like????????
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Improbable Lobster posted:Have none of you played a roguelike/roguelite before? I've heard that there are people who don't play those. I can't imagine them either.
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Improbable Lobster posted:Have none of you played a roguelike/roguelite before? Zombi is a linear, 6+ hour singleplayer adventure with as little RNG as you can get and the game plays out exactly the same for everyone that played it. It's hardly a roguelike. I too think it's surprising that there's people who don't like games where the whole mechanic is permadeath and resetting all the progress you made just so you can toil away at it again. Most people do enjoy games to relax and unwind so they say.
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Carebearz posted:your gear stays on your body, and you lose a chunk of XP, when you get back to your body, you get all your gear back and get the xp back. if you log off then log back in, when you spawn in the camp area, your body is at your feet, but you lose the lost xp for good Point is, that's still not how the Souls series works in any of its game. You don't lose any gear, ever. Just xp/currency.
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This is more horrifying than ANATOMY, a great indie horror game by Kitty Horrorshow!
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I found the beginning of ZombiU difficult to get over because my brightness settings were hosed so I had my first death in the very first running sequence. Next survivor wakes up with a horde coming and absolutely no supplies. I repeated that same horde over and over until someone managed to survive (somehow) and the game felt a lot easier afterwards. The sound design is amazing, I particularly liked the block of flats. I should pick it back up to finish off if I can fix the brightness because it's almost impossibly dark otherwise.
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Anyone playing Pathologic: The Marble Nest, the Early Access mini-campaign that went up for backers today? Couldn't progress too much today cause it's shockingly broken, but some things I saw were pretty neat. The inventory is now Tetris-style, and consists of several areas that correspond to your pockets. You can jump, despite IPLs promises to the contrary. Solid writing. Solid character design. Such a weird feeling when you see new NPCs done in the same style - the old cast was strictly limited after all. It's like they're introducing new characters on a show you've watched to death. This old gal is instantly recognizable though, even if slightly kevin-baconized:  E: Got into a fight, and it was basically a sissy slapfight, meticulously animated. Amazing. woodenchicken fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Dec 2, 2016 |
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Markiplier video, but the custom night for FNAF Sister Location is out. Fair props to Scott, that looks like a surprising amount of content.
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With respect to the ZombieU chat, I think the game could have been a lot better if every dead survivor persisted so that you didn't lose everything if you died on the "runback". Also if the exploders were better telegraphed, but that's a general complaint I have with most of these games (Dying Light, Dead Island) that love throwing exploders at you in close quarters. I'm sure some people can execute them perfectly, but I imagine for everyone else, the gameplay experience is "die suddenly out of nowhere, wait for the load screen, creep slowly back through the area until you can peg it on an inch of leg poking around a corner." The games' overworlds are perfect for them, but inside buildings? Pretty poo poo.
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poptart_fairy posted:Markiplier video, but the custom night for FNAF Sister Location is out. Fair props to Scott, that looks like a surprising amount of content. Man I tried to watch it but holy poo poo the screaming. I know everyone says markiplier is a nice guy but just wow. Also he swears a lot more than I thought he would.
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hanales posted:Man I tried to watch it but holy poo poo the screaming. I know everyone says markiplier is a nice guy but just wow. there was a period of time where he was trying to cut out the swearing so he'd resort to frick or gibberish or w/e, but that was a while ago guess he gave up, huh
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hanales posted:Man I tried to watch it but holy poo poo the screaming. I know everyone says markiplier is a nice guy but just wow. It's really not that hard to make terrible videos if you're a good person
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If anyone is looking for non-swearing content but still aimed at the younger LP crowd Cory Kenshin plays a ton of horror games and is a far better editor. I watched all the cutscenes (unless Scott buried additional stuff in the DLC) and the way the security guard "dies" is disturbing as hell and raises as many questions as it answers. I admire how Scott keeps turning the screw on his story, as simple as it all seems.
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I know it was mentioned in an earlier post, but for ZombiiU I though someone posted that the game doesn't work anymore, is that the case? I never finished the game and want to find a reason to plug my WiiU back in (other than Mario Kart)
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Carebearz posted:I know it was mentioned in an earlier post, but for ZombiiU I though someone posted that the game doesn't work anymore, is that the case? I never finished the game and want to find a reason to plug my WiiU back in (other than Mario Kart) It worked for me around May
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:If anyone is looking for non-swearing content but still aimed at the younger LP crowd Cory Kenshin plays a ton of horror games and is a far better editor. There is indeed new stuff in the DLC. Completing each custom challenge on Very Hard earns you a sprite-based cutscene showing the natural outcome of Ennard's plan... and then the not-so natural outcome. Completing the final challenge on very hard, however, earns you a voiced cutscene that turns the entire loving story on its head. Shadowlyger fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Dec 9, 2016 |
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I'm never going to play these games. Just tell me what the crazy endings are.
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Bogart posted:I'm never going to play these games. Just tell me what the crazy endings are. Every challenge except last Ennard is walking about in the skin suit, having a fun time, everyone loves him... and then things start rotting and people are less and less happy as he grows purple, more scared even. Then he breaks down... but he can't die
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