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Phantasium posted:I absolutely love when the replay in that or SotN fucks up. I don't know what causes it but I watched one in SotN where Alucard just hopped up and down a few times in between getting hit and murdered, and then the game stayed on the game screen until the amount of time the replay was supposed to take was up. Lol cool.
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Mak0rz posted:Which game is it that unlocks easy mode if you die too much? Devil May Cry? The New Super Mario games has the Shameshroom that appears after several deaths. I think Donkey Kong Country Returns also has a super banana or something. Not exactly unlocking an Easy mode, but should be considered with the topic.
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Dec 12, 2016 21:36
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LawfulWaffle posted:FFXV successfully captures the feeling of enjoying the summer break right after high school and then getting a full-time job in July. I never got that, I had to start the job right away 
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I like how the original xcom ufo defense was buggy where it'd switch your difficulty to the easiest mode no matter what you picked. Then in terror from the deep, regardless of what difficulty you picked, it'd act like you chose the hardest, so that game was already hard but ended up becoming infamous for being even harder due to that glitch.
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haveblue posted:This is pretty common, the God of War games do it. Yeah one of my roommates in college played a loving lot of God of War and DMC and they just sorta blended together eventually. FirstAidKite posted:I like how the original xcom ufo defense was buggy where it'd switch your difficulty to the easiest mode no matter what you picked. Then in terror from the deep, regardless of what difficulty you picked, it'd act like you chose the hardest, so that game was already hard but ended up becoming infamous for being even harder due to that glitch. Contrast with Blood, which got harder when you saved/reloaded. What a nuissance. LawfulWaffle posted:The New Super Mario games has the Shameshroom that appears after several deaths. I think Donkey Kong Country Returns also has a super banana or something. Not exactly unlocking an Easy mode, but should be considered with the topic. I think it's kinda cool that they do this. Getting through a challenge is rewarding and all but It sucks to be stuck at this one part of a game for several days, unable to continue to play the rest, just because you can't land a blind jump or something. Doubly so for games like DKCR where the controls are working against you in some cases. I was playing Tetris Attack's puzzle mode once and I kept failing over and over and I got a message saying "You're having a lot of trouble with this. Would you like to just go on to the next level?" I refused because I'm stubborn and I never saw the message again 
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Dec 12, 2016 21:45
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Cavelcade posted:To be fair to people complaining about an easy mode in Dark Souls that would also undermine the way the story is told in that game, about a world that doesn't give two shits that the player exists and isn't out to kill them, but will happily do so because they're an insignificant speck on the uncaring world. An easy-mode undermines both aspects. I don't think that's true, depending on implementation. Invincibility obviously wouldn't work, but things like making enemies less aggressive and slowing down their actions would do a lot to make it more accessible without removing that "death is easy and expected" feeling. Likewise just increasing player damage would help.
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Dec 12, 2016 21:46
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Is there a thread for game glitches? Not necessarily visual glitches because those are a dime a dozen, but things baked into the programming that don't get figured out until well after release. I wasn't aware of the XCOM problems, and just that tidbit about Blood piqued my curiosity. Related, I was musing on Final Fantasy games after beating XV and I was trying to think of the biggest faults in FFVI when I remembered that evasion just straight up didn't work.
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Dec 12, 2016 21:50
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Mak0rz posted:Which game is it that unlocks easy mode if you die too much? Devil May Cry? i dunno but this always seemed the best way to handle it really: http://crashbandicoot.wikia.com/wiki/Dynamic_Difficulty_Adjustment quote:"We were already learning. We had realized that if a novice player died a lot of times, we could give them an Aku Aku at the start of a round and they had a better chance to progress. And we figured out that if you died a lot when running from the boulder, we could just slow the boulder down a little each time. If you died too much a fruit crate would suddenly become a continue point. Eventually everyone succeeded at Crash. theres more on the specific adjustments on the page and its all really well thought out and executed
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Gamers complain when there's stuff put in that makes things easy and no one really says how much they like the features so most companies don't bother. Hell, I admit I got annoyed in one of the nsmb games where they made it impossible to get the highest end game ranking if you had a helper thing show up, even if you didn't use it. Also I like long games. I seem to be one of the free that got to the ice world in Okami and was overjoyed I had a whole other section to play in a game I thought was wrapping up. The only game that's overwhelmed me with how much content it had was Xenoblade.
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Dec 12, 2016 21:53
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Jay Rust posted:What games do you think are too short? You are gonna have to give me sometime to think on that as I can't really think off the top of my head but there have been games that I felt were short and it's like.. that's it?
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LawfulWaffle posted:Is there a thread for game glitches? Not necessarily visual glitches because those are a dime a dozen, but things baked into the programming that don't get figured out until well after release. I wasn't aware of the XCOM problems, and just that tidbit about Blood piqued my curiosity. Related, I was musing on Final Fantasy games after beating XV and I was trying to think of the biggest faults in FFVI when I remembered that evasion just straight up didn't work. there's probably a thread in pyf. or you could talk about them here. there's a glitch in harvest moon 64 where you can lose your dog in the bathroom void forever which is sad. i think it'll still bark too
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Dec 12, 2016 21:54
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LawfulWaffle posted:The New Super Mario games has the Shameshroom that appears after several deaths. I think Donkey Kong Country Returns also has a super banana or something. Not exactly unlocking an Easy mode, but should be considered with the topic. They should call it Polygon mode
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Stux posted:i dunno but this always seemed the best way to handle it really: I like this but I wish it was an optional thing. Because I like to just beat challenges instead of having the challenges get easier every time I do them.
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Dec 12, 2016 21:55
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Stux posted:i dunno but this always seemed the best way to handle it really: Yeah stuff like this is pretty great. Resident Evil 5 does it and it's nearly impossible to notice unless you're really paying attention. Not because it doesn't work, but because the changes are so subtle that it just ends up fooling you into thinking you're getting good or lucky. Conversely, it gets harder if you play better. In Training posted:I like this but I wish it was an optional thing. Because I like to just beat challenges instead of having the challenges get easier every time I do them. That would probably be nice feature in a game where it's so overt like Crash, yeah. Mak0rz fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Dec 12, 2016 |
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Dec 12, 2016 21:55
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mankind divided is probably the most recent offender of the "too short" label, although im not sure if thats a product of it actually being short or if its because the pacing on the writing felt real weird
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Dec 12, 2016 21:55
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There's a glitch in... I think GTA2 on PS1? One of the old 2D ones. Where if you try to throw a grenade while you're jumping you just sort of float and don't use the grenade, so if you keep mashing the button to use one you just float and fly over everything. I remember it distinctly not working on the Dreamcast version. Easy way to get to the tanks after finding a suitably tall building.
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Dec 12, 2016 21:58
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Was it Bloodborne or DS3 where if you left the game on for a long time it would gently caress up the monster AI and make the game way easier?
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Dec 12, 2016 22:01
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oddium posted:there's a glitch in harvest moon 64 where you can lose your dog in the bathroom void forever which is sad. i think it'll still bark too That's both hilarious and sad  The bug that allows you to effortlessly get max job points in FFT will always be a favorite of mine. It's so easy to do accidentally. How the hell did they even miss it?
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Dec 12, 2016 22:01
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I think the Tomb Raider reboot would make encounters easier after you had died a couple times. I remember some firefights where I was like "heyyy, I thought there were more enemies than this..."
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In Training posted:I like this but I wish it was an optional thing. Because I like to just beat challenges instead of having the challenges get easier every time I do them. i mean if youre dying like 10 times on a single section of a crash bandicoot level you were probably never going to beat it normally anyway
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also the problem is if u make it optional and overt people will complain about it for every possible reason. u have to do it that way to keep it as transparent as possible so people dont even realise so no one gets mad
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Dec 12, 2016 22:05
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Stux posted:also the problem is if u make it optional and overt people will complain about it for every possible reason. u have to do it that way to keep it as transparent as possible so people dont even realise so no one gets mad I think the Metal Gear chicken hat is a good middle ground. Make the option available, but also make it kind of degrading in a non-traumatic way.
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Stux posted:i mean if youre dying like 10 times on a single section of a crash bandicoot level you were probably never going to beat it normally anyway You not being familiar with the concept of people learning from their mistakes and improving because of them explains so much.
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glam rock hamhock posted:You not being familiar with the concept of people learning from their mistakes and improving because of them explains so much. i more meant that crash 2 and 3 werent exactly the most challenging games in the first place
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glam rock hamhock posted:Was it Bloodborne or DS3 where if you left the game on for a long time it would gently caress up the monster AI and make the game way easier? Bloodborne. I think it also messed with some of the boss's routines and made them only use one or two attacks. I may have inadvertently taken advantage of this for some of the optional bosses, but I think it was patched before I could cheese The Orphan (and still have never beaten him). Mak0rz posted:The bug that allows you to effortlessly get max job points in FFT will always be a favorite of mine. It's so easy to do accidentally. How the hell did they even miss it? Could you elaborate a bit? I've played a lot of FFT but unless the bug involves throwing rocks at allies I'm not familiar with it.
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boy are my arms tired posted:mankind divided is probably the most recent offender of the "too short" label, although im not sure if thats a product of it actually being short or if its because the pacing on the writing felt real weird If you do all the side missions (which are actually pretty good) and explore it's like 30 hours long IIRC but yeah I guess the actual campaign feels rushed or half finished or something
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Help Im Alive posted:If you do all the side missions (which are actually pretty good) and explore it's like 30 hours long IIRC but yeah I guess the actual campaign feels rushed or half finished or something yeah i did most of the side stuff but the main campaign was just poorly spaced out or something
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LawfulWaffle posted:Bloodborne. I think it also messed with some of the boss's routines and made them only use one or two attacks. I may have inadvertently taken advantage of this for some of the optional bosses, but I think it was patched before I could cheese The Orphan (and still have never beaten him). Yeah I didn't realize how much it neutered them until I tried to fight Logarius one my second character 
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The first episode of the Noclip Documentary on the rebirth of DOOM 2016, id software, and their history just went up. It's great, professionally shot, and the second and third parts are dropping tomorrow and wednesday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS6SBnccxMA&hd=1 Danny's patreon shot up a thousand dollars already, it's kinda nuts, but I'm super happy. I'm betting if he gets to like 25k a month or so he'll start branching out to traveling to Japan and such and hopefully getting some documentaries on game developers out that way if he can, I bet pointing towards his prior works would open up some devs there to the possibility of it.
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LawfulWaffle posted:Could you elaborate a bit? I've played a lot of FFT but unless the bug involves throwing rocks at allies I'm not familiar with it. you select a skill and then scroll to the next menu or something and you get a ton of points or the skills is free ?? i've never done it but it's something like that
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LawfulWaffle posted:Bloodborne. I think it also messed with some of the boss's routines and made them only use one or two attacks. I may have inadvertently taken advantage of this for some of the optional bosses, but I think it was patched before I could cheese The Orphan (and still have never beaten him). I think the Orphan fight was post-patch anyway since he's the final DLC boss, so the time thing never affected him. That fight is super fun though.  I've been really liking Let It Die. Calling it like Dark Souls is maybe a bit of a stretch, but it's got a similar camera/control scheme. The game loop feels more like a weird Dreamcast action-RPG though, and it actually does make pretty good use of weapon durability, which is weird. It encourages you to change things up and use new weapons, and your fists are always a viable option when everything else is busted. Even armor breaking is handy since it lets you pick up more goodies before you head back to the lobby, and "high-level" equipment feels more like bonus damage than an absolute requirement. Dewgy fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Dec 12, 2016 |
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oddium posted:you select a skill and then scroll to the next menu or something and you get a ton of points or the skills is free ?? Oh, yeah, I think I recall hearing about that. You had to master a class and then with some menu maneuvering could wind up with 9999 JP. Takes the sport out of the game, but I'm not going to begrudge someone wanting to go into the Dorter Slums with a team of Samurai and Calculators after a playthrough or two. e: I'm sour at the internet because I want to listen to the camp theme from late FFXV but it isn't immediately available at my finger tips. What kind of age of instant gratification am I living in if I can't have everything I want immediately and for free? LawfulWaffle fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Dec 12, 2016 |
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I recently downloaded Tap My Katamari, and I highly recommend it if you want a dedicated Katamari music player for your phone. It even comes with a decent minigame attached!
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LawfulWaffle posted:Thank you, I am now cautiously optimistic.
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Stux posted:also the problem is if u make it optional and overt people will complain about it for every possible reason. If this is a good reason to not include a feature then why bother making video games at all. LawfulWaffle posted:Oh, yeah, I think I recall hearing about that. You had to master a class and then with some menu maneuvering could wind up with 9999 JP. Takes the sport out of the game, but I'm not going to begrudge someone wanting to go into the Dorter Slums with a team of Samurai and Calculators after a playthrough or two. Kinda. No master class required. You just need the following two conditions: - 1: A job class with at least one list of upgrades that spans more than one page. - 2: Enough JP to purchase an upgrade. - 3: Not enough points to learn the skill exactly one page down the list from the skill in Condition 2 (I could be misremembering that detail). So all you need is, for example, enough JP for a Black Mage to learn Fire. You select Fire, and when you get the "Learn Fire?" prompt, hit page down (R1), and then confirm. Bam, max points baby! This of course means you can't exploit it for anything that doesn't have enough skills to span more than one page, or skills that don't have increasing costs, but it works for most classes. Mak0rz fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Dec 12, 2016 |
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Jay Rust posted:What games do you think are too short? Metal Gear Rising Pokemon Snap Luigi's Mansion Pikmin 3 the Milky Way Wishes part of Kirby Super Star Gitaroo Man
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Palpek posted:Ending is great. There are many series that tried to do the Twin Peaks thing but ended up not being good enough so it's hard to recommend a follow-up. I liked the first 2 seasons of The Killing because they were obviously inspired by Twin Peaks minus the supernatural stuff and the tone is different. Just stop watching it after those 2 seasons because that's when the main case concludes and the series kinda falls apart afterwards. You could also give Alan Wake a try if you haven't played it yet. I'm really tempted to pull up the Deadly Premonition LP after the finale but that would only fly if I skipped all the combat sections. I'm sad to see Twin Peaks end because Cooper is just such a likable guy, but the show also seems like it's unraveling with the way Josie left and the White Lodge/Black Lodge stuff. Kinda of cracks me up that every episode still ends on the photo of Laura Palmer even though her case seems so far removed from he current situations. (But not completely, I know)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq7UW3fS6tQ
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glam rock hamhock posted:Fun fact: the "I just can't wait to be king" level in The Lion King was such bullshit because Disney had a thing where they didn't want their games beatable in a single rental so they had the developer make that level much harder and longer than it originally was supposed to be. Man I bet this is also why the Toy Story game had levels that just plain shat the bed in regards to navigation and controls.
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I'm trying to remember a game that I outright immediately stopped playing when I realized it was silently turning down the difficulty in response to repeated failures on my part, with no option to tell the difficulty adjustment to gently caress off Probably a few that do this but this one twisted my jibblies especially hard, maybe it was a DMC game
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