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scarycave posted:I've been testing out Kingdom Hearts unchained - which is a mobile game of kingdom hearts that's apparently going to tie into the new game so I figured since it's "free" I might as well try it. I didn't get very far but I do like that they made a custom heartless for the snowhite world since you never really explore that world when heartless around in any of the games so far. You visit Snow White in Birth By Sleep. The queen puts the hit out for Snow White to Terra.
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ninjahedgehog posted:God of War III also has my favorite QTE in gaming: Kratos gauges out Poseidon's eyes with his thumbs. The prompt for this is L3 + R3. Guess which fingers you're going to use? That and the QTE for killing Mercury are really clever/vicious. For Mercury, he's a super-agile rear end in a top hat who keeps dashing around and being really hard to hit. Eventually you pin him down and grab hold of his legs, hanging him upside down. The game prompts you to put your finger on a button to put your blade up to his shins, but Kratos doesn't actually make the stroke until you release it, so you get to pick how long Mercury is hanging there struggling and waiting for the end. There's also the last moment of the game where you finally beat Zeus to death; it's a mash QTE but the game won't stop until you do. You can keep on smashing his face in until so much blood splats on the screen that it's entirely red and continue letting out rage until both you and Kratos calm down. Most devs throw in a QTE without putting any real thought into it but they went the extra mile to give them an extra edge and make them feel less like interruptions and press X to not die.
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BioEnchanted posted:You visit Snow White in Birth By Sleep. The queen puts the hit out for Snow White to Terra. You visit Snow White in BBS when the unversed are attacking. You never fight or see a heartless there.
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Feb 7, 2017 21:45
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The best QTEs are from The Wonderful 101, especially near the end where the team is all piloting a giant robot, and the player has to mash A furiously to save the Earth. The camera cuts inside the cockpit halfway through the sequence to show that all the heroes are also furiously mashing their A buttons as well. The Wonderful 101 is such a charming game.
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Feb 7, 2017 21:52
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scarycave posted:You visit Snow White in BBS when the unversed are attacking. You never fight or see a heartless there. Of course, duh. Forgot about the Unversed angle :P Been a while since I played that game.
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Feb 7, 2017 22:09
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haveblue posted:That and the QTE for killing Mercury are really clever/vicious. Three minutes. That's how long I beat Zeus before I realized I could stop when I wanted to. I hit him a few more times for good measure, because he was a dickhead.
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Feb 7, 2017 22:15
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The final fight in Arkham Knight is like that. You can just completely beat the poo poo out of the guy for as long as you want, only beating him when you activate a specific environmental "kill". He's an absolutely terrible fighter so there's not even any risk.
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Feb 7, 2017 22:27
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BioEnchanted posted:Of course, duh. Forgot about the Unversed angle :P Been a while since I played that game. Same. Can't say I blame you either. There's like four different groups of baddies now and a lot of them are just expy's of each other.
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Baba Yaga Fanboy posted:
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My favorite thing about God of War 3 was that it wasn't just Kratos killing the gods and being an rear end in a top hat again. This time he ruins the drat world and every time you kill one of the big guys like Poseidon and Hades everything looks worse and worse while you're going through the rest of the game. Shame 3 really dropped the ball on unlockable costumes though.
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Feb 7, 2017 23:18
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Gouge out Poseidon's eyes, sea level instantly rises sixty feet. 
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So after seeing it mentioned countless times from you guys, I went ahead and bought Bloodborne, having never played Dark Souls before either. Yes it is unforgiving, but the atmosphere is top notch and I love that it lets you just go forward without any hand holding. I think I only ever looked up one thing so far that I was confused on, but otherwise loving it, even after dying several dozen times.
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Boofchicken posted:So after seeing it mentioned countless times from you guys, I went ahead and bought Bloodborne, having never played Dark Souls before either. Yes it is unforgiving, but the atmosphere is top notch and I love that it lets you just go forward without any hand holding. I think I only ever looked up one thing so far that I was confused on, but otherwise loving it, even after dying several dozen times. Having played and loved all of them, Bloodborne definitely has the cruelest introduction. It took a longass time and several deaths navigating the streets to even find a boss so that I could even begin to level up.
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Sad lions posted:Having played and loved all of them, Bloodborne definitely has the cruelest introduction. It took a longass time and several deaths navigating the streets to even find a boss so that I could even begin to level up. I started a new game yesterday and rushed the first optional boss just for that insight then went back to actually kill the man's. That bonfire is still a bitch.
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Feb 7, 2017 23:47
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Rush to the sewers without a weapon and grab the Saw Spear and a Madman's Knowledge and you'll feel like a pro speedrunner.
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Bloodborne is the souls game for non-souls players. Tons of people who bounced off of D. Souls games played Bloodborne and finally "got it" as far as why people like these games. Speaking of which I wholeheartedly recommend playing Souls games like you play Bloodborne. Strip down, no shield, dodge everything.
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Honestly I think the first boss of bloodborne is actually the worst part of it. The first "real" boss Gascoigne is hard for a new player but really fun and incredibly different from any fight up to that point and it's strange to just drop you into a totally different experience but it's a great fight. If not for having to go back and farm potions to keep trying I would probably have liked it even more at the time of playing. The boss before him though, whatever beast it was, is a poo poo fight. The design is so cluttered with floating fur and effects that it makes it difficult to see the boss's body and your camera gets hosed over by the narrow arena that it becomes the capra demon all over again. The hardest part isn't dodging, hitting or even countering the boss. It's just being able to see what's going on so you don't get crushed because the camera was locked firmly on the boss' taint. That being said, the vast majority of bloodborne boss fights actually own and I just think the very first one was kind of poo poo and does the game a disservice.Len posted:I started a new game yesterday and rushed the first optional boss just for that insight then went back to actually kill the man's. That bonfire is still a bitch. The bonfire area is pretty cool and it's one of those areas that starts off really hard and intimidating but after a while you can just zoom through it and murder all those guys without taking a scratch like some kind of ninja and it makes you feel like a pro bloodborne man until you get to the sewers where a dude just shoots you and you fall into rat water and die.
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My favourite little thing about Bloodborne is because I've never played it, every time someone mentions Gascoigne, I picture this guy
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Nuebot posted:Honestly I think the first boss of bloodborne is actually the worst part of it. The first "real" boss Gascoigne is hard for a new player but really fun and incredibly different from any fight up to that point and it's strange to just drop you into a totally different experience but it's a great fight. If not for having to go back and farm potions to keep trying I would probably have liked it even more at the time of playing. The boss before him though, whatever beast it was, is a poo poo fight. The design is so cluttered with floating fur and effects that it makes it difficult to see the boss's body and your camera gets hosed over by the narrow arena that it becomes the capra demon all over again. The hardest part isn't dodging, hitting or even countering the boss. It's just being able to see what's going on so you don't get crushed because the camera was locked firmly on the boss' taint. That being said, the vast majority of bloodborne boss fights actually own and I just think the very first one was kind of poo poo and does the game a disservice. Oddly enough the very first time I got that boss I beat him with a string of bullets and stabbings. The second time on my different build starting character did not go anywhere that smoothly. I'm hoping to just get a feel for things again and hop back into my original guy. I got to Rom and then stonewalled by dudes in every direction I went so I shelved it. Now I forget how to play
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Alpha Protocol talk: If you go recruit you start with 0 points to put into stuff but when you finish the initial zone stuff you'll have more than you would have if you had specialized, plus it unlocks Veteran which is just so much fun to do since you can max everything out early and the special veteran dialogue options are really funny.
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Bogmonster posted:My favourite little thing about Bloodborne is because I've never played it, every time someone mentions Gascoigne, I picture this guy Now picture him turning into a werewolf and it's about the same thing.
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During the God of War series, Kratos often winds up taking the place of the myth heroes; killing the Hydra, recovering the Golden Fleece, 'freeing' Prometheus, etc. So in 3, Hercules shows up angry that you've been stealing his fame and declares he's gonna smash your face in for it.
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Byzantine posted:During the God of War series, Kratos often winds up taking the place of the myth heroes; killing the Hydra, recovering the Golden Fleece, 'freeing' Prometheus, etc. Also he's voiced by Kevin Sorbo. Really fun fight though and the weapon you get is the best. I wish you got it earlier so you could mess with it the whole game.
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Byzantine posted:During the God of War series, Kratos often winds up taking the place of the myth heroes; killing the Hydra, recovering the Golden Fleece, 'freeing' Prometheus, etc. I was going to say, I liked about God of War that a lot of the bosses you fight and murder are just other heroes on their epic quests, and you just grab their mcguffin so you can double jump or something.
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Captain Lavender posted:I was going to say, I liked about God of War that a lot of the bosses you fight and murder are just other heroes on their epic quests, and you just grab their mcguffin so you can double jump or something. As weak as it is to bring Kratos back for God of War 4 poo poo like that is why I'm pretty excited for a Norse take. They should have just picked up new characters murdering their way through different religious pantheon's games ago, or picked up from that tease about the US military finding a dead Titan with the temple of Pandora on its back during desert storm.
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The final event of God of War 5 should be Kratos impaling Jesus Christ with a spear.
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oldpainless posted:The final event of God of War 5 should be Kratos impaling Jesus Christ with a spear. Only if at some point he has to fight Noah to get a place on the ark.
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Nuebot posted:Also he's voiced by Kevin Sorbo. And they got Harry Hamlin to voice Perseus for 2.
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I really expected the ending of GOW3 to have Kratos becoming a monotheist god, following with an incredibly trashy 'immaculate conception' mini game. 'To be continued?...'
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Inco posted:The best QTEs are from The Wonderful 101, especially near the end where the team is all piloting a giant robot, and the player has to mash A furiously to save the Earth. The camera cuts inside the cockpit halfway through the sequence to show that all the heroes are also furiously mashing their A buttons as well. The Wonderful 101 is such a charming game. Yeah, but did you notice Wonder Black, the gamer, presses the button the fastest while Wonder Yellow, the oldest (and thus not up with gaming techniques) presses it the slowest?
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Sad lions posted:I really expected the ending of GOW3 to have Kratos becoming a monotheist god, following with an incredibly trashy 'immaculate conception' mini game. Really? It's a series about Kratos killing bigger and more badder asses, killing the unkillable and generally being a jackass. So he finally kills the one thing no one else could. Mostly out of sheer spite, too. Not to like, be a good dude or anything. Also, one thing I liked about God of War 3 was that it acknowledged the PSP games existed. At least the first one, I think they tried to forget the weird one about Kratos' brother.
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Nuebot posted:Really? It's a series about Kratos killing bigger and more badder asses, killing the unkillable and generally being a jackass. Ghost of Sparta came out a few months after God of War 3. Even so, in 3 Poseidon says he wants to avenge Atlantis while you fight him, and it isn't explained until Ghost of Sparta. Dr Christmas has a new favorite as of 11:20 on Feb 8, 2017 |
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Len posted:They should have just picked up new characters murdering their way through different religious pantheon's games ago, IIRC the original plan was to team up with a Norse hero in the second game and murder that pantheon, then team up with an Egyptian hero and murder all those gods, and then the three of them are drawn to a star descending in the North... 
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To face the three aspect god Yahweh, the trinity and Allah. Id buy it. But only if you also meet buddha on the road and kill him.
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It turns out Kratos was responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:But only if you also meet buddha on the road and kill him. I dunno, I think personally I'd prefer the image that Buddha's the one guy Kratos doesn't kill. He's either so chill that Kratos is incapable of having a beef with him, or so at peace that there's no point to it.
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John Murdoch posted:The mouse acts like a joystick. The farther you move it away from neutral, the faster the box moves and you have to reset it back to neutral to get the box to stay still. Also IIRC, you have to press LMB to lock in the choice, so there's that little extra chance of accidentally nudging the mouse and screwing everything up. Or just play on a gamepad?
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poptart_fairy posted:IIRC the original plan was to team up with a Norse hero in the second game and murder that pantheon, then team up with an Egyptian hero and murder all those gods, and then the three of them are drawn to a star descending in the North... That's amazing.
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poptart_fairy posted:IIRC the original plan was to team up with a Norse hero in the second game and murder that pantheon, then team up with an Egyptian hero and murder all those gods, and then the three of them are drawn to a star descending in the North... Every game has had a different director. Jaffe's original plan was that you would kill Zeus at the end of 2 and then the Norse and Egyptian pantheons would invade Greece in the chaos. 2's director wanted it to be about wiping away the Greek pantheon to pave the way for Christianity. That's why 2 has the Spear of Destiny and the picture of the three magi in the Fates' inner sanctum. The Blade of Olympus was going to be Excalibur. Then 3 went with the atheistic ending where the Olympians were the only gods and now there's nothing but the evils and hope among humanity. I prefer the way 3 and the sidegames went, to be honest. The Sun literally fell from the sky and you go inside it and take Helios' shield from his throne NO WAIT that was just the Greek sun, the Norse and Egyptian suns are perfectly fine
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Len posted:Only if at some point he has to fight Noah to get a place on the ark. "Kratos! There is no place for you on the ark! There is only one God of War and not two of you!" qte prompt pops up
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