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Guy Mann posted:Looking at youtube apparently it is actually possible to beat the hydra at the encampment legitimately by ignoring the actual health bar and lack of feedback and just and waling on one of its heads? I don't know if playing Dark Arisen on PC is different or if I just couldn't do enough damage in time but when I fought it the combination of having no real visible effect on the first of its 10(!) health bars when I attacked it combined with the fact that it had a swallow attack that could kill you in one hit if you failed a QTE and the AI helpers failed to rescue you in time meant that after a few minutes of chipping away and struggling to stay alive the game takes mercy and turns into a puzzle boss where you beat it by tossing an explosive barrel into its mouth and then shooting the lump in its throat before it can swallow it so its head gets blown off. You're basically still in the tutorial when you fight the hydra, it's not a real fight. Also there is a fast travel system although it admittedly isn't clear at all. There should be a infinite riftstone somewhere in your stash, which you can check at a Inn.
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Triarii posted:You can "break" it like any weapon, but it repairs itself after a cooldown. (Though it won't repair from partial damage, another annoying thing.) This does suck, whenever it tells me it's getting weak I find myself intentionally breaking it so it doesn't break 2 hits into a fight I actually want to use it for.
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Nuebot posted:Is it true that even the Master Sword has limited uses? Yes, but in addition to what the posters have said, the MS gets double attack and drastically increased durability when around guardians or inside dungeons (shrines excluded)
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Captain Lavender posted:I know the game's assertion that it's about being a stealth assassin is paper thin by this point, but I don't know how you put bombs in this game without changing the title. Those bombs were fantastic though. They weren't like, grenades, they were all meant as distractions. Gold bomb, which scatters money to draw crowds, fireworks as a general noisemaker, datura bombs to cause hallucinations and infighting (in the nastiest way possible, because jesus, datura!?), and my personal favorite... ...the blood bombs. So wonderfully gross. 
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Mar 16, 2017 06:58
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A little late to the conversation but the Souls games can get hosed for making you trek through half the level to retry a boss fight.
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Mar 16, 2017 08:08
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Lord Lambeth posted:You're basically still in the tutorial when you fight the hydra, it's not a real fight. Also there is a fast travel system although it admittedly isn't clear at all. There should be a infinite riftstone somewhere in your stash, which you can check at a Inn. This teleport stone appears in your stash after you do the story mission that sends you to the main city. I was very confused at first cause I expected it to just be there from the start.
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gently caress you, The Technomancer, I was going to beat that big-rear end bug. Don't suddenly take away control and say I needed someone to step in and save me.
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Futuresight posted:This teleport stone appears in your stash after you do the story mission that sends you to the main city. I was very confused at first cause I expected it to just be there from the start. Oh I get that then, you don't really need it before you get there.
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Yeah for sure, it's just confusing when you've heard you're supposed to have it but can't find it when you look first thing. :P
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Mar 17, 2017 07:11
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Also in Dark Arisen you can go to Bitterblack early and change your class if you want.
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So I'm playing Zelda: BotW on Wii U, and I'm thinking it was developed as a Wii U game for a while since the key item in-game is basically a tablet that you use to keep track of things. When they understandably made it a Switch launch title, though, I guess that part got shoved aside, since the gamepad isn't used for much (apart from tilting to aim some things). This itself is just kind of a shame, having the menus and maps and such on the gamepad in Wind Waker HD was a big quality of life improvement, but my major objection is that instead the pad screen just slowly flashes "tap here to play on gamepad only" the whole time you're playing. There's no way to turn it off AFAIK and it's kinda distracting. Got used to it eventually but annoying.
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Welp, I've remembered why I never beat Sideway: New York - it is literally unbeatable, because the later levels, most infamously the long-as-hell Time Square level, are known to crash all the time, just hardlock the game. It's a shame, cause I liked that game. 
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I wouldn't dislike the final fight in Styx if the boss arena was bigger and had more verticality like most of the game's levels. It's too cramped to not rely on invisibility to keep the no alerts challenge and the fight isn't even a final exam kinda fight. It's just a return of some meh enemies that are thematically appropriate but don't really do much and it ends after two waves instead of a rule of three which feels really abrupt but I'm not gonna argue for more of the game's combat.
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I reached The Lord of Thieves in Berserk, and my first attempt ended with him throwing me into a corner and body-blocking/stun locking me to death through Frenzy. All I could see was snake-man crotch as Guts flinched to death. Even a little superarmor during Frenzy would make boss fights remotely enjoyable, did no one playtest the bosses?
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Overwatch Look I get it you wanna play hanzo/widow/mccree thats fine but when winston just stomps over you for 5 minutes youll just spend the game dead. But at least you have time to call me a retard for pointing this out. Overwatch is fun but I have no way of avoiding these guys. It's surprising how many people with tons of hours in the game dont seem to understand the basics. I dont mind fuckups but this is dedication to loving up. EDIT: Also another thing dragging the game down: EU region. Are the hero names translated or something? Why are you telling me to attack 'jocker'? Do you mean junkrat? Who's Torbian? Watch out for 'gun'? You mean bastion? Also whats with germans insulting everyone in german then laughing about it? I hosed my mom wheres the joke buddy? Vic has a new favorite as of 15:35 on Mar 17, 2017 |
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Maxwell Lord posted:So I'm playing Zelda: BotW on Wii U, and I'm thinking it was developed as a Wii U game for a while since the key item in-game is basically a tablet that you use to keep track of things. When they understandably made it a Switch launch title, though, I guess that part got shoved aside, since the gamepad isn't used for much (apart from tilting to aim some things). This itself is just kind of a shame, having the menus and maps and such on the gamepad in Wind Waker HD was a big quality of life improvement, but my major objection is that instead the pad screen just slowly flashes "tap here to play on gamepad only" the whole time you're playing. There's no way to turn it off AFAIK and it's kinda distracting. Got used to it eventually but annoying. That was exactly what happened according to a thing I read. They had to strip all that out after they got the memo it was going multi platform.
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Len posted:That was exactly what happened according to a thing I read. They had to strip all that out after they got the memo it was going multi platform. That sucks, it's the perfect use of the tablet. As a switch user, I'd be perfectly fine with the knowledge that the Wii U has increased functionality over what I have. I guess they just didn't want to dedicate resources that only half the SKUs would utilize.
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After BotW's completely freeing climbing system and "here's the world, go nuts" sense of freedom the opening hours of Horizon: Zero Dawn are a bogged down mess of mediocre storytelling and awful, awful, awful climbing. The thing dragging it down is I played BotW first. If I hadn't, this would probably blow me away entirely. As it is, the combat is cool enough to keep me playing it for a while.
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food court bailiff posted:After BotW's completely freeing climbing system and "here's the world, go nuts" sense of freedom the opening hours of Horizon: Zero Dawn are a bogged down mess of mediocre storytelling and awful, awful, awful climbing. The climbing of BotW drags down every other game for me. I keep playing Nier and Uncharted expecting to be able to latch onto the nearest cliff and just climb up, but nope.
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Morpheus posted:The climbing of BotW drags down every other game for me. I keep playing Nier and Uncharted expecting to be able to latch onto the nearest cliff and just climb up, but nope. As long as it isn't raining for 20 irl minutes. You can't do dick when there's rain.
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Len posted:As long as it isn't raining for 20 irl minutes. You can't do dick when there's rain. Yeah that's a real thing dragging down BotW. It's basically the "Okay time to have no fun exploring" mode that gets randomly activated. If there was actually some way to climb in the rain, sure, like if it used double stamina or something, but nope. Just slide the gently caress down constantly.
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you can climb in the rain and it does use double stamina. Climb from 3-4 seconds, jump up, slide down a bit, repeat
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:you can climb in the rain and it does use double stamina. Climb from 3-4 seconds, jump up, slide down a bit, repeat That's a whole lot more than double. I have two circles of stamina and using it all will get me maybe a quarter of the way I could just leaping nonstop. Maaaybe that.
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Nier: Automata really loving upped the anime. Holy poo poo, it's a terrible amount of anime compared to og Nier. Also the loving "We are gods" robot section has the most annoying music in almost any game I've ever played. Also the stupid robot tremolo voice effect is loving irritating as hell.
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You basically buy platinum games for being anime as gently caress.
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RagnarokAngel posted:You basically buy platinum games for being anime as gently caress. Nier wasn't that bad. It's the only other game I'd ever played by them so...my bad.
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Nier wasn't by Platinum
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Nier wasn't by Platinum Well that explains that then.
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You need to play Drakengard 3 in between Nier and Automata, it ties it all together.
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Twitch posted:You need to play Drakengard 3 in between Nier and Automata, it ties it all together. Is there any way to play the Drakengard games on current consoles/PCs or do I have to like track down old PS2 games?
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Zelda Breath of the Wild: -Whenever you upgrade your endurance, you are also slightly punished for it. With each endurance upgrade your "exhaustion" period also grows longer. Link should recover from exhaustion when the inner ring fills. -Cooldowns on the awesome skyflight power only begin counting down after you've used the last charge- 30 minutes beginning when you use the last one. There's no reason this shouldn't be one every 10 minutes. -Swimming blows and takes forever, luckily you're given the ice tool immediately which kind of trivializes traversing water, but it's tedious in another way. -NO Link just jump, don't dive, oh my god why do you do this, mRJHGwru7ygr23gr -Left control stick press is stealth, instead of run. There's no option to change this. The number of times I've accidentally put away my weapons mid battle and "gone stealthy" is staggering. Len posted:As long as it isn't raining for 20 irl minutes. You can't do dick when there's rain. -Holy christ this. The "benefit" you gain from it being rainy out is that you're slightly stealthier, which I want maybe 2% of my gameplay time, the drawback is that I can't explore anymore, which takes up, oh, 80% of my gameplay time? What a nuisance of a mechanic. Poulpe has a new favorite as of 18:36 on Mar 17, 2017 |
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For BotW I don't want the entire map marked for me just for climbing a tower but it would be nice if it did more than put a topographic map on my pause screen.
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Len posted:For BotW I don't want the entire map marked for me just for climbing a tower but it would be nice if it did more than put a topographic map on my pause screen. I think half of the prize is meant to be having a teleportable vantage point in the middle of the zone that you can use as a launch point to quickly explore in any direction, but, yeah, I hear this.
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Poulpe posted:Zelda Breath of the Wild: you're gonna be annoyed by the others swim speed - get ten flint, give them to a lady in gerudo town, get opal, buy opal earrings from her, go to the zoras, and get the zora tunic. bam, swim speed up +2 ive gotten myself to letting go of the run button just before i'm out of stamina so that i don't need to wait forever from being tired. diving is a form of art in and of itself  yeah rain sucks. it really, really sucks. with thunder storms you at least get to watch enemies get blown up. oh wait actually if you have shock arrows, shoot enemies with them in the rain. it's pretty fun.
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Rain is just your cue to go and fight some Bokoblins or collect rare elixir ingredients or something. The game is so open in every other aspect that I can't hold a semi-realistic limitation against it, especially since half of the best critters only come out in the rain anyway. It can be frustrating but it also gives you opportunities you don't have any other time.
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food court bailiff posted:Is there any way to play the Drakengard games on current consoles/PCs or do I have to like track down old PS2 games? ps2 emulation has been a thing for a while.
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spit on my clit posted:diving is a form of art in and of itself Not when it cancels activation of your glider for no apparent reason! 
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MrJacobs posted:ps2 emulation has been a thing for a while. I meant legally.
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Poulpe posted:Not when it cancels activation of your glider for no apparent reason! who said art was helpful
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One thing that actually bugs the hell out of me in BotW is that you can't start climbing from a crouch, and you can't leave a crouch if you're too close to a lot of walls.
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