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Somfin posted:You started with the best one for characterisation. Link has never been as lovably dim as he is in Wind Waker. The best bit is early on when they're discussing how to get Link into the Forsaken Fortress, smash cut to Link looking down and reacting in shock as he apparently suddenly realises he's in a barrel about to be launched from a catapult
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2house2fly posted:The best bit is early on when they're discussing how to get Link into the Forsaken Fortress, smash cut to Link looking down and reacting in shock as he apparently suddenly realises he's in a barrel about to be launched from a catapult https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cw1U_MjTZg
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Somfin posted:Nier: Automata: I know right? His interactions with his partner were the best Anyway, i just got the last real ending of that game and i need to go for a walk or something. After this whiskey.
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probably said a million times in this thread but Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Disabling weapons/spells during brawls. Way more satisfying to take people on in hand-to-hand combat for bar disputes/drunkenness/name calling. Lotta games let you pull out your guns and vaporize people with the pull of the trigger if you voluntarily choose the combat option. But its fun to knock some dude on his rear end fair and square and end the conflict without painting taverns red.
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buglord posted:probably said a million times in this thread but At the same time, kinda removes the premise of the Witchers being bioengineered super soldiers if they can be knocked flat on their arse by some random wino.
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Mar 27, 2017 10:39
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I keep struggling on puzzles in the new Zelda, but then realising I've forgotten I have the ice block power. Any water hazard I immediately forget it exists, from Lake Hylia to the Zora Dungeon Animal, to the bottomless swamps.
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BioEnchanted posted:I keep struggling on puzzles in the new Zelda, but then realising I've forgotten I have the ice block power. Any water hazard I immediately forget it exists, from Lake Hylia to the Zora Dungeon Animal, to the bottomless swamps.
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Mar 27, 2017 10:47
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Samovar posted:At the same time, kinda removes the premise of the Witchers being bioengineered super soldiers if they can be knocked flat on their arse by some random wino. I think the books and games suggest that witchers just have higher upper limits than a normal person and their monster killing abilities have a lot to do with being able to physiologically handle a lot of super rad drugs.
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BioEnchanted posted:I keep struggling on puzzles in the new Zelda, but then realising I've forgotten I have the ice block power. Any water hazard I immediately forget it exists, from Lake Hylia to the Zora Dungeon Animal, to the bottomless swamps. Oh right! I don't need to swim as much. I can use loving ice blocks! I also desperately ran home from the starting shrine that's in the cold region staying alive by using a burning club because I forgot that you can just teleport out of there...
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Trainmonk posted:I think the books and games suggest that witchers just have higher upper limits than a normal person and their monster killing abilities have a lot to do with being able to physiologically handle a lot of super rad drugs. Yeah unless you want a really hard time of it you down all the potions and mutagens you can, and abuse the hell out of signs and witcher traps/tools.
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Unperson_47 posted:Yeah, Geralt is guicing. You can see the effects on him in cutscenes, even minor ones like when talking to merchants. If his Toxicity is above 0 his blood vessels will be prominently purple.
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buglord posted:probably said a million times in this thread but In my experience this was something limited to certain scripted fights. At the end of the prologue when a bunch of guys jump you in the tavern, I specifically tried to fist fight them and wasn't able to- Geralt just pulled his sword out and wasted them. I looked on the wiki and didn't see any other outcome for that quest than "you kill them all and the landlady throws you out"
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2house2fly posted:In my experience this was something limited to certain scripted fights. At the end of the prologue when a bunch of guys jump you in the tavern, I specifically tried to fist fight them and wasn't able to- Geralt just pulled his sword out and wasted them. I looked on the wiki and didn't see any other outcome for that quest than "you kill them all and the landlady throws you out" I didn't even know there was an option to fistfight people. I would always murder people that tried to fight me, because that seemed like something a Witcher would do. In Zelda: Breath of the Wild, if you unequip your weapon but hit the unsheathe sword button, Link will reach behind him, grasp at air, and then look at his hand like "WTF?" for a second. That game is also like "Little Things: The Game." It's the first time the tips screen has been incredibly helpful as a lot of things aren't exactly obvious, like that lighting grass on fire creates an updraft.
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Strife posted:I didn't even know there was an option to fistfight people. I would always murder people that tried to fight me, because that seemed like something a Witcher would do. In the books this is literally how Geralt is introduced. His character really starts as "what if an edgy teenager actually could kick rear end and gently caress ladies?"
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Glukeose posted:In the books this is literally how Geralt is introduced. His character really starts as "what if an edgy teenager actually could kick rear end and gently caress ladies?"
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Geralt of Rivia somehow slams into edgelord territory so hard he punches through and out the other side into genuine badass.
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Geralt of Rivia in the books is My Cool Silver-Haired Anime Notebook Character Who Fucks All The Wommenz with some moments of something better, the Witcher 1 isn't much better and it's only in W2/3 that he really starts to get better.
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Just got to my final Guardian Beast in Zelda, the Goron salamander. Not enjoying Death Mountain so far, kinda annoying, and once I've bought more fire-resist potions and cleared it out, I may end up grinding Rupees so that I can buy a just unfair amount of Ancient Arrows for Hyrule Castle as it is littered with those Guardian fuckers..
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ImpAtom posted:Geralt of Rivia in the books is My Cool Silver-Haired Anime Notebook Character Who Fucks All The Wommenz with some moments of something better, the Witcher 1 isn't much better and it's only in W2/3 that he really starts to get better. W1 Geralt takes crap from no man (or boy) https://youtu.be/g-egGn5WYrk
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BioEnchanted posted:Just got to my final Guardian Beast in Zelda, the Goron salamander. Not enjoying Death Mountain so far, kinda annoying, and once I've bought more fire-resist potions and cleared it out, I may end up grinding Rupees so that I can buy a just unfair amount of Ancient Arrows for Hyrule Castle as it is littered with those Guardian fuckers.. I've killed enough guardians to make a full set of ancient armor and upgrade it to second to last level and I've never used an ancient arrow Parrying and stasis+ are your friends
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Calaveron posted:I've killed enough guardians to make a full set of ancient armor and upgrade it to second to last level and I've never used an ancient arrow Honestly, ancient arrows don't do as much as you'd think to guardians. Normal arrows interrupt their beam charge just fine. Instant-kill on literally every other enemy, though.
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pulp rag posted:
Why do you think I described it as an unfair amount? gently caress the difficulty curve. Also when I tried them out I think I killed a Guardian in 3 ancient arrows which is pretty good, although I'm assuming the endgame ones are stronger.
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If you crit any guardian w the ancient arrow its a instant kill. I prefer bowling them over with my giant horse and chopping all their legs off tho.
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pulp rag posted:Honestly, ancient arrows don't do as much as you'd think to guardians. Normal arrows interrupt their beam charge just fine. Hitting them in the eye with an ancient arrow kills them dead. E: beaten.
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Morpheus posted:Hitting them in the eye with an ancient arrow kills them dead. THat's what I've been doing, I just treat them like Beamos and it works fine. they basically are.
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Speaking of the guardians, running through hyrule field, seeing the targetting reticle on you suddenly vanish and knowing that a blast of death is racing for you, then dodging out of the way is so loving fun. Gets the heart racing too, those lasers don't gently caress around.
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By the way I keep remembering I never went back to Rito village for the prize for dealing with the Giant Stone Bird. Whoops, I'll have to remember to do that...
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Action Tortoise posted:There's an article about a journalist gathering a bunch of Yakuza to play it and wrote down their thoughts. Great article, thanks for sharing. Loved the part where they are all basically in love with the journalist to the point where one is like hey don't say that name it's offensive. And then they rag on him for being in the Jewish CIA.
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Using a perfect shield action to defeat a guardian makes encounters trivial. You reflect the beam back 3-4 times and it's toast.
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SomeJazzyRat posted:If this has been recorded for posterity, I would like to see it please. Seconding this.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:he's emotionally stunted as gently caress, it's kind of his thing It reminds me of that bit in Van Helsing, where Dracula is all moping and emo - "I don't feel anything! that makes me feel angry! " Kaer Morhen is just a bunch of frat boys moaning about how they don't have emotions because it's easier than having to deal with emotions.
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Cloks posted:Using a perfect shield action to defeat a guardian makes encounters trivial. You reflect the beam back 3-4 times and it's toast. Wait, what? Do you need a special shield for this or is it just a regular shield parry? Breath of the Wild just keeps getting better. I can only play it for a few hours a week due to work right now but every single time I play I find something new and wonderful or go on a cool little mini-adventure. It's the kind of game where I really like flinging myself into a combat situation with overwhelming odds and trying to figure out the best weapon/shield/elixir combination to prevail. I've heard a fair amount of complaints about a lack of enemy variety, and while I don't really agree I can see where people are getting those opinions. Still, I find that almost every encounter is unique somehow, even against an identical group of enemies, just based on the environment and what I have on hand at the time. I killed my first Stone Talos last night on a tiny little plateau, after having run from one in the past. After my first few attacks did absolutely nothing, I frantically tried to stay out of the way while taking a picture of the thing so I could look it up in the Compendium and figure out how to kill it. That kind of thing is awesome. Also I finally found Hestu (after not running into him for like 8 hours) so that's awesome....if only I could find that motherfucker again....
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Breath of the Wild has ignited a sense of discovery in me like no other game has since, like, the SNES days. I'm not just hunting down things, crossing off objectives and quests on a list, anything like that - I'm just exploring and it's so awesome. Not looking anything up, not spoiling anything for myself, just looking around for what I can find. Like, a while ago I found a shrine that told me I needed something called Dinraal's Scale. I had no idea what the gently caress it was talking about. And I didn't look it up. Cue, maybe ten hours of playing later, noticing strong updrafts all around me, weird sparks falling down, and looking up to see a huge motherfucking asian dragon spiraling through the air. I didn't know what to do, I just stared at it for a few minutes, watching it move (after taking a picture, of course). Then, I shot it with an arrow out of curiousity, saw a brightly glowing object fall, and went to pick it up after seeing the huge dragon disappear into a portal in the sky. It was its scale, exactly what I needed for the shrine. It felt so goddamn good finding that stuff out.
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I like walking around the Mansion in the RE remake. I don't have to do anything, just walk around and admire how nice it looks.
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Something funny, I thought RE7 was another remake, because all I saw on the box was RESIDENT EVIL (vr) with a pic of a mansion on it. I hadn't heard of 7 yet, and I didn't notice it because of how it is hidden in the main title like this: RESIDENT E(VII)_. I thought it was a upscaled remake allowing people to explore the umbrella mansion in VR.
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oldpainless posted:I like walking around the Mansion in the RE remake. I don't have to do anything, just walk around and admire how nice it looks. This was pretty much the only reason that RE5's DLC (which thankfully came with the HD remaster version on PS4) was worth a drat. It's not quite the same layout, but holy poo poo is it ever pretty.
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BioEnchanted posted:Something funny, I thought RE7 was another remake, because all I saw on the box was RESIDENT EVIL (vr) with a pic of a mansion on it. I hadn't heard of 7 yet, and I didn't notice it because of how it is hidden in the main title like this: RESIDENT E(VII)_. I thought it was a upscaled remake allowing people to explore the umbrella mansion in VR. They did the same with the series' original Japanese name, Biohazard. 
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Kanfy posted:They did the same with the series' original Japanese name, Biohazard. You just know some graphic designer had the best day of their life when they realized they could do this.
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