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Some DS3 enemies do feel like cut content BB enemies and they wanted to save money on assets so they just moved them to DS3
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I think the correct answer is to just continue playing bloodborne. forever.
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Mar 30, 2017 13:45
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MechaSeinfeld posted:did DS3 bring the rat covenant back? Best part of 2 imo. The answer is invariably: no.
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Mar 30, 2017 13:50
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Attitude Indicator posted:I think the correct answer is to just continue playing bloodborne. forever.
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Mar 30, 2017 13:53
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Samurai Sanders posted:DS3 just got an absolutely ridiculous performance boost on the PS4 pro but no sign of that for Bloodborne... The digital foundry guys weren't too impressed with DS3 on the Pro. They said that while you can now get 45-50fps average the frame variance still makes the screen almost as juddery as 30fps locked. I play DS3 on PC where it crashes to black whenever I try to exit the game, master race.
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Mar 30, 2017 13:56
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They'll never ever fix the frame variance issues in either Games, Fromsoft clearly doesn't care at all about it
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Mar 30, 2017 13:57
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I was running around in the swamp, a traditional place where frame rates go to poo poo in games in general, and I didn't have any problems that interfered with gameplay. I definitely did before the patch.
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Mar 30, 2017 14:11
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Samurai Sanders posted:I was running around in the swamp, a traditional place where frame rates go to poo poo in games in general, and I didn't have any problems that interfered with gameplay. I definitely did before the patch. Have you tried the new DLC yet? It runs REALLLLLY poorly on the PS4 Amateur, at least for the first two bonfires.
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Mar 30, 2017 14:22
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Have you tried the new DLC yet? It runs REALLLLLY poorly on the PS4 Amateur, at least for the first two bonfires.
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Mar 30, 2017 14:24
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exquisite tea posted:Playing DS3 after BB is going to feel like you are moving underwater while getting wombo comboed by even basic shitknights. The bonfire placement is usually more forgiving though. Where's that screenshot where you can literally see the Archives bonfire from the Dragonrider Armor bonfire
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Mar 30, 2017 14:26
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My new favorite thing is that people are apparently mad about Ignis cracking alternative facts jokes in the new FF15 updates
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Mar 30, 2017 14:29
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:They'll never ever fix the frame variance issues in either Games, Fromsoft clearly doesn't care at all about it You have to care about it, have metrics and stick to them when you're building the game. It's a poo poo-ton of work to go back and fix it after the game is done, unless you can identify something that is causing it across the board.
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Mar 30, 2017 14:39
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Elemental Arrows are what you need to really kill the big machines. That and the Tear-inflicting Arrow types to knock off components. Don't plink away at their HP, dismantle them piece-by-piece and shoot the weakpoints your Focus identifies. Yeah. I'm just really bad at aiming a bow. It doesn't seem like there is much auto-aim in this game and I am loving terrible at aiming precision on consoles.
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Mar 30, 2017 14:40
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exploded mummy posted:My new favorite thing is that people are apparently mad about Ignis cracking alternative facts jokes in the new FF15 updates Oh god yeah. Here's a good one from the FF15 thread: MrLonghair posted:And you don't loving jam a meme into a localization when you could just do your job, why could they not resist the temptation to keep it free fom fuckery and from dragging it the hell down in the muddy swamp awaiting a draining, those dumbasses. It's not spicing up and otherwise dull line of original, it's being a retard, like with other parts of the FFXV localization and how it changes the characters in ways that actually go overboard compared to the original Japanese, in ways that would be perfectly fine to translate straight up, ways that would deliver the character's personality. At least it's not Fire Emblem!
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Obsurveyor posted:You have to care about it, have metrics and stick to them when you're building the game. It's a poo poo-ton of work to go back and fix it after the game is done, unless you can identify something that is causing it across the board. Considering that they are a very Japanese company and very opaque about mistakes and issues and their patch notes, I'm not even sure that the issue being identifiable would help. In any case, it's too late at this point
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Mar 30, 2017 14:45
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Mordiceius posted:I'm bad at HZD and keep getting wrecked by the big machine at the end of this first cauldron. Bellowback? Shock tripcaster will stun in and you can shoot the canister on its tail. Then just jump around and drill arrows into the tank on it's back.
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Mar 30, 2017 14:48
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It's always odd to see that some people have trouble with the bow mechanics in Horizon. The aiming system in HZD/nu-Tomb Raider is so intuitive to me, I wish more games would have something like it.
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Imagined posted:I think if Titanfall 2 would've been a big hit we would've seen a lot more free DLC for it. No way. People didn't even take advantage of the DLC they did release. The servers here will still empty except for basic attrition.
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Instant Grat posted:Oh god yeah. Here's a good one from the FF15 thread: This is the good poo poo right here  Even works in the phrase "drain the swamp". Hell yes.
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Mar 30, 2017 14:54
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exquisite tea posted:It's always odd to see that some people have trouble with the bow mechanics in Horizon. The aiming system in HZD/nu-Tomb Raider is so intuitive to me, I wish more games would have something like it. It can be awkward in those times when you need to make a big adjustment . Like when enemies are using melee/leaping attacks at close range and you're evading or when trying to track flying enemies. Sometimes when you aim upwards all that's visible to you is the foliage around you, effectively making enemies invisible. The aim assist can be a pain as well when it snaps to something you weren't intending to hit.
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:Considering that they are a very Japanese company and very opaque about mistakes and issues and their patch notes, I'm not even sure that the issue being identifiable would help. Oh yeah, as much datamining and exploration that goes into the Souls games, I bet players would have identified and reported anything like that way before the devs would find it.
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Pocket Billiards posted:It can be awkward in those times when you need to make a big adjustment . Like when enemies are using melee/leaping attacks at close range and you're evading or when trying to track flying enemies. Sometimes when you aim upwards all that's visible to you is the foliage around you, effectively making enemies invisible. I think aim assist is disabled if you're playing above Normal. I wouldn't want to use it anyway.
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Mar 30, 2017 15:08
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Akuma posted:"Did they bring back <interesting thing> from DS2?" I'm curious what these interesting things were. The turntable enemies? Inconsistent iframes? Enemies dying permanently for some reason? A billion humanoid bosses with grab attacks?
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:I'm curious what these interesting things were. The turntable enemies? Inconsistent iframes? Enemies dying permanently for some reason? A billion humanoid bosses with grab attacks? Covenants with more than grinding, powerstancing, nonlinearity. An interesting new game + as well
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Instant Grat posted:Oh god yeah. Here's a good one from the FF15 thread: Ban that guy.
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I remember reading in some article long ago that DS3 originally was going to have some kind of system where you placed your own bonfires or something along those lines. Maybe explains why they seem just dropped in so readily around the rest of the areas and why you constantly can find shortcuts back through places that there is no reason run through because you already got the bonfire past it. Not sure the exact mechanics behind this but it was scrapped completely obviously and to me it seems like they just had to place them fairly quickly and obviously in a rush almost.
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:I'm curious what these interesting things were. The turntable enemies? Inconsistent iframes? Enemies dying permanently for some reason? A billion humanoid bosses with grab attacks? Bonfire ascetics. Actual fun NG+
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Scorps posted:I remember reading in some article long ago that DS3 originally was going to have some kind of system where you placed your own bonfires or something along those lines, which explains why they seem just dropped in so readily around the rest of the areas and why you constantly can find shortcuts back through places that there is no reason run through because you already got the bonfire past it. Not sure the exact mechanics behind this but it was scrapped completely obviously and to me it seems like they just had to place them fairly quickly and obviously in a rush almost.
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I used to care about Bonfire Ascetics but then Nioh implemented a simple NG+ difficulty scaling where you just hit a button and it bumped you up to the next tier and you could switch back and forth freely from Normal to Hard.
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Samurai Sanders posted:This reminds me, when DS2 came out there was talk that the torches were going to have much more gameplay meaning than they ended up having, but I never knew what. Was that ever a real thing? It was until they axed the lighting engine from their preview slices and bullshots cause the full game engine couldn't handle it on the hardware. Or maybe not, cause at this point with Scholar the hardware could handle it, but it's nowhere to be found
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Policenaut posted:I used to care about Bonfire Ascetics but then Nioh implemented a simple NG+ difficulty scaling where you just hit a button and it bumped you up to the next tier and you could switch back and forth freely from Normal to Hard. I'm struggling to think of a way to implement that without a menu/level system. You could use items to brighten or dim the bonfire? That would probably work. So yeah expand bonfire ascetics. Like Nioh.
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cubicle gangster posted:Yeah but when you don't hit them in the head they don't really give a gently caress and just keep doing what they're doing. You can have a dude take 10 bullets before dying and not be called spongey if he reacts to it better. This is pretty much what I mean sure headshots are kills but when I'm pumping a dude full of ak47 bullets and he just continues to run towards me without flinching That's what I call a bullet sponge, also the stealth sucks
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DS2 is okay but DS3 is a much better game overallAkuma posted:It was a step backwards from Dark Souls 2 in a lot of ways and has a lot of design issues for me, like enemies feeling like they're in Bloodborne but the player is still in a Dark Souls game. The DS1 nostalgia just rubbed me the wrong way. 
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Also having only played the first game, the shooting mechanics are so bad that you may or may not even hit the hit when you have it lined up in the crosshairs. If the fates smile upon you enough to grant you the head shot sure they drop, but good luck getting there.
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:It was until they axed the lighting engine from their preview slices and bullshots cause the full game engine couldn't handle it on the hardware. They probably left it out of the scholar version because the implementation wasn't really finished since it never worked. There is an area in the first fortress where it actually does work, and the wharf area, but those are the only areas i remember that has it.
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:I'm curious what these interesting things were. The turntable enemies? Inconsistent iframes? Enemies dying permanently for some reason? A billion humanoid bosses with grab attacks? Edit: the spices that let you get the fake for spells/miracles so you can use them, even if they're weaker because you lack the real stats. All dropped for DS3. So many cool or player-friendly/convenient things. Samurai Sanders posted:This reminds me, when DS2 came out there was talk that the torches were going to have much more gameplay meaning than they ended up having, but I never knew what. Was that ever a real thing? Akuma fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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Akuma posted:Interesting covenants like the one that pulls other players into YOUR trap-filled funhouse, or the covenant that sends you through a portal to carry out bespoke missions before facing a cool optional boss, non-hostile enemies that could be triggered by some criteria (Heide Knights, dragon shrine guardians, dark guys who don't want you to use torches), bombs + resistance boosters + damage boosters + resins + bolts + arrows for ALL elements (including magic) so whatever your gear/class you can work an enemies weakness, bonfire ascetics, NG+ differences, power stancing, handedness not mattering, the cool menu view by default where you can see your guy to the right of the menus (so they don't obscure everything), a way to use multiple items REALLY EASILY (use selected? What the gently caress?), MP arenas (okay, they added that in as paid DLC in DS3...), something like lockstones/branches that let you use a "finite" resource to prioritise where you explore, colourful hub area characters that are dynamic like the merchant that changes the more you buy from him going from stuttery poor dude to smug rich dick, surprise optional early boss encounters (The Pursuer, Freja), recurring enemies that hunt you throughout the game (The Pursuer, that guy that you can free from imprisonment that will invade you the rest of the game and gently caress you up), a boss that summons players as little helpers (and they blast out of a loving mirror shield and it rules.) Edit: (Though I will admit I liked powerstancing. Even if it was the only thing I liked. But I liked DkS3's dual weapons just as much, to the point that I made a gimmick build with every dual weapon thanks to phantom trading stuff super early in the game.) ACES CURE PLANES fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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Good rebuttal.
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So I bought one year of Plus from Amazon to take advantage of the free 3 months and Showtime but it's been 3 days and I still haven't received any codes. Did anyone else have awhile before they got theirs?
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Nah that poster has it pretty right. I'm gonna focus on the Dark Souls nostalgia part since others have gotten into the other points. There are a bunch of times in Dark Souls 3 where it demands comparison to Dark Souls, while almost invariably falling short because Dark Souls was much more balanced and hadn't been made with a warped sense of what Dark Souls difficulty is. It also has a lot of callbacks to the old game that are mostly just kind of egregious, with the occasional exception like Anor Londo. Dark Souls 2 felt much more independent of the first game and it's mostly for the better.
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