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I liked what I played of PoE, but I just started playing Tides of Numenera and man, everything about that setting just blows PoE out of the water huh.
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Is that good? I bought the PS4 version because it was cheap and never touched it...
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May 5, 2017 11:38
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Anyone got a strat for beating the spider boss early in xenoblade? Its an overwhelming fight for a first real boss
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May 5, 2017 13:09
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Sakurazuka posted:Oh yeah I forgot about the dumb NPC backstories. At least you can ignore them. I think one of the expansions added a special weapon that gets more powerful by killing the Kickstarter backer characters, which is great.
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May 5, 2017 13:18
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Guy Mann posted:I think one of the expansions added a special weapon that gets more powerful by killing the Kickstarter backer characters, which is great. I hope Obsidian makes some better pledge goals for their next kickstarter because man those NPC fanfics were some of the most embarrassing things I've ever read in a video game.
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May 5, 2017 13:25
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exquisite tea posted:I hope Obsidian makes some better pledge goals for their next kickstarter because man those NPC fanfics were some of the most embarrassing things I've ever read in a video game. At least none of them were a fat fetish dragon fursona so they're better than the Undertale Kickstarter selfinsert
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May 5, 2017 13:30
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sounds like they were actually attempting to blend in with the source material in that case heyoooo
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May 5, 2017 13:35
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Sakurazuka posted:Is that good? I bought the PS4 version because it was cheap and never touched it... I didn't get super far in it, but it didn't really work for me. 90% of the text in what I played were information dumps, dry ones at that too. I dreaded talking to new NPCs for fear that they would share a few hundred words about their weird and wacky home planet, and little else. I wanted to roleplay as a pragmatic shitbag but it didn't really work. In the original Torment you often had the ability to lie if you were asked to promise something or asked a question about yourself and your goals, which didn't seem possible in this new one. Also the combat is bad. And skill checks in conversation are luck-based to some extent so you'll have to promise yourself not to savescum. And I didn't like the aesthetics: there's some weird and fantastical architecture and the like but I also find it kind of ugly, but that's super subjective. This is only after about two hours of gameplay though, it wouldn't surprise me if it gets better later.
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exquisite tea posted:I hope Obsidian makes some better pledge goals for their next kickstarter because man those NPC fanfics were some of the most embarrassing things I've ever read in a video game. Pillars of Eternity backer posted:As they pass down a somewhat deserted street, an object suddenly hits this woman in the chest and bounces off, rolling away toward one of the buildings. The women stop and look at the object, an apple, and then back up at the person who threw it. There is nothing special about him aside from the angry look on his face and the two other apples he holds. Before either woman can move, the man draws back and throws another one at them, this time hitting the second woman in the forehead. The woman raises her hand to her head and wipes the juice and bits of fruit from her face and stares the man down defiantly. The first woman squeezes her hand and puts the other on her companion’s shoulder, attempting to calm her down. The other woman pulls a book from her pack and holds it before her, muttering under her breath… 
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May 5, 2017 14:07
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if i'd had money during the pillars kickstarter, i would've submitted a my oc's fanfiction about a monk who smokes weed, and tends to his plants when he's high af and harvests it, and then smokes it, and then goes back to his plants, and it's just the eternal cycle
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May 5, 2017 14:09
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I remember Pillars of Eternity have a lot of very upset people over some of the dialog.
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May 5, 2017 14:11
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In Training posted:I want more fixed camera angle games Kai Tave posted:You know what I genuinely miss? Prerendered backgrounds. I'm sure it's nostalgia talking but I was always really fond of all the detail artists managed to cram into those in the Resident Evil/Parasite Eve heyday and while I don't find the pixel art trend as abhorrent as some, I kinda wish that someone would jumpstart a prerendered background revival. 
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May 5, 2017 14:24
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I tried to play smt4 and died three times in the first dungeon
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May 5, 2017 14:25
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corn in the bible posted:I tried to play smt4 and died three times in the first dungeon I beat it in february. I saved after every fight. Like a third of my playtime was saving. The newest one is much better about it, i dont think you pay any tax if you die.
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May 5, 2017 14:29
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I stopped playing SMT4 after the lady in the black armour gets executed. It was a big emotional peak moment and I didn't have enough enthusiasm to play through the lull that comes after it because it felt like it'd already been 20 or 30 hours at that point and the fights were getting a little same-y. How far from the ending was I? Is that like halfway through the game?
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May 5, 2017 14:34
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corn in the bible posted:I tried to play smt4 and died three times in the first dungeon That's the hardest bit of the game.
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May 5, 2017 14:34
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What should I be putting my stats into
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May 5, 2017 14:58
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luck
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corn in the bible posted:What should I be putting my stats into Either: Dex/Agility/Luck for physical/gun attacks and big crits, or Magic/Agility for a versatile magic-using MC Don't level Strength, it's completely useless in every single way. Dex affects both physical and gun skills more than Strength does. Also that starting dungeon is by far the hardest part of the game. After the second boss or so it's not very hard at all.
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May 5, 2017 15:04
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Big fan of the dex/luck route. Crits are the best
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Dex/Luck is gonna get you the most damage for sure. I went Magic in SMT4 because I liked being able to hit almost any weak point with my main character but he ended up being a support bot in the endgame while my physical demons Riot Gunned everything to death so if you want Flynn to do lots of damage go Dex/Luck. Also support/healing spells don't rely on the Magic stat at all and you'll have more skill slots open for those because you won't have a bunch of different elemental spells to carry around.
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May 5, 2017 15:09
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http://voidinteractive.net/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98VgvtWORC4
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May 5, 2017 15:16
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Fixed cameras are the enemy of games like Devil May Cry so I'm glad they're gone
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May 5, 2017 15:19
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I made the right choice.
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May 5, 2017 15:21
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Alfalfa The Roach posted:Fixed cameras are the enemy of games like Devil May Cry so I'm glad they're gone Eh, worked just fine for wonderful 101
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May 5, 2017 15:20
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nier a has some neat camera work. i don't know if that counts as fixed
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Looper posted:Eh, worked just fine for wonderful 101 That one I can forgive more since it was a top-down camera
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CJacobs posted:Seems pretty obvious? Static camera angles (and thus pre-rendered backgrounds) mean hand-placed/hand-painted scenery which requires some thought to be put into the art direction. The goal becomes to frame and create the scene around the camera instead of just placing stuff wherever. See Abe's Oddysee for a pretty well-known example. Yes but "art direction" is not exclusive to fixed cam, prerendered backgrounds which it would have to be in order for that to be the reason someone "misses" them. In Training posted:Quake Champions seems like a really bad replacement of Quake Live Yeah, there seems to be no compelling reason to play Champions over Quake Live and lots of F2P-based reasons to play Quake Live instead. The only thing it really has on Quake Live will be player count, which is not nothing but there's just too much friction between me and getting in a game to have fun, so I'll not be playing it.
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Sakurazuka posted:Is that good? I bought the PS4 version because it was cheap and never touched it... I'm about ten hours in and I really, really dig it. I'm a big fan of how many interesting NPCs there are to talk to, and the world in general is a lot cooler than your typical fantasy cRPG setting. I've also only gotten into combat once, having talked my way out of any other situation that could've gotten hairy, which rules. I'm probably gonna put it up for a bit to play Prey, but I'm definitely looking forward to playing more.
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Fixed cameras are an artifact of the days when prerendered images could have significantly greater quality than real-time graphics, now they're needlessly limiting.
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mutata posted:Yes but "art direction" is not exclusive to fixed cam, prerendered backgrounds which it would have to be in order for that to be the reason someone "misses" them. It's crazy how long it takes between matches.
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May 5, 2017 15:52
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haveblue posted:Fixed cameras are an artifact of the days when prerendered images could have significantly greater quality than real-time graphics, now they're needlessly limiting. Actually they are cool
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May 5, 2017 15:53
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Smt4 sucks, gently caress this game
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corn in the bible posted:Smt4 sucks, gently caress this game 
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SMT4 is, in fact, good Naraku is just way way way harder than the rest of the game because they hosed the difficulty balance up real bad
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corn in the bible posted:Smt4 sucks, gently caress this game WHat the hell!
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May 5, 2017 16:31
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You can't quit a game in the first dungeon, you'll go to gamer hell
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corn in the bible posted:Smt4 sucks, gently caress this game If I can get through that dungeon then so can you, corn in the bible.
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