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CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!
Private group chats are always better than public groups forever

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Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


I do not approve of the anime Porn or the anime Ography.

Phantasium posted:

"oh it's just a cat"

:yeah:

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!
God I can't wait to hop on discord and post anime porn with my let's play friends.

Lakbay
Dec 14, 2006

My eye...MY EYE!!!
I didn't realize Discord had text chat until I was forced to use one because no one uses IRC anymore

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

Literally every discord I've been in has a NSFW channel

Monkey Fracas
Sep 11, 2010

...but then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you!
Grimey Drawer
So despite its slick, modern nature Persona 5 is still not free of *random party/MC one-turn wipe; set down controller and just walk away* moments

It's a Megami Tensei tradition after all!

thankfully there's many more save points now so you're never like re-doing 45 minutes of work or something

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!

Monkey Fracas posted:

So despite its slick, modern nature Persona 5 is still not free of *random party/MC one-turn wipe; set down controller and just walk away* moments

It's a Megami Tensei tradition after all!

thankfully there's many more save points now so you're never like re-doing 45 minutes of work or something

Those only happen if you set up a terrible team like a dummy

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

It would be nice if all random battles got an instant retry like bosses though...

One of the things FF13 got right

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

corn in the bible posted:

Those only happen if you set up a terrible team like a dummy

Nah you can get ambushed by the enemies that don't show up unless you're using the eye thing then every enemy hits the MC and kills him without giving you a chance to do anything at all.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

And it's mostly a threat in early/midgame since once you start maxing party links, especially after palace 4, it's nigh-impossible to die.

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

Motto posted:

And it's mostly a threat in early/midgame since once you start maxing party links, especially after palace 4, it's nigh-impossible to die.

On Hard I could die to basically every random encounter if I didn't clear most of the enemies on turn one

Monkey Fracas
Sep 11, 2010

...but then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you!
Grimey Drawer
I guess I'm too low level or something since some random floating angel thing slaughtered my entire party with a single "light" damage spell. No weaknesses hit or anything, just mondo damage

LawfulWaffle
Mar 11, 2014

Well, that aligns with the vibes I was getting. Which was, like, "normal" kinda vibes.

Sakurazuka posted:

Nah you can get ambushed by the enemies that don't show up unless you're using the eye thing then every enemy hits the MC and kills him without giving you a chance to do anything at all.

There are enemies that are invisible without the using the third eye? I don't remember that. I remember getting ambushed while I was below maximum health and getting crubstomped a few times. The confidant abilities make it a lot easier to handle encounters but until you get a decent tool box it's easy enough to get unlucky and wipe. I wish the "get help from other Phantom Thieves" concept was used a little more, instead of just being limited to the rare times and enemy takes a character hostage. I want to see more stupid gang names.

WarpDogs
May 1, 2009

I'm just a normal, functioning member of the human race, and there's no way anyone can prove otherwise.

LawfulWaffle posted:

There are enemies that are invisible without the using the third eye? I don't remember that. I remember getting ambushed while I was below maximum health and getting crubstomped a few times. The confidant abilities make it a lot easier to handle encounters but until you get a decent tool box it's easy enough to get unlucky and wipe. I wish the "get help from other Phantom Thieves" concept was used a little more, instead of just being limited to the rare times and enemy takes a character hostage. I want to see more stupid gang names.

If you ambush a shadow while other shadows are around the others will disappear. they usually reappear after a short while after battle, but sometimes they won't, and instead leave a little glowing red spot that you can only see in 3rd eye. if you get too close they'll pop out and ambush you

like all Persona games, P5's difficulty comes from unlucky chains of events and insta kill spells. most of it can be mitigated, but you'll still have times where an enemy ambushes you and confuses Ryuji who then curbstomps your MC into the dirt

Harrow
Jun 30, 2012

Monkey Fracas posted:

I guess I'm too low level or something since some random floating angel thing slaughtered my entire party with a single "light" damage spell. No weaknesses hit or anything, just mondo damage

That's normal, that guy's a real rear end in a top hat and I think you're supposed to avoid him.

In the first dungeon, any enemy that glows red and has fire around them when you use the third eye thing should probably be avoided unless you don't have a choice in the matter or can definitely ambush them. After that point you probably have strong enough Personas to handle them, but in the first dungeon, they'll gently caress you up hard.

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009

CJacobs posted:

God I can't wait to hop on discord and post anime porn with my let's play friends.

Have fun and keep it safe

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


Tekken 7 will be the biggest June release, right? Also while I'm at it - holy poo poo real Tekken on PC, what a time to be alive.

suuma
Apr 2, 2009
I didn't know people still play Tekken.

e: by Tekken I mean fighting games in general

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


Well, Injustice 2 also just released and has been very well received.

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


suuma posted:

I didn't know people still play Tekken.

e: by Tekken I mean fighting games in general

For Honor, a medieval fighting game by Ubisoft, is the second best-selling game of 2017 so far.

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax

Sakurazuka posted:

Literally every discord I've been in has a NSFW channel

Discord has a ToS thing where you have to label any channel that could have NSFW content as such, it's kind of a pain but with how much it's blown up in the past year I can't blame them for covering their asses.

suuma
Apr 2, 2009
Okay, I didn't know people played 3d side-view fighting games w/ health bars and combos anymore.

I mean I know they still make Street Fighter and stuff but in my brain fighting games kind of died off with arcades.

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


Now somebody needs to wake up SEGA and tell them to develop a new Virtua Fighter. I really liked the series.

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


suuma posted:

Okay, I didn't know people played 3d side-view fighting games w/ health bars and combos anymore.

I mean I know they still make Street Fighter and stuff but in my brain fighting games kind of died off with arcades.

Mortal Kombat X, a 3d side-view fighting game w/ health bars and combos, was the 9th best selling game of 2015. It sold more than Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare that year.

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

Palpek posted:

Now somebody needs to wake up SEGA and tell them to develop a new Virtua Fighter. I really liked the series.

I mentioned this a few pages back but the entirety of Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown is gonna be included in Yakuza 6.

It's not VF6 but it's basically means it has a ps4 port, and that the series isn't entirely dead.

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


It's the golden age of [insert genre here].

Macarius Wrench
Mar 28, 2017

by Lowtax

exquisite tea posted:

For Honor, a medieval fighting game by Ubisoft, is the second best-selling game of 2017 so far.

Is this a joke?

Saint Freak
Apr 16, 2007

Regretting is an insult to oneself
Buglord
The ability to call each other the n-word online, instead of at an arcade where you'll get the poo poo beat out of you, has breathed new life into Fighting Games.

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009
Where's Shaq Fu 2 goddammit

An Actual Princess
Dec 23, 2006

Macarius Wrench posted:

Is this a joke?

What part of that do you object to?

Lakbay
Dec 14, 2006

My eye...MY EYE!!!

Palpek posted:

It's the golden age of [insert genre here].

Aren't RTS with real time base building/attacking on the same map sorta deadish. I know a new Star Craft was released but that's it. I don't follow the genre so I'm probably wrong

Saint Freak
Apr 16, 2007

Regretting is an insult to oneself
Buglord

Lakbay posted:

Aren't RTS with real time base building/attacking on the same map sorta deadish. I know a new Star Craft was released but that's it. I don't follow the genre so I'm probably wrong

Why play an RTS when you can dumb it all the way down to a MOBA?

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


Macarius Wrench posted:

Is this a joke?

It's not. These are top 10 US sales digital and physical through April 31st.

1. Ghost Recon: Wildlands
2. For Honor
3. Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild*
4. Horizon: Zero Dawn
5. Mass Effect: Andromeda
6. Resident Evil 7
7. Grand Theft Auto V
8. NBA 2K17
9. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
10. MLB 17: The Show

Mr E
Sep 18, 2007

Is the new Friday the 13th game worth picking up? I need a new multiplayer game cause I'm kinda tired of PUBG.

babypolis
Nov 4, 2009

exquisite tea posted:

It's not. These are top 10 US sales digital and physical through April 31st.

1. Ghost Recon: Wildlands
2. For Honor
3. Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild*
4. Horizon: Zero Dawn
5. Mass Effect: Andromeda
6. Resident Evil 7
7. Grand Theft Auto V
8. NBA 2K17
9. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
10. MLB 17: The Show

how is wildlands the best selling game of 2017 its trash

Phantasium
Dec 27, 2012

Mr E posted:

Is the new Friday the 13th game worth picking up? I need a new multiplayer game cause I'm kinda tired of PUBG.

I think that game is having really bad server issues because they got more than double the number of people they expected to buy the game and it can't handle it.

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


babypolis posted:

how is wildlands the best selling game of 2017 its trash

It's been stated many times but goon opinions on games are not really representative of the public at large. Case in point: the Nier Automata thread has 3x the posts of surefire 10+ million seller and GOTY contender Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands.

codenameFANGIO
May 4, 2012

What are you even booing here?

exquisite tea posted:

For Honor, a medieval fighting game by Ubisoft, is the second best-selling game of 2017 so far.

... wait, really? I have heard literally nothing about this game lol

Macarius Wrench
Mar 28, 2017

by Lowtax

Closed-Down Pizza Parlor posted:

What part of that do you object to?

Its not an objection I'm just kinda stunned because it struck me as being bang average.

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LawfulWaffle
Mar 11, 2014

Well, that aligns with the vibes I was getting. Which was, like, "normal" kinda vibes.

exquisite tea posted:

It's been stated many times but goon opinions on games are not really representative of the public at large. Case in point: the Nier Automata thread has 3x the posts of surefire 10+ million seller and GOTY contender Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands.
Hmm, a direct correlation to the number of exposed panties in each game. ~jots something down on a notecard and files it under "Goons and Pantaloons"~

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