CJacobs posted:

You only should be relying on melee if you're totally out of ammo, and even then you'll wanna upgrade it a little first. There's a reason melee upgrades are so cheap though, you can kill enemies in like 2 or 3 swings when it's maxed out. But I only really recommend doing it if you're not that great of a shot.

Raxivace posted:

I have to say that Evil Within feels a bit rougher than I was expecting from the guy who directed RE4, even with warnings going into it that it was a flawed game.

Is there any reason to ever be punching things in this game? Or are we back to original RE1 knife levels for melee?

Olive! posted:

The combat system is just kind of rock-paper-scissors except you can't tell your party member (monster) what attack to use.

al-azad posted:

Not quite. His missiles are unpredictable but you can shake a missile to blow through them all. And you can grab his charged shot and he'll wait until you throw it at him.

I'll say he's just long. Dude takes more hits than any other boss so there's less room to gently caress up. Like first thing I do is hop on a missile and I'm good after that.

Mr.Kattykat posted:

Tried playing a bit of Smash Bros Brawl again since I haven't touched it in like five years. When you're doing well in a battle the crowd starts chanting the character's name, and if you play as Snake they go, 'Snake, Snake, Snakeeeee!'; it's a neat touch that I hadn't noticed before

Help Im Alive posted:

The B button should be a little Samus helmet

Lizard Wizard posted:

https://twitter.com/Sir_Fowler/status/916470292821798912

Looper posted:

There are no bad smash bros

Looper posted:

There are no bad smash bros

Lizard Wizard posted:

https://twitter.com/Sir_Fowler/status/916470292821798912

FirstAidKite posted:

al-azad posted:

al-azad posted:

quote:

Mystery of the Druids: Change! Change!

A little like Gabriel Knight's moustache puzzle, this is a case where a dreadful puzzle is amplified by being in an otherwise serious game that's trying to be at least passingly realistic; in this case, a Scotland Yard detective called Halligan learning about a group of evil druids with designs on world domination.

Well, I did say 'passingly' realistic.

Mystery of the Druids is a staggeringly awful game that escaped being in Crap Shoot solely because of its length. To fix that, I finally got around to taking it on in my own time and you can see the stupidity in this here video.

One puzzle though stands out above all others. Fairly early in the game, Halligan has to contact a professor at a museum in Oxford, but being a man for whom the description 'colossal arse' was invented to describe, has no wallet, and so no money to make a phonecall from the nearby phone booth.

No problem! Well, no problem for a sane person, who could solve this in about five ways even without being, and this begs repeating, a Scotland Yard detective. Halligan's solution however is to notice that there's a beggar sitting a couple of screens over with a few measly silvers in his begging bowl. Does he borrow a few and come back later to repay the man his kindness? Give the beggar something he needs in exchange for it? Anything remotely sane?

Haha, no. He drives back to London and raids Scotland Yard's forensic department for alcohol so strong that it literally knocks him unconscious after just a sip. He then mixes this with apple juice, drives back to Oxford... we're now at a two hour round-trip minimum here... and slips it to the beggar on the grounds that he'll probably be okay. When the guy falls unconscious, Halligan steals his money to make his phonecall. To add final insult to injury, the guy he's trying to get through to isn't even in. A complete waste of time!

Oh, but wait - it gets worse! First, Halligan is called on this when the beggar not surprisingly complains, and opts to deny it entirely. More importantly however, he has a desk phone. To cover this up, there's a line about how he keeps making expensive calls and so isn't allowed to dial out of the precinct, but that's bullshit on a par with a character popping their head through the door and going "By the way, humans can fly now." As one final cherry on the poo poo-pie that is this man's life, the same detective willing to take two hour round trips to steal from a beggar later has no issue whatsoever doing things like hopping on a ferry to visit France in search of druidic artefacts he's not even sure exist.

The terrifying thing is that while this is easily the game's worst puzzle, it has competition. And even then, it has nothing on some of the terrible, terrible things that Halligan himself ends up doing on the adventure, with the final puzzle especially establishing him as probably the worst hero of all time. Check out the video for the whole sordid story. Goddamn, what a terrible game.

chumbler posted:

What if I prefer dumb guys making fun of the funniest game?

CJacobs posted:

You want Men Drinking Coffee's playthrough of Ride to Hell Retribution

lets hang out posted:

al-azad posted:

The final boss is a xenomorph on the statue of liberty.

CJacobs posted:

You want Men Drinking Coffee's playthrough of Ride to Hell Retribution

lets hang out posted:

it's awesome

lets hang out posted:

FirstAidKite posted:

lets hang out posted:

FirstAidKite posted:

The Colonel posted:

a hat in time is one of the best 3d platformers i've played in years and felt like a blast the whole way through, though world 1 and 4 are rockier than 2 and 3 and the clock tower level in world 3 is a really weird addition. i got kinda weird vibes from the last boss, not cause it was a bad fight, but cause i felt the message the game was going with was cause kinda hosed up given some of the weirder context of the game's development, but that might've just been me overanalyzing stuff. ignoring that though the actual boss and level design was shockingly great and i'd rec the game to anyone looking for a good 3d platformer that takes a lot more cues from mario sunshine than it does banjo-kazooie, and actually does it all really drat well

The Colonel posted:

the finales to world 2 and 3 are two of the best moments in any platforming game i've ever played

tell me your thoughts on the last boss when you get there, cause i feel very weird about it and i wanna get some other perspectives to see if i'm just reading too much into it based on the stuff with jontron and the lead dev

exploded mummy posted:

There's a lot of weird subtext in that final boss now, but I'm not sure how much actually changed in the course of development, it seems to fit with some of the earlier stuff...but really goddamned weird now.

lets hang out posted:

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

Should I play Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

Should I play Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

The final challenge at the Nintendo World Championships was a speedrun through an unrevealed Super Mario Odyssey level.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLLszlAeXpw&t=421s

Now this is esports

Scalding Coffee posted:

It is all coming together.

I got real lucky with the Ramsus and Opiomorph fights. Ramsus kept skipping turns after dropping a Fallen One on everyone and the rodent kept healing. The Ether Doubler doesn't improve her healing, so it easily made Emeralda even more of a destroyer. A few turns avoiding a quick game over and he fell down. Opiomorph's buffing ended up doing nothing to lessen all the damage I was flinging at it. Then the hour long cutscene started with fake difficulty bosses in between. Damage caps were reached.

Real hurthling! posted:

I beat the metroid robot. Tooka while cause circle pad is bad but at least it was a unique encounter for a game with painfully bad enemy variety

Gonna finish the game soon but right now i think its a really weak metroid game. And a really uncomfortable game to play in general