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Sakurazuka posted:Unless the bat/mummy rooms get a lot worse as the game goes on it's not as big a deal as that review makes out. How could they not get worse? I'm at the beginning of the game. I have it on Switch, but I wish I could post a video. It's not fun. It's not Contra-Vania. It's Bullet Hell BS with an average-controlling character. [edit] Obviously at this point I cannot reliably comment on later-game stuff, but I think it's a stretch to think that a game that has thrown this much endlessly spawning mummy-bat bullshit at me in the first 30 min of the game is suddenly going to go "oh, hey, wait a minute, this is lame. Let's stop doing this." Also, games do tend to get harder as they go. So, there's that.
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katkillad2 posted:I wish my patches would start in rest mode and not when I turn the power back on. They should.
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Edmond Dantes posted:Yeah, sounds about right. I'll probably just use it when queuing up downloads (or if I need to suspend a game in an emergency I guess?). Hey, if you don't ask, you won't know! That by definition makes them anything but dumb questions. To be clear on that whole "downloading while you're gone" bit, that does apply to games that start from the web/mobile Store so you're not staring at a 55 gig download (*cough* GT Sport *cough*). It's a lifesaver for having stuff ready when you get home from work.
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Oct 24, 2017 23:27
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Boogalo posted:Don't just cord pull. Did this and I don't see a database check. I see rebuild database though. Says it'll take a few hours to rebuild.
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Oct 24, 2017 23:38
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Another benefit of rest mode is that games get patches and so does the system from time to time which is to say there will be times you want to be downloading but you don’t realize it until you turn the system on.
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Oct 25, 2017 00:08
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I always leave my PS4 in rest mode, and it gets system updates and most patches automatically, but sometimes patches don't download until I launch the game, and I'm not sure why. It seems like it happens more commonly with games that have fallen off the dashboard, but not always.
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Oct 25, 2017 00:12
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I fully shut down my PS4 and then unplug it from the wall every evening
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Oct 25, 2017 00:13
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Every evening I unplug mine, throw it in the incinerator, and send my manservant out to purchase a new one for the morning.
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Oct 25, 2017 00:16
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Rest mode is fine as long as you save your game first just incase it decides to download and install an update and reset your console while you're at work.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:The fun of Dead Rising is Frank's Groundhog Zombie Day. Play again and again, learning the geography and getting the event timing and item locations down, until you can just blitz through the game and gently caress poo poo up. It's a real shame what DR turned into. 
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Oct 25, 2017 00:22
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Sakurazuka posted:Rest mode is fine as long as you save your game first just incase it decides to download and install an update and reset your console while you're at work. This exact thing happened to me today 😤
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BTW Megaton Rainfall is an extremely weird, personal game that has some extremely cool tech that everyone should check out at some point, particularly if you like EDF. Target price point: 10 bucks or less, IMO. Please note: the less you know about the game, the happier and more surprised you will most likely be. Essentially you're an invincible Psychic Superman who flies around saving cities from alien invaders. The sole blemish is a boring mentor character that occasionally lectures you but really, the game goes to some interesting places that I did not expect. I'll spoil them here Seriously, spoilers, don't read this if you want to be surprised: The game starts you out flying around the Earth like Superman fighting aliens (which is pretty well done and has a neat final level) but it turns out the crazy designer actually mathematically modeled the whole universe. Later in the game you can ditch Earth and motor around the Solar System. You can fly out to Jupiter or skim along the rings of Saturn or fly off to another galaxy and explore a stellar nursery to find a trinary star system that orbits a black hole with a very obvious accretion disk. It kind of flipped my wig. There's hardly any gameplay out there but the fact that it exists and you can fly out between galaxies and explore a zillion stars (they are NOT background! Every single one is really there in a manner of speaking) is pretty crazy.
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Oct 25, 2017 01:00
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Feenix posted:Mummy Demastered (reviewed on Switch, but most things I will talk about are design-related and thus, universal.) Sounds a lot like every lovely NES game ever (looking at you Zelda 2)
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After a few hours in it, I gotta agree with that Mummy review. The knock back is too great for the amount of poo poo they’re throwing and with such limited routes, and the mummy you on death just isn’t fun. I regret my purchase.
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I'll give another opinion of Mummy Demastered, I'm about an hour or two in at 20% map discovered. The respawning enemies are annoying I guess, calling it bullet hell'ish is definitely an exaggeration. It feels like classic Metroid where things are always spawning, letting you farm for health or bombs/ammo whenever you want so it's really easy to avoid death to the point where I haven't actually died at all. If a reviewer or someone hadn't played Nes/Snes Metroid I could understand them thinking it's bad design, but it just feels like they went a little overboard at calling back to those games. That being said... I'm not sure classic Metroid gameplay is going to be fun for everyone. I got stuck and I'm not really feeling like continuing to play the game. I'm playing on PC and didn't have any performance issues mentioned like the Switch version might have. TLDR: Game looks and sounds great, probably leans too much on classic gameplay rather than taking that style and making a more modern game.
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Mandrel posted:Sounds a lot like every lovely NES game ever (looking at you Zelda 2) Sounds more like Ninja Gaiden I or Castlevania I. Zelda II was fine, especially compared to those two.
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Oct 25, 2017 02:25
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katkillad2 posted:TLDR: Game looks and sounds great, probably leans too much on classic gameplay rather than taking that style and making a more modern game. That's kind of how I felt about Shantae. I get why it's good but the gameplay is a little too retro for my liking.
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The counterpoint about being able to farm the infinitely spawning annoyances in Mummy is apparently rendered moot later on when your health pool is much higher and you have to farm in 5 (and occasionally 20) point chunks. It’s a badly designed game. Any game where the enemies get in the way of fun and any sense of progress is doing something wrong. There are times you feel like you are just being ping-ponged between knockbacks from enemy hits. If you want to say it’s a throwback, so be it. But they did it poorly.
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Is hidden agenda multiplayer only?
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acksplode posted:I always leave my PS4 in rest mode, and it gets system updates and most patches automatically, but sometimes patches don't download until I launch the game, and I'm not sure why. It seems like it happens more commonly with games that have fallen off the dashboard, but not always. It's definitely dashboard or "last x amount of games accessed" related. If I know I'm going to play a game I haven't in ages, I'll boot it up just to make sure it doesn't have tons of patches and stuff to download.
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Yeah I think it's the dashboard. It makes sense. If it updated everything you could run out of storage before you even figured out what was going on.
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I don't use my PS4 often enough to warrant rest mode. But has anyone ever measured the power consumption? I once did for the xbox360, and that drew 11 watts in standby.
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Feenix posted:The counterpoint about being able to farm the infinitely spawning annoyances in Mummy is apparently rendered moot later on when your health pool is much higher and you have to farm in 5 (and occasionally 20) point chunks. A friend compared the amount of knockback to Castlevania, and he's actually pretty right, but the difference is that where you had the same bone-throwing skeletons and bats in Castlevania, you had an answer of weapons that could be thrown through rocks back at them, and in this game they can hit you but you can't hit them. e: Castlevania also had a fair amount of vertical progression via stairs, where the knockback would be suspended and it makes a huge difference. This has none. Fix fucked around with this message at 07:13 on Oct 25, 2017 |
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Hopper posted:I don't use my PS4 often enough to warrant rest mode. But has anyone ever measured the power consumption? I read that it's about ten for the PS4 but if you set it to cut power to the USB ports (or have it stop after 3 hours) you cut it down by more than half. There are a couple of other features that the PS4 will let you toggle off for rest mode, like being able to wake it through the network. Depending on how barebones you want to make it, you can the power drain pretty minimal.
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Was it Disgaea 4 or 5 the got the series back on track after a decent, but boring previous game?
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Anora posted:Was it Disgaea 4 or 5 the got the series back on track after a decent, but boring previous game?
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Hopper posted:I don't use my PS4 often enough to warrant rest mode. But has anyone ever measured the power consumption? It doesn't draw much power but then if you multiply it by the units that are left in rest mode all the time it's literally killing the planet 
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Jerry Cotton posted:It doesn't draw much power but then if you multiply it by the units that are left in rest mode all the time it's literally killing the planet I have some bad news for you regarding cars
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acksplode posted:I have some bad news for you regarding cars Do you leave your car in the garage with the engine running until the next time you go for a drive?
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acksplode posted:I have some bad news for you regarding cars I'm pretty sure you don't  All my cars are in Gran Turismo.
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Rest mode is great And if i recall correctly. There's an option it has, that makes it only download but not install stuff while it's in rest mode.
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The PS4 is a real piece of poo poo (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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acksplode posted:I always leave my PS4 in rest mode, and it gets system updates and most patches automatically, but sometimes patches don't download until I launch the game, and I'm not sure why. It seems like it happens more commonly with games that have fallen off the dashboard, but not always. It actually seems to be time based. If you rebuild your database, it reinitalizies all your games and it checks EVERYTHING for patches, even games you haven't played in over 300 days. Kind of like it resets the clock. Last time I rebuilt the database, I was getting patches for multiple games not even on my dashboard.
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disgaea 4s protagonist is weirdly obsessed with anchovies which is all right, disgaea 5s protagonist is extremely hungry all the time. that's all i remember from either games plot
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So, does MGSV mostly consist of 'go to the base and do a thing'? The gameplay is great, but its already getting a little repetitive and i'm at like 10% . I know I can switch up my approach, but still, don't know if I am as gripped as I hoped I would be.
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Yep, that's pretty much what you'll be doing for the whole game.
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rabidsquid posted:disgaea 4s protagonist is weirdly obsessed with anchovies which is all right, disgaea 5s protagonist is extremely hungry all the time. that's all i remember from either games plot Sardines for Valvatorez, yes. D4 had a terminal case of characters drilling a single word/phrase into your head (Fuuka: MY DREAM; Desco: FINAL BOSS etc). D5 was a decent bit better for it, but the whole cast did enjoy curry a lot, which might be where you're getting the extreme hunger from.
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Dang, and it started off so cool. Well. I will keep going for now, but I think it'll soon descend into me just going in there and shooting everyone to get the job done and finish the slog.
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henpod posted:So, does MGSV mostly consist of 'go to the base and do a thing'? The gameplay is great, but its already getting a little repetitive and i'm at like 10% At least until they release the patch so you can play two-player co-op with the other player as Fulton the Dog or Poop-Horse.
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Jerry Cotton posted:At least until they release the patch so you can play two-player co-op with the other player as Fulton the Dog or Poop-Horse. henpod posted:Dang, and it started off so cool. Well. I will keep going for now, but I think it'll soon descend into me just going in there and shooting everyone to get the job done and finish the slog. That's a very valid strategy! E: I didn't mean to quote myself 
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