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I picked up hearthstone this weekend because I hate myself and I gotta day, it’s a little frustrating that the default character is the blonde blue eyed mage with big boobs. Like it has to be degrading to women who play, right? Here is the woman avatar, she’s scantily clad with comical amounts of cleavage because we can’t have our artists tone it down because we’d lose the creepy loner demo. I get that you can unlock other avatars or whatever but man, it’s really lame.
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areyoucontagious posted:I picked up hearthstone this weekend because I hate myself and I gotta day, it’s a little frustrating that the default character is the blonde blue eyed mage with big boobs. Like it has to be degrading to women who play, right? Here is the woman avatar, she’s scantily clad with comical amounts of cleavage because we can’t have our artists tone it down because we’d lose the creepy loner demo. I get that you can unlock other avatars or whatever but man, it’s really lame. there are 8 different classes to play as, i get what you mean about the eye rolling fanservice but you're not exactly stuck with her
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Nov 20, 2017 20:52
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But don't play hearthstone because it's an RNG pile of crap.
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Nov 20, 2017 20:55
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don't play blizzard games at all tbh
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Nov 20, 2017 21:26
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areyoucontagious posted:I picked up hearthstone this weekend because I hate myself and I gotta day, it’s a little frustrating that the default character is the blonde blue eyed mage with big boobs. Like it has to be degrading to women who play, right? Here is the woman avatar, she’s scantily clad with comical amounts of cleavage because we can’t have our artists tone it down because we’d lose the creepy loner demo. I get that you can unlock other avatars or whatever but man, it’s really lame. i'm a woman and i didn't give a poo poo, jaina is great
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Nov 20, 2017 22:01
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Jaina sucks but not so much because of her design. (Though her design is also lame)
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areyoucontagious posted:I picked up hearthstone this weekend because I hate myself and I gotta day, it’s a little frustrating that the default character is the blonde blue eyed mage with big boobs. Like it has to be degrading to women who play, right? Here is the woman avatar, she’s scantily clad with comical amounts of cleavage because we can’t have our artists tone it down because we’d lose the creepy loner demo. I get that you can unlock other avatars or whatever but man, it’s really lame.
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Nov 21, 2017 01:49
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The best way to play Hearthstone is to uninstall it and play Gwent instead. Although Gwent isn't on mobile, which drags it down.
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Nov 21, 2017 01:55
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rydiafan posted:The best way to play Hearthstone is to uninstall it and play Gwent instead. what's the big boobs status for gwent though? cause it sounds like it's got some work to to do get on hearthstone's level
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Nov 21, 2017 01:57
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areyoucontagious posted:I picked up hearthstone this weekend because I hate myself and I gotta day, it’s a little frustrating that the default character is the blonde blue eyed mage with big boobs. Like it has to be degrading to women who play, right? Here is the woman avatar, she’s scantily clad with comical amounts of cleavage because we can’t have our artists tone it down because we’d lose the creepy loner demo. I get that you can unlock other avatars or whatever but man, it’s really lame. SMITE isn't a card game but it's even worse about that.
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Nov 21, 2017 02:36
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Cleretic posted:I found the interesting part about Skyward Sword at the time to be that while the motion controls were terrible, and everyone had issues with them, they were always different issues. The Wii Motion Plus was good enough to detect little movement idiosyncrasies that you didn't think you had, but not good enough to actually compensate for them, so everyone's experience was a slightly different type of terrible. Even base Wii motion controls have such a weirdly vast range of anecdotes about them that I have to assume there's a lot of potential variables with optimal distance from the screen, interference, and other factors. (Either that or tons of people vastly over-exaggerated.) I honestly don't recall ever once having a problem with motion controls myself*, but plenty of people out there have claimed they never properly worked for them, ever, at all, even in first party Nintendo games.  I wonder how many people didn't set the correct above/below TV sensor bar option or never once ran calibration and then got mad when nothing worked right. *Edit: Minor correction, I recall anything involving the nunchuk being a bit of a pain since the accelerometer wasn't nearly as sophisticated as the main Wiimote. So a lot of the energy lasso stuff in Metroid Prime 3 for example felt pretty clumsy. John Murdoch has a new favorite as of 03:30 on Nov 21, 2017 |
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Nov 21, 2017 03:24
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I wasn't fond of motion controls in general but for most games I only considered them an inconvenience. Skyward Sword was so bad I ended up swearing off Nintendo consoles.
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Nov 21, 2017 03:53
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rodbeard posted:I wasn't fond of motion controls in general but for most games I only considered them an inconvenience. Skyward Sword was so bad I ended up swearing off Nintendo consoles. I know what you mean. I once ate a sandwich that was so bad, I swore off bread forever.
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Nov 21, 2017 05:28
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I skipped breath of the wild, and the switch, because the wii and wii u were bad and I didn't like them, and the last Zelda game I had any fun with was Wind Waker and I didn't like either Mario Galaxy much so I don't mind not playing Odyssey either. Anyway, I'm playing the .hack GU port on steam and every time I play these games I always forget the beginning is like, an hour of non-stop cutscenes plus two repeat tutorials. Also they made the game easier for some reason. It wasn't hard to begin with, but now you just do more damage in general, so an already easy series becomes near mindless.
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Nov 21, 2017 05:38
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areyoucontagious posted:I picked up hearthstone this weekend because I hate myself and I gotta day, it’s a little frustrating that the default character is the blonde blue eyed mage with big boobs. Like it has to be degrading to women who play, right? Here is the woman avatar, she’s scantily clad with comical amounts of cleavage because we can’t have our artists tone it down because we’d lose the creepy loner demo. I get that you can unlock other avatars or whatever but man, it’s really lame. yeah that's most of the female characters that aren't like dragons or whatever. I think they're better about it in later expansions, but also the game is garbage
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Nov 21, 2017 06:07
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John Murdoch posted:*Edit: Minor correction, I recall anything involving the nunchuk being a bit of a pain since the accelerometer wasn't nearly as sophisticated as the main Wiimote. So a lot of the energy lasso stuff in Metroid Prime 3 for example felt pretty clumsy. I had no issue with the lasso in Prime 3, either, but I think that's because I like to lean into motion controls and make movements similar to what they actually seem to depict (which led to my Skyward Sword problem, my swings were full-on swings). The lasso was fine if you give a bit of weight to your tugging and try to match Samus ripping off a plate or something.
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Nov 21, 2017 07:29
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In no world are motion controls better than standard no wiggle controls. I could flail my arms around or you could let me press a.
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Nov 21, 2017 07:39
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Hilariously the one time I found waggle controls worked wasn't even on a controller built for it - the Order of the Phoenix game was designed for Wii, but it also came out on the PS2 and they just assigned all motion controls to the right analog stick - performing the different spells was actually fairly effortless, tap the stick away from you twice for Depulso, toward you twice for Accio, push up and wiggle left and right for Wingardium Leviosa, etc. It all felt very appropriate for the effect you wanted the spell to have.
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Nov 21, 2017 09:43
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BioEnchanted posted:Just tried to play Brave Fencer Musashi for the first time - that loving robot knight boss is taking the piss as there is no way to save before the fight, so if I want to try again I'll have to go through the entire first dungeon again. No thanks. I think I'm done. Is that how it is? I figured you’d just reset before the boss or something. I literally never died to him despite playing through the game like 5 times so I dunno what to say. It’s a drat fun game, though, especially for the time it came out food court bailiff posted:I used to love this game and would totally play it again were it available on the PSN but like a quarter of the way in there's some puzzle that requires knowledge of shogi or something to progress, and since I had the game before I had the internet, I was stuck there forever. Dragged It Down. You don’t need the internet or knowledge of shogi to beat that puzzle. Once you rescue the Librarian (I think) you can access a bunch of books specifically on shogi that spell out all the rules for you Kit Walker has a new favorite as of 11:29 on Nov 21, 2017 |
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Kit Walker posted:Is that how it is? I figured you’d just reset before the boss or something. I literally never died to him despite playing through the game like 5 times so I dunno what to say. It’s a drat fun game, though, especially for the time it came out It is, but I lost patience and stopped playing after failing a bunch of times due to not being able to avoid his more damaging attacks. I may give it another go, because I felt I improved, but the game definitely needs me to learn how to compensate for outdated controls.
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BioEnchanted posted:It is, but I lost patience and stopped playing after failing a bunch of times due to not being able to avoid his more damaging attacks. I may give it another go, because I felt I improved, but the game definitely needs me to learn how to compensate for outdated controls. Only tip I got is to jump to the side to dodge the wrecking ball attack, and you should also be able to see his shadow when he does his jump attack, so it shouldn’t be that hard to get away from it. Sounds like you were almost all the way through the fight.
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Nov 21, 2017 11:32
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Cleretic posted:I had no issue with the lasso in Prime 3, either, but I think that's because I like to lean into motion controls and make movements similar to what they actually seem to depict (which led to my Skyward Sword problem, my swings were full-on swings). The lasso was fine if you give a bit of weight to your tugging and try to match Samus ripping off a plate or something. It worked fine for me all the time except when it didn't. Not a huge failure rate or anything but noticeable enough for me to go "huh, this thing is a bit awkward" which stood out when compared to the aiming which was smooth and intuitive and for a brief moment I thought shooters could be a big deal on the Wii. I guess it's also possible some of it was just down to the crappy ergonomics of the nunchuk rather than the motion controls themselves.
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Started playing through the PS2 Chamber of Secrets game, just because it's one of many games that I haven't beaten, but god the night-time missions are a slog. Every area has either way too many prefects, or way to many enemies, like your first visit to the library is at night and it is swarmed with 3 prefects in a tiny room, then in the library proper, dozens of ghosts as well as the books throwing themselves into you, and all the shortcuts/secret passages are crammed full of firecrabs. Just got the Expelliarmus spell though and the bosses are at least vaguely entertaining. Just not looking forward to the nighttime parts, the games all seem to thing that forcing stealth is a good idea when it never works quite like they wanted it to, and the amount of enemies is unnecessary. The whomping willow sequence alone, the intro of the game, throws actual swarms of imps at you and it's really annoying. The game loves it's Imps.
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Nov 21, 2017 14:57
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Olive! posted:I know what you mean. I once ate a sandwich that was so bad, I swore off bread forever. I still play the games I have I just have no interest in buying any more until they put out a system without any obnoxious gimmicks. At least with the 3ds all extra stuff can just be ignored for 99% of what I play.
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I was reading a derail about being able to choose your player character's gender in ARPGs in the other thread, and thought of Persona 3 Portable, which gave players the option of choosing between a male or female protagonist. I liked having this choice, and as far as I can tell it was pretty well received generally. It gave the game's writers a chance to improve upon the bits of Persona 3 that didn't work so well, and remains a major selling point for the graphically downgraded PSP port. What drags the rest of the series down a little bit, is that Atlus has seemingly shown no interest in doing anything similar in subsequent Persona titles, which stick with a male player character only. In fact it appears that they've almost forgotten that they ever made a female protagonist to begin with. Given that they've been happy to milk the Persona franchise for all kinds of rereleases (like P3P was) and multimedia spinoffs, it seems to me to be something of a strange oversight.
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Blind Sally posted:Picked up River City Ransom Underground while it was on sale. So far it's kickin rad. I just don't like that there isn't a free heal option in hideouts. If i manage to dodge screens worth of enemies with only a single bar of health, I want to be able to heal in my hideout. Instead, I have to hope I can get to a store or sauna during business hours--but that costs money and I'm early in the game so I rarely have enough. Apparently they did patch it so that vending machines actually drop cans of soda like they did in the tutorial but I think that gets the police onto you. Unless you have a heap of cash it's easier to just take the death and lose half your cash. Once you unlock the second half of the map it gets a ton easier to amass cash since the enemies drop more.
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StandardVC10 posted:I was reading a derail about being able to choose your player character's gender in ARPGs in the other thread, and thought of Persona 3 Portable, which gave players the option of choosing between a male or female protagonist. I liked having this choice, and as far as I can tell it was pretty well received generally. It gave the game's writers a chance to improve upon the bits of Persona 3 that didn't work so well, and remains a major selling point for the graphically downgraded PSP port. What drags the rest of the series down a little bit, is that Atlus has seemingly shown no interest in doing anything similar in subsequent Persona titles, which stick with a male player character only. In fact it appears that they've almost forgotten that they ever made a female protagonist to begin with. Given that they've been happy to milk the Persona franchise for all kinds of rereleases (like P3P was) and multimedia spinoffs, it seems to me to be something of a strange oversight. And finally you were afforded the opportunity to date a sixth grader! But, yeah, they could really do with some protagonist revamping overall. 4's MC felt like a goofball with many of the dialogue options but 3 and 5 didn't do much for me.
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Nov 21, 2017 22:40
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Just beat the Avifors challenge in Chamber of Secrets (PS2) - god this game really loves throwing like 10 wraiths at you in each room, all swarming around and flying through you, not only hurting and interrupting your platforming, but also knocking the Bertie Botts Beans right out of you as well, they are just an annoying waste of time - you can't even kill them, it's just "try to avoid them, but gently caress you here's a million of 'em!"
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So, I really like The Witcher 3. I've got the enhanced edition, I'm in Blood and Wine now. Fffffffffffffuck the tourney racing bit in The Warble of a Smitten Knight. The controls are janky as hell, the camera does not want to cooperate, and Guillaime is a creepy little idiotic goon poo poo no matter how correct he actually is. I like everything else, I just hit that bit on a replay and I forgot how aggravating it is.
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Takezio posted:Fffffffffffffuck the tourney racing bit in The Warble of a Smitten Knight. The controls are janky as hell, the camera does not want to cooperate, and Guillaime is a creepy little idiotic goon poo poo no matter how correct he actually is. I don't remember having any kind of trouble with this part in Witcher 3, but you have awoken some long forgotten memory of the Mafia racing course bit that I had successfully suppressed until now.
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Croccers posted:Noooope. The drop rates for vending machines must not be great. I've beaten on a bunch of them and rarely do soda cans pop out--dealing with the cops constantly has turned me off from continuing to try, but I'll start doing it again. I do appreciate that if you beat up all the bad guys in an area, you can just hide in a dumpster to get rid of your wanted level rather than having to return to a hideout.
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BioEnchanted posted:Just beat the Avifors challenge in Chamber of Secrets (PS2) - god this game really loves throwing like 10 wraiths at you in each room, all swarming around and flying through you, not only hurting and interrupting your platforming, but also knocking the Bertie Botts Beans right out of you as well, they are just an annoying waste of time - you can't even kill them, it's just "try to avoid them, but gently caress you here's a million of 'em!" In later games do you start with all the spells he already knows? like do you start game 2 with wingardium leviosa?
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i think wingardium leviosa is used all of like once after book one in the actual books.
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ilmucche posted:In later games do you start with all the spells he already knows? like do you start game 2 with wingardium leviosa? There's tons of different versions of each book adaptation, especially early on (I think Philosopher's Stone has like four), so it varies. But as I recall you do usually start with a couple basics, like Flippendo. Others you have to learn in several games, like Alohomora (which is fair enough, that poo poo is OP in video game form).
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FeastForCows posted:I don't remember having any kind of trouble with this part in Witcher 3, but you have awoken some long forgotten memory of the Mafia racing course bit that I had successfully suppressed until now. I beat every race in Witcher 3 by galloping ahead at the beginning and then just body blocking forever.
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The last third or so of Horizon: Zero Dawn sure is a whole lot of listening to audio logs and fighting the least interesting enemy type in the game, humans. Partly it's probably my own fault for prioritizing the sidequests so now I have nothing but main quests left, but I do think this stuff could have stood to be spread out more. Also if I hear the focus sound effect from the controller for very much longer I'm going mental.
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It's kind of hilarious how Ron is practically excised from the entire Chamber of Secrets story - he only exists to stand near doorways and go "We need to go to this place now Harry" but when push comes to shove in the nighttime sections him and Hermione do gently caress all, just hanging around the dormitory and giving you an itinerary. Especially jarring with things like Hermione not ever seeing the Hogwarts: A History book, Harry just quotes it to her from memory, which is ridiculous as Hermione is the researcher of the group. Harry is even on his own for the whole Aragog fiasco. They even cut out the escalating series of victims, the only person who gets hurt up until Aragog is Nearly Headless Nick. Colin and Mrs Norris both get off scott free, although Hermione may still get got in the final act, considering that's how they found out what the monster was, a post-paralysis note held in her hand. With this game I'm expecting to get back to the common room only for Hermione to go "I've figured it out Harry. Go to the girls bathroom and kill the basilisk!  "
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BioEnchanted posted:he only exists to stand near doorways and go "We need to go to this place now Harry" but when push comes to shove in the nighttime sections him and Hermione do gently caress all, just hanging around the dormitory and giving you an itinerary. Sounds like most of the books, then.
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At least he rescues you from Aragog in the flying car after the boss fight, so congratulations Ron Weasley, you Did a Thing! IMO the most satisfying moments in the franchise are when Draco gets hit by Sectumsempra, basically a magical shotgun that tears half his face off, and when Hermione just punches him in one of the movies and his head just hits the stonehenge behind him - he's just so out of his depth even the heroes are dunking on him. gently caress it, best scene in the franchise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB2ZfDph1pE BioEnchanted has a new favorite as of 12:53 on Nov 22, 2017 |
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