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Hopper posted:So HZD is huge and the map is full of icons. I accidentally bought the maps now this even fuller of icons... They mean that Meridian has a vendor who sells the permanent fast travel pack, as well as all purple tier weapons and outfits. If you're enjoying the side content along the way there's no need to rush to Meridian but it helps that all the best gear is available there. It's also where the two main plot storylines really get moving. You should just use the best mods available as they come to you. There is a skill called Tinker that later lets you swap them out whenever you want.
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Hopper posted:So HZD is huge and the map is full of icons. I accidentally bought the maps now this even fuller of icons... There's a filter on the map that lets you cut back on that. quote:When people say "beeline" to Meridian to get the permanent fast travel, what does this mean? Do the very first main quest (Seeker at the gates) until I get there, leaving everything else for later? Or does it literally mean "run for the city"? Mostly do the questline, you literally can't run to the city straight off as there are progress checks. Getting to Meridian will unlock the best merchants and gear, several questlines, the collectible redeemers, and generally marks the point where the game opens up and everything is available to you. There are no missable quests, you can go back and do anything at any time. quote:Also: How hard are mods things to come by? Should I just use the best ones I have in my current stuff or should I use the inferior versions until I have purple weapons (which I assume are best quality)? You will quickly be overflowing with mods.
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I wish HZD had a demo. I hear nothing but good things about it, but I'm worried I won't like actually playing it. That's happened to me with Don't Starve and now I'm super worried about it forever. v v
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Dec 23, 2017 18:29
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i feel like a lot of the icon vomit on HZD was for the machine packs and not strictly collectibles (though you can buy those maps).
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Bad Parenting posted:Lots of bad information in this post. I dunno what a Japanese game menu is but everything is pretty clearly explained. The game has added literal damage numbers now so it's easy to see how effective your weapon is on different monster parts. I've never clipped through a monster even on the old 3ds games, if anything there used to be issues with their hit/hurt boxes being larger than the models, but I've not experienced that in mhw. Tei's posts are great and should be enjoyed, not critiqued. This however: revolther posted:World in the title seemed to imply a larger scale and more interactive environment, but sounds like it's just Cabella's Dynasty Warriors with 16 player raids. Where did you even get any of this, it's nothing like dynasty warriors, there are no "raids," and it's 4-player coop not 16 The scale is also far larger and the environment is leaps and bounds more interactive than previous titles
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Shadow225 posted:This isn't directed at you the person, but this post makes me really sad because it encapsulates what an average person is probably looking for in a game in 2017. I'm tired if seeing crafting, loot, and leveling in pretty much every game. This is coming from someone who plays Monster Hunter. Understandable. I asked it the way I did because I know there's a lot more depth to Monster Hunter than what was available in the beta, and I'm just trying to get a grasp on what it is. I'll probably just watch some livestreams of the full game once it comes out. That'll probably help me understand what the game is.
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RareAcumen posted:I wish HZD had a demo. I hear nothing but good things about it, but I'm worried I won't like actually playing it. That's happened to me with Don't Starve and now I'm super worried about it forever. v Don't Starve is really unconventional and deliberately difficult, Horizon is a straightforward RPG that gives you all the breaks, shortcuts, and little nudges you'd expect from a mainstream AAA game. And there's always Gamefly or something WHOOPS posted:i feel like a lot of the icon vomit on HZD was for the machine packs and not strictly collectibles (though you can buy those maps). This is true, but if you buy all 3 collectible maps (flowers, figurines, mugs) that permanently adds at least 2 or 3 dozen icons. The map filter wasn't present at launch, it got patched in after so many people complained about it.
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yeah dont starve is an extremely difficult survival game that was patched over time to become even more difficult. the only thing i would ever take away from someone not actually liking dont starve is that they played the game (i like dont starve but its got to be one of the least friendly survival games there is)
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CVagts posted:Understandable. I asked it the way I did because I know there's a lot more depth to Monster Hunter than what was available in the beta, and I'm just trying to get a grasp on what it is. Monster Hunter Game Loop: 1. You are in a town, select a mission to hunt a monster. 2. Get transported to a map similar to the ones from the beta, hunt said monster. 3. Return to town, use pieces carved from dead monster to make new weapons and hats. 4. Repeat. It's simple, numbers go up, everybody happy.
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Got gifted a $50 psn card. Never play online so dunno if I’ll renew my ps Plus. Wonder if there will be a Boxing Day sale. Only game I want is nier but rather get physical unless the discounts get deep on digital. We’ll see.
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rabidsquid posted:yeah dont starve is an extremely difficult survival game that was patched over time to become even more difficult. the only thing i would ever take away from someone not actually liking dont starve is that they played the game (i like dont starve but its got to be one of the least friendly survival games there is) haveblue posted:Don't Starve is really unconventional and deliberately difficult, Horizon is a straightforward RPG that gives you all the breaks, shortcuts, and little nudges you'd expect from a mainstream AAA game. And there's always Gamefly or something Oh no, I'm not saying that they're similar in any way I'm just using DS as an example of a game I bought that it turned out I didn't actually enjoy playing for myself.
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Dec 23, 2017 19:20
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I saw that the GT Sport career mode finally came out, and that GT Sport is on this month's Flash Sale! Has anyone here tried out the career mode? I'm kind of curious to try it myself but it's like $52 CAD on the sale and I'd like some impressions on it before plunking down any cash.
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Dec 23, 2017 19:24
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CVagts posted:Understandable. I asked it the way I did because I know there's a lot more depth to Monster Hunter than what was available in the beta, and I'm just trying to get a grasp on what it is. The appeal of monhun is that pretty much every step of that process involves a lot of decision making and heavily leverages player knowledge over level ups and gating mechanics.
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Dec 23, 2017 19:27
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It's hard as poo poo dude. I finished the Sunday cup (the very first beginner cup with five races) and only got first pace on two tracks, second place on two tracks and third on another. There's other content like driving school, missions and circuit experiences that help you play offline but you should really try online with gt sport. It is where the real game is. If you just wanna put in 20-40 hours, you can do that easily with the content that's already there.
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Dec 23, 2017 19:28
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Wolfenstein 2 is actually fun if you turn the difficulty all the way down. Not sure why they thought it was a good idea to make it so hard. Silly me got it at launch (in a Target B2G1 deal that included some big games coming out next year) to support the devs after getting the first game for $10 and loving it, but this was a disappointment. The middle difficulties are far more brutal than the most difficult settings on most games I have played in the past 15 years. Will get the next game on sale, which shouldn’t take long judging by how quickly this game dropped to $30.
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Dec 23, 2017 20:40
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This Granblue Fantasy video looks surprisingly good. I gather Platinum is working on combat. I thought this was a phone series?
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Dec 23, 2017 20:50
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It is but Cygames made so much money they decided to start their own anime studio and finance possibly the only big budget JRPG not made by Square just for something to do with it.
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Dec 23, 2017 20:51
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Fix posted:This Granblue Fantasy video looks surprisingly good. I gather Platinum is working on combat. It's a phone series that is making so much money that the publisher can start vanity projects like the ps4 game and an anime studio
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the truth posted:Wolfenstein 2 is actually fun if you turn the difficulty all the way down. Nah it's still an uninspired hallway shooter. Cut scenes are sometimes neat though.
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the truth posted:Wolfenstein 2 is actually fun if you turn the difficulty all the way down. Not sure why they thought it was a good idea to make it so hard. Silly me got it at launch (in a Target B2G1 deal that included some big games coming out next year) to support the devs after getting the first game for $10 and loving it, but this was a disappointment. The middle difficulties are far more brutal than the most difficult settings on most games I have played in the past 15 years. Will get the next game on sale, which shouldn’t take long judging by how quickly this game dropped to $30. Breaking out of your restraints and killing every nazi in the building was an amazing moment in the game for me.
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Fix posted:This Granblue Fantasy video looks surprisingly good. I gather Platinum is working on combat. Why do so many Japanese game demos have people screaming over them. Theres always like 3 women doing the 5 year old voice and some dude going "duouahhhhhhhh!!!!" Game actually looks sort of cool though
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It's a stage demonstration and they always use the voice actors and stuff to demo it and all the 'sugois' etc is just how you act excited in Japan
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I guess it’s no worse than IGN hype men in shiny t-shirts pretending to be excited about crafting systems.
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RareAcumen posted:Breaking out of your restraints and killing every nazi in the building was an amazing moment in the game for me. I did that on “Do or Die.” It was not fun. There should have been some sort of automatically enabled god-mode for that part. Turned down the difficulty once I got to New Orleans and breezes through the last third of the game.
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:Nah it's still an uninspired hallway shooter. It's pretty hysterical how quickly opinions went from "oh you just dislike the game because you're alt right" to "uh actually yeah the game play is pretty bad".
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I mean the former was mostly before it even came out, and I at least still enjoyed it, even on the higher difficulty levels. Wasn't as good as TNO though sadly.
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veni veni veni posted:Why do so many Japanese game demos have people screaming over them. Theres always like 3 women doing the 5 year old voice and some dude going "duouahhhhhhhh!!!!"  heh heh, may I remind you
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Sakurazuka posted:I mean the former was mostly before it even came out, and I at least still enjoyed it, even on the higher difficulty levels. Wasn't as good as TNO though sadly. Reading through the thread, I still saw a bunch of comments like 'How long until they give you a drat shotgun?' Are you seriously just given 200 armor and half health and that's it? That's all the armor does for you?' 'I don't know what it is that other games do to give you feedback that you're getting shot but this game is really missing it' 'Why do the guns sound so bad?' 'This game's starting to feel like they had an idea for one game- maybe two- and then stretched it out for three for some reason.' I dunno where he's reading comments from, since I haven't read anything beyond the games thread in here.
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The recent Deus Ex and Telltale Batman are allegedly next month's PS+ games. Mankind Divided is the perfect Plus game for me. Been sorta interested, but never enough to commit money. I really liked some parts of Human Revolution, but I didn't think it was great overall. The Detroit hub was the highlight.
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RareAcumen posted:Reading through the thread, I still saw a bunch of comments like 'How long until they give you a drat shotgun?' Are you seriously just given 200 armor and half health and that's it? That's all the armor does for you?' 'I don't know what it is that other games do to give you feedback that you're getting shot but this game is really missing it' 'Why do the guns sound so bad?' 'This game's starting to feel like they had an idea for one game- maybe two- and then stretched it out for three for some reason.' Same thread as you, friend.
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Mankind Divided is one of the only games I’ve ever played where I felt like the story was unforgivably incomplete, especially considering the franchise itself. Like Human Revolution has a bad ending but at least it takes you a minute to get there and there’s plenty of game along the way. Mankind Divided stops before it ever gets going. It also runs like hot dogshit on PC
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Bust Rodd posted:Mankind Divided is one of the only games I’ve ever played where I felt like the story was unforgivably incomplete, especially considering the franchise itself.
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Awesome! posted:didnt they intentionally split it into 3 games or something stupid? Yeah they were planning to stretch it into some big saga. But it didn’t sell that well and so now the franchise is on ice.
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Wolfenstein The New Colossus is good. The combat is not best-in-class and the level design is eh but it has its moments and the dual shotguns and laser rifle feel great. The setpieces make up for a lot of its shortcomings. Also the voice acting is superb
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Awesome! posted:didnt they intentionally split it into 3 games or something stupid? Basically, the game ends just before what would have been the end of Act 1, with Squeenix-Suits insisting that Acts 2/3 be DLC. Then the game was released and panned universally, in part because of the story, so they announced they were shelving it, which they very recently backpedalled on
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Brb. Gonna abandon gaming for a new hobby.
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I’m happy that they are happy.
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veni veni veni posted:That is fuckin painful to watch. Reaction videos are almost invariably garbage.
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veni veni veni posted:That is fuckin painful to watch. It's sort of painful, yeah, but those people (now EZA) are legitimately excited about the possibilities of the medium in a way that's kind of awkwardly charming. I'll give them a few childish freakouts here and there, but I was mainly posting it to demonstrate that hype is hype, regardless of native language. edit; honestly, I was pretty excited while watching that conference, too
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