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Leal posted:There is a huge difference between "go on a mission where different things happen and it takes 20 minutes to do" and "fight one solitary thing for 20 minutes". But there kind of isn't? You're not just in combat that whole time. When the monster flees it's an opportunity to regather supplies, track it down, maybe even get some more info that will be useful later. It behaves differently through different stages of the fight.
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Calaveron posted:I remember reading about it like, months after the game's release on the Gamecube Yup same. It wasn't exactly a secret but since the game didn't tell you or promote it, you only learned about it from dev interviews.
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Feb 12, 2018 23:53
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Maxwell Lord posted:But there kind of isn't? You're not just in combat that whole time. When the monster flees it's an opportunity to regather supplies, track it down, maybe even get some more info that will be useful later. It behaves differently through different stages of the fight. Do they really? The poison bird kept puking poison on me the entire 20 minutes, the fire breathing t rex kept breathing fire and leaping at me, the electric squirrel kept leaping from trees and shocking me, the marine dinosaur kept swimming in water and leaping at me. The only thing that changed it up was once per fight there would be a bigger monster that would appear, attack my target then gently caress off.
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Feb 12, 2018 23:58
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Vic posted:Yup same. It wasn't exactly a secret but since the game didn't tell you or promote it, you only learned about it from dev interviews. I remember reading how it was designed to give you enough ammo depending on skill and play style in magazines when it was released as well, but it certainly was more subtle than the dynamic difficulty in God hand. More games should mimic God hand
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Vic posted:You're right. For content: Dark Souls 1, the bed of chaos is a bullshit try/fail boss fight that's not improved in subsequent playthroughs. It's very bad. For example, this recent playthrough is the first time I ever beat it without dying entirely on sheer luck. I ran to the left, stabbed a tree. Ran to the right, stabbed a tree. The whole time it did loving nothing. For the first time, across however many playthroughs. The boss did loving nothing but make fire appear behind me. Every other time it spends the fight slapping me into death pits! Then I just walked off the ledge onto a root and killed the boss because, again. It didn't spend the last phase of the fight non-stop slapping. Why? I'll never know. First time this has ever happened and I'm still bewildered. I have never beaten bed of chaos without taking damage or dying before. And it had absolutely zero to do with any skill or tactics on my end and everything to do with the boss forgetting it had hands. For extra content; Absolutely gently caress anyone who says tail weapons were a good idea and should have come back for dark souls two and three. Most of them were garbage and the only three that weren't, were nightmares to actually get because Kalameet only has his tail in range for two attacks and only like the last fifth of his tail is actually cuttable while Seath just has his tail hidden outside of wall geometry the whole time and it takes so much damage to cut it off you're likely to kill him instead of cut it. If you don't cut Priscilla's off in a single hit before the fight starts then good luck getting it at all.
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Feb 13, 2018 00:05
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VanguardFelix posted:I’m not sure if MHW is my cup of tea either as my first foray in the series, but one huge complaint: No scaling options for the UI or the in game text (unless I’m more blind than I already thought) and it is too small for me to comfortably read from where my couch is.
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Feb 13, 2018 00:07
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Are they just assuming bigger TVs now? Trying to get everyone on the 4k train?
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Feb 13, 2018 00:08
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I remember for the longest time having to just throw up my hands of knowing what the hell was going in in Dead Rising before I finally got something better than an old 20 inch box tv
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Feb 13, 2018 00:14
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FactsAreUseless posted:I see this poo poo constantly in PS4 games, it's just incredibly bad design. I don't know when it started happening but it's made poo poo unplayable. I hate it so much. It's my single biggest video game issue. Big TVs became much cheaper around 2011 continuing the trend. So the couch-tv distances didnt change only the tvs got bigger.
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Feb 13, 2018 00:15
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Leal posted:Do they really? The poison bird kept puking poison on me the entire 20 minutes, the fire breathing t rex kept breathing fire and leaping at me, the electric squirrel kept leaping from trees and shocking me, the marine dinosaur kept swimming in water and leaping at me. The only thing that changed it up was once per fight there would be a bigger monster that would appear, attack my target then gently caress off. Maybe not every monster is so inclined, but I just watched a stream where two guys fought one dragon monster and it went through four stages, changing rooms, frequency of certain attacks, and even triggering environmental hazards they could use to their advantage to stun or damage it. Seemed pretty cool, and also showed how big a difference landing a good hit in the right place could be, like hitting with a sword strike for 7 damage on one body part only to hit with a charged axe blow to another body part for a combined 180.
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World Famous W posted:No, that poo poo is tiny. Neither. If you ain't using hunting horn, you ain't livin'. 
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Feb 13, 2018 00:37
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Leal posted:There is a huge difference between "go on a mission where different things happen and it takes 20 minutes to do" and "fight one solitary thing for 20 minutes". It's explicitly a game about fighting boss enemies start to finish so I'm not sure what else you're expecting. but everything said above about fights moving and changing to give you breaks is true, and it's kind of weird if you're not experiencing that. normally monsters change zones 2-4 times a hunt for me, and they always leave to limp back to their nest once they're at 20% unless you really shut them down. I've only rarely had them spend longer than 6 minutes in one place. It seems to be affected by how much damage you do but also the monster in question. If you're fighting jyratodus in its home turf swamp, it's going to want to stay there where it has mud to roll in. If kulu gets a rock he suddenly thinks he is the baddest motherfucker around and will actively go try to beat the poo poo out of monsters five times his size like anjanath, but if he loses the rock he runs when they attack. Tzitzi is a huge grieflord who thinks he can take you on but not other monsters, so if anything else shows up he just flashbangs them with a selfie and then saunters away while everyone is stunned.
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Things dragging world down: For a game that added about 15 years worth of overdue quality of life, they didn't pay much attention to QoL for the online system, short of letting you join quests in progress now (which is admittedly a huge improvement). Squads have a tiny cap of 50 players, which encourages people to join multiple squads and thin out the population of any given squad session, perpetuating the problem. The only people who can invite to squads are squad leaders, and the only way to do it is to get the squad leader and the invitee in the same session via a session ID which is a random jumble of characters you have to input perfectly. There is 0 reason to ever go to the gathering hub except to post arena quests because you load in on the opposite side of the city from it, it's behind a 20-second load screen, and it doesn't have 75% of the features you need to use after a hunt. This means you'll hardly ever see other players between hunts. Needing an SOS flare to make your expedition public is weird. Needing an SOS flare to let your quest be joined by people outside of your session is weird. Dividing quest money between players so you get pennies in a 4-person group is bad. The 4-step choreographed dance you have to do to play story quests together is weird and bad. Squad sessions are buggy and don't always put you in a session where the other players in your squad actually are. So multiplayer's hella fun but there are way too many reasons not to do it.
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Feb 13, 2018 01:44
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World's my first Monster Hunter and it's stunning that this is the LESS janky version.
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RBA Starblade posted:World's my first Monster Hunter and it's stunning that this is the LESS janky version. You have no idea. I don't think I'll ever be able to go back to an older game. The biggest ones that stick out to me: Change equipment during a hunt Use your item box during a hunt Being able to eat during a hunt Downgrading weapons That little beastiary that fills out while you murder monsters showing what can break and where they're weak Seeing the complete weapon tree Having real actual shooter controls for the guns instead of whatever the gently caress they were before
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Feb 13, 2018 02:28
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World looks like fun but I watched lps of the older games and those really do come across as games for broke brains because of all the grinding and janky controls. It would be cool if it controlled like a more deliberate real time Dragon's Dogma. Really I just want another Dragon's Dogma.
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Feb 13, 2018 02:39
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Len posted:You have no idea. I don't think I'll ever be able to go back to an older game. The biggest ones that stick out to me: You forgot: Being able to use a potion without doing an entire 30 second song and dance routine
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The one thing MHW doesn't have over the older games is that the monster designs in the older games was more insane. Like sure MHW has a cool tyrannosaurus rex that is essentially a vulture with a scary nose ridge and dorsal fins that pop out when it's mad But the previous game had a dragon with literal jetstream wings that could also shoot lasers out of them, a tyrannosaurus that had a sword for a tail that could also be used as flint to make it shoot fire slashes and a praying mantis monster that could use its webbing to build and control a gigantic dragon mecha Bazelgeuse is the only monster that sort of approaches that insanity being a literal B-52 bomber but it's just one out of many
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FactsAreUseless posted:I see this poo poo constantly in PS4 games, it's just incredibly bad design. I don't know when it started happening but it's made poo poo unplayable. I hate it so much. It's my single biggest video game issue. This prevented me from playing The Escapists 2 on a 40 inch TV, I couldn't read poo poo, it could have been a dating sim for all I knew. Then I got a 70 inch TV and can now see it but still suck at it.
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Feb 13, 2018 03:21
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Calaveron posted:The one thing MHW doesn't have over the older games is that the monster designs in the older games was more insane. That's what dlc is for! Please don't let me down Capcom.
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In general I feel like the art direction and animations are much stronger in the previous two games, since they were portable only so they had to do more legwork so stuff would pop out more out of the screen Like for instance whenever your hunter spun to attack little puffs of dirt would twist around with them giving the animation a lot more dynamism, and explosions and stuff looked way cooler despite the more limited graphics
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Feb 13, 2018 03:42
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BioEnchanted posted:I've had problems with Dynamic Difficulty before, but only when it gets in the way
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VanguardFelix posted:I’m not sure if MHW is my cup of tea either as my first foray in the series, but one huge complaint: No scaling options for the UI or the in game text (unless I’m more blind than I already thought) and it is too small for me to comfortably read from where my couch is. This is seriously a huge flaw with MH:W (and a ton of other games, but being common doesn't make it any more forgivable). Seriously, I have a decent sized TV, I shouldn't need to sit so loving close just to make out the text that's completely unimportant 99% of the time but vital that last 1%. Another random Problem With Video Games: there has not, to my knowledge, been a CCG/RPG hybrid quite like Pokemon TCG on the Game Boy Color. Sure, there's dozens of Yu Gi Oh games, but they're all kinda trash and there's nothing there except the card game itself.
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Feb 13, 2018 04:30
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I feel personally attacked when I lose and the game has the gall to ask me if I wanted to try Easy Mode.
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Feb 13, 2018 04:31
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Calaveron posted:The one thing MHW doesn't have over the older games is that the monster designs in the older games was more insane. What about the big chinned giant salamander who is an organic tire that shits lava. I don't own the game but my roommate does, and I sat down to watch him fight that thing from beginning to end.
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Samuringa posted:I feel personally attacked when I lose and the game has the gall to ask me if I wanted to try Easy Mode. That always just makes me more determined to beat it than before. gently caress you Onimusha. I do not need easy mode! I'll beat this ogre eventually. 
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food court bailiff posted:Another random Problem With Video Games: there has not, to my knowledge, been a CCG/RPG hybrid quite like Pokemon TCG on the Game Boy Color. Sure, there's dozens of Yu Gi Oh games, but they're all kinda trash and there's nothing there except the card game itself. There was Magi-nation, which also had a real card game. It was a full, save the world jrpg but with cards.
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food court bailiff posted:
does Lost Kingdoms count?
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RBA Starblade posted:World's my first Monster Hunter and it's stunning that this is the LESS janky version. everything you like didn't used to be there and everything you hate used to be worse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfhOdM65HA8
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Samuringa posted:I feel personally attacked when I lose and the game has the gall to ask me if I wanted to try Easy Mode. *dies for the 19th time to the lovely platforming sections in Hades* "Do you want to change the difficulty to Easy? (This will only affect combat.)"
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SkeletonHero posted:*dies for the 19th time to the lovely platforming sections in Hades* Hey, alright, it wasn't just me that happened to
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When did assassin's Creed games start getting weapon stats and rpg leveling? I feel like it's a way to gate me as opposed to empowering me. I'll keep at it but I'm finding it not as exciting as I had expected. Beautiful as gently caress though
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Penpal posted:When did assassin's Creed games start getting weapon stats and rpg leveling? I feel like it's a way to gate me as opposed to empowering me. I'll keep at it but I'm finding it not as exciting as I had expected. Beautiful as gently caress though There's been weapon stats since the second game aka when people actually started liking the series.
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Feb 13, 2018 10:19
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Weapon stats have been a thing, but I think the full RPG skill trees debuted in Origins.
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Schubalts posted:Weapon stats have been a thing, but I think the full RPG skill trees debuted in Origins. Nah, I think the RPG skill tree and weapon levels were both introduced in Unity. But yeah, one of the Ezio games started having stats which meant the weapons were pretty samey instead of having different purposes like in the first game.
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Feb 13, 2018 10:29
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Every game having skill trees and RPG elements is the 2010s gaming trend that seriously needs to die
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Weapon upgrades, and resources you need to spend on them, is something I loving loathe. Especially with otherwise great games like DOOM '16 and the new Wolfenstein games. I just want to shoot at things, please don't make me scavenge hunt for materials or do weird minigames or poo poo. I'd much rather have game progression based weapon upgrades instead. Having to do chores to keep my weapons up to date is not fun.
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Olaf The Stout posted:What about the big chinned giant salamander who is an organic tire that shits lava. I don't own the game but my roommate does, and I sat down to watch him fight that thing from beginning to end. Small peas compared to literally Goku and explosive punchfistosaurus
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Samuringa posted:I feel personally attacked when I lose and the game has the gall to ask me if I wanted to try Easy Mode. Do you want to try again with the chicken hat?
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