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FactsAreUseless posted:Like many early access games it wound up wildly overtuned by a vocal contingent of hardcore fans. Honestly, at least on normal difficulty, the final boss was the only thing I thought presented any challenge at all after playing for four hours or so. But then my success rate against it was something like 1/20, with the 1 being the time I said "fine I'll just use 2 crossbow traps and jump around a lot", so it effectively ruined the game for me. The higher difficulties look pretty miserable. exquisite tea posted:I think everybody's impression of Dead Cells is that it would have been a lot better if they just imported its combat and stages into a more traditional Metroidvania. It really gains nothing positive from being a roguelike. It's definitely not a roguelike tho
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Yeah that sounds terrible. It's so counterproductive too. You have this silky smooth gameplay people enjoy so let's burn everyone out on repeating the first level. Dicks.
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Nov 6, 2018 13:46
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For the most part, Valiant Hearts is a thoughtful, touching and (though it's got a cartoony style) pretty realistic portrayal of WW1. It's pretty cool storytelling that works because it feels plausible and well researched. And then you get a chase sequence set to Flight of the Bumblebees where a cackling, skull-hatted evil German Baron is chasing you down in a steampunk mech-tank.
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Nov 6, 2018 13:52
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Captain Hygiene posted:That's very good, but what I really want is the option to skip MJ/Miles scenes, at least on a second playthrough. Such a blemish on an otherwise great game (in a genre that doesn't normally grab me), especially going back to redo them. I want to go back and run through the game again, but I just can't stomach them for a while. I recently beat NG+ and, yeah, oof those parts really suck the wind out of the game's sales when you do them again. Hell, even the first time I did them I didn't really like them. The second time through really showed the seams in those sections, when you can just wander through heavily guarded bases pretty much avoiding everyone's gaze without even having to think about it, since the game guides you along the correct path so obviously. The DLC has one section too. I saw it coming a mile away and when it came up I just groaned. The Moon Monster posted:
What? Yes it is. When you die, you lose all progress. There are some elements that are carried between playthroughs, because full-on-permadeath is frustrating and only appeals to a core set of gamers, but it's still a roguelike. Morpheus has a new favorite as of 15:13 on Nov 6, 2018 |
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Nov 6, 2018 14:56
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Dead Cell bosses are really bad. Even the first one that just randomly hurts you if it touches you and then leaps across the room at you is stupid. e: when it was still in EA the only real way to kill bosses was with grenades or trap items because melee was too risky and you get like 5 arrows before they're all stuck in the boss and you can't ever shoot them again
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Nov 6, 2018 15:08
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My problem with dead cells is that the ledge grab is too sensitive. Probably half the damage I take comes from trying to drop into a pit and accidentally climbing up the other side of it instead
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Nov 6, 2018 15:18
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Dead Cells also features a power up system for your character but neglects to mention that enemies are scaled based on how many powerups you collected so there is a non-intuitive sweet spot where you shouldnt collect more as all it does is make the game harder.
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Nov 6, 2018 16:14
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Barudak posted:Dead Cells also features a power up system for your character but neglects to mention that enemies are scaled based on how many powerups you collected so there is a non-intuitive sweet spot where you shouldnt collect more as all it does is make the game harder. Wait really?
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Nov 6, 2018 16:15
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MiddleOne posted:Wait really? Yep. Its not immediate, any powerups collected in an area will make you stronger than that area but as soon as you transition all enemies get powere up to you. This is why bosses turn into unexpected slogs for some players because theres always a transition before them.
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Nov 6, 2018 16:21
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Yeah that just killed my desire to ever load up the game again. It has lots of good stuff in it but wow, tactically avoiding power ups is never fun.
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Nov 6, 2018 18:06
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I've been on a bit of an Anno binge lately, in anticipation of 1800 coming out in a couple months. And I've gone through the games backwards, so 2205, 2070, 1404. (Which was probably a very bad decision, due to QoL stuff coming into the series over time.) And 1404 is insanely frustrating to play. There are characters in the top right who talk occasionally. In 2070 and 2205 this would mostly happen when you clicked on their ship, or had a building selected for a while. This is alright. In 1404 whenever someone trades with you they spawn a popup in the top right, where they'll comment on the trade. Meaning that if you trade on multiple islands, you'll just be bombarded by fuckers complimenting you on a trade well done. Just a constant loving barrage of comments, perpetually. It makes me want to disable trading entirely, but that'll leave a massive hole in my pocket. (Especially since I'm playing with iaam which makes the game more complex, and harder to turn a huge profit, due to needing more buildings and resources.) The trading comment spam is worsened by the fact that every single time you switch your building menu over to Oriental buildings, the ol' Vizir pops up and usually comments on it. (The game focuses on building & trade between europe and the middle east, giving you access to 2 separate production trees. ) I really want to play the game and enjoy it, but it is so immensely draining for the game to constantly go: AHHH A GOOD PRICE IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE AHHH A GOOD PRICE IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE A GOOD TRADE AHH I SEE YOU loving LOVE ORIENTAL BUILDINGS, THAT'S RAD AHHH A GOOD PRICE IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE A GOOD TRADEAHHH A GOOD PRICE IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE A GOOD TRADE HI I'M THE VIZIR, WONDERING WHY THE gently caress Y'ALL OCCIDENTAL PEEPS ARE HERE AHHH A GOOD PRICE IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE A GOOD TRADE AHHH A GOOD PRICE IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE A GOOD TRADE AHHH A GOOD PRICE IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE A GOOD TRADE AHHH A GOOD PRICE IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE A GOOD TRADE HI U R REALLY GOOD AT BUILDING ORIENTAL ARCHITECTURE. I should probably just disable voices entirely, but that leaves out a lot of important stuff, since I'm still kinda figuring things out. In 2070 there's just a small log at each trading outpost showing recent trades, instead of the game shoving them in your face constantly. On top of that there are perpetual voice announcements about OH NO PRODUCTION STOPPED. Yes, because the stores of wood is full on that island. There are a lot of products where if you have a small production of them on an island you're likely to max out the storage, and then you get even more notifications straight into your ear. SubNat has a new favorite as of 18:10 on Nov 6, 2018 |
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Barudak posted:Dead Cells also features a power up system for your character but neglects to mention that enemies are scaled based on how many powerups you collected so there is a non-intuitive sweet spot where you shouldnt collect more as all it does is make the game harder. I learned about this the other week and it explained a lot of inconsistencies I’d seen in the game while also making it a lot harder to enjoy. Getting powerups once they no longer provide more health is actually making you more fragile, and getting powerups that aren’t your main damage color just to get health is effectively making you do less damage. It’s really backwards and no the game does not mention this anywhere. Dead cells is good but it is really held back by wanting to be too “hardcore,” which shows in its bosses first and foremost. The game is at its best when you’re playing 100% reflexively with your subconscious mind and just gliding around levels killing and dodging at high speed. bosses slam that poo poo to a halt while also punishing you for using any of the piles of gear that’s fun for normal levels but bad for bosses.
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Nov 6, 2018 19:03
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Digirat posted:I learned about this the other week and it explained a lot of inconsistencies I’d seen in the game while also making it a lot harder to enjoy. Getting powerups once they no longer provide more health is actually making you more fragile, and getting powerups that aren’t your main damage color just to get health is effectively making you do less damage. It’s really backwards and no the game does not mention this anywhere.
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Nov 6, 2018 20:36
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SubNat posted:I've been on a bit of an Anno binge lately, in anticipation of 1800 coming out in a couple months. Absolutely, positively, under no circumstances, should EVER have voices on in 1404. That dipshit from the Orient blabbing every time you misclick and hit those buildings instead of what you wanted WILL drive you insane. Drag the info toolbar on the left side up and down to have a larger backlog of what was done and what is active. That'll help quite a bit. You honestly will not miss anything by turning voices off, other than a stress headache because Northburg will not shut the gently caress up.
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Nov 6, 2018 20:51
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Barudak posted:Dead Cells also features a power up system for your character but neglects to mention that enemies are scaled based on how many powerups you collected so there is a non-intuitive sweet spot where you shouldnt collect more as all it does is make the game harder. Apparently, devs have said this won't be sticking around, which is nice if true.
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Nov 6, 2018 21:22
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The inability to give out a simple "gg" in SFV. I'm sure crossplay and all that is a factor but it'd be nice to have some canned responses like Guilty Gear Xrd or something.
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Nov 6, 2018 21:48
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Overwatch was fun on release but after really bad handling by blizzard, horrible balance patches, obnoxiously designed characters, almost all of the good players have been driven away and now all I see is incredibly toxic people yelling at each other. Between the game itself being not as fun as it used to be by LEAGUES, and the community being so awful, I just don't think it's worth playing anymore. What a shame.
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Nov 6, 2018 21:53
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aegof posted:Apparently, devs have said this won't be sticking around, which is nice if true. A year in early access and 6 months following full release and they realize maybe this system is terrible and worth fixing is good but not inspiring. The fact they still plan to keep damage caps on bosses for the forseeable future means the other dumb issue of "dealing lump sum damage is a fools errand" will stay even longer.
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Agent355 posted:Overwatch was fun on release but after really bad handling by blizzard, horrible balance patches, obnoxiously designed characters, almost all of the good players have been driven away and now all I see is incredibly toxic people yelling at each other. I just want one person on a team of 6 who can shoot down a pharah. i am not that person which is why i usually play tank or support
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Kruller posted:Absolutely, positively, under no circumstances, should EVER have voices on in 1404. That dipshit from the Orient blabbing every time you misclick and hit those buildings instead of what you wanted WILL drive you insane. Drag the info toolbar on the left side up and down to have a larger backlog of what was done and what is active. That'll help quite a bit. You honestly will not miss anything by turning voices off, other than a stress headache because Northburg will not shut the gently caress up. Yeah, I'm extremely partial to just turning all the voices off the next time I sit down with it. I also tried to do the campaign for a bit, but it's just a constant torrent of people talking into your ear as you go. (And then the campaign hardlocked because the Iaam mod messed with progression in a way that locked me out of completing one of the chapters. ) I'm kind of amazed at what a barrage of frustration it is, compared to the way more toned back 2070 & 2205. (Though both of them still suffer quite a bit, but atleast that's mostly from quests. )
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The only way to play Overwatch is mystery heroes. No slam picking Hanzo. Nobody demanding you change characters to fill voids. Seldom any talking at all. Plus if you kill the Mercy you killed a healer and that's a good thing because now they're down a healer who won't immediately be back in the fight.
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Nov 6, 2018 22:22
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Kitfox88 posted:I just want one person on a team of 6 who can shoot down a pharah. i am not that person which is why i usually play tank or support Rein points shield forward Doomfist died in front of it Brigitte is with a shield up behind rein's shield Dva's trying to flank Junkrat's randomly plopping grenades Widow's dead (killed by pharah)
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Nov 6, 2018 22:42
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Vic posted:Rein points shield forward What's a Top 500 Junkrat main doing playing in the mud with these losers
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Nov 6, 2018 22:56
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You can absolutely turn off the trade notifications in Anno 1404 without disabling voices. Pretty sure it’s in the gameplay settings. I personally don’t mind the normal voices so much since they’re the only way I’ll remember to refill my Norias (god, gently caress having to tear away from what I’m doing to spend 100 gold to refill those) and I generally use the ‘your storehouses are full’ to either redistribute supplies or sell off the excess.
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Nov 6, 2018 23:13
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Len posted:The only way to play Overwatch is mystery heroes. No slam picking Hanzo. Nobody demanding you change characters to fill voids. Seldom any talking at all. I agree 100% with this. Mystery Heroes is fun and you feel like you've made a difference if you off a healer. Plus it's 9000% less toxic than QP, and 200,000,000% less toxic than competitive.
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Nov 6, 2018 23:15
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aegof posted:What's a Top 500 Junkrat main doing playing in the mud with these losers please don't insult my best dps character tyvm dying over a trap that people get stuck in so the death bombs get them never gets old
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Kitfox88 posted:please don't insult my best dps character tyvm
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Nov 7, 2018 00:27
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The Persona 3 dancing game has a demo up and neither song on it are bangers ):
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Nov 7, 2018 00:33
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FactsAreUseless posted:He's a good character and it's a shame OW isn't fun now yep. i used to enjoy ranked because people tried and they weren't too toxic a few yeras ago, but i've never gotten higher than when i initially placed high gold then just slowly sank down to low silver. everyone here's either mad as poo poo that they can't play or seem to have purposefully tanked their poo poo down to here so they can smurf
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No joke my interest in OW rock bottomed after they nerfed Hog's hook, then nerfed his shotgun, then nerfed his hook AGAIN for no drat reason, even more when he was one of the best counters to the stupid hyperactive assassin characters. "OHHH BUT UUUH WE DON'T WANT CHARACTERS THAT CAN JUST INSTA-DELETE PEOPLE, HE'S FILLING A NEW ROLE NOW!" And then they released fuckin Doomfist literally right after saying this, who goes on to insta-delete people and suddenly that excuse is nowhere to be found. Oh yeah and all the while the game was still decided by which sweaty rear end Genji player on either team was better, woopee, fun.
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Nov 7, 2018 01:37
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Every event I log in, bust my rear end for the event boxes from arcade, tell myself I'll play the game "for real" sometime, then go back to ignoring the game entirely.
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Nov 7, 2018 01:47
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John Murdoch posted:Every event I log in, bust my rear end for the event boxes from arcade, tell myself I'll play the game "for real" sometime, then go back to ignoring the game entirely. If it's not arcade it's not worth playing. Everyone else takes it way too seriously
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i hate good tracers and good pharahs, both because i have bad twitch reflexes and can't aim well. at least before sym's, what, 4th rework i could use her lock on beam to delete tracers who didn't have the smarts to pull back, but they had to take that away and make it incredibly less useful. 
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I’m pretty sure OW is only kept in relevance because some people really really want to gently caress the characters. I can’t think of one thing that it brings to the table that would make it unique or interesting over even the most bog standard Call of Duty game.
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moosecow333 posted:I’m pretty sure OW is only kept in relevance because some people really really want to gently caress the characters. It partially is that, being able to make tons of fanart and ship characters and feel some kind of fondness for them alongside a ton of other people all doing their own things there does wonders, but it's also very accessible, a blizzard game; so you can assume it'll keep getting patched and supported almost indefinitely, has a colorful and poppy aesthetic which is very appealing when so much still wants to be dull as dirt reeeeelism, got in on the 'hero shooter' genre really early and gets to be called the game that 'defined it' or whatever, it's a handful of factors that came together in the best way Blizz could've asked for to make a super popular game.
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Len posted:The only way to play Overwatch is mystery heroes. No slam picking Hanzo. Nobody demanding you change characters to fill voids. Seldom any talking at all. Is this mode a permanent thing you can play anytime now? When I played it was the only fun I had in the game and then they removed it.
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Nov 7, 2018 03:03
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Digirat posted:Is this mode a permanent thing you can play anytime now? When I played it was the only fun I had in the game and then they removed it. yeah when i picked it up again for a couple of weeks last summer it was always available and yeah, it's what i did 90% of the time and i had fun
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Barudak posted:A year in early access and 6 months following full release and they realize maybe this system is terrible and worth fixing is good but not inspiring At no point have they ever had a reasonable grasp on how to balance character growth through those stupid stat scrolls. They should really just remove them; they add nothing to the game at all. You already get stronger by finding better weapons and equipment, that should be enough for a 30-minute action game. Nuclear Throne doesn’t have any kind of incremental upgrades like that and the balance and difficulty scaling in that game is impeccable because as the maps get harder, you get bigger guns. Huh.
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Digirat posted:Is this mode a permanent thing you can play anytime now? When I played it was the only fun I had in the game and then they removed it. Yeah it's one of the non-cycling arcade games and the only mode I'll touch outside of event modes
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