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Len posted:I sidestepped the durability thing by just not fighting anymore. I just run past everything because losing these fancy weapons and replacing them with goblin clubs just isn't appealing in the slightest. Agent355 posted:Zelda BOTW does alot of things right but I find the lack of actual good dungeons extremely disappointing. The divine beasts are on the same level as the worst dungeons in other games and there's only 4 of them. Some of the shrines are very good and satisfying, some are more eh. They really should have sat someone down for a day and had them write unique lines for the monks in all the shrines; IIRC it's just the same three variations over and over again (puzzle, combat, and by finding this shrine you already win!) so who the hell wasn't skipping all that crap
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Whatev posted:It's very strange how you insist on making this game as unfun for yourself as possible. There are good weapons everywhere and enemies carry plenty of them, including fancy clubs. I killed virtually all of the enemy encampments in the game and running out of decent weapons was never really an issue. I dunno I feel like "bigger club" isn't as cool as my swords that poo poo out fire or lightning or my elemental rods. I fight things that I haven't murdered hundreds of or that are carrying cool looking weapons but just like every other Zelda game after a certain point murdering the scrubs is a speed bump and not really worth it. Again maybe your idea of fun is fighting a pack of trash and getting rewarded in bear asses and a new wooden club but I do not find that enjoyable.
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Dec 2, 2018 11:47
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Len posted:I dunno I feel like "bigger club" isn't as cool as my swords that poo poo out fire or lightning or my elemental rods. I fight things that I haven't murdered hundreds of or that are carrying cool looking weapons but just like every other Zelda game after a certain point murdering the scrubs is a speed bump and not really worth it. Is this the videogame equivalent of hatefucking?
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Dec 2, 2018 11:55
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Vic posted:Is this the videogame equivalent of hatefucking? Probably not because I actually am having fun with it and want to keep playing?
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Dec 2, 2018 12:06
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Len posted:Probably not because I actually am having fun with it and want to keep playing? Well that's hatefuckin in a nutshell. Carry on.
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Vic posted:Well that's hatefuckin in a nutshell. Carry on. Seriously you seem to be taking personal offense that I turned my experience from something that isn't fun into something that I'm actually enjoying and I don't understand why. I wasn't having fun fighting every pack of trash guys in the field. Now I run around picking up stuff and only fighting things that are actually interesting to fight. Am I allowed to say the cooking system is poo poo or are you going to be upset by that? Because I have 140 apples and the amount of time needed to turn them into cooked dishes is insane.
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Dec 2, 2018 12:25
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BotW was really fun for a while, but eventually the flat difficulty and complexity curve (everything needs to be doable once you leave the plateau) was the thing that made me stop. Once Korok Seeds and Shrines stop being engaging content, the world starts feeling very bare. I did two shrines and explored for maybe 30-40 hours, but lost all motivation to continue soon afterwards.
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Dec 2, 2018 12:29
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It's a game that I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of playing, while being acutely aware from about 5 hours in that I was never gonna touch it again afterwards and could safely sell it on. Kind of a weird feeling, I usually keep the games I really enjoy. Horizon Zero Dawn was the same, though.
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Dec 2, 2018 12:41
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Len posted:Seriously you seem to be taking personal offense that I turned my experience from something that isn't fun into something that I'm actually enjoying and I don't understand why. same tbh i attended culinary trade school
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Dec 2, 2018 12:45
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guys where does link use the bathroom this is really dragging botw for me
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Leal posted:guys where does link use the bathroom this is really dragging botw for me Honestly where does anyone? I'm pretty sure there only two toilets in the entire series and both of them are outhouses with a man living in them.
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Dec 2, 2018 14:22
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Vic posted:Is this the videogame equivalent of hatefucking? Whatev posted:It's very strange how you insist on making this game as unfun for yourself as possible. There are good weapons everywhere and enemies carry plenty of them, including fancy clubs. Please do not get hyper defensive of people disliking games you love. Some people will not like the parts of the game you do while enjoying other parts. That is fine. Just because you enjoy fighting every Rattata or equivalent on the way through a field doesn't mean everyone else feels the same. Anyway, for a game focused more on humans than the robots, Horizon Zero Dawn really could've used a memorable character that wasn't dead for 400 years and only observed through an audio log. RareAcumen has a new favorite as of 14:36 on Dec 2, 2018 |
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Dec 2, 2018 14:30
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Vic posted:Thing actually dragging Zelda BOTW down is the way Link blocks with his shield. I just found out you can parry guardian lasers right back at them which is great. But it's Link who picks the direction at which he's holding the shield. And that sometimes means some bat to the right, not this giant loving instadeath statue charging up. I get shot in the back even though I'm pointing the camera right at the drat thing. Lock onto the Guardian, and you'll bat the laser straight back into their eye every time.
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Mamkute posted:Whenever you have to rescue someone, but they die immediately afterwards anyway. One weird phenomenon of RPGs is that the mortality rate for questgivers goes up precipitously once they actually speak to the protagonist. The most recent game I've been playing is AC Origins and it's almost comical how many NPCs, their friends, family members, business associates and pretty much anyone they've ever met immediately become imperiled within several minutes of Bayek accepting their favor, despite presumably making it 20+ years on earth without dying up to that point. An exclamation mark appearing over your head is basically the Mark of Death in these games.
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Agent355 posted:Zelda BOTW does alot of things right but I find the lack of actual good dungeons extremely disappointing. The divine beasts are on the same level as the worst dungeons in other games and there's only 4 of them. The shrines where you had to do some cool thing out in the world and then the shrine was just a guy giving you a thing were great, most of the other shrines were at an ok/fine level, the shrines that were just you fighting some robut sucked poo poo.
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Dec 2, 2018 15:55
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Leal posted:guys where does link use the bathroom this is really dragging botw for me Link is constantly making GBS threads and pissing himself as he runs. No one around to care. The cooking system is weird because you can use 5 apples to restore like two hearts or you just toss a durian on a flame for full health so whatever. What actually does drag it down for me is having no quick way to cook; gotta throw stuff on my hands, toss it in a bowl, watch it, grab the result, start again.
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exquisite tea posted:One weird phenomenon of RPGs is that the mortality rate for questgivers goes up precipitously once they actually speak to the protagonist. The most recent game I've been playing is AC Origins and it's almost comical how many NPCs, their friends, family members, business associates and pretty much anyone they've ever met immediately become imperiled within several minutes of Bayek accepting their favor, despite presumably making it 20+ years on earth without dying up to that point. An exclamation mark appearing over your head is basically the Mark of Death in these games.
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Morpheus posted:Link is constantly making GBS threads and pissing himself as he runs. No one around to care. Yeah I was going to smelt down my apples but when I saw it was going to be: Enter menu Select up to 5 things to hold Place in pot Wait or skip cutscene Repeat I gave up
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Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise I'm only just now getting to chapter 4 but man Kenshiro is a really annoyingly hands off protagonist. He decides to step in to stop some bandits murdering a kid but not while they're shaking his dad down for all of their supplies.
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exquisite tea posted:One weird phenomenon of RPGs is that the mortality rate for questgivers goes up precipitously once they actually speak to the protagonist. The most recent game I've been playing is AC Origins and it's almost comical how many NPCs, their friends, family members, business associates and pretty much anyone they've ever met immediately become imperiled within several minutes of Bayek accepting their favor, despite presumably making it 20+ years on earth without dying up to that point. An exclamation mark appearing over your head is basically the Mark of Death in these games. To be fair, that's mostly because they try to betray Bayek "I just killed 20 people without breaking a sweat" of Siwa. By mid game or so doing that is more suicide on their parts than murder on his.
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Horizon Chase Turbo: the longest Endurance race is all 109 tracks in a row, which is fine. It saves your progress between races so you don't have to do it in one go - great. But it tells you you have to finish in 5th place or better to qualify for the next race, and what that actually means is if you ever come in 6th, you immediately lose your entire Endurance progress and have to start over. That's just astonishingly bad design, especially in a game that gets so much right otherwise. I'm mildly annoyed at having it happen after 45 races, if that happened on race 109 I'd be bloody furious, especially if I had an unbeatable lead on the scoreboard otherwise.
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Played maybe 5 minutes of Fallout 76 and I will never play more. Is it a bad game? Ill never know since this genre and its opening turned me off before Ill ever find out.
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Barudak posted:Played maybe 5 minutes of Fallout 76 and I will never play more. Is it a bad game? Ill never know since this genre and its opening turned me off before Ill ever find out. What does this one do? Does it give you a heterosexual family with a kid again?
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Len posted:What does this one do? Does it give you a heterosexual family with a kid again? They took away every single human NPC, I couldnt interact with any of the starter NPC robots beyond "click to hear line of dialog", and every quest Ive found is being directed to an empty area with a note or holotape that directs me to the next empty place Im supposed to go. The opening appears to be you overslept the vault opening and literally everyone else left you behind, and Im unsure why anyone wouldnt use the vault as a base even if they were planning to reclaim the wilderness. I had a lot of time to ponder all this as I watched my health, AP, hunger, and thirst meters fluctuate as the left side of my screen exploded with quests to do things like craft a bed when I have a perfectly fine one in my apartment a shower and TV back in the vault.
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Len posted:What does this one do? Does it give you a heterosexual family with a kid again? Its a broken, buggy landscape with zero NPCs, story, setting or point. Its radiantquest.exe writ large where you go from A to B to kill X, press Y, or grab Z. All to have a pre-recorded computer tell you good job. Its like showing up to a party a day late and being forced to do all the cleanup in an empty house where you can't even have leftovers because they've been sitting out and have gone bad. Its a microtransaction filled cash grab that never should have been released, cobbled together poorly and presented in a broken state.
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I have an apologist for the game on my fb feed and its some wild rear end poo poo seeing someone defend it.
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Len posted:What does this one do? Does it give you a heterosexual family with a kid again? It goes back to having a player character that has very little pre-defined background, but it also lacks any characters whatsoever. Bethsoft couldn't figure out what game they wanted to make, so they mashed poo poo together haphazardly. They made a Fallout game without a story, a Rust-type game without the sense of permanency (and therefore without stakes), and a pseudo-MMO without content. It's an incredible trainwreck. Like, the main quest is you following the overseer of the vault you were in, but even she never shows up in the game. You just follow the breadcrumbs of her audiologs the entire time. Then at the endgame, you drop a nuke on a location and that allows players to fight a reskinned Skyrim dragon. It's astoundingly lazily designed. Inco has a new favorite as of 00:31 on Dec 3, 2018 |
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RagnarokAngel posted:I have an apologist for the game on my fb feed and its some wild rear end poo poo seeing someone defend it. The thread in games is wild with a few hardcore defenders acting like a subjugated minority. Inco posted:They made a Fallout game without a story, a Rust-type game without the sense of permanency (and therefore without stakes), and a pseudo-MMO without content. It's an incredible trainwreck. This is worth re-iterating, if they had simply focused on some sort of central concept the game could've at least been a good fallout spinoff or w/e, but they really just had no idea what they wanted to do so they threw poo poo at a wall to see what stuck. It turns out poo poo stuck.
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Agent355 posted:This is worth re-iterating, if they had simply focused on some sort of central concept the game could've at least been a good fallout spinoff or w/e, but they really just had no idea what they wanted to do so they threw poo poo at a wall to see what stuck. the central concept is "buy our microtransactions"
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Kevin Palpatine posted:the central concept is "buy our microtransactions" That's not a game concept, that's a racket.
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The only microtransactions are skins? What are you buying lol
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Inco posted:That's not a game concept, that's a racket. Welcome to the modern day Triple-A space. Its all microtransactions and battle royale.
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The music in Dragon Quest 11 is really dragging it down. It's not even terrible, but considering how high the production quality is in every other aspect, it's a real letdown. It starts with this opening song and got my hopes up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdFgFABSkhQ&t=24s But then every other track is pretty forgettable. I don't even have one example of a bad one, it's all of them in general. Apparently they're all midi songs which doesn't help, but I don't really think it's even the main problem either.
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LeJackal posted:Welcome to the modern day Triple-A space. Its all microtransactions and battle royale. Don't like it? I'll throw in five funbux to sweeten the deal. Yes we produce funbux. No you can't use funbux anywhere but in the game you already don't like.
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Captain Lavender posted:The music in Dragon Quest 11 is really dragging it down. It's not even terrible, but considering how high the production quality is in every other aspect, it's a real letdown. Theyre all midi songs and possibly not the best compositions as a whole because SE is sucking up to a warcrimes denier and hoping when he dies they can negotiate with his estate
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They made a Zelda dynasty warriors work. Where's my Zelda set during that war where they beat Ganon with an army of robots? And while I'm wishing for prequels where's my Castlevania set during the war of 1999?
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Len posted:They made a Zelda dynasty warriors work. Where's my Zelda set during that war where they beat Ganon with an army of robots?
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Olaf The Stout posted:Man, I wonder what franchise Nintendo should mix with next. 4X Zelda game.
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Len posted:What does this one do? Does it give you a heterosexual family with a kid again? That's unironically still a thing dragging down FO4, though just one reason of many that the game sucks rear end. Oh and FO76 is also trying to rob people on their refunds. You see they're turning down a bunch of people who should normally still be covered by refund practices, but because they bought ~the digital version~ that's not allowed for some reason. Except there is no physical version for all of PC, the boxed copies are a cardboard disc with a code. There's an actual For Real lawsuit coming up on them over this because that violates the law in a deal of countries. They also had or have a real bad situation on their hands right now because they straight up falsely advertised what they were selling in the super duper $200 special edition, which was meant to have the bad game, a cheaply made helmet and an alright looking canvas bag. Skip forward and people open their things up aaaand it's a lovely, insanely cheap nylon bag that's already falling apart for a bunch of people. Someone opens a ticket with support and they get told "Sorry the canvas bag was a prototype, it was 'too expensive' so we switched to nylon, we won't be doing anything about it." They only just begrudgingly started offering people 500 bethesdabux if they show them some proof of purchase, these 500 funny munnies being in the realm of barely five bucks and probably having some microscopic agreement to them that waives your right to join a suit against them for knowing false advertisement or something. It also took them days to change the picture on their own site to stop claiming it was a canvas bag. All of this without even mentioning that the game itself runs like garbage, is filled with copy-paste asset reuse and has more bugs than any of their games before. Fallout 76 is a loving actual abomination of a product. Yardbomb has a new favorite as of 05:28 on Dec 3, 2018 |
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