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food court bailiff posted:I've been playing Prey on Normal and it owns super hard, it might be one of my favorite games ever - but the difficulty curve is just absolutely bonkers-weird. drat, I had the exact opposite problem and was getting wrecked constantly. To contribute, I hate games that don't warn you when you're exiting a level and shoot you into a cut scene or something. Sometimes I'll want to wait to explore until after I have a sense of the layout and then get railroaded and wind up missing a pick up or something.
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Samuringa posted:No, that plot point was dropped around...8 years ago? Along with most of the real world segments. Black Flag was the first of the main games to drop it I think. For a couple of games you played as random Between Syndicate and Origins they wiped clean a lot of the modern day stuff.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Between Syndicate and Origins they wiped clean a lot of the modern day stuff. Not enough, unfortunately.
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Jan 16, 2019 00:34
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drat you Danganronpa v3 let me take screenshots
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Jan 16, 2019 00:53
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Len posted:drat you [Cranky Old Japanese Developers] let me take screenshots
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Mierenneuker posted:In the previous game the main character was accessing memories by plugging in a 2000 year old grave. She then moved on to getting DNA from a spear in Odyssey. To be fair, it was a magic supercomputer (AI?) in a spear. So for once it could actually make sense to explore the past through it, as it's probably got a clear recollection of everything that happened. (Unlike the DNA.) The broken spear is so bizarre however. It breaks during the battle of Thermopylae I think it was. (Aka in the prologue.) And when it breaks it looks just like it does in the present. Alright, that makes sense. But when you progress the story you both repair it, and massively upgrade it, making the spear look entirely different. Yet somehow it just reverts back to it's original form for the future.
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SubNat posted:To be fair, it was a magic supercomputer (AI?) in a spear. So for once it could actually make sense to explore the past through it, as it's probably got a clear recollection of everything that happened. (Unlike the DNA.) Absolutely unrelated but this reminded me that when you had a flashback to a previous scene in Xenoblade, all characters would be wearing what they had equipped at the time, it was a very neat detail.
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Jan 16, 2019 01:56
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SubNat posted:To be fair, it was a magic supercomputer (AI?) in a spear. So for once it could actually make sense to explore the past through it, as it's probably got a clear recollection of everything that happened. (Unlike the DNA.) Everyone used default equipment in the past. All that upgrading and dying it different colors and deciding on no not the spear, I'll take the axe today? Completely non-canon.
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Personally, I'd guess the spear doesn't retain all its fancy upgrades and eventually turns back into what it was originally. I'm not even done with Odyssey yet (not even close), but this has sapped my investment in Kassandra's character badly. I like her plenty as it is, and I do not like the idea that the story has deemed all of this gay rampaging adventure across the Aegean to in fact be childish and what Kassandra's really wanted all along despite never saying a word about it is becoming a housewife and mother.
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Project Highrise is so easy it detracts from the game. And I don't just mean it's "management game easy". I know most management games are basically glorified puzzle games in that there's a lot of leeway in how they get solved, but this is square-blocks-in-a-triangular-hole levels of easy. For example Tenant happiness is apparently the ONLY thing that determines whether a tenant stays or not. Doesn't matter if they're a restaurant or a retail store, as long as they rent next to an elevator and a lot of people walking or there's lots of art nearby, they'll eat loss after loss to continue being ignored by everyone in your building. There's one lovely restaurant I built near the start that makes like $50 of revenue a day while paying $500 in rent/day but they sit there smiling the elevator is right next door 
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Jan 16, 2019 02:07
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That restaurant is laundering money.
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Len posted:drat you Danganronpa v3 let me take screenshots Shoulda played on PC. edit: ok fine this image is not a BIG spoiler but does have story elements in it, but if you don't care much for the fate of anime teens mouse-over away.  Note for spoiler-concerned people: image is not a spoiler, he's just a bit ill at this point in the game, instead of (as you might expect from similar images in the series) about to die in the next 30 seconds. Game's a good mine for reaction/meme images. bewilderment has a new favorite as of 02:18 on Jan 16, 2019 |
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bewilderment posted:Shoulda played on PC. I mean it probably is because when I got hit with that I literally yelled at the tv. Len has a new favorite as of 02:30 on Jan 16, 2019 |
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Len posted:I mean it probably is because when I got hit with that I literally yelled at the tv. OK I guess I wrapped it up in spoiler tags just in case someone is playing a year-old anime game right now besides you and me. Pictured: reaction image for when you don't care how bad the person you're voting for is, at least they're not the other guy 
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bewilderment posted:OK I guess I wrapped it up in spoiler tags just in case someone is playing a year-old anime game right now besides you and me. I dig the series but it does the same thing Phoenix Wright does where I'll know what needs to be said to move on but not what backwards rear end logic I need to get there. Also trial 3 killed off my next bff. Gimpanthropoligist and I were going to be besties. Little mad about that still.
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Haven't finished downloading DOOM yet on my 5mb/s connection after 2 days. The game is 60 gigs in size when compressed owing to the IdTech Megatexture thing. I do wish more games would let you download in separate installments given that nobody gave a poo poo about DOOM's multiplayer or map-editor. I remember that Titanfall 1 had 35 gigs of uncompressed audio for no reason.
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Pretty sure it is far bigger than just 60GB at this point, reaching almost a hundred. You got some ways to go.
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Jan 16, 2019 16:16
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It’s lucky that DOOM is extremely good. Force Unleashed was like 70GB and that game was middling
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The Force Unleashed actually downloaded 3 versions of the game on PC for the purpose of its DRM system.
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Jan 16, 2019 17:19
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bewilderment posted:Shoulda played on PC. Steam was actually the the thing that dragged this game down for me. As you two know this is a series of murder mysteries with big deep plot twists and overarching mystery between individual cases. When you play games you know how steam hands out dumb little trading cards for their experience system or whatever the gently caress it is? And how they're handed out at random? I was awarded two cards that were titled "The Truth", that had two major non-protagonist characters on it. One of whom was already dead. Sure enough, they turned out to be critical players in the major storyline! Thanks, Steam! Poulpe has a new favorite as of 17:37 on Jan 16, 2019 |
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Schneider Inside Her posted:Force Unleashed was like 70GB and that game was middling I found the first FU in my Steam account last weekend and didn’t remember ever buying it so thought to try it, having loved the old Jedi Knight games way back when I was less old. Middling is being very kind. I played the first two levels and I think I’m done.
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It really baffles me that we've gone nearly 15 years since Jedi Academy and Star Wars is the biggest it's been since the 80s and Disney has Disney money, and still nobody has even tried to make a real Jedi game other than Force Unleashed (or any SP star wars game really) It's 2019 everybody gave up on the whole "single player games are dead" thing like three years ago. The Switch still has motion controls, just let me swing a laser sword once for the love of god
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:It really baffles me that we've gone nearly 15 years since Jedi Academy and Star Wars is the biggest it's been since the 80s and Disney has Disney money, and still nobody has even tried to make a real Jedi game other than Force Unleashed (or any SP star wars game really) I mean, when Beat Saber is basically lightsaber DDR, I don't know why someone isn't doing the same thing but with, like, blaster bolts and stormtroopers rushing at you. Time it to music, or don't, whatever. Or just make it droids so you can slice them in half satisfyingly.
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A rather timely observation since EA, who very much do believe that SP games are dead, just canceled their own open-world Star Wars game.
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Using enchanted stuff in Morrowind makes you equip the item, which sucks when it comes down to wearing constant effect bling. I got a ring that reduces all magic elements, but between using my bound bow ring and my healing ring it keeps getting taken off.exquisite tea posted:A rather timely observation since EA, who very much do believe that SP games are dead, just canceled their own open-world Star Wars game. Again?
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I know, I was surprised they were even working on one until today.
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Cythereal posted:I'm not even done with Odyssey yet (not even close), but this has sapped my investment in Kassandra's character badly. I like her plenty as it is, and I do not like the idea that the story has deemed all of this gay rampaging adventure across the Aegean to in fact be childish and what Kassandra's really wanted all along despite never saying a word about it is becoming a housewife and mother. Allegedly what they were going for was a choice between genuinely wanting to settle down or very pragmatically banging a dude to keep the bloodline going, but they failed to make that second choice distinct and with the achievement name it's just a real rotten look. They've apologized a bunch for it, but regardless it feels like a sloppy intersection of "you can play your character however you want!" with "but we've already decided the plot is gonna work like this no matter what".
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John Murdoch posted:Allegedly what they were going for was a choice between genuinely wanting to settle down or very pragmatically banging a dude to keep the bloodline going, but they failed to make that second choice distinct and with the achievement name it's just a real rotten look. I personally find the "must continue the bloodline!" concept gross in general. They've already decided your character wants kids, and not just with anyone but a similarly racially superior ubermensch because it was your magical racial purity that made you a hero. They could have had the kid be Deimos', or your character accidentally sticks their hand in what turns out to be an Isu cloning facility, or something along those lines. Instead they consciously decided that the protagonist would specifically choose to have a child with another ubermensch and there's not a drat thing you can do about it. I uninstalled Odyssey last night and doubt I'll ever finish it, much less buy the DLC.
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Toughs in Spider-Man. I'll accept that Wilson Fisk is a badass and I need to do special stuff to fight him but why do 90% of the minor street gangs in Manhattan have at least two of these beasts? It's kind of annoying when Spidey can't just beat the crap out of half the guys in a mob because half of them have melee weapons, some of them have shields, and some of them are just freaking gigantic. Even on Friendly difficulty it's a tiny bit much. (Also this isn't as much a flaw as just sort of amusing, but I did like responding to a report of a mugging in Central Park only to find it was like twelve dudes crammed onto a bridge.)
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Maxwell Lord posted:Toughs in Spider-Man. I'll accept that Wilson Fisk is a badass and I need to do special stuff to fight him but why do 90% of the minor street gangs in Manhattan have at least two of these beasts? It's kind of annoying when Spidey can't just beat the crap out of half the guys in a mob because half of them have melee weapons, some of them have shields, and some of them are just freaking gigantic. Even on Friendly difficulty it's a tiny bit much. There are enemies in Spider-Man that just suck, and Toughs are one of them. They no-sell your hits, they have attacks that track your dodges (which is ridiculous to see), and they can combo these three in a row with little you can do about it except jump and swing away from them. Whenever I see one I immediately just shock them and beat the poo poo out of them because otherwise the fight isn't just going to be a little harder, it's going to be a lot less fun. Like, Spider-Man can lift a car. Why can a beefy guy raising his arms block a hit from him with absolutely no repercussions.
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Morpheus posted:There are enemies in Spider-Man that just suck, and Toughs are one of them. They no-sell your hits, they have attacks that track your dodges (which is ridiculous to see), and they can combo these three in a row with little you can do about it except jump and swing away from them. Whenever I see one I immediately just shock them and beat the poo poo out of them because otherwise the fight isn't just going to be a little harder, it's going to be a lot less fun. The comic book explanation is that he's pulling his punches because if the guy who can lift a car punches you in the face full force he will flat out kill you. The videogamey explanation is that if all the enemies are basically the same and them blocking doesnt help them then the fights would be ridiculously easy and short and get boring very quickly. Neither explanation helps if you arent finding them fun to fight though. Honestly I found them less annoying than the shield carrying dudes or the jetpack wankers (who are the only enemies I would flat out remove from the game if possible because they were tedious to fight and unlike the toughs or shield dudes there werent skills which made them much easier).
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SiKboy posted:The comic book explanation is that he's pulling his punches because if the guy who can lift a car punches you in the face full force he will flat out kill you. The videogamey explanation is that if all the enemies are basically the same and them blocking doesnt help them then the fights would be ridiculously easy and short and get boring very quickly. Neither explanation helps if you arent finding them fun to fight though. Honestly I found them less annoying than the shield carrying dudes or the jetpack wankers (who are the only enemies I would flat out remove from the game if possible because they were tedious to fight and unlike the toughs or shield dudes there werent skills which made them much easier). Yeah, I know the reason, but the combination of "Can't Punch Them", "Lots of Health", "Can't Juggle Them", "Is Better At Fighting You Than Anyone Else" make for a lovely experience. Shield guys I have no problem with though - you slide under them, and now their defenses are moot and you can juggle them and stuff. The other enemies I hate would be the jetpack enemies in the DLC, and whip enemies. Just completely take you out of the fight. Especially the whip enemies with their ability to smash you into the ground in an undodgeable attack.
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John Murdoch posted:It's entirely possible to beat Awakened One with a power deck or Time Eater with a shiv deck. It can be a pain in the rear end, sure, but you can outplay them by being smart about it. "There isn't much wiggle room" either means you're making your deck too specialized, not building combos anywhere as near as strong as you think, or you're not making use of all of your resources to the fullest - not only do you know the game is going to end against 1 out of 3 bosses every time, but you know which boss it is when Act 3 starts. If you make it to Time Eater with a deck that's just a bunch of shiv-generation cards and nothing else, then yeah, you messed up. I now this is from a while back i gotta say this was some solid advice. I quit trying to build gimmicky decks and started picking cards to bolster aspects of my deck that needed attention. Since then i've gone up a couple ascensions with each character. That motherfucker Heart is still a thing dragging this game down i guess though, but fortunately beating it isn't necessary.
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World of Final Fantasy gripe - I wish the more "common" field abilities were innate things to the appropriate types of Mirages (think like pokemon, but from the various FF games). I recently found myself unable to traverse over a small gap because the multiple flying mirages in my team didn't have the Flutter ability that'd let me do that. And that includes one that is an evolved bigger form of one that does have that ability, so I had to go to the nearest save-point and switch it back to its smaller form.
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Samuringa posted:Pretty sure it is far bigger than just 60GB at this point, reaching almost a hundred. You got some ways to go. It's around 78 now. They actually did an optimization patch that cleaned up the space added by the DLC when they made it free.
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Zanzibar Ham posted:World of Final Fantasy gripe - I wish the more "common" field abilities were innate things to the appropriate types of Mirages (think like pokemon, but from the various FF games). I recently found myself unable to traverse over a small gap because the multiple flying mirages in my team didn't have the Flutter ability that'd let me do that. And that includes one that is an evolved bigger form of one that does have that ability, so I had to go to the nearest save-point and switch it back to its smaller form.
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oh dope posted:I now this is from a while back i gotta say this was some solid advice. I quit trying to build gimmicky decks and started picking cards to bolster aspects of my deck that needed attention. Since then i've gone up a couple ascensions with each character.  I need to get back to climbing ascensions one of these years. Haven't even played since they added all the fancy VFX and act 4 and such.
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I get annoyed by games that try to be Pokemon but then include palette swapped monsters.
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LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:I get annoyed by games that try to be Pokemon but then include palette swapped monsters. Considering the enormous fuss players make over shinies, I'm not sure that Pokemon has much of a leg to stand on here.
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Gerblyn posted:Considering the enormous fuss players make over shinies, I'm not sure that Pokemon has much of a leg to stand on here. Pokemon doesn't pretend shinies are different pokemon. They're just rare special looks. WoFF is more "This is Goblin, and this is Goblin+"
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