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First Assassin's Creed game for me since literally the first one, which I did not like. Sounds like this is a completely different type of game though. Your comments above are helpful,and I appreciate them. I tend to play games like this by completing every sidequest, rare creature, cave, etc... A friend who has a similar playstyle and just finished ACO said that he ran into the opposite problem, where he was actually above level most of the time, making things too easy. I'll give it a go and see how it shakes out. Thanks for the info.
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Doom Rooster posted:First Assassin's Creed game for me since literally the first one, which I did not like. Sounds like this is a completely different type of game though. Glad to have helped. I hope you'll find more enjoyment in it than I did, have fun.
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Doom Rooster posted:First Assassin's Creed game for me since literally the first one, which I did not like. Sounds like this is a completely different type of game though. There is some level scaling in the game, with content trailing behind you from 0 to 4-ish levels (your choice). Add 5 levels of difficulty and you can tailor your experience quite a lot. I play with Hard level scaling (so everything is my level or higher) but Easy difficulty, so no HP sponges, for example. Don’t be a crazy person and travel to every ? sign.
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Origins added that as an optional setting, btw. Odyssey forces it, but Origins also has level scaling, you just need to switch it on manually. Might be worth telling your friend about that.
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Cardiovorax posted:Origins added that as an optional setting, btw. Odyssey forces it, but Origins also has level scaling, you just need to switch it on manually. Might be worth telling your friend about that. They actually just patched Odyssey so you can fiddle with that as well. You can make the entire world scale with you so you never have a trivial area, but it doesn't scale down the higher level areas. There are a few scaling options now I believe.
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Kruller posted:They actually just patched Odyssey so you can fiddle with that as well. You can make the entire world scale with you so you never have a trivial area, but it doesn't scale down the higher level areas. There are a few scaling options now I believe. I wish it supported mods better, honestly. Skyrim really needed mods to make it good, and Odyssey only needs them more.
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I just finished 999: Nine Persons, Nine Hours, Nine Doors. How related is its story to the other two sequels? And the two sequels between themselves, are they related in any way? I would just google this but I'll find a whole lot of spoilers I guess. EDIT: VVVVV Ok, thanks guys! Guess I'll leave reading about 999 after I finish the other two, then. Mystic Stylez fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Jan 15, 2019 |
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Mystic Stylez posted:I would just google this but I'll find a whole lot of spoilers I guess.
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Mystic Stylez posted:I just finished 999: Nine Persons, Nine Hours, Nine Doors. How related is its story to the other two sequels? And the two sequels between themselves, are they related in any way?
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Doom Rooster posted:I finally picked up Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. What should I know going in? I on the other hand love this game. Playing as Kassandra is recommended (but not essential). Enemies more than a level above you are too hard. The HUD can be customised but I'd recommend not getting rid of the obtrusive button guide until you have a feel for your adrenaline point decrease. All builds are viable and you can easily respec. Dismantle rather than sell unwanted blue and purple armour, you'll need lots of resources for your ship. Beeline the main quest to start with until you get to the spear forge.
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It's probably better to hunt traders and such with your ship, because upgrading it takes hundreds of resources at a time and piracy is basically the only way to get that stuff in a reasonable timeframe. Disassembling blues and purples is recommended in general, though. You want plenty of rare resources for inscriptions.
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Also make sure to play the games in the right order because ZTD spoils the hell out of VLR.
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Currently eyeballing Far Cry 5. My main question is this: what percentage of gametime can be spent with my doggy companion by my side?
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Currently eyeballing Far Cry 5. My main question is this: what percentage of gametime can be spent with my doggy companion by my side?
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Currently eyeballing Far Cry 5. My main question is this: what percentage of gametime can be spent with my doggy companion by my side?
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Currently eyeballing Far Cry 5. My main question is this: what percentage of gametime can be spent with my doggy companion by my side? His name is Boomer. Just keep talking to folks in the initial farmland area with pretty boy Yes man. A bear is in the north with mind control militia man and a cougar is down southeast in the lsd river land. As soon as you are unleashed on the world you can go WHEREEVER.
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I just finished Ys 8: Lacrimosa of Dana and didn't see anything on the wiki about it, so a couple of things:
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KirbyKhan posted:His name is Boomer. Just keep talking to folks in the initial farmland area with pretty boy Yes man. A bear is in the north with mind control militia man and a cougar is down southeast in the lsd river land. As soon as you are unleashed on the world you can go WHEREEVER. Can you do bear and cougar all the time? I know the game isn't great buuuuuut....
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Taerkar posted:Can you do bear and cougar all the time? I know the game isn't great buuuuuut.... And Far Cry 5 really could've been a good game, if the main designer hadn't gone bonkers in the middle of development and started believing in his own cult. I'm really not usually one to let video game plots hold me back, but that one...
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I remain frustrated about it because I'm a total sucker for trudging through pretty wilderness doing open world Stuff and from what I've heard 5 might very well be the best at it but I also generally care about story in games, so welp.
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Cardiovorax posted:You can get a perk that lets you use any two NPC tagalongs at once, so yes. It's a pretty good game except for the gawdawful writing.
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A summary for those of us too lazy to do research?
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PMush Perfect posted:A summary for those of us too lazy to do research? You're a rookie sheriff's deputy out in Buttfuck, Montana. You and the sheriff are accompanying a federal marshal to arrest Joseph Seed, the leader of a creepy cult called Project at Eden's Gate, which has the town divided; half the townsfolk are "Peggies", the other half despise them. Anyway, at the start you enter the compound and confront Seed, whom I mentally refer to as gently caress Face. gently caress Face has totally drank his own Kool-Aid; he's batshit crazy, ranting about the end of the world. You cuff him, but things soon go south and the Peggies capture your team, with you barely escaping. You can watch the intro here, it's pretty cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMSbd5OIiNA Anyway, you spend the game tramping around Montana, killing Peggies and begin eaten by cougars (no not what you're thinking). You help townsfolk resist, get captured by and defeat three of Fuckface's lieutenants. The basic gameplay is pretty good, the gunplay is solid, driving around is fun, you can stealth it or kick down doors. Then at the very end, you bust into gently caress Face's compound and capture him, and... A NUCLEAR WAR BREAKS OUT. gently caress Face really was right about the end of the world, and you just stopped the one guy who was preparing for it. Then he captures you, and has you trapped in a survivalist bunker, and the game fades to black with you presumably spending the next ten years being read Bible verse. Gynovore fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Jan 19, 2019 |
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Standard Far Cry "You Were The Bad Guy All Along" tripe. Go to Montana, fight apocalyptic cult inspired by real-world Montanan white supremacist groups, which mind-controls people with drugs and feeds parents to their own children. Big twist: They Were Right All Along and the game never lets you forget it, by way of making you sit through unskippable cutscenes of the villain-du-jour ranting at you five times apiece for each of the three regions. It rips you right out of whatever you were doing - for 30 minutes at a time - so that you can listen to the crazy and be told you're a bad person for not approving of the whole "torture, drugging and wanton murder" business. Game ends with you tied to a bed in a basement while the villain tells you he owns you now. It sucked. It would've been tolerable if the game had not been so insistent that you are supposed to pay attention to and love its garbage writing, but since you literally aren't allowed to ignore it, it's just unplayable altogether.
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That’s the bad ending and you can also go for the worse ending. Reunited with your sheriff unit you can go and confront the cult leader... and then decide to walk away from it all. As you drive away the sheriff shows his support for your decision as the other deputies argue WTF just happened. The radio starts playing “Only You” by The Platters. That is the song one of the cult members used to brainwash you, that is your trigger to kill people. You start looking at the other people in the car as they ask you if you are feeling alright. Fade to black. Note that the nukes still were going to drop anyway and that the sheriff unit probably all died in that other ending as well. Thus the crux of Far Cry 5’s endings: is it really a worse ending or are they equally bad? Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 11:31 on Jan 19, 2019 |
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Taerkar posted:Can you do bear and cougar all the time? I know the game isn't great buuuuuut.... Cheeseburger and Peaches was my go to pair. Boomer barks a shitload and it gets annoying. Peaches is a stealth murder machine, and no one is going to notice you when a loving bear is eating their face.
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None of the Far Cry games are sequels to each other, I don’t know why Far Cry 5 was a springboard for Borderlands: RAGE - Fallout Montana.
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Kruller posted:Cheeseburger and Peaches was my go to pair. Boomer barks a shitload and it gets annoying. Peaches is a stealth murder machine, and no one is going to notice you when a loving bear is eating their face. Not only that, but you will often be confronted with a hostage situation. The Peggie Fucks will kill the hostages if they see you or your human companions, but if you send in animal companions first they'll just think it's a random animal attack and not kill them.
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Mystic Stylez posted:I just finished 999: Nine Persons, Nine Hours, Nine Doors. How related is its story to the other two sequels? And the two sequels between themselves, are they related in any way? The sequels play off of each other a lot more than they necessarily do 999, VLR and ZTD feel more of a piece with one another. ALSO ALSO ALSO if you are playing VLR (which you should it is amazing and great), you should play the PC version if it's something you can do. If you play the 3DS version, there is a nasty save bug that will nuke your file if you save in a few very specific wrong places. Without spoiling anything major, you don't want to save in the puzzle portions of the Crew Quarters or the PEC. These all got fixed along with some slight QoL changes for the Nonary Games version. ZTD, on the other hand, can be kind of a buggy mess on the PC, which is the only version I've played. I'd get that one somewhere else if you can, but if you do get it on Steam, for the love of god do not launch the configure tool, it's a downward spiral of different kinds of not working as soon as you do.
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Not sure if it's fitting the theme the wiki, but Resident Evil 4 does not have subtitles for spoken english dialogue so people who need/want them on will have trouble.Mierenneuker posted:That’s the bad ending and you can also go for the worse ending. Reunited with your sheriff unit you can go and confront the cult leader... and then decide to walk away from it all. As you drive away the sheriff shows his support for your decision as the other deputies argue WTF just happened. The radio starts playing “Only You” by The Platters. That is the song one of the cult members used to brainwash you, that is your trigger to kill people. You start looking at the other people in the car as they ask you if you are feeling alright. Fade to black. They half assed the theming and screwed it all up. If they had just gone for the "ideal America vs bad america" angle that was the clear intention then it would have been pretty good. But they had no balls and decided on a weird centrism that says that we should just leave the murderous cult alone. So dumb.
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I'm adding a page for the Fallout 1/2 inspired RPG Underrail. Tips from a different thread included below. Chime in if you think any of this is wrong/misleading, as I have not played this game. nerdz posted:For some insane reason I decided to get back to Underrail, since a very large endgame expansion pack is coming soon and I erased my previous saves. The game can be extremely frustrating the first time around, but now that I know all of the game's pitfalls and how to avoid them and coming up with a better build based on my experience, it has been a much more rewarding experience. Just in case anyone decides to brave into this game I have a few tips that will probably make your first run a lot less frustrating. This is a long one, but par for the course with old school rpgs. I think the game deserves a chance.
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Anything for Far Cry Primal, especially with regards to progression? Do I need to beeline the plot to get the fun abilities?
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quote:Anything for Far Cry Primal, especially with regards to progression? Do I need to beeline the plot to get the fun abilities? The other Primal-specific thing worth knowing is that it has probably the best audio direction of any game in the Far Cry series. You can tell an incredible amount about what's going on around you just by listening to audio cues. Animal noises, rustling in the underwood, sudden silences, it's basically as good as a minimap for telling you where creatures or people are in relation to you. Learn what the cues mean and pay attention and you're basically never going to get surprised or blind-sided by anything.
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Not a huge entry on the wiki, anything I need to know about Nioh? In the first fishing village right now and seems pretty decent.
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I know the World of Final Fantasy entry is already pretty long, but here's a couple things I think are very important to keep in mind when playing - 1. In the View Abilities screen green abilities only work for the mirage they belong to, while those in grey will work for all that mirage's transfiguration line. For instance, Stroll is in green, so will only be available to a Chocochick in its Chocochick form, but say an HP+ in grey will also boost its HP when it's in Chocobo form (though not in Black Chocochick form since that's on a different line). When checking a Mirage Board you can tell what abilities are green because on the board they have a white circle around them. 2. It's good to switch a mirage between transfiguration lines (ie the Mu line and the Reaver Mu line) and work on their mirage boards as well because even though different lines don't boost each other directly, they both add to that mirage's Sync Rate, which at set points boosts the mirage's stats. There's no reason not to, since different lines also each have their own SP pool to spend on abilities. Zanzibar Ham fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Jan 20, 2019 |
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Billy_Delicious posted:Not a huge entry on the wiki, anything I need to know about Nioh? In the first fishing village right now and seems pretty decent. The wiki covers it pretty well. If you're coming from Souls games, loot is far more important than it is in Souls so be looking for upgraded gear. If you get to a boss you can't beat because you're getting hammered too hard, you may need to back out of the mission and go farm levels or gear (you get the item that lets you leave missions in a side area of that first fishing village mission). You might also just need to swap your gear around to defend against what the boss is doing. It's often fairly obvious which it is. There are no instant-kill chest mimics like in the Soul series, though there is a mechanic you'll run into that sort of takes their place. You'll probably understand it once you run into your first one, just don't be afraid to approach chests. Beyond that, enjoy it. Nioh is a pretty fun game.
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Zaodai posted:The wiki covers it pretty well. If you're coming from Souls games, loot is far more important than it is in Souls so be looking for upgraded gear. If you ever get attached to the appearance of any particular thing, there is the option to copy it to a different item, even of a completely different class. You can run around in cloth shirts that look like plate armor, if that suits your fancy.
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Is there anything useful I should know before I jump into Deserts of Kharak?
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It's a pretty bog-standard topdown RTS with nothing much in the way of unique mechanics. There isn't really anything special to know short of giving outright spoilers and hints for the campaign. If you've played any RTS at all since the original Warcraft, you can probably figure it all out in five minutes.
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