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Len posted:DC2 is rough but it feels like a prototype for Mercs. Most zones feature never ending streams of dinosaurs that you gun down for points to buy bigger guns to get more points. It's rough but a fantastic proof of concept and I'm still disappointed that DC3 managed to take that formula, added jetpacks, and was garbage. Took place on a ship, which is the kiss of death for 90%+ of 3rd person games.
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Len posted:DC2 is rough but it feels like a prototype for Mercs. Most zones feature never ending streams of dinosaurs that you gun down for points to buy bigger guns to get more points. It's rough but a fantastic proof of concept and I'm still disappointed that DC3 managed to take that formula, added jetpacks, and was garbage. I should clarify that I'm 100% onboard for more classic Dino Crises, I just had to take a contrarian stance against the initial statement.
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RBA Starblade posted:I don't believe that anyone ever finished a campaign of that i did; it took several two-hour sessions for me and three friends to finish it dokapon kingdom is horseshit and i love it
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Jan 26, 2019 20:26
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This might be a repeat (or at the very least, I've typed it out a few times and closed on it because it's not very fair): I can't get back into Diablo 3 because the last time I played it, I played Seasonal. I know for a fact that there's a friendly "here's your stuff from last season on your real characters" box waiting for me, and the idea of opening that up and sorting it all out (removing duplicate items, etc) is just wearying to me.
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Jan 26, 2019 20:38
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MisterBibs posted:This might be a repeat (or at the very least, I've typed it out a few times and closed on it because it's not very fair): i feel the same, and i solved that problem by only ever playing seasons
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Jan 26, 2019 21:01
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spit on my clit posted:my shortest way of describing my problems with the story: you can really feel the rewrites happening once you bring one timeline into the one you're in, and it just gets worse from there until the ending, where everything is clear: you can have crunch time on game development (BAD IDEA), but you can't have crunch time on writing A lot of this is the way games are developed. Thanks to stuff like XBLA and Steam achievements and PSN trophies, devs now can get pretty good data on how much of a game is being played and they know more than ever that most games aren't finished. So the endings of games get neglected a lot- when push comes to shove, the latter portions of the game can be more readily sacrificed. And while you'd ideally have the story written out all the way beforehand so it doesn't matter at least in a narrative sense, the way writing and things like level design get bound up in each other makes it difficult; the publisher may suddenly decide that the end levels need to be entirely different, which requires story changes to justify it, etc. It thankfully doesn't happen all the time but if there's going to be a specific portion of the game that has to be rushed, it's usually gonna be the end.
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Jan 26, 2019 21:02
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MisterBibs posted:This might be a repeat (or at the very least, I've typed it out a few times and closed on it because it's not very fair): Don’t ever play non-seasonal in Diablo 3. Let your old gear rot.
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Jan 26, 2019 22:28
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Diablo 3 is just a game for killing time, it's the same at the end as the beginning so just make a new character.
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Jan 26, 2019 22:32
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diablo 3 is not a good game for killing time, imo. the best game of that kind I've seen is Enter the Gungeon, and the only problem I have with it right now is that getting to the Advanced Dragun is really annoying, because good luck resisting the urge to buy items until the ray key if you aren't playing as the bullet.
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Jan 26, 2019 22:38
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I feel like I’d like Shadow of the Tomb Raider a lot better if Lara would just shut the gently caress up and let me solve puzzles instead of constantly narrating the solutions to herself.
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Jan 26, 2019 23:13
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:I feel like I’d like Shadow of the Tomb Raider a lot better if Lara would just shut the gently caress up and let me solve puzzles instead of constantly narrating the solutions to herself.
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Jan 26, 2019 23:25
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Captain Hygiene posted:I've been playing through RE4 this past week and goddamn I love that game, inventory tetris included. Always just the right amount of space to have what you want or strategically drop a few things to get that extra weapon. I loved my little Tetris briefcase in that game
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Jan 26, 2019 23:30
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Overwatch Porn posted:i feel the same, and i solved that problem by only ever playing seasons RyokoTK posted:Don’t ever play non-seasonal in Diablo 3. Let your old gear rot. I came around on Seasons as a way to get some sets, but it absolutely lost me on having to start from scratch every time. I mean, I'd rather have the issue I have than the one I don't.
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:I feel like I’d like Shadow of the Tomb Raider a lot better if Lara would just shut the gently caress up and let me solve puzzles instead of constantly narrating the solutions to herself. It's annoying when you're just checking something on the highlight vision and she keeps repeating herself.
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Jan 26, 2019 23:38
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muscles like this! posted:It's annoying when you're just checking something on the highlight vision and she keeps repeating herself. This is my #1 reason to turn puzzle difficulty to hard. Maybe if modern games didn't make me want to hit Batman vision constantly...
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Jan 26, 2019 23:43
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My Lovely Horse posted:Every semi-big budget third person action adventure game.txt Yeah it’s a big problem in Western games in general lately where they seem to assume that the player is a drooling moron that needs to be told exactly where to go and what to do at all times, but I don’t remember it ever being this bad before. As if the glowing Batman vision, the white paint on everything you can climb on, and the tutorial prompts that never go away weren’t enough. orcane posted:This is my #1 reason to turn puzzle difficulty to hard. I forgot there was a separate puzzle difficulty, though, I’ll have to crank that up and see if it helps.
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Jan 26, 2019 23:50
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:Yeah it’s a big problem in Western games in general lately where they seem to assume that the player is a drooling moron that needs to be told exactly where to go and what to do at all times, but I don’t remember it ever being this bad before. As if the glowing Batman vision, the white paint on everything you can climb on, and the tutorial prompts that never go away weren’t enough. Have you met gamers? Think about the many posts throughout this threads history where a goon comes in to complain about a game mechanic for not being explained when it's very clearly in the manual or a skippable tutorial.
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Jan 26, 2019 23:57
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:I forgot there was a separate puzzle difficulty, though, I’ll have to crank that up and see if it helps. A little thing that drags that game up - it's surprisingly nice to have granular difficulty settings for combat/exploration/puzzles, I was surprised it popped up in the second sequel but I hope it becomes a standard for adventure games.
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Jan 27, 2019 00:31
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Silent Hill had a puzzle difficulty setting a gazillion years ago and it was extremely good.
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Jan 27, 2019 00:33
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System shock had like 6 difficulty categories iirc
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Jan 27, 2019 10:33
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Len posted:Have you met gamers? Think about the many posts throughout this threads history where a goon comes in to complain about a game mechanic for not being explained when it's very clearly in the manual or a skippable tutorial. When was the last time you bought a game that came with an actual manual?
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:Yeah it’s a big problem in Western games in general lately where they seem to assume that the player is a drooling moron that needs to be told exactly where to go and what to do at all times, but I don’t remember it ever being this bad before. As if the glowing Batman vision, the white paint on everything you can climb on, and the tutorial prompts that never go away weren’t enough. 
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Jan 27, 2019 11:45
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SiKboy posted:When was the last time you bought a game that came with an actual manual? Sometimes you get people coming in here and playing old games with manuals  My point is gamers need the unskippable tutorials because otherwise they'll take to Steam or Reddit or official forums and post about how confusing and trash the game is
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I think we're not so much talking about games explaining how the grappling hook works when you pick it up as about games will happily present you with a puzzle room where you see four statues HMM I THINK THESE STATUES CAN BE MOVED that it seems can be pushed I SHOULD CHECK MY NOTEBOOK and four crests on the wall I BET THIS DRAWING HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THESE STATUES that you can find in your noteIT LOOKS LIKE EACH CREST IS CONNECTED TO A STATUEbook WHAT IF I PUSH THE STATUES INTO THE SAME POSITIONS AS THE CRESTS
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My Lovely Horse posted:I think we're not so much talking about games explaining how the grappling hook works when you pick it up as about games will happily present you with a puzzle room where you see four statues HMM I THINK THESE STATUES CAN BE MOVED that it seems can be pushed I SHOULD CHECK MY NOTEBOOK and four crests on the wall I BET THIS DRAWING HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THESE STATUES that you can find in your noteIT LOOKS LIKE EACH CREST IS CONNECTED TO A STATUEbook WHAT IF I PUSH THE STATUES INTO THE SAME POSITIONS AS THE CRESTS Which is a problem but still done because of those vocal people who can't use two braincells to solve puzzles.
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While I understand the complaints about games handholding you all the time, I don't know where I'd be without a minimap and GPS waypoints because I get turned around trying to explore a city at the best of times. And the same with paint covering ledges you can climb on. If climbing along ledges are a thing and the game doesn't funnel you along one direction then I don't know what to do. Basically I'm part of the problem.
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Just stop explaining the crafting system in ten text boxes every time i get a new item plz
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I put Monster Hunter World in after not playing it for a long rear end time. When I'd quit I had armor that as least game a fighting chance against high rank monsters and could win through attrition. Turns out Deviljho hits like a goddamned truck.
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Games just need to be better about listing the controls somewhere. There should always be somewhere that lists what the controls of a game are. Its often a pain in the rear end to look up controls online.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Games just need to be better about listing the controls somewhere. There should always be somewhere that lists what the controls of a game are. Its often a pain in the rear end to look up controls online. Going back to Monster Hunter it has all the controls listed in the top right of the screen. There was very little fumbling to figure out how to insect glaive things again.
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Len posted:I put Monster Hunter World in after not playing it for a long rear end time. Deviljho is kinda weird, since it was added after the launch. Seems like they balanced it to be an endgame enemy for people who were already fighting elder dragons on the reg.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Games just need to be better about listing the controls somewhere. There should always be somewhere that lists what the controls of a game are. Its often a pain in the rear end to look up controls online. Someone in the Games thread posted the steps to doing quickdraw in Red Dead Redemption 2. It read like schizophrenic sorcery and it comes up once in game and never again, and that time you are actively trying to do it with an opponent instead of just practicing, so your attention is split and its easy to miss important information that will never be repeated.
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marshmallow creep posted:Someone in the Games thread posted the steps to doing quickdraw in Red Dead Redemption 2. It read like schizophrenic sorcery and it comes up once in game and never again, and that time you are actively trying to do it with an opponent instead of just practicing, so your attention is split and its easy to miss important information that will never be repeated. The instructions for how to use a scope in that game pop up once in the shop when you buy one, and I totally missed it and didn’t know you could actually aim down it for a while. I thought it just gave bonus accuracy. God I hated that game.
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RareAcumen posted:While I understand the complaints about games handholding you all the time, I don't know where I'd be without a minimap and GPS waypoints because I get turned around trying to explore a city at the best of times. 
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That would help a little bit but I don't really care for any of the Souls games so that doesn't do much for me.
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marshmallow creep posted:Someone in the Games thread posted the steps to doing quickdraw in Red Dead Redemption 2. It read like schizophrenic sorcery and it comes up once in game and never again, and that time you are actively trying to do it with an opponent instead of just practicing, so your attention is split and its easy to miss important information that will never be repeated. It's easy as poo poo and I have no idea how people couldn't figure it out.
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Jan 28, 2019 08:54
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Tbh I never did figure out what the little yellow light next to your bullets meant.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Tbh I never did figure out what the little yellow light next to your bullets meant. It's whether your weapon is extended or not.
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Jan 28, 2019 09:44
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Bloodsouls games are the worst example for this because they are purposely obscure over how anything works
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Qwertycoatl posted:It's whether your weapon is extended or not. Oh my god. Why? I can see if it's extended, cos its longer.
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