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Inspector Gesicht posted:Tomb Raider is okay. Rise of the Tomb Raider is deathly dull. 300% more pointless collectibles, 200% more irrelevant game-mechanics, 100% more cliches in the script, and Lara herself is 0% interesting. So much Byzantium, tho
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FeastForCows posted:Been playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and I like it a lot, but one thing that pisses me off to no end is some of the side quest design. I hate it when I go back to an NPC to finish up a quest and then he says "Oh thank you so much for bringing me that, but now I need this before I can do anything with it" and this can repeat a couple of times. Don't send me on a loving scavenger hunt for so many of these. The best is when you are halfway through a quest and they require a combination of skills that won’t be viable for at least 20 hours.
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Away all Goats posted:Play Subnautica if you haven't already. Did they make eating and drinking less annoying?
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Gann Jerrod posted:The best is when you are halfway through a quest and they require a combination of skills that won’t be viable for at least 20 hours. Don't even get me started on manually changing Blades for the field skills...
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Horizon Zero Dawn: "I CAN'T GET DOWN! I'M SURROUNDED!"
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Enter the Gungeon: Might have said this already, but getting to the Resourceful Rat's lair is absolutely miserable. First you have to be lucky enough for the game to give you enough cash to spend on the key to his domain, then you have to waste a key to open the hatch leading to the locked trap door leading to his domain. Fighting the resourceful rat is also miserable, because his first form is death-inducingly boring, the second form is brain aneurysm-inducingly annoying, and the third form is just punch out and if you don't get all the keys you can you won't unlock all of the rat's items so that you never have to loving fight him again
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ilmucche posted:Did they make eating and drinking less annoying? I believe they added an option to turn off hunger and thirst
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The way DC Universe Online turns into All Instances All the Time after you hit level 30 is just weird. For the early part of the game you're getting sent on missions that send you across Metropolis and Gotham, and the pattern is you do a few missions on the overworld before entering a "dungeon" and getting to the main villain, then you get sent somewhere else. It's a little predictable but a good rhythm. Then at around 30 you're sent on a bigger endgamey kinda mission, lots of high stakes on the narrative. You win, you get a big congrats from the big players of the DC Universe and are accepted as a big time hero/villain, with membership in either the Justice League or Legion of Doom. And then they start sending you on instances. The problem with this is most of them are dungeons you've already played through, just with the enemies tuned more to your level (or "combat rank" because your level is maxed out but this other number keeps going up), and with better loot and all. The narrative chain just kinda stops completely, you're repeating earlier missions or encountering ones you didn't play on your path, stripped of most of their context. There is more content, but it kinda feels like you've reached the endgame in a fraction of the time it takes in other MMOs. I honestly thought it had something to do with the game being free to play but that has nothing to do with it, it's just the way they decided to build this.
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FeastForCows posted:Been playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and I like it a lot, but one thing that pisses me off to no end is some of the side quest design. I hate it when I go back to an NPC to finish up a quest and then he says "Oh thank you so much for bringing me that, but now I need this before I can do anything with it" and this can repeat a couple of times. Don't send me on a loving scavenger hunt for so many of these. One of the sidequests to max out one of my blades straight up crashed and was, as far as I could tell, completely unrecoverable  My problem with that game is that once you had the combat system dialed in every fight ended up feeling more or less identical, just rack up a bunch of orbs and then pop 'em. Also the character design (and plot, even) made it feel like a porn game with the sex scenes edited out.
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Trying to play Risk of Rain switch on the tv. One of my joycons will stop responding, go though the flashing lights, and come back as player 2. Which in a game where moving is important having your move directions change or even disappear entirely is pretty goddamn problematic.
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Towards the end of Strange Brigade now and I'm loving it still, but one little thing about that otherwise fantastic game that's annoying is this - the charging minutaur enemies aren't affected by the spinning blade traps. They just kind of rub past them while charging at you, so you can't be cute and lure them into them. It feels that could have been a fun way to do a lot of damage to my least favourite enemy.
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The twirling blade towers in the original God of War are the most breathtakingly awful design decision in a game I've seen in a long loving time. Is there a single human on the face of earth who liked that section?
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OldTennisCourt posted:The twirling blade towers in the original God of War are the most breathtakingly awful design decision in a game I've seen in a long loving time. Is there a single human on the face of earth who liked that section? allegedly the hind end of the game finished so close to the deadline that it never went through QA, which would explain a lot
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Oxxidation posted:allegedly the hind end of the game finished so close to the deadline that it never went through QA, which would explain a lot That would explain the hard locking that happens during the final fight
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Len posted:That would explain the hard locking that happens during the final fight O I thought it was just me that could not finish the game because of it.
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Mamkute posted:O I thought it was just me that could not finish the game because of it. I remember getting that game for my birthday it had just come out. I put it in my PlayStation and started playing and didn't stop until the goddamn game would not stop locking up. I had to out it down and walk away because I was so mad
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Morpheus posted:However, this does not apply to the hardest difficulty, Inferno, for some reason. Maybe not the second hardest (ironically called 'Hardest') either, but I have yet to try it. It’s because Hardest and Inferno have different enemy arrangements. Easy-Hard are all identical except the enemies do more damage and drop better loot. In Hardest and Inferno they actually add or replace enemies so I guess they decided it wouldn’t be fair to let all the difficulties count as cleared if you just beat it on Inferno. Frankly, I think if you can beat it on Inferno you can beat it on anything else, but I’m not the game designer here
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Exploding Zombies in Dying Light are really not my jam. Physically, they cast a similar if not identical silhouette to other, normal zombies. They don't stand out when you're beating your way through a horde, but if you so much as tap one they'll immediately explode and kill you from full health, which is especially annoying because you lose experience every time you die. In such a melee focused game deliberately designed to be visually confusing, this is a real bummer. Compare to the exploding Boomer from Left 4 Dead, which is very obviously much bigger than normal zombies, and upon exploding covers your screen in bile and summons a bunch of normal zombies to come attack you. That has a nice sense of risk, consequence, and counter-play in an easy to identify package, whereas DL exploders simply punish your failure to pay attention with instant death and loss of experience. That's lame, and it's dragging down a game I otherwise love (mechanically, at least; the story is still awful)
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Had to restart Sekiro 60% of the way through because I put it down for five minutes (to beat DS1 and 2) and I forgot how to play. The first boss is still dreadful. Even after you weed out the surrounding goons and stealth-kill his first health-bar the Chained Ogre is still a complete bitch because you are gated to 10% of the game-world, so no matter what his health-bar and posture is huge, and because he has a grab-attack. A magic grab-attack because he can teleport you into his arms when he does it. I don't know why From Software continues to put grab-attacks in their games for the past 10 years because they are always bullshit. The Chained Ogre can also do a flying kick whereby he changes direction mid-air. In comparison Iudex Gundyr from DS3 was a harsh teacher but at least he was cool and manageable. This Ogre is just an obvious reskin from DS3's Lycanthrope. It even has the same sound-effects. Yes, I beat him again after this post but he's still rotten. Inspector Gesicht has a new favorite as of 20:13 on Apr 22, 2019 |
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Had to restart Sekiro 60% of the way through because I put it down for five minutes (to beat DS1 and 2) and I forgot how to play. The first boss is still dreadful. Even after you weed out the surrounding goons and stealth-kill his first health-bar the Chained Ogre is still a complete bitch because you are gated to 10% of the game-world, so no matter what his health-bar and posture is huge, and because he has a grab-attack. A magic grab-attack because he can teleport you into his arms when he does it. I don't know why From Software continues to put grab-attacks in their games for the past 10 years because they are always bullshit. Chained ogre isn't even a boss. Sekiro is hard yo.
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The horse dude is fair. The Tomboy is medium to hard depending on when you fight him. The Chained Ogre is just a poo poo.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Had to restart Sekiro 60% of the way through because I put it down for five minutes (to beat DS1 and 2) and I forgot how to play. The first boss is still dreadful. Even after you weed out the surrounding goons and stealth-kill his first health-bar the Chained Ogre is still a complete bitch because you are gated to 10% of the game-world, so no matter what his health-bar and posture is huge, and because he has a grab-attack. A magic grab-attack because he can teleport you into his arms when he does it. I don't know why From Software continues to put grab-attacks in their games for the past 10 years because they are always bullshit. The grab is dumb as all heck, until you realise it's not a Grab. The game explicitly says you should use dodges on grabs, the animation is a grab and yet totally stuffs any attempt to use dodge. It's extremely poor game design as it's the first enemy that really uses the system of Lunge/Grab/Sweep rock paper scissors. Anyway, that move is a Sweep with a Grab animation when it hits, jumping anywhere close to the correct time makes you entirely immune to it. (Also terrible is that the game hits you over the head with the message it's weak to fire, yet all it does is stun it for about 2 seconds which is basically worthless.)
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Fellblade posted:Anyway, that move is a Sweep with a Grab animation when it hits, jumping anywhere close to the correct time makes you entirely immune to it. Holy poo poo, does it also leave the ogre open to a mario stomp retaliation?
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Qwertycoatl posted:Holy poo poo, does it also leave the ogre open to a mario stomp retaliation? I didn't know about that at the time so not sure. Also he has another grab that actually is a Grab. The Sweep is the one where he steps back before diving forward and grabbing, the other one is a legit grab so don't try jumping that one.
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I don't like the combat in Horizon Zero Dawn, or maybe I just need to git gud. Sneaking round picking stuff off with headshots or silent kills is great, but if I get into actual combat I normally get wrecked. I end up dodging some robot's charge, and then it's behind me and by the time I've swung the camera round to work out what's going on it's charged at me again. Either that or I try to run away and get stuck on some scenery, or Aloy decides that touching a rock means it's time to stop running and I need to toggle it on again.
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The ogre sucks because the way to fight him is like a Dark Souls boss where you bait out its moves then go in for a few pokes, rather than a Sekiro boss where you go in hard and never give it a chance to catch it's breath. I didn't even realize you could get a stealth death blow on the first one, I guess if you do that you probably have enough ammo to stunlock him with the fire tube for his second health bar.Qwertycoatl posted:Holy poo poo, does it also leave the ogre open to a mario stomp retaliation? I just jump sprint away from all of them, anything else is playing with fire with those weird grab hitboxes.
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What about the flamethrower prosthetic? They talk a lot about it being effective against red eyes and it pretty much makes the encounter a non-event.
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Qwertycoatl posted:I don't like the combat in Horizon Zero Dawn, or maybe I just need to git gud. Haven't played it for a while, but apart from a couple fights it never stood out as being too bad for me (despite being a potato at fighting games). Rolling is your friend, I think, that and trapping the hell out of the area if you know a difficult fight is coming. Also the catapult is a nice quick weapon for hitting stuff.
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Roll and tripwire arrows everywhere. It's not a game about fighting hand to hand, it's a game about arrows and traps.
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Yeah, big robots should generally be fought from ambush where possible. Traps, bombs, tearing off weapons and shooting things vulnerable to fire with fire. I will say though that I found fighting the flying enemies literally never got fun.
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grittyreboot posted:I don't know if this has been covered, but the constant rain in Breath Of The Wild is super irritating. I'm trying to light all the blue torches and I have to wait out the rain all the drat time. It makes climbing difficult too. It comes up often, but what I did was always keep a good supply of wood, and then when it rains find a nearby overhang out of the immediate rain. Build a fire, and then you can sleep till morning and the rain will be gone.
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Qwertycoatl posted:I don't like the combat in Horizon Zero Dawn, or maybe I just need to git gud. Once the machines start getting bigger than doggie sized, some premeditation before you get into battle becomes important. Use the focus to see what the robots are most vulnerable to, shoot canisters and throw bombs to inflict elemental effects, and lay down a bunch of tripwire before engaging the bigger dinos. When in doubt, the Ropecaster is the most OP weapon in the game.
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exquisite tea posted:Once the machines start getting bigger than doggie sized, some premeditation before you get into battle becomes important. Use the focus to see what the robots are most vulnerable to, shoot canisters and throw bombs to inflict elemental effects, and lay down a bunch of tripwire before engaging the bigger dinos. When in doubt, the Ropecaster is the most OP weapon in the game. Oh for sure, if anyone is having trouble with the combat in horizon zero dawn, just go do something else for a while and level up. If you really want to break the entire games combat over your knee, get a Ropecaster and jam as many handling mods into it as you can. A purple ropecaster with 3 purple handling mods will let fire it so fast you can infinitely stunlock anything in the entire game except for the final boss.
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The other thing worth mentioning in HZD is; Purple weapons make a massive difference, so if you dont have those yet you might want to beeline the story a bit until you get to... Uh... Meridian? The city place. IIRC a vendor there sells the good poo poo.
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Arrows do full damage whether or not you charge them so you can actually fight in melee pretty well. Get the skill that makes it slow motion when you're shooting in the air and hop around the battlefield shooting arrows like Max Payne on coke with a machine gun. It's great.
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Samuringa posted:What about the flamethrower prosthetic? They talk a lot about it being effective against red eyes and it pretty much makes the encounter a non-event. mentioned it in my post
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SiKboy posted:Yeah, big robots should generally be fought from ambush where possible. Traps, bombs, tearing off weapons and shooting things vulnerable to fire with fire. I will say though that I found fighting the flying enemies literally never got fun. They get tolerable when you do this Olaf The Stout posted:Oh for sure, if anyone is having trouble with the combat in horizon zero dawn, just go do something else for a while and level up. If you really want to break the entire games combat over your knee, get a Ropecaster and jam as many handling mods into it as you can. A purple ropecaster with 3 purple handling mods will let fire it so fast you can infinitely stunlock anything in the entire game except for the final boss. loving storm birds man.
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The Moon Monster posted:The ogre sucks because the way to fight him is like a Dark Souls boss where you bait out its moves then go in for a few pokes, rather than a Sekiro boss where you go in hard and never give it a chance to catch it's breath. I didn't even realize you could get a stealth death blow on the first one, I guess if you do that you probably have enough ammo to stunlock him with the fire tube for his second health bar. Anything in Sekiro that doesn't have a sword is better to fight souls style.
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Thanks for the HZD advice everyonekazil posted:Anything in Sekiro that doesn't have a sword is better to fight souls style. Blazing Bull is best to fight Blazing Bull style
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