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Control took me about 60 hours I estimated. I did all the side stuff and wandered around for challenges etc. DS is over 140 hours for me so far. I can't even imagine beating Control in 15 hours. How'd you do it? Did you use a flute Mario style?
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BisterdDave posted:I beat Control in the amount of time it took you to beat one chapter. I hear delivering packages is a blast though. Last night when I sat down to play I decided to leave the main story alone for a few hours and just do side deliveries, and I got an immediate burst of energy
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Nov 23, 2019 01:45
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Heavy Metal posted:Control took me about 60 hours I estimated. I did all the side stuff and wandered around for challenges etc. DS is over 140 hours for me so far. I finished the main storyline in under 15 hours. I have yet to tackle all the the extra stuff, which I'm thoroughly looking forward to.
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Nov 23, 2019 01:46
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BisterdDave posted:I finished the main storyline in under 15 hours. I have yet to tackle all the the extra stuff, which I'm thoroughly looking forward to. Gotcha, oh yeah lot of memorable boss fights and whatnot in the side stuff. I generally am compelled to do a lot of side stuff. Plus since that helps you upgrade things, which is addicting.
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Nov 23, 2019 01:47
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I did all the side stuff except for missing a couple of secrets and it took me like 20 hours.
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Nov 23, 2019 01:50
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Did you read and listen to all the logs? I wanna see your homework here.
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Nov 23, 2019 01:58
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I'm honestly going to call partial BS on the online component of DS. Not that I think other players structures weren't really placed by them or something, but I think there's a lot of randomness and behind the scenes fuckery going on. For example, I built a watchtower near heartmans lab , left for about 30 minutes and when I came back it had over 3500 likes. 3500 likes in in 30 minutes... I've had strutures that are 10 times more useful sitting there for the entire duration of the game that don't have a single like. Also, almost none of my roads have been completed by other players, except the stretch from port knot to the engineer, elder, and craftsman. which magically appeared (and it's a big stretch of road) right after I completed the questline, which seems to be the case for a lot of people (everyone?) Now I'm noticing that all of my unbuilt roads are about 80% complete like people nearly completed almost all of them and just gave up, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Seems to me like the game is causing calculated bottlenecks and prioritizing certain structures to appear in other peoples games, and probably just giving random likes as well. I don't even know if there is a server that people are bound together with? I'm not sure if it's and ongoing thing with the same people, or if its just stuff being randomly placed into other peoples games tbh.
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Nov 23, 2019 02:00
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Heavy Metal posted:Did you read and listen to all the logs? I wanna see your homework here. As with every other game that has logs, I'm super invested and reading them all for like the first hour, then I just collect them and move on.
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Nov 23, 2019 02:00
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BisterdDave posted:As with every other game that has logs, I'm super invested and reading them all for like the first hour, then I just collect them and move on. lol  Control was a little more manageable, but I only want to read everything in Death Stranding theoretically. I feel like reading everything in that game would add another 10 hours to it. I think the last time I actually bothered to read everything in a game was SOMA.
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Nov 23, 2019 02:04
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veni veni veni posted:I'm honestly going to call partial BS on the online component of DS. Not that I think other players structures weren't really placed by them or something, but I think there's a lot of randomness and behind the scenes fuckery going on. For example, I built a watchtower near heartmans lab , left for about 30 minutes and when I came back it had over 3500 likes. 3500 likes in in 30 minutes... I've had strutures that are 10 times more useful sitting there for the entire duration of the game that don't have a single like. Also, almost none of my roads have been completed by other players, except the stretch from port knot to the engineer, elder, and craftsman. which magically appeared (and it's a big stretch of road) right after I completed the questline, which seems to be the case for a lot of people (everyone?) Now I'm noticing that all of my unbuilt roads are about 80% complete like people nearly completed almost all of them and just gave up, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Seems to me like the game is causing calculated bottlenecks and prioritizing certain structures to appear in other peoples games, and probably just giving random likes as well. Likes can be spammed exponentially as you lebel up, so that might have been just five or six people hitting the button a bunch of times. If I sit and Like a structure it’s usually +5-600 by the time I’m done.
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Nov 23, 2019 02:05
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I imagine it’s something like a few dozen people per server. In my playthrough there were one or two names that definitely popped up a lot.
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Nov 23, 2019 02:15
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yeah I've definitely seen a couple of mainstays, but I couldn't tell if it was just cause I was storing and reusing the same bikes so much. One of them is a goon on my friends list and I'm not sure if that was just random chance or if the game tries to pair you with a PSN friend or 2.
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Nov 23, 2019 02:25
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BisterdDave posted:As with every other game that has logs, I'm super invested and reading them all for like the first hour, then I just collect them and move on. Same. I read ones that interest me but the poo poo about ordering coffee, whatever. I skimmed all of them I think.
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Nov 23, 2019 02:28
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When you're repatriating you can go up to and touch the bodies of players on your server, and I think this makes you see their structures even more. Their bodies light up when you do it.
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Nov 23, 2019 02:37
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Man I wish there was a way to see my past unlocks in Death Stranding because I can't remember them and I don't know who to prioritize.
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Nov 23, 2019 02:38
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veni veni veni posted:lol I read absolutely everything in CONTROL and it was great!
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Nov 23, 2019 02:49
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I think I read 70% of the stuff I ran into in Control, but sometimes I'd be picking up so much at once I'd start skimming. Certainly a higher ratio than the average game. Most of it was pretty good I totally forgot. I read and listened to absolutely loving everything I could find in Horizon Zero Dawn and savored it. That game had some of the most interesting lore pickup stuff of any game I've played. I might have skipped some of it in the early hours before the interesting poo poo really kicks in but by half way through the game I was like "yesss. An audio log!" Which is insanely out of character for me.
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Nov 23, 2019 02:55
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:I read absolutely everything in CONTROL and it was great! I was lead to believe there's some obvious Alan Wake references in the game, but I haven't seen anything yet. I assume it's somewhere in the logs?
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Nov 23, 2019 02:55
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BisterdDave posted:I was lead to believe there's some obvious Alan Wake references in the game, but I haven't seen anything yet. I assume it's somewhere in the logs? There's a paper that outright says Thomas Zane but I think it's towards the end of the game.
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Nov 23, 2019 02:57
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BisterdDave posted:I was lead to believe there's some obvious Alan Wake references in the game, but I haven't seen anything yet. I assume it's somewhere in the logs? Most of them are in the logs later on in the game but there’s a monstrously obvious one that you do have to search a bit for (can drop hints as needed).
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Nov 23, 2019 03:01
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BisterdDave posted:I was lead to believe there's some obvious Alan Wake references in the game, but I haven't seen anything yet. I assume it's somewhere in the logs? There's one in a secret area near this big rotating railbridge that outright says Alan Wake was an AWE.
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Nov 23, 2019 03:05
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Is Days Gone any good for $20 ?
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Nov 23, 2019 03:15
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Nov 23, 2019 03:19
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damnit I set up ziplines between Timefall Farm and the Distribution Center so I could zipline out of the farm with pizza and champagne to a waiting truck at the Distro Center and drive the rest of the way, only to find out you can't carry things in your left hand on the zipline.
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Nov 23, 2019 03:20
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God drat it Genichiro you rear end in a top hat. Although I never used the Raven feather and holy poo poo nothing personnel kid. It owns E: also Sekiro is missed one thing, a button that lets you anime shuffle your back foot in those standoff moments to boost your attack or posture. JBP fucked around with this message at 03:40 on Nov 23, 2019 |
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Nov 23, 2019 03:23
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kirbysuperstar posted:There's a paper that outright says Thomas Zane but I think it's towards the end of the game.
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Nov 23, 2019 03:47
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One NPC says they're hyped for the Sudden Stop movie. Are there dates for the DLCs yet?
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Nov 23, 2019 03:50
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haveblue posted:One NPC says they're hyped for the Sudden Stop movie.
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fit em all up in there posted:Is Days Gone any good for $20 ? I got it for 30 a month ago and thought it was a very fun, if by-the-numbers open world zombie game. It has some interesting survival mechanics, it was neat to upgrade the bike at times and get access to areas I couldn't reach before, and the Hordes are really cool set pieces (and there's a bunch of them) but the story is really janky at the start and clearly suffers from a lot of cut content.
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Nov 23, 2019 04:11
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gently caress I am so frustrated with Control, I just want to finish it but the siphon bullshit at the end is so hard compared to things up to that point and anytime you die you're set *so far back*. As much as I really enjoyed parts of this game I don't think I could ever recommend it, I can't tell if the dynamic difficulty is what's causing so much disparity in the different parts of the game but I found Bloodborne and the Souls games waaaaay less infuriating. Less Fat Luke fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Nov 23, 2019 |
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Nov 23, 2019 04:19
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fit em all up in there posted:Is Days Gone any good for $20 ? Yes. It is a good open world overall.
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Nov 23, 2019 04:21
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I’m in this photo and I don’t like it.
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Heavy Metal posted:Control took me about 60 hours I estimated. I did all the side stuff and wandered around for challenges etc. DS is over 140 hours for me so far. I didnt give a poo poo about those timed random kill missions and everything died quickly to thrown objects
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Nov 23, 2019 04:37
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Neglecting the gun in Control is also a big deal. If you can shoot accurately and throw at the same time you just annihilate everything. Spin is garbage but the standard and shatter with the right mods are death dealers.
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Nov 23, 2019 04:40
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fit em all up in there posted:Is Days Gone any good for $20 ? Im gonna find out next week
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Nov 23, 2019 04:41
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The Spider-Man DLC is finally at the "What the Heck, why not?" price for me, DMCV for $20 means i'll be able to spend all of December mastering the greatest combat system ever devised, and hell I might scoop $ Days Gone back up, I enjoyed my time with it and I'm only about 2/3 done.
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Nov 23, 2019 04:49
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Oh hell DMCV is also on sale? Might as well for that too
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Nov 23, 2019 04:52
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DMCV owns so much. Enjoy
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Nov 23, 2019 04:54
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JBP posted:Neglecting the gun in Control is also a big deal. If you can shoot accurately and throw at the same time you just annihilate everything. Spin is garbage but the standard and shatter with the right mods are death dealers. I'm pretty sure I could've made it through the game with throw and the first gun as my only weapons. Pierce was nice for those flying shield guys, but everything else can be taken out easily with throw and a couple extra bullets.
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BisterdDave posted:I'm pretty sure I could've made it through the game with throw and the first gun as my only weapons. Pierce was nice for those flying shield guys, but everything else can be taken out easily with throw and a couple extra bullets. Yeah a lot of reviews say pierce is necessary but eh, the standard kills things with headshots in no time. I'm talking more when you're near the end and there are a few encounters with lots of dudes and clipping the weaklings then throwing at the big boys is a way to avoid the games annoying reloads.
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