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My Lovely Horse posted:Really curious where you are in the story right now cause hoo boy either you or we got another thing coming Ive only just entered the main map, after beating an oil monster and being partially responsible for a future generation of stupid people, given how banged up those frozen eggs and sperm where when I delivered them.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:The plot is like Mario, the game explains this very clearly. *Sam grabs Higgs and begins spinning him around* So long-eh, Monaghan!
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Oct 31, 2020 16:14
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:The plot is like Mario, the game explains this very clearly. 
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Oct 31, 2020 16:53
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Hadn't played Evil Within 1 in a few years and busted it out for Halloween. I forgot how many cheap one shot instant deaths there were in that game. EW2 is way better if I remember right.
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Oct 31, 2020 16:55
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Evil Within 1 felt like the videogame equivalent of being trapped in a tumble dryer for how much whiplash it gave me, but damned if it wasn't memorable. Evil Within 2 is a more consistent experience at least.
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Oct 31, 2020 18:04
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Yeah the amount of instant death stuff in The Evil Within is what keeps me from replaying it more often, it's legit one of my favorite horror games I've ever played. The game just oozes atmosphere out of every gribbly orifice and the Japanese take on the grindhouse film genre hasn't been attempted with such style since the likes of No More Heroes or more recently Resident Evil 7. With that said, there's a lot of crap in that game what kills you in one hit or screws you over irrevocably especially as you get later on into it. Making physical contact with an enemy almost always results in an instant death grab. I wish it had more open but contained environments like the village near the start or the Victoriano mansion.
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Oct 31, 2020 18:09
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Evil Within 2 is better than Evil Within 1 in pretty much every way yet is somehow still a worse game
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Oct 31, 2020 18:14
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More like oldtasteless.
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Oct 31, 2020 18:32
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EW2 lacks je ne sais quoi. I think the art direction is simply not as strong as it was in 1? I think they had some art guys from REmake 1 doing EW1.
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I recently found out there's a very vocal group of people who play Bloodborne and think the boring rear end saw cleaver is the best weapon. And they're objectively wrong in every category
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Oct 31, 2020 18:59
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FF14: After so many years and expansions they still haven't figured out a way to make doing relic weapons not a complete pain in the rear end. You need to have the item in your inventory, NOT equipped. And you can't change to another class to get the weapon in your inventory, cause you'll have to be the class the weapon is for as well. You need to equip a weapon to be a class. So anytime you upgrade your weapon you gotta gently caress off to the nearest NPC shop and buy another weapon to equip and then turn in the quest. Then you gotta decide if you're gonna hold onto this placeholder weapon and take up space or chuck, just to have to buy it later. They can't like, when you go to turn the stuff in and it goes into a cutscene it places a placeholder weapon in your inventory, equips it, changes out your relic, equips the relic and removes the placeholder?
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Oct 31, 2020 20:25
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Len posted:I recently found out there's a very vocal group of people who play Bloodborne and think the boring rear end saw cleaver is the best weapon. And they're objectively wrong in every category Game has a pimp cane that turns into a razor blade whip. Why do other weapons exist?
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rydiafan posted:Game has a pimp cane that turns into a razor blade whip. Why do other weapons exist? Because "the saw cleaver is the best weapon which is why all the speed runners and no hit players use it" Except like you just stated above, it's a cane that turns into a whip. It is objectively better than anything else
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rydiafan posted:Game has a pimp cane that turns into a razor blade whip. Why do other weapons exist? I'm not saying you gotta use the best top tier weapon every run, but the threaded cane never even seemed "solid" to me. Like, bottom 1/3 probably while the other two starters are top 1/3. The whip mode seems particularly crappy. I picked it for my first run of the game and just switching to another weapon made the game suddenly feel significantly easier.
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Len posted:I recently found out there's a very vocal group of people who play Bloodborne and think the boring rear end saw cleaver is the best weapon. And they're objectively wrong in every category Wow there's weirdos for every game huh? The Saw Spear is way better. Big sweeping arcs when extended, big smash attack when you charge that has a good chance of staggering people. It's not fancy, but it's reliable. I was expecting the Hunter Axe to still be the meta.
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The Moon Monster posted:I'm not saying you gotta use the best top tier weapon every run, but the threaded cane never even seemed "solid" to me. Like, bottom 1/3 probably while the other two starters are top 1/3. The whip mode seems particularly crappy. I picked it for my first run of the game and just switching to another weapon made the game suddenly feel significantly easier. EDIT: Proof https://youtu.be/8duZAcN3NfY Start about a third in if you don't want to see my "no really that was my second attempt!" failure at the start Simply Simon has a new favorite as of 00:45 on Nov 1, 2020 |
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Nov 1, 2020 00:41
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RareAcumen posted:Wow there's weirdos for every game huh? A guy I know has been streaming on twitch and apparently people just lurk for fromsoft blind plays. Because his channel is full of people who are there to tell him the OPTIMAL choices at every point. And they're real adamant that the saw cleaver is the best weapon which is why every no hit and speedrun uses it. Meanwhile the actual best weapon is the pimp cane
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Nov 1, 2020 00:42
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The only weapon befitting a true hunter is a giant pizza cutter
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Imagine playing a Soulsborne game with a bladed weapon instead of inflicting blunt force trauma on everyone and everything. The gall of some people.
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Nov 1, 2020 01:28
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I'm not sure Bloodborne has any bad weapons, they all kinda rule in their own way. Probably the best weapons in any game My favorite is the Amy Arm, aka giant smashy chicken wing, complete with whip scythe tendon that wiggles a lot
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Nov 1, 2020 01:39
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John Murdoch posted:Imagine playing a Soulsborne game with a bladed weapon instead of inflicting blunt force trauma on everyone and everything. The gall of some people. Imagine playing a God of War game and using some fancy pants magic axe instead of just beating everything to death with your bare hands. Things dragging down God of War: There are enemies I can't seem to beat using only my hands.
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This last time I've been playing dark souls I tried the broadsword and it was like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_E0UVNtJ9Y Vic has a new favorite as of 02:21 on Nov 1, 2020 |
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Nov 1, 2020 01:59
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JackSplater posted:Imagine playing a God of War game and using some fancy pants magic axe instead of just beating everything to death with your bare hands. This goes along with my unexpected discovery that Super Punchman is the best and most effective way to play Hades.
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Crowetron posted:The only weapon befitting a true hunter is a giant fuckin’ wheel, just rip it off a Corolla in the parking lot and go to town
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I've been going back through with some friends to play Gauntlet:Dark Legacy on the weekends for a while now and for a port of an arcade game from 1996 it's still pretty drat fun. We got to one of the bonus levels (which are usually very strange looking and unlock secret characters) and it was called "The Lab" turns out we were just walking around collecting coins in Midway's offices, complete with skeletons at their desks and random conversations going on as you walked by them. Some of the choice quotes "i can't sleep" "can i go home yet? *other voices yelling in the background* NO" It's all presented with very tongue in cheek humor, but knowing what we know now about crunch and game development i can't help but feel bad for these guys leaving a cry for help in their game that is presented in a funny way like this. Although i understand crunch was the exception and not the rule for games back then, and i know nothing about arcade game development so maybe they didn't have to go through that horribleness right? Or at least not to much of it 
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My first run through Bloodborme I only used the Threaded Cane and it kicked rear end. I played through again with other fun builds and weapons like the blood katana and big wheel but it was still fun as hell whipping eldritch abominations from beyond the stars to death
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My favorite is the stake driver but I'm not going to try to tell anyone it's actually good.
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Been playing The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners recently. Outstanding game, but there's this thing where if you pick up a poster or note (and there are a lot of them) it'll start a voiceover narration of the entire note. This is a thoughtful convenience in VR, when reading things close to your face isn't always easy or comfortable. However, imagine if you were 10 minutes into the game and came across a dying man, his last words laden with important exposition and gameplay hints. Imagine you also found a note some 3 feet away from him and, thinking it might be related to his present condition, pick it up. Now you've got two unpauseable voices going at the same time and the more narratively important monologue can't be repeated because the speaker dies at the end of the conversation.
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Leal posted:FF14: After so many years and expansions they still haven't figured out a way to make doing relic weapons not a complete pain in the rear end. You need to have the item in your inventory, NOT equipped. And you can't change to another class to get the weapon in your inventory, cause you'll have to be the class the weapon is for as well. You need to equip a weapon to be a class. So anytime you upgrade your weapon you gotta gently caress off to the nearest NPC shop and buy another weapon to equip and then turn in the quest. Then you gotta decide if you're gonna hold onto this placeholder weapon and take up space or chuck, just to have to buy it later. Probably, ff14 is a game where anytime a obvious solution is not taken, the answer is probably "code debt" which mostly means they ain't found the parts that do that kind of stuff that they could replace to make it work. Always remember that ff14 was built on a terrible foundation that still actively hampers it to this day and is probably the worst thing about the whole game.
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Bloodborne is so close to perfect but there's just a few things that drag it down Blood vials and quicksilver bullets are the biggest. They're limited but farming more isn't hard just time consuming The level system really just feels tacked on like it exists because From puts levels in their other games like this
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Death Stranding There's a bit just after the halfway-point where Mads Mikkelson ambushes you in a Great War trench while flanked by a gang of skeleton soldiers. Up until now the game was balanced on Hard, since difficulty only affected damage numbers while the actual challenge was about logistics and traversal. You only get a Game Over if your cargo gets destroyed. The regular obstacles like the ghosts, acid-rain, and psychotic postmen can be easily navigated around or neutralised. But when Mads and the skeleton lads come along the game turns into a clumsy third-person shooter. If you die you don't lose your way for a bit, you get sent back to a checkpoint. It feels like a very typical setpiece in a very atypical game. Dropping the difficulty to Easy for this segment feels like a bandaid, it could have been better handled since there where no gunfiights before this point.
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Genshin Impact makes me manually change my input device to controller every time I start the game.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Death Stranding I think that's just a little bit before I dropped the game. If I'm remembering right it's after a pretty long stretch where you're much just trucking around without having to worry much about ghosts or bandits. Turns out what I liked about the game was traversing the environment, not worrying about sneaking or fighting.
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I dont think gunfights in DS are bad, it's just that you never quite get a feel for it because there's so little of it.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Death Stranding I've not actually looked anything up about Death Stranding and just know it's a weird delivery game This post definitely makes me want to go look into this more
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Len posted:I've not actually looked anything up about Death Stranding and just know it's a weird delivery game The fact that it's secretly an MMO is what finally grabbed my attention.
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Rogue legacy 2 is in early access right now but it really doesnt feel like enough of a step up from the previous game and still remains a frustrating and generally rude experience, just off the top of my head we have - No longer able to do bosses/area out of order - Relics that unlock permanent upgrades require you to do a very long challenge, like about 30% too long. - While some detail is added about traits and relics often its not enough, such as icarus wings giving you a triple jump while completely failing to mention it also reduces your jump height by a fair bit. Its some of the things but mostly the game just is a frustrating experience overall, feeling more spiteful than anything.
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Len posted:I recently found out there's a very vocal group of people who play Bloodborne and think the boring rear end saw cleaver is the best weapon. And they're objectively wrong in every category It has a hidden +15% damage against beasts modifier and scales really well with fire. The Hunters Axe has the r2 "Spin to Win" attack, no one should ever use anything else. The thing bringing Bloodborne down for me is the lack of build variety. Bloodtinge isn't viable until Castle Cainhurst and your'e almost 2/3rds through the game before Arcane becomes useful, and you have to be pumping the useless "arcane" stat the entire game because the best spell takes likes 60 arcane to use.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:It has a hidden +15% damage against beasts modifier and scales really well with fire. 
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