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I like when a game just sits on a black screen for like six or eights seconds as if that's not a hidden loading screen.
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Also the forced slow walk or shimmy through cracks/tunnels
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Nov 2, 2020 01:11
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Or bookending an actual loading screen with five seconds of black screen on each end. Wow, certainly fooled me.
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Nov 2, 2020 01:13
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Or bookending an actual loading screen with five seconds of black screen on each end. Wow, certainly fooled me. That smells like compliance with some management edict that no loading screen shall be longer than 30 seconds or something and they get around it with interstitial loading screens like that. Still sucks, but I’ve had bosses like that.
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Nov 2, 2020 01:16
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Also the forced slow walk or shimmy through cracks/tunnels Thank you Clod of Bore (2018)
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Nov 2, 2020 01:18
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Thank you Clod of Bore (2018) Turn on your monitor already.
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Nov 2, 2020 01:19
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Also the forced slow walk or shimmy through cracks/tunnels FF7R had a lot of this and I love it anyways!
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Nov 2, 2020 01:30
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Shadow Tactics is only 5 dollars which feels like some kind of crime to pay so little for such an insanely enjoyable game
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Nov 2, 2020 01:35
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Horizon wasn't exactly snappy with its load times. I think game start to menu to actual play was somewhere around two minutes. Long fast travels close to a minute.
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Nov 2, 2020 02:04
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Death to squeezing through tunnels and cracks. Most annoying loading trick of the generation, mostly because not only is it boring to watch, but it’s in so many games!
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Nov 2, 2020 02:20
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man nurse posted:Death to squeezing through tunnels and cracks. Most annoying loading trick of the generation, mostly because not only is it boring to watch, but it’s in so many games! Not to mention when it looks bad. The game zooms in on the character and it makes clipping issues super obvious.
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Nov 2, 2020 02:26
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BL3 is a game that incentivizes repeated map reloads, except for the fact that most take a minute to load (I timed it).
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Nov 2, 2020 02:29
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It’s gonna own so hard when fast travel is actually fast
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Nov 2, 2020 02:30
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Rinkles posted:BL3 is a game that incentivizes repeated map reloads, except for the fact that most take a minute to load (I timed it). you'd think they'd consider that when designing the game, but UX doesn't seem to be of much concern for a lot of devs (probably cause they're trying to put out the fires before release)
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Nov 2, 2020 02:33
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man nurse posted:Death to squeezing through tunnels and cracks. Most annoying loading trick of the generation, mostly because not only is it boring to watch, but it’s in so many games! Squeezing through cracks has been a loading trick since even before Unsharted 1 made it commonplace. It's less a 'generation' thing and more a hallmark of the entire High Def graphical era thus far.
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Nov 2, 2020 03:23
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Thank you Clod of Bore (2018) Pablo you poo poo on God of War all the time in this thread but I don't think you've ever said why. Please tell us
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Nov 2, 2020 03:36
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owl_pellet posted:Pablo you poo poo on God of War all the time in this thread but I don't think you've ever said why. Please tell us I just don’t think it’s that great of a game
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Nov 2, 2020 03:59
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To elaborate, I find the design and narrative really unfocused like in a lot of open world-ish games, the combat is harmed by the too-close camera making it difficult to deal with multiple enemies, there’s unnecessary MMO-ish color coded loot and crafting with a bunch of stats that don’t amount to much, the “never have a camera cut” philosophy makes the cutscene direction unremarkable and makes it really obvious when they’re trying to mask load times, Atreus is annoying, etc.
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Nov 2, 2020 04:08
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Pablo Nergigante posted:To elaborate, I find the design and narrative really unfocused like in a lot of open world-ish games, the combat is harmed by the too-close camera making it difficult to deal with multiple enemies, there’s unnecessary MMO-ish color coded loot and crafting with a bunch of stats that don’t amount to much, the “never have a camera cut” philosophy makes the cutscene direction unremarkable and makes it really obvious when they’re trying to mask load times, Atreus is annoying, etc. same op
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Nov 2, 2020 04:27
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I can't wait to see how mad everyone gets when they realise all their ps5 games still have dialogue dumps while shimmying through cracks.
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Nov 2, 2020 04:35
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The year is 2060. Loading has been instantaneous for decades. Any game that doesn't have crack-shimmying is derided for "just feeling cheap somehow" and "looking like a soap-opera".
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Nov 2, 2020 04:42
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cubicle gangster posted:I can't wait to see how mad everyone gets when they realise all their ps5 games still have dialogue dumps while shimmying through cracks. ehh, i'm fine with it 
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Nov 2, 2020 04:42
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Krazyface posted:The year is 2060. Loading has been instantaneous for decades. Any game that doesn't have crack-shimmying is derided for "just feeling cheap somehow" and "looking like a soap-opera".
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Nov 2, 2020 04:45
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Its not like devs are super happy about having to shimmy through cracks. Its more engrossing than a loading screen of equal time where a tooltip pops up that you've already seen before. Also God of War has some of the best melee combat of any western video game.
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Nov 2, 2020 04:46
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I love the close camera in GOW. It’s not a perfect game or anything, there’s some stuff I’d change but overall it’s still a classic imo.
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Nov 2, 2020 04:50
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I’ve been playing a game I never thought I’d play, but I was looking for something story driven and action-y. It’s The Order 1886. It went on sale for $9.99 which finally seemed like an acceptable price. It’s really fun! The story and setting and acting is good and the weapons are cool. The checkerboard kicks the resolution up to good and my LG CX polishes the picture to better than it probably is. The gunplay itself is fully poo poo at times though. I’m basically playing it on easy because the aiming is so bad and weird at times. But whatever. It was the first debut game for the PS4 or something?
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Nov 2, 2020 04:51
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veni veni veni posted:I love the close camera in GOW. ick, I hate it so much. i really hope they ditch the single take gimmick for the sequel.
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Nov 2, 2020 04:54
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I never liked how tiny Kratos was in the old games. It didn’t seem weird to me because a lot of my favorite games have close camera. Resident evil, dead space...poo poo even Fromsoft games have a pretty close cam although it’s not as extreme as those other games.
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Nov 2, 2020 04:58
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Caesar Saladin posted:Also God of War has some of the best melee combat of any western video game. That’s not saying much
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veni veni veni posted:I never liked how tiny Kratos was in the old games. It didn’t seem weird to me because a lot of my favorite games have close camera. Resident evil, dead space...poo poo even Fromsoft games have a pretty close cam although it’s not as extreme as those other games. Having a close camera in a survival horror game or a slow paced game like Dark Souls is a lot different than in an action game where you’re supposed to be an unstoppable badass. Pulling the camera out a bit would have helped with spatial awareness versus multiple enemies. They tried to help with the weird ring around Kratos that shows what direction enemies are coming from but it’s too small and hard to notice in the middle of combat.
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Nov 2, 2020 05:03
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Pablo Nergigante posted:That’s not saying much 
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Blind Rasputin posted:I’ve been playing a game I never thought I’d play, but I was looking for something story driven and action-y. It’s The Order 1886. It went on sale for $9.99 which finally seemed like an acceptable price. It’s really fun! The story and setting and acting is good and the weapons are cool. The checkerboard kicks the resolution up to good and my LG CX polishes the picture to better than it probably is. The gunplay itself is fully poo poo at times though. I’m basically playing it on easy because the aiming is so bad and weird at times. But whatever. It was the first debut game for the PS4 or something? It looked incredible but people hated it.
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Nov 2, 2020 05:07
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Caesar Saladin posted:Its not like devs are super happy about having to shimmy through cracks. Its more engrossing than a loading screen of equal time where a tooltip pops up that you've already seen before. Lol the running laps around the track to keep the single take conceit while enabling fast travel was so stupid
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Nov 2, 2020 05:10
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Lol the running laps around the track to keep the single take conceit while enabling fast travel was so stupid Yeah plus it fades to white when you go in and out of the gates! That’s a cut!!!
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Nov 2, 2020 05:13
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I forgot how bad the Prey loading times were. For whatever reason towards the end of the game the areas took so long to load and you had to do a ton of moving around the map right near the end
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Nov 2, 2020 05:13
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el oso posted:I forgot how bad the Prey loading times were. For whatever reason towards the end of the game the areas took so long to load and you had to do a ton of moving around the map right near the end and also the endings totally suck! edit; I liked that game, but my engagement really waned at about the 3/4 mark it just became work to complete.
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Nov 2, 2020 05:22
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veni veni veni posted:Yeah I really enjoyed Rebirth, but the story in Soma is just much better.  Rebirth I enjoyed and don't regret playing in any way but I doubt I'll go back to it. SOMA I will still replay every so often because so much of it still works even when I know what all the twists and surprises are. I just did it again and finished on Halloween.
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Nov 2, 2020 07:26
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:ick, I hate it so much. i really hope they ditch the single take gimmick for the sequel. I found the one-shot gimmick annoying not just because of the cutscene direction, but because it doesn't really serve any narrative purpose. The story is very episodic and it doesn't feel like everything happens in one day. I'm sure it was a headache for the programmers though.
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Nov 2, 2020 09:30
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God of War is drat good but I do think it’s a little overrated. Probably the most overrated PS4 exclusive after Spider-Man. But I still really enjoyed it, just not “game of the year” enjoyed
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I have no strong feelings on the single shot thing either way other than it looking cool sometimes during boss fights but you could do shots like that without the gimmick if you wanted. The biggest issues for me were the entire bullshit busywork that was the Niflheim area, but that was completely optional, and the ending that was too busy setting up sequel hooks to give the end of their journey any room to breathe.
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