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Game of the Decade This poll is closed. |
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| Bowsette |
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69424 | 23.78% |
| Metis Souls |
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85 | 0.03% |
| Metisnite |
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7 | 0.00% |
| Skymetis |
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26 | 0.01% |
| Gone Metis |
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9 | 0.00% |
| MGSV: Phantom Pain (Metis Gear Solid) |
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13 | 0.00% |
| Journey |
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10 | 0.00% |
| Doom 20Metis |
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12 | 0.00% |
| Metis Presents: House Party |
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95 | 0.03% |
| Xcom: Metis Unknown |
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19 | 0.01% |
| Metis (gamer of the decade) (no gamer moments) |
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36 | 0.01% |
| The Metis 3 |
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24 | 0.01% |
| METIISSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! |
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222220 | 76.11% |
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Does sekiro have ragdoll corpse physics?
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Dec 17, 2020 21:42
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Gamerofthegame posted:sekiro owned but the final boss was so u g h. Uber Great Hubbub?
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Dec 17, 2020 21:43
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the health reduction on hollowing in dark souls 2 was in my mind intended to encourage coop, which is itself super easy to facilitate thanks to the small white soapstone or at least, it was when i played it. active population is probably a lot lower now. i wish bloodborne had small soapstone
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Dec 17, 2020 21:45
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Relax Or DIE posted:at the very least - any other criticisms aside, it should have checkpointed after the last fight with what's his name. I will never be convinced that the fact that you have to fight him each time is a late-in-dev change to make the final boss harder, which it did not need to be. It's the same boss though.
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Dec 17, 2020 21:45
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Regarde Aduck posted:Yhorm and the entire area you find him in seem like they were unfinished. It's so poorly made and no one cares what is supposed to be going on because its a bit of a city that is underground for reasons???? Seems like the 'profaned flame' was supposed to be important but they just abandoned the idea at some point so yeah everyone exploded for some reason. If I have one real issue with Dark Souls 3's lore, it's that they added like a new kind of fire and a new kind of dark and then just barely explored them. Like there's the fire, and also the Chaos Flame, and there's the dark and also the Abyss. But now there's also a Profaned Flame and the Deep? And it's never quite clear how they fit into the whole cosmology. The Profaned Flame has some dark in it and will never go out, I think, so is it like a more successful Chaos Flame? The Deep is all about dark, deep waters and the weight of humanity and stuff, but we don't really see much of that beyond Aldrich making Anor Londo all goopy and gross. Yhorm himself and the Profaned Capital I didn't have too much of an issue with. I did notice that Yhorm, unlike any other Lord of Cinder, has no real defenders at all. Nobody gives a poo poo about him. And that makes sense with what we can learn about who he was before he linked the flame--everyone hated Yhorm, and he tried really hard to make people love him, and it never worked, and then when he linked the Fire everyone he cared about died a fiery death. And now that he's back as a Lord of Cinder, nothing has changed except his city is in even worse shape. Other Lords of Cinder have a whole kingdom (Lothric), or have whole covenants designated to defending them (Watchdogs of Farron defending the Abyss Watchers, and Aldrich Faithful defending Aldrich), but not Yhorm. All he has is an onion guy who promised to kill him if he were to ever forsake his duty, and that's about it.
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Dec 17, 2020 21:46
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The last boss of Sekiro owns. Dunking on Genichiro over and over is the best part of that fight.
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Dec 17, 2020 21:48
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all my boss fights in sekiro started out as a one-sided curbstomping to me and ended as a one-sided curbstomping by me, so it was tremendously gratifying that my final, final fight against Remnant Saint Isshin was a frantic grit-toothed exchange of blows right up to the bitter end definitely caught myself thinking WHY! WON'T! YOU! DIE?! at a few points during my winning run
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Dec 17, 2020 21:50
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stev posted:It's the same boss though. There is no overlap in moveset AFAIK so they're effectively two separate bosses you fight in sequence. I agree that it's bad and it's the reason I quit at that point the first time through
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Dec 17, 2020 21:50
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haveblue posted:There is no overlap in moveset AFAIK so they're effectively two separate bosses you fight in sequence. I agree that it's bad and it's the reason I quit at that point the first time through Calling the first part a boss is extremely generous since you can easily beat him in a matter of seconds while taking no damage. It's an effective prelude to the actual boss.
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Dec 17, 2020 21:52
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right, it's a prelude that works narratively and as such should be a wholly separate encounter so you don't waste the player's time as they try to learn the rest of the (entirely too long and often cheap) final boss.
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Dec 17, 2020 21:53
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I didn't even bother trying to fight the actual final boss of Sekiro more than once after I got through Genichiro and died within three seconds, then found out you had to start from the top every time. I just didn't have any gas left in the tank and have not touched the game since then. I have a PS4 copy that has been basically unused since I played it on Steam, so maybe I'll try to do a run on PS5.
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Dec 17, 2020 21:54
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After you beat the tutorial of Elden Ring a voice tells you to quit playing that god drat wizard poo poo you've got an email about a new mission. Your character logs out of the game and takes off his VR helmet and begins walking towards his Armored Core.
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Dec 17, 2020 21:55
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I wouldn’t call Isshin cheap, he can be demanding but he’s very easy to read and to learn. He shares a lot of his moves with some of the more elite enemies so he’s more of a final exam than a completely out of nowhere boss.
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Dec 17, 2020 21:57
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Stux posted:ugh in which sense I don't even remember it's been a hot moment, but I think it was something akin to it being waaay to long and the guy leaving no margins for error
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Dec 17, 2020 21:58
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he's back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1NbTaiHNN0
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Dec 17, 2020 21:58
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Looper posted:the health reduction on hollowing in dark souls 2 was in my mind intended to encourage coop, which is itself super easy to facilitate thanks to the small white soapstone Yeah I get it, but there has got to be a better way than giving you a penalty and then a bunch of ways to mitigate that penalty. It's just overly designed for no real reason. And yeah, the population's p. sleepy these days. I'm enjoying it, it's pretty and I like that there are more NPCs to meet, it just feels a bit unfocused.
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Dec 17, 2020 21:58
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Isshin was the pinnacle of FROM shoving a billion phases onto every boss now, which is something I dislike
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Dec 17, 2020 22:00
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Saint Freak posted:After you beat the tutorial of Elden Ring a voice tells you to quit playing that god drat wizard poo poo you've got an email about a new mission. Your character logs out of the game and takes off his VR helmet and begins walking towards his Armored Core. This is basically what happens at the beginning of the first Assassin's Creed game and I'd be OK with that
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Dec 17, 2020 22:01
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i'll stop boring everyone with my repetitive sekiro criticisms and say: even though I don't like the final boss drat that game has some good ones. guardian ape is fun as hell, the bridge knight is a gimmick but a real good one, genichiro on the rooftop is an insanely solid midgame knowledge check with the exception of the lightning stuff in the last phase being very poorly tutorialized and kind of a gotcha but i didn't find it too hard to pick up on the fly the dragon owns visually.
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Dec 17, 2020 22:03
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despite being the type of guy who goes way in for musical themes, all From music sounds the same to me. like every boss theme is just identifiable to me as a Dark Souls Composition™, I've never been hit by something alluding to another track
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Dec 17, 2020 22:03
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Bosses don’t have enough phases I say, I need at least five phases to be satisfied.
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Dec 17, 2020 22:04
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Also a secret gimmick 6th phase that only appears if you did some weird poo poo earlier on.
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Dec 17, 2020 22:07
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I like how in Gunstar Heroes you only get to fight all 7 phases of Seven Force if you're playing on expert maybe souls should try that
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Dec 17, 2020 22:10
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grieving for Gandalf posted:despite being the type of guy who goes way in for musical themes, all From music sounds the same to me. like every boss theme is just identifiable to me as a Dark Souls Composition™, I've never been hit by something alluding to another track I think Bloodborne does the best at keeping boss tracks distinct while still being orchestra and choir, to the point that I can call to mind like Gascoigne's, Gehrman's, or Maria's themes basically any time. Same for Ludwig's. Dark Souls 3, despite having some great music to listen to, falls the most into homogenization unfortunately. Like I think Aldrich's theme is pretty distinct (if only because it quotes Gwyndolin's theme from DS1) but the rest really blends together. I'm normally the guy who never misses a musical motif callback because I am absolute sucker for them, though.
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Dec 17, 2020 22:11
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I don’t know much about mdickie, how much of this game is ironic
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Dec 17, 2020 22:13
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Jay Rust posted:I don’t know much about mdickie, how much of this game is ironic everyone should watch chip & ironicus play The You Testament at some point
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Dec 17, 2020 22:14
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Relax Or DIE posted:at the very least - any other criticisms aside, it should have checkpointed after the last fight with what's his name. I will never be convinced that the fact that you have to fight him each time is a late-in-dev change to make the final boss harder, which it did not need to be. to do that would be a first, i dont think it was a change at all. from a mechanical stand point its simply the first phase of the boss fight and theyve never split things that way before. from a lore standpoint i think it makes sense too and is really interesting. genichiro is wielding the black mortal blade which is named "open gate", and it clearly functions differently from the red one sekiro finds. for one, in one of the endings you see that owl is able to wield it without dying. in the black scroll it says that his mortal blade "creates life" by bringing it back from the underworld, and when regular isshin sees you hold the red blade he remarks "The crimson Mortal Blade...That means the one he has must be...black, then. To abandon oneself in search of strength...How tragic...". what i took that to mean, given what ultimately happens, is that the abandonment hes referring to isnt just genichiro gaining immortality from the sediment or simply getting any mortal blade, as it seems to be a direct response to him having this specific one. the abandonment is literal and the strength isnt just him making himself strong but using whatever strength possible to preserve ashinas legacy. he abandons himself by giving up his own corporeal form to bring isshin back from the afterlife in his prime. that is ashinas ultimate strength. saint sword isshin is a manifestation of genichiros will and exists through his lifeforce alone, so i think that to split them up, especially given that isshin literally climbs out of genichiro after he opens a gate to the afterlife on his own body, wouldnt fit narratively either
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Dec 17, 2020 22:14
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The best music tracks in Dark Souls 3 are the main menu theme and the end credits theme, most of the rest sorta blends together for me or stands out only because it quotes a different piece of music that I already recognize.
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Dec 17, 2020 22:14
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i love sekiro
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Dec 17, 2020 22:14
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Jay Rust posted:I don’t know much about mdickie, how much of this game is ironic he's "in on the joke" but all of his games are like this so i think that's just the way he likes them to be
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Dec 17, 2020 22:16
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grieving for Gandalf posted:despite being the type of guy who goes way in for musical themes, all From music sounds the same to me. like every boss theme is just identifiable to me as a Dark Souls Composition™, I've never been hit by something alluding to another track i mean i think gwyns theme stands out, its impossible to not recognise it as completely different from anything else in any of the games
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Dec 17, 2020 22:18
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Harrow posted:The best music tracks in Dark Souls 3 are the main menu theme and the end credits theme, most of the rest sorta blends together for me or stands out only because it quotes a different piece of music that I already recognize. im a big fan of anything kitamura contributes. abyss watchers is a real standout imo
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Dec 17, 2020 22:18
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Stux posted:to do that would be a first, i dont think it was a change at all. from a mechanical stand point its simply the first phase of the boss fight and theyve never split things that way before. from a lore standpoint i think it makes sense too and is really interesting. genichiro is wielding the black mortal blade which is named "open gate", and it clearly functions differently from the red one sekiro finds. for one, in one of the endings you see that owl is able to wield it without dying. in the black scroll it says that his mortal blade "creates life" by bringing it back from the underworld, and when regular isshin sees you hold the red blade he remarks "The crimson Mortal Blade...That means the one he has must be...black, then. To abandon oneself in search of strength...How tragic...". what i took that to mean, given what ultimately happens, is that the abandonment hes referring to isnt just genichiro gaining immortality from the sediment or simply getting any mortal blade, as it seems to be a direct response to him having this specific one. the abandonment is literal and the strength isnt just him making himself strong but using whatever strength possible to preserve ashinas legacy. he abandons himself by giving up his own corporeal form to bring isshin back from the afterlife in his prime. that is ashinas ultimate strength. saint sword isshin is a manifestation of genichiros will and exists through his lifeforce alone, so i think that to split them up, especially given that isshin literally climbs out of genichiro after he opens a gate to the afterlife on his own body, wouldnt fit narratively either It would be fine because you can have it happen the first time, be impactful, and then when he kills you he just waits around for you to try again, against him, not the first guy. On subsequent runs it's not surprising or impactful because you're just mashing the skip button to get to phase 2 already
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Dec 17, 2020 22:19
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it'd own if from made a game about being a giant robot tho imagine, if you will, gundum dark souls. imagine. . .
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Dec 17, 2020 22:20
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gwyn's theme is so good lol, im not big on the latter half of sakuraba's career output a lot of the time tbh but i think gwyn is one of the most striking pieces he's ever composed
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Dec 17, 2020 22:20
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i feel like im an alien, i loved every single moment of the isshin fight everytime i did it. the closest sekiro came to making me think something sucked or was cheap was w two moments. there is one miniboss that summons wolves, the first time you meet him he does it once and thats it, the second time he can keep doing it forever and it annoyed me. but he is optional, you can simply walk away, and you can deal with it. the second was demon of hatred who i thought had too much hp and was cheap and didnt fit the game and then i beat him and i immediately stopped being salty and changed my mind lol
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Dec 17, 2020 22:21
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i really wasnt keen on its reuse in the cinder fight. i think the rearrangement of gwyndolin's theme for aldrich was a lot more impactful and pointed instead of just thing like thing, even though i get the relevance of gwyn to the final boss
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Dec 17, 2020 22:21
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Gamerofthegame posted:it'd own if from made a game about being a giant robot tho they did
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Dec 17, 2020 22:21
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Violen posted:im a big fan of anything kitamura contributes. abyss watchers is a real standout imo Oh yeah, that one is really good. It didn't come to mind when I tried to think of it but as soon as I found it on Youtube I was like "oh right, this track is fantastic"
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Dec 17, 2020 22:21
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ds1 has some dope music idk what you guys are on about. the more bombastic pieces do tend to blend together a bit but there's also stuff like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FmZufTy3WM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ErQ2nDojeo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKJDxgcOSok
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Dec 17, 2020 22:22
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