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ShoogaSlim posted:naughty dog are also notorious for making you jump down a ledge/ off a cliff/ over the side of a building/through a hole in the ground you can't climb back out of in order to trigger progression in the narrative. Yeah, but I think the issue is that it's not always that obvious. I definitely missed out on fully exploring 2 or 3 sections of TLOU 2 because I had multiple paths in front of me and it wasn't clear which door was going to bring to a side area and which one was a point of no return. The one that annoyed me the most was the large building in Seattle where you go in through a window. I went straight for the stairs assuming it was a side area and stuff fell over and blocked me from exploring the rest of the building. When I finished I went back and the window was locked, so I missed exploring basically that whole building because my intuition about the critical path was wrong. I do wish ND would do some subtle hint system that indicated you won't be able to turn around, especially as their games have gotten a lot more open than they used to be.
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Akuma posted:I mentioned this before the PS5 came out but FYI basically any PS4 game will still cost at least 10s of thousands of $ to make PS5 versions, so if there's not a huge demand or incentive to do it it's probably not going to happen that much at this point. Definitely a major factor, but there's also the weird extra incentive that they can actually release the PS5 SKU in a new package and have it on shelves, it'll still sell despite the free upgrade for last gen owners. A lot of weird decisions go into that, like how a few Xbox 360 games got specially packaged in Xbox One-style cases specifically to sell to XB1 owners (and they even did this with CoD: AW even though it was already available as a native XB1 game). I fully expect there'll be another marketing push in late February for Yakuza: Like A Dragon with its impending PS5 release, especially in Asian territories since that'll be the first next gen version of the game they get (the Xbox and PC versions are EFIGS only).
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Cardiovorax posted:Automata is pretty fun game and the combat feels good, but it's really not the deep and insightful experience that it might want to pretend it is at times. Excellent music, though. A Beautiful Song is one of the best boss tracks I've heard in ages, I actually listen to it sometimes just as normal music. Eh it’s probably deeper than 99% of games and feels like it’s trying to say something. Which even for games with critically acclaimed stories they don’t really feel like they are trying that. Which isn’t a big deal but it’s nice to see a game be a bit more ambitious. It’s also what’s nice about the Metal gear games even if Kojima isn’t a very good writer
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CharlestheHammer posted:Eh it’s probably deeper than 99% of games and feels like it’s trying to say something.
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I think it gets criticized unfairly for having ‘bad combat’ when it’s actually really good, and better than most games but gets treated unfairly because it was developed by Platinum, but falls a bit flat compared to the combat of like Bayonetta, or Astral Chain, which was developed by the Nier: Automata combat director. Something Awful forums user RazzleDazzleHour made this guide for the game’s combat that’s really good and shows off a lot of mechanics that aren’t explained in game https://youtu.be/ELOdgQHWxnU Also the DLC’s colosseum fights are a lot better and is a good example of how fun the combat can be. Someone itt once said that it’s mainly the enemies and the lack of variety that’s actually the bad part, but when the enemies are good, the combat feels a lot better
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CharlestheHammer posted:Eh it’s probably deeper than 99% of games and feels like it’s trying to say something. Which even for games with critically acclaimed stories they don’t really feel like they are trying that. Which isn’t a big deal but it’s nice to see a game be a bit more ambitious. My favorite part about the game is that you can tell how they feel about achievements. You can buy all the achievements you don't have from a vendor.
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CharlestheHammer posted:Eh it’s probably deeper than 99% of games and feels like it’s trying to say something. It's not. Play something not published by one of the really big names and you might be pleasantl--oh, right. I am quite certain you wouldn't know decent writing if it insulted you to your face. Of course setting an impossibly high bar and then bitching when something doesn't manage to clear it is real familiar behavior. Did you know Steve Blum played Ludger Brink in the Spielberg directed, Orson Scott Card written The Dig?
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Watching the credits of Cyberpunk and the game crashed. It's a sign I need to move on to a different game.
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Casnorf posted:It's not. Play something not published by one of the really big names and you might be pleasantl--oh, right. I am quite certain you wouldn't know decent writing if it insulted you to your face. Hostile little man ain’t cha
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CharlestheHammer posted:Hostile little man ain’t cha Ain't had my scotch this evening. Got me the shakes and by pure happenstance vibrated my way into a post that's a teensy bit hostile toward a guy who is consistently unable to lear--oh smooches smooches slobber smooch I have trouble continuing on in Kentucky Route Zero because I already have too many emotions and I don't know what to do with all of them! How can I handle any more?
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I’m also like halfway through Kentucky Route Zero, it’s good, but so is Nier. It’s pretty silly to deny that Nier does unique things with it’s narrative and the medium in a unique way.
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Casnorf posted:Ain't had my scotch this evening. Got me the shakes and by pure happenstance vibrated my way into a post that's a teensy bit hostile toward a guy who is consistently unable to lear--oh smooches smooches slobber smooch Yeah self loathing sucks I will pray for you to post better
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Imhotep posted:I think it gets criticized unfairly for having ‘bad combat’ when it’s actually really good
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CharlestheHammer posted:Yeah self loathing sucks I will pray for you to post better I was thinking about doing some self-reflection and starting the truly monumental task of trying to acknowledge where I might be wrong and how I can change. Does your way work? I thought Arcanum had some outstanding writing. You'll find people who hate gnomes to this day because of that game.
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It did, although I'm not sure I'd use that as the example for it. Gnome Rape Island is widely considered the worst, most tone-deaf and blisteringly stupid writing misstep in that entire game. Touching a nerve with a particularly vile idea like that isn't necessarily good writing. Anyone can do "shocking."
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ZeeBoi posted:Nioh is often tough and sometimes really bullshit but it never pisses me off. Such a good game. Ugh, I got to the spiders. Why is it always the spiders that gently caress me up. 
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Cardiovorax posted:It did, although I'm not sure I'd use that as the example for it. Gnome Rape Island is widely considered the worst, most tone-deaf and blisteringly stupid writing misstep in that entire game. Touching a nerve with a particularly vile idea like that isn't necessarily good writing. Anyone can do "shocking." Point. Most of the rest of what's great requires a lot of context and characterization, not pithy one liners and shitposts. I was genuinely surprised by how decent and heartfelt the writing in the Psycho-Krieg Borderlands 3 DLC was. Anyone who has actually dealt with depression and mental illness firsthand will recognize it.
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CharlestheHammer posted:Yeah self loathing sucks I will pray for you to post better That's rich coming from an owner of the coveted "Worst Games Poster" avatar
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Casnorf posted:Point. Most of the rest of what's great requires a lot of context and characterization, not pithy one liners and shitposts.
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Cardiovorax posted:Does it? Bad combat is pretty much the one thing I don't think I've seen a lot of people criticize the game for. Combat in Automata is good and pretty strong. Not the best Platinum has ever done, but it's by no means bad at all. I’ve seen it a lot in this thread, at least enough that I remembered someone’s defense of the game’s combat as being good but lacking enemy variety, or that most common enemies were boring to fight. Which is probably the thing that Nier is criticized the least for, tbf. Edit: why is Elden Ring trending on Twitter for no reason, I hate this imhotep fucked around with this message at 06:12 on Jan 2, 2021 |
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There was a leak or some concept art a few days ago by a pretty reliable source in the Souls community. Subscribe to this youtube account for daily Elden Ring news updates.
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For the record I thing N:A actually does have really good writing and some pretty interesting things to say but also a lot of Inception level "WHOA" moments that are clearly meant to be huge revelations but anyone with a pulse can see them coming. not all of the twists, but certainly some of them. The game is just not as smart as it thinks it is, or is trying to be... OR it doesn't respect the audience enough to get subtext and so they just add it to the normal text, multiple times. The problem i have with the combat in retrospect is that there's this really awesome combat system that the base game never asks you to use and it's surprisingly grindy to unlock and upgrade anything approaching a "build" so it has that issue where by the time youre all kitted out like a true endgame RPG character, you've essentially mastered the game because you've been grinding for like 4 hours to upgrade your weapons and support robots awesome ninja robot powers. So i don't really hate it but the gameplay never felt engaging (outside of the bullet hell hacking which i liked, 9S is a better playthrough than 2B) but i do think anyone who skipped it missed out on one of the biggest games of the generation.
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The worst part about nier automatas combat is that it is entirely optional yet it still makes you sit around and watch it resolve itself.
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I'm a little late to the DOOM Eternal train but I grabbed it in the holiday sale and while I like most of the combat changes one thing that feels strange narratively is why they ditched the permanent first person POV? I'm only a couple levels deep but every cutscene has been 'character exposits at Doomguy who either does nothing or menacingly cocks a shotgun' and like, I didn't need to see him for that. They also cut away to show a path has been cleared (like in level two when you use the big mech arms to shoot open cave walls) but that totally feels like a thing that could've been seen from where you're standing if they'd just changed up the path perspective a little bit. It's a really baffling change but other than that I'm enjoying it! Playing on hard I only died a dozen times to one combat arena in the middle of level two so I'm already doing better than the first game.
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fridge corn posted:The worst part about nier automatas combat is that it is entirely optional yet it still makes you sit around and watch it resolve itself. Should have been a pure bullet hell shooter imo
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GreenNight posted:Watching the credits of Cyberpunk and the game crashed. It's a sign I need to move on to a different game. Hahaha amazing
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Wolfsheim posted:I'm a little late to the DOOM Eternal train but I grabbed it in the holiday sale and while I like most of the combat changes one thing that feels strange narratively is why they ditched the permanent first person POV? I'm only a couple levels deep but every cutscene has been 'character exposits at Doomguy who either does nothing or menacingly cocks a shotgun' and like, I didn't need to see him for that. They also cut away to show a path has been cleared (like in level two when you use the big mech arms to shoot open cave walls) but that totally feels like a thing that could've been seen from where you're standing if they'd just changed up the path perspective a little bit. The storytelling in Eternal is absolutely abysmal. It feels like they added the entire “plot” about a week from release. I know people don’t play Doom games for their story but I found the ham-fisted approach to narrative really distracting the whole time. I had no idea what was supposed to be happening so it kept taking me out of the game whenever a cutscene would dump loads of nonsense lore. This goes for the DLC too, any time gravelly voiced robot starts going on about Khan Makyrs or Urdak or ancient evil you can just tune out. The gameplay is great though.
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holy loving poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb-DtICmPTY
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Wolfsheim posted:DOOM Eternal  
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:holy loving poo poo  This non-editor-having dude played himself
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that's one profound chunk of anime slice-of-life game culture history lesson, but fuckin wow @ how he wraps it into cyberpunk 2077, persona, castlevania, the witcher, snatcher, policenauts, night trap, yakuza, visual novels, dating sims, loneliness epidemics, 80s and 90s jpop scene and whatever the hell else i just can't even BeanpolePeckerwood fucked around with this message at 08:36 on Jan 2, 2021 |
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Quantum of Phallus posted:The storytelling in Eternal is absolutely abysmal. It feels like they added the entire “plot” about a week from release. The story in Doom Eternal is bad but it doesn't actually come from nowhere, it's more or less a direct sequel to Doom 64.
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I am so excited to watch all of that loving Tim Rogers video
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Is there any recomendations for inexpensive bluetooth earbuds that work with Ps4? My Monster Achives won't connect and I realized this would solve my issues with my wired headphones draining the dualshocks battery.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:holy loving poo poo oh what the gently caress is this. six hours, lmao gently caress off.
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PS4 does not support audio over Bluetooth, I believe.
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Midjack posted:oh what the gently caress is this. six hours, lmao gently caress off. lol i know 
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