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How single player friendly is the new Monster Hunter expected to be? Last time I tried Monster Hunter was way back on the Wii and it did not click for me. I’ll probably check out the demo too when it drops.
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Jan 7, 2021 15:44
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Reveal video: https://youtu.be/iUmcU4LT_jg
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Jan 7, 2021 15:46
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Cartoon Man posted:How single player friendly is the new Monster Hunter expected to be? Last time I tried Monster Hunter was way back on the Wii and it did not click for me. I’ll probably check out the demo too when it drops. The new Monster Hunter works a bit like World and a bit like older Monster Hunters. World did away with the single player and "hub" quest divide, making it so any quest can be tackled alone or in a group. Rise brings back the divide, but the "hub" quests are scaled to number of players. So, in theory it's very single player friendly.
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Jan 7, 2021 15:50
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Silver Falcon posted:The new Monster Hunter works a bit like World and a bit like older Monster Hunters. World did away with the single player and "hub" quest divide, making it so any quest can be tackled alone or in a group. Rise brings back the divide, but the "hub" quests are scaled to number of players. So, in theory it's very single player friendly. Have they said whether the multi is going to be hub only or if there's an SOS system like in World? I adored the SOS system because it did away with the part of MH multi I always hated, the "hop into a hub, do three quests you don't need, queue up your quest and then everyone drops."
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Jan 7, 2021 15:53
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I am going to download *the gently caress* out that demo
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Jan 7, 2021 16:13
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Huxley posted:Have they said whether the multi is going to be hub only or if there's an SOS system like in World? The village/hub split is back. Nothing they've said indicates that they're bringing flares back.
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Jan 7, 2021 16:14
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Maybe instead of a flare you shoo a wirebug up into the air 
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Jan 7, 2021 16:16
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They did say on one of the earlier videos that they're looking to add something akin to flares / joining mid-hunt
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Jan 7, 2021 16:21
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I loved World but didn't play the other games, what's the difference between World and how it was before? I loved how easy it was to join people's games, the only bad thing was having to wait until they've seen a cutscene
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Jan 7, 2021 16:25
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I totally understand the vibe they are going for and that a lot of people, particularly japanese players, dug the community aspect of making friends and helping each other and really getting into a groove in a hub. But also, being able to search for exactly the monster you want to farm and jumping in, or getting stuck on a fight and being able to just hit a button and have three extremely powerful randoms show up and clobber something, was nice.
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Jan 7, 2021 16:26
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grieving for Gandalf posted:I loved World but didn't play the other games, what's the difference between World and how it was before? I loved how easy it was to join people's games, the only bad thing was having to wait until they've seen a cutscene In the older games you would join a room and people would post quests to the board and you would all depart together to do them. I think usually the rooms were labelled as being like, "Nergigante farming" and every quest would be that. But some rooms were unlabelled or generically labelled and you'd have four people doing sort of a soft turn-taking thing. It probably worked great if you wanted to farm a popular monster or had IRL people you just wanted to chill with. But every time I tried it in XX, I would hop into a hub, do a quest that was up, then everyone sort of stumbled around waiting for someone to post something. Then one person would, two other players would drop, and then the hub would fall apart.
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Jan 7, 2021 16:30
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x1o posted:Just sliding in to say La Mulana is amazing and I'm so thankful it got a switch port. I'm going to take advantage of the sale to stock up on some other Metroidvanias to play, so does anyone have any recommendations? I'd suggest A Robot Named Fight I think it's been the most best little surprise I've had recently. It's randomized Super Metroid. Nothing more to it really. But it's still pleasant. I like the back-tracking and the in-game achievements give you something slightly to work for. There's an achievement for beating it 6 times so I may try for that. I got it for 2 euro back in the day, so wait for a nice sale but yeah it's a fun little diversion. Yoku I played a bit of. It's very charming for a fiver, but it's pinball, and I'm not like great at pinball or super into it. But if you like pinball you should really get it. I'll definitely beat it though because it looks like a lovely little labor of love.
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Jan 7, 2021 16:31
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PowerBeard posted:Monster Hunter Rise demo out later today on Switch. Cool. I always wanted to try one of these
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Jan 7, 2021 16:32
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Coxswain Balls posted:I always knew their pre-DKC library as being stuff like RC Pro Am, Snake Rattle and Roll, and Captain Skyhawk. I never knew they made so much dogshit games as well. Star Solbier
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Jan 7, 2021 16:42
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What were all the "CRAZY _________" versions of something already listed, quick reskins or romhacks?
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Jan 7, 2021 16:43
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Huxley posted:In the older games you would join a room and people would post quests to the board and you would all depart together to do them. I think usually the rooms were labelled as being like, "Nergigante farming" and every quest would be that. But some rooms were unlabelled or generically labelled and you'd have four people doing sort of a soft turn-taking thing. oh, so it's just really annoying for playing with other people? my friends and I pretty much just hung out at the gathering hub anyway other than to go to the smith and such
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Jan 7, 2021 16:48
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did anyone play CRAZY NUTS AND MILK i kinda wanna know what goes on in there
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Jan 7, 2021 16:49
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grieving for Gandalf posted:oh, so it's just really annoying for playing with other people? my friends and I pretty much just hung out at the gathering hub anyway other than to go to the smith and such The old MonHun leaned HARD on the DS’s ability to play locally. It’s why they were hugely popular in Japan. You played as a group in real life. Multiplayer was based all around that. This... does not translate well to online multiplayer. World did the best of both worlds by having the hubs/lobbies (up to 16 players!) from which you could post/join quests and also introduced the SOS flare for an even more pick up and go online option. Rise has indicated the return of old 4 player hubs but they’ve also mentioned the ability to join quests mid-hunt/ask for help so I think a form of the flare will be making a return.
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Jan 7, 2021 16:53
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grieving for Gandalf posted:oh, so it's just really annoying for playing with other people? my friends and I pretty much just hung out at the gathering hub anyway other than to go to the smith and such I found it to be a slog in XX, but who knows about this game. Everyone jumping in at the same time and Discord being a thing now, it might be just fine.
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Jan 7, 2021 16:54
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looking forward to getting on the Switch to get in a lobby with friends in MH and turning on my PS5 to get in an actual party with them
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Jan 7, 2021 16:54
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grieving for Gandalf posted:looking forward to getting on the Switch to get in a lobby with friends in MH and turning on my PS5 to get in an actual party with them Learn to communicate exclusively using stickers 
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Jan 7, 2021 16:57
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:did anyone play CRAZY NUTS AND MILK i kinda wanna know what goes on in there
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Jan 7, 2021 16:57
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:What were all the "CRAZY _________" versions of something already listed, quick reskins or romhacks? Usually half finished romhacks of dubious origin.
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Jan 7, 2021 17:16
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American McGay posted:There's absolutely no way you'd be able to determine if it had an OLED screen or not based on "datamining the firmware" lmfao. Devices with OLED screens usually have software mitigations to try to minimise burn-in by slightly adjusting the position of GUI elements over time If there's something like that in the Switch firmware it's a pretty clear indication
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Jan 7, 2021 17:22
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Huh. Probably about what I should have expected.
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Jan 7, 2021 17:56
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American McGay posted:There's absolutely no way you'd be able to determine if it had an OLED screen or not based on "datamining the firmware" lmfao. Snake Maze posted:How many times has the Switch Pro been confirmed now? I feel like its at least one a year since release. ExcessBLarg! fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Jan 7, 2021 |
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Jan 7, 2021 18:08
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I know I'm late to this but I just started Hades and it is amazing.
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Jan 7, 2021 18:43
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They read the tea leaves, and the PRO is coming
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Jan 7, 2021 18:44
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Random Hero posted:I know I'm late to this but I just started Hades and it is amazing. its my favorite roguelike anything ever
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Jan 7, 2021 18:47
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japtor posted:Is that a typo or joke name? Cause I can’t seem to find the game/screenshots (searching sure found some...other stuff though). But anyway so no clue about the game itself, so the closest thing (besides docked play on a bigger screen?) is the screen zoom accessibility feature. But it just zooms the whole screen (and I forget if it’s adjustable) so usefulness is probably gonna be limited here unless the game can fit perfectly in the zoomed area. Oh whoops. It was a typo, yeah. It's Depixtion. Also, thanks! I forgot the screen zoom was a thing. That will probably help, it'll be a little awkward but I prefer that to just not doing the last 25 puzzles.
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Jan 7, 2021 19:25
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Hades seriously pushes the medium of video games forward
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Jan 7, 2021 19:27
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Hades is fun but it's not the second coming of videogame jesus like y'all make it sound.
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Jan 7, 2021 19:30
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what does it do to push the medium forward lol
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Jan 7, 2021 19:33
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Len posted:Hades is the second coming of videogame Zagreus.
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Jan 7, 2021 19:33
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Super No Vacancy posted:what does it do to push the medium forward lol Its telling a story that genuinely wouldnt work as well as a movie/book/tv show and incorporates gameplay into storytelling better than the overwhelming majority of video games.
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Jan 7, 2021 19:40
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Super No Vacancy posted:what does it do to push the medium forward lol unlike other games, it's actually good
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Jan 7, 2021 19:40
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I don't know if Hades does anything new but it's certainly an exemplar of tying gameplay progression and narrative together and giving it that good feel we're always looking for in games
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Jan 7, 2021 19:40
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:unlike other games, it's actually good 
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Jan 7, 2021 19:40
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Super No Vacancy posted:what does it do to push the medium forward lol It takes a format that has been fairly niche over the past 10 years (high-skill rogue, small advancement across runs, death as a mechanic) and blew it up in popularity by making it sexy, story-forward, and easy.
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Hades is really fun but I don’t get all the praise for its story. The story is by far the weakest out of all of Supergiant’s games, in large part because it has to be structured around the run based gameplay.
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