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I think he only started doing that with Scholar, so it's probably something they did more as a neat afterthought because it fit the name they already had for the boss. But yeah, DS2 was really pretty ambitious in a lot of ways. Sadly, not all of the ideas were good, but you have to appreciate that they tried to shake up the formula. When you experiment with something new, chances are that the attempt will fail, but that's just how experiments work.
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Mar 14, 2021 20:48
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Cardiovorax posted:I think he only started doing that with Scholar, so it's probably something they did more as a neat afterthought because it fit the name they already had for the boss. No definitely not, Pursuer existed in DS2 and did the same things he does in Scholar. Scholar just adds a couple new spawns.
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Mar 14, 2021 20:52
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Zaphod42 posted:No definitely not, Pursuer existed in DS2 and did the same things he does in Scholar. Scholar just adds a couple new spawns.
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Mar 14, 2021 20:57
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Draga posted:It was a fun stream, even if I only caught the last half an hour or so. I forget that I am between 5-7 hours ahead of everyone and that if I start at 2:00pm then it could be as early as 9:00am for some people! The weekday streams will be much later  And I think I have met the pursuer in five separate places so far. Only managed to defeat him in four of them. One has about five dogs around it and it is so tough. I am bad at managing enemy numbers. Also I should probably heal.
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Mar 14, 2021 21:06
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I bet that was the one in the Bastille, it really catches you at a terrible moment.
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Mar 14, 2021 21:07
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The Bastille encounters are from Scholar for sure, they got even meaner with those
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Mar 14, 2021 21:24
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:New RPG campaign map Is that for the next Dark Sun reboot?
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Mar 14, 2021 21:29
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VideoGames posted:Just made my way to the huntsmans copse and already beaten the guy with the scorpion going into his eye. I think called the lost sinner I cannot recall That's no guy
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Mar 14, 2021 21:34
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Whoops! My mistake. And yes it was the bastille encounter. Very difficult but I will go back and beat him. Great club +6 heck yes!
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Mar 14, 2021 21:45
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VideoGames posted:Just made my way to the huntsmans copse and already beaten the guy with the scorpion going into his eye. I think called the lost sinner I cannot recall That boss is pretty awesome. Did you light the torches before the fight? DS2 has a few things like that, where there's a sorta subtle thing that'll actually make a boss fight easier if you do it ahead of time.
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Mar 14, 2021 21:52
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Hangovers that last all day are the literal worst This is why every drug should be legal. Tylenol doesn't ever fuckin work 
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Mar 14, 2021 21:54
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Simone Magus posted:Hangovers that last all day are the literal worst Pedialyte over ice with a bacon chaser.
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Mar 14, 2021 22:12
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VideoGames posted:Whoops! My mistake. I'm gonna spoiler tag this but it is something you should absolutely do if/when you have the chance, it just requires being in majula and is about some cool stuff you can get. Spend 15k souls at Maughlin's and then go talk to him again when you have 0 souls Note I only know that's true for the base game, idk if they changed it for Scholar of the First Sin or which version of the game you're playing.
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Mar 14, 2021 22:14
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Participating in my new ongoing mindfulness ritual where I get a headache starting at exactly 3:15 every day until 5:30 where I take ibuprofin
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Mar 14, 2021 22:51
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VideoGames posted:I forget that I am between 5-7 hours ahead of everyone and that if I start at 2:00pm then it could be as early as 9:00am for some people! Oh no, I'm English too so we're on the same time. I just didn't catch that you were on at first. FirstAidKite posted:I'm gonna spoiler tag this but it is something you should absolutely do if/when you have the chance, it just requires being in majula and is about some cool stuff you can get. It's the same in SotFS, I did it myself a few days ago.
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Mar 14, 2021 23:01
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RazzleDazzleHour posted:Participating in my new ongoing mindfulness ritual where I get a headache starting at exactly 3:15 every day until 5:30 where I take ibuprofin Don't mean to give unsolicited advice, but could it be because of back/neck problems from desk work? I had daily headaches for over a month until I realized they coincided with me getting a different pillow. After going back to a foam pillow, I immediately felt energized and the headaches went way. But I get similar symptoms when I spend too long in front of my pc.
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Mar 14, 2021 23:03
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Rinkles posted:Don't mean to give unsolicited advice, but could it be because of back/neck problems from desk work? I had daily headaches for over a month until I realized they coincided with me getting a different pillow. After going back to a foam pillow, I immediately felt energized and the headaches went way. But I get similar symptoms when I spend too long in front of my pc. Mmmmmmm I generally don't sit at a desk very often at work but it's possible. I definitely do a very different posture there than I do at home when I sit at my computer desk for at least eight hours a day and I've never had headaches before like, last week.
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Mar 14, 2021 23:08
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RazzleDazzleHour posted:Mmmmmmm I generally don't sit at a desk very often at work but it's possible. I definitely do a very different posture there than I do at home when I sit at my computer desk for at least eight hours a day and I've never had headaches before like, last week.
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Mar 14, 2021 23:10
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Just created a thread for Siralim Ultimate if anyone is playing it and wants to discuss  https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3962134
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Mar 14, 2021 23:26
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Zaphod42 posted:DS2 seemed to have a lot of ideas that exceeded its grasp and got cut. They clearly wanted to do a lot more with the lighting and shadow system. Imagine if putting out the torches would make it so yo could hide in a corner while the Pursuer walked by! Some resident evil in your Souls. Oh it was waaaay more interesting than that. Dark Souls 2 started as an open-world RPG like Breath of the Wild or Gothic/Risen and had to be completely scrapped because the engine they built it on was too unpolished and ran like poo poo on old consoles, forcing From to cut+paste development assets into a super rushed package. The cool lighting effects and shadows from the E3 videos were on the original engine. It's a miracle the game came out in time, to be honest. They were splitting development between DS2 and the DS1 DLC which turned out to be a terrible idea. I love DS2 and it's unfortunate that so many people blame its development woes on "the B team" when DS2 tried so hard to push and evolve the formula. https://youtu.be/td1HJEB3aKQ
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Mar 14, 2021 23:39
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i'm a Scholar of the First Sin liker but that's in the context of having beat the original several times. they really should have made it a remix mode option, because i think parts at least are really cool and i'm into the weird nonsense like the invisible guys that just sort of exist.
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Mar 14, 2021 23:50
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fridge corn posted:Being in and around London there is everything everywhere but there is a massive Korean community nearby with like 3 different full size supermarkets. Theres another massive Asian supermarket near my work as well as a beautiful middle eastern patisserie Did the Brick Lane bagel places close down? Those were dope. Propaganda Hour posted:Oh it was waaaay more interesting than that. Dark Souls 2 started as an open-world RPG like Breath of the Wild or Gothic/Risen and had to be completely scrapped because the engine they built it on was too unpolished and ran like poo poo on old consoles, forcing From to cut+paste development assets into a super rushed package. The cool lighting effects and shadows from the E3 videos were on the original engine. It's a miracle the game came out in time, to be honest. They were splitting development between DS2 and the DS1 DLC which turned out to be a terrible idea. I love DS2 and it's unfortunate that so many people blame its development woes on "the B team" when DS2 tried so hard to push and evolve the formula. DS2 definitely feels like an object lesson in the importance of good project management.
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Mar 14, 2021 23:50
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ds2 rips
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Mar 14, 2021 23:55
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Ah, great. Apparently there is a random crash bug in Prey and I just got to experience it firsthand. I love it when a game is not financially successful enough for them to bother fixing it.
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Mar 14, 2021 23:58
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Pedialyte over ice with a bacon chaser. I'm driving around this poo poo rear end little southern town looking for a decent burger but apparently everyone in America is spending their stimulus on dinner
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Mar 15, 2021 00:12
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Simone Magus posted:I'm driving around this poo poo rear end little southern town looking for a decent burger but apparently everyone in America is spending their stimulus on dinner 
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Mar 15, 2021 00:30
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Cardiovorax posted:But yeah, DS2 was really pretty ambitious in a lot of ways. Sadly, not all of the ideas were good, but you have to appreciate that they tried to shake up the formula. When you experiment with something new, chances are that the attempt will fail, but that's just how experiments work. DS2's one of those big "what if" games where I wonder what the end product would've been like with competent direction and a clear vision at the very start. Once you start digging into the cut content, you start to realize just how vast and expansive their plans were. Stuff like the original Gutter expresses a far grander ambition than what you see in the end game, and it's sad that it was never fully realized.
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Mar 15, 2021 01:01
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I've absorbed a lot of Scholar changes through osmosis despite never playing it, but those I haven't keep really surprising me when VG finds them. Like I knew about the Pursuer in the Bastille but had no idea he joins the two ogres in Things Betwixt.
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Mar 15, 2021 01:02
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In Scholar, there maaay be more than one pursuer encounter in the Bastille 
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Mar 15, 2021 01:15
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Lmfao
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Mar 15, 2021 01:24
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Oh gently caress, I could get Snowrunner and the season pass for 50 or P5 Strikers for 60 WHAT DO I DO
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Mar 15, 2021 01:33
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A high level technique is to buy both the games you want then barely play either of them
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Mar 15, 2021 01:45
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Vermain posted:DS2's one of those big "what if" games where I wonder what the end product would've been like with competent direction and a clear vision at the very start. Once you start digging into the cut content, you start to realize just how vast and expansive their plans were. Stuff like the original Gutter expresses a far grander ambition than what you see in the end game, and it's sad that it was never fully realized.
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Mar 15, 2021 01:45
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Help Im Alive posted:A high level technique is to buy both the games you want then barely play either of them This is why I'm a gaming master 
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Mar 15, 2021 01:54
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Help Im Alive posted:A high level technique is to buy both the games you want then barely play either of them I'm trying to not do that anymore!!! I went with Snowrunner, sans season pass. Probably pick that up later but there appears to be a lot of content in the base game
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Mar 15, 2021 02:05
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I am sure that is good too but I hope you are able to "support the Sophia Shop" in the near future
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Mar 15, 2021 02:09
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I picked up Metal Slug XX on the PS4 sale for $5 and despite being a big fan of the series and understanding of the quarter-munching habits of arcade games I found it to be the least fun I've had with a game in a while. Just, like, negative fun. Constantly dying seconds after respawning, being hit by things falling from the sky with no time to react, lasers hit-scanning me from off screen, just brutal. Most of the game seemed like asset flips and pallet swaps (I mean, the series has been using the same sprite sheets for a decade+ for most enemies) with nothing new to really excite me or spice things up. I think MS3 had the zombie power-up and the fat mode power-up to provide some variation, XX has 7 characters and relies on that for all the "excitement". Every time I found something kind of fun I was immediately killed and lost it, and there was no real dramatic swell in the action at the end of the game. It has a "combat school" mode which breaks down the stages into smaller challenges which I guess could help train me to learn patterns et al but at first blush it was such a frustrating experience I don't know that I'll really go back.
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Mar 15, 2021 02:16
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i don't know why everyone is suddenly playing dark souls 2 again and it makes me sad that i was permabanned from coop for no reason
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Mar 15, 2021 03:29
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I've come pretty close to 1ccing Metal Slug X (that final boss is ridiculous) and Metal Slug XX is a brutal experience. I know some of the non-standard characters can help, Fio starts with a heavy machinegun, Leona doesn't lose her weapon until she game overs, and all the characters/metal slugs have a special action that isn't explained very well. But overall it's low on the Metal Slug scale. You've probably already looked but the metal slug wiki & GameFAQs gets into it a little bit more if you're curious. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/996570-metal-slug-xx/55567610 https://metalslug.fandom.com/wiki/Leona_Heidern
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Kerrzhe posted:i don't know why everyone is suddenly playing dark souls 2 again and it makes me sad that i was permabanned from coop for no reason Sorry but your name for your character, “Bill the Assassin”, contains inappropriate language , it will be displayed as “Bill the ******in” when playing online
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