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Thinking about Maple stealing enough rupees from Link that she goes and upgrades from a broom to a vacuum cleaner
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Apr 18, 2021 08:06
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Yeah I can totally see that, the Dana segment after that is totally implying that the castaways are gonna stumble upon some kind of world ending demon or something. It's too bad because this is enough of a compelling premise on it's own, but I guess Adol just can't crash a boat without running into an apocalypse plot
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Apr 18, 2021 08:07
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Arzaac posted:It's too bad because this is enough of a compelling premise on it's own, but I guess Adol just can't crash a boat without running into an apocalypse plot I actually really like survival/crafting games and the way that you have a sphere of safety and you gradually grow it as you gain more resources, but your base is always the centerpiece of your journey. Basically after this point in Ys the game just turns into a regular linear Ys game and drops the survival elements entirely
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Apr 18, 2021 08:15
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Redezga posted:Is the Eve Online Goonswarm still a thing? Yeah. They're still one of the top alliances and the target of the current war, that's in it's 40th week, at the moment.
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Apr 18, 2021 09:06
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Path of Exile had its big new season launch a couple of days ago now, and it was a bit of a clusterfuck. Extremely serious server issues meant that players were stuck in long queues to log in (up to an hour, sometimes) and, even then, could only play for maybe ten minutes before being booted and having to requeue, often having their latest in-game progress reversed in the process as well. Pretty much unplayable for most people. This only got fixed maybe eighteen hours after the season had started It did reveal that GGG (the PoE devs) allows the more popular streamers special queue-skipping powers, which in turn made a certain segment of the playerbase (on reddit, natch) to begin asking some Serious Questions. From what I’ve seen, the complaints are mostly centred around the argument that because the vast majority of PoE players play in the mode than enables trading, the advantage given to streamers who can skip queues also grants them undue economic power over everyone else — especially in this case, where, for all intents and purposes, they got one free extra day to play, while everyone else was in queuing hell Some of the outrage was aimed at one particular streamer whose name I can’t remember and won’t look up, who has a team of players that assist him in-game so that he can reach the endgame as quickly as possible. And it was revealed that these team members are also granted queue-skipping powers, despite not being streamers themselves, which of course exasperated the whole Ethics in Video Game Streaming controversy that was brewing Anyway just thought this was interesting. I don’t play on the “trade league” as it’s called so I’m not affected in the least
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Apr 18, 2021 09:45
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Such a miracle of life that you can teach cats to poop in designated toilets.
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Apr 18, 2021 10:13
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I played Cuphead for the first time yesterday. I think it could be considered as a Dark Souls of platformers and I will try to make a bit of a link. Now it is not exactly that way as there are no 'souls' to recollect upon death, however like dark souls death is just a limitation of that run. You do not have lives like most platformers, you can keep on trucking until you get past that moment. You could retry again and again and again and lose nothing and gain knowledge and ability to beat the path. The big bosses that are scattered about the map can be as optional as some you find in the souls series, or as part of the game to make progress. These bosses are bigger than you and full of patterns and require strategy and have phases (something the later entries did quite a lot in the souls series). Fighting them feels a lot like fighting a Paarl, or a Gundyr, or a Dark Lurker. You can customise your cup dude with things that can be a boon and a detriment and rearrange your playstyle to suit what you are wearing. Very much something that is encouraged in dark souls and vital to the beating of certain areas/bosses and not the usual kind of thing for platformers (Hollow Knight withstanding - definitelly a metroidsoulsia). You can parry in the game. Nuff said  Lastly it is difficult. Really difficult. Not unfair though and that is what I think the most important part of being a soulslike entails. It is easy to make something hard, but at the cost of balance and fairness. Games that try to be soulslike usually just give you fast, overpowered enemies and lots of them because hard = good. Cuphead is tough but rewards learning like Dark Souls rewards it. I died to the first run and gun level over and over as I was getting to grips with what was in front of me. On the run in which I beat that first level, I did it without getting hit and maximum points giving me an A+ rank. I felt the same kind of happiness I felt after learning how to approach and defeat a dark souls boss. I am crossing that bingo square off now
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Apr 18, 2021 10:20
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Rinkles posted:Such a miracle of life that you can teach cats to poop in designated toilets. They all know that it's possible the first time they spot someone doing it, they just choose not to
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Apr 18, 2021 10:22
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i'd argue that exploration, item lore and shortcut unlocks are important aspects to dark souls that cuphead doesn't cover but other platformers would i wish there were more boss rush games like cuphead, titan souls, furi, etc
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Apr 18, 2021 14:18
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I won't begrudge vg for like many people, having his eyes opened by dark souls and then trying to view everything through the dark souls lens. before realizing it's just the good game design lens
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Apr 18, 2021 14:24
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OhFunny posted:Yeah. Wow that's amazing. I fell out of the loop for a while as to what was going on with this website, but as far as I'm concerned they're one of the most iconic things this place has ever produced.
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Apr 18, 2021 14:53
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quote:The writer and creative director of Days Gone says that players shouldn't "complain if a game doesn't get a sequel" if they didn't buy it "at f-cking full price". Who the gently caress is complaining that there is no Days Gone sequel
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Apr 18, 2021 15:53
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Baller Time posted:Who the gently caress is complaining that there is no Days Gone sequel It was a really good game honestly
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Apr 18, 2021 15:54
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And yes I did buy it at FULL loving PRICE lol
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Apr 18, 2021 15:55
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i want a sequel Days Gone was fun also that postgame teaser was pretty cool
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Apr 18, 2021 16:03
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I'd sooner buy The Last of Us a third time than Days Gone or a sequel.
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Apr 18, 2021 16:03
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I’d rather never play any videogame again for the rest of my life than think about Days Gone.
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Apr 18, 2021 16:08
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Healbot posted:I’d rather never play any videogame again for the rest of my life
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Apr 18, 2021 16:17
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FirstAidKite posted:Thinking about Maple stealing enough rupees from Link that she goes and upgrades from a broom to a vacuum cleaner If you link the games she gets a UFO 
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Apr 18, 2021 16:18
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borderlands 3 prevents you from going to the next planet because claptrap presses a bunch of buttons and ruins the spaceship then it steals the hull breach gag from the MST3k movie where Tom Servo's butt plugs in the hole
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Apr 18, 2021 16:33
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Jay Rust posted:Path of Exile had its big new season launch a couple of days ago now, and it was a bit of a clusterfuck. Extremely serious server issues meant that players were stuck in long queues to log in (up to an hour, sometimes) and, even then, could only play for maybe ten minutes before being booted and having to requeue, often having their latest in-game progress reversed in the process as well. Pretty much unplayable for most people. This only got fixed maybe eighteen hours after the season had started This is why gamers need unions
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Apr 18, 2021 16:37
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Gaius Marius posted:If you link the games she gets a UFO drat, for a short streak my divorced parents would end up getting me two copies of those games trying to take advantage. Got Blue from mom, Red from dad. Two Robopons, two of something else I forgot. It's usually not actually worth playing the variant in and of itself, there's usually just some little gimmick to try and justify the split so I usually gave my extra copy away. Anyway, they broke that habit the same time it would've made sense, with the Oracle of Ages/Seasons deal. I still have my gameboy cart, battery might be dead by now though. Do the emulated versions of these have the connect features?
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Apr 18, 2021 16:42
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGuFZ_a7RU0 gently caress this is good
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Apr 18, 2021 16:50
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The 7th Guest posted:butt plugs in the hole
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Apr 18, 2021 16:54
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Gaius Marius posted:If you link the games she gets a UFO drat maple owns!!
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Apr 18, 2021 17:20
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Jay Rust posted:Anyway just thought this was interesting. I don’t play on the “trade league” as it’s called so I’m not affected in the least I think the most interesting thing this brings up is the idea of "streamer luck," where drop rates for popular streamers seem unusually high. It's always just been a meme, but if GGG have let this guy's team of people who boost him get queue-granting powers, that means they're already going into these people's individual accounts and giving them special permissions. Obviously they care a lot about the top streamers showing off endgame content, so is it really a stretch that they would boost drop rates if they're already doing queue-skipping on the front-end? For the record, I'm not just talking about PoE here, I've always wondered if this was something tons of game devs did RazzleDazzleHour fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Apr 18, 2021 |
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Apr 18, 2021 17:46
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Baller Time posted:Who the gently caress is complaining that there is no Days Gone sequel Me. I'd play it
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Apr 18, 2021 17:50
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Khanstant posted:drat, for a short streak my divorced parents would end up getting me two copies of those games trying to take advantage. Got Blue from mom, Red from dad. Two Robopons, two of something else I forgot. It's usually not actually worth playing the variant in and of itself, there's usually just some little gimmick to try and justify the split so I usually gave my extra copy away. Anyway, they broke that habit the same time it would've made sense, with the Oracle of Ages/Seasons deal. I still have my gameboy cart, battery might be dead by now though. Do the emulated versions of these have the connect features? Yeah you can use passwords to link the games. It really wasn't supposed to be a trade with your friends scenario but more of a continue your adventure from one to the next. So they prolly didn't wanna force you to have two game boys https://zelda.fandom.com/wiki/Linked_Game It also unlocks he final ganon fight
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Apr 18, 2021 17:54
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i made a pizza with an antisocial amount of garlic on it, the whole house is full of the smell of roasted garlic
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Apr 18, 2021 17:56
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RazzleDazzleHour posted:I think the most interesting thing this brings up is the idea of "streamer luck," where drop rates for popular streamers seem unusually high. It's always just been a meme, but if GGG have let this guy's team of people who boost him get queue-granting powers, that means they're already going into these people's individual accounts and giving them special permissions. Obviously they care a lot about the top streamers showing off endgame content, so is it really a stretch that they would boost drop rates if they're already doing queue-skipping on the front-end? i don't play poe because they never managed to patch in a fun beginning, but the 'streamer privilege' stuff comes up any time a game gets slammed and the big streamers all seem to get in. i always wondered if there was any truth to it because it makes sense from the company's perspective to keep their streamers playing. that's not really a huge deal, but i can imagine a lot of players getting turned off if they learned that the streamer crowd was just straight up getting a better experience for advertising reasons. wasn't that the basis of those CSGO gambling scams, the streamers were getting rigged drops to give the impression you won rare skins all the time?
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Apr 18, 2021 18:03
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it's very funny watching vtubers play those online crane game sites, because you wanna talk about streamer advantage, that's the sleaziest most obvious poo poo ever. the hand of god coming down and moving things around in the machine to make it easier and then you look at the reddit for those sites and they're full of stories of people dropping $20 to slowly slide a stuffed animal to the right position for an hour and then the site shutting the machine down and resetting it
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Apr 18, 2021 18:20
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UFO catchers have always been a scam. You would think by now, people would stop falling for them.
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Apr 18, 2021 18:25
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Valve don't hire anyone to do community moderation in their games so for games like Dota, the report system is automatic, x amount of reports means you get Low Priority (can only play non-ranked game modes, can't pick your hero). To balance that, they only give you a certain number of reports per week, but if action is taken against a player by them getting mass-reported you get them back. Lastly, you can only report people in games you play with. Every high-level pub player started mass-reporting streamers and pro players to keep them permanently stuck in low prio. Once the most famous player RTZ complained about it, Valve did the privilege thing where certain pro players and streamers couldn't be put into low prio. But, too many pro players complained and they didn't want to keep adding people to the list so at some point they just made reports do nothing and a year later they gave you an avoid list of players who you won't be put on a team with if you pay 5$ a month for Dota Plus. Within the last few months they added the League Tribunal system to the game where now players will get report instances to look at an pass judgement on
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Apr 18, 2021 18:29
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dioxazine posted:UFO catchers have always been a scam. You would think by now, people would stop falling for them.
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Apr 18, 2021 18:33
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homeless snail posted:it's very funny watching vtubers play those online crane game sites, because you wanna talk about streamer advantage, that's the sleaziest most obvious poo poo ever. the hand of god coming down and moving things around in the machine to make it easier This can't be real Streaming crane games, online crane games, etc
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Apr 18, 2021 18:43
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There are streams where the streamer does nothing but open loot boxes for hours at a time
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Apr 18, 2021 18:46
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haveblue posted:There are streams where the streamer does nothing but open loot boxes for hours at a time There are also streams where certain players are allowed to skip gameplay queues and their friends who boost them are also allowed to It is strange, truly, how sometimes experiences can be different for different people playing completely different games
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Apr 18, 2021 18:53
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Acerbatus posted:This can't be real
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Apr 18, 2021 18:54
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homeless snail posted:for sure but a dude sitting next to the machine deciding arbitrarily whether you win or lose is some especially carnie poo poo Are you sure there isn't someone in the box at the arcades doing the manipulation?!
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Apr 18, 2021 19:07
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:i made a pizza with an antisocial amount of garlic on it, the whole house is full of the smell of roasted garlic The spotting on this  how did you bake it
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