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Boba Pearl posted:So I've always wanted to get into bullet hells, but never did because it seems like it was impossible to figure out where you were getting shot from, or how the gently caress you were supposed to dodge things.
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I think there's some color, but it's all set against a black and white background and there's never a case where you need to distinguish between two colors to survive anything.
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Sep 8, 2021 17:29
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I think the bullet hells in Undertale are black-and-white, aren't they? There are some parts where color is important, but I seem to vaguely recall it might have a colorblind mode
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Sep 8, 2021 17:29
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ZeroRanger is the greatest shmup and greatest game of all time and has 7 different color schemes to choose from. I recommend it.
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Sep 8, 2021 17:42
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Another voice for PGA 2k21, that game is great, it's really a sequel to The Golf Club 2 which was also a very solid game. Once you get the hang of it with all the visuals you can start cutting out assists so that you're shooting more blindly and make it harder. Really fun game, although it's mostly just golfing, don't expect a bunch of game modes or some super involved campaign. Neon Abyss was okay and Narita Boy looks amazing but I still haven't managed to get very far in it, the signposting can be lacking since i got lost and couldn't figure out where I had to go. repiv posted:also yeah the 360 dpad was garbage lol It's actually really good. Best thing about it is how tough it is, it doesn't break and it takes forever to even get a little drift. The fact that it comes with a non-bluetooth dongle is also a huge plus since it is way stronger and more reliable than bluetooth. With my new Series gamepad that connects through bluetooth it works well for the most part, but if I lean back and cross my legs so they get between the pad and my PC (I play on a couch with my PC next to the bigscreen TV) it tends to lose connection way too easily and be frustrating. 360 in comparison first of all is a drat tank, super tough, and second of all connects better. I wish they still sold them new, seems like they've stopped making them unfortunately and even used ones can be expensive. Anyone have any suggestions for a third party controller that has the XBOX style of stick layout with the DPAD below the left hand stick? I'm too used to it, I can't use a dual shock now my hands are too big and the stick position feels really uncomfortable. But if there are any xbox style third party gamepads that are good I'd be super interested in those.
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Sep 8, 2021 20:03
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all of my 360 pads died which marks the first and only console ive owned to do that so far. i had all 4 pads develop stick drift famously small controllers ds4 and dualsense lol just get the dongle for the xbox pad if the bluetooth connection is dropping. the adapter uses wifi direct or whatever it is they use justlike the 360 pads did.
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Sep 8, 2021 20:15
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I had a 360 pad die but I used it for like 8 years and it didn’t die as much as the rubber for the thumb stick started falling apart. My joycons for my switch lasted like two weeks before getting minor problems with the sticks and were unusable within like six months.
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Sep 8, 2021 20:24
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yeah im asuming my switch will join the list lol
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Sep 8, 2021 20:26
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The game isn’t out yet but drat Dice Legacy looks like a lot of fun! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1229460/Dice_Legacy/ quote:
This is a pretty decent early review of the game https://youtu.be/z_OapmO-GOA
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Sep 8, 2021 21:30
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MarcusSA posted:The game isn’t out yet but drat Dice Legacy looks like a lot of fun! Looks great but taking the RNG out of the background and making it all foreground is a great way to get frothing angry  response. One of the open secrets for video games based on RNG is that it's not actually random its generally weighted to benefit the player and "70%" actually means like 85% in practice to keep people happy.
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Sep 8, 2021 21:40
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Humans are notoriously bad at understanding true randomness and will make up weird narratives like they're "due" for a big payout on the next pull because they failed the last 20 times in a row. This is why the house always wins and you think failing to hit a dude with 90% accuracy three times in a row should never happen. In an open system with many inputs, uncommon events happen all the time. In fact, they will happen an infinite number of times. I feel like my teenage years playing Diablo 2 and Phantasy Star Online conditioned me to embrace the inherent unfairness of the universe in a way that many people never properly develop.
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Sep 8, 2021 21:45
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This pile of rocks needs 30 more points in lockpicking than what I have. Damned tech rocks. 
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Sep 8, 2021 21:51
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bees x1000 posted:ZeroRanger is the greatest shmup and greatest game of all time and has 7 different color schemes to choose from. I recommend it. I haven't played many shmups but listen to this person. They're right. Even if you think you're not good at shmups, the game ramps up in forgiveness as you go on.
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exquisite tea posted:Humans are notoriously bad at understanding true randomness and will make up weird narratives like they're "due" for a big payout on the next pull because they failed the last 20 times in a row. This is why the house always wins and you think failing to hit a dude with 90% accuracy three times in a row should never happen. In an open system with many inputs, uncommon events happen all the time. In fact, they will happen an infinite number of times. I feel like my teenage years playing Diablo 2 and Phantasy Star Online conditioned me to embrace the inherent unfairness of the universe in a way that many people never properly develop. It's easier to make good games with clamps and assists in your RNG since random stuff is often bullshit but I love a good occasional tyranny of the dice game done well where the systems bolster you enough that 10x failures aren't the end of the world. Always hate when something really awful happens, I look up the mechanics, put it on a Poisson distribution, and see someone should have known this was going to happen to 1/3 people playing the game.
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Sep 8, 2021 22:53
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Speaking of Humble Choice actually being good, I finished Paradise Killer from a couple of bundles ago and thought it was fantastic. It's a ...VN with exploration...game in which you play
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Trickyblackjack posted:Speaking of Humble Choice actually being good, I finished Paradise Killer from a couple of bundles ago and thought it was fantastic. It's a ...VN with exploration...game in which you play Oh, I think I'm going to push this to the top of the backlog. It looked interesting, but you definitively sold me on it more.
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Sep 8, 2021 23:16
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ymgve posted:There are some parts where color is important, but I seem to vaguely recall it might have a colorblind mode Edit: His note on twitter
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Sep 8, 2021 23:20
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I put about 3 hours into Forager last night and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I kinda like it but there are things I kinda dislike about it. First off the fact that each new area you unlock isn’t actually connected to each other kinda drives me nuts. Second the fact that you can and in my case actually often do end up hitting and damaging your stuff bugs me too. I dunno I don’t hate it but I’m not sure if it’s quite hitting the right notes for me. I also played about an hour into Monster Harvest and while it’s a neat take on the Star Dew Valley idea for some reason the controller support is half baked and just seems off for some reason. I’m gonna give it some time before I get back into it and see if they resolve it. It does have potential though.
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MarcusSA posted:I put about 3 hours into Forager last night and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I kinda like it but there are things I kinda dislike about it. You eventually get the ability to fill in those missing squares with landfill, I ended up paving over all the water tiles on the map last time I played because I was out of stuff to do. Hitting your own stuff IS definitely annoying, but eventually you get items that really simplify gathering to the point where you are really never swinging your pickaxe around your base anymore. Honestly I really liked Forager, it's definitely not for everyone but the gradual ramp-up of abilities and automation throughout the game is pretty satisfying. I bought it on Android after the latest update and played through most of it on the phone with touch controls and it actually translated pretty well there, too. Combat was hard but for the most part it was totally playable.
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Sep 8, 2021 23:30
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Foliage in every game looks poky/rough/crystalline/whatever. Just like when you apply sharpening to a photograph. Anti-aliasing and all graphics settings are always at highest settings. Why? Is it possible that my PC is applying sharpening to everything the monitor displays?
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explosivo posted:You eventually get the ability to fill in those missing squares with landfill, I ended up paving over all the water tiles on the map last time I played because I was out of stuff to do. Hitting your own stuff IS definitely annoying, but eventually you get items that really simplify gathering to the point where you are really never swinging your pickaxe around your base anymore. Honestly I really liked Forager, it's definitely not for everyone but the gradual ramp-up of abilities and automation throughout the game is pretty satisfying. I bought it on Android after the latest update and played through most of it on the phone with touch controls and it actually translated pretty well there, too. Combat was hard but for the most part it was totally playable. Oh that’s good to know! I think I’m gonna stick with it a bit more then.
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Mescal posted:Foliage in every game looks poky/rough/crystalline/whatever. Just like when you apply sharpening to a photograph. Anti-aliasing and all graphics settings are always at highest settings. Why? Is it possible that my PC is applying sharpening to everything the monitor displays? You may have a gfx card software suite that's applying its own settings, overruling in-application stuff.
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Sep 8, 2021 23:46
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Mescal posted:Foliage in every game looks poky/rough/crystalline/whatever. Just like when you apply sharpening to a photograph. Anti-aliasing and all graphics settings are always at highest settings. Why? Is it possible that my PC is applying sharpening to everything the monitor displays? Depending on the anti-aliasing settings, many of the more modern implementations have really bad sharpening, blurring or other issues that are super noticable depending on the game. SMAA, TXAA in particular are really bad. If it's not that then it's probably your nvidia/amd control panel.
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Sep 8, 2021 23:48
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Mescal posted:Foliage in every game looks poky/rough/crystalline/whatever. Just like when you apply sharpening to a photograph. Anti-aliasing and all graphics settings are always at highest settings. Why? Is it possible that my PC is applying sharpening to everything the monitor displays? It's normal. I too noticed that at some point, many years ago. I tried a lot of things and found that TAA is really the only anti-aliasing that does anything to those particular jaggies. With any luck you'll stop noticing at some point and if not then I hope you enjoy your cursed existence.
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Nyaa posted:I recall Toby made an update that change all the color bullet in battle to be colorblind friendly. There's more then one type of colorblind, I have blue yellow, so telling the difference between blue and green is hard that said I liked undertake which is why I wanted more but I guess that's just not an option with bullet hell games.
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Makai Kingdom and ZHP on the PC? Holy poo poo!  https://twitter.com/gematsucom/status/1435594626950438913
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Jagged Jim posted:Makai Kingdom and ZHP on the PC? Holy poo poo! Holy poo poo! I love Makai Kingdom!
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Boba Pearl posted:There's more then one type of colorblind, I have blue yellow, so telling the difference between blue and green is hard that said I liked undertake which is why I wanted more but I guess that's just not an option with bullet hell games. 
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Boba Pearl posted:There's more then one type of colorblind, I have blue yellow, so telling the difference between blue and green is hard that said I liked undertake which is why I wanted more but I guess that's just not an option with bullet hell games. The Void Rains Upon Her Heart has an option to turn off the backgrounds entirely, and you might not even find that you need to use this setting all the time as the projectiles are all big and chunky, and the game's roguelike elements mean that any given boss is not tied to one particular level background. It's also quite a good game for bullet hell novices as there is a scaling risk/reward difficulty system built into the game's core mechanics. I love it.
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Det_no posted:It's normal. I too noticed that at some point, many years ago. I tried a lot of things and found that TAA is really the only anti-aliasing that does anything to those particular jaggies. With any luck you'll stop noticing at some point and if not then I hope you enjoy your cursed existence. It's normal? And all these gamers who obsess over graphics and spend money on it don't notice and don't complain? Could I steal their monitors, swap them for a 30fps 1800px one and they wouldn't notice either? What moronic demon decided that you should put a sharpening program inside an anti-aliasing program? Did they have two isolated programmers design them separately, then a third blind person put them together? "This one makes the graphics look better, and so does the other one! Put em together for efficiency." What do they think sharpening and anti-aliasing ARE?
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Mescal posted:It's normal? And all these gamers who obsess over graphics and spend money on it don't notice and don't complain? Could I steal their monitors, swap them for a 30fps 1800px one and they wouldn't notice either? What moronic demon decided that you should put a sharpening program inside an anti-aliasing program? Did they have two isolated programmers design them separately, then a third blind person put them together? "This one makes the graphics look better, and so does the other one! Put em together for efficiency." What do they think sharpening and anti-aliasing ARE? Have you seen the average ReShade preset that people make and advertise as "Ultra Photorealistic Skyrim ReShade!" and it looks like someone slopped high contrast paint everywhere and then fired a flare directly into your cornea? I've never been able to decide if it's bad monitors or people genuinely don't understand what good aesthetics and visual design are but it's probably both.
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Mescal posted:It's normal? And all these gamers who obsess over graphics and spend money on it don't notice and don't complain? Could I steal their monitors, swap them for a 30fps 1800px one and they wouldn't notice either? What moronic demon decided that you should put a sharpening program inside an anti-aliasing program? Did they have two isolated programmers design them separately, then a third blind person put them together? "This one makes the graphics look better, and so does the other one! Put em together for efficiency." What do they think sharpening and anti-aliasing ARE? Sorry, I have no idea how it actually works. But it probably looks something like left, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1ufM3SxgyE
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Jagged Jim posted:Makai Kingdom and ZHP on the PC? Holy poo poo!
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Mescal posted:It's normal? And all these gamers who obsess over graphics and spend money on it don't notice and don't complain? Could I steal their monitors, swap them for a 30fps 1800px one and they wouldn't notice either? What moronic demon decided that you should put a sharpening program inside an anti-aliasing program? Did they have two isolated programmers design them separately, then a third blind person put them together? "This one makes the graphics look better, and so does the other one! Put em together for efficiency." What do they think sharpening and anti-aliasing ARE?
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zedprime posted:Brave to assume these people know what a tree looks like. I know that a tree looks like, I just don't understand how people can think Brown / Orange exists.
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Obviously the best solution is the one that The Surge 2 has, which is offering two AA options: One is making everything blurrier without removing any aliasing, and the other one just doesn't do anything at all.
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For anyone playing Encased, be sure to have like 15 points or so just ready to use if you come across a locked chest or something that needs more points. Just like any Fallouty RPG really. Its come in handy for me a few times. Though I havent seen a way to put points into say Strength yet after character creation. Some things take force to get into making me kinda sad I went low Str. There are items like Lockpicks for lockpicking or Floppies for hacking that give you X amount above your stats needed. Also magazines for temp +stats like light weapons. And this really is just Fallout mixed with Stalker. Tells an interesting story. Pretty enjoyable. e: Speaking of, I just found some Power Armor OgNar fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Sep 9, 2021 |
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Oh yeah, I beat Turok 2 thanks to the cheat menu, because no way was I going back to get all the Primagen keys and figure out where the one objective I missed was. Meeeeeeeeeeeh. I think it's a perfect example of a game that actually has aged poorly, and playing it made me remember "right, this was primarily a N64 game, wasn't it." Its biggest problem was definitely its level design, specifically the fact that almost all the fights happened in narrow corridors against enemies with little capability or space to really maneuver. Its other big problem relates to said enemies. You rarely fight more than three at a time, and they're pretty bullet spongy if you don't headshot them, though that's also less of a thing when you get the bigger guns.
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Sep 9, 2021 01:58
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Yeah but the Cerebral Bore will always be the best gun in an FPS
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Squiggle posted:Yeah but the Cerebral Bore will always be the best gun in an FPS Wasn't "The Cerebral Bore" Zizek's nickname in college?
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