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The Merkinman posted:An interesting thing about the video game medium, is if a particular part is too difficult, then the individual can't experience anything further in the game. That's not the case with something like a book, where if a person doesn't know a word, the book prevents the reader from reading ahead anyway, or a movie that just stops because the person didn't understand what happened. Kind of a bad analogy. If you don't have the literacy to parse themes, contextualize events, notice parallels, and stuff like that you can "read to the end" while getting nothing out of the book other than "Gregor Samsa was a bug I guess."
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My own childhood one was "I don't understand what Micheal Crichton is talking about with all these kissing parts, but these dinosaur carnage parts are loving awesome." Only thing that has frustrated me about Dread is control-related, yeah. The grapple doesn't feel great and any time I need to aim the grapple manually quickly during a fight where I'm also using missiles can still cause me to hesitate because it hasn't become natural-feeling. Bits with storing a shinespark and going between a ball and back precisely feel a bit muddy sometimes with an analog stick too, where she stands up or crouches when I didn't intend to move it that far. The EMMI chases seem just about right though... I die a few times each time, but they are short enough to let you figure it out before it becomes frustrating. They don't trap you in those rooms with them for too long.
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GI_Clutch posted:Can't wait for Nintendo to announce the "Oops! All Shinespark Puzzles!" DLC for Metroid Dread. I love the Shinespark puzzles they feel real good to execute https://twitter.com/YesterdayIsSuck/status/1448851989673103363
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the dread controls are perfect
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Stux posted:the dread controls are perfect Another success for Nintendo in a decades-long streak of not making any mistakes
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Oct 15, 2021 14:52
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How's the water though?
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Willo567 posted:David Jaffe hasn't been relevant since God of War 2. He made an average Twisted Metal clone, directed the remake of Twisted Metal that only had three playable characters, and directed "Drawn to Death" which killed his studio and you can't even play anymore due to Sony shutting down the servers for it. God of War didn't get truly great until after he left, too
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Oct 15, 2021 15:01
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hatty posted:I love the Shinespark puzzles they feel real good to execute Ahhhh that's how you get that. I didn't know you could wall jump without losing the speed boost. Also who gives a poo poo about David Jaffe or what he thinks about a Metroid game
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Oct 15, 2021 15:03
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hatty posted:I love the Shinespark puzzles they feel real good to execute I'm kinda miffed about this one shinespark puzzle where I see what they want me to do, can't quite pull it off, and there's a nice long hallway in the background that would completely trivialize the challenge if Samus would just break the 2D plane. Poopy Palpy fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Oct 15, 2021 |
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Stux posted:the dread controls are perfect i'm amazed at how good it feels. sometimes i'll just stand around and shoot at walls because aiming and shooting is so much fun lol super metroid is overall my favorite metroid, but hoo boy will it be hard to go back to after 10 hours of dread
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Oct 15, 2021 15:05
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Animal crossing is finally adding goddamn Gyroids. The game is finally out of early access
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Senator Drinksalot posted:God of War didn't get truly great until after he left, too the third game happened after his departure so that series’ disease clearly wasn’t contained just to him
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Momomo posted:I'm having some amount of difficulty with Dread, but that's almost entirely because I keep standing in place trying to fire as many missiles at the boss as I can, and only dodge at the very last minute. I have a feeling the game would be pretty easy if I was just more patient. This seems generally true, you get wrecked very fast if you're just trying to plant and face tank. If you mostly avoid attacks successfully and plunk a few missiles at the boss every couple seconds your damage output is way lower but you will survive, and surviving while wearing down the boss gets you the counter opportunities you need to just blast it with dozens of missiles unopposed. Unloading thirty missiles into the boss right at the start 1) won't kill it 2) you're dead from not avoiding attacks A successful run against a boss probably takes at least a few minutes, you can't survive that long if you're consistently taking damage.
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Oct 15, 2021 15:17
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Nintendo online with N64 is $50 a year but includes the new Animal crossing DLC
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Oct 15, 2021 15:23
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Bug Squash posted:I'm getting powerful flashbacks to the time Jonathan Blow did a live stream of Breath of the Wild, prattling inanely about how empty and superficial the overworld was while walking straight past obvious secrets. https://twitter.com/beakfriends/status/1447653626395176969?s=20
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Oct 15, 2021 15:23
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Expansion Pack pricing They're also rolling in the Animal Crossing DLC as a bonus
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Oct 15, 2021 15:27
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hatty posted:Nintendo online with N64 is $50 a year but includes the new Animal crossing DLC 50 god drat dollars lol That’s a bit much.
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hatty posted:Nintendo online with N64 is $50 a year but includes the new Animal crossing DLC And the paid DLC for AC is actually enough to get me back in to the game. Holy poo poo, coupled with the free 2.0 update, it's a LOT. I have a sneaking suspicion that some Super Mario Maker 2 paid content is on the way, which will also be included in the expansion pack online.
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Oct 15, 2021 15:27
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whelp I guess I can live without genesis games
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Oct 15, 2021 15:27
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lmfaooooo
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Oct 15, 2021 15:28
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Good thing you don't have to upgrade to the NSO membership and they aren't forcing it on you!
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Just heard about the $50 upgraded Nintendo Online thing and came here to say: lmao
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Oct 15, 2021 15:29
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Willo567 posted:Good thing you don't have to upgrade to the NSO membership and they aren't forcing it on you! No way!! Thanks for the tip! Doesn’t make the price less stupid though.
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hatty posted:Nintendo online with N64 is $50 a year but includes the new Animal crossing DLC eugh
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JordanKai posted:Just heard about the $50 upgraded Nintendo Online thing and came here to say: lmao
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While yeah, it's a bit much, they're seemingly setting a precedent for including otherwise paid DLC in it. I hope that continues.
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I Encountered some Dungeons last night and I've got mixed feelings. I like the oversimplified design and there's potential for it to get real interesting but for the three or four dungeon levels I mapped I barely took any damage and it seemed like there were pretty obvious "right" approaches to the battles I fought. Granted I'm just starting to be able to afford different types of weapons so maybe monster and party variance will open up the decision space but I worry it might be too easy and become more of a numbers-go-up game than a numbers-go-up game with engaging combat. I'll definitely keep at it for a while since I'm still pretty early according to the very cool total-number-of-tiles indicator. But also there are a few other design decisions that they're going to stubbornly be wrong about. They made the obviously correct movement scheme locked behind holding a button, so you're basically always holding B in the dungeon, and even at the fastest settings the fights aren't terribly fast so you'll always be holding A through the easy encounters. It'd be so easy to make the combat actually fast and to add an option for the alternate movement mode to stay on all the time.
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If they ever put stuff on that membership plan that convinces me I need it, I'll probably open up my family membership to goons who want in for 10 bucks a year.
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https://store.nintendo.com/nintendo-64-controller.html https://store.nintendo.com/sega-genesis-control-pad.html new controllers are up for NSO members
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Oct 15, 2021 15:31
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I might buy the Animal Crossing DLC anyway so I may do the upgrade this year. Wonder if they’ll roll spl3toon DLC into it next year
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The higher price will actually be worth it if they start adding in new first party dlcs and partner third party dlcs for free, but you kind of have to actually say "Here's all the stuff you will be getting" you can't just randomly announce stuff as it comes and just expect people to subscribe on blind faith.
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50 quid a year doesn't seem like super expensive
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MarcusSA posted:No way!! Thanks for the tip! I don't even play online games on the PS4 and I like playing poo poo like Smash, New Horizons and Taiko online, plus I love playing old poo poo on the go, especially N64. Don't know why people are making a big deal about this
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Golden Goat posted:50 quid a year doesn't seem like super expensive it's exactly the same amount sony charges for PSN, which give you entire not-retro games every month
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John Wick of Dogs posted:The higher price will actually be worth it if they start adding in new first party dlcs and partner third party dlcs for free, but you kind of have to actually say "Here's all the stuff you will be getting" you can't just randomly announce stuff as it comes and just expect people to subscribe on blind faith. Or at the least say it’s a possibility. This kind of came from knowhere
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Also drat more than doubling it for a one generation move Gonna be a 100 if they ever do game boy games
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The Postman posted:https://store.nintendo.com/nintendo-64-controller.html Purchased the N64 controller.
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Rumble Functionality – Rumble support in compatible games, such as Star Fox™ 64 – no Rumble Pak™ required! what if i want to use the pak though
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hatty posted:I might buy the Animal Crossing DLC anyway so I may do the upgrade this year. Wonder if they’ll roll spl3toon DLC into it next year Oh gently caress, that's how they'll get me. 
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When they add GB/GBC it goes up to $60 then $70 for GBA.
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