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I'm playing the FFVII Remake over the holidays on PC and having a good time with it. My controller is broken and the new Xbox X controllers are £90 at the moment so I took a risk and went with the Kb/Mouse controls, and they're actually pretty good.... Right up until the first Roche motorbike sequence I would love to meet the team that decided on the mappings, because I can only assume they have hideously mutated fingers. Who decided to ignore the mouse entirely, and squeeze all the keyboard buttons next to each other? Who thought of putting attack right and attack left on the R and F keys respectively? While guarding with Ctrl, long range attacking with Alt, and accelerating with X? Special attack on E? WHAT KIND OF MAD HANDS DO YOU HAVE. I got through it, just, by performing some weird hand over hand manuever that I can only describe as playing the piano backwards while drunk. It is without a doubt the stupidest bit of PC port control hackery I've ever seen, and I went without a controller on my rig for many, many years with very little issue. I literally had to call on the same skills I use to play weird musical instruments to get through a straight-forward on rails fight sequence. It is pants-on-head, toothbrush up nose level ridiculous.
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My Lovely Horse posted:... well poo poo, there's the workaround. All three areas let you use the information you found there to get back to them easily.
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My Lovely Horse posted:... well poo poo, there's the workaround. It's hax but it's at least convenient that these options exist for people who absolutely don't want to bother with the stealth sections and don't mind looking up a workaround
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My gf is currently playing through Cyberpunk (crashy, but not too buggy so that's good) and there's a sound that plays while you're in the pause menu setting up your equipment and poo poo. It's basically three notes that sound like some sort of high-pitched machine whirr or some sort, and it sounds exactly like three notes present in the Gerudo Desert music of Ocarina of Time. Bugs me every time I hear it (which is about every twenty seconds or so).
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Dec 27, 2021 18:26
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If I come across a group of enemies in an online game I’ll shoot the person with cosmetics first if there’s nothing else dictating my bullets. Like in Battlefront 2015 they gave people a black storm trooper outfit for hitting max rank and you bet I targeted those guys first. That’s why I never bother with the fancy cosmetics and make myself look as basic as possible.
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Dec 27, 2021 21:52
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moosecow333 posted:If I come across a group of enemies in an online game I’ll shoot the person with cosmetics first if there’s nothing else dictating my bullets. Exactly. All that bling does is make that player a juicer target.
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Relatedly, I've been playing Splitgate recently and it's really annoying how certain player skins make it hard to tell what team a person is on. I constantly have to learn, every match, "okay, the guy with the weird greenish armor is on the red team" or whatever and reprogram my brain. I use the default armor because I don't want to inflict this problem on others. Occasionally there will be people with the same terrible skin on both sides and then you're just hosed. I've shot a lot of bullets at my teammates.
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Dec 27, 2021 22:50
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moosecow333 posted:If I come across a group of enemies in an online game I’ll shoot the person with cosmetics first if there’s nothing else dictating my bullets. The only cosmetic I've cared about is the Easter bunny hoodie for that one chick in Cold War People get MAD
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Dec 27, 2021 23:02
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Man Outlast 2 is just as completely miserable as I remember huh. Not the enthralling type of miserable, the boring kind. Red Barrels truly had no idea why people liked the first game. Played it through a while back but yesterday I streamed it being like "oh we'll talk about where they went wrong and why it's so different in tone to the first and" then I didn't make it past like a quarter of the way through. Not even misery porn because that implies competence enough to create misery instead of uninspired tropes hashed together to make women suffer in order to punish men, something the game has the protagonist warble out nervously word-for-word as if showing it is intentional alone would give it any depth. The writing just wiggles back and forth between obligatory and petulant, refusing to admit that the first game's atmosphere came from its isolation and that having a story to slow down the game where you already wander around slowly in the dark was a bad idea.
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Outlast is too spooky for me and I can't even get past the first time some massive loony starts chasing you I don't need the ability to kill things in EVERY game but dude why did you not bring an ineffective pistol so I can at least feel like I have some sort of response. Doesn't help I can't put the camera down cuz I like pretending I am filming everything
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Dec 27, 2021 23:19
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Some random buff motherfucker running at you down a hallway only occasionally illuminated by fluorescents is legit one of the scariest things in gaming. What is NOT the scariest thing in gaming is an inexplicably 8-foot-tall wight with a pickaxe dragging your pregnant wife by the head down an alley.
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Outlast 3 - one of the crazy people sees you with the Camera and is like "Oh, you making a movie? Cool." "Actually this time it's streaming live" "OH, neat. HELLO INTERNET PEOPLE! My name is marcus, I'm about to turn this guy inside out. It's nothing personal, it's just a hobby. *Grabs the camera, slams the protagonist on the table* so the first thing when turning people inside out is where to make the best incision. You may think the middle of the sternum, but that results in a lot of blood and it's hard to see what you are doing, TRUST ME, I've done this a lot, I know. I prefer to go along the top of the chest, that way the collarbones form a nice channel and keep things out of the way...."
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Phigs posted:Man thinking about it DS3 it's just a blur in my mind, every fight feels like it's the same pace to my memory. Just an endless smear of quick reaction dodges and getting in 1, maybe 2 hits before I gotta do it again. i just finished a replay of ds3 and it did get kind of annoying if a boss decided it was going to do its 8 hit combo with weird fakeouts over and over, especially if you had a slow weapon. i also hated those pus of man enemies but they helped me discover the most truly overpowered weapon in ds3 which is knowing when to run the gently caress away and not deal with that bullshit. ASenileAnimal has a new favorite as of 23:48 on Dec 27, 2021 |
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verbal enema posted:The only cosmetic I've cared about is the Easter bunny hoodie for that one chick in Cold War There are two types of Division 2 players: those who think the Sun's Out Guns Out apparel event (not the actual name) brought the best clothing options in the game (including swim trunks, flowered shirts, sandals with socks, and a bright yellow raincoat with the hood up), and those who are wrong. There are already enough super-spec-ops tacitcool clothing options in games. There should be more bright colors and fun hats. That goes for games (and life) in general, not just Div 2. Thread content: I've been playing Freedom Fighters (thanks to a secret santa thing) recently, and it mostly holds up (still looks like a ps2 game but the gameplay is solid), until you hit the mission where they don't let you bring a squad because it's a solo stealth mission. I think you can rescue some prisoners and they become your squad, but the game is built around having a whole crowd of dudes following you around, and taking that away just feels wrong. Relatedly (and ironically), when Kane & Lynch: Dead Men becomes about literal freedom fighters (the Havana section), it doesn't feel as good as the game Freedom Fighters. It's me, the guy who was excited to see the Lynch outfit in nu-Hitman and is disappointed that IOI will likely never make another K&L game.
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Dec 28, 2021 01:03
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DontMockMySmock posted:Relatedly, I've been playing Splitgate recently and it's really annoying how certain player skins make it hard to tell what team a person is on. I constantly have to learn, every match, "okay, the guy with the weird greenish armor is on the red team" or whatever and reprogram my brain. I use the default armor because I don't want to inflict this problem on others. Occasionally there will be people with the same terrible skin on both sides and then you're just hosed. I've shot a lot of bullets at my teammates. Dunno why games don't have an option for your character's color cosmetics to apply to your whole team. Just have each color be clientside, like how in america's army you were always playing army vs terrorists
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Tunicate posted:like how in america's army you were always playing army vs terrorists Sometimes they fight civilians too e: oh you meant the game
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There are so many goddamn trash encounters in Ruined King that I cannot imagine anyone, even a person who enjoys the combat system, finding it to be a fun experience.
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Tunicate posted:Dunno why games don't have an option for your character's color cosmetics to apply to your whole team. Just have each color be clientside, like how in america's army you were always playing army vs terrorists They do that with the team colors; by default it's teammates are blue, enemies are red. The issue is that with certain skins their various green or whatever colored design elements on the armor dominate over the red or blue color-changing parts. Captain Hygiene posted:Sometimes they fight civilians too 
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Dec 28, 2021 01:39
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DontMockMySmock posted:They do that with the team colors; by default it's teammates are blue, enemies are red. The issue is that with certain skins their various green or whatever colored design elements on the armor dominate over the red or blue color-changing parts. Yeah i mean if you give yourself green armor your whole team should be green on your screen
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Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal, of all games, did that on PS2. Blue team blue ratchet. Red team red ratchet. That game's multiplayer was fun as all hell tyrannoids can eat my dilz
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Dec 28, 2021 02:18
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Tunicate posted:Yeah i mean if you give yourself green armor your whole team should be green on your screen I mean their whole business model is based around people going "oh that skin is so cool! i should try to unlock it, which may or may not involve buying the premium 'battle pass'," so I doubt that's a feature they're gonna add anytime soon
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beats for junkies posted:Thread content: yeah i recently replayed through this myself and hit the same snag. i mustve erased it from my memory because i do not remember it. the only saving grace is that after hitting my head against a wall trying to be super stealthy, i realized the game is only paying lip service to you sneaking around, so you can just go full last action hero with no real consequences... except then, as you say, youre just playing a standard level handicapped because you have no squad. lame
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CJacobs posted:Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal, of all games, did that on PS2. Blue team blue ratchet. Red team red ratchet. That game's multiplayer was fun as all hell tyrannoids can eat my dilz Hey, speaking of Ratchet and Clank, I got a refurished PS2 for xmas and dusted off my old games. I love R&C but I hate that I have to have a cheat sheet to remember what order they go in. Just number your sequels, you bastards!
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Judge Tesla posted:You are correct because Halo Infinite is copying other battle pass games like Destiny and Call of Duty but doing it much worse because at least in Destiny you can do literally anything at all to get Battle Pass XP. Yeah, instead Destiny made you do inane poo poo in PvP for quests to unlock weapons, even weapons that weren't designed for PvP. gently caress you forever, Mountaintop.
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Dec 28, 2021 05:48
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I have been playing Splitgate instead and it is so much more fun with the portal gun gimmick which is kind of embarrassing for Halo because its gameplay is otherwise stock Halo clone
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beats for junkies posted:It's me, the guy who was excited to see the Lynch outfit in nu-Hitman and is disappointed that IOI will likely never make another K&L game. I think they only bought the Hitman IP when they split from Square-Enix, so K&L is probably dead outside of easter eggs. Which I'm fine with honestly because the original game ended perfectly and the sequel didn't really build on it, even if the YouTube aesthetic was cool. Maybe it's for the other thread but K&L is pretty interesting to play nowadays, it predates the trend but it feels like a perfect response to dad games. It shows a dad games dad for what they are: an irredeemable piece of poo poo that blames everyone else for their problems. Having the endings be everyone hates you and/or is dead vs everyone hates you and/or is dead except for Lynch is a great way to close the story.
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DontMockMySmock posted:They do that with the team colors; by default it's teammates are blue, enemies are red. The issue is that with certain skins their various green or whatever colored design elements on the armor dominate over the red or blue color-changing parts. Reminds me of Planetside 2's purchasable cosmetics. There were a handful of armor camos that were highly desirable because they broke the color scheming each side used such as a hot pink hearts camo for Valentine's Day. Giraffe was another one. There was one decal (A heart + Arrow iirc) that was the same color scheme (Red+Black) as one faction but was purchasable by anyone; they patched it so that the decal inherited your faction's color scheme but grandfathered in everyone who had already purchased it. EDIT: I am also reminded of a game Deceit, which was a game of Werewolf/Mafia/Among Us. There were "night phases" where the imposters transformed and killed the innocents. You could buy a werewolf night-time transformation DLC that would of course immediately out you to anyone who knew you had that DLC Evilreaver has a new favorite as of 08:17 on Dec 28, 2021 |
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Dec 28, 2021 08:09
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Crowetron posted:Hey, speaking of Ratchet and Clank, I got a refurished PS2 for xmas and dusted off my old games. I love R&C but I hate that I have to have a cheat sheet to remember what order they go in. Just number your sequels, you bastards! Battlefield 1 the 8th(?) entry in the franchise.
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Crowetron posted:Hey, speaking of Ratchet and Clank, I got a refurished PS2 for xmas and dusted off my old games. I love R&C but I hate that I have to have a cheat sheet to remember what order they go in. Just number your sequels, you bastards! The best one is Gladiator anyway (the fourth one that no one talks about). It's a great satire of capitalism and machismo
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beats for junkies posted:Relatedly (and ironically), when Kane & Lynch: Dead Men becomes about literal freedom fighters (the Havana section), it doesn't feel as good as the game Freedom Fighters. Yup, in the divorce between Square-Enix and IO Interactive the former kept the rights to Mini Ninjas and Kane & Lunch*. So I wouldn't be surprised if IO is currently working on Hitman 3 DLC, the Bond game and something to do with Freedom Fighters. They've got 3 different studios now and I imagine they're not just there to support each other. * Auto spelling correction preserved Mierenneuker has a new favorite as of 10:03 on Dec 28, 2021 |
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Evilreaver posted:Reminds me of Planetside 2's purchasable cosmetics. There were a handful of armor camos that were highly desirable because they broke the color scheming each side used such as a hot pink hearts camo for Valentine's Day. Giraffe was another one. They do a similar very annoying thing in War Thunder. You can customize your tank's exterior with various bits and bobs, like helmets, gas cans, spare tracks, and so on. In principle that's not much of an issue, but then they went and also added great big camouflage bushes as an option. Cue literally every sweaty tryhard just absolutely covering their tanks with it. Even just one or two can be enough to obscure potential weak spots in your armour, but if you go all-in your tank basically ends up functionally invisible with just a bit of barrel poking out of the greenery:  And of course to add insult to injury, the way to actually get those bushes is to play real money for them.
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BioEnchanted posted:The best one is Gladiator anyway (the fourth one that no one talks about). It's a great satire of capitalism and machismo Did Deadlocked have a different name over there? Neat
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Len posted:Did Deadlocked have a different name over there? Neat Iirc a few of them do cause making thinly veiled innuendoes as your title was frowned on. But yeah, Deadlocked is cool, it’s just non-stop blowing poo poo up, idk if I’d want an entire game of that, but it’s a neat little send-off to the PS2 games, especially since the writing style so much after.
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Last Celebration posted:Iirc a few of them do cause making thinly veiled innuendoes as your title was frowned on. The writing was strong too, the villain couldn't comprehend that Ratchet cared more about things other than making a bunch of money off of a ludicrous merch contract because he was so money obsessed and the prior champion as you are fighting him IIRC is basically trying to stay in denial about how much the fight SUCKS for him because of how much pain he's in, as his whole image is being indestructible. I may be misremembering stuff but it had some strong moments.
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I'm in Dead Space 3 now, and maybe it's just sequel shock but I'm just not really feeling the new system where you craft weapons from various components. For action-y games like this, I don't really feel like putting that level of thought into what I'm dismembering space zombies with, the "find blueprints/buy complete weapons" model worked perfectly fine for 1 & 2.
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Captain Hygiene posted:I'm in Dead Space 3 now, and maybe it's just sequel shock but I'm just not really feeling the new system where you craft weapons from various components. For action-y games like this, I don't really feel like putting that level of thought into what I'm dismembering space zombies with, the "find blueprints/buy complete weapons" model worked perfectly fine for 1 & 2. The weapon crafting is the best part of DS3 but it takes a while to get anything good. The beginning stuff is just the plasma cutter and a bunch of military rifles which don't really fit the gameplay, once you start getting more options and figure out the system you can make some great weapons. If nothing else, you can always just make the same weapons you were already using in the first two games if you don't like any of the new ones.
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Well, I'll give it a chance, I'm still having fun playing straight through the series.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Well, I'll give it a chance, I'm still having fun playing straight through the series. in DS3 you can overload your guns with melee speed boosters so that you can temporarily become Raiden from Metal Gear Rising and turn enemies into a slurry of meat paste as you morph into a bladed spinning top.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Well, I'll give it a chance, I'm still having fun playing straight through the series. Did you play the rail shooter side game? It actually has a ton of story for what seems like a throwaway thing.
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Sally posted:in DS3 you can overload your guns with melee speed boosters so that you can temporarily become Raiden from Metal Gear Rising and turn enemies into a slurry of meat paste as you morph into a bladed spinning top. paging cjacobs to the thread to share more DS3 loadout shenanigans... muscles like this! posted:Did you play the rail shooter side game? It actually has a ton of story for what seems like a throwaway thing. yah the railshooter was good. Extraction, was it? if you care about unitology lore, there was also a DS1 prequel motion comic drawn by Ben Templesmith fully voice acted: https://youtu.be/HN5Kwv0Fb6k it is fun!
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