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All the Armored Core robots are quite large, so they don't really qualify for the Little Things thread.
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Yeah lol like I'm glad you're enjoying Elden Ring, and I like seeing people talking about jellyfish friends, but my experiences with Dark Souls have been short, brutish, and nasty, so I'll probably give this a pass. I want to be playing Forbidden West, but I've hosed up my back and I'm off work and I'm worried about spending the money, so. I suppose I could dust off Bloodborne and see if I'm any better at it now.
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Mar 9, 2022 19:06
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credburn posted:PYF little things in Elden Ring the rolling goats!
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Mar 9, 2022 19:07
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credburn posted:PYF little things in Elden Ring no one whines when you nerds talk about fallout for pages at a time but when it's a souls people get so mad lmao my favorite little thing in elden ring is the rusted anchor, a weapon i found within the first hour or two and proceeded to use nothing else for the rest of the game. something about beating up beasts and demigods with an old anchor just spoke to me more than anything else. elden ring owns
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Mar 9, 2022 19:15
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Phy posted:I suspect this thread has become that every time a from software game has dropped My favorite little things in Armored Core 5 and Verdict Day is that you are effectively playing as one of the piece of poo poo trash robots you kill in one hit (Normals) in Armored Core 4 and For Answer because technology has regressed and the actual playable robots, NEXTs, were killing the planet. This is basically just the premise of the game, but the little thing about it I appreciate is that Verdict Day's final boss, a reverse engineered and rebuilt White Glint, the iconic AC for For Answer, cannot be hurt by you because its weapons and armor are vastly outstrip you, since again, you are the thing it used to kill in one or two shots in a fraction of a second. You have to wait for it to shed its energy shielding in the emp attack that it could do in For Answer to hurt it, because in that game it lowered defenses also. Knocking it into phase two even has it do White Glint's cool pose when it gets shot out of the sky and spins around in the intro video of the game where it pretends to die for a second then reactivates. Too bad about everything else about those two games though. My favorite little thing about For Answer that almost no one knows because there's no reason to do this is that the end of the game revolves around using an anti-satellite cannon to blow up a swarm of satellites attacking anything at a certain altitude, to prevent space-based or high orbit superiority. There are at least two missions that take place in the upper atmosphere - if you fly high enough, you can see them start to attack you until you go back down. The operator starts panicking because the satellites are supposed to be a secret and she has no idea they exist at that point in the plot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4yP5Dxl9NM "Attack!? from outside of atmosphere!?" "What the HELL are they?" "The...sky is FILLED with unmanned weapons..." "Fall back right now! Quick!" e: You can see them again on a second mission attacking each other, too RBA Starblade has a new favorite as of 19:26 on Mar 9, 2022 |
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Mar 9, 2022 19:17
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A fun thing I discovered in Eldin Ring are these blue, ethereal trees that will summon a golden zombie phantom that will lead you to some secret - usually a mini dungeon. I found one when I was playing last and it led me all around this area for a couple of minutes until it finally got me to the destination. The fun part comes from all the signs I encountered while following the zombie, since it literally shambles the entire time it's leading you. "Time for old codger..." and "Try running!" It made a potentially tedious game of follow the leader be rather entertaining.
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Mar 9, 2022 19:24
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Was it on purpose that they gave it a title that makes one think of an old man's arsehole?
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Bogmonster posted:Was it on purpose that they gave it a title that makes one think of an old man's arsehole? I think that might be a "you problem" Another elden ring favorite: the weird little waddle run you do when dashing while crouched.
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Mar 9, 2022 19:52
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I am really enjoying Sea of Thieves. So much of it is just floating around with my girlfriend fight skeletons and trying our best to grab more things. It's really sweet. The little thing I like is how the sound is so interesting and how the lack of hud makes things more fun to play with. Josef bugman has a new favorite as of 20:11 on Mar 9, 2022 |
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Mar 9, 2022 19:56
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Brandfarlig posted:There's usually a "I did it!" after a boss but after a boss that receives a lot of hate from some people (Radahn) I saw a "I did it! but hole". That added level of gently caress this boss is pretty good. My favorite message I ever left was in DS2, I think. “Praise the sun! but hole”
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Mar 9, 2022 20:07
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Gay Rat Wedding posted:I love messages so much, they've always been one of my favorite little features of the games. yes there's a few billion tired identical "try jumping" and "try fingers but hole" messages, and I still read every one I see because you can find some absolute gems hidden in there and the creativity of what people can come up with under the message format limitations is still surprising I like to imagine GRRM wrote those messages.
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Josef bugman posted:I am really enjoying Sea of Thieves. So much of it is just floating around with my girlfriend fight skeletons and trying our best to grab more things. It's really sweet. My favorite thing about Sea of Thieves is the water, have not witnessed a game with water looking so beautiful and natural
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Mar 9, 2022 23:05
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Triarii posted:The message meme culture is so dumb and I love it. As soon as I started walking around in a wet, marshy area I thought "time for crab?" and then read a message on the ground and it said "time for crab" and then a giant crab erupted out of the ground. I like "be wary of pincer attack" as a warning for giant crabs. e: Strom Cuzewon posted:By a large windmill: could this be a giant? Visions of mounted combat. also by a large windmill: "Ah, fire... and then No poison ahead" Red Minjo has a new favorite as of 23:42 on Mar 9, 2022 |
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Mar 9, 2022 23:35
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I think my best rated comment was in front of Andre the smith Left arm ahead and also Right arm ahead
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Mar 10, 2022 00:23
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Red Minjo posted:also by a large windmill: "Ah, fire... and then No poison ahead" lol damnit, I saw that message and couldn't figure out what it was referring to, but I just now got the reference.
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Mar 10, 2022 00:34
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Strom Cuzewon posted:By a large windmill: could this be a giant? Visions of mounted combat. This is the best message, we can all stop now
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Mar 10, 2022 01:50
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Now that we've had a soulsborne where you fight an armoured core, can we have an AC game where you fight this tiny rear end in a top hat with a sword who keeps running between your feet?
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Mar 10, 2022 02:27
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thecluckmeme posted:An important aspect of the soulsborne games is that they were originally designed out of love for western RPGs, but from an outsider's perspective who is not 100% familiar with the themes and language and needs to collaborate with others to fully understand what's going on and what to do. The messaging system is designed that way to allow you to leave hints or warnings, but purposefully limiting your vocabulary so you can't say "There's an armored boar enemy that is weak to backstabs" but can say "try pig backstab" This is incredibly condescending. Japan has been making "western" RPGs for longer than the west has. From themselves have put out more kings field games then there were wizardry games. They aren't trying to adapt some western concept into a Japanese game with the message system, they're bringing all the hints and jokes that you'd find on a BBS or a forums back in the day into the game itself.
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Mar 10, 2022 03:30
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Brian Worms posted:the rolling goats! I call them tumblesheep
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Gaius Marius posted:This is incredibly condescending. Japan has been making "western" RPGs for longer than the west has. From themselves have put out more kings field games then there were wizardry games. They aren't trying to adapt some western concept into a Japanese game with the message system, they're bringing all the hints and jokes that you'd find on a BBS or a forums back in the day into the game itself. OP is referring to how Miyazaki was inspired to create the obscure and obtuse worlds of the souls games as an attempt to recreate the feeling he had trying to piece together western DnD games without knowing the language
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Mar 10, 2022 04:38
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Ya it's straight up paraphrasing Miyazaki on his intent for those games.
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Wasn't it watching western movies? E: so close, it was reading western books quote:Miyazaki grew up poor in Shizuoka, a hundred miles southwest of Tokyo. As a child, he couldn’t afford books of his own; at the library, he borrowed English fantasy and science fiction that he didn’t understand, imagining stories that might accompany the pictures. 2house2fly has a new favorite as of 05:32 on Mar 10, 2022 |
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Phigs posted:Ya it's straight up paraphrasing Miyazaki on his intent for those games. Miyazaki that condescending piece of poo poo 
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Mar 10, 2022 05:40
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The Tallnecks in Horizon can step on other robots, and it stuns them 
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Velocity Raptor posted:A fun thing I discovered in Eldin Ring are these blue, ethereal trees that will summon a golden zombie phantom that will lead you to some secret - usually a mini dungeon. One of those ghost bastards led me to a giant sleeping bear. 
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Mar 10, 2022 06:49
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SuddenCactus posted:One of those ghost bastards led me to a giant sleeping bear. he wanted you to pet the dog
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Bogmonster posted:Was it on purpose that they gave it a title that makes one think of an old man's arsehole? As the legend goes, Dark Souls was originally going to be called "Dark Ring" and then wasn't for exactly this reason. There's also a worryingly plausible yet nonetheless crackpot theory that the Dark Sign actually for real represents a butthole and humanity in Dark Souls is out and out excrement. Sure, Manus means "hand" in Latin and the father of humanity does indeed have a big messed up hand, but it IS also a portmanteau of "man" and "anus"....
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2house2fly posted:Wasn't it watching western movies? IIRC this is also why those games don't have Japanese voice acting at all, they're all VA'd in English regardless of version. Not counting Sekiro obviously.
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SuddenCactus posted:One of those ghost bastards led me to a giant sleeping bear. lol if you immediately didn’t YOLO into the chamber he’s guarding and cower in fear waiting for it to deaggro.
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SuddenCactus posted:One of those ghost bastards led me to a giant sleeping bear. Those phantoms seem to enjoy taking the scenic route when heading towards their destination - usually routing through several enemy patrol areas and you can’t really switch focus to fight enemies or the phantom will be gone. Of course you can just look at the map to see where the nearby cave is but where’s the fun in that. Last Celebration posted:lol if you immediately didn’t YOLO into the chamber he’s guarding and cower in fear waiting for it to deaggro. I actually killed that bear/tiger/wolf thing because he’s a lot more interested in sleeping than the others. Where the other ones will run you down (even on horseback), mr snoozy bear is more interested in sleeping and will de-aggro quickly and return home if you get too far away. I used hit and run tactics with the horse and a heavy weapon and whittled it down. Frank Frank has a new favorite as of 14:10 on Mar 10, 2022 |
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2house2fly posted:Wasn't it watching western movies? It's been years since I read the interview, but it makes more sense that it was books for how far back the From catalog does go. It's always been one of my favorite little details about the development process because it reminds me of having to collectively gather knowledge about a game between my friends and I to figure out what the gently caress is going on in our video games. Or not understanding parts but filling in the gaps with our own theories and speculation, which can end up in something else I'm creating later.
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Back in Dark Souls 2, there was an area that had a hallway closed off by fallen rocks. You could see the other side and could get there by going around another way, but you couldn't squeeze through. Someone left a message there that said "fatty" and I was so owned I actually got upset lol
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I'm in love with these himbos in the Strangers of Paradise demo that talk about killing Chaos half the time and grunt at each other the other half. "Hey Jack you could smile you know." <grunt> "Oh hey, so glad to see you!" <grunt> <grunt in response>
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I finally beat the second boss in Nioh. Something fun with the game is that there is no one strategy to carry you through boss fights as they are all very different, like some Souls games have really strong magic that can quickly kill anything. Nioh's bosses behaviours ensure that just because something works on one boss, doesn't mean it'll be any use of another. For example, the living blade technique is really good but sometimes you have to be careful with it. The first boss you can just wail on with it, although you have to be mindful of when it's about to run out or he'll punish you, but the second boss is a vampire. She has a grapple attack that can leach your health. If you are using the living blade and aren't careful you'll only get a few seconds of easy damage before she grabs you and just EATS you living blade, draining the timer like it was a health meter (as the timer replaces the health and stamina meters as you are temporarily invulnerable). Also in doing so I've unlocked a new guardian spirit that I can join with if I like, so that's nice.
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John Murdoch posted:As the legend goes, Dark Souls was originally going to be called "Dark Ring" and then wasn't for exactly this reason. There's also a worryingly plausible yet nonetheless crackpot theory that the Dark Sign actually for real represents a butthole and humanity in Dark Souls is out and out excrement. Of course Freude was a Souls fan.
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I picked up Cruis'n Blast, it's just a silly little arcade racer but I appreciate its dedication to having bonkers background setpieces and weird vehicles. I just raced through a dinosaur world in my attack helicopter and it was very entertaining. Also, the helicopter still had engine revving and tire screech sound effects along with a working horn, which somehow made it even better 
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John Murdoch posted:As the legend goes, Dark Souls was originally going to be called "Dark Ring" and then wasn't for exactly this reason. There's also a worryingly plausible yet nonetheless crackpot theory that the Dark Sign actually for real represents a butthole and humanity in Dark Souls is out and out excrement. so does that mean in ds3 if you go with the secret ending and marry anri you are walking around with five extra buttholes on you or what
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wouldn't be the first terrible transformation in the series
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Going Hollow refers to your lower intestine.
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Tbh, even having done the Lord of Hollows ending I still don't really understand what any of it means. But I will say DS3 gave me pause when I got to the Ringed City and the dude that "welcomes" you at the very beginning refers to it as a latrine. 
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