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Vic posted:Nobody's playing Diablo for the story, but we're specifically talking about the story. Somebody wrote tons and tons of 'ha ha puny nephalem' lines. I loved the story in Diablo 1 and 2. It was heretical and mind bending and very 90s. Just that dark layer of anti-religion that PoE rips off so well.
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D1's story was top notch, just enough fluff to read through the manual in fascination as a kid, without any heavy handed exposition by ingame characters. I'd also argue that D1 had the better gameplay, but-- actually yes, this is the right thread to say so. Diablo1 best Diablo.
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Apr 18, 2022 10:07
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Serephina posted:D1's story was top notch, just enough fluff to read through the manual in fascination as a kid, without any heavy handed exposition by ingame characters. I'd also argue that D1 had the better gameplay, but-- actually yes, this is the right thread to say so. Diablo1 best Diablo. I can literally hear the sound of a potion dropping. I'm fighting the Butcher right now. poo poo's iconic.
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syntaxfunction posted:You're aware The Room is enjoyed for exactly this reason right? Yes, the point is that the source of enjoyment comes accidentally. You claimed the story was "brilliant", but you're really just laughing at how bad the story is while Blizzard's writers genuinely intended for it to come across as profound.
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Apr 18, 2022 10:40
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Blizzard did angels really well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRXP5td0ZrA D2 was just scary to kids raised on religion. BaldDwarfOnPCP fucked around with this message at 11:06 on Apr 18, 2022 |
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Apr 18, 2022 11:04
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Devils Affricate posted:Yes, the point is that the source of enjoyment comes accidentally. You claimed the story was "brilliant", but you're really just laughing at how bad the story is while Blizzard's writers genuinely intended for it to come across as profound. Usually you wouldn't have to clarify with "unintentionally" when you're talking about all the horrible things a story does while saying it's brilliant, but here we are I guess. But instead I'm going to now say yes, it is brilliant and completely intentional and also you're something of a literary Luddite for not appreciating the particular genius that is Diablo 3 by Blizzard.
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Apr 18, 2022 11:20
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Diablo 1 and 2 weren't the most compelling in terms of narrative, but they had entertaining stories that moved things along nicely and could be avoided if you didn't care for it 3 opted to have cutscenes for stupid bullshit like talking to random villagers and bandits and the entire thing was just dumb even by Blizzard standards
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Apr 18, 2022 13:23
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syntaxfunction posted:You're aware The Room is enjoyed for exactly this reason right? yeah and its not great tbh, consume good poo poo im telling you arpg players, just try cookie clicker out for a bit, the cure is RIGHT there
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Apr 18, 2022 13:27
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I disabled damage numbers in Diablo 3 and it got a lot better. Combined with the green arrow system on gear in the console version? It gets a lot better
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:yeah and its not great tbh, consume good poo poo The Room is great to watch once with friends, same as Diablo. I played through it once with a friend, called it good and never went back. I'm worse than ARPG players, I'm a dumb dumb looter shooter FPS dork. Big explode, pretty colours, whee shiny fell!
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Apr 18, 2022 14:00
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Sekiro finished, all optional bosses taken on. Welp, yep, that sure felt like half a game and the final boss is the first enemy I was able to get into poise death without having to whittle them down. Still better than Dark Souls 3 and Bloodborne.
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Apr 18, 2022 14:42
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Horizon Forbidden West is worse than Zero Dawn in every single way except graphics. I still liked it though.
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Apr 18, 2022 14:47
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Caesar Saladin posted:Horizon Forbidden West is worse than Zero Dawn in every single way except graphics. I still liked it though. I felt bad for them because my favorite part of the first game was the surprisingly well written lore explaining why they lived on planet robo-dino. I played the first 15 or so hours of the second one and I got far enough along to see what they were going to try instead so I was interested. But then Elden Ring came out and it was Breath of the Wild all over again. How unlucky can one game studio get?
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I have talked a lot of poo poo about borderlands in this thread, but I think my problem is that I just like the first one more than the others. I played through it again and had a steady good time throughout. The second one is already not feeling as good
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hawowanlawow posted:I have talked a lot of poo poo about borderlands in this thread, but I think my problem is that I just like the first one more than the others. I played through it again and had a steady good time throughout. The second one is already not feeling as good I think, in part, its the slag
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McCracAttack posted:I felt bad for them because my favorite part of the first game was the surprisingly well written lore explaining why they lived on planet robo-dino. I played the first 15 or so hours of the second one and I got far enough along to see what they were going to try instead so I was interested. But then Elden Ring came out and it was Breath of the Wild all over again. How unlucky can one game studio get? It still has an entertaining core story, but the tribal quests and sidequests are pretty boring. Like, there are so many sidequests that are just "My friend went on an initiation rite where he has to climb a mountain and never came back." Just so many variations on that. The main plot is still interesting, although not as cool as the first one because you already know the entire backstory, but its still good and the setup for the third game is very intriguing. Also it doesn't have nearly enough Lance Riddick, he's barely in it.
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Barudak posted:I think, in part, its the slag Yeah, I have big hands and moving my thumb down to the d-pad to switch weapons constantly kind of sucks.
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Barudak posted:I'll use Owl (Father) who I just beat in three tries. What made it click for me is figuring out you can cancel your attacks into blocks/parries provided you didn't already mash out the next attack. Slow down your attacks just a bit so that you have time to react before chaining into the next attack, then just get in everyone's face. Outside of a few monster bosses the neutral should basically be you stabbing a guy with delayed slashes. It's way more satisfying to fight this way, and parry timings are pretty forgiving.
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pentyne posted:Following that up by charging $20 for the Necromancer class (which I absolutely bought day 1) shows that the people in charge really do get it. The cash shop was a weird misstep but everything after that was just them printing money. Misstep? No it wasn't it was super profitable and they got out before anyone sued them or the government went "hey wait that isn't really legal". Not only that they got to blame everything on the cash shop. Oh the lovely drop rates are the cash shops fault! People still blame the cash shop instead of Blizzard's greed. The cash shop was the only thing D3 had that was at all interesting to me, otherwise it was another watered down wrinkle free profit maximized Blizzard experience. Wait no I could chuck frogs at monsters with the probably offensive witch doctor class. That was neat the orange ones exploded. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Apr 18, 2022 |
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Apr 18, 2022 18:12
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Diablo 3 whips rear end  Season 26 just started too
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Caesar Saladin posted:Horizon Forbidden West is worse than Zero Dawn in every single way except graphics. I still liked it though. I agree completely although I would add that HFW managed to flesh out and make more interesting the current day tribes better than the first game, but I'm also an outlier cuz that was what I was most interested in about the first game and was disappointed when it was mostly about Ted Faro (the back story and end of the world wasnt that interesting sorry)
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i dunno if it's an unpopular opinion or what but that Playdate thing looks like the shittiest, most boring waste of time and money I've seen in gaming for a while.
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lmao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdF3CnFvxg4
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The Playdate is another Teenage Engineering product. Extremely well-made but quirky to the point of uselessness. These things are designed to appeal to a very specific kind of person - a creative with parent money living in a gentrified neighborhood or someone who aspires to become one.
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ok but who wants to play those games
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it feels like it was made for games journalists because a lot of them seem to be loving it and i just don't get it at all.
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The Protagonist posted:ok but No one Seriously take a look at Teenage Engineering's website. It's all beautiful, weird equipment with absolutely zero practical use and a fuckoff pricetag No one buys anything from them because they actually want to use it. They sell a twelve pound, $700 bluetooth speaker for goodness' sake
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Apr 18, 2022 20:49
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is the screen reflective enough to scan with my cuecat?
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Manager Hoyden posted:No one uh excuse me I composed this brilliant song using the teenage engineering PO-20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yioOMJ_BRXc
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Vic posted:of course it had to be portland i was about to say they love making things no shut up
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The playdate looks cute and fun, and it might be interesting depending on the price tag. It's refreshing to see a new handheld device that isnt just "You can buy Mario 3 again for the four thousandth time"
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I thought that Playdate thing already came out and failed years ago. Has it still been in development all this time?
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Doctor J Off posted:The playdate looks cute and fun, and it might be interesting depending on the price tag. It's refreshing to see a new handheld device that isnt just "You can buy Mario 3 again for the four thousandth time" How about if you get to play a game that isn’t fun and has less features, design, and gameplay than Mario 3 instead
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Devils Affricate posted:I thought that Playdate thing already came out and failed years ago. Has it still been in development all this time? yeah I definitly heard about that thing ages ago. I assumed we were talking about failed dumb things, like Ouya
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Rutibex posted:yeah I definitly heard about that thing ages ago. I assumed we were talking about failed dumb things, like Ouya I just checked their website. They're still taking pre-orders, which will apparently ship in 2023 
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Devils Affricate posted:I thought that Playdate thing already came out and failed years ago. Has it still been in development all this time? It did, they just don't know it yet. The playdate is a nice idea and it's well executed but I think that the crank is a bad idea that they fell in love with and could've bene given over to some other form of control. The price point is too high for something that should be half of what it is. I like the LCD screen but I think that without color it's going to have limited appeal except for collector neckbeards like myself. They're going to sell maybe 1000-2000 units per year after the initial launch tops.
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Devils Affricate posted:I just checked their website. They're still taking pre-orders, which will apparently ship in 2023 i assumed it was out really soon as all the games press have them for review now lol
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