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Riatsala posted:Ya'll want more bitching about Elden Ring, right? That hasn't gotten tiresome yet, right? In the courtyard of the carian castle there is a thin strip of area that summons aren't allowed. If you're not paying attention it smokes your summon and you can't bring them back ten feet later I hate those hands
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Manager Hoyden posted:In the courtyard of the carian castle there is a thin strip of area that summons aren't allowed. If you're not paying attention it smokes your summon and you can't bring them back ten feet later That was the only area of the game I ran through without bothering to explore. gently caress those things, their attack patterns suck so much.
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May 3, 2022 17:54
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Giant hands are more bearable when you find out they’re one of those enemies that flip the gently caress out when hit by a fire attack and that smacking them from behind staggers them way harder than frontal attacks. I mean, that should really be a hint somewhere given they have buyable hints for beastmen, those little poison potatoes, and a few others, but yeah.
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May 3, 2022 18:03
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Thanks for the Sekiro tips, everyone. I managed to completely dominate that miniboss I was complaining about by being completely aggro with occasional pauses for deflects. It was really straightforward and I can see the rhythm game comparisons now. Before it was trying to find "openings" and just not having them really open at all. I'm feeling a bit better about continuing now at the very least. 
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May 3, 2022 20:16
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Gay Rat Wedding posted:More games need to take lessons from super meat boy and celeste. Stop wasting my time, just reload the drat challenge right there one second after I lose if you want things to take multiple tries to get past. I also hate when every restart has some sort of count down. Please don’t make me watch the 3… 2… 1… Go! stuff when I’m on my 30th try of something, just let me get into it!
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May 3, 2022 20:38
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One of the things I didn't like about Sekiro was there was some text on the spear prosthetic that said it would strip armor off of enemies. So I spent an hour or so hitting the armored guy on the bridge with the spear, thinking it would strip off his armor. The knight doesn't take any damage from your sword, so I figured I had to get his armor off first. Apparently it only strips off armor for one specific enemy and does nothing to all the others. So if you get to a fully armored knight on a bridge, just know the spear don't do poo poo.
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May 3, 2022 21:09
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sekiro had a lot of little translation fuckups and i feel like that was one of them
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May 3, 2022 21:24
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Are we sure they didn't just dummy them out late in development like Dark Souls 2's lighting requiring the torch more?
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May 3, 2022 21:41
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no, because the spear does strip armor - specifically the shabby reed-plate armor worn by the fat bell-wielding soldiers. this is not the enemy one is likely to think of when one thinks of an “armored” enemy
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May 3, 2022 21:50
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Oxxidation posted:no, because the spear does strip armor - specifically the shabby reed-plate armor worn by the fat bell-wielding soldiers. this is not the enemy one is likely to think of when one thinks of an “armored” enemy I didn't explain myself well enough. I meant like, do you think they intended to have more armored enemies but just couldn't get to that part or is it well known that it was a translation error?
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oh no that's just my suspicion, the only goof i know about for sure is the infamous "my neck" line it's weirder because the spear's greatest use, yanking out the guardian ape's centipede, isn't telegraphed at all
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Your Gay Uncle posted:One of the things I didn't like about Sekiro was there was some text on the spear prosthetic that said it would strip armor off of enemies. So I spent an hour or so hitting the armored guy on the bridge with the spear, thinking it would strip off his armor. Fair. The text says "Those of large build will at times force themselves into poorly-fitting armor. Such armor could be torn clean off; coined by Gyoubu as Armor Stripping." - I suppose the rationale is that the knight's armour isn't poorly-fitting, just the crap the ogres use.
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May 3, 2022 22:08
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The thing about Sekiro translations is you have to remember From wrote the game in Japanese, it was translated to English, but Sekiro takes place in Japan so Wolf is reading the English back to Japanese translations so it’s no wonder there’s lots of missteps.
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My son likes watching me play Dark Souls but can't do it. He's anxious for me to start 3 but I don't have time so I told him to go build my character and I'll use it. We'll see how that goes LOL. ... To get away from Souls/From: I recently bought the Tony Hawk remake and it's pretty great but I can't pull of tricks without using the d-pad and my muscle memory won't go there. Also, I read the Alien threads and remember a PS game called Alien Resurrection I think it was and I could not play that motherfucker because of the controls. Recently, I found out that the control mapping is basically the modern standard for every console FPS controller.
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May 3, 2022 23:12
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Gort posted:Fair. There’s also guys you can eavesdrop on who specifically mention the Taro Troop as being the ones with the armor, but it’s definitely one of those things that’s easy to miss and also barely ever useful.
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May 3, 2022 23:44
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Last Celebration posted:Elden Ring: man, the Consecrated Snowfield is neat conceptually but it kinda blows having an area where the top half is just a blinding snowstorm and I’m not super stoked about the handicapped sniper wolf ladies on the bottom. At least right after doing the snow level that was at least slightly more interesting. Haha by NG++ those sniper lady encampments are pure death if you stop moving anywhere in their general vicinity. They will snipe you from out of visual range. They suck hard. Farm their gear in NG or NG+
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BiggerBoat posted:Also, I read the Alien threads and remember a PS game called Alien Resurrection I think it was and I could not play that motherfucker because of the controls. Famously, that game got savaged in at least one review for having such a godawful control scheme.
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John Murdoch posted:Famously, that game got savaged in at least one review for having such a godawful control scheme. It was gamespot, who gave it a 4.7/10: https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/alien-resurrection-review/1900-2637344/ posted:Once planned as a third-person adventure game, the long-delayed adaptation of the latest Alien film has finally arrived as a completely different beast entirely. Now a first-person shooter, the game ends up being the closest thing you'll find to the company's well-received PC FPS Aliens versus Predator. But those expecting that same level of quality in this title will find that, in the space between the final days of the PlayStation and the launch of the PS2, no one can hear you scream.
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"While no concrete details have been announced for the game yet..." wow the more things change.
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loving hell, having to strafe with left stick and look with the right one? How horrific. Will never catch on.
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John Murdoch posted:Famously, that game got savaged in at least one review for having such a godawful control scheme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDKB1bsdkL8 Pretty good run down.
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I got Vampire Survivors and it’s a ton of fun, but some buffer enemies drop chests that can drop items but the animation on opening and ‘rolling’ for the item takes like 10-15 seconds and it really kills the flow. Edit: Son of a bitch, I pressed every button but right click. moosecow333 has a new favorite as of 20:11 on May 4, 2022 |
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it absolutely kills the flow, but you can right-click to cancel the animation and make it a little less of an annoyance e: unless it's a five-item one, but then you would want to listen to the music for that anyway
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I'm playing Chrono Trigger DS, and unless I'm missing something...there's no way to turn off the obnoxious high-pitched noise when you move your cursor in the menus? 
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Read After Burning posted:I'm playing Chrono Trigger DS, and unless I'm missing something...there's no way to turn off the obnoxious high-pitched noise when you move your cursor in the menus? A lot of early games had constant earsplitting sound effects. My personal pet peeve are the early Mario games (1 and 3 in particular) coin pickup sounds, particularly when there's a solid line you run through. Drives me NUTS
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Morpheus posted:loving hell, having to strafe with left stick and look with the right one? How horrific. Will never catch on. I never quite did, at least with that game, and I agree with that review at the time. I really wanted to get into it because the graphics were pretty good for the time and I like Alien poo poo but I guess at the time my brain wasn't ready for that controller layout.
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:it absolutely kills the flow, but you can right-click to cancel the animation and make it a little less of an annoyance I watch all of them cause I have a little "gimme something good" song I sing that perfectly fits the tune length. I modify it a bit to make it fit the 3 and 5 chests too and it is the high point of the game
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Evilreaver posted:A lot of early games had constant earsplitting sound effects. My personal pet peeve are the early Mario games (1 and 3 in particular) coin pickup sounds, particularly when there's a solid line you run through. Drives me NUTS It was the best decision ever to make that the Wii shop downloading sound 
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The Mario coin was the sound of my childhood, you monsters 
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I love the Mario coin sound. Really all the SFX in the first Super Mario Bros., it’s all so chunky.
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Mario coin sound to this day gives me that good-good drip of joyjuice in my brain.
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God forbid you play a Final Fantasy game, where you manually have to outfit your party and their skill-trees accompanied by a loud beep with each button press.
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The background music that plays at the Altus Plateau in Elden Ring has a tone that sounds like somebody picking up a line of coins in Super Mario World, to me. It’s really uncanny and also impossible to describe.
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Waste of Breath posted:I watch all of them cause I have a little "gimme something good" song I sing that perfectly fits the tune length. I modify it a bit to make it fit the 3 and 5 chests too and it is the high point of the game I knew I wasn't the only one. I wish you couldn't tell immediately if it was 1, 3, or 5 items so it can satisfy my gambling addiction 
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Captain Hygiene posted:The Mario coin was the sound of my childhood, you monsters Those old NES games where you didn't have the option to turn off the music I think probably used up maybe a full 5% of my entire lifetime's brain capacity. Combine that with all the stupid commercial jingles and Brady Bunch dialogue shoved into my head over the years and it makes me wonder how much of my brain was used up remembering and storing useless bullshit and maybe that's why I never found a cure for cancer. Like, why do I remember the Honeycomb cereal song? Me and my college room mate spent and entire summer playing Baseball Stars on NES and you needed the sound to judge fly balls so we couldn't turn it down but jesus christ that music. That's the one I think of when I remember 8 bit games. It was horrible.
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I still occasionally get the melody from Solomon’s Key stuck in my head in an endless loop.
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Uncharted Waters New Horizons. Really fun game, but good god the music in the middle eastern towns. I can hear it even now just repeating forever.
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The town music from Kings Quest 5 has to be the all time worst videogame music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1pCxXrorKM How is Princess Peach still a princess? They never show her parents. Is she a regent or ward of someone until she comes of age? She seems fully grown.
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