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Which August 16th release are you most looking forward to? This poll is closed.
Blossom Tales 2: The Minotaur Prince [PC, Switch] � August 16	12	21.82%
Rollerdrome [PC, PS5, PS4] � August 16	31	56.36%
Tribes of Midgard [XSX, XBO, Switch] � August 16	5	9.09%
Way of the Hunter [PC, PS5, XSX] � August 16	7	12.73%
Total:	55 votes

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Vermain: Sep 5, 2006

Stux posted:

follow you r heart and stop playing. your impulse is correct. the further u get the goalpost of when the game gets "good" will only be placed fruther and further away to goad you into wasting so much time you feel obligated to the game. free yourself. i believe in you.

FFXIV is one of my favorite games of all time and i agree with stux

for a point of comparison, there was never any time i was playing FFXIV, even pre-ARR rework, where i had trouble progressing through the game smoothly, if not always eagerly. you can always try setting the game down and coming back to it later, since sometimes other circumstances can influence your enjoyment of a game, but not enjoying the game sufficiently isn't because you didn't do some One Weird Trick to enjoying it or because you didn't get to the "good" part yet

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# ? Jun 8, 2024 23:29

Barudak: May 7, 2007

Alright, fine Zachtronics, I'll play your cruel picross variant. I'll gently caress up my brain with this, 64 puzzles of madness

# ? Aug 14, 2022 16:00

Bad Video Games: Sep 17, 2017

Help Im Alive posted:

to think that a master of 3d picross and all the picross e games could be defeated by a mere 15x15 puzzle...

Can any of the games chat picross masters figure out the next logical step?!! I had to look up the completed puzzle

That is some bullshit. I'm not sure a logical next step even exists, but I can't find it. It looks like you have to map out every possible combination of blocks to find the answer.

# ? Aug 14, 2022 16:02

Bad Video Games: Sep 17, 2017

I'm still making my way through Detective Pikachu. It's a charming little game but it's also only about 15 hours so I'm kind of milking it.

# ? Aug 14, 2022 16:16

Arrrthritis: May 31, 2007; I don't care if you're a star, the moon, or the whole damn sky, you need to come back down to earth and remember where you came from

Vermain posted:

FFXIV is one of my favorite games of all time and i agree with stux

for a point of comparison, there was never any time i was playing FFXIV, even pre-ARR rework, where i had trouble progressing through the game smoothly, if not always eagerly. you can always try setting the game down and coming back to it later, since sometimes other circumstances can influence your enjoyment of a game, but not enjoying the game sufficiently isn't because you didn't do some One Weird Trick to enjoying it or because you didn't get to the "good" part yet

Yeah, I like FFXIV a lot but telling people to wait for "the good part" is a load of bull. The entire game is the good part, and Shadowbringers/Endwalker are only great if you're able to get invested or have some interest in the earlier parts of the story.

# ? Aug 14, 2022 16:34

Harrow: Jun 30, 2012

I really like FFXIV but if it hasn't full-on grabbed you by Heavensward it's pretty safe to tap out, assuming you were interested enough to get to Heavensward in the first place. I saw another poster say that they didn't really care about the Scions or other allied NPCs as characters until Shadowbringers and I can definitely say I mostly agree with that (with minor exceptions, Alphinaud, Estinien, and Ysale make strong impressions in Heavensward IMO) but I was still invested in the general plot enough that I wanted to keep going.

The other thing is that it's just... it's a really long haul. Even if you're liking it a lot, it's a lot of game, and I don't think it's unreasonable to just not want to sink that much time into something even if you want to see where it goes. A lot of us have been playing since ARR so our story progress is spread out over like 8 years rather than done in one big marathon. That inevitably creates two pretty different experiences.

# ? Aug 14, 2022 16:42

Electric Phantasm: Apr 7, 2011; YOSPOS

WaltherFeng posted:

I will always name my internet handles after video game characters.

But Sephiroth is always taken.

Have you tried adding x's on both ends?

# ? Aug 14, 2022 16:42

Stux: Nov 17, 2006

Harrow posted:

Alphinaud, Estinien, and Ysale

warning: if you look up these names you may be confused that the images are identical, however they are different npcs.

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Jay Rust: Sep 27, 2011

Nah one is substantially shorter than the other two elves

# ? Aug 14, 2022 16:50

Jay Rust: Sep 27, 2011

My major problem that I bring up a lot is that it�s the gameplay that bums me out, it�s 90% travelling between quest markers / cutscenes, it�s bad video gaming. I like the story, I want to know what happens next, the �the story gets better after XXX� arguments don�t affect me because I�m already enjoying it, but each time I step back and look at what I�m doing, yeah it�s uninteresting busywork and I doubt that gets much better

However, my favourite moment so far, the new cape westwind fight, did successfully meld gameplay and story in a really satisfying way, I felt what my character felt, and because of its newness I do have hopes that the more recent stuff is about as good

# ? Aug 14, 2022 16:58

No Dignity: Oct 15, 2007

Jay Rust posted:

My major problem that I bring up a lot is that it�s the gameplay that bums me out, it�s 90% travelling between quest markers / cutscenes, it�s bad video gaming. I like the story, I want to know what happens next, the �the story gets better after XXX� arguments don�t affect me because I�m already enjoying it, but each time I step back and look at what I�m doing, yeah it�s uninteresting busywork and I doubt that gets much better

However, my favourite moment so far, the new cape westwind fight, did successfully meld gameplay and story in a really satisfying way, I felt what my character felt, and because of its newness I do have hopes that the more recent stuff is about as good

Yeah, the actual gameplay (i.e. dungeons and trials) is pretty fun, unfortunately it makes up about 5% of the MSQ playtime. From what you're saying I'd say bail, maybe you'll feel like coming back to it later down the line but those fundamental issues you've described are never going to go away

No Dignity fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Aug 14, 2022

# ? Aug 14, 2022 17:03

Shindragon: Jun 6, 2011; by Athanatos

Tis the life of a gam- I mean person who plays games. Also yeah if it takes that long uh, I dunno about sitting on a screen for a videogame after going back from home sitting on a screen for a videogame :v:

# ? Aug 14, 2022 17:05

redreader: Nov 2, 2009; I am the coolest person ever with my pirate chalice. Seriously.; Dinosaur Gum

I haven't turned my switch on in like 6 months, it's been plugged in, on the dock. 2 weeks ago I was thinking "I might play the switch soon" so I took it out of the dock and put it back in, in case it was not charging properly or something. Yesterday I took it out of the dock and put it back in for the same reason. 2 hours later I tried to turn it on and it didn't turn on, so I put the cable into the switch instead and yep, it was at 0% battery. Annoying!

# ? Aug 14, 2022 17:11

cheetah7071: Oct 20, 2010; honk honk; College Slice

*sighs, and adds Jay Rust to the list of posters who would hate 13 sentinels*

# ? Aug 14, 2022 17:29

cheetah7071: Oct 20, 2010; honk honk; College Slice

Currently playing and loving a game with an even bigger words:gameplay ratio

# ? Aug 14, 2022 17:34

rox: Sep 7, 2016

cheetah7071 posted:

*sighs, and adds Jay Rust to the list of posters who would hate 13 sentinels*

13 sentinels is next on my list to play once my brain stops obsessing over pok�mon

# ? Aug 14, 2022 17:37

Stux: Nov 17, 2006

cheetah7071 posted:

Currently playing and loving a game with an even bigger words:gameplay ratio

youve misunderstood. the words have to be interesting.

# ? Aug 14, 2022 17:39

Jay Rust: Sep 27, 2011

cheetah7071 posted:

*sighs, and adds Jay Rust to the list of posters who would hate 13 sentinels*

That�s right

# ? Aug 14, 2022 17:45

grieving for Gandalf: Apr 22, 2008

cheetah7071 posted:

Currently playing and loving a game with an even bigger words:gameplay ratio

Digimon Survive ftw

# ? Aug 14, 2022 17:56

cheetah7071: Oct 20, 2010; honk honk; College Slice

Don't know anything about that but I have to assume it's words ratio is like a little baby compared to a visual novel, made by a company that usually makes just pure VNs, that decided it wanted to have 5 minute SRPG sequences every 2 hours of reading

# ? Aug 14, 2022 17:58

fridge corn: Apr 2, 2003; NO MERCY, ONLY PAIN

cheetah7071 posted:

*sighs, and adds Jay Rust to the list of posters who would hate 13 sentinels*

Am I on that list? You should put me on that list

# ? Aug 14, 2022 18:00

rox: Sep 7, 2016

am i suppose to think thats good or bad because i think taht owns personally

# ? Aug 14, 2022 18:01

cheetah7071: Oct 20, 2010; honk honk; College Slice

haha what posted:

am i suppose to think thats good or bad because i think taht owns personally

Its a sick game imo

# ? Aug 14, 2022 18:01

Khanstant: Apr 5, 2007

Baller Time posted:

It's very cool that these days if you want to look up something for a game the first 10 search results are these half auto generated sites that are 2 paragraphs of non information and one relevant line that itself is also useless

do you remember in school when they told us how to write newspaper style. like headline biggest info, first line of text giving expanded most relevant details. then basically work your way down to the least useful information and details last. You'd get graded on if the first paragraph had all the important who/what/where/why/how questions, they'd make you highlight the same in professional newspaper articles to quiz you etc.

i wonder when exactly writers just gave up on all that. Who was like hmm let's bring that yellow journalism back and then also mix in a blog post nobody wants to read.

# ? Aug 14, 2022 18:02

cheetah7071: Oct 20, 2010; honk honk; College Slice

Khanstant posted:

do you remember in school when they told us how to write newspaper style. like headline biggest info, first line of text giving expanded most relevant details. then basically work your way down to the least useful information and details last. You'd get graded on if the first paragraph had all the important who/what/where/why/how questions, they'd make you highlight the same in professional newspaper articles to quiz you etc.

i wonder when exactly writers just gave up on all that. Who was like hmm let's bring that yellow journalism back and then also mix in a blog post nobody wants to read.

Algorithms have been a disaster

# ? Aug 14, 2022 18:04

Jay Rust: Sep 27, 2011

Making you scroll down means more ad bux, it�s very simple

# ? Aug 14, 2022 18:05

PunkBoy: Aug 22, 2008; You wanna get through this?

Man, 13 Sentinels is so good. One of the few games that I would absolutely want to experience for the first time again.

# ? Aug 14, 2022 18:07

rox: Sep 7, 2016

money good
/

# ? Aug 14, 2022 18:07

Khanstant: Apr 5, 2007

well gently caress al then

# ? Aug 14, 2022 18:07

Muscle Tracer: Feb 23, 2007; Medals only weigh one down.

Khanstant posted:

do you remember in school when they told us how to write newspaper style. like headline biggest info, first line of text giving expanded most relevant details. then basically work your way down to the least useful information and details last. You'd get graded on if the first paragraph had all the important who/what/where/why/how questions, they'd make you highlight the same in professional newspaper articles to quiz you etc.

i wonder when exactly writers just gave up on all that. Who was like hmm let's bring that yellow journalism back and then also mix in a blog post nobody wants to read.

the people that run the sites are in it for the cash, not to inform the populace.

# ? Aug 14, 2022 18:13

CharlieFoxtrot: Mar 27, 2007; organize digital employees

Khanstant posted:

do you remember in school when they told us how to write newspaper style. like headline biggest info, first line of text giving expanded most relevant details. then basically work your way down to the least useful information and details last. You'd get graded on if the first paragraph had all the important who/what/where/why/how questions, they'd make you highlight the same in professional newspaper articles to quiz you etc.

i wonder when exactly writers just gave up on all that. Who was like hmm let's bring that yellow journalism back and then also mix in a blog post nobody wants to read.

Search engines don't read like humans do

# ? Aug 14, 2022 18:14

Lord Bob: Jun 1, 2000

Help Im Alive posted:

to think that a master of 3d picross and all the picross e games could be defeated by a mere 15x15 puzzle...

Can any of the games chat picross masters figure out the next logical step?!! I had to look up the completed puzzle

You can X out the bottom right corner, which would get you.. slightly forward. And the one above that - bottom right and bottom right up1.

Sometimes when you hit these you have to start using the corners as anchor points, place a whole block there and see if anything is impossible - in this case if the bottom right was 4up, then bottom-right 1left column would end up conflicting with the third row from the bottom (the 4up would place a block at the far side of row -3, but would also force a 3up from the column to the left, which would mean that row-3 would end in a 2, but that row demands ending in a 1)

similarly, you can fill in an x in the bottom left (after the 3), because if that one was filled, so would the one next to it, and both would go up to the next row which would then have a 2 where only a 1 is allowed

# ? Aug 14, 2022 18:19

Khanstant: Apr 5, 2007

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

Search engines don't read like humans do

send the search engine to elementary school they literally teach you how to read step by step its ez

# ? Aug 14, 2022 18:33

grieving for Gandalf: Apr 22, 2008

cheetah7071 posted:

Don't know anything about that but I have to assume it's words ratio is like a little baby compared to a visual novel, made by a company that usually makes just pure VNs, that decided it wanted to have 5 minute SRPG sequences every 2 hours of reading

it's literally that actually. you're playing a season of Digimon But Kind Of Brutal and like a little bit of SRPG every now and again

# ? Aug 14, 2022 18:40

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Speak for yourselves, I quite often find myself wondering the top 10 things Elden Ring can learn from Skyrim, let me solo her where to find Haligree easy Malenia strategy that originated in Dark Souls 3 no-hit run.

# ? Aug 14, 2022 19:21