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fridge corn posted:Sometimes the hype is part of the fun I'm nostalgic for no man's sky and Spore hype. those were fun threads
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Rutibex posted:I'm nostalgic for no man's sky and Spore hype. those were fun threads drat i wanna read the Spore hype thread, that's gotta be like an important historical document
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Aug 21, 2022 13:12
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Caesar Saladin posted:drat i wanna read the Spore hype thread, that's gotta be like an important historical document https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/05/27/e32k5-request-granted It's funny how I vividly remembered this, took almost no searching to pinpoint a comic from almost twenty years ago. But there you go, ~Spore~!!
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satanic splash-back posted:I love hearing people complain about dark souls, a game series where you can outlevel the enemies. Levels don't do THAT much though. Outgearing enemies makes a bigger difference. There were some videos at Elden Ring's launch showing how to explore the open world and cheese your way to a +7 weapon before the first boss.
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fridge corn posted:Sometimes the hype is part of the fun Seeing folks get so loving hyped and eventually disappointed by game releases never gets old, video game review rage is A+ tier schadenfreude for me. I feel like an old man that's seen too many friends die in multiple wars that cannot feel love any more. Actually, that's not a very good metaphor. Went too far.
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Aug 21, 2022 15:32
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Elden Ring kicks rear end though
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Caesar Saladin posted:nobody is out there playing games for hours that they don't enjoy because of "hype" unless they're weirdo pathetic joyless streamers but there are lots of people who will start playing a 6-7 out of 10 game, have enough fun to stick with it to the end, then look back and say "in retrospect I probably wouldn't recommend that game to a friend, it was just ok" hype helps to get more people in the door playing one of those good-enough-to-keep-playing-but-not-great games. it won't help if something is actually awful, like look at how Artifact dropped off a cliff instantly, or New World (but it still got the 60bux from all the people who bought in due to hype even if they dropped it in 2 weeks)
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neato burrito posted:Seeing folks get so loving hyped and eventually disappointed by game releases never gets old, video game review rage is A+ tier schadenfreude for me. I feel like an old man that's seen too many friends die in multiple wars that cannot feel love any more. Actually, that's not a very good metaphor. Went too far. It's the same with a lot of media. Album releases do the same thing. I still remember a thread about the new NIN album Year Zero (I really like it, though) where a person was listening and after two tracks said THIS MIGHT BE AS GOOD AS DOWNWARD SPIRAL I know it's tempting to be riding a wave of Great New Art and all of that but it happens all the time with so many things. Pitchfork did a feature where they looked back on some of their reviews and re-rated albums. Some ended up with higher ratings, but others acknowledged the hype train participation and dropped the new score. It's a very human thing to do but I get tired of seeing it. Here's the pitchfork piece: https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/pitchfork-reviews-rescored/
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:Elden Ring kicks rear end though no it doesn't
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Does New World still exist?
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Barudak posted:Does New World still exist? surprisingly yes, it's even above Valheim, ESO and Sea of THieves 
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:surprisingly yes, it's even above Valheim, ESO and Sea of THieves Color me absolutely surprised
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:no it doesn't As per the thread title you played a catboy in final fantasy 14 whereas I did not. This means that my opinions are more valid than yours and Elden Ring owns
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Elden Ring was okay but too easy to be really enjoyable Also they should stop wasting time implementing PVP in their games, it's always awful and the games would be better if they didn't have to design around it
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if your gonna be playing final fantasy 14 you may as well go all the way and be a catboy
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William only hates Elden Ring because there's no catboy option
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Triarii posted:Elden Ring was okay but too easy to be really enjoyable ds2 pvp was really good the rest were just ok
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Dark Souls PvP seems like it's mostly OP cunts adhering to the strongest builds. I'd imagine about 75% of the player base doesn't give a hot poo poo about it.
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Path of Exile had a huge nerf to drop rates, people are pissed/convinced it's a bug and the developer pretty much just posted "working as intended". Ha.Caesar Saladin posted:nobody is out there playing games for hours that they don't enjoy because of "hype" unless they're weirdo pathetic joyless streamers This may come as a shock to you but people aren't always rational. Sometimes they may play a game thinking to themselves "eh this isn't exactly fun but maybe fun is just around the corner" and sometimes they're right, other times no that fun isn't anywhere. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 05:30 on Aug 22, 2022 |
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neato burrito posted:Dark Souls PvP seems like it's mostly OP cunts adhering to the strongest builds. I'd imagine about 75% of the player base doesn't give a hot poo poo about it. its all metagame bullshit. I like souls games either solo or co-oped through with a friend. They're all way too easy when you co-op all the way through though.
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Duck and Cover posted:Path of Exile had a huge nerf to drop rates , people are pissed/convinced it's a bug and the developer pretty much just posted "working as intended". Ha. I have probably put 1000 hours into Total War games over the years until one day I was playing Warhammer 2 and I had an epiphany that it just felt like I was working and I never played it again.
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Duck and Cover posted:This may come as a shock to you but people aren't always rational. Sometimes they may play a game thinking to themselves "eh this isn't exactly fun but maybe fun is just around the corner" and sometimes they're right, other times no that fun isn't anywhere. league of legends,
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The multiplayer really did feel more like a contractual obligation in Elden Ring. They didn’t even bother to give it a lore explanation like previous games where it had to do with space-time breaking down or make any questlines or factions utilizing it. Just went “Yeah yeah you know what the deal is here’s your invasion item and your coop item now scram”.
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:I have probably put 1000 hours into Total War games over the years until one day I was playing Warhammer 2 and I had an epiphany that it just felt like I was working and I never played it again. I tried many MMORPGS before giving up on the genre and while they weren't necessarily terrible they weren't all that fun either. In no order really. Everquest 16 Dark Age of Camelot 20 City of Heroes 10 (not super confident on that number probably a bit higher) Anarchy Online uhhhhhhhh super low single digits maybe? World of Warcraft 54 Not to counting the ones that don't really belong in the same list just by being different enough. (Maple Story, Ragnarök Online, Clanlord). Oh yeah I played Last Epoch too, that one lasted like 1 hour which was pretty much just a bunch of me pressing escape or whatever the skip button was. In my defense the combat looked like it would be fun but turns out that's like 5% of the experience. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Aug 22, 2022 |
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Duck and Cover posted:Path of Exile had a huge nerf to drop rates, people are pissed/convinced it's a bug and the developer pretty much just posted "working as intended". Ha. I've been getting plenty of loot out of kalandra. sounds like a bunch of whiners
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Replaying Dishonored 2 and holy poo poo some of the so called low chaos are pretty loving cruel ways to neutralize your enemies. It'd be almost merciful to end some of them outright.
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tango alpha delta posted:Replaying Dishonored 2 and holy poo poo some of the so called low chaos are pretty loving cruel ways to neutralize your enemies. It'd be almost merciful to end some of them outright. Are you talking about when you sneak into the investor's mansion and use the torture device to make him incredibly stupid? because that is pretty hosed up.
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neato burrito posted:Dark Souls PvP seems like it's mostly OP cunts adhering to the strongest builds. I'd imagine about 75% of the player base doesn't give a hot poo poo about it. I like it but it's just a fun thing to screw around in. People making entire meta builds just so they can be op and convince themselves it was skill are weird. Demon's Souls at launch...Souls PVP at it's absolute purest, was some of the most fun I have ever had playing a game online. Just randomly getting invaded anywhere in the game, people weren't speccing for PVP. It was just players bothering other players and it was super fun. It's the type of thing that can't last forever though because gamers will be gamers and Fromsoft doesn't care that much about balancing PVP since it's just basically dick around mode. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Aug 22, 2022 |
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The only time I really did souls pvp is when I had a hilarious broken build in DS1 where i used a shield that had a Captain America throw as a special attack, and one shot people because the attack scaled with your right hand weapon, so I would put a massive +15 greatsword on and just chuck the shield and ruin people's day then, of course, they patched out the fun
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tango alpha delta posted:Replaying Dishonored 2 and holy poo poo some of the so called low chaos are pretty loving cruel ways to neutralize your enemies. It'd be almost merciful to end some of them outright. prison exists because it's the low chaos option for society, not because it's best for prisoners. society is hosed up, running smoothly isn't always best
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tango alpha delta posted:Replaying Dishonored 2 and holy poo poo some of the so called low chaos are pretty loving cruel ways to neutralize your enemies. It'd be almost merciful to end some of them outright. I have heard and that loving owns
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tango alpha delta posted:Replaying Dishonored 2 and holy poo poo some of the so called low chaos are pretty loving cruel ways to neutralize your enemies. It'd be almost merciful to end some of them outright. i haven't finished Dishonored 2 yet but yeah this was one of the coolest parts about Dishonored 1, particularly with the Pendleton brothers
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I hear a lot of poo poo talked about Dishonored 2 but I loved it. Some of the levels are huge and intricate and the two characters are meaningfully different.
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Caesar Saladin posted:I hear a lot of poo poo talked about Dishonored 2 but I loved it. Some of the levels are huge and intricate and the two characters are meaningfully different. the Clockwork Mansion level is genuinely one of the greatest levels in all of videogames
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JollyBoyJohn posted:the Clockwork Mansion level is genuinely one of the greatest levels in all of videogames it's too bad they didn't work the time travel gimmick into the game more generally instead of it being a one off for that level
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I expected to like Cyberpunk a lot after the intro with the huge latino dude but I kinda just stopped playing it. I should pick it up again because I hear there are some good missions that i haven't played yet.
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Fyi once you get the point of no return message, finish up all the side quests because it's like sixty hours of Witcher 3 esque questing lol
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Cyberpunk probably would have ruled as a small little side project to hold people over between Witcher games instead of trying to make a massive AAA with every feature ever. Like a 10-20 hours isometric RPG with the same basic story and voice acting would have been perfect.
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poverty goat posted:it's too bad they didn't work the time travel gimmick into the game more generally instead of it being a one off for that level Like Titanfall and that banger of a level with the time switch
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