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Philippe posted:I've actually been thinking about getting a Well it's where it makes sense because another player thought the same! 
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version of Death Stranding, just to see how much of the multiplayer component is legit and how much is built into the game. I'm curious, because often there's a structure you need exactly where it makes sense.
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Captain Hygiene posted:I've been giving Death Stranding a second try, and this time around I'm really appreciating the little mechanic where Sam can just yell something into the void, and if another player is (invisibly) nearby you'll hear him shout something nice in return. Don't forget to "yell" something when you're using a hot spring. Especially when you are escorting a certain person, I'm not talking about BB here.
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Necrothatcher posted:Well it's where it makes sense because another player thought the same! That's what I'm thinking, yeah, but still. It'd be nice to have confirmation.
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Philippe posted:I've actually been thinking about getting a I've played enough Dark Souls to know the community can be so dedicated they point every single secret in the game via the ingame messages you leave on the ground. Some people get creative and even point out useful exploits and tactics with it. So the idea that there's this huge pool of players who know exactly what are the optimal places for structures doesn't seem unlikely.
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Philippe posted:I've actually been thinking about getting a My first playthough was done almost entirely offline, on launch. The second playthrough was all online, after the game had been out for a year and a half, with the third six months after that, still online. As stated above, players seem to pick obvious structure locations. Bridges are the main things I see in the same places, which makes sense as they're a fixed length. Generator and shelter placement looks like it's dictated by lvl. 3 truck range more than anything else. Zipline routes kind of go where you'd expect, with some variation of starting points. The biggest effect of offline vs. online are the desire paths. As the game got older and players learned their preferred routes, the terrain changed quite significantly. Of particular note are the basalt column formations. These can be a bear to traverse on foot, and neigh impossible in a truck, in a wholly offline game. Online desire paths flatten them out to the point a truck can climb right through. How that works is a mystery to me. I don't know if the paths are calculated by movement of all players, or just ones you have a connection to. Neat feature, however it does work.
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I've started playing Olli Olli World, a skateboarding based 2.5d platformer. It's very cute and charming, and also gets tough pretty quickly.
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Phy posted:I just found out about the Super Mario 1 a+start continue trick.
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Any kid knew this was the true bible back in 1986 Book was filled with secrets like that. It's Goonies 2 maps were invaluable
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Necrothatcher posted:Well it's where it makes sense because another player thought the same!  A funny one I found yesterday wasn't even a structure, it was just a sign someone put seemingly in the middle of nowhere reminding people to save, right outside where a seemingly innocuous mission suddenly turns into about 15 enemies rolling up in trucks to rob you.
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Mierenneuker posted:Don't forget to "yell" something when you're using a hot spring. you can do this a couple of times, not just with Mama
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Hector Delgado posted:Any kid knew this was the true bible back in 1986
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Hector Delgado posted:Any kid knew this was the true bible back in 1986 
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Kinda crazy how we all decided to adopt a different aspect ratio for every single screen in the entire world over a period of like 8 years
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Vidaeus posted:If this guide is for >90 games why is it so thin? Even a page per game would be thicker than that. It looks like its just the cover and not the insides. I'd say it had about 140 pages and some stickers at the back.
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When I was younger I had that sketchy rear end Pokemon red/blue guide that told you to use the masterball on like, tentacool or whatever. 
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I recall a lot of game guides with cheats in them that just didn’t work. Did they ever work? Did they just make them up? Their response is probably “whatever, gently caress you, give me $10”
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jokes posted:I recall a lot of game guides with cheats in them that just didn’t work. It depends a lot on the specific book. If you saw something in an official guide that didn't work a lot of the time it was because they were going off an earlier version of the game and something changed before release. In unofficial guides it can be a typo or (as got increasingly frequent) they were just stealing from websites without checking.
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I had a Prima(?) strategy guide for Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen that was literally falling apart by the time I lost it, it saw so much use. It was also 85% useless but at least it told me where buried treasure was to savescum for rare items. 
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ImpAtom posted:It depends a lot on the specific book. The official guide for GTA: San Andreas had a few errors with the horseshoe collectibles in Las Venturas, due to the author basing the guide off of a pre-release build. I called up the publishing company and they sent me a double sided page to staple into the book. Useless now, but I still have the guide, collectibles marked down with different notation for every time I used it; PS2, XBox, 360, PS3, PS4, Definitive Edition.
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One of the worst game guides in history was the Prima guide for Mortal Kombat 9, which actually realized that it was probably not going to have accurate information in the future, especially for a game that was going to have a lot of patches and new content. ...so they just didn't include any move data. Not even stuff like damage numbers that could be subject to change, they didn't include stuff like frame data or combos that aren't likely to change, are actually super important for the playerbase to have access to, and are in fact the main reason fighting game guides sold. Without all that, all the guide really ended up being was a history of Mortal Kombat's competitive scene, and a bunch of takes on character viability from a team of decidedly non-competitive players after a couple days of playing each other. Basically none of their reads on character viability held up.
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Velocity Raptor posted:My brother and I used this when we were younger. I don't know if it was this book specifically or one in the series (I want to say it had a yellow cover and was the third but who knows), but I had a book that didn't contain a map for Legend of Zelda, but it did describe how to make one, at least one that contained info about treasures and caves. So it'd be like, "Make a 12 by 8 grid, label the vertical axis A B C etc, label the horizontal axis 1 2 3. The following squares have stores: A2, B6, F10. The following squares are dungeon entrances: B9, D8, etc." I must've drawn that map four or five times. Maybe used it once? Edit: heck yeah https://www.pressthebuttons.com/2016/09/the-true-story-of-jeff-rovin-how-to-win-at-nintendo-book-series.html Morpheus has a new favorite as of 03:18 on Nov 4, 2022 |
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A lot of games back then like Zelda or Metroid were literally made more or less expecting you to draw your own maps, yeah. Written notes can be very useful for games still, especially with how useless most 'guides' are now.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Written notes can be very useful for games still, especially with how useless most 'guides' are now. Wait, what? I find randomly searching through thirty-minute youtube walkthrough videos to answer specific easily addressable questions extremely rewarding
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Velocity Raptor posted:My brother and I used this when we were younger. I had that book as a kid. Fun fact: Jeff Rovin has had a hell of a career!
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Captain Hygiene posted:Wait, what? I find randomly searching through thirty-minute youtube walkthrough videos to answer specific easily addressable questions extremely rewarding Don't be ridiculous, the information can be easily found on the ad-choked, stream-opening wiki with copy and pasted info that is actually incomplete. And the information that isn't is written so cryptically vague so as to be useless. And no I'm not still mad.
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John Murdoch posted:Don't be ridiculous, the information can be easily found on the ad-choked, stream-opening wiki with copy and pasted info that is actually incomplete. And the information that isn't is written so cryptically vague so as to be useless. And no I'm not still mad. gamefaqs was great. most of the fandom wikis are trash
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ilmucche posted:gamefaqs was great. most of the fandom wikis are trash They're literally an ad-choked corporate attempt to drive out the actual wikis by buying Google results.
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John Murdoch posted:Don't be ridiculous, the information can be easily found on the ad-choked, stream-opening wiki with copy and pasted info that is actually incomplete. And the information that isn't is written so cryptically vague so as to be useless. And no I'm not still mad. Nah that's old hat. Nowadays you need to find a subreddit that links to a discord and then you've gotta find the relevant channel for your particular question and then check the pins
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'Hey welcome back to the channel in this tutorial I'm going to show you where to get the Red Wand if you like tutorials like this be sure to like and subscribe before we begin I'd like to thank my sponser for this video...'
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I remember cheating like crazy in Age of Mythology, except I couldn't use the instant build/recruit one because it was "L33T SUP4 H4XX0R", and I never thought to try a zero instead of an o.
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Kazzah posted:I remember cheating like crazy in Age of Mythology, except I couldn't use the instant build/recruit one because it was "L33T SUP4 H4XX0R", and I never thought to try a zero instead of an o. Lol. Adorable
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Byzantine posted:
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Byzantine posted:Also the Outrider is in, which is nice. Unfortunately, the Inrider is out.
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Agents are GO! posted:I had that book as a kid. Fun fact: Jeff Rovin has had a hell of a career! quote:Jeff Rovin has been editor-in-chief of Weekly World News, I’ll be honest I didn’t need to even finish the first sentence before I was happy I clicked that link.
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Kazzah posted:I remember cheating like crazy in Age of Mythology, except I couldn't use the instant build/recruit one because it was "L33T SUP4 H4XX0R", and I never thought to try a zero instead of an o. lol pwned
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Wasabi the J posted:lol pwned wow when did your av change wtf
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Cleretic posted:One of the worst game guides in history was the Prima guide for Mortal Kombat 9, which actually realized that it was probably not going to have accurate information in the future, especially for a game that was going to have a lot of patches and new content. Still not as bad as the official guide for Final Fantasy IX, where every other paragraph told you to go to the PlayOnline website to find the information you wanted! https://kotaku.com/the-worst-strategy-guide-ever-made-1702827492
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verbal enema posted:wow when did your av change wtf I told an internet forum that my mom called me a dildo in place of being called a dumbass. Yeah I make good decisions.
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Wasabi the J posted:I told an internet forum that my mom called me a dildo in place of being called a dumbass. You can thank her for bringing joy and laughter into my life, albeit in a roundabout way
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ilmucche posted:gamefaqs was great. most of the fandom wikis are trash GameFAQs? I'm playing an obscure adventure game. The only resource is a German guy trying his best, but he doesn't know his right from his left and is colorblind. And his web host only allows three images per page. The game has just sprung a sliding tile puzzle on me, proving I am in hell.
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