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How dare you Star Ocean 6 is the best Star Ocean
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Sakurazuka posted:How dare you Star Ocean 6 is the best Star Ocean why are all the sidequests 2 story beats behind its loving baffling
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Dec 2, 2022 14:22
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Star ocean 6 is kind of bad but that’s because it’s punching way above it’s budget. There’s heart there for sure.
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I've seen a couple people comparing Calypso Protocol to Silent Hill Downpour and oof
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Well I did finish Downpour a couple of months ago
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do you think glen schofield is a little to much in to mma and that's why he named his studio striking distance and made his game character dodge like a boxer
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Dec 2, 2022 14:36
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CuddleCryptid posted:I've seen a couple people comparing Calypso Protocol to Silent Hill Downpour and oof So a game similar to Star Ocean 6, kinda bad but punching above its weight? At least it isn't Homecoming.
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Ah yes, what every horror game needs: paid death animations
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So I assumed those were because the DLC added new enemies or environments which would have new animations when those things killed you and they just chose to present that in the dumbest way but maybe it's not that?
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didn't the death animation stuff turn out to be all bullshit for new content being released months from now
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Dec 2, 2022 14:58
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BisbyWorl posted:Ah yes, what every horror game needs: I remember seeing that pop up before the game launched and it was so ridiculous I thought that it must be a joke. I guess not.
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Dec 2, 2022 14:59
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Gesadt posted:eh, like any reviewer you got to know how his and yours tastes overlap. e.g. he liked evil west, which i thought is boring waste of time, so we like different things (or find different things more important), cool. that's all there is to it. I'm mostly going off the visual of the footage he used. It's the first time I've seen the game running like that, and it adds a visual context to what a lot of reviews - not just Skillup's - have described. It looks like they've gone for something new and unique in this space, which is to be applauded on the whole, but I don't think what they were going for has landed at all. It looks like a system that's fundamentally broken in some very specific ways, and there's more than just a couple of reviewers pointing to that.
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Disposable Scud posted:poo poo I forgot Them And Us (terrible name but a sweet game) and Nightmare of Decay. I have yet to try Eternal Evil but I have heard okay things. Don't sleep on In Sound Mind and
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“full of jumpscares” nope. no. I’m done. no more of this. I am not indulging any more of the BWOOGA WOOGA bullshit
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Disposable Scud posted:poo poo I forgot Them And Us (terrible name but a sweet game) and Nightmare of Decay. I have yet to try Eternal Evil but I have heard okay things. Grab some popcorn and turn off your brain for the plot of Eternal Evil but otherwise I think it's a solid game. Especially for being made by a solo dev! I haven't played since early access so I couldn't tell you how the rebalancing that happened for full release feels, but the game is very much worth more than the cost of entry.
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veni veni veni posted:This is totally what it is, but I would implore the people who make these comparisons to actually go back and play Dead Space 1 again because Dead Space 1 is just a game where you run forward and blast a million enemies and so is Dead Space 2 but DS2 does literally everything better. It's way less Alien vs Aliens and more like Uncharted 1 vs Uncharted 2.People just think DS2 is some sort of shift because they forgot what DS1 actually was. i played through both back-to-back about a year ago. While its true that both are action-horror games, it’s definitely fair to say that DS1 leans more into the horror while DS2 leans more into the action. There are several reasons for this. For one, the pace of DS1 is much more deliberate than 2. Its starts slower, Isaac is slower and more sluggish in general, there are much fewer setpiece scenes, the list goes on. DS2 literally starts with a necromorph screaming in Isaac’s face and he blasts from location to location at a break-neck pace. The game seems terrified of letting the player get bored so youre never more than 15 minutes away from some crazy action set-piece. Another point is that DS2 Isaac is much more capable than DS1 Isaac. He has better melee, can move around quicker, has much stronger weapons and abilities, and generally acts like hes done this all before. DS1 Isaac moves at a slower pace and is less capable overall, giving the played a much stronger sense of vulnerability, which lends itself better to horror My last point is that the USS Ishimura is a much scarier location than the space station that DS2 takes in. You feel much more trapped and exposed in the Ishimura cause youre going to all these locations in it that most ppl arent supposed to go to. The space station is better lit and feels more friendly to navigate. The scariest part in DS2, imo, is when you go back to the dry-docked Ishimura. They even show restraint in that section and dont have any enemies for several minutes until youre balls deep in the ship and cant escape easily. Like i said, theyre both action-horror games, but when you play them back-to-back it becomes very obvious what part of that genre they each focused on. This is not to say that one is better than the other, though. I think both games are fantastic for similar, yet meaningfully different reasons. I guess i should ask when was the last time that you played them, cause i dont know how one can think that it’s ridiculous that the first game is scarier while the second is more action focused
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Honestly, I got my fill of action horror with the original Dead Space. Games like Signalis are far more appealing to me, games that mix up existing concepts in an interesting way or outright do something new or very rare. (Control doesn’t really count as horror, but it was cool as gently caress, so I think it deserves a mention anyway.)
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Pollyanna posted:(Control doesn’t really count as horror, but it was cool as gently caress, so I think it deserves a mention anyway.) I'm playing through Control at the minute, and I think it absolutely qualifies as horror-adjacent.
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Adjacent sure, but like Twilight Zone or SCP horror, not Texas Chainsaw Massacre horror. Where the horror is existential rather than survival.
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it is truly a horror that Finnish people exist
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This thread has saved me so much loving money on games, it's ridiculous. Really glad i waited for GOON OPINIONS on Callisto Protocol. At least I still have Dead Space to look forward to.
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WaltherFeng posted:I watched some Callisto Protocol gameplay and I didn't really get excited from it. Even a goon is right once in a while
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The problem with Callisto protocol is that it isn't even "love it or hate it" it seems to be "acceptable or awful". And that's not acceptable for a game that costs as much as it does. Also, as someone who didn't really follow it at all until the reviews came out, the monster design seems pretty basic and boring to me..that's really sad. The necromorphs are pretty iconic to me, and a big part of horror game appeal is the monster design. So much of it seems to be "dead space, but worse"
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Was Callisto Protocol the game that was shown this year with the main character getting caught in machinery or was that the other Space Survival Horror that isn't Dead Space coming up. I was gonna grab it this week to preload for today but something just made me pause for a moment to wait and see and now I'm glad I did
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Shoehead posted:Was Callisto Protocol the game that was shown this year with the main character getting caught in machinery or was that the other Space Survival Horror that isn't Dead Space coming up. Yeah it’s that game. It’s also the game that was originally announced as being part of the PUBG universe but they dropped that quickly.
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Evil Kit posted:Popped my computer on this morning to finish the preload for Callisto P before work and uh, I don't remember getting the deluxe edition but it apparently got added to my account? Has this happened to anyone else? Gonna bump this cause I'm genuinely curious. I'll reserve my opinions till I get to play it, though if need be I'll wait for a patch to fix the stuttering issues. I'd be surprised if there isn't one by the end of the day, blows my mind if it really is copy protection that got left in though.
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Evil Kit posted:Gonna bump this cause I'm genuinely curious. It happens pretty often. Denuvo makes the game run like poo poo and either you wait for them to remove it after an outcry making the whole thing a waste of money and goodwill or they manage to patch it to make it bearable.
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I am playing through the Medium, and it made me realize how much I hate stealth missions with an instant fail system built in. I read that the stealth missions are far and few in between but the way it's implemented in this game has to be one of the most frustrating gaming experiences I've come across in a while. I'm getting flashbacks to Outlast 2 where after the 10th death while you find your way out of a maze, my frustration overtook fear and I ended up uninstalling the entire thing. The stunning visuals and interesting story will probably force me to tread through it. Terrible game design.
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TheWorldsaStage posted:It happens pretty often. Denuvo makes the game run like poo poo and either you wait for them to remove it after an outcry making the whole thing a waste of money and goodwill or they manage to patch it to make it bearable. My experiences with Denuvo have been pretty unnoticeable tbh, I've played a bunch of games that have it where people bitch that Denuvo is ruining the game somehow and I kinda just... don't see it? Like maybe part of that is just being so used to poo poo computers that barely run the games I really wanted to play (literally bare minimum specs or even slightly below but pushed through anyway). Now I have a PC that's been able to run whatever I want to play on mostly high settings and any stutters are just accepted cause I've "just" got a 2070 Super card.
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Evil Kit posted:My experiences with Denuvo have been pretty unnoticeable tbh, I've played a bunch of games that have it where people bitch that Denuvo is ruining the game somehow and I kinda just... don't see it? Just an example I remembered, interesting read and the testing was done by Digital Foundry https://www.pcgamer.com/resident-evil-village-drm-denuvo-stuttering/
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Watching Callisto a bit and it made really made me appreciate Resident Evil. Callisto got some jarring animation cuts especially with like death animations.
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ScootsMcSkirt posted:Another point is that DS2 Isaac is much more capable than DS1 Isaac. He has better melee, can move around quicker, has much stronger weapons and abilities, and generally acts like hes done this all before. DS1 Isaac moves at a slower pace and is less capable overall, giving the played a much stronger sense of vulnerability, which lends itself better to horror
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Sakurazuka posted:3 is mainly shooting human enemies from cover. I enjoyed coop-ing it with a random goon. Sending out roombas to collect crafting materials on IRL timers like a loving mobile game was dogshit though.
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sad to hear about callisto. might end up holding off for a sale, especially since i'm stuck playing the denuvo-ridden PC port if i wanted to try it if it truly is a turkey it'll probably be 15% off next year, and that might be a more acceptable price for a middling experience poe meater posted:Watching Callisto a bit and it made really made me appreciate Resident Evil. Callisto got some jarring animation cuts especially with like death animations. capcom had the license to build a new engine from the ground up for RE7, since they knew they'd be using it for a whole series of remakes and mainline titles, so it's tailor made for horror games with how it tweens animations and deforms body parts unreal engine 4 is a workhorse, but it's also very much a generalist engine that's hard to contort into a really focused shape if you're trying to do something where the animations and atmosphere matter a ton like a horror game
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Floor is lava posted:I enjoyed coop-ing it with a random goon. Sending out roombas to collect crafting materials on IRL timers like a loving mobile game was dogshit though. On release there were actual loot boxes and micro transactions for being the resources your roombas could bring you back... except the roombas brought back pittances of the high end stuff. I don't remember all the details but it was pretty bad. Also the plot sucks, they assassinate the hell out of Ellie's character.
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