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CRAZY KNUCKLES FAN posted:I didnt find any of them that tough on a first playthrough except for The Experiment that you see in Dairon early on before its body gets hijacked by the X and the final boss. Everything's pretty tame in this game if you did endgame stuff in Hollow Knight or played Dark Souls before. I'd still say it's the hardest Metroid by a comfortable margin Still can't believe Dread won #2 SA goty behind FF14 last year. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3987583&pagenumber=59&perpage=40&userid=0#post520556029 Barreft fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Dec 8, 2022 |
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In soccer story i ran through the entrance of the retirement home and it let me walk around out of bounds instead of loading the outside like it was supposed to. and then the game loaded my character into the ocean, said i can't go in the ocean, then started playing a cutscene that seemed like a pretty huge skip to later in the game. earlier the game crashed. i thought this game was by the devs of golf story but it's not. it's my fault but i still think they wanted me to think that. I hope they make some nice patches.
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Dec 8, 2022 06:13
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Wildtortilla posted:Please do one of your excellent, thoughtful write ups about Dorfromantik. It’s probably going to be the next game I buy. I looked through my posts to see what exactly you meant and realized I had planned to play some more Into the Breach, which I haven't done yet, so I'm going to have to do that. But anyway. I've spent maybe 3 hours in Dorfromantik and I'm pretty sure I've seen all it has to offer. This isn't a bad thing necessarily. All you do is place hexagonal tiles down, with features like Forest, field, houses, linking them up for points and to see how much you can make your things sprawl. If your favorite part of a Civ game is seeing how the cities organically develop once you hit the Auto-Improve button on a worker, because who has time to micromanage, this will immediately click with you. It is not as chill a game as I thought it would be. I mean of course it's relaxing, but wanting to perfectly line up tiles can get frustrating when you don't get the right draw, kind of like waiting for the never-arriving I block in Tetris. The game offers several modes to address these issues, including a creative mode where you can just put down what you want. There's a regular mode that starts you with 50 tiles (you unlock more tiles by meeting in-game objectives ie "Forest with 400 trees" etc), a Quick mode that starts you with 25 or so tiles, and Hard Mode with more stringent rules, which I haven't tried yet. An average game takes about an hour at the pace I've played them. Quick mode is meant to be less of an investment since it sits in at about 20 minutes, though I'd argue you feel cheated when the game just ends, since you sort of want to expand but you're just not given the options. They've also made an Monthly mode where you compete for a place on the leaderboards with specific rules. Which is nice if you need more motivation to boot it up. Because that's probably the biggest problem. This is all the game is. They've got a few unlockables that you get meeting certain requirements, and they'll give some new titles and eventually different skins for visual variety, but that's about it. For 14 euro, it's a fair deal for a nice way to spend an hour or two at a go. It's really pleasant to see things come together (and frustrating when they don't, drat train tracks!). Like any good board game its rules give you a good way to play the game at your own pace. I haven't had my wife try it, but I feel she may like it, if I don't tell her about the point system and just let her put down tiles. It most reminds me of Lonely Mountain: Downhill a surprisingly chill game for how many times you break your face falling off a bike. They've both got a cozy (twee) Scandinavian aesthetic, generally let you advance at your own pace (yeah ok LM has a few time trials), and enjoy 'natural' areas. It's nice to see the little boat go down the river, and the checkerboard of pastel colors. I'm going to plug away at it trying to get some more of the unlockables, maybe take one honest go at designing a nice board in creative mode, but once I run out of unlockables it'll likely fade away into my already massive library. It's a good game, but in the sea of good games on the Switch it'll probably get lost, despite it clearly being a game you could really get into, if it clicks with you. I thought it was very cool how it feels inspired by board games, but is clearly something that could only exist virtually, unless you have an enormous table, but it turns out their making a board game based on it, so there's that. TLDR: You'll probably lose interest in it after a few hours, unless it really clicks with you, but for that time you'll likely enjoy the very relaxing tile game (with the occasional frustration). For 14 euro you could far worse, and I think even at that price if you get at least 5-6 matches in it was worth the price.
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Dec 8, 2022 12:10
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Hmm, thank you. Sounds like not a great use of my money at the moment. I’ll hold off for a sale or maybe just forget about it entirely. 
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Dec 8, 2022 14:15
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Honestly, the biggest pitfall of Dorfromantik is that specific moment whenever you start aiming for score. The first few runs are magically chill and smooth, but that erodes as you attempt the actual challenge before you (and think you know what you're doing). Perhaps someone else may find it zen still, but there's personally only so many times I can be handed a piece with town-forest-town-field-field-railway that fits well absolutely nowhere and also asks me to close off my city before it starts to annoy. Some sort of easier or higher tile reward mode maybe would've served to keep things interesting for me, the present challenge just becomes too much for it to purely be chill. You can always go sandbox, I guess, it does have that. How long it stays a welcome, fresh experience really depends on the player. It's not like it turns you away forever either as I've had the urge to go back to it recently, but the hours of chill fun are highly variable.
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Dec 8, 2022 14:53
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The description of that game has some real Carcassonne vibes.
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The new Mario Kart courses are so good, Maple Treeway was probably the best course that wasn’t already in MK8. Now that it’s there MK8 is the best Mario Kart 
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Drowning Rabbit posted:The description of that game has some real Carcassonne vibes. Haven't tried it but I can see why. Odd Wilson posted:Honestly, the biggest pitfall of Dorfromantik is that specific moment whenever you start aiming for score. That's really well said. I lost my folders when I got my OLED and made a half-assed effort to reorganize them, but it's a good game to revisit from time to time and chill out in, but again if you're like me and have a ton of games it'll get lost in the sea of options. Wildtortilla posted:Hmm, thank you. Sounds like not a great use of my money at the moment. I’ll hold off for a sale or maybe just forget about it entirely. That's fair. It's definitely not a 'must-buy' unless you really see what it does it just rubs you the right way. I do think it's novel enough to get, and cheap enough to justify it, but yeah, it only offers so much. I compared the feelings I got to Lonely Mountain: Downhill, which I think I would recommend over it personally. That game has less replay value, unless you like beating a time, but each track and environment was so nice to experience that I actually got the DLC for it. It's a "chill" game in theory, because it's otherwise a racing game where you crash A LOT (and sometimes are not meant to crash much), but it does give you the chance to catch your breath from time to time, and it resets you so quickly after a crash you don't mind too much, plus the checkpoints are relatively generous. It's hard to explain but I felt super zen once I figured out certain turns and just cruised down the mountain like a savant. I was never super fast or anything but it was just pleasant. Finding safe shortcuts also scratched the exploration itch just right.
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Dec 8, 2022 15:57
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Cavauro posted:In soccer story i ran through the entrance of the retirement home and it let me walk around out of bounds instead of loading the outside like it was supposed to. and then the game loaded my character into the ocean, said i can't go in the ocean, then started playing a cutscene that seemed like a pretty huge skip to later in the game. earlier the game crashed. i thought this game was by the devs of golf story but it's not. it's my fault but i still think they wanted me to think that. I hope they make some nice patches.
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Dec 8, 2022 16:18
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The difficulty in Rogue Legacy 2 seems hilariously non-linear. 3rd boss took me bit, 4th boss probably killed 20 generations. Zone 5 is just like bullet hell platforming.
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Dec 8, 2022 16:36
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Drowning Rabbit posted:The description of that game has some real Carcassonne vibes.
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Calidus posted:The difficulty in Rogue Legacy 2 seems hilariously non-linear. 3rd boss took me bit, 4th boss probably killed 20 generations. Zone 5 is just like bullet hell platforming. You can spin jump off the yellow balls if you didn't know that.
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 dragon quest treasures doing battle for arceus for Game With the Most "It's Not About the Graphics, It's the Gameplay" Graphics
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Dec 8, 2022 17:34
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The 7th Guest posted:
I mean, looking at the characters, I love the style, but those textures on the rocks are rough. 
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Dec 8, 2022 17:42
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The colors look nice, looks like 3DS era
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The 7th Guest posted:
Breath of the Mild
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I really hope a Switch 2 is announced at E3 next year. The X1 was released in 2015 and it REALLY shows.
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Dec 8, 2022 17:52
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I hope the switch continues for five more years
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playing xenoblade and the x1 really shows.... that it kick's rear end....
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The 7th Guest posted:
This is the Switch thread, not the PS2 thread, thx
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An Actual Princess posted:I hope the switch continues for five more years If Botw2 has performance issues I'll be pretty bummed
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Dec 8, 2022 18:32
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Mr.Acula posted:If Botw2 has performance issues I'll be pretty bummed BotW had performance issues and it’s using the same engine.
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The 7th Guest posted:
That doesn't seem terribly far from what DQM looked like on my DS Edit: Actually it's worse? 
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portal companion's on sale for the first time. $14 instead of $20.
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An Actual Princess posted:I hope the switch continues for five more years
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An Actual Princess posted:I hope the switch continues for five more years that should be enough for 1, maybe 2 more Xenoblades. Fair deal.
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The 7th Guest posted:
reminds me of these old sticker books I had as a kid
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Go play the MK8 update with custom items, this poo poo is hilarious https://twitter.com/BoomMike/status/1600934051166449666
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Dec 8, 2022 20:25
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ThatWhiteGuy posted:BotW had performance issues and it’s using the same engine. Basically only a big deal in the one great deku tree area. I think it'll be fine. And great!
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Astro7x posted:Go play the MK8 update with custom items, this poo poo is hilarious Blue shells only is the new get drunk with friends game
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Dec 8, 2022 20:33
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Get drunk with friends, sober up with enemies
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Unreal_One posted:Get drunk with friends, sober up with enemies Keep your friends drunk, and your enemies drunker
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Astro7x posted:Go play the MK8 update with custom items, this poo poo is hilarious Lastdancer please add this to the OP
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Dec 8, 2022 20:41
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Astro7x posted:Go play the MK8 update with custom items, this poo poo is hilarious you can also set custom items per team in team races. giving the 4yo nothing but stars and bullet bills has been the great equalizer of our household
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Astro7x posted:Go play the MK8 update with custom items, this poo poo is hilarious This is the zoomer equivalent of playing 4 player Goldeneye with only proximity mines.
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pentyne posted:This is the zoomer equivalent of playing 4 player Goldeneye with only proximity mines. A truer post has never been made.
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Astro7x posted:Go play the MK8 update with custom items, this poo poo is hilarious This rules, give MK8 game of the year
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Dec 8, 2022 20:56
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pentyne posted:This is the zoomer equivalent of playing 4 player Goldeneye with only proximity mines. i mean, at least in that version of bond multiplayer there's a chance to survive and sneak around. you can also launch a mine direct at any person versus only targeting the leader. here you're just being blown up every 5s with no chance of protecting yourself. that seems...blah. also, remote mines were way better.
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pentyne posted:This is the zoomer equivalent of playing 4 player Goldeneye with only proximity mines. Perfect Dark with those barf grenades set to Proximity Pinball.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:A truer post has never been made. Bruceski posted:Perfect Dark with those barf grenades set to Proximity Pinball. Sorry, THIS post gets it right.
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