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Read After Burning posted:One of my partner and I's biggest disagreements is over head-bob in first person games: he CAN'T STAND it, whereas I weirdly leave it on for some reason. No idea why! It can be immersive, especially if the game also simulates your body in other ways. If you're just a camera on wheels, it doesn't work.
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I think it's tricked me into feeling more immersive?
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Philippe posted:It can be immersive, especially if the game also simulates your body in other ways. If you're just a camera on wheels, it doesn't work. I misread that as "stimulates" multiple times and was confused, but also a little 
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Captain Hygiene posted:I misread that as "stimulates" multiple times and was confused, but also a little There's games for that kind of head bobbing, too.
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Captain Hygiene posted:I misread that as "stimulates" multiple times and was confused, but also a little I've always said that the Rez Trance Vibrator was grossly underutilized.
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CordlessPen posted:I've always said that the Rez Trance Vibrator was grossly underutilized. Thankfully Buttplug.io has you covered for modern integration of video games and sex toys.
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Hel posted:Thankfully Buttplug.io has you covered for modern integration of video games and sex toys. I've heard it can be utilized for traditional games as well, like chess!
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Philippe posted:It can be immersive, especially if the game also simulates your body in other ways. If you're just a camera on wheels, it doesn't work. Amulets and armor had two devs arguing about head height, which compromised on headbobbing between their two opinions. One was 6'6 and the other was 5'6, so the bobbinf was very violent
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Dec 25, 2022 21:11
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Personally it goes down to 10% or less in every game now. Killzone was the game that broke headbob forever for me. I was part of an LP of pretty much the whole series and they never change one specific thing about it: Your dude is stomach height. In case you are wondering, in cutscenes he's as tall as a man, not a dwarf. Speculation is that it's supposed to be intentionally at bodycam height because Sevchenko doesn't wear a helmet. But that makes the game so very miserable to watch. Playing it? Fine. Watching it? I got seasick watching the sprinting and mantling in Shadow Fall sometimes.  edit: The real reason is it's easier to aim your gun at enemies the lower your view is. See HALO and Borderlands making the crosshair lower than center-screen to force players to look up, having the knock-on effect of showing them more of the world. CJacobs has a new favorite as of 21:56 on Dec 25, 2022 |
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Dec 25, 2022 21:43
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CJacobs posted:edit: The real reason is it's easier to aim your gun at enemies the lower your view is. See HALO and Borderlands making the crosshair lower than center-screen to force players to look up, having the knock-on effect of showing them more of the world. People keep saying this but IMO it's the opposite, a lower crosshair just means I'm constantly looking at the sky because it has to tilt so far to headshot people or arc grenades, in fact one of the neat things in Goldeneye Rogue Agent is that it put the aimpoint higher than normal and it felt so much better because you could still see other enemies when doing head shots and grenades, it even made flying enemies less annoying because you could still see your surroundings when shooting at them. It also made it natural to shoot over cover.
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Dec 25, 2022 22:58
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Broke out Splatoon 3 for the first time in a while, and I'd forgotten about the new system where you aim and launch yourself onto the battle map at the start of matches and after respawns. It's fine in theory, it adds a bit of interest, but could they not have fixed it so you can't bounce off the edge and fall to your death if you bump the controls by mistake on some maps? That's nothing but a useless time waster. And the other weird thing that whole setup introduces, there's no shielded spawn point on the maps any more, so for maps where you can get to the enemy's starting point you can just hang out there and wait for them to jump in before they're even able to use weapons or anything. It's one of those weird Nintendo decisions where they center this entire game around making a shooter that accommodates a wider range of skill levels having casual fun, then they do the occasional design choice like this that goes exactly opposite to that.
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you have armor for several seconds after jumping in at spawn. maybe it’s breakable but I personally never got the chance to find out
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Dec 26, 2022 02:55
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I believe it is, I've been killed pretty quick there when we got into a wipeout scenario where there was no longer anywhere else to jump to, anyway.
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would be nice if you could have the option to download only the single or multiplayer sides of a game if you're not planning on using one half of them
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ilmucche posted:would be nice if you could have the option to download only the single or multiplayer sides of a game if you're not planning on using one half of them I swear like 70% of Doom (2016)'s file size is the multiplayer poo poo that no one played and no one wanted in the first place. Snapmap at least made sense as an idea, given mods and player maps are why original Doom still thrives, but in execution it sucked, too.
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Dec 26, 2022 20:01
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I love Destiny 2, but gently caress me I can never tell anyone else to play it knowing how garbage the earlygame is rn. I hope Bungie at some point takes the time to do a fixer-upper on it, even if it wouldn't necessarily benefit me.
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What, you don’t like slowly stumbling around as Peter Dinklage barely phones in as a lame rear end robot?
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Crowetron posted:I swear like 70% of Doom (2016)'s file size is the multiplayer poo poo that no one played and no one wanted in the first place. Snapmap at least made sense as an idea, given mods and player maps are why original Doom still thrives, but in execution it sucked, too. Can confirm.
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arsenicCatnip posted:I love Destiny 2, but gently caress me I can never tell anyone else to play it knowing how garbage the earlygame is rn. I hope Bungie at some point takes the time to do a fixer-upper on it, even if it wouldn't necessarily benefit me.  but this is the fixed version of early game.Like, at some point people just gotta accept that destiny 2 is a bad game and bungie are bad at making this game not bad. Because every facet of it is bad.
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arsenicCatnip posted:I love Destiny 2, but gently caress me I can never tell anyone else to play it knowing how garbage the earlygame is rn. I hope Bungie at some point takes the time to do a fixer-upper on it, even if it wouldn't necessarily benefit me. Supposedly (huge grain of salt there), Bungie's reworking the earlygame/new player parts after Lightfall.
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Excellent. Now I just have to figure out which of the 50 different combinations of DLC packs offers the best value and also which content will be available for the longest time before it gets removed from the game
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Croccers posted:Hold on... Coffee Shop Tycoon just released on Steam about a week ago. Not sure if it fits the billfpr what youre looking for exactly
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2house2fly posted:Excellent. Now I just have to figure out which of the 50 different combinations of DLC packs offers the best value and also which content will be available for the longest time before it gets removed from the game Good news on that front too, Bungie has said that they're not vaulting expansions anymore. Seasons are available between expansions (so all seasons that came out with/after Witch Queen are available until Lightfall, then those seasons become unavailable and the ones from Lightfall to Final Shape follow the same pattern), and it sounds like they're working towards Final Shape being almost a reboot of the game with light levels going away, etc. They REALLY need to do a better job of telling a new player what they need to buy. It's the Legacy Collection + Witch Queen, but they make it nearly impossible to figure that out. I mean, gently caress, i've played for years on PC and when I wanted to buy it for Xbox, figuring out what I needed to buy took a while.
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Played more of Fresh Start Cleaning Simulator since they added more content into it. Basic thing to know: you use a tool that can shoot out a stream of water or suck up (trash that you recycle into experience points/water to refill your supply). There's a skill you can unlock which is a little robot that shoots streams of water at targets in its range; one would think you could just leave it in a spot to help you clear a map faster while you manually clean elsewhere. Unfortunately, the streams often don't target stuff like trees well (aiming at their roots, which usually means the stream hits the level geometry and does nothing useful), or it aims for a target behind an obstacle, again doing nothing useful. You'll have to reposition it to really get good use out of it, but at that point you might as well just clean up using your tool's water beam. Also, in the full release, the skill trees have their final skills implemented; one is "press button to launch a wave forward which instantly waters plants to full and clears debris piles" and another is "press button to create a cyclone that sucks trash to you in your vicinity". The bad thing is, both skills are activated with the same button. The former one is way more useful, but if it's ready first and then the second becomes ready, the cyclone skill launches and you have to build up the first skill a little bit again. Oh, and there's no key rebinding. I picked it up because i loved Powerwash Simulator and have come to realize i really gel with games like that, but it's not as satisfying.
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moosecow333 posted:What, you don’t like slowly stumbling around as Peter Dinklage barely phones in as a lame rear end robot? dinklage hasn't been in destiny for 7 of the 8 years the series has been out
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We Got Us A Bread posted:Good news on that front too, Bungie has said that they're not vaulting expansions anymore. Seasons are available between expansions (so all seasons that came out with/after Witch Queen are available until Lightfall, then those seasons become unavailable and the ones from Lightfall to Final Shape follow the same pattern), and it sounds like they're working towards Final Shape being almost a reboot of the game with light levels going away, etc.
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moosecow333 posted:What, you don’t like slowly stumbling around as Peter Dinklage barely phones in as a lame rear end robot? They deleted Dinklage and replaced him with Nolan North when they realised they would have to get him back for DLC, so he's gone entirely now!
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Splicer posted:Are you telling me that it is currently possible to pay money for expansions for Destiny 2 that all the content for is just... turned off? You can't pay money now for stuff that is gone but they did remove poo poo that people had paid money for in the past. The entire base campaign/story for Destiny 2 isn't in the game anymore and two or three of the planets are gone as locations you can go to, then the first year of DLC is gone as well so that's two more locations inaccessible and then I think half of the first big expansion has been removed as well so that's another location gone. So like, if you bought Destiny 2, the first year of content and the Forsaken expansion and then stopped playing in late 2018 and then come back, basically most of the stuff you'll remember is not in the game at all anymore. They've even removed some of the multiplayer maps that were set in those locations so the Gambit mode only has like, 6 maps when I'm pretty sure it used to have way more. It's pretty nuts they didn't get more blowback for that, obviously MMOs like WoW or whatever have locations/expansions become deprecated in value as the locations are no longer the max level area so you're disincetivised to hang out there but they very rarely wholesale remove the entire location and stop you going there.
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Trying out My Time at Sandrock as a kind of chill no-brain farming/etc game during the vacation, and other than the normal '50 billion items from the getgo' these games can suffer from, I'm kinda annoyed at the character designs. I was always a bit put off by going after bachelors (the rare times it's possible) in Harvestmoon-likes when they look like kids, but in Sandrock there's a bit of an opposite issue. Where your character pretty much regardless looks like a kid, while a number of the bachelors actually look more like adults. It just makes scenes with them feel skeevy. I just really wish I could pop out and replace my character model, or just scale it up a bit so that I don't look like a 12-year old going after young-to-middle aged adult guys. I also tried out Coral Isle which seems promising, but that game was dragged down by there being so many 'THIS CONTENT ISN'T DONE.' 'THIS STORE WILL BE AVAILABLE IN 1.0' that it felt pointless playing it. But that's on me for grabbing an early access title. I am glad there's a lot of 'stardew-valley-likes' games coming out, though.
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6 maps was the most gambit ever had, now it has 4 lol I think the most incredible thing about bungie literally deleting half of the game is that it somehow wasn’t the worst thing for it that they did that day. it’s a game where many of its players hate it even as they continue playing it, but absolutely no one hates it as much as its own developer. They are comically disrespectful to their own product.
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Gay Rat Wedding posted:6 maps was the most gambit ever had, now it has 4 lol Huh, so it did, I thought I remembered way more. That's weird, what even is a memory. Well the rest of my thing was accurate at least.
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thebardyspoon posted:It's pretty nuts they didn't get more blowback for that, obviously MMOs like WoW or whatever have locations/expansions become deprecated in value as the locations are no longer the max level area so you're disincetivised to hang out there but they very rarely wholesale remove the entire location and stop you going there. It's absolutely ridiculous that "you paid for the base campaign and the first expansion but if you return now you have nothing to show for it except for free player status" is somehow acceptable. Also the OG campaign was weird but still somewhat coherent and fun 
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There are no Destiny fans. There are only Destiny apologists.
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I remember getting destiny 2 early on, playing for about 3 hours, liking the time I spent since my friend was a huge lore nerd who liked to fill in the weird story gaps, then shelving it to come back later when I had more time to play an MMO. all of that is gone now apparently lmao can't even play the game I bought!
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SubNat posted:But that's on me for grabbing an early access title. I am glad there's a lot of 'stardew-valley-likes' games coming out, though. Harvest Moon 64 and the two Gamecube games were my obsession growing up...if you had told me then that in ~15 years there would end up being way too many "anime farming games" for me to ever actually play in my lifetime, I would have laughed in your face. 
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I know it took up dozens of pages a while back but... Aloy shut the gently caress up please
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It's a great game, but you spend at least a quarter of your time bending down to pick up stuff you'll never use. The Witcher figured this out years ago: just don't do the animation.
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I saw a review for harvestella complain that gathering items just instantly puts them in your inventory with no animation and had a lol that were expressing this advertisement for the game as a negative.
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I don't mind the pickup animation in Red Dead 2, because that game is about cowboy immersion, but in Horizon it just feels off.
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Philippe posted:It's a great game, but you spend at least a quarter of your time bending down to pick up stuff you'll never use. Also recognize that the player will pickup everything, so instead of just picking up one thing just grab everything within a ~10 m radius.
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Philippe posted:I don't mind the pickup animation in Red Dead 2, because that game is about cowboy immersion, but in Horizon it just feels off. There's an option to turn off all pickup animations.
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