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I'm finally playing Control and really into it. Managed to keep myself spoiler free despite all the praise for the Ashtray Maze (or maybe because of it) and last night I get to it and I'm all excited only for it not to really be available yet? Like, I get a little tease but unless I'm missing something it's not what everyone has been talking about and I'll have to return later.
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yeah it's lategame. you metroidvania back there a bit later once you're more tooled up iirc
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Jan 4, 2023 12:37
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Yeah, you'll know when the time is for why people talk about it. It's good!
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Jan 4, 2023 13:18
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You get to interact with Ahti to get in, which is always fun.
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Jan 4, 2023 13:22
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Dragon Age: Inquisition forces you to use the stick to navigate menus, which is annoying because I prefer to use the directional pad for that. It’s a little thing but it’s dragging the game down for me!
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Jan 4, 2023 14:35
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Alexander Hamilton posted:Dragon Age: Inquisition forces you to use the stick to navigate menus, which is annoying because I prefer to use the directional pad for that. It’s a little thing but it’s dragging the game down for me! Genshin Impact also does this, it's incredibly annoying.
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Jan 4, 2023 14:43
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Tunicate posted:Mathematically, if a headwind slows you to 25% normal speed, and wind direction is random NSEW, the majority of your time will be spent sailing into a headwind because those trips take 4x as long. Headwind slows you to 0 (or rather, slow paddling), but wind direction is random 360 degree, so it is "whichever way you want to go" versus "current wind direction" with a 90 degree deadzone/headwind arc
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Jan 4, 2023 17:59
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I don't like the meteor showers in Sonic Frontiers, they are very annoying as they put a very distracting and impossible to parse slot machine right in the middle of the screen and respawn all the bosses so it feels like you aren't really getting anywhere with optional things.
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Jan 4, 2023 19:23
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Evilreaver posted:Headwind slows you to 0 (or rather, slow paddling), but wind direction is random 360 degree, so it is "whichever way you want to go" versus "current wind direction" with a 90 degree deadzone/headwind arc So it's even worse then
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Jan 4, 2023 20:06
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hell yea it is
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Jan 4, 2023 21:42
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The mini games in Golf Story have mostly been ok, but there are occasional ones that have frustrating design choices. The worst one I've found so far is a bicycle challenge that gives you 35 seconds to navigate a track with varies challenges, including water you can fall into. The big problem is that doing that resets you back to the very beginning of the course, and it seems to be long enough that doing that even once will make it impossible to win, but there's no way to exit or restart the challenge other than letting the time run out. Just one of a number of weird design choices that I hope they look at in whatever update they're doing to address bugginess and stuff.
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Jan 4, 2023 22:25
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I don't remember the dlc chapters of Alan wake being this miserable. God drat do they suck
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Jan 4, 2023 23:16
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Len posted:I don't remember the dlc chapters of Alan wake being this miserable. God drat do they suck Are you playing on PC and if so on what difficulty level?
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Jan 4, 2023 23:44
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John Murdoch posted:Are you playing on PC and if so on what difficulty level? Xbox and normal
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Jan 5, 2023 00:10
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The PC version (at least the original, dunno about the remaster) plays a trick on you and renames the difficulties to Easy/Normal/Nightmare, and having been tricked into playing on what was actually Hard I distinctly remember not enjoying the DLCs and assumed it was mostly down to that.
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Jan 5, 2023 00:50
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Sounds like they carried that through to the remastered version as well
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Jan 5, 2023 00:55
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New attacks in Neo: The World Ends with You come from pins picked up from defeated enemies. You can reduce your team's health for a higher chance at getting pins and increase the difficulty to have a chance at rarer pins. That's what the difficulty menu says, at least. Turns out changing difficulty changes drop tables entirely, so the same enemy can drop different pins depending on the difficulty. Cue me being confused why a certain pin I needed wasn't dropping from the enemy the quest giver said on Hard. Turns out I had to drop the difficulty to Easy. That was some wasted time right there.
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Jan 5, 2023 01:02
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Len posted:I don't remember the dlc chapters of Alan wake being this miserable. God drat do they suck I remember the first one not being very fun but the second one being good. Or maybe vice versa it's been like 10 years
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Jan 5, 2023 02:44
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I hope Alan Wake 2 takes more after Control and Alan Wake and less the DLC and American Nightmare Which is what's up next on my remedy shared universe playthrough
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Jan 5, 2023 02:52
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I keep trying and failing to get around to playing American Nightmare, but I thought the general consensus was that it smoothed out some of the problems with the base Alan Wake gameplay? Maybe not, obviously I don't know anything firsthand.
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Jan 5, 2023 02:56
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Captain Hygiene posted:I keep trying and failing to get around to playing American Nightmare, but I thought the general consensus was that it smoothed out some of the problems with the base Alan Wake gameplay? Maybe not, obviously I don't know anything firsthand. I never got around to finishing it but my 10+ year old memories are that the combat was better but the story was meh
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Jan 5, 2023 03:01
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It's very light, it's the same three levels over and over (literally, you're in a loop). It's very much an arcade mode they tacked a story mode onto, and then Control retconned it anyways
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Jan 5, 2023 03:06
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Is it a standalone thing? I kind of want to play it before regular Alan Wake because it's shorter (this makes sense in my head) but obvs if it refers to and assumes you've played the whole original game then I'll play them the right way round
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Jan 5, 2023 03:13
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I'll probably just give it a peep on youtube myself, that sounds like the gameplay modes I generally skip when they're in other games.
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Jan 5, 2023 03:19
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2house2fly posted:Is it a standalone thing? I kind of want to play it before regular Alan Wake because it's shorter (this makes sense in my head) but obvs if it refers to and assumes you've played the whole original game then I'll play them the right way round You can play the arcade mode standalone but the story won't make sense without playing the first one
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Jan 5, 2023 03:23
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OutOfPrint posted:New attacks in Neo: The World Ends with You come from pins picked up from defeated enemies. You can reduce your team's health for a higher chance at getting pins and increase the difficulty to have a chance at rarer pins. I mean, the game is pretty transparent about it in the bestiary, right down to the exact drop rates for each difficulty’s pins depending on your drop rate modifiers. Is that part of the menu not unlocked yet?
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Jan 5, 2023 03:47
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OutOfPrint posted:New attacks in Neo: The World Ends with You come from pins picked up from defeated enemies. You can reduce your team's health for a higher chance at getting pins and increase the difficulty to have a chance at rarer pins. Difficulty: Easy, Normal, Hard, Ultimate- changes drop tables. Levels change the drop rate I.E. Level 26 vs lvl 8. If you go lower than the max level it increases pin drop rates, I think that's the part that you might've gotten mixed up?
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Jan 5, 2023 04:18
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if its anything like the original DS game, you can probably setup a lvl 1, negative hp , death immunity setup for the max droprate and still have a 0.00000.....00001% rate for the rarest drop.
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I don’t think there’s anything nearly as mean as the one dragon with an insanely low drop rate for it’s one not outstanding pin. But speaking of topic relevant stuff, NEO: TWEWY has pins from bosses, and most of them can be refought in the postgame as random encounters. Most of them. There’s a few instances of a boss only having its phase 2 fight available so you just have to go through that day and savescum the fight, which is kind of a bummer of an oversight.
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I've been playing the 2022 Saints Row remake/reboot, and so far am liking it despite some obvious flaws. It's got its ups and downs. But one real disappointment? There is no classic rock/pop station. Presumably between music rights continually getting more ludicrously expensive, and Agents of Mayhem doing badly, Volition weren't able to afford the kinds of songs they had in earlier installments (well, 2-4, the first one didn't have one either.) No funk station either. There is a rap station which has some classics, but so far I haven't found a station that I can just leave it on the way I could with The Mix. (There's an 80s-inspired synthwave station but it's all instrumentals.) Very unfortunate.
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Jan 5, 2023 11:04
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It seems like it would not be hard to just integrate a Spotify playlist or something to play through your car in-game. That way you can have in-game music and don't have to pay royalties at all. edit: I mean as a built-in game mechanic; not that you just play Spotify in the background.
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Sonic Frontiers is neat so far, but having to stop after every couple of plot beats to collect a few dozen tokens is a bit annoying. I now have to get 38 tokens before I can complete the second island even though I basically have the basic stuff that I'd need, the characters just haven't put it together yet.
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I bought Little Nightmares 2 on sale for ten bucks. I’ll have to skip lunch once this week to afford it but I really liked the first one and did it on impulse. The aesthetic is amazing of course but the jumping and grabbing controls are, and I don’t use this term lightly, floaty
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credburn posted:It seems like it would not be hard to just integrate a Spotify playlist or something to play through your car in-game. That way you can have in-game music and don't have to pay royalties at all. I'd imagine trying to do that would run into the exact licensing issues with getting individual tracks, only even more so.
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1stGear posted:I'd imagine trying to do that would run into the exact licensing issues with getting individual tracks, only even more so. It has to because otherwise Beat Hazard would just have Spotify instead of the weird workaround where it listens to what's playing
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oldpainless posted:I bought Little Nightmares 2 on sale for ten bucks. I’ll have to skip lunch once this week to afford it but I really liked the first one and did it on impulse. The aesthetic is amazing of course but the jumping and grabbing controls are, and I don’t use this term lightly, floaty Almost like you're in a nightmare, eh? Eh? No, but I agree with you though, almost every death I had in that game was due to some weird jump that for some reason didn't move the way I thought it would, or a grab that I figured would connect but didn't.
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In the Assassin's Creed Valhalla DLC, Wrath of the Druids, there's a bunch of repeatable missions which have special "kings pleas". These are parameters like "don't take damage", "don't get detected" and "kill only the targets". For this last one, I just did a mission perfectly without being seen, killing all three targets without anyone else noticing, and only had to go and confirm the kill. You do this by pressing triangle near the body. Guess which button is also "hurl the dead guy's sword at the nearest enemy soldier, triggering a huge alarm and losing your bonus"?
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Related, in the Siege of Paris DLC there are repeatable side missions that give you standing with the rebel faction and rewards and such. One of those rewards is a sicknasty armour set, but there are diminishing returns for how much faction xp you get per mission, and it gets very grindy very fast.
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Philippe posted:it gets very grindy very fast. Pretty sure that's Ubisoft's mission statement
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Bogmonster posted:In the Assassin's Creed Valhalla DLC, Wrath of the Druids, there's a bunch of repeatable missions which have special "kings pleas". These are parameters like "don't take damage", "don't get detected" and "kill only the targets". Lol, I remember the same thing in Odyssey, walking up to the leader of a Spartan military camp to join them in battle, then getting my poo poo instantly wrecked by a hostile army because "assassinate" is the same button as "talk to" depending on where you're standing relative to someone 
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