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I liked the combat in Control. I advise playing the game like a normal person
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Feels Villeneuve posted:I liked the combat in Control. I advise playing the game like a normal person Again, it's people that use the gun too much. It's not a shooter ignore the gun!
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Jan 10, 2023 21:36
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Feels Villeneuve posted:I liked the combat in Control. I advise playing the game like a normal person
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Jan 10, 2023 21:37
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Control was the most 6/10 game I ever played. A real 6, not a games journalist 6. It was fairly good overall but all it had was rock throwing and some cool ideas probably stolen from SCP wiki and everything else was mediocre.
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Jan 10, 2023 21:38
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Control has the problem that loads of third person action games do, which is that by the end of the game you have all the powers and combat is way more fun than at the beginning. The best games find a way to make the early parts engaging too (Dead Cells is a great example) but a lot of devs seem to struggle with it. Sundered is 90% boring and 10% fuckin rad, but nobody gets to the rad part. Control starts to shine when you get the dash power which is pretty early but the action is not great before that.
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Jan 10, 2023 21:42
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PlushCow posted:I like describing it as having a "flow" to the combat, when I play those games my goal in combat is to keep the flow going and rack up that combo counter, or at least not get hit, and it visually looks good while you do it; I think spiderman did a good job mimicking it while giving it's own style, in Arkham most of the time can just stay still and as long as you press counter at the right time youll be fine, in spiderman you wont, you need to keep mobile and swing around (like spiderman would) equipping six guns and killing a quarter of your attackers before charging in with a tallyho was so good. I really wish I never had to to go on land The Pirate Captain posted:Control has the problem that loads of third person action games do, which is that by the end of the game you have all the powers and combat is way more fun than at the beginning. The best games find a way to make the early parts engaging too (Dead Cells is a great example) but a lot of devs seem to struggle with it. Sundered is 90% boring and 10% fuckin rad, but nobody gets to the rad part. Control starts to shine when you get the dash power which is pretty early but the action is not great before that. Doesn't help that being the director means jack poo poo throughout the whole game. In the DLC you get the ability to summon yourself some soldiers which is pretty sick
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Jan 10, 2023 21:43
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zoux posted:Again, it's people that use the gun too much. It's not a shooter ignore the gun! gun is fine. so are the powers
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Jan 10, 2023 21:43
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zoux posted:Again, it's people that use the gun too much. It's not a shooter ignore the gun! If they didn't want you to use the boring lovely gun they wouldn't have locked all the powers behind a cooldown. On the other hand, if they removed cooldown from the rock throwing then the game would've been even easier than it already was.
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Jan 10, 2023 21:45
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:Doesn't help that being the director means jack poo poo throughout the whole game. In the DLC you get the ability to summon yourself some soldiers which is pretty sick That sounds fun, I never played the DLC. One of these days I gotta go back to it.
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Jan 10, 2023 21:48
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The problem in Control is not the gun, the gun is fine. Is the people staying behind cover shooting at enemies like in a cover shooter. With all the tools you have and how healing works staying in cover shooting is always the worst possible option.
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Jan 10, 2023 21:56
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The Pirate Captain posted:Control has the problem that loads of third person action games do, which is that by the end of the game you have all the powers and combat is way more fun than at the beginning. The best games find a way to make the early parts engaging too (Dead Cells is a great example) but a lot of devs seem to struggle with it. Sundered is 90% boring and 10% fuckin rad, but nobody gets to the rad part. Control starts to shine when you get the dash power which is pretty early but the action is not great before that.
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Jan 10, 2023 22:01
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No Wave posted:Sundered is pretty interesting because the power ending final boss fight requires you to engage with how badly your power ups have broken the game. Up to that point the bosses have required more aerial traversal and then for the final boss the floor disappears entirely and you have to do this weord perma spinning thing around the boss arena. Pretty interesting game, I prefer combat with floors and didnt enjoy the bosses that much but I think highly of the game in general. Yeah, despite what I said I liked Sundered enough to play through it twice, to try the light side and dark side powers. Doubt it will ever happen, but I’d love to see a sequel that refines the first one a bit.
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Jan 10, 2023 22:08
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sundered stan checking in, I'm a complete sucker for games that take that mythos and do something interesting with it plus it has awesome art and GONG
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Jan 10, 2023 22:16
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fez_machine posted:Two of the best narrative games of the last year just got bundled together for a slight discount: Abby Howard is great! I like her (slightly defunct) webcomic junior scientist power hour, too.
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Jan 10, 2023 22:21
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big cummers ONLY posted:Couple of Dusk questions: Might wanna come visit us in the early FPS thread for more detailed chat. IIRC half the secrets are about noticing something is off, and the other half is about breaking level boundaries. I don't remember much wall humping, but I do remember a bit of "I KNOW IT'S HERE WHERE IS IT".
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Jan 10, 2023 22:23
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Sundered is a fun weird game that would be better if it werent a roguelite imo
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Jan 10, 2023 22:25
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Estel posted:You are fooling yourselves. Hogwarts Legacy is going to become the "Witcher3" or "Skyrim" for a lot of people. theres a million generic open world games now though, skyrim was only special cus it did that poo poo a bit earlier
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Jan 10, 2023 22:48
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Skyrim was an absolutely groundbreaking title in the genre of boring open world games with the depth of a puddle.
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Jan 10, 2023 22:49
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the seinfeld of "bad games that make millions of dollars anyway because of openworld and nice graphics"
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Jan 10, 2023 22:51
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It wasn't my favorite game but it seems like literally millions and millions of people love it and still play it to this day.
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Jan 10, 2023 22:52
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yeah it is very successful and lots of people play+enjoy it also it is a bad game
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:the seinfeld of "bad games that make millions of dollars anyway because of openworld and nice graphics" *extremely Seinfeld voice* "And what's the deal with Khajit marriages?"
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Jan 10, 2023 22:56
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zoux posted:It wasn't my favorite game but it seems like literally millions and millions of people love it and still play it to this day. I don't have a horse in this race but my uncle says the same thing about video poker machines
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Jan 10, 2023 22:57
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zoux posted:It wasn't my favorite game but it seems like literally millions and millions of people love it and still play it to this day. i’m thinking that’s more because bethesda releases a new port of it every 2 years, if someone who picked it up literally 10 years ago was still playing it to this day i’d be worried about them. like that autistic guy who was obsessed with bubsy 3d
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Jan 10, 2023 23:09
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Cowcaster posted:if someone who picked it up literally 10 years ago was still playing it to this day i’d be worried about them. Start worrying
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Jan 10, 2023 23:13
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Cowcaster posted:if someone who picked it up literally 10 years ago was still playing it to this day i’d be worried about them. I'm installing every Skyrim pregnancy mod I can find while shouting "this game's got LEGS!"
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Jan 10, 2023 23:22
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Is there a mod where there's a Todd Howard companion and you can impregnate him and then after two real life years he gives birth and the baby is a new Skyrim release?
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Jan 10, 2023 23:26
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K8.0 posted:Is there a mod where there's a Todd Howard companion and you can impregnate him and then after two real life years he gives birth and the baby is a new Skyrim release? Buddy, there are dozens
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Jan 10, 2023 23:27
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I didn't like Control first time I played it. Second time I loved it. The game for one demands to be played on beefy hardware. My experience at 30fps on PS4 was night and day compared to PS5 where I was getting full frames and there was just absolute chaos everywhere during fights. Second, rush the main story until you get flight. The combat (as someone mentioned) only becomes fun when you're flying all around the arenas hurling photocopiers at enemies.
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Jan 10, 2023 23:43
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Cowcaster posted:i’m thinking that’s more because bethesda releases a new port of it every 2 years, if someone who picked it up literally 10 years ago was still playing it to this day i’d be worried about them. like that autistic guy who was obsessed with bubsy 3d
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Jan 10, 2023 23:53
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Volte posted:There aren't too many open world games that you can just fire up and do whatever in without it telling you where to go next. The last three Elder Scrolls games are still in my regular rotation for when I'm looking for that kind of game. It's a shame that almost every single open world game gets most of its inspiration from the Ubisoft style and almost nobody goes for the Bethesda style, because it's the one thing they haven't been matched on in my opinion.
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Volte posted:There aren't too many open world games that you can just fire up and do whatever in without it telling you where to go next. The last three Elder Scrolls games are still in my regular rotation for when I'm looking for that kind of game. It's a shame that almost every single open world game gets most of its inspiration from the Ubisoft style and almost nobody goes for the Bethesda style, because it's the one thing they haven't been matched on in my opinion. i'm saying this as a person who has taken nearly seven years to get through all of the witcher 3, how the gently caress have you not run out of things to do in skyrim if you've been playing it for 10 years
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Jan 11, 2023 00:01
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and you better not say "radiant quests"
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ah, time to find tolfdir's alembic again, comfy
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Cowcaster posted:i'm saying this as a person who has taken nearly seven years to get through all of the witcher 3, how the gently caress have you not run out of things to do in skyrim if you've been playing it for 10 years 
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Jan 11, 2023 00:06
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that's even worse! you said "ah, welp, killed alduin the dragon, let's go around that enchanting merry go round again from the beginning!"
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Jan 11, 2023 00:07
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I've only finished the main quest once, maybe twice
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Jan 11, 2023 00:08
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You think that's bad, I've probably done at least 50 playthroughs of Dark Souls. I've done at least 10 in the past six months.
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Jan 11, 2023 00:09
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well i'm sticking to my original thought of "if i met someone who's been playing skyrim for 10 years i'd be worried about them"
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Jack Trades posted:Control was the most 6/10 game I ever played. i'd call it a 5/10 on the critical path but all the side content is 8/10 the main story was utterly forgettable, but the fridge fight was not. i usually like it when there's lots of cool stuff to uncover but it's so weird when the missable content is head and shoulders the best part of the game. e: what a weird use of an idiom. now im thinking about shampoo. ugh.
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