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DMC3 is as close to a perfect action game as I think I've ever seen. The blob boss was stupid and if you play as Vergil you don't fight Dante at the end, and I think those are literally the only complaints I have.
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Every time I play a new action game I keep hoping it will be as fun and satisfyingly challenging as DMC3 and it never is.
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Vic posted:Amiga was amazing for strategy games, adventure games and simulators. Basically the better PC for gaming before Windows 95. I actually think the PC rushed past the Amiga once the 486s hit it big which is a few years before Win95. The Amiga was hot poo poo in terms of tech in 1988 but it stagnated there. Of course, in terms of games the Amiga was damned by being linked to European game designers in their isolated Galopagos, evolving into strange forms that could only survive in their tiny ecological niche. A stange realm where pressing up to jump was acceptable and where if you couldn't make a good game you made five lovely games and linked them together with some pretty screens.
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Jan 24, 2023 20:33
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Random Stranger posted:You can also get carts that let you run disk images right from the Saturn's expansion slot or play games you imported. There's a lot of cool Saturn stuff that didn't get a US release that's perfectly playable without knowing Japanese... I got a premodded system with the MODE & a 1 TB HDD, but the poo poo is hard mounted and I don't know how to interface with it. It's really cool to have all the games but I wanted to play some translated games & have no idea how i'm 'sposed to add them. Can you please recommend a cart that does what you say & what kinda price I should be looking for?
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Jan 24, 2023 21:38
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so happy to hear so many positive comments about the devil may cry series in this thread so gutted that i've broken my 24 day streak of not smoking weed and am now just gonna get mashed up and play league of legends all week
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You should play a good game instead
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Jan 24, 2023 21:47
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Blazing Dragons is a funny game.
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jokes posted:You should play a good game instead bro it was either league or dmc 2 i was losing no matter what
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Shartle May Fart
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kntfkr posted:Blazing Dragons is a funny game. blazing dragons is a funny game but it has kind of a stupid puzzle with some pixel hunting at the end
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Jan 24, 2023 22:55
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I only play Catechumen, the Christian FPS game where you shoot light beams from a cross-like sword at Romans and they fall to their knees converted as a "HALLELUJAH" sound byte plays
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Jan 24, 2023 22:59
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I made none of that up btw
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I'm glad you clarified, as it did sound like hyperbole.
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Timestamped for ur enjoyment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo6yhzNCwqo&t=129s
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Jan 24, 2023 23:34
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lol that to heal you need to eat scrolls that put bible quote popups on your screen
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Jan 24, 2023 23:38
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That bit in a crpg where you get a house and then must make a sequence of challenging decisions like ‘do you want to make it lovely for 50 gold or really good for 15000 gold’ is extremely good and any game that doesn’t include it is an automatic 1/5
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I've played DMC4 + 5 a lot, as well as Bayonetta 1+2. I've never got into DMC3 because I'm so, so used to how stuff works in the more recent games. I can't style switch! What the hell!
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:lol that to heal you need to eat scrolls that put bible quote popups on your screen Lol yeah. Whats extra funny is that's the same hallelujah soundbyte they used in Worms with holy hand grenade, it's just not as sped up
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Jan 24, 2023 23:41
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Virtual Pinball sucks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7P1rMIgCI I prefer getting physical with the machine.
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well why not posted:I've played DMC4 + 5 a lot, as well as Bayonetta 1+2. I've never got into DMC3 because I'm so, so used to how stuff works in the more recent games. I can't style switch! What the hell! they added style switching for the switch port of DMC3, and there's a mod for the PC version that hacks it in
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Why does dmc2 suck? I never played one or two so I have no frame of reference beyond the third one. But the core gameplay seems like it was pretty great already
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Bismack Billabongo posted:Why does dmc2 suck? I never played one or two so I have no frame of reference beyond the third one. But the core gameplay seems like it was pretty great already All I remember from DMC2 was one level that took place on an oil rig out in the ocean. Then once Dante finishes the stage he just jumps onto a motor cycle and drives off screen. After that the next level starts at like an office building in the middle of a big city with no further explanation. The whole game was filled with disjointed stuff like that which was a huge downgrade for me at least compared the single castle location of the first game.
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FoolyCharged posted:The thing that gets me with assassins creed is that they picked that for the name, built a bunch of stealth mechanics into their game, and then fell in love with their incredibly lovely combat system. The final boss of the first game was a giant combat gauntlet with zero of the stealth stuff and not, i dunno hear me out here, a dude that its really hard to sneak to and assassinate. It only got more prominent from there and the open combat in those games was so, so bad. This is a time honored tradition of AAA "stealth" games. Like even if you're playing a perfect stealth game in MGS3 you're still going to wind up standing in the back of a technical shooting a machine gun
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QuarkJets posted:This is a time honored tradition of AAA "stealth" games. Like even if you're playing a perfect stealth game in MGS3 you're still going to wind up standing in the back of a technical shooting a machine gun The Dishonored games did stealth very well, and are really good and everyone should play them
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Jan 25, 2023 08:29
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The most intense stealth game ever made was FFXI
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Devils Affricate posted:The most intense stealth game ever made was FFXI Increasing the level cap as a paladin means I never need to play another stealth game as long as I live
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Vakal posted:All I remember from DMC2 was one level that took place on an oil rig out in the ocean. Then once Dante finishes the stage he just jumps onto a motor cycle and drives off screen. After that the next level starts at like an office building in the middle of a big city with no further explanation. The biggest complaint I've heard is they really toned down the difficulty of the first game. I mean, I kind of get it because DMC1's difficulty was a big draw. But at the same time, it attracted a lot of those "the game has to be hard or it's for bitches" types who scream "git gud" at people. These are the same people who overreact over vidya games and can be found on IGN's Facebook page in their natural environment. DMC2 isn't a broken and lovely game just a creative misdirection that gets way more hate than it should but it's the Great Satan to that crowd.
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nom epique posted:Good news. You can still play 20 year old games on Xbox series x. In fact that’s all you can play. This is haled as a victory by the Xbox thread I got a Series X basically specifically for playing old games (because it can fit all I have). It's p great. If I want to play a new game I use my PS5.
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DMC2 has lots of broken and lovely stuff though. Theres a boss whose AI just turns off, enemies who lack any attack tells, combat design that rewards holding the shoot button over interacting with any other mechanic. Its got interesting stuff about it but it is very obviously a game that was salvaged in the 8(?) month design sprint to shove it out the door when the new producer got hired. Im glad it exists though, cause getting it out the door is why Phoenix Wright got to exist.
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Justin Godscock posted:The biggest complaint I've heard is they really toned down the difficulty of the first game. I mean, I kind of get it because DMC1's difficulty was a big draw. But at the same time, it attracted a lot of those "the game has to be hard or it's for bitches" types who scream "git gud" at people. These are the same people who overreact over vidya games and can be found on IGN's Facebook page in their natural environment. DMC2 isn't a broken and lovely game just a creative misdirection that gets way more hate than it should but it's the Great Satan to that crowd. Lmao it's 100% a broken and lovely game. You can go through the whole thing just with pistol spam, the visuals are significantly worse than DMC1, the progression is completely linear, the story/setting make zero sense, and an average first playthrough clocks in at about 5 hours. Have you actually played this game, or are you just trying to paint the criticism as gamer elitism because it feels like an enlightened opinion?
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Dr.Smasher posted:Thief and Thief 2 did stealth extremely well, and are really good and everyone should play them FTFY e:Dishonored is pretty good but almost unplayable without Blink; it's not really a stealth game like Thief was. tango alpha delta fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Jan 25, 2023 |
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Devils Affricate posted:The most intense stealth game ever made was FFXI The stealth section was having to not let anyone irl find out that you play it
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QuarkJets posted:The stealth section was having to not let anyone irl find out that you play it Lol are you kidding, playing FFXI is ultimate nerd cred. Catgirls want me, catboys want to be me.
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The thing with thief though, is that it was from the quick save era. You could have a ponderous sprawling stealth game like that, and it was fine because you only went as far back as necessary on failure. I found dishonoured 2 pretty exhausting in that regard. But then again, I was playing on console, I bet you actually CAN quick save on pc?
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Devils Affricate posted:Lol are you kidding, playing FFXI is ultimate nerd cred. Catgirls want me, catboys want to be me. "hey bby i grinded my goldsmithing proficiency back in the days when basic crafting components were a 1/64 drop"
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Barudak posted:DMC2 has lots of broken and lovely stuff though. Theres a boss whose AI just turns off, enemies who lack any attack tells, combat design that rewards holding the shoot button over interacting with any other mechanic. Its got interesting stuff about it but it is very obviously a game that was salvaged in the 8(?) month design sprint to shove it out the door when the new producer got hired. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34JMNANd_8M This is a good video from AccountNightmare's DMC2 LP that explains why DMC2 is such a bad game. The reason it turned out like that is because Capcom greenlit the game before DMC1 released without Kamiya even knowing about it, so it was made by a completely different team. The game was still missing some of Dante's basic moves just a few months before release. Itsuno was brought in as director to make it actually shippable and the original director is still unknown outside of Capcom to this day. The fact that the same team went on to make DMC3 shows how important a good director is. I haven't heard about how it ties into Phoenix Wright though. Do you have an article about it?
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tango alpha delta posted:FTFY Dishonored is basically a thief sequel
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Bismack Billabongo posted:Why does dmc2 suck? I never played one or two so I have no frame of reference beyond the third one. But the core gameplay seems like it was pretty great already It's very brown and boring. Like a lot of the game is just running down brown corridors, much like my posting
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That loving Sned posted:I haven't heard about how it ties into Phoenix Wright though. Do you have an article about it? My bad, it was Capcoms hosed up handling of RE2 in a similar way that led to Phoenix Wright
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!Klams posted:The thing with thief though, is that it was from the quick save era. You could have a ponderous sprawling stealth game like that, and it was fine because you only went as far back as necessary on failure. I found dishonoured 2 pretty exhausting in that regard. But then again, I was playing on console, I bet you actually CAN quick save on pc? If I remember right you can quicksave in Dishonored and D2 on PC and I totally get why you'd be frustrated on console. A stealth game that doesn't allow you to save quickly and anywhere is rear end because a big part of stealth gameplay is experimentation and you've gotta be able to make mistakes to learn what you can and can't get away with. Dishonored also differs from Thief because Corvo and Emily are killbots, Garret was kind of fragile and not a swordsman.
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