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Rental Sting posted:Loved Tsushima and was hyped to play the iki island DLC. Unfortunately it costs 30 bux to upgrade to the ps5 director's cut from the ps4 base game. Seems unreasonable! If you still want to try it, the dlc is included in the ps plus release that's free right now.
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I didn't go when I first found it cause it said something like "the enemies are tough and you can't leave for a while" and that spooked me.
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I did, and from what I remember there was a mission where you have to save one out of two captives, with two shamans at least to deal with. I didn't wanna lower the difficulty even after a couple dozen attempts so I just kinda left it there once another game caught my attention.
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FireWorksWell posted:Bender did his best. I guess it's a little better than his Puerto Rican hooker robot voice
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ArmTheHomeless posted:If you still want to try it, the dlc is included in the ps plus release that's free right now. drat, didn't realize it was so cheap to upgrade from essential to premium.
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I completed NORCO! Very cool game with amazing visuals and ideas and lots of very good writing and also lots of “too much” writing, like all the flowery optional stuff of KRZ but they made it mandatory, also a few annoying bugs including one near the end where every time I visited a character I wouldn’t be able to leave and I had to start from the beginning of an annoying boat section. Generally wish it could have been longer but what is there is pretty excellent if not a patch on KRZ
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haveblue posted:^^^^^^^^^^^ Sounds right, it's the best-feeling gamepad shooter I've ever played but I've never tried it on mouse/keyboard You're defending the mmo by describing exactly how skippable the majority of the content is
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:You're defending the mmo by describing exactly how skippable the majority of the content is I’m saying it is not true that you have to spend $300 to play it
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I beat TOEM, which was a PS+ game at some point, with my son and I recommend it a lot. It's a super chill game about taking photographs and doing small errands for people. Very cute and relaxing to vibe to. I've also been playing Fallout 76 which is... just bafflingly bad. Like, small spoilers, once you leave the vault the immediate quest chain is just some small potatoes quests straight from the early 90s. There's absolutely no sense of urgency, story hook, or even direction as to why you should even try. This is aside from the ridiculous bugginess of the game even years in. Multiple crashes and quest interactables broken until a hard reload. Just bafflingly bad.
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haveblue posted:^^^^^^^^^^^ Sounds right, it's the best-feeling gamepad shooter I've ever played but I've never tried it on mouse/keyboard LOL I've been poo poo-talking Destiny since the first one as the biggest grift in gaming. As much as I hate Bungie, I had no idea it was still this bad. What a loving joke.
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I had a lot of fun playing to the end of whatever the campaign was in Destiny 2 when I stopped (I think it was when Nathan Fillion's character died) and then when I looked up what you're supposed to do I saw people keeping spreadsheets of dailies you're supposed to grind for multiple currencies and never played it again But still, a pretty good 20ish hours to do the story stuff and enjoy some incredibly smooth FPS gunplay while hearing things like 'guardian, the light is under attack on phobos'
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Kazzah posted:Brother I don’t know what you expected going in to F76 I mean Fallout 4 at least had a strong story hook in the beginning. 76 just starts out like "yeah I guess go do something sure why not"
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Kilometers Davis posted:Destiny 2 is really good yall Yeah. You can just buy the newest content and play as well. There's not really any need to buy all the previous expansions.
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I just finished Last of Us Part 1! The characters and story are top notch (I was convinced Joel would pull a self sacrifice and super loved this ending instead. Probably among the most impactful last lines of a game I’ve played.) but I’m mixed on the gameplay itself. When I was just vibing and exploring in the environments or doing basic stealth stuff it was great, but the gunplay seemed kinda weak as was the overall variety of encounters (a lot of similarly large, open spaces with conveniently placed boxes, and the way you stealth the last encounter is basically unchanged from the way you do the first). Overall enjoyed it and am looking forward to Part Two (and also the show, which I’m now allowed to watch). (Edit: who loves to overuse parentheses? Me!)
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The gameplay was pretty good for 2013 but they didn't touch it at all with the remake so it's kind of a weird combination of looking incredibly modern and feeling quite dated. I do appreciate the gyro aiming though, it makes headshots much easier. If Naughty Dog wants to remake more games I wouldn't complain about the original Uncharted trilogy remade for current gen with gyro aiming.
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The dead space remake is good They changed just enough things in just enough places that my vague memories of the original’s map and mission structure are no guide at all and I can’t anticipate things as well as I expected.
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Real hurthling! posted:Its probably just not your genre. last handful of games i played were: gow ragnarok, which was mostly agonizing except for the combat and odin neon white, which is amazing and fantastic and there's basically nothing i have to complain about tunic, which is amazing but a bit slow dead space doesn't really do any one thing better than any other game out there. The REAL Goobusters posted:I think you’re looking at the game somewhat weird because the main value prop of the game should be it’s gameplay and then it’s art direction. i mean, i don't necessarily disagree. but the gameplay really boils down to "save your bullets and shoot the zombies ONLY in the arms/legs" people complain that doom eternal, one of the best games of the last five/ten years, is too prescriptive with how you kill enemies, but dead space basically demands that you only kill enemies in one very specific way no matter what. and the game disincentivizes using other weapons throughout the entire game, which just using anything other than the starter weapon feel like you're cheating yourself out of some developer intended experience. it just all feels confused and narrow. which, to me, equals boring. The REAL Goobusters posted:It’s basically a horror themed Metroidvania this could be a good reason why i don't like it? i don't think i've ever finished a metroidvania game ever. Augus posted:survival horror is about creating tension through fight or flight responses, you need to balance the immediate danger with your long-term success and make decisions under pressure. if that doesn't appeal to you, you probably won't find much to enjoy about Dead Space beyond the atmosphere of the Ishimura, the horror comes from the game mechanics more than anything yeah, i think you nailed the description of how a survival horror balances short and longterm play. i guess when it comes to games i've really enjoyed recently (souls games, doom eternal, returnal, celeste, neon white), they all prioritize short term precision divided into chunks of gameplay that don't really need the player to prioritize the long game? for better or worse, you can perform dreadfully against any boss in souls or doom eternal, and there's no real huge repercussion for that bc you basically start from scratch every time you die or use a checkpoint or whatever. also the map is dreadful and i hate looking at it or using it. just too slow and cumbersome and provides little more than me just clicking R3 to see which way to go. Rageaholic posted:I don't get scared easily and Dead Space remake has been scaring me i do enjoy the way this game presents the single fixed camera thing WAY more than the god of war games did it. especially since the HUD and everything else is all part of the game world, unlike gow. but yeah to me it's not exciting or motivating to basically render my game "useless" bc i wasted all my bullets on one encounter which creates a "point of no return." i played the original dead space when it first came out and had to stop playing because i was at a point where i was out of ammo/health and my save file had me at a point where i couldn't get past some tough encounter. i think i posted about it in this forum in whatever thread was the equivalent of this one at the time, and people were like "well yeah you should have been leveling health instead of ammo capacity" or something. which is fine advice, but it sucks when you pour a bunch of hours into a game only to be told you have to start at the beginning looking at you, too, disco elysium
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I'm playing on medium difficulty, though, so when I shoot an enemy several times but it still hasn't died yet and I've run out of ammo, I'm like "oh gently caress oh gently caress oh gently caress". I've definitely been enjoying it so far. I find the R3 locator thing helpful and I wish more games had something similar. I really dig Dead Space's whole UX (or lack thereof).
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Fifteen of Many posted:I just finished Last of Us Part 1! The characters and story are top notch (I was convinced Joel would pull a self sacrifice and super loved this ending instead. Probably among the most impactful last lines of a game I’ve played.) but I’m mixed on the gameplay itself. When I was just vibing and exploring in the environments or doing basic stealth stuff it was great, but the gunplay seemed kinda weak as was the overall variety of encounters (a lot of similarly large, open spaces with conveniently placed boxes, and the way you stealth the last encounter is basically unchanged from the way you do the first). I've been playing game 1 a bunch and am now replaying game 2. There's definitely a greater variety of enemies and more elaborate areas to work with in the 2nd game. As mentioned, even though it's "remade" on PS5 the gameplay is identical to the PS3 original and there was only so much that console's 256 megs of RAM could do. On top of the greater variety of enemies in Part 2 you also have situations where you have both infected and human enemies together, and you can get them to fight each other, although this is also something that's done in a very limited capacity in the Part 1 Left Behind DLC.
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Real hurthling! posted:If you liked neon white and tunic then i would suggest you play nex machina never even heard of this until your post. i really loved resogun and returnal. this is def going on my wishlist. thanks!
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Yeah, Nex Machina absolutely rules. I can definitely get someone being underwhelmed by Dead Space if they aren’t super into the space horror setting. Take away that theme and it’s just kind of a dumbed down RE4. But I love sci-fi horror, so… Bugblatter fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Jan 30, 2023 |
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I tried Destiny 2 on ps4 with a couple friends two years ago. The game took up an incredible amount of space on the hard drive and it took a long time to figure out wtf we were supposed to do. Most of the missions or quests seemed to amount to going and shooting the poo poo out of an energy orb, or something. I felt embarrassed for recommending it.
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Fifteen of Many posted:I just finished Last of Us Part 1! The characters and story are top notch (I was convinced Joel would pull a self sacrifice and super loved this ending instead. Probably among the most impactful last lines of a game I’ve played.) but I’m mixed on the gameplay itself. When I was just vibing and exploring in the environments or doing basic stealth stuff it was great, but the gunplay seemed kinda weak as was the overall variety of encounters (a lot of similarly large, open spaces with conveniently placed boxes, and the way you stealth the last encounter is basically unchanged from the way you do the first). Tlou2 is much much better, it has great combat and movement, and a dodge mechanic that really changes the combat in a good way. I played tlou2 first, because I’d played a bit of the remaster on PS4, but couldn’t get into it because I’m awful at stealth games and yeah the combat felt weird to me, but once I saw the gameplay trailer for 2 and read about all of the lame backlash because of the leaked plot of 2, I decided to get it and loved it. I tried going back to the remaster a couple times but I couldn’t get used to the old controls and dropped it, but when the remake came out I finally played it and got used to the controls somewhat quickly and finished it and loved it. I still wish it had tlou2’s updated controls, and I’m not sure why they didn’t, but the changes in enemy AI helped quite a bit. But yeah, I had like very little interest in Factions because of all that, but I’m very excited for the new multiplayer mode, assuming it will have the same moveset that you have in part 2.
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:drat, a game with expansions that stop working after an arbitrary amount of time…. what a grift 
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As a destiny dabbler I don't care about the old content going away or whatever. I've already seen it. The game is gaas. Play the new content or gently caress off freeloader.
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So my wife really likes Gran Turismo’s car Livery system. And every time I unlock or purchase some cute car she just has to go at it. This is her best yet:  Just don’t let her drive it though… https://twitter.com/blind_rasputin/status/1619879035609440257?s=46&t=h8mRZI59SJO7BmDEXFPetA
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imhotep posted:But yeah, I had like very little interest in Factions 
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uncharted 2 multiplayer basically changed my life. sunk many many happy (and frustrated... why is everyone ignoring the idol?!) hours of playtime into that mode. uncharted 3 mp i remember wasn't quite as good but still great and enough to keep me hooked for tons more hours. but i never even for a little bit felt like the last of us gameplay would translate well to mp and never had any interest or motivation to play factions  i AM however excited (and optimistically hopeful) about this new factions 2.0 game. tlou2's combat is hella satisfying and i can see myself enjoying an mp mode of that.
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ShoogaSlim posted:uncharted 2 multiplayer basically changed my life. sunk many many happy (and frustrated... why is everyone ignoring the idol?!) hours of playtime into that mode. uncharted 3 mp i remember wasn't quite as good but still great and enough to keep me hooked for tons more hours. you missed out on the best multiplayer game ever made
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Blind Rasputin posted:So my wife really likes Gran Turismo’s car Livery system. And every time I unlock or purchase some cute car she just has to go at it. This is her best yet: hell yeah Do you upload her liveries?
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Factions seems cool, genuinely unique stuff going on that managed to feel like what a tlou mp should be. I enjoyed the little bit I played back in the day but any mp game without near instant respawns is a pass for me. I didn’t enjoy it enough to stick with it. The executions are gloriously brutal though A++Blind Rasputin posted:So my wife really likes Gran Turismo’s car Livery system. And every time I unlock or purchase some cute car she just has to go at it. This is her best yet: Your wife rules and is very talented 
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Escobarbarian posted:Factions is great Picture me giving you numerous gifts rn and they're all molotovs 
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:you missed out on the best multiplayer game ever made yeah but one of these days bioware will finally listen to the masses and re-release the mass effect three multiplayer 
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