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ilmucche posted:Assassin's creed Odyssey is pretty fun so far but there is a LOT going on with the combat system. Parry being two buttons, one of which is bound to the same button as attack, is really messing with me. Yeah, I think it's a great game but it has its issues. Parrying is weird compared to a dedicated button, but I was able to get used to it eventually. The amount of gear and weapons you pile up and choose between is a bigger issue for me - I mostly end up just going through occasionally and equipping the current best armor and top couple weapon types while ignoring upgrades and modifiers, it feels like newer and more powerful stuff cycles in so frequently that I can't be bothered to put any time into customization. At least for the armor, you can eventually just use the look of any items you've ever picked up regardless of what's currently equipped, so you're no longer switching outfits every five minutes based on whatever random doodads you picked up off the last people you killed.
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Mar 7, 2023 17:44
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AC: Odyssey overcomes a lot of it's bad systems by having the absolute best protagonist of the series.
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Mar 7, 2023 17:45
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kazil posted:AC: Odyssey overcomes a lot of it's bad systems by having the absolute best protagonist of the series. I didn't realize Bayek made a cameo in Oddessy
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Mar 7, 2023 18:11
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Hector Delgado posted:I didn't realize Bayek made a cameo in Oddessy Malaka!
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Mar 7, 2023 18:16
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I don't know how much I would've liked Odyssey if I hadn't played it during lockdown because it's insanely overstuffed, but it all kinda works to make a really fun, if loving huge game.
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Mar 7, 2023 18:31
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moosecow333 posted:Any game that throws buckets of gear at you should have an auto equip feature which just slaps on all your best stuff. But what is better, +0.3% chance of crits or 1-2 more base damage, or 6% cooldown reduction on your dodge roll??????????????? Better not assume anything and let the Player Decide
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Mar 7, 2023 18:55
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Captain Hygiene posted:Oh, it's real alright. A real lovely movie. Interestingly enough it was just called The Eye Creatures (and was made for TV apparently), so Best Brains apparently got hold of some repackaging where someone tried to give it a punchier title, and, well…
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Maxwell Lord posted:Interestingly enough it was just called The Eye Creatures (and was made for TV apparently), so Best Brains apparently got hold of some repackaging where someone tried to give it a punchier title, and, well… Oh wow, I must've read that at some point but forgotten it along the way. So the answer to "is it real or is it a photoshop" is basically "yes", in its own weird way.
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Mar 7, 2023 19:03
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Maxwell Lord posted:Interestingly enough it was just called The Eye Creatures (and was made for TV apparently), so Best Brains apparently got hold of some repackaging where someone tried to give it a punchier title, and, well… Well a lot of old b movies would get repackaged like that to try and make some more money off of them.
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I've got to Tibet in Tomb Raider 2 and WOW am I glad those sunken ship levels are over. They kind of sucked and went on for far too long, then just petered out pathetically by having the final room just be a tiny shed.
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kazil posted:AC: Odyssey overcomes a lot of it's bad systems by having the absolute best protagonist of the series. Just don't play Legacy of the First Blade, under any circumstances.
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muscles like this! posted:The outside parts of Atomic Heart have a problem where they have way too many respawning enemies. Either flying guys repair dead ones or new ones get dropped in. Which sucks because the gameplay really isn't balanced for something like that. Yeah this respawning enemies crap is super obnoxious. Fortunately I think there's a feature/bug where enemies that are stealth killed or vaporized with the rail gun don't respawn. I've been overloading the hawk and going around giving disabled enemies a single whack with a melee weapon from behind then stealth killing them to get them to go away. So far the enemies that I took care of this way haven't come back.
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Tunicate posted:But what is better, +0.3% chance of crits or 1-2 more base damage, or 6% cooldown reduction on your dodge roll??????????????? Better not assume anything and let the Player Decide that and the fact that the damage numbers getting big is so weird to me because the enemies scale. none of this poo poo matters. my character never feels like they're getting stronger or more effective, the scaling system only leads to me feeling like my character can fall behind. Cythereal posted:Just don't play Legacy of the First Blade, under any circumstances. I've only heard bad stuff about it. are the missions at least fun despite the story being poo poo?
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Honestly I skipped that DLC and I don't even feel like I missed anything. The game's just so huge already. By the time I got through the main game and the Atlantis DLC, I'd had way more than enough Odyssey to last a while.
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The new remaster of Like A Dragon: Isshin (aka: one of those samurai Yakuza games we never got) is mostly pretty faithful to the original game relative to the remakes of Yakuza 1/2 but one thing they really should have fixed imo is th that there’s four fighting styles (fist, sword, gun, dual wielding a sword/gun) but no weapon for the fists, whereas there’s a wholeass upgrade tree system for the sword/gun/special weapons, and gauntlets as an armor type already you could rework to pull double duty as fist offense. Speaking of special weapons, you can spend points in your mini-sphere grid for each style to unlock special weapons, like a giant sword or a portable cannon…that won’t let you earn style experience while using them. I guess I should at least be grateful 0/Kiwami 1 realized how lame that is.
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Tunicate posted:But what is better, +0.3% chance of crits or 1-2 more base damage, or 6% cooldown reduction on your dodge roll??????????????? Better not assume anything and let the Player Decide Team Ninja's Souls style series Nioh is the absolute worst about this poo poo. In Dark Souls you can find like 30 different straight swords and, well, they don't all feel super unique but there's a good deal of variety to be had. In Nioh you'll find, I dunno, literally a thousand katanas and they'll all feel exactly the same. Apparently their new Three Kingdoms Sekiro-style game also does this. Bleh.
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ilmucche posted:I've only heard bad stuff about it. are the missions at least fun despite the story being poo poo? Yeah it's fine, I mean it's more Odyssey so if you want that. I found myself far more exhausted by the other DLC and all the stuff it introduced.
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ilmucche posted:I've only heard bad stuff about it. are the missions at least fun despite the story being poo poo? The missions are fun but if you're playing as Kassandra the story is insulting and offensive. It's worth going through at least, for the new upgrades you'll get to your ship.
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I'm not sure I'll ever get through the Atlantis dlc for Odyssey, as it keeps going and never stops. Which is pretty much Odyssey in a nutshell, which is a game that doesn't know when to stop.
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Definitely. I love that game to bits, but boy do you do a lot of "do the three things to get access to a new series of three things to do".
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Philippe posted:Definitely. I love that game to bits, but boy do you do a lot of "do the three things to get access to a new series of three things to do". Reminds me of Darksiders 2, which was almost entirely that but nested. "Get these three sigils to unlock the new place, but to get the first sigil you need 3 keys and one of those is split into 3 parts each held by a miniboss" kind of poo poo.
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I'm the kind of person who only looks at a guide when it's either that or give up on a game forever and that's where I got to with Tunic. I'm pretty persistent but after dying to the Heir lots of times and then discovering there's a loving phase 2 I can't get back to because the first phase is so hard I had to get help. Why is this boss so hard? I died 30 times to the boss scavenger but felt like I was inching closer each time on that one whereas the Heir still just wrecks me. Mechanically I find some of the attacks to be pretty poorly telegraphed, I'm forever getting hit by a sudden charge attack I just can't react to in time. The multiple wave attacks seem extremely difficult to avoid, the attack where they bombard the arena but still keep attacking you is loving nasty and they just seem to have too much health for a first phase, it takes a while and if I ever do make it to the second phase reliably, the first is going to get tedious fast since the second phase looks rough. That's why I tend to really dislike multiple phase bosses but whatever. A few people online talked about using consumables, well I've used most of mine and they don't come back when you die so  There are cards in the game that give you perks and some people said you can absolutely cheese the boss with them but I don't think what they all do is communicated brilliantly, even given that the whole point of the game is to be in the dark to begin with. There are hints in the picture and the manual pages I have but I couldn't discern what many of them did. Finally, I wasn't fully upgraded, there's a single upgrade I hadn't got back (potion effectiveness) after the die and lose all your powers bit since the usual way was blocked, the teleporter was blocked and the only other way I could think of was through this boss, so I thought the game was telling me the Heir is preventing you from getting the last upgrade you need to regain your corporeal form. As it turns out, there's a way there via a little hidden shortcut next to the mountain door. I've used it before so I probably should have remembered but it felt a little harsh. I don't know if having better potions will help me much since chugging a potion leaves you wide open but I'll go again and see if I can do better. Absurd difficulty spike though.
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Walton Simons posted:A few people online talked about using consumables, well I've used most of mine and they don't come back when you die so Any game where this is the case can gently caress itself.
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Walton Simons posted:I'm the kind of person who only looks at a guide when it's either that or give up on a game forever and that's where I got to with Tunic. I'm pretty persistent but after dying to the Heir lots of times and then discovering there's a loving phase 2 I can't get back to because the first phase is so hard I had to get help. I think it depends on the consumable but some like the bombs have a regen mechanic after you use X amount where you get a few free ones that do come back like the potions. But also, just cheat, turn on whatever accessibility settings you need if you’re not having fun, it’s literally what the devs want.
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well i guess i'm done with assassin's creed odyssey. played it a bit earlier today, came back to it this evening and it won't start up. tried verifying the files, starting it up from the ubisoft connect thing, no luck. hurray for video games 
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While it's a cool level, the Monastery in Tomb Raider 2 in Tibet has some NASTY ambushes and it's really REALLY big. Got some cool keys though, like the prayer wheels.
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rydiafan posted:Any game where this is the case can gently caress itself. The dark side of the megalixir conundrum.
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I love Sekiro to death but it had a real bad example of that. Right before one of the more difficult early game bosses there is a guy who will give you one or two snap peas, mention they’re really useful for the boss, then he dies. When you die to this boss the guy you talked to is still dead and you have no way to easily get more peas. Though the real kicker is that the peas aren’t even that useful for the boss, they just talked them up like they were.
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moosecow333 posted:I love Sekiro to death but it had a real bad example of that. IIRC that boss fight also had a pop-up message about dodging attacks which was pretty much the wrong way to do the fight
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BioEnchanted posted:Reminds me of Darksiders 2, which was almost entirely that but nested. "Get these three sigils to unlock the new place, but to get the first sigil you need 3 keys and one of those is split into 3 parts each held by a miniboss" kind of poo poo. The first Kojima Castlevania game does this, too. I stopped playing it when I was given a fetch quest to collect four items so I could get one of the three items I needed for a fetch quest.
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moosecow333 posted:I love Sekiro to death but it had a real bad example of that. Isn't there some weird extra layer to it where the snap peas do something different from what you expect them to do. Like they do/don't make the fake Lady Butterflys go away but don't/do remove her momentary invisibility? And then besides her they affect like...maybe two other enemies in the entire game total?
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John Murdoch posted:Isn't there some weird extra layer to it where the snap peas do something different from what you expect them to do. Like they do/don't make the fake Lady Butterflys go away but don't/do remove her momentary invisibility? They kill her summoned ghosts. Snap peas are incredibly strong against the corrupted monk
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Subnautica: Below Zero seems to be really inconsistent about playing the awesome musical sting that accompanies learning a new blueprint.
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rydiafan posted:Any game where this is the case can gently caress itself. I am bad about hoarding consumables instead of using them and games that do this make it that much worse.
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Yes it’s the last boss of the game and I have 51 full heal potions but what if I have to fight him a 52nd time
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I never want to kill another perfumer for miranda powder again.
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:I never want to kill another perfumer for miranda powder again. Lol, I’ve done two playthroughs of that game and never realized they even could drop anything besides armor.
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All consumables in vaguely soulslike games should refill when you rest like estus flasks do
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The Moon Monster posted:Team Ninja's Souls style series Nioh is the absolute worst about this poo poo. In Dark Souls you can find like 30 different straight swords and, well, they don't all feel super unique but there's a good deal of variety to be had. In Nioh you'll find, I dunno, literally a thousand katanas and they'll all feel exactly the same. Apparently their new Three Kingdoms Sekiro-style game also does this. Bleh. The real secret to Nioh is realizing its using Diablo as a base in addition to Souls, those thousand swords all feeling the same is deliberate since you'll only keep the one with the stats you want it to have.
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