[VGz] Birdetta was trans in like 1988 or something

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ScootsMcSkirt: Oct 29, 2013

i have used parrying in all the soulsborne games and elden ring felt the least rewarding to pull off imo

# ? Jul 11, 2023 23:28

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# ? May 24, 2024 01:31

KirbyKhan: Mar 20, 2009; Soiled Meat

Oh well, Ill party recreationally then. I watched 5 videos and it looks like you gotta fully spec into it

# ? Jul 11, 2023 23:31

Ben Nerevarine: Apr 14, 2006

KirbyKhan posted:

Oh well, Ill party recreationally then.

hell, same

# ? Jul 11, 2023 23:35

Cuttlefush: Jan 15, 2014; gotta have my purp

KirbyKhan posted:

Oh well, Ill party recreationally then. I watched 5 videos and it looks like you gotta fully spec into it

guard counters rule though

# ? Jul 11, 2023 23:35

ScootsMcSkirt: Oct 29, 2013

guard counters are where its at

much easier and safer to pull off and just as rewarding

# ? Jul 11, 2023 23:40

Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
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I think I pulled off a grand total of 20 parties across ds3 bloodborne and elden ring. I was always very bad at it and usually punished for trying instead of dodging

sekiro on the other hand�.

# ? Jul 11, 2023 23:41

Grey Fox: Jan 5, 2004

Xaris posted:

I think I pulled off a grand total of 20 parties across ds3 bloodborne and elden ring. I was always very bad at it and usually punished for trying

yeah it's tough but you gotta fight for your right to party

# ? Jul 11, 2023 23:43

KirbyKhan: Mar 20, 2009; Soiled Meat

My plan is to go in on each fight as blind as whatever then after defeating it I'll look up the meta and maybe do a jolly co-op or two. I have learned:

So lmao. I did a similar silly thing with DS2 when I stumbled out of Majula the wrong way and ended up in Stone Giant Island instead of Green Hollow Zone. I beat Orenstein and Smoug with only the starting life gems, I didn't even have the flask so I should have figured something was up. But when I ran out of gems I just made a new character and kept bashing my head against the wall till I got gud.

I didn't really play the rest of the game. I felt like I had a complete Dark Souls experience and then watched every single lore video ever uploaded on the internet

# ? Jul 11, 2023 23:52

Lostconfused: Oct 1, 2008

Terminal fromsouls brain damage.

The games aren't supposed to be super hard, you should just grind some XP, items, or look up a guide online if you're having too much trouble.

# ? Jul 11, 2023 23:54

turn off the TV: Aug 4, 2010; moderately annoying

Lostconfused posted:

Terminal fromsouls brain damage.

The games aren't supposed to be super hard, you should just grind some XP, items, or look up a guide online if you're having too much trouble.

i think that i beat all but one story boss in three or less tries. the limgrave crucible knight gaol and one of the tree spirits were the only ones that i really got stuck on for a while iirc

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:02

loquacius: Oct 21, 2008

I only used parries against Commander O'Neil and had to use Carian Retaliation instead of base parry for it to work

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:05

Ytlaya: Nov 13, 2005

One More Fat Nerd posted:

Right now I'm going through the FFX remaster, the early part of the game has a much higher cutscene:gameplay ratio than I remember. The voice acting is actually less cringe than I thought the first time, though??? I think knowing the twist makes the stulted delivery of a lot of the cast make more sense. None of them want to actually admit whats going on, in general, but especially around Tidus, who genuinely doesn't know. So they pick their words super carefully so nobody has to admit that they're the delivery crew for a human sacrifice.

FFX voice acting was always very good, especially for the time when it was released.

I would unironically argue that FFX has better English voice acting than nearly any other dubbed Japanese video game I can think of except something like FF16 (where the game was literally made with the English VA in mind). There's issues with awkward pausing, but that's primarily caused by being one of the earliest heavily voice-acted games and is also present in the Japanese version, rather than being related to the actual voice-acting itself. I actually played the remaster on PC a few months ago with the Japanese dub, and was surprised at how accurate the English VAs were - some characters almost sound like the same VA speaking in both English and Japanese. Auron is probably the biggest difference among the main cast, but not in a bad way.

Also, the Tidus laughing scene is good (and is almost the exact same in Japanese). It's genuinely a great scene that communicates things about the characters much better than the writing in most other narrative-driven video games I've played. FFX in general is quite good about characterization through showing vs telling.

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:07

loquacius: Oct 21, 2008

Lostconfused posted:

Terminal fromsouls brain damage.

The games aren't supposed to be super hard, you should just grind some XP, items, or look up a guide online if you're having too much trouble.

On the one hand, the fact that I beat Malenia supports this point, but, on the other hand, "souls games aren't actually supposed to be hard" seems like a terminally online thing to say

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:07

turn off the TV: Aug 4, 2010; moderately annoying

loquacius posted:

On the one hand, the fact that I beat Malenia supports this point, but, on the other hand, "souls games aren't actually supposed to be hard" seems like a terminally online thing to say

only 78% of elden ring's owners have actually gotten to the round table hold and only 67% have beaten godrick. over half of the people who got past that point beat the game and a little less than that have beaten malenia. that's an absurdly high completion rate for a video game

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:11

Cuttlefush: Jan 15, 2014; gotta have my purp

turn off the TV posted:

only 78% of elden ring's owners have actually gotten to the round table hold and only 67% have beaten godrick. over half of the people who got past that point beat the game and a little less than that have beaten malenia. that's an absurdly high completion rate for a video game

Craziest completion percentages I've seen were on the Yakuza games. I think it's like 50% completion? Can't check right now, but it's up there

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:13

SomethingBeautiful: Oct 22, 2008; Some celestial event. No- no words. No words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful... I had no idea

Tankbuster posted:

people who jerk off over fallout 1 and 2 haven't played the games my guy. They play New Vegas, hear its like the old fallout games and then project that backwards into the interplay fallout games. Todd howard's biggest crime was resurrecting that franchise so now you get to be inundated with annoying people who got strongarmed into voting for joe think they are revolutionaries for choosing the Yes Man ending.

i've played them and i like them because they're good actually

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:21

Epic High Five: Jun 5, 2004

From games are hard, especially by the standards of the genre they find themselves not so neatly in, but that's not the same thing as saying you have to be good to beat them. You can just be stubborn as hell and do just fine. Better even against some bosses, because you don't second guess or think too much or change your build around, you just grind it out until you win without wasting time and resources on that other stuff.

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:23

Lostconfused: Oct 1, 2008

Being stubborn only makes them harder than they really are.

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:24

Epic High Five: Jun 5, 2004

Like sometimes you'll almost one shot a boss, then every other attempt you're eating dirt. That's because you're thinking. Brain gets in the way. Big mistake. Simply apply great hammer to forehead to win.

Lostconfused posted:

Being stubborn only makes them harder than they really are.

stubborn morons rule this world and we can all learn from their brainless arrogance

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:28

AnimeIsTrash: Jun 30, 2018

ended up picking up caves of qud, very fun game but i have died in the first 5 minutes of all my runs

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:30

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AnimeIsTrash posted:

ended up picking up caves of qud, very fun game but i have died in the first 5 minutes of all my runs

git qud

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:30

genericnick: Dec 26, 2012

AnimeIsTrash posted:

ended up picking up caves of qud, very fun game but i have died in the first 5 minutes of all my runs

It's real good

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:31

Lostconfused: Oct 1, 2008

Epic High Five posted:

Like sometimes you'll almost one shot a boss, then every other attempt you're eating dirt. That's because you're thinking. Brain gets in the way. Big mistake. Simply apply great hammer to forehead to win.

stubborn morons rule this world and we can all learn from their brainless arrogance

indeed, the wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:32

AnimeIsTrash: Jun 30, 2018

genericnick posted:

It's real good

its a blast, i have not had this muc hfun since i discovered angband years ago

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:33

KirbyKhan: Mar 20, 2009; Soiled Meat

I got 2000 runes and pride from defeating a tutorial enemy that teaches implicitly that "you should just ride past this fight lol".

It only took 45 minutes and I wish I could bottle that feeling of glory

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:33

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

Ytlaya posted:

FFX voice acting was always very good, especially for the time when it was released.

I would unironically argue that FFX has better English voice acting than nearly any other dubbed Japanese video game I can think of except something like FF16 (where the game was literally made with the English VA in mind). There's issues with awkward pausing, but that's primarily caused by being one of the earliest heavily voice-acted games and is also present in the Japanese version, rather than being related to the actual voice-acting itself. I actually played the remaster on PC a few months ago with the Japanese dub, and was surprised at how accurate the English VAs were - some characters almost sound like the same VA speaking in both English and Japanese. Auron is probably the biggest difference among the main cast, but not in a bad way.

Also, the Tidus laughing scene is good (and is almost the exact same in Japanese). It's genuinely a great scene that communicates things about the characters much better than the writing in most other narrative-driven video games I've played. FFX in general is quite good about characterization through showing vs telling.

ffx is great game as a teen and a superb game as an adult

also iirc the reason for the cadence was because character speech was coded against the japanese audio, so they had to contain all of the english voice acting within a specific, equivalent window of time or the game would crash

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:33

Epic High Five: Jun 5, 2004

KirbyKhan posted:

I got 2000 runes and pride from defeating a tutorial enemy that teaches implicitly that "you should just ride past this fight lol".

It only took 45 minutes and I wish I could bottle that feeling of glory

It fuckin rules, there's no shortage of those moments, you're in for a real treat. Game of the decade at least.

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:34

World War Mammories: Aug 25, 2006

Ytlaya posted:

FFX voice acting was always very good, especially for the time when it was released.

I would unironically argue that FFX has better English voice acting than nearly any other dubbed Japanese video game I can think of except something like FF16 (where the game was literally made with the English VA in mind). There's issues with awkward pausing, but that's primarily caused by being one of the earliest heavily voice-acted games and is also present in the Japanese version, rather than being related to the actual voice-acting itself. I actually played the remaster on PC a few months ago with the Japanese dub, and was surprised at how accurate the English VAs were - some characters almost sound like the same VA speaking in both English and Japanese. Auron is probably the biggest difference among the main cast, but not in a bad way.

Also, the Tidus laughing scene is good (and is almost the exact same in Japanese). It's genuinely a great scene that communicates things about the characters much better than the writing in most other narrative-driven video games I've played. FFX in general is quite good about characterization through showing vs telling.

iirc ffx has some stupid programming thing where a given voice acted line must be the exact same duration regardless of language, leading to bits that stick out like sore thumbs like "withyunabymyside"

but yeah, I remember going HEH SO DUMB at the laughing scene with everyone else on gamefaqs when I was 11 years old and it's amazing how stupid we were

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:35

Whirling: Feb 23, 2023

Tankbuster posted:

its anticapitalist in the epic gen-x "I don't even care way" which means not at all. Fallout 2 also has the 90s equivalent of memespeak and incessant pop culture references. New Vegas' big opposing factions are a somewhat corrupt miniature USA and a bunch of literal football rapists and slavers. I really blame hbomberguy's video essay on fallout 3 for this current outbreak though.

Bethesda of all people actually put some actual thought into their game. The epic capitalist deathbot liberty prime that spouts red scare slogans? You use it to laser the remnants of the US government and give people access to a critical resource for free. The NCR equivalent in fallout 4 requires a literal deus ex machina in the form of the player to bring them back to life. The most morally upright main faction in the game has you be the equivalent of a partisan in a blasted hellscape. The bad guys have mechanical incentives that tempt the player to join them in the game for added benefit.

I do think that Fallout: New Vegas definitely is the better RPG of the 3D Fallouts, but yeah, it is weird how people have turned it into this rose emoji banner when there's no actual anti-capitalism in it either. Its fine to like things that aren't purely socialist, so I don't know why people need to do mental jujitsu to say that going down the Yes Man route means the Courier will implement socialism in the Mojave, rather than things being run by the gleefully capitalist ex-tribals that House brought in to run the casinos.

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:36

Frog Act: Feb 10, 2012

ER was so incredible I took a week off when it came out and played for 175 hours on one character before finally beating it. wish I could do it all fresh again, best experience in gaming history

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:36

Koirhor: Jan 14, 2008; by Fluffdaddy

Oath of the Common Man Paladin isn�t in BG3 so I cannot properly roleplay as Karl Marx, whats the next closest socialist class I could role?

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:37

AnimeIsTrash: Jun 30, 2018

they redid tracks for the ffx remaster and they sound so much worse ~_~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-_SvI6Z54s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jieToDZeENo

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:39

KirbyKhan: Mar 20, 2009; Soiled Meat

Ytlaya posted:

FFX voice acting was always very good, especially for the time when it was released.

I would unironically argue that FFX has better English voice acting than nearly any other dubbed Japanese video game I can think of except something like FF16 (where the game was literally made with the English VA in mind). There's issues with awkward pausing, but that's primarily caused by being one of the earliest heavily voice-acted games and is also present in the Japanese version, rather than being related to the actual voice-acting itself. I actually played the remaster on PC a few months ago with the Japanese dub, and was surprised at how accurate the English VAs were - some characters almost sound like the same VA speaking in both English and Japanese. Auron is probably the biggest difference among the main cast, but not in a bad way.

Also, the Tidus laughing scene is good (and is almost the exact same in Japanese). It's genuinely a great scene that communicates things about the characters much better than the writing in most other narrative-driven video games I've played. FFX in general is quite good about characterization through showing vs telling.

Love FFX, it was such a better alternative to Young Adult fiction and romance at the time. Good lessons, good morals, and relatable characters who hate their space whale absentee dad. I use "Pilgrimage To Zanarkand" and "Suka Da Ne" as lullabies for my babies.

I got nostalgic for FFX so I watched this video that stitched together the main plot beats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGuviMtimBk

I cried like 4 seperate times with my infant in my arms saying poo poo like "find yourself a man who loves and supports you like how Tidus loves Yuna"

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:41

One More Fat Nerd: Apr 13, 2007; Mama’s Lil’ Louie; Nap Ghost

I really hate this trend of celebrity stunt casting in vidcons.

https://twitter.com/DeMickyD/status/1678819542561169409?s=20

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:43

Homeless Friend: Jul 16, 2007

KirbyKhan posted:

My plan is to go in on each fight as blind as whatever then after defeating it I'll look up the meta and maybe do a jolly co-op or two. I have learned:

you were supposed to run away from this guy? like the one that hops down right? lol hes a chump

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:52

Epic High Five: Jun 5, 2004

wish I could brainwipe and replay it blind again

oh well now we're talking about ER that means it's time to pick my latest playthrough up again. Region lock has nothing on a Giant Hunt Zweihander

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:54

loquacius: Oct 21, 2008

Epic High Five posted:

Like sometimes you'll almost one shot a boss, then every other attempt you're eating dirt. That's because you're thinking. Brain gets in the way. Big mistake. Simply apply great hammer to forehead to win.

stubborn morons rule this world and we can all learn from their brainless arrogance

Can confirm that after spending all weekend trying out anti-Malenia builds I eventually just went back in with my original caveman Great Stars Mimic Tear build and clobbered her to death. I wasn't expecting it to work

# ? Jul 12, 2023 00:59

Regarde Aduck: Oct 19, 2012; c l o u d k i t t e n; Grimey Drawer

Homeless Friend posted:

you were supposed to run away from this guy? like the one that hops down right? lol hes a chump

yeah many levels to this one

# ? Jul 12, 2023 01:02

loquacius: Oct 21, 2008

I don't think you're supposed to run from the stormgate giant, that guy was probably thinking of the tree sentinel

# ? Jul 12, 2023 01:04

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# ? May 24, 2024 01:31

Epic High Five: Jun 5, 2004

I ran from the stormgate giant because at launch it cast a special spell that halved your framerate on account of being at the entrance to Stormhill

# ? Jul 12, 2023 01:05

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