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| Win at video games |
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37 | 23.72% |
| Hone gaming skills |
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27 | 17.31% |
| Unlock hardcore mode achievements |
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14 | 8.97% |
| More grinding |
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24 | 15.38% |
| Post about video games |
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54 | 34.62% |
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MMF Freeway posted:In re4make the description of hard mode is like "for those that have played RE4 before". well I've played RE4 a lot so I picked it and uhh no capcom this is not the same game, too hard!!! not that RE4, this RE4
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Jul 12, 2023 16:36
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exquisite tea posted:I miss when the easy difficulties were named like "I'm a Widdle Baby Pwease Don't Huwwt Me." I thought it was funny. i kinda hate that stuff
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Jul 12, 2023 16:47
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MMF Freeway posted:In re4make the description of hard mode is like "for those that have played RE4 before". well I've played RE4 a lot so I picked it and uhh no capcom this is not the same game, too hard!!! Too hard? No such thing
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Jul 12, 2023 17:02
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Jay Rust posted:i kinda hate that stuff Ditto. Funny on its face but encourages really lovely attitudes. If I play on one I'll still call it baby mode though lol
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Jul 12, 2023 17:02
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Easy Mode actively mocking you for selecting it is acceptable as long as Hard Mode is equally as mocking, like calling it "Who Are You Trying To Impress Mode" or something
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Jul 12, 2023 17:07
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Whenever I play a ranked mode in a game I refer to it as climbing up MLG MountainAsterite34 posted:Easy Mode actively mocking you for selecting it is acceptable as long as Hard Mode is equally as mocking, like calling it "Who Are You Trying To Impress Mode" or something Easy and Hard mode should both lock the player out of the ending. Easy because they didn't earn it, and Hard because they didn't either
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Jul 12, 2023 17:07
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always have two difficulty settings: Filthy Casual and Sweaty Tryhard
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Jul 12, 2023 17:13
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Hwurmp posted:always have two difficulty settings: Filthy Casual and Sweaty Tryhard Skill and Lag
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Jul 12, 2023 17:17
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It's always good when there's multiple difficulty modes and even better when the devs let you switch 'em on the fly so you aren't locked into something too easy/too hard Wish there was a little check next to whichever mode the devs thought was the most "balanced" and thought about the most so I could just start there though. It should always just be Normal but sometimes I dunno Always sort of annoyed when I find out that like entire enemy behavior patterns/attacks are only in Hard mode or something
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Jul 12, 2023 17:21
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if you playa game on anything less than hardest difficulty your cheevos should have an an asterisk and you should have to disclose your easy modery when criticizing the game.
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Jul 12, 2023 17:23
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Monkey Fracas posted:Always sort of annoyed when I find out that like entire enemy behavior patterns/attacks are only in Hard mode or something i've always assumed that this is due to them having to intentionally strip away mechanics for a lower difficulty option after playtesting reveals that the average gamer isn't able to meet that level i do kind of prefer hard being a different experience rather than it just being a simple numbers game, like how pillars of eternity's hard and PotD modes change encounter composition to make them drastically more challenging. there's one notorious fight in early PoE2 where it goes from you fighting a couple panthers and some lil baby wyrms to you having to fight a whole loving zoo on PotD complete with an actual drake, and that forces you to take a completely different approach to the fight
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Jul 12, 2023 17:29
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Sonic Frontier having an entire end boss phase only on Hard was weird. It was the only vaguely difficult part of the game though lol
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Jul 12, 2023 17:35
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Vermain posted:they're understandably vague about it, but what they've said in the comments is that it attempts to calculate per-bone depth data using educated guesses and then display them via UE4 shaders. i'm assuming it uses something like lightness/saturation to try and predict depth, similar to the depth models that stuff like controlnet uses in stable diffusion, though likely with less computational power required thanks to it being pixel art It’s really neat conceptually but to be totally honest the results are…not great. My reaction to the video was “hey this is interesting but I would never want my game to look like this”.
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Jul 12, 2023 17:36
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Dewgy posted:It’s really neat conceptually but to be totally honest the results are…not great. My reaction to the video was “hey this is interesting but I would never want my game to look like this”. it's a nice proof of concept that i hope is iterated on eventually, but it still looks like it takes a lot of individual tinkering to make it look good 3D to pixel 2D is still probably your best bet if you're working under budgetary constraints and don't want to deal with the aggravation of hand-drawn art
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Jul 12, 2023 17:47
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Khanstant posted:if you playa game on anything less than hardest difficulty your cheevos should have an an asterisk and you should have to disclose your easy modery when criticizing the game. I miss negative achievements that were worth nothing meant only to shame you
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Jul 12, 2023 17:53
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Was that ever a thing? I recall MS being pretty stringent about not having achievements that highlighted failure or produced negative emotions. Maybe other platforms like Steam are free-er about that, or they loosened up over the years The only ones I can think of are a few games that acknowledge you having died a bunch, and Portal 2 with a couple for stepping into extremely obvious deathtraps that are more funny than mean haveblue fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Jul 12, 2023 |
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Jul 12, 2023 17:57
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haveblue posted:Was that ever a thing? I recall MS being pretty stringent about not having achievements that highlighted failure or produced negative emotions. Maybe other platforms like Steam are free-er about that, or they loosened up over the years 
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Jul 12, 2023 18:00
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haveblue posted:Was that ever a thing? I recall MS being pretty stringent about not having achievements that highlighted failure or produced negative emotions. Maybe other platforms like Steam are free-er about that, or they loosened up over the years Negative point ones no, though you did get classic Cavia trolling in Bulletwitch with the first trophy you get giving you 9 points and then beating the game on the hardest difficulty giving you 1 point, forever cursing you with an uneven gamer score unless you got it.
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Jul 12, 2023 18:04
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Or unless you found another game that tried the same troll and unlocked very carefully
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Jul 12, 2023 18:06
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I beat Yakuza 0 I cried a lot
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Jul 12, 2023 18:21
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Dewgy posted:It’s really neat conceptually but to be totally honest the results are…not great. My reaction to the video was “hey this is interesting but I would never want my game to look like this”. these are the trailers they put out a year ago for the starter characters, the mole guy that's in their more recent stuff looks a lot better. seems that during test demos at conventions, people were able to construct a fully playable character from scratch while at the booth, which is shockingly intuitive if true for someone to be able to walk up with zero info and whip something usable up in a pretty short amount of time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHdvZdTXtvI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfWvTyac3SU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUl1sDEcE74 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFy-_6w6fA4 I don't think it's perfect, but it's very impressive from what looks like a dev team of like two or three people maybe?
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Jul 12, 2023 18:23
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verbal enema posted:I beat Yakuza 0 I didn't like Kiwami 1 quite as much overall, although it's still great
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Jul 12, 2023 18:28
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I dont have any other Yakuza so is the next story step Kiwami? Also aren't we getting the Fuedal Japan Yakuza sometime too?
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Jul 12, 2023 18:32
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Just finished Prey 2017. Started it on a whim on Thursday after watching my dad start playing it and it's the only thing I've played in the last 6 days. Glad I finally gave it a go though, it's a fantastic game. The only other immersive sims I've tried before are Deus Ex HR and System Shock 2. Maybe I'll finally go back and finish them. verbal enema posted:I dont have any other Yakuza so is the next story step Kiwami? There was the Like a Dragon Ishin remake that came out in February that you're probably thinking of.
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Jul 12, 2023 18:33
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Nah I'm deffo thinking of the literal fuedal japan Yakuza
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Jul 12, 2023 18:38
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Oh lol that's what it was my bad
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Jul 12, 2023 18:40
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verbal enema posted:I dont have any other Yakuza so is the next story step Kiwami? Whenever you get around to the rest of the series: - Play Kiwami on easy, as you'll avoid some damage sponge bosses. Mainline the story. - Play Kiwami 2 asap. - Has a similar  ending to 0Judgement and Lost Judgement are also REAL good, and doesn't deal with any Yak series characaters
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Jul 12, 2023 18:42
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verbal enema posted:I beat Yakuza 0 At the very end (after the end credits?) when the lady finds the repaired watch Majima left for her is such a beautiful moment, goddamn.
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Jul 12, 2023 18:45
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Jerusalem posted:At the very end (after the end credits?) when the lady finds the repaired watch Majima left for her is such a beautiful moment, goddamn. Yeah that loving hurt
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Jul 12, 2023 18:47
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verbal enema posted:Nah I'm deffo thinking of the literal fuedal japan Yakuza There's is one but for the moment it's never been released outside Japan
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Jul 12, 2023 18:52
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so either something just changed without my input on my steam account or they just altered something with user reviews, because the Skullgirls review bombing thing from a couple weeks back changed pretty dramatically:Captain Invictus posted:Apparently Steam just made a pretty significant change to how community reviews are calculated, possibly due to the insane review-bombing of Skullgirls that happened a few weeks ago, leading to it going from overwhelmingly positive to overwhelmingly negative, with a 17% recent review positivity rating. the review bombing began because the devs edited some sprites to be less fanservicey, removed a piece of ingame art that was literally a dude molesting someone, removed armbands from the aesthetically-nazi faction, removed some art from the digital artbook, removed some clips from Big Band's storyline, and removed the Soviet Announcer voice. there were like 25,000 negative reviews almost entirely from people who had never played the game ever since the recent patch, and now they're not showing up.
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Jul 12, 2023 19:31
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Valve silently clean up review bombs once everyone has moved on to the next dumb drama. https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1808664240333155775
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Jul 12, 2023 19:37
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yeah I just learned that existed today, literally never seen it before. not sure of a game I'm aware of that got review bombed like that on steam. well, good on them at least, it was absurd that shitheads managed to absolutely dumpster years of near-universal praise in a week's time
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Jul 12, 2023 19:39
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I'm glad Valve cleaned up that dumb drama. Steam users will die on the most stupid of hills, in this case it was supporting being able to see panties worn by child characters, and keeping the nazi/fascist images in the game.
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Jul 12, 2023 19:46
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Draga posted:Glad I finally gave it a go though, it's a fantastic game. The only other immersive sims I've tried before are Deus Ex HR and System Shock 2. Maybe I'll finally go back and finish them. play the original Deus Ex forgive the terrible voice acting and enjoy what is still one of the best imsimms on the market
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Jul 12, 2023 19:53
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Asterite34 posted:Easy Mode actively mocking you for selecting it is acceptable as long as Hard Mode is equally as mocking, like calling it "Who Are You Trying To Impress Mode" or something This was very much the case for Devil May Cry games: 
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Jul 12, 2023 19:59
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big demon balls
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Jul 12, 2023 20:00
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Has anything ever been review bombed for a good reason, I get the impression that whole angry mob throwing petulant spiteful fit is more of a conservative gamer gator type thing, but I'm also not tracking review bombs, just hear about the dumbest ones. There are definitely shithead criminal pest devs out there people rightfully hate, but I feel like the reaction to that is to avoid their games and inform others about who they would support by buying the game whenever it comes up in discussions.
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Jul 12, 2023 20:01
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Hwurmp posted:play the original Deus Ex Also play the Dishonored games, which while not "pure" immersive sims are the previous games from the studio that made Prey and have very much the same sort of flavor with a more structured, mission-based flow
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Jul 12, 2023 20:02
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I said come in! posted:I'm glad Valve cleaned up that dumb drama. Steam users will die on the most stupid of hills, in this case it was supporting being able to see panties worn by child characters, and keeping the nazi/fascist images in the game.
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