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New game for a new page: why does Super Mario Odyssey have an unskippable dialogue scene where your sentient hat companion tells you very basic control tips every time you travel between worlds? It's part of a cutscene barrage that I assume disguises some loading time, but honestly I'd rather just have a loading screen than hear the hat guy go HEY DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN PRESS ZL TO CROUCH when I'm in endgame territory.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:The two Zelda reboot games What are the reboot games?
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Jul 10, 2023 20:23
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credburn posted:What are the reboot games? Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.
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Jul 10, 2023 20:25
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credburn posted:What are the reboot games? Every one of them besides the first two.
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Jul 10, 2023 20:28
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bawk posted:Nope this is correct, it also locks quest rewards to your level and they don't scale with your level afterwards. So if you get the Dawnbreaker sword at level 15, you will forever have a Level 15 scaled Dawnbreaker sword. Any sufficiently magical and wondrous item, even ones gifted to you from the Aedra or Daedra themselves, would be less than worthless compared to what a Journeyman/Expert/Master blacksmith/enchanter could create using raw materials from a mine and some soul gems. I think it's worth pointing out that the greatest NPC blacksmith in skyrim has a a smithing skill of 44.
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Jul 10, 2023 20:35
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This "chase down Maddocks" mission in Everspace 2 seems much harder than everything that's come before it
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Jul 10, 2023 22:11
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Agents are GO! posted:I think it's worth pointing out that the greatest NPC blacksmith in skyrim has a a smithing skill of 44. This is even funnier because you can't make Ebony weapons until Smithing 80, but they're all over the item pool as random drops. Somehow when you level up enough, enemies still find the random armory of weapons to distribute between every bandit in the world (that no smith could actually make besides you)
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Jul 10, 2023 22:40
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CJacobs posted:That I don't agree with. The outfit menuing in TOTK is annoying as hell and holding X should either equip the whole outfit or loadout slots. It completely drains the tension in a boss battle or a climactic moment like approaching a dragon to lilting piano music when you get DING DING DING, LINK'S BALLSACK IS SHRIVELING I hated having to do stupid mental calculations like - okay, I'm skydiving, is it worth spending the time navigating menus to switch to the skydiving armor for better air control (and then back to my previous armor afterwards) or is it faster to not bother? I feel like all those "utility" type effects should've just been upgrades I could unlock for Link permanently somehow.
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Jul 10, 2023 23:18
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In Breath of the Wild the armor I wore was whatever last armor the game forced me to wear because gently caress changing armors all the time.
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Jul 10, 2023 23:32
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Fallout 76 has cards that you swap around that give you various bonuses to combat or crafting. For the first two years of its release (maybe this still is the case) there was no way to create like a "deck" or handful of cards you would use for various instances. For example, if I want to craft something, I'd have to remove all my combat cards and swap them around for all my crafting cards, and then back again when I'm done crafting. I got banned from Fallout 76 for using a mod that just let me hot-swap them  Because gently caress the literal hours that will add to a game that has two main focuses: combat and loving crafting!
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Jul 10, 2023 23:36
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bawk posted:Nope this is correct, it also locks quest rewards to your level and they don't scale with your level afterwards. So if you get the Dawnbreaker sword at level 15, you will forever have a Level 15 scaled Dawnbreaker sword. Any sufficiently magical and wondrous item, even ones gifted to you from the Aedra or Daedra themselves, would be less than worthless compared to what a Journeyman/Expert/Master blacksmith/enchanter could create using raw materials from a mine and some soul gems. Rockman Reserve posted:the thing about scaled content is even if it's implemented 'well', the end result is still to make a game feel boring and same-y. why the gently caress shouldn't there be areas full of high-level enemies that i shouldn't wander into unprepared? why is beating a boss any kind of accomplishment when its stats scale down to something the game is confident you can win against? it's one hard-to-implement change that has almost zero benefit and instantly sucks tons of variety and flavor out of a game. it's just wild that it's a design philosophy that so many major companies go back to time and time again.
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Jul 10, 2023 23:53
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Rockman Reserve posted:the thing about scaled content is even if it's implemented 'well', the end result is still to make a game feel boring and same-y. why the gently caress shouldn't there be areas full of high-level enemies that i shouldn't wander into unprepared? why is beating a boss any kind of accomplishment when its stats scale down to something the game is confident you can win against? it's one hard-to-implement change that has almost zero benefit and instantly sucks tons of variety and flavor out of a game. it's just wild that it's a design philosophy that so many major companies go back to time and time again. I think they do this poo poo to keep people from level farming too much. Except all they have to do is limit the opportunities to do that and make most things finite. Or, do like the Dark Souls games where leveling doesn't really make a huge difference.
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Jul 10, 2023 23:55
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WoW also does the thing where areas have a level floor and ceiling. It's a good system and keeps more content relevant and interesting.
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Phigs posted:In Breath of the Wild the armor I wore was whatever last armor the game forced me to wear because gently caress changing armors all the time. I just never bothered changing out of the Fierce Diety set because why would I?
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Jul 11, 2023 00:04
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Triarii posted:I feel like all those "utility" type effects should've just been upgrades I could unlock for Link permanently somehow. Hard agree. Even if you wanted to keep the area-dependent stuff (hot weather gear, cold weather gear, glow armor for the depths), I think that: climbing speed, swimming speed (and waterfall swimming), lava-area fire protection, non-slip climbing, skydiving aerial control, sneakiness, Zonai device efficiency, and attack up should all have been permanent upgrades. It'd give you a lot more of a feeling of progression if you got to unlock a small climbing speed bonus instead of getting a hat that you're never ever going to put on because putting it on and switching back to the attack-up armor is going to take longer than the amount of time saved in climbing up one cliff.
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Jul 11, 2023 01:09
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Games with a useless title screen that has zero options aside from "press button to continue" which only then takes you to the functional title screen where you can start/load a game or set options. Bonus points if the only quit option in-game is to return to this screen rather than quit to desktop, more bonus points if the majority of loading time between starting the app and actually being able to hit game start is after the useless title screen rather than before, and a billion points if hitting escape on the useful title screen takes you back to the useless one instead of quitting so you need to wait for both to load again.
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Jul 11, 2023 01:36
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Games with only one save slot can go screw.
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I presume cyberpunk doesn't have any level scaling because I side quested my way to level 50 and now I can just 'switch off' big groups of people like some kind of cyber god and it loving owns. If you can level a character up in a game you should be able to level them up into a terrifying dreadnought that can obliterate the final boss with a thought
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Jul 11, 2023 02:52
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Breetai posted:Games with a useless title screen that has zero options aside from "press button to continue" which only then takes you to the functional title screen where you can start/load a game or set options. Bonus points if the only quit option in-game is to return to this screen rather than quit to desktop, more bonus points if the majority of loading time between starting the app and actually being able to hit game start is after the useless title screen rather than before, and a billion points if hitting escape on the useful title screen takes you back to the useless one instead of quitting so you need to wait for both to load again. Assassin's Creed, I'm looking at you
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Breetai posted:Games with a useless title screen that has zero options aside from "press button to continue" which only then takes you to the functional title screen where you can start/load a game or set options. Metal Gear Survive hilariously had the opposite, where you could not quit the game from anywhere except the splash screen. Not even the start menu. So to quit the game you have to load your save, go back to the title menu (NOT character select), then hit quit instead of start. 
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Metal Gear Survive also had one of my other fundamental pet peeves in game design, always online requirements. Your router had a hiccup while you're doing single player and never planning to connect with an online player ever? gently caress you, we're shutting this poo poo down NOW
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Jul 11, 2023 04:33
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Yeah it's honestly my only major complaint of an otherwise pretty stellar game. It was marred by microtransactions lengthening something that should have been a fun co-op adventure. Having to wait 24 real life hours between base defense waves, which you must be present for in realtime or else it'll be simulated, was just pointless.
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Yeah, Survive is a pretty decent single player game with a bunch of mobile/facebook game mechanics that drag it down that only exist for the tacked on multiplayer postgame.
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Jul 11, 2023 05:20
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Level scaling and all that gets weird when you’re playing a game like Witcher 3 and you’re a verified badass with two games of combat behind you, but oops you got swiped by a random wolf 5 levels above you and now you’re dead.
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Doing the save the elf from the angry mob event when they were 6 levels above me and could kill me in 3 hits felt super badass tho
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Philippe posted:Assassin's Creed, I'm looking at you Oh yeah, trying to quite out of that was a right odyssey. Took almost a full minute if you did it as intended instead of just hitting alt+f4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pbita6u8xI
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Nuebot posted:Skyrim was less obnoxious about it but I've never played a game where I liked levelscaling. The worst thing, in my opinion, a game can do is make getting stronger feel absolutely redundant. In most games you get stronger because the threats get stronger so you always keep on a sort of curve with them or else you find yourself getting murdered by the red slime. But in the recent elder scrolls and fallouts it's the reverse so the game starts off easy, and never really gets hard? Enemies just start getting better. The guy who takes two hits to kill will always take two hits to kill. In theory at least. Assassin's creed greece was the worst for this for me. It felt like levelling up actively made my character weaker because despite the ability unlocks my gear was suddenly poo poo
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Crying Suns is a perfectly acceptable little FTL ripoff with a quite intriguing plot hook. You wake up, in a cloning facility in the middle of far flung nowhere space, and have to try to figure out why all the AIs that used to run the universe have shut down, utterly fracturing civilisation. And of course there's the usual predictable space pirates and rogue AIs and religious zealots and mad scientists and all that good stuff. Except there's a loooooot of references to sexual assault. And harems. And "babymakers". And the pirates crack jokes about it whenever you confront them. At least two minibosses I've encountered have said they're going to take me and my crew as sex slaves, and the first major boss has just gone on an extended tirade about how she's going to keep me as her pet and make me grovel at her feet. It's gone beyond "okay they're trying to emphasise that deep space is awful" and into "oh okay this is someone's fetish". It's really spoiling what would have otherwise been a nice little time killer. Skulker has a new favorite as of 15:27 on Jul 11, 2023 |
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Skulker posted:Crying Suns is a perfectly acceptable little FTL ripoff with a quite intriguing plot hook. You wake up, in a cloning facility in the middle of far flung nowhere space, and have to try to figure out why all the AIs that used to run the universe have shut down, utterly fracturing civilisation. And of course there's the usual predictable space pirates and rogue AIs and religious zealots and mad scientists and all that good stuff. Skulker posted:Except there's a loooooot of references to sexual assault. And harems. And "babymakers". And the pirates crack jokes about it whenever you confront them. At least two minibosses I've encountered have said they're going to take me and my crew as sex slaves, and the first major boss has just gone on an extended tirade about how she's going to keep me as her pet and make me grovel at her feet. It's gone beyond "okay they're trying to emphasise that deep space is awful" and into "oh okay this is someone's fetish". It's really spoiling what would have otherwise been a nice little time killer.
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it doesn't really come across as a fetish imo. it just comes across as insanely hamfisted and one-note. kinda like the game, which i disliked
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The ending is also dumb as gently caress, after a plot that is a series of Protagonist: Hello! AREA BOSS! YOU TOTALLY RUINED THE WORLD. Boss: No I didn't, I am just an unrelated rear end in a top hat.
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:it doesn't really come across as a fetish imo. it just comes across as insanely hamfisted and one-note. kinda like the game, which i disliked Ah, like the Someguy series of New Vegas mods.
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I'm giving Dying Light 2 another try since a recent patch supposedly improved it quite a bit, but the whole day/night mechanic seems way more annoying than interesting. The basic concept is solid: The zombies hate light, so during the day they're usually holed up inside various buildings, making those no-go zones. During the night they go outside and are way more aggressive, which means navigating the city is a lot more dangerous but now also all the buildings are largely empty and you can scavenge those for goodies. So far so good, but the main problem is that they way they're trying to impose extra danger during the night is through a chase mechanic. There are various super zombies patrolling the rooftops and if they spot you they'll start chasing you, drawing other zombies to them, and the only way to end it is to run away to a safe zone. And the issue is that those fuckers are everywhere, and at least in the early game appear to be functionally unkillable. So in practice what the day/night mechanic works out to is: If you want to do any of the interesting activities it's gotta be at night, but then you'll either be stealthing around those guys or interrupting whatever you're doing to escape a chase, both of which very quickly become more tedious than interesting.
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I played it back at release, but the screamer zombies were very killable.
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The Lone Badger posted:I played it back at release, but the screamer zombies were very killable. Not the screamer ones, the... volatiles, I think the game calls them? The kinda armoured-looking ones with the split jaw like the one that bites you in the prologue. I tried fighting them at first, but they basically take off half my health on a hit, seem to have huge health, and will regularly lock you in a QTE if they catch up to you during the chase. fake edit: Looking it up, it looks like at release those used to only come out during very prolonged chases, and the recent patch changed it up so that they just kinda hang out outside and can start a chase directly. So much for the patch making things better 
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Yeah those guys are much tougher. It's either explosives or the crossbow for them. (At least at release the crossbow was incredibly OP)
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Yeah, the way volatiles work post-patch is not at all how they used to. Previously they only came to explore when you made significant noise, THEN patrolled, and were nigh unkillable to encourage you to flee. They basically never roamed the street unless noise happened before you got there. Now you can fight them pretty easily and they are just tougher, more aware standard zombies. Except they still trigger the huge chase. It stinks!
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Hitman 2 is a great game so far but on a technical level it is unreliable. The biggest thing is that it crashes frequently. Is there some memory leak problem that they could never fix? The constant online connection the game requires has probably been griped about enough I don't need to add my own 2 cents but I don't care about it except for the fact it cuts out. Being interrupted during play with a dialogue box about the dropped connection is annoying, especially since it could just be patient or try reestablishing connection itself without my input and solve the problem every time because it's not my internet that's cutting out.
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Thing dragging down Bioshock Infinite that also drags down a lot of 2010s PC ports: you sprint at all times. They made it so that wasd moves you at the maximum player speed, so you can't make tiny movements and adjust in gunfights because one tap shoves you a whole body length away. But it also means you rush through the environments in seconds and don't have time to admire the detail.
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During the pandemic, I got back into playing games regularly after a 10 year+ hiatus, so I had a lot of stuff to catch up on. I was really looking forward to Alien: Isolation. The reviews were great, the screenshots I saw looked amazing, and the whole sneak around, avoid combat as much as possible thing really suits the way I like to approach games. But even putting the pacing issues and endless backtracking aside, the design of the Sebastopol as a coherent, interconnected space is just terrible. I felt lost 90% of the time, no-where felt realistically connected to anywhere else. Even within a fairly small area, the placement of the doorways linking one room to another felt arbitrary and meaningless. It was a real pity, because the visual design and audio aesthetic evoked the 'feel' of 'Alien' perfectly.
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