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Your Computer posted:i love everything about darkest dungeon except playing it yeahhhh. its funny how it has all these amazing stylistic trappings of horror and fantasy, the sound and design are just impecable, but its all just a front end. once you learn to look past it, you begin to see a resource management sim with a deliberate focus on RNG mood swings, and it isnt especially concerned about your time.
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Darkest Dungeon is Pokemon for people who grew up.
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Aug 17, 2023 19:16
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wizard2 posted:a resource management sim
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American McGay posted:Darkest Dungeon is Pokemon for people who grew up. actually that's pokemon
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Aug 17, 2023 19:17
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pokemon is the most mature game known to man
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Aug 17, 2023 19:17
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if i grew up, why on earth would i be playing video games?
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Feels Villeneuve posted:pokemon is the most mature game known to man it's this, and frankly I'm glad someone finally said it.
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B33rChiller posted:No, it's not proof on its own, but part of a larger group of indications. Consider picking up that M2 Shottrigers Dodonpachi Daioujou port that's coming out this December. Physical pre-orders are still available on Amazon JP, Playasia and elsewhere for anybody that wants to grab one. Gonna be total banger
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Aug 17, 2023 19:45
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I love Pokemon and Darkest Dungeon, and the gameplay does feel like a more mature Pokemon game. You develop a big team of individuals with their own unique traits and train them up for the final battle. That Anderson review mentioned some issues that have since been patched in the seven years since he made it. And then he spends a lot of time describing the best things about the game, like the unpredictable nature of the combat and permanent consequences for taking risks, and says that he thinks they are bad. I guess the genre is not for him, but I love it.
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Aug 17, 2023 19:47
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Is Darkest Dungeon the game where you can just lose your entire team and you have to start from a pool of fresh recruits if so? If that's the case, I can't think of a greater waste of my time in a video game. The thing that will absolutely kill my drive in playing a video game is when I lose progress for some reason, like a save glitch or something, and have to repeat a large chunk of content again.
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Aug 17, 2023 19:56
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The characters are meant to be disposable, the main progress is how you update your town. Those town upgrades are persistent, so you don't lose that progress
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Aug 17, 2023 19:57
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Morpheus posted:Is Darkest Dungeon the game where you can just lose your entire team and you have to start from a pool of fresh recruits if so? If that's the case, I can't think of a greater waste of my time in a video game. The thing that will absolutely kill my drive in playing a video game is when I lose progress for some reason, like a save glitch or something, and have to repeat a large chunk of content again.
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Aug 17, 2023 20:06
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I fell in the hole and now I'm back at the start of the level? WHAT THE gently caress IS THIS poo poo??? UGH
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American McGay posted:I fell in the hole and now I'm back at the start of the level? WHAT THE gently caress IS THIS poo poo??? UGH Okay now imagine the level is a few hours long.
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Aug 17, 2023 20:07
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I also bounced off Darkest Dungeon; just not a fan of rogue-likes. Except for Hades. Which owns.
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Dorkest Dungeon
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Aug 17, 2023 20:15
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I had a great run my first Vampire Survivors on Switch. Made it far enough to unlock a ton of stuff and like 2000 coins, even got a five reward treasure box which I e only ever gotten twice in like 40 hours on other versions.
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Aug 17, 2023 20:30
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Dorkest Dungeon Jockest Dungeon 
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American McGay posted:Darkest Dungeon is Pokemon for people who grew up. That's a funny way to spell Shin Megami Tensei.
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Aug 17, 2023 20:54
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Darkest Dungeon made a lot more sense to me when I realized the player character is actually the town and the fighters are a weapon durability system.
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American McGay posted:Darkest Dungeon is Pokemon for people who grew up. i thought that was shin megami tensei
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Party wipes aside, I found the dungeon crawling to be really unsatisfying and lacking any sense of exploration. There's really zero dungeon crawling to be had it's just screen after screen of encounter. I wanted to like it especially since I paid full price for it but eh the gameplay loop wasn't as aggressively satisfying as rougelites need to be
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Aug 17, 2023 21:04
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YeahI liked everything about it except the actual dungeons. Kinda wanted something like Wizardry with rude traps and fun mazes
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Morpheus posted:Okay now imagine the level is a few hours long. Champion's Road
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Aug 17, 2023 21:24
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Hot tip to anyone who owns Marble It Up: you can download the new deluxe edition, Marble It Up Ultra, for free.
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Aug 17, 2023 21:45
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Someone explain why when I have Remnant 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Pikmin 4 and Persona 5 in the backlog I keep playing Monster Harvest, a game I only kinda like.
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Aug 17, 2023 22:00
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Thats a 300 hour backlog. It's not even fun to think about at that point.
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sometimes you just don't want to start a thing that you know is gonna comprise your next 100 hours worth of gaming time
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Oh also SMT V, which I'm about halfway through. Yeah I have a ton of light games because after work my brain is usually fried but my favorite games are deep RPGs. It's a curse to be so smart and cool but with the constitution of wet tissue.
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Vampire Survivors is neat. I got to 30 mins in the first stage, which gave me a check mark despite being destroyed in a second by some blue thing that appeared, while playing Porta the lady with the lightning ring. I found that, the magic wand, and garlic to be a killer combo. Anyway, I can see how it works on people despite being stupidly simple. I think 30 mins per stage is too long though, unless they're infinite or something. Especially since you can't just stop a run. Sleep mode helps but you have to finish something in full before doing anything else.Updog Scully posted:Hot tip to anyone who owns Marble It Up: you can download the new deluxe edition, Marble It Up Ultra, for free. Funny that's been on my wish-list for ages because it looked like the racing mini-game from Super Monkey Ball.
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No Wave posted:Thats a 300 hour backlog. It's not even fun to think about at that point. half of which is Persona 5
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Video games are too long
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if backlogs are real then castlevania 2: simons quest is still in mine and for that reason im comfortable voiding the concept of backlogs
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100YrsofAttitude posted:Vampire Survivors is neat. I got to 30 mins in the first stage, which gave me a check mark despite being destroyed in a second by some blue thing that appeared, while playing Porta the lady with the lightning ring. I found that, the magic wand, and garlic to be a killer combo. Anyway, I can see how it works on people despite being stupidly simple. I think 30 mins per stage is too long though, unless they're infinite or something. Especially since you can't just stop a run. Sleep mode helps but you have to finish something in full before doing anything else. Getting to the 30 minute mark counts as having Vampire Survived a stage. Once you can do so with any consistency, you'll start unlocking the spicier game modes. There's an "Unlocks" tab in the main menu if you're looking for anything to work towards. Also you can end a run at any time under "options" in the pause menu, if that's what you're asking.
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JollyBoyJohn posted:if backlogs are real then castlevania 2: simons quest is still in mine and for that reason im comfortable voiding the concept of backlogs Backlogs are real and they can hurt you See the thread title 
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:Getting to the 30 minute mark counts as having Vampire Survived a stage. Once you can do so with any consistency, you'll start unlocking the spicier game modes. There's an "Unlocks" tab in the main menu if you're looking for anything to work towards. Good to know on the ending there then. ! Oh that helps for the options, but it just ends the run right? Doesn't save progress or anything. I mean it's not a huge deal. 30 mins is long, but I guess if you've made it 20 mins you can just put the system to sleep and do 10 mins later. It's just for such an arcadey game not having a way to save progress is odd. I could see myself picking it up for a few minutes here and there, in between bouts of TotK or Pikmin 4, but I can also do full 30 mins at a go I guess. Edit: Last question regarding DLC: Should I leave those stages for later or just go for them now? 100YrsofAttitude fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Aug 17, 2023 |
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Meowywitch posted:Video games are too long Only when they're bad
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JollyBoyJohn posted:if backlogs are real then castlevania 2: simons quest is still in mine and for that reason im comfortable voiding the concept of backlogs "Backlogs" are just for games you still want to play, not just ones you haven't started or beaten. I own a boatload of games on Epic that I got for free but they aren't in my log since I know I'll never get to them.
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Just be glad there are no achievements/trophies on Switch. Some people's brainworms dont allow backlog progression without 100% completion.
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Yeah I just picked up Vampire Survivors too cause I needed something dumb, in a good way. I got to the 30 minute mark in the first stage on my 3rd run with the second character. I forget what I had but I was just mowing poo poo down until the boss came out and pushed my poo poo in. $4.49 well spent so far
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