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Gort posted:Yeah, Cyberpunk's adverts are really obnoxious and badly-done in general. They don't fit the tone of the rest of the game at all. I really disagree. They're obnoxious as hell but the game takes place in a capitalist hellscape, of course every available surface is going to be plastered with more ads than a cell phone browser without adblocker support.
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Sep 26, 2023 00:48
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moosecow333 posted:Picked up For the King with my friends and the game is really drat hard. It's a real bastard of a board game in terms of design. I assume you're playing the basic gameplay mode because you mention corruption? There are a lot of ways to mitigate it once you figure the game out a bit, but yeah once you start getting stacks of corruption the game really snowballs. A pro tip I can't recall the game telling me is that you can delay the corruption timer by quite a bit, and staying ahead of it is pretty important. Also, like in a lot of games: some stats and classes are just flat out better. Personally I love using strength based classes but holy poo poo are awareness or speed classes just better in most cases because those are the stats that govern your movement and turn order, and getting to go first in combat is very important as you've noticed. Also I'd really suggest experimenting with different weapons and classes - the game has a surprising amount of variety available to it and status effects are insanely good. Gort posted:Yeah, Cyberpunk's adverts are really obnoxious and badly-done in general. They don't fit the tone of the rest of the game at all. There should have been an adblocker upgrade.
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Sep 26, 2023 01:14
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Giving up a cortex slot to an adblocker seems entirely in-line with the setting.
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Sep 26, 2023 01:58
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Rockman Reserve posted:I really disagree. They're obnoxious as hell but the game takes place in a capitalist hellscape, of course every available surface is going to be plastered with more ads than a cell phone browser without adblocker support. imo they emphasize this on purpose in one specific scene featuring Judy in an elevator. She's slumped against the wall talking about very real poo poo meant to touch you the player, and all around her are TV ads with a beer between rear end cheeks
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Sep 26, 2023 19:34
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Nuebot posted:There should have been an adblocker upgrade. This would have been so awesome.
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Sep 26, 2023 19:35
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Sound design is one thing a lot of games neglect and it’s so important. Properly mixing everything can be very difficult in a medium where you can move around and get closer to something and farther from another thing, but you do have to prioritize what the player needs to hear.
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Sep 27, 2023 04:12
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Like in Titanfall 2 where you can hear your teammate using their grappling hook at maximum volume from across the map through an infinite number of walls for no logical reason but meanwhile the giant robots stomping around are almost completely silent and can sneak up on you.
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Sep 27, 2023 08:34
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Maxwell Lord posted:Sound design is one thing a lot of games neglect and it’s so important. Properly mixing everything can be very difficult in a medium where you can move around and get closer to something and farther from another thing, but you do have to prioritize what the player needs to hear. In the original Doom/Doom 2, you can fire a shot, wake a bunch of enemies up, and get an accurate idea of what you’ve just woken up and where just by the sound effects. In a game from 1993.
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Sep 27, 2023 08:36
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Lies of P, very petty complaint: the game's camera stick is tilted at a just slight 3/4ths angle, so moving the stick upward actually moves you a bit up and left. Makes platforming a little hard.
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Sep 27, 2023 18:38
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Arivia posted:In the original Doom/Doom 2, you can fire a shot, wake a bunch of enemies up, and get an accurate idea of what you’ve just woken up and where just by the sound effects. In a game from 1993. You don't need to fire anything; you can just fist-pump the air. Demons hate that!
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Sep 27, 2023 18:41
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I finally got around to trying out Save Room, the puzzle game knockoff of Resident Evil 4's inventory tetris. It seems as fun as I'd hoped, but one thing that keeps bugging me is that every level starts with the smaller ammo/grenade/health items grouped in the center of your limited inventory space, while the weapons are sitting off to the side. So after a while, it feels like every level starts off with the busywork of shuffling 8 or 10 small items out of the way so you can start placing the larger and weirder shaped weapons. Just let me start at that point, game, that's the fun part!
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Sep 27, 2023 18:42
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I somehow got my save data on Darkside Detective erased (nothing got corrupted, I just started up the game one day and it was as if I'd never played), which has put me off from picking it back up for the past six months or so.
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Sep 27, 2023 19:13
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I hate the way enemy attacks are animated in Lies of P. They tend to wind up, then snap into the hit almost instantly. The game wants to have a Sekiro-like parrying system, but the timing of the animations means it's often not possible to see the hit coming and react with the parry input; instead you have to memorize each attack's timing and press parry when your memory tells you the attack is going to hit. (Doesn't help that the parry window seems to be super tight so it's easy to gently caress up even when you know the timing.) https://i.imgur.com/JZM5U8k.mp4
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Sep 27, 2023 23:19
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Triarii posted:I hate the way enemy attacks are animated in Lies of P. They tend to wind up, then snap into the hit almost instantly. The game wants to have a Sekiro-like parrying system, but the timing of the animations means it's often not possible to see the hit coming and react with the parry input; instead you have to memorize each attack's timing and press parry when your memory tells you the attack is going to hit. (Doesn't help that the parry window seems to be super tight so it's easy to gently caress up even when you know the timing.) Yeah I really wish games stopped aping Dark Souls.
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Sep 27, 2023 23:25
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Hel posted:Yeah I really wish games stopped aping Dark Souls. Wow, yeah. Just looking at the interface it's pretty blatant. I still want to check it out though
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Sep 27, 2023 23:49
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Lies of P is a Bloodborne clone it's not like they were trying to hide it
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Sep 28, 2023 00:12
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i havent a gun or a sword that shoots projectiles though so its mildly disappointing in that regard. my main gripe with it is the player character feels very weightless and part of this i think is sound design and part of it is the animation for rolling and dodging just doesnt have a satisfying look to it. its an ok soulslike but its certainly not great by any means
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Sep 28, 2023 00:16
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kazil posted:Lies of P is a Bloodborne clone it's not like they were trying to hide it lol not even slightly, but my animation gripe is one thing that fromsoft games do differently and better - they're pretty good at making enemies' movements readable in a way that makes it hypothetically possible to parry or iframe through an attack the first time you ever see it just by paying enough attention to the animation.
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Sep 28, 2023 00:28
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Captain Hygiene posted:I finally got around to trying out Save Room, the puzzle game knockoff of Resident Evil 4's inventory tetris. It seems as fun as I'd hoped, but one thing that keeps bugging me is that every level starts with the smaller ammo/grenade/health items grouped in the center of your limited inventory space, while the weapons are sitting off to the side. So after a while, it feels like every level starts off with the busywork of shuffling 8 or 10 small items out of the way so you can start placing the larger and weirder shaped weapons. Just let me start at that point, game, that's the fun part!
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Sep 28, 2023 00:30
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Arivia posted:In the original Doom/Doom 2, you can fire a shot, wake a bunch of enemies up, and get an accurate idea of what you’ve just woken up and where just by the sound effects. In a game from 1993. And GZDoom supports HRTF thru OpenALSoft so you can hear exactly where something is in both distance and direction *with just headphones*. The fact this is at all a notable accomplishment really shows how weak video game sound tech still is.
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Sep 28, 2023 00:59
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Splicer posted:Complete aside but you should check out backpack hero. Wishlisted to check out later, that one's pricey enough to do some research first.
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Sep 28, 2023 01:12
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Triarii posted:I hate the way enemy attacks are animated in Lies of P. They tend to wind up, then snap into the hit almost instantly. The game wants to have a Sekiro-like parrying system, but the timing of the animations means it's often not possible to see the hit coming and react with the parry input; instead you have to memorize each attack's timing and press parry when your memory tells you the attack is going to hit. (Doesn't help that the parry window seems to be super tight so it's easy to gently caress up even when you know the timing.) You know, back in the like early to mid 2000's we were all really down on the grey-brown modern military shooter. But now I'm really starting to get really tired of the grey-brown gothic souls-like.
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Sep 28, 2023 01:26
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Captain Hygiene posted:Wishlisted to check out later, that one's pricey enough to do some research first. There was a demo, at least of a year or so ago. It was decently hard.
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Sep 28, 2023 01:35
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Triarii posted:lol not even slightly, but my animation gripe is one thing that fromsoft games do differently and better - they're pretty good at making enemies' movements readable in a way that makes it hypothetically possible to parry or iframe through an attack the first time you ever see it just by paying enough attention to the animation. There's been more than one time where I was in the middle of my weapon hitting a boss, watched the boss start doing the wind-up to an attack, stopped attacking well in advance so I could parry the incoming attack, timed the parry, but whatever attack animation I finished ages ago was still hogging the buffer the game uses between your inputs, so I didn't even begin to block. It's one thing if it's timed too early or too late, but when the game just eats an input like that I get a bit tilted. I also got punished by a shovel-carrying miniboss a few times that pissed me off, because if you engage with the parry mechanic against its Fury Attacks (unblockable, iframes do nothing, it's parry or back way the gently caress up) then it will double-punish a missed parry. Miss the parry, get slammed into the ground. If it slams you into the ground, it will follow up with multiple overhead slam attacks. It seems about 50/50 whether I can mash the dodge button fast enough to get up, dodge sideways, and get out of the way. Otherwise it'll just hit a few more times. I was getting zero-to-death hit by the overhead fury attack -> slam -> slam -> slam combo until I just stopped trying to engage in good faith with the parry system and whittled it down with chip attacks for five minutes. It also copies the bit from Sekiro where there's useful consumable items, but they are one-and-done items that are gone forever when you use them. If you waste your throwable items trying to get an enemy's health down before going toe-to-toe with it, then die, you're back at square one with zero consumables. They also fall in a weird in-between state where using the items on minibosses or bosses does gently caress-all to their health bars, but they one-shot regular enemies that you can two-shot with most weapons anyway. There's also a subweapon that lets you Scorpion-style grappling hook enemies directly to you at melee range, so if you're just trying to do specific enemy removal, they're not even useful on boss runs. All of that on its own is pretty minor gripes with an otherwise enjoyable game, but I got to the start of Chapter/Area V and realized that it's all been one straight line with minimal exploration involved. Even when areas open up a little bit, the sidepaths are so short and such obvious dead-ends (and sometimes with gently caress-all at the dead-end) and the few times I thought I was actually going to go someplace interesting, it ended up spitting me back out onto the main path. Half the fun in Dark Souls for me was finding weird little nooks and crannies, and there's just nothing like that in Lies of P. 
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Sep 28, 2023 01:50
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Almost every non-fromsoft attempt at the soulslike genre that I've played just gets really basic aspects of the feel wrong. stuff that you never notice when it's done right but feels terrible when it's done wrong, like the Surge making every attack in the same basic combo take wildly different amounts of time, so it's really easy to find yourself trapped in an animation that's twice as long as you're expecting unlike souls/bloodborne/elden ring where combos are consistent and every R1 in your combo will take about as long as the last one. people are saying the pinocchio one is actually good so I checked out a stream of it, and the very first thing I saw was the player slamming a basic chump human-sized enemy with a fully-charged super swing that took 3 seconds to wind up, and the enemy did not even flinch from the impact, it just completely ignored it and smacked the player while he was stuck in the recovery animation. hopefully I'm missing something because yikes.Captain Hygiene posted:I finally got around to trying out Save Room, the puzzle game knockoff of Resident Evil 4's inventory tetris. It seems as fun as I'd hoped, but one thing that keeps bugging me is that every level starts with the smaller ammo/grenade/health items grouped in the center of your limited inventory space, while the weapons are sitting off to the side. So after a while, it feels like every level starts off with the busywork of shuffling 8 or 10 small items out of the way so you can start placing the larger and weirder shaped weapons. Just let me start at that point, game, that's the fun part! I'm playing resident evil 4 remake and trying not to use the inventory auto sort button because I think using it would be cowardly of me, but it's on Alt so I hit it by accident when I alt tab and come back to find my lovingly arranged flashbangs scattered every which way
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Sep 28, 2023 02:04
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Owl Inspector posted:the very first thing I saw was the player slamming a basic chump human-sized enemy with a fully-charged super swing that took 3 seconds to wind up, and the enemy did not even flinch from the impact, it just completely ignored it and smacked the player while he was stuck in the recovery animation. hopefully I'm missing something because yikes. Sort-of. The R2 attacks will help fill up an invisible meter that, when filled, puts a white outline around an enemy's health bar, letting you know that you can do one more fully-charged R2 attack to initiate the game's version of Bloodborne's visceral attack. So while I thought Bloodborne kind of made them awkward to do (compared to Demon's/Dark Souls ripostes) because you had to fire, reposition, and then visceral attack, Lies of P makes them an entire process. You gotta do a bunch of perfect parries, with R2 attacks interspersed wherever possible to help speed up the process, until the boss's health bar gets the white outline. Then you have to do a fully-charged R2 attack in order to finally stagger the boss, opening it up for a "Fatal Attack" which deals about 10 or 20 times more damage than a regular attack. It's a whole lot of extra steps that would make the combat feel more fluid/involved if it weren't for the fact that some weapon R2s take years to come out. Oh, and bonus: the white outline can go away lol. Now imagine perfect parrying the boss from the gif post earlier a bunch of times and mentally try to fit in where you'd start charging the R2 attack
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Sep 28, 2023 02:19
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Owl Inspector posted:the very first thing I saw was the player slamming a basic chump human-sized enemy with a fully-charged super swing that took 3 seconds to wind up, and the enemy did not even flinch from the impact, it just completely ignored it and smacked the player while he was stuck in the recovery animation. hopefully I'm missing something because yikes. I'm only about halfway through the game but the vast majority of human sized enemies get staggered very easily. There's a few that don't but that's their "gimmick" and they're pretty easily identified once you figure out that's their thing.
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Sep 28, 2023 02:27
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bawk posted:Sort-of. The R2 attacks will help fill up an invisible meter that, when filled, puts a white outline around an enemy's health bar, letting you know that you can do one more fully-charged R2 attack to initiate the game's version of Bloodborne's visceral attack. So while I thought Bloodborne kind of made them awkward to do (compared to Demon's/Dark Souls ripostes) because you had to fire, reposition, and then visceral attack, Lies of P makes them an entire process. That just sounds like an infinitely more tedious version of the Sekiro/Elden Ring “hit the bad man a whole lot without relenting to do a crit” which, I guess in a vacuum is fair if it’s such a huge number but Sekiro lets you be super proactive in going about it sand Bloodborne was just “do a backstab/gun parry for tripleish damage”.
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Sep 28, 2023 02:37
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Last Celebration posted:That just sounds like an infinitely more tedious version of the Sekiro/Elden Ring “hit the bad man a whole lot without relenting to do a crit” which, I guess in a vacuum is fair if it’s such a huge number but Sekiro lets you be super proactive in going about it sand Bloodborne was just “do a backstab/gun parry for tripleish damage”. Lies of P lets you do that too, but you have to be pretty drat aggressive to build up a stagger on a big enemy without perfect parrying (and then you still have to land a full charge R2).
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Sep 28, 2023 03:00
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Nuebot posted:You know, back in the like early to mid 2000's we were all really down on the grey-brown modern military shooter. But now I'm really starting to get really tired of the grey-brown gothic souls-like. I think the shooters were worse. At least the myriad of 'almost there but we hosed up something really important' Souls-like games are copying from a series that's pretty good and worth playing. All those shooters were much more fundamentally skippable. ...But then again, all those shooters were also much shorter and asked less of you. If you got boxed in to trying one, you could beat it in a day with room to go out for dinner. With a bad Soulsborne you're in for most of a week at best, and if you don't finish it then anyone who got you to play it is just gonna say you didn't REALLY try it.
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Sep 28, 2023 04:30
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I just cheat by playing until I get bored, looking up the ending on youtube, then telling people I've played it.
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Sep 28, 2023 05:31
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Triarii posted:I hate the way enemy attacks are animated in Lies of P. They tend to wind up, then snap into the hit almost instantly. The game wants to have a Sekiro-like parrying system, but the timing of the animations means it's often not possible to see the hit coming and react with the parry input; instead you have to memorize each attack's timing and press parry when your memory tells you the attack is going to hit. (Doesn't help that the parry window seems to be super tight so it's easy to gently caress up even when you know the timing.) God this is like every enemy. I swear one of the earliest puppet attacks has a tiny fake in its windup.
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Sep 28, 2023 05:32
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Cleretic posted:I think the shooters were worse. At least the myriad of 'almost there but we hosed up something really important' Souls-like games are copying from a series that's pretty good and worth playing. All those shooters were much more fundamentally skippable. I just wish more soulslike games would try different things with their aesthetics. We had at least one space game, even if it was a dark and depressing space game. How about a cool bright future souls game? Or like, rad cartoony magical souls game. The cool gameplay can fit anything!
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Sep 28, 2023 06:12
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Lol, I get that people took it as a general complaint against Dark Souls clones, which yes, but also because a lot of DS enemies have the same problem of attacks animations being long windup->snappy attack. But apparently, it's only becomes a problem when someone other than FromSoftware does it.
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Sep 28, 2023 06:19
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Nuebot posted:I just wish more soulslike games would try different things with their aesthetics. We had at least one space game, even if it was a dark and depressing space game. How about a cool bright future souls game? Or like, rad cartoony magical souls game. The cool gameplay can fit anything! Asterigos is a lot more colorful than most of them. I wouldn't particularly recommend it though.
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Sep 28, 2023 06:46
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Nuebot posted:I just wish more soulslike games would try different things with their aesthetics. We had at least one space game, even if it was a dark and depressing space game. How about a cool bright future souls game? Or like, rad cartoony magical souls game. The cool gameplay can fit anything! It's hard to describe it, but I feel like a lot of the core elements of Souls games that really work feel most at home in a darker tone and more decrepit setting. This is a genre built around punishing mistakes, limited resources, very deliberate melee combat, and fairly spartan storytelling; there's a lot of individual elements you can borrow from and put into varied settings and tones, but it'd just feel a little incongruous to transfer that style of demanding gameplay into something tonally closer to Wind Waker, or to try to do that style of minimalist storytelling and resources into a sci-fi setting that doesn't have that sort of scarcity. That's not to say that sort of style is impossible to move out of that 'dark fantasy' setting, you just have to recognize that not every part of that style is gonna be movable. As an example, I can immediately think of Gundam; that's definitely a property that could take the gameplay style of the Souls games and do well with it (even better than they'd suit Armored Core's gameplay, thanks to their love of giant robot sword fights), but it would have to take some losses; their action would be much faster, would have a lot more use of ranged weaponry, depending on which Gundam setting we're talking we'd lose elements of that scarcity of storytelling and resources. How much of that do we lose before it's not a Soulslike?
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Triarii posted:. (Doesn't help that the parry window seems to be super tight so it's easy to gently caress up even when you know the timing.) I had a loving nightmare with parries until someone pointed out the trick - Don't tap the button like you would with sekiro, you have to briefly hold block. Think of it less like hitting parry, more like "start blocking at just the right time" . The timing is still tight, but if you whiff you'll at least get a normal block, which isn't much of a problem because you can easily get that health back. I agree they lean a bit too hard on timing based windups, but at least they're consistent. None of ER's bullshit fakeouts. (also where the hell did you get a tuning fork?)
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Cleretic posted:That's not to say that sort of style is impossible to move out of that 'dark fantasy' setting, you just have to recognize that not every part of that style is gonna be movable. As an example, I can immediately think of Gundam; that's definitely a property that could take the gameplay style of the Souls games and do well with it (even better than they'd suit Armored Core's gameplay, thanks to their love of giant robot sword fights), but it would have to take some losses; their action would be much faster, would have a lot more use of ranged weaponry, depending on which Gundam setting we're talking we'd lose elements of that scarcity of storytelling and resources. How much of that do we lose before it's not a Soulslike? Gundam's setting is dark as gently caress.
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Hel posted:Lol, I get that people took it as a general complaint against Dark Souls clones, which yes, but also because a lot of DS enemies have the same problem of attacks animations being long windup->snappy attack. But apparently, it's only becomes a problem when someone other than FromSoftware does it. Fromsoft enemies have the occasional bullshitty attack but here it seems to be the deliberate design intent and it's practically every attack. Like, you can beat your average dark souls boss pretty soundly by paying attention to its animations, not overextending yourself, and not getting baited into panic rolling (too much). The way you beat most bosses in Lies of P is by getting walloped over and over until you've built up a mental database of the timing of each attack, and then regurgitating that information accurately. It's frustrating because if the animations had been done slightly differently, it would be a whole different (and much more enjoyable) game. Just for contrast, this is a clip of my first encounter with an Elden Ring boss. I had no information about this boss and had never seen its attacks. But I could time many of my dodges correctly because the frickin animation tells me when to press the button: https://i.imgur.com/htzo8Ms.mp4 Strom Cuzewon posted:I had a loving nightmare with parries until someone pointed out the trick - Don't tap the button like you would with sekiro, you have to briefly hold block. Think of it less like hitting parry, more like "start blocking at just the right time" . The timing is still tight, but if you whiff you'll at least get a normal block, which isn't much of a problem because you can easily get that health back. That's kind of what I've been doing (and honestly how I approached Sekiro too when I wasn't confident on an enemy's timing) but I'll try to make sure I'm not letting go of the button too quickly. No idea where I found the tuning fork. In a building somewhere? It's the blade part of the Blind Man's Double-Sided Spear.
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