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After this and Control, I am begging someone to teach Remedy how to make a good boss fight. Or even like, a boss fight that doesn't suck rear end.
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Rookersh posted:The problem is while this interpretation is neat we know from Alan Wake 1/Control that The Presence can't actually create. It can only take/corrupt. It can alter reality, but cannot create new realities. Gonna address your points, but note that I haven't played 2 yet so if the new game contradicts me, I'll simply stand corrected. The first game makes it clear that the Dark Presence, while powerful in it's own right, doesn't wield the ability to alter our reality on it's own. It needs someone from our world with a creative mind to manipulate in order to do so. Otherwise, it could just sit at the typewriter itself and be a god. My interpretation is that the Zane backstory really happened, he was real, tried to resurrect his wife, unleashed the presence, and decided the only solution was to retroactively delete himself from reality, thereby undoing his mistake. Zane is now truly gone. Later, Alan is trapped in the dark place and manipulated into writing a horror story about Zane unleashing the Dark Presence into our world except without the deleting himself part, thereby negating the real Zane's original solution. Alan realizes what is happening and changes course by switching the protagonist from Zane to himself. Therefore, anytime we encounter Zane, it's the fictional version from the previous draft that is helping him, not the real person that ceased existing. This is how Zane can leave Alan the shoebox with the clicker. The real Zane had no way of knowing about that, nor did he shape Alan's entire life by writing a single page about his childhood. Alan wrote that himself and attributed it to Zane as part of the narrative.
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Oct 29, 2023 22:26
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exquisite tea posted:Go to the Mind Place.  I could've sworn I'd done everything pending there, but apparently not. I have a feeling that'll be the most general advice whenever I get stuck in this game.
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Oct 29, 2023 22:37
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Feels Villeneuve posted:After this and Control, I am begging someone to teach Remedy how to make a good boss fight. Or even like, a boss fight that doesn't suck rear end. Skill issue
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Oct 29, 2023 22:43
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bold to assume i was bad at the bad boss fights seriously though the second one just loves to get you into glitchy stunlock sequences where you fall over like 4 times in a half second, and the time i beat it involved her being stuck on geometry.
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Oct 29, 2023 22:48
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Feels Villeneuve posted:bold to assume i was bad at the bad boss fights i assume you're actually talking about the third boss fight the drowned lady and it also felt like i was missing something there. just turned into a flat damage race because i couldn't dodge anything it threw at me i'm going to give nightmare a shot when it comes out but i'm not confident in my chances, the performance issues and sticky combat become a real troublesome combo in later chapters
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Oct 29, 2023 22:50
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the absolute worst gimmick in any boss fight is having it take place on "islands" in a watery area which is why The Pain is the worst boss in the entire MGS series
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Oct 29, 2023 22:52
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and for another, broader criticism: this lighting engine bit off more than it could chew. yes, it looks gorgeous if you have a computer stolen from Area 51, but on PS5 there were rampant occlusion problems that made the world look like it got shot with a glitter cannon, you can't read anything your flashlight's pointing at because it gets totally washed out, and reflections are worse than you'd see a generation ago. really weird considering how great Control was with all this
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Oct 29, 2023 22:54
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You can't zoom in enough to read posters on the wall which is a shame because some of them are really good That's my bitch session about a game I really enjoyed lol. oh and I guess I wish there was more variety to the "overworld" puzzles than solving math puzzles and trying to work out what the rear end the nursery rhymes mean
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Oct 29, 2023 22:58
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Okay. That was probably the most incredible sequence in a video game I’ve ever experienced. Unbelievable. The reviews were right. 10/10, no notes. You’ll know when you know.
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Oct 29, 2023 23:05
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man nurse posted:Okay. That was probably the most incredible sequence in a video game I’ve ever experienced. Unbelievable. The reviews were right. 10/10, no notes. Yup. meeting Mayor Setter was a true next gen only experience
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Oct 29, 2023 23:06
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i would vote for mayor setter. i would die for mayor setter. and just maybe, i could find it in myself to live for mayor setter
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Oct 29, 2023 23:07
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Combat bug / spoilers https://youtu.be/0pibWmmYl9g?si=CCPGy-7Wp5LKpNYy Uhh
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Oct 29, 2023 23:07
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Oxxidation posted:i would vote for mayor setter. i would die for mayor setter. and just maybe, i could find it in myself to live for mayor setter I loving died when I realized all the campaign slogans were like, "Setter won't ROLL OVER", "Setter will SIT", "Setter will SPEAK"
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Oct 29, 2023 23:08
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I feel I’m still fairly early on in the game but I swear to god I was grinning like an idiot the entire loving time. loving Remedy, man
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I have not yet met Mayor Setter but I have come to the conclusion that he is in fact a dog so I am looking forward to it.
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Oct 29, 2023 23:23
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Alan Wake I'm not taking out pen and paper to solve your algebra puzzles
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Feels Villeneuve posted:Yup. meeting Mayor Setter was a true next gen only experience It owned so hard
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Oxxidation posted:and for another, broader criticism: this lighting engine bit off more than it could chew. yes, it looks gorgeous if you have a computer stolen from Area 51, but on PS5 there were rampant occlusion problems that made the world look like it got shot with a glitter cannon, you can't read anything your flashlight's pointing at because it gets totally washed out, and reflections are worse than you'd see a generation ago. really weird considering how great Control was with all this On Series X it looks... fine. Then you see stuff like the shadows on the string from the crime board, the lack of/fudged reflections, the aforementioned flashlight washing stuff out, or the lighting popping in and out. It's weird to have the game look generally pretty decent and then smack you in the face with something that feels like it's been a solved problem for a while. It has also forced four console reboots so far, so there's that. Overall aside from minor annoyance and snarky remarks I don't really care. This is a solid GOTY game that unfortunately released in 2023.
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Oct 30, 2023 00:58
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Easily best game of 2023 for me.
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Oct 30, 2023 01:11
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Yeah I'm really enjoying it so far, it could poo poo the bed later on of course but I'm not having the bugs or gameplay issues others are having and what is there is extremely my jam. Most of the other big games this year have disappointed me in some fundamental way.
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Oct 30, 2023 01:13
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Well, I ran some errands, went to Harbor freight and bought some tools, sold a motorcycle, visited my mom, just did a bunch of poo poo and came back to Alan Wake 2, and this tutorial fight is still a bunch of bullshit. I have 10 bullets. There is no ability to go get more bullets, there are no more bullets unless or until I beat this boss. And it is quite possible for me to shoot all of the bullets and not kill the boss. Edit: And now, somehow, I've wasted all my batteries in this latest attempt because you can dodge cancel out of the burn down sequence but it'll still take your battery charge. This sucks. Jack B Nimble fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Oct 30, 2023 |
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Oct 30, 2023 01:15
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Just watching a little boat pass by. This game looks so good.
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Jack B Nimble posted:Well, I ran some errands, went to Harbor freight and bought some tools, sold a motorcycle, visited my mom, just did a bunch of poo poo and came back to Alan Wake 2, and this tutorial fight is still a bunch of bullshit. If you dont have it, go back and get the shotgun. Also in the arena if you take the alcove path the right of where you enter (in the water) there are the ammo boxes affixed to trees like in the outside world. Edit: The flashlight charge being wasted if you dodge (or even worse on occasion by you reloading the flashlight) however the trade off positively is if you need to reload a weapon pressing reload then dodging instantly reloads it. This completely negates the downsides of her 2nd and 3rd weapon. Barudak fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Oct 30, 2023 |
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Oct 30, 2023 01:21
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Barudak posted:If you dont have it, go back and get the shotgun. Also in the arena if you take the alcove path the right of where you enter (in the water) there are the ammo boxes affixed to trees like in the outside world. I couldn't solve the shotgun puzzle  I'll see if I can find more ammo. I feel like, if I shoot the enemy weakpoint, and they're recoiling, more shots while they're in their recoil animation are wasted? I feel like that's the only way I could have straight up run of out of bullets when I know I "defeated" this boss in this encounter previously using only 6 of the 10.
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Oct 30, 2023 01:28
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Jack B Nimble posted:I couldn't solve the shotgun puzzle lmfao @ all your posts in this thread
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Oct 30, 2023 01:31
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I run to the next ammo checkpoint, and loot ammo there, then I'm stuck in a loop where I have to run with an empty gun, reload it, turn around and shoot him, and then do that again, repeatedly. It's not fun and it's a failure of the game's design.
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Oct 30, 2023 01:35
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I'm watching Nightless Night and what the gently caress is happening
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One other thing I had to adjust to is headshots actually matter this time which, frankly, is a change I hate. It honestly hijacked a huge part of the games combat identity to me. Does not meaningfully apply to crossbow with upgrade. Also warning for people who want to fully upgrade a weapon for Saga, you do not get enough upgrade points (and can easily end up with leftover, useless points) to upgrade everything so you will have to choose one weapon to bless with you limited upgrade resources. This also applies to Alan and his upgrade system, but you wont have any wasted leftovers like Saga. In the point of no return Saga will eventually be limited to only her handgun. This sequence isnt so difficult nor long its worth dumping all your points into the handgun.
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Oct 30, 2023 01:46
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CharlestonJew posted:I'm watching Nightless Night and what the gently caress is happening You're turning into an elderly Finn  He is singing in style of a traditional finnish Iskelmä, (Hits) Very popular with 60+ Finns.
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Oct 30, 2023 01:51
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I have met a new favourite character in Sagas CH5 Rose is such a fangirl. I love it!
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Having completed chapter 3 for both characters, if the game maintains this level of quality and wraps up satisfactorily I will have to think long and hard on whether this or BG3 will be my personal GotY
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Oct 30, 2023 01:57
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Issaries posted:You're turning into an elderly Finn One of my partners is Estonian, and she’s been watching me play this and keeps talking about how the whole game is actually ‘grooming people to accept Finnish weirdness’ LOL
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Oct 30, 2023 01:58
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Chillmatic posted:One of my partners is Estonian, and she’s been watching me play this and keeps talking about how the whole game is actually ‘grooming people to accept Finnish weirdness’ LOL Sam Lake began this scheme with Ahti in Control.
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I can't even beat this fight on Story Mode. I seriously need to upload gameplay or something because, gently caress, there has to be something fundamental I'm just not understanding. I'm not even that drunk.
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The new addition to the OP is courtesy of exquisite tea in the Horror Games thread.
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The game is gorgeous. I want a Yes/No answer for a spoiler. Does Barry return?
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I actually went as far as installing OBS and recording an attempt on the boss, to seriously ask the thread what big mistake I'm making (on story difficulty!) that is hamstringing my play through, but I ended up beating it in that recording, so gently caress it I guess I'll just keep playing. I don't know why I'm having so much trouble with this Remedy game as opposed to every single one before it, but I guess it's not worth dwelling on. Just because I already went through the trouble of recording it, here's the video. If anyone wants to watch it and say "hey you fuckin' idiot, you're obviously doing X wrong", I'd seriously appreciate it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1iKOxFos9o Seriously, someone please watch this video and tell me what major mistakes I'm making; call me an idiot, I don't care, please help me understand why I'm finding this game so frustrating.
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Oct 30, 2023 02:29
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Barudak posted:This completely negates the downsides of her 2nd and 3rd weapon. WHAT?!?  Here I've been carefully reloading her third weapon like a sucker. I thought I noticed something that that happening on a different weapon with an even slower reload but figured it was my imagination. That's going to make it insanely good.
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Jack B Nimble posted:Seriously, someone please watch this video and tell me what major mistakes I'm making; call me an idiot, I don't care, please help me understand why I'm finding this game so frustrating. It looks like you’re wasting almost all your flashlight battery by not aiming it correctly at him. When the sparks or whatever are flying off that means you’re hitting him with the light. Also get the shotgun.
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