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Noir89 posted:Any multiplayer game mode with teammates are garbage and should be ignored or better yet removed. Having teammates either hampers you or acts as a crutch to help you get undeserved wins. They also provide a safety blanket in the form of "bwuh we would've won if you guys could play Free for all is best. I may suck at a game but if I'm patient and have good timing I can steal a win. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Nov 2, 2023 |
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roomtone posted:i've never been a big strategy game player but when i did play online i would always choose the max amount of players not cos i wanted to coattrail a good team but just because it was more casual and lively. big-team multiplayer is great for chill games small-team "esports" multiplayer is where it gets toxic
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Duck and Cover posted:Free for all is best. We already know you are a coward.
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Noir89 posted:If 1v1 does not work then was the game really supposed to exist?(Looking at you DotA-likes) I greatly enjoyed that game but they added too many characters with unique gimmicks instead of believing in their base system
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Noir89 posted:We already know you are a coward. More towers. 1v1 is probably second best by the way, it's just FFA is best. Backpack Battles, Nox, Myth, Marble Blast Ultra . All about the ffa. edit: Actually now that I think about it I don't have many 1v1 games I've played for much. Street Fighter 6, uh some battle top down robot mech game. So yeah I guess 1v1 isn't second best. Anyway FFA is best. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Nov 2, 2023 |
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satanic splash-back posted:I greatly enjoyed that game but they added too many characters with unique gimmicks instead of believing in their base system Just started playing again and having surprisingly fun! But then again I once kept up with LoL and all its hordes of characters. Duck and Cover posted:More towers. 1v1 is probably second best by the way, it's just FFA is best. Backpack Battles is peak video game. Eeh I can at least give FFA it never pretends to be even remotely serious, and diplomacy is a real skill. But it still gives the blanket of "THEY TEAMED UP ON ME" when really you lost due to being an antisocial goon.
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Noir89 posted:Just started playing again and having surprisingly fun! But then again I once kept up with LoL and all its hordes of characters. I like 1v1v1v1 not so much the diplomacy. Best part of For Honor team fights is somebody complaining you didn't 1v1. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Nov 2, 2023 |
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Duck and Cover posted:I like 1v1v1v1 not so much the diplomacy. Best part of For Honor team fights is somebody complaining you didn't 1v1. Big agree on this.
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credburn posted:Someone told me Deep Rock Galactic has a surprisingly wholesome community, so I jumped into a public server. DRG has the Tryhard Gulf. 1-2* difficulty is for the beginngers. 3* difficulty is for people who want to have fun winning. 4* difficulty is for the players who hate losing, but want a challenge. 5* is for people who want to have fun trying not to lose. As long as you stay out of 4*, chances are you're gaming with some bros, or some sistahs, you cant tell with dwarves
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Duck and Cover posted:Oh yeah I did and that means I want insta respawn? (I know it wasn't meant but I do think the idea of a multiplayer style respawn timer would be funny, funny bad but funny) No it doesn't. I get it I get it Hollow Knights has tons of flaws and you all thought you found one you could refute. Pretty sad really, I'm just trying to inform people about games being bad only to be viciously attacked. *shrugs* 
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Lol. syntaxfunction posted:Sonic was NEVER good. Not true listening to Sonic is good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sClynDe-9PA. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Nov 2, 2023 |
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syntaxfunction posted:Sonic was NEVER good. Should have played Vectorman instead.
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Duck and Cover posted:Not true listening to Sonic is good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sClynDe-9PA. This version is better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9sQ3SUKXXk
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Sonic is very interesting as a franchise because like so many other stellar franchises of the time it failed to make the transition from 2D to 3D, yet unlike those franchises which all just died they kept making Sonic games despite the fact they sucked and everyone hated them. It’s also weird for how a series whose games post-Genesis are so consistently bad can somehow have music that’s so consistently good.
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galagazombie posted:Sonic is very interesting as a franchise because like so many other stellar franchises of the time it failed to make the transition from 2D to 3D, yet unlike those franchises which all just died they kept making Sonic games despite the fact they sucked and everyone hated them. It’s also weird for how a series whose games post-Genesis are so consistently bad can somehow have music that’s so consistently good. furries sonic adventure 1/2 founded an entire subculture within furries this can safely be milked forever.
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QuarkJets posted:Waluigi's mansion smells like weed and sex You don't gotta keep covering for your brother, Mario, we all know he deals.
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galagazombie posted:Sonic is very interesting as a franchise because like so many other stellar franchises of the time it failed to make the transition from 2D to 3D, yet unlike those franchises which all just died they kept making Sonic games despite the fact they sucked and everyone hated them. It’s also weird for how a series whose games post-Genesis are so consistently bad can somehow have music that’s so consistently good. Sonic Generations and Colors were really close, the set piece stages are great, but they pad the rest of the game out with junk.
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galagazombie posted:Sonic is very interesting as a franchise because like so many other stellar franchises of the time it failed to make the transition from 2D to 3D, yet unlike those franchises which all just died they kept making Sonic games despite the fact they sucked and everyone hated them. It’s also weird for how a series whose games post-Genesis are so consistently bad can somehow have music that’s so consistently good. Sonic 2 is the definition of a bloated game for me. Emerald Hill and Chemical Plant? I'm having a great time! By the time I get to Metropolis I want someone to put a bullet in my head. The whole game can be played in, what, a leisurely 40 minutes? But even so, I feel irritable and bored for a lot of the last 24 of them. Returning to Sonic 1 and its 3 act zones is interminable. Save states helped Sonic 3 & Knuckles and Sonic Mania a lot, but they're still overlong.
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galagazombie posted:Sonic is very interesting as a franchise because like so many other stellar franchises of the time it failed to make the transition from 2D to 3D, yet unlike those franchises which all just died they kept making Sonic games despite the fact they sucked and everyone hated them. It’s also weird for how a series whose games post-Genesis are so consistently bad can somehow have music that’s so consistently good. This is mostly correct but i think you'll find that every sonic song with lyrics from the 3D era sucks major rear end and even the best of the songs without lyrics doesn't come close to the heights of sonic 2 and 3&K. more like "escape from the lovely" amirite SCheeseman posted:Sonic Generations and Colors were really close, the set piece stages are great, but they pad the rest of the game out with junk.  those games sucked rear end. It is sad that the panoply of 3D sonic games is so full of buggy, unplayable messes that the two games that are merely technically playable are lauded as good (or even just partially good) even though they're incredibly bland and the core gameplay loving sucks.
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galagazombie posted:Sonic is very interesting as a franchise because like so many other stellar franchises of the time it failed to make the transition from 2D to 3D, yet unlike those franchises which all just died they kept making Sonic games despite the fact they sucked and everyone hated them. It’s also weird for how a series whose games post-Genesis are so consistently bad can somehow have music that’s so consistently good. Sonic absolutely did not fail in its transition to 3D. Sonic Adventure was not only good, it was successful and pretty cutting edge for 1998. It avoided almost all the pitfalls that other 3D platformers made like lovely cameras and tank controls too. It's still fun as gently caress today and plays exactly how you'd expect a 3D game to by today's standards.
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emSparkly posted:Sonic absolutely did not fail in its transition to 3D. Sonic Adventure was not only good, it was successful and pretty cutting edge for 1998. It avoided almost all the pitfalls that other 3D platformers made like lovely cameras and tank controls too. It's still fun as gently caress today and plays exactly how you'd expect a 3D game to by today's standards. I played Sonic Adventure in 1999 as part of a Dreamcast my parents impulse bought me and was really disappointed, having gone in fully wanting to love it. There are things I liked then and like now-- the OST is overall pretty fun and the Mystic Ruins song is burnt into my brain in the good way.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUpCPpdjh1E&t=3319s ... you are right that the base movement was much more fluid compared to contemporaries, and I really do respect the ambition of 6 different playable characters, including two new ones with wildly divergent gameplay styles. That said that ambition was a terrible idea and they didn't end up making a very fun game, just a playable one. The people that like 3D Sonic games from that time were either very small children, some kind of furry, or both, and that's totally cool but they kind-of have to own that to the wider audience those games are thought of as lesser and there's good reason for why. SCheeseman posted:Sonic Generations and Colors were really close, the set piece stages are great, but they pad the rest of the game out with junk. They always run into the problem of having to slow the game down to pad out playtime and vary up the style, and it always ends up being a chore. Sonic Mania was by far the best thing Sonic's put out in the last 25 years, and it's weird that despite hitting high acclaim and selling over 1 million copies in the first year, SEGA didn't just go "ok so give a small team a budget and have 'em crank one of these out every 3-4 years."
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The 2d sonic games are annoying because they want you to go fast but you can barely see 10 feet in front of you because the sprites are so big. And if you go slow you've got slippery platforming compared to Mario. Like what am I supposed to do, memorise the levels so I know when to jump? Maybe I'd do that if I were 8 and only got one game every six months, but I ain't got time for that.
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Caesar Saladin posted:The 2d sonic games are annoying because they want you to go fast but you can barely see 10 feet in front of you because the sprites are so big. And if you go slow you've got slippery platforming compared to Mario. Like what am I supposed to do, memorise the levels so I know when to jump? Maybe I'd do that if I were 8 and only got one game every six months, but I ain't got time for that. Good point, but I'm sure they'll figure it out by the time Sonic makes the jump to 3d
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Disco Pope posted:Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing Transformed was really fun, but only cops played as Sonic and pals in that. I haven't play a Mario Kart since Double Dash so I'm probably wrong, but this was the best kart racer I'd ever played and I still consistently play it. At around 6 AM Pacific time you can usually still manage to go online and find a filled out race to jump into! Good luck at any other time of day though 
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Disco Pope posted:Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing Transformed was really fun, but only cops played as Sonic and pals in that.  Legitimately a bummer that it was the only new JSRF content in the last 22 years.
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Disco Pope posted:Sonic 2 is the definition of a bloated game for me. Emerald Hill and Chemical Plant? I'm having a great time! By the time I get to Metropolis I want someone to put a bullet in my head. The whole game can be played in, what, a leisurely 40 minutes? But even so, I feel irritable and bored for a lot of the last 24 of them. Sonic 3 had about 2/3 as many stages, but they take over twice as long each, and then S&K doubled that. 3's stages were also way more vertical so they sent you back further if you fell off of something. They kept the same time limit though, so I think first playthrough I hit the end of Carnival Night 2 or something and hit the last checkpoint before the boss without enough time left to kill the boss and there was no way to do anything but game over. Caesar Saladin posted:The 2d sonic games are annoying because they want you to go fast but you can barely see 10 feet in front of you because the sprites are so big. And if you go slow you've got slippery platforming compared to Mario. Like what am I supposed to do, memorise the levels so I know when to jump? Maybe I'd do that if I were 8 and only got one game every six months, but I ain't got time for that. Sometimes it does bullshit like putting a flamethrower or spiky enemy or something in a high-speed section that will hit you even if you're rolling. In those cases, yes, the idea is that on a casual playthrough, you'll slam into those things and have to recover your rings, and if you want to get high ring counts for extra lives and bonus stages, you're supposed to learn the level. OneEightHundred fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Nov 2, 2023 |
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