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Arivia posted:Doesn’t steam/the steam deck provide remapping support for that? Like you can set buttons to be mouse/keyboard inputs? Yes but 
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DrBouvenstein posted:All this GBA Castlevania talk just makes me realize how much I want to re-play the DS Castlevanias (yes, even Portrait of Ruin) but that would be, like, a $250-300 dollar investment to get a decent used 3DS or 2DS and used games.
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Roblo posted:What was wrong with Portrait of Ruin? I can remember quite liking it. Iirc it was pretty cool on its own but it’s sandwiched between Aria of Sorrow 2 and the one with the cool not-Miriam girl who can dual wield laser beams so I guess it doesn’t stand out as much. It did the thing that’s kinda perplexing that every Igavania doesn’t do and have your specials level based on use to, you know, encourage using them which was neat.
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Last Celebration posted:Iirc it was pretty cool on its own but it’s sandwiched between Aria of Sorrow 2 and the one with the cool not-Miriam girl who can dual wield laser beams so I guess it doesn’t stand out as much. What's weird is that I've usually seen Portrait of Ruin fondly regarded and either Dawn of Sorrow or Order of Ecclesia treated as the "bad" game in the DS trinity (depending on if the person is hating the anime portraits or the shorter areas and higher difficulty). Edit: I should clarify, I'm not calling any of them bad, and I loved all 3 of them at their launches. Randalor has a new favorite as of 17:54 on Nov 2, 2023 |
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I've heard literally every DS game referred to as "the bad" one and every DS game referred to as "the good" one and every one as "the sleeper." I think nearly 20 years on we can safely say that they're all good but you'll have a preference based on what each specific game offers. 
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Things dragging Dawn of Sorrow down: they switched from Ayami Kojima doing the key art to some generic looking crap.
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I've always loved Aria of Sorrow and enjoyed the DS games, but watching this retrospective gave me a whole new appreciation for what the developers were struggling with while making those games. Low budgets, crazy expectations and insane deadlines galore! It also makes sense that Iga was one of the few 'big' developers to make the jump to Kickstarter and not gently caress it up: the stress of dealing with crowdfunding backers must have been nothing compared to the wrath of an angry Konami boardroom...
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Given Konami's half-assed remasters of Metal Gear, and hilarious mishandling of Silent Hill, I'm not optimistic about the Suikoden release next year.
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It's actually just sudoku with a suikoden skin
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Kitfox88 posted:It's actually just sudoku with a suikoden skin If you put in the Konami code, the numbers go from 1-30
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I would like to play the early MGS games again (preferably on PS4) but I'm glad I held off on the new re-releases, as it apparently seems like they're not even worth half of the absurd PS store price. Are they basically just emulations of the originals with no bells and whistles or helpful options?
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They came with the HD version of mgs3 that was released on the 360, if memory serves. 1, 2, 3, and peace walker. I remember playing some of 2 but not what the controls were like, but it looked and ran fine.
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The best mgs collection to date is the ps3 one.
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Its a real shame they apparently hosed up the MGS collection, because the Castlevania and Contra ones were pretty solid overall.
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Meowywitch posted:The best mgs collection to date is the ps3 one. Yeah what's the difference between that and the new one?
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DrBouvenstein posted:All this GBA Castlevania talk just makes me realize how much I want to re-play the DS Castlevanias (yes, even Portrait of Ruin) but that would be, like, a $250-300 dollar investment to get a decent used 3DS or 2DS and used games. You could just emulate them. Nostradingus posted:Things dragging Dawn of Sorrow down: they switched from Ayami Kojima doing the key art to some generic looking crap. I've actually recently learned there's a weirdly big rom hacking scene for the GBA/DS castlevanias and not only is there a rom hack to replace the DoS art with Aria's; but there's also a hilariously fun randomizer for it that not only changes up the map and soul placements, but also even randomizes the weapons effects, animations and the game's dialogue.
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Cleretic posted:I get that the gameplay hooks of Armored Core 6's New Game+ is part 'introduce all your new toys to the early-game enemies' and partly 'experiment with different loadouts'... I also thought this, until I switched to something else and it was even more fun and OP than my solid build. As for other games, I tried The Surge 2 after someone mentioned it was sci-fi Dark Souls and wow what a lovely game. The controls are terrible no thank you.
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The Talos Principle 2 is 70 Goddamn Gigabytes I mean, I've got the space, but what the gently caress
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I had to immediately turn down all my settings to get the thing to 30fps. Don't think it's optimized well at all
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A Plague Tale: Innocence has a crafting mechanic that I kind of appreciate because you don't ever actually need to hunt for materials to craft anything, but if you do it makes things somewhat easier (ultimately the benefits just allow you to be less stealthy and account for inaccurate stone-slinging). Occasionally you will be required to craft something, but there is always exactly enough material immediately next to you so you can craft whatever you need for this single time you're going to use it. What's annoying though, is that I'm engaging with the crafting system and its like seven different loving crafting materials, of which you can only carry so much, and the game frequently does this thing where, I have almost enough material to craft something that will let me carry more material: I have 9/10 leather, 10/10 crystals, 10/10 rags, 9/10 rocks, 9/10 glass beads. But I reach a point where a character will be like, "We can't go on until we blow open that wall. Here's a recipe for a new type of bomb. It requires you to have 10 out of 10 of every material, but fortunately, I have 10 of every type of material. Here you go!" Of course he just fills up the two or three materials I hadn't yet scoured every nook of the game for, and I need to use it all immediately, right now, to proceed. The end result is I have a single use bomb and no loving materials left 
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credburn posted:Yeah what's the difference between that and the new one? Nothing really. Although the new collection fixed some minor graphical bugs. I dont understand why people keep saying the PS3 is the best one. Yes it has pressure sensitive controls but those are not good.
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Counterpoint: it’s not really MGS3 unless you can accidentally stab a dude in the throat when you’re trying to interrogate him.
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JackSplater posted:They came with the HD version of mgs3 that was released on the 360, if memory serves. 1, 2, 3, and peace walker. I remember playing some of 2 but not what the controls were like, but it looked and ran fine. The HD collection from the 360/PS3 didn't include MGS1. It was 2, 3 & Peace Walker, also Metal Gear 1 & 2 from the MSX, since those are bundled with MGS3. The new collection doesn't have Peace Walker, but it has MGS1, and Metal Gear 1 & Snake's Revenge from the NES, which have never been re-released until now. The problem with the new collection is it's just no thrills ports for MGS2 & 3 taken from the HD collection. Running in 720p with no graphics improvements (in some cases looking a little worse, with bad AA and AF on Xbox and PC). And MGS1 is just emulated from the PS1 version.
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im playing horizon zero dawn and its a pretty good take on an ubisoft game with a bit of gameplay clutter but the egregious thing that bums me out about it is how much it feels like you should be able to climb on anything and you cant. i can kind of see how botw stole its thunder despite being very different games. did they ever improve on that with the sequel or nah?
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:im playing horizon zero dawn and its a pretty good take on an ubisoft game with a bit of gameplay clutter but the egregious thing that bums me out about it is how much it feels like you should be able to climb on anything and you cant. i can kind of see how botw stole its thunder despite being very different games. did they ever improve on that with the sequel or nah? they made it worse. turns out "you can climb anything you want" doesn't work so well in that engine
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Veotax posted:The HD collection from the 360/PS3 didn't include MGS1. It was 2, 3 & Peace Walker, also Metal Gear 1 & 2 from the MSX, since those are bundled with MGS3. Yeah, the 'problem' with the new collection isn't necessarily that there's anything wrong with the ports (although they could be better), and more that they're just ports, and at this point people expect 're-release of old game' to be an HD remaster with, like, revamped controls and updated textures even if nobody says that's what you're getting. The kicker that I think a lot of people don't realize is that even with those problems, this is still the best way to play MGS2 and 3 on PC. Those games are huge bastards to emulate; MGS2 requires a lot of fiddling, and MGS3 has too many issues to really be completable. 'Just emulate it' doesn't really swing in this case, despite people feeling like it logically should: those games are over and very nearly twenty years old respectively, SURELY they can be emulated on a toaster at this point, right? I blame Dolphin. They spike up the average of 3D console emulation so hard that we all sort of forget that every single other 3D console emulator is mediocre and 'might work for the game you wanna play if you're lucky' at best. I also think Twin Snakes might actually be problem-free as far as a whole emulated playthrough goes, which would increase the confusion there for people who don't realize the sort of effort that goes into emulation.
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I appreciate how sarcastic and direct Aloy can be but that's for the other thread, not this one. 
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I'd probably still buy the new MGS releases if I didn't have the PS3 HD versions. Actually kinda glad they don't offer much over those, or I'd be compelled to double up.
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My Lovely Horse posted:I'd probably still buy the new MGS releases if I didn't have the PS3 HD versions. Actually kinda glad they don't offer much over those, or I'd be compelled to double up. If you're a massive Metal Gear nerd, they might be worth picking up at some point for the special features. Full scripts of the MGS games, and translated versions of previously Japanese-only lore books. For me that at least puts them as a 'pick it up on sale sometime' purchase.
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:disappointing but im liking the story and characters enough to still check it out at some point maybe It’s still a really good game and worth your time. Not my time because mine is cataclysmically valuable but certainly worth your much less valuable time. I can only play the very best games because of the time thing. In the Switch port of 2017s Japanese visual novel “which wife do I choose” Korakino’s blond hair changes from a dirty blond to a sandy blond and there’s no option for me to comment upon it. Inexcusable.
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I finally finished Starfield. While I did feel a sense of satisfaction at the very it suffers from the classic Bethesda writing problem of not being smart enough for the Big Ideas it wants to present. Thankfully the Hunter and Emissary didn't go on the overly long monologues about existence that I'd feared they would.
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:disappointing but im liking the story and characters enough to still check it out at some point maybe Please check back in with your opinion of Ted Faro op
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Note that there is only one Correct opinion about faro with the only variance allowed being the level of said opinion
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Yeah I think there's not really any discourse over the fact that Ted Faro was right!
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grittyreboot posted:I finally finished Starfield. While I did feel a sense of satisfaction at the very it suffers from the classic Bethesda writing problem of not being smart enough for the Big Ideas it wants to present. Thankfully the Hunter and Emissary didn't go on the overly long monologues about existence that I'd feared they would. It really felt like Starfield suffered more than most from Bethesdas unwillingness/inability to do cutscenes. I've only managed to get partway through before petering out, but even then a lot of supposedly pivotal moments just completely fell flat due to the most uninspired presentation ever. It seems almost afraid to linger on anything for more than a few minutes at a time in the name of "player freedom". Oh, you've found an ancient heretofore unknown temple clearly created by a non-human precursor species that can grant you seemingly impossible powers? Well you just kinda walk through the door into a single room and do a little thing where you float through some gates and that's it. No real build-up, no staging, no narrative, it's basically on the level of any old Skyrim cave. Arguably worse, because those at least occasionally contained a neat secret side-story.
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I hate the invisible enemies in Ghostwire Tokyo. i've only seen one so far and I'm happy that for the most part enemies don't respawn, but those and the snake things that tunnel through the ground are really unfun to fight. I'm on chapter 4 now.
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It's a super minor gripe because while the environments in The Talos Principle 2 are gorgeous, having to walk sometimes quite a distance through them and then backtrack is kinda a drag. At least on some of those walks you get some cool exposition and stuff.
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BioEnchanted posted:I hate the invisible enemies in Ghostwire Tokyo. i've only seen one so far and I'm happy that for the most part enemies don't respawn, but those and the snake things that tunnel through the ground are really unfun to fight. I'm on chapter 4 now. At least with the invisible ones, you can burn them down faster the stronger you get. The snake ones are garbage because they burrow for so long and you just gotta stand there and wait to do anything.
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