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I hate games where you just walk down a straight line with every little detail and "secret" is just handed to you or pointed out by an obnoxious sidekick screaming your ear. At that point, why is this even an interactive medium? What am I doing here? Just make a movie. Getting to the end of a game and hearing that my friend encountered a bunch of different stuff getting to the same place rules. I love the feeling of knowing there's something new waiting if/when I come back to a game, especially now that they're getting more expensive.
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I will say though that the looting mechanics of BG3 do get tedious, especially with a controller, because your character's loot range is point blank so they have to pathfind and climb and play tag with the rest of the party in order to get to each and every object. Not really sure of a way around that because there are reasons why things to loot do need to be out of reach sometimes but it's annoying nonetheless.
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Feb 1, 2024 21:17
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FWIW you will almost never find a worthwhile item from a pile of crates in BG3. The good stuff out in the world is found in chests and occasionally the random skeleton. Your enjoyment of the game will increase immensely if you let go of the idea that you have to experience absolutely everything. I've played through the game like 5 times and still find events and dialogue I've never seen before, that's a good thing not a bad one.
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Feb 1, 2024 21:18
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Divinity: Original Sin has a cool search mechanic where you can hold down (I think) the loot button and it'll create a search radius that will automatically select every searchable object within range.
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Feb 1, 2024 21:20
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Pookah posted:Divinity: Original Sin has a cool search mechanic where you can hold down (I think) the loot button and it'll create a search radius that will automatically select every searchable object within range. BG3 has this exact same function.
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Feb 1, 2024 21:21
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Crowetron posted:BG3 has this exact same function. Well I learned something today
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Feb 1, 2024 21:24
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CJacobs posted:If you're into linear adventures it's one of the better ones out there along the lines of something like Dead Space in my opinion. Everything is put right in your path, and you're pointed toward the goal, and simply allowed to miss it and continue if you don't mind exploring. It's pure flow. The issue imo is RE Village portends to be open I kind of remember feeling this way about metroid dread. I liked the game, but I felt like it was leading me around by the nose. Looking at the map made me feel like I could explore, except when I actually tried to backtrack the game wouldn't let me for some reason.
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Feb 1, 2024 21:30
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exquisite tea posted:FWIW you will almost never find a worthwhile item from a pile of crates in BG3. The good stuff out in the world is found in chests and occasionally the random skeleton. Normally yeah though it's funny that just last night I did the search area command and it found me a decent piece of equipment that was snuggled in between some boxes I would never have spotted.
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Feb 1, 2024 21:31
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Gaius Marius posted:The Map in REVillage is awful. The village itself mostly. Areas that have passages between aren't marked, blocked areas aren't marked, areas that look like they connect frequently don't. It makes navigating a nightmare. No joke I'd rate the game a star higher if they had made the design of the village more open and the map less poo poo. I liked Village a lot but by god this is a valid complaint.
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Feb 1, 2024 21:40
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Crowetron posted:I hate games where you just walk down a straight line with every little detail and "secret" is just handed to you or pointed out by an obnoxious sidekick screaming your ear. At that point, why is this even an interactive medium? What am I doing here? Just make a movie. gotta say there's a hugely different experience depending on whether you got those 4 copper pieces and a button
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Feb 1, 2024 21:43
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Crowetron posted:BG3 has this exact same function. Is it only available when playing on pad? I don't remember it being an option on M+KB.
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Feb 1, 2024 21:43
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Tunicate posted:gotta say there's a hugely different experience depending on whether you got those 4 copper pieces and a button I was responding to the feeling of needing to swap party members to see every possible outcome to every possible side quest at once. Suleman posted:Is it only available when playing on pad? I don't remember it being an option on M+KB. Yeah, it's a controller function, same as in D:OS2
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Feb 1, 2024 21:45
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DontMockMySmock posted:(4) Lastly, an extremely petty complaint: there is an item called a "silver glass", the icon clearly being that of an opaque metal cup. Larian, if a cup is made out of silver, it's not a glass, is it!? Bothers me every time I see one. Silver glass is a thing. Its also known as mercury glass. Its glass with silver/silvering solution in the middle, which is why it is opaque and metallic while still being glass. Be bothered no more! Finishing up Avatar Frontiers. Its a gorgeous game, if simple and formulaic. What's dragging it down is that it can't seem to pin down its message. I just completed a quest chain after a horrific attack in which some NPCs died or nearly so. You secure medical attention for the injured, help complete a Na'vi grief ceremony, help the humans build a memorial, and give a eulogy for the dead. Its very sad, and sweet. The whole thing decries violence - the violence between na'vi, violence between humans and na'vi, and the violence the RDA is wreaking on Pandora. It emphasizes the vast, vast loss of lives. The reward for completing the quest chain is an assault rifle.
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Feb 1, 2024 22:00
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Crowetron posted:I was responding to the feeling of needing to swap party members to see every possible outcome to every possible side quest at once. I'm not doing that. I'm not reloading and retrying scenes with different characters - just trying to naturally swap to characters as they seem to become relevant to various plotlines. It just feels natural to, for example, bring Lae'zel to interactions with other githyanki, or bring Wyll to interactions with other Baldurian nobles. But the game makes doing that kind of thing loving tedious. Dienes posted:Silver glass is a thing. Its also known as mercury glass. Its glass with silver/silvering solution in the middle, which is why it is opaque and metallic while still being glass. Be bothered no more! The game really doesn't seem to be depicting what's described and pictured in that wikipedia article. And besides, that's "silvered glass", not "silver glass." The "silver glass" from BG3 is a thing you generally find sitting next to a "silver plate" and a "silver knife", is pretty clearly supposed to be made of solid silver, and it has flavor text describing it as a "silver cup" made of "metal."
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Feb 1, 2024 22:32
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bossy lady posted:I kind of remember feeling this way about metroid dread. I liked the game, but I felt like it was leading me around by the nose. Looking at the map made me feel like I could explore, except when I actually tried to backtrack the game wouldn't let me for some reason. Yeah this really bothered me about Dread. Also the new abilities came thick and fast but most were used once or twice to open a special door and then never again - it made most of them just feel like keys. It was a fun 2d action game but a poor metroidvania
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Feb 1, 2024 23:06
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DontMockMySmock posted:The game really doesn't seem to be depicting what's described and pictured in that wikipedia article. And besides, that's "silvered glass", not "silver glass." The "silver glass" from BG3 is a thing you generally find sitting next to a "silver plate" and a "silver knife", is pretty clearly supposed to be made of solid silver, and it has flavor text describing it as a "silver cup" made of "metal." I was going to post and agree with Dienes, but after reading your post I think you're closer. You're right, the less confusing term would be "Silver Cup", or "Silver Goblet". But instead, they seem to have gone with "Silver drinking Glass" Poorly worded, and arguably technically correct, but confusing.
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Feb 1, 2024 23:36
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this isn't a peeve within the game itself but youtube recommends me a ton of cyberpunk 2077 related videos and i swear to god the thumbnail for all of them is designed to make it seem like "oh the latest patch has panam's titties out"
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Feb 2, 2024 01:00
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Every time you use Lara's Tomb Raider Vision or whatever, she'll utter the same loving thing. "I need to get on top of that mast!" I know that, Lara, I'm trying to figure out how! Maybe over here there is something "I need to get on top of that mast!" God dammit Lara
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Feb 2, 2024 01:49
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credburn posted:Every time you use Lara's Tomb Raider Vision or whatever, she'll utter the same loving thing. "I need to get on top of that mast!" I know that, Lara, I'm trying to figure out how! Maybe over here there is something "I need to get on top of that mast!" God dammit Lara go easy on her she hit her head pretty hard in that plane crash
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very risky blowjob posted:this isn't a peeve within the game itself but youtube recommends me a ton of cyberpunk 2077 related videos and i swear to god the thumbnail for all of them is designed to make it seem like "oh the latest patch has panam's titties out" These jerks often use risque mods to attract clicks. Especially those that just read patch notes with unrelated footage. I really detest say looking up an S Rank walkthrough of RE4 and the creep has Ashley wearing some bondage getup.
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credburn posted:Every time you use Lara's Tomb Raider Vision or whatever, she'll utter the same loving thing. "I need to get on top of that mast!" I know that, Lara, I'm trying to figure out how! Maybe over here there is something "I need to get on top of that mast!" God dammit Lara 
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Feb 2, 2024 10:33
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exquisite tea posted:FWIW you will almost never find a worthwhile item from a pile of crates in BG3. The good stuff out in the world is found in chests and occasionally the random skeleton. I was gonna say that you find a lot of scrolls in crates, but then I realized that I almost never use the scrolls. I don't wanna sell them because I think I'll need them eventually but they almost never seem that useful in combat. So now I have about 4 rows of scrolls in my inventory.
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grittyreboot posted:I was gonna say that you find a lot of scrolls in crates, but then I realized that I almost never use the scrolls. I don't wanna sell them because I think I'll need them eventually but they almost never seem that useful in combat. So now I have about 4 rows of scrolls in my inventory. Do scrolls function like single-use spells?
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Feb 2, 2024 10:56
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Yeah, but a lot of them aren't super helpful in combat
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I never use scrolls in RPGs. My magic users already got spells, and my non-magic users got their own tricks.
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Nearly my whole first playthrough of Dark Souls contained no magic usage. I figured they would be gone forever after using up the number of casts on the scroll. Then eventually I bought one and then rested at a bonfire.  Not even a paltry 'scrolls refresh at bonfires' in the item description???What are other monumentally bad bits of UI design in games? Off the top of my head I can think of Halo telling you in text form to take cover when your shields are out. I don't have time to read that, my shields are out!! edit: they even know it's annoying because it's disabled on Heroic and Legendary
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Everytime the 'sad' music starts up during a substory in Yakuza games, though lately this is specifically Infinite Wealth, I skip through the text as fast as possible. It's always some heavy handed stuff that drags whatever scene it is in to a screeching halt. "WOAH it's me the rockin' bear! Just rocking away while wearing a silly hat! BODACIOUS!" *sad music starts* "You see things were never the same since my wife died..."
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credburn posted:I never use scrolls in RPGs. My magic users already got spells, and my non-magic users got their own tricks. What about in the RPGs where your magic users can copy the scrolls into their books?
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Dienes posted:
I came away with the overall message that every human motherfucker on Pandora needs to die.
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CJacobs posted:
Not sure if it's monumentally bad, but in Armored Core 6, the HUD is an opaque shade of grey-ish off-white. And so is 90% of the environments you're in. I had a VERY hard time seeing some of the info it was trying to tell me, No option to change the color/opacity. I remember playing City of Heroes in 2004 and it had a FULLY customizable UI. Color, opacity, and where each UI element on the screen was. Edit: Haha, not only did I already make this same complaint, I even compared it to City of Heroes, too. Lol, I'm a broken record: DrBouvenstein posted:Just started Armored Core 6, and I'm pretty annoyed that I can't change the UI/HUD at all. basically, the point is City of Heroes was one of the greatest games ever and you bastards let it die! *Yes, I know that fan-run server thing is still going and might even have recently got the legal ok to keep going, too? DrBouvenstein has a new favorite as of 14:30 on Feb 2, 2024 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:Not sure if it's monumentally bad, but in Armored Core 6, the HUD is an opaque shade of grey-ish off-white. Wasn't that a thing in... the old Armored Core games? I mean, I know it was around in PSX games, and I'm pretty sure Armored Core had it. It's impressive if they've managed to gently caress that up this far along.
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CJacobs posted:Nearly my whole first playthrough of Dark Souls contained no magic usage. I figured they would be gone forever after using up the number of casts on the scroll. Then eventually I bought one and then rested at a bonfire. When I played Elden Ring I definitely spent a while thinking Ashes of War worked like the crafting gems in DS3 that you could occasionally find that made your scaling change and not like spells for your weapons that also changed scaling sometimes, funnily enough. But also speaking of Souls, it ultimately doesn’t change anything but it feels kinda jank that we’re like six games in as of Elden Ring but the scaling uses only E-D-C-B-A instead of, say, C- ~ C ~ C+ ~ B-… I think I’ve seen a decent amount of people confused by the fact that the letter kinda implies better scaling by turning blue but scarcely ever changing its tier.
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grittyreboot posted:I was gonna say that you find a lot of scrolls in crates, but then I realized that I almost never use the scrolls. I don't wanna sell them because I think I'll need them eventually but they almost never seem that useful in combat. So now I have about 4 rows of scrolls in my inventory. The scrolls are good because if you have a Wizard you can scribe them all to learn more spells (that you will also never use).
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credburn posted:I never use scrolls in RPGs. My magic users already got spells, and my non-magic users got their own tricks. Useful in BG3 though because the scrolls don't use up spell slots. Like sometimes I will have a character use a scroll for a spell they already know just so I'm not using up a slot that I will need later.
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credburn posted:I never use scrolls in RPGs. My magic users already got spells, and my non-magic users got their own tricks. They're extremely useful on Honour mode runs, can get you out of all sorts of problems.
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CJacobs posted:Nearly my whole first playthrough of Dark Souls contained no magic usage. I figured they would be gone forever after using up the number of casts on the scroll. Then eventually I bought one and then rested at a bonfire. I was tens of hours into Witcher 3 assuming that potions worked like consumables in all other RPGs, so I didn't touch them. Then I found out that they refresh on rest (without consuming crafting materials other than a very common base) and I went hog wild with them the rest of the game. 
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I started my second sitting of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown last night, and after hitting "Launch" on the game through the Epic Store, it
Then I could play the game. It's not new, I reluctantly clicked yes on the first 4 UAC prompts when I first installed the game, but having to do it 4 times every time I launch the game, then 4 more times after a single patch was applied, makes me think I'm better off uninstalling the game and quarantining the Ubisoft Connect process. There's no earthly reason for it to need that many confirmations unless it's going full corporate-approved spyware
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Scrolls in BG3 kick rear end, I was getting the piss beaten out of me in a big fight because I showed up with dick for remaining spells and skills, and long resting moved things along in a way I didn't want. Took a few swings at it before I really went through my inventory to see what I had to hand, tried it with a bunch of scroll use, and absolutely bodied those idiots.
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The Callisto Protocol is a game almost entirely composed of things dragging it down, but I think the funniest one is the pistol foregrip. Like a lot of middling action games, Callisto has a weapon upgrade system. The first upgrade you can get for your pistol is a foregrip. Now, one thing that is good about the game is the animation work which is all very nice. Which is why the animators presumably realized that someone holding the grip and a foregrip on a pistol would look really loving stupid. So my pistol has a foregrip that my character has never and will never actually grip. Also, there's no point to it mechanically because it reduces recoil, but the pistol is a slow-firing weapon and you usually want to fire pretty precisely. Game design.
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1stGear posted:The Callisto Protocol is a game almost entirely composed of things dragging it down, but I think the funniest one is the pistol foregrip. Like a lot of middling action games, Callisto has a weapon upgrade system. The first upgrade you can get for your pistol is a foregrip. Now, one thing that is good about the game is the animation work which is all very nice. Which is why the animators presumably realized that someone holding the grip and a foregrip on a pistol would look really loving stupid. So my pistol has a foregrip that my character has never and will never actually grip. Games tend to have weird things related to weapon upgrades. MGSV: The Phantom Pain has a weapon upgrade called double magazine which is 2 magazines taped together. This is one those "tier 1 operator tacticool" stuff some people do. The description says it improves reload speed but that's only half the truth. It improves reload speed only if you fire the whole magazine empty and then Snake will quickly switch the paired mags If you reload while half full, Snake will put both mags away and pull out another taped pair from his pocket so you wont get the benefit of fast reload.
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