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There is a small DarkSydePhil in all of us.
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If DSP is the devil that pops up on your shoulder, who is the angel?
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Feb 21, 2024 13:18
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MittenSquad
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Feb 21, 2024 13:21
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Philippe posted:MittenSquad RIP to a good man
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Feb 21, 2024 13:51
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Captain Hygiene posted:I'm finally playing the first Metal Gear Solid game, and man, does the pacing screech to a halt right at the end when you're using a keycard to disable the nuclear launch. The one (1) unqualified improvement Twin Snakes made to the original was placing hot and cold pipes in the hangar so you could blow them out to reconfigure the card instead of backtracking.
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Feb 21, 2024 14:30
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credburn posted:I remember being an anal dick about games holding my hand too much. I wanted Morrowind level of assistance; a journal, a compass, a map. That's all I needed. Get the gently caress outta here with quest markers and arrows pointing at things. I just had this last night. Started playing Star Trek Online and one of the Tutorial missions is "Go explore the starting city". Here's the auction house, here's the shops, here's the healing station, etc. Then there's one for "Go see Garrula in the slums West of the fighting pit". OK, go to the slums, which are West of the fighting pit. There's no mission marker or named NPC around there. The quest marker on the map shows that the NPC is North of the slums, in a bar, North West of the fight pits. OK, maybe he wanders. Go to the bar, look around, plenty of NPCs, none named Garrula. I'm standing on top of the quest marker on the map, guy's not showing up. Go back around to the first area, no dice. Check the map because in a smart decision, all the NPCs show up there, and their names will pop up. Scan the entire map, cannot find this guy. Go back to the bar, walk around, still no joy. Finally, find that there is a side door in the bar which leads to stairs going down. Apparently, the bar itself doesn't count as the slums, but the basement does.
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Feb 21, 2024 15:52
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The big problem is that games that want you to follow map markers don't give you the level of explanation of what to do as, say, Morrowind did so when they have lovely / inconsistent maps it's about as frustrating as it could get.
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Feb 21, 2024 16:08
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SkeletonHero posted:The one (1) unqualified improvement Twin Snakes made to the original was placing hot and cold pipes in the hangar so you could blow them out to reconfigure the card instead of backtracking. Oh, that explains my surprise, I was expecting a local solution like that. Must've seen discussion of that version at some point and it got stuck in my mind.
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Feb 21, 2024 16:34
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Arivia posted:RIP to a good man Thats one way to learn about this. And then I checked his twitter and oof 
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Feb 21, 2024 19:46
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alcohol loving sucks.
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Feb 21, 2024 20:21
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Len posted:but they'll skip every tutorial because "i've played games before" Reminds me of the posts we sometimes get in this very thread from people who've already decided "normal" difficulty is actually baby game journalist mode, so they reflexively pick hard and then show up here complaining the game is too hard.
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Feb 21, 2024 20:40
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This is why bullshit hard modes should be locked behind finishing on normal, or entering a complex cheat code so you can't possibly think that you aren't bypassing the normal game
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Feb 21, 2024 20:46
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Tunicate posted:This is why bullshit hard modes should be locked behind finishing on normal, or entering a complex cheat code so you can't possibly think that you aren't bypassing the normal game This is how we get FF16 where you have to beat 80 hour game twice to access all the difficulty options. I accept the cheat code option though
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Feb 21, 2024 20:48
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not playing on normal the first time is kinda psycho poo poo
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Feb 21, 2024 20:49
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Tunicate posted:This is why bullshit hard modes should be locked behind finishing on normal, or entering a complex cheat code so you can't possibly think that you aren't bypassing the normal game AMID EVIL makes you walk through a different door in an entrance room to select your difficulty level with a jump or two in the way of the harder ones, but the hardest difficulty is actually hidden out of the way and isn’t obvious it exists
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Feb 21, 2024 20:49
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"this game sucks, I have no idea how to do X because the game doesn't tell me" "Did you turn off all UI elements or something? Because there's definitely a button prompt on my screen..." "of course, I always disable all that baby poo poo  "
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Feb 21, 2024 20:51
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John Murdoch posted:Reminds me of the posts we sometimes get in this very thread from people who've already decided "normal" difficulty is actually baby game journalist mode, so they reflexively pick hard and then show up here complaining the game is too hard. Yeah I was thinking of Remnant 2 and how it makes it very clear normal is the expected experience for a fresh character and starting point but people cranked it up and were sad. For Remnant 2 it was especially a goofy complaint because you can reset the story at a new difficulty at any time and lose nothing* *you'll need to rebeat worlds you already beat, but character progression was saved.
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Feb 21, 2024 20:56
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Meowywitch posted:not playing on normal the first time is kinda psycho poo poo If you've truly never played a game in that genre before or from that developer, then yes.
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Feb 21, 2024 21:26
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i'm playing pokemon emerald and i would just like to say: gently caress you, feebas
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Feb 21, 2024 22:21
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Meowywitch posted:not playing on normal the first time is kinda psycho poo poo I dunno. Sometimes the devs just tone down the normal difficulty to the point that anyone with any experience with the genre will be bored. In my experience, Mass Effect 2 on normal is pretty much a cakewalk, only on difficulties after that does it actually become engaging.
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Feb 21, 2024 22:43
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Meowywitch posted:not playing on normal the first time is kinda psycho poo poo Neir Automata: Hey, just so you know there is no autosave and you will be unable to save until after the prologue Gamer: Pffft, yeah ok sure whatever lets put it on impossible difficulty *dies to 1 hit at the boss*
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Feb 21, 2024 22:44
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John Murdoch posted:Reminds me of the posts we sometimes get in this very thread from people who've already decided "normal" difficulty is actually baby game journalist mode, so they reflexively pick hard and then show up here complaining the game is too hard. i had a buddy that slam picked the hardest mode in bioshock 2 and then got real mad because "i'm a big daddy, i should be just tearing through all these things. this shouldn't be this hard!"
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Feb 21, 2024 23:41
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Perestroika posted:God yeah, I've seen an example of that just recently from a guy playing monster hunter. Basically he was doing a hunt on a special monster with a unique mechanic where you need to do elemental damage to it to have a chance, but it can hit you with a debuff called dragonblight that nullifies elemental damage you do, so you need to get rid of dragonblight quickly. So he starts the hunt, gets a tutorial popup explaining that very thing and reiterating the part with the dragonblight , reads it out to his audience, immediately gets hit with dragonblight and then proceeds to do nothing about it while beating his head against the fight for hours. The game even repeatedly reminded him audibly that he's actively suffering from dragonblight. Alatreon broke many a brain in a game where everyone was used to choking everything with raw damage and WEX.
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Feb 21, 2024 23:49
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Leal posted:Neir Automata: Hey, just so you know there is no autosave and you will be unable to save until after the prologue I thought it was really funny how many times they tell you there is no auto-save. 
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Feb 22, 2024 00:05
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That said, I like autosaves and the lack of them has put me off Yakuza 0, which is the only Yakuza game I've played. It seems fun, I just didn't know where to save and was completely deflated when I started it up again after having played at least a couple of hours. I started playing video games in the mid 90s but yes, I'm the idiot who wants autosaves and yellow ladders. I'm sorry! Most of my childhood games were extremely miserable!
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Feb 22, 2024 07:32
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Hedgehog Pie posted:That said, I like autosaves and the lack of them has put me off Yakuza 0, which is the only Yakuza game I've played. It seems fun, I just didn't know where to save and was completely deflated when I started it up again after having played at least a couple of hours. If it helps I’m pretty sure Yakuza: Like A Dragon has them, which is considered a pretty good jumping on point. 0 was originally a cross-platform PS3/4 game though, which is why I guess no one thought that would be a good idea until the series fully transitioned to the last console generation.
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Feb 22, 2024 08:18
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I got to the same spot in Yakuza 0 as I did last time I played then stopped. For some reason I have trouble finishing video games
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Feb 22, 2024 08:54
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credburn posted:I thought it was really funny how many times they tell you there is no auto-save. Which, in fairness, does rather suck when the game just plain crashes 20 minutes into the 30 minute prologue, before you can even access a save point. 
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Feb 22, 2024 09:54
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Arivia posted:i'm playing pokemon emerald and i would just like to say: gently caress you, feebas My expression when I saw this post:  Although it's pretty funny in hindsight that they copied the "garbage fish that becomes far greater after evolution" gimmick. But besides looking and acting like garbage they also made it garbage to catch this time, while you couldn't stop fishing Magikarps!
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Feb 22, 2024 10:30
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There is no defending the first chapter of Nier Automata. 30 minutes long with no checkpoints and if you likely die to the boss you have to start over, even though you're still getting your bearings. No other part of the game is this hostile. If you die in the endgame you get warped back to a checkpoint with no progress lost. I can't think of a worst first impression than this game.
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Feb 22, 2024 15:52
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On the other hand, once you do get past the opening, you're certain to have the combat controls down. I've played games where the tutorial was so easy you can do any task first try and where it later turns out you could have used some reinforcing repetition.
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Feb 22, 2024 16:37
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Mierenneuker posted:My expression when I saw this post: If the fishing spots were visible it would be a lot better I think. Less annoying, and it would still facilitate it being changed through Record Mixing with other players. Even better mixing since you’d be able to see it change.
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Feb 22, 2024 16:43
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Inspector Gesicht posted:There is no defending the first chapter of Nier Automata. 30 minutes long with no checkpoints and if you likely die to the boss you have to start over, even though you're still getting your bearings. I died to the boss, then used cheat engine the second time to speedrun through poo poo and kill the boss in one hit. How's that for meta narrative, Yoko Taro!
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Feb 22, 2024 16:45
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Nuebot posted:I actually had a charger hit me so hard I clipped through a bunch of walls and got launched straight into the nest we were supposed to destroy, so I called an airstrike down on myself and went down shooting. SUPER EARTH! SUPER EARTH!
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Feb 22, 2024 22:06
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A little off topic but Dark Souls and Elden Ring get a lot of mention here. Weird to me that there's never been any attempt at making a movie or a TV series. Given the immense popularity of ER and poo poo like GoT, LotR and The Witcher.
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Feb 23, 2024 01:31
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The lack of much in the way of characters or narrative makes it harder.
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The villain of every season is a poison swamp
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Feb 23, 2024 01:51
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Doctor Spaceman posted:The lack of much in the way of characters or narrative makes it harder. True, but that hasn't stopped studios before in many previous instances. They made a loving emoji movie for christ sake. The lore and the story in these games is pretty dense and my least favorite thing about the games but I'd imagine some studio exec would see dollar signs and get a few writers to cobble something together. There's enough memorable settings, bosses and recurring characters to create a film I think.
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Feb 23, 2024 02:01
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Starring the rock and kevin hart as ornstein and smough
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Jack Black as Seath
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