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| Return |
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9 | 9.38% |
| Revolutions |
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7 | 7.29% |
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1 | 1.04% |
| Rental property |
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23 | 23.96% |
| Restoration |
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3 | 3.13% |
| Rebar |
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14 | 14.58% |
| Renegade |
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3 | 3.13% |
| Red XIII's party hour |
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36 | 37.50% |
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Dabir posted:E: There's also a New Game+ system, and a guide I looked at just now claims you can't get all Augments on your first run no matter what. Apparently, characters' stat gains at high levels (like 70+) depend on what abilities they have actively equipped when they level up, like Espers in FF6, so if you want to 100% the game by maxing everyone's stats and getting all the Augments there's a really specific guide you need to follow. But if you just want to get through the story, I wouldn't worry too much about it. Just try to give two Augments to characters whose abilities seem useful, so that you'll get all three of theirs in return. Yeah except you can only do NG+ twice. Which is, like, why make that limitation?
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Mar 15, 2024 02:44
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Man do I play Granblue Relink or Unicorn Overlord this weekend... Too many good games.
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Mar 15, 2024 03:01
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Dabir posted:Yeah, for sure, getting to the credits just takes thoughtful play and understanding your options in battle, the tedious spreadsheet following is not at all required unless you're a dedicated achievement hunter. Yeah, I just wasn't sure whether it was "You need a guide (because the game never tells you that you should give your permanent upgrades to temporary party members)" or "You need a guide (because you need to give Skill A to Porom and Skill B to Edward and Skill C to Young Rydia, and if you do it differently you won't get The Good Stuff)"
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Mar 15, 2024 03:02
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I’ve been playing balatro
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Mar 15, 2024 03:24
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Ibblebibble posted:Man do I play Granblue Relink or Unicorn Overlord this weekend... No wrong choice! Loved both games.
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Mar 15, 2024 03:25
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Welp, resolution broken. I wasn't able to make it a whole year of not buying any games. So what got me - FF7R, DD 2, Like a Dragon 8....NOPE it was a bunch of rpgs for steam like Wasteland 3, Avernum 1-6, Deathtrap Dungeon, Age of Decadence , Blade of Darkness, Outward, Gothic 1-3 and Black Geyser.
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Mar 15, 2024 03:28
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Jay Rust posted:I’ve been playing balatro I fear getting this game because I know it will eat up every single waking moment of mine. I said come in! posted:No wrong choice! Loved both games. Yeah last I played I was at early Proud difficulty in Relink, I just got real busy around that time. And Unicorn Overlord's been peak as hell for me, so it's hard to choose.
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Mar 15, 2024 03:38
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Spider-Man: Miles Morales continues the Insomniac Spider-Man tradition of having a suit with really good toon shading that makes me wonder why we don't have a whole game that looks like this
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Mar 15, 2024 04:35
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Waffleman_ posted:Spider-Man: Miles Morales continues the Insomniac Spider-Man tradition of having a suit with really good toon shading that makes me wonder why we don't have a whole game that looks like this i haven't worked with anything as high end as that, but my assumption is that, much like with lower fidelity models, getting toon shading to look good requires a lot of loving around with custom normal maps and various shader tricks for things like rim lighting that would be impractical to do for an entire game
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Mar 15, 2024 04:39
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But there's so many teraflops now! How much more teraflop do we need!?
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Mar 15, 2024 04:41
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Every day we stray further from the light of Viewtiful Joe
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Mar 15, 2024 05:00
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It's not the flops, it's the labour, they basically have to hand paint every frame and companies won't pay for it.
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Mar 15, 2024 05:02
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Shard posted:Welp, resolution broken. I wasn't able to make it a whole year of not buying any games. So what got me - FF7R, DD 2, Like a Dragon 8....NOPE The Geneforge 2 remake releases next week!
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Mar 15, 2024 05:13
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FutureCop posted:Hmm, well, the 3D Remake being a bit harder might actually be a plus in my book as I like to avoid just spamming attack, but then again, if y'all are bringing it up in the first place, I assume that it's meant that the difficulty isn't actually challenging but rather unbalanced or awkward, like it requires you to stop and run laps to grind too often instead of just flowing, or it's needlessly tedious and time-wasting from spongy enemies, or it's filled with dumb insta-death traps you can't see coming. Is that about right? And if it's already hard by default, I'd hate to see what it's like on it's hard difficulty, haha! In the SNES/Pixel Remaster versions you largely ignore enemy gimmicks and just hit everything with your strongest attack/spell. In the 3D version doing that will get you wiped out pretty quickly. You also need to level more in the 3D version, but I recall it as being more of a "fight all the encounters instead of skipping them" thing and not a "spend an hour grinding here before the next boss" thing, though if you really struggle against a boss grinding another level or two can certainly help. We mention it because it can come as quite a surprise for anyone who's played the 16-bit FFs and gotten used to just brute forcing things.
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Mar 15, 2024 05:27
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Carpet posted:What do people use for standalone gaming microphones these days? Lots of recommendations for stuff like the Elgato Wave3 or the Blue Yeti which seem a bit more designed for streaming or podcasting rather than just online gaming. I got this Fifine mic for $15 after seeing some good reviews online and it has worked just fine. Way better than using a "gamer headset" for sure, I just have it at the back corner of my desk and don't have to be particularly close or anything. Looks like they've added an extra 3 bucks to the price since then though. It sounds fine: https://voca.ro/1nekKPEuHN27
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Mar 15, 2024 06:56
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All versions of FF4 are good. Can't go wrong with any of them
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Mar 15, 2024 10:08
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Wishing I could forget Bloodborne, so I could experience it again for the first time. Just inject the first 1min 12secs of Gehrman, the First Hunter into my veins on loop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V9zxXN1rx0 Cannot accurately describe how jaw dropping the opening to that fight was with that playing.
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Mar 15, 2024 10:35
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I would also like to experience Bloodborne for the first time!
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Mar 15, 2024 11:30
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fridge corn posted:All versions of FF4 are good. Can't go wrong with any of them I never really got around to the PSP version. The Advance version is just silly. I like that every version of FF4 is basically a different game with the same story.
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Mar 15, 2024 12:11
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Snake Maze posted:I’ve never played FF4 DS - how does it work out if you go in blind (but know that, yes, you should give augments to everybody, even the characters that you know are going to die). Would you still end up with junk? Or would you have endgame abilities, just maybe not the optimal ones you’d choose if you could pick anything you wanted?
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Mar 15, 2024 12:35
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I actually like knowing everything about Bloodborne. These days I can get all the way to that electric skeleton dog without dying once. That game feels like putting on your most comfortable shoes.
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Mar 15, 2024 15:08
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Speaking of Bloodborne. Return to Yharnam is up next on the "Return to ____" rotation. The 24th - April 8th. Good time to check in on the ol' cum dungeon, ayup.
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Mar 15, 2024 15:45
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Nate RFB posted:If you go in blind you'll probably wind up missing out on the specific best augments, since it's not "you should give augments to everybody" it's "make sure to give at least 1 or 2 augments to these specific characters before they leave the party". This does not mean you'll wind up with junk though, just that you would not get whatever super OP augments they'd give out. I found this system infuriating because some of the most interesting augments seemed to be NG++. I don’t care how much I enjoy the game, I’m not going to play it 3 times back to back. Shard posted:I actually like knowing everything about Bloodborne. These days I can get all the way to that electric skeleton dog without dying once. That game feels like putting on your most comfortable shoes. Pushing memories of my childhood out of my brain in favor of the muscle memory of exactly where I can stand that amygdala can’t land on me.
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Mar 15, 2024 16:26
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Jerusalem posted:I would also like to experience Bloodborne for the first time!
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Mar 15, 2024 16:39
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Jerusalem posted:I would also like to experience Bloodborne for the first time!
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Mar 15, 2024 19:18
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Snake Maze posted:Yeah, I just wasn't sure whether it was "You need a guide (because the game never tells you that you should give your permanent upgrades to temporary party members)" or "You need a guide (because you need to give Skill A to Porom and Skill B to Edward and Skill C to Young Rydia, and if you do it differently you won't get The Good Stuff)" The main reason you cannot get all inherited augments on your first playthrough is that by the time the first three party members have left for good, you'll only have been able to collect a maximum of four augments. Guides generally suggest skipping the first character on the first playthrough because the extra inherited augments aren't especially strong (though they can still be useful), so only having two copies of those on a complete New Game+ file isn't a problem. (They also suggest skipping another character on the first round, too - you'd have enough augments but it would mean giving up a few too many useful augments for your final party.) DalaranJ posted:I found this system infuriating because some of the most interesting augments seemed to be NG++. I don’t care how much I enjoy the game, I’m not going to play it 3 times back to back. Hogama fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Mar 15, 2024 |
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Mar 15, 2024 19:46
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I've posted about it before but it's also worth noting that the Augments you get for just playing the game are some of the best available. There's some good ones in the lost-character augments but a lot of them are kind of eh. And more to the point nothing in the game expects you to have that. The Augment min-maxing "MUST USE PERFECT" stuff is 100% for replays of the game to build up to the superboss, which if you don't care about doing means there's no reason to even stress.
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Mar 15, 2024 19:52
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ImpAtom posted:I've posted about it before but it's also worth noting that the Augments you get for just playing the game are some of the best available. There's some good ones in the lost-character augments but a lot of them are kind of eh.
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Mar 15, 2024 19:58
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ImpAtom posted:I've posted about it before but it's also worth noting that the Augments you get for just playing the game are some of the best available. There's some good ones in the lost-character augments but a lot of them are kind of eh. Also since it's a PC game I just used Cheat Engine to give me whatever Augments I felt like having. I like FF4, but playing it multiple times to collect all the Augments was not my bag.
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Mar 15, 2024 20:03
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Hogama posted:To be absolutely crystal clear, you need to give two (2) augments to any character that will permanently leave the party before they do so (except the twins, who need a minimum of one each and three altogether) if you want the extra inherited augments from the next time you meet them (or their representative, as the case may be). Augments persist through both New Game+ cycles, so this only needs to be done once (i.e. you don't have to give the twins nine augments). Sadly only the original DS version gives you two limit breaks, only get one in every other version.
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Mar 15, 2024 21:52
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BrokenLink posted:Sadly only the original DS version gives you two limit breaks, only get one in every other version.
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Mar 15, 2024 22:12
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Limit Break is also not really anywhere as useful as it is in other games since breaking 9999 damage limit isn't really significant unless you're using Ultima which genuinely sucks for the fights where you'd need to break 9999 because it requires you to Twincast with Rosa and Cecil which means Rosa isn't buffing/healing/using Holy
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Mar 15, 2024 22:28
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ImpAtom posted:Limit Break is also not really anywhere as useful as it is in other games since breaking 9999 damage limit isn't really significant unless you're using Ultima which genuinely sucks for the fights where you'd need to break 9999 because it requires you to Twincast with Rosa and Cecil which means Rosa isn't buffing/healing/using Holy it's more of a problem for the stat capping thing, limit break gives +1 to every stat at level up past 70, save for Ultima as you mentioned and throwing the knife with edge, which are more of a gimmick than anything it's really only a choice between Rydia and Kain.
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Mar 15, 2024 23:02
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https://twitter.com/gamedevdotcom/status/1768344091082031206?t=W3PaU7469RqbUPMyOS0VJg&s=19 Respawn got caught in layoffs, mostly the Apex team
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Mar 16, 2024 00:43
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 Wai..wha? Isn't Apex one of their top earners
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Mar 16, 2024 00:48
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drat. Apex was always touted as one of the few BR success stories, but I guess it's been a few years. Stop spawncamping Respawn 
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Mar 16, 2024 00:50
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Infinitum posted:
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Mar 16, 2024 00:51
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Very misleading title. The article is saying they laid off some people from Respawn (23 total), not the whole team... which is around 800 people (according to some site i've never heard of called rocketreach) Layoffs always suck and the game industry really needs better protections & severance policies (and unions!) for employees but they're not shutting down the the studio or anything. RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Mar 16, 2024 |
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Mar 16, 2024 00:51
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Waffleman_ posted:I'm playing the PS2 remake of Dragon Quest V and it's got the classic first person battles and when one of the monsters jumps at the screen to attack me, I still sometimes jump My brother actually just finished that last month. I watched him play the whole thing (in Japanese) (he doesn't know Japanese) That version is so cute though, I love the character models so much.
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Mar 16, 2024 01:33
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Of the franchise I mostly played the GBC Warrior Monsters game. How draconic are the main games, are you usually on a quest involving a dragon or is it like Unicorn Overlord and that's just the team mascot of the Dragon boys club.
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