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the only multiplayer i play regularly these days is iracing. but that's a totally different system from most regular racing games. you have a safety rating as well as your usual mmr skill rating. if you drive like a dickhead in any way, or are abusive through text/voice, anyone in your race session can file a protest. each one is looked over by a real person and if it's upheld, they get punished. particularly bad incidents can get you suspended from the service. there really is a no tolerance policy for assholes and it's the only time i feel like i'm playing a game with actual adults 99% of the time.
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The Moon Monster posted:One of the reasons I dropped off Destiny is because it didn't have matchmaking for raids (aka the coolest content that the developers obviously cared the most about) and I didn't care enough to put forth the effort to maintain a spot in a good raid group. On the other hand based on the few times I tried a third party matchmaker they would have had to massively dumb things down to make them completable by a group of randos, so who can say what's right or wrong There is a real Catch-22 quality to Destiny and raids. Its the coolest content by far, but also the hardest, and it all requires everyone on the raid to coordinate in a way thats anathema to multiplayer FPS games. As you mentioned there's no matchmaking, partially because getting stuck with a couple of no-mics would make it impossible and also because of the time commitment to the raid, however this means you either join a raid guild and commit to running the raid 2-3x a week at a minimum, or you're jumping through a shitload of hoops to end back up with a couple of no-mics (or squeakers) to have them not understand the raid mechanics at all and it ends up being a giant waste of time. Every now and again there's a  secret mission that can be done with 3 people, and they're all fantastic, but there's less than five secret missions across the entirety of Destiny 2 (and I think some may have been vaulted). I really want to love Destiny, but its design is just hosed.
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I like hunt showdown a lot. that there is a good multiplayer fps. I've never queued with random teammates though. that would be weird
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Destiny 2 is so hateful to its players and their desire to have fun and is basically the exact opposite of Helldivers 2 from that perspective
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Mar 20, 2024 23:07
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Destiny broke my heart enough times that I’ll never go back. But I feel like I got the last laugh because A: I only played the games when they were in their “fun” states and hopped out of the wagon whenever Bungie tried to pull some bullshit. And B: I never once paid real money for any kind of cash shop item or season pass.
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Mar 20, 2024 23:42
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I got a Destiny season pass as a pack in with an expansion once and I think that was what cemented my dislike of season passes. They all make games feel like second jobs but somehow Destiny went a lot harder at it than most of them I've seen.
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Mar 20, 2024 23:49
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I had a great time with goons in Destiny 1, despite the constant mocking of my inability to do platforming in FPS games (it's fine in vr but I swear I cannot judge distance at all on a flat screen from a fixed POV). I did play 2 with a few friends but we were burnt out before the second expansion. Shooting feels great, PvP was actually really fun, but drat the different currencies and daily grind got dull fast.
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Mar 20, 2024 23:59
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:the Painted World is kind of a bummer this time around ain't it Priscilla isn't around but the little painter girl looks like she's related. You'd better help her out to atone for your sins.
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Mar 21, 2024 00:03
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The Moon Monster posted:I got a Destiny season pass as a pack in with an expansion once and I think that was what cemented my dislike of season passes. They all make games feel like second jobs but somehow Destiny went a lot harder at it than most of them I've seen. Definitely. When they switched the game over to a season pass model I knew at that exact moment the fun times were over, and I stopped playing for good. No way am I paying a subscription fee to keep playing a game I already bought.
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Mar 21, 2024 00:28
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Barudak posted:Helldivers 2 is decent fun if you play on regular difficulty but if you aren't the sort of person who just has to play on increasing levels of difficulty until you live in a near constant state of heart tremors trying to complete the same missions you've already done several hundred times on proc-gen levels it doesn't have a lot of holding power. This is the exact kind of post people should reply "git good" to It's a pretty chill laid back game until the very final difficulty and even that is easily done by uncoordinated matchmaking groups with no communication. But it's pretty boring on the lower difficulties because not much happens and there's no complexity to the missions and you just kind of sleepwalk through them
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Mar 21, 2024 02:29
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deep dish peat moss posted:This is the exact kind of post people should reply "git good" to It's because basic hand eye coordination is a rarity, even after decades of practice for many people, so aiming and learning a few new things is hard.
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Mar 21, 2024 02:36
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I hope I never get better at video games, I'd feel like such a nerd
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Mar 21, 2024 02:39
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deep dish peat moss posted:This is the exact kind of post people should reply "git good" to If what you took from my post was anything about the difficultly, in and of itself being bad,, rather than the game has nothing to offer but procgen mapsets and increasing difficulty so if you dont find yourself thrilled at playing more but harder, you done goofed. Helldivers 2 and all games of its ilk burn me out quickly because after the initial novelty "same thing but harder" doesn't do anything for me. Barudak fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Mar 21, 2024 |
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Mar 21, 2024 02:39
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:I hope I never get better at video games, I'd feel like such a nerd You beat Dark Souls so you're already extremely good at them, probably like top 0.1%, sorry to be the one to tell you this
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Mar 21, 2024 02:42
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Devils Affricate posted:You beat Dark Souls so you're already extremely good at them, probably like top 0.1%, sorry to be the one to tell you this Finished multiple dark souls so he's probably a statistical anomaly
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Mar 21, 2024 02:43
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Barudak posted:If what you took from my post was anything about the difficultly, in and of itself being bad,, rather than the game has nothing to offer but procgen mapsets and increasing difficulty so if you dont find yourself thrilled at playing more but harder, you done goofed. Helldivers 2 and all games of its ilk burn me out quickly because after the initial novelty "same thing but harder" doesn't do anything for me. What I took from your post is that you said you intentionally play on low tutorial difficulties instead of the difficulties where things actually happen and then say that the game isn't exciting enough because nothing happens in it and it just feels like a progression treadmill  yes, that's because you're playing on the low baby difficulties that exist to introduce you to the game mechanics in a pressure-free environment and should git good enough to play on the difficulties that the game actually happens at, where the fun and exciting gameplay exists.
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Mar 21, 2024 02:45
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I played Mario with a godmode cheat and this game sucks because all you do is hold down right until you're at the end of the stage. I'm not a sweaty enough tryhard to turn off the cheat just so that holding down right becomes harder.
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deep dish peat moss posted:What I took from your post is that you said you intentionally play on low tutorial difficulties instead of the difficulties where things actually happen and then say that the game isn't exciting enough because nothing happens in it and it just feels like a progression treadmill The persons complaints that there were tryhards ruining the experience as they were demanding more investment than they had made already. The game is, in fact, decent fun on regular difficulty level and the player should enjoy them without worrying about tryhards. However, since they were feeling slightly bummed by their experience I pointed out the games progression is moving up the difficulty ranks and if that didn't hold appeal based on their current experience that is in fact the game and they can quit.
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Mar 21, 2024 02:51
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The sweatlords who yell at people only play on low difficulties. If you play with bottom-rung players in literally any game they will be sweatlord ragers.
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I play Helldivers on difficulty 8 & 9 mostly and everyone who plays is hella chill and just laughing and having a good time while they play because the gameplay itself is fun as hell at that level and it's still easy enough for random matchmaking groups to beat it. People who lose at video games and get mad at them and blame others for their failures crank the difficulty down because they can't recognize that they are the problem and just keep getting mad, instead of gitting good. That's what git good means. It's a state of mind, not anything to do with videogaming skill. It's just about learning from your mistakes and being accountable for them and recognizing that you too can improve.
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Overwatch before they added competitive mode was the peak for playing with randos in a competitive FPS. People would react to tryhards by doing something fun like everyone respawning as Zarya or whatever character. Sometimes it even won but even if it didn't it was fun to just goof around with the people who would eventually quarantine themselves. Then they kept patching the game according to a handful of proteams nobody watched and made even casual play the kinda poo poo that attracts angry yellers.
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I encountered, personally, 0 sweatlords while playing but doing so on Japanese time schedule did mean almost everyone I played with was stoned out of their minds and hilarious. Still crapped out and got bored around difficulty 5?6? At around i dunno how many hours like 10?
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Sometimes I like games that are difficult and the challenge is not only enjoyable but feels like where the difficulty should have been first but other times the higher difficulty isn't more fun and just makes things more tedious and annoying. This is a hot take, but games are often made very differently and there's one size fits all for every game let alone every person.
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syntaxfunction posted:This is a hot take, but games are often made very differently and there's one size fits all for every game let alone every person. Wrong there are only three games: halo, dota, and Pokémon.
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jokes posted:Wrong there are only three games: halo, dota, and Pokémon. what the hell are all these Fromsoft things then? I thought they were games, that's why I checked them out! I've been doing this since October!
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:what the hell are all these Fromsoft things then? I thought they were games, that's why I checked them out! I've been doing this since October! you're defending some pretty ancient poo poo in the souls games
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The Moon Monster posted:One of the reasons I dropped off Destiny is because it didn't have matchmaking for raids (aka the coolest content that the developers obviously cared the most about) and I didn't care enough to put forth the effort to maintain a spot in a good raid group. On the other hand based on the few times I tried a third party matchmaker they would have had to massively dumb things down to make them completable by a group of randos, so who can say what's right or wrong when they announced the f2p version it had a bunch of cool old raids from the first few years of the game, long past relevance so there was no loot benefit but they were just for fun to form a party and learn/do with your buddies and then a short while later they permanently deleted all of them from the game lol I was so mad
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:what the hell are all these Fromsoft things then? I thought they were games, that's why I checked them out! I've been doing this since October! They’re Ocarina of Time-likes
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galagazombie posted:They’re Ocarina of Time-likes Haven't you been paying attention? They're I Wanna Be the Guy-likes
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Devils Affricate posted:Haven't you been paying attention? They're I Wanna Be the Guy-likes Finally someone that gets it.
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Waltzing Along posted:The only boss I really struggled with I don't think you have seen. I think I found it
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If it's the Pontif you've got to sidestep his attacks.
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Pretty sure it's Nameless King.
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The real final boss is The Gibbering Hoard, an amorphous blob with an internet connection which spends all day telling no one in particular how much they don't like dark souls
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Thinkin bout Dragon dogma today. Made a pawn that looks like my cat.
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Flowers for QAnon posted:Thinkin bout Dragon dogma today. Made a pawn that looks like my cat. I like the sonic/robotnik pairs that people come up with. Literally the only time I like Sonic things
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I just picked up Dragon's Dogma in the Steam sale. Hopefully it doesn't languish in my unplayed pile, it always sounds cool.
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they're masterworks all, you can't go wrong
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Waltzing Along posted:Pretty sure it's Nameless King. oh I figured it was Sister Freide cuz she brutalized me for a good chunk of this morning.
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Nope. She wasn't easy but not hard. Nameless king is hard. Probably top 5 hardest from boss. I died in him more than rest of ds3 bosses combined. Ironically, he is easy as gently caress for a spellcaster. I didn't kill the dragon, tho. I'd done everything else and couldn't be assed to do a dlc boss for zero content just to say I did. Midir.
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