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Sally posted:agreed. and frankly subsequent Resistance games never captured that same balance. Fall of Man was a brilliant shooter, if admittedly slow to kick off I loved how it was playing through War of the Worlds in all but name. London and England, the right time period, it was surprisingly well-crafted for a PS3 exclusive shooter when being a PS3 exclusive shooter was a synonym for "garbage."
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Rockman Reserve posted:
Hey man I hate the Pit as much as the next guy but it's got nothing, in my opinion, on that bone-white Cathedral that has thin paths overlapping each other and even with a map is a pain to navigate. You can see the entire area from various vantage points but it's impossible to parse what's what. Also it's unsettling as hell to me for some reason and I hated being there.
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As someone who did a 100% LP of Code Vein I can say with complete sincerity that the cathedral was awful
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that's anime dark souls right Or am I thinking of scarlet nexis
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gah i remembered there was a bunch of people complaining about the cathedral a while back and the thought of a worse area simultaneously worries me and makes me extremely curious to see e: and yeah it’s sort of like anime dark souls but more like they had an anime character action vampire game 3/4 of the way through development and then slapped some stats and levels on it at the last minute
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Meowywitch posted:that's anime dark souls right It styles itself as anime bloodborne except it's more like the chalice dungeons. Currently playing through Code Vein, it's the second half of the cathedral that's the worst. If I had the option to move the map then maybe it would be better but as it is its just layers on layers of overlapping footprints. Rockman Reserve posted:and your companion constantly barks “I hope we get out of here soon” and “the terrain doesn’t favor us”, incessantly, as if you are not already keenly aware that this is the video game equivalent of Hell You can turn off character barks in the options, I would recommend it. They might occasionally point out something useful but it's not frequent enough to be worth it. I find the damage indication (?) a problem. Like if my character is hit by something big or heavy, they yell/stagger and there's vibration on the controller but enemy light attacks don't have a reaction or vibration (as far as I've noticed). Considering how quickly attacks eat through your health I can be taking chip damage from a weapon backswing and not notice until the pulsing red screen edges.
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oh god the pulsing screen edges reminds me of another thing, you build up your max ichor (MP essentially) by doing big windup charge attacks on energy except the charge attacks don’t seem to have reliable i-frames, and they make the controller shake and screen flash red like your health is critical, so basically any time i fire one off i’m staring at the bottom of the screen to see if i got hit during an attack during the animation and if i connected and got the ichor at all because the effect for both is so similar
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WWE2k24 It has a lot going for it, and while it has corrected a lot of jank from previous versions, there are a few things that annoy me. Character Creation - It's big, there are layers and most of the navigation makes sense, but there are two big annoying things. First, there are some CAC items that are not available from the get go. They have to be unlocked by playing in other modes, or buying from the in-game store, which is fine. What I don't care for is that these items are strewn about the grid system, seemingly at random. There's no 'sort' option I've found to exclude items that I haven't unlocked yet. In fact, point 2 is that there's almost no sort system to speak of at all. If I want to pick out a hairstyle, I can categorize from All, Generic(?), Short or Long. OK, I guess. And technically, items appear in the same order across all 4 of those options. Hairstyle 26 will come after Hairstyle 23 in every list. But there's no label on anything and the preview is not very clear. Is the hairstlye in grid 7A a better look than the one in 8C? Who knows? If they were broken down into generic names like crewcut 1-14 at least I'd know what I was looking at, but when you have dreadlocks next to a mohawk, but separate from other dreadlocks it's a lot to figure out. And the clothes are just as bad. The difference between shirt A, B and C is that one is tucked in, one is not, and the third has an ugly little logo on it, but you can't see that from the preview window. Maybe I'm missing something there, and there's a sort that I just didn't find yet. EDIT: I remembered the other thing that kind of bugs me. There is a story mode for your created character to go through, and I think it's the same basic storyline from one of these games 20 years ago. You're an established, but low level, relative unknown wrassler, and almost immediately, you are thrown into a title match. You play through a certain part of that match when typical WWE scripted drama happens, and due to outside interference, you win the belt. Now everyone is looking to take it from you, and/or calling you out for cheating to win. Also, the guy who handed you the win is a piece of poo poo who insists on his superiority, but as of yet, I have no opportunity to make him eat his words. And that's more or less OK. I know there will be some big showdown or another to finish the story. But every match, minus 1 so far, has been a title match and a story failure if I lose. It would be boring as a viewer if this nobody came up at summer slam, won the title, and then every match after was for the title, and the holder won time after time. The game advertises branching paths in the story, how about an option where my OC loses and has to deal with that fallout? I screwed up, I need to fight my way back to get another shot at the title. CzarChasm has a new favorite as of 22:59 on Mar 20, 2024 |
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Morpheus posted:It's very bizarre to me that people don't explore UIs. Like, this what my thought process when I first played: there's a big flashing thing at the top that says something, so I press the button. Now there's a menu with a couple things I can enter, one costs some sort of currency so that's out, the other doesn't, so what's inside? A bunch of stuff, including guns. The guns seem to have stats when I press a button, so they probably aren't cosmetics like the cape and the helmet, which seem like they're just fashionable things. So I get the gun. Or I don't, since I don't remember if you start with medals. People automatically filter out and ignore things that look like ads http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/papers/banner_blindness.pdf
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Anyone who grew up trying to download warez from a geocities page on a 56k modem knows the actual link is the tiny almost hidden text in between giant flashing dick-enlargement banners.
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Tunicate posted:People automatically filter out and ignore things that look like ads I'm convinced that the people who don't see the issue here actually haven't played any modern live service games, at all. Because if you have, you would immediately look at the way the Acquisitions/Warbond menu is framed and go 'oh yeah, this is the battle pass, it's gonna be full of FOMO cosmetics'. It's separate and blinking because it's the live service game equivalent of a banner ad. And then you look in one of them and you see, sure enough, that it's mostly cosmetics. It's designed exactly like Fortnite's battle passes, and Fortnite has weapon skins in there, so it's a natural assumption that you're looking at weapon skins. Genuinely, the only way I can see that someone completely takes in that menu is if they've never played any game that's done this before.
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Or has eyes and the ability to perceive differences between things.
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Morpheus posted:Hey man I hate the Pit as much as the next guy but it's got nothing, in my opinion, on that bone-white Cathedral that has thin paths overlapping each other and even with a map is a pain to navigate. You can see the entire area from various vantage points but it's impossible to parse what's what. Isn't it after the pit? It's been a while since I've played Code Vein so I could be wrong. Code Vein has a lot of levels that suck.
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ZeusCannon posted:Or has eyes and the ability to perceive differences between things. Take thirty seconds to actually look at something? Preposterous. Next thing you know you’ll want me to hit Tab to see a weapons stats!
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JackSplater posted:But then the game gets balanced around them, because if you have a preset middle-ground weapon why not use it for balance, and it makes the other guns feel situational. Which would be fine in a game where you can carry more than 2 weapons at a time. Bring back weapon wheels, damnit. All games should have exactly 10 firearms in them, mapping to the number keys. You carry all of them at once.
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The Lone Badger posted:All games should have exactly 10 weapon categories in them, mapping to the number keys. You carry all of them at once. Fixed that for you.
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The Lone Badger posted:All games should have exactly 10 firearms in them, mapping to the number keys. You carry all of them at once. Huh, Serious Sam or Doomguy would probably break Helldivers 2's balance.
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RareAcumen posted:Huh, Serious Sam or Doomguy would probably break Helldivers 2's balance. Of course, they're a completely different brand of shooterman, the opposite of an expendable grunt doomed to die.
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The Lone Badger posted:All games should have exactly 10 firearms in them, mapping to the number keys. You carry all of them at once.  As many weapons as possible as long as they're creative, but each category shares the same ammo pool amongst its weapons, so I can carry the pistol *I* want, the machine gun *I* want, the gimmicky weapon *I* want... none of this "Oh, you like the Drunk Missles? Well gently caress you the level designers forgot it existed, here's 2000 rounds for the missile launcher you like the least. Better stop holding on to your favorite guns, you'll never see ammo for them." Say what you will about the Far Cry games, but at least they let me use the guns I want.
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Randalor posted:
Did they finally stop trying to force you to use the lovely bow? They even made an entire game about it and it was still the worst weapon in it.
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Randalor posted:... but I actually like the bow Then you probably didn't notice the issue, TBF the bow isn't actually bad, it's just that for each game they seemed to want the player to use it more. But rather than adding things to it to make it more attractive, they kept removing options from other weapons, like in 4, where there is pretty much no other silent weapon for a long time, or Primal where they removed all firearms, but still left in the spear which was just better and more interesting. The Modern Tomb Raider reboots did much the same thing, with Shadow even forcing you to use it for certain stretches of the game by Lara just straight up refusing to use the guns she's carrying.
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I almost never use any other weapons in the Tomb Raider games besides the bow, it's just too good. Weirdly enough though, the reboots also had some really satisfying shotguns.
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Randalor posted:... but I actually like the bow If any shooter gives you a bow, it will be the best weapon in the game. I'm not sure exactly why, but this happens really consistently.
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Hel posted:Did they finally stop trying to force you to use the lovely bow? They even made an entire game about it and it was still the worst weapon in it. No
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Morpheus posted:Hey man I hate the Pit as much as the next guy but it's got nothing, in my opinion, on that bone-white Cathedral that has thin paths overlapping each other and even with a map is a pain to navigate. You can see the entire area from various vantage points but it's impossible to parse what's what. I liked the game had a map with a history of where the character has been (I wish all soulslikes had that), but that was not enough to overcome that 3D maze of a level. Tunicate posted:People automatically filter out and ignore things that look like ads 
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I've been replaying Mario Odyssey this week, and finally got around to collecting the 250 power moons you need to get to the first postgame area, and what shows up there? A checkpointless gauntlet of all the rabbit bosses and their mech. Fuuuck that, I didn't like any of those the first time around. And on top of that, you have to find another 250 moons to get to whatever the next new thing is? No thanks, this is one of those times where you hit that exact moment where a game asks you to do something and you know your playthrough has ended right there.
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I'm not sure if this is something for this thread or the "PYF little things" thread, but here goes: I started playing Yakuza Kiwami finally. Majima was introduced. That's it. I think that cutscene gave me actual whiplash... Do I get to hurt him? Please say yes.
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lol "will I get to fight Majima in Yakuza Kiwami?" buddy you don't even know
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kazil posted:lol "will I get to fight Majima in Yakuza Kiwami?" buddy you don't even know 
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Since it was brought up, Majima Everywhere is a phenomenal idea dragged down by shoddy implementation on multiple levels: - too much HP for how much you’ll fight him - too much grinding since theres variants of the different Majima’s that count separately, but the game doesn’t just replace Brawler Majima with Zombie Majima and just make the latter harder, you have to hope you find that specific guy and the other three enough times for their skill modes - if you reach the chapter based Majima Everywhere level cap then he just chills out in the park thinking of new ways to gently caress with Kiryu, which sounds good…until you find out that you’re not allowed to do the Komaki training and grab Tiger Drop either - too much experience, it’s pretty baffling since the last two Yakuza games made before Kiwami (Ishin and Zero) have ways to level up forever so there’s no “wasted” experience but you’ll probably ram the 9999 level cap with his stuff so the battles feel truly pointless. To be fair though, Majima accosts Kiryu when he tries to do the most mundane poo poo possible is peak Yakuza comedy so it’s not all bad, just frustrating since you’d really only have to tweak a lot of that other stuff with a patch.
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Captain Hygiene posted:I've been replaying Mario Odyssey this week, and finally got around to collecting the 250 power moons you need to get to the first postgame area, and what shows up there? A checkpointless gauntlet of all the rabbit bosses and their mech. Fuuuck that, I didn't like any of those the first time around. i've been playing Odyssey for the first time the past few weeks...just got to this part myself. if you havent already, turn on Assist Mode. makes it way more forgiving. now that i'm done the game i just wanna cruise around and collect moons. there's no need to worry about health between fights. once you beat the gauntlet, the reward is kind of... eh... some obstacle course rooms and a bunch of riddles for power moons in other kingdoms. this wont be a game i am 100%ing ha
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I've said this before and probably in this very thread but even though Nintendo generally makes some good games their post-game challenges generally suck dick. Give me some midpoints motherfuckers. Actually saying that Wonder did have some checkpoints in its marathon level so I guess they're getting better.
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They should combine Majima Everywhere with Shadow of War's nemesis system. He keeps coming back with new gimmicks, strengths and weaknesses, etc.
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Final boss - Majima with Therapy.
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:I've said this before and probably in this very thread but even though Nintendo generally makes some good games their post-game challenges generally suck dick. Give me some midpoints motherfuckers. It's not technically Nintendo, Rare I believe, but Donkey Kong 64 has you beating the original Donkey Kong arcade to 100% the game and that's just loving insane.
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BioEnchanted posted:Final boss - Majima with Therapy.  Majima attacks Kiryu at the therapy office
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:I've said this before and probably in this very thread but even though Nintendo generally makes some good games their post-game challenges generally suck dick. Give me some midpoints motherfuckers. The Wonder one sucked in a different way, because I only ever used like 3 of the powers in the main game, so having to learn all of them from scratch was way way harder than it needed to be.
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CzarChasm posted:WWE2k24 For some reason, this made me remember one of the earliest Smackdown games where you walked around backstage to choose your story path/title hunt by talking to the different wrestlers. One option was you could immediately team up with someone for the tag titles, and if you won, credits rolled. Winning the tag team titles in one match was the entire storyline for that particular belt.
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