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Rusty posted:I think the difference between the two is (I hope I'm not adding to the misinformation) is that in DD1 making a new game erased your existing save. In DD2, you have to remove the save yourself to make a new game. Yeah, there's no option in DD2 to flat-out just go "New game, gently caress it."
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Alright my review for Dragon's Dogma 2 has switched to negative. I've played for 7 hours now, encountered wolves twice, and none of these worthless pawns mentioned them hunting in packs. What the gently caress.
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mycot posted:It's not good but this whole social media phenomena feels weirdly...forced? Like so much of it is based on literally false information and it is provably not something unique to DD2. Infinite Wealth just did the same thing (selling loving Platinum Plates, on top of actual content like a postgame dungeon) and that got a normal amount of grumbling imo. I promise it’s not a conspiracy when people care more about bad things happening in one game than another
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Tiny Timbs posted:I promise it’s not a conspiracy when people care more about bad things happening in one game than another tbh the stuff quoted in this post is what confuses me more mycot posted:See this is what I don't get, where is stuff like this coming from? It's obviously a deliberate spin made by someone, but why?
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mycot posted:tbh the stuff quoted in this post is what confuses me more In the continued tale of people being normal about this game, for some reason it's only in the comments of a lady and a black guy that any of the myriad people as "featured" pawns in the game are getting blowback so y'know there's definitely some of Those Types out and about Dunno if that's related but I'm definitely taking this as an inverse Bethesda and just waiting two weeks to see where reviews are after the honeymoon (anti-honeymoon?) is over
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claw game handjob posted:In the continued tale of people being normal about this game, for some reason it's only in the comments of a lady and a black guy that any of the myriad people as "featured" pawns in the game are getting blowback so y'know there's definitely some of Those Types out and about vinegarsun
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Fun Times! posted:Alright my review for Dragon's Dogma 2 has switched to negative. I've played for 7 hours now, encountered wolves twice, and none of these worthless pawns mentioned them hunting in packs. What the gently caress. Thanks. I was feeling my financial resolve slipping away, but this settles it for good. Literally unplayable. 
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Fun Times! posted:Alright my review for Dragon's Dogma 2 has switched to negative. I've played for 7 hours now, encountered wolves twice, and none of these worthless pawns mentioned them hunting in packs. What the gently caress. Two wolves in seven hours doesn’t sound like a pack to me so maybe the pawns are right
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TeaJay posted:How's the performance on that one? It's definitely on my checklist. runs pretty decent, from memory I'd say like the first title minus the launch issues (no stutters, no shader caching shenanigans) also nixxes was involved in porting it so might have something to do with their ability to make very good ports.
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Goa Tse-tung posted:also the real reason you should poo poo on Capcom is their policy on mods My experience with RE8 recently was that i was looking for a mod that fixed the god awful FOV and vignette. The mod was taken down from NexusMods and the author said it was some legal stuff??  So I had to go to GitHub to install it. I don’t really know the specifics but I would be worried about buying a $70 game and have to deal with a weird legal happy company that makes you stand by their design choices *or else*.
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ImpAtom posted:They're really not. They are, in fact, less confusing than some of Capcom's other games. Look at MHW's DLC. Aren't those all cosmetic?
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sebmojo posted:Aren't those all cosmetic? There's some minor gameplay stuff in there too, plus the aforementioned "being able to change your character looks" thing. It isn't anything major, mind you, but neither is DD's. Like genuinely the DD DLC is like on the level of "Buy some potions, hi-potions and mega-potions!" It's dumb and nobody should buy it but even if you bought it your advantage would be like... a couple of extra consumables and some bonus riftbucks which are only useful for buying more consumables or hiring overleveled pawns and which you get from playing. ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Mar 22, 2024 |
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Kulu Yaku will be day 1 DLC for MH:Wilds
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mycot posted:Yeah there is almost certainly some kind of wacky meta twist involving your player character like the ending of the first game. what was the twist in dd1?
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Kly posted:what was the twist in dd1? Your pawn becomes a real boy/gal and the postgame is spent playing them instead.
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ImpAtom posted:There's some minor gameplay stuff in there too, plus the aforementioned "being able to change your character looks" thing. It isn't anything major, mind you, but neither is DD's. Like genuinely the DD DLC is like on the level of "Buy some potions, hi-potions and mega-potions!" It's dumb and nobody should buy it but even if you bought it your advantage would be like... a couple of extra consumables and some bonus riftbucks which are only useful for buying more consumables or hiring overleveled pawns and which you get from playing. It's cool that none of that bothers you, but the mobile Monster Hunter game had healing potions for sale and that specific thing is what killed any interest I had in trying it.
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Triarii posted:It's cool that none of that bothers you, but the mobile Monster Hunter game had healing potions for sale and that specific thing is what killed any interest I had in trying it. You play Helldivers 2.
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Love ideological purity tests in the Steam thread Great stuff
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this discourse makes me want to buy the stupidest possible DLC out of spite yes, sure atlus, i will absolutely pay you $2.99 for (checks description) two character portraits of persona 5 characters for etrian odyssey 2
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But I like the game your poo poo talking so I need to find a way to invalidate you I must defend these corporations with my life
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Triarii posted:It's cool that none of that bothers you, but the mobile Monster Hunter game had healing potions for sale and that specific thing is what killed any interest I had in trying it. I think there is a really big difference in the economy of a f2p mobile game that nags you to buy healing potions or grind 18 hrs for premium currency to buy healing potions or else stop playing, VS a single player RPG that has some dumb poo poo for sale that doesn’t matter because it is nearly immediately acquirable in game without a multi day premium currency grind. But it is extremely stupid that Capcom did this, and since this game is riding a fat wave of Elden Ring adjacent mass interest (alongside the hyped up heroic tale of its 12 year hiatus and triumphant return) it checks out, forlorn as it makes me, that it’s getting a huge amount of poo poo for it, even if DD1 et al had the same dumbass crop of useless Michael Transactions. If you pick it up on sale down the line you will likely have a dope time — and by that point hopefully it finally fuckin runs well too.
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ImpAtom posted:You play Helldivers 2. Yeah, it sucks there too. The game is probably much worse for being built around microtransactions.
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ZearothK posted:Hey, how was Audiosurf 2, btw? I'll let my play time speak for itself: Audiosurf - 47 hours. Audiosurf 2 - 5 hours. It's been 6 years since I played either, so I've no idea what my issues were, sorry.
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Triarii posted:Yeah, it sucks there too. The game is probably much worse for being built around microtransactions. It lets you get everything for free just from playing at least, I'm not gonna spend a cent extra on it. The awful anticheat and funky online services are much more irritating, my friend who got the game can't join anybody or be joined and nothing he's tried has fixed it yet.
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Edit: Probably best to let it drop.
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SHUBNIGGURATHS CLIT posted:I think there is a really big difference in the economy of a f2p mobile game that nags you to buy healing potions or grind 18 hrs for premium currency to buy healing potions or else stop playing, VS a single player RPG that has some dumb poo poo for sale that doesn’t matter because it is nearly immediately acquirable in game without a multi day premium currency grind. But it is extremely stupid that Capcom did this, and since this game is riding a fat wave of Elden Ring adjacent mass interest (alongside the hyped up heroic tale of its 12 year hiatus and triumphant return) it checks out, forlorn as it makes me, that it’s getting a huge amount of poo poo for it, even if DD1 et al had the same dumbass crop of useless Michael Transactions. If you pick it up on sale down the line you will likely have a dope time — and by that point hopefully it finally fuckin runs well too. I can see the difference, but you'd have to have played both games and gotten pretty familiar with their economies to really appreciate why one is awful and the other is no big deal. When it comes to people making snap judgements and getting mad on the internet, I don't blame them for looking at the big lists of fast travel widgets for $1.99 and whatnot and deciding "oh, it's one of those games". Like, to avoid that kind of judgement, Capcom would have to have some ridiculous disclaimer banner above the DLC that says "absolutely none of this matters, you can get all of this in-game with no effort" at which point...just don't do all that.
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Has there ever been a music/Rhythm game that synced up to Spotify or Apple Music or whatever? That always seemed like the next thing those games should do. Bring back Audiosurf with Spotify integration. And Vib Ribbon while you’re at it.
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i remember an asteroids-like rhythm game which just listened to all of the audio playing on your system so you could use any source you wanted, forgot the name though the problem is that automatic charting just doesn't work very well e: vv yeah it was beat hazard repiv fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Mar 23, 2024 |
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Bumhead posted:Has there ever been a music/Rhythm game that synced up to Spotify or Apple Music or whatever? Beat Hazard 3 supports input via Line-In Audio, which means you can feed it anything you want, including any streaming services, and control whatever app via your phone without leaving the game.
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Edit: My bad, moving on. I think we generally agree about what sucks here anyway. Edit2: But I do think it's funny that DD2's minimum hardware reqs literally exactly describe my computer, and say "you'll get 30 fps with this, lower when things get intense" Triarii fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Mar 23, 2024 |
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nvm, it was dropped
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I think it's pretty well established that nobody likes MTX, we're just all disagreeing about the correct way to be mad about them
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MTX was good when they called it "shareware"
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Triarii posted:Edit: My bad, moving on. I think we generally agree about what sucks here anyway. Yeah, at the end of the day we all agree it sucks.
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Hwurmp posted:MTX was good when they called it "shareware"
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Shareware was just sparkling demos.
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just want to mention that I saw on itch.io that I own Death of a Wish, the 2024 sequel to Lucah: Born of a Dream, and it's because I got it in the 2022 queer games bundle (the same one that had ADACA in it) so if you got that bundle you might have it too. idk if it was early access at one point. oh and yea also make sure to play ADACA episode 3 which just came out
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Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery opinions, 4 hours in: It's really good! A surprisingly deep strategy RPG with a lot of good ideas, gorgeous graphics and some challenging gameplay on top. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmGk2j3elPc&t=823s       It's like a mixture of a lot of games so hard to compare to just one. There are named characters with unique abilities, you can allocate skill points, weapons have different effective ranges, and there's a very robust stealth system you can drop into any time considering you are almost always massively outnumbered. Terrain and the bonuses it gives are hugely important, and line of sight is a constant gameplay element even without taking into account the weather changes that sometimes happen during missions. The use of consumable items is HEAVILY encouraged to the point of being able to save/load different loadouts before missions, and there are a ton of items from tripwires that cause status effects to scanners that let you reveal an area covered with the fog of war. It's a very fleshed-out combat system and the difficulty of getting an S-rank is pretty good on top, been a while since a game has had a decent challenge even during the introductory missions. You also get rewarded by killing special enemies or reaching specific locations, usually with attachments for your guns or rare crafting materials. Now, the plot to start is a pretty by-the-book, grim, sci-fi future resource war sort of deal but the trailer shows some crazy poo poo going on so up to you whether or not you want to be spoiled on that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3IOkW4MWcg Either way, I would highly recommend the game and I'm also happy to report the translation is great and actual english rather than the machine translation junk a lot of these games often have. Only one funny error that's more context based than anything else. I think for 20 bucks it's a huge steal.
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