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Also they had to pay Wizards of the Coast a bunch of money to use the license despite many people thinking it was the other way around. That scenario might have changed after how successful BG3 was, but why pay for a license you probably don't need. At this point I assume they can just release whatever they want like Fromsoft and people will just buy it anyways cause of the developer.
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WaltherFeng posted:Heck I would probably fall for this because the default heroine looks kinda uninspired unless you really are into bodysuits There are supposedly 30 outfits unlockable with the base game alone before you even get to hypothetical downloads. And judging from the demo, there will definitely be looks that aren’t sci fi bodysuit, even if they’re still something you hope nobody walks in on you playing haveblue fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Apr 19, 2024 |
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:SB will probably have all manner of spectacle and snazzy production accent, and getting the blessing of key people who influenced it is 100% part of the marketing strategy. after all, Automata sold 8 million copies on a shoestring budget to the audience Shift Up and Sony are courting here. however, comments from Taro should always be taken with a grain of salt, he's a writer and scenario developer first and foremost, and he often makes very calculated self-deprecating comments about his own projects, sometimes as marketing stunts. he has been very direct about how cynically he approaches the marketing apparatus side of the industry, so i think it's safe to say there will be Stellar Blade x NieR crossover DLC for $9.99 of whatever, and that remarks about this new game benefit him personally downstream. otoh we have next to no info on the scenario design of Stellar Blade and it would probably be presumptuous to think it will have the nuance or meta narrative flourish that Taro joints are known for. i suppose we'll know soon enough tho. I just like love the IGN interview with Yoko Taro and Hyung-tae Kim because it is just two dudes who like action games and pretty ladies gassing each other up.
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Flowing Thot posted:Would have loved an enhanced edition to polish up some parts of that game that need it, I get it though. I really doubt that's off the table since they have done that with all of their games. It's not really the same thing as a real expansion though.
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big nipples big life posted:It has normal and story difficulty in the demo. Normal isn't very hard though, the parry window is so enormous you can just randomly press the button and look like an ace at sekiro. Parrying is probably so easy because of how much you have to use it. There’s still combo, dodge, teleport, rush, etc. mechanics stacked on top
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padijun posted:Parrying is probably so easy because of how much you have to use it. There’s still combo, dodge, teleport, rush, etc. mechanics stacked on top I’m about to parry my cock into my non dominant hand to jerk off while I play Stellar Blade (tm) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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How do you delete someone else’s post
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SilkyP posted:I’m about to parry my cock into my non dominant hand to jerk off while I play Stellar Blade (tm) Chill
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Anti-Hero posted:Is BG3 sort of like Witcher 3 where playing the previous games absolutely is not required? lol no witcher 3 is not like that (its the final "fan" conclusion to 7 books and two prior games ) but bg3 is sure, you'll probably have a better experience cos bg1&2 npcs will show up and you wont piss your pants wondering if larian even bothered playing them before making bg3.
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Having any inkling of the very existence of the wotcher franchise is in no way required to get max enjoyment out of witcher 3
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The Witcher 3 is one of my favourite games and I'm pretty sure I will never play the first two
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You don't need to. The first game is honest-to-god pretty crap anyway. It's always surprising to see mega-hits spawn from mediocre first games. Street Fighter's another good example
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Tgent posted:The Witcher 3 is one of my favourite games and I'm pretty sure I will never play the first two I played the first game when it originally came out (2007). I loved it but I can admit that it was not a very good game. A bit of a chore to play. Witcher 2 was a lot better but still fairly jank.
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ZeeBoi posted:Are the Steelseries Arctis Nova 7p decent headphones? Specifically for use on the PS5. As a PS5 player who bought the Astro A40's I kinda wish I'd kept my HyperX Cloud I headset or upgraded to the III. The Arctis Nova 7p does consistently rank top or high in online reviews though, but I never tried it.
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After how cool the Echoes of the Fallen boss was I really did not expect The Rising Tide to just... recycle the Ultima fight for it's central bosses. It's kind of the one real disappointment I have with the DLC. Everything else was cool. The new powers are fun, the new area has better level design and is prettier than anything in the base game, most of the quests involve unique combat encounters or cool unique boss fights, the Bloody Palace equivalent is very well thought out, and the combat tweaks make things much more fun. So overall I like it a lot, but it's weird that the Eikon fight would be where they wound up cutting corners. Especially since it's placed right before the actual Ultima fight in the story... so if you're playing through to the end you'll essentially repeat that fight almost back-to-back.
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:You don't need to. The first game is honest-to-god pretty crap anyway. It's always surprising to see mega-hits spawn from mediocre first games. Street Fighter's another good example At the time, the og Witcher was a big deal in the PC gaming world. and was pretty darn good. 
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Haptical Sales Slut posted:At the time, the og Witcher was a big deal in the PC gaming world. and was pretty darn good. after they spent a year fixing it hmm that's kind of familiar
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Since like, October the only console games I played are FF16, spiderman 2, FF7 rebirth and I’m pretty glad I have a ps5. Tekken 8 also oops. I have the ps+ extra tier and my gaming habits now are just,.. buy the one game I know I’m gonna like and play it for 3 months. I don’t have time anymore to discover a million different games unless we’re talking like $10 indie steam games
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I might play the new ff14 expansion too. Square enix on a roll Octopath 2 also
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Haptical Sales Slut posted:At the time, the og Witcher was a big deal in the PC gaming world. and was pretty darn good. That's not how I remember it. There was a lot of criticism of the stilted gameplay. Stalker, Crysis and Bioshock came out at the same time and they made it look pedestrian. Witcher 2 fared a lot better and is what made the series reach the big time imo, especially the excellent 360 port
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:That's not how I remember it. There was a lot of criticism of the stilted gameplay. Stalker, Crysis and Bioshock came out at the same time and they made it look pedestrian. Yeah it definitely had its fans but it was hardly a darling of the genre. Witcher 2 got more traction - although even then people mostly just talked about what a graphical powerhouse it was.
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:I might play the new ff14 expansion too. Square enix on a roll New SaGa and Mana games out this year too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Tgent posted:The Witcher 3 is one of my favourite games and I'm pretty sure I will never play the first two I may be wrong but, weren't they doing a remaster of the first game? Because I got the collector's edition when it came out, I loved it but nowadays is really rough to play it even with mods.
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The Witcher 3 also took a while for them to fix. At launch if I sprinted around Novigrad I would… outrun the world? Just end up in a grey void because the geometry couldn’t load fast enough. After they fixed that, it would still take several seconds for NPCs to load in after a sprint. Lotsa weird jank like dying by “falling to death” from somehow lethal two foot drops too. I think a lot of people missed the jank of launch because the game took some time to build up to the level of mass popularity it eventually achieved. People there on day 1 just expected some jank. Shipping games and fixing them later has just been CDPR’s thing. But then Cyberpunk both had mass attention at launch and was far worse than their previous launches. Don’t think they’ll be able to repeat that going forward.
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It's been a really long time since I've played it but I vaguely remember Witcher 2 being one of few games that had a choice where it made the next act play out completely differently based on that. How accurate is my memory?
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lordfrikk posted:It's been a really long time since I've played it but I vaguely remember Witcher 2 being one of few games that had a choice where it made the next act play out completely differently based on that. How accurate is my memory? Completely. Act 2 starts you in a different region and gives you different quests depending on who you ally with.
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:That's not how I remember it. There was a lot of criticism of the stilted gameplay. Stalker, Crysis and Bioshock came out at the same time and they made it look pedestrian. Its how it was, youre memory is muddled. 360 port sucks too. Witcher 1 at the time was great dispite tech poo poo. Story is funny now after youve read the books and realize its a mashup best of vol1 tho lol They basically reteil the entire book series in some shape or form in the 3 games just to have fan ending that somehow is better than the books
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Bugblatter posted:Completely. Act 2 starts you in a different region and gives you different quests depending on who you ally with. Yeah it ruled but lmao if you sided with the elf.
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lordfrikk posted:It's been a really long time since I've played it but I vaguely remember Witcher 2 being one of few games that had a choice where it made the next act play out completely differently based on that. How accurate is my memory? It did, yeah. It was kind of like the end of New Vegas where the two versions of the second act took place on the same map, just from the opposite direction.
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Guillermus posted:I may be wrong but, weren't they doing a remaster of the first game? Because I got the collector's edition when it came out, I loved it but nowadays is really rough to play it even with mods. Thery remaking it, as open world. Which is gonna be interesting cos the only way to do that with that game without it being a completely different thing is if they made vizima the size of night city  Different team i think and I think witcher 4 is coming out first
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Vikar Jerome posted:Thery remaking it, as open world. Which is gonna be interesting cos the only way to do that with that game without it being a completely different thing is if they made vizima the size of night city TW1 was kinda contained so yeah, if they touch it more than gfx/combat it'll end being a different game and I don't mind that because it's easy enough to play the original on a toaster.
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Elden Ring is so fun. I'm pretty sure I mentioned before how I was dreading starting a new character from scratch for the dlc but man I am having a blast. Knowing exactly how everything works and where everything is turns the entire game into a Souls theme park. I've opened up the Rune Farm spot and spent 15 minutes power leveling myself and now I'm Completely Sicknasty
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I don't know if anyone's told you guys, but this "Symphony of the Night" game is preeeeeeetty cool
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Many call that game "Metroidvania", due to its similarities with the game "Super Metroid".
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OK PS5 thread I need your advice. I rarely have more than an hour or two a week to play video games but I have a two-week window of bachelorhood coming up that will provide me a precious opportunity to go full goon poopsock mode. I won't get this again for a while so I want to make the most of it by delving into a substantial single player RPG/action/open world game. I generally like expansive games but I dislike story-heavy stuff. I'm also not a huge fan of anime games but I did play FF7-9 when I was young and with all the good FFs that've come out over the last few years I've been jonesing to return to that series. Here are my choices: FF16 - the idea of a really solid old-school FF is appealing. FF7 Remake Intergrade and FF7 Rebirth - I'd love to revisit FF7, but I'm not sure if I should start with Intergrade or go right into Rebirth? BG3 - I've heard so much praise about this game, but I'm not sure if I'll like it given how story focused it is (I'm not into D&D); I'm also hesitant because the PS5 controls sound fiddly. Dragon's Dogma 2 - the generic open fantasy world is right up my alley and the gameplay looks really fun. Cyberpunk 2077 - looks really cool and I've heard a lot of good stuff about it after all the updates, but not sure how it ranks up against the other options currently. What should I go for???
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Integrade takes like 3 hours at the most. Bg3 controls are just fine, I spent like 80 hours in that game with no problems. 2077 is fantastic, the dlc is even better in terms of content though.
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Rebirth imo but have you played remake? Unless you mean remake intergrade as remake + Yuffie, then yes.
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JBP posted:Rebirth imo but have you played remake? I haven’t played a FF game since the mid 2000s, so no. All the different FF7 remake titles confuse me. If I go FF7, do I need to play Remake first?
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All of those except DD2 are pretty story heavy, although the FF games you could skip through the cutscenes if you really wanted to. And FF16 is great but I wouldn't call it an old school FF per se. MeinPanzer posted:If I go FF7, do I need to play Remake first? Remake Integrade is just the version of Remake that comes with the DLC so play that.
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