CJacobs posted:

Yeah, I couldn't really get into Helldivers 2 for similar reasons. Please devs put more xp catch up systems in your game. When I started my friend group was a higher level even though we installed only like 20 mins apart. But we leveled up at the same rate so I never caught up.

They just always had better more effective strategems and perks. It was a pretty depressing MP experience, they got hundreds of kills on missions and I got like a dozen. We went back to Deep Rock

CJacobs posted:

The folks I've said this to have said that I was actually playing effectively for that reason and didn't realize it, but it sure didn't feel like it.

CJacobs posted:

The folks I've said this to have said that I was actually playing effectively for that reason and didn't realize it, but it sure didn't feel like it. I guess based on the responses it's just not my thing.

Edit: the most memorable thing about the gameplay for me was how annoying managing the sprint was :/

CJacobs posted:

The folks I've said this to have said that I was actually playing effectively for that reason and didn't realize it, but it sure didn't feel like it. I guess based on the responses it's just not my thing.

Edit: the most memorable thing about the gameplay for me was how annoying managing the sprint was :/

Lobok posted:

Name's LobokVonZuben if you're on PSN. If we team-up I can bring stuff in my loadout for you to use or try. You want a mech?

Cleretic posted:

I've said this before, including about exactly the starting rifle and machine gun in Helldivers 2, but the problem isn't that the gun is bad, the problem is that the gun is boring, and no amount of being told that it's a really good weapon actually changes that.

Lobok posted:

I'll also say: kill counts are not a big deal. I have never seen a high kill count and thought dang, what an amazing player or what a great teammate to have. It's a feel-good number at the end of a mission but it doesn't really mean much.

Killing the most enemies can mean simply that you took on a lot of unnecessary fights. Or conversely, if your count is low then maybe you were on a hunt for POIs or you focused more on enemy spawn points or fortifications or your kills were more focused on the heavies and not all the chaff or you brought a lot of stuff to stun to make everyone else's job of killing easier, etc.

RareAcumen posted:

Actually I think it's unfair that people who've been playing the game before me have stuff that I don't. Everyone should be at the same power level, like Street Fighter and Left 4 Dead.

RareAcumen posted:

Actually I think it's unfair that people who've been playing the game before me have stuff that I don't. Everyone should be at the same power level, like Street Fighter and Left 4 Dead.

Breetai posted:

Unironically this. Multiplayer games where you have to unlock weapons skills and abilities between play sessions by grinding XP or using actual real life money are the loving worst.

If it's a persistent world where you can find items or unlock abilities in an online RPG-like fashion, then generally that can be fine, but when it's a case that each multiplayer game is a completely separate session where you're just choosing a loadout at the beginning of the match, everybody should have access to the same toolkit and it's up to the developers to make sure that using different combinations of that toolkit is interesting and fun.

Simply Simon posted:

Played another session Halo Infinite co-op with my buddy.

Co-op is always fun and this game can be a blast to play for sure, the only issue is that it quite often doesn't function on a fundamental level. In the last mission, we reached a point in the level where you have to collect three doodads from three doors and put them into slots to activate a lift in the center (if that doesn't sound very Halo, my thoughts exactly). However, when we entered the room, the lift seemed to be on already? I walked into it and it lifted me to the ceiling, against which I got stuck, and only through some tricky application of my secondary movement tools could I break free. We then discovered that there was no way to progress, because none of the three doors opened. We were completely stuck.

I looked it up, and apparently it's a known issue since they patched co-op in (the game didn't have co-op for over a year!) - unless the second player doesn't move at all when you enter the room, the scripting breaks completely, the lift is activated prematurely but the ceiling doesn't open. Many people have that issue. The only way to fix it is replay the mission from the start and have the second player be entirely passive once you enter the room. So that was fun.

We also keep having another bug that is also known, in that one of us, randomly, after dying and respawning, can't switch secondary weapons. So if you last used the enemy sensor before dying, that's what you get. Great against a boss where you really want to use the zipline to get away from it.

And today, we started playing one of the last missions, its started with a huge combat room which was rude as hell because we still have low ammo from the previous mission, and also bosskiller weapons equipped and not crowd control ones. We made it after quite a few deaths, pressed on, and a couple of rooms further in, we encounter a miniboss. Sadly the miniboss kills us, so we prepare to just try again...

...except the intro cutscene plays and the mission starts over. With the weapons we had during the miniboss fight equipped. And any time we die in the big opening fight, again the intro cutscene plays. So the checkpoints for the mission just got completely hosed and probably we cannot trust them at all.

We quit in frustration for today. How can this game be so awfully made?! It's the buggiest piece of poo poo I've played in a long time. It's mid-2000s-fanpatch-requiring levels of broken.

Rockman Reserve posted:

if your game has dialog scenes of > 5 minutes and doesn’t allow you to save your game during them, you will have no place in the glorious new utopia I want to build

seriously it’s *dialog*, in 99% of games your character is just standing still there anyway (if they’re even in the scene), how hard would it be to add a quick save option that lets you hold your place halfway through a half hour of exposition

I like visual novels and they’re literally all dialogue and you can save at any time. This is a resolved issue.

Len posted:

I put Xenosaga on my deck and every time I think about launching it I remember the cutscenes were long enough that they had save points and I just dont

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Okami opens with a 20 minute cutscene which uses text boxes and nonsense babble.

grittyreboot posted:

I remember that. It was even more annoying than that because the text would scroll painfully slow and it would make you press a button for the next text box, so you couldn't even let it play while you did other things. Did they fix that in later versions? I wanna play it again, but I don't want to deal with that.

Rockman Reserve posted:

if your game has dialog scenes of > 5 minutes and doesn’t allow you to save your game during them, you will have no place in the glorious new utopia I want to build

seriously it’s *dialog*, in 99% of games your character is just standing still there anyway (if they’re even in the scene), how hard would it be to add a quick save option that lets you hold your place halfway through a half hour of exposition

I like visual novels and they’re literally all dialogue and you can save at any time. This is a resolved issue.

Necrothatcher posted:

But it's got some insane censorship where the word "whiskey" is removed, ruining one of the most famous choruses of all time.

Necrothatcher posted:

Band Hero not only plays its climactic song American Pie with the credits running right over the top of the note chart:



But it's got some insane censorship where the word "whiskey" is removed, ruining one of the most famous choruses of all time.

credburn posted:

the_steve posted:

Crisis Core Reunion.
I finally started getting into it since I figured it would help me appreciate some of the references in FF7Rebirth that I was spoiled on, and Jesus gently caress the encounter rate on enemies.

Every 5 steps it's "Initiating Combat Mode", which wouldn't be so bad except that every side mission has at least one treasure chest I wanna find in a dungeon map that has like 20 different rooms to explore, so I'm constantly having to detour which just triggers more random encounters and then it seems like 99% of the chest rewards aren't even worth it.