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Rockman Reserve posted:I love that all of the trees in Elden Ring are destructible to big enemy attacks, there’s something badass about fighting through the wilderness with trees crashing all around you. Reminds me of Valheim, where fighting some trolls in the woods turns into an advanced course on tree dodging.
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The troll is just trying to help you farm wood. You can use them to get fine wood early too.
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Mar 9, 2022 01:02
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Rockman Reserve posted:I love that all of the trees in Elden Ring are destructible to big enemy attacks, there’s something badass about fighting through the wilderness with trees crashing all around you. In Forbidden West many structures can be destroyed by attacks and ooh boy it makes for quite the surprise when the thing you're hiding behind disintegrates as a robot comes flying through it.
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Mar 9, 2022 01:11
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Cleretic posted:For some reason, they decided that the exchange rates of these currencies should be accurately based on real-world currency exchange rates. This is updated in real time. This is hilarious but like, why
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Mar 9, 2022 01:24
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TontoCorazon posted:Not when your fleeing from a loving murder bear I was exploring and there was a tight clump of trees with a BE WARY, DOG message, so I was like haha turtle or something past this  Then I walked through and a bear mauled me. I missed this poo poo so much.
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Mar 9, 2022 03:34
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Kitfox88 posted:I was exploring and there was a tight clump of trees with a BE WARY, DOG message, so I was like haha turtle or something past this The “you don’t have the right o you don’t have the right” messages make me laugh for some reason and I’ve started leaving them in front of doors that don’t open. Funnier than “fingers but hole”.
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Mar 9, 2022 03:38
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Cleretic posted:I don't know which thread to put this in, but it's going here because as a non-player, I love this dumb poo poo, and it's definitely consequences of an intended decision. Please tell me there's an Kotaku article or something I can read about this.
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Mar 9, 2022 03:39
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The message meme culture is so dumb and I love it. As soon as I started walking around in a wet, marshy area I thought "time for crab?" and then read a message on the ground and it said "time for crab" and then a giant crab erupted out of the ground. People seem to have decided that "no horse ahead" is short for "there's nothing good/useful/interesting this way".
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Mar 9, 2022 03:42
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Beartaco posted:Please tell me there's an Kotaku article or something I can read about this. This is the best one I could find. A week old, so it's probably gotten worse. The kicker of a reveal: this is good news for in-game Bitcoin, which has apparently been a problem currency in the game's past. Ironically, I think Fake Tarkov Bitcoin might actually be a more legitimate currency than real Bitcoin. Cleretic has a new favorite as of 03:55 on Mar 9, 2022 |
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Mar 9, 2022 03:51
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Triarii posted:The message meme culture is so dumb and I love it. As soon as I started walking around in a wet, marshy area I thought "time for crab?" and then read a message on the ground and it said "time for crab" and then a giant crab erupted out of the ground. because the horse can double jump, the colloquial term for platforming has become "horseback battle"
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Mar 9, 2022 04:09
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My highest rated message is in front of one of those bald eagles in the starting area that just says, “Behold! Bird!” I really love dumb dark souls messages.
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Mar 9, 2022 04:17
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Frank Frank posted:My highest rated message is in front of one of those bald eagles in the starting area that just says, “Behold! Bird!” I like exploring somewhere in Elden Ring, really off the beaten path, and seeing a message icon, then wondering what they had to say. Try Finger but, hole. Bless you random Elden Ring player.
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Mar 9, 2022 06:16
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Triarii posted:The message meme culture is so dumb and I love it. As soon as I started walking around in a wet, marshy area I thought "time for crab?" and then read a message on the ground and it said "time for crab" and then a giant crab erupted out of the ground. I can't remember the exact syntax, but I ran across one like "didn't expect crab, and then crab" So then a giant crab pops up, I kill it and well then another one does and kills me. So, same anonymous message writer, same.
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Mar 9, 2022 07:50
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Frank Frank posted:My highest rated message is in front of one of those bald eagles in the starting area that just says, “Behold! Bird!” Mine is "message ahead" in front of one from another player that just reads "message". Which is then followed by another player going "Didn't expect message". 
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Mar 9, 2022 08:56
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I love messages so much, they've always been one of my favorite little features of the games. yes there's a few billion tired identical "try jumping" and "try fingers but hole" messages, and I still read every one I see because you can find some absolute gems hidden in there and the creativity of what people can come up with under the message format limitations is still surprising a few of my favorites so far in elden ring:        
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Mar 9, 2022 09:05
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Maybe it's too horny but imo nothing beats Gwendolyn's "Amazing chest ahead!"
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Wasabi the J posted:Maybe it's too horny but imo nothing beats Gwendolyn's "Amazing chest ahead!" There's a empty room very similar to hers in Leyndell with a message that just says "Treasure chest?". Seems familiar... or Visions of undead by everything that looks like a lordvessel is also standard.
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Mar 9, 2022 10:15
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One of my fave clusters so far was several about incredible foe ahead and prepare for death and whatnot during the stairs down into one of those little basements that I’d opened with a sword key. I get there and its just a bunch of regular turtles walking around and the item was a stamina regen talisman
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Mar 9, 2022 10:27
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By a large windmill: could this be a giant? Visions of mounted combat.
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Mar 9, 2022 10:32
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Kitfox88 posted:One of my fave clusters so far was several about incredible foe ahead and prepare for death and whatnot during the stairs down into one of those little basements that I’d opened with a sword key. I get there and its just a bunch of regular turtles walking around and the item was a stamina regen talisman I put a Dog! message down there at the entrance and it keeps getting appraised.
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Mar 9, 2022 10:32
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StandardVC10 posted:This is hilarious but like, why That question can be applied to most of the game, what with 'this is an early access FPS MMO that's also going to have a central story that runs you through all the maps in the game (that currently have no story content or even hints of a story and just exist for you to walk through and get shot)'. and also 'there's a central hideout building mechanic and because we've done this real world exchange thing you can set up a bitcoin mining rig in it once you have electricity, and this has lead to GPUs being one of the most valuable items in the entire game. you will murder so many men just to extract with one'. so best not a question you should be asking.
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Mar 9, 2022 10:59
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Gay Rat Wedding posted:yes there's a few billion tired identical "try jumping" and "try fingers but hole" messages I unironically love both of these. Yes they're basic but I still love them. Amazing chest ahead after O&S too. Just something about players abusing the message system to say stupid poo poo makes me smile.
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Mar 9, 2022 11:11
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There's usually a "I did it!" after a boss but after a boss that receives a lot of hate from some people (Radahn) I saw a "I did it! but hole". That added level of gently caress this boss is pretty good.
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Mar 9, 2022 12:07
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I ended up playing Elden Ring in offline mode myself, I definitely appreciate good soulsborne(ring?) messages, but at the same time having every mysterious ruin and unexplored depth in a game like that being basically covered in the equivalent of "BUTTKNIGHT WAS HERE" -graffiti does also kind of gnaw on the sense of adventure and discovery. Plus I'm masochistic enough to kinda enjoy walking into surprise ambushes and traps without oceans of blood on the floor warning me about it ahead of time.
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Mar 9, 2022 12:14
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The peak of Dark Souls messages is still "Listen carefully, skeleton!"
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Kanfy posted:I ended up playing Elden Ring in offline mode myself, I definitely appreciate good soulsborne(ring?) messages, but at the same time having every mysterious ruin and unexplored depth in a game like that being basically covered in the equivalent of "BUTTKNIGHT WAS HERE" -graffiti does also kind of gnaw on the sense of adventure and discovery. Plus I'm masochistic enough to kinda enjoy walking into surprise ambushes and traps without oceans of blood on the floor warning me about it ahead of time. For sure, I played the game offline for a while when the servers were down and it has a different feel that's better in certain ways. It's definitely a lot more immersive without hundreds of constant reminders of "you are playing a videogame alongside a million other players who are experiencing the same things as you right now".
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Mar 9, 2022 12:24
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every tortoise i've found has a bunch of messages around it saying things like "don't you dare" and "dog!" and it makes me smile every time (i haven't killed any of them because i don't have the heart, i hope they don't drop anything important)
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Graffiti is extremely immersive.
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Truly the world has lost a great person
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Mar 9, 2022 12:40
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Perestroika posted:Mine is "message ahead" in front of one from another player that just reads "message". Which is then followed by another player going "Didn't expect message". I love the path in Dark Souls 2 which for years, and possibly still now, was littered with "message ahead", "beware of message" and so on
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Mar 9, 2022 12:56
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moonmazed posted:every tortoise i've found has a bunch of messages around it saying things like "don't you dare" and "dog!" and it makes me smile every time Turtle neck meat which seems like it might do some nice stuff but it’s killing turtles so is it really worth it? Also Elden Ring, something that’s really neat environmental storytelling I wasn’t expecting (gameplay/overworld spoilers for the second zone): usually the spirit jellyfish are passive unless attacked, at which point they turn red like someone else mentioned. And something that’s weird is that there’s a group of them glowing red over a cart with a dead merchant, which is honestly a pretty common occurrence in ER. The cart, that is. The weird part is that when you kill then and loot the merchant you find a jellyfish shield, a greatshield made from the head of a spirit jellyfish. It makes sense why they’re so mad, but I’m still impressed they went through the trouble of making one specific encounter to tell that little implied story of a merchant killing a jellyfish for a shield and them taking revenge, on top of all the other poo poo in this game.
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Qwertycoatl posted:I love the path in Dark Souls 2 which for years, and possibly still now, was littered with "message ahead", "beware of message" and so on I'm playing DS2 currently but i couldn't tell ya if the path, whatever it is, is still covered in messages, because the Dark Souls 2 servers are offline and have been for the entirety of my playthrough
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As someone who never got into the Soulsborne games, are the messages structured the way they are because using a limited library means you could convey simple messages in multiple languages at the same time? Kind of how the OG Phantasy Star Online on Dreamcast had chat shortcuts with stock words and phrases that would translate to whatever system language the player was playing in?
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CzarChasm posted:As someone who never got into the Soulsborne games, are the messages structured the way they are because using a limited library means you could convey simple messages in multiple languages at the same time? Partly that and partly because making people pick from a small set of pre-selected words limits the possibilities for trolling Or at least you have to be slightly clever about your trolling and can't just drop slurs everywhere
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I've always loved "Be wary of beating to a pulp" , usually just before a field of bloodstains.
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CzarChasm posted:As someone who never got into the Soulsborne games, are the messages structured the way they are because using a limited library means you could convey simple messages in multiple languages at the same time? An important aspect of the soulsborne games is that they were originally designed out of love for western RPGs, but from an outsider's perspective who is not 100% familiar with the themes and language and needs to collaborate with others to fully understand what's going on and what to do. The messaging system is designed that way to allow you to leave hints or warnings, but purposefully limiting your vocabulary so you can't say "There's an armored boar enemy that is weak to backstabs" but can say "try pig backstab" It makes it so one message that is helpful can give a hint, and it can be reinforced through additional hints that might give more context
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Kanfy posted:I ended up playing Elden Ring in offline mode myself, I definitely appreciate good soulsborne(ring?) messages, but at the same time having every mysterious ruin and unexplored depth in a game like that being basically covered in the equivalent of "BUTTKNIGHT WAS HERE" -graffiti does also kind of gnaw on the sense of adventure and discovery. Plus I'm masochistic enough to kinda enjoy walking into surprise ambushes and traps without oceans of blood on the floor warning me about it ahead of time. So you wanted Myst but got Pyst
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PYF little things in Elden Ring
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credburn posted:PYF little things in Elden Ring I suspect this thread has become that every time a from software game has dropped Well at least since dark souls, I doubt anyone posted little things in games about Armored Core 5
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