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Randalor posted:... what's DOS2? Divinity Original Sin 2
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Playing one of the final few Bayonetta chapters, one of the big long ones (specifically the Tower to Truth). It's amusing when you get good at a hard game and end up scraping by on very low health and are just asking yourself at every checkpoint "HOW HAVE I NOT DIED YET!?"
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Apr 17, 2023 18:55
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Solenna posted:In Yakuza 0 you can run a cabaret club and eventually poach hostesses from rival clubs named after planets.  Incredible.
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Apr 17, 2023 19:09
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Roblo posted:Erdleaf flower, not sunflowers, but close enough! Dangit, my brain wanted it to be sunflowers because then it would be a Solaire reference. Now I'm even more irritated with the game! Agents are GO! posted:"Use the items, nerd." Shut up, you. I don't need consumables when I can just tune my way out of problems.
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Apr 17, 2023 19:14
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The calculus changes a bit when you consider whether you get the consumables back after a failed attempt (restoring from save in most games) or don't (souls). I will never spend a consumable in souls because I'm very sure I'm going to spend it, die anyway despite the boss being marginally easier, repeat that until I run out of consumables, and now I'm forced to do it the hard way anyway
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Apr 17, 2023 19:16
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True, but I feel like in games with regular save systems you can still put yourself in a position where you can overspend (or feel like you overspent) on consumables and now it just shifts the question to if you should reload to do it again without wasting quite as many super potions or w/e. Of course, the inciting game here was RE4, a game that pretty blatantly nudges drops towards things you're low on. That's actually a system that usually gets me to use items more because I'll have faith that I'm only temporarily losing much of anything.
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Apr 17, 2023 19:28
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verbal enema posted:i would play the hell out of a full version of that side game What are some of y'alls favorite examples of this? I put an insane amount of hours into the air hockey mini-game in Beyond Good and Evil. 
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Apr 17, 2023 19:47
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Read After Burning posted:What are some of y'alls favorite examples of this? Splatoon 3 surprised me with how much I liked its Tableturf Battle mode, basically a grid-based CCG version of the regular ink battles. I'd love it to be expanded a bit to really sustain its own game.
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Apr 17, 2023 20:00
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Let's not forget Triple Triad in FF8 not only having fantastic background music based around what sounds like a twangy mouth harp or some poo poo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84xfVKnb-UA) but also being popular enough that people would go to a website that existed solely to play Triple Triad, the rest of FF8 be damned.
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Apr 17, 2023 20:04
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Read After Burning posted:What are some of y'alls favorite examples of this? I definitely booted up the fourth Commander Keen just to play pong on the watch
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Apr 17, 2023 20:15
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Read After Burning posted:What are some of y'alls favorite examples of this? As a kid, I used to play the NES hockey game Blades of Steel specifically because there was a between-periods ad for other Konami games, which had a 50-50 chance of being a small playable Gradius demo. So I'd just flail around at random during the hockey part and then hope I got lucky and got to fly a spaceship for 15 seconds.
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Apr 17, 2023 20:27
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:If they're rare then you'll be more inclined to hoard, because of the fear that you'll need it later. Really, I think the problem with item hoarding is that many games make it hard to know, going into a fight, whether items will make a material difference. And if they would, you often figure that out too late, die, and try the fight again, and now you know it well enough that you don't need the items anyway. It's definitely complicated in RPGs by "must lose" fights as well There's nothing worse than blowing a bunch of items, you still lose the fight, then a cutscene plays and you feel like you gotta reload so that you can get those items back. I know it's insanely old, but I still like the dumb item system in nethack where you have to try and ID items by price tiers, then either rolling the dice and quaffing the potion/reading the scroll because you're pretty sure it's good or your desperate for a heal. Otherwise you can try a ton of other stuff to id items just through game knowledge, like if you think it might be a potion of healing or fire you can throw it at an enemy and take notes on what happens
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Read After Burning posted:What are some of y'alls favorite examples of this? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IfQhqR_RE14 (please ignore the dancing guy I don't know what's going on with that this just has most of the animations)
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Weird Pumpkin posted:It's definitely complicated in RPGs by "must lose" fights as well I wish games did more of those style fights, but turn them into unwinnable scenarios where if you survive long enough or do enough damage you get some cool rewards. Similarly, I really liked that, in FF12, you fight a boss battle against a wall that slowly moves you toward a door you can open. If you defeat it, it's supposed to give you a chest (well, techncially a chance that a chest would spawn) that contains a really good weapon. If you don't, no worries you just go through the door and keep on going.
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Apr 18, 2023 00:23
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Weird Pumpkin posted:It's definitely complicated in RPGs by "must lose" fights as well So, fun little thing in a game made 32 years ago: Final Fantasy 4 has a mandatory unwinnable fight against the Dark Elf. Before the fight happens, it quietly records your inventory, and any consumed items during the fight are refunded to you. Speedrunners of the randomizer of that game abuse that fact to use attack items (that cast offensive spells) on their own party "for free" to fail the fight faster. jokes posted:I wish games did more of those style fights, but turn them into unwinnable scenarios where if you survive long enough or do enough damage you get some cool rewards. This reminds me of a fun bit in Devil May Cry 1. The first boss fight is a memorable experience for most players, because it's the point where the game actually expects you to be able to handle all the poo poo it throws at you. In other words, it probably took a lot of deaths to beat him. But anyway, you beat the first boss, and you're probably thinking "phew, now things can chill out for a bit". NOPE, the boss comes back in the very next room to chase you down a corridor. You can fight him, he's not too hard if you know what you're doing. Or you can just open a door and leave. TooMuchAbstraction has a new favorite as of 00:32 on Apr 18, 2023 |
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Apr 18, 2023 00:30
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On my third run of the Resident Evil 4 remake and finally saved up enough to buy the infinite rocket launcher, and it's one of the most fun things ever for just running through a game doing goofy shenanigans. It gives you a weirdly small amount of damage if you aim it too close to yourself, so formerly tense setpieces even in tightly enclosed areas now just turn into you running around like crazy launching a tactical nuke every couple seconds. It's great, the only downside is that you still have to keep some other type of weapon on hand so you have a way to rescue the occasional escort mission character without just blowing them up too.
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Apr 18, 2023 02:10
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:So, fun little thing in a game made 32 years ago: Final Fantasy 4 has a mandatory unwinnable fight against the Dark Elf. Before the fight happens, it quietly records your inventory, and any consumed items during the fight are refunded to you.  I've been playing that game for 32 years and I had no idea. That's wonderful. (It still let you waste items elsewhere, though.)
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Read After Burning posted:What are some of y'alls favorite examples of this? Blitzball (Final Fantasy X) Crash mode (any given Burnout title) Skyrim overworld (The Elder Scrolls V) Plus if the auction house in various MMOs counts, hoo boy have I spent a ton of time in the past playing the markets.
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Read After Burning posted:What are some of y'alls favorite examples of this? Gwent
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While these aren't necessarily his favorite, my partner mentioned the card games from KOTOR and New Vegas as being very popular. I would have played a whole side game of the figurine thing from Wind Waker, but I guess that's almost just Pokemon Snap, ha. I also enjoyed hunting for landmarks in Watch Dogs 2, so I think I just like scavenger hunts, ha. I was utterly obsessed with the river rafting minigame in Twilight Princess, I'd love a game of just river rafting.  TooMuchAbstraction posted:As a kid, I used to play the NES hockey game Blades of Steel specifically because there was a between-periods ad for other Konami games, which had a 50-50 chance of being a small playable Gradius demo. So I'd just flail around at random during the hockey part and then hope I got lucky and got to fly a spaceship for 15 seconds. , kids rule.
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Apr 18, 2023 03:32
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Opopanax posted:Gwent At first I enjoyed Gwent, until I realized it was an in-universe pay-to-win scam. Not rich enough to have a deck full of those 10-score cards that are immune to everything? Have fun losing, nerd.
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Morpheus posted:At first I enjoyed Gwent, until I realized it was an in-universe pay-to-win scam. Not rich enough to have a deck full of those 10-score cards that are immune to everything? Have fun losing, nerd. Such is the case with all collectible card games
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Opopanax posted:Gwent
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I enjoyed Gwent. I've been trying to play Thronebreaker, but... they have these obnoxious encounters which are just puzzles. I want to play Gwent, not a puzzle game goddammit.
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Apr 18, 2023 05:42
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credburn posted:I enjoyed Gwent. I've been trying to play Thronebreaker, but... they have these obnoxious encounters which are just puzzles. I want to play Gwent, not a puzzle game goddammit. There is a Gwent stand alone game but it's pretty different from the real one
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Apr 18, 2023 05:48
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Opopanax posted:There is a Gwent stand alone game but it's pretty different from the real one I thought Thronebreaker was the standalone Gwent game?
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They put a Hearthstone/Magic Arena equivalent out, I believe over GoG. Best I'm aware it changes a large amount of the mechanics. I enjoyed Thronebreaker but I more went through for the story and just snagged quick tutorials for annoying puzzles.
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TGG posted:They put a Hearthstone/Magic Arena equivalent out, I believe over GoG. Best I'm aware it changes a large amount of the mechanics. I enjoyed Thronebreaker but I more went through for the story and just snagged quick tutorials for annoying puzzles. Hey, let me ask you, if I were to say, skip all puzzle-related encounters, how much am I missing/loving myself? I imagine I might do some, but if I get stuck I'm just going to move on.
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I got Days Gone during the spring sale and I recently started playing it, and the main character is generally a pretty dour angry white guy protagonist. Early on I did a mission where I got a crazy prepper's radio tower back online for him so he could start broadcasting his dumbass radio show again, and while leaving the area he gives the first resumed broadcast. At the end of it the dour white guy protagonist just yells in the most exasperated voice "THAT'S JUST GREAT RADIO WHATEVER IS BACK ON THE AIR AGAIN! OH GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE?" totally cracked up when it fired because it was so unexpected.
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The DAYS GONE player man is one of the better (or maybe 'more realistic') post-apocalyptic characters I have played, in that he has gone about 80% nuts and gets seriously unhinged when dealing with scavvers and looters. He's about as far from Quip McHero as you can go and I appreciated it a lot.
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Apr 18, 2023 10:50
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Read After Burning posted:What are some of y'alls favorite examples of this? I never got good at it. Was I just poo poo (plausible) or was there something to it? (I haven't played the game in uhh a long while so I just don't remember.)
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Read After Burning posted:While these aren't necessarily his favorite, my partner mentioned the card games from KOTOR and New Vegas as being very popular. New Vegas has a bunch of card games, being set in Vegas and all that. Caravan is the main one and still mostly incomprehensible to me despite putting a couple thousand hours into the game, but luckily you can totally ignore it and don't even have to play a mandatory game to pass a tutorial quest or anything. I HAVE played a bunch of Blackjack in game though and your Luck stat affect your card draws so it's probably given me a warped view of how easy it is to rip off a casino.
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darkwasthenight posted:New Vegas has a bunch of card games, being set in Vegas and all that. Caravan is the main one and still mostly incomprehensible to me despite putting a couple thousand hours into the game, but luckily you can totally ignore it and don't even have to play a mandatory game to pass a tutorial quest or anything. Caravan is actually really simple but it isn't, perhaps, well taught in the game.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Caravan is actually really simple but it isn't, perhaps, well taught in the game. Yeah, the 'tutorial' for it is really bad and seems actively counterproductive. Funny thing, one of the best and most wealthy Caravan players in the game is No-Bark Noonan.
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darkwasthenight posted:luckily you can totally ignore it and don't even have to play a mandatory game to pass a tutorial quest or anything. I appreciate this a lot in games, that whole 'Gamer has decided not to learn this mechanic' thing is me and card games every time; no, I am here to hunt monsters and cast spells, please put your deck of cards away (Alternate comedy Geralt The only cards I like are the ones I collect after sex-having  )
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NoneMoreNegative posted:I appreciate this a lot in games, that whole 'Gamer has decided not to learn this mechanic' thing is me and card games every time; no, I am here to hunt monsters and cast spells, please put your deck of cards away Now that just reminds me of how Majima when playable in Yakuza 0 and visiting Kamurocho brushes off Pocket Circuit as kiddy poo poo, but later on in Kiwami when he finds Kiryu in there he immediately falls in love with the place- after Pocket Circuit Fighter defuses a fight between him and Kiryu, which you gotta admit takes brass balls.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:The DAYS GONE player man is one of the better (or maybe 'more realistic') post-apocalyptic characters I have played, in that he has gone about 80% nuts and gets seriously unhinged when dealing with scavvers and looters. He's about as far from Quip McHero as you can go and I appreciated it a lot. It's *extremely* refreshing, yeah. Just muttering under his breath 80% of the time, 5% of the time talking calmly but with frustration to people, and 15% of the time yelling at the top of his lungs as I machete poo poo.
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I remember having a lot of fun playing the card game Pazaak in Star Wars Kotor. It was a bit like black jack but with more advanced cards that let you lower your score and do other interesting things.
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The racing game in Death Stranding Director's Cut is pretty fun.
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Voltorb Flip was way more entertaining than it needed to be. Pokemon contests in Ruby and Sapphire, too.
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