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Got to spend a bit more time with Borderlands the Presequel and my opinion of it improved a lot. Once you get used to the jumping and boosting the game starts to click. The level design is better if you're the exploring type - there are a lot more hidden chests and even a few alternate routes if you have the eye for it. Also, Nisha is a great Mordecai throwback and brings back my preferred revolver playstyle from BL1.
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Tezzeract posted:Got to spend a bit more time with Borderlands the Presequel and my opinion of it improved a lot. Once you get used to the jumping and boosting the game starts to click. The level design is better if you're the exploring type - there are a lot more hidden chests and even a few alternate routes if you have the eye for it. I can never take anything you say seriously because of your love for MMOs. ...and my extreme dislike of them.
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Oct 20, 2014 20:37
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Tezzeract posted:Got to spend a bit more time with Borderlands the Presequel and my opinion of it improved a lot. Once you get used to the jumping and boosting the game starts to click. The level design is better if you're the exploring type - there are a lot more hidden chests and even a few alternate routes if you have the eye for it. Well poo poo, just what I actually wanted to hear. I spent a lot of time happily going through nooks and crannies for extra cash and ammo, just because it was fun to do so. However, this also lends towards me playing solo, which most people will argue is a poor way to play Borderlands in general. 
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Oct 20, 2014 20:37
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Terminally Bored posted:So hey, it looks like Dark Souls is finally ditching GFWL, it just got achievements: http://steamcommunity.com/stats/211420/achievements On one hand, it's about time. But on the other, goodbye hatemail and lovemail. The messaging was one thing GFWL got right.
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Oct 20, 2014 20:38
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Morter posted:Has anyone figured out a consistent to run smoothly yet? I run a very midrange computer with 8 gigs of RAM and a Radeon 7850HD or something, and most modern games play relatively smoothly at Ultra or High settings, including the recent Shadow of Mordor. In dsfix.ini, unlock FPS and set the FPS cap to 30. Bizarrely that gave me a rock solid 30fps. Best place to check if this works is the Hellkite bridge, without the fix I drop to 20fps whenever it flames the bridge, with it I never get a FPS drop. Note: Unlocking FPS causes a weird bug at bonfires where you can't get your character to stand back up. To avoid, make sure you wait til the initial fog cloud disappears before trying to exit the bonfire.
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Terminally Bored posted:So hey, it looks like Dark Souls is finally ditching GFWL, it just got achievements: http://steamcommunity.com/stats/211420/achievements I was just about to replay this and the prospect of little digital pop-ups when I do something makes me a lot happier than it should. I'm easily amused. Hopefully the possible switch from GFWL makes the multiplayer not such a clusterfuck. I think I mainly solo'd the game since summons and such were so spotty.
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Oct 20, 2014 21:00
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Drifter posted:I can never take anything you say seriously because of your love for MMOs. It's decent with friends? Morter posted:However, this also lends towards me playing solo, which most people will argue is a poor way to play Borderlands in general. It's still good in a group, just hope that most of the group is ok with getting lost from time to time. There are a lot of instant death pits in this one so you have to plan your jumps. The beginning of the game throws you into the deep end of the frustrating platform segments, which is what Kragger and I found out.
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Tezzeract posted:It's decent with friends? Where do I download this 'friends' DLC?
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Terminally Bored posted:So hey, it looks like Dark Souls is finally ditching GFWL, it just got achievements: http://steamcommunity.com/stats/211420/achievements  
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Terminally Bored posted:So hey, it looks like Dark Souls is finally ditching GFWL, it just got achievements: http://steamcommunity.com/stats/211420/achievements Only negative thing: To 100% you have to defeat Crossbreed Priscilla. You are a heartless bastard if you do that.
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I'd just like to say that on the topic of Paranautical Activity that was brought up last page, seeing as it just came out of EA today, I gave it another shot. They've improved the pace of the game, made enemies drop more armor and coins, added better enemy variety, etc, but the winning strategy is still "get all the things that make you go faster otherwise you'll be too slow to avoid anything" the soundtrack has actually gotten way worse and the game still looks atrocious visually with a boring color palette that causes a lot of enemies to blend in with the rest of the room and make the game look like an ugly mess when you start moving around, and now they've added dark floors where it's loving impossible to see anything that isn't glowing. This makes the new landshark enemies way worse, since it's harder to see their glowy red eyes compared to the other enemies. In short, it's still a pretty terrible game with an awful visual style, some of the things they've added actually make it worse, it's still not worth more than a buck.
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If they can somehow import the near-instant fail/connect network systems from DS2 I'd be so happy. The worst part of MP in DS1 is waiting for a solid four or five minutes while it decides whether it found someone or not.
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Oct 20, 2014 21:22
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Terminally Bored posted:So hey, it looks like Dark Souls is finally ditching GFWL, it just got achievements: http://steamcommunity.com/stats/211420/achievements Oh good, the 10 bucks I paid for it won't go to waste after all
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Sivek posted:I was just about to replay this and the prospect of little digital pop-ups when I do something makes me a lot happier than it should. I'm easily amused. I don't believe achievements is necessarily a precursor to a complete switchover to Steamworks because I think you can have Steam achievements at the same time as GFWL. Still would be nice.
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ymgve posted:Only negative thing: To 100% you have to defeat Crossbreed Priscilla. You are a heartless bastard if you do that. 
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ymgve posted:Only negative thing: To 100% you have to defeat Crossbreed Priscilla. You are a heartless bastard if you do that. If you take time to get into DS lore, then half of the bosses will appear pretty much innocent and just minding their own business until the player came along. Still killed Priscilla, though. I'm an rear end in a top hat.
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Priscilla is one of the few that actually DOES mind her own business. Most of the other ones run straight at you and try to eat/crush/stab/otherwise destroy you. 
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CJacobs posted:Priscilla is one of the few that actually DOES mind her own business. Most of the other ones run straight at you and try to eat/crush/stab/otherwise destroy you. "This land is peaceful, It's inhabitants kind"Not really lady!
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CJacobs posted:Priscilla is one of the few that actually DOES mind her own business. Most of the other ones run straight at you and try to eat/crush/stab/otherwise destroy you. Most Dark Souls bosses get a pretty raw deal. Hey guy(s), just stay in this room for the rest of eternity and maybe kill anyone who enters, also you're probably going to go insane from the wait. See ya! It doesn't help that Terminally Bored is correct and you are basically the Nathan Drake of Lordran.
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Zedd posted:She is a lying sack of poo poo though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD8xLYHyCAc
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Tezzeract posted:Got to spend a bit more time with Borderlands the Presequel and my opinion of it improved a lot. Once you get used to the jumping and boosting the game starts to click. The level design is better if you're the exploring type - there are a lot more hidden chests and even a few alternate routes if you have the eye for it. Going to agree with this. We've gotten a lot further and it's definitely not as bad as my initial+ impression was. Stingray is rather fun. Level design still leaves some to be desired, by a lot, though there's some cool places and there were a lot of places in BL2 that sucked too. Some of the quests are funny but some are just ugh, like Donate 50 White Items. Who the hell saves up that many white items? It requires like 6+ (backtracking) trips to finish by yourself (or 3+ with a friend) and that means you're hoarding whites the entire time. In general, there's a lot more backtracking than there was in BL2 which shows lazy design. It still has horrible problems with loot, chests are almost universally garbage (and the nice chests are rare). I think im going to run CE next time I load up a co-op game, is there a CE table for this game that people have used yet? Xaris fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Oct 20, 2014 |
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I never did really bother with Dark Souls achievements, but I did platinum the OG Demon's Souls. Helps that I 
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Zedd posted:She is a lying sack of poo poo though. She didn't force you into the painting you jerk!
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Xaris posted:Going to agree with this. We've gotten a lot further and it's definitely not as bad as my initial+ impression was. Stingray is rather fun. Level design still leaves some to be desired, by a lot, though there's some cool places and there were a lot of places in BL2 that sucked too. Some of the quests are funny but some are just ugh, like Donate 50 White Items. Who the hell saves up that many white items? It requires like 6+ (backtracking) trips to finish by yourself (or 3+ with a friend) and that means you're hoarding whites the entire time. In general, there's a lot more backtracking than there was in BL2 which shows lazy design. Yup. https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_f11g1DlLhDc2RvVEhpZ2cyNmM&usp=sharing I run my co-op game with an enhanced drop rate, way more fun.
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Gratzi. That still works over MP right? E: It actually feels like Loot is worse than BL2 if that is even possible. I seriously don't know what they did but its dumb.
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Xaris posted:Gratzi. That still works over MP right? As long as you're the host.
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Oh no IndieGala. Oh no. E: The Playing History game is the same series as that Slave Tetris game.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:E: The Playing History game is the same series as that Slave Tetris game.
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 "Contrast" is too classy and refined of a game taste , I feel bad for taking such cheap shots .
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Zedd posted:She is a lying sack of poo poo though. Seriously one of the best, most suspension-of-disbelief preserving things about the Souls series is how utterly loving insane literally every inhabitant in the universe is, and wondering what it must be like inside those batshit, labyrinthine minds of theirs. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Oct 20, 2014 |
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For anyone that wants either Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition ($4.99). or Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection ($2.49), they are on sale for 75% off on GMG. If you want them both in a bundle, you'll have to pay an extra $0.01 though, as it costs $7.49. I guess they have to charge more to digitally bundle them. http://www.greenmangaming.com/deal-of-the-day/
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This is the same game world that has a talking cat that is the proud leader of a cat covenant that guards a forest containing the grave of a master swordsman whose giant pet wolf guards it for all eternity by carrying his sword in its mouth. I don't think Dark Souls even wanted to pretend to make any sense.
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I gave the Pre-Sequel another chance, and in the span of an hour i had one quest item glitch into a wall, a quest-related enemy glitch beneath the floor, an NPC freeze up instead of opening the door he was supposed to, and then ANOTHER quest enemy glitch into the floor. I don't think anyone playtested this game. I can't say i blame them though, i don't want to play it either.
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Borderlands: The Pre Sequel is basically the worst game I'm ever going to spend 300 hours playing. That is how I would describe it.
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Does the Borderlands pre-sequel have the dictionary definition of the worst bullet sponges of all time like Borderlands 2 did?
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ImPureAwesome posted:How do you find the oxygen mechanic? I heard it basically stops you exploring much It's a non issue. Every single enemy drops O2 canisters, and there's plenty of spots to regen oxygen if you happen to be exploring.
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Terminally Bored posted:So hey, it looks like Dark Souls is finally ditching GFWL, it just got achievements: http://steamcommunity.com/stats/211420/achievements Any idea whether it will retroactively apply achievements? I'm guessing not, which is good and bad. Good because it gives me an excuse to play the game all over again. Bad because there's a bunch of other games that I should be playing.... but achievements! Oh God I'll have to kill Smough and Ornstein again 
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Ddraig posted:It's a non issue. Every single enemy drops O2 canisters, and there's plenty of spots to regen oxygen if you happen to be exploring. If anything, it adds to the fun if one person is playing Claptrap in a co-op game because they get to be all smug about not needing oxygen like the rest of us. Sidenote, door kickers is pretty awesome. Very Frozen Synapse-ish, only real-time pausable with actual campaigns where your mans level up and such.
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Ddraig posted:It's a non issue. Every single enemy drops O2 canisters, and there's plenty of spots to regen oxygen if you happen to be exploring. Yeah. I played a bit at a friends place and while I didn't like the vast majority of what I played, oxygen was a non-issue.
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