Woolie Wool posted:

God forbid people role play in a roleplaying game. Who would do such a thing, it's only the entire reason the genre was invented and the source of its name.

Ramos posted:

Isn't that mostly due to a ridiculous level of bullshit Australians have to deal with in terms of censorship?

Tiggum posted:

One of the best things about modern games is how you don't have to read a manual or discover basic things through trial and error because they just tell you how to play the game as you play it.

If you have to play for several hours before the game gets good, it is a bad game.

Grey Fox posted:

I was debating whether or not to take another stab at FXIII since it's on sale through Steam, but then I remembered why I quit the first time when I played on PS3: multiple hardlocks during long-rear end boss fights. I can't remember any big-name JRPG with as many technical problems as FXIII.

Never again.

Gestalt Intellect posted:

This doesn't change the fundamental problem at all.

Byzantine posted:

Things dragging GTA games down:

Woolie Wool posted:

I ended up losing interest in Bulletstorm fairly early on, partly because of who they decided to kill and who they didn't at the beginning of the game. The redneck guy should have been the one who survived and the whole thing should have been played for redneck comedy, but nooooo, the boring guy had to become a boring, angry cyborg instead.

Tardcore posted:

Also extremely annoying humming apparently.

BioEnchanted posted:

Dark Souls 3 has confused me - The Witch on the stairs towards the cathedral was apparently replaced with a standard Worker with a pitchfork. Of course the doors open from the other side, but still... are the enemies randomised somewhat or what has happened there?

thecluckmeme posted:

They literally redo the archer bit from DS1 with an extra archer that kills you if you go "oh, it's the archer bit, i know how to do this" lol

Action Tortoise posted:

also projectiles track your movements even when I think they shouldn't. like soul arrows and flame breaths could do it bc they're magic but crossbow bolts and arrows shouldn't curve to your path. I'm not playing wanted here

RyokoTK posted:

Arrows totally curved in DS2, did they remove that for DS3?

Judge Tesla posted:

You can buy infinite amounts of Chunks, Twinkling Titanite and Titanite Scales if you find a certain type of Umbral Ash in Archdragon Peak which means you can have everything up to +9 or +4 for special/boss weapons.

RareAcumen posted:

Oh, I gotcha now. You just wanna be better than everyone else by virtue of being the protagonist and not because someone played the most hardcore game of fantasy eugenics to breed the perfect Chocobo One True Warrior Destined To Save Us All. I feel you.

Leal posted:

The lack of things to do solo or with a smaller party in FF14. I would like to make some form of advancement... just not with 3 retards dragging me down (I try my hardest to not do any of the raids, cause then its 7 or 23). There IS an option to run SOME content undersized with no syncing of your level and gear, but its just some. And its stuff that is so far obsolete. At best I can run a few select dungeons alone/with a single friend to get some glamour gear, but I can't run anything in the expansion solo or undersized. Would be nice to run a few of the 50-59 dungeons for glamours or pets, or even gear for classes I do plan on leveling but don't want to deal with the guy wearing level 230 chest piece needing and winning the level 139 chest piece cause "I need seals lol".

There is going to be a dungeon put in Soon (TM) that will let you do stuff alone/not requiring 4 people to run, but thats not now :T

Leal posted:

Its still a problem.

Attestant posted:

Playing more horror games for my personal Spooktober, and started Evil Within 1, that I picked up from a PSN sale. So far not a huge fan, after the first hour or two.

The PS4 version is surprisingly ugly with jagged edges everywhere, and far too dark lighting, that they apparently try to hide with the film grain setting. The controls don't have proper inverse settings, just the vertical axis. And then the gameplay feels painfully derivative of various modern (or 2014) trends. You have your crafting, your EXP system, stealth mechanics are about throwing distracting items to get free instakill backstabs, or hiding in lockers and cupboards. Minigames to disarm traps (for more crafting components!) None of these matter for a horror experience, why are they here?

Leal posted:

Simply Simon posted:

having to kill Bed of Chaos twice".

Nuebot posted:

I usually do but that's because I almost always run glass cannon builds so I can kill those giants in two or three hits. I die in one or two. Shields are for neeeeerds.


I still love that they are literally dragon asses. At first I thought they were just called that because they looked like asses. But no, they actually are the rear end ends of those undead dragons you fight.


I feel like The Gutter in the Scholar edition of 2 actually does the dark atmosphere thing best. There's no light, it's pitch black. But there are torches to light everywhere. So you can manually illuminate the place at the cost of a shield or second weapon. It's all narrow, janky platforms like the first half of blight town but there's only like two enemy types. Big mutant dogs that are just as likely to fall off platforms to their death as you are, and largely harmless hollows usually bearing torches that show exactly where they are at all times. There are a lot of those hollows though so if you're wandering around with a torch, it's easy to get swarmed. The place is pretty maze-like and it's probably my favorite area in the whole game because of the way it's done with the darkness and how they use the torch. There are a ton of areas you can just leap and cut out half the map if you feel like it, even.

Nuebot posted:

I like Scholar more than basic Dark Souls 2. The new enemy layouts are my jam.

Nuebot posted:

I don't disagree with you at all. I'd never recommend it as someone's first Dark Souls. But coming fresh off beating the first Dark Souls? It's pretty fun. It's a complete flip from the first game's layout style and I'm loving it.

Also, what contradictions are you talking about? I'm genuinely curious. The enemy placement in Scholar goes more for "lore friendly" over "poo poo that makes the game more accessible" Which is why you have a bunch of angry heide knights guarding the way to the way of blue now.

The Moon Monster posted:

I don't know if they've fixed it but when I played PvP wasn't even a realistic option for 3 of the covenants because they worked so poorly. You'd have to wait hours for a single hit, and then you might not even win and get a token.

The Moon Monster posted:

For Mound Makers you can just invade people and kill them like the vanilla PvP covenant

Nuebot posted:

If you're playing on PC just cheat. It's very easy to just use cheat engine to alter the number of items you have, turn them in and no worries. You won't get banned or anything - I've done it half a dozen times because gently caress farming sword grass.

Nuebot posted:

You might have missed one? You kind of have to use lloyd's talismans on them if you want it with any reliability.

Yardbomb posted:

It is, so you missed one somewhere apparently.

food court bailiff posted:

The one thing that sucks about it is the Big Gross Magic Tree Club Guys. The swamp is just about the worst possible place to fight them, and slows you down enough that running is iffy at best, so I keep cheesing them with arrows or level geometry or whatever I can use. It went fine until I was finally at the base of what I am pretty sure is the path to the final fire, and one comes out of absolutely nowhere to one-shot me. The area is already frustrating and tense, you don't need a bunch of guys the size of houses that can fart homing missile skulls at you, come on.

Drunken Baker posted:

Due to the nature of Shadow of War this MIGHT be bad RNG on my part, but...

I've got to level 45 and now all of the Orc who are popping up are so samey it's kind of boring.

BioEnchanted posted:

I've just cleared the first level in Yooka Laylee, Pagies, Pirate Treasure and upgrades. It was largely fun to do, but the pagies for getting all the Quills and Ghostwriters have no fanfare and it can be hard to even tell you got anything for them, and there is no message for clearing a level. It feels like the game doesn't care that Tribalstack Tropics has been scoured of all the goodies including the pirate treasure. You'd think that a collectathon would give a poo poo that I collected the things. I don't know, maybe have the Grand Tome turn gold or something, some visual hint that the level is clear.

BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:

Yeah but the continues cost 50 cents each.

BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:

Yeah but the continues cost 50 cents each.

RBA Starblade posted:

It's still amazing how quickly Fable and every other Xbox ip poo poo the bed and died. Has there been even a single word about a new Halo?

Olaf The Stout posted:

The thing that killed my Prey run was completing a sidemission that spoiled the true nature of the game. You get an alternate ending that reveals so little and so much that it sucked all joy of the game completely out of me in just a few seconds. It's that sidemission at the very top of the spacestation, above the penthouse suite.

Now goons are going to fall all over themselves explaining how I should have seen the twist from the intro.