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All the hype over MGSV made me decide to finally give the series another chance. I liked the first one this time, but holy gently caress is Metal Gear Solid 2 awful. Raiden is a lovely protagonist, Dead Cell are incredibly boring, the story is (so far) completely flat, and that loving bridge between shells 1 and 2.
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:
Because Kojima only wants lady characters he can jack it to. And that is my thing dragging the Metal Gear Solid franchise down, especially the "first person view to ogle women" but in some of the cut scenes in MGS3.
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Sep 29, 2015 13:41
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princecoo posted:I'm playing and really enjoying Mad Max at the moment, but damnit there is this one little thing that makes my eye twitch - Dinky Di. And the word is "gasoline" not "guzzoline." The characters have obviously had some linguistic shifts since the end of the world.
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StandardVC10 posted:Persona 3: The plot section just before rescuing Fuuka has you and two friends going into a shady alleyway searching for information and nearly getting beaten up by the local criminal element. There are two problems with this: I just assumed they don't carry their weapons and poo poo with them, and that magic only works during that weird extra hour or whatever when Tartarus exists.
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Nov 23, 2015 07:19
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My one complaint with Bloodborne is that there doesn't seem to be a ton of variety in the equipment. I've defeated four bosses so far but only gotten one new right-hand weapon. Magic seems to be completely removed in favor of guns (which again are very same-y). The armor all seems to have pretty much the same amount of physical defense (with a difference of maybe 10 points total between different sets) so I guess it's just all about deciding what elements you want better resistance too; and there's no weight system like in the other Souls games, so as someone who's used to using very heavy equipment in those it adds to the same-y feeling of the equipment in Bloodborne.
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Jan 10, 2016 04:51
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In Blood Borne: The Old Hunters, Lady Maria is just the absolute worst. She doesn't play a goddamn thing like any other boss fight in the game, relies on mechanics that are useful but not really necessary anywhere else in the game, and has at least one combo that is essentially a one-hit KO as she will hit you as soon as you are able to stand back up. I have been playing this three minute fight again and again for several hours now.
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Feb 9, 2016 04:07
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RyokoTK posted:Don't ever back away from Maria, she has a lot of attacks that are designed to punish you for cowardice. She does have fairly low poise and almost all of her attacks have reasonable parry windows, so the trick is to either parry one of her attacks, or dodge forward through one of her attacks and punish her. Because she is easily staggered, a fast weapon can parlay any of those into considerable damage on her. I don't know how she's not like any other Hunter fight, she's aggressive but can be parried relentlessly, exactly the same as Gascoigne from a million hours ago. The only difference is her wide AOE on her attacks, but most of those are mitigated by just getting up in her fuckin' face. Parrying. I'm terrible at it, but it's not really necessary for any of the other bosses like it is for her. I had the same problem with Gwyn at the end of the first Dark Souls. I'm used to using a slow, heavy character (I've generally stuck to the transformed Kirkhammer), and after that's worked for the entire game it's just not a viable option for this one fight. If she were a little slower like Gascoigne or the other Hunter fights it wouldn't be a problem. Instead I'm just bashing my head against this battle again and again and again. E: Krinkle posted:I'd give advice on maria but to me the game is summon a buddy and go nuts taking turns on trading aggro back and forth. I get how doing it by yourself could be "satisfying" but this is the price you pay by going it alone. Until that satisfying moment you get a hell ride where only you are to blame for loving up! I would do this if I had PS+
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FactsAreUseless posted:So what can you do about a problem like Maria? I can sure bitch about it real good  Seriously though it required a big shake-up in my tactics (and abuse of the Augur of Ebrietas). I can understand why they would put a boss fight like that in, but I just don't like that fight.
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Feb 9, 2016 23:37
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Cleretic posted:I haven't played Life is Strange, although I do want to, but this kind of thing can be a bit of a dangerous thing to pull to not date your creation. If done well I'm sure it's really good, but you run the risk of not fitting in on any level. I remember that the comic strip For Better Or Worse suffered from that when the characters grew up enough to be using slang and such; the author decided to start making up her own rather than either go with what she knew (which would have been woefully out-of-date) or adapting what she did know teenagers said (which would have been incomplete and probably incorrectly-used, and eventually be out-of-date anyway). But the result, probably due to her bad writing skills, was a language that didn't sound right to anybody at any time whatsoever. Hey man, relax the sphincter. There's no need to go roadside.
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Feb 28, 2016 00:27
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Sleeveless posted:I genuinely regret missing out on the Baldur's Gate series. It seems like it would be the perfect game for being a kid with unlimited free time but as an adult is just a tedious slog. As a kid, it was a tedious slog.
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Mar 7, 2016 02:46
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Woolie Wool posted:Download Climates of Tamriel, Vurt's foliage, and one of the modding thread recommended ENBs. Problem solved, the game is now rich and vibrant. "Well if you install a bunch of third party mods it becomes tolerable" is not a valid excuse for this sort of thing. If you need third party mods to make a game good, then it is a bad game.
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Mar 16, 2016 01:11
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Woolie Wool posted:It's a Bethesda game. If you can't deal with it, all Bethesda games are bad, go play something else. I don't play Bethesda games for precisely that reason. Thanks for being weirdly aggressive about it though!
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Mar 17, 2016 01:15
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Woolie Wool posted:It's because people who actually bother to mod Bethesda games are sick to death of having had people whine about having to mod Bethesda games for the past 14 years. Bethesda isn't going to stop making janky games, the modders aren't going to stop improving them, and players aren't going to stop playing them, because there is not and never will be competition for Bethesda's formula until million-dollar bills rain from the sky and nobody has to worry about budgets anymore. Lol you play games you can't enjoy until some nerd fixes them because the company knows they can release a half-finished product and spergs will eat that poo poo up and ask for seconds
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Mar 17, 2016 06:13
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Or you could just use human effigies. That's what they're for.
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Mar 25, 2016 02:42
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HaB posted:Also - the Dark Souls 2 version of the Cling Ring (greatly mitigates the max health loss from dying a lot) is no longer easy to rush and grab in Scholar of the First Sin. It's now guarded by a bunch of Heide Knights. It's still not terribly difficult to get. I went and got it before going on to the first boss. 
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Mar 25, 2016 13:13
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Len posted:I got back into Monster Hunter 4 and while I really enjoy the battles against the giant monsters I wish it was less gear dependent. Having to grind the same thing over and over on the hope that it drops the right body part is just frustrating as hell. Usually you can speed this up by breaking the body parts and/or capturing the monsters. It's still repetitive but it's a lot easier to, say, grind for a King's Frill if you make a point to focus in and break the neck.
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Apr 2, 2016 03:09
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Len posted:Yeah. It's just that I've been doing the hunt-a-thon Tetsucabra and have brought down five breaking his tusks each time and I still don't have enough for the armor parts I need. Ugggghh yeah. It might also be a good idea to look up if there's any Tetsucabra hunting quests that drop that as a quest reward, if you haven't done that already.
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Apr 2, 2016 03:19
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Blood vials are also fairly cheap through the bath messengers. As for parrying, yeah there's very little reason to try and parry bosses in Bloodborne. I made it through the whole game and the DLC only ever even trying to parry Lady Maria. For me, that's a good thing since I've always found the Souls games' parry mechanics a bit too finicky and unsatisfying. What is currently dragging Dark Souls 2 down for me is how often my weapon will just clip through an enemy or boss without registering a hit. Also parrying.
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Apr 3, 2016 22:18
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I really don't get the hate for Lost Izalith and the Bed of Chaos. The Bed was the best boss fight in the game because it was the only one where things would carry over after you died.
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Apr 6, 2016 03:49
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Guy Mann posted:They patched that in after the fact. Originally you had to do the whole thing in one go. Well it's been that way for years now, so I think it's time to get over it
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Apr 6, 2016 05:18
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I've been playing the original Fatal Frame, and oh man that game has not held up very well at all. The resources are totally front-loaded, so you get a lot of healing items and ammo early on and then very little later when you actually need it. Sometimes you can't leave a room until you beat the ghost in it, but not always! And there is absolutely no indication when you can run from a ghost. The controls are absolute rear end. There are some random parts of the floor that your character can't walk on, so you have to move around it. There are also no subtitles, which was common in horror games of the time but it still sucks. All of that wouldn't be so bad if the actual photography part of the game weren't so incredibly loving clunky. OH, I almost forgot. Ghosts can teleport while you're fighting them. That would be bad enough if it weren't for the fact that some ghosts can wind up an attack and then teleport right behind you just in time for the attack to land.
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Apr 11, 2016 12:30
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Cleretic posted:I'd take the option for kicks, because it seemed like it would be funny to say, or occasionally because I thought it'd fit the character to say it. Sometimes I'd underestimate how much it cut down, leading to a sidequest I might've been enjoying just ending because I got lucky. Once or twice it was because failing the speech check pissed people off, and I was more interested in fighting. I too frequently pick options I don't actually want, and then reset the game when they work out exactly as intended
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May 14, 2016 10:21
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Hel posted:I would have let them get away with it if you could actually leave at the point when you actually meet someone and accomplished your objectives, don't have it pop up or something but have it as a secret ending. It's not like it would have cost them that much to put in a short cutscene and roll the credits before kicking you back to the menu or the last checkpoint. Difference is that you're not interacting with those and actively driving them forward.
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Jul 18, 2016 11:23
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Nuebot posted:But it's not like you're playing The Sims or something and setting up a murder house to torture little pretend people. You have no actual control over what happens in the game. The player is effectively just along for the ride. I'm just saying that there's a distinction between "you could just walk out of the theater and not kill Juliet!" vs "You are the one who is actively controlling this situation and causing all this death." Sure, the player is to some extent along for the ride, but on the other hand you do have a choice which leads to you (as opposed to characters you have no control over) killing a bunch of people. And that choice is to not play. You know, like not joining the military and engaging in pointless wars (because that is the totally not subtle metaphor of the game).
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Jul 18, 2016 11:35
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BillmasterCozb posted:They also don't know how to do weekly brawls, because where Hearthstone tavern brawls are just "Here's dumb poo poo that wouldn't work in a serious game, have fun", overwatch brawls are "i dunno..restrict the characters to junkrat and mei" instead of doing poo poo like the first weekly brawl, where everyone's cooldowns were cut in half, and their ults charged faster. that was fun mayhem,this poo poo is just droll. Droll means "funny" not "dull"
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Aug 24, 2016 22:37
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Overwatch is a good game, and Mercy is a good character.
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BillmasterCozb posted:i feel like i need some context for this They said a word that people on tumblr say sometimes! The robocops are takin' over! It's political correctness gone mad!
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Sep 10, 2016 02:22
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I hate the equipment leveling system in Monster Hunter Generations. Why couldn't the game have just been Monster Hunter 4: But With New Monsters.
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Sep 11, 2016 06:04
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Ignimbrite posted:Because capcom let the Frontier team have a crack at a handheld game. 
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Thoughtless posted:The problem with Fallout 4 specifically doing that is that it's ostensibly an RPG, and in RPGs it's kinda important to not have dumb stuff forced on you, or it might ruin the whole RP aspect. What about Super Mario RPG?
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It was an obvious joke at a post that contrasted RPGs and Mario you loving nerds. Video game RPGs are pretty much the same across the board regardless of whether they're J or not. W/C/whatever RPGs just give you the ability to create a character that is functionally identical to any other character in terms of how the game plays out. Unless you're like that loving dork earlier in the thread who posted about how he likes to pretend to be Doctor Who when he plays Fallout.
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Cleretic posted:I am that loving dork. Except I didn't say that, I used Doctor Who as a comparison point for how I play a certain staple character of mine. 
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Even if you pretend you're Doctor Who in Fallout, that has every bit as much impact on how the game actually plays out as pretending that Tidus is actually Doctor Who and Lulu and Rikku are secretly loving.
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Somfin posted:Play Fallout 2. I have and the game plays out the same regardless of what pretend scenarios I have going on in my head?????
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Somfin posted:Try playing a different character with a different skill set and respond to inputs differently. You might be surprised how much the game accommodates you! E: no matter how hard I play pretend, Fallout 2 will not let me enter the TARDIS and travel to another time on another planet
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Action Tortoise posted:Sombrero Guy, simmer down. you made your points about what u want. seriously, redtext callouts? that's incredibly bitchmade. if you're gonna start swinging at every person whose opinion you don't like, then don't keep derailing. Oh no I was red texted by someone from the SA Cards Against Humanity games who got sick of our in-jokes.
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Sep 11, 2016 10:21
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frodnonnag posted:oh hey! i broke 1800 days play time. This is nearly five years spent logged into a game that came out six years ago. Please seek help.
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Oct 19, 2016 22:28
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Dewgy posted:That's FF11, which came out 12 years ago. I mean, that's still over 40% uptime, but if you've been subbed that long I can definitely see idling to be a bazaar merchant that long while you go to work or sleep or whatever. If it have spent almost five years logged into any video game, you should seek help.
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frodnonnag posted:the worst i do is my limited farming runs of voidwatch. Due to the way the event runs, it is insanely profitable to multibox. Worst i've done is 6 characters at once. You have spent literally over four years logged into a single video game.
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Overwatch would be so much better if the players on my team ever seemed to understand the objective. Instead most of them just seem to treat it as a deathmatch and try to maximize their KDR without actually ever defending or trying to capture the objective.
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