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Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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Len posted:

To be fair "forced meme" in goon can simply mean "They referenced the internet this one time."

SA memes are fine to mention though, Goons can't get enough of those (See New Vegas) but those non SA memes, how dare you mentioned memes in my game!

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Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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Or you can just kill the NPC's to get their rewards, usually the outfits they wear, which worked for me in Souls 1 and 2. :v:

I actually did the questlines eventually though, but killing them is far more funny.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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Lord Lambeth posted:

Never kill Solaire. :colbert:

Praise the Sun? Not on my watch! :colbert:

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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The biggest thing dragging down the Timesplitters series is Crytek sitting on the franchise and refusing to re-release the games in HD, even as the company slowly goes down in flames.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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muscles like this? posted:

The plot of DAI is kind of wonky. It starts off with this whole "Breach in the sky" thing and the only thing anyone talks about is closing it. Except after three or four story missions you just kind of unceremoniously fix the problem and that's it. The game then starts up a whole new plot about this bad guy.

The bad guy who was introduced in DLC for Dragon Age 2 no less. :v:

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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Evilreaver posted:

The new patch (:woop:) also added Expert Worlds, which appears to make all the bosses nearly impossible. They do more damage and move faster as well as having extra stages and moves. I used to be able to take on the Eye of Cthulu with garbage and spare parts, in Expert I had to get a full gold suit, buff potions and a shotgun. The Brain and Skeletron nearly instagib me. I don't know if I can handle it solo at all, let alone hardmode content.

Skeletron Prime's gonna be fun on Expert Mode then.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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To be fair, that'd probably be my default appearance in a world ruled by Nazi's.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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Super Mario Maker is an incredibly fun toolkit where you can build your own Mario levels using a number of items from the Mario Series, but the thing dragging it down is the Playerbase itself.

The overwhelming majority of user made stages are Kaizo Mario inspired nightmare stages where only the creator and the grognards who like this stupid poo poo can complete them, I at least try to make my own stages completable by anyone, children included, who are funnily enough, the target market for Mario games. :v:

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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There are some really creative levels out there its just a shame they are being buried under Kaizo Mario poo poo, still, I am having fun tinkering around with my own creations.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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Inspector Gesicht posted:

Can you play as characters other than Mario? Hell, a good selling-point would be a character-creator in the Mario-style.

You can get character skins of other Nintendo characters but can only use them with the Mystery Mushroom item in the Super Mario Bros tileset, but its nothing but a pallet swap of Mario, you can't even play as Luigi normally, he's just a character skin.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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It's also fairly barebones as far as map editors go, the only Mario series boss you can use is Bowser and Bowser Jr, no Koopalings, Boom Boom, Reznor or anything, there's also no options to add background decorations so a lot of maps just have a crapload of dead space and empty backgrounds.

I do realize that Nintendo want this to be as user friendly as possible but, now that the maker has been out for a few days, I am starting to chafe at the lack of features like the above mentioned ones.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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StandardVC10 posted:

L4D is well balanced, but lacking in variety and replayability. L4D2 has more of those things, but has some levels and mechanics that are just badly designed, which is pretty unusual for Valve.

As a game build around teamwork and co-operation, L4D 1 and 2 are really, really prone to trolls screwing everyone over, all is takes is just to suicide yourself or kill a teammate since friendly fire is a thing and you may as well call it quits, especially on higher difficulties.

Either play it with friends or use the bots, even though the bot AI is well known to taking its time in saving you.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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In Versus mode when you could see other players perspectives when dead, I did wonder why the AI players would suddenly focus on the ceiling or a distant wall, they were watching the player or AI controlled special infected behind them, as you said, its clever but utterly ruins any ambushes you set as the AI always knows.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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Krinkle posted:

The problem with diablo 3 is how anyone gives even the slightest of fucks who you are before you do anything. In diablo 2 you're following around the wanderer and never quite catching up. Everyone you meet is just "holy poo poo! we got problems! that guy really messed us up! for god's sake grab a bucket and help us with all these fires" and every boss you intrude on basically says "who let you in here?" like you don't even matter. It owned! Now you have every boss calling you up every 30 seconds from when you enter their zone to when you kill them to taunt you about every single quest stage you'll "never be able to do".

"Arrogant Nephalem!" will be the words every D3 player takes to their grave.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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Cain was killed by Maghda, the Butterfly woman, which is a pretty miserable death for one of the series's major characters.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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RareAcumen posted:

Tools are great and even animals can commit warcrimes.

I don't know if you noticed but you're kinda playing the bad guy in this game.

content: For not having touched the series in a decade, Nintendo really seemed devoted to keeping the spirit of Earthbound's terrible inventory system alive in Paper Mario TTYD. You get ten inventory spaces. This is extremely small since there're attack items, defensive items, healing and just flavor things like books you can read that don't just go into key items for some reason.

Unless! You decide to go to the pit of a 100 trials and clear half of it for an upgrade that let's you carry twice as many items!

Well unless you are doing one of the game breaking builds like Danger Mario or such, you'll probably need to get the double inventory item from the Pit to survive the last leg of the game, stuff hits crazy hard there.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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Sleeveless posted:

This is why Dead Island was unplayable to me, degrading weapons + limited inventory meant I spent more time picking up and tossing weapons than I actually did fighting zombies.

Pity you didn't know you could fix weapons at workbenches in Dead Island I guess. :v:

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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The Moon Monster posted:

Super overdone cor blimey wot accents. That said I've never played another DQ game with much voice acting so for all I know it sounds just like DQ8.

As a British person, the accents sound genuine to me, or at least its not voiced by Americans pretending to be British. :v:

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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AI Controlled Characters in Dragon Quest Heroes don't have much sense of self preservation, I am looking at you Nera, stop running into melee range of the Golem who does big aoe's and hits like a truck, you are a caster, run away!

She's actually pretty powerful if you control her directly, but that's Warriors games for you, incompetent allies are a series staple.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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Mazerunner posted:

Yes, but also, no.

Jacob didn't have a good relationship with his dad because his dad was always away for work (space trucker pilot or something). Eventually his dad disappeared on an exploration to some new planet. This was years ago and Jacob had come to terms with the loss.

Then you find out where his dad's ship had crash landed and go to check it out, where it turned out that the survivors had eaten some of the planet's native foods which made them all stupid and susceptible to uh, being told what to do. Jacob's dad kept the ship's rations for himself, and used the defense droids on the ship to kill/exile all the other men and keep the mind controlled women as sex slaves. Yeah.

Anyway Jacob sees this and is like, what the loving hell dad. You get the option to kill the dude yourself, let Jacob kill him or take him into custody. Afterwards, Jacob's like, "drat I was ok with my dad being dead. Like he wasn't the best father but I thought he was a good man and had come to terms with that, but finding out he's a horrible rapist monster is really loving with my world view, I need some time to think". Probably a pretty reasonable reaction to have?

Then he doesn't really say much for the rest of the game.

You can romance him and he dumps you between games, I believe he is the only romancable crew member to do this.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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Grandmother of Five posted:

Don't cheat on Liara you son of a bitch. I thought I was inviting the HR girl (Kelly, I think) up to my room so she could borrow the shower because the captain quarters are just nice, but it turned out it was a sex thing and when I finally made up with Liara over that misundertsnading I thought i was going to have a friendly game of chess with the co-pilot or whatever she is in ME3 andI've been too afraid to turning my PS3 back on and facing Liara going on 3 years now

Traynor in 3 is a lesbian and it's comically easy to start a romance with her simply by choosing whether or not to shower with her during the chess game.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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Horrible Smutbeast posted:

That was mostly because her entire family was military and her grandfather was the first person to surrender to aliens when humanity first started running into other races out in space. She spent her whole life being poo poo on by her superiors and even aliens because of that. I might be wrong but I remember her stating she was religious because looking out at the stars and the beauty of the galaxy affirmed her belief (also it helps her cope with the death of her family members/team).

Funny enough, if you choose for her to die in the first game's big choice she does so happily and finds it a huge honour to help humanity that way while Kaiden dies like a whiny baby.

And then they poo poo on her in the sequels. :sigh:

Pretty much this, Ashley spent her entire life being poo poo on for her Grandfather surrendering to the Turians, he only did so because he got utterly trashed by them and wanted to save civilians from a force who were blowing up city blocks to kill a handful of soldiers hiding within, it's not surprising she has a chip on her shoulder about Alien life, when they ruined her life before she was even born.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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Shaman Ooglaboogla posted:

It happens three times. Once at the end of Nar Shaada where you play as atton, then TM-whatever, then as Mira or Hanharr. Once when you land at Atris' bunker in the restored content mod, and finally once when you have to storm the tomb of a Dark Jedi on Dxun.


The worst boss in that game was the greenpeace rear end in a top hat who is super fast and appear super early. I seem to recall he nabs you if you go past the bathroom at all at a certain point.

Well, the Bathroom he can be found in isn't one you'd be going past very often to be fair, but for first time players who are wandering around, yes, you will more likely stumble right into him, Dead Rising games do this all the time.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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Quit bitching every time I hack a computer or unlock a door Strong, I know you are a Super Mutant who can tackle Mini Nukes head on but I need the cache of telephones behind this door!

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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"I cannot relate to the main characters in Fallout 4 because they aren't like me, a Goon!, this is unacceptable!!"

Anyway, the thing slightly dragging down Fallout 4 for me, at the moment, is that my fortified nation of Sanctuary doesn't come under attack very often, all I want is for my 20 gun and laser turrets to have something to shoot at, the band of 3 Radscorpions that dared invade my nation was a start, but I want more attacks!

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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Lunchmeat Larry posted:

The Brotherhood ending is literally a copy of 3's with you following liberty prime lol

I have no problems with this, this was the highlight of the game for me, sorry about your chronic gooniness.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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Action Tortoise posted:

fawkes is just a reference to v for vendetta.

You might need to explain this one to me, is it because he shares a name with Guy Fawkes or what?

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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Gestalt Intellect posted:

The fact that From uses that design in their other games has nothing to do with whether or not a giant laser-shooting anime sword looks out-of-place in a gothic horror van helsing-esque setting. It's a 100% subjective complaint with the aesthetics and drawing weird connections to other stuff the developer has made doesn't change how I'm going to view the game as a singular product. It's my opinion on the aesthetics and it might not look out-of-place at all to you. But to me, it was random and cheesy as gently caress and borderline fan servicey.

It's an incredibly small complaint with the DLC compared to the fact that half the time I am just not enjoying its content.

A blue laser firing sword isn't that unusual in a game filled with Cosmic Horrors from another dimension. :v:

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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Solar Eclipse events are starting to annoy me in Terraria, because my house isn't floating 50 meters in the sky, it's under constant attack by Reapers who fly through the walls during the event, the rest of the monsters just leap around outside, since they can't get in, but the Reapers can, and they will quickly kill any NPC's they come near.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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RareAcumen posted:

Mine three blocks of dirt on one side and put something incorruptable like granite down. Boom, they can't spread anymore.

Wait, that'd only save the top of the world. You have a good point, my bad.

I think the spread speed of the Hallow/Crimson and Corruption is decreased by a lot when you kill all the Mechanical Bosses, but for people without Hardmode endgame gear, that's quite a task.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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Sleeveless posted:

It's not an argument of quality, it's people expressing indignation that Bethesda isn't changing their formula when said formula is only getting them larger and larger and sales figures so from a business perspective they have zero reason to change it.

Bethesda don't really have much reason to radically change how they do things as well, there's really nothing out there like Modern Fallout or Elder Scrolls to force competition or change, games like the Witcher 3 maybe, but those are so few and far between, it's just a blip on the radar.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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kazil posted:

I loved Witcher 3 but yeah the combat is not a strong suit.

First let's talk about the bestiary. Having to open a loving manual to figure out how to kill anything is kinda poo poo. Geralt is a seasoned Witcher. He should know how to kill poo poo. I mean, there are even examples in game of him saying poo poo like "better put on [specific oil] for this battle", so why does everything else have to be a chore. And even then, sometimes the bestiary just sucks. "Weak against Quen" or some bullshit. How is it weak? Can't tell you!


Amusingly enough, everyone gave Final Fantasy 13 poo poo for telling you to read the Datalogs for everything, but when Witcher 3 does it, nobody minds at all. :v:

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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The Moon Monster posted:

My main problem with it is that the maps are small and simplistic compared to other Musou games, and every enemy becomes and hp sponge.

What do you expect from a Dragon Quest game, good loving luck doing the endgame sidequests without being max level and having the best equipment because you will get your rear end wasted in moments, a typical Musou game this is not.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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So Resident Evil: Revelations 2 is a good game but has a problem, a large problem, there's not enough ammo for Claire and Moira's bits, I get that it's a throwback to the older pre RE 4 games but, don't put in the fast modern enemies with the scarce ammo system from RE1, it just results in you having to fight mobs of enemies with 15 bullets between 4 guns, this isn't very fun!

Don't even get me started on the Revenants in Barry's sections too, jesus christ they are the worst.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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Digirat posted:

The stat growths are completely ignorable and you can beat the game just fine without ever knowing they exist. They only matter if you care about min maxing, and I'm not sure why anyone would because it's a singleplayer game and you can just level past everything no matter how unoptimal you are.

Do Blast Arrows still break the game? I remember nuking Daimon with those back on Dark Arisen on PS3.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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I can see what Capcom were trying to do in Resident Evil 0 by letting you drop items everywhere which, in theory would cut down on backtracking to save rooms for the item boxes constantly like in 1 and 2, but in practice, you are just going to dump everything in the largest room available so you'll be running back to there constantly, which is more inconvenient depending on where you are in relation to said drop zone.

What I am trying to say is, item boxes were better than this system.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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Ramos posted:

Eh, that's a hump everyone has to get over. Once you get past that, the next thing is you realize that Chronostasis costs 1EP and there are a lot of enemies around, many quite easy to kill, that give 2EP. After that you basically have infinite time in a variety of areas with some minor route optimization.

It's very easy to have all the major plot questlines finished by day 3 if you abuse Chronostasis, I spent days 9 through 13 with nothing to do as I'd done every quest by that stage.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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Somfin posted:

wait set dungeons aren't set

why are the called loving set dungeons then

Because they are themed around Gear Sets. :v:

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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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.

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Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

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I really think Dead Island should have just all been about the Beach Resort as that's the best part of the game, Morsby after that is alright but the loving Jungle area is just the worst, it takes forever to reach quest objectives and has the single worst escort quest in the franchise there.

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