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My problem with Civ 5 is how laughably, terribly bad the AI is at naval combat. Exhibit A, The smallest military power in the world wrecking a military/navy nearly 3 times its size: http://imgur.com/a/ndojX I know the solution is just play on pangea forever, but that is pretty boring quite frankly.
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SpookyLizard posted:The car works in Fallout 2 because it just makes the over map travel faster. It wouldn't work in FNV/FO3 for the exact same reason. If they had broad expanses of wasteland connected by an overmap, it might work, but as it is, it's pointless. Exactly. It works in Fallout 2 because that game is basically a bunch of areas connected by vast expanses of nothing. In NV/F3 they tried actually filling these areas of nothing with little interesting bits to make them worth exploring and walking around in. Playing Sacred Citadel with a friend right now and it's pretty annoying how damage-spongey enemies can get. Also what's the point of having an attack that sends enemies flying across the screen when their flying body doesn't actually knockback/hurt other enemies? Come on, that's like lesson 1 in Beat 'em ups 101. Away all Goats has a new favorite as of 05:27 on Jul 1, 2014 |
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Mikl posted:The Sims 3: why is there no option to disable the opening cutscene? I don't mean the three unskippable ones (EA logo, Maxis logo, The Sims 3 logo), but the actual opening cutscene which can and will always be skipped. Right now, if I launch the game and go grab a drink or to the bathroom, when I come back it's still the middle of the opening cutscene, and then I have to manually skip it and wait until the main menu loads. It would be much better if I could just launch the game, go grab a drink, and come back to the already loaded main menu. I'm guessing its the same reason Civ 5 Vanilla had an unskippable cutscene: They're trying to hide a loading bar behind the cutscene. Which is stupid. Just show me the bar so I can see how long I have to wait, instead of forcing me to mash the spacebar or escape key the entire time.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Games with a bunch of unlockable poo poo like that should have a "party mode." Disable achievements/trophies/online leaderboards/etc., but unlock all the characters, levels, equipment, or whatever. Taking a disc-based Smash Brothers or Mario Kart game to have a blast with your buddies and then spending hours unlocking stuff so Emily can use her favorite character or Steve can race on his favorite track is loving lame. Yeah that was the worst when we rented SSBBrawl back in the day and everyone only wanted to play Sonic, only to find out the easiest way to unlock him was to play Brawl for loving 10 hours.
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Jul 29, 2014 23:44
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DStecks posted:I have two thumbs, and am right handed. Your thumbs have got the most fine control of your fingers, and K+M leaves the right thumb totally unused. Like, imagine if you had to steer your car with your elbows, and nobody questioned this. Sounds like you want this http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Wireless-trackman-mouse.jpg
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The only bad thing about FF7 is the best attacks (the summons) are all long as gently caress (especially after you've seen them a couple hundred times) and there's no way to skip or shorten them.
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Aug 2, 2014 23:16
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The thing I hate about the Battlefield series is that it started out as this awesome combined arms game where you could control battleships, aircraft carriers and b17 bombers or have massive tank battles with like a dozen tanks (per side) or you could call in artillery strikes that were actually aimed and fired by other players. Then like 10 years later it is almost indistinguishable from the next generic modern FPS shooter (and worse yet, indistinguishable from the previous game in the same series).
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Aug 9, 2014 04:09
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Leal posted:Planetside 2: Spawn camping is a big problem in the game. Now to try and help with it SOE added secondary spawn rooms that the defenders can access through the teleporters. So it gives defenders a second spot to jump out of and requires the attackers to cover more ground I think the idea is that both rooms can cover each other and prevent them both from being surrounded. Except it doesn't work at all when both rooms are being shelled by tanks and aircraft 100~ meters away.
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Speaking of Voice Actors talking to themselves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpRkT9JxdnE
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To me the biggest thing dragging down Shadows of Mordor (Besides the mandatory stealth sections) is the fact that the game starts easy and gets even easier. This is the way games normally work of course, your hero powers up through the course of the story so he can save the world or take down the big bad. But I feel like a central part of the Nemesis system is your character dying; it powers up the Orc that killed you and changes your future encounters with that Orc. This new powered up orc might challenge his warchief for the title and get even stronger and etc When you start out having an easy time (I'm comparing the combat to the Arkham games, which had a much stricter timing on your attacks/counters and much less forgiving in flubbed button presses, among other things) and then it becomes even easier (particularly when you reach the last two tiers of the power list), it kind of renders the nemesis system moot unless you start dying intentionally or handicapping yourself.
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Oct 15, 2014 04:56
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Oxxidation posted:Shadow of Mordor is neat I guess but the berserkers drive me mad. I like them in principle - they auto-counter normal hits and greatly increase the difficulty of enemy groups - but the problem is that a) they're distinguished by wielding two weapons, which can be really bloody hard to notice in the murky darkness especially when you're drowning in supple multi-colored orc flesh, and b) the only way to hurt them is to stun them and unleash a flurry attack that you will never, ever get off in time if there's a single enemy in the same zip code as you. I'm usually reduced to running away and capping them with arrows whenever there's more than two or three in a group. I save my executions for those dudes. Also throw daggers at them and vault over them.
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Diablo 3 is now a pretty great game, much better than at launch. However the fact that it's still online-only is unforgivable. I should not be lagging when I'm just trying to get through the single-player campaign.
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Nov 3, 2014 05:57
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TheSpiritFox posted:Exalt was worse. Twenty dudes on a tiny map vs your 4 plus an agent. Maps that are literally impossible to win (that aren't supposed to be impossible the way landed battleships and stuff are early on) that you don't even really get much for completing. I actually stopped playing that mod because of EXALT. They are just super frustrating to fight against. They get the same equipment and abilities you do while having 3 to 4 times your number, often with much higher HP.
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Nov 9, 2014 00:02
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Anatharon posted:Flashbangs and Smoke grenades are good against EXALT. The annoying thing is they also get smoke grenades and I swear theres no limit to how far they can toss alien grenades. Even if you have full cover they will just lob one across the map. SHIVs and MECs are a good idea but SHIVs can only do so much and MECs can take a very long time to get going if UFO/MELD spawns don't agree with you.
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Jastiger posted:Dragging down Banished. It doesn't do a good job explaining how the wood cutters work or the gatherers. I have huge dips in production and can't tell why. Grrr. Wood cutters...cut wood. Make sure they have a marketplace nearby(if your village is big enough to support one) so they can actually retrieve wood without having to walk across the map for it. Also make sure you have enough space in your stockpile. Gatherers work best in dense forest, so you can usually build them right next to your foresters lodge.
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Nov 10, 2014 04:44
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LumpyGumby posted:The cool thing about the Metal Gear Solid series is that the controls change every game, so that after taking a few years off the last game, it feels like a new game and a new experience, while keeping the MGS vibe. Which game had crouch running? The last MGS game I played was MGS3
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Nov 20, 2014 22:19
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The amount of tower-disabling enemies in Kingdom Rush Origins. It's always been a staple in these games but it feels like overkill in this game sometimes, especially with the type of maps that encourage a handful of strong concentrated towers. Also the setting(elves and nature) is kinda boring when they could have given us industrial revolution era dwarves/gnomes
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Nov 26, 2014 12:42
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So his real gripe with the game was that the game sucked so bad he put it down for 6 months.
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While the PC version of One Finger Death Punch is an awesome title, the mobile version of it is a slightly stripped freemium version of it with ads. Not the worst crime, but its awful that there's no premium option to get rid of the ads and have an experience closer to the PC version.
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Supeerme posted:What dragging Game Dev Tycoon down is the fact that the review scores are directly based on your previous games score. This means a 8/10 game will make your next game into a 5/10 even if it have the very latest design technology and all the the very best game developers as well. So the only way to get high scores is to poo poo out poo poo games for a while so the next game will be getting 10/10. It also annoying how you have to start in 1985 every time you start the game. I want to start at anytime I want! What? I don't remember that being the case. I remember at one point getting like three 10/10 games in a row.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Jade Empire had the best workaround for this. If the game detected you had saved in the casino too much and won too many games a short cutscenes would play where the dealer would yell something like " the gods are punishing me for losing too much money" then his head would explode and you couldn't gamble a more. This is amazing. I'm disappointed I can't find a video of it on youtube
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Leal posted:Planetside 2: The intentional 3 or 4 second delay between entering a vehicle/changing seats and being able to exit/swap to another seat. If I jump into my vehicle and really need to get into a gunner seat I have to wait, it gets so bad that constantly mashing the key will result when I finally get into the loving gunner's seat I will get a notification that I want to trade seats with myself. Or if I jump into my vehicle and something happens that if I don't get right the gently caress now, cause SOE can't balance for poo poo and just makes everything die really easily so they don't have to deal with balance, I can't no matter how much I mash the exit vehicle key. Nope I have to loving wait 4 seconds, good thing every single vehicle in the game can die in a quarter of a second! Pretty sure that's not intentional, Emerald has just been laggy as gently caress today (/this week?)
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Catpain Slack posted:Mount & Blade: with Fire & Sword (and to a lesser extent, Warband): After starting a siege by blowing up a fortress wall, the first thing most of my idiot soldiers do is climb up the drat castle walls from the inside, in pursuit of the 3 or so weak-rear end marksmen always stationed up there. You know you can control your troops right? Just command them to follow you and charge through that breach 
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All these posts complaining about Skyrim and nobody posting about the worst one (OK the lackluster combat is high up there too): The terrible UI Want to drink a potion? Scroll through this list! Want to activate a spell? Navigate this menu! want to switch between two different sets of dual wielded weapons? well gently caress you!
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MisterBibs posted:Every time I try and play Dawn of War II, the relative speed and micro required (and the lack of being able to pause while doing stuff) drains me of all energy/desire to play more than one level/mission at a time. I think I'd have a lot more fun if I could just slow the game's speed down a bit, but I don't think I can (related bitch: not being able to save within a level) and its really annoying. Just lower the difficulty. For the most part you guys are supremely durable and don't need that much micromanagement anyway
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NBA2k15 has a career mode where you basically create a character, sign up with an NBA team and try to win some games. The only thing is that the game expects (and acts) like your the next Michael Jordan. So even though you turn the ball over to the other team 10 times (5 is already way too high) for 3 games straight, and are basically hogging the ball up and down the court, the coach will keep giving you more minutes per game as if you weren't the most poisonous thing to the team's chemistry and chances of winning. It's just kind of frustrating (and unrealistic) that there's no way to play the career mode where you're just a regular player, not the second coming of basketball jesus Away all Goats has a new favorite as of 09:04 on Mar 17, 2015 |
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That the install size for NBA2k15 is like 50+ gigs. It'd be nice to install a lite version to play the general manager mode which is basically just spreadsheets and stats. Or the card game which is also very light on graphics/audio.
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When you increase the difficulty setting in NBA2k15 it doesn't just make opposing teams better, it also makes your team worse. How the gently caress do you miss a wide open shot just 10 feet from the basket 
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Chumpy posted:Good loot exists in BL2? Because my thing dragging that game down is that even after a dozen hours all of my weapons were junk, even the rare ones. Kind of a problem for a Diablo-like to have such underwhelming drops. Oh it's not just bad luck on my part? Seems like good guns are few and far between in BL2. More often than not I'll come across a good gun but it'll be like 5-10 levels below me so while it's good, it's not great against the level of enemy I'm fighting. In Borderlands 1 I had trouble juggling all the cool ridiculous weapons I had.
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Lagomorphic posted:Yeah that's one of the main reasons I bought a WiiU. It continues Nintendo's tradition of being a generation behind in terms of online but they are pretty drat committed to local multiplayer. The WiiU is fantastic for co-op/multiplayer games, its like entirely designed for it almost. Thing dragging it down though; you gotta have proper controllers for the proper game or have a less-than-optimal experience. For example trying to play smash bros with a wiimote/nunchuck sucks, as does trying to play mario kart with just a wiimote.
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RyokoTK posted:That "fixes" the problem by putting gigantic loving glowing video game arrows in the middle of the street, which is not actually a desirable solution for a lot of games. For what it's worth I really liked how in Far Cry 2 the 'map' was an actual map you laid out on your lap/over the steering wheel and you actually had to aim down to look at it. Not everyone's ideal but it made the game very immersive for me.
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So the The Long Dark is pretty cool. It's a survival game set in the Canadian wilderness with your biggest enemies being the cold and natural wildlife. And starving to death I guess. That said, this game would really benefit from a random map generator or something. After restarting a couple of times you kind of start to memorize where the goodies and safe areas are (thankfully at least the quantity and quality of those supplies are random)
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Byzantine posted:Fallout 3 was awesome for just wandering. NV was very bad at wandering. I would like to wander in 4. Yup. Storylines and questing is cool and all but sometimes I just want to wander around and stumble on raiders attacking a couple wastelanders or a vertibird dropping off some enclave idiots for me to snipe. Check out the huge discrepancy in random events: FO3 v FNV Away all Goats has a new favorite as of 06:10 on Jun 30, 2015 |
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Namarrgon posted:The AI in EU4 is pretty good at mostly only declaring war on you when they are confident they can take you. They are still pretty bad at being your lifelong friends for half the game and suddenly (slowly) turning hostile for no real good reason later on. I mean there is probably a good game-mechanic reason, but not an intuitive reason or one that a player would have done. The best thing about EU4 that a lot of 4X games don't have(except for civ4) is you can just vassalize a nation if they are small/weak enough. No chance of getting betrayed there.
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Trying to play Shogun 2 right now and it's REALLY maddening how 'autoresolve' might as well be labeled 'autolose'. Your army might be defending a fortress with a 4 star general and across the board higher quality troops and equipment and it'll still come out as a pyrrhic victory, if not a complete loss. Goddamnit game, I don't want to play every single fight especially when fortress defenses are so goddamn easy and THE SAME THING EVERY TIME. Even worse is naval combat which is a total slog. But if you autoresolve and your fleet isn't completely 100% healthy get ready to lose those ships to loving trading vessels. And it's not like you can ignore navy either since like 75% of your income will come from trade. Away all Goats has a new favorite as of 21:26 on Jul 17, 2015 |
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StandardVC10 posted:The best outcome for Tenpenny Tower is actually to not do it at all, which doesn't really seem like a win design-wise. That's pretty much the same as telling to ghouls to gently caress off though. I actually really enjoyed the Tenpenny tower quest. I was pissed when I let the the ghouls in and they inevitably murder everyone (so pissed that I murdered all the ghouls too). But it felt like a genuine moment you know? Not everything in life turns out happy and as you want it too. Sometimes you end up doing the wrong thing despite your best intentions.
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Inzombiac posted:Fallout Shelter is out for Android and I cannot keep up with consumption no matter how upgraded or large my rooms are. I've set up everything very well and placed everyone in the right spots. Your probably making the same mistake I did when I first started playing which is just trying to 'play' too much. Literally. It's a game you tap on a few things every like 10-20 minutes while you do something else in between. Trying to micromanage stuff too much by rushing rooms just costs you money
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Ryoshi posted:My Sims 3 gripe is that (much like the other Sims games) simple tasks take entirely too long to complete. The clock is so fast that I believe on the normal setting a minute or two is equal to an hour. Unfortunately the animations for everything are pretty much real time despite the compressed time scale. Want a bowl of cereal? Hope you have a free hour before work. Gotta take a leak? That'll take almost a half hour if you remember to wash your hands. It seems like the challenge of balancing work and personal lives for your Sims is completely artificial and based around them needing twenty minutes to eat a bag of chips that they inexplicably pull from the fridge. This problem got even worse in Sim 4. I swear eating takes forever in that game. To make it worse is that they pause frequently in actions like eating, which I think is a byproduct of the multi-task system where they can have conversations during a meal or whatever.
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Rocket League is an incredibly fun rocket car hockey(and I say this is more hockey than soccer since body checking is completely legal) game. What sucks is that in the lower levels there are way too many players who think just touching the ball is the pinnacale of achievement and will constantly bump the ball with their car, even if it's toward their own goal, or out of the path you have lined up toward the enemy goal.
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RBA Starblade posted:The thing dragging Rocket League down is in matchmaking if a guy drops, they're replaced with a bot. The bot is pretty good and unaffected by lag so he's going to be the all-star in your game of low-level terrible players like you. Meanwhile, your own team is busy sabotaging their own up to that point almost assured victory. Wait, seriously? I've been in a few matches where I end up having to play a 2v3 or 3v2. Usually its someone ragequitting so maybe its only when the match has just started they get replaced by a bot?
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