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That new mushroom miniboss in Odin Sphere Leifthrasir can go straight to hell, my God. The game's difficulty curve sure does take full advantage of the new mechanics. I've had to stop playing on Hard more and more often because the enemies get damage-spongey and they hit like trucks.
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FireMrshlBill posted:I hear that. Last spring I had to have our cat put down and for the rest of the week after we put our daughter to bed and things quieted down, my wife and I were pretty miserable. So to occupy my mind I played the FF15 Platinum demo with the Carbuncle leading/following me around, it reminded me of our cat and was saddening when I finished the demo. Carbuncle is only available on Easy Mode. He appears to auto-rez your party if you happen to get wiped. TaurusOxford posted:Why are the final fishing side-quests in FFXV so hard?! It's like I need to be psychic in order to know when the fish is going to change direction otherwise I lose about 100 durability on my fishing line. Don't reel, at all, if your controller is vibrating. That's pretty much the only way you can prevent getting huge chunks bitten out of your line's vitality. Even then it's an uphill battle. I caught one of the top-end fish with literally 2 hp left on my line.
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Jan 7, 2017 23:19
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I think Vanillaware may have been a little too in love with Cornelius when making the Odin Sphere remake. I mean, it's nice that he now has a full array of techniques that give him easy infinite combo loops on ground and in midair and several passive spells which continuously hit enemies and ensure his combo never drops even during gaps in sword attacks, but a loving laser cannon technique seems to be going too far.
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Jan 9, 2017 03:04
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I can't overstate how much I hated the tooltips in TLG. I enjoyed it a lot but I don't think I could replay it without an option to turn those bloody tutorials off. Also: The Walrus posted:20 minutes in and TLG is really great. The little interactions are unbelievable, I am pumped for when trico likes me enough to eat barrels right out of my hand Unfortunately the big guy doesn't have the right kind of mouth for that, he'll always just knock your rear end over with his snout by accident if you hold onto the barrel long enough to make him go for it. You can toss them to him and he'll crunch them right out of the air, though.
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Jan 10, 2017 15:17
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Beastie posted:Didn't they patch that option in right before Christmas? I remember hearing about it but I haven't had the chance to play since the release week. Seems like it was apocryphal, the option wasn't there when I booted and the tooltips were still out in force.
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Jan 10, 2017 19:32
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Shadow225 posted:Hi, I've played some games recently. The entire last act of the game is cliffs hanging off from other cliffs. The world is being dreamed up by God inhabiting the body of a little girl maybe who's also interested Kat probably because she's a refugee from the uppermost layer of the world presumably and Kat's cat is a highly advanced form of the Nevi apparently and the end of the game literally has the main villain speaking vague villainous plans to a sinister unseen third party over a god damned speakerphone.
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Jan 11, 2017 19:40
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Housh posted:ABZÛ game worth $20? I heard you folks comparing it to Journey. Does that mean it has co-op with randoms poo poo or there is no dialogue? $20 is a stretch. There's none of the multiplayer stuff of Journey, which was half its appeal, and the rest of it really is just Journey but underwater. The stages hit all the same beats and everything.
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Jan 11, 2017 20:25
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Housh posted:Pfft...I got Trico. Me, on Trico's back: Forward, my companion! Trico: *stares at a butterfly for seven hours* I kid because I love my big dumb catdogbird
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Jan 11, 2017 21:26
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loving cats. making GBS threads on the stairs, clawing up your furniture, inverting all known laws of physics on a whim.
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Jan 12, 2017 14:08
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PenguinKnight posted:tbh, what system has had really good launches? i've never owned any console immediately at launch, this is the first time i can afford to do it. i've looked at a wikipedia list and not a lot is sticking out besides the NES pack-in with duck hunt and mario bros and maybe us gameboy Console launches haven't been very robust in a while, but this one's especially weak, even more so when you consider how scanty Nintendo consoles' game libraries have been for like a decade.
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Jan 14, 2017 01:48
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Samurai Sanders posted:For me there's gotta be some compromise because I NEED to know that a command I entered actually registered. For games or any other kind of software, that's just something that if I don't have it I'll go nuts. Trico's got a few tics that amount to "no, I'm not doing that." Usually when he responds to a command with a loud screech it's a sign to try something else. Conversely, whenever you give him a command that he does listen to he usually responds immediately - like if you tell him to go forward and jump on something he'll snort and tense up for the leap. The only area where I really had trouble getting him to listen was during a certain water puzzle where you need him to dive below the surface and swim while you're hanging onto his back. The AI doesn't respond to "forward" commands properly in water, so I had to trick the AI by hanging onto him while he was doggy-paddling on the surface and then climbing down so the kid was submerged beneath the water. Once that happened, Trico's AI must have gone into "follow" mode because he dove down right away. Oxxidation fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Jan 15, 2017 |
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The Switch really is looking like the death knell for Nintendo hardware. The thing's approaching critical mass for gimmicks and it's got no freakin games to support it.
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Real hurthling! posted:i'm not asking for a spoiler i just want to know if i missed something i should go back and look for It's not really blocked, as evidenced by how one of the Trico use it anyway. Looks like something tried to build a nest there.
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Jan 16, 2017 00:20
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verbal enema posted:Phantom Pain isn't finished properly? It's essentially Act 1 of a two-act game. The second half is mostly padding.
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I said come in! posted:Nioh is meant to be brutally hard, right? Like it's a game that most people probably won't ever finish? It's difficult but not to that degree.
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Jan 18, 2017 16:33
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Eurogamer also stated that the demo version of GR2 was a lot rougher compared to the final product performance-wise, so that's nice.
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Jan 18, 2017 16:44
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Beastie posted:I will complain about the story in Uncharted 4 because it's boring. I wasn't really a fan. I'm just about done with it but I've already started UC1 and I like it better. If you have a PS3 you're spoiled for choice. If not you're out of luck.
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Jan 18, 2017 17:43
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UC1 isn't atrocious or anything but I wouldn't call it good. Maybe it was something exceptional at the start but time has turned it into another rote, repetitive third-person shooter with some exceptionally bad gameplay segments. Also Chloe > Elena
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Jan 18, 2017 19:19
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rabidsquid posted:holy poo poo this sounds involved what do you even get for this. i sort of want to go into the game blind but if its a Useful Thing i might break my plan The only thing that carries over from the demos is an item called the Dirty Coin. No one knows what it does yet.
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Jan 18, 2017 20:22
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rabidsquid posted:give us some more hot takes, especially involving the super relevant and hilarious memes about knack UFS is an idiot but most of my memories of the Crash games are the kind I wouldn't want revisited. That running-into-the-screen gimmick, good grief.
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Jan 18, 2017 20:53
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Bad Llama posted:PS4 Pro worth it? If you have no PS4 and/or a 4k TV, sure. If not, no need to upgrade. Bad Llama posted:PSVR worth it? No.
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Jimbot posted:After watching the Giantbomb Quicklook and reading the Polygon review, I think I want to pick up Yakuza 0. But from reading the review the reviewer pointed out how bad the game is with its depiction of women. As far as I know, the series always suffered from this. Is there a reason for this? It seems like so much loving care and nuance was put into the main cast of characters in the series but a woman comes along and is just a prop in service for one of the male characters or story. It's just odd to me that the writers of these games can write these characters so well and just put no effort into any woman character. It might be a writer thing, but Yakuza is also a crime drama and crime dramas tend to use women as props in the best of times. Oxxidation fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Jan 20, 2017 |
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I made a Gravity Rush 2 thread, though it looks like Nioh is what everyone's playing this weekend, me included.
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abraxas posted:Would you guys recommend Yakuza 0 to someone who's never played a Yakuza game in their life? I'm kinda hankering for a new game after finishing Tales of Berseria and it caught my eye on the PS Store. I checked out a few reviews and the biggest complaint seems to be about nebulous "tedious things". Nobody really goes into any detail about what's tedious or why it's tedious so I have no real idea, but since I've never played a Yakuza game before maybe I'm just missing some secret background knowledge. The thing about the Yakuza games is that they typically have strong, involved main plotlines ensconced within a zillion goofy side missions scattered throughout a small but developed open-world hub. They're well-made, but if you want to go for all the side missions then you're going to spend a lot of time running errands in between gritty crime drama. e: super beat
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Your reward for getting 100% in Yakuza missions is the opportunity to be punched in the dick by Neo from the Matrix so I'm cool with giving it a pass.
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Artless Meat posted:Did you get a charismatic autobiography and equip that? Yeah, if you're getting beaten like a drum in Yakuza then it's probably because of that accessory, it jacks enemies' aggressiveness way, way up.
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Feb 8, 2017 16:19
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man nurse posted:Personally, boost mode pushed me to get a Pro. I'm not in the beta or anything, but I have some games I'd love to increase the framerate of, like Until Dawn and Bloodborne. Also playing Last Guardian with a smooth framerate is a major upgrade. I'd basically base your decision off of how important framerate and minor visual upgrades are to you, and of course whether or not you have a 4K or HDR tv (I have neither). Gamestop is taking an extra $50 on PS4 trade ins right now, so I got mine down to a respectable price. Does Gamestop still honor that deal even if the PS4 in question has issues? Mine's got the Eject bug so I stripped away the rubber on the button a while ago.
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Feb 9, 2017 06:06
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Horizon Zero Dawn is looking like a dud anyway so I doubt the scheduling could hurt it much worse.
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And then you have the sequel, which is just terribly, terribly silly.
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LordMune posted:The mission is dumb and bad and what I ended up convincing myself must be true so as to avoid madness, is that camera positioning matters. I sincerely hope this is not actually true because it would be insanely stupid, but I found I could pull it off only (and even then not consistently) if the camera was more or less horizontal; Kat would then gracefully roll "forward" if I held up on the left stick and timed the dodge correctly. Does she try to roll into the ground if the camera is pointed straight down...? I managed it in the end, somehow. She rolls regardless of camera positioning (I usually do it when the angle is directly over her head). Right before she hits the ground after an especially long fall she makes a little gasping sound, which is your cue to hit R2. I do think you need to hold the stick in a direction as well, though. e: if this is the mission where you need to jump from one airbus to the next until you reach the lighthouse it's a giant pain in the rear end regardless. I needed to touch down at the very edge of the lighthouse or Kat would roll right off the other side and fail the mission. Oxxidation fucked around with this message at 15:33 on Feb 15, 2017 |
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ImpAtom posted:This has been a genuinely excellent year for gaming so far. There are very few games I've played I was disappointed in and I know for a fact several upcoming games are good because I've played them. (Looking at you, Persona.) How's Horizon turning out
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Sunning posted:It's two months into 2017 and Horizon: Zero Dawn and Nioh are the two best reviewed $60 retail games. Last year, the best reviewed $60 game was Uncharted 4 and the worst reviewed $60 game was Star Ocean 5. What is this supposed to imply?
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ImpAtom posted:So I'll try to answer any questions people have about Horizon now that things are up. I'm not gonna drop any spoilers about how Aloy is actually three mechanical dinosaurs in a human suit or anything but otherwise lemme know if you've got any questions. Does the difficulty curve break like most open-world games as your skillset expands?
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Also Nier. Too much to keep up with.
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Between this and the World of Final Fantasy patch SE is just batting zero lately with performance updates.
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Bombadilillo posted:Early yeah, eventually you get surrounded and your dodges don't work then they hit you from behind. Maybe Im bad but it becomes tedious breaking out of stunlocks and breaking away from a group to get a few hits in before they surround you. Unequip the Charismatic Autobiography.
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Shoren posted:Plus, Still Alive is better than Warning Call. I'll come clean, I was thinking "what the hell does Portal have to do with any of this"
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Mr. Shakedown's a cakewalk to fight, he's just tedious. For Kiryu, keep jabbing at him with Rush to build up Heat and then switch to Brawl to smash poo poo over his head with Heat attacks when he's recovering from his charge attack. For Majima, stock up on knives and alternate between building Heat with Thug Style and using the knife's Heat Attack. For both of them, buy lots and lots of Lightning Shotguns when they're available and make billions of no-effort yen and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh. Shakedown is ridiculously vulnerable to electricity. Three shots from one of those guns will take off nearly a whole life bar. Kiryu has an unmarked weapons shop near the Empty Lot that I really wish I'd actually found in my game.
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:I feel like the 10 minute + fights once he has purple health are just never worth the time,if you play it no risk. If you beat him once at that point you're set for life, so it's not too bad. Especially if you have the Encounter Tracker, since his life bar is semi-persistent across encounters if you go find him right away.
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"Golden age" has more than one meaning you tedious dipshit.
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