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jokes posted:my bad, I forgot that William Henry Hairytaint played a catboy in Final Fantasy XIV because they changed the thread title I can change it back if we need to 
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By all means, don't let us hold you back.
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Bloodborne is the only one where I ever bothered learning to parry because it actually gives you the opportunity to. Since your parry is in fact just shooting someone with a gun, you can A: do it from a sorta safe distance to give yourself some time to dodge if you screw up, and B: even when you fail the parry you often make the enemy flinch a little (especially with the higher caliber guns) giving you yet more opportunities to salvage the situation by dodging. Plus your guns are damaging the enemy anyway so a failed parry isn’t necessarily “wasted effort”. And finally the game is just really good at visually telling you what can be parried while also making parryable moves constantly happening. In Elden Ring or Dark Souls the time spent vs risk ratio just never makes learning a parry pattern worth your time because there’s zero chance for error, with it got worse every game until in Elden Ring it’s suicide. Every failed parry absolutely will take of 2/3rds+ off your full health bar off and is a complete net loss (no flinching or bloodtinge damage). And they just plain got bad at telling you who and what was actually parryable.
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Silent Hill 2 is a good game but it largely doomed the series. every dev after Team Silent was obsessed with the idea of recreating it until we ended up with a dozen awful games about the main character’s TRAUMA Gatto Grigio fucked around with this message at 06:25 on Mar 28, 2024 |
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Trauma, moral panics, and fears turned into monsters are the three points of the horror trianglehead.
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internet celebrity posted:Ooh, time for my hot take on console generations: there are only 4 meaningfully distinct generations in video game history. The first is hardware games like pong, where the game is part of the hardware itself. Next is removable media games like basically everything from the Atari through the PS2. It's a wide span of time, but as far as how people used their consoles it was basically the same, you bought a video game the same way you bought a VHS tape. Third is the downloadable media generation, where onboard game stores had a selection of individual games to pay for and download. This also covers Steam which arguably kicked off this generation. And the fourth is console as a subscription service or streaming model like Gamepass or whatever Google's thing was called. This is still pretty new but I would bet in our lifetime we're going to see consoles that requires a paid monthly subscription to do anything. Haven't the Xbox consoles been a hybrid subscription-based model since the beginning, where you buy games but also have to pay a monthly fee to play them with people? Like I guess you could play singleplayer games on them still but why would you want to
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I've never played silent hill but it just looks like resident evil if it was not in on the joke
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JollyBoyJohn posted:I've never played silent hill but it just looks like resident evil if it was not in on the joke I think that's why everyone seemed to hate (and I loved) The Room, because it broke that mold.
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The Room is the Dark Souls 2 of Silent Hill
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The best Silent Hills are The Room and Shattered Memories.
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Devils Affricate posted:The Room is the Dark Souls 2 of Silent Hill That's right, the best one.
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Actual controversial take I honestly think. Far cry 3 and follows are all pretty lovely games that when released it was very obvious they were made for consoles in mind, what with the huge reticule sizes and perks turning clearing entire camps into a soulless QTE. And no timmy, a tiger spawning 50m infront of you and attacking the deer that popped into existance 30m infront of you was not dynamic ai, was not impressive even for the day. I felt like fc3 was insulting my intelligence when I was playing it. And blood dragon was just a retheme with the same exact core problems, just the annoying characters and lovely plot was fixed. Far cry 2 was pretty fantastic when it came out with a couple of huge annoyances, but now is pretty much unplayable.
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I really want to like farcry 2. It has a lot going for it but there is just way too much jank even for me.
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The only good thing Far Cry did is the one where you beat the game if you go afk for ten minutes in the intro. Saves you a lot of time doing boring rear end shooting and tedious animal skinning.
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Far Cry at least gave us Blood Dragon. It's definitely a product of its time, but it was so much more fun than anything else in the tower-based exploration genre at the time. It was a breath of fresh air.
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Mar 28, 2024 16:35
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Nice Van My Man posted:The best Silent Hills are The Room and Shattered Memories. I dunno about the room, I get bored midway through every time and I've never actually completed it, but yeah Shattered Memories is under-rated. It's got the thickest sleazy small town malaise atmosphere, especially if you play it that way which is cool. I dunno if it's better than the first three but I like it at least as much.
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Aramis posted:Far Cry at least gave us Blood Dragon. It's definitely a product of its time, but it was so much more fun than anything else in the tower-based exploration genre at the time. It was a breath of fresh air. i thought Primal was kind of interesting as well. maybe a failed experiment, but still an experiment that changed things up a bit, and if you turned off all UI elements and also changed the video settings to grayscale, you could pretend it was Beastmaster: the video game.
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Earwicker posted:i thought Primal was kind of interesting as well. maybe a failed experiment, but still an experiment that changed things up a bit, and if you turned off all UI elements and also changed the video settings to grayscale, you could pretend it was Beastmaster: the video game. Primal's failure can also be put squarely on Blood Dragon's shoulders. It was was lightning in a bottle, and when Ubisoft heard "This DLC is so good, it could have been its own release", they learned the absolute wrong lesson from it.
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Aramis posted:Primal's failure can also be put squarely on Blood Dragon's shoulders. It was was lightning in a bottle, and when Ubisoft heard "This DLC is so good, it could have been its own release", they learned the absolute wrong lesson from it. charging full price for it was idiotic of course, but i think it wouldve done relatively poorly even as a free addon because there just wasnt much to it. it was a good idea but not a good game. wouldve been cool if it had led to more experiments and trying out that formula in increasingly bizarre and divergent settings but it seems the opposite happened. imo fc4 was the last even decent game in the series and the last two main titles were super formulaic and boring af. the last one especially seems like a cynical "spend all the budget on a celebrity and phone in everything else" move that seems to have finished off any interest in the series even from longtime fans. Earwicker fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Mar 28, 2024 |
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Ubisoft games are such a motherfucker to even start playing that I dont bother with them anymore. I’m not the kind of guy who got mad at Epic Games Store for even existing, but Ubisofts poo poo is ridiculous. I’d deal with it if they made good games but they dont.
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TBLALV posted:I dunno games are weird. I had Sechiro 'click' during the Lady Butterfly fight and happily went through the entire game despite its low points because getting the timing and rhythm of fights along with getting the louder 'CHING' sound of a perfect parry hit all the serotonin synapses in my dying brain Same here, I was having a hard time up to Lady Butterfly and died to her tons of times until something clicked and I felt like Neo figuring out the matrix.
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The Room is a piece of trash, but it's the video game version of a bad horror movie - it's the right kind of trash to be enjoyable. I love being stuck in the tiny room and the hauntings, they did spook me. I like how it's outside of Silent Hill, so it insinuates that the corruption is spreading outside the town. I both loved and hated how the end battle was directly impacted by how well you did protecting Eileen. Because escort missions feel like such bullshit in general, giving it stakes that how well you protected her effected the ending you got made it have more value than just getting her from point A to point B. I like how it completes the story from SH2 in the same way that SH3 completes the story from SH1, so you essentially have two sets of complete story pairs, SH1/3 and SH2/4. But it was so rushed to production - the choice to make so much in the room itself is clearly an efficiency choice because they didn't have time to build a big world. It's so full of repeating enemy mobs and unfinished things like the burping nurses, just absolutely slapped together, that it's understandably reviled. The story itself feels very much built on tiny spook gags from SH2 taken in wild directions, and is nowhere near as good as SH2 which invites inevitable comparisons that leave it wanting. The fact it's a hot mess endears it more to me personally, but I get why people would hate it. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Mar 28, 2024 |
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:Ubisoft games are such a motherfucker to even start playing that I dont bother with them anymore. I’m not the kind of guy who got mad at Epic Games Store for even existing, but Ubisofts poo poo is ridiculous. I’d deal with it if they made good games but they dont. Prince of Persia is pretty good. Not sure what you mean about they are hard to start playing. Just put the disk in and go. It's not hard.
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Put the disk in where?? My computers haven't had a disk drive in over a decade
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roomtone posted:I dunno about the room, I get bored midway through every time and I've never actually completed it, but yeah Shattered Memories is under-rated. It's got the thickest sleazy small town malaise atmosphere, especially if you play it that way which is cool. To be honest I never played The Room past the halfway point. It was my first SH and I thought it was pretty neat, then a few years later I played SH3 instead for some reason (it was pretty good at the time).
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Khanstant posted:Put the disk in where?? My computers haven't had a disk drive in over a decade you put the disk image of sands of time into the dolphin emulator and play a good prince of persia
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Das Butterbrot posted:you put the disk image of sands of time into the dolphin emulator and play a good prince of persia The dolphin game was tides of time
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Waltzing Along posted:Not sure what you mean about they are hard to start playing. Just put the disk in and go. It's not hard. i assumed that poster was referring to how a lot of ubisoft open world games have overly long forced tutorial sections that are extremely boring and tedious to get through before you can play the actual game part of the game. like a lot of them seem intended for an audience that does not know what video games are and needs every single mechanic in the game explained and demonstrated one by one. tho ubisoft is hardly the only company guilty of that poo poo
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I thought they were talking about notoriously poo poo Uplay
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:I thought they were talking about notoriously poo poo Uplay Why would anyone mind having to create an account and log into Ubisoft in order to play single player games?
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Aramis posted:Far Cry at least gave us Blood Dragon. It's definitely a product of its time, but it was so much more fun than anything else in the tower-based exploration genre at the time. It was a breath of fresh air. Michael Beihn swearing at you throughout the tutorial was perfect Earwicker posted:charging full price for it was idiotic of course, but i think it wouldve done relatively poorly even as a free addon because there just wasnt much to it. it was a good idea but not a good game. also this. There wasn't very much to the game, it felt like playing a very short Duke Nukem 3d for the one-liners (duke nukem 3d was a better game overall)
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Das Butterbrot posted:you put the disk image of sands of time into the dolphin emulator and play a good prince of persia Haha flashbacks to having some kind of Daemon to load isos onto to install some game on my drat computer, or even just to play it.
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Random Stranger posted:Why would anyone mind having to create an account and log into Ubisoft in order to play single player games? It doesn't work a lot. I won't buy an Ubisoft game ever again if it requires anything but Steam. Companies need to shut the gently caress up. Valve won the war, accept it and stop trying to push your rear end in a top hat idiot platforms on everybody. Sorry you don't have a license to print money, but you never will. It sucks for anyone who isn't Valve. But that's the way it is. Actually I'll qualify that: if you do it the way GOG does it you're good. Give me DRM-free downloads and I'll buy your poo poo all day every day. But I will not EVER allow another stupid rear end launcher onto my system.
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I install every launcher I can find on my PC. Then I attach all of them to GOG Galaxy 2.0. It's fun.
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I'm one step ahead and use Playnite which lets me integrate stuff like mod managers and emulators. Speaking of which let's check my most played games: 
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Vic posted:I'm one step ahead and use Playnite which lets me integrate stuff like mod managers and emulators. this is a pretty good list I put 1000 hours into Terraria in like, 4 months lol it was sick Also anyone who plays Age of Empires II is a winner in my book, best RTS ever made. My wife says you need to play Stardew, that is the only fault she finds with your list.
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Vic posted:I'm one step ahead and use Playnite which lets me integrate stuff like mod managers and emulators. Let's see your biggest factory
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