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Shooting Blanks posted:It's utter bullshit and an arbitrary number. It's useful as a statement to emphasize that it takes practice to be good at any task - but as a blanket statement it's pretty easily misinterpreted. A better one is "Don't practice until you can get it right, practice until you can't get it wrong."
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Soon I'll be suffering through Path of Exiles story. Why do I do it? I want to see if my Kitava's Thirst Volatile Dead Lightning Warp (it gets like 10+ casts a second of lightning warp ZOOOM) actually works. Will I get bored before I get to that point? Probably. Will I spend at least 8 hours before I say gently caress it and stop? Yeah probably. Would I be happier watching Jericho (like my third or fourth watch I think) or playing Backpack Battles? Absolutely. Anyway my build is pretty sweet let me explain it to you all. Kitava's Thirst has a 50% chance to Trigger Socketed Spells when you Spend at least 100 Mana on an Upfront Cost to Use or Trigger a Skill, with a 0.1 second Cooldown So I'm going to use lightning warp to trigger volatile dead. For corpse generation I have cast while damage taken descrate/unearth triggered by eye of innocence. Ignite chance is 100% thanks to Elementalist. I get extra cast speed with the necromancer node that gives it on corpse consumption. I get the necromancer node by using Forbidden Flesh and Forbidden Flame. The corpses are consumed by volatile dead. I reduce my skill duration using timeclasps so lightning warp is faster. This also gives me recoup for mana and life which as well as cast speed. A replica reckless defense allows me to ignite myself from the eye of innocence damage.
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Mar 29, 2024 19:48
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And you're still occasionally going to be unavoidably one-shot by the mere act of existing within the game space
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:A better one is "Don't practice until you can get it right, practice until you can't get it wrong." Another good quote on the topic comes from Picasso: “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:And you're still occasionally going to be unavoidably one-shot by the mere act of existing within the game space They made like the third screen of the first act have charging creatures that can and will stun lock you. The fact that they thought that was a good idea, and have kept it in the game is pretty telling on what Grinding Gear Games thinks makes a good game. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Mar 29, 2024 |
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Mar 29, 2024 21:46
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Duck and Cover posted:is pretty telling on what Grinding Gear Games thinks makes a good game. It's in the name, man. The company was founded upon a deep contempt of gamers and knowing their lizard brains.
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Mar 30, 2024 01:15
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Who came up with red = health, green = stamina, and blue/purple = mana? I think it's about time for an update to that.
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Mar 30, 2024 01:17
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Outpost22 posted:Who came up with red = health, green = stamina, and blue/purple = mana? in Daggerfall green was health and red was stamina, and now Bethesda is laughed at by nearly everyone. Coincidence? Maybe. But can we really take that chance?
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Mar 30, 2024 02:10
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red=health probably comes from the facts that blood is red and that losing blood typically results in your health going down irl.
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Mar 30, 2024 02:19
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Pretty sure that Diablo was a big influence on that standard. It definitely was using the blood=health logic, and then blue is a nice contrasting color for mana. Green for stamina mostly comes from dark souls, right? LOZ Skyward Sword? Idk.
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Mar 30, 2024 02:32
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Maybe Skyrim? A lot of people played Skyrim, and I think it was yellow in Morrowind but these days I definitely assume green is stamina. Technically green is just an advanced yellow so it covers a wide range.
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Mar 30, 2024 02:55
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It's because having your lifebar be any other color than red is just weird
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Khanstant posted:Maybe Skyrim? A lot of people played Skyrim, and I think it was yellow in Morrowind but these days I definitely assume green is stamina. Technically green is just an advanced yellow so it covers a wide range. Morrowind used the standard red=health blue=magic and green=stamina template. The yellow bars you’re remembering are for the enemies health.
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Mar 30, 2024 03:32
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Legend of Zelda had red hearts for life, but most NES/SNES games had green life bars with red for damage It really was Diablo that locked in red=life blue=mana, red potion blue potion thing
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Mar 30, 2024 03:37
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In the Super Mario Brothers porn parody the stamina bar was green so that's probably the first known occurrence of green for stamina
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Mar 30, 2024 03:42
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its the weed bar op
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Serephina posted:It's in the name, man. The company was founded upon a deep contempt of gamers and knowing their lizard brains. I mean yeah but they still managed to make a zoomy fast game in spite of the all the stuff they do to slow it down.
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Mar 30, 2024 04:22
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1000 hours is crazy, I get bored looking at graphics and hearing the sound effects at like 150 hours at most
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Mar 30, 2024 04:49
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I mute pretty much every singelplayer game after the first few hours
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Mar 30, 2024 04:53
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Zelda games used green for magic all the way until Skyward Sword where they buckled to the industry standard and made it stamina, another black mark against that terrible game.
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I put 60 hours into BG3 before uninstalling it at the halfpoint of Act 3. If I get into a game and hit around the 50 hour mark, my interest just craters. Usually I just switch games and revisit it if I haven't finished it (or if it's Kenshi) a few months later. Will probably do that with BG3, though I'm not really into the characters and writing.
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DontMockMySmock posted:Green for stamina mostly comes from dark souls, right? Pretty sure stamina typically being green was very much a thing before 2011.
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Mar 30, 2024 07:06
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Yeah, Demons Souls did that a whole 2 years earlier
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In balatro the number of hands is you hp (hand points??), your cards in hand are your mana, and your number of discards are your stamina. I think this will be the norm going forward.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Something about a weird melodrama with cute little sprites worked for me. 
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Wait, Diablo IV has persistent always on enemy level scaling? So in a game about grinding to make number go up, number never actually go up?
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Barudak posted:Wait, Diablo IV has persistent always on enemy level scaling? So in a game about grinding to make number go up, number never actually go up? correct, no matter how long you play, it's still going to be Daiblo IV and the number won't go up until they develop and publish Diablo V and then you buy it. microtransactions smdh
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Barudak posted:Wait, Diablo IV has persistent always on enemy level scaling? So in a game about grinding to make number go up, number never actually go up? It's even better. It's per character level scaling so if you and your friend are fighting a monster it has a health pool proportional to each's characters damage output until you reach max level and start playing on further difficulties. So your lvl 1 friend is doing roughly the same kinda damage as you on lvl 30 to the same monster but you each see different numbers fly out.
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Listen, I don't need some overly complex chore. I just want to FIGHT some DEMONS. And I have a phone. God, I hate when new diablo devs talk about diablo.
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anyone that plays diablo 4 is dumb D2R exists and it fixes the biggest problem D2 had (looking like complete dogshit) so go play that instead if you really need a Diablo game in your life
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In Diablo 3 I recall that it was often better to bring a low level player because of the weird damage scaling and they could deal more damage than your high level character. It's actually a pretty brilliant design, really helps push people away from their terrible casino genre.
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:anyone that plays diablo is dumb
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:anyone that plays diablo 4 is dumb Unless I can import my old characters, I don't care  Regardless, I don't care. I've played enough D2 back in the day to last me until D10.
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:anyone that plays diablo 4 is dumb instead of playing this poo poo you should all come play Diablo 2: Eastern Sun: Eclipse on the goon server. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3960054&pagenumber=14&perpage=40#post537240512 Eastern Sun is a long-standing mod from like 2005 or something that goons have been slowly modifying and improving over the years, with the latest overhaul from a couple months ago, Eclipse, adding in more endgame content and a huge swath of new items. There's a discord where you can hang out and get help and stuff. It's cool as hell. Also there are a number of graphical overhaul things to make it look less like poo poo to address WHH's problem.
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Friends don't let friends Diablo.
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Click to move in a game where you control a single character
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That loving Sned posted:Click to move in a game where you control a single character The game is meant to be played one handed, using the mouse.
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DontMockMySmock posted:instead of playing this poo poo you should all come play Diablo 2: Eastern Sun: Eclipse on the goon server. e: Actually I'm a little bit glad there are still people playing Diablo 2 but drat, guys. No worse than the psychos who replay Oblivion I guess QuarkJets fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Mar 30, 2024 |
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in highschool a friend beat the game and was excited and his dad asked what he was yellin about and he says "I just beat Diablo!" and his dad goes "oh is that what you call it nowadays?"
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