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Archonex posted:A presumably old timey and slightly crazy sounding British man rhymed and rambled on about the damnation of man and the death of Christ, how living forever sucks and death is actually a sweet blessing given to mankind, and how life is but death pending. All this as what I assume was him snacked on my character like a complete jackass. Then I woke up severely wounded and weak in the middle of a literal monochrome charnel field surrounded by withered and rotting plague corpses (Two of them, a man and a woman, were embracing each other. It was hard to tell at first though since they looked like they had literally melted together at some point after dying.) that looked as if they were burned to death only to forcibly crawl out of the pit. The sky is raining what appears to be either severe pollution or bits of burnt up people too.  Oh god right after this you stumble upon a human and feed out of instinct before your character realizes it's someone he knows: his sister!! Opening is solid so far.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:
Yeah. Uh. You're a bit late to warn me there. But the effort is appreciated!
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Archonex posted:Yeah uh. This is actually really drat good. This game ought to be getting more attention. I tried to walk around her for a bit. Your bloodlust generates invisible walls.
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DreamShipWrecked posted:Come on guys, really? Yeah. You know you're heading the right general direction when you get in a fight with a guy and you go "HOLY poo poo LOOKIT THAT CROSS" and then after the fight your guy says "HOLY poo poo DID YOU LOOKIT THAT CROSS BRO?" And then you keep heading east a while to a locked gate.
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I personally appreciate that the designers actually had Jonny look like the sort of haggard, red-eyed, bearded dude that you would picture if you thought of a veteran medic who now works the graveyard shift at a hospital during a loving epidemic, rather than the Greek god pretty boy that would have been the lazy choice for a contemporary vampire protagonist.
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Merrill Grinch posted:Combat advice from Chapter 3: When's a good time to do that? I tried to do it basically immediately and got destroyed.
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Oh my god. I just hit V and it turns out the main character has Witcher Vision. Only it highlights blood.  Edit: Also, apparently turning into a vampire gives you some sort of low grade ability to sprint through wooden objects like barrels like the juggernaut. That hunter thought he was safe on the other side of them. Noooope. Archonex fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Jun 6, 2018 |
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Archonex posted:Oh my god. I just hit V and it turns out the main character has Witcher Vision. Only it highlights blood. The fact that EVERY aspect of your perception dulls except your ability to detect blood is a really nice touch. The gameplay itself is clunky as hell, but there's no denying that they nail the aesthetic in this game.
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Jun 6, 2018 02:55
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Gonna buy this so hard when it's 5 dollars next year during summer sale.
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I bought it but I also bought blazblue and onrush so I will likely never play this owned op owned oh wait
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FunkMonkey posted:The fact that EVERY aspect of your perception dulls except your ability to detect blood is a really nice touch. The gameplay itself is clunky as hell, but there's no denying that they nail the aesthetic in this game. Yeah. They definitely nailed the aesthetics. It highlights living people too. You've basically got some sort of hosed up predator vision that lets you instinctually size a person up to see if they're a good snack and what they're weak to in combat. You basically want it on when you're actually hunting something as opposed to doing more human stuff like investigating the scenery or trying to chat with people. Not sure it highlights items too. Since I walked right by a few and didn't see anything. Also, the first person I spoke too was the barmaid. Hearing him wig out about everything while she tried to repeatedly extricate herself from the conversation with the literally blood soaked man (with a bullet hole in his shirt dead smack in the middle of the blood) that came stumbling in off the streets in the dead of night was a nice touch that hammers home how hosed the situation is at that point. Edit: Ahaha. "William is a good man! He was just taken by the thirst!" the priest says while surrounded by rotten skeletons, old human bones, and dozens of stacked and impaled corpses like something out of a cannibal horror film. Pretty sure vampirism as i've seen it so far doesn't turn you into a psychopathic killer. Either this guy is deluded to the point of insanity, he's a monster too, or he's dumb as hell. Regardless, taking him in is probably not going to end well. Archonex fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Jun 6, 2018 |
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Pylons posted:When's a good time to do that? I tried to do it basically immediately and got destroyed. About Evolution/Level/Arbitrary level 10 or so. If you're having trouble with the triple vampire hunter spawn outside the building, try building combos around stun more. Most offensive vampire abilities will cooldown while the suck animation plays...
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who the gently caress left that line in there
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Basic Chunnel posted:what is glass..... but tortured sand What is juice but murdered fruit?
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Intro and jank aside, I’m mostly enjoying this game, but the save system combined with the ambiguous connection between the dialogue options and what Reid actually says/does seems like a recipe for fuckin disaster.
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double negative posted:Intro and jank aside, I’m mostly enjoying this game, but the save system combined with the ambiguous connection between the dialogue options and what Reid actually says/does seems like a recipe for fuckin disaster. I can't remember what game it was where this happened, but is it the kind of dialogue shock where you think you're choosing some firm words and when you select it the PC suddenly slams an NPCs head into a table while you tell "WOAH DUDE NO WHAT????" at the tv?
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I just wrapped up the first round of "get all the hospital denizens' life stories" and at the very least it doesn't look like there's an abundance of exclusive dialogue choices that can lock you into a branch. But they look like they might still be there.
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JBP posted:I can't remember what game it was where this happened, but is it the kind of dialogue shock where you think you're choosing some firm words and when you select it the PC suddenly slams an NPCs head into a table while you tell "WOAH DUDE NO WHAT????" at the tv? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urKJqdq4eX4 Also this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-6pGuSwwok
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RatHat posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urKJqdq4eX4 There is not an Australian alive that would have chosen anything other than [glass him].
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double negative posted:Intro and jank aside, I’m mostly enjoying this game, but the save system combined with the ambiguous connection between the dialogue options and what Reid actually says/does seems like a recipe for fuckin disaster. Yeah, I ran into that issue with the quest related to the old doctor and old nurse at the hospital: After confronting him about it, the new available dialogue option is "Cover for him", which actually turns out to mean "Cover for him, but demand his resignation after the epidemic". Which ends on a rather down note of him going "Well I guess I'll retire to some country home and wait for death, then". Only afterwards it turned out that I had two options, with the other one being to cover for him without demanding resignation. But the only way to know that would have been to look into the quest log basically while the dialog was running, and who does that? So in the end I thought I was picking the milder option, when in truth it was actually the harsher one. So I guess the unspoilery lesson learned here is: When there are two people linked to a sidequest, it seems to mean there are two possible ways to solve it. Make sure to actually check both options in the questlog before settling on one.
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Wait, what? There were multiple solutions to that quest? Man what the gently caress. I'm not asking the game to hold my hand but give me some indication I have a choice here. Besides, like you said, the dialog sounded completely safe!
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Is there a key for this locked morgue chest ?
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Personally when the game fucks me mid-dialogue I just alt tab out and cancel the process. It doesn't save until the conversation is over. Free do-over bitch!
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Qmass posted:Is there a key for this locked morgue chest ? I believe it's a character chest which you open if you feed on them. Haven't found one and I'm up to chapter 3 Also, how many of you started no kill runs then wimped out of them, a no kill run is Dark Souls hard in terms of the dodge timings
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Alright I think I'm going to get this game all the reviews and posts here are making I sound extremely good despite itself.
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This game was developed by the same team that did Remember Me, which is a pretty good barometer for if you can handle games with more ambition than budget.
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exquisite tea posted:This game was developed by the same team that did Remember Me, which is a pretty good barometer for if you can handle games with more ambition than budget.
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Is this a full story or are they doing something episodic with it?
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Avalerion posted:Is this a full story or are they doing something episodic with it? I'm pretty sure that unlike LIfe is Strange, Vampyr is just a standalone game and not being released as individual episodes. I could be wrong though.
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Larryb posted:I'm pretty sure that unlike LIfe is Strange, Vampyr is just a standalone game and not being released as individual episodes. I could be wrong though. It's just a regular stand alone videogame.
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Gotta say, after a few hours in this is pretty much exactly what I hoped for when they announced it. Sure it has some jank and weird design decisions but I can easily live with that compared to what it would have been if todays Activision had published it. My only real problem is struggling with the combat but I guess that'll come with practice and more powers. Also, I really don't mind the lack of manual saves. Whenever I play games like this I own my mistakes even if it feels like the game tricked me into making a bad decision. I wouldn't have reloaded if I could. Lodin fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Jun 6, 2018 |
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On games like these I use saves mostly to test out perks/spells that I'm not sure work as I expect it and to take choices I know are dumb, but I'm curious whether or not the game is willing to punish me for it. Like on Witcher 3 I made a save before believing on the wraith on that cursed island because it had "bad loving idea" written all over it but I still wanted to know what would happen if I took it
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I don't mind the autosaves but I'd definitely appreciate if they implemented a dialogue system similar to Deus Ex: HR where hovering over your response pops up a subtitle stating explicitly what you're going to say.
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With regards to punishing dialogue options, if you want to keep all the citizens alive then do NOT mind control the blackmailer. (early-mid game quest) It all ends rather horribly. 
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I know this game is supposed to be like Witcher 3, Dark Souls, Dishonored, Fallout and Nioh but should you play it with a gamepad? Was the game made for one? Does it control well with one?
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Wooper posted:I know this game is supposed to be like Witcher 3, Dark Souls, Dishonored, Fallout and Nioh but should you play it with a gamepad? Was the game made for one? Does it control well with one? Yeah, it works absolutely fine with a gamepad, to the point where it seems like it's the intended way to play. Combat probably works better than with kb+m, and the various menus are laid out well enough that it's not an issue there either. The only exception is the main menu, where you're awkwardly pushing around a pseudo-mouse cursor with your stick for some reason.
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100% use a gamepad. Ranged weapons work the same as in bloodborne - minus the parrying, though I think the shotgun interrupts. The menus use a cursor sort of like mouse but clearly designed with a gamepad in mind, basically like what I gather destiny does on console (though I played that garbage on PC). I'm enjoying this game, its firmly an 8/10 IMO.
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FuckLacedFusillade posted:With regards to punishing dialogue options, if you want to keep all the citizens alive then do NOT mind control the blackmailer. (early-mid game quest) It all ends rather horribly. "Forget about the blackmail  and also everything you care for in life"  Really regret that one. Which is weird because it doesn't give you any mess about it, unlike the second pillar you take down that totally needs to get ate. exquisite tea posted:This game was developed by the same team that did Remember Me, which is a pretty good barometer for if you can handle games with more ambition than budget. That seems like all of games that they make. Life Is Strange had good pull overall but I can definitely see this become the new Remember Me, ie super cool and ambitious but soon largely forgotten, which is a damned shame CuddleCryptid fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Jun 6, 2018 |
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