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bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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I do feel like there's no way we avoid finding out something about Ted's final fate, even if it's just him going mad inside his pyramid in a few logs before he died foreve rago, because you need to go there for some special passkey or something.

Gameplay wise I'm most excited about a glider. Love using them in games.

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bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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I do like how Sylens does kind of represent the story Elisabet told at the end with the tree, because while he is extremely smart, motivated, and curious, he also has almost no empathy outside of what helps him learn more.

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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Also a good percent of societies we see do their best to avoid old world locations which Sylens openly hates, and I do wonder how that officially started and we got the more tribal situation we see today, as the original people who left the vault were a bunch of teenagers in modern for the time clothes.

It's kind of surprising they managed to get a few working societies in the first place instead of them all dying because they didn't know how to make fire.

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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On some level Sylens wouldn’t want to completely make it so Aloy is completely antagonistic to him, considering she’s basically a living password with no real substitute for him

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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theCalamity posted:

I hope the music is still good. Some of the tracks from the first game are good to vibe to

It sucks the PS5 doesn’t have themes with different music because I liked the one that played Aloy’s theme

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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I would only accept changes to her grappling jump animation if she went further with it, like and extra flip.

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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Whenever Aloy and Sylens meet in person I want them riding bigger robots each time to try and one up the other one.

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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You get to Ted’s Pyramid and there’s a big hologram of him out front yelling “Remember me!”

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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Aloy finds Travis Rate’s massive porn drive and Sylens demands it for research.

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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Florida is treated like Atlantis as a sunken lost civilization

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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It doesn’t work for me in every game, but the games where it does at that little bit of natural adjustment where if I use a stick I’ll overdo it the aiming does feel really nice

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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I’m so impressed by the faces in this game, it’s like they saw the complaints with the first game and went “oh yeah? The next game every single face will look amazing”

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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I like the girl who's character seems to just be "Really likes explosions"

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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There's definitely been times in fights with multiple machines where the get knocked down/spend time getting up/get knocked down before you can really do anything loop kept happening to me.

It feels like they tried to nerf just charging up a power attack and knocking robots over, but I think too many robots go for leap that end in additional thrashing, where your dodge isn't enough to get out of the way.

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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The beach race I keep getting hit by other racers and clipping into the ground.

I’m not huge on the races though, they feel too crowded and you’re hit way too often.

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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I just beat Thebes, and while I don't think the raw catharsis is there intentionally, I do like the final story of Ted Faro a lot, because it's a hell of his own creation, and the person who designed themselves after him gets to eat poo poo too. Also I think the fake out of "There's people on Far Zenith who are the same people who left on it is there to partially make people think that when you would see Faro's compound, that he could be around too, and then you see how Ted kept himself alive at any cost and how it turned him into a monster is such a good ending for him. Not even seeing what he became is good too, because I do think it is one of those things where it's better to the imagination than anything they could design and model themselves.

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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The final fight with The Enduring was easier than both two of the trial bosses for me, because they either never let up and I couldn't dodge any further, or they just tanked a hit and hit me for 40% of my health right there.

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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Fedule posted:

I'm missing the very first and very last entry in the machine catalogue. I presume one is the forthcoming final boss. What's the other?

I think it's one of the grazing types? The one that runs away instead of fights.

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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There’s only one cauldron where I’d recommend waiting until you have some solid gear, since they’re more puzzles than combat

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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I would say up to level 25-30 you should be fine for most missions if you're stocked up, it's the ones higher than that where you're almost guaranteed to fight one of the top robots.

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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On the final mission Erend and his hammer could reliably take on Spectres, but that was the tail end of the game.

A little thing about the ending I thought funny was Sylens trying to take credit for Aloy thwarting his plans, and that he knew she would do that and succeed so it's his fault she won.

His not leaving made sense though, as much as he's an insensitive dick who only cares about himself, I think at the same time he needs to know he's smarter than everyone else, which can't happen if he's the only person left alive.

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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I think this was in the first game and isn’t a unique problem, but some jumps where you could land in the middle instead Aloy jumps in a way where it forces her to hit the lowest point, and it makes me think I missed the jump entirely

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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Aloy learned to only embrace the fist

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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A few of the ruins or black boxes will do the same thing, with Aloy giving a vague "I guess I don't have the right equipment" response if you can't do it right now.

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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I think Sylens staying makes sense because as much as he wants knowledge he also has to be the smartest guy in the room, and if everyone else is dead he can't hold that over them.

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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Gaia wanted to erase the memory of Florida

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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Gaia says the same then after each drone background too. It would have been funny if she really hated one of them

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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Alhazred posted:

But Sylen's plan sucks too. People who are subjugated by force doesn't tend to be willing to die for their leader. The most likely scenario would be that conquered tenakth would take one look at the oncoming spectres and see it as a way to get rid of Regalla by abandoning her.
He is also 100% dependent on Aloy weather he realizes it or not because she's the one who can open all the doors and collect the artificial intelligences. And he risk her dying moments after she finds Gaia by not telling her what's happening and even trying to convince her that the zeniths won't kill her.


I think that the fact Sylens chose to stay instead going into space means that he finally admitted that he actually cares about earth and Aloy. He will probably be less ambiguously good in the next game.

I think it’s partially Sylens has to be smarter and be smug over someone else, and if he’s the only person left he loses that

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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Considering that they just sent a bunch of people with a 5 year old’s education into the untamed wilderness I’m shocked humans just didn’t die out again

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bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

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I like how they justify the Hollywood sign with the datapoint that says ”hey we put some special goop on this sign now it’ll last forever!”

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