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who vaccinated this mfer too much honestly e:oh no this is the worst snype ever!!!!! fridge corn posted:Goddamn elden ring owns. Get giddy just thinking about it You are very correct. Even third time through I just adore exploring every corner of the world and think it’s such a step up from the Souls trilogy.
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I said come in! posted:Been playing a lot of Rise of the Ronin, and this game is really good. If I haven't really gotten on with Team Ninja games in the past (nothing against them and I just was never really grabbed by Nioh 1 or 2 or Stranger of Paradise, my failing not the games'), would I still like Rise of the Ronin if I like other open world games like Tsushima and Horizon and don't really mind if the graphics aren't bleeding edge?
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RichterIX posted:If I haven't really gotten on with Team Ninja games in the past (nothing against them and I just was never really grabbed by Nioh 1 or 2 or Stranger of Paradise, my failing not the games'), would I still like Rise of the Ronin if I like other open world games like Tsushima and Horizon and don't really mind if the graphics aren't bleeding edge? Probably not. Without liking the Team Ninja gameplay it's honestly got not a lot to recommend it.
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RichterIX posted:If I haven't really gotten on with Team Ninja games in the past (nothing against them and I just was never really grabbed by Nioh 1 or 2 or Stranger of Paradise, my failing not the games'), would I still like Rise of the Ronin if I like other open world games like Tsushima and Horizon and don't really mind if the graphics aren't bleeding edge? If you've already played Ghost of Tsushima, and want more of a gameworld that is like that, then yeah go for it. Rise of the Ronin is totally different from Team Ninja's other games, its way more approachable and much easier to play and master.
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Well now I don't know what to do!!! Guess I will just finish my 100th replay of Phantasy Star 4 RIP Rieko Kodama
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Escobarbarian posted:You are very correct. Even third time through I just adore exploring every corner of the world and think it’s such a step up from the Souls trilogy. I live Elden Ring but I think I ultimately prefer souls and bloodborne. Slightly. I find that in ER I’m really just always looking forward to coming across the next area that feels like a souls level.
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Elden Ring is legitimately like 15% too long, I generally fully explore Souls levels but I skipped a bunch of the side routes in Haligtree for instance because my build had already been complete for like a couple dozen hours and they were full of Erdtree Guardians and poo poo I really didn't care to fight
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It's got nothing on Dark Souls 2, which is about 60% too long
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I prefer both DS3 and BB to Elden Ring. They both have uch better pacing. Oh and Sekiro and DeS of course. However, I'm sure when I'm back inside Elden Ring for the DLC I will be tooting praise like no time has passed whatsoever. It's one hell of a time, on the whole I just prefer FROM's more focused projects.
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I like the sense of exploration of ER, but my favorite will always be DS2. People look down on it but it had a flavor of its own. The multiplayer coop had its own little loop of helping players out with small soapstones and then exchanging the smooth & silky stones for random rewards at the birds. This tangible reward system for co-op is something the rest of the series lacked which is odd to me. There's a bunch more stuff why I love DS2 so much. The covenants, the vibes, the sheer variety of weapons and equipment, the Majula music, etc etc etc.
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fridge corn posted:Would there be any opposition to being able to revert back to previous ng+'es in Souls games? Like once you go to ng+ you can jump back to ng if you want, everything would be just as you left it, completed as such, and then jump back into ng+ or whatever level of ng+ you've unlocked with each world state in exactly whatever level of completion it's currently at? Or is there some kind of technical limitation for this? Nioh has a system like that. Finishing the final mission unlocks a new difficulty (Way of the Strong), where you play through again against tougher enemies, but you get better quality weapons (Way of the Strong is when Divine-tier weapons start showing up). However, you can shift back down to the default difficulty. In fact, I think that might be what you're supposed to do. When I played Nioh, I jumped into the DLC missions after finishing the main campaign, and there's a substantial jump in difficulty between the end of the main game and the first DLC mission, so I think you're intended to play through some of early main game missions first to get Divine gear before tackling the DLC.
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RichterIX posted:Well now I don't know what to do!!! Guess I will just finish my 100th replay of Phantasy Star 4 RIP Rieko Kodama It would really depend on what you didn't like about your other Team Ninja experiences. If combat with a load of moving parts annoys you, I won't say you'd hate it since you can get away with playing minimally. If enemies that bait parries with weird wind up timing bugs you, definitely stay away. If learning to parry at all bugs you, definitely skip. If obnoxious amounts of enemy hyper armor irritates you, pass. For better or worse, it is still a a Team Ninja game, and their stuff has quirks specific to them. It's my favorite combat they've done though. Much more crunchy and complex than Wo Long was, but simpler than the everything but kitchen sink of Nioh 2. If it's difficulty that puts you off, there's an easy mode that shockingly doesn't water the game down. You end up playing the same game, get punished for all the things any other game of its kind would punish you for, but you're able to soak a few more errors and they widen the parry window. I really like it. But I'm a sucker for anything Team Ninja does so grain of salt etc. unattended spaghetti fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Apr 18, 2024 |
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I loved Elden Ring experientially but the baseline souls combat is boring even with new hat... I mean jump button.
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I loved elden ring as a near-endless string of new discoveries and corners to poke into and be surprised at, so the idea of playing it again while knowing where everything is already has almost zero appeal
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:I like the sense of exploration of ER, but my favorite will always be DS2. People look down on it but it had a flavor of its own. The multiplayer coop had its own little loop of helping players out with small soapstones and then exchanging the smooth & silky stones for random rewards at the birds. This tangible reward system for co-op is something the rest of the series lacked which is odd to me. There's a bunch more stuff why I love DS2 so much. The covenants, the vibes, the sheer variety of weapons and equipment, the Majula music, etc etc etc. Dark Souls 2 is the best one. 
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Each Soulsbornekiro Ring game is my favorite while I’m playing it.
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Paying2Lurk posted:Dark Souls 2 is the best one.
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haveblue posted:I loved elden ring as a near-endless string of new discoveries and corners to poke into and be surprised at, so the idea of playing it again while knowing where everything is already has almost zero appeal Picking it up after a year or two I forgot like 2/3 of what’s in the game
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I haven’t turned on my PS5 in about two months. Was pleasantly surprised to see Dave Dever for free. It’s annoying that I purchased it about a month ago. But I just chalk it up to supporting the developer and those type of games. Even though they’re not an indie developer.
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I’m a sucker for souls games so I had no problem playing through ng Elden Ring like two and a half times. It kicks rear end. Building a new character and exploring the game from the beginning again with the added insight of knowing what happens and with a greater understanding of the characters and the world is a good time. Just in this humble pimps opinion.
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I adored Elden Ring and am super excited to play the DLC but it doesn’t come close to the highs of that first DS1 or BB play through
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not sure when they added the ability to manually update games in the game library screen, but it had to have been fairly recently was one of my major pet peeve missing os features for literal years
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Arist posted:now, there's nothing left to add but folders............ Themes
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i have 3 'gamelists' (folders) containing all the ps+ games i have so they aren't polluting my installed games library themes otoh are never coming back
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:not sure when they added the ability to manually update games in the game library screen, but it had to have been fairly recently This was added months ago.
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unattended spaghetti posted:If it's difficulty that puts you off, there's an easy mode that shockingly doesn't water the game down. You end up playing the same game, get punished for all the things any other game of its kind would punish you for, but you're able to soak a few more errors and they widen the parry window. And now it's on my radar! I have a monster backlog. I might be finished with rebirth by this weekend. Just finished my third full play session of rebirth in the temple of the ancients. gently caress me it goes and goes huh. I think I'm right at the end now but I also said that to myself last night and the night before that too. I have infinite wealth, octopath 2, and dd2 that I want to play, but I might pick up Dave the diver as a palette cleanser instead. 3 more 80hr+ Japanese RPGs of varying flavors is a lot. I do like that my palette cleanser is a south Korean casual RPG(?) but oh well.
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obi_ant posted:I haven’t turned on my PS5 in about two months. Was pleasantly surprised to see Dave Dever for free. It’s annoying that I purchased it about a month ago. But I just chalk it up to supporting the developer and those type of games. Even though they’re not an indie developer. Only free for the most expensive PSN subscription right? I have like basic and it's not in the three or so monthly games.
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installed dave the diver, played for like 8 minutes, and uninstalled dave the diver suffers from the syndrome of just throwing a bunch of bs information at you in the form of two characters talking side by side over and over and over instead of just letting you play. feels like a trend that got popular in f2p mobile games or something. just rear end and kills my vibe before i can even be excited to play.
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ShoogaSlim posted:installed dave the diver, played for like 8 minutes, and uninstalled dave the diver Instagram pilled
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:i heard it was the best indie game of last year though Noted indie company, Nexon.
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Ryoga posted:Noted indie company, Nexon. 
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JBP posted:Instagram pilled warning, i'm about to sperg out: the game starts with a credits scene and a "skip [hold circle]" message at the bottom right. don't give me the option if you don't want me to do it. have confidence in your stupid little cutscene. but then of course slam the brakes and make me watch a bunch of text boxes go back and forth before i get to play. then, definitely make sure i know how to use the analog stick by forcing the first thing i do be to "move forward using the L stick" into a highlighted area. great! i know how to use the analog stick! please hold my hand through every tiny detail for the next god knows how long. that poo poo legit drives me nuts. what infected game dev's brains into thinking people have never touched a controller before playing their game and need to be explicitly instructed on how to move a character? actual indie games like tunic or cocoon just drop you into a 3d world and trust you know the basics of a controller and don't insult your intelligence by placing a big marker on the screen you need to walk to in order to unlock the actual game. i went back and rewatched the opening to god of war ragnarok and even that game has explicit "move R to look around" and "use L to move around" while you're on the wolf sled thing. it hilariously displays "L1 Defend" and "R1 Defend" while freya is attacking you, which are never used that way in the game outside the intro cutscene thing. but then it just shows the circle button logo as a prompt, without any context, when you actually need to mash it to get out of a chokehold. there's a saying in film criticism that "movies teach us how to watch them" by way of introducing world building, structure, style, etc which guides the viewer on how to interpret and engage with it. the same is true for video games, and when the devs choose to (or more likely, are forced to by other departments) teach players how to engage with the game in the above ways, i feel it makes for a much weaker end product. i'm admittedly way too obsessed with the topic of how mechanics are communicated to the player, but i'm ok with that. my respect/enjoyment skyrockets when it's subtle, and it plummets when the communication is too hand-holdey. this probably doesn't bother anyone else and it might not even impact my enjoyment of a game passed the first ~5-10% where all this stuff is usually confined to in the whole game experience, but idk that's just my bias.
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Yeah but 8 minutes? I think giving up on a game because of publisher and qa mandated mechanics that only exist in the first half hour of a 30 hour game is maybe a little too eager. It's totally ok to ditch it but if the sum total influence of a game being well funded is a mandatory slow bit that ends, I'm pretty understanding about the logistics of how multi million dollar creative projects get made.
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ShoogaSlim posted:actual indie games like tunic or cocoon just drop you into a 3d world and trust you know the basics of a controller and don't insult your intelligence (...) but then it just shows the circle button logo as a prompt, without any context shooga'd again
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I feel like my intelligence is being insulted every time I open this thread.
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Intelligence is entirely optional and in fact is discouraged. Shake off that burden
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