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CobiWann posted:What's Monster Hunter? Is it a new version of Duck Hunt? If you play a bowgun that's pretty much dead on, actually Only instead of having a dog that mocks you you get to play dressup with cats
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Jan 16, 2015 18:51
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CobiWann posted:What's Monster Hunter? Is it a new version of Duck Hunt? Please don't malign the good name of Duck Hunt and its excellent Smash Brothers team in this manner, CobiWann.
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Jan 16, 2015 18:57
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Bicyclops posted:Please don't malign the good name of Duck Hunt and its excellent Smash Brothers team in this manner, CobiWann. Ok, but I honestly have no clue what Monster Hunter is. The last console game I bought was The Last of Us and before that Dead Space 3, and we all know how THAT turned out. (I refuse to count the countless LEGO movie games that have adorned my shelves since my stepdaughter moved in)
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Jan 16, 2015 19:36
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It's (I think) the original kill monsters and make weapons out of them to kill bigger monsters game. It's usually pretty fun if nerve-wracking at times. Also very grindy although that might have changed since the ones I played. Does it still have Plesioth or whatever the water jerk with the Hip Check of Doom was? His hit boxes were rear end.
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Jan 16, 2015 19:40
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CobiWann posted:Ok, but I honestly have no clue what Monster Hunter is. The last console game I bought was The Last of Us and before that Dead Space 3, and we all know how THAT turned out. It's an action/adventure game that's basically one long loot grind. You have very large, very angry monsters (most of them dinosaurs or basically dinosaur-shaped) trotting around some little village somewhere, and you must sally forth and kill them and make things out their corpses with which to kill bigger monsters. There's no real cannon-fodder in the series to speak of, mostly; some monsters get a legion of tinier ones nipping at their heels, but for the most part battles are all lengthy affairs that often involve the use of traps, bait, and multiple weak points. The combat system's pretty in-depth with various stances and weapon types, and there's the usual farming/fishing loot grind as well to pad it out. As someone who hates loot grinds and RNG, there's absolutely nothing about the series that appeals to me. I got about three hours into MH3U at Occ's insistence before swearing it off for good, because there's no forward progression or sense of reward besides the grind. Oxxidation fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Jan 16, 2015 |
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Jan 16, 2015 19:45
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CobiWann posted:Ok, but I honestly have no clue what Monster Hunter is. This is monster hunter: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e9NYYewCSxo
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Jan 16, 2015 19:50
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So it's an MMO without the name?
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Jan 16, 2015 19:50
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CobiWann posted:So it's an MMO without the name? And vastly better combat, to be fair. But yes, imagine doing nothing but one- or two-man raid bosses for 150 hours and that's Monster Hunter.
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Jan 16, 2015 19:54
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CobiWann posted:So it's an MMO without the name? It actually IS an mmo hilariously, but that's a fair comparison; the biggest differentiator, and it's a huge one, is that its combat is actually super deep and varied and not managing cool downs Monster hunter is basically a genre unto itself and resists easy comparison, if you dig it then you're super super into it and if you don't you hate it
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Jan 16, 2015 19:56
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Oxxidation posted:And vastly better combat, to be fair. But yes, imagine doing nothing but one- or two-man raid bosses for 150 hours and that's Monster Hunter. I can't watch a video right now, but what you're describing sound very similar to a long and grindy Shadow of the Colossus, which is basically the Best Game.
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Jan 16, 2015 20:01
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Monster Hunter is a combination of MMO progression logic with Dark Souls-style animation-based combat with the addition of  four-player co-op and which rewards situational awareness, familiarity with the monsters (a la Shadow of the Colossus), and real-life experience rather than arbitrary EXP gains and Better Equipment.
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Jan 16, 2015 20:04
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Go RV! posted:I can't watch a video right now, but what you're describing sound very similar to a long and grindy Shadow of the Colossus, which is basically the Best Game. It's not on the same continent as SotC. Or Dark Souls. Going into it expecting either will grant you only crushing disappointment.
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Jan 16, 2015 20:04
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Oxxidation posted:It's not on the same continent as SotC. Or Dark Souls. It has some mechanical similarities, mainly in terms of learning boss behaviors, but they're very different games on the whole, to be sure.
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Jan 16, 2015 20:06
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If you have a 3ds you mine as well try the demo out since they apparently fixed the early game which is always the worst part of monhun and it's, you know, free
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Jan 16, 2015 20:09
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Lots of times people tell me I should try Monster Hunter and I don't have anything against the concept of endlessly making numbers go up, but I think I've unfortunately met my quota for games which devour enormous chunks of my time and soul. I already gave most of my soul to Nintendo, and the rest of it is sealed inside of a soul gem somewhere in Tamriel.
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Jan 16, 2015 20:21
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Toxxupation posted:Monster hunter is basically a genre unto itself and resists easy comparison, if you dig it then you're super super into it and if you don't you hate it Just like Doctor Who!
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Jan 16, 2015 20:26
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Bicyclops posted:Lots of times people tell me I should try Monster Hunter and I don't have anything against the concept of endlessly making numbers go up, but I think I've unfortunately met my quota for games which devour enormous chunks of my time and soul. I already gave most of my soul to Nintendo, and the rest of it is sealed inside of a soul gem somewhere in Tamriel. Right there with you. Thanks Sid Meier. Then again, I'm not one to talk about throwing one's self into a hobby. Ten years of World of Warcraft AND I proudly own a copy of Warriors of the Deep.
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Jan 16, 2015 20:27
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Toxxupation posted:If you have a 3ds you mine as well try the demo out since they apparently fixed the early game which is always the worst part of monhun and it's, you know, free Unless you're one of those chumps who're paying five bucks for a demo key
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Jan 16, 2015 20:30
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CobiWann posted:
If they come out with
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Jan 16, 2015 20:33
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Bicyclops posted:If they come out with Well Civ: Beyond Earth is supposed to be pretty good!
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Jan 16, 2015 20:37
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No Toxxupation keep watching the show for me.
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Jan 16, 2015 20:49
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thexerox123 posted:Well Civ: Beyond Earth is supposed to be pretty good! Haha, a Civ game in Space? Yeah, right. No way that exists. It would be too good and use up way too much of my time. Nice fake reviews and screenshots! Next, you'll be telling me there's actually a way to watch classic Doctor Who a second time, when everyone knows that the episodes disappear forever for you the first time that you watch them.
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Jan 16, 2015 20:50
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Civ: Beyond Earth actually sucks really hard right now because it's a Firaxis release Civ game, so wait a year and for at least two expansions to come out when it finally becomes the game it's supposed to be your welcome bicyclops/cobiwann
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Jan 16, 2015 20:53
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Now we can simulate the show's seasons being cut in half right the middle with a year's delay!
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Oxxidation posted:It's an action/adventure game that's basically one long loot grind. You have very large, very angry monsters (most of them dinosaurs or basically dinosaur-shaped) trotting around some little village somewhere, and you must sally forth and kill them and make things out their corpses with which to kill bigger monsters. Why don't the villagers just move somewhere else?
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Jan 16, 2015 21:01
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Toxxupation posted:Civ: Beyond Earth actually sucks really hard right now because it's a Firaxis release Civ game, so wait a year and for at least two expansions to come out when it finally becomes the game it's supposed to be I don't what game you're talking about. Unless you mispelled Alpha Centauri?
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Jan 16, 2015 21:02
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Whoever gave him the code couldn't have waited till he finished the 2-parter at least? 
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Jan 16, 2015 21:03
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Or at least until Netflix finished its BBC negotiations, so we could be sure they're just playing hardball like they always do and the show isn't going to disappear from streaming media.
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Jan 16, 2015 21:05
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in other news oxxidation wrote a thing that you should read because it's hella good, read it yeah
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Jan 16, 2015 21:05
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Jerusalem posted:Whoever gave him the code couldn't have waited till he finished the 2-parter at least? No, that was their plan all along: to delay the second part as long as possible so that he never finishes the show in time to reach the end of the current season. And thus, he has to do this forever. It was almost a perfect plan...but there was one fatal flaw: it was far too obvious.
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Jan 16, 2015 21:06
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thexerox123 posted:Well Civ: Beyond Earth is supposed to be pretty good! Beyond Earth is pretty much just a $60 full conversion mod of Civ V. If you didn't like V, you won't like BE. If you got bored with V you'll get bored with BE even faster since so much was gutted.
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Jan 16, 2015 21:15
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Mo' MonHun Mo' Problems
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I'm legitimately considering getting a new 3DS specifically for MonHun 4 when I've not really played a MonHun before I make good decisions with my disposable income
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I just accidentally read a good-faith argument that states that gallifrey is the planet on which the regions of johto, kanto, hoenn, sinnoh, unova, and kalos are located, essentially arguing that the world of pokemon is populated not with humans but with time lords, which explains away on the dumb poo poo that happens in the pokemon universe, like pokemon themselves, with "time lord science" and pokeballs having the same "bigger on the inside" technology that make TARDISes it also explains why a society would allow ten-year-olds to venture into the wilderness by themselves to battle and capture lethal beasts, because everyone can regenerate and thus who cares about "dying", right I need...I need to lay down now NieR Occomata fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Jan 17, 2015 |
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Jan 17, 2015 00:37
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... and did you agree?
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Jan 17, 2015 00:43
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Pokeballs don't need to be bigger on the inside, the pokemon don't live in there they're converted into energy and stored in that form. God damned fanboys.
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Jan 17, 2015 00:51
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Toxxupation posted:I just accidentally read a good-faith argument that states that gallifrey is the planet on which the regions of johto, kanto, hoenn, sinnoh, unova, and kalos are located, essentially arguing that the world of pokemon is populated not with humans but with time lords, which explains away on the dumb poo poo that happens in the pokemon universe, like pokemon themselves, with "time lord science" and pokeballs having the same "bigger on the inside" technology that make TARDISes
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Jan 17, 2015 01:00
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We're a few (ish) pages in, and nobody has posted the eleventh doctor rocking out at the worlds best music festival. Shame on you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVhXyjEjmnA (unless you did and I missed it, sorry, I lurk the best I can) e: not only was matt smith on the books for a pro footy team, but he apparently has grade 8 synths. Ben Soosneb fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Jan 17, 2015 |
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Jan 17, 2015 02:32
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what the what is happening
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Toxxupation posted:what the the middle 8 the middle 8 is happening
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