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Mikl posted:For the player maybe, but there are really deep discussions going around in real life with the whole concept of transhumanism. Also, they'd like, propably make an aug verison of sports and people would watch both, kinda like how there are still speedruns when Tool assisted ones exist and can do more crazy stuff. Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:I can't pause Dark Souls. Look I know it's an effect you're going for but my dog needs to take a poo poo right now and telling her there's guys with spears jabbing me is not going to be much relief. Oh whoops sorry whoever's calling me on the phone, but I can never feel truly safe, which apparently means I must sever all connections with other lifeforms.
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:I can't pause Dark Souls. Look I know it's an effect you're going for but my dog needs to take a poo poo right now and telling her there's guys with spears jabbing me is not going to be much relief. Oh whoops sorry whoever's calling me on the phone, but I can never feel truly safe, which apparently means I must sever all connections with other lifeforms. ScratchAndSniff posted:Think of how lovely augs would make sports, though. Who What Now posted:But you're right, we can't just allow people with any sort of augmentation to play certain sports. There's no challenge to dunking if you just use your rocket-legs to blast off from half court.
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Lotish posted:A lot of games have a problem with playing coy about their plot twists when they're really obvious hours in advance. I didn't really clue in at the beginning but when they finally brought her back my reaction was "oh hey you're alive, huh" That's another problem video games have I guess, telling you to be sad about losing some character when you've only known them for 10 seconds.
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Aug 23, 2014 11:13
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Tiggum posted:Can't we? Because that sounds way more entertaining than regular basketball. Seriously. NBA Jam was was more interesting than the endless repeats of NBA 2Kwhatever.
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Aug 23, 2014 11:15
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Dark Souls isn't unpausable to make it harder, it's unpausable because it's a multiplayer game and it's easier to leave it at that than to go in and code it so you can pause as long as nobody's in your world or currently trying to get into your world. It's laziness rather than malice, really.
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Aug 23, 2014 11:45
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At one point in Adam's building you hear someone complaining about an augmented baseball player, something like "they're calling him the best of all time and he has a god drat metal arm". As for something dragging a game down to an almost unplayable level, I found the brushwork incredibly difficult to do on the Wii version of Okami. Straight lines and circles were hard to do precisely. Straight lines were fine in battle when you could just flick your wrist, but when you had to cross a name off a list it was beyond frustrating. Circles to bloom something were incredibly frustrating as well, especially in the sections were you had to bloom multiple things within a time limit. The playsation version on the other hand made the brush simple to use.
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The Mega Man games for the Wii have two issues. One is that they're too hard; when you design a Mega Man game, maybe don't make it even harder than the original series? Okay so I'm just a scrub gamer I guess. But why can't I charge my blaster? Why was THAT downgrade necessary? EmmyOk posted:At one point in Adam's building you hear someone complaining about an augmented baseball player, something like "they're calling him the best of all time and he has a god drat metal arm". Yeah the Wiimote doesn't do things like precision well.
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Aug 23, 2014 13:49
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Been playing the Dishonored DLCs since they were on sale on Steam. Random enemy chatter is repetitive. Could the sound bites get any worse?
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Aug 23, 2014 13:56
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Mikl posted:Been playing the Dishonored DLCs since they were on sale on Steam. Never doubt it.
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HMS Boromir posted:Dark Souls isn't unpausable to make it harder, it's unpausable because it's a multiplayer game and it's easier to leave it at that than to go in and code it so you can pause as long as nobody's in your world or currently trying to get into your world. It's laziness rather than malice, really. Watch Dogs does exactly this which led to everyone constantly pausing to check if they were being invaded, which gives them some time to prepare (hide in a spot with no cameras facing you, shoot anyone that isn't moving exactly like a civilian.)
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PancakeTransmission posted:Watch Dogs does exactly this which led to everyone constantly pausing to check if they were being invaded, which gives them some time to prepare (hide in a spot with no cameras facing you, shoot anyone that isn't moving exactly like a civilian.)  (I liked baiting out players to the docks/dead ends sitting in a truck and ramming them) Who What Now posted:I'd say that augmentations would be allowed but their performance capabilities would be very tightly regulated and watched so as to keep them firmly in the bounds of human capability. In fact wouldn't be inconceivable to have a market specifically for sports-grade augmentations. And with physical capabilities locked down then experience, talent, and skill would become more valuable, rather than relying on someone being some sort of generic freak to get your big break into the sports world. Mikl posted:- Would you cut off your arm to get a robo-arm so you can play pro-sports?
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HMS Boromir posted:Dark Souls isn't unpausable to make it harder, it's unpausable because it's a multiplayer game and it's easier to leave it at that than to go in and code it so you can pause as long as nobody's in your world or currently trying to get into your world. It's laziness rather than malice, really. It's not even really that lazy. How many multiplayer games allow you to pause? If not being able to pause prevents you from playing Dark Souls you are doing yourself a disservice.
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Aug 23, 2014 15:20
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kazil posted:It's not even really that lazy. How many multiplayer games allow you to pause? Or you own a dog, or have a small child, or need to answer the door, or something else. Not being able to pause is loving rude. e: If you're playing an explicitly multiplayer game, that's a different thing, but playing Dark Souls isn't really the same thing as a Call of Duty match.
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RyokoTK posted:Or you own a dog, or have a small child, or need to answer the door, or something else. Not being able to pause is loving rude. Dark Souls is a multiplayer game. It's not a conventional multiplayer but it is multiplayer. And it's been said that you can quit the game and re-enter it at the same point.
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RyokoTK posted:Or you own a dog, or have a small child, or need to answer the door, or something else. Not being able to pause is loving rude. If you need to do that you can save and quit, which allows you to resume exactly where you were (not counting boss fights), in about 2 seconds.
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If you can quit to title at no cost whenever you like, why can't the game just have a pause feature? It's still dumb.
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Tiggum posted:I've never understood these decisions to make games more challenging by making them less convenient. Like limiting the number of times you can save. If you don't have enough time to play all the way through in a small enough number of sessions then you just don't get to finish the game. Or checkpoints being really far apart to force you to do whole sections as one rather than save-scumming, which means that if you have to stop playing for any reason before you reach that checkpoint you have to do a whole bunch of stuff again.  MY VISION wankery about those stupid plebs sullying my carefully crafted masterpiece, but artists often restrict the consumer if they feel that's what it takes to get them to fully digest the work, David Lynch, for example, doesn't allow his DVDs to have chapter stops since he feels watching his movies in chunks is an inferior experience.Restricting pauses though is too much, even for me. quote:Like that's not already the case? I don't understand why people care about stuff like performance-enhancing drugs in sports. Look at the Olympics; If you're from a wealthy country where they have well-funded programs to train and support athletes, you've got a huge advantage over the guy from the poor country who had to work a full-time job on top of training. Why are we pretending this is a fair contest? You say that, but then poor countries like Ethiopia and Kenya can often compete very well against the big dogs.
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RyokoTK posted:If you can quit to title at no cost whenever you like, why can't the game just have a pause feature? It's still dumb. Why doesn't World of Warcraft let you pause?
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XCOM doesn't have any save restrictions tied to difficulty last I checked. Unless playing on Normal or Easy keeps more autosaves or something, but the game has always saved your seed (unless told other wise) and Ironman is completely seperate from difficulty.
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SpookyLizard posted:XCOM doesn't have any save restrictions tied to difficulty last I checked. Unless playing on Normal or Easy keeps more autosaves or something, but the game has always saved your seed (unless told other wise) and Ironman is completely seperate from difficulty. Well I kind of count that as an additional tier of difficulty and most of the community treats Ironman classic/Impossible as a distinct, more intense way of playing the game. In the thread over in games most people use the phrase I/C or I/I as the shorthand for 'Hard' mode and also those absurd long-war-impossible runs youtubers like beaglerush do are usually on Ironman. khwarezm has a new favorite as of 17:54 on Aug 23, 2014 |
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kazil posted:Why doesn't World of Warcraft let you pause? This is silly. When you quit out of Dark Souls, the game (in your world) doesn't go on without you. The only reason to not let you pause the game is because other people are playing with you and, unlike MMOs or multiplayer shooters, this isn't always true.
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Basically, pausing is for lame-rear end scrubs who can't handle videogames. 'Oh sorry that you want to put things on hold at your convenience you pansy gently caress. Why don't you go play with a light switch, I think that's more your level?'  Content: I bought Skullgirls because I don't really play fighting games that much and it seems good and I like anime.  But, in a game that it would actually help to have one, there's no diagram for what button is what kick or punch [There's three of both] and when you turn on the setting to show what buttons you're pressing it doesn't have the icons pop up on them either.
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This whole pausing thing could be avoided by giving Dark Souls a single player mode. The pausing thing is the exact reason I haven't played it and probably won't.
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khwarezm posted:Well I kind of count that as an additional tier of difficulty and most of the community treats Ironman classic/Impossible as a distinct, more intense way of playing the game. In the thread over in games most people use the phrase I/C or I/I as the shorthand for 'Hard' mode and also those absurd long-war-impossible runs youtubers like beaglerush do are usually on Ironman. When I first started playing XCOM:EU I didn't Ironman because the game was buggy and had issues with corrupting saves. Now that it's fixed, I can't imagine NOT playing Ironman. But yeah Ironman itself adds a whole extra level of difficulty you have a valid point.
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kazil posted:Why doesn't World of Warcraft let you pause? Yeah that's comparable, good work champ.
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Suitaru posted:Look carefully at the name of the poster he's quoting loving hell, I missed that and typed out a proper reply and I'm me (and my face is all marked up with bioelectrics).
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2house2fly posted:This whole pausing thing could be avoided by giving Dark Souls a single player mode. The pausing thing is the exact reason I haven't played it and probably won't. In the first game, single player is when you go hollow, since that disables all multiplayer, so From probably could have put in a pause menu for that. In DS2 though you can be invaded at any time so pausing wouldn't work out.
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For a related issue, what's the consensus on Dead Rising only having one save slot?
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RBA Starblade posted:In the first game, single player is when you go hollow, since that disables all multiplayer, so From probably could have put in a pause menu for that. In DS2 though you can be invaded at any time so pausing wouldn't work out. They also could've just let the player pause and have it pause the invader's game too, but make it so the invader can't pause the other player's game. Like, seriously, that's an option. "The other player is paused you can wait or gently caress off to another game." LoonShia posted:For a related issue, what's the consensus on Dead Rising only having one save slot? Same as Metro only have one save slot. Goddamnit. SpookyLizard has a new favorite as of 19:37 on Aug 23, 2014 |
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I'm trying out Just Cause 2 for the first time, and holy gently caress the cinematics are loud as hell. I turned the game volume down to a tenth of what it was, and now the gameplay is quiet, but the cinematics are still insanely loud. Do the volume settings seriously not impact the cinematics in that game, or is there another option I'm missing?
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RareAcumen posted:Basically, pausing is for lame-rear end scrubs who can't handle videogames. 'Oh sorry that you want to put things on hold at your convenience you pansy gently caress. Why don't you go play with a light switch, I think that's more your level?' Japanese fighting games do this for some dumb reason. I couldn't get into Street Fighter IV because instead of A,B,B,X it would say High Punch, Low Punch, Low Punch, High Kick. My brain just couldn't parse it.
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Dark Souls 2 has an offline mode, so it isn't like they couldn't implement a pause system for that. I think a Dead Space system would make more sense. You can pause the game for things like options, load, and save but your inventory screen doesn't pause the game. The lack of a pause function doesn't make a game tougher gameplay wise.
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It's weird that fighting games don't just have an option to switch between displaying real inputs vs. whatever they're bound to on your controller/keyboard. It's a bad habit to get into if you ever want to read someone else's combo notation or whatever but it should be pretty much trivial to do (a lot of games display dynamic prompts for the key or button you've bound something to) and obviously there's demand for it.
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quote:They also could've just let the player pause and have it pause the invader's game too, but make it so the invader can't pause the other player's game. Then everyone hits 'pause', for invaders and co-op partners, and wastes everyone's time and in the invader's case, resources. You can't exactly pause Call of Duty when you're online either.
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SpookyLizard posted:They also could've just let the player pause and have it pause the invader's game too, but make it so the invader can't pause the other player's game. This is such a hilariously bad idea that I wish it was true. I would do nothing but constantly pause and unpause my game in the middle of fights to throw off invaders. I don't see what the big deal is about needing to pause Dark Souls. I leave it running all the time to do little things you guys are talking about like using the bathroom or letting the dog out. Enemies don't generally wander around the level, so you're perfectly safe to take Fido out for a few minutes. If you're scared about invaders, it takes about 10 seconds total to get to the main menu and back in your game.
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Professor Wayne posted:This is such a hilariously bad idea that I wish it was true. I would do nothing but constantly pause and unpause my game in the middle of fights to throw off invaders. I don't see what the big deal is about needing to pause Dark Souls. I leave it running all the time to do little things you guys are talking about like using the bathroom or letting the dog out. Enemies don't generally wander around the level, so you're perfectly safe to take Fido out for a few minutes. If you're scared about invaders, it takes about 10 seconds total to get to the main menu and back in your game.
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Professor Wayne posted:I leave it running all the time to do little things you guys are talking about like using the bathroom or letting the dog out. Enemies don't generally wander around the level, so you're perfectly safe to take Fido out for a few minutes. If you're scared about invaders, it takes about 10 seconds total to get to the main menu and back in your game. "Doorbell rang while I was fighting this boss, do I quit, die, or ignore the door?  "I know goons loving fall all over themselves to defend Dark Souls (which is why the last thread barred talking about it) but really, sometimes real life intrudes and it would be nice to not be worrying about the game while I'm taking a piss or something. Yes it's a "multiplayer" game but comparing it to Call of Duty or World of Warcraft is loving retarded and disingenuous. It's more like Diablo 3, where if I start a game by myself, it's my instance of the game that other people can join in on. However, you can pause the game in Diablo 3 when you're by yourself and it's great because games should let you loving pause.
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RyokoTK posted:"Doorbell rang while I was fighting this boss, do I quit, die, or ignore the door? God forbid you die in a video game! fake e: Let alone one which is entirely focused around "you're going to die a ton and constantly."
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