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Necrodancer was super hard for me as well and I consider myself decent at rhythm games. It's not entirely the same skillset since you're not just following the rhythm, you have to recognize patterns and make decisions to the rhythm. Enemies and behaviors are incredibly predictable though so it's literally a case of practice makes perfect. I can nail down wins on a daily basis now but it took a decent effort to get there.
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RyokoTK posted:Necrodancer was super hard for me as well and I consider myself decent at rhythm games. It's not entirely the same skillset since you're not just following the rhythm, you have to recognize patterns and make decisions to the rhythm. Thank you I thought I'm crazy because I'm also reasonably good at rhythm games but eat poo poo in Necrodancer. I don't have enough patience to put in the effort when there's other stuff to play, but it's a shame because it's a neat concept.
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RyokoTK posted:Necrodancer was super hard for me as well and I consider myself decent at rhythm games. It's not entirely the same skillset since you're not just following the rhythm, you have to recognize patterns and make decisions to the rhythm. My current favorite little thing in this game is how the merchant sings along when he's in earshot. Dude's got lungs!
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If you have the DLC you also have access to an easier character, Nocturna, who starts with a really good weapon and has a cheat death ability in the bat transform. So that's a good way to get more comfortable with the game.
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RyokoTK posted:If you have the DLC you also have access to an easier character, Nocturna, who starts with a really good weapon and has a cheat death ability in the bat transform. So that's a good way to get more comfortable with the game. She also introduces enemies from the new zone right of the bat  which slightly offsets her advantages, at least initially.
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You can also try the Bard, who doesn’t have to move with the music and has no time limit.
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jaclynhyde posted:You can also try the Bard, who doesn’t have to move with the music and has no time limit. You can do that yeah, but I'd advise against it since it eliminates the actual challenging part of the game that needs practice, which isn't the Roguelike stuff, it's having to do the Roguelike stuff to the rhythm. But at least it lets you get a good handle on enemy movements. Overminty posted:She also introduces enemies from the new zone right of the bat Zone 5 is super cool, and one of my PYF little things is standing on the electrical coils and blasting a swarm of skeletons at once. There's even an achievement for getting ten kills in one attack from that. 
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Nov 16, 2017 19:17
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:I've never beaten zone 1 of crypt of the necrodancer. It's a great game, just really difficult for me for some reason. Well, you just made me look and yes, people have hooked up DDR dance pads to play Necrodancer
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Nov 16, 2017 19:20
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RyokoTK posted:Zone 5 is super cool, and one of my PYF little things is standing on the electrical coils and blasting a swarm of skeletons at once. There's even an achievement for getting ten kills in one attack from that. Agreed but after getting the dlc it had been an age since I played vanilla, so being rusty AND having all this new poo poo thrown at me took a bit to get used to. The orcs still throw me off.
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1stGear posted:One of the best is in Pillars of Eternity. In that game, you can pick various backgrounds that give you different dialogue options and flavor. But one of the least used is Philosopher (Nihilist). Until the end of the game when you discover the gods aren't real. The long-suffering Nihilist finally gets to shout "I KNEW IT". gently caress me, I mean say what you want about the tenets of MizPiz posted:This is easily my favorite easter egg in a game: Dude, but at least its an ethos.
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CzarChasm posted:Well, you just made me look and yes, people have hooked up DDR dance pads to play Necrodancer Dancepad Mode is actually a difficulty mode on vanilla that rejiggers everything to make playing via dancepad feasible.
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SiKboy posted:gently caress me, I mean say what you want about the tenets of  e: vvv  of course.
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I am bad at Necrodancer. Farthest I've ever made it is zone 3; normally, I can't get 1. I still bought all the DLC just for the soundtracks.
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CzarChasm posted:Well, you just made me look and yes, people have hooked up DDR dance pads to play Necrodancer The first time I played it was on pad at a con demo with a friend. I was so out of practice for ddr type stuff but I loved that that was a control option right off the bat because it just makes sense.
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Aleph Null posted:I am bad at Necrodancer. Farthest I've ever made it is zone 3; normally, I can't get 1. I still bought all the DLC just for the soundtracks. Zone 3 is a big jump in difficulty and Zone 4 is even worse. Try to do the individual zone clears before you dig into All Zones, it’ll help you a lot.
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I'm going to reinstall Necrodancer now. I hope you guys are happy.
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I hated the writing in Borderlands 2 enough that it made me stop playing, and I have plenty of gripes with other Telltale games, but Tales from the Borderlands is absolutely fantastic. The QTE for Rhys to break the bandit's neck being literally impossible, and followed by the bandit and Sasha both roasting him for being a wuss had me in tears  Also Patrick Warburton is in it and does his Patrick Warburton voice and that's always a massive plus
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Danaru posted:I hated the writing in Borderlands 2 enough that it made me stop playing, and I have plenty of gripes with other Telltale games, but Tales from the Borderlands is absolutely fantastic. The QTE for Rhys to break the bandit's neck being literally impossible, and followed by the bandit and Sasha both roasting him for being a wuss had me in tears
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FactsAreUseless posted:Tales is insanely fun. Chapter 4 has a long moment that literally made me laugh out loud, which is the only time a Borderlands game has made me laugh in any way whatsoever. It's extremely good. It also has the only character death in a Borderlands game that made me feel sad  .
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The Lone Badger posted:I'm going to reinstall Necrodancer now. I hope you guys are happy. Good luck! 
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Neddy Seagoon posted:It also has the only character death in a Borderlands game that made me feel sad See you, space cowboy.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Tales is insanely fun. Chapter 4 has a long moment that literally made me laugh out loud, which is the only time a Borderlands game has made me laugh in any way whatsoever. It's extremely good. Chapter 5 is also imho the best ending they've done since the original Walking Dead, it's like the one time where instead of being kind of abrupt and unsatisfying and petering off it winds up being one of the biggest and best in the entire game.
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I played Tales from the Borderlands before any other Borderlands game. It's the reason I bought 1 and 2 and the Pre-Sequel. Tales is still the best of the bunch.
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Aleph Null posted:I played Tales from the Borderlands before any other Borderlands game. It's the reason I bought 1 and 2 and the Pre-Sequel. Tales is still the best of the bunch.
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VolticSurge posted:See you, space cowboy. Catch a ride, you beautiful bastard.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Easily. Although I have a soft spot for BL2, which is bad but in a way where you can see it eventually getting good. But Pre-Sequel proved they learned gently caress-all. 2 is the only other one I actually completed a play-through on. Almost twice, but it got old. Gage's robot was starting to lose its tankiness and I am bad at games.
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Aleph Null posted:Gage's robot was starting to lose its tankiness and I am bad at games. My eternal paradox - to simultaneously love all games, and be bad at the good ones...
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Something about Borderlands 2 really tapped into my inner sperglord and I got really into grinding out OP levels and getting all the cool orange guns and poo poo. I also played it with a friend who is apparently a space alien because he thinks it's the funniest game ever made, which made playing the game also useful for science and the general advancement of our understanding of the universe.
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The jokes were all right the first time around, the serious parts were hot garbage. I don't see why a game meant to be played several times wouldn't have an easy way to skip all the dialogue but after several playthroughs I still loved everything that came out of Mr Torgue.
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rodbeard posted:The jokes were all right the first time around, the serious parts were hot garbage. I don't see why a game meant to be played several times wouldn't have an easy way to skip all the dialogue but after several playthroughs I still loved everything that came out of Mr Torgue. THERE IS NOTHING MORE BADASS THAN RESPECTING A LADY
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rodbeard posted:The jokes were all right the first time around, the serious parts were hot garbage. I don't see why a game meant to be played several times wouldn't have an easy way to skip all the dialogue but after several playthroughs I still loved everything that came out of Mr Torgue. Yeah, it's not the funniest thing ever made, but the jokes made for a lighter tone than a lot of FPSes, which I enjoyed. When it went serious it lost what I really liked about it. Torgue got me to laugh out loud a lot, though, that was really something else.
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Screaming Idiot posted:THERE IS NOTHING MORE BADASS THAN RESPECTING A LADY The one meme gamers refuse to emulate
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New Butt Order posted:Something about Borderlands 2 really tapped into my inner sperglord and I got really into grinding out OP levels and getting all the cool orange guns and poo poo. I didn't like any of the Borderlands shooters that I've played but I did like the concept of that persistent stat tracking they did across characters in 2 where you got a drip feed of upgrade tokens based on all the different little milestones. Both because I love it when games track every tiny thing and have a nice big stats.page you can visit, and because it was a good idea for a way to make it so that starting a new character didn't send you back to square one.
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I know a lot of people didn't like the writing in borderlands, but I genuinely enjoyed that the tiny Tina dlc was about a literal child using roleplaying games as a method to work through her grief over a friend's death.
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Poops Mcgoots posted:I know a lot of people didn't like the writing in borderlands, but I genuinely enjoyed that the tiny Tina dlc was about a literal child using roleplaying games as a method to work through her grief over a friend's death. The framing devices and world poo poo is often really good in those games, but the writers were really unaware of what was good and what was not and it starts to show about halfway through 2. They've got a society of immortal weirdos who kill each other on the regular, and they also try to have classically dramatic character death beats where all of a sudden everyone in the plot decides that murder is this big important thing instead of a slap on the wrist.
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Screaming Idiot posted:THERE IS NOTHING MORE BADASS THAN RESPECTING A LADY ALCOHOLISM DESTROYS FAMILIES! Seriously though I'm not sure how Torgue's voice actor managed to stay on maximum attack mode for however long it took to record all his lines.
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Poops Mcgoots posted:I know a lot of people didn't like the writing in borderlands, but I genuinely enjoyed that the tiny Tina dlc was about a literal child using roleplaying games as a method to work through her grief over a friend's death. I was thinking about the same thing earlier. It was a poignant DLC using ridiculous and broken characters to tell an absurd story. But it worked.
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Tales also has Loaderbot, and he's the greatest character ever. "Circumstances analyzed. Engaging disproportionate response mode." "Why must the universe punish the good?" I bought him a tuxedo. No regrets. rydiafan has a new favorite as of 02:23 on Nov 18, 2017 |
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I liked borderlands a lot when I was playing coop with 3 other buddies and we just tore through pandora making our own stupid in jokes than when I played it solo. Still cant tell you the story despite the amount of hours I've sunk into it but I had fun playing it because "diablo with guns" triggered some kind of primal instinct of wanting to make numbers go up while also shooting things in the face. Tales from the Borderlands being well written is probably the most pleasant surprise I've had in a game, next to me actually liking Wolfenstein for more than just killing Nazis. The part where Vaughn is shirtless and people just cant stop saying how weird it is that he's totally jacked is hilarious and my favorite part of the second part.
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