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Attestant posted:Got started with NieR: Automata, and it's definitely dragging a little after the stellar opening moments. Everything from Tutorial to Amusement Park has been pretty great overall. But now the game has tossed the first proper open world sidequesting segment at me, and they've failed to make most of the stuff interesting. Just a bunch of "Gather 10 Boar butts" quests on a large map with limited fast travel options. I would recommend reading all of the story text relating to side quests because there's a lot of cool and important little beats in 'em. Some of them are actually ridiculously close to being core to the experience. But also wait until you can just blitz the actual collection part. Also in all cases the collection item will be a 100% drop, so you should just be able to rip through the play part and get back to the ministories.
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The real thing dragging Nier Automata is that it runs like poo poo on pc and never got a single patch because SE just don't give a gently caress.
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Feb 23, 2018 19:14
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Again, gently caress Square Enix for meddling Mankind Divided. The ending is truncated, there's a multiplayer no one wanted, there is an in-game micro-transaction store and they failed to mention that the DLC contained micro-transactions, and none of the DLC missions are integrated into the Game proper. All of this to hurt what is a solid game.
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Feb 23, 2018 19:53
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Terminally Bored posted:The real thing dragging Nier Automata is that it runs like poo poo on pc and never got a single patch because SE just don't give a gently caress. There is a mod that fixes it at least, but yeah out of the box the game runs like trash.
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Feb 23, 2018 20:58
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Again, gently caress Square Enix for meddling Mankind Divided. The ending is truncated, there's a multiplayer no one wanted, there is an in-game micro-transaction store and they failed to mention that the DLC contained micro-transactions, and none of the DLC missions are integrated into the Game proper. All of this to hurt what is a solid game. I still haven't bought Mankind Divided and I bought Human Revolution twice.
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Feb 23, 2018 23:45
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Terminally Bored posted:The real thing dragging Nier Automata is that it runs like poo poo on pc and never got a single patch because SE just don't give a gently caress. It worked fine for me. Bye! Okay so I'm playing Dark Souls 3 again and the covenants suck. Invasions are kind of lame? They're better than no invasions, sure. But without fail they always end up the same. Hit a guy, he rolls off and runs away so he can heal. Repeat until he runs out of estus. Hit him some more. He runs away to hide behind enemies. Also the bosses and enemies in 3 are so god drat boring coming straight off of 2.
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Feb 24, 2018 00:11
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I wish leveling Covenants meant doing an in-game quest to get a unique reward, while partaking in the PvP of a Covenant rewarded you with consumables like Embers and Titanite. Grinding to raise your status is simply the worst. I'm not mad enough to farm for 30 Proofs of Concords Kept, achievements be damned.
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Feb 24, 2018 00:34
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Aleph Null posted:I still haven't bought Mankind Divided and I bought Human Revolution twice. You're honestly not missing much. I wouldn't bother.
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Feb 24, 2018 00:36
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Mr. Flunchy posted:You're honestly not missing much. I wouldn't bother. It's just weird how dull Mankind Divided felt in parts. But anyone who likes Deus Ex games should absolutely buy Prey and the fact that there exists any person who regularly plays video games and bought and played the DX games and didn't buy Prey is a tragedy.
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Feb 24, 2018 00:57
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Nuebot posted:It worked fine for me. Bye! Dark Souls 3 is kind of lame in general. Like, it's still a Souls game and it's fine, but after loving DS2 a whole bunch I was sorta let down by the sequel.
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Feb 24, 2018 04:12
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Yeah it's very formulaic and by the numbers. At least DS2 felt different Granted it's a very competent execution and it does have some fresh bits here and there but after bloodborne, it feels uninspired and dry
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Feb 24, 2018 04:18
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Nuebot posted:It worked fine for me. Bye! Just because you don't see a problem doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Hope that helps.
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Feb 24, 2018 11:38
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All the talk about Bioshock 2 made me remember how much I hated the feel of fighting machine gun Splicers in the first game. It felt less like I was getting shot and more like they applied a health degeneration effect to me whenever I was in line of sight with them, even if I set them on fire and shot them up or they only saw me through a tiny crack for a moment. I didn't bother playing later games.
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Feb 24, 2018 11:46
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KingSlime posted:Yeah it's very formulaic and by the numbers. At least DS2 felt different I thought the Ringed City dlc is was great at least, even if the numbers were too high.
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Feb 24, 2018 11:49
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I've spent four hours trying to beat the final boss of Dark Souls. By which I mean I've spent about five minutes actually fighting the boss, and three hours fifty-five minutes walking through the Kiln.
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Feb 24, 2018 16:40
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Have you tried running past the knights?
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Feb 24, 2018 18:53
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Yeah, they're hilariously easy to run past.
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Feb 24, 2018 18:56
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Again, gently caress Square Enix for meddling Mankind Divided. The ending is truncated, there's a multiplayer no one wanted, there is an in-game micro-transaction store and they failed to mention that the DLC contained micro-transactions, and none of the DLC missions are integrated into the Game proper. All of this to hurt what is a solid game. MD really didn't capture my attention like HR did at all, and for some reason I found it a lot rougher to play. I did a few hours of breach mode then a few of the campaign then put it down. It's not bad but not really that compelling either. After losing the augs then getting the unknown ones and dying in like three bullets for five hours it really killed my drive to move on too. Also lmao that 15 minute opening video really puts HR in a bad light. "Jensen went here, then across the world, then across the world again, then across the world again, then he found his girlfriend, I guess, then he went across the world again". 
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Feb 24, 2018 20:25
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Again, gently caress Square Enix for meddling Mankind Divided. The ending is truncated, there's a multiplayer no one wanted, there is an in-game micro-transaction store and they failed to mention that the DLC contained micro-transactions, and none of the DLC missions are integrated into the Game proper. All of this to hurt what is a solid game. It's kind of astounding how quickly people have forgotten what a shitshow of a publisher SE is. They killed Deus Ex with that garbage. Instead of following up surprise hit Sleeping Dogs with a proper sequel they forced them to make some worthless multiplayer spinoff that never made it to market. Just Cause 3 was a huge mess and was originally going to be saddled with endless microtransactions ("just a concept screenshot" my rear end). Hitman had its insane subscription-esque system toned down and even then when it somehow didn't make billions of dollars despite critical acclaim they were ready to kill it and it was only saved by IO buying the rights back and going independent. Thief 4 was originally developed as a completely tone-deaf reboot that chased every modern design trend even when it didn't fit the series' ethos and came out the other side a bland Dishonored clone. Finally doing something with that dormant Legacy of Kain IP, we got....a badly balanced L4D multiplayer-meets-deathmatch game that wanted to be the next League of Legends and never made it out of beta. The only western SE franchise that still somehow exists is Tomb Raider, and even Rise had inklings of the same kind of crap with the card-based survival mode and the coin shop. I won't be the least bit surprised if something titanically stupid sinks the third game (100 Laras drop onto an island) and/or SE just finally drops the series when it doesn't sell <Human Population * 3> copies.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Have you tried running past the knights? Also black knights, and the final boss, are in all honesty some of the easiest enemies in the game. Become the parry king you always knew you were.
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Feb 24, 2018 22:12
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Terminally Bored posted:Just because you don't see a problem doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Hope that helps.  John Murdoch posted:It's kind of astounding how quickly people have forgotten what a shitshow of a publisher SE is. They killed Deus Ex with that garbage. Instead of following up surprise hit Sleeping Dogs with a proper sequel they forced them to make some worthless multiplayer spinoff that never made it to market. Just Cause 3 was a huge mess and was originally going to be saddled with endless microtransactions ("just a concept screenshot" my rear end). Hitman had its insane subscription-esque system toned down and even then when it somehow didn't make billions of dollars despite critical acclaim they were ready to kill it and it was only saved by IO buying the rights back and going independent. Thief 4 was originally developed as a completely tone-deaf reboot that chased every modern design trend even when it didn't fit the series' ethos and came out the other side a bland Dishonored clone. Finally doing something with that dormant Legacy of Kain IP, we got....a badly balanced L4D multiplayer-meets-deathmatch game that wanted to be the next League of Legends and never made it out of beta. Square Enix is also responsible for bringing all those franchises back from the dead after they withered on the vine at the hands of their original creators (or, in the case of Sleeping Dogs, was dropped by their original publisher) so it's still a net gain.
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Feb 24, 2018 22:56
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John Murdoch posted:It's kind of astounding how quickly people have forgotten what a shitshow of a publisher SE is. They killed Deus Ex with that garbage. I am very, very sure that it was actually Ion Storm who killed Deus Ex with garbage, to the point where they don't exist anymore. The fact that we got two games (okay, a game and a quarter) after Invisible War* is nothing short of an actual miracle, and while S-E definitely mismanaged Mankind Divided into the gutter I thought I'd never get to play a new Deus Ex after 2004. *I fuckin' love Invisible War, but it is not a good game, and absolutely killed the franchise's momentum stone-dead.
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Feb 25, 2018 00:38
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I think the worst part is, how the hell do you build up unknown or long dead franchises to their apex and then gently caress everything up in the very next sequel? How can someone look at everything that went right with a project and say "Okay, now let's do the opposite"?
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Feb 25, 2018 01:14
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After one hundred forty hours, I finally beat Dark Souls. The runback to the bosses is still tedious indefensible garbage. Yeah, it's fairly easy to dodge the knights/ghosts/weird fat dragon statue things, but it still takes time, and then you go in and get flattened in seconds and have to run alllllll the way back again.
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Feb 25, 2018 02:02
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Byzantine posted:After one hundred forty hours, I finally beat Dark Souls. The runback to the bosses is still tedious indefensible garbage. Yeah, it's fairly easy to dodge the knights/ghosts/weird fat dragon statue things, but it still takes time, and then you go in and get flattened in seconds and have to run alllllll the way back again. I honestly can't think of that many bosses in the first game with extra lovely boss runs? Did you miss a short cut or bonfire?
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Feb 25, 2018 02:08
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Man if I'd paid more than $10 for Titanfall 2 I would be disappointed as all hell. I probably won't play the multiplayer and the story was short and abrupt. Brobot was the best though
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Feb 25, 2018 02:09
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Len posted:Man if I'd paid more than $10 for Titanfall 2 I would be disappointed as all hell. I probably won't play the multiplayer and the story was short and abrupt. as someone who's not usually into it the multiplayer's pretty dang fun, i'd try it out for a bit
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Feb 25, 2018 02:11
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Yeah, again - the multiplayer in TF2 is the best FPS gameplay I've seen in ages. The addition of mooks to apply pressure and populate huge levels is a really clever game mechanic, the mobility options are great (and the levels are built for them) and although there's progression, you get some pretty drat fantastic guns to start with, even if you do have to play a few matches to unlock robots or whatever.
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Feb 25, 2018 02:13
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I don't know if I'd blame everything about MD on Square Enix. Yes, the ending is abrupt as hell but I think the whole game was pretty bad throughout. If that was indeed 25% of the planned game I don't think I'd want to play the rest of it.Nuebot posted:I honestly can't think of that many bosses in the first game with extra lovely boss runs? Did you miss a short cut or bonfire? Plenty of them are kinda long but I guess Four Kings, Nito and Seath could be considered lovely. Pinwheel too, if you ever died to him somehow.
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Been playing through Iconoclasts and it's way late in the game and my character feels about the same as they did at the start. I have not found a single health upgrade, and the stuff I get from looking for items is either material for making Tweaks, which are sorta upgrades but they break one by one when you take a single hit and you only have 3 slots for them and a lot of them probably could have just been permanent upgrades, or schematics...for more tweaks. All the regular metroidvania progression upgrades you find mostly just function as a elaborate key and none of them make exploring more enjoyable to do. The whole game feels like its missing my favorite thing about the genre, where backtracking to find upgrades is actually fun to do usually and the upgrades actually feel like they have some worth, It's gotten to the point where I mostly just kinda ignore chests unless it looks pretty easy to get to.
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Feb 25, 2018 06:37
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Nuebot posted:I honestly can't think of that many bosses in the first game with extra lovely boss runs? Did you miss a short cut or bonfire? The Sen's fortress one is pretty easy to miss you're first time through and a really brutal one to miss.
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Feb 25, 2018 08:41
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rodbeard posted:The Sen's fortress one is pretty easy to miss you're first time through and a really brutal one to miss. Same with the hidden lost izalith bonfire
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Feb 25, 2018 09:01
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ilmucche posted:Same with the hidden lost izalith bonfire I forgot that one was hidden because I had so much trouble seeing anything I just watched a video of someone else going through the level.
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Feb 25, 2018 09:19
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gently caress sens fortress and the capra demon i dont care how much of a true dark souls murderhead you are, i hate those parts. but it is ok to like trash, just look at me, dark souls 2 was my favorite game of the series
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Feb 25, 2018 18:06
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Capra's a son of a bitch but I never got people's gripes about Sens, I was kind of underwhelmed the first time and then you get to watch Tarkus blow the golem's rear end in a top hat out.
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Feb 25, 2018 18:08
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Yardbomb posted:Capra's a son of a bitch but I never got people's gripes about Sens, I was kind of underwhelmed the first time and then you get to watch Tarkus blow the golem's rear end in a top hat out. I'd definitely understand hating Sen's if you don't find the bonfire.
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Feb 25, 2018 18:11
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Sen's Fortress is a heart-in-mouth experience the whole way through and I really think making its bonfire so well-concealed was excessively cruel.
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Oxxidation posted:Sen's Fortress is a heart-in-mouth experience the whole way through and I really think making its bonfire so well-concealed was excessively cruel. True, but in addition to the bonfire, isn't there also a really cool shortcut behind the breakable wall?
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Feb 25, 2018 19:39
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CordlessPen posted:True, but in addition to the bonfire, isn't there also a really cool shortcut behind the breakable wall? There's a lift you can unlock that lets you skip the fortress, but you need to find the key for it. They key is past the merchant, who you need to do a difficult jump to get to, so it's not exactly easy to find either. Also, when you're looking for both the bonfire or the key, the giant is throwing bombs at you. I mean, just like most of DS1, once you know how to do it Sen's Fortress isn't that hard to do, but the odds are very heavily stacked against you the first time you try it.
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spit on my clit posted:gently caress sens fortress and the capra demon If it makes it any better, Sen's Fortress and Capra Demon are both roadblocks that get way easier every time you play through Dark Souls.
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