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spit on my clit posted:then why is it in the game It's a way to get stronger beyond killing enemies? Why is any equipment system in any game? It likely rewards you for hunting down hidden troves of treasure and stuff in a way that grants you power without getting orbs of xp and stuff flying at your face like previous GoW games.
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Morpheus posted:It's a way to get stronger beyond killing enemies? Why is any equipment system in any game? It likely rewards you for hunting down hidden troves of treasure and stuff in a way that grants you power without getting orbs of xp and stuff flying at your face like previous GoW games. ok so then why is the upgrade system a thing
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Mar 21, 2018 20:21
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I too like to fill the complain about games thread with games that aren't even out. Real complaint: I love Dark Souls 3 and I am finally getting around to the DLC. Problem is I will never finish it because the bosses are the hardest ones they've made yet and I am not gud enough.
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Mar 21, 2018 20:22
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Just because you can tack on more systems that make more game doesn't mean you should. I have no idea about that game in particular but lovely tacked on crafting is a thing dragging many many games down, so it's not unreasonable to complain about.
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Mar 21, 2018 20:29
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I was looking up stuff about the structure of Devil May Cry, and it's annoying that beating the game doesn't unlock a level select because having to play the game through twice, second time on hard, just to get back to being able to select normal is a bit daunting. I've beaten the second boss, Nelo Angelo though, so that's nice. Got the Sad Soul. 
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Mar 21, 2018 20:30
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Borderlands 2: I got the goty version in a steam sale but apparently there's a second pass worth of DLC that's not included, though its just skins and filler missions. The only difference between vault hunters is their skill trees and you can't use any skills until level 6. Why not have skills available at level 1? The shootings gameplay is pretty straightforward so there was no need to delay your options. The fast travel menu lists all the DLC locations you haven't bought, and the customization menu is the same.
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Mar 21, 2018 20:56
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Borderlands 2: I got the goty version in a steam sale but apparently there's a second pass worth of DLC that's not included, though its just skins and filler missions.
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Mar 21, 2018 21:00
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Inspector Gesicht posted:
The rest of your post is genuine bad-design garbage, but this has a "reason" that "makes sense" from a "fygm" (gently caress you give money) perspective. By showing you what the DLC grants, in a persistent in-your-face manner, they consistently show you exactly what you're missing out on, rather than letting you just be satisfied with what you've already got. This can improve conversion rates and lead to people buying when they normally wouldn't. For me, I don't buy games from companies that do that (or I wait until it's 75% off).
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Mar 21, 2018 21:01
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Remember when dragon Age actually gave you quests to go to DLC areas even if you didn't have the DLC? If you didn't know any better you'd just talk to these people and they'd say go do a thing and then when you tried to go to that area you'd get some splash page advertisement. I can't remember if you can abandon those quests or not so you can get them out of your inventory, but I can remember that I quit the game not long after they pulled that poo poo.
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Mar 21, 2018 21:14
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Avenging_Mikon posted:The rest of your post is genuine bad-design garbage, but this has a "reason" that "makes sense" from a "fygm" (gently caress you give money) perspective. Yeah I remember the first game I played that was really bad for that was Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012). You got new cars by driving up to them in the game world and pressing a button, except half of them were DLC cars that popped up a $$$BUY$$$ prompt. There was no way to tell what was DLC and what wasn't, so through the course of normal play you would end up opening the store by accident dozens of times. There might have been a difference in the key prompt once you got up close enough, I don't remember, but it was loving annoying. My other problem with that game was that each car had individual races specific to that car, and you were unable to do any others. You had to get silver or gold in those races to unlock parts for that car, except by the time you'd fully upgraded the car you'd done all the races. The whole game was basically a series of small treadmills with loving nothing at the end.
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Mar 21, 2018 21:15
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Not really a bad thing but Subnautica is really fun if you don't play it on Survival mode (Which adds hunger and thirst meters). It's incredibly liberating to explore an alien ocean when you don't have to nip home every half-hour to scoff a Mars Bar. This is the long-lost sequel to Lego Rock Raiders I always wanted. Actual bad things: There are two islands in the game which for some reason aren't visible unless your a hundred metres close. Here the pop-in and draw distances issues become noticeable because they look absolutely hideous. On minute you're in a colorful Jellyfish biome, the next you're in the island from Proteus. For some reason the game's framerate tanks when your walking around the Alien bases even though nothing technically demanding is going on. Movement on solid-ground feels shite as well. The gamepad controls feel buggy. There's no option to zoom-in on the menu when you're customising vehicles.
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Mar 21, 2018 21:35
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The Moon Monster posted:I was just running some chalices and that trick for the timing worked equally well for all of the enmies you could call giants I forget what they're actually called but the purple dudes, some have lanterns or something. Every time if I waited until I'd get hit to shoot, it'd parry perfectly. They carried me through a lot of dungeons lmao
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Mar 21, 2018 21:42
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Agent355 posted:Remember when dragon Age actually gave you quests to go to DLC areas even if you didn't have the DLC? If you didn't know any better you'd just talk to these people and they'd say go do a thing and then when you tried to go to that area you'd get some splash page advertisement. I can't remember if you can abandon those quests or not so you can get them out of your inventory, but I can remember that I quit the game not long after they pulled that poo poo. It was worse than that. In Origins there was an NPC who sat in your camp with an exclamation point permanently above his head until you bought the DLC.
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Mar 21, 2018 22:03
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oldpainless posted:As long as god of war 4 continues the tradition of playing a mini game where Kratos makes sweet love to one or more women at once, I’m prepared to give it at least an 8/10 These minigames are weird because it seems like the point is to show what an awesome badass sexhaver Kratos is but then he always ends up lasting like 40 seconds.
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Mar 21, 2018 23:37
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The Moon Monster posted:These minigames are weird because it seems like the point is to show what an awesome badass sexhaver Kratos is but then he always ends up lasting like 40 seconds. My sex life is accurately described as minigame.
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Mar 21, 2018 23:42
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We already know Kratos has sex anyway - he had a wife and daughter before the murder happened. His daughter certainly wasn't adopted. The random sex minigames are unnecessary.
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Mar 21, 2018 23:50
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In its defense, it's Greek mythology. Half of them were about Zeus loving somebody or other, and the rest were about other gods loving somebody or other.
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Mar 21, 2018 23:57
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Sometimes they actually just had sex with them!
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Mar 22, 2018 00:10
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BioEnchanted posted:I was looking up stuff about the structure of Devil May Cry, and it's annoying that beating the game doesn't unlock a level select because having to play the game through twice, second time on hard, just to get back to being able to select normal is a bit daunting. I've beaten the second boss, Nelo Angelo though, so that's nice. Got the Sad Soul. Yeah, both Devil May Cry and God Hand are from this weird period when third person brawler games started getting really good, but before they figured out a lot of the UI/ease of use considerations like level select.
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Mar 22, 2018 00:11
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I miss when it seemed like every game had cheat codes you could punch in on the main screen or during gameplay and go nuts with. And the good ol' fashioned instruction manuals, with tons of backstory, character bios, and other miscellaneous information. I can't remember the last game I got that had a real manual, and not just the single sheet of bullshit.
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Mar 22, 2018 00:25
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I hope the twist in GOW4 is Kratos having to fight all the kids he accidentally made from sex QTE's.
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Mar 22, 2018 00:38
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Leavemywife posted:I miss when it seemed like every game had cheat codes you could punch in on the main screen or during gameplay and go nuts with. And the good ol' fashioned instruction manuals, with tons of backstory, character bios, and other miscellaneous information. I can't remember the last game I got that had a real manual, and not just the single sheet of bullshit. These should be in everygame but easily accessable through the menu like with the assist menu in Celeste. Just give a little pop up that says 'hey these will destroy the way the game plays, but if you already did that or just want to gently caress around go nuts.'. I have no idea why game devs don't already do it, it seems such an easy to implement thing that wouldn't impede the normal enjoyment of the game. The real key is just putting them in a menu with a giant warning label on it so nobody can mistake them for difficulty sliders or w/e, they'd be clearly labeled optional gently caress about stuff.
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Mar 22, 2018 00:53
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scarycave posted:I hope the twist in GOW4 is Kratos having to fight all the kids he accidentally made from sex QTE's. Does anyone else see GoW and flip between God of War and Gears of War?
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Mar 22, 2018 00:54
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Agent355 posted:These should be in everygame but easily accessable through the menu like with the assist menu in Celeste. Just give a little pop up that says 'hey these will destroy the way the game plays, but if you already did that or just want to gently caress around go nuts.'. This was the worst part of Saints Row 3. You couldn’t turn cheats off ever.
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Mar 22, 2018 00:55
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Does anyone else see GoW and flip between God of War and Gears of War? No, because Gears of War is dead.
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Mar 22, 2018 00:58
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BioEnchanted posted:We already know Kratos has sex anyway - he had a wife and daughter before the murder happened. His daughter certainly wasn't adopted. Man between unnecessary sex games and unnecessary weapon crafting the games are really bad!
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Mar 22, 2018 01:00
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oldpainless posted:Man between unnecessary sex games and unnecessary weapon crafting the games are really bad! but enough about the witcher
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Mar 22, 2018 01:03
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Does anyone else see GoW and flip between God of War and Gears of War? Yep, they even both released a trilogy followed by a bad spinoff followed by a half-reboot.
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Mar 22, 2018 01:09
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The witcher is probably the only game where I didn't feel like the romance/sex was just shoehorned in. Bioware style romance is just loving awful and feels hollow and most other sex in videogames is just lovely fanservice. In the witcher you choose between two women who the character could be genuinely interested in and it feels a pretty reasonable turn of events no matter how you slice it. But then there's the Geralt who sleeps with every sorceress and succubi he finds and that part is less defendable, but I like the main Trist/Yenefer plot.
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Mar 22, 2018 01:23
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I hate the star system in Stardew Valley. Every item you can grow or find can have 4 different star ratings: 0, silver, gold, or iridium. These change the effectiveness of food items and the sell price of everything. The worst part though? They don't loving stack. Iridium is kinda special so lets skip that and say any time you pick up a bunch of 1 item, you will instead fill up 3 slots in your inventory because of the star system. And unless you're selling them or eating them directly, the star system is entirely meaningless. A no star blueberry makes the exact same wine or jelly or blueberry tart as a gold star blueberry. So it basically triples all the poo poo in your small inventory for no reason most of the time because eventually you want to process everything you grow. It's even worse for animals because cows and goats can give you milk or "large milk", both of which can also be any of the stars. And chickens... chickens give eggs or large eggs and also brown chickens lay brown eggs and white chickens lay white eggs so just tending to chickens can fill your inventory with 12 different loving stacks of poo poo in your inventory. It's maddening.
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Mar 22, 2018 03:51
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A QTE in which Kratos shaves off his beard.
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Mar 22, 2018 03:53
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I don't know my Norse mythology very well do they have a thing for child murder? Maybe Kratos gets punked and kills this kid setting him off on a murderspree again.
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Mar 22, 2018 04:07
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Len posted:I don't know my Norse mythology very well do they have a thing for child murder? Maybe Kratos gets punked and kills this kid setting him off on a murderspree again. I don't think so. Norse mythology is like 50% the gods being dickish and 50% finding new ways to make Loki suffer (he always deserves it).
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Mar 22, 2018 04:42
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Len posted:I don't know my Norse mythology very well do they have a thing for child murder? Maybe Kratos gets punked and kills this kid setting him off on a murderspree again. If your kid hosed up your semi-immortal goats tho, they'd enslave them as punishment tho
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Mar 22, 2018 06:13
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Agent355 posted:The witcher is probably the only game where I didn't feel like the romance/sex was just shoehorned in. Bioware style romance is just loving awful and feels hollow and most other sex in videogames is just lovely fanservice. In the witcher you choose between two women who the character could be genuinely interested in and it feels a pretty reasonable turn of events no matter how you slice it.
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It helps that Alpha Protocol was doing it within the context of genre tropes and so had a reason to be cheesy or sleazy.
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Mar 22, 2018 10:39
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I think the sex in Alpha Protocol was more implied rather than goofy video game sex scenes (like The Witcher 3 lol)
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Mar 22, 2018 10:46
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LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:I think the sex in Alpha Protocol was more implied rather than goofy video game sex scenes (like The Witcher 3 lol)
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Futuresight posted:I hate the star system in Stardew Valley. Every item you can grow or find can have 4 different star ratings: 0, silver, gold, or iridium. These change the effectiveness of food items and the sell price of everything. The worst part though? They don't loving stack. Iridium is kinda special so lets skip that and say any time you pick up a bunch of 1 item, you will instead fill up 3 slots in your inventory because of the star system. And unless you're selling them or eating them directly, the star system is entirely meaningless. A no star blueberry makes the exact same wine or jelly or blueberry tart as a gold star blueberry. So it basically triples all the poo poo in your small inventory for no reason most of the time because eventually you want to process everything you grow. It's even worse for animals because cows and goats can give you milk or "large milk", both of which can also be any of the stars. And chickens... chickens give eggs or large eggs and also brown chickens lay brown eggs and white chickens lay white eggs so just tending to chickens can fill your inventory with 12 different loving stacks of poo poo in your inventory. The worst thing about that is that it would honestly not be all that hard to solve from a UI point of view. You have a normal blueberry, a silver star blueberry and a gold blueberry? Just have a slot in your inventory for blueberries if you have any, and have interacting with that slot open a little window showing the different ranks of blueberry you have. Similarly for milk, just have a milk slot that contains your different sizes and ranks of milk.
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I think the Geralt/Yen romance works because there's already decades of backstory between the two of them, she isn't just someone you happened to meet, got to maximum Affinity and invited to your private quarters.
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