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Finally finished Uncharted 4, right on the heels of the first three, and I loved it. I think it might be my favorite of the series even with the clumsy retconning. The set pieces were excellent, the environments were varied and gorgeous, the gameplay mechanics never felt better, and the story itself was successful in going for a level of emotional and thematic resonance that the previous games never attempted. And it was just a lot of fun! I'm glad I got around to playing this series finally. I intend to play Lost Legacy at some point, though probably not until I can get it really cheap (because as much as I enjoy these games, they don't last too long and I don't get any replay value out of them). For now, though, it's on to the FF7 Remake.
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I think all the soulsborne/sekiro games offer something unique and I love them all for different reasons. DeS has level design/atmosphere combo that's unmatched by any other game in the series DS1 has the best lore and world construction DS2 has the best hub area music and some of the most fun weapons with powerstancing BB has the best setting with Victorian/Cosmic horror and trick weapon-based combat DS3 has the best callbacks to the other games and serves as a fitting sendoff (especially ringed city DLC bosses) Sekiro's fluid movement, especially addition of vertical movement, is the best. parrying is also satisfying Fin.
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May 22, 2020 05:42
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il serpente cosmico posted:Life gems are the Dark Souls version of regenerating health. DS2 feels very experimental. Lifegems are no different than the healing items in Demon's Souls. Which makes me wonder how easy Demon's Souls would be now that I have played all of the Soulsborne games.
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May 22, 2020 05:43
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Neo Rasa posted:You don't need some expansive backstory about the character beyond what they'd have more than enough time to drop in the show itself. Yeah, all you need is "Her name's Ahsoka Tano, she was Anakin's Padawan in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV show. The computer animated one, not the other one." You don't have to give her entire 7 seasons of backstory the second someone asks. Also, it's not like you can't just start watching and figure it out. I'm bad at explaining it but if you're going to be new to things on a first watch anyway, so why's Star Wars somehow so incomprehensible to new people?
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May 22, 2020 06:13
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blackguy32 posted:Lifegems are no different than the healing items in Demon's Souls. I'm going to disagree with you there. The healing items in Demon's Souls work instantly - quickly chomping down one full moon grass after another for 600HP a pop is functionally quite a bit different than the lifegems. And being able to keep a nearly-bottomless stock of instant healing on hand definitely makes the game easier than later entries. FROM got healing right in the original Dark Souls, imo. il serpente cosmico fucked around with this message at 06:24 on May 22, 2020 |
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May 22, 2020 06:19
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Vikar Jerome posted:personally i don't think its a full on remake, i think bluepoint are just doing enhanced remasters of select ps1-3 games (probably in liu of full bc because goddamnit) so gameplay/camera/controls will be intact but you'll have 4k with new textures. maybe for free if you own the original disc or some poo poo or pay a bit extra for the 4kness. Idk tho, like they’ve confirmed that they’re working on a PS5 launch title, they could’ve been cheeky and said ‘project’ or something, but they posted this too, and the icon near the loading screen (which was probably more of a joke about the hopefully non-existent loading times more than anything) looks nearly identical to the blue lotus item icon from demons souls, but the actual image is apparently a real picture of a blue cabbage:  Plus Jason Schreier replied to a thread on Reset Era that asked ‘will there be a Demon’s Souls remake’ with ‘yes’ right after he got obsessed with Bloodborne last year, but didn’t say anything else, or who was developing it. I don’t think dude is ever really wrong when it comes to video game rumors.
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May 22, 2020 06:25
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RatHat posted:Any tips for a first time Outer Wilds player? I know about the time resetting gimmick, is that pretty much all I need to know? -Do ALL the tutorials in the starting village. A lot of your equipment has multiple uses, and if you don't know about them you'll run into a lot of frustration down the line. -Hit the trackpad button to open the map. I know this is odd to mention, but I've watched a couple LPs of this, and it's weirdly common for people to forget the map exists. -If you get frustrated in one area, just go somewhere else. Every question has an answer somewhere, you just haven't found it yet. Also, you don't need to 100% every area to finish the game. -The fastest way to travel somewhere in space is to accelerate til you hit the halfway point, then accelerate backwards for the second half of the journey.
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May 22, 2020 06:27
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Krazyface posted:-Do ALL the tutorials in the starting village. A lot of your equipment has multiple uses, and if you don't know about them you'll run into a lot of frustration down the line. Yeah, during the various GotY discussions from video game journalists specifically, there were a few who complained about the game being obtuse that clearly didn’t do the tutorials or checked the log in the ship, and yeah basically everything you get in the game will be given to you or explained during the tutorial. Krazyface posted:-The fastest way to travel somewhere in space is to accelerate til you hit the halfway point, then accelerate backwards for the second half of the journey. I don’t know about this tho lol.
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May 22, 2020 06:37
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Imhotep posted:I don’t know about this tho lol. It’s maximum speed at the cost of maximum propellant consumption.
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May 22, 2020 06:40
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Thats just basic physics
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May 22, 2020 06:46
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If you're going to the planet then the planet's atmosphere can slow you down for free though.
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May 22, 2020 06:55
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Samurai Sanders posted:If you're going to the planet then the planet's atmosphere can slow you down for free though. Aerobraking is hard on the ship and dumps a lot of thermal energy into the atmosphere if there’s a lot of traffic and every visitor does it never mind the orbital congestion. I don’t know if this game cares about any of that.
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May 22, 2020 07:05
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Midjack posted:Aerobraking is hard on the ship and dumps a lot of thermal energy into the atmosphere if there’s a lot of traffic and every visitor does it never mind the orbital congestion. I don’t know if this game cares about any of that. I think it's going to be exactly like that one episode of STTNG where they discover that warp travel is damaging space. They set up a specific area and say you can't go above warp 5, and then never mention it again. Just like it would have been today.
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May 22, 2020 07:06
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Samurai Sanders posted:I haven't played the game you're talking about but it sounds like you think that in the far future, people will care more about the environment than they do now. lol if you think humanity will get off earth before we die. It’s all fantasy.
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May 22, 2020 07:09
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Midjack posted:lol if you think humanity will get off earth before we die. It’s all fantasy.
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May 22, 2020 07:15
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RareAcumen posted:Yeah, all you need is "Her name's Ahsoka Tano, she was Anakin's Padawan in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV show. The computer animated one, not the other one." You don't have to give her entire 7 seasons of backstory the second someone asks. I could have an entire discussion about the messy delineation that plagues the EU and makes it so every important thing that happens in the entire galaxy happens to a group of 20 people who all know each other, and I have, but it's more that Star Wars has always been really terrible at throwing in random plot elements from bullshit secondary sources. Grievous just randomly shows up in episode III out of nowhere. Zombie Palpatine is resurrected via Fortnite announcement to become the main antagonist of episode IX. Darth Maul is the secret mastermind of Han Solo's girlfriend's gang or something. The reason the Mandalorian works as well as it does is you can follow it pretty easily even if you've only ever seen the OT. You start throwing in Anakin's secret apprentice who was apparently just offscreen for movies III-VI and people are gonna start rolling their eyes. Admittedly a weird criticism in the PS4 thread because almost every Star Wars game is built off the premise that Darth Vader had a dozen secret apprentices and an equal amount of secret Jedi heroes helped hand deliver the Death Star plans, but that doesn't mean I wanna see Kyle Katarn palling around with baby yoda next season!
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May 22, 2020 07:43
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I don't know what's worse, Star Wars and secret Jedis or UC Gundam and secret mobile suit projects.
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I am not a very big star wars fan, I have watched all the films and I think they are varying levels of fun. My favourite trilogy is the sequel trilogy but I suspect it is because I saw all three in the cinema whereas everything about the others I gleamed from osmosis more than first time watching experience. Last Jedi is my favourite of the sequel trilogy (the holdo manoeuver was one of the coolest little moments because of the silence. That took my breath away and remains one of my top 5 cinematic thumbs up  )I do love that the Vader reveal still tricks and wows kids though, those compilations of them finding out rocks and makes me smile a ton! What a great bit of story telling I have not seen rogue one, or solo, or read any of the EU stuff or watched EU stuff except for episode 1 and 2 of the mandalorian (which is my current watching show) and one episode of the Droids cartoon called the Big Heap. I am the casual star wars watcher!
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Solo is mostly okay, until the last act. Imo watch it
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Wolfsheim posted:I could have an entire discussion about the messy delineation that plagues the EU and makes it so every important thing that happens in the entire galaxy happens to a group of 20 people who all know each other, and I have, but it's more that Star Wars has always been really terrible at throwing in random plot elements from bullshit secondary sources. Grievous just randomly shows up in episode III out of nowhere. Zombie Palpatine is resurrected via Fortnite announcement to become the main antagonist of episode IX. Darth Maul is the secret mastermind of Han Solo's girlfriend's gang or something. Oh okay, you're thinking of the way that Star Wars sucks with all the parts of it taken into account. I was being literal about just give a quick summary about who she is and move on. The animated ones were the closest I got to enjoying Star Wars but eventually that wore off too so maybe that's why I can't explain myself. I probably just need to be more critical about movies and games I play though. I can't really think of a lot of foreshadowing for new characters you're gonna be meeting that aren't plot important. It's usually just 'Go to here and talk to [NAME] they're in charge of [FUNCTION]. They probably have a better idea of what to do next.' Komaki just comes out of nowhere in Yakuza 0 and 1, Baldur RKO's into the game out of nowhere, it's... I dunno, I can't think straight or explain myself at all.
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From my point of view, the Jedi are evil!
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Dying Light was on sale, I'm very excited to try the co-op!
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blackguy32 posted:Lifegems are no different than the healing items in Demon's Souls. Demon's Souls is legitimately the easiest Souls game, as far as gameplay goes. It's definitely gonna gently caress you over if you wanna do all the character quest and such, though
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goblin week posted:Demon's Souls is legitimately the easiest Souls game, as far as gameplay goes. Yup.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Dying Light was on sale, I'm very excited to try the co-op! It is amazingly good. My bestie and I are slowly making our way through it (and about a hundred other games) and it works really, really well. There was an amazing event where kicks and run speed where increased for everyone across the board to ridiculous levels and he and I just ran around jump kicking every zombie into bits.
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My taste of Star Wars may be pretty much standard as in I like the old trilogy (being Empire Strikes back the one I like the most), not being a fan of the next three (the Jar Jar Binks trilogy) and out of all modern films I only liked Rogue One and because mainly of the cast (Donnie Yen being my favourite character of them all). Compared to Star Trek: I didn't pay much attention to this world until like three years ago (just watched a few of the really old films) when I started watching The Next Generation, films (the newer ones were... meeeh but still good to eat some popcorn), Discovery, Picard and now I'm watching Deep Space 9 and Voyager at the same time to keep things in order. I have to say that Star Trek takes more risks, is more campy and has a wider variety of characters, plots and so than Star Wars. Sure, Star Trek has its own grognards that are basically "The Original Series > everything and maybe The Next Generation is good, the rest is trash" kind of people. Star Trek has a lot of games back in the 90's but yet I can only think about Star Trek Onine, Star Trek Elite Force and Klingon Honor guard (maybe Klingon Academy) as the only ones that you can hear around and they're drat old at this point. I'm sure that the Star Trek rights are some kind of hell compared to Star Wars ones but I'd totally play an exploration game, something like a more focused No Man's Sky. Totally single player, make my own crew pick a big ship and
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Neo Rasa posted:You don't need some expansive backstory about the character beyond what they'd have more than enough time to drop in the show itself. More relevantly; The loving Darksaber turns up right at the end of season 1, and there's no way in hell most of the audience are gonna recognize that or its Mandalorian significance at a glance without a deep dive into Clone Wars and/or Rebels.
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Escobarbarian posted:From my point of view, the Jedi are evil! My dick is an oblong, from a certain point of view.
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Guillermus posted:
They've pretty much never made a game like what you want though, unfortunately. Timelines has an idle game mode where your crew flies around and you read about their adventures, but that's about it.
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Some dude on Reddit was talking about Battle Royale Twisted Metal and I have not been able to extract myself from that thought ever since because it's actually a really good idea.
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Fix posted:Some dude on Reddit was talking about Battle Royale Twisted Metal and I have not been able to extract myself from that thought ever since because it's actually a really good idea. XvsX mode where if you beat the other team you have to kill each other pls. What a dynamic game that would be.
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VideoGames posted:I am not a very big star wars fan, I have watched all the films and I think they are varying levels of fun. My favourite trilogy is the sequel trilogy but I suspect it is because I saw all three in the cinema whereas everything about the others I gleamed from osmosis more than first time watching experience. Imo Rogue One and Solo are both way better than anything in the new trilogy. Solo is a mess but it's fun. R1 is actually way good and underrated. I hate the new trilogy though so ymmv.
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veni veni veni posted:Imo Rogue One and Solo are both way better than anything in the new trilogy. Solo is a mess but it's fun. R1 is actually way good and underrated. I do mean to watch them eventually. Like I said, star wars is not really my thing. I always perferred Indiana Jones style stuff (coincidentally Raiders is my #2 of all time). I really liked old Han Solo in TFA and in Rise, that little moment where he spoke to Ben had me whooping though it is a shame Carrie never got her send off too. I always go into these things open minded
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Watch Star Trek instead
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VG the new AV is spooky 
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homeless snail posted:Watch Star Trek instead
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Samurai Sanders posted:Picard has like, three secret apprentices and Wesley is the only one who gets any screen time. "Shut up Wesley" is the fetish meme for Star Trek fans. But yeah, watch Star Trek if you like space stuff. There's a TV series for pretty much everyone. Grognards hate on Discovery (I found it fine even if too action oriented for a series), Picard and some on Enterprise, ironically is the one that should be the first in the time-line but was the last one made in old fashion before Netflix's Discovery.
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Star Trek TOS is a solid watch. All the Shatnerisms people love to imitate don't show up until season 3 when the show's budget was cut. It seemed like he started acting badly on purpose tbh. There's like 15-20 episodes that are great from either a character drama or speculative fiction standpoint. Kirk and Spock are great characters, McCoy less so, and nobody else gets enough screentime to be developed much. Even the godawful episodes usually have some funny camp to them.
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deep dish peat moss posted:I fully agree with your post but as a real big DS2 fan I laugh when I see this said about life gems, life gem healing in DS2 is absurdly fast. You can eat multiple gems (I think up to 3) to increase the speed, then from there each time you eat a gem it refreshes the duration and keeps the full stacks. That's why I liked DS2, life gems owned and made a hard game more accessible for a DS noob like me. They never stopped me getting utterly loving destroyed on the regular though... 
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Star Trek TOS is a solid watch. All the Shatnerisms people love to imitate don't show up until season 3 when the show's budget was cut. It seemed like he started acting badly on purpose tbh. There's like 15-20 episodes that are great from either a character drama or speculative fiction standpoint. Kirk and Spock are great characters, McCoy less so, and nobody else gets enough screentime to be developed much. Even the godawful episodes usually have some funny camp to them. I just want to say I love this post a lot. Great post.
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