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When I was very little I would just play Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout for NES over and over because that was the only game I could beat.
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haveblue posted:or the amount of time they have available to spend on them The world of video games are different now. Whenever my 7 or 9 year old get stuck on something in a game, they just download some other lovely shlock game from the app store.
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owl_pellet posted:What is everyone playing this weekend? I am recently off of platting GoTsu and then I beat Modern Warfare Remastered last night as a quick palate cleanser. Not sure what to play next. I'm thinking one of the games I started, got some trophies in, then stopped partway through for whatever reason: Lots and lots of Bloodborne. I started off right at Father G yesterday evening and managed to get through BSB, Amelia, and the witches sometime in the wee hours of the morning. I get it now.
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Everybody's Golf does have a definite end. You can finish the campaign and get a big ending and a credits roll but there's also a ton of post-game stuff you can do + DLC.
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Aug 1, 2020 18:26
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owl_pellet posted:What is everyone playing this weekend? The Surge. It's pretty janky but I'm having fun with it, at least when I'm not accidentally dodging into bottomless pits during catwalk fights. quote:Iconoclasts Play this, it's short and surprisingly engaging for an indie platformer that's secretly a JRPG haveblue fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Aug 1, 2020 |
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Policenaut posted:Everybody's Golf does have a definite end. You can finish the campaign and get a big ending and a credits roll but there's also a ton of post-game stuff you can do + DLC. I still have a sealed copy of this game, how is it difficulty-wise? Hot Shots on the Vita was fun, but the difficulty seem to ramp up early on, making it hard to progress and enjoy the rest of the game.
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Aug 1, 2020 18:59
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Escobarbarian posted:it is a five year old game *Vikar Jerome will remember that*
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owl_pellet posted:What is everyone playing this weekend? The Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time for the Ultra Nintendo 64 Entertainment System.
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I'm just finishing up Code Vein, which is surprisingly a lot better than it was back in beta. It's a tad on the easy side given that the standard is to give you an AI partner and there's a lot of streamlining like not needing a magic equip to use spells but I'm very much enjoying it, and it's connection to the God Eater franchise was a wonderful left field twist that I can't wait to see them build upon for later games. I'm also playing Skater XL, which is very chill, and I imported the Virtual On Masterpiece remaster trilogy from the Japanese PSN so I'm fiddling with that off and on. VO rules. BisterdDave posted:I still have a sealed copy of this game, how is it difficulty-wise? Hot Shots on the Vita was fun, but the difficulty seem to ramp up early on, making it hard to progress and enjoy the rest of the game. It's similar in that each of the campaign courses is designed to teach you specific elements of golf and the game's systems and if you don't acclimate to them then you're gonna have a hard time. Like the first area is a standard city golf course so you can grip it and rip it wherever you want, but then you get courses that go 'okay you have to remember the ball bounces and rolls down hills' and 'the wind is really important and if you're shooting uphill into the wind that 320 yard drive will actually be like 240 yards.' There isn't a whole lot of what I'd call outright bullshit (I've enclosed one such example) but a lot of it is the game really, really wanting you to understand how it works and if you don't pick up on that then it'll be harder. The campaign does some work in teaching you ideas and specific shots you can pull off, because as always Hot Shots has some magic involved. https://twitter.com/Dr_Drecula/status/1011430925509459968?s=20 I'd like to call bullshit but then again I'm sure the small child is angry about me doing a perfect skip across the lake for a landing on the green too so we'll call it even. You can do some wacky stuff when you get really good at the game, like I've got a couple clips here of me doing some wild and ridiculous poo poo. Like for example here's one of me driving the ball to a different hole and using a better vantage point to get 2 on a Par 5. https://twitter.com/Dr_Drecula/status/1008832529791705088 https://twitter.com/Dr_Drecula/status/1013212746115100672 I really love this goofy British Japanese golf game. It's easily one of my top 10 favorite PS4 exclusives. There's a bunch of DLC courses that are pretty cheap you can pick up that are easier too and act as open world remakes of original Hot Shots 1&2 courses, along with super challenge ones if you're down with that.
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Im gonna finish Sushi Ghost this weekend. Lethal A3 has been awesome. I really think all my complaints about the difficulty have been handled. For action video games, the greatest praise I can offer is that high level technical play makes it look easy on the screen. That's how lethal lands for me. I get in and lay waste to the camp and as I build momentum and do cool Ghost poo poo, i get cocky, and maybe i gently caress up, and suddenly BAM I'm surrounded and nearly dead or spamming kunai and resolve and smoke bombs to survive. When I'm crushing it I look awesome to behold, but one wrong move spells disaster. That's a good balance.
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Escobarbarian posted:Got into the third area of Days Gone and these zombie birds are a horrible joke Yeah they suck
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Aug 1, 2020 19:19
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owl_pellet posted:What is everyone playing this weekend? https://twitter.com/Macaluso/status/1289626721466093570
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Aug 1, 2020 19:19
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I finished RDR2 so I guess I'll be playing some Ace Combat 7 now
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So I felt the epilogue of RDR2 was kinda meh. I never played the first game so idk if I would have had more appreciation for it and the very end when Dutch just shoots Micah and then just walks off and disappears was just kinda like what?? okay... Would have much preferred it if the game just ending watching that sunrise  But i suppose they had to tie it into the first game somehow
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Aug 1, 2020 19:36
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Inspector Hound posted:I genuinely can't decide if 10 year old me would have found bloodborne a brick wall or if I would have communed with it and become an expert at all the little glitches and kinks I had my 13 year old try it on his 13th birthday this past weekend saying, “this is your first dark souls game it’s a rite of passage.” He bounced off it extremely hard (it’s not Minecraft pvp).
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fridge corn posted:So I felt the epilogue of RDR2 was kinda meh. I never played the first game so idk if I would have had more appreciation for it and the very end when Dutch just shoots Micah and then just walks off and disappears was just kinda like what?? okay... Would have much preferred it if the game just ending watching that sunrise The epilogue is completely unnecessary and diminishes the end to Arthurs story imo. The gaps it fills between games didnt really need filling to begin with. On the other hand Marston is a cool dude and you get access to more of the world.
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I hope that Elden Ring goes back to a more DS1 and 2 style of game, slower and more methodical with more involved and constant multiplayer connection. I'll probably skip it otherwise
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RBA Starblade posted:I hope that Elden Ring goes back to a more DS1 and 2 style of game, slower and more methodical with more involved and constant multiplayer connection. I'll probably skip it otherwise Considering that the faster their games become the more popular they end up being I sincerely doubt this cats going back in the bag
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Bust Rodd posted:Considering that the faster their games become the more popular they end up being I sincerely doubt this cats going back in the bag I know, but I can dream
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RBA Starblade posted:I hope that Elden Ring goes back to a more DS1 and 2 style of game, slower and more methodical It's gonna make Sekiro look like a turn based strategy game
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owl_pellet posted:What is everyone playing this weekend? Probably more RDR2. This might be the best game I've ever played. This may sound dumb but my favorite thing is the incredible amount of attention they paid to the wildlife to make sure its all as true to reality as possible. I'm a big ol' bird nerd so hearing sandhill cranes calling in the distance and then being able to actually find them because it wasn't just an ambient background noise blew me away. Coyotes actually sound and act like coyotes, which sound different than foxes and wolves, eagles sound like eagles and not red tail hawks, etc. Its great. I've spent hours trotting around on my horse just looking at animals with binoculars. There's so many little details they included to make the wildlife act alive, like scavengers converging on carcasses or bald eagles fishing the river, its really amazing. Just the fact that nearly all of the wildlife runs away from you instead of suicide rushing the large mammal riding an even larger mammal is miles ahead of just about any other game I've played that has animals in it. Its so cool. I mean its also really cool to be a wild west gunfighter and train robber too, but yeah, animals. Its actually kind of interesting to me that people think of RDR2 as grand theft horse but to me it kind of feels like an anti-GTA in a lot of ways. Its much slower and more meditative, the wanted mechanic rewards careful planning of crimes and getaways, its much quieter where GTA is more bombastic, you're not constantly switching horses on the fly like cars, etc. I mean, I guess you can play it as a rampaging psycho like GTA but it doesn't feel right in this game, to me. I dunno, maybe I'm wrong. I haven't played a GTA since San Andreas so maybe there's a lot more similarities than differences in 4 and 5.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:It's gonna make Sekiro look like a turn based strategy game In Elden Ring you control two characters at the same time. They are attached by rings like in Knuckles Chaotix, hence Elden Ring.
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I'm trying to finish TLOU2. It's a long game!
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I think I would generally like From games better if they focused more on the atmospheric world building and boss encounters, less on everything trying to kill you every 10 feet. Like maybe there were only 16 things that tried to kill you in an otherwise desolate and haunted world.
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exquisite tea posted:When I was very little I would just play Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout for NES over and over because that was the only game I could beat. as an adult i play Buster Busts Loose because it's an actual dope rear end platformer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebgI_joIjPo&t=694s
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exquisite tea posted:I think I would generally like From games better if they focused more on the atmospheric world building and boss encounters, less on everything trying to kill you every 10 feet. Like maybe there were only 16 things that tried to kill you in an otherwise desolate and haunted world. Give Ueda a FROM game 
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Attitude Indicator posted:The epilogue is completely unnecessary and diminishes the end to Arthurs story imo. The gaps it fills between games didnt really need filling to begin with. I disagree on the first point, I think it works really well as a true epilogue to Arthur's story. Over the course of his story Arthur comes to realize that this outlaw lifestyle is a road to ruin, and ultimately he sacrifices himself to give John and his family a chance to escape it. Because the epilogue is structured the way it is, we get to see that Arthur's sacrifice worked: John and his family got out and built a life for themselves. I liked that we got to see John working the farm and proposing to Abigail and all of the normal life type of things Arthur wanted for him. We also get to visit with some people and see how Arthur's actions affected them (the widow he taught to hunt, various members of the gang, the Native American chief, Sadie, etc). Now of course anyone who played the first game or just watched the credits all the way through knows this life doesn't last very long, but that doesn't diminish Arthur's sacrifice. And ultimately, the house-building montage makes the epilogue worthwhile, full-stop.
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exquisite tea posted:I think I would generally like From games better if they focused more on the atmospheric world building and boss encounters, less on everything trying to kill you every 10 feet. Like maybe there were only 16 things that tried to kill you in an otherwise desolate and haunted world. Monster Hunter is right there waiting for you.
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It took me 8 tries to beat Rom the Spider, that was a hard fight. A ton of moving parts and I had to be very careful not to get greedy and bait his close range attacks before getting in just a few hits. In between killing spiders of course. I felt loving crazy elated when I got the final hit in. Also I just got this augur of abretius thing from a chest, and the Ludwig holy blade which I think might be better than the saw spear. I don’t have 18 arcane for the abretius and I don’t really know what it does, should I so I can use these weird hunter tools? I have several others. Beast roar and an empty phantasm Shell. Are these “arcane weapons”? I also just mid rom fights realized maybe I should be upgrading my SKILL level and not just strength and realized the saw spear used skill too. I didn’t know what the stat was for. I farmed you 6 or 7 levels in it so it’s at least 15 now. I feel like an idiot. My vitality is 30 and strength is 23, arcane and bloodtinge 9, endurance 18. Plot wise... Now I’m just.. I don’t even know what the gently caress is going on. I think I get what’s happening with the moon and the baby screams cutscene, but nothing else since getting grabbed by my new friend (holy poo poo new friend was a shock to my system when I saw him). I mean what the actual gently caress?? I’ll spoiler it for Vikar  
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Ludwig's sword owns bones. It's all I've used since unlocking it.
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Playing Demon's Souls for the first time, god drat this game likes to make the run back to a boss that killed you a chore. Like multiple minutes of running past a dozen enemies. I made a magic character, too, which may have been a mistake. It's powerful enough, but it has kind of turned the game into a poo poo third-person shooter.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Give Ueda a FROM game  I’ve been saying this since I got halfway thru BB Also, they seem to be buds irl  Also this is cute, but unfortunately he shuts down the possibility of a collab  https://www.uol.com.br/start/ultimas-noticias/2019/10/11/start-bgs-entrevista-hidetaka-miyazaki-dark-souls.htm quote:START: You've already revealed that ICO was the game that made you want to make games. Do you ever intend to work with Fumito Ueda? Or have you ever talked to him about it? Also they did a talk together, p interesting read https://translate.googleusercontent...-Twz3LUfn3pt4yA
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I want a Swery-Miyazaki collaboration. The town is infested with red phantoms at night, Francis York Morgan must do battle
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Blind Rasputin posted:It took me 8 tries to beat Rom the Spider, that was a hard fight. A ton of moving parts and I had to be very careful not to get greedy and bait his close range attacks before getting in just a few hits. In between killing spiders of course. I felt loving crazy elated when I got the final hit in. Yeah, arcane stuff = magic, that use bullets for MP for some reason. Arcane is basically only worth it if you go all in and then you don’t even get any of the Hunter tools until that point in the game. But if you want you can level up arcane to 15, so you can use the empty phantasm shell which is like an arcane buff for your weapon, and doesn’t scale with your arcane level, so its not bad if you only need to level up arcane a few times. Yeah, this is when the game goes full on batshit, it’s really dope. Gort posted:I want a Swery-Miyazaki collaboration. The town is infested with red phantoms at night, Francis York Morgan must do battle In theory hell ya, but actually I don’t want Miyazaki to die from like, stress/high blood pressure trying to come to a compromise as far as writing/story with Swery. imhotep fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Aug 1, 2020 |
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Blind Rasputin posted:It took me 8 tries to beat Rom the Spider, that was a hard fight. A ton of moving parts and I had to be very careful not to get greedy and bait his close range attacks before getting in just a few hits. In between killing spiders of course. I felt loving crazy elated when I got the final hit in. Some weapons scale damage with strength, some scale with skill. The weapon screen lists a rating on each weapon on what it scales with. I think the Holy Blade scales with both? I made a strength build and the sword served me well. The tonitrus is a weapon that will become electrified when you transform it, the damage scales with your arcane stat. Certain enemies, usually there pale and tentacled ones, are weak to electric attacks.
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Just finished TLOU2 Spoilers obvz, don't roll over the big spoiler tags unless you wanna be spoiled!!! Overall, very good. The Abby campaign was 10/10 I loving HATED the ending(s). Jesus christ, hire an editor or something. The stench of Return of the King was insane. Seeing Abby at the end was repulsive, I kept trying to let her kill Ellie. I hated Ellie's guts so much and kept waiting for her to get her comeuppance. gently caress Ellie!!!! Anyway, very well made game. Made me feel real emotions, which was cool! A lot to process. gently caress ELLIE!!
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Zonko_T.M. posted:Some weapons scale damage with strength, some scale with skill. The weapon screen lists a rating on each weapon on what it scales with. I think the Holy Blade scales with both? I made a strength build and the sword served me well. Yes, and there’s a hidden attribute called ‘Righteousness’ that basically means kin enemies are weak to them, like how serrated weapons are strong against beasts. You can tell by looking at the weapon’s stat page and it’ll have a number, usually 100, under the little pictures of what looks like a slug/phantasm and a wolf/beast. Ludwig’s Holy Blade is a quality weapon, in addition to being one of the only weapons, maybe the only, that does both righteous and serrated damage in both forms. Quantum of Phallus posted:Just finished TLOU2 Same, I was like, you’re not actually going to make me push square, but of course you have to and if you don’t do anything you get a game over. like drat the lack of subtlety since you can barely recognize Abby, and the way she acts/moves is also unrecognizable compared to the state she’s in in the second half of the game. I think they could’ve just done that bit in a way less obvious way and I think it wouldn’t have been too long, if anything it was bits and pieces of the first three days that I felt could’ve been cut first, and usually I’m all for games being shorter rather than longer. But yeah, very much team Abby over Ellie, as everyone should be.. Yeah idk, I didn’t like the way that bit at the endwas done but I did like the area and the gameplay, basically didn’t mind any of it until that point. imhotep fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Aug 1, 2020 |
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owl_pellet posted:What is everyone playing this weekend? I am recently off of platting GoTsu and then I beat Modern Warfare Remastered last night as a quick palate cleanser. Not sure what to play next. I'm thinking one of the games I started, got some trophies in, then stopped partway through for whatever reason: I loved Iconoclasts. cool little Metroid game. this weekend I will be Ghosting in Tsushima, probably, with some The Last of Us Factions thrown in and NHL 20 since hockey is starting again.
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Imhotep posted:Same, I was like, you’re not actually going to make me push square, but of course you have to and if you don’t do anything you get a game over. like drat the lack of subtlety since you can barely recognize Abby, and the way she acts/moves is also unrecognizable compared to the state she’s in in the second half of the game. I think they could’ve just done that bit in a way less obvious way and I think it wouldn’t have been too long, if anything it was bits and pieces of the first three days that I felt could’ve been cut first, and usually I’m all for games being shorter rather than longer. But yeah, very much team Abby over Ellie, as everyone should be.. Yeah idk, I didn’t like the way that bit at the endwas done but I did like the area and the gameplay, basically didn’t mind any of it until that point. 100% with you on all this. Next up, I'm gonna play Days Gone!!! I need a palate cleanser. TLOU2 was so good! But I feel so weird!
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