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In Stellaris you can get vassals and eventually you can integrate them into your empire. However if you have a huge technology lead you can make them protectorates, where they get an 80% bonus research to whatever you have researched and when they learn 40% of what you got they become vassals. Right, they become vassals. The whole integration thing? Can't do that until they become vassals. And the AI actually managing to catch up to 40%? Yeeeeah... good luck with that.
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The thing dragging Hollow Knight down for me is that I played both of the Ori games first. Hollow Knight’s fine and all, it’s just... not as good. The controls seem clunkier, progression’s more obtuse and my character seems to move like a brick. If I’d played Knight first, I reckon I’d have loved it. I’m just not sure I can be bothered continuing to play a game that feels like a step back in the genre.
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Jan 26, 2021 09:11
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Robert J. Omb posted:The thing dragging Hollow Knight down for me is that I played both of the Ori games first. Your mobility improves significantly once you get the dash about 1.5-2 hours in, and not coincidentally the game becomes much more fun as well. Whether it's worth trudging through the first couple hours is up to you, but on the whole I like it much more than the first Ori. Haven't played the second yet.
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Jan 26, 2021 17:24
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Robert J. Omb posted:The thing dragging Hollow Knight down for me is that I played both of the Ori games first. It's funny you say that because I feel exactly the opposite. I loved Hollow Knight and hated both Ori games. The combat and platforming felt a lot more precise in HK while Ori felt sloppy, like you're never totally in control of the character. Not to mention Ori was way too easy and therefore kind of boring, for me.
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Jan 26, 2021 18:02
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MMOs charging you  for "server transfers" for the horrific expense of sending a few-kilobyte save file between two machines  I just wanna play Final Fantasy XIV with my pals
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Nostradingus posted:It's funny you say that because I feel exactly the opposite. I loved Hollow Knight and hated both Ori games. The combat and platforming felt a lot more precise in HK while Ori felt sloppy, like you're never totally in control of the character. Not to mention Ori was way too easy and therefore kind of boring, for me. Must be a taste thing. I’m a good few upgrades into Hollow Knight and I still feel clunky whereas I liked the quicker, more flowing movement of Ori. The checkpointing system also has a tendency to make me slog for a while to be killed in about 5 seconds and I don’t have the patience for that.
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Jan 26, 2021 23:07
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Hey Resident Evil 6 the only way I'm not seeing this "6" is if I literally turn my monitor off. - Max Brightness - Min Brightness
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Jan 26, 2021 23:11
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Necrothatcher posted:Hey Resident Evil 6 the only way I'm not seeing this "6" is if I literally turn my monitor off. Whole bunch of games have had this issue and my display is calibrated.
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Jan 26, 2021 23:14
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Necrothatcher posted:Hey Resident Evil 6 the only way I'm not seeing this "6" is if I literally turn my monitor off. The help text originally read "If you can clearly see the giraffe getting a blowjob, your screen is too bright." but corporate made them change it.
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Jan 26, 2021 23:24
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Sininu posted:Whole bunch of games have had this issue and my display is calibrated. My monitor is a cheap piece of poo poo so this might not be the universal experience, but if you take the time to actually set one of those in-game brightness sliders to the settings they ask for it makes the game unplayably dark. Like, screw it, I've just started leaving it on about halfway or occasionally even higher, and then I'll turn it back down later if things look too shiny or washed-out or anything. I almost never end up turning it back down.
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Jan 26, 2021 23:43
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Rockman Reserve posted:My monitor is a cheap piece of poo poo so this might not be the universal experience, but if you take the time to actually set one of those in-game brightness sliders to the settings they ask for it makes the game unplayably dark. Like, screw it, I've just started leaving it on about halfway or occasionally even higher, and then I'll turn it back down later if things look too shiny or washed-out or anything. I almost never end up turning it back down. Agreed and I also usually leave it in the middle default value, tends to look like what I imagine creators intended. When I do adjust it it's only a couple notches down.
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Jan 26, 2021 23:46
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I always leave the little pattern more visible than it says to because wandering around in pitch black is exactly zero fun in any game despite how badly the developer apparently thinks otherwise.
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Jan 27, 2021 00:05
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Rockman Reserve posted:My monitor is a cheap piece of poo poo so this might not be the universal experience, but if you take the time to actually set one of those in-game brightness sliders to the settings they ask for it makes the game unplayably dark. Like, screw it, I've just started leaving it on about halfway or occasionally even higher, and then I'll turn it back down later if things look too shiny or washed-out or anything. I almost never end up turning it back down. Yeah same, I put it on 55-60% by default, 70-75 if the game has a flashlight because that means it has areas that are dark and the flashlight sure as hell isn't going to help with those.
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Jan 27, 2021 00:05
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I always set brightness to max in games because my eyesight is poo poo and, as others have stated, wandering around in the dark is the opposite of fun.
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I was playing some Assassin's Creed 2 and need to rant about something, so this seems like as good a place as any. Early on in the game, you have to break into a tomb or something to reach a Templar meeting. I wanted to use my throwing knives at one point to take out a group of guards in a room, but for some reason, the knives weren't selectable from the weapons menu. I had three or four in my inventory, and it showed the icon for them, but it was greyed out and impossible to select. There's no explanation or warning that you can't use them, you just can't. This wouldn't be so bad, except I picked the knives up from guards I killed IN THE SAME AREA. I searched online to see if there was a bug or something, all I could find though is that the developers disabled throwing knives in some areas because it'd make the area too easy, but then WHY GIVE THE PLAYER THROWING KNIVES IN THE AREA IN THE FIRST PLACE? They don't give an in-game explanation for it or anything, just disabling one of your weapons to give an area some artificial difficulty. I was already getting annoyed by the platforming in the area (I hate platforming, especially when it's a bunch of easy jumps/climbs followed by a difficult one that if you miss, you have to do all the tedious easy poo poo all over again), but this just killed the game for me. Such lazy, stupid game design.
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Playing Wasteland 2 and getting kinda annoyed at how the game seems to want me to set up ambushes and pick advantageous positions before combat but does not give me the tools to effectively do so. Enemy sight range is a total mystery, so I don't know when they'll spot my dudes and get the first move. I can't interact with cover outside of combat, so a bunch of times I have my dudes crouch behind wooden pallets or something that looks like cover but turns out to be just set dressing. I can't pause while still looking around before combat, so I rarely have time to think of a strategy beyond "have my sniper try to dome one dude and hope the rest of them don't get a turn before the rest of my boys." Once the firefight actually starts, it's easier to look around for options, so I'm starting to think i'm supposed to accept taking a few bullets at the start of every battle. Also annoyed that one raider was able to one-shot two of my dudes into permadeath, but when I took him out two reloads later his super strong murder gun was the same rifle I started the game with and has never one-shotted anything in my hands.
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serefin99 posted:I always set brightness to max in games because my eyesight is poo poo and, as others have stated, wandering around in the dark is the opposite of fun. Same. Sometimes it makes the game look like poo poo but its better than not being able to see what you're doing.
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Crowetron posted:Playing Wasteland 2 and getting kinda annoyed at how the game seems to want me to set up ambushes and pick advantageous positions before combat but does not give me the tools to effectively do so. Enemy sight range is a total mystery, so I don't know when they'll spot my dudes and get the first move. I can't interact with cover outside of combat, so a bunch of times I have my dudes crouch behind wooden pallets or something that looks like cover but turns out to be just set dressing. I can't pause while still looking around before combat, so I rarely have time to think of a strategy beyond "have my sniper try to dome one dude and hope the rest of them don't get a turn before the rest of my boys." Once the firefight actually starts, it's easier to look around for options, so I'm starting to think i'm supposed to accept taking a few bullets at the start of every battle. Just play 3 instead. I thought 2 was dogshit but 3 solves like every problem I had with it.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Just play 3 instead. I thought 2 was dogshit but 3 solves like every problem I had with it. I'm mostly enjoying 2, so I'll probably stick with it for a while, but it's good to hear that 3 is solid. I thought I remembered hearing stuff about it being buggy, but that was like months ago.
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Nostradingus posted:It's funny you say that because I feel exactly the opposite. I loved Hollow Knight and hated both Ori games. The combat and platforming felt a lot more precise in HK while Ori felt sloppy, like you're never totally in control of the character. Not to mention Ori was way too easy and therefore kind of boring, for me. I'm having a similar problem. I recently played Celeste, then Hollow Knight. Since I just got a Switch I was itching for some old school 2D Mario, so I got Mario Wii U. And it's just so... floaty, and slide-y. I really want to be enjoying it, but I'm just not.
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So has Resident Evil always been about getting chased by tall people, or is this a recent development? I ask here because I find getting chased by tall people actually not fun at all, and it's basically ensuring that I'll never touch a series that I previously thought was in part about slow-paced exploration and puzzle-solving, which I do like.
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Cleretic posted:So has Resident Evil always been about getting chased by tall people, or is this a recent development? Since about 1998. Usually the being chased by tall people is in set pieces in between solving puzzles and slow paced explorations
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Cleretic posted:So has Resident Evil always been about getting chased by tall people, or is this a recent development? Yes absolutely. They even remade some of the older games to make being chased by tall people a bigger part of the game.
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Jan 27, 2021 03:36
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rodbeard posted:Yes absolutely. They even remade some of the older games to make being chased by tall people a bigger part of the game. See, that's the part that made me think it was recent. Before the RE2 remake I never heard anything about Mr. X, so I assumed that was basically a non-element in the original 2 that they turned up to 'pervasive' for the remake. I'd say I didn't hear about Nemesis in RE3 either, but I actually didn't hear anything about RE3 before the remake, and only knew it existed because Resident Evil 4 must've logically followed a Resident Evil 3. He turned up in Project X Zone and I think I just assumed he was a popular boss fight.
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Mr X in RE2make is actually less pervasive than he appears to be, but you're absolutely right that in the original he's practically a non-element. In the 98 version, he basically shows up in 3-4 rooms over the course of the B scenario, and you can just jog past him every time except for right at the end when he becomes a proper boss fight. But now that I'm thinking about it, the series has been pretty consistent about having a big monster pursue you through multiple areas since then. Nemesis in RE3, Salazar's Right Hand in 4, the Ustanak in 6, the good parts of 7. Even the remake of RE1 added in Lisa. poo poo, Resident Evil really is the "Get chased by a big person" series. How did I never notice? Crowetron has a new favorite as of 04:07 on Jan 27, 2021 |
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Resident Evil 4 has you get chased by a tall person little person https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CjXDkJ90qc
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Cleretic posted:
I had to laugh about that since the game is called Resident Evil 3:Nemesis.
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Cleretic posted:See, that's the part that made me think it was recent. Before the RE2 remake I never heard anything about Mr. X, so I assumed that was basically a non-element in the original 2 that they turned up to 'pervasive' for the remake. Resident Evil 3: Nemesis contains many encounters with your nemesis, Nemesis.
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Jack and Margerite aren't that tall, all things considered.
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RareAcumen posted:Jack and Margerite aren't that tall, all things considered. Assistant Manager Devil posted:
Whoa there hold on a sec
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Oh interesting, I never noticed her horrible hangin-out bug bits are the same shape as the ones that birth mosquitos in the guest house in general. I guess the implication is that she's making them and then ploppin em out when they're done! Well that's horrible!
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Jan 27, 2021 04:48
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CJacobs posted:Oh interesting, I never noticed her horrible hangin-out bug bits are the same shape as the ones that birth mosquitos in the guest house in general. I guess the implication is that she's making them and then ploppin em out when they're done! Well that's horrible! Marguerite is probably one of the most weirdly disquieting things in the franchise that pretty much nobody ever mentions.
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I’m picking up X-com 2 and trying to mod it so all of my characters are Star Wars related. As a whole it’s going smooth thanks to the Steam Workshop but I’ve never really tried modding before so making sure they all work well together is kinda annoying. There also seems to be a total conversion mod that replaces enemies with Storm Troopers and stuff but I don’t know how that affects gameplay/difficulty and I’m hoping to just keep it cosmetic for now. Though I don’t know if removing custom classes after assigning someone to that class will totally fry my game.
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fuxk i love xcom2 but that base building and those dumbass timers kill it for me :c i do only have it on ps4 but like i mean come on how is there no sandbox mode
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What do you mean when you say you want a sandbox mode for xcom 2? EDIT: Just trying to visualize it. Phigs has a new favorite as of 07:34 on Jan 27, 2021 |
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I think the ability to run around, pick your fights, scan stuff, and make a doom brigade without having to worry about a doom counter. I did find options that allow you to double the time the Avatar project takes and some other nice QoL options which I don’t think are tied to mods (but I also downloaded like 30 mods at once so who knows).
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I feel like AC: Odyssey takes a little too long to set up all of its systems. Admittedly I have the brain disease that makes me more than happy to meticulous check off every point of interest but regardless I could feel something missing from the formula. Cue the cult system being introduced followed by the spear upgrading mechanic. Also I'm still struggling to understand the point of the sabotage -> kill leader -> siege loop (it generates loot, big deal, everything does) and also the mercenary system, which feels like a clunky attempt at copying the Nemesis system but combined with AC's janky wanted level stuff.
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Assistant Manager Devil posted:Marguerite is probably one of the most weirdly disquieting things in the franchise that pretty much nobody ever mentions. What you want me to talk about that spider bush?
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