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Kerrzhe: Nov 5, 2008

Help Im Alive posted:

Is it ok to just ignore the rampage quests in MH Rise I don't wanna do these

there's a couple you'll have to do to progress, and i haven't done any beyond those in my run so far

# ? Apr 1, 2021 22:16

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# ? May 7, 2024 21:08

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

I was going to say the Vamp fight was refreshingly normal but then it had the bullshit method of killing him and just ugh. There's nothing worse in a boss fight than demanding a specific solution without giving any clues to how to solve it

# ? Apr 1, 2021 22:17

homeless snail: Mar 14, 2007

thinking about the time in monster hunter you climb the tower of babel to fight cthulu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRTvIl7dt3w

# ? Apr 1, 2021 22:21

Dr. Fishopolis: Aug 31, 2004; ROBOT

Rarity posted:

I was going to say the Vamp fight was refreshingly normal but then it had the bullshit method of killing him and just ugh. There's nothing worse in a boss fight than demanding a specific solution without giving any clues to how to solve it

Yeah, I wasn't a fan of The Sorrow for the same reason

# ? Apr 1, 2021 22:24

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

The Sorrow is really straightforward, though. "Don't run into the ghosts" doesn't seem like it needs a lot of explanation.

# ? Apr 1, 2021 22:26

homeless snail: Mar 14, 2007

Help Im Alive posted:

Is it ok to just ignore the rampage quests in MH Rise I don't wanna do these

you Have to do it like three times, and then in the endgame it has disproportionately good rewards but you don't have to do it. i'll say it gets a lot better in multiplayer though, when you have multiple people managing the turrets and doing crowd control

# ? Apr 1, 2021 22:30

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

Cardiovorax posted:

The Sorrow is really straightforward, though. "Don't run into the ghosts" doesn't seem like it needs a lot of explanation.

Yeah but advancing from the end of the fight to the rest of the game does require a very specific action

# ? Apr 1, 2021 22:30

RazzleDazzleHour: Mar 31, 2016

The Rampage fights are super fun online. As someone who posted a lot about Metal Gear Survive, having another tower defense game force itself into a game that is not a tower defense game was very exciting for me, especially since Survive's multiplayer modes RULE but no one plays online anymore. Unfortunately, though the Rampage missions are fun, they're way too easy to be a comparable experience

# ? Apr 1, 2021 22:33

stev: Jan 22, 2013; Please be excited.

haveblue posted:

Yeah but advancing from the end of the fight to the rest of the game does require a very specific action

Little puzzles are fun!

# ? Apr 1, 2021 22:34

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

haveblue posted:

Yeah but advancing from the end of the fight to the rest of the game does require a very specific action

Point, although I think the solution makes enough sense in context and is foreshadowed often enough that the situation itself kinda counts as a hint.

# ? Apr 1, 2021 22:38

Electric Phantasm: Apr 7, 2011; YOSPOS

Kerrzhe posted:

im not sure which one is worse: the vague vibe of colonialism in MHW or the sheer silliness of the quest descriptions in Rise and the old games ("hunter please! i want to go picking flowers but there's a monster somewhere in the same zip code!! kill it!!!!!")

I love the dude who asks me to kill a Barroth because it got mud on him and ruined his mushrooms.

# ? Apr 1, 2021 22:38

Bad Video Games: Sep 17, 2017

Saint Freak posted:

Awesome. Just let me know.

So here's what I have for the PSP:

Games
Siphon Filter - Logan's Shadow
Twisted Metal Head On
ATV - Off Road Fury Pro
Need for Speed Most Wanted
Namco Museum Battle Collection
Monster Hunter Freedom
Burnout Legend
Tactics Ogre: LUCT - With case

Movies
I, Robot
Superbad
Van Helsing
Dodgeball

Emulators
ScummVM
SNES9X
gpSP
Pico Drive

Digital Games
Legend of Dragoon
Tear Ring Saga - Translated
Final Fantasy VII
Way of the Samurai Portable - Translated
Persona 3 Portable
Valkyria Chronicles 3 - Translated
Tetris
Breath of Fire IV

All of the physical stuff except for Tactics Ogre came with it when my wife bought it 4 years ago. Everything loads but I haven't really played any of them. The micro SD is only 16 gigs but you can just copy the filesystem to any FAT32 formatted card and it should run just fine.

# ? Apr 1, 2021 22:45

Convex: Aug 19, 2010

Harrow posted:

I think I like them because they're contrived and hokey, if that makes sense.

I mean MGS3 has a flying man with a tommy gun made out of bees that fires bee bullets which you have to painstakingly remove and disinfect through a detailed medical interface. I remember that game making more sense the more weed I had ingested.

# ? Apr 1, 2021 22:53

Metis of the Chat Thread: Aug 1, 2014

Gripweed posted:

for the purpose of the bingo would a post like "I am never going to beat this loving game" count as post about beating a game?

I'll allow it

# ? Apr 1, 2021 22:54

Regy Rusty: Apr 26, 2010

I was not really expecting today to be an INTENSE GAMING DAY but then Crosscode just dropped a small DLC update that contains a high level superboss, so I spent 4 hours beating that. It was really hard!

# ? Apr 1, 2021 23:00

Arzaac: Jan 2, 2020

Harrow posted:

Something I've noticed about myself is that I'm often more critical (and a lot more verbose) about games I really love than games I don't like. I've posted a lot of detailed critical stuff about, like, BotW, FF9, and Persona 5 and stuff like that, but at the end of the day I only bothered thinking that hard about those games because I love them.

I definitely feel this but also I feel the same way about games that I hate as well. If I really hate a game or a certain mechanic I like to pick it apart and figure out why I don't like it, what went wrong, and how it could possibly be fixed.

Really the more mediocre a game is the less I care about it.

# ? Apr 1, 2021 23:01

Acerbatus: Jun 26, 2020; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Walla posted:

Valkyria Chronicles 3 - Translated

Did you get that yourself? I looked (a long rear end time ago, mind) and couldn't find any finished translations.

Harrow posted:

Something I've noticed about myself is that I'm often more critical (and a lot more verbose) about games I really love than games I don't like. I've posted a lot of detailed critical stuff about, like, BotW, FF9, and Persona 5 and stuff like that, but at the end of the day I only bothered thinking that hard about those games because I love them.

I used to mind flaws in bad games less because I didn't play them, but then my brain broke in the same was as Barudak's and I started playing things like yiik to pick apart for fun.

Arzaac posted:

I definitely feel this but also I feel the same way about games that I hate as well. If I really hate a game or a certain mechanic I like to pick it apart and figure out why I don't like it, what went wrong, and how it could possibly be fixed.

Really the more mediocre a game is the less I care about it.

Pretty much this yeah. I don't really care about what's good or bad in like, Destiny because I don't care about it either way at all.

# ? Apr 1, 2021 23:02

Harrow: Jun 30, 2012

Help Im Alive posted:

Is it ok to just ignore the rampage quests in MH Rise I don't wanna do these

Please do them in multiplayer. I hated rampages when I tried to do them solo but doing them multiplayer is just goofy fun as four hunters run around shooting cannons at poo poo without a clue what's going on. It's much better.

# ? Apr 1, 2021 23:12

Bad Video Games: Sep 17, 2017

Acerbatus posted:

Did you get that yourself? I looked (a long rear end time ago, mind) and couldn't find any finished translations.

I didn't translate it if that's what you mean. I found a translated copy but there's a few things that aren't translated and I only did a few missions so I'm not sure how complete it is. I don't like what they did in the 2 handheld games regarding classes. Too much grind.

# ? Apr 1, 2021 23:28

Bad Video Games: Sep 17, 2017

Talking about bad games, my favorite game is Fire Emblem Fates and is a very bad game in nearly every sense of the word. I absolutely love the changes to skills, weapons and combat but most people hate those parts too. It becomes hard to discuss because people seem to love to hate it and every discussion devolves into how horrible it is.

# ? Apr 1, 2021 23:31

wuggles: Jul 12, 2017

FlowerRhythmREMIX posted:

Watching Hunting Horn Weapon videos so I can be useful in my weekend MP monhun session. How's everyone else doing today?

I need to practice Glaive a bit for the same reason. I feel like I�m getting good at Lance, I need to see if I can get as good with Glaive

# ? Apr 1, 2021 23:33

Acerbatus: Jun 26, 2020; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Walla posted:

I didn't translate it if that's what you mean. I found a translated copy but there's a few things that aren't translated and I only did a few missions so I'm not sure how complete it is. I don't like what they did in the 2 handheld games regarding classes. Too much grind.

I was wondering if you'd found the translated copy (and where) was all, though now that I know about it I'll just look myself. :v:

Walla posted:

Talking about bad games, my favorite game is Fire Emblem Fates and is a very bad game in nearly every sense of the word. I absolutely love the changes to skills, weapons and combat but most people hate those parts too. It becomes hard to discuss because people seem to love to hate it and every discussion devolves into how horrible it is.

I think a lot of the changes are interesting, but honestly ultimately don't like a lot of things like how a lot of weapons became utterly useless. I did think having debuff weapons was really cool though.

Unbreakable weapons was interesting but I think I like how 3H went back to breakable but repairable weapons is my favorite system.

# ? Apr 1, 2021 23:37

Looper: Mar 1, 2012

in case anyone was wondering, the sonic comic answers an important question

# ? Apr 1, 2021 23:38

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

What annoys me the most about games I hate is that they're almost by default not bad games, but rather games that I know I'd love if only they didn't do something that's important to me really badly. Bad games just make me go 'pff, trash' and never think about them again. Games that could've been great but aren't due to some bone-headed but ultimately avoidable developer gently caress-up are what really gets my goat.

# ? Apr 1, 2021 23:40