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Your Gay Uncle posted:
Toadstool Kingdom is a historic name, it is technically a principality
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I've had the urge to replay Burnout 3 / Revenge lately. First little thing dragging it down is that Burnout 3 is pretty much only available on a handful of platforms (it's not on any streaming service, it's apparently only backwards compatible with the original fat PS3 and some (maybe all?) models of 360 and it's supposed to be pretty hard to emulate), so I had to buy an old 360. I know that people complained about it when it came out, but I'm still disappointed with what they did to the Crash mode. In Burnout 2 it was all about crashing into the right vehicle at the right angle to create a huge pile-up, but in Burnout 3 it's a lot more about reaching the different pick-ups (the icons, not the trucks) around the map. The crashbreaker is kind of useless because you can't control the camera, so you just use it whenever it's available and hope for the best. Then in revenge they made it about hopping from bunch of vehicles to bunch of vehicles, hitting enough of them to extend your timer and give you more crashbreakers to move to another bunch of vehicles and repeat the process. I really think the simplest form was the best. Burnout 3 unlocks new cars with Burnout points, but they way they dole them out is a little unbalanced. By far, the thing that grants the most point is the eponymous takedown, so events with more rivals and more opportunities to take them down (Road Rage and regular races) can reward you with tens of thousands of points while Hot Laps (time trials) and one-on-one races give you scraps. I'm actually a little ambivalent about that one because while it makes events that are already a little lame even more disappointing, it also means that if you decide to "grind" you can and should only grind the best events. I really don't like this game's soundtrack. When it first came out I HATED it because I used to be a punk kid so all that Fall Out Boy / F-Ups / Finger Eleven felt like a personal attack, but nowadays I have enough nostalgia for them that the songs don't offend me anymore, but they still really don't fit with a high octane race. Final thing that drags the games down is that Revenge did a lot of good things about the racing mechanics (the cars feel heavier, the tracks feel better designed, etc.), but the content felt worse in almost every way (the cars are very same-y, the visuals are all bloomy and sepia-toned, the interface is lifeless, etc.). I wish that I could get the best of both worlds in a single game, but alas...
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May 5, 2022 21:19
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Your Gay Uncle posted:The town music from Kings Quest 5 has to be the all time worst videogame music I think it's based off whatever principle it is that keeps Vegeta as merely the "Prince" of all Saiyans
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May 5, 2022 23:07
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the_steve posted:I think it's based off whatever principle it is that keeps Vegeta as merely the "Prince" of all Saiyans Exactly, there was not ever an official coronation before the previous King and Queen died so the official doctrine is that they remain a princess or prince.
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May 5, 2022 23:12
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Princess Peach became unlanded at the time of her father's death and can only become queen when she marries a male heir in the line of succession Once she marries her uncle she will inherit the throne and the uncle will become prince consort
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May 5, 2022 23:38
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Have arrow enemies in any game ever been interesting or a positive add? In my experience they are annoying jerks who slow the game down. See: skyrim, dark souls, sekiro, etc. I know I can parry arrows but the camera sucks too much to anticipate a shot in a chaotic multi-opponent setting
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May 5, 2022 23:54
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Manager Hoyden posted:Princess Peach became unlanded at the time of her father's death and can only become queen when she marries a male heir in the line of succession twist: her uncle is bowser
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May 6, 2022 00:12
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Peach is not a mushroom type lifeform but high seems to be the exclusive ethnic group in the country and it can therefore only be concluded that the mushroom kingdom princess peach is in fact a colonial usurper
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May 6, 2022 00:24
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Peach is not a mushroom type lifeform but high seems to be the exclusive ethnic group in the country and it can therefore only be concluded that the mushroom kingdom princess peach is in fact a colonial usurper The toads could be a larval form
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May 6, 2022 00:28
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christmas boots posted:twist: her uncle is bowser Somewhat concerning, given that Bowser Jr. is her son
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May 6, 2022 00:32
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Peach is not a mushroom type lifeform but high seems to be the exclusive ethnic group in the country and it can therefore only be concluded that the mushroom kingdom princess peach is in fact a colonial usurper Ah how soon we forget the Super Crown.
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May 6, 2022 00:34
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Your Gay Uncle posted:
Her name is 'Princess'.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Peach is not a mushroom type lifeform but high seems to be the exclusive ethnic group in the country and it can therefore only be concluded that the mushroom kingdom princess peach is in fact a colonial usurper in SMB 1 the entire kingdom’s population minus Peach got turned into bricks, coins, and mushrooms, and she was kidnapped because her voice was the only thing that could undo the curse obviously though she hosed up the undo-curse spellcasting and only her loyal subjects that had been turned into mushrooms regained their life, albeit in a horrifying and degrading half-form every night she looks out over the rows of bricks and coins dotting the landscape and weeps for what she’s lost
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May 6, 2022 00:41
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sephiRoth IRA posted:Have arrow enemies in any game ever been interesting or a positive add? In my experience they are annoying jerks who slow the game down. Giant bows are kind of a neat obstacle in Elden Ring imho, like don’t get me wrong the ancestral follower greatbows suck massive poo poo but the golem archers are usually kinda fun, and Radahn’s “I will literally make the sky rain arrows” move is rad.
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May 6, 2022 02:03
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Last Celebration posted:Giant bows are kind of a neat obstacle in Elden Ring imho, like don’t get me wrong the ancestral follower greatbows suck massive poo poo but the golem archers are usually kinda fun, and Radahn’s “I will literally make the sky rain arrows” move is rad. It's funny but I totally agree, those are cool enemies. But I don't actually think they count. Those are huge gently caress off projectiles thay ruin your day. I'm talking more about the ancestral followers or enemies where it is just a thing that slows the game down versus a cool obstacle to get through
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May 6, 2022 02:59
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Assassin's Creed Odyssey (and probably the other two ACs with the same gameplay loop, I don't remember) has archers that can break out of your attacks with an invincible dodge roll. And they can chain rolls together. They almost never do enough damage to be any sort of actual threat but they are incredibly annoying.
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May 6, 2022 03:03
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Captain Hygiene posted:Somewhat concerning, given that Bowser Jr. is her son This is not unheard of for royalty
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Arkham Origins is the weakest game in the series for a myriad reasons, but two in particular get on my bat-tits:
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The challenge system in Origins is just a crime, I agree with you.
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May 6, 2022 14:28
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Also, if Batman is a brick-shithouse then why is every door twice his height?
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May 6, 2022 14:33
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Also, if Batman is a brick-shithouse then why is every door twice his height? The architects are considerate of Bane
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May 6, 2022 14:52
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Origins is maybe the only major game I haven't competed specifically because of bugginess, you can only plummet through a rooftop into an unending void so many times before you give up. That was on Wii U, maybe it was particularly cursed.
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May 6, 2022 14:57
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I remember in Arkham City there was that challenge that unlocked and insanely useful grappling hook skill ( let you fling yourself higher off of a roof edege so you can keep grappling around) and then the next challenge gave you basically nothing. I think it was somethong small like you can carry one extra batarang or something. Made it so I had to do every challenge, just in case the reward was amazing. Why the gently caress wouldnt Batman just unlock that ability himself at the start? It's his suit, I'm assuming he had a hand in designing it. Its like if I built my own car, but the airbags wouldn't come online unless I drive down to Starbucks and back in under 5 minutes .
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May 6, 2022 16:41
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Part of the reason the Capra Demon loving sucked was the combination of how far the run back was with how likely you were to die in the first few seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjjUbMo4Oqo this isnt the original video i found when i first did my ds1 run through but i cant fight the capra demon i know you can skip it by going backwards through blighttown but also i can just buy bombs.
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May 6, 2022 16:47
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I'm struggling to remain motivated to keep playing Elden Ring, and I'm realizing that part of it is that I don't know what the gently caress my goal is. There's a whole bunch of personal quests that are compelling enough to be happy when I see familiar faces, but every time you come to someone talking about the main plot, they're super vague and unclear about what they want, why, and how they feel about anything else. Some lady got really mad when I asked about burning the thorns in front of a door, but I don't really know why she's mad or even what's behind that door. Apparently an NPC I've met has a good alternate plot about it, but I don't know what ti is because the only thing she's said to me is "Will you serve the doll-witch" and that's a pretty terrible opening line for getting me interested in her plot. I'm like sixty hours in, and I still don't know why I'm doing anything in that main quest.
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May 6, 2022 17:09
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Your Gay Uncle posted:I remember in Arkham City there was that challenge that unlocked and insanely useful grappling hook skill ( let you fling yourself higher off of a roof edege so you can keep grappling around) and then the next challenge gave you basically nothing. I think it was somethong small like you can carry one extra batarang or something. Batman believes heavily in the Internet of Things https://jalopnik.com/this-dystopian-biker-airbag-crash-vest-only-saves-your-1846823791
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May 6, 2022 17:11
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Cleretic posted:I'm struggling to remain motivated to keep playing Elden Ring, and I'm realizing that part of it is that I don't know what the gently caress my goal is. In all seriousness though, that's pretty much it. You want to become Elden Lord so you have to go to the Erdtree. The whole game has like 3 objectives: If you haven't done it by accident before then, you're told to kill 2 major bosses (demigods) to enter Leyndell; Then you're told to get the Giant's flame to reach the Erdtree proper; Then you go to the Erdtree and finish the game. Everything in between is arguably optionnal.
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CordlessPen posted:Become Elden Lord. Duh! I don't know why I want to be an Elden Lord either! But that old lady wanted me to do it, only to get mad when I raised the notion of burning the thorns in the way. I understand Ranni has ideas, but she's a weirdo, and some other guy suggested a different plan but it was punctuated with so much malevolent cackling that it's clearly the bad choice. Even if Dark Souls got ambiguous later, its opening pitch made sense. 'The First Flame's going out, that's causing zombies; go rekindle that thing'; easy, makes sense, zombies are usually a thing to solve. I don't know why being an Elden Lord is a goal, so I also don't really understand the values of alternatives.
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Shits hosed up. Gotta go home and fix the ring
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Yeah, From games aren't really played for the plot. There's a plot there, but it's mostly something you look up after you win to try and work out what all that wild poo poo was about. Your goal's basically to unfuck the world.
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May 6, 2022 17:44
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I would agree that Elden Ring gives you less than even most From games. Dark Souls was pretty vague but they still gave you an idea of what the first flame meant to the world and what the consequences of it dying out were. Elden Ring never really gives you any reason to care about the titular ring.
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I've complained about this before but I don't understand why the Arkham games started with a slick, comic book, stylised and clean UI and ended with a weird cyber mess of chromes, blues, silvers and tiny text.
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Cleretic posted:I don't know why I want to be an Elden Lord either! But that old lady wanted me to do it, only to get mad when I raised the notion of burning the thorns in the way. The game is definitely vague a lot but this part is actually pretty explicit! The old lady speaks for the Two Fingers, a specific faction that was in charge of the country and would like things exactly the way they were before everything got hosed. They originally sent you to become Elden Lord and fix the Elden Ring so they can do their thing again. The Thorns preventing you from doing that was the plot twist, which is why the fingers have gone rigid when you go back there and she says they're trying to ask God what the gently caress's going on. In the meantime, burning down the tree, which they also like because it's part of God's machine along with the Elden Ring, would not be their preferred solution. This is all laid out pretty well between her dialogue throughout the game and what Morgott says at the tree, very little of which is optional, though you can get a few more details by paying attention to some other bits, particularly the Leyndell sidequests and Melina. Caphi has a new favorite as of 18:00 on May 6, 2022 |
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Cleretic posted:I'm struggling to remain motivated to keep playing Elden Ring, and I'm realizing that part of it is that I don't know what the gently caress my goal is. Sorta the same. I personally dislike the lack of a quest tracker, but that's because my work schedule keeps me away from home for weeks at a time, and I'm not going to remember every little sidequest I picked up or started when I finally get back home, so even just a "So and So wants you to kill the jerk at the Jerk Catacombs, wherever the hell those are" would go a long way. So yeah, I get home from a few weeks of work, can't remember what I was actually doing, and end up never making much progress towards anything.
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the_steve posted:Sorta the same. Notebook my dude.
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Also actually listen to the way Granny talks about burning the tree. She knows it's a super sin but she is actually down for it. She's not mad at you; she knows you're an iconoclast and she basically goes "drat, look at the stones on you! Well, play on..."
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May 6, 2022 18:11
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Basically I think the thing that gets people about Elden Ring is that NPCs almost never technically lie but everyone is bringing the interests, biases, and blind spots of their faction to everything they say, but the game throws a lot of NPCs at you without explanation while expecting you to suss out what those factions are and how they fit together after the fact.
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May 6, 2022 18:16
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Cleretic posted:I'm struggling to remain motivated to keep playing Elden Ring, and I'm realizing that part of it is that I don't know what the gently caress my goal is. quote:Elden Ring meets once a year
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Cleretic posted:I don't know why I want to be an Elden Lord either! But that old lady wanted me to do it, only to get mad when I raised the notion of burning the thorns in the way. I understand Ranni has ideas, but she's a weirdo, and some other guy suggested a different plan but it was punctuated with so much malevolent cackling that it's clearly the bad choice. The demigods had a family squabble and broke the world. Now you need to become the Elden Lord to fix it.
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christmas boots posted:The demigods had a family squabble and broke the world. Now you need to become the Elden Lord to fix it. Yeah, but why? The world is full of assholes.
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