HairyManling posted:

This. And also the blue shell doesn't play fair. I've had it target me when I'm in fourth or fifth place. I don't mean that it hits me on its way to the first place racer, but specifically does the orbit animation and blasts me while I'm already trailing the leaders.

grittyreboot posted:

The gameplay in the Dead Space series seems to rely on the fact that the player should be panicking and burning through his ammo needlessly. So why is it that enemies tend to pop out of grates on the other end of long corridors? They give you way too much time to react and line your shots up nicely.

Really, it's hard to stay frightened when every single enemy just roars and charges at you head on. Maybe they should've introduced a monster that stalks you from the shadows and strikes when you least expect it.

StandardVC10 posted:

F.E.A.R.: there's a section scripted of enemy chatter between Norton Mapes and a bunch of ATC goons late in the game that I can never, ever hear in its entirety because the goons in question hear me and interrupt it as soon as it triggers. Annoying.

Strategic Tea posted:

I really never though Ashley was a space racist, though there's some lovely writing with the dog comparaison. I don't see a problem in a soldier objecting when a space somali warlord, a foreign ship technician, a guy we were at war with ten years ago and the daughter of a major politician are being allowed to poke around a top secret cutting edge warship

2house2fly posted:

I vaguely remember that bit resolving in such a way that I got the feeling the whole thing was pointless. Like whatever Batman went down there for turned out to not be there, or Croc destroyed it or something. I can't remember what but something happened at the end of that bit that really rubbed in how annoying it was to me.

Gestalt Intellect posted:

I don't understand destiny, tons of people play it and the things I see of the gameplay make it look like something I'd enjoy (if it were on PC) because I like borderlands and such. But I have literally never heard anyone say anything good about it above "it's decent I guess." Are there really that many people that play it and still think it's just sort of mediocre?

DrBouvenstein posted:

And in Bloodborne, the first area is a town. You're walking on the street, going in houses, etc...Eventually, you take an elevator down, beneath the town, and...there's sky everywhere when you look up. Everywhere. Even when you look directly back to where you came from, it's a single building with nothing around from where you came from above.

DrBouvenstein posted:

I was mis-remembering. It's not an elevator, but a lot of stairs and a ladder that go from the Cathedral Ward to Old Yarnham:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uTsulwn1_U


Start around 24 minutes...he's in the Cathedral Ward, then he goes down a bunch of stairs, is in the basement of the Tomb, and eventually exits the tomb and is outside with sky above him.

He doesn't turn around all the way, but I certainly have, and there is no indication of the area you just came from is anywhere above you like it should be.

The Moon Monster posted:

I genuinely liked the first one, but the second one had a ton of problems that added up to it being just unfun, so I haven't bought anything borderlands related since.

Destiny has great shooting, but the RPG elements kind of suck, the world is incredibly lifeless and they decided to do the whole Wildstaresque "no casuals" thing with the raids, which I've been told are the only content that's actually interesting.

Out of all the "Diablo, but with guns" games I've played I think I enjoyed Hellgate: London the most. The game was kind of a disaster though with all the bugs, balance issues and negative PR. The core game play was fun though, and the loot was great. I don't think anyone would blink at their lovely pricing structure if the game came out today.

Cleretic posted:

Ashley's racism was a little inconsistent and weird even before her characterization apparently poo poo the bed in 3. One of her properly strong character moments in 1 was that she'd give the Terra Firma protesters an earful because I guess their racism is even more blind than hers. Her space-racism is far more in line with Cerberus (the 'I'm not racist, I just don't trust them' type of racism), and yet she's still fervently against them just because.

Tiggum posted:

That or the opposite. Some people would make themselves look monstrous instead.

Lizard Wizard posted:

Justin Godscock posted:

I'm torn if I like the Medics they added in Arkham Knight (they revive people you've knocked out) because while it adds a layer of difficulty it is annoying to try to take them out first (otherwise they will keep reviving dudes) because in the heat of the moment locking onto them is quite annoying. I can't imagine how much this would suck in higher difficulty levels.

Xoidanor posted:

Didn't Jacob also loop around to daddy issues or is my memory playing tricks on me?

Judge Tesla posted:

You can romance him and he dumps you between games, I believe he is the only romancable crew member to do this.

Death Zebra posted:

And needs to be expanded by spending eridium. Vagrant Story had this thing where you'd have extra item storage on your memory card or something like that. I'd gladly put up with the loading time that had if it meant having a poo poo ton of extra room.

Claptraps secret stash is worse because it only has room for 4 items and needs you to get a certain amount of game progress to access it.

Tengames posted:

My favorite rationalization for this is that since the stations take a percentage of your cash to pay for the respawn, and handsome jack is so obscenely rich, the respawners just glitch up trying to calcuate a high enough fee to match the percentage and thus don't respawn him.

2house2fly posted:

I'm not a big fan of the Batmobile in Arkham Knight and I'm hoping it's optional for most of the game. Who the hell thought gliding and zip-grappling around the city was insufficiently exciting?

That said I did like when i did my first Riddler challenge in the Batmobile and the Riddler said something like "if you don't have the brainpower to get how this race course counts a riddle I'm not even going to bother explaining it to you"

BillmasterCozb posted:

The four kings wouldn't be so bad if there were a quicker shortcut to them than going through the valley of the drakes, and then either fighting or running past all the darkwraiths. The darkwraiths are not the hard part, but fighting two of the drakes is because they keep zipping and zopping across the field (I just run past the four at the end with my shield up). Sometimes I hit the darkwraiths, except I did my 2handed club strong attack right into their loving grab that does about 40% of my health in damage, and I guess it has super armor or something!. Then I get to the four kings and oh boy I pretty much got immediately grabbed and then jabbed to death. Fighting about two of them at once, and they can both grab me. I thought you were able to mash R1 and L1 out of grabs?

BillmasterCozb posted:

I'll go look for that stuff!


I didn't like that sunlight guy, so I kicked him off a cliff at the shrine. Otherwise I would have let him live

Nuebot posted:

Destiny did something similar to some of their Exotics. Which in theory have their rarity labelled as such because most of them carry unique traits like, for example, a handgun that poisons people. Something no other gun does. Except, of course, no one's ever happy with anything that's different in PVP so people complain, unique items get their defining features reduced and most of the really unique items never got brought into the second year of the game and pretty much the most unique trait an exotic weapon has right now is "can be equipped in the primary slot instead of the secondary slot". Most others just have slightly enhanced versions of generic perks, or make you run faster or something on a kill.

RyokoTK posted:

The thing dragging down Crypt of the NecroDancer for me is that my stupid reptile brain apparently is incapable of managing "moving to the rhythm" and "don't walk into a skeleton three times a row you retard." Playing as Bard seems like cheating to me so I'm just hacking away at it with Cadence.

Then one time I actually make it to NecroDancer and it's a goddamn hideous puzzle boss where I have to move two characters at once and avoid enemies and I just can't handle it at all.

khwarezm posted:

After you beat the game with a certain character you unlock another character that needs to maintain the beat or else she will automatically die, can only take two hits, cannot change from the starting dagger and can't get any health upgrades. Oh and she also starts in the final chamber and works backwards.

And then when you beat the game with her, you unlock another character who has to deal with all of the above while also not being able to pick any gold or else they will die instantly and also has every song playing at double speed so you need to be absolutely perfect in your timing!

CJacobs posted:

You should be legally required to say "but someone other than me" when you say "we need a healer" or similar, just to really drive home what a tool thing to say it is.

Evilreaver posted:

This reminds me of Dead Rising 1. Each survivor had their own AI/priorities (stay close to you, help friends/specific friend if threatened, run from threats, etc). This isn't made explicitly clear, and some of the first survivors you encounter are intentionally programmed to
a) be poo poo at fighting (old guy, two dudebros)
b) be heroic and overaggressive, running right into crowds of zombies (dudebros)
c) be slow, cautious and cowardly (at least one early woman survivor, the dudebros when they're hurt)

This of course makes a bad first impression and virtually everyone agrees that DR's survivor AI is poo poo. However, there are a good few of them who can take care of themselves and even positively help fights against psychos, but compounded with the awful machine-gun jeep psychos in the courtyard being an incredibly unfair fight for newbies (about 1 hour into the game, around the same time as dudebros) it suuuuure seems like the AI is poo poo.

im pooping! posted:

"DUCK WILL REMEMBER THIS YOU CRETIN!" popups

Dewgy posted:

I think the biggest problem with MOBAs is they seem to fall into the same trap of game design that CCGs do: Your skills in one don't really necessarily translate well to others, unless the skill you have in mind is "reading up on a bunch of esoteric rules".

They don't really have that "I'm decent at this and can bullshit my way through a few rounds" buffer like more action-ey games do like FPSes or fighters, which makes low level play a real crapshoot. You're either fumbling around with other newbies or getting stomped by someone who knows the ruleset better than you, and no amount of twitch skill can save you.

Nuebot posted:

Ultimates like this in general seem kind of lovely for that very reason. Destiny PVP does it too. It charges constantly through the match, but kills give you a pretty huge boost. So if you're doing bad you'll only get off one per game but if you're doing good you might get two, or three. With the right builds there are people who can get off way more. So of course someone doing good enough to get an early super can use it to just obliterate any chance the losing team had of recovering. This is especially poo poo when supers vary from one guy being able to dash around instantly killing guys and refilling his health with every hit for a few seconds, or one guy being able to roam around like a jedi shooting lightning from his hands for half a minute. To one guy getting 3 instant kill shots that are super easy to see and avoid, and another guy being able to throw up a protective bubble that any other super can just instantly destroy, killing anyone inside of it because it explodes when it breaks.

ArtIsResistance posted:

On an extra note does anyone know of a turn-based RPG with combat that's actually somewhat varied and enjoyable? I don't know why I'm asking this thread for game recommendations but for some reason it seems like the best place on the forums for it

Saint Freak posted:

Also how did 'call for help' pass any kind of QA. Like, at least one person should've looked at that and thought 'maybe let's cap it at two or something so people don't get stuck fighting forever'.

Guy Mann posted:

Has there ever been a game that was actually improved by having durability meters on equipment? So many games do it and it's always a garbage decision, it must have been a good idea at some point...right?

Action Tortoise posted:

just a minor thing for me about overwatch:

i think the cooldown for mccree's dodge roll is a couple seconds too long. i get that if it's on too short of a timer everyone would be rolling everywhere like gears of war multiplayer, but it feels really situational as a thing. i think it should be maybe a couple seconds longer than d.va's boosters.

Sic Semper Goon posted:

For massively powerful factions, the Vivec house vaults don't really have that much in them, IIRC.

A couple of thousand gold and a few gemstones. In a world where the most worthless of items is worth at least 1 gold.

Strom Cuzewon posted:

Ive played a bunch of Platinum games before, and the Nier combat seemed pretty similar, so I upped it to Hard after the first few fights.

Turns out it doesn't have a loving autosave after you start the game. So I'm now on my third time going through the trivial top-down shooter section in order to get to the actual challenging/fun gameplay.

Action Tortoise posted:

i had a friend who did this with Far Cry: Blood Dragon and it just looked so tiring. like, i go for second-hardest difficulty on most games because i always assume difficulty will just scale health and damage values and not do anything clever like add more objectives or unlock enemy A.I. but doing the N:A demo i realized it'd be better to stick to Normal until i get a better handle on the combat.

i think autosaves have become a staple feature Western gamers have expected so when a game comes out that doesn't do that it feels like an oversight in development. i know that's how i felt when i got back into the yakuza series.

Oldstench posted:

Nier: Automata pet peeve given to any new players as advice:

Don't ever do a main quest until you have finished ALL the sidequests you can first. You will get locked out of doing them as far as I can tell.