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Morpheus posted:Lets say you have a level with 100 objects. The player finishes the level, so you tell your game engine to clean up each object. Oops, you missed a pot in the corner of the room. So now that pot's data is ready in the game's memory, waiting to be deployed at any time (without any loading!). That's fine, it's just a pot, maybe 50 vertices and a texture, nothing too bad. But it's actually in a room that the player needs to go through repeatedly, so every time the level loads, it loads 100 objects, and only discards 99 when they leave. So that pile of unremoved pots, vertices and textures, just starts piling up in the corner, until the game suddenly says "Hey I want to load 100 objects" but you've got 4000 pots in the corner, and not enough memory to load the 100 objects it needs. So it crashes. Thank you, I've always wondered.
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BioEnchanted posted:I actually didn't know initially that Bug type was a superhero joke, so my reasoning for why they beat psychic was simply that they didn't have higher brain function due to being insects, so didn't have anything that a psychic could read. That seems a lot more reasonable than my at-the-time assumption that psychic powers take a lot of concentration, and bugs are gross, thus granting malus to spellcasting. Edit: My favorite gently caress up from Gen 1 is dragon type moves. What's dragon type strong against? Other dragons. What dragon type moves are there? Only one, Dragon Rage. What does Dragon Rage do? Deals exactly 40 damage regardless of weaknesses, resistance, or any other factors. Riatsala has a new favorite as of 18:43 on Jan 22, 2020 |
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Tunicate posted:also in gen 1 ghost type would always miss psychic instead of being super effective iirc the Bulbasaur line was poison/grass, which was a strange choice even in the vacuum of the first gen Something like 1/5 of the first pokemon gen was poison type or poison hybrid.
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Jan 22, 2020 21:30
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Samuringa posted:I am really glad that Two Point Hospital does a mostly good job at recapturing the magic of Theme Hospital, but there are so many little things that get in the way of being a really chill management game. Agreed on all counts. I also don't like that training takes forever, is expensive and rarely offers anything good enough to off set the fact that you've been out a doctor/nurse/whatever for such a long time.
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I loving adore Dragon Quest Builders 2 but why would you map "change tool" to the same button as "talk" when there's someone following close behind you for 90% of the game? Edit: And he doesn't go away when you're in base at the Island of Awakening like he does on other islands 
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Jan 31, 2020 17:10
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Olive! posted:There's an option to change the tool-switching controls, at least on ps4. I definitely picked a different one for that exact reason when I played that game. Thanks, I'll check that out. I'm playing on PC with a 360 controller and I don't think X is used for anything, gonna try that.
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Jan 31, 2020 17:16
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Dragon Quest Builders 2 imposes on the creative spirit a bit too often for my liking You get a giant flat area in the desert of your free-build island, so I built a cool town Then I completed the second island and a bunch of people came back home with me to live in the desert. Awesome. However, to continue the story, I have to tear down my town and allow them to build a giant gently caress-off pyramid for no goddamn reason. Like it's annoyingly huge and serves no purpose and oh cool the top section is off center and ugly and now I have to snake a minecart track through it, also to continue the story Just let me loving buuuuild I like the story, I like the management, I love the building, but give me a sandbox ffs and stop building your ugly poo poo in the middle of it
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Feb 1, 2020 16:23
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Morpheus posted:I played through the entire game and got the plat, and except for the required stuff I never built outside of the farming town you make. It was just too much, and I didn't want to start from scratch again, I just wanted to build one big Town full of people. I'd be totally on board with doing that, but I really like the desert aesthetic too. rectangular adobe buildings are my poo poo. Also I can't get my townfolk to poop fast enough to make a decent amount of worm food so desert it is for now
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Feb 1, 2020 20:58
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RareAcumen posted:That sounds like it owns though You'd think? And yet it's PG Japanese perversion, so it's actually really tiresome and repetitive. Also all the characters are DQ style Chibis and it all feels really uncomfortable after a while. Good game, though.
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Feb 3, 2020 06:14
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Back when it came out, MP3 was dragged down for me by being 35 gigs in size; enormous even for a AAA PC game at the time. For reference, Skyrim and all DLC, which released less than a year earlier, topped out at ~12.
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I like Ring Fit Adventure but it asks me every single day whether I'm comfortable with the difficulty level and as far as I can tell there is no neutral response in the first round of questions. It's just two variations of "It's too easy" and two variations of "It's too hard", so you have to select one, go through the annoying corresponding prompt to raise or lower the difficulty, and say "Nah, it's good"
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ilmucche posted:Is this any good? Might be some motivation to do some exercise at home. How's it all work? I've only been at it a week, but I'd say it's very good. The Adventure of it is a huge series of short missions where you jog in place with a joycon strapped to your leg while holding a motion sensor exercise ring. A typical level has you jogging across a landscape while using the ring to blast objects or vacuum up items. Occasionally the jogging is broken up with places where you have to run fast or lift your legs especially high, like running against a conveyor belt or wading through water. There are branching paths a la Sonic that'll drop you down if you're messing up these parts. The other element is the battles; you encounter monsters that you attack by doing exercises with the ring, like pressing the ring in over your head or doing squats. Between the ring and the leg strap it does a pretty great job of keeping track of your movement. You earn experience points for all the workouts you do, which it breaks down after the level. Other than the adventure, there's also some really fun minigames, and it'll lead you through a customized cool down stretch whenever you stop for the day. It's good at letting you go for as long or short a time as you want, and do whatever levels/minigames you feel like. My complaints aside it's also very good at letting you adjust difficulty. I thought the ring would be more fragile than it is, but it's tough and takes significantly more force than I expected to compress or stretch out. The story is a story, but that's not why you're here. The best thing I can say for it is that it does a good job of making me forget I'm exercising. You're definitely still jogging in place and doing body weight exercises, but if your biggest problem with working out is boredom, this is definitely worth it. Riatsala has a new favorite as of 18:11 on Feb 6, 2020 |
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Morpheus posted:Con: He says some weird poo poo from time to time YOUR SWEAT MAKES YOU LOOK SPARKLY AND GREAT imagine that in the earnest tone of sonic the hedgehog, but higher pitched
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Someone please tell the developers of Dragon Quest Builders 2 that the combat is the worst part of the game and building an entire island around combat was a terrible, terrible idea that shouldn't be repeated in the (hopeful) sequel. I came here to build cool poo poo. Stop sending endless loving waves of assholes at me. The only way to directly engage with combat is your one basic attack (or the mostly useless spin attack), enemies have a poo poo load of health, but they aren't very dangerous, so even with all my endless traps and friends and everyone having the bestest weapons ever it's a tedious affair of tapping the attack button over and over and over until you want to cry. It's so goddamn boring and if the attack wave isn't a scripted story event I don't even get the clean up crew to automatically fix my precious buildings And oh cool you dropped me back on my home island but now to progress the story I have to make a whole new killing field full of traps that take forever to make, and I don't even have my demon buddy to kill them faster/let me do my finishing move I wouldn't care if this wasn't an outstanding game, but I'm trying to create my verdant gay communist resort utopia and the story keeps getting in the way.
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Feb 10, 2020 05:26
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Seedge posted:Two Point Hospital is basically Theme Hospital, but. I put down the game after about 5 hospitals because of this exact tedium. I love managent games, but you can't put all this boring nonsense into such a silly game. My complaint today is that the starter exercises in Ring Fit Adventure get outclassed almost immediately, which would be fine if they weren't representative of doing actual exercise. Why would I ever do 30 reps of punching myself in the dick to deal 20 damage when I could instead gently wave my arms over my head to deal 90? I haven't done a squat in 3 worlds because of this.
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Feb 27, 2020 02:40
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mind the walrus posted:People can give Halo: CE all the poo poo they want, but those dedicated grenade buttons were an eye-opener for me as a lad. Those were good grenades, too! You couldn't cook them but the human grenade didn't bounce stupidly and it killed the gently caress out of things while the plasma grenade could go crazy far and stick to people. Mind blowing that a ~20 year old game did so many things right. But in the spirit of this thread, I really miss hijacking when I go back to Halo CE.
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Feb 29, 2020 00:55
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Mapping crouch to ctrl seems even more absurd to me than mapping it to c. I always map it to left alt and hit it with my thumb.
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Feb 29, 2020 16:00
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If you want a harder Pokemon, there are some excellent ROM hacks of the first 5 or so generations out there. I played Blaze Black 1 + 2 and thought they both hit a sweet spot between the braindead default difficulty and the grognard EV trainer nerd bullshit that many difficulty hacks employ. Plus you can pretty easily play on any modernish phone.
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Ring Fit is outstanding and it's actually getting me into something resembling a respectable state of fitness BUT I can't figure out why my running is so much slower than my partner's. We step at the same pace and lift our legs just as high but she is actively dashing 80% of the time while I jog at a leisurely pace. I played on her account and it dashed for me, she played on mine and it was very slow. We're the same height and playing the same difficulty level, so I really don't get it.
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I got CoD: WWII in a humble bundle a while back and installed it today out of isolation induced boredom. It's not great. What really drags it down for me is the sound mixing/audio is awful. I've never been so unimpressed with a Normandy landing in a video game. All of my weapons are muted, squad member's weapons don't appear to make any sound at all, explosions feel far off and there's no cool music. I thought something was wrong with my settings so I looked up gameplay footage on youtube and it was equally underwhelming. I even went back to play CoD 1 and the sound was so much more; sharper reports, machine gun fire drowning out everything, people yelling in my face. I could tell where people were and which side they belonged to based on the sound of their weapons. It was awesome! Gonna try the second level but only to give it a fair shake.
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Ring Fit Adventure continues to be the only reason I'm in any kind of shape but about halfway through the main adventure it gets allergic to letting you just jog. I just now finished a session with over an hour of movement time and less than one mile jogged. It's annoying, I just want to chill out and run to advance the story a little but every 50 feet it's like TIME TO DO SQUAT BLASTERS TIL YOU poo poo Also I don't like how this game thinks that squats in general are the easiest thing ever. I have two attacks of the same tier that do about the same damage, one is doing 22 overhead wide squats, the other is doing jazz hands for ~30 seconds. There's a stark loving difference in respective difficulty of these two sets, Nintendo! And gently caress the squat cart. I don't even mind riding a cart powered by squats, but when it limps uphill two inches for every squat I want to kill myself.
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I have had my joycons for 2 years and have had no problems with them. I think maybe this is karmic rebalance for my 360 red ringing 5 times. Or I just jynxed myself.
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Len posted:"The people like your scenery but you need fences!" Hey now, don't shoot the messenger. Isabelle is merely a representative for your island's petty and contrarian local populace, and you're the damned fool who decided to listen to their harebrained demands.
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Edit: Okay, you know what? gently caress GTA 5 in general. I'm not even playing the drat game yet and I'm tired of it First download the hundred gig game, then install it, then install Direct X, then download the Rock Game Launcher, then it can't verify the game with the Epic Launcher, so you have to restart both, then I have to create a Rockstar Social account, which is capped off by 5(!) captchas where I identify crosswalks in pictures, but poo poo I got it wrong so I have to do a bonus captcha, but whoops the username is taken so I have to chose another name and do MORE CAPTCHAS, gently caress them up, do MORE CAPTCHAS, verify my email, link my Rockstar Social account with my Epic account, and then, a solid half hour after the game was installed I get to play it. gently caress. this. noise. I had to fill out less information to take out a house loan. Edit 2: Never mind I also had to log into my Rockstar Social Account and fill out more captchas, which were wrong so I had to do 5 of them. Riatsala has a new favorite as of 23:55 on May 18, 2020 |
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Everyone on my team survived except jack, who died unceremoniously after the final battle because of ????
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I'm not a gun person, but akimbo pistols is one of those things I'd really like to try just once. Anyway, I'm a veteran of the later 2D fire emblems, and I think Fire Emblem: Three Houses is fantastic. It's my first FE in 15 years and I love the greater game play variety and better narrative, but I think the visual style is a step down. That's not to say that I want it to be 2D, but the 2D games had better animations, better visual clarity, and some really outstanding sprite art for such small features. Three Houses, on the other hand, is not a pretty game. It's not an ugly game, but a lot of the textures are muddy and bland, the terrain is sometimes difficult to read, and a lot of the battle animations are second-rate. It almost seems like the developers are uncomfortable with 3D games in general, like the camera is pretty awful inside and outside of battle and the monastery feels blocky and not very intuitively laid out.
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May 29, 2020 04:54
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There's a 40k meme that goes something like "Foolish Mon-Keigh, you should have trusted us!" and "Foolish Mon-Keigh, you never should have trusted us!", which pretty succinctly sums up the entire canonical history of Eldar/Human relations. I'd find it but 
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Leal posted:Really why use anyone when you can get Lorenz cause he is handsome and also gives the paralogue for Thyrsus and then get Lysithea to use Thyrsus and loving MURDER EVERYTHING 'cause he's a ding dong fucko creepazoid incel surfing on a wave of trust funds and horseshit, gently caress em I instantly dropped him in favor of Sylvain, #1 sex-haver and bad-boy. He and Claude are my friends and they kiss A LOT
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Fire Emblem: Three Houses is too easy on Normal mode. I have no idea what I'm doing and my tactics boil down to "Put the tough guys in the front" and none of my guys have been in any real danger in 4 calendar months (on month 7 right now) Sylvain hasn't even taken damage in about that long. I'm recruiting everyone I can just so I can spread out the exp and get some fresh, under developed soldiers on the field so I feel at least some amount of vulnerability. Even type disadvantaged matchups are a joke, Lysithea will take 5 damage from a dude with an axe and just instantly nuke them with magic. I have never lost a soldier or used a divine pulse, and most matches I go without healing anyone. I never use combat maneuvers or whatever they're called, and never use battalion gambits. Hell, I was looking forward to the battle of the eagle and the lion but my troops were an unstoppable wave of death limited only by their movement speed. I'm hoping for a difficulty spike at some point because I'm not interested in restarting on hard when I'm this far in.
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Sunswipe posted:Not sure if it exactly fits what you're looking for, but what about the end of an XCOM mission that won't end until you've killed everything, so you spend god knows how long painstakingly moving around the map to find one low level alien hiding in a corner somewhere? I really appreciate not having to put up with that bullshit in Chimera Squad. Strongly agree. Spending untold hours creeping your dudes around maps that are three times as big as they need to be is such a buzzkill. Especially when you still manage to accidentally activate a pod with your last guy.
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There are a million things dragging down Fallout 4, and I've successfully modded out most of them, but something that persists is how often companions get in the drat way in the middle of a fight. Whether I can't make a VATS shot because Ada's arm is right in front of my face or I get gunned down because my fluffy puppers is standing directly underfoot while I try to take cover, companions can be a loving drag. Also I'm running so many mods that basically every piece of junk has value, and the repetitive "WHY EVEN WASTE YOUR TIME WITH THIS CRAP" lines are really starting to grate. I rebuilt the entire commonwealth with coffee cups and hairbrushes, Deacon, just trust me, here.
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SubNat posted:The annoyance there seems to be more that the followers constantly play the same voice clips to perpetually comment on the same interaction. Which 100% was a thing in the base game pre-modding as well. You got it. In the vanilla game there's a point at which I stop picking up desk fans because they're no longer useful. In Horizon Overhaul you keep picking them up because they have parts that can be destroyed and sorted into alloys that can make your weapons, armor, and power armor significantly stronger, so the problem never goes away. I really should just mod it out, though.
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Jun 19, 2020 18:01
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food court bailiff posted:The lighting engine in Dark Souls 3 is awful in situations that the game throws at you constantly. Any time you're in a dark or dimly lit area - like 90% of the game - every single surface glistens and shimmers like everything is coated in grease, and every light source looks like a spotlight shined on a crinkled piece of aluminum foil. I had a similar problem with Bioshock when it first came out. The lighting in that game gave me a headache and everything looked like poo poo coated in vaseline.
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I didn't find Fallout 4's main plot to be too atrocious, but for Fallout 3 the best way to play is simply not to engage with the plot at all. Skyrim's main story is definitely dumb.
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I picked up Ori and the Blind Forest the other day and while it's a beautiful, fun, emotional affecting metroidvania I've got four peeves: 1. The distinction between enemy projectiles that you can dash through and ones you can't seems entirely arbitrary 2. Your attack is so colorful and bright and it's trajectory so random that it frequently obscures incoming projectiles in the visual noise of it all 3. There's a weird difficulty spike like 30 minutes in when you have maybe 4 health total but enemy attacks suddenly start doing 2 damage so your survivability falls off a cliff until you get dashing, double jumping, and gliding, which suddenly opens you up to a massive number of health upgrades. 4. The dumb little pustule thing that shoots out three projectiles that turn into little spiky landmines is a dogshit tarpit enemy in a game that otherwise allows you an incredible feeling of agility and momentum, especially since it's one of the enemies who's projectiles are not dashable for whatever reason.
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I know of few instances of developer overconfidence in videogames greater than Bethesda deciding to add a mode that heavily restricts saving to a game where you can very easily trip over a car fatally Really it lends a lot of tactical weight and tension, knowing that one false step could make fall me through solid ground, dying Riatsala has a new favorite as of 00:24 on Jun 30, 2020 |
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I wasn't as quick on the uptake but in Episode 3 I realized the Carly/Doug(?) choice amounted to a couple of lines at the end of Episode 1, a few lines at the beginning and end of Episode 2 (since the character you chose is off-camera for most of it) and a few lines in Episode 3 before they get unavoidably murked On the bright side TellTale never updated their lovely engine or development style, everyone realized it was poo poo and they folded HARD Tales from the Borderlands was the only one I played with good enough writing to get over the jank and meaningless decisions.
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Okay, TellTale shutting down because it's games were lovely was a bad take on my part, full stop.
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Super Mario Odyssey is loving fantastic but the luncheon kingdom gives me a headache to look at. I thought my TV's settings were off but even playing it undocked it's too bright and contrasty and just kinda ugly as poo poo beside the fact
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Cleretic posted:Also, while it was hyped at the time, I'm pretty sure in retrospect everyone who played Fallout 4 after Fallout 3/New Vegas hated every single change it made, most of which were to make it a less player-directed experience. Out of everything that Fallout 4 changed about the 3/NV era, I enjoyed: Better shooting/combat (still not *good*, but improved) Removing the durability mechanic The overall improved animations, art direction, and visual fidelity Armor/Weapon modding Junk actually being useful Power armor revamp Also I think it had a more cohesive world and better companions than 3 Yet we're still moving further and further from God's loving embrace the longer Bethesda controls the license.
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