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one thing i would suggest is that since not having a map in areas can be punishing, listen for the sound of someone humming. he will give you the option to buying the maps for various areas so you can fill them in. that will really help when you want to bounce back and forth between areas until you get a feel for it.
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all of this is real good to know, thanks, also just bought hollow knight on a friends kid's reocmmendation when seeing it was 50% off on steam, i get the feeling a thirteen-year-old might have a lot more patience for grind-y combat i am very much not a fan of dark souls and also bounced off of a sci-fi souls like game (hellpoint) so we will see how much i like this
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Dark Souls is such a weird thing because there's no way to describe how it works other than there's a point where it clicks. I played DS1 for maybe 15 hours the first time and absolutely bounced off of it. I picked it up again months later because something made me think it was worth another shot, and was absolutely hooked. Something changed where it clicked. Hollow Knight doesn't seem as gruelling as the early Dark Souls sections but ymmv. The way it leans on Metroid tropes sort of makes it feel more forgiving to me at least, like having an effective map and obvious interconnections between areas.
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jesus WEP posted:you should buy it op too busy experiencing casual racism in skyrim
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Cyberpunk 2077 is on sale for 30 bucks so I picked it up and am enjoying it. The setting is cool and it feels like a very large game. So far the plot has been guns boobs guns cars sex hookers boobs sex guns porn Keanu Reeves sexy ladies Japan sex hookers porn guns. Gameplay is fine. Guns are kind of meh. I set it to hard difficulty and haven't had any trouble and have like 50 medkits stacked up in my inventory after playing it for a day. Mostly I've been playing it the same way I play Deus Ex, sneaking around frying people's eye implants and knocking them out. I am looking forward to getting the monomolecular wire. A year of patches must have made a big difference, because I haven't encountered any major bugs. A few brief graphics glitches and one reoccurring kind of funny bug where I walk into a room and a random physics object rockets off in some direction. Looks real pretty too. With a 3070 and a mix of high and ultra I can get about 45 fps with raytracing on, or 70 with it off. I've mostly left it off cause it doesn't make an enormous difference to the look, though sometimes I will turn it on in a place where they were clearly trying to show it off and it's worth it. The dialogue was clearly written by people for whom English is a second language. It's not bad at all, and vastly better than say a Bethesda game, but the characters do sometimes have a tinge of the Family Guy European dudes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnUv2fhFy5E Also I guess all the people buying the game on sale now are enjoying it and starting to counteract the mass of negative neckbeard reviews from last year, which has made one of the devs really happy in a cute way: https://twitter.com/PaweSasko/status/1463922391059517451?s=20 Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Nov 28, 2021 |
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I will not buy the cyberpunk game, tyvm.
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cyberpunk was never terrible, it was just janky and was never going to live up to the expectations set by the marketing hype
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AnimeIsTrash posted:I will not buy the cyberpunk game, tyvm. Neat!
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in case any hollow knight aspirants were unaware: https://www.beforeiplay.com/index.php?title=Hollow_Knight i am going to try to get back into it but it's rough if you've gotten a few hours in then bounced off for a year+
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i also have to get back into bloodborne after doing glascogne then noping off
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The Fool posted:cyberpunk was never terrible, it was just janky and was never going to live up to the expectations set by the marketing hype that's been my experience and i bought it after the epilepsy patch shortly after release. it's less janky the better the system, so it was abysmal on a last gen, fine on a new pc, and wonky everywhere in-between
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yeah i got cyberpunk when it came out and it was playable fine for me on PC pretty much immediately. i never encountered any game breaking bugs. it's just a big rear end mediocre game
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Bought Dishonored 2, Dishonored 1 DLC, Doom Eternal+expansions, Hollow Night on steam sale. Playing BG II EE instead.
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ill get cyberpunk when a legit ps5 version comes out, it gets decent reviews, and it's on sale
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Achmed Jones posted:ill get cyberpunk when a legit ps5 version comes out, it gets decent reviews, and it's on sale You could just say you'll never get it
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The Sweetling posted:Bought Dishonored 2, Dishonored 1 DLC, Doom Eternal+expansions, Hollow Night on steam sale. That's the correct decision OP.
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President Beep posted:too busy experiencing casual racism in skyrim they all like calling you lizard for some reason. (unless you mean something else)
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PokeJoe posted:yeah i got cyberpunk when it came out and it was playable fine for me on PC pretty much immediately. i never encountered any game breaking bugs. it's just a big rear end mediocre game Yeah that was the issue for me. I wanted deus ex in the cyberpunk 2021 universe but instead got GTA in the cyberpunk 2021 universe. I really do think the ability to drive around a huge city, run people over without consequence, etc, makes the game feel shallow. Like no game treats fighting and death with the gravity it deserves but its next level when you can drive across town, run 10 people over, blast 5 people with bounty stars walking to the objective and then try and have a conversation. I'd much rather have had less (but more detailed) environments, characters, everything than a million variations on the same dumb pedestrian NPC that I remember them bragging about at one point
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cyberpunk is a game that was clearly built for PC first, so if you played it there, even early on, it was pretty OK
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TontoCorazon posted:You could just say you'll never get it oh i don't mean that they magically make it a good game, just that it isn't a shitshow of broken quests and terrible bugs. i figure it'll be fine a patch or two after ps5 launch, then i just wait for a decent sale
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ADINSX posted:Yeah that was the issue for me. I wanted deus ex in the cyberpunk 2021 universe but instead got GTA in the cyberpunk 2021 universe. I really do think the ability to drive around a huge city, run people over without consequence, etc, makes the game feel shallow. Like no game treats fighting and death with the gravity it deserves but its next level when you can drive across town, run 10 people over, blast 5 people with bounty stars walking to the objective and then try and have a conversation. there is a sequence in cyberpunk where you the detective guy is driving you into the trailer park where his family lives and when I played he ran over an NPC. obviously a bug but I went back and retried it and it happened again. pretty funny
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Truman Peyote posted:there is a sequence in cyberpunk where you the detective guy is driving you into the trailer park where his family lives and when I played he ran over an NPC. obviously a bug but I went back and retried it and it happened again. pretty funny yeah it really makes the world feel disposable, it reminds me of a sequence in GTA 4 where your talking to your cousin or whatever and you're saying that you're trying to be a better person, etc, and I'm having that talk while in a car, driving down the sidewalk, killing probably 20 people. Just another tuesday afternoon for Niko
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I've been in the mood for a CRPG btw so I tried out Pathfinder WOTR but ended up giving that up, the story seems generic and the writing isn't great. Plus the crusade aspect is a super watered down heros of might and magic type game that I really wasn't into. I picked up Pillars of Eternity a couple of days ago and have been enjoying that, playing a heart breaker aristocratic rogue
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ADINSX posted:I've been in the mood for a CRPG btw so I tried out Pathfinder WOTR but ended up giving that up, the story seems generic and the writing isn't great. Plus the crusade aspect is a super watered down heros of might and magic type game that I really wasn't into. I picked up Pathfinder Kingmaker over the steam sale, and have just been playing a mix of older games. I've liked Wasteland 3 (outside of the combat), Disco Elysium, and Divinity Original Sin 2 (the first area is awful though, so you will need to bare through that).
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All the older CRPGs are pretty good, although they all do show their age even with some of the enhanced edition updates.
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the asbestos removal folks are gonna come this week. then i'll be able to put my board game in the big fuckoff closet and i'm excited about it
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There are some pretty decent sales on switch games too if you all were unaware. https://www.dekudeals.com/
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I bought the newest WATCH_DOGS on sale, but I'm having one of those weeks where I can't commit to starting something that's going to be a long playtime - I'd rather go watch some TV on my PLEX. I get ups and downs like this a lot, I put several hundred hours into FALLOUT 76 over a few months and enjoyed it a lot, then after the season I was playing finished I switched it off and uninstalled it.
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purchased Hardspace: Shipbreaker, and Control so far, i was looking at, They Are Billions but not quite sure on thatADINSX posted:I've been in the mood for a CRPG btw so I tried out Pathfinder WOTR but ended up giving that up, the story seems generic and the writing isn't great. Plus the crusade aspect is a super watered down heros of might and magic type game that I really wasn't into. i liked kingmaker well enough, but WOTR did not seem like my cup of tea pillars 1 was pretty decent and very nostalgic when i played it. deadfire blew me out of the water, i absolutely loved it
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ADINSX posted:Yeah that was the issue for me. I wanted deus ex in the cyberpunk 2021 universe but instead got GTA in the cyberpunk 2021 universe. I really do think the ability to drive around a huge city, run people over without consequence, etc, makes the game feel shallow. Like no game treats fighting and death with the gravity it deserves but its next level when you can drive across town, run 10 people over, blast 5 people with bounty stars walking to the objective and then try and have a conversation. yeah i thought i read somewhere the stars/wanted level stuff was a last minute add on to the game which is why it feels so shallow. they made a big game world and then forgot to put content in it
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AnimeIsTrash posted:I picked up Pathfinder Kingmaker over the steam sale, and have just been playing a mix of older games. I've liked Wasteland 3 (outside of the combat), Disco Elysium, and Divinity Original Sin 2 (the first area is awful though, so you will need to bare through that). Disco Elysium is on my list, I've got a friend playing it and enjoying it and the review seemed solid dioxazine posted:purchased Hardspace: Shipbreaker, and Control so far, i was looking at, They Are Billions but not quite sure on that I heard about the pathfinder series from Mandalore's kingmaker review, and it looked pretty cool. I should have just gotten that, but I'm not a fan of clumsy combat feel that's inherit to the "real time with pause but also turn based if you want". Since real time with pause follows the turnbased system very closely, you'll often give commands to characters and then wait 5-6 seconds because it wasn't their turn, this is especially grating when combat starts and you issue a command to someone with the lowest initiative. The 50 or so classes Pathfinder seems to have was also pretty overwhelming. I appreciate Pillars of Eternity's dumbed down D&D type system, with just 8 or so classes and some nice twists on the D&D versions of things (rogues are sneaky glass cannons, instead of primarily utility classes like in D&D/Pathfinder, for example). I also find the visual style nostalgic, reminds me of playing baulder's gate in 1999 or so and barely understanding anything that was going on, just making min/max characters, etc. I've heard PoE II is good too which I'll probably check out after I finish the first game.
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PokeJoe posted:yeah i thought i read somewhere the stars/wanted level stuff was a last minute add on to the game which is why it feels so shallow. they made a big game world and then forgot to put content in it Yeah, basically they focused on the part of the game I cared about the least: a big game world to barely pay attention to as you drive your car around in it. I mean, I put about 50 hours into it, the main story was surprisingly good, but I won't be replaying it. ADINSX fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Nov 28, 2021 |
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Eeyo posted:they all like calling you lizard for some reason. (unless you mean something else) some chud crone talking about how elves should stick to their own kind.
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ADINSX posted:yeah it really makes the world feel disposable, it reminds me of a sequence in GTA 4 where your talking to your cousin or whatever and you're saying that you're trying to be a better person, etc, and I'm having that talk while in a car, driving down the sidewalk, killing probably 20 people. Just another tuesday afternoon for Niko in GTA V, when you reunite Michael's family, the conversation starts off with "trying to be a better person" but completely changes to "WTF, you maniac?!" if you start running over people.
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PokeJoe posted:yeah i thought i read somewhere the stars/wanted level stuff was a last minute add on to the game which is why it feels so shallow. they made a big game world and then forgot to put content in it they kinda fixed the cops, at least now they won't teleport into a small room behind you lol President Beep posted:some chud crone talking about how elves should stick to their own kind. there's lots of casual comments about dunmer being so far north aside for the refugee hate for those that fled the red mountain eruption, too
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The Sweetling posted:Bought Dishonored 2, Dishonored 1 DLC, Doom Eternal+expansions, Hollow Night on steam sale.
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President Beep posted:some chud crone talking about how elves should stick to their own kind.
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Kenny Logins posted:hell yeah. inquisitors rock wow check out tomás de dorkuemada over here.
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FMguru posted:well they should! most of my elf knowledge comes from tolkien and yeah they really are fuckers i suppose.
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