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Vikar Jerome posted:The thing about a souls game is nit knowing a single thing about, even controls or basic poo poo. Its a feature.
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# ¿ Nov 3, 2020 15:49 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 14:17 |
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Demon's Souls has an instruction booklet that touches on things like world tendency and weapon upgrades. It doesn't explain anything per se but it at least says that dying and beating bosses change the world tendency and that different enemies might appear at different world tendencies, and that there's a hidden blacksmith for upgrading weapons with demon's souls. You can easily get through the game without looking anything up, you just probably won't be able to find every last bit of content. The bit of world tendency that really throws people is that when you go online, it shifts towards the server average, which is basically a bug (intended or otherwise) as far as I'm concerned. If you actually want to see the pure white tendency stuff you have to either play offline or never quit the game. That seems like something that they didn't really think through as opposed to a hidden mechanic that they intended you to find out for yourself. Volte fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Nov 3, 2020 |
# ¿ Nov 3, 2020 17:46 |
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bradzilla posted:I've never understood the battery life complaints about the DS4. I get like 8-10 hours on a charge. Charge it when you're not using it and don't do marathon 12 hour sessions of gaming?
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# ¿ Nov 3, 2020 19:30 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:When your controller's battery physically dies, good luck replacing it yourself vs just slapping in a fresh pair of AA's indefinitely.
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# ¿ Nov 3, 2020 22:16 |
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The HUD looks fine, the original one was nothing special either
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# ¿ Nov 7, 2020 14:31 |
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I liked the serif font better, otherwise I'm struggling to see any way that it is really materially different in a negative way. I like the diamond layout of the quickbar. Other than this I guess: CJacobs posted:The top right corner used to have the level name and number, and an icon that represented its current world tendency in real time, looks like it's been removed outright which is an interesting choice. edit: really glad that performance mode is 4K with dynamic resolution rather than native 1080p like I feared. My 4K TV will finally have a purpose after two years Volte fucked around with this message at 14:41 on Nov 7, 2020 |
# ¿ Nov 7, 2020 14:39 |
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Hakkesshu posted:No one is going to care about this but it is legitimately bizarre to me that they made the dragon appearing in Boletaria the opening cutscene to the level as opposed to something you encounter after you warp into the level and walk forward a bit.
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# ¿ Nov 7, 2020 14:47 |
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Hakkesshu posted:It does sound like they removed the screaming NPC from 3-1 though and I am not happy with that, unless they just removed him for the video.
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# ¿ Nov 7, 2020 15:00 |
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Hakkesshu posted:Because I cant hear him
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# ¿ Nov 7, 2020 15:07 |
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Why is password matching fail poo poo? Being able to play with specific people is great
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# ¿ Nov 7, 2020 16:11 |
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Akuma posted:What do you define a remake as if not making the same game again from the same blueprint? Remaking it, if you will?
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# ¿ Nov 7, 2020 16:26 |
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Playing a game off of an HDD is an excruciating experience. Having an HDD for cold storage is good though. I got by on my PC with a 256GB SSD with 2-3 active games on it (plus my operating system and programs) and swapping them on and off my much larger HDD for a long time. I will never play a game off of an HDD again though.
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# ¿ Nov 7, 2020 18:28 |
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Rad Valtar posted:I mean if you have the money go nots by why anyone would recommend getting a $150 external ssd when NVMe drives will be coming around the beginning of the year for around $230 is beyond me. We’re talking about playing PS4 games here.
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# ¿ Nov 7, 2020 19:13 |
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Casnorf posted:Is it possible at launch to entirely fill a terabyte with PS5 games?
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# ¿ Nov 9, 2020 14:45 |
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kanonvandekempen posted:For the people who have played demon souls original, do you think it will hold up for those of us who have mostly played the later from software games? Will gameplay level/encounter design still be good, or will it be slightly outdated by bloodborne et al.?
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# ¿ Nov 9, 2020 15:38 |
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anglachel posted:Item Burden was not very fun, and Dark Souls getting rid of it was a good idea. As far as limiting grass goes, I think it's fine. It should be more permissive than Bloodborne's Blood Vial limitation, since at least you will still be able to carry multiple types of grass.
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# ¿ Nov 9, 2020 16:02 |
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haveblue posted:You should have infinite room for loot, permanently losing loot because you didn't dump enough poo poo into Thomas beforehand is really bad and should not be allowed to happen Mainly it meant you had to pick what weapons you wanted to take and which armor you wanted to wear. It's not like Dark Souls where you can just switch into full Havels for a minute if you want to.
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# ¿ Nov 9, 2020 16:23 |
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GreatGreen posted:Seems like all they'd have to do is allow users to manually configure the PS5 to output for a 1080p display, at which point the console could automatically use adaptive resolution to lock each game down to 1080p, while also locking in the "fancy graphics" mode by default for each game, and unlock the frame cap to 60 fps as long as 1080p output mode is on.
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# ¿ Nov 9, 2020 18:20 |
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GreatGreen posted:Good call, wasn't thinking about that.
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# ¿ Nov 9, 2020 18:42 |
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Best Buy Canada just shipped mine out with an estimated delivery date of Monday Nov 16
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# ¿ Nov 11, 2020 20:53 |
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Lobok posted:Did the other Best Buy Canada goons get theirs yet? I got same day delivery yesterday so hopefully y'all did as well. edit: Never mind, literally five seconds after I submitted the post it went out for delivery. Should get it today Volte fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Nov 13, 2020 |
# ¿ Nov 13, 2020 16:25 |
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Lobok posted:Sweet. Godspeed, delivery person!
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2020 17:52 |
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I've only gotten to check it out for a few minutes so far but it really does feel amazing from what I've tried, which is just the first few minutes of Astro. Even the "welcome to DualSense" screen where you push the triggers to activate the on-screen jetpack kind of blew my mind. It's not a revolutionary new way to play games or anything, but as far as controller-feel it does seem to be a huge step forward. I'm looking forward to spending the whole day playing Demon's Souls tomorrow.
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# ¿ Nov 14, 2020 04:45 |
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il serpente cosmico posted:Anybody else having occasional crashes in Demon's Souls? I've had it crash back to the UI a few times now. It isn't a big deal because no progress was lost, and I'm assuming that there will be some stability issues with a new game on a new system. I do have an external drive plugged in, and I'm wondering if that could be causing stability issues, too? Did Demon's Souls always have no fall damage on enemies? There's high platform towards the end of 1-1 where you can knock a crossbowman off and he falls like 70 feet and doesn't even take chip damage from what I can tell. But then the player also seems to take a lot less fall damage than what I'm used to from Dark Souls games so maybe I just haven't played Demon's Souls in long enough that I'm forgetting things. Volte fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Nov 16, 2020 |
# ¿ Nov 16, 2020 15:08 |
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What "resume progress" feature are you referring to? The one on the activity cards? I tried that a couple of times and it was just a quick warp to whichever archstone was associated with the activity, and it didn't even work if the game wasn't already open (it just took me to the intro cinematic). It didn't seem to do anything related to restoring a previous save or anything. Could it have been a coincidence and your save was hosed up in some other way?
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# ¿ Nov 17, 2020 05:47 |
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veni veni veni posted:Man, the dualsense battery life is dire. I feel like the DS4 which already had the worst battery life of any controller lasts twice as long.
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# ¿ Nov 17, 2020 14:12 |
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veni veni veni posted:Hmmm. Mine lasts like, 3 hours. Starting to wonder if I got a bad one.
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# ¿ Nov 18, 2020 00:53 |
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il serpente cosmico posted:Speaking of Hollow Knight, I gave it a shot last night for the first time on console. I played the poo poo out of it on PC, and it's one of my favorite games. Either way, I'm loving the way it looks with PS5's auto-HDR mode.
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# ¿ Nov 18, 2020 05:45 |
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Mine is sitting on the floor next to the old tower I have plugged into the TV and yeah, it's nearly the same size in terms of depth and height. I don't really mind the size for what it's giving me in return. My only complaint is that the included HDMI cable is not long enough to reach from directly beside the TV stand to the HDMI port on the back of the TV, so I have to use the one I was using for the PS4. It seems to be fine, but I see a lot of people saying you really should use the included one, so hopefully I'm not unknowingly missing out on something.
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# ¿ Nov 19, 2020 15:20 |
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Red Warrior posted:Unless your TV is capable of 4K at 120Hz, no, the included cable is not necessary. If you had a Pro or slim PS4 the cable from those should at least support 4k 60Hz with HDR if your TV does that.
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# ¿ Nov 19, 2020 15:45 |
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RDR2 makes the classic mistake of "more knobs and gauges and longer, more detailed animations = more immersive" when the exact opposite is true. Obra Dinn is the most immersive game I've ever played I think, RDR2 among the least. It sure is gorgeous though. And the hunting and side stuff is fun.
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# ¿ Nov 21, 2020 21:42 |
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punished milkman posted:i’ve had this happen several times to me now from rest mode. each time i boot it up after this bug, the console tells me i turned it off wrong and it does some file system repair junk. hopefully it gets patched soon
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# ¿ Nov 22, 2020 18:47 |
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Akuma posted:I'd forgotten how bullshit the Dragon God is. When I make souls boss videos I usually keep in the full length of my first attempt, then quick 1 second cuts of each death, then the full winning attempt. I haven't had to do this for Demon's Souls yet because I beat all the bosses to now (7 of them) first try (second for one of them, actually) but loving Dragon God. Still less than 10 tries I think but grrrrrr.
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# ¿ Nov 24, 2020 14:22 |
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4-2 is the only level in the game that I actually consider a bad level. It's basically a straight line of narrow hallways and narrow walkways, has damage sponge enemies that block your path, and not much else. It's everything a Souls level shouldn't be. Great for farming souls though.
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# ¿ Nov 25, 2020 14:43 |
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The first time I played Demon's Souls was after playing like 250 hours of Dark Souls on PC (which is what motivated me to get a PS3 in the first place), and I died twice in the entire playthrough, both times from falling off ledges.
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# ¿ Nov 25, 2020 16:00 |
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I've mostly used my PS5 to play Hollow Knight. I do not regret my choices.
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# ¿ Nov 26, 2020 01:47 |
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Policenaut posted:The more things change the more they stay the same. The poison swamp in DeSR performed terribly when I got down to it and it wasn't until I got up out of that mire did the performance improve.
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# ¿ Nov 26, 2020 18:04 |
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TheCenturion posted:Gimmie the option for fidelity 1080p-60hz.
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# ¿ Nov 26, 2020 19:25 |
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The dumbest thing about the PS5 UI I found tonight is that a trophy popped but when I clicked the PS button to see what the trophy description was, it went to the home screen for some reason instead of expanding the popup (I guess I held it for a split second too long?), and then there was no way to find the trophy again without going into my user profile, finding the trophy section, finding the game, then sorting by most recently used. Who thought it was a good idea for the game card list to show a bunch of trophies I don't even have and not show me anything about the trophy I just got?
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# ¿ Nov 30, 2020 05:14 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 14:17 |
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Handsome Wife posted:I agree it's bad but you should be able to see the details of the last trophy you got from your notification list, FYI.
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# ¿ Nov 30, 2020 05:32 |