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| Relax or Die: i'll tell you what it is: posting theft |
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| ShallNoiseUpon: i have reported oddium for stealing posting valor i hope the moderators will sort this out post haste |
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| Cheetah7071: more like snoreson smells |
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| Oddium: no poll for solidarity with mobile users |
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| Metis: I promise never to interfere in poll results |
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Instead of wasting your not very valuable in the long run lifetime rolling gacha garbage in Genshin Impact you could be trusting your fists delivering PUNCHIN’ impact with the incredible new Streets of Rage DLC!
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Jul 28, 2021 18:01
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Harrow posted:The story's kind of hard to explain because it swings wildly back and forth between fun character stuff, tragic character stuff, and then this sort of pseudo-philosophical story about the gods and their place in the world and the world's "true nature." It's hard to say what the main story even is. I ultimately enjoy it mostly because the characters are charming, even the dumb little fairy goblin Paimon has grown on me, but there's definitely a lot of like... mystery box build-up that I hope pays off. As far as I'm concerned the part where I ate an extinct boar with Xiangling is the main quest and paimon continues to rule
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Jul 28, 2021 18:03
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Arzaac posted:I don't know how Genshin Impact does it, but in other gacha games with experience items I usually find that after playing for a bit I simply have a mountain of them, and maxing a new character barely makes a dent. This is pretty much the case, unless you're whaling out and pulling every character you can, in which case you're going to have to do some serious EXP grinding. There's a dead zone while you're leveling up your first team where EXP items are really limiting, but after that it's not tough to build up a stockpile to use. The main limiting factor I've found with leveling up a brand new character is their ascensions, which basically just means raising their level cap (every 20 levels at first, then every 10 levels), which require you to farm open world materials and boss drops. Also level is not really the most important thing with most characters. A lot of support characters can be left at level 60 or 70 (out of 90) with no real issue because the stat gains from leveling are fairly minor after that. It's just that ascending lets you level up their talents higher and that's really important for your main damage dealers.
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Jul 28, 2021 18:04
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*exquisite tea sobbing, banging the sides of the large CRT monitor they post on* PLEASE play streets of rage (It is very good and I am going to check the DLC out one day)
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Jul 28, 2021 18:04
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2sS51m1s3k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtS_QBWX6cY the contrast in titles and tones here is so loving funny
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Jul 28, 2021 18:05
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Man I wish I had a CRT, do you know how much 1440p Sony Trinitrons are going for these days. Not even my bougie rear end can afford that poo poo!
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Jul 28, 2021 18:05
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The first three Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters came out like minutes ago and there's already a font fix for the PC versions https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1420430337943822337?s=20
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Jul 28, 2021 18:09
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lol that looks so similar it'd barely be worth installing
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Jul 28, 2021 18:11
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Harrow posted:The first three Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters came out like minutes ago and there's already a font fix for the PC versions Holy poo poo.
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Jul 28, 2021 18:11
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Weird that they just like, already had a better font sitting there and elected not to use it, but hey at least it's a pretty easy fix.
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Jul 28, 2021 18:11
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Arzaac posted:I don't know how Genshin Impact does it, but in other gacha games with experience items I usually find that after playing for a bit I simply have a mountain of them, and maxing a new character barely makes a dent. its a weirdly diegetic leveling system because a lot of the time you can look at someone's upgrade items and feel like it makes a certain kind of sense that these are the things they want
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Jul 28, 2021 18:13
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JollyBoyJohn posted:lol that looks so similar it'd barely be worth installing it looks so much better
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Jul 28, 2021 18:16
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It's aesthetically still kinda crappy but it is much more readable.
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Jul 28, 2021 18:17
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Weird to launch without any of the good FFs imo
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Jul 28, 2021 18:17
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cheetah7071 posted:it looks so much better i wonder if its sorted it for the dude on here who found the original font "literally unplayable"
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Jul 28, 2021 18:18
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Also I really badly wanted to play these handheld but apparently there's no controller support on the mobile versions, so I guess the Steam Deck is the official handheld system of the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters (I am not getting a Steam Deck, I'll just play these games on my PC and be mad about it)
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Jul 28, 2021 18:19
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Harrow posted:Also I really badly wanted to play these handheld but apparently there's no controller support on the mobile versions, so I guess the Steam Deck is the official handheld system of the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters Steam Link 
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Jul 28, 2021 18:20
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ShallNoiseUpon posted:Steam Link But what if there's a tiny bit of latency and it drives me crazy 
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Jul 28, 2021 18:24
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I've decided to go for the platinum trophies in FFVIIR and Sekiro. Wish me luck. I also have DOOM Eternal ready to jump into while juggling Strive and FFXIV. Never a better time to enjoy video games
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Jul 28, 2021 18:24
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Jul 28, 2021 18:26
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The Steam Link's great!* *Don't play rhythm games, or paper mario-esque games, or really anything with a timing component on the steam link
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Jul 28, 2021 18:27
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man I wish I was into fighting games because I'm continually in love with Guilty Gear's animation, design, and music just afraid I wouldn't get a lot out of actually playing it
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Jul 28, 2021 18:27
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GG Strive is popular enough that there are a lot of people who have never played a fighting game enjoying it right now, and the matchmaker is pretty good at finding even games for you. There isn’t a whole lot to do except PvP though since the extra modes aren’t anything special.
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Jul 28, 2021 18:29
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FlowerRhythmREMIX posted:I've decided to go for the platinum trophies in FFVIIR and Sekiro. Wish me luck. I also have DOOM Eternal ready to jump into while juggling Strive and FFXIV. Never a better time to enjoy video games i don't remember 7r's trophies but sekiro's looked pretty easy, just a matter of having the patience to buy every skill. you can do it!
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Jul 28, 2021 19:00
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Grinding for all the skills is just dull the trophies are ez
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Jul 28, 2021 19:03
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Monkey Fracas posted:man I wish I was into fighting games because I'm continually in love with Guilty Gear's animation, design, and music You can ask my friends, I was certified grade-A dogshit at fighting games back in May. And then we picked up Strive, and I would now declare myself “eh, fine” at it to the point where I’ve joined the Facebook group for my local fightmans. Strive has a pretty thorough tutorial mode, and the community resources (such as the Dustloop wiki) are extremely well maintained. There’s also lots of people making videos about it right now. So, I’m not saying you’re gonna love it and $60 is a steep price to try something, but it IS possible to enjoy Strive if you are bad at or not very into fighting games. Ok arcsys where’s my money
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Jul 28, 2021 19:05
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PvP is violence...
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Jul 28, 2021 19:15
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Khanstant posted:Never heard anyone describe the story, how or why it was engaging or anything, or the world in any way besides botw comparisons and how the story and world drive you to want characters. so as far as driving you to want characters, on top of just liking their aesthetics and stories, its just acquiring new elements to build parties with, whether out of desire to fill out your team or just novelty and wanting to gently caress stuff up. I honestly think most genshin players are kinda resentful of actually pulling new characters though, on top of it being a little bit of a pain to level people up from scratch, its also very easy to narrow down into a party that you just really like the playstyle of and not have much interest in changing up your toolset. I force myself to build new parties occasionally just to think about my other guys, but my main group has been essentially the same since october (and three of them were freebies!!) because it covers like 90% of my bases and I can bust their combo out via muscle memory the story is, expansive and occasionally ambitious, but more often than not kind of boring imo. I can't exactly say that its just a framing device because theyre very interested in telling the story that exists in some kind of abstract sense, but it definitely functions as a framing device to drive you around the world and meeting characters. the character vignettes are generally more interesting than the main story about uh the nature of ambition(?)
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Jul 28, 2021 19:15
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homeless snail posted:the story is, expansive and occasionally ambitious, but more often than not kind of boring imo. I can't exactly say that its just a framing device because theyre very interested in telling the story that exists in some kind of abstract sense, but it definitely functions as a framing device to drive you around the world and meeting characters. the character vignettes are generally more interesting than the main story about uh the nature of ambition(?) The character stories/Vignettes are great when they are about one of the weirdos like Fischl or Klee, less so when it's someone boring
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Jul 28, 2021 19:25
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Harrow posted:Also level is not really the most important thing with most characters. A lot of support characters can be left at level 60 or 70 (out of 90) with no real issue because the stat gains from leveling are fairly minor after that. It's just that ascending lets you level up their talents higher and that's really important for your main damage dealers. Do you think the game would be better or more fun if they simply didn't have that element. Like if all the gacha was removed in a special edition that you bought like a real videogame and had the characters ready to use as you please.
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Jul 28, 2021 19:29
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Khanstant posted:Do you think the game would be better or more fun if they simply didn't have that element. Like if all the gacha was removed in a special edition that you bought like a real videogame and had the characters ready to use as you please. For me it would be, at least. I know there are people for whom gacha is part of the draw. Some people really like gambling. And I can't deny that there's a certain thrill in pulling that slot machine lever and seeing what color the shooting star turns and oh poo poo it's a 5*, who's it going to be??? It's all very well designed to be a little dopamine hit every time you do a wish and it absolutely works. If it was a regular straight-up RPG, though, where you recruited characters as you met them in the game, I'd absolutely have more fun, though. If nothing else I'd have more characters to play with (and they're all fun in their own way, going by their little limited trials you can do) and I wouldn't have to worry about saving up gems and picking and choosing which characters I spend them to get. I think it might also improve the story, too. As it is, no character ever actually joins your party. Canonically, unless a character is a guest for a specific quest, your main character is doing everything solo. The gacha is non-canon. If there wasn't gacha and characters could join through the story instead, they could actually write the idea that you have an adventuring party into the story, and that'd be fun.
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Jul 28, 2021 19:36
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i think ideally it would be a xenoblade chronicles 2 situation, where its still gacha you just dont have to pay for it. its such a compositional game that I think there's value in not actually being able to pick the pool of stuff you're composing from. just like console yugioh games still make you open card packs and make decks from your pulls
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Jul 28, 2021 19:39
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The progression system isn't even really a gacha thing as much as an engagement metric thing. They want you to have to spend time after pulling the hot new character instead of just instantly maxing them, playing for a day, then going back into hibernation
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Jul 28, 2021 19:40
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homeless snail posted:i think ideally it would be a xenoblade chronicles 2 situation, where its still gacha you just dont have to pay for it. its such a compositional game that I think there's value in not actually being able to pick the pool of stuff you're composing from. just like console yugioh games still make you open card packs and make decks from your pulls Yeah, that might be true. You're right that putting together teams from what characters you get is part of the gameplay, and thinking about how new characters can enable new teams, too. That thing I said about the gacha being fun in and of itself applies to Xenoblade 2 as well. I hesitated to play Xenoblade 2 because of the gacha component (even though you couldn't spend money on it even if you wanted to), but in the end I actually had fun seeing what new blades I'd get from blade cores I found. A hypothetical non-money-gacha version of Genshin Impact could absolutely work with having gacha rolls just be drops or rewards you find like blade cores in Xenoblade 2.
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Jul 28, 2021 19:41
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Harrow posted:The gacha is non-canon. If there wasn't gacha and characters could join through the story instead, they could actually write the idea that you have an adventuring party into the story, and that'd be fun. That's wild and hilarious. I definitely want to try the game if they ever sell a real version or someone hacks one up.
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Jul 28, 2021 19:41
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yeah there's no kind of narrative justification for why you are actually 4 people. even the free characters don't really explicitly Join Up with you, except for the very first girl you meet in the tutorial that's like "oh let's walk together to the city". and then you get to the city and she leaves in the cutscene but, you're still playing as her
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Jul 28, 2021 19:47
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wuggles posted:You can ask my friends, I was certified grade-A dogshit at fighting games back in May. And then we picked up Strive, and I would now declare myself “eh, fine” at it to the point where I’ve joined the Facebook group for my local fightmans. Might give it a shot- need something to play in short bursts coming up here while I'm busy with other stuff Any better platform to get it on?
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Jul 28, 2021 19:58
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JollyBoyJohn posted:lol that looks so similar it'd barely be worth installing Its basically the same font, but un-squished. But that's still pretty significant.
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Jul 28, 2021 20:01
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if you arent going to locals get it on pc cuz it has the lowest input lag and a lot of players. theyre planning to add crossplay later on anyway
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Jul 28, 2021 20:01
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I kinda think games like Mortal Kombat would be a better starting point than Strive. I don't know, I found Strive's systems a bit unintuitive and annoying. The movement also feels not great and unfree. But that's just me
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