That damn multiple dash move is impossible to pull off consistently, though.
― Dan I., Wednesday, 16 May 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
I backed it on Kickstarter but never d/l’d my copy, so now I’m just going to rebuy it on Switch later this year
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
Biggest complaint was that giant robots figured prominently in the cut scenes but you never get to fight one!
― Dan I., Wednesday, 16 May 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
has anyone played wizard of legend? pls help, i am dying. i can't remember ever being so bad at a game.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 17 May 2018 13:45 (six years ago) link
yeah it's one of the like 2 roguelites i like. am really bad at it though
― ciderpress, Thursday, 17 May 2018 14:38 (six years ago) link
i've been playing the new god of war for a couple of hours now, waiting patiently for it to get good, and... it hasn't :(
― martin short's interiors (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 May 2018 14:42 (six years ago) link
lol i played GoW for about half an hour and had a visceral "i don't want to spend my time doing this" reaction, which is how i ended up on wizard of legend coincidentally. it looks so good, i don't know why i just immediately hated it! hoping i go back to it and get over myself.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 17 May 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
cider if you have literally any tips, or have seen anything useful on line, would appreciate
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 17 May 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
ha, i was thinking about getting God of War but was a bit suspicious when these gushing 10/10 reviews spent most of their time praising The Story. which is in my experience NEVER a good sign for a video game.
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Thursday, 17 May 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
i remember the original gow being a non-stop pulse-pounding visceral action experience and so far the new one involves a lot of trudging from a to b, listening to dialogue and then punching some low-level scrubs to death before doing it all over again, occasionally broken up by fucking around in the upgrade menus
maybe i've got the blood-coloured glasses on in remembering the original but the new one is def not grabbing me
― martin short's interiors (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 May 2018 14:58 (six years ago) link
yeah, the original GoW was total arcade-y mayhem. remember having a lot of fun w/ it at the time.
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Thursday, 17 May 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
the new one is a reboot of the series from character action to cinematic adventure game, it plays much different from what I can tell. you're not misremembering anything
― ciderpress, Thursday, 17 May 2018 15:19 (six years ago) link
this is what gets you the big metacritic scores in 2018, make every game as close to Uncharted as possible
― ciderpress, Thursday, 17 May 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, May 17, 2018 10:50 AM (thirty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i got nothing, its mostly just about abusing your dash to reposition. try doing an ice build at the start, being able to freeze enemies makes things more manageable
its a roguelite so over time you can grind out better starting kits and thus lower the difficulty a bit
― ciderpress, Thursday, 17 May 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
yeah, it's kinda bullshit. i have other mediums to deliver good stories. and the best video game story is still almost always some C level pulp. ~cinematic~. barf.
the new DOOM won me over almost immediately by pointedly, flippantly tossing (literally) narrative to the side.
xp
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Thursday, 17 May 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
i thought the story in breath of the wild was really well executed but the like #1 complaint about that game from the gaming community was 'it has no story' so thats kind of where we're at with narrative in video games. it has to all happen on-screen in the course of the gameplay, or it doesn't exist.
― ciderpress, Thursday, 17 May 2018 15:38 (six years ago) link
Gamers don’t know what they want
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 17 May 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
yr average gamer is not one to appreciate subtlety.
haven't plated BotW yet but i liked the way the Dark Souls games did it. build it into the environments and item descriptions and such. i don't know how coherent it ultimately all was, but it was actually interesting and intriguing.
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Thursday, 17 May 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
yeah botw is similar, the conceit is that the 'usual' legend of zelda narrative happened 100 years ago but link fucked up and lost to ganon, and the story is told sparsely through the environment and short flashbacks
― ciderpress, Thursday, 17 May 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link
all the interesting stories in botw come from its various systems colliding in unexpected ways imo, and they're all unique to the player
― martin short's interiors (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 May 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
story telling in BOTW is incredible, it leaks slowly, in shades, without too many cut screens or junk you have to read. the memories in particular capture the zelda - link relationship in pretty breathtaking ways just with music & the looks they give each other.
― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 17 May 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
i'm (still) playing GoW right now, about 30 hours in. it does have a very slow start, but i started having more fun once it opened up and the whole world opens up (maybe 5 hours in?). it also became more fun once i unlocked all the combat abilities and it entered that diablo III sweet spot of juggling various abilities and cooldowns.
i haven't played any god of war game before, though, so maybe this one is much worse.
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Thursday, 17 May 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link
i don't know how coherent it ultimately all was, but it was actually interesting and intriguing.
Yeah I couldn't care less about the "actual" lore, but I love that it just gestures at it and you end up making up weird stories and connections in your head. Like, with your actual imagination.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 17 May 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link
gonna do FF4 next in my Year of JRPGs since i never finished that one as a kid - kinda tempted to try the DS version with the gross 3d characters instead of the original SNES
― ciderpress, Thursday, 17 May 2018 22:09 (six years ago) link
sacrilege! though i was curious myself how that was
― Nhex, Thursday, 17 May 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
the draw is apparently it improves the gameplay a bit with some modern QOL stuff and higher difficulty
― ciderpress, Thursday, 17 May 2018 22:33 (six years ago) link
i'll probably just do the snes one though
― ciderpress, Thursday, 17 May 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link
SNES one i remember being eminently replayable, because it was easy and the music is great. but my last replay was probably about 15 years ago or so
― Nhex, Thursday, 17 May 2018 22:36 (six years ago) link
i have only ever had playstations (1-3) and am finally facing up to being obsolete. i really want to get another one so i can play last of us. but i have two kids and the switch is so tempting..
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 May 2018 22:48 (six years ago) link
The Switch rules and it’s only gonna keep ruling harder.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 17 May 2018 22:51 (six years ago) link
Yeh the DS game is a lot harder iirc, the DS FFIII was even harder. Probably best to stick to the SNES one (and burn the godawful PS1 version)I had a busted finger for the past couple of months so haven’t been doing much gaming. I did however spend far too much time fannying around with setting up emulators on my computer with a nice front end, so I can stream them to my TV. Kinda ridiculous how deep that rabbit hole goes.Also my PS4 has started to randomly turn itself on, have had to unplug it ffs.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 17 May 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
Tracer, get them both. You know you want to. Get ALL the game systems, now is the time.
― Nhex, Friday, 18 May 2018 00:55 (six years ago) link
strong truth
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 18 May 2018 08:49 (six years ago) link
I bought the Mass Effect trilogy pack last week, but since then I've started another TLOU game, this time on hard. BUT, I've gotten to the hotel basement and not being in a hurry to relive that horror, I'm thinking I should start on Mass Effect?
― Twyla Thwoorp (Leee), Friday, 18 May 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
i don't see the point of playing TLOU on hard, it's hard enough and you're playing that game more for the story/atmosphere
― Nhex, Saturday, 19 May 2018 03:17 (six years ago) link
i decided to get back into BOTW and beat the remaining Divine Beast and check out Hyrule Castle (which i am very excited to see). i just got to the desert, and holy crap, this game just gets better and better. i may have saved the best for the last. right off the bat the sweeping desertscape was impressive and cartoonishly apocalyptic in the kind of way that reminded me of the old Bakshi LOTR film.
then i learn about the seals. omg i love the seals. what a great idea, what fun! then 10 minutes later the story about sneaking into town and seeking out the aid of a cross dressing fellow traveler. i really like how they did the story in this game, in presenting all these wide and varied scenarios. the avatar is undergoing this process of continuous transformation into a godlike & mythical being, interacting with the world and growing with it, taking on it's attributes. admittedly it's just the same old abilities-based progression Zelda games have always used to mark progress, but portrayed in the most beautiful, gracefully animated renderings. the player is constantly partaking in the creation of all sorts of experimental fantasy world and elemental-based myths (the Link-green garb desert garb helps you counteract the scorching red heat). this game is so brilliant. so loopy in that classic JRPG way. i love it.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 19 May 2018 04:35 (six years ago) link
at first i was going to complain the seals go a little too slow but then i saw a button prompt for speeding up and yeah that was a fun moment right there
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 19 May 2018 04:38 (six years ago) link
installing trails of cold steel...
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:37 (six years ago) link
played the demo for detroit: becoming human ... kind of intrigued tbh
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:40 (six years ago) link
david cage......
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link
is he a bad man
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:50 (six years ago) link
nah he's just kind of a hack compared to other auteur game designers
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:57 (six years ago) link
I liked his other games despite their obvious flaws.
There's a bit at the end of the Become Human demo that visualizes the underlying decision tree that led to the outcome I chose ... found it pretty exciting.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 00:14 (six years ago) link
cold steel is an overwhelming production quality upgrade from trails in the sky even if its still a last-gen game, and they've managed to maintain the coziness of the world design into full 3d. i already love it
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 01:13 (six years ago) link
Beat Far Cry 5. It dumb as fuck.
Also playing Stellaris, which is great.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 24 May 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
beat god of war. i rushed the ending and skipped out on a bunch of "content" because i was just ready to be done. the upgraded skills in god of war are fun to use, but the combat gets very monotonous after a while because the enemies don't really prompt you to come up with more than 2 or 3 general strategies, and changing weapons/eq only provides a stat boost, rather than changing how you have to use the weapons, or their effect. the puzzles are really meh as well.
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 25 May 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link
10/10 Masterpiece!Yeah, everything I’ve heard from real people who aren’t games journalists has made me know this isn’t something to rush out and buy.
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Friday, 25 May 2018 02:03 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/nbYtQuA.jpg
― ciderpress, Friday, 25 May 2018 02:23 (six years ago) link
friday the 13th: killer puzzle on my phone. liked it enough that i bought all the levels.
grow up on ps4. so far it seems too similar to the first one, but I'll continue.
― adam the (abanana), Friday, 25 May 2018 02:52 (six years ago) link
trails of cold steel is really good. turns out adding persona-style school life to the trails in the sky formula was the perfect match. definitely a game for people who enjoy hanging out in towns in RPGs and talking to every NPC, even the most minor characters have new dialogue every day and there's all sorts of cute little side stories going on in the background
― ciderpress, Sunday, 27 May 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link