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Idkbutlike2: 2019-01-18 12:48:01 pm
Quote from tomatobob:
So, since you haven't played it before, how does Patty's place in the story feel to you?

I don't find her particularly obtrusive or anything. She just kind of shows up, does something silly, then leaves. Hell, I have no complaints about the playable cast in general. They're probably the best in the series. If there's anything I don't like about Vesperia DE, it's the hack job localization and some annoying boss fights in early parts of the game.
One shall stand, one shall ball.
I don't think any of the early boss fights were new? The one that annoyed me on this replay pissed me off on the original run too back in the day lol.

But yeah it's generally agreed that the main characters are all good and are really what made the game special to so many people. Patty's case is just funny to me because she feels kinda tacked on because she was. But if this is the first experience with the game she's probably just like any of the other party members. I don't mind her being there it's just kinda funny to me.
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Idkbutlike2: 2019-01-18 09:10:56 pm
Oh, I meant bosses in general, not exclusively to DE. Gattuso, the Burst Artes tutorial, and that one fight with Barbos' goons with solo Yuri all sucked ass on Hard mode.
One shall stand, one shall ball.
Yeah, those ones suck, Gattuso is a sharp difficulty spike and the battle system is really not built for solo-ing. The Burst Arte tutorial is particularly dumb because you will be knocked out of the Burst Arte 100% of the time in the fight where the game is telling you it's totally super good. I'd never encountered an anti-tutorial before but there it was right there. I never use the damn thing because I just remember getting owned for trying it lol.
Yeah, it wasn't until the second act that I actually started experimenting with things like Burst Artes, guard canceling, and Fatal Strikes. To its credit, the combat does get really fun once you have enough Artes, Skills, and other supplemental mechanics to work with, but it takes trudging through a good 10-15 hours of clunk to get there.
One shall stand, one shall ball.
I haven't played any of the more recent games in the series but I really hope they learned that it's ok to give the player the tools to make the combat actually work before they've played, like, a third of the game. Vesperia gives you sixty base artes before finally giving you one that lets you extend the combo beyond 123 base arte haha.
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ryu: 2019-01-19 08:52:16 am
Berseria lets you spam combos from the beginning.  But that's not any better because you just spam artes without thinking about what you're doing
Well, Berseria doesn't even have a traditional Artes and normal attacks system to begin with.
beat the final boss of dead cells on my second try with 19 deaths. the first attempt was such a mess I didn't think I'd beat him this soon...
red chamber dream
i'm really impressed with god of war ps4. it takes the current trend in open world games of stealing every good idea out there but applies it to the action adventure genre. it doesn't overdo anything, and it just works. both the combat and exploration are as deep as you want them to be, and there's a ton of mechanics like crafting that are taken from other genres and done well. it still feels like god of war. really it's not so different from the early games, it's just impressive to see that kind of thing done so well on current consoles

i have no idea how long the game is, but the amount of variety in locations so far makes it feel like a naughty dog game. it's no wonder this took sony santa monica so long to make ...
15 years late but I can record gameplay now lol

doing a let's play of lsd
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Opium: 2019-01-26 02:48:22 am
I'm in a gaming slump where I can't get into any game that I play.


I played most of the way through Celeste and I liked it but it made my wrist hurt.

I started playing Demon's Souls.  I was on a walkway and I parried an enemy, but the riposte animation made my character warp 2 feet over the edge which made me fall to my death as soon as I pulled the sword out of him.  I was like 'NO. This game is too flawed.'


My regular staples like metroid, zelda, etc are just boring me.


I hate this.
red chamber dream
have you played god of war? ;)

ugh the combat is so good and just keeps getting better as i unlock more options
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Da Dood: 2019-01-27 08:51:55 am
Dood Trigger™
Got REmake 2. I'll still probably replay the other versions of RE2 first just to see how different the experience will be.

And by other versions I mean... RE2 and the RE2 parts of Darkside Chronicles.
lmao

darkside chronicles is a fundamentally different kind of game. I really liked it.
Dood Trigger™
Yeah, I've beaten it a few times before. I just want to see all the ways they made and remade RE2 throughout the years. \o There's also a mission in Outbreak File 2 that takes place in the RPD, but I haven't played that game.
I like turtles.
I sank probably 18 hours over the weekend into a single boss in Hollow Knight. For those unfamiliar, each boss can be rematched with buff health (and sometimes an altered arena), and then after that you can fight them with the same buffs and they also one-shot you with any attack. The latter mode is what I've been trying with what is notoriously the hardest boss in the game. Six phases without taking damage at all. Yikes.
man I just beat the game and got done with it. don't have the time and patience anymore to play games like that. also stopped playing dead cells after the first playthrough, when there's 4 higher difficulties to unlock...

just my copy of KHIII. I really hope this'll mostly play like the previous games....
Dood Trigger™
Resident Evil 2 (Not Remake™), Claire A/Leon B done.

RE2 is one of the easiest games ever, and yet it feels so tense. There's not that much danger gameplay-wise, but the atmosphere is so incredibly crafted that it feels like any new camera angle might be the one that kills you. Silent Hill 2 is pretty similar in this regard, I think.

For Leon B I purposely avoided using the Magnum, but still collected all of its ammo to see how much they give you: had something like 100 bullets in the end. This includes both Mr. X encounters where he's scripted to drop Magnum ammo. I don't think I find that much Magnum ammo in one playthrough of RE4, haha.

I can't remember how long Darkside Chronicles is (the RE2 part, anyway), but I'll at least start it tonight.
I like turtles.
Quote from ryu:
man I just beat the game and got done with it. don't have the time and patience anymore to play games like that. also stopped playing dead cells after the first playthrough, when there's 4 higher difficulties to unlock...

just my copy of KHIII. I really hope this'll mostly play like the previous games....

Which ones though? There's a big variety of gameplay elements to pick from. :)

So far I'd say it plays like KH2 with BbS physics. Unfortunately BbS physics are bad. It's still mostly enjoyable though.
I meant in the sense that it still feels like Kingdom Hearts even like 10 years after the last game, remember the previous games are all really old by now and it's the first KH game in HD res (which you can tell by how huge areas are now, Sora runs around like Sonic to compensate lol)

Agreed on how it feels. Just think they went a bit overboard with the gimmicky reaction commands.
also I'm past the tutorial and the game is still surprisingly easy for proud mode. dunno if the difficulty will ever feel right in this one
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tomatobob: 2019-01-30 04:11:14 pm
One shall stand, one shall ball.
Upon further review Patty's whole deal in Vesperia is trash garbo lmao.
i never considered her to be more than an extra so i never had a problem with her implementation
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arkarian: 2019-01-30 07:20:45 pm
red chamber dream
lol i've never even played a version of the game with her in it. i certainly don't consider her an actual character

she has some cool looking attacks though, like that roulette wheel or whatever lol