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fire arrows make glinthawks obsolete

i saved ropecaster ammo on the real big machines. only way i found anything the size of a bellowback and up to be manageable.

iirc, tearblast arrows were op when the game came out. got nerfed by the time i played the game. still incredibly useful against the bigger enemies that have a lot of armor!
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just chiming in to say that nil is a fascinating character, although i have to admit that it probaby has more to do with the va's performance and the facial animation in my case. those two things really sell the sociopathy!
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I've only played GoW and MHW, and it's the former for now. Celeste and NNK2 are on my must-play list.
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interested in absolver, as what i've seen makes it look like nothing else in the market!

heavy rain's writing and voice acting are pure dreck, but i'm morbidly interested in how it looks on the ps4.
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since i first beat ceaseless discharge many many years ago dodging his arm slam and attacking it over and over, i've always just done the "trick" method of killing him because it's much faster and not tedious unlike fighting him "legit". he's never been a highlight after the first time, so i prefer to get it over with asap.

i actually had the worst bug happen to me when i was at the very last area on my first playthrough of the remastered version.

got invaded by a darkmoon blade. i won, of course, but as i was making my way down the spiral staircase to the boss door, the sound cue for beating a boss suddenly played. ending cutscene started, credits, then i'm in ng+. if that had happened to me on my actual first time playing the game, i would have been livid! never encountered that glitch in the five times i beat the original on ps3.

what sucked even more was that i did all of the dlc right before that happened, so the save i had uploaded to the cloud was the one before i started the dlc. i just started a new character instead.

another minor glitch is when you invade someone in anor londo and that player makes it to the optional boss, you'll get the trophy for it if you haven't done it in your own world.

also, you only need to get up to ng++ to platinum the game! not too hard, actually. i got it on ps3 so i don't think i'll be doing it again for the remaster.
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1. Bloodborne
2. Dark Souls
3. Dark Souls 3
4. Demon's Souls
5. Dark Souls 2

think highly of each one. what a great series. i really hope from doesn't make a dark souls 4.

excited for sekiro!
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ha yeah that part was also pretty rough for me the first time i played through the game.

zero problems on my last four runs.

it's a highlight in the design intentionality of the enemy placement in the series. it feels impossible when you don't know what to do. the moment you figure it out, there's very little challenge left.
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Blighttown is an amazing area and the only other one that still made me feel that old dark souls feeling on my first playthrough of the remastered version
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i'll give you gascoigne and micolash for bloodborne bosses that the arena truly matters! you'll see how it's more pronounced in this game as you go along.

upgrade away! early game weapon upgrades make a significant impact.
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dark souls is kinda like demon's souls in that the arena you fight a boss in is a much bigger factor than it is in the later games. i kinda sorta miss that!
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this is your first time through the game, yes? if so, then yeah, good thing you didn't get the master key. might end up getting lost unlocking doors that you should save for later!

can't go wrong with vit and end, for sure. strength for the big, slow weapons. dex for the fast, light weapons. generally speaking of course, since there are exceptions to the typical str/dex weapon.

don't bother with resistance.

intelligence for magic spells, faith for miracles

the game doesn't tell you how to get more uses out of your estus flask, so i won't feel bad about just telling you straight up how to do it.

use a humanity item when you're next to a bonfire. might as well use two right away. you should see 02 on the top left corner next to your health and stamina.

sit next to a bonfire. choose "reverse hollowing". your zombie character should look human afterward. then choose "kindle". that should bring up the number of estus flask uses to 10 whenever you sit on that particular bonfire you just kindled.
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so glad death stranding didn't turn into another 3rd person stealth-action hybrid like the other big 3 ps4 games. i like those too, no question, but yeah, there is homogeneity in the big, showy blockbuster titles, and at least death stranding is different!

not the most exciting trailer, but i'm even more intrigued with how it'll play. it'd be a super bold move on kojima to make a quieter, more adventure like video game with the money and the marketing sony is giving it!
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been waiting for this! one more main line re game i can play to eventually finish the series in a totally messed up order
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been playing the remaster. past o&s. joined the darkwraiths. been doing a lot of invading since sen's fortress. never got to do much of it when i first played so it's been fun (sometimes) hunting people all over.

but jesus christ so much about pvp can be frustrating with all the backstab nonsense. didn't get too deep into the pvp in the original version since i played it pretty late. now i understand why a lot of people hated it. lagstabs, chain backstabs, clipping into player models for backstabs, etc. it looks so dumb and feels awful. everything about the backstab mechanic in pvp is just broken and janky. the later games really improved on that aspect.

"fighting" players who clearly know how to exploit the brokenness of it just isn't fun.

blighttown at 60fps is great without ruining any of the tension. still died the most in that area from falling after getting cornered and knocked back. it's great. haha.
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i would have put cave story in my top 10 but yeah, 3ds remake disqualifies it!
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1. The Last of Us
2. Journey
3. Bloodborne
4. Overwatch
5. The Witness
6. Pyre
7. The Beginner's Guide
8. Braid
9. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
10. God Hand

If we're really gonna disqualify Bloodborne because it's too much like the rest of the Souls games, move everything up and Furi's #10.
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Solioxrz362 posted...

Iga Escape (Ninja House/Giant Toad mission) is now my least favorite

Fuck that level, that shit had me so mad at almost every turn.

dude what that's probably the most memorable one! it's gimmicky as hell and i love it haha.
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got the platinum trophy for god of war a couple of weeks back. beat the story again a week after. it's a very good aaa blockbuster video game-ass video game. super satisfying gameplay loop, surprising depth in combat, hype af moments, doesn't really have anything new or meaningful to say.

played an hour of all our asias, but it didn't really grab me and haven't gone back to it yet. i know i only have about another hour left, so i'll finish it this weekend.

took part in the dark souls remastered network test. only played the original on ps3 with its sub 30fps and muddy textures. looks good! but goddamn that game is slow. played through all of bloodborne couple of months back, so dark souls' slowness is just made all the more apparent.

also, dueling in that game is just broken and silly. didn't do much of it in the original version, but i did my fair share in dark souls 3 and bloodborne. it's exciting in those games, but dark souls 1 dueling is basically backstab fishing. it's made all the more worse with the inherent lag in these games with the player models strafing into one another looking for backstabs. i'm not saying anything new about this, since it's been the case 7 years ago, but yeah, the network test was a stark reminder for me to just not bother with dueling when the full game comes out. i'll still welcome invasions and will do some invading myself, because the cat and mouse aspect of pvp can still be surprising. just no fight clubs or "honorable" duels for me.

haven't played a game since the weekend of that test though! don't have anything else on my plate. only have the dark souls remaster to look forward to in the immediate future.
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i enjoyed this game quite a bit. it just kept going and going to the point that i only felt relief when i finally beat it for real.

got the season pass for it too thinking i was gonna love it because i adore the soulsborne games. played the first couple of missions of the first dlc and found them to be brutally tough, too tough for my already dwindling patience for the game. didn't continue with the dlc and haven't touched the game since.

there's something special about the combat for sure. it's enough of a solid foundation that i'm still interested in a sequel. it just has to have either a more compact campaign or more enemy variety and more interesting levels to justify a 70-80 hour story.

i used the odachi, a dlc weapon, as my main, with the kusarigama as my second, for most of the game. dabbled with the axe and sword as well. don't sleep on the option to deplete enemies' stamina!
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GANON1025 posted...

Huh, I didn't run into one near the corpse, all the doors that I could open with the chisel were just shortcuts out of the area.

there's the one that's literally right next to the dock for the area!

the kara fight became manageable for me when i realized how few kara's moves actually are. simple enough to clean out the draugrs when i just had to watch out for a couple of attacks from a distance.
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if you aren't going for the platinum and you already completed the story, there's no point in going through niflheim or muspelheim for that matter.

i enjoyed my time in both realms, but yeah, the grind in niflheim got to me a bit near the end even though i was getting 7-8k mist echoes a run. got into a comfortable loop of managing cooldowns for my buffed up runic attacks that i was finishing most encounters quickly through monstrous instant damage. the mist became a non-issue over halfway through unlocking every chest and realm tear.

didn't bother me too much, but i definitely understand why the place turns off a lot of players.
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if there were a ng+ that also allowed switching to gmgow difficulty, i'd totally give it a shot. just can't be arsed to get through the opening hours with the damage sponge enemies that kill you in 2-3 hits with your extremely limited moveset.

i also can't imagine resurrection stones not working when you get VALHALLA'D as a glitch that passed through the qa process of a game of this magnitude. i'm 99.99% sure that's intentional.
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so yeah i got the platinum for the game five days ago, and i'm actually midway through another playthrough. decided to replay it anyway to see if the pacing and narrative problems that some people bring up affect me as much.

i actually appreciate more the craft in storytelling for one plot thread (baldur and freya's relationship), seeing the small things that affirm that particular climax.

nothing super glaring so far in the pacing, but i do still have a ways to go before the last quarter, which is the part that gets most of the complaints regarding the pacing.

if there is one thing that i definitely missed in the early game, it's just the lack of combat options. makes me wish for a new game plus. of course, i get why the moveset is as basic as it is in the beginning. it took me about 3-5 hours into the game the first time before i got comfortable enough with the combat. maybe some of the moves could have been there from the start though, like the running attacks and the axe cleave?

going back to the narrative, i do empathize with the more big picture problem critics have with it. the story sony santa monica decided to tell was done well enough. it's just that it falls into the same trappings of these kinds of stories. the typical idea of masculinity isn't really challenged in a meaningful way, and it doesn't make for good representation of women. it's nowhere near straight-up juvenile misogynist like in the previous games, but it still doesn't do much for positive, forward-thinking depictions of women. faye is mythologized to be this perfect warrior/sage/saint, and i cannot for the life of me fathom how she ever got into a relationship with kratos and had a kid with him. maybe that's the one thing that makes her seem like a real person - her downright atrocious taste in men, which i say as a joke but even then if taken on face value also doesn't speak kindly for women's representation! freya is just overburdened as the one on-screen female character. there are all these male characters showing a range of personalities and arcs, and there's the one woman who becomes a trope in the end. i don't find it off-puttingly offensive, but it is disappointing.

i also take issue with the game's gestures at "being better" in regard to kratos' violent past. it's just so pg-13 "mature" action fiction to say violence should be the last option while glorifying violence 90% of the time. yes, it's hard to ignore commenting on it when the game is telling a father and son story framed in a much more grounded way, but i can't help but roll my eyes when games try to moralize on that front and still paint protagonists who kill hundreds as heroic all the while making violence feel viscerally satisfying. why even bother when you're not really saying anything new or profound about those conflicting emotions?!

these failings have only made me think more fondly of the last of us. now there's a big-budget sad dad video game that interrogates paternal masculinity and violence without having that disconnect in story and gameplay.

it's probably easier for me to look past those flaws anyway because hey i'm a dude and a person who has been playing video games since childhood without the highest expectations for aaa stories, but yeah, despite my problems with the narrative, i still think god of war is an enormously fun time. the combat really is something special, the exploration loop is rewarding, mimir is the perfect addition to the kratos/atreus dynamic, brok and sindri are incredibly charming, the small moments with kratos and atreus are genuine and heartfelt, the big moments are exhilarating and fist-pumping, the nods to the past games are succinct and impactful, and the valkryie fights are just the best.

i'm going to finish it again, and i will likely still feel positively about it in the future. here's hoping the sequels are better with women????
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oh damn i thought had seen all the story stuff

but then i went back

and i thought i was excited for the next game but damn
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i just beat the game

it is very good, maybe even great. it's the perfect example of a gigantic, super polished AAA game that does most things super well, taking some of the best parts of past gigantic, super polished AAA games. it's not revelatory, and there are big elements in the story that don't sit well with me. i am definitely looking forward to where sony santa monica goes after this. already kinda hankering for some story dlc, even after doing almost everything in the game. will definitely get the platinum with how close i am.

also yes switching the difficulty to hard right after i last posted here was a good decision. i'd even say that it felt so natural, that the difficulty should scale like it did with my choice to bump up it up to "give me a challenge" at that point in the game. had i stuck with the default mode, i don't think i would be as enamored with the combat, which is 100% the best single thing in the game. i don't think i would have appreciated the depth and the customization that i had to explore, because i would have probably just steamrolled the rest of the game without paying any mind to any of those things.

i might try give me god of war difficulty because of how much i like this game, but i'm afraid to go back to the start with none of the abilities and equipment that i've put so much time acquiring (and being so intrinsically tied to my love of the combat) then having to deal with way more powerful enemies.
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just saw it

it's good! with how gigantic the cast is and how this is the longest mcu movie yet, it's remarkable that everyone gets a moment without the film dragging and feeling bloated.

excited to see what direction the next avengers movie takes.
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i should!

also, holy shit i just hit a moment in the story that's pretty neat
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probably around 25-30 hours in and i'm really enjoying this. combat is so frenetic and satisfying. i did end up doing so many sidequests in the middle of the story that my gear and skills are so high level that resuming the main plot has me steamrolling enemies now. already thinking of bumping up the difficulty to hard.
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kinda like breath of the wild, i died so many times in the first 10 hours and have had zero problems with dying since then
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icon, i think the game you're looking for in odyssey can be found in the challenge rooms that are akin to sunshine's! too bad most of the best ones are in the post-game.

i've only played this and 3d world of the 3d mario games, but the experiences i've had with both are just so vastly different that i can't really compare. played odyssey solo and 3d world with friends from start to finish.

but having seen all of steal my sunshine, i can say with certainty that super mario sunshine is the worst 3d mario game.

anyway, god of war! seems like i'm the only one here that has it? literally just got it and downloading the day 1 patch as i type this. i'm hoping it's as good as the reviews say, but i'm also glad i've tempered my expectations with the gow talk on the bombcast and waypoint radio.
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fucking yes jesus christ
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good to hear it's actually leagues better than the boring zorah fights! looking forward to trying it later.
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Undead Nightmare is a fun time. Give it a shot! The dedication Rockstar had in transforming the entire world into a zombie nightmare is super admirable. There are a couple of tedious missions, but it's worth pushing through to see it to the end.
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i'd get back on this weekend

if god of war weren't coming out this friday

so good luck to the hunters taking it on this weekend! i will probably check it out myself when it comes out on thursday.
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well shit the very next difficulty level is no fucking joke jesus christ

thought i was done for multiple times. used up all 3 of my rewinds, had an agent go down, got all the way up to the highest alert level, had a platoon of guards up my ass, and still managed to get both my agents out with the stolen goods.

goddamn i get why people love this game now
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beat invisible inc on the starter difficulty after about 7 hours. cool stuff, but i do think the challenge wasn't really there to produce much tension and drama for me. i do appreciate the way the game explains why it's recommended to begin on that level. also love the customization available regarding the exact difficulty settings.

will get started on the next difficulty level and hope it's exciting enough! think i can get through it and the "way it's meant to be played" difficulty before next weekend and god of war hits because hoo boy am i excited for that because of the high praise.
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oh hey beat expert with randos

couple of close calls, but we pulled through!

now to see how legendary feels like

edit: SNIPERS ARE SCARY
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okay anybody here on ps4 wanna group up and try beating expert? i've come close about 4 times getting to the end but failing with randos. feel like with a team that communicates this should be good.
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beat rime a couple of days ago

real pretty game that never really has any highs and doesn't land any of its emotional punches because i barely knew any of the characters.

a good deal of the puzzles also felt rote. like if you've played a bunch of puzzle games before, you know exactly what to do.

started invisible inc. digging it! security level increasing every turn is a brilliant design choice that i can only assume will make for super intense missions later on.

it's a strategy game originally made for pc so obviously the ui can be a bit hard to parse, but it's manageable with a controller so far.
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turns out finishing retribution on hard just required me to play as genji
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every single failure in retribution on hard is because of a fuckin idiot genji not boarding the drop ship and dying immediately to the two heavies that he thought he could take on his own.

every single fucking time
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just beat the one optional boss in bloodborne to finish my first ever base level run at a souls game, and it only took 20 hours! i can probably attribute 6 of those to just fighting the last two bosses.

skipped a couple of optional bosses and the entire dlc because i know my limits, but hey, i can still get to say that i beat bloodborne at bl4 and that i'm a good gamer.

video proof of my cowardly, patient ass almost fucking up a couple of times but getting the win in the end anyway:

VIDEO CONTAINS SPOILERS OF COURSE FOR THE END GAME OF BLOODBORNE

i think i can stop playing video games now because there's just no topping that for me.
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GANON1025 posted...

holy god yes giant bomb NEEDS to use this
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baubeta posted...

I'm watching content again after a few months. I can't get past the fact that Abby has no idea what she's talking about and is obviously using this job as a stepping stone to some failed comedy career that will fail because she isn't funny.

ah so you're saying she's not a real gamer
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That ending is a major reason as to why I love the game so much. It makes perfect sense given everything that happened while also being audacious in how its presented and its direction in context to how other AAA games' wrap up their stories. It's devastating in its humanity, in its depiction of the lengths that people go to just to not be alone, how that manifests in the smallest of actions, and how its reflected in the tiniest motions in body language.

And of course I'm both super skeptical and hopeful of where the sequel takes the narrative.
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this fmvinny is fuckin wild
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yo bloodborne is still excellent

lady maria is still *chef's kiss*

running a bl4 build isn't THAT hard, but i am now just about to fight a boss that apparently is the first real big wall for this run

new overwatch character brigitte is soooooo fun to play i am back in

how bout that devil jho coming this friday

love to keep playing games i already have instead of new ones
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this is my favorite game of all time

you should probably drop it if playing it isn't a compelling experience by now
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i need to get around to playing rise of the tomb raider. i enjoyed the 2013 reboot well enough!
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https://twitter.com/Drake/status/974147677662298112?s=19

what a time to be alive indeed
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