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It's a fantastic handheld.

But in terms of a home console it's a little more dubious. Especially with games running 4K these days and the next gen of PS and Xbox on the horizon.

I, personally, have played hundreds of hours on my Switch.
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My friend from a small town said teenagers would fuck in literal hay fields lmao. Out of the way, pretty discrete. In hay.
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saspa posted...

"it's not hard to follow, as long as you ignore the stuff that's confusing and hard to follow"

Well, 8 of the 9 releases are simple to follow.

But time travel was such an ass pull that the most nonsensical rules had to be applied to avoid retcon.

For instance, one rule of time travel is that you supposedly cannot change fate by going into the future. Why time travel at all? KH3's entire plot is clearly based around time travel, and it's Xehanort's means of accomplishing his goals, so how is it not altering fate?

The story was fine in terms of making sense imo. Then time travel shat all over it.
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What happened in Tomb of the Giants again?

I actually quit the game for like a year during the Demon/Hell area when I was collecting the Lord's Souls. I had Seath and the Kings of New Londo, but that whole lava area was straight ass and I didn't beat it until much later.
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Do you have to jump to get to aqueduct?

Maybe that's why you thought it was a dead end.
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Sunhawk posted...

Navigation in this game is a nightmare. Just finding stuff you need to find.

Also, why put something extremely hard you aren't meant to use for a long time right there? Just to trick new players? Just to annoy people? This is pretty bad game design.

Navigation is its worst at the beginning. Once you get your bearings, you'll know how to get around. I honestly believe finding Undead Burg is the biggest navigational challenge in the game.

As for the late game areas, there are a couple reasons. One is to build a cohesive world. There isn't an arbitrary wall blocking you from most areas in the game, you don't go to them because you don't need to go to them or can't make it through doing so. And, if you are good enough and know how to tackle those areas, you can "sequence" break in future playthroughs for fun.

Another is that almost all areas have a pretty close connection to Firelink in some way. When you need to take on New Londo and the Catacombs, they are waiting for you when they left them. And, at some point in the game, you may want to return to certain areas to farm items.
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The Catacombs is another late game area. With an annoying gimmick as well.

At this point I would just look up where the Undead Burg is. My experience was very similar to yours btw (turn around from Anor Londo, fuck around in the Catacombs, look up where I'm supposed to go).

You want to be in Undead Burg.

Edit: Imo Undead Burg is, for whatever reason, the easiest path to miss.
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Freddie_Mercury posted...

the trivia is easy

the timed challenges are bullshit though

It's probably easier on a repeat playthrough than a first playthrough over a couple months, I'd imagine.

And I didn't have much trouble with the timed challenges. Mostly because it was either the box or the gator eating every time except once. Idk how many there are, but the bee/hornet nest is the only other one I saw.
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I think I would have enjoyed it a lot more if the board was half as long or something.

I hate trivia as an activity IRL though. Having it sandbag me just as I'm about to finish the game rubbed me the wrong way.
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Why did you guys enjoy the board game?
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Darklit_Minuet posted...

You should have remembered all those grunty questions. They're all very memorable

I remembered about half of what her sister told me. And I remembered any repeat questions.

But the last space was a question where I'm pretty confident I didn't talk to her sister about it (I started this game months ago, so maybe I just forgot), and I definitely didn't get it before in the board game.
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I played the game on an original N64 w/ a CRT, in case you're wondering.

I had been putting it off since I hated Rusty Bucket Bay so much. But Click Clock Wood was awesome.

But man, that boardgame sucked major donkey balls. On the last death space, I literally had to guess a Gruntilda question out of the blue. It was probably my sixth attempt at the whole thing and the question was one I hadn't seen before, so I had a 1/3 of actually finishing. And I got lucky.

I know I could have gone back and talked to her sister to write down the questions, but I figured it would be just as fast to guess my way through. Tbh, if I knew the last space was a Grunty death space I probably would have gone back and gotten the answers.

Thank goodness I had all musical notes for the boss refill items. Otherwise I might have just left it.

Overall, really enjoyed it. The only levels I really didn't like were Rusty Bucket Bay and the board game show near the end, both of which were total ass imo.
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Sunhawk posted...

Oh. That whole bit was strange.

It's just there to mess with gamers, then, because you aren't meant to / able to do it until much later? I see.

It's also because you will be equipped to go through it in New Game+, so you can tackle the game's areas out of order.
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Sunhawk posted...

Also, why when I stood on a platform that (very) rapidly went downwards, did it go from day to night? What was that?

No, you went underground.

That is a late game area.
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Sunhawk posted...

What IS the goal of the game? Do I just go through each area, in linear fashion, and beat a boss at the end? Is there something else?

The knight you met in the Asylum has asked you to ring the Bell of Awakening. In Firelink, one of the NPCs should have expanded on this.

This is the current goal for the game, find and ring the Bells. And, tbh, it is your only goal for quite a bit of the game.

As to where you are supposed to go, you can look it up if you want, but part of the game is that where you are supposed to go and what you are supposed to do when you get there are not immediately obvious. There are potentially multiple ways to go about the journey, but the difficulty curve is built around the most obvious path through the game.

Edit: I should note that my first time playing I had to look up how to get to the first area out of Firelink: If you go toward the cliff face (in the direction from the graveyard to the shrine), IIRC there is a little path that wraps around the cliff and goes to a bridge. If I remember right, that is how you get to the game's first area.
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MICHALECOLE posted...

Ive watched a couple the entire kingdom hearts story in thirty minutes! Videos, and you say its not that hard to follow.. I respectfully disagree

It's not hard to follow if you actually play the games, aside from the time travel rules introduced in 3D.

When you shove every twist and connection into one video, it won't stick. But when you remember the actual moments of the story, it's a lot easier to follow.
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These days I mostly play the games for the gameplay.

If you crank the difficulty up to the highest mode, it's pretty fun. Especially if you don't level grind.
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The game is not really open, but there are multiple orders in which you can play the game.

Generally speaking, the game gets easier the farther you get along. The first time I played, I was confused and didn't upgrade any weapons until more than halfway into the game, when I was collecting the Lord Souls The game got dramatically easier afterward.

EDIT: IGNORE the rest of this post until you're farther into the game. When you said first dungeon I assumed you were in Undead Burg.

A few bits of advice:

Try to figure out if you like strength weapons, dexterity weapons, or "quality" (str+dex requirement) early on. Once you do, level up those two stats appropriately.

You can upgrade weapons down different "paths" in this game - there's plain old normal, lightning, chaos, etc. But you basically only get enough materials in a playthrough to fully upgrade one weapon down each respective path. So try to save your better upgrade materials on weapons that you actually really like. From my understanding, basically any weapon is viable at end game with upgrades.

If that last little bit doesn't make much sense yet, just pick a few weapons you like and focus on upgrading those. But you're going to want to pick a family - STR, DEX, or quality as you basically have to choose. Don't let this intimidate you too much (like me when I first tried the game), because you can be pretty suboptimal and still get through the game fine.

Also, Resistance is useless, and only invest in Magic/Faith and whatnot if you feel confident you're going to use those strategies. I woudn't on a first playthrough, personally.
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DarkBuster22904 posted...

I'll agree if only because of the huge prevalence of Mike Matei on AVGN's channel.

Idk. I dont know anything about the guy, maybe hes a great person, but damn if I just find him totally uninteresting. And he practically drowns out James every time they share a vid.

Matei is like if you imagined the most average guy you can imagine somehow got a following.

Not that smart or well spoken. Not especially talented at anything in particular. Not especially attractive or fit. Not really having anything of much depth to say.

I think that's part of the charm for some though. It's just hearing the opinion or jokes of some normal dude, not some college kid doing hour long game design analysis videos or amateur comedians talking over a game.
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MakoReizei posted...

does Pewds still do horror game let's plays? I mean he's pretty much what popularized those.

No, he stopped being a gaming channel a couple years back.

If he was he'd probably be bleeding subscribers like all the other let's play channels.
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Idk about better videos, but I'd definitely say that Pewd is a better Youtuber.

I don't watch most of his uploads, but when I do I very rarely regret watching it. And he is obviously very consistent.

His biggest flaw is probably that he is very naive.
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Wow, four cuts in the first five seconds.

Went about 1.25 seconds without making a mistake, on average.
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Lord_Wombat posted...

I have 1.5 and 2.5, the new one is just a combination of those, correct? I may pick it up anyway though, of the cutscene-only games are playable...

The new is 1.5, 2.5, and 2.8.

But you can get 2.8 for $20 now.
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Get the KH: The story so far collection at the end of the month.

If you don't mind the weeb cringe factor, or don't have them already, they're fun games.
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treewojima posted...

you feel like the king of the world and like you can do anything

... for 10-15 minutes, then you need more to keep the feeling going

plus it turns your nose and the back of your throat numb

For me, it feels like a boost in confidence and energy, heightened level of enjoyment of everything, more comfortable in social situations. It's just a constant dopamine rush. For me the effects lasted quite a while (like an hour), but I've only done it twice, and I have a very low tolerance for drugs. What really sells it is that there weren't any obvious negative side effects. No hangover/bubble guts like alcohol, I didn't come down all sedated and tired like weed. There aren't any crazy hallucinogenic effects.

I don't intend to indulge it further. It felt like I could do it in the morning to enhance my day/give me energy, which is probably how you start a crazed coke addiction.
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Hairistotle posted...

i still wanna try it

Honestly, it's awesome.

If you can afford to do it regularly, don't try it. I wouldn't be surprised if I was a coke addict rn if I made more money back when I tried it.
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It's the waves bro.
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I always forget their "normal" burgers have double meat and order them.

It's just too much meat, man.
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Ajenla posted...

So it's like every enemy is basically the same level as you? That can't be the case.

What would be the point of levels then?

To add a grind that encourages you to buy XP boosts.
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Toriyama probably forgot.
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Smh cancelling preorder.
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Howl posted...

Is bulletstorm any good?

It's decent. It's fun, and short enough that it doesn't overstay its welcome imo.
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Coffeebeanz posted...

Where else would you play PS4 exclusives?

I meant to say I almost exclusively play my PS4 for exclusives lol.
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Once we move onto the next gen, I'm looking forward to getting a cheaper Xbone to play multiplats at higher quality.

I almost exclusively play PS4 exclusives games on PS4 though.
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nnnice
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Nice, it's the same price on Amazon, just got it there.

Thanks for the tip.
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Failing ABA!
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I'd start with the base version to make sure you even like the game first.

There are plenty of strong and viable characters in the original roster to start with.
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Portable Ops is also pretty bad.

Rising, on the other hand, is pretty rad, but I personally consider it non canon (not that that matters. I wouldn't be upset if in an alternate timeline Kojima made an MGS6 and made it canon).
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a_riot04 posted...

PS3 is HD? Unless you mean you only have monitor then look for vga/dvi/whatever port to HDMI.

Maybe he's on that 4K.

A little heads up: the Legacy collection has MGS1 as a download code, so buy it new. According to Amazon reviews, download codes were working as late as May of this year, and looking at my voucher there is no marked expiration date so it'll probably be fine.
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a_riot04 posted...

Ground Zeroes

Ah, I forgot about this one.

GZ is available on all platforms PP is on.

Honestly, as somebody who has played all the games, MGSV's story isn't all that important. Playing the other games in the series will only make that more evident.

I'd just enjoy the gameplay.
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TerrifyingRei posted...

so...

i'm fucked. i have no real way of playing 4 and it's a bit of a process to play the other ones.

what systems are they all on?

Unfortunately the best way to play the series is the PS3 collection, which includes every game in the series except for Portable Ops. I'll list all the available platforms I'm aware of.

1: PS1, PS3, PSP, Vita
2: PS2, PS3, Vita
3: PS2, PS3, Vita, 3DS
4: PS3
PW: PSP, PS3, Vita
PO: PSP

Metal Gear 1: PS3 or original MSX
Metal Gear 2: PS3 or original MSX
You might be able to play these games in MGS3: Subsistance on PS3 but I don't remember.
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GameGodOfAll posted...

Metal Gear
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid 2
Metal Gear Solid 3
Metal Gear Solid 4
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

Only thing that doesn't REALLY play into it is just Portable Ops and that ending does matter a bit.

I mean you're jumping into one of if not the most story heavy video game franchises ever and even if the story in V is lacking, you've got not chance of following it unless you're caught up.

Eh, I feel like with just main story stuff 3 and PW are enough.

It gives insight into the other games, but I don't necessarily think you need the future games to have a basic understanding of what's going on.

But it may just be how we're both reading "required."
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Just 3 and Peace Walker.

There's a lot of foreshadowing into all of the games (Liquid and Psycho Mantis are from MGS1, an audio tape subplot is setting up for MGS2/4, etc.), but those two should do it.
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Did you own a Wii U?
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FurryPhilosifer posted...

For people who want their games to look good, but not too good.

Exactly.

Raikuro posted...

you can preorder the RDR2 Pro bundle coming out next month for $400 on amazon, but all the regular Pros currently in stock are over $500 lol

I actually have pre ordered it, just in case.

But I'll probably be getting it at Target. My brother works at one so he gets 15% off.
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But there's a shortage on PS4 pros.

I see why people get pissed about console shortages now.
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Also, keep playing until the credits roll.
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Yeah, the cougars can really fuck you up.
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hit us with that "fake news"
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