Lurker > Kaldrenthebold

Bleuets posted...

dont be that guy. You want people to listen to you, dont be like this.

I asked a question, so how about you don't be that guy and let TC answer it? Context of "why do they always bring him up" would be nice. Is it regular conversation? Is it about literally anything happening these days that DOES actually pertain to Trump?

Does it have nothing to do with Trump? You are fully aware that he is under investigation for his tax issues, he still has an air of importance in the GOP, and the 1/6 investigation is getting nice and juicy? There are plenty of reasons to still talk about him.

Not in the slightest.

Error1355 posted...

I'm not sure how anyone can look at Death Stranding and think the game looks like ass.

Yep. Some people are just fucking blind.

YWS-is-King posted...

The game just sucks

And no

I'm in Jersey so probably dead

I got Y7 at release for $35, the series gets cat m crazy good sales often so keep an eye out and you will be blessed

Darkninja42 posted...

Yup it was literally that exact same quest

Lol it was the same for me too. Head freaking out and all.

Can't forget good shit like this either

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3cERVRoQo

Bowie

Pandamonic posted...

Awesome. I really like the music. That just put a smile on my face :)

Bowie has some great music. Here's another popular one that I love:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOoFau0he5s

Why would this be the reason? Buy the DLC separately instead of paying more yearly.

Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaail gun!

Antifar posted...

God damn this is good
https://youtu.be/5H7eT8ACI8k

I see that and raise you THIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mCrl-T4fHA

Moderna messed me up. First shot was fine, second one ruined me for 2 days with a fever and flu symptoms.

I found the game to be TERRIBLY designed actually but Eternal seems like a game that you either really like or hate. I thought 2016 was way better

It for sure is.

eston posted...

Yeah I beat it a month ago and never had to employ any special strategies to get through blocks, but apparently I'm the only one or something. I don't really get it

Edit: I'm not doubting you btw, as I said it's something I keep seeing that just doesn't match up to my experience

Yeah no harm no foul, it seemed obvious to me but it might have been a non-issue for you.

eston posted...

This was not my experience at all, which is why I wonder if I was just not playing the same as everyone else. I had zero problems with enemies blocking excessively and there was no pattern

I dunno, I beat it last year and it was quite obvious to me. There are plenty of Reddit threads about it which is why I was aware. I looked it up and saw that method and it worked from that point onward. Once I read about it, it seemed clear to me.

Kircheis posted...

I understand this is how you're intended to fight in Yakuza 3, but legitimate question; what am I supposed to do when bosses instantly turn around and start blocking as soon as I try to punish them from behind? Just eat shit until I learn Komaki Parry? I've seen people claim that Tamashiro was hard when I thought he was easy, but Rikiya was an absolute pain in the ass cause he wouldn't let me punish him properly.

I can't remember, honestly. I always abuse grabbing in Yakuza games. The easiest way is to just dodge and try to whittle some health down. Best you can do.

eston posted...

I keep seeing this, but I honestly had no problem with it at all. Makes me wonder what I was doing differently

It's pretty easy to see. When you attack enemies they block 100% of the time in front. After 3 hits, they counter attack. It's a pattern that occurs and once you see it, it's easy to 100% beat every fight without any real issue. Attack 3 times, they attack back, you dodge behind them and destroy them. Once I saw this the game became much more manageable.

Y3 is the first entry of Yakuza I played so I have some real nostalgia for it. I enjoyed my time with the remaster, no real issues other than the blocking being a big problem.

Man this entire saga has really shown who has no fucking clue what the Joe Rogan podcast has been and will continue to be.

Fucking idiot. And yet his constituents will love this dumb tweet. I don't understand people.

TheGoldenEel posted...

I wish they made a more traditional Zelda game that took place in that wonderful open world

keep everything as is and give me some meaty dungeons to explore with cool gadgets

Yep. BOTW was a good tech demo but I really don't think it CHANGED THE GAMING LANDSCAPE as so many people think. It really blows my mind that an empty open world with 2004 HL2 physics toys became the god gift of gaming. Hopefully the sequel feels more like an actual Zelda game with adventure instead of middling nothing.

CoorsLight posted...

I don't understand the "just make BotW with old style dungeons lol it's that easy" take. The design of the old style dungeons is directly at odds with giving you near complete freedom, unless you want it to be like you get a special item in the dungeon and then it has no use outside of it or something.

Well this is fine, though Hyrule Castle still wasn't really like a "traditional" dungeon at all

Maybe if A Link Between Worlds didn't exist could you claim this, but they did the "choose the dungeons you want in any order" style better than BOTW did. They were actual Zelda dungeons and you were not constrained in the "freedom" to choose where to go other than which item you wanted to rent/buy. Why wouldn't BOTW do something like this?

Maybe Nintendo should fix the issues the series had instead of just tossing it all away. Make the items more useful outside of the dungeons, done.

Lost_All_Senses posted...

I opened it last night. Played 4 hours. Honestly, I'm trying to figure out what are bugs and what's mechanics. Like do, they keep taking damage when bleeding? Cause the first non regular zombie literally jumped off a building and killed itself on impact. I thought it was a glitch at first. But now Im wondering if there's hidden damage since I turned off visual health bars

I suggest you put the health bars back on. You can only stealth kill enemies that you are the same level as or higher than the enemy, which is impossible to tell when the enemy level vanishes with the hud. It's very dumb.

Kiwami is the worst of the series IMO, it has a lot of BS in it and some of THE most unfair and BS fights in the series. The story is good, as it more or less sets up the rest of the saga, but lord out of all the ones I've played, only 5 is near the bottom.

I'm playing on base PS4. Game looks great, runs very well, but it certainly has glitch issues. During the first section in the town, the guy I was following was straight broken. He would freeze his animation at the edge of a building and just...slide off it to the street below. Then he would do a weird jump animation and zoop up to the next building that he is climbing up. At one point he was just climbing in mid air on nothing. The dialogue cut out completely, but subtitles were still popping up. It was wild.

A lot of the time during combat, the zombies or people will just freeze in place. And the human combat is pathetic. Condemned 1 has better combat, and that game came out in 2006. They do the same two obvious moves and come at you one at a time. Parkour combat is cool, but it sometimes just straight up doesn't work. The controls overall seem...weird. I can't get the combat roll to work literally at all, I mash circle, I tap circle, it doesn't matter. It's clunkier and it feels like my character is fighting me to go against what I'm doing.

The game is good, but it's clear this needed more work. 20GB day 1 patch and it still has issues like this, I can't imagine what it was like prior.

TheGoldenEel posted...

I have never heard the term design patterns until now

reached out to some friends who went to school around the same time as me and they said the same thing

and I went to a top CS school so its not like we had some bullshit education

I mean I went to a private university specifically for Software Engineering, which went all through the theory of crafting software from start to finish so I guess it is just something I've learned. Design patterns, life cycle methods, different standards of methodology like the dumb waterfall method or the spiral method, software architecture designs and requirements gathering, etc. Basically I didn't really learn to code but learned most everything else.

Design patterns is something that is easily just logically thought about, not sure why that would be a trick question? I'm 10 years removed and a Senior Software Engineer and it wouldn't be hard to just rattle off random stuff that applies here.

This is certainly a topic

It's my favorite Will Ferrell movie. Just fantastic. When he slips back into being a pimp is hilarious

He's an uncouth jackass that is only in anything for himself. He had no business being president and has managed to brainwash large swathes of idiots to his style which is just overall bad for the country in every way.

If I had to rank them, it would be K2 >= 0 > 3 > 4 > 1 > 5 so far.

3 is great, it was my first exposure to the series on PS3 and I liked it a lot. Beat it all the way through in the remastered collection.

Only upside for 4 is Kiryu is made even more badass by being a guest, lol. He waltzed in the plot at the last hour, fully upgraded, and in about 20 minutes beat up the Yakuza family that had been stringing along the other 3 for 20 hours. Even his theme song, "The Myth", was pretty epic.

This part was indeed awesome and really is the only time that he is made out to be the dragon in the games. Each game he's in he starts off weak and at the bottom, but in 4, you spend countless hours as all these others, leveling up and getting BASIC skills each time. Kiryu starts, and he's nigh upgraded all the way already and is just there to knock heads and clear this shit up.

Granted the plot was absolutely bonkers, but I did like the overall game. The end of 4 is where I got most burnt out, then 5 it's been an absolute CHORE to get through. I'm on the baseball guy and I just have no desire to keep going. My only desire is because I DESPERATELY want to play 6 (I love the new engine so much) but I can't justify playing 70% of 5 and then jumping to 6.

Smashingpmkns posted...

"Franchises"? Doubt they're gonna make a Marathon movie lol

Give us Marathon 4 you cowards.

Literally a remake being made as we speak.

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You spent way too much time there. I was extremely bored of the setting by the time I made it to the city, and that is probably because moving around was a chore. When I finally started making my way through the city, the human enemies were real junk and it turned into a shooter which didn't have the best mechanics, as well as the map not being the best and filled with walls and annoyances to maneuver around. I find the parkour greatly opened up Dying Light and made it more fun to get around places, including crowded city streets and regular suburbia.

It's clear we are going to agree to disagree and that's fine. I never played Dead Island Remastered or the sequel. I do remember liking the class system a bit more than the every man of Dying Light.

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Yes, they are. Clearly. Old Town is massively more vertical and contains full city blocks. The Slums contain a lot of wide open areas and small houses to scramble over. Both play differently, one requiring liberal use of the grapple hook and the other requiring stamina to run through open fields.

Like, did we play the same game? I can't fathom how someone says the slums are the same as old town. Add in The Following which is massively more open and throws in a car to upgrade and play with and each area is distinct. I remember hating the hotel / resort area and FINALLY enjoying Dead Island when I got to the city, but by then I just hated everything else about it.

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I absolutely disagree that the levels are copy pasted and the game feels the same from start to finish, whoa. I've never read an opinion like this that I disagree with completely. The two maps are WILDLY different from one another and both play differently. Phew.

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It absolutely was better than Dead Island lol. Parkour is the reason why it was lauded like it was, and that is a huge upgrade to Dead Island's movement. I thought Dying Light was absolutely miles above that shitty Dead Island.

The original writer was known for good stories but got #MeToo'd out of the role so I wonder if that's why the story sucks.

No but it would help feel a bit more connected as it ties up the series nicely

My old boss told me about this, I'm curious. I'll give it a check

It's on the WALLS

SydneySweenHero posted...

Same lol. I have a lvl 9 Cyndaquil and a lvl 2 Bidoof used rollout and took off 2/3 of its HP

Lol well you got the weakness being hit but I agree that the level differences have shocked me and I've been nearly killed by pathetic things.

Again, that's a REALLY great thing in a Pokemon game. This may have...challenge?

It should never get old because it was a serious fucking event.

My level 7 Oshawott got fucked up by a level 2 Bidoof

That's a great thing

I really liked Raging Blast (was that it on PS3?). It just didn't have enough content

I like a lot of stuff but mainly rock / hard rock / metal. I am addicted to chill lo-fi hip hop shit these days, which I guess is an offshoot of new wave or techno or synthwave

Srk700 posted...

2nd lord was imo the hardest boss in the game. I don't think any other boss gave me as much trouble, maybe because it was more difficult to prevent his strongest move than it was for the other lords (also harder to avoid being hit if he does get it off IIRC).

Edit: Actually there is one boss that gave me more trouble but it was an end game optional boss.

Yeah his ultimate attack I was lucky enough to just tank through with one damn person alive and chew through life bottles. It worked but damn, no clue how they INTENDED you to do it