Lurker > skullbone

Just hit level 46 or 47, chopping down mushrooms or something and I realized that I'm just not enjoying this game.

Probably going to uninstall so I can completely stop the urge to keep playing because as boring as this game is there's something addicting about all of these dumb quests and leveling up.

But I asked myself why I'm playing this game and I didn't have an answer so time to stop!

I mean it doesn't look impossible but it seems like you'll end up working 3 times harder than easier/simpler classes for the same damage.

A typical combo might have you switching between all 3 of your stances quickly so you need to add 3 or 4 more buttons into the combo versus other classes.

Yeah after watching some videos I'm realizing my mistake of picking one of the most complicated classes as my starting class (Deadeye).

I find myself closing the game with a sour taste in my mouth but then the next day rolls around and I want to play it again.

Completing quests and watching numbers go up can be pretty satisfying even when it's boring as hell. I do wish this leveling process was a LOT shorter though.

I just got to Luterra Castle and I can officially say that this game has too much shit going on. Yes that should have been already obvious to anyone who has played this game but Luterra Castle is when it transitioned from "a lot" to "overwhelming".

Also I played a round of PVP and it was awful. I realize I'm playing against people who actually know what they're doing with real PVP builds but I can't stress enough how awful it was. We got dominated for the entire match and my team lost 10-3.

I'm sure our opponents were bronze trash but it felt like being matched against CS:GO pros in your first match. I'm amazed they don't have some sort of newbie queue or even pit you against bots for 10 matches or something because honestly it made me never want to touch PVP again. That single experience kinda soured me on the whole game for the rest of the night actually!

It looks like if you completely max it out then you can get 100% crit chance but that still seems pretty bad:

https://lostark.wiki.fextralife.com/Quick+Shot

But Deadeye has 3 skill bars: Pistol, Rifle, Shotgun. So you don't really need to be be as selective with your skill choices as some of the other classes I think. So even weak damage on a short cooldown isn't too bad I guess

Facebook data from 2014 looks about right to me:

https://media.bleacherreport.com/w_800,h_533,c_fill/br-img-images/003/050/218/0f8178dfea896569461b4fec2777481d_crop_north.jpg

Hmm it's all anecdotal of course but growing up in Dayton suburbs I saw way more Bengals fans versus Browns fans.

Well Ohio State wins games, the Bengals typically Bungle, and the Browns exist so it's not really that surprising.

Played a good chunk yesterday and had more fun than my first session. Switching between pistol, shotgun, and rifle for the Deadeye is a lot of fun even if some of the skills feel super overpowered compared to others.

There's one skill where you flair your guns in a circle and it completely wrecks the entire room on a 10 or 12 second cooldown. I don't have numbers but I'm thinking like 5000 damage as an example. Then there's another skill I unlocked at level 26 where he just fires his gun twice and it does like 400 damage. It has a 6 second cooldown but the power disparity between these two skills is very confusing, especially because the weak skill didn't unlock until 26.

But I'm having a good time so far so whatever. Also this game runs better on my PC than Diablo 2 Resurrected which is pretty sad. That game is optimized so poorly it's painful.

When I moved to Chicago I was bummed that I wouldn't get Skyline anymore but they actually sell it at the Kroger branch here (Mariano's).

CoolCly posted...

What exactly do you mean by 5% ARPG and 95% MMO?

It's hard to explain exactly but the gear and skill systems feel a lot closer to WoW than Diablo. There's basically no meaningful gear or skill choices while you're leveling. I mean this is true in a lot of ARPGs honestly but I like to feel like I have at least SOME control over how my character is playing instead of "give this skill +10 crit chance" or whatever the system is. I see that later upgrades do actually change how the skill functions which is nice though.

But I've decided I'm going to keep playing because I did have fun yesterday when I was actually fighting stuff. I did a hard dungeon with 4 other players and it was pretty good. I think it's just all of the other moments that are leaving me a little underwhelmed. The quests are so bland and boring but they're absolutely required because killing monsters without a quest only provides like 5XP.

I shouldn't feel like I'm wasting time to stop and kill monsters in the world but if they're not part of a quest then there's no reason to get off my mount and fight them.

This game started to lose me by the end but fortunately it was only about 20 hours to finish. If anyone is looking for a short, cheap, RPG it wasn't too bad.

Not really digging the aesthetic in PSO2 so I might just drop Lost Ark and wait for D4. Diablo 4 seems like it's going to have some MMO elements but it'll be an ARPG first instead of the other way around.

One of my favorite games was Marvel Heroes back in the day and I felt like that game had the perfect balance (for me). There were like 50 characters who all played differently enough that switching between them felt fun but each one also captured a pretty good fantasy of actually playing as that hero.

You could roam a few big areas with other players where random events like bosses would spawn or you could do raids with a group of 20. But there was also a lot of solo content and good ARPG farming opportunities.

My favorite thing was little one-shot dungeons with a boss who dropped specific gear. So if you wanted this specific item then ONLY this boss dropped it. It provided reasons to actually farm different content. You also got bonus chests if you killed 100 and 250 monsters in the dungeon to encourage actually killing stuff instead of just rushing the boss.

There were so many good ideas in that game.

Well I played for about 5 hours and I'm not sure if I'm going to keep going or not. I was expecting a better ratio of ARPG and MMO but it's basically 95% MMO and 5% ARPG.

The combat is fine and I appreciate the absolutely ridiculous amount of content but it didn't really grab me today!

Yeah I kinda planned my whole day off today around playing this game so I've been sitting around doing nothing which sucks.

I only watched the trailer for XC3 once but didn't they have 4 people in the party running around? 6 feels like a small number of playable characters If they upped the battles from 3 to 4 characters.

I'm looking forward to playing this all day tomorrow! The early access didn't really seem to have server issues so fingers crossed the actual launch isn't a mess.

lol whoops

I guess you can't ever trust someone's first leak

In other news someone on Twitter leaked the whole event a few days ago and he had some other Nintendo spoilers for the rest of the year

https://twitter.com/waddledeeknows?s=21

spoiler tagged just in case I guess
Windwaker HD and Twilight Princess HD this year
GoldenEye coming to Switch/Xbox
Another Fire Emblem game in 2nd half of 2022

What do you find so offensive about Rex besides his little shorts? He's basically an underwater diver in the game so yeah it makes sense he's wearing a diving suit.

The only problem with Rex is his weird little shorts. Most characters in JRPGs look pretty stupid if you stop and analyze them so I don't really get hung up on stupid character designs honestly.

FWIW I hated the side quests in XC1 and I spent a lot of time (total playtime was 150+ hours I think) leveling up blades I never used in XC2. I'd go out of my way to hunt monsters to level up blades but I realized at one point that I was grinding toward a post game I wasn't really interested in so I just stopped.

But I also liked the plot/characters of 2 a lot more than 1 which definitely seems to be the minority opinion around here. Yes the female character designs of 2 are complete trash but everything else was better in 2 for me. And yes the blade quests are actual good side quests instead of the endless fetch quests in 1.

I think there was a good story buried somewhere in Boba but the execution just wasn't there. All of Boba's character development didn't really hit for me because he didn't have a character in the first place. They should have spent a little more time establishing him as a villain (since that's what we expect from OT) before "redeeming" him.

It doesn't feel rewarding when his character development is "actually he was never really a bad guy at all!" instead of just creating an actual story that takes him from bad to good. It's especially confusing when he's being pushed as a nice guy and he's trying to be a crime lord at the same time. Disney is too afraid to make their protagonists do bad things I guess.

I can usually turn my brain off when cool stuff happens in Star Wars and I did like some of those moments but overall I think this was pretty disappointing.

The Mando episodes were great though, obviously.

Yeah I only watched the first episode and I had similar thoughts. The only thing I really laughed at was forcing Conan to keep eating hot sauce.

It kinda feels like a hidden camera show where the person being tricked is also in on the trick. It's hard to make it work they're trying to make it feel like a genuine world and also winking at how silly it is at the same time.

Conan's improv was fine but the response from other characters was almost always "wow that's a crazy/stupid thing to say" which does get a little old. I think it would be more successful if they leaned into the improv instead of treating it like some weird game show for the guest.

The funny thing is that XC2 took all of the fetch quests from the first game and tied them into the upgrade system for blades but nobody ever really brings that up. I mean XC2 had shitty fetch quests too but you literally can't power up your blades without going to a certain area and killing 10 flopnoofs or whatever. Maybe it's not so offensive when the quest reward is giving your blade 5% more damage on an attack versus 5 potions.

Good luck for completionists if you ever decide to play XC2 though lol

Confused about the DLC pricing for the Mario Kart DLC. Is it $25 for all 48 courses or $25 for the first wave of 8 courses?

One of those is really good and one of those is really bad.

Mario Strikers feels like a game that would be F2P if it wasn't Nintendo.

I have nothing against Musou games but the Switch is such an awful platform for them. The newest Hyrule Warriors game was painful at times

Yikes I was debating between Gunslinger and Deadeye so maybe I'll be going Gunslinger instead

I think I'm leaning toward Deadeye just based on watching character attacks on the website. Haven't looked at any tier lists to see what might be actually good.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

I literally just said I've never seen a screenshot and had only heard about it today that I'm aware of. Forgive me from noticing the publisher from a quick Google search!

I'm the only one allowed to be ignorant in this topic you scum!

UshiromiyaEva posted...

You know, fair.

As for the game, the marketing machine must be doing its job because I have never seven a screenshot, much less video, and I still found myself looking up if it was coming to consoles a few hours ago.

Yeah I'm in the same boat. I had never even heard of this game as of yesterday and then I opened Twitch today and literally every top streamer is playing it all day like they've been planning for months. I don't even see #ad in their titles so I think they're just playing it out of actual excitement.

I know the scene but also in 2022 you can never know if something has actual Nazi ties anymore sadly.

Not everyone has seen Raiders of the Lost Ark to pick up on dad tier jokes like that.

He's making a joke on Raiders of the Lost Ark (I assume).

If you're actually serious then yeah what the fuck?

Big Korean ARPG MMO is finally getting released in a few days (out now for early access).

I've honestly not looked into this game at all but it seems to be one of the better ARPGs and it's completely free so why not!

Anyone else planning on playing or already played it?

trdl23 posted...

How's the storyline? The Ruination in-game event for LoL had some atrocious writing, but the story beats had potential if someone with some skill had a shot at it.

It's pretty typical "save the world" kinda storyline but the character interactions and motivations are pretty good so far.

My biggest complaint is that all of the areas are a little samey since it's only set in Bilgewater. It's a lot of sunken temples and blue/grey color palettes.

Similar tone to Arcane but the plot is pretty simple comparatively. It's a very typical RPG plotline of "a group of strangers need to work together to save the world and they become friends and blah blah"

It was only like 10 dollars with the Epic coupon and I've already gotten 20 hours out of it so for that price I'm having fun. It very much feels like a well executed classic RPG and it would have been at home on the PS1 or PS2 back in the day.

I'm about 20 hours in and it's been a pretty solid little RPG so far. The combat has a few twists to make it fun but it's also kinda simple if you're familiar with turn based RPG.

My only experience with LoL was Legends of Runeterra and Arcane but I like this world and these characters that they've created.

The upcoming fighting game also looks really good! I used to play a lot of Dota 2 but I had to stop because it was ruin my day so I doubt I'll be playing LoL anytime soon but these games do inspire me to give it a try!

I want to say 0 but that doesn't feel low enough

I'm allergic to tree nuts (except almonds for some reason) so I voted almonds.

Domino's is the best but you have to pay the extra $2 to get the Pan style. It has double cheese and the toppings go from edge to edge so there's not really a crust on the end.

Also well done bake helps too.

The $5.99 for medium 2 topping is hard to beat when you've got a group together and you don't feel like spending a million dollars on uber eats. With tax and tip everyone can basically get their own pizza for $10 each.

Yeah I'd really love if they made the TV universe separate somehow or got rid of sequel trilogy but I really doubt it ever happens

Yeah that episode was awesome and Cad Bane was legit scary in life action

I kept seeing this all day and thought it looked okay until I actually watched the trailer and now I'm on board.

Dancedreamer posted...

Planet Coaster is amazing. Everyone should play it if you can.

Genuinely curious how the coaster genre has evolved since Roller Coaster Tycoon in 1999 because on a first glance it looks exactly the same with better graphics.

I was thinking about this episode last night and it must have been weird as hell for the people who skipped Mando to watch Boba Fett. Sure this is a continuation of Mando but the Boba Fett stuff has been self contained or explained so you don't REALLY need to watch Mando to know what's going on.

I added this game to my wish list a few days ago but the art style really does seem off putting. Maybe I'll wait for a big price drop.

They're all in the gameplay trailer

_PandaMaster_ posted...

https://youtu.be/DbHzUVk1KFw

Gameplay overview.

Wow endgame content and raids aimed at co-op was not something I was expecting.