Video Games

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 7:05 am

I once played a demo of Neverhood and really enjoyed it. In recent years I had been trying to remember what it was called. Very tempted to get Armikrog.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 4:10 pm

Maxus wrote:
Shrapnel wrote:Seriously, after trying TWENTY times to win that fucking race in MM, I have no love for those stone-hard fucks.
That race is brutal. The way I had to do it was memorize the track, find the jumps and then stuff like hug the inside of the curves, especially that big one near the end where there's that dip in the wall.

Basically, the other Gorons are faster on a straight line so you have to go with path efficiency to win.

Something else that pisses me off is that no where on the internet does anyone have anything useful to say about how to win it. Seriously, one site even had the advice "try to not get hit and stay in first place". Really? "Hey, how can I win this?" "You can win by winning and not losing". Fucking morons.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 4:29 pm

Shrapnel wrote:
Maxus wrote:
Shrapnel wrote:Seriously, after trying TWENTY times to win that fucking race in MM, I have no love for those stone-hard fucks.
That race is brutal. The way I had to do it was memorize the track, find the jumps and then stuff like hug the inside of the curves, especially that big one near the end where there's that dip in the wall.

Basically, the other Gorons are faster on a straight line so you have to go with path efficiency to win.
Something else that pisses me off is that no where on the internet does anyone have anything useful to say about how to win it. Seriously, one site even had the advice "try to not get hit and stay in first place". Really? "Hey, how can I win this?" "You can win by winning and not losing". Fucking morons.

Well, the conscious stuff I have for it? Stay clear of other gorons when you can, cheat on the starting line (you can start right on it), try to learn the hilly bits so you can nail the jumps (that shaves some time off going through the air rather than going up and down the hills), and try to hug the walls on curves. Like this guy here.

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 5:11 pm

Shrapnel wrote:Seriously, one site even had the advice "try to not get hit and stay in first place". Really? "Hey, how can I win this?" "You can win by winning and not losing". Fucking morons.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 1:27 am

I've been playing Arkham City, trying to complete the Batman story because I though there was... more story. Game companies- when your actual story comprised less than 50% of "100% completion" you're doing something very wrong.

The Batman stuff was fine, but I was looking forward to playing Harley Quinn's revenge. So when I realized today that there seriously wasn't any more story, just side quests, I decided to play the part I actually wanted to play.

...and then I found out it's not a part where you play as Harley.

So that was disappointing. They seriously should have just made Harley Quinn's revenge part of the main story, there's nothing new there except playing a different member of the Bat-family. Oh, and getting mobbed by fifteen henchmen and a titan when you have roughly half Batman's equipment.

I guess Arkham Knight has playable Harley Quinn levels if you preorder, but I'm unlikely to have that money.

This is part of why I don't really play video games.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 2:03 am

Don't preorder, it's just feeding their habit. Make them actually work for your money before you hand it over.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 2:13 am

Oh, I'm sure I can pick it up as part of a humble bundle or something a few years down the road. Those tend to have full DLC, too. Nothing else, I'll be surprised if it's not a common SHUT UP AND GIVE US YOUR MONEYSteam Sale item.

Speaking of things picked up on Steam Sale, I've got all the Tomb Raider games thanks to one. Or GOG. Or something.

I know that, like, all of these games had PC releases. Why the hell are the controls such shit? In fact, I owned Last Revelation (4) for PC when it came out, I don't recall the controls sucking that much dick.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 2:25 am

An update on the Goron race: Darth beat it for me because he is the most awesomest thingy on the planet, so I now have the Gilded Sword and a massive erection, which you probably didn't need to know but I'm tired so fuck it. Goron's can all still die in a fire blizzard, though.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 2:53 am

1) All preorder only missions are always converted into payable DLC later on.

2) If the only part of the game you want to play is preorder DLC, don't buy the game, torrent it, and play the DLC you want to play, and then only buy the game later if you actually want to play it.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 4:09 am

Prak wrote: I know that, like, all of these games had PC releases. Why the hell are the controls such shit? In fact, I owned Last Revelation (4) for PC when it came out, I don't recall the controls sucking that much dick.

I can only speak for the first two games, but the controls... were pretty clumsy for those. You had the old tank controller thing going, and because the guns automatically locked onto enemies, there was no aim mechanic, and thus no mouse-look. Indeed, the mouse wasn't used at all for those two, it really was just using your keyboard as a gamepad.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 9:23 am

Thanks for the advice, Kaelik. I try to not torrent games, since modern game drm is a pain in the ass, but, fuck if all I want to do is play Harley, it really doesn't make sense to buy the whole game. Especially when Harley will basically just be a different skin and equipment load out.

I wonder how likely it is for Harley to get her own game with the popularity of her comic...

As for Tomb Raider, I got tired of beating my head against a low res wall with the early games, and tried to load up Chronicles. It doesn't want to run (and a special fuck you to Win10, as it's probably the cause). Fortunately, Underworld is a modern goddamned game and so has controls that actually work.

Mostly. It has mouse look, but the camera still pulls asshole moves when you're against a wall.

Judging__Eagle · Post by **Judging__Eagle** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 11:59 pm

I'll be honest Prak; I've found that DRM is now easier than ever to bypass than it used to be 10 years ago. Mostly because the people who are dealing with DRM have had lots of experience with such at this point; and DRM hasn't really evolved a lot in the meantime. At one point in time, I also felt DRM was too much of a hassle to deal with, but in the last 5 or so years, it's been different.

The trick is to find the websites of groups that have a "reputation" to uphold as being effective DRM crackers. Some of them even have public Facebook pages that link to their personal servers (e.g. NoSteam).

Over the past few years, I can't recall how many times I've bought a game, hobbed it for several hours trying to get entertainment out of it;only to see the writing on the wall that it was a waste of my time. I do it backwards now, first I see a bit of actual playthrough footage of the game on Youtube, get it via torrent if it looks promising, play the game to see it it's worth my time; then I decide if it's worth supporting the developers by purchasing it.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 8:07 pm

You know what I just found out I hate more than Goron mini games?

Fishing. Fuck all fishing mini games, especially in Zelda: Toilet Paper. I got so fucking frustrated with how fucking SHIT the fishing mechanics were that I literally broke the game. As in, I took the disc out and crushed in two with my bare hands. That's how much I fucking hate it. Not even the fucking Goron race or dancing mini game made me do anything like that. In fact, I don't think ANY game has made me do that before. I am never playing another Zelda game again*. EVER. Fuck Zelda, fuck fishing, fuck Nintendo, and skullfuck the [EDITED] who came up with TP's fishing mini game. I hope they're dead.

(Oh, and sorry Darth Shrap, for breaking your game. He lent it to me, you see. Probably not going to be getting it back, now...)

* I reserve the right to invalidate this in the future.

Edit: In fact, here's what it looks like, in case you didn't believe me for whatever reason.

I couldn't find the other pieces. It has just occurred to me that I may have anger issues.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 9:10 pm

I gave it to you. I'd have sold it to Gamestop for bus fare otherwise, which is probably worth less than the gas it'd take to get there. So while it's unfortunate that it broke, you didn't really break my disc.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 9:28 pm

Oh, right. Well, I'm sorry, Shrapnel, I broke your disc.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 9:46 pm

Shrapnel wrote:Oh, right. Well, I'm sorry, Shrapnel, I broke your disc.

WHAAAAT...?!

Okay, that's it, I am never lending you anything again. Bitch.

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 2:51 am

Played a bit of Transformers: Devastation, the combat is really, reaaally solid with every character feeling distinct. It feels damn good to dodge Megatron's gunshot, flip into car mode, hit max speed and charge-transform-uppercut him into the air.

I never thought Bumblebee could feel this cool.

You can switch their weapons, customize combos, learn new techniques (such as parrying or being able to tank a hit and counter).

The combat naturally feels cinematic, i'll barrel down a street, then find laser-sights are on me so I immediately dodge-transform into car mode and slow motion shoot down the Seekers in the skies.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 3:01 am

I was wondering how that was.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 5:46 am

I don't mind the fishing minigame in Torchlight 2. That's really just "finish killing all moving things in the area, then click on the pond. Wait for the circle to shrink to the right level, click again. Get item."

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 6:02 pm

If you pre-purchase Tales of Zestiria on Steam, you get Tales of Symphonia for free.

Hell, I'm kinda hoping they all end up on Steam. I'd like to play the series.

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 3:26 am

MGSV Forward Operation Bases have been surprisingly enjoyable, arranging my little dudes to patrol the best routes for base defense and then testing out defenses myself.

I've read that shotguns are great for defending layered platforms like Command and R&D, but I've found medium and long range to be tougher to infiltrate against. Everything is vulnerable to decoys though, you can just have everyone gathered up to be blown away by one grenade of your choice.

Korwin · Post by **Korwin** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 6:35 am

Anyone looked at 'Tales of the Sword Coast'? (I think thats the Name)
Apparently they did not Keep faithfully to the 5e rule set. Which in this case is a good sign...

Count Arioch the 28th · Tue Oct 13, 2015 8:02 am

Koumei wrote:I don't mind the fishing minigame in Torchlight 2. That's really just "finish killing all moving things in the area, then click on the pond. Wait for the circle to shrink to the right level, click again. Get item."

Is it worth it? I haven't played with the fishing minigame a lot.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 9:45 am

It's really handy for your pet. You basically get three things:
1. Occasionally just a magic item that you'll sell
2. Magic pet-gear (tags/collars), and that's one of the few ways to actually get them
3. Fish/eggs, which you either sell (Gold Fish), or use to boost your pet (temporary monster transformations to buff its stats and give it a special attack/ability, or a general booster fish)

Only works specifically on your pet, not on summoned darklings, undead or whatever.

PhoneLobster · Post by **PhoneLobster** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 9:47 am

Don't waste the time. If you can't resist missing out just throw in dynamite and call it close enough.