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You guys are still going on about Bloodborne and Dark Souls? God damn.

At least in November we'll all be talking about Fallout 4 instead.

oh hey maybe i'll actually enter the 3ds ecosystem now that it's almost dead

 

http://kotaku.com/nintendo-america-boss-teases-release-of-smaller-new-3ds-1713073614

why is the small one better ?

Was getting frustrated with the grind in Dark Souls, so I'm taking a break and started on Skyrim. Played it for 12 hours yesterday. Save me.

  On 6/22/2015 at 4:44 PM, delet... said:

why is the small one better ?

form factor of the dslite was perfect for me. like the colored face buttons on the smaller white one. supposedly the image looks stretched on the xl compared to standard. was never in a hurry to own a 3ds but would probably pick up a standard n3ds for <$150

Edited June 22, 2015 by juiceciuj

i feckin did it!! i finnished bloodborne

now i can finaly buy and play darksouls 2 with all dlc on ps4 woohoo

  On 6/23/2015 at 3:15 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

i feckin did it!! i finnished bloodborne

now i can finaly buy and play darksouls 2 with all dlc on ps4 woohoo

Congrats dude.

 

I am so jealous of all you guys who are making progress in/beating Bloodborne. I suck at it so bad, I just gave up, just like I did with the Souls games (all 3 of them).

 

I have been sticking to games that I can actually manage. Currently playing Guacamelee on Wii U. I love it. Combat is so fast and fun. It's just a well-made game.

 

Considering getting Arkham Knight, but I never finished Arkham City, so I may just go back and play that and wait until a GOTY version of AK comes out.

finally almost done with my replay of guacamelee with the new content on ps4. stupid e3 is probably gonna put me back into playing ffvii on steam... been listening to the ost for the last day and a half at work...

 

intermittently still playing ps4 street fighter 4. excited for the sf5 beta assuming it lets you use ps3 sticks. otherwise i won't bother

  On 6/22/2015 at 12:08 PM, Friendly Foil said:

Bloodborne is pretty alright so far. Exploration and combat is sweet but the boss battles are just tedious and I feel the game would almost be better without them. It's like this annoying thing you have to pass every hour or so, just so you can get back to the actual cool stuff. At least they look cool. At least place a checkpoint or something before the boss rooms. Running the same route and killing the same enemies again and again is neither challenging nor fun. It's just annoying and tedious.

Overall I feel the game is great, perhaps even quite amazing when you're just exploring new areas, but it hardly makes every other game out there seem boring in comparison.

 

On every, or almost every, boss you can run to the fog gate from a lamp in less than a minute. You have to just run past the enemies on the way, but that is totally possible and usually works just fine (I always assumed this was by design, lining the 'path' the designers knew players would be retreading to try bosses again and again with easily-avoidable enemies).

Yeah. I think its part of the approach that the boss fights arent just isolated instances that you can get warp to, but that even with shortcuts there's stilla chunk of level/gameplay to trek through before getting to the boss. It's part of the game design to keep the boss more challenging.

Having said that, it's also sometimes an opportinity to stock up on health pickups and ammo before getting to the boss so you dont have to backtrack exactly.

Arkham Knight is pretty damn awesome so far, and I've barely even scratched the surface of the story. My fiancé helped me pay for a big chunk of it so as compensation I have to wait to progress the story while she's awake so she can watch (she actually likes watching me play games, which is pretty cool). I've just been having fun driving around in the batmobile and beating thugs up and doing a few of the AR Challenges. The city looks amazing, as a huge batman fan it's fucking great to see it fully designed! The batmobile is a bit tricky, but a tip was given to change the controls in the menu to "Toggle mode" and that helps immensely.

I've heard the PC port is running pretty poorly, and all the PC Master Race crowd have been shitting all over the game because of it. Well, it runs super smoothly on my PS4 and looks pretty fucking great, plus I got those exclusive Scarecrow missions to get to. I've been sitting here reading the bitching on Reddit and thinking,

Edited June 24, 2015 by ghOsty

  On 6/24/2015 at 5:30 AM, ghOsty said:

  On 6/24/2015 at 3:30 AM, bitroast said:

Yeah. I think its part of the approach that the boss fights arent just isolated instances that you can get warp to, but that even with shortcuts there's stilla chunk of level/gameplay to trek through before getting to the boss. It's part of the game design to keep the boss more challenging.

Having said that, it's also sometimes an opportinity to stock up on health pickups and ammo before getting to the boss so you dont have to backtrack exactly.

But the chunk of level is still just needless filler. By the third time or so you know the entire section by heart, so there's no challenge to overcome. Especially not when you can just run past everything. Sure it's not that big of a deal but that doesn't mean it should be there. Overall, the game seems to have "gotten away" with a lot of terrible design decisions that other, and more popular franchises, would've been slammed for. But in a Souls game theses things are just intentional design decisions to make the game more difficult... Not saying that it's a bad game in any way but it has some serious issues just like the games before it. Edited June 24, 2015 by Friendly Foil

The only argument I've ever heard that From Software games should be good, is that they are hard, but how can difficulty be a quality in itself if everything else in them is uniteresting?

 

It's like their games are not hold up to same standard as other games.

Edited June 24, 2015 by Npoess

  On 6/24/2015 at 9:19 AM, Npoess said:

The only argument I've ever heard that From Software games should be good, is that they are hard, but how can difficulty be a quality in itself if everything else in them is uniteresting?

Bloodborne has an amazon art direction and some of the best combat I've come across in a long time. Level design is (most of the time) also pretty fantastic. To be completely honest the difficulty is vastly overrated too, since I, who've never completed one of these games before, have defeated quite a few bosses in the first try and many of the others in less than five. BUT, I think I'm in the final areas at the moment and things have definitely taken a turn for the worse. The different areas aren't even properly connected anymore which was one of the best things about the first part. The menus are as horrible as they were in Dark Souls and the frame rate is all over the place, especially during co-op. Not to mention the bizarre fast-travel system that requires you to sit through two loading screens every time. You know, stuff that any other series would've caught plenty of flak for. But now that they've decided to annualize the series (which for some reason is also totally sweet in this case), maybe next year's game will fix these things?

Anyways I've been writing enough blog-ish posts about this game in here by now. So, tl;dr: It's a good game with some bad flaws that people for some reason choose to ignore. I'll be quiet now.

Edited June 24, 2015 by Friendly Foil

i finally got dark souls 2 and man it looks great, i'm getting my ass destroyed but it feels good 2 be back

i'll beat this fucker 2

  On 6/22/2015 at 3:06 PM, ghOsty said:

 

  On 6/22/2015 at 2:30 PM, Joyrex said:

 

  On 6/22/2015 at 12:23 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

 

  On 6/22/2015 at 12:08 PM, Friendly Foil said:

Bloodborne is pretty alright so far. Exploration and combat is sweet but the boss battles are just tedious and I feel the game would almost be better without them. It's like this annoying thing you have to pass every hour or so, just so you can get back to the actual cool stuff. At least they look cool. At least place a checkpoint or something before the boss rooms. Running the same route and killing the same enemies again and again is neither challenging nor fun. It's just annoying and tedious.

Overall I feel the game is great, perhaps even quite amazing when you're just exploring new areas, but it hardly makes every other game out there seem boring in comparison.

don't forget 2 use your bells, you get a lot of souls for helping people and if you find a hard boss, just call for help!

running the same route and killing the same enemies is part of the game how much it is frustrating it can also be fun

fuck i died and i left my 50000 bloodsouls out there i can still get em...fuck i'm dead again

 

right now i'm at nightmare of nemsis, i don't no where else to go and all i can do is run cause everything is killing me

 

Then you are weak - you need to level up, and make sure your Insight is not too high or the Brain Trust will rek you

 

 

Aside from necessary leveling, running past the first part from the elevator until you get to the entrance across the bridge actually isn't a bad idea to avoid the Frenzy missles and rock giants.... I'm so close to getting platinum on this game, but the fucking Pthumerian descendant in the final chalice dungeon is a real cunt.

 

Yeah, he's real fun, eh?

The main reason I'm not too fussed over Demon/Dark Souls is that I'm not fond of medieval aesthetics in general. Bloodbourne seems more palatable to me, and if they did a future world version, I'd be far more interested.

 

As for being hard, I thought it was really funny seeing some of the anger gamers radiated when it was rumoured an easy mode might be coming. Like, um, just keep playing it on hard? Why get angry about kid gloves if you're not going to wear them anyway?

So what is your favorite game console of all time?

  On 6/24/2015 at 6:13 PM, Rubin Farr said:

So what is your favorite game console of all time?

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  On 6/24/2015 at 6:13 PM, Rubin Farr said:

So what is your favorite game console of all time?

Dreamcast, because nostalgia.

Yeah the Wii was badass, but I would go with N64, I played so much of that shit back in the day, the lineup was amazing;

 

Mario 64

Ocarina of Time

Starfox 64

Mario Kart 64

Blast Corps

Star Wars Rogue Squadron

Majora's Mask

Perfect Dark

Golden Eye

Pokemon Stadium 2

Star Wars Racer

 

The New 3DS XL is a close second, currently my favorite hardware, it's an entire home console in your hands, with Netflix.

perfect dark was the game i played the most, and enjoyed the most in my entire life. when i finally got the last cheat, completing WAR on perfect agent mode in 1:03 or something ridiculous, i almost cried. those cheat time trials were hard beyond belief.