Speaking of that quest, how was I supposed to know to be there at noon without consulting the internet like I did
Did they realistically expect you to sit there and meditate an hour at a time, hoping to trigger something?
noonwraith info gets dropped into your bestiary as you progress through that quest
it's not specifically noon, it's during the daytime
It didn't, I checked my bestiary when he made the comment about the right time of day and also when I found the bracelet
It just had an entry on specters and that's it
And even after I killed it, it still had an objective for "find clues in this area with Witcher sense" but there were none and according to that IGN article there should have been drag marks or something and there were none so I think it just glitched out on me in a way that would have made it unfinishable but through chance
there does come a point where ''brute force'' is at least viable, if not totally efficient, you still want to work signs and bombs and oils in when you can
but that point comes at least ten, fifteen hours in, when you have a decently hefty wallet most of the time, and can afford to buy ingredients for bombs and the like
the bestiary will always be HELPFUL but it's not always requisite knowledge once you're hip deep in the game
and let's be clear, you're barely dipping your toes in, lengthwise
But that's also because I went into it with no prep and was able to take it down through sheer brute force
And I definitely dig the fiction of this world, I read that long-ass Kotaku breakdown on the first two games and found it super interesting, and since I typically think fantasy is the worst, that's rare
I don't know if I want to give up on it just yet but if it continues down that whole path of "prepare for your fights" to such a degree that "just kill it with your swords" doesn't work anymore, yeah, I'll hang it up
That is what the game is built on
You are fantasy batman
Figuring out what your fighting and what its weakness is is a mechanic for every monster you will fight.
I swing my sword at enemies and sometime I might remember to throw on an oil beforehand, but mostly not, and I've used a bomb like 5 times, and I've maybe died to normally leveled enemies for me perhaps 10 times total
Playing on the "normal" difficulty, whatever it's called
This game is so much less about preparation than witcher 2
Just swing and dodge some and virtually all encounters are easy, although, I haven't done much in skellige. Maybe it becomes worse late in the story game too.
The only thing you need to do before a fight is apply oils to your swords
All other potions or signs or what have you can be equipped and used mid-fight
Also it is totally worth it to buy materials for the oils and potions because once you've made it one time it will auto replenish every time you meditate, as long as you have alcohest or dwarven spirit on you, which you can find all over
I'm at the point where I can hack a wraith to oblivion without moon dust or Yrden
I don't know how
the incorporeal thing just doesn't fool Geralt anymore I guess
Do day one patches get downloaded along with pre-loads?
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I rented The Witcher 3 from Family Video and got through some side quests and the griffin.
It's sad that I may not buy it for years now, because I love what I played but the level of commitment it's going to ask of me plus my ferret-like gaming tendencies means I'm never ever going to complete it.
It's the same thing that's going to prevent me from ever owning Fallout 4. Tragic, really.
Well you should read the rest of their conversation where they were talking about how much fun they were having playing Oculus and Morpheus together
I did.
And then he goes "Hey, look what this guy thinks of our awesome fun playhouse" and I'm imagining a six year old in shorts and propeller-beanie, poking his friend and going "are you gonna take that?".
i just had a flash of looking at a morrowind review and it said it was a gig to install and thinking "jesus, that's a quarter of our current hard drive"
and now i'm upset if a gig takes longer than 10 minutes to download.
Reggie saying "I don't think it's fun" and then being countered by two people who are heavily invested in the notion that it is fun claiming that it's fun doesn't really mean anything
That's like someone saying McDonald's is shit and the CEO saying "actually I find these burgers rather tasty!"
Reggie saying "I don't think it's fun" and then being countered by two people who are heavily invested in the notion that it is fun claiming that it's fun doesn't really mean anything
That's like someone saying McDonald'sis shit and the CEO saying "actually I find these burgers rather tasty!"
eh
a lot of twitter games journalists were out there disagreeing with him as well
Griffin in particular was like 'no, this is fun, and its fun now, not maybe fun in 5 years'
VR is super cool conceptually and technologically and I can imagine it being great in a few specific contexts, but I don't think anyone has actually shown anything to back up the idea that it's going to revolutionize gaming the way people say it will
So far the coolest actual practical thing I've seen from any of these headsets is how the hololens can essentially put an arbitrarily large TV in your room
Olivawgood name, isn't it?the foot of mt fujiRegistered Userregular
VR definitely sounds like a thing you have to actually see to believe
But I agree with Lorne Lanning when he was like, "the build up and excitement around VR is coming from the creative and hobbyist side, as opposed to something like 3D which came from studios and theater owners wanting to make more money"
Everyone who's tried it, even the most skeptical, jaded sons of bitches in video games, has gone "this is fucking crazy"
And given that there's like five or six fucking independent companies producing their own version of VR, I'm pretty sure it's gonna be a big thing at least for a while
Who knows what the blowback will be, or the side effects, or whatever
But it's not just gonna be a massive boondoggle like 3D was
VR definitely sounds like a thing you have to actually see to believe
But I agree with Lorne Lanning when he was like, "the build up and excitement around VR is coming from the creative and hobbyist side, as opposed to something like 3D which came from studios and theater owners wanting to make more money"
Everyone who's tried it, even the most skeptical, jaded sons of bitches in video games, has gone "this is fucking crazy"
And given that there's like five or six fucking independent companies producing their own version of VR, I'm pretty sure it's gonna be a big thing at least for a while
Who knows what the blowback will be, or the side effects, or whatever
But it's not just gonna be a massive boondoggle like 3D was
or will it?
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VR definitely sounds like a thing you have to actually see to believe
But I agree with Lorne Lanning when he was like, "the build up and excitement around VR is coming from the creative and hobbyist side, as opposed to something like 3D which came from studios and theater owners wanting to make more money"
Everyone who's tried it, even the most skeptical, jaded sons of bitches in video games, has gone "this is fucking crazy"
And given that there's like five or six fucking independent companies producing their own version of VR, I'm pretty sure it's gonna be a big thing at least for a while
Who knows what the blowback will be, or the side effects, or whatever
But it's not just gonna be a massive boondoggle like 3D was
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It didn't, I checked my bestiary when he made the comment about the right time of day and also when I found the bracelet
It just had an entry on specters and that's it
And even after I killed it, it still had an objective for "find clues in this area with Witcher sense" but there were none and according to that IGN article there should have been drag marks or something and there were none so I think it just glitched out on me in a way that would have made it unfinishable but through chance
but that point comes at least ten, fifteen hours in, when you have a decently hefty wallet most of the time, and can afford to buy ingredients for bombs and the like
the bestiary will always be HELPFUL but it's not always requisite knowledge once you're hip deep in the game
and let's be clear, you're barely dipping your toes in, lengthwise
That is what the game is built on
You are fantasy batman
Figuring out what your fighting and what its weakness is is a mechanic for every monster you will fight.
KH2 was two consoles ago, for fuck's sake.
Which means we'll get KH4 on the PS7 and Xbox 360
Playing on the "normal" difficulty, whatever it's called
This game is so much less about preparation than witcher 2
Just swing and dodge some and virtually all encounters are easy, although, I haven't done much in skellige. Maybe it becomes worse late in the story game too.
All other potions or signs or what have you can be equipped and used mid-fight
Also it is totally worth it to buy materials for the oils and potions because once you've made it one time it will auto replenish every time you meditate, as long as you have alcohest or dwarven spirit on you, which you can find all over
That seems to let you button mash pretty good
also their counterattacks hit like trucks so you gotta back off after an attack or two and be patient
I don't know how
the incorporeal thing just doesn't fool Geralt anymore I guess
IIRC it's the first level where I can't clear all the goals in one run
Is it weird that my first thought was "That's not that bad"?
Minor nuisance though
It's sad that I may not buy it for years now, because I love what I played but the level of commitment it's going to ask of me plus my ferret-like gaming tendencies means I'm never ever going to complete it.
It's the same thing that's going to prevent me from ever owning Fallout 4. Tragic, really.
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3.5 gigs is about 5-7 hours depending on how my internet is doing that day.
Yeah I'm way out of practice for that. I almost had the foundry though.
I can't tell if he's trying to dare Palmer Luckey into picking a fight with Nintendo.
this technology is promising but it's not yet matured to the point where people really know how to make games for it
nintendo is probably waiting for other people to figure that out and then they might start dipping their toes into vr
I did.
And then he goes "Hey, look what this guy thinks of our awesome fun playhouse" and I'm imagining a six year old in shorts and propeller-beanie, poking his friend and going "are you gonna take that?".
i just had a flash of looking at a morrowind review and it said it was a gig to install and thinking "jesus, that's a quarter of our current hard drive"
and now i'm upset if a gig takes longer than 10 minutes to download.
man. technology.
That's like someone saying McDonald's is shit and the CEO saying "actually I find these burgers rather tasty!"
eh
a lot of twitter games journalists were out there disagreeing with him as well
Griffin in particular was like 'no, this is fun, and its fun now, not maybe fun in 5 years'
it isn't capital P Proven as a real gaming device
Wii tennis
VR is super cool conceptually and technologically and I can imagine it being great in a few specific contexts, but I don't think anyone has actually shown anything to back up the idea that it's going to revolutionize gaming the way people say it will
So far the coolest actual practical thing I've seen from any of these headsets is how the hololens can essentially put an arbitrarily large TV in your room
http://www.audioentropy.com/
But I agree with Lorne Lanning when he was like, "the build up and excitement around VR is coming from the creative and hobbyist side, as opposed to something like 3D which came from studios and theater owners wanting to make more money"
Everyone who's tried it, even the most skeptical, jaded sons of bitches in video games, has gone "this is fucking crazy"
And given that there's like five or six fucking independent companies producing their own version of VR, I'm pretty sure it's gonna be a big thing at least for a while
Who knows what the blowback will be, or the side effects, or whatever
But it's not just gonna be a massive boondoggle like 3D was
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