One time I tried to watch the announcement trailer for Shaq Fu and lasted, I believe, two full seconds before being forced to close the tab.
This was the full extent of my knowledge of Shaq Fu, although apparently it was sufficient to have a complete and accurate understanding of its nature based on what I'm hearing now.
Warframe is kinda great game, that is fun to play, has interesting lore, and decent customization.
It is also unintuitive to progress, grindy, and more or less requires a group unless you are doing the currently popular stuff, so trying to clear out missions that you can't solo can be all but impossible because nobody else is doing them.
That said, the main reason i am not playing it is that i took a break and now can't get used to controls, there's something about the camera that makes me feel like i am constantly drifting to the left when trying to move straight.
Warframe is kinda great game, that is fun to play, has interesting lore, and decent customization.
It is also unintuitive to progress, grindy, and more or less requires a group unless you are doing the currently popular stuff, so trying to clear out missions that you can't solo can be all but impossible because nobody else is doing them.
That said, the main reason i am not playing it is that i took a break and now can't get used to controls, there's something about the camera that makes me feel like i am constantly drifting to the left when trying to move straight.
It's camera feels like it's hovering in a weird place over your shoulder. I get used to it, but if I accidentally hit H and switch sides then I notice it all over again.
they decided the original's meme status meant they had to make a comedy game (fair enough) but then went with the laziest sort of "comedy" imaginable
there's an alternate timeline where a good version exists that just leans into what's inherently funny about "famous basketball man goes to weird, high concept fantasy setting and clowns on everybody"
Day of the Tentacle:
I seem to be missing something obvious
need a nudge towards collecting the the fake barf
I want to turn Chuck into a mutant cactus, but I don't see any way to do that.
I've turned on the music, and that helped.
I've done nearly everything else, I think. At least, Hoagie has plugged in his Chron-O-John; Laverne is ready to win the Human Show, but needs to disqualify Harold. Presumably the novelty item is the ticket. Bernard has installed the diamond.
Day of the Tentacle:
I seem to be missing something obvious
need a nudge towards collecting the the fake barf
I want to turn Chuck into a mutant cactus, but I don't see any way to do that.
I've turned on the music, and that helped.
I've done nearly everything else, I think. At least, Hoagie has plugged in his Chron-O-John; Laverne is ready to win the Human Show, but needs to disqualify Harold. Presumably the novelty item is the ticket. Bernard has installed the diamond.
There's no way to tell you without flat spoilering it, because it's literally one step.
Go back to green tentacle's room and push the speaker to the floor.
Warframe's likely future purchase by Tencent has me worried for all sorts of things, and I hate that I'm probably done with the game because of that.
There's so much neat stuff in that game. Argh.
this seems very speculative
what do you think would change?
Well a main thing I'm worried about would be the CCP being handed data on the player base. Which they may well already have at this point anyhow, but Tencent is certainly appropriately classified as an arm of the CCP. My other concerns are indeed very speculative and may come to nothing.
Day of the Tentacle:
I seem to be missing something obvious
need a nudge towards collecting the the fake barf
I want to turn Chuck into a mutant cactus, but I don't see any way to do that.
I've turned on the music, and that helped.
I've done nearly everything else, I think. At least, Hoagie has plugged in his Chron-O-John; Laverne is ready to win the Human Show, but needs to disqualify Harold. Presumably the novelty item is the ticket. Bernard has installed the diamond.
There's no way to tell you without flat spoilering it, because it's literally one step.
Go back to green tentacle's room and push the speaker to the floor.
*groans*
ok, I thought I tried messing with that, but whatever. Thanks.
Warframe is kinda great game, that is fun to play, has interesting lore, and decent customization.
It is also unintuitive to progress, grindy, and more or less requires a group unless you are doing the currently popular stuff, so trying to clear out missions that you can't solo can be all but impossible because nobody else is doing them.
That said, the main reason i am not playing it is that i took a break and now can't get used to controls, there's something about the camera that makes me feel like i am constantly drifting to the left when trying to move straight.
It's camera feels like it's hovering in a weird place over your shoulder. I get used to it, but if I accidentally hit H and switch sides then I notice it all over again.
Yeah, and it's weird because 3rd person camera does not cause that usually, i only experience it in Warframe.
Seeing folks asking for help with Day of the Tentacle in this blighted year of 2020 warms my heart.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I love that they were so adamant that shaq fu was "not going to be bad like the original" and wound up making something that is not only exactly as much a product of its time as the original, but also somehow even cornier
It has both transphobic and homophobic jokes within the first 15 minutes and the first boss is a Chris Brown analogue complete with abuse jokes. It’s real bad
That’s a yikes from me, dog
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
they decided the original's meme status meant they had to make a comedy game (fair enough) but then went with the laziest sort of "comedy" imaginable
there's an alternate timeline where a good version exists that just leans into what's inherently funny about "famous basketball man goes to weird, high concept fantasy setting and clowns on everybody"
Isn't that just Charles Barkely Shut Up And Jam Gaiden, except for the part where that also aged badly?
I ate an engineer
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I've done nearly everything else, I think. At least, Hoagie has plugged in his Chron-O-John; Laverne is ready to win the Human Show, but needs to disqualify Harold. Presumably the novelty item is the ticket. Bernard has installed the diamond.
I played some Warframe and I think I remember why I stopped. There's a million things you can do, but there's very little guidance for what you should do.
As part of finishing up the few things on the star chart I was missing I did the Ropalolyst boss fight. It had multiple unique mechanics that weren't communicated at all, so I looked it up on the wiki to figure out how to beat it. I was doing it in public matchmaking and it seemed like none of the other people in the group knew how to fight it either.
I tried the first two missions of the recently added hard mode and it is not fun solo. Maybe a build where you use aoe warframe powers is more effective than guns, but my guns were definitely not fast at killing anything.
the ropapolyst is incredibly easy if you know what you're doing, and an absolute fucking nightmare if people don't
or sometimes it just bugs out
hard mode is only meaningful if you are unbelievably decked out, and the rewards are incredibly mediocre
Man Ropalolyst sucks real bad. I got carried through it once to clear the node and I could barely even tell what was going on. Then someone in the clan helped me do it again for reasons I don't remember and even having read the wiki and having the mechanics explained, when mechanics happened it was basically impossible to tell if I was doing them wrong, or if there was lag or a bug happening.
I've done nearly everything else, I think. At least, Hoagie has plugged in his Chron-O-John; Laverne is ready to win the Human Show, but needs to disqualify Harold. Presumably the novelty item is the ticket. Bernard has installed the diamond.
This sounds like secret agent code talk
It's very much worth a playthrough if you haven't yet. Classic point and click, it has a good amount of moon logic but it's very well written and best of all there are no "dead man walking" moments like its contemporaries(e.g. you didn't pixel hunt an item in a short window of availability so you're screwed forever).
Also Laverne is still one of the best written female protagonists in gaming.
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
I played some Warframe and I think I remember why I stopped. There's a million things you can do, but there's very little guidance for what you should do.
As part of finishing up the few things on the star chart I was missing I did the Ropalolyst boss fight. It had multiple unique mechanics that weren't communicated at all, so I looked it up on the wiki to figure out how to beat it. I was doing it in public matchmaking and it seemed like none of the other people in the group knew how to fight it either.
I tried the first two missions of the recently added hard mode and it is not fun solo. Maybe a build where you use aoe warframe powers is more effective than guns, but my guns were definitely not fast at killing anything.
the ropapolyst is incredibly easy if you know what you're doing, and an absolute fucking nightmare if people don't
or sometimes it just bugs out
hard mode is only meaningful if you are unbelievably decked out, and the rewards are incredibly mediocre
Man Ropalolyst sucks real bad. I got carried through it once to clear the node and I could barely even tell what was going on. Then someone in the clan helped me do it again for reasons I don't remember and even having read the wiki and having the mechanics explained, when mechanics happened it was basically impossible to tell if I was doing them wrong, or if there was lag or a bug happening.
I had to run it about 25-30 times because wisp decided it wanted to be a piece of shit
it got to where I could sleepwalk the fight solo pretty easily
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
Played through Heretic again. For those who don't know, Heretic was a first person shooter, made off the Doom engine (you could reasonably call it a doom clone) by B-Game superstars Raven Software and it holds a very special place in my heart. The big hook was that it was fantasy based, instead of scifi. You used staffs, wands, bows and other magical items to shoot the crap out of various undead, wizards and monsters.
It's actually kind of fun to map stuff back to Doom, though it's never quite 1-1. Like, your starter weapon is a small, weak hitscan wand that functions like the pistol in Doom, but because, like every weapon, it uses its own ammo instead of sharing it with another weapon (like the pistol and the chaingun), it actually is more useful as a fallback weapon. Pretty much every Doom weapon, except the BFG, has a Heretic version, even the chainsaw. A neat twist on this is the Tome of Power powerup, which is similar to the Quad Damage from quake, but instead of just amplifying damage, it gives every weapon a powerful new attack that frequently changes the role of the weapon in combat. The plasma rifle equivilant becomes an AOE generator; the rocket launcher equivalent becomes a flamethrower.
Heretic has several innovations over Doom. You can look up and down, fly with a power-up, some power-ups (like the tome of power) get stored in your inventory to be used at your discretion, enemies have more complex attacks (ex. one enemy summons a tornado which will follow you and knock you around) and traits (transparent enemies can't be hit with physical attacks).
I've played it once before and found the first episode to be a bit of a slog due to getting one less weapon than in Doom's episode 1. I was a bit worried I wouldn't get into it this time, but the further I got in, the more I wanted to play it. I also found the first three episodes pretty easy even on the Ultra Violence equivalent difficulty. You just have so much ammo and being able to store power-ups for when you need them gives you a huge edge.
Episode 4 (added in to the retail versions like with Doom's episode 4) fixes this temporarily by throwing you up against a ridiculous amount of high tier enemies and just barely giving you enough ammo to deal with them... if you're extremely careful. I chickened out and just ran to the exit. The rest of the Episode, and even Episode 5's start are much, much easier once you are able to farm up the weaponry and ammo to deal with stuff. Still more of a challenge than Episodes 1-3.
I played via gzDoom with 64-bit soundtrack and a neural-upscale graphics mod and it looked pretty good. If you like old shooters and haven't played Heretic, I'd recommend checking it out. I like Doom more, but it's still a great shooter.
Sadly the franchise exists in rights limbo between Activision and Bethesda, so it's basically a dead franchise at this point. Luckily, Amid Evil a fantasy shooter in the vein of Heretic and is very, very good.
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Zxerolfor the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't doso i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered Userregular
Like not even kidding. You get okay, inoffensive flow mixed with legitimately great production from Wu-Tang, Warren G, etc. to create something that's the best of "Things Named Shaq Fu" and it's not even close.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
"Neural-upscale graphics mod" is a pretty good throwaway cyberpunk phrase.
started writing this up on the 31st, just finished. Random thoughts and funny bits as I encountered them.
- not sure I like the 'goofy' font for the verb box (I'm playing with the original graphics)
- none of these kids seem particularly bright
- "no, I'm Threepwood"
- Laverne: "damn that Dr. Fred"
Zed: "hey, she knows the Edison Family Motto"
- I think Grossman and Schafer have a bone to pick with Dog Shows [ed: the next day, I noticed the pun. I regret nothing]
- uh, Laverne collected a normal flag in the future; Hoagie swaps out the flag design; and the flag in Laverne's inventory warps to a tentacle disguise.
- took me a bit to realize I could give items directly to the other kids. That'll save a bunch of running around. . .
- "why would I want to go through there anyway," Larverne thinks, "it's a two-story drop." She instead slips down the chimney, dropping some three stories in the process.
- *sends spaghetti noodles to Laverne* "wait, why are they we... oh, right."
- *uses dinglehopper on Ted's 'hair'*; after styling, there's a ... something on the end. me: "don't eat tha-, yep she ate it". I mean, sure, I think it's a meatball, but where did it come from?
- Laverne claims to be pre-med. She's slightly unstable ("My therapist and I have an agreement"), so I'm not sure. She does seem to recognize internal anatomy and is carrying around a scalpel.
- switched over to the modern graphics and checked a few rooms with shift. May have helped me notice something; not sure.
- $876600, eh? I wonder ... yep, that's ~200 years worth of cycles.
- I put the frozen hamster in the microwave ... and Laverne turns to the camera and issues a "don't try this at home" warning.
- oh, you've got to be ... just 'push' Edna to get her out of the way
I'm sorry "push old ladies down the stairs" isn't my first thought
- *tugs collar* did it have to a noose?
- achievement unlocked: dialog puzzles are hard
-*use scalpel on cigar salesman*
Bernard raises the scalpel menacingly, then says, "no, that would be wrong"
- I thought I tried 'open'ing the grate, but whatever.
- the IRS agents are mildly amusing
- I guess I overthink these things: pushing Edna, pushing the speaker; opening the grate. I keep looking for a more complex solution
- this 3-headed mode is a bit annoying, especially considering the loss of all my items for no apparent reason
- yeah, these kids are pretty dumb
- purple tentacle takes his rightful place in the Lucas Arts logo
I think it lives up to the hype, guys, gals, and enbies.
Took a bit longer than I expected / wanted; the 'moon logic' in a couple places stumped me here and there.
started writing this up on the 31st, just finished. Random thoughts and funny bits as I encountered them.
- not sure I like the 'goofy' font for the verb box (I'm playing with the original graphics)
- none of these kids seem particularly bright
- "no, I'm Threepwood"
- Laverne: "damn that Dr. Fred"
Zed: "hey, she knows the Edison Family Motto"
- I think Grossman and Schafer have a bone to pick with Dog Shows [ed: the next day, I noticed the pun. I regret nothing]
- uh, Laverne collected a normal flag in the future; Hoagie swaps out the flag design; and the flag in Laverne's inventory warps to a tentacle disguise.
- took me a bit to realize I could give items directly to the other kids. That'll save a bunch of running around. . .
- "why would I want to go through there anyway," Larverne thinks, "it's a two-story drop." She instead slips down the chimney, dropping some three stories in the process.
- *sends spaghetti noodles to Laverne* "wait, why are they we... oh, right."
- *uses dinglehopper on Ted's 'hair'*; after styling, there's a ... something on the end. me: "don't eat tha-, yep she ate it". I mean, sure, I think it's a meatball, but where did it come from?
- Laverne claims to be pre-med. She's slightly unstable ("My therapist and I have an agreement"), so I'm not sure. She does seem to recognize internal anatomy and is carrying around a scalpel.
- switched over to the modern graphics and checked a few rooms with shift. May have helped me notice something; not sure.
- $876600, eh? I wonder ... yep, that's ~200 years worth of cycles.
- I put the frozen hamster in the microwave ... and Laverne turns to the camera and issues a "don't try this at home" warning.
- oh, you've got to be ... just 'push' Edna to get her out of the way
I'm sorry "push old ladies down the stairs" isn't my first thought
- *tugs collar* did it have to a noose?
- achievement unlocked: dialog puzzles are hard
-*use scalpel on cigar salesman*
Bernard raises the scalpel menacingly, then says, "no, that would be wrong"
- I thought I tried 'open'ing the grate, but whatever.
- the IRS agents are mildly amusing
- I guess I overthink these things: pushing Edna, pushing the speaker; opening the grate. I keep looking for a more complex solution
- this 3-headed mode is a bit annoying, especially considering the loss of all my items for no apparent reason
- yeah, these kids are pretty dumb
- purple tentacle takes his rightful place in the Lucas Arts logo
I think it lives up to the hype, guys, gals, and enbies.
Took a bit longer than I expected / wanted; the 'moon logic' in a couple places stumped me here and there.
My hat off, I adore DoTT, but there's a bunch of puzzles whose solutions I only know because I'd finished the game before (and I still got stumped on the dialogue puzzle at the very end last year).
Speaking of old-ish games, I picked up Sunset Overdrive on sale a while back and finally got around to it. Man, that game sure has a Saints Row vibe to it, huh. Also, as I get used to the controls it's been growing on me more and more; the mobility is such a powerful and fun tool, but man do you need to get used to all the stuff you can do before you can chain stuff comfortably.
And the only game since Saints Row 2 (and to a degree 3) whose meta wink-at-the-camera humour actually lands for me. Also also, I am so happy to be playing it with a mouse and keyboard, because this game is far too hectic for me to manage with a gamepad.
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
Having nothing chill to play, I started up No Man’s Sky to check out the changes. I am building a base right underneath one of those multi landing pad trade centers because it let me, and I get a free landing pad. Also there are several cool looking ships in my starting system and I want to buy one. Now that they added the ability to upgrade ship classes, you really only need to find a cool looking ship that you can upgrade all the way to s class.
started writing this up on the 31st, just finished. Random thoughts and funny bits as I encountered them.
- not sure I like the 'goofy' font for the verb box (I'm playing with the original graphics)
- none of these kids seem particularly bright
- "no, I'm Threepwood"
- Laverne: "damn that Dr. Fred"
Zed: "hey, she knows the Edison Family Motto"
- I think Grossman and Schafer have a bone to pick with Dog Shows [ed: the next day, I noticed the pun. I regret nothing]
- uh, Laverne collected a normal flag in the future; Hoagie swaps out the flag design; and the flag in Laverne's inventory warps to a tentacle disguise.
- took me a bit to realize I could give items directly to the other kids. That'll save a bunch of running around. . .
- "why would I want to go through there anyway," Larverne thinks, "it's a two-story drop." She instead slips down the chimney, dropping some three stories in the process.
- *sends spaghetti noodles to Laverne* "wait, why are they we... oh, right."
- *uses dinglehopper on Ted's 'hair'*; after styling, there's a ... something on the end. me: "don't eat tha-, yep she ate it". I mean, sure, I think it's a meatball, but where did it come from?
- Laverne claims to be pre-med. She's slightly unstable ("My therapist and I have an agreement"), so I'm not sure. She does seem to recognize internal anatomy and is carrying around a scalpel.
- switched over to the modern graphics and checked a few rooms with shift. May have helped me notice something; not sure.
- $876600, eh? I wonder ... yep, that's ~200 years worth of cycles.
- I put the frozen hamster in the microwave ... and Laverne turns to the camera and issues a "don't try this at home" warning.
- oh, you've got to be ... just 'push' Edna to get her out of the way
I'm sorry "push old ladies down the stairs" isn't my first thought
- *tugs collar* did it have to a noose?
- achievement unlocked: dialog puzzles are hard
-*use scalpel on cigar salesman*
Bernard raises the scalpel menacingly, then says, "no, that would be wrong"
- I thought I tried 'open'ing the grate, but whatever.
- the IRS agents are mildly amusing
- I guess I overthink these things: pushing Edna, pushing the speaker; opening the grate. I keep looking for a more complex solution
- this 3-headed mode is a bit annoying, especially considering the loss of all my items for no apparent reason
- yeah, these kids are pretty dumb
- purple tentacle takes his rightful place in the Lucas Arts logo
I think it lives up to the hype, guys, gals, and enbies.
Took a bit longer than I expected / wanted; the 'moon logic' in a couple places stumped me here and there.
The 'pushing Edna' puzzle might have been harder than you thought, you might have just solved part of it without realising before it became relevant.
If you push her before you change anything, she is able to grab a hold of the hand of the twin statue by her doorway, which she uses to whiplash back into the room at speed and fly back into Bernard, knocking him over.
When you swap the left handed hammer into the twin's art studio and cause that sculpture to break, swapping which twin is the sculptor and which the subject, the statue changes from left-handed to right-handed and Edna can no longer grab the statue to whiplash back into the room.
So if you swapped out the hammer before you had tried pushing Edna, she just barrels out of the room without knowing you've already solved part of the puzzle.
That's unbelievably cool. Your new name is cool guy. Let's have sex.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
There was so much saving and loading in Fallout that the fact that F6 was the quick save key in Fallout and the quick load key in every single modern video game has ruined me. Possibly forever.
started writing this up on the 31st, just finished. Random thoughts and funny bits as I encountered them.
- not sure I like the 'goofy' font for the verb box (I'm playing with the original graphics)
- none of these kids seem particularly bright
- "no, I'm Threepwood"
- Laverne: "damn that Dr. Fred"
Zed: "hey, she knows the Edison Family Motto"
- I think Grossman and Schafer have a bone to pick with Dog Shows [ed: the next day, I noticed the pun. I regret nothing]
- uh, Laverne collected a normal flag in the future; Hoagie swaps out the flag design; and the flag in Laverne's inventory warps to a tentacle disguise.
- took me a bit to realize I could give items directly to the other kids. That'll save a bunch of running around. . .
- "why would I want to go through there anyway," Larverne thinks, "it's a two-story drop." She instead slips down the chimney, dropping some three stories in the process.
- *sends spaghetti noodles to Laverne* "wait, why are they we... oh, right."
- *uses dinglehopper on Ted's 'hair'*; after styling, there's a ... something on the end. me: "don't eat tha-, yep she ate it". I mean, sure, I think it's a meatball, but where did it come from?
- Laverne claims to be pre-med. She's slightly unstable ("My therapist and I have an agreement"), so I'm not sure. She does seem to recognize internal anatomy and is carrying around a scalpel.
- switched over to the modern graphics and checked a few rooms with shift. May have helped me notice something; not sure.
- $876600, eh? I wonder ... yep, that's ~200 years worth of cycles.
- I put the frozen hamster in the microwave ... and Laverne turns to the camera and issues a "don't try this at home" warning.
- oh, you've got to be ... just 'push' Edna to get her out of the way
I'm sorry "push old ladies down the stairs" isn't my first thought
- *tugs collar* did it have to a noose?
- achievement unlocked: dialog puzzles are hard
-*use scalpel on cigar salesman*
Bernard raises the scalpel menacingly, then says, "no, that would be wrong"
- I thought I tried 'open'ing the grate, but whatever.
- the IRS agents are mildly amusing
- I guess I overthink these things: pushing Edna, pushing the speaker; opening the grate. I keep looking for a more complex solution
- this 3-headed mode is a bit annoying, especially considering the loss of all my items for no apparent reason
- yeah, these kids are pretty dumb
- purple tentacle takes his rightful place in the Lucas Arts logo
I think it lives up to the hype, guys, gals, and enbies.
Took a bit longer than I expected / wanted; the 'moon logic' in a couple places stumped me here and there.
The 'pushing Edna' puzzle might have been harder than you thought, you might have just solved part of it without realising before it became relevant.
If you push her before you change anything, she is able to grab a hold of the hand of the twin statue by her doorway, which she uses to whiplash back into the room at speed and fly back into Bernard, knocking him over.
When you swap the left handed hammer into the twin's art studio and cause that sculpture to break, swapping which twin is the sculptor and which the subject, the statue changes from left-handed to right-handed and Edna can no longer grab the statue to whiplash back into the room.
So if you swapped out the hammer before you had tried pushing Edna, she just barrels out of the room without knowing you've already solved part of the puzzle.
yeah, I swapped the statues fairly early, so I missed that whole thing in the moment. Sometime after removing her, while I was ruminating on another puzzle, I went back to an earlier save to see ... well, what you describe.
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Shaq Fu's signature move is punching down.
This was the full extent of my knowledge of Shaq Fu, although apparently it was sufficient to have a complete and accurate understanding of its nature based on what I'm hearing now.
It is also unintuitive to progress, grindy, and more or less requires a group unless you are doing the currently popular stuff, so trying to clear out missions that you can't solo can be all but impossible because nobody else is doing them.
That said, the main reason i am not playing it is that i took a break and now can't get used to controls, there's something about the camera that makes me feel like i am constantly drifting to the left when trying to move straight.
It's camera feels like it's hovering in a weird place over your shoulder. I get used to it, but if I accidentally hit H and switch sides then I notice it all over again.
there's an alternate timeline where a good version exists that just leans into what's inherently funny about "famous basketball man goes to weird, high concept fantasy setting and clowns on everybody"
I seem to be missing something obvious
I want to turn Chuck into a mutant cactus, but I don't see any way to do that.
I've turned on the music, and that helped.
I've done nearly everything else, I think. At least, Hoagie has plugged in his Chron-O-John; Laverne is ready to win the Human Show, but needs to disqualify Harold. Presumably the novelty item is the ticket. Bernard has installed the diamond.
There's no way to tell you without flat spoilering it, because it's literally one step.
Well a main thing I'm worried about would be the CCP being handed data on the player base. Which they may well already have at this point anyhow, but Tencent is certainly appropriately classified as an arm of the CCP. My other concerns are indeed very speculative and may come to nothing.
*groans*
ok, I thought I tried messing with that, but whatever. Thanks.
Yeah, and it's weird because 3rd person camera does not cause that usually, i only experience it in Warframe.
That’s a yikes from me, dog
Isn't that just Charles Barkely Shut Up And Jam Gaiden, except for the part where that also aged badly?
This sounds like secret agent code talk
Steam Switch FC: 2799-7909-4852
Man Ropalolyst sucks real bad. I got carried through it once to clear the node and I could barely even tell what was going on. Then someone in the clan helped me do it again for reasons I don't remember and even having read the wiki and having the mechanics explained, when mechanics happened it was basically impossible to tell if I was doing them wrong, or if there was lag or a bug happening.
It's very much worth a playthrough if you haven't yet. Classic point and click, it has a good amount of moon logic but it's very well written and best of all there are no "dead man walking" moments like its contemporaries(e.g. you didn't pixel hunt an item in a short window of availability so you're screwed forever).
Also Laverne is still one of the best written female protagonists in gaming.
I had to run it about 25-30 times because wisp decided it wanted to be a piece of shit
it got to where I could sleepwalk the fight solo pretty easily
Digital Extremes is already owned by a Chinese holding company though?
Like I'm curious how you think them moving from Leyou to Tencent would make things worse
I used to play a bunch of it for some reason
It's actually kind of fun to map stuff back to Doom, though it's never quite 1-1. Like, your starter weapon is a small, weak hitscan wand that functions like the pistol in Doom, but because, like every weapon, it uses its own ammo instead of sharing it with another weapon (like the pistol and the chaingun), it actually is more useful as a fallback weapon. Pretty much every Doom weapon, except the BFG, has a Heretic version, even the chainsaw. A neat twist on this is the Tome of Power powerup, which is similar to the Quad Damage from quake, but instead of just amplifying damage, it gives every weapon a powerful new attack that frequently changes the role of the weapon in combat. The plasma rifle equivilant becomes an AOE generator; the rocket launcher equivalent becomes a flamethrower.
Heretic has several innovations over Doom. You can look up and down, fly with a power-up, some power-ups (like the tome of power) get stored in your inventory to be used at your discretion, enemies have more complex attacks (ex. one enemy summons a tornado which will follow you and knock you around) and traits (transparent enemies can't be hit with physical attacks).
I've played it once before and found the first episode to be a bit of a slog due to getting one less weapon than in Doom's episode 1. I was a bit worried I wouldn't get into it this time, but the further I got in, the more I wanted to play it. I also found the first three episodes pretty easy even on the Ultra Violence equivalent difficulty. You just have so much ammo and being able to store power-ups for when you need them gives you a huge edge.
Episode 4 (added in to the retail versions like with Doom's episode 4) fixes this temporarily by throwing you up against a ridiculous amount of high tier enemies and just barely giving you enough ammo to deal with them... if you're extremely careful. I chickened out and just ran to the exit. The rest of the Episode, and even Episode 5's start are much, much easier once you are able to farm up the weaponry and ammo to deal with stuff. Still more of a challenge than Episodes 1-3.
I played via gzDoom with 64-bit soundtrack and a neural-upscale graphics mod and it looked pretty good. If you like old shooters and haven't played Heretic, I'd recommend checking it out. I like Doom more, but it's still a great shooter.
Sadly the franchise exists in rights limbo between Activision and Bethesda, so it's basically a dead franchise at this point. Luckily, Amid Evil a fantasy shooter in the vein of Heretic and is very, very good.
Like not even kidding. You get okay, inoffensive flow mixed with legitimately great production from Wu-Tang, Warren G, etc. to create something that's the best of "Things Named Shaq Fu" and it's not even close.
started writing this up on the 31st, just finished. Random thoughts and funny bits as I encountered them.
- none of these kids seem particularly bright
- "no, I'm Threepwood"
- Laverne: "damn that Dr. Fred"
Zed: "hey, she knows the Edison Family Motto"
- I think Grossman and Schafer have a bone to pick with Dog Shows [ed: the next day, I noticed the pun. I regret nothing]
- uh, Laverne collected a normal flag in the future; Hoagie swaps out the flag design; and the flag in Laverne's inventory warps to a tentacle disguise.
- took me a bit to realize I could give items directly to the other kids. That'll save a bunch of running around. . .
- "why would I want to go through there anyway," Larverne thinks, "it's a two-story drop." She instead slips down the chimney, dropping some three stories in the process.
- *sends spaghetti noodles to Laverne* "wait, why are they we... oh, right."
- *uses dinglehopper on Ted's 'hair'*; after styling, there's a ... something on the end. me: "don't eat tha-, yep she ate it". I mean, sure, I think it's a meatball, but where did it come from?
- Laverne claims to be pre-med. She's slightly unstable ("My therapist and I have an agreement"), so I'm not sure. She does seem to recognize internal anatomy and is carrying around a scalpel.
- switched over to the modern graphics and checked a few rooms with shift. May have helped me notice something; not sure.
- $876600, eh? I wonder ... yep, that's ~200 years worth of cycles.
- I put the frozen hamster in the microwave ... and Laverne turns to the camera and issues a "don't try this at home" warning.
- oh, you've got to be ... just 'push' Edna to get her out of the way
I'm sorry "push old ladies down the stairs" isn't my first thought
- *tugs collar* did it have to a noose?
- achievement unlocked: dialog puzzles are hard
-*use scalpel on cigar salesman*
Bernard raises the scalpel menacingly, then says, "no, that would be wrong"
- I thought I tried 'open'ing the grate, but whatever.
- the IRS agents are mildly amusing
- I guess I overthink these things: pushing Edna, pushing the speaker; opening the grate. I keep looking for a more complex solution
- this 3-headed mode is a bit annoying, especially considering the loss of all my items for no apparent reason
- yeah, these kids are pretty dumb
- purple tentacle takes his rightful place in the Lucas Arts logo
I think it lives up to the hype, guys, gals, and enbies.
Took a bit longer than I expected / wanted; the 'moon logic' in a couple places stumped me here and there.
This is a good point that I did not know about. Maybe I'm concerned over nothing. Or at least nothing new.
Speaking of old-ish games, I picked up Sunset Overdrive on sale a while back and finally got around to it. Man, that game sure has a Saints Row vibe to it, huh. Also, as I get used to the controls it's been growing on me more and more; the mobility is such a powerful and fun tool, but man do you need to get used to all the stuff you can do before you can chain stuff comfortably.
And the only game since Saints Row 2 (and to a degree 3) whose meta wink-at-the-camera humour actually lands for me. Also also, I am so happy to be playing it with a mouse and keyboard, because this game is far too hectic for me to manage with a gamepad.
it is incredibly jank and poorly balanced, but it holds a special place in my young life
yeah the animation being fluid/good is actually what made the input so bad/unresponsive
they could not get the game to reliably cancel animations, so there are just large windows where it will ignore inputs while an animation plays out
If you push her before you change anything, she is able to grab a hold of the hand of the twin statue by her doorway, which she uses to whiplash back into the room at speed and fly back into Bernard, knocking him over.
When you swap the left handed hammer into the twin's art studio and cause that sculpture to break, swapping which twin is the sculptor and which the subject, the statue changes from left-handed to right-handed and Edna can no longer grab the statue to whiplash back into the room.
So if you swapped out the hammer before you had tried pushing Edna, she just barrels out of the room without knowing you've already solved part of the puzzle.
I finally finished FFVIIR and it was pretty amazing. Not sure we'll ever get part 2, but I'm sort of ok with it. It was a real wild ride.
So with that cleared off my backlog and hardrive, I am finally seeing what all this nu-DOOM fuss is about.
I know I'm way late to the party, but:
It's pretty good, yall!
This cyberdemon fight is kicking my ass though. Gotta take a break and come back to it later. That usually works when I keep getting whomped.
I think this game may have too many tutorial windows and I stopped reading them way too early