I'm only a level into The Ancient Gods, but it's definitely a little harder than vanilla doom eternal; primarily because there's no crucible and the BFG/Unmayker ammo is pretty scarce, but you're still running into tons of high level enemies. They do introduce new support runes, and one of them seems pretty ace.
If you lose a life, but manage to kill the thing that took that life in short enough amount of time, you get the life back.
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I'm only a level into The Ancient Gods, but it's definitely a little harder than vanilla doom eternal; primarily because there's no crucible and the BFG/Unmayker ammo is pretty scarce, but you're still running into tons of high level enemies. They do introduce new support runes, and one of them seems pretty ace.
If you lose a life, but manage to kill the thing that took that life in short enough amount of time, you get the life back.
That ones going to be handy for the 5 extra lives run, but personally I went with the shockwaves caused by hitting weak points
Also it gets unbelievably hard as you go on. The spirit possessed Barons of Hell are insane
My issue with Darkest Dungeon was definitely in the realm of it feeling like even if the strategy was good, but not broken, but not what they expected it was likely to be nerfed to keep the game soul crushing. It just got old after awhile.
And while I love the dlc conceptually, the vampire stuff in practice just wasn’t fun.
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I felt like it was punishingly difficult right at the outset and I quickly realized I'd be going back to re-play earlier levels so that my fresh-off-the-wagon new blood didn't get instantly slaughtered in the later dungeons and just noped out.
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The fact that the culmination of every tier of Darkest Dungeon location was the same two bosses with slightly different names really felt like it was gloating about how grindy it is
I recognize that this is a sort of silly complaint, but it's one of the biggest things that indicated to me that the game didn't actually value my time
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If you're interested in the upcoming 4X game HUMANKIND, there's a free beta playable on Stadia right now: https://stadia.google.com/games/humankind
It's available to play until the 28th
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
lot of ex-blizzard peeps getting back together to make games...
I'm ready for RTS to be a thing again but they need to get over their "this game needs to feel like a chore to play well" mentality of they ever want them to be popular.
lot of ex-blizzard peeps getting back together to make games...
I'm ready for RTS to be a thing again but they need to get over their "this game needs to feel like a chore to play well" mentality of they ever want them to be popular.
Edit: oh that appears to be their goal
I wonder if they can actually pull that off, rts games have always been about doing chores and spinning lots of plates while trying to knock over the plates the other person is spinning
BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
yeah, a lot of rts optimization and nuance comes from the granularity of having to manually conduct so many actions while on a strict timer
being able to make minute changes in building placement and order of operations and resource harvesting can create huge competitive advantages
which makes the games way more obtuse for new players and means you need to learn a whole set of optimization systems and stratagies before you can actually get to the commanding-your-army-bit
Deal that's possibly only for Canadians for once, 8 packs of pizza pops come with a 14 day code for gamepass, can use on existing accounts up to twice.
The fact that the culmination of every tier of Darkest Dungeon location was the same two bosses with slightly different names really felt like it was gloating about how grindy it is
I recognize that this is a sort of silly complaint, but it's one of the biggest things that indicated to me that the game didn't actually value my time
No, this is a reasonable takeaway. I've always maintained that the issue with Darkest Dungeon was never so much that it was too easy or too hard, but the fact that it filled every crevice in its design with grind because they had nothing else to hold it together.
Because the campaign has no failure state, if you eat a bad death during an expedition, the consequence isn't that you're forced into tense and interesting improvisations in the next run; the consequence is that you need to waste a bunch of time grinding up a new adventurer to replace the dead one. And because that takes forever and sucks to do, in order to avoid it, you play everything slower, more tediously, and grindier to minimize risk. I could attempt this dungeon with my party as-is, or I can spend an hour grinding experience and gold to make sure everyone is maxed out first, because I have infinite time to do so. My best character got all psychologically fucked up, so I can press onward with the penalties, or throw a bunch of level one coffin-stuffers on a few runs into a trivial dungeon to kill time while the good character heals off the scars and then just delete them when she's back in action, because you have infinite recruits to do so. It all felt pointless.
In order to actually pull off the vibe they wanted the game to have, they needed to tune the whole thing more like XCOM, shorter and faster-paced with a failure state and a strong impetus to forward momentum, adjusting the mechanics and difficulty accordingly. But they were never interested in doing that, so all the changes they made to make the game with no loss condition "more challenging" could only ever have made it more tedious.
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I've not played the Darkest Dungeon, but doesn't this contradict their old teaser of DDII as a journey to the cold wastes in the north? I don't really have a dog in this, but the previous teaser trailer was pretty cool.
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I'm gonna play this because I enjoy the tactical shooty shooties and digging sandbags but I'm still bummed Post Scriptum seems to be getting left to die.
oh hey, i'm currently back at my third biennial "okay, this time i'm gonna finish it" darkest dungeon run and i've got some beef to add
this time i've actually almost managed to hit a satisfying rotation of upgrades/not having to put off boss fights for a million years, by prioritizing the barracks size upgrades before literally anything else and also trying to cycle through the four environments at roughly the same rate. But it's gonna be close, i think i'm at the second to last party housing upgrade and there are...three(?) bosses left in their lowest form. If i don't carefully ladle out experience so as to keep everyone low-level, the kids are gonna get too haughty to fight the beginner level abominations and i'm just gonna have to fire some of them and train up a new squad or two to progress
it took me three(!) times to get this sequence anywhere near right and that blows, it's an unbelievably awkward levelling system, i guess i could be an outlier but i can't imagine most folks hit the sweet spot on this curve naturally
Nah, the fact that actually getting better at the game and keeping your squads alive harshly punishes you for daring to have strong, well-leveled characters going into the dungeons is awful and whenever I played I always had key party members turn their nose up at dungeoneering.
I will say that is one of the few things they actually improved, though, because it was somehow even worse; previously, a level three character wouldn't go into the lowest tier of dungeon, and a level five character wouldn't go into the second tier. If you were good, you could have somebody too overleveled from tough non-boss runs to fight the boss in the same area without much in the way of grinding. Truly nightmarish.
I've not played the Darkest Dungeon, but doesn't this contradict their old teaser of DDII as a journey to the cold wastes in the north? I don't really have a dog in this, but the previous teaser trailer was pretty cool.
In order to actually pull off the vibe they wanted the game to have, they needed to tune the whole thing more like XCOM, shorter and faster-paced with a failure state and a strong impetus to forward momentum, adjusting the mechanics and difficulty accordingly. But they were never interested in doing that, so all the changes they made to make the game with no loss condition "more challenging" could only ever have made it more tedious.
Isn't that why they added the other 2 different difficulties tho?
I may have spent far too much time today buying and trying on lots of clothes in RDR2.
Finally got a fancy look that I like.
My Arthur is very dapper, I have to bath him every time he gets dirty and he's always clean shaven.
I may have a problem...
My Arthur is impeccably well dressed for a man who mostly lives away from all this....civilization...
It's fun to see how people interpret his character though. I have a friend who plays Arthur as mean and rough and dirty as possible, and it feels like an entirely different game.
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I'm still not sure if its intended or not, but I think it is, all modern XCOMs are significantly more challenging at the start than at the end. In part it is because they have to account for more failure than most players will see, but I think it may also be the case that they want to simulate threat more than have actual game ending scenarios.
It's ok if a run goes sideways in the first 3 missions when you don't really know what you are doing. It sucks if it all falls apart after 35 because of a bunch of bad dicerolls.
So the game is sort of tuned where there is more enemies, with more crazy abilities around, but your tools accelerate more than theirs.
All of this is on the middle difficulties, I never did the easiest or hardest.
I replayed WotC in 2019, and I was struck by how quickly it revs things up. I'd say that every second mission something minor changes, a new enemy shows up, you unlock research, a new mission type etcet. While the game is long, it uses all those additions to keep feeling like you are on a rollercoaster.
I didn't get too far into DD, but it felt like the opposite design... a slow grueling climb uphill to have just enough ability to get past the next obstacle.
There are some designers out there that just feel like that is what games should be. And maybe it is for a certain audience, but not for me. A similar thing is Cult Simulator, I game where I really liked the idea of slowly uncovering a branching path story of conspiracy and madness, but the actual games constantly wants me to repeat rote tasks to get to another story nugget, then tries to get tension out of a near blind choice where if I chose the wrong door I have to redo all that boring gameplay.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Wait, isn't the whole point of Johnny Cage to be JCVD with the serial numbers filed off?
Would a Steven Segal character drastically change his appearance/lose weight every time an actual strike was thrown, and all of his lines were really poorly dubbed because he couldn't be bothered to return to reshoots?
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As a Fallen London refugee
This is simply correct
That ones going to be handy for the 5 extra lives run, but personally I went with the shockwaves caused by hitting weak points
Also it gets unbelievably hard as you go on. The spirit possessed Barons of Hell are insane
And while I love the dlc conceptually, the vampire stuff in practice just wasn’t fun.
I can't believe that got worse over time.
I recognize that this is a sort of silly complaint, but it's one of the biggest things that indicated to me that the game didn't actually value my time
*nods*
The Monkey Island games are one of my formative PC experiences and one of my favorite series ever.
It's available to play until the 28th
I'm ready for RTS to be a thing again but they need to get over their "this game needs to feel like a chore to play well" mentality of they ever want them to be popular.
Edit: oh that appears to be their goal
Well, have one anyway.
which isnt saying much of anything
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yup
It didn't help that it's just not that fun either.
I wonder if they can actually pull that off, rts games have always been about doing chores and spinning lots of plates while trying to knock over the plates the other person is spinning
Oh I know, GameRant is just ScreenRant's shitty sibling site, but well... as Steve Kim puts it.
Except it ALSO applies to the transphobic game.
being able to make minute changes in building placement and order of operations and resource harvesting can create huge competitive advantages
which makes the games way more obtuse for new players and means you need to learn a whole set of optimization systems and stratagies before you can actually get to the commanding-your-army-bit
Finally got a fancy look that I like.
My Arthur is very dapper, I have to bath him every time he gets dirty and he's always clean shaven.
I may have a problem...
Because the campaign has no failure state, if you eat a bad death during an expedition, the consequence isn't that you're forced into tense and interesting improvisations in the next run; the consequence is that you need to waste a bunch of time grinding up a new adventurer to replace the dead one. And because that takes forever and sucks to do, in order to avoid it, you play everything slower, more tediously, and grindier to minimize risk. I could attempt this dungeon with my party as-is, or I can spend an hour grinding experience and gold to make sure everyone is maxed out first, because I have infinite time to do so. My best character got all psychologically fucked up, so I can press onward with the penalties, or throw a bunch of level one coffin-stuffers on a few runs into a trivial dungeon to kill time while the good character heals off the scars and then just delete them when she's back in action, because you have infinite recruits to do so. It all felt pointless.
In order to actually pull off the vibe they wanted the game to have, they needed to tune the whole thing more like XCOM, shorter and faster-paced with a failure state and a strong impetus to forward momentum, adjusting the mechanics and difficulty accordingly. But they were never interested in doing that, so all the changes they made to make the game with no loss condition "more challenging" could only ever have made it more tedious.
I'm gonna play this because I enjoy the tactical shooty shooties and digging sandbags but I'm still bummed Post Scriptum seems to be getting left to die.
this time i've actually almost managed to hit a satisfying rotation of upgrades/not having to put off boss fights for a million years, by prioritizing the barracks size upgrades before literally anything else and also trying to cycle through the four environments at roughly the same rate. But it's gonna be close, i think i'm at the second to last party housing upgrade and there are...three(?) bosses left in their lowest form. If i don't carefully ladle out experience so as to keep everyone low-level, the kids are gonna get too haughty to fight the beginner level abominations and i'm just gonna have to fire some of them and train up a new squad or two to progress
it took me three(!) times to get this sequence anywhere near right and that blows, it's an unbelievably awkward levelling system, i guess i could be an outlier but i can't imagine most folks hit the sweet spot on this curve naturally
I will say that is one of the few things they actually improved, though, because it was somehow even worse; previously, a level three character wouldn't go into the lowest tier of dungeon, and a level five character wouldn't go into the second tier. If you were good, you could have somebody too overleveled from tough non-boss runs to fight the boss in the same area without much in the way of grinding. Truly nightmarish.
Isn't that why they added the other 2 different difficulties tho?
My Arthur is impeccably well dressed for a man who mostly lives away from all this....civilization...
It's fun to see how people interpret his character though. I have a friend who plays Arthur as mean and rough and dirty as possible, and it feels like an entirely different game.
look i know that mk11's guest characters are supposed to be classic 90s action movie bros
but 90s action movie bros were more than just "dude with a gun"
why not put some jean claude van damme in there
why not put some steven seagal in there
It's ok if a run goes sideways in the first 3 missions when you don't really know what you are doing. It sucks if it all falls apart after 35 because of a bunch of bad dicerolls.
So the game is sort of tuned where there is more enemies, with more crazy abilities around, but your tools accelerate more than theirs.
All of this is on the middle difficulties, I never did the easiest or hardest.
I replayed WotC in 2019, and I was struck by how quickly it revs things up. I'd say that every second mission something minor changes, a new enemy shows up, you unlock research, a new mission type etcet. While the game is long, it uses all those additions to keep feeling like you are on a rollercoaster.
I didn't get too far into DD, but it felt like the opposite design... a slow grueling climb uphill to have just enough ability to get past the next obstacle.
There are some designers out there that just feel like that is what games should be. And maybe it is for a certain audience, but not for me. A similar thing is Cult Simulator, I game where I really liked the idea of slowly uncovering a branching path story of conspiracy and madness, but the actual games constantly wants me to repeat rote tasks to get to another story nugget, then tries to get tension out of a near blind choice where if I chose the wrong door I have to redo all that boring gameplay.