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I needed anime to post.

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Of course the second one will be harder

Munkus Beaver

Prohass wrote: »

Madican wrote: »

The Zombie Penguin wrote: »

Re: all the hades talk...



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Theseus can get stuffed

Just started playing this game and haven’t gotten past these two, I can never quite tell where I’m getting damaged from. Is there a specific strategy on who to target first? The bull seems the easiest to down but does doing that make Theseus harder or anything?

Kill the minotaur first.

Loki

Brolo wrote: »

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_tEgeZrOOHM

Atomic Heart is the FPS game.

This whole thing just felt like a generic engine tech demo.

Sorce

-Loki- wrote: »

Brolo wrote: »

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_tEgeZrOOHM

Atomic Heart is the FPS game.

This whole thing just felt like a generic engine tech demo.

I was getting more BioShock, but Russian.

BahamutZERO

Prohass wrote: »

Veldrin wrote: »

Prohass wrote: »

Man while I like the idea of smaller scale games released for cheaper prices, Star Wars squadrons was just a little too unimpressive for me to stick with it. I got about 3 missions in and was just bored and the visuals weren’t good enough to keep me there. I get that it’s a multiplayer game, but I hoped the visuals would be enough to help me enjoy the campaign like battlefront, but it was just rough all round visually, very unimpressive

Not to mention that I find all these types of games for me end up as “turning around” simulators.

Additionally, the thing about Squadrons is that even as a turning around simulator it didn't actually feel very good to turn around

I think I’m looking for something different to what the game wants. Like I want to recreate the feeling of the movies, which involve more cinematic dog fights where you’re following enemies on like a roller coaster with cool sights. Instead it just feels like turning around and around haphazardly. Like I’m sure it’s different for people who are really good at these games, and if they like it I’m happy for them, but I was definitely looking for something different than what the games offering

Which is fine. However I can’t really forgive the naff looking explosions, it’s like come on, that’s what we’re all here to see and that’s the best you have?

I would say all first person dogfight-y games are basically a lot of turning around trying to find your target, especially space ones, even if you're good at them

Gvzbgul

Less empty space, more obstacles! I wanna dive and weave through megastructures. (Without crashing and dying)

BahamutZERO

too bad
seriously they don't do that stuff nearly enough and it usually feels like ass unless it's a 3rd person game to boot, you don't have a good sense of perspective and how close stuff actually is and how big your ship is. Maybe VR would help with that.

shoeboxjeddy

Prohass wrote: »

Madican wrote: »

The Zombie Penguin wrote: »

Re: all the hades talk...



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Theseus can get stuffed

Just started playing this game and haven’t gotten past these two, I can never quite tell where I’m getting damaged from. Is there a specific strategy on who to target first? The bull seems the easiest to down but does doing that make Theseus harder or anything?

Theseus throws his spear at you basically CONSTANTLY the entire fight. This will be the source of a lot of stray damage, you can put the statues in the way, but with the perspective, it can be easy to make a mistake with the angle. When The Minotaur gets half health, his axe strikes universally produce shockwaves. If you can deflect this is fine (good even), but if not... it's very, very bad.

Prohass

Managed to beat them after posting haha

And yeah the Star Wars squadrons thing it’s like I get what they’re going for with in the cockpit view only, for the multiplayer, but I wanna see my ship, and I would keep crashing into things when I turned around when fighting near the big ships cos I couldn’t get a good idea of my space and presence

Like it’s fine for people who enjoy the multiplayer aspect, but I do hope they do something more fun and arcade and have more of a structured campaign, but I doubt that’s in the cards. Best I can hope for is maybe flying sections in other games, which I wouldn’t mind

Donnicton

-Loki- wrote: »

Brolo wrote: »

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_tEgeZrOOHM

Atomic Heart is the FPS game.

This whole thing just felt like a generic engine tech demo.

Well it is a 3 year old trailer from when they were first demoing the game. There are gameplay vids on their YT channel that more resemble an actual game.

Prohass

Everything about atomic heart screams that it could go either way. But I do get some sense of jank when looking at it, and potential shallowness or emptiness. It really is a toss up

And man that fight in Hades after elysium

I knew it couldn’t be that easy, I knew he’d have a second health bar, but still kind of hoped I’d beaten him

Munkus Beaver

The Perseus Minotaur fight becomes the easiest thing in the game once you get their gimmick down.

Baidol

Prohass wrote: »

Everything about atomic heart screams that it could go either way. But I do get some sense of jank when looking at it, and potential shallowness or emptiness. It really is a toss up

And man that fight in Hades after elysium

I knew it couldn’t be that easy, I knew he’d have a second health bad, but still kind of hoped I’d beaten him

Good start! Get back in there and kick his ass.

webguy20

Forgot I had purchased Anon 1800 a while back. finally got around to firing it up and boy howdy do I love these games.

Prohass

Playing Terminator Resistence and man this feels like a mid tier 360 era game, but somehow it might be the best terminator game I’ve played? Which is kind of frustrating. It’s such a perfect setting for a vidya game, wish this team had more of a budget cos the passion is there, but my god its rough

Fencingsax

Basically, I actually wanted another Rogue Squadron game.

Loki

webguy20 wrote: »

Forgot I had purchased Anon 1800 a while back. finally got around to firing it up and boy howdy do I love these games.

This isn’t the conspiracy thread.

Elaro

Madican wrote: »

Theseus can get stuffed

Yeah, let's replace the boards on his boat with shittier ones! He'll never be able to tell...

Asthariel

Im wondering about what game to play next, and I guess I will pick Ruiner - can anyone tell me if this game is better played on KB&M or controller?

Brolo

Asthariel wrote: »

Im wondering about what game to play next, and I guess I will pick Ruiner - can anyone tell me if this game is better played on KB&M or controller?

kind of a toss up, some weapons are quite a bit better with mouse aim, but the movement is better with gamepad

if the first hour or two of ruiner gameplay don't grab you, just move on to something else

TheySlashThem

https://twitter.com/Maxylobes/status/1427068346013339652

Quetzi

Started playing Boyfriend Dungeon last night and have been really liking it so far. It's very reminiscent of Hades, and I imagine it will be getting that comparison a lot, but much more tuned to the social side of things than the hacking and slashing. Which is a big improvement in my mind, at least.

Brolo

man I wonder what combination of stuff she must have done to get that skip, i feel like MGS has to be one of the more scrutinized games by speedrunners looking for skips and bugs

el_vicio

Brolo wrote: »

man I wonder what combination of stuff she must have done to get that skip, i feel like MGS has to be one of the more scrutinized games by speedrunners looking for skips and bugs

It's already been replicated and is consistent

https://twitter.com/hau5test/status/1426979521828380672

Sprout

Brolo wrote: »

man I wonder what combination of stuff she must have done to get that skip, i feel like MGS has to be one of the more scrutinized games by speedrunners looking for skips and bugs

https://twitter.com/ApacheSmash/status/1426950961973575686

It sounds like it's literally just getting shot while standing in the right place.

H0b0man

It should be required to sing the song she does after clipping through the door.

You do the skip, but don't sing and your run is invalid.

Inquisitor

That skip is awesome.

It also makes me wonder how many little things like that have been “lost” that are now getting shared thanks to streaming and communities.

Like, if I was playing and that happened to me I would have been like “huh, was that supposed to happen?” And go on about my day. But something like that happens on a livestream and people pick up on what a big deal it is and word gets out ASAP.

Glal

This remind me of playing Prince of Persia as a kid. One of the bosses is a large guard that you have to fight with a collapsing tile behind you (level 6 on the PC), and one time I remember getting hit, then falling down and seeing there was a path down there. I spent aaaages trying to get there, but every time I dropped down there was just a spike pit, and looking at it on VGMaps that's indeed all that's down there.

Now I wonder if the hit clipped me through terrain and the game loaded up the wrong map chunk when I fell past the screen.

Couscous

I think one of the Bethesda Terminator games might be the best Teminator game even if they aged really hard over the last several decades

Brolo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6DiUk9sgVc

future shock was really ambitious, this is a 1995 game

it was real difficult though! i remember struggling to get past the first area, and don't think I ever really got far past that in the demo

Dixon

Ah yeah I remember playing that, but definitely only the demo.

Couscous

The 1992 The Terminator game was an early attempt at what would sort of become Bethesda's bread and butter with open world games though it obviously has aged really hard





https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-27-ca-248-story.html

Here’s the latest segment of “Marketing the Megamovie”: Bethesda Softworks’ “The Terminator.” With a release timed to coincide with the movie “Terminator 2,” the pricey game, based on the original movie, invites fans to play the role of either the Terminator or his human opponent, Kyle Reese. Like the movie, there are no rules. Each game is another chance to rewrite the script. They call it virtual reality.

Thrown back in time by their mentors, both characters are deposited in a 3-D version of present day Los Angeles with just the clothes on their backs. One character is controlled by the player and the other by the computer. Using screens that provide detail ranging from a city street map to an actual view through the character’s eyes, the characters move around the city engaging in typical acts of vengeance and violence to achieve their ultimate goal--to save or to kill Sarah Connor and set the course of history.

The game designers give us a pretty faithful representation of the City of Angels (without smog and congestion). In addition, they provide an essential element to a good arcade game--a practice mode to sharpen your skills. From there on, it’s a tough sell. No rules means too many choices.

A joystick is handy for some movement and combat action, but the player/game interface could require Mensa certification. Even with the joystick, game movement takes more than 50 keystroke combinations. Just starting the manual transmission vehicles and getting them on the road requires at least 5 finger pretzeling keystrokes. Somebody is unclear on the concept.

Kamar

Brolo wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6DiUk9sgVc

future shock was really ambitious, this is a 1995 game

it was real difficult though! i remember struggling to get past the first area, and don't think I ever really got far past that in the demo

This is reminding me of a PC game from my childhood that I've tried tracking down in the past, not to play it but just to know what it was. Similar to that graphically, but the (game? demo?) started in a city, I think in or just outside of a subway station?

It's one of those things that doesn't matter at all, but every few years it'll pop into my head and I'll glance through titles of the era to see if anything shakes loose. I could probably solve it really quick if I just asked the right people, but I've never bothered.

Brolo

Kamar wrote: »

Brolo wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6DiUk9sgVc

future shock was really ambitious, this is a 1995 game

it was real difficult though! i remember struggling to get past the first area, and don't think I ever really got far past that in the demo

This is reminding me of a PC game from my childhood that I've tried tracking down in the past, not to play it but just to know what it was. Similar to that graphically, but the (game? demo?) started in a city, I think in or just outside of a subway station?

It's one of those things that doesn't matter at all, but every few years it'll pop into my head and I'll glance through titles of the era to see if anything shakes loose. I could probably solve it really quick if I just asked the right people, but I've never bothered.

any other details you can remember about it?

Couscous

The Computer Gaming World review of Terminator 2029 contains a paragraph that sums up my feelings about a lot of Bethesda's RPGs

Jedoc

Couscous wrote: »

The 1992 The Terminator game was an early attempt at what would sort of become Bethesda's bread and butter with open world games though it obviously has aged really hard

Thrown back in time by their mentors, both characters are deposited in a 3-D version of present day Los Angeles with just the clothes on their backs. One character is controlled by the player and the other by the computer. Using screens that provide detail ranging from a city street map to an actual view through the character’s eyes, the characters move around the city engaging in typical acts of vengeance and violence to achieve their ultimate goal--to save or to kill Sarah Connor and set the course of history.

Literally unplayable.

Brolo

https://twitter.com/WhatsOnSteam/status/1427238965845938177

TEXT:

What's On Steam
@WhatsOnSteam
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Road 96 🛣 - new on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/1466640 ($19.96)

Summer 1996, Today is the day!

You hit the road. Adventure. Freedom. Escape. Run. Flee the Regime. Try to survive.

On this risky road trip to the border, you’ll meet incredible characters, and discover their intertwined stories and secrets in an ever-evolving adventure.
But every mile opens up a choice to make. Your decisions will change your adventure, change the people you meet, maybe even change the world.

There are thousands of roads across the authoritarian nation of Petria.
Which one will you take? 20210816 Road 96 (Adventure, Narration, Atmospheric, Dystopian)

webguy20

Couscous wrote: »

The 1992 The Terminator game was an early attempt at what would sort of become Bethesda's bread and butter with open world games though it obviously has aged really hard





https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-27-ca-248-story.html

Here’s the latest segment of “Marketing the Megamovie”: Bethesda Softworks’ “The Terminator.” With a release timed to coincide with the movie “Terminator 2,” the pricey game, based on the original movie, invites fans to play the role of either the Terminator or his human opponent, Kyle Reese. Like the movie, there are no rules. Each game is another chance to rewrite the script. They call it virtual reality.

Thrown back in time by their mentors, both characters are deposited in a 3-D version of present day Los Angeles with just the clothes on their backs. One character is controlled by the player and the other by the computer. Using screens that provide detail ranging from a city street map to an actual view through the character’s eyes, the characters move around the city engaging in typical acts of vengeance and violence to achieve their ultimate goal--to save or to kill Sarah Connor and set the course of history.

The game designers give us a pretty faithful representation of the City of Angels (without smog and congestion). In addition, they provide an essential element to a good arcade game--a practice mode to sharpen your skills. From there on, it’s a tough sell. No rules means too many choices.

A joystick is handy for some movement and combat action, but the player/game interface could require Mensa certification. Even with the joystick, game movement takes more than 50 keystroke combinations. Just starting the manual transmission vehicles and getting them on the road requires at least 5 finger pretzeling keystrokes. Somebody is unclear on the concept.

Looks like "Hard Drivin'"

3cl1ps3

Played some of that there Orcs Must Die! 3. It's more Orcs Must Die! With an expanded upgrade/customization system that lets you evolve traps in one of two ways to change how they work and new weapons and traps and some QoL changes to a lot of little things.

You already know if that appeals to you or not. Personally, I love these games.

shoeboxjeddy

https://twitter.com/HardDriveMag/status/1427284136587374593?s=19

It was the only real choice, sadly.