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I cant fucking believe that the same company that made Bloodborne also made Dark Souls 3.

Dark Souls 3 is just utter horse-shit compared to Dark Souls 1 and 2, let alone the masterpiece that is Bloodborne. Its like they wanted to make the hardest one in the series, but just added a bunch of absurdly cheap things to add the difficulty. Every enemy in this game is more aggressive than the most aggressive boss in Dark Souls 1 and 2.

Thats fine in a game like Bloodborne, where you move like a cheetah, but the PC in DS3 still moves like hes in 800 pounds of metal regardless of your armor, and gets staggered like he's someones grandmother.

Postby **Someone With Mass** » January 21st, 2018, 7:00 am

TheodoricFriede wrote:
Thats fine in a game like Bloodborne, where you move like a cheetah, but the PC in DS3 still moves like hes in 800 pounds of metal regardless of your armor, and gets staggered like he's someones grandmother.

That's something I utterly hate in games in general. When a simple tap tosses the PC into a minute long spastic seizure over and over again. Not to mention that it looks stupid.

Postby **Vol** » January 21st, 2018, 10:50 am

"Toxic" is quickly becoming the worst word of the year. Moral authoritarians tend to stay hip with the lingo, ya dig, holmes?

Postby **Dragaros** » January 21st, 2018, 1:13 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcER0QQ1Cl0

Postby **Dragaros** » January 21st, 2018, 1:13 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzLfI0shgT0

Postby **Dragaros** » January 21st, 2018, 1:13 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbaVRs3CH00

Postby **Dragaros** » January 21st, 2018, 1:13 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_JX-kqrp1Y

Postby **Dragaros** » January 21st, 2018, 1:14 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW8l8K4L5JA

Postby **Dragaros** » January 21st, 2018, 1:14 pm

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

Postby **Dragaros** » January 21st, 2018, 1:14 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8xe7c1iVo4

Postby **Vol** » January 22nd, 2018, 9:54 am

TheodoricFriede wrote:I cant fucking believe that the same company that made Bloodborne also made Dark Souls 3.

Dark Souls 3 is just utter horse-shit compared to Dark Souls 1 and 2, let alone the masterpiece that is Bloodborne. Its like they wanted to make the hardest one in the series, but just added a bunch of absurdly cheap things to add the difficulty. Every enemy in this game is more aggressive than the most aggressive boss in Dark Souls 1 and 2.

Thats fine in a game like Bloodborne, where you move like a cheetah, but the PC in DS3 still moves like hes in 800 pounds of metal regardless of your armor, and gets staggered like he's someones grandmother.

Now that PS4s are below $300, I'm starting to feel like I should get one. Though I'm hard up for power outlets in this room, and I'd need at least 2 to run my spare monitor and the PS4. Bloodborne, Persona 5, some other weeb shit, etc. Tempting, and this work season looks like it'll be real busy.

That said, DS3 struck me as sorta awkward. Tried to be more like Bloodborne in mechanics, but also retaining the weight of Dark Souls, and while it was smoother than the other DS, I liked the more deliberate pace they had. A huge, slow, tanky character works fine when you can reasonably predict the enemy before it swings, random cluster attacks, less so. I enjoyed it though, but I'm in no rush to play it again, and I didn't get the DLC, whereas I beat DS2 over half a dozen times.

Postby **Raga** » January 22nd, 2018, 2:56 pm

Finished Witcher 2. The last half of the game was by far the best (and also the best part of the series I've played so far). Actually replayed the last 3ish hours several different ways just to see what the different endings were. At the height of it, my enjoyment level probably got to like a 8.5 where it had been cresting at like 7.0 previously. I started Witcher 3 last night and it's too soon for any meaningful opinion other than the game looks great but they made the controls way more sticky than the 2nd one which I don't like.

I also realized one of the things that had been bugging me about the whole series which I couldn't quite articulate. The memory loss thing means I don't remember any of these people who are supposedly my best friends ever: Zoltan, Dandelion, Triss, et al which means the player and Geralt himself has like 0 reason to feel any particular connection to them. And yet the game just consistently treats it as a given that they are totally my best friends and why would it ever be otherwise? I've spent 2 games now waiting for Triss in particular to develop anything like an actual personality that would justify the level of feels the game desperately wants me to have for her and I'm still at a complete blank. I got more out of the relationship with Ves which consists of like 5 conversations in 1/2 of one game and just kept thinking "geez, why can't I dump stupid sorcerer chick for you?" I also found Roche way more interesting and engaging than Zoltan or Dandelion in the "friends" department.

Less of an issue but still an issue: the game *really* wants me to care about the independence of the North from Nilfgaard and provides 0 reason why I should. Why would I give two shits if some crappy, rapey, warmongering Northern monarchs are replaced by 1 crappy, rapey, warmongering Southern one? Who freaking cares?

I actually do like Geralt himself though. The fact he is a set character doesn't get in the way very much because he almost never says overtly stupid things. (I'm looking at you, ME3 autodialog Shepard!)

TLDR: Geralt's default hangers-on mostly suck and I wish you could get rid of them.

Postby **Dragaros** » January 22nd, 2018, 5:21 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTM3bBe0ZBk

Postby **Dragaros** » January 22nd, 2018, 5:21 pm

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

Postby **Dragaros** » January 22nd, 2018, 5:22 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGI_kk6e4u4

Postby **Dragaros** » January 22nd, 2018, 5:22 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhV48N2zal4

Savage Cell

Postby **TTTX** » January 22nd, 2018, 5:23 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D26wT1RCO9U&list=WL&index=16

Postby **Mazder** » January 22nd, 2018, 6:12 pm

Dragaros wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhV48N2zal4

Savage Cell

Not gonna lie, I kinda want this game just to see Cell roasting EVERYONE!

Postby **Mazder** » January 22nd, 2018, 6:31 pm

TTTX wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D26wT1RCO9U&list=WL&index=16

"Number 7: Never blame the controls."
I'm sorry, but....what?
If something is designed poorly and there is no option to make it better that is no fault on the user. That's like a knife where it has a blade where the handle should be! "Part of the journey" my arse. If something is wrong mechanically then it's only right to call it out as bad. Sounds like just another thing to put in the "clunk" section of the description and to acknowledge it's just bad but there is no other option.

Postby **Vol** » January 22nd, 2018, 9:55 pm

Smoked, garlic summer sausage with cheddar on a fancy cracker, mmm.

Might've ODed on protein today, well over 100g. My muscles are going to be too fed. This is dangerous, I might actually put on some _mass_.

Seems like it's going to be a busy work year. Off season's over and it's mid-late fucking January. Normally I get to February before the calls come in. Though it has to be interior at least, way too cold for exterior, but still.

Postby **SciFlyBoy** » January 22nd, 2018, 11:36 pm

Ah, to have seasonal work. Sure beats doing exactly the same thing...every day...at exactly the same time...at the same place...with the same people...who tell the same jokes.

Postby **TTTX** » January 23rd, 2018, 11:08 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEv4x3lUbtw&list=WL&index=14

Postby **TTTX** » January 23rd, 2018, 11:49 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxuh87MevBk&list=WL&index=15

Postby **Dragaros** » January 23rd, 2018, 3:26 pm

Postby **Dragaros** » January 23rd, 2018, 3:27 pm

Bulma doesn't need a high power level to be badass.

How does it feel, Nappa?! How does it feel?!

Don't think too hard, Goku. You'll hurt your head.

The 18-Krillin feels are strong in this one.

Postby **Dragaros** » January 23rd, 2018, 3:27 pm

Postby **Dragaros** » January 23rd, 2018, 3:28 pm

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

Postby **Dragaros** » January 23rd, 2018, 3:28 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJbxwjVu8Gw

Postby **Dragaros** » January 23rd, 2018, 3:28 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5-YDxH6It8

Postby **SciFlyBoy** » January 23rd, 2018, 8:12 pm

I'm still having this major issue with my computer. I'll turn it on and the audio won't work. Everything sounds distorted and is playing at 1/2 speed or slower. I'll turn the pc off and on a couple times (Because when I restart from my menu it won't reboot) and finally when I see the windows 10 logon picture (like a log on screen only I set it up so I don't have to log on, the picture shows up for a second then goes to my desktop) show up I know the audio is going to work correctly. I've run update after update for windows and my audio card and this is still happening.

Is taking everything off my computer and re-starting it from scratch and re-installing everything my best solution here?

Postby **TheodoricFriede** » January 23rd, 2018, 8:19 pm

SciFlyBoy wrote:
Is taking everything off my computer and re-starting it from scratch and re-installing everything my best solution here?

A more skilled technician could probably really dig in and figure this issue out, but considering re-installing is free?

Yeah.

Just back up what you need. You may not even need to lose all yoru data anyway, I think sometimes you can reinstall windows without losing your data. But its worth being safe.

Postby **TheodoricFriede** » January 23rd, 2018, 8:23 pm

Dragaros wrote:

The 18-Krillin feels are strong in this one.

They are doing a very good job of selling me on this game...

But i cant buy a fighting game day one. There will be a version next year that has everything included post release, and its just not worth paying for it now.

Postby **Someone With Mass** » January 23rd, 2018, 9:19 pm

SciFlyBoy wrote:Ah, to have seasonal work. Sure beats doing exactly the same thing...every day...at exactly the same time...at the same place...with the same people...who tell the same jokes.

It's even worse when the work is affected by the seasons. It got stupid cold where I worked last week. My hands started bleeding and everything.

Postby **Vol** » January 23rd, 2018, 10:20 pm

SciFlyBoy wrote:Ah, to have seasonal work. Sure beats doing exactly the same thing...every day...at exactly the same time...at the same place...with the same people...who tell the same jokes.

I mean, you assuredly make multiple times what I do, and have your own place. The tradeoff is I work less days, full 8 hours is pretty uncommon even when there's a multi-day job because of bottlenecks. Always some new place, new people, plenty of fresh air in the warmer months, homeowners tend to be real fucking respectful for obvious reasons.

If the job was less stressful on my body and I made enough money to live on my own comfortably, I'd be happy to stay in it.

Postby **SciFlyBoy** » January 23rd, 2018, 11:51 pm

Vol wrote:I mean, you assuredly make multiple times what I do

Well, california taxes and cost of living aside, I do struggle for comfort. I made some good financial decisions and found some great deals. Rent is 1200 to 1500 a month in my area which is more than I can handle and that's cheap for my county.

Anyways, I've always had something stable and having something like a job where work comes and goes and it's different day by day, month by month really sounds exciting from my angle. Years can pass by at my job and you wouldn't know it because every day is exactly the same.

Postby **TTTX** » January 24th, 2018, 6:58 am

I'm now 29.

Although I feel older then that.

Postby **Mazder** » January 24th, 2018, 7:09 am

TTTX wrote:I'm now 29.

Although I feel older then that.

Happy Birthday!!!
I still hope it's a good one!

Postby **Someone With Mass** » January 24th, 2018, 7:21 am

TTTX wrote:I'm now 29.

Although I feel older then that.

Happy b-day!

Postby **TTTX** » January 24th, 2018, 7:25 am

Mazder wrote:Happy Birthday!!!
I still hope it's a good one!

feels like a normal day.

Someone With Mass wrote:Happy b-day!

thanks.

Postby **SciFlyBoy** » January 24th, 2018, 9:18 am

TTTX wrote:I'm now 29.

Although I feel older then that.

Happy Birthday, TTTX!

Postby **TTTX** » January 24th, 2018, 9:34 am

SciFlyBoy wrote:Happy Birthday, TTTX!

thanks.

Postby **Alienmorph** » January 24th, 2018, 10:30 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPbXOHZW8co

Battlefleet Gothic Armada got a sequel! Main campaign based on the Gathering Storm series (aka the Fall of Cadia and return of Guillamon storyarc) but Necrons and Tyranids will be playable too!

Hopefully this will help wash away the bitter taste Dawn of War 3 left in my mouth...

Postby **Dragaros** » January 24th, 2018, 11:33 am

TTTX wrote:I'm now 29.

Although I feel older then that.

That's just the feeling of putting most of your EXP into your wisdom stat.

Happy birthday.

Postby **Dragaros** » January 24th, 2018, 11:36 am

Alienmorph wrote:Battlefleet Gothic Armada got a sequel! Main campaign based on the Gathering Storm series (aka the Fall of Cadia and return of Guillamon storyarc) but Necrons and Tyranids will be playable too!

Hopefully this will help wash away the bitter taste Dawn of War 3 left in my mouth...

Now we're talkin'!

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