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So now I'm just curious.
Is Spec Ops worth the 60 bucks* it would take me to buy? Or is it better to rent/wait for a cheaper price/etc?
It's a relatively short game and it has little replay value. Rent it or borrow it from somebody if you can.
Yeah, the whole ending (in all of its iterations) is fantastic.
Juan: I'd say rent... and then buy it when its cheaper, mostly because these kind of projects should be encouraged.
Oh also, I'm curious about:
What you mean by this, Noimporta. (Also, long time no see, yadda yadda)
I'll consider it if I like it.
So, I tried to pick up Dark Souls again recently.
I... still haven't managed to get past the Taurus Demon. I mean, I've tried six times, and once I got it down to 1/3rd health, but I just can't seem to kill it.
I guess I'm just not meant to play through the game
It's hard to put coherently into words... I'd say it's similar to the way in which Apocalyspe Now and Platoon are not particularly amusing, but also incorporated into the gameplay.
Also Nolan North is kind of really, really good. "I didn't mean to hurt anybody" was kind of a gutpunch.
@Juan
It's sorta that one of the pillars of the game is that war is awful and modern shooters promote a really fucked up attitude. Having really fun combat like in Modern Warfare or something would defeat the point the game is trying to make.
Use the tower behind you for a plunging attack. Also, in the back yard of a certain house that requires a key, there's Gold Pine Resin. It's pretty mighty lightning goop that adds the power of thunder to your weapon. The Taurus Demon doesn't like it very much, so combine it with the plunging attack for a huge amount of damage. Then you should be able to wail on him pretty handily.
^I've also seen a video of a guy cheeseing that boss (by accident no less!) by repeatedly rolling between its legs.
I did use the tower behind me! I climbed up there twice. Each hit knocked off about a quarter of his health.
Then he climbed up there with me when I tried again.
The biggest issue I'm having is that the walkway is so narrow that I can't dodge behind him when he swings to attack, and it's risky as hell when I try to dodge between his legs. But each of his attacks knock off a full two thirds of my health, so any time he hits me, I have to run away and use an Estus Flask, or die when he hits me next.
Also, I got the Master Key as my starting equipment. I found this spiral tower that had a locked door in it- I was all like fuck yes I can use my key! So I opened the door and walked down the spiral staircase.
Only, when I got to the bottom, I moved the camera and there was this dude in full plate armour with a giant club there. He saw me before I could run away.
I ran halfway across the goddamned map to get away from him- I got all the way past the Bonfire again. And he still followed me. But when I turned and fought him, he hit me once when I had my shield up, and it broke through all of my stamina and all of my health and killed me in one shot
He only does that if you take too long to jump off.
This is why I don't ever recommend the Master Key to new players. Its main purpose is to let you do stuff you aren't actually ready to do yet.
The Master Key was one of the list. It says that I can unlock stuff with it. The game didn't try and draw me towards choosing any particular item, so I figured they'd all be safe bets.
The Master Key does let me unlock stuff, but I don't see why a valid option for new players leads you to... that.
I took about eight seconds to try and orient myself and get prepared
Yeah, no. The game is really bad at teaching you anything but the controls, and this is one of the consequences of that. Most of the gifts are pretty bad; the only ones I'd call good are the firebombs and humanity, and even then, they aren't much.
FWIW, when you land a plunging attack onto a large opponent, I think it automatically orients your character relative to your opponent. So once you're up there and he's in range, just run off ASAP.
See, I can figure that now, but not having played for many months, I kinda forgot all about that.
That's... honestly a pretty major flaw in the game. And that's annoying, to boot.
That's when I land though. The ladder faces the opposite direction to your opponent; you have to get up there, turn around, get the camera to a position where you can see, then move to where you can actually plunge and attack.
And he has a tendency to get me while I'm still on the ladder. Not hurting me, but I'm pretty sure that the time spent climbing the ladder counts towards the time he prepares to leap up.
Yeah, I'm definitely in agreement there. I had to restart my file a few times before I did well. That's why after I reviewed the game, I wrote a survival guide thing.
I think the timer starts once he starts standing still at the base of the tower, so if he's attacking you, it hasn't started yet.
Here more than anywhere else in the game, you do kind of have to hurry.
Played me some Rokko Chan. Got up to Dr. Mad Stage 2. Grr... pistons. Metal Shark Player has made me hate these things.
Hey, CU. Thoughts on this video?
I am kinda saddened that there aren't as many subquests as there were before. I enjoyed them more than the main quest.
Montreal?
This is a game? or a difficulty level?
Been playing Borderlands 2 for the past couple of days. The best way I can put it is basically "Borderlands, but better."
Weapons proficiencies have been removed, so you don't have to worry about finding an amazing weapon that is about as much use to you as a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle, each weapon manufacturer has its own mechanic that applies to all its non-unique guns (Maliwan guns have extremely high proc rates on elemental effects, Dahl guns have burst fire when they are zoomed in, Tediore guns are reloaded by being used as a grenade, Torgue guns fire explosive bullets, Jakobs guns fire as fast as you can pull the trigger, Vladof guns are automatics with a extremely high fire rate, Hyperion guns get more accurate the longer you fire them, and Bandit guns have huge magazines.), as well as manufacturer-specific designs, and there's actually a reasonable story this time.
Of course, there are a couple of niggles, like the fact that you still have to get to level 5 to start gaining skill points, and the new inventory system is flat out terrible, but in general it's still a great game.
Shit that pisses me off, I have to wait for my new laptop to play borderlands 2.
I have to wait for my homework to clear up before I can get back to gaming, and I can't even get angry over that.
Cross-posting this to the Kickstarter thread.
So, apparently, some publishers contacted Obsidian offering to publish either the game they're currently Kickstarting or a future project (I'm not entirely clear on which).
So, in return for the "service" of placing their company's name on the box, the publisher would get full rights to the IP and a substantial portion of the profit.
I...was I actually overestimating the intelligence of game publishers? What the fuck?!
Feargus' response was epic, especially considering it garnered a simple "yes". Of all the devs to try and pull that on, they certainly picked the one that's been fucked over the most by publishers.
Anyway, since CU apparently either missed it or ignored it ( >
), I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts on that video I linked before?
It's talking about the importance of setting in the Elder Scrolls series, and why the maker of the video thinks that Oblivion failed in that, and how the setting relates to the three levels of suspension of disbelief.
Great, Hobbit Elder pulled a Gaspar.
Eh, while I agree with the thesis of the video and some of the points used as proof, I'm not so sure that the corner that they got themselves into was fully creative. I'm pretty sure the tech at the time was part of it.