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Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

The Dark Souls 2 DLC doesn't fuck around. I'm blazing through the main game with little trouble or challenge, but the DLC is more like what you'd expect from one of these games. In fact, it's severe enough that I need to put it aside for now. I'm going to clear through most of the vanilla game (which I'm close to doing anyway), copy my save to a USB, get the vanilla ending, then copy my stuff back and save the DLC and Scholar ending for after Dark Souls 3. And without DS2's handholding, I might be in better shape for DS2's DLC areas, as rumor has it Dark Souls 3 will be the hardest of the series.

I will give Dark Souls 2 credit for how much better it gets after lighting the four Primal Bonfires. Before, there seemed to be bosses galore just because "this is a place where a boss would be." But since getting the King's Ring, I'm seeing surprising restraint. I know there are things I can pick fights with if I choose, but they aren't being used as dividers between areas.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

I've been playing Pokken Tournament, which if you are unfamiliar, is pokemon tekken. It is a fighting game in which pokemon do single combat.

One of the playable characters is Pikachu Libre, who is a Pikachu dressed as a mexican luchadore wrestler, who combines electricity with wrestling moves.

One of his special moves is the goddamn Stone Cold Stunner. It is the greatest thing I've ever seen in my life.

 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

Ravenpoe said:
I've been playing Pokken Tournament, which if you are unfamiliar, is pokemon tekken. It is a fighting game in which pokemon do single combat.

One of the playable characters is Pikachu Libre, who is a Pikachu dressed as a mexican luchadore wrestler, who combines electricity with wrestling moves.

One of his special moves is the goddamn Stone Cold Stunner. It is the greatest thing I've ever seen in my life.

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Wasn't sure whether to hit love it because that is AWESOME, or informative because I thought Pikachu Libre was just an alternate costume.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Her moves actually. That's a female Pikachu... you can tell by the heart shaped tail end. Male Pikachu's have a lightning bolt end but it's heart shaped on females.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

And I just learned from the most mocked wiki in all existence Bulbapedia that she is part of a breed of Pikachu called...Cosplay Pikachu. Someone took their time to breed a Pikachu species to wear fancy costumes...that is probably the most realistic depiction of breeders Pokemon has ever had.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Yoshimickster said:
And I just learned from the most mocked wiki in all existence Bulbapedia that she is part of a breed of Pikachu called...Cosplay Pikachu. Someone took their time to breed a Pikachu species to wear fancy costumes...that is probably the most realistic depiction of breeders Pokemon has ever had.
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True. You'd think there'd be more retard purebreeds or growliths with squished faces...
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

MY GOD, CHARIZARD IS BROKEN IN HALF! SOMEBODY STOP THIS, THAT LIZARD HAS A FAMILY.[DOUBLEPOST=1459569504,1459569413][/DOUBLEPOST]
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

I downloaded the demo. It's a pretty as hell game, but I'm not too impressed with the gameplay. Nintendo's AI is such a punching bag that this seems like the kind of game that lives or dies by its community.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Zero Esc said:
I downloaded the demo. It's a pretty as hell game, but I'm not too impressed with the gameplay. Nintendo's AI is such a punching bag that this seems like the kind of game that lives or dies by its community.
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The AI on hard is actually pretty tough. Though, I just did my first online match. The netcode was smooth as silk, no lag (even with my shitty connection) and I won one round! In between getting obliterated.

The fighting system is actually pretty complex, but the selling point for me is that it's slower paced than other fighting games. It's less twitch based and more strategy oriented.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Ravenpoe said:
The AI on hard is actually pretty tough. Though, I just did my first online match. The netcode was smooth as silk, no lag (even with my shitty connection) and I won one round! In between getting obliterated.

The fighting system is actually pretty complex, but the selling point for me is that it's slower paced than other fighting games. It's less twitch based and more strategy oriented.
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Guess I don't play enough fighting games, because I found it kinda hectic. Or maybe that's just because I'm used to these creatures standing politely on either side of the screen and taking turns pummeling each other :p.

Good to hear the network is reliable, considering Smash and (sometimes) Splatoon. The visuals are certainly impressive like Splatoon. Everything moves so fluidly.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Zero Esc said:
Guess I don't play enough fighting games, because I found it kinda hectic. Or maybe that's just because I'm used to these creatures standing politely on either side of the screen and taking turns pummeling each other :p.

Good to hear the network is reliable, considering Smash and (sometimes) Splatoon. The visuals are certainly impressive like Splatoon. Everything moves so fluidly.
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Oh yeah, it runs at a rock solid 60fps, which really helps.
 
Dei

Dei



Final playtime to beat all three. I got bored grinding out relationships in Revelations because my main party was already overleveled so I just finished it. So yeah, my Conquest playtime is basically the same as the other two combined, and it was the only one that felt challenging and rewarding in terms of difficulty. I guess I could try it on hardest difficulty, but in Fire Emblem that usually just means that it becomes nut-bustingly hard to the point where you hate life.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Nice.

I still need to get back on it, but Birthright's not terribly interesting and at this point I just have to fight the urge to keep pairing people off for completionist points and finish the last chunk so I can move on to Conquest.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Dei said:


Final playtime to beat all three. I got bored grinding out relationships in Revelations because my main party was already overleveled so I just finished it. So yeah, my Conquest playtime is basically the same as the other two combined, and it was the only one that felt challenging and rewarding in terms of difficulty. I guess I could try it on hardest difficulty, but in Fire Emblem that usually just means that it becomes nut-bustingly hard to the point where you hate life.
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What's your number 1 playtime? Probably not Awakening?
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Cities: Skylines. Knowing it's a traffic simulator and starting out with roundabouts and lots and lots of buses was a good plan. Still no issues with traffic (though, admittedly, it's only a teeny tiny town :) ). However, it gets bloody flipping annoying trying to adjust bus lines when you've done roadworks. Figuring out which is which, and adding a stop at the right place, moving stops - it's just badly done. A view where you can isolate one line and see only that one would be useful (and yes, I'm already giving them all separate colors. Doesn't help enough). Extending a line's especially frustrating - it seems easier to just delete a line and start all over - but with 30+ stops over 6 lines that's annoying as well...And causes all data to be lost about rides saved and stuff. Gah.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Deleting 4 bus lines as once has completely borked traffic - all those buses have to actually return (empty) to the lot....But the new buses are already leaving (because one bus depot spawns infinite buses. Weird in this game where everything else is fairly limited.). Oops. Also, replacing two crossroads with a roundabout (which was why my bus lines were screwed to begin with) has yielded...Less than satisfactory results. Damn.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Bubble181 said:
A view where you can isolate one line and see only that one would be useful
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Oh hey, that's in there! It's just in the most counter-intuitive place possible! Just like changing bus line colors, it requires you to exit the bus line view, hunt down a bus of a line, and click through a few times. Makes perfect sense.
 
Frank

Frank

All my playtimes are skewed to hell since I have a dreadful habit of leaving games on when I alt-tab, forget about them, and leave them on for upwards of 12-24 hours at a time.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Frank said:
All my playtimes are skewed to hell since I have a dreadful habit of leaving games on when I alt-tab, forget about them, and leave them on for upwards of 12-24 hours at a time.
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Yeah, same. My Steam version of FFVII has like 180something hours because I left it on so many times without thinking about it.
 
Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

Currently playing Rocksmith '14. My fingers hurt.

Also: Don't judge me. I don't know why I like these kinds of games. Or why "Keep Talking" is up there at the top of the list with only .3 hours.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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My top 11, with 60+ hours each. TF2 is skewed by time spent idling, but most of the rest are probably pretty accurate. (Well, not Titan Quest, since I started playing that on Gametap, and only later bought it on Steam. And Plants vs Zombies doesn't count my time in the Android version.)

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I'm kinda glad that this is only Steam games, and thus excludes my time spent on Master of Orion 2, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Final Fantasy 2/4, etc. I'm not sure I want to know how many hours I've spent in MoO2.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Dark Souls 2 became FUCKIN DARK SOOOOOOUUUULLLSSSS tonight!

Beat the vanilla game, but I copied my character to a USB first so I could bounce back and do the Scholar of the First Sin stuff without starting a new game. Beat Vendrick ... I was going to wait on the DLC, but decided I could at least do one, so off to Crown of the Sunken King. Well, that was an ordeal and a half, but in a great way! Lots of interesting level design, space between bonfires ... it felt like the whole game should've felt, but it was worth playing that stuff to get here.

But then, after what seemed like the primary boss, I went against Sinh, the Slumbering Dragon. It was a throwaway attempt, just to get a feel for the fight. Didn't even equip anti-toxic items.

And I fucking won! It did NOT seem like that would happen since he started the fight by plowing into me and knocking off over half my health. And this wasn't like other Dark Souls 2 bosses where I beat them on the first try because they were so easy. I fucking earned this one, and I have to give Monster Hunter some credit for doing just the right things.

So screw it, I'm gonna do the other DLCs before Dark Souls 3 comes out. This is the feeling I've been wanting. AAAAAHHHH! It is way too late at night to feel this energetic.
 
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