I LOVED the PSX era Smackdown games, Smackdown 1 and 2 were awesome.
You don't need teeth to stomp goombas
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I tried SWTOR again. I played the entire consular story as a sage in the past and I wanted to try something new. I am not much for playing bad guys, so I tried a smuggler. Usually MMOs are so balanced that the class just changes the pretty lights on screen, but this is fairly different. It's certainly faster. I remember plodding through Nar Shadaa with the sage, but the smuggler just mowed through it.
Being able to stealth through most enemy sections makes playing a Scoundrel a good way to speed through the game.
Yeah, Stealth makes Imperial Agent Operative and Smuggler Scoundrel way less tedious on many missions.
I died for the first time in Monster Hunter 3. I was out mining ore and my bag was full and it asked me to delete something. While I was deciding what to delete, a big worm ate me. I didn’t even realize until it was too late, because I just assumed that inventory menus paused games. Not so much with this game.
How rude!
At least the little wagon dropped my body back to somewhere nicer.
How rude!
At least the little wagon dropped my body back to somewhere nicer.
I've had a similar problem with Borderlands. Are you going through the game options menu or your inventory/character menu? Game pauses, no problem. But are you at a shop with the practically identical-looking buy/sell dialog open? Nope, baddies can still kill you dead.
--Patrick
I've made that mistake a couple times.
Anyway - after you finish Borderlands, I totally recommend playing #2. Except for doubling down on Claptrap, it improves on everything. The Torgue guns are so much more fun!
I was out in the wild and I had just mined some iron and it had made my bag full. I was in my items inventory.
GasBandit
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Also, if you are in a multiplayer game, menus and inventories don't pause you like they do in single player.[DOUBLEPOST=1509047651,1509047529][/DOUBLEPOST]
I liked that BL2 made it so there was actually good guns made by somebody OTHER than Maliwan. Because in BL1, all you needed was a Maliwan Hellfire and a Maliwan Volcano, and you were set.
I probably found that, too, but mostly I just never noticed what manufacturer made the guns I used in BL1
I really liked how BL2 gave each manufacturer a gimmick that appeared in every one of their guns.
Well I expect that behavior, I've been trained to respect it since the days of the first Diablo. Multiplayer pause = fake pause.
That's...that's true in BL1, too.
Man, I'm learning to really hate Psychos. Their long-range attack makes absolutely no noise/no muzzle flash, meaning it's very easy to unexpectedly end up dead or at least shieldless.
--Patrick
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They tried to do it in BL1, too, but they didn't make the other manufacturers' gimmicks "strong" enough.
Tediore was cheap and had the fastest reload times, but was weak on damage.
Torgue usually had higher damage and fire rate but crap accuracy.
S&S had higher magazine capacity but was unremarkable in other aspects.
Vladof had the highest firing rate, but was bad at just about everything else.
Jakobs had highest damage per shot, but low fire rate.
Hyperion had the best accuracy but was mediocre at everything else.
Dahl had the best recoil reduction but was generally shitty, and who cares about recoil reduction in most circumstances anyway?
Atlas had good damage and was usually pretty good non-elemental damage.
Alien weapons were mostly shit.
Maliwan had the best elemental damage weapons and decent accuracy/reload, and that ended up trumping everything, especially the signature fire weapons, because once the target was on fire they were almost guaranteed to burn to death because the damage over time ticked 5 or more times per second.
Then in BL2 they nerfed maliwan's damage per hit and mag size, and boosted the other manufacturers (and eliminated Atlas and S&S and added "Bandit") and retooled their gimmicks, and that made a big difference.
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I'm still working my way towards end level (only 31 now but at least I've learned how to Brick), so I'm thinking Maliwan's dominance comes about solely because of that "x3" or "x4" elemental modifier, because ammo capacity/fire rate/reload speed/etc. all get trumped by the efficiency of something that makes your weapons do up to 4 times more damage per shot.
The one exception at my current level has been repeater pistols with high damage and obscene fire rate. These MAC-10-ish weapons absolutely dominate in close combat, because they're a lead firehose that practically does AOE at that range.
--Patrick
The one exception at my current level has been repeater pistols with high damage and obscene fire rate. These MAC-10-ish weapons absolutely dominate in close combat, because they're a lead firehose that practically does AOE at that range.
--Patrick
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Buuuuuy it. Cant wait to play mine tomorrow.
GasBandit
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That x3/x4 modifier is a little more complicated that straight up damage multiplication, but yeah, more is better, and an x4 weapon will often devastate its preferred target in one burst.
It's worth noting that Elemental weapons are a bit more useful in their uses as well, thanks mainly to every class having a build that focused around elemental damage. Even explosive weapons are worth using, with TORGUE weapons being the very best thing to have if you don't have the EXACT element you need right now. Fuck, I specialized in Explosive weapons in BL2 and never felt penalized.
I did. God help my credit card statement, I did.
I got 20%, but I also ordered it as soon as the E3 video came out.
I don't think so.
Man, there's a sequence in New Colossus that's giving me a complete headache. Gunfire from about 12000 different angles, a gun that takes like 4 seconds of sustained fire on anything to kill it, fucking dogs that run faster than the speed of sound and knock you down and disrupt your camera and everything you're doing and every time you die it starts you right where the main villain is giving an annoying speech, so you get to hear it EVERY GOD DAMN TIME.
Like, in how detached you feel from this nonsense in real life, or does the game's campaign go off-planet?
I literally just auditioned to play myself in a movie for a dementia riddled Adolf Hitler on a Nazi base on the planet Venus.
It's a tonal beating between this stuff and the very heavy, very real racism and abuse stuff.
As it stands when I quit last night, I'm on friendly terms with Daenerys Targaryen of Dragon's Bay, Edmure Tully of the Riverlands, Stannis Baratheon of the Crownlands, Renly Baratheon of the Stormlands. I'm at Guarded with Khal Drogo of the Dothraki, and edging towards Hostile with Doran Martell of Dorne. The Baratheons are at war but don't really seem to be making much progress either way. Edmure and Drogo have been at war and neither one seemed to gain anything. Daenerys is preparing to invade Dorne and the Riverlands.
I have by far the most cities: Winterfell, Bear Island, Castle Cerwin, Deepwood Motte, Greywatch, Hornwood, Karhold that were founded, and 4 captured: Vaes something-or-other from the Dothraki, Lannisport, Ashemark, and Casterly Rock.
I have constructed 34 "Wonders". Daenerys has the next most number of them: 2. Dorne is working on their 2nd.
I'm enjoying this playthrough. The special units aren't anything spectacular - Crossbowmen are replaced by "crannogmen" who can move through marsh and river at normal rate, Dire Wolf Pack which are more powerful but less versatile Scouts, Knights are replaced with Loyal Bannermen but are essentially otherwise the same. After you have Chivalry as The North, the first time you declare war, you get a free Loyal Bannerman unit in every city you have. Not a bad thing at all.
I have by far the most cities: Winterfell, Bear Island, Castle Cerwin, Deepwood Motte, Greywatch, Hornwood, Karhold that were founded, and 4 captured: Vaes something-or-other from the Dothraki, Lannisport, Ashemark, and Casterly Rock.
I have constructed 34 "Wonders". Daenerys has the next most number of them: 2. Dorne is working on their 2nd.
I'm enjoying this playthrough. The special units aren't anything spectacular - Crossbowmen are replaced by "crannogmen" who can move through marsh and river at normal rate, Dire Wolf Pack which are more powerful but less versatile Scouts, Knights are replaced with Loyal Bannermen but are essentially otherwise the same. After you have Chivalry as The North, the first time you declare war, you get a free Loyal Bannerman unit in every city you have. Not a bad thing at all.