Random Video Game Crap
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figmentPez
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The double entendre isn't even subtle, there's just no Getting Over It.
GasBandit
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This weekend I've been watching a lot of NES speedruns by Arcus87 on youtube. I don't know how I got started watching it, but this man is everything I wanted to be when I was 6. He's a cowboy who plays NES games all day and is jaw-droppingly, impossibly good at them. He even plays with the original NES controller - no tool assists, not even any turbo buttons. His finger speed is unreal. I can't stop watching him.
He is the world record holder for Ninja Gaiden, having beaten it in a tiny fraction over 11 minutes and 38 seconds.
He is the world record holder for Ninja Gaiden, having beaten it in a tiny fraction over 11 minutes and 38 seconds.
I've watched some video clips of Resident Evil Village, RE7, RE 2 Remake, etc, and keep seeing players unloading on an enemy with headshot after headshot and it does jack squat.
What's even the point of aiming for a harder to hit area like the head if you need to unlock 10+ bullets before it even accomplishes anything?
Back in MY day, a headshot meant sometime. A headshot meant an instant kill.
What's even the point of aiming for a harder to hit area like the head if you need to unlock 10+ bullets before it even accomplishes anything?
Back in MY day, a headshot meant sometime. A headshot meant an instant kill.
You might be watching videos on Hardcore and Village of Shadows difficulty. Hardcore is 10 bullets for a kill, Village of Shadows is like 30 (but VoS was designed to be run with NG+ weapons with infinite ammo). A lot of people are acting like these are the "normal" modes and next the extra difficulties.
On normal, a shotgun to the face will generally kill normal enemies as long as all the pellets connect. Pistols? Ehh... Resident Evil's never really done "one shot, one kill" for pistols outside of Magnums even in the old school games. Pistol headshots DO interrupt normal enemy attacks though.
Most of the videos are just clips from, say, Jim Sterling's recent review. Not so much let's play videos specifically, so I'm not sure which game mode. Even 10 shots seems ridiculous to me. Hell, even 5. But that's just me. Especially if it's actually zombies like RE2. A zombie headshot should be a zombie headshot.
figmentPez
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The guy I've been watching play REV has been shooting enemies in the leg, which causes them to fall over (sometimes, at least) and then using the knife to slash them while they're down. I think the reasoning is that they wanted to reward aimed shots, but not in a way that just dramatically shortens fights.
I noticed that in Jim Sterling's video, with the leg shot takedown. I appreciate seeing stuff like that in games, where there's actual physics - and by extension, some STRATEGY - behind something like that. Then it's not just a endless glorified whac-a-mole.
GasBandit
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I remember when I started playing Killing Floor and... well let's just say it's a rite of passage when you discover for the first time that blowing an enemy's head completely off does not necessarily immediately kill it... and it might continue to stumble toward you slashing blindly for 5-10 seconds before it keels over.
This is definitely part of it too. In RE2 Remake, one of the best strategies for dealing with zombies it to just straight up blow out their knees and run by or whip out the knife to finish them off. RE8 does a lot of the same, except you can also do stuff like knock weapons out of their hands to make them less dangerous.
Remember when people said Tetris was a stupid, useless game?
WHERE ARE THOSE PEOPLE NOW, HUH*?
--Patrick
*actually, they're probably sitting somewhere still trying to shift their inventory around to hold just one more stimpak.
GasBandit
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... I literally have never heard anybody say anything negative about Tetris.
As someone who has played all of those games (still working through 8) I can say it's because you are really not meant to fight if you can help it. Also the pistol sucks. However, shooting an enemy in the head does have the very useful effect of staggering the molded/zombie/lycan, and while it's staggered you can run past it
Meanwhile in Monster Hunter, I spend ten minutes shooting the monsters in the head lol.
GasBandit
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It's pretty funny how fucking glitchy the visuals are. What a piece of shit.
figmentPez
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It's for St. Jude, so it's a worthy cause!
Or maybe a lost one.
Hmm...how long until we someone does a ProjektDimitrescu?
--Patrick
Guys, I've done it. I discovered the most offensive game on Steam.
Also, she only catch "cute" pokemons. She only has dogs, bunnies and she is looking for a kitty.
