The fights in Final Fantasy 7 Remake can be annoying if you play it like a hack'n'slash.
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Lately the "Thing to kill the boss" has been: Shoot away 1/3 of boss' health. Boss becomes invulnerable. Find and pull the lever/acquire the dingus/smash the control panel/stand in the magic pool. Shoot away another 1/3 of boss' health. Boss becomes invulnerable again. Find and pull the other lever/dingus/panel/puddle. Shoot away the final 1/3 of boss' health. Argh boss dies, photo op.
That's for the "casual" bosses, though. I don't go on raids, but in there the mechanics can be things like "Kill his six lieutenants, boss becomes vulnerable for 30 seconds, lieutenants respawn, repeat but this time kill the lieutenants in a specific order, boss becomes vulnerable for another 30 seconds," etc. Okay so not exactly this, but just as are-you-freaking-kidding-me-ish.
Anyway, I don't go after those bosses because that's dumb. But you know what still sucks? Effing jumping puzzles. I'm looking at YOU, expunge overrides!
(skip to 20:13 if it doesn't cue properly, then when you've had enough of that section, skip ahead again to 29:25 for more of what Bungie considers "Entertainment.")
--Patrick
GasBandit
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That sounds almost as bad as factory resetting a GE smart bulb.
Goddammit, can't Dr Breen keep it down?!
Even the Dead or Alive volleyball game is saying, "You know, there's such a thing as too much boob."
GasBandit
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I had to look up who this is. The only role on his very prodigious list that I can remember the voice of is Lloyd Asplund in Code Geass. And he definitely wasn't doing any vocal fry there. In fact he was kind of doing the opposite, given that the character was a manic dandy sociopath.
So I have no idea what torments you. Perhaps it is for the best.
This month's Humble Bundle Choice is available. And there are actually some games this time that I'm interested in like Before We Leave.
It also includes Borderlands 3, which I have zero interest in. But weirdly enough, it has a separate "Director's Cut" offer, treating it almost like a second game in the bundle. And I'm confused because they obviously wouldn't give someone two copies of the same game. Is the Director's Cut like an upgrade or something?
It also includes Borderlands 3, which I have zero interest in. But weirdly enough, it has a separate "Director's Cut" offer, treating it almost like a second game in the bundle. And I'm confused because they obviously wouldn't give someone two copies of the same game. Is the Director's Cut like an upgrade or something?
Director's Cut
Director's Cut is a downloadable content pack for Borderlands 3. It adds a brief new questline to the game, in addition to an additional Raid boss and several bonus behind-the-scenes features. Announced on February 10, 2021, Director's Cut was initially set to release on March 18, 2021, but due...
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--Patrick
Ahhh, okay. So it's like a season pass or what have you, where it gives you all the DLC.Director's Cut
Director's Cut is a downloadable content pack for Borderlands 3. It adds a brief new questline to the game, in addition to an additional Raid boss and several bonus behind-the-scenes features. Announced on February 10, 2021, Director's Cut was initially set to release on March 18, 2021, but due...
--Patrick
Well, it's one of the DLCs, and it's one included with one of the season passes, but it's not a season pass itself.
--Patrick
I posted a Reddit thread to trade Steam keys. I have a metric fuck ton that are gathering dust.
Anyway, this guy made an offer that I honestly don't know if he's low-balling me or if I'm getting screwed over or what. Because for game value, this seems really, REALLY lob-sided in his favor.
Anyway, this guy made an offer that I honestly don't know if he's low-balling me or if I'm getting screwed over or what. Because for game value, this seems really, REALLY lob-sided in his favor.
Even if you just want to go value for the value, he's massively gaining.
It Takes Two is like full price $55, frequently on sale since it won Game of the Year for $28. Plague Tale is $50.
Borderlands 3 is $79+DLC costs, Mordhau is $34, Grid Ultimate is $34 and One Step is is $34.
I get you'd get games you want to play for keys you'll never use and it's not always gonna be a 1 to 1 trade but still.
It Takes Two is like full price $55, frequently on sale since it won Game of the Year for $28. Plague Tale is $50.
Borderlands 3 is $79+DLC costs, Mordhau is $34, Grid Ultimate is $34 and One Step is is $34.
I get you'd get games you want to play for keys you'll never use and it's not always gonna be a 1 to 1 trade but still.
GasBandit
Staff member
Space Engineers just came out with a major warfare-themed update, and some DLC.
Nnnnghh
My temptation to get back in is tempered by knowing that every single one of those ships in that battle took somebody 200 hours to make by hand and got completely trashed in 45 seconds of combat, and the way repairing works in SE you might as well feed the whole thing into a wood chipper and start over at that point. Unlike Empyrion, they don't have an automatic "blueprint factory" that you feed parts and wait X minutes, something still has to weld every block.
Unless you're in creative mode I guess, but that eliminates half the game.
Nnnnghh
My temptation to get back in is tempered by knowing that every single one of those ships in that battle took somebody 200 hours to make by hand and got completely trashed in 45 seconds of combat, and the way repairing works in SE you might as well feed the whole thing into a wood chipper and start over at that point. Unlike Empyrion, they don't have an automatic "blueprint factory" that you feed parts and wait X minutes, something still has to weld every block.
Unless you're in creative mode I guess, but that eliminates half the game.
Strictly speaking, it's not too difficult to build a construction bay, load in a blueprint you've designed into some holoprojectors, and ether go to town by hand or build an automated building system with pistons and welders to do it by hand. Hell, you can even stick a modified version of a blueprint onto the ship itself with a projector to assist in repairs. They removed the "blueprints only in creative" thing awhile back.
GasBandit
Staff member
Yeah, that was in last I played.
It's still way more work than Empyrion's solution.
very cool to watch the ship getting built block by block. But, yeah, way more complicated than Empyrion's solution.
I've also seen Nanobot mods that basically do weld/grind within a certain range without the need for the massive factory setup.
figmentPez
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Africa by Toto but its played on instruments in Majora's Mask
GasBandit
Staff member
Six things they aren't going to add to Satisfactory
TLDW:
1) Base Defense (They want the game to be chill and contemplative)
2) Factory Maintenance (The complexity of endgame factories would make this SO not fun)
3) Survival Elements (See 1)
4) Green Energy (Solar/Wind) (With no limits on space, and no base defense like Factorio, this would be massively OP)
5) Terraforming (Too late in the cycle to shoehorn it in)
6) Golf (Nobody on the dev team cares enough to make it happen)
TLDW:
1) Base Defense (They want the game to be chill and contemplative)
2) Factory Maintenance (The complexity of endgame factories would make this SO not fun)
3) Survival Elements (See 1)
4) Green Energy (Solar/Wind) (With no limits on space, and no base defense like Factorio, this would be massively OP)
5) Terraforming (Too late in the cycle to shoehorn it in)
6) Golf (Nobody on the dev team cares enough to make it happen)
I don't know if this is just "random crap' because it's something I'm curious about but with no interest for others at all, or if it could be a fun forum game, or whatever. But Steam offers the option to order your game list by last activity as well as a bunch of other options.
I sorted my library, and erm, hrm. Some games I thought I'd tried "recently" apparently haven't been played in 4 years. Some games are waaay older than I thought. And oddly, despite having played a bit of games already this year - I haven't played a single Steam game.
And now I'm curious about others and what they find. "Oops, I bought a hundred games I've never installed", "Huh, I've played more games this year than the year has days", whatever.
I sorted my library, and erm, hrm. Some games I thought I'd tried "recently" apparently haven't been played in 4 years. Some games are waaay older than I thought. And oddly, despite having played a bit of games already this year - I haven't played a single Steam game.
And now I'm curious about others and what they find. "Oops, I bought a hundred games I've never installed", "Huh, I've played more games this year than the year has days", whatever.