Yup, one shots are rare in ds1, but in ds2 is another story.. and all on bosses with questionable hit boxes, to add insult to injury (fire/magic sword smelter, aava & cat company, second phase fume and nashandra's laser)

However the lack of scaling of the weapons isn't a big deal: even basic stuff like Mace, Hand Axe, Rapier... hits for 350 damage when fully upgraded. With a flynn ring and the right resins the output is equal to high level weapons, so it's not impossible as it looks..

All in all, Sl1 Ds2 was fun even if very difficult, and a loved doing some math with the items to optimize damage/weapons.. that said now i stop talking about it and i'll finally try to kill the twin tigers

Damn dude. Yeah the low agility would kill me. And I've still never solo'd the twin tigers with any weapon other than the red iron twinblade fully buffed with resin and a Brightbug.

Agreed it's a lifesaver, except no one calls that ring by its full name.

It comes down to playstyle, I guess. I'd rather not draw out the fights for too long, because bosses have their own ways of screwing me over at the worst possible moments, given enough time. So I set up the RTSR and just go to town. Speaking of which, try chaos rapier with RTSR, hornet ring, and power within against Gwyn. Shortest fight in the series if you land the first parry. Even more ridiculous considering it's doable on SL1.

Am I the only person in all of the Americas who's excited for ELEX? It's looking really, really good imho:

Tonight, my son and I killed Satan, high-fived "the president", and then "paid respects" to Satan's grave by pissing on it.

So, yes, we finished Broforce.

Yes

i loved the suffering, first horror game i played i think

I've found my favorites are TimeCop and Blade. Who'd y'all really get excited for?

We found MacGyver to be one of the overall strongest characters. He seems like he wouldn't be, but he regularly tended to be one of the characters where we had the most success.

Other popular ones: Machete, Ripley, Predator, Robocop, Dredd, and Bro in Black. Also Blade and Bride.

Characters we felt bordered on useless: Bond, Braveheart, Highlander, and Professional. Terminator's chain gun was often ill-fitting in a lot of situations. My son didn't like Indiana Jones.

Braveheart's special is great for charging into crowded areas as all enemies flee, and Highlander's special basically gives you an extra life (similar to the Boondock Saints but with melee). Raiden is also pretty fun.

So uh that's rad. I literally came here to shout into the void about how impossibly dope Broforce is. Its a lot more nuanced and strategy based than I expected. My buddy just kept telling me you can be Conan (he knows me!).

We honestly put in like an 8 hour session on just this one game. Blade and Neo are the most fun to me. MacGuyver and Man in Black are both ridiculously helpful to have. Basically hate being Robocop but his special attack is nice. Conan isn't quite as fun to be as Blade or Neo.

Genuinely one of the best video game experiences of my life. Can't wait to beat it when he comes back over.

Oh yeah fuck Terminator! Indy rules once you learn how to swing around on his whip. It sounds like there are some characters we still don't have though. Haven't seen Braveheart or Highlander.

I'd like a mode unlocked after you beat the game where you can choose who to be but when you're dead they're gone forever.

Yeah, I'm a big fan of The Suffering too. Bit of an underrated game, I think. It's kind of like Silent Hill as done by a coked out Clive Barker; the creatures you fight are gruesome yet symbolical, in this case representing the inhumane treatment of prisoners and the history of cruelty that pervades Carnate Island, and there's a constant feeling of dread in every corner, punctuated by the fact that you don't really know how much of the game is actually happening vs. how much of it is just a particularly violent prison riot as seen through the eyes of a (possible) psychotic murderer. Even if Torque is perfectly capable of fighting off monsters on his own, the environment is just so grimy and oppressive that you still jump every time you hear something outside your field of vision.

EDIT: I swear I didn't play the video before making the Silent Hill x Clive Barker comment

I've heard this: It's very rough around the edges and cannot really compete with any of the big players that have come out in the last 10 years in this or related genres when it comes to technology and gameplay. However, it seems to have a lot of heart, which is good if you like heart I guess.
I'm most interested in the fact that it's a medium sized production which you don't get a lot of these days, most games fall into the categories AAA/Indie/Full-on shovelware.

We unlocked Highlander fairly late in our play time, so we didn't see him much. I was never aware of his special. Raiden is fun, and his special is great. Cherry is also difficult to use, when you first get her, but she has some great abilities when you figure them out. Protip for anyone that doesn't have her yet, you can shoot straight ahead by crouching. That was not instantly obvious.

I've never heard of it till now. Looks pretty good.

interesting review

lol that is what i loved about the game, every single enemy had a reason why they existed and interesting backstory, those hallucinations creeped the hell out of me, the world building was just perfect imo and the atmosphere especially in that mansion later on in the game

Yeah, it was a really well-made review. Hopefully the day-one patch will alleviate the most glaring issues. I can't wait to dig into the game, I'd put money it's the deepest story-driven action RPG since New Vegas.

I have The Suffering for PS2 and it was a blast! I don't think I ever finished it though. It's been years, but I think I got stuck on fighting that big brute monster that's really similar to the creature the main guy can transform into.

I've been looking into getting into retro gaming lately, almost pulled the trigger on a ps2 and champs of norrath the other day, but decided against it cause i can't afford the time (or the money really) but I've been emulating abit (some games dont run well at all, though, like baldur's gate dark alliance ) and I think I'm gonna see how The Suffering works. Always heard it was a great game.

Anyone remember Downhill Domination? That game is a freaking blast, especially with friends!

I loved Dark Alliance! I'm sorry to hear it doesn't work well. That was a really good game. The Suffering was a lot of fun though kinda glitchy as I recall.

For PS2, my favorite was always the Timesplitters series. I think the second and third in the series were on other platforms too, though the first was only on PS2. I highly recommend Timesplitters if you can find it.

I'm interested in ELEX for sure.

That means a lot coming from you.

A user on NeoGaf's nutshell review: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.ph ... tcount=142

Just check it out!


Also, day 1 patch notes that are not integrated into any review:

^I'll probably end up scooping this after work.

Yeah that was a big dissappointment for me and my brother. Truth be told I pretty much wanna get a ps2 just so I can get the DA and Champions of Norrath games for me and my bro to play together.

Welp... another one bites the dust



Was looking forward to Amy Hennig's new creation. Sigh. Gotta love this statement by EA:


Saying that like it's a bad, undesirable thing. From Amy Hennig it's exactly what I'd want. But I get that it's harder to include predatory lootboxes and microtransactions in a game like this, right EA?

Yeah, their statement just reads like, "well, we couldn't monetize it for all of eternity, so we canned it!"

I've been feeling stressed from work and other stuff, and it seems that playing Borderlands 2 is very good therapy. Nothing quite like the joy of finding a better, deadlier gun and proceeding to do evil things with it.

It's good. Oh man.

But I'd be hesitant picking it up on console, I've heard that it's not great looking there and the framerate can chug occasionally. On PC it's brilliantly well optimized and can look downright jaw dropping.

You've got me foaming at the mouth for this game. I didn't end up getting it yet, but I'm real excited to hear thoughts on it.

I am not a PC gamer. The ability to play games with a keyboard and mouse waved goodbye to me a long time ago, so as long as the game play is still fun I'll sacrifice the framerate.

I played BL2 a lot right after I lost a job, during two months of job searching and finally a move to a different state. Definitely is a good game for destressing, with all the bright colors, fast gameplay and generally light-hearted atmosphere.

Speaking of, I'm excited to hear that BL3 is finally in the works, and it sounds like they're taking plenty of time to polish it up and make it a worthwhile sequel. I think there was a tech demo sometime last year.

So, from what I've read of the reviews there are tons of problems with the combat mechanics in Elex.

Anyone on here care to confirm or deny this?

I have no idea why people are hype for that game.

just beat Oxenfree - overall thoughts: a wonderfully fluid adventure game with creative art direction, amazing voicework, and most surprisingly, excellent dialogue (thanks Telltale ex-pats). The story variations are relatively linear, but it's worth a playthrough for at least 2 out of 3, or to get the hidden one. the characters felt multidimensional and reacted to things reasonably. overall, a solid game and definitely worth the free pass i got it with.

also, i 100% MGSV (including Ground Zeroes) and can safely say, i think it's the defining game of this generation and one of the best designed and responsive games maybe ever. sure, the story gets buckwild, but after listening to everything, watching youtube summaries and interpretations, and replaying all of the previous ones within the last year - i think it fits in the most Kojima way possible. everything about it just feels right, and even though some things to get the 100% were aggravating, I don't regret a single hour of the 250+ hours i put into it and the FOB missions.

So the owner of NeoGAF is a sexual harasser, misogynist and posts revenge porn of women. I'm glad I don't support that POS.



http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php? ... msg2303719

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Whenever you see the word "unbalanced" it's best to just close out of the review. It's not "unbalanced" in any way, shape or form; this is probably one of the most tightly constructed and fleshed out gameworlds I've seen in my entire life, and the balancing is great. I'm a total PB fanboy, but I think anyone who likes hardcore, unrelentingly hard action RPGs would be completely blown away by the game.

The combat system is not even close to being perfect, but I like it and I'm even making videos about it here.


Because it's a world the size of Skyrim with the quest design of New Vegas, and it doesn't use any randomized loot, level scaling or level buffs? Please read this overview by the lead designer of Age of Decadence, which is one of the best turn-based RPGs this decade: http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum/in ... 505.0.html

I've been playing ELEX, gonna do some more tonight. I haven't been gaming much lately, busy with school, and kinda burnt out. But I liked the idea of a quirky RPG with scifi elements so I figured I'd check it out. I'd recommend this guy's stream for gameplay videos, I like his style, although he's pretty awful at the game:

https://www.twitch.tv/retrogradetom/videos/all

My impressions so far...

I've never been a huge fan of open world RPGs, but it's not bad as far as these go. This streamer immediately left the starting area and went to the top of the map to join the Clerics faction, because he didn't like the starting area people (they're anti-tech). I did something similar, went immediately to the Mad Max style Outlaw faction. Not gonna join, but I'm so tired of medieval fantasy stuff that I had to get out of the starting area. It's cool that the world combines fantasy, scifi, and post-apocalyptic stuff. The Clerics are tech loving scifi religious fanatics, pretty cool, I'm gonna join them as well.

No scaling, so both of us have died a lot to the harder enemies outside the starting area. Hard enemies, but you can still complete a lot of the quests (it's not all kill stuff) and find/buy some decent equipment. I'm gonna go energy weapons, maybe with some PSI. The streamer dude is going melee and PSI, which seems cool. Definitely harder/got a steeper learning curve than a modern Elder Scrolls game.

I will say the jetpack is super cool, all open world RPGs should have a jetback from now on makes exploring so much less of a pain in the ass. Stuck in an alley or wanting to go around a mountain? Just fucking fly over shit. I know some open world RPGs have had flying spells, but I either played the wrong ones or didn't play long enough. You get the jetpack immediately, which is cool. The climbing is good too, tons of things are climbable: cars, rocks, bookshelves, etc.

Hitboxes don't seem perfect but they seem good enough to me. It's an RPG, not an action game...they seem adequate.

Writing's not bad, not amazing. Some interesting characters and seems to be quite a bit of content/variety of quests/choice and stuff. World probably does feel more alive than recent Elder Scrolls games, although so far the random loot/random encounters haven't been stellar. Haven't played a ton though. Don't have much else to say because I really have only played a few hours, but it seems promising. Just the fact that it's scifi/post-apocalyptic in addition to medieval stuff makes me want to play it more than something like Skyrim. And the writing/characters aren't quite as bad as that either. The main villains (Albs) seem interesting and the Clerics are pretty cool. Outlaws seem a bit generic wasteland freaks but there's a few cool characters so far there.

edit: I will say that people complaining about the graphics are silly. It's an RPG and the graphics are totally fine. Sometimes they're pretty good.

Can you customize your character in ELEX, or are you stuck playing a bald muscley dude like in the other Piranha Bytes games?

There's no gender option.

PB only has the budget for a pre-set character but there is no damn reason they can't have a woman by now. For what it's worth, there are plenty of interesting and well-written female characters throughout who are often leaders, guards, business owners, etc, and for combat they are equal to men.

Still, I will buy and play the living shit out of Nioh when it hits PC, and would snatch up H:ZD in an instant if it was available on PC. The lack of a gender option isn't necessarily damnable, at least when there's a considerable backstory behind your character (a first for PB with ELEX btw).