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2 hours ago, Kal-El814 said:

 

I’d probably peg the original as an 8/10; that seems fair.

 

The “issue” I think is that if you go for the platinum like I did, or even if you just want all the cool costumes so you go backpack hunting, you’d do a LOT of the same shit. Some of it was really fun, but there’s a lot of fluff like catching birds or swinging through fart clouds or doing HVAC repair or whatever. If you’re not coming at it from a completionist POV that high class problem probably goes away..

Ridding myself of the completionist attitude and need to finish every game I start was hugely liberating and made me enjoy the time I spent in games much more.

1 hour ago, Bacon said:

Can someone tell me why my action isn't getting used here? I don't mean the sneak attack, I mean once I am in combat.

I don't see why I should be able to attack 4 times like this.

 

My synopsis.

First attack was out of combat, which then starts combat with surprise giving you an action. The first attack gives you an extra attack though, which doesn't use your action so you use it and your action remains. Then you attack another enemy, this uses your attack for the combat round that started, but then you also have your extra attack for making an attack with your action.

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The only class change to the party I made was Shadowheart -> Life Cleric. Heavy armor + tons of heals is pretty great. War Cleric is solid too though.

10 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

Story mode is easy for everyone to experience the story. If you want a challenge that's what online is there for.

@legend you are the AI expert and should know as well as anyone the computer cheats by reading your inputs, that's not really fun or challenging.

As the AI expert, I know for a fact that it doesn't have to be that way though  

10 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

This is why I find the reviews and discourse around this game interesting. Of course 99% of people show up for the story mode and bounce but to me the story mode is a bonus for the game. So when reviews slam on the story mode for this game and even street fighter I think well that stuff is the icing on the cake, the real reason to show up for the game is for the fighting part.

It also doesn't have to be that way either though! I don't play competitively because I don't have anywhere near enough time required to play a fighting game competitively. The fighting genre community is generally very hardcore. But I still get these games because I usually enjoy the over the top stories and some of the other SP modes. And if it's true that 99% of people show up for the story, maybe it should get more love!

If the game developers simply don't want to make a story mode, that's fine, I have not objections to developers focusing on the game they want to make. But they clearly do put a bunch of effort into them, so it's a valid place to criticize!

1 hour ago, stepee said:

 

It’s definitely easier than recent entries, in a good way. As in it’s just easier to play it and execute moves and combos coherently without years of practice I find.

I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, the history of mortal kombat bosses were hard because they were cheesy. So I'm glad to do away with that. But on the other hand, when you're rocking everyone's world it's not as satisfying to smash their head in as it is when you have to struggle toward it.

Finally got around to finishing this. It is probably the easiest mortal kombat I've ever played. The final boss fight was just a fight and I cleared it nearly instantly.

I'm not even good at fighting games!

1 hour ago, Remarkableriots said:

Do you need the expansion for the changes to happen? I haven't started the game yet and it will be awhile before I can afford the expansion. I want to finally start the game soon.

No, you don't need the expansion for that. You get all the system changes for free. The expansion is just the new quests and location (maybe iconic weapons part of the new quest I suppose are also locked to the expansion?)

11 hours ago, Jason said:

 

Bluesky has the juice of basically just being Twitter before the pedo guy took over if they'd just fucking open up already. 

I’m guessing they don’t yet have the compute to open it up. 

1 hour ago, atom631 said:

 

if you start from the beginning, how much of the campaign do you have to play before you get to play the DLC? are we talking like 1/2 way through (20hrs or so)? 

If you speed run it and ignore everything that's not absolutely necessary you can probably do it in 10, but 20hrs does feel like the time you would spend if you're playing casually and actually trying to enjoy the time until then  

Top 10 were the following. Seems about right. Definitely hard since the pairwise comparisons are always a bit fuzzy, but this seems like it lands close enough that I don't want to try to fine tune it!

1    Halo
2    Baldur's Gate 3
3    The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
4    The Witcher 3 (+ DLC expansions)
5    Myth 2: Soulblighter
6    Portal 2
7    Diablo 2
8    Deus Ex: The Conspiracy
9    Persona 5 (Royal)
10    The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

2 hours ago, Kal-El814 said:

 

I mean you could do that. But you'd have to... actually do that. There's probably juice to get from the squeeze of a lawyer who wants to do the right thing, but also beats the shit out of people at night, but who can also tell when people are lying, but it's probably not ethical to use a superpower like that in court, who's Catholic so believes in the sacrament of confession granting god's forgiveness, but who wants to punish criminals, so how does he deal with the intersection of those things...etc. This was made more stark in whatever season Punisher was in where they moved him to trial in 48 hours or something dumb.

 

Oh to be clear, I meant that duality of the character is good and what it's used for. The actual legal stories themselves are not the part that's interesting though and it seems counterproductive to try and make that the focus and interesting.

Um yeah, who the fuck thought anyone was watching Daredevil for its riveting legal stories? Him being a lawyer provides context for the character and a duality of working both within the law and outside it. That's about it.

This is peak Japan.

52 minutes ago, TUFKAK said:

His fans are a bunch of incel chuds that wouldn't know a vagina from a tree stump.

Someone's been watching Gen V!

3 hours ago, Spork3245 said:

I don’t know, the side quests in this game are infinitely better than 99% of other RPGs. I think most others would have the side quests be like…

 

- gather 10 mugworts for Auntie Ethel
- defeat 5 cursed shadows to aid the Harpers
- collect 5 flute fragments to wake Art Cullagh
- Rolan slipped and the flying scrolls are going rogue. Help Rolan keep his job by catching all the flying scrolls! (4/79 completed)

I wasn't sure whether to respond to this with the laugh emoji or cry emoji.

15 hours ago, Pikachu said:

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231009494331/en/Unity-Announces-Leadership-Transition

 

 

You know what's aged super well for him? Calling game developers who didn't want to incorporate monetization into their game from the start "fucking idiots." ("pure and brilliant" but also "fucking idiots").

2 hours ago, atom631 said:

Act III is such crazy contrast to the rest of the game (at least so far). In typical storytelling as you progress, the world tends to get bleaker and darker...but in this game, you go from the gloom, creepiness and desperation of act II into this brightly lit city full of life and people going about their business. but you can still feel the heaviness of what's coming. it's really amazing world building. 

 

I'm not very far in yet. I'm heading to

 

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Gortash's coronation

 

I've stayed mostly in the starting area trying to complete whatever side quests have popped up and basically talked to everyone that was clickable. 

 

I would say my only complaint in act 3 so far is it suffers the same gaming cliche many RPGs have. Here you are in an urgent mission, but they throw these silly side quests at you that really have nothing to do with the main story. I know they are skippable, but I want to see everything in this playthrough bc there's no way I can do a 2nd...just too many games to play (although wouldn't mind trying some multiplayer). 

 

I never felt that way about act 1 and 2. the side quests felt like they had meaning and tied into the larger story being told. 

 

Either way, the game is amazing. it's one of those games I can't stop thinking about even when I'm not playing or haven't even played in a few days. 

FWIW, there are also still big side questions that tie into the main story. In particular, the companion quests often tie in quite strongly, as do some of the others.

2 hours ago, atom631 said:

Im going to jump back into Cyberpunk when Im done with BG3. I had already completed the main story at launch. I have Phantom Liberty on deck.  I havent really been keeping up with reviews/talk about it, but I read that they recommend starting fresh to play the DLC? Is that really necessary? I dont have time to start a new game just to get to the DLC. Too much other stuff to play (havent even fired up Starfield yet). 

 

Im assuming there is still a way to jump in to Phantom Liberty from my completed save file? Am I doing myself a disservice by doing this? How do I access the DLC from my existing completed save? 

It is recommended to start fresh because they overhauled the game and the entire leveling system. But it is not required. You have three options:

1. Start a new game. You will get a call that launches the Phantom Liberty story after you do the Voodoo boys main quest.

2. Start a new character directly into Phantom Liberty. This is an option from the main menu. I think they just advance you to that part of the game and give you a level 20 character or something to start with.

3. Load a previous character. When you do this, you keep the character level and question progression and just have to reassign all of your perk/attribute points, because again, these systems are entirely different now. It's a little weird in that you won't really know exactly what you're selecting since you didn't get them naturally, but you can also always respec whenever you want so you can experiment in PL. As long as your character that you load is past the voodoo boys quest, you'll immediately get a call starting the PL quest. If your previous save is a "game completion" save, that's perfectly fine, because game completion saves always take you back to right before the point of no return.

44 minutes ago, stepee said:

 

I’m actually not a big fan of DKC TF :P

 

Im like 3/4th of the way through by playing a few levels every time I hear people talk about how amazing it is. I don’t see it personally, the  sense of flow isn’t there for me and the mechanics don’t feel as joyful to use as the genre greats. It has good level design, but not totally stand out either. The art style is okay though a bit bland. If it didn’t already have such a reputation before it came to switch I might have liked it more, but since everyone acts like it’s one of the greatest platformers it’s hard not to be disappointed. I would actually vote DKC2 though. 

 

Dishonored 2 and Control aren’t bad entries either!

My big blocker for it is I hated the momentum and acceleration of movement. I much prefer very responsive controls for 2d except when you’re in the air or in a more explicit dash of some sort. 

Some screens

And MAJOR phantom liberty spoiler images. You've been warned!

9 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:

No Dragon Age Origins named yet? 

Mistakes were made.

9 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:

 

That was the most glaring one for me that hasn't been named yet. Don't think I saw  Mass Effect named yet either. I think both one AND two belong on a top 100 list. Need to think about more... 

I did name ME though!

Also, there are few devs who do the world is morally grey complex shit with few victories stories like CDPR  

24 minutes ago, Ominous said:

For a game that got shit on I think I'll end up with 300+ hours played and many replays. 

It was always good if you had the newest PC hardware at launch (and I do mean newest) to avoid endless bugs, but with this patch and expansion it's pretty special, IMO.

14 minutes ago, Ominous said:

Man I'm like 20 hours into my reply and have not even started it. Next play is gonna be blades and that crazy running shit. 

Yeah, you can easily play a lot before starting it. I did a number of quests and side quests but decided to dart a bit toward it at some point. Still a fuck ton in the game left to do now  Not sure how much of the side quests I'm going to play since I already did most of them way back. Will probably do some of the big character side quests and then otherwise mainline to the end.

Blades + Movement + "preem" cyberware is the best. I enjoy the gunplay a lot in this, but god damn flying through the air slicing people up is so good And when the shit really hits the fan, it only gets more fun.