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Re: What video games are you currently playing?
« Reply #1450 on: Sun, 12 January 2025, 07:51:25 »
Ok, the main problem with dragon age Veilguard.

Creators must have written out the dialogue for a much younger audience, so they can understand what's going on. That made the conversations very flat and verbose. It's extremely unnatural to an older reader.  If you took the same plot, and made it normal speech, it's fine, no better or worse than any other vidya.

Older people are not the audience, and given that no one ever needs to grow up anymore, well, they turn to drinking haterade.





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Re: What video games are you currently playing?
« Reply #1451 on: Tue, 14 January 2025, 21:28:16 »
Omg, the characters look super cool. That shark jetpack.


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Re: What video games are you currently playing?
« Reply #1452 on: Fri, 17 January 2025, 10:56:22 »
Doom eternal, too much or too little platforming? Thoughts.

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Re: What video games are you currently playing?
« Reply #1453 on: Fri, 17 January 2025, 13:35:28 »
Doom eternal, too much or too little platforming? Thoughts.
You ever played the Yakuza games? Think they'd be right up your street.
unless they have some unforeseeable downside (like they're actually made of cream cheese cunningly disguised as ABS)


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Re: What video games are you currently playing?
« Reply #1454 on: Fri, 17 January 2025, 15:02:17 »
Doom eternal, too much or too little platforming? Thoughts.
You ever played the Yakuza games? Think they'd be right up your street.

On the to play list.

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Re: What video games are you currently playing?
« Reply #1455 on: Fri, 17 January 2025, 17:36:04 »
Doom eternal, too much or too little platforming? Thoughts.
You ever played the Yakuza games? Think they'd be right up your street.

On the to play list.


Infinite Wealth is a very good game. After the first 2 hours of setting up the story(yeah, it takes that long for every Yakuza game) the game basically turns into like 75 different mini games that are all quite fun and easy to get sidetracked with for a week.

I think Yakuza games get better and better as they lean more into ridiculousness and absurdity. 

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Re: What video games are you currently playing?
« Reply #1456 on: Mon, 27 January 2025, 09:15:30 »
Doom Eternal is so much harder than the first game.

It totally kicks your ass in the early stages as doom guy is very squishy without all his upgrades and faster damage.

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Re: What video games are you currently playing?
« Reply #1457 on: Tue, 28 January 2025, 18:00:24 »
Damn it, why doom eternal so difficult, it's kicking Tp4 so hard. The required Focus and Intensity, a younger person's game.

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Re: What video games are you currently playing?
« Reply #1458 on: Tue, 28 January 2025, 19:29:00 »
I never cared for the ammo loop in Eternal, and how monsters are gun-coded for specific weapon weaknesses. I don't like being forced to use weapons I don't enjoy. That, and the stupid platforming/grapple sections.

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Re: What video games are you currently playing?
« Reply #1459 on: Wed, 29 January 2025, 18:26:49 »
Marauders killing Tp4 for the 50th time. Head in hand, this is, omgggg....

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Re: What video games are you currently playing?
« Reply #1460 on: Wed, 29 January 2025, 19:36:35 »
Yea, the platforming isn't "that" fun, but it's better than just walking from arena to arena. Gives you time to stop and look at the artwork.

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Re: What video games are you currently playing?
« Reply #1461 on: Thu, 30 January 2025, 15:13:53 »
Finally at the Urdak level, This is their story heaven.

The sheer decadence of it, bought and paid for through tortured-soul energy.  Sounds familiar? Capitali..sm?

They also clearly color graded the game for 300 nits or so in SDR, that's odd because you'd have a heck of a time with shadow detail on most IPS monitors, and If you're using OLED, well then you'd use HDR.

So really this is the wrong color grade. They should target 120nits, but 120nits is clearly way too dark for this game, it looks crushed and un-colorful.


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Re: What video games are you currently playing?
« Reply #1462 on: Fri, 31 January 2025, 14:31:53 »
Sigh. Finally onto Ancient God 1. Sigh.. no excuses now, have all the weapons and upgrades.  They still killzn' Tp4...

Thought about lowering difficulty from ultra-vilolence to easier mode, but IDK.. Kinda defeatist.

The weapon system is such that they took what the speed runners were doing from Doom 2016, and made that a game mechanic. This is not easy to master, especially with so many combo variations due to the monster weakness element.

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Re: What video games are you currently playing?
« Reply #1463 on: Fri, 31 January 2025, 18:39:55 »
I spun up RDR2 to finally finish it. I feel like I am getting close. I bought the game on launch and after losing my save progress it was hard to want to restart. I want to see how it ends.
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Re: What video games are you currently playing?
« Reply #1464 on: Sat, 01 February 2025, 11:48:05 »
I spun up RDR2 to finally finish it. I feel like I am getting close. I bought the game on launch and after losing my save progress it was hard to want to restart. I want to see how it ends.

Oh I hate when it happens, nowadays with Steam recording saves its not that common, but back in the days, in 90s, 00s, I sometimes lost saves and was pissed as hell to start games over...
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