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- Thread starter Dreams-Visions
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Pikmin 3
Bayonetta 2 (with 1 included)
Wonderful 101
SSBFor
Super Mario Maker
Splatoon
Captain Toad
Super Mario 3D World
New Super Luigi U (NSMBU is still great, but NSLU is better)
Mario Kart 8
NES Remix 1/2
ZombiU
Suffice to say, yes, it's absolutely worth it.
Forgot Yoshi wooly world & shovel knight
No Yoshi's Wooly World for us poor Americans yet.
Also Shovel Knight's on a ton of stuff.
:^)
now you know how oceania feels
Dreams-Visions
Member
remember back when we had shit like diretide? that was back when we had item drop that could be traded without restrictions and random shit like greevils to make playing special modes sort of fun? back when 4-manning at 10 minutes was not a thing.
Does anyone actually want Greeviling back? I have not seen a single person express a desire for it to come back.
Wraith Night on the other hand, people enjoyed and in fact play it on custom games right now.
Yeah, that one was pretty good. Year Beast Brawl was kind of a mixed bag though.
Agreed.
Actually I'd like a new attempt at the Greeviling. I don't think it was an inherently terrible idea, but much like how I feel about Diretide and Year Beast Brawl, I think it deserves its own map and rules, not just modifying the existing map. Actually, the overthrow map would probably be pretty well suited to all the event things they've done so far.
Also I love the first part of Diretide, but I'm so sick of killing Rosh. Well, I might like killing Rosh again, but I'd want it to be its own thing, like Year Beast.
Also also yeah bring back Wraith Knight. That was my favorite, I think.
you dont even like league
Dreams-Visions
Member
they're all about the same. let's not pretend any of them are better than any others.
tsunami643
Member
Diretide 2012 > Wraith-Night > Year Beast Boss > Diretide 2013 > Greeviling > Year Beast Dota
Wraith Night was the best by far, and then Phase 1 of Diretide. The main things those had going for them is they weren't Dota. It was a horde fight and capture the flag.
I hope Diretide 2015 is like a Halloween version of Wraith Night. And maybe toss up the original version as a Valve published custom game.
No way.
Diretide - The game mode before the grand Rosh fight was kind of meh, but the actual Rosh fight with people figuring out ways to do it faster/more times was pretty cool. I like that idea and was glad to see it come back in the Year Beast fight.
Greeviling - I understood the idea behind this one, but it felt kind of pay to win, as the Seraphics had a pretty clear advantage here. The idea of bringing your eggs from Diretide into this thing was neat, but then it was pretty unbalanced in favor of the people that had more stuff for the better greevils. I was stuck with Pudge Rot, Enchantress Nature's Attendants, while my opponents have....Pudge Hook and Black Hole?! Seriously? The items were given out completely randomly, and it just felt kind of all over the place. There were some strategies to steal the big greevils (Sniper Ult for instance), but it still mostly relied on who had the better greevils. Not a very fun game mode and I was sick of it after about 2 games of it.
Wraith Knight - A straight up defense mode that was simple, fun, and had cool variations on the heroes. Storm Vortex pulled multiple enemies, Windrunner Shackle hit multiple targets, and much more. The different difficulty levels got progressively harder, and since you always saw the same waves in the same order, people liked to prepare strategies for the New Game+ mode and higher than that. Also I definitely got a chuckle at the time when it said "YOU DEFEATED" after beating it. They had the new items, some were upgraded versions of items we already knew, and some were something completely new. Our first taste of something made by the custom game tools.
Year Beast (boss fight) - Valve clearly saw what people liked about Diretide, and why they wanted them to give it back (other than hats of course): Preparing a strategy to take down a boss. People would pass around team comps they would use in places like here or on Reddit. There were bugs with it, and changes every day or so as new exploits or super OP combinations were found. I specifically remember the Visage exploit where you could fly a Familiar in the corner of the map and it would just try to chase it forever, allowing you to hit it as long as you wanted with no risk of taking any damage. It did have a bit of pay to win with it, since you had the ingots to use as gold in it. I remember another strategy that was used after the Visage thing was to just buy those fireworks that stunned it, and just spam them until you hit the damage number you wanted. The moves were interesting, often telegraphing what was coming next, and even stuff like basically a bullet hell shooter.
Year Beast Brawl - They went back to a variation on regular Dota, but this one was definitely more pay to win, but not quite as much as Greeviling. Some of the stuff you got on the higher upgrades was ridiculously OP, like the Refresher Aura with Zeus. It was okay but I got tired of being on a team with people that didn't have enough points. CM Arcana buyers had plenty, but everyone else not so much.
I really hope that if Valve ever does another event game mode, that it not be so reliant on paying to win. Wraith Night was the best simply because there was absolutely zero pay to win elements to it.
This year's Year Beast was great, even if it was a little pay2win. There may have been some balance issues, but the style of game it produced, where your team rallied around an NPC to defend and upgrade it was, I felt, a fun change.
There is always something better to do than watch animu.
There is always something better to do than watch animu.
Imp the Dimp
Member
Online special mode I played was Diretide 2013 and it was utter dogshit. Never bothered with these games again.
Wok
Member
Because I only learnt about it an hour ago.
I was lucky enough to help out with that a little (had some wrist issues halfway through so I had to stop unfortunately), but it's a very interesting title, nothing really like it and it's quite thought provoking. A lot different from Stanley but I think it's pretty awesome and worth a play-through for sure.
Monochromaticx
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waxinlyrical
Member
The Beginner's Guide
Tell me what you think, I didn't like Stanley Parable (the original demo, not the commercially released game that I never bought) that much but I'm interested in hearing what people thought about this one.
I follow Laura Kate on twitter, she is raving about it (w/o spoilers) it has struck a very deep chord with her, and has really stuck in her head
apparently from her twitter:
1) This game is very easy to spoiler, unlike stanley parable you should go in completely unspoilered
2) This game is a lot more personal and emotional than SP
3) After you play this game, and have played SP, you will feel like going back and playing SP and see it in a different light
I havent played it, but I bought it for my beau because he loved stanley parable so much
Monochromaticx
Member
Thanks. I will check it later. kinda disappointed that it doesn't have the same narrator from SP
Shuggananas
Banned
the king is back
ps : hylian's a fraud, I should have been #1 on the wall of shame
ps : hylian's a fraud, I should have been #1 on the wall of shame
Shuggananas
Banned
btw luna's aghs is fucking legit for a fast push strat
Get it after helm/yasha/bkb, easiest high ground push of your life, just cast the ult around the enemy rax and watch them either burn or flee
Here's a simulation for the AoE
Get it after helm/yasha/bkb, easiest high ground push of your life, just cast the ult around the enemy rax and watch them either burn or flee
Here's a simulation for the AoE
Imagine Arcwarden + that
Shuggananas
Banned
you wish babe
i'll take inkles too, fine by me
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
Australia's already a country built by people who were banned from their own
Sigismundo
Member
No, I agree with the anti-France sentiment quite thoroughly. The reason is spectacularly unfunny.what about australia
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