the story and writing in it is truly top of class. one of the best stories in any game. which i was NOT expecting. its funny every show case of the game i saw was about how wacky the game was and all the side activities you can do. but its the story which is so captivating. really is on another level. sophisticated, smart, and exciting.
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the story and writing in it is truly top of class. one of the best stories in any game. which i was NOT expecting. its funny every show case of the game i saw was about how wacky the game was and all the side activities you can do. but its the story which is so captivating. really is on another level. sophisticated, smart, and exciting.
Really intrigued about the game, even though I didn't dig Bastion at all. The voiceover is great and soundtrack is brilliant, I assume this one has excellent soundtrack too. Haven't booted up Transistor yet either. But will probably pick up Pyre at some point.
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Wow, the last couple of pages really are something. The thread has moved on, so I won't get into it but I will say that making a vague statement straight after a horrific event when emotions are still running high is a bad move. It was a mistake but one that I thought Blood did a good job correcting.
Anyway, with Blood on the podcast this week, I wonder if Shadow of War will be brought up. I hope it does because man, the story in that game sounds like something Uwe Boll would come up with. And that's before you even try to take the skeevy microtransactions into account.
So I just finished Kingdom Hearts on hard. Yay me! Now to finish it again on the easiest difficulty, in under 15 hours and with the default equipment... I don't know why I'm forcing myself to go for the plats with the KH games but I am and their trophy lists are the worst.
Anyway, with Blood on the podcast this week, I wonder if Shadow of War will be brought up. I hope it does because man, the story in that game sounds like something Uwe Boll would come up with. And that's before you even try to take the skeevy microtransactions into account.
So I just finished Kingdom Hearts on hard. Yay me! Now to finish it again on the easiest difficulty, in under 15 hours and with the default equipment... I don't know why I'm forcing myself to go for the plats with the KH games but I am and their trophy lists are the worst.
Some of my favourite games but those trophy lists are disgusting.
Oh man I can't believe you're going for it. That's the kind of shit that made me quit trophy hunting. The only non stacking difficulty I remember going for was Alice Madness Returns because you could chapter select to the final scene and have it count. But anything else and it feels like the game is deliberately wasting your time.
Speaking of multiple playthrough I'm on my third round of Nier so I just started route C, it's crazy because you play route A and B which I feel are kind of equivalent to new game and new game +, and now I start route C and it feels like a completely different game/sequel. It's so odd to me this is kind of hidden in there, I wonder how many people who bought Nier didn't go beyond route A? If I wasn't told by the podcasts to keep doing the playthroughs I'm not sure I would have known it was worth it to commit to doing that.
PS4 difficulty trophies do stack. They finally corrected it from the PS3 version.
Oh okay. I only have the PS3 versions but it sucks it wasn't implemented the first time
LiquidSolid
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Ha, wacky coincidence. I'm guessing you're playing the PS4 version? I started the PS3 version years ago, where I finished a Normal run, so I've stuck with that for this game and will move over to the PS4 versions for any other ones.
I'm really looking forward to playing Birth by Sleep and even Re: Chain of Memories because I've never played them before but just getting through this one has been a fairly long process.
For real. I can understand difficulty trophies in action games, like Uncharted, because they encourage multiple playthroughs of a relatively short campaign. But I HATE them in RPGs because they don't make any sense. Getting 100% in them is already almost always a lengthy process, so there's no real need to encourage people to play for even longer. And to top those off, Square Enix also decided to add trophies for a speed run, a default equipment run and a no continues run. I don't understand why anyone thought this was a good idea.
It's awful and has taken me a long time to motivate myself to play it again but I really want to get all the plats before KH3 comes out. I probably won't make it in time (assuming KH3 does come out next year) but I'm trying.
Yeah, PS4. I actually never finished it on PS2, got stuck somewhere then got distracted, then on PS3 the fetch quest annoyed me too much so I made myself get through it on PS4 (frame rate and load times being better helped) and then started loving it.
Don't know if I'll finish the speed run or save it for later and do Re-Chain. Not heard great things, but I kinda love the concept.
Mikey Jr.
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Kh under 15 with default equip is super easy.
I got it in 9 hours, and I didn't skip every cutscene.
But yes, kh trophies are bad. I'll never subject myself to them.
I'll very slowly chip away at these trophies over the next few years, every time I come back to play these games.
Im really looking forward to Birth By Sleep too, that's my next game in my blind run through the series.
I can't say I enjoyed my Chain of Memories playthroughs much though. You have to play it twice essentially to get all the story and I wised up for the second go around and played on easy. I went through probably 25+ podcasts while just grinding my way through the game, and when I did the playthrough on normal the bosses were so frustrating for me at least that I would have to leave the game for long periods of time and play other things.
Anyway I hope your experience is better but basically my rec is to play on easy so you can get just through the game and get the story rather than have it be a slog.
I'll be picking up the collections soon. As big of a fan as I am, I've only played the mainline entries (I understand everything in the lore besides the time travel stuff) so I'm mainly going to be playing the collections for nostalgia and the side-entries.
Sounds like it might be a bit of a slog.
Sounds like it might be a bit of a slog.
To be fair I've heard that Birth By Sleep is really good so hopefully it's fun
(And I don't mean to say that you won't enjoy CoM I'm sure there are some people that liked it. I just think that the card system and random encounter battles were very jarring after being used to the battle system of KH1)
I remember watching Brad and (i think) Kyle stream it recently and I wasn't feeling the battle system but maybe it's something you gotta get a feel for. Either way it's Disney!
That boss made me quit when playing the original. The one time I beat him I didn't find a save spot immediately after and died to the first enemy.
I bought 2, but my PS2 died before I could play it.
LiquidSolid
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Yeah, I'm not really too worried about it (my hard mode run was 18-19 hours and while I did skip most cutscenes, I wasn't really trying to do it quickly), it's just the tedium of it all. If it were up to me, you'd just have to finish the game with 100% done on normal or hard.
Well that's encouraging. /s
But yeah, I've heard a lot of bad things about it. I still want to do it, not only to finish it for the first time, since it never got a PAL release on PS2, but also to get the plat on the long road to KH3. From what I understand, that means I'll have to finish both playthroughs on hard, get to level 99 on both and collect every card. It's a bit of a daunting task but seeing as I'm not going to start it for at least another 2-3 months, I'm not going to worry about it at the moment.
Oh man... I've been preaching the good word of NieR to a bunch of my friends, IRL and online and it's so difficult to get people on board with the structure. No matter how I explain it, people just say "I don't want to play the same game 5 times!" or "I can YouTube the other endings" even though those are both... Not true. Having to play the first half of the story twice essentially and referring to A or B as "endings" really fucks with people. I do think having to do Route B to get to C was a bad decision.
Hasney, out of interest, were you playing Overwatch on PC a few days ago? I got teamed with a Hasney in Elimination mode and thought it might've been you
I would have been, but not elimination. I pretty much stick to mystery heroes and total mayhem.
If you need with anything besides the copy feel free to PM me.
I still have it sealed but I agree. Should've called them chapters/prespectives/Niers!
Thanks, I might do tomorrow. It's only one section that's annoying me - I might leave it out for the meanwhile but it's quite important.
Edit: Tbh, I think the issue is that my original design for OT2 isn't as scalable as I thought. I might give the whole design a re-think after OT3 is out there.
dickroach
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frendcode's up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENv6lFYAIg4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENv6lFYAIg4
Woah, how did I miss this! I saw a site the other day saying it was a rumor and didn't realize it was actually real. Gonna download!
Elfforkusu
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Excellent Mania review.
Finally going to play it in 30 minutes. Hype at max levels
Finally going to play it in 30 minutes. Hype at max levels
PshycoNinja
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Um... I may be out of the loop... but have they done a retrospective series since Deus Ex? I remember seeing that as one of their goals but I don't see any other ones than just that one...
AgentChris
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dickroach
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go to the end of the level. it's a 2d platformer
Elfforkusu
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When in doubt, roll!
Enjoy newtonian physics! (my personal favorite is roll-jumping up slopes)
Cheese levels as Tails!
There's not an "ideal route" like Mario games, at least not on the first or tenth try. Just read, react, enjoy.
Elfforkusu
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Feel free (encouraged, even) to explore. There are many viable ways through a stage, and sometimes fun unique stuff along any arbitrary path. (if you find a special stage ring, you know you done good)
e: might be helpful (maybe not), but I tried to describe the Sonic design philosophy in another thread:
Same (I don't have a Switch yet),
There seem to be some small performance issues with the Switch version according to digital foundry (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXturRMOzU4), although they only seem to occur in the 3D bonus levels, so I guess the Switch version should be fine.
It's my first Sonic game too, I too am a little confused by my inability to pick up speed? I keep knocking into things which means I might as well walk :/
Going through a level fast, especially the later levels, is more of a reward for getting good than the entire objective. Sonic is a traditional platformer, so feel free to take it slow and explore when you can and go fast later.
Eventually as you get used to Sonic, you see queues for you to jump or spin to keep momentum.
Sonic 2 introduced the spin dash, crouch and mash jump a few times for a boost. Mania introduced drop dash(?), hold(?) jump while you're falling to boost the moment you touch the ground.
Ok, that helps a bit. I was a bit concerned I wasn't playing correctly and thus missing out on the real game by casually strolling along
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