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Giant Bomb #22 | Drew, F*** This Tank
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I beat the whole game with that 'fire crap' and had way more fun than you seem to have. I guess I came out ahead on that one.
There's zero doubt in my mind that DS3 is a more difficult game than Bloodborne. Bloodborne is just an inherently forgiving game. There is no way around it. The easier difficulty is literally baked in mechanically.
SirClinksAlot
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Nice Doom review by Brad. Still can't believe how good the campaign is. I never expected it to be this good.
To be fair, many people could say the same thing about Bloodborne and having more fun than you did.
BreezyLimbo
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Im enjoying this "My game is harder than your game!" competition going on
LurkerPrime
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Another day, another opportunity to be awed by qlcrew's usefulness. I just learned of a Dungeon Siege retrospective that I didn't know existed.
GTA is one of those series that everyone just kinda has to respect.
Like, they spend a bajillion dollars making it and it shows. It just has to be good.. Forget the plodding mission structure, the juvenile writing, and the Worst Online Lobby of 2015. It's still GTA.
Only one game this year has had the weight and consequence gamers have come to expect. A game where every second matters and there are no second chances--where death is something to be feared, rather than persevered. I am, of course, talking about Stardew Valley.
GTA is one of those series that everyone just kinda has to respect.
Like, they spend a bajillion dollars making it and it shows. It just has to be good.. Forget the plodding mission structure, the juvenile writing, and the Worst Online Lobby of 2015. It's still GTA.
aka I didn't like GTA5 at all but man is it a nice game.
Only one game this year has had the weight and consequence gamers have come to expect. A game where every second matters and there are no second chances--where death is something to be feared, rather than persevered. I am, of course, talking about Stardew Valley.
I don't think there is a different play style I could've picked in Bloodborne that would've made that game more of a challenge.
I like that game a lot, but I like it less than other Souls games. Like I said, it's an inherently forgiving game mechanically.
BreezyLimbo
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Fun is just a buzzword people use when they cant say something good about a game.
Piston Hyundai
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is calling Super Mario World Bloodborne some kind of meme I'm not familiar with
Everything took one or two tries for me except Nameless King. For some reason I always needed a lot of tries in all my playthroughs.
The silly thing is that whenever I beat him it was always a fairly "easy" run. I don't know why he throws me off so much.
Hardest "boss" in the game is that underground area with the two alligator-dogs, fuck that shit.
The silly thing is that whenever I beat him it was always a fairly "easy" run. I don't know why he throws me off so much.
Hardest "boss" in the game is that underground area with the two alligator-dogs, fuck that shit.
nckillthegrimace
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I had fun. I just think it's an easy Souls game.
I'm like a 21st Century Ace Ebb.
I'm not that good at video games.
Backfoggen
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Do a no levelling run and then tell me about forgiving game mechanics.
Where the fuck is Demon's Souls PS4, Sony are literally criminals for not doing it.
I'll break down what I mean then into more concrete terms.
Dark Souls offers you multiple ways to play that that might be more enjoyable to you depending on what you're looking for in the game. There're play styles that are aggressive and perhaps are a bit easy and there are other play styles that take a bit more effort to go with. I enjoy the later more.
Bloodborne doesn't offer that. There are different weapons with different speeds, but almost all of them play extremely similarly.
The Regain and Dodge mechanics of Bloodborne are far more forgiving than similar mechanics in Souls. They just are. They game doesn't make you make full use of them either by pushing you to master them.
BreezyLimbo
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Oh I agree with you Yami.
As someone who finished neither Bloodborne or DS3, but got about 4 hours in each, I found DS3 to be more engaging if only because of its characters.
All the Souls games (with the exception of DS2) are very good games and worth checking out sometime. I definitely enjoyed the lore of the DS universe a bit more than Bloodborne's, but it's also not really what I was there for personally.
Bloodborne's lore was a bit too messy for me and, as you said, it didn't really have the characters to back it. It's interesting being in this eldritch horror where everything's gone to shit, but I wished it wasn't so empty.
Twin Tails
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Nighmare or Ultra Nightmare Breaking Brad
must happen
must happen
LurkerPrime
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Backfoggen
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He essentially played that Romero map ultra-nightmare style so he should be used to it.
Twin Tails
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saveweyard
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Probably my favorite bit from the last episode. I had a big stupid grin on my face listening to that.
LurkerPrime
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The PS3 version should retroactively win all GOTY awards since the founding of giant bomb dot com.
Yeah, great moment.
saveweyard
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I need the audio from that combined with the mission control Vinny status check mark gif, except replace Vinny with a brad thumbs up.
Piston Hyundai
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part of me really wants Dan to just watch all of the Twisted Metal III endings on UPF next week
maybe the worst FMVs in existence
maybe the worst FMVs in existence
Also, I know the yter word is ugly around here, but anyone ever watch Ahoy's stuff before? He just put up a Quake Retrospective and his voice is velvety smooth.
This shit is professional television looking.
This shit is professional television looking.
"What is wrong with my kids!?"
I use the PS3 store once every two months, maybe, and it always crashes. Every time without fail, it will crash. Either upon loading or browsing after I've bought what I wanted. One crash per my usage, every time.
And, without fail, I'm waiting for a system restore to finish after a crash while loading the store. All I wanted to do was buy Saints Row The Third for $3.
And, without fail, I'm waiting for a system restore to finish after a crash while loading the store. All I wanted to do was buy Saints Row The Third for $3.
santeesioux
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I need to get around to buying the Ghosts of the Ostfront series, I've listened to/fallen asleep to all of the free ones.
Twin Tails
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I wanna be in AltspaceVR.
Maybe I should listen to them again because I remember disagreeing with something he said and stopped listening, but it's been long enough that I can't remember what it was.
I know everyone loves Ghosts of the Ostfront, but the Mongol series is probably my favorite. There's a real pure ambition to the Blueprint for Armageddon series, but covering the entirety of WWI in Dan Carlin fashion can end up being a bit much. The series is still amazing, but there's realty something perfect about the Wrath of the Khans stuff.
The current Kings of Kings series is top notch as well.
Incandenza
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in yo face bitch
funkystudent
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Huh.
I thought Austin was being funny but Uncharted 4 totally has a trophy called "Ludonarrative Dissonance" for killing 1000 enemies.
I thought Austin was being funny but Uncharted 4 totally has a trophy called "Ludonarrative Dissonance" for killing 1000 enemies.
broncobuster
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Man, that's a phrase I haven't heard in quite some time. Around when folks played Spec Ops The Line, several months after its release.
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