It's pretty rare for a first time player to have a weapon strong enough to one hit the dogs when they first get there. Most people barely even start upgrading their weapons at that point, so unless you have the zwei, claymore, or drake sword, it's a really tough fight.
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It's pretty rare for a first time player to have a weapon strong enough to one hit the dogs when they first get there. Most people barely even start upgrading their weapons at that point, so unless you have the zwei, claymore, or drake sword, it's a really tough fight.
shadyspace
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Man Jeff is terrible in this Gunman Clive QL
Cannon Goose
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The actual fight is easy, it's just that first few seconds that can go horribly wrong in an instant.
Purple_Tentacle
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Yeah, it's not a very generous quicklook. The game's pretty rad for a $15 eshop release. I think that's just the downside of messing with nostalgia -- can't please everyone, particularly Jeff.
Adam Scott Aukerman
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It's pretty clear that the stuff it was forcing them to play in order to play the stuff they wanted to play (at some point) wasn't all that fun for them. Seems pretty straightforward.
They seemed overly harsh on the stuff they did play.
Eh, you shouldn't have to do so much stupid bullshit to get to the part you actually want. I mean, some of those challenges had absolutely no business existing. The one Balloon Fight challenge was literally taking two steps to the right. I mean, come the fuck on.
And they didn't even start at the very beginning of the game. It looks like Jeff had done a bunch of that nonsense before even starting the QL. Vinny's "Oh, so this is Skyward Sword" (Or was it TP? Doesn't matter really since they both have the same issue) remark was dead on. Nintendo need to stop starting games off with 2 hours of tedium before you get to the part you actually want to play.
It looked pretty boring to me.
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
I was right there with Jeff. There seemed to be way too much uninspired stuff you have to plug through. The level of creativity should've been a lot higher than what I saw in that QL. This lazy stuff is not what I imagined when indieszero is allowed to do a WarioWare style free-for-all with NES games.
Rodney McKay
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Yup. I nearly gave up on the game at the Capra Demon for that reason. I would die within seconds of getting past the fog door. The dogs would hit me, stagger me, and Capra would kill be in one hit. Or the dogs would trap me against a wall and then Capra would kill me. Or the camera would get hung up on a wall and then I'd be killed.
To make it 10x worse I was originally taking a bad route to get to him (undead burg fireplace, kill 5 skeleton guys to get down the stairs, past 3 dogs, then past 3 thieves, then past another 3 theives, and 2 more dogs). Every time I died I had to go through ALLLLL of that again.
Taking the Firelink Shrine route through the sewer (reservoir?) was a better route, but still long.
To beat him I spent a good hour or more getting the ring Hervel Ring (so I could wear heavier armor and be weighed down less) AND the Wolf (?) Ring (raised poise so my attacks wouldn't get interrupted). Once I had all that stuff I killed him on the first try. But yeah, once you kill the dogs he's actually a cake walk. It's just a combo of the annoying dogs, the small arena, the long route to get to him, and insufficient loot that made it such a shitty boss encounter.
1:44 is speracualr. Much rage.
Incandenza
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One of the dudes on the AGDQ stream right now is wearing a Flight Club shirt.
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Thats how that game is!
Zero-Crescent
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"Why'd you do that!?"
"That was Manus, right?"
"No, that was the girl you came here to save!"
ShockingAlberto
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"No I'm pretty sure it was Manus."
It's working fine for me currently, but that's definitely happened once or twice in the past.
Go to giantbomb.com, log out and log back in.
Happened yesterday when I was watching LoLS. Just log out of the site and log back in. Chat came back up for me after that.
Awesome stuff! Logged out and back in and now I'm all good - many thanks!
SuperSonic1305
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Another Rising QL? Desperate times.
Not really, Jeff really pimped that game during GOTY and there is interest in the PC version. The DLC is supposed to be interesting too and worth a look at.
The Sam DLC is great. I haven't played Blade Wolf yet.
OverBlood 3
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What dark souls 2 rumour is brad talking about?
Yeah, what was that about? I'm curious
Blade Wolf DLC is okay cos Mistral is in it being aggressively... Mistral. And the boss fight is good and has rad music. And Blade Wolf is a snarker.
But Sam is just so much more amazing
"Coming up on the next episode of LOLS, Vinny getting his Drake Sword!"
So you want him to contract trachoma?
There was a time when I lost hope, but it was great in the end. Jeff really added a lot to it.
Now when is next Powerbombcast and Pathfinder?
Keyser Soze
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Pretty Volgarr
Video games happened to him.
Nah, I think his criticism was fair. The man likes WarioWare, can't blame him. Personally, I don't care, since I'll take any excuse to replay the classics, but I see how the lack of craziness and challenge can be off-putting (even though Jeff did die a bunch, heh).
I should watch it when I resub then. Jeff getting Brad salty sounds great.
ShockingAlberto
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I think the Nintendo Direct where it was announced really pissed him off. It was a parade of things Jeff hates.
I'm only a little joking, I really think he's still mad about it.
Edit: For what it's worth, people who own the game (not I) were saying Jeff was being really misleading about NES Remix and that he didn't unlock any of the content that would fix his complaints (I think those were separate points but I can't expound since I never played it.)
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