VR is such a safety issue in general, it's surprising it's not brought up more often. Especially in the US where every company is afraid of lawsuits.
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It's alright while sitting. Didn't notice anything with Occulus or Playstation VR. I just don't want to stumble with 800 strapped to my head.
BTW I almost missed it but Jason approved Salt & Sanctuary comes out on Tuesday for PS4. It's even 10% off if you pre-order. I bought it today. That will be a nice game to hold me over until Dark Souls 3 is out.
It seems like there's going to be a lot of alternate ways to move about the world (or just not and station you in a single place like a cockpit) because moving around in the real world is such a hassle, and simulating it feels weird when looking around and manipulating is so lifelike.
Sleeping Lesson
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Yeah it's unfortunate that VR is so expensive right now. Better that than sub-par hardware though. Wireless will certainly happen eventually, but I think people overestimate the inconvenience of the cable. From all reports (I haven't done any room-scale myself) you quickly adapt to handling the cable on an almost subconscious level.
Incandenza
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This was definitely an issue with the Vive demo I had. It's hard to move around naturally when you're afraid of tripping over a fat cable.
Infinite Justice
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those prices are not great on VR but we'll see how it works out as time passes and it hopefully starts to get more affordable.
Will watch from the sidelines until then.
Will watch from the sidelines until then.
Caught up on the last Demo Derby which was great. There's something about having people like Jeff (with huge amounts of knowledge) looking back at these games which makes for great content. And to also see the amount of crap that was actually around is pretty good viewing like that Spiderman game which I remember loving when I was younger but now looks pretty bad.
Piston Hyundai
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mario maker may be the greatest video game ever made, you guys
TheMrPliskin
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Giant Bomb 21 | The taste reminds you of Scott Steiner
Glitchesarecool
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Hey have any other mobile users here started to get really annoying notification-like ads? I'm gonna be real sad if Neogaf is moving in that direction for ad space.
Having to adapt to that does seem counterintuitive to the promise of VR.
Nothing weird for on mobile for me. What exactly are you seeing?
Get a box big enough for Jeff to fit in, fill it with balls and send it to GB.
Incandenza
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"So I moved in with my girlfriend and she says I have to get rid of my ballpit. I figured Giant Bomb could give it a good home. Also here are some CDs of Microsoft Encarta 95"
Piston Hyundai
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"So recently my pet fish had passed away. I didn't really know how to properly dispose of it, so I thought maybe you duders could figure it out."
And then, even worse, Jeff would have to pretend to be excited to get a 20th copy of Sonic 2.
The perfect way to do it.
Also how did we not get GB checking out Encarta at some point?
He doesn't really pretend to be excited about that stuff.
Glitchesarecool
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It looks like a menu pop-up, like what appears when I turn on my Bluetooth. I'll try to screencap it when it appears.
I'm also ok with this.
stump sock
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e:nah
Zeouterlimits
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I do wonder how many units of alcohol Dave Lang had in his body at that point.
User 85168
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I turn everything I grow into alcohol and make a fortune every day.
N
Noray
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You can do the Hard mode missions, they are really not very difficult, they're tuned for freshly dinged 30s basically and all drop 30 purples at the end. And you can definitely clear mobs in DZ01/02, especially in a group (which you should be in anyway in the DZ and in my experience anyone who isn't in a group will gladly join up with you). I don't know, I felt gear progression was pretty smooth. Purples drop like candy in the DZ and between DZ and doing Hard mode missions you can earn enough phoenix bucks for some yellow upgrades pretty quickly.
stump sock
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I'd need like 1000 barrels to pull that off. the 30 or so I have running now are already taking up too much room
You can also easily go into the DZ alone. I followed groups around, got XP, money and drops. Barely anyone bothers to go rogue because there kinda is no incentive.
I almost died during my descent into 105-110, was scary as fuck. What's the punishment?
I lost 9 levels of progress in the mine and 25% of my money
NumberThree
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Check about:flags to see if you have smooth scrolling enabled there.
User 85168
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The biggest punishment is you lose random number of items from your inventory. That can include your weapons and shit.
jesus christ that's terrifying
wait what happens if you lose your pickaxe or something? Can you buy a new shitty one from Clint?
User 85168
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as far as I know, your default tools can't be lost for any reason.
stump sock
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correct, yeah. basically if you die, it's time to say "fuck it" and just restart the whole day
Guess that's not too bad then. The money loss and potential loss of a rare weapon would really suck though.
Jimmyfenix
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wooooooow
User 85168
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You lose a high end weapon, you're fucked. It's better to reset the day at that point.
That did it! Thanks!
I'll have to give that a shot, thanks for the heads up. I didn't think rewards would scale in Hard mode.
I attempted a solo venture into the DZ earlier today and had very little success. Even when a purple item managed to drop, it was worse than my current setup.
I also get wrecked in a second by named elites, so perhaps my gear isn't that great after all.
Fantastapotamus
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I'M HELMUT KRUGER
I'M HELMUT FUCKING KRUGER
I held off on the new Hitman QL until I played the thing myself but man, what a great QL.
It was kinda heartbreaking to see them stopping Dhalia from going to the bathroom, I think Dan would have really enjoyed it to see Brad drown her in a toilet (Rat Poison doesn't kill people, it makes them throw up.)
I'M HELMUT FUCKING KRUGER
I held off on the new Hitman QL until I played the thing myself but man, what a great QL.
It was kinda heartbreaking to see them stopping Dhalia from going to the bathroom, I think Dan would have really enjoyed it to see Brad drown her in a toilet (Rat Poison doesn't kill people, it makes them throw up.)
Piston Hyundai
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Fuck that. Sounds like a "set your save file to read-only" situation.
stump sock
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it only saves when you sleep at night so it's easy enough to just turn the game off and restart
Yeah, they seem to be assuming that rat poison is an instant kill like in the older games. I much prefer the newer approach. Gives you a chance to get them alone. You can still get the accidental kill for drowning them, or use any other method if you're going for a specific challenge or something. And there's still poison syringes or cyanide if you want the instant kill.
If you pass out, Jojomart brings you back home for a flat fee , tucks you into bed and doesn't take any of your stuff
If Robin 'finds you' you're suddenly are missing items, lose track of where you were in the mine due to brain damage and missing money
and jojomart are the bad guys?
If Robin 'finds you' you're suddenly are missing items, lose track of where you were in the mine due to brain damage and missing money
and jojomart are the bad guys?
Zero-Crescent
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There are two that I can think of, both early titles. Back to Nature for Girl (Japan-only PS1, until Harvest Moon Boy and Girl for the PSP) had multiple bachelors to romance, but if you accepted any marriage proposals, the game would end on the wedding date. Harvest Moon 3 GBC only has one love interest (your farming partner), but if you are playing as the Girl, the game instantly ends if you accept the Boy's marriage proposal, so you have to reject it if you want to continue.
Eventually, Natsume realized that a majority of HM's fanbase was made up of women, so they removed that dumb limitation from future titles.
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