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Giant Bomb XXI | Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
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I agree.
Though if you asked Jeff Green... man he's having a tough time with the first area you travel to!
shortsFortallPeople
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BB's push to make the player more aggressive really goes against my shield and sword style in the souls game of just having enough stamina, poise, and an 100% physical shield so I can just sit back and let the enemy make mistakes.
I basically turtle these games, like i do in fighting games.
So BB pushing the player to keep up the pace and removing a lot of the defensive safety nets the souls games have in favor of dodging and parrying makes the whole thing riskier in my eyes.
I find that DS3 is pretty tough on turtling too, a lot of enemies will just break your guard or stagger you if you try to block their attacks and the stamina/roll is really tough on wearing heavy armor unless you really put a lot of points in vitality, and even then it's not that useful.
Even just blocking attacks is not nearly as good as dodging
Antiwhippy
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I don't necessarily find it harsh or all that hard really. There's still a tension there though that I find hard to maintain for long sessions.
Felix Lighter
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God damn it. I should have played Hearts of Stone without doing new game +, I've still been working through my second playthrough slowly and haven't reached the level to do that yet.
shortsFortallPeople
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haven't played DS3 yet and now im in no rush to do so hah
Witcher 3 is getting the old game of the year for 2016.
Salty Catfish
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It's so damn good. Maybe my favorite content in the game.
Demon's Souls was a lot harsher because the bosses were often miles away from where you started a level when you died.
Backfoggen
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I advise anyone to get into one piece musou and then get into one piece for superior 👌🏻
Is it because no one actually played it in 2015 while actual video games were being played
This ain't Run Button, DD.
Its definitely not Bloodborne, but its somewhere in the middle between that and DS1/2 mechanics. I'm not sure how good the Vinny style of play would work, theres some wonky things with armor values where above medium just doesnt seem worth it at all
MassiveNights
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FUCK YEAH WITCHER
Hearts Of Stone is honestly incredible. Hopefully they show the eye bit.
Hearts Of Stone is honestly incredible. Hopefully they show the eye bit.
shortsFortallPeople
Banned
the game of the year is a game about making games and the runner up was an early access game that will never be finished so it is a shame that something that is both an actual game and also a complete game got ignored by many.
to each their own but I came late to TW3 last year and i wish i hadnt so i couldve yell at people more about how great it was.
stop being silly, cat made of pizza
i dunno, they're probably looking at Lionhead and the chances they took at the end and are happy to be employed making something that looks to be a safe bet
I wonder how many people at The Coalition were dissapointed that they got taken off creating their new IP to make more Gears of War games and forever becoming the dedicated GoW studio.
Glitchesarecool
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I wish I could play Overwatch. Game looks like a lot of fun.
Giant Bomb XXII: Teledildonics, It's Gonna Be Huge
Giant Bomb XXII: Teledildonics, It's Gonna Be Huge
MassiveNights
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He must be enjoying it if he's into the expansion.
It takes a special kind of game for someone to put 100+ hours into and go "I want more".
Shangheist was only a trailer and given the track record of ms and devs that make new ips, I'd take that Gears job anyday
MassiveNights
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Oh man I just remembered that drunk segment at the end of The Witcher 3.
I need to play that game again, I don't know if I can hold out until the new expansion.
I need to play that game again, I don't know if I can hold out until the new expansion.
Death Metalist
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Felix Lighter
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Vinny "100%" Caravella either reevaluated how he plays open world games or he has like 200+ hours into the Witcher 3 by now.
Death Metalist
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Have some things to do so I'm going to miss it but excited to watch it when it archives!
169 hours. But this probably includes several hours with the game left open before/after video recordings or while taking care of kids stuff.
MassiveNights
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shortsFortallPeople
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it drove me nuts that everyone basically stopped at the bloody baron questline in TW3 because that's like saying you stopped playing Dark Souls when you got to Blighttown. there's so much more left of the game and a good deal of it is fantastic! If only they cut the dandelion stuff in half, dammit, because that shit went on for far too long
as for the gotys: It almost felt like they were giving TW3 awards out of consideration for what it was more than because anyone on the staff really felt strongly about it. The feeling i got from that whole thing was that they felt an obligation to TW3 or something.
It was a shame, really. I never was one of those people who was shouting that they should play TW3 before GOTYs, they can play whatever they like, but the feelings i had for the wins that the game got mustve been how Xrd fans felt when their game got the best looks award without having anyone really give enough of a shit for it.
Meh. at least vinny is digging it, it was a bummer to know that he hadn't spent much time with it before as his becoming interested in these games is what pushed me to get into the series in the first place
MassiveNights
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It looks like he's just past the auction house in the expansion. He has so much good stuff to come.
skLaFarebear
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The bloody baron quest was the worst part of the game and ran at 10 FPS? :V
Making the 5th game in series thats slowly dying vs. a new IP, which people have been craving for, with MS backrolling the marketing
I'll take the new IP anyday.
MassiveNights
Banned
The insistence that the bloody baron quest was the best thing in the game because that's what all the media outlets wrote about in release week was kinda annoying.
I got much more out of other quests and moments in the game.
Apart from that it wasn't really the kind of game Giant Bomb are into apart from Vinny so it didn't phase me too much.
Salty Catfish
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Bloody Baron was good, but Hearts of Stone is better than anything in the base game (and I say that as someone who loved TW3).
True MS doesn't have the best track record. But it still must have been somewhat exciting to have MS come to you and say that they want you to make an all new IP to rival the Halo franchise.
TheMrPliskin
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MassiveNights
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I honestly don't think the Dandelion thing was as long as people made out. Isn't it only 6 quests or so?
Prob the weakest thing in the game but Novigrad was pretty cool.
Prob the weakest thing in the game but Novigrad was pretty cool.
shortsFortallPeople
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It's more that the quests within the questline itself weren't that particularly good, either.
Having to find the folks he was screwing around with was a lowlight for that game.
There are some very, very strong quest lines in the base game but as a whole yeah, Hearts of Stone was just so consistently excellent it's hard to beat.
Wedding is still the best thing in the entire game.
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