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[Anteater]

wtf are you doing in dark souls 2 Ornstein

 

[TheLetdown]

CSGO's drops are purely cosmetic, completely irrelevant to the actual game.

TF2's drops actually add little abilities to your character that fundamentally change play style. For example, there might be a gun that allows you to move faster and jump higher, but drops your health and damage significantly. It ends up working out as you are still perfectly competitive with the default weapons.

It's been a while since I played TF2, but when I was playing the skins were thought out to the point where the drops significantly changed the way you'd play a character.

For example, the Dead Ringer and the Ambassador for the spy changed the character to the point that you could abandon stealth and stabs all together and play a rush in, headshot, duck out style. But it never made the default spy irrelevant. The Claymore is another example of a total character overhaul.

To me, if the drops don't follow that line of thought, they better just be purely cosmetic. Even the appearance of imbalance in a multiplayer game is enough to start killing it.

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

How do you move a window position with borderless gaming? I want to center it. It is all the way to the upper left.



^b-team can't into lore so they borrow from ds1 )))))))))))))

 

[dot]

wtf are you doing in dark souls 2 Ornstein

damn your random ds2 comments are spoiling me

stop that yu baka

 

[Spirited]

wtf are you doing in dark souls 2 Ornstein

you know...actually don't even bother.

 

[Dsyndrome]

That's the second time that's come up this week, was there a deal and now everyone's playing DS2?

 

[YianGaruga]

haha did he really just kill aeris with that big ass sword

damn

 

[Spirited]

That's the second time that's come up this week, was there a deal and now everyone's playing DS2?

Namco had a publisher weekend sale awhile ago.

atleast I think they had.

 

[InfiniteNine]

That's the second time that's come up this week, was there a deal and now everyone's playing DS2?

I actually probably will skip 2 and go to straight to 3 when it comes out really.

 

[Chance Hale]

Can't you bring back most outside of old games with cloud saves? Better than nothing.

A decent amount hopefully, and it's not like I would have gone back to 95% of those games anyway

Computer is officially back in running shape, now to go download a billion drivers and make steam recognize all of my games. Exciting times.


Haven't seen the default steam client in so long, weird!

Edit: Luckily steam seems to have easily recognized all of my games this time, everything is installed!

 

[Anteater]

damn your random ds2 comments are spoiling me

stop that yu baka

lol sorry, I don't follow the story in these games

I just fought some dude that looked like that other dude in ds1!

 

[someguyinahat]

All the saves that were in the my documents folder.

*turns to dust*

At least I'll always make back ups from now on :3

Never happened to me en masse, but as a guy who lost his Arkham City save, I can empathize. Feels bad, man.

 

[tmarg]

Also, the DS3 beta test thing is going on right now, so there is probably more interest in the previous games.

 

[tmarg]

I actually probably will skip 2 and go to straight to 3 when it comes out really.

2 is actually really good, it's just not 1. I wouldn't skip it.

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

I actually probably will skip 2 and go to straight to 3 when it comes out really.

for all the shit thrown at it, 2 is a really good game that it just doesn't compare to ds1. Not in lore, not in the world, not in bosses until the DLC.

Also From hates magic builds so good full melee. One DLC boss has like resistance to all magic.

Also can someone anwser me my question about borderless gaming? It is bothering the fuck out of me. Yes, I noob at this.

 

[TheLetdown]

wtf are you doing in dark souls 2 Ornstein

Parry his ass.

 

[Deitus]

for all the shit thrown at it, 2 is a really good game that it just doesn't compare to ds1. Not in lore, not in the world, not in bosses until the DLC.

Also From hates magic builds so good full melee. One DLC boss has like resistance to all magic.

I haven't played DS2 since before most of the big patches, but did they nerf magic builds that hard? Because in vanilla DS2 they were straight up dominant. Magic builds were crazy overpowered when I played.

 

[Chance Hale]

Never happened to me en masse, but as a guy who lost his Arkham City save, I can empathize. Feels bad, man.

The only big time before now that I can remember off the top of my head was I was thirty hours into Black Flag when uplay decided to corrupt/erase/whatever my save. Never finished that game

Just realized that my gif folder is gone ;-;

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

I haven't played DS2 since before most of the big patches, but did they nerf magic builds that hard? Because in vanilla DS2 they were straight up dominant. Magic builds were crazy overpowered when I played.

Faith builds were hit the hardest when taking offensive into account. Since it was ez mode PvE. I was never too into pvp in both ds1 and ds2 so I can't answer that.

DLC enemies have a lot of resistance to all types of magic.

 

[Dsyndrome]

I haven't played DS2 since before most of the big patches, but did they nerf magic builds that hard? Because in vanilla DS2 they were straight up dominant. Magic builds were crazy overpowered when I played.

Lightning bolts now don't do a goddamn thing, it's like From went out of their way to nerf faith builds.

 

[InfiniteNine]

for all the shit thrown at it, 2 is a really good game that it just doesn't compare to ds1. Not in lore, not in the world, not in bosses until the DLC.

Also From hates magic builds so good full melee. One DLC boss has like resistance to all magic.

Also can someone anwser me my question about borderless gaming? It is bothering the fuck out of me. Yes, I noob at this.

Well I had it pre-ordered initially but all the graphics hubbub just made me cancel my the order and never really seemed interested to get it after that unless I got it really cheap.
I think I just lost faith because of all the shadiness surrounding that. Also never use magic in any of the souls games.

 

[Chance Hale]

Did they nerf Soul Geyser? I used that with my mage build in the base game to kill the Ancient Dragon in four hits, lol.

 

[Durante]

Dark Souls 2 does a lot of things better than Dark Souls 1. Including Magic, incidentally.

 

[Maniac]

Dark Souls 2 does a lot of things better than Dark Souls 1. Including Magic, incidentally.

And it doesn't rely on you to be playable either!

It's a technological marvel, really.

 

[FloatOn]

I was a ds2 hater until I did scholar of the first sin with a friend. The improvements made a difference and the game is much more fun cooperatively than solo as the game loves throwing huge mobs at you.

 

[InfiniteNine]

I was a ds2 hater until I did scholar of the first sin with a friend. The improvements made a difference and the game is much more fun cooperatively than solo as the game loves throwing huge mobs at you.

Not really into co-oping with people so that probably turned me off more after the fact.

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

Dark Souls 2 does a lot of things better than Dark Souls 1. Including Magic, incidentally.

This is true. Until From decides to nerf them because they can't balance them for shit.

 

[Deitus]

Faith builds were hit the hardest when taking offensive into account. Since it was ez mode PvE. I was never too into pvp in both ds1 and ds2 so I can't answer that.

DLC enemies have a lot of resistance to all types of magic.

Lightning bolts now don't do a goddamn thing, it's like From went out of their way to nerf faith builds.

Ah yes, I remember hearing about the lightning nerfs. I didn't realize that the DLC was so heavily anti-magic though. It's just interesting to hear that they swung so heavily on balance, rather than finding a midpoint between "magic is straight up broken" and "don't bother using magic."

Well I had it pre-ordered initially but all the graphics hubbub just made me cancel my the order and never really seemed interested to get it after that unless I got it really cheap.
I think I just lost faith because of all the shadiness surrounding that. Also never use magic in any of the souls games.

I mean DS2 doesn't look as good as the preview footage (mostly the lighting, but some textures were downgraded as well), but it still looks comparable to DS1 (which was never a looker in a technical sense). There are some fantastic looking areas in DS2, and some really weak areas, but the same applies for DS1.

It would have been nice if they had come out and said "hey, we had to go back and lower the graphical quality to get good performance," but what game developer has ever actually said that right before releasing?

Meanwhile, the game plays great, though I do have a few gripes with some choices they made. It's definitely worth playing, but maybe wait for Scholars of the First Sin to go on sale.

 

[InfiniteNine]

I mean DS2 doesn't look as good as the preview footage (mostly the lighting, but some textures were downgraded as well), but it still looks comparable to DS1 (which was never a looker in a technical sense). There are some fantastic looking areas in DS2, and some really weak areas, but the same applies for DS1.

It would have been nice if they had come out and said "hey, we had to go back and lower the graphical quality to get good performance," but what game developer has ever actually said that right before releasing?

Meanwhile, the game plays great, though I do have a few gripes with some choices they made. It's definitely worth playing, but maybe wait for Scholars of the First Sin to go on sale.

Well that honesty probably would have made me buy it earlier but I'll get it on the cheap sometime later if I just don't skip it entirely for DS3.

 

[Anteater]

I like the npcs in dark souls games, everytime they talk to me I'm like

Parry his ass.

he's deaaad

 

[Ludens]

Is DS3 30 or 60 fps on console?
On PC it will be 60, right?

 

[Spirited]

Is DS3 30 or 60 fps on console?
On PC it will be 60, right?

Yeah 60 on PC. There's no way they'll lock that down after showing us the great dark souls 2 port.

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

dark souls 2? more like circle strafe to the right the second coming. )))))))))))))

 

[corrosivefrost]

Yeah 60 on PC. There's no way they'll lock that down after showing us the great dark souls 2 port.

If it's not, I'm going to laugh and laugh and laugh.
And then I'll enjoy the game at 30fps and think "damn, these guys are missing out."

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

the fov in dead space is gross.

 

[OldAsUrSock]

Is Dragon Ball Z: Xenoverse worth $24.99 on Humble?

If it's not, I'm going to laugh and laugh and laugh.
And then I'll enjoy the game at 30fps and think "damn, these guys are missing out."

Don't you mean we'll feel bad for you?

 

[Spirited]

If it's not, I'm going to laugh and laugh and laugh.
And then I'll enjoy the game at 30fps and think "damn, these guys are missing out."

Haha, I'll buy it either way. I'm hooked on dark souls but ofcourse I want it to be 60fps as it feels and looks better

 

[Ludens]

If it's not, I'm going to laugh and laugh and laugh.
And then I'll enjoy the game at 30fps and think "damn, these guys are missing out."

Yep, not really a problem (I play Witcher 3 30 fps capped and it's awesome), just a curiosity because DS2 on PC was 60 while BB was 30, since this engine seems very BB-ish (I don't know if it's the same engine of DS2), I was curious because of this.

 

[Anteater]

the fov in dead space is gross.

yeah, i think it's worse than RE games, I used a mod to increase it

 

[Leafhopper]

Well, we miss you. We enjoyed your Japanese interests and vegetable porn. <3

Yeah and now you are making shit up. You guys can stay to yourself.

 

[derExperte]

Is DS3 30 or 60 fps on console?

Probably more like 20-25. Plus one minute long load times.

 

[Anteater]

Yeah and now you are making shit up. You guys can stay to yourself.

that's cold leaf

 

[Dsyndrome]

I usually get the souls games on console so I can play with my younger brother, I'm fine with 30FPS.

 

[Chance Hale]

Bloodborne was great but it also reminded me what playing a Souls game on consoles is like. No idea how I finished Dark Souls 2 on the PS3

30 FPS is fine, but they never actually run at that (ever)

 

[Ludens]

Bloodborne was great but it also reminded me what playing a Souls game on consoles is like. No idea how I finished Dark Souls 2 on the PS3

Why? I played Demon's Souls, Dark Souls 1 and a good chunk of BB from a friend, never had a problem with all of them honestly. They play exactly like DS2 I played on PC.

 

[Chance Hale]

They just feel gross, Bloodborne has huge stuttering problems and Dark Souls 2 constantly skips between 20 fps while actually playing and 60 FPS if you look at a ceiling. Just gets a bit nauseating. I don't mind 30 FPS when it's actually consistent and locked at that framerate but not when it constantly flies all over the place.

I mean, it's certainly playable as I have finished every game up to this point on the PS3(and Bloodborne on the PS4) but it's not always pleasant. PC is definitely the way to go for the Dark Souls games.

 

[Anteater]

Why? I played Demon's Souls, Dark Souls 1 and a good chunk of BB from a friend, never had a problem with all of them honestly. They play exactly like DS2 I played on PC.

dark souls 1 had really terrible frame drops, but still playable, I actually played better on the ps3 ver than the pc one :lol, but the framedrops were bad

 

[Durante]

Why? I played Demon's Souls, Dark Souls 1 and a good chunk of BB from a friend, never had a problem with all of them honestly. They play exactly like DS2 I played on PC.

Seriously? I don't know about BB, but DS1 literally drops into the 1x FPS range at multiple points throughout the game on console. I really find that that makes a huge difference in how playable it is, compared to the smooth 60 of DS2 on PC.

 

[Leafhopper]

that's cold leaf

Not getting into the details. It's not worth the time.

Skullgirls was fun despite the lag of some folks.

Good games too all.

 

[Dsyndrome]

We've come a long way since Blighttown. Never had anything like that in Bloodborne.