I pretty sure you can grab people in Scott Pilgrim both near you and on the ground. Hell you can thrown people as I recall. I can see the levels being to long and not liking the upgrade system though.
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Super Best Friends Thread 5: There's a Skeleton Inside Each of Us
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I pretty sure you can grab people in Scott Pilgrim both near you and on the ground. Hell you can thrown people as I recall. I can see the levels being to long and not liking the upgrade system though.
I started back up my Kamen Rider Black watch. Battle Hopper is the best.
I liked Rayman Origins' content better, it's last set of levels that you unlock isn't just the same levels with a shitty filter over them.
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
Alright, so I'm working on a couple ideas for Writing Month and I want to run a couple of my ideas by you guys to get notes/see if these have already been done a thousand times.
Idea 1: Struggling painter finds out he has the power to bring to life anything he paints. He tries to paint a perfect life for himself but shit keeps getting more and more fucked. Kind of a careful what you wish for type of deal.
Idea 2: Family heist team gets hired to help with corporate espionage. Family drama mixed with light-hearted Ocean's 11 styled heists.
Idea 3: Guy decides to challenge god to a fist fight in reality, and everyone tries to talk him out of it. Hard drama about mental illness and delusion, with the guy running from his terrible life and circumstance. At the very end god shows up and he wins the fist fight, becoming the new god as a big dumb twist.
Those are what I came up with after five minutes of spitballing, so just say if you'd be interested in reading any of those.
Idea 1: Struggling painter finds out he has the power to bring to life anything he paints. He tries to paint a perfect life for himself but shit keeps getting more and more fucked. Kind of a careful what you wish for type of deal.
Idea 2: Family heist team gets hired to help with corporate espionage. Family drama mixed with light-hearted Ocean's 11 styled heists.
Idea 3: Guy decides to challenge god to a fist fight in reality, and everyone tries to talk him out of it. Hard drama about mental illness and delusion, with the guy running from his terrible life and circumstance. At the very end god shows up and he wins the fist fight, becoming the new god as a big dumb twist.
Those are what I came up with after five minutes of spitballing, so just say if you'd be interested in reading any of those.
Those all sound great but I really like the sound of number 2. Oceans 11 style anything is good to me
You can't put a fist fight with a god. It's not fair for the other ideas.
NCR Redslayer
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You can the make the first one like a Stephen King story.
skLaFarebear
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Battle Block is great. I need to get back to finishing that one day.
Wait, just remembered my xbox isn't working. Oh well
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
I don't know, but allow me to plug my awesome VGM playlist again >.>
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzq7Db3ZGd9a-LmtZggC8UrbWnen9jx0-
I started back up my Kamen Rider Black watch. Battle Hopper is the best.
I liked Rayman Origins' content better, it's last set of levels that you unlock isn't just the same levels with a shitty filter over them.
I don't know, having 1/2 of Origins' playable was pretty good to me. And I found the main levels better outside the last few. Origins last set of levels are amazing, while Legends ends kind of randomly, but I would recommend Legends over Origins in many ways.
Battle Block is great. I need to get back to finishing that one day.
Wait, just remembered my xbox isn't working. Oh well
I just waited until it came out on PC. #Masterrace
Oh shit. You're going to do it?
Either idea 1 or 3 sounds the most interesting, though I would tone down the third somewhat. But I really like the first.
skLaFarebear
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I'll just be like the cool kids and wait for the eventual 1440/128 FPS #DreamcastMasterRace port.
They're part where they do nothing but grinding on older dungeons. Don't feel bad to skip them. Just watch the best of those episodes.
1Billionp resolution, 21,000 Frames per millisecond and oculus rift support of up to 5... oculuses...
Only on Steam
AngryCanadian
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all of them sound interesting. #1 or the one wherein God gets Blacked out are the ones I would lean towards
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
I'm gonna try and do something, we'll see if I can get an idea I like enough going.
And I don't at all want to tone down the third one, it needs to be fucking dumb and stupid at the end. I would want people to put that book down as mad as possible.
Thanks for the notes, guys, I'll work on ideas and possible plots for those and see if I like them.
Well, then go for it. If you make the 50,000 word mark you get two free paperback copies!
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
Wait, that's automatic? I thought that was a top-prize.
jack_package_200
Banned
Zero Suit Samus is the best character in Smash 3DS
Mmmm I think Ippo is better.
jack_package_200
Banned
Little Mac ain't worth shit
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
I got a new computer chair that I put together myself, its awesome.
Well I'm pretty sure it's actually not graded. I look into it more, but you win by simply writing 50,000 words. I could be wrong though.
If you know how to not kill yourself with him he is fantastic. I do like ZZS though
Nothing feels better than succesfully puting something together yourself.
Now wait for it to fall apart and collapse when you're not looking.
Pat's incessant whining about anything calling back to Dark Souls 1 is really starting to irk me. Some thing in 2 are understandable (namely Ornstein) but, christ, the bitching about the majestic greatsword, when the weapon isn't even that offensive at pushing the prequel is bothersome.
It's a shame that Pat is, seemingly, making all of Woolie's first impressions of everything "this isn't as good as Dark Souls 1" or "this is bad because it tries to use Dark Souls 1's lore". It's also a shame that he's probably going to extremely color Woolie's opinion of the Ivory Crown DLC because of that. The whole crux of the DLC is something about Dark Souls 1 and one of the cooler implementations (and reveals) of it. But Pat's already stated how much he hates it in a recent podcast which is probably just going to affect Woolie's opinion on it.
The game's a sequel. Let it borrow from the previous game. I don't see how a lot of those things are an issue. It's using a lot of previous lore to establish its own environments and story.
It's a shame that Pat is, seemingly, making all of Woolie's first impressions of everything "this isn't as good as Dark Souls 1" or "this is bad because it tries to use Dark Souls 1's lore". It's also a shame that he's probably going to extremely color Woolie's opinion of the Ivory Crown DLC because of that. The whole crux of the DLC is something about Dark Souls 1 and one of the cooler implementations (and reveals) of it. But Pat's already stated how much he hates it in a recent podcast which is probably just going to affect Woolie's opinion on it.
The game's a sequel. Let it borrow from the previous game. I don't see how a lot of those things are an issue. It's using a lot of previous lore to establish its own environments and story.
Woolie doesn't really seem to hate DS2 at all. His impressions have been mostly positive, in fact he just seems to be excited to play DS1
Yeah, Pat might aswell say "Hey remember this thing in DS1 that you don't know anything about? Is was better there! And here it's worse because I say so. You should probably be angry about it!
Sure, life gems in DS 2 are too much and break the game! But humanity in DS 1 ( which is easily farmable) and herbs in DS are totaly OK.
It's not about hating DS 2, because we know that neither of them hate the game. It's about Pat and Liam influencing Woolies oppinion on the game without really justification.
I have heard them say "Yeah it's the weakest of the three, the other two are better" multiple times.
Maybe I am biased, because I really didn't like Demon's souls. I don't see how any of the bosses could be better in that game.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
I wouldnt put it pass me cause it was missing a shorter screw, and then 2 spots didnt look like I could screw in at all even tho it told me to screw in those spots, checked and it was pretty tight so I said im done.
im sure its fine.
Honestly it's a double edged sword when creating distant sequels. You rarely have anyone from the first cast to make a cameo, and there comes a problem where how much you pull back from the first and how much of it is original stuff.
I always make a comparison to Chrono cross, because that game didn't know what it wanted to be. A sequel to Chrono trigger, or its own thing? Thus it failed on both sides and not really doing the right thing.
I'm not sure where Dark Souls 2 falls in though.
Banana Aeon
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In fact, Herbs break DeS more than Lifegems break DSII.
There are so legitimate issues (Sunlight Altar) but a lot of the gripes just feels bitter. Some of the callbacks are actually pretty cool, and the third DLC handles a literal callback better than a lot of sequels.
Even if humanity were easily farmable in DS1 they also have a secondary use and most people are more hesitant to use them for healing. Soul gems very existence is for healing. And often times if you are smart with them, you're probably not going to have to use your estus a lot.
your chair is going to fall apart and you are going to die, nice knowing you
But estus got nerfed too, or healing in general. Nothing is instand anymore, in DS 1 you could survive a hit the moment you drink estus ( if you had enough poise to not flinch)
I just think they just gave you too many options, if the vanilla life gems were the only one in the game and they limited to you to say 20. With no other healing items and removed humanity ability to heal i'd say it would be more balanced.
You would still have around 32 heals with a maxed out estus with that cap.
In Dark Souls every area was built around the premise that you have 5 estus but in DS2 you start off with 1 which completely fucks up the balance of the game
I don't really think Dark Souls should ever have had any healing consumables except Estus Flasks honestly, it defeats the point of even having that being a thing when you also have other healing items.
DSII should have just bought back 20 Flask cap instead of Life gems and start you at 5 flasks.
When I found out you couldn't heal in DS1 as an invader I thought "That makes sense to me" but that was COMPLETELY irrelevant with the fact they could consume humanity, which was more convenient than Estus for healing if you spend some time farming them.
DSII should have just bought back 20 Flask cap instead of Life gems and start you at 5 flasks.
When I found out you couldn't heal in DS1 as an invader I thought "That makes sense to me" but that was COMPLETELY irrelevant with the fact they could consume humanity, which was more convenient than Estus for healing if you spend some time farming them.
jack_package_200
Banned
O shit
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
skLaFarebear
Member
Its a bad game and it deserves all the shit he's giving it. If you don't wanna hear Pat bitch about a game then either tell the developers to git gud or stop watching the LP.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
It's fiiiiinnnee
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
Dark Souls 2 is by no means a bad game, if anything it's just kinda mediocre, but like everyone has said, only in comparison to the previous games.
RecursiveFault
Banned
I'd say repitition of the point is getting a bit dry from an entertainment standpoint, but it is deserving all of it's criticism.
I can't believe they brought back consumable health.
RoyaleDuke
Banned
Mmm, more Dark Souls II from Woolie and Pat Senpai~
~UGUUU~
~UGUUU~
It's more like 10 if you you know how to do it, but I see what you mean that.
And I agree that there should gave been way less life gems, or at least don't make them purchasable.
Ahh Moemon. I downloaded it the day that Jontron video went up. I usualy play it during breaks at School. Or when I am on the train.
Dark Souls 2 is the Skyrim of the Souls Series, pretty good by it's self, but not really an improvement over a previous entry.
It's an inferior sequel in almost every way but it's not bad game. Just an... unnecessary one
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
The moment I knew Skyrim wouldn't be as good as Oblivion was the moment I couldn't have vibrant pink hair glow my way through the world.
Never played the older games.
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