SleepingSilence

Sum up your week in roleplaying in just 3 words

Fairly productive, actually.

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Though I do have a sweet tooth. I'm not really a snack food type of person. I usually let my roommates and house guests to go through the bags of chips and microwaveable burritos or what not.

But I'm house/pet sitting for the week. So I both have more and less to do at the same time. And to celebrate getting to my ideal weight recently. (Albeit through less than healthy means.) I've been snacking on pretzels, carrots, and several kinds of chocolate. <.<'

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Being sick for two weeks, does wonders for your waistline. >.>

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Banned for SpongeBob Meme.

What Are You Listening To?

What Are You Listening To?

With the site I used to find all my music being deleted from the net. And Spotify discovery failing to share bands I haven't heard before. It's been slim pickings on new tracks.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

Gamestop: Power To The Traders

Pummel Party is a okay time. (Better than the shit Mario Party on the Switch, at least.) Even if some of the mini-games controls were designed by lemmings.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

DS3 is harder than the rest simply because the combat is quicker and the enemies are full of cheap combo moves. Honestly gameplay vise my favorite is SotFS followed closely by DS1 remastered with DS3 being a distant last. Lore vise though I don't get the hate some people had for DS2. Yes, it does its own thing and isn't a direct sequel and yes it's not as good story vise as DS1. But it's still a bloody solid game that beats almost anything on the market other than the original. And it really didn't deserve all the hatred it got.

@PPQ Purple

I can't pretend to know for certain. As I've only played some of Bloodborne. (And Lords Of The Fallen, which is regarded as one of the worst Souls-like.)

But wasn't DS1 Remastered, generally fan regarded as a cash grab, in that it barely changed anything for a full priced remaster? (Things like frame rate and minor graphical improvements that were done by the mod community already.) And yet it made certain things worse than before? Like added bugs that weren't in the game prior.

And similarly, I'm pretty sure Dark Souls 3 was made purposefully more accessible by its developers. (Maybe in contrast/backlash with how much they played up the "hardness" of Dark Souls 2 for marketing.)

And I don't know if "Lore" was the main reason anyone likes the Dark Souls games, but I don't think "Lore" was Dark Souls 2's problem. After watching videos from Mauler to Matthewmatosis, and plenty of others, its seems that Dark Souls 2 (and its own DLC) had plenty of things to dislike about it.

If you're actually curious to "get" why some may dislike it.

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I've played and enjoyed my first few runs of Hades. Even if the first two deaths were related to me straight up not knowing the basic controls and mechanics. (In part due to my Switch Controller's switching/fucking up the normal buttons.) Yet still, it involved my character taking most of my damage from its traps. (By accidently rolling into them.)

Though thus far, the method in which it assures your death, feel a little cheap. (Like how it seems very unlikely for anyone to beat the first boss of the game, without first gaining access to the double dash ability that you get after you first lose.) Thus, immediately trivializing her attacks and difficultly thereafter. So, less of it is me "getting better", then the character gaining RNG abilities that break the challenge. My last run getting simple/low damage 'distant piercing attack' from my sword. But this alone made me dominate the fights and one-shot bosses. But with how health and healing works in the game, and how it feels artificially difficult to get. It really heightened the general feeling of "You're not actually that difficult at all. And if I could actually heal, you'd be dead."

So I hope that sense doesn't remain true later on.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

Random things I've played or am playing instead of FF14. Mostly to delay the eventual return.

Ori's Sequel was okay. But a lot of its concepts (regarding story, approach to exploration, progression, combat etc) felt pretty half-baked.

Late Shift (an interactive b movie) was an okay time sink, I guess. But I got a pretty poor anti-climax for an ending. And it's one of those games that really pushes the "your choices matter" shtick, which was hilarious, because the first two choices that I selected proved to be pointless right away. Since it was clear that the opposite choice was what it wanted out of the player. Not sure if I'd recommend, even to people that like this kind of schlock like I do.

Now, I'm playing Blacksad. But I don't know how much I care for it, on first impressions. Since it's basically a Telltale game. But as a general mystery fan, the "investigation" elements are really not engaging. (Though unsurprisingly, there's a lot of references to the comics its based off of. So maybe I'd appreciate it more, if I just hadn't looked at them after the fact. And yeah, art work in the comic is great.)

Though whether or not it holds my interest to reach its conclusion, I'll probably play Hades next. (Unless friends get me roped into another game first.)

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

What are some games you actively have enjoyed but after you've beaten it once you have no desire to return to it despite liking it a great deal?

@TGM

Most recent and best example that I could think of would be "Curse of the Obra Dinn." Great and fairly challenging mystery. No real replay value. (Solve it once, you've seen it all.)