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i thought i read god of war is really long? maybe it's main quest vs. if you do side quests

i'm just going off of the how long to beat page for it. i usually just look at their average for "leisure pace" and assume it approximates me at my very fastest.

nier isn't a 30+ hour game unless you make it one...

i feel you though, i stalled out at 30 hours of Witcher 3 and 40 hours of Zelda. Whereas i had no issue finishing Xenoblade 2 which is like a 60+ hour game, i guess it's all in how attached you are to seeing out the story

nier isn't a 30+ hour game unless you make it one...

ha, well yeah i've "beaten" the game a couple times, but i don't think i've gotten anywhere close to any of the "real" endings. also keep in mind that i literally spent 3 hours on the tutorial because i died 6 times and had to go back to the beginning (30 minutes before) each time

I logged another hour or two in Xenoblade earlier this week, I kind of love how much of the actual story of this anime game is loaded into the final chapter. It's literally fights in a straight-line dungeon alternating with really serious business cutscenes.

the last act of xenogears was like that too iirc

Metro 2033 Redux. This is my kind of game! Scratches the same itch that Half Life 2 did, and I like the story and "lore" more than I expected to. I don't have a gaming rig, so I can't play modern single player story-driven FPS like the last couple of Wolfensteins, but this'll do instead!

Hyper Light Drifter! I loved it! The controls are so good, the gameplay is much tighter than I expected. And it hits just the perfect level of difficulty--I had to attempt a few of the bosses 20+ times, but it was so much fun that it never got frustrating. I ended up playing this compulsively, finishing it in two sittings.

That damn multiple dash move is impossible to pull off consistently, though.

I backed it on Kickstarter but never d/l’d my copy, so now I’m just going to rebuy it on Switch later this year

Biggest complaint was that giant robots figured prominently in the cut scenes but you never get to fight one!

has anyone played wizard of legend? pls help, i am dying. i can't remember ever being so bad at a game.

yeah it's one of the like 2 roguelites i like. am really bad at it though

i've been playing the new god of war for a couple of hours now, waiting patiently for it to get good, and... it hasn't :(

lol i played GoW for about half an hour and had a visceral "i don't want to spend my time doing this" reaction, which is how i ended up on wizard of legend coincidentally. it looks so good, i don't know why i just immediately hated it! hoping i go back to it and get over myself.

cider if you have literally any tips, or have seen anything useful on line, would appreciate

ha, i was thinking about getting God of War but was a bit suspicious when these gushing 10/10 reviews spent most of their time praising The Story. which is in my experience NEVER a good sign for a video game.

i remember the original gow being a non-stop pulse-pounding visceral action experience and so far the new one involves a lot of trudging from a to b, listening to dialogue and then punching some low-level scrubs to death before doing it all over again, occasionally broken up by fucking around in the upgrade menus

maybe i've got the blood-coloured glasses on in remembering the original but the new one is def not grabbing me

yeah, the original GoW was total arcade-y mayhem. remember having a lot of fun w/ it at the time.

the new one is a reboot of the series from character action to cinematic adventure game, it plays much different from what I can tell. you're not misremembering anything

this is what gets you the big metacritic scores in 2018, make every game as close to Uncharted as possible

cider if you have literally any tips, or have seen anything useful on line, would appreciate

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i got nothing, its mostly just about abusing your dash to reposition. try doing an ice build at the start, being able to freeze enemies makes things more manageable

its a roguelite so over time you can grind out better starting kits and thus lower the difficulty a bit

yeah, it's kinda bullshit. i have other mediums to deliver good stories. and the best video game story is still almost always some C level pulp. ~cinematic~. barf.

the new DOOM won me over almost immediately by pointedly, flippantly tossing (literally) narrative to the side.

xp

i thought the story in breath of the wild was really well executed but the like #1 complaint about that game from the gaming community was 'it has no story' so thats kind of where we're at with narrative in video games. it has to all happen on-screen in the course of the gameplay, or it doesn't exist.

Gamers don’t know what they want

yr average gamer is not one to appreciate subtlety.

haven't plated BotW yet but i liked the way the Dark Souls games did it. build it into the environments and item descriptions and such. i don't know how coherent it ultimately all was, but it was actually interesting and intriguing.

yeah botw is similar, the conceit is that the 'usual' legend of zelda narrative happened 100 years ago but link fucked up and lost to ganon, and the story is told sparsely through the environment and short flashbacks

all the interesting stories in botw come from its various systems colliding in unexpected ways imo, and they're all unique to the player

story telling in BOTW is incredible, it leaks slowly, in shades, without too many cut screens or junk you have to read. the memories in particular capture the zelda - link relationship in pretty breathtaking ways just with music & the looks they give each other.

i'm (still) playing GoW right now, about 30 hours in. it does have a very slow start, but i started having more fun once it opened up and the whole world opens up (maybe 5 hours in?). it also became more fun once i unlocked all the combat abilities and it entered that diablo III sweet spot of juggling various abilities and cooldowns.

i haven't played any god of war game before, though, so maybe this one is much worse.

i don't know how coherent it ultimately all was, but it was actually interesting and intriguing.

Yeah I couldn't care less about the "actual" lore, but I love that it just gestures at it and you end up making up weird stories and connections in your head. Like, with your actual imagination.

gonna do FF4 next in my Year of JRPGs since i never finished that one as a kid - kinda tempted to try the DS version with the gross 3d characters instead of the original SNES

sacrilege! though i was curious myself how that was

the draw is apparently it improves the gameplay a bit with some modern QOL stuff and higher difficulty

i'll probably just do the snes one though

SNES one i remember being eminently replayable, because it was easy and the music is great. but my last replay was probably about 15 years ago or so

i have only ever had playstations (1-3) and am finally facing up to being obsolete. i really want to get another one so i can play last of us. but i have two kids and the switch is so tempting..

The Switch rules and it’s only gonna keep ruling harder.

Yeh the DS game is a lot harder iirc, the DS FFIII was even harder. Probably best to stick to the SNES one (and burn the godawful PS1 version)
I had a busted finger for the past couple of months so haven’t been doing much gaming. I did however spend far too much time fannying around with setting up emulators on my computer with a nice front end, so I can stream them to my TV. Kinda ridiculous how deep that rabbit hole goes.
Also my PS4 has started to randomly turn itself on, have had to unplug it ffs.

Tracer, get them both. You know you want to. Get ALL the game systems, now is the time.

The Switch rules and it’s only gonna keep ruling harder.

strong truth

I bought the Mass Effect trilogy pack last week, but since then I've started another TLOU game, this time on hard. BUT, I've gotten to the hotel basement and not being in a hurry to relive that horror, I'm thinking I should start on Mass Effect?

i don't see the point of playing TLOU on hard, it's hard enough and you're playing that game more for the story/atmosphere

i decided to get back into BOTW and beat the remaining Divine Beast and check out Hyrule Castle (which i am very excited to see). i just got to the desert, and holy crap, this game just gets better and better. i may have saved the best for the last. right off the bat the sweeping desertscape was impressive and cartoonishly apocalyptic in the kind of way that reminded me of the old Bakshi LOTR film.

then i learn about the seals. omg i love the seals. what a great idea, what fun! then 10 minutes later the story about sneaking into town and seeking out the aid of a cross dressing fellow traveler. i really like how they did the story in this game, in presenting all these wide and varied scenarios. the avatar is undergoing this process of continuous transformation into a godlike & mythical being, interacting with the world and growing with it, taking on it's attributes. admittedly it's just the same old abilities-based progression Zelda games have always used to mark progress, but portrayed in the most beautiful, gracefully animated renderings. the player is constantly partaking in the creation of all sorts of experimental fantasy world and elemental-based myths (the Link-green garb desert garb helps you counteract the scorching red heat). this game is so brilliant. so loopy in that classic JRPG way. i love it.

at first i was going to complain the seals go a little too slow but then i saw a button prompt for speeding up and yeah that was a fun moment right there

installing trails of cold steel...

played the demo for detroit: becoming human ... kind of intrigued tbh

david cage......

is he a bad man