i found those really difficult. make sure you’re using the blood rounds rather than normal bullets. i was never able to use the grenades effectively - it was all about the guns.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 6 June 2020 11:08 (three years ago) link
they are definitely among the tougher and more stressful parts of the game. they come so unexpectedly and it's a completely different style of game play that it's intensely jarring, truly horrific in places. make sure to scan regularly and pick up ammo. each one took me several goes
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 6 June 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
haha yeah and otm about the patronising way it tells you to adjust your difficulty
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 6 June 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
Passed it, now back to carrying bombs over mountains. All good brah
― calstars, Saturday, 6 June 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
you got to the (spoilers) heinous mountain bit?
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 6 June 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
I miss this game :(Maybe not enough to start fresh again just yet, but it was an arduous journey that I think fondly back on. I made it.
― circa1916, Saturday, 6 June 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
The rest of my life is basically just killing time before the inauguration, is how I look at it
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 6 June 2020 21:25 (three years ago) link
hah. yeah i finished the game, five starred the first map and zip wired the place, got to the second map and started that but wow this game is at once a slog, a memorable 'arduous journey', a strange meditation on the meaning of everything and also an arcane duty. it has come to symbolise my life under lockdown and I could happily sink a hundred more hours into it. it's sad and hilarious and I love it. I hope it encourages game designers to continue to experiment in similar ways and make challenging games; not challenging as in 'this is really hard' Dark Souls type stuff, but conceptually challenging. the fact a lot of gamers were put off due to the lack of obvious shoot em up action says a lot about the way of the world, and in some ways a more tactful, passive, cerebral approach to entertainment feels like a way out of that
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 6 June 2020 21:34 (three years ago) link
it's sad and hilarious and I love it.
― circa1916, Saturday, 6 June 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link
if video games are going to continue to be seen as a progressive art-form, like cinema, then hopefully we can see a snowball. looks like DS has paved the way. I feel rather spoilt that this is the second modern video game I've played all the way through in my life and that there's nothing else that comes close to it
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 6 June 2020 22:08 (three years ago) link
gamers were put off put off due to the lack of obvious shoot em up action
― chihuahuau, Saturday, 6 June 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
I do like how they were labeled 'nightmares' in the game. in no way were they a glorification of war/violence which is something I dislike about a lot of games
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Sunday, 7 June 2020 11:08 (three years ago) link
otm
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 7 June 2020 11:42 (three years ago) link
I defeated the giant and beat up gold mask face pretty good, which kicked off a massive cut scene which I left the room for...when I came back some time later, Mads was back, still looking for BB...then Amelie pushed me and I'm back in my private room...this game still isn't over???
― calstars, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
Hahaha no.
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
that’s the mid-game boss. how short did you think this thing was? :)
― solo scampito (mh), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:35 (three years ago) link
WHAT
― calstars, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link
yeah, you need to add canada to the uca now
― chihuahuau, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 21:23 (three years ago) link
Funny
― calstars, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 22:21 (three years ago) link
Back in the jungle with Mads—sigh
― calstars, Monday, 29 June 2020 15:04 (three years ago) link
i hadn't played in a while and decided to play on my bday and was gifted with the Mads birthday winky easter egg scene and cake.
― Yerac, Monday, 29 June 2020 15:20 (three years ago) link
Anyone watch the Winding Refn short? Found it on a data chip somewhere. But I can’t figure out how to watch it. Though my cufflink thing?
― calstars, Monday, 29 June 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
Yes or in a private room, I think? You can get to it by looking at the map?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 June 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
i mean the map in the room
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 June 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
that's a thought. I've only found one of those data chips so far
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 29 June 2020 22:14 (three years ago) link
Ugh not going to continue. Fighting mads for a third time just gonna happen.
― calstars, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
Just NOT
― calstars, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 23:20 (three years ago) link
Back to gta? Ugh
turn the difficulty way down!
it doesn't really matter, and I think the third one was the one I found easiest? if it's the one I am thinking of, I took out everyone but him with stealth
― solo scampito (mh), Thursday, 2 July 2020 03:13 (three years ago) link
yeah the third one is the easiest and the last time. you're quite close to completing
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Thursday, 2 July 2020 07:37 (three years ago) link
I think a lot of people are taking the senseless player punishment of this game and somehow reading that as pleasure or innovation. It is neither
― calstars, Friday, 3 July 2020 22:59 (three years ago) link
what do you mean by player punishment?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 3 July 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
― circa1916, Saturday, 4 July 2020 03:44 (three years ago) link
there’s actually very little punishment meted out! either to the character or to the player.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 4 July 2020 09:44 (three years ago) link
I know the “oh no, he falls a lot and it’s hard” thing gets a lot of coverage but even playing the main storyline quests without doing side tasks gets you sufficient gear to do the work relatively easily, and the internet content basically hands you bunker homes, road segments/ziplines, and gear. It’s only as punishing as you want to make it
― solo scampito (mh), Saturday, 4 July 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
Sorry guys I was taking out some aggression on this game last night. I lowered the damn difficulty and dispatched Mads for the final time (?). Now trudging on across the map again with those hot air balloons full of black pus.
― calstars, Saturday, 4 July 2020 17:12 (three years ago) link
it really is crazy how much this game anticipates coronavirus.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 30 August 2020 22:05 (three years ago) link
it was really strange picking this up and starting to play it a week before lockdown
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Sunday, 30 August 2020 23:07 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuiebiTBvDY
― chihuahuau, Sunday, 4 October 2020 11:02 (three years ago) link
Started this last night, there was a point where I just wanted to save and quit but I had to get through 40 minutes of cut scenes before I could access the menu again.
― Basic Chan Ho Park (Leee), Saturday, 28 November 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
👍
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 28 November 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
Went back to this after a year away. I was a bit rusty at first. There's so much lore and little control-aspects you get wrapped up in when you first start, it's hard to remember everything. That said, one thing I remembered immediately was the landscape, the map. I know it's a cliché to say this but the Terrain really feels like a character in this game. You learn to use it, to negotiate it, to tame it, until you feel like you know each area like ab old friend. I've spent the last couple of nights sinking time into getting more stars on my trousers and looking for memory chips (which are very hard to find).
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 01:30 (two years ago) link
What a great game this is. I’ll never revisit it but will recommend
― calstars, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 01:35 (two years ago) link
Anyone still playing this? I'm close to platinuming the thing, along with listening to the DS audiobook (which is fairly entertaining in a way). Just need to do like a million more specific styles of delivery on hard mode without messing everything up. For a game that's fairly easy, that's not an easy challenge considering you often have to do a speed run with a lot of cargo to a place you haven't been in a while, so all the ziplines need fixing. Generally find I have to do the journey with plenty of chiral crystals and no luggage, then go back and do it again via the zips and with the luggage. It takes an awful lot of planning and foresight
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 16 August 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link
I've just started it..
― Diggin Holes (Ste), Monday, 16 August 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link
dl i genuinely admire the grind. i want you to keep reporting back.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 16 August 2021 22:13 (two years ago) link
Arguably the game really comes into its own once the story's out the way and it becomes more like a strategy city building game
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 16 August 2021 23:29 (two years ago) link
So the rarest kinds of missions that you have to do in order to get the platinum are the time-based missions.
Nevertheless you have to do 20 of them in about a quarter of the alloted time limit on hard mode.
A strong zip line network is essential, but often it turns out that quite a few of the zip lines I set up earlier in the game have since been destroyed by timefall.
Now that wouldn't be a terrible issue until I get to a dead end: I can see the next zip line post, but it's dead. And inevitably, I'm bang in the middle of either a MULE camp or a BT area.
The only thing I can do is to sneak or fight my way to the dead zip line - which is usually in a really high-up place, hard to get to place - and fix it.
But then I get there, and I realise I don't have enough chiral crystals to fix the damn thing, and now I'm stuck up a horrible rocky cliff miles away from where I came from and even further away from where I'm going.
Chiral crystals are hard to come by. You can pick them off the ground and also drop off points will give you a few.
So obviously the best way to get loads of crystals is to get into fights with big BTs, which is very counterintuitive for me because I find the BT fights extremely stressful. I haven't really worked out a strategy for them other than run, jump, shoot, repeat. But it's a great way of farming enough crystals for me to rebuild these zip networks.
All that effort just to complete a single mission for which I'll probably never need that zip network again.
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 01:06 (two years ago) link
Still keeping on keeping on. These timed deliveries are ruthless. I zipped my way all the way from Geologist to EvoDevo, making a tiny error on my way. I made the delivery bang on 5 minutes and still didn't get the Legend of Legends
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 24 August 2021 11:04 (two years ago) link
Plus I can spend a long time building the perfect zip network only to find that once it's completed there are no more valuable deliveries to make and I have to set up elsewhere
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 24 August 2021 11:05 (two years ago) link