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Are videogames for children?

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CERTIFIEDGHOUL said:
I die to boarding parties 90% of the time. I absolutely fucking hate that part of the game. I always feel like it's unfair but at the same time I'm probably just shit.
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Do you know how to choke out the boarders? When a boarding party boards, send a crew member to the room with the door controls. Ideally you also want to upgrade your doors at least once when you've got the scrap to spare. This will cause your doors to be locked to the boarders (your crew can still get through them normally) and boarders will have to damage the doors for a while before they can break through them and get to other rooms. Get all your crew members out of the room that the boarders are in, then open doors such that there's a path between that room and the vacuum of space. After the oxygen vents out, the boarders will start taking damage while they're trying to get the doors open to the next room. If they break through the doors into a room that your crew is in, back the crew up into another room if possible as the oxygen vents out of the room that the boarders just opened. Once the boarders reach your crew members and they can't back up anymore, the boarders will be at least partially weakened, if they survive that long in the first place. Manually close the doors the boarders just opened so that your crew can breathe as they beat what's left of them to a pulp.

If one of your crew members is of that race that depletes oxygen from rooms (can't recall what they're called off the top of my head), you can even send them into the vacuumed rooms to beat up the boarders for a bit, then have them retreat into another room if they get too weakened. The boarders will then still have to break through the doors on top of that to get to your oxygen-breathing crew.
 
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FTL is such bullshit, difficulty wise. You are entirely RNG dependent and if the lategame weapons you recieve are shit or you don't get the systems you require, you are fucked. The final ship only has one strategy that is capable of defeating it and it has 3 phases that make use of all the cheap strategies.

Which is sad cause the other systems are well designed and fit well together. The game is very nice to look at and easy to understand.

Into The Breach has none of these issues.
 
Scanline said:
everyone piles in the medbay and then all the airlocks get opened
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I 100% understand and approve of this strategy. The worst part is if they fuck the oxygen room up and my crew end up suffocating trying to fix it.
 
Bonedome said:
There a reason we don't have a Lost Ark thread?
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Interesting question. I guess there is no Kiwi interested enough to make a thread yet. But can I ask you a question? Does the comment section on most Lost Ark videos feel very artificial to you? I cannot explain it well, but I see the same comments over and over and over again from very generic looking channels. I have a feeling everything regarding the game is astroturfed to shit by Amazon, they do NOT want another New World to happen again.

Don't get me wrong, the game looks good and all, but come on...it is not the best game ever to come out in the last decade, far from it. And I read somewhere that the game had more content than FFXIV, which I highy doubt. Lastly, I also don't think build diversity can compete with something like Grim Dawn.
 
Kotol said:
Don't get me wrong, the game looks good and all, but come on...it is not the best game ever to come out in the last decade, far from it. And I read somewhere that the game had more content than FFXIV, which I highy doubt. Lastly, I also don't think build diversity can compete with something like Grim Dawn.
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It seems to be blowing up in weeb circles where the unapologetically attractive female characters are appreciated. The weeb dollar might carry it to success, at least in non-WOW MMORPG terms.
 
Least Concern said:
It seems to be blowing up in weeb circles where the unapologetically attractive female characters are appreciated. The weeb dollar might carry it to success, at least in non-WOW MMORPG terms.
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I heard Amazon tried to westernize the game by making some characters brown/black and changing all preset faces. After the abomination that was New World, I do not trust them to do anything that makes the game better. Also, ARPGs are pretty niche all things considered, so I don't think too many people will stick around. They will play through the main story and maybe even T1, but after that they will realize that the gameplay loop is the same as any ARPG.

I also remembered another reason I don't fully trust opinions of Lost Ark. For some reason people really seem to defend P2W tactics by calling them pay for convenience or comparing it to other games. While it's true that you cannot really "pay to win" in a PVE focused game, I must ask myself if the grind has been tailored to break some people's will to pay to advance to the next tier. Yes, calling it P2W in itself is a bit basic and harsh, but completely defending this system is also retarded.

Who knows, maybe I am just still salty because I got scammed by Battlefield 2042 while my friends got scammed by New World, but the people hyping this game up to be the next phenomenon are getting on my nerves. At least I am not shitting up forums just trashtalking the game, I wouldn't want to ruin other people's fun, but I would like people to be realistic, especially since AGS can still fuck the game up somehow if they really want.
 
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Kotol said:
Interesting question. I guess there is no Kiwi interested enough to make a thread yet. But can I ask you a question? Does the comment section on most Lost Ark videos feel very artificial to you? I cannot explain it well, but I see the same comments over and over and over again from very generic looking channels. I have a feeling everything regarding the game is astroturfed to shit by Amazon, they do NOT want another New World to happen again.

Don't get me wrong, the game looks good and all, but come on...it is not the best game ever to come out in the last decade, far from it. And I read somewhere that the game had more content than FFXIV, which I highy doubt. Lastly, I also don't think build diversity can compete with something like Grim Dawn.
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I haven't read many comments but I've been hyped. Put about 15 hours in between Tuesday and Wednesday. I'm not at end game yet so I have no idea how egregious the supplemental cash systems are but I know you can pay to complete side missions/research early.

But I've also heard the game gives you enough currency through roster levels to buy like 6 months of premium which is normally $10/month.

As for the game itself? I'm loving it. I've played a lot of Diablo 2/3, Torchlight 1/2, and all the basic bitch MMOs and this has the most promising start so far, kind of feels like God of War at times to me because of the set pieces and then I'll get Diablo vibes in other zones. Already has more quest variety than New World. I'm in the mid 30s and end game starts around 50 so no concrete opinions but it's free on Friday and I'd recommend the download.

Sidenote: Piñata mount is sick. Mounts (unsure if just premium) have like 3 special animations and one spawns a wrapped present that either blows up and stuns the mount or sprays confetti. Funny to see the variety after WoW mounts reused specials like between Squeakers and whatever the latest one was.
 
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Least Concern said:
It seems to be blowing up in weeb circles where the unapologetically attractive female characters are appreciated. The weeb dollar might carry it to success, at least in non-WOW MMORPG terms.
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weeb circles have enough other legit weeb shit to coom over, the hype while still bad at least didn't feel as astroturfed as new world, where NOTHING you heard about was actually good. dunno if casuals are so braindead these days that marketing doesn't even put in any effort anymore or they are so desperate for something new that has a slim chance to not be shit.

Kotol said:
Who knows, maybe I am just still salty because I got scammed by Battlefield 2042 while my friends got scammed by New World, but the people hyping this game up to be the next phenomenon are getting on my nerves. At least I am not shitting up forums just trashtalking the game, I wouldn't want to ruin other people's fun, but I would like people to be realistic, especially since AGS can still fuck the game up somehow if they really want.
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it will be better than new world at least since it's already old enough to have it's kinks worked out (although apparently you could happily dupe shit for hours, including pre-order stuff and twitch drops) by an actual studio that probably knew what it was doing and not by whatever imbeciles new world cooked up. however it's still an korean mmo, so while it might look good (they all do) and basic gameplay is fun, I fully expect to show it's roots sooner or later - at which point people will be surprised, complain, demand amazon to "fix" it (lol) and then drop it to play the next OMG HYPE game.
 
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Least Concern said:
It seems to be blowing up in weeb circles where the unapologetically attractive female characters are appreciated. The weeb dollar might carry it to success, at least in non-WOW MMORPG terms.
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You mean until those weebs figure out that coomers are just another form of person ruined by neo-liberalism and are literally just as invasive and destructive as a feminist since they're both sides of the same coin, and then are promptly expelled.

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Many people remember how moe ruined anime.
 
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Marissa Moira said:
You mean until those weebs figure out that coomers are just another form of person ruined by neo-liberalism and are literally just as invasive and destructive as a feminist since they're both sides of the same coin, and then are promptly expelled.

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>Implying the coomers didn't leave when XCX censored loli
 
Marissa Moira said:
You mean until those weebs figure out that coomers are just another form of person ruined by neo-liberalism and are literally just as invasive and destructive as a feminist since they're both sides of the same coin, and then are promptly expelled.

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any form of censorship is bad, even if it censors something gross. I would rather play a game identical to the original vision from the region it's from.
 
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Epic Fail Man said:
any form of censorship is bad, even if it censors something gross. I would rather play a game identical to the original vision from the region it's from.
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Censorship through localization is also highly disrespectful to the creators & artists who worked on the game projects. I do not trust translations for anything text-heavy either.

To avoid derailing the thread any further, I went back into Super Robot Wars 30 which I stopped halfway because I was waiting all the DLC contents to come out. It doesn't have the amazing spritework animation from Z2 on PSP that I emulated earlier this year, but there are still some nice sequences.



Had to use a capture card because the console version (Switch) of the game does not allow recording directly within the hardware
 
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