if it was CW, every demon would be in human form and youād be simply punching them in some cheap warehouse
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i think my favorite goofy touch so far is that if you stand still too long at the beginning of a mission nico will honk and ask you if youāre lonely or something
Am I gonna be the one to post the Tim review?
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Gameās a little too easy and levels arenāt quite as interesting as 3/4 even 1ās? Ruined cityscapeās more in line with the reboot.
Otherwise Iām loving it.
thatās my impression after 2 missions too
feels perfect though
I heard about the MJ dance scene but this blows all expectations I might have had out of the water
Will get this as soon as I can
Do you need a special code for that? I donāt see that on the website (the 27% off)
Fuck it, I canāt afford it even then. I need to be strong and wait
may have been a loyalty deal, sorry!
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I watched the History of DMC video in the main menu and DMC2 gets a single slide without naming any of the characters or plot. Perfect.
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Somehow I missed this last year, seeing Shoji Kawamori during the intro credits had me all ?!?!
this is one of the first, if not the first PC game that Iāve seen do HDR automatically and without complaint
just let big picture pop it onto the other monitor and itās good to go
not sure how I feel about Vās levels though
like itās sort of neat that control scheme even mostly feels good given what it wants you to do but itās pretty darn messy
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It is kinda messy but Iām having fun trying to deal with it. My only real complaint is not knowing when a summon is going to manifest near you or at a target. If i could just suss out the when and hows of this I think i think Iād have it down. V is honestly pretty easy to get to S style with.
this is very devil may cryonetta
it doesnāt demand mastery to the same extent as DMC3 and you wind up mostly competing against your own rating, but the bossfights arenāt nearly as flat and it doesnāt overemphasize dodge timings as much as Bayonetta. the tone and setting are likewise. and itās neither as insistently technical as devil may cry nor as perpetually fluid as bayo.
itās good! Iām not sure if itāll be as memorable or do much new but capcom have been very competent lately
the level geometry is pretty weak though?
itās some real PS2 vintage ānope you canāt stand hereā stuff
it basically works but itās only barely not so bad as to be a distraction
Iām loving the depth to the combat so far but getting the hang of using Neroās arm skills or busting them deliberately is giving me headaches. Similarly, Adam Driverās Menagerie feels automatic and a little too chaotic most of the time.
Nico: Queen of Parking Anywhere is just-about the best thing ever.
Iām not too concerned about Denuvoās performance impact (even though it sucks) but what I really hate about buying games nowadays is the whole problem of not getting all the content even though I forked over a lot of dough. Like if I had bought DMC5 when I thought about it I wouldnāt have gotten the alternate costumes because those were preorder bonuses. Also not the deluxe edition stuff of course because thatās just way too expensive. So it just really pays to wait for the cracked version, which usually includes everything. Thatās just infuriating
the observed CPU hit is very trivial in practice and is honestly within the bare minimum of what youād expect for any realtime decryption or sandboxing, which afaik is the reason that Denuvo is any better than old DRM in the first place
I think the chorus of anti-Denuvo complaints are like 90% people who just want to pirate the game and are unaware that Denuvo is being reliably cracked these days or just feel obliged to parrot the party line
which is fine but like
to claim that it has any real negative impact in practice beyond making piracy slightly more difficult is a bit much imo
I saw someone yesterday retweet that theyāre removing Denuvo from Sonic Mania andā¦ I donāt think that should realistically matter to a single soul other than whoever was paying that licensing fee at Sega
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Itās such a trick of psychology at play; without any extras games are massively larger and more stuffed with things and replayability and long-term support than ever, so thereās really no grounds for anyone to complain, but the upsells are predicated on people feeling like theyāre missing out because there was more that they could have had.
Segregated purchasing is more dangerous than people realize, I think. I wonder what kind of data Disney tracks on how their segregated lines affect overall guest mood, separated from park attendance and revenue which can remain full and up even as people hate it (Disney as they seem to be the only amusement park operator capable of doing R&D and holistic planning).
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Still gathering my thoughts.
Nero is fun but iām not sure about this dumping funds into spare arms that you just blow up anyways. Maybe once Iām done unlocking my moves it wonāt matter. Is there a way to switch arms with out blowing them up?
V seemsā¦ Mashy. The more I unlock the more he feels inline with the game, but itās hard to ignore that Iād rather just be playing Nero and not hoping to this Neil Gaiman wannabe.
But by an large the game is great. The āperformance issuesā Iāve heard about seem silly and I also canāt think of a game that exists on PC without someone complaining about that in one form or another. What I think causes the bigger hit is the always online for the āco-opā Why did they add that? IT DOES NOTHING AND IT IS STUPID. Unless something gets better later.
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