Games You Played Today: 358 Threads Over 2

[Tulpa]

I would generally advise that you don’t try to play this game like a souls game, because it isn’t designed like one. Dodging (and even jumping) is a situational move. It is almost the opposite of bloodborne in that you are expected to block instead. You are extremely safe with your guard up.

One thing the game does a bad job of teaching you that is important to know: if an enemy regenerates posture too quickly, you want to whittle their health down a bit. The lower their health, the easier it is to break their posture with parries.

[whatevering]

It’s been a long, stupid week and I wanted to play something on my phone that would put me to sleep. Found this on the tweeters and liked that it’s pitched as ten minute, isolated sessions. I didn’t like any of the generated prose and most of the scents sound dumb as heck. It’s conceptually kind of cool, but I’m a pleb and didn’t like it.

Anyway, these were the scents I ended up choosing. I feel like I just did that color personality quiz thing that was circulating the internet some 7-8 years ago.

[moneygp]

I’ve been playing Valkyrie Profile 1 recently and man, that game rules. Tons of complicated mechanics that feel mostly for set dressing (like using skill points to increase a character’s Loves Mom stat), but it all comes together really nicely. Really fun combat system too. Also, some truly high class “words in a video game” moments:

[Tulpa]

That’s about how I felt about it; I was drawn to the concept but was kind of underwhelmed by the result. It’s a cool idea that didn’t add up to much of anything.

[Rudie]

I have played 10 minutes of gato robotto and am giving up. Look up bachelor’s post about it. He’s right. Here’s another thing it has full screen flashes every time you save. I can’t play that shit with a baby around.

I was also annoyed at the very boring opening text that contained one “joke” that you would make offhand at a party. In fact we’ve made that joke offhand at buttcons. I would not be proud to put it in a serious work. It would haunt me putting that hacky of a joke. And I just had my friends go to Arby’s in my Star Wars game.

The joke just exists there haunting me. And then you find and a big PLUS SIGN which is universal game language for health. You freeze. Your health bar on the right increases by one visually. AND THEN the asshole calls the cat and explains in 3 text bars what getting more health means. Fuck thanks game.

But also seriously fuck those full screen flashes fucking hell.

[Father.Torque]

Being bored on a work call isn’t a sign of pathology it’s a sign of sanity

[Felix]

yeah I was gonna say

I’ve actually been getting after my wife for this lately because she cares about her career more than I do and her first impulse is to pathologize herself for not being able to focus on it more often and it’s been hard/good for me to be a prick about it in the right ways

[km]

I’m actually talking about playing d&d on the internet cubes

I do way better in work meetings with the camera on because I have something to look at and I’m not trying to pay attention to disembodied voices

[wourme]

Last night I played some more Sekiro. I’m glad that there is always a way to get an initial sneak attack in for each of the minibosses. It would be a pain to fight any of them through two entire life bars.

I reached the Shinobi Hunter and was surprised to find that fight over before I knew it. Either I was lucky or that is by far the easiest miniboss I’ve encountered.

I then reached the Drunkard and had him down to a tiny sliver of health before I sprinted into a rock, allowing him to defeat me. The fight took way too long for me to want to try it again immediately but I think I should be able to beat him the next time I try.

The burning estate is a very nice setting.

[Tulpa]

Once you click with the game, begins to feel very easy for a fromsoft game. From here, you only have 2-3 real skill barriers left.

[Victor]

die monkeys

[Tulpa]

Best opponents in any game

[Felix]

yeah, you’re over the hump now; of the first ~5 bosses, depending on how you’re clicking with it / how well you can explicitly ignore the advice it gives you and figure out what it actually wants instead, you’ll probably have a bad time with at least 3 of them, but the drunkard is the fourth of those and the remaining one (who probably won’t be the next you encounter) is basically just a check on whether you know how to use the run button in the heat of battle, and from there on you have officially met the arbitrary requirements to begin enjoying sekiro!

from there on all the challenges actually feel good and interesting instead of confusing and awful

[anothergod]

I played the demo of Rogue Heroes (4p coop zelda like), and it was very good. It’s a little basic in terms of items, but it’s nice and snappy. The combat was decently well tuned, too. Anyone else try it out?

[physical]

god, y’all are gonna talk me into trying sekiro again huh. is there a recommended route i should follow? i liked the open-endedness but i feel like i kept hitting brick walls with some of these bosses

[idiot]

i had a harder time with drunkard than the final and postgame bosses lol

[Felix]

I personally didn’t find any of the mid game to be particularly frustrating, but that was after restarting twice because I hated the feeling of limping through the early game so much that it had soured me on actually trying to make progress. honestly if you get to a point where you aren’t limping through the beginning it’s pretty smooth.

[wourme]

I found Drunkard intimidating at first but then realized I could backstab all of his henchmen before backstabbing him and then talking to the helper guy. That setup took a while, which is why I didn’t try him again right away when I made a mistake and died at the very end. I think I will defeat him tonight, though.

I came across this comment the other day when I was on the verge of quitting, and realizing that there was probably a lot of truth in it annoyed me a little.

[thecatamites]

excited for the natural follow-up: FromSoftware is your dad and is taking you to soccer practice. it’s really hard but you want to do your best and impress him. on the way home he tells you that he’s proud, and you get to stop for some mcdonalds.

[teh_blend]

Can’t wait for From Software to snap up the Manhunt licence