Careful. I’m about halfway through, and I’m realizing there might not be enough firewood to carry me through the game if I continue with this strategy.
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Oh yeah I’m super paranoid about this happening! But I’ve been stingy. I have 20 pieces of firewood at the beginning of the 5th area. You can do a lot of battles in a row with the main character as a mage and stacking the right stats
Yeah I’ve been using a mage too, defending often to regain energy, and using all my restorative skills and potions before returning to camp.
It’s just… I’m in an area where enemies drain the whole party’s energy almost every battle.
And the drain is really clandestine. It’s a side effect of the enemy switching phases when low on health. It took me several battles before I realized why my energy kept getting so low.
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wow chongqing is an abnormally bad hitman level – after a few great gimmick missions at the start of hitman 3, they dump you in like the first traditional level and it has the uncharacteristic problem of telegraphing a bunch of fun things and then making all the routes to do them fairly specific and arbitrarily hard to achieve.
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I think my previous least favourite levels were probably hokkaido (affordances too narrow, anticlimactic) and vermont (a little too on the nose, scenery not that memorable) but this strikes me as considerably worse than either of them in terms of game flow
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I overplayed Paris when the first big Hitman remake initially came out and never really had it in me to start seriously engaging with any of the other levels… if I want to dip into Hitman again, any recommendations on how I should approach it?
the first 3 levels of the first game of the modern trilogy are all great and they’ve been available cheaply as DLC for both the second and the third game now. the latter half of the first game is a fair bit more uneven so if you really wanted to skip it you could – there’s a lot there.
hitman 2 is the only one that got an expansion and the level design is, imo, very consistent from start to finish, so it’s just chock full of great content, very funny throughout, I wouldn’t skip a single stage, and it also comes with “sniper assassin” which is basically applying the hitman level mentality to big children’s-book dioramas of side-on mansions and garden parties in which you can trigger mass panic and hilarity with a sniper rifle. hitman 2 is also now available as DLC for hitman 3.
hitman 3’s first half is as great as the first game’s and the levels are all very novel gimmicks in their way – avoid spoiling them if you can, not a big deal, but very neat when you realize what they’ve cooked up in that engine. its latter half is about as uneven as the first game’s, and it retrospectively adds VR to the whole trilogy, sonic and knuckles style, but the VR is playstation-only and though I couldn’t resist, it’s considerably rougher than my memories of running hitman 2 on a high end computer, and given how much of these games are about set dressing, it might not be the best first choice.
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3 is also more story driven and genuinely quite decent for it
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Holy shit, they made a level set here? BRB, I’m going to YouTube so I can be immensely disappointed.
Actually, there’s an accurate abundance of stairs. I’m satisfied.
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chongqing hate still confuses me, i think it’s pretty great
first hitman 3 original elusive target popped up today, btw! it’s in dartmoor!
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am I not the first then
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oh i just remember the thread being a little sour about it earlier i think. idk maybe it was just a post or two
Ok but where are the screenshots
Dirt 4 was on deep discount on Steam and in light of the EA acquisition of Codemasters I figure I better play it before they ruin their good name.
It’s pretty good! Really wants you to understand the physics of what’s going on, which is great, and happy to throw you in the deep end on a foggy as fuck course with no minimap and force you to rely on the course notes. The progression system is a bit of a mystery and it has a very weird menu structure compared to prior editions, but hey, good fun nonetheless.
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by the way I have that fanatec wheel now if you wanna try it out, I’m only gonna have a ~14 day window in between trips to the US to get my first and second vaccine dose but get at me as of wednesday
oh yeah and we’ve got that wheel stand thing you ordered living in our closet lmao
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It felt weirdly not great coming in between berlin and the vineyard level and when I try to go back to it still doesn’t really grab me.
it feels like a bunch of spare parts stuck together, and it has the same problem as Marrakesh where both targets are set excessively far back from the central parts of the map in seemingly opposite directions, except the Marrakesh level is so lively that it avoids feeling contrived, whereas this really breaks the pacing
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I have tried Dragon Ball FighterZ but I am not liking it much. It’s very confusing and not very controllable, compared to the usual stuff (Street fighters, Tekkens, Mortal kombats). Did anybody else have a similar experience or is it only because I am a noob at the game?
I only dabbled with it but I really liked it. I like basically every fighting game though