It tells you how.
Stick to it and believe in your power.
Duh.
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always a shame to learn someone has you blocked 
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“Stick to it and believe in your power.”
(Can’t believe no one has posted this yet.)
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i’ve been playing the new zelda and mostly dig it but it does feel like the main mechanic wasn’t fully thought through and everything feels more loosey goosey than i would like
but i’m still having a fun time with it… feels like it could have been so much better with some tightening and stuff tho
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I’m playing it too, I like that you can just bypass entire sections by just using the wall crawling spider to climb all the way up a mountain instead of going inside the caves etc. I think you can maybe skip almost all of the water dungeon by doing this as well.
Combat seems less annoying if you just spam your strongest monster over and over, waiting for them to land their first hit then re-summoning them, rather than summoning and waiting for them to duke it out slowly
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Yeah I’ve been doing all that too, I do enjoy finding shortcuts and “emergent gameplay” but then the game suffers when you’re restricted
I’ve been doing that with my monsters too, it works but isn’t exactly satisfying or particularly enjoyable. But it works (most of the time).
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Finally making my way back to the Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown DLC and it continues to kick my teeth in.
I know it’s bad form to blame one’s tools, but switching from my Mobapad back to my 8Bitdo controller certainly helped. Using that, I was finally able to clear a huge trap gauntlet and now have a single potion in my possession in this DLC, which is a godsend given how hard the enemies are/how long most of the obstacle areas you have to tackle are.
Gotta hand it to them, they didn’t just go the usual Ubisoft route of making a breezy DLC. This one takes damn near everything from you and demands you be as good as the end of the game called for, without all the skills and goods you had to bolster you.
I’m constantly mad as hell at it, but finally clearing an area or a boss…it’s good.
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the same way you 1CC any game: you play it enough until you internalize the stage design and formulate esoteric solutions and backup plans that only make sense to your particular brand of insanity
so, this,
but without irony and for a shootman
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Ive only ever 1cc’d one game and that was magical drop 3.
I don’t know what difficulty the machine was set to. So I ve been practicing lately to try and beat it on one down from max level. The one I did it on must have been set fairly low as Ive since learned I didnt know about like half the mechanics in the game. I also never realized that the difficulty is just on screen as Level-X at the bottom of the screen. Just never noticed it.
I think in a lot of arcade games the difficulty setting is invisible to the player on first glance. So you have to either be able to suss it out or just work that particular machine every day.
I guess I’m talking about 1ccing things IRL where it might be more “normal” to do it at home. But to me the thrill would be spotting an arcade machine and just smashing it on 25c.
I think very few games are fun enough to 1cc. Maybe if you started with videos and formed a plan.
Rambling on I had (I lost the note book) an outline for how to go from new game to beating the Polyphony cup in Granturismo 4 in 4 hours. Thats less about beating the game and more about splitting the game open so you can do more kinds of events.
I really want to make a new one for the new GT4 Spec-II patch but to hit the wave of popularity Id have have to stop doing important life shit like looking for a new job.
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visible difficulty level is a feature in a lot of neo geo games, and very little else
it would have been useful for exposing scummy arcade operators if it were more common
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I finished Silent Hill 2 Remake. It was okay in the end. Of course you can just play the perfectly playable original that takes half-as long and is more impactful in many ways. Of course they sanded off the weirder edges of it.
Now to look up the new endings on youtube!
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very first scene in life is strange double exposure is trespassing in an abandoned bowling alley. be still my heart
you actually frame and take the photos so they’ve modeled different viewfinders etc. i hope the polaroid rangefinder has awful parallax so you can’t center with it within 3m
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The only Non-Gradius arcade game I’ve enjoyed tackling over the years is Final Fight, where the penultimate encounter is the only thing between Me, Guy and Belger
Would recommend Cody for novices though which, while not easy at least has his broken frameless knife attacks to see you through
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i like going for all of them i just pace myself accordingly and never actually complete 99% of them
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i really only have two questions about it.
- are the tinned light bulbs still there or replaced by some sort of equivalent?
- how did they handle the part where you toss yourself repeatedly down bottomless holes under the museum slash prison? i assume it’s still there in some form
They’re the two greatest and most memorable things about Silent Hill 2 for me so I’m curious to know how hard I should dismiss the remake out of hand.
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they don’t call ‘em The Hit Squad for nothin’
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continuing to play dark souls on the ps3… this is actually the furthest i’ve ever gotten in this game lol. i’m really good at putting long games down and picking them up again after way too much time… and also playing the first half of a game like 3 times before i get to the second half because i feel like i’ve lost momentum or direction or whatever. i think i probably started this save in 2022… back when i lived in my own studio apartment which i really miss sometimes. great game to play alone at night in a freezing apartment
the fromsoft softology much like an 80+ hour jrpg about killing god (smt nocturne / final fantasy tactics etc.) is an enjoyable thing to be like, living alongside, mourning a breakup to, etc. i had an apartment where it felt like most of what i did there was play death stranding in 2020… the healing power of gaming.
i’ve also played the first half of dark souls 2 like 3 times now but never managed to finish it… i think a lot of the games i play end up requiring a moderate amount of focus and attention lol so it’s hard to balance them with other things in my life at times. maybe i need to get dark souls ii on ps3… the lofi ps3 haze really fits these games imho!
i defeated the four kings… now i’m in the catacombs which just have huge demon’s souls world 4 vibes. i feel like i might be on track to actually see the credits on this save lol…
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I answer your questions
They took out the tinned Light Bulb! Now you find the lightbulb in a garden outside hidden behind a two foot barrier. You have to get a pair of bolt cutters for the third time to break some chains. Then you find a can of red paint. The can opener I got lucky because some wind blows a book (??) over a skylight and you shoot the skylight then run down stairs to open the book to find the can opener to use on the red paint to use on the lightbulb to reveal a code for a suit-case to get the key to the employee elevator. This is the one time the game wants you to interact outside the play field.
Jumping down holes now means apporaching a hole and hitting X then it says “Jump: X” and you hit X 3 more times and he jumps down the hole and the animation is exactly the same every time and it looks stupid after a point because you’ve done it 9 times. It has none of the weird decision making. You also stick your arm in the exact same way every time in about 8 holes. Again just hit X to search about 4 times.
Actually I’ll complain a bit more because in the labrynth you have to go down 3 different paths and keep jumping down holes and waking up back at the start because Bloober team loves a 3 part key.
The final boss is multiple forms the exact same forms as the hospital boss.
The prisoner noose puzzle is so excessively wordy it is impossible to follow who the hell the innocent is.
The added two kinds of collectibles one are polaroids of…something? They are artsy blurry out of focus pictures that sometimes have words on them. Never explained.
The other is “flashbacks” where you walk around the room hitting X whenever you get the prompt because you are looking at a key or ammo and suddenly it will do a VHS tracking effect and you’ll zoom in an empty shelf and a Zelda jingle will play. And that’s it. You also have no clue what the fuck that is about.
And another thing they ruined the garbage chute puzzle. Now you get to the third floor in the garbage room is the crate of juice. You take it two feet and then are given a prompt of what key item to use on the garbage chute, which the only key item you have is the juice. Use juice, coin is knocked out of the chute, puzzle isn’t even a puzzle anymore. No joke.
It’s cool the final save point is the cover of the original Japanese PS2 version.
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I played Dark Souls 1 immediately after the end of my longest relationship up to that point, which also coincided with the closure of the gallery I worked with and my rejection from grad school. A lot of the things I had kind of used to define myself evaporated at once and I was just a guy who worked in an office.
I played the game on a 200-pound CRT TV I’d wanted to buy for a long time. (Understandably, my partner hadn’t been thrilled about having a 200-pound TV taking up space in our small apartment—and to be fair, I’m pretty sure that thing contributed to a slipped disc that later left me laid up for a month*.) The game looked gorgeous on it. Ever since, I’ve been messing with the settings on my monitors, chasing that ultra-saturated, ultra-dark dragon. My fiancee, a photographer, can’t believe how whack and unnatural the settings on my screens are.
It was probably the perfect context for my introduction to the series—Don’t give up skeleton and all that. Despite the game’s bleak atmosphere, the world felt so deeply realized that I wanted to crawl inside it, kind of like Eraserhead or something. (I’ve always been jealous that David Lynch got to live on those sets he built.) One of my favorite things about playing a new FromSoft Soulsborneringfield is that it always gives me dreams where I’m a different person living in a different kind of world—like a Garage: Bad Dream Adventure type thing. That’s a welcome change from my usual dreams, which are 80% me being lost in a city, searching for a restroom, or finding an out-of-print book I really really want in real life.
Thank you for coming to my one man show. Please tip your servers and drive home safe.
*I bought the TV for 20 dollars. My friend, who helped me carry it up the stairs to my apartment, said, “I think this TV is going to come with a lot of hidden costs.”
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