Games You Played Today Oratorio Tangram

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Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate is on sale on the 3DS e-shop so I downloaded the demo to give it a try. I’ve never played a Monster Hunter game before and I found this demo utterly bewildering. There’s a ton of random UI shit, my character is an incoherent mess of polygons, and each move takes 2-button combos to pull off. I have an insect buddy that I can launch but I can’t figure out why.

This game makes me feel like an 80-year old whose never seen a videogame before trying to pick up their grandkid’s gameboy. What the hell is going on here? Why is this game so damn confusing? The concept of a friendlier dark souls where you bounty hunt monsters sounds wonderful but this is a nightmare!

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1799

yeah. monster hunter rules.

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1800

switch to great sword or hammer for a bit maybe

if you have a ps4 maybe wait a couple weeks and play the mh5 beta and get in a psn party with me and i will answer ALL YOUR QUESTIONS

monster hunter is not friendlier than dark souls!!! (unless you just mean aesthetically or something, then maybe)

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1801

Still playing Mario Odyssey, just unlocked Dark Side and then fought one boss before I had to get up and make breakfast

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Big Monster Hunter Tip:
Longsword and Greatsword are the best beginner weapons, like every time

Seconding that Monster Hunter is not friendlier than Dark Souls lol

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1803

let me in on this

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1804

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I don’t have a PS4 but thank you for the invite! That sounds like a lovely time. I’ll try some of these beginner weapons and see if I can make any more sense of it.

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I’m in!!!

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1807

It’s on sale in the eshop… but looks like it never got a US release.

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The JP version has a good title: Pocket Soccer League: Calciobit

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if you thought fighting atheon 40 times was fun wait until you meet my good buddy rathalos

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Yeah I will help acclimate PMODs to MH fun times.

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someone tell my son there not to use a sword so recklessly

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The right-stick aiming is bothering me quite a bit but otherwise Brigador is neat
I like the mission titles
Being rewarded for squishing ostensibly non-hostile panicking bystanders I like less

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This really confuses my understanding of the player/BRIGADOR’s role. I conceived of them as a pilot-for-hire to revolutionary forces, “GREAT LEADER HAS FALLEN” and all that.

I believe it’s an unreconciled design; elements of Syndicate and other mayhem games they wanted to homage but didn’t notice what it said.

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1813

That certainly sounds like cyberpunk in 2017.

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1814

the US got rusty’s real deal baseball instead. which we never got. alas

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1815

Aiming is much, much easier and more intuitive if you learn to mouse and keyboard it.

As I recall I tried to engage in the real dark souls and play with a dualshock in one hand and a mouse in the other so I could have the worst of both worlds for much of my experience.

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Yup, mousing definitely has it for action speed alone

Meanwhile I am into the abundant flavour text even if I have to spend murdertokens on each piece

And so far excellent character portraits

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I don’t understand how ps1 memory cards work in retroarch. I start up a game it only has some early saves on the card, I load my save state and now the rest of them are there. I would have thought there would just be some separate memory card file the game reads and writes to. I didn’t realize messing around with save states was like time travel and you have temporal paradox shit to keep straight so you don’t get stuck in a timeline with the wrong memory card

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