NOPE but i likely never will sry
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It’s fine, but you basically haven’t played it.
Playing Deus Ex but stopping before you get to UNATCO HQ,
That’s like if someone said, they tried Megaman X, they didn’t like it, it was plodding and the enemies were bullet sponges and they stopped when they got to the second bee helicopter thing.
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actually that was my first impression of mega man x!!!
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Yeah if you quit Deus Ex that early you likely haven’t had the chance to see the game bug out and function incorrectly in spectacular fashion.
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Wow did you come around to liking Deus Ex?
My feelings on Deus Ex remain mixed, but it was a strong story generator.
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The most impressive thing about Deus Ex is how it doesn’t really bug out too badly no matter how hard you try to make it. I feel like I see something new every time I play it. The game feels like it’s adapting the story around the way you play it even if it’s all an illusion. I’ve killed later game bosses before cutscenes could begin to play out, and the story adapted around it. It set the standard way too high for me for what games could become.
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I don’t really like Deus Ex that much, and I actually really liked Breath of the Wild, but my inherent bias against having another list with Nintendo games at the top forces my hand.
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Never play a game past the point you think it sucks. This is what I learned by playing through HL2. It never got better for me. I just got angrier.
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This is good advice, but I will add the corollary that revisiting one after a good period of time has elapsed isn’t necessarily a bad idea.
I played the game I think right before the bad times started and it very much is capable of bugging out in game breaking ways at a drop of a hat, I even documented a few of them here. I had cutscenes refuse to trigger and lock me in smallish areas, the game’s ambitious as hell but legitimately held together by string at points.
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Yeah that’s fair. How long that time is varies for everyone, and sometimes, some games are just never gonna work for you, and that’s OK.
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Sky Odyssey was actually a game I reconsidered, years ago, after @T pressured me to give it another chance.
The controls and camera felt weird, and the first couple of missions felt very routine once I understood the controls (dpad is more precise than analog stick, that’s my number 1 hot tip for Sky Odyssey), and it was just old enough to not look very appealing. When I did give it another shot, I finally got what the game was doing and began to experience the ‘wonder’ that so many folks itt have mentioned.
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haha im changing my vote from dragon quest to sky odyssey because everyone is just like ‘yeah dragon quest 3 is cool’ but ppl who love sky odyssey are acting like me about ffxiv
so they must be right (like me about ffxiv)
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i just did it because i obey tulpa
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whoa today I found my original physical copy of Riven, straight out of 1997:
5 discs, baby!
(ignore the impossible shitty lighting)
find some shitty game to pirate, idiot
in conclusion, Riven is currently tied with Silent Hill; and while I am in no way trying to influence the vote, even though Riven is definitely the better game, you can bet physical copies of Silent Hill aren’t as cool as this
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thanks for voting everyone, the new thread for the next round is here.
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looks like I got someone to break the tie in favor of Riven. my job here is done
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I’ve been trying Rondo since this top 64 (85) began and I really don’t like it! I am fighting the controls the entire time. It grates at me and I just go back to CV1 or Bloodlines or even SCVIV where I can have a good time.
Crawling into bed loading up Rondo and being swatted endlessly by those birds in Stage 2 is misery.
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Don’t let them get on their bullshit, take it slow and hit them with a throwing knife as soon as they appear. They aren’t active until you get slightly closer.
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Do you know about these moves
Or Maria’s
It’s a much easier, smoother game than the first 4, I think they did an excellent job of maintaining a similar rhythm without making it quite so plodding
And Maria is just zipping all over the place, she rocks
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