Remij

51 minutes ago, -GD- said:

Indeed! I’m about 4 hours in. So much detail in each world. This game is, so far, exceeding my expectations. 

Guys stop trying to get me hyped, I already know the last boss sux  

Game is fucking PHENOMENAL  

2 minutes ago, JonB1 said:

You fuck boys better not make me buy a ps4 Tomo 

I'll be completely honest with this game.  If it falls off, I'll say so.  The beginning and the first boss fight is just crazy.

Just now, madmaltese said:

I know what you speak of and holy fucking shit. How. Just how?

I'm quite shocked the entire thing is running on a base PS4.  If that sets the stage for the rest of the game... I just don't know what to say.  Fuck.

Just now, -GD- said:

The whole tutorial section was awesome! They didn’t waste any time introducing some bad ass fights  

Yep.  I want to say something, but wont, not even in spoiler tags because I'm not sure where you're at exactly.  If you haven't seen it yet, you'll be there in a matter of minutes I'm sure.

The whole thing was absolutely crazy.  

Holy god damn shit  

This game  

5 minutes ago, Hot Sauce said:

 

What am I wrong about?

Pretty much everything.  

1 hour ago, Hot Sauce said:

Picked up an Xbox One yesterday and played some Sea of Thieves last night. You just don't get an appreciation for how much of a mess that game is without playing it because oh boy is that thing hot garbage. I think even calling it early access is a bit of an insult to early access games because at least in a lot of those there is a semblance of systems that need to be fleshed out or iterated on or just fixed up, but Sea of Thieves has fucking nothing. I just can't believe that is a first-party game with clearly a lot of money behind it because it feels like a much prettier version of like a mobile game out of the middle east or some shit because it is just so fucking empty.

 

Horizon 3 is dope, though.

2 minutes ago, Twinblade said:

Just under 7 hours. Currently in Goldpaw which is definitely one of the game's highlights so far.

 

Im interested in seeing the whole kingdom building stuff. I hope its better than the skirmishes, not a fan of those.

Yea, I'm not a fan of the skirmishes either.  Suikoden >> NNK2 lol

40 minutes ago, Twinblade said:

I do hope Ni No Kuni 2 picks up a bit. So far its been almost all combat and dungeon crawling. There hasn't been much in the way of variety or cool set pieces. The lack of voice acting also continues to be jarring. In a time where even a budget european RPG like Kingdom Come Deliverance can have thousands of lines of voiced dialogue,  its kind of disappointing to see the majority of the exposition here being delivered through silent text boxes.

For sure.

How many hours in are you now?  I'm about 7h and once you unlock Evermore it gets better... but there's definitely disappointing aspects to it.

13 minutes ago, Twinblade said:

Im a hour into Ni No Kuni 2. Solid game so far.

I'm 2h in and it's definitely solid.. but there's a few things nagging at it.

When they decide to voice act vs not voice acting is weird as fuck in some places.  Like half way through a cut scene of just text boxes... then all of a sudden a character will say something... not even that particularly important... and it will be voice acted.. and then go back to text again after.   The voices for the characters are great, and sorely missed when not in use.   But the one problem with them is that since seemingly random lines are dialogued, the voice acting some times seems a bit too acted and it doesn't flow quite as well as it should with the rest of the conversation.  Not every scene is like that though, and others are done extremely well.. but yea it is what it is.

What they should have done was either fully voiced everything, or just used the grunts and single word responses.. but for everything.  That way it would be consistent and be more involved than just pure text and no voice whatsoever.

Aside from that, the only other issue I have is that when you're playing and the characters dialogue with each other, the text boxes are fairly small and go by way too fast before you can read them all.

The game is certainly gorgeous though.  It's actually crazy how well this artstyle takes advantage of gsync imo.. it's so freaking smooth. 

Just jokes 

5 minutes ago, kazie's saltyhermitdenial said:

the big bad wolf boss in blood and wine was pretty cool.  

 

the fairy tale part is so well made, i love it. I stepped on this women who was super small and geralt just cleaned the blood from his  boots and was like "mmhh".  best game ever.

Can you stop talking about The Witcher 3 for one second of your life?  I MEAN GOD DAMN  

34 minutes ago, Twinblade said:

ah thats still really long, i was hoping it could be blasted through in 20 or 25 hours.  Im not even close to beating KCD, and Yakuza 6 comes out soon. Ill have to keep it on the backburner for now.

Well, I could have beat the game WAY quicker if I was just playing the story missions.  You could probably do it in 30 if you tried.

18 minutes ago, Twinblade said:

Damn that was quick. How long did it take you and did you do a lot of side content?

Yeah, it took me just over 40h to beat the game.  That's not including any of the DLC such as the character episodes and comrades.  Though I plan on playing Gladiolus' episode sometime today.

Obviously since I already knew the game I was able to do it in relatively short amount of time.  I was doing lots of side questing in the beginning to build my levels up fast.  Was always resting at Galdin Quay for the 2.0x experience boost and cooking meals to get advantages to beat stronger enemies.. that kind of thing.

I just got Armiger Unleashed last night, and am working on maxing my character skills.  I'm going for 100% achievements, so it's going to take a while.

Finished up Final Fantasy 15 on PC.  Got the Regalia Type F to fly around with and now I'm working on hunts and other side quests.  

2 hours ago, -GD- said:

yeah, they cause my hands to cramp during twich-based platformers. i can only play celeste on 30 - 60 minute intervals. 

I don't know if you're doing the b-sides as well or not, but have fun with Chapter 6 b-side.  I had over 700 deaths on that one fucking level.

My stats so far:

140 strawberries

4/8 b-sides complete

0/8 c-sides complete

4350 deaths

15/24 hearts

Now I know a lot of those deaths are simply from half trying and many just goofing off testing walls and areas for strawberries.. but still, that's a lot of deaths.  I estimate I'll be around 7000 deaths by the time I 100% the game.

I think if I was to go through it again, I could do as much as I have now with less than 1000 deaths.

Oh.. my.. fucking.. GOD!

In Celeste, when you beat the Chapter 8 B-side, there are 25 more "golden strawberries"... There's one in each of the levels 8(Chapters) x 3(Level +B,C sides) is 24.. and there's one special Golden Wing Strawberry.

To get these golden strawberries, you have to make it through each of the levels + the B and C sides without dying at all.  You collect the golden strawberry at the beginning of the level and it only unlocks once you've beaten the entire level without dying... ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!!  I couldn't imagine beating the B and C sides without dying once... (but I'm going to try)

But if that wasn't enough... the 1 Golden Wing Strawberry in the game has it's own special section, and aside from still having to make it through the level without dying...you have to do it without dashing at all.

Check this shit out...  

I'm going to use assist for that shit  

Just now, Twinblade said:

i kinda wish they didn't lock that last world behind the hearts. I just didn't have the patience to collect them all, especially when theres no map or other system to guide you to them.

I think you just need 4 of them because I don't have them all yet and I was able to get in.

1 minute ago, -GD- said:

I can’t even imagine how tough the other worlds are..or how hard the b/c sides are. 

The later B-sides are crazy.

I swear I've died about 200 times on just one screen. 

That feeling though when you finally get it... you're like "I'm the greatest motherfucker to ever play this game!"  

6 minutes ago, -GD- said:

How many worlds are there? 

There's 8 worlds.  After world 7 you beat the game, but there's an Epilogue which is proving to be a bitch.

18 minutes ago, -GD- said:

On world 4 in Celeste. I have forgotten how punishing this game can be, especially for the harder hearts/collectibles.  The level design and music = stellar 

I'll be waiting for you up on the summit.

This game is 10/10.  One of the best 2d platformers ever made imo.

I've died 4000 times so far.  

The B-sides / C-sides are next level.  

1 hour ago, Hot Sauce said:

 

I went in wanting to hate it and still dropped 50 hours into it lol

 

Gonna give Celeste my time this weekend as I've heard it's an okay game from places that certainly isn't this thread and certainly not by Remij.

My prayers are with you 

I just died 766 time in Celeste on Chapter 6 B-side....

A lot of admittedly dumb deaths.  Wasn't really trying to focus, but still.

1 minute ago, Angel Jim said:

It costs a lot.

Then wait my friend.  And make the decision after you've played D3  

3 minutes ago, Angel Jim said:

Why?

Why not?