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orchid tree
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yeah

dire saffron
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something like the collector is amazing

orchid tree
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really well made

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but man

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the lore in this game

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is just

dire saffron
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imo grimm troupe is just a boring fetch quest

dire saffron
orchid tree
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Fork Doesn't Like Light, causes mass Genocide on his own kin to hide it

dire saffron
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yeaaa

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finds the hk, not the actual vessel but the hk wants to be and thus acts

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forms a parent child bond

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has to be sealed away

orchid tree
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brb

dire saffron
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doesnt work since they arent the true vessel

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ahh ok

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i still find it hilarious that the king was like "hey herrah wanna be a dreamer ill make you a mother 😉 "

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and then hornet was made

dire condor
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The plan was ||always to seal the Hollow Knight. The issue is that it was supposed to be empty of emotion or thought and in raising it from "childhood" the Pale King formed a bond and that's what let the Radiance escape.||

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Nah, Harrah baby-trapped the Pale King.

dire saffron
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yea but the hollow knight also wasnt fully hollow lmao

dire condor
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"You want a dreamer, I want a child."

dire saffron
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still a very funny upbringing for hornet tho

orchid tree
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given that PK is a god, i do wonder if he had foreseen that the hollow knight failing was a necessity for a truly empty vessel, aka our knight?

dire saffron
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hmmm

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probably not

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considering the knight was there when the king chose the hk

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also then why would pk have essentially killed who he saw as his kid

dire condor
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He kills a lot of potential Vessels.

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That's a point the game makes, just how much death and destruction the Pale King spreads throughout Hallownest to try to preserve Hallownest.

sonic path
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I opt for the naturalist explanation. Some bug made a nest, some parasitic moth laid eggs in all the bugs brains, and eventually you kill the moth. The rest is all just Pale King hyping up his own nest.

orchid tree
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remember, plumfox

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"no cost too great"

dire saffron
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lmao

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no mind to think

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no voice to cry suffering

sonic path
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I'm just saying if you get a magic sword that can literally cut into the world of dreams and expose the mist hidden memories of the past ...and you use that very blade on the god king himself and learn nothing

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Must mean there's nothing to learn!

polar dragon
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You can't dream nail yourself

orchid tree
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you can

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||that' show you get void heart dummy||

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wait that's spoilers

dire condor
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Oh.

orchid tree
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you're foxhope not plumfox

dire condor
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Yeah, we haven't been minding spoilers too much.

polar dragon
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Lul

orchid tree
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you guys are similar i thought you finished the game sorry

dire condor
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Probably should start doing that now.

orchid tree
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yeah

dire condor
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Sorry!

orchid tree
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i mean fox said they know how to obtain the other endings but still, sorry

polar dragon
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It's fine I do

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Not the specifics but I'm gonna look them up anyway

dire saffron
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lmao one of my friends said that they got kingsoul but not voidheart and they were trying to do pantheon

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since he didnt know that voidheart existed

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so i yelled at him to get it

dire condor
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But I didn't think of the ||Voidheart scene|| in that context, @orchid tree

orchid tree
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that's actually what happens

dire condor
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Yeah, absolutely!

orchid tree
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from what i've gathered from that scene, ||that was your own hatching egg you dreamnailed. So full of void, so shiny, that it made you dreamnail yourself from the reflection||

dire condor
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I always thought ||I was aiming at the Knight's egg.||

dire saffron
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i thought it was just some random egg :/

dire condor
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But ||you're aiming at your own reflection.|| Damn.

orchid tree
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||so much void, the perfect vessel, bring it forth, the shade lord!||

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||though the shade lord is a really difficult subject when it comes to lore, i do like the idea that the shade lord is actually just the culmination of all void, all shades||

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||it would make sense given the voidheart description, "unites the void"||

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||into one entity||

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||the shade lord||

dire saffron
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i saw it more so as ||the knight, being the embodiemnt of the void, ascended to godhood||

dire condor
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||The Godhome statues also lend credence to that idea. The "Void given form" and "Void given focus" statues.||

orchid tree
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||in old patches, the all-radiants statue used to say "void given thought". I think you can tell why they removed it lol||

dire saffron
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yeaaaa

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but the ||shade lord is very interesting lore wise||

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and i wonder how they are gonna play off of it with silksong if even since it might be a prequel ;w;

orchid tree
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also technically speaking, ||the void has existed far before hallownest, so lord of shades is the ultimate god of hallownest. Both theories could be true, together, tbh||

dire saffron
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hopefully silksong is a prequel and we get a 3rd game :3

orchid tree
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3rd game

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zoteboat

dire saffron
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NO

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PLEASE

dire condor
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Friggin' Zote.

orchid tree
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ZOTEBOAT

dire saffron
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ive had enough of zote

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if it wasnt for the speedrun route killing vengefly king for geo id leave him every run

orchid tree
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Z O T E B O A T

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did you do the um

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the thing with a lot of zotes

dire condor
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I still haven't been able to get that.

orchid tree
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eternal something forgot

dire condor
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The Eternal Ordeal. zaglol

dire saffron
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yeaa

orchid tree
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yeah

dire saffron
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i hated it

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so dumb

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i got the theme and never touched it again

dire condor
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Different tastes, then.

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Zote is peak comedy.

orchid tree
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zoot is peak comedy

dire condor
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He's the worst but the Eternal Ordeal and Grey Prince Zote push it to the point of absurdity and I love it.

dire saffron
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i got the grey night statue to be gold once

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and i hated it

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i did it just to say i did

orchid tree
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i only did gpz once

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but i feel like my friends are giving him too much credit

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||they would rather restart their entire save just so that they can avoid having to do him on p5 and on Hall of Gods (radiant)||

dire saffron
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TRUUEEE

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its so nice having it not there for radiant hall and p5

orchid tree
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i honestly don't think it's that bad..

dire condor
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Does he level up in the Pantheon if you level him up in Dirtmouth?

orchid tree
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no

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he's permanently in level 10 (all adjectives, all attack patterns) but with double damage

dire condor
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Oh, Christ.

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I quit after Bretta leaves because he was getting too hard.

sonic path
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Now I hate to hijack the conversation like this but I've got something that needs sorting out.

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So I just recently took my first step into the next generation of gaming, that's right, finally got that PlayStation 3.

dire saffron
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lmao

sonic path
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Naturally one of the first titles I had to pick up was HD remaster if the PlayStation 2 classics God of War I and II

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So my question is... does anybody else find God of War mysteriously fun even though everything about kind of sucks?

dire saffron
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i havent played god of war so i cant really say :/

orchid tree
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i never had a console

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ok i had a ps3 but i played it for a shortwhile it was my brother's and then we stopped

sonic path
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It's weird, I can't say it's a guilty pleasure since it's such a popular game, I just don't know why I have fun with it.

orchid tree
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so yeah idk never played it, i actually know nothing about the game

sonic path
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Well, you know that PC game Getting Over it with Bennett Foddy?

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God of War is kinda like playing a few hundred easier versions of that in a row.

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It's ostensibly an action game but it's mostly platforming and block pushing segments where infinitely respawning enemies knock you back to the beginning over and over.

wraith cradle
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Summer 1996, Today is the day!You hit the road. Adventure. Freedom. Escape. Run. Flee the Regime. Try to survive.On this risky road trip to the border, you’ll meet incredible characters, and discover their intertwined stories and secrets in an ever-evolving adventure.But every mile opens up a choice to make. Your decisions will change your adven...

Release Date

2021

▶ Play video
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This one looks promising

sonic path
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Yeah you could do that in '96. Gas was like 88 cents a gallon, no one had GPS, it was awesome.

orchid tree
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where i live, right now, gas is like (~1 dollar) for every liter.. isn't that cheaper than 88c/gallon or am i just.. dumb.. it is late at night so i become really bad at maths usually
i become bad at everything-

sonic path
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A gallon is around 4 liters

orchid tree
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oh, other way around?

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okay

sonic path
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So we would have been paying like 20 cents a liter.

orchid tree
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yeah

wraith cradle
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This one deals with a civil war tho

orchid tree
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so around a 4th of what we pay rn

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how much is it rn in usa?

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just, out of curiosity ig

sonic path
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Probably 50 cents a liter

sonic path
tame veldt
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wasn't firewatch a critical and financial failure

wraith cradle
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Financial maybe critical no

tame veldt
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oki

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wonder where i got that from

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||ign probably ron ||

wraith cradle
tame veldt
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"an interactive fetch quest" zaglol

sonic path
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That kind of narrative heavy presentation never works for everyone, I'm sure the people who hate Firewatch really hate it.

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Tbh I'm a sucker for those childishly whimsical To The Moon games, those get me every time.

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Things that try to get too gritty tend to cross over a line for me that makes me find them unconvincing.

dire condor
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"Deals poorly with the pressure of existing and quickly explodes." Me too, Volatile Zoteling. Me too.

orchid tree
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YES

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I LOVE IT

forest stirrup
dire warren
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teach me your ways

forest stirrup
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i only recently learned about the reload wirebug art having generous iframes at the start, that helped a lot lol

dire warren
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oh i barely use that lmao

forest stirrup
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same i like, hardly touched my wirebug moves for a while

dire warren
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'if i am going to move out the way it will be while ATTACKING'
-me, right before getting stabbed with a spear tail, 2021

orchid tree
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oh yeah that reminds me- sorry for talking about another game
@dire condor dark descent gibs invic frames and a lot of people love to use it. General tip, you probably won't use it for sly, but yeah, feeling in a tight spot? hard attack that covers a lot of screen?? just use DD!! and hope there's no spikes below

dire saffron
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ive used 11 attempts with insect glaive and got it to the tired blue icon thingy twice ;w;

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wait

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21 attempts

polar dragon
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I have no idea what you are talking about

dire saffron
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also glaive wirebugs poopy >:(

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i get another jump which is nice but the other one is borderline useless

forest stirrup
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i had a lot of failures before this run lol

dire saffron
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what was your route??

forest stirrup
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and yeah switch axe's are... okay, but not great really

dire condor
forest stirrup
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mostly just use ZL+A for iframes

orchid tree
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like i said sly in the end

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or was it not you who was just on sly?

dire saffron
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since i grab stinkmink, puppet spider, and then go to rathian

dire condor
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No, it was.

dire saffron
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and if magna goes up to the rathian spot i grab blastoad

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and the other stinkmink

dire condor
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But I didn't connect that you were picking up from the earlier conversation.

forest stirrup
# dire saffron what was your route??

i pretty much went down the middle up some short cliffs to get the snow beetle, then up the tall vine along the cliff next to rathian for some spiribirds and stinkmink

dire saffron
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i also grab any beetles, generally water and fire

forest stirrup
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brought rathian to magna and got lucky with mizu showing up later

dire saffron
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i have to use 2-3 mounts to get any damage ;w;

dire warren
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i basically scream and run straight for mango and mount the nearest other mon

dire condor
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Hand on a dictionary, my thoughts went "Dark Descent, like Amnesia? And why are they bring up Sly Cooper? Wait, 'just use DD'? Are we on Hades now?"

dire saffron
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also wheres the wailnard??

dire condor
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It was a moment.

dire saffron
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since i havent found it yet and i was told it would help confirming mizu coming over :3

forest stirrup
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oh the wailnard is at the top of those tall vines south of the rathian

orchid tree
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i'm in a server with friends

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DD means SO MUCH STUFF

dire saffron
forest stirrup
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though it sometimes calls the monster you already mounted and it's a disaster lmao

dire saffron
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ahh

orchid tree
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Dark Descent, Dicey Dungeon, Darkest Dungeons, Divine Dash, Death Defiance

dire saffron
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well its better than nothing ;w;

dire warren
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me, playing pokemon, talking about monhun, hades, and hk:

orchid tree
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so many DDs

forest stirrup
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every brain cell dedicated to gaming

dire warren
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no thought only gæm

orchid tree
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head empty

dire saffron
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but like i understand magna's moveset and i rarely ever die now unless some bs happens

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but IG just doesnt haev the dps i need

orchid tree
forest stirrup
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exactly, it just gets to the point of i hope i can do enough damage to beat timer

dire saffron
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i get about 100 damage per heavy cycle but thats only ever so often

dire warren
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plus i'm only shiny hunting so
0 attention

dire saffron
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if i had 5 more minutes i could win ;w;

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and i do the funny mounting trick where you put big barrels so you dont take the damage :3

dire warren
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mango's timer is sheer pain tbh

dire saffron
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and im doing a lot of stuff with traps too

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but my damage is just so garbage

forest stirrup
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i have thousands of hours across other monhuns and this demo magna was still one of the hardest things i've done lmao

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they overtuned it hardcore

dire saffron
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like damn if it was just 20 minutes ;w;

forest stirrup
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but i guess if you want your flagship to seem threatening this works

dire saffron
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and the devs even made sure it was possible with every weapon ;w;

forest stirrup
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yeah 20 mins would be so swanky

dire saffron
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but i just cant with IG

dire warren
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mk back to the shiny hunt, brb

dire saffron
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like and with the stuff on magnas back that explodes IG is one of the only weapons that can hit that normally and its still super inconsistent since magna hitboxes or any demo monster for that matter are wack when im in the air

forest stirrup
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oh yeah like, magna's tail in particular is just the worst

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active hitbox whenever it does anything at all

dire saffron
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yeaa ;w;

forest stirrup
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even when the tail isn't actually involved

dire saffron
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which makes IG a pain to jump around with as an offensive option

forest stirrup
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yeah

dire saffron
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and like ik the little hellfire bubbles it drops can be used against it but it never gets near them >:(

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like i just want to beat it once

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and ive been close twice

forest stirrup
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there have been times where it evades either the bubble or a trap for like, 30 solid seconds

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pain

dire saffron
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yeaaa

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tahst why i drop traps when its doing its slam thing

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since you just walk in, dont get hit, and you have time to place it

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unless its pitfall >:(

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like yea i get that its flagship so they wanna make it hard

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but still

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15 minutes is dumb

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just 5 more and id be able to do it

forest stirrup
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yeah like, tbh the 15m velkhana for the iceborne demo was nowhere near as harsh as this

dire saffron
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and most other weapons have a better dps than IG

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which makes it harder for me >:(

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since my weapon isnt nearly as chunky as switch/charge axe or hh

forest stirrup
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yeah, i imagine with IG you basically aren't allowed to stop attacking or else you won't get enough damage for the timer lol

dire saffron
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yeaa i watched someone do it in 11 minutes and they got 3 mounts and had to constantly stay on magna

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its just annoying

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and the fact that you die if you get breathed on is a pain

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like everytime i get hit im at <1/2

forest stirrup
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right? it honestly feels like a naked run in the demo

wraith cradle
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Talking about HK

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?

forest stirrup
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and then fainting makes you lose too much time getting back

dire saffron
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and im getting better at the fight since im able to stay on it more but i just dont have the damage i need >:(

dire saffron
forest stirrup
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the good news is: we'll be hugely overprepared for the base game magna lmao

dire saffron
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true

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i just want to be able to say i beat it once tho >:(

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also it really bothers me when the palico/mute knock magna over when im healing and on the other side of the area

forest stirrup
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that's what kept me going too, really didn't want to leave the demo with that incomplete

dire saffron
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i just dont know what else i could do ;w;

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im using both traps, thunder and water beetle, trying my best to mount both rathian and mizu, puppet spider to ram magna into some walls

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like i just dont know and its very annoying

forest stirrup
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no yeah i had several runs where it felt like everything went right and i still timed out

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you'll get it

dire saffron
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hhhh i hope so

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and like yea this being my first mainline game gives me little experience

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but i think im still preforming relatively well

forest stirrup
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oh wow you're doing extremely well given that, then

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i guarantee you most players new to the main games will not get very far solo against demo magna lol

dire saffron
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:3 well thats reassuring at least

orchid tree
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hey guys wanna talk about flash games

dire saffron
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ig all i can do then is just keep ramming my head into the wall until either my skull cracks open or magna decides to die for once

dire saffron
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up movie theme starts playing

orchid tree
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do you have anything to recommend

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been bored lately i played all old flash games that i can think of

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rn i still have rogue soul to play

polar dragon
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OG isaac is a flash game

dire saffron
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tbh i never really played many flash games :/

polar dragon
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So there is that

orchid tree
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i never liked isaac

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actually idk what it is about

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i just don't like gore

dire condor
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It's a very ugly game.

orchid tree
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or horror/spoopy things

dire condor
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I don't blame you for being unable to get past that.

orchid tree
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it's a very big nono for me i'm a very sensible one

dire condor
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I couldn't get into Attack on Titan because I dislike the art so much.

orchid tree
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yeah my friends keep telling me to watch AoT but i just uhg i can't

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it makes me uncomfortable

dire saffron
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the art of aot i feel like is well animated, but just the style is eww

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like it looks cool sometimes

tame veldt
dire saffron
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aot has games

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:3

orchid tree
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yeah my brother used to play it

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oh there's no voice channels here

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i could stream myself playing rogue soul xd

dire saffron
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lmao that would be very exciting

tame veldt
orchid tree
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i wouldn't use the voice channel for voice tho

dire condor
orchid tree
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just for screen sharing lol

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i stream at 480p15

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and it usually dies

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do you really think i can handle obs and twitch-

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but yeah i guess nobody wants to watch? maybe in dms maybe in another server lol

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ah yes notdoppler

polar dragon
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Sometimes I wish we have stream channel here

dire saffron
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yea but itd be too hard for the mods to manage :3

orchid tree
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i guess

polar dragon
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I know

orchid tree
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what if i wanna stream hades

polar dragon
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wish

orchid tree
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i suppose for now i can settle with dms and inviting my friends to other server slol

polar dragon
tame veldt
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i honestly wish people could watch me beat hades it is the cringiest thing ever

dire saffron
tame veldt
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it's good

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i swear by it

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easy 3 heat

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add some damage control boom easy 5 heat

floral warren
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I still can't get beyond Spear 2 heat

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maybe I'm too lazy for it

tame veldt
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squirtmeh well you're wrong

tame veldt
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what ubi games should i get while everything i like 50% off

polar dragon
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shadow of mordor

tame veldt
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describé

woven breach
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Shadow of mordor is ubi game? dusa

polar dragon
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Nevermind

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lmao

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Well just pretend it is.

tame veldt
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i said describé

lethal drift
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Child of Light

tame veldt
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describé

lethal drift
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watercolor real time rpg

tame veldt
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i'ma say no and go back to playin hades ajfingerguns

lethal drift
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aight

woven breach
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Child of light is good

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My only problem with it, like many jrpgs, is the lack of voice over.

tame veldt
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i'm slowly getting tired of voiceovers

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i was playing the fenyx rising demo and i was appalled that i couldn't shut zeus and prometheus up

lethal drift
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nothing like a good beeps and boops

tame veldt
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just let me read ahead and then i can skip it

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hades is a great example on how to do subtitles and textboxes right.

lethal drift
woven breach
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Beeps and boops is fine

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They're cute

stable kindle
tame veldt
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mmm

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i just prefer games that don't take a break to be a movie. that's kinda a general overexaggerated statement but it gets across.

junior crown
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I see VA is depended, it can be included, but they def have to do the voice over right which is not always the case, there maybe times making some parts where it must be serious funny or some places that must be funny serious somehow. And since that I mostly prefer games without voice acting, since in such case there is no fear of VA changing tone shift. dusa

tame veldt
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i have goober goblin gamer brain but i still want to experience the story if that makes sense

stable kindle
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?? you can fully play the game while they are talking?

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most of the time i was stopping what i was doing because i was taking screenshots of funny convo to share

tame veldt
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yeah my logic doesn't make sense

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i was mostly referring to the beginning sequence cause that was all i played

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i didn't find it very interesting it was just banter. nothing actually important.

fallen sky
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are we talking hades?

tame veldt
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no

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fenyx

lethal drift
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BotW but in Greece

fallen sky
tame veldt
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i was scared by how much it was like botw

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i felt right at home

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some wonky controls but that's about it

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like why is r-bumper attack????

lethal drift
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has no bad gacha dung so it's automatically better than Genshin OrieXD

thorn tundra
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voiceovers aren't really necessary for me but they do sure help with the immersion when done right

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I really liked FE three houses' voiceovers

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it felt so natural

lethal drift
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if the voiceover is done really well, I won't mind

polar dragon
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Speaking of voice acting, I also don't mind performances like this.

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Quite... memorable.

dire condor
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Aw, man, X4.

polar dragon
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I played the heck out of X4 back in the day

dire condor
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I've dabbled more than a little. What a game.

polar dragon
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Never won with zero though

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maybe now is a good time to revisit

polar dragon
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I love that boss fight.

rancid token
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Zero playthrough is hard

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Especially with how weird his boss order is

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But X4 is and will always remain my favorite game in the whole franchise

lethal drift
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unrelated but Berseria has some of my fave voice acting

rancid token
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Book skirt

lethal drift
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witchy mcwitcherton

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I love this game so much

dire condor
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Last Tales game I bought was Zestiria. Last I played was Xillia 2.

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I don't know, the character designs started to lose me.

polar dragon
dire condor
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The story in Xillia 2 certainly did.

polar dragon
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the DOOM franchise has lost its mind

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and I love it lmao

lethal drift
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idk DOOm

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only played a bit of Doom 2016

dire condor
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I should give Eternal another try.

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2016 is my favorite shooter ever, and I have a hard time believing that it will ever be topped.

polar dragon
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big robot

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fighting big demons

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this is like Pacific Rims but with extra step

junior crown
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Disco Elysium Final Cut comes march 30th

terse hornet
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Every couple of months I listen to old touhou music and get sad cause the music SLAPS but the gameplay of touhou is my mortal enemy

fallen sky
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ugh me w/ furi. i love bullet hells but... it's in the title. they're hell

pulsar schooner
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What do you guys think about dead cells? I have it in my backlog but can't seem to start because I always boot up Hades lmao.

fallen sky
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previous opinions in the chat include finding the dlc to not be a necessary buy

junior crown
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Dead Cells is nice, but damn can it be frustrating wit how difficulty is scaled.

pulsar schooner
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I see.

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Yeah I heard that the difficulty can be insane in Dead Cells

thorn tundra
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I like the combat of dead cells but Im really on the fence on buying it on the switch because of the speedrunning aspect of it on later difficulties

terse hornet
thorn tundra
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also same have never 1CCed a touhou game except for touhou 8

terse hornet
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The heck is s a 1cc

thorn tundra
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1CC means not using a continue

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which is the good ending

terse hornet
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oooo

thorn tundra
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iirc there are 3 endings based on how many continues you used

terse hornet
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Yeah you do have to beat the whole game without continuing I remember now

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Meanwhile the one time I tried emulating 4 I ran out by like the second level

fallen sky
junior crown
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I can't believe I forgot

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the fact, that "sans undertale" was screamed by an announcer.

fallen sky
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watching a certain trio of wrestlers walk out to the tune of an announcer having difficulty reading final fantasy names lives in my mind rent free

eager lake
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anyone looking to get a joycon charging grip? amazon warehouse has one for a reasonable price

dire condor
#

can you guys suggest rpg games?

wraith cradle
dire condor
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real time and for low end computers

lethal drift
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Ryza 2, maybe

acoustic jacinth
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all the infinity engine games have a very small file size, but a lot of content

wraith cradle
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Shining Resonance I think is Low-endish

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FF Type-0

floral warren
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Reminder that Square Enix's "direct" will start in 40 minutes or less

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please deus ex please deus ex

normal marsh
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Crosscode is a great one, was my favorite game last year and it just came out with a dlc last month that was an awesome end to the game

junior crown
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started

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Outriders residentzag

polar dragon
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New Life is Strange?

junior crown
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nothing yet

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just uh

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uninteresting stuff

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I will say when something good comes up

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Life Is Strange now

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emotion powers pew pew

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oh copyright music

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and remastered for LiS and LiS Before Storm

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which I find odd

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is there real need for the remastered for them?

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well that was

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nothing pretty much lol

eager hamlet
#

Wait, someone is looking for JRPG suggestions?

eager hamlet
floral warren
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rpgs in general but your time to shine

eager hamlet
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Or any Ys game really, but VIII is the best

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Otherwise, in terms of real-time, Shining Resonance was fine, Crosscode is great

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Yakuza 0 might not be low end enough but its also great

floral warren
#

speaking of which
all the yakuza games are available in the Xbox Game Pass

eager hamlet
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Ni No Kuni II might be too demanding actually

floral warren
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they just released 6 yesterday with other good games

eager hamlet
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And I think thats about it that isnt demanding

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There is still stuff like FFXV but my PC can barely run it

polar dragon
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It looks so... underwhelming.

floral warren
#

Like c'mon guys, even Cyberpunk did the typical "Character" boxart better

normal marsh
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i wasn't around for the snes era but damn the box art on those were so cool

polar dragon
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Well I love og LiS

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Never played before the storm, heard it sucks

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So probably won't check out this new one also

normal marsh
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i remember liking life is strange a lot when i was younger, but after trying to play the first ep last year i couldn't believe how edgy the dialogue was

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it came out right at the end of the dystopian YA era, the game felt like a tribute to it looking back now

floral warren
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also, the facial design is just a bit unsettling for me tbh

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I've played way too many Arkane studio +cdpr games to appreciate facial design and animations

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Dishonored's way of showing an assassination is complete is so neat

polar dragon
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Aren't all teenagers talking like that?

dire saffron
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please

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but yea very disappointing for square and not that great of a lineup. i feel like the only things thatll really sell is gonna be the destiny but again game(and even then not much), life is strange since there is a sizable fanbase, and potentially that working name title

fallen sky
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I remember playing life is strange during my teenage years and being unimpressed by the dialogue lmao. I was in a group of gamers in high school and I would actively warn them of the dialogue in case they ever wanted to play it

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it was quite popular in high school. if it were released now, I'd feel like the teens would be even less impressed by it

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but ruminating on life is strange now has me missing playing walking simulators and dating sims and text-heavy games. ah

junior crown
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the dialogue is genuinely far from what teenagers talk even the ones that do bathe in constant usage of the Internet slang, they still at least use them rarely in situations they believe is reasonable for such lil funny.

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also can get that. I am missing my meta walking simulators intake and I have played Stanley Parable, Beginner's Guide, Superliminal and The Hex even. 😔

fallen sky
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😔

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yeah typing that out had me remembering that I've played that mobile game that features professor layton's son

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quite text focused

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honestly I was surprised that life is strange didn't get roasted further than it did for its dialogue and characterization. tumblr insisted that chloe was The Absolute One for max but her edginess was just.... well!

junior crown
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I honestly never understood why people fell in love with Chloe, like ||She always makes a problem for the story in some ways and anyways ends up being a decision if town lives or not???||

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I don't know much about others games besides the first and prequel before storm, but I did wonder how these turned out but never tried to invest myself to find out

fallen sky
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there's a pretty popular set of vids on youtube discussing a) chloe's characterization and b) before the storm

junior crown
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oh yeah seen them!

fallen sky
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yay!!

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sowwy pwoxy

junior crown
#

I maybe look into reviews on regarding the other LiS since honestly I am surprised the series became so big with so little to stand out about itself.

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Also hello???

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checked true colors price

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this costs like a full on AAA title, but I thought Deck Nine is like indie studio?

fallen sky
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what wok says: check out true colors' full price
what wok means: vibe cheeeeck serves psychic damage

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for that price, without life is strange 2, that's unreasonable imo

junior crown
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although then again it's published by Square Enix, and we know they like to make prices go big, I never forgot about their Octopath Traveller for Steam price.

fallen sky
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also i believe a lot of teens and YA latched onto it because it really did feel like playing through a YA novel, but with worse dialogue. plus, it was pretty gay, and i know and saw how much of its fandom was desperate for some kind of lgbt representation at the time

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i'm so glad that more games have lgbt representation and better rep at that

floral warren
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they jebaited us with a square enix montreal tease

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and no gameplay for jcmobile

normal marsh
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It would flop if it came out now

junior crown
#

yeah at the time there was defiantly lack of lgbt representation overall in media and LiS was one of them to push it, it's just sad that said representation if to look more at it, is abusive and not really that healthy. Actually I forgot, was there anything besides Max and Chloe? At least from original.

fallen sky
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the kids were at least still very much into YA stylistics and YA novels in general, so you're right!

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like, i had a bunch of friends who were avid writers but really depended on YA tropes for their writing. they would spend hundreds of dollars on YA novels.

normal marsh
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and i hope that games don't just limit lgbt representation to strictly dating sims, it needs to be normalized in other genres

fallen sky
fallen sky
normal marsh
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i haven't played mass effect, so i'm not sure what happened in that game but i'll take your word for it

fallen sky
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dead-naming 😶

normal marsh
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you're joking

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why tf would they have that

fallen sky
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apparently the character deadnames themselves 🤨 🤪

normal marsh
#

??

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was it some weird oversight by the writers? how could they not catch that

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from the games i've personally played i liked the representation in the games night in the woods and va-11 hall-a

fallen sky
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:c they had to re-write some parts of her because of the backlash they received

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va11hall-a my beloved

terse hornet
#

Got through act 1 of nitw today and kinda not enjoying it

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LOL

fallen sky
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nitw is on my list

normal marsh
#

damn, sorry to hear that zelda

orchid tree
#

i heard nitw

polar dragon
#

Nitw? Nreath if the wild?

terse hornet
#

I'll probably push through cause it's short but.

orchid tree
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night in the woods

normal marsh
#

it's all g if it isn't your thing, but the characters really grew on me

fallen sky
#

LOL everything is just a remix of breath of the wild

terse hornet
#

It's funny like once in a half hour and that's about it

orchid tree
fallen sky
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i had to tell my friend that there were prequels lol

orchid tree
#

wait is that considered spoilers

terse hornet
#

I get it being in your twenties sucks

polar dragon
#

I should finish that game

normal marsh
#

also, go the bea route

fallen sky
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no it's not ataino. i believe that's well known

terse hornet
#

I don't come to games to hear that lmao

orchid tree
#

wait there's routes??

polar dragon
#

Please mark spoilers

junior crown
#

night in the woods is like cartoonish furry 2dscroller that has more believe dialogue than first LiS. I big recommend it.

terse hornet
orchid tree
normal marsh
normal marsh
fallen sky
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that's fair. i've just seen its basic contents regarding that stuff being discussed frequently

orchid tree
#

although i guess i am the exception to the usual: i don't like mainstream and popular things often i avoid them ig

fallen sky
#

i have no idea of the contents of the game otherwise

orchid tree
#

i don't really remember either but yeah if it wasn't for that playthrough i wouldn't have heard of it lol

terse hornet
normal marsh
terse hornet
#

I expected to enjoy it more than I did so far overall though

normal marsh
terse hornet
#

Very ironic that I have this good pc I can play things on but everything new I try I don't enjoy

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Kinda???

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It feels like it's trying too hard to be #relatable

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Also the minigames are very random and I don't like any of them

wraith cradle
#

Am I the only one who thinks LiS graphics are already too outdated?

terse hornet
#

Okay aside from the bass playing one

fallen sky
#

omg... it's fall today...

normal marsh
terse hornet
#

That one is alright

wraith cradle
#

The OG when it cane out looked great but years have passed since then

fallen sky
#

i guess the lis remaster will help with that?

terse hornet
fallen sky
#

okay emu thank u i think monument valley 2 is still my priority but i'm gonna try to play nitw asap

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i gotta finish seasons after fall as well

normal marsh
#

also i'm almost finished with hzd on pc and i love the story and gameplay a lot, but the facial animations take me out of it completely, ik it would be very difficult for them to hand animate it all but it's just not good

dire condor
#

Yeah, HZD has a fair number of rough parts.

junior crown
#

I honestly don't play much rn, just having my dad playthrough Disco Elysium which is honestly quite funny experience.

dire condor
#

All the time and attention went into the 21st century backstory and the robots, so current characters (besides Aloy) can be pretty messed up.

normal marsh
junior crown
#

and possibly Pyre too, since he wants something else besides Disco Elysium and I quote "at least this game doesn't look like it's depressing"

terse hornet
#

Okay I'll try to hold on til then

polar dragon
#

I want XCOM3

junior crown
#

we have xcom 2.5

terse hornet
polar dragon
terse hornet
#

I miss Pyre already and I finished it this month

fallen sky
#

pyre looks like endless stained glass

normal marsh
junior crown
#

I guess what he meant more is that it's unlikely Pyre would hit too close to reality like DE

dire condor
#

Until Forbidden West also sucks in that regard, I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt in prioritizing the set-up so that they can more strongly finish Aloy's story.

normal marsh
terse hornet
#

You BET

dire condor
#

Pyre is SGG's best narrative, and it's not even really close?

terse hornet
#

well it's more about the characters

normal marsh
#

oh? i would've thought hades was

dire condor
#

Hades is their best game.

terse hornet
#

If you like found family you will Love Pyre So Much

normal marsh
terse hornet
normal marsh
#

found family is a trope i will never get tired of

fallen sky
#

imo pyre's character story is the best out of it, transistor, and bastion

dire condor
#

But Pyre is 65% visual novel and even for their first outing with so many characters (Bastion had 4, Transistor 4 or 5, Pyre explodes to nearly as many characters as Hades), it's masterfully written.

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Pyre's OST does nothing for me.

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It's the only one of the four I don't keep in my shuffle.

terse hornet
#

Okay emu just go play Pyre r i g h t n o w

dire condor
#

It's great in-game, but that's all (for me).

terse hornet
#

/j

normal marsh
fallen sky
#

oh also i should mention that the pyre fandom has some fantastic artists and content creators. a lovely bunch in general

junior crown
#

oh yeah I can get that Pyre ost? awesome, but it's strange to listen to medieval fantasy beats outside of it

terse hornet
#

I never felt like it was that Strange

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I listen to Surviving Exile very often

quartz latch
#

Me neither, I listen to it regularly

terse hornet
#

Then again i literally listen to nothing but video game music

junior crown
#

like can listen to few songs with lyrics, but otherwise doesn't do much.

terse hornet
#

It doesn't really need to do things, it's nice to just chill to and pretty dang diverse

normal marsh
#

pyre's is?

terse hornet
#

Yeah

normal marsh
#

hmm, might just need to start it, you guys have convinced me lmao

terse hornet
#

Also Hades might objectively be the best but personally I am just Sooooo biased towards Transistor

normal marsh
#

i haven't played but the voice acting in transistor sounded really good

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especially in the opening scene

fallen sky
#

i love transistor. but this is a conversation for another channel lmao

terse hornet
#

Man I like how Logan's roles couldn't be more different between Transistor and Pyre

fallen sky
#

transistor is my fave supergiant game, for sure

terse hornet
#

these are technically video games

normal marsh
#

also does the gameplay of pyre grow on you? i heard it was sort of a sport format and i'm not a huge fan of those types of games

terse hornet
#

I'd say it does get better

sonic path
#

It's not sport format, it's an exclusively boss rush game

terse hornet
#

But also the whole thing of Pyre is that you can lose every time and the story will work regardless

sonic path
#

The sport is just thrown in to clarify that it's not killing.

terse hornet
#

it's not really a boss rush???

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Second half maybe but...

sonic path
#

If you crank up the difficulty, you get two tutorial matches and then Old Dalbert brings the heat!

terse hornet
#

Aaand that's why I'm never doing TN thanks

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I doubt emu would feel inclined to start on heightened too

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Oh well

sonic path
#

Yeah my first experience with pyre was like, "this is not what I was expecting". I started on heightened.

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When I got to the withdrawn I was like, I refuse to lose another match so I replayed that like 20 times

terse hornet
#

I played on Standard the whole time so

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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It's not nearly as scary on standard trust meeee

normal marsh
#

yeah, i'm not really a hard difficulty kind of player, standard is my go to in games

dire condor
#

Played on Standard, turned on the "enemies move faster" modifier once that became available, and didn't turn it back off until the very last match because I'm a coward.

sonic path
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And by the time I won there was like, constant five minute back-and-fortg exchanges on every play and suddenly I'm like "This is the most exciting thing I've played in my life!"

terse hornet
sonic path
#

The moral of my story is that hidden behind one of the most player-empowering story mechanics ever made

rustic falcon
#

psst, just here to redirect you all to #pyre!

sonic path
#

Is also one of the smoothest, most exciting all boss action games ever made.

normal marsh
#

sayonara wild hearts and va11halla also have really good soundtracks

terse hornet
#

I think I found a song from that game randomly, thought 'this is nice' and that was it

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I'm really excited to play va11halla soon-ish, after nitw probably

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I don't think I have enough presence to handle it atm but it looks so good

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I hope its music borrows more from how actual pc-98 games sounded

normal marsh
#

i'm sure my feelings towards the game boosted my enjoyment of the tracks, they were integrated well in the game so i listen to them more fondly

terse hornet
#

(and touhou but I don't like PLAYING these)

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(man I will never pass up on an opportunity to mention rain of lamentation lmao I'm so sorry)

normal marsh
#

hmm, va11halla's soundtrack has kind of a jazzy synth/future funk kind of style, i haven't played actual pc-98 games so i'm not sure how similar they actually are

terse hornet
#

Hmm yeah ok I'll still enjoy it it's just not what I was expecting

normal marsh
#

this is a good example of the style of the music @terse hornet

terse hornet
#

Oh yes it plays pretty early on doesn't it???

normal marsh
#

you get to choose the music of the game via a jukebox

terse hornet
#

I already played a very tiny bit of the game but then I realized just how much TEXT and I was like ok not today but someday

terse hornet
normal marsh
#

some parts will have their own predetermined music, but yeah, since you're a bartender in the game it lets you choose the tracks

terse hornet
#

:O

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That's very cool

normal marsh
#

the music varies, some are high energy, some are lowkey/melancholic

quartz latch
#

I'm on the fence about that game but this talk is making me wishlist it...

terse hornet
#

Oh lol I wondered if that would pass

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plans to pull off a what's new you know who

normal marsh
quartz latch
#

Thank you! I'm good with the VN format in theory, even though I'm a little picky in practice. I'll try this bartending thing...

normal marsh
#

hope you like it! it's a very comfy game

terse hornet
#

I want more games with this kind of aesthetic in my liiiife

normal marsh
#

yeah, they're pretty few and far between, looking forward to the sequel game tho

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crosscode has a similar character portrait art style but very different gameplay

terse hornet
#

I saw it being brought up in this channel earlier

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I think

rancid token
#

Valhalla is good

dire saffron
#

lol when i played valhalla a few days ago i had re: snow(i think tahts what its called) playing since its jazzy :3

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its a very good game and i need to do my new game +

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since the ending was both satisfying and not at the same time somehow

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imo

tame veldt
#

Pawnbarian is a minimalist rogue-like puzzler. It's built around the core mechanic of using chess moves to control your adventurer on a tiny dungeon board. Use a deck of chess pieces to hack and slash through hordes of monsters. Pick up the basics instantly if you're familiar with chess, or learn in minutes if you aren't. Carefully plan your mov...

Release Date

2021

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yes

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i need now

orchid tree
#

PAWNBARIAN

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is it for free in steam or paid early access?

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because there's still flash/html versions of the demos

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that you could play rn

tame veldt
#

free demo

bleak coral
#

Is FF7R one of the most visually impressive games on the PS4?

dire saffron
#

well mon hunt world is very pretty too :3

bleak coral
#

For sure

#

Spider-Man PS4 as well

#

But ff7r is bonkers

rigid girder
#

Microsoft will show over 100 indie games with Twitch 26 March, who is hyped?

#

I am a big fan of ID@xbox program, I love indie games and rly cant wait to see what they will show.

#

We at ID@Xbox, the Independent and Digital games publishing program for Xbox, love indie games. It’s in our blood. Technically, it’s also kind of in our name. Turns out our friends at Twitch also love indie games. When we found that out, we thought “we gotta collab!” So, I’m thrilled to announce the first /twitchgaming […]

limpid perch
#

If you got CSGO, you get a free Hades music kit

floral warren
#

FOR REAL?

#

HOLY proxyword THERES NO 🧢

tame veldt
#

what is this tabletop simulator i see everyone play

stable kindle
#

a tabletop game simulator

#

the name is quite self explanatory

tame veldt
#

bruh

stable kindle
#

theres like dozens of games you can play in it bro go look it up

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i think most of them need to be purchased though thonk i dont own it so i couldnt tell you

tame veldt
#

i'm looking at the steam page and it tells me nothing

stable kindle
#

youtube exists

tame veldt
#

ok

polar dragon
#

basically it is a simulator for a table

polar dragon
#

you can do a lot of things on that table, of course

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not everything

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but a lot

woven breach
#

squirtheh anything?

polar dragon
#

most anything

woven breach
polar dragon
graceful galleon
#

folks, Baba Is You is a great logic puzzle game

woven breach
#

it's pretty fun

lethal drift
#

Oh yeah that game. Does look really good

polar dragon
#

You is Baba

mortal siren
#

who is baba

fallen sky
#

you is baba

broken smelt
#

How is Baba

woven breach
#

When is Baba

junior crown
#

Where is Baba

lethal drift
#

Two is Baba

dire condor
#

Father is Baba

mortal siren
#

Drugs

thorn tundra
#

Baba is Baba

graceful galleon
#

Baba is You

junior crown
#

We have gone full circle

tall hornet
#

Baba is Sus

mortal siren
#

Amogus

orchid tree
#

i heard talk about baba is you

#

i must force myself into this discussion that died well over an hour ago

steady otter
#

The only baba I know of is Baba Yaga

dire warren
#

i've heard a bit about baba is you but it's a puzzle game and i am, in general, an idiot

orchid tree
#

it's not a puzzle game it's an existential crisis

graceful galleon
#

I took a break, my brain hurts squirtnya

orchid tree
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lul

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where did you get

graceful galleon
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not far

orchid tree
#

or, how far

graceful galleon
#

like, 3rd map?

orchid tree
#

how many dandelions if you remember

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oh

graceful galleon
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15ish i think

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not far

orchid tree
#

honestly, you should try to push from 1st to 5th, that's kinda where you start getting in the baba mindset

graceful galleon
#

and my brain already hurts, dis gon be gud zaglol

orchid tree
#

i know it's hard but i don't know how else to explain it just HAPPENS that after 5th area you kinda just get into the zone

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also, here's how many dandelions (levels, technically) are in the game: ||like, 226 lol||

graceful galleon
#

I for sure gonna finish the game and no looking for solutions online

orchid tree
#

good luck!

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although, if you ever need a hint, not a solution, feel free to ask me

graceful galleon
#

gotcha

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thanks mate!

thorn tundra
#

baba is weirdly a lot like coding

orchid tree
#

it's not "weirdly a lot" it's literally a coding language

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it's turing complete

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i personally made langton's ant and Life in BIY lol

woven breach
#

Lmao

mild shore
#

hey, so i'm compiling a list of games from before the year 2000 that have a double jump, would appreciate if someone has a new game to add https://pastebin.com/6J80Xe9G

floral warren
#

TLDR: in the big 1.2 patch, amongst the presumably many fixes there will be:
-A better police system
-Better driving sensitivity
-a feature where you flip and roll a vehicle if it got stuck
-Disable double tap--->dodge button in the settings

terse hornet
polar dragon
#

Hoshido or Nohr?

twin yarrow
#

amongst
that's enough internet for today.. sometimes out of the corner of my eye i see things that are not even there

gleaming geode
#

hey y’all, i’m looking to get a new controller. would you guys recommend xbox one, dualshock four, or other? budget is up to around £60, must be bluetooth compatible

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thanks in advance <33

gleaming geode
#

lol

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thank you!

twin yarrow
#

just be careful, last versions of DS4, XB1 just like switch, tend to drift after a while

polar dragon
#

that model unfortunately is no longer available

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you might need to use the new Xbox Core Controller instead

gleaming geode
#

access denied to to website ._.

tame veldt
#

🛬 🤯

gleaming geode
#

oh no i’m getting a new controller bc of joystick drift

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and sticky buttons

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don’t wanna have to do that twice

polar dragon
#

Just google Xbox Core Controller.
I have one. No problem so far.

twin yarrow
#

my old DS4 used to work for a good period, untill was smacked against the floor after a bad match

tame veldt
#

don't get the white one if you got sweaty hands :3

polar dragon
#

If you really love DS design

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There is this

twin yarrow
#

all the new ones started to drift after couple of months

tame veldt
#

mines doing just fine after a year or two

polar dragon
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I don't own that controller specifically but my previous purchases from 8bitdo have been great

twin yarrow
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wish i could relpace sticks myself, but that takes some equipment i don't have

gleaming geode
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time to become a welder ig

twin yarrow
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some time ago it was revealed that the problem is in hardware supplier, the sticks they provide are meant to work only for around 400 hours

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of active moving

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which is nothing for modern gaming

tame veldt
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yeah that's tiny

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this is sgg we playin' hades. y'know how much those sticks move?

woven breach
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Play with dpad dusa

gleaming geode
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i’ve had 300 hours in hades and i got it like

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last month

gleaming geode
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imagine not being able to move in all directions

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SAD

twin yarrow
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kbm users: shadeeyeroll

polar dragon
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imagine not being able to walk in Hades

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xD

woven breach
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Dash your way to victory

bitter bolt
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i need to play WAY more hades than i do

tame veldt
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just do

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play now

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NOW

bitter bolt
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i haven't touched the game in a long time but that's because i can't really main a single game

tame veldt
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why are you wasting time

bitter bolt
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unless it's a JRPG

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OK BRO CHILL

tame veldt
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pick up a controller and play

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now

bitter bolt
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but listen listen

tame veldt
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no

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play

bitter bolt
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i came here to inform u guys

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unless you already know

twin yarrow
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🔫 tizomg

bitter bolt
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there's a Hades CS:GO music kit!

tame veldt
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we know

bitter bolt
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I got -

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.

tame veldt
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now GO

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play

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now

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do it

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thou art shall playeth Hades

bitter bolt
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dawg can you like... stop

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lol

tame veldt
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no

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NOW PLAY

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waiting for your discord status to change

bitter bolt
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:/

tame veldt
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I'm still waiting!!

twin yarrow
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what if he is somewhere on the road

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and there's no Hades

tame veldt
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That's no excuse!!

lethal drift
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Play Hades now or I shoot milk into your nose

polar dragon
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That's erm quite the punishment

lethal drift
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A fate worse than death

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Oh another one. Making you eat an entire scoop of wasabi

polar dragon
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Per the legendary Day9, the best curse I have ever heard is

I wish that you don't have a dominant hand, so when you want to grab something, you have to think about what hand to use. And every movement will ever come naturally to you. No no, I don't wish you death or cancer or anything like that. That's cruel and severe. I just hope that you don't have a dominant hand, a punishment suit for a dumbass like you.

woven breach
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Spoonful

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Prob the famous one is may your pillow be forever warm on each side

limpid perch
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Reawaken your inner demon in a modernized version of the acclaimed ATLUS classic, Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster. What begins as a normal day in Tokyo turns out to be everything but, when the Conception – an ethereal apocalypse – is invoked. The remains of the world are swallowed by chaos, as a demonic revolution descends into a b...

Price

$49.99

Release Date

May 24, 2021

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FEATURING DANTE FROM DEVIL MAY CRY

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LETS GO

woven breach
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F-fifty bucks? dusa

tame veldt
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YEYSYEYYSYSYYEDEYYSYEYWSYEYYDSYEYAJDFGVHTSEB,ZUMZXHUDFN

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FINALLY

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hmugjvDFBJYDGVSJBYVUKYUAUK

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THERE IS A GOD AND GODAMN HE IS GETTING REJECTED

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YYUEAEFFESJYSTVNEYESSS

polar dragon
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someone tell me why Shin Megami Tensei is good

tame veldt
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great soundtrack. somehow makes turn-based combat fun. great story. ||maybe not in nocturne case though||

dire condor
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I can't speak on the series at large, but the Persona subseries at least tends to have good music. P5 in particular has a truly incredible soundtrack.

tame veldt
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i haven't played nocturne since 2012 on my friends ps2

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i never got to finish it

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what i played it wa sgreat

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doggo, you were philosophizing in #tv-and-movies last night whether on purpose or not. that's all nocturne is. makes you question your ideals instead of a concrete story.

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devil survivor is still my fav game of all time. hades is giving it a big run for its money.

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devil survivor 2 on the other hand is one of the worst smt games

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i pirated emulated P5 on a ps3 emulator. to be honest there was too many problems in my imo for me to hold it such high regard. from p5r reviews it seems it fixes all my issues with the og.

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P4 is great.

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P3 sucks beyond belief. don't know how you can play that game.

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P1 is good but has too many problems to be even a 6/10

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i'm talking too much

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i'll stop

dire condor
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Until P5 I'd heard more people hold up P3 as the best SMT game than anything else, besides maybe DDS1 or 2 or Nocturne.

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But I'm also the guy who hates Dark Souls but loves Bloodborne.

tame veldt
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i still need to play digital devil saga and devil summoner but in P3 you can't control your party members which makes the game feel unskillful and down to luck. i was also dreading the story.

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someone told me to play P3P because you can control your party members but i still need to try that

polar dragon
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I'll come back to the Persona/SMT convo later

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but I'm playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3

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and the game literally includes a pdf for you to read

tame veldt
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pffft

polar dragon
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talk about old school tutorial

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they even ask you to physically print it out

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haha

tame veldt
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cue the kero kero flamingo but bruh

polar dragon
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tfw when the tutorial literally teaches you to save scum

tame veldt
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that's cringe

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also you better name your character Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon

copper mortar
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slay the spire is hard

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looking back at run logs and I don't even know where I went wrong, died to champ this run and did excellent beforehand

sharp raft
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The champ asks if you can either scale or if you can block a major hit for multiple turns

past smelt
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Shin Megami Tensei is great

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I've been playing IV lately

dire basin
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poggers

past smelt
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It's like Pokémon on steroids made by a mythology buff who is also on steroids (granted, the game devs stray far from that description)

dire basin
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where are you in the game rn?

past smelt
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Haven't been playing due to homework

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I think Ikebukuro Library is my next quest

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Honestly from what I heard IV is one of the easiest games to run

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also nice Jack frost PFP

dire basin
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haha thanks

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IV is one of the easiest SMT games

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well naraku is quite punishing

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but once you ||get to tokyo|| the game becomes really easy imo

past smelt
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yeah true

dire basin
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do you have any plans on which alignment route you want to go?

past smelt
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chaos probably

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i know the alignment system in this game is quite weird

dire basin
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yea the only way to know which alignment you are is by talking to a guy in the bar

past smelt
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I would go neutral but I know that's next to impossible if you're playing blind

dire basin
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i mean

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i got neutral first playthrough lmao

past smelt
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hah

dire basin
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i was kinda aiming for it but never used any guide

past smelt
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cool

dire basin
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i think it was cuz i never realized i was going law till the endgame

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then i picked chaos options after that lmao

past smelt
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I've also been devoting time to Persona 5 Strikers

dire basin
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how is it?

past smelt
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very fun

dire basin
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heard good stuff about it but expensive

past smelt
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I have but one complaint

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hot springs scene

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painful.

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other than that, exhilirating game

tame veldt
past smelt
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Oh basically persona 3 onwards has a weird joke

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there's always a scene were the main boys are in the hot springs one way or another and then the girls come in

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this is almost never intentional on the boy's part

tame veldt
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how is it painful

past smelt
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oh the girls get mad.

polar dragon
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gerry go to bed

dire basin
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bruh i thought that was only in P3

past smelt
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and when the boys try to explain themselves they get punted

dire basin
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but yea its the regular anime fanservice

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painful indeed

tame veldt
past smelt
dire basin
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midnight is early

past smelt
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anyway the battles in strikers are surprisingly intuitive for a hack and slash

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new players like me tended to use the persona skills that use sp and pause the battle

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but SP runs out fast early game

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so you have to learn attacks that use the elemental skills to strike weaknesses as part of a sequence of button combos

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like if you want to use eiha or something but don't want to use SP anymore you could do square square triangle triangle or something of the sort

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pretty fun to execute

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very damn stylish too

dire basin
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sounds fun

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so you get elemental items and stuff?

past smelt
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no not really

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the story is engaging for the most part but I'm not done with it yet, so we'll see

dire basin
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oh right about the story

past smelt
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it's mostly the PTs goofing off and eating food at the beginning and then it continues for a while

dire basin
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is it actually a P5 sequel?