Community MetaSteam | September 2019 - Valve, I Know What You Did Last Summer!
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I'm only just past mother of mothers but lol no.
Blasphemous definitely has different edge jumps than most modern platformers tho and it takes time to figure out how far off the edge to go before jumping.
I'm talking about stuff like flying enemies charging at you while you're doing platforming on top of breakable platforms that are on top of instant death falls/spikes.
It's not really a big deal but the sooner I can never see those flying bell fucks the better.
Oh sure, had some trouble with the bell enemies until I realized you can knock them out of the green aura charge with any attack. Even if they charge from below just jump and attack and they will get stopped.
Just hid in the corners and didn't bother trying to fight over the breakable platforms.
You don't get knocked back at all if you take damage while moving so as long as you have health can just eat the damage in the worst case scenario.
Edit: I just know I've never come close to finishing Ninja Gaiden nes lol
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Hino Hima is down. I repeat, Hino Hima is down. The witch is dead. You can now safely visit ancient Japanese caves again.
The two hours of being obliterated before beating a boss stays true.
#Nioh #IMustHateMyself #NotEvenDreamingOfFinishingThatShit
The two hours of being obliterated before beating a boss stays true.
#Nioh #IMustHateMyself #NotEvenDreamingOfFinishingThatShit
Sounds like I really need to stick with it, I'm on chapter two right now and let's just say I've been little underwhelmed haha. Funny thought, I'm starting to recognise the place from waaaay back when I played Yakuza 1 when it originally released.
This is like the Dragon BallZ game that I've always wanted since I was a kid. Fully explorable capsule city and its surrounding, doing side quests, fishing, and other activities. Looking forward to this one.
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While the english version is only coming out next year (and could possibly not even have this collaboration), PSO2's JP version is having a collaboration with Evangelion this winter, including a boss fight against Ramiel:
Finished Gears 5 today. Through and through a very enjoyable experience. I feel like the new open world really helps with the pacing so you can take a breather now and then instead of just going through linear corridors all the time. Only thing I didn't like was the ending. That was so abrupt I was starting to wonder if the devs ran out of time and had to ship a finished product.
The Vampire Prime in World of Final Fantasy looks so good
It has a lot of cool looking monsters in general.
I'm also impressed that every XL monster has its own special cutscene and all the champion attacks do too.
It has a lot of cool looking monsters in general.
I'm also impressed that every XL monster has its own special cutscene and all the champion attacks do too.
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So Receiver got an update. Huh.
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Steam :: Receiver :: Receiver 2019 Update
We just released a brand new update for Receiver!
could be cool , just released from early access
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Steam Community :: Transport Services :: Events
Dear players At first, let me thank you all who supported us during Early access by purchasing our game and then giving us the feedback. Thanks to you the game moved on huge steps forward from barely playable version to almost stable. Still some harder to catch bugs remains, but we believe that...
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Now I just need a coop confirmation. (I'm actually quite concerned about that given what we've seen so far)
Always nice to see Steam logo.
Well, this trailer ends with a tease for what I assume its the third party member, so it should hopefully be fine.
Sega: "What's a 'Europe'?"
Decided to just wait for Borderlands 3 to hit Steam. Should be better optimized, more patched and some DLCs out by then. It's also just 6 months exclusive.
Such a nice remix, really want to see what Soken will do with everything else.
The coming week will finally kill my wallet. 
The Sojourn (on EGS, i know )
AI: The Somnium Files
Little Misfortune
Daymare 1998 (demo was okayish)
Mutazione
Nauticrawl
The Sojourn (on EGS, i know
)AI: The Somnium Files
Little Misfortune
Daymare 1998 (demo was okayish)
Mutazione
Nauticrawl
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Both Tales of Arise and Kakarot look really good. Good time to be a weeb who plays games on PC I guess. AI: The Somnium Files also looks pretty sweet, I'll be waiting for impressions on that one.
Yeah, this is seriously the game I wanted. I remember modding my PS1 to try to play an imported DBZ game and it would only work like 1/10th of the time I tried it.
Needless to say, not worth it.
One of these days I'll play a Tales of game.
I felt the same, kind of lukewarm at the beginning but Majima immediately sold me on the game.
I want all those 5 games and own 0 yet. Being a Switch owner is expensive as hell :'(
Well I finished Ni No Kuni 2.
That was... kinda disappointing. But not because it was a bad game, it's not like a Compile Hearts game or the like.
It could have been much more if they actually invested time and effort in all the aspects of the game.
It looks really good, and the main story dungeons are very decent (if a bit simple - but miles ahead of anything I've played in years of JRPGs... level design really fell apart in the seventh gen in the genre... a topic for another time), they are nicely thematic with their own little gimmicks, decent verticality, they don't feel too samey and have an acceptable amount of landmarks even if they are quite linear.
But it sure as fuck isn't the case for the side content, which is copy/pasted crappy dungeons... made by RNG: it's not a slight against them, it's just is, they have randomly generated dungeons to grind in the game and they look identical right down to the room connections. And they have dozens of such dungeons! The overworld map and side quests are choke full of that derivative stuff.
The combat is not Ys 8, that's for sure... but it's decent enough. It's fast, well animated (even though there is that one common mistake: no you don't fucking swing your spear. That's NOT how it works), the story bosses are very good, each with their own mechanics and specific attacks to avoid.
But you have less than ten skills for each character. If you're lucky, some are so barebones that you don't even a real full set of active skills until the very endgame. It's terribly repetitive, and is made worse by the fact that...
The enemy variety is appalling, one of the worse in the genre. On that point, it's pretty close to Compile Hearts and other Z- developers.
No matter where you are, you fight the same groups of ennemies, with some variation on in a while, you can be continentsapart, dozens of hours later, and fight the exact same enemy group that you fought in the very beginning.
And they're not nearly as interesting as the main bosses...
In the same way, gear is trash.
Tons and tons of modifiers, that you can only get on random drops. Some specific on crafting... which is pointless since you will get better stuff so fast anyway.
That's "AAA, the JRPG" here, itemization is completely worthless and makes all loot a waste of time in inventory management, never interesting nor changing your gameplay. From Bethesda to CDProject, Ubisoft to Bioware, it's all garbage, and Level 5 is not new to making shit equipment. But at least they usually have a nice crafting system, in this game it's really dull. because...
The kingdom management aspect is boring as shit.
The few marginally interesting upgrades like faster movement speed are quickly lost in just waiting for mobile timers to go up, and just increments in... useless things. Since gear is crap, and the game is not hard at all( for the right reasons at least), it's all here to waste time and fuck around even more with the UI... and since you automatically get mountains of items from it. Crafting is even more pointless, and you never have any reason to explore anything,! Not like it was a strong point, but talk about removing it entirely.
But hey, at least the RTS minigame is okay. A bit buggy, but it breaks the pace well enough... and the story is alright I guess, it's basic but functional.
What really sucks is that the game would very solid if it was 15h long. It's just ridiculously stretched for no reason... except of course filling up the length quota, after all JRPGs players have a conniption when game don't last for ever and don't waste 100h with you spamming the same combo every 20sec for the entire duration of the game (hi Xenoblade, fuck you Xenoblade).
Tl;dr:
It probably would have been better as a more straightforward action game than an RPG, as it completely whiffed on character and gear progression, as well as making good use of its world.
But at least there's good elements, even if you have to dive into boredom to find them.
That was... kinda disappointing. But not because it was a bad game, it's not like a Compile Hearts game or the like.
It could have been much more if they actually invested time and effort in all the aspects of the game.
It looks really good, and the main story dungeons are very decent (if a bit simple - but miles ahead of anything I've played in years of JRPGs... level design really fell apart in the seventh gen in the genre... a topic for another time), they are nicely thematic with their own little gimmicks, decent verticality, they don't feel too samey and have an acceptable amount of landmarks even if they are quite linear.
But it sure as fuck isn't the case for the side content, which is copy/pasted crappy dungeons... made by RNG: it's not a slight against them, it's just is, they have randomly generated dungeons to grind in the game and they look identical right down to the room connections. And they have dozens of such dungeons! The overworld map and side quests are choke full of that derivative stuff.
The combat is not Ys 8, that's for sure... but it's decent enough. It's fast, well animated (even though there is that one common mistake: no you don't fucking swing your spear. That's NOT how it works), the story bosses are very good, each with their own mechanics and specific attacks to avoid.
But you have less than ten skills for each character. If you're lucky, some are so barebones that you don't even a real full set of active skills until the very endgame. It's terribly repetitive, and is made worse by the fact that...
The enemy variety is appalling, one of the worse in the genre. On that point, it's pretty close to Compile Hearts and other Z- developers.
No matter where you are, you fight the same groups of ennemies, with some variation on in a while, you can be continentsapart, dozens of hours later, and fight the exact same enemy group that you fought in the very beginning.
And they're not nearly as interesting as the main bosses...
In the same way, gear is trash.
Tons and tons of modifiers, that you can only get on random drops. Some specific on crafting... which is pointless since you will get better stuff so fast anyway.
That's "AAA, the JRPG" here, itemization is completely worthless and makes all loot a waste of time in inventory management, never interesting nor changing your gameplay. From Bethesda to CDProject, Ubisoft to Bioware, it's all garbage, and Level 5 is not new to making shit equipment. But at least they usually have a nice crafting system, in this game it's really dull. because...
The kingdom management aspect is boring as shit.
The few marginally interesting upgrades like faster movement speed are quickly lost in just waiting for mobile timers to go up, and just increments in... useless things. Since gear is crap, and the game is not hard at all( for the right reasons at least), it's all here to waste time and fuck around even more with the UI... and since you automatically get mountains of items from it. Crafting is even more pointless, and you never have any reason to explore anything,! Not like it was a strong point, but talk about removing it entirely.
But hey, at least the RTS minigame is okay. A bit buggy, but it breaks the pace well enough... and the story is alright I guess, it's basic but functional.
What really sucks is that the game would very solid if it was 15h long. It's just ridiculously stretched for no reason... except of course filling up the length quota, after all JRPGs players have a conniption when game don't last for ever and don't waste 100h with you spamming the same combo every 20sec for the entire duration of the game (hi Xenoblade, fuck you Xenoblade).
Tl;dr:
It probably would have been better as a more straightforward action game than an RPG, as it completely whiffed on character and gear progression, as well as making good use of its world.
But at least there's good elements, even if you have to dive into boredom to find them.
Endep up loving Kiryu's story and character too, but Majima was love at first sight.
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let the calculation wars begin!
Mike's conclusions were a bit shaky (look at the reviews and followers of some of the games released in July, then infer the annual sales for all of the games released in 2019), so it is good if someone challenges them.
Literally no one will care if it's not going to confirm existing biases tho
yea... let's just say we disagree. I always found it pretty lacking in what i've played.
Resident Evil 2 is such a good game. I really hope that they are making a RE3 remake in the same style.
Flashy special attack does not mean good combat (look at nier tomato)
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