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Indrid Cold said:
It's the spiritual successor to D2.
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That makes sense. It really has that D2 feel, only bigger and with way more depth. I'm having a blast playing with a friend. The game is difficult too, which is great.

I think I'm starting to understand why I felt D4 was boring too. It felt like the build and attacks weren't as meaningful. The map and enemy designs were inferior and with waaaay less variety. The open world wasn't as interesting for an ARPG as the procedural maps. And, probably the most important part, the maps/dungeons are short in POE2, while D4 I remember some dungeons being a slog to go through lasting way too much time in the same settings. I also remember seeing the same enemies and same designs 30 hours in, to the point I quit due to how repetitive it was. Its crazy that a team with that kind of funding doesn't understand and can't create something this good.
 
Andrei79 said:
That makes sense. It really has that D2 feel, only bigger and with way more depth. I'm having a blast playing with a friend. The game is difficult too, which is great.

I think I'm starting to understand why I felt D4 was boring too. It felt like the build and attacks weren't as meaningful. The map and enemy designs were inferior and with waaaay less variety. The open world wasn't as interesting for an ARPG as the procedural maps. And, probably the most important part, the maps/dungeons are short in POE2, while D4 I remember some dungeons being a slog to go through lasting way too much time in the same settings. I also remember seeing the same enemies and same designs 30 hours in, to the point I quit due to how repetitive it was. Its crazy that a team with that kind of funding doesn't understand and can't create something this good.
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The slower, D2 like gameplay is POE's evil trick to make the game seem bigger than it really is. D4 is huge, and game play is so much faster. I like the slower style. D4's one killing vast mobs just doesn't feel right.
 
I'm a bit over half way through the main story in Talos Principle 2, I'll be playing the DLC immediately after. I think the puzzles are much more interesting in the sequel but the story was much more interesting in the original so far. I'm amazed at just how many more interactions they included in the sequel. The first one only had a few devices you used to solve puzzles and I'm still being introduced to new ones half way through the sequel. There has to be 3-4x as many different devices you have to take advantage of to solve puzzles.
 
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Case of the Golden Idol is an excellent puzzle game. Very good for spot gaming while you have other responsibilities going on (like a newborn, for example).
 
I'm in act 2 of pentiment. What a wonderful game. I'm really surprised Obsidian got the green light for it, but it's a highlight of what they do best. Wish more big developers made passion projects like that.


Frankie Spankie said:
I'm a bit over half way through the main story in Talos Principle 2, I'll be playing the DLC immediately after. I think the puzzles are much more interesting in the sequel but the story was much more interesting in the original so far. I'm amazed at just how many more interactions they included in the sequel. The first one only had a few devices you used to solve puzzles and I'm still being introduced to new ones half way through the sequel. There has to be 3-4x as many different devices you have to take advantage of to solve puzzles.
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I've been getting recommandations for the two games. How is it ?
 
Andrei79 said:
I'm in act 2 of pentiment. What a wonderful game. I'm really surprised Obsidian got the green light for it, but it's a highlight of what they do best. Wish more big developers made passion projects like that.




I've been getting recommandations for the two games. How is it ?
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Pentiment was my favorite from 2022.
 
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Finishing Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare tonight, then trying my 2nd walktrough of The Long Reach since I failed the 1st one and got stuck.
 
YouTube randomly recommended some let's play of some girl twitch streamer playing mega Man 2 and 3 and she was so frustratingly bad at it that I had to go spend $7 on the Mega Man Legacy Edition on switch just so I could play them right.

They are undoubtedly my favorite NES games though
 
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McGarnagle said:
YouTube randomly recommended some let's play of some girl twitch streamer playing mega Man 2 and 3 and she was so frustratingly bad at it that I had to go spend $7 on the Mega Man Legacy Edition on switch just so I could play them right.

They are undoubtedly my favorite NES games though
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That reminded me of watching a Teens React video for MegaMan years ago, and when I looked it up just now, it started at 1:56, so I probably got so frustrated watching these kids be so bad at it that I stopped the video less than two minutes in. :laugh:
 
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That reminded me of watching a Teens React video for MegaMan years ago, and when I looked it up just now, it started at 1:56, so I probably got so frustrated watching these kids be so bad at it that I stopped the video less than two minutes in. :laugh:
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It's incredibly frustrating watching people be so bad at games you're good at. I was fine years old when my brother got MM3 on the NES and even at that age I could beat several levels and bosses. Watching a grown woman just show zero pattern recognition skills and keep walking into enemies or making bad decisions had me almost yelling at the screen.
 
I've been trophy hunting on Far Cry 4. It was the first game I bought on the PS4 so it's already a bit nostalgic even though it's only a decade old. Got to the point where I only have three trophies left, two co op and one multiplayer. I was incredibly surprised last night, when I searched for a multiplayer match with absolutely zero hope of actually finding one, that I actually did end up in a game. I don't know if it was a fluke, but I'll need two more of them as the trophy requires me to complete a game in the three different game modes.

Co op trophies aren't a problem since I can just force a friend to do them with me. And doing the outposts and especially fortresses in co op is genuinely really fun anyway.
 
JoVel said:
I've been trophy hunting on Far Cry 4. It was the first game I bought on the PS4 so it's already a bit nostalgic even though it's only a decade old. Got to the point where I only have three trophies left, two co op and one multiplayer. I was incredibly surprised last night, when I searched for a multiplayer match with absolutely zero hope of actually finding one, that I actually did end up in a game. I don't know if it was a fluke, but I'll need two more of them as the trophy requires me to complete a game in the three different game modes.

Co op trophies aren't a problem since I can just force a friend to do them with me. And doing the outposts and especially fortresses in co op is genuinely really fun anyway.
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I need those trophies too haha. Been years since I played but would hop on if you need someone.
 
Playing a bit of PGA 2k23 in between starting whatever my next game is, while I don't think it's as much fun as the mid 2000's Tiger Woods games, or some of the Hot Shots golf games, PGA 2k23 was a solid entry, it plays pretty well and looks great
 
What did you all think of God of War 2018? I just finished the prologue and fight with “The Stranger”. I’ve never played these games before so I’m not sure what to expect.

Production wise it seems fantastic but I’m not sure about the combat yet and on the “Hard” difficulty it just feels very damage spongy so I brought it back down to normal.
 
I liked the first one a bit better than the second one and really the fighting is the weakest part of the gameplay, I really enjoyed some of the puzzles to unlock chests and stuff like that, needed to be really precise with your ax throws. As with the genre, as you go along you get different moves and weapons to spice up the combat a bit but I dunno, I liked everything else more.

I'm hoping to beat Persona 5 Royal by the time Pirate Yakuza comes out in twoish weeks but I don't know if I will, I'm currently at 50 hours with at least three more Palaces to go and it's not like I'm doing things to waste time.
 
x Tame Impala said:
What did you all think of God of War 2018? I just finished the prologue and fight with “The Stranger”. I’ve never played these games before so I’m not sure what to expect.

Production wise it seems fantastic but I’m not sure about the combat yet and on the “Hard” difficulty it just feels very damage spongy so I brought it back down to normal.
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It's kinda like that throughout the game. You get another weapon about half way through which livens things up a bit, but yeah.

If you just follow the main path, the combat gets kinda repetitive and boring. But if you do the puzzles, combat challenges, and optional bosses, it's enjoyable IMO. Not best game ever, but good. Production value is definitely where it shines the most, though.
 
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x Tame Impala said:
What did you all think of God of War 2018? I just finished the prologue and fight with “The Stranger”. I’ve never played these games before so I’m not sure what to expect.

Production wise it seems fantastic but I’m not sure about the combat yet and on the “Hard” difficulty it just feels very damage spongy so I brought it back down to normal.
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I was really disappointed in it. They went all in on production value to make the game look as good as possible that they didn't give enough attention to the game play. The combat really isn't anything special. While I said the production value was good, I was really disappointed with how much attention they put into the visuals but so many of the finishers looked the same. IIRC, each enemy only had one animation for a finisher and since you're usually fighting the same enemy type in each area, your finisher animations are so repetitive.

I genuinely got the feeling from God of War that people only loved it because it was an exclusive and going into a Playstation exclusive, people have a different mindset that the game is automatically better than it is. I remember when I posted my disappointment in the game after it got released on PC, a lot of people shared the same sentiment about the game that it's just OK at best while looking pretty and having a pretty good story.
 
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