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What Videogames Are You Playing Right Now?

author=SmileWithStyle
RE Revelations was awesome though.


As for Dark Souls, BAH, I can't beat Ornstein and Smough, they are relentless, only when I summoned Solaire did I manage to kill Ornstein, but Super-Smough buttstomped Solaire, and I didn't have enough flask charges left to finish him off (he had over 30% left). So now I don't have any humanity left to summon help, and solo I rarely manage to bring one of them below 50% before they roflstomp me.

Will probably come back later and do some other areas first, was getting frustrated. The rest of Anor Londo was actually easy though, even the archers didn't give me any trouble, just the damn boss duo.

You can get a decent amount of souls by 1 shoting the silver knights all the way up to them and just down slashing the giants as they come up, the knights are really easy to parry since they have all the same timing. Just something to mention if you want more souls.

As for the pikachu and snorlax fight, I ended up hitting ornstein whenever he was out of smough's reach, he's charges at you a lot so as long as you keep kiting and making smart use of the pillars you can keep it to a 1 on 1. Super smough is pretty much watching out for the oh mega butt stomp. Other than that it's pretty much how good your tells and reflexes are. I don't remember much more than that other than it's one of my fav fights in the game. I never bothered with Solaire.

did u kno… killing is bad???

Spec Ops: The Line is a bold, daring new title that teaches us all a valuable life lesson

Yet it's still another dumb shooter. I never understood the cult reception of that game but I guess everyone "get's it" when it comes to the story so it's in personal GOTYs everywhere. Metal Gear Solid communicates the vietnam era "war is bad" much better. Spec Ops just seems too late for the party. I realize the quote is facetious but people actually do think this.

It has nice art direction though. Maybe people were glad they weren't seeing brown for once.

Thief gives you a game over if you kill someone as I remember. Vanquish (a much more fun shooter) has you kill zero people interestingly, but all your allies are human.

In Live a Live (an RPG hey relevance) you can go through the entire Ninja chapter without killing anyone (you have to fight a demon boss which I think doesn't count). This means you're extremely under leveled and you don't get a great reward. The most you can possibly kill is 100 people (which requires bullshit NES secret knowledge) There's a part where you have to not kill any of the women in a certain room. Then later on you get rewarded by the head mistress or w/e for not killing them, but you kill her to get a kill you couldn't get before, and then kill the other women anyway. When fighting weak old rich people they spam a "Bribe" skill in the middle of battle.



I think my favorite aspect of killing people is Splinter Cell. In some missions you are not allowed to kill the "evil dictator" because although it makes sense in an action hero movie, killing an important figurehead outright would spark incidents especially if you are discovered. This makes the stealth elements much more stronger as the barrel of a gun is weaker than pictures of Sam Fisher in newspaper headlines the next day. Blacklist seems to have a lot more wub wub triple headshot slow mo kills though.

This topic interests me because I always do a no kill run in every stealth game I play. Not because I'm a pacifist but I guess it's just more difficult and makes sense that you're not a rambo killing machine if all you have is cigs and a pistol. A shame since MGS1 and 4 has its forced actiony parts.

Shoul I give Dark Souls a chance?

author=Exclane
Don't mean to bump, but in case anyone cares I ended up buying Dead Rising 2: Off The Record for $15 instead of Dark Souls.


My condolences.

Dark Souls was the only game I was addicted to for awhile. I'm the type of person who was struggling to get into "da games" and Dark Souls offered a refreshing no hand holding experience imo. The game isn't really that hard, it's just you paying attention to your surroundings and watching the enemy movements. I would one shot areas as long as I walked slowly and took my time. I never grinded in this game, and in fact a lot of stats aren't worth upgrading after a certain point.

I've never played Demon's Souls tho, but from what I heard the same idea applies. I think the only key difference is that they removed some of the resource annoyances.

What Videogames Are You Playing Right Now?

Ni No Kuni is pretty good. Somehow I feel Ghibli didn't have a hand in the story though.

Looking Back: Velsarbor

Shittttt I didn't even know Cross Code was made by Lachsen

Barkley 2 Kickstarter

author=Craze
Darken
lol this is the only place where people will dislike the game. Not necessarily because of the game itself but for the game's hype (look up the term "gone viral" please) or the GW culture.
my name is darken my only reason for being at rmn is to bitch about how everybody here is a fucking peasant

and you never did this.... ok i guess i stole your job or something

Barkley 2 Kickstarter

lol this is the only place where people will dislike the game. Not necessarily because of the game itself but for the game's hype (look up the term "gone viral" please) or the GW culture.

The biggest surprise for me is how drastically different the game is from the last. Sadly this is considered MAVERICK GAME MAKING by indie standards. And on top of that the game at its core looks finished, the rest just seems a matter of further content and time. Best of luck goes to them.

Looking Back: Vaporware Special Part One

author=Soli
I very much agree with this. To the point where I've never really understood this community's fixation on vaporware of ages past.


Let me help you. People like to brag when they have a big project on their hands (this is how people validate themselves). Video games are usually a big project. They require teams of people even if an engine is already made. The bigger the bubble, the higher the expectations. You combine all of this with final fantasy starved 12 year olds and you get a clusterfuck of screenshot topic nostalgia collapsing in on itself.

At least there's something to take from when it comes to demos tho.

[Poll] Which is more important: Story, Graphics, or Sound?

you want tetris bitch?

Ideas other than defeating and collecting

just trick the player into thinking he isn't doing a fetch quest (that's the hard part and probably not very telling)