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[Viata]

Is it that Samurai Spirits RPG? How good is it?

 

[Kabas]

Didn't expect the choices and consequences.

Oh, interns also undergo gender change when promoting into professors/inventors.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

 

[Hoaxmetal]

Playing Yakuza 0

Very meta

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

F.E.A.R : Perseus Mandate

Compared to the first expansion, it's worse. The beginning is horrible, with the open spaces and it feels really cheap. I really liked the new weapons, especially the advanced rifle with a nightvision scope and the grenade launcher for ultimate carnage opportunity. One of the new enemies - Nightcrawler Elite use them as well, and one hit from them means game over. Sometimes it takes seconds to kill them, but most of the time I had to "dance" with them to be able to finally kill them. Using explosives is the best approach. As for the story, Extraction Point was way better and consistent with what happened in the full game. Still, both expansions aren't cannon so they are meant for the most hardcore fans who like the combat.

Spoiler

 

[Tito Anic]

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Oh No! More Lemmings, presenting another 100 Lemmings levels, 20 for each of 5 difficulty levels.

Spoiler

Tame Level 20: Custom built for Lemmings
The Tame levels always give the player 20 of each type of ability and offer little challenge.

Crazy Level 6: The Stack

Crazy Level 10: ROCKY VI

Crazy Level 13: It's a trade off

Crazy Level 19: DON'T PANIC

Wild Level 7: You Take the High Road

Wild Level 9: Ice Station Lemming

Wild Level 11: Mutiny On The Bounty

Wild Level 18: Dr Lemminggood

Wild Level 19: Lemmingdelica

A cannon trap incinerates a lemming.

 

[catfood]

I love Lemmings. It's one of the first games I ever played.

 

[octavius]

Shunned for Thief
Nice creepy atmosphere, but moving around was sometimes annoying due to bad "collision detection" or whatever is the correct geek speak.

Spoiler

 

[CryptRat]

From Beyond Prologue

Spoiler

 

[yellowcake]

I think the first game was better. It had this focus on heroine's journey and revenge, and I think it had better environments with magnificent ancient cities buried in underground caves etc, whereas here you are an established dragon rider who takes quests from quest hubs. K controls were also better. It has its charm though and starts to grow on me.

Edit: here are my screens from the first game for comparison.

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

Rynn is the best waifu.

 

[Astral Rag]

Doom

 

[mck]

Army Men II (1999)

 

[Modron]

It's a Rising Storm 2 christmas event viata.

 

[Viata]

Damn, that is really cool.

 

[octavius]

Lord Edmund Entertains! for Thief

Classic, solid mission with nice humour.

After neutralizing Lord Edmund, Baldrick and Lord E's guards, I had 1875 of the 1900 required gold needed.

Where could I go?

Ugh! Sounds nasty!

This sounds more fun, but you're a real heel if you steal from an orphanage. But when you're desperate...

Thanks for the ring, Lisa. That nasty Lord Edmund will not force you to sit on his lap while he tickles you with his beard anymore.

 

[Konjad]

 

[Darth Roxor]

You know this goy's evil cuz he's got a black robe, eyebeams and acute baldness.

Spoiler

oh no

sure is a lot of munsters

fortunately it's nothing that global nukes can't fix

all you gotta do is spam dreamspell

until desired effect is achieved

the king himself!

wait, were you waiting outside this stupid hut while i was fighting the boss

ending about as disappointing as the first game

 

[Astral Rag]

 

[Darth Roxor]

so it begins

 

[DJOGamer PT]

It's a Rising Storm 2 christmas event viata.

That looks pretty sweet. Surprising none ever tough of doing a game like this before. Kinda reminds me of Toy Story.

Anyway...

Are you plebs ready for another round of screenshots?
Here we fucking go.

Dark Messiah

My brother had bought this on Steam back in 2011, but I never had a big interest in it.

Until I saw this video in October/November:



I was hit, by a sudden hype to play this. Specially since I had recently finished my 1st playtrough of Severance and DMC3, and was still looking for more hack & slash fun.

The main menu is simplistic and accompanied by a moody OST.
Small nitpick however, is that the character here should've been Serath (the main character) instead of this random enemy.

First chapter, Dungeon Crawling goodness. Even if the level design is very linear, the artstyle and environment, is cool and unique enough to compensate (plus it's still the tutorial).

As you can see I had quite a lot of fun with these boys (no homo).

It was at this point I realized the levels were chock full of secrets - and how I simply love that.

Most say the Island chapters (5-7) were my favorite part of the game. Excellent dungeon crawling experience.

This part pissed of at the first few tries, because that annoying useless girl always ended up getting killed or spotted. But then I discovered that if I clicked E (interact button) I could tell her to stay put/follow me.

Xenomorph Dragon?

To be, or not to be... Not to be.

This house had near the furthest barrel a pretty good weapon. The problem is that if I moved too fast or went near the barrel, the house would collapse.
Pretty nice puzzle.

This orc chieftain was like any other orc enemy, only with more HP and did more damage - so he could break your guard and even lift me up and throwing me back (like it can be seen in the next image). Still it was a nice boss, since the last hour had been killing orcs/goblins, so you were expected to know how to properly fight orcs.
One nice detail was that if the player used magic, the other orcs would join the fight, and if you didn't they would grant you safe passage. One problem with this detail tough was if weren't playing the warrior type, this wouldn't exactly be fair for the player.
Another problem was that the fight began when he stopped talking to the player, and given the short distance between him and the player plus the place were the player was, the Boss gets pretty much a free hit in beginning of the fight.

Strolling around undead infested sewers is an experience every man should have at least once in his life.

This also was a cool boss. Not only does the Litch resurrect a small militia of undead, but he also covers the room in fog. The key is to attack only him, because when he dies, so do his minions.

However unlike the Litch, the challenge to obtain the Skull of Shadows seen in this next image is very very weak and low effort. When the player enters this room a voice says the player needs to prove their worth, and then it just keeps spawning a bunch of small to medium spiders... Good job...

Even tough they were a gimmick, and too easy to successfully complete, I did enjoy these forging mini-game.

Not even hiding behind the rocks is safe. But it gets you a free eye hit.

And the head really is the place you need to attack because his skin is very thick.

Fuck this bitch...

Noice...

Leaving the island, I was struck by a powerful desire that Arkane made an Arx 2 with this game's gameplay...
Fortunately we'll have Monomyth.

Yup, they deserve to die...

Enough is enough! I've had it with these motherfucking spiders, in this motherfucking game.

Well, in hindsight it wasn't that bad...

Asking for mercy won't save you...
(Someone should make a meme out of this)

I have some problems with the game for sure:

• weapons like axes and hammers are useless;
  
• light attacks are very useless;
• demon form is just forgettable;
• bows become useless as weapon, mid game;
• health potions restore too little, and since you can die fast, you can get in situations were you need to run away from combat and chug 5 potions in a row, or just savescum (and both ways are horrible to the moment-to-moment gameplay during fights);
  
• while it's hilarious to use the kick, it still is an OP attack, and Serath's strength is also fucking ridiculous (bastard can lift and throw barrels like they were no heavier than a cat); and it's simply a big missed opportunity to the Strength skill tree;
  
• there's a lack of Boss variety (the game throws a cyclops at you, 5 times; like I said that challenge to obtain the Skull of Shadows sucked);
• while the playstyles of Thief and Mage are more useful and well realized than in most ARPG's, they still fall behind the warrior's path - as there are many segments in the game, where if you don't have either good weapons or some skill points into warrior, you're going to have a bad time;
  
• the challenge of enemies like the ghouls and necromancers wizards/knights, only exist because they are fucking damage sponges - and as such, the last 2 chapters (specially the 9th one) become a test of how much bullshit you can endure;
• the levels, while very well designed, atmospheric and beautiful to look at, still feel a little linear when you're progressing them;
• the ability to instantly detect secrets should've been an optional separate skill from the stealth tree branch; as a result it ruins the discovery of these secrets for people who want to invest in better stealth (and to counter this I had to almost always be moving the mouse so the ability didn't activate);
  
• still on the secrets, for some reason, whoever was in charge of the exploration aspect of the game thought that placing multiple equal ''special items'' throughout the levels, would actually contribute to the uniqueness of said item and exploration of the game's levels; I think maybe they didn't know what more items to create, because the location of most of them are very good (they are dangerous, require the player to actually observe their environment and challenge him with figuring out how to get there); but it just kills the fun and challenge of getting to those places, only to be rewarded with something you might already have, and destroys the notion it was supposed to be unique.

But still it's all around a great game, and probably the last great one Arkane has made.

EDIT
As a bonus:

(I can only imagine the time and lengths this guy most have gone to set up this picture)

 

[Beastro]

It's a Rising Storm 2 christmas event viata.

That looks pretty sweet. Surprising none ever tough of doing a game like this before. Kinda reminds me of Toy Story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Men

Was a shit series of games, mind you.

 

[HansDampf]

Celeste

Space jelly!

How do I kill this guy?

Shut your mouth!

I'd hate these bumpers if they weren't so funny.

When you are almost at the end of the more difficult alternate route, and the game introduces a control mechanic you didn't know about.

And the bonus challenges. This is only the first.

No wings of shame. All 175 strawberries + 2 golden strawberries for playing through chapters 1 and 2 without dying. You can get up to 200, but the other chapters are too difficult to grind.
Btw, Madeline looks like a child to me. But later her dialogue suggests she must be at least 20. I'm not comfortable with this...

 

[janior]