Hey Devs, let's make it bad
Let's take a bad game and make it shittier
Remember to let users into your wallet,
Then you can make it even shittier!

Apologies to the Beatles.

Coalfax wrote on Apr 26, 2022, 13:06:

Kxmode wrote on Apr 26, 2022, 12:52:
Hard pass until final release

Agreed. All these Early Access cash grabs needs to die on the vine.

Well not all of them. Valheim for a counter example

Someone on reddit today "Is it worth buying Valheim yet even though it's still in early access"
Yeah there were a lot of responses...
I mean It was amazing a year ago! Or whenever it hit the scene.

Darks wrote on Apr 6, 2022, 13:58:
You guys must be seriously handclapped if you cant think fast on your feet. Real Time is the ONLY way to play an RTS game. This TB crap is Childs play. Made for the old who cant take the heat of a Real Time RTS game.

This is an ironic commment coming from someone whose sig advertises a mod they made 9 years ago with a misspelled url. "ledgend"

GinRummy wrote on Apr 5, 2022, 18:38:
I enjoyed the previous game in the series "My Time at Portia" a good bit and helped kickstart this one.

Same here. Was really helping they'd get multiplayer out before early access. But this will let more be exposed to it for intput I guess.

I'm the guy who nit-picked the Directors' cut term. Just wanted to say at any rate it is an absolutely stellar gaming experience even before they touched it with any director's cut improvements. Also played this just before Covid which made the experience of forced isolation in the game and a theme that involves connecting people back together... just all the more beautifully poignant.

Tempted to play it on PC again even after over 100hours in the game on console.

Best place # 1: Your own home

It took me about 50 hours in to really hit my stride and comfort level with my build and power level.
Things really opened up after that. I have been dedicated to souls games since platinuming the first one but I will not claim to be a savant at them. I am a VERY cautious souls player... To my own frustration.
Leaning the timing of the boss moves is still slow for me. That said I still forced myself to beat Margit (first big hard boss) with no shield, no faith spells and just the jellyfish summon (which admittedly helps a lot) I am incredibly impressed at how intricate and extensive the boss combat moves are in Elden Ring.

Fortunately with the open world nature one can do a lot of stuff out of order. If you are REALLY struggling you can do a few of the things on VaatiVidya's "overpowered" video to even the odds a bit, like rushing to expand your max flasks early.

LurkerLito wrote on Mar 16, 2022, 12:00:
I own and play the game, and it feels like Dark Souls 4 to me. Sure it's not "Souls" but "Elden Ring" but just like Dark Souls the story is well nearly non-existent just stuff you get from "lore" item descriptions. Other than the open world nature of the game, it plays the same as any Souls game. So, "new franchise"? I guess technically since it's not named something "Souls", but gameplay and storywise no movement there at all. Where is this George R.R. Martin influence that was hyped?

The GRRM influence has been a bit less talked about than we would have originally thought.
It's been played down a lot. Even the Erdtree was not something GRRM came up with.
GRRM helped with the "mythology" of the world not the actual story.
I'm assuming the shattering and the ring and maybe even the relation to the main bosses of the game worked into that but we have only been given faint hints.

Regarding controllers I got a razer tartarus gamepad working but several days after launch I finally got ps5 controller working (had to kill a game controller virtual device). But then they patched it to make finding controllers easier.
It works with kb/mouse but I just really feel it is more natural for me with controller when it comes down to harsh panicky boss fights.
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I am loving the snark, Blue. Never stop being you.

No more promises. Star Citizen release roadmap is all fixed!

El Pit wrote on Jan 24, 2022, 14:28:
The universe will implode any second now. The fact that GRRM is linked to a finished product is too much to handle for the space-time-continuum.

It's ok From software already explained how little GRRM had to do with it. So his reputation as a loser who can't finish anything is intact!

Going to have to nope out of a lot of these $70... It will have to be really damn special.
#inevitable

Wow the Expedition for this is even out now. Fantastic. I just moved ot PC from PS4 so expedition is a good place to start over since it gives you lots of great rewards quickly and generously.

All I want in life right now is for Josh from Let's Game it Out to buy this game.

Guess this is why in 2015 Alphabet replaced "Don't be evil" with "Do the right thing"
Which apparently means "Do the right thing to win at all costs"

BIGtrouble77 wrote on Jun 3, 2021, 13:55:

[SC]TherMight wrote on Jun 3, 2021, 12:04:
*grumble* this Atari was reformed later by buying the brand name. It has nothing to do with the old atari except owning the IP. Kind of a sham.

Are you saying that you don't have similar nostalgic feels for Infogrames?

To answer a rhetorical question I just looked up everything Infogrames produced. Only Unreal Tournament caught my eye. Never had interest in Alone in the Dark which was their big AAA I.P. XCOM enforcer was just a bad sequel I didn't play. uh.. yeah.
I do have nostalgia for Unreal Tournament for sure but nothing else.

*grumble* this Atari was reformed later by buying the brand name. It has nothing to do with the old atari except owning the IP. Kind of a sham.

One giant flaw in the mp gameplay is that both teams are trying to do the same thing in the same place with the same item (winching a chest)
If Team A spends 95% of the time winching it and then Team B comes in and wipes them together they are screwed.
Team B just does the last 5% and they win riding on Team A's coattails.
This means the ONLY really important part of the entire map is that last spot where the action bottlenecks. Which kind of means the rest of the game is a big waste of time leading up to that point.

Fuuuuuuuu! The multiplayer mode was a ton of coop fun