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Wasilla Hillbilly
2023-01-04 5:33:27 PM  
I suck at all of them and getting older isn't helping
 
cretinbob [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-04 5:46:07 PM  
Is it $10 yet?
 
Karma Chameleon
2023-01-04 5:49:05 PM  
I definitely suck at it.

Tried it during the steam sale, returned after 2 hours. It's just not for me.

Gameplay aside, I kept hearing how amazing the visuals are. Granted I did not explore that much, but they didn't really stand out to me as anything special. If you would've told me that this game was made in like 2015 I would believe you.
 
RyansPrivates
2023-01-04 5:56:43 PM  

Karma Chameleon: I definitely suck at it.

Tried it during the steam sale, returned after 2 hours. It's just not for me.

Gameplay aside, I kept hearing how amazing the visuals are. Granted I did not explore that much, but they didn't really stand out to me as anything special. If you would've told me that this game was made in like 2015 I would believe you.


We are getting to the point where visuals are not "groundbreaking" anymore. We get incremental changes and bumps in resolution. Where games really matter now for me are in writing, gameplay, and intelligence of the enemies.

Funny thing: some of the games that are best at these things are NOT recent games.
 
some_beer_drinker
2023-01-04 6:32:21 PM  
i'm still trying to finish super mario
 
Concrete Donkey
2023-01-04 6:46:46 PM  

RyansPrivates: Karma Chameleon: I definitely suck at it.

Tried it during the steam sale, returned after 2 hours. It's just not for me.

Gameplay aside, I kept hearing how amazing the visuals are. Granted I did not explore that much, but they didn't really stand out to me as anything special. If you would've told me that this game was made in like 2015 I would believe you.

We are getting to the point where visuals are not "groundbreaking" anymore. We get incremental changes and bumps in resolution. Where games really matter now for me are in writing, gameplay, and intelligence of the enemies.

Funny thing: some of the games that are best at these things are NOT recent games.


Thats because major studios are run by complete shiatbags who think graphics are more important than anything else. Think about the timing on this: 2077 gets released completely broken and unfinished and 2 years later they have a 4k ray tracing HD graphics update for the witcher 3. Someone actually decided a graphics patch for a game that didnt need it was more important than making a complete game
 
talkertopc [TotalFark]
2023-01-04 7:05:09 PM  

Wasilla Hillbilly: I suck at all of them and getting older isn't helping


The fighting and fishing parts of Stardew Valley are my limits.
 
Akuinnen
2023-01-04 7:12:52 PM  
I'd say Vampire Survivors is my favorite game of the year. Cheap and fun.
 
Lord Bear
2023-01-04 7:19:17 PM  
Got it for xmas, been playing a lot since then.

It's good, but not great.  The graphics are good, but nothing to write home about.  Gameplay is pretty fun.  Lots of exploring and challenging fights.

I'm fairly far in, having revealed most of the map.  I've steamrolled most bosses so far, including two that made a few 'hardest bosses' lists on the first try (Margit and Starscourge Radahn.)  That said, I can't seem to beat two others with a pure melee build and am looking to change things up.

Much of its difficulty is due to crap hit detection, terrible camera controls and straight up cheap bosses.
 
moogoob
2023-01-04 7:26:13 PM  

Akuinnen: I'd say Vampire Survivors is my favorite game of the year. Cheap and fun.


Holy shiat that game has become my obsession. It's free on mobile, too!
 
Lord Bear
2023-01-04 7:35:44 PM  

Akuinnen: I'd say Vampire Survivors is my favorite game of the year. Cheap and fun.


VS is also my game of the year.

Hardspace:Shipbreaker is the runner up.
 
Flappyhead
2023-01-04 7:47:17 PM  
No love for Sifu?  That was great rage fuel.
 
JerkStore
2023-01-04 7:49:21 PM  
Elden Ring is tough, but at least it's not very fun.
 
Tyrone Slothrop
2023-01-04 8:07:29 PM  

Karma Chameleon: I definitely suck at it.

Tried it during the steam sale, returned after 2 hours. It's just not for me.

Gameplay aside, I kept hearing how amazing the visuals are. Granted I did not explore that much, but they didn't really stand out to me as anything special. If you would've told me that this game was made in like 2015 I would believe you.


If all you care about is number of pixels and vertices, Fromsoft games aren't that great. What they excel at is aesthetics and art direction. I'll take any Fromsoft game over a hyper-realistic shooter where everything is shades of brown.
 
Some Junkie Cosmonaut
2023-01-04 8:29:16 PM  

Tyrone Slothrop: Karma Chameleon: I definitely suck at it.

Tried it during the steam sale, returned after 2 hours. It's just not for me.

Gameplay aside, I kept hearing how amazing the visuals are. Granted I did not explore that much, but they didn't really stand out to me as anything special. If you would've told me that this game was made in like 2015 I would believe you.

If all you care about is number of pixels and vertices, Fromsoft games aren't that great. What they excel at is aesthetics and art direction. I'll take any Fromsoft game over a hyper-realistic shooter where everything is shades of brown.


That's rather like saying I'll take anything from McDonald's vs. a small heap of dogshiat.  True, but it's not saying much
 
Tyrone Slothrop
2023-01-04 8:36:50 PM  

Some Junkie Cosmonaut: Tyrone Slothrop: Karma Chameleon: I definitely suck at it.

Tried it during the steam sale, returned after 2 hours. It's just not for me.

Gameplay aside, I kept hearing how amazing the visuals are. Granted I did not explore that much, but they didn't really stand out to me as anything special. If you would've told me that this game was made in like 2015 I would believe you.

If all you care about is number of pixels and vertices, Fromsoft games aren't that great. What they excel at is aesthetics and art direction. I'll take any Fromsoft game over a hyper-realistic shooter where everything is shades of brown.

That's rather like saying I'll take anything from McDonald's vs. a small heap of dogshiat.  True, but it's not saying much


No, it's like saying I prefer A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte or Starry Night over a photograph of the same scene.
 
lilplatinum
2023-01-04 8:52:34 PM  
But it doesn't even have a quest log!
 
resident dystopian
2023-01-04 8:57:19 PM  

lilplatinum: But it doesn't even have a quest log!


Or towers.

/anyway I suck at Soulsbourne games so much I die after the title screen.
 
capt.snicklefritz [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-04 9:03:48 PM  

Lord Bear: Got it for xmas, been playing a lot since then.

It's good, but not great.  The graphics are good, but nothing to write home about.  Gameplay is pretty fun.  Lots of exploring and challenging fights.

I'm fairly far in, having revealed most of the map.  I've steamrolled most bosses so far, including two that made a few 'hardest bosses' lists on the first try (Margit and Starscourge Radahn.)  That said, I can't seem to beat two others with a pure melee build and am looking to change things up.

Much of its difficulty is due to crap hit detection, terrible camera controls and straight up cheap bosses.


What are you on about? Their hit-boxes are among the tightest out there and the camera is no different from any other third person action game.
 
lilplatinum
2023-01-04 9:06:45 PM  

resident dystopian: lilplatinum: But it doesn't even have a quest log!

Or towers.

/anyway I suck at Soulsbourne games so much I die after the title screen.


I mean generally everyone dies at some point after the title screen.
 
Lord Bear
2023-01-04 9:07:02 PM  
Tyrone Slothrop:

If all you care about is number of pixels and vertices, Fromsoft games aren't that great. What they excel at is aesthetics and art direction. I'll take any Fromsoft game over a hyper-realistic shooter where everything is shades of brown.

Really?  Elden Ring is mostly shades of brown, save a few areas.  And the art style is pretty generic 'dark gothic fantasy' that has been done to death since the 70s.
 
Lord Bear
2023-01-04 9:10:19 PM  
capt.snicklefritz:

Much of its difficulty is due to crap hit detection, terrible camera controls and straight up cheap bosses.

What are you on about? Their hit-boxes are among the tightest out there and the camera is no different from any other third person action game.

I can see my sword clip right through some enemies and bosses with no damage.  I've been hit many times when the enemy clearly missed.  Not to mention getting hit through walls.  The hit boxes are not 'tight'.

And the camera lock barely works, rotates slowly, has a narrow FOV, and is in too tight to see things right beside you.
 
capt.snicklefritz [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-04 9:22:52 PM  

Lord Bear: capt.snicklefritz:

Much of its difficulty is due to crap hit detection, terrible camera controls and straight up cheap bosses.

What are you on about? Their hit-boxes are among the tightest out there and the camera is no different from any other third person action game.

I can see my sword clip right through some enemies and bosses with no damage.  I've been hit many times when the enemy clearly missed.  Not to mention getting hit through walls.  The hit boxes are not 'tight'.

And the camera lock barely works, rotates slowly, has a narrow FOV, and is in too tight to see things right beside you.


Contrarian. Got it.
 
NathanAllen
2023-01-04 9:27:06 PM  
I probably wasted a few too many hours grinding to 150+, but other than those dogs and managing distance during bosses' rampage moods there wasn't that much that eas overwhelming.

Great story.
 
Dimensio
2023-01-04 9:30:37 PM  
I am an uncoordinated loser and I completed it, even defeating Malenia.

No, the game is not that hard.
 
JerkfaceMcGee [OhFark]
2023-01-04 9:41:06 PM  
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Cythraul
2023-01-04 9:47:28 PM  
I hate it when I suck at a video game.  I might try a game and think to myself "this looks fun, but I can't even accomplish anything on easy mode in this game."

One of them is Total War.  I've tried to get into that game several times and for the life of me I just can't figure it out.

I certainly hope Starfield is not going to be like that.  Bethesda's games are known for not being very challenging when it comes to game play.  But it definitely doesn't make their games less fun.
 
Some Junkie Cosmonaut
2023-01-04 10:10:41 PM  

capt.snicklefritz: Lord Bear: Got it for xmas, been playing a lot since then.

It's good, but not great.  The graphics are good, but nothing to write home about.  Gameplay is pretty fun.  Lots of exploring and challenging fights.

I'm fairly far in, having revealed most of the map.  I've steamrolled most bosses so far, including two that made a few 'hardest bosses' lists on the first try (Margit and Starscourge Radahn.)  That said, I can't seem to beat two others with a pure melee build and am looking to change things up.

Much of its difficulty is due to crap hit detection, terrible camera controls and straight up cheap bosses.

What are you on about? Their hit-boxes are among the tightest out there and the camera is no different from any other third person action game.


Hit boxes and camera, no idea - they were fine for me.  Clipping through walls is a giant problem.  Bosses animation cancelling into face eating doom is a problem.  There are other problems.  Most of them are getting ignored because literally anything From does is considered 'difficulty' and awesome.  No matter how obviously it's actually "We've figured out that we can skip all kinds of shiat they'll put up with farking anything."  They're just handing you Sekiro bosses with you stuck in DS1 movement and without the toolbox to handle that properly.   "Difffffffficultyyyyyyyyyy!"  Yeah.
 
Lord Bear
2023-01-04 10:24:52 PM  

capt.snicklefritz: Lord Bear: capt.snicklefritz:

Much of its difficulty is due to crap hit detection, terrible camera controls and straight up cheap bosses.

What are you on about? Their hit-boxes are among the tightest out there and the camera is no different from any other third person action game.

I can see my sword clip right through some enemies and bosses with no damage.  I've been hit many times when the enemy clearly missed.  Not to mention getting hit through walls.  The hit boxes are not 'tight'.

And the camera lock barely works, rotates slowly, has a narrow FOV, and is in too tight to see things right beside you.

Contrarian. Got it.


Hardly, just calling it as I see it.

Hades is a game with tight, responsive controls and accurate hitboxes.  Elden Ring is loose, slow, inaccurate and ackward by comparison
 
discgolfguru [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-01-04 10:33:42 PM  
I bought it at release or right after. I put a few hours in, but I just could not get into it. It wasn't the difficulty as much as the lack of purpose. I never really knew where to go, and I guess that wasn't for me. Maybe the open world was too open.
 
Lord Bear
2023-01-04 10:54:59 PM  

discgolfguru: I bought it at release or right after. I put a few hours in, but I just could not get into it. It wasn't the difficulty as much as the lack of purpose. I never really knew where to go, and I guess that wasn't for me. Maybe the open world was too open.


Yeah, that's my other big complaint about Elden Ring is that It eschews all kinds of RPG conventions.  A bunch more NPC quest givers and some waypoints would improve the game immensely.  It honestly feels lazy not to have them.  But From software fanbois will say its 'a feature' not to have them in the game.
 
lilplatinum
2023-01-04 11:04:27 PM  

Lord Bear: discgolfguru: I bought it at release or right after. I put a few hours in, but I just could not get into it. It wasn't the difficulty as much as the lack of purpose. I never really knew where to go, and I guess that wasn't for me. Maybe the open world was too open.

Yeah, that's my other big complaint about Elden Ring is that It eschews all kinds of RPG conventions.  A bunch more NPC quest givers and some waypoints would improve the game immensely.  It honestly feels lazy not to have them.  But From software fanbois will say its 'a feature' not to have them in the game.


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lilplatinum
2023-01-04 11:07:26 PM  

discgolfguru: I bought it at release or right after. I put a few hours in, but I just could not get into it. It wasn't the difficulty as much as the lack of purpose. I never really knew where to go, and I guess that wasn't for me. Maybe the open world was too open.


TBH it being open world is it's weakest point.  The insistence on making everything open world is one of the worst gaming conventions of the decade.
 
AppleOptionEsc
2023-01-04 11:38:46 PM  

Tyrone Slothrop: Karma Chameleon: I definitely suck at it.

Tried it during the steam sale, returned after 2 hours. It's just not for me.

Gameplay aside, I kept hearing how amazing the visuals are. Granted I did not explore that much, but they didn't really stand out to me as anything special. If you would've told me that this game was made in like 2015 I would believe you.

If all you care about is number of pixels and vertices, Fromsoft games aren't that great. What they excel at is aesthetics and art direction. I'll take any Fromsoft game over a hyper-realistic shooter where everything is shades of brown.


Saints Row is anything but realistic.
 
Jim_Callahan
2023-01-04 11:49:41 PM  

Karma Chameleon: Gameplay aside, I kept hearing how amazing the visuals are.


From... who, exactly?

I mean, I guess the creativity of the visual design is pretty good, but generally speaking the impressive thing about DS's visuals is how they're matched directly to gameplay elements (e.g. that thing you see off in the distance is an actual place you can go rather than a skybox element, that random articulated limb on the thousand-odd monstrosity is an actual in-game thing with a hitbox that can clip you and ruin your farking day, the fact that the boss is made of skeletons is because it literally has skeletons drop off of it, not just to look metal).  No one's giving the games credit for the visuals in themselves, they're fairly generic genre staples for the most part.

I mean, like, I wouldn't diss the work of the artists or anything, by itself the art is serviceable enough.  But the impressive part here is that 'serviceable' is extremely literal, in that basically everything rendered in game is actually in service of something.  Sometimes the game's lore/plot, but most frequently in the form of that big generic knight not being intimidating aesthetically, but because you know the intimidating visual design actually means it can and very much will kick your ass with its generic farking sword a dozen times before you even figure out how to successfully run through the level to avoid confronting it like the coward you are, to a much greater extent than less intimidating-looking foes.

// Seriously, the Black Knights have almost zero visual creativity, but any DS player who claims to not find them memorable is farking lying to your face.  I still have nightmares, and they are not bosses.
 
I Like Bread
2023-01-05 12:29:56 AM  

lilplatinum: discgolfguru: I bought it at release or right after. I put a few hours in, but I just could not get into it. It wasn't the difficulty as much as the lack of purpose. I never really knew where to go, and I guess that wasn't for me. Maybe the open world was too open.

TBH it being open world is it's weakest point.  The insistence on making everything open world is one of the worst gaming conventions of the decade.


Second only to calling everything an RPG.
Why? Because the game lets us see the numbers, even though we have relatively little control over them? Big deal. Computers think in numbers. When you beat up a hooker to get your money back, that hooker has hiat points. Your cricket bat does 1d10 damage.
 
CivilizedTiger
2023-01-05 1:17:03 AM  
Best Game You Totally Suck At

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/ YEAH YOU TOTALLY SUCK
 
lilplatinum
2023-01-05 1:29:31 AM  

I Like Bread: lilplatinum: discgolfguru: I bought it at release or right after. I put a few hours in, but I just could not get into it. It wasn't the difficulty as much as the lack of purpose. I never really knew where to go, and I guess that wasn't for me. Maybe the open world was too open.

TBH it being open world is it's weakest point.  The insistence on making everything open world is one of the worst gaming conventions of the decade.

Second only to calling everything an RPG.
Why? Because the game lets us see the numbers, even though we have relatively little control over them? Big deal. Computers think in numbers. When you beat up a hooker to get your money back, that hooker has hiat points. Your cricket bat does 1d10 damage.


Yes the "computer game x is not really an rpg" debate is as old as the internet.
 
I Like Bread
2023-01-05 3:18:02 AM  

lilplatinum: Yes the "computer game x is not really an rpg" debate is as old as the internet.


And still valid.
 
xalres
2023-01-05 6:04:51 AM  

Lord Bear: discgolfguru: I bought it at release or right after. I put a few hours in, but I just could not get into it. It wasn't the difficulty as much as the lack of purpose. I never really knew where to go, and I guess that wasn't for me. Maybe the open world was too open.

Yeah, that's my other big complaint about Elden Ring is that It eschews all kinds of RPG conventions.  A bunch more NPC quest givers and some waypoints would improve the game immensely.  It honestly feels lazy not to have them.  But From software fanbois will say its 'a feature' not to have them in the game.


From fans were arguing that a poorly optimized section of one of their games was good, actually, because the stuttering and framerate drops increased the challenge. They've got criticism-proof armor and an army of angry nerds ready to dogpile anyone who says a bad word. Ask they have to do is keep releasing the same game with a new hat every few years.

/oooo but their next one is set in a dreary, dying world, but with robots!
 
Marcos P
2023-01-05 6:43:42 AM  
They need to hire someone to sort out their terrible UIs
 
Where wolf
2023-01-05 7:55:44 AM  

Lord Bear: Akuinnen: I'd say Vampire Survivors is my favorite game of the year. Cheap and fun.

VS is also my game of the year.

Hardspace:Shipbreaker is the runner up.


Hardspace was great. Though, I think I got into it too early and kind of burned out on it before some of the later patches. I think I still have it installed. The atmosphere was absolutely awesome.

GOTY for me is Monster Hunter: Rise -- Sunbreak. I played the base game in '21 on switch, but Rise was released on PC in Jan '22, and the Sunbreak expansion hit in June. Highly recommend. It's good for several hundred hours of monster stabbing.
 
xalres
2023-01-05 8:50:28 AM  

Marcos P: They need to hire someone to sort out their terrible UIs


How the hell you gonna make the Open Map button not also close the map? Instead you get a submenu. Several deaths I was picturing my character just standing there, gormlessly staring at his map while a giant lobster nibbled his ghoulies off.
 
The Goddamn Batman
2023-01-05 8:56:51 AM  

Dimensio: I am an uncoordinated loser and I completed it, even defeating Malenia.

No, the game is not that hard.


It was so satisfying killing Malenia with her own Waterfowl Dance in NG+.
 
Marcos P
2023-01-05 9:06:11 AM  

xalres: Marcos P: They need to hire someone to sort out their terrible UIs

How the hell you gonna make the Open Map button not also close the map? Instead you get a submenu. Several deaths I was picturing my character just standing there, gormlessly staring at his map while a giant lobster nibbled his ghoulies off.


It's shiat like that!
 
lilplatinum
2023-01-05 10:22:19 AM  

xalres: Lord Bear: discgolfguru: I bought it at release or right after. I put a few hours in, but I just could not get into it. It wasn't the difficulty as much as the lack of purpose. I never really knew where to go, and I guess that wasn't for me. Maybe the open world was too open.

Yeah, that's my other big complaint about Elden Ring is that It eschews all kinds of RPG conventions.  A bunch more NPC quest givers and some waypoints would improve the game immensely.  It honestly feels lazy not to have them.  But From software fanbois will say its 'a feature' not to have them in the game.

From fans were arguing that a poorly optimized section of one of their games was good, actually, because the stuttering and framerate drops increased the challenge. They've got criticism-proof armor and an army of angry nerds ready to dogpile anyone who says a bad word. Ask they have to do is keep releasing the same game with a new hat every few years.

/oooo but their next one is set in a dreary, dying world, but with robots!


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tom baker's scarf
2023-01-05 10:40:18 AM  

Karma Chameleon: I definitely suck at it.

Tried it during the steam sale, returned after 2 hours. It's just not for me.

Gameplay aside, I kept hearing how amazing the visuals are. Granted I did not explore that much, but they didn't really stand out to me as anything special. If you would've told me that this game was made in like 2015 I would believe you.


i thought about starting it but when i saw what a sepia-turd color everything was i passed.  not everything needs to be SubNautica but man are the visuals in ER boring.
 
xalres
2023-01-05 10:51:30 AM  

lilplatinum: xalres: Lord Bear: discgolfguru: I bought it at release or right after. I put a few hours in, but I just could not get into it. It wasn't the difficulty as much as the lack of purpose. I never really knew where to go, and I guess that wasn't for me. Maybe the open world was too open.

Yeah, that's my other big complaint about Elden Ring is that It eschews all kinds of RPG conventions.  A bunch more NPC quest givers and some waypoints would improve the game immensely.  It honestly feels lazy not to have them.  But From software fanbois will say its 'a feature' not to have them in the game.

From fans were arguing that a poorly optimized section of one of their games was good, actually, because the stuttering and framerate drops increased the challenge. They've got criticism-proof armor and an army of angry nerds ready to dogpile anyone who says a bad word. Ask they have to do is keep releasing the same game with a new hat every few years.

/oooo but their next one is set in a dreary, dying world, but with robots!

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Yeah man. Fark me sideways for commenting about a game I played in a thread about that game. What ever was I thinking?

So how about that Darktide, eh? Anyone else play a psyker kinetic? Pretty fun class if you can keep your own brain from bursting. Though I did finish off a demon host with one of those, which I think should be an achievement.
 
jonas opines
2023-01-05 10:52:20 AM  

tom baker's scarf: Karma Chameleon: I definitely suck at it.

Tried it during the steam sale, returned after 2 hours. It's just not for me.

Gameplay aside, I kept hearing how amazing the visuals are. Granted I did not explore that much, but they didn't really stand out to me as anything special. If you would've told me that this game was made in like 2015 I would believe you.

i thought about starting it but when i saw what a sepia-turd color everything was i passed.  not everything needs to be SubNautica but man are the visuals in ER boring.


It's bizarre to me when people just up and say things that are completely false.  Is this just another in the endless stream of 'Fark hates the popular thing for reasons' or what?
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Seriously, what are y'all actually looking for in colors and visuals?
 
jonas opines
2023-01-05 10:53:32 AM  
Or did you literally just never make it off the Chapel of Anticipation?
 
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