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Games You're Playing Right Now Thread VI - Even in this thread, F O E
CF7:
So, i think i am done with Hollow Knight for the time being.
Yesterday i did this.
I have 111% on my main save and what is left is Pantheon of the Knight, which i don't feel like doing at the moment. And Pantheon of the Hallownest which i feel like not doing at all.
Then there's speedrun 1 and speedrun 2, and that's more or less it. And while both of these can be combined into 1 run, i just do not want to do it as well.
Your Everyday NEET:
How NOT to Make a First Boss of a Game by Your Everyday NEET
Meet Awaritia Shinentai/Evil Rinnosuke, the 1st boss of Touhou Genso Wanderer. At first, he's just there, sitting on his throne. He'll summon a bunch of Rinnosuke Robos and he will constantly buffs them by doubling their attacks, defenses, and speed. You need to kill all of the robos fast before they overwhelms you. After you get close to his throne, Rinnosuke will starts fighting seriously, blowing you back to the southern end of the stage, and will summon his robos again. But at this phase, he will occasionally throws in area wide AoE attacks that will damage you and deals high damage. If you kill all the robos at this phase, he will summons them back again. But you can?t ignore the buffed robos as they can deplete you HP quickly. It?s really hard managing between robo mobs and attacking the boss.
Should you manage defeat him, he will unleash his next phase. This phase is a nightmare. You start at the southern end of the area, and he?s at the northern end. You must get close to him before you can even damage him. But the boss is making it very difficult . He will throws area wide AoE attack every turn and dealing heavy damage to you, he can summons more mobs to blocks and damage you (And he will summon it without regards if I kill all the mobs or not), and he can inflicts nasty debuff like speed debuffs, decreasing my Power, and putting all sort of nasty traps all over the arena. Should get close enough to him to actually deals damage, he can and will nuke you with another AoE attack, but this time, this attack will throw you back to the corner, resetting your progress. Between his constant nuke barrage, the mobs, the debuffs, the fights quickly turns into a goddamn nightmare! Especially when he debuffs my speed. Holy crap! He just bombarded me over and over and over again before I could even get my turn.
It?s goddamn difficult for all the wrong reasons. And the best part: Should you lose, you have to retry the dungeon all over again, losing all your level before you get another shot at beating him. And it took me 2 hours to get there. And let me remind you HE?S JUST THE FIRST BOSS OF THE GAME AT THE SECOND STAGE OF THE GAME! Much rage then ensues.
Fucking hell! Even game that I hated the most: Genius of Sappheiros actually KNOWS to ease up the players with very reasonable early bosses before putting up all the bullshit. This game doesn?t value the player?s time, the recent game I?ve seen that disrespected the player is YIIK (Yeek), and that game is basically The Room of Earthbound-esque RPG.
KLH:
--- Quote from: theshirn on January 24, 2019, 12:57:27 AM ---meanwhile I went back and 100%ed DOOM 2016 on Nightmare again
game's still good! :V
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Literally the best game I've played in more than a decade - the only other game I've enjoyed as much as DOOM 2016 was Battlefield 2142 from 2007.
Pretty hyped for DOOM Eternal (indeed the only game I've been looking forward to)
CyberAngel:
I recommend you try the newer Shadow Warrior games in the meantime. And DUSK if you're into the classic stuff too.
commandercool:
So I got furloughed from work recently and have been playing tons and tons of Octopath Traveler while unemployed. It took a ridiculously long time for the game to click with me, honestly too long, but I've been powering through. Beat all of the main story last week and had to look up how to get to the endgame because it's frankly way too obtuse for me to ever figure out on my own.
The last boss Spoiler: does that thing where you have to separate your party into two groups. Which was worrying to me, because I only really leveled half of the characters. My A team (Olberic, Primrose, Tressa, and Ophilia) is like level 70-75, and the rest are... like 30-40. I put the good characters in one group and the bad characters in the other and crossed my fingers that I wouldn't have to use the B team.
So I beat Fantasy Satan after a very long and drawn-out fight (preceded by a very long boss rush, which was easy but had no save points anywhere) and I was like "Okay, I guess the second team was just in case my main team died or something"... and then the camera panned up and revealed that I had only been fighting Fantasy Satan's legs the whole time, and his even scarier head was about to fight B team on the cliff above.
Needless to say, they all died in his first action. And I got a game over. And I haven't been able to save for like a few hours. And now I have to figure out what to even do with the rest of these losers and grind levels for them, which I always hate doing. I don't know what level I should even be aiming for, I reeeally don't want to re-attempt this, go through the whole boss rush again, and then lose again, but I also don't want to over-grind. Hmm...