Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Hatorade
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Yup 48 strength madness build up but sucks for PvP it is so slow.
Mimic is still better overall because it will use perfumes and stack whatever you are doing to great effect. Tiche is super aggressive evasion monster though and a good alternative.
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Nirgon
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Yeah it's great that the majority of the players of the game won't see a large portion of content so you can put on your GIT GUD hat and prance around as better than anyone because you are willing to waste 500 hours rolling around and slashing walls to find quest NPC's. Thanks for the service you provide for the rest of us Plebs.
Most ppl in EQ weren't killing AoW but checked the big dog sites and it kept them wondering, immersed and excited to log in or get friends to play.
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Tuco
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The item comparison QOL stuff I agree with, to an extent. There are ways to do item comparison that you may not have explored, I didn't really understand it until I took the time.
The world exploration thing I disagree with. The game has a tremendous amount of features integrated in that replace the map objective markers in other games and it makes the whole exploration mechanic feel very engaging where other games feel like more of a checklist to go through.
Besides that, you need a mysterious and abstruse world in order to build a community around singleplayer games. This thread or the personal communication would be totally different if the game directed you to everything.
As funny as the git gud memes are, it's not about getting good, it's about having a deep experience made permissible only through making it difficult.
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i fucking love the use of audio/visual markers in the world that hint you how to find things. just off the top of my head:
the grim reaper statues reveal the direction of a crypt
the glow trees let you track the ghost to a dungeon or something.
the paintings of another place you go to
the grace points whisping at the next objective in the region (i wish they'd shut off when you get their target tho).
the trees always have a guy to punk down
the towers where you unlock the runes are always super tall
the mini boss storage bowls with the weird ass worms pointing their flash lights.
i like the way various types of 'side dungeon' offer various rewards. so you generally know a crypt is for ash, a mine is for upgrade materials.
I like hunting thte map obolisks to reveal the map.
all of that is super excelent. the game tells you where things are without either giving you a quest marker, or using words to lead you by the nose.
i bet there's other things i'm not even thinking about.
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cyrusreij
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CaughtCross
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Having a checklist in game would ruin it. This path eventually leads to WoW quests. Explore, figure things out, remember them, or dont do it.
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Ritley
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Yeah it’s really the failure mechanisms more than the obscurity. Like inviting certain people back to areas and having them murder everyone. You might say “that person was sketchy, you should have known”, but everyone is sketchy. And also having some of the quests fail due to triggering unrelated events.
Hateyou
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I’m pretty sure git gud is just a meme to fuck with each other. We almost all suck at these games lolYeah it's great that the majority of the players of the game won't see a large portion of content so you can put on your GIT GUD hat and prance around as better than anyone because you are willing to waste 500 hours rolling around and slashing walls to find quest NPC's. Thanks for the service you provide for the rest of us Plebs.
I said it before, I tell people I love these games but also warn them they’re very hard, I don’t really recommend them to anyone unless I know they have a lot of patience.
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Tuco
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My favorite is the super creepy palm readers who tell you where to go next. When people talk about how a game would be better without map objectives leading you around I think it's important to consider how much effort goes into making that feasible. Morrowind was one of the great games without that, and the amount of NPC dialog dedicated to telling you how to get to the next step was immense.
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Hateyou
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What’s creepier is they’re actually reading your fingers not your palms. I wonder if they can see all the places my fingers have been. Poor things.
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Ramar
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you know, now that i know more lore, and understand the world better i should take serious consideration of the crazy shit those hags say to me. before i just kind of listened and said "look gramma, i need to fight the guy in that big castle over there" but...i bet that would help alleviate my desire for a list of hints i received.
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Goonsquad Officer
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hah you know, the singing harpies, when i hear them i immediately tense up and adopt a sneaking posture. trying to sort out how i can fucking murder them before they see me.
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I love this game, and i'm by no means a souls game fan.
I can just sink hours exploring, completely taking in the sceneries (some of the shit is absolutely incredible), and find random shit off the beaten path.
There are so many builds i want to try when i get further in too.
I can just sink hours exploring, completely taking in the sceneries (some of the shit is absolutely incredible), and find random shit off the beaten path.
There are so many builds i want to try when i get further in too.
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Kirun
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Ritley
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