What Are You Playing (Winter, 2013-2014)

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Originally Posted by magnifiedplaid

I'm at the end of Chapter 3 right now, and I can't shake the feeling that I'm not "playing the right way." For some reason, the combat seems a bit unnecessarily difficult. I am making progress in the game, but it's in between frustrating moments of getting my ass handed to me over and over again.

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All I can guess is that you're doing the blocking wrong. Anytime you see something flash roll away, otherwise press block (earlier is better than later) whenever you see an enemy winding up. The game is silly easy even on hard if you're used to those kinds of games, but there's a couple enemies that have weird animations that I had to actually learn. If I recall the big werewolves have something wacky where it looks like their attacks can be parried (or whatever they call it) but they actually can't, and I had a hard time reading the spider movements because their flash wouldn't really show up properly. When in doubt just smack something twice and roll to the side.

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Originally Posted by Andrew

Oh... I probably misremembered something you said (or didn't say) years ago. Somebody here loves it. Finch?

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Actually, it's probably me that your thinking of. And I don't normally enjoy JRPGs. But TiTS is amazing.

Oh, something else I forgot about Castlevania: You might want to test the combos and see what you can cancel into block. You might be getting hit more than you think because another inconsistency is that you can't always interrupt your moves for blocking as you can in games like God of War. Long combos are actually often bad because they'll generally just hamper you and leave you wide open.

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Originally Posted by NeoZeeDeater

Outlast - Pretty freaky shit. It's nice to have a horror game where you're super vulnerable even if it is more simplistic and cinematic than old survival horror games. I hear this gets repetitive later on, though.

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Yeah! Outlast was an awesome take on the horror game. Not only is it refreshing to have a weapon-free first-person game, it really meshed with the feel of vulnerability.

As much as I don't want to rip on it because I like it so much, I do think it has its share of problems though. The weapon-free vibe only gets the game so far before certain things start to seem ridiculous, like how enemies tend to throw you around rather than beat the shit out of you when they do get you, how the first "boss" isn't capable of looking under more than one hospital bed at a time when you're hiding, and how your character ends up using somewhat violent means as a result of 'lucky timing' or scripting anyway. Whatever, it's still so worth it to experience the first few hours.

This is actually a game that I wish was a little shorter than it actually is. I haven't finished it yet due to my save file being on a friend's computer and not wanting to start over from scratch (...I wonder if I can copy that.) But I kinda want more games that can actually be finished in under 10 hours and not make me feel like I'm a bastard who never completes games anymore.

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Originally Posted by Josh

Hitler Advocated White Power because His Anus Was Puckered.

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Okay okay!!! Hey Ash Whatcha' Playin! Here's a few of my favorites...

Skyrim Episode
Psychonauts Episode
Mother's Day Episode
All

3DS - Soul Hackers, ALBW, Space Harrier, Crimson Shroud and Galaxy Force 2
360 - Bioshock 2, still trying to finish this bitch after 3 years
PS3 - Last of Us
WiiU - Super Mario 3D World and Cartoon Zelda

Valdis Story - Meh. It's a little stiff, and all of the difficulty is reliant entirely on annoyances. Either big enemies have small enemies spawning just to annoy and slow things down, or there's wind plus ice to make the character uncontrollably slide all over, or everything does poison damage, infinite combos are all over the place, a ton of projectiles will get vomited out just to bounce around on, and so on. All of the enemies are really easy to fight, but there's always something going on in the background purely to irritate. The hitboxes also seem to be fairly inconsistent, it often requires a high level of precision to just jump over an enemy for some weird reason, and the blocking system appears to have faded out from usefulness about five minutes in. I never really feel so much that I'm fighting the enemies as I am fighting the game itself. It's a cute little Metroidvania game, but I wish I had passed it over.

::removes from wishlist::

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by MechDeus

All I can guess is that you're doing the blocking wrong. Anytime you see something flash roll away, otherwise press block (earlier is better than later) whenever you see an enemy winding up. The game is silly easy even on hard if you're used to those kinds of games, but there's a couple enemies that have weird animations that I had to actually learn. If I recall the big werewolves have something wacky where it looks like their attacks can be parried (or whatever they call it) but they actually can't, and I had a hard time reading the spider movements because their flash wouldn't really show up properly. When in doubt just smack something twice and roll to the side.

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Thanks for the tips! I usually have no problem with these types of games. I've played through all the Ninja Gaiden games, so I should be able to master this one as well. Part of my problem might be that I started the game over a month ago, and I didn't go back to playing it until yesterday. So, maybe I forgot something important that the tutorial told me...

I'll use your advice for blocking and rolling...those sound like good tactics. Although, I have to admit that I'm still not used to the roll feature being mapped to the left stick. The fact that I can't use the right stick is driving me nuts.

NES Remix: I've never played Clu Clu Land before, and now I hate it.

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Originally Posted by magnifiedplaid

I'll use your advice for blocking and rolling...those sound like good tactics. Although, I have to admit that I'm still not used to the roll feature being mapped to the left stick. The fact that I can't use the right stick is driving me nuts.

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If I remember some later enemies can break through block, so combined with unreliable animation cancelling for block means that eventually you should be either parrying or rolling. I recommended blocking early just to get a feel for it, but you should eventually get to where you're parrying everything that you can be because normal block becomes kind of useless. But rolling is almost always the best option.

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Originally Posted by Compass

::removes from wishlist::

Thanks!

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Just as an FYI I'm playing the game on god slayer (which is like three difficulties above normal) and I think the default sword guy has better range. I stacked all the odds against myself, but what irritates me is that I can see how brain-dead easy the game is. Then I'll get tagged by some random projectile which makes me bounce off five things and fall into a pit which puts me far enough behind that it's better to start over, but there's no easy way to do that so I have to just sit and wait to die for the checkpoint respawn. I probably should start over with the sword guy but I'm already like a third of the way through the game, so ehhh...

The default mapping of the special ability to down is also weird, it works a million times easier on the right bumper.