Like I'm not sure anyone was expecting Prime 4 to be some masterpiece given the development historylook just let me hold on to hope while I can
I'm glad it wasn't the hardest boss for me because I was a dumdum who did not see the very obvious "I'm going to explode" deathrattle and had to fight it again lolMy heart was pounding so fucking fast I thought it was going to come out of my body when I beat Last Judge. You bet your ass I got the hell out of dodge as soon as he started shaking
Well, that's not being wholly fair. I had PTSD from Widow because she killed me with her fake-out death, so I didn't want the same thing to happen again.
Really? What were they?Last Judge, First Sinner, Tormented Trobbio, Karmelita, Lost Lace
Lost Lace is one of the ones I haven't done yet, I can maybe see that one.
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Somehow it feels even more than 30 years old to me.Yeah I really thought that can't be right. Then again I'm only 34
Alright can I rant about something? I love this game, but shards are such a godawful mechanic I'm not sure how it survived playtesting.I never really struggled with shards until the very final boss, but I suppose I did do occasional farming when I found good spots. And just doing all the sidequests and stuff, I was always pretty loaded. Was maxed out on 20 shell shards when I hit the final boss and eventually burned them all lol
It was fine in the beginning when it was a way to get some damage from a safe distance against mobs and the costs were low, but by the time act 2 started, the costs started rising, and now by the end of act 2, every boss fight eats 100-200 shards per attempt. You have to guess when you are about to win against a boss to start using them, because if you just use them every attempt, a single boss will eat all of your shards and you'll be forced to farm. You end up conditioning yourself to not use red tools often, which in turn means I've never learned to use half of them, as even practicing a new tool is costly. And the system is not even necessary for balance because they already have limited clip sizes. Just reduce the clip size for the most broken ones (turns out they have been doing that already) and maybe nerf Architect's recharge and you could have the game work with no shards at all.
Heck Architect is my least used crest by a lot, because its biggest benefits (3 red slot and clip recharge) make you burn shards even faster. And I HATE farming in videogames so I'm just not going to bother.
It's not a huge issue in the grand scheme of things, the game is still amazing, etc. But I think it's the worst issue about it. It's one of the reasons I keep postponing bosses like I'm doing. Just the recent run of Broodmother/Sentinel/ Lugoli and a few 1st Sinner attempts reduced my shard stock from 700 to 100 and Im struggling to build it back now.
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