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Far-Queue posted...

This is my Bloodborne tattoo:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/4/4/AAZslrAADNHQ.jpg

It's the Madman's Knowledge icon but a little altered, with the quote

Whoa, that's awesome

Action platformers. They're not perfect, but they're pretty good, with Zero 3 being the best of the bunch. The games reward you for gitting gud, you get more toys to play with the better you do. The elf system is weird in the first two games, and it's outright atrocious in the first one. WAY too grindy. 3 and 4 overhauled the elf system and made it more enjoyable to interact with.

Grant us eyes!

I like how Unbridled came in here and took personal offense to the idea that the party whose platform is literally "if elected we're going to take away your rights" somehow doesn't operate in good faith.

Also you can totally do the Micolash cheese with the Blacksky Eye lol

I've never actually done a Bloodtinge build but it sounds fun. Actually the 99 Arcane build was super fun. Especially with the late game spells. Kiting bosses around just shooting the Blacksky Eye at them and they can't touch me while also chunking their HP was ridiculous.

What I did for the Defiled Amygdala is I stayed near its feet, swinging at the arms when I could, and when it jumps I waited a second and rolled in the direction that its feet were and prayed that it didn't land on me. And I was doing an Arcane build as well so it took forever to die. Also if you can summon Queen Killer, he'll aggro the Amygdala for like half of the bosses HP before he dies.

TBF, all of the bosses in the Defiled chalice are garbage except for the last one. Actually a lot of the Chalice bosses are clearly unfinished.

A good early game bullet and vial grind spot is go to the bridge where you fought the Cleric Beast. And kill all of the enemies on the bridge, including the werewolves, and then go through the house, get everyone in there, get the two brick giants outside the house, then go to the first lantern next to Gilbert's house and repeat. Eventually, if you choose to do the chalice dungeons, you'll get so many blood echoes from just regular enemies that you can buy hundreds of vial and bullets no problem.

Also there are hidden damage modifiers that the game hints at but doesn't outright explicitly say. Like the sawblade and sawspear do serrated damage. Beasts are weak to fire and serrated both, so if you put fire paper on a serrated weapon, you're getting a big damage multiplier, making some early game bosses way easier. Pop a beast pellet on top of that, and you're doing even more damage.

Also, beasts are distracted by blood cocktails. This is extremely effective on one boss in particular, the Blood-starved Beast. Throw a cocktail at the wall, and in her first two phases she will completely ignore you and try to drink the blood on the wall. Does not work in the final phase when she's spewing poison everywhere, but if you did enough damage with the fire paper and beast pellet, by the time she gets to her third phase she should be pretty low.

Also, you don't even have to fight the Blood-starved Beast. If you get 10,000 echoes you can buy the cathedral ward key from the bath messengers in the Hunter's Dream and just bypass it. If you're having trouble with BSB, in addition to the strategy outlined above, you can also do this, and go through the Cathedral Ward getting items and echoes, and go through Hemwick Charnel Lane, and beat the Witches and get the Rune Workshop Tool, which if you have found some decent runes, should also help a little bit with BSB. Then the boss of Cathedral Ward is weak to fire and serrated as well, and you can break her limbs, staggering her and opening her up to visceral attacks.

What part specifically are you having trouble with?

Unfortunately, I think the GOP are gonna win in November. They are going to cheat as much as possible to steal as many seats as they possibly can.

Unversed?! In MY Kingdom Hearts 3?! It's more likely than you think!

Seriously I was not expecting to see that

Okay so I've played 3 for about 10 hours. I can tell the combat is not KH2 combat. But at the very least, it's nowhere near as bad as BBS and DDD combat. It threw me for a loop that I didn't have to kill bosses with finishers. And I do miss forms, but it is pretty neat being able to switch keyblades mid combo. I hope 4 has reaction commands again. The whatever they're called in this game triangle commands don't feel as important, and I'm already over using attractions. Fighting Nobodies does not feel like it used to.

Also, Nobodies are named after Job classes in Final Fantasy games. Reaper was introduced in FFXIV Endwalker, but the Reaper Nobody debuted in KH3. Nomura knew about the Reaper Job in FFXIV years before it was ever announced. :0

Dikitain posted...

We have been inserting CDs/DVDs/Blu Rays/etc. label side up for the last 30 years, how do you mess this up?

tbf, if the PS5 is standing up, I could see how somebody would think the disc goes the other way, but yeah, if he wasn't sure, he should have read the manual.

kind9 posted...

I believe there must be more intelligent life beyond earth. I have no reason to believe they've ever visited earth. UFOs are always birds, balloons, airplanes, etc. Never alien spacecrafts. Even the recent declassified videos of UFOs are clearly just birds, considering their size and distance.

This

Yes. I can't eat Qdoba, I get very violently sick. Like last time I had Qdoba I had to go to the hospital.

I know it's over 3 years old now, but my God KH3 looks incredible. O_O

Better sources of information out there like youtube videos

Jen0125 posted...

How do you guys actually like kill things

Well I use the biggest swords I can find, power them up as much as possible, pop my buffs, and just swing away, and roll out of attacks and keep swinging

It has like the fewest copy abilities of any Kirby since like Dream Land 2 or Adventure. There's only 12, but you can upgrade them.

Kirby has the level design of like Mario 3D World, but more in depth combat. It looks really really good. And while it's honestly not my favorite Kirby game, it's not bad.

Oh I haven't played in over a month. I only completed one play through, then Kirby and the Forgotten Land came out, and that had my attention for a while, then I had a hankerin' to play some Bloodborne and Dark Souls, so I did that, then KH4 was announced, and I was like "man I should play KH3 finally" so I played KH2, and I'm gonna start KH3 for the first time today.

I updated the game, and that fixed it. Managed to play through it with no further issues. But that was worrying for a bit.

Installed 3, and I'm excited to finally play that tomorrow!

Started 0.2, after the phantom boss the screen gets stuck on a white load screen forever. WTF???

I'm not really sure why they did that to be honest. Dodging arrows in Dark Souls or bullets in Bloodborne was never that bad. I guess distance is a bigger factor in Elden Ring than it ever was in those other games.

The arrows are literally homing arrows. It doesn't matter which direction an enemy fires an arrow, it homes in on you.

War bad
Nuclear war double bad
Robot nuclear war really double bad

captpackrat posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/6/4/AAQwHjAADLrY.jpg

What's the joke?

The fuck

Okay so thinking about all the problems KH games have, I have some ideas on how I would have designed BBS and DDD

BBS: Terra and Ventus's campaigns are out. Maybe Ventus can be a short post game campaign or something, like Riku's story in Chain of Memories. But the main focus of the story should be told from Aqua's perspective. Then restructure the story to make more sense told from her perspective. None of this "you have to see the same story bits from different perspectives" nonsense that just leaves a first campaign run through a disjointed mess. Maybe Terra can be a sidekick character, Aqua is trying to steer him from the path of Darkness while they're investigating the Unversed, but she ultimately fails.
Then for BBS combat, revenge values need to come back. Bosses being able to break out of combos for no reason and killing you doesn't feel good. Playing KH2, you'll most likely pick up that something is going on with bosses reacting to combos, but with more experience you'll master how it works and how to play with and around it. The way BBS works now, going from KH2 is jarring. Why fix what aint broke? And speaking of combos, make the combos feel more like KH2 combos. You don't have to get rid of the command deck entirely, but it feels like it's holding combat back. I actually like the idea of the command deck a lot, it can stay, but it needs serious streamlining. Melding the same commands over and over and over isn't fun, it's tedious. Maybe once you meld a command once, the moogle can sell you a level 1 version of it. That way the commands you need to master 5 times, don't also require you to master 10 or more other commands all over again.
Oh also because we made Aqua the only playable character, and she's more of a floaty, magicy charater than Sora or Riku, you can also expand the D-Link system to augment or change her abilities to make her play more like Sora if you want, or you can mix and match and experiment and find a play style that fits you. Kingdom Hearts is known for variety after all.
Then for DDD, get rid of Sora's story. Let Riku shine. In a lot of ways, he's a more interesting character than Sora. That way you also don't get the 3rd retread of KH1's story, and you get to experience these worlds from different perspective. Like what 358/2 did, but better. Also because Sora doesn't have a campaign now, the ridiculous, flow breaking Drop system is gone. You can focus on the Flow system, and integrating it more into the combat and combos. You can also bring over the command deck changes we made to BBS, and for the love of God, make more commands viable than just Balloon.
In addition, you can keep the Pokemon system, but it needs serious changes. First of all, get rid of the minigames. They're not fun, and they're just tedious busy work. The way the Pokemon should work is, their progression trees have 2 halves to them, shaped something like this <><= the first half has minor stat changes and spells, some can maybe be permanent upgrades and the middle point is definitely a permanent unlocked ability. Stuff like Leaf Bracer and Once More. Things you want and need. Everything on the right half of the board are only applicable when you have that specific Pokemon equipped. That way you can still try out a lot of different Pokemon, see how they all work, while also getting permanent progression and getting a taste of what each one has to offer. Then once you have all the abilities you want, you can then focus on progressing the Pokemon you actually want to use.

There, without really touching the overall plot of Kingdom Hearts, I fixed the side games that should be much better than they actually are.

I think it's on Epic? I'm playing the All-In-One Collection on PS4

Killed Sephiroth and got the Fenrir keyblade, time to take on the true end game

Mushroom XIII

I mean at least it's not a full priced rerelease with a little bit of extra content like the Final Mix versions, but wow that's just egregious.

Yeah 6 oligarchs and their families have died since January

Because Putin needs their money to fund the war, and if theres no living heir, the government claims their assets.

EclairReturns posted...

Only if you are willing to pay an extra thirty American dollars in addition to the money you already spent on the game.

Seriously?

100 billion dollars

Been replaying KH2FM before jumping into 3. Only one story boss left, but I still have 1 Absent Silhouette left to kill, then the Data Organization. I also need to fight Sephiroth.

KH3 has a fun post game with a bunch of optional superbosses right?

Name a more iconic character

I actually used a variety of weapons. My main weapon was a Zweihander, but on the horse I used the Commander's Standard, and I used the standard's buff at the start of boss battles. I also used Radahn's greatswords a bit in the second half of the game.

Nah you can buy upgrade materials later

Blightzkrieg posted...

I started playing Elden Ring

Haven't played a souls game in like ten years and have never beaten one, what should I do

Just go around exploring, getting used to the combat. Find optional dungeons, run into a bear and get mauled

party_animal07 posted...

I generally don't get triggered except when watching first timers play a character action game. There's so much variety and people will use 10% of it.

I mean, it's just human nature to find a single strategy that works, and stick to it until it doesn't anymore.

I mean I learned to play Dark Souls by wearing the grass crest shield on my back, wearing as little armor as possible, and two-handing the zweihander then just learning how to dodge lol

bloodborne taught me parrying, the game in which you dont use shields

Yeah I played 358/2 when it released forever ago and I remember really liking it

Okay so Kingdom Hearts is incomprehensible gibberish but at least the music is fantastic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9XljBWGrRQ

Why is Kingdom Hearts a door in the first game, but it's a moon in the second game

I'm gonna play Kingdom Hearts 3 for the first time in a few days, and even though I've played every Kingdom Hearts game before it, I don't have a damn clue what the plot of the series is. Oh also the whole Ventus/Venitas/Sora/Roxas/Xion thing.

SilentSeph posted...

I encountered that, I feel like that will never get patched

Wasnt it just patched out a few days ago though