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Video Games General

Imabot said:
It's Backward compatible. Perfect that's a main selling point for me. I was considering buying OLED but with 2 releases right behind corner, I'll wait for this one.
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Same.
Madgizmo99 said:
Main thing I am curious about is profile transferring, cause it'd be annoying to lose my game progress. Not a deal breaker mind, my joycons are dying anyway so it's conveniently timed for being soonish, but it would be nice to not have to completely restart all of my games.
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That's a good point.

I would like to be able to keep my account and saved intact if at all possible.
 
Deathwings said:
The backward compatibility would also explain why the Switch is still receiving so much support/new games : they also kinda count as launch titles for the Switch 2, like with the new Metroid Prime.
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I never bought a PS5 and am still using my old PS4 and my brother(now mine)'s old PC

I am still amazed by how long this tech can last

Mostly because I used MacBook products….only recently did I learn that they were meant to die early so you can buy the next version

Hopefully, the Steamdeck can Compete better in its next iteration

I want it to be able to handle more tech
 
Piemanlives said:
It's Lu Bu. Hailed as one of if not the greatest singular warrior of his era. And then they put him in a video game.
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You forgot to mention he hits like a truck! Geez. Now I've been told that Byleth in Three Hopes was essentially the Lu Bu of that game. I don't remember her being this tough or having this much of an effect on the narrative. If she had I would actually have had a higher opinion of that game :)

Now if you will excuse me I need to run from the person shaped nuke that is Lu Bu.
 
Rivan9000 said:
Now if you will excuse me I need to run from the person shaped nuke that is Lu Bu.
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Ah, the quintisential Dynasty Warriors experience.

I remember my first Experience with Lu Bu in Dynasty Warriors 6. At that age the concept of a game telling you not to do something, is just them telling you to do something with a wink.

I charged in, dealt an infinitesimal fraction of damage on his humongous Health Bar and died.

Strangely, and sadly, enough I think they've subsequently made him easier in 7 and 8, didn;t play 9 because lmao, but I'm glad to see that in the trailers and demos Lu Bu is still a walking Nuke.
 
Lu Bu is more like a weather phenomenon in Dynasty Warriors than a guy you're supposed to fight. It's not related to DW but in the game Wo Long, Lu Bu serves as the game's filter boss. He's the mid game checking to see if you actually know the mechanics fight.
 
Oh, if you think fighting Lu Bu is a pain in the ass, it has nothing on recruiting him.

Okay, so. The Warriors Orochi games are basically "pick a faction and lead them to glory against everybody else"... for the first two games. The various factions are the typical 3/4 (+assorted extras) sides from Dynasty Warriors and a couple groupings from Samurai Warriors; which makes perfect sense when you remember this subseries is literally taking place in a magic world created for the purpose of bring both series' casts together. Also here are "Mystics", characters from various Chinese and Japanese mythology; some are good and help the various factions (like Nuwa and Taigong Wang), while others (like Orochi, Da Ji, and Kiyomori Taira) are... less than helpful and lead/side with the demons that serve as the bad guys.

Then we get to Warriors Orochi 3; Orochi was killed last game, and things were peaceful for a time. But now its humanity and allied Mystics vs the demons and hostile Mystics... and the emergence of the "Hydra" has taken out most of humanity, to the point that the first mission is a last ditch attempt by "the Resistance" to beat the Hydra with the help of the last three known surviving player characters.

Unsurprisingly, it fails, and the three PCs were about to meet their end when Kaguya shows up and takes them back to before the battle. From there, the overall goal is still "beat the Hydra", and the method is simple: Using Kaguya's powers of time travel, go back to previous losing battles and win them to both save people (aka other playable characters) and improve the Resistance's position for the final battle.

Most recruitments in the game require you to either beat a mission to save/recruit them... or beat a mission, see them die, do another mission to alter the setup for the first mission, and beat the altered first mission to save them from their fate.

Lu Bu... is not that easy. He simply shows up in a few missions, and is generally more focused on the demons... until Nezha (one of the new Mystics for the game) shows up. This is bad, because Lu Bu is to Nezha what we are to Lu Bu. Yeah.

So how do you recruit Lu Bu? Save his lover (wife?) once the story gives you the opportunity, put her on your team, pick a mission where Lu Bu shows up, then run up to Lu Bu as her. Catch is, this won't interrupt mission dialog, and Lu Bu is usually assigned to the "third" force in an otherwise two sided battle, and if he dies, he can't be recruited. So you have to keep him alive (against Nezha, joy) without pissing him off or failing any critical mission objectives (because those are also a thing you have to deal with at the same time).

And before you say "just skip him"... Warriors Orochi 3 has three endings. The first is simply do the final battle again. The second is the final battle, again, but this time you have dedicated anti-Hydra weapons; winning this version of the battle unlocks a new stage. Going into this second ending stage without all the characters you can recruit gets you the second ending. For the third (and best) ending, you have to recruit all the characters (minus a few unlocked by beating these final stages), beat the second ending stage, and then beat the new third ending state that unlocks... although if you're playing Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate, you still have the Ultimate-exclusive extra story that unlocked at this point...
 
I fucking love DW Origins. I haven't played any of the mainline games since at least the PS3 but I liked both of the Hyrule Warriors games, but this is the first Musou game where I really feel like I'm fighting an army, not just a whole lot of dudes. Those bits where you have to set up your forces for a giant cavalry charge against a Large Force are the closest I've seen to a video game recreating the feel and scale of Return of the King's Pelennor Fields sequence. FORTH EORLINGAS!
 
Sorry to barge in and start speaking about something else (nothing much to say about DWO yet since I'm barely past the first story mission), but I'm looking for infos to make a decision: what amount of memory size is really needed for mobile games like Fate, Kankole, etc...?

I am currently, and for around 2 more months, on a prepaid plan I was grandfathered in that cost me maybe 15€ a year (no obligation to add to it every so often to keep what was already in, just at least 1 out-call per year to keep everything). I was warned around June last year that the provider was stopping ALL prepaid plans by the end of June this year (though, when I went to ask about it in one of their official shop, I was told I would need to start the transfer to a new plan by early April "just in case"). Bummer, but nothing I can do about it...

Thing is, I'm thinking of using this "opportunity" [/sarcasm] to change my phone too: I'm currently on a Samsung Galaxy ACE 2 that's maybe 14 years old, not compatible with "modern" mobile games even before I stopped being able to connect to the net with it. I looked around, and I think I know enough to limit my choice to only a couple of models (just waiting on the 22th for the Samsung thing in case the new models come out early enough to change price/entice me to the new ones).

The last point that will influence my choice is one I can't seems to find info on: How much space do the games AND user data end up using on the phone when all is said and done? Do the games end up using more space once they are installed or am I thinking too much about it? Do you guys that have played on them for a while remember if that size increased (and if so, by how much) after various updates etc...?

Like I said, I'm not asking "Which phone is the best?", but more "If I was to start playing the various games that appear in the fics I like, so as to better understand the plot/characters, how much memory would that take?"...

I want to "future proof" my choice as much as possible (I admit I can be slightly "OCD" when it come to my stuff, ACE2 is in perfect condition despite being more than 10yo, previous phone was a Nokia 3310 that still work to this day, as long as you stay near an outlet...), so I need to know if I'm better of with a "lower" end CPU/GPU but capable of accepting external memory, or go full high spec but limited to internal memory (and if so, are 128G enough even taking into account the space taken by the OS? are 512G too much?)?

Thanks.
 
Rivan9000 said:
I don't remember her being this tough or having this much of an effect on the narrative.
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Tbf, the actual Lu Bu while important in his own right was ultimately just a warlord who was good at cav and kept betraying people until he ran out of room and died. The other bigger people in three kingdoms were more impactful to the greater narrative and the like.
 
Neodart said:
Sorry to barge in and start speaking about something else (nothing much to say about DWO yet since I'm barely past the first story mission), but I'm looking for infos to make a decision: what amount of memory size is really needed for mobile games like Fate, Kankole, etc...?
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When I was still playing FGO 4GB was about the recommended? A quick search says that's still the recommended with a minimum of 3GB being the lowest you should go. My old phone was about... 2GB I think? And while it was playable it would crash intermittently. So 3GB at an absolute minimum feels about right though you might face stuttering. I'd definitely recommend going as high as possible but I don't know what your budget looks like.
 
Played the demo for Dynasty Warriors Origins. It was pretty fun. The Lu Bu fight was a fun "learn to parry, stupid" kind of fight that killed me over and over.

Only real problem I had with it was the same problem I have with a lot of Warriors style games where your allies are just a bit useless.
 
Melmar said:
Played the demo for Dynasty Warriors Origins. It was pretty fun. The Lu Bu fight was a fun "learn to parry, stupid" kind of fight that killed me over and over.

Only real problem I had with it was the same problem I have with a lot of Warriors style games where your allies are just a bit useless.
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That mission is an outlier from what I've seen, people seem to die left right and center no matter what you do but normally they handle themselves relatively well unless they get ambushed or whatever.
 
Smuthunter said:
That mission is an outlier from what I've seen, people seem to die left right and center no matter what you do but normally they handle themselves relatively well unless they get ambushed or whatever.
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That's good. It was kinda funny that it actually kept track of how many guys were left alive at the end. I think I had like 15 left.
 
Melmar said:
That's good. It was kinda funny that it actually kept track of how many guys were left alive at the end. I think I had like 15 left.
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I think you might have better luck if you pick one of Liu Bei's companions since that starts you on the far right side of the field closest to where a bunch of NPCs get into trouble right at the start, but then you're out of position to help Sun Jian's team on the far left and they get ambushed by reinforcements. It kinda makes me wonder if everyone surviving is one of those hidden objectives that unlocks an alternate story path.
 
So my friends have spent the past year or two making a dinky little indie game.

Its their first work, hopefully of many.

It'd be cash money of anyone who has a moment to take a look and see if it interests you.

store.steampowered.com

Dark Umbra on Steam

Team up with friends in up to 8-player online co-op or go it alone as you level up your character and collect powerful relics in this sidescroller action rogue-like.
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Started playing Rebirth finally.

Not sure what the fuck that opening sequence was except maybe an alternate timeline. Or we've got clones wandering around- more clones, I mean.

I have to say the flashback sequence is REALLY good at being subtle about the spoilers. If I didn't know already, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't pick up on it, but it's obvious because I do.

...I wasn't brave enough to look in Tifa's underwear drawer.
 
Legion1771 said:
So my friends have spent the past year or two making a dinky little indie game.

Its their first work, hopefully of many.

It'd be cash money of anyone who has a moment to take a look and see if it interests you.

store.steampowered.com

Dark Umbra on Steam

Team up with friends in up to 8-player online co-op or go it alone as you level up your character and collect powerful relics in this sidescroller action rogue-like.
store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com
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That looks great, I'll try and buy it once I'm off work.
 
Also: Shouldn't have re-watched FF7 Machinabridged just this past month. Kept hearing Cloud call him 'Seph Dog'

EDIT: And 'Fisting'
 
...God Damnit the Great White Bitch is back.

Gonna have to powerlevel a bit to beat this thing.
 
Destiny 2 is frustrating me again

Because I can't jump right

Only The Hunter has the proper triple jump

I can't do this quest to gain more Guardian Ranks to get all of the powers/skills, because I can't jump right
 
In today bit of good news, Dino Crisis 1 & 2 is back on the menu boys.

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Dino Crisis Bundle includes: Dino Crisis Three years ago. A scientist died in an accid
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And check out GoG Dreamlist and vote for whom next to be necromancied, you can even add a bit of a story to go along with your vote.

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