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- Comment on What games did you sleep on for too long? 3 hours ago:
Farming vials was not a fun mechanic, IMO. It’s also part of what made Demon’s Souls tedious at times, running out of healing and having to run back to your favorite farming route just to get more. It kills the flow of the game and is frustrating when you’re just trying to get past a hard boss.
I’ve played through most of the major Soulslikes out there, but have bounced off Bloodborne several times.
- Comment on What games did you sleep on for too long? 16 hours ago:
I suggest starting with Dark Souls 1 and playing them in order. DS1 is slower and clunkier than the sequels, but will introduce you to the mechanics and playstyle of the series. That clunkiness is especially obvious after playing the sequels. DS2 is the one most people like the least, but it’s still pretty decent, and plays somewhat faster than the first. DS3 is the smoothest experience, and probably hardest of the three.
Bloodborne is a more action-oriented experience, definitely a faster pace than the Souls games, and arguably harder because of it.
If you still want more, check out Demon’s Souls. Some of the mechanics are tedious and can easily be ignored, others are main parts of the game and have been simplified somewhat in the later games. I haven’t played the remake, but apparently it’s as close as possible to the original experience, only with upgraded graphics and sound. I read that even the game’s timings are exactly replicated.
- Comment on EA VP Urges Companies To Think About In-Game Ads During Development: ‘That’s A Huge Opportunity’ 1 week ago:
I don’t and won’t play games with in-game ads. No matter how good they apparently are otherwise, I’ll never know.
- Comment on Vegeta 1 week ago:
Apparently they can around the ears
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Failure to protect a trademark can cause the trademark to become genericized. I’m pretty sure that doesn’t apply to everything. Velcro fights hard for people to call their product “hook and loop fasteners” because they don’t want other companies to sell their products as Velcro, and it’s also why Nintendo was fighting for people to stop calling other consoles Nintendos in the 80’s and 90’s.
I don’t think you can genericize Mega Man, for example. Nobody’s going to call other types of games Mega Mans. In this case, it’s a copyright infringement, whether sanctioned or not. They’re not going to lose their trademark over Mega Man for this.
- Comment on Is it even possible to drop 20 lbs in a month? Are there any diets for people who want to go to the extreme? Kind of like celebs do for roles? 2 weeks ago:
Basically for every 3500 excess Calories consumed, your body stores about 1 lb of fat, and for every 3500 Calories burned, you lose about 1 lb of fat. If your intake is equal to your output, there’s nothing being stored.
You would have to get that burn rate 2300 Calories above the intake rate, so yeah if your daily output is 2300 Calories, you’d have to eat literally nothing for 30 days to lose 20 lbs.
- Comment on Is it even possible to drop 20 lbs in a month? Are there any diets for people who want to go to the extreme? Kind of like celebs do for roles? 2 weeks ago:
20 lbs of fat is 70,000 Calories. That means that you need to be at a net deficit of about 2300 Calories daily to lose 20lbs in a month. That’s a huge deficit which would require eating little and working very hard to hit anything near that.
- Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage 2 weeks ago:
Define “exist.”
- Comment on Terrorbird 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Terrorbird 2 weeks ago:
I hate how people say birds are literally dinosaurs. That’s like saying homo erectus are still alive today.
- Comment on When people die in wildfires, is it that the fire spread too fast for people to mobilise escape? Or more that people were delayed leaving? 2 weeks ago:
Evacuation is always proscribed
Proscribed means it’s banned
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
By the time the PS1 came out, lots of people already had CD players though. They weren’t cheap, but they weren’t crazy expensive either. DVD and Blu-Ray were in their infancy as the consoles were released, and they were the cheapest options available for playing them.
That’s a pretty big boost for console ownership.
- Comment on Copper 3 weeks ago:
Ketamine
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
PS2 was a cheap DVD player, PS3 was a cheap Blu-Ray player, but your point stands.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 3 weeks ago:
That’s the trading value of his companies that tanked though, not money spent.
He never had a trillion actual dollars.
- Comment on Every fucking time 4 weeks ago:
There’s a lot of time and money spent analyzing where to put things to maximize customer spending. It’s why milk and eggs are usually at the back of the store, so that you have to walk through the entire store to get them, and you may find something else to buy on the way there. It’s also why “low-interest” items like international foods get put together in their own low-traffic aisle.
- Comment on Glad they're looking out for me 5 weeks ago:
That’s what Disney lawyers argued. I don’t think it actually worked out for them, but I may be wrong.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I can wait. I’ll pick it up on a Summer Sale or something when it’s 90% off.
- Comment on Am I just bad at games??? 5 weeks ago:
I have no bad words about the game, other than the fact that it takes 10 minutes (I timed it) to go from not yet opening the game, to get to a title screen. It also crashes pretty regularly. Meaning you gotta wait 10 minutes AGAIN.
I just started up the game now and it 20 seconds to load into the title screen and then less than 3 seconds to load into a saved game. It sounds like you have some other issue causing the slow loading.
According to howlongtobeat.com, a leisurely pace takes about 28 hours to beat it. If you’re particularly slow, you could probably take a good amount of time more. That doesn’t mean you’re bad at games though, especially since this type of game can be played very slowly since it’s turn-based and there’s nothing pushing you to play fast.
Play at whatever pace it takes you to enjoy whatever it is you’re playing. As long as you’re having fun, you’re doing it right.
- Comment on Yay, sponsored emojis! 5 weeks ago:
Because most of the world is already on WhatsApp, and changing to Signal would isolate you from most people and businesses.
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 5 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure Guillemot was a sociopath. There are many people whose deaths I would feel bad for, but he’s not one of them.
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 5 weeks ago:
Agreed, they deserve to know.
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 5 weeks ago:
Yes, causing harm to thousands of people is significantly worse than one person dying in a crash.
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 5 weeks ago:
Part of the 0.01%, made absurd amounts of money making games worse, heading a company actively fighting against unionisation.
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 5 weeks ago:
I still think that’s fine. Sometimes the world is better off when someone dies.
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 5 weeks ago:
Meh, I don’t wish death on anyone, but that doesn’t mean I have to be sad that a shitty person died.
- Comment on Jury Refuses to Convict Palestine Activists Over Arms Factory Raid 5 weeks ago:
They didn’t get a verdict at all, which I think is the issue. It would have been great if they actually got a not guilty verdict, at which point I don’t think they could be retried.
- Comment on BBC presenter Ashley Cain called women ‘slags’, ‘sluts’ and ‘bitches’ 1 month ago:
This guy sounds like a fine gentleman
- Comment on Lifeguards 1 month ago:
They mean the political compass
- Comment on Grass on the National Mall Is Vandalized With ‘86 47’ Stains 1 month ago:
Fake news, never happened
