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nioh, I guess
Those two and Horizon.
Persona 5 and Tales of Berseria.
So, I've been playing Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild for about a week now. First of all, it looks freaking fantastic. Every environment is gorgeously rendered, and I love the aesthetic of this vast ancient civilization that's fallen to ruin and been overrun by nature. Of any game company out there, I can always trust Nintendo to know that post-apocalyptic doesn't have to mean gratuitously dark and gritty.
From a gameplay perspective though, I have to say it's pretty darned hard. Enemies hit a lot harder then in past Zelda titles, and the combo of somewhat unfamiliar controls and weapons being both scarce and breakable means that even a seasoned fan is likely to have trouble. So far my biggest problem is that, as the crouch button is mapped to the joystick responsible for movement it's extremely easy to press it too hard and end up accidentally crouching in the middle of combat, slowing Link down and making it impossible to attack. It only takes a second to press the stick again and resume standing, but that instant is usually more then enough time for enemies to land a few solid hits on me.
Enemies also hit crazily hard, as I said above. It's almost impossible to fool around and experiment with the combat system when a single direct hit from an enemy shaves off almost four hearts at once. I'm obviously still inexperienced with the combat system (damn you, crouch button!:(), but it strikes me as ridiculous that one strike from a random enemy leaves me on death's door instantly. Hopefully I'll find some armor or something soon to beef up my defense...
So yeah; it's a fun game with (mostly) fluid controls, great graphics and fun characters, but the combat system is definitely frustrating. Guess I'll just have to git gud!:p
PC: Sarevok~~~
Sarevok: What
PC: I'm better at killing things than you.
Sarevok: I am a Deathbringer. I am trained to execute the most perfect blows, an utterly and inescapably lethal assault, a fact you have seen proved quite vividly. I was the vessel for our Father's power in a way you have still yet to understand. You stand here because of luck and treachery and some hideously incompetent ex-underlings of mine, not skill. Silence yourself.
PC:
https://i.imgur.com/G2bmixs.png
Sarevok: ...
PC: Say it, Sarevok. Say it now.
Sarevok: ...
Sarevok: You're better at killing things than me.
PC: What was that? I didn't quite hear you.
Sarevok: YOU'RE THE BETTER CHILD OF MURDER I WORSHIP YOUR POWER PLEASE TEACH ME YOUR WAYS.
(I did a reasonably thorough check, btw, and 306 damage one-shots literally everything in 2e other than two avatars I think were misprints and were later retconned, or a single specific avatar of the god Death imported from Lieber's pulp Lankhmar series.
The avatar of the head of the Gnomish pantheon, a level 37 Thief/34 Illusionist/32 Cleric/30 Fighter has 220 HP. IO, high god of dragonkind, has an avatar that is eight hundred feet long and has 24/24/25/25/25/25 stats. It has 200 HP. Jazirian, alleged to be the first and single perfect embodiment of the World Serpent, has an avatar with 200 HP. Annam of the giants, "The Prime, the Great Creator, the fertile progenitor of worlds, the father of gods" has an avatar with 200 HP).
In that paradigm, I kinda want to know what doing three hundred and six damage means.
And that's 306 damage against an ankheg. Poor bug.
"Shall i show you that, if you reach the extremes of minmaxing, it is possible to kill even a god."
-Seika, 2017
This isn't even the extreme of mix-maxing. For one, I still have an upgrade to come in ToB for one of my backstab weapons, which would add another point of damage to be multiplied by eighteen. For two, I'm pretty sure someone on the old BioBoards hit the overflow cap for damage (at 1024) with Mislead Bard Song cheese.
I just really liked beating out Deathbringer Assault on a single hit.
You hit it so hard it ceased to exist.
How does getting that much damage work here? You got a crit, and then what? Does a crit double damage? How did you do anything around 300 in the first place.
Compounded interest, I think.
Normal thieves cap their backstab at 5x damage. As a high-level Assassin kit, I should cap at 7x, but two separate mods included weapons that each improve my backstab multiplier by one, so it's nonuple damage. Then crits double damage, yes. An 18x multiplier overall.
I was backstabbing with a 2d3+4 magical dagger, which I'm reasonably sure rolled double threes. I also had Gauntlets of Weapon Expertise (+2 damage), a Luckstone (+3 damage), and a Girdle of Frost Giant Strength (+9 damage from strength, although this should only be multiplied by the crit and not by the backstab; conveniently, this just reduces the multiple of 18 by one).
Looks like I'm missing a miscellaneous point of pre-backstab damage somewhere, but I can at least account for ((15*9)+9)*2.
Sheesh. As for what all that represents... since it is a dagger at the end of the day, I'd say it represents the skill with which you can land a damaging blow. Hit points would represent how well the other person can deflect, etc. So you're so skilled with the dagger that not even a god can stop you from getting through their defenses and hitting their vital point.
I'd imagine it as something like this.
https://i.imgur.com/wJQSF4L.jpg
(Ignore the tired "can Shiki kill Servants?" meme. I'm talking about the imagery alone.)
Also, as is customary, I found more cut content on my way through the BGII files. Literally happens every time I poke my head in.
Journal entries:
Vakola attempts to take revenge on Keldorn.
We met up with an old acquaintance of Keldorn's...a man by the name of Vakola, who holds Keldorn responsible for some manner of 'betrayal' which Keldorn denies.
We encountered Keldorn's old 'friend', Vakola, again in the Sea's Bounty. This time, it became apparent that Keldorn and Vakola were once team-members in the Order, and that Keldorn turned him in for accepting bribes. The man's bitterness brought him and his friends to attack Keldorn and I... and now he is dead.
Vakola's a thirteenth level Cleric with 18 WIS and a surprisingly good spell selection, though no items.
He has seven different lackeys assigned to him (which might make him the biggest "party" battle in BGII were he included?):
Thug, a sixteenth level fighter with 18 in all physical stats and full plate, a long bow, and a long sword;
Mage, a twelfth level Necromancer with some generic mage spells assigned but no necromancy ones except the traditional anti-summoning Death Spell;
Archer, a twelfth level fighter with a heavy crossbow and a random selection of Druid and Cleric spells (?);
Thief, a thirteenth level melee thief;
Goon, a ninth level sword-and-shield Paladin with the same random priestly spell selection as Archer;
Mage, an unkitted tenth level mage with just a lower level version of the previous Mage's spell selection;
Thug, a twelfth level ranged Thief with a light crossbow.
so battlefront 2... despite everything i'm having fun - and thank goodness i'm decent enough at the game to the point that the grind and getting star cards doesn't effect how well i do
the campaign being as short as it was is a disappointment, but come dec 13 the 1st season dlc comes out so yay free content...
I've been playing a lot of Dragon's Dogma. It has a lot of flaws but I've already completed the game three times and have no intention of stopping yet so it's doing something right. Ripping out thirty hearts out of an undead dragon never gets old.
Also been playing some Nioh also on pc. I haven't been having many issues with the port and the gameplay is something I've been enjoying quite a bit more than Dark Souls 3.
And about Dark Souls 3, just in the starting area and I already know that this is the souls game I'm going to enjoy the least. I'm already tired of the endless shades of grey.
Spoiler:
Was going for 2 of Karen/Aoba/Yuno, but I'll take it
Same question as Kirby but for the Nintendo Switch
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, No More Heroes: Travis Strikes Again and a Mario game or two are a given. But I don't know that three to four games justify an entire console purchase.
As for what I've been playing -- more Muramasa: Rebirth and Odin Sphere Leifthrasir on the Vita. I love the many-protagonists style of those narratives and games like the SaGa series. I wish it was more common.