Alastor beaten. Decent boss. Tbh I’m still gonna probably beat the game but my GOD, is it boring as hell now.

Aight got to alastar, my thoughts: God of war sons of Sparta is pretty mid tbh. Very repetitive encounters(usually only 1 or at most 3 enemies) that are all solved by iframes/parrying since you can literally roll through enemies lol

So far: Seems like sons of sparta is more about “methodical” combat, since you can’t really cancel into shield much. Like the fact there isn’t omni blocking. Wish I didn’t have to press triangle to go up or down ledges tho and climb ladders

"god of war trilogy" YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO "remake" oh fuck off

Gonna be honest…. I do not support the gow remakes. Should’ve just been a port but FUCKKKK YEAH TC IS BACK!!!

out of all the FPS games that emphasize dynamic and rapid movement, the skating system in firestarters is my personal favorite take on schmovement just feels blissful

I could show a clip of me doing nothing for 10 seconds and it could be the most high level possible play in that moment because of the circumstances. people who know the game would see the nothing clip and be in awe

p sure that in the videogame sphere - the atmospheric moments and immersion people are effectively the hype moments and aura ppl of anime spaces, just bums who only engage with their favorite artform in a superficial manner

Ik this is basic, but it really can’t be stressed enough how much you should actually play a game instead of just looking at clips of them, since many times clips of a game may look extremely simple but the thought that goes behind gets overlooked

Me posting some whatever clip of a slightly niche action game vs. me posting a thread articulating my thoughts on a game

when discord gets fucky at least we'll have steam until they break that too

you ask an FPS fan why they don't like a game and all they do is rant about not being able to jump or having a limited inventory in a game clearly not designed around jump buttons or unlimited inventories

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this is going around again. is it just the mood or are folks slandering a specific game this time

stoppable force (gamecube controller) vs immovable object (games where you might need to do two or more actions a lot instead of just one)

Really love tho how the enemy DT in gmgow can be used for your advantage since it allows you to use enemies, like these arrow guys here, longer as ammo against bigger ones.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death

Really miss the vertical boss arenas from demon souls.

Made these raggy clips

mobile rhythm gamer who signals their buddies an order to send a text solely because a slowdown section is coming up and the SMS notification acts as a temporary lane cover - allowing them to read the jumbled notes better

Doing no-block/dodge/parry runs:

Yeah its been a while but iirc the dinos could be dodged as well,so I wonder how much of the forced damage on the bridge was a lack of practice.But more importantly I LOVE the idea of properly integrating terrain into combat this way where even the same enemy combo creates a radically diff challenve

An underrated aspect to FEAR's enemy barks is that it serves to make enemy behavior appear deliberate, which is important because a lot of players tend to assume that any element that doesn't call attention to itself yet pushes players out of their comfort zone is an unintentional oversight

youtu.be/88Hkmy1hjC4?... Say what you will about the implementation but integrating random encounters into terrain in such a robust way is actually fucking awesome & forward thinking in a way that "remove annoyance" design isnt. The devs should make it a more integrated intentional mechanic

"microtransactions in games started by cabal of pedophile elites for the purpose of indoctrinating kids into an economy" Ok. Well, we all knew it was evil somehow but I really didn't expect Epstein to be responsible for why video games are bad now. That's just not what I would've thought.

Yo, you still doing that Epsteinian "smooth difficulty curve" and "flow state" shit?

LOL no they did not start there, both can be traced back to the 70s. It was Pablos Holman talking to Epstein making comments about games being flow-optimized, then Epstein forwarding that email to Bobby Kotick who ofc suggested drip feeding rewards-all in 2013 which was quite late to the party.

What does routing mean in the context of beat ‘em ups?

Is there a god of war fan base/discussions here in regards of combat?

Odin may be alive… im actually now convinced. If they don’t have him alive his character is gonna take a DEEP ass hit

Encounter variety>>>Enemy variety

Moots, how should enemy inflicted damage/hits on players work? Should more games allow enemies to ring you out? Should enemies be able to combo you?

Is hellsinker a good shmup to play where my only exposure zero ranger

Meet MAKE YOUR OWN FUN man! "Just ignore 80% of your options" "You control the buttons you press" "You get what you put into it" "Using any optimal strategy is your own fault" "Can be" and "if you set your own goals" but never "is" "Give me liberty! Give me fire! Give me twitter clips or I retire!"

Whats really been sinking in for me wrt rng in action games is that a lot of the mental dynamics that make hard execution a poor tool for creating risk reward also apply to RNG.Playing action games isnt a rational process,assessing risk reward on the fly is hell so players will most likely stick to-

Feels like the winning action game formula for (the more hardcore) younger players is low amount of snowballing/interconnectedness between different challenges, really basic & intuitive controls/mechanics BUT insane speed to compensate for low difficulty elsewhere

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Marks new NG2 vid is a perfect example of what I mean since he focuses on using terrain youtu.be/7frML8CZLpY?... Modern CAG devs and players think that this terrain stuff is bad & gets in the way of combat, so they turn everything into an arena or encourage YOU to do it by never using terrain

Another big sign of how peoples relationship to single player games has changed is the popularity of "Beating *game* but without etc etc" type videos The videos are a reflection of culture. The personal ruleset has become the default, because the games cease to be fun without it

People anthropomorphize video game enemies in a way that creates really fucked up discussions and critical eval. Where if enemies are good at pantomiming "aggressive gameplay" their design is treated as good even if it's completely unfit for the types of player mechanics the game they're in has

smash players will say stuff like "sonic is designed to annoy you" and then they'll go on to say he has a badly designed moveset, like bro have you seen sonic his entire fighting style in his own series is being an annoying little rat fuck so he can get eggman's mech to punch itself in the face

“Difficulty and punishment aren’t the same thing” ok, even if you think that they aren’t mutually exclusive either since most goals of a game is to beat them and punishment makes achieving that goal harder to do…

On a more pessimistic note I feel like next year will be an intense acceleration of all the shitty AI based trends we saw this year and passive dumb acceptance from the avg person in the medium so hope for the best prepare for thr worst

will never understand the subset of action game players that have hundreds of hours in devil may cry or whatever that actually sit down at their consoles and pcs to play gacha games like pgr or wuthering waves

Moots, what makes a good 2d platformer and is donkey Kong returns and tropical freeze good ones?

Reviewing rly simple games is a really nice litmus test cuz they force u to ditch the usual crutches of describing parts of the game without ever connecting it all together to get anything worthwhile out of it. U basically have to directly think about how everything connects & ur own play experience

>Started dying on the first stage of Fight n Rage after a couple of really good attempts Enough for today...

When it comes to single-player combat in any genre I’m finding more and more that people just see mechanics as a means to an end and that “Let me do what I wanna do” seems to be the general opinion that most people lean towards