Melt Face Molly Drop
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EvanBenner
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My partner picked us up Returnal during Playstation's Black Friday sale, and we're really digging it!
It's super challenging, the likes of which should please Soulsborne fans. The art direction is *chefs kiss* and it controls super smoothly, too!
When I think about it, Returnal's a super juiced-up version of Risk of Rain 2 with the procedurally generated level layouts and subtle roguelite progression of Dead Cells/Hades—and it really really works for me.
That said I've only just made it to the second territory after facing the first boss for a week, and it's only supposed to get more challenging from here. Totally feels like something @Fillip J Phry would drop regular progress updates on.
It's super challenging, the likes of which should please Soulsborne fans. The art direction is *chefs kiss* and it controls super smoothly, too!
When I think about it, Returnal's a super juiced-up version of Risk of Rain 2 with the procedurally generated level layouts and subtle roguelite progression of Dead Cells/Hades—and it really really works for me.
That said I've only just made it to the second territory after facing the first boss for a week, and it's only supposed to get more challenging from here. Totally feels like something @Fillip J Phry would drop regular progress updates on.
Thackeraye
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Loving my Series S. The first Xbox I've ever owned, and Game Pass is class. Honestly don't care about it doing native 4K and all the other bells and whistles, just loving playing good games. Only thing I'm not 100% used to yet is the UI, but other than that I highly recommend it.
Thackeraye
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My only caveat - you can fill the hard drive very quickly. I'd consider a portable HHD at some point.
The games I ordered on cyber Monday at 60% off have arrived. What should I play first?
EvanBenner
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Control is pretty dang great. (I should really get around to finishing that.)
Unfamiliar with LiS aside from it constantly being talked about. Attempted the TS demo.
So with these caveats, I'd have to vote Control!
I decided to check out what LiS just to see what it’s all about real quick before starting control.
One of the first things you do is look around a record store!
Yup. That sold me. This game rocks.
One of the first things you do is look around a record store!
Yup. That sold me. This game rocks.
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Control was the first or second game I played on my PS5! It's SO good. I enjoyed the hell out of it.
Also, I've been playing Tales of Arise the past month or so. It's so much fun. Easily the best Tales game that I've played. I'm also easy to please though, so who knows
I really loved Tales of Arise. It was the first Tales games I played though. I was talking about it with my co-workers after the game got snubbed of any awards.
What my co-workers said was Tales of Arise was very hit or miss. You either loved it or hated it. And it was a miss for around half of the fans of the franchise. Overall the game flopped. Which is hard for me to believe.
One of my co-workers dropped it very early on in game play. Couldn't stand it.
Control is kicking my ass. I keep getting slaughtered anytime I face any enemies with guns. By the time I aim my gun on the first enemy 75% of my health is gone. Anyone have some advice for me on what I need to do to not take hits and take down the foes.
Wow really? Happen to remember what the complaints about Arise were from the franchise fans?? I have issues with the CP system (I run out way too often, and the items to replenish it are way too expensive imo), but other than that I’ve enjoyed every part of it!
Man I wish I had advice for Control, ive played so many things since then and I can’t remember much about what worked for me. I know I was able to abuse the attachments or whatever they’re called to boost your stats
It was the story and characters the franchise fans didn't like. It was very hit or miss with them.
I'm still very early on in Control, so no boosted stats yet. So that's probably my issue. Going to be a bitch for a little while.
Oh okay, I guess I’m placing way more value on the gameplay. I think the combat is so excellent in this game
Yes, definitely at the beginning! I’m not great at shooters in general, but you’ll get more and more stuff as you play that helps a ton
debianlinux
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Been playing through Inside. Perfect puzzler with an intriguing, wordless, story development and great atmosphere. Perfect because automatic incremental checkpoints means I can pick it up for 5 minutes or 30 very easily. The controls are so simple there's never any lost muscle memory to play it. No idea how far I am into it but I have put in probably 2 hours total.
Fillip J Phry
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If I could afford (and find) a PS5 I would absolutely be playing Returnal. I've watched some gameplay of it and I'm intrigued. On top of what you mentioned, from what I've seen there's a bunch of lore to slowly uncover as well.
Thanks for the reminder on the Binding of Isaac updates, it's been a while since I posted one of those! I admittedly haven't been playing as much lately, but I do runs occasionally. I got burned out on trying to do Delirium and Greedier with Jacob and Esau, so I started playing the new Tainted characters. Started in order, and I've done most of Tainted Isaac except Hush, Delirium, and Greedier. I liked this character overall. The gimmick here is that higher tier items are more likely to show up, but you can only hold 8 of them at a time. The one saving grace is that health upgrades will fill one of those slots, but removing them does not remove the increased health, so basically you're looking for the 8 most powerful tear impacting items you can find. I'm pretty sure most of my wins came when I had Sinus Infection, the DoT from this item is strong and with a high luck/fire rate stacks to incredible damage. I'm currently playing as Tainted Maggie, and having a pretty good time. I like her mechanic early game - basically any health above two hearts slowly ticks down, causing you to play quickly and a little more aggressively. Enemies drop way more health, and you have a contact attack that damages you, but does high damage and almost guarantees a health drop on kill. Timing i-frames to kill multiple enemies this way is a great way to restore health, and the below average starting stats make using this attack almost essential early on. You also start with the same healing item regular Maggie gets, so a good strategy is throw yourself into a boss, and pop it to get two hearts back, then keep crashing into the boss until it dies. That being said, the late game can turn sour very quickly. For those not in the know, when you get past floor 6, damage increases from a half heart to a full heart. The contact drops still only drop a half heart, so that move becomes less viable. On top of that, if you don't get good tear upgrades early on, you can lose a run very quickly. Lots of losses here, but with the right items, this character can become one of the most powerful. I'm almost done with her unlocks, so I'll be moving on to the next character (I think Tainted Cain) soon.
wokeupnew
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I put everything into launch early on and whenever I could to max it out. It's by far the best attribute IMO. It did make the later stages of the game almost too easy because it's so effective to launch items at every enemy and almost never use any ammo.
It's such a good game! I'm jealous you're playing it for the first time!
I'm still stuck at the central executive office. I keep getting slaughtered by gun fire.
I'm finding I'm much better at taking out enemies by running / jumping in any pressing triangle to attack
It takes me 3 to 5 shots per person to kill them with a gun I just get taken out by other people firing on me in the process.
Anything I can do to avoid gun fire? Or heal?
Fillip J Phry
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Using cover and stunning enemies with launched items are your best friends. Also, heals come from killing enemies, so if you're low try to take out someone weaker quickly and rush over to them. The little white bits that pop out are the heals. You might be able to break stuff too? I can't remember there. I found keeping mobile is also a good strategy - I used the tried and true "circle the perimeter" method a lot. That being said, encounters can be very challenging, especially earlier on when your powers are limited, and I had my fair share of deaths in the game.
Correct me if I'm wrong but you can launch projectiles at this point yes? If so always do that, the gun is a last resort. The projectiles do far more damage until the gun can be upgraded.
I don't think so.
I just got the gun which I fire with R2. And my only attack option is triangle.
Cover as in hiding behind objects?
I got this on Switch about a week ago for like $2.00 and finally started it last night. looks like I got about halfway through. not sure what the hell is going on, who anyone is, etc.. but so far it's enjoyable.