toxicitizen
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I still haven't even finished Persona Q, so I have no idea when the hell I'll actually get around to playing it (hopefully before the sequel comes out in NA). But, I've been keeping an eye on the Amazon marketplace for it and yesterday a listing showed up for a brand new copy at the cheapest price I've seen yet. So, I just kinda jumped on it. Really glad I was able to get the LEs of both PQ and this for decent prices. They were pretty much the only two games I was willing to splurge on but not if the prices had been too insane.
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I keep forgetting we have this thread. Most recent non-gaming purchases: Both are often recommended as must-read for programmers, so I've been meaning to grab them for a while. This being my last semester, I figured it was probably a good time to get around to it. But man, prog books are expensive.
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Meh, I thought a lot of the more complex puzzle mechanics weren't particularly well explained. You do like 4-5 tutorials easily but then you get the next one and it's like "Wait, wtf?" I can respect the attempt to communicate information to the player without words but it had its downsides.
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Lol. They really aren't that bad, they're just poorly explained. Look at the spoiler tag in my first post on the previous page, maybe that'll help.
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I've been looking forward to this one for quite a while. It was announced something like, what, two years ago? Anyway, pre-order is 20 bucks, which is about what I expected. Now to wait until next week...
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Not to get off-topic again, but holy fucking lol, Durante fixed the Symphonia port in like 15mins. He's still tweaking stuff but he's already added arbitrary internal resolution support as well as downsampling support. I really wonder what the hell happened here. It seriously sounds like they didn't give a shit. I mean, they even got the name of a character wrong on one of the Steam badges...
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Wow, what a jerk to come in here and mock us for no reason! Why don't you go play some board games, you nerd?!
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Coming out Feb 24th, pre-order is up for 20 bucks. I was kind of hoping it would be a bit earlier in the month but I'd probably just end up ignoring it in favor of XCOM 2, so it doesn't really make much of a difference. Now let me buy Danganronpa, too! Hopefully SpikeChunsoft will follow NIS' example and price it reasonably.
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Holy shit, for real?! O_O edit: Damn it, now I'm firing up the game when what I really should be firing up is Visual Studio...
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Pre-ordered a couple weeks ago. So good to see those review scores, though! I had faith in Firaxis to top EU but there's always that fear of "what if they fuck it up?" Really stoked for this one. This is going to be a long week.
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Honestly, I have a feeling that this game is going to be kinda like Fez and that there's a lot more to it that hasn't been discovered yet. Other than just finding all the remaining puzzles and activating all the lasers, I've also found two big "wtf is this about" things to work towards. I wouldn't be surprised if there was more.
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Well, it was two things.
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Hahaha, yeah. I'm guessing that spoiler I ran into must've been either bullshit or related to some secret stuff because fucking lol at that ending sequence. Cool, I'll have to check that out. I wanna keep playing and try to solve everything but I'm gonna have to shelve the game for now. Got a big prog assignment to finish up this week, so what little gaming time I'll have I'd rather spend trying to finish Resident Evil 0 before friday. Because friday is XCOM day!
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The Witness. Really enjoyed it. The game is gorgeous, so just wandering around the island looking for puzzles and exploring was pretty enjoyable in and of itself. It was much easier than I expected, though. Barring a few mechanics that weren't very clearly explained, it was closer in difficulty to Portal than to something like SpaceChem. That's not to say they were bad or anything like that, though. They're actually pretty well designed and were generally very satisfying to figure out. So yeah, really glad I didn't let the price put me off. It was definitely a worthwhile purchase. Well, it wouldn't be the first time a dev grossly overestimates/exaggerates his game's length. I guess it's possible that some of the more secret stuff is significantly harder to find and solve but yeah, I seriously doubt that's going to add another 50-60 hours to the game.
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To be fair, I don't think this game has ever seemed very "Final Fantasy", even back when it was still Versus XIII. Anyway, this has to be the first footage in over a year to make me care about this game again. I really love the visual design of that area and the mechs are giving off a slight FFVI vibe. I really hope there's more of that kind of stuff in the game rather than the boring, empty landscapes and wildlife we've been mostly seeing up until now.
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Grabbed the 15$ tier of the Firaxis Humble Bundle, which mainly includes and some other junk. Mostly games I already owned but also the last few bits of Civ V DLC I was missing for the Complete Edition to be, well, uh.. complete. Kind of a bummer that it was a single Steam key per bundle tier, though. I was hoping to give all the XCOM EU stuff to a friend of mine but every single key had something I wanted for myself in it. :/
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Well, now I kinda wanna see that go down... Especially since, you know, those aren't my initials.
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Welp, I ended up getting some massive ending spoilers while looking for advice on a specific thing I couldn't figure out how/where to do. Fuck everything. Why do I even fucking bother trying anymore...
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Make that
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Yeah, it's much easier to play around with little paper cutouts than it is to try and visualize everything in your head. So, (not really a spoiler, more of a progression indicator, but tagging it just in case)
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The trick here is that This is the mechanic that took me by far the longest to completely figure out so far. Get used to those, btw. I finished the swamp last night and there were a few tough ones. Pro tip: this is my evening from last night in a nutshell: I suggest doing the same. The main problem is that you can get through some tutorials without really understanding why what you did worked. A good rule of thumb is that if you start having trouble finding puzzles you can solve, especially if they introduce a new mechanic, then go somewhere else. The island is pretty well designed visually, most areas have a very different and distinct look. Go find some new place you haven't been to yet. There's almost certainly going to be a tutorial in there.
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The Witness is pretty rad, you guys! I just played for 6 hours straight and I'd play for 6 more if I didn't have class in the morning.
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@TMEth: That's the thing - I've seen people who are like "I've been playing fast paced FPS games for 20 years without sickness and I'm getting it from this game"!
It's really weird. Almost endemic. Blow said it was an issue a while back and he was looking at adjusting it.
I've never had issues either but I'm getting slightly worried about it (my mum gets it horribly and I can't read on cars/buses without getting sick).
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@Cowboy: Well, I've only solved like 130ish puzzles (out of like 600, I think?) but so far it seems just difficult enough. A lot of puzzles are trivially easy while others force you to think about the solution pretty hard. It strikes a pretty good balance, I think.
They keep introducing new elements that don't always make obvious sense. So, sometimes you literally can't solve something until you go explore to find easier versions of the same thing. Once I figured out th...
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...figured out that those puzzles that seemingly didn't do anything were intended to act as tutorials, I started actively looking for them whenever I got stuck on a new mechanic. That made things a bit easier.
