Trip Hazard

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  1. Guys, I've got the death valley blues in NG+, on the approach to Undead Purgatory. Five phantoms, and then one uber phantom with a greatsword whom I cannot stagger, who seems to have infinite stamina, and whose attacks have ridiculous tracking. *cries infinite tears*
  2. I liked it. Spent many a happy hour sneaking through the dark, snapping necks for cheap thrills. I particularly enjoyed the very start of the game, making deals with other inmates for crude weaponry and fighting with Molina for dominance. I think if I played it now I wouldn't like it so much and probably consider it really dated. It can remain a pleasant memory

  3. Recently completed video games

    Trip Hazard replied to gdf's topic in Video Gaming

    Finished Star Control 2 yesterday! Hooray! Great game, but a bit intimidating at first...and throughout, actually. No hand-holding here. If you're planning on playing it, make plenty of different saves in plenty of different slots so you can't screw up too badly, and make lots and lots of notes. One way I think the game could be improved is by having an internal note-taking system, partially automated (say, automatically noting when you've located an alien homeworld) but mostly left up to the player to decide what is relevant. Pros: It's really funny. The music is great. The atmosphere is tremendous and there is a huge deal of historical context to unravel which becomes apparent when you speak with the numerous alien species. The voice acting is great. Cons: At first, you won't really know what to do, and striking off into a far flung region in the hopes of finding something exciting is likely to end badly for you. Also, it's timed, so you don't have time to explore at a leisurely pace. You have to hit places of material value or plot significance when you can. This didn't bother me so much but some people will find this pretty off-putting, no doubt.
  4. I want to see that footage Cine! All three hours of it!

  5. No Man's Sky

    Trip Hazard replied to Ben X's topic in Video Gaming

    I showed that E3 vid to some mates tonight and it got a round of applause! Granted, none of them are gamers and it was massively ironic (on their part), but I'm counting that as a win. They'll be blasting about the cosmos soon enough, you mark my words
  6. The red one is an echidna. The quadrapenis is a dead give-away. Also, sexually unappealing.
  7. Fuckin' Belfry Gargoyles on NG+. Now that was a hell of a fight! Just ran through the Lost Bastille, and those big urns are almost as satisfying to roll through as the cannonballs were in DaS. For the DLC I just want bigger static objects to roll through. Edit: Anyone getting a crash upon quitting the game? Wasn't always happening to me, so a patch must have caused this problem. Not that big a deal, but still...

  8. No Man's Sky

    Trip Hazard replied to Ben X's topic in Video Gaming

    I am too We need to see a huge variety of wildlife to keep things fresh, but I also feel that if there are going to be animals out there, I want them to be believable and fit into their environment, and really inhabit their environment. He talks a lot about ecology, but I worry that that will simply boil down to seeing one big animal killing a smaller prey animal once in a while. What about populations, what about feeding, nesting, nurturing? Will there be cutesy ikkle baby critters? (I'd also really like to see a camera that we can use to catalogue new species, like in BG&E. I want that in every game) Argh, I'm asking for way too much, but I have a lot of questions and it all seems so ambitious for a small team. Too often I've seen procedural content that simply doesn't work properly and produces weird anomalies or throws up endless bugs, or which is simply boring.

  9. No Man's Sky

    Trip Hazard replied to Ben X's topic in Video Gaming

    Derek Yu is probably quite excited for No Man's Sky after watching this. I know I am. http://www.tigsource.com/2014/06/09/e3-2014-no-mans-sky/

  10. Metroid Prime: Great Game or Greatest Game?

    Trip Hazard replied to Architecture's topic in Video Gaming

    There is some of that, true, and normally I don't like it either but it never bothered me in Prime. Just happy to be in that world, I think. Just remembered that even the menu was slick as hell. That fizzing, pulsating organism blew my mind every time I turned on the game. *gush*

  11. Metroid Prime: Great Game or Greatest Game?

    Trip Hazard replied to Architecture's topic in Video Gaming

    Great game. Totally absorbing; the implementation of the visor as a physical thing in front of your eyes was such a fucking brilliant idea. Like SecretAsianManz, I scanned and read every little thing I could. Really good music too: Ohhhh, now I have to go play it again.

  12. Recently completed video games

    Trip Hazard replied to gdf's topic in Video Gaming

    I beat Dark Souls 2, too. Good game, some great areas, some not so great. I never felt I understood why I was doing anything that I was doing, whereas in Dark Souls you pretty much know who you'll be fighting from the get-go. Will defo be doing NG+. Need to sharpen up my PvP skills.

  13. The Witcher 3: What Geralt Wants

    Trip Hazard replied to melmer's topic in Video Gaming

    I liked bits of the Witcher 2. Flotsam was great, but that Dwarven town confused the hell out of me with its winding streets. The latter parts of the game I can't remember at all... The writing was decent, the music was excellent, the combat on normal difficulty was very repetitive and basically boiled down to rolling around all of the time, as I went swordsman route. Probably my fault, should've jacked up the difficulty. The thing I most enjoyed about it was the armour and enemy designs. Really memorable and intricate.
  14. Cheers, didn't know that about buffing. I actually don't think I have any buff spells, just a handful of resins, and I suppose they don't count? I'll have to track down the other spells.
  15. I was down to my last three effigies on Darklurker, but beat him with a lightning halberd, so thanks for the tips guys. I did a couple of hours of mopping up, and am just pondering which weapons to infuse and take with me to NG+. Am I correct in saying that scaling is reduced on an infused weapon, and that a percentage of physical damage is shaved off, to be put into the elemental damage type? I'm thinking, if that's the case, I want to use a weapon with not-great scaling anyway, and also perhaps a weapon which already deals additional elemental damage, but which isn't specifically pre-modified (so, like the Heide sword with lightning damage, as opposed to the fire longsword). Ugh, does that make any sense to anyone? I'm not sure it even makes sense to me.
  16. Spunked away about 25 Human Effigies throwing myself against the Darklurker yesterday. No special tricks, I've got a +10 mastodon halberd and I'm just trying to batter him as quickly as possible so that I don't have to deal with his split form for very long. However, this tactic is boneheaded, so I need to change things up a bit. I think I need more mobility, more magic resistance, more stamina, and to figure out his weakness so I can deal even more damage. My hardest boss so far.

  17. Recently completed video games

    Trip Hazard replied to gdf's topic in Video Gaming

    Sno and mikemariano, if you see this, should I play UU2? I don't want to get stuck into a sequel if it's going to let me down. Heard pretty good things tho.
  18. Haha, defo. Did a bit of co-op with Silent tonight. We struggled for a good long while to get up to the Ancient Dragon, then I got incinerated almost immediately. I don't think Silent fared much better, and it was a bit too fatiguing to try again so we went our seperate ways. Ace fun, though. I think the AD is one of those bosses which is quite a lot harder when you team up, so possibly an unfortunate first mission for an untested team. After that, I fought Vendrick, and eventually killed him. Good thing I specced into "Wedgie" - it was super effective. And then Nashandra, who folded like a pack of soggy playing cards. A few loose ends and it's on to NG+
  19. True that. And their fireballs seem to leave a residual flame which can harm you even as you get up from the initial blast. I've left a serious impression on the global death counter
  20. I just took down the boss of the Memory of whoever myself. I'll throw my summon sign down on the way to the final boss, see if we can't co-op it to death.

  21. Recently completed video games

    Trip Hazard replied to gdf's topic in Video Gaming

    Yes! Play it all through, tricky gaps be damned, and send me screengrabs of your annotated maps

  22. Recently completed video games

    Trip Hazard replied to gdf's topic in Video Gaming

    I recently finished Ultima Underworld, a mere 22 years after it was first released, and I would recommend it to anybody. It's so utterly captivating, I'd frequently find myself playing for up to 5 hours at a time, and into the wee small hours of the morning. I'd played it a few times before, but not gotten so involved. I think the lack of direction at first was a bit overwhelming for me, so this time, I went in with a guide to hand and dipped into it when I needed a bit of, well, guidance. There are several very important items which it is possible to miss completely, or simply ignore as you're not aware of their ultimate value, but because of the guide I didn't get into any unwinnable situations. I do feel the start of the game was stronger than the end, focusing more on conversation and exploration, than on awkward jumping puzzles (tho there is some of that even in the early levels) and combat, which I felt was the weakest part of the game. There are issues with it. As I mentioned, it's possible to lose or ignore critical items, there is too much fucking jumping, and the combat becomes tiresome. But scrape off some of the grit and you have an absolute pearl of a game, which plays well and looks good despite its advancing years. I want to expound on it further but I'm a bit drunk... Edit: And you can annotate the map! OMG! All games should have a map with wrinkled corners which I can scribble all over. It made my journey through the dungeon feel so much more personal, and was just a big practical advantage on top of that. I'd really love it if I could see what other people had written on their maps.
  23. I didn't see your message Silent, but I have added you as a friend anyway because the more the merrier, right? Sadly, I don't think we'll be able to co-op as my SM is approx 1.7 million, and I presume (tho I didn't look at the SM calculator) that a million soul difference would mean we're not in the same band. Anyway, I did the Shrine today! The advice you guys gave was helpful indeed. I went and bought tons of arrows and bolts, upgraded my short bow a bit, put on my most magic resistant gear and just sniped whilst tanking the magic missiles. It felt dumb and it wasn't fun at all, but it worked. Previously I had been trying to close melee range on the casters and beat them up quickly before the lurking hollows could pounce on me. Usually I'd kill the mage that I'm aiming for but not without taking a hit, and by then another mage would have been aggro'd, so I'm then having to sprint over there and even more hollows are popping up and aaarrgggh. Felicia also came in handy. She's really dumb and her pathfinding is truly appalling but she was doing a great job of drawing fire, letting me unleash my arrows unmolested. After that third bonfire, I mainly sprinted out from behind the pillar with the torch to kill a caster, then retreated behind it to safely deal with the hollows that would be following, then repeat that on the next mage. Only took me two tries. Again, a boring tactic which felt cheap, but it's a cheap area so I feel entirely justified. Thanks for the help guys
  24. Haven't played DS2 in about a week, as I had an incredible urge to play Ultima Underworld again, having dabbled in it in the past but never finished it. This time I did it! There are a fair few items that are unique and essential, and which it is possible to lose or just ignore (can't carry everything; weight limit is a big factor), so that wasn't great, but I had a guide on hand so I wouldn't make any critical missteps. And, I loved it. Anyway, back to DS2 having finished that, and I'm at the Shrine of Amana and just...fuck the Shrine of Amana. I'm this close to quitting because it is a total slog and the enemy placement is just evil. I just cannot make any headway past the second bonfire. I need some good advice for this awful place before I smash my PC/myself to pieces in frustration.

  25. Licensed Novel of Games

    Trip Hazard replied to TheLastBaron's topic in Video Gaming

    I read Sonic the hedgehog in the fourth dimension when I was probably 8 or 9. I really liked it, and read it 2 or 3 times to completion. It's definitely a load of shit though, I just wanted to read everything, and was awed at seeing a character from a game in a book (that wasn't a manual) Now that I'm a bit older, I've very little interest in reading any novels based on games. I'd dip my toe in for the right game, but I don't even know myself what that could be.