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Ok so that's just weird, obtuse, ancient button placement. It's not the equivalent of turning an analogue stick aim into light gun aiming. I think the thing that bothers me most about the Wii version of Resident Evil 4, is that you can see where you're aiming before your gun comes up. It makes shooting things so much faster, it's even more important than the 1000% increase in accuracy of Wiimote over GCN controller.

You can detach the silencer if there's no one around. You can fulton them too. You can also get more durable suppressors that they don't actually mention, if you're medium to late game, customise your weapon and check out the suppressor option. There should be more if you've researched the right stuff. No idea what stuff it is though. Story spoilers coming...mission 43.

I've got faith in From's ability to deliver DLC. DS1 and DS2 DLCs were both substantial and had some of my favourite parts of both games. They don't half ass it. Also - that bow-blade?! YES I WANT IT. I'm definitely restarting a new character for the DLC. I've been craving another play through as it is. Funnily enough I've been listening to the Bonfireside Chat Bloodborne episodes, and everything they say they don't like about it, is everything I love about it. Weird, because I agreed with pretty much everything they said about DS1 and 2.

Interesting experience. Curious: what is the "classic" control scheme for Doom?

I think it's November. At least in Japan... I saw this news at the gym and let out an audible gasp. That trailer is amazing. A fucking buzz-saw? That looks like it turns into a shield/sword combo?! That's new. Seeing the combat reminded me how fast paced and aggressive BB is compared to the other souls games. Shit, I really should play it agian.

Call me crazy, but I feel like I want to experience the game as the creators originally intended. I know it makes no sense...if I bounce off it so consistently, I should probably try Wiiasy mode. The thing is, am I then playing Resident Evil 4, the survival horror game, or am I playing Resident Evil 4, the shooting gallery game?

I wish there was a way for me to get my base logo up here. I took a screen shot on ps4, but have no computer to put it on and load it up. So heroism affects the stats of soldiers you find. I just got to "Hero" level and I'm now finding the occasional S-rank soldier out in the field. They're like shiny pokémon, in that I have to have them all, and will go out my way to grab them.

I fired up Resident Evil 4 on my gamecube over the weekend. I have only ever made past the fist boss, and quit, every single time. Sometimes out of frustration, sometimes because I had to stop, and when I went back I couldn't remember how to play, however, I'm determined to finish it. So I got to the chain saw guy and he chopped me up. I turned it off and went back to MGS, but I've not given up. Firstly: This game influenced (Dark) Souls. It's plain as day. From the YOU ARE DEAD in red letters across the screen, to the ominous village that you enter to begin with. Then there's the combat, which works in the same way: you're limited heavily. You have mobility, but you can either aim, which to me parallels holding up a shield, or shoot, which obviously parallels swinging a sword. Secondly: It still looks pretty good! I was expecting to be disgusted by the non-HD image, but it's totally fine! I don't know why I've bounced off RE4 so many times. I know in my teens I didn't have the patience for it, and would have hated so many games I love now thanks to how easily I got frustrated. That doesn't account for when I bought the PC version and bounced off it again. Half the battle is the controls. They feel like they should work, but they're ever so slightly off. Right trigger to aim, when now left trigger is standard. A button to shoot...when right trigger has been standard for years. I'm constantly bringing out my knife thanks to that, wasting valuable seconds. Also the actual aiming is really hard. It has no aim assist like today's shooters as far as I can tell, and head shots don't kill even basic enemies. I want to beat it. I want to like it, because I know I should. It's got everything I like in many of my favourite games. It should just click with me...but it never has.

Oh god, this was amazing! A truck following its normal route stopped, two guys got out. One of them got back in and seemingly accidentally ran over the other. ! He gets out, checks him, then calls the guards and reports an intruder. Sneaky bastard! Accidentally kills his friend them blames it on the enemy!

Yup,after seeing that all I can do is think of Travis Touchdown every time he speaks. So I had some cool shit happen to me today. I was killing a tank squad, and the one guy left that I hadn't murdered tried to run for it, so I hopped on a mortar and rained shells down on him, but he managed to avoid every single one. So I jumped on D-horse and fired rockets and grenades from my launcher at him. They all exploded on trees in the way or harmlessly at his side. It was crazy! This guy must have been terrified, I actually ran out of ammo trying to hit him! In the end I ran him down with the horse, kicked him to wake him up and fultoned him. Someone that lucky had to be part of my crew. D-dog fell down an elevator shaft in a mission. I got chided for getting him killed. He just walked straight off the edge! D-dog also has the uncanny ability to stand in the way every time I throw someone against a wall, resulting in them both being stunned. It's pretty amusing. Smoke grenades are broken. They're so powerful. I thought they'd set off alerts, but they don't. Just toss one at a guys foot, and you can walk right up to him and cqc him down. Tanks can't see through them so you can sprint through the cloud and foulton them. I also did my first subsistence mission. I won't say too much, but it was amazing. You start with literally no gear, and have to procure everything on site. Kept dying at first since all the guards were rocking full body armour, but then I just went full stealth. It was a great feeling. Edit: for the skulls

I agree! I tried once just to get the trophy and was spotted in like 3 seconds. I was slowly creeping up on an enemy armed to the teeth and a drone popped up behind me, and even though I shot it down with a silenced assault rifle the whole base alerted. It's so incredibly unbalanced unless the FOB owner has weak guards and low preparedness. Like my FOB! I don't think I've been invaded yet, but I'm so rarely online, I doubt it'll affect me.

I'm finding the main missions paralysing. I want to play them, but I don't want the game to end yet! I feel like every time I do a mission, I'm getting closer to this amazing game being over...

Maybe. Even if it is fast, it's still my least favourite buddy! Dog > Quiet > Horse >>>> Roboman

Oh, I know which one they mean, I just didn't think it was faster. It's more stable for shooting though.

Huh, the driving mode seemed slower than the running mode.

The reason I track everything is because I'm terrible at estimating how much I've eaten. I always massively underestimate, to the point that when I first started tracking, I realised I was eating 4K+ calories a day. No wonder I was finding it hard to lose weight! I also track to make sure I'm eating enough. I'm off my diet now, and slowly working back up to a maintenance calorie load.

But where does she get her protein?

I tried out the D-Walker for funsies last night. Upgraded it a bunch beforehand so I wouldn't have a poor view of it...it's garbage. Like, what does it offer you over any other buddy? I'm sure once it's 100% upgraded it's great, but right now, it's a bunch of guns that are inaccurate from range, you're a giant target that anyone can see and...that's it. Oh yeah, it's slightly faster than sprinting, but not by much! D-Dog is still the best, since Quiet is just too over powered, she just makes missions too easy. D-Dog has that nice balance between incredibly useful, but doesn't trivialise the combat or stealth. The horse is meh.

Oh I agree, but the papers linked only measured BMI, and not body fat percentage. If they were to measure anything related to the discussion, it'd have to take into account their only measurement of weight. Again, you're right, it's kinda pointless in terms of practicality, especially in a thread about exercise. I just went down the rabbit hole and didn't know when to stop arguing about it, mainly because I find the research really interesting. Put it down to me being obnoxious, and I'll try to stop it. I use myfitnesspal, which is a free app and an online resource. Really good for tracking food. If you scan barcodes with your smart phone is makes entry super easy. You can also enter recipes which is crazy good. I found getting food scales to be the most important part of tracking food, even without the resources. I'm apparently really bad at eyeballing things like that. I also use "Strong" an app for tracking my exercise. It's nice and simple to use, it has a free demo period and then cost I think £5 which I thought was extremely reasonable for something I use practically every day. No experience with a fitbit, mainly because the idea of steps per day isn't an attractive statistic to me. I don't walk, but I do cycle and I do resistance training. I think anything that gives me a number to beat is useful and taps into my love of games. Personal bests are just high scores. Strong keeps track of personal bests etc, so it fulfils the same niche, just for a different type of exercise.

Granted I skimmed through those papers, but I don't see any comparison that's relevant. The authors don't even comment on activity vs high bmi, let alone do any stats. It might be there and I missed it, but it's certainly not the focus of the paper unlike the two I linked.

I think a lot of people still assume they're paying "road tax" rather than vehicle tax, so they assume they have precedent. At least that's what I hear from some people. I'd guess that a lot of it comes from feeling anonymous and safe in a car, similar to how people act on the internet. They assume there's going to be no repercussions because they're safe in their motorised box, so lose inhibitions on rage and irrational hatred. I know I get far more angry while I'm driving than any other time.

My most embarrassing fall was when I was trying to be cool and answer my phone while slowly cycling down an empty street. Someone came around the corner and I had to slam on my breaks, of course since my phone was in my hand I only had access to my front break, sending me over the top of my bike. I'm dumb for doing something obviously dumb. Being a cyclist is the only time I've ever considered carrying a weapon around with me. The abuse I've gotten from people for simply delaying them by a few seconds is astounding. I've even had one car chase me and try to ram me off the road because I told the driver to fuck off after he honked his horn at me for doing nothing.

Wow badhat, thanks for the info. I ended up watching gaijinhunter's guide on it, but haven't fought the boss again in a while. I think the gimmick fights are the worst thing about MH4U. I understand why they're in there, and I can see why people might like them, I just don't. You spend your whole time learning to fight monsters, then it throws you in a situation that's entirely different with no explanation of what to do, with completely different mechanics to what I find fun.

Oh, I just got to mission 29 this morning. I've not done anything yet though. I really liked mission 28, I got a B rank because it took me 40 minutes since I could not find where the damn prisoner was. Didn't get spotted once in 40 minutes, despite some of the guards I tranq'd waking up again. It was one of those messy missions that I lucked my way through the whole thing. 29: Edit: I just realised why I love this game. It's ghost recon. I played that for hundreds of hours on the original Xbox. I played it so much i knew everything about it, to the point I wouldn't go into a mission with anything other than a pistol to make it challenging. Mgs5 reminds me of it so much. It's got all the things I loved about that game, but with all the awesome anime bullshit from metal gear, and the crazy interacting open work stuff of far cry. It's great to just pin point exactly what it's been reminding me of this whole time.

The way enemies react is just using equipment to counter your strategies. No AI changes so far as I can tell. Most of them seemed pretty obvious, like wearing helmets, but one bothered me. A lot now wear gas masks. I used a sleep grenade all of once, and now every chump is donning a gas mask. Granted my sleep grenade took out 6 people in one throw. Something I was super proud of, but now they've completely countered that. However, I do think gas masks and night vision goggles are mutually exclusive. Not confirmed that, but it'll be really interesting if they are! A cool thing is that helmets don't stop you from getting head shots. Ether quiet can pop the helmet off, and you can then shoot them before they react, or you can shoot guys in the face!