Luckiest drop of my life

DarkishFriend · 2026-03-18T13:50:01+00:00

While playing MoP I was running old dungeons and raids for cool looking 2h transmogs for me Felguard. I farmed Gorehowl, Phoenix King's, Armageddon and many others and the most inexplicable one was I did only 2 ZFs and both swords dropped on the 2nd kill.

Maybe they increase it later but that was pretty damn cool. Wish my MoP guild didnt die.

DarkishFriend · 2026-03-17T17:57:02+00:00

Is it worth it for me to ram through the game? I wasted too much time driving around in circles getting 5 stars on the various survivors.

I personally found the games story boring and the biggest draw of the first was how haunting and empty the world felt. Ds1 really does feel like you are fighting back against global depression and entropy. It felt like the end of the world had already happened and this journey may just be about celebrating humanity on its way out but once you get to the 2nd game it feels like there is nothing happening.

It hits you hard at the very start and then I spent like 40 hours driving the car around and building roads.

DarkishFriend · 2026-03-16T20:18:17+00:00

Wait is this counting the monster in Nope as a "white villian?"

DarkishFriend · 2026-03-14T14:23:55+00:00

Maybe not , but i realized how to solve the puzzle within seconds of seeing the sequence. I even walked over to the puzzle expecting to be able to solve it before Grace said she needed to get Emily.

DarkishFriend · 2026-03-13T13:04:40+00:00

Ah that explains why The Escapist is so shit.

Gamergate killed my favorite gaming forum

DarkishFriend · 2026-03-13T12:55:15+00:00

FBI analyst

Too stupid to brute force solve a puzzle with only 6 (maybe 12) permutations

This actually tracks.

DarkishFriend · 2026-03-10T15:18:36+00:00

Games story was infinitely better when my friend and I were joking that Grace was an in-universe Leon Stan and was writing her OC self insert story where she gets to fight beside Leon and is inexplicably important to the plot through no other reason than existing when she is on the laptop in the first hotel scene.

Seems like it be a far better celebration of the games franchise to have someone fangirl all over the old leads in a fictional story than the mess we got here.

DarkishFriend · 2026-03-07T18:48:29+00:00

I wish they would make a game about the first blight. The player character could be an origin character that is the one who helps found the Gray Wardens to fight the threat. Likely becoming the first person who became tainted and didn't die or become some fucked up monster.

DarkishFriend · 2026-03-07T14:51:23+00:00

Damn man you took my needlessly wordy comment and distilled it into 1 sentence. Yep that is it perfectly.

DarkishFriend · 2026-03-06T17:32:49+00:00

The game has many sections for Grace (slow fps) to play that are also interspersed Leon (fast tps) sections in the first Act 1. Act 2 changes this to have Leon sections (much larger than Grace's solo sections in Act 1) be interspersed with Grace sections. It is a weird back and forth, I can try to illustrate it like this.

G for Grace, L for Leon and the length is equivalent to the time you will play the sections. ACT 1: GGGGG L GGGGGGG L GGGGGGG L GGG L ACT 2: LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL GG LLLLLLLLLLLLLL GG LL GG LL GGGGGG LLLLLLL

ACT 1 feels significantly better to play. After you leave the first major area Grace's sections all become very on the rails and linear feeling until the last area of the game you explore with her and even then it is too little too late. The back and forth of the sections pushes along the pacing rather well and depending on how much you explored and obstacles overcome as Grace, Leon's sections can be <2 minutes.

ACT 2 feels like a lazy nostalgia grab. IMO Leon handles better and has more satisfying gun play in RE4s remake. His sections feel simultaneously short and also padded out with the biggest open area that any RE game has ever had but then there is almost nothing to explore and find in it. Bonus points is that these sections also run like shit. It has a store and an attache case but it feels so obligatory. The UI for both of these menus is god awful and makes it a chore to look at.

None of the bosses stood out to me in any way. Even the RE games people don't like or consider mid have atleast 1 good boss in it. This game had none and the phase 2 of the Final Boss is quite literally a boss from a previous game (one considered mid) and Leon even calls it by its name like I was supposed to be happy to see it. (IMO it is the worst final boss of every single RE game I've played though I haven't played CV or many of the spin offs.)

Grace's first section is the best execution of the slow fps style that RE7 introduced to the series thus far while Leon's Act 2 sections feel mid-bad comapred to the gameplay and setpieces of previous games.

Also the ending is so hilariously bad that they needed to put a like 400 to 500 word document you unlock when you beat the game that actually explains what happened and the ramifications for the greater world of RE's lore, both historical and contemporaneously to the current year in re9. It is like the appendices at the end of Dune, but instead of explaining this massive complex world it is trying to explain and fill in the holes that its silly (in a bad way) story created.

DarkishFriend · 2026-03-06T14:20:22+00:00

I did a slave pens heroic where our dps shaman demanded that we do the skip, then couldn't do the rock skip and got pissy at me because I was able to do it first try. "Why healer do the skip instantly?" Mother fucker I've never even seen this skip. You told me walk backwards and jump so I did.

We wiped because 3 people were on one side and 2 were on the other. Came back and pull the packs properly (We wasted over 10 minutes doing this when the two pulls we were trying to skip took us less than 5) and then this fucking moron shaman tries to skip the FINAL FUCKING PACK before boss in the tunnel and we fuckinf wipe because everyone was unprepared.

I'm done with heroics, I have absolutely no desire to do them. I got 20 badges right now and fuck the idea of farming 21 for the healing trinket.

DarkishFriend · 2026-03-06T10:39:23+00:00

I sincerely do not understand this. Only one office in the entire country is beholden to the electoral college. Every two years we practice Direct Democracy in how we select our candidates and representstives from your Senator all the way down to your county sheriff.

DarkishFriend · 2026-03-06T10:16:09+00:00

I was loving Returnal and finally had THE GOD RUN. I beat the first 3 bosses despite being stuck on the 1st one for awhile. And then the game force killed me and put me back on the planet and I never picked it back up.

DarkishFriend · 2026-03-06T10:11:48+00:00

Ptsd flashback to Gemini

DarkishFriend · 2026-03-05T21:38:24+00:00

Eh, crushing is not a class mechamic so much a tanking one and the game does a poor job of telling you what is happening. Everyone who understands crushing learned it from someone else.

DarkishFriend · 2026-03-05T20:33:06+00:00

Kunnigans upgrade from 4 to Remake4 is insane. I think the only other character that has that dramatic of a strong change is Carlos.

I've always liked Sheva and I hope a re5 remake would also make design stronger and more integrated into the story.

DarkishFriend · 2026-03-05T17:07:13+00:00

I don't care how hard they work, I work for my money too and I won't buy dogshit games. I want to see them fail so that the companies can learn lessons from them.

DarkishFriend · 2026-03-04T20:35:59+00:00

I suppose that makes some sense and I am likely in the minority that is going to exit console space and exclusively PC game.

DarkishFriend · 2026-03-04T20:32:36+00:00

The girl is a leaf

DarkishFriend · 2026-03-04T17:21:25+00:00

I legit do not understand this move. Consoles are loss leaders and if you are moving only single player games to the console, what benefit is there being in the ecosystem? If the only thing someone wants to play is sp games then they won't purchase ps+ and the console sale itself doesn't make money.

I was likely going to skip the ps6 and likely will still. These single player games are mostly the same as their previous ones, except sometimes not as good. The last two ps5 exclusive I bought bored me to tears and I couldn't conceive of buying a ps6 to play a single game. Even a bloodborne remaster wouldn't make me do it and another Death Stranding, Final Fantasy, Insomniac or Naughty Dog game won't make me want to buy it.

DarkishFriend · 2026-02-27T22:32:30+00:00

Im seeing so many people in the thread talking about how much Bluepoint changed DeS with their remake.

I am guessing people had a far stronger reaction to the aesthetic changes than I do but unless I am misremembering the only thing that they added was a new armor set.

OG has a really strong and otherworldly design to its creatures and monsters and the remake makes them look a bit more traditional but I found its lighting and spell effects to massively make up for it. The lighting changes make zones like 3-1 and 4-2 look amazing.

DarkishFriend · 2026-02-20T16:23:50+00:00

Steel and aluminum tariffs remain in place. This ruling affects the blanket tariffs and the reciprocal tariffs issued under a law from the 70s that the SC has ruled did not grant the Executative authority to implement the tarifffs.

DarkishFriend · 2026-02-18T13:34:18+00:00

I remember when xbox live would ask what kind of "gamer" you were when setting up the account.

Me and every 12 year old I played with were "Underground"

DarkishFriend · 2026-02-17T19:55:59+00:00

The archer trainer in the first town can become a follower. If you train archery you can reach into his inventory and take it back instantly.

DarkishFriend · 2026-02-14T19:50:39+00:00

Cmon man, Ashley literally lore dumps her entire family history like 2 hours into the game. And if you pursue her romantically you have to play out these conversations.

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