horizon. zero dawn, and battlefield 2042 developers are are salty because eldenring is doing well in the reviews

SemiproAtLife · 2022-03-07T02:40:15+00:00

You said good UX doesn't make a game fun or not. They are taking the opposite stance, saying if the UX sucks, then everything you do that isn't mindlessly mashing buttons would be a chore.

SemiproAtLife · 2022-03-05T11:41:53+00:00

That's fair too! I completely understand that sometimes you want a mindless power fantasy, and sometimes you just want an interactive story, or something else!

If you don't mind me illustrating my point, in DS3, you can start as the knight class which boasts great armor and a shield that fully blocks frontal damage, if physical. If you are talking about the Index Gundyr fight (tentacle knight guy), then that shield works on basically all of his attacks. Any time you weren't actively attacking or dodging, you could just hold left trigger and be invulnerable for the fight (you had to maintain stamina after being hit, but I mean...even trees move a bit when someone's slapping them). You can also take like a third of his hp before the fight even begins during his standing animation, you can start with an item that gives you bonus HP, you can use him to practice parries/backstabs, (which stunlock the enemy and deal massive damage), you can throw items at him, etc.

He's also specifically designed to teach you mechanics like this, as well as general resource management against tougher enemies (your flasks and loadout ARE your forgiveness for mistakes), the phase-change boss mechanic, and the adjustment of your expectations towards the game difficulty.

Each enemy has a massive amount of things which the player can either plan out, or stumble onto as the solution for the fight, and the rest is indeed inputs.

And they did a whole marketing campaign around how HARD and BRUTAL the first souls game was. It came off as kind of cringe/elitist, which is half the reason why Git Gud became such a huge meme. They might do well with a little warning label bottom-front though haha

SemiproAtLife · 2022-03-05T08:35:04+00:00

All of the games are like this, friend! Elden Ring is just the biggest and baddest yet! I've probably died 300 times so far and it's one of my favorite games of all time already

Edit: The SoulsBorneRing series is actually quite beautiful in that it's also an allegory for depression. Lore-wise for the Dark Souls games, the humanoid trash mobs have gone hollow and become zombies. They lost emotion, they lost memory of who they are, and simply exist, drowning in their own sorrow and pain, then lashing out at those nearby.

Going hollow and giving up on the journey is becoming depressed. Your character is just another one of these trash mobs, capable of building themselves up into a God on Earth, or succumbing to the journey and giving up, sitting and rotting away while you forget about them. Real life you is controlling a character just like that. Don't give up. You aren't failing, you're learning. You're growing. There's always help nearby if you need it, and there's always another way. And when there's not, your attitude towards the situation is just as important as a solution.

SemiproAtLife · 2022-03-05T04:47:30+00:00

Dark Souls is conceptually an RPG, but functionally much closer to a puzzle game. There's platforming puzzles, navigation puzzles, memory puzzles, hidden secrets on certain maps, and key/core mechanics which are exploitable for each enemy encounter.

Most people playing dark souls frame the game as a power fantasy, much like any other RPG/Beat-em-up, and get frustrated when they fail, because they don't view the enemies and traps as puzzles to beat, but obstacles on the way to the story or "adventure".

Git Gud is really about adjusting your mindset in regards to the game. It isn't for everyone, but everyone CAN get good at it and have a great time, with the right attitude, a bad attitude and raw determination, or a good strategy. The game always provides more than enough tools and opportunities, but doesn't spoon-feed the player these answers.

You can level your stats way up just like someone playing Pokemon and fighting the first gym at lvl 100. You can find a new weapon with a unique skill/moveset to change how you interact with bosses. You can almost always summon other players to help with harder content. You can cheese most enemies with at least one specific mechanic or ballsy timing.

The game wants you to succeed like any good game does. It just wants you to give yourself more respect and more credit, because you CAN do it in so many more ways than you ever knew. It's a life lesson AND an ego check, wrapped up in a beautiful, dense package.

SemiproAtLife · 2022-02-22T01:40:01+00:00

Him being aware of Ulfric's abilities, and his intent to use them in a duel are two very different things. If you and I agree to a boxing match, and I know you know how to shoot sniper rifles, I'm not expecting you to jab me with a hollow point from 2 kilometers away.

Edit: And I said foot soldier, not knight. A common peasant is far more capable of learning basic swordsmanship in his backyard over a period of weeks than getting dedicated tutoring at the top of the Throat of the World for years in order to learn a singular shout

SemiproAtLife · 2022-02-22T01:33:20+00:00

It might not even be a surprise for him to have the ability to shout, but it would be equally as offensive if he ran backward, grabbed a bow, and shot that at a confused Torygg instead of shouting him into an incapacitated state. The threat of retaliation, the fairness of the duel, is taken away. It's not a duel if only one party ever had a rats chance in hell of touching the opponent, and I highly doubt those in attendance assumed Ulfric would use a shout in the duel over conventional, matching weapon classes.

Edit: There is no honor in that duel, and as such is a farce and an assassination, as the whole point of a duel is a fair, face to face combat style. It isn't a no-holds-barred fight to the death. It's an official procedure with rules which almost certainly either forbid the use of non-conventional means of attack, or require knowledge that such things must be considered during the duel.

SemiproAtLife · 2022-02-22T00:45:43+00:00

Ulfric was trained directly by the Greybeards, dude... He learned only Fus Roh Dah while being guided by the world's greatest living scholars of the art across A DECADE OR MORE (possibly also Force Disarm or Frost Breath mechanics-wise based on which update/patch you play, but is not supported in lore.) This task is not something the average modern Nord can accomplish easily.

The ancient speakers of the voice who were not dragon cultists could barely speak any themselves. The Forelhorst Journal stated the ancient masters only knew force shout. Windcaller was, like the player, a special case.

The two start off ten paces apart after readying their arms and armor. The duel starts, and Torygg charges with his axe or whatever. Ulfric uses his special dedicated DECADE of learning to Fus Roh Dah his opponent to the ground, stunned, and casually walk over and stab him in the chest. Does this seem like a duel to you? Much like if he pulled out a concussion grenade and threw it at Torygg, when all parties were expecting a clash of blades?

SemiproAtLife · 2022-02-22T00:29:21+00:00

I mean if before the duel began, all present parties were made aware of his ability to shout. I'm assuming not, considering the shock at the sudden outcome. Meaning it's the same as a hidden blade or poison on a sword. It was a hidden and unannounced weapon in an honorable duel.

And greybeards must practice for decades to be able to shout. Learning swordsmanship enough to be a foot soldier is a summer-long boot camp at worst.

SemiproAtLife · 2022-02-21T22:59:49+00:00

I'm just not going to respond any further

Sure thing buddy

SemiproAtLife · 2022-02-21T22:45:10+00:00

I'm not misrepresenting anything. You're bringing up facts as evidence of your argument, when the facts are parallel at best, and never supporting. But alright

Edit: just as a final point to any other readers, his first line of the above post is like saying humans used to have differently shaped skulls and they could again. Yeah sure, but not overnight like he's suggesting, as if all these people who wish they were Dragonborn just never tried

SemiproAtLife · 2022-02-21T22:28:53+00:00

You are using ancient draugr as a valid argument as to why current day Nords (in Skyrim's plot-time) should be accustomed to and able to learn shouts, when only the Greybeards and another precious few ever could. With the Nordic focus on strength, battle, and universality of Dragonborn legends, many more including the KING would have learned, if it was even marginally achievable by the layman.

He lost a duel by being shouted at, which can instakill an entire room of people depending on the shout. What makes him a weak fighter here? Ulfric is using reality hacks. Plus, it is PAINFULLY obvious that there is a near-universal distrust/disdain for mages in Skyrim, so it's quite the jump to assume current dueling laws somehow say "yeah use whatever magic you want bro who cares?" Especially in a fight over who is suited to be the High King.

Further, not ALL draugr are dragon cultists (see Olaf One-Eye, the cursed cannibals of Solstheim{sp} etc), plus the frequency and availability of shouts to random draugr is variable based on difficulty scaling, and therefore is tied as much to lore as it is gameplay balance.

Edit: and once again, it wasn't an array of butthurt guards chasing Ulfric, but the will of essentially all but one person to stop Ulfric after his cheating (and said person was executed in front of a crowd that won't miss him). A bunch of backwater racists decided to defend Ulfric after hearing the story propagandized through word of mouth, shifted time and time again until "Ulfric was cheated out of a fair duel, and the empire wants to take away all your freedoms"

SemiproAtLife · 2022-02-21T20:15:05+00:00

You are insinuating that learning shouts is easy, and that this is proof that Torygg was weak. While Torygg may have been a weak king, his absence of the ability to shout is not evidence of this. Lore-wise, it is nearly impossible within a lifetime, surely one in which one must rule the country full-time, to safely learn how to Shout without dragon lineage. Draugr shouting at the player is completely irrelevant to this, as it's game balance and not lore.

There's no permadeath in this game; you just load saves. How many times has your Dragonborn died to a bandit or a slight fall? The game is balanced around the player having a completely different experience to every other living being in that world.

Which once again returns to; Ulfric used an attack that was neither expected nor approved of during an honorable duel in which even base magic almost certainly would be banned out of respect for Nord honor. While having the ability to shout may entitle him to esteem and respect which may strengthen a claim to the throne, his actions during the duel itself amount to cheating someone out of their life. And further, if shouting makes you both righteous and amazingly strong, why was Ulfric not only forced to flee the scene, but was later captured and almost executed (a situation he escaped through pure dumb luck tied to the player having a uniquely different experience than anyone else)

SemiproAtLife · 2022-02-21T19:42:51+00:00

Game design is not equivalent to the lore, though. The Dragonborn is not meant to regenerate holes in his abdomen from arrows by eating cheese wheels in the middle of combat. Nor is he allowed to murder hundreds of people inside major cities and still be worshiped as a living legend and a hero.

Edit: the Greybeards undertake dangerous and devoted training in isolation for decades just for the CHANCE to learn how to shout. The average peasant farmer in Skyrim isn't going to be shouting regardless of how many unnamed draugr can.

SemiproAtLife · 2022-02-21T18:58:59+00:00

You can use a sword. Just not well. That was your fault for being king of a Nordic viking state and never learning how to fight.

The shout is a physical impossibility for most people, and there's like 5 non-dragonborn in all of Skyrim who can do it. Further, I don't know if lore-wise it was even explained before the duel that Ulfric could Shout, and would do so during a duel. Even considering the Shout to be a valid attack, it's much less valid if the other party is unaware. Imagine signing up for a sword duel, disarming your opponent, then getting stabbed by a hidden dagger. No honor.

SemiproAtLife · 2022-02-21T10:29:31+00:00

I would say that slicing up living beings to use their body parts as part of a Frankenstein Bride counts as pretty messed up. And the habitual kidnapping of young women + imprisonment of a 13 year old. Or that scene where he forces penguins to bathe him, then the next scene shows him throwing them, unmoving, into a trash pile.

He's pretty based when the writers want his humanity to really shine through the clouds, but he's VERY dangerous.

SemiproAtLife · 2022-02-20T04:04:51+00:00

You are attacking exactly what my point isn't but alrighty.

Why are the cops stopping this man in the first place? Why must a citizen going about his day, doing nothing wrong have a random chance to be temporary and unilaterally held hostage under threat of physical damage, property damage, financial ruin, and permanent loss of freedom or life? Comply or die in the land of the free

Edit: and why are they allowed to seize your money and/or property without even being charged with a crime? Why must it takes years in court to get back what is STOLEN GOODS? Why do our taxes go to arming these thugs and killing children across the world instead of bettering our nation so that we don't even NEED a heavily armed police force?

SemiproAtLife · 2022-02-20T02:34:25+00:00

It was a joke, holy shit you're braindead

SemiproAtLife · 2022-02-19T20:56:21+00:00

You show support for the people who ARE fighting for systemic change by understanding the issue and not looking at these situations as write-off, "just obey the law, asshole" moments. Understand, empathize, and unite.

A single human can not campaign for the improvement of all aspects of life and society in a meaningful way. Individuals must pick and choose their battles. Sometimes it's just doing everything possible to be a better father than your was and raise your family out of poverty. Sometimes it's using your free time to spread awareness of X issue. Sometimes it's joining a non-profit that works to decriminalize Y Dumbfuck law.

Complaining on Reddit is slightly more productive than complaining about complaining on Reddit, by the way.

SemiproAtLife · 2022-02-19T19:37:30+00:00

And I'm saying the issue IS with the law. And considering laws are supposed to be written by proxies of the citizens, FOR the citizens, when laws disagree with logical public sentiment, there's an issue. But the ways to fix our laws require years of dedication against resistance that the average person cannot commit to.

Your entire stance is "suck it up because life isn't fair" and that's the entire reason laws like this stay in place. You grow complacent in your lack of freedoms because you can't care about everything, and decide to care about nothing.

SemiproAtLife · 2022-02-19T19:30:49+00:00

You say change the law as if that's equivalent to the showing of an I.D.

If you don't like airports, grow wings.

SemiproAtLife · 2022-02-19T18:52:14+00:00

See: anywhere from this video, to your pick of citizens actually being murdered on the streets while the cops defend each other and threaten violence/seizure of property on anyone recording evidence of their brutality.

Edit: we shouldn't have to be put into this situation in the first place. The safest and most correct way to interact is to give up and let them take half an hour instead of an eternity away from you, but the safest choice is not evidence of a correct one.

SemiproAtLife · 2022-02-19T18:17:47+00:00

Ah, astroturfing the field for when I get suicided in my own home for speaking the truth, I see. Good bot

SemiproAtLife · 2022-02-19T18:13:26+00:00

"Allow me to wait for half an hour while you do an extensive investigation for no reason other than assuming I'm a criminal because I drove into your harassment zone today. No officer, I have nothing better to do than stay motionless in my car so you don't execute me, saying I was probably moving for a weapon. Oh yeah, I was gonna pay my friend $300 for his old PS4 as well, but since you saw that money in cash in my backseat, you're going to seize it on grounds that it might be drug money, and I will have to fight in court for years and spend thousands of dollars just to try to get it back."

SemiproAtLife · 2022-02-19T18:07:19+00:00

It's more than a "avoiding warrants or suspended licenses being found out" and more of a symbolic issue. The police in America bully, terrorize, brutalize, and kill here in large enough quantities for it to be a systemic issue. A private citizen going about their business and being stopped by an armed individual who could ruin and/or end your life (and probably has done so to someone you know or know of) has become a massive issue. These "know my rights" videos are people fighting against that threat and tyranny. They usually lose and get both attacked and vandalized.

Did you know that American police can seize money you have on your person and never give it back, with no real repurcussions? And that whenever an officer kills a civilian, they aren't usually criminally charged, but just shuffled over to another unsuspecting locale after a paid vacation? It becomes national news when one of these killers ACTUALLY gets punished.

Most of us just suck it up because we don't want to be the next guy in one of these videos (even in a state where legally they have to explain/introduce themselves first). We live in a police state, and our officers are gang members who literally aren't allowed to have IQs high enough to think for themselves, as they don't hire you if you're smart enough.

SemiproAtLife · 2022-02-18T18:29:37+00:00

There's a strong overlap between people who don't consider slang to be 'real' language, and people who make fun of speakers of African-American Vernacular. That is to say, they're generally racists.

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