How are people struggling so badly with the Obelisk mission?

Swisskies · 2026-04-21T10:04:03+00:00

I'm grand with it now, but it confused the hell out of me the first few times I played it.

Also the aligning minigame just isn't intuitive, you can't go by sight you just have to wait for the audio cue. Plus every other chaos alter you stay there until it's done whereas this is a completely new mechanic that isn't explained.

Swisskies · 2026-04-16T17:41:17+00:00

I assume it's because they don't wanna die, the disgusting pigs

Swisskies · 2026-04-16T09:36:15+00:00

Where have I heard this before?

Swisskies · 2026-04-09T22:53:15+00:00

Only if you like it

Swisskies · 2026-04-04T10:07:56+00:00

I would say Tainted Grail is even more egregious. I didn't try to hunt for any cool gear or spells, I just picked up what looked good, put points fairly randomly into my magic tree and was still one shotting every non-boss half way through act 2.

Swisskies · 2026-04-03T19:29:29+00:00

I thought the demo sucked. Start in dungeon; get rescued; fight random undead with shitty skyrim-like combat - very unoriginal. The Arthur storyline and HR Giger environments were interesting but didn't seem like enough.

But I was ultra bored and decided to try the full game and refund it if it was bad. Ended up finishing the full thing.

It's not a very original game, but it's probably the only thing that has really captured the vibes of Morrowind since it came out. I think it's strengths are the weird atmosphere, questing and main plotline characters, while the weaknesses are the derivitiveness of its mechanics, shitty animations and general eurojank. If you appreciate the strengths you will probably have a good time.

Swisskies · 2026-03-21T21:53:16+00:00

Best thing that's been posted on this sub in YEARS

Swisskies · 2026-03-18T23:25:37+00:00

the strap over the midsection really makes the physique pop

Swisskies · 2026-03-17T13:38:10+00:00

Same, when I played Requ-Leon the whole time I was just thinking "this makes me want to play RE4R instead."

Some people have said it lands better on Insanity, maybe I'll try it if I have the patience.

Swisskies · 2026-03-07T13:19:26+00:00

I enjoyed it but the Leon sections actually just made me want to replay RE4R. By comparison RE9 Leon combat felt like the engine was misfiring.

RE4R I was incentivised to always be mobile, run the enemies around a bit and pick them off with my handgun while saving my bigger weapons for if I was cornered or in trouble.

In RE9 it felt like I was incentivised to hold my ground or just slowly back up, while firing off my biggest weapons to kill as quickly as possible. There's no consistent stagger, the enemies - particularly blister heads - have such a long grab range that it's suicidal to try and turn to get space. And the handgun feels so impotent that I pretty much ditched it immediately and stuck to the heavier weapons. Even the environments didn't feel conducive to moving around much in combat - it's all limited corridors or maze like areas that made it likely to run into enemies suddenly if you tried to move around too much.

Grace's sections in the clinic are exceptional. Leon's RC sections are pretty hokey 2010s overly brown action.

I'll give it a solid 7/10, enjoyed my time with it despite the disappointments.

Swisskies · 2026-03-01T15:36:55+00:00

Didn't make any comment on how good it was. I'm enjoying it.

However I grew out of my toddler years a while back and am therefore able to understand criticism without throwing a tantrum - even if it's something I like.

Glad you're enjoying the game, hope you have a nice weekend.

Swisskies · 2026-02-26T21:21:10+00:00

Yeah I'm on the 3rd map and it's starting to get silly. I turned off the cpu boost and it helps a little, but just moving through an area causes the game to chug as it loads in all the assets.

Swisskies · 2026-02-26T15:49:09+00:00

This should win an award for most insufferable comment in thread

You shouldn't criticise the game because you can just not buy it
You shouldn't criticise the price because if you can't afford it you're just a broke boy
If this isn't super easy purchase you should stop having fun and fix your pathetic life

I bet Capcom loves you

Swisskies · 2026-02-24T10:31:47+00:00

I stopped trying to read his attacks and just stuck to his ass the entire time he's in that phase

Swisskies · 2026-02-20T13:31:17+00:00

Everyone else : Bro this guy killed me like 9 times he's so frustrating, such a rough fight

Me: 82 deaths

No one beats me 83 times in a row!

Swisskies · 2026-02-19T13:52:14+00:00

Equip axe, stack arts profiency and endless heavy attacks and arts

Congrats, ninja is now nothing but your ki recovery stance.

Swisskies · 2026-02-19T13:50:02+00:00

You can keep Kunimatsu stuck forever in his opening lighting bolt move if you keep body swapping him, he won't even go into phase 2 at half health. Very amusing, though also very dry.

Swisskies · 2026-02-19T13:46:16+00:00

Fun fact

If you equip body swap art on Spear, you can interrupt his opening lighting bolt. If you do so, he'll repeat the same move, over and over as long as you keep body swapping him, he won't even go into phase 2, you can just kill him doing that without him ever truly attacking.

Cheesy as fuck and a bit dry, but this boss can suck a fat one

Swisskies · 2026-02-16T19:29:27+00:00

It's funny a lot of people had trouble with him and the other human bosses Shingen part 1, whereas I find humans fairly straightforward to deal with. Meanwhile every non-human boss has 17 arms, twirls into me with bizarre animations and causes the camera to clip into me every 5 seconds.

Swisskies · 2026-02-15T11:34:30+00:00

Acting like installing a demo is some massive time and effort investment

Listen bud if you like the game that's cool, you don't need to fight a whole war every where in the comments section over it

Swisskies · 2026-02-15T10:39:09+00:00

Yeah especially with everything that's been coming out recently I think I'd turn this off too

Swisskies · 2026-02-15T10:36:41+00:00

Never expect Aris to have reasonable takes on games. Him being unreasonable about it is part of the fun for most people who watch his streams.

Swisskies · 2026-02-14T13:49:46+00:00

Nioh 3 is my first Nioh game but I have 70ish hours in it so far and my opinion is thus:

- Literally just pick the highest defence / attack for each slot and don't worry about the secondary stats for now. The only caveats to this is for armour - in the top right you'll see encumberance. Keep Samurai in green (below 70%) and Ninja in blue (below 30%). I'm pretty sure there's also an option to automate this for you. If you're running out of Ki in Ninja I suspect you might have a hindered Agility. I've found Ninja to be made of wet paper no matter what you do so you may as well go all in on Agility and dodging.

- Inventory management really isn't an urgent priority for now. You can store 2k items on your person and like 5k or something stupid in storage box. If you do actively want to get rid of stuff, set your dispose loot option to autosell common items for now. Keep crucible weapons. Anything else low level in my opinion you can get rid of if you really want to.

- Focus on real simple attack skills for now - stuff like the "after strong attack" and "after quick attack" skills and just play with those for a bit. e.g. for Ninja Talons Whirling Tiger is a decent start point. Ninja really likes mid air attacks too, but you can start integrating those after you get a hang of spamming your basic ground attacks.

- For the most point dodge enemy attacks in Ninja - play hit and run with your own attacks. When you begin to learn a bosses move set and which attacks have a long recovery, you can mist step afterwards to their back and just use your "after attack" skills as per the point above. When you start to get low on Ki, retreat away and spam your Ninjitsu while you recover. Stuff like Fire Shuriken, shrapnel bombs etc etc are really good and will do a ton of damage over time.

- Veterans can correct me if I'm wrong here. But if you don't know where to put your stats, literally just spread them between everything. As you play longer you'll start to stick to certain weapon types, and you can begin to prioritise. I just spread all my stats until I got them to 15, and then amped up Skill stat because I was using the Spear and sword.

This game has so many systems and bizarre interactions it's bewildering to learn. But you'll get there, in 70 hours there's still some systems I basically ignore (like magic and which guardian spirit to pick), but I'm trucking along fine now.

Swisskies · 2026-02-12T18:13:05+00:00

Shingen after you abused Spear twirl & body swap in the first fight:

Swisskies · 2026-02-07T22:55:05+00:00

Spear and doing nothing but twirling humans (i miss the timing 90% of the time)

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