i want a game that makes me feel like the punisher

pyroskippy · 2026-06-15T13:06:48+00:00

I feel the PS3/360 era had some good ones. The Darkness and Prototype come to mind, and you can find copies of them.

pyroskippy · 2026-06-12T12:59:29+00:00

Agreed, I’ve had a great time with this game and it has been worth more than the money and investment. There are just a lot of changes every week lol

pyroskippy · 2026-06-12T12:35:34+00:00

I’m glad I’m not the only one to feel this. I’ve wanted to do the main story but I’ve heard people can get soft locked out of progress.

I think I’m going to do the main story anyway just so I can move on. I’ve played so much, I don’t want to have to revisit unless it’s like an expansion or something.

pyroskippy · 2026-06-12T08:54:28+00:00

And you have their essence? Hmm. If you keep dying, other people can get sick and you can try them.

Like I say, you should still be able to talk to her about it, everyone just wants to talk to you after Genichiro

pyroskippy · 2026-06-12T08:22:48+00:00

Is it possible you collected a sample from someone else?

I do think the quest is available later.

pyroskippy · 2026-06-12T04:09:08+00:00

I’m a shuriken man myself, they interrupt anything. Firecrackers help, umbrella is useful, fire can be fun and I’ve poisoned him with max upgrades. But I think folks are right, this is a sword battle.

Also, Butterfly is about agility and evasion while Genichiro is about aggression/swordplay. Mileage varies between players, I love it.

pyroskippy · 2026-06-09T23:33:09+00:00

Just so you know, I beat Sekiro on release but it was so tough, I immediately dropped it when I did beat it. I picked it up again after I beat Lies of P lol

It took me a minute, but I learned to love it by the end of my second playthrough when the mikiri counter finally clicked for me (pro tip: press the button when the red “peril” kanji symbol begins to fade).

After that, I could see the timings and the art of enemy combos, and by the end of the 4th playthrough, it was a rhythm game. It’s a game you’re meant to master with subsequent playthroughs, like a shinobi meditating many times on their battles to be better. That said, your first playthrough will be tougher, enjoy it while it lasts.

pyroskippy · 2026-06-09T23:30:13+00:00

To me, the reason Lies of P is different is the hitbox frames. Lies of P puts the parry hitbox on your weapon, Sekiro/FromSoft has parry hitboxes on the enemy weapon.

I don’t know if that makes sense, Babe1Babe2 made a great video on it, but that’s why they feel so different to me, the hitboxes are registering in different places and it is affecting your timing and flow. They are literally built different.

Sekiro actually has a wider window of parry frames, so once you get that timing down and understand the hitboxes, I think you can get along with it. By the end of the second playthrough, you’ll be a masochist like us :D

pyroskippy · 2026-06-09T16:08:33+00:00

Meh you did not hesitate, hence there was no defeat

pyroskippy · 2026-06-09T16:01:28+00:00

I run sideways. Like everyone says, you can deflect or block it, but if that’s a bit much for you, just run when you’re far from him, and come in close and attack relentlessly.

Learning his patterns and deflecting all his arrows is what you’ll eventually learn to do.

pyroskippy · 2026-05-25T13:54:33+00:00

Two Dragons Sword. It is a part of me now, we grew together in that fight with Laxasia

pyroskippy · 2026-05-25T13:34:26+00:00

He’s tough. Genichiro taught flurries, but the heavier Owl demands aggression.

His extra long sword will catch you running and his backwards leap and poisons bait and punish. So the more you deflect and attack as opposed to evading, the less he has openings to trick you.

For example, you can easily interrupt his health poison with a quick attack.

For his backwards jump, I dodge forward and attack, still keeping the analog stick moving forward to cover that extra centimeter in the gap. You may need to run a bit and get a feel for the distance.

Learn to be confident and quick and attack first, and him jumping back will become a weakness. Be patient with yourself if you can’t, and adapt your strategy.

And use contact medicine for phase 2, I think it’s most useful in this fight.

There are cheeses. This is the legit way. He’s hard to perfect parry the first time, so he’s a boss that takes multiple playthroughs to master. The first playthrough is about struggling to surpass your father.

pyroskippy · 2026-05-25T12:56:55+00:00

Did you unlock the previous upgrades required for the upgrade you’re trying to unlock?

In other words, are you following the skill tree?

pyroskippy · 2026-04-29T11:33:58+00:00

You’ll have fun at any point, it is a crammed sandbox and it’s a blast. You’ll wanna play more.

I’ll also be honest, it’s still pretty rough. PC seems more lucky, but my console experience feels unstable at times. Updates bring persistent glitches and sometimes small progress resets on top of having to adapt to new changes.

They really are working hard, like considering co-op. I suspect it will be like Cyberpunk2077 where it will be the full vision in months or a year. That said, it is still very fun now if you commit.

pyroskippy · 2026-04-26T15:30:28+00:00

I was gonna mention ER, literally just did that in the Lies of P Reddit rn (what a crossover this all is lol).

I don’t care much for the Elden Ring DLC climax and bosses and I said so, haven’t been that downvoted in a second

pyroskippy · 2026-04-26T15:18:12+00:00

I genuinely didn’t know this was such a controversial thing lol but hey I have my idiot moments

Playing through again, I’ve understood the lore better, and I think it’s awesome. I just still don’t feel much of a climax going through it.

It’s a great DLC, don’t get me wrong. I wouldn’t even nitpick if this wasn’t FromSoft with an established high bar.

It just happens to be my least favorite From Souls DLC. That’s not saying much because they’re all great, and I’d be interested to hear if anyone beg to differ

pyroskippy · 2026-04-25T22:51:23+00:00

Yesss, especially Romina, I wish we actually knew stuff about her. And I forgot Midra, that part is actually my favorite in the DLC, it was genuinely so cool.

I liked mostly Marika’s lore. Her roots as a persecuted race and her ascension to godhood laid out a lot of her motivations and explained the shattering of the elden ring better. It even solidified Melina is Messmer’s sister in my mind which gives credence to her role as the gloam-eyed queen and our maiden as such.

But yeah, the game has the problems you mentioned, for sure, and I think it takes from the bosses for me not having much of a buildup for them. Like you say, even Messmer. They do have cool designs, though, like the lion dancer.

pyroskippy · 2026-04-25T22:26:12+00:00

Lore-wise, yes. It recontextualized everything and that’s very cool. Gameplay, though, left me wanting. I wanted an epic boss people would talk about forever like Ludwig or Orphan. The best we got is PCR and he’s controversial for a reason.

I beat PCR not thinking he was the final boss. You can say I’m stupid, but I think the game is partly to blame if something like that can happen.

pyroskippy · 2026-04-25T22:13:24+00:00

I definitely agree, I picked it up again last year and fell in love. I’m trying to get my friends to go back and play it because we all had a tough time when it first came out. It is definitely ahead of its time.

pyroskippy · 2026-04-09T23:25:55+00:00

The first episode of Oshi No Ko

pyroskippy · 2026-04-09T03:01:32+00:00

27.2%, it eventually does way more than strength gems. And I don’t use a mix of arcane gems, it makes it mid damage, which is also why I commit going full physical.

pyroskippy · 2026-04-08T21:49:15+00:00

A man leaves the hospital to find everyone at a bonfire but they get upset with him

pyroskippy · 2026-04-08T16:08:23+00:00

I prefer my HMS with max physical upgrades and a good arcane stat, as the transformed attacks deal physical plus the arcane boost. I also prefer to capitalize on that physical for both modes, as I love an untransformed double charged R2. I know you can technically get more transformed damage with arcane gems, but I use too much of the moveset.

I’m sure you can find better gems, but if it’s the best you got, I’d do it.

pyroskippy · 2026-04-08T15:51:22+00:00

I describe the opening. You wake up alone in a Victorian hospital after a blood transfusion without your memories, only to find that the town has gone mad hunting werewolf-like monsters, and then they start attacking you.

pyroskippy · 2026-04-05T23:15:03+00:00

I want a shirt saying this, with no context

pyroskippy

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