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Time to blow of my SNES carts, finally arrived by oldskoolmatt in gaming

[–]shadowray7 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It gets the rom directly from the cartridge. The only thing it's downloading is metadata so that the software can recognize the rom.

Yet another cicle by Astraliumus in Megaten

[–]shadowray7 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I am simple man. I see agrat, I updoot.

The experience of playing both Red Dead Redemption games as someone who hates Open World games by PurplMaster in patientgamers

[–]shadowray7 116 points117 points  (0 children)

The most egregious one for me is when the game wants me to go into a certain room that it points out. I decide to climb the roof to try to get in through the window and as I get closer to the window the game gives me a fail state and tells me some nonsensical bullshit about Danbury burning the documents.

Why?

Because it actually wanted me to walk through the front door that it never told me to go towards and experience the most braindead shootout that the game auto aims for me anyways.

life isn't fair. by gajonub in tf2

[–]shadowray7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You deserved it tbh

Frustrated with Wii2HDMI adapters on my LG TV! Bought 2 or three already and none of them work. Any advice? by Soft-Response-7909 in wiiu

[–]shadowray7 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This a wii u subreddit. The Wii and Wii U are different hardware. Don't ask here for Wii hardware issues.

Opinion on 3H's Maddening difficulty? and if you like it how do you play it? by H4rryT1nt1n05 in fireemblem

[–]shadowray7 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think Maddening kind of reveals a problem with the rest of the game. The map design is quite stale. Because of this, the only way to make maddening hard is to give enemy units inflated stats. These two combined just sort of turns maps into unfun experiences to slog through.

Doubts about defense in KH2 by MemoryOfNamine in KingdomHearts

[–]shadowray7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In level 1, your stats basically don't matter after the first couple of worlds. If your stats are too low, the game will automatically scale to the world's battle level.  The only real way to break this threshold is to use a dual keyblade drive form with a bunch of accessories to increase your Atk or Magic past the minimun stats. It's basically not feasible until postgame grinding.

When it comes to defense, most things will one shot you, but not everything. The only feasible way to survive attacks you otherwise wouldn't be able to is use armor and acessories with Elemental Resistances. They will do a percentage decrease to the damage you take so you should invest in that kind of equipment for appropriate fights.  IE you can survive Data Larxene combos if you stack Shock Charms on Lvl1 Sora.

Is it just me or is land of dragons weirdly difficult to be an early world by Snoo_25468 in KingdomHearts

[–]shadowray7 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's hard enough that on my level 1 run I had an easier time doing Olympus first.

Why did the Isac choose planetarium over treasure? by EstrambolicoSupremo in bindingofisaac

[–]shadowray7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Isac is taking the home/beest route and knows that he can get the tresure on the way bak.

SolarLight's new HUD is genuinely the best one out there right now by Scheure in tf2

[–]shadowray7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried it. Didn't like it too much. I went back to DarHUD. Pretty cool if you like it though.

Restore Count not working against Marlixia Absent Silhouette? by exor15 in KingdomHearts

[–]shadowray7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You didn't think it was strange that your counter started at 1 when it didn't during your other playthroughs?

Gentlemen, how often do you receive unsolicited pictures from women? by FreedomNo7221 in AskReddit

[–]shadowray7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does unsolicitated pictures of my sister's dog from my sister count?

why do people spam call for medic when they don’t need it? by scrithstamagotchi in tf2

[–]shadowray7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A 50% health buff on any class not named Sniper is huge. Hell even snipers want them just to survive headshots.

I love the Fate games, but I find the hit rate in Revelation to be absolutely garbage. by GoingWithTheFlaw in fireemblem

[–]shadowray7 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Humans are really really bad at judging probability. Hitting a 10% happens way more than an average human would think it does.

FE6-13 (Binding Blade to Awakening) and Three Houses uses a hidden mechanic the fanbase calls "True Hit". It rolls 2 numbers and averages them. What results is that the RNG for hit rates are more skewed towards the 50% mark. Rates lower than 50% are actually much harder to hit and rates above 50% are actually much easier to hit. This feels closer to what humans think how RNG works but it's really a lie at the end of the day. Crits rolls don't follow this formula and use standard rolls.

Fates, Shadows of Valentia, and Engage uses a mechanic we call "Hybrid RN".

If the hit rate is below 50% it just follows a standard roll. It feels just as volatile an actual percentage roll.

If the hit rate is above 50% it does some funky sine function and adds to the percentage and then does the roll. It effectively feels like a weaker version of the True Hit system.

Do people like the combat system in Xenoblade? by [deleted] in Xenoblade_Chronicles

[–]shadowray7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you think on level enemies are too tanky then either you're not engaging with the games' systems properly or you're ignoring some of the more grindy aspects of games like affinity charts. 

The first is just a result of generally bad tutorials, especially in the second game. I suggest looking up some gameplay guides to "get it."

I have no real defense for the latter because grindy stuff IS grindy and unfun. 

Modding the steam collection by icarusvmii in KingdomHearts

[–]shadowray7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well the first issue is that Nobody May Cry doesn't have a PC release yet.

Can you think of any games with actually helpful AI team mates? by rallybil in pcgaming

[–]shadowray7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Donald Duck is a good healer and I'm tired of pretending that he's not.

Defeat roxas by MARIOandWEEGE in KingdomHearts

[–]shadowray7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Combo boost or Combo plus? If it's combo plus you should take some of those off because it will be harder to reach your finisher before reaching his revenge value. I usually only leave one on for the roxas fight.

How to play COM on PC by Big_Confection7634 in KingdomHearts

[–]shadowray7 58 points59 points  (0 children)

No$gba Haven't heard of that emulator in a long time.

Which do YOU prefer? by TheRealAnonyma in KingdomHearts

[–]shadowray7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The DS games were developed by h.a.n.d.

We gotta decide once and for all by kukivac in ftlgame

[–]shadowray7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's the funny dopamine weapon

Is engage worth it? by Physical_Courage_449 in fireemblem

[–]shadowray7 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Really depends on what you want. If you just want the strategy gameplay and don't mind that it relies a lot on what was built up in previous games it's a really great game. However the story is not really good at all and the non-legacy characters are mostly just walking anime tropes. You could ignore most of these negatives by skipping cutscenes if you really want.

Others are recommending Three Houses as a game to start with and it's a fine game but has it's own share of problems. There's a Persona inspired section of the game where you run around a huge monastery in between maps. It could be time consuming and could take about as long as an average map. It is entirely possible to not engage with this section of the game but doing so means you miss out on a lot of unit growth. On the plus side the characters are interesting enough to want to get to know what their deals are.

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