Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN MARCH 2024?

On 4/4/2024 8:15 AM, H1M3M wrote:

Ant wrote:

candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
wrote:

JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote at 10:23 this Thursday (GMT):

On 02/04/2024 18:20, candycanearter07 wrote:

I find the games pretty varied, and extremely rewarding, but
at times they can definitely get a bit much.  Breaking
controllers throwing them out of frustration is a common meme
of people playing these games.

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I absolutely can't stand super difficult games. Thanks,
though.

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I used to enjoy games with big manuals and a steep learning curve
when I was younger - the type of game where you have to spend at
least an hour reading the manual and several hours playing just
to get the basics of the game. Nowadays, totally different and I
really want to be able to pick the basics in at most an hour and
preferable far less than that.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Ditto. And not grinding.
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Still, I would settle for a middle ground approach. In-game learning,
then a thick manual for when I need a refresher or there is something I
did not properly learn (and I can't see that tutorial again).
 This is the case for the Disgaea games A zillion mechanics and systems,
but you can get through the game with the basics,at least the first 20
hours, without having to use stuff like geopanels. Then open the manual
when you feel ready for them.
 What I don't like is the current trend of no manual, only telling the
basics, dropping tips on social networks, then "There are guys that will
write a wiki on the game for free, so we don't have to worry about
explaining things".
 Bloodborne will tell you how to move, attack and parry, but without a
manual, it's impossible to know how to create the character and assign
skill points correctly, requiring to use a wiki (because apparently
printed strategy guides have gone the way of the dodo) if you don't want
to be stuck after several hours because your character sucks, even if
you did not pick the default "Waste of skin".

Pretty much all of From's souls game have a fairly simple good build
* spend your first 20-30 levels raising health, and at least 2 levels per 1 in anything else until that point.
* enough into endurance or mana to use your weapon/spell enough times to kill a normal monster or two, usually around 10 levels total.
* only put enough levels into other ability scores to wield the weapons or spells you want to try and only stick to weapons or spells that use those same one or two scores until you've spent 20-30 levels on health then put the rest into those scores.  (The internet typically recommends a 'quality' build starting as knight or similar which puts the same into str & dex.  I prefer spells and magic weapons so go all int with a tiny bit of str and/or dex as needed to wield int weapons.  Or int & fai for DS2 & DS3 which is for hexxors or pyromancers respectively which I find more effective, or really make a few characters and try the different type of character before committing.)
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