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  1. 1 hour ago, Greatoneshere said:

    I mean, it seems leering at or ogling women, fan service, and pushing the male gaze is strong with this one, regardless of game quality, it should be amusing to see the online discourse on this when it drops. The best part is when he says: "this is entertainment for adults" to justify the teenage boy fantasies. Just be honest my dude. :lol:

     

     

     

    I feel like I'm more comfortable with it in this because it wears it on its sleeve. Fan service is far worse when you're purporting to be a more serious story and then all of a sudden its fan service nonsensical sexy time for characters that have no business doing that.

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  2. 33 minutes ago, Xbob42 said:

    Looking at any amount of footage for this, my brain just goes "Yup, that's Bioshock" and I immediately move on to something else. I thought Bioshock was kind of dated and unfun when it was new. To "build" a new company (gut and replace, same thing right?) and then just spend 10 years to rebuild the same exact thing is super lame to me. Was there like... really nothing else they wanted to do? Was Bioshock the best he could ever envision?

     

    The interview makes it sound like he's trying to do something much bigger and harder with the narrative. Will he succeed? Fuck if I know, but the goal at least does seem categorically different from the linear nature of Bioshock.

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  3. 13 minutes ago, MarSolo said:

    In regards to that last one, um, holy shit, I’m trying to image how that even works.


    If you want to know…
     

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    It’s restricted to the ocean in boat like form and is in third person view form behind. 
     

    For the third part, Square said one of the big challenge they’ll have is how to support the air ship across the whole world, which sounds like it will be awesome  


     

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  4. 4 hours ago, Firewithin said:

    do you need to win the queens blood tourney to advance ch 5???  what a dumb fucking mini game.  no matter what deck i use i can get past regina

     

    edit: and as soon as i post i win lol

     

    Sounds like you're fine, but the answer to your question is no, you don't need to win :p You could have resigned at any level.

     

    But winning is totally worth it for the cutscene at the end.

     

     

    2 hours ago, Slug said:

    OMG the Condor game can eat a bag of dicks. My fun has come to a screeching halt. 

     

    Yeah this is the only one I didn't enjoy, but did enjoy in intergrade. They fucked it up.

  5. 18 hours ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

    You're not using DLSS?

     

    Not sure if it was clear, but DLAA is better. It's DLSS except instead of going from a lower res to your native res, it goes from native res to native res. Which sounds weird, but the training of the neural net used is always to a higher resolution target (that may then be downscaled to your native res), so the model is basically predicting what the idealized by higher computationally complex AA would do.

     

    At least that's my understanding. There's another way it could be done which is native res with DLSS upscaled to high res and then downscaled, but I don't think they're doing that.

  6. 15 minutes ago, best3444 said:

    @legend I didn't go back to this. I was just messin around. I actually just finished 16. 

     

    Now I put all my focus on DD2 then I'm coming back to Rebirth. I will have a fresh mind starting Rebirth over and will take it as it is. I'm sure I will love it. 

     

    I think that's for the best, but even if you don't love it, that's fine. I was responding to you acting as if everyone here thinks its perfect and cannot be criticized, when really people have just disagreed with you on whether they like the addition of minigames or not.

  7. 2 hours ago, best3444 said:

    Don't say anything negative about this game! It’s perfect and so much fun. Mini games and new added features every 20 minutes rules! :rocking:

     

    Who are you raging at? People disagreeing with you about what they enjoy isn't them claiming the game is perfect and should be loved by everyone. You're the one who keeps coming back to play it even after it was suggested you take a break. No one is forcing you to play through something you're not enjoying but yourself. 

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  8. Swen is also going off!

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    The director of Baldur's Gate 3, Swen Vincke, was one of many to speak out on the recent mass layoffs within the video …

     

     

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    "Greed has been fucking this whole thing up for so long, since I started," Vincke said, while collecting the GDCA Best Narrative award for Baldur's Gate 3. "I've been fighting publishers my entire life and I keep on seeing the same, same, same mistakes over, and over and over."

     

    "It's always the quarterly profits," he continued, "the only thing that matters are the numbers, and then you fire everybody and then next year you say 'shit I'm out of developers' and then you start hiring people again, and then you do acquisitions, and then you put them in the same loop again, and it's just broken..."


    "You don't have to," Vincke went on. "You can make reserves. Just slow down a bit. Slow down on the greed. Be resilient, take care of the people, don't lose the institutional knowledge that's been built up in the people you lose every single time, so you have to go through the same cycle over and over and over. It really pisses me off."

     

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  9. 7 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:
    WWW.IGN.COM

    At a Game Developers Conference (GDC) panel today, Larian Studios founder Swen Vincke dropped something of a bombshell by revealing that the developer isn't planning to release any expansions or DLC for Baldur's Gate 3, nor a Baldur's Gate 4.

     

     

     

    Beat you by a few minutes :p 

  10. No expansion :cry:

     

    WWW.IGN.COM

    At a Game Developers Conference (GDC) panel today, Larian Studios founder Swen Vincke dropped something of a bombshell by revealing that the developer isn't planning to release any expansions or DLC for Baldur's Gate 3, nor a Baldur's Gate 4.

     

     

    The "No dlc" part is a little funny, because Larian has effectively been releasing a ton of DLC already. It's just that it's free :p 

  11. 1 hour ago, best3444 said:

     

    Because I have a mental condition that makes me forget almost everything within days/weeks. Especially stories from movies and games. It happened when my twin brother died in 2017 and slowly after I developed a condition in my brain to block out almost everything in its entirety. There is nothing that can be done as I'm just dead weight at this point.

     

    That situation traumatized me more than anything ever in my life or anything that could ever happen in my life if he never died. Most people do not understand the amount of pain and devastation there is when you lose not just a brother but an IDENTICAL twin brother who you were attached to for 35 years. Our souls were connected and the amount of love that is involved with twins is beyond comprehension.

     

    For instance if I just lost my biological sister in 2017, I'd be completely fine now and over everything. With an identical twin who is basically you in another form, it's life shattering. That's why I am beyond screwed up and have many issues that current therapy is trying to help but it's suicidal type pain daily. 

     

    So yea, I start over games all the time because of this. I litteraly cannot remember last week at all and I'm not even remotely exaggerating. 

     

    Sorry to hear that :( I hope it will be enjoyable from the start then!

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  12. I hit the point of no return. My understanding is it's another 4-7 hours or so from there. But I imagine it's going to be a roller coaster which means I'd prefer to play it all in one go.

     

    Unfortunately, it's hard to dedicate that much time during the weekdays. So I may have to put this pause until the weekend when I can really enjoy it :( 

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  13. 12 minutes ago, best3444 said:

     

    You might be right. I'm really bored when I'm playing it and it has to be FF fatigue. I'm forcing myself to play it so that it's beat before Friday. I know this game is good but I think I'm burnt out. Maybe I'll take a break from this until after DD2. 

     

    I find that feeling like you have to finish a game before you start another game will immediately drop my enjoyment of the game I'm playing (and trying to finish). I was pretty close to the end of Persona 3 Reload when Rebirth came out, but I didn't want to ruin the ending by forcing myself to rush through, so I just put it on hold and started Rebirth. Feels much better. The game will be there when you feel ready, and I know I'll enjoy finishing P3R much more after I'm done with Rebirth and can give it proper breathing room.

     

    So yeah, I think coupling that with just a lot of FF you've been playing lately probably means you need a break! The game will wait for you :) 

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  14. 15 minutes ago, best3444 said:

    Fuck I'm bored to tears in chapter 10. It's like they completely dropped everything about the game to explore nonsense in XII homeland. This better pickup fast or this is another FF16. Jesus I'm tired of games starting out amazing then slowly getting boring and uneventful. 

     

    Honestly Best, I think you just need to take a break. You blew through the previous game right before this one which is a lot of FF. Chapter 10 is not slow and all of its pretty relevant. I think rather than just forcing yourself to finish through it, you should take a break for a little while and come back to later when you can enjoy it more.

  15. 1 hour ago, MarSolo said:


    Okay, there’s my next question: I feel like I don’t know how synergy works.

     

    You should definitely remedy that because they are a lot of fun and *very* useful!

     

    So there are two kinds of synergy combat things you can do:

    1. Synergy skills

    2. Synergy abilities.

     

    You unlock both of these through the "folio" skill trees for each character. And both skills and abilities are attacks you make with two people at a time. For example, there are skills/abilities you can do with Cloud and Tifa, and if both Cloud and Tifa are in the party, you can activate them. If one of them are not in the party, you cannot do those synergy skills/abilities. But you if you have one unlocked for another pair of characters in the party you can use them.**

     

    Let's start with synergy skills because they're the easiest to understand.

    Synergy skills can *always* be activated (if you have the corresponding people in your party). It does *not* require ATB to do. To pull one off, you hold the block button (R1), and when you do so, you'll see your menu will change to show you the different skills you can do with other party members, each assigned to a face button. So then all you do is press the face button and the two characters will execute that synergy skill.

     

    For example, one of my favorites with Cloud and Tifa is if you choose Tifa as the PC and then do her synergy skill with Cloud, she'll leap onto Cloud's sword and Cloud with throw her through the air at an enemy. Since Tifa has limited aerial moves, this is a great way to let her attack flying enemies. 

     

    Now let's talk about synergy abilities. For synergy abilities you cannot just activate them whenever like you can with skills. You have to build up the ability to do so for each character. That is, if you look at the character name in the UI, you may see these little vertical line notches that when you start combat are unfilled. You need to fill them up for both characters involved in the synergy ability to do it. To fill them up you need each character to use ATB commands. If you go through the menu when selecting an ATB command, you'll see in the bottom left corner a little text describing what the ability does as well as an indicator of how many of those vertical lines for synergy abilities it will grant you. (I believe that not all abilities will give you them, but most will). E.g., Cloud's Braver or Focused Thrust will grant you some of the synergy notches.

     

    If you get usually around 4 notches for both characters you can use a synergy ability with them. This fact encourages you to not just play as one character and ignore the others. You really benefit from switching between characters to quickly build up ATB and use synergy-building ATB moves with them.

     

    Once you have enough with both characters, when you open the combat menu, you'll see the menu item "Synergy Ability" is now highlighted and you can go into it and select a synergy ability you want to use. If multiple characters have enough, you can choose which pair of characters abilities you will do. And you can have multiple abilities for the same pair of characters that do different things.

     

    Activating a synergy ability does *not* consume any ATB, and they are often very powerful. But not only are they powerful, there are a few different kinds that have extra special benefits. For example, one will make MP cost for both characters zero for a temporary period of time allowing them to cast the most powerful spells for no cost. Another is you should do after staggering an enemy because it will do more damage and extend the stagger time.

     

    Since these are powerful and do not consume ATB, they are very useful to use and build up.

     

    Hope that helps!

     

     

    ** Once per battle, you can actually use a synergy ability with someone outside the party, but I almost never do that.

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  16. 1 hour ago, MarSolo said:

    I’m at the Crow’s Nest getting my ass kicked by the guitar playing Queen’s Blood player. His cards have high numbers!

     

    Also, the “relationship” thing with each character, I’m assuming leads to the

     

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    My issue is I feel like I have the same relationship with every character currently because I’ve been giving the correct answers to make Cloud not seem like a shut off dick.

     

    Yes, the relationship is tied to that.

     

    Some notes though: first, Aerith and Tifa will just have more opportunities so they're going to be the default if you're doing everyone right. Second, there are specific non-dialog moments where you must choose someone over the other which can lead to a tie breaker. Third, an additional tie breaker is how much you use synergy skills and abilities with each character.

     

    So you should be able to do everyone well and still have a preferred person.

     

    I have, however, deliberately tipped the scales a couple of times :p 

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