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Post by Vall on Mar 20, 2024 22:37:07 GMT
Ah reviewers..." it's as if Monster Hunter had a weird baby with Skyrim, but that doesn't really explain how weird it is". I'm not sure why people bring up Monster Hunter as a comparable. DD1 and 2 aren't mission based like MM and the combat is different as well. It's like people get stuck on fighting the bosses and ignore 90% of the game that way. I've said it before, Dragon's Dogma is a video game implementation of D&D LARPing. I get the comparison personally, it's not the mission structure or anything, but the feel of combat itself. It's not a soulslike style game where it's all about quick reflex and i-framing through attacks, it's not a pure slower RPG either where it's all stats and strategy, nor is it a pure character action like DMC.
It's the methodical style of fighting, where you avoid attacks as much by where you're standing as through your defensive options like guarding that brings on the monster hunter comparisons. Also mounting. I can only really think of DD, MH, and Shadow of the Colossus where climbing your foes is a regular part of combat gameplay.
Edit: Hell, with abilities like Hindsight Slash on sword and shield being practically identical to LS Foresight Slash, or greatswords getting shoulder tackle, the comparison is going to feel even more visceral.
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Post by Vall on Mar 20, 2024 8:38:04 GMT
I was thinking my main pawn would be mage, but with the number of mage pawns I'm seeing on the web, I think I might be starting to lean towards tall and lean elf archer or beastren fighter/warrior for main pawn. Do you think Pawn stat growth is going to work in a similar way to DD?. It certainly was recommended for a pawn to start as a fighter/warrior for a good amount of levels in the early game. Actually I'm unsure if pawn levelling is going to work in a similar way. As far as I know, in DD2 stats should be entirely tied to the active vocation, so if you swap from fighter to mage at say, lvl 10, you will have stats as if you did those 10 levels as a mage.
Edit: there are still vocation ranks gating ability learning however.
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Post by Vall on Mar 19, 2024 22:16:37 GMT
The elven archer pawn idea I've been playing with. I just think she's neat.
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Post by Vall on Mar 19, 2024 11:36:31 GMT
I was thinking my main pawn would be mage, but with the number of mage pawns I'm seeing on the web, I think I might be starting to lean towards tall and lean elf archer or beastren fighter/warrior for main pawn.
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Post by Vall on Mar 16, 2024 11:33:49 GMT
6.4 hrs in the CC so far, and the first thing I did was make a beeline for pawn creation and I'm still tinkering about there, haven't even created my own character yet. Interesting how most people focus on their pawn and not their Arisen. Maybe it's because we don't spend a lot of time looking at "ourselves" but we spend so much time with our pawn and have to look at them for most of the game. I'd definitely like to have a lot more hairstyles although I've heard that this is not the full CC. You never know maybe they're holding more hairstyles back for a "Barbershop" dlc. I can say I spent most of my 8 hours in character creator messing with my Arisen, but I'm someone who enjoys photo modes in games where they exist (and are good)
There is definitely going to be hairstyle DLCs, I'm basing this on Monster Hunter mini DLCs. I'm also willing to bet there will be voices, outfits and tattoos for sale.
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Post by Vall on Mar 16, 2024 10:42:56 GMT
I initially thought the muscle shaders were very underwhelming, but thinking about it, it's entirely possible they went for a more realistic rather than 'I dehydrated myself for camera' kinda look where muscles won't be that defined.
Even if that's not what they intended, that's my headcanon and I'm running with it.
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Post by Vall on Mar 15, 2024 20:29:44 GMT
People are already streaming the game (got an early copy, probably not legally like for Starfield). Update: dude got deleted real hard. But people at the time to see that the achievement/trophies leak of the other day was the real deal and not fake. The few clips I've come across, the performance looked good, and that's about all I got out of it
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Post by Vall on Mar 15, 2024 7:38:56 GMT
So it looks like the overall story will be more of the same. But that's fine, because the gameplay looks so good. Yeah, though it was always pitched as realising the vision for the first game. My main hope with the story is that both main and side quests will be more fleshed out this time.
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Post by Vall on Mar 12, 2024 17:48:39 GMT
Beastren fur looks so soft, it's very tempting to make my pawn beastren Do it, the fandom needs more Beastren. I gave it my best shot and also tried to make Wuk Lamat from FFXIV This one would have to be a Warrior tho
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Post by Vall on Mar 12, 2024 17:43:22 GMT
I expect day 1, whenever it happens, will be an eventful slog in the CC trenches. That's part of why I love the character creator demo - can prepare a character ahead of time! also with Steam refund policy if there are some glaring issues obvious early on, might actually have time to see them
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Post by Vall on Mar 12, 2024 8:48:01 GMT
But I quite like my Beastren, her fur looks very cuddly from up close too Beastren fur looks so soft, it's very tempting to make my pawn beastren
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Post by Vall on Mar 11, 2024 1:32:08 GMT
Going by the icon and vocations all having their own weapons, you probably have to unlocked more than one of the 9 vocations first to get access to Warfarer, it could even require unlocking all 9 first. It looks like an endgame/NG+ thing to me. So stupidly long more than hard would be my guess. That's about what I expect, but a girl can dream Trickster sounds like a class that would be a lot of fun in a multiplayer game, but I can't see myself using it here, I don't like relying on AI...also I tend to play a tank (preferably with magical bend) in most RPGs nowadays. Knight Enchanters, Mystic Knights, that sort of thing! And given I've mostly only played Mystic Knight in the first game (though with mods, I've done some warfarer style shenanigans like using Greatsword+Magick Shield with a hotkeyto swap to staff), I've almost never climbed since unless I was fighting a golem or something. Who needs to climb when you bring your own artillery in form of Magick Cannon...cannon combined with sigils was utterly ridiculous. Outside of Warfarer, I'm interested the most in the changes they've done to Warrior, they look like they will have a lot more dynamic gameplay compared to the first game. Less jump attack spamming or charging for 5 years, and more countering, rushing and chaining shorter charge attacks. It just looks like a lot of fun. Though I will definitely try, some of their skills remind me of dragoons from Final Fantasy, and dragoons are just cool.
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Post by Vall on Mar 10, 2024 22:03:01 GMT
I've been messing with my character some more, and oh god I already spent over 6 hours in that character creator. Slight tweak to the face and scars, but most of my focus has now been on the tattoos. It's a shame that they fade out in the shoulder area because I wanted to create vines going from jaw down to the hand, going for like woodland protector vibe.
I kind of want to use warfarer with greatsword and a staff when the game comes out, hopefully unlocking warfarer isn't stupid hard.
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Post by Vall on Mar 10, 2024 12:49:20 GMT
You know, I have gripes with the armour previews in the character creator. Those shoulderpads look like dinner plates strapped to your shoulder and they would only get in the way, and the archer's forearm guard is on the wrong arm. It won't do anything on the arm that's drawing the string, because it exists to protect your forearm on the bow hand from string giving you bruises as you shoot. Mage robe is a potato sack, but that's about what I expected, and I don't know what is going on with the thief armour Thankfully, there were some cool outfits shown in the previews of the game, so I'm just going to look forward to those, haha
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Post by Vall on Mar 8, 2024 11:19:41 GMT
I must say, I'm quite impressed with the character creator. I may or may not have already spend 3.5 hours playing with it. Probably the only real gripe I have with it is that the muscle normals are kind of underwhelming, at least on femme bodies And the hair colour variety could have been better. Everything else is really good tho, from the hair options, to the variety of transform option for the facial and body features, to the fact that tattoos and scars are split into sections for torso and each limb, and you can put two of both on every section. Oh and of course the different lighting conditions to see your creation in can't go without mention either. This is what I came up with.
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Post by Vall on Sept 19, 2023 10:28:46 GMT
Despite my better judgement (what with 2.0 update coming out in a week) I ended up spending time in the Night City over the weekend, because a bunch of character and clothing mods pulled me in. What can I say, these are half dress-up games for me My character's set up is what I ended up calling 'hack and smack', because primary attributes are int, cool and body, so I have two approaches - sneak and hack, or hit them with a bigass hammer. Shotgun is a backup weapon. Great looking character how were you able to see your character in 3rd person? I bought the game on release and never completed it. I'm hoping after the new update I could play the game before buying the expansion. Also how does the female V's voice sound? I play male and no matter what background I pick he always sounds like he was raised on the streets. I can't have a male corporate V sounding like some street hood. Pretty much all Vs sounds like street kid, I don't think there is a way around that, it's honestly as much of a writing thing as voice thing. I do love femV VO though. I just play as street kid most of the time These are photo mode pictures! With some mods, like the hairstyle, some of the clothes (the gloves, elbow pads, glasses in that position) and overall body shape. There is technically a third person mod out there, but it never managed to get good enough for me to grab it sadly, it's fairly basic.
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Post by Vall on Sept 18, 2023 13:05:50 GMT
Despite my better judgement (what with 2.0 update coming out in a week) I ended up spending time in the Night City over the weekend, because a bunch of character and clothing mods pulled me in. What can I say, these are half dress-up games for me
My character's set up is what I ended up calling 'hack and smack', because primary attributes are int, cool and body, so I have two approaches - sneak and hack, or hit them with a bigass hammer. Shotgun is a backup weapon. Yeah that's why I like games with CC's as well. Hoping there's something new to like about FC24's CC when that comes out on Friday. Fifa 23's was very good but I'm hoping thereaer some upgrades. Didn't notice any in the games marketing vids but that's not something they advertise much but I noticed it when testing the beta of Fifa 23 compaerd with Fifa 22 so I'm hoping htat'll be the case with FC24. Even if they jus tchange some of the hair to strand styles it would be nice. See, I didn't even know Fifa games had character creation, hah. Mind you, I'm also not generally interested in sports games like at all, so that might be the reason. But I'm always for expanded character creation options!
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Post by Vall on Sept 18, 2023 7:00:44 GMT
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Post by Vall on Sept 16, 2023 18:30:37 GMT
Messed around with CP0277 a bit today, in anticipation of the 2.0 update. Soon, all the mods will be broken
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Post by Vall on Sept 11, 2023 14:26:56 GMT
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Post by Vall on Sept 6, 2023 18:02:20 GMT
I miiiiight have gotten pulled into playing Starfield. It's extremely...well...Bethesda? Nails the environmental visuals, it has gameplay good enough to immerse you in its world for a while, and it's painfully average or worse in every other respect, lol. Ship customisation is fun tho.
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Post by Vall on Aug 14, 2023 16:22:32 GMT
For the past two weeks, I've been absolutely obsessed with my Dark Urge lolth-sworn drow warlock in Baldur's Gate 3. She started out resisting the urges out of spite, but then she fell in love with Karlach and started on a struggle to become a better person for her sake By the time of act 3, she's almost a knight in shining armour.
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Post by Vall on Apr 19, 2023 18:55:31 GMT
edit: OK maybe watching these videos changed my mind and I'll got Sith Warrior (now to decide on male or female): Honestly, sith warrior might be my favourite class story in SWToR, I've played it both light sided and like...neutral-ish (I rarely play full dark, because too often the choices are like mwhahahaha, I'm stupid!) and it's just so cool. Also fem Warrior's voice acting is really cool imho
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Post by Vall on Apr 19, 2023 13:09:31 GMT
More FFXIV - (I promise, I play other games sometimes) Thought I would have a busy weekend but turns out not so much, because my raid night was canceled Though I did do a bit of TEA prog (The Epic of Alexander, one of the game's 'ultimate' fights), it was my first time, and it was pretty fun. Also ran some Bozja that I largely skipped last expansion, and roped friends into doing The Mothercrystal (Extreme). Oh and I did solo unsync O4S. And of course, I took pictures. I'm always taking pictures (and these posts are entirely an excuse to share them with more people >.>)
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Post by Vall on Apr 13, 2023 12:06:35 GMT
FFXIV - I have come across this mod that reflavours dark knight with flowery theme, all pinks, reds and purples and it's amazing. I've been looking for an excuse to use a battle dress glam for a while and the mod is pretty much perfect for this. Also some attacks make you summon an extra spectral sword in addition to your normal greatsword and it's just
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