A thread for the works of Josh Sawyer
>>3931143Based classics appreciator Sawyer
I don't like Sawyer. He insists upon himself.
>>3931147>>3931152>based based based basedHow come Codex newfags can't keep your e-celeb threads on your own website?
I had to look into who the fuck this sawyer guy was as per the topic of this thread and I've learned that he's a twerp
>>3931392I know him because he's a goon from back in the day. Apparently a lot of RPG codex posters are obsessed with him, and brought that to /vrpg/.
>vast majority of armor sets cause you to fat roll>vast majority of weapons are dogshit if not carbon copies of superior weapons of the same category>resistance as a stat >magic trivializes the entire game>second half is rushed garbage with shitty gimmick bosses Why do people pretend that Dark Souls 1 was good? Bloodborne, Elden Ring, even DS2 and DS3 knock this game out of the water.
Has anyone else enjoyed selecting a class and sticking with the starter equipment, or at least close to it? I'm playing a hunter and it has rekindled my love for the game. Focusing on archery gives a new perspective (literally, first person aiming).It's so easy to get immersed and slip into roleplaying in dark souls, I love it.
>>3930995>intentionally I doubt it. Comes across more as just a standard gamer who doesn't think beyond his personal experience
>>3926485>This isn't entirely about Dark Souls, but it's not too far off. When's the last time you used Hide, or Cast Light aside from just not having enough casts of the blue "pew-pews"Both are good for a thief and require little investment. Keeps hands free in tomb of the giants.The question is did Dark Souls have enough consideration for lighting and stealth? Not really. Stealth opportunities mostly happen when backtracking through linearly designed levels and encounters. Some odd exceptions, like getting a drop on a black knight or something.
Because they're told it's good because it's bad, the whole dark souls dilemma especially with the quality of the game itself, the shittiness is just treated like difficulty and that you should get good this game could be literally shit but there's such a culture around it people just assume it's good. The entire enjoyment and fanbase of dark souls is a meme.
The painting level is gorgeous, but damn is it a difficulty spike. Meant for endgame I suppose.
One month.
I sure hope they got rid of the toilet chain emulator found in the demo and went back to the traditional and far superior click to control one, drag to control all control scheme.
>>3931330Click? Just use a controller. Feels better.
>>3931332Why?
>>39313328/10 bait, tasty
>>3931317>transform the game like they did the first time around.Exactly. Was looking around, they switched to ue5, so forget it. That's bad. Some modding will be there, but not as much we need.
What do you think about their games?I've only played Stella Glow, but it's pure kino.I'm planning to check out the Luminous arc series next.
>>3927219Luminous arc is just worse versions of Stella glowYou most likely going to be bored with them midway
>>3925356I'll warn you Luminous 1's story feels like someone asked /v/ to come up with the most generic fantasy RPG plot ever.
>>3928091>genericYou end up fighting god in the end. It can't get more epic than this.
>>3928155Anon... killing god is a common thing in JRPGs.
>>3925487>>3926924I there a translation patch? is it any good?
simply lovely game, wish i knew what i was doing but i'm not being stopped so far
>>3927009>she looks badass with itShe doesn't want to be badass, she wants to have gay sex.
>>3927804would
Drew Feuilletine (I love her).Also, any drawing requests?
>>3930483Servi
What am I in for? Should I use this to make my game, instead of RPG Maker?
>>3930272All the official campaigns are pretty easy and in SoU+HotU you get companions so any character should eventually be able to brute-force it, but something like a Dwarf Cleric/Bard/Wizard (terrible BAB, only low-level spellcasting and 40% experience penalty) is not going to have a particularly fun time. Even something more sane like a Paladin/Sorc can struggle if built poorly, especially once you hit HotU where bosses have heaps of immunities.
>>3930272I had troubles as an unarmed monk. Some enemies have just too bonkers DR for this build. HotU gives you a very powerful enchanting system so if you don't use it, you are gimping yourself hard. In hindsight, I could have gotten a powerful kama and equipped it when an enemy demanded a weapon +7 but in my defense, it was my first run of HotU.
>>3929377Bastard of Kosigan got fixed? That's cool. I played it years ago and had big problems with the second and fourth modules.
>>3928945slut
>>3930908Yeah, the infamous problem with Chapter 2 where it would crash on trying to load saves (so you had to finish the whole thing in one go) was, iirc, caused by an issue in the module code created when the module was originally translated. I remember seeing people post about it on the nwnvault page years ago and they should host the fixed version now, but in saying that I've never checked personally because I always used my own fixed file. I haven't replayed it in a while so I should probably check their version.I don't recall there being any serious problems with Chapter 4. Was it the game not properly recognising the choices you made in previous modules, like siding with your bastard half- brother ?
>runs out around openly in the uniform of a well known terrorist organisation>is never arrested on sightShe's basically waving around an ISIS flag and not even Citadel security cares.
>>3930488Ok.
>>3930313>The council knows, but why would they tell C-SecWhy would the government inform their security about a terrorist cell? Are you fucking with me?
>>3931265>Why would the government inform their security about a terrorist cell?
>>3931265Shepard is definitely being monitored by Council agents when he’s on the Citadel, and he’s the only one who brings Cerberus to the station. There is no Cerberus threat on the Citadel so C-Sec wouldn’t be involved. They couldn’t do anything about it anyway because Shepard is a spectre.
They're paying attention to her fat bunda
Which is the best Xenoblade game, if I were going to get one game which one should that be? I am new to this series, it seems to me it's like of like a singleplayer MMO style of game, which focuses on exploration?
>>3929357A shit
>>3929776sounds like you just don't get the systems of the game
>>3929116Best exploration of any open world game I ever played
They all have their merits and weaknesses. I prefer 2 the most. If you like exploration, X is the best. 1 is a good choice too.
>>3929116THERE'S A SPACESHIP WE CAN RIDENOW IT'S TIME TO RIIIIDE>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOeb7StJlRc
When does fun occur in RPGs for u? Harder question, when do they feel rewarding/satisfying for you?For me it's when I'm walking around the map backtracking, fiddling with menus/inventory management and being lectured by npcs, also watching cutscenes.Battles are not the only gameplay or challenge, sometimes hunting for the next "event trigger" in town is harder than any dungeon or boss.
>>3928485>Retreading and backtracking is when RPGs are at their worst for me.I feel like OP is saying he likes retreading/backtracking when he's choosing to do it himself to find secrets, new dialogue, or sidequests.I'm in the same boat. I dislike when RPGs force me to backtrack, but if I get some new ability or form of travel that gives me an excuse to backtrack of my own accord, I love revisiting old locations to see what changed or if I can do something I couldn't before. Often times, its the best way to find new content as early as possible, if you don't want to use a guide.
>>3928508>>3928541>mongoloid subhuman has a melty over something everybody in the West does all the timeDie of some faggot disease
>>3928471I unironically love RPGs when I have no fucking clue what to do next. It's crazy that the genre has evolved to specifically preclude this aspect just because a majority of players are brainless dolts who hate exploration and expirimentation.
>>3931225Plots for RPGs have become so painfully predictive and paint by numbers I unironically could write a story with more originality. Not to mention RPGs are just used as a vehicle for "which party member do I want to fuck" ever since women have entered the space the quality and storywriting have decreased dramatically.
>>3931231If its not predictive, people will complain. These complaints will eventually make headlines and potential buyers will be repelled? The Hollywood jew says: audience forgives everything, except originality.
It's a new year. How is your AQW/DF/whatever grinding going?
>>3927646Either him or Chaos Alteon
No I won't grind for archmage, archfiend is all I could ever ask for and more, plus its name and animations effects can't be surpassed
They didnt powercreep css for 2 years. Looks like its futureproof.
>>3930804The damage is great, but did any relevant ultras release post-css? Afaik most endgame bosses predates the class so it's braindead precisely because there are zero mechanical bottlenecks set in place unlike AE did for previous Chronos
>Doing the Valentine's Day event>Killing a Heart drops four chambersHeh
Just picked up the Might & Magic series after playing through the old Bradley Wizardry games,they seem a little more "chaotic" combat seems to be random But I really dig these 80s sprites & MIDI soundfont really nice ambiance and amazing atmosphere,is it a dungeon crawlers or prototype RPG like daggerfall or morrowind?
>>3924810>push the turbo button on PC>it reduces the clock speed of CPUWhat did they mean by this
>>3924812A situation of poor labeling. Turbo is always on, however when you press the button turbo is turned off. This is made more confusing by the fact that a light usually comes on when turbo is disabled. Either way when you're playing these games in dosbox I'd try to set speed settings that match the CPUs of the times. 1 is best on 8086/88, 2 is 286, 3-5 386/486. You'll find animations make more sense at those speeds.
>>3875838I feel this program gives you far too much information even if you set it to the lowest level. For example it tells the solution for every single puzzle as soon as you step on the square with it. It also reveals all cursed items in your inventory before you equip them.
>>3880248>game is strangely and specifically racist against Africans, Obvious at time >Indians, Obvious at present>and HungariansGiven accuracy of previous predictions, we will soon see what the vile Hun is capable of.
>>3930447t. Magyar loser pretending that Huns are his ancestors because of a misused ethnic term in EnglishRemember, you Hungarians are even less to the Huns than Romanians are to Romans. Hell, you are to Huns what Romani are to Romans.mic=droppedIsztvan=seething
>completely abandonedBethesbros what happened? nobody cares about this game anymore, no mods, no updates, no DLC. How can Todd threat his dream game like this?
>>3927572and it's back again
>>3908823>his dream gameTodd has no dream game.If he had a sister, he'd sell her in a second. If he thought saying he personally sucked the dick of a cat would help sell a thousand more copies of The Elder Scrolls: Elsweyr, he would shout it from the rooftops. He means none of it. He means nothing. He knows only how to advertise, attention seek, and sell.
>>3925186Of the many professors I have had.With a single exception, every single one I would consider actually good, was at a community college. The one exception at a university, was a guy actively doing his residency for his PHD, who as I understand it, is at a community college now. This man, after someone asked him what the fuck the textbook was trying to say, stared at it for 30 seconds, called the book stupid, and then casually taught a linguistics class Bayseian theorems in an afternoon, because the book is stupid, nobody processes data this way, don't worry, it's fine, this looks and sounds more complicated than it actually is. Universities are full of people who understand how to play the game and get tenure, pick up classes and matriculate students in prerequisites nobody actually wants to teach, and sex offenders who know enough of the other two to get their semi-annual complaint box swept under a rug. I don't know why people who are actually good at their jobs teach at community colleges. I do not understand this part of the mystery. I assume it's just people who actually give a shit eother don't care, or are too autistic to play the game, but fuck if I know. Every professor I have ever had, that actually taught me something, that was actively doing research in their field, that brought something to that classroom, was in a community college, or on their way to teaching there. This includes when I went back to CC afterwards, so it's not like I just got jaded or lost my wonder or something.
oh wellhttps://insider-gaming.com/todd-howard-starfield-2-shut-down-and-promises-more-news/
>>3931150It was never going to get the cyberpunk treatment no matter how many e celeb youtube retards hyped it up. Cyberpunk had a workable base to build upon. Starfailed has nothing. It has space flight, that you can't actually fly anywhere with as it's all cutscenes. It wants you to explore, but all the travel points are already on your map. It wants you to craft your ship, but crafting is a pain in the arse because of storage limitations affecting you being unable to carry everything around to build your ship. It is the most bland piece of shit ever.
What are your thoughts on the Star Ocean series?
>>3920394Wild Arms 3 is the best Wild Arms game, granted.
>>3919331I love SO3. Most fun battle system, fantastic post game dungeons, god tier music, memorable companions.
>>3919331Fascinating premise, that is utterly botched in execution. Maybe I've only played the shit ones, but being swindled into "Here is a science fiction, space themed RPG, in which you spend 99.9% of the game in the most generic fantasy setting imaginable" even once has made me pretty fucking cagey about the rest.
>>3919331>>3930682hideous animoo gooner slop.
>>3930844This is the plot to 1, 2 and 3. 2 at least it's only 70% of the time. >>3919539Pretty accurate. 2 is great, the rest are mid to boring even. I'm shocked it keeps getting made. It blows me away they had a good thing going with 2, which got a gameboy spin off, but then 3, 4 ect none of them touch 2. They just use the name to sell games that are vaguely similar like a mountain dew flavor.
Is it the most hardcore tactical RPG ever made?
>>3929336Any recs? I am genuinely trying to find some good tactical stuff as I am feeling like crunching some numbers and theory crafting
>>3929327It is the only real difficult rpg game in existence. 90's stuff is a joke once you figure out the broken/class combo and the 2000's rpg's are just piss easy.
>>3929343King Arthur: A Knight's Tale on hardest setting
>>3930743Are the two games any good?
>>3929330Tactics RPGs that were Fire Emblem or Final Fantasy Tactics were pretty rare. Trying to treat Warcraft or Warhammer Dawn Of War as an RPG is a huge mistake. They aren't RPGs at all (nor are they particularly tactical).
Skyrim will go down as the greatest example of "visual dopamine over substance" compared to any other game released. There is no good worldbuilding foundation, people know the narrative is vapid, any good lore was created back in Morrowind, and the only thing that saved it from a fate of irrelevance was its modability. The modding community is a mirror of the games shallow nature, dressing up their dolls and world to hide from the utter revulsion and disappointment that there is absolutely nothing else to latch onto. After all, porn is by its nature a quick dopamine hit, a self gratifying experience that can blind you to reality, in this case, the reality that Skyrim fucking sucks.
>>3929518How anybody can be nostalgic about a game released in 2011?
>>3930569What is the minimum amount of time that must pass before something is illegible for nostalgia?The answer is that there is none, I feel nostalgic for shit that happened 5 years ago.
>>3930569Your experiences aren't universal, a zoomer who played it as a kid will have more nostalgia for it than someone who played as an adult.
>>3927682>visual dopamine>SkyrimAre you blind? Or, maybe, you are one of modern designers? Skyrim is as gray and bland as it gets except for underground mushrooms and dlc Hermaeus' location.And the only relatively unusual thing of potential if applied properly - uniqueness of a sharp grey rock of Skyrim's visual design - Todd had removed by catering to "fans" by adding Oblivion color scheme on completely differently planned Skyrim in Legendary (or whatever the name is) edition ruining whichever atmosphere there was at all.Skyrim consists of about 5% of unique gray rock aestetics locations like that vertical city, about 5% separate things, that nevertheless fit the aestetic like that necromancer's stone, 1% of cool locations i had mentioned above and 89% of boring thundra, boring caves, boring cities and boring mountains. Cut those 89% - and you'll receive almost eye-candy of stony mountains coolness.But Skyrim as it is is a watered down bland thing on the average and a watered down bland thing with atmosphere removed even from good places post-Oblivionification of colors.
>>3927682incorrect, bosmer scum
