Pyrian on 5/3/2022 at 22:35
Getting through Mirror's Edge without shooting anyone isn't too bad. But getting through without fighting anyone is much harder. There're the three guys that come down from a helicopter in front of you. It's absolutely possible to get past them, but I've never managed it, lol. There's a "car park" room on the boat with a machine gunner in the middle and it takes a long time to open the door. There's a trick to cheese past the door, but again, I don't even know how that works, so I always take him out. The server room is challenging, but I have done that one; you can just run around until they shoot all the servers for you, and then "vault" up next to the machine gunner and run past.
demagogue on 6/3/2022 at 04:53
I think the idea was supposed to be that you could parkour the fighting itself.
You were meant to do some really quick move or two on a guy and quickly move on.
But it didn't usually work out that way in the heat of the moment.
I keep replaying it every year or two also, so evidently it's doing something right.
One thing is that I've done the speed run races so many times that I have the motions for most levels burned into my muscle memory, and it comes back really quickly. So there are big chunks of it where I fly through it on muscle memory alone. But that's also probably what makes the fighting stick out so much in contrast. It doesn't happen that often, so I don't mind too much. The parking garage level is a slog though.
Pyrian on 6/3/2022 at 08:29
Quote Posted by demagogue
I think the idea was supposed to be that you could parkour the fighting itself.
The fact that every single melee combat move makes you
stop moving was a very strange decision, IMO. Maybe it was just too hard to do it any other way.
Renault on 7/3/2022 at 15:06
Welp, it took me 12 years and 5 or so attempts, but I finally finished Metro 2033 (I think it was one of the last games I bought an actual physical copy of). It was awesome, of course, just a great experience, and a world filled with details and dripping with atmosphere. And there's actually some decent stealth sections in the human portions of the game, wasn't expecting that at all. My one complaint is that I hated the feeling of being rushed in the surface sections because I might run out of air. I'm used to taking my time and exploring every corner of the world, but I get why they did it.
That said, I didn't even stop to take a breath and jumped right into Last Light. Also decided to ramp up the difficulty and play in Ranger mode. There've been some rough (and frustrating) spots, but I'm working my way through it.
Jason Moyer on 7/3/2022 at 15:13
Did you play OG 2033 or the Redux version? IIRC they improved the stealth a ton in the Redux.
henke on 7/3/2022 at 15:37
Ok my game is out and relatively bug-free so I'm TRYING to take it easy this week but of course I can't DO THAT because I HAVE NO CHILL so I'm making videos of people playing my Tricky Machines custom levels.
[video=youtube;rCEC673NRs4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCEC673NRs4[/video]
Aja on 7/3/2022 at 17:36
I’m 30 hours into Elden Ring while playing Gran Turismo 7 as a palate cleanser. GT7 is great so far. I was the biggest fan from the original up to 4, and then 5 felt clunky and unpolished, and I stopped buying them after that. So far GT7 brings back the old good feelings. It’s basically an interactive car magazine, packed with tiny details, a little bit goofy and weird, and while I’m not the car fan I was when I first got 100 percent in GT2, it’s still sparked my interest. And the cars, expectedly, are about as beautiful as you can imagine. I wouldn’t be surprised if Polyphony had several people working on paint simulation alone.
faetal on 8/3/2022 at 09:39
Elden Ring interspersed with XCOM2 with the excellent Long War of the Chosen mod so I don't burn out.
PigLick on 8/3/2022 at 15:48
Elden Ring, interspersed with doing other necessary life things, like working, while I think about Elden Rings.
I have never gotten into the Souls games before, but damn I am obsessed with this.
Thirith on 9/3/2022 at 09:22
I didn't expect it to happen, but Mirror's Edge Catalyst has pulled me in much more than expected on my replay (immediately following Mirror's Edge). I would absolutely agree that it does some things worse than the first game, but I am enjoying just running around, which feels really, really good. I'm doing the main and side missions, but none of the small deliveries (yet), but there's more to like about the open world than I thought at first. Also, I've switched runner vision to classic mode, which means that the environmental hints I get aren't too different from the original game.
One thing I'm noticing is that Mirror's Edge's traversal mechanics can sometimes be quite harsh in ways where it isn't immediately clear to me why a move didn't work, whereas Mirror's Edge Catalyst seems to overcorrect in the other direction, so that I sometimes succeed when I think I should've flubbed a move. I guess my perfect Mirror's Edge game would be somewhere in between those two.
Also, I'm still enjoying Horizon Zero Dawn much more on my replay than I would've expected. Perhaps it helps that I remember liking but not loving it, so I'm not going in with dozens of extremely positive reviews in mind.
