Elite roleplay: Q&A and OOC
10 Aug 2023, 1:24pm
10 Aug 2023, 3:56pm
Assume Willow will be scraping clothes and taking air samples and she totally got the full forensic kit. She's in heaven playing Inspector Gadget right now.
10 Aug 2023, 4:07pm
Got me curious when I saw it.
10 Aug 2023, 4:18pm
Forbidden West, well, not quite so much but still a bit(two playthroughs, started one on Ultra Hard but didn’t really get past the starting area). Also got a bit meh’d by the - somewhat understandable - decision to not port the DLC to PS4(not even the Pro version, which I have), so I’m considering waiting for it to drop on PC(first one did), rather than to buy an entirely new console for a DLC of one game. And hook it up to my TV… somehow. Some games deserve to be played on the big screen, and this is one of them where I’m concerned.
10 Aug 2023, 4:20pm
Kasumi Gotois the ‘Aloy’ part in Venus’ name an intentional reference to the Horizon game(s)For some unknown reason, I was totally sure it is. Lol.
Btw, sorry, I've been a sleepy mess today, so consider Meowers just sitting there and listening, all that time.
10 Aug 2023, 4:22pm
I am waiting with baited breath for Forbidden west to be ported to PC. I wish Sony was quicker with their ports
10 Aug 2023, 4:57pm
(Which would partly bring me down the rabbit hole of how I didn’t quite get into how the combat was extended upon, sometimes in ways that I didn’t quite like or saw the sense in… such as limiting dodge rolls to consecutive two and a stumble after the third, with possibility to extend it to four.)
Story is the aspect I primarily played it for, and I think it delivers there. And at one very key point takes a turn for the… very disturbing. If you know the lore of the first game well enough, you can probably guess exactly what I mean. I’d even call it one of the, if not the, highlight, for all the wrong reasons, and yet in a good way. The writers wanted a very specific feel for that section, and they absolutely nailed it.
10 Aug 2023, 5:27pm
10 Aug 2023, 5:30pm
10 Aug 2023, 5:34pm
There are so many games where you climb a tower, do the icons that show up, then look for another tower. And yeah, difficulty being down to the numbers a thing has is so cheap.
10 Aug 2023, 5:51pm
They also added a lot more grind to upgrade your stuff and added significant negative resistances to some outfits. Another negative point I felt, for an exclusively SP game with no purchases aside from story DLC.
10 Aug 2023, 6:24pm
10 Aug 2023, 6:35pm
I actually thought they were a reasonably fun enemy to fight in their purpose-built arenas. Hated the Scorcher though, mostly because of its three swipe attack that really messes with your dodge pattern.
The Fireclaws spawned ‘in the wild’ as part of the post-DLC quest, those I didn’t like much(other than using the improved ice rail - that was fun to use and just get a really meaty hit in on a frozen target), but it made for a good boss at the end of the Cauldron.