Terramagi

@Ares42 said:

First off, anyone that starts off by saying "Almost nothing needs to be changed in the Souls franchise. Dark Souls is my favorite game in almost 15 years" is not someone you should listen to when it comes to furthering the franchise. A stale franchise is a dead franchise.

Anyways, if you ask me, the weakest points of the game is actually some of the boss mechanics. Encounters like Ceaseless Discharge and Bed of Chaos are just badly designed. And even if you disagree and think their mechanics are great, both fights can also be completely exploited to screw with their mechanics. Other than that the game would probably also be served by straightening out it's progression curve instead of the extremely logarithmic approach it has. It just makes the game very front-heavy.

Either way though, as far as I know they've been pretty public in saying they are done with Souls games. That doesn't mean they won't go back to the well if they get desperate though, but that's also sorta the worst circumstance for a game like this to be made.

Nobody will say Bed of Chaos was a good fight. In fact, the boss design really took a nosedive after Biggy and Smalls. However, other than perhaps better managing their timetable and making things like covenents fucking work, there really is nothing that SHOULD be changed. The Souls games are popular for a reason, and it's because it brings something to the table that nothing else does.

Manus is one of the easiest bosses in NG+.

Then again, I was running around pretending to be Artorias with the full set. So he couldn't hurt me at all, while my sword did like 400 damage per swing with 11 humanity.

4K is way, way worse.

@WarlordPayne said:

I want to be able to manually aim spells like you do with a bow, I want to be able to combine smaller shards to make larger ones, I want a very real reason to want to be alive and be automatically revived when killing a boss(like in Demon's Souls), and I want better balance. The stupid ring that prevented lock-on was so broken that it ruined the PvP aspect of that game.

Also, no super cramped rooms, especially boss fights, if the camera is going to be as shitty as it has been so far.

You CAN manually aim spells.

I mean, good luck hitting shit with anything that isn't lightning spear or fireball, but you can totally do it.

@FluxWaveZ said:

@csl316 said:

It was a documentary at first! When he talked about the life of a pro gamer I figured that's what this whole Korean "esports" thing was about. Before I realized what a GSL was.

It was never, ever a documentary. A mockumentary, perhaps, but Pure Pwnage was never meant to be serious. Hence, the title.

It was an educational video of the highest quality.

It taught me why you should forsake running with scissors, in favour of running with knives.

For a game where I named all my squad members after Song of Ice and Fire characters, SURPRISINGLY FEW PEOPLE DIED.

@SargeGulp said:

@Terramagi said:

I've been in the position, and my experience is that such action should be reserved for pricks running trainers or aimbots, because one cannot make ethical calls in a vacuum.

Can you expound upon this? I would assume the most effective policing would occur inside a vacuum.

For most things? Yeah, you'd be right. However for cases such as, for lack of a better phrase, shit-talking, you absolutely would want to have a great deal of context, because a lot of shit can get talked in the moment that you very rarely actually mean. For example, I just said that the Live servers should be set on fire and the ground beneath them salted. I probably didn't actually want that to happen. It's why judges rarely follow the law to the absolute letter in minor cases. There's a word for it, and i feel absolutely retarded for not remembering it. I want to say mens rea, but I KNOW that's not right because "criminal mind" would apply to the perpetrator, and not the person passing judgement.

I don't believe personal attacks and discrimination going unchecked on the internet is charming myself, I think it's disgusting, but no matter your position, it's not fair that people have to suffer from that kind of assholery because we get a little bit of charm out of it. The "cyberpunk hellhole" point is also just a slippery slope argument, moderating people on Xbox LIVE doesn't mean we're going to have to live in some oppressive dystopia. I agree with the freedom of speech idea, but up to a point. I think when there are statements made on private services which are obviously way out of line, then it's for the good of all of us if the people behind them are dealt with properly, and I fail to see what is to be gained by letting dicks and trolls run amok, that exact thinking is what creates a place like Xbox LIVE in the first place, and you seem to want it dealt with even more strictly than I do.

I've been on the internet long enough to know that the "slippery slope" is exactly what happens on the internet, and the world at large. I recall a guy who played MtG professionally get a lifetime ban for a casual remark between two friends. You think having a Live account banned is bad? Imagine having thousands of dollars worth of cards become worthless overnight because context doesn't exist. The slippery slope is a logical fallacy that should've be true, but here we are, apparently trapped in a world that I'm pretty sure should be in a children's cautionary tale.

While I don't like Live, and believe it's a cyst, it ends at that. I can say "Live is a predatory service run by marketers and kept running by sentient sludge that somehow molded itself into human form" but that's as far as it goes. It's my responsibility to not subject myself to that bilge, just as it's my responsibility to mute obnoxious 12 year olds and my responsibility to stay the hell out of the 4chan server because fuck those guys. I've been in the position, and my experience is that such action should be reserved for pricks running trainers or aimbots, because one cannot make ethical calls in a vacuum. And with something like Live, that's exactly what you're in.

When I took Law, I remember very vividly a question we were posed at the beginning. Whether it was better to let 100 guilty go free, or imprison one innocent person. I was a horrible person then, and I'm a horrible person now, because I'd let them walk every time.

Nah, Source engine is just a piece of shit sometimes.

You should've SEEN how long it took me to get Garry's Mod running like, a month ago. I had to uninstall every Source mod game about 3 times, verify the cache, and was about 30 minutes away from seriously considering getting an exorcist.

@YOU_DIED said:

I'm against this, not because I'm a hateful human being, but because I believe in a form of freedom of speech that doesn't include the right to silence someone just because you are offended by what they said

This is also, in its own way, true.

Live may be an abomination that by all rights should be burned and the ground the servers sat on salted, but once you have somebody ACTUALLY making those calls, the internet loses that lawless charm and before we know it we're in a cyberpunk hellhole.

@Fattony12000 said:

It's been so funny to see and hear people talk about the Walking Dead series (which are awesome games) as hard hitting and freaky as fuck. Pretty much nothing compares to...

He is a little thing I wrote about it years and years ago...

If you like rape, murder, psychological and physiological torture, sadism, insanity, horrific Nazi experiments on living people whilst their eyeballs are placed in jars so they can watch, cannibalism, pain, suffering, infanticide, the Holocaust, morally challenging issues, terror, child abuse, ethical and social catharsis, Nazi death camps, paranoia, immortality as a means of punishment, anger, gross demonstrations of pure hatred, a crazy Earth-sized computer, and all that good wholesome fun stuff...Then I would, er, 'recommend' checking this out.

All the above stuff is merely the paint upon the canvas of the PC game, it is essentially a 'be good' or 'be evil' point and click puzzle game, fully voice acted, with some real...odd...situations.

Pretty interesting guy that Harlan, got an interview with him and Robin Williams (the actor/comic) talking about that bat-shit insane sci-fi writer L. Ron Hubbard. He's the only person I've heard who can out talk Mr Williams.

I never played the game (in fact my only experience with it is an LP), but the short story was soul-crushing.

And I don't mean that in the "oh gee something sad happened". I mean that in the "AM will literally find you, determine what constitutes a soul, and destroy it" way.