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#1  Edited By Fredchuckdave

@tuxedocruise: I'm really interested in the mechanics of the early game/Minas Ithil; will probably spend a good deal of time dicking around with it when I do a Nemesis playthrough.

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@tennmuerti: I know you can get elements from arrow explosions, but what else? Also this is the second fortress I did so don't have a fully explored skill tree as of yet (though I do have baseline and even spent 5 points in the video). I'm sure this happens frequently online at high defense (which is presumably when you stop playing online due to tedium/already getting the trophy) but I'm more curious how many people experienced this just as a random PvE occurrence, particularly on normal. Could mainline my way to spiders as one of the summons I suppose.

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So I just did the fortress assault on the snowy region (Seregost) and the Overlord had Iceproof/Arrowproof + Extra Health and Mega Heal; over the course of the fight he "adapted" and got Immune to Executions, Vault Breaker, and Immune to Ground Takedowns; he was weak to stealth but evidently even if you use the overhangs you can't do that in Overlord fights, I had like a 16% chance to poison on critical hit so that and normal attacks did some damage, fight went on for 30 minutes (sped up most of it) and he eventually killed me except one of my captains just randomly showed up and instakilled him (from 90% health) instead; curious if this guy's always super difficult and if you fail you get bailed out, or maybe its just an internal detector in the game that your fight went on for too long or something. I was 3 levels lower so I couldn't have recruited even with the one time I got him into green. There was probably some way to setup my gear and maybe level it up mid fight to get a fire proc; maybe (he wasn't weak to fire or poison but it did damage). He also had instant kill on Caragors which was one of my sets of reinforcements. This is on NORMAL difficulty.

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100%ing everything is just a dumb way to go typically; but there's certainly games where the achievements make it more fun/challenging and that's the idea; just avoid garbage achievements like Telltale games or whatever.

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#5  Edited By Fredchuckdave

Game's really good; it does have some problems but the microtransactions certainly aren't one of them (I didn't even open the store until like 12 hours in; no prompts to do so either). I think it's roughly on par with the first game, maybe slightly better but its quite debatable; has a ridiculous amount of depth and replayability which the first game lacked. It's not better than Horizon and Nioh (though it certainly has better gameplay than Horizon), but it'll probably still wind up around my 5th or 6th favorite game this year in a fantastic year for games. If you like the Silmarillion etc. there's some cool stuff going on even if the central narrative is crap.

The name is terrible. That's probably the worst part of the game; but you can just call it Mordor 2 and you're good.

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#6  Edited By Fredchuckdave

Snes, S-N-E-S, and Super Nintendo when I was younger. S-N-E-S just came after the advent of ZSNES; simple enough. Snes I occasionally use colloquially but is the most infrequently used one. Super Nintendo is definitely the best way to say it, people just don't say it anymore, probably for the same reason people don't say Playstation very often either.

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Protagonist is evil, therefore it doesn't matter; but you can very easily do much much worse things in various other games to actual human beings and the vast majority of games involve you murdering at least a few dozen people along the way; often hundreds if not thousands. If you have an issue with the central crux of video games that's fine, but otherwise who gives a fuck.

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@rosesaredan: Its Titan Quest, probably not as much modding I'd assume. TQ is the best non D2 game in the same vein period.

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Injustice Vs Street Fighter Infinite (old men need not apply):

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#10  Edited By Fredchuckdave

I'd guess about 90% of the people that played Cuphead (which is not the same subset as forum posters) wouldn't have minded skipping the penultimate "fight."

For the recent DKC games there's definitely some asinine memorization levels where the quick way to beat it is to just die like 5 times in a row instead of wasting 40 minutes you could be having fun with somewhere else in the game. This is just something that works for platformers; of course platformers don't involve much brain activity just repetition.