What game are you playing?

[wankerness]

Yeah, I did practice with him a few times and had it down, but it's not quite the same practicing against him vs. actual enemies.

Every time you hit the parry button, hold it down. That way if you mess up the timing slightly you still block. The alternative is mash it as fast as possible, which works on a first playthrough, but it won't give you "perfect parries."

 

[p0ke]

Every time you hit the parry button, hold it down. That way if you mess up the timing slightly you still block. The alternative is mash it as fast as possible, which works on a first playthrough, but it won't give you "perfect parries."

Yeah, I'm doing the holding it down method, but mostly I'm just a tad late when I try to do it. I don't know if it's because of input lag or if I'm just too slow, but I'm sure I'll get it if I just keep practicing.

 

[Jarmake]

Oh well... I am a weak man and I fired up Shadow of the Erdtree. Every now and then I get a feeling that it has been artificially made harder than the basegame. All the enemies take so much more punishment than ever before and they also make a shitton more damage. And what about those combos? Those are ridiculous. Enemies combo-wombo you to oblivion if given a chance. Oh well...

I did beat a few field/dungeon bosses and just now laid Divine Beast Dancin Lion to rest for good. I even surprised myself and beat in on the first try.

 

[wankerness]

Yeah, I'm doing the holding it down method, but mostly I'm just a tad late when I try to do it. I don't know if it's because of input lag or if I'm just too slow, but I'm sure I'll get it if I just keep practicing.

If you are playing on a TV make sure it's on Game Mode (or whatever the equivalent is for your TV - decreases picture quality very slightly to remove any lag). A lot of TVs that aren't on that mode have slight display lag that make sekiro in particular extremely difficult.

 

[MFB]

Made it thru "The Ocean Roars Again" tonight, the main level took longer than the boss given there's ZERO second chances if you get too close to the water; meanwhile on previous missions, if I got too close to the edge of a cliff, there's this whole animation you can still move during to backstep and avoid dying. I found all but 2 Kodama on my own, and one I should've have expected it to be there (near the hot springs) but I was just blinded for whatever reason.

I had 12 of the masks going into the fight, and wasted a few of them since he'd got me once with laser beam after using a couple, and another he jumped on me during; but I was able to get good burn damage on him between talismans/amulets, firebombs, and then the masks in the end. I saved my LW as well, now using Lightning damage, and it did a good chunk on him.

I'm level ...55 I think now, weapon stats are both 300+, one sword is like 327 and another 346, and my spear is ...maybe 315/330? Also getting high armor protection, I think helm is mid -60s, and then my body one is 120, and leg ~90, arms probably similar to helmet. Stats are an even split between heart/body/strength/skill/stamina.

 

[p0ke]

If you are playing on a TV make sure it's on Game Mode (or whatever the equivalent is for your TV - decreases picture quality very slightly to remove any lag). A lot of TVs that aren't on that mode have slight display lag that make sekiro in particular extremely difficult.

I always have it on game mode, but the picture goes through my amplifier so that could be adding some latency.
The reason for that setup is that my TV is pretty old and ARC (which was a brand new concept when I bought the TV) doesn't work properly on it, so if I connect everything directly to the TV and take the audio out, I only get stereo sound and even that only if everything is turned on in the exact right order

I'm planning on buying a new TV sometime soon, and hopefully that'll solve those problems...

 

[wankerness]

Made it thru "The Ocean Roars Again" tonight, the main level took longer than the boss given there's ZERO second chances if you get too close to the water; meanwhile on previous missions, if I got too close to the edge of a cliff, there's this whole animation you can still move during to backstep and avoid dying. I found all but 2 Kodama on my own, and one I should've have expected it to be there (near the hot springs) but I was just blinded for whatever reason.

I had 12 of the masks going into the fight, and wasted a few of them since he'd got me once with laser beam after using a couple, and another he jumped on me during; but I was able to get good burn damage on him between talismans/amulets, firebombs, and then the masks in the end. I saved my LW as well, now using Lightning damage, and it did a good chunk on him.

I'm level ...55 I think now, weapon stats are both 300+, one sword is like 327 and another 346, and my spear is ...maybe 315/330? Also getting high armor protection, I think helm is mid -60s, and then my body one is 120, and leg ~90, arms probably similar to helmet. Stats are an even split between heart/body/strength/skill/stamina.

I think that on the bulk of my playthrough I used the Tatenashi armor set, it's really good if you can find pieces of it. No way you're getting the smithing recipe anytime soon, it's stuck on some really nasty bonus level's boss. Warrior of the East set I used for most of Nioh 2 and I think it's pretty similarly good in Nioh 1, but didn't use it - gives a lot of bonuses if you have a spear build, and it's REALLY easy to farm since the guy that drops it and the accompanying spear is all by himself in a bonus level. Obsidian armor is good too but not with a sword/spear build, it's more for axes.

Make sure you start putting points into magic and ninjutsu (I forget what the actual stat is, skill maybe?? it is obvious when reading tooltips) and doing those training missions every time they pop up at the dojo, a few of those skills are indispensible. Quickchange scrolls and sloth spell are like the two most powerful things in the game. You probably want 30 in both eventually.

I need to play this game again. I started it on PC, but only got through like 2 regions before Nioh 2 went on sale for PC and I switched back to that and played it for another 200 hours. Weirdly Nioh 2 runs better on my crummy old PC than Nioh 1 does. I think the slightly streamlined graphics are the reason. I also never cleaned up all the achievements on it on PS5, cause NG++ is considerably harder in Nioh 1 than Nioh 2 and it has much nastier achievements related to it (ex doing every single optional DLC mission in it).

 

[wankerness]

I always have it on game mode, but the picture goes through my amplifier so that could be adding some latency.
The reason for that setup is that my TV is pretty old and ARC (which was a brand new concept when I bought the TV) doesn't work properly on it, so if I connect everything directly to the TV and take the audio out, I only get stereo sound and even that only if everything is turned on in the exact right order

I'm planning on buying a new TV sometime soon, and hopefully that'll solve those problems...

Yeah, receivers can absolutely introduce input lag if you're plugging the system into the receiver and then the system is going to the TV. I think your problem there is likely the receiver, not the TV. I would maybe try plugging the xbox right to the tv as an experiment and seeing how that goes.

I never have used ARC on my receiver, I guess I've just always used streaming apps on external devices so there was no reason I'd want the TV audio to be sent through the receiver. I bet that would add more lag, but I would think that feature would be irrelevant to this as long as you were connecting the xbox to the receiver instead of doing something like xbox -> TV -> receiver.

 

[p0ke]

Yeah, receivers can absolutely introduce input lag if you're plugging the system into the receiver and then the system is going to the TV. I think your problem there is likely the receiver, not the TV. I would maybe try plugging the xbox right to the tv as an experiment and seeing how that goes.

I never have used ARC on my receiver, I guess I've just always used streaming apps on external devices so there was no reason I'd want the TV audio to be sent through the receiver. I bet that would add more lag, but I would think that feature would be irrelevant to this as long as you were connecting the xbox to the receiver instead of doing something like xbox -> TV -> receiver.

Yeah, ARC is supposed to be direct passthrough but for whatever reason the TV decides to convert everything to stereo. I can't mess around with it much either because someone's almost constantly occupying the TV

 

[Ralyks]

Haven't played a video game of my own in months other than some games with my son (Smash Bros, Castle Crashers, Goat Simulator 3 primarily). I was playing Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth and Stellar Blade when I left off.

But I kinda want a comfort game, and for some reason, it feels like I want to do a second playthrough of either Persona 3 Reload or Persona 4 Golden. I love P4G's story and characters more, but I only have like 2 or 3 trophies left for P3R. Eh, it might be a coin flip.

Also I've had Final Fantasy VII Rebirth since release say and I haven't touched it once ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[SalsaWood]

Got a used xbox one S and all the Halo games. Went in to buy Donkey Kong. Gobbless Gamestop.

 

[gabito]

Speaking of comfort games… the GTA V install size on PC is like 100GB or more and I wanted to play it on my ROG Ally but there’s no way I’m downloading that monstrosity (which I own, thanks Epic giveaways), so I ended up installing the 18GB PS3 version which works just fine on RPCS3 besides some glitches here and there.

I played this game several times on PS3, PS4 and PS5 since 2013 when it was released and I can barely tell the difference between the versions… that’s how picky I am

Anyway, I’m playing OG GTA V, which I will probably play for less than than it took me to install it and set things up but oh well. I can pick it up again at any time when I feel like playing it.

Also Tetris Effect. It’s like a LSD version of Tetris, and it’s very good.

So: comfort games, nothing new.

 

[Ralyks]

Also Tetris Effect. It’s like a LSD version of Tetris, and it’s very good.

Love Tetris Effect. Definitely a comfort game.

Also for comfort, I like playing GTA V and just driving around the entire map.

 

[MFB]

Managed to beat the Spider Castle on my first attempt, died relatively few times and if I did it was to gank shit. The boss ALMOST got me as she goes pretty hard laying down webs in the second 'phase' and they really sap your movement.

I totally forgot about the dojo stuff so for a while I thought I just DIDN'T know how to unlock onmyo magic but that was the key; I could have also put a point or two into it and gained skills to spend but I still wouldn't have had a clue how to use it. SO! Now I have fireballs, lighting strike, and water shot but need to increase my capacity to ready a 3rd element. I'm just shy of level 70, magic is at +10, and everything else is between 17/18, shit is starting to cost more than I'd like per level and with the way these missions are, it's not farming conducive.

Tried to fight the dude on the bridge and everyone says push him off (a la "Robert!") but he kept flipping back over me; and the one time I DID get his health down, he was joined by floating heads of all things that kept staggering me and I fucking died. Those things can suck a fat one, tired of them showing up with the worst enemies, like the white lady with ribbon attacks who sloth you. Fuck them too.

 

[Jarmake]

Beat Golden Hippopotamus in shadow of the erdtree. Died once before killing it, just because I was just standing there and looking at it like "what the fuck is that thing supposed to be?".

Like really? It looked like a rhinoceros after years of meth addiction, acted like one too. And then it grew itself porcupine quills! And in a middle of a castle yard to begin with... What the hell are the people at fromsoft using?

 

[wankerness]

I played through resident evil 2 remake, really did not like it. I think I just don’t like “survival horror” (being confronted with way more enemies than you have ammo, given no evasive abilities whatsoever). I also hated the stuff with the big invincible guy that follows you around - I don’t like that mechanic for building suspense and fear at all. It mostly just is really annoying. Hey, I want to get around these tiny hallways and an asshole in a fedora that punches way faster than you can get around him is following me everywhere. And if I shoot my gun he beelines towards me from anywhere!!! Blah.

Not for me!! RE4 remake is great and I really liked it, this I can’t really see myself even doing a second playthrough as Claire, let alone four to see all the basic content.

 

[Werecow]

I played through resident evil 2 remake, really did not like it. I think I just don’t like “survival horror” (being confronted with way more enemies than you have ammo, given no evasive abilities whatsoever). I also hated the stuff with the big invincible guy that follows you around - I don’t like that mechanic for building suspense and fear at all. It mostly just is really annoying. Hey, I want to get around these tiny hallways and an asshole in a fedora that punches way faster than you can get around him is following me everywhere. And if I shoot my gun he beelines towards me from anywhere!!! Blah.

Not for me!! RE4 remake is great and I really liked it, this I can’t really see myself even doing a second playthrough as Claire, let alone four to see all the basic content.

Sounds like you had sorta the same reaction to it as me. I was going okish with it, then the hallways gradually started filling up with zombies, because people say you should shoot them in the legs so they crawl, so less new walking ones spawn.
I also hate it when games have "unrealistic" bullet sponge mechanics when it comes to guns and humanoid enemies. For me, a headshot should down the enemy. It keeps the weapons feeling fun. I was putting 3-4 bullets in heads at times to kill them.

Then of course, i got to Mr X or whatever it is, and within 5 minutes i was like "well... that's me done with this game" . I've not gone back, or been tempted to go back since.

I love horror games, and stealth games too. But the Capcom/Resident Evil brand of survival horror surprising left me completely cold. I was actually a bit upset, because i'd been looking forward to it for months.

 

[SalsaWood]

Wish they would revive Dino Crisis. Just the first one, the rest were crap.