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  1. Silent Hill series, a review.

    DO NOT PLAY THE PC VERSION. It will only get worse. I promise you. At some point it's gonna start crashing to desktop, and after that if your spirit isn't broken it will start crashing Windows. There's nothing you can do to fix it, which will suck because you're going to lose your save. Play on...

  2. Elminage ORIGINAL - Priestess of Darkness and The Ring of the Gods

    I felt like game was properly balanced in terms of difficulty, so I avoided grinding in order not to trivialize the combat. Getting the best items would again make the combat easier. It's an habit from playing JRPGs, but maybe I shouldn't have as the game is difficult enough. I'm pretty sure I...

  3. Elminage ORIGINAL - Priestess of Darkness and The Ring of the Gods

    Close to 30 hours in, stuck on the fight against the dark sorceress. The game is great at times, but sadly it's brought down by a bunch of horrible stuff. I'm playing the PSP version, so some of it might have been fixed on PC. - The thief feels bad. I'm at the end of the game and I still can't...

  4. Decline 2019: Which genre has the most integrity left?

    Visual novels have the most integrity, by far. In the 90's they had poor pacing, poor editing, an exposition that lasts for hours on end, exclusive focus on japan, exclusive focus on romance, anime characters instead of real characters, mandatory sex scenes, and that awful awful feeling you're...

  5. Your pet peeves

    Half Life 2? https://youtu.be/JOvb_7IIdq0?t=689

  6. What game are you wasting time on?

    Blood Will Be Spilled - it's a buggy and subpar game that mixes Steamworld Heist with trashy platforming sections. The only challenge is not to rage at all the bugs. The developer will eventually fix them, but it will still be a bad game. Eador Genesis New Horizons - Holy shit this is...

  7. KickStarter Pathologic 2 (AKA Pathologic remake)

    Wrekmeister Harmonies is definitely similar. It's good, but it's a very slow film, so it's not for everybody.

  8. Game News Pathfinder: Kingmaker is getting an Enhanced Edition, to be released alongside final DLC on June 6th

    I've waited half a year to play this. I need it. Please don't go into another patching frenzy with the enhanced edition.

  9. Apex Legends - F2P Battle Royale set in the Titanfall Universe by Respawn

    Game is too shallow to sustain hundreds of hours of play. - Characters are too shallow (Pathfinder is the only exception). - Weapons are all effectively hit scan so they're way too similar to one another. - There's no strategical decision making involved, instead the game relies solely on...

  10. Robothorium: Sci-fi Dungeon Crawler

    I played it for 2-3 hours, so take my words with a grain of salt. In my experience the game suffers from: - HP bloat - out of combat RNG events that aren't interesting in any way. - way too much loot that you must constantly replace because a level 8 gun is better than level 5 gun, and you get...

  11. RPG limits?

    What would you say is an acceptable backstory? I get that you want a logical reason for the dungeon to be there, but most places don't have a backstory. They are built, forgotten, and claimed by nature years after. Seeing this place a thousand years after it was abandoned, when you belong to...

  12. RPG limits?

    Poor AI - Despite advancement in AI there's not a single RPG that uses them, although it doesn't take very long to set up a generic q-learning algorithm to play most turn based RPGs. Too much reliance on combat - Both designers and audience see CRPGs with no combat as non-RPGs, so they don't...

  13. Decline Why are RPG fans so uncommonly inept?

    The people you speak of are playing battle royals where there's 1 winner and 99 losers, so I doubt your theory checks out. Learning through trial and error is also hardly the best way, and games have other ways of teaching players that should be more common.

  14. Decline Why are RPG fans so uncommonly inept?

    Difficulty in games is a measurement of how familiar the player has to be with the game mechanics. But most games don't have any real difficulty settings, they only have a setting for how long it takes to finish the game. So there's an option to increase the number of enemies and their HP, but...

  15. RPG Codex's Best RPGs - 2019 - RESULTS ARE OUT!

    The voting system is good, more or less. The problem is that it encourages a very top heavy voting, with the top 20 having more points than the other 250. This could be considered good because we are looking for the best RPG, rather than ranking all of them, but from the 23 spot and on the...

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