No Oddjob crouching! Paintball mode and Proximity mines. Thinking back at that single centered joystick + D-pad makes me wonder how we ever played it to begin with.
We just didn’t know any different! Compared to the precision of FPS games that we’re used to now, it would probably feel like painful slow-motion to watch our old Goldeneye matches…
Putting proximity mines on the ammo crates and then immediately picking up the crates so they respawned and the mine was invisible was just… chef’s kiss
IIRC mines wouldn’t be triggered if it was yours and you interacted with them in some way. But because the way Goldeneye handled objects like the ammo crate, anything that was considered “a part of it”, such as the mine, disappeared so a new one could spawn. The overall game code knew the mine was still there so if another player grabbed the ammo crate, thus interacted with the mine, it would detonate and kill the other player.
This inspired me to fire up the N64 and try it. First attempt, I blew up the mine accidentally and lost all my health, so you can definitely trigger your own mines. Second attempt, I placed it and picked up the crate, and the mine disappeared! And it could definitely blow up in that state too. But when I tried it again and let the crate respawn, I could see the mine again. So, shrug?
But I’m impressed, I never knew about this till now.
Um, super weird question, but would you DM me what that medication is? I’m dealing with some aggressive degeneration and trying to get out in front of it as much as possible, so entertaining all possible options.
The best thing I ever did for my back was take up weightlifting (Specifically deadlifts) I’ve got degenerative disease plus a herniated disc plus spinal arthritis and was living with chronic pain, and now I feel like I’m 20 again. I would encourage anybody with back pain to add deadlifts to their life if possible. Anybody needs any help getting started can drop me a line
That’s awesome! Honestly I think its the best possible thing you can do for yourself. As your strength level comes up you start getting more useful and harder to injure
I love your shot of Sully. I try to focus on mostly scenery so it’s cool to see a well done portrait shot like that. I love the last one too. It has the same vibes as the main menu of the first three
Go for it. I mostly started this as a way to share my growing collection of video game screenshots (I like to take a LOT of screenshots of my games, especially when I have a photo mode). But if anyone else wants to join in they’re welcome too. I’d love too see other people’s screenshots. Especially because I tend to focus on scenery
Agreed about ER. Although, I try to play more relaxing games if I’m playing late in the evening. I’m finally at the final legacy dungeon in the DLC, and boy oh boy there’s an enemy in there that killed me so fast in like 3 hits. It was over before I even had time to react, lol. I called it a night and switched to something else before bed.
That’s the one thing I finally learned with the DLC that I should have learned long before this - leaving and coming back later instead of fighting and dying to a tough boss 30 times in a row
For sure, taking breaks is important if I get frustrated with a game. Fortunately enough the only boss to truly stump me so far has been Commander Gaius. I eventually summoned 2 of my friends and the fight became a lot more fun, but even with 2 other people it took us probably 15ish attempts due to the massive health increase caused by summons and I’m also on NG+. I’m sure the final boss will be tougher, since I’ve heard from everyone who crazy it gets.
I’ve been better about my pacing this DLC, too. When the game initially launched and I binged it for about 2 months straight and was super burnt out by the end (had a lot more free time back then due to COVID and only 1 kid).
Also you can somehow carry 15 different weapons and 10,000 rounds of ammunition plus grenades, a knife, a flashlight, and even a BAZOOKA…but not extra health packs.
Seriously, I go in to a boss fight and spend minutes hacking and dodging with basic attacks and combos, then watch GDQ and they use a couple items and then cream the boss in two combos…
That game is not hard at all, just insanely punishing for little mistakes. Mistakes like… not using consumable buffs…
I despise games made to be frustrating for all except the intended play style. Dark Souls games are at the top of the list for games that aren’t simply misbalanced, but designed by cruel idiots.
I’m an expert in game design and economy design (+10 yr experience professionally).
You do this so that health doesn’t feel rare. The same thing with ammo. If you don’t drop ammo for weapons, even when the player is full, the player may believe ammo is rare, hoard it, and not shoot. So if you want to incent players taking risks, you drop health and ammo, even at full, so the player feels they can experiment.
This was noted in the GDC talk for Ghost of Tsushima: they do step on the drop rates when you’re low to give more than usual, but they don’t do the reverse (e.g. give you none at full) because they found, in play testing, players hoarding ghost tools (and therefore didn’t use them) unless the player believed a bunch was available.
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