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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 30, 2014, 02:32:41 PM »

I'd rather the thread die than rehash the same crap ad nauseam. Not to mention the loss of 7 pages of posts thanks to it.

Thanks to Blanko, the destroyer of threads, you mean.

Unfortunately, you wouldn't know that. Seeing as you haven't played the game, you have no idea what you're actually generalizing; I do, on the other hand, and I produced the most accurate equivalent argument for SotC that boils down criticisms in the exact same manner. Just like how to an outside observer SotC is just doing that same climbing section over and over again, Dark Souls is, er, I guess rolling and swiping. You know there's more to SotC than that, yet you're hellbent on assuming there isn't anything else to Dark Souls without confirming it yourself in any way, shape or form. You've just seen the fights without the "puzzles", so to speak.

Dark Souls is about as puzzling as a 1x1x1 Rubiks cube.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 30, 2014, 05:57:46 AM »

This is ruining the thread.

How so? Do you see any other relevant discussions taking place? Would you prefer everyone just treat this thread as their own personal Dark Souls twitter feed? Because that was the only thing going on before.

"Just beat the asylum demon on my first try #yolo #canttouchthis #bootywarrior"

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 30, 2014, 04:23:44 AM »

I'm simply demonstrating how flawed your generalizations are. If I'm grasping at straws, then so are you.

Your arguments represent a basic misunderstanding of mine, not a reflection.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 30, 2014, 02:29:08 AM »

In SotC you don't even have to dodge anything nor are you ever in danger, you just have to push left stick in a direction until you get to the next obviously marked weak point. It's starting to seem more and more obvious that it's a terribly designed game.

Grasping at straws. Who is really the troll here?

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 30, 2014, 02:07:00 AM »

And in SotC it doesn't get more detailed than climb/stab.

Each enemy in SotC requires you to figure out how to climb and where to stab. Dark Souls enemies take damage anywhere and all attacks can be dodged.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Super Mario 64 is the worst game ever made

« on: March 30, 2014, 02:02:41 AM »

It's hilarious how truly butthurt people get when you make points about a game they love. Ghost, it's fine you like Dark Souls, it really is. You liking it doesn't make it not a shitty game, and your frustration hardly warranted another thread that only serves to point out what little reading comprehension you have in another.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 30, 2014, 01:59:23 AM »

Right, and in SotC literally all you have to do is find out a simple gimmick at the start of each fight, at which point you move on to the exact same climbing and stabbing section as last time. You can think, but you don't have to. Just like in Dark Souls, right?

It's very easy to generalize things like that in every game.

Except with Darks Souls it never moves beyond the generalization. It doesn't get more detailed than dodge/swipe.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 30, 2014, 12:00:40 AM »

Well, it's pretty much what Vauxy said. I think SotC is a fine game, but the criticisms Rushy has about boss fights can be boiled down to essentially any game with boss fights. I'm generalizing SotC because Rushy is generalizing Dark Souls. In both games you still have to figure out how to beat the boss before you can actually beat it. You don't see the puzzles in a SotC speedrun, just saying.

In Dark Souls you can beat literally all bosses by dodging and swiping at them with a dagger. No other form of strategy is necessary. Going around in SotC doing nothing but dodging and attacking is never, ever going to work, no matter how hard you try. This is what I was talking about when saying effectiveness and difficulty are not the same thing, you know, in that part of the thread you moved because reasons.

If Dark Souls was a money grab it would have been more appealing to "casuals"

Oh may gawd my sides.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 29, 2014, 10:58:44 PM »

How do you find Dark Souls bosses to be predictable and formulaic, and then praise SotC?

SotC is purposeful in its design. Dark Souls tries not to be formulaic and fails.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 29, 2014, 10:32:51 PM »

I don't think he moved it because he was butthurt. He moved it because you're arguing without real ammunition, which is akin to nonsense. You need to play the game first, then come back with some valid opinions.

I haven't played Dark Souls II, but I have, if you get my meaning. It isn't exactly a next generation genre or something. The "RPG hero vs lots of bosses and hoards of enemies" isn't some fantastic new kind of game.

Take Shadow of the Colossus for instance. Now that is a good fucking game right there. It is even considered the best game on the PS2 for a lot of folks. The people who made that game knew exactly what they were doing, making a great game. The people who made Dark Souls knew what they were doing too, making a money grab. Dark Souls does nothing to improve the genre and is in and of itself poorly designed and even more disastrously implemented.

If you would like to actually argue a point, then go ahead. Spouting "but is fact because I said so" and "rustled jimmies butthurt" is just trolling and I am treating it as such. I'll admit I went overboard myself, since neither of us were taking it seriously. Nobody is getting punished for it, as long as you don't keep doing it here.

The argument devolved into that because you ultimately responded to all of my points with "Well, that's just your opinion, man" which isn't making a point against my argument, it is just ignoring it.

As for your actual points, I don't think it would get anywhere on a repeat try. I provided my own views, which you dismissed as incorrect because your own views were supposedly "fact", although you started that original post with the words "I consider". How you expect something civil to come out of that, I have no idea.

It was actually a rhetorical series of posts poking at your own style of feedback, made more hilarious by you devolving the argument further. You were quintessentially arguing with yourself three or so posts after my original bullet points.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 29, 2014, 08:03:24 PM »

Please keep trolling to designated shitposting areas. You have been warned.

Please pull that stick out of your ass. Just because you got butthurt from an argument you couldn't deal with, doesn't mean it was trolling, it just means you should have admitted defeat. Instead you started slinging mud in an attempt to bury the argument:

I consider the game poorly designed because rather than skill it is based on memorization and the subsequent exploitation of game mechanics.

1. Light rolls, where you can wear no armor and roll endlessly. There are no downsides to this whatsoever, all bosses can be dodged. I don't consider any form of memorization to be a skill. Basically this means you will defeat a boss over time just by learning when to dodge. You never have to do anything else. It is like bruteforcing a game that should require you to use varying strategies.

2. Necessitating that ranged characters are more difficult to play compared to a naked guy with a dagger. This is a combination of poor level design and character thought. The game was most likely designed specifically for melee characters, and magic/arrows are "because RPG" after-thoughts. This assumes the ranged character didn't find some sort of level bug where you can shoot the boss with no aggro or counterattacks, which again is just bad design. Also see Diablo III, a game where playing a barbarian means you win, Diablo in general is guilty of this but Diablo III put it in overdrive.

3. The AI is abysmal. Bosses should be exciting and fresh every time, not unbearably predictable by having a small array of attacks that can be assumed to be used at certain times. Even the bosses that randomize their attack array is still boring.

Most RPGs I give leeway because they are you playing a role in a story, and sometimes the gameplay is just there for a story. In Dark Souls the story is almost so nonexistent some people didn't even know Dark Souls had a story at all. This only leaves gameplay. Terrible, stereotypical gameplay that was fantastic in the 90's but there is no excuse for it in the 2010's.

If you can't argue a point don't post. It isn't rocket science. Don't play the game of thread thrones and then get mad when you lose.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 29, 2014, 07:56:36 PM »

Blanko's jimmies got rustled so hard he moved his defeated, soul-less arguments to CN. Ahahahahah

For anyone that wanted to see the thread that made Blanko butthurt enough to move it: http://forum.tfes.org/index.php?topic=1353.0

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: The Elder Scrolls Online

« on: March 28, 2014, 01:50:56 AM »

Terrible game design. No AI, clear enemy patterns, dumbest WoW player could beat it etc. I watched a few Let's Plays of it.

While this is a joke, I am in the beta and the game has been pretty terribly designed. Overall it is more or less a copy and paste of WoW with some Elder Scrolls characters thrown in. The first person view is neat but you can still feel the basic fights are still exactly the same. The class system is well done, but doesn't make a point to tell you that classes ultimately don't control what you can do. I won't be buying it in the future.

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Technology & Information / Re: Ask Rushy about Bitcoins.

« on: March 27, 2014, 02:46:59 AM »

Why would your tax liability irk me in the slightest? 

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Kim Jong-un's haircut now compulsory in North Korea... or is it?

« on: March 27, 2014, 02:32:42 AM »

This is the Western media trying to make out North Koreans are oppressed and need 'liberating'.

This is the Thork making his NWO character troll again.

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Technology & Information / Re: Ask Rushy about Bitcoins.

« on: March 27, 2014, 02:29:36 AM »

Good, then you realize that you do pay tax on capital gains for bitcoins that you hold for less than a year.  Glad that doesn't contradict what you said earlier:

It doesn't and I can tell that irks you in ways I can't begin to fathom. Rushy's AAA investment strategy has made your poor trolling attempts a mockery of only yourself.

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Technology & Information / Re: Ask Rushy about Bitcoins.

« on: March 26, 2014, 07:26:55 PM »

For long term capital gains, perhaps.  Short term capital gains are a different story.

Yes, Markjo, thank you for once again stating the obvious and adding nothing to the discussion whatsoever.

But that makes it harder for me to play the troll/sarcasm card whenever convenient.

That's okay, there never was a troll card. If someone tells you they're trolling they are by default not trolling at all.

Rushy is poor.

 

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Technology & Information / Re: Ask Rushy about Bitcoins.

« on: March 26, 2014, 05:04:49 AM »

Surely you know me well enough to do more than just hope that.

Poe's Law requires that I don't.

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Technology & Information / Re: Ask Rushy about Bitcoins.

« on: March 26, 2014, 04:37:32 AM »

[dumbass picture]

Yes, Pizza. When tens of thousands of dollars appear in my bank account I'm sure my bank totally won't perform the automatic money laundering reports mandated by law and give them to the IRS. The IRS will then totally not care about the possible thousands of dollars I may or may not owe them on taxes if I go over my tax bracket. I can only hope that although you're being facetious that you are also being sarcastic. Bitcoin is full of anarchist idiots that are going to get themselves heavy fines, or worse, thrown in jail, all over a few thousand dollars that they somehow think they "earned" by riding the Bitcoin tidal wave.

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Technology & Information / Re: Ask Rushy about Bitcoins.

« on: March 26, 2014, 03:45:00 AM »

Did you miss the part about paying on the capital gains for your bitcoin investment?

This is actually very good news to me. In my income bracket I now pay 0% taxes on Bitcoin. Suckers.

As long as I don't sell more than 36K in bitcoin capital gains each year I can get away with 0% taxes. That means I could live the rest of my life on 36K a year and never have to pay any form of income taxes (assuming the tax rate doesn't change). Like I said, good news for me, I can easily live on 36k a year until I get out of college.