Tai_MT

Oh man, the memories of GTS. I remember I was so ecstatic when I found some Japanese guy who was offering a Groudon for a Lv 100 Pikachu. I used Action Replay, spammed a Pikachu with rare candies, and the Groudon was all mine. Good days lol. Sad to hear that Sword and Shield is mostly a disappointment.

Last I heard, "Home" comes out next March... which... not good enough. I'd like to be able to trade as I go, rather than use third party applications to set up actual trades.

This is bass ackwards.

I've heard a lot of people refer to this game as "One step forward, two steps back" and this doesn't surprise me. At least trading communities have been pretty nice in my experience.

Don't hurt yourself patting yourself on the back, my dad would say.

Good the the world is one big circle xD Ps: I tend to growl like a wild dog at times so... yeah lol

I tend to cross my eyes and grin wickedly. lol...

People say that I tend to smile really big and “weirdly” about something, and that I make “strange” noises at random, and want to know why.... but, I’ll never tell.....

It just makes me want to hide every game that doesn't have the updated image though .

Ha ha ha, yeah, it does make ones without an updated image look weird.

The only thing I'm not much of a fan of at the moment is the stealth. STealth attacks suck, and the moment you open fire, every enemy rushes you. I guess it's more of an avoidance mechanic in this game, or maybe I just need to mod one of my weapons to be super stealthy.

Yeah, I wore the Marauder clothes. Everyone hated me for about 10 minutes before I stole police armor to wear. Now, I'm wearing some kind of powered Exo-Suit. Stealth is... not that great. Even with a melee weapon, it still alerts pretty much everyone. It's more useful in "indoor" environments where enemies do not immediately have "line of sight" on you.

I actually used stealth to obtain some medical supplies. Stealth killed everyone except two guys, 'cause they were in the same room as another guy I was stealth killing.

Now, I'm using "Stealth" with a Sawed-off shotgun and an electric Mod... the shotgun has 20-damage per pellet. I love me shotguns!

I tend to unfollow if possible. YouTube and Facebook make that much harder. But, I find just acting "nice" to people you're tired of dealing with while they continue to rage ends the argument fairly quickly. I just wonder what goes through their head as I act nice to end the whole thing.

Probably makes them angrier, to be honest.

Tell that person that you are going to sleep. If that person is not stopped, you can post here, so we can see what is going on.

I'm angry. Someone ate my last fudge donut.

@bgillisp If only RPG Maker had a Taco Bell tileset.

@Tai_MT maybe low blood iron? Red meat can solve that ;b (I'm sorry lol I was having fun the whole weekend)

Still never tried that. I need a Switch :/

I don't really own the game. I've just seen people doing the "Super Hard" levels. It ruins the magic in YouTube videos when you say, "wow, you're seeing the single flawless run they did of this map and not the 84671327603503128651275609 attempts they made before to memorize it." Peeps get angry

Do it. Some feedback is better than zero.

Highly recommend it. Provide your testers with debug/testing events and a list of specific things you need tested (tutorial, feature x, feature y...) it helps to break down the task and focus on finding bugs.

Testers are great because they try things you wouldn't think to. You may not go near a wall with faulty collision because you know nothing is there, but your tester might. Tester may accidentally do things out of order. Etc.

I was also disappointed that I was blazing through most of the dungeons in under 5 minutes due to the difficulty being scaled down... and was spending more time in the game getting the collectibles. I think only the last two dungeons took me any time at all. Dungeon 7 took me 20 minutes to finish due to the revamp of the horse puzzles (and their mechanics explained nowhere, while also being nonsensical).

Dungeon 8 also took me about 20 minutes from sheer size of the place and needing to use the warp several times. The boss in Dungeon 7 took me about 15 seconds to beat while the boss of Dungeon 8 took me about a minute due to the changed hitboxes on the enemy and new mechanic he used.

I still love the "Link's Awakening" story and the world and the puzzles... But... It just feels like a far hollower experience than the original and even the first remake for the Gameboy Color.

One thing you could do. Before any text storytelling, do enviormental storytelling. Use your map building in such a way, to tell parts of the story without words and/or get people curious about the atmosphere to create a bit of mystery. Also, if you don't explain everything the might ask themselves right away, the thought would linger in the back of there mind, and they'll want to keep playing for the awnser

Good luck! Let us know how you get on.

oh, take a dozen backups of your project before you make any changes

And then there's what Fallout did if you have a really low INT:

We play Pathfinder, which was built on 3.5 rules. We find it best to use the actual Point Buy System. It keeps stats from being too high and if someone has an 18 in a stat, you can guarantee they have a 7 in another.

I like the rolling for stats so that everyone doesn't play the same thing. Min/Max their two most important stats and dump any worthless to them. They might still try to min/max their most important stats, but, they aren't likely to be 18/16 without a massive stat dump somewhere else.

Isn't putting them through 20 minutes of intro also sacrificing "show, don't tell"? Even if your intro is cutscenes rather than just dialogue, it's time the player is NOT playing, not exploring, not seeing what your game has to offer. It's a tough one. I know I am much more attached to certain things in my game than I need to be.

The problem is the premise of the game. You are shown the world that gives context to the actions of the characters, who are interacting in an entirely different world. If I don't show the actions/events that lead up to the moment the player takes control, then it all has to be "stories told to the player" after the fact. Or thrown into expository cutscenes without much place.

I've ended up just rewriting the story to give only the most basic and barebones the player will need to set up the first choice in the game. I might be able to worm the other cutscenes back in at various points, but I'm not digging the "here's a flashback so I can explain my backstory to you" aspect. Just gotta rework the intro.

You know what? I've started to notice this about myself too. Never used to have a problem finishing games, but now a game has to really suck me in for me to complete it. I've dropped quite a few games because I just can't be bothered with them.

Way too many games these days overstay their welcome. Often by padding the content with busywork and other tropes of modern game design.

More often than not I stop playin games because they bore me to death after fifteen hours.

I usually see everything in a game after 10 ~ 30 hours. The lifetime of the game can be extended depends on how well it gives me freedom (at this point, I don't care about META, just screwing around trying to break the game). It can even be further extended if the game can be modded. Otherwise? I'm done.

College of Swords Bards are a thing. X'D... If you want to be Non-Traditional, Variant Human Sorcerer/Wizard with Weapon Master and Martial Weapons. It's everything but traditional.

We're playing 5E with no supplemental material ^_^ All I got is the PHB to go with, ha ha. Aside from not knowing how to make my character's personality yet or how I'm going to play him, it's going to be fun to see how a guy who has never told stories in his whole life DM's a game for the first time. And he wanted to do it after only a week of planning.

Well, that sucks if you're only using the Player's Handbook... All of the Supplemental Material is great, especially Xanathar's Guide to Everything. (I might be overusing it in my campaign, but screw the rules, I have Xanathar. X'D...)

All I can suggest then is, do what feels natural to you. Especially if it is to play your instrument. X'D

I suspect that they created the perks and only tested them against what the character was meant to do (either be a bullet hose or a sniper) and never tested him for playing like I do... shotguns, pistols, rockets, and whatever else feels cool to use. Shotguns break this character since so much rides on getting crits in his skill tree.

I honestly hope they don't patch him. It's made several boss fights insanely easy. Especially when I was using "sticky darts" on shotguns and landing endless amounts of them... and then detonating them all at once to kill the boss instantly and bypass all it's mechanics.

They probably will patch him, since it's a multiplayer oriented game. People are obsessed with balance, even if there's no pvp or anything. I've always liked finding op gear in games. lol.

I was going to get it, but then I remembered that not only did I not complete Borderlands 2, but I also really didn't enjoy my time with it. Bought some clothes instead.

I'm enjoying Borderlands 3 gameplay more than I did 2. Though, I did greatly enjoy the story of Borderlands 2... I don't have much of a story to work with here in 3... or much humor going on.