Posts by AlexM

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I’m playing Ys IV: Ark of Napishtim which is pretty cool. Like other Ys games it’s mostly about the big twitchy boss fights and it does them really well, but the other parts of the game aren’t as polished as the games in this group such as Origins and Oath in Felghana. Mostly the balancing feels quite off.

I’m also playing Guilty Gear Xrd which looks amazing. I guess it’s technically 2.5D but it’s trying to make 3D look like 2D and it looks really good. They do loads of cool tricks like only animating key frames, lots of bones per model, lots of sub-models, etc. I think even if you don’t like the animu style you have to admit they really nailed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtY5mqdoN-U

Apologies for terrible commentary but it’s hard to find HD footage that isn’t supers and instant kills.

The game itself is pretty cool but I don’t think it surpasses GGXXAC and they’ve done some weird design decisions. I won’t rant too much, but the game is a few feature flags and new characters away from greatness... but so was BlazBlue and that game just got worse with every release after BBCS. And P4U’s sequel was pretty bad too. Hopefully they’ll fix YRC OS, remove Hellfire, remove Danger Time, remove the parry, remove brain-dead unblockables, remove all unblockables, add negative edge, add throw techs (seriously), fix inputs (why is Applause for the Victim still HCB, etc.), and maybe add force breaks then I will be extremely happy. If they add shadow modes, dark force, fatal counters, or guard breaks I will be sad.

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The technique they use with the non-iterpolation of those keyframed poses is amazing. It's so simple yet looks so good. I could see this saving cartoon companies a lot of money (if they don't already do this).

EDIT: I've also been playing this at work. Really nice to not have a set natural order for links across every character. I was able to at least somewhat compete against seasoned players.

I've played about 10 hours of Dark Souls 2 in the last 24 hours. Time well spent

Dont use godaddy or 1and1. That's all I can say.

As for me I use site5 but they arent a website builder type of host. You have to do everything yourself. That said, they have been great.

I've been catching up over the last 3 pages or so. It looks like mapcore has had a very successful year! Congrats everybody

I was very annoyed to find that my ps4's copy of the last of us was actually a code for a 45 GB download. I'm just glad I didnt figure that out when I actually wanted to play the game. I don't like it. I like my discs.

holy shit the 360 servers go down that soon? That's terrible.

Seth Rogen used to call me slick in highschool. There's my brush with celebrity.

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The best modern fighting game is the worst Street Fighter game.

There actually was a lot of good fighting games this generation: Persona, Skullgirls, Under Night In-Birth, and possibly Guilty Gear Xrd (if it's not another BlazBlue). Unfortunately, these all made the critical mistake of not having Ryu in them.

I thought the guilty gear series was MORE execution heavy than SF4. I havent played it yet, I could be totally wrong.

If you like the execution pain of SF4 then you'll love KOFXIII

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why not use the time to learn a new language or how to program? work while you are working

I've tried that myself but I find I really need a good uninterrupted chunk of time to actually absorb anything.

hearthstone

Just bought a black friday one. Came with Last of Us HD.

I probably won't have the time to open it for a couple weeks though

yeah the fact plinks exist and are are vital to getting tough links is not a good thing. I hate having to train to use them.

Agreed that a lot of the stuff relating to hard execution doesn't add to the game, it separates the pros but only because they spend 10 hours a day getting the timing right. They need to loosen up the link requirements so that a wider spectrum of players can move up to mindgames and the higher meta play.

I don't mind the uppercut fdac though because it costs 2 bars. If it was one it might be a little too much.

Easier links would be great. Even better just get rid of links and only have chains.

If for instance the eRyu sHP->axe kick->duck jab -> hadoken had the window from the axe kick to the jab change from 1 to like 5 frames that would be great. The execution is risky enough I don't bother in a close game.

Had some bacon I needed to use soon and a lot of tilapia filets

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Ah I see. Well here's hoping Iron Galaxy handles the netcode.

I must say that sfxt had noticeably better online performance regardless of whether or not they used GGPO.

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Don't most Linux distros ship with secure builds now though? I thought we were past the whole UEFI secure deal now.

Yeah, a Mac is probably your best bet for tri-os. Isn't hackintosh rather difficult to get up and running?

Are we? I gave up like a year ago. That would be awesome

it wasn't? weird since darkstalkers and sfIII used it. Didn't they?

I love the macbook air clone I got (Asus zenbook). It's way cheaper but unfortunately it has one fatal flaw. That UEFI stuff that makes installing linux a huge pain.

People tell me it's just a security thing but the end result is that I have a windows 8 laptop that's almost impossible to install linux on. If macbook airs are still able to easily install windows and linux I might almost buy one if it werent for the terrible markup.

Are macbooks really the only solution to easy tri-os installations these days?

I hope so. They've already done it with other games that use GGPO. That's what kind of pissed me off when they announced omega. I would way rather have them announced they were moving to GGPO

awwwww yiss

although I could happily keep playing 4 for years.

EDIT: They better not have crap netcode this time.

I just bought a black friday one with a 75$ amazon voucher and the last of us.

I actually don't know why I bought this. I kind of wish I bought a WiiU instead but I'm sure the good game will come for this console.