Video Games

[Devin]

I reached the endgame ("Maps") part of PoE2 where the game basically becomes a roguelite

Still hella fun

 

[Jarick]

Okay I'm deep into the puzzle part of Tunic and it's really cool. It's interesting how the game flipped from being 90% combat and exploration to 90% puzzle solving.

Having spent dozens of hours on Animal Well and Fez over the last few months, I'm able to start seeing the patterns in puzzles and being able to solve without as much help. The Tunic ones have been fairly straightforward to this point.

But I'm starting to get to the more obscure puzzles and having to work through and decipher the manual more, and that's going to be more challenging I think.

 

[JasonE]

Okay I'm deep into the puzzle part of Tunic and it's really cool. It's interesting how the game flipped from being 90% combat and exploration to 90% puzzle solving.

Having spent dozens of hours on Animal Well and Fez over the last few months, I'm able to start seeing the patterns in puzzles and being able to solve without as much help. The Tunic ones have been fairly straightforward to this point.

But I'm starting to get to the more obscure puzzles and having to work through and decipher the manual more, and that's going to be more challenging I think.

I started Tunic a while back. I stopped because I got into an area that I couldn't get past. It was all combat related. Maybe I need to fire it back up again and see if I can get past the combat parts to get to the puzzles. I love games with puzzles in them and that is why I started playing Tunic. One of the guys that works for me knows that I like in games and he told me I would love it. I thought it was okay up to where I made it to but didn't love it. Maybe I just didn't get to the part I would love.

 

[mbenigni]

I started Tunic a while back. I stopped because I got into an area that I couldn't get past. It was all combat related. Maybe I need to fire it back up again and see if I can get past the combat parts to get to the puzzles. I love games with puzzles in them and that is why I started playing Tunic. One of the guys that works for me knows that I like in games and he told me I would love it. I thought it was okay up to where I made it to but didn't love it. Maybe I just didn't get to the part I would love.

Likewise. I can't say whether we were at the same point or not, but I ran up against an insane difficulty spike that made me put the game down. Shame, as I was really enjoying the game otherwise.

 

[BahamaDada]

At start of december I finally caved in and bought Baldurs Gate 3. I love Larian games (DOS1+2) but BG3 is just too much and too big for me with a family. No game you can play for 15 mins ar a time.

That said I am like halfway and grinding away free time between diapers and stuff whenever I can to play. Often I leave the game open and play 10 min when I can.

Truly an amazing game.

 

[Whizzinby]

I went back through the beginner cave but unfortunately it didn’t do the guide portion just let me re-fight the enemies. I’m basically blocking until their attack is done then hitting attacks.

I avoided horseback dude that looks like he wants to throw down and activated the grace at the church. Bought a crafting kit and then a telescope after farming Rowa Fruit. Questions:

• How do I speak to Funky Cold Melina? The little day 1 guide I’m following says I should have an option to speak to Melina at a grace and I’m not seeing it. Apparently that’s how I get Torrent?
• How much of the herbs and flowers do you guys collect? I’m nabbing all of them to resell to that first trader dude.

 

[dbagchee]

I started with a Confessor and am getting beat pretty bad - fun so far though. I think this will be the perfect game to play on the Portal.

 

[dbagchee]

I stumbled on the grace where Melina talks to you - it was off to the right from the church main entrance. The grace seemed to have an extra glow around it. I'm literally just wandering around checking stuff out and getting murdered.

 

[Jynx]

How do I speak to Funky Cold Melina? The little day 1 guide I’m following says I should have an option to speak to Melina at a grace and I’m not seeing it. Apparently that’s how I get Torrent?

Go North from the church, through the woods, and head to the left of the ruins when you come out the other side and you'll see another bonfire.

 

[Jarick]

I started Tunic a while back. I stopped because I got into an area that I couldn't get past. It was all combat related. Maybe I need to fire it back up again and see if I can get past the combat parts to get to the puzzles. I love games with puzzles in them and that is why I started playing Tunic. One of the guys that works for me knows that I like in games and he told me I would love it. I thought it was okay up to where I made it to but didn't love it. Maybe I just didn't get to the part I would love.

Likewise. I can't say whether we were at the same point or not, but I ran up against an insane difficulty spike that made me put the game down. Shame, as I was really enjoying the game otherwise.

The first real boss was pretty frustrating and took a couple hours to beat for me. I watched videos to better learn the mechanics but a lot of it is luck based too. And the clunky combat in general was frustrating as your timing has to be almost perfect in some areas.

Typically I'm the type of player who never wants to use magic and wants to always tank through games, but this game requires you to use all the magic item items and learn all the different moves.

The other advice is in some cases you need to be patient and slowly chip away at the boss, and in others you have to be more aggressive and get the damage in while you can.

I've gotten better at games like this, I think some people call them "Soulslike" although I've never played Dark Souls or any of those. But the game forces you to get better by dying over and over to learn the proper strategy and hone your technique.

Anyways, it's more combat heavy in the middle section of the game but flips drastically to puzzles later on.

 

[Whizzinby]

Thanks dudes, I found her by the grace at some main entrance to some castle looking place that I sure as shit am not entering. I found a way to summon Torrent and am now full Red Dead Horse mobile.

I really need to figure out this inventory shit because I keep drinking some flask crap mistakenly and I’m sure I need to be saving it for some brawl.

• Pouches, that’s the crap you can access with the d-pad?
  • If so, how do I add crap to it? It looks like I have one open spot, with the other being a sword, shield and flask. I guess it would be good to use the other opening on my horse ring or telescope, if I can figure out how to add stuff to it.
• Chest
  • So I can bring stuff in and out of my normal inventory using chests at the graces? (But only at graces?)
• Graces
  • These are basically teleport, sleep, and inventory hubs?
• The yellow light leaf looking stuff is grace guiding me to key areas? Aka death?
• Is there a run option? I led some soldiers on a low speed chase and thankfully they got bored at my mall walk pace.
• Parrying, I only see a block button, is parrying just hitting block at the time the strike would hit (as opposed to just holding block)

I can’t find the cave to get the Whetknife thing, but now that I have Torrent I’m going to try to ride to the Church of Marika to get the Flask of Wondrous Physick, which is more shit I don’t understand but it’s the last thing on my beginner day 1 guide.

 

[Jynx]

Pouches, that’s the crap you can access with the d-pad?

• If so, how do I add crap to it? It looks like I have one open spot, with the other being a sword, shield and flask. I guess it would be good to use the other opening on my horse ring or telescope, if I can figure out how to add stuff to it.

You can access a second bunch of d-pad stuff by holding Y.

You can fill those slots by pressing the pause button.

I have my horse ring, lamp, summon spirit, and multiplayer item in the slots.

I've never used the telescope.

Parrying, I only see a block button, is parrying just hitting block at the time the strike would hit (as opposed to just holding block)

Parry is left trigger. As long as you have a shield capable of carrying equipped.

Run is hold B.

 

[Jynx]

The yellow light leaf looking stuff is grace guiding me to key areas? Aka death?

Yes. Maybe.

 

[JasonE]

The first real boss was pretty frustrating and took a couple hours to beat for me. I watched videos to better learn the mechanics but a lot of it is luck based too. And the clunky combat in general was frustrating as your timing has to be almost perfect in some areas.

Typically I'm the type of player who never wants to use magic and wants to always tank through games, but this game requires you to use all the magic item items and learn all the different moves.

The other advice is in some cases you need to be patient and slowly chip away at the boss, and in others you have to be more aggressive and get the damage in while you can.

I've gotten better at games like this, I think some people call them "Soulslike" although I've never played Dark Souls or any of those. But the game forces you to get better by dying over and over to learn the proper strategy and hone your technique.

Anyways, it's more combat heavy in the middle section of the game but flips drastically to puzzles later on.

Next time I have nothing to do and am thinking what game to fire up I may have to get back into it and see how it goes with a little determination.

 

[BahamaDada]

Hang in there @Whizzinby

I was so damn scared in/of my first playthrough. The world just wants you to die and that frightening feel of "Behind every corner could be a strong enemy waiting to one-shot me"... it's quite the trip.

It did not help much, that the game itself doesn't do shite at explaining the gameplay. You surely have the tutorial cave, but all the more deeper stuff is "Use a Wiki or stay dumb".

In the end it wasn't that bad. I never finished a FromSoft game and could do this.

 

[Aelred]

Go back to the Church of Elleh at night to get your spirit calling bell.

NPC's, spirit summons and other players can assist. I co-op help noobs all the time.

 

[Whizzinby]

Go back to the Church of Elleh at night to get your spirit calling bell.

NPC's, spirit summons and other players can assist. I co-op help noobs all the time.

Got the spirit thing.

Figured out pouches so that I can call Secretariat more easily.

Got wrecked by the guards near the church but am using them as fighting practice since I respawn at the church close by. 1v1 they aren’t too bad, but once they go 2v1 it sucks.

Gonna watch some beginner tutorials to try to get up to speed on basics.

 

[Jynx]

Got the spirit thing.

Figured out pouches so that I can call Secretariat more easily.

Got wrecked by the guards near the church but am using them as fighting practice since I respawn at the church close by. 1v1 they aren’t too bad, but once they go 2v1 it sucks.

Gonna watch some beginner tutorials to try to get up to speed on basics.

Level up your weapon. Go East of those guards along the path and head down to the lake. Find a cave North of the lake and harvest some smithing stones. Upgrade your weapon at the anvil in the church.

Watch out for the dragon.

 

[Whizzinby]

I started a new game with the Vagabond to be able to go back through the tutorial, then after watching a guide was able to go through and open two map pieces, and a dozen or so graces to be able to hop between those areas. Nabbed a couple smithing stones, some memory thing and have a couple ash things, the wolf and a squid. Have about 2.5k runes and half a dozen golden runes.

Goal tomorrow is to learn the level and upgrade mechanics, sneak into the solider camp to get the whetstone and then just do a bunch of fighting, because I feel like I’m just running around scared of everything and need to start killing fools. (Or at least learning how to kill fools)

It’s hilarious how completely uninviting the general vibe of the game is. Everyone wants to kill you. All the time. Everywhere.

Holy shit the giant man bear in the woods. JFC

 

[BahamaDada]

I started a new game with the Vagabond to be able to go back through the tutorial, then after watching a guide was able to go through and open two map pieces, and a dozen or so graces to be able to hop between those areas. Nabbed a couple smithing stones, some memory thing and have a couple ash things, the wolf and a squid. Have about 2.5k runes and half a dozen golden runes.

Goal tomorrow is to learn the level and upgrade mechanics, sneak into the solider camp to get the whetstone and then just do a bunch of fighting, because I feel like I’m just running around scared of everything and need to start killing fools. (Or at least learning how to kill fools)

It’s hilarious how completely uninviting the general vibe of the game is. Everyone wants to kill you. All the time. Everywhere.

Holy shit the giant man bear in the woods. JFC

If you ever restart take Samurai. That Katana you can take with you from start to finish (and upgrade with smithing stones to +25).

It also inflicts bleed, which will bleed even bosses dry.