Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0

[TheodoricFriede]

Rosaria: Waifu. True goddess. Purge all those disgusting grub-men tho.

what's with this and that, I want to get into it, dammit!

There's only one Waifu in that game, and her name is Karla.

And that last bit sums up one of the biggest problems in DS3. NO answers. None. There is no payoff to anything set up anywhere.

[Dragaros]

Oh dear, is this really worth arguing about?

No argument from me; just friendly conversation. If you wanna drop it, its cool. Doesn't bother me that we have different viewpoints.

First off they will never put Doom Guy in Super Smash Brothers. Aside from being too violent, he has no discernible qualities aside from "he shoots things". He is less of a character then Waluigi, and that is saying something.

Second, I dont believe Nintendo will ever add a character to Smash that isn't from a Japanese developer.

You could just as easily argue that Snake would be too violent, and they found a way to make him fit in. And its not like some of the cast such as Mr Game & Watch and Wii Fit Trainer are overflowing with personality and character themselves. Nintendo did also make a big point to the fact that Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal are on Switch. Its not entirely farfetched.

If you count subsidiaries/second-party developers, they already have: K Rool, Diddy, and Dark Samus. Rare and Retro Studios, respectfully. Nintendo approved their creation, acted as publisher, owns the rights, but the characters themselves were the creation of non-Japanese developers.

Again, not saying I believe the rumors, just that if they do prove true, I wouldn't be surprised at this point. Hell, Dark Souls got a Solaire of Astora amiibo. I wouldn't be surprised if he made it in at some point.

Anyway, I'm one of the poor fools still holding out hope for Banjo-Kazooie.

[Dragaros]

https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/01/04 ... ntire-game

https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls/comm ... a_massive/

https://daughtersofash.com/blog/

[[ Dark Souls: Daughters of Ash is the original Dark Souls (2011), re-imagined and massively expanded. It’s my vision of what Dark Souls might have been if FromSoftware had been given an additional six months to develop content for the game.

Put another way: this is an enormous fan-made overhaul of Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition on PC. (It will be released for Dark Souls: Remastered later in 2019.)

Get it here: https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls/mods/1524

The current version is v1.06. You only need to extract a zipped patch folder into your DATA directory to upgrade from installer v1.05.

I’m still updating the mod regularly in these early days as your thousands of hours of collaborative play-testing uncover things I missed. Make sure to check back here, Reddit, or Nexus (above) to ensure you have the latest version. (I’ll yell particularly loudly about major bug fixes.)

Experience a new adventure in Lordran. Your journey will be familiar in some ways, and very unfamiliar in others. Things you should expect include:

New game progression
Forget what you know about exploring Lordran. New world-changing events, key items, and unexpected pathways await you.
New bosses and enemies
Triumph in new boss battles, most of which are designed to promote novel gameplay rather than sheer increased difficulty. Encounter new enemies on your journey – including enemies restored from cut content – and watch many old bosses and enemies behave in new ways.
New NPCs and storylines
Meet new characters with brand new questlines, which will intersect in numerous unpredictable ways as your journey continues. Even the stories of familiar characters may take unexpected turns.
New weapons, items, and mechanics
Discover new weapons with brand new abilities, many of which will require keen insights and careful consideration to master. Most existing equipment will not be exactly the way you remember.
Expanded lore
Learn more about Lordran’s past from new item descriptions and gameplay events. (All new content is written to build upon the lore of the original game, rather than conflict with it.)
New secrets
Don’t expect to come anywhere close to unveiling all of the game’s hidden content in one or two play-throughs.
Daughters of Ash has more content than the original game, much of which cannot be seen in a single play-through due to the complex interactions between storylines. It contains no new game assets (e.g. character models, map assets, dialogue recordings, visual effects) but accomplishes a great deal through modifying the game’s event scripts, placement data, and entity logic. It was created with more than one thousand hours of work throughout 2017 and 2018 by one very masochistic programmer (hello!) with the wonderful tools and loving support of the Dark Souls modding community. More details about the mod’s creation to come soon, along with some beautiful art by James Liswed.

This is a monumentally large and colossally complex mod. As such, it is likely to still contain some bugs – despite my hundreds of hours of play-testing – as players will inevitably get themselves into situations that I couldn’t possibly foresee. You can submit these bugs to me through Nexus, or message me at this blog. I’ll be setting up a form on this website for you to easily communicate the nature and details of bugs. There are hopefully no bugs left that will break your game. It also contains no support for multiplayer (including co-op), and I strongly recommend that you play offline to avoid invasions. Being invaded by a player without the mod installed will lead to broken gameplay – and sadly, coding and testing the required network behavior for co-op on all of the new content (particularly bosses) wasn’t possible for me. You’re welcome to try co-op with someone who also has the mod installed, but things will likely not work out (and you should definitely play by yourself first). Aside from the Orange and White Sign Soapstones, all items have had their online functionality removed.

Download Daughters of Ash from the Nexus link above, double click install.exe, and navigate to your copy of DARKSOULS.exe. This is usually found in Steam/steamapps/common/Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition/DATA. The installer will chastise you if you haven’t already unpacked your game’s files with the UnpackDarkSoulsForModding tool, which is very easy to use and essential for modding the game. My installer will also give you DSfix if you don’t already have it, and will make backups of your existing pre-mod game files for you to easily restore. The mod is, as you’ve probably guessed, completely incompatible with almost any other Dark Souls mod (including randomizers), so please start with a fresh install of the game. And one final warning for the curious: inspecting the mod’s files too closely will spoil some of the content, so play the game first.

Enjoy. ~ Grimrukh ]]

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXqTXv9-z-8

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3yGkfX5ncU

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH9XBI2LbIA

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtz1VkUdMhU

[Alienmorph]

There were times when I would have said the exact same thing if you had told me Snake, Duck Hunt, Wii Fit trainer, Cloud, Bayonetta, Ryu, Ken, Piranha Plant, or Joker from Persona 5 would be playable in Smash. Yet here we are. Not saying I believe these rumors, mind you, just an observation.

It would hilarious to see DoomGuy in Smash, but I'd much MUCH rather see him in the next Mortal Kombat, so that he can properly rip 'n tear.

See now I can't decide if I should get a switch or a Vive or put some money towards a cintiq.
Mind you I barely do any digital art stuff these days but I want to get back into it.
Nothing inspires me any more though.
I'm just bereft of inspiration.

There are some cheaper equivalent of the Cintiq around that are fairly decent too, from what I've seen. Still in the hundreds of dollars range, of course, but compared to spending as much as buying a new PC, thei're more approcheable. So the plan is to start put some money away and look more into those in the meantime. I'd recommend you to do something like that, if you want to give digital drawing another shot, but don't want/cannot invest in one of the big CIntiq.

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGKr47ziSxo

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPDwq12LsNA

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADoJQAAkx00

Praise be the Great Devourer!

[Dragaros]

[TheodoricFriede]

Having seen the numerous nominations and wins God of War (2018) has received, I decided to actually give it a try.

It really is quite good. I hated Krato's in those old games, but in this one he is kind of delightful. He is so creaky and grumpy and curmudgeonly, that he has suddenly become endearing. Especially when paired with his usually pretty chipper and friendly son.

His constant grumblings during side quests where he has to help people in need is funny every time.

[Dragaros]

Having seen the numerous nominations and wins God of War (2018) has received, I decided to actually give it a try.

It really is quite good. I hated Krato's in those old games, but in this one he is kind of delightful. He is so creaky and grumpy and curmudgeonly, that he has suddenly become endearing. Especially when paired with his usually pretty chipper and friendly son.

His constant grumblings during side quests where he has to help people in need is funny every time.

I’ve seen a lot of folks express that same sentiment. People who could never get into GoW because they found Kratos to be just too unlikeable ending up really enjoying him this time around now; character development can do wonders.

I really enjoyed God of War 1 and 2, was disappointed with 3, never got into the various prequels and midquels, but this new one was great. The real deal. A fun experience all the way around. And the father-son dynamic the game’s got going for it is very well done.

It would hilarious to see DoomGuy in Smash, but I'd much MUCH rather see him in the next Mortal Kombat, so that he can properly rip 'n tear.

That would be the ideal scenario, yes.

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBW8_tvPG8w

[Vol]

https://old.reddit.com/r/Competitiveove ... ie_events/

Summary: Top 500 Overwatch ladder player invented a female player for a second tier pro team, people thought it was a hoax, game journos cried "respect wammin," comedy ensued.

[SciFlyBoy]

I'm working on a piece of music right now that's putting a real big smile on my face. I've been writing and just looking at this picture all day thinking 'perfect'.
When I'm done I'll show you.

[Mazder]

I'm working on a piece of music right now that's putting a real big smile on my face. I've been writing and just looking at this picture all day thinking 'perfect'.
When I'm done I'll show you.

-YUKI NO SHINGUN INTENSIFIES!-

Or more accurately for Ooarai
-SENSHADOU KOUSHINKYOKU! PANZER VOR! INTENSIFIES!-

[Azint]

Having seen the numerous nominations and wins God of War (2018) has received, I decided to actually give it a try.

It really is quite good. I hated Krato's in those old games, but in this one he is kind of delightful. He is so creaky and grumpy and curmudgeonly, that he has suddenly become endearing. Especially when paired with his usually pretty chipper and friendly son.

His constant grumblings during side quests where he has to help people in need is funny every time.

One of my only complaints about it was that there is hardly any enemy variety, and that you will absolutely be fighting the same two bosses throughout most of the game. The gameplay itself is pretty fun, so it's not that bad, but apparently God of War used to have very rich enemy variety that this entry lacks. The other bosses, though, are a lot more interesting. While I personally thought Red Dead 2 was the better game, I'm still pleased that God of War won the Game of the Year award, and I won't dispute the praise it got.

This is my first God of War title, because I am a sucker for Norse mythology. I thought the story was one of its best parts, because it was entirely driven by the father-son dynamic here, even if the overall plot gets hokey at times. Kratos and Atreus carry the entire thing on their backs, and for a surprisingly long game neither character gets dull, which in itself is a feat. I actually really like the perspective flip on Norse mythology, with the Asgardians and the Aesir being depicted as the villains, and the Jotun and other characters such as Surtr being portrayed as sympathetic or outright heroic.

Jörmungandr is adorable.

[TheodoricFriede]

This is my first God of War title, because I am a sucker for Norse mythology. I thought the story was one of its best parts, because it was entirely driven by the father-son dynamic here, even if the overall plot gets hokey at times. Kratos and Atreus carry the entire thing on their backs, and for a surprisingly long game neither character gets dull, which in itself is a feat. I actually really like the perspective flip on Norse mythology, with the Asgardians and the Aesir being depicted as the villains, and the Jotun and other characters such as Surtr being portrayed as sympathetic or outright heroic.

I feel like this game makes up for what it lacks in enemy and boss variety, it makes up for in environment and story. Two things the previous games in the series lacked. I personally dont think you are missing much with those original games. They got boring and monotonous very quickly, and had some really assholeish puzzle design.

They kind of needed to portray the asgardians as unsympathetic if they wanted to tell the story they seem to be telling. In the previous games Kratos was doing what he did because he was an irredeemable asshole. At the last minute they tried to walk it back with the Pandoras Box poisoning the minds of the gods bit, but it really rang hollow when you saw the results of Kratos's actions.

[TTTX]

I feel like this game makes up for what it lacks in enemy and boss variety, it makes up for in environment and story. Two things the previous games in the series lacked. I personally dont think you are missing much with those original games. They got boring and monotonous very quickly, and had some really assholeish puzzle design.

They kind of needed to portray the asgardians as unsympathetic if they wanted to tell the story they seem to be telling. In the previous games Kratos was doing what he did because he was an irredeemable asshole. At the last minute they tried to walk it back with the Pandoras Box poisoning the minds of the gods bit, but it really rang hollow when you saw the results of Kratos's actions.

Well the previous games were like pure action movies with a bit of story, but Katros was an asshole back then, not without reason the gods did screw him over a number of times (and it's actually a pretty long list) and does realize he fucked up at the end and sees he went to far (which the new God of War shows that he tries to focus on being better), I would recommend to the people who haven't played the games if you want learn his back story to at least watch the cut scenes from the previous games to get the full picture and the previous games are not bad the gameplay are like devil may cry without guns and the stories are fine for the most part.

Well the sequel can fix the few flaws there are in the games.

[Mazder]

Hey everyone,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zgz2xBrvVQ

I'm now 27.

[TheodoricFriede]

not without reason the gods did screw him over a number of times

I mean, Ares screwed him over, but the rest of the gods? In God of War 2 they pretty much were just doing whatever they could to stop a God of War who was WORSE then Ares ever was.

In 3 they were trying to stop the guy who was trying to basically destroy the world.

[TheodoricFriede]

I'm now 27.

Feels like were all getting older every day...

Happy birthday.

[Mobius_118]

Kratos was determined to stop the Gods from ever fucking someone over again. And he did, with extreme prejudice.

[TheodoricFriede]

Yeah you would be the kind of person who thinks Kratos was justified.

[Mobius_118]

Ok, so the greek gods play with peoples lives, as per what gods do.

Kratos ends up killing his family because Aries wanted his prize pony to be free of all distractions, ends up getting murdered.

Kratos realizes how truly petty all the gods are, prefers to end their tyranny in the only way that'll work.

Yeah, I'm totally off base. It's in the fucking games.

[Sinekein]

Sometimes I don't get how execs think.

The new season of Young Justice is being broadcasted on DC's new streaming service. So I decided to see how to subscribe, if only to try, and I can't because it is only available in the US.

Now that looks to me like an invitation to illegally watch their shows. Expecting people to wait for an unknown amount of time when something is released, in an era where avoiding spoilers is becoming harder and harder...

So I found a streaming site that showed the first episode, and it looks good, which makes me even more frustrated I have no way to legally watch it. They seem to have decided to focus on Dick and Artemis who are my favorites from the (survivors of the) old team, and the global arc is promising.

It also made me realize that Black Lightning's wife was canonically GL John Stewart's sister - I have watched the first season of the Black Lightning live show and I didn't even add two plus two when I heard the name "Lynn Stewart".

[Vol]

Happy Birthday, Maz! You'll catch up to me at this rate!

[Vol]

DS3: Managed to earn 18 Wolfsgrassbloodsword whatever the hell they're called for the Farron covenant. So I grinded out the last 12 from the trio of Ghru on the bridge outside that bonfire near the door to the Abysswalkers. Took about 250k worth of souls, at roughly 1100 souls a reset, to get them all.

So, it gave me time to think. The caster in the pack is absolutely fine. He's fragile, has a lunging melee, doesn't hit hard, but casts a poison cloud and an AOE renewal spell on his buddies. That's good.

The spear goats are not. They're a spear and shield enemy type with _two_ different types of flurry attacks. The first one is okay, as they brace behind their shield, though I'm sick to death of flurries. The second is a berserker charge, no shield, wildly swinging in an X pattern. Any part of the spear counts as the tip and does full damage with all their attacks, which is an idea so poor it should be tattooed on the lead combat devs forehead not to do it. Now, we can extrapolate that the goat monsters are savages, which they are, and they have rudimentary culture, which they do, and that they might be imitating higher cultures by making crude spears and shields and using them until their primitive instincts take over. That's fine, good extrapolation, Jimmy. Creates an interesting premise out of what's presented, since Miyazaki has his minimalist story telling fetish. Still a pain in the ass to fight, not because it's difficult, but because there's no counterplay but "roll away" or "ranged." Parrying would be pointlessly reckless and enemies gain infinite poise on different attacks. I spent over 200 cycles killing those fucks, and the absolute best strategy I found was hucking fireballs at them until 1-2 were dead, then killing them through their shield. Fuck those guys.

I realized that of all the enemies in Farron's swamp, really, only the slugs don't have a flurry attack. Even the giant tree goats technically do with their homing skull thing.

Farmed all but the chestpiece off the black knight while I was at it. Had a real headscratcher moment invading the Cathedral of the Deep as a mad phantom when the giant started smashing me instead of the host, but no seed was used. I'm unusually bad at DS3 PVP, which is odd, because I was doing fine in DS1 and DS2 last week. Also ran into a good few hackers today. The worst was a guy who lost an invasion, chugged until empty, _then_ turned on the hacks to instantly launch dozens of greatarrows in my head. Then some guy who hacked his location info and invasion priority so Farron phantoms would invade him first, had 4 of us attacking at once in Lothric, infinite stamina, infinite estus, like 3k health. Took some doing to corner him long enough to put him down. And then some guy in the 40's soul range who had armor so heavy my +4 sharp twinblades were doing around 50 damage, had twice the i-frames he should, infinite estus, yada yada, was fucking around in the first swamp area winning 3 on 1 invasions over and over.

Still, as I move out of the lowbie zones, should pick up as I get more choices in playstyle.

[SciFlyBoy]

I'm now 27.

Happy Maz Day, mate!

[Mazder]

There are some cheaper equivalent of the Cintiq around that are fairly decent too, from what I've seen. Still in the hundreds of dollars range, of course, but compared to spending as much as buying a new PC, thei're more approcheable. So the plan is to start put some money away and look more into those in the meantime. I'd recommend you to do something like that, if you want to give digital drawing another shot, but don't want/cannot invest in one of the big CIntiq.

Yeah but ya get what ya pay for with that and apparently they are less responsive.

Happy Maz Day, mate!

Thanks.

Happy Birthday, Maz! You'll catch up to me at this rate!

Only if one of us builds a time machine!

Feels like were all getting older every day...

Happy birthday.

Older, yeah.
Yet in some regards I am still a mere naive kid.
The world is weird and strange, to be old and young at the same time.
I am nothing if not a paradox.

I have a Switch but I don't use it for much. Breath of the Wild disappointed me after a while. Odyssey is fun... my little brother got it for Christmas last year. I also have Mega Man X legacy collection (part 1).

TBH a Switch would just be my Pokemon upgrade.
Gonna wait until the new "proper" pokemon game comes out to make the decision on a Switch or not.

I vote vive. Its probably not the best return on investment as far as use goes, but I'll be damned if it hasn't helped keep me in shape.

That depends on the vive or the vive pro.
Vive pro...I can upgrade my entire PC for that, nearly, and have a decent amount of machine left over to make a render slave rig or sell on for a touch of tiny profit.

[Alienmorph]

Yeah but ya get what ya pay for with that and apparently they are less responsive.

Some for sure. I've seen some reviews on cheaper tablets that were at least still pretty decent tho. Of course if I had the money I'd go for a CintiQ, but not everything that isn't Wacom is automatically terrible either. Just take some extra research to avoid getting a dud.

Also, Happy Birthday!

[Someone With Mass]

Happy birthday, Maz!

[TTTX]

I'm now 27.

Happpy birthday.

I mean, Ares screwed him over, but the rest of the gods? In God of War 2 they pretty much were just doing whatever they could to stop a God of War who was WORSE then Ares ever was.

In 3 they were trying to stop the guy who was trying to basically destroy the world.

Zeus ordered Kratoses brother taken away when they were kids, because Zeus feared he was the one that was going to kill him, Zeus also turned Kratoses mother into some sort of beast so he had to kill her, Kratos had to do their bidding for 10 years and never gave him what he wanted instead Athena stopped him from killing himself and turned him into a god but not fix his mind (so basically she made an unstable person with a lot of rage into the god of war and the problem got worse), the god of death also got his brother killed after Kratos found him, the titans (who are also gods in their own right) also screw him over, used him to do their bidding then betrayed him.

That's just the stuff I remember, also Kratos didn't kill all the gods, like Apollo and Artemis it's theorized they got killed by Zeus before 3 as not all the gods agreed with the new Zeus taken over by fear (as Zeus said they hadn't been united in some time before 2).

[Dragaros]

I mean, Ares screwed him over, but the rest of the gods? In God of War 2 they pretty much were just doing whatever they could to stop a God of War who was WORSE then Ares ever was.

Its been while since I played God1&2, so I admit my memories could be faulty, but I remember it as Ares was destroying things just for the sake of destruction, whereas God!Kratos was just being a patron deity to Sparta and helping them build an empire that would have covered all of the ancient world. But then Zeus' paranoia thought Kratos hungered for his throne, leading to him killing him and then wiping Sparta off the map which set the whole vengeance against Olympus thing off.

I'm now 27.

Happy Birthday!

[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXgAMbyZZS8



Alien Blackout Is A Survival Horror Mobile Game Starring Amanda Ripley

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMGRa4_UjE4

[Alienmorph]

Alien Blackout Is A Survival Horror Mobile Game Starring Amanda Ripley

... so this is what the disappointment to the reveal of Diablo Immortal feels like. Why do I even still hold any hope for the Alien franchise, again... ?

[Raga]

@ Kratos stuff

Kratos is definitely one of those guys who wants to watch the whole world burn. He doesn't care who or what gets in the way of him and his revenge - hence, the symbolic tragedy of his killing Athena in God of War II, which he didn't intend to do. He is like a walking metaphor for the consequences of letting rage dictate everything you do.

[TTTX]

@ Kratos stuff

Kratos is definitely one of those guys who wants to watch the whole world burn. He doesn't care who or what gets in the way of him and his revenge - hence, the symbolic tragedy of his killing Athena in God of War II, which he didn't intend to do. He is like a walking metaphor for the consequences of letting rage dictate everything you do.

Yeah, but in the end he did see it wasn't worth it and became a better person for it.

[Mazder]

Some for sure. I've seen some reviews on cheaper tablets that were at least still pretty decent tho. Of course if I had the money I'd go for a CintiQ, but not everything that isn't Wacom is automatically terrible either. Just take some extra research to avoid getting a dud.

Also, Happy Birthday!

True, it's just the tidal wave of chinese knock-offs

Thank you.

Happy birthday, Maz!

Thankies!

Happpy birthday.

Cheers!

Happy Birthday!

Thanks!

I plan to!
Even if I am doing absolutely nothing, lol!

[Rune]

-

[Mazder]

Vive pro is very not worth it. You could buy almost three vives for the same price.

Is the upgrade in performance and ergonomics that minimal then?

[Dragaros]

Alien Blackout Is A Survival Horror Mobile Game Starring Amanda Ripley

... so this is what the disappointment to the reveal of Diablo Immortal feels like. Why do I even still hold any hope for the Alien franchise, again... ?

Being an Alien fan is suffering.

The backlash has been pretty big in Alien fan circles. So much so they're now posting this as damage control:

Dear Alien fans, there is still more to come... very soon. #ReadPlayWATCH #AmandaRipley

Ya know, if there is in fact more to come, then why in the fuck did you begin the reveals with a mobile game instead of whatever supposed aces you got hiding up your sleeve? Especially after the the hype and rumor train has been going for a few months. Even more especially after the Diablo and Command & Conquer mobile backlashes. If there's a proper Alien Isolation sequel waiting in the wings, or if the rumors of that tv show are true, or whatever big guns you got in the back, you should have revealed the mobile game AFTER those announcements. Idiots.

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zkWTfFCA04

[magnuskn]

Belated happy birthday from we as well, Mazder.

[Mazder]

Belated happy birthday from we as well, Mazder.

Thanks, don't worry though, with time zones you're still well on time.

[Alienmorph]

Being an Alien fan is suffering.

The backlash has been pretty big in Alien fan circles. So much so they're now posting this as damage control:

Dear Alien fans, there is still more to come... very soon. #ReadPlayWATCH #AmandaRipley

The new rumor is that there IS a new PC game that's gonna be shown... but that is likely going to be some kind of online shooter game. Because that's what we need... an online knockoff of Aliens Colonial Marines chogfull of microtransactions