What are you playing right now?

[spurraider21]

Sindris royal armor set was great. Particularly chest piece

[apalisoc_9]

Sindris royal armor set was great. Particularly chest piece

Man you're gonna love sekiro :lol

[apalisoc_9]

Reck when you playing sekiro?

[Reck]

Reck (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=14412) when you playing sekiro?

Those type of games arent really my cup of tea to be honest.

BB spent months to get me to play bloodborne and I wouldn’t do it. :lol

I’m fairly shitty at games that require lots of trial and error. I’d be interested more in these games if they had a story to go along with the gameplay.

when the reward is “you’ve beaten this super hard game, congrats’ I lose interest.

[apalisoc_9]

Those type of games arent really my cup of tea to be honest.

BB spent months to get me to play bloodborne and I wouldn’t do it. :lol

I’m fairly shitty at games that require lots of trial and error. I’d be interested more in these games if they had a story to go along with the gameplay.

when the reward is “you’ve beaten this super hard game, congrats’ I lose interest.

I figured youd like it cause its parry heavy same as GOW

[baseline bum]

Those type of games arent really my cup of tea to be honest.

BB spent months to get me to play bloodborne and I wouldn’t do it. :lol

I’m fairly shitty at games that require lots of trial and error. I’d be interested more in these games if they had a story to go along with the gameplay.

when the reward is “you’ve beaten this super hard game, congrats’ I lose interest.

If you liked the combat in God of War good chance you'll like it in Bloodborne.

[apalisoc_9]

If you liked the combat in God of War good chance you'll like it in Bloodborne.

I made this conparison man. Im glad you're finally seeing it :lol

[Reck]

I figured youd like it cause its parry heavy same as GOW


If you liked the combat in God of War good chance you'll like it in Bloodborne.

Oh really that’s interesting. I might take a look at it.

I do also like the period the game is set in.

[baseline bum]

Oh really that’s interesting. I might take a look at it.

I do also like the period the game is set in.

It's a really cool atmosphere and I don't want to say much more for fear of spoilers. I didn't think I would enjoy it but it ends up being pretty immersive. Hell I didn't think I'd enjoy the game and only bought it because it was cheap and because PS4 had so few good exclusives when I bought the system, but it's my game of the century.

If you enjoyed the valkyrie fights on the give me a challenge mode, they are very heavily inspired by Bloodborne IMO. You have to pay closer attention to tells of attacks though since you don't get the red circle / yellow circle telling you what's coming and you also can't be bailed out by ranged attacks, since your guns are useful only for parrying. Another big difference is that armor is completely worthless in Bloodborne. Basically just wear whatever you think looks best, because armor is so nerfed it's basically just cosmetic.

It goes on sale all the time for less than $10, so probably worth buying then and if you don't like it after 5 hours at least you're not out much.

[apalisoc_9]

Id play bloodbrone first. Sekiro is clearly much more difficult

[apalisoc_9]

Trying to beat one of the main antagonist in sekiro. Tried for 3 hrs. The dumbass has a third form thays impossible to beat or I havent figured out how to handle his moves.

Issue here is that the first two phase takes about 10 mins or so. Frustrating.

[ElNono]

Theres a few easy to level up places. The route to Jizo the drunkard. Can get you 5 skill points in under 1 hrs

I killed that fucker already.

[DJR210]

Oh yeah well I've played the Sekiro: Totally Free Edition and killed like the first three enemies..

[baseline bum]

Looks like Yakuza Kiwami 2 is coming to PC. :tu

https://www.pcgamer.com/yakuza-kiwami-2-rated-for-pc/

[spurraider21]

very early into arkham city. the game seems pretty unforgiving with its checkpoint system. instead of running to the main quest i usually have an urge to take out any random thugs i come across on the way. so sometimes i'll take on 4-5 different batches of guys, in the meantime get enough exp to level up, get an upgrade. then if by some chance i happen to die, the game's checkpoint sets me way back and i even lose all the exp and upgrades i had accrued. thats kinda dumb.

[spurraider21]

Those type of games arent really my cup of tea to be honest.

BB spent months to get me to play bloodborne and I wouldn’t do it. :lol

I’m fairly shitty at games that require lots of trial and error. I’d be interested more in these games if they had a story to go along with the gameplay.

when the reward is “you’ve beaten this super hard game, congrats’ I lose interest.
to me the reward isnt necessarily when you win the game, it's when you learn the game. i got my shit pushed in like 3-4 times in the very first enemy encounter playing god of war (on challenge difficulty) and probably 10+ times in the drauger pit after falling from the bridge. but you eventually get the hang of the combat.

from everything i've read here, thats sorta the same with FromSoft games. high learning curve and then a lightbulb moment

[baseline bum]

to me the reward isnt necessarily when you win the game, it's when you learn the game. i got my shit pushed in like 3-4 times in the very first enemy encounter playing god of war (on challenge difficulty) and probably 10+ times in the drauger pit after falling from the bridge. but you eventually get the hang of the combat.

from everything i've read here, thats sorta the same with FromSoft games. high learning curve and then a lightbulb moment

Yeah that first encounter is hard as fuck on give me a challenge when you don't know the battle system at all. :lol

[baseline bum]

Damn the Genesis Mini is going to have its emulation done by M2 who does the Sega Ages games, so it should be a pretty killer system. Such an upgrade from the crap emulation the old AtGames Genesis Flashbacks had.

[spurraider21]

Yeah that first encounter is hard as fuck on give me a challenge when you don't know the battle system at all. :lol
i know at the beginning theres 2-3 guys, then another 2 spawn. i remember dying around here my first 3 or so times. when i finally beat them i saw yet another set of 2 spawn and was thinking holy fuck this is the tutorial and i still cant get shit done.

the drauger pit was probably the tipping point though... all the petrified guys that start attacking, then the guys up top start launching projectiles. then when you clear that section... THEYRE BREAKING THROUGH THE WALL!!! and the heavy draugers pushed my shit in a few times too.

then in the next section there's the bottom floor with the revenant combined with some heavy draugers and i think 1-2 of the fast ones.

those opening hours of the game were fucking brutal on give me a challenge. i imagine with the experience i have now, i'd be able to handle it on gmgow (i did so on NG+ and it was pretty easy cause i was able to spam high powered runics), but i cant imagine going through my original playthrough on that difficulty. challenge felt pretty perfect imo

[Leetonidas]

Enjoying tf out of Sekiro but I thought it would be harder. Don't get me wrong it's pretty fucking hard but I kept hearing it was a hard version of dark souls and I had much more trouble with DS3. But then again I'm not too far into it yet. I completely didn't realize you could travel to the estate in the beginning so I went back to do that now. Going to fight this butterfly bitch ones I find the damn key to the hidden door

[apalisoc_9]

Enjoying tf out of Sekiro but I thought it would be harder. Don't get me wrong it's pretty fucking hard but I kept hearing it was a hard version of dark souls and I had much more trouble with DS3. But then again I'm not too far into it yet. I completely didn't realize you could travel to the estate in the beginning so I went back to do that now. Going to fight this butterfly bitch ones I find the damn key to the hidden door

You find the key on your way there.

What boses have you fought?

Gotta say I love that Health is secondary in this game.

Very innovative. Feels a lot more like a real sword fight when you're relying on balance and opening etc.

[Leetonidas]

You find the key on your way there.

What boses have you fought?

Gotta say I love that Health is secondary in this game.

Very innovative. Feels a lot more like a real sword fight when you're relying on balance and opening etc.

I've fought thru the horseman guarding the gate in in one direction and then up to the butterfly lady since I went back to the estate. I imagine it will get harder though, I have seen some pretty gnarly bosses in youtube vids.

And I get that but I went thru the underground well entrance n popped out in the main ball. Do I need to go back and go across the bridge instead of thru the side?

[apalisoc_9]

Yeah you need to go through the bridge. Its when you fight that mini boss with a spear forgot his name. Just go straight..you should be able to find it.

[Leetonidas]

:tu thanks for the tip. Fuck a guy with a spear though :lol those are the most annoying enemies to me

[baseline bum]

Oh god damn it, I finished one of the trials in Muspelheim and I think I rushed back to buy a revival stone from Brock's shop before opening the Legendary Chest and now I can't get the loot from it when I go back since it appears looted.

:pctoss

[Leetonidas]

Lady butterfly was disappointing. Mini bosses have been more challenging Imo

[apalisoc_9]

Oh god damn it, I finished one of the trials in Muspelheim and I think I rushed back to buy a revival stone from Brock's shop before opening the Legendary Chest and now I can't get the loot from it when I go back since it appears looted.

:pctoss
Are you talking about the chest for each area? Its fine. You can redo areas over and over again to open chest but iirc you cant do that before the valkyrie fight

[apalisoc_9]

Yeah you need to go through the bridge. Its when you fight that mini boss with a spear forgot his name. Just go straight..you should be able to find it.

I one tried lady butterfly. But right now two days fighting one of the main antagonist and still dying. Must have died 40 times now. Also struggled with the horse guy. Took me maybe 25 tries

[apalisoc_9]

Welp third day and still struggling with this boss.
My thumb is numb from pressing the deflect/block button.

Total of maybe 6 hrs and best ive done is get him half life in his final form.

Maybe abother day.

[Reck]

Don’t sweat it baseline bum.

Head over to “lost items” in the pause menu. Or is it while you’re in the shop.

Left over items you fail to pick up get stored up in that one tab.

[apalisoc_9]

I got to half way past of bloodbrone and i dont think ive enoucntered anyone this difficult. In bloodbrone dodge is always an option.

This game forces you to aggressive in a whole another level.

[baseline bum]

spurraider21, apalisoc_9, Reck

You guys have any luck getting Anchor of Fog to drop in Niflheim? I didn't even get that shit when beating the valkyrie there and need three for the realm tears but have zero after doing a ton of fighting in Niflheim.

[Xevious]

spurraider21, apalisoc_9, Reck

You guys have any luck getting Anchor of Fog to drop in Niflheim? I didn't even get that shit when beating the valkyrie there and need three for the realm tears but have zero after doing a ton of fighting in Niflheim.
They're random IIRC. Just keep clearing Nilfheim and you'll get them eventually.

[apalisoc_9]

spurraider21, apalisoc_9, Reck

You guys have any luck getting Anchor of Fog to drop in Niflheim? I didn't even get that shit when beating the valkyrie there and need three for the realm tears but have zero after doing a ton of fighting in Niflheim.

Its pretty random. Just keel fighting in nif

[spurraider21]

spurraider21 (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=31905), apalisoc_9 (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=11260), Reck (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=14412)

You guys have any luck getting Anchor of Fog to drop in Niflheim? I didn't even get that shit when beating the valkyrie there and need three for the realm tears but have zero after doing a ton of fighting in Niflheim.
its not random iirc, you just have the learn the niflheim map. this one below is really good. you basically want to get to left field/right field and thats where you'll get the best items. also, have you routinely been able to open up the nornir chest that always spawns in the starting area? there should always be one nornir chest at "home base" and there's always one randomly generated in one of the 4 gaps between the "bases"

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/10705099/God_of_War_Niflheim_map_baseball_diamond.jpg

[Reck]

spurraider21 (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=31905), apalisoc_9 (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=11260), Reck (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=14412)

You guys have any luck getting Anchor of Fog to drop in Niflheim? I didn't even get that shit when beating the valkyrie there and need three for the realm tears but have zero after doing a ton of fighting in Niflheim.

They're random. I managed to get extras farming mist echoes in separate runs.

You're more likely to find them if you do a full maze run. When you're done with a path, dont just go outside to save the mist echoes. Instead, continue to the other path, kill everything and then make your way back.

That way you kill two birds with one stone, tons of mist echoes (Which you'll need a lot of anyways) and the probability of finding an anchor of fog increases.

EDIT:

Just for the hell of it I fired up the game to see if I still had spares and I do. It'd be nice if this game had a Gran Turismo like feature that allowed players to exchange items.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D3LvjJ1WkAE9efU.jpg:large

[baseline bum]

its not random iirc, you just have the learn the niflheim map. this one below is really good. you basically want to get to left field/right field and thats where you'll get the best items. also, have you routinely been able to open up the nornir chest that always spawns in the starting area? there should always be one nornir chest at "home base" and there's always one randomly generated in one of the 4 gaps between the "bases"


I have cleared Left Field four or five times and nothing, but I always raced there instead of fighting through the first two rooms on the way there.

[baseline bum]

They're random. I managed to get extras farming mist echoes in separate runs.

You're more likely to find them if you do a full maze run. When you're done with a path, dont just go outside to save the mist echoes. Instead, continue to the other path, kill everything and then make your way back.


Shit. I can't do multiple rooms when revenants spawn. Hard to block their poison while fighting everything else off. :pctoss

[Reck]

Shit. I can't do multiple rooms when revenants spawn. Hard to block their poison while fighting everything else off. :pctoss

There is a way to know which enemies will respawn once you enter the first room.

If you get the witches in the first room, you’ll get them throughout that run. If you get wolves then same thing applies.

If the annoying witches appear in the first room, go back out and then enter again until you get an enemy you’re comfortable with fighting.

[baseline bum]

There is a way to know which enemies will respawn once you enter the first room.

If you get the witches in the first room, you’ll get them throughout that run. If you get wolves then same thing applies.

If the annoying witches appear in the first room, go back out and then enter again until you get an enemy you’re comfortable with fighting.

Nice. Thanks for the heads up :toast

[spurraider21]

I have cleared Left Field four or five times and nothing, but I always raced there instead of fighting through the first two rooms on the way there.
eventually you get familiar enough where you're able to complete full laps... which you basically have to do if you want to open the nornir chest that always shows up at "home plate"

you have to remember the runes and then there will be one turnstile thing at each of 1st/2nd/3rd base such that when you lap back to "home" the nornir will be unlocked

and yes i can concur that revenants were THE most difficult characters to encounter in niflheim. dark elves were probably second. wulver's can do a shit ton of damage, but they're generally easier to deal with. are you using the niflheim armor set? its pretty crucial if you want to do the full lap like i was talking about, as each piece increases your resistance to the fog, and they're solidy statted as well

also forgot to mention the best reason to play niflheim is to get the last "frozen flame" to upgrade your axe to level 6 without needing ng+. same with muspelheim to acquire the last chaos flame. dno if you picked up on that yet

[spurraider21]

They're random. I managed to get extras farming mist echoes in separate runs.

You're more likely to find them if you do a full maze run. When you're done with a path, dont just go outside to save the mist echoes. Instead, continue to the other path, kill everything and then make your way back.

That way you kill two birds with one stone, tons of mist echoes (Which you'll need a lot of anyways) and the probability of finding an anchor of fog increases.

EDIT:

Just for the hell of it I fired up the game to see if I still had spares and I do. It'd be nice if this game had a Gran Turismo like feature that allowed players to exchange items.

woah, i never noticed that enemy types repeat like that. i'll have to remember that next time i plan on playing GOW

nice, i see you were also rocking sindri's breasplate. it looks ugly as fuck imo, and i never associate kratos with fucking teal or whatever that is. but its the best piece of armor in the game imho.

luckily on NG+ the enchanced version of sindri's breastplate is silver, so it doesnt look tacky as fuck

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/K1IPjtR6etI/maxresdefault.jpg

[Reck]

woah, i never noticed that enemy types repeat like that. i'll have to remember that next time i plan on playing GOW

nice, i see you were also rocking sindri's breasplate. it looks ugly as fuck imo, and i never associate kratos with fucking teal or whatever that is. but its the best piece of armor in the game imho.

luckily on NG+ the enchanced version of sindri's breastplate is silver, so it doesnt look tacky as fuck



Silver does look better.

Before that I was using the golden one..forget the name but it had Valkyrie in its name.

I decked myself in Sindri’s armor because it was the only other one I had the full set of and it boosted all my stats incredibly. Got as far as level 8 before platting it.

havent tried NG+ yet.

[spurraider21]

Silver does look better.

Before that I was using the golden one..forget the name but it had Valkyrie in its name.

I decked myself in Sindri’s armor because it was the only other one I had the full set of and it boosted all my stats incredibly. Got as far as level 8 before platting it.

havent tried NG+ yet.
NG+ is worthwhile. there's new Red tier gear which is nice. enemies are at a higher level than regular NG. playing on GMGOW difficulty actually feels balanced because you start the game with solid equipment, you have the blades from the start, all your runics, etc.

also the valkyrie fights are substantially harder. their moves are different on NG+, at least of GMGOW difficulty.

one of the cool features of NG+ is that you can actually convert certain talismans and armor sets into enchantments. for example the amulet of kvalsir, that activates realm shifts on perfect dodges. if you level it up all the way, you can turn it into an enchantment, so you can use another talisman in its place while not losing the effect. there are also 3 armor sets you can do (ancients/tyr/traveller) which give you some stats but also the perks of those sets. ie for the ancients set, you gain 85% resistance to burn/forst/poison. as an enchantment, thats pretty nuts.

plus all the red tier talismans have 3 enchantment slots so you can be using a total of 12 (3 for each armor piece, 3 for talisman). your character gets pretty fucking strong which is why i'd recommend god of war difficulty

there are also genuinely new sets like COD of war, ares armor, and the valkyries give you Zeus armor which has a pretty crazy effect... though the fact that you get it so late means you'd basically need a second NG+ playthrough to use them

[baseline bum]

eventually you get familiar enough where you're able to complete full laps... which you basically have to do if you want to open the nornir chest that always shows up at "home plate"

you have to remember the runes and then there will be one turnstile thing at each of 1st/2nd/3rd base such that when you lap back to "home" the nornir will be unlocked

and yes i can concur that revenants were THE most difficult characters to encounter in niflheim. dark elves were probably second. wulver's can do a shit ton of damage, but they're generally easier to deal with. are you using the niflheim armor set? its pretty crucial if you want to do the full lap like i was talking about, as each piece increases your resistance to the fog, and they're solidy statted as well

also forgot to mention the best reason to play niflheim is to get the last "frozen flame" to upgrade your axe to level 6 without needing ng+. same with muspelheim to acquire the last chaos flame. dno if you picked up on that yet

I'm using the Ivaldi's Deadly Mist set but don't have anything in it upgraded. It seems like the mist resistance is hugely improved with the full set vs just having two items. I have the axe fully upgraded and have gotten up to the Muspelheim valkyrie but not fought it yet since I want to have full rage. Prob just go die in Niflheim, get revived by the rage stone, by another, and then go fight the valkyrie with full rage.

I haven't bothered with that chest of nornir in niflheim since I figured it would take a complete cycle around the bases to complete.

[spurraider21]

I'm using the Ivaldi's Deadly Mist set but don't have anything in it upgraded. It seems like the mist resistance is hugely improved with the full set vs just having two items. I have the axe fully upgraded and have gotten up to the Muspelheim valkyrie but not fought it yet since I want to have full rage. Prob just go die in Niflheim, get revived by the rage stone, by another, and then go fight the valkyrie with full rage.

I haven't bothered with that chest of nornir in niflheim since I figured it would take a complete cycle around the bases to complete.
mhm, and the annoying part is you have to keep the 3 runes in the back of your mind, since you dont really have time to come back, remember the runes, then go back and spin the wheels. theres also always 1 additional nornir chest somewhere, but the 3 spinners are all usually right there in that same segment, with 1 of them usually being a really long shot that you have to carefully aim for

[baseline bum]

Ah fucking hell. I killed the valkyrie in Muspelheim and found out I have to do six more challenges before getting the Muspelheim trophy. Those Muspelheim trials are easily my least favorite part of the game.

[apalisoc_9]

Ah fucking hell. I killed the valkyrie in Muspelheim and found out I have to do six more challenges before getting the Muspelheim trophy. Those Muspelheim trials are easily my least favorite part of the game.

Tbe trials after beating the valkyrie..brutal..i mean some are fairly easy but theres a couple there that I would just avoid

[apalisoc_9]

Ah fucking hell. I killed the valkyrie in Muspelheim and found out I have to do six more challenges before getting the Muspelheim trophy. Those Muspelheim trials are easily my least favorite part of the game.

Iirc you dont have to redo everything to get the trophy or was that for a reset on item. I cant remeber.

[spurraider21]

Ah fucking hell. I killed the valkyrie in Muspelheim and found out I have to do six more challenges before getting the Muspelheim trophy. Those Muspelheim trials are easily my least favorite part of the game.
i disliked muspelheim quite a bit. between the two i preferred niflheim. it was more of a rush and felt more rewarding with the chests you constantly open.

but once you beat the valkyrie, you unlock the "impossible" trials. you dont have to do all of them though. complete any of the 3 impossible trials and you'll get 3 keys needed for surtrs hidden challenge (which you access at the top where the valkyrie was). the best thing you get in muspelheim imo is surtr's grip of the flame. its arguably the best axe pommel. once you have that there isnt really much of a need to grind for anything there.

pro tip for the "enemies regenerate health quickly" challenges is to not aim to kill them via damage. use boy's stun arrows and just melee them so you can get the R3 instakill. it just gets annoying when a dark elf blinds you and then you fall into the cycle of getting blinded

[baseline bum]

God fucking damn it, did a full cycle killing everything and opening every chest in one run of the bases + outfield in Nilfheim and all I ended up with was about 8000 echoes, an aesirbane, and two haze weaves.

:pctoss

[baseline bum]

i disliked muspelheim quite a bit. between the two i preferred niflheim. it was more of a rush and felt more rewarding with the chests you constantly open.

but once you beat the valkyrie, you unlock the "impossible" trials. you dont have to do all of them though. complete any of the 3 impossible trials and you'll get 3 keys needed for surtrs hidden challenge (which you access at the top where the valkyrie was). the best thing you get in muspelheim imo is surtr's grip of the flame. its arguably the best axe pommel. once you have that there isnt really much of a need to grind for anything there.

pro tip for the "enemies regenerate health quickly" challenges is to not aim to kill them via damage. use boy's stun arrows and just melee them so you can get the R3 instakill. it just gets annoying when a dark elf blinds you and then you fall into the cycle of getting blinded

OK if I only have to do three that's better. I really hated the fight 20 easy guys but don't get hit a single time challenge.

[spurraider21]

OK if I only have to do three that's better. I really hated the fight 20 easy guys but don't get hit a single time challenge.
i just turtled in the back area by the cliff, spammed boy, and would just try to kick/bash guys who spawned near the cliff. i never had an issue with that one, even on gmgow. use the talisman that resets runics (unbound potential iirc). just stay back and launch ranged runics.

[spurraider21]

God fucking damn it, did a full cycle killing everything and opening every chest in one run of the bases + outfield in Nilfheim and all I ended up with was about 8000 echoes, an aesirbane, and two haze weaves.

:pctoss
that seems very low. seems like you definitely missed some chests. i know in those little spots in between bases, sometimes theres a chest indented in the wall where you just came from. always make sure you do a 360 sweep in those spots.

[baseline bum]

that seems very low. seems like you definitely missed some chests. i know in those little spots in between bases, sometimes theres a chest indented in the wall where you just came from. always make sure you do a 360 sweep in those spots.

I think it was because I got super easy enemies in every room.

[Reck]

I think you only have to do one impossible challenge per level. 3 out of six is not bad.

I chose to do the kill inside the circle before time runs out, kill everyone before time runs out and the one where you have to stun enemies for a brutal kill. Those were the easiest, I found.

[apalisoc_9]

OK if I only have to do three that's better. I really hated the fight 20 easy guys but don't get hit a single time challenge.

That was awful :lol

[DJR210]

woah, i never noticed that enemy types repeat like that. i'll have to remember that next time i plan on playing GOW

nice, i see you were also rocking sindri's breasplate. it looks ugly as fuck imo, and i never associate kratos with fucking teal or whatever that is. but its the best piece of armor in the game imho.

luckily on NG+ the enchanced version of sindri's breastplate is silver, so it doesnt look tacky as fuck

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/K1IPjtR6etI/maxresdefault.jpg

Damn.. Kratos looks fucking awesome

[spurraider21]

I'm using the Ivaldi's Deadly Mist set but don't have anything in it upgraded. It seems like the mist resistance is hugely improved with the full set vs just having two items. I have the axe fully upgraded and have gotten up to the Muspelheim valkyrie but not fought it yet since I want to have full rage. Prob just go die in Niflheim, get revived by the rage stone, by another, and then go fight the valkyrie with full rage.

I haven't bothered with that chest of nornir in niflheim since I figured it would take a complete cycle around the bases to complete.
i never upgraded the mist sets. i just purchased the full deadly mist set and used the niflheim enchantment that also increases mist resistance. the deadly mist set is actually pretty solid statwise, but the effect of slow health regen isn't good enough to other sets.

i rocked sindri's breastplate and wore the valkyrie armor pieces for wrist/waist. you get the full valkyrie set from beating the 3 valkyries not found in midgard (helheim, muspelheim, alfheim). the valkyrie sets have top tier stats and have solid effects too.

[SpursforSix]

Fuck ya'll and your God of War talk.

[spurraider21]

Fuck ya'll and your God of War talk.
you misspelled GOAT of war

[SpursforSix]

you misspelled GOAT of war

more like SCROAT of War

[apalisoc_9]

ANYONE quit on sekiro yet :lol

On my third day trying to beat the same boss. I found out im super underleveled in terms of health but gotta the idea of beating him underleveled..would feel fucking awesome.

Got to his third form and just needed a couple more hits smdh.

[RD2191]

Haven't played GoW yet, does that little kid follow you around the entire game?

[Reck]

Haven't played GoW yet, does that little kid follow you around the entire game?

He's the real MVP.

[spurraider21]

Haven't played GoW yet, does that little kid follow you around the entire game?
just about. it works tbh

[baseline bum]

Haven't played GoW yet, does that little kid follow you around the entire game?

He's a pretty integral part of the fighting.

[baseline bum]

Weird, now I got Fog of Wars on three straight trips from home plate to left field.

[baseline bum]

Helheim's valkyrie is the first hard one so far IMO. Mostly because that fucker could fly up and tackle me when I'm in rage mode.

[spurraider21]

Helheim's valkyrie is the first hard one so far IMO. Mostly because that fucker could fly up and tackle me when I'm in rage mode.
how many have you beaten so far? you mentioned muspelheim/niflheim, and the first one right by thamur's corpse...

[baseline bum]

how many have you beaten so far? you mentioned muspelheim/niflheim, and the first one right by thamur's corpse...

Just beat the one in Alheim who was super easy. I'll go check at the council to see how many I have.

[Reck]

Helheim's valkyrie is the first hard one so far IMO. Mostly because that fucker could fly up and tackle me when I'm in rage mode.

Umm then you have been lucky?

most if not all of them do that. At least they did to me. That’s the hardest part, knowing when they’re about to fly up and charge at you. When they do that and get you, you might as well retry the fight. They kick you so hard they break your neck and leave you on one hit.

[spurraider21]

Just beat the one in Alheim who was super easy. I'll go check at the council to see how many I have.
Alfheim one gave me fits because i didn’t notice the direction of her lunges was a tell (to your right meant unblockable). And her vertical leap/stomp was so quick you barely had time to dodge

[Reck]

Can’t wait to get updates on Sigrun BB. :lol

Took me a solid 3 days before getting her.

[baseline bum]

Umm then you have been lucky?

most if not all of them do that. At least they did to me. That’s the hardest part, knowing when they’re about to fly up and charge at you. When they do that and get you, you might as well retry the fight. They kick you so hard they break your neck and leave you on one hit.

Are you playing on Give Me God of War? That's the only one who was able to do it to me. Usually I can just wail on them while shooting with electric arrows in rage mode and they can't do shit but the Helheim one was able to break free and jump up, catch me, and start stomping my head. :lol

Playing on Give Me a Challenge.

[baseline bum]

Alfheim one gave me fits because i didn’t notice the direction of her lunges was a tell (to your right meant unblockable). And her vertical leap/stomp was so quick you barely had time to dodge

She hit me with the vertical twice but not a single other time. Got 7 so far so I need to do the one on the mountain before Sigrun.

[Reck]

Are you playing on Give Me God of War? That's the only one who was able to do it to me. Usually I can just wail on them while shooting with electric arrows in rage mode and they can't do shit but the Helheim one was able to break free and jump up, catch me, and start stomping my head. :lol

Playing on Give Me a Challenge.

lol no.

I played on what would be hard difficulty on most games but passes as normal in this game. I think it is Give Me a Challenge.

The fact that you have played games like Dark Soul and Bloodborne helps you out a lot. Your reactions may be faster than mine. This was my first foray into hard ass, unforgiving bosses type game I played.

[baseline bum]

Just took down valkyrie 8/8 so time to go fight Sigrun. I'll go build my rage to 100% first though.

[baseline bum]

OK damn, Sigrun fucked me up bad the first attempt :lol

[Reck]

OK damn, Sigrun fucked me up bad the first attempt :lol

No more free hits. Lol

[apalisoc_9]

Sigurn is hard but bb should be able to beat her in a day. Iirc there was a couple boses in Bloodbrone that took me a couple days. Sigurn took about the same.

Just play sekiro Reck :lol

But srsly maybe play bloodbrone first. Its much easier and much more forgiving with a little bit more variety. Sekiro sword combat though....

If you're fighting another swords guy, it makes you feel like you're watching a movie. :lol. Litterally blocks, deflect etc until you get the finishing one blow :lol

[apalisoc_9]

OK damn, Sigrun fucked me up bad the first attempt :lol

What runes are you using?lol

[spurraider21]

Sigrun is objectively the hardest but after fighting 8 valks you’re well prepared.

It didn’t take me too long to beat her on give me a challenge. She was a different animal on gmgow+ (Which is a mode id highly recommend)

the worst part of losing to sigrun is that every time you restart the fight you have to watch her shove your face in the ground. Fucking psychological warfare

[apalisoc_9]

Sigrun is objectively the hardest but after fighting 8 valks you’re well prepared.

It didn’t take me too long to beat her on give me a challenge. She was a different animal on gmgow+ (Which is a mode id highly recommend)

the worst part of losing to sigrun is that every time you restart the fight you have to watch her shove your face in the ground. Fucking psychological warfare

Damn. Took me two days to beat sigurn. It was frustrating cause her moves is just a combination of all the valkyrie movesets. Felt like she was much more aggressive or maybe I just played too passively

I might replay GOW st gmgow after sekiro. I relied on atreus a lot to handle her aerial moves..wonder if thats any good in gmgow :lol

[baseline bum]

What runes are you using?lol

The frost ancient one and the one with the axe throwing for the axe. Can't remember which two I picked for the blades since I use axe almost exclusively in previus valkyrie fights and only use them at the beginning (which isn't an option with Sigrun).

[spurraider21]

Damn. Took me two days to beat sigurn. It was frustrating cause her moves is just a combination of all the valkyrie movesets. Felt like she was much more aggressive or maybe I just played too passively

I might replay GOW st gmgow after sekiro. I relied on atreus a lot to handle her aerial moves..wonder if thats any good in gmgow :lol
Does nothing. You have to throw your axe at her. Atreus is useless in gmgow except wolves to stun. I used the boars against sigrun just cause it had fastest cooldown

[baseline bum]

Sigrun is objectively the hardest but after fighting 8 valks you’re well prepared.

It didn’t take me too long to beat her on give me a challenge. She was a different animal on gmgow+ (Which is a mode id highly recommend)

the worst part of losing to sigrun is that every time you restart the fight you have to watch her shove your face in the ground. Fucking psychological warfare

The first eight valkyries are easy as hell IMO (at least on give me a challenge). For them it was just:

1. Before the fight just do that frost ancient runic attack into axe throw runic
2. Switch to blades and do that double blade heavy runic, then back to axe
3. Dodge first red attack
4. After dodging use L1 + circle for the slow time with lots of attacks after
5. Fight until somehwat low on health
6. Go into full rage mode and attacks
7. Then fight normally until either kill or die
8. If die then revive with full rage and finish the fight off.

Not having that early window makes the fight significantly harder. I died twice after chipping away about half the health bar and figured I'll fight her ass again tomorrow.

[apalisoc_9]

I feel like GOW is the gate to Souls games (bloodbrone, sekiro)...A+ combat systems are probably my second favourite games now. Once im done with sekiro, im either replaying GOW or going back to bloodbrone.

I never liked dark souls for some reason though. Never felt like the combat in souls games is as good as bloodbrone and even more so sekiro.

[baseline bum]

Sigurn is hard but bb should be able to beat her in a day. Iirc there was a couple boses in Bloodbrone that took me a couple days. Sigurn took about the same.

Just play sekiro Reck :lol

But srsly maybe play bloodbrone first. Its much easier and much more forgiving with a little bit more variety. Sekiro sword combat though....

If you're fighting another swords guy, it makes you feel like you're watching a movie. :lol. Litterally blocks, deflect etc until you get the finishing one blow :lol

I wonder if Sekiro has a boss harder than Orphan of Kos in Bloodborne. That one took me three days to kill because it has such a weird moveset and ridiculous agility. I bet Sekiro will have a harder boss when DLC comes out but I'd be surprised if there is a harder one in the base game.

[baseline bum]

I feel like GOW is the gate to Souls games (bloodbrone, sekiro)...A+ combat systems are probably my second favourite games now. Once im done with sekiro, im either replaying GOW or going back to bloodbrone.

I never liked dark souls for some reason though. Never felt like the combat in souls games is as good as bloodbrone and even more so sekiro.

Dark Souls 1 has one really great boss fight I don't want to spoil that makes the game worth playing. If you play Bloodborne again get the DLC, as the three best bossfights in the game are in it.

[Reck]

Sigurn is hard but bb should be able to beat her in a day. Iirc there was a couple boses in Bloodbrone that took me a couple days. Sigurn took about the same.

Just play sekiro Reck (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=14412) :lol

But srsly maybe play bloodbrone first. Its much easier and much more forgiving with a little bit more variety. Sekiro sword combat though....

If you're fighting another swords guy, it makes you feel like you're watching a movie. :lol. Litterally blocks, deflect etc until you get the finishing one blow :lol

Yeah I’ve been watching some play through on YouTube and I’m close to making a decision on it. Probably gonna grab it off the PS store.

I know Sekiro is nothing like Onimusha but watching gameplay of it reminds me of it and gives me the itch to play it. Lol

[SpursforSix]

Haven't played GoW yet, does that little kid follow you around the entire game?

Avante just bought a PS.

[baseline bum]

I really hate the controls on this game. Now I keep going into rage mode when pressing R3 to lock onto Sigrun since I have to be pressing the left thumbstick to keep moving. Got this fucker to 1/3 of her energy bar but that seems my limit right now.

[spurraider21]

I really hate the controls on this game. Now I keep going into rage mode when pressing R3 to lock onto Sigrun since I have to be pressing the left thumbstick to keep moving. Got this fucker to 1/3 of her energy bar but that seems my limit right now.
now imagine fighting her except you cant use atreus to stun her during aerial attacks

[baseline bum]

now imagine fighting her except you cant use atreus to stun her during aerial attacks

I'd rather imagine it with me not going into rage mode 1/2 the time I lock on to her. That's why I love Bloodborne: the control is airtight and you never end up doing something different from what you were intending to do. Every time you die in Bloodborne you feel like it's your fault. But in this fight I'm wrestling with the controls to lock on to her unless my rage meter is already drained.

[baseline bum]

They should have made rage mode something simple like pressing the touchscreen button.

[Reck]

I really hate the controls on this game. Now I keep going into rage mode when pressing R3 to lock onto Sigrun since I have to be pressing the left thumbstick to keep moving. Got this fucker to 1/3 of her energy bar but that seems my limit right now.

That was a problem from the start for me. During hectic battles I kept pressing both thumbsticks when I did the dodge roll manuever.

[baseline bum]

I think I'm going to go change my resurrection stone to the one that gives you health instead of full rage, as rage feels almost like a handicap in this fight.

[Reck]

BB, make use of the realm shift a lot with Sigrun.

Set Atreu's wolves on her (She's imobilized when they're running a train on her) then get close, trigger realm shift and use the heaviest combo on her along with your own runic magic.

[spurraider21]

when fighting sigrun on NG+ i used boars instead of wolves. they dont stun as long (nor do they leap) but the cooldown is much quicker so you can buy yourself a breather every now and again. i would basically wait for her to initiate a melee attack and then summon boars during that moment. another option is the use the squirrel. when its maxed out, it gives you either 3 health orbs (if atreus is set to stun arrows) or 3 rage stones (if atreus is set to shock arrows). the only problem is the cooldown time for the squirrel is crazy long, so you're basically only getting 1 trigger and maybe 2 if you've survived for a long time. i never found the elk or falcons useful. crows were good against big crowds of enemies. wolves were very useful at all times. boars i legit only used against sigrun

i would also recommend the following runic setup

Axe light - Leviathan's wake
Axe heavy - Glaivestorm (or Blessing of the Frost)

Blades light - blast of hephaestas
Blades heavy - hyperion grapple

[Joseph Kony]

DJR210 so does Rising Storm 2: Vietnam only allow mouse/keyboard? cant figure out how to use the gamepad. fuck me i cant use a mouse and keyboard for shit :lol

[baseline bum]

Just wanna smash the controller into the fucking TV when I get Sigrun to 5% health bar and then fuck up and miss when she jumps and get my head stomped in. :lol

[Reck]

Just wanna smash the controller into the fucking TV when I get Sigrun to 5% health bar and then fuck up and miss when she jumps and get my head stomped in. :lol

Are you using your shield to block?

The shield is an underrated tool most people (Including myself) dont use in this game. Which is actually fine for most of the game but makes a difference in fighting the valkyrie.

You can block her initial attacks. Her last set is unblockable though.

[baseline bum]

Are you using your shield to block?

The shield is an underrated tool most people (Including myself) dont use in this game. Which is actually fine for most of the game but makes a difference in fighting the valkyrie.

You can block her initial attacks. Her last set is unblockable though.

I block the shit that can be blocked like the ice and wing attack but mostly it's dodge, roll, or parry then unload a ton of runic attacks when she misses (as well as the wolves attack from Atreus and the slow time talisman).

This would be a really cool fight the rage mode wasn't so easy to accidentally turn on when pressing R3 to target her. Gotta be really defensive to get anywhere.

[Reck]

I block the shit that can be blocked like the ice and wing attack but mostly it's dodge, roll, or parry then unload a ton of runic attacks when she misses (as well as the wolves attack from Atreus and the slow time talisman).

This would be a really cool fight the rage mode wasn't so easy to accidentally turn on when pressing R3 to target her. Gotta be really defensive to get anywhere.

When she uses her wings to cover herself you can use your shield to stun her out of it. It gives you an opening to pounce.

[baseline bum]

When she uses her wings to cover herself you can use your shield to stun her out of it. It gives you an opening to pounce.

If you're fast. If not gotta back off or you get hit hard when she opens them.

[DJR210]

DJR210 (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=42671) so does Rising Storm 2: Vietnam only allow mouse/keyboard? cant figure out how to use the gamepad. fuck me i cant use a mouse and keyboard for shit :lol

:lmao @ even considering a gamepad for a PC FPS

[ElNono]

If you're fast. If not gotta back off or you get hit hard when she opens them.

Eventually you learn her moves and what works to dodge them tbh... I don’t even recall using the aerial stun on her, just dodge and when there’s an opening, slam. It’s a grinder fight

[baseline bum]

Eventually you learn her moves and what works to dodge them tbh... I don’t even recall using the aerial stun on her, just dodge and when there’s an opening, slam. It’s a grinder fight

If you don't knock her out of the air she does that blinding attack which is pretty much game over.

[ElNono]

If you don't knock her out of the air she does that blinding attack which is pretty much game over.

That fight is such a leap in difficulty that the first 3-4 hours (depending on how good you are with games) can be frustrating, but once you start getting the hang of it, and more consistent with your strategy, you end up feeling pretty good about beating it.

[ElNono]

If you don't knock her out of the air she does that blinding attack which is pretty much game over.

I haven’t played it in a while, maybe I just don’t remember that attack.

[baseline bum]

That fight is such a leap in difficulty that the first 3-4 hours (depending on how good you are with games) can be frustrating, but once you start getting the hang of it, and more consistent with your strategy, you end up feeling pretty good about beating it.

I know the attacks and have gotten pretty good at dodging them. For instance, circle counterclockwise to make dodging right easy when she does the quick right arm dashing attack. Moving right constantly so I'm in a good position to roll when she does the three flying attacks where she slams your head into the ground if she catches you. Roll back and to the right to always miss the double scythe swing after dashing. Be moving to the right so you can quickly roll when she flies up for the head stomp attack if she catches you. Hit her with an arrow or the axe when she flies up and gets ready to the do the blinding attack. Etc.

What makes the fight super frustrating is trying to lock on to her with R3 and instead going into rage mode because I'm also using the left thumbstick to move. Which you have to be doing when she's out of your sight. I never found Bloodborne frustrating (other than the very beginning where I didn't know what you were supposed to do) because I knew I had a bad strategy or hadn't figured out the attack pattern or just got impatient and paid the price on a death, but in the Sigrun fight a lot of the time I die because of a poor design decision to overload two actions onto the R3 button (lock on and rage). They should have made rage mode triggered by something else, say the touchpad.

[apalisoc_9]

If you don't knock her out of the air she does that blinding attack which is pretty much game over.

Press the down button breh. Krators turns 180

[spurraider21]

Press the down button breh. Krators turns 180
Yeah. When you know she’s doing the blinding move, just do a quick turn for like half a second then turn back. That’s required on god of war difficulty when Atreus can’t stun her. You can also look at the ground and look back up but quickturn is much better if your controls are anywhere near the default sensitivity

[baseline bum]

Yeah. When you know she’s doing the blinding move, just do a quick turn for like half a second then turn back. That’s required on god of war difficulty when Atreus can’t stun her. You can also look at the ground and look back up but quickturn is much better if your controls are anywhere near the default sensitivity

Never knew you could just look the other way to not get hit by the blind attack. Makes sense. :lol

[spurraider21]

Never knew you could just look the other way to not get hit by the blind attack. Makes sense. :lol
are you still triggering spartan rage that often, though? why are you constantly sprinting.

also i didnt really feel the need to use the lock on feature on GMAC, because when in doubt atreus always stuns her out of the air, and you only have to instantly react during her goomba stomp which she choreographs by yelling VALHALLA. on higher difficulty when you have to axe toss instead of atreus stun, lock on was much more useful

also you might want to consider the light blades runic, gift of apollo (i think thats what its called). gives you good heals

[Joseph Kony]

:lmao @ even considering a gamepad for a PC FPS

:lol i grew up playing consoles man, i only joined the master race within the last year, its all i know

[baseline bum]

are you still triggering spartan rage that often, though? why are you constantly sprinting.

also i didnt really feel the need to use the lock on feature on GMAC, because when in doubt atreus always stuns her out of the air, and you only have to instantly react during her goomba stomp which she choreographs by yelling VALHALLA. on higher difficulty when you have to axe toss instead of atreus stun, lock on was much more useful

also you might want to consider the light blades runic, gift of apollo (i think thats what its called). gives you good heals

I was triggering it when moving with the left thumbstick.

[SpursforSix]

I was triggering it when moving with the left thumbstick.

Just remap one of the actions to your Beats

[spurraider21]

I was triggering it when moving with the left thumbstick.
it shouldnt trigger just by moving the thumbstick only when you have L3 pressed down though

[baseline bum]

it shouldnt trigger just by moving the thumbstick only when you have L3 pressed down though

Easy to accidentally press L3 when making quick movements though.

[spurraider21]

Easy to accidentally press L3 when making quick movements though.
git good

[baseline bum]

git good

LOL. Probably will go grind a bit finishing off Muspelheim and Niflheim to get my level up (I'm at high Lvl 7) before fighting that bastard again.

Gonna keep a savefile for that fight just to try it GMGOW for the lols.

[spurraider21]

LOL. Probably will go grind a bit finishing off Muspelheim and Niflheim to get my level up (I'm at high Lvl 7) before fighting that bastard again.

Gonna keep a savefile for that fight just to try it GMGOW for the lols.
i dont think you can adjust difficulty upwards to GMGOW. that difficulty is all or nothing. you have to choose it at the start of your playthrough and once you do you're stuck on it. you can freely change between the other 3. unless im remembering wrong

do you have your axe and blades at levels 6 and 5? what armor pieces are you using? are the runics you're running fully upgraded?

[baseline bum]

i dont think you can adjust difficulty upwards to GMGOW. that difficulty is all or nothing. you have to choose it at the start of your playthrough and once you do you're stuck on it. you can freely change between the other 3. unless im remembering wrong

do you have your axe and blades at levels 6 and 5? what armor pieces are you using? are the runics you're running fully upgraded?

Using the mist armor from Niflheim and have the blades and axe maxed but have pretty crappy pommels on both. I saved in Niflheim with a ton of echoes so I could open one chest, reload, open another, reload, and so on to see what was in each and I see there are two epic pommels I should probably get to replace the weak ones I have equipped. Plus Muspelheim has some ingredients I need to craft an enchantment I want as well as to upgrade armor.

[spurraider21]

Using the mist armor from Niflheim and have the blades and axe maxed but have pretty crappy pommels on both. I saved in Niflheim with a ton of echoes so I could open one chest, reload, open another, reload, and so on to see what was in each and I see there are two epic pommels I should probably get to replace the weak ones I have equipped. Plus Muspelheim has some ingredients I need to craft an enchantment I want as well as to upgrade armor.
for the axe, surtr's grip of the flame, iirc you get from muspelheim. in niflheim you get mistbourne. those are probably the two best axe pommels. i prefer the former. you should also have the valkyrie grip for the blades by now since you've beaten all 8. i think thats about as good as it gets there

i prefer the valkyrie armor sets to the mist armor, with the exception of the chestplate. depending on how far along you are in the story, eventually you get another dwarf favor at the end of which you can unlock broks/sindris dwarven armor sets. sindris chest armor is great. the mist sets have solid stats but the passive health regen doesnt do enough imo.

[baseline bum]

for the axe, surtr's grip of the flame, iirc you get from muspelheim. in niflheim you get mistbourne. those are probably the two best axe pommels. i prefer the former. you should also have the valkyrie grip for the blades by now since you've beaten all 8. i think thats about as good as it gets there

i prefer the valkyrie armor sets to the mist armor, with the exception of the chestplate. depending on how far along you are in the story, eventually you get another dwarf favor at the end of which you can unlock broks/sindris dwarven armor sets. sindris chest armor is great. the mist sets have solid stats but the passive health regen doesnt do enough imo.

I have Sindri's chest plate but it's not very good initially IMO. Maybe it gets better with upgrading? The valkyrie armor does upgrade cooldown so I might try it.

[spurraider21]

I have Sindri's chest plate but it's not very good initially IMO. Maybe it gets better with upgrading? The valkyrie armor does upgrade cooldown so I might try it.
yeah the total stats/level arent quite as high as the mist/valkyrie pieces (the NG+ variants all reach level 9 when fully maxed so you dont even have to sacrifice for choosing it), but the emphasis on runic/cooldown is what makes it great,

you're only going to do meaningful damage against sigrun via runic attacks, so emphasizing on runic/cooldown is the way to go. at least that was my approach.

the biggest flaw of sindris plate is that its fucking blue and is a very anti-kratos look

[spurraider21]

arkham city is a really fun game. there is way more content than arkham asylum. the riddler trophies are also much more interesting and dont feel like as much of a drag. only exception is coming across ones that you dont have a gadget for, or need to come back as catwoman to collect. those feel really dumb.

surprisingly, i'm still enjoying the combat... which i didnt think would be possible given the simple attack/counter system following a combat centric game like god of war. but they managed to add enough diversity to make it fun with different enemy types, different free-flow combo maneuvers. the gadgets are dont feel very useful in battle, and i find myself using them as a chore just so i can add to my variation bonus.

the side content feels bigger than the main game, at least so far. definitely one of the better games of the ps3 generation.

[baseline bum]

arkham city is a really fun game. there is way more content than arkham asylum. the riddler trophies are also much more interesting and dont feel like as much of a drag. only exception is coming across ones that you dont have a gadget for, or need to come back as catwoman to collect. those feel really dumb.

surprisingly, i'm still enjoying the combat... which i didnt think would be possible given the simple attack/counter system following a combat centric game like god of war. but they managed to add enough diversity to make it fun with different enemy types, different free-flow combo maneuvers. the gadgets are dont feel very useful in battle, and i find myself using them as a chore just so i can add to my variation bonus.

the side content feels bigger than the main game, at least so far. definitely one of the better games of the ps3 generation.

Did you beat Sigrun on GMGOW?

[spurraider21]

Did you beat Sigrun on GMGOW?
i had 2 playthroughs. first was give me a challenge, beat her there. it took me many tries, probably 3+ hours of attempts

then i started NG+ in GMGOW. beat her there too, but it took me a few days of attempts, no lie :lol

NG+ ramps up the difficulty on top of GMGOW. she has different attacks (i havent played a regular NG GMGOW, only NG+, but from what i've read there is a further difficulty ramp on NG+). like for the valhalla jump/stomp... she doesnt just do 1 of them, or 3 of them. she'll do like 5-6 in a row, and not only that, but she'll randomly choose between the instant stomp or the muspelheim version where she drops a fire bomb first, delays, then stomps. so you might get fire delay - fire delay - instant - fire delay - instant or some random order/combo. also the ice shard attack becomes more difficult to manage.

overall i found NG+ GMGOW to be similar in difficulty to GMAC. you just have to adjust and play even more defensive, but your character is so strong by that point that it cancels out. the hardest part of the game, generally, was the first few hours because you have so few tools to work with, and NG+ changes that quite a bit. with the exception of the valkyries. there were a different animal on NG+.

i do plan on eventually going back for a regular GMGOW playthrough and experience the grind, but with the understanding that the valkyrie battles will likely be easier for me having already beaten the NG+ versions

[Reck]

i dont think you can adjust difficulty upwards to GMGOW. that difficulty is all or nothing. you have to choose it at the start of your playthrough and once you do you're stuck on it. you can freely change between the other 3. unless im remembering wrong

do you have your axe and blades at levels 6 and 5? what armor pieces are you using? are the runics you're running fully upgraded?

You can bump the difficulty up to Give Me God of War at any point. You cant, however pussy out of it. Once there you're stuck at that difficulty.

[spurraider21]

You can bump the difficulty up to Give Me God of War at any point. You cant, however pussy out of it. Once there you're stuck at that difficulty.
ah, didnt know that :tu

so like bb said, you can just create multiple saves at the sigrun point so you can try her out at both difficulties without needing to play through the full game on gmgow. thats pretty cool.

though id still highly recommend playing through on NG+

[DJR210]

:lol i grew up playing consoles man, i only joined the master race within the last year, its all i know

The controller itself is fine tbh.. it's just you have absolutely NO CHANCE against M&K players. Zero chance.

[Reck]

All this god of War talk is making me wanna play it again. Might as well try out New Game+ on Give me God of War.

I'm gonna give the Traveler's armor a good try since I have the whole set.

[spurraider21]

All this god of War talk is making me wanna play it again. Might as well try out New Game+ on Give me God of War.

I'm gonna give the Traveler's armor a good try since I have the whole set.
i couldnt get enough of it. i had 2 consecutive playthroughs and probably would have given it yet another go if i didnt have such a backlog

travelers armor is ass. the funny thing is if you get the Travelers Armor + set and upgrade it all the way, you can trade it in and convert it for an enchantment that gives you the same perk and some nice stats. then its actually worth it. you can do that with the Travelers Armor, Tyr's Armor, and Ancients Armor (only if you have the + variants)

but its costly as fuck to do. all the NG+ equipment requires a new source of currency to upgrade, Skap Slag, and its much more limited than hacksilver.

[SpursforSix]

:anythingbutswitchisgay:

[Reck]

i couldnt get enough of it. i had 2 consecutive playthroughs and probably would have given it yet another go if i didnt have such a backlog

travelers armor is ass. the funny thing is if you get the Travelers Armor + set and upgrade it all the way, you can trade it in and convert it for an enchantment that gives you the same perk and some nice stats. then its actually worth it. you can do that with the Travelers Armor, Tyr's Armor, and Ancients Armor (only if you have the + variants)

but its costly as fuck to do. all the NG+ equipment requires a new source of currency to upgrade, Skap Slag, and its much more limited than hacksilver.

LOL

I figured it would at least deal heavy damage given the traveler's ridiculous movesets.

That's essentially what I did with the Ancient and Traveler's epic armors. I collected each resources for each one, made a save, sold all my armors for Hacksilver and then bought each of them. Rinse/repeat the process for each.

It's kind of a cheap way to get them but you still have to grind for it. It's one of the quickest way to get the trophy for each without wasting hours just for it.

I saw a video a few months ago with a guy using Zeus armor. looked badass as fuck. I need to look into how to get it.

[spurraider21]

LOL

I figured it would at least deal heavy damage given the traveler's ridiculous movesets.

That's essentially what I did with the Ancient and Traveler's epic armors. I collected each resources for each one, made a save, sold all my armors for Hacksilver and then bought each of them. Rinse/repeat the process for each.

It's kind of a cheap way to get them but you still have to grind for it. It's one of the quickest way to get the trophy for each without wasting hours just for it.

I saw a video a few months ago with a guy using Zeus armor. looked badass as fuck. I need to look into how to get it.
i dont really care for trophy hunting. if i see that after a natural playthrough im pretty close to platinum, and the remaining trophies aren't just a useless grindfest, then yeah i'll go for it.

you get zeus armor from beating some of the valkyries on NG+. which basically means you'd need a 2nd NG+ playthrough to have a chance to really use the gear meaningfully. its the same thing with valkyrie armor

[apalisoc_9]

All this god of War talk is making me wanna play it again. Might as well try out New Game+ on Give me God of War.

I'm gonna give the Traveler's armor a good try since I have the whole set.

Just play sekiro.

Entirley based on skills

[baseline bum]

Just play sekiro.

Entirley based on skills

So armor is just cosmetic like it is on Bloodborne?

[apalisoc_9]

So armor is just cosmetic like it is on Bloodborne?

Sekiro doesnt even have armor :lol

What matters most in sekiro is the skills you acquire and how you use them against certain enemies

[apalisoc_9]

Really the most important stats in sekiro is your posture. You can increase your health too, but the game encourages aggresive play that your ability to inflict posture via attacks and perfect deflects is what matters the most.

[baseline bum]

i had 2 playthroughs. first was give me a challenge, beat her there. it took me many tries, probably 3+ hours of attempts

then i started NG+ in GMGOW. beat her there too, but it took me a few days of attempts, no lie :lol

NG+ ramps up the difficulty on top of GMGOW. she has different attacks (i havent played a regular NG GMGOW, only NG+, but from what i've read there is a further difficulty ramp on NG+). like for the valhalla jump/stomp... she doesnt just do 1 of them, or 3 of them. she'll do like 5-6 in a row, and not only that, but she'll randomly choose between the instant stomp or the muspelheim version where she drops a fire bomb first, delays, then stomps. so you might get fire delay - fire delay - instant - fire delay - instant or some random order/combo. also the ice shard attack becomes more difficult to manage.

overall i found NG+ GMGOW to be similar in difficulty to GMAC. you just have to adjust and play even more defensive, but your character is so strong by that point that it cancels out. the hardest part of the game, generally, was the first few hours because you have so few tools to work with, and NG+ changes that quite a bit. with the exception of the valkyries. there were a different animal on NG+.

i do plan on eventually going back for a regular GMGOW playthrough and experience the grind, but with the understanding that the valkyrie battles will likely be easier for me having already beaten the NG+ versions

Damn I'd probably put a bullet in my PS4 if I fought Sigrun for 3 hours straight. First night I got to her I fought her twice and then said I'm done for the night. Yesterday probably fought her 20 times over three different rounds of fight, stop and do something else, come back an hour or two later, etc. After I got her to 5% and lost on something stupid (mistiming her valhalla jump) I was done for the night. :lol

Might not even try her today. I think I'm going to finish the main story and then grind for materials in Muspelheim as well as finishing of Nilfheim today and come back to Sigrun a little stronger. Might experiment with a Cooldown + Luck build to see how well that works with Sindri's chest plate plus the valkyrie gear for wrist and waist like you recommended.

[spurraider21]

Damn I'd probably put a bullet in my PS4 if I fought Sigrun for 3 hours straight. First night I got to her I fought her twice and then said I'm done for the night. Yesterday probably fought her 20 times over three different rounds of fight, stop and do something else, come back an hour or two later, etc. After I got her to 5% and lost on something stupid (mistiming her valhalla jump) I was done for the night. :lol

Might not even try her today. I think I'm going to finish the main story and then grind for materials in Muspelheim as well as finishing of Nilfheim today and come back to Sigrun a little stronger. Might experiment with a Cooldown + Luck build to see how well that works with Sindri's chest plate plus the valkyrie gear for wrist and waist like you recommended.
UNWORTHY UNWORTHY

i cant let that be the last thing i hear before shutting off my console :lol

[Reck]

:lol You are highly encouraged to fight the valkyries after you beat the game.

You're most likely under leveled BB.

I didn't fight her until beating the game + doing all side missions. And even then I took myself to Muspenheim to get some goodies and shit.

[spurraider21]

i beat her after all side content, but before completing the full game. games feel better when the conclusion of the main quest/story is how you also finish your playthrough.

doing stuff like trophy hunting after the fact sorta kills it for me.

[apalisoc_9]

Damn I'd probably put a bullet in my PS4 if I fought Sigrun for 3 hours straight. First night I got to her I fought her twice and then said I'm done for the night. Yesterday probably fought her 20 times over three different rounds of fight, stop and do something else, come back an hour or two later, etc. After I got her to 5% and lost on something stupid (mistiming her valhalla jump) I was done for the night. :lol

Might not even try her today. I think I'm going to finish the main story and then grind for materials in Muspelheim as well as finishing of Nilfheim today and come back to Sigrun a little stronger. Might experiment with a Cooldown + Luck build to see how well that works with Sindri's chest plate plus the valkyrie gear for wrist and waist like you recommended.

You're petty underleveled. I beat her at level 8.

[Reck]

i beat her after all side content, but before completing the full game. games feel better when the conclusion of the main quest/story is how you also finish your playthrough.

doing stuff like trophy hunting after the fact sorta kills it for me.

Did you go back home after beating it for the bonus ending?

And 100 percenting a game feels pretty damn good.

[spurraider21]

Did you go back home after beating it for the bonus ending?
yeah


And 100 percenting a game feels pretty damn good.
sometimes, yeah. as long as its not overly tedious. Spider Man felt about right. red dead 2 is nuts, for instance. god of war in between

[Reck]

yeah


sometimes, yeah. as long as its not overly tedious. Spider Man felt about right. red dead 2 is nuts, for instance. god of war in between

Agreed on online depending trophies. Those are trash and I tend to stay away from them and never do them.

The only one I did was Uncharted 4 only because the multiplayer aspect of it is pretty damn fun. Also there were only like 4 or 5 trophies dependent online play.

[spurraider21]

Agreed on online depending trophies. Those are trash and I tend to stay away from them and never do them.

The only one I did was Uncharted 4 only because the multiplayer aspect of it is pretty damn fun. Also there were only like 4 or 5 trophies dependent online play.
im not even talking about online. red deads regular trophies were retarded. having to play virtual dominoes and blackjack for hours on end until you get lucky... like having to win 3 straight hands while doubling down. what a retarded concept of a challenge needed to get done.

[Xevious]

i beat her after all side content, but before completing the full game. games feel better when the conclusion of the main quest/story is how you also finish your playthrough.

doing stuff like trophy hunting after the fact sorta kills it for me.
Without spoilers, did you go home after beating the game?

[baseline bum]

Persona 5 now $20 MSRP

1114242935933923328

[Reck]

Persona 5 now $20 MSRP

1114242935933923328

Damn I shamelessly stopped playing this game 3 hours in. I'm going to have to delete the save file and start anew.

[apalisoc_9]

i beat her after all side content, but before completing the full game. games feel better when the conclusion of the main quest/story is how you also finish your playthrough.

doing stuff like trophy hunting after the fact sorta kills it for me.


Damn I shamelessly stopped playing this game 3 hours in. I'm going to have to delete the save file and start anew.

Son play sekiro first.

P5 took me 120hrs and i finished maybe like 50$ of it.

[spurraider21]

Without spoilers, did you go home after beating the game?
yes

[apalisoc_9]

Morgana: Go to sleep!!!:devil

[Xevious]

Morgana: Go to sleep!!!:devil
Hey! Aren't you tired?

[Leetonidas]

Bout to fuck that fire bull up in Sekiro. I almost got his bitch ass on the first try. That guy on the horse guarding the castle gate was surprisingly easy

[baseline bum]

Fuck me. I got Sigrun to 1/2 of a single health bar at least ten times now. I'm closing this shit like fucking DeRozan.

[baseline bum]

Damn I shamelessly stopped playing this game 3 hours in. I'm going to have to delete the save file and start anew.

First three hours are super slow, as is the case for any Persona game from PS2 era and on.

[baseline bum]

Also still getting fucked going into rage mode when locking on.

[apalisoc_9]

Bout to fuck that fire bull up in Sekiro. I almost got his bitch ass on the first try. That guy on the horse guarding the castle gate was surprisingly easy

Damn brah. I died like 15 times with that guy

[DJR210]

:lmao Ghosts of Tsushima cancelled

Must have realized it couldn't run on shit hardware lol

[baseline bum]

:lmao Ghosts of Tsushima cancelled

Must have realized it couldn't run on shit hardware lol

April Fools was Monday bro

[DJR210]

April Fools was Monday bro

God damnit don't tell me it was an AFJ

[baseline bum]

God damnit don't tell me it was an AFJ

Did you also see the Nintendo Direct with Fallout 77? :lol

[Reck]

God damnit don't tell me it was an AFJ

Damn son, this is such an Avante like mistake. :lol

[DJR210]

Damn son, this is such an Avante like mistake. :lol

Avante never owns his mistakes, he glorifies them and brags about his conquests

[baseline bum]

Damn Octopath Traveler just got rated for PC in Korea

[baseline bum]

Finally beat Sigrun on Give Me a Challenge and got the platinum. Now I'm done with this fucking game for a while. :lol

Amazing game, prob edges out Horizon Zero Dawn for 3rd on my list of top PS4 exclusives behind Bloodborne and Persona 5.

Also got 52/51 ravens :lol

I'd say the second most challenging part of the game on that difficulty is the Magni & Modi boss fight and the third would be the second realm tear in Niflheim where you fight three revenants and one is constantly calling in nightmares.

[baseline bum]

Too bad no DLC will be made for God of War. Guess they're holding shit out for the sequel on PS5.

[Joseph Kony]

Damn brah. I died like 15 times with that guy
guy on the horse or the fire bull? horse guy was cake, fire bull has been slightly more difficult

[baseline bum]

Rumor that Red Dead Redemption 2 for PC will be announced on April 22nd as an Epic Games Store exclusive with a July 9th release date.

[apalisoc_9]

guy on the horse or the fire bull? horse guy was cake, fire bull has been slightly more difficult

Bull. Was trying too much to parry.

[Reck]

Finally beat Sigrun on Give Me a Challenge and got the platinum. Now I'm done with this fucking game for a while. :lol

Amazing game, prob edges out Horizon Zero Dawn for 3rd on my list of top PS4 exclusives behind Bloodborne and Persona 5.

Also got 52/51 ravens :lol

I'd say the second most challenging part of the game on that difficulty is the Magni & Modi boss fight and the third would be the second realm tear in Niflheim where you fight three revenants and one is constantly calling in nightmares.

Congrats. That was a quick turnaround for the plat.

This game is one of the few games where I actually looked forward and loved collecting every single thing and uncovering the entire map. I never felt bored or uninterested.

[NASpurs]

guy on the horse or the fire bull? horse guy was cake, fire bull has been slightly more difficult


Bull. Was trying too much to parry.

Don't know why but the Bull was easier than the guy on the horse and the guy on the horse was fucking easy. I figured it out early that if you sprinted towards the ass end of the bull and kept attacking its back side, that it was going to be an easy fight. The guy on the horse was just time consuming if you kept looking for the icon to grapple attack him.

I still haven't killed the Butterfly lady yet though or the headless one.

[apalisoc_9]

Don't know why but the Bull was easier than the guy on the horse and the guy on the horse was fucking easy. I figured it out early that if you sprinted towards the ass end of the bull and kept attacking its back side, that it was going to be an easy fight. The guy on the horse was just time consuming if you kept looking for the icon to grapple attack him.

I still haven't killed the Butterfly lady yet though or the headless one.

If you're at the headless part (im not there yet) you're probably super strong now for lady butterfly. Id just fight her now and get over it.

[Reck]

So you can skip bosses until you're strong enough?

[NASpurs]

If you're at the headless part (im not there yet) you're probably super strong now for lady butterfly. Id just fight her now and get over it.

Yeah I reached a merchant and fighting zombies now... feels like I'm in various forks on the road right now after beating the fire bull. I'm going to backtrack now to lady butterfly.

[NASpurs]

So you can skip bosses until you're strong enough?

I wouldn't say you're skipping them because bosses require to be beaten to progress the story but there are a couple of forks in the game where you can fast travel and try a different area if you choose, a little like Dark Souls 1 and come back later.

You can totally miss some mini-bosses though if you're not looking for them it seems like. That's the vibe I'm getting.

[Joseph Kony]

Don't know why but the Bull was easier than the guy on the horse and the guy on the horse was fucking easy. I figured it out early that if you sprinted towards the ass end of the bull and kept attacking its back side, that it was going to be an easy fight. The guy on the horse was just time consuming if you kept looking for the icon to grapple attack him.

I still haven't killed the Butterfly lady yet though or the headless one.

i realized afterward i could have purchased the firecracker mod for the prosthetic which makes the fight with the bull much easier. oh well :lol

[baseline bum]

Figured I'd try something new after God of War, so started up Persona 3 FES.

[apalisoc_9]

What Im really liking with sekiro..you can fight boses in whatever order you want :hungry:

[baseline bum]

Wow God of War was much longer than I thought. Just got the email from Playstation they send when you platinum a game and it told me I had 97 hours in it. howlongtobeat.com says it's 50 1/2 hours for completionists. :lol

[apalisoc_9]

97 hrs? Damn you love roaming..

I was at 62 hrs. And just needed 20 raves for a platinum

[Reck]

Is that something new they're doing? I never got any emails telling me when I platted or how long it took me. :lol I feel left out.

[baseline bum]

Is that something new they're doing? I never got any emails telling me when I platted or how long it took me. :lol I feel left out.

Maybe it's only first and second party games. I got an email for platting GOW and Horizon, but not for NieR Automata and Persona 5.

[spurraider21]

God damnit don't tell me it was an AFJ
just get a ps4

[DJR210]

just get a ps4

Nah

[spurraider21]

Maybe it's only first and second party games. I got an email for platting GOW and Horizon, but not for NieR Automata and Persona 5.
im curious to see where i'm at, though i didnt a second playthrough. id have to hunt for odins ravens and some artifacts.

also fyi you get the Retribution pommel at the end for beating Sigrun iirc, and that makes your L2 + R1 axe toss really powerful, and it basically flies in a straight line with no gravity effect. it makes solving the bell puzzles and hitting ravens so much easier. you dont need to worry about trajectory. i used it throughout my NG+ playthrough but switched it for Surtr's grip before valkyrie battles

[apalisoc_9]

Maybe it's only first and second party games. I got an email for platting GOW and Horizon, but not for NieR Automata and Persona 5.

Only first party I think.

I got the same email for Spiderman, GOW and Horizon.

And horizon sent you a special wallpaper for getting platinum but I got horizon during release so maybe not now.

[baseline bum]

Nah

OK get a PS5

[DJR210]

OK get a PS5

It's a more realistic possibility..

[spurraider21]

Hmm just checked my trophy list for GoW... need to get the artifacts one, treasure maps, and odins ravens. Of course the typical open world fetch collections. I’ll do that when i eventually go back for another play through

gonna jump into horizon next

[apalisoc_9]

Hmm just checked my trophy list for GoW... need to get the artifacts one, treasure maps, and odins ravens. Of course the typical open world fetch collections. I’ll do that when i eventually go back for another play through

gonna jump into horizon next

Man stop it. Jist play bloodbrone or sekiro

[baseline bum]

Man stop it. Jist play bloodbrone or sekiro

Nah good to play something really different after two playthroughs of GOW. Probably the only time I'd recommend a game other than Bloodborne. :lol

[apalisoc_9]

Nah good to play something really different after two playthroughs of GOW. Probably the only time I'd recommend a game other than Bloodborne. :lol

Time for yakuza 0 spursrider

[apalisoc_9]

Dat neflix quality story in yakuza 0. Its what you need after a long playthrough of GOW

[spurraider21]

Man stop it. Jist play bloodbrone or sekiro
i have enough of a library where i dont need to play games i dont even have yet.

still have horizon, metal gear solid 5, fallout 4, a couple more uncharted games

[apalisoc_9]

Horizon...hnnnnng.

Objectively GOW is a better game. But Horizon is one of the est gaming experience ever.

I enjoyed it more than GOW

[spurraider21]

Yeah, i jumped into horizon. Still in the tutorial stage. Game definitely looks big. Massive skill tree, crafting system, etc.

gameplay/controls look like a weaker god of war but there seems to be more features and from what i understand its more of an open world than god of war was. It’s gonna be unfair comparing the two tbh but I’m sure it will be fun. Visually the games look quite similar.

I usually choose the default “hard setting” but given that there was an “ultra hard” setting i chose to go with “very hard”

[Xevious]

Yeah, i jumped into horizon. Still in the tutorial stage. Game definitely looks big. Massive skill tree, crafting system, etc.

gameplay/controls look like a weaker god of war but there seems to be more features and from what i understand its more of an open world than god of war was. It’s gonna be unfair comparing the two tbh but I’m sure it will be fun. Visually the games look quite similar.

I usually choose the default “hard setting” but given that there was an “ultra hard” setting i chose to go with “very hard”
Have fun. I like Horizon a lot better than GoW fwiw. I'm somebody who puts story over gameplay every time. And Horizon is a game that does both really well.

[baseline bum]

Yeah, i jumped into horizon. Still in the tutorial stage. Game definitely looks big. Massive skill tree, crafting system, etc.

gameplay/controls look like a weaker god of war but there seems to be more features and from what i understand its more of an open world than god of war was. It’s gonna be unfair comparing the two tbh but I’m sure it will be fun. Visually the games look quite similar.

I usually choose the default “hard setting” but given that there was an “ultra hard” setting i chose to go with “very hard”

I don't really see it as a God of War style game. It strikes me more as a much better Far Cry.

[apalisoc_9]

Have fun. I like Horizon a lot better than GoW fwiw. I'm somebody who puts story over gameplay every time. And Horizon is a game that does both really well.

Same.

I mean GOW is objectively a better game but Horizon has more potential specially with lore.

[Reck]

Aparently there are cheats in Sekiro you can use to aid in beating bosses. :lol

It's going to be hard ignoring them given the choice.

[spurraider21]

I don't really see it as a God of War style game. It strikes me more as a much better Far Cry.
i never played far cry. horizon has unanimously great reviews, and How Long to Beat has it being significantly longer than God of War. closer to red dead 2. that scale gives a lot more room for lore and probably has a lot more side content (but its a quality vs quantity thing... god of war's side content was outstanding quality wise and none of them felt like petty fetch quests)

at least visually, this game looks a lot like god of war so far (facial expressions/motion capture dont look nearly as good, child aloy looks like she has downs tbh). i only played the intro tutorial though up until aloy became an adult.

[SpursforSix]

Downs Syndrome bad now.

[baseline bum]

i never played far cry. horizon has unanimously great reviews, and How Long to Beat has it being significantly longer than God of War. closer to red dead 2. that scale gives a lot more room for lore and probably has a lot more side content (but its a quality vs quantity thing... god of war's side content was outstanding quality wise and none of them felt like petty fetch quests)

at least visually, this game looks a lot like god of war so far (facial expressions/motion capture dont look nearly as good, child aloy looks like she has downs tbh). i only played the intro tutorial though up until aloy became an adult.

I put 80 hours into it, but that was before the The Frozen Wilds DLC, while I put 97 hours into God of War.

[apalisoc_9]

I got platinum in 64 hrs for HZD and around 67 for GOW.

They're practically the same size..

Lol ringed the bell in Sekiro and tried to fight a boss at higher difficulty. Bad bad choice.

I'll wait for NG+ before I start playing at the highest difficulty

[spurraider21]

interesting. i do like the skill tree setup in games (like horizon, god of war, spiderman) as opposed to full on RPG games where you have to carefully pick and choose your perks/abilities like fallout. maybe just cause i'm a noob who's scared of making decisions like that, but tbh i hate when im new at a game, so i have no feel for which abilities will/wont be useful, and make some poor decisions early on that i regret for the remaining 50+ hours of gameplay. after the tutorial you have 3 skill points. i chose the stealth kill, concentration (zoom + slow time when aiming), and hunters reflex (slows time while aiming and jumping/sliding).

then again, creating different builds gives replay value in theory

[apalisoc_9]

interesting. i do like the skill tree setup in games (like horizon, god of war, spiderman) as opposed to full on RPG games where you have to carefully pick and choose your perks/abilities like fallout. maybe just cause i'm a noob who's scared of making decisions like that, but tbh i hate when im new at a game, so i have no feel for which abilities will/wont be useful, and make some poor decisions early on that i regret for the remaining 50+ hours of gameplay. after the tutorial you have 3 skill points. i chose the stealth kill, concentration (zoom + slow time when aiming), and hunters reflex (slows time while aiming and jumping/sliding).

then again, creating different builds gives replay value in theory

You're going to enjoy Horizon man.

Wish I can relive horizon again.

But yeah get the stealth skill. Pretty important early on.

[Reck]

With games I am looking to platinum I usually go to playstation trophies to get an idea of how long it would take.

For example, persona 5 has an average of 100 hours to plat so I said no thanks despite the game having an otherwise easy difficulty.

[Xevious]

interesting. i do like the skill tree setup in games (like horizon, god of war, spiderman) as opposed to full on RPG games where you have to carefully pick and choose your perks/abilities like fallout. maybe just cause i'm a noob who's scared of making decisions like that, but tbh i hate when im new at a game, so i have no feel for which abilities will/wont be useful, and make some poor decisions early on that i regret for the remaining 50+ hours of gameplay. after the tutorial you have 3 skill points. i chose the stealth kill, concentration (zoom + slow time when aiming), and hunters reflex (slows time while aiming and jumping/sliding).

then again, creating different builds gives replay value in theory
You'll max all three trees iirc. So it's just a matter of what you want first.

[baseline bum]

With games I am looking to platinum I usually go to playstation trophies to get an idea of how long it would take.

For example, persona 5 has an average of 100 hours to plat so I said no thanks despite the game having an otherwise easy difficulty.

There is no way you could platinum Persona 5 in 100 hours unless you're strictly following a guide.

[spurraider21]

apparently back in the summer santa monica studios shared a graphic of user stats in God of War... among them was the Sigrun's kill/death ratio against players :lmao

give me a story - 12:1
give me a balanced experience - 34:1
give me a challenge - 36:1
give me a god of war - 100:1

thats hilarious tbh

[diego]

Started playing sekiro with a friend over drinks and doobies, my buddy isn't much of a gamer, mostly skipped texts and we died a lot but made it to the horse guy... We must have missed a bunch of stuff because I can barely get his first hit point. Is there gear and skills and such to upgrade or am I just terrible at this :lol
Think I'll start a fresh game rather than continue, don't really understand the mechanics or story so far

[Joseph Kony]

Started playing sekiro with a friend over drinks and doobies, my buddy isn't much of a gamer, mostly skipped texts and we died a lot but made it to the horse guy... We must have missed a bunch of stuff because I can barely get his first hit point. Is there gear and skills and such to upgrade or am I just terrible at this :lol
Think I'll start a fresh game rather than continue, don't really understand the mechanics or story so far

im guessing you didnt pray at the first statue and travel to the estate then? the horse guy is one of the easier mini bosses. just parry his attacks, try to grapple towards him, and attack aggressively

[diego]

No didn't travel just kept going... I had assumed you couldn't parry his hits, think that's the clue I was missing, thx

[apalisoc_9]

No didn't travel just kept going... I had assumed you couldn't parry his hits, think that's the clue I was missing, thx

If you see some weird japanese symbol, thats a sign its unblockeabke. Otherwise. Parry, parry, parry.

This game wants you to constantly be on action either blocking, or attacking.

[apalisoc_9]

apparently back in the summer santa monica studios shared a graphic of user stats in God of War... among them was the Sigrun's kill/death ratio against players :lmao

give me a story - 12:1
give me a balanced experience - 34:1
give me a challenge - 36:1
give me a god of war - 100:1

thats hilarious tbh

Sounds about right. I dont know if took me 36 tries though but i died alot. Enough that i stopped counting. Im guessing i died 20ish times.

[spurraider21]

i played around for about 1-1.5 hours yesterday, basically doing 2 sidequests. maybe its a function of the difficulty, but the bow/arrow seem to be next to useless against anything besides the basic watchers. the striders are pretty docile and a heavy spear attack seems to fuck em up pretty good.

but the third type, the "scrappers" fuckin annihilate me in seemingly 1 hit, and even when i hit their weak spots with my bow, they're still alive, and then regular bow shots anywhere else do next to fucking nothing.

to this point ive been getting around almost exclusively through stealth kills. hide in grass, whistle on over, stealth kill, rinse repeat. i hope its like god of war when in the beginning you're fairly underpowered early but improves later. either that or this difficulty is just a grind where they're damage sponges

[baseline bum]

apparently back in the summer santa monica studios shared a graphic of user stats in God of War... among them was the Sigrun's kill/death ratio against players :lmao

give me a story - 12:1
give me a balanced experience - 34:1
give me a challenge - 36:1
give me a god of war - 100:1

thats hilarious tbh

LOL I wish 36:1; it was prob 60:1 for me. Though I did way better when I took your suggestion and went with the valkyrie waist and wrist and Sindri's plate for the chest and then set my upgrades to buff defense, runic, and cooldown. With the mist armor I was getting wrecked by that fucker.

[baseline bum]

i played around for about 1-1.5 hours yesterday, basically doing 2 sidequests. maybe its a function of the difficulty, but the bow/arrow seem to be next to useless against anything besides the basic watchers. the striders are pretty docile and a heavy spear attack seems to fuck em up pretty good.

but the third type, the "scrappers" fuckin annihilate me in seemingly 1 hit, and even when i hit their weak spots with my bow, they're still alive, and then regular bow shots anywhere else do next to fucking nothing.

to this point ive been getting around almost exclusively through stealth kills. hide in grass, whistle on over, stealth kill, rinse repeat. i hope its like god of war when in the beginning you're fairly underpowered early but improves later. either that or this difficulty is just a grind where they're damage sponges

Never played the hard modes on Horizon but if you end up playing NieR Automata (amazing game) stay away from them. The button mashing super hectic Bayonetta style combat does not mix well with two hits and you're dead.

[spurraider21]

LOL I wish 36:1; it was prob 60:1 for me. Though I did way better when I took your suggestion and went with the valkyrie waist and wrist and Sindri's plate for the chest and then set my upgrades to buff defense, runic, and cooldown. With the mist armor I was getting wrecked by that fucker.
it also confirms that she's a completely different animal on gmgow. players who made it through the whole grind of the campaign and all valkyries on that difficulty still needed 3x as many attempts as people playing just 1 setting lower. i remember thinking "well i already beat her, so how much harder will she really be this time around" and it took me significantly longer.


Never played the hard modes on Horizon but if you end up playing NieR Automata (amazing game) stay away from them. The button mashing super hectic Bayonetta style combat does not mix well with two hits and you're dead.
ive never really been into the hack and slash genre outside of the god of war series (not including the latest installment)... so i dont have that bayonetta/ninja gaiden instinct to go in gung-ho and try to fuck shit up. i dont mind patiently lining up shots and being strategic in all that. but it just seems like the arrows do jack shit. i know you're supposed to target the "weak points" like the eyes of watchers (and that one one-shots)... but there are other machines where i target and hit both "weak points" and while it does significant damage, they dont die just from that. i guess i cant be greedy and try using regular arrows vs elemental arrows.

[baseline bum]

it also confirms that she's a completely different animal on gmgow. players who made it through the whole grind of the campaign and all valkyries on that difficulty still needed 3x as many attempts as people playing just 1 setting lower. i remember thinking "well i already beat her, so how much harder will she really be this time around" and it took me significantly longer.


ive never really been into the hack and slash genre outside of the god of war series (not including the latest installment)... so i dont have that bayonetta/ninja gaiden instinct to go in gung-ho and try to fuck shit up. i dont mind patiently lining up shots and being strategic in all that. but it just seems like the arrows do jack shit. i know you're supposed to target the "weak points" like the eyes of watchers (and that one one-shots)... but there are other machines where i target and hit both "weak points" and while it does significant damage, they dont die just from that. i guess i cant be greedy and try using regular arrows vs elemental arrows.

NieR Automata's hack and slash is worlds superior to that of the PS2 God of War series.

[apalisoc_9]

i played around for about 1-1.5 hours yesterday, basically doing 2 sidequests. maybe its a function of the difficulty, but the bow/arrow seem to be next to useless against anything besides the basic watchers. the striders are pretty docile and a heavy spear attack seems to fuck em up pretty good.

but the third type, the "scrappers" fuckin annihilate me in seemingly 1 hit, and even when i hit their weak spots with my bow, they're still alive, and then regular bow shots anywhere else do next to fucking nothing.

to this point ive been getting around almost exclusively through stealth kills. hide in grass, whistle on over, stealth kill, rinse repeat. i hope its like god of war when in the beginning you're fairly underpowered early but improves later. either that or this difficulty is just a grind where they're damage sponges

I would say around 10% percent of the game stealth is key but as you open up more skills and start to have more variety in your bow/arrow stealth becomes useless.

HZD offers the best bow and arrow mechanic of all time.

I remeber not wanting to play because bow and arrow sounded boring but man its better than 90% of sword fights.

[spurraider21]

I would say around 10% percent of the game stealth is key but as you open up more skills and start to have more variety in your bow/arrow stealth becomes useless.

HZD offers the best bow and arrow mechanic of all time.

I remeber not wanting to play because bow and arrow sounded boring but man its better than 90% of sword fights.
I don't mind the bow and arrow... but man it requires a lot of precision. Back in the day when I used to play FPS all the time, I had laser accuracy. I'm nowhere near that right now. The machines move around fairly quick after they spotted you, and their weak points aren't that big.

[Reck]

What have been your hardest and most fun platinum to get people?

Hardest: Dead Space and God of War 1 and 3.
Most fun: Remember Me and Metro Last Light

Those fucking GOW challenges. :lol

[apalisoc_9]

I don't mind the bow and arrow... but man it requires a lot of precision. Back in the day when I used to play FPS all the time, I had laser accuracy. I'm nowhere near that right now. The machines move around fairly quick after they spotted you, and their weak points aren't that big.

Play on normal. I played HZD on normal

[spurraider21]

Play on normal. I played HZD on normal
if anything i'd knock it down to hard. i only learned after the fact that "ultra hard" difficulty was only introduced when they released NG+. as i typically play 1 below the hardest difficulty, i guess i can consider "very hard" to be the "hardest" difficulty for a regular initial playthrough

[apalisoc_9]

if anything i'd knock it down to hard. i only learned after the fact that "ultra hard" difficulty was only introduced when they released NG+. as i typically play 1 below the hardest difficulty, i guess i can consider "very hard" to be the "hardest" difficulty for a regular initial playthrough

:wtf

Yeah. The hardest difficulty takes a lot of cheesing, normal or hard is where its at.

Trust me the combat is amazing in HZD. So much so people were asking for Arenas..for a bow and arrow game..arenas :lmao

[Reck]

Why play on hard when your aim is just to play and have fun?

I only dab with higher difficulties in games that absolutely requires it or when I'm going for specific goals.

[spurraider21]

Why play on hard when your aim is just to play and have fun?

I only dab with higher difficulties in games that absolutely requires it or when I'm going for specific goals.
It’s typically no fun if your character is some unstoppable juggernaut with no concern of failing if you play recklessly. Harder difficulties tend to force you to familiarize yourself with the full arsenal of abilities. On easier you can plow through the game with a select set of go to moves.

its like playing a Pokémon game and just sweeping everybody with your starter cause he’s just so overleveled.

i usually avoid extreme difficulty settings until a second playthrough

[apalisoc_9]

Why play on hard when your aim is just to play and have fun?

I only dab with higher difficulties in games that absolutely requires it or when I'm going for specific goals.

Hard is fine. I think spurs was playing with the NG+ difficutly. Iirc they added a new difficutly into the game.

I cant remeber though its been a while.

[Reck]

It’s typically no fun if your character is some unstoppable juggernaut with no concern of failing if you play recklessly. Harder difficulties tend to force you to familiarize yourself with the full arsenal of abilities. On easier you can plow through the game with a select set of go to moves.

its like playing a Pokémon game and just sweeping everybody with your starter cause he’s just so overleveled.

i usually avoid extreme difficulty settings until a second playthrough

I didn't say play on easy either. lol

Normal on most games gives you quite a nice and balanced challenge. I quite like the games that remove difficulties altogether and just have one standarized difficulty mode for everyone.

[apalisoc_9]

I didn't say play on easy either. lol

Normal on most games gives you quite a nice and balanced challenge. I quite like the games that remove difficulties altogether and just have one standarized difficulty mode for everyone.

Play sekiro then but the standard diffuclty is :lol

[Reck]

Play sekiro then but the standard diffuclty is :lol

I'm reading too many horror stories about this game difficulty so I'm going to wait a while. I dont mind playing a hard ass game but there has to be a substantial payoff other than beating said boss.

[spurraider21]

Hard is fine. I think spurs was playing with the NG+ difficutly. Iirc they added a new difficutly into the game.

I cant remeber though its been a while.
they have easy, normal, hard, very hard, ultra hard

ultra hard was the NG+ difficulty they released later. i'm currently playing very hard (i typically just choose the one below the hardest). i'm probably sticking with it. it just feels like the arrows do shit for damage, which makes sense against mechanical beasts.

[spurraider21]

I'm reading too many horror stories about this game difficulty so I'm going to wait a while. I dont mind playing a hard ass game but there has to be a substantial payoff other than beating said boss.
like what a fucking blowjob? its a game. the payoff is winning. the more challenging it was, the more rewarding it feels. that doesnt mean it necessarily makes sense to always play the highest difficulty in a game off the bat. play it once at a level that feels challenging but fair, and as you learn the game better, ramp the difficulty.

[apalisoc_9]

they have easy, normal, hard, very hard, ultra hard

ultra hard was the NG+ difficulty they released later. i'm currently playing very hard (i typically just choose the one below the hardest). i'm probably sticking with it. it just feels like the arrows do shit for damage, which makes sense against mechanical beasts.

Oh. I must have played hard. Hard is the difficutly below the hardedst difficulty. If i recall i tried playing very hard and it wasnt as fun. Just play hard. Thats lrobably the difficulty below the hardest difficulty. Its up to you though. I only tried very hard for few hrs. Cant remeber.

Theres a few annoying enemies midway that i think is best enjoyed in hard difficutly instead of very hard.

[Reck]

like what a fucking blowjob? its a game. the payoff is winning. the more challenging it was, the more rewarding it feels. that doesnt mean it necessarily makes sense to always play the highest difficulty in a game off the bat. play it once at a level that feels challenging but fair, and as you learn the game better, ramp the difficulty.

As an significant unlockables and valuable items.

I'll use the Metal Gear Solid games for instance. You beat it doing specific stuff, you get rewarded handsomely with items you can use in a second playthrough---or third. Stealth camo, better guns, etc. Stuff like that.

I'm all about the perks and goodies. :lobt2:

[spurraider21]

As an significant unlockables and valuable items.

I'll use the Metal Gear Solid games for instance. You beat it doing specific stuff, you get rewarded handsomely with items you can use in a second playthrough---or third. Stealth camo, better guns, etc. Stuff like that.

I'm all about the perks and goodies. :lobt2:
improvement of your gameplay will trump any item/perk tbh

[baseline bum]

What have been your hardest and most fun platinum to get people?

Hardest: Dead Space and God of War 1 and 3.
Most fun: Remember Me and Metro Last Light

Those fucking GOW challenges. :lol

Persona 4 Golden was the hardest. Got stuck on 98% completion thanks to the Hardcore Risette Fan trophy because I didn't want to spend an entire 100+ hour playthrough just to farm for it.

[baseline bum]

Get in here apalisoc_9. Hope this pans out, as I fucking loved Ratchet & Clank 2016.



https://comicbook.com/gaming/2019/04/07/ratchet-and-clank-ps4-playstation-new/

More 'Ratchet and Clank' Reportedly Coming to PS4
By TYLER FISCHER - April 8, 2019 02:54 am

In 11 years, across the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3, Sony Interactive Entertainment released 13 different Ratchet and Clank products, many of which were fully-fledged new releases. Since 2013, it's released one Ratchet and Clank game: a remake of the original on PlayStation 4 in 2016. This means we've only received one Ratchet and Clank game this generation, which is crazy when you step back and look at how many titles starring the Lombax and his robot sidekick were released the last two generations. That said, it looks like we may actually get more of the duo before the PS4 rides off into the sunset and is replaced by the PS5.

During a recent episode of the Knockback podcast, former IGN editor and Kinda Funny co-founder Colin Moriarty, talked about Ratchet and Clank, saying, "You haven't seen the last of Ratchet and Clank on PS4." Now, this doesn't seem to be speculation from Moriarty, but rather a cryptic tease of sorts. How would Moriarty have such a scoop you ask? Well, during his time at IGN Moriarty led the site's PlayStation division, and in the process, accumulated numerous sources within Sony Interactive Entertainment, its first-party studios, and the studios it works with, like Insomniac Games, makers of Ratchet and Clank. In other words, Moriarty has his sources. Further, he's never been one to carelessly add to the rumor mill or tease something he's not 100 percent positive on.

What's also interesting is that Moriarty has teased in the past that there's a fairly substantial PlayStation 4 exclusive in the works from a second-party studio that hasn't been announced yet. Could this be a new Ratchet and Clank? I don't know, but it fits the bill.

Of course, like any report or tease, this should still be taken with a grain of salt. Moriarty may know something we don't, but until we hear official word from Sony itself, I wouldn't advise going the bookies on any of this.

Anyway, as always, feel free to leave a comment letting us know what you think or hit me up on Twitter @Tyler_Fischer_ and let me know there. Would you like to see a new Ratchet and Clank on PS4?

Thanks, Gaming Bolt.

[apalisoc_9]

Get in here apalisoc_9. Hope this pans out, as I fucking loved Ratchet & Clank 2016.

Probably a remake.

No way they're not working on spiderman

[Reck]

I tend to agree with apa here. I dont think any more big time game developers are working on big triple a games for the PS4, certainly not from ground up which Rachet and Clank would have to be. It's PS5 bound.

Also this particular line here:

a fairly substantial PlayStation 4 exclusive in the works from a second-party studio that hasn't been announced yet.

Second tier studio equals garbage in my opinion.

[Leetonidas]

I'm reading too many horror stories about this game difficulty so I'm going to wait a while. I dont mind playing a hard ass game but there has to be a substantial payoff other than beating said boss.

It's only overly hard if you're a button mashing noob that doesn't try to learn the mechanics of combat and strategies to beat certain opponents more effectively. That's why I enjoy sekiro, because it actually forces you to learn and is challenging but not unfair (most of the time). I honestly felt like Dark Souls 3 was more difficult thus far. I read those reviews too and it gave me pause but I went with my gut and got it anyway. But I am also someone who enjoys difficult games generally and usually increase difficulty to hard on my first attempt of anything.

But I get it. Crushing difficulty is not for everyone. Like I said those people who say it's too hard are not actually trying to learn how to play. They think it's FromSoftware so you just dodge constantly but it's not as simple as that so people complain.

[Leetonidas]

they have easy, normal, hard, very hard, ultra hard

ultra hard was the NG+ difficulty they released later. i'm currently playing very hard (i typically just choose the one below the hardest). i'm probably sticking with it. it just feels like the arrows do shit for damage, which makes sense against mechanical beasts.

Very hard is what I played it on :tu when they released ultra hard though I tried it and that is definitely hard as fuck. Fighting those mech bears on ultra hard is quite a challenge