What are you playing right now?

[Reck]

man, horizon is huge.
baseline bum i cant fathom how you could possibly have put more hours into god of war than this game. especially on just one playthrough. i feel like i cant walk 5 steps without finding a new side mission or a new ruin/bunker to explore.

encountered the first tallneck... really cool how they turned the generic "tower to unveil map" mechanic into something thats actually fun

It probably comes down to death/retries ratio. God of War is a much harder game from what I can gather.

[NASpurs]

Genichiro is ing my up

[spurraider21]

It probably comes down to death/retries ratio. God of War is a much harder game from what I can gather.

oh definitely. i'm playing horizon on very hard and have only died about 4 times to this point... not that i'm very far in. but in god of war i probably died at least that many times on the first encounter alone on challenge difficulty

[baseline bum]

man, horizon is huge.
baseline bum i cant fathom how you could possibly have put more hours into god of war than this game. especially on just one playthrough. i feel like i cant walk 5 steps without finding a new side mission or a new ruin/bunker to explore.

encountered the first tallneck... really cool how they turned the generic "tower to unveil map" mechanic into something thats actually fun

I wonder if time the system is in rest mode with the game open counted towards that time. It didn't feel like I spent 100 hours in the game. Maybe that's what it was? I forgot to consider that; it definitely happens when I play PSP games on my Vita and suspend the system.

[spurraider21]

Sekiro officially surpassed GOW combat for me.

What a masterpiece of a combat system.

definitely look forward to picking this up eventually. i know there will be DLC so ill just wait for a complete/goty edition

[apalisoc_9]

Genichiro is ing my up

Realx. Took me a couple days and maybe 20-25 tries

I realized i fought him underleveled though .

Maybe fight some mini boses first.

[baseline bum]

God damn the Persona series kills me. This logo for the takoyaki stand in Persona 3 with the pissed off octopus with a gun and a martini

[Reck]

This is the armor I was telling you about @spurraider21

I think I'm going for the build. I have most of what I need anyways.

[spurraider21]

This is the armor I was telling you about @spurraider21

I think I'm going for the build. I have most of what I need anyways.

yeah i know of it. you get the zues armor set by beating valkyries on NG+... which means if you really want to use them for meaningful amounts of time, you'd want to make a second NG+ playthrough

zeus armor also means you take absurd amounts of damage so it requires you to be aggressive and great at dodging/parrying

it also makes muspelheim challenges more feasible when you're up against the clock and need to kill x amount of enemies. i always hated the challenge of killing enemies within the gold circles. that was stupid. when the rings were pressed up against a wall, it was easy. but they always put that one in the middle of the area near the caves... i hated it

[baseline bum]

zeus armor also means you take absurd amounts of damage so it requires you to be aggressive and great at dodging/parrying

Doesn't sound worth it for fighting Sigrun then since you have to be really defensive and do your damage with runic attacks. Or does Sigrun hit hard enough on GMGOW on NG++ that it wouldn't matter anyways?

[spurraider21]

Doesn't sound worth it for fighting Sigrun then since you have to be really defensive and do your damage with runic attacks. Or does Sigrun hit hard enough on GMGOW on NG++ that it wouldn't matter anyways?

im not even sure theres an NG++ distinction. as far as im aware it caps at NG+. i could be wrong. but even on NG+ (gmgow) yeah sigrun does basically hit hard enough where it doesnt matter too much. usually she's basically a 2 shot. her big spinning aoe attack one shots. often times the quick unblockable stab has one shotted me too. valhalla stomp thing does like 70-80% damage. but from videos ive seen you can do just silly amounts of damage with that armor so its probably worth

and you get the last piece of the armor from beating NG+ sigrun, too. it's really poorly placed tbh

[apalisoc_9]

Divine confetti

Only thing thats stopping sekiro from a 10/10 score for me.

[NASpurs]

Realx. Took me a couple days and maybe 20-25 tries

I realized i fought him underleveled though .

Maybe fight some mini boses first.

I did that and ended up in the dungeon against Shichimen Warrior. Now THAT guy is ing my up That terror is so cheap.

[apalisoc_9]

I did that and ended up in the dungeon against Shichimen Warrior. Now THAT guy is ing my up That terror is so cheap.

See post above.

You need to equip yourself with a pacifying agent to combat terror and divine confeeti makes those fights so much easier but they're very rare. Fromsoftware expexts us to beat them in 3-4 tries

[NASpurs]

Realx. Took me a couple days and maybe 20-25 tries

I realized i fought him underleveled though .

Maybe fight some mini boses first.

Finally beat Genichiro. (and beat Lady Butterfly before this)

I got to the point that I fought him so much that I could deflect almost everything and do a Mikiri counter that ed his Posture enough that made the fight go by fast.

So yeah, I also beat him on my second day. 20-25 tries seems about right.

[Reck]

Finally beat him.

I got to the point that I fought him so much that I could deflect almost everything and do a Mikiri counter that ed his Posture enough that made the fight go by fast.

So yeah, I also beat him on my second day. 20-25 tries seems about right.

I think that's the ticket with games such as these.

I fought the Valkyrie queen in God of War so much that I knew what was coming, when and picked up on all her tells. When I beat her I only tok about 50% of damage which by her standards is like 2 hits.

[NASpurs]

I think that's the ticket with games such as these.

I fought the Valkyrie queen in God of War so much that I knew what was coming, when and picked up on all her tells. When I beat her I only tok about 50% of damage which by her standards is like 2 hits.

Yeah you try so many times you feel like a speed runner that knows a game inside and out. This mother er gave me a few days ago and when I finally beat him, it felt anticlimatic because it was so easy (only because I reached the point that I learned his moveset). it's all good though, it was really fun and never felt unfair. I always felt like I could do it if I tried enough.

[apalisoc_9]

Finally beat Genichiro. (and beat Lady Butterfly before this)

I got to the point that I fought him so much that I could deflect almost everything and do a Mikiri counter that ed his Posture enough that made the fight go by fast.

So yeah, I also beat him on my second day. 20-25 tries seems about right.

Nice. Lady butterfly was one of the easier boses. Im surprised so many are struggling.

My su ion is that most players insyinctivley try to dodge.

Worse thing you can do in this game is turn it into BB or Dark souls

[NASpurs]

Nice. Lady butterfly was one of the easier boses. Im surprised so many are struggling.

My su ion is that most players insyinctivley try to dodge.

Worse thing you can do in this game is turn it into BB or Dark souls

Yeah her first form is easy but it's all the magic and the bull that comes with the second form that gets people (I imagine, it's what happened to me).

On her second form, you can either 1) be relentless on her and get a posture break while avoiding most of the magic and apparitions bull or 2) lock off on her when she starts calling the apparitions and just run around while avoiding them. Eventually after a minute she turns them into magical homing missiles but they're easily avoidable.

Yeah and I guess you're supposed to use snap seeds to make them go away but #2 is what worked for me. I never really used the snap seeds.

[NASpurs]

The Guardian Ape is such a great fight

[apalisoc_9]

The Guardian Ape is such a great fight

Just wait

[NASpurs]

Just wait

Yeah I know what you're laughing at that is crazy. Don't want to spoil it. I was like "wtf".

[apalisoc_9]

Yeah I know what you're laughing at that is crazy. Don't want to spoil it. I was like "wtf".

I have a feeling you're talking about phases...

Dont want to spoil things for you but you'll get caught off guard soon enough

[apalisoc_9]

Just checked. I still have about 6 boses to fight.

Ive played over 60 hrs and need to play NG+ for platinum. This is going to take a while

[Reck]

Just checked. I still have about 6 boses to fight.

Ive played over 60 hrs and need to play NG+ for platinum. This is going to take a while

The way you made it sound earlier, it was like one hit kills.

This game requires precision, patience and skill. Not just wait to parry like you were saying.

BTW, game is in my download queue.

Probaby will give it a one-night marathon treatment right after I watch the GOT premiere.