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>>51961706

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>>51961706
and another

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>>51962047
The icon for save

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>>51962660

>>51962547
wuzzat from

Yes, I know, i'm an eternal newfag

>>51962691
yeah thats about right

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>>51961706
need help on this one

>>51962733
You make me a sad Anon, Anon. A very sad Anon in deed.

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>>51962526
Mind degradation was an instant bonerkill, goddamit.
Also
>Sense Motive

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>>51963271

>>51963456
source?

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>>51963566

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>>51963574
for real? it's dragon pink

>>51963624
I think you mean;

>Improved Evasion

>>51963574
Dragon Pink

It's Hentai

>>51963466
>Not Duck Duck Duck WAAAAGH!

>>51963603
Thanks

>>51963456
"20+ random encounters for sleeping in the dungeon"

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>>51962526

>>51962390

>game of thrones

>>51963466
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>>51963654
Sauce?

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>>51961706
Anyone have any ideas for this one?

>>51963060
Nutbladder.

>>51962047
Why is your floppy disk upside down?

>>51964838
source?

>>51963654
S-sauce?

>>51963616
>drow, dragonborn, tiefling and elemental creatures in core rulebooks
>no weeb options available

This crap is why I'm forced to play old editions of adnd, because only there can I find players willing to play a goddamn human with no backstory

>>51963060
Hidamari Sketch.
Very gay.

>>51962944
DON'T WANNA CLOSE MY EYES~

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>>51967352

>>51966954
It sounds like you hate having options

>>51963630
I thoroughly enjoy this

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>NPC's with Character Levels

>>51967371
>I'll do the imperial fisting upon you

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>>51967371
Another mixed Splat books

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Need suggestions

>>51966709
A doll's hellish burial by Junji Ito

>>51967935
>Average Shadowrun character

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>>51967346
>gimpsuit fetishist
>as opposed to Ano's latex catsuit fetish already written into the setting?
It really doesn't seem that remarkable

>>51967935

>Patriotti Patriotti give-a me da counttri
>We will-a build a pipe to fend-a off da Koopas
>Syndicate Mob Boss

>>51964903
>>51966823
4chanX tells me it's Yozakura Quartet.

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Do you hear it /tg/?

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>>51968501

>>51966729
I'm not sure either x-rays nor alcohol works tha tway.

>>51968525
This would actually be fun to play

>>51968545
Alcohol can actually decrease the effect of ionizing radiation on the body.

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>>51968547
>all your battles are just pose-offs

>>51963542
I've often wondered if this picture was shopped. I mean, wouldn't that be really fucking loud? Even if nobody in the crowd is saying, "Holy shit that building is exploding" you'd imagine the sound of jet fuel melting steel beams would be tremendous.

>>51968716
it is shopped, look closely

>>51963946
>>51963967
What game is this?

>>51968418

The call to adventure, or the Call of Cthulhu?

>>51963271
Is this the new zelda game? With the amazon gerudo lady?

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>>51966954
>a goddamn human with no backstory

>no backstory

You're the guy who insists that when he rerolls the party finds his character (identical to the previous one) sitting in an empty room in the dungeon, and immediately joins the party with no conversation.

>>51963610
Would have had no problem slicing through such a clumsy weapon if it had been a katana instead

>>51968824
Or who brings half a dozen character sheets each session, expecting to burn through a few of them.

>>51963610

That problem isn't the weapon, its using it like a retard. That was the most telegraphed block in the world and he just let it happen instead of feinting or adjusting his attack angle.

>>51967551
That cop is way cooler than some lame faggot like batman

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>>51962526
I like how I haven't even read the replies or scrolled beyond the first frame but I already know this is a gender change fetish comic from DeviantArt purely from the artstyle.
Why do autists draw eyes so weirdly large? Is this how the world looks to them?

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Y'know its true.

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>>51968952
Because realistic proportions are hard, anime is easy, and basic cartooning advice is 'make the eyes big for expression purposes'.

>>51963583
You can tell this was edited by brown people because of the random, annoying replays.

>>51961706
I just want to see the rest of that Nature Show Video now...

>>51969148
>implying meme souls is a particularly hard game

>>51969021
Realistic proportions are stupid for illustrative purposes because art is to show details, not to mimic real life fully which can be done easily with a camera and a photoshop filter or two.
You really show that you never draw for commission before.

>>51969164
>Implying the vast majority of casual gamers are even capable of beating it

>>51969173
>implying casual gamers should ever be counted on or catered to

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>>51969173
Girls, girls, you are both horrible people with horrible tastes.

>>51963466
I IZ DA BOSS NOW!!

>>51967530
Source?

>>51969234
I'd read that.

>>51969085
What?

>>51969304
She's telling the guy to be a Hero of Justice and save everyone.

>>51969085
Sauce?

>>51968760
The new Battletech game by HBS. It isn't out yet, should come out mid-year this year.

>>51963502
Funny enough, that's what gave me my boner.

>>51969274
Alan Moore's Neonomicon.
It's trash, read Providence and The Courtyard instead.

>>51969234
Which book is that from? I'd have said Book of Vile Darkness, but it's not that one. Maybe a Pathfinder equivalent?

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>-9 HP

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>>51968990
What's the original say

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>>51961851
Kek

>>51969845
Don't know. Pretty sure that is the original translated image.

>>51969659

I always love seeing dogs get along with other animals they probably shouldn't.

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>>51968604
My GM for Shadowrun has bloodsport mage pitfights work like that.

>magically-capable viewers see dramatic spirit fights and flashy burst of mana
>mundane viewers see people posing at each other as the arena explodes and the fighters gradually struggle to maneuver and pose through their growing injuries
>fashion industry gets in on this, because armor won't do much good anyways
>hot charisma mages get sponsorships from clothing companies

pic unrelated

>>51966344
Meanwhile in Japan...

>>51970557
>R2 Dindu

>>51963466

I did this is Korea once.

>>51971051

I might have gotten this backwards.

>>51971147
Legitimate Heresy.

>>51966823
>>51964903
[Leopard-Raws] Yozakura Quartet - Hana no Uta - 02 RAW (MX 1280x720 x264 AAC)

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>>51963967
>filename thread

Also
>0 points in Knowledge (Wilderness).jpg

>>51971184

I think it falls more under the umbrella of Blasphemy.

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>>51968990
/tg/- Totally Gay

>>51971466
Nope. Blasphemy is speaking wrongly about religion, heresy is unacceptable practicing of religion.

Using a crucifix dildo is heresy. Claiming Jesus would have enjoyed it is blasphemy.

>>51969172
>art is to
I'm gonna have to stop you there

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>>51971633

No. Exactly the other way around. Heresy is pushing a doctrine different than the one pushed by the main authority of the religion. Blasphemy is saying or doing things that 'defile' the religion.

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>>51971051
I'm guessing from context those berries are poisonous?

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>>51970158
I always hate seeing animals play with their food.

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>>51971802
the one on top has cat ears too

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>>51971848
This needs a better name. It's basically just explaining what the actual joke is.

>>51971802
>50 insight.gif

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>>51971866
and this one needs a name

>>51969173
That doesn't make it hard, just bad. I heard for years how those games were super hard old school no holds barred bite the pillow I'm going in dry type games. Then I decided to try Demon's Souls (figured if I'm gonna try, might as well start from the beginning) and fucking hell, the actual game was almost easy at times, if you played smart.

99% of the "difficulty" came from abysmal game design where nothing was explained to you. What does that stat mean? What is this? What is that? What do you mean I can't upgrade this weapon to a fire based one anymore? Etc. The actual game is easy, trying to decipher stats and upgrades would not pass in any other game. Hell, half the time even looking up stuff with google didn't explain everything. I still don't know what's the correlation between the damage on a bow and the damage on an arrow. And the way upgrade materials are handed out (fucking chucks, man) and all upgrades are final, I'm not even gonna pretend I didn't look up upgrade guides to see what weapons were even worth pumping.

>>51971889
Some people consider having to do outside research to excel (such as needing to look up a build guide to stand a chance of being effective at high levels) in a game to be a positive.

Personally, I think it's retarded and a sign of bad game balance and UI design.

>>51971866
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>>51971887
"PCs meet the royal torturer".png or
"Tomb of Horror".png

>>51971889
the wikis for like every version of the game have farming charts and guides on how the math works by now.

at least demon's souls does.

>>51971758
>Monk, warrior, bard, and ranger

>>51971969
more like "The GM is off his meds"

>>51971758
From left to right
>Monk
>Barbarian
>Bard
>Fighter

>>51971969

Q U A L I T Y
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>>51971926
Trial and error gameplay and memorizing levels is also bad gameplay in my opinion. You're pretty much expected to die repeatedly until you memorize the best path forwards or learn the boss's signals, and once you do, beating them becomes a trivial exercise of exploiting their signals and knowing which way to roll and when to hit them. Bosses in that style of game always have some trick which can be as simple as "always keep to their right when they flash X signal, then hit them, then roll, then repeat". Rather than being a natural difficulty curve, this goes from impossible to easy like flipping a switch. Stupid people confuse this for mastery but it's really just memorization.

If I want to play a game of trial and error wherein you simply memorize a pattern by failing until you get it, I'll just lay down a set of match cards and match pairs like I do with my four year old sister.

>>51971933
The fact that you need charts in order to plan a viable build in advance is a sign of poor balance. A well-balanced game should flexibly adapt to any build short of deliberate self-sabotage - such as buying skills you have no intention of using - which is not the same as buying skills because the UI or stats don't make clear what is useful and giving no means of undoing an upgrade.

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>>51971991
'tis quite hard to find a game suitable to your skill level, m'lord.
*tips helmet*

>>51971711
Not poisonous, but apparently taste bad and is used for insect repellent. So, technically, the filename is right. A Nature check would say "yeah, it's not deadly, you can probably eat it", and a Survival check would say "it tastes like shit nigga, don't eat it"

>>51971711

The opposite, they're harmless and actually edible, but damn do they seem like they should be poisonous.

>>51972082
Please. I'm not one of those /v/tards who seeks validation by making exaggerated claims about how great I am at games. I'm simply laying out that the difficulty of these games doesn't actually come from mastery of its mechanics, just memorization, much like a glorified game of matching pairs. People who talk up their challenge and difficulty don't know what a real difficulty curve should look like. Instead of gradually building skills and challenging your mastery on an increasing curve, every challenge in the game starts high and then abruptly drops off to nil. It's poor balance.

>>51972024
look if you have complaints about the system they're understandable.

But the game was a throw back to older designs that didn't hold your hand. I don't have any issue with bosses having attack patterns that you need to learn and figure out especially when death is a slap on the wrist.

I have no issue with the level designs (save for a handful of areas in each game, I'm fond of how miserable the swamp in Demon Souls is in general but I find that game very charming over all.)

Secondly in most soul's games barring shit like 2's well where you have to throw yourself to your death a few times until you figure out a way forward navigating a level is usually not a memorizational affair but one of caution and common sense. If you have to memorize the level's lay out you're probably playing badly.

Thirdly creating a game where all options are viable is ideal but I feel that rewarding a player for playing the game wrong is one of the things wrong with the industry. If you can't be bothered to learn how to play the game correctly go play one of the mainstream games where they hold your hand through the entire experience.

Could Souls games benefit from being less opaque? Probably. But I never had to look up a build guide, most of its concepts were extremely basic and usually explained in game via the manual. A fighter needs strength, con, and dex or the equivilent stats in system. Magic needs int and priests need faith, both need mem.

Tl;DR
Git Gud.

also most of the levels aren't about trial and error so much as exploring and getting a handle on the local hazards. Admittedly the game punishes experimentation too harshly but whatever I like the whole package.

>>51971991
I'm not against those games, but they tend to be usually quick rogue-likes where you start the game quickly after dying.

In Souls games death isn't final but all your bad decisions regarding stats and upgrades are, and you can really fuck yourself if you don't think about shit. And you can't because nothing tells you what affects what and if you can upgrade that sword to do magical damage later.

I don't remember having to memorize stuff regarding enemies that much. Just basic combat of blocking and rolling. The actual gameplay I found to be pretty sweet and if something gave you trouble, there's always some way to cheat. I made a faith build and ended up killing majority of the bosses and tough enemies with a bow from a safe location.

>>51971835

>Kender? What do Kender ave to do with /fit/? I don't ge-
>Oh

>>51971848

>Multiple crit 1's one Charisma.jpg
>Taking Performance (Singing) but dumping Knowledge (Singing history)
>Player in court intrigue game doesn't take the time to learn about the setting.

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>>51971991
I see where you're coming from, but in DS at least there's a buildup of lessons learned from each boss in the first half that makes you better at the game. Taratus Demon teaches you not to tank hits if you can avoid it, gargoyles teach you to manage multiple targets, Gaping teaches you the call and response you mentioned, Capra teaches you target priority and how an aneurysm feels, Sif teaches you how to deal with high-mobility enemies, and so on and so forth until you reach Londo and get the lordvessel.

Every boss after Pikachu and Snorelax is pretty much hot garbage, though.

With regards to balance, that's mostly the problem of mediocre localization leading to misleading tooltips and Resistance being garbage.

>>51969222
I thoroughly enjoyed this post, thank you anon

>>51972024
In every souls game you can waltz through the game without raising a single attribute beyond their starting value. You can beat any fight with virtually any weapon. Build and gear are just a crutch that makes the game more forgiving of your mistakes.

>>51972083

They don't taste bad really, but they have a bunch of tannins that will pucker the hell out of your mouth, kind of like a banana peel.

So it's a weird sensation eating it, the sort of thing that makes you think "I've made a horrible mistake, this will kill me", even though at worst you might get a slight stomach ache.

Apparently they make a decent jelly.

>>51972177

>Danger noodle
>Tunneling Ballsack
>Majestic Sea Flap Flap
>Nope Rope
>Honking Hitler

Those are the best ones

>>51963610

To be fair, Griffith kicked his ass in their first encounter. Its never really portrayed that Gut's GIANT SWORD strategy is the best. Serpico even came close to beating him a few times, and thats post eclipse Guts.

>>51966903
Kek, underrated post

>>51972121
>If you can't be bothered to learn how to play the game correctly

Most people aren't interested in mastering a game by honing their skills at it through several tries. In Demon's in particular, there's no way of reversing mistakes, other than starting again. And if you're several hours into it, the desire to do so is not particularly high.

>most of its concepts were extremely basic

How does the world tendency work? Why isn't it going up even when I killed the dark phantoms? What's the correlation between damage on a bow and damage on an arrow? What's the correlation between scaling and raw damage from a weapon? How do I know which weapon to sink all my upgrade material into, when I have no idea what the end result on each of them is gonna be and there's no way of reversing the upgrades?

>>51972227

>no Trash Panda

You have no taste.

>>51971969
>gellarfieldfailure.gif

>>51972121
"It doesn't hold your hand" is in this case a blatant cover for "It denies critical information" or "It expects you to memorize information on your own with no forward explanation."

For instance, let's take a hypothetical RPG called, just as a hypothetical, The Snitcher. in The Snitcher, you have to fight a series of monsters, will probably be rolling and dodging a lot, and the game on a decent difficulty setting is relatively difficult if fights are not properly prepared for. The game doesn't "hold your hand" in that no UI element will forewarn you if an enemy is too tough for you right now and it won't make it immediately obvious what an enemy is weak to (such as with a UI prompt saying HEY EQUIP THIS OIL NOW). However, you're not really expected to just rush into fights - you're expected to prepare first, by, say, researching a target, figuring out what it's weak to, equipping or buffing appropriate gear, and so on. It doesn't FORCE you to do this, but it does EXPECT you to - all the information is there, you need only seek it.

Contrast that hypothetical game that totally doesn't exist to the Souls series, where your primary means of learning an enemy's triggers and so on is getting killed by them or looking it up online ahead of time. If you prepare badly, you can get fucked over, potentially permanently in the case of skills and upgrades. It also doesn't tell you sufficient information about the skills and how they interact with what another and what is or isn't important - these are very common complaints and the reason why build guides are so popular. This is denying critical information and using "it doesn't hold your hand" as a blatant cover for shitty design.

Also, offering options and then punishing experimentation is fucking retarded. If an option offered is "playing the game wrong" then it needs to be either undoable, fatal, or FUCKING REMOVED.

>>51966344

>Is this a JoJo Reference?

>>51971775
That nigga dead.

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>>51968882
In Griffith's internal monologue, he goes over that Guts' only real option would be an overhead swing. He was planning on deflecting it off to the side, like he's been able to deflect Guts' sword with one hand in the past. So he'd parry Guts' swing and bring his own sword down on Guts' shoulder, wounding him, but leaving him with a reminder that he belonged to Griffith. He did mull over the possibility that he'd kill Guts, but he accepted that because if HE couldn't have his little boy toy, no one else would.
The one thing he didn't count on was his sword breaking. Webm from old anime linked because it's too big to upload. Uploaded webm slightly related.
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>>51972263
Eh, Serpico kept trying to start shit in areas that he thought Guts would be at a severe handicap. It worked for a second before Guts would always just muscle his way through the duel or pull a trick that that smug little Serpico never thought of.

>>51972121
>>51972341

Also, the attitude of "get gud" is a problem. As previously explained, it isn't really about getting good so much as it is about having foreknowledge. "Get gud" means reach the top of the difficulty curve. But Souls has a fucked curve, one that starts high and then plummets once you learn critical information (usually by dying to whatever new enemy does that you had no reasonable way of predicting in advance or knowing how to best counter the first time).

And you "get a handle on the local hazards" by encountering them, which in a game with a narrow margin of error often means dying and losing progress and time. It's not a real mystery why a lot of players find this frustrating.

>>51972138
Roguelikes don't rely on simple memorization due to their randomization. You die a lot, sure, but you die less as you master the game's mechanics and learn what sorts of threats you might randomly encounter. Unlike Souls games, it still has a naturally curving upwards difficulty curve, even if randomizing elements can sometimes make things arbitrarily difficult or easy (such as spawning a high level threat next to you at start or not spawning accessible things needed for progress).

>>51972190
You certainly could not reasonably accomplish that without having previously learned how to defeat every boss and enemy and how to proceed.

Again, foreknowledge and memorization is not the same as mechanical mastery and too many Souls fans confuse the former for the latter.

>>51972341
>The game doesn't "hold your hand" in that no UI element will forewarn you if an enemy is too tough for you right now
So not the witcher 3, which had enemies marked with skulls if they were way over your level.

I do get what you're saying, and I agree. I found Dark Souls fun the second time I played it, and I just marathoned the game.

The first time I tried playing it 3 years ago, I walked into the graveyard 5 times and jumped off the cliff twice before writing the game off as trash because the enemies just out of the starting area took 25 hits to down and killed you in two swipes, and exploring everything except a single path out of firelink that was surprisingly hard to see that there was a different way out. If I hadn't had a friend mention there was a different way out from the graveyard, I would have never bothered picking that game up again.

>>51972341
>your primary means of learning an enemy's triggers and so on is getting killed by them or looking it up online ahead of time

That doesn't bother me. Dying is not failure, dying is part of the game. I have no gripes with the actual gameplay, I think it's quite nice. My problems are to do with everything outside of gameplay with all the systems, upgrades, etc. That's where I need info. Knowing if an enemy is weak to fire is quite easy, hit it with fire vs. hit it with not-fire and compare the damage. Simple. Also, if the area is handing out loads of fire stuff, it could be an indicator of things.

>>51963466
And now they have a Warboss. Terrific.

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All /v/ermin get the fuck out and take your inability to understand how games are designed with you.

>>51972292
>Most people aren't interested in mastering a game by honing their skills at it through several tries.
I'm perfectly fine with failing in most games and restarting if it means I'm making mistakes with the mechanics due to still learning or mastering the game. All games must have some fear of failure, it's arguably something necessary in order to be a game.

That isn't nearly the same thing as a game like the Souls series that, let's be honest, no player picked up for the first time and never died a few times or a few dozen times in the process of learning basic things like how to counter specific enemies.

>>51972465
see above

>>51972464
Not TW3, The Snitcher. It's a hypothetical game. :^)

Unfortunately, I expect games to be fun the first time I play it and preferably from the start at that. Lots of RPGs (admittedly not including Souls games) have an early-game skill ghetto where it's actually much harder than the midgame because you don't yet have useful skills and upgrades, and that shit annoys me too.

>>51972424
>Roguelikes don't rely on simple memorization due to their randomization.

The pieces might get shuffles, but you still need to learn the movement and attack patterns of different enemies, the abilities of different weapons, what different spells and items do, etc.

>>51972526
>no player picked up for the first time and never died a few times or a few dozen times in the process of learning basic things like how to counter specific enemies.

Never, ever said anything like that. Just saying that if you don't know what you're doing with your stats, upgrades, world tendency, etc. You can fuck your gameplay or make things very difficult for yourself without knowing it. The fact that you got things you can't find any numerical info on, like scaling, is also frustrating.

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Needs a better name.

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>>51969481
How topical!

>>51968775
Aren't they the same, at a core level

>>51972424
no Get Gud isn't a problem. There's any number of ways to succeed in the games though all the entries are a little frustrating in that they change up the paradigm.

Skill is an element of Git Gud but as a whole it means using and abusing the system in place to succeed.

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>>51972785
>Queen: Cersei
>Royal Guard: Jamie
No way this could turn out badly.

>>51972873
>Skill is an element of Git Gud but as a whole it means using and abusing the system in place to succeed.

Which I've learned and thus lost all respect to anyone who says it. I always thought gitting gud meant having mad skills at the game and beating it with no armour nor weapons, never dying and never using a single healing item. Not just knowing all the cheap tricks and optimal upgrade paths.

>>51972785
Is the point that every choice is asking for disaster?

>>51972171
i need to get one of those banana mags for my strife

>>51972963
There's level 1 runs of pretty much every soulslike at this point.

>>51972161

Holy fuck some one actually made that. Wow.

>>51968775
l'Appel du vide.

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>>51973102
we weren't...

>>51963466
He literally WAAAAGHs at the end.

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>>51973243

>>51968885
t. Imperial Guard fagola

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>>51968885
Earth-2 was populated entirely by badass civilians, back before it all went to hell.

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>>51973146
I'm gonna need a source on that one m8

>>51973342
Trinity Seven

>>51963714
kek

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>Low Wis Mimic

>>51968768
alternatively, "zendikar"

>>51966903
10/10 2sp00ky4me

>>51972899
That's the joke, they're all horrible choices.

>>51972966
Of course not. What would make you think that?

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>>51973491
I am thoroughly ashamed I didn't get that until you told me.

Ulysses would be a fine scout though.

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>>51973491
>Morimth as a Mistress
>Sir Robin
>Rasputin as Physician
>Starscream in Royal Guard
>Abbadon as General
>Hindenburg Flagship
>Kennedy's Death Car
Yeah, it checks out.

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Alt title: Dense Paladin just wants to cook

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>>51973342

What was up with Dark Souls having funny looking enemies you could absolutely destroy you? First the Mushrooms, then Dark Spirit Jester Thomas.

>>51973414
That's literally what it's referencing, anon.

Though I think calling any aspect of Zendikar "awesome" might be a bit of a stretch.

>>51961706

What do those mantises do when that species of flower isn't in bloom?

>>51973709
Die.
It's possible that their lifespan is actually scheduled around the season those flowers are in bloom, or they may possibly change colours with the season, but I actually don't know

>>51973709
they dead. Little guys don't live long and hatch in time for the flowers.

>>51973275
>not "PCs figure out a puzzle"

>>51973709
That's simple. They fuck the flower until it blooms again. The real trick is suppressing their instinct to eat the flower head afterward (or during!)

>>51973609
wait, is that her panties in the last shot?

>>51973766
I originally named it that after a few months of posting in vidya generals, because it's pretty accurate.
Yours works too.

>>51973780
Yes.

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>>51973780

>>51973780
puffy

>>51973827
Sauce, pls

>>51973882
The comics are based on Bloodborne, dunno who drew them.

>>51973882

Danbooru says unzipschikage

>>51973826
is... is there more out there?

>>51973959
There's at least one more I've seen.
You could go ask /bbg/, ask them for more comics about bullying Maria.

>>51973959
There is.
Try iqdb.org or reverse image search or ANYTHING.

>>51973959
>>51973986
tremendous corpse molesting fruits, both of you

>>51974014
>Fighting Maria
>Fuck up and she counters me for a Visceral
>Kali-Mah's me through the chest
>Ah fuck
>Man this animation is lasting a long time
>She pulls me into a weird, awkward embrace
>strokes my cheek
>lets me drop to the floor
Not my proudest erection.

>>51968167
the fuck is that picture?

Like, who made it and what did they have in mind?

>>51974183

its an old timey political cartoon about the conduct of different european powers in their african colonies.

>>51966673
It's not, you put them in bottom first, the labels go on top.

>>51971835
I dont get it

>>51974183
Old school political cartoon.

>>51974183
>>51974226
Top: German
Middle: British
Bottom Left: French
Bottom Right: Belgian

>>51968167
>>51974183
>>51974226
>>51974241
From the top: Germans, British, French and Belgians.

>>51974232
When they mention lifting, they're talking about stealing. They're a "community" of shoplifters and thieves who delude themselves into enforcing the law is persecution.

if the kender part is the part you don't get, welcome to /tg/.

>>51971740
That's, like, the exact opposite of what a good pirate does.

>>51962790
The crossover I never knew I wanted.

>>51962790
Batman canonically watches sailor moon.

>>51973609
>Virtualoptim's ideal party

>>51974285
Not... Weightlifting?

>>51974389
Nope.

That's why she calls themselves petty thieves at one point. She's talking about lifting as in lifting wallets or merchandise.

>>51971715
Source?

>>51968990
sauce?

>>51971866
>bard begins building barricade

>>51972675
techpriests.png

or

Artificers.png

>>51971887
>desu kawaii slaaneshi

New thread?

>>51966344
source?

>>51972785
Who's the bottom right mistress?
She's a cute.

>>51974445
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=384

>>51975349

>http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=384

That still exists? And it updates? Memories, man.

>>51972785
What's wrong with Bane being a knight?

>>51975504
Well he might die if you pull of his mask

>>51975504

>Do you feel in charge?

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

>>51972177
>hot moose

>>51972341

I love hearing people call out Dark Souls on its shit, I can tell you one of the moments I was most angry at a game was in Bloodborne, I got to the Blood Starved Beast, and I was thinking "wow, this fight's really easy, he's already almost dead"...Then he suddenly gets a poison aura that just flat out kills me, because I didn't have moss(?) bound to a quick select because I'd never needed it before that point and had no way of knowing that boss would have that mechanic. That was literally the most cheesy thing I felt I'd ever encountered in a long time and just made me pad the game's time by having to make the long trek back and fight through the first 50% of the boss's hp again.

There was no way to amend my strategy on the fly, no way to recover, it was pretty much just a loss. I'm normally ok with having to learn attack patterns and get used to dodging them, but that was a super binary "did you read a guide ahead of time, yes or no?" mechanic that is entirely trivialized after the first fuck you and doesn't make me feel like I "improved" at all.

>>51975606
That's more merc than knight though; he was extremely loyal to Thalia.

>>51968418
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khQKlT6C-Mg

>>51976157
Dude, the whole of Lower Yharnam up until that point has enemies that inflict poison damage. You're told that it was burned down because of infection. There's antidotes spread throughout the level and enemies also drop them. There's even more antidotes behind the altar in the boss arena, you can duck back there to catch a breath if necessary. Also, it doesn't get an "aura" of poison damage until it's down 75% of it's health, prior to that it only inflicts poison build-up when it hits you, and by playing cautiously you can avoid it. Hell, even when it gets the aura effect, it's only when it attacks that it can effect you.
Plus, Blood-Starved Beast is an optional boss.

>>51976301

None of that makes that mechanic alright, Old Yharnam was burned because of the beast plague to my understanding, so unless EVERY bas EVER built up poison, I would not expect old yharnam to be particularly poison filled, and besides that, I don't remember any enemies even that did give poison. What I remember from old yharnam is a really annoying gatling gun with a bunch of crows and a bunch of werewolves in a small town-ish person that jump out of a door, and a couple of hooded mobs on the run up right before the boss. I guess maybe those hooded people gave poison? I don't recall, if they did it was miniscule enough that it never bothered me literally at all. There were also some ghoul-ish dudes I recall that were annoying, but I seem to recall them just being annoying because they jumped back a lot or something, not poison. Literally at no point in the run up to that boss did I feel like I would need a way to cleanse the poison, and it wasn't until he just got a FUN aura that I actually had to because he gave it to you regardless of if he hit you or not with his attack.

So what if it's an optional boss too? A cheap mechanic is a cheap mechanic, saying "you can just not do it" is like saying "you can just not buy a bad game", it doesn't make the game any better.

>>51976956

Sorry for bad english, on phone, rereading it and realize I desperately need to edit my post, but can't.

>>51968501
No really

>>51976956
The cloaked beasts and the werewolves both build up toxin.