Hello everyone. Hope the weekend has been good for you. This week I played more OG Rome Total War and Elden Ring Seemless co-op I hope everyone has a good week!

  • Moss [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    I finished Cyberpunk! So much fun, what a great game. Just drenched in atmosphere. The devs really knew how to put you in situations that just feel cool, like meeting a samurai in a black trench coat by a river in the rain. I thought the DLC was the strongest part of the game, Reed and Songbird are the strongest characters in the game, besides Johnny and V.

    ending spoilers!

    I really, really wanted to play the Johnny ending, because I think he’s cool as fuck and the vibes would be amazing, and I even started doing it. But it didn’t feel right for my V, so I reloaded and went with the Aldecaldos. I don’t love Panam, she’s fine, but the Aldecaldos are awesome. My V was a nomad and I always made choices with freedom as V’s primary value.

    Anyway, the Aldecaldos ending was fine, satisfactory. The highlight was the start of the sequence, where V gets accepted as an Aldecaldo and they ride out in a convoy. The raid on the Militech mining facility was very easy, and felt very quick. The Adam Smasher was the most disappointing part of the ending because it was too easy. I’d been looking forward to Adam Smasher showing up all game, and while he was certainly one of the strongest characters in the game, he didn’t actually threaten to kill me. In the anime, he’s an absolute menace, destroying buildings, and that’s what I’d like to see future tech used for. Having complex destructible environments and dynamic NPCs is what upgraded hardware should be used for, not photorealism.

    The ending was surprisingly hopeful. V left Night City and went off with the woman he loved and his new family to try and find a cure. I thought it might be more tragic, but I’m happy that this V is happy.

    I’ve already got the itch to play again, as a corpo, and make all different choices, as well as bumping up the difficulty. But I have many games on my backlog, most pressing of which is Elden Ring, which I’ve now started. I’m only a couple hours in, so any advice?

    • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      Elden Ring advice

      • Some landmarks are more important than others. In particular,
      spoiler

      churches and trees

      • Explore for a while before following the path of grace
      • In the open world there are some enemies it’s better to run from than to fight
      • Similarly, there will be some enemies in the open world it’s better to fight on foot than on horseback, despite it very clearly seeming intended.
      • If you’re having problems with dying in only a few hits, consider levelling Vigor to have more HP (it softcaps at 60 so you have plenty of room to start)
      • If you start to feel burned out during exploration of the open world, don’t feel like you have to explore every side dungeon. Far better to explore all the legacy dungeons and beat the game.
      • Experiment with all of the tools you have to find something that works for you. Some people get really elitist about certain things making the game “too easy” but the game is designed for you to use every tool at your disposal. That said, certain things (eg bows) are just bad.