What are you playing now?

[Enoch]

Deus Ex: HR.

 

Fun so far. Although it is far better looking and sounding than the original, it is also clear that AI tech has made only the most marginal of advances. (Although, playing this immediately after The Witcher 2, the visuals do look rather weak-- especially the lip synching.)

 

Question: Is there any way to deal with placed mines, apart from throwing something at them to set them off?

[Tale]

Question: Is there any way to deal with placed mines, apart from throwing something at them to set them off?

Walk up to them, don't run. And deactivate when you get close.

 

I also crouched, but I don't recall if that part was necessary.

[Deraldin]

Deus Ex: HR.

 

Fun so far. Although it is far better looking and sounding than the original, it is also clear that AI tech has made only the most marginal of advances. (Although, playing this immediately after The Witcher 2, the visuals do look rather weak-- especially the lip synching.)

 

Question: Is there any way to deal with placed mines, apart from throwing something at them to set them off?

 

If you can get close enough you can disable them. You can avoid setting them off by moving when they aren't blinking or by crouching and sneaking.

 

EDIT: Dammit Tale!

Edited January 30, 2012 by Deraldin

[GhostofAnakin]

It's probably a cheap way to beat them, but I've used the rocket launcher every opportunity I've gotten against the bosses and tougher enemies in Resident Evil 4. The only ones I didn't use it against was the swamp monster when you're on a boat and can't use it, and against the village chief when I tried to but missed and had to kill him instead with my shotgun.

[Enoch]

Ah, thank you, gentlemen.

 

I had forgotten that there was an option to walk slower, in addition to the 'crouch' toggle. I thought I was already going as slow as I possibly could, and I kept setting them off!

Edited January 30, 2012 by Enoch

[Majek]

Ninja Gaiden Sigma. I think i'm rusted. I can't even get halfway to the first Saving point on very hard.

[Drowsy Emperor]

Ah, thank you, gentlemen.

 

I had forgotten that there was an option to walk slower, in addition to the 'crouch' toggle. I thought I was already going as slow as I possibly could, and I kept setting them off!

 

I forgot that as well when I was playing which led to some confusion. Its because you're only going to use it once or twice during the game total and that's for mines only.

 

Really, the whole sneaking business in DXHR gets ridiculous when you buy cloaking. With a single battery you can always get to cover. Since the guards are blind as bats to anything in cover even when you should plainly be in their sight, you can play the game on autopilot.

[Enoch]

Ah, thank you, gentlemen.

 

I had forgotten that there was an option to walk slower, in addition to the 'crouch' toggle. I thought I was already going as slow as I possibly could, and I kept setting them off!

 

I forgot that as well when I was playing which led to some confusion. Its because you're only going to use it once or twice during the game total and that's for mines only.

 

It makes more sense as a "feature" when you think of the game as primarily designed for gamepads. Walking slowly is just what you get when you push the thumbstick part-way forward, rather than a separate mode or keybinding.

 

 

Edit: Actually, I thought of another HR question: Is there a way to regain charge apart from inventory consumables? (I still remember the first time I played the original game and got all the way past the Hong Kong hub before I realized that I could use those orange repair bots.) Do the recharging upgrades let you regenerate more than your minimum 1-"battery", or do they just make the recovery of that minimum go faster?

Edited January 30, 2012 by Enoch

[Malcador]

From what I recall, you only regen the first bar.

 

Trying to set up a nice mission in ArmA 2 again, without going overboard and having it turn into a raging battle. Right now, spending oodles of time just placing sandbags in a village to make it look fortified. Will have to investigate how to make the buildings wrecked as well.

 

A lot of effort for naught really, as it'll just be for me to play, heh.

[Morgoth]

Ninja Gaiden Sigma. I think i'm rusted. I can't even get halfway to the first Saving point on very hard.

Protip, tough guy: Set the difficulty down a notch.

[Drowsy Emperor]

Ah, thank you, gentlemen.

 

I had forgotten that there was an option to walk slower, in addition to the 'crouch' toggle. I thought I was already going as slow as I possibly could, and I kept setting them off!

 

I forgot that as well when I was playing which led to some confusion. Its because you're only going to use it once or twice during the game total and that's for mines only.

 

It makes more sense as a "feature" when you think of the game as primarily designed for gamepads. Walking slowly is just what you get when you push the thumbstick part-way forward, rather than a separate mode or keybinding.

 

 

Edit: Actually, I thought of another HR question: Is there a way to regain charge apart from inventory consumables? (I still remember the first time I played the original game and got all the way past the Hong Kong hub before I realized that I could use those orange repair bots.) Do the recharging upgrades let you regenerate more than your minimum 1-"battery", or do they just make the recovery of that minimum go faster?

 

They only make the minimum go faster. At first I was annoyed by this but then considering how strong some powers are, having multiple batteries recharge would break the game. If you could always afford to spend several batteries on cloak for example, you could walk through most levels in a couple of minutes.

[Enoch]

OK, that's what I figured. Just wanted to be sure that I wasn't missing anything, like I did before I knew about those DE1 charge-bots.

[Labadal]

Playing The back to the Future adventure games. They're ok, but not really challenging. I do like Doc, though.

[entrerix]

ok, got to where the crimson heads start popping up in the Resident Evil GC remake, and then had to quit because i was getting too tense to have fun. i love scary games but just am not cut out to play them anymore

 

playing resident evil 4 instead, my 3rd playthrough ever, this time im using the blacktail and broken butterfly only. shouldn't be too hard though, i have a lot of magnum bullets...

[Hassat Hunter]

Playing Borderlands. More fun than I anticipated it would be...

[Tel Aviv]

May pick up the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection this Friday. Y'know, for old times sake.

[Tale]

I was informed they fixed the difficulty spike on the first boss of space pirates and zombies has been fixed. Killed it after two tries, having done too many to count before. Now I have my first huge ship, whee.

[Krookie]

Got Skyrim over break from University...Wound up playing like 4 hours of it (too easily entertained by Gears 3 multiplayer), and was busy seeing friends and family for most of the break so I didn't really have time to get into it. Probably will play this summer when I can devote a solid amount of time to it.

[GhostofAnakin]

ok, got to where the crimson heads start popping up in the Resident Evil GC remake, and then had to quit because i was getting too tense to have fun. i love scary games but just am not cut out to play them anymore

 

playing resident evil 4 instead, my 3rd playthrough ever, this time im using the blacktail and broken butterfly only. shouldn't be too hard though, i have a lot of magnum bullets...

 

I must waste bullets or something, because I'm finding my supply of ammo is scarce. I've currently got the blacktail, broken butterfly, riot shotgun, and ... another pistol -- red9 perhaps? -- in my inventory, and all of them are down to their last rounds of ammo. I have no more spare ammo in my inventory. I'm a few minutes into Chapter 5-1.

 

I want the Chicago typewriter for my next play through. That way I don't have to worry about ammo running out. Problem is I'll still have to go through Ada's story before it's unlocked, I believe.

[Bos_hybrid]

playing resident evil 4 instead, my 3rd playthrough ever, this time im using the blacktail and broken butterfly only. shouldn't be too hard though, i have a lot of magnum bullets...

 

This is something the devs of RE forgot or decided to dismiss in modern RE games. Too much ammo, because of it RE4 & 5 were not as tense as there predecessors. What was worse was that due to the new perspective, you could save even more ammo.

[Drowsy Emperor]

RE 4 might have been a good action game but it was a very poor horror game.

[Bos_hybrid]

Decided to give

RE 4 might have been a good action game but it was a very poor horror game.

 

I don't think 'survival horror' was their intention with either 4 or 5.

[entrerix]

RE 4 might have been a good action game but it was a very poor horror game.

i disagree!

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_and_terror

 

resident evil 4 was not terrifying (like resident evil 1 often was), but it was plenty horrifying. the village chief, chainsaw villagers, del lago, those creepy chanting hooded guys in the castle etc etc were all horrifying in various degrees. the problem with the game is that there were few moments of terror because you knew that you could usually blast apart whatever horrors you would encounter. until that *thing* towards the end of the game that was nigh unstoppable and had to be run from.

 

there was definitely nothing remaining of the "survival" part of the originals though

[Drowsy Emperor]

Considering that the game is setting is contemporary, the almost medieval set pieces and monsters (especially the castle sections) in supposedly modern Spain were more amusing than horrifying. IIRC there were even catapults of some sort? And flaming torches? There are obviously plenty of medieval buildings still standing in Spain but the idea that today's tourist attractions could be the lair of a parasitic cult is a bit out there.

 

While the setting was a bit too wacky for me to enjoy completely - the actual gameplay was pretty good. I did actually play it all the way through so I can't complain all that much. I'm not likely to ever pick it up again though.

 

I still have to wait for the other testicle to drop before trying to play RE1 for longer than an hour.

Edited January 31, 2012 by Drowsy Emperor

[entrerix]

its funny, the only resident evil games i've finished have all been non-scary ones, RE2, RE4, Code Veronica, and RE5

 

RE1 and 3 were way too scary

 

same goes for silent hill 1 and 2, i love them, but the only way i was able to finish part 2 was with three other people in the room all getting scared as much as i was and it was a lot of fun.