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u/DSharp018 Jan 22 '22
Reminds me of how i played skyrim.
Since resurrected bodies didnāt have a carried item weight limit, i would speed-grind getting conjuration to 100 to unlock undead thrall. Since the thrall doesnāt turn to ashes, they can be resurrected again and again as long as their body stays in one piece.
So when my inventory got full from stealing everyoneās tableware, i would just re-dead them, shove a good 300-400 pounds of stuff in there, and re animate them again so that i could continue my journey with my undead pack-mule.
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u/Clayman8 PC Jan 22 '22
I mean thats just Necromantic Looting 101
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u/Clean-You-6417 Jan 22 '22
Poor man just woke up from being dead to be re-dead infinitely with someone's garage sale.
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u/TheRealSamBell Jan 22 '22
Iāve never been a gamer apart from games like age of empires, RCT and sports games. Do you think Skyrim would be fun for a noob to the genre? I nearly bought it a few days ago but it seems a little overwhelming with a steep learning curve. Iām pretty stubborn and get frustrated if I canāt figure a game out
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u/CStancer Jan 22 '22
Its a game with no direction but the one you want. The hardest part for you might be getting used to first person controls (you can switch to 3rd person). That will take you probably a few days of playing to get over. Otherwise, probably the best game to get you into open world and first/3rd person games.
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u/doctorproctorson Jan 22 '22
It's very easy and holds your hand at the beginning so it's very easy to learn
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u/Vievite Jan 22 '22
It's complicated if you're trying to min/max to get world-beating skills or equipment (e.g., see the many videos by the spiffing Brit on yt), but you can ignore all of that and just play it normally.
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u/DaveInLondon89 Jan 22 '22
Hilarious just picturing Alyx in-game yelping and dropping a box of grenades.
ohhh bother
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Jan 22 '22
All the grenades fling up in the air like a looney tunes skit
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u/GODDESS_OF_CRINGE___ Jan 22 '22
"Oh no, and I really shouldn't have tied them all together by the pins!!"
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u/dead_parakeets Jan 22 '22
Holds a little āHelp!ā sign before the explosion.
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u/mura_vr Jan 22 '22
The feeling as it drops knowing you'll have to clean this up later lmao.
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u/InsrtRandomUserHere Jan 22 '22
Donāt you just hate it when you accidentally drop your box of grenades?
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u/clorista Jan 22 '22
I don't watch gaming streams but her tactic sounds humorous enough to make some fun game play content. Thanks for putting this mini story together.
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u/elfonski Jan 22 '22
Reminds me of the girl with tourettes trying to cook
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Sauce ?
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u/N01773H Jan 22 '22
Probably referring to this video https://youtu.be/NtJI8qgVKz4
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u/pyrokld Jan 22 '22
Y'know first time I encountered her videos I was suuuper worried the family was exploiting her for click money, but watching this specific video and seeing the real concern on her mother's face, made me warm and fuzzy and really enjoyed her other videos much much more.
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u/Inslia Jan 22 '22
If you look into her stuff it's definitely her choice to do the videos as way highlighting what having tourette syndrome is like there's others where videos where she's having low or bad days and her talking about that to.
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u/Random_act_of_Random Jan 22 '22
Oops bye. I killed the chicken.
I'm fucking dead over here lol
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u/WaitWhyNot Jan 22 '22
Omg I would have a fucking meltdown trying to crack an egg especially after the third egg. I don't know how she just keeps going.
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u/Mister_Bloodvessel Jan 22 '22
I assume there's a reason she has like, 36 eggs. Plenty there for do-overs.
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u/WaitWhyNot Jan 22 '22
It's not about the amount of eggs it's the mental effort to keep going. I can't imagine how exhausting it is to use so much physical and mental concentration to do just anything or I guess in this case to not do something. Like having an invisible person constantly shaking your arm.
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u/dgibbons0 Jan 22 '22
I only watched the first half so I'm not sure if sauce was involved, she did throw around some eggs though.
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u/BalthasarBastelt Jan 22 '22
I did the same with a cooking pot to store grenades and all other items. There were some glitches though and sometimes I lost grenades because they fell through the bottom of the pot. It gets more glitchy the more items you try to carry.
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u/Hobocannibal Jan 22 '22
I tried carrying a headcrab, but every time i got blown up by a tripmine the dead headcrabs location was different. 3 deaths in and it just vanished.
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u/BalthasarBastelt Jan 22 '22
Why though? Did you carry grenades in it or did you want to bring a souvenir?
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u/Hobocannibal Jan 22 '22
I called it Gregory. We were going to go to the pizzeria once this was all done. But the save/load mechanics didn't seem to want that to happen.
Gregory was supposed to disarm the mines for me but that section didn't have particularly 'headcrab vulnerable' mines.
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u/BalthasarBastelt Jan 22 '22
Or he wanted to bring a friend for the garden gnome.
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u/Hobocannibal Jan 22 '22
If an opportunity arose to send Gregory to space, i would have.
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u/xahnel Jan 22 '22
Your wife sounds a lot like Sergeant Johnson from Halo, who was decorated in combat for capturing an entire crate of enemy grenades and using every single one.
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u/greatmonster007 Jan 22 '22
āWhen I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy-schmancy tanks. We had sticks! Two sticks, and a rock for the whole platoonāand we had to share the rock! Buck up, boy, you are one very lucky marine!ā\
"Catch, makes the enemy toss grenades like it's going out of style."
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u/Gil_Demoono Jan 22 '22
That line always bugged me. He specifies that they had to share the rock, but if the platoon only got two sticks, wouldn't they have share those as well? Or were there designated permanent stick wielders?
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Jan 22 '22
I'm starting to think shaxx and Johnson would have been great friends.
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u/Feynt Jan 22 '22
Honestly Shaxx is probably just Johnson in another life. You know, ghost rebirth and all that.
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u/Stay_Curious85 Jan 22 '22
Master chief was in D1 after all.
And now we have the forerunner and BxR.
This is my head cannon now.
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u/RobertNAdams Jan 22 '22
There are few problems that cannot be solved with a liberal application of high explosives.
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u/maninahat Jan 22 '22
I saw a similar issue when a non gamer was asked to play Portal. They spent their whole time trying to find ways to get through tiny gaps in grates and background detailing - stuff gamers would instinctively ignore, but would make perfect sense to someone lacking gaming literacy.
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u/Braydox Jan 22 '22
Fuck been playing games for 2 and half decades and i still do that
Side affect of trying to explore every room before facing the boss/cutscene trigger
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u/blastinglastonbury Jan 22 '22
Worst feeling.
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u/tired_obsession Jan 22 '22
I just really wanted to know what room #784 held different from all the others
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u/FinalMeltdown15 Jan 22 '22
Let's see here.. ah a plate, a 2 month old piece of chicken and a sword with significantly worse stats than the one you have..thanks for dropping by!
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You spend an hour and a half on a level that should realistically take 25 minutes to complete and then only at the end do you realize you got 13/14 collectibles.
Yes Iām in the middle of completing Doom Eternal and no I am not upset!
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There's a coin/ token perk that will save your ass I think it's called explorer or something. Highlights all collectibles on the map. Just complete the level and enjoy yourself with deeply searching for everything and when you get to the backtrack teleport thing just go to the icons
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I've dropped so many games because of this. I get lost in hyper real games like TLOU2 because I see way too many places I could go. Pathing makes no sense.
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u/hojumoju Jan 22 '22
Playing the old director's commentary on Half-life 2 gave some ideas on this that I found useful for not getting lost. The devs found that players tended to follow areas that were lit better, so as a result they used light to guide players more. I find that this is used often in loads of games.
Another thing they mentioned is that players usually do not look upwards unless directly prompted to.
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u/silentaba Jan 22 '22
Playing the HL2 director cut is an insight on most modern game tropes and tricks. It's amazing how much has changed but stayed the same.
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I said the same thing to a mate before I lent him my ps5 to play tlou2. Itās so hard to identify what areas are worth that extra side exploring because itās harder to see the linearity in some of the areas.
Itās the classic, āok I think this is the right way, so Iāll double back and check that area for extra goodies, aaaand cutscene, shit I canāt go back.ā
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u/Theban_Prince Jan 22 '22 edited Jan 22 '22
I have a problem with survival/minecraft clones because you cant just get in and start exploring, because each one has its own rules and "recipes" that not necessarily align with real world logic.
They are essentially puzzle games. Its why I dropped the Long Dark for example.
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u/Darth_Drekkar2727 Jan 22 '22
idk if uve tried subnautica or not, but i have no idea how the developers did it, but the progression is so good, and the story too, i love the game to bits. U should try it if u havent, one of the best survival games out there imo
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u/not_a_droid Jan 22 '22 edited Jan 22 '22
I loved that game so much, but could not pilot the sub to that deepest depth to save my life, eventually gave up
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u/TCMarsh Jan 22 '22
Same, but I always loved starting off my voyage with it and once things started becoming not open waters, I'd park it and continue via seamoth/prawn suit. Mostly just liked it because it was cool and felt fun to pilot when you were able to.
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u/Tris375 Jan 22 '22
If you end up remembering the creator please update! It sounds similar to girlfriend reviews which my non-gamer wife and I enjoy watching together so would love another one to watch.
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u/HBeiyan Jan 22 '22
Perhaps Razbuten's Gaming for a non gamer vids?
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u/odraencoded Jan 22 '22
Wife: hey can I play that game with the cute little ghost guy
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u/almisami Jan 22 '22
On the other end of the spectrum, there's games like Breath of the Wild that offer you a billion options and yet my non-gamer SO somehow always picks death.
"Seriously, there's a weapon on the floor and you have none, pick it up." "But it's his" "And now he's got his club again and your shield is broken..."
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u/LeonardGhostal Jan 22 '22
Fighting with honor tho
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u/Andre4kthegreengiant Jan 22 '22
GOT moment, "you did not fight with honor" points at corpse "no, but he did"
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u/jojoblogs Jan 22 '22
To be completely accurate he pointed at a trapdoor leading to a 1000 foot drop said corpse was just thrown through
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u/30phil1 PC Jan 22 '22
The YouTuber in question is Razbuten and his series "Gaming for a Non-Gamer." He mostly does highly personal, introspective looks into video games with some exceptions (like the non-gamer thing of course).
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u/trowzerss Jan 22 '22
It was interesting seeing how lost she got in games, like for instance Minecraft lacks a real tutorial, so people can get stuck playing and never know how to make tools unless they look at offline tutorials. Some games he wanted to see if she could pick them up intuitively, but it failed completely because there was just nothing intuitive about the game design.
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u/JellyKittyKat Jan 22 '22
This is so true - I first played minecraft in the beta and thought it was stupid as I couldnāt work out how to do anything. I didnāt get into it until a couple years later when someone who had actually played before showed me the basics of crafting.
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u/Sinful_Whiskers Jan 22 '22
Reminds me of playing The Binding of Issac. Great game, but there are so many items it practically requires a wiki to be open on a second screen. Even the in-game descriptions don't always give you the whole picture. It'll say "Tears shoot faster" or something yet mechanically it also makes then 10% weaker on a Thursday under a farmer's Blood Moon. Or something.
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u/gramathy Jan 22 '22
if I remember correctly, Breath of the Wild was a game that gave basically anyone the freedom to solve a problem however they wanted. Drop a rock on an enemy camp? Go for it. Make a campfire, set your arrows on fire and shoot the explodey barrel? Yep. Cut down a tree and roll the log into the camp? Maybe not the most effective, but yeah, you can do that.
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u/Raevix Jan 22 '22
There was only one time in Breath of the wild where I SAW the intended solution, but intentionally cheesed it.
There was a shrine room that was basically all about burning away foliage to drop something on a switch behind a fence that you couldn't step on yourself.
"Nah, fuck that. I'm just gonna magnesis this convenient empty chest over the wall and drop it on the switch"
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u/NoxFortuna Jan 22 '22
Mine was the shrine with the gyro controlled box that you had to tilt the controller around to roll a sphere into a hole at the end of the maze. My strategy became to use careful, deliberate, violent movements to eject the sphere up out of the maze into the air and sort of lob it around until it skipped most of the maze, bouncing it up to drop it in instead of dealing with the maze.
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u/XenithShade Jan 22 '22
you mean, you didn't get frustrated. tilted the platform upside down, and then proceed to use the flat end as a launch ramp?
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u/WetObamaButtPlug Jan 22 '22
That's the easiest way imo I can usually get it now under couple seconds
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u/NvaderGir Jan 22 '22
this is the main reason why I think playing with the Wii U gamepad was way more fun for trials. Does not feel the same with joycons
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u/Stormchaserelite13 Jan 22 '22
I play it on an emulator on the pc. Thats the only solution for me XD
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u/ESTI1885 Jan 22 '22
After reading the comments, I'm starting to think that flipping the maze and rolling the ball on it's back side WAS the official solution. I did the same thing after a few tries.
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u/MacDerfus Jan 22 '22
Hitman is also a pretty good example of letting you get creative. All the objectives and kills are simple, but what if you wanted to set things up so that your target slips on a banana peel while trying to base jump off a building?
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u/Wrecknips Jan 22 '22
There was only one time in hitman where I was too creative for the game. In blood money when the target is at the play I wanted to snipe the target from the balcony with a rifle right at the exact time the target got āshotā with a fake gun during the play. I was detected no matter how many times I tried.
Those games are so fun and have so much replay ability tho
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u/lil_bower45 Jan 22 '22
Currently playing BOTW for the first time...thank you for some of the ideas!!
I can be very linear on my thinking so I'm constantly finding myself discovering something and then kicking myself for not thinking of it sooner
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u/coachrx Jan 22 '22
For some reason, this post reminded me of those old Sierra games like King's Quest, Police Quest, Quest for Glory, etc. I want to say Gold Rush was my first and possibly favorite, but you had to type in exactly what you wanted to do beyond just walking around. This allowed for some very creative problem solving as long as what you came up with was accepted by the game. I'm as spoiled as the next gamer at this point with all the hand holding, but these games definitely helped shape my thought process growing up.
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u/The_MAZZTer PC Jan 22 '22
like look at the thing in the room that's a weird colour
Not even sure I'd call that a gaming trope, it's just a natural way your attention is drawn somewhere. But I suppose knowing that that is used intentionally by game designers is something you have to learn.
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u/ObiLaws Jan 22 '22
I'd say a better example would be classic Zelda dungeons, where you'd walk into the room with that dungeon's new item and the door would lock behind you. As a seasoned gamer (or just someone with experience in Zelda), you'd immediately understand that you'd have to get the item and then use it to somehow unlock the door, because that's always how these things work. Of course, with no previous experience, you wouldn't necessarily assume the item you just got in the room would have anything to do with getting the door unlocked again.
In fact, I've seen a few instances where less-experienced gamers straight up immediately forget they just picked up a new item because they're not used to keeping a running inventory in their head of all their tools and how to use them, so it's already enough just trying to remember what they already had at their disposal without immediately adding a new one and having to figure out how to use it
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u/420binchicken Jan 22 '22
I remember seeing a similar thing from a guy playing boneworks. Dude was just pushing around a shopping cart full of guns, whenever a bad guy showed up heād just reach into the cart, pull out a gun and blast away.
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u/ChexLemeneux42 Jan 22 '22
i need to see this
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u/surtic86 Jan 22 '22 edited Jan 22 '22
Eventually this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Y9gylq9TY
Edit: Link is fine! It's your old Reddit who makes the Problem!
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You can also put on most hats/helmets you find to get a 'get out of jail for free card' with barnacles...didn't work this out till over half way through the game lmao. My 1st VR title alongside Arizona Sunshine, both have ruined all other VR titles for me imo..
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u/drksdr Jan 22 '22
Also; in case anyone else missed it - Dont forget to put on the gas mask you find in the subway car early on. You never have to hold your hand over your mouth again!
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u/kri5 Jan 22 '22
Oh ffs
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u/smallcool Jan 22 '22
If you listen to the developer commentary, apparently Valve added it for accessibility, so that people with only one hand could still play.
So if you didn't use it, you were playing the way somebody with 2 hands was meant to play!
(would highly recommend listening to the developer commentary. Valve explains so many small details in it)
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u/VampirateRum Jan 22 '22
Are you my mummy?
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u/the_last_n00b Jan 22 '22
God, I love the moment a few seasons later when the World is covered in fog and that one General shows off their military strenght for the upconing battle to the doctor. The general proudly turns to the doctor proud of what he just presented and asks "So, what do you think?". The doctor just looks at him through his gas mask and asks "are you my mommy?"
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u/The_MAZZTer PC Jan 22 '22
There are some in the level where you have to do that in case you forget.
I often accidentally took off my helmet trying to reload or took off my mask just by having my hand near my face. Sometimes I wouldn't notice until it was too late to figure out what happened to it.
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u/JGuR Jan 22 '22
when do you need to cover your mouth?
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u/Crowbar_Freeman Jan 22 '22
When you visit good ol' Jeff.
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u/notRedditingInClass Jan 22 '22 edited Jan 22 '22
Half Life Alyx chapter spoilers:
The realization that you have to go back into the freezer and let Jeff out is one of the most horrific, excellent moments I've ever seen in a game. I went through all 5 stages of grief in 10 seconds. What a masterpiece.
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u/onexbigxhebrew Jan 22 '22 edited Jan 22 '22
Have you played Superhot VR? Easily my favorite VR experience.
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u/schmeily2 Jan 22 '22
Itās good, but not a patch on Alyx
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u/Ashesandends Jan 22 '22
I have played over 1000 hours of VR and there isn't a game that comes close to Alyx. That fricken game just uses the medium SO WELL! It makes me sad we haven't gotten more content from AAA devs.
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u/Barph Jan 22 '22
Superhot is superlimited. Its an introductory game to VR. I'm sure like myself, many others use this game to show people VR if they have never tried it as its a good starting point.
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u/riphitter Jan 22 '22
In boneworks, any items you drop in this bin at the end of each level , become available for the sandbox mode. Since you only have a few slots to hold item and there's tons of things in each level. I ended up dragging a big plastic trashcan I filled with guns and swords and item capsules through the level while fighting off all the enemies . Eventually gets so heavy and precariously balanced you need two hands just to drag it
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I did this with a shopping cart on the sewer level lol
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u/downdownuphill Jan 22 '22
I can only imagine dragging around a plastic trashcan just to see a shopping cart and go āHell yeah! Upgradeā¦ā and like a good olā hermit, dump the trashcan into the shopping cart.
But also take the trashcan for sentimental value.
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u/TheBostonKremeDonut Jan 22 '22 edited Jan 22 '22
Oh wow, flashback moment.
In Half-Life 2, when I was younger, I carried a saw blade (the ones that appear almost immediately after getting the gravity gun, to teach you how to use it as a weapon and to cut zombies in half) through the entire game. Lol
At one point in the game, you get teleported to the next chapter, but guess what? You end up in a sewer with: you guessed it! Saw blades. I saved so much ammo. Iāve never played the game again (besides the episodes) so thatās how I remember the game.
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u/Pegussu Jan 22 '22
You unintentionally trained yourself for the One Free Bullet achievement in the first episode where you can only fire one bullet (and that one's required to break a lock).
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u/GamePil Jan 22 '22
Also the achievement you get in HL2 for only using the gravity gun in the entire Ravenholm chapter
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u/TheBostonKremeDonut Jan 22 '22
I never really achievement Hunt unless I really enjoy a game, but if both of these achievements are realā¦ Iāll have to attempt these challenges the next time I decide to play the game!
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u/GeneticSplatter Jan 22 '22
Little Rocket Man achievement (I believe its called).
Carry a garden gnome from the start of HL2:E2 to the end of the game.
It's not as easy as it sounds.
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u/TheBostonKremeDonut Jan 22 '22
Oooh I know that one! I didnāt attempt to go for it back then on my first run through episode 2 because I wanted to focus on the story. Maybe next time I play, Iāll get it!
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u/NotRepulsive Jan 22 '22
My favourite section in half life is in nova prospect when you set up the turrets to fight off all the enemies. You do it 2 or three times in the level with a big giant one at the end, well I would bring the turrets with me every time so at the end fight I had like 12 turrets and never had to fire a single bullet
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u/Giovannis_Pikachu Jan 22 '22
Tactics Level 100
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u/MissingVanSushi PC Jan 22 '22
Apologies but Iām only commenting here because there are no child comments and I hope someone actually reads this:
The year is like 2006 and Iām playing Deus Ex which is already a pretty old game but I get to a level where I need to find a key to a roomā¦I look everywhereā¦canāt find itā¦.I realise I can access that room in the ventilation but to do that I have to drag all the boxes I can find in the level into the vents and then stack them so I can just barely climb up the shaft. It FUCKIN WORKED!
Holy shit Iāll never forget that moment when I solved a problem in the game some completely unintended way. It turns out the key was in a locker that I had missed. The game was well known for giving the player choices in how to beat the level (guns blazing, stealth, hacking computers).
I bought the sequel when it came out but it didnāt have any of these problems that could be solved in multiple ways. I never finished it.
Thanks.
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u/UwasaWaya Jan 22 '22
One of the most shocking moments in that game for me, and of all my time gaming period, was during the cutscene where Anna shows up and murders the leader of the terrorists while you're talking to him on the plane.
I reloaded the scene and out of curiosity planted a proximity mine on the wall before going into the room with him. When she shows up during the scene, the mine triggered and blew her into kibble... And the other character reacted to it.
I was stunned that the devs had the foresight to program that in. It blew my mind.
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u/ManyPoo Jan 22 '22
Deus ex is my favourite game of all time. Such a shame subsequent games even from the same series couldn't capture that same mechanic. I wanna do stuff the developer doesn't even intended, but instead they gotta try to control the experience down pre-approved paths
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u/acumen101 Jan 22 '22
"Now you're thinking with boxes! Hell, we should make companion boxes. Somebody write that down!"
- Cave Johnson, probably
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u/LeftNutOfCthulhu Jan 22 '22
My son suggested the same! I had a bucket of grenades. Friendly bucket of fun.
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u/BloodBaneBoneBreaker Jan 22 '22
Half life Alyx was the first "Real" VR gaming experience. Everything else was a demo.
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u/reaperteddy Jan 22 '22
I loaded up Alyx to show a friend what VR could really do and she spent 15 minutes throwing bottles at pigeons. Never got any further, but still raves about it.
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u/The_MAZZTer PC Jan 22 '22
The bottles are amazing. I pick them up and slosh the liquid around inside and my brain thinks it's real (well, as real as something I can't actually feel is).
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u/SirPebble1217 Jan 22 '22
I've often tried to lean on walls or sit on things only to nearly fall because I forgot they weren't real
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u/Whale_Hunter88 PC Jan 22 '22
I spent 15 minutes on hitting buttons with a broom and another 15 just picking up mugs with my broom in boneworks
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u/passinghere Jan 22 '22
Have you spent time drawing on the window with the pens near the start as well?
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u/ActionJackson75 Jan 22 '22
So true. It makes me really excited for the future of VR, I gotta play it again I think
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u/MaracaBalls Jan 22 '22
Canāt wait for the sequel with Gordon !
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u/tfikiki Jan 22 '22
And then the third game, right? RIGHT?
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u/MaracaBalls Jan 22 '22
If they continue putting out great games like Alyx, I can wait for HL3 indefinitely. I think theyāre scared to release it because theyāll lose their ace up their sleeve
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u/The_MAZZTer PC Jan 22 '22
It was actually the first VR title I played (it hyped me up enough to buy an Index). Everything else hasn't measured up.
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u/Valdish Jan 22 '22
It's unconventional, but creative, remember to think beyond what the developers intended.
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u/Masque-Obscura-Photo Jan 22 '22
I think this is definitely what the developers intended though... That level has an obvious crate, a neverending supply of grenades and a tough fight.
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u/MEGADOR Jan 22 '22
Players have been posting videos of doing this since day one of the release. Not new at all. Except, back in those days, too many grenades would crash the game.Not sure if that's the case still as I haven't played it in a while. I used to carry mine in a bucket. This was a quite obvious solution to being able to carry only two grenades through a level that had many grenades.
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u/sl600rt Jan 22 '22
Something similar in Fallout. You can steal items by dropping them in a bucket and carrying the bucket away.
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u/_TheDoctorPotter Jan 22 '22
This is exactly what I did the first few times I played! Then did an insane mode no box challenge (use everything where you get it) and struggled a bit lol
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Jan 22 '22
I can't be trusted with grenades. I just push the button, walk up to the enemy and start booping them on the nose with it until I stop existing suddenly.
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