okay, maybe i WON'T be playing paralives today. or any time soon. lots of talk about insanely long loading times, crashing, major glitches. the game even just straight up caused one guy's PC to shut down lol. i already learned my lesson with inzoi, i'm not paying nearly $40 for this until all these problems are ironed out at the very least.
it seems like, from what i'm reading, while YES it does solve tons of stuff that is wrong about the sims, it doesn't really have anything that makes those games good either.
Watched 300. I still think it's really good. My roommate didn't like it as much because he's 20 and brain rotted so he couldn't take any of it seriously.
Met this girl, she seems cool. Wouldn't mind seeing where things go. Main problem is she has 4 kids... I don't know if I can just jump into that from nothing man. I think I'm still gonna just see how it goes because with dating at my age, kids are kind of inevitable but... Man. That's a little crazy. Especially because that significantly decreases the chances of having a kid that's my own flesh and blood and I would want at least one... Ideally...
Idk man maybe I just don't have a whole lot of faith in myself. 4 kids is probably way overboard for me but I feel compelled to see how it goes anyway because my dating life is complete shit.
@LukeAlmighty no you have to understand, those are the two worst things they can call someone. It used to be nazi/racist but nobody cares about being called that anymore. The same thing is going to happen to pedo and I shudder to think about the implications there.
@xianc78@Hephaestic@mr_penguin the internet is different than it used to be... Sadly. So is our society just in general. It's all far worse and more widespread than it was in 2005.
@icedquinn i have a shit ton of screw drivers of every imaginable kind and a bunch of knives and allen wrenches but no heavier tools like wrenches/pliers/hammers/etc
started that pc build today and didn't get very far because a FUCKING STANDOFF IN THE CASE is sticking out right where i don't want it to be. gotta remove that shit but don't have pliers so i gotta wait for pliers now.
This game exudes maximum cool before that kind of thing became cringe. While I don't see myself going back to play the missions over and over again like DmC or Devil May Cry 5, striving for better mission rankings and getting really stylish with my combos, I still found the combat relatively satisfying. The game never really required you to use a specific weapon for a specific task, which I felt definitely didn't force me to explore the new weapons I unlocked. I stuck with ebony/ivory (the handguns) and rebellion (the sword) for the vast majority of the game. I did feel like the handguns were actually a little overpowered and was able to beat several boss battles just by locking on and spamming them, which I have heard is a huge problem people had with DMC2 in general. They really should do basically no damage but be useful for extending combos and keeping smaller enemies stunned.
I played with the Crimson style switching mod, which was really nice, but as I'm sure a lot of people can relate to I used Trickster for the vast majority of the game. That dodge is just too useful. Swordmaster was also fun to use when I was going for better combos but there was never really a NEED to do that.
The story was pretty typical for Devil May Cry. The cool part was just the awesome cutscenes that are so over the top, just like it ought to be for the series.
The music I found is where the game kind of fell flat for me. It got really repetitive and just wasn't as energetic and cool as I would have liked it to be. It's still perfectly serviceable, but maybe I've just been spoiled by other games that do this so much better, including other DMC games.
The bosses were all pretty unique and mostly fun to play against. The second to last boss was a huge pain in the ass with his little dolphin things and Vergil teaming up with Dante felt more like a nerf because I couldn't use DT anymore.
Altogether, I enjoyed the game, but again I can't really see myself going back to it ever again. If it was a bit more fun to play, a little less clunky, had a bit of a better camera, with smoother movement and more obvious combos for the various weapons, I would consider it.
Also, what's with all the people calling this game extremely hard? I played on Normal difficulty and it wasn't bad at all. At most, I died a handful of times on each boss. Maybe it's harder on the PS2 or something but I still saw a lot of people referring to this version of the game. Maybe it's just because I have experience with DMC games already but yeah... I don't know man, this wasn't hard at all. I feel like I could play it on harder difficulties and not struggle to much either.