Could be a gimmick fight, could just be testing drastically different skills than anything else.

1. Demon of Hatred (Sekiro) - I found this to be the hardest fight in the game; coming at the tail end of the adventure, in which you’ve been conditioned to deflect and turn enemies’ attacks against them with only the occasional dodge requirement to evade grab attacks, the Demon of Hatred comes completely out of left field as a pure positioning-based duel.

You’re still encouraged to stick very close and stay aggressive as per usual in Sekiro, as a lot of his attacks will entirely miss if you’re not in mid-range, but this fight is still an enormous adjustment. It almost feels like a Dark Souls III or Elden Ring boss dropped into the wrong game, but it’s still an engaging challenge and an excellent final test of Wolf’s sheer mobility with his infinite stamina, sprinting, and grappling to close distance.

1. Nyleth (Hollow Knight: Silksong) - As one of the final bosses you’ll likely fight before the end of the game, Nyleth fits among the other Old Hearts as a final test of one of your core skills: Skarrsinger Karmelita pushes your ability to read and react to one complicated and punishing opponent to the absolute limit, Crust King Khann and the Karak army serve as the ultimate regular enemy gauntlet, and Nyleth tests your aerial dexterity in a way no other boss does.

Partway through the fight she destroys the floor, forcing you to cling to the wall opposite to her, use your Clawline to close distance and retreat, and utilize your double jump, float, and needle pogo abilities to keep the pressure on her. She’s kind of overshadowed due to coming immediately after Shrine Guardian Seth, one of the best pure 1v1 duels in the game, but she’s a very fun and unique boss in her own right. No other boss asks you to stay in the air for nearly the entire encounter, making this fight a weirdly excellent platforming challenge.

What's your worst habit in video games? Like, the thing you do that makes you actively worse at the game, but you can't seem to stop doing.

I have two. First, if a boss or enemy can be cheesed, I will do it even when doing so is actively more difficult or annoying than fighting them straight on. In Elden Ring, the putrid avatars in Caelid aren't particularly difficult to fight once you understand their movesets. But they're also standing under cliffs you can shoot them down with arrows, and so long as you don't peak over the edge while they're firing their rays of light, you're completely safe.

This is also a huge slog. Arrows do much less damage than anything else you do. And that's after you pick up the arrow talismans to improve your range and damage as much as possible. I could take one our in a couple of minutes, but I still find myself taking ten to fifteen minutes peppering them with arrows.

My other terrible habit is never using healing items. I will almost always drag myself back to town or the rest point to avoid using them. If it's a permanently consumable item, I will never actually use 'em, out of a misplaced fear that I won't have them when I really need them. I end basically every RPG with an inventory stuffed with healing items and buffs that would have made the whole game so much easier.

Anyone ever searching for some item while playing a game and then when you see that item in real life and are momentarily inclined to pick it up? Is there a name for that. Playing The Long Dark right now and I keep thinking about picking up sticks to make a fire later.

Yes these game come out around 2 weeks apart but what are you most excited, me personally I'm more of a zelda fan than GTA, give me a zelda any day over GTA.

And for me being a physical collector zelda definitely gets a 1up for having a physical copy and GTA doesn't which is a massive fail in my opinion.

I am probably going to play some Bayonetta 1 soon (never played it)

I was going to play V Rising because October but since i'm coming out of a gaming burnout, me playing a long game probably isn't the best idea

What about you?

I came across this game "The Witness" and I liked that it is difficult while being simple to play. The actual gameplay consists of running around, finding various boards and drawing lines on them. That's really it. Somehow it manages to be deep and rewarding to play even so.

It kind of reminded me in spirit of another difficult/simple game, Myst (an older game but a classic where all you do for gameplay is wander, interact with switches/buttons, and pick up pieces of paper).

I was wondering what other games people had enjoyed that are similarly simple yet difficult.

For me, it's Euro Truck Simulator 2. I used to genuinely enjoy just driving around, exploring the map and relaxing. But over time, the constant stuttering and performance issues made it harder and harder to enjoy. It got so frustrating that I actually spent weeks reverse-engineering parts of the game's DX12 renderer to figure out what was going wrong. I even documented an engine-side cause of the stuttering, but eventually gave up on the game entirely. At some point I realized I was spending more time investigating performance problems than actually driving trucks XD. And honestly, watching SCS keep releasing DLC while the engine still struggles doesn't exactly make me want to come back. Anyone else had a game they loved slowly turn into something they couldn't stand playing anymore?

I'm replaying Sunset Overdrive and I had (almost) forgotten how much fun is to simply move around.

Even without the combat, challenges or anything else, moving around feels great and is it's own reward. It is probably the only open world game where I have ever gone for all the collectibles, side quests, challenges and everything else.

So I'm really looking for more games with such a fun movement.

As examples, I also enjoyed a lot things like Sonic Frontiers, Spider-man...

I was wondering what the communities views are on platformer games. I, for one, don't enjoy them too much as I am quite sick of them; as good a game as Hollow Knight is, I think it has saturated the market with indie platformers. I understand that "Indie" means that it is their first game and don't usually have massive funds behind them as well. I like survival crafting and sandbox games like Subnautica, Satisfactory, No Man's Sky, Ark, etc. (Just to show my taste in this argument).

Because I really don't think there is one. It's always an annoying water level change puzzle, and just drab environments to go through. And the enemies are always rats and stuff like that. The closest thing I can think of is Wet Dry World in Mario 64, and that's not really a sewer, it's just a water level change thing.

Iʼm guessing that several for Switch2 might come closest in this utilizational way since as a handheld the games designed for it rely on relatively more modest power thus working in a smaller walled garden (albeit presumably substantially larger than even NS1 of prior gen).

I am also curious of any games made for a modern mobile edition (current version of Android or iOS, or perhaps both) might be remarkably well-optimized respectively therefor (presumedly in a Game mode if also high-utilizing) and overall well-designed. And likewise if any made for one (or perhaps two or all) of x86‐64 Linux, Mac, Windows in a particularly optimized utilizational way, perhaps for a quasi- walled garden, that are also decent games overall.

What modern console-exclusive (9thGen) games, expressed in what ways, make most use its console? Is there any plan to port to another system (console or pc) or prospect of decent emulation in near future, or is it safe in this regard? Likewise for releases targetedly for pc and mobile OSs, respectively. Looking back three-plus gaming generations, or even.just one (e.g. PS4) decreases scope so tend to be easier to leverage more full6, but what about for still-manfuactured hardware?

ive been playing super metroid for the first time (actually, first metroidvania game in general) and got to the boss kraid which im scared i might not be prepared for. its not too hard but ive watched others beat it with weapons and upgrades i havent gotten yet, so im scared i might have to backtrack. the stuff i have rn is:

1. morphing ball
2. bomb
3. hi jump boots
4. 15 rockets
5. 5 super rockets

if i do have to backtrack could you tell me where to go and more info on it. also if u need more info on my situation im fine answering! thanks!!

As the title says... im confused, i had a group i played with for months straight. Im a female in a male group, most groups im in im the only female not always true tho at times. I am not the best of the best but i do try my best in comp games. Every group i have played with, it seems like for some reason after they play with me they dont want to anymore like i dont "meet" expectations. I took a friend in, she stayed with me for an entire month, i fed her, took her in when she was in an abusive relationship, drove her to the airport and made sure she was safe. Even then when i was even a higher rank than her or equivalent she only wanted to play quickplays with me. It hurt because im not good enough for a video game for her sake. I even gave her money from time to time for bp's and in game items and what not, i even share my steam library with her since i have a lot of games. Today she told me she only plays with select friends for comp. This kinda hurt me bc i dont think im awful at the game and i always try to put time in considering theres a time difference and its not like im asking every day. Other friend groups just ignore me like i murder someone. Im just annoyed.

Other friend groups say i dont meet the standards they want for competitive gaming and i have to play well every single game or i cant play with them. I even suffer with 60+ ping on servers to play with them. I either get shit talked or made fun of a lot for have x amount of hours on a game but bc i dont play well a game or 2 im not good enough. Im just tired of not meet expectations of others all the time online, in person i couldnt care less but online it seems like im never ever enough. I know its the internet and to grow a pair but to constantly never meet anyones expectations online especially as a female is tiring, Im tired of people saying that im never good enough like im in a god damn relationship or something and expect me to do the upmost best.

Just like that, what is your favorite bossfight and why?

It can be for any reason, either just plain fun, a hard challenge you overcame, an epic climactic moment,it was a memorable moment for you, or anything.

But I would honestly love to hear what is your favorite bossfight and why.

Mine is The Shredder on TMNT 4 Turtles in time because that was the first game I could beat ever so it's stuck in my mind forever

I do it even with good games, I suspect I have ADHD so maybe that's the reason xD.

Does this happen to you? Ugh I wish I could enjoy a game like everyone else lol.

Granted it's not just games it happens with other mediums too, but moreso with games.

As per other posts i've seen on here, i've been on the hunt for a new game. I'm very much the kind of person to grind one game and get pretty good at only that game.

I've been playing apex legends since release (masters rank if that matters), and honestly I still love it but I need something else to play when my squad mates can't get on. They are both new fathers and i'm a new homeowner, so schedules aren't as free as they have been the last few years. It unfortunately has jaded me quite a bit as the movement seems unbeatably smooth.

I also loved rocket league and grinding mechanics until a couple years ago but I went back to enjoying shooters more.

I'd say the driving force for video games has always been the competitive nature and it usually needs a ranked mode for me to keep interest. very much like the combination of skill plus ball knowledge.

I'm very simplistic with how I like games, in that I don't enjoy looting or doing crazy meta gun buildouts just to compete. I like a fairly flat playing field and seeing who the better competitor is.

With all that rambling done with, anyone got anything to recc?

Which Scene/View from a video game do you guys think is the most beautiful? For me it’s Sirene from Expeiditon 33 and when paired with the music of this area, it genuinely has a very Lore accurate effect on me

I find it interesting and not surprising how these terms are precieved very differently amongst gamers. I suppose knowone has put a clear defining line between them, although i think there are some obvious ways to tell, where as some not so obvious depending on the game.

Regardless, here is my defenition in an attempt to best tell them apart from their original (OG) is as follows;

A remaster is keeping the original game assests but ported to run in higher resolution and performance.

Example: (OG) The last of us 2013 - (Rm) The last of us remastered 2014

A remake is taking the original game but applying new assests which is typically on a new engine so it looks like a modern game.

Example: (OG) Demons souls 2009 - (Rk) Demons souls 2020

A reoot (Rb) slightly blurs the lines between a remake and a re imagining in various ways and has no streamlined defenition, but it essensially is a game continuing a legacy series as either a sequal, prequal or retelling of the original.

Example: (OG) God of war 2005 - (Rb) God of war 2018

A re-imagining is completely stripping the original concept down then retelling and presenting it in a new way. Most if not all is different, including lore, universe etc and is not connected to the OG.

Example: (OG)-Silent Hill 1999 - (Ri) Silent Hill Shattered Memories 2009

What are your thoughts? Im interested to start a discussion.