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>>275487 (OP) 
>I bought Battleborn
I bought the original Cube World

>>275487 (OP) 
I played Hades perfectly and reached the final boss many times, but couldn’t beat him at all for some reason, so I just quit the game and never opened it again. It was the first time I leave a game incomplete.

By default I use a guide for every game unless I know that there's no real strategic or exploration component to the game.

I never finished RE4 because the ammo ran out and I was already turned off by the QTEs so I never tried again.

>>275524
This actually happened to me once in ps2, and I didn’t think it was possible, not sure if I played on hard. But basically in the castle you get ambushed by the zombies and they don’t drop enough ammo, I still remember that I had no other weapons but the grenade launcher.

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I use Reshade to turn night maps in tactical shooters into fullbright ez mode. Whenever an online game allows me to use the depth buffer, I also use the MXAO shader to see people through smoke grenades. I've gotten very good at hiding my advantages, never been banned from a server. 
In games where Reshade is banned, I use the GPU's control panel settings instead. And if a game lets me turn down the vegetation or other VFX through the .ini files, I absolutely will take advantage of that opportunity. 

And finally, whenever I suspect that somebody else is doing what I'm doing, I report them to the server admins.

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I completely ruined Myst for myself by following a guide the whole way through.  It was at a point in my life where I felt like I had to own a guide for every game I owned, and I didn't really understand the point of games like this.  Someday I hope I get amnesia so that I can experience the game properly.

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>>275525
For most of the guns in the game, enemies randomly drop ammo if you're low on it.  In fact if a pistol is the only gun in your inventory it actually removes the limit on randomized pistol bullet drops.

>>275529
Most people can't beat Myst anyway. 
>>275487 (OP) 
If Cloud does not have Omnislash it does not let you win, right?

I tried to be tacticool with serpentine and small circle maneuvers for the better part of an hour against Gulp no-hit challenge on Spyro Reignited and it made me want to commit murder-suicide with the developer. Then I ran in slightly larger circles and I beat him without getting hit the first attempt after adjusting. I felt relieved, but also extremely retarded.

>>275533
He magically has Omnislash in the final duel whether you learned it or not.

>>275501
I replayed Hades an excessive number of times to get to the final boss, but I'm pretty fucking sure I was playing with a controller that has input lag, since sometimes I could take my hands off my controller and my guy would still be performing moves for 1 or 2 seconds. Tried to fix it (USB cable helps, as does enabling "Game Mode" on TV), but ultimately no dice.

On the whole Hades was alright but I wish they gave you a bit more content and variation in what you had to deal with. It's just the same path and boss rush every time, unfortunately. And some of the weapons and daedalus upgrades are garbage. Others just make you wonder why you would even bother to use base form anymore.

>>275487 (OP) 
i logged into Guild Wars 2 almost every day for years and had like 13000 plus hours into it until I stopped cold turkey a few years ago

I have over 600 hours in Assassin's Creed Odyssey

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>>275487 (OP) 
>I never beat the final boss fight in FF7. I just couldnt do it no matter how hard i tried so i looked up a guide and bred the most op chocobo to get the most op attack in the game only for me to almost lose again

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>>275528
>And finally, whenever I suspect that somebody else is doing what I'm doing, I report them to the server admins.

>>275487 (OP) 
Never managed to get the 500 seconds survived in Devil Daggers.
I think I got to about 430 seconds and then I got hard filtered because I can never kill the GIGAPEDES in time before the Leviathan spawns, and by then it's too late.
At most I only ever manage to kill one and then when the Levi spawns I got overwhelmed. I'm considering getting back to it and using some slow mo cheat to make it.

i want to give nu-ff a try
played ffxv back at launch but it felt like a bloated boyband road trip
now there are two ff7 remakes and xvi?

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I used a guide on the final case of ace attorney 3.

also check these quads

I played the entirety of Life is Strange when i was a wee little lad. I didnt know anything only wokeism or cringe, and i was obsessed with Steven Universe.

>>275536
I played with mouse and keyboard, I always beat him until he has little health left by kills me everytime, I’m not saying the game did anything, it’s just strange and I didn’t care enough because it was mediocre game.

I bought and used the official Dark Souls strategy guide on release.
I purchased Sonic 06 at a deep discount and still felt ripped off.
Despite playing Morrowind on and off for decades, I never beat it until last year. I have done this with many, many amazing games.
I played Super Smash Bros. Melee/PM competitively for like ten years and outside of tournaments I hosted myself I never made it out of pools once.

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>>275487 (OP) 
I bought Metroid Dread expecting it would be good.
JUST

PECCAVI
I read guides and walkthroughs for Dark Souls, wearing the Elite Knight Set with a Gargoyle Helmet and Drake Sword for the vast majority of the playthrough
I bought all of the Payday 2 DLC
I had to constantly look up the next step for several Ace Attorney games
I bought several games recommended by streamers
I bought the Spyro and Crash remastered games, even though I have the originals
I've spent an ungodly amount of money on early access titles that went nowhere or didn't have satisfying releases: Sun Haven, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, BattleBit Remastered, Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord, Onward, Phasmophobia, Slime Rancher, Space Engineers, Sub Rosa, and more
Bought many Dead by Daylight DLCs and played it for over 200 hours, raging the entire time
When I was but a boy, my game lineup had a large amount of sub-par sequels and I liked them Medievil 2, Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble, Megaman 8, Crash Twinsanity
The best Dark Souls is Dark Souls 2 Scholar of the First Sin Edition
I love going on message boards and complaining about video games I've never played

Hmm...
I usually overgrind without knowing in most JRPGs because I try to do absolutely everything before continuing the story making every game extremely easy.

I had to turn down the difficulty in Fire Emblem: Enage from Hard to Normal because I just couldn't finish a map.

What else... Oh, I got absolutely filtered by Jagged Alliance 2, even in easy mode.

I ragequitted Metroid 2 during the first 10 minutes because I didn't know how to advance. Same thing with Dread.

>>275676
>I ragequitted Metroid 2 during the first 10 minutes because I didn't know how to advance. 
Play AM2R for the definitive Metroid 2 experience.
One of the rare cases of a remake done right (no wonder it was made by a single fan instead of a gaming company)

>>275678
Sounds interesting, I heard the 3DS remake wasn't that good.

>>275668
>sub-par sequels
>spoiler
I don't get it.

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>>275487 (OP) 
If I like a video game, but I'm getting filtered by it, and I can tell I won't be able to win legit, but I want to experience the whole thing and I don't want to drop it... I'll use either save states or cheat codes, sometimes both... I do try to use them with rules as to not make the whole thing into a joke, so I do my best to only use save states at the start of levels, or use cheat codes to give me infinite lives/continues, but I still have to overcome the levels legit. I have way less time to play nowadays than I'd like, and when playing I gravitate towards retro due to them being shorter, so time is pretty valuable which is why getting stuck on something a bit too long, or quitting after spending so much time trying to beat it, can be a bummer, so I give into cheating and I'm ashamed.

>>276232
Same here, I breezed my way through most NES shovelware using save states and I'm not even sorry. I play games on my terms and my terms alone.

Despite extensively arguing with anons regarding the plot, gameplay and waifus of the Mass Effect series, I've never completed any of them. For ME1 I couldn't beat Saren's final fight purely because I was playing on a min-specs PC and something in that fight was dropping me to single digit frames, while I just lost interest in ME2 80% of the way through.

>>276232
I do that too, like my first obvious rule is to use save state at the start of the fight, as in to only save time, not use it to redo my attack or anything. Skyrim spoiled and I can only enjoy games like this, I would even argue it’s better than vanilla because you feel in control.

>>275683
>Sounds interesting, I heard the 3DS remake wasn't that good.
Go for AM2R you won't regret it.
It is far superior to the official one made by Mercury Steam (they are a fucking curse to the series)

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>>276280
This. Of course I always make sure to mention I've used save states or cheat codes when discussing a video games where I did cheat, but I don't think that means I'm lesser than anyone else, or that I can't have opinions about what I've played. Doing stuff like save scumming can definitely ruin the experience, but as long as you have some ground rules, keeping in mind these titles in the 80's and 90's were made often by small teams on a rush for money alone, and that the hobby's supposed to be entertaining... then there really is no big issue in my eyes, again as long as we don't exaggerate and make it boring, and that we mention using.

i've started morrowind like a dozen times trying to convince myself to like it but never managed to stay interested for more than 5 hours or so.

I've never beaten a classic megaman game because they're too hard for me

>>276292
>5 hours
try 5 minutes

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For years, I didn't know you were supposed to spam the A button to fly higher on the star trampoline in Kirby's Adventure.

I'm also stuck in A Link to the Past at the part where you're supposed to fight Agahnim. I stopped playing the game for several months before this and can't for the life of me remember how he's supposed to be beaten. Too stubborn to admit defeat and look up a guide so I'm wandering around Hyrule like a lost retard at Walmart.

The only Souls game I really ever beat was the first- Demon's Souls on Playstation 3. I would always get around to playing some of the other titles but get filtered by level grind in the beginner bosses. Demon's didn't feel like such a grind- maybe its my naivete being young and having such an interesting new game- but the other titles seem like too much work to play, when all you really want to do is play.

>>276306
Try harder anon, it's worth it.

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>>276292
I went through the same problem. People over-hyping the game has ruined it. Once you learn to embrace the broken combat and treat the game like an adventure game, it becomes more enjoyable. There are some mods to fix the misaligned textures on all the character's faces and the world textures, which alleviates the nagging feeling in your subconscious.

>>276306
Maybe try Mega Man Powered Up, which is a polished and easier version of Mega Man, or Mega Man Maker. The first NES Mega Man is probably the best one, but there are some poorly designed parts where you will get screwed over with no recourse.

>>276292
Morrowind is all zoomer hype. It's an action adventure game for console kiddies masquerading as a proper RPG. It's Skyrim for 10 years olds in 2003 basically, but it somehow got memed into being thought of as a hardcore immersive RPG even though it pales in comparison to actual RPG's that were coming out contemporaneously (fuck it, it can't even compete with Ultima VII and that game is 10 years older than Morrowind).
It's also funny to see people shit on Oblivion and Skyrim as being dumbed down games for casuals when Morrowind was the original dumbed down game for casuals and the template for future Bethesda slop.

>>276362
i can deal with the shitty combat, but to me the most boring thing about mw is the quests. 90% of the gamplay consists of
talk to guy > silt strider etc near to objective > read some signposts to get directions > kill dudes in dull dungeon > recall back > repeat
the novelty of the interesting world design wears off pretty quickly. i generally really like wrpgs / crpgs but morrowind has consistently failed to hook me, let alone live up to the hype.
i am also running a lightly modded openmw to patch up some of the really shitty textures, draw distance, bugs, the usual stuff so that hasnt been a factor in my dislike of the game.

>>276382
The main quest is really good, in my opinion. I bounced off Morrowind a lot until I resolved to actually do the main quest and stop faffing about with the side content for a dozen hours before quitting.
The expansions are pretty cool, if only for the complete whiplash I get from how different they are in design from the base game. Also, Tamriel Rebuilt has some really fun quests if you ever get to playing mods.

Still can't git gud at DMC3.

I can't get into メガテン。

>>276408
Which one? Most anons started with Persona games, which are pretty easy and then moved on to the main series.

>>275487 (OP) 
>try arcanum of steamworks and magick obscura
>recruit Vergil, the very first guy to talk to
>ask him for healing, 9 out of 10 spells fail
>"damn, this guys has really bad rolls"
>try using magic potions
>9 out of 10 fails
>damn, those old games are really detailed and predicted that some of those potions were just bad
>play the game, recruit characters
>in dwarven mine spend skill points for a magical spell that increases one of your stats
>the spell fail 9 out of 10 times
>notice that magic stuff almost always fail, but medkits made by a technologically aligned chick work every time
>finally realise that the reason why those spells and potions didn't work was because I was playing a gunsmithing, gunslinging dorf and had over 80% alignment for technology

I couldn't figure out how to beat the final boss in Doom 2.

>>276402
Same here. I've been putting off playing dmc and bayonetta because I'm afraid i won't be able to do cool combos and if I'm not semi-cool i didn't really beat the game.

>>276408
Although I like it very much, I suck at them and some bite my hedda off for breakfast.

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I didnt finsh yakuza like a dragon because i didnt want the game to end

i didnt buy khazan because im a poorfag

>>275497
Big deal. Now, buying the Steam re-release would have been quite a fuckup, but even that is hard to blame someone for compared to thinking Battleborn could possibly be worth buying.

I cant beat the first spider boss in FF8 and I  don't understand the junction system

>>277235
Just junction thunder to elem-atk.

I've played good few RPGs with DnD systems. Some of them are my favorite games. I still don't understand DnD. I don't know what all these numbers really mean, 1d6, critical threat 19-20 and all that. Never looked it up and probably wont ever.

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>>276470
Me too

I cheated my ironman run of XCOM, the curse of knowing just how goddamn easy it is to cheat + bullshit elite mutons doing bullshit elite mutons things got to me.

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I don't like first-person games and only played/enjoyed a handful in my life, doot wasn't one of them.

I cheesed every boss in elden ring, I just can't be bothered to spend 5+ hours trying to be a boss like I did in ds3

>>277314
to beat*
I think I have some arteries blocked or some shit, I keep making these mistakes

>>277303
By Doot you mean 2016 or Eternal?Personally I liked the first one quite a bit, it's far from perfect but it was fun enough for me. Eternal and the entries that followed it are a disaster, everything went downhill, gameplay, aesthetics, tone even the story went from serviceable to something resembling a marvel movie.
The "Online first" mentality didn't help in making good or even fun shooters in the recent years.

>>277338
>By Doot you mean 2016 or Eternal?
I mean all of them

>>277351
Grab Duke 3D next. 

At this point I have attempted to play Alice Madness Returns at least 4 times and I always drop it either in the first or second chapter. It's not even that I get bored of the game I actually really like it but for some Godforsaken reason I always get sidetracked and stop playing. Then after around a year I pick it up again but I start from the very beginning because I might not remember every nuanced detail the story throws at me, and this cycle continues.
Normally I drop games only when they suck, but I liked the first Alice game and this one as well.

>>276333
>I would always get around to playing some of the other titles but get filtered by level grind in the beginner bosses. 
I can't think of a single early boss in DaS, DaS2, or DaS3 that requires you to grind in order to defeat it. DaS2 ha a lot of shitty problems but you can always just go somewhere else and explore while fighting enemies to gain souls.

>>277303
My aim is shit and I like to go like Rambo on combat, no plan, just shoot. I still like FPS, just like fighting games where I can't even do a special combo at will.
Recently tried to play CS2 because it's an "update", just casual solo, it's fun.
Even if you are bad you can get better little by little and you will find even worse players than you.
Unless you are very a competitive person, can't get better and try to be the leader of your team, then you will suffer.

>>275528
At least you're brave enough to admit it unlike 99% of cheaters.

>>277599
CS2 has the worst rates of wallhacking and aimbot I've ever seen in 20+ years of online gaming.

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>>277604
Did they manage to fix the random crashes in CS2?

>>276328
Follow-up: Apparently you're supposed to just hit the wizard's attacks back at him. After running 8 laps around the entire map searching every nook and cranny for whatever item I could've possibly missed, I caved and looked up what the heck you're supposed to do.

Worse, this is the easiest, most braindead boss I've ever fought in a video game. All he does is stand there sucking his thumb while you deflect his magic balls. I'll bet you could beat him with your eyes shut.

>>277280
DnD is simple. xdy means x dice with y sides. 2d6 rolls 2 six sided dice, 3d10 rolls 3 10 sided dice. Critical threat is which sides of the d20 you crit on. 19-20 means that if the d20 hits a 19 or 20 before mods, you crit. In laymans terms, 19-20 is a 10% crit rate.

>>278010
Oh man. I never imagined someone could get filtered by that, but then, I'd been condition to try smacking giant magical balls back at casters for as long as I can remember.
It's kinda funny seeing the reaction of someone who has never had to do it before.