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You type like a fag and your shit's all retarded

MH clones such as God Eater and Toukiden

Xenoblade Chronicles 1 had monsters who were fucking continent sized.

>>15996560

Technically they were telepathically controlled mechs/biomechs and also they were large-island sized at best, not continent sized. Pretty sure straya is bigger than either of them.

>>15996801

fuck off huenigger

>>16000410

>You are eternally impotent to stop me from posting.

Just like you can't stop us calling you a faggot, faggot.

>>15996801

>Nu-/v/ hates SotC now

>>16000410

>Aside from the visual aspects, everything in the game is poorly implemented.

>All combats against the colossi are a series of tedious and slow repetitions

<All the tools to fight the colossi are given from the beginning

<All colossi needs different strategy that you need to find out in order to defeat them

<Somehow a bad thing

Hues need to off themselves.

>>16000433

It's just one fag. It's a fantastic game, but considering all the cuts it had and that it was originally going to be multiplayer, it makes me a little depressed to know we could've gotten so much more.

>>16000535

More Colossi is an either/or option for me. I feel the 16 is just right but more would be nice. I don't support the multiplayer approach though. SotC nailed that isolated feeling perfectly. Having another player to run around with wouldn't have made it work so well. The bond you have with Agro is strengthened because the horse is your only companion.

>>15996701

Monster Hunter has a few good giant ones. Best example is probably Atlal-ka, the G-rank final urgent from MHXX. It's a big insect monster, like a mantis/scorpion hybrid that has spider webbing. It's not too large on its own, but it can use some kind of old as fuck broken down dragon-like mecha that was buried in the ancient fortress it's fought in, which is fucking huge. The mecha phase has interesting gimmicks, it uses its webs to set up a bunch of blockades on it's torso, and has webbing running throughout the limbs and neck that it uses to control it, since the whole thing's falling apart and cobbled back together. You need to attack its feet to break the webbing, knocking it down, then climb on top of it before it can repair the legs, then break the blockades or pole vault over them if using Insect Glaive to get to the core of its webbing before it can knock you off, break the core of the webbing on its back, cause it all to fall down and knock you off, then climb into its "mouth" to reach Atlal-ka and break the web ball it's hiding in to advance the fight to its next phase. There are also cannons and ballista scattered around the fortress, and an airship tosses you air drops of ballista bolts and cannonballs during the mecha phase. There's also a dragonator you can use, but in my experience, it takes far too long to lure it over to the dragonator compared to the amount of damage it actually does, so it's usually faster to kill it normally. It's a pretty cool and fun fight that's a bit too silly and over the top to work in a mainline Monster Hunter game, but it was a fitting finale for XX.

>>15997163

That pic reminded me of Fate/Extra CCC's final boss. For her ultimate attack, she grows to celestial size, to where the entire Earth is about the size of her head, then uses the entire planet as a sex toy.

>>15996691

Is it worth playing solo, or do I need a friend to play with.

>>16000535

> could've gotten so much more.

Oh no, you'll just have to settle for a unique experience that demanded technical proficiency from its developers and has yet to see an equal more than decade after its release.

>>16001054

I found it fine solo, but it is designed around multi. So you miss out on a lot of cool stuff, like the train segment is designed around having multiple players running around doing different things.

>>16001149

Where is the hole? I cannot find it. Are there supposed to be two holes?

why, my peenus weanus of course :)

hahah! :D

>>16001228

You say that like people have been actively trying to make a better SoTC. I can't think of anything other than some indieshit game that's still in development and the trailer was so forgettable I can't even remember the name.

>>16001054

Find a way to get rid of GFWL and I'll glady hop back into it.

>>16001054

Lost planet 1 is fine solo, 2 has a focus on co-op but is still very enjoyable solo.

>>15997218

>>15997163

>>16000871

That's litterally the first boss, Asura's Wrath gets way crazier then that

>Scripted garbage doesn't count

You fight bigger enemies in rail shooter sections in the game: Final form Vlitra is about as big, and Chakravartin is bigger then galaxy sized,.

>>16003596

>Rail shooter sections

Scripted

>>15996510

>subnautica

>most dangerous enemy is the smallest of the leviathans

>largest dangerous enemy is incredibly easy to avoid

>biggest creature in the game is completely passive and lives in an aquarium

I hate those devs so much. They had so much opportunity and completely wasted it.

>>16006173

>They had so much opportunity and completely wasted it.

Yup, the only part that felt really nailed was the stalkers. And seriously, who actually carries flares to distract bonesharks in a game where inventory capacity is king?

>>16006173

>>16006209

But muh pacifism narrative!

>>16006209

Stalkers are scary, at first, until you realize you can out-swim them with starter equipment and you can pacify them with the scrap that's everywhere. Reapers were the best enemy in the game. You're guaranteed to hear them before you see them, and their roar is terrifying. They're always in the more open waters of the map (unless you manage to glitch one somewhere else), so you don't have much, if any, cover to hide behind or around. And, unlike the other leviathans, they will grab you and shake you around until your sub explodes or you die, if you don't use any countermeasures. On the other hand, ghosts come in for a bite then quickly retreat, giving you time to recuperate before their next attack, and dragons just sorta slowly drift around, spewing easily avoidable fire rocks at you. Neither sound nearly as frightening, either, and only adult ghosts are found in open waters. Of course, the prawn suit essentially stops everything but the warpers form being scary, but that's an altogether different problem.

>>16006344

What about "Mods will fix it"™?

>>16006344

Did you forget about the squid things? They were kind of spoopy. Most of the threats in this game aren't really threats to someone who can critically think but I'm not going to say subnautica is a bad game. Replaying it now, there is a lot of fun to be had in the exploration that I never gave it credit for. It's a shame there wasn't more spooky predators. Something like the snake thing but coming out of a wall instead of a mushroom would have been terrifying.

>>16006344

The reason I say stalkers were the best is not because of any threat they posed, but that they were about learning and understanding their behaviors to pacify whatever threat or inconvenience they posed. They had depth to be learned and nothing else really had that beyond basic shit like small fish being easier to catch at night when they're sleeping.

With the reaper, you know what to do from the first instant you make contact, and there isn't much to learn. They work fine as a major threat source, but lack depth.

Basically, an exploration-focused ecology game like Subnautica should have been oriented around learning about the wildlife, and then taking what you learned and twisting it to your advantage. For example, if you could lure a reaper leviathan with something to engage the blue leviathans and buy time to pass an area without conflict, or something like that. Instead, the later half of the game is about grinding out new sets of minerals and standard "level 1/2/3" equipment upgrades.

It's still fun overall, but really dropped the ball on exploration when it came to learning the creatures/environments.

>>16006372

The crab squids are cool. I'm mostly criticizing the leviathan class creatures, as they should be the most terrifying aspects of the game, yet most of them aren't that bad to deal with. Subnautica has some really good map design, and I'm glad they went with a hand-designed map, instead of something generated like nearly every survival crafting game out there. There is somewhat of an issue with several areas being completely ignorable, though, and there's no good way to find out which area has fragments of that one thing you need to continue progress.

>>16006383

I wouldn't really call it an ecology game. The animals are only there to be enemies and food and material sources. Most flora is just set dressing. You're not supposed to be studying the environment, just scrounging what you can to get you off-planet and away from all the scary wildlife. Honestly, the environment isn't hostile enough. You're an alien intruder in these things' home, but it certainly doesn't feel like it.

>>15996520

Don't be rude, OP is at least making the effort

>>16006422

>I wouldn't really call it an ecology game.

The entire plot is themed around bio-science and ecological study (and also survival obviously). From the early versions of the game and all the planned stuff about DNA manipulation, it was very clear the direction took a shift towards the generic partway through development.

>Honestly, the environment isn't hostile enough.

I agree completely. More hostility would require the player to learn more just to not-die.

To be clear I'm not saying it should get "easy" after enemies are better understood, just that more behavioral mechanics would've added much-needed depth kill me to the late-game.

>>16006522

>it was very clear the direction took a shift towards the generic partway through development.

Hell, the Crash fish could destroy a Seamoth with one explosion, making them more deadly than any other enemy save Reapers. The game really shits the bed at the same time a horror game does-when the monster gets you and proves itself a complete non-threat. The only harmful flora is in the earlier areas. The ayy stuff is poorly done and also shows a shoft in tone.

tfw no sea emperor gf

>>16006813

>Spoiler

She could've been so much more. Instead they turn her into a basic quest-giver.

We didn't even get a hug and a kiss.

>>16003242

Contra 4's final stage has you crawl all the way up a giant alien's asshole who is towering over the Earth, and then blowing up its eyes and brains from the inside out