darklingscribe

I view the site primarily on Safari on an iPad Pro. Recently the fullscreen option on the videos has stopped working for me. I’d tap it and a fullscreen version of the video doesn’t appear, the video window embedded into the site freezes when I do this, but the audio still plays for some strange reason.

@sahalarious: Just keep trying and you’ll get it. It took me around a week to get him. What helped me was to just turn off the game when I’d get too frustrated, because after a certain point my own anger would prevent me from learning the fight. So I’d play the fight for around 40 minutes and then be done for the day. Each time I’d get a little further. Then last Wednesday I finally took him down. After that I loaded my pre-fight cloud save and took him down again in a few more attempts, then loaded my save for a 3rd time and took him down after a few more deaths.*

Once the fight clicked for me I was able to kill Sword Saint Isshun 3 times in about an hour without really needing the prosthetic tools (but the axe was great at knocking Genichiro out of his Mortal draw animation at the very beginning). The fact that I could win the fight again pretty quickly after my first win showed me it was more a matter of practice than luck. Also I’m 35 and never thought of myself as having great reflexes, so if I can do it you can do this too.

*(I don’t have the free time to go into NG+4 for all the endings, so I save scum to get them in my first playthrough).

I have to say yes I think it needs a difficulty option. I’ve never had good reflexes, but the dark souls games and even Bloodborne gave me wiggle room to plan fights in advance and approach them however I wanted to. The problem with sekiro is that, by and large, there is only one correct way to do certain fights and the game kills you if you don’t do the fight that way. There are certain fights where I know what it is I need to do, but my reaction times just are not where the game demands them to be and they never will be.

Put me in a room with 100 people where everyone has a light and a button. If you asked everyone to press their button as fast as possible after they see the light turn on, I’d guarantee you that I’d be in the slowest 5% no matter how many times it’s done. That’s how my body works. This has never been much of a problem with the other FromSoft games for me, but with Sekiro I’ve reached a point in certain fights where I know exactly what it is I need to do and what the tells are, but i’m too slow reguarless and dying another 100 times to the same guy isn’t going to change that.

Looks like Sekiro might be a honest to goodness hit, https://www.techspot.com/news/79334-sekiro-shadows-die-twice-has-best-steam-launch.html.

Also I’ve been noticing that for the entire weekend it has been at or near the top streamed game on twitch. I know it won’t stay this way, because single player games just don’t have the rewatchabilty as multiplayer games like Fortnight, but still to see a FromSoft title take the crown for a weekend is really impressive.

I found “Ticket to Earth” to be a very good iPad game. It’s being released in chapters, the first two are out and the third and final chapter is on its way.

It’s hard to describe, imagine sci-fi story based campaign reminicent of a comic book that mashes up turn based strategy games and tile matching puzzlers. The battlefield the turn based battles take place upon is entirely made up of puzzle icon tiles. You can only move your units along adjacent matching tiles on the grid. Each tile has a specific purpose, you can choose to either run over the heart tiles to regain some health, go over the fist tiles to increase the damage of your next attack or go with several other tiles that build up a few different kinds of meters that can be used to activating special moves and abilities.

It sounds more complicated than it is and I found it to be really successful at blending its strategy and puzzle elements. It’s also a game that you spend you money once to buy up front and doesn’t have micro transactions.

@fetchfox: I would guess that the games are going to diverge from traditional Norse Mythology even more as they go on. This is I feel hinted at the fact that after they spread the ashes Kratos and Atreus return to Midgard and find out Ragnarok is going to happen 100 years earlier than expected. Not only that, but it seems that the army of giants destined to defeat Odin no longer exists as all the giants have died. So I feel the next games in the series are going to be about this incongruity between prophesy and what is actually happening.

As for the next game being about Kratos Vs Thor I’d love to see them throw us a curveball and maybe have Kratos end up killing Odin in the next game while saving Thor (and possibly Freya if killing Odin lifts the curse on her) for the third.

I wonder if one or more of the permanently locked realms will eventually turn out to be the location of the game’s DLC? I know Cory Barlog has publicly stated that they have no plans for DLC in the works because he didn’t want to hold back anything from the main game, but I bet if the sales are big enough then they might throw together something, especially if Sony asks them to.

@ntm: I just reached a part where Kratos is being forced to come to terms with something and as a result he’s no longer as one-note as he was before and is starting to have a nice character arc. I’d say more, but I don’t know how to use the blackout spoiler text when posting on a mobile browser.

I too am having the buffering issue. I realize that the GB staff is aware and working on it, but I have another issue that’s related to the buffering issue that i’d like solved if possible. I predominatly watch the site on my iPad, either through safari or chrome. In both browsers if a video hits the end of the buffer and doesn’t have anything else to play yet, it repeats the last 5 seconds of video over and over and over. This makes all videos turn into broken records for me and is really annoying. I’d much prefer it if the video stopped rather than repeated the last five seconds for a minute straight. Is there any way this can be changed?

For me it only happens on your site, other videos on other sites just stop for me when they need to buffer and don’t do this repeating thing.

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Never mind, I see another thread was started that discusses this issue.