Welcome back to Game Scoop!, the ONLY video game podcast! This week your Omega Cops — Daemon Hatfield, Tina Amini, Sam Claiborn, and Justin Davis — are discussing topics like EA’s plans to possible adjust your game difficulty automatically, the return of E3, Yakuza games, and more. And, of course, they play Video Game 20 Questions.
The music in this episode is from The Guardian Legend on NES.
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Let’s talk game difficulty mechanics, levels, and curve.
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I feel like the difficulty adaptability is a good idea if it happens in a very subtle way and, more importantly, without the player knowing.
i am wired to believe whole heartedly that any idea EA has/had is terrible. Even if its the greatest idea ever, if it came from EA it's a god awful, complete trash idea.
Activision already manipulates matchmaking in multiplayer games for exactly the same reason.
Medievil is a great game.
I am an xbox gamer, have not had a PlayStation since PS1 but I still feel bitterly disappointed that Sony don't attend or support e3. Its such a shame, its like a family member missing at Christmas. EA not attending as well is another disappointment. I support what Phil said, E3 is an opportunity to show unity as an industry and bring everyone together.
The patent shit in the gaming world stunts creativity and is bad for gaming. WB with their nemesis system and now EA with this that noone asked for is just becoming a horrible trend in the gaming world.
Ea scaling difficulty has other issues I am surprised you didn't mention being in the industry. How do you review something that has no continuity? Of one person gets cheese mode and another insane difficulty their experiences may be entirely different.
Once you get the great weapons from the battle arena you CAN upgrade them with the crafting lady to make them even better. The +9 electric baseball bat is game changing.
Imagine the 'Surprise Mechanics' that could be applied to Time!?
Pretty sure I'm done with EA just as I'm pretty much done with Ubisoft (unless Beyond & Evil 2 is good).
The adaptive difficulty or "script" has been in Fifa franchise for years!
I think it’s a bad idea. What is the point of playing a game and getting better to beat higher difficulty levels if I have a system that constantly adjusts to how good or bad I am at a certain game? It’s a good feeling to know you beat “hard” and even “normal” in some games and you won’t get that same satisfaction with a dynamic difficulty system. Maybe for an “easy” mode this would be acceptable but please don’t mess up my “normal” and above difficulty levels and the endorphins released when completing them.
Jedi fallen order 2? Who cares? If Dark forces 4: Sith lord Extermination, happens, then yes please. Also YS IX: MONSTRUM NOX IS GREAT
Hate to be that guy, but photons do not have mass. So by Sam's definition a laser is not a projectile. Love the podcast!
PSM was my jam! Had a subscription to PSM, Gamepro, and EGM for 2-3 years. They're all lost to the sands of time…
Tina must have been playing Yakuza during the PCM segment.
They substantively ramade Silent Hill in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. I've heard it's cool.
How do you not know that Arc System Works are still around? 😉
They’re big in fighting games.
This self aware relationship we have to “the algorithm” is stupid. Bring back the “map+Sherpa” and let me decide. Theres too many algorithm silos of info and experience. The hoops we jump through to manipulate the algorithms (or hide from them) is just dumb from the human experience perspective, and manipulative of a tech companies.
I still have my Ganeshark and the PS version which is compatible. 😁
Tina not givin' a D*CK about that magazine flip-through this week yo.
A bit of a correction and a funny story: The "Playstation PDA" Is actually called the Pocketstation.
If you look at the new trailer for the "Legend of Mana" HD Remaster. You will see a quick shot of "Ring Ring Land" This was a Pockestation game you could play that was tied to your save data on Legend of Mana on your PS1. Now that HD Remaster will be available on Switch so your old handheld Pockestation game is coming home 😊
Did Justin really just say he thinks Arc System Works is no longer around? The developer behind Blazblue? The developer that made Dragonball Fighterz and just finished its 3rd Fighter Pass Season?The developer that has Guilty Gear Strive coming out later this year?!?!?!
Hard Corps on PSNow (Don't know if that's true)
The golden years of E3 is dead when there are so many companies doing their own things and having their games shown outside of the convention center. Also E3 is nothing more than giant line of nothing to play compared to the years before the public was allowed entry. I've been to the E3 7 times and seeing it then compared to now it's a damn shame and they should just kill the show.
Re: Tina's comment about Yakuza's battle arena, the weapons and rewards you get from there do not render the crafting equipment useless. They will carry you through regular gameplay. But for the post game dungeons, you want the ultimate weapons crafted from the Romance workshop. Not mandatory, but the crafting helps more with the post game content.
Justin's water bottle looks like a tall boy of Miller High Life
Fable 2 had some of the best games within games
I've nothing against adaptive difficulty. However, this won't affect me because I don't care for anything EA makes, and even if I did I would likely not purchase the game, because EA!
As far 'making me play for longer'… I adopted this attitude a long time ago. For example, single player only, campaign, games are near worthless to me as they don't last long enough. For games I do play I always play on the hardest difficulty for a few reasons; first to make them last longer, games are always more atmospheric when they're not simplistically easy, and importantly because the gaming industry is so atrocious at AI, a game on its hardest difficulty is (kind of) as close as the industry can get to making a game 'realistic'. This only applies to shooting and racing games.
Personally I want the industry to stop p***ing about making games look pretty and concentrate on AI, physics, game mechanics, gameplay loop and animation! The problem though with the hardest difficulty is because the industry is generally so incapable of making decent AI it takes the dumbest route by reducing your 'health', increasing that of the AI, and/or reducing the effectiveness of your weapons, and usually making the AI ridiculously accurate in its aim.
Anyway, no one will read this, but I'll end on a positive note; excellent show as always (…watched on the website, as usual, as I refuse to be forced to watch adverts on YouTube every few minutes!!!).
I do not want games to dictate how easy or hard it should be. I pick my setting. If it is too easy. I change my setting. Too hard. I change my setting. But if I am happy and EAs new system says, "Yeah. He is doing too good and hasn't died" only to have 5 impossibly large bosses pop out that keeps me frustrated. I will stop playing the game and vow never to buy another EA game again. Mind you … they are already on thin ice with the Microtransaction BS. So the decision would be a quick one.
Justin, if you’ve already played Yakuza Kiwami, go play Kiwami 2 instead. Kiwami 2 summarizes all of the events of the first game to catch you up.
You are in a second pandemic year because you are in California. Strictest rules. Highest cases. How does that work?
The Silent Hill collection XBox360
9:28 They did that in ‘Assassins Creed Black Flag’ as well.
Tina's gained a lot of weight since covid. so has everybody though— s'all good. I heard it called the covid 15 on the radio similar to the freshman 15 haha.
Sam, how could you NOT have played any of those PSX games!?!? Suikoden 2 was one of the best on the console…..
Silent Hill was genuinely difficult and terrifying at that age…..
Tomb Raider 3 was one of the hardest and one hell of an achievement to complete
You missed out!
Suikoden 2 might actually be worth revisiting, I doubt many of the rest would be playable these days. No idea how you'd get a copy though, I got £100 for mine a few years ago on eBay. They should update or release them on the PS store online and copy Nintendo's strategy
CO-OP MAGES!!
Claiborn's still insufferable. Typical Game Scoop! episode this week I guess.
everybody's so ready for E3
I love Guardian Legend! Great childhood memories. Thank you for the music
Sounds like the first game I am going to play on my new PC is Yakuza Like a Dragon!