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[Mech#4]

While I find wikia's occationally useful for information and the like, I have no regrets that I had to install an ad blocker to make use of their websites. I understand they're not really profit making but they're undermining their usefulness with how slow the pages load, sometimes to the point of the browser freezing.

[Darkmere]

I despise the type of gameplay that requires a wiki anyway.

Example: I've been messing with Nuclear Throne.

You can upgrade the shitty starter weapon, but only if you

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Loot a screwdriver at random on the first few levels, carry it with you (it's a garbage weapon) for the next 3 levels, and use it on the car in the junkyard with gold trim.

Note that doing this with any other weapon would likely kill you.

That's not clever or a reward for thinking laterally... It's just shit you need to stumble across on the internet because... I have no idea.

[Mech#4]

I'm of two minds about stuff like that.

One the one hand, I enjoy the idea of a game that has things you aren't going to figure out or even be able to do the first time through. However, often when I play games like that I end up looking things up so I don't make mistakes that'll hinder me later on.

Like the Malachite in Dragon Age: Origins. You use it to craft powerful items and upgrades but you only find out about that when you can craft the relevent items and some malachite is only available early on in the game, before you'd know to save/look for it.


I should be less concerned about this and plow on ahead regardless. Things'll work out since if my success/defeat is determined by a single piece of armour I think I have bigger problems.

[Draignean]

I despise the type of gameplay that requires a wiki anyway.

Example: I've been messing with Nuclear Throne.

You can upgrade the shitty starter weapon, but only if you

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Loot a screwdriver at random on the first few levels, carry it with you (it's a garbage weapon) for the next 3 levels, and use it on the car in the junkyard with gold trim.

Note that doing this with any other weapon would likely kill you.

That's not clever or a reward for thinking laterally... It's just shit you need to stumble across on the internet because... I have no idea.

That isn't true.
Also, the screwdriver is a dynamite secondary weapon.

Spoiler: Getting Different Starting Weapons (click to show/hide)

Any golden weapon you pick up and then die with will be available for that character to use on their next run. The special area you get to by fixing the car, Y.V's manor, has a guaranteed golden weapon drop, but it's far from the only way to get a golden weapon.

Now, if you want to talk about how getting to the true final boss borderline requires a wiki run, I'm right there with you. No one in their right mind would do what's required to get there on their own.

[MrRoboto75]

I hate how in Nuclear Throne, 90% of the crowns are just bad.  The only ones that actually offer some sort of benefit are Blood and Destiny, and maybe Guns if you are playing as Robot.  The rest are just a way to die faster.

A bare head, is a fair head.

[Draignean]

Crown of Haste is one of my favorites, crown of curses is just straight up great, crown of risk is good IF you can get something like bloodlust stacked into your run, crown of love is good if you've got a golden weapon strat working for you, crown of protection makes for interesting Steroid melee runs.\

...

I've played too much Nuclear Throne.

[Chiefwaffles]

On the topic of wikis,

I hate Wikia. Having a single tab open can nearly slow my computer to a stop. Having multiple Wikia tabs open is a death sentence no matter how powerful your computer is.

But it's so commonly used, so for a large amount of games if I want to know something I have to go into Wikia and pray it won't crash or freeze the browser before I find what I need.

[MrRoboto75]

Wikia is the firefox equivalent of cancer.

[CABL]

I have no problem with freezing/crashing/slowdown when I browse Wikia, but the interface is like... Web-version of some billboard. Tons of unblockable advertisement, even though I use Adblock Plus on the site, and if you disable AdBlock at all, you'll be drowned in ads, some of which are outright NSFW.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

I have no problem with freezing/crashing/slowdown when I browse Wikia, but the interface is like... Web-version of some billboard. Tons of unblockable advertisement, even though I use Adblock Plus on the site, and if you disable AdBlock at all, you'll be drowned in ads, some of which are outright NSFW.

No script is pretty effective.  Need to allow the wikia.com and nocookie.net categories so the dropdown and tabs will work, but nothing else needs to be enabled.  Knocks out 11 site sources of javascript, some of which have their own subsites that only show up if they are enabled.

[Shadowlord]

I have no problem with freezing/crashing/slowdown when I browse Wikia, but the interface is like... Web-version of some billboard. Tons of unblockable advertisement, even though I use Adblock Plus on the site, and if you disable AdBlock at all, you'll be drowned in ads, some of which are outright NSFW.

No script is pretty effective.  Need to allow the wikia.com and nocookie.net categories so the dropdown and tabs will work, but nothing else needs to be enabled.  Knocks out 11 site sources of javascript, some of which have their own subsites that only show up if they are enabled.

Yeah. I'm running uBlock Origin and uMatrix on chrome, and on wikia's sites I have only enabled scripts for nocookie.net. The dropdowns don't work, since I didn't enable scripts on wikia.com, but I never really used them.

It looks like this and loads instantly:

[Funk]

Wikia for when there not a good wiki.
But even then i'm in the No script and Ghostey brigade.

[AzyWng]

Meaningless Numbers

A lot of video games have gold or score or both.

The irritating thing I notice is that a lot of these scoring systems add a number of zeros to the end of the actual affected values in order to make the numbers seem bigger.

Take Fire Emblem 7: The Blazing Blade. Good game, but the gold system has an extra zero to make the numbers seem bigger. At one point, you receive 5000 gold, which might seem like a whole lot, until you enter a shop to find that an iron bow costs 450 gold and every price is in the triple digits.

You may as well shave off a zero - make the gold awarded 500 and change the price of the bow to 45.

I'm not sure why having naturally large numbers is a thing - maybe to seem like a lot? But for me, it just seems like needless padding.

[SeriousConcentrate]

I agree. It kinda makes you wonder about the economy of the world; when a simple knife costs a few hundred gold, how much does a house cost? Is gold just really common?

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Is gold just really common?

Given how much you typically have by end game in most games, often after only a short period of time...