What video games visibly elongate your life bar when your maximum HP counter increases? I absolutely love it for some reason. Probably because it gives your some strong sense of progression and power growth. Or maybe I just like seeing things become longer
Either way post such lifebars.
Asher Brown
Darksiders does. If you wanna count hearts then Zelda games will be a joy for you, majority of the side content is getting hearts and expanding your lifebar.
Joseph Clark
Metal Gear Solid.
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Zachary Baker
I think the Maximo games did this.
Nicholas Green
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Brody Rogers
Actually I think that hearts, orbs or any other objects lined along instead of a solid line are pretty lame.
Angel Lee
Duke Nukem Forever
Asher Morris
Ninja Gaiden (Xbox, not NES), every time you get the max health up powerup In Monster Hunter your stamina bar gets shorter over time, and you need to eat to expand it. Your health bar can also lengthen or shorten depending on other factors.
Josiah Wright
I like the way you think, OP. The only one I can think off that wasn't mentioned is Monster Hunter, but it isn't progression related.
He didn't even post the gay version. Do you not see the tits, you fucking faggot?
Eli Powell
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Josiah Harris
souls games
Jaxon Morris
Bayonetta expands both the health and magic gauges.
Benjamin Thomas
Do other expanding bars count? FEAR had its reflex bar slightly expanded with each booster, and while the differences between each booster were minimal, the difference at start and end of the game were rather obvious.
In Dishonored, you can get some health and mana upgrades that expand your bars.
Levi Robinson
He has Dank Memes in the OP you faggot.
Jaxon Diaz
If you count extra hearts/squares/whatever , There's Okami and Dead Rising.
I am scared about DR4. It just won't feel the same without psychos and time limits.
Tyler Collins
Is there a game where your life bar is a penis that gets longer?
Austin Mitchell
Maybe in some H-games. That Bonetown game had your balls as your power level. I never played it so that's just hearsay.
Robert Miller
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Angel Barnes
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Cameron Taylor
Bayonetta 1&2, The Wonderful 101 and the DMC series, off the top of my head.
Robert Anderson
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Benjamin Watson
Well, I mean there's just that one And it's Toon Link, not Young Link
RIP
Aaron Jackson
quads confirm we need more cuntboy link
Jordan Cooper
>IT GOES OFF THE SCREEN
Colton Lewis
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Kayden Perez
Every kill increases boost bar by large chunk.
Asher Ortiz
Legend of Mana doesn't elongate it per se, but it does give you multiple health bars. Much like the bosses in Kingdom Hearts. I imagine you'll enjoy it because you get to watch a bar grow until it reaches the next color then you get to watch it grow all over again.
Camden Brooks
bet i can guess what armor and weapon you two had throughout most of your games too
Angel Roberts
DEX > STR
Matthew Walker
as long as you aren't a filthy caster user
Luis Cruz
GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS
Adam Hill
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Carter Cooper
I wish more game would place the life bar on the character like Dead Space did. The seamless HUD is about the only thing dead space got right in every game.
Ayden Garcia
THIS IS AWFUL WHEN ITS A HORROR GAME PLEASE DONT SPOOK ME
Logan Howard
Dude, that's the best thing ever. Your inventory being a hologram made by the suit and there's bullshit creeping around the walls. It adds a whole atmosphere of spook (but awesome) to the game and you can't just escape the tension by bringing up a giant menu that pauses the entire game.
Luis Edwards
You're forgetting that Deadspace still has the options menu which was a hard-pause.
Kayden Lee
You're forgetting that fuck you. :^)
James Jenkins
I know other RE games had yellow herbs, but I don't remember if they had life bars that extended like 4 did.
William Flores
The Devil May Cry series featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series
Caleb Williams
Shadow of the Colossus had an expanding health bar. Some trees had fruit in them, which you could shoot down (or climb up and knock down) and then eat, which grew your health bar. There were also many lizards in the game world, and some few had white tails. If you stunned the white-tailed lizard and then cut its tail off, it would expand your maximum grip circle (which is also used for holding your breath underwater). After a new game + or two, your health bar could easily go off the side of the screen, being larger than the health bar of most colossi you face. And your grip circle could get crazy big as well.
Additionally, with sufficient grip strength/endurance, you could climb up the main temple where you start the game. On top, there were similar fruits to those that expanded your healthbar but instead, these ones actually shrunk the bar. I think the idea was that your health bar growing was a measure of your corruption and the evil god's influence on you, and so the fruits that grew on the temple meant to contain that god would instead purify you.
Pretty cool game.
Joshua White
Also your health and grip would increase with every colossus you killed, as you absorbed a fragment of the evil god from them. Dunno if it's worth spoilering this shit, I hope everyone's played this incredible game by now.
sage for doublepost
Owen White
Too bad none of that affects story/outcome. Also reminder that there still now way to play it on proper 60 fps or more. I think you can jump through a bunch of hoops if you emulate, but not sure if it won't break something else. 60fps PS4 remaster never ever.
Connor Sanders
(checked) If I remember right, there was a lot of cut content in Shadow of the Colossus. 2 or 3 more colossi, and at least one alternate ending if you escaped the pool sucking you in.
Luke Thompson
The only other game they appear in is RE: Gaiden and most people would rather forget that exists. The other games had blue herbs as the third type which would cure poison
Jonathan Lewis
The only really, completely cut thing is spider colossus. The rest was repurposed/integrated into what we had in the end. The whole "40 planned colossi" business doesn't mean they were made first and then cut. They all weren't even designed.
Parker Howard
I fucking love this game to bits, please let the last guardian be good.
Landon Wilson
What did Poison even do? I remember there being giant spiders in RE3
Angel Morgan
In theory: Slowly eat away at your health In practice: Cost you some inventory spots because you know there are poisonous enemies about and have blue herbs ready to go.
Chase Butler
BloodRayne 2, but I'm too lazy to post examples.
Angel Cox
And the first Soul Reaver game.
Jordan Campbell
That thing looks at of place but still alright.
Gabriel White
The God of War series is a pretty obvious one that I forgot to mention.
Owen Allen
Only the first one though. I wonder why they got rid of the expanded lifebar for the later games it was good progression.
Eli Scott
MHR has it returned in full glory. MGR is the best metal gear game hands down
Zachary Mitchell
It's in MG1 and MG2 too. Maybe also Ghost Babel?
Gabriel Turner
Well I mean we do have Sam's story, right?
Hudson Howard
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Zachary Roberts
It's like you want to be called a faggot
Sebastian Morris
God Hand if you buy health boosts Honestly, if you haven't played it yet, emulate it right now.
Brandon Turner
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Chase Green
Ultra low fov and bad camera gave me head aches so I couldn't play past first level.
I'm pretty sure even MMOs in PS2 didn't have microtransactions.
Brayden Perry
VIT is actually pretty necessary for later portions of the game though like Izalith. Even as a dexterity build I usually get it up to at least 30-40.
Kayden Gutierrez
MGS3 does it aswell. If you get hurt (red damage) and heal, the bar will lengthen a bit. It's actually a nice mechanics since it allows casuals to stand a chance against the thougher boss and provide a nice challenge to the actual players since your life bar should be pretty pathetic.
Aiden Watson
Beyond Good and Evil did this.
Blake Martinez
Blood Omen 2 does that. If only game itself was good.
Angel Cruz
Bumpster
Charles Nelson
for what purpose
Austin Stewart
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John King
ACCEPT THIS IS THE BEST DRIVING GAME EVER Holla Forums
YOU HAVE NO CHOICE
YOU KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE
Cameron Lewis
Yes, its true
Samuel Sullivan
It's all in game currency mate, you get giant coin pick ups from thugs. The health boosts are fruit smoothies from the shop you can visit between levels.
That sucks, man. Because this shit's great.
Christian Collins
Avalon Code has an odd variant, in that your health is measured by a plant with red leaves going across the top of the screen, with each hit making a leaf fall off. Upon obtaining another unit of health by scanning a particular type of pedestal, the stem of the plant expands slightly, a new leaf buds, and then unravels to look like the rest, adding to the maximum hits you can take.
Darksiders basically used multiple stacking health meters, with the full reserves represented by one of those skull looking things beneath it.
I keep seeing copies of that around for the PS2, but they're never in good shape at all. Probably the PS2 Capcom game people are most prone to treating really poorly out here. How is it anyhow?
John Sullivan
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Jace Price
Wow Link is rude
Benjamin Russell
fixed
Zachary Morris
Fixed more
Levi Cox
Expand life by taking life.
Easton Ward
It's one of my favorite action games ever. It's very spam unfriendly and doesn't focus on juggling, so it got a lot of hate from both musou and DMC fans back in the day. It's similar to MGR in a way that 90% of combat is parrying and counter attacking, except you don't have dedicated parry command and instead need to slash into enemies attacks like a goddamn jedi. You can spend 10 minutes attacking end game grunt with normal slashes, but it takes 2 or 3 counter attacks to take them out. Shit's very hard and satisfying when you nail it.
Great music and location design too. I just wish character designs weren't so much anime.
Jace Ross
Sigh, saved.
William Hill
I'll give it some more consideration if I ever see a copy in good condition where I live (which admittedly might be a fat chance, but I'm a stickler for condition of what I buy). It's certainly cheap enough, and I really don't mind something being "anime" in design. Thanks for the information.
Cameron Turner
Just torrent it and burn to DVD mate. That's how I get my PS2 games.
Josiah Kelly
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Adam Bennett
Prototype does this
Luis Brooks
way to ruin it faggot
Robert Davis
Is it bad that I sincerely believe I'm missing out on a great game, but know they're innocent and can't bring myself to play it?
The reveal would be ruined anyways.
Hudson Rodriguez
La Mulana.
Samuel Green
Resident Evil 4 had it where your bar amount would increase with red+green herb mixtures