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goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

My Lovely Horse posted:

Y'all got some pretty wacky notion of where pornography begins

Goons love repeating conservative talking points in regards to what they think pornography is

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goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

Alhazred posted:

Blacksad: Under the Skin:
https://i.imgur.com/i4CN55X.mp4
I think it's neat you can play Blacksad as a communist.

God I wish that was how communists looked

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

Nameless Pete posted:

the next game has you visiting ancient Alexandria, where it should be but isn't and that bugs the hell out of me for some reason.

That’s cuz it’s in London

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

Kit Walker posted:

Playing through AI: The Somnium Files currently. I’ve got two complaints that actually turn into a favorite little thing. There are two sort of recurring things/sequences that annoy me a bit. The first is how weirdly perverted the protagonist is. It’s generally not in a gross way, but there are numerous allusions to his proclivities and both he and lots of other characters make some really low brow sex jokes that aren’t particularly funny. The second is these sequences where you’re in a shoot-out, usually outnumbered or outgunned, and your AI companion comes up with these absolutely lunatic Rube Goldberg-esque plans that perfectly take into account what everyone is doing and will do to set up some big trick to take out all of your opponents. They tend to be so over the top that my suspension of disbelief dies pretty much instantaneously


HOWEVER, there is one particular sequence that redeems it all. It involves a shoot-out in an alley against several masked military-looking guys, and the plan involves shooting a couple items (a hanger with a bra and panties, and a porno mag vending machine) to rearrange the position of the enemies (because they all react like metal gear soldiers to anything risqué) and then shooting a thrown fire extinguisher perfectly so that it flies around bouncing between all of them knocking them out. It straight up might as well have been one of those metal gear trolling videos. Absolutely hilariously executed. I just about died when I realized what was happening

The rube goldberg powered by horniness was the funniest part of AI! ☹️

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

Sandwich Anarchist posted:

It's really shocking how few pirate video games there really are

Really? Most of the games I play are pirate

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

bewilderment posted:

There's an easy answer and that it's just binning, the same way companies make storage and RAM.
You know how that works right? Like, every attempt to make a stick of ram is a 64GB stick.
But most of them have a transistor fail or whatever. So they have a couple more get disabled and they're thrown in the 32GB bin.
Then, oh, a lot of these 32GB sticks are only good for 16GB.
16GB? Most of these are just 8 GB sticks.

and so on.

Every Pokeball is a failed MasterBall.

wait what the gently caress

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

TontoCorazon posted:

Just got these boots in High on Life



Question. Have you watched Face/Off

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

Len posted:

Maybe they were going for caricature of a 1920s gangster?

If only there was some sort of way to translate something where tone could come through and be understood, maybe by casting people and having them speak a local language that the person playing or watching can understand?

Sounds great

how do you do that in a subtitle only localization

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

Biplane posted:

Dont know if it was havok but in gta5 for ps4 (i think) if you pressed square after jumping your character would ragdoll for some reason, and I literally spent hours throwing trevor down stairs or into traffic.

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

Biplane posted:

Dunno about all this paper mario hate, my kid who is 9 fuckin loves origami king.

Nintendo games are fundamentally for children and goons hate it if the game’s different from when they were twelve

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.
I liked that they changed Ashley in RE4 remake to be a tiny cartoon mouse

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.
Doomguy isn’t someone who makes friends easily but he is extremely pleasant about assistance rendered

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

Morpheus posted:

At first I enjoyed Gwent, until I realized it was an in-universe pay-to-win scam. Not rich enough to have a deck full of those 10-score cards that are immune to everything? Have fun losing, nerd.

Such is the case with all collectible card games

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

BurningBeard posted:

Cheers to that. Disability rep is basically non-existent in games so I feel you.

e: like The Surge has your character in a wheelchair at the beginning, then nullifies the whole deal by putting him in an exosuit. So like okay the only way to make him worth playing is to take him out of the wheelchair? Real cool, real cool.

Whenever blind people do show up in games it’s generally patronizing. Vessels for spiritual enlightenment, badass warrior types, but never, you know, just blind people being people.

And I struggle to think of any other disabilities that are commonly even seen in games at all.

How do you feel about Wolfenstein 2?

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.
it did have Spiders-Man which was a funny joke

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

John Murdoch posted:

Like yeah dang, I'm not particularly virtual-arachnophobic but even I'm a bit icked out by the one on the left.

but its not a spider???? :confused:

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

Kitfox88 posted:

The one on the left is a real world spider :cry:

it is an amplypygi!!

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

Captain Hygiene posted:

Going back to spider chat, I finally remembered to try out the arachnophobia mitigation button in Jedi Survivor, and it handles things a bit...differently than I was expecting:




It's so derpy I can't help but love it :buddy:

So you're saying there are hopes of it running on the Switch?

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

John Murdoch posted:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3723999&userid=123933

There we go. I don't think Evil Tim ever explained his bonafides or any specific connection to the game but they were some fun posts, particularly if you didn't 100% like every last thing about Spec-Ops.

you know it's a good one where the first post of fifty starts with "white phosphorus was noone's fault"

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.
now the third one's doing the champagne/sparkling wine bit about chemical weapons

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.
okay i read some more and my conclusion is that Evil Tim is a CIA contractor who's mad at unfair portrayal of his noble profession

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

Vandar posted:

Elden Ring, at the very least, points you in the direction you're supposed to go if you're at a Site of Grace.

That is not what these particle effects do, sadly

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.
Stranger Of Paradise was good as heck

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

BioEnchanted posted:

I always like when a game has non-tutorial teaching tools, like an achievement for triggering certain conditions with an attack that you might not have thought of [spoilering lategame mechanic](FF16 for instance has a thing where if you perfect dodge with Shiva equipped and using her circle dash move instead of the usual trigger button dodge, it encases enemies in ice in a Permafrost status effect) or a powerup where to make it stronger you have to use a move in a certain way like Forspoken's thing where the challenge for the earth shield attack is killing enemies with the automatic counter that it does if they hit the shield, which until doing that I didn't actually know how to use the earth shield, and after doing that I did.

Forspoken has roughly a thousand mechanics

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

Cleretic posted:

Oh, I think you misunderstand: Karlach is the only person pulling her goddamn weight in regards to Actually Hitting Things, probably thanks to exactly those two things. She just turns into a pincushion the instant enemies get to do anything, probably in part because of that second thing.

My sorceror protag has 17 Charisma. So does Wyll. Shadowheart has a 17 Wisdom. None of those 17s help in getting odds better than 'about a coin flip', nor do they help when those coin flips land on tails a statistically implausible amount of times.

Yeah, there's a funny thing that happens when Every Single Person talks up a specific game and tells me I'd like it: I usually believe them, for much longer than I probably should.

I think any person telling you that you'd like a game is a loving idiot.

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

Cleretic posted:

The Super Mario RPG remake has an enemy bestiary that really understands the sense of humor of SNES-era Square. But one of them just quietly blew the minds of everyone who saw it.

https://twitter.com/KirbyCheatFurby/status/1726815235531735530

Sure enough, there just aren't swords in mainline Mario games, you can check. And the few that exist in Mario spinoffs are almost exclusively pirate cutlasses, so none of those would be named Excalibur, either!

https://www.mariowiki.com/Kinoko_Sword

owned

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

ImpAtom posted:

It's neither, it's completely standard turn-based. You have 4.5 party members, your main cast + the tagalog kid who will semi-randomly act and otherwise is who keeps your items and throws them at you.

Can I play it without learning tagalog?

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

Biplane posted:

Had to have a Conversation with my ten year old after Lakitu calls Mario a war criminal in Paper Mario: Color Splash after fighting in the colosseum, which I thought was kind of funny in a kind of sad way :lol: :smith:

consider this though: literally no better time to be doing that!

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

ImpAtom posted:

(I tried looking details up but 90% of the discourse on it is people talking about how obsessed they are with the protagonist's thighs.)

Hell Yeah

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

Sandwich Anarchist posted:

We cannot let him read Infinite Jest, under any circumstances.

the real infinite jest is the one kojima plays on you, the player.

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

Vic posted:

When slavs learn english they tend to pick up on the U being pronounced like A the last. So when me and my friends were playing Shadowrun on the Genesis/Megadrive we would read the chum/chummer as choom/choomer.

My wife makes fun of me about it. I didn't have access to non-written media!!

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.
did you know that Super Mario Bros 2 was originally called Doki Doki Panic in Japan?

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goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

Mierenneuker posted:

Pyre wasn't exactly a slam dunk

It quite literally was. :P

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