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That was the one thing that the first game kinda got right that they never really came back to, the whole piecing together your plan of attack and escape route by gathering information or bribing the right people. For better or worse, those parts get blended into the story more (ie, Leonardo in 2).
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John Murdoch posted:That was the one thing that the first game kinda got right that they never really came back to, the whole piecing together your plan of attack and escape route by gathering information or bribing the right people. For better or worse, those parts get blended into the story more (ie, Leonardo in 2). I much prefer it that way. Forcing me to do something takes the fun out of it. Plus it was the same, bullshit, over and over, and over.
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Dec 28, 2013 16:15
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The actual means of gathering assassination information were repetitive, often intentionally redundant without making it clear that that was the case, and was the awkward layer in-between gathering viewpoints (which could already get tedious) and doing actual mission content. But I was more referring to the general idea of planning your assassinations in advance and having different approaches to handle your target, ala Hitman. The mission design actually got more clunky, linear, and scripted, and I still feel like that's the main thing holding the series back, as much as you could say it's being held back.
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Dec 28, 2013 16:39
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John Murdoch posted:The actual means of gathering assassination information were repetitive, often intentionally redundant without making it clear that that was the case, and was the awkward layer in-between gathering viewpoints (which could already get tedious) and doing actual mission content. But I was more referring to the general idea of planning your assassinations in advance and having different approaches to handle your target, ala Hitman. The mission design actually got more clunky, linear, and scripted, and I still feel like that's the main thing holding the series back, as much as you could say it's being held back. If anything is holding the series back, it's that whichever character you play feels more like an errand boy doing other people's jobs like in every other open-ended videogame and less like a professional killer meticulously planning his wetwork. At least Altair's organization had official buildings and some semblance of structure instead of every shady faction in the game somehow being the good guys and the real monsters are the ones in authority. I have never touched a soccer game before but if that were a game mode I'd pick it up today.
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Dec 28, 2013 16:47
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In the original Thief if you jump while running the momentum gained by jumping stays constant instead of decreasing back to your normal running speed. So if you run and jump in a straight line enough times you can build up enough speed to kill yourself by running into a wall. 
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Dec 28, 2013 18:13
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John Murdoch posted:The actual means of gathering assassination information were repetitive, often intentionally redundant without making it clear that that was the case, and was the awkward layer in-between gathering viewpoints (which could already get tedious) and doing actual mission content. But I was more referring to the general idea of planning your assassinations in advance and having different approaches to handle your target, ala Hitman. The mission design actually got more clunky, linear, and scripted, and I still feel like that's the main thing holding the series back, as much as you could say it's being held back. That makes sense. I'm also playing through to see glitches, but so far there has only been 2, one when I killed a guard on a wire in Brotherhood that made him stretch to the ground and in Revelations (just now) where someone I was supposed to be following kept running backwards. It's a great series, don't spoil it, but I'm really looking forward to why desmond killed Lucy
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Dec 28, 2013 18:18
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Soulex posted:It's a great series, don't spoil it, but I'm really looking forward to why desmond killed Lucy Contractual obligations 
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Dec 28, 2013 19:46
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Soulex posted:I'm also playing through to see glitches, but so far there has only been 2, one when I killed a guard on a wire in Brotherhood that made him stretch to the ground and in Revelations (just now) where someone I was supposed to be following kept running backwards. Just wait until you get to 3! Over a year later it's still hilariously unpolished at points. I just failed an eavesdropping mission a couple of times for various reasons involving the same 2 guards. Several times despite the fact they're supposed to be walking, having a conversation together they bumped into each other, got turned around and spotted me. Another time one got suspicious of me while the other kept on his route, and amazingly the two kept up their conversation despite not even being in earshot of each other. And of course I'll never get tired of citizens violently shoving past each other for no reason. Overall it's a bit of a shame really as there are some great improvements to the engine and they've all gone to waste.
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Dec 28, 2013 20:44
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Soulex posted:It's a great series, don't spoil it, but I'm really looking forward to why desmond killed Lucy Prepare to be disappointed. By everything until 4 really.
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Dec 28, 2013 21:44
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Soulex posted:That makes sense. I'm also playing through to see glitches, but so far there has only been 2, one when I killed a guard on a wire in Brotherhood that made him stretch to the ground and in Revelations (just now) where someone I was supposed to be following kept running backwards. Because Kristen Bell's contract was up.
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Dec 28, 2013 22:00
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^^^ suddenly it makes sense. The series is fun, glitches are part of it. Cept when it prevents me from going further in the mission.
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Dec 28, 2013 23:12
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Soulex posted:
Kristen Bell got more famous and her contract was up for renewal.
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Dec 28, 2013 23:35
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RatHat posted:Assassin's Creed 4 has a similar glitch. GuardianOfAsgaard posted:Oh god Edward what is wrong with your teeth!? As far as AC glitches I've encountered personally, I've had the endlessly multiplying rooftop guard in Brotherhood (I think I may have mentioned it in this thread before), and a body skidding around crazily on the ground which had me in tears in Black Flag. There's also some pictures I took from the Tyranny of King Washington that I have to upload later.
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The great thing about AC is you can write off any glitches as the Animus and it doesn't ruin your immersion.
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spudsbuckley posted:Kristen Bell got more famous and her contract was up for renewal.
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Dec 31, 2013 04:12
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I was jumping on the roof-tops, when all of a sudden the alert goes off I try to find the snitch and lo and be-hold a pair of angry arms sticking out from the roof across from me as I turn the camera. I killed the poo poo out of that roof. 
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Dec 31, 2013 04:18
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Croccers posted:I don't get this, what happened between 2008 and 2010 that made her MORE famous for her not to consider staying around? She was already a thing even before 2007. Veronica Mars finished in 07 and that's the biggest thing I remember her in. Are you forgetting Sarah Marshall? 
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Dec 31, 2013 04:22
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Action Tortoise posted:Are you forgetting Sarah Marshall? Which is funny because her character in that film is an actress who gets the career rug pulled out from under her and despairs over what kind of work she'll have to do next.
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Croccers posted:I don't get this, what happened between 2008 and 2010 that made her MORE famous for her not to consider staying around? She was already a thing even before 2007. Veronica Mars finished in 07 and that's the biggest thing I remember her in. She had a pretty big role in Heroes in that time.
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Dec 31, 2013 09:33
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Here's a couple of dudes playing really bad and broken [thing] simulator games. Jerma plays Police Force and gets punished for arresting an innocent by getting teleported under the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_TL_7rc7do Vinesauce's Vinny flips planes and drives around bald men in Airport Simulator 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCPjn4EAnCg
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miscellaneous14 posted:Jerma plays Police Force and gets punished for arresting an innocent by getting teleported under the world:
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Waymoby shows the exciting new trailer of a game called RV2 with Robin Williams! http://youtu.be/R82RuWkyzrM
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You don't have to have played Dark Souls to watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVRbV41oZDc#t=1h42m30s (You may have to copy and paste the link, or you can skip ahead to 1:42:30. I'm having issues creating the specific link and I'm tired and going to bed now.)
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RillAkBea posted:Having just marathoned AssCreed:Rev, it's actually just so nice to see some kind of positive emotion on an assassins face. Make sure you do the Homestead missions in AC3 when you get to them. They're optional but they add way more characterization to Connor and flesh out the game world itself. 3 was a good game, it just took way too long to get going and as a result most people skipped the really fun optional poo poo.
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sticklefifer posted:Make sure you do the Homestead missions in AC3 when you get to them. They're optional but they add way more characterization to Connor and flesh out the game world itself. 3 was a good game, it just took way too long to get going and as a result most people skipped the really fun optional poo poo. 
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I haven't been seeing AC4 glitches as amazing as some of the ones posted, but I got this when I logged out of the Animus tonight. Either this dude has glutes of steel or he's getting some strange results from the Bleeding Effect.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPcV9uIY5i4 TASBot works magic at Awesome Games Done Quick 2014.
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Anatharon posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPcV9uIY5i4 What is going on there.... what just happened? ...and how does that count as beating the game?
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Jan 6, 2014 16:08
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GreatGreen posted:What is going on there.... what just happened? It doesn't. There's a category of runs for cool glitches like that. This is obviously taking the glitch to an extreme. See the original Super Mario World run. This one technically completes the game, although it doesn't become the canonical run since it heavily breaks the game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHErkex2tXg http://tasvideos.org/3957S.html There was an earlier version of this run that went to "THE END" instead of going to the credits.
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Jan 6, 2014 16:17
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GreatGreen posted:What is going on there.... what just happened? All that messing around spitting stuff all over the place and glitching question mark blocks was to input the machine code for those simple Pong and Snake games. Check the description and spongeh's link for a more technically precise explanation. Hamiltonian Bicycle has a new favorite as of 16:29 on Jan 6, 2014 |
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Hamiltonian Bicycle posted:All that messing around spitting stuff all over the place and glitching question mark blocks was to input the machine code for those simple Pong and Snake games. Check the description and spongeh's link for a more technically precise explanation. This would have made The Matrix way better if instead of having the dudes in the ship being able to hack things for them, Neo and company had to do all kinds of silly crazy poo poo in order to mimic certain inputs of code.
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Lobok posted:This would have made The Matrix way better if instead of having the dudes in the ship being able to hack things for them, Neo and company had to do all kinds of silly crazy poo poo in order to mimic certain inputs of code. You would still be able to take it more seriously than Revolutions.
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Lobok posted:This would have made The Matrix way better if instead of having the dudes in the ship being able to hack things for them, Neo and company had to do all kinds of silly crazy poo poo in order to mimic certain inputs of code. 'Neo. Strip.' 'uhhhh why' 'When two men have sex the matrix slightly bends and corrupts, allowing us to spawn guns from middair.' 'That makes no loving sense.' 'Why do you think it's stigmatized then?' 'Woah'
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"In that case, I need guns. LOTS OF GUNS."
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*cue fist-in-and-out-of-mayonnaise-jar sound effect*
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Congratulations, you guys have remade Saints Row 4.
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Hamiltonian Bicycle posted:All that messing around spitting stuff all over the place and glitching question mark blocks was to input the machine code for those simple Pong and Snake games. Check the description and spongeh's link for a more technically precise explanation.
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Zereth posted:I think it was to actually get the game into a state that controller input is overwriting the actual game code, and then that is used to write the Pong and Snake games. Oh, yeah, looks like that's it. And they used all 8 controllers to get the bandwidth up a bit.
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Zereth posted:I think it was to actually get the game into a state that controller input is overwriting the actual game code, and then that is used to write the Pong and Snake games. Yeah, as soon as the game freezes, the display to the right fills up with thousands of button presses from eight seperate controllers. That's where all the programing happened.
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