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haveblue posted:What's his answer? "I have enormous faith that you'll win"
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2house2fly posted:You can also... not calm him down: Fallout New Vegas is the best game.
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Dec 13, 2014 22:54
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Everything about New Vegas makes me think they designed the game for the Fallout 2 engine first and then adapted it into a pile of Bethesda.
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Dec 13, 2014 23:18
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scamtank posted:Everything about New Vegas makes me think they designed the game for the Fallout 2 engine first and then adapted it into a pile of Bethesda. You're wrong, but not entirely wrong. It was adapted from the original plan for Fallout 3, which was on a self-made third-person RPG engine.
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Dec 14, 2014 00:22
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A lot of Van Buren ideas were interesting and a lot were totally insane so I feel like New Vegas was what happens when you have a decade to sit on these ideas and sort of the wheat from the chaff. It might be fun to see some of the weirder stuff one day though.
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Dec 14, 2014 00:35
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EmmyOk posted:"I have enormous faith that you'll win" I thought that Dragon Age: Origin was an awful slog of a game but I loved that they justified having to buy items before the final battle by having the last store be run by a crippling autist who can barely speak let alone comprehend why charging money for things when a battle is raging around you is a bad idea. RagnarokAngel posted:A lot of Van Buren ideas were interesting and a lot were totally insane so I feel like New Vegas was what happens when you have a decade to sit on these ideas and sort of the wheat from the chaff. The design docs for Van Buren were leaked and they even released the playable demo of the engine's alpha, The Fallout WIki has a pretty good breakdown of everything.
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Dec 14, 2014 01:36
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Having read some of the leaked design doc, I'm pretty interested in Burning Springs.
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Dec 14, 2014 01:37
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RagnarokAngel posted:A lot of Van Buren ideas were interesting and a lot were totally insane so I feel like New Vegas was what happens when you have a decade to sit on these ideas and sort of the wheat from the chaff. What was the totally insane stuff, again? AFAIK the only big concepts they took were Caesar's Legion and the area around Hoover Dam being in the game. One of the earlier drafts had the Chinese caricatures from Fallout 2 being nuked by the Enclave, and I'm sad they took that out.
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Dec 14, 2014 01:45
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Kavak posted:What was the totally insane stuff, again? AFAIK the only big concepts they took were Caesar's Legion and the area around Hoover Dam being in the game. One of the earlier drafts had the Chinese caricatures from Fallout 2 being nuked by the Enclave, and I'm sad they took that out. the climax of Van Buren involved flying into space to the death ray satellite of the main bad guy evil scientist dude
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Dec 14, 2014 01:54
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Alouicious posted:the climax of Van Buren involved flying into space to the death ray satellite of the main bad guy evil scientist dude  . I liked the idea the game had of the Vault Project experiments being meant for a space colonization mission, since it gives the whole thing an actual rationale instead of hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of shits-and-giggles , but that's a little much.
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Dec 14, 2014 02:02
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From what I remember it's an orbital nuke launcher, the bad guy is going to nuke the whole wasteland and you have to choose two locations to get nuked in order to spare the rest. This idea was basically resurrected as well in a New Vegas DLC.
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Dec 14, 2014 02:25
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there was also something involving a ghoul scientist trying to create "born ghouls", as in ghouls who were never once human and later ghoulified by radiation and instead created pre-ghoulified.
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Dec 14, 2014 02:55
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EmmyOk posted:In Final Fantasy X just before you fight a boss monster attacking the airship, there's an item seller who will sell you restoratives. One of the characters asks why he's selling the items instead of giving them away as he'll die too if they lose. I thought it was nice comment on how that situation often arises in games. Super mario rpg also had an interesting variation where the final armor shop in the game was from a thief who still charged you money, but right outside his room was a treasure box you could hit that gave literally infinite money. It gave it coin at a time however, so if you were short on cash to get the final armor for your party, you could easily get it without grinding, but you most likely weren't going to sit there hitting the chest about a thousand times to stock up on healing items, because anyone obsessed enough to do that most likely already had 999 coins when they got there.(I'm sure people did anyway). Tengames has a new favorite as of 05:09 on Dec 14, 2014 |
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Dec 14, 2014 05:05
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EmmyOk posted:"I have enormous faith that you'll win" And also because his people's home just got blown up, and they'll need the money to build a new one.
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Dec 14, 2014 14:56
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...of SCIENCE! posted:The design docs for Van Buren were leaked and they even released the playable demo of the engine's alpha, The Fallout WIki has a pretty good breakdown of everything. I liked how they re-engineered VB Joshua Graham's concept of "a super-powerful companion that will cut off entire storylines due to backstory" into Boone. And I really liked how they brought back Graham himself as a redeemed monster of a man who isn't completely redeemed because of both his bloodthirsty nature AND the view that redemption is a process, not a goal.
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Dec 14, 2014 15:24
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maou shoujo posted:And also because his people's home just got blown up, and they'll need the money to build a new one. Yeah, IIRC the exchange was along the lines of: "Hey, why are you charging us at a time like this?!?" "Because we'll need the money to start rebuilding when you win." I thought it was clever.
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Dec 14, 2014 15:33
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toasterwarrior posted:I liked how they re-engineered VB Joshua Graham's concept of "a super-powerful companion that will cut off entire storylines due to backstory" into Boone. And I really liked how they brought back Graham himself as a redeemed monster of a man who isn't completely redeemed because of both his bloodthirsty nature AND the view that redemption is a process, not a goal. The crazy thing is that even after almost a decade of planning and tinkering they were still changing stuff up to the last minute. Like how Ulysses was supposed to be a companion but they cut it at the last minute, which is why you don't have a Legion-sympathetic party member in the final game and why he's on the playing cards from the collector's edition even though his DLC wouldn't come out until a year later. 
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Dec 14, 2014 15:56
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On the topic of FF, XIV is well-known for being chock-full of references to everything in the series, but I'm especially a fan of the slightly subtler stuff. Also even something like chat filter settings have humorous touches. 
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Dec 14, 2014 16:01
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Speaking of FFXIV, when you go to sleep in order to log off, a really calm sleepy version of the victory theme plays. 
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Dec 14, 2014 18:40
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I really love the music that plays in Bully when you're just walking around campus. Gets stuck in my head all the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmqbIUa8RcA If you get in detention enough times in that game, you get a black and white striped prisoner's outfit as a reward. If you have Jimmy wear a silly outfit, everyone will laugh at him and he won't be able to kiss anyone. There's a freak show at the carnival where you can bet on a midget wrestling match. If you swim off to one of the islands near where the Prep hideout is, one of the greasers will be there in his pirate halloween costume. You can beat him up and get his outfit. But of course, my favourite little thing in Bully is watching what happens after you spill a bunch of marbles at the entrance to the boy's dorm and pull the fire alarm.
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Dec 14, 2014 21:54
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poptart_fairy posted:Speaking of FFXIV, when you go to sleep in order to log off, a really calm sleepy version of the victory theme plays. You also get to watch your character curl up in bed before logging out. The lalafell animation for that is particularly adorable.
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Dec 14, 2014 22:35
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Bussamove posted:You also get to watch your character curl up in bed before logging out. The https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_BJNrRruCE But here's one of a Lalafell and the music too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQYwOi8AwGU
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Dec 14, 2014 22:45
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The Journal in FFXIV updates with each stage of any quest with a little description/summary, usually snide. "Unfamiliar with the face of Eorzea's savior, the Brass Blades attempt to rearrange your heroic features with predictable results. Having demonstrated your primal-shaming capacity for violence, inquire of the remaining Blade if he is now willing to cooperate."
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Dec 15, 2014 01:14
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I recently replayed The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, and I'm reminded how great this game is. One of my favourite touches is how the music changes in Lorule. See, this is the music whenever you're walking around the world map of the "Dark World": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYc_Vosp9_Y But after you've collected all the mcguffins, and are ostensibly on the path to the final dungeon to confront the big boss, this music replaces the above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4ZEYeanOW4
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Dec 15, 2014 16:09
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Persona Q: I like the deranged little giggle Chie makes when she dodges an enemy attack.
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Dec 15, 2014 17:12
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Tiggum posted:That's specifically Kinzie's "romance" scene. You rescue more people as the game goes on and they all have different ones. I love how Gat interrupts the boss mid speech because he can't hold his emotions any longer
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Dec 15, 2014 17:53
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I thought that Dragon Age: Origin was an awful slog of a game but I loved that they justified having to buy items before the final battle by having the last store be run by a crippling autist who can barely speak let alone comprehend why charging money for things when a battle is raging around you is a bad idea. An autist who somehow took out an entire squad of Darkspawn with nothing more than the power of 'enchantment!' Just try taking his stuff without paying.
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Dec 15, 2014 22:58
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Daktar posted:An autist who somehow took out an entire squad of Darkspawn with nothing more than the power of 'enchantment!' Just try taking his stuff without paying. We won't even get into what happens in 2 - "NOT Enchantment!" probably makes the kid more frightening than the prior "Enchantment!" jokes.
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Dec 15, 2014 23:49
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Kugyou no Tenshi posted:We won't even get into what happens in 2 - "NOT Enchantment!" probably makes the kid more frightening than the prior "Enchantment!" jokes. I was really hoping that plot point was going to go anywhere other than nowhere but, whelp
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Dec 16, 2014 00:34
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a better question is how can a crippled autist can even become a merchant a run a shop
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Dec 16, 2014 02:43
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Phobophilia posted:a better question is how can a crippled autist can even become a merchant a run a shop So I'm playing through Metro 2033 Redux, having already beaten the original several times previously. I was expecting a nice graphical overhaul, which I got, but I was not expecting the actual level design to be significantly improved in several key areas. It was most noticeable in the FRONTLINE chapter. There were added paths around in the section where you have to avoid the turret vehicle, as well as more interesting stealth challenges in the latter part of the chapter. Sardonik has a new favorite as of 05:18 on Dec 16, 2014 |
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Dec 16, 2014 05:12
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Phobophilia posted:a better question is how can a crippled autist can even become a merchant a run a shop Wasn't the shop itself run by his dad, and Sandal just did the enchanting?
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Dec 16, 2014 05:18
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I don't like Starcraft 2 as much as SC 1, and I like Heart of the Swarm MUCH less than Wings of Liberty because of how baffingly bad HotS' story is, but I have to give it credit for something I missed the first time. Dehaka is a zerg who is supposed to be all about ~perfect form~ but he has vestigal limbs which are obviously counter to that; You can actually find one of his still bleeding limbs in a mission and he'll comment he can't figure out why his body hasn't yet replaced his damaged smaller arms with better ones. e: Also in wings of Liberty there's a propaganda report about how Zerglings are allergic to lemon juice, meant to show how the Dominion is Totally In Control, Guys. In Heart of the Swarm the Zerg in charge of genetic engineering makes an offhanded comment about how he needs to fix the Zerglings' lemon juice allergy. 
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Celery Face posted:I really love the music that plays in Bully when you're just walking around campus. Gets stuck in my head all the time. Hmm, I don't remember this music at all, I'll just click on the link and oh yeah that's not leaving my head for the next 3 months 
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Dec 16, 2014 07:44
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Who What Now posted:I was really hoping that plot point was going to go anywhere other than nowhere but, whelp Cleretic posted:Wasn't the shop itself run by his dad, and Sandal just did the enchanting? Yeah, but I imagine he's not bad at doing the shop work either. You just can't haggle, this is the price that he was told and he won't give it away for anything less because he was told that was a bad thing.
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Dec 16, 2014 08:07
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Jerusalem posted:Hmm, I don't remember this music at all, I'll just click on the link and oh yeah that's not leaving my head for the next 3 months No kidding. I told myself I didn't remember Bully music, and then I watched the video and yep I remember Bully music.
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Dec 16, 2014 08:42
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Celery Face posted:I really love the music that plays in Bully when you're just walking around campus. Gets stuck in my head all the time. Just found the next song I'm learning on the bass.
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Dec 16, 2014 09:03
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I like how you get a sped up arrangement of the theme when you start riding a bicycle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KApI_ziF23c
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Dec 16, 2014 09:45
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I'd get into fights with the preps just so I could hear their theme music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2qwkSgRtPw
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My main problem with merchants in games is that they're not the merchant from RE4.
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