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William Bear posted:A World of Warcraft boss with great sound design: The master of the Soul Forge, Bronjahm, the "Godfather of Souls". They really went all out with their dumb James Brown jokes. From almost every item he drops being some reference to his work, to his unique theme, to even the little-noticed sound effects that play when he attacks, is injured, or is the recipient of a critical hit: Perhaps my favorite part about him is that one of the items he drops is this one.
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One of my favorite things to do in Ys II is harassing townsfolk with magic, they all have unique dialogue for both that and for when you try to reconcile with them afterwards with gifts.
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After a battle with rebels in Tropico 5 one of my advisors said "War...war never changes"
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ElwoodCuse posted:After a battle with rebels in Tropico 5 one of my advisors said "War...war never changes" 
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Chroma Squad, a Sentai/Power Rangers simulator, is full of these. Everything ties into the fact that you're filming Power Rangers episodes for fans. - Everything you do is something you'd see in a PR episode. Have one character run ahead, have the others acrobatically leap off off him. - Audience appeal is primary, and every staple of PR is there. The audience loves seeing your heroes run great distances, use their Special Weapons - You can't even morph/transform at the beginning of the levels. You need to work up to it, just as fights in PR work up to it - Do a 'teamwork move' normally, and you'll get a generic effect of the five team members doing some sort of attack. Do a teamwork move with one hero's weapon ability available (and all of the other hero's weapon abilities also available), and there's a distinct all-our-weapons-combined move. I could describe the entire game, honestly, it's just chock full of all the Spandex Punchman stuff from my youth.
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May 5, 2015 23:16
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When you walk in water in GTA 5 your clothes get wet upto where you were submerged and I like that detail.
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May 5, 2015 23:19
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There is a literal grammar Nazi in Wolfenstein: The Old Blood. 
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May 5, 2015 23:27
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peter gabriel posted:When you walk in water in GTA 5 your clothes get wet upto where you were submerged and I like that detail. And everything dries off slowly, too! Plus, stuff sounds wet when it is
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After a few unsuccessful attempts at a timed Riddler challenge with the first hostage I decided to find a trainer for Batman: Arkham City to give me unlimited health and just run for a platform. Even though I was accused with cheating in Asylum and City it seemed like it was just frustration. The one time I decided to cheat for real I was called out on and it felt like the game knew what I've done. Instead of an unsure frustration, after activating and doing it I was welcomed with a "I know that that you're cheating" response for the first time.
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There's actually a few nuggets like that buried away in the game for if you beat Riddler without doing it "properly". I think all the electric floor puzzles have some variation of it, and though it's not the same thing if you keep failing the first puzzle in Asylum he'll eventually completely lose his poo poo and just outright give you the solution. 
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I love his progressive breakdown as you solve the riddles in Asylum. At around 75% of them he starts accusing you of looking them up online 
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May 6, 2015 00:21
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I recall one puzzle like that where there's a bunch of electrified floor type things along the ground, and your goal is to platform your way there by figuring out what's safe and what order to jump on them etc. ...or, if you have the line launcher, you can just launch a tightrope to the other end of the room and walk right over all that bullshit. The Riddler gets understandably angry at you and shouts about how long it took to set that one up.
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May 6, 2015 00:22
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The Riddler yells at you for cheating if you use detective vision on his shell game puzzle in Arkham City, but as far as I could tell that was the only way to solve it.
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:The Riddler yells at you for cheating if you use detective vision on his shell game puzzle in Arkham City, but as far as I could tell that was the only way to solve it. Yup. Sometimes the final position of the hostage will match up with the "shell" positions, sometimes it won't. I succeeded the first time without using Detective Mode because he accidentally didn't cheat, then when I was going through the game a second time I failed and wondered how I could have messed up a shell game that easy.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:And everything dries off slowly, too! Plus, stuff sounds wet when it is They put more thought into this than I realised, I am doing a standing ovation IRL about it, that's really cool
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peter gabriel posted:When you walk in water in GTA 5 your clothes get wet upto where you were submerged and I like that detail. Dark Souls 2 has a similar thing, your character gets wet to the depth they've waded and it slowly drips off. Wading is slow, so players will roll through water because it's faster. Rolling soaks you from head to toe. Of course there's toxic acid water that lingers long enough to kill you if you're dumb enough to splash your head in it instead of mincing around the shallows.
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theshim posted:On that note, I've been playing Fallout: New Vegas again, and one thing I enjoy is that for every melee weapon, there's a different name for the special move. Grand Slam with a spiked baseball bat is still among my favorites, though. In Double Dragon: Neon one of the weapons you can pick up is a baseball bat but when you use it Billy and Jimmy will shout out one-liners about completely unrelated sports. It's such a dumb joke but smacking a guy with a bat only to have my guy yell out "TOUCHDOWN!  " always cracks me up.
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peter gabriel posted:They put more thought into this than I realised, I am doing a standing ovation IRL about it, that's really cool Also if your character is running a lot sweat will start to show realistically.
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TontoCorazon posted:Also if your character is running a lot sweat will start to show realistically. Not even just that, just being in a car for a while in the middle of the day will do it also since it's LA and likely boiling hot out. GTA 5 was a masterpiece of small details, here's a video that outlines a bunch of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmIgFtLa00Y There is so much of these things it's crazy the depth they went to. There's a video out there that proves you can use the backfire of a cars exhaust to light a gasoline trail. I mean, who thinks that far into things?
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Amazing stuff!
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After the May the Fourth sale on Star Wars games I've been going back and playing a few older games I used to enjoy and haven't played in years. They haven't all aged gracefully, but I really like how in Jedi Academy you have the option to go dark side but your character doesn't even entertain the thought of joining the villains who orchestrate your fall, it's immediate 'no, I will rule the galaxy, not you weaklings!' Republic Commando you view the world through your helmet's display, and killing an enemy next to you will splatter you view with guts, oil, etc, and after a second a laser windshield wiper swipes across the screen, cleaning off your view.
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Mousepractice posted:Dark Souls 2 has a similar thing, your character gets wet to the depth they've waded and it slowly drips off. Wading is slow, so players will roll through water because it's faster. Rolling soaks you from head to toe. Of course there's toxic acid water that lingers long enough to kill you if you're dumb enough to splash your head in it instead of mincing around the shallows. Likewise, if you dodge roll in water while holding a torch, it goes out. and it was dark down there in the water and there were no fires to relight it and im scared
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The true final boss of Bloodborne. After a lackluster fight which "ends" the Hunt, you are back in the Hunter's Dream and told to talk to Gherman, the blind wheelchair-bound dude who brought you to the Hunt to begin with. He'll ask to take your life so you wake up in the real world, in the morning. If you refuse, he stands up and pulls out a sweet as gently caress scythe and becomes the REAL final boss. Except he isn't. Once he died, an elder god morphs in from the huge moon in the sky, the moon which was called close to Earth in order to facilitate contact with great ones. It will just force you to take Gherman's place, as Gherman is actually responsible for perpetuating the Hunt (and Hunter's Dream). However, if you've eaten three umbilical cords which were left over from Old One surrogate baby rituals, you aren't driven insane by the Moon Presence and IT becomes the final boss. When you kill it, the Hunt is finally over... And you turn into a baby great one, having absorbed the soul of a great one with the insight and wisdom to equal one, thanks to the umbilical cords. Instead of ending the hunt, you transcend it--which is the little thing in this wall of text. The first note of the entire game tells you to seek the Paleblood. You learn that Paleblood refers to the moon, so you are actually looking for a way to interact with the moon... But not to end the hunt. The note very explicitly says "Seek the Paleblood in order to transcend the Hunt." From step 1 the game tells you how to get the True End and what it entails, it just does so in a way that makes you think you're looking for white monster blood in victorian-style cathedrals, not fighting moon-gods in a literal nightmare being cooked up by a centuries-dead man known as the First Hunter in order to become an alien deity.
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I just want to thank the thread for talking me out of paying $23 for a copy of Deadly Premonitions. The LP is good so far and I don't feel like I'm missing out on the experience. It's a very good watch.
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D4 is coming out on the PC soon and it's built on unreal. So it might actually be playable.
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LawfulWaffle posted:I just want to thank the thread for talking me out of paying $23 for a copy of Deadly Premonitions. The LP is good so far and I don't feel like I'm missing out on the experience. It's a very good watch. During the Steam winter sale DP was $2 the entire time and I totally expect it be that price in the summer. A big part of the game's popularity is that it launched on the 360 for $20 new, it's a legitimate B-game.
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Sleeveless posted:During the Steam winter sale DP was $2 the entire time and I totally expect it be that price in the summer. A big part of the game's popularity is that it launched on the 360 for $20 new, it's a legitimate B-game. Here's the rub: I have a copy for the PS3 from when it was free on PlayStation Plus. I just don't want to delete every other game I have downloaded to install it. If I see it for pocket change on Steam, I think I'll throw some money at it.
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Minor aside, but does anyone know if the steam sales follow a set pattern? Been trying half heartedly to track it down for ages but no luck.
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LawfulWaffle posted:Here's the rub: I have a copy for the PS3 from when it was free on PlayStation Plus. I just don't want to delete every other game I have downloaded to install it. If I see it for pocket change on Steam, I think I'll throw some money at it. The PS3 port is apparently godawful and the PC port is not great but can be improved with mods.
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Josef bugman posted:Minor aside, but does anyone know if the steam sales follow a set pattern? Been trying half heartedly to track it down for ages but no luck. They do. Buy a game and then it goes on sale the next day. LawfulWaffle posted:I just want to thank the thread for talking me out of paying $23 for a copy of Deadly Premonitions. The LP is good so far and I don't feel like I'm missing out on the experience. It's a very good watch. Buy it and D4 anyway cause Swery deserves money.
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Lord Lambeth posted:The PS3 port is apparently godawful and the PC port is not great but can be improved with mods. Boo. I have two broken XB360s and no desire to fix them or replace them. I hope installing the mods won't be too much of a chore. I've started S.T.A.L.K.E.R. recently and I'm still frustrated that I can't get my HUD to look like the screenshots from the megathread.
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When I say mods, they'res really only one, which is durante's DPfix. There are some HD texture mods too but they're not nearly as essential. on topic, Dragon Age Inquisition recently got a multiplayer update with a bard type character included. He's pretty great because he's this self absorbed mick jagger type character who also happens to be a  mage.
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Lord Chumley posted:They do. Buy a game and then it goes on sale the next day. Please don't buy D4. Don't make the same mistake I did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En260goftmI 
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Josef bugman posted:Minor aside, but does anyone know if the steam sales follow a set pattern? Been trying half heartedly to track it down for ages but no luck. The only thing set in stone is that they have a giant two week long sale in the summer and winter, other than that it's a crapshoot. It's worth skimming the Steam megathread in games to find out what sales are going on both on and off of Steam; a lot of the time bundles or authorized 3rd party key sellers like GreenManGaming and Nuuvem will let you get games even cheaper than Steam sales.
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:Please don't buy D4. Don't make the same mistake I did. I see nothing here that could deter me from my purchase
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CJacobs posted:I see nothing here that could deter me from my purchase SWERY.jpg. Probably won't be a day 1 purchase for the PC version because I'm poor, but I will own this game and play the everloving gently caress out of it. And hey, it probably won't require running in Win98 mode to work properly!
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Did all the episodes for that actually come out?
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muscles like this? posted:Did all the episodes for that actually come out? No. It is being done bit by bit to gauge interest, essentially meaning that unless people but ep 1 and 2 now then Swery will have to wrap up a batshit insane plot in like one episode length. D4 is actually really good and probably the game that Swery wanted to make while doing DP, because it is all on-rails detectiving and zero lovely combat. It's a very fun game that gets even better on NG+ playthroughs. SGF is also LPing D4, but unlike DP, i strongly recommend you buy it if it interests you. It is completely insane like DP but a thousand times more accessible for the average player
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muscles like this? posted:Did all the episodes for that actually come out? No, when Microsoft pulled a 180 on their Kinect support and dropped everything Swery was left high and dry. Double Fine's layoffs were also in part because they had a team working on a big Kinect game that was cancelled.
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Josef bugman posted:Minor aside, but does anyone know if the steam sales follow a set pattern? Been trying half heartedly to track it down for ages but no luck. Download Enhanced Steam. When you go to a game's store page it'll show you the current cheapest price on websites that sell Steam keys.
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