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1redflag posted:Similarly, the degradation of Batman's costume as the night's progress in the various Arkham games. My only complaint is that they seem to be tied to story progress alone rather than actual game performance (I.e. if you do well, the cape and cowl still get cut up even if you've been a completely stealthy bastard). In Asylum at least, the damage to his costume is always sustained during cut scenes.
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 02:46 |
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Away all Goats posted:In Asylum at least, the damage to his costume is always sustained during cut scenes. You always see what caused it. Either he's caught in an explosion, or he gets shot, or a villain gets in one good punch during a cutscene, or something like that.
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 06:13 |
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To add to Arkham Asylum and City, I love how both games take place over the course of a single night each. Like, you go around saving the city and beating up nearly the entirety of Batman's assorted rogues gallery, and that was just a loving Thursday evening for Bats.
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 10:52 |
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Must have been a loooong night too, since Batman also solved all of the Riddler's challenges. He even had time to do a couple dozen of them when he was deadly ill, instead of rushing for Talia al Ghul's help. That could have been just my playthrough though Mierenneuker has a new favorite as of 11:01 on Jun 19, 2015 |
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I never understood where he got the energy, but then again, I guess Bruce Wayne doesn't really do much during the day.
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 13:20 |
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I never understood where he got the energy, but then again, I guess Bruce Wayne doesn't really do much during the day. He pretty much just sits around eating ice cream and bread to calorie load.
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 13:23 |
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That's also something I liked about Half-Life 2. The game takes place over the course of about two days, which you can see by just, like, looking at the sun while you're playing. It starts in the late morning, and by the time Gordon escapes the city night has fallen. He spends all night in Ravenholm and the sun is coming up just as you leave. Then by the time he has traveled along the coast to Nova Prospekt the sun has gone down again. After that though Gordon and Alyx take the teleporter which sets them forward a few days, but still I think it's kind of cool that they took into account that the game's events happen in real time.
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 13:27 |
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1stGear posted:He pretty much just sits around eating ice cream and bread to calorie load. Fifth game should be Batman: Daytime, and it's a themed version of Cook, Serve, Delicious. EDIT: Batman: Justice, Served; Delicious!
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 13:41 |
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CJacobs posted:That's also something I liked about Half-Life 2. The game takes place over the course of about two days, which you can see by just, like, looking at the sun while you're playing. It starts in the late morning, and by the time Gordon escapes the city night has fallen. He spends all night in Ravenholm and the sun is coming up just as you leave. Then by the time he has traveled along the coast to Nova Prospekt the sun has gone down again. After that though Gordon and Alyx take the teleporter which sets them forward a few days, but still I think it's kind of cool that they took into account that the game's events happen in real time. Even cooler is that from the beginning of Half Life 1 to the end of episode 2 you control every second of Gordon Freeman's time while conscious (only omitting times where he's seeming missing from earth). Also even when he's fighting the combine at White Forest Black Mesa wasn't even a week ago for him.
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 15:11 |
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I only just noticed this, but in Splatoon the Squid Sisters' names: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1f2sEJa1e0 are Callie and Marie.
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# ? Jun 20, 2015 11:36 |
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turnways posted:I only just noticed this, but in Splatoon the Squid Sisters' names: If you don't get it (and it took me a while and seeing a friend mention their names in a twitch chat), calimari.
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# ? Jun 21, 2015 01:54 |
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Freedom Planet, a 16-bit Sonic-like game you can get on Steam is pretty great. The platforming is all about speed and the bosses are fun. It's fully voice acted, multiple playable characters with their own story sequence and the ability to play just the stages without cutscenes. It's my favorite Sonic game.
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# ? Jun 21, 2015 05:29 |
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Pidmon posted:If you don't get it (and it took me a while and seeing a friend mention their names in a twitch chat), calimari. Now try "Booyah Base" .
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# ? Jun 21, 2015 06:19 |
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TontoCorazon posted:Witcher 3 A certain plot-important lady complimented Geralt on growing out his beard even tho' I just had it shaved off. It was kind of jarring
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aardwolf posted:A certain plot-important lady complimented Geralt on growing out his beard even tho' I just had it shaved off. It was kind of jarring Weird. Usually if you've got the clean shaven face she comments on that instead.
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# ? Jun 21, 2015 07:44 |
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The game is usually good at keeping track of that stuff but sometimes it does mess up.
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# ? Jun 21, 2015 07:47 |
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Yeah. There's only one barber in the Totally Not Vikings isles and I had just visited him before starting the next plot quest. It stood out because it seemed like the kind of detail the writers pick up on.
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# ? Jun 21, 2015 07:47 |
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Fifth game should be Batman: Daytime, and it's a themed version of Cook, Serve, Delicious. Not a fan of Batman overall but I would play this if he kept the whole costume on for it.
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# ? Jun 21, 2015 08:10 |
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And if he prefixed every kitchen appliance or tool with bat. "Use the batknife to chop up the cucumber to go into the greek salad.!"
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# ? Jun 21, 2015 08:32 |
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Lord Lambeth posted:And if he prefixed every kitchen appliance or tool with bat. "Use the batknife to chop up the cucumber to go into the greek salad.!" At that point they should just give in and have Adam West voice it.
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# ? Jun 21, 2015 08:39 |
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Far Cry 4 has an option to turn off the loot animations Sad lions posted:Also even when he's fighting the combine at White Forest Black Mesa wasn't even a week ago for him. Oh man I never thought of this. Gordon's had a hard life. Al Cu Ad Solte has a new favorite as of 09:10 on Jun 21, 2015 |
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:
Well, not so much a hard life as a bad week.
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# ? Jun 21, 2015 10:36 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Now try "Booyah Base" . The game is wall to wall puns. I love it.
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# ? Jun 21, 2015 20:04 |
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Maxwell Lord posted:The game is wall to wall puns. I love it. Wall to wall... YOU loving
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Maxwell Lord posted:The game is wall to wall puns. I love it. The shopkeepers are all puns too! The puns are just perfect
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# ? Jun 21, 2015 23:17 |
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I bought and finished The Talos Principle as a result of the steam sale. There were some genuinely emotional text passages and audio logs. One of the plotlines in the game, is that all of the humans are dead via some kind of plague. One of the text dumps you find is of instructions for how best to let your pets go before you die. The final few audio logs of the game are of the last researcher, who gave up everything for this project she has no idea if it will work or not, panicking that it may not, and then finally accepting death. it's hard to explain, but the voice actress sells the tone perfectly. Also, the ending was simultaneously everything I expected it to be, and everything I wanted it to be.
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# ? Jun 22, 2015 04:17 |
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The Talos Principle is great. Unfortunately, you missed a giveaway for a DLC which changes Elohim's voice to that of Serious Sam. It's great.
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# ? Jun 22, 2015 04:37 |
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Inco posted:The Talos Principle is great. Unfortunately, you missed a giveaway for a DLC which changes Elohim's voice to that of Serious Sam. It's great. Oh my god . The only way they could top that is the Stanley Parable narrator.
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# ? Jun 22, 2015 04:43 |
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I love in GTAV I can do poo poo like this:
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# ? Jun 22, 2015 09:37 |
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Now that I've complained about The Witcher 3 in every thread I could, I think I need to point out some positives: - let's get the obvious out of the way - the game is really pretty, characters are detailed and every weapon and piece of armour has its own model that displays on Geralt (it is too bad that there are very few non-story related NPCs models, so you'll end up seeing clones very quickly) - although sometimes the bit of post facto narration doesn't seem necessary, I like how non-momentous your decisions are: they are mostly on the personal level - you might decide how you'd like for the situation to unfold, but in the end you're unimportant and the most you can influence is the situation of yourself and your immediate family/friends - although it can be wonky, the quest having levels assigned to them mean I know what I can reasonably finish now and if it's still in the immediate level range for the purposes of XP gain. - I've defeated both Olaf of Skellige and Master of Masters and although that was hardly a fair fight (it's a good thing the toxicity effects are only cosmetic, or else the villagers might suspect I'm juicing) and those were good fights - there are a lot of options to sidestep the combat system's shortcomings, but my favourite is using the alternate Quen sign (enemies fight for you) which doesn't break if the enemy is attacked and whacking the enemy, ten swings and repeat - no matter how strong the enemy, as long as I can Quen it it will die, too bad it doesn't always work. Edit: Axii, not Quen, though Quen is good, too. Szurumbur has a new favorite as of 17:39 on Jun 22, 2015 |
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Szurumbur posted:- there are a lot of options to sidestep the combat system's shortcomings, but my favourite is using the alternate
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Ah, right, although Quen and the alternate Quen does removes most of the need for healing, so they're really useful as well. Szurumbur has a new favorite as of 12:35 on Jun 23, 2015 |
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:Far Cry 4 has an option to turn off the loot animations ...are you loving kidding me? I spent so many hours getting 100% on that game and the repetitious animations were my one huge gripe. gently caress.
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# ? Jun 22, 2015 17:54 |
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Freedom Planet is really pretty. But more importantly it's one of the only throwback platformers that has all of the little details that made older platformers enjoyable, there are so many unique animations or stage specific interactables. Like this is what you see if you grab on to a rail while still having the vehicle powerup.
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# ? Jun 23, 2015 04:22 |
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TontoCorazon posted:I love in GTAV I can do poo poo like this: Your favorite thing about playing a video game is that you can sit on Ikea furniture and get high? How much did you like Inception on a scale of 1 to 1
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# ? Jun 23, 2015 07:47 |
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I picked up Gauntlet 2014. Playing as the wizard made the game so fun to play. The wizard could handle large groups solo once you learned the combos thanks to the 9 abilities based on 3 element pairs(ex: ice and fire, ice and lightning, ice and ice, fire and ice, etc.)with different cooldowns. The hard mode tome the wizard gets looks really cool too. It's a globe of light instead of a spellbook.
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# ? Jun 23, 2015 08:21 |
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E-- You're dead right. Apologies.
mind the walrus has a new favorite as of 09:32 on Jun 23, 2015 |
# ? Jun 23, 2015 09:21 |
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I think you're in the wrong thread, dude.
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# ? Jun 23, 2015 09:29 |
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mind the walrus posted:I started playing Arkham Knight and I am so disappointed. Like, disappointed enough that I feel compelled to write about it instead of go the gently caress to sleep like a healthy person. This is also my favorite little thing in that game.
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# ? Jun 23, 2015 09:32 |
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Kanfy posted:This is also my favorite little thing in that game. Eat a dick.
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