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Songbearer posted:If Mad Max's key selling point is awesome vehicular chaos, Mordor's is sadistic social experimentation. Now imagine these both... at the same time. I know I'm far from the only one to bring it up but seriously having Mordor and Max release within a year of each other really highlights that whole "Imagine how much better X would be with the Nemesis system!" thing people were flaunting back when SoM released. I like that game a lot but really wished it was set in something with more personality (orcs were like the only personality that game actually had) and Mad Max is fuckin perfect for injecting that life into those systems, but evidently Max was in development probably before Mordor was even an idea so it was built without that in mind. I also imagine such a strong ecosystem could lead to stuff like convoys actually doing stuff rather than just being there for the sake of themselves. It would be neat if the whole threat level system was less of an arbitrary video-game-rear end thing and more based on some sort of proper simulation of supply routes and influence and guff like that. I'm doing the ideas-goon-videogame-pipedream thing, I know, but I just like when dumb rad action video games have lots of cool smart simulation stuff happening beneath the surface that amplifies how cool the action can be. Apparently so do a lot of people considering how well-regarded Shadow of Mordor is.
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I'd like if your own convoys started roaming the zone after you took over bases(and the enemies kept coming) and you had to defend them against attacks! 
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Sep 19, 2015 10:00
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Is there something late game that's a reward for collecting all scrap in all locations? I think my game is gonna be bugged now because i got hit by an enemy while looting scrap and now the box is unlootable but the counter for that area hasn't included it in the total.
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Sep 19, 2015 10:22
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Kin posted:Is there something late game that's a reward for collecting all scrap in all locations? There's an achievement and an ingame legend challenge tied to it, that's it. Actually 2 achiievements because the "All challenges" one will include that challenge. Gnome de plume posted:How a lot of upgrades are gated really is a problem. I got the best tyres in the game while having yet to meet the requirements for unlocking the second-best tyres. Those tyres are not the best, because they really suck off tarmac. And since probably 80% of the game is dirt roads, I stick with the second-highest ones, which give so much better grip off road, and don't really perform that badly on the blacktop.
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Sep 19, 2015 12:13
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I personally just roll with whatever I like the look of, but I also spend a lot of time crashing.     YAAAH, CANYONERO! 
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Sep 19, 2015 12:39
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Urgh, what's the point of letting me harpoon the guy out of the convoy truck and then hijack it if when i drive it back to the base, the game just tells me the vehicle isn't collectible and it doesn't mark the convoy as being completed. Now i've no idea if it'll respawn or if its bugged, but it's loving stupid.
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Sep 19, 2015 17:33
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Kin posted:Urgh, what's the point of letting me harpoon the guy out of the convoy truck and then hijack it if when i drive it back to the base, the game just tells me the vehicle isn't collectible and it doesn't mark the convoy as being completed.
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Sep 19, 2015 17:57
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Xenomrph posted:yeah there's several cool cars that aren't collectable, like all of the Stank Gum cars in Deep Friah's territory. It at least should have completed the convoy mission and given me the hood ornament.
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Sep 19, 2015 18:25
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Kin posted:Urgh, what's the point of letting me harpoon the guy out of the convoy truck and then hijack it if when i drive it back to the base, the game just tells me the vehicle isn't collectible and it doesn't mark the convoy as being completed. To be fair, the game tells you whenever you get into a collectible car.
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Sep 19, 2015 20:42
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My Mad Max emphasizes the Mad part. He loves explosions    He loves taking the heads off   He loves insta killing people who just spawned in in a line  Then breakdancing next to the corpses  Hey this guy has water on him!     He doesn't love hitting the informants, and can't live with himself anymore... 
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Sep 19, 2015 22:08
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Thirsty Dog posted:To be fair, the game tells you whenever you get into a collectible car. That's not really a useful mechanic. It just shouldn't have let me pull out the driver and get in. Because why the hell would it not function like every other car you get into after that?
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Sep 19, 2015 22:59
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Kin posted:That's not really a useful mechanic. It does. Some of the other cars aren't collectable either. The way you can tell is that when you get into a collectable car, the game tells you can take it to the stronghold.
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That and you've got a literal checklist in the menu, although sometimes it feels like a guessing game when I'm eyeballing one of the pictured and trying to compare it to a car I'm considering driving back to the stronghold. I wish it did the GTA system of briefly popping up the model name of the car you're in when you get in. Also another tip, you can't "cheese" it and hop in a collectible car and then fast travel back to the stronghold. You have to physically drive it back in order to get credit. Yes I am speaking from experience on that one.
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I had a thought about the problems with the car upgrade system, particularly that you have to hoard scrap and run out of enemies in order to get the best parts. What if they had tied getting better parts to raiding supply convoys rather than regional threat reduction? You could still have a sense of progression by putting tougher, more armored convoys in later regions. It would fit nicely to find out from intelligence contacts that Scrotus is hauling a special engine from Base A to Base B, have to intercept it, take down the escorts, etc. Another option would be more missions like the side mission where you go to the burial place of a biker warlord to find his car. Add more interesting reasons to scavenge in old ruins and caves. more friedman units fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Sep 20, 2015 |
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Sep 20, 2015 01:28
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Do a flip! Also I like blowing up the vehicles with flamethrowers on them.  They're pretty 
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So you can just park up and let dudes drive at you, then time your thunderpoons so they explode and go sailing over your head 
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Kin posted:Urgh, what's the point of letting me harpoon the guy out of the convoy truck and then hijack it if when i drive it back to the base, the game just tells me the vehicle isn't collectible and it doesn't mark the convoy as being completed. Don't worry I did the same thing, the convoy should just re-spawn.
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Sep 20, 2015 06:39
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Did anyone post this yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THVugXAW_uI
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Sep 20, 2015 06:43
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Lurdiak posted:Did anyone post this yet? jesus christ that laugh
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Sep 20, 2015 07:41
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Rich Evans' laugh is a national treasure
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Sep 20, 2015 08:36
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I kind of wish this was an official trailer for the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9TAUdZySQM Makes it look quite amazing.
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I can confirm that starting a new game on PS4, and using save slot 1 again, does give you the iconic jacket and shotgun as soon as you unlock the Max customisation menu. How do I know this? Because yeah, despite having over 5 days of playtime on that 100% run, I still need more. 
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I've started a new game but I feel kinda paralysed, I burned myself out playing Witcher 3 through like three times and then they went and released new game plus and a bunch of free quest addons, don't want to get in that position with Mad Max. 
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Sep 20, 2015 16:01
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I have a confession. I've only seen Fury Road.
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RealSovietBear posted:I kind of wish this was an official trailer for the game: The final shot is perfect. People who have played the game know what the scarecrow is/represents; others will probably not even notice it.
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omg chael crash posted:I have a confession. I've only seen Fury Road. It's fine. Just watch this short 4-minute clip, one of the strongest and most relevant moments in The Road Warrior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfL4xKQeSfo
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Sep 20, 2015 18:29
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It's not fine all three originals are great. Though Thunderdome gets weird
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The more I play of this game the more I dislike it. Yeah there's a big open world and lots of great visuals but they don't really do anything with it. It's all go here, pick up thing, press x a few times to kill some dudes, then do it again somewhere else. There's no tension or challenge. It's trivial to make resources like gas and water infinite with a few base upgrades. Death is reduced to an annoyance and a load screen. Chum is definitely one of the more annoying tour guides but I'm not sure if it's because he's bugged or not. He likes to tell me about mighty dusters a lot. His schtick got old pretty quick though and I'd like him more if I didn't have to drive everywhere with him. Personally I'd rather just roll around with the dog but the buggy doesn't have the one thing I like most about the game: the harpoon.
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Enjoyed this game far more than I thought I would and ended up doing literally everything, except for all the non-repeatable challenges. I remember reading someone having trouble with that, if the map is cleared is it even possible to finish those? e: seems doable, but just horribly tedious because enemies don't spawn at the rates they used to. Oh well. foozwak fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Sep 20, 2015 |
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Sep 20, 2015 20:34
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The Road Warrior was an okay film. A leaner, more concise one compared to Mad Max. Action was solid, the story was...there, I guess. I mean, I liked it. Just felt bare bones if you take the gay bar bad guys in stride.
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Mad Max was a good film but it's biggest flaw was spending two thirds of the movie on exposition. Seriously, you're an hour into an hour-and-a-half movie before the revenge plot even starts. Road Warrior understood that big flaw and the story has much better pacing. It's a simple story but so was Mad Max. Beyond Thunderdome's first half was great, but the second half turned into a loving kid's movie. Not that the kid's movie part was bad on its own (George Miller knows how to do family friendly stuff, see Babe: Pig in the City and Happy Feet), but it's a really bizarre change of tone and it just felt really weird. Fury Road's the best of the four movies because it combines the best elements of the previous three: Mad Max's world building, Road Warrior's good pacing and simple-yet-effective story, and Beyond Thunderdome's action and production.
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Shoehead posted:It's not fine all three originals are great. Just rewatched all four recently, the backhalf of Thunderdome seriously feels like a 1980s Spielberg kids comedy - like the Goonies in Cars or something. It's not "bad" but tonally it feels really different to the rest of series (and the first half of the film).
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PUNCH HARDER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eod0SYWspzg
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So I found this game to be oddly flat, and yet I can't stop playing. I beat the campaign but I still have lots of stuff to do. I didn't like Chumbucket and I thought Max's voice actor was atrocious. Butttt strangely enough, now that the game is over, I'm having more fun with it by just driving the Interceptor around the wasteland, scraphunting just enough to keep the old girl going while I do Wasteland Missions. This to me is what the game should be anyway, which is why I'm glad I only paid 30 bucks for it.
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Noticed the shield-carrying war boys have an interesting fashion sense
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Great Beer posted:The more I play of this game the more I dislike it. Yeah there's a big open world and lots of great visuals but they don't really do anything with it. It's all go here, pick up thing, press x a few times to kill some dudes, then do it again somewhere else. There's no tension or challenge. It's trivial to make resources like gas and water infinite with a few base upgrades. Death is reduced to an annoyance and a load screen. After finishing the main story, I think I agree. I loved the feel of the environments and car combat, but the basic game mechanics are thin and get repetitive quickly. As was mentioned earlier in the thread, it seems clear that they ran out of time and a bunch of features were half-finished or dropped.
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Segmentation Fault posted:Mad Max was a good film but it's biggest flaw was spending two thirds of the movie on exposition. Seriously, you're an hour into an hour-and-a-half movie before the revenge plot even starts. Fury Road's advantage is that it had been in development hell for drat near 20 years and, despite that, Miller made zero compromises and made the exact movie he had wanted to from day 1 and the only thing that changed was the technology and the budget expanded to better encompass his vision.
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Bushiz posted:Fury Road's advantage is that it had been in development hell for drat near 20 years and, despite that, Miller made zero compromises and made the exact movie he had wanted to from day 1 and the only thing that changed was the technology and the budget expanded to better encompass his vision. yeah it's pretty great, and also why people liking boyhood because it took 12 years to make is laughable fury road is amazing on its own even without considering the fact that it was in limbo for two decades
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more friedman units posted:After finishing the main story, I think I agree. I loved the feel of the environments and car combat, but the basic game mechanics are thin and get repetitive quickly. I love Mad Max but after bringing the Threat to 0 in every region and building every stronghold up, this summarizes the game's flaws perfectly. The post-game enjoyment is minimal because you're too powerful and the enemies are too sparse to make any sort of challenge. I would love a Batman Arkham series style combat mode or an equivalent for convoy attacks.
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Godmachine posted:I would love a Batman Arkham series style combat mode or an equivalent for convoy attacks I was hoping that there was going to be a Thunderdome-esque fight club you could sign up for to get rewards but no such luck.
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