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Sorry if this has already been discussed, because I'm still trying to catch back up on the thread, but are the free game(s) any good this month?
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Oct 7, 2015 11:04
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Super Meat Boy is super good, Broken Age is fairly split opinion wise but if you like old school adventure games it's worth a look, Unmechanical is a physics based puzzler  nice music though.
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Oct 7, 2015 11:12
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then there's the Kickbeat game that looks really bad but I haven't tried.
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Oct 7, 2015 11:18
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Static Rook posted:You get some during the match, but most of it comes after. Plus the GP you need to unlock poo poo doesn't get counted until the match ends either. And matches take loving forever too, so after a half hour you don't get any cash at the end and can't buy anything. Edit: How much are you supposed to earn in the average match? I'm curious how expensive those cosmetic items are meant to be. Aphrodite fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Oct 7, 2015 |
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Oct 7, 2015 13:39
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Reverse Centaur posted:I finally have time to try MGO and can't connect to a match. Never even got to try the RS Siege beta for the same reason. Rainbow Six was a lot worse than MGO has been for me. Every time I got into a match of that, I was kicked after a couple minutes so I almost never did more than open a door. Sakurazuka posted:Super Meat Boy is super good, Broken Age is fairly split opinion wise but if you like old school adventure games it's worth a look, Unmechanical is a physics based puzzler Super Meat Boy would be amazing if they had been able to keep the old music I will never not be sad about that
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Oct 7, 2015 13:43
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Aphrodite posted:And matches take loving forever too, so after a half hour you don't get any cash at the end and can't buy anything. The stuff you get with GP is all cosmetic anyway so it shouldn't really matter how long it takes to get stuff, but you get considerably more if you use the auto-matching. Finding a game manually gives 10 GP for a loss, 20 for a win, automatching will give you 50 for a loss and 100 for a win. Games are pretty short, usually 15 mins max for both rounds of a game so GP builds up fairly quickly. I had enough after playing a bunch of matches last night and some this morning to buy some gear for all my characters, so it seems fine so far unless you want the ridiculous high-end vanity gear like the beret or the Hideo glasses.
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Oct 7, 2015 14:03
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I am curious what someone who hasn't played the original SMB thinks of the new music. Speaking of bad music, Kickbeat honestly isn't terrible gameplay-wise but its soundtrack is like wall to wall NuMetal which considering it didn't come out in 1998 is mind-boggling.
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Oct 7, 2015 14:31
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They probably don't have a strong opinion because the new music is just kinda there. It's not really bad, per say, but it does replace a much better soundtrack.
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Oct 7, 2015 14:37
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i seem to remember SMB controlling WAY better than it does now.
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Oct 7, 2015 14:37
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axleblaze posted:I am curious what someone who hasn't played the original SMB thinks of the new music. I only played the demo of the original 360 version briefly and I quite like some of the music in this one, though it gets repetitive quickly.
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Oct 7, 2015 14:38
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axleblaze posted:I am curious what someone who hasn't played the original SMB thinks of the new music. yo, that would be me. I didn't really notice it one way or the other. certainly not to the point it detracted from the experience, but not particularly memorable either. of course, I'm only in the first world
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Oct 7, 2015 14:41
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Compare the new light world hell track with the original. You can make your own judgement on the quality, but I find the new one to be inoffensive but generic, while the old one is legit good and I like it a lot.Kifisonfire posted:i seem to remember SMB controlling WAY better than it does now. I feel like I'm sticking to walls more than I did on PC, but I'm also not clipping through the levels anymore or getting killed on platforms for no reason so it's a fair trade.
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Oct 7, 2015 14:44
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Aishan posted:The stuff you get with GP is all cosmetic anyway so it shouldn't really matter how long it takes to get stuff, but you get considerably more if you use the auto-matching. Finding a game manually gives 10 GP for a loss, 20 for a win, automatching will give you 50 for a loss and 100 for a win. Oh, I did get my GP then. I just didn't realize the rates were so terrible. It's weird that they don't let you buy GP items for MB. Not that I'd want to, but this is exactly that kind of game to do it.
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Oct 7, 2015 14:44
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Not a fan of the new Super Meat Boy music, the way it tries to fit reminds me of those DVD's of old TV shows where they had to replace licensed music and make generic replacements of famous songs. The original was just put together a lot better, like how the retro warp zones used FamiTracker music. Only up to the hospital so far. Controls seem fine, although I did get both endings on the Xbox 360 using the launch 360 controller's D-Pad so it's entirely possible I'm not starting from a good reference point. In other news, just received Uncharted HD collection. 
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Oct 7, 2015 14:53
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Manatee Cannon posted:Compare the new light world hell track with the original. You can make your own judgement on the quality, but I find the new one to be inoffensive but generic, while the old one is legit good and I like it a lot. the new music loving blows
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Oct 7, 2015 14:54
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finishing world 1 and not hearing the battle of lil slugger kinda bummed me out to play the rest of the game
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Oct 7, 2015 15:00
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Never mind. Restarting the ps4 fixed it.
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Oct 7, 2015 15:03
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axleblaze posted:I am curious what someone who hasn't played the original SMB thinks of the new music. I only played a few levels of the original SMB and I don't really remember the music all that much, but I do know I didn't have a problem with it. Having said that, the new music is pretty bad. I played for about 15 minutes last night before I was contemplating just turning the volume on my Vita down and playing something else through my phone.
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Oct 7, 2015 15:05
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A couple of very important pieces of information about MGO:
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Oct 7, 2015 15:29
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I will say the music in SMB seems to get better as you go. The first world really has pretty not great music (though the dark world version is better). The second works reminds me of Rebirth music, which isn't bad but not great. I kind of like the third world music with it's 80s drums, though it is a bit unassuming. The 4th world seems pretty great actually but it does suffer from the fact that originally the 4th world in the original had like the best music ever so there's no way it can match it.
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Oct 7, 2015 15:38
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univbee posted:Not a fan of the new Super Meat Boy music, the way it tries to fit reminds me of those DVD's of old TV shows where they had to replace licensed music and make generic replacements of famous songs. The original was just put together a lot better, like how the retro warp zones used FamiTracker music. Only up to the hospital so far. Pretty much the same here. The original had a neat angry chiptune sound, whereas the new versions seem like they were put together using free sample packs. I'm sorry, but your edgy guitars just can't replace a good chiptune.
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Oct 7, 2015 16:17
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Can you make female soldiers in MGO or just guys?
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Oct 7, 2015 16:18
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Aphrodite posted:Can you make female soldiers in MGO or just guys? At level 6 you can make two more characters of any gender/nationality/class that your heart desires.
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Oct 7, 2015 16:21
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Aphrodite posted:Can you make female soldiers in MGO or just guys? You can, but you can't do it for your first character since that one draws from the single player campaign and you can't give snake boobies. The next two that you create can be either gender though.
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Oct 7, 2015 16:22
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Okay, cool. Another question: What does the cardboard box do in MP? Do some maps have other boxes that might actually trick a human player?
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Oct 7, 2015 16:24
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It works exactly the same as in single player e: it'd be loving amazing if you could unlock a poster of an enemy soldier for the box that makes you appear as a team mate to enemies like the Spy from TF2
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Oct 7, 2015 16:25
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Aphrodite posted:Okay, cool. Nope. There are no empty boxes by default. The only application I can think of for using it is either messing around, or abandoning to act as a decoy
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Oct 7, 2015 16:26
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Manatee Cannon posted:It works exactly the same as in single player Except enemies still sometimes get fooled by it. A box in MP is just asking to be shot
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Oct 7, 2015 16:27
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Not necessarily. There are places you can put a box that are pretty decent for hiding. For example, hiding in the back of trucks with the cardboard box actually works.
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Oct 7, 2015 16:28
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blackguy32 posted:Nope. There are no empty boxes by default. The only application I can think of for using it is either messing around, or abandoning to act as a decoy Getting downhill quicker I guess.
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Oct 7, 2015 16:29
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Just a little extra bit of info to add to the Meat Boy speculation: apparently DB responded to a tweet saying that the whole falling out had something to do with his contract (or lack thereof) for his services. From the sound of it, DB and Team Meat disagreed over what he was owed for the soundtrack and, since nobody bothered to ya know WRITE IT DOWN, it caused a whole big thing.
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Oct 7, 2015 16:30
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The original SMB soundtrack is on Spotify so you could at least stream it through there and turn off the music in game.
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Oct 7, 2015 16:33
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MGO is surprisingly competent on a technical level but it just feels sloppy from a design standpoint. I really can't see myself putting more than a few more hours in. Especially with battlefront out in a few weeks. It controls like a tactical shooter but basically plays like COD and the results are bleh.
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Oct 7, 2015 16:34
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Battlefront isn't out for over a month
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Oct 7, 2015 16:35
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Well yeah, still it's coming soon. I've got better designed multiplayer stuff I can at in the mean time though. It's worth screwing around on for a bit. I guess it might fill a niche for some people, but I feel like the level design and pace is just weird as hell and off putting.
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Oct 7, 2015 16:40
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One weird thing I noticed is that both Battlefront and MGO hook you up with a randomly selected buddy to work together with and act as a mobile spawn point. Where did this come from suddenly? I haven't heard of this exact implementation before
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Oct 7, 2015 17:23
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MGO's buddy isn't random. You select one during the game by saluting each other with R3.
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Oct 7, 2015 17:25
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I think it's pretty neat and also it's going to get a lot of people killed.
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Oct 7, 2015 17:26
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MGO's buddy system is clunky poo poo. I like the system itself, but trying to buddy up at the beginning of the map is more difficult than it should be.
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Oct 7, 2015 17:27
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So this is a PS3 question but since the PS3 is old as gently caress and I can't find the thread for it, I'll ask here: I'm trying to hook my PS3 back up again. I have a poo poo ton of Sony Playstation composite cables (with the three colored prongs) and an HDMI cable and neither of them appear to be working. I plug it into the AV In section on the back of my TV and nothing. I plug in the HDMI and nothing. I even swapped my PS4 HDMI cable and plugged that into the PS3 and still nothing. I'm quite perplexed, can anyone help me out? Is there some obvious thing I'm failing to do? I can't get signal on either the AV or the Component input settings on my TV ( a Haier HD TV if that helps)
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Oct 7, 2015 17:30
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