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ChogsEnhour posted:Has anyone played "The Magic Circle"? It's an FPS from the POV of a games tester stuck in a half finished game and you have to dick around with the code of the game to, say, turn mushrooms into personal attack dogs. I really liked it. The main story is quite short (good though I thought), but I think the emphasis after that is more on exploring and messing about really. There's a ton of collectibles. Plus you can designate basically anything to be the ultimate weapon. I think the categories are movement type, attack type, and special things, along with all sorts of AI options. I went for a mushroom. Actually, the creature stuff is really great. Like you take away all the attributes of an enemy and it's basically a head that just stares at you but can't do anything. Then you hack into it again and make it useful. It is the main thing of the game really, finding a thing that has an ability you need and then taking it. Changing attributes changes what they look like as well, so with a movement type like ground it grows legs and can follow you, or it can have float and then it hovers in the air on a cloud but can't move, or it can fly or so on. Adding melee attacks is pretty great too, they might get teeth, some of the robots grow big saw arms, and so on. I'm not sure how much of the game the demo is, but I'd imagine if you liked the first hour or so you'd probably like the rest? Gameplay doesn't particularly change much throughout, you just get more things to play with.
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Novum posted:My dude, if mgs5 is using sprites i will absolutely buy it Well, whatever, his model. Doesn't "sprites" describe 2 or 3d objects?
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Oct 13, 2015 18:14
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They're those lights at night that lead children astray and trick you into drowning in the moors.
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Oct 13, 2015 18:17
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Buzkashi posted:Well, whatever, his model. Doesn't "sprites" describe 2 or 3d objects? Yes friend. Don't worry you are still right.
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Oct 13, 2015 18:20
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Buzkashi posted:In MGS5 the other day, I held up a guy on the edge of a cliff and demanded he get down. When most of his sprite shifted over the ledge, he very neatly and quietly dropped to his death. He followed the letter of the law if not the spirit, I'll give him that. got you covered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB58fsjyWHc
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Oct 13, 2015 18:31
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In mass effect 2, punching the reporter was too satisfying.
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Oct 13, 2015 19:20
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Beyond Fallout, Alpha Protocol and Mass Effect 2 I need a new game where I can choose to murder every named character.
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Oct 13, 2015 20:16
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Beyond Fallout, Alpha Protocol and Mass Effect 2 I need a new game where I can choose to murder every named character. Hey, there's Undertale.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Beyond Fallout, Alpha Protocol and Mass Effect 2 I need a new game where I can choose to murder every named character. Pretty sure this is possible in DXHR, even if some of them have to be indirect "chose not to save" or "chose cutscene variant that leads to death" type murders.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Beyond Fallout, Alpha Protocol and Mass Effect 2 I need a new game where I can choose to murder every named character. Divinity: original sin (and I think 2) will allow this.
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ImpAtom posted:Hey, there's Undertale. Where are all the evacuated people hiding? And how do you kill the turtle guy?
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RareAcumen posted:Where are all the evacuated people hiding? And how do you kill the turtle guy? By destroying the entire world
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Tetracube posted:By destroying the entire world Okay, that works, never thought of it that way.
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Grimlook posted:In mass effect 2, punching the reporter was too satisfying. In mass effect 3 NOT punching the reporter was more satisfying.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Beyond Fallout, Alpha Protocol and Mass Effect 2 I need a new game where I can choose to murder every named character. Crusader Kings. If you're Greek you can blind and castrate everyone instead.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Beyond Fallout, Alpha Protocol and Mass Effect 2 I need a new game where I can choose to murder every named character. Let me tell you about Dark Souls...
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haveblue posted:Pretty sure this is possible in DXHR, even if some of them have to be indirect "chose not to save" or "chose cutscene variant that leads to death" type murders. Just off the top of my head, I don't think there's any way for the Tongs to die.
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Tiggum posted:Just off the top of my head, I don't think there's any way for the Tongs to die. It is, however, possible for the vast majority of people to die in that game. i went through a bad time in my life two years ago and systematically depopulated several cities in DXHR as stress relief.
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Tiggum posted:Just off the top of my head, I don't think there's any way for the Tongs to die. Right, I forgot about them. Can't have Adam causing any time paradoxes. You can kill the entire cast of DXIW, though. One of that game's few redeeming features.
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Amorphous Blob posted:In mass effect 3 NOT punching the reporter was more satisfying. I was impressed that she ducks the first suckerpunch in ME3. Didn't help her dodge the second one though  .
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haveblue posted:You can kill the entire cast of DXIW, though. Except for the people who never leave weapon-free zones. I vaguely recall there being a bug you can exploit to kill them, but I've never tested it so I don't know if it works reliably. Anyway, it shouldn't count because it's cheating.
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Tiggum posted:Except for the people who never leave weapon-free zones. I vaguely recall there being a bug you can exploit to kill them, but I've never tested it so I don't know if it works reliably. Anyway, it shouldn't count because it's cheating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-_YcM9ic6M Apparently it actually killed her dead too. The game would crash when you were meant to meet up with her in other areas.
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Croccers posted:You could kill Billie Adams in the start of Invisible War by giving her a shower: Something something augmented ubermensch something something banned in Germany something Godwin.
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You can kill everyone in Arcanum. I think you might still need to bind their ghosts to your service to get information out of some of them though, but that’s really only bringing them back for a bit so it doesn’t count.
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In Dark Souls 1, you fight Dragonslayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough, and their fight music has two parts to it. In Dark Souls 2, you fight the Old Dragonslayer alone, and his theme is a remix of the original song. The part that is presumably Smough's is missing from it, since he's not there. It's a pretty badass theme too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFrcmJQencc
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Oct 14, 2015 19:37
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In the original Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War i like the loading screens before the start of a mission. It shows you a tactical map of the planet you are fighting on with the positions of the various factions, which is updated after every mission. The most noteworthy aspect is the increasing threat of the Orks on the planet, making it really obvious anyone sticking around is really screwed. The Space Marines spent the second half of the campaign dealing with Eldar and pursuing Chaos Marines, so the loading screens are a nice reminder that the Waaagh! is still a thing even though you no longer fight Orks. 
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Oct 14, 2015 20:32
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Eventually the camera feed dies and the loading screens are replaced with an error message. It was a simple way to escalate things and show how messed up the situation was, which is cool.
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RBA Starblade posted:In Dark Souls 1, you fight Dragonslayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough, and their fight music has two parts to it. In Dark Souls 2, you fight the Old Dragonslayer alone, and his theme is a remix of the original song. The part that is presumably Smough's is missing from it, since he's not there. It's a pretty badass theme too. Speaking of those two shitlords, if you read all the dumb item descriptions you learn that Ornstein was a loyal knightly knight who did his duty like a good soldier should. He also killed dragons. Smough on the other hand was a crazy fucker who liked to kill and eat people. He was also loving jacked despite wearing armor that made him look like the fattest man alive. So when you fight them, whoever you kill second powers up from the dead guy or whatever. When you kill Smough first, Ornstein does a little respectful thing over the body and grows giant. If you kill Ornstein first? Well it turns out that Smough was always jealous of Ornstein because he was never a real knight. What with being a crazy violent nutjob no one ever liked or trusted him all that much. So he crushes Ornstein's body with his hammer, only you see Ornstein start to move right before he brings the hammer down. Murdering his partner and eating his soul or whatever. 
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Nuebot posted:Speaking of those two shitlords, if you read all the dumb item descriptions you learn that Ornstein was a loyal knightly knight who did his duty like a good soldier should. He also killed dragons. Smough on the other hand was a crazy fucker who liked to kill and eat people. He was also loving jacked despite wearing armor that made him look like the fattest man alive. So when you fight them, whoever you kill second powers up from the dead guy or whatever. When you kill Smough first, Ornstein does a little respectful thing over the body and grows giant. If you kill Ornstein first? Well it turns out that Smough was always jealous of Ornstein because he was never a real knight. What with being a crazy violent nutjob no one ever liked or trusted him all that much. So he crushes Ornstein's body with his hammer, only you see Ornstein start to move right before he brings the hammer down. Murdering his partner and eating his soul or whatever. More than just that: Smough had a history of not respecting the dead (he was a cannibal, you see) and it's heavily implied that Ornstein was the only one who was able to put up with his poo poo. Smough grinding his partner into dust shows how much he cares about him after death.
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Gods Eater Burst has a nice little thing. The game gives you NPC allies that you can bring on missions with you, one of them being a healer/gunner who's shots work more like a flamethrower than most regular types of weapons. If you're hit by this, you get sent flying. A lot of your time is spent in melee with the enemy she's targeting, and her AI doesn't check for friendlies before firing, Cue her ingame file noting her many, many friendly fire incidents, and some NPC allies being scared of working with her.
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Huge, huge Metal Gear Solid V spoilers: I love that "The Man Who Sold the World" that you hear in-game is a cover. It really speaks to how the main character, Venom Snake is essentially a copy/cover version of Big Boss. I saw that on the iTunes store, that all the songs you'd get off of the tapes that are the originals in-game are covers.
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ChaosArgate posted:More than just that: Smough had a history of not respecting the dead (he was a cannibal, you see) and it's heavily implied that Ornstein was the only one who was able to put up with his poo poo. Smough grinding his partner into dust shows how much he cares about him after death. And if you try and sell his soul to Frampt, he offers you one soul for it. Everyone thinks Smough is a piece of poo poo.
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Kaboom Dragoon posted:And if you try and sell his soul to Frampt, he offers you one soul for it. Everyone thinks Smough is a piece of poo poo. For reference, actual poo poo is worth 200 souls. 
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Really, Smough is just some dude who is helping Ornstein because he wanted to join the Four Knights but never could due to the above mentioned monstrous tendancies, he's more or less a fanboy.
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The sidearm grenade launcher in Far Cry 4. Its just the best thing to drive around and meet a red truck: "I see Ghale!!" FUMP, BOOM. No tedious aiming or long chase where some dick in a car takes down your body armor you just loving bought you goddamn prick! Just die!
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This might be a stretch for "little things" but I really loved the weird tonal shifts in some of the Kirby games. One minute you're fighting a tree that's pissed off and throwing apples at you, the next Kirby's friends are being possessed by what amounts to The Thing in cloud form causing them to undergo weird rear end transformations. Levels tend to progress from happy green fields to oppressive factories and castles, and finally to fighting cosmic horrors that literally shoot blood at you and explode in unexpectedly gorey ways for a game about a pink fluff ball.
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The wedding-party sequence in the new Witcher 3 DLC is fantastic. The normally grumpy and sarcastic Geralt is (willingly) possessed by the ghost of a nobleman, who loves to get his dick wet and having a good time in general. The ghost proceeds to chase pigs around, flirt heavily with every woman at the party, and just being the polar opposite of Geralt. All of his lines are done by Geralt's voice-actor, and he even struts around instead of Geralt's normal walk. The best part is when the ghost (in Geralt's body) attempts solving his own Witcher contract, trying to track down a very drunk fire-breather. The DLC is worth it for this part alone, and there's a bunch of other great quests as well.
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Nuebot posted:This might be a stretch for "little things" but I really loved the weird tonal shifts in some of the Kirby games. Kirby on the Wii is a great version of this. In the beginning of the story, there's a cute little guy who crashed his spaceship on your planet, so you're going around and beating all the bad guys to get the spaceship parts. You help him get it all back together, then you travel with him to his homeworld to fight the big 4-headed dragon final boss of the game that originally made him crash in the first place. But once you beat the dragon, you find out that it wasn't the bad guy at all, it was actually the hero of the planet who had a magic crown that the person you were helping wanted to steal. Wanted to steal to destroy the entire loving universe. It gets even more twisted from there, the crown itself basically turns him into a dripping eyeball demon by the time you get to the real final boss; it all ends up being a glorious WTF and a fight that's actually pretty intense since the boss gets to use all of the superpowers you've been earning during the game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQZgjtqTNQk&t=384s
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Nuebot posted:This might be a stretch for "little things" but I really loved the weird tonal shifts in some of the Kirby games. One minute you're fighting a tree that's pissed off and throwing apples at you, the next Kirby's friends are being possessed by what amounts to The Thing in cloud form causing them to undergo weird rear end transformations. Levels tend to progress from happy green fields to oppressive factories and castles, and finally to fighting cosmic horrors that literally shoot blood at you and explode in unexpectedly gorey ways for a game about a pink fluff ball. Kirby 64 is a game that ends with you meeting an angel that weeps blood and lives in a black hole and killing it by shooting it in the dick.
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ElectricWizard posted:The wedding-party sequence in the new Witcher 3 DLC is fantastic.
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