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Calaveron posted:Word on the street is that Gackt pulled out the right for his image from any FF7 games so his incredibly dumb character is no more. Noooo... Well, at least they can ruin it in every other way.
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Tiberius Thyben posted:Noooo... Just cover his face in one of those robes the kingdom hearts guys wear.
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From a couple pages back.Death Zebra posted:IIRC Morrowinds stat and skill requirements for guild progression weren't nearly stringent enough. I think the same goes for the thieves guild in Oblivion. You only need to fence 1000 gold worth of goods in total to become grandmaster. Obscuros Oblivion Overhaul drastically increased these amounts. I think one of the thresholds was 20000 gold. Slime posted:No that's stupid as gently caress, at that point you're basically just mindlessly grinding. Stealing stuff to an arbitrary amount is just boring. Instead the player should be sent off on cool heists. Thieves Guild quests should totally be about all sorts of thief related crime, from simple robbery to breaking into banks, con artistry, skooma smuggling, all sorts of cool poo poo they could send you off to do instead of just stealing some random crap. I actually liked the huge larceny requirements in Oscuro's Oblivion mod. The numerical value was so high that you basically had the choice between lots of low-risk household burglary, or a few extremely high-risk/high-reward capers. Instead of robbing every single house in multiple cities, I broke into the various castles and robbed the counts and countesses. Dodging guards while stealing the top dog's valuables made me feel like I was actually playing as a capable cat burglar, and it made the Thieves' Guild look like a credible and discriminating organization. Complaint: so-called "realistic" FPS games just love creating bullet-sponge enemies. The Far Cry series is the top offender that comes to mind, but I've seen it in a bunch of other games. The Call of Duty series too. Every normal enemy can be killed with a headshot or a couple of body shots, but the dudes with machine guns are bundled up in body armor that can somehow absorb dozens of bullets. If they want to play cartoonishly, whatever, that's cool. But if they're claiming realistic weapons/tactics (Modern Warfare I'm looking at you), there's no reason an enemy should be able to shrug off an assault rifle round to the forehead.
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Sleeveless posted:Lance Bass is still alive, no reason he can't reprise the role. For what it's worth I think from Kingdom Hearts 1 to 2 they replaced Bass with someone I can't remember so it'd probably be them.
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Kandak Sayaqa posted:Complaint: so-called "realistic" FPS games just love creating bullet-sponge enemies. The Far Cry series is the top offender that comes to mind, but I've seen it in a bunch of other games. The Call of Duty series too. Every normal enemy can be killed with a headshot or a couple of body shots, but the dudes with machine guns are bundled up in body armor that can somehow absorb dozens of bullets. What about Far Cry was ever supposed to be realistic? Just because it resembles the real world doesn't make it realistic at all. The first game has giant mutant murder machines in the first drat act.
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Kandak Sayaqa posted:
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Jobbo_Fett posted:League of Legends... Ranked or Unranked? People rage hardcore in Ranked because OH NO MY ELO WHAT IF I GET DEMOTED TO TRASH 4 INSTEAD OF PROMOTED TO CARDBOARD 5?! But they're usually all trash, especially since I lost almost every single placement match I had this season and still got up to like Silver 5. The best thing I've found that works is that you don't call them out but you don't allow it to keep going on. Instead of saying "That was really rude" you switch it to "It's okay *player who hosed up* we all have bad plays." Just keep doing this and someone else will usually join in with pointing out that the rager is being a bit of an rear end in a top hat and they'll either back down or afk. Even if you tell everyone to have fun, good luck at the beginning of the game and someone shouts back a "fuk u," just reply with a joke. I think the most important thing is to realize that having fun doesn't rely on getting the best score or winning. You can always decide to just roll with it and attempt to try new things you normally can't get away with in regular games, like loving up and dying trying to steal dragon/baron from the enemy team. Or stuff like building Rylai's on a Heimerdinger so nobody can run away/at you during fights. Just roll with it, support your team and keep playing.
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:Ranked or Unranked? People rage hardcore in Ranked because OH NO MY ELO WHAT IF I GET DEMOTED TO TRASH 4 INSTEAD OF PROMOTED TO CARDBOARD 5?! But they're usually all trash, especially since I lost almost every single placement match I had this season and still got up to like Silver 5. Or, alternatively, stop playing games that force you to endure torrents of abuse from morons every match. It worked for me. The onus should never be on the abused to be the better person in the hopes that the assholes give up. The onus should be on the rear end in a top hat to stop being an rear end in a top hat.
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:I think the most important thing is to realize that having fun doesn't rely on getting the best score or winning. You can always decide to just roll with it and attempt to try new things you normally can't get away with in regular games, like loving up and dying trying to steal dragon/baron from the enemy team. Or stuff like building Rylai's on a Heimerdinger so nobody can run away/at you during fights. Just roll with it, support your team and keep playing. Unranked 5v5. I hate playing against AI since they're usually too predictable and I could just play HotS. Played some draft, some normal, and I foolishly thought the community would've improved a little bit. I've been having fun despite the jerks, especially since I don't really care about all the meta or getting that sweet sweet XP or in-game currency to unlock more heroes. I gotta start using the CTS mumble again so I can find some people to play with. Then get to world's and win a million donairs or whatever the prize money is. Thing dragging down LoL (Aside from players): They changed up my Zilean! Instead of placing bombs on a target, he now tosses them in the air at a location; turning it into a skillshot for no reason. I'm holding out hope that Malphite and Karthus haven't been screwed with in the last 2 years.
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Somfin posted:Or, alternatively, stop playing games that force you to endure torrents of abuse from morons every match. It worked for me. Not saying you should. If it gets that bad then you definitely have the choice not to play the game or to report players and see where it goes. If you do like the game and want to keep playing but ragers every so often make it difficult there's ways you can deal with it and move on. Riot surprisingly has gotten pretty no nonsense about things, even suspending people who make bad gay jokes. Jobbo_Fett posted:Unranked 5v5. I hate playing against AI since they're usually too predictable and I could just play HotS. Played some draft, some normal, and I foolishly thought the community would've improved a little bit. If you post your League name (and if you play on North America) I'd join you for a round or two and shoot the poo poo. I'm in the same boat as you since I'm coming back from a 2-3 year hiatus.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Thing dragging down LoL (Aside from players): They changed up my Zilean! Instead of placing bombs on a target, he now tosses them in the air at a location; turning it into a skillshot for no reason. It's so players can actually try to move out of the way instead of being able to do nothing about it. If you hit someone with two bombs now you get an AoE stun. That's really good in teamfights. Karthus is unchanged outside of a total visual makeover. Malphite had minor changes to the effects of some his abilities, although the way the abilities work are still the same.
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:If you post your League name (and if you play on North America) I'd join you for a round or two and shoot the poo poo. I'm in the same boat as you since I'm coming back from a 2-3 year hiatus. Same as username, except without the "_" I think. Should be available to play in a couple of hours. I'll hop on CTS for good measure. Paint it Back: I'm convinced that the some of the harder pictures can only be completed if you've already played it, use a cheat sheet or tedious trial and error. Mierenneuker posted:Karthus is unchanged outside of a total visual makeover. Malphite had minor changes to the effects of some his abilities, although the way the abilities work are still the same. Good to know, thanks!
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BTW if you want character specific patch notes you can go to lol.wikia.com, click on a character, click on the Background tab and scroll all the way down. Of course this will tell you nothing about new champions, item changes and rune/mastery changes so you never get the full picture. LoL is not a friendly game to people who take an hiatus from it. You can toss out most of the things you knew about jungling for example.
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Mierenneuker posted:BTW if you want character specific patch notes you can go to lol.wikia.com, click on a character, click on the Background tab and scroll all the way down. Of course this will tell you nothing about new champions, item changes and rune/mastery changes so you never get the full picture. LoL is not a friendly game to people who take an hiatus from it. You can toss out most of the things you knew about jungling for example. Some of the redesigns are really strange too, like Soraka's. Originally you had to build her tanky so she could get up close and personal with her starcall...now you just snipe people with it and laugh all the way to the bank with all your stolen kills. She's still fun, but drat, she's not very risky anymore.
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Woolie Wool posted:Have you heard of this amazing experimental water purification technology called activated charcoal? You run water through a layer of it and it comes out the other end clean. Nothing about Fallout 3 makes sense. Not one single thing. There is nothing to eat, nobody makes anything, nobody does any work, not even the raiders actually have anything of value to raid. Even New Vegas annoyed me with the lack of newly-constructed buildings and general squalor--do not loving tell me that the post-apocalyptic Nevadans cannot stack bricks on top of each other, pick up trash, or wash dirty things with the clean water you can find almost anywhere in the game. The Fallout 3 world is just so lazy, dare I say Fan-fic levels of world building. Everyone is even lazier than your average RPG. It's just a world full of Vaguely Interesting Set pieces. NV has this whole war thing going on but Fallout 3?  T-t-there's bandits and super mutants everywhere (The Bandits have made more rebuild progress than the towns). A random dude can build a goddamn water purifier that only needs a magic macguffin to work (Which Liam Neeson pretty much found out where it was in the space of a weekend after leaving the vault. Seriously if he didn't get caught in the VR he could of finished the whole game for you.) and leave it sitting in the open for 16+ years and it's fine but some houses is out of the question? Even with the Raider/Super Mutant problem not once has it been hinted that they've caused serious grief for the two towns.
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Are they really? I got even more lost in the NV vaults, especially in Vault 21 hotel and casino, somehow. I couldn't find the exit for a good bit. quote:NV has this whole war thing going on but Fallout 3? T-t-there's bandits and super mutants everywhere (The Bandits have made more rebuild progress than the towns). A random dude can build a goddamn water purifier that only needs a magic macguffin to work (Which Liam Neeson pretty much found out where it was in the space of a weekend after leaving the vault. Seriously if he didn't get caught in the VR he could of finished the whole game for you.) and leave it sitting in the open for 16+ years and it's fine but some houses is out of the question? Even with the Raider/Super Mutant problem not once has it been hinted that they've caused serious grief for the two towns. Fallout 3 takes place 200 (200? I forget anymore) after the bombs fell and it looks like it was 7. New Vegas takes place also 200 and change years after and looks like it takes place 70 years after with the shacks and cobbled together football armor (incidentally, Fallout 1 did take place 70 years later). Fallout's problem is that society's re-established already, New Vegas works because it's the frontier but that just got settled. There are nations and rule of law again. It's post-post-post apocalyptic now. They need to stop moving forward with things, just go somewhere else like 5 years after the bombs or something.
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Getting a bit lost in some vaults is leagues above Bethesda's sprawling metro, horrible balance, out of control scaling and illogical, uncompelling story. E: That's an aggregation of what I hear as general option, not necessarily mine. AlphaKretin has a new favorite as of 15:04 on Oct 22, 2015 |
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IMO the best way to do it is mine Wild West stuff even more and make the NV era patterned after 1890-1900 when the western frontier was closing. Make a Fallout game about the twilight of the Wasteland as it's overtaken by the NCR and other civilizations, and the
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RBA Starblade posted:Fallout 3 takes place 200 (200? I forget anymore) after the bombs fell and it looks like it was 7. New Vegas takes place also 200 and change years after and looks like it takes place 70 years after with the shacks and cobbled together football armor (incidentally, Fallout 1 did take place 70 years later). Fallout's problem is that society's re-established already, New Vegas works because it's the frontier but that just got settled. There are nations and rule of law again. It's post-post-post apocalyptic now. They need to stop moving forward with things, just go somewhere else like 5 years after the bombs or something. There's both lore and design reason for Fallout 3 being pretty primitive for being so long after the bombs fell: Bethesda figured the 'Fallout spirit' would be best conveyed by a wasteland still struggling to stay alive, since who the hell would want to play a post-apocalyptic game set so long after the event that society's basically working as normal? Story-wise the reasoning is that Washington DC got hit really hard due to being the capital and only recently became somewhat habitable, which is a decent enough reasoning that I can agree with it, but it's not like I was keeping track of the timeline and expected recoveries at the time. New Vegas definitely did better at that, looking a lot more like a world that's still pretty hosed but has started pulling itself back together. But that's Obsidian; they didn't just have better writers, they had writers that had written Fallout before, and a cancelled Fallout game to base their worldbuilding on. Yeah, it's still an unrealistic lack of improvement given the timeframe, but it's Fallout, it's gotta be that level of post-apocalyptic. Fallout 4 looks like it at least might have improved on these fronts, with a player character that's apparently been cryogenically frozen or something since the bombs fell and the setting being the home of the scientifically-advanced Institute. I stopped paying attention to Fallout 4 almost instantly when I realized every single design choice they were making beyond 'expanded weapon customization system*' was one I hated, though, so I don't know how well they'll do with that. Probably badly. *I'd put money on them loving up the weapon customization somehow, too. Likely by skewing the mod selection, system and balance too far in favor of 'up-front' guns like assault rifles or shotguns, if it's anything like Skyrim's designs.
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I do find Geralt kinda bland. It seems to me that kind of game is best served with making your own character- I know the Witcher games aren't pure sandbox but there are enough options that it feels like it could be. Similarly Red Dead Redemption's protagonist is kinda dull. We get so few straight Western games that you oughta be able to choose what kinda gunslinger you wanna be, be it Gary Cooper or The Man With No Name.
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One of the more annoying examples of bullet sponges is in Postal 2. Enemies don't flinch and headshots do no more damage than shooting anywhere else. The game is meant to be funny and violent yet one of the funniest forms of gun violence is conspicuously missing but it is in drat near every shooter that isn't meant to be funny.Death Zebra posted:Obscuros Oblivion Overhaul drastically increased these amounts. I think one of the thresholds was 20000 gold. Slime posted:No that's stupid as gently caress, at that point you're basically just mindlessly grinding. Stealing stuff to an arbitrary amount is just boring. I never said I liked that threshold but I'd rather have it too high than ridiculously low. It's been a few years since I played it so I don't remember how much of a grind it was though.
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AlphaKretin posted:E: That's an aggregation of what I hear as general option, not necessarily mine. We have hit peak circlejerk. People no longer PYF, they post other people's favorites.
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What Bioware didn't realise with Miranda from ME2, is that if a character on the player's side is aggravatingly awful you should have the option to hurt them at every opportunity. Either being to kill them or make fun or their shortcomings. Gackt from the FF7 EU was terrible, because he was a pet-character retroactively added in to all the big moments from the game's back-story. Remember when Nibelheim burned? Well Gackt was there somehow, just conveniently off-screen. What other story-focused games are there that suffer from having a pandering or grating character in the main cast?
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A new Assassins Creed game reminds me of something annoying from older ones. In Black Flag and Rogue you captained ships and sailed them around an open world. Except for some reason nobody else can pilot so you have to either pilot it around yourself or fast travel.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Similarly Red Dead Redemption's protagonist is kinda dull. We get so few straight Western games that you oughta be able to choose what kinda gunslinger you wanna be, be it Gary Cooper or The Man With No Name. i didn't like him that much either, but i preferred him over the three protagonists from gta v. he has the same story arc as any other rockstar protagonist in that he's a bad guy who wants a fresh start but he's not crippled by his character flaws.
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I just want a Fallout: London with gangs of irradiated neo-thatcherites. Is that too much to ask?
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I just want a Fallout: London with gangs of irradiated neo-thatcherites. Is that too much to ask? Yes, actually, that's kind of the downside of the Fallout setting and aesthetic. The 50s sci-fi and Americana is so integral that we can't see all of the undoubtedly interesting things going on in other countries because they wouldn't be American enough. Even if we did get a Fallout: London, though, it wouldn't involve Thatcherites, that was eighties. Post-war Britain's more characterized by the stiff upper lip 'move along, nothing to see here' types, that people like Monty Python would go on to parody. And I don't really know about 50s British sci-fi, but I feel like if we did go there then we'd be well-served to get inspirations like early Doctor Who, and maybe Bond. I'm going to have to stop here, though, because all this sounds far more interesting than what Fallout 4 is going to be, and I'm now sad we're not getting it.
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RBA Starblade posted:Fallout 3 takes place 200 (200? I forget anymore) after the bombs fell and it looks like it was 7. DC was hammered into the dirt by the War, suffered from radioactive sandstorms for over a century after it, and when the storms settled the super mutants emerged. It's only when the BoS arrived in 2255 and started killing mutants that the settlements got room to breathe.
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Byzantine posted:DC was hammered into the dirt by the War, suffered from radioactive sandstorms for over a century after it, and when the storms settled the super mutants emerged. It's only when the BoS arrived in 2255 and started killing mutants that the settlements got room to breathe. Why were people still trying to live around the super mutant infested hellhole, exactly? "Well, they're killing dozens of us every day and the water is slowly killing us and there's still the occasional radioactive sandstorm. But you know, this corrugated steel shed feels just like home!" I guess there's a point where I should stop questioning the logic behind a video game, but sometimes it's hard.
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Cleretic posted:And I don't really know about 50s British sci-fi, but I feel like if we did go there then we'd be well-served to get inspirations like early Doctor Who, and maybe Bond. Killer living plants are canon in Fallout anyways.
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Nuebot posted:Why were people still trying to live around the super mutant infested hellhole, exactly? "Well, they're killing dozens of us every day and the water is slowly killing us and there's still the occasional radioactive sandstorm. But you know, this corrugated steel shed feels just like home!" I guess there's a point where I should stop questioning the logic behind a video game, but sometimes it's hard. They live there for the same reason real people live in inhospitable hellholes around the world.
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Nuebot posted:Why were people still trying to live around the super mutant infested hellhole, exactly? "Well, they're killing dozens of us every day and the water is slowly killing us and there's still the occasional radioactive sandstorm. But you know, this corrugated steel shed feels just like home!" I guess there's a point where I should stop questioning the logic behind a video game, but sometimes it's hard. "Man, why don't all those poor orphans in African desert warzones just leave to America? Guess they just don't want to pull on their bootstraps hard enough." "Why does anyone live on the streets? I would get in a house as soon as possible. I guess homeless people are just crazy." mycot has a new favorite as of 02:48 on Oct 23, 2015 |
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Can you all tell me what the MGS5 mission is that everyone was complaining about a few pages back? Where you're defending something from 1000000 tanks and is total BS? What mission # is it, what triggers it? I need to prepare lest I break another TV.
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Thin Privilege posted:Can you all tell me what the MGS5 mission is that everyone was complaining about a few pages back? Where you're defending something from 1000000 tanks and is total BS? What mission # is it, what triggers it? I need to prepare lest I break another TV. 45 it's pretty late in the game but sort of comes out of nowhere after a point Quiet leaves you and there's a sideop to bring her back. Go on that sideop loaded with all your tank murdering guns because you get segued into the mission without a chance to change loadout.
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Thin Privilege posted:Can you all tell me what the MGS5 mission is that everyone was complaining about a few pages back? Where you're defending something from 1000000 tanks and is total BS? What mission # is it, what triggers it? I need to prepare lest I break another TV. 45, a yellow side op (can't remember the number but it's in northern Afghanistan, just south of the base that you rescue Huey from in mission 12), the mission isn't that bad, get therapy if losing in a game causes abnormal emotional distress.
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Yeah Bro posted:Get therapy if losing in a game causes abnormal emotional distress. I once got a rare item in the gamecube version of PSO that my friend wanted and he shoved me down a flight of stairs. We did not stay friends. For anyone who has not played PSO, you can literally drop and trade items at any time with no restrictions. The drop system, however, is what really dragged that game down. See, the drops weren't instanced like every later MMO did so if an item dropped, it dropped for everyone. And if you were playing with random people online they would steal everything just so no one else could have it.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:What Bioware didn't realise with Miranda from ME2, is that if a character on the player's side is aggravatingly awful you should have the option to hurt them at every opportunity. Either being to kill them or make fun or their shortcomings. Actually you just sound like a psychopath
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Doesn't mission 45 have something to do with Quiet leaving? By goon recommendation I made my logo have the butterfly on it so will it not appear? Or am I confusing things here. Also, I stand by my tv-smashing because that boss fight was poo poo. I wasn't on meds/therapy back then so it likely won't happen again, but that time it was warranted. gently caress raiden, gently caress MGS2.
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