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Felinoid
Mar 8, 2009

Marginally better than Shepard's dancing. 2/10
Poor nancy. That has to be the absolute worst, seeing you right at the very moment it ends. And with the way she turned red right as you won, it made me think that maybe it was only the split second network communication times separating her from failure or a fun gunfight to keep her honour. The anguish must have been palpable in that house. :(

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Veyrall
Apr 23, 2010

The greatest poet this
side of the cyberpocalypse
I wonder if other invaders feel like that when they invade Chip?

Also, truth be told, I was kinda leaning forward and tightening my jaw through that whole thing. The backdoor timer moves so slowly

Ekster
Jul 18, 2013

Antonio studied 13th century Welsh poetry.

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


There are about 100 or so remaining Castles/Castle ruins in Wales but I'm not sure $10,000,000 a year would be enough to actually buy, own and maintain one of them.

Certainly not any of the impressive ones.

Testekill
Nov 1, 2012

I demand to be taken seriously

:aronrex:

Josuke Higashikata posted:

There are about 100 or so remaining Castles/Castle ruins in Wales but I'm not sure $10,000,000 a year would be enough to actually buy, own and maintain one of them.

Certainly not any of the impressive ones.

There has to be some lovely castles in Wales.

claw game handjob
Mar 27, 2007

pinch pinch scrape pinch
ow ow fuck it's caught
i'm bleeding
JESUS TURN IT OFF
WHY ARE YOU STILL SMILING
The end of the human trafficking chain, like the end of all the sidequest chains, is a repurposed version of an open world activity. The jokes about it not being thrilling or fulfilling are dead-on accurate. It's a convoy mission with some high-level cops who get a head start on you and you can't kill the target. You had to find ten briefcases to figure out who was in charge of the auction, despite knowing who was in charge of the auction the entire time at various points in the chain of command. Of all the "finale" missions, it was probably the single nastiest in the game due to it being stacked against you in so many ways.

"Aiden gets them all together and murders them" would actually have more closure than what occurs.

Also that ctOS hub is a lot easier if you come in from the other side, there are cameras and most people stand on piers alone if not alerted.

claw game handjob fucked around with this message at 10:41 on Oct 30, 2015

The Shame Boy
Jan 27, 2014

Dead weight, just like this post.



I noticed when Chip checked the Botanical Gardens landmark that the guy that was the Mayor of it wasen't the guy with the Rayman avatar.

Has our dear mayor abandoned Watch_Dog's Chicago?

Electric Phantasm
Apr 7, 2011

YOSPOS

HOOLY BOOLY posted:

I noticed when Chip checked the Botanical Gardens landmark that the guy that was the Mayor of it wasen't the guy with the Rayman avatar.

Has our dear mayor abandoned Watch_Dog's Chicago?

Accordion Man
Nov 7, 2012


Buglord
Yeah, sure Ubi there's totally still Russian nobility walking around. It's not the like the Bolsheviks killed them all or anything.

WrightOfWay
Jul 24, 2010


Accordion Man posted:

Yeah, sure Ubi there's totally still Russian nobility walking around. It's not the like the Bolsheviks killed them all or anything.

Obviously he's one of the descendents of Anastasia.

Llab
Dec 28, 2011

PEPSI FOR VG BABE
Oh, I assumed he was just a con artist or something, and the woman talking to him was easily fooled

Ometeotl
Feb 13, 2012



It's MISSEL! Or SISSLE!
I confused myself...



CryingAthena posted:

"On medication for schizophrenia" as a "random fact" for an enemy? Really? :doh:
Stay classy, Ubisoft.

...Ok?

Astro Nut
Feb 22, 2013

Nonsensical Space Powers, Activate! Form of Friendship!

CryingAthena posted:

"On medication for schizophrenia" as a "random fact" for an enemy? Really? :doh:
Stay classy, Ubisoft.

Still wishing that the enemies had random 'nice' info; make it a bit more unsettling.

Though I feel slightly confused by the bit with the relative of the 'oligarch'. I dunno if its supposed to be that who they're speaking to is ignorant, or just being colloquial, but... Oligarchs in Russia, at least presently, aren't really 'nobility' or in any way 'royal'. They're dudes who got exceedingly wealthy during the downturn of the USSR. Admittedly the castle in Wales thing is probably accurate though. Surprising number of Russian oligarchs have a love of British culture (particularly our football).

ThatPazuzu
Sep 8, 2011

I'm so depressed, I can't even blink.
I didn't see anyone mention it but look how happy that guy was after... putting his dick in a vacuum chamber? :)

CryingAthena posted:

"On medication for schizophrenia" as a "random fact" for an enemy? Really? :doh:
Stay classy, Ubisoft.

All criminals need to be hosed up and have negative personality traits. Sometimes it's that they're on parole or that they have a criminal record or that they have a mental disability. These are all equally negative traits in Watch_Dogs.

Astro Nut posted:

Though I feel slightly confused by the bit with the relative of the 'oligarch'. I dunno if its supposed to be that who they're speaking to is ignorant, or just being colloquial, but... Oligarchs in Russia, at least presently, aren't really 'nobility' or in any way 'royal'. They're dudes who got exceedingly wealthy during the downturn of the USSR. Admittedly the castle in Wales thing is probably accurate though. Surprising number of Russian oligarchs have a love of British culture (particularly our football).

I don't find it particularly hard to believe that someone is related to both royalty and oligarchs. It's just a double whammy of luck that turned him into a rich boy that spends his days idling buying humans.

ThatPazuzu fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Oct 30, 2015

Ekster
Jul 18, 2013

ThatPazuzu posted:

All criminals need to be hosed up and have negative personality traits. Sometimes it's that they're on parole or that they have a criminal record or that they have a mental disability. These are all equally negative traits in Watch_Dogs.

Don't forget child abuse.

Bobbin Threadbare
Jan 2, 2009

I'm looking for a flock of urbanmechs.

Accordion Man posted:

Yeah, sure Ubi there's totally still Russian nobility walking around. It's not the like the Bolsheviks killed them all or anything.

...Yeah, there are. Their titles don't exactly mean much today, but a lot of Russian nobles managed to flee during the whole Civil War thing. You're maybe thinking of the Russian royal family?

ThatPazuzu
Sep 8, 2011

I'm so depressed, I can't even blink.
Do you think all the cool ctOS agents ask to be put on that island? Think about it: You and two dozen of your bros get to chill on a private island and get paid nearly six figures so long as you don't let a wet banana man hack a box.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

Speaking of, I am begging for a wardrobe change. This bananaman is killing me.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Astro Nut posted:

Surprising number of Russian oligarchs have a love of British culture (particularly our football).
Russian native sports are too hardcore for rich people, for example one of the variants of the Russian counterpart of baseball/cricket is played not with a ball but with a wooden block sharpened to a point at both ends.




It's actually funny, because antipsychotics have a huge number of side effects and giving a gun to someone being treated with them is a bad idea, not due to their mental state.

AradoBalanga
Jan 3, 2013

Waffleman_ posted:

Speaking of, I am begging for a wardrobe change. This bananaman is killing me.
:agreed:
Dirty Banana has run its course. It's time for a new ICONIC COATTM to take its place.

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


Yeah, as much as I like seeing Aiden cosplay as an even more emotionally stunted DIO, it's time for the banana to go bye bye soon, surely.

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

Waffleman_ posted:

Speaking of, I am begging for a wardrobe change. This bananaman is killing me.

Get it RIGHT already. That's is Aiden "Pisscoat Vigilate" Pierce, not Aiden "Bananaman Vigilante" Pierce.

Crowetron
Apr 29, 2009

Ironicus, I hope your new character Bloodthirsty Prospector makes an appearance in Six Feats Under at some point.

VolticSurge
Jul 23, 2013

Just your friendly neighborhood photobomb raptor.



We should equip the camo pattern one so we could have Aiden Pearce, Anti-Establishment Survivalist! Unless Chip doesn't have that DLC, in which case, I dunno, Reptile maybe?

Mr. Highway
Feb 25, 2007

I'm a very lonely man, doing what I can.
Naming the Russian relative-to-an-oligarch Anton Chekov is the most subtle reference to Anton Chekov since Joe Hill's Nos4a2

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

How does the game determine how other players appear? Doesn't everybody appear as Aiden in their own game?

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

SlothfulCobra posted:

How does the game determine how other players appear? Doesn't everybody appear as Aiden in their own game?

Yeah, everyone sees themselves as Aiden. I think the civilian model their opponent perceives is totally random.

Croccers
Jun 15, 2012
It's neat in how it's presented. The player on their screen never not the 'character' Aiden, the other players on their screen they're tailing/invading/defending from/racing/playing that CTFish mode are always referred to as Fixers and are random NPC models. It never breaks tone with the player being the her... uhh, main player character.

Blastinus
Feb 28, 2010

Time to try my luck
:rolldice:
Crap.

chitoryu12 posted:

Yeah, everyone sees themselves as Aiden. I think the civilian model their opponent perceives is totally random.

Which is why that one invader who tried running Chip and Ironicus over looked like a chubby guy in a hoodie. Having everyone look like The Vigilante or have a Vigilante figure would be too much of a dead giveaway.

Granted, trying to run the guy you're invading down isn't what I call stealthy either.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Croccers posted:

It's neat in how it's presented. The player on their screen never not the 'character' Aiden, the other players on their screen they're tailing/invading/defending from/racing/playing that CTFish mode are always referred to as Fixers and are random NPC models. It never breaks tone with the player being the her... uhh, main player character.
It's like those America's Army games where regardless of your team you're US dudes killing evil terrorists.

Testekill
Nov 1, 2012

I demand to be taken seriously

:aronrex:

SelenicMartian posted:



It's actually funny, because antipsychotics have a huge number of side effects and giving a gun to someone being treated with them is a bad idea, not due to their mental state.

Like for example, when I was taking them I literally couldn't crouch then stand up. It hosed up my blood pressure so much that if I stood up then I would have literally the worst equillibrium and just nearly fall over completely.

So just imagine facing a mercenary having that problem, it would be the saddest enemy of all time.

Testekill fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Oct 31, 2015

Bluhman
Nov 7, 2009

Low morale causes the golems to dance in panic.
I find it odd that the guy watching porn streams didn't recognize his SO from her voice.

Onmi
Jul 12, 2013

If someone says it one more time I'm having Florina show up as a corpse. I'm not even kidding, I was pissed off with people doing that shit back in 2010, and I'm not dealing with it now in 2016.

Bluhman posted:

I find it odd that the guy watching porn streams didn't recognize his SO from her voice.

Was it his SO, I thought it was his sister, That seemed Watch_Dogs level of hosed up for me.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

It was his sister who acts like his SO.

Keeshhound
Jan 14, 2010

Mad Duck Swagger
See, I was figuring daughter.

General Ironicus
Aug 21, 2008

Something about this feels kinda hinky

Crowetron posted:

Ironicus, I hope your new character Bloodthirsty Prospector makes an appearance in Six Feats Under at some point.

Cootsen has a number of hobbies he failed to mention to the party.

Espresso Steampunk
Sep 27, 2008
So late to this; I'm a long-time lurker. I was so glad to see you get nancy back! But I actually wanted to post on how cool your Metal Gear drunk history was. I'm especially nostalgic because Snake Eater was the first C&I LP I watched.

General Ironicus
Aug 21, 2008

Something about this feels kinda hinky
I'd like to thank Youtube comments for pointing out these two people caught t-posing:

Successful Businessmanga
Mar 28, 2010

Clearly they're just part of a flash mob, that's just the thing you do in the cyber-dystopian present instead of randomly breaking out into a group song and dance number!

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FinalGamer
Aug 30, 2012

So the mystic script says.

Veyrall posted:

I'm a bad person because I unironically enjoy Watch_Dogs. It's a fun GTA clone with cyberpunk pretensions, the slave auction was way less unpleasant than I thought it'd be, and it has fun shenanigans like car-launching and rampant hypocrisy. Essentially, it is a hamburger of a game. Not amazing, but sometimes it just hits the spot in a generic way.

I hope Watch_Dogs 2 is better, then it'll chart a path like early AssCreed games, before they became shovelware.
I will say this.
If you don't take it seriously at all, like the way MST3K does as a movie, it is hilariously bad in its story hypocrisy.

But after seeing an invasion from the other side first time, that actually looked like exactly my kind of fun to do with people, so I'll give props on that for this game.

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