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Sunshine is physically bright as well, and as your percent completion rises, the game actually gets brighter and higher contrast to the point where you can put sunglasses on Mario to make it darker again if it starts to hurt your eyes. Which I guess is a little thing in its own right.
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HPanda posted:I've never played Sunshine, but Galaxy is very much Super Mario 64 without those first-gen 3D camera problems. Do the camera controls make fun noises? This is important.
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well why not posted:Do the camera controls make fun noises? This is important. No 
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HPanda posted:I've never played Sunshine, but Galaxy is very much Super Mario 64 without those first-gen 3D camera problems. The camera in Galaxy was pretty bad though, it would frequently get stuck behind planetoids and random geometry, which would also completely gently caress with your controls. I favor Sunshine because it was a lot like Mario 64 with big stages and a small amount of freedom to what you do in those stages. Galaxy's stages were just full of pitfalls and one hit kill gravity wells all over the place, I never felt especially interested in visiting each galaxy more than once.  CJacobs posted:Sunshine is physically bright as well, and as your percent completion rises, the game actually gets brighter and higher contrast to the point where you can put sunglasses on Mario to make it darker again if it starts to hurt your eyes. Which I guess is a little thing in its own right. You could also get a hawiian print shirt for him when your completion got high enough. The shirt did nothing but look silly, and the guy who gave you the shirt and glasses was in most, if not all of, the stages near the beginning.
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I thought he was in the hub world. Yeah Galaxy's great fun but the levels are much more distincly linear. Mario 64 had you run around big environments where you could explore and maybe even come across a different star than you went in for, in Galaxy it's more like they lay out specific courses using the same assets. Or at least that's how I remember it.
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My Lovely Horse posted:I thought he was in the hub world. He's everywhere since you have to talk to him to also turn it off, so I think they just put him around so you could toggle it on and off as you see fit. Galaxy felt more like they were trying to make a 3D classic mario game, with long flat stages instead of sprawling worlds and poo poo. I just couldn't get into the stage design for the most part and the gravity gimmick drove me up the wall, I can't think of a time I've ever liked it in games. My favorite little thing in Galaxy 2, though is the remake of Whomp's Fortress  I really hoped that it was a teaser to a full remake of Mario 64.In constrast, no matter how many people I've heard say Fludd was annoying and a stupid gimmick, I loved it. It gave you great control over the platforming in that game and the hover power was always a great save when you screwed up so you wouldn't have to redo whole stages when you fell to the bottom of a climb.
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I feel the same way about FLUDD, much like I do about Yoshi's flutter jump in Yoshi's Island. And, come to think of it, Peach in SMB2.
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My Lovely Horse posted:I thought he was in the hub world. He's in the hub world and in every outdoor daylight stage since the shades and shirt don't carry through stage transitions. He's only not present in Sirena Beach, half of Pianta Village, and I think Noki Bay. And yeah, Galaxy's a very different sort of thing to 64 and Sunshine. Not in a bad way, and you'll probably still enjoy the game all the same, but they are different. If you're really enjoying the openness of 64 I'd say give Sunshine a look, but also try out Banjo-Kazooie if possible.
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Fludd was so good that doing the challenge levels without it frustrated me as a kid. I loved the rollercoaster ride in the theme park 
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Fludd was so good that doing the challenge levels without it frustrated me as a kid. The word "secret" is a killing word for Sunshine players. Again...and again... and again... stupid Mario, sliding as he lands and falling off the edge. Again. 
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Neddy Seagoon posted:The word "secret" is a killing word for Sunshine players. Again...and again... and again... stupid Mario, sliding as he lands and falling off the edge. Again. Infinitely worse were the super hard secret stages in the hub world. Most people tend to cite the pachinko stage as their least favorite but I will always hate the poison river you have to take a forever boat ride with a yoshi to reach.
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the trainer sprites in pokemon alpha sapphire are pretty funny. Ninja Boy  Bug Maniac  Pokemaniac is the best  THAT LOOK OF POKÉECSTASY
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HPanda posted:I've never played Sunshine, but Galaxy is very much Super Mario 64 without those first-gen 3D camera problems. Only it has the awful rear end Wiimote/Nunchuck combo.
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Just Cause 3 I was attacking a base and an enemy helicopter was called in, I'd grappled onto it but rather than stealing it I just hung underneath it (so I could shoot rockets from a good vantage point) and the pilot shouts to Rico "Get your own helicopter!"
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well why not posted:I'm replaying Super Mario 64 (it's pretty relaxing!) and my favourite 'little thing' has to be the soundtrack and ambience. It's just so cheerful and pleasant, despite being what amounts to polyphonic ringtones. I found Galaxy 2 to be a total joy. It had a lot of really solid and fun tracks too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pir3sZ8syek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS5yZEGPn_Q There's even a remix of the athletic theme from the older mario games. And this should sound particularly familiar.
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Both super mario sunshine and galaxy are fabulous but in different ways. The controls are incredibly slick in both games and the stage structure plays to their strengths well, with the water gun's 3 different kinds of mobility making it better suited to open levels and galaxy's gravity mechanics better working with linear levels as you jump to different planetoids one by one. Galaxy also had some very good traditional levels without much gravity fuckery though. I guess those levels made people wish the whole game was like that which is why so many people complain that the levels weren't as open as in 64 and sunshine.
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Geokinesis posted:Just Cause 3 I was attacking a base and an enemy helicopter was called in, I'd grappled onto it but rather than stealing it I just hung underneath it (so I could shoot rockets from a good vantage point) and the pilot shouts to Rico "Get your own helicopter!" A similar thing happened to me when attacking a propaganda truck. He was doing his thing like normal and then when I jumped on top he started shouting at me through the intercom.
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Did RE6 just get a rerelease that I missed or are people just now coming around to how incomprehensibly fun that game can be?
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Beastie posted:Did RE6 just get a rerelease that I missed or are people just now coming around to how incomprehensibly fun that game can be? Steam had all the Resident Evil games on sale last weekend and RE6 was at the lowest price it's ever been offered on there so a lot of people probably took the plunge.
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Beastie posted:Did RE6 just get a rerelease that I missed or are people just now coming around to how incomprehensibly fun that game can be? I'm assuming it went on sale recently.
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Sunshine had the best death music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqCQxRMpGxI
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I just started Xenoblade Chronicles X. Your character is mostly silent, but you get to choose a voice for their combat barks. The neat thing is, they list the voice actor next to each voice option. It's a really forward facing way to credit the actors. Plus, for anime/JRPG dorks, it's a handy shorthand for choosing your character's voice.
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Arstan posted:I just started Xenoblade Chronicles X. Your character is mostly silent, but you get to choose a voice for their combat barks. The real neat detail is that one of the voice options is "Classic", which is Shulk's VA .
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In game with tons of great characters Catarina Sforza may be the best:
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It's what she was kinda semi famous for saying IRL too supposedly to contemporary accounts.
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In Just Cause 3 whenever you blow up a military base there's a radio announcement (voiced by David Tennant) where they try and spin the destruction as a planned act, like blowing up a base because it had black mold.
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In that same DLC, there's a bit where Caterina stands at a gate cursing those dudes out for several minutes straight. I just stood around with Ezio, watching in wonder, rather than do whatever game task I was meant to do.
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In whichever game it is that has Ben Franklin you can get him to deliver a long monologue on the benefits of sleeping with older women, which is also something that happened in real life.
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That was rear end Creed 3, I think.
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For all the faults that series has had over the years, the interesting NPCs are definitely not one of them. There's a random line you get in AC2 when you're parkouring around the rooftops where a guy remarks "He must be late - and she must be beautiful" and it's probably my favorite piece of random chatter ever
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haveblue posted:In whichever game it is that has Ben Franklin you can get him to deliver a long monologue on the benefits of sleeping with older women, which is also something that happened in real life. If you want more Ben Franklin, he's also a moderately-prominent character in AC:Rogue.
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flatluigi posted:For all the faults that series has had over the years, the interesting NPCs are definitely not one of them. There's a random line you get in AC2 when you're parkouring around the rooftops where a guy remarks "He must be late - and she must be beautiful" and it's probably my favorite piece of random chatter ever That line nearly got as irritating as "arrow in the knee" because I heard it constantly.
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I really hope that the AC series doesn't die until they reach WWII, if only to see Ubisoft handle Hitler and The Holocaust with the feather-light touch they're known for.
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Sleeveless posted:I really hope that the AC series doesn't die until they reach WWII, if only to see Ubisoft handle Hitler and The Holocaust with the feather-light touch they're known for. Yeah so, they already touched on Hitler back in the second game.  Assassin's Creed 2 posted:By the 1930s, Hitler was under the influence of the Templar Order, obtaining an Apple of Eden from Templar industrialist Henry Ford, intending for him to use it to start World War II. Alongside fellow Templar puppet Joseph Stalin, Hitler brought on the turmoil and fear necessary for Abstergo Industries to take control of the working population.
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huh so the assassins were just literally waiting outside the Fuhrerbunker waiting to stab Hitler huh? Well poo poo, I can't say I don't see that happening considering all the tailing and waiting in those games. Grats on Ubisoft for intermeshing gameplay and lore in a way that preserves my verisimilitude.
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Nohman posted:Yeah so, they already touched on Hitler back in the second game. Why even have him execute the body double if they are going to kill him moments later anyway
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codenameFANGIO posted:Why even have him execute the body double if they are going to kill him moments later anyway most likely poetic irony.
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Inco posted:That line nearly got as irritating as "arrow in the knee" because I heard it constantly. "What a strange man."
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Nohman posted:Yeah so, they already touched on Hitler back in the second game. i thought this was just a joke in the imp zone thread. holy poo poo that's great. Sleeveless posted:I really hope that the AC series doesn't die until they reach WWII, if only to see Ubisoft handle Hitler and The Holocaust with the feather-light touch they're known for. Anne Frank's Diary Entry (11/50)
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codenameFANGIO posted:Why even have him execute the body double if they are going to kill him moments later anyway The Assassins killed him. Hitler was a Templar and the Templar's had him kill his body double to fake his death,
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