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DumbparameciuM posted:Ok, I have tried to play XCom (And derivatives such as Xenonauts) a bunch of times. I never manage to get past the first alien Base invasion. Pat, who finished XCom 1 and was lead developer of XCom 2 , plays exactly the same way I do. How the gently caress did he finish the first game playing this way? I'm seriously asking, I don't understand how somebody playing the game in this fashion could actually complete it. God, I have no idea. Everyone in my base is dead or hurt, everything happens at the same time and every city is on fire. But from what I grasp XCom is a game where you miserably fail your first time around anyway.
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DumbparameciuM posted:Ok, I have tried to play XCom (And derivatives such as Xenonauts) a bunch of times. I never manage to get past the first alien Base invasion. Pat, who finished XCom 1 and was lead developer of XCom 2 , plays exactly the same way I do. How the gently caress did he finish the first game playing this way? I'm seriously asking, I don't understand how somebody playing the game in this fashion could actually complete it. Knowing Pat, I'm sure he plays it where he takes 30 minutes every round to formulate the perfectly calibrated turn when he's alone. But in this LP hustle, it's all go go go, so maybe this is one of those games where the nature of the format handicaps the performance.
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Feb 23, 2016 07:25
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DumbparameciuM posted:Ok, I have tried to play XCom (And derivatives such as Xenonauts) a bunch of times. I never manage to get past the first alien Base invasion. Pat, who finished XCom 1 and was lead developer of XCom 2 , plays exactly the same way I do. How the gently caress did he finish the first game playing this way? I'm seriously asking, I don't understand how somebody playing the game in this fashion could actually complete it. Quicksave Quickload carries most scrubs through the various XComs.
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Feb 23, 2016 07:27
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hoobajoo posted:Knowing Pat, I'm sure he plays it where he takes 30 minutes every round to formulate the perfectly calibrated turn when he's alone. But in this LP hustle, it's all go go go, so maybe this is one of those games where the nature of the format handicaps the performance. It's more likely he is just bad.
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Feb 23, 2016 07:32
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Andrast posted:It's more likely he is just bad. Needing a ton of time to evaluate tiny, routine decisions basically means you're bad, anyway. Six of one, half dozen of the other. My only point is in an offscreen game, he might be able to compensate by just taking forever to ponder every single option available.
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Feb 23, 2016 07:39
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hoobajoo posted:Needing a ton of time to ponder every little decision basically means you're bad, anyway. Eeeeh, not really, if my card game experience means anything.
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Feb 23, 2016 07:40
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Pat's play style makes me think that it is he, and not Woolie, who is in cahoots with aliens. Perhaps the chip is still there in his brain.
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Dias posted:Eeeeh, not really, if my card game experience means anything. I don't want to dweeb out over competitive Magic players too much, but they do typically play faster than the average Joe Wizard. Rounds are timed in tournaments, they have to make the most of that time. They still stop to think on hard decisions or tricky sequences, but that's not the same thing as just taking forever to do an obvious play, which is what I'm talking more about.
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hoobajoo posted:I don't want to dweeb out over competitive Magic players too much, but they typically play faster than the average Joe Wizard. Rounds are timed in tournaments, they have to make the most of that time. They still take their time on hard decisions or tricky sequences, but that's not the same thing as just taking forever to do an obvious play. Well, you're not wrong there, although play time varies from player to player. Taking your time to figure out what the gently caress you should do is more often than not good, tho, and if you have infinite time in a turn-based game, might as well not rush things, right?
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Dias posted:Well, you're not wrong there, although play time varies from player to player. Taking your time to figure out what the gently caress you should do is more often than not good, tho, and if you have infinite time in a turn-based game, might as well not rush things, right? I'm just saying, if you have 10 options, and 6 of them are clearly bad, how long you take to eliminate those 6 as viable options is one way to measure competence in a game. Just trying to show that Pat being bad at XCom and beating it are not mutually exclusive.
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Haven't been following this thread for a while but holy poo poo Pat is so bad at XCOM. Now I know how the people who watch the Best Friends Souls/Borne LPs feel. The constant "There is no way to win this, it's impossible." *makes worst possible decision after zero seconds of consideration* 
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hoobajoo posted:I don't want to dweeb out over competitive Magic players too much, but they do typically play faster than the average Joe Wizard. Rounds are timed in tournaments, they have to make the most of that time. They still stop to think on hard decisions or tricky sequences, but that's not the same thing as just taking forever to do an obvious play, which is what I'm talking more about. Counterthesis! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-kcRIe39_M That is a man cutting his opponent's deck.
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New Podcast: ALL. THE. WARRIORS. Featuring basically everybody except Pat! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9ZmgGLRzE0
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Feb 23, 2016 10:16
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Liam should get hype, his favorite game series is getting localized!! http://gematsu.com/2016/02/nis-america-teases-criminal-girls-2-localization
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You can sort of get away with a ton of poo poo in XCom: Enemy Within, at least on its equivalent to normal and easy, so I don't really doubt that Pat might have finished it. Jumping straight into the harder difficulty of the sequel might not have been the best choice, but I like to think it's better this way because the playthrough will be finished in a timely manner.
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Feb 23, 2016 10:59
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Like, did Pat actually finish the first "new" XCom game? I heard he played it, and, well, I also played it, it don't mean I know how to play it.
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Feb 23, 2016 11:04
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I was totally thinking the same thing as pat when the tekken 2 ending happend in res0.
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Feb 23, 2016 11:08
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RIP the dream of The Sonic Shuffle Shuffle
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Feb 23, 2016 14:12
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Oh no, Sonic Shuffle didn't happen? drat, I was really looking forward to that. Guess they'll just have to do a full LP now!!
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Feb 23, 2016 18:47
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Good news: a chance to do it another time, with a bit of Pat sprinkled on top
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Feb 23, 2016 19:27
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"he's a voice actor, not a real actor" God...damnit
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Feb 23, 2016 19:40
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Lol when was that said
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Baal posted:Lol when was that said Around the last quarter of the podcast, then Takahata went correcto-rampage on him for saying that.
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In Naruto 18 I love how the act of describing the Despair Zone is what makes Pat cross over super hard.
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Don't let the 4th hokage xpac his rear end in a top hat out on your dead baby Turok's Shadowman-themed headstone
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Who trashed my dead Shadowman's resurrection?
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VolticSurge posted:Want a competent XCOM LP that uses actual character pools? ChristopherOdd has you covered. Thanks for this. This guy is so much better than Pat. That first mission went flawlessly. Still, I like the clusterfuck that happens with Pat.
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Tae posted:Liam should get hype, his favorite game series is getting localized!! God loving drat that audio. It's like someone opened the master copy of Citizen Kane, threw up in the film case, and that was the only copy the world had from then on.
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I'm not sure if this week's podcast video is the best but it's up there
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Blockhouse posted:I'm not sure if this week's podcast video is the best but it's up there Everything Brennan Williams does or says in that is the best. Were they all hungover or something?
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Feb 24, 2016 02:20
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Street Fighter: The Movie is finally up on Vessel
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Futaba Anzu posted:Thanks for spoiling it Chun's boobs win at the end.
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Annnnd Team Fourstar's channel just got nuked by YouTube.
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OMG JC a Bomb! posted:Annnnd Team Fourstar's channel just got nuked by YouTube. Oi, really? I thought they had a "truce" with Toei nowadays, or was it related to other content?
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Dias posted:Oi, really? I thought they had a "truce" with Toei nowadays, or was it related to other content? It's not clear if Toei's even involved. Their website seems to be doing okay. So it might just be youtube.
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DumbparameciuM posted:Ok, I have tried to play XCom (And derivatives such as Xenonauts) a bunch of times. I never manage to get past the first alien Base invasion. Pat, who finished XCom 1 and was lead developer of XCom 2 , plays exactly the same way I do. How the gently caress did he finish the first game playing this way? I'm seriously asking, I don't understand how somebody playing the game in this fashion could actually complete it. Lower difficulty
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"Snitches get riches" --Patrick F. Boivin.
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