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Oh my other 8-bit cover band. Lurdiak posted:I beat Shadowgate yesterday as homework for an upcoming game jam. I tried going old school, and after finding the original mac version too.... mac-y, I played through the NES version, which has luxuries like music and an interface that functions. It actually holds up pretty well! Despite the game having a ton of really dumb "gotcha" traps and some Sierra puzzle logic, it's chock full of content in a way that draws you in despite the simplicity of the story. Framing a point and click adventure as a donjon delve and having elements like the pressure of torches going out and the risk of death makes things pretty exciting. It's a classic for a reason. Did you play any of the other MacVenture games? I remember Uninvited having some graphic descriptions of your death for an NES game. Pretty tame compared to today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIBKT49s6Ks LawfulWaffle posted:Undertale is the Chulip of Dark Souls.  Pinball owns and it sucks that the pinball hall near me is just far enough to where I can't just casually drive to it whenever I feel like it 
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Lurdiak posted:I know how dedicated you are to calling every opinion I have stupid but it'd be nice if you just admitted I was right sometimes. Lurdiak posted:Pretty sure "I don't like a game series and wish it wasn't the most popular thing in the universe and seemingly the driving creative influence for the majority of up and coming developers" is a perfectly reasonable opinion. But whatever. I'm used to being treated like a pinata. lmao
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Apr 12, 2016 14:16
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I think it would be funny to describe IRL things in the same bizarrely reverential way goons talk about dark scrolls, like triumphantly posting how awesome it was to finally cook an omelette or that holy poo poo moment when you found that bum in a hidden alleyway who would sell you hand beezies for 5 bucks.
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exquisite tea posted:I think it would be funny to describe IRL things in the same bizarrely reverential way goons talk about dark scrolls, like triumphantly posting how awesome it was to finally cook an omelette or that holy poo poo moment when you found that bum in a hidden alleyway who would sell you hand beezies for 5 bucks. i mean omelettes are pretty sweet
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Apr 12, 2016 14:27
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or savory if that's more to your liking
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Apr 12, 2016 14:27
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Oh my god, gently caress this goddamn bus stop! I've been here for half an hour, and I'm so sick of having to repeat the run from my house every morning! I'm out... this is bullshit, and anyone who likes this is stupid!
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Apr 12, 2016 14:28
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Decided to give it one last try and found out there's a bus stop closer to my house. Guess I hadn't been paying attention. Does anyone else know about this? It's saving me a ton of time trying to redo the bus encounter.
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Finally got on the bus, only to realize I never picked up the bus fare item. This is some Sierra-level pixel-hunting bullshit. How was I supposed to know I'd need it!?
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Finally. I finally beat the bus. Got to work, and get this... I talked to a guy who drove a car to work, and cars cost a ton of money. You guys were right, pushing through and finally doing the bus was way better. I'm a huge fan now. I can't wait until the next bus comes.
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corn in the bible posted:i mean omelettes are pretty sweet Yeah and then you get that Holy poo poo moment when you realize you can have both good omelettes with some hobo handjobs at the same time..
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quote:Oh my god you guys this bus is never showing up, gently caress this, I'm going to take a taxi!
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Apr 12, 2016 14:31
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Buses are Dark Souls of public transportation.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Oh my god, gently caress this goddamn bus stop! I've been here for half an hour, and I'm so sick of having to repeat the run from my house every morning! I'm out... this is bullshit, and anyone who likes this is stupid! FactsAreUseless posted:Decided to give it one last try and found out there's a bus stop closer to my house. Guess I hadn't been paying attention. Does anyone else know about this? It's saving me a ton of time trying to redo the bus encounter. FactsAreUseless posted:Finally got on the bus, only to realize I never picked up the bus fare item. This is some Sierra-level pixel-hunting bullshit. How was I supposed to know I'd need it!? FactsAreUseless posted:Finally. I finally beat the bus. Got to work, and get this... I talked to a guy who drove a car to work, and cars cost a ton of money. You guys were right, pushing through and finally doing the bus was way better. I'm a huge fan now. I can't wait until the next bus comes.  exquisite tea posted:I think it would be funny to describe IRL things in the same bizarrely reverential way goons talk about dark scrolls, like triumphantly posting how awesome it was to finally cook an omelette or that holy poo poo moment when you found that bum in a hidden alleyway who would sell you hand beezies for 5 bucks. Once you find the bum, you can go back to the skatepark and tell Nig Nog about it. Later, he'll show up in the drunk tank and help you with the biker fight.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Lmao look at this scrub who's going to waste a bunch of money on a taxi. I bet he never even found the closer bus stop. Git gud. The true allure to souls games is the euphoric feeling when telling other players they're poo poo and to "git gud" .
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Apr 12, 2016 14:34
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Cars are OP anyway and totally break the PvP gameplay.
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LawfulWaffle posted:Cars are OP anyway and totally break the PvP gameplay. I rolled ped and they keep trying to PK me.
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Mordja posted:I rolled ped and they keep trying to PK me.
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I killed a gunsmith for his loot and now some guards are after me. Tips?
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Lurdiak posted:Pretty sure "I don't like a game series and wish it wasn't the most popular thing in the universe and seemingly the driving creative influence for the majority of up and coming developers" is a perfectly reasonable opinion. But whatever. I'm used to being treated like a pinata. "I don't like a thing and I think my opinion matters more than other peoples' opinions. I will conflate my opinion to affect an entire industry." -- Lurdiak
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Lurdiak posted:Pretty sure "I don't like a game series and wish it wasn't the most popular thing in the universe and seemingly the driving creative influence for the majority of up and coming developers" is a perfectly reasonable opinion. But whatever. I'm used to being treated like a pinata.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:There are like two games I can think of that are at all inspired by Dark Souls on a deeper level than "being hard" and one of them is Lords of the Fallen so that's the least of its problems And lords of the fallen missed it mark so hard
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LotF is what happens when you try to mimic something while lacking all understanding on what makes it popular. Also I recently skimmed the old thread for it here and people were hilariously positive about it the whole thread, and I consider that thread to be the main example to Never Trust Goons
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Lord of the Fallen had Warcraft style art and I hate that poo poo, dunno why. I don't hate Warhammer, for whatever reason, even though it's a similar aesthetic, but Warhammer is just so much more weird and wacky than either Warcraft of Lords of the Fallen. You have like rat men and lizard tribes and people riding bears and giant war machines and every other thing is big and ridiculous. But it only works in that context, balls to the wall.
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I'd take Warcraft's art style over, say, Dragon Age's brown'n'grey aesthetic any day of the week
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smuh posted:LotF is what happens when you try to mimic something while lacking all understanding on what makes it popular. Also I recently skimmed the old thread for it here and people were hilariously positive about it the whole thread, and I consider that thread to be the main example to Never Trust Goons i was excited for it prior to release because in trailers and promo stuff it looked pretty great. but then it was not.
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Jay Rust posted:I'd take Warcraft's art style over, say, Dragon Age's brown'n'grey aesthetic any day of the week The Witcher is the only Western RPG I've seen (not played) that actually doesn't look like rear end garbage. Witcher 3 has like, bright colors and poo poo. Skyrim's okay. I really...I really like ice environments and places like that so it's not really fair.
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8-Bit Scholar posted:The Witcher is the only Western RPG I've seen (not played) that actually doesn't look like rear end garbage. Witcher 3 has like, bright colors and poo poo. Have you checked out Kingdoms of Amalur? It's got really pretty environments. 
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That's weird, Lords of the Fallen seems like something I should've been aware of but I have no memory of ever hearing about it before now.PantsBandit posted:Have you checked out Kingdoms of Amalur? It's got really pretty environments. Huh, that kinda looks like if FF9 knew what it was even going for.
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PantsBandit posted:Have you checked out Kingdoms of Amalur? It's got really pretty environments. I actually rather liked Kingdoms of Amalur. I only played in the first forest area, which was nice and ridiculously big. I got bogged down in sidequests and then had to clear the game off my PS3 to make room for something else. Probably Metal Gear Rising.
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Lurdiak posted:Huh, that kinda looks like if FF9 knew what it was even going for.
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8-Bit Scholar posted:I actually rather liked Kingdoms of Amalur. I only played in the first forest area, which was nice and ridiculously big. I got bogged down in sidequests and then had to clear the game off my PS3 to make room for something else. Probably Metal Gear Rising. Yeah that game really requires you to be selective with which side quests you do because if you try to do them all you'll never finish it. It came at the right time in my life, when a college schedule allowed me the time to finish a game like Amalur.
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Also Kingdoms of Amalur is very pretty and I love it, but it's not a great game. Fun, absolutely no challenge, kind of a weird mess sometimes. I'd like to see more RPGs with its action focus.
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Kingdoms of amulalar: Rhode islands best game ever made
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I recall they got an actual fantasy writer I recognize to do the world for it, and it showed, it definitely felt like a much less "token" setting than most Western RPGs.
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corn in the bible posted:i was excited for it prior to release because in trailers and promo stuff it looked pretty great. but then it was not. I played a bunch of it when I got it for super cheap, and I just know you can not enjoy the absence of weapon/stat balance, boring and easy bosses that take forever to kill, enemy types that were clearly not designed with all character types in mind, and complete lack of any kind of imagination (enemies look dull as poo poo and all have names like "dominator" or "eliminator" or poo poo like that) I think I finally lost my patience and gave up with the game after a boss fight against a giant boss that was only designed to be fought in a specific way, so when he swung his weapon forward you still got hit being behind him since at that phase you were not supposed to be close to him for no reason. Just loving change to animation or something you lazy fuckers e: getting dark souls 3 tomorrow tho so I can stop sperging over poo poo like this smuh fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Apr 12, 2016 |
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8-Bit Scholar posted:Lord of the Fallen had Warcraft style art and I hate that poo poo, dunno why. I'm looking at screenshots of this game and uh... no it didn't? It doesn't look anything like Warcraft  I WISH more games looked like Warcraft, or Ori or Captain Toad or... idk Trine or whatever. Not to sound too Lurdiak about it, but it's one of the reasons I've never had any interest in the Souls games, I just don't think they look good aesthetically, at least with the way I prefer the games to look. So much of it is so grey and washed out and I get thematically that's kind of the point but still. I get why people love them so much though gameplay wise. I'd play Dark Souls 3 if it looked like Captain Toad basically 
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I think by "looks like World of Warcraft" he might mean huge-rear end pauldrons your character can wear.
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The punishing mechanics of Dark Souls combined with the emergent narrative of Gone Home.
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Golden Goat posted:I think by "looks like World of Warcraft" he might mean huge-rear end pauldrons your character can wear. Yes, this. The character designs, basically.
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"tiny heads" is the WoW style I think, or at least what its considered to mean. Plus the giant pauldrons of course
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