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Earlier I happened to be looking at some VAs in Overwatch and it turns out that almost everyone is voiced by someone from the character's culture or one very close to it. Furthest one I can remember is that D.va is voiced by a Chinese woman rather than a Korean one, I believe? I thought that was cool of Blizzard to do instead of just getting bad accents in, even if they don't know that "Cheers love!" means "Thank you!" not "Hello"  Also I guess Winston is not voiced by someone from the moon.
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Excuse me I find the choice of voice actor for bastion extremely offensive, to say nothing of the cultural appropriation the character represents
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Jun 23, 2016 06:27
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Torbjorn, Pharah and Roadhog also aren't the same nationality, but I think that's all.
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Jun 23, 2016 06:28
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Aphrodite posted:Torbjorn, Pharah and Roadhog also aren't the same nationality, but I think that's all. Torbjorn is Sweadish, Pharah is Egyptian, Roadhog is... A ONE MAN APOCALYPSE
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Jun 23, 2016 07:18
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Mei's could use a change though, because it sounds like a general voice emote instead of "LOOK OUT, HERE COMES HER ULTIMATE" like everyone else's. Especially as it's spoken in chinese. Nah, changing it now that everyone's used to it would only increase confusion rather than decrease it. I don't speak a word of Chinese and I've never had any issues telling it apart from her other lines.
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Jun 23, 2016 08:24
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Playing Digimon Cyber Sleuth, decided to pick an evo at random for one of my guys, it gave me this. Its special ability is called the poop dunk. 
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Jun 23, 2016 09:44
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Mister Adequate posted:Earlier I happened to be looking at some VAs in Overwatch and it turns out that almost everyone is voiced by someone from the character's culture or one very close to it. Furthest one I can remember is that D.va is voiced by a Chinese woman rather than a Korean one, I believe? I thought that was cool of Blizzard to do instead of just getting bad accents in, even if they don't know that "Cheers love!" means "Thank you!" not "Hello" Reinhardt is voiced by an American, and his German pronunciation isn't too great, especially "Hasselhoff". Junkrat's voice actor is also American, but I guess he does a pretty good over-the-top Australian impression. Torbjörn sounds generically gruff rather than Swedish -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrzwpZfONXY I mean, all in all, it's a pretty good voice cast, but there are still some missed opportunities.
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Jun 23, 2016 11:54
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Mister Adequate posted:Earlier I happened to be looking at some VAs in Overwatch and it turns out that almost everyone is voiced by someone from the character's culture or one very close to it. Furthest one I can remember is that D.va is voiced by a Chinese woman rather than a Korean one, I believe? I thought that was cool of Blizzard to do instead of just getting bad accents in, even if they don't know that "Cheers love!" means "Thank you!" not "Hello" english Mcree is english JoJo and japanese Mcree is japanese Jojo
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Jun 23, 2016 12:36
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How "Twitchy" is overwatch? I'm an old man with tired, old thumbs and I just can't compete with these young'uns whenit comes to twitchy shootman games these days. I played a bit of Doom multiplayer and I liked it. The whole unlocking things scratched my reptilian brain a bit, but never as well as Modern Warfare 2 did. Man, I loved MW2 and having to use all the crappy guns to unlock their crappy add-ons which would still contribute to you levelling up. Good times. I wish there was a demo for Overwatch or something. Might just flip a coin on payday.
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Jun 23, 2016 13:04
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Drunken Baker posted:How "Twitchy" is overwatch? I'm an old man with tired, old thumbs and I just can't compete with these young'uns whenit comes to twitchy shootman games these days. There's a lot of characters that play differently and not all of them require super twitch skills.
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Jun 23, 2016 13:20
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Dr Snofeld posted:I also really like the trolls, who are like big cheerful simpletons that Geralt talks to as if they were children. The singing troll outside Novigrad is my favorite character and I want him to come with me everywhere.
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Jun 23, 2016 13:26
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Drunken Baker posted:How "Twitchy" is overwatch? I'm an old man with tired, old thumbs and I just can't compete with these young'uns whenit comes to twitchy shootman games these days. I played a bit of Doom multiplayer and I liked it. The whole unlocking things scratched my reptilian brain a bit, but never as well as Modern Warfare 2 did. Soldier: 76 is a character designed for old and tired thumbs. His ult is auto-aim, so you just point yourself in the direction of enemies and do work. It's really not a super twitchy game. If S76 proves too difficult, you could always go Torbjörn and let your turret play the game for you.
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Jun 23, 2016 13:40
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Drunken Baker posted:How "Twitchy" is overwatch? I'm an old man with tired, old thumbs and I just can't compete with these young'uns whenit comes to twitchy shootman games these days. I played a bit of Doom multiplayer and I liked it. The whole unlocking things scratched my reptilian brain a bit, but never as well as Modern Warfare 2 did. If you want something front-and-center in a fight without twitchy shooting, Reinhardt's for you. He doesn't have a gun, he just swings a bigass warhammer at point-blank range and uses a colossal Energy Shield to cover teammates (it puts the camera in third-person while using it so you can make sure it's covering people right behind/beside you). Alternatively you can try Winston, where you don't need to target at all as his Tesla Cannon because it just hits whoever is closest and all you gotta do is jump and bounce through the enemy group to distract them.
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Jun 23, 2016 13:56
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The life and times of a title screen character: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEPNisyfjnY
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Jun 23, 2016 14:07
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Alteisen posted:Playing Digimon Cyber Sleuth, decided to pick an evo at random for one of my guys, it gave me this. OG Digimon World for the PS1 has Ultimate Poop Hell. Unfortunately, Nanimon can't use it. It's the only filth tech he can't use.
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Jun 23, 2016 14:18
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Mister Adequate posted:I thought that was cool of Blizzard to do instead of just getting bad accents in, even if they don't know that "Cheers love!" means "Thank you!" not "Hello" Tracer's got a loving terrible accent though - they've got some woman from up north to play a cockney and she's just Dick Van Dyke'd her way though the lines.
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Jun 23, 2016 14:19
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I mean, there are valid reasons to give Overwatch/Blizzard poo poo for their characterizations but I'll never understand criticizing Blizzard for using cartoonish and technically incorrect accents. Yeah, duh, that's part of their dumb "charm." There is no earthly reason to think that Roadhog shouldn't wear a shirt while actively engaged in a gunfight, either.
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Jun 23, 2016 14:40
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Drunken Baker posted:How "Twitchy" is overwatch? I'm an old man with tired, old thumbs and I just can't compete with these young'uns whenit comes to twitchy shootman games these days. I played a bit of Doom multiplayer and I liked it. The whole unlocking things scratched my reptilian brain a bit, but never as well as Modern Warfare 2 did. Speaking as a man in a similar situation, Overwatch can be very twitchy or not twitchy at all depending on what character you chose to play as. Most of the offensive characters require fast reflexes and precision aim, but many of the other characters have guns that barely require aim or are support characters where you mostly just stay close to your team with auras and auto-lock powers. I've generally been playing as support characters or tanks where you can support the team greatly without being a crack shot; it's all just having situational awareness. And even when you do branch into more offensive characters, they have a wide rainbow of skill between all of them to ease you into them. Hitboxes seem quite forgiving for some characters as well, as I never expected to be able to hit anyone as the bow character, Hanzo, but I did! Payday 2 is a different beast, being a PvE game instead of PvP: the enemies are easier to shoot but there are a ton more of them to shoot at (which is a plus once you get used to it). I think it's free to play now so you lose nothing by trying it. Personally I have both and they are great.
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Jun 23, 2016 14:40
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I'll probably think of more once I haven't just woken up, but something that I don't think was mentioned is that the hello isn't just a voice clip, every character actually waves or does some approximate hand motion. Now that part I love is Junkrat's. He's got 2, one for an empty hand, and another for when he's holding the detonator.
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Jun 23, 2016 14:57
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ookiimarukochan posted:Tracer's got a loving terrible accent though - they've got some woman from up north to play a cockney and she's just Dick Van Dyke'd her way though the lines. That's what you all sound like by the way.
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Jun 23, 2016 14:59
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Aphrodite posted:That's what you all sound like by the way. English people getting fuming mad about regional accents never ceases to amuse me.
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Jun 23, 2016 15:08
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FutureCop posted:Payday 2 is a different beast, being a PvE game instead of PvP: the enemies are easier to shoot but there are a ton more of them to shoot at (which is a plus once you get used to it). I think it's free to play now so you lose nothing by trying it. Personally I have both and they are great. REALLY? Hahha Jesus, I've put hundreds upon hundred of hours into Payday 2 on the 360 and then some on the PC. So glad to hear it's FTP now. Makes sense with the DLC stuff. Ohhh I see what happened there. I meant my actual payday I'll flip a coin to see if I buy Overwatch haha.
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Jun 23, 2016 15:33
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My favourite thing in Overwatch happened this afternoon. Playing as Widowmaker (the trad sniper character), I managed to shoot Tracer (zippy character who's schtick is that she bamfs from place to place and is generally hard to hit) as she tarted to blink. Totally unintentional, but it led to her corpse flying towards me at super speed. God it was satisfying. I shared the video, but I don't know how to link straight to it, so here's a tweet with the video in: https://twitter.com/brainmage/status/745953060732665857
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Jun 23, 2016 15:38
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Drunken Baker posted:REALLY? Hahha Jesus, I've put hundreds upon hundred of hours into Payday 2 on the 360 and then some on the PC. So glad to hear it's FTP now. Makes sense with the DLC stuff. Oh, you meant just regular payday, haha, I don't know why I didn't realize that immediately. As for the free to play, I think it's just temporary: it's bigger than a free weekend, as it's free till July 4th http://www.overkillsoftware.com/games/ftpjuly2016/
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Jun 23, 2016 15:46
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ookiimarukochan posted:Tracer's got a loving terrible accent though - they've got some woman from up north to play a cockney and she's just Dick Van Dyke'd her way though the lines. Sounds alright to me but I'm from Leicester aka East Wastelands so
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Jun 23, 2016 18:07
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Buzkashi posted:The singing troll outside Novigrad is my favorite character and I want him to come with me everywhere. Trololo!
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Jun 23, 2016 22:57
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RagnarokAngel posted:English people getting fuming mad about regional accents never ceases to amuse me. It's almost a funny as someone from new york or boston getting mad when they hear an accent in a game or movie and swearing they don't sound like that. You totally do guys, you totally do.
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Jun 23, 2016 23:09
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Nuebot posted:It's almost a funny as someone from new york or boston getting mad when they hear an accent in a game or movie and swearing they don't sound like that. Oh i know. I have the world's worst boston accent and I embrace it.
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Jun 23, 2016 23:18
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I think there are some pivotal gameplay ideas that are just brilliant. Like Dark Souls' multiplayer; Assassin's Creed' map system - to a lesser extent, I'm spitballing. Just stuff that makes enough sense that other games scramble to adopt it into their own game. Makes me really surprised that Dragon's Dogma's 'climbing on enemies' mechanic hasn't been in more games. It feels to me exactly what was missing from hack'n slash games. I saw the new God of War trailer, and one of my biggest issues was, "Why isn't Kratos climbing up on that big Troll and stabbing him in his vitals, vs swinging at his legs?" There was more that bugged me about that trailer... but drat, the Dragon's Dogma "Big Enemy" system is so well done, I'm amazed more games aren't jumping on that.
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Jun 24, 2016 07:02
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10 Beers posted:Trololo! I liked his solution to his problem - he was told to guard the boats, but he had no fences. But he had boats. So he built a fence out of the boats. "Now, Boats guard Boats!"  I also loved the pathetic bird that Geralt painted on the fence.
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Jun 24, 2016 07:06
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Captain Lavender posted:I think there are some pivotal gameplay ideas that are just brilliant. Like Dark Souls' multiplayer; Assassin's Creed' map system - to a lesser extent, I'm spitballing. Just stuff that makes enough sense that other games scramble to adopt it into their own game. I wish it was used more too. Like that first quest you get to escort the ox to the main town, if you didn't surf it there you were doing it wrong.
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Captain Lavender posted:I think there are some pivotal gameplay ideas that are just brilliant. Like Dark Souls' multiplayer; Assassin's Creed' map system - to a lesser extent, I'm spitballing. Just stuff that makes enough sense that other games scramble to adopt it into their own game. Monster Hunter 4 did it. It worked pretty well.
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BioEnchanted posted:I liked his solution to his problem - he was told to guard the boats, but he had no fences. But he had boats. So he built a fence out of the boats. "Now, Boats guard Boats!" If you let the troll paint the fence itself instead of Geralt, it does a spot on accurate job of painting the crest.  Edit: Geralt's painting for comparison. The Witcher 3 can be a funny game. 
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The trolls in general are a great example of a cargo cult. They want to be like humans but they just don't get why we do what we do. We wear shoes, they want shoeses too but they barely even know what shoes are. Trololo has probably seen guards around guarding their compounds, and internalized a link between guards and fences that doesn't really exist, while at the same time having no idea what boats are for, and because the Redanians didn't bother to brief him, just said "Guard this poo poo while we go drinking" he did his best with faulty information. Their simple, but not quite as stupid as everyone thinks.
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We trolls, you witchers Witchers kills monsters Trolls monster - no make face, is true!
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RagnarokAngel posted:English people getting fuming mad about regional accents never ceases to amuse me. we do that here, too, though. See also: Brooklyn vs. Boston; Texas vs. anywhere else in the South if you've never been asked where you're from based on your accent, you're probably boring? it's a big country. Nuebot posted:It's almost a funny as someone from new york or boston getting mad when they hear an accent in a game or movie and swearing they don't sound like that. yeah, this stringless has a new favorite as of 12:32 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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Just got to Chapter 7 in FF Type-0. Love the chapter 6 mission end with the Summoning of Alexander and the battle against confused Gilgamesh although it took me a while to work out the trick to that fight (Only timed crits do anything). It was awesome and funny.
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I started playing Shadow of Mordor and I like that dying gives you experience. Even if its just a token amount, it shows the game wants you to try fun things even if you fail instead of punishing you by wasting your time.
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Rise of the Tomb Raider: You can pick up bottles lying around huck them at walls to distract enemies, or you can fill them with gasoline and make Molotov cocktails. What I also discovered today, completely by accident (I honestly forgot I was holding it), is that they also have a special stealth kill animation. And it's loving incredible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r34xOrvwrwk It's even a cheevo!
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ninjahedgehog posted:Rise of the Tomb Raider: You can pick up bottles lying around huck them at walls to distract enemies, or you can fill them with gasoline and make Molotov cocktails. What I also discovered today, completely by accident (I honestly forgot I was holding it), is that they also have a special stealth kill animation. And it's loving incredible: My favorite stealth kill animation is still the one for the sledgehammer in Vampire: The Masquerades: Bloodlines because your character does a huge windup and sends the corpse flying with ragdoll physics that only the pre-HL2 Source engine could provide. Granted, it makes it terrible for actual stealth because half the time the corpse would wind up flying into someone else's line of sight but it was still really funny.
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