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Inspector Gesicht posted:The child-friendly Mega Man series would have improved immensely had Dr Wily been graphically shot in the head and never returned. This might be the worst opinion I've ever read. Sigma I can get being tired of, but Wily's wriggling brows are a treasure.
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It's bullshit how Mario always fights Bowser in the game series Mario
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Inspector Gesicht posted:The Arkham series killed off the Joker in City, only to bring him back in Knight at everyone else's expense, because they honestly couldn't think of working Scarecrow as an independent threat Yeah, they did jump the shark at "The joker is dead, what now bitches?", only to realize that they are the bitches edit: Dying Light: The Following takes everything fun about parkour in the normal game and says "You know what this needs? A giant, flat, empty farm wasteland with a lovely buggy that spawns a horde of virals when you turn it on" Techland also seems to have forgotten that the grappling hook exists, because you can't hook onto pretty much anything in this spit on my clit has a new favorite as of 18:58 on Jun 30, 2016 |
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Inspector Gesicht posted:The Arkham series killed off the Joker in City, only to bring him back in Knight at everyone else's expense, because they honestly couldn't think of working Scarecrow as an independent threat "Everyone else's expense"? While he's a strong presence, the Joker is hardly the game's primary antagonist and the effect he has on Batman is intertwined with Scarecrow's themes and motivation. I dunno man. If you're sick of the character being used that's one thing, but I think in Knight's case he did genuinely make the story work.
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Even if you never played the original System Shock you would have to have been a stupid kid to not catch on to the fact that the voice in your ear that kept going off on strange tangents about flesh and insulting you and glitching out and basically everything short of having a flashing neon sign saying "SHE IS NOT WHO SHE SEEMS AND IS GOING TO BETRAY YOU" was not who she seemed and was going to betray you.
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Guy Mann posted:Even if you never played the original System Shock you would have to have been a stupid kid to not catch on to the fact that the voice in your ear that kept going off on strange tangents about flesh and insulting you and glitching out and basically everything short of having a flashing neon sign saying "SHE IS NOT WHO SHE SEEMS AND IS GOING TO BETRAY YOU" was not who she seemed and was going to betray you. They weren't really trying to be coy about that. There's a moment where she starts talking about how your implants and software are improving you on a fundamental level, and how she might consider making you her avatar. That moment is when you walk into a reversed-gravity chapel and are face to face with a giant upside-down cross.
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FF14: Wall partitions in your house. They don't take the appearance of any wallpaper you have applied, so you can have this elaborate marble wall... with a bunch of wood walls separating your rooms.
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Related to the above SS2 post, you had to have been a dumbass if the 'twist' surprised you. First, Polito bitching at you while she's saving your life is a "Oh, she's SHODAN." Not long after the beginning (iirc), you get a recording of the same person, and its drastically different. ~the Polito form is dead, insect~ YEAH, I KNOW, YOU'RE SHODAN. ~I am SHODAN~ YEAH, YEAH, SHUT UP MisterBibs has a new favorite as of 21:39 on Jun 30, 2016 |
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BillmasterCozb posted:Techland also seems to have forgotten that the grappling hook exists, because you can't hook onto pretty much anything in this Quite the opposite infact, the grappling hook renders the parkour system pointless when you can just Spiderman your way around, you'll notice that in the final few main game missions the hook is disabled because the plot says it is.
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How are people still buying Techland games? Weren't they the terrible company responsible for the abysmal games Dead Island and Call of Juarez: the Cartel? They've already proven they can't write or code to save their lives anymore, was it really a surprise that their newest game is hot garbage too? The only good games that they had were the early Cal of Juarez games but then they fell backwards into their own rear end.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Zant in Twilight Princess starts making chicken noises the moment we face him, neutering any of his menace or originality, just so Ganondorf can appear and tell Link the game is really called Ocarina of Time 2. Leal posted:FF14: Wall partitions in your house. They don't take the appearance of any wallpaper you have applied, so you can have this elaborate marble wall... with a bunch of wood walls separating your rooms.
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Valatar posted:They weren't really trying to be coy about that. There's a moment where she starts talking about how your implants and software are improving you on a fundamental level, and how she might consider making you her avatar. That moment is when you walk into a reversed-gravity chapel and are face to face with a giant upside-down cross. Well yeah, it's just that people are acting like it was some big twist when the game never really had any pretenses about fooling you. The closest thing to a twist in SS2 was the origin of The Many and even then that was mostly just an inspired way of tying it into the first game. BioEnchanted posted:How are people still buying Techland games? Weren't they the terrible company responsible for the abysmal games Dead Island and Call of Juarez: the Cartel? They've already proven they can't write or code to save their lives anymore, was it really a surprise that their newest game is hot garbage too? The only good games that they had were the early Cal of Juarez games but then they fell backwards into their own rear end. Same only zombie games in general.
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Zant going loving bonkers owned. Pity about Ganon but that part could still have worked
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Nuebot posted:This one was especially bad because Zant was actually kind of spooky and menacing. Then he takes off that helmet and he's voldemort's nerdy brother and he's just a total chump. Then oh look, ganondorf again. Skull Kid was this done right. Spooky bastard with understandable and sympathetic but insane motivation, starts the game by loving you up and then doubling down on loving you up, surprise twist (game's too old for spoilers) is "oh hey turns out the real bad guy was right there on his face wearing him like a dried-out skinsuit/puppet and was also the title of the game and hey, trippy finale sequence, here's that guy's understandable but insane motivation too, now boss fight his godlike rear end"
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Somfin posted:Skull Kid was this done right. Spooky bastard with understandable and sympathetic but insane motivation, starts the game by loving you up and then doubling down on loving you up, surprise twist (game's too old for spoilers) is "oh hey turns out the real bad guy was right there on his face wearing him like a dried-out skinsuit/puppet and was also the title of the game and hey, trippy finale sequence, here's that guy's understandable but insane motivation too, now boss fight his godlike rear end" Link Between Worlds has a similar issue, really. You start off with a new and interesting villain it's Not Gannon from Not Hyrule but then at the end of the game it's just ganon again. Ganondorf can be a cool villain when you set him up, I'll always love him in Wind Waker. But some of the unique Zelda antagonists are really cool and it's disappointing when they throw them aside because it always has to be ganon.
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At the very least it seems new Zelda isn't making any compunctions about Ganon being the villain
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Calaveron posted:At the very least it seems new Zelda isn't making any compunctions about Ganon being the villain Ganon is fantastic when he is given character and style, and especially when he's given a couple early free hits on Link to establish threat and animosity. He needs to be there early and he needs to stay in the game as much as possible. If he's the surprise actual villain overwrite he's just limp fanservice and every time it happens the game is noticeably worse, because if I didn't have multiple games of history with this redheaded git I'd have no reason to care about his appearance. And I'm very aware of that fact. Actually that works as a more general rule. The real final villain should always be introduced early and be firmly established by the finale. Video game fights only matter if there's sufficient context for the player to make them matter. Somfin has a new favorite as of 00:59 on Jul 1, 2016 |
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ShootaBoy posted:Speaking of this, I've played through ME1 like, 8 or 9 times and I only found out the Mako had a cannon earlier this year. I have killed Thresher Maws with just the minigun. Yes, it does take literally forever.  BioEnchanted posted:How are people still buying Techland games? Weren't they the terrible company responsible for the abysmal games Dead Island and Call of Juarez: the Cartel? They've already proven they can't write or code to save their lives anymore, was it really a surprise that their newest game is hot garbage too? The only good games that they had were the early Cal of Juarez games but then they fell backwards into their own rear end. people in the sister thread talk up gunslinger from time to time.
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One more reason why the Capcom Zelda games ruled, no Ganon and one actually managed to have a *gasp* female villain.
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The final mission of Dying Light: The Following forces you to drive across the gigantic map in six minutes with your lovely, unreliable buggy, and if you die, even if you're almost at where you have to go, you have to do it all over again. I'm not going to do that.
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Action Tortoise posted:people in the sister thread talk up gunslinger from time to time. Gunslinger is their legit great game that does nothing to override the poop spigot that is the rest of their release history. They made the racism into a character trait and the confusing narrative into a plot point.
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Guy Mann posted:One more reason why the Capcom Zelda games ruled, no Ganon and one actually managed to have a *gasp* female villain. If you're talking about Oracle of Ages, they still pulled a ganon in the linked game.
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Guy Mann posted:One more reason why the Capcom Zelda games ruled, no Ganon and one actually managed to have a *gasp* female villain.
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In Trackmania Turbo, the one thing that's dragging down the game big time are big jumps. Especially immediately after turns. And then you have to land on a narrow road 200+ ft later. stupid camel through the eye of a needle bullshit
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Nuebot posted:If you're talking about Oracle of Ages, they still pulled a ganon in the linked game. Eeeeeh... Linked game had Twinrova masterminding everything to resurrect Ganon, only to fail and bring back a mindless beast instead. At least he wasn't secretly masterminding everything that time.
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Maybe they keep trying to do the Ganon fake-out because it worked once for Agahnim. Hell, I'm Team Link to the Past, but I agree, come on.
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One thing we can agree on though is the Capcom Zeldas are really good.
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While I'm still enjoying it because the stronger enemies can still be killed fairly quickly with the crossbow/rocket launcher, the charging enemies with the red weakspots in Shadow Warrior can get hosed. They are really annoying to fight because from the front even rockets take a while, and your constantly being harassed by the other enemies as well.
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Nuebot posted:Link Between Worlds has a similar issue, really. You start off with a new and interesting villain it's Not Gannon from Not Hyrule but then at the end of the game it's just ganon again. Ganondorf can be a cool villain when you set him up, I'll always love him in Wind Waker. But some of the unique Zelda antagonists are really cool and it's disappointing when they throw them aside because it always has to be ganon. It's Ganon's soulless body being piloted by Not Gannon. Also it turns out that the original plan was for bizzaro Zelda to fix Lorule by teaming up with Yuga to take the triforce. Gameplay wise it's kind of disappointing for the fight to be Literally Ganon From LTTP for the first part, but I wouldn't fault it story wise.
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In Fallout 4 the loot system sucks rear end. I recently finished all the non radiant quests and never stopped using a shotgun I picked up in the first hour of playing the game. It was a legendary shotgun with explosive damage added and it out-performed everything except legendary fat mans for the entire game. The ballistic weave upgrades for armor made every suit you pick up negate any damage, so what was the point of having a loot system in the first place? They would have been better served having a cosmetic station for the dolly dress up aspect of the game and just making you an invincible death machine from the get go.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:DLC that makes the game worse. I can't see this at work, but it's that loving boat, isn't it?
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Walton Simons posted:I can't see this at work, but it's that loving boat, isn't it? It is 100% the loving boat
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It would be another couple years before boats would become the selling point of the series.
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Walton Simons posted:I can't see this at work, but it's that loving boat, isn't it? Yes!
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NotAnArtist posted:I loved those janky as gently caress spacecar sessions  ) space APC with a bigass cannon that thought it was a mountain goat. If they'd given it a booster and the ability to jump it would have been perfect.So of course its replacement in ME2 is a hovercraft made of cardboard with a weapon that hits like a wet noodle 
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Walton Simons posted:I can't see this at work, but it's that loving boat, isn't it? gently caress, I had totally forgotten about that God drat piece of poo poo boat level. I would rather deal with twenty "follow this guy" missions than ever deal with that boat level again.
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U.T. Raptor posted:The Mako was great. Near-invincible (if you look at the Normandy crash site in ME2, the loving thing's barely damaged The Mako could jump, but it was good for absolute gently caress all. The whole spacecar aspect of ME1 could've been a lot of fun but you can tell they really didn't put a whole lot of effort into it.
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Last Celebration posted:Gameplay wise it's kind of disappointing for the fight to be Literally Ganon From LTTP for the first part, but I wouldn't fault it story wise. Disappointing but at least thematically consistent, since so much of the gameplay and design is "HEY REMEMBER THIS FROM WHEN ZELDA GAMES WERE GOOD?"
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RyokoTK posted:Disappointing but at least thematically consistent, since so much of the gameplay and design is "HEY REMEMBER THIS FROM WHEN ZELDA GAMES WERE GOOD?" Literally Nintendo's only move
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U.T. Raptor posted:The Mako was great. Near-invincible (if you look at the Normandy crash site in ME2, the loving thing's barely damaged I remember the Mako as being a piece of poo poo that couldn't stay upright for longer than five seconds.
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