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I'm 90% sure its organized by class. Was Speedy an Assault? They tend to get names along the lines of "holy poo poo this dude is loving crazy." I think some names are gender-specific too, i.e. 'Big Momma' vs 'Big Daddy' or whatever.
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Guy Mann posted:The opening of Lonely Rolling Star from Katamari Damacy makes for a rad, chill gamer ringtone because even if you don't feel like busting out Audacity and making a nice neat loop it's just long enough to cut to voicemail before the vocals hit.
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ninjahedgehog posted:I'm 90% sure its organized by class. Was Speedy an Assault? They tend to get names along the lines of "holy poo poo this dude is loving crazy." You're correct on both points, but there's also genuinely some weighting for different kinds of behavior or even luck. D.O.A., for example, is weighted for assaults who spent a lot of time in the infirmary, while Hex and Cyclops are both snipers who missed a lot. The full list courtesy of the wiki: Assault (either): All Day, Android, Blitz, Bonzai, Boomer, Caper, Chops, Cobra, Coney, D.O.A., DJ, Desperado, Devil Dog, Dice, Double Down, Geronimo, Gonzo, Gunner, Hardcore, Hazard, Loco, Mad Dog, Mustang, Pitbull, Psycho, Rhino, Septic, Sheriff, Shotsy, Smash, Socks, Spitfire, Tombstone, Trips, Twitch, Vandal, Wardog, Werewolf, Wild Child, Wolverine, Zilch Assault (male): Bull, Cash, Cowboy, Duke, Mad Man, Nitro, Rascal, Spite, Viking Assault (female): All In, Freestyle, Wednesday Heavy (ether): Arcade, Boom Boom, Brick, Casino, Collateral, Crash, Crater, Diesel, Disco, Doomsday, Dozer, Flash, Hulk, Lights Out, Nova, Nuke, Prototype, Richter, Road Block, Sledge, Smokey, Strobe, Technic, Thunder Heavy (male): Buster, Kingpin, Kong, Mack, Moose, Nero, Odin, Papa Bear, Tank, Yeti Heavy (female): Big Momma, Mama Bear Sniper (either): Alpha, Checkmate, Claymore, Cyclops, Deadbolt, Demon, Drifter, Echo, Emo, Enigma, Garrote, Ghost, Hex, Ice, Lockdown, Longshot, Longbow, Low Rider, Nightmare, Nix, Omega, Shadow, Snake Eyes, Solo, Specter, Spider, Stalker, Vampire, Xeno, Zero, Zulu Sniper (male): Godfather, Loki, Pharaoh, Ranger, Slim, Walker, Warlock, Zed, Zeus Sniper (female): Athena, Baroness, Black Widow, Lady Grey, Raven, Witchy Support (either): Angel, Axle, Bonus, Cargo, Combo, Congo, Doc, Fast Lane, Missionary, Ouija, Pox, Prophet, Rogue, Saturn, Scarecrow, Scotch, Sentinel, Shield, Skinner, Smokes, Stacks, Strings, Vita, Voodoo, Whiskey Support (male): Ace, Atlas, Bishop, Deacon, Freud, Hitch, Magic Man, Mr. Clean, Padre, Pops, Romeo, Santa Support (female): Cookie, Gypsy, Kitty, Pixie, Vixen MEC (male): Big Daddy, Bolts, Caliban, Chip, Clank, Data, Deep Teal, Forklift, Golem, Marvin, Murphy, Olivaw, Robby, Ryle, Stick, Talos, Tik-Tok, Tin Can, Vulcan MEC (female): Beeps, Big Mommy, Freya, Friday, Gadget, Gizmo, Hadaly, Iris, Maya, Molly, Number Six, Orianna, Rosie, Vanessa, Vesta
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Exit Strategy posted:I liked XCOM's callsign system. As far as I can tell, it seems to be vaguely linked to the soldier's combat record? But even still it manages some awesome combinations. I had a sniper in my first squad in XCOM 2 who got the callsign The Truth. One of his barks when killing an enemy was "They can't handle me!" 
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I never had any particularly good call signs in XCOM, but I did have a sniper named Colonel Sanders 
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1stGear posted:Mercer voices McCree in Overwatch, the cyborg cowboy who's potentially very dangerous ultimate is announced by McCree saying "IT'S HIIIIIGH NOON". fun fact: mercer also voices a character from the jojo's anime dub (i think the protagonist?). The japanese VA for McCree also voices that exact same character in the original jojos dub.
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The simulants in Perfect Dark, notably their personalities. Pacifist sims disarm players and grab their guns and run off. Rocket sims use explosives at all times, regardless if they'll kill teammates or even themselves. Judge sims will go after the player in first place to even the playing field, while prey sims do the opposite to rack up their score. Coward sims run off if you have a better weapon, but will gladly shoot at you if they got a better weapon. My favorite is the venge sim who will go after whoever killed them last, even if its a teammate. Make an entire team of venge sims and watch the infighting
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President Ark posted:fun fact: mercer also voices a character from the jojo's anime dub (i think the protagonist?). The japanese VA for McCree also voices that exact same character in the original jojos dub. Yeah, the protagonist of the third part, Jotaro Kujo.
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Overwatch doesn't give you doubles of cosmetics, it instead just gives you currency to buy other cosmetics with. I would've been REALLY disappointed if it gave me another highlight intro for Torbjorn, one of the two heroes I don't use, as the only purple-rarity things I've ever gotten. But nah, it just gave me cash I could use to get more fancy poo poo for Symmetra!
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Jul 10, 2016 05:41
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The Nopon in Xenoblade Chronicles X are fairly interesting just through exploring the part of Mira that they live in. In one area you see a large catwalk made of vines that you reach by running up a Spiraling tree trunk, and when you reach it it is called the "Nopon Braid Bridge" implying that the Nopon built it, or at least guided it's growth, themselves. I like that kind of environmental storytelling. I also like the way their relationship chart updates in the affinity chart when the Tatsu is reunited with his mother. A lot of the time they update with descriptions like x------->Has respect for------->Y, or z------>Mother to------->A. but Tatsu and his mother get "Mummypon" and "Sonnypon"
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Jul 10, 2016 05:47
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Cleretic posted:Overwatch doesn't give you doubles of cosmetics, it instead just gives you currency to buy other cosmetics with. On the flip-side, the cash it gives you is often a joke. A skin is 250 funbux to 1000 funbux, you got a duplicate of something you already have, worth 500 funbux? Here, have 5 funbux instead.
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princecoo posted:On the flip-side, the cash it gives you is often a joke. A skin is 250 funbux to 1000 funbux, you got a duplicate of something you already have, worth 500 funbux? Here, have 5 funbux instead. Nevermind the sheer quantity of sprays and avatars that you're likely to get instead of anything interesting like a Skin.
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princecoo posted:On the flip-side, the cash it gives you is often a joke. A skin is 250 funbux to 1000 funbux, you got a duplicate of something you already have, worth 500 funbux? Here, have 5 funbux instead. Still better than a double I can't use. And certainly better than shoehorning in a trading system where I'd get even less for a thing for an unpopular hero, while desperately trying to trade up for a somewhat-okay item for a hero I like that's pretty popular (probably Mei or Reaper; at the very least most of my favorite heroes aren't the popular ones). And that's saying nothing of when I'd inevitably get a pile of player icons or unpopular sprays I'd never be able to offload. The exchange rate could be better, yeah, but I like that they at least tried, and the system mostly works well.
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Cleretic posted:The exchange rate could be better, yeah, but I like that they at least tried, and the system mostly works well. Yeah, it doesn't need a trading system or anything, just a better exchange rate. Give us back half the items worths in coins, or a third. That'd make it instantly less poo poo, and like Neddy said, the sheer number of sprays makes it unlikely you're going to get a duplicate too often anyway, so what's the harm in upping the coin reward for a duplicate skin or victory pose? Especially if they plan on expanding the hero lineup (and therefore moire sprays/skins/poo poo)
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Okay, so I've been playing the .hack GU games again since I've never finished the trilogy and there's one thing I really like about the series. They manage to get the internet personalities really accurate and still surprisingly relevant despite being PS2 games. Like, the whole game takes place inside an MMO and it's full of anime bullshit. But one of the side things is that there's a forum you read and some of the posts have information on enemies and locations, or are related to the plot. A lot of it is just pointless fluff about the setting though like people arguing about which video game PVP super star is the best and how anyone who doesn't like them should go die. Just like real life e-sports fans. Also a lot of the NPCs are the same people you see posting on the little forums thing and if you talk to them as the story progresses a lot of them have their own weird little storylines going on. My favorite so far is an old guy who takes PVP super seriously and declares another guy his eternal rival. The other guy is a fourth grader who's response is basically "Wow, that's really sad."
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Cythereal posted:You're correct on both points, but there's also genuinely some weighting for different kinds of behavior or even luck. D.O.A., for example, is weighted for assaults who spent a lot of time in the infirmary, while Hex and Cyclops are both snipers who missed a lot. I love how mixed in with super-badass Top Gun-esque callsigns, there are a few really silly ones that you know started out as an embarrassing barracks story or inside joke between your soldiers.
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ninjahedgehog posted:I love how mixed in with super-badass Top Gun-esque callsigns, there are a few really silly ones that you know started out as an embarrassing barracks story or inside joke between your soldiers. Caliban for a MEC? Jesus. That's just mean.
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Tiberius Thyben posted:Caliban for a MEC? Jesus. That's just mean. My lead assault and volunteer my first game was named Socks. 
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In The Witcher 3, you are a member of a Witcher school, Wolf, but can craft and use equipment from other schools to suit different play styles. I'm currently using all the stuff from the Cat school. In one part of the game, you can encounter another witcher, this one from that Cat school, and he commented on my identity problems as I approached. The game is full of little details that get paid attention to, and I'm wishing I hadn't waited so long to get it.
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In Xenoblade Chronicles X I'm really enjoying exploring the world, and trying to figure out how to get to the nodes without a Skell (Haven't unlocked one yet.) All the areas are really pretty and really well put together, and I love the feeling of weaving between hordes of Level 50 animals while trying to find the next node. It actually feels like real wildlife due to the idea of "Just leave it alone, don't antagonise it and it won't bother you..."
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Over 150 hours in vermintide and the characters are still a joy
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This Pokemon Go thing is something I'm not into. My wife has it, and was taking a look for pokemon while we were driving to the shops with the kids to get some groceries. On the way, a pokemon appeared, but she couldn't catch it because I was driving too fast. But her "ooh, a pokemon" got our eldest, who is 4 interested. He wanted to see. My wife showed him but by that time we'd arrived at the shops. She went in with our other son, and while we stayed in the car. He kept hold of the phone and looked around for pokemon, but didn't find any. On the way home he was looking for pokemon but not finding any, so I made a turn early and headed for the local cultural center, because I've heard they are attracted to geo-spots or something, and I figured some of the local landmarks might pop. I don't rerally understand how it all works, but whatever. They found a geodude (?) near the war memorial but lost it because I had to keep driving (traffic). We didn't find any more, so headed home. But then at the end of our street another one popped so I quickly pulled over and he found it and managed to capture a pidgie (i think, it looked like a chicken). Well the absolute unbridled excitement in his voice and the squeals of pure delight made the whole thing worth it. Seeing my kids light up like that is the little thing about that game I love. Edit: To be clear I don't give a poo poo about pokemon but even grumpy old me got caught up in his excitement at his first catch. princecoo has a new favorite as of 09:50 on Jul 15, 2016 |
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There's a puzzle in The Talos Principle (a fantastic game) called Nexus, and usually the puzzle names in that game provide some kind of fair but obtuse hint about how to solve them. Some are obvious (Lock Yourself In requires locking yourself into a room and using a laser beam to exit via the other side for example), others are not. Nexus is a laser beam maze puzzle, and is fairly unique in that the name provides no hint whatsoever about how to solve it. ...unless you look at the solution from above. 
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Talos Principle did a great job of scratching that Portal itch for me. The puzzles were just the right level of challenging. Hunting for stars in large maps sucked though.
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princecoo posted:This Pokemon Go thing is something I'm not into. My wife has it, and was taking a look for pokemon while we were driving to the shops with the kids to get some groceries. I can agree with that. I uninstalled the game because it's barely a game but last night I was hanging out with my friend and his five year old daughter was just ecstatic about getting to catch Pokemon and seeing them on her baby brother and poo poo.
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Pokémon GO is good for people who are into Pokémon enough to want to go out and walk around looking for them, but if you prefer the whole battling aspect rather than the discovery of new Pokémon then yeah, I can totally get not enjoying it. Its so great to hear stories about kids who are having a ball with it though, and from what I've heard and seen so far the community of people playing it has been really supportive and friendly to each other. I guess my little thing is how the game is affecting people positively in real life!
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The park near my work is full of people hunting pokemon or hitting the 4-5 closely packed pokestops. The stops almost always seem to have lures up. It's nice seeing people out in the sun, even in the middle of winter. People are definitely getting more fresh air playing this than any other game. It's pretty cool seeing strangers playing the same ARG as you.
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In Assassins Creed Syndicate, Evie and Jacob will give standard commands to the horse like 'Come on' or 'Whoa!' but if you just trot along they'll give a little bit of encouragement to the horse, my favourite being Jacob saying 'Who's a good horse? You are.'
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I'm in the same boat of thinking Pokemon Go is generally pretty mediocre, but I do think it's great that it's so ubiquitous regardless. I've seen plenty of mediocre games become bigger than they should be given their own merits--FNAF comes to mind, but it's not alone--but this one is so unquestionably a great influence on people's health that I can't help but love it.
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Yeah you don't play GO because of the actual core gameplay, you play it because it gives you and your friends motivation and a socially-acceptable excuse to walk around for fun and casually meet people with a common interest. Actually, I do have to give the game credit for the way that its systems work together to encourage people to congregate in safe, public places. There are spots of tall grass on your map where you're much more likely to find a pokemon which are dynamically based on foot traffic in the area and the various gyms and pokecenters are based on datamining public landmark information and user submissions from their last game, so while there are a few horror stories of people trespassing on private property places like parks and shopping centers and college campuses are by far the easiest and best way to catch 'mons.
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Guy Mann posted:Playing MGSV and having the randomized [adjective]+[animal] names for your soldiers gets really awkward when you're in Africa and start getting soldiers that are named after monkeys In XCOM: Enemy Unknown, my lead heavy was nicknamed Kong. He was African.
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RBA Starblade posted:In XCOM: Enemy Unknown, my lead heavy was nicknamed Kong. He was African. 
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Guy Mann posted:Yeah you don't play GO because of the actual core gameplay, you play it because it gives you and your friends motivation and a socially-acceptable excuse to walk around for fun and casually meet people with a common interest. Gonna go out on a limb here and say that walking in public was pretty socially acceptable before people did it for a video game. Mostly though I'm frustrated with the game because if you live in a moderately remote area you're going to see dick all.
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Internet Wizard posted:Gonna go out on a limb here and say that walking in public was pretty socially acceptable before people did it for a video game. I am going to get the world's strongest ekans. Someone used a lure on the beach I take a break at during my walks and the only thing we caught were ekans. Nothing else showed up. It was a beach! Where were the water pokemon?  There aren't even any snakes in my state.
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Nuebot posted:I am going to get the world's strongest ekans. Someone used a lure on the beach I take a break at during my walks and the only thing we caught were ekans. Nothing else showed up. It was a beach! Where were the water pokemon? Well he did say you were going to see dick, there's only a few options. Ekans, Onyx, Diglet.
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Ezio's songs in AssCreed: Revelations are just amazing
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In Monster Hunter Generations one of the new monsters you fight is this big owl, and it's got amazing animations. It seems to do it more often after you've pissed it off, but before it attacks someone, there's a good chance it'll turn its head to look at them and give them the owl version of  before turning the rest of its body and hauling rear end. Usually charges that person down and knocks them the gently caress over. It's great!Also, Generations is basically Monster Hunter: Little Things in Games Edition. Like the writing. Or all the new skills. Or all of the quality of life improvements. Or the new meownster hunters gathering thing.
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Alhazred posted:Ezio's songs in AssCreed: Revelations are just amazing I'm way late to the party and recently bought Black Flag. I love that the shanty singers are clearly professionals who sound like they're drunk and intentionally sing off key and hoot and holler. The pirate elements of the game are great. The Assassin's Creed parts are lame.
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Noooow you're ready to sail for the Horn!
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We'll heave him up an away we'll go, 'Way, me Susiana!
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