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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. Yeah I'm on a semi remote island in sweden and can't even find a pokestop for the initial pokeballs 
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Star Ocean 5- The main hero, Fidel, wears a long coat that amazingly doesn't clip through his sword scabbard at every opportunity. In this cheapo JRPG some modeller took the time to make that coat behave realistically, and I salute them for it. Also, Fidel's pseudo girlfriend calls him 'Fiddly', which is great.
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Jul 18, 2016 21:02
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MeatwadIsGod posted: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. The original subtitle was Edward's Floating Pirate Glee Club but the suits at Ubisoft thought it wouldn't sell.
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Jul 18, 2016 21:04
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I was thinking about it again, and Lord of the Rings Online is great fun if you don't give a poo poo at all. I played a lovely hobbit burglar, which is basically a WoW rogue, but instead of bombs you tell bullshit riddles that confuse orcs and throw rocks. They also had the ability to turn invisible for like two minutes, which was useful for crossing areas with enemies you didn't want to fight. It was also useful for cutting your losses and ditching your friends when you were about to all die to some giant spider or whatever, so they got to pay the repair cost and you didn't. You could also throw a pebble to draw the attention of whatever at any time. Hobbits were pieces of poo poo in LotRO.  Also fun were the instruments. There was a terrible flute, drums, a lute, etc. You downloaded midi files and played bad renaissance faire music or whatever, unless you did what my group did, which downloaded midi Journey. Don't Stop Believing sounds like something special through a terrible midi flute instrument. Everyone in a large area heard it too. You couldn't turn it off without muting the game. I miss LotRO, it was a more fun World of Warcraft.
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Cataclysm DDA: While smoking a joint my companion notes "That smells like some good poo poo!", so I handed them a joint and they started smoking up. My insomniac survivor spent the night sitting in a van, listening to music, toking up and eating toaster strudels with their BFF. Indie GOTY all years 
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RBA Starblade posted:I miss LotRO, it was a more fun World of Warcraft. I played it for a few months after launch and I don't think the midi thing was in it so you had to play music by pressing keyboard keys. I got pretty good at playing Stairway during the one raid we had.
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I never got into minstreling myself, but I really think that whole "playing your own poo poo" thing in LotRO is a really cool feature. I think it shows an appreciation of the source material, since ballads and such are actually a pretty big deal in the LotR mythos. I'm not a big RPer myself but I still played on Laurelin, the EU RP sserver and sometimes I just logged in for a bit to go sit in the Prancing Pony inn and observe the more active RP crowd mucking about, maybe banter a bit myself. It was a sincerely good, mellow time. 
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Jul 19, 2016 23:40
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not even joking like half the dozens of hours I spent in LotRO was learning how to play/endlessly spamming Careless Whisper on that trumpet Humans get, most fun I've ever had in an online game
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Jul 21, 2016 04:59
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Babe Magnet posted:not even joking like half the dozens of hours I spent in LotRO was learning how to play/endlessly spamming Careless Whisper on that trumpet Humans get, most fun I've ever had in an online game I think you'd enjoy Space Station 13, then. (If Careless Whisper isn't in the rotation for the sax, your server admin is undeniably poo poo.)
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Jul 21, 2016 06:27
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dpbjinc posted:I think you'd enjoy Space Station 13, then. (If Careless Whisper isn't in the rotation for the sax, your server admin is undeniably poo poo.) We sure do have Careless Whisper in the sax rotation.  But that just makes us deniably poo poo 
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Jul 22, 2016 23:06
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The chat menu in EDF 4.1 is incredible, not only does it let you cover almost every major tactical and social announcement you would need to make with just a few taps of the arrow keys but it lets you lead your soldiers and fellow teammates in singing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5qfWt1ACBw
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Jul 23, 2016 04:54
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Guy Mann posted:The chat menu in EDF 4.1 is incredible, not only does it let you cover almost every major tactical and social announcement you would need to make with just a few taps of the arrow keys but it lets you lead your soldiers and fellow teammates in singing: Do you have to pick those options for your chat wheel? I can't find those.
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Jul 23, 2016 10:33
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Alteisen posted:Do you have to pick those options for your chat wheel? I can't find those. If you're playing on PC using the arrow keys brings up the full chat menu instead of just the shortcuts.
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Jul 23, 2016 12:12
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It's been brought up way back earlier in the thread I'm sure, but the way your Saints Row 2 character sings along with the radio is just adorable. I love that the voice actors clearly did not have the lyrics provided.
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Jul 24, 2016 01:10
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A good little thing I keep forgetting to post about : Resident Evil 4's color filter squashes the white end just a tiiiiny bit, so bright flashes and poo poo like the Capcom logo: (you can see it in effect in this screenshot) are dimmed just enough that they don't burn your eyes out when they suddenly appear while you're playing in the dark.
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Guy Mann posted:The chat menu in EDF 4.1 is incredible, not only does it let you cover almost every major tactical and social announcement you would need to make with just a few taps of the arrow keys but it lets you lead your soldiers and fellow teammates in singing: I saw this before playing the game and thought it was quite funny that there were clearly different voice actors for different lines. But no, I'm fairly certain that there's three different voice actors for the same line. And all of them are hilariously flat.
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Jul 25, 2016 04:40
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I've been replaying Witcher 3 and was in Velen, the lovely swamp area where you start the game. It was the middle of the day and raining as usual and I rode into a small town and noticed that everyone was standing against the walls of their huts. Usually they're running about doing chores or standing around chatting and being all rural and poo poo, so I thought they were all bugged. Then I realised - they were standing against their huts to get out of the rain 
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Jul 25, 2016 06:51
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Gorilla Salad posted:I've been replaying Witcher 3 and was in Velen, the lovely swamp area where you start the game. They actually have quite a bit of weather specific behavior. Villagers will complain differently if it's just a drizzle versus a full fledged storm and will gripe if they have to do chores out in it.
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Jul 25, 2016 08:04
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The first time I noticed something like that in a game was in Morrowind with the guards shielding their eyes from dust storms etc. Blew my mind at the time.
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Jul 25, 2016 09:00
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NLJP posted:The first time I noticed something like that in a game was in Morrowind with the guards shielding their eyes from dust storms etc. Blew my mind at the time. In third-person mode you could see your own character doing stuff like that too, which I thought was a neat touch.
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Jul 25, 2016 12:35
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Gorilla Salad posted:I've been replaying Witcher 3 and was in Velen, the lovely swamp area where you start the game. They did this in the first two too, it's a neat touch.
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Jul 25, 2016 12:41
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Squirrel sorcerers summoned this rain, the whoresons
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Gorilla Salad posted:I've been replaying Witcher 3 and was in Velen, the lovely swamp area where you start the game. I was thinking of a fantastic Witcher 3 moment this morning. When you first meet King Radovid, and he delivers a lengthy allegory about chess and real life. I have heard similar portentous, rambling speeches from authority figures in any number of video games, and they're always taken extremely seriously. Then Geralt listens to this same type of spiel, and rightfully concludes that Radovid is out of his loving mind, because who meets someone and monologues on chess?
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Copernic posted:I was thinking of a fantastic Witcher 3 moment this morning. When you first meet King Radovid, and he delivers a lengthy allegory about chess and real life. I have heard similar portentous, rambling speeches from authority figures in any number of video games, and they're always taken extremely seriously. Then Geralt listens to this same type of spiel, and rightfully concludes that Radovid is out of his loving mind, because who meets someone and monologues on chess? The game bugged for me right after that scene and I had to reload, and when Radovid asks you if you understand what he's trying to say and you choose "Yes" he's like "No you don't, you idiot." On my second try I was curious to see the other option and if you say no he goes "Of course you don't, you idiot." He's just a big ol' jerk no matter what.
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Witcher 3 is great because as soon as someone starts making a hideo kojima style monologue, the game knows exactly how dumb it is. You often get the option to tell NPCs to hurry the gently caress up and put a lid on the flowery language, and even if you don't, the great facial animations convey a lot. They are really detailed.
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Digirat posted:Witcher 3 is great because as soon as someone starts making a hideo kojima style monologue, the game knows exactly how dumb it is. You often get the option to tell NPCs to hurry the gently caress up and put a lid on the flowery language, and even if you don't, the great facial animations convey a lot. They are really detailed. There's a part in the game where Geralt for whatever reason has to act in a play, and you basically choose if he either half-asses the acting, full-asses, or no-asses it and it all comes out hilariously terribly.
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Maxwell Lord posted:It's been brought up way back earlier in the thread I'm sure, but the way your Saints Row 2 character sings along with the radio is just adorable. I love that the voice actors clearly did not have the lyrics provided. An example!
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Digirat posted:Witcher 3 is great because as soon as someone starts making a hideo kojima style monologue, the game knows exactly how dumb it is. 
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That's because it's not the Bond option, it's the Archer option.
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haveblue posted:That's because it's not the Bond option, it's the Archer option. Archer is exactly like Bond except people see him as a normal person would; a douchebag.
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Also with an oedipus complex
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Alpha Protocol has stats at the end of each mission but they not only show how many enemies you killed but how many children you orphaned and how high the hospital bills are for all those guys you took out non-lethally. An actual quote from Casino Royale about Bond's love interest: "he knew that she was profoundly, excitingly sensual, but that the conquest of her body, because of the central privacy in her, would each time have the sweet tang of rape." FreudianSlippers has a new favorite as of 04:36 on Jul 26, 2016 |
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FreudianSlippers posted:An actual quite from Casino Royale about Bond's love interest: 
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Holy poo poo, thank you for linking this. I haven't honestly laughed like this in awhile.
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Nordick posted:This reminds me of the spy RPG Alpha Protocol, where your attitude options in dialogue are "the three J.B.'s"; You can be an aggressive dick like Jack Bauer, a calm, collected professional like Jason Bourne, or a smarmy, suave smartass like James Bond. And my favourite little thing about this is that most of the time the James Bond route just makes the protagonist seem like a massive tool, and most of the NPCs will just shoot his bullshit down accordingly. It's hilarious. It also makes one of the villains angry enough to give up his escape plan and fight you to the death.
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Baron Corbyn posted:It also makes one of the villains angry enough to give up his escape plan and fight you to the death. Note that this only works if you Archer your way through the entire game being an rear end in a top hat to everyone you meet. If you try it while generally being a competent, sane, operative then he'll know you're trying to push him and won't bite.
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Jul 26, 2016 05:36
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AP is too good of a game. We did nothing to deserve it.
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Jul 26, 2016 05:43
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AP has a perk for getting through the entire game and remaining neutral with everyone, called "Swiss Diplomacy".
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Alpha Protocol is quite the paradox. The actual gameplay mechanics range from bland to outright broken, but the social interactions and plot stuff are loving amazing and highly deserving of both praise and a better game to be attached to.
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If I could come up with a way to save state the game, I'd be tempted to do an Alpha Protocol LP that just pretends it's a really big Choose-Your-Own-Adventure novel.
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