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RBA Starblade posted: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. My favorite thing about the Witcher is that Geralt is poo poo at everything that isnt "Being a Witcher".
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There's a boss in AP that's an Olympic gold medal winning boxer, when you fight him he assumes you'll go hand to hand with him and you can just shoot him which has Thorton give a one liner, or you can actually go toe to toe with him and you'll get special dialogue, Thorton will also sound winded and tired for the rest of the mission. Its seriously amazing how many little touches AP has.
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Jul 26, 2016 08:26
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Or you can ally with the boss from the previous level and let him take care of the boxer. "Your bodyguard is busy winning gold medal in dying. I gave him 6.4 on the dismount but he did not stick the landing."
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I'm glad you guys are talking about the witcher because I wanted to post about beating the main game finally but I'm way behind in the games thread + the expansion talk in there I might stumble across. Spoilers for ending of the main game of Witcher 3 - I got the Witcher Ciri ending, which is honestly the one I think I'd have wanted best anyway. That fake out before the very very end really hosed me up for a minute when Geralt was telling the Emperor she was dead. I knew it was possible to get a Ciri dies ending so that's what I thought had happened Anyway, I'm starting Hearts of Stone tonight which I"m excited about. I hear this O'Dimm is a character, and I already sort of know a minor spoiler about him, about what he is and that's really piqued my interest. E: I know about losing the gwent game at a wedding...can I forfeit it and get the desired outcome, or do I need to go through the motions of a whole game?
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Jul 26, 2016 08:52
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Alteisen posted:There's a boss in AP that's an Olympic gold medal winning boxer, when you fight him he assumes you'll go hand to hand with him and you can just shoot him which has Thorton give a one liner, or you can actually go toe to toe with him and you'll get special dialogue, Thorton will also sound winded and tired for the rest of the mission. If I recall rightly he's super easy to take out with shock traps because he always wears his gold medal, which you'll only know if you've gathered his entire dossier.
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Jul 26, 2016 09:03
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Rigged Death Trap posted:My favorite thing about the Witcher is that Geralt is poo poo at everything that isnt "Being a Witcher". Speak for yourself. My Geralt was an awesome dad.
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Steve Shultz posted:If I recall rightly he's super easy to take out with shock traps because he always wears his gold medal, which you'll only know if you've gathered his entire dossier. I'm still learning about the little details in this game years later. Alpha Protocol, gently caress Yeah!!!
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:E: I know about losing the gwent game at a wedding...can I forfeit it and get the desired outcome, or do I need to go through the motions of a whole game? Yeah it's no big deal either way. The wedding's cool so just wing it, Geralt's got an excuse for being a dumbass for once.
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Jul 26, 2016 13:40
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Hannibal Smith posted:Or you can ally with the boss from the previous level and let him take care of the boxer. The character responsible for this is a lunatic who loves his knives. The Olympic boxer he takes down was hospitalized before the events of the game due to getting stabbed by a random drunk. 
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Jul 26, 2016 13:45
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Steve Shultz posted:If I recall rightly he's super easy to take out with shock traps because he always wears his gold medal, which you'll only know if you've gathered his entire dossier. That reminds me of the Xbox version of Splinter Cell: Double Agent where you can kill one of the main bad guys with an EMP because it shorts out his pacemaker and he dies from the impending heart attack. Oddly enough, the Xbox 360 version mentions his pacemaker in the dossier, but the EMP trick doesn't work for some reason.
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Double Agent had two different versions and the general consensus is that the "next-gen" version was the inferior one. Little details like that are a confirmation of that. Edit: "There are two separate versions of Double Agent. One version was made by Ubisoft Shanghai, who developed Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and was released on the Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, and PlayStation 3. The other version was made by Ubisoft Montreal (Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory) and was released for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube and Wii. The Ubisoft Shanghai version features a completely custom engine while the Ubisoft Montreal version plays more like the classic Splinter Cell games. The games share the same general plot but feature different storylines, plot twists, and levels. They do however, share the same background music, a few cut scenes and all voice actors. The version for mobile phones was developed by Gameloft." -Wikipedia Mierenneuker has a new favorite as of 16:07 on Jul 26, 2016 |
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Jul 26, 2016 16:04
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FreudianSlippers posted: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 my understanding is that this changes depending on the level; you get more orphans from offing al-quaedas compared to killing supermarines in black ops sites
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DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:my understanding is that this changes depending on the level; you get more orphans from offing al-quaedas compared to killing supermarines in black ops sites And exactly one each for the Chinese.
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It's very gracious for the armies of the world to offer jobs to so many single dads.
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Maybe there are two dudes who are married. After all, love can bloom on the battlefield.
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In Two Worlds 2 Pirates of the Flying Fortress you have to distract a farmer by claiming there's something wrong with one of his cows. "She's udderly insane." Your character then claims one of their cows had the same thing and was dead within 60 hours. It's darkly amusing that they're so flippant about it by making a cheap pun.
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Guy Mann posted:It's very gracious for the armies of the world to offer jobs to so many single dads. I never really paid attention to the medical costs but I wonder if they're lower depending on the socialised heakthcare situation of the country you're in.
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2house2fly posted:I never really paid attention to the medical costs but I wonder if they're lower depending on the socialised heakthcare situation of the country you're in. They better be astronomical in the US then. We like out healthcare expensive and unavailable! It's just un-American to think everyone healthcare.  Sadly I worked with so many people at Walmart that actually believed that.
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2house2fly posted:I never really paid attention to the medical costs but I wonder if they're lower depending on the socialised heakthcare situation of the country you're in. Well, it doesn't say out-of-pocket medical costs.
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Len posted:They better be astronomical in the US then. We like out healthcare expensive and unavailable! It's just un-American to think everyone healthcare.  Really enjoying playing through Witcher 3 in Polish with subs, they're much better than 2nd rate Geralt and fantasy Brits. I'm not sure what it is, but many of the characters from Geralt to the lowlier peasants seem to be voiced more sympathetically. I assume the game's script was written first in Polish, the rhyming lines seem to work better in Polish and the lines of more important characters are less awkward.
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I wasn't that interested in the Elder Scrolls Legends online CCG, because frankly I don't have faith in the developer anymore... until someone showed me one of the cards. The best part is that Last Gasp, which isn't quite explained there: when he dies, he just gets shuffled back into your deck rather than being discarded. True to form, the Adoring Fan will never leave you.
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I like the other effects too. Enemies are forced to attack it first (like Taunt in Hearthstone I guess) and he
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Cleretic posted:I wasn't that interested in the Elder Scrolls Legends online CCG, because frankly I don't have faith in the developer anymore... until someone showed me one of the cards. That is fantastic, goddamn.
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In Just Cause 3, 60% of the time when you blew up an oil refinery, Rico would yell "Take That, you Pipeline jerks!" Just Cause 3 has an achievement called "Take That, you Pipeline jerks!"
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Self-aware achievements are great. In Saints Row 2 one of the activities is Mayhem where you need to destroy as much as possible in a limited amount of time. Each thing you destroy has it's own score value but generally you want many targets instead of high value targets, because this increases your score multiplier and prevents the combo counter from timing out. Now the easiest way to pull that off is to destroy fences since each fence post counts as a separate target. You can just drop remote explosives all over a neighborhood, hit the detonator to destroy all those fences and rack up a big score multiplier. It'll also instantly draw a lot of police attention so you can start destroying their vehicles to keep the combo going. The sequel Saints Row III has an achievement for completing all the Mayhem activities. It's called Fence Killa 2011.
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I think even in 2 one of the employers for Mayhem is someone who just really hates fences, it must be a thing from SR1
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Tales of Maj'Eyal has an achievement entitled "Are you out of your mind?!" for opening the vault door to the Room of Death, a treasure room with seven Overpowered Multi-Hued Wyrms in it (yes, they are actually called Overpowered, and they will gently caress you up). Killing all seven gets you another: "I cleared the Room of Death and all I got was this lousy achievement!"
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GTA 5's mission objectives are too stringent, too strict, too annoying to warrant going for. But I'll be damned if they don't have some fun with the names and conditions of the things.
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Mierenneuker posted:Self-aware achievements are great. My favorite one is still "This is the Part Where He Kills You" from Portal 2.
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CJacobs posted:GTA 5's mission objectives are too stringent, too strict, too annoying to warrant going for. But I'll be damned if they don't have some fun with the names and conditions of the things. I appreciated that they didn't tell you what they were on your first play through of the mission. Just enjoy yourself before you find out what you hosed up getting. Phantom Pain did this too and it helped to just play it however I wanted instead of trying to tick all the boxes on my first attempt.
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Uncharted 4 has an achievement referencing their E3 screwup where the controller wasn't connected and they just showed nathan drake looking over a balcony for a solid minute to tens of thousands of people.
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You can be Dad Joke Batman in the Telltale Batman game. "Say 'Hi' Bruce!" "Hi Bruce!  "
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Enter the Gungeon has the achievement 'I Knew Someone Would Do It', with a description that just says 'Why'. You get it by pushing a table into a pit. There's no actual reason to do this.
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There is! Doing it for the first time unlocks the 'rocket table tech' item in the shop for future runs, which causes tables you flip to shoot across the room and explode. In case shoving a table into a pit wasn't abusive enough for you.
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Lord Lambeth posted:My favorite one is still "This is the Part Where He Kills You" from Portal 2. It's been over-referenced to hell at this point, but when the game was still new it was fantastic. GLaDOS: Well, this is the part where he kills us. Wheatley: Hello! This is the part where I kill you! Chapter 9 - The Part Where He Kills You Achievement: The Part Where He Kills You (Achievement Description: This is that part)
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m2pt5 posted:It's been over-referenced to hell at this point, but when the game was still new it was fantastic. They missed out having a Commentary Node there with Gaben saying something unrelated. No node at all! 
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:I think even in 2 one of the employers for Mayhem is someone who just really hates fences, it must be a thing from SR1
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m2pt5 posted:It's been over-referenced to hell at this point, but when the game was still new it was fantastic. Soundtrack: The Part Where He Kills You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOXrgDDLpYw&t=60s
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I finally got around to playing Shadowrun: Dragonfall, and there was a neat little thing for resolving a side-quest. During one break-in into a biological research centre, you stumble across a small lab that's been locked down in automatic quarantine because of a major phosgene (basically chlorine gas but worse) spill. To get in there you'll need to vent its atmosphere, which the system is refusing to do as long as there are dangerous compounds in the air. Now, if you've a good enough hacker along you have the usual option of brute-forcing the thing to vent it anyways. Or you could just ignore it and get to the goal another way, only missing out on some minor goodies along the way. However, the system also allows you to introduce new chemicals into the lab, by entering their formula into a text field. That looks a bit like a random gimmick at first, but then I decided to look up phosgene online. It turns out that you can neutralise it with ammonia. So I look up ammonia's chemical formula (NH3), enter that into the game, and bingo, all the nasty gas is neutralised and I could walk right in. 
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